As we announced elsewhere, the Detached Squadron was sighted from Cape d'Aguilar during the afternoon, and this morning (2st ult.) three of the four ships have come into harbour and taken up their moorings in the man-of-war anchorage. The Sheldrake went out the Lyeo-Mun Pass yesterday and held communication with Vico-Admiral the Earl of Clanwilliam, when it was arranged that the squadron should anchor for the night and enter through the Fastern passage this morning. The Squadron left Amoy on Sunday under sail, the first time they have made use of their canvas since they left St. Vincent, in the Cape do Verde Islands off the West Coast of Africa, and they came down at an easy rate and in good weather from their last port of call. On getting up anchor at five o'clock this morning they came along till off the light house at the east end of the Island, when they lay to for about three hours to get up steam, The Tourmaline, however, was found to have sustained some damage to the banjo frame, and she was consequently sent round the island under canvas, as there was a favourable wind blowing to enable her to sail into harbour by the Western The other three vessels were eatly signalled from the Peak, one after the other, and at noon had arrived at their anchorage. Salutes were exchanged between the flagship and the Themis and the Prince Pajorsky, but this point of naval etiquette in the case of the Stosch was rendered unnecessary, the vessels having met at a northern port within a recent period when that formality was duly observed. Several official visits between the various men-of-war were made during the afternoon, and at five o'clock this evening Earl Clanwilliam, accompanied by his personal staff, landed at the Murray Wharf EXTRAORDINARY ALLEGATIONS, Mr, W. B. Chalmers, a tea merchant, carrying on business at Dashwood House, Now Broad-street, appeared at the Mansion House to-day (11th Nov.) in answer to a summons charging him with having written and published false, scandalous, and malicious libel concerning Mr. Lock-Iand (sic) M'Intosh, a China merchant, in New Broad-street.—Mr. Robert Avery attended as counsel in support of the summons, and Mr. St. John Wontnor defended.—Mr. Avery, in opening the case, said that Mr, Chalmers was formerly in partnership with the complainant, but the partnership was dissolved in December last year, and a gentleman named Dudgeon became partner with Mr. M'Intosh, Chancery proceedings were subsequently instituted between the parties, the present defendant being in the position of defendant in the suit, and it was while these proceedings were pending that the alleged libel. was published by the defendant. The publication of the libel appeared to have taken place under the following ciroumstances ~The defendant seems to have written a letter to the father of Mr.
that certain inquiries were being made Dudgeon, the prosecutor' partner stating in Scotland respecting Mr. M'Intosh, and enclosing a letter which purported to give an account of the result of those enquiries. This was to the effect that Mr. M'Intosh had been entrusted with the sale of a cargo of wheat in Glasgow, and that he had obtained this position by means of forgery, and having this obtained the control of the cargo, ho had misapproprinted the proceeds and absconded. The etter went on to state that a detective hind traced Mr. M'Intosh to various places, and at length to Ascot, at the time of the races, where ho was in company with a git) He contrived to get away by changing clothes with the young lady, ani they were traced to Aix-la-Chapelle, where M'Intosh burst into tears and admitted his misconduct, and consented to accompany the officer Back to England, but through the Interference of the prisoner's feionds, and on the prosecutor giving up a policy of insurance in which he was interested, the matter was hushed up. The learned counsel for the prosecution said that according to his instructions there was not a tittle of truth in any of the statoments made in this letter and they were in truth nothing but a tissue of falsehoods from beginning to end. Upon these facts he should ask his lordship to commit the defendant to take his trial for libel.—Formal evidence was then given of the publication of the libel, and that it was in the handwriting of the @efendant.—Mr, Wont-nor, in answer to the charge, said that by a recent decision in a question of libel his hands were so tied that he felt it useless at that stage of the case to cross-examine the prosecutor or any of the other witnesses, but at a proper time he should put ina formal plea of justification, and prove the dulk of all that had been stated.—The Lord Mayor decided on sending the case for trial, and the defendant. was admitted to bail, himself in £100 with two sureties in £50 each.—The Globe.
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