Star. — London, England, 1811-09-20 00:00:00

THt ARMY. GENERAL ORDERS. Adjutant-General's Office, Dublin, Sept. It, it'll. His Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT ' in the name, and on the beh a lf o f hi s MAJESTY, has been pleased to appoint the following Officers to pm upon the Staff of Ireland : Lieutenant-General ALEXAMIti MACKINtIi. Major-General BtNJ AMIN Fiesta. Major-General Geoacs Mitcurta. is removed front the South-West to the South-East District, and to be stationed of Wexford. Major-General Hon. THOMAS MASON is, until further or len, to be attached to the Eastern District, and to be stationed In Dublin. Major-General ANSON is appointed to the Northern District, and to be stationed at Armagh. _ H. Cuwrox, Adjutant-General. Lieutenant-General Macxeszie is to be stationed at Athlone ' • Lieutenant• General MEYRIC K , a t Ar magh ; and Major-General ORME, at Tullamore. The King's County Royal Regiment of Militia marched from Athlone on Monday, to embark for England. The first division of the West Middlesex are to re place the King's Co unty Regiment at Athlo n e. The Clare Regiment marched on Wednesday last from Tullamore to Dublin, where they are to embark for England. By a recent order, the recruiting for the Militia in Ireland is in future to be under the direction of the Inspecting Field Officers of the several districts, in stead as heretofore under the order of the Command ing Officer of their respective regiments. The following quarters are assigned for the under mentioned regiments of English militia : Dumfries, at Tullamore ; Rutland, at Mote ; Pembroke, at Ballinasloe ; Hertford, at ditto ; War wick, at Birr ; East Norfolk, at Cahir. Yesterday the East Norfolk Militia embarked /it Ramsgate, and sailed for Ireland. Generals NICHOLLS, HOPE, and Colonel PEACOCKE, with the District Staff, were at Ramsgate, to superintend the volunteering and embarkation. The Somerset Militia, commanded by Lord HINTON, is to replace the East Norfolk Militia, at Ramsgate. Monday two squadrons of the 4th, or Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, arrived in Canterbury from Radi poole, where they are to be stationed, and form part of the Cavalry Depot Brigade, under the command of Major-General J. HAY. Friday and Saturday, the 69th Regiment, com manded by Colonel BROWN, marched into Norwich Barracks from Leicester. The following is an extract of a letter from an Officer in our Army : _ " PATO, AVOUST IR. id We are again in Spain, guarding the grand toad from Placentia (where the French are b great force) to Ciudad Rodrigo. There are four strong passes, by one of which they must come, and they appear bent on trying to force it. We had an alarm yesterday in the old style of the advance of the French, and after overturning the men's soup, and a great bustle, we marched half a league, and returned to our encampment. Some of the enemy's cavalry hxd suddenly advanced on a village in front, and sur prised a German cavalry picquet, teem the officer and 16 men, killed and wounded four ; they also, I am told, took the mules of the light division, which were out for forage." íñÈ coMi, The following observations have been made on the Comet at the Glasgow Observatory : Right Ascension. Declination. A. M. D. M. S. September 1. 9 25 155 51 33 4. 8 30 158 92 14 6. • 30 160 27 4 •. • 80 162 31 23 9. 8 30 163 39 58 12. • SO 167 11 48 D. M. S. 38 3 93 39 19 12 40 19 14 41 14 35 41 42 24 43 8 54 TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. SIR—I must beg leave to inform your Correspon• dent z, (see the STAR of Tuesday,) that if he alludes to those Comets which appeared in 1747, 1683, 1618, 1556, and 1299, tha inclinations of whose orbits have been calculated, he will find no two of them to have been on; and the same Comet ; for, the motions of some were direct, and the others retrograde, and the inclinations of their orbits were all materially diffe rent : of the truth of this he may satisfy himself, by consulting almost any of the treatises on Comets.— The inclination of the orbit of the present Comet ap pears to be about 40 degrees, and the nodes in the latter degrees of Cancer and Capricorn : now, accord ing to Dr. HALLEY, the place of the ascending node of that Comet in 1661 was about two signs, 22 minutes ; and the inclination of its orbit 32 degrees, 36 minutes. We may therefore conclude, that the Comet now visi ble is not the same which appeared in 1661. Yours, ASTRONOILICUS. NilVilL INTELLIGENCE. FALMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 17. Arrived the Ru:Lys, of 44 guns, and a transport, No. 221, from Lisbon ; the EN DEA voun armed brig, and Ihootutot:xn gun brig, from Plymouth ; Phenix transport, with the Leitrim Militia on board, from Cork. Sailed the BLOODHOUND, with transports, having on board the Easit-Kent Militia, for Cork. PLYMOUTH, SEPTEMBER I Arrived the brig Creole from Bengal, bound for France, with French prisoners, detained by his Ma jesty's ship TONNANT ; the DENMARK man of war from Portsmouth ; AQUILON frigate from a cruize ; , Betsey and Sophia from the Brazils. PORTSMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 19. Arrived this day, off the Isle of Wright, the John, CHARLTON, with hides and tallow, and 10,000 dol lars for the merchants. Admiral DE COURCEY had gone in quest of four French frigates full of naval stores and troops, supposed for some part of South America or the East Indies. Trade was very dull. DEAL, SEPTEMBER 19. I Sailed his Majesty's ships MERMAID for Leith ; MARTINI sloop of war, with the transports and troops for Cork. The Ariadne, Royalist, and Amphitrite transports, with the East Norfolk Militia, joined the above convoy. Sailed the Pilfers schooner for Sheer ..ness.—Wind E. and moderate. NAVAL APPOINTMENTS. ----iii- I Captain Walley to the Minden, Captain J. White, late on the Yesterday a General Court was held at the Bank Harwich station, to the Princess Charlotte of Wales, West India Packet ; Lieut. P.. Steele, to the Menelaus ; I.ieut. Y. Sweney, to of England, pursuant to notice, to consider of a divi- the Elephant ; Lieut. J. Moffate, to the Ze phyr; Lieuts. Bid dend, and which was also one of the Quarterly Courts dulph, Crese, R. Campbell, Tucker, and Traill, to the Minden • appointed by the Charter. Lieut. Walovt to be nag-Lieutenant to Sir S. Hood; Lieuts. .1: Campbell sod I Lirth.waite, to the Tigre ; Lieut. Hills to the I.ey- The Court was fully att e nd e d : an d amongst the . den ; First Lieutmatits 1) -Hord, Craig, J. Williams, and W. Ra- Proprietors of Bank Stock present, was his Grace the venscroft, have been recently promote/ to companies of the Royal Duke of NONFOLK. 1 Marines ; Mr. Joseph West, to be master of the Elephant; Mr. The Governor, on a r evi ew o f th e p ro fi ts f or the James Campbell, to be surgeon of the Suffo'k. last half year, proposed a dividend of 5 per cent. but I t ---,—, before the same was confi r m e d by th e C ourt , A Correspondent who feels interested by several Mr. CLIFFoRD (the Barrister) rose, for the purpose paragraphs which have lately appeared in the News. of moving an amendment, that the dividend should p apers, relative to the po ssess i on o f T r i st i an d'Acunha be increased to 7-k per cent. Fre endeavoured to prove , by Mr. I,AAIBERT—a circumsta n ce whi c h ma y occa ., ih a speech of considerabl e l eng th, th e p ro p r i et y of sion t h e island to be resorted to by So u th ern Wh a l ers I voting that sum, consid er i ng th e l arge profits of the a nd l vessels bound for India, is induc e d t o f orwar d I concern. If that was not a b so l u t e ly th e case , h e tt \e following observations, which were made on board maintained that the Directors bad shamefully Ile. the Essex India ship, as pas s i ng th e i s l an d on the 2311 i sleeted their duty. H e co ll ec t e d f rom t h e papers l a id and `..-I•th of July, 179 e : before the House of Commons, that a certain larg e Peak of '1 ristian d'Acunha. quantity of Bullion had r em a i ne d i n th e h an d s o f t he I Longitude - . 11. 5:). 30 West. Bank ever since the restriction, which had conside- I Latitude . - 37. S. 0. South. rably risen in value ; a n d th ere f or e h e con t en d e d t h a t ! Hei g ht - - 188 7 1 -3 , 1 Fathom s. Extent of the Island from East to Wst, 6 Miles. the Governor arta Directors ought to have availed ; The body of the island bearing N. 20 deg. E. and themselves of the ad vance , f or t h e b ene fi t o f th e Pro- distant 47 miles, the variation was 10 deg. 25 min. W. praetors ; and that he expected to he ar th a t th e w h o l e The island rises from the sea with a gradual slope Lad been disposed of. In this view of the matter, the to a high peak, and, at the time of our passing it, Bank would be fully enabled to pay at t:.e rate of 7# from half the height of the island to the summit of per cent. for the dividend of the last half year. Mr. the peak was covered with snow. Clifford next took a view of the additional advantages . At 10 A.M. July 24, being 66 miles to the East. arising from the circulation of Bank of England notes ward of the Island, its snow-covered half only was and the issuing of silver tokens. He said, that lie to be seen above the horizon from the deck, which was fully persuaded, that the Governor and Direc- gave a most brilliant appearance, the sun shining dia. I tors had, by their conduct, d r iven all th e go ld out metrically upon it. tef the country ; and that next they would leave it de- • The Anholt Mail which arrived yesterday, brought ItitUte of silver, intelligence, that BONAPARI E had dispatched a Coil- I Mr. Clifford's amendment not being second e d, th e governor's proposition tier to Konigsberg, is ith orders t o his Minister there The Duke of N of:: per cent. was confirmed, addressed ti•te Court. His , to demand the surrender o f th e f ortresses o f Colb erg l oneoea Gracc declared, that he had c ome the r e unconnected and Graudentz, and the whole o f Sil es i a . Thi s was without hesitation refused by the King a PRUSSIA, with any person or persons whatsoever, for the pur- I wlp adverting to the sacrifices his subjects h a d ma d e pose of communicating to the Court the great distress I and inconvenience which was felt throughout the to the projects of France, de c l are d, t h at h e wou ld I , country for want of an abundant tirculation of silver, rather hazard the conseque nces o f i mme di ate war, without which business could not be carried on. His than resign his last strong hold s , an d re d uce hi mse lf Grace did not speak from report, but from his own soon as this resolution was tak en , G enera l B ereiten, I experience. He had been travelling much in the north, I w and witnessed the greatest obstacles for want of I ho is known to be the inveterat e enem y o f F rance, ' it is said, received the appointment of Commander- . ehange, some of which his Grace instanced. in-Chief . of the Prussian Armies. It is added, that The CHAIRMAN in reply, informed his Grace, that he no sooner obtained the nomination, than he col the Bank had a considerable quantity of silver in their lected the scattered forces of Prussia in Colberg and possession which they destined for coining, and that its_ vicinity, and fell back in the direction of the Polish no less a sum than £500,000 had already been put frontiers, with the view to cooperate with the Rus into circulation—considerable sums had been sent to the different large towns throughout the country, in sian armies, which, it was unde rs t oo d, wou ld support i P russ i a. proportion to their reputed populations ; and very the cause o f • large sums also had been distributed among the dit- Such are the particulars of the r u mour ; b ut w h at ferent London Bankers, so much as £5OO weekly.— 1 'They intended in this way to continue coining till the credit is to be given to it cannot yet b e determined. I Several letters are is town from Konig s b erg , b ut t h ey merely refer in obscure terms to some i mportant wants of the country were completely supplied—but it was to be recollected, that the process of coining change in the posture of affairs. A l a tt er , d ate d t h e was such as to require,a considerable time before this 6th inst. from Wingo Sound, only sa y s , t h at " t h e could be effected. reports from Prussia are various and contradi ctor y." The Duke of Nino= seemed perfectly satisfied Letters of the 18th of August from Petersbur h II i ''' ith this atisvters and the meeting was dissolved. supply no intelligence on this head. . eLD aeILET. , . Yesterday William Prima was tries on an indictment Charging him with with burglariously breaking and entering the house of Mary Stratford, and stealing therein several articles of silver plate and wearing ap parel.—From the testimony of the different witnesses examined in support of the prosecution, it appeared thet the prosecutrix is the proprietor of a market gar den at Kensington, and resides in Wright's-larie. On the morning of Saturday, the 24th of August, she and her son left home for the purpo' of going to Co vens-garden market in the pursuit of their business, leaving Charles Stratford, a boy about thirteen years of age, the old lady's grand-son, in bed. On their return home, about five o'clock, they found the house had been broken open and robbed, the casement of the parlour having been forced out. Charles Strat ford, the boy, stated, that he was awoke shortly be fore one o'clock, but fell asleep again. Some time after he was awoke by a noise in an adjoining room, and supposing it to be his grand-mother going to market, he asked if he should go with her ? but re ceiving no answer, he got up to look for his shoes, and, upon turning his eyes towards the next room, he saw two men, the prisoner and another. The pri soner, on perceiving him, came over, and struck him on the head, desiring him at the same time to go into bed. The boy remarked at this time that the priso ner had a red mask on his face, and held a candle, a crow, and a pistol in his left hand ; he also took par ticular notice, that his right hand, with which he struck him, had but one perfect finger, the other three being short, deformed stumps, with nails on each.— When he got into bed, the other man asked him where his grand-mother kept her money ? and upon his saying he did not know, he desired him to tell the truth before he was induced to do any thing rash.— At that moment the prisoner came up to the bedside, and covered the boy over with the clothes. At this time the boy again noticed the deformity in his hand. The two men remained in the house for nearly a hour and a half, during which time they were em ployed in breaking open the drawers, drinking beer, and eating greengages. On the Thursday following the prisoner, who lodged in Gore-lane, was apprehen ded by Bacon, the Bow-street officer, who asked him where he had been on the night of the robbery ?—to which he replied, that he had been in company with a woman whom he did not know, at the Southamp ton Arms, Somer's-town, until eleven o'clock, and slept the remainder of the night under a haystack.— On examining his right hand, it completely corms pondel with the account given by the boy, who also said he recognised his voice. It appeared, on the cross-examination of the wit nesses, that there had been some trifling dispute between the prisoner and the son of the prosecutrix. Charles Stratford, the boy, also admitted, that he had seen the prisoner's hand once before the night of the robbery. A person, named George Parker, said, he knew the prisoner for five years, during which time he held a favourable opinion of him ; he had nu knowledge of his character for the last three years. Mr. Justice BAILEY summed up the evidence with his wonted humanity, and having dwelt on the va rious points of evidence with clearness and perspicuity he left the Jury to draw their own conclusions. The Jury, after some consultation, retired. They ! had not been long absent, however, before two per sons, landholders at Fulham, who were not previously in attendance, appeared in Court to speak to the cha racter of the prisoner, and Mr. Justice BAILEY, with the concurrence of Mr. Justice HEATII, directed that the Jury should be recalled. Having returned ac cordingly, the witnesses were examined. Their testimony went to prove, that the character of the prisoner, down to the period when the robbery with which lie stood charged was committed, was unimpeachable. Mr. Justice BAILEY then reminded the Jury that if; a doubt existed on their minds the character of the prisoner should have its weight. The only observa tion lie had to make upon the evidence which had been adduced in support of the prisoner's character was, that whatever might have been his former cha racter, his own confession as to the mode of his having spent the night on which the robbery was committed, did not prove that he was then acting in a manner consistent with that correctness which, from the cha racter he had received, might have been expected. After this remark the Jury again retired, and at the expiration of three quarters of an hour, they returned with a verdict of—Guilty—Death. They recom mended the prisoner to mercy, however, on the ground of his good character. J. Sl i ffingion was capitally indicted for stealing a mare, value ktIO, the property of J. Brill.—The pro secutor, vho is a farmer in the county of Bucks, had his mare stolen out of his stables, on the night of the '3d of July, and on the 25th, he found her at Pad dington, in the possession of one C. Browne.—C. Browne deposed that he had bought the mare of one Grove, whom the prisoner had employed to sell her for him. He gave £lO. ss. for the animal, and Sk(f fington gave him a receipt, on which was written that he, Skeitington, had bought her of a person in Staf fordshire. This was corroborated by Grove, who stated that he saw Skeffington at the Green Man, at Paddington, where he asked him to sell her for him. —Guilty—Death. T Whitford was indicted for stealing a pocket-book, value Is. and five keys, value sd. the property of Henry Longlands, from his person.—The prosecutor stated, that on the evening of the 30th of July, he went to the Little Theatre, in the Haymarket, and took his seat in a box, into which the prisoaer soon after entered, and sat down behind him. In about five minutes after this Mr. Longlands beard a sound behind, as of the falling of some keys, and on looking round he saw the prisoner quitting the box. It im mediately struck him that the prisoner had robbed him, and that they were his keys which he had just heard fall ; he accordingly followed the prisoner, seized him, and accused him of having picked his pocket. A constable immediately came up and took charge of the prisoner, and, on his being searched, nothing was found on Wm which belonged to Mr. I Longlands ; but that Gentleman's keys were found lying in the box which they had just quitted.—R. Clask vw the prisoner, on his coming out of the box, throw something away in the lobby ; and, about half an hour afterivards, he found a pocket-book, which Mr.L. proved to be his, lying behind one of the doors. Two respectable tradesmen appeared, and save the prisons an excellent character, saying that his father Wu a very respeciibie miter piaisterer ; and that Li himself was apprenticed to Mr. G. Wyatt, the sur veyor ; but they could not tell how he had got his living for the last two or three years.—The prosecu tor said that he had made enquiry, and bad been formed that the prisoner was, till lately, a corporal in the St. James's Volunteer Infantry, and he received an excellent character of him, from several repectable members of that corps.—Guilty. James Thema: was indicted for a burglary in tie dwelling-house of Michael Favell; in Cranholirn passage, Leicester-square, on the night of the :lint* of January last, and stealing thereout 30 p airs ti: women's stays, and several other articles. It appear ed from the evidence, that the prisoner had kept a pastry-cook's shop, in Prince's -street, Soho : and shortly after this robbery, Gillman, a Police.officer, A of Queen-square, went into the prisoner's shop, and observed a large bundle, containing several pairs of stays, and a quantity of twilled nankin. He asked . the prisoner how he came by them ; and was answer ed, that they belonged to a poor distressed friend of his, in an insolvent state, and they were left with him for protection. Gillman said this answer was not satisfactory to him ; chat, therefore, he must take the goods to the Magistrates office ; and he gave the pri soner time until the Saturday following, to bring for ward the person who had Jett the goods with him, or otherwise account satisfactorily how he came by them. But when Gillman tulle '., on the Saturday following, he found the prisoner had absconded, and could not be heard of : and notwithstanding the moss diligent search, he never could find him until th e 21 s ; of August following, when he met him at a public house in Westminster, and took him into custody.— A shop-woman of Mr. Favell's proved the loss of the goods, but not of the burglary in the night-time ; and the Jury found the prisoner guilty of stealing to the value of 3ris. W. Howard was indicted for breaking and entering the house of J. Capel, and stealing therein a quantity of wearing apparel. Th• prosecutor, who keeps a public-house on Saffron-hill, deposed that about six o'clock in the morning of the 9th of August, he was awoke by one of his lodgers, who was going out to his work, and was told by him that his house had been broken open. He got up, and found all his doors open, and the property mentioned in the indict ment was missed. Two hats were also found in the back parlour, one of which he knew belonged to the' prisoner, and he believed the other belonged to one Hunt, his brother-in-law, with whom the prisoner had been playing at dominoes the evening before, in that parlour.---Hancock, the officer, searched the pri. soner's lodgings, at seven on the same morning, and found part of the property in a box under his bed. There being, however, no proof of the house being broken into, or out of, in the dark ; nor that the pro perty stolen was worth 40s. the Jury, under the direc . - tion of the Learned Judge, found the prisoner Guilty of stealing to the value of 395. only. The following were convicted of felony*:— Agnes Coombes, for stealing several remnants of cloth, the property of J. Bagne ; T. Lee, for stealing a great coat and a hat, the proper ty of J. Beacher, Esq. J. Jones, for stealing a pocket-book, containing £l2 in Ban k.notes, the property of H. Price; Mary Lock, for stealing a blanket, the property of T. Hanley ; J. Harris, for stealing divers articles of wearing appa. rel, the property of J. Wood ; J. Bradley, alias W. Hamilton, for stealing a watch, &c. the property of Peter Armour; Eleanor Larey, for stealing a gown, &c. the property of Ann Hudson ; Mary Riley, for stealing a saw, the property of J. Osborne • J. Green, for stealing a table-spoon, th e p ro p erty of A. Harri son ; Eleanor' King, for stealing a bed furniture, the property of •R. Howard; J. Dixon, for stealing jib. of indigo, the property of the East India Company ; W. Jones, for stealing two pint pots, the property of W. Stanley ; and C. Laxton, for stealing ss. the pro. perty of G. Mead : and four were acquitted, viz. J. Davies, Susan Sulivan, B. Goodman, and Elizabeth Brown. BAXINCL—A hard battle was fought on Tuesday last on Gillmore Heath, near Bicester, between George Hollis, a navigator, of 12st. 61b. and Wilmot, a coachman, from Oxfordshire, of equal weight.— They were backed for twenty guineas a side and a purse. Wilmot was hit right and left on the head in the first round, and his chart flew from every channel; but instead of going down, he recovered and rallied, and the men stood and hit three minutes, when Hollis went down. The . second and third rounds were as obstinately contested, and both were hit down in the third round. The fight was maintained with the most manly resolution for forty-eight minutes, when Hollis was hit lifeless for two minutes. Wilms t won the battle by hits at the head with his left hand. A well.contested foot race Lock place oa Tuesd iy last, on the Clapham Road, between two Office, s ot the Guards, for .50 guineas. The distance WAS a mile, and so well were they matched, that they ran abreast nearly the whole of the way, and the winner not beat his opponent by more than two yards. They ran the mile in five minutes and a halt, but were both too much exhausted to move without assistance.— Bets to a considerable amount were depending. The most flattering prospects of an abundant bar. vest appear in all parts of the country. In the White haven district, the corn is nearly all cut down, and the crops of all kinds of grain are most abundant. In the Exeter district the crops are equally pro mising in appearance, with the exception of the west ern part, where the rust has partially crept in ; but a large importation of black cattle trolls Ireland will, as it is expected, counteract the deficiency on this account. MARK-LANE.—The market this day has several fur ther arrivals of Wheat, and the trade again heavy in sales at somewhat lower price—Barley in good supply and rather cheaper—Malt and White Peas nearly at the last quotation ; very few Grey, and much higher—. Beans of each sort rather dearer—There are but feu` arrivals of Oats, not many on hand, and this article fully at last prices—Sales of Flour at the late quo. t ttior. GESIERAS. 11111111L2NCT AS *NOIR I Wheat ies. 90s. 105 s. Beans, 4lis. 14s. Fine ditto, 110 s. 114. Tick ditto, 44. Us. aye, 401. 40s. Oats, siSs. 275. 31s. Barley, Is. 461. od. Poland ditto, Us. Us. Od. Malt, Tits. 110 s. Potatoe ditto, 945. die. White Peas (Boilers) 71s. Us. tape Seed £4O £45 Floe Floor, itio. to 19111.,-.4tosak, 910. to frio. 1 I I M fc