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OXFORD RLECTIOM NAPA 1147PLLICENCIL We do not recollect an occasion, in which the PLYMOUTH, AND PLYMOUTH-DOCK, 240 V. It. M e mbers of the University have been so closely can- Sailed his Majesty's ships QUEBEC, to the west- N..1,,ed as the present ; and, if the three Candidates ' •11:11 firm, the contest will he hard fought. ward ; the N IEMEN f r i gate , an d H ARLEQUIN, hi r ed The qualifications for the Chancellorship ar e g ene - armed ship, on a cru i ze; P HEASANT s l oop o f war , r a lly understood to be — l. An ancient noble family; and YORK, of 74 guns , to t h e westwar d.--A rr i ve d Dignity of personal character ; 3. Literary abili- the Busy privateer, BELL master, from a cruize; and" t ,. , • 4. . • Moral worth ;5. Attachment to the Consti- Phoebe privateer, R. HE AD m aster , f rom Phil a d e lphi a .% t;:tion in Church and State. PORTSMOUTH, NOVEMBER 17. In some of these requisites, the three Candidates Arri ved his Maj esty's ship DOLPHIN from Plymouth, ar e equally eminent , and sailed again for the Downs; also the PORT MA. The Duke of BEAUFORT is a man of an ancient family, and of political and moral integrity. But it HON from Plymouth, and R EDI ' OLE f rom t h e D owns . objected to him, that he is fitter for the sports of the —Sailed the DEFENDER on a cruize.—Came into har• field, and for convivial meetings, than for the Presi- hour the LINNET gun-brig.—Wind E. N. E. dentcy over a learned body. DEAL, NOVEMBER. 17. Lord Euxer was a Tutor at the University College, Arrived the MERCURIUS sloop of war, with a convoy an d a man of letters, of an amiable character, and from the Baltic ; PO DARGUS s l oo p of war, from Yar. i rr eproachable in his conduct. The objections to him ar e, that he is not of a great family ; that a change mouth, and OSPREY ditto, from Portsmouth ; P EGG Y of Administration might diminish his present high schooner and IDAS cutter, from Flushing. Wind N.W. c onsequence; and that his family are in possession of YARMOUTH, NOVEMBER 17. some of the first offices in the University. 1 The ship mentioned yesterday on this beach was Lord GRENVILLE possesses, by the acknowledgment the Breeze, THOMAS WRIGHT master, of and from { o f all parties, every great and good qualification for sf the office. But it is objected to him, that he has sup- Hull, bound to London, with a cargo, co n s i s tin g ; For forted Ca tholic emancipation, against which the T_lni. lead, oats and oil, which are lost, the ship being tersity have expressed their sentiments. How far wrecked last night, and the beach is covered with this objection has weight with those Members of oats, pieces of wreck, and empty oil casks (crew were Convocation, who wish, like him, to unite all parties saved) : she had previously struck on the North tail against the common foe, we will not pretend to deter- of the Scroby Sand, and making water, the master inn , e : but, whether it is the effect of reason nr pre iedice, certain it is, that if Lord GRENVILLE loses the thought it prudent, for the safety of their lives and election, it will be solely from this cause. cargo, to run her on the shore.—Remain in the i t has been suggested by some of our Correspon- Roads ships as per last.—Wind N.W. with snow. dents., that a junction would probably be formed be- FROM LLOYD'S LIST. tween the Duke and the Lord Chancellor, in,order to GEAVESEND, Nov. 17.—Arrived the Duncan, Midhnrst, from throw OUt Lord GRENVILLE. For our parts, we have uottenburgh ; Young Cornelius, Carney, from Harling; and too high an opinion of the dignity of the Noble Can- E en. the ema, Cobb, from Carlsha m.—Sailed the Hope, M'Ea didates, to suspect them of an inclination to have re. chern, for St. Thomas's; Lady Hare wood, Watson, for Barba course to an electioneering trick, neither honourable does; Nelly, Queen, Ponler ; Ida, Passmore ; and Mart, to themselves, nor respectful to the exalted sentiments of the Members of the University of Oxford. Drysale, for Jamaica; Oliver, Thompson, for Tobago; Venus, Allen, and Friendship, , for Cape of Good Hope ; Phillippo, Blondrtt, for Teneriffe, and the Fame, Thomas, for St. Michael's. ARRIVED.—At Cruckhaven, the Brunette, —, from Malta; and the Betsey, Shade, from Cadiz. At Cork, the London, An elerson, from New Brunswick ; and the Two Sisters, Thomas, Irons Malaga. Off the Lizard, the Elizabeth, Carr, from Tene rife. Off Cape Clear, the Ruckets, Soper, from Martinique.— At Cadiz, the London Packet —, from London, bound to Gi braltar, leaky. At New York, the Nancy, --, from Briste.— At Torbay, the Fsdaile, Carli-le, from Jamaica. At Liverpool, the Commerce, Webster, from Africa ; and the Orestes, Allen, front Virginia ; Caledonia, Kenny; and Malta, Bell, from Mal a. In the Clyde, the Smile of Spring, —, from New Jersey.— At Hull, the Traveller, Jones, from Prince Edward's Island. At fiolyhead, the Ainsley, , Kearns, from the West Indies. At Leith, the Strenuous gun brig, from Gottenburgh, with a fleet. At Yar mouth, the Anna argaret ta, —, from Gottenburgh, detained. At Southton, tLe PT osperous Mitchell, from Waterford. At Wexford, the Thomas and Mary, Gibson, from London. At Oporto, the Wellington, Hewett, from Plymouth. Wnrruman's interesting Tragedy of The Roman Father, we hear, will be revived next week at Covent- Garden Theatre, in which Mrs. CLARKE will perform the part of Horatia. Mr. COOKE and Mr. YOUNG will be the Horatius and Publius. BArn.—The following are among the last arrivals at this place : Martinis of Ely, Countess Dowager of Ormond, Lady Rivers, Lady Chambers, Lady and Miss Bonteln,l.ady Reed, Hon Mrs. E.. John, air J. Trevelyan, Sir J. Hippisley, Admiral Stirling and Family, Colonel Shrapnall, Colonel Johncs, Major and Miss Aylmer, Major Macgregor, Captain White, Captain Leslie, Captain Goulde, Captain Sprowle and Family, &c. &c. Owing. to the carelessness of servants, &c. in leav ing street doors open, no less than four petty robberies were committed in Bath last week : from a house in Bath-street, two silver table-spoons were stolen ; from We. 8, Walcot-parade, a great coat ; and from an alea in the neighbourhood, a joint of meat. One of the Uxbridge coaches was upset, yesterday, en its way to town ; a gentleman passenger had his teg broken ; and another passenger, a French lady, *as much cut in the face ; the coachman was also very much hurt, but was able to proceed to town. SAILING MATCH.—Wednesday last, Mr. Minshaw, of Wapping, made a wager, for 100 guineas, that his rssl-1, called the Spencer, should outsail the Blue-eyt d Maid, belonging to Chatham, from Gravesend to the rr, and back again. At starring, the odds were in favour of the Spencer. Both boats kept near to each .t,tber, but the Blue-eyed Maid came in first,.by three beats length. The French privateers continue their visits to Do ver; eight of them were in sight yesterday morning at day-light. The Henrietta, of Baltimore, from Bremen. which Tas taken on the 19th ult. by the Decide French Fi t ratter, was retaken the 4th inst. by the HULENA ',oil) of war, and arrived at Cork the II th inst. THE ARMY. The Cheshire regiment of Militia are now on their route from Liverpool tor Plymouth Dock. His Itlaj(-sty's hired armed cutter I .DAS arrived in the Downs yest, r . morn; rom Flushing, and landed General WYNYARD and a King's Messenger. About 250 sick soldiers led at Dover yesterday from the Isle of Walcheren ; there are now about SOO in Dover Hop tAI 1 , .1 Barracks. Yesterday the buice of Cumberland's Sharpshooters were inspected ii •he King's Mews by Lieutenant- Colonel iENKINSON, b. hi) expressed himself in terms of appmbation at the appearance of the corps, and the %tate in which he found their rifles, the greater pat t :tie nt very expensive quality ; after t to inspection they went through some light evolutions in a very masterly manner. The Fanfaron French National brig, of 18 guns and 105 men, laden with flour, from Brest to Gua dalonpe, was taken on the sth inst. by the EMERALD frigate. The EMERALD has detained the Luno, of and from New-York for St. Sebastian's, laden with cotton and rice, and arrived at Cork with both the above vessels on Friday last. Letters from Heligoland mention a report, that I.lapoLzom iatends to dispatch a large army against the Turks. We stated some days ago, that such a movement might be looked for; and we believe that before many months our conjecture will be realized. —A Dutch Captain, who reached London on Wed. qt•shy morning, reports, that NAPoutow was to set '•.t 1: oni Fontambleau for Spain on Thursday and that he had been preceded by a powerful 4..:!y. We do not give the least credit to this repre :r...:.i6:l. A Gentleman, who very lately traversed ~ c whole range of country from the Pyrennees to the stases, that he met with no military marching '':gat direction, through the whole of his progress. .otters from the Baltic of a very recent date ob. that the French Consul, resident at Konigsberg, h been recalled to Paris to answer to a charge of r*:ruption in the exercise of the duties of his office; I we are told that the French Consuls throughout ' • stern Baltic, expect to receive orders to repair Com t to answer to similar accusations. The same -•tiers mention, that a number of ships, with certifi • of ortia, had been detained in the Russian ports the supposition that these papers were forged. ---..q.n , cagers were sent to the respective ports from m.h the masters of these vessels alledged they took departure, in order to verify the documents by ; , 11 -, Et: officers by whom they purported to be sub- oe letters from Hamburgh make some complaints :.:1 . .. th." British ship of war, appointed to *the station ... .:Ic imuth of the Elbe, is not constantly in the way; .-1;:cl they state, that as soon as it disappears the Danise ' ;..1r::::ovas take advantage of its absence, an 4 capture . in.inv if the vessels &la en with British property, in i t:ie :hort run between Cuxhaven and Heligoland. Letters from Bremen remark, that the Duke of !1.,...;..mm0 has become much more strict, in coolie-: e i ..:cary of the discovery of some alai-practices of his f (.:amei•cial .0 fficers, and it is added that several of . tilt ni have been removed, and others substituted less undeserving his confident" 1 0 1 HI: EDITOR OF THE STAR. SlR—About ten minutes since a friend of mine handed me your Paper of this day week, in which I tind a letter addressed to you by " An Old Soldier." Were I to indulge my individual sentiments, I should not condescend to notice this letter, but as an Officer of the British Army, 1 owe the service a duty which is paramount to any feeling of a private nature. It re quires no great exertion to conceive the motive that tempts some men to pilfer our applause, by the pen ning of a puff—but that a " Soldier" should delibe rately sit down to pillage a brother officer of his right, and that too in the face of Lord CHATHAM'S dispatch, is to me a pitch of effrontery beyond the reach of my comprehension. Permit me, Sir, to quote that part of his letter which I feel myself bound to refute—let truth and falsehood be brought face to face : " Sir—As a good deal of misrepresentation has been made in several of the Newspapers, relative to that part of the British Army which took up the po sition for the siege of Flushing, on the Ist of August last, I beg you will be pleased to insert the following particulars, as a common justice only to those corps who were alone employed on that occasion. When that part of the army destined for the siege of Flush ing came within two miles of the fort on the Ist of , August, about one o'clock at noon, the enemy's Chasseurs and Voltigeurs became very troublesome, being posted in the woods, ditches, &c. &c." Let the following facts prove the truth of this : On the Ist of last August, General HOUSTON'S Brigade, composed of the 14th, 51st, and 82d Regi ments, took possession of Middleburgh at about eight o'clock in the morning. After a halt of about ten minutes, the 51st and 82d proceeded to Flushing, a distance of something more than four English miles. The brigade had not cleared the gates of the city be. fore our advance fell in with the enemy, posted on the main road and adjacent woods. Having made upwards of 300 prisoners, we found ourselves, by 12 o'clock, within about a mile of Flushing, and pos sessed of all the enemy's artillery. The day was most d erisive; they fled in every direction, and if the affair wanted completion, I am convinced no regiments in the service were more capable of effecting it than the 68th and 85th. Nothing that I may say can add to to their credit, except it be to rescue them from the advocacy of their " Old Sol dier."—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, Tuesday. November 14. 4 YOUNG SOLDIER. COrtNT-AIIDEN 7711,11 E. Last night Pomth and Juliet was performed for the second time, in which Mrs. CLARKE made her fifth appearance in London ; and we cannot help repeat ing, the more we see of this most promising young actress, the more we lament the unfortunate period at which she was brought out ;—never was any thing more inauspicious to native talent and genius. In the garden scene, and with the Nurse, where the changes of passion and countenance were strikingly varied, she was heard and seen to the greatest advan tage, and the applause she received must have been highly gratifying to her feelings. Mr. C. KEMBLE is confessedly the first Romeo on the stage ; but the ex cellent acting of this gentleman, with that of Mr. MURRAY in the Friar, Mr. JONES in Ilfercutio, and Mrs. bAVENPORT in the Nurse, was all drowned in the ocean and tempest of tumult and uproar that inundated the pit after the third act. The play was got up, in point of costume and scenery, in a manner that does honour to the classic taste of Mr. KEMBLE. During the third act, an Honourable Baronet, Sir G—t H--e, who was in the dress-boxes, drew the attention of that part of the house by his repeated and loud coughs. The conspicuous part he took, seemed;o give great dissatisfaction to two men, who sat cloto him : one of them, an athletic fellow, ap- Vtererrdt a working carpenter, offered some low abuse to the Honourable Baronet, for the disturbance he occasioned by his coughing. This produced a retort from the latter, and an altercation of some length took place between them. Sir G. H. however, not being disposed to cury on the contest any longer, condescendingly offered to shake hands with the dis putant, who said, " he would sooner shake his fist in his face, than shake hands with This fracas drew the notice of every one within hearing, and as it was taken for granted, from the appearance of this man and his companion, that they were partizans of the Managers, they were compelled to retire amidst groans and hisses. According to custom, the remainder of the per formances was entirely neglected for the more fasci nating exhibitions of the Corps d e Ballet in the pit, by whom all manner of feats were executed with sur prising spirit and success. From the pus .real to the pas des cents, all were kept up on the "light fantastic toe," to the agreeable and melodious tune of 0. P. The musical farce of Hartford Bridge, which suc ceeded the Play, was all dumb-show and panto mime. On two or three occasions that IsctrooN's fine voice was faintly distinguished, amid the innu merable discord, the partizans of the tumult ral lied with new vigour, and, at the risk of hoarse ness and sore-throats, carried every thing before them. After the Pittites, accompanied by some 0. P.'s in the Boxes, had sung, in their usual style of harmony a few verses of " Goo save the King," the Galleries struck up " Rule Britannia," which was received with rapture by the pit, and rewarded with hearty cheers. All the former expedients to increase the noise, and attract the attention of the audience, were put in practice with the usual success. No bell, however, gave a single toll during the whole of the night, and only one solitary rattle, of a modest size, was sparin gly sported. The dancing, racing, and mock fighting made sufficient amends. Towards the end of the Farce a Police Officer was discovered nearly in the middle of the Pit. As soon as the alarm was given every effort was directed to that quarter, till the 0. P.'s succeeded in pushing him almost to the door, where, brandishing his baton, he made a long and desperate stand. He was several times driven down a few of the steps, but always rallied with unbroken courage, till, nearly shut out, a reinforcement came to his assistance, when several persons in the Dress Boxes above the door applied their sticks so effectually, that the officers found it prudent to desist. Here three general cheers of triumph followed, which was joined by many in the Dress Boxes, and in all parts of the house. After the dropping of the curtain, the attention of the Pit was directed, among other objects, to a Box, in the third tier, where it was supposed a Gentleman, who has lately much distinguished himself in support of the Managers, was. Great crowds ran from all cor ners to this quarter, with the cry of turn Ent out, from most parts of the house. Two Gentlemen left the box, but we did not ascertain who they were. The usual indecorous language was employed against the private boxes, from which the few Ladies present were atdast obliged to retire. The Pit was by no means crowded, but the Boxes overflowed during the whole of the eveniug. Among the placards exhibited, the following seemed to afford most gratification to the Pittites, and was loudly cheered. every time it appeared : " Privates Boxes for young cats and old foxes." Before ten the performances on the stage finished, and the pit was almost immediately cleared. A scene of disgraceful confusion and uproar, how ever, was acted in the saloon, by about one hundred young men, wh©, in order to diversify the amuse ments of the night, resorted to sham fighting, and other elegant recreations. It was eleven before the Theatre was emptied of its visitors. Bow-STREET.--A gentleman, named Charles Izard, residing at No. 28, South-street, Pentonville, was brought out of the boxes by the constables, charged with an assault on a young man named Rickman, a coal-merchant, in Surrey-street, Strand. Mr. Rickman stated, that while he was in the dress boxes, last night, between the play and farce, a gen tleman, who called himself Captain O'Brien, of the 47th Regiment, attempted to force his way into the box where he was, although there was no room. His entrance was objected to on that ground, and after a good deal of insulting language, he thought proper to retire. However, shortly afterwards, the defen dant Mr. hard made a similar attempt to come into the box, and he also was refused admittance. In stead, however, of his going away, he persisted in his intention of coming tn. This was resisted on the part of the complainant, upon which Mr. Izard seized him by the collar, and gave him a violent shaking, trod upon his toes, and otherwise violently assaulted him. This statement was corroborated by a young gen tleman, named Richmond, a coal-merchant, in Scot land-yard, who was present at the transaction. Mr. Izard denied the charge most positively, and alledged that he himself was not only insulted, but assaulted in the fu st instance by the complainant, who, before the defendant said a word to him, pushed Ihim violently in the chest with his elbow. He theft, indeed, laid hold of h:rn by his coat for the purpose of saving himself from falling through the vinlence or the push, and had committed no other assault. Captain O'Brien, and another gentleman, proved ' the same circumstances on behalf of M. 17:er !. The complainant, however, swore positively that he was assaulted first by the defendant, who w.t discharged on his own :ecognizances. About 11 o'clock, Abraham Marl Braham, a .Te, fi was brought to the office:, charged by a young man named Bradley, resident at No. 45, Threadne-e ile street, with picking his pocket of a silk handkerchief, in the Pit of Covent.( auden Theatre, on Wednesday night. --The complainant, however, was unable to fis the act with sufficient certainty upon the prisoner, who was discharged accordingly. BRIGHTON, NOVEMBER 14. The unpleasant bustle occasioned by departures .c still here predominant. The town, in truth, has been deprived of much elegant company during the two last days, and various families are yet on the eve of quitting us. But to take a view of what is going forward at Brighton at this time, on the brighter side, we have to notice, that Lord and Lady CLoNmELL, Lady BATHURST, and Lord BOYNE, are in the last list of arrivals of importance. Sir GODFREY Wslitrun is here with part of his re giment, the worthy Baronet being an t? id-de Camp of the General of the district. Lord C. SOMERSET has taken a house near the Steyne, where jovial dinner parties, refined mirth, and good old English hospita lity, are daily to be found. The Ball at the Castle last night was far from being numerously attended ; perhaps another week may produce something better there than what the present has called forth, which the liberal attention of the proprietor of the rooms, Mr. TILT, to the accom modation of the company, is well and wot thily en titled to expect. CRELTENHAM, NOVEMBER 17. The Mail Coach, instead of arriving yesterday evening at the usual hour, was near two hours later, owing to an accident, which, though threatening se rious consequences, we are happy to say was attended with but trifling inconvenience. Through some cause, it got entangled with a cart about two miles on this side Glocester. Both the coachman and guard were I thrown off their seats, but received no material injury. A Gentleman lately riding in this neighbourhood, saw at the door of a farm house, an animal that baffled his sagacity to understand.—" My boy," says he, to a lad who was lying by, " what sort of a beast do you call this ?" " Why, Zur," says the boy, "he was once a Grayhound, and we call'd 'n Yly ; but Meader cut off his ears and his tail, and mead 'n into a Maishif, and now we calls 'n Lion !" Saturday evening a fire broke out in the stables of Mrs. SPOONER, at Leigh Court, Worcestershire. , By the assistance of the engines the fire, though it burnt with amazing rapidity, was got under with less da. mage than was expected ; two horses and a cow were destroyed, together with the buildings where the fire began, and two other horses were much injured ; the stock was insured, but the buildings not so. The fire was occasioned by the very reprehensible carelessness of a servant, who went into the stable to the horses with a candle, without the precaution of putting it in I a lantern. Monday morning, between five and six o'clock, a fire broke out in the Compting-house, at the Coal Yard belonging to Messrs. Tuompsos, close to the bridge at Worcester, which was not got under, until the books, papers, and considerable property were de stroyed. The adjoining buildings were not injured. It is supposed to have originated from the snuff of a candle being dropped unperceivecl,and left in the room. ARRlVED—Captain Folberingham, Colonel and Mrs. Tench, Capt. E. C. Whinyates, Mr. Jukes, Mr. Struper, Mr. Miller, Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Turville, Mr. J. llaiiere, Mr. Curtis, Mr. Preston and family, Mr. and Miss Wyatt, Mrs. Gregorie and family, Mrs. Bruce, Mrs. Peacock, Miss Page, Miss Buckley, &c. At a trial in the Court of Common Pleas, yesterday, some difficulty occurred in ascertaining the date o: the writ and the testing of it whereon the defentlaw. was arrested. Sir JANIF,S MANSFIN:I.D then expresse 1 a determination to have the date and testing of ever f writ entered upon the record, in future, to prevent a similar inconvenience. ELOPEMENT.—On Wednesday afternoon a young lady, the only daughter of an opulent merchant in the City, eloped with an Officer in the Army, from the house of a near relation of her own, in the neigh. bourhood of Blackheath, where she had been on a visit far few a weeks. CHILD STEALING.—On Wednesday evening, about dusk, tw ,p elderly women called at the shop of Mrs. Trust, in Wardour-strect, and bargained for some trivial articles, while at the same time, a little girl, three years old, was decoyed away from the door by another woman, and she was not heard of until twelve o'clock at n:ght, when she was brought home by a watchman, clad in a filthy rug, her apparel, which was not worth more than a few shillings, having been , stolen. It was ascertained from the child, that a wo man who called herself her aunt had enticed her away from her mother's door under pretence of buying her some cakes, and that two other women (supposed to be these in the shop) joined her, and she was taken to a house in St. Giles's, where she was stripped.— The watchman found the child in great distress at the end of Oxford-street. CORN MARKET, MARK-LANE.—The supplies of Wheat this day are again somewhat considerable; but, owing to the late demand, sales fully support last prices : some fine American exceeds the quota tion 2s. and 3s. per quarter—Barley and Malt, like wise White Pease and Beans of the two descriptions, at little variation—Very few Grey Pease, and those again dearer—There are several further arrivals of Oats from the North Country, very few samples of first quality, and this trade also maintains last prices —Flour on the terms of our last currency. OLNIMAL ClAtill.NCY AS UNI)Sit s Wheat, 80s. 92t. 1054. Bemis, t J,, (;64. Fine ditto, 1103. 1143. Tick ditto, 50s. 565. Rye, 50s. 555. osts, 965. 30s. !t4s. Barley, 48s. 555. Od. Poland ditto, 38s. 408.04, Malt, 765. 84s. Potato e ditto, 41. od. White Peas (Boilers) 765. 86s. Rape Seed, 501. 541. _ _ Grey cl , tto, !6 0 . 6 2 9- Fine Flour. 909. 955.—Seconds SS* 90s. 11 i '1