Star. — London, England, 1809-10-31 00:00:00

A'ArAL IVItztLicEAT4. FALMOUTH, OCTOBER 28. His Majesty's ship NARCISSUS, with a fleet of vic tuallers, for the ships of war off the French coast, w hi c h sailed from hence yesterday, got embayed, and ilas been obliged to return to this port. PLYMOUTH-DOCK, OCTOBER if. This forenoon a large French national brig of war, nou nting 16 guns, and full of Men, was brought ~,: o the Sound, and came to anchor, having been r aptured by one of our cruizers. No other particulars are vet known.—The fleet in the offing, to the west ward, mentioned in my letter of yesterday, was the h om eward -bound Quebec fleet, consisting of 26 sail, l a d e n with timber, under convoy of the BLOSSO3I sloop, cf 18 guns, Captain FRANCIS BEACFORT. T w o of the vessels have arrived here ; and the whole loamy will be a most seasonable supply. This morning Rear-Admiral STOPFORD hauled down his blue flag, on board the Scirtox, and hoisted 2 white one in the room of it, in consequence of his loving risen a step by the recent promotion. PORTSMOUTH. OCTOBER so. Arrived his Majesty's ship LEYDEN, 64 guns, and t' n e PERSIAN and DIANA sloops of war, from the D owrs .--Nothing sailed to-day.—His Majesty's ship PEARL gives convoy instructions to ships bound to the West Indies.—Wind N.E. DEAL, OCTOBER so. Sailed this morning the Maria, SMITH, for Rio Ja neiro; Granger, GRANGER, for the Cape of Good• flue; his Majesty's ship Isis, for Flushing ; and H rI BERC with a convoy to the Westward—among thm are the Lord Nelson and the Raxford, for It ina,ca, with several others : particulars not known.— Arrived the OSPREY SIOW of war, front the East ward.—Wind FROM LLOYD'S I.TST. GlAirsistD, OCTOBER 30.—Arrived the Eagle, Billingham, f ro m Malaga; Phcebe, Gurter, from Palermo; and the Perseve rance, Guy, front Gibraltar. The Charles Hamilton, Fullock, from Malaga to Hull, is on shore upon Sand Hall. Thr Hus4arian, M'Farlane, is arrived at Halifax, from the Clvdr, hoend to St. Thomas's, in distress, having seven feet water ic :it r h. •h!. _ _ _ The Eliza and Mary, --, from Liverpool to Helntstadt, is ettinded oft the isle of Man. ERUPTION OF ETNA. inle. During the emissions of rocks and flame, the ' boiling matter was seen in slow Undulating waves, is suing through the sides, close to the bottom of the i NEWMARKET TthRD OCTOBER, OR HOUGHTON black hills tif ashes. The double crater appeared i MEETING, 1809.--Mo ODI v , 0 C - rci Dix 30. completely isolated by the lava of the others. Just ! Sir J. SheUey's Fanny,. sit. 81b. btat Gen. Grosvenor's Trump, below it, all th e l ava s un i t i ng , f orme d one gran d . 7st. 81b. Across the Flat, 200 gs. 1 1 : ft.-3 t o l on F. uur y. stream of various breadths, from half a mile to fifty Ld Darlington's Musician, Bst. 21b. beat Ld Grosvenor's Me teora, Bst. 711). B. C. 400g5.--7 to 4 agst musician. yards, which, leaving the fir wood, pursued its de- ' Sweepstakes of 200 gs. each , h. ft. Across the Flat structive course dow n a roc ky p art o f t h e mountain; Ld Foley's Spaniard, B s t. 61b. ' - . I interspersed with oaks ; until, about five miles below Duke of Rutland's Salvator, est. 41b. - the double crater, it entered some vineyards, after di- Ld Darlington's Levant, Bst. Sib. - - 3 viding into two br anc h es , t h e pr i nc i pa l one o f w hi c h 7to 4 agst Spaniard-5 to 4 ags t Salvator--2 to I ago Levant. advancing .a mile f art h er , di rect l y t h reatene d the Lord Sackville's Deceiv er , 9 st . 91h. h eat Si r C. Turner's Mr: Lundy, Bst. 71b. Two-yr-old C. 50gs.-7 to 4on Deceiver. house of Baron Carri. Within 200 yards of this Garden Stakes of 108 gs. each. T. M. M. house, it entered a holl ow way , w hi c h, i t was h ope d, Duke of .G 11 31: ftos s Pope, Bst. lib. - - I would turn its course ; but, going on, according to Mr. Haworth's Cassio, Bst. 41h. - 2 the direction of the impelling flood behind, its loose Len. Gower's Mirth, 6st. 12th. - - s ' Mr. Wyndham's- 'l'rusty, 7 s l. 81b. - - p d Mr. Vl rocks rolling off th e ma i n b o d y , soon fill e d up t h e ilson's Spindle, 7st. 71h. _ pit small ravine, and formed a causeway for itself to pass. 5t04 on Pope -z to 1 agst Cassio-5 to 1 agst Mirth. The other branch took the direction ofLingua Grossa, Lord Sackville's Bustard, Bst. 716. beat Mr. Batson's Cecilia, and arrived very near the Baron Cagnone's house, 7st. 51b. Across the liar, lungs.-6 to 4on Bustard. whose inhabitants, as well as those of the town, were Mr. Payne's Bulrush, beat Sir C. Turner's Guardy, Bst. 71b trembling for their property, when the eruption ceased. each. Fit st 3M.0f8. C. 15egs.-5 to 4on Bulrush. The stream sometimes branched off, and joined Sir J. Shelly's Robin, Bst. beat Mr. Craven's Black Diamond, Bst. 311). D. I. 200 gs. h. tt.-7 to 4on Robin. again, forming i s l an d s as i t fl owe d a l ong . S ome - Mr. Howorth's Fancy, fist 91b. beat Mr. Lloyd's Puck, Bst. 716. times its banks were fo rme d by t h e s id es o f rav i nes ; T but where the country was o p en , i t f orme d i ts own , wo • y r-old C. bogs. h. ft.-5 to 4on Fanc y . which, from the porous nature of the lava, imbibed Ld Sackville's . Deceiver, 9st. 911). rec. 120 gs. from Sir C. Tur ner's Middlethorpe, Bst. 21b. Ab. M. eoOgs. .the cool air, and soon hardened into black and lofty sara Ld gos L sa owt a h s e t e 3 s ib Loite r rer il 8 . s x t . 1 416 . bo 0g rec. s. h f . t. ft f . rom Sir G. Webster's banks of many feet in thickness. It gradually thick ened in advancing, until about four miles from the Duke of Grafton's Morel, Bst. 51. rec. from Lord Darlington's center, when it began to assume the appearance of a Rubens, Ilst. 71b. Two-yr-old C. 900 gs. vast rugged mound of black rocks, or stones and Mr. Croft's Timet.ser, Bst. 61b. against Mr. Kellermann'; cinders, moving almost imperceptibly along. By Cockatoo, 7st. 101 b. Across the Flat, 100 gs. h. ft.-Off by consea. daylight, the general appearance of this amazing stream, or moving mound, was black, and might be compared to a long track of ploughed ground, mov ing and smoking along, raised on banks from fifteen to forty feet high. The end of it, however, presented a bold front of vivid fire, about fifteen or sixteen feet high, and eighty paces in extent. While it moved forward in a body, the loose stones and cinders pre senting less resistance to the stream behind, impelled in a continual succession from the top, relied crack ing down its rough sloping sides and front, advanc ing before the main body, and burning the grass, the weeds, and the grape vines, like light troops skir mishing on the front and flanks of an army marching in solid column. SPORT ATELLIGENCE. L4W INTELLIGENCE. COURT •F CHANCERY, OCTOBER 30. The Lotto CHANCELLOR sat in Lincoln's Inn Hall, and heard many motions, the most interesting was that of EGERTON V. PLOWDEN, Esq. _ _ Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY moved for an injunction against Francis Plowden, Esq. restraining him from publishing a book, of which he is the author ; this motion was founded on an affidavit, stating, that Mr. Egerton bad advanced to Mr. Plowden £454 on a moiert:otlithe copyright of a book, called The History of Irtlakef, work in three volumes in quarto, published by Mr. Egerton, and sold for Xt. That afterwards Mr. Plowden published, by another bookseller, a work containing much of the substance of the former, and, of coarse, injurious to its sale, for the latter wa‘; in two volumes octavo, and sold at 4s. The motion was granted upon this statement of facts. I never saw a painting which gave any thing like a correct idea of lava, yet it appears no difficult task. I could discern nothing of the fluid part of the stream; yet, until somewhat cooled, by flowing several it must be liquid immediately underneath the thin light crusted surface. Just after issuing from the crater, I should think it flowed at the rate of four MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. Yesterday the Sessions of the Peace for the Count"' of Middlesex commenced, before WM. MAINWARING, Esq. and a Bench of Magistrates. The attention of the Court was occupied the whole day in trying petty assault causes, of no public inte rest whatever. We think it necessary, however, to take notice of the following ; Samuel Matthews, an athletic coal heaver, was con victed of a violent assault on one of the Ifeadboroughs of the county of Middlesex, named Saunders, in the execution of his duty. The prosecutor, it appeared, had stopped in the street to look at the prisoner, who was stunning down to the lock of a trade,msn's &far, in a verybitspciouS !Thinner ; finling, however, that he ha.l mistaken his intentions, he was about to retire, when the defend ant turned round and interrogated him, in a gruff manner, what he looked at ? The prosecutor civilly replied, that he looked at him, and that he thought there was no harm in so doing ; without further ex planation, the defendant planted a blow in the prose cutor's face, which broke the bridge of his nose, and blackened both his eyes. The Court senienced him to three months impri , sonment. Strf►brn Batman, a master butcher, was indicted for a most outrageous assault on the person of a young female, named Harris. It appeared in evidence, that a trifling dispute oc curred be:ween the children of the Defendant and the Prosecutrix and her little brother. The latter, it seems, swept the mud and gutter one way, while the defendant's children swept it back again. Words ran high, and the parents of both parties came out into the street. The Defendant, however, took up the quarrel in rather a mere serious light than the mother of the prosecutrix wished to do ; be imme• diately set-to, and began to beat the mother (a decre pid old woman) and brother of the prosecutrix, with the broom, in a most unmerciful manner. After having administered a liberal dose to them, he pro ceeded to beat the prosecutrix, until she fainted with pain and fright. She was then rescued from his butcher-like claws, and conveyed to her mother's house, where she was wi:h great difficulty recovered from her fit. Not, however, so successfully, as to prevent a return of her disorder frequently since ; in deed, her physicians gave up all hope of curing her of the injury entailed upon her constitution, by this unmanly ruffian. _ _ _ The defendant called three witnesses, who flatly contradicted the prosecntrix's testimony. The Jury, however, found a verchct of Guilty ; and the Court sentenced him to pay a fine of L'2.o. COLONEL WARDLE T. MRS. CLARKE AND TIM WRICDTP. followir; Copy of a Li ttet from a British Officer in Sicily, p:es a more particular account of the last Eruption of Mount Ltra than we have any *here met with: MESSINA, APRIL 24. On the morning of the 27th cf March, about seven o'clock, advices of an eruption of Etna were conveyed hither, by a very swift courser—a cloud of black ashes fun the mountain top, which is fifty miles distant, in a straight line. These ashes, born on a hard gale of wind, showered into the town in such quantities, that several cart loads might have been collected from the! streets and house-tops. They resembled gun.pewder ; so much so, indeed, that an Irish sol dier. in the citadel, called out, .‘ Bleall and turf! thie wind Lai forced open the magazine doors, and here's :lithe powder blowing about die barracks." So n after day-lighr, an awful bellowing and ho rizomal shaking of the mountain excited a general alairn among the inhabitants of its vast regions. Un certain rbere the' calamity might fall, many deserted' their houses. This shock was immediately succeeded by a furious eruption of ashes from the great crater, which formed immense clouds, and covered an amaz ing c:tent of country. So violent was the discharge, twat, in spite of the gale, a vast quantity ovcrslnead Vie country, many miles to windward of the spot whenze they issued.* Gt toe evening of the same day, an eruption of lava took place at a short distance below, whose ter rible stream flowed dOwn the mountain about three miler, and then divided into two branches. This volcimo soon ceased burning, and another broke out next day, with greater fury than the former, about five miles lower down, at a place called Monte Negro. 1 . 1 - . e one displayed three vast columns of flame and smoke, and its lava extended, in a few days, across region, to the distance of three or four leal;nes. Hitherto we have heard of no guide bold enoti;ll to conduct the curious traveller as far as cider of these eruptions, because of the vast and de cs.itful heaps of snow and ashes scattered about the twit upper regions of the mountain ; nor has any per- I bdiere, been as yet so rash as to ascend higher than one which broke out two hours after the first alarrn, alamt twelve miles below Monte Negro, and e'g!lt wtst of Lingua Gros , a. a town on the north. east side, near the foot of Etna. This eruption has formed a row of craters, within a space of about two miles ; forming, with the others, an irregular line, twining in a north-cast direction, from the top of the rnruntain. 170 m the dark bosom of a wood of tall firs and }tig c • oaks, spread over steep craggy hills and close "alleys, conceive twelve craters or mouths, two un ceasingly, and the rest at intervals, with a noise like a hemendous chorus of several thousand cannons, !muskets, and sky-rockets, discharging flame and •power s of burning rocks of various forms and all nragnitudes, from several yards in diameter down to the smallest pebble, which, according to their weight And hulk, ascended from 200 to 1000 feet. The WO fore-meationed craters (or rather double crate' ) 'he lowest of the row down the mountain, formed the rnncipal obiect ef this awful and magnificent scene —they were the only craters which did not seem to labour. Their joint emissions had encompassed them with a black oblong hill of ashes and lava stones ; tiorty yards above the top of which their mingling flames furiously ascended, in onq • immense blare, !eerned 100 y-,rds in breadth. Amidst this blaze, vast showers of rocks, rising and falling, were !entunially passing each other. About the middle of the whole line of craters was situated one, which la- Loured the most, and made the loudest, the heaviert, the highest, and the most dangerous discharges ; from the rocks of which our party twice narrowly escaped, one or two of very considerable size falling within a pace of ns. I think the lava flowed only from a few of the chief craters, particularly the double miles an hour ; half-way, diwn the stream (whose whole extent, when the eruption ceased, was about six miles), a mile and a half an hour, and so on, gradually decreasing in velocity to the most advanced part, where its progress was a few hundred yards a day. . . . The night view of the eruption and stream of Lava was truly grand and terrific. The rocks emitted froria the.craters displayed a white heat, and the flames an intense red. lThen the adjacent hills and valleys ware covered by a shower of rocks, they appeared, for a time, beautifully spangled with stars, whose silver brightness, as well as that of the burning trees, formed a no less admirable contrast to the flames of the crater than did the evening songs of the birds to the bellowing cf the mountain. The lava was a fancied infernal fire, streaked black and red, present ing a horrid contrast to the dark snr-ountLng scenery. acre, down the rocky slopes, it rolled a cataract of fire ; there it displayed floating mounts, crowned with imagined fortresses. Trees were seen, as if growing from the fire, whose parched branches and burning trunks exhibited the idea of desolation in all its horrors. The country about Lingua Grossa, Pie Monte, and other places on that side of the mountain, now lies covered with ashes, three or four inches in depth. Though sonic lands have suffered by lava, many have been manured by ashes, and the whole island is freed from the dread of earthquakes for some time to come. Thus we find " All partial evils universal goad." LONDON SESSIONS. Yesterday a hoary wretch, named Turner, was found guilty, on the evidence of -- Meadows, a musician, in the East-India Company's Band, of exposing him• self in a most indecent manner, in Moorfields, on the 26th of September ; and of an attempt to commit an unnatural clime on the prosecutor. The detail of the evidence, we, of course, cannot enter into. He was sentenced to three months imprisonment. Moses Joseph, alias Blind Smooch'', was heard on his appeal against a conviction of the Lord Mayor, under the authority of which he had been confined in the Poultry Compeer, as a rogue and vagabond, within the meaning of the Police Act, the 42d of the King. John Brown, a City Officer, saw the prisoner en deavouring to semen` a man of the name of Mow Trott, a well known thief, whilst he appeared to be in the act of picking a Gentleman's pocket, in Lea-, denhall-street, between Heartshorn-alley and Chim ney-sweeper's-court. Witness attempted first to lay hold of Trott, but he bolted right off. He then en deavoured to secure the Prisoner at the Bar ; he dodged round three or four people, and the Witness gave him a severe blow with his fist, and obliged him to submit. He had seen the Prisoner constantly plying about the same spot in Leadenhall-street, for this twelve months past, and he was always in the company of well-known thieves. Eldridge, another City Constable, gave him a si Except the inhabitants likely to suffer, little con- 1 milar cha — racter from 14. years experience, and sup cern or curiosity was expressed by the Sicilians.— ported the story of Brown, having been in company Even the Baron Carri, whose holm was so much in with him at the time of the Prisoner's apprehension. danger, with superstitious obstinacy, rejected, for a Mr. BOLLAND, in support of the appeal, urged some long while, every proposal of the British officers for • technical objections, which were over-ruled by the removing his property. 6 ' No, no," he always re- ; Court. He then observed, that a man's former pur plied, " Let it be as Gon wills it." At length, how- i suits had no connection with his present actions ; for ever, self-interest prevailed, and solitary walls alone' instance, he might himself, in the course of some remained. But when the lava had arrived within years after the present, give himself up to the study 200 yards of this deserted habitation, the eruption of physic, he might follow agricultural pursuits, or ceased, to the great joy of the natives, who attribut- he might turn to any other line of business—but there ed this mercy to the merits and interference of their could not he any fairness in the person who saw him Patron Saints, whose images were daily brought from now practising at the Bar, giving that fact in evi- Castiglione (a distance of three miles) in procession, deuce with a view to prove that he was still engaged during the progress of this calamity, and placed, in his professional practice. while mass was performed, amidst the tears of a The Rs:cola - wit here observed—" Very well, Mr. wretched multitude, a few yards in front of the B. but no man can deny that you are now occupied slowly advancing fire. This procession was composed in your business as a Barrister, and we have it in cvi of the miserable and ragged natives, of both sexes dence, that at the very moment of_ his apprehension, and all ages, crying and sobbing, beating their your client Was, to all appearance, engaged in thel breasts, tearing their hair, and flogging their backs pursuit of his professional practice." in penance, while their priests were calling on al The conviction was then affirmed, and the PriOoner i their saints to assist them. On their way to the lava, sentenced to be confined six months in Brideweil. they stopped at the Baron's house, from the balcony A hackney-coachman, named Frantlin, was charged of which the chief priest, with the most violent ges- with an assault, by Samuel Butcher, of Bethnal-green. tures of grief, delivered a short sermon, in which he The prosecutor stated, that he took the prisoner's told them, the eruption was a judgment upon their coach from Holborn, to Sun-street, Bishopsgate; the sins, and recommended thins to mend their lives, and whole time being about 20 minutes ; that he offered pray to all the saints to intercede for them. Every the prisoner Is. 6d, which was refused ; when the pause of this discourse was filled with a general burst prisoner collared, and charged the watch with him ; of tears, beating of breasts, tearing of hair, and flog- although, as was proved by other witnesses, he took ging of backs. I was never more affected by any out a quantity of silver, and told the prisoner to take scene of public distress. what he thought was his fare. He was sentenced to What mortal can dare to think that he breathes a pay a fine of 30s. single moment without Divixe assistance ! How fee- Mr. ALLEY was heard on a petition from an Insol ble, how insignificant does he feel, who stands within vent Debtor, praying to be brought up for liberation. `2OO yards of these furious volcanoes ! What must be Mr. A. stated, that at the time the late Insolvent Act the pangs of his heart, who beholds his earthly pro- was to take effect, his client was in a Lock-up-house, perty, his native fields, in a few hours irrecoverably and did not receive the benefit, not being in the ac overwhelmed ! Transitory, compared with this, are teal custody of the Warden of the Fleet. Mr. A. all the other scourges of the earth ! The fertility quoted East's Reports, that a man in a Lock-up-house, swept away by floods and tempests, by war and pes- for debt, was the same as in the custody of the War tilence, is shortly succeeded by smiling plenty ! The den of the Fleet, and said he could see no difference. fields of Aosterlitz and Jena, already revive from The Recorder said, that the Sheriffs are obliged their late desolation ! Even Spain may perhaps smile by law to keep a man 24 hours in safe custody, before ere long ! but many successive generations, with they can commit him to prison for debt ; and the pe hopeless sighs, must view the black and barren rocks, titioner having been in this situation at the time of which have buried the native lands of their unhappy the Act's taking effect, he could not grant the prayer forefohers ! of the petitioner. The indictment for a conspiracy, against Mrs. Clarke and the tw•o Wrights has been removed by the Defen dants into the Court of King's Bench by certiorari. NT AR LBOROUGTI-STllEET.—Saturday, a pauper from the St. Pancras w, rkhouse, was, by his own desire, taken into custody for the wilful murder of his wife five years ago. He stated, that he had administered arsenic with some buttered rolls ; and that his wife cat the greater part of it, and died soon after. The Magistrate took gt eat pains to investigate the matter, but there was not the slightest corroboration of the confession. The prisoner was told that he was giving evidence to get himself banged ; and he replied, that he desired justice on his own person, for his troubled . conscience was worse than death to him. It turned out, that the prisoner was in a state of lunacy, and that he had attempted to commit suicide. He was sent again to the workhouse until further inquiry can be made. Bow-STRUM—On the evening of the 26th ult. Mr. Scrooby, of Newport•street, leather-seller, was robbed in the Foundling-fields, of his watch and cash, by a single footpad. The watch was the next day found pledged, at Mr. Perryman's, in Compton -street, who kept it for some time, at the request of the Magis trate, in case of the robber being apprehended. Mr. S. however, being at length impatient, demanded it; but as Mr. P. refused to deliver it unless the money was returned, which he had deposited on it, the matter was yesterday brought for investigation ; when, or Mr. S. swearing to have been robbed of it, Mr. P. was ordered to return it. HATTON GARDEN.—•Yesterday John IViley and John Lindsey were fully committed, charged by Mr. Mait land, of Drury-lane, with stealing a large quantity of cheese from the front of his shop. Gordon was charged by B. Solomon, of Field lane, with coming into his shop °A Saturday night, to fit himself with a pair of breeches, but none suiting him, he braced up his own, with a child's pair of breeches in them. After the hearing, he made his escape from the lobby of the office. Woustur-sTREET.—James Hall, a dustman, was fully committed yesterday, charged with stealing . a quantity of cheese out of the cellar of a tradesman, in Spitalfields. QUF.EN-QUARL.—Yesterday Cecilia CmcZnellr was fully committed, charged with stealing a great coat, the property of Mr. West, of Strutton-ground. MANSION-HOC/W.—Yesterday Geolge A-üban, a sol dier of the 10th Regiment, was charged with extort ing money under false pretences. A Mr. Gaskell stated, that he lived in Bishopsgate-street, and hear ing that a soldier had power to cure diseases, he called upon him concerning his child, who was lame, when the.prisoner- said he could cure the child, and would go home with him to his house ; that when they got there, he desired him to send for two shillings wcrth of rum and water, with some ale, which he drank. He then desired him to get some oil and sugar, which the witness changed from one hand to the other, ac cording to his direction. He then demanded l ls. 6d. which was given him, n hen the witness suspected him to bean impostor, and threatened to have him before his Lordship. The prisoner then launched out in most horrid oaths, threatening to take them all be fore Lord Mulgrave. Several other persons charged the prisoner with imposing on them in the same man ner, wanting some of them to give him great coats and boots. They had heard of a soldier in the Tower Hamlets h avi ng performed cures, and thought he might be the same person. They produced some phials of medicine, given them by the prisoner, and a card of the chemist's where he hacl to know whatprocuredthem m them went to the chemist's the ef medi cines were, and were told, that the prisoner asked fur some stuff to kill rats. The prisoner appeared in a very intoxicated state, and was committed to the Poultry Coipt 1 1, ;t