Star. — London, England, 1804-12-28 00:00:00

TUNBRIDGE WELLS, DEC. 26. From a country village at this time of the year you mua esprit but little news. Late. however, as the feafon is, feveral families Hill remain :—among the principal, Lord Boris and family, Lord and Lady Gaas, General MURRAY, Hon. Col. YORKE and family, Rev. Mr. CRAWLEY and family, and Col. and Mrs. Twvsnsa. The fall of fnow in Suffer lat week wa, greater than it bas been for Pane years pall ; indeed, in many parts of what is called Mc Weald, the roads were fcarcely paffable. The North Pevenfey Legion were infpelled for the winter months, by Colonel Boors', infpreing Field Officer, during the lad week ; and, though the wea ther was Co bad, the returns amounted to near nine hundred. , The Earl of Aaracia nnnnn has left his delightful feat of Eridye Cagle, near this, to fpend a fortnight in London. Lord Sri avviaLn. Colonel of the Pevenfey Legion. bas gone to his houfe in Privy Garden. Lady S. cares her arcerrhounu to take place daily. A REFLECTION AT THE CLOSE OF THE VEAL £DDIISSID TO • C•LIDONIAi TAIL Moments, hours, and days are paling, Into Times (wilt rafting fire=; Stiff the tide of Life is flowing ; Still we find bat a dream. Birth and Beauty, Wealth and Henotir, Every mortal, high and low; Feel, foes or late. Death's fatal power $ Time will so diftinaious know. Youth, at Lifes the fweeteft (akin ; Clouded is our evening lky ; Autumn comes with fober redoe s Taxiing mortals how to die. Life, like Nature, has ►er Sowings : April leads the lovely train ; Next manses Summer, with her bloffoms ; Dark December ants the fan! aaa, gas NkS. of ips Covtirr•Caltbsp.—This Theatre was tall tight sumeroully attended. The Beaux .Stratagest produced a very happy tacit. and was admirably performed. The new Pantomime went off with great fuccefs. Cohnolive fell (lows. This accident produced much anxiety. but it loon appeared that the had fultained ao hurt. Danae.t.asa TIITATILI.--Lall night Mr. Etta- Tow undertook at this Theatre the arduous part of Richard the 7 bird, and gave it much relief on the dra matic canvas, though we,thought we perceived what is not common in this aaor, frequent attempts at imitation, particularly of Coos e, and fornetimes of KanSa t. In delineating the bitter malignity and the noble daring of Rirberri, he was greatly faeces full, but in the refined hypocrify of the chateau, he was too artificial, both in grimace and utterance. — Indeed, throughout the performance. he was Rudious of attitude to a theft:atm excels. His hell fi e enee haps, was that with Lady Awe, in which tells ter that the has outlived his liking. The drefs which he wore in the early part of the tragedy was more fak ed to difplay a fine, than to conceal a defeftive form; but in the la& alts it was more appropriate, and his ailing was more natural and animated. The sp. plank of a numerous audience at the fall of the cur tain was ral and loud. Kiel Henry, by Witouc TON, Rirhswu d , by Pore, and Brelinglrain, by BAR. ItYMOIII, were well played, and Decamp manifelted great feeling in the part of Trarri. Of the ladies, 111 rs. Pcwei.t., in twee Etisaktb, and Mrs. A LLLLL , in Lemiy Aso, were the bell.—The fisbordinate cha raaers were performed in the ufual fusee* ftyle i A lady, dretFed entirely in fearlet, excited much admiration left night at the Opera. She was fuppoll ad to be an Ambaffadrefs from Bose LLLLL . Some Wags yeßerday fent by an Ifieworth coach, a hamper, direaed to Mr. Rs as, the comedian mimic, to his houfe in May's-buildings : Mrs Ries, after paying is. 6d. for the porterage and xs. for the car- 1 nage, to his mortification, found the hamper con tained tome rooks and carrion. On Friday night, about nine o'clock, a fire broke out in a fmall thatch houfe in Scott's-lane, Port Olaf- Row, by which, we are forty to fay, it was confunted in a fltort time. We have not heard whether it was infured. It is with fincere pleafurc we add, that the Gentlemen of the town in general were particularly naive. Colonel Pusan', the ether Officers, and Volunteers, merited great praile, by their fpeedy ap pearance on the 'Pot, prompt add moil effeaual en ,leavonrs to preferve good order, and clear the pales hole who carried water—a bufiners which was rfully engaged in by all ranks prefent. Their ~,,red cretin.. happily f..oceeded ut faring the ach joining !macs. Since the arrival of the Guar ds at Chatham.that place has become famous for fafloionable amufements —one entertainment is fucceeded by another. A few evenings fume Mr. HOPP , the Coimniffioner at that Ration, gave a moll fuperb Ball at his bottle near rliat town. The room devoted to the light lantallie •oc was fitted up it a molt elegant Ityle, the door adorned with various devices, and the walls were decorated with artificial flowers. The MI, MS ,qll4 rsflefted great praife on the judgment of Mifs rior e. under whole management the arrangements were condtiftrd. Amongft the company were re ma:ked, the Earl and Counters of CHATHAM. and Mifs ELLIOT, Colossal ST•FTOTD, Lord AT LIMBI, and all the Officers of the Guards. A female vagrant, who, with four or five others, was lately removed in a cart from Boioughbridge. had recourfe to the following fingttlar Oratigern to im pute on the feelings of the public. Previous to reach ing Doncader, which they had to pars through, t h e intimated that fhe was tubjett to firs• and finding hey were coming on, trifled her companions to alight, 1.11 the &mild be doing roan roirchief. Soon ow Ike began to bark and howl like a dog. making the moil hideous cries, to the great alar m of many of the inhabitants, who fuppofed her in be Icized w..h the hydrophobia. A (lion time, however, difcovered the ripofitioo. and the woman has been fusee committed elms of 1.01 ifhed Ade; eforei ; loft. n tin; Land C, nn- [Aden carp where He lays in ,1 any ipfe.t off e Pa& Bruck Lb intl. Com& y,l %t 304 t oufe i:. r LIAlt :inn or g been we ar.: Tough: . inclv errnArt , .ted by 1e fin: hick of MARX-LANE. CORN ISICHINGE, DIC 28. Since our lel we have not many frelb famples of Wheat, but it is in good fnpply, with forte foreign ; the Buyers kill holding back from late prices, ate (ales are quoted cheaper—Barley in good quantity, and for bell famples is up is. per quarter—Malt fta tionary—Rye at lefs—Peas and Beans rather snore brilk—We have middling fupplies of Oats at nearly laft quoted prices —Flour in full plenty. GENERAL CURRENCY AS UNDER. Whey. Us. pp. Ids per. qr. Orty Peak 43L to 170. Fine Ditto. *tot. 1131. od. Barn, 4k. 521. od. Rye, s se. 361. od. Tick Ditto 441.505. od BRACT, 431. 48s. od. Oats, sip. 3IL 30. Mak, 345. Rot. od. Poland ditto. 33 0 . 3 6 ‘ 03 d* Whitt Peak. 331. 61s. od. Rape Seed, 421. to 151. per la R. PRICE OF FLOUR. Moe !lour 9os. to 935. Sem& 85s. to 9os. per rack. By letters from New York, of the tsth Wt. re ceited in Glafgow, we learn that Inoue Bona- PAZTI continued there at that date. The St. janses's Loyal Volunteers, Colonel Lord A SINIRST, and the Duke of Cur Sharp Shooters, Captain Basset, were yelterday infpeeed by Lieutenant-Colonel JIM RIR lON, in the Court-yard before the Duke of PORTLAND'S houfe, in Piccadilly. They were to have undergone a general infpellion, along with force others in Hyde Park, preparatory to a general review ; but on account of the unfavour able late of the ground, the infpcaing Officer did not take them out. On Wednefday laß i the Seventh Regiment of Loyal London Volunteers, mußered according to order, for the purpofe of prefenting . their Major and Serjeant- Major with (words; but, m eonfequence of the unfa vourable Rate of the weather, it did nut take place. The Wellington Yeomanry Cavalry, commanded by Major Csuoos ; the Pinthill Light Horfe Volun teers, commanded by Captain Huey; the Market Drayton Divifinn of the Shropfhire Volunteers, under the command of Lieutenont- Co lonel Sir Coarser Cos. air, But. I the Newport Volunteer Infantry, cons. maned by Colonel Lisa'; have been feverally in (paled by Lieutenant-Colonel Coarroa during the left fortnight, and each received the sell-merited ap probation of that Officer. The following is an entail of a letter from an Of ficer in the Eaft-India Company's fervice, dated Camp Kooch, Bundkeund, April 0 1 The scat of January the corps left Purtnbghur, to join the army in this quarter, which was expelled to have beets attacked by a very large force under Ammer Khan, a Mahratta Chief. We joined this divifibn of the army is eleven days. having marched in that time above 220 miles, which was very harraf „fins to our casop-followen and cattle. 0: There are no inns to be met with in India, but we are under the neceffity of carrying with us fupplies and neceraries for fevers' months expenditure. About the time we joinerthis army the dreadful attack very loon blew over, and ever fince we have been march ing and counter-marching. but no enemy to be met with. This country has lately been ceded to us by the Peifhwa ; the or:sisal holders of the lands` re in gene ral our allies, who keep them, paying the Company the fame tribute that they had paid to their head (the Palma), which they generally avoid ed fulfilling, they having very large bodies of troops of their own ; and, unlefs compelled by force of arms, he got little or nothing. It is the fineß country I have ever fees, not even excepting Bengal: the natives have only to open the ground, and lbw their grain, which repays them in great abundance. What is Rrange, they have few referveirs or wells to water their fields. In every other part of India, unlefs their grounds are conflantly fupplied with water, their crops generally fail ; but it is unpleafant to think, that if a failure of the annual rains lhould take place.a famine muR be the confequence. Scarcely a hut is lobe teen throughout the whole of this country, unlefs immediately under the protec tion of a fort, where all the villages are fa down, and where they take refuge from the numerous bodies of Pendarries (banditti horfernen), who are conflantly laying the inhabitants under contribution, and plus det ing the country. The heat, in my opinion, is very oppreffive. the thermometer in my tent, a vtry large one, is at tot, and when expofed to the fun, 5213, which is very bar relling to us Europeans." The following is the Rare of the ballot for the EaR India DireCtion, on the 6th of March, t 798, which was the left time four candidates Rood tor one vacancy:— r oom s - fiss IW. T4OVITOY '277 PLOWDIN • 43,5 HL I QIN it 15 . Our readers will fee how near they approach to the numbers cf the feveral candidates lafk Thurf day. It is alto worthy of remark, that Mr. THORN- Ton cam: in nn the fire vacancy after 1798, being oppofed to Mr. PLOwOiN, who did not fucceed to the di! eftion till four years after, at the General Eleßinn, 1802. In the neighbourhood of Mancheßer, Liverpool and thro' the whole nf that pulous difirid, n great band of comets and forgers o h h av e of late beet. very aCtively employed. Sevei al of the gang have been aporelictied, on whom were f ound large quantities oot bare filter cols. The notes that have been hither. tn deteard as forged are ten and fire pound notes of the Bank of England. There is . eafiut to believe, from inquiries already inditutesl, that thefe ruffians have been ex tremely altive throughout the whole of their tour tluough Lancalhire and the adjoining c..._._ o unt i m lii.lay J. W. Sampfon was apprehended at Bath, for uttering forged Bank of England notes. He had paired funilar notes at Briftol and its neighbourhood, and on fearching his lodgings, forged bills to a great amount were dilcovered. In Ch e rwell-lane, near Leeds, within the lan to months, thte: labouring females, neat door neigh boors,hava cads added to the flrength and population of their countt y, by t he birth of twin foss. The fia b o ys are all is good health and likely to do well. Mr. Wttlear, Wetter to the cattle-breeder, alight ed from his borft on Wednefday. at the door of a tea-dealer in Graecchnrch-ftrect, mai while be heal was buying a pound of t ea, fonts perfon costrirad to the Caddie from his boric's back. a. 4714 DECBMBER 25. The Places of Divine Word(bip to-day have been very fully attended ; the (hops of all defcriptions are lhut ; and thus far the folemnity which &odd dif tinguilb a Sunday, hat in all quarters predominated. If we may judge. ftom the rapid difappearance of the delicacies of the market on Saturday and yefter day, the tables throughout Bath to-day have exhibit ed a fmilins piaure of plenty : and good old FAO& hofpitality in the city and adjuncts prevailed. Convivial Chrillmas Parties hal ni?,ht were to be heard in all parts of the town; but lab/lett and de corum generally prevailed. A very numerous congregation this morning at tended Divine Service at the Abbey Chinch, where a very impreffive difcourfe was delivered by Mato PH I LOT, from the following words of the fist and fecond verfes of the firlk chapter of St. Paul's Epißle to the Hebrews : " Goo, who at rosary times, sad is divas moo" (puke In times part unto the Fathers by the Prophets. " Hath In theft laft days (pokes unto us by his Sots, whom be bath appointed heir of an things.hy whin he mode the world." In the courfe of the fervice, the Anthem front the Ilfrish,Thru faith ripe Lewd of Heir, was very finely fung by Mr. Doris. The Hallelujah Choral, from the Mthcall,_was alfo given with due folemnity, and excellent drat. -------- --- General TARLITON occgfionally gives hilarity to Pulteney-fireet, where he enjoys refped in public, and happinefs in feclufion. The following are among the late! arrivals here : Lord and Ladl Mull/rave, Lord Bernard, Count Liens, Lady Lemon, Risk unmans Pin, ihrosorrabk M. and Mn. Lyons, Hornorabk John and Mrs. Sem, Sir R. Clayton, Sir IL Lady, and Mile Wray, Sir M. W. and Lady Ridk7, Rear Admiral Berne, Rear A &thal Ikon, Major and Mrs. Brows and Family, Archdeacon and Mrs. !likens, Ike. Ike. . Saturday night the houfe of J. Bauer, Efq. at Gold's-hill, Loughtoo, Mx, was broke open, and property to a great amount Rolm. A few days fine a man was committed from the Polio Office, Slsadwell, for dealing a large quantity of fowls, the property of a man in Old Gravel-lane. He was dented by Leaving his pocket-book in the nod. Os Thurfday a fanfinith in Liverpool. employed in offering a gun-barrel, iocantiouil on the butt ead of it into the fire to burn out the prim , without further examining it. when the piece es dz,d, aad fast the charge through his body, which him an the fpot. Qs Wodoefday. about an hundred men of he lath was, battalion arrived at Glafgow. and next eattroiag proceeded for Dumbarton, where they are to be attached to the scl battalion of the 7 it. Yellarday a harmers of a curious nature occupied the alasodea of the Sitting hiagiSrates at Marlborough ken Office a confiderable time. Coati' nd Spen t or, Beadle s St. Anne's petal% charged aa Serjeant is she oath Regt. Light Dragoon s. with violently IsEanking and beating an anknovrn puffin. is Comp lowliest. It war Sated by the otScers, that they took the prifosier into cofiody in confcquence of his having beaten a rrfon in the fleet% afGfted by others, and creation on rotasenfe oh. Oa the Serjeant be lag put ow his defence, the charge took a very diffite. l em tern ; the faits being as follows : The I was fent with difpatches to Lieutenant Cali= 1 the effacer commanding the regiment, and on his way 1 to the Colonel's lodgings, he yaw a peefon whom be knew to be a defence from the Bth regiment of foot. The fellow took to his heels, and the prlfoner,who was I unable to head him, kept driking him with a dick, 1 and as he run, cried " hop thief. a defence." A con fiderable mo b was affembled, and the beadles inter fered, and inilded on taking the prifoner to the watch honk, for affaulting the defence. The Sajeant informed them that he was fecnring a deferrer. The officers, however, inflated that the prifoner had com mitted a breach of the peace, and took him to Bt. Anne's watch houfe, without paying any relpea to his protedations, or the deferrer, who dfeited his ef- cape. Lieutenant Colonel Hawker. and Cornet Knight. of the:fame regiment, accidentally were paring near, and witneffed the tranfailion. While the beadles had the partner in cullody, who at the Orme me,. meat had hold of the deferter, Cornet K. without making himfelf known to them, requelted of the beadles that they would fire kcure the defence, and in that cafe the prifonet's conduit could have a legal invelligation. They, however, took no notice of this remonarance, but conveyed away the Serjeant from his prifoner. The Magiftrate remarked, that it was the duty of officers to fupprefs, as much as poffible. any kind of difotder and riot in the thee': and it was alto their duty to fecare the perfoa or perfons who appeared to them the aggreffors, and bring them before a Magiftrate, as it was not for them to decide. It was alfo every man's duty to recur e a deferrer, and they had seed wrong if it was within their knowledge that fuels was the cafe when the prifoner had the man in cuftody. He gave Colonel Hawker the rimes of the beadles, and Rated that a bill might be preferred spina them at the Sellinm. The Colonel expreffed his determination to that effea, and the bufinefs will, of conrfe, be heard again. A great number of tranfports went down the river on Wednefday. So fudden and tine:peeled were the orders, le 'mil of them failed without their full crews. The men thus lett behind followed yelterday. South ampton is (tippled to be their immediate deflination. On Saturday the Bth itaint, shoot nine o'clock in the evening, as Mr. Anthony Watfon, of Segloll, in Northumbtrlanel. farmer, was returning home lions Neweaale, in the lane which leads from the north polt toad to Haddick's mill, he was attacked by two men, who pulled him off bis horfe, and, af- ter beating him moll feverely with bludgeons, robbed him of his money ; they then dragged him into the ditch, where he continued in a Rate of infenfibility all that night ; he was difeovered neat morning by tome country people. There were feveral wounds in his head, and his face and clothes beffheared with blond. He was taken to a neighbouring bottle and placed by the fire, where in a little time he fo far recovered as to be enabled to inform them of his name and place of abode, and to relate the eircomaance of the two men attacking bins, whole perfons he could not recognise. He was afterwards conveyed to his fa ther's Waite without the Weagate, where he yet re. mains,but hopes are now entertained of his recovery. Mr. Watfon s bode attired at Seghill the fame sight b i g was robbed. TO THE EDITOR OF THE scut. Y . sit—A. I have lately obfervedM your iliaffrbrae paragraphs on the Vaccine Inoculation,_thica ap pear to me to be hoftile both to the dikovery and the difcovererr, I will beg the favour of you to teat the following remarks : There are five clan of people who oppolk the Vaccine : The firft are thofe who know nodigg at all of the Coble& The fixond are thole who lam heard fomething of it from perfons not quallidi to inftruft them, and who have therefore reseired wrong infornsatiun. The. third are theft who are ftrongly influenced with the unhappy dilleolekto to form a hefty lodgment before evidence has been laid before them, and properly examined t who are apt violently to condemn, or earodly to reeMentend purfuit, without any reafon at all but the fprimesse ous, unaccountable deflates of their own minds. The fourth are that who derived Walk froth the MVO of the (mall pox, and now pve that • thefonrce of their gains will be gone," Naiongb the benign in fluence of vaccine inoculation. The fifth, end laft, are thofe who look upon the molt ufeful difcomeice in their own profeffion with foriow, Wank they were not the authors of them, and regard the pee font who made them with envy, becaufe they fear the celebrity of rub eharafters will eclipfe their own name. They therefore take every opportunity of throwing an isfinuations in fame Dope or ether, with 'croak to the infnfliciency of the die - artery. or the weaknefs of the difcoverer s clans. In Sort, all the opponents of the vaccine are either twat*, .0 info, ..14 pyjama!, iwereled, or osolivolent I molt fo leninly believe there can be no man moon them who poffeffes tittle three qualities. hooray, iitpartiefety, and a knowledge of the fable& With fo homes& a weight of evidence of the mildnefs oldie cow pm, the certainty of its preventing the (mall pox. the is• numerable tells to which it 'submit pat. with Am cat, not only in this country, but more efpeekft, abroad, is it 'sable that any bout and candid spa can doubt whether be will oppofe or encourage it The few recent circumftances which hart• been fup paced by loose to invalidate the evidence in favour of the cow pox. are eaftly underlined and explakced by theft who are well acquainted with the fobjeft. They may be resolved into defeftive inoculation or ponds nines of conlitation t and by theft who lay the greateft treys upon them, they can only be entifider• ed as (pecks is the yes, and cannot be deemed an ult. flack to the adoption of the preftice. To the three kit elates, the prejudiced. the ems relied, and the malevole nt, I have nothing to fey t . for they do not Nand in need of moment, bet of new difpofition of mind, which is out tiler ra' to give. The ignorant and mifinfornied, I yodel recommend to examine, befides other evidence of this value of vaccine inoculation. a part of the let re port of the Royal Jennerian Society, which. to pri vent the trouble of referring to, I well quote here s is The number inoculated at the fund WOO fince the eftabliThitent of the Society, is aeon, std during the left three months, 6749 charges of vaccine ichor have been fopplied. free of eageacs, from dot central hoofs alone, makin thew hole. Maoist to *9,09 charges delivered fr om that "an The Board hu alio the fatisfaftion milkiest the that the deaths by finale pox appear to be =rna ably diminilhed. In eleven months, ending Novem ber. 1803, they were 993, and during the like pe fled this year, only 536, makiag a reduftion of 457 deaths in the whole by a proveffive monthly dimi nution. And when it is enefidered that on an ave nge of fifty years upwards of :coo perinea have an nually fallen victims to the (mall pee within the bills of mortality alone. the comparifon affords a molt ftriking proof of the rotating influence of engine inuculauon." I am, Sir, your obedient fervent, • tookea on. • The author watt hove tea the poragraphe referred to le Caine ether paper. We ore. ace, from eoprietke, have always beau fries* so ragtime:Gm We molder it oe the masa Wing that hoe hem watered m oemidmi for man ogee.—Hat T. A few days fi ace the (=smote! plate of the Pe ril's of St. James, Clerkenwell, though &cured by three locks, was Oaten, and the thieves hi ll remain andifeovered. yoph 3fefft the famous robber. (untamed the Devil, who was executed lately at Genoa, had by bin' fatal celebrity excited filch a degree of curiofity infest him. that the area through which he was to pals from the ptifon, was filled with people by break of day. He met his fate with refignatinn, and withoet weakoefs ; and if his youth, for he was but 26 years of age, and his good appearance ached compaiSoa. the recolleaion of many cruelties he bad committed. could not but Arengthen the arm of juOice. A fall leaft known of his charafier is. that in the late war. Hui° bad a Captain's eommifion udder the infamous General *ma, and fought *gain& the French and his patriotic countrymen. Among other ineafures to fa cilitate the faeces of the Englifh and the Atterians. be ekorted fome of their corneal, who drew the plan of the fortrefs of Genoa. Caurton.—A young man, about 16. who fags (centimes he has a farm at one place, and fometimes at another, but in general at Cullom, in Snmeifet 'hire, where he holds out he has a father living, to whole tames he is the only heir. has for a long time carried on fwindling tranfafti ens in and about the metropolis. and more particularly on pabhcass and ' innkeepers. With the former he rune p beery reck oning under all the alfurnption of as hew, young farmer t tells them his hooks fiend at the George. Altlermanbury ; the George. Drury-lane; and fere ral other limits, all equally true. The horfes vs borrowed from livery Aable-keepers, and kept cloth up for the private of deception. To others he pre• tends he has got a (core of fat oxen or Seep coos up to his falefmen at Kentills Town, to fell at Sntith field next market day; but in the mean date, be had to pay a thin of money for aniees he 1130 a fend down by the waggon or the canal barges that day. In this way he has piled feveral perfons to lend him callt of various Cams, from yl. to tel. Various have been his manoeuvres is this way, in the courfe of which he has picked ap endiderable funk. Iftslaft feat in town was the felling two ton of theefe to a tradeftnan at Mafia, who advanced him on it a for 51. tys. 6d. but never faw ertbet cbeefe or firma after wards. So various sad imitate have been his tricks. that he bus aniseed the wake of the Police Officers, who are on the leak oat after hies—and we hops they w:11 Coon meet with him, that he log receive the punithannt due to his defeat. MP% ••• /1: ; 1 • • • • • I I s • • • a ee ifs A of of Ire w. A 't ar• 1,1 his fa- as. the lays vies fgt. to irate • the zed ask- • stag reire- we •lin ar i se sth r :: • r be }ea • •