Star. — London, England, 1804-01-04 00:00:00

DUTCH PAPERS. FRO. "IC , ais tic. 4.—A General Court Martial bas el at this-place on George Luker, who was of being a fpy. He was conviiled, and con. d accordingly to be lhot in front of the camp. ais. Dec. 9.—Six neutral veffels have been li between Calais and Gravelines, and of that r an American veffcl, containing a great num- paffengers. dißrefs of thole unfortunates was much ang by the Engli(k, who came to fet her on fire. were out of the reach of the coat. The Ame are the more indignant at this conduit, as they tined hopes of laving their veffel.—Moeireer. ire—We believe therelis no foundation for any ffertion.) rime, llsc 3.-I'he divifion of fhips of war, out in this port, amounts already to forty cor. and other veffels of a (mailer flee, and is Rill increafed by others, which are building with nal expedition. As loon as the whole alma. fhall be eompleated, it is to proceed, not to but Offend, and to join the flotilla, which g in the road of that port, under the orders of ! iodore MA62111. After this junetion fhall have. ecomplifhed, orders may he every moment ex.. for the flotilla to put to lea ; yet, it is pretty fuppofed, that the invafion of England will a:tempted before the end of next month. DEC. 14.—1 u purfuance of the orders received from Paris, the numbtr of bificuit.. is confiderably incrcafed ; about fi fty or fi xty y and night employed at the large public bake in baking bifcuit for the troops detkined to AEI EnglAnd. eft], whore whole cargo confifts of oars, has for Offend. About 12,000 oars have already lelivered, and 12,000 more are to be made with table expedition, and to be tranfmitted toOtlend. our, Dec. 6.—The Grecian Prince AlGlTO whohas been for fix years Charge d'Affaires of iblime Porte, palled fome days at this place; ' erns to Conßantinuple by Vienna. e report of the lois of the 'hip la Nymph, at the of Good Hope, appears to be falfe • intelligence that fettlement, of the toth J uly, makes no an of it. Dec. 6.—The number of gun boats in about,' is now (welled to 88, to fay nothing of which are in the Road of Rammekens. It teems IC French Consmiffary here purpotes to difpatch mails from hence to Boulogne. rraaziass, Dac. 23. -Our market for colonial Bs is extremely dull at prefent, iotomuch that articles are looking downwards. The expeda which had been entertained, that coffee would ice in demand, are by no. means realifed, :tide Rill portending a fall. Gin maintains its The funds continue dull, without any ahem ( price. Since our left, we have received no lb papers; but as the wind has been favourable two days pad, we hoolly exped their arrival. .are about 4o Eng/ills tailors at preterit confined in ▪ niche Navy Office herr. Molt of the Englills n lately made prifoners off the Briel, in a boat s in by a limn, and who have remained in dole lament here ever fence, have been exchanged, rt off to-day on their return home.—The winter in fo feverely in the North, that an end is put rigation there for the prefent featon. The be- L o : / e : a kcembcr,a Ruffian courier palled through onhis way from Peterthurgh to London. bought that his difpatebes are of great impor- LONDON. WRPNESDAY, JANUARY 4. - - Coot fat opg.Sji gf—Rad. 5411-omniravl diL 4 Pcr Per Colt- 7 0 11 -14 cw P:r.Ccni• • Lon Ana. is ig.:6 16. KM OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY Itnek inir4 146 Lon* Ann. i. is. T 6 16 Rd 34.111 Short Ann. 31 3.16 CuEE dm Imp. Ann. 3.46 • 7 0 110 ()minium sidif. Nany Mt Enll th Tlcketsr 71. :Gs. 1797 pzin cotmsz OF Mem 37 s s Ur. 6 6 6 1 3 6 tt 37 6s Uf. ursh tot 34 11 2 4 wL &joists ss s as $s UL isms. ditto $3 $ IConf. fur ace. EXCIIANGE. Cadiz pap Nola -- Ditto If it Glom 45 Madrid pap Veoice 6o Ditto midi. Linton 61 Bilbao 314 eff. Oporto 62 Lerborn Dublin t 7 Agin on tle Bank of st per Cast. t learn by oar accounts from Deal this morning, Is alarm mentioned in our letters of yeflerday re been given there on the preceding day, though toned by the firing of minute guns (rem Isis ly's gun brig Conrt.icr, was occafioned by 3 , giving notice to the veflels in the neighbour. that an enemy was in fight. The Immom. ' a bomb and a gun•brig, got immediately sandsr • and loon art.r (cli in with the veflel they in quell of, which proved to be a French psi ', and which was loon captured. The 1.10 Capt. Moss's, and the Euirm.tis, the Hon. lit.scswoon, weie WI fent in chace ; and the • were repeated with (loch difpateh and seen that had the enemy's flotilla of gun-boats been ;y at Lea, there can he no doubt but they would ly have been fallen in with by a great number cruisers from diErent parts of oar coat. Gs o'clock fall night another rival was Drifted al of an enemy being in light. The General kraal Officers were a fr..ml.!c J. and the horfc al out to be no the alert ail night. have not heard of any evrtain acceunti having received of the enemy being about to fail. It tainly true, however, that the number of the my in the mat itime counties arc augmenting by reinforcements. Among oha corps that l arc ordered to march to the Omit arc the following Chatham. itruhefict. arid Mtolituoc. tkr ds, we seeklhtre, Osfirrdtiure, Dcrby!ltirct Northemptonfbire, Warnickfhire, Earl and Well Midcilcfea, regiments of Militia, the Orford Blues. and Scot; Greys. Lord Darnley'. troop .of Yeo manry have alfo received orders to hold thernfelves in immediate readincfs for .&ual fervke. The Marines at Chatham, including every man that can be infiantly got ready, have been ordered to be dillributed on board the different veffels that are ready to receive them. In Inns every thing flews, that Government are determined the enemy !hall not take us by furprize ; and we are happy to (late, that by this time, we have fleets again at all the blockading nations. &fides the veffels mentioned in former papers, the following have failed from Plymouth for the fleet off Brea, via. the NEPTUNE, the CoLossus, and the -Dattoott, all of the line. Lail night we received Paris Journals to the iris ultimo inclu five ; but they prefent very little intelli gence. On the fubjal of the invalion of this country, they are as filent as if no fuch thing had ever been talked of. The Fixsr CONSUL was fill at Paris.— French Funds 5 fr. The Monlieur of the Toth mentions the loft of an Englifh frigate on les Bceufs, a rock near Noirmoutier, and that the crew were all faved. except so men. The frigate alluded to is, we believe, the Shannon, the loft of which we fome time !ince fated, and the whole of the crew of which, we believe, were raved. The Dutch papers which reached us yeflerday an flounced, that the defign which had been entertained to pat the &king hookers, &c. in requifition for tranfporting the troops, had been given up. Some Dutch papers of a previous date, which have reached us, explain the reafon. The owners had been applied to, to fell the herring buffos at Vlaardingen and Maa finis to Government, at a certain valuation. Re monflances were in confequence prefented to Govern. ment, pointing out the irretrievable lots the Republic would fußain in the event of' the thus' 101 l of theft vatic, as it would be impoffible, on the return of peace, to recover that lucrative branch of trade. The Batavia. Government his, in confequence, given op , the defign of putting thefe welds is requifition (at lean this is publicly given nut) ; but in fad the will of the now nominal rulers in Holland can determine nothing definitively on this point—the mandate of the real mankr, Bo AAAAA YE, mutt ultimately decide the fate of thefe veffels. The dekrudion of any of the branches of Dutch Commerce, when put in the balance of any favourite obje& of the FIRST Con suf., mutt weigh fo very light, that the Bat . avialts have more to hope from the kat, which appears now to be fitting in, than from any confiderations aftuating his break refpeding what may be of advantage to them. Some of the Dutch Papers which have attired come down to the 24th ult. Letters from Italy in theft Journals Rate, that the Etrurian Court has been occupied of late in oppofing, at Madrid and Paris, the conduit of the French Cornmiairy Ge neral in the States of Parma, Placentia, and Guaf who, in Ipite of the remonarances of the Etru• rian Minifter at Parma, has announced for tale all the Allodial Property which belonged to the late Duke, and which ought to faU to the reigning Q2cen. The Queen of ETRURIA is expeCted to take a journey &only to Parma and Placentia. Epiftolary eorrefpondence is now become Whim- , ble among crowned and other gnat heads. The Flair Consul., the Kano of PRUSSIA, and the Et/PRIOR of Russia, have long figured in this line t and now his MAJISTY of SWSOLN, in his retirement, is raid to be engaged in this wry r; iih his potent neighbour the Emmen. Several Emigrants have been taken into cuftody at Florence, on futpiciun of recruiting for the Eng. In. General C aaaaa takes charge of all papers found in their podcffion. His MAJTSTY and Princely Sor Hi a, 'attended by Lord WALSINCHAM, Sir WILLIAM and Lady Purr, and Generals MA and SPLACI it. took an air ing in Windfor Great Park. Her MAJASTY and Princefs ELII.AIPTH, ton:: an airing to Frogmore.— Princeffes AUGUSTA and SOPHIA Of GLOUCISTIR rude to Cumberland Lodge, and viewed the pie tures, &c. from Hanover. Princefs AMELIA took an airing on the Maidenhead Road. The Mail from Jamaica, the arrival of which we announced yeleid.iy, brines no particular news rela tive to St. Domingo. Onr fquadrnn continued to blockade very clofdy the remnant of the French force in that illand. The Kingflon paper (late; that his Majelly's cuttcr the ; s sr, commanded by Lieut. For, on the 19th a 08obcr Ink after a running fight of two bouts and forty minutes, drove on flsore is Occoa Day, a French privateer, mounting two long bras eighteen ;sr:andel', and full of men. A letter from Kingllon, dated Oil. as, fay.: "We onderffand that Admiral Doc KMOITH has received intelligence that die ft s a ut.s. of 7+ guns, which un fortunately gut on Ibore on a bank r-ff Cape Fran. cois, and was obliged to throw 6o of her guns over- board, has been got off by great exertion. All the guns except three have been recovered. and the has received to little damage that fbe will immediately niin the lquadran cruising otrthe Cape, without re fining." The account of the death of Centrals Camino and C AML, brought by the laf Leeward bland Mail. will prove, we fear. to be perfeitly carrel.— The tenets which Kate the melancholy fait, add, that Mrs. Galan sari and bcr niece had alit, fallen vi lima to the yellow ft$CT, and that a a:made:able mum lity prevailed among the ttoops. DRURI-LiNE.-CIiIDARELLS More impatience was manifefted by the public for the reprefentation of this Ballet, than we remember fence the days of GARISIC K. Before the doors opened, all the avenues, and even the ftreets adjoining, were filled. The houfe was literally overflowing in every part. In this inllance the public expeltation was not difappointed. The Entertainment poll - elks infinite charms for grown stp children as well as the little mat ters and miffes who have come home to enjoy the holidays in idlenefs. More beautiful fcenery and ma chinery have at no time been exhibited in our Thea tres. It is the eye chiefly that is delighted; but all the pleat - are is enjoyed which can ante from a re prelentation of the grandeft objefts that have a real exittence, and the mart elegant and fantaftic fcenes conceived by the fancy. The foundation of the piece is familiar to every one from infancy. It has been dignified by the ildroduCtion of the Heathen Mythology, and forms a [cries of alle gorical reprefentation, equal, if not fuperior in mag nificence and beauty to every former tpeaacle.— The deviations from the original are natural, and eafily incorporated with it by the ima A ination. The fcenery is wonderfully (biking, and the machinery, though not without tome incorreElnefs, was better worked than is ufual on a firs exhibition. Several of the transformations were peculiarly (hiking. — Among them, the changes of Cinderella's kitchen-table into - a toilet, of a purnpion int,. a pasilioned chariot, of the mice into horfes, and the lizards into footmen, are the molt attractive, and were mull applauded.— The teprefentation of the planet of Venus; (hooting from cloud to cloud, and enlarging as it feU. till it was formed into the wheels of a chariot for the afcent of Crpid, produced a grand effed. The entitle is creditable to the toile of Mr. KELLY, and has originality. The Lea movement of the over ture is diflinguillied for its ipirit and martial combi nation of founds; and the little trio between Ciaderellos and her lifters, is a fine fpecimen of affeaing melody. The Poetry is from the hand of a young Oxonian, who has before given fpecimens of poetical genius. The following is a pleating Ipeeimen, lung by Mifs Tvoes.: • Comfort, 4amk.l, Irby that tlyls Heave In theirs& feeds us forrow..-: Patiesmi, dusk!, Hessen is Digit, Brighter papas greet to-morrow. Welgia down by earl piing ihow'r„ Lowly dompo the head— Chared with rale the tender doter Nam lab, It, booty led. Adis the dark Ram far away, Bee, a livelier hue ls givir : Ilse may Omen double gay—, Tile drop that prcfs:d it came from Hewitt. Mifs Ds Came was the heroine, and (cutely ever appeared to greater advantage. This excellent young woman indeed deferves no vulgar praife. She is at ways lull, fpirited and ardent. Every word, every look, every gellure is full of fenfe and foal. She is, to ule the exprefllon of COWPER, elegant as fins plicity, and warns as cctlacy." Mrs. Mot:al - ma's beauty and rwettntrs of exprct fion peculiarly fit her for the reptefentation of Yenta; but the has charms mote acing than even the Gocldefs could boaft. Little BYRN% is an aflonifhing child. He teems to poffefs the fimplicity and arclinefs of infancy, with the reale of manhood. The other charaders were excellent. The Love.' Bruck Prince, the pert, overbearing filters, and the tender-hearted fervent, were greatly applauded. We muff pay the tribute of - a few words to the de gance of Mils B. MENAGI, more particularly as we thought we difeovered in her the languor of indif pofition. " Let not the lilly droop." The snodeft grace of her two companions was very pleating to an Englifh audience, who are ditgulled with every look, gekure, or dregs, inconfittent with their charatteralic chunky. We (hall, in conclufion, hint a circumftance or two, which will be eafily corrated. The excellent Manager fometimes gives too much way to the gen tlenefs of his difpofitiun, to affume fufficient actho• rity in fo numerous a corps, who ought to be drilled into a little more attention. We heard. frequently be hind the fcenes too much talking, as we have often witneffed in the ranks of other Corps. One of the moll beautiful allegories was not well executed. In the ball-room glands a cluck, which, on the approach of twelve, Love charafteriftically puts back to 'levee, to the great delight of Chu/v.(lla. But Time, " who of Love's vows takes (mall account," riles indignantly, and. inflead of Ileum makes the clock Linke twelve. This elegant device del - wets to be made more corral, and confegnently more Mr. GaistaLot gave a tong, written I, a friend of hit, with peculiar fell complacency. His friends en. cored him, but the audience in general ditplayed the only mark of difapprobation, which appealed in the whole murk of the teprefentation. The wit of the long is low and made, and we would advile the total abolition of it, as unworthy of the tell. It is a wan on the face of Venus. Thefe oblervations are impofed upon us by our inflexible impartiality. Mkt we have no doubt, that this Pantomimical Ballet, which we think equal to thole produced at the Opera Houle, will continue to attral full houfes for a long time. It will pleafe, we are perfuaded, on repeated reviews. The Kum has been pleated to grant to the Hon. Cecinas , As , the Office of Clerk of the Delive ries of the Ordnance of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the room of jostvir HUNT, Efq. CORM •M MARR•LAIII. JAM. 4.—There is to-clay another very large fupply of Wheat, and far more than adequate to the demand, which CAUIRS a further reduflion—Fine at sis. per quarter—Sar.. pks of inferior quality are nearly unfakable, but fame few of fine Dantzic loch rather more than the above price—We have a very large and further fup ply of Barley, which is is. lower, with Malt—Peas and Beans of both kind in great quantities, and as. cheaper—Oats alto down is. per quarter— Flour el peaed at lefs. Assize or BILIAD,-..-YentfdaF, the Loa MAYOR ordered the palm of Bread to be cuminued the fame as Lid week. 70 THE EDITOR OF THE► STAR. Deennber 2;, igc.7. Sir—Mr. CONSITT has replied to my Contradic tion 'of his Statement, relpeeing the Curfory Re marks, by tome new infinuarions as deßitute of foun dation as his former affertions. He elks, " Whether can folemnly declare. that no civil. SPOKEN Gen. rt.IMAX bought 750 Copies in one.or, at moil, in tun bargains ? and whether two Bookbinders' boys did not go down to the General Poll Office, Come time in Oa riser ha, loaded with Curfory Remarks ?"—Now, to each of there cptellions, Co far as my knowledge goes, I do folemnly give a direct and politive nega. live ;—and having thus anfwered dillinely two dlr. tine charges, in which Mr. COINSTT has alerted two dire& falfehoods, I !hall notAin future, trouble myfelf or the public with any anfwer to any farther charge from the fame quarter. To his Remarks upon myfelf, as a Pooa Boors it, Let, I have only to obferve, that his contempt for the profeaon may, perhaps, arife from a retrofpeet of his own cendutft, while he exercifed it. He wa s himfelf, till very lately, a poor Bookfeller. What new dignity he may have now acquired, I know nut; and whether there be any material difference between him and me, except that I have never been accufed of premeditated falfebood a I leave to the judgment of the public. • I am, Sir, ynur obedient Servant. j. mArcaaan. 19 0 . ritcadazy, Lawton. Two young men, named &moats and Powia, fell laSt night from the flies on the Stage of Covent Garden Theatre during the representation of the Pantomime. being a height of at. !call 35 feet. The former rc. ceived Come irjury in his Skull, and the other was much bruited. Dr. KINKIDY of Great QEeen-lireet„ was fent for, and Mr. Pre PSON. a Surgeon, happened to be preterit. The unhappy tuff had of courfo every aid which medical Skill could afford. Yefterday morning, at half pea ten o'clock, George Auguftes Matthews. a drummer of the 3d regiment of the Royal Eaa India Volunteers, was tied up to the halberts. in the Company's yard, at New-greet Warehoufe previous to which the regiment, band s &c. and officers, were drawn up in clots order, Mr. Emmy, (argon to the brigade, attending. The fentence of the coort.martial having been read, the fubftance of which was, that though the crime of defertion, heightened by feveral aggravated theme- Sanas, deferved the punithment of Soo lathes, yet, in confideratlon of the extreme youth of the offender, and in hopes of his good condos in future, the court had mitigated it to so lathes. One of the drummers then proceeded to inflit% the lathes, when, after four litotes had been given, Major Sutra ordered the bpy to be untied, and (fated, that in compaffion of his youth, and its being his firft offence, Colonel Ro sERTS had been pleafecho remit the remainder of the lenience. The lad's father is a grenadier in, the bri gade, and expreffed himfelf thoroughly fatisfied with the jufli:e of the fentence, and equally grateful for the lenity (hewn to his fon. The late heavy gales have forced a number of Mips from the Baltic, bound. to different ports in England. into the Frith. One of thefe Mips arrived in Zeith Roads difmailed, and general of them have faced more or let's damage. On Tuefday fe'nnight, the (hip Enterpriae, of London, from the Baltic, was driven towards the ifland of Inthkeith, when it was judged advifable by thofe on board to cut away the main and miten malls. to Cave the (hip and cargo, when the rode opt the gale. Before the malls were cbt away, the (hip was in very Mallow hater. The people . on board beard. daring the height of the gale, the cries of feveral potions in dißrefs not far. tom their own Qsip, which they fear was a boat that had *Tercet incoming from . Come of the other (hips to their relief.. ' The following is an cured of a letter front Aber deen, dated December as : •' I prefume that you have heard of the Guardian being boil near Memel; I then procured a birth on board a Ihip called the Mary of London, Captain Wrangham ; we accordingly failed from Elfineur on the sith day of December, under convoy of the Ca. RYSFORT frigate. The fecond day after we left Elti r neur, it began to Elow very frefh, which terminated in a vs: y heavy gale of wind. Our chip being leaky at the bet, now got fir bad, that we were obliged to pump night and day and the (hip being water Ici_g ged, it was determined to take to the long boat. We got accordingly what things we could out of the ca bin, it being half full of water, fuch as bread, two hams, and tome liquor, with a compafs and a qua drant. We had nit time to put the things in this long boat when the (hip upiet, four of the people were drowned, and the cell of us got upon her bottom. itere we remained about an hour and an half, ex peilting every minute to be wa(hed away. There was a fhip dole to its, but could render us no affißance however Goo was with ns, for a heavy fea [truck her. and carried away the three marls, which were under water, when the (hip inflantly righted, and we got on her deck: Nothing was to be feed but the wreck of the malls which the rigging held, but the deck was completely cleared. In this fituation we remained four days and three nights, without fo much as a bif cuit, an ounce of beef, or a drop of water, and con. Randy wet. On the 3d day one of our men died of hunger and cold, and on the 4th another. We were reduced to the neceffity of eating two fmallcatt, which had clung to the wreck. On the fourth night we v.: among! breakers ; and it being the fecond :ime that the Rrock, the knocked her bottom from her top fides. We now lathed outfelves to the bowfprit with ropes, and, in about two hours we got on (bore, but with our legs and hands fo (welled that we could badly crawl to a (mall houfe which Rood on the beach The neat day all the people for twenty miles round:ante to fee us ; indeed we were moll lamentable oljeAs I—our faces and bodies quite emaciated, and our hands and legs greatly fwelled. A donor was fent far, but am afraid two of our poor fellows cc ill Icife their toes. The people behave uncommonly kind to us , we have been in bed two days, but I can now walk a little.— It will be but a poor Sihrillmas ; but I did not mina to fee one at all. It was on the • 9th, between eight and nine in the morning, that the thip upfet s—stte hands were twelve in number, of whom four were drowned : two died through cold, hunger, and fa tigue; and fas got on (bore." I let. ft • 1 .crV I -tilins RDrAL P) The fplendid yeiltrday difoL the expeflation effea was great nes with which formed their pa great regularity of the day. . At nine o'clo in Hyde Park lent order. thei exhibited a tier then proceeded tions which had of them were dole to the Gre others pattoled Buckingham G difpoled. no lar carriages accui rangetnents. The St. Mar fembled at an es from thence pr. tacliment of thr keep the doors truders; anothe fens on foot, as tickets, and to nate, from pall was polled at th dens, to preven to keep a clear At a quarter nbunced the art his Majcity's ea Noblemen's car they reached chi it was neceffar RAU-ASTON rod them into it. E paffing through tire for foam ut St. John's Volts along. The Royal re the well fide e alighted from h BARRINGTON I riages. In the Cowman, and ,Maissry ; in tl Mr. VINCENT; her charming d noes, Lady CA Ladies of the Q having all quit TO/4 was condud lain, and folio. sfJanner as the ( flip was drefed Ber head.drefs sated, and with glee Ladylhlp a 'value, and a fin, beautitul onyx tad to her by he issorial the es appeared in a d pearls, and Joe Rotunda affemt added to the fp feldom exhibitet elegance, and On the arriva for her receptio Royal Voluntee *Aar, having t prefreted arms, as the Corps ha lours were intrc I Box. T plain Uni lellou by the I T centre embroid gated color were the le the words lyers were which the inn bei , re al at the C Anthem chorus, tl ig. The INGTON'S ;UTLIR di ted, and a •it was Veric: ur Gnu, s " But a ups, we f inns nn its •ns's box r.eern, I. ary the tliiscot back to tl A Ilueaa• ;on, v.llO ivck bcco I *inn Jc 3 to Maj ‘sith her Ladyil piece 0 pulp] two and two. .!cliecred the fol c,lototten—.R up-n rat the .. to std r •r\ d :fic n Awl I. nth• h ••• k t•• a n Royal was a t ement, cuted I nezdle• .• in the Arms, omega Hers we were th Pray after wl to allia nation a full c tending Bata!! Mr. Bt animate Ti.e to and vn:o 1,11 night." the Cot fervatio RINC;VI al Be e. crsta 'hen t Iken b i mid Clentiel berlain °blurt '