Star. — London, England, 1811-12-20 00:00:00

~; THE EVENING STAB. LONDON, FRIDAY, DECENFER. 20. PRICE 01. STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOtk 3 per Ct. Cons. for money shut--D Itto for opg. 64f S per Ct. Re , luced 62ff—s per Cont. 7G Navy 5 per Ct. sltut—lioodslii.lss. pr.—Omnium ft dita Esch. Bill. (3d.) Is. 2s. dis.—Ditto (31d.) 23. to Ss. pre. We have great pleasure in being able nbt merely to 'alleviate but to remove tl.e distressing apprehen sions that were entertained for the safety cf the TIGRIS East Indie.man, which sailed fr,lin the Downs on the 11th inst. irid was expected to have reached Ports mouth some days ago. 11.cccunts have been received at LLOYD'S, that the Timm brought up in Margate Roads yesterday morning, after having been driven on the French coast, within a league of Calais, by stress of weather. She has met with little other damage than the loss of an anchor and two cables. While she was in jeopardy the CRACKER gun-brig fortunately joined her, by which means she got off, otherwise she must have been taken, as six privateers came out of C4ais to attack her. We this day received New-York papers to the 17th ult. but at so late an hour that we can only notice a part of their contents. They contain copies of some of the documents which accompanied the PRESIDENT'S Message to Congress. The first of these is a com munication from Mr. MUNROE to Mr. Fos - rEn, dated 23d July last, which we shall lay before our Readers to-morrow. Then follow the ADJUSTMENT OF THE AFFAIR OF THE CHESAKAK ANOTHER MOST DREADFUL MURDER! It is our melancholy duty to record another most woeful calamity,. in- which : a whole family has been again most savagely butchered Last night, between derail and twelve o'clock, an other most sanguinary and horrid murder wait com mitted at No. 81, Gravel-lane, Wapping, but a few yards distant from the farmer scene of blood in Rat cliffe Highway. The following narration has been taken from a person who was on the sp)t a few mi nutes after the dreadful affair ; it may therefore be re lied on. Between eleven and twelve o'clock last night, the neighbours opposite the house just mentioned were alarmed by a cry of " Nur& r 1" coming from a person in his shirt, who was descending from a two ' pair of stairs window by the sheets of his bed knotted together. On his reaching the street, he informed those who were assembled by his cries, that there were mur derers in the house, in the act of assassinating the whole family. An alarm was instantly given, and two resolute men, one named LUDGATE, and the other HAWES, armed themselves with axes and pokers, and broke open the door, when, dreadful to 'relate, they first I found the mistress of th• house and the maid-servant lying upon one another by the kitchen fire, with their throats cut from ear to ear. On continuing their search, they proceeded to the cellar, where they found the master of the house quite dead, one -of his legs broken, and his head nearly severed from his body. The scene of this horrid affair was the King's Arms public-house, and the unfortunate persons murdered, are Mr. and Mrs. Williamson, the landlord and land lady, and their servant-maid Biddy, an Irish girl.— The person who made his escape by the window, as above described, was a lodger—his name is Turner. From him we have learnt the following additional I particulars :—He states, that when in bed and asleep, he was alarmed by a great noise below ; he then went cautiously down stairs, where he saw two men, one in a large watch coat, and the other in a flannel jacket, rifling the pockets of the landlady, Mrs. Williamson, who was then lying near the kitchen fire, apparently lifeless. Turner then came to the resolution of get ting out of his window, which, by the aid of the bed-clothes, he effected, leaving Mr. Williamson's niece in bed. The unfortunate sufferers were all drested and go ing about their usual business when they were mut% dered, and- it is supposed that the savages who corn. [ mitted the barbarous act had entered the house upon pretence of obtaining refreshment, a short time before the Landlord shut up his house for the night. We lament to sly that the villains escaped—they got out at the back door, and were seen running over Dock-hill, Wapping, in great perturbation. All Wapping was immediately in an uproar. The drums of the Volunteers beat to arms, the fire-bells were rung, and every person flew in consternation to the spot. The Police searched every house around, and every boat in the river, with every cart, waggon, and carriage was stopped. A great number of suspicious characters have, of course, been stopped ; and the Magistrates are ac tively employed in examining evidence. We shall stop the press, if any further particulars of this dreadiul affair should transpire in the course of the afternoon. The general conjecture at present is that the mur derers are the same desparadoes who assassinated Mr. Marr and his family ; and it is still asserted that both atrocities have been perpetrated by foreigners. —We trust, therefore, that every foreign villain, of whatever rank or degree, throughout the country, will be instantly taken into custody, and kept as hos. rages for the security of the lives of his Majesty's sub jects. AND LEOPARD, We have with much pleasure perused the message of the President to Congress, which follows, an nouncing the adjustment (too long delayed) of the attack at the British frigate LEOPARD on the United States' frigate Chesapeak. Whilst we offer to our Readers our congratulations on the adjustment of this one point, the stumbling block in the way of all negociations on miner topics, we may be permitted to express other subjects preceding the express in Council. We express our hopes, we say, but faint indeed are they when we look at the obsti nate perseverance of the British Cabinet in their sys tem of usurpation of maritime rights, generally known under the name of Orders in Council, the injustice and illegality of which are so clearly demonstra ted in the correspondence lately published, and the effects of which we, at present, so severely feel. To the St nate from the Representatives of the State to the L Senate,and'House of Representatives of the United States, I communicate to Congress co pies of a Correspondence between the Envoy Extra ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Great Bri tain, and the Secretary of States, relatilie to the ag gression committed by a British ship of war on the United States frigate Chesapeake, by which it will ' be seen that that subject of difference between the two countries is terminated by an offer of -Repara tion, which has besa acceded to. The Augustus has reached a British port from Vir ginia, having sailed on the 16th November, and trans mitting letters and papers from Norfolk to that date. They contain the following document, which hadbeen received in the United States by the Mary Anne : DECREE OF TUE GENERAL CONGRESS OP VENEZUELA. " Whereas it has been represented to us that there are now, and have fu- some time, been emissaries in those provinces from the Viceroy of Mete:co, as well as agents dispatched hither from Old Spain, for the purpose of alienating the affections of this free people from the Federal Government by them established, and being convinced of the importance of maintaining the indepen dunce we have acquired without the interference of any foreign paiw•er, whether European or Americas, we have decreed se fialores : Lord Stomourn had two separate interviews with the First Lord of the Admiralty yesterday. Mrs. THOMSON gave a grand dinner on Tuesday, I at her house in Grosvenor-square, to his Royal High ,. ART 1. That alt persons travelling in various parts of these , ne ss the Duke of CLARENCE, and several other per- provinces without being provided with the proper passports, shall sons o f distinction. be subject to arrest, and shall undergo examination both o: theme . selves and their property, before any of the civil or military W.,1 The Duke of DEVONSHIRE has given orders for Lonsborough, in Yorkshire, to be furnished, being benits estebVsbed. SPARRING. Molineaux, the pugilist, had a benefit I pleased with the venerable antiquity of that mansion. at the Fives-court yesterday. The first set-to %AS " ART. t'. That every person giving information of any eme.., displayed the The Elephant is to make his debut in the new betwixt Molineaux and Powers, which . peeled individual so travelling without passport. deserves vrell_ef w . ' Not ime mounted by Mrs. PARKER. sciente in its full extent, and was managed with Ms eke:lvy, and shall rest `'e a reward of WO dollars on its being : i Two Ladies were yesterday examined at Hatton- Powers, by quickness, had courage on both sides. _ Around that! the perm so arrested is • spy. charge of shop-lifting liftin in the of " Aar. $ . That every person who shall be convicted of being garden upon . a shop were placed by both. The next set-to was a - novel on se a secret Envoy from the Viceroy of Mexico, or from I Air. Je ff ery, linen-draper, in Holborn. one, betwixt Molineaux and an athletic Nottingham- Old Spain, 'shall be publicly executed as an enemy to the rights) A Subaltern Officer, employed on the Recruiting and liberties of those liberated Provinces. : 'Service in Doncaster, has been tined by the Magis- s hire man, who gave very unfavourable specimens of A. Tire General Corgress of Venezuela feels it almost mincers- !rates of that place, in the sum of £lBO, being at the evappi andtoken had the match his own way. The next decree in full effect by every means in the power of priose We his possession, of which he could give ma satisfactory , match was betwixt the champion Crib, who gave his in support of his vanquished adversary, by dividuals, as of the public authorities. No reward they on ogee, accollllt. services setting-to with him, and it was altogether a bloodless they are convinced , wilt operate so strongly as the love and:seal ; Sunday last, its the afternoon. as Serjeant Lawits, , imitation of the combat at Thissleton-Cap. Moli tor theircountry's welfare and Liberty, which they know . * eta. of Chippenharn, was returning home on foot from Ayes of the Federal Prow noes experience. 1 Tytherton, he was attacked try three footpads, armed neaux sparred in the same manner as he fought, and Crib received him the same as on that occasion, keep ‘ Signed by the Ber. and Sec. of the General Confireg3 with bludgeons, and dressed in smock-trocks, who ing a decided superiority with the right-hand, of Venezuela, at the Hall of Government, on * fell on him, beat him cruelly, and robbed him of' 9s. I ~ 14th of September, 1811." 1 with which they got clear off. plitoßlC-LANE, Der, .2S. —The Market this day haa —. not many fresh arrivals of Wheat. and not much re- Private • . • • ' On frhursdAy ienni g ht t as Andrew Frame and Private accounts from Windsor yesterday, stated ichn Corbet, from Larkhall, in Lanarkshire, were maining on hand—waiting arrivals, few Sales are 44 that his MAJESTY ? ' debilitTincreased, and that he made, and those nearly* last prices—Barley iii &- returning from Carluke to that place, in an open cart', mal id. and rather dearer—Malt and White Peas vary co-ald not he prevailed on to take food." they attempted to cross the Clyde at Garrianford, His Royal Highness the PRINCE ft WENT is now so pear Dalsetf. The river being very much swelled the but little—Beans of the two kinds are likewise nearly a: the last quotation—There are some few arrivals of 31' sch =covered from the effects of his a nkle sprain, cart aiid passengers were upset. and John Corbet in Oats, and Sales in this trade also named at little fiuc as to be It hie to take his accustomed exerc ise. Yester- a few minutes disappeared ; Andrew Frame was fuation--Fiour in full plenty at late prices. 'day hi.s Royal Highness took an airing ;a the Pirkt. ,aved by a faithful dog, which having got hold of , CURRENT PRICES OF cants. in his carriage; after which he went to Carlton part of Ins dreLs, Icppt hp heAd above water till he wheat, easels. mu. Beaas 501. 565. ;mined an hour, and then returned gained the shire. The horse after getting disengaged Fine ditto, 118 s. 122.5. Tick ditto 46e. 52a. where his Royal Highness gave au- f rom the cart, swam to the one side, where, poring tq R y e 34 "a ' 425.541. pi. Ditto ( fi ne Old) 535. its. 1011 W.s,,titsuly aid the Earl of' the steepness of the bank. he could not find a lan di ng t lrlei alt. Oats zee. 32a. 55 ° 76s. 83a. Pola nd date, I.ass, ed. —he thtti recrossed the river and got out on the White Peas (boikre),7ll6.llo. Potatoe ditto, 401. 425. eel. n um t o onuti dangticaidy il!: opposite side, i prey ditto, 571. els. Rape Seed, 414. dee. ' • Doe Flew f f/Se. litne-s=essib, SW. 94. Hoge, where he rem a iroric House, whet thence; to the_ Marqi TVPRPOOL. 10dr PI O .OTTE THE ARMY. Depchments of the 9th, 11th, and 14th, Light Dragoons, of the 11th Infantry, and several other corps, have arrived at Plymouth, embark for fo reign service. The 11th Infantry are destined for Gibraltar—the others are to join their respective re giments in the Peninsula. The Royal South Gloucester and sir other militia regiments, quartered in the Plymouth District, are I under orders for Ireland. This morning a party of the 75th Regiment, under the command of Captain Twitunt, for the Depot at Edinburgh Castle, sailed from Millet's Wharf, on board the Prompt, Captain DAVIDLOS, for Leith. The following melancholy circumstance is mentio. ned in one of the last letters from the Britisit army in Portugal :—A Lieutenant of the 13th dragoons, go ing with a flag of truce from Campo Mayor to Bada jos, and escorting a French Officer, fell in with a party of Guerillas, and was shot by them, before he could approach near enough to make them under. I stand he was a British Officer. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PLYMOUTH, DECEMBER 19. Arrived, the PHEASANT, 18 guns, from a cruize ; the Apollo, Captain HAMMETT, from London, last from Falmouth, with bale goods, Btc. for Malta, hav ing sprung a•leak at sea in the late severe gales ; the Hope of Greenock, from Quebec, with timber for the Dock-yard here ; the Ealing smack William and Agnes, J. RAWE, master—she lost her mast in a squall, and was towed in by another of the trawlers belonging to this port. Sailed, the GAMBIER cutter for the eastward, having a small convoi ; and the WHITING schooner, with stores, &c. for Torbay. PORTSMOUTH, DECEMBER 19. Nothing arrived or sailed to-day. DEAL, DECEMBER 19. Arrived the Clifford and the Sir James Henry Craig, from Quebec ; and the NAIAD frigate, from a cruize. Sailed his Majesty's ship &MARK, for off Boulogne. Put back, several merchantmen., YARMOUTH, DECEMBER 19. Sailed this morning the following ships of war, viz. the Locusr, KITE, FLAMER, and CALYPSO.—Ships remaining: SOLEBAY, (Vice -Admiral MURRAY ' ) and HORATIO frigate.—Wind W.S.W. Yesterday, pa m. arrived the PRINCESS or WALKS cutter, Lieutenant iourricorr, with a French cutter privateer, which she captured r,ff Flamhorough.head : she is called the Anacreon (formerly the English cut ler Courier), 4 carriage-guns, 12-pounders, and 38 men ; she had not made any captures. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. The Swift, Shepkeard, from Alicant, has been taken, re-takes, and mat to Portsmouth. • The Active, Archer, of Maryport, is lost in the Gulf of St Lawrence. The Bloodhound gun-brig was on shore near Padseew, es Monday, and it was feared would go to pieces ; crew saved. The Brisk sloop of war, and the fleet bound to the West-Indies, put back to Cork on the 12th instant. The Limerick Packet, Lane, from London to Limerick, Is put into Baltimore, near Cape Clear, by 6dverse winds. It is reported that the City of Cork, Guy, from Ireland, was taken off Dungeness, on the Bth inst. by a French lugger privateer, and carried into Calais. The Thornton, Turnbull, from Maranharn and Galway fcr r Liverpool, struck on the Burbo, on Monday, and went to pieces ; new saved, as will be part of the cargo. The Fingal, French, from Miramichi for London, was dash. d to pieces on Dunnet Sands, Caithness, on the sd instant, crew all lost, thegreatest part of this cargo expected to be saved. The late gales have been exceedingly disastrous on the Coast. Captain CUMMINGS, of the London and Edinburgh Shipping Company's smack Comet had a narrow escape from drowing, on the voyage to Leith, having been washed overboard. - THE SALCANHA.—By a letter addressed to a Bath paper, it appears, that to the list of the survivors of the crew of the SALDANUA, should be added the names of Lieutenants H. SALTEIL and E. AntiNs, of the marines, and Mr. NORMAN, Midshipman. • Letters were yesterday received from Captain SMITH, of the Annesley revenue cruizer, at Lough- Swilly, mentioning that one of the crew of the SAL DAN/IA reached the shore alive. but was so confused as not to be able to give any thing like a distinct ac count of the melancholy business : he died•in two hours after being washed ashore. RIOTS IN NCIFTINGIUM at m VICIbIITT. NOTTINOIOO4, Dec. 19... The troubles in this town and neighbourhood are not of so alarming a nature as they have been for several weeks past, yet the spirit which governet them seems neither allayed nor subdued, though there has been no want of activity on the part of the civil power, particularly in this town. On Saturday evening three frames were dean - led within the liberties of Nottingham ; and on Sunday evening, b....fore seven o'clock, three more, all of great value, having cost, when new, £6O ach On in average. At one place the poor woman of the hour-, who had no person with, her except some half-famished children, one of the frame-breakers, though he declared hims. to be very much distressed, gave her a shilling to bur some bread, there being nom of that article it the Usu.: The Magistrates have.now come to a determination of seizing every man at whose house a frame is broken, under a suspicion, that they are either acces guy to, or connive at, the violence ; tw of them have been for the greater part of this week confined, though it is well understood that they were from home at the time that the frame-breakers performed the mis chief. They likewise seize every man who they can learn has been collecting money, under pretence of supporting poi r men and tlyir t tmilies who are out of emplo y meta, from a strong persuasion that such money is appropriated to support the frame-treakerc in their depredations. About ten of tbete men were brought in prisoners from several villages a little north of this town, yesterday, by an c , cnrt of the Berkshire Militia, who are stationed in the villages around. And, it is not a little singular, that a crowd of stocking-makers assembled at Basfnrd, two miles hence, for the determined purpose of rescuing the pri soners; and that the latter positively refused to be liberated, declaring a prison preferable to the situ tint: from which they had been taken. Wlie:er they will be in tire same mind next Wednesday, is a matter of some doubt. Several meetings have been held by the hos7ors to discuss the complaints of the wbrkmen ; but such has been the issue of those meetings, that the complaints of the workmen are increased : a circumstance that excites considerable aLim in the public mind. A most august assembly was last Friday held in our Shire-Hall, consisting of the greater part of the Nobility, the Gentry, and the Magistracy cf the County, to take into`tonsideration the troubled state of the public mind. Many persons were examined, who were supposed to be well conversant with the nature of the framework-knitting trade; but the reso. lutions .come to on that occasion have not been offi cially-made public. It is rumoured, and we can state it only as a ru. motir, that the meeting came to a determination not to interfere in the dispute between the workmen an 4 their employers, any farther than, as the diterent gentlemen of-that meeting might lel themselves bland to inter:* r in their official capacities to mair: tain the public tranquillity. The person hinted ;t in my last, as being possessed of acknowledged talents, who had been ar rested on suspicion of being a director of the frame.. breakers' operations, has been committed for trial at the nest assizes. Wednesday morning, the 27th .ult. the parsonam house of the Rev. W. Cox, of Laagton Herring, Mint,, was discovcred to be on fire ; and though tse wind blew only a.gentle breeze, it being thatched and, very dry, the fire made rapid progress. The roof soon fell in, and communicated the flames to the chambers, which were burnt. On Tuesday last the Sunderland Hounds threw off on the north side of Hylton Ferry. They imme diately started a hare, which took to the west, and saved herself by passing a deer that the cry of the hounds had roused. The dogs immediately pursued him, and atter a smart run he was Idled in great style. Cu beating for another hare, two fresh deer were roused ; the hounds dividing, one cf the deer was soon taken alive—the other made to the north, but being hard pressed by the dogs, turned east to wards the Park Of Hylton Castle, near which he was killed, notwithstanding every effort was made by the gentlemen prasent to save him. These deer, we understand, had escaped from Hylton Castle Park. On Tuesday, the Sd instant, Sir B. GRAHAM turn ed down a stag near Bea&le, and, after a severe course of one hour, the hounds ran up to ntm In grand style, and took him near Mr. Munn:slues, at Thorpe, about seven miles S.W. of Beadale, after making va rious angles on the river the. Captains Hz*t.z and Fowtts were the only gentlemen up ; the former rode a snare of Sir B. CAA:HAM% and the latter his own Gym, ite horse Beicireas. - . TROTTING IN Sccertatsn.The long-pending match between Lord Montgomery and Colonel Blair with seven' Noblemen and Mr. Stephenson, on which many thousands were depending, was decided . ms Monday the 9th instant, having three minutes and 17 seconds to spare of the given tune. The match was, that Lord M. find Colonel B. did not produce a hone, Matt, or geditig; to trot from Eglinton Castle to Auchencrienve House, :1 diAance of fourteen miles and seventy yards, in fifty minutes ; supposed by the amateurs of trotting not the most trifling undertaking on good roads, but in the instance of b4ving to pass .through the paved street of Iryin, of arleast a mile long, the many sharp turns and roughness of the road. it was considered the greatest performance in the'annals of trotting. - It was done by a mare, the prepercy of Mr. Kirby, r f Yerk ; she was rode by J. §impson, of Manchester. The match was conducted to the general satisfacti n of many hundreds of spec tators, and particularly to the Noblemen and Gentle. men Coheerlitd. The Mare, the tint time of trying, slipt bn hrr i , de in turning out of Irvin-street to the bridge, 'cad lodto return to che Castle and begin over again.