Star. — London, England, 1811-09-13 00:00:00

1 THE INC.K " WRNDSOR.CASTLR, SEPTEMRXR 13. " There Is no alteration in his MAJESTY'S state. (Signed) " H. HAISORIX W. HERERDEN. R. WILLIS." Wtrinsnu, SEPT. 11.—The symptoms of the Km; still present increasing grounds for favourable expec tation. His hour of rising this day varied from that of yesterday by half an hour sooner, that is, six o'clock ; his fond and exercises have been uniformly the same as the last several days. Mr. COOPER, his M•,esty's own private Page, has been more regular in ttendAnce on the Royal Sufferer within these few days than for some time past. The KING has, from frequent affectionate inquiries for his favourite domes tics, indicated a perfect recollection, at intervals, of those servants vho have so many years stood highest in his Royal esteem ; and this partial remembrance is justly looked upon as one of the best symptoms. NEll' PROJECTS OF IMPROVEMEIVT. The new projects for the improvement of the Metro. polls, are of the most magnificent kind. I. A p'an is drawn for covering hue :hesitated scree with streets and squares, between the New-road and Primrose-hill, on Mary la-bonne-park, and the estates of the Duke of Portland, Earl Camden, Lord Southampton, Mr. Portman, Mr. Eyre, &c.— There will be twenty thwiand houses in this one undertaking. 2. In the same way, all the fields about Kentish Tows sad Holloway are to he covered with buildings. S Lord Kensipgton has let an immense extent of ground, to the left of the road opposite to Holland House, for the same pur pose; and Earl Grosvenor's lands are all to be built on. 4. A new canal, to be called tke Regent': Canal, is to be cut from the Grand Junction, a. Paddington, to go by the north of „Pancras Church, under the hill at Islington, and the New River, by a tunnel, the north of Hoxton to Mile End, and from thence to the Thames at the Bight, pear the West lnd'a Docks. And, S. There is a grand project, to turn the Fiver Thames itself intta a Wet Dock, all the way from Vauxhall to 1, ,, ng Reach.— , This is proposed to be effected by making a new tide river front Blackwall to Gallions, and 'ront Deptford to Vauxhall, by which all the intervening space of the present river would be made a [soon! • These are a few of the projects, in addition to those which have been advertised, and of which we have seen the drafts and proposals. • Wednesday, his Excellency the Duke de L'INFAN TAM, accompanied by Lord HOLLAND and Lord JOHN RUS‘:ELL, was attended by Mr. WYATT to the Cold Room in Carlton House, in order to inspect Mr. PHI LIPWYATT'S beautiful model for the new Drury The atre, which his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT has graci ltisly allowed to be placed in one of the pria cipal ap.trtmenrs of the Palace His Excellency and the whole party appeared h'ghly delivilted with the exhibition. The Model of Mr. BENJAMIN WYATT is also sp , .ken of in terms of the highest approbation; the pretensions of the two brothers are, we understand, put forward in the spirit of most amicable emulatit n, and the contest, it is said, is now reduced to three Can didates—the two Mr. WYATTS and Mr. Witaixs, who has produced a most classical plan on the model of the ancient Theatres of Greece :inki Rome. Major WILSON'S horse Antelope is matched against TW"ISDEN'S Stripling at the first Newmarket October Meeting. A man boasting in a coffee-house, that he had drank six bottles of wine, a bystander observed, it was more than 4e could swallow. Among the prisoners discharged under the late In solvent Act, was a chimney-sweeper; he said he came there to be white.washett A lady at Margate has been presented with a lap dog, in whose ears were a pair of diamond ear-rings! Such is the refinement of folly. It seems that x marriage is soon to be solemnized between Mr. MARTIN, son of the Member for Galway, and Miss SAVILLE, who brings him a fortune of tE50,000. Of ail the feathered race, the notes of the Martin will then surely be the sweetest ! Earl Carhampton havin ,, just completed a mauso leum, near Pain's Hill, and finding it more spacious than is requisite for himself and family, has sold the fee-simple of a stone niche• in it to Lord Somerville, his friend and neighbour, remarking to hini at the same time, that as his Lordship had greatly engross. ed the sale of live stock, he was.determined to see whe ther he could not himself turn a penny by the dead! Mr. COTES has been requested to postpone his tragic acting until the wilver approaches, as the vio lent exercise of /augh;ris, in the present weather, has a very relaxing effect ! The dimensions of the new Theatre are not agreed 'upon, but it is geaerally. thought it will be large enough, if it contains the creitiors of the aid! The inclotures that are taking place in different parts of the country occason a great deal of rairaig. Canvassing for elective votes for Members' in an expected New Parliament is now as briskly going forward in many parts of the United Kingdom. as that of Candidates for the vote and interest of Madam Fortune in the present novel State Lottery. There is a material difference, however, in the attainments. The former can procure a seat only for seven years, whereas a capital seat in the lap of Fortune may last for life. The former too may cost thousands of rounds : the latter but a very trifling sum, only 19 Guineas. There is at this time the unprecedented instance in England of the Commander of an East Indiaman ,having brought'his Second Mate to trial before a Court Martial on a charge affecting his life. The trial is Rising on at the Nore. The jurisdiction is created by these trading ships belonging to a coin ' mercial Company, and without a King's fl.g, having ilettor of marre, which, it seems, subjects the ship's company - to martial law. It appears from the French Papers lately received, that more than 1000 acres in the territory of Rome, have been recently planted with the cotton .hrub. A considerable cott'us m:11 was erected some time ago at Therrnes, not tar frmn Rattle. A flock of Merinos is also on its journey to the Campagna di Roma. Saturday afternoon the horses cf a waggon, on the return from Kingston, took fright about half a mile from that place ; the waggoner %vat riding in the whiele at the time, and in his endeavour to jump out, • Me was unfortunately tun over and killed on the spot, 'leaving a wife and family in distress. • . - THE ARMY. Wednesday se'nnight, the Waterford Militia tisarch ed from Cork to Monkstown, to embark for England. —They will do duty in the garrison of Portsmouth, on their arrival from Ireland. The Leitrim regimevt have marched from Clon mel, for embarkation at Cerk for England. Several transports, having on board the Royal Cornwall and the Royal Westminster regiments of Militia, under convoy of the DAPPER gun-brig, have arrived at the Pidgeon-house, Dublin. The Cornwall regiment expect to be quartered at Tullamore, and the Westminster regiment are to remain in that city. N4VAIL INTELLIGENCE. TORBAY, SEPTEMBER 11. Arrived the PARTRIDGE sloop of war, and the transport Sir Joseph Banks, No. 376, with a detach ment of the 88th Foot on board, bound for Berry head barracks. FALMOUTH, SEPTEMBER ie. Arrived the RAPID from Plymouth, to take con voy for the Downs ; also the transports Wm. Pitt, No. 421, and the Jane, No. 166, to take on board the East Kent militia for Ireland—Wind E. • PLYMOUTH, SEPTEMBER Arrived the DAUNTLESS, 18 guns, from the East ward ; the TEASER, cut out of Bourdeaux : also a French chasse-ma; ce and a French galliot, also cut out of Bourdeaux.—Sailed the INTELLIGENT gun-brig for Falmouth, and the LEOPARD with French pri soners for Leith.—Wind S. PORTSMOUTH, SEPTEMBER It Arrived the HOPE and DcrrEnous from a cruize. Sailed the DENMARK on a cruize. ()PAL SEPTEMBER it. Arrived as follows from the B,ltic :--the HANNI BAL, Rear-Admiral Duttit,m, Captain KING ; MARS, Captain RAPER ; IDIEETUKOL, Captain MILNE t'VAN GUARD, Captain GtsxN ; and the TREMENDOUS, Cap tain CAMPBELL.—Arrived the BELLONA man of war, from off Flushing: A memorial has been presented to the Lords of the Admiralty relative to the fishermen impressed at the Isle of Man uy Lieutenant HAWKES of the Maria ten, er, but their Lordships have determined not to discharge them. When the Commander of the French guard :ship in Rochefort boarded the SEMIRAMIS on the 24th ult. in his gig, Captain Rictiasto,oN, in very good French, desired him to come on deck, which he did, but soon found his mistake, and his astonishment may be easier conceived than described ; he shrugged up his shoul derN, and said, " C'ert um grand meprit !"--Captlin RICKARDSON then desired him to walk down into his and. t 3 k. some refreshment, and when he had succeeded in carrying his plan into execution, he would come down anti talk with him. On Tuesday se'nnight, the dry-dock at Blyth being entirely completed, two ships entered the same for re pairs, amidst the applauses of a concourse of specta tors and ship-owners. MELANCHOLY ACCOUNT.—The Adamant, Hen- Lev, of Newcastle, sailed on the 26th of July, 1810, from Oban, ir. Scotland, with 80 passengers and their luggage, for Prince Edward's isllad, where she ar rived, after a favourable passage of 49 days, and land ed them safely. At Pugwash, she took in a cirgo of timber, and left the island on the 13th October, the wind being W.N.W. turning to windward in-1 the gut of Casno; where she cast anchor. On the 15J1, weighed at five A. M. win.' variable, and got to the mouth of the gut that night, when it came on to blow very hard from N.E. with very foggy weather. On the I.9th, the storm increasing, the vessel unfortunately upset, and remained about 20 minutes with her masts in the water, when she righted as far as the lee-edge of the deck, her larboard gunwale remaining constantly under. The boats and other things on the deck were swept away ; the sea being very high, hard a free passage down the hatchways, and washed the provisions out of the cabin windows. The crew, IS u. numbs , were all lashed, and had nothing to subsist „on bat a little raw beef (of which they were each allow. : two ounces per day) and a snub qoantityof rum. The water-casks being all stove by the vioient motion of the vessel, they were obliged to drink their own urine. By the '23d, four of the crew had rif serably .perished, and were thrown into the sea. On the 24th they came within sight of land, which proved to be Sable Island, on the cuter bar of which; ga . The north side, the vessel struck, about 2 P. M. that day.: she lost her rudder, but did not go to pieces. - Here dry remained two days longer. On • the 28th, War snore of the crew died.— 'fbe people. of the island appeared with a boat on the 26th, Which kad been brought overland in a cart, for their relief. They were conveyed to a house two miles from the shore, and received very proper treat- Inent. Milk was the first thing given to them, and in a week they recovered their strength. The four dead bodies, left in the ship, were brought there the next day, and were decently interred in one grave, and an inscription placed thereon. Those who died were— John Tosh, belonging to Dundee, aged 18 ; William Snaith, Ballast-hills, Newcastle, 12 ; John Cutter, Felling-shore, 16; James Cowens, London, 12; James Burrell ( the cook), Gatehead, 50 ; Wm. Carmichael, carpenter, Ballasthills, 32 ; D. Bell, Glasgow ; Dan. Smith, St. Anthon's,Newcastle,l2. The last four were buried ashore. Three of the survivors, viz. John Short, of the Felling Shore, mate ; Thos. Chicken, of Newcastle; and .Tames Spence, of Strom ness (Orkney ) arrived at Shields last week in the Free Briton. They left the island the 23d of June, alter haling lived there more than seven months. The other two, Mr. Thos. Ridley, the owner, and the Captain, put to sea from the island in an open boat, a considerable time before them, and being taken up by some ship at sea, got home some time since. Sable island was settled by the Governor of Halifax about 10 or 11 years ago ; but there were not more than eight persons LA% on it when the crew left it. comrrs. The Coinet now visible, is pronounced by a very distinguished Mathematician, Mr. Page, of Congle ton, to he the same that appeared in IVA, and whose period is 150 years, and not 1'29 years, as has been generally supposed, and hence expected in 17i59, and confounded with the one seen in 1531 Professor Robinson speaks thus of Comets : " There are sometimes seen in the heavens certain bodies, accompanied by a trail; of faint light, which has occasioned them to be called Comets. Their ap. pearance and motions are extremely various, and the only general remarks that can be made on them are that the train or tail is generally small on the first ap. pearance of a Comet, gradually lengthens as the Comet comes into the neighbourhood of the sun, and again diminishes as it retires to a distance. Also the tail is always extended in a direction nearly opposite to the sun." The opinions of Philosophers concerning Comets have been very different. Sir Isaac Newton first sheaved that they are a part of the solar system, re volving round the sun in trajectories, nearly parabo lical, having the sun in the focus. Dr. Halley com puted the motions of several Comets, and among them found some which had precisely the same teakctory. He therefore concluded that there were different ap pearances of one Cornet, and th it the path of a Cornet is a very eccentric elipse, having the sun in one fo cus. The apparition of the C 'met of 1682 in 1759, which was predicted by Halley, has given his opinion the most complete confirmation. Comets are therefore planets, resembling the others in the laws of their motion, revolving round the sun in elipses, describing areas proportional to the times, and having the squares of their periodic times propor tional to the cubes of their mean distance from the sun. They differ from the planets in the great variety of the position of their orbits, and in this, that many of them have their course in antecedentia Signorum, (contrary to the order of the Signs of the Zodiac.) Their number is very great; but there are but few with the elements of whose motions we are well acquainted. The comet of 1680 came very near to the sun on the llth of December, its distance not exceeding its semi-diameter. When in its aphelion, it will be almost 150 times further from the sun than the earth is. Our ideas of the extent of the solar sys tem are thus greatly enlarged. No satisfactory knowledge has been acquired con cerning the cause of that train ri light which accom panies the comets. Some philosophers imagine, that it is the rarer atmosphere of the come:, impelled by the sun's rays. Others imagine, that it is 3 phenome non of the same kind with the Aurora Borealis, and that this earth would appear like a comet to a specta tor placed on another planet. The apparent magnitude of comet.; is very different, sometimes seeming no bigger than the fixed stars, at other times • equal in diameter to Venus. Hevelins observed one in 1652, which was not inferior to the. moon in size, though not so bright; its light pale and dim, its aspect dismal. Great numbers of cattle have been landed in Scot land from Ireland, within the last eight weAs, much greater than ever were knows in the same period, and the importation still continues. Barley harvest com menced la-t week in Stratherrick, which is earlier than it has ever been known in t'iat district of the country. This, however, may be ascribed to the im proved mode of culture, which, we are happy to find, is making rapil progress even in the most remote parts of the Highlands. Barley harvest at Inverness has become general. As a proof of the excellent quality of the wheat raised in Ross-shire, a quantity, grown upon the estate of Mr. *Lend, of Geanies, fetched in the Lon don market 100 s. per quarter. The present rise in the price of flour and bread is, very extraordinary, when it is considered that we have not only had a plentiful harvest, but that large im- . portations of wheat are daily taking place. The im ports on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday last, amounted to 20,380 quartrs of wheat, and yet the market price rose 10s. a quarter. At Bristol Fair, last week, the shew ofteattle was good, almost beyond example, and sold quick, and at good prices. Horses sold but indifferent ;-rod horses, however, brought high prices. Leather expe rienced a heavy sale, at the following prices :-Heavy Crops, 21d. to 23d. ; light ditto, 17d. to 19d. Shoe and Coach Hides, 20d. to '2ld. Saddlers' Hides, 180. to 191 d. ; common and'inferior ditto, 16d. to 18d. Bulls, 16d. to 17d. ; Buffaloes, 12d. to 14d. prime heavy ditto, 16d. to 18d ; light rounded ditto, 14d. to 16d. ; heavy close ditto; .18d. to 22d : Horse Hides, 12d. to 17d.; Spanish ditto, 14d. to 17d.- Best Pattern Skins, 3s. 7d. to 3s. Bd. ; common ditto, 3s. 2d. to 3s. sd. ; heavy ditto, 2,. 6d. to 21, 10d. ; light Welsh ditto, 2s. 4d. to 2s. &I. ; Irish ditto, 2s. 4d. to 2s. Gd. Kids, 2s. to 2s. 6d. Light Seals, 2s. 10d. to 35.-Raw Goods t Buenos Ayres Hides, 6d.; Irish Veals, 100. ; Newfoundland Seals, £l.l. per hundred. The crops of oats on Mendip are very great, and a finer season for harvesting them was never known.— In many parts of the county, and also of Devon, there are more apples than was expected ; in some places, halt a crop. • CORN MARKET, SEPT. 13.—This day the Market has several fresh arrivals of Wheat, but waiting fur ther supplies, sales are dull, and rather give way in price. Barley, with Malt, in si,ort supply, and fully at the late increase in price. White Peas likewise— Grey, and Beans of each sort, maintain their prices— There are also several fresh arrivals of Oats, part new, but a demand, and sales thereof quoted nearly at last prices—Flour without 'variation. OSNISALISIFILIMICT AS SINDSS : Wheat 99.1. 955. 112$. Beans, 465. 5!.. Fine ditto, 114 s. 11111. Tick ditto, 40,. 465. Rye, 40s. 465. Oats, 12s. 275. SOs. Barley, 42.. 481. Poland ditto, Sig. Us. 6d. Malt, 765. 52.. Potato. ditto, 334. 84s.Gd White Peas (Boilers) 721. 75.. Rape Seed .640,F44 Fine Flonr, $ ..tt. Wis.—Seconds, 90, to 955. Monday se'nnight, as the waggon belonging to Mr. Squance, the Oakirampton carrier, was on its way tram thence to Exeter, it hid not proceeded more than a mile, when three of the four horses were struck instantly dead by lightning. I POLICE. Maatstota-tioustaaa-Yesterd ay Aaron Letletvol, 4 butcher's boy, iii Leaclenhall-market, was charged with throwing a knife at his fellow-apprenice, which inflicted a deep wound in his thigh. It did not ap pair ~o be a malicious act, but the effect of momena ta:y passion; and after die Lord Mayor had repro. bated in severe terms the youth's misconduct, he was dis;harged by the consent of all parties. .191 in Longley, a soldier in the Wes: London Iscli.. tia, was sent by the Lord Mayor to receive the .l:sci pline of his regiment, for stealing a pewter pot (tom t James Keetakh, a publican, in Golden-lane. FL/mos-GA R °ea.—Yesterday three young fell-* lows, apprehendad by some of Ow officers tireasame morning at one o'clock, in the fields; at Islington, near Bagaigge-wells, were put to tha bar, and under went examination, charged on suspicion a ita having been concerned in conlmitting robberies in that quar ter, as a great number of depredatieas have been re ; centlY committed ; and the prisoners being suspici ons characters, nn whose persons were found ifnnie.' ments of house-breaking, not being able to g.v2 Aar ' gond account of themselves, t!,ey were acanabittea ! for re-examinat .n. Ustoa-Haia..—Yesterday, 11 1 . Siam'', the reran i in custody on a charge of uttering a ilath note Inc five-pence, as a five-pound Bank of Ea;.;land note, to . Elizabeth Hill, a poor woman with wl.o:n he lodged, was brOught up for a final examination —The Bank Solicitor now attended, and charged the prisoner with ' having been guilty of a capital offence, in having altered the paper is question from itamiginal term, in order to make it hear a nearer resemblance to the Bank of England Note. By an Act passed in the 45th of the King, called 4 , the B , nk Note Act," it 1 is provided, that any person guilty of altering or i making any Bank note, and uttering the same, for • the purpose of defraud, shall be considered guilty of a felony; this he submitted tA the M igistr ites was the prisoner's offence itt i the present case, and there fore not a bailable offence.—The prisoner's Solicitor on the other hand contended, as there was uo evi- ' deuce of the prisoner's having altered the note, or even that he was aware, at the time he paid it to Mrs. Hill, of its being any other thaa a go. t ;tote; his offence, to take the worst view of it, could only amount to a misdemeanour. That he did not know of its being a bad one was probable, as, after it was paid by him to Mrs. Hill, it passed through (I'd hands of several persons conversant with sank notes. before the fraud was discovered. He also submitted. that the conduct of the prisoner in preserving the note ' •in his own possession 21 hours after it was returned to him, and not dastroying the only thing which could be evidence against him, was strong prod of Lis in nocence. He also offered to call evidence to the young man's character. The Magistrate observed, that he did not sit to try the prisoner ; he had heard the charge, and r - as of opinion ti , eonce came with in the meaning of the Biuk Note Act ; the prisoner might have ail the benefit of character at the Assi zes. He was fully committed for trial, and the par tie b w o l t A celebrated character, of first fame i N n o L F I A over. sG_ s s amongst the swindling fraternity, is again levying ' tootr:butions on the unwary, after four years of du. ranee vile. An expertness in disposing of seats in Parliament must be fresh in the public mind. His 1 companion is a man about six feet, of dark but hand some manly visage, with a stern brow, and fluent in address. Warrants for frauds, &c. have been issued from Bow-sweet and Marlborough -starer, for off:nets . at the West end of the tpwn, and yet they were ti goring away at a Tavern at Blackwall, a few days since, where they found sonic useful acquaintance to a few hours. One was introduced to a Captain be longing to a West Indiaman, as wanting a passage to the Carraccas, and he agreed for his passage. &c. The swindlers gave expeusiva dinners to their friends. and one offered to lend the Captain sums of money. On the Tuesday the swindlers having got intimately acquainted with those necessary for their purpose, or dered a turtle dinner for Thursday, and now was the time for them to make use of their new acquaintance. A third person made his appearance as a livery ser vant, who wanted £.50 of one of them for his master, The swindlers expressed their willingness to send the mow/ by the servant, though one had only £lO, and the °that no small notes , but offered a cheque.— As the sum *as for immediate use, ready money was necessary ; the landlord was called, who advanced A'3o, receiving a cheque on a banker for A'so, ob serving he might key the £2O till the turtle dinner. On the landlord gain to the banking-house, he Was told the parties were noted'swindlers, wholiadgot hold of a cheque-book. On his return the swindlers had fled, after borrowing some money of the Captain. There are a multiplicity of other charges against them. Wednesday evenng, about six o'clock, a yonth,. about sixteen years of age, of the name of Galin, wentinto the Thames to bathe, near Broken-whart, Thames-street, when, after being in tl.e water a short time, he suddenly sunk, and was unfortunately drowned before any person could go to his assistance. His body was dragged for, and picked up after lying in the water forty minutes, but life was then found past recovery. A letter from Galway, dated Sept. , tly says—Two outrages weye perpetrated in this town on Sunday night, as flagitious and inhuman as any that has faller. to our lot to notice. At .a late hour of that night, a gang of ruffians forcibly seized a woman in the Greeti, whom they ill-treated in a manner which we are lip willing to mention here : a gentleman who hapreiv.d accidentally to have been passing at the moment, shocked at such a scene, having endeavoured to interfere, narrowly preserved his life by flight, .4fttr receiving a severe beating and some wounds. This occurrence, taking place as it did, in so public a part of a large and populous -town, is unquestionably reproachful and disgraCeful in a great degree, arid might not, perhaps, have occnrred, had a centintl been at the time placed there, as had been heretofore -usital. The enormity, however, of this transactior was exceeded on the same night by one of a similt: f ar a dvanced in pregnancy, wh o h a d b eer na ture, but more deli:or:lWe in its effects :—a youn g woman, returning home, as we aro informed, in company Wid her husband, was stopped at Hohermtire, and used the same manner, but with so much brutal ferocity a: actually occasioned the death of the unfortunate fe, male the day atier.--It is suspected, and very real % nably, that both were committed by the same