Star. — London, England, 1807-06-04 00:00:00

plpr'''' .- HIS MAJESTY': BIRTH DAr. This day our MoR Gracioui Soverign completed' his 69th year.—The aitfpieious day vas angered in with the ringing of bells, aid the Park and Tower guns were fired at the ufual hour. The following ode, from the elegant pen of the Net Laureat, was peifurmed at St. James's on the occafion Still does the trumpet's braten throat Pour forth a mirtial found, Still do the notes of battle goat In warlike clangor round ; Nor rural pipe not paft'ral lay, In peaceful defcant hail the day To grateful Britain ever dear; The thunder of embattled plaint, And thouting conqueft's choral (trains, Bunt on the liftenlng car. Yet while Bellona's iron car Whirls o'er th' enfanguin'd plains, 'Mid Hyperborean climes afar Stern War terrific reigns ; While, with colonl power endow'd, The rudders minifter of blood Calls to his fcattcr'd naval holt, Go forth, and bid the bolts of Fate On Britain's trembling harbours wait, Shut commerce from her coall : Behold, the fovereign Queen of Wes; The F.mprefs of the Waves, Meeting the vaunt with fcornful (miles, The empty menace braves; And fee on Plata's (ca•broad fiream Her banners wave, her bright arms gleam; While, ploughing Ices of clank fame, Nile yields once more to Albion's powers, And Alexandria vails her towers To Guilt na's mightier name. Firm are the fans that Britain leads To combat on the main, And firm her hardy race that treads In heady March the plain : Aod proudly May her Bards record The vielor arm, the vietor (word, That drives the foe from Ocean's title ; And !Madly too, with fond acclaim, Chaunt trophied Maids's deathlers fame With military pride. Be hufied awhile each ruder round, While Britain's grateful voice Bids ail her echoing vales refound The Monarch of her choice. ThOtlgh round the Tyrant's bated throne Arm'd lesions form an iron zone, They eannot blunt Guilt's korpion fting, While Virtue's facred wield is fpread O'er Gloaos's heab'n•protedted head, The Parent and the King. We ate glad of an opportunity of torte/king an error into which we were led by a Morning Paper— correetion which will give fatisfaetion to our mili tary readers, namely, that the gallant Lord Hurc H. SNSON is not fuperfeded by Mr. FRFRII : the latter Gentlemen_ goes as Ambaffador to the King of Pruflia, %ut Lord Htercatmsos continues as Military Com miffioner or refident with the Pruffian army ; and we may, from his elegant pen, continue to expeEt correct details of occurrences in that quarter to which this country is at the prefent moment fo allied. Tuefday, Generals Lord Carucarr, Sir DAVID Bann, and BERESTORD, had long audiences of the Commander in Chief, at the Horfe Guards. Major MACDONALD, of the 43d Regiment, it ap pointed Secretary to Lord CATHCART, for the Grand Expedition. Sunday fc'nnight, the 97th regiment, and 7th Garrifon Battalion, quartered in Limerick, received the route, the IR divifion of the 97th marched on Tuefday morning for Birr ; and on Wednefday the ilk divifion of the Garrifon Battalion marched to Galway ; they are to be replaced by the 26th and 3tft regiments, at prefent on their march for Limerick. Several battalions of the German Legion failed on 'Friday WI from Cork for Portfmouth. A large fleet of tranfports will be collated in the Downs in the courfe of a few days. Saturday the remains of the 73d Regiment, lately from India, arrived at Leith from England. They marched to Stirling on Tuefday. The French General DAN ICAN, who formerly had a command in La Vendee, and who placed himfelf at the head of the Sec tions of Paris, on the 13th Vendemaire, 1796, in oppofition to tiorrarattrs, and who commanded the troops of the Diratory, returned to this country in one of the last packet boats from the continent. Yellerday morning the Prince of WALES and the Royal Dukes viiited their MAJESTIES. Yetlerday the Prince of WALES dincd with Gen. Blase, at Chelfea. Yefterday the Princeffes honoured Lady CHAR torrs FINCH with a morning vifit. Lord MuLcaavx yellerchy entertained the Cabi. net Ifilinifl:.rs, at his houfe in the Admiralty. WILLIAM SAURIN, Efq. is appointed Attorney General of Ireland. The Rev. CHARLES PORTER, M. A. of Brazen Nofe College, Oxford, is appointed Prefident of King's College, Nova Scotia. Tuefday the Members of the Whig Club dined at the London Tavern, Bifhopfgate-Greet. The Infant Son of THOMAS Hl's, Efq. was on Monday baptized, at his houfe in Mansfield-ftreet, by the names of HENRY THOMAS. The Spnnfors were, Meffrs. HENRY and PHILIP Hors, and Mrs. BERES. FORD, mother of Mrs. Hors. The ceremony was performed by his Grace the Right Rev. and Hon. the Archbifhop of TUAM, grandfather to the Infant. Bieakfaft was laid in the great drawing-room, on ta bles fur rimy perfons. Amongft whom were— Prince Efterhazy; the Marquis and ntf, of Abereorn ; the Marquis and Marchionefs of Waterford ; the Marehionefs of Donegal; the Earl and Counters of Mansfield; Vifeount and Vircauntefs Sudley ; Lady Perth, and the Hon. Mil, Drummond; Lady Ann E:rciford; General Etreiford ; and Col. Burrows. ELLIGENth. . MAILS—Wind E. N. B. AIR. DVS. Dublin o t Tonningen Waterford IS s Lifbon Gottenburgh o All. 130 E. o 0 0 1 The Northumberlaad tranfport; from Cork, (truck on the Rundle Stone, and funk theroops and crew were faved. FALMOUTH, JUNE r. Sailed his Majelly's (hips Wirwourit for the Downs, and Hotline for Plymouth. PLYMOUTH, JUNE a. Came in the Berry, Captain STOOLS, from Dublin, for this port, with provitions for the navy ; Frau Helligonda Jacoba, Captain J. D. Kortsa, from Tonningea for Lifbon, laden with linen and glafs, detained by the BLAZER gun brig; the was driven from the Downs the 3oth ult. by a violent gale of wind, with the lots of all her anchors and cables. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 3. _ Arrived the DARING gun brig, from a ernize.— Sailed his Majelly's (hips Mouracu a and Excat.Laur for the Mediterranean; CAROLINE, burnt, and HEARTY, on a cruize.—Wind E. DOVER, JUNE 3. Captain LILDURN of the Lively Excite cutter, has feized and fent into this port a lugger laden with 500 half ankers of fpirits and fundrycontraband goods. Palled by laft night the (hip Fair American, Captain DAVI as, of and from Baltimore, bound to London.— Arrived off here this morning the Danifn Eaft India (hip Denmark, Captain STAGE, from Bengal, bound to Copenhagen.—ln the roads the Ticztaa gun•brig. —Wind N. E. and moderate. DEAL, JUNE 3. _ _ Yenerday evening failed the DEVASTATION bomb for Sheernefs ; alfo, this day, the Campbell, Mac- CAULAY, for Monte Video, and the Albatrofs, for Litbon. Arrived this morning the FURY bomb, from Portfmouth, with the Medea, James, Venus, Ann, and Rover tranfports under convoy; which remain in the Downs with the (hips as per 'aft.— Arrived the PELTER gun brig from Dublin, with a convoy, which are failed for the River.—Wind N. E. GREENOCK, JUNE E. We are forry to underßanil, by the vefillls arrived here from Trinidad, that at the time of their leaving it, a great mortality prevailed there. The Benfon 101 l nine men and a boy, and the Louifa eleven men. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. The Eagle, Williams, from the Cape of Good Hope, went into Buenos Ayres, and Is feized there. The Qzieen Charlotte tranfport, and the American alp Bengal, are loft at Monte Video. The Ellen, Watfon ; Janet, Calder ; Surrey, Black; Ann, frith ; Tagus, Conolly ; Gallant fehooner, Donovan ; Eleanor, Thomp. fon ; John, Monday; Prince of Wales, Bailey; Three Brothers, Purvis; Prince Town, Frazer; and the Fox, Cockcrill, from Lon don; Clarifon, Stephenfon, from Hull; Queen Charlotte, An drews, from the Cape of Conti Hope; Favouate, Cleveland, from Guensfey ; Ocean, Crawford, from Liverpool; Nancy, ---, and the Rana, Peucy, from Falmouth, are arrived at Monte Video. Arrived in Leith Roads, the FANCY gun brig, with the trade from tonningen ; and the S'isaiow (loop of war, from a cruize. Yerterday a Court of Directors was held at the Eatt India Houle, when the undermentioned (hips were taken up for the fervice of the prefent feafon : Sarah Chtiltiana Glory Diana, and Tigris Northampton Union Ann Sir Wtn.Pulteney The Court adjourned at 6 o'clock till te-morrow. By an American (hip, which arrived on Monday from China, we have received accounts horn Canton to the 12th of January. The direft China (hips had a• rived previoufly to the above date. The four Bom bay and China, and three Madras and China (hips, had failed for England. Tilde, with fume of the homeward bound Bengal (hips, may be expected in the Channel in the courfe of the prefent month, or early in July. A cartel is arrived at Portfmouth from France. It brought over Captain \VOODRIFF, late of his Ma flip Calcutta, which was taken in the year 1804, on her paffage with convoy from St. Helena, by the Rochefort fquadron, after a moll determined refinance. We have not heard that the cartel has brought any news. ADMIRALTY COURT, DOCTORS COM MONS••••••lrefier• day the Right Hon. Sir WM. Scour proceeded to the adjudication of the following cafes : Rolla, Coffin markt-. This American (hip, laden with a cargo of bides, and bound from Monte Video to New York, was kized, on the ground of a breach of blockade, in the River Plate on the soth of November 18c6, by his Majelty's flip of war Medufa, the Hon. Playdcll Duneomb Bouvcrie, commander of the fquadron under Sir Home Popham, and carried firft to Maldonado, and af terwards brought to the river Thames. The Court, in this cafe, was of opinion that there was a competent authority to impofe a blockade, and accordingly condemned the chip and cargo. Drie Gebraders,-- Gatgens matter. This veffel, in going from Hamburg!' with an afforted cargo to Caen, was captured near Havre. Ship reftored, with freight and expellees, fubjedt to a proportion of the captors expenses, and further proof dircdted as to the property of the cargo. Sophia, Karftrum matter. This Swediffi (hip was goin g with a cargo of pitch and tar from Gottenburgh to Amfterdam. Sliip and cargo condemned. Fi&en of Providentz, Hum matter. This Danifh ship, with a cargo of fait, was condemned, on the ground of a breach o f blockade. The timber of the beautiful demefne of Lei:lip, near Dublin, has been difpofed of by the Hon. Gso. CAT I NDI H to a timber merchant of Dublin, who has about too men now employed in felling down near 7000 venerable oak, alh, and elm trees. It has very juilly been nbfervect that the celebrat ed SpeCtacle of the Brave CY:tti, now performing at the Royal Amphiteatre with an applaufe, and a dc• gree of attraction in fome manner unprecedented, is certainly one of thole prodations fo pre eminent in its nature above any thing of the kind ever witneffed on the 'Lige, as to rank in point of fpirit; energy, -fire, and military fplendor, difplayed in various ma nccuvres by the daring courage of both Horfe and Foot, as may well be laid vs come nearer reality than perhaps not only never was, but in our opinion never may be to be Peen again. t PARLIAMENT. MEMBERS ELECTED. Atirraurrint, &e.—Sir jam Anftruther, Bar t . Butous or Balm, &e.—James Farquhar, Efq. • CONTESTED ELECTION. YOR KS H Iftg.—At the clofe of the Poll on Tutfday, being the 12th day, the numbers flood thus : William Wilberforce, Efq. . z 0.884 Hon Henry Lafcelles - • 99 1 3 Lord Milton - • • 9835 No return has yet been made for the burghs of Q2.2eensferry, Stirling, Dunfermline, Inverkeithing, Ind Culrofs:—the contefl lies between Sir Jour , : HINDIRSON and General CAMPBELL of Monzie. The chairing of Mr. Tatsor and Mr. HAMILTIN, the fuccefsful Candidates for the County of Dublin, was attended by at leaft twenty thonfand perfnns, who conducted themfelves with the greatefi propriety. The Peformers of the different Theatres pronounce the Humours of an Delon very unprodudive as a berg fit piece! Mrs. Wignell. formerly Mifs Brunton and Mrs. Merry, has again entered into the matrimonial Rate with Mr. Warren, the proprietor of the Theatre at Philadelphia. A duel took place on Monday morning laft, a few miles from York, between Mr. rsiellifh, of that county, and the Honourable Martin Hawke, in which Mr. Mellifli was wounded; but, it is undet flood, not dan. geroufly. They are both in the inteteft of Lord Milton. Sir Thomas Gafenyne's fon was fecond to Mr. Hawke ; and Mr. Lee to Mr. Mellilh. The Gentlemen who were interrupted on Saturday morning in a projetted duel by the police officers, and afterwards bound over to keep the peace, have, notwithftanding left town, as it is feared, to gratify their refentment in fome remote part of the kingdom. Tuefday Sir Waritto Lewis applied in perfun the Court of Exchequer, with a view to be let into the receipts gnd profits of Come tin mines, in Wales i which he Paid had been improperly withheld from him by a mortgagee, the confequence of which was, that he became a prifoner in the Fleet Prifon, and that too for a very confiderable fum. The Chief Baron told him that he felt very much difpofed to affift him in his difficulties ; but that he was oomplaining of an inconvenience he had brought upon himfelf, as by a deed executed in 1799, he had atligned over the rents and profits , in quedion in difcharge of the Mortagee's debt. He would, however, look into the affair, and endeavour to regulate the concern to the advantage of all parties. The unhappy Maniac, who lays claim to the Duke dom of Norfolk, and appealed fo frequently to Lord Eau's', when Chancellor, to fee him righted, has commenced his appeals to the prefent Chancellor.— He rote up in the Court of Chancery the other day, and begged permiffion to addrefs a few words to his Lordfhtp, and to lay his cafe before him. He Paid he could prove, beyond a doubt, that he was the rightful heir to the Dukedom, and had been' in aeual poffeffion of a part of the etlate. His Lord fhip took his papers, and raid he would look into his claims. The town of Manche!ler exhibited a gratifying fpeaacle on Monday fe'nnight. in the Anniverfary Meeting of the Sunday Schools of that town, con dulled under the diration of the Clergy of the Ella blifhed Church. Scon after nine o'clock the Children of the feveral Schools preceded by their Teachers, and the Clergy of their refpeelive diaries, affembled in King•fl.eet and St. Ann's fquare at ten o'clock, they began to move in proceflion towards the Col legiate Church, preceded by a band of mufic, by the Baroughreeve, Magiftrates, and Clergy, and by a confiderable number of the moll refpeetable Ladies and Gentlemen of the town. The day was fine, and the Children, amounting to nearly five thoufand, made a molt interelling appearance, particularly when placed in the Church. The dice of fo large a number of Children uniting with one voice in the rcfpoafes, and in the pfalm finging, was truly fublime and affeaing. The fervice of the day was read by the Rev. Dr. BcaccaulNit, the Warden, and an ex cellent, appropriate, and molt impreffive fermon was preached by the Rev. R. BARLOW, Matter of the Grammar School, Winwick. The Church was un ufually well attended, and the effeet of this folemn fpeetacle (a fpeetacle not perhaps to be paralleled in any other provincial town in the world) was de piaed in vifible emotions of tendetnefs and delight on every countenance. GRAND JUNCTION C•N•t..— Tuefday the Annual Meeting of the Grand Junetion Canal Company took place at the Crown and Anchor Tavern in the Strand. WILLIAM PR•ED, Efq. being called to the Chair, Mr. H•RTMY, the Superintendant of the Company's affairs, read a general Statement of the Wot ks and Concerns of the Canal ; from which it appeared, that the gt ors receipts for tonnage, during the !aft half year, have been as follows, viz. From the Ift of Nov. to 3 tit Dec. zBo6 L. 16,85 S 9 January, 18 7 - - 7.35 1 6 February - • 6,699 16 March - . 8,336 15 April - . 7,440 3 £.46683 7 After fame ditculflon refpeeing the appropriation of farther furns to the Sinking Fund of the Company, it was agreed to leave the fame as it Rood fince the lag Meeting ; and a dividend of one and a half per cent. was declared (exclufive of the Property Tax), to take place in July next. On the whole the affairs of the Company teemed in that profperons Rate, as to give general tatisfaaion to the proprietors prefent. The Minutes of the proceedings of the Committee were read, and approved ; and the Proprietors pre fent proceeded to the Elation of the General and Difiriet Committees for the year enfuing. In the General Committee, no alteration has taken place, except the election of HENRY BON HAM, Efq. in the room of Sir R. J. Suxuram, deceated. Some few additions wet e made to the lifts of the Difirid Com. mittces. About half paR fnnr o'clock, nearly fixty perfons fat down to dinner, WILLIAM PRAED in the Chair . — After " The King," " 7/ be Rig ern," and " Royal Family,' the nfual malls went round, and great conviviality prevailed. Among the company we noticed the Earl of BILIbGE,WATER, Sir HUGH INctis, and fete. ral known cbaradets. MARK LANE. CORN EXCHANGE, JUNE 4. Wheat is in middling fupply to day, an.l mo,e than the demand.—Sales are at fomewhat fiefs pticT except prime famples—Barley with Bc.ini keep their prices—and Malt is heavy fale—there are feveral more arrivals of foreign Oats, many are out of c,;n dition, and thole are cheaper, but piirle nearly keep their price —in Flour, but frnall varia tion—fine American, 40s. to 435. per b t rel. Cil CURRENCY A$ UNDER : Wheat, 46s 58s 72s per qr. Grey Peak 4 - .3 ‘ , 430.1 Fine Ditto, 753 78s od Beans, (old) 4:3 483 od Rye, 37$ 4230 d Tick l)itto (old) 344 403 al . Barley, 301 363 od OatS,22S a•' 3:s Malt, 6os 664 6d Poland Air- 313 323 cd White Pcafc, (Boilers) co' cos Rape Scei. ~6l 3ot Fin: Floor 6os 6 is—Second , ' 551 to tos. Another great fire has happened in the Welt of England : the village of near Langpo•t; in Scmet&Aire, is alma totally dvaroyed ; fealce any horde is left but the parfonage. It WAS with great difficulty that the town of Langport cfcaped. Lail Sunday night a fire broke out in the ripper part of a houfe at Canteroury-row, Newington Butt.. In the curfery-room lay fall a fleep two ) 'tang ciol• dren, who were with fume d:fficulty extricated I. om their perilous fituation. The flames, by the timely difcove: y of the family, were very loon extinguifhed. A letter from Poole fays—" On Saturday lath there was one of the heavieft gales at N. E. that has ever been known at this feafon : round this neighb , urbood the trees are nearl- : [tripped of their foliage. The feathered race did not etcape the ravages it made. wherever it diretied- its courfe ; three fore your.g cranes were taken up the next morning, all dead, hav ing been blown out of their netts on Braw I In and, n.en the feat of C. Scutt, Efq." ASTRONOMY.—Dr. 01.13P1S has written to Doetor Youric, Foreign Secretary to the Royal an• nouncing his difcovery of another new planer, orith.: z9th and 3oth of March !aft. This planer, w hich Fri calls Vella, is apparently about ti.e fize of a liar oz . the gth or 6th magnitude, and was firil feen in Virgo. On the 29th of Marcb, at eight hours 21 min. mean time, 184 deg. eight min. N. declination t t deg. 17 min.; on the 3oth, at rz hours 33 min. mean time, 189 deg. sz min. N. declination r t deg. 54 min. It has lince been feen by Mr. GROOMBRIDGE, at his Obfervatory on Blackheath, who fay•, it al) pears like a liar of the 6th magnitude, of a dufky colour, fimilar in appearance to the Herfchel. DISINMESTED ADVICB.—The late Dr. Darwin. one day at Nottingham, afrembled a large crowd (-1 people around him, and thus addr e ff e d - himftlf to them.- 44 Ye men of Nottingham, linen to met Yr u are ingenious and indult:ions mechanics. By r•iir induary life's comforts are procured for yourfelvis and families. If you isle your health, the pow et of being induftrious will forfake you. 2 hat ycu know ; but you do not know, that to breathe 1 . ; elf' and changed air conilantly, is not lets neceffary to preferve health than fobriety itfelf. Air becomes unwholefome in a few hours, if the windows are (hut. Open thole of your fleeping rooms whenever you quit them to go to your workfhops. Keep the win dows of your workfhops open whenever the weather is not infupportably cold. I have no interffi in giving you this advice. Remember what I, your country man, and a phyfician, tell you. If you would not bring infeflion and clifeafe upon yourfclves, and to your wives and little ones, change the air you breathe, and change it many times a•day, by opening your windows." Rirsturamcs.—A woman who travelled as a hawker, had, twelve years ago, flolen foam clothes from the Green of Ayr ; the carried them with her to Mancheller, where the went ar.d refided till the died. Three days before her death, the prefenred them to her landlady, told her how the had come by them, and, with fincere anguifh, requefled her to get them fent back to Ayr, direaed to Dr. Bone, and to requen him to advettife them, and the hoped every one would get their own, as they were " all fate and found." One part of them (he laid belonged a lady in the town, and there were packed up by them felves, and have been returned. The ret lie with Dr. Bone, who received the package lalt week, till the owners (hall claim them. A new gallows has been congruaed, and will be ready for launching in the Old Bailey the next exe cution day : it is a more portable vehicle than that which has been broken up, being made to travel on wheels that lock like thole of a waggon, otherwile there is nothing new in the principle of its machinery. Yeflerday at Wortbip-greet Office Rogers underwent an examination, charged with having flolen a horfe ont of a field at Hackney, the property of Mr. Joel, of Shoreditch. From the evidence of f eve ral witnefres and the horfe being traced to the polleflion of the ptifoner, he was committed for trial. A man and a woman, charged by a foldier wi'h robbing him of feveral articles of wearing apparel, were alfo fully committed. F EM A L E SWINDLER.—Mary Gammon was charged, at Queen•fquare Office yeflerday, with the commiffiun of divers frauds and felonies. Her fyilem was de veloped asfollows :—She being a woman of a mai ru il ly• appearance and peifuafive manners, dived into the poor recelfes of the wives of abfent foldiers, jourrfey men taylors, &c. about the lower part of Wetimintier, and having contrived to learn their names and fome little of their circumflances, introduced herfelf with an offer to get them children to nurfe ;—the general terms the held out to diem were—two guineas to be paid in advance, and half a guinea per week, to be paid regularly every week at a linen draper's fhop in Parliament.flreet. To this was to be added half a bottle of wine per day, and as much broken viftuals from the houfe as would main , ain the red of her family. This bait to the neccifi:ous was eagerly nib bled at ; the poor creatures would treat their generous friesd with a drop of cordial fOr bet ft iendlhip, and while they were gene to fetch the grateful draft, tome of their habiliments, or portable articles, were lure to be purloined. Some log gowns, (hilts, under petti. coats, child's linen, And fume other articles ;and a few who bad m , ney in their pockets were induced to par t with that as far as their abilities went. Thi s Was cart ied on, it is underilood, to a conliderable extent. Seven charges were made good againfl her for decep tion and robbery, and the was committed for trial, tl i. 11