Star. — London, England, 1807-12-24 00:00:00

eiTY ELEcTlos • M nday being St. Thomas's Day, a Wardmote held in the feveral Wards for the election of (2.,rrym.n Councilmen, and other Ward Officers, for ,`,e )e.r e-fning There were more contested Elec. ti iqc than has been known for many years. The followitify, Wards were reprefented by the fame tleralt.nen as were chofen laft year, without al - -!-- te , .tiinn. Crip,.leggte Within, Farringdon Within, Bread ll•eet, Binad tlreet, Coleman•llieet, Aldgate, Port foken. giieenhithe, Lime-tireet, Langbourne, Corn . bill, II:111[11,1w, Dowgate, and Cordwaners. In the following Wards the undermentioned Gen• tlemen were elefted without oppdition : Aided - gate tireet, 11r. G. Blufs, vice Mr. Walter, reigned. Bridge Ward, Mr. Taylor, vice Ituf>, refigned. lithinglgate Ward, Mr. Dunkley, vice Mr lit.ble, • • resigned. The following are the contelled . Wards : FARRINUDON WI mow% At four o'clock the numbers were—for Mcffrs. F. Quin 667 Mars. Young .54 1 R rring 619 R Brewer 5 1 .3 T M Barditi 62 t J Brewer 5 1 5 Waithman 6 i 3 S'r T Bralifeomb . 6'13 Griifith vs ikli ID's. J Nichol 59 5 J bli.wman 481 W J Reeves 576 I T Rttve 455 Wri g ht 55 0 • Jantes Crook 394 Dawson 544 • 'IL Esteen old Members returned. CORDWAINERS. ileffrs liarwi:oil iBo Mars. Abbey 74 Ro NI: iBo S. tones 68 •Ilielsi 10) T..m:dernan 66 Kenthte teo o 'wagon • 65 Smi - h 92 • W. Jones 55 Trimbey 8; I • Blake 52 The eight firft returned. CRIPPLEGATE WITHOUT. Ml Sri • Diron 337 Tidi Ms G. Brown 255 Dolly 280 W. R. H. Brown 2 35 Dacre 273 • Mr. Gwycr 14 The poll was not declared, and the Wardmote was adjourned until this evening, in conkquence of Mr. W. R. H Brown having denuded a ferminy, when each Candidate will fix on fix free !nen as ferutinters. 6 :BISHOFSGATE WARD. 'Maks. A Windus 19: I Mcffrs Knight Sir W Rawlins 183 'l' Greenaway A Rofs 176 T Poynder E Clark z6o I S Nath •Geo. Cllde 154 W Fricker J. Gough 118 lohn Dut &II G Fade.; sio D Smith W o.uld 108 The flat fourteen returned. CANLLEWICK WARD. Maks Platt P.driter •Humpkby 'Kirby •Groombrido ,ndidates returned. rARD WARD. Metres •Fentoo Slade Farranee •I'ownell •Wekh :\lclirs Walter 86 1414 84 Minder 84 Gale 84 Foflick 76 The ti,:,lit fiat C: C. 1.6 iLE BAY 1 44 I ivwcll 142 lynx 141 'if, aLl.cr 438 Hurlock 137 1 itircomb 1 34 Mr. Welch reigned, without • New C 110 107 101 !CO '2s I £4 109 97 89 keeping the poll open the limited :andidatcs. P, licies are already opened at LLOYD'S, for veffels 44 I the Biazds ; and infurances have been made upon he f4mc -terms, as to 'LW Well Indieb, namely. as the Cluderwtiters term it, 8 to return 4, which implies the ct)rorilete feeling of fecitrity. Yell erday the Cabinet Minitlers dined with his Grace the DA:: of PuRTLAND, at Burlington Houfe. Certain MACLEOD is appointed to command the Gt. , NY, of 98 Vas, at Portfmouth. Lieutenant WARBURTON, of the CLYDE frigate, bas been promoted to the rank of Commander. THE THEATRES. —,The favourite Comedy of the l', ovate,' Iliilband was performed lall night, at Dtury-lane Theatre, with the ufual eclat. Mr. ECUs tok's I or,l Townly difplayed all the qualities of the amiable and loving hutb Ind, the polite Nobleman, and man offenfe. Liowtort's Sir Fraacir If/rots:head had all it.: peculiarities ; while MATHRivs pourttayed the Konen pm Moody with all the blunt honelly and tuft icity of the charaiter. The dashing Lady Townly, An I the amiable and difcreet Lady Grace, could not have been in more appropriate hands than in thofe of MIS DUNCAN and Mrs. H. SIDDONS. The merits of Mifs MILLON in jenny, and of Mrs. SPARKS. in Lady lVronghead, are too well known to the public to require comment. The Comedy of the WO Indian proved very at. traaive at Covent Garden, where it has not been per. formed for a conliderable time. Mr. Jokes did great Janice to the charaller of Belcour, and difplayed much of the genernfity and fire of the original. Mr. Ham satom was unufually fuccefsful in Maj9r O'Flaberty. He wits repeatedly applauded by the audience. BLamc HARD'S Perland was much beyond Medi crity. Mifs NORTON was very interelling in the amiable Louip ; and Mrs. C. KERIBLE'S Charlotte was performed with her ufual excellence. A moil dreadful and fatal accident happened a fhort time ag.) near the village of Hopson Wafers, in Shroplkire : It appears that a waggoner was to rife eat ly on the foil owing morning to accompany iris mailer's team to Ludlow, to fetch grain ; on the night [.receding he dreamt that the waggon would be overturned, and crufh him to death ere he returned —itpu:i mentioning this extraordinary dream to his Cie advifed him not to go, but to plead the retire of illnefs to his mailer ; but unwilling to do and being firmly perfuadcd that the dreadful r.atailr iphe would happen the next time he went 'with the team, he let out ; on his return, being fa tigued with his journey (inilead of taking every recautton to prevent the accident he fo much dread ed) he unthinkingly, got upon the fhafts and fell afleep; he had not been thus fituated long, when the horfes being left to their own guidance, and the ground entirely covered with fnow, the animals mill took their way, and went feveral yards out of their road by which means the waggon was thrown on its fide, and fell on the unfortunate (offerer, who was taken up a corpfe ; he was a molt valuable fer• rant, having lived upwards of twenty years in his lag place ; and had done Met jullice to every truß repofed in him. It is melancholy to relate that he has left a ver y large family to bewail his lois, all of whom he took leave of, ere he fet out on iris krurney, on the full perfuation that he fhould never _lce them more. 437 IN~ItI NOU..SE. Yefterdtty a meeting of the Proprietors of the Eat India CoMpany was held at this Houfe. The rninlites of the former meeting being read and agreed to, The CIiAIR MAN moved, that the Minute of the ha Meeting of the Court of DireOors, by which it was ordered that the dividend on the Heck of the Company for the lafl half year be si per cent. be agreed to. — Mr. ROCK raid it was apparent, from the Rate of the Company's revenue, as itanding on the face of the account laft prefented to the Court, that these was a great deficiency of the revenues of the Corn. pany for that year, to the amount, if he recolleCted it, of upwards of 2,000,0001. He wilhed therefore to know on what ground it was Rated that a divi. dead to the proprietors to the extent of to and a half per cent was to be made. Mr. CHARLES GRANT observed, that from the low tone of voice in which the worthy Proprietor had expreffed himfelf, he (Mr. Grant) was not furprifed that the Honourable Chairman who fat next him, had not been able to make out the nature rf the worthy Proprietor's oblation. He (Mr. Grant) however, was prepared for it. It amounted to this, that a dividend of profits had been declared, while_ at the fame time on the face of the accounts there appeared a deficiency. The Honourable Deputy I Chairman, on the other hand, to meet this objec. tion of the worthy Proprietor, begged it might be reconciled, that by the Aft f Parliament, fpecify• ing the mode of afcertaiuing the dividends, fuch were to be fettled by the mercantile, and not by the territorial profits. The dr fi..iency for laft year was entirely territorial, and would fall to be made up from the territorial revenue of a fubfequent year. On the mercantile concerns of the Company, a profit to a greater event than the dividend allowed had been realized ; the dividend was therefore iiriCtly conformable to.the Aft of Parliament. - Mr. kocx again alluded to the deficiency, and contended that by the Aft, when any deficiency oteurred b no dividend was to be declared fur that year. Mr. GRANT once mr , reafTerted, that the Ad had reference to mercantile, not to territorial profits. The motion was they carried, Mr. Itqck alone diffenting from it. On the motion of the Chairman for reading th e Refoltstion of the Court of Directors, declaring tha t neither the Proprietors. the Captain, nor Crew of the Company's Chip the Ganges were at all im. plicated, or culpable in the lots of that fhip, it was ordered that a Ballot of the Court of Proprietors do take place on that fubjtd on the zoth of Janu• ary, MISSIONARIES TO INEMA. Mr. TWINING role, and ttated that he had given notice for this day of motion relative to the fending Miffionaties to India. He was fatisfied in his own mind as to the imp"•rtance of this ite)jeCt, and alfo AS to the neceifity of indulging, rather than of at tempting to thwart the prejudices of the natives on the point of religion. He was (atisfied that nothing could contribute more to the ellablifhment of our empire in the EaR, than allowing the prejudices of the natives to take their courfe, by which ultimately the caufe of religion even would be more effectually ferved, than it could be by forcing it, without a proper preparative cn the minds of the prejudiced people nf thefe regions. He was, however, at the fame time, aware of the difadvantages which might refult from the agitation of this quettion at the pre fent moment, particularly in the evert of a difitnion of fenriment in that Court. \ He was therefore anxi our, if polleble, to avoid loch a difcullion, and if he received faii.fadory atfurances from Gentlemen within the bar, that their attention had been dire° ed to this fubjeCt, and that it was their with to re drefs the grievances to which he had alluded, he thould withdraw his motion. The worthy Proprie tor thought hirofelf at the fame time bound to fay, that, fo far from not refpcdting the religicn in which he had been educated, he was ready to defend it with his life ; and, in anfwer to another charge brought againi him, that he had made the prefent motion from a per tonal feeling againft an Honour able Director (Mr. Grant) he could only ante that Honourable Gentleman that the charge was unfounded. The Rev. Mr. OSPEN was proceeding to enter into a difcuflion of the queftion, when he WAS called to order by . _ _ _ Mr. Twit/trio, who Rated that the very object he had in view, by the appeal which he had made to the Dirators, was to avoid difcullion. The CHAIRMAN concurred in the p . opriety of the call to order. In anfwer to the question put to the Dire tors by the worthy Mover, he could allre him, the point to which he had alluded had not efcaped the attention of the Board. It was their objet in every refptt to dilcharge their duty ; and he trufled the worthy Proprietor, and the Crum in general, would not take i, for granted that they had defert ed it in this instance more than in any other. Mr. Alderman PRINS'S' could not elect's what had fallen from the Honourable Chairman a fatis fadory anfwer to the quellion put by the worthy pro prietor (Mr. Twining). He was proceeding to en large on the fubjed, when The CHAIRMAN faid, as one Member had been already called to order for entering into an argu ment on the fubjed, it was impoflible that any other Member could be heard. There was now no quef lion befote the Court, and they had nothing to do but to adjourn. He immediately therefore put the queflion for adjournment, which was carried in the a fEt mative. Mr. Alderman PRINSEP and Mr. Twtxtmc both attempted to be fill heard, but The CHAIRMAN informed them it could only be by a new notice.—Adjourned. Yeßerday a Court of Direaors was held at the Eat India Hnufe, when the Lord Keith was taken up, and Rationed for St. Helena and Bengal. The Court adjourned at fix o'clock, till Wedncfday next. The Bank of England are now delivering the State Lottery Tickets ; therefore thole perfons who are defirous of procuring favourite Numbers, mutt immediately apply to the Liceufed Lottery Offices. Scheme contains 25,000 Tickets ; all the Prizes afloat (a cii curnitance which hat. not taken place for many )ems pail). Begins dra‘.ing next March. AJfER/QA. 136STbN, NOVEMEZR A litrat time after the late attempt in Baltimore, to tar and feather Luther Martin, and the Blameful infult offered to the charaeter of Judge Martini!, a magifliate of that city, Judge Dot fey had a warrant ferved on James Blays, as the principal ringleader of the late mob. Blays offered himfell up, without refinance, and peremptorily refufed to find hail for his appearance. The Mayor of the City, fearing that his commitment would further excite the paf. ftons of the multitude, and knowing the °Neel of this infurgent was to excite them to as high a Hate of frenzy as poffible, by an appearance of petfecutinn, prudently advifed his difmiffion. While this bufinefs was ttanfatling, an advertifement appeared in one of the Baltimore DemeeraticPapers, calling a meet ing of the " Exclufive Republicans." The following are the Refolutions palled at this mob aff.mbly ; which the Political Regifler Ryles, " br frui.s of mff , ::e denunciations; or mobocracy under an executive bias." BALTTMRP., Nnv. 9. " At a very numerous and refpeetahle meeting of the Citizens of Baltimore, at the Pantheon, on Saturday evening laft, the fol lowing Refolutions were adopted : . 00 " Iternlyed —That the conduct of certain civil officers in the city of Baltimore, in calling upon the military to fupprtf. an ap prehended riot, is an example dangerous to the rights and liberties of the people. " Refolved—That we can only view the condui of fuch men as an afrump.ion of power batik to our Conaitution ; iwendcd to fupprefs the public fewtiment ; and that they &terve the jult rzprelienfion of Freemen. Ilefolced—That a Committee be appointed to enquire, %%le. flier judit•tal Auks do not exiit in this city; and whether there be rot fonsething radic•dly wrong in the principles of this Corporatio•.t And the Committee than be empowered • draft a petition to the General A.lll.inbly, Rating Paid grievances! and report the fame to a fneereding meeting of the people. '• Refolved—That fad Committee eonlift of feven refpeelable Citizens, who (hall make report to a meeting of the people at this place, on this day week. " Refo!yeti—That the foregoing ReLiutions be publithed in the feveral Isa.lers of this city. " Refueted—That the tharks of this meeting be voted to Jame• Ways, for his dillingnifhed conduct in the chair. " JAMF.3 131 AYE, Chairman. " 6 Tu. BLAND, Secretary." NEW YOR)€, NOV. i 3. We very rarely trefpafs on the patience of our reader. with an article fo unworthy their notice a, the details of a duel. There is, licwevcr, fomething fo brutal in the affair now to be related, that it r ught to be recorded for public deteflation. It will be re membered, that about the tft of 06tober. a duel w fought between Captain Gordon, of the United States frigate Chefapeak, and Dr. Stark, a phyfician c•f Norfolk. It was one of the preliminary arrange ments, that, if either party firruld fire before the word was given, the adverfary's tecond fhould im mediately fire at the one thus offending. The moment I a fhot was exchanged, without effect, on either fide, Lieutenant Crane, sd to Captain Gordon, Repped forward; r declared that Dr. Stark had tired bcfore the word, and immediately fir it him through the arm. Mr. M'Conico, the D6etoc, fecund, then pte• rented to fire at Crane, when Capt. Gor don, leeelliirg his ',rani at M , Cornico's head, exclaimed, " or you perith." An altercation took place, the remit of which was, that M'Conico challetted Gordon on the ground: The duel between thefe perfons was fought on the zd in North Carolina. The fir fl (hot was ex changed, at eight paces diflant, with out injury the fecund, at fix, trolt effect. Mr. M , Conico was flightly wounded in the thigh ; and Captain Go•don received a wound in the lower extremity of the body, from which there is no probability of his recovery. —The letter announcing the event, adds—" The affair will n flop here, unlefs welled by the civil authority."—Com. A fiddler, returning from a merry. meeting between Alflon and Harwood in Teefdale, in the Roomy night of the zoth uh. took flicker in a low ont•houfe on Alllon Moor, which was fo overblown with the fnow, that he could not get out, nor did any part of the houfe appear ; and here he moll have perilked, had not Tome fhepherds, who were feeking their sheep, difcoveree, him by the found of his fiddle under the fnow, his playing on which was unqueflionably the means of laving his life. Yeflerday morning, at eight o'clock, thirty male convictF were re mo ve d f rom N ewgate , e f corte d b y t h e City Marlhals and Officers to the water fide at Black- friars, on board a failing barge, to be (hipped at Woolwich, on their way to New South Wales.— Among the moll prominent of them was Ryland, the notorious pickpocket, and Horatio Bro aw, the bigamilt. ATLOCI^US CRUELTY.—On ilunday, Mrs. White, of Cannof row, hired chariot from Mr. Gullan, liable keeper, on the Surrey fide of ‘Vellioinaer-; bridge, for the purpofe of going to Two Waters, in t Hertfordthire. The driver flopped at feveral places to drink, till he became intoxicated ; he, however, got to Watford without any damage; when Mrs.W. hired a poll•chaife to purfue her journey, which the fellow followed for near a mile, ablifing and threat. I ening Mrs. W. During this time he fl )gged his heats in s a moll wanton manner. On his return, near Stamore, he flogged them with fo much vio lence, that he broke his whip; he then forced the handle into one of his bodes, fo that its entrails came out. The horfe, maddened by this torture, kicked and plunged, till falling between the splinter bar and the wheel, it allually split its body between the flanks. It is unneceffary to add the animal died in a few minutes. The fellow proceeded with the car riage with one bode, and drove with loch violence into Stanmote, that the pole and the horfe's head were forced into the parlour window of Mr. Fitch, and did confider able damage. On Monday night the honk and chariot arrived, full (peed, at Mr. Gni lan's yard -gate, which being That, the pole and horfe's head broke them open; the horfe then forced its way into the paffage of Mr. Gollan's residence.— On inquiry it turned out, that the fellow had not found his way back to London till Monday night, when he flopped at the Anchor and Vine public hook Charing Crofs, and the honk, tired of waiting, let off: and found its way home. On Tuefday Mr. Gullan received feveral letters, informing him of the above; he, in confequence, went in purfuit of the driver, whole name is games Major, and having found him, took him before Mr. Naas:, at the Public Office, Bow.fireet, who ordered him to be detained. The animal killed was ellimated to be worth 6o guirieas. kffilL ACtIDEA7 On Taefday evening, about feven o'clock, the &- Wherry coach, on its way to town, from the heavy fog.eame in conta& with the battlements of the firtt bridge near Be!font. By the (hock the coach and horfes were precipitated over the arch, a height of eight feet, into a shallow cream of water, about four feet deep ; by which accident a gentleman, of the name (f John Locker Wainwright, (who married the, widow of the late "Ir. Pearce, who was on the roof cf the coach, was killed on the fpor, by the carriage and herfes falling on him. The two lead horfes werd drowned by the wcight of the wheel holies and car riage on tl.em. Had it ri , a been for a chaife, by at the time, in which were fume naval r fficers coming to London, this unfortunate affair would have been more diarelling, as five Julie., who were infide the coach, (which ay.t s neatly filled wi.h water) w ruld have been fuffacated, bur, through the inde fatigable exertions of the officers, with the guard and coachman, retcued from their perilous fituation ; and the officers, with she humanity In confpicuous in Englifh failors, infiantly refigned their chaife for the ufe cf the unfortunate travellers. The guard, on a tingle horfe, with a land/run, conveyed Mrs. Wain wright, (the lady of the unfortunate gentleman) and another lady, to the George Inn, Belfont, while the remaining paffengers were brought to the fame place in the chaife which had been In humanely re figned to them. On Mrs. Wainwright being pulled cut cf the coach, the called for her littband ; when the guard, having extricated Mr. W. from his lima tion, and finding him dead, informed her that be was gone to fetch a carriage to c , 'lvey then to Bel. font ; but that if fhe did not like to wait, he would conduct her on one of the horfes after him Belfont. The agony of the lady, when the c'rpfe of her huf band was bton.lht to the inn, is eafies felt than de. fel ibed. The unfortunate Mr. Wainwright was for merly a Captain in the army, and lately retired, with his lady, to the Weft of England - . Having occation to came to Lon2on, they tr avelied in poll chaifes till they came to Saliecury, where they took infide • places in the coach for town, and an outride one for a female fervant that accompanied them. About four o'clock on Tuefclay afternoon, Mr. W. remarked to his wife, that it was too cold for the poor girl to be on the roof, and that he would, with the leave of the pa angers, exchange pl.:ces with her for the re• mainder of the journey. II: had not been on the roof more than two hours when the unfortunate ac cident happened. Mrs. W. arrived yefterday in town in a Hate of diftraaion. The Bath mid), from London Tuefday even ing, in confecrience of the fog, ran of the road rear Kenfington, and was upfet ; but no matetial. acci dent happened to the paffengers. Two liackncy coaches, in the Eigeware Road,. came in contact with each other, when both were op fet. One gentleman, infide, had his arm broken ;--; and another Gentleman, in the other coach, had his head and face much cur, from the breaking of the glaf. _ _ FIRS AT TOTTENHAM —Uprn further enquiry rt. (*peeling this calamitous event, we learn that the. Lady's name is Maccaughey, and not ht , Coy. Her hufband, as we Rated, was drowned at lea. On his death, he left eight children to deplete his lots. One of there fubfequenly loft his life, by falling into a pond in his muthet's garden, while the was gone to church. She had Sill feven children living The two younger peti(Led by the fire at their mother's houfe on Monday night. The immediate cattle of the fire is now under flood to have been different from what we Rated yeflerday : Mrs. Maccaughey • with a Lady from Ireland, came to town to fee one of her fans, and finding hint unwell, fpent the night in town. A letter was fent by Mrs. M. to her fa mily, to inform them of her intention ; brit the letter, unhappily, never was delivered, or the fatal acciLient would probably have been prevented. The ac quaintances who had fpent the evening at the Lode with the fervants, had left it before nine, when the younger children were put to bed. In the mean while the family, confining of two young Ladies and two young Gentlemen, fat up for their mother. One of the fervants palling the room where the two younger child; en lay, (melt fomething burning, and opening the doer, the flames bunt forth. Several attempts were made in vain to Cave the children, in the courfe of which the Rev. Mr. Roberts nearly loft his life by the (lairs catching fire. LIVERPOOL, DEC. sr.—Saturday evering, about (even o'clock, an alarming fire took place at a painter's fh , p, in Grayfon nreet, which it entirely confumed in a fhort lime, bet fortunately without communicating to any other premifes, though clofely furrounded by them. The dreadful accident of fire a few days (ince, at Mr.. Stoakes's hr ufe, in Church areet, in which a lovely infant was fo burned as to caute its death, was at that time thought to have been °cc:dim:led by accident, but horrid to relate, it has been &Coveted not only by the acknowledgment of the Cook, then in Mr Stoakes's lervice, but from the circumfianee of feveral articles flolen from Mr. S.'s houfe being found in her poffeflion, that the deliberately committed this unnatural outrage againß humanity, under the taint hope that her robbery of the houfe would be concealed in the general conflagration which the ex peCted mull (and but for the timely alarm inevitably would) have followed her diabolical attempt. The woman has fince been fully committed for the rob bery, and the other crimes are under confideration. Ahoutpo o'clock on Tuefday morning lafi, the watchman in Market fireet, in Lancalter, Aifcove ed the premifes occupied by Meffrs. Gafkills, linen and woollen drapers, to be on fire ; the alarm was imme diately given, and the family with muck difficulty laved their lives. Two engines foon arrived, and being well worked by their recruits from the Firft Royal Lancalbire Militia, and others, the fire was I prevented from extenchog to the adjoining bodes, and in about two bouts was completely got under, but not before the infide of the houfe and fhop, and the whale of the goods in the chop were burnt or much damaged. The houfe and Ihop were infured; but we are concerned to add, that the lots of the I above induArious youths is eflimated at between two and three thoufand pounds, no part of their flock !riving been infured. It is grievous to Rate, that in the contufion which took place, Come evil minded perfoos carried off feveral articles of value, but we troll they will be recovered. It has not been afcer. tained how the fire commenced. r