Star. — London, England, 1801-10-07 00:00:00

.711 E Rona FAMILY. Yefterday noon, his MAJESTY came to town f r om Windfor, and held a Council at the gypsy's Honk, for the purpofe of fummoning Parliament for the agth, agreeably to the Proclamation in a preceding Column. His Grace the Duke of PoarLasm, Earls eNATHAIS and Sr. VINCENT; Lords ELDON, HAWKE Sava and PELHAM, Meirrs. Aanninrox, _ YOILICI, and PALI( t, and Sir 8. COTTBRILL, (as Clerk of the Council), attended• At half-pait three his MAJISTY left town for Wind. for. The Public will fincerely rejoice to fee the health of his hisissre is to completely rellored, that he can travel from and to Windfor, and, fit an hour or two is Council in one day. Yefterday morning her MAJISTY and the Patri cians, attended by Lady CATHCART, took an airing in a fociable round by Virginia Water Princefs Annie rode on horfeback, attended by Lady ALBINA COMISIL•ND. The Envoy from Algiers and his fake are about to quit England. Application has been made to Government to procure a air, for that purpofe. The Montgomery Militia; under the command of Colonel Beams, have marched into Yarmouth, to do garrifon duty. On Wedndday the 3oth ult. between five and Le in the morning, a very bright meteor was hen in the Eaft, &opal fomething like a crofs ; this was accompanied by two fmaller ones like Liars, one towards the left, which was alto bright, and one moving fall towards the South. At Hall the intelligence refpefting the figning of the Preliminaries of Peace was received with enthutiafm by all ranks of people. The. horfes were inflantly unfaitened from the mail, and the coach drawn triumphantly for upwards of three hours through the principal beets of the town; the bells re-echoed the loud Itiessat by ringing mer rily throughout the day; a general difpbry of flags from the &epics, &c. took place. But we are forry to add, that in contequence of the unguarded zeal of the-tailors, &c. who eon dated the mail cinch in triumph round the town (literally crowded both infule and out with the &void tars,) the fame was overturned in the Mar ket.piace, by which accident a young man was fo feverely hurt, that be died in the Infirmary before furgical affidance could be of any effe& ; another was conveyed there with two broken ribs ; the guard ( who was not faltered to leave his chair be hind) is a good deal hurt ; and feveral others are confide:nay bruited. To the eatenfive analogue of Signs, a publican and peril's-clerk, in a (mall market town in Lama- Shire, has added another truly original ; namely, the Sign of the Props-Sock I—under which honeft Bond:see has painted, is Good entertainment for travellers!" He has very few cnfioniers, how ever; travellers generally call at the Stesklene%inst_ ha and Puscb-iowl • The Ifland of Ceylon, it is contended by the in habitants, was the primitive Elm. They Thew, on the top tf a fieep rock in the centre of the ifland, the perfect unpreffon of a man's foot, which they affest to be that of Adam; and a neighbouring pool, they fay, was fiat filled by the tears of E lm for the lots of.dfisti Rimptoff Cove, in Herefordtbire, the feat of the Earl of Essex, has been the fcene of fectivity and gaiety for tome weeks pall. The Earl and Coun tefs of Esss x, Lord and Lady Monson, Lord and Lady Cmtansorow, and family, have fet off on a tour through Wales for a month, when they return to that beautiful feat, and will be joined by the Marquis and Marchionefs of Sairsauay, and the Earl and Conntefi of CuotstoensLar. At the commencement of the fourth a& or the Play, a ditlurbance frequently arifcs, which totally dellroys all fcenic effett. This diflugance proceeds from the influx of auditors at half price, and might be avoided, if the interval between the third and fourth a'as were lengthened. THI AUTHOR OF " NIGHT THOUGHTS" went to pay his &ft vifit to Mr. Porrea at his living in the country, when obferving the parfo nagelioufe at a diflance, and not knowing the direet road to it, be punted his bode forward through a field, which proved to be very boggy. On get ting to the houfe and greeting his friend, "Potter," f.,41 he, 44 that your field I have jult croffed ?" Yes, it is," replied his friend.—" Aye, continued YOUNn, " I thought lb.—Pclite:Aida istry firm.- ger! - 1 he Rory of the fon of the chief Phyfician of the Grand Signior arriving at Vienna to Rudy ph y. fac, and beginning his carver with learning Latin, reminds us of the Rory of the Irith Student of Medicine, who applied to Dr. G—, at Edin burgh.—" I propofe, Sir, to write a Hißory of Phyla from the commencement of the world."— " Sir, you will do a laudable work, it is a defile rams is the Medical World; you may begin with the Greek Writers on the fubjee." 64 That is my intention, Donor, can you recommend ma a pod Grui Grammar?' PARISIAN Faso toos.—The elegant caps, orna mented with filver bands, are not worn of fo long a form at prefent ; and inftead of muffin, they are in general made with black crape, which thews the bands to great advantage. A. the doling of Fro!Cali many were feen in white farfnet with fi lver bands, the fronts of which were formed like a peak. ed helmet. Steel combs are much worn in the hair; and fometimes ftrings`of pearls replace the Silver ban's. The croffes,bracelets, and ear-rings, hare the Shape of a fcrpent. The wailts arc in general very low. The turbans for full drefs are made of gold and filver brocaded muffins. Some fempllrefres have jackets and caps embroidered with filver. The very elegant women hook with a diamond a double-corniced jacket handkerchief, trimmed with lace. Some caps arc worn with handkerchiefs ea worouote. The fathiotable lhawls arc amaranth colour. CORN-MARKET. At Mark-Lane this morning, the market Was very dttll—prices nearly the fame as on Monday. BRRAD.—Yellerday the Mailer and Wardens of the Company of Bakers waited on the Right Ho nonrable the LORD MAYOR, at the Manfion-Houfe, relative to the AM ze of Bread, and it appearing by the Mealweigh ers ' r eorts, that betwe en t h e 21 11 and 26th of Lift m onth 14,000 quarters of wheat fold at the Corn Exchange, and between the 26th of kit month and ad infant, 13,085 tacks of flour, fold at the fame place, forming averages upon the whole quantities, of fixty-eight Millings eleven pence three farthings, per quarter, and feventy four Millings and fixpenee farthing per lack, being eight Millings and nine-pence three farthings per quarter,anifthree !billings and ten-pence halfpenny per Pack, cheaper than the lad reports, his Lord fhip ordered the Bread to be lowered one affize, or two-peace in the peck loaf, to commence and take place to-morrow ; the qnartern loaf will then be fold for one fhilling and one penny. By the vigilance of the Market Lookers at Ormf kirk, not lets than forty-three pecks and hilf pecks, confiderably fhort of meafure, have - been taken and dedroyed within the month pail. Croydon Fair ended on Monday, after lading three days. A great number of horfes were fold ,at rather tow. rites, particularly inferior ones ; the Contraftp r fo p r Artillery-horfes bought a great many on the firft day (Friday), but difeontmued buying any afterwards. Lean cattle, which are much wanted in thit quarter, from the plenitude of feed of every kind, went off at advanced prices, as did young pigs and breeding tows ; indeed the latter, young, and of a good fort, were , as high as from three to fou r guineas, the common run for flock ; tome of the improved breed brought very high prices. At Birmingham fair, on Tnefday fe'nnight, the quantity of onions was very great, and fold from is. to as. 6d. per dozen reeve: the next day higher prices were demanded, even at 38. 6d. In the horfe market there were but few good honks, and indif ferent ones brought high prices. Cattle were very high. Grain much as nfual. On Wednefday laft there was a (how in Cattle Howard Vark, of cattle and &cep produced on the Earl of Ceatisza's eftates,when a number of pre miums were given by his Lordfhip to the breeders of the belt Rock, as determined by Mr. PROWOE, of I4ovingham, Mr. KIRKBY, of Mowthorp, and Mr. STUDS a, of Whitewell, who were appointed judges on the occafion. Oar late erports of cottons to Hamburgh, ef pecially from Glafgow, Leith, and Dundee, have been by far too large : as the intereourfe with the Baltic and the North Seas was for a fhort time in terrupted, the Scottifh manufafturers knew not where to find a market, and, in their diftrefs, fent out immenfe adventures to Germany. There is now growing in the garden of Mr. J. Date, in Abbotlbury, Dorfet, twe (talks of Indian corn, which he planted the latter end of May ; there ate four ears on each (talk, and two of the ears are feven inches and a half round, and nine inches long. Yeaerday the General Q2arter Seffions of the Peace for the county of Snrry commenced at King- Ron, for the trials of felons, mifdemeanors, and other offences, of which there are a great number to be difpofed of. An alarming fire broke out in a honfe in Dum fries, on Thnrfday fe'nnight, but was confined to the building id which it began. - - - - Sunday night, about feven o'clock, a fire broke out at Sandy, near Bigglefvrade, occafioned by Tome unflacked lime being Rrewed near tome corn Racks, which before twelve o'clock confumed eight of them. They belonged to Lord Mount us. As Mr. Lamond, Wright, in Edinburgh, was let week with his men pulling down a houfe in Don's Clore, which had been condemned by the Dean of Guild Court, the walls being much de cayed, part of a flat gave way fuddenly, by which accident he was much bruifed, but is now in a fair way of recovery. One of the workmen was alto nightly hurt. General Moa Neu, previous to the French Re volution, applied for a Sub•Licutenancy of Dra goons, but was refuted, in confequence of his not being of noble birth. His propenfity to a military life, however, continuing, he was fhortly after wards eleeted Commander of a battalion of Na- tional Guards, and when the war commenced he joined the army, and gradually rofc to thole high honours which the greatnefs of his talents entitled him to receive. Sir JosIAH CHILD, in his ingenious Difcourfe on Trade, written in 1666 (about the time of the great fire). traces the profperity of trade in this country to the year 5545, when firlt the law regulated the interel of money at ten per cent. when, he fays, the Merchants were very an and few. He lays, that in the year 1635 there were more Merchants to be found on the Exchange worth loco]. and up wards, .thanthere were in the year . 1600 worth tool. ; and farther, that in his days, that is, thirty years after, there were more merchants worth , ro,oool. apiece than there had been worth wool. at the foregoing period ; and, Paid the good old merchant, " If this be doubted, afk the old whe- then five hundred pounds portion with a daughter, fixty years ago, was not a greater portion than wool. now? ' and whether Gentlewomen in thole ids would not efteem themfelves well clothed in arr gown, which a chambermaid would now be anted to be teen in ; and whether our Citizens and middle fort of gentry are not now more rich in clothes, plate, jewels, Etc. than the ben, of our Knights and Gentry were in thofe days; and whe• ther our WI fort of Knights and Gentry now do not exceed by much, in thole things, the Nobility .of England tiny years pal}, many of whom would not go to the price of a mho/ fain douhkt, the em broiderer being yct living, who has allured me, he has nude many hundreds of them for the Nobility with moat loch!!! NitfillCAL 11v7g1LIGF:NCE. MAILS THIS DAY '. —WIND South. "mmo. o Hambergh o Dublin, I Waterford, Det. 3, I Dounaghacke, Odt. 3, EV& This evening the areal mails will be made at the General Poft Office, for America and the Welt Indies, to be conveyed to Halifax and New York, in the DOICIL or KCNT packet ; and to Bari:edam Martinique, and POLIO, in the Q.2111F COAL- Ler Tr packet; both of which are now at Falmouth, ready to fall on receipt of the mails. FALMOUTH, OCTOB The PRINCI ADOLPHUS packet, Captain Jomis, which failed yellerday for Lifbon, has been obliged to put back again by contrary winds : the willfail as loon as the wind will permit. YARMOUTH, OCTOBER s. Came in laft night from the Southward about o fail of veifel s , un d er convoy o f t h e I N 3PRCTOR (loop, for the Baltic, which were joined here by feveral veffels and a gun.brig. They got under weigh again about e ig ht o'clock this morning, with a light breeze at S. S. W.—His Majefly's (loop DLIVIR has detained and fent in here the Antonns, CORKELIus GUIT, from London, bound to Rotterdam, laden with fugar and coffee ; alto the Vrow Newdrs, Jen Dmiss, from London, bound to - Rotterdam; and his Majelly's Ship St r1t1313 has detained' and fent in the Young Jacob, D. MEYER matter, from London, laden with goods, bound to Rotterdam. OCTOBER 6. _ Sailed this morning the following fhips of war on a cruize off Goree, under Admiral DICKSON, viz. BugHaut, Admiral Diessom's flag (hip; MONARCH; VITIMAN; ST. ALJANS; Dna, ARI ADNI (loops; and TRIAL cutter. A veffel fchooner-tigged has now appeared in the Offing, fu poled to be the PRINCE OF WALES packet, Capt. DRAKE, with the Mail of the fourth of Oat:then PLYMOUTH, OCTOBER 4. Dropped down the Lower Maine, the °islet?, of 44 guns, the Hon. Capt. Muaasy.—Went into the Sound, the RIVO!.UTIONNAIKE, of 44 guns, Capt. Twysnem.—She failed with fecret orders for the illand of Madeira. Came in from , a long cruize, the CAMBRIAN ' of +4 guns, the Hon. Capt. LEGGE.—Came in from the Channel Fleet, the Tasswits, of 98 gun', Reap-Admiral WHITSHED; flue left them all well laR Thurfday. Alfo, from the Weaward, an armed Ship and a coalting convoy, with coals and earthenware from Liverpool, Brißol, and Milford.] OCTOBER S' Arrived the Volunteer, Waal, from the Weil (ndies ; and Fisovalo frigate, from a cruize. LIVERPOOL., OCTOBER s. Extrad of a letter from Admiral Sir Atax - GARDNU, to Ro m? Geneva, Efq. Secretary to the Committee of Weft India Merchants at this Port, dated GaLar ea, in Cork Harbour, September 26. Sir—By this day's mail I received your letter cf t9th inft. incloling fo r my information, by direc tion of the Committee of Weft I,dia Merchants at Liverpool, extra& from the journal of Capt. Wu.. Lists Jarmo, mailer of the [hip Grand Duke, which (hip had arrived at Liverpool that day, be • ing one of the convoy which failed from Jamaica on the 25th July, and had parted from them on the loth of Augnft following. You will pleafe, Sir, to acquaint the Committee of Weft India Mer chants, that four of the frigates under my com mand are cruizing to the weftward, for the protec tion of the homeward bound convoys expeaed from the Weft Indies; and I have the pleafure to acquaint, you, that on the 13th, 17th, and t9th intl. the DRYAD, Captain MANSFIELD, fell in with the (hips named as at foot, and efcorted them into St. George's Channel ; among the number are five of the Liverpool !hips which the Grand Duke parted from on the tsth Auguft, and I hope ere this the whole are fafe arrived at Liverpool. (Signed) GARDNER. 13th Sept. Alfred, of Liverpool ; Nevis, of Briftol ; Elenor of GWgow; Elikelliftt Judea, of ditto-17th Sept. Berwick, of Liverpool; Elm, bound to Laneafter; John Bull, Clifton, James, Sebaftiana, St. Mary's Planter, and Flora, of Liver pool; Alfred, of Glafgow ; Clarendon, and Diana, of BriftoL --19th Sept. Weftmorelanft, and Achilles, of Liverpool Hope, Cakdonia, and Magnet, of Glafgew ; Elisabeth, Mary, and Euphrates, of Greenock ; and Union,of BriltoL HULL, OCTOBER s. The Jam' lugger, with fuck part of the Ham burgh fleet as returned to the Humber the a4th ult. failed again on Tnefday night lait with a fair wind. The Posiona armed fbip is now lying here ready to convoy the trade to Hamburgh, Bremen and Embden, to fail the loth intl. and the SALLY armed fhip is hourly expelled to take under con voy the (hips for the Baltic, to fail the lath intl. On Sunday evening fOnnight, from lome cir• rumilance yet unknown, a fire broke out in the (hip Norwich Merchant, of Sunderland, then ly ing in the Tyne, oppofite Heworth, partly laden with coals. There was no perfon in the (hip at the time ; and a falfe report was immediately cir culated on (bore that fhe had a confiderable quan tity of gunpowder on board, and that her guns were loaded with grape (hot. In confcquence, the people of the neighbourhood, inftead of attempt ing to extinguilh the flames, quitted their houfes in the greatell consternation, and retired out of the v reaCh of the dreadful explofion. menu. &Rory of Mars. Crawford, cppofite which the lay, was in the moll imminent danger for a confidera ble time ; and had not thufe gentlemen had the courage to watch the propels of the flames, and cover the combutlible articles in their yal-ds with wet atticles, probably their premifes would have (hared the fate of the (hip. After the few cartridges on board had exploded, the people returned, and affilted Mai s. C. to work a fmall engine of their own, by which at laft the fire was axtinguifhed ; but not till the Clip was burnt nearly to the water's edge. • MOM LLOYDS LIST. DIAL, OCT. 6.—This morning Commodore SUTTON hoifted his broad.pend..nt on boa r d the LIYDIN. Wind'N. N. E. GRAVESEND, OCT. 6.—PalTed by the Feronia,' WILSON, from Grenada; Delaford, —, from Dantzig; Ranger, —, from Demerara; Hat ford, CLARK, from Hambro'; Hope, MARTIN, from Sweden; Jonge Johanna, Ross, from Nl boa ; Vrow Elizabeth, —, and Vrow Cathari na, —, from Embden.—Sailed the Mortgan. (tern, f.tr (Mend; and Hubertgel, VINE, for Rotterdam. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. The &(f fleet of EaR India (hips engaged by the Court of Direftors for the Company's fcrvice this feafon, are ordered to be afloat on the 6th of No vember. They confifl of the Csvrox, a new fhip of 'zoo tons, and the THemss, configned to Bom bay and China; and the - AsNisros, dcllined to St. Helena and China. The follov ing arc alro ordered to be afloat on the 2; ft of November, to that they be in the Downs on the t oth of January, tBoz, viz. A New Ship, Captain Prefentt ; th e Cl othe dT er an d W a i mer CAM, for Madras and China ; and a Ntw Ship, Captain Man sur, far St. Helena and China. The under-mentioned are appointed to be afloat at the following periods:— The Lady Burgers, Lady Jane Dundas, Marquis Wainer, and a New Ship, Captain Meadows, for Coat and Bay ; to he afloat on the sth December, and in th, Downs on the asth of January. The Walthamftow. Bengal. Lord Nelfon, and a New Ship, Captain Pierer, the f cond Cuail and Bay fleet, znd a New Ship for Madras and the hlo'uceas ; to be ajiont on the 4th January, 1802, and in the Downs on the 23d February. The Royal Charlotte, Glatton, Drunfwick, Ceres, Cuffnells, and a New Ship, Captain Jones, for China aired ; to be afloat on the illth January, and in the Downs on the tub March. The Earl St. Vincent and Sir Edward Hughes, for Bombay; and the Britannia, for Madras and Ceylon ; to be afloat on the ad February, and in the Downs on the 24th March.' An account jug received from 13,:ngal informs us, that another French rivateer infeas the bay of Bengal, and has captured Come veffels. :'he is called la Glorie; her Commander's name is not known. This veirel is fitted out from tht He of France, and is Paid to be a prime faller. DISTRIBUTION OF ►RIZE MONFY.—The BORDR- Laos and Sitantipit, for the taking of the Phoenix. (the BORDELAIS and SHANNON fltaring by agree ment) will be paid on Friday, the 16th inl)ant, at Plymouth. His Majefty's Ihip MELEAGER, Of 32 wins, the Hon. Capt. Cirri., we are lorry to be inA , rmed, was loft on the 2la of June laft, in the Gulph of z ico. The Officers and crew were happily lived, awl are arrived at Jamaica in the A►OLLO. The Mercury, RICH AIDS. from Z:tnte td Lon don, is captured by a Spinith privateer and leve ral gun-boats, and carried into Algefiras, after a fpirited refiflance. The Brilliant, LE ITCH, arrived on the Ift of Odober, off Girvan, in Ayrfhire, on her way to Liverpool, in 39 days from Barbadoes; fpoke on the zd of September, in lat. 32, long. 60, the Hope, of Lancafter, from Antigua for Liverpool; on the 12th, in lat. 41. 30. long. 47. the Roebuck, from Briftol to Philadelphia; on the 13th, in lat. 40. 30. long. 46. the American (hip Union, from New York for Liverpool ; and on the 29th, off Lough. fwiller, the William and Charlotte, from liZ2ebec for Liverpool. According to accounts from Kempten,-it ap. pears that all the foldicrs in the Aufirian fervice who had unfitted only for the term of the war, have been difcharged. Private letters from Cadiz afrert, that Vera Cruz is blockaded hey the Enlglifh. It is not how ever fupp.lfed that they are in furncient force to make themfelves miners of that important place. A letter lately received from Fort William, in Bengal, fays, a . fharp adion has been fought be- - tween a party of the Mahrattas and a rlrong Lindy of Goands, in which the former were obliged to retreat. It appears that the Mahrattas confifted only of Soo, who were divided into two bodies, of 400 each. The Goands being apprifed of their numbers, colleted together a number amounting to 3000, who waited the very near approach of the enemy, and, after a (Ingle difcharge of their weapons,rufhed impetuonfly upon them with their war-knives, difperfing them almoft inftantly.l A letter lately received from Calcutta. informs us, that the new King of Alfam, whole acceffion appears to have been owing to an extraordinary caufe, has feized upon all the facred treafures which had been regarded by his ancellors as in. violable. The fpacious and magnificent temple, which contained intenenfe treafures of gold and 'Ryer in the city of A zoo, has been claimed by the King as a rigl.t, in confequence of their having been depofited there by his forefathers. It has been the cuflom for the Kings in that country to be but ied with all their jewels l and a quantity of fpe cie ; for though they think that inch as lived good lives in this world will have a fuflie.ieney of all necelTaries in the other, yet their fuperilition lead 4 them to believe that the wicked fuller hunger and other miferies. There people aniv very powerful ; they have not bowed the h; ad of flibmillion and obedience, nor have they paid tribute cr revenue • to the moll powerful trahlarc)i, but t:.ey have embed the ambition and checked the conquells of the moll vidorious Princes of I tindoilaa. Letters from Conßantinorle, received by Mr. Maxwirs, on Friday, menti in that a rumour had i reached Biafora)), ttating,, that the Rajah of Jey poor and his allies had been ag.in attacked by the IHahratta army, and, after a kyr' e and faiigninary confli&, driven from their works into the open country, whither they were followed by the blab ratta Cavalry, feconded Ly -^ of Major l'axst AN. The col der favour of the night, rah unexpededly chccked 'he pi fuers, and by a bold ai d o bliged the NA:Li - At:6s, is tb • , the ve:ci an•batt:Clions l l ie c ci he de t r4te ir P t ! o i r n c ce : ' a u rtd n. )rngrel% of their pur- -1 mafterly malieurre, Stir turn, to girt way. F