Star. — London, England, 1802-12-24 00:00:00

AMISS. • WRITTEN BY A GENTLEMAN OP THE ISLAND, AND SPOILIN IT MISS STRATTON, AT THE THEATRE kOVAL, JERSEY, carton of a Play performed ror the benefit of the Gene:al Hofpital, November 6, 1802. She enters with a bag in her hand. the tickets gone !—yes, none remain 'cold, unfeeling bofonis to complain. 'boll dale to fay, in this dramatic dome, That charity begins, and ends at borne ! in her caufe ;he gentle Km fo hearty, Have dropt their lov'd quadrille, their evening party; And furr, by her illum'd, their beauties thine, 7ith brighter teams, with radiance more divine. Th e pliant Cilia', whofe firm and Ready hand ')ireets the helm of state, and rules this land, , Europe's well fought fields who fought a name, , And earn'd, in either Ind, the wreath of fame, here deigns, to froth diftrefs, a while to (teal , few Mort moments from the public weal. The MAnisTRATi, on whom no bribes prevail, Who of (tern juftiee holds th'iMpartial fcale, IVhofe keen difcernment, and pervading fight Dart through the tangled maze of wrong and right, this night's Adion finds no fatal flaw, Pity his code, humanity his law. The hieleaatlT tunic, oh deeds of virtue bent; Tenets his tale of three, his five per cent. To feed the poor his golden ftom unlocks, And welts his money in the heft of flocks. There fits the generous SZAMAN—honeft Jack Hu Lithtt ftect'd without a fingle tack ; His foul, tonfin'tl within no narrow (cope, To fwect benevolence gives ample rope, Throws to the finking wretch the friendly oar, 'When the winds whittle, and the waters roar.. And You, ohoref. whom no vain cares annoy, Children of whimfteality and joy, Vont id siiistody phrafe, devoid of art, o tpcak tltb cankers feelings of your heatt, 'on would not front the poor your mite withdraw I lot out—oh, no!—not one cried, envoi Jiat. Hark ! from you houfe, retreat of human woes, 'hex Mifery reeks relief, and Pain repofe ; Wheys, defolite and Torn, the Widow flies, o breathe, in peace, her melancholy fighs, Where the jioor Orphan weeps no more his doom, And Age, in comfort, totters to the tomb; :or yeti, their kind Prqtedors, and their Friends, Their prayer, in gratitude of foul, afcends, o'er their wan cheeks behold the colours rife, And tears of rapture gliften in their eyes! timer:cc!, proceed !—while thus your hearts bemoan, And make the Four man's fufferinis all your own, And, pouring bleffmgs in a copious flood, tnjoy the luxury of doing good. Your bright example maU inftrua mankind, Azd mould to virtuous alts the public mind ! • General GORDON, torevpuder in Chief. The Gallery. $ The Jerky dialed for .• hula. , fetters from the Hague ialtie the Dutch Eaft Indiaman, lately loft'upon the Englifb coaft, at two millions of florins. The Captain's Lady was 'foittittately left at \AM fterdam. The Catholic inhabitants of the Batavian Re- Public have prefented an Address to the Govern ment, praying for the fame privileges to hagrant ed to them, with refped to the erection of churches for the exercife of their worship, as are peered by the Members of the Reformed Religion, a re queft which, it is not doubted, the Government will acetic to. On Monday fe'nnight Mr. Moles T. Gabitus, a confiderable farmer at Brnifyard, near Sasmund; barn, left his houfe, and went to the Halefworth Bank, from which he chew the fum of 4501. fence which be has never been,heard of. His houfe was found not far from home late on the Tuefday evening ; that gave alarm, and fervants were fent in all direCtions to leek hint. On the Wednefday morning his hat and pocket-book were found on the entrance into the Bruifyard Wood, which has given a fufpicion of his being -murdered. The tstod has been fearched, and all the ponds drag ged, but to no purpofe. The tare mannfcripts and other valuable books brought to this country by Mr. CR ma, of Suffer, and the Rev.Mr.CLAIME, are principally intended to enrich the library'of Jefus College, Cambridge. The whole collection made by thefe g entlemen is contained in. 183 cafes, illufirating the Natural and Moral Hiftory of the various people they vifited, in a journey from the 69th degree of North latitude to the territories of Circaftia and the fhores of the Nile. The Botanic part contains the Herbary of the celebrated Pallas, enriched by the contributions of Linnseus, and his numerous literary friends. With the minerals are feveral new lubflances, and the tareft productions of the Siberian Mines. Among the antiquities are various lufcriptions and Bas- Reliefs, relative to obfervations made in the plain of Troy, and which were announced by Monfieur Chevalier, in France, in the lift edition of his work 'The Medalicferies,eontains feveral coins of Greece, and of the Kings of Parthia, hitherto unknown. — The mannfcripts are in Hebrew, Coptic, Arabic, Abyflinian, Perfian, Turkifh, and the language of Thibet Tartary ; and in the Greek and Latin lan guages are feveral manufcripts of the Claffics, of tie Gofpels, and the writings of the earlieft Fa thers of the Church. In addition to thefe, the col leelion contains Greek Vales, Gems, Sculptures, and many remai kablc Egyptian Monuments from the ruins of the city of Sais, difcovered by thefe travellers in the Delta, after the evacuation of Egypt by the French. Alio numerous ori g inal Drawings, Maps, Charts, Plans, Istoclels,and Seeds of many rare and ufcful Plants; the -Habits, thew fill, Idols of the inhabitants of the Alentan Met, brought by Billings to Ruffia, after his expedition to the countries lying between Kamtfchatka and the N.W. coaft of America, with many Geographical Obfervations; the publication of which was fo long with-held by order of the Ruffian Government. CO 00 Wb Of I Wb Lo Hal Ani Wil 'lb Pir In Am 110 A Ti" wt Dai In I Pit Tb Fa To Ae Tb Ha Hi To Tb An Wi To Yo Na Sri Ha WI To WI At Fa Tb Az Pr Al A/ to YI Al I I i i fnd Ivdericim INTELLIGENCE, ; PLYMOUTH, DECEMBER sae Came in the Thomas, Captain TOIVHY ; Eliza . and Jane, Captain HASIMETT ; and Pearl, Captain ROBERTS, from Sunderland, all with coals for this port ; and the EAGLE mire cutter, from a cruize. This afternoon failed with a freth breeze a north.eaft, the Julius Czfar, of London, Captain SI twst; T o for Montferatt ; the Alligator, of Lon don, Captain MtRITON, for Barbadoes ; the Ca roline, of London, Captain HAYES, for St. Kites; the Dana Chip Johan Smith, Captain Sis inr, from Copenhagen, for St. Thomas's, in the Wea In dies; and RANGER cutter, FRAZ RR ) on a cruize. POOLE, DECEMBER sc. Arrived the Mary, Prcufe, from Newfoundland; Alstive• Williams, from Portlmouth ; Exeter, Amman, frotn Exeter; Charles, Thompfon, from C.hriftchurch ; and Speedwell, Foot, from Cork. Sailed the Hope, Manelaws, for Southampton ; and Olive Branch, Rcvens, for London. The Beaver, Saun ders, from Alicant, remains off the harbour. ?Zed by the Snake, Oldis, from Waterford for London.---Wind N. B. FROM LLO'YD'S LIST. DEAL, Dsc. 23.--Sailed the Bombay Cattle, Hamilton, for Bengal. Wind E. N. E. blows hard. GRAVESEND, DEC. 23. —Paled by, the Vine, Howland, from Norway; Jane. Davidfon, from Rotterdam; Lady Char lotte, Evans, from Oporto; and Speedwell, Lugg, from Cork. —sailed the Hawkelbury, Hart, for Nevis; Martha. Carey, for Da:Woes ; and Concord, Prinett, for puernfey. _ _ ARRIVED. At Portfmoutb--Amphion, Wright, from Waterford. Off Dover—Jane, from St. Thomas s. Off Portland—Prinufs Royal, —.-, from Jamaica. At Southampton—Unity, Boland, from Oporto. At Liverpool... Hamilton, Sycrs, from Antigua ; Providence, from Philadelphia; B , th, Thraiher, from Portland; Jacket, Trott, from Bolton; Alligator, Watfon ; and Char lotte, from Dantzie. At Belfaft—Lord Donnegal, Dillon, from London; and Hero, Cale, from Virginia. At Waterford—Jane and Mary, and Neptune, Neale, from Newfoundland. In the Teel—Cicero, Adams, from Polio Cavell°. At Naples—Magnet, Robinfon, from Newfoundland. At New York—Black River, —, from Hull; and Ohio, Hall, from Dublin. At Bermuda—Eeperiment, Firth, from London. At Savannah—Rufus, Holland, from Liverpool. At. Boilion—Two Pollys, —, from Liverpool. At Charlelton—Mack, —, from Liverpool. We underfland that the fhip Margaret, Captain A. Hums, is fafely arrived at Madras from Soofoo, after a narrow efcape of being taken by pirates. Three weeks before fhe arrived at Madras flue was chaced for two days by a fleet of prows, full of men being in with *he land, the prows could not get the fea breeze in time to enable them to come up with the Margaret. His Majefly's Chip la SENSIBLE, Capt. &tom lately loft in the Eaft Indies, (truck on a quick find about twenty miles to the fouthward of the Ifland of Ceylon. The accident happened on the 3d - ot March, in the morning. The whole of the crew were landed in fafcty, notwithßanding there was a tremendous furf bearing on the fhore.— Great hopes are entertained of Paving a part of the flares and provifions. La Saw slims mounted 32 guns. A letter from Trincomalee, dated the 24th of April, fay,—" This day the TRINCOMALEE {loop of war arrived from Cokelay, with the Officers and crew of his Majefty's Chip la SENSIBLE, and the Rores faved from th 7 wreck of that frigate. As there are now in this port five C4ptains and Commanders of the Royal Navy, it is expected that the Court Martial on the Captain and Chip's com pany of la SENSIBLE will be held immediately." The {hip William and Ann, Capt. HINGSTON, is fafely arrived at Madras from Rangoon, whence the failed towards the end of March hit ; previous to her departure, the Chip Peggy, Capt.FERG ussom, from Columho, and the Nancy, Capt. Boy ea, had arrived in fafety at Rangoon. The William and Ann brings intelligence, that the King of BURMAN had fignified much pleafure at the Embaffy, which_. he had information was to be fent to his Court by the Englifh Government. The Sincerity, PRIDDIS, from Dartmouth, is on Chore near Margate. Wednefday, as a Gentleman was riding th . rough Sommers Town, on horfeback, the horfe threw him, and being frightened, ran a confiderable tance with the rider's foot entangled in the ftirrup, by which accident his leg was broken, and his !boulder diflocated. On Wednefday night, betweenleven and eight o'clock, a girl of about thirteen years of age was run over by a hackney coach, in Duke ftreet, Man chefter-fquare, and had one of her legs dreadfully fraeured above the ancle. She was carried to Surgeon DAYis's. in Grofvenor-fquarc, who very humanely fet it, and had proper care taken of her. —We are happy to learn that the number of the coach was taken by a Gentleman palling at the time. On Monday evening Taft, a chaife, in which were two Gentlemen, coming over Epping Foreft, was robbed of a trunk of very confiderable value, with which they got clear off. In it were contained 6o guineas. 35 half guineas, and 16 feven Chilling pieces in gold ; 81. in filver ; in Bank notes 25 of 11. each, 23 of 21. each, and three of 51. eath ; together with a very large quantity of gilt articles, fuck as patterns of watch-chains, feals, rings, neck - laces, ear-rings, &c. on cards. . Laft Saturday night the officesof Meffrs-Brockle banks and Co. at Branfty-Rope-walk, Whitehaven, were broken itito by fontevillainsnot yet difcovered. The fame night an attempt had been made on the warehonfe of Mars. Hornby, Bell. and Birley, in Dute-ftreet. The efforts they had made to aid an entrance, muff have taken up a confiderable (pace of time; but the intention of the rafcals was completely defeated, from the doors and windows being particularly well fortified with iron bars and bolts. A greater inflance of perfeverance has, however, feldom been noticed in any limiter at tack.—Both houfes have offered rewards for dif covering the offenders, and hopes are entertained that they will be brought to jam, PNIP k • i ; 4lPEitiL - I , The Neu , York Papers were received . yellerday up to the loth of November. By them we learn with pleafure, that the hidings of health are returning to the chores of thofe fo feverely aflliacd States. In fume principal towns, whore the difeafe ravaged with uncommon fury, no cafe had occurred for more than a fortnight. The l aft accounts given in thefe papers, relative to St. Domingo, is the following 46 The inhabitants of this unhappy ifland are loaded with taxes; they have juft been taxed t9.i millions of livres, under pretence that thefe diffe rent duties are for the maintenance of the army, charged with re-eflablifhing order in St. Domingo. 66 The commodities, goods, or animals of every perfon whatfoever, are put into requifition ; and when payment is afked for them, the owner is laughed at, and treated with every indignity. The very inhabitants, who are overloaded with fuch enormous taxes, are forced to go upon guard fifteen times a month ; often to go out of the city to fight in the mountains, where they are fent to be murdered by the rtbdlious Negroes. " Every body privately complains of the defpo tifm of the Commanders, and cf the gener..l op prcifion, but, alas! no one dares to raife hit vaice, and only laments his doom in filence. 6 ‘ This, in a few words, is our deplorable fitua tion, nineteen out of twenty of the colony would gladly leave it. Far from having any chance to better our fit nation we are but too much con• vinced that they only want to take from us the little left us by the Negroes." Letters by the Nautilus, arrived at Baltimore from Port Republicain, reprefent the ifland to be in the molt deplorable (late. The Blacks continue their ravages, and are .Uccefsful in almofl every adtion with the White Troops ; they are well fup• plied With arms and ammunition. They have taken VArcahaye, and furround and menace Port Re. publicain, which it was fuppofed they could make an eafy cowl& of, were they acq'iainted with the weaknefs of the place, and the difinay of their op ponents. Three hundred women and children, and a few men, had arrived at that place from L'Ar cahaye, but not an Officer had efcaped death, and feveral boats, overcrowded with fugitive,Wom.n and children, had funk. BovoN, Nov. 22 —Captain APPLETON * who arrived here yeflerday, in the brig Polly, 35 days from Cape Francois, has furnifhed us with the following diareffing intelligence from that ill fated colony. He ilates, that Port de P. 112 had been burnt and pillaged by the blacks, and many of the white inhabitants murdered ; that Aux Cayes was clofely befieged, and it was expeatd mull (hire the fame fate ; that a revere aaion was fought on the t4th Oaober, at a fhort diaance from the Cape, in which the blacks were victorious. On the fame occafion a fort was taken jua without the town, the artillery taken out, and the magazine blown up ; that on the evening previous to this engagement, a black General with 1500 men tie fated LECLERC'S army, and joined his former companions in arms, and that it was expected CHRISTOPHE would follow the fame example;— that the force of the blacks was upwards of fifteen thoufand, and that the at my of Ltc LERc had been reduced by lots and ficknefs to aot) : that the French General, who was then without the Cape, with his whole force, fearing his ability to protea the town, had fent orders for the lick and wound. ed to be removed from thence, and given :perm& Pion for the women and children to depart ; that all the valuable effens of the army, and of the citizens, were removing on board the fleet, and that the city was in hourly expectation of being befieged. Bufinefs of every , kind was ftifpended, and the inhabitants were in the utmoft terror and confternation. The aaing American Cnnful, Mr. Bunce, had embarked on board a veffel bound to Portfmouth ; the American (hipping were embar goed, and ordered off the Bar, and the French !hips of war placed in a flotation to annoy the befiegers. A number of Americans, who volun teered their fervices, and others compelled to ferve, were in the anion of the 14. th, of which feveral were killed and wounded. To this account Capt. Arvitrott adds, that a few hours previous to his failing, he was informed by the Proprietor of the American Coffee Houfe, of a report being in cit.- culation,that an armillice had taken place between LECLERC and the black General in Chief, which ftipulated that the French troops fhould leave the ifland within three days. An article from Lexington of the 26th of ,Oetober, fays that accounts as late as the t 7th of September, Rate that the pit of New Orleans, in Louifiana, was (hut up ; whether this order was given by the Spaniards or by the French, was a matter of uncertainty.—Bqflon Gazette. NEW-YORIE, OCT. 30. —On Tuefday night haft, a copper-bottomed Bermudan fchonner, from An tigua, was loft on the point of Sandy Hcok. Her upper-works have fince par ted from the lower, and her cargo, confining of rum and fugar, has been completely deltroyed, except one puncheon of the former • it is fuppofed to be the Experiment. We learn that the Captain was drowned in attempting toet afhore ; the reft of the crew were laved. get afhore; the rd of the crew were faved. JOIUsIOROUGH, (na i l SEPT. 20.—We learn 'by a Gentleman from aryville, that about the beginning of the prefent month, two Indians went to the houfe of Mr. Barefoot Runner, of Sevier County, they were brothers ; one being intoxicated went to ffeep, the other in good humour got to ' wreftling !with Mr. Runner and after being re peatedly thrown, waked up his brother and wished him to wreftlei who with fome reludance com plied. Mr. Runner accidently threw him on a chair—he died next day. Mr. Runner was ap prehended, and after examination difcharged.— , A few days after, the furviving brother, with four other Indians, way-laid the pafs from Mr. Run ner's to his fields, intending to kill him. His fon, a young man, happening to be a few paces before him, the Indians were apprehenfive he,would cover them, and probably make his efcape, as well as his father, they therefore fired, and killed him on the fpot; they tomahawked him, and made ofg On examining the body, it was found that five balls had entered it. CORN MAKE?: CORN INSPECTORS RETURN !ROM OXBRIDGE. DECFrIBFR 23. Wheat, per Lind, from 131. los. to 151. 1 os. Barley, per Qarter, from 11. 55. to s. Oats, per Quarter, from 11. 4s. to 11. Bs. Beans, per Q2artcr, from 11. t4s. to 2J. Peace, per Garter, from al. 4.5. to al. Bs. MARK-LANE, DECEMBER 24.. • There appears no alteration in the Pi ices of any Article to day except Grey Peat, which an abun dant fupply has reduced in value about -is. per quarter.-The fales of Barley are not lb brifk as lalt day, yet they are no lower.-Malt has a heavy demand.-General ilatement of prices as annexed. English Wheat, per qr. 435.525. 545. Superfine 595. Fine 'Pantzic Wheat, sos. 565. Rye, 34.5..385. Barley, 245. 265. (Very Fine) 275. 61. Malt, 445. 485. Oats, 15s. 225. 255. Horfe Beans New, 325. 355. Tick Beans, New, ass. 31s. Old, 325. 345. Hog Peale, 38s. 405. Boilers, New 345. 425. - Carraway Seed, 365. to 41s. per cwt. Coriander, , 285. to 3os. per cwt. Canary, 9os. to 965. per qr. Rape Seed, 341. to 361. per lalt. Flour, 455. sos. per rack. BIRMINGHAM, DEC. 21. Yetlerday evening as Mr. JOHN HIPKISS, and his brother RICHARD, were returning, at a little pail fix o'clock, from Vauxhall (which is a plCafant walk from Birmingham), by the fide of the Navi gation which encircles the lower part of the town, being in earned converfation, and the light from the Steam Engine fhining bright on the water On the fide of the Lock, caufed fuch a refleaion, that Mr. HIPKISS mittook it for the (lone-work, and treading upon . the deceitful element, was in a mo ment precipitated to the bottom of the lock. Mr. R. IC immediately plunged in after him, and in -his anxiety to five his brother from dearuaion, had nearly met with a watery grave. Mr. H. in flrug gling to get up to the top of the water, felt hit brother lay hold of him, and had prefence of mind to call out to him gg to let go his hold ;" and fortu nately reaching the wood-work, he fulpeuded him felf in fuch a manner as to fecure himfelf, and buoy up his brother ; and after fome difficulty, they extricated :hemfelves from their perilous fituatiou. Mr. R. H. was in fuch imminent danger, that had he been a few feconds longer in the water, he would furely have fallen a victim to '° fraternal affeaion." The Gentlemen afterwards walked home, and for tunately have experienced no ill effdts from their aquatic plunges. Mr. R. H. in jumping into the lock, precipitated himfelf immediately on his bro ther, and cruthed his hat to pieces. Fortunately the lock was full of water, which broke their fall. DUBLIN, DEC. IS. During the late flood, forty-nine families, in habitants of Chapelizod, Martin's-row, and Red mills, were compelled to feek refuge on the roofs of their cabins, where they fat all night, viewing, .with dreadful apprehenfion for their own cal Renee, the overwhelming torrent bearing every thing be fore it. It is, however, a happy circumftance that no life was loft, and the evils that have been fuf fered the benevolence of the rich is alleviating. To the Rev. Mr. O'NEIL, who is humanely exerting himfelf on thisoccafion, his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant has given twenty guineas, and fixteen - more have been received from perfonages at his Excellency's Lodge, and at that of the Right Hon. WILLIAM WICKHAM, betide fome other fmall be? nefa&ions. The port boy conveying the mail from Ardee to Colon, was flopped at eight o'clock, on the night of the 16th in(l. by three men, one of whom was armed with a maker, who robbed him of the whole mail, containing the bags of letters which fhould have arrived yefterday mottling from the following poll towns, viz. Ardee, Aughnacloy, Ballybay,Clones, Clogher, Carrick M'Rofs,Coote hill, Derry, Dunfariaghy, Letterkenny, Monaghan, Newtown-Limavady, Newtown-Stewart, Omagh, Ramelton, Raphoe, and Strabane. - Notwithftanding the awful fpeetacle which the execution of Charleton and Kearney exhibited on Wednefday laft, near Dolphin's barn, for the trobbery of Mr. Fifher, Mr. Samuel Jackfon's bleach green, in that neighbourhood, was robbed on the fame night, and a tan yard attempted, but the party were beaten off. Charleton and Kearney owned to be the per fons who fired fome time back at the carriage of the Commander in Chief, which they faid they took for the Lord Lieutenant's, and to the robbery of a houfe at the Red Cow. link unfortunate perfons Rated, that they were induced to rob Mr. Fi(her's houfe, by having been told by a china hawker, that there was a rum of upwards of 403 guineas in thehonfe. They attributed much of their crimes to an offender not yet apprehended, but who cannot,long remain fo. Charleton was a very fincere penitent, but the other, Kearney, fecmed not fo thoughtful as he should be at filch an awful period. Twn notorious offenders have been apprehend. ed by Mr. Wilfon, the Chief Peace Officer. Their names are Kearney and Wall!), and hand charged with having recently robbed a poor countryman, on the Crumlin road, of a glitnea and a half, fame butter and other property. They were on Thurf day committed to the new piton by,tite, §uperin• tendant Magiftrate. • .• 4 02.,;-•- ': - ‘ .. 3 , 4 ,, 1 Yeflerday, the body-t 4 odclltAii` dt gertst men drowned in the bay of Dubktrfc was found on Merrion Strand. • lbw . 6tt, are not yet dircovered. •._ . • r. --4134*4 f " • I