Star. — London, England, 1801-08-26 00:00:00

wzrmourff, AUGUST 25: His MAJESTY yefterday evening, accompanied by Prince ADOLPHUS, the PRINCESSES, the Duke of GLOUCEST ER, and Princefs SOPHIA, with the ufual company of Nobility, walked on the Efplan ade. The finenefs of the day brought a number of people from the different parts of the country, who all teftified their loyalty, by their repeated bows and curtfies, and in their chearful countenances was evident the joy they felt on feeing their So vereign. The Rove!. FAMILY, after Teeing the North Devon Militia mount the King's Guard, went to STACIE'S rooms. This morning his MAJESTY bathed, and after. wards rode out on horfeback till breakfaft time. At ten o'clock their MAJESTIES and the PRIN CESSES went on board the Charlotte yacht; a charming fine day, but very little wind. The Earl of RossLyu,Earl and Counters of MAC- Countefs of RADNOR, LadyCATucART, Lady MAR v Exs ma, Lord WALSINGHAM, and Mr. and Mrs. WINDHAM, took an excurfion on board his Majefty's barge. His Royal Highnefs the Duke of GLOUCESTER is expeeted to leave us this evening for the Ide of Wight, on a vifit to his fon Prince WILLIAM. BRIGHTON, AUGUST 2t. A match was made yelleiday morning on the Steine, Mr. FOURDRINIRR'S horfe Curricle, againft Mr. TAYLOR'S Hunter. To run one mile on the Bri,` , ton courfe. The bettings were 6 to 4. in favour of the hunter. At one o'clock, the horfes flatted. It was a hollow thing. Curriele was nearly diflanced. Loft by twenty lengths at leaft. No bettings on the Courfe. Mr. FOURDRINI ER'S jockey was but indifferent; the other was fair. The race ground was very thinly attended, the (porting men being all gone to York. The PRINCE and a party were prefent. On the return of the company, as Mr. R. was driving down the hill in his curricle, the horfes ran away, and overturned the chaife at the entrance of the town, where it was dallied to pieces : providentially Mr. R. re ceived no perfonal injury from the accident. There never were remembered fo many accidents as we have had in our neighbourhood fnce the races.— On Wednefday, a fimilar one happened : a gig was troken to pieces, and the leg of the horfe much torn, by running againft a wall of flint Rones. The young men of fafhion here are fo high fpirited, that they never think of neck-breaking, in gallop ing down the Suffer hills. AUG. s4.—Many families are leaving Tun bridge Wells, to enjoy the purer air of Brighton ; it is earlier than ufual for this circuraftance to happen, which help.; to make the fulleft town we remember at this time of the feafon. ' It is rumoured, and, we believe, with Tome de• gree of certainty, that as loon as harveft is over, a camp of 5000 men is to be formed in the neigh bourhood of this place. Bread continues dear; meat, as ufual, from rod. to Md. ; fifli cheap, foles at 6d. and 4d. per lb. turbot at Bd. and tod. The Promenade Grove was open lall week in honour of the Duke of Yosta's birth-day : the com pany numerous, and of the firfl rank, among them the PRINCE of Vilma:, am. Several devices were exhibited by tranfparent paintings, and in the emu& of the fire works, applicable to the occafion. The whole met with general approbation. Many families have lately arrived here, and fe veral more are Papa :led. The ball of the Maflcr of the Ceremonies was very full. The Duke and Mello, of Gaartou ' Lady B d Mrs. FITZHEREFRT, were there ; the two latter were very elegantl y &did. The Marchionels Wait-may and her charming family live here very retired, in expectation of her Lord from India. The Patmca has left us for a few days, but is expefted again in the courfe of a week, with many of his friends. HEREFORD, AUGUST ir. The boat race yeflerday was well contefted; the cup was won by the Anne, Mr. Doww ES. Five boats 'tatted, one was drawn, and three ftarted for colours ; they were won with cafe by the Wye, Mr. PURCHASE. It afforded much fport—feveral thoufands of fpeCtistors were on the banks of the river, a band of mnfic on the water, and many marquees and tents were pitched in a meadow by the fide of the beam. By the inclofed lift (fee Monday's STAR) you v.ill perceive Cte&ell and Firit Fruits were enter cd this morning to run, and great fport was look. cd for : we had a vale deal of running, but no fport. Creffwell won the firft heat, and was fo hard run by Chaunter, that it was thought he could not win another. Chaunter fufFered Full Fruits to \r in the fecond, and then took the third ; the fourth Creffwell was drawn, and Chaunter, as at Wor cefter, beat Firfk Fruits with cafe, as I told you weight only prevented Chaunter from winning the firft day. Creffwell now carried three ftone more, Chaunter one ftone lets. Crawl' was the favourite till the fecond heat. To•day there was another boat race—three Ranted ; the cup was won by Mr. BIRD, the co :ours by Mr. Ptiac 14 • sr. The banks were crowd ed again, mufic, &c. as yeflerday. Very good (port on the race ground to-day, bets varying greatly every heat. Fugleman was the favourite at Ratting, 3 to 2 againd the field; Pil grim won the fin heat, Fugleman came in fe cond—fecond heat won by Citizen—great bets were offered (a to 1) Citizen did not win the plate, and taken—Citizen was leaft thought of. Fugle man had a frefli rider for the third heat, his owner ifpeding the firtt,ornot th ink ing him a bood joc key. Fugleman won it hollow—it was then nearly dark, moll people quitted, thinking it a done thing, and that Fugleman mutt win. They have jug run the lag beat in the dark, and, to the great furprife of moil, and heavy log of many, Citizen has got it, DUBLIN, AUGUST 22. A feat is now ereaing in Werburgh's Church for the accommodation of their Excellencies the Earl and Countefs f.f HARDWICKE, as, at their in (lanes, the Cagle Chapel is about to be rebuilt in a file more fuited to Vice-regal fplendour, and on a fcale more accommodating to the public. Wednefday, General Sir WM. MxAnows, now Commander in Chief of the forces in this kingdom, arrived at Waterford, accompanied by his Aides de-Camp. We underfand he on Thurfday pur poled proceeding to t)uncannon Fort, New Ge neva, and the adjacent line of coati. On Thurfday morning lag, the Poll-boy con veying the Mail from Drogheda to Slane, was flopped by a (Ingle footpad, armed with a knife and cafe of palls, who robbed him of the Northern bye-letters for Slane, Trim, and Navan, and the Slane bag of letters difpatched from the General Poll-Office on the 18th infant. Thurfday, a - dreadful fire broke out in the ware houfe of Mefirs. Cahill and Andrews, grocers, in Church-flteet, near Hammond-lane. It burned with great fury for a long time, notwithflanding the affillance of almoil all the engines of this city, but at length was happily got under. The She tiffs, Peace Officers, and a military guard attend ed. The fire, it is Paid, was occalioned by a pun cheon of flrong (picks being accidentally fet on fire through either the carelelTnefs or mifmanage ment of thofe who attended the warehoufe. Yefterday a Court of Diredors of the EaR In dia Company was held at the India Houle, which adjourned to this day. The birth of the young Prince Royal of PRUSSIA is particularly remarkable, becaufe he is the firft fon of a King whom Praia has had for 70 years. The prefent King was bbrn when FREDERICK WILLIAM was but Prince Royal, and FREDERICK WILLIAM was the nephew of the Greast FREDERICK. One of the two non commiffioned officers, be longing tothe Regimentof the Hies, lately taken up at Liverpool for forgery, took his trial at Lancaf ter, and was acquitted : the other was not profecuted. We arc on all oceafions happy to do juftice to the charaEler of the enemy, whenever the oppor tunity of doing fo prefents itfelf. At the laft attack off Boulogne, we are informed from an authority that is indifputable, that the French Commodore addreffed the firft boat's crew that approached his (hips in the following words, which were fpoken in pretty good Englifh: " Let me advife you, my brave Engliihmen, to keep your diflance. You can do nothing here, and it is only ufelefsly flied ding the blood of brave men to make any attempt here." It is evident that the French Officer alluded to the chains which moored his (hips to the (bore ; and it was therefore generous and brave in him to offer his advice, though it was not in the charther of our gallant feam:a to accept it. How different this conduct with the difgußing letters of Admiral Limo:: and the Port Admiral of Boulogne ! Sir Henry Brown Hayes, who Rood convieed fine the Spring Affixes, at Cork, of forcibly running away with Mifs PIKE, a Quaker Lady of great fortune, has received fentence of death, to be executed on the 7th of September. The Marquis of Assacoari continues in a mend ing way ; h►s appetite is very good ; light meat and grapes arc his daily diet, with tea, and a Tingle glafs of wine. Three months will probably elapfe before the Marquis can leave his bed. The bone of the left leg near the ancle was entirely broken ; it doubled upon the calf when the acci dent happened.—Notwithltanding the dreadful af fliftion under which the Noble Lord labours, he does not betray either impatience or unealinefs. The Marchionefs waits on her Lord with much zeal and unremitting attention, as do the Marquis's lovely daughters,the Ladies CATHARIN and HAl mar HAMILTON•—Among the vifitors lafi week were the Duke of Cu Es Ls mu, Duchefs of DE vonsitits, Lady ELizserra FORSTIR, Lord and Lady BEssosouou, &c. Lord Coot-raises Mafquerade, on the Isith inft. was in the acenitomed talk of the owner of Powdetham-Caflle. Lord CouItTENAY appeared in fcveral beautiful and appropriate drelTes during the evening : his lovely Sillers endeavoured in vain to difguife themfelves; their beauty and fweetnefs of manners betrayed them through the thin con cealment of an Aimed appearance. MA of the fafhion and rank of the county were prefent. As ufual, in a large alremblage of people, there was much of the folemn (hew of domino dulncfs ; per haps the prevailing inaElivity might be traced to the intenfe heat of the weather—a caufe which, however, was attended by a rich compenfation in the bewitching difplay of difencumbered beauty— for molt of the many lovely women who graced this fate withdrew their mafics at an early period of the evening. The entertainment in tale, rich nefs, and hotpitality, has been rarely equalled. - - - The amufements of Peckham Fair doled on Monday. The finenefs of the weather drew toge ther an uncommon concourfe of fpeftators of all defcriptions ; and the roads, towards the evening, were abfolutely lined with people, which made it very difficult to pals along. The dull was railed in clouds, infomuch that objets could not be dif covered at a fbort diftance. During the feftivity which prevailed at the fair on Monday afternoon, a prefs-gang found means to affemble there, for the purpofe of impreffing three men, and as they came in two coaches, remained undifrovered for fome time, until they laid violent hands on their objets. The alarm being inftantly given, the fcenes of merriment gave way to thofe of a very ferious afpea. A general battle took place, which created an uproar for half an hour, when the gang were glad to retreat, after being very feverely beaten. We hear that a number of perfons were hurt, louse badly, as the mob laid about them without difcrimination. A poor woman, who could not avoid the throng, is much bruited and cut; and the various exhibitions were under the neccdity of furpending their entertainments till the tumult bad cubfided. CORN MARKE TS. There was a very large fupply of every kind of Grain at Mark-Lane this morning, and the bra eft market which we have w•itnelfcd for fome time. A number of Country Dealers were in the Market, and made very confiderahle purchafes, which had the effect to raife the prices of Whear from 2s. to 3s. per quarter. Oats the fame as laft Monday. Other articles doing but little. Flour 70S. BREAD.—.-The LORD MAYOR yefterday ordered the Bread to be lowered, mug. Asst LES, which will reduce the Quartern Loaf to is. 2441. to commence and take place to-mort ow. When the Mailer and Wardens of the Bakers' Company waited on his Lordfhip refpeCting the re gulation of the Affize of Bread, they earneftly re quefte I it might be only lowered fiversfurrhing, in the Qprtern Loaf ; they (fated that the Bakers are confiderable lofers by the late reduCtions, and that the debt is at prefcnt 14191. His Lordship refufed to comply with their requeft. He faid that the Markets throughout the Kingdom had expe rienced a confiderable reduction with regard to Wheat, and were Rill decreafing in price. He had examined the Returns with the molt accurate at tention, and was juilified, as well from them, as from the vaft arrivals and fupply of Foreign Wheat, to order the Price of Bread to be confider ably reduced. CANTERBURY, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22. We are happy to announce a farther reduttion in the price of Flour, and the Return from Ask sor's Mill to the Mayor this week, will enable him to fet the Affize for the QLsartern Loaf under One Shilling. Wbcat - 7ot co Sot Hog Peafe - 44 to 4S New Wheat - —to Boiling Peas —to Barley - 36 to 46 Hay, per ton 41 or to 41 104 Oats 24 tts 40 Sainfain, do. 41 zos to 51 Sr " • • New ditto - 28 to 3o Clover, do. losto 41 los Beans - so to sa Straw, do. 31 os to of os Tick Bouts - —to Rough Meal 6os to 65s al MA LT—Brown 881--Second 89s—Pale 9os. Fine Flour fold at Assor's Mill, at the rate of 31. 155. per fack. HULL, AUGUST 24. At Chefter market, on Saturday fe'nnight, the average price of Wheat (Winchefter meafure), was Inn e _frilling, and eleven pence.—At Nantwich, the fame day, Wheat las. lid.; Oats 4s. aid.—At Northampton, Wheat from.tts. 3d. to 17s. ; and Barley from 3s. 3d. to Bs. gd. per bufhel.—And at Oakhampton, in Devonfhire, Wheat fell from a guinea to nine fhillings a bufhel, Winchefler meafure. Since our laft, the following quantity of grain has been imported into this town, viz. -5809 qrs. Wheat ; 1777 qrs. Oats R 138 qrs. Peafe ; 19 qrs. Rye ; 20 qrs. Beans ; 24 tierces and to half-tierces Rice. Oats are now at only 205. per quarter, and yet 6d. a feed for horfes is demanded by the (fable keeper, the fame as when they were fold at 455. Wheat fell on Thurfday at Uxbridge market ten pounds a load. On Saturday laft in Chepflow market, new Wheat fell from 245. to :6s. 6d. per babel ; and a further reduflion is expelled next market. From all parts of the United States there are accounts of the luxuriant abundance of the harvelt. In a variety of diflrifts the produce is rich beyond almoft any former example. On the 19th and aoth inflant, Mr. Joma of Margate, common carrier, employed his cara van folely for the purpore of fetching Bread from Canterbury to Margate, and felling the fame amongft the inhabitants there, at the reduced price of 31d. per quartern loaf ; for which bread he had a quick ate, and not only well paid himfelf for his trouble, but gained the efteem of the people in ge neral (except the bakers) at Margate; as the laid bread coil him only I3d. per quartern loaf at Can terbury, fold by him at Margate for 15d. and at the fame time the price of the quartern loaf at Margate was :Std.—This tranfaaion of Mr. Say Ell'S had a very good effea, and to whom thanks are due ; for on the following day, the bakers of Margate fell the price of bread from atd. to 14d. per quartern loaf. The Innkeepers on fome of the Roads have be gun to lower their polling-charges to thirteen pence per mile; and their advertifements are wor thy the notice of a Public, the moll abufed and ill treated of which there is any example. They alien, what is well known to be true, that the Innkeepers give money to the Poll-boys for bring ing travellers to their houfes ; and well may they afford it, while travellers are left to be pillaged at their pleafure. Here however is a limple fad— while the Poftmaller pretends that he cannot drive under eighteen pence a mile, he is giving half-a•cruwn or five fliillings to the chive,. that brings him his plunder. The morals of the whole kingdom have been overfet by the cries of " free commerce," and the Secret Convention that feems to be let up from one end of the kingdom to the other, to connive at reciprocal frauds and extor tions. From Corn to Meat, and Butter and Sugar, the corruption of principle extends through every branch of confumption, and no man is contented with an }melt profit, or knows to fet any bounds to his avarice. With thefe prices, whenever Peace (hall arrive, it is a demonftrable impoffibility for this country to hold the foreign market. There can be no competition with the labour of other countries ; and even our internal com merce, confumption, and revenue, will hereafter feel its effeets. Middling families and contraaed incomes will fly wherever they can have fome of the comforts oflife. If Come ftop, fome powerful ftop, is not put to the prefent horrid fyftem, the ' nation will be undone. It is of no confequence which has the greateft (hare in its corruption, th& Landed-Interell, the Manufaßnring•lntereft, or the Feeding-Intereft. Free Commerceis the cry of all of them, and the confequence is ealily fore fem. FO NT HI L L AUCTION. TPIRD DAY—AUGUST 21. A br'ef account of this day's Pale will give our Readers a competent idea of the whole. There never was in this part of the country, or perhaps in the world, a collcCtion of finer or more luperb fur niture, in proportion to its quantity. So very ill founded has been the foolifh furmife that nothing was meant to be fold hut old fa(hioned and worn out articles. The books and a very few of the belt paintings only have been kept back. The general fenfation this uliexpeClA txcited, more efpecially in thefe parts, can hardly be etmuived. Even the harveil has but lade re- Itt•tinecl l the popular cut intity. The diilinguilhed elegance of this noted feat, the natural beauty of the grounds, the art and expence fu prottifely la \ ilhed on their improvement; the tine and erten thett of water, ftretching as far as :he eye can clifcern in a (trait line by the eaflein wing of the houfe, and rendered eminently pleafing and majef tic by the flocks of lwans which play on its baron ; the various cluares of wide branchin trees, which diver Illy the park in every di re Ction (the gardens, enriched and embellithed by every Ipecies and de gree of European and Afiatic luxury; a fpacious family manfion in the heft (tile of modern architec ture, replenithed with an excels of the moft volup tuous accommodation, naturally attraded i as may well be conceived, all the fathion far and near.— From Salilbury, Andover, Bath, Weymouth, &c. all the fubordinate towns, the villas, and even the hamlets in their refpeCtive vicinities, the road; fwarmed all the morning with fhoals of the young and gay, flaying as they could to this fplendid ex hibition ; and, long before noon, every chamber in the houfe, as well as all the adjacent grounds. wete crouded with genteel people ; the court and liable-yard with carriages, and all the gates, doors and paffages with lackeys, and beggars. The auction was in the great halt, where an or gan fix and twenty feet high and fifteen feet wide is placed. This very mallerly inftrument, bui.t and finifhed in fach fuperlative mile, that it is aid to have coil nearly two thoufand pounds, played till the bufinefs of the day commenced. The AuClioneer began with an eulogium on the goods to be expofed, and Rated them to be the moll fplendid and tranfcendant he ever had the honour of bringing to the hammer. Indeed there was not an item in this day's tale which might not, both for value and magnificence, fuit any Palace in Europe —Not a (tool, or tripod, or fpringblind, or window curtain, brought fo little as a guinea. Some marble nabs went at more than an hundred guineas each. A bull of old Homer was knocked down at twenty liven, and that of Virgil at nine teen.—A young lady inadvertently had placed herfelf by a fine flatue of the Venus de Medici:: When this delicate and beautiful article was put up, a wag hallowed out, " Which of the two was meant ?" The AuCtioneer modefty replied, " The one was above all price, and he was authorifed only to difpofe of the other."—Every thing in the room fitted ala Torque, fold immenfely The richnefs of the hangings, all (ilk or fain, of fuperlative quality—the brilliant French plates of glafs which decorated and enlivened every fide in the room—the fofas formed in the molt fumptuous (tile of Oriental magnificence—the chairs and (tools, all gilt with burnifbed gold, aurae:fed every eye, and it was laughable to fee even our Wiltfhire farmers furnithing their homely parlours with the gorgeous accumulation of inordinate fortune, and of effeminate tafte. All this indicated no want of money. Some articles fold, notwithilanding, much under value. Even the organ went for no more than two hur dred and ninety pounds, and every one th oug h t i t fell into good hands—th e Rev. Mr. Oe Ls, brother.. . in-law to Mr. SHERIDAN, M. P. Two Library Tables, alto of the moft elegant conftruaion and exquifite workmanfbip, hardly brought one half of. what was expeeted for them. One could kneel/ conceive fo many purchafers for fuch a colleaion of finery, incomparable as it was; and what renders their eagernefs the more fingular, is, that no one piece taken from the reit can ppffibly accord with any other Houfehold of ordinary zxcellence. The fad is, this extraordinary Auction has drawn forth all the falfe mite and fu perfluous gaiety of the county. It has pampered the vanity of the old, and fired the p ons of the young with the tinf e l o f f a ihi on , and-ffie gewgaws of luxury. We truft that the audible murmurs and the figni ficant criticifms of the company, during the exhi bition, will have a falutary effea, however, upon their minds, and teach them that he only can er pea to fit down happy in the enjoyment of what he buys, who is governed in his purchafes by mo deration and fimplicity. Yefterday a boy employed to hold a !torte be longing to Capt. Lucite of the navy, imprudently attempted to ride him; the animal threw him, ard He was taken to the Weft. minfter Infirmary. Much mirth was excited oppofite the New White Horfe Cellar in Piccadilly yefterday, by a momen taryfratat, originating from the following circum fiance :—An Irsy6 Sado', wifhing to go to Briftol, had taken his place in the coach ; but, till he had mounted on the oatfide, never refle,sed that he had paid for an made place, which, in the interim, was occupied by a Lady, whofe fluency and figures of fpeech plainly proclaimed her from the vicinity of Baxilgate. The Tar, defirous of reetifying the millake, intimated to the fai--orie the necetlity of changing fituaticns; but this fhe refuting, from her legal knowledge that poireflion was every thing, he very deliberately proceeded to heft her up through the porn-bole, and had half effeaed his pun. pore, when, from the rotundity of the Lady, the thick fall. Her fcreams alarming the phr the box, he interfered, and having, with fume difficul ty, calmed the enraged failor, by an adjufiment of the pecuniary difference, the Lady inf . :fled upon fi nally compromifing the difputc by a libation of gra:. This perfealy finished the f.tflor, who,wifhing the Amazon joy of her birth, told the coachman to vvr4b anchor, and went off, expreffively Pinging-- "Blow bil4, bbvsv kw," &c.