Star. — London, England, 1802-08-13 00:00:00

)11fITEHAPIV, AUGUST to. On Tirefday lafi, Lady LOWTHER, her two and three of her daughters, went nn board s. 1 AItTLIA Ihip, the Cumberland, Capt. % ..w s v,:ficl was lying at the Old l'ongue ; A ,,,r oteation, was ornamented with a bean. t ; : .0 colours—Englith, French, Spanith, Swedish, and American :—the y !i and tide were manned with feamen ; and a 1 4 ; c was fired.—Notwithilaiiding die weather was rather unfay..itrable, :he whole afforded a very light.-1 - hr Ladythip, &c. visited every T or ~ t 'he Lip, and tow elied great piealure at a v..rich, underitand, was pertetly novel t.• ;one of the ftmily : allot whom, with their ac. :Ifi".l:7;lity, made frequent erquirics rela •••., ors materials, &c. employed in a : . . • !`.2., and drank " tirceefs to the Cumber- Oa I:r:day, Lnid and. Lady Lowr H ra, :he two Pinourable Meas. Lowr HPttc, and three of the yt.:•itg were condi.aed into the Coal.works, Mr. Bar satarr,a here they remained about three h.wrs ; having penetrated to a diftance of more two miles from the place where they entered the mines— Where cavern thane cavern meets, " City of fubterrancan ftreetsr— to Saltium, and the remoter parts of the works, which extend even beneath the lea ; where " Above your heads the h.llows roans— „ High o'er your heads they mar in vain; " Net A the forgot of the main ° The dark reed's can e'er diftiofe ; 14 Rocks &Aid on rocks th' attempt oppofe. " Thrice Dover's Cliff from you the tidss " With interpoting roof divides." After exploring there regions of wonder,- 19 that world of night," Where intervein%l rich minerals glow, Ard !mhbl;ng fountains learn to low ; Wittre flrike, the tint, and whirls the flea 4 Of that itran,le fgark-ernitting wheel; Wiuch, forni'd by ?ttOSPLIO'S magic cart, " Plays barmier+ in the fulph'rous air; Without a Ihnic dilides light. " And makes the gritty cavern bright.+ the party returned to day light ; each, as we have been informed, having affilled in Tome part of the Winds of a miner. Her Ladylhip was in pollef fion of a coal (her own digging), and feveral Mad- Zers of the fulminating damp were brought up, and afterwards exploded. Lord LOWTH Ea and family left the Cagle, on Monday morning, for Lowther, and are not ex- peececi to return till after the affixes. Immediately after their departurc,the flags at the Light Houfe, &c. (which had been hoitted during the time of their refistence here), were (truck. During his Lordilip's flay here,every neceffary Rep was taken to wards putting the coal-scot nto the bell order; and his Lordfhip has alfo been pleated to make a very liberal advance in the wages of his work people. The Couutefs of POMFRET, Lord Duct!, Sir W. Dance, Sir CHARLES HOTHAM, &C. are among the lad arrivals at Clifton. The Marquis and Marchionefs of HERTFORD left town WI we:k for Rugley Han, in Warwick- On difembodying the Brentwood Volunteers Lord PETRF. FAVe a grand entertainment, at which were prefent the Bithop of BATH and WF tr.s and Lady, Lady WALDEGLAVE and Lady MARIA, Sir R.:cuaitn and Lady NE A v s, Sir THOMAS and Lady LF.OKARD, Lady Smyrr BULGES, Colonel BUL. LOCK, Colonel and Mrs. ES PIPi AG E, Colonel, Mrs. and Mifs BURGOYNE, &c. &c. Two Englilhmen being in the firli boxes of the Opera, at Y.uis, thought proper, in confequence of the excellive heat, to pull or/ their coats, and' fit in their Ihirts. The fpceriators in the pit, in (lead of laughing at this trait of En;; origina lity, cxpreired their difapprobation, by calling out h! turn tkut out ! The two ((rangers could ot refill filch forcible arguments ; but in all pro bability were neverthelels convinced that the falhion of their country was inconvenient with our afages. Mr. Coors has made his appearance at the Ply mouth and Dock Theatres in the charaCter of King ltul•ard the !bird, and was received with unbound. ed applatife, and ccowded houfes. Mifs DIXON was alto well received Mtifisa, the after-piece. The finenefs of the weather attrafted a very numerous alTemblage of perfons of all ranks to that grand mart, Lanfduw•n Fair, yet there was comparatively very little Winds trantlifted. The quantity of cheefe (the chief article of traffick at the fair) was very (mall; prices from ps. to 58s. Average 565. per cwt. 'There was a good thew of cattle, principally lean, which went off very lizavily, and numbers were driven away unfold.— horfes (of which there were but few) fetched price inferior ones were fcarce faleable. A re,:n - ,erous gang of pickpockets infefled Mag- Fair laft week, and plundered the far riers arid de.:lers, one of whom loft ssol. and zl. At do! NI-etirg of the nowtlen Agricultural nociety, litlJ i'n the 311 t ult. the premiums were iv. follow : Air. Iloi, or I. i!erton, for the heft aged Bun, cl. sc. !Or. t.nworth, of Bracktoholme. for the belt two.p.o •!.1 11. 3a. !:. t 1 ;!, ir.krton, for tlic fccood-belt ditto, tl . Thorp, . :or t'ic b, tt vac old ditto, 21.21. !.1.4,!, ‘.l cri!•.thorpt., ror the ditto, t L TM. M . of iliorpc, fur the belt two-p.a. old Lc ifer, Halt of Ellerten, frtr the fecoLtl-bell ditto, 11. 114 for Ott Left year ohl ditto, 21.11. bitto,frt • the hcart•l•hea IL :••• 4 1: '1 hf:;tilrnerleet, fir do L tett Ram, 3L 3§. Mt. Er it for the krott,:-blt diru, t I. 1.4. t:r. L:l:lLtaw,..4 Rutv!, tor VI, belt Etearlit:tt Ram, 2110. ScLoltidd, of Saadrll, for the belt (heading Ewe, 11. as. Alr.llo,:As Wood, of Cave, for the Feconti-bcfl. ditto, '• • a.ttworth, 7.l3:::mhulrue, for the Lot Tup Latub. L , :.t !,Ir :he bell Ewc eitto. IL Ta. • • v:,;..rt ,luukcce.g, My/41:13,144'4c Boar, 1. :a. STANDARD cf the iNriArCIALE LEGION. Mc EDITOR-It was with infinite fatisfaElion, that we oblerved in your Paper of the 4th instant, a patrage to the following etled, in your account of the trial of Anthony Lutz, at Wincheiter Affizes " Anthony Lutz, private Soldier In the #2treiii German Re giment, was the man who aanally wrriled the Itandard from the hands of Bonaparte's Invincible Legion, in the efer4nentorabk affair of the a zit March, aot." For the truth of this affertion, fuffice it only to recur to the declaration upon oath, made by the Ad jutant of the regiment, in prefence of that all fo lenin tribunal, when the leaks of juilice were as yet awfully fufpended between the final judgment of life and death—a declaration, which, added to the palliative circumflances of his offence,produced a mitigation of his fentencc to the fine of one Ihil ling. A vindication of the merits of this corps, fence they themfelves have had fufficient forbear ance to decline the office, becomes the duty of every juil and impartial man ; and many there are, no doubt, who feel already dil j wfed to (land forth in the caufe of the unjullly deprived. Script of honours bravely won, porchafed, as we our felves can tellify, by the blood of more than zoo men and 13 officers, bereft of laurels thus forely reaped, not one of that regiment has hitherto aliened its right. Yet hurt as they certainly mull be, at the indifference with which their Cervices have been viewed, comparatively with thole of other regiments, they have, confeioris of their own merit, muddily declined to undeceive the public opinion. Such Silence may argue a dire& violation of their own intereit, of which it mull be raid they have indeed been tooregardlefs; but who will refufe to admit, that referve in this cafe is more becoming than an ollentatious difplay of their own aainns, or even than a _HI defire that the value of their Cervices Should be truly appreciated ? It is only neceffiry to add, that the perfons who this warmly interelt themfelves in the capture of the Ilandard, are officers who ferved in Egypt, and are moreover peilonally acquainted with many of that gallant corps, which diflinguilbed itfelf fo eminently in the late brilliant campaign. We are, Sir, your very humble fervaats, &c. &c. &c. If the two gentlemen taken to Worfhip-greet on Wedncfday had aaitally ma, it is more than pro bable that each of them would have fori;;L: wiib goofe. Letters from Cadiz Rate that a convoy of Nea politan veffels had arrived there, with a pact of the French troops who had been left in the king dom of Naples. According to fume accounts, thefe troops are &Rifled for Saint Domingo ; and according to others, for an expedition in the Mediterranean. The rumours, however, refpeEt• ing this pretended expedition, appear to be pre mature. Heavy torrents of rain fell on Tnefday night and Wednefday morning at Plymouth : we have not yet heard whether it has done injury in the country ; we fincerely hope not. We apprehend the circumaance which happen. ed to Mr. TRAVERS, in the Bath Mail, occurs much oftener than is generally known. But leav ing the hones is not the only mifchief ; the coach men chive with filch velocity in order to make up for loft time in (lopping at public-houfes, that it is a matter of ftwprife that accidents are not more fre quent from the overturning of thofe carriages Mr. RICHARDSON, one of the Proprietors of Drury Lane Theatre, was fuddenly taken ill on Tuefday laff with a vomiting of blood, which was thought fur fome time would have been at. tended with fatal confiquences. The vomiting of blood has fence ceafed, and it is thought that his recovery is no longer doubtful. Mr. RICHARDSON is attended by Dr. COOMBE, who is of opinion that the complaint did not proceed from the breaking of a blood.vcirel, as was at firft fuppofed. Tuefilay night, between nine and ten o'clock, there was a Emale child, of about a fortnight old (very genteelly drelled) left in the entry of Dr. CARIQIE'S 110 1 Ifet in Lower Charlotte ftreet, Fitz• roy-fquare. The poor child had got fuch a quantity of laudanum to drink, that it flept four hours af ter it was difcovered. It was fent, accompanied by a nude, to the watch-houfe till morning, and is now in the work bottle. The perfon who left it remains as yet undifcovered. About feven o'clock on Wednefday evening, two of the Guards, who happened to have a dif pute over their pot, went into the tercet to decide the quarrel, facing the Barley Mow, in Drury lane. A taylor, who happened to pals by with a bundle of clothes under his arm, and which he was carrying home, requelted a by-hander to hold his bundle whilft he went to fee fair play, and hopped until the combatants were parted, after giving each other Tome fevere bruifes. But lo ! when poor Stitch came to enquire for his bundle, it was gone, nor could he obtain any intelligence relped ing it. After a fruitlefs !earth, he was obliged to return home, and relied on his folly. Yellerday a decent elderly woman, going along incautioufly in Whitechapel, the wheel of a dray went over her foot, which it entirely crated.— She was taken to the London Hofpital. Yellerday about one o'clock, a Gentleman in a one horfe chaife, facing the Admiralty, was thrown out by the horfe taking fright. Both 'hafts of the elude were broken. The Gentleman was carried into a DoBor's in the neighbourhood.— The horfc ran up Charing crofs, and very nearly ran over a woman big with child. Eatly on Wednefday fe'nnight, fire was dif covered in a dwelling-houfe in the Old Peale, Dalkeith; occafioned, it is fuppofed, by lightning coming down the chimney, which fet fire to the (mock-board, and from thence communicated to the curtains of a bed adjoining to it, in which fume childre❑ lay atleep. Although the curtains of the bcd were entirely dellroyed, and the bedding and blankets, with part of the furniture and wearing apparel much burnt, the children were fortunately .relcued from the danger by filecdy Abaco. CORN MARkI7S. CORtI iIISrfeTOILS RETURN FROM lIIXBRIDCP. •UGULT 13. 'Wheat, per Load, from 1 . 51. to 181. Barley, per (.tarter, from 11. 135. to IL I Bs. Oats, per Qtlttter, fiorn 11. as. to iI. sos• Beans, per (ttlartc.r ; from 11 iss. to 11. 19s, Peafe, per Q . 2 . arter, from 21. to 21. 25. MARK-LANE, AUGUST 13. The Mewling trade was fomething !milker this morning, and primeft famples obtained more mo. ney-Bat Icy is almoft without buyers-Malt is very dull-Beans and Pcas continue without variation. Oats have gone off more freely, and are 6d. per quarter dearer than on Monday. Sales of Flour at prices quoted are with difficulty efFdled.- Things in general as per Statement below. Engliflt \v heat, per tr. 48s. 565. 635. 655. Fine I)antzic Wheat, 58s. 635. Rye, 325. 3.15. Barley, (Making) 335. 355. Malt, 465. 525. 545. Oats, 175. 225. 245. 6d. Horfe Beans, (New) 3os. 365. Tick Beans, (New) 295. 335. Hog Peafe, 3os. 345. Boilers, 345. 38s. 395. Carraway Seed, 365. to 425. per cwt. Coriander, 3os. to 365. per cwt. Canary, 86s. to 905. per qr. Rape Seed, 341. to 381. per laR. Flour, sos. 535. 555. per Lick. 7 RAVELLING Br THE MAIL COACHES. WITHAM, ESSEX, AILICUST 12. Ft:lir quern faciunt aiiena pcticuL• cautum. St R---In the STAR of Tuefday, Anna so, I peruled, With horror, a well written narrative of the providential efcapc of four human heinzs from a (late of peril, moll imminent and apparently inevitaLle. I read the letter of Mr. TA FtSwe // horror, Mr. Editor, al:hough reflati , at foot: con verted every unpleafant (=ration into tranfports of joy. I appeal to your humanity, which you have in nobly difplayed in publifhing the account of the deliverance of Marrs. TRA Vb RS and EDWARDS ; I appeal folely to your humanity, Sir, and rcondi rur fpeedv infet t ion of this (hart letter. Prrven lion is always preferable to cure. _ _ _ I have reiatcd at N itham. in ElTex, about fix weeks. On the evening of Colonel BuLLocx s eleaion as M. P. two opplittoa miclics, as they ale charadetiftically denominated, rufhed through the town with dreadful rapidity. Every fubfequent evening, oulene- , er thy are within fight of each other, the fame barbarous eThibition takes place. I was drinking tea with my friend, H. R. Elq. on Ft i day, the 6th initant, when futlelenly a tremendous confufion of (touts and fcreams drew us all to the windows. Ido not exaggerate, when I fay fifty people were in the road, through which the oppyition inhuman . 7iber had juft paired at full fpeed! Good GOD ! Sir, are the lives of his Majefty's (objets thus wantonly to be put in jeopardy every hour • Is there no exifting law by which.l can pundit the offenders ? Muft a man's limbs be broken, or muff his death be effeded, before he can check there enormities, or his friends revenge them ?—Excufe my warmth, Mr. Editor. In fuch a caufe, to be calm is to be criminal. It is not in my with, and I am fure it is not in my difpo lition, to injure the drivers of public conveyances: but let them beware how they proceed. The eyes of all Witham are Slily upon them. Informers and profecutors may be found ere long : and the fad arrears of guilt may be exatled in a moment. I now write in mean , : if ever I be called upon to as—and can aift—l will cat with JUSTICE. N. FIELDING. Mr. BARRETT', BALLOON, GREENWICH. The roads towards this beautiful village were crowded at an early hour yefterday with perfons defirous to witnefs the afcent of an Engbatman into an element which M. Garnerin teems to have made, in an almoft exclufive manner, French pro perty. The finenefs of the day, and the variety and richnefs of the landfcape, the harveft appear , ing every where plentiful, and fecure, afforded on the way gratifications of the molt plea ting and tub kind. The Thames, in all its grandeur, added to the imprefflon of the fcene ; it was water, and a multitude of (hips, of every fine, by the impulte of a gentle breeze, bore the merchan dire of England towards the lea, to be circulated over the world ; while the fmaller craft, filled with thC inhabitants of the capital, fa-armed between the mid channel and the flukes, which appeared abfolutely animated. Every fifherman, and every boat below London bridge, had been engaged ' fince the evening btfore : the roads leading from London, as well as different parts of the country, were filled the whole of the afternoon with con veyances of every defcription, from the poft coach and' four to the Kent -greet land-boy mounted on his donkey ; and the concourfe towards Green wich was beyond what k has ever witneffed, even at the fairs. Blackheath refembled a race ground ; carriages were continually palling over it. The One-tree Hill, in Greenwich Park, had a beautiful effect ; it was occupied by a large affem blage of refpeitable people, who had taken that Itation at an early hour. Greenwich Hill was alfo thronged by an affemblage at once novel and amufing. Numbers of tailors and their *aft:, and quantities of beasu and belle: afcended that height, from whence a very good view of the Balloon might be had. The defcent of the la dies was not fo fortunate; the grafs was dry and fmooth, and a few Apr took place, which re called to the memory of many the fejlioe comi reline of Eafter Monday ! It was known at an early hour that it was impoflible for Mr. Barrett to go up, and confequently there was not fo great a profs about the ground as might be espeeted Wm the multitude. The cacti of the difiappoint went proceeded, as we are informed, fmm the difficulty of procuring a Inflicient quantity of the iron turnings neeeTtry for generating the which the ballnoits are inflated. Som. m.eet wry pe t 'Oi l s, thing to extort a profit f, the nsa. itopoly of an lc which is of no value. on any other occafion, had engroifed it, and on receiving from M. Bat rea lout times the uftral pt ice. The exertions of Mr. Barrett's hie:ids frustrated this combination to nia!:e o f lb great a public pleat - me; but at too late an hour to enable the balloon to afcend in fufficient irrie to 'attic the fitlety of .Ir. Barrett and his companions. Mr. Barrett was extremely defirous to go tip even after and, regardlels of his own danger, thought only of affording to the vail affemblage collefled witners his arcent, the novelty of a nodurnal voyage, which in nights fo bright and beautiful as the prefent, would unqueilionable he a charming rpeetacle, if the humanity oldie Viitilt people Wet e not likely to be too much affeßA by the danger of the individuals who procured it; and if the diforders .:iikelv to occur in the night amidst fb great a multitude did not reed_r it pro. per to give up the idea. Mr. Barrett, having iee.v every thing prepared, is determined to go up with out fail this day; he i, to be accompanied by Mr. Maddox, a Greenwich Gentleman, and by a third perfon, who is, as fume fay, Captain Sowden.-- Capt. Sowden was on the ground, and appeared extremely anxious that the delay, wllich for the prefent was inevitable, fhould not be praraCted beyond this day. M. and Madame Garnerin were alto prefent, and had fume converlttion with Mr. Barrett. Lord Stanhot%e had rode zo miles to he .there ; and if an 7 difippoiutmcnt, betides Mr. Barrett's, is to be particularly lamented, it is that of fo ze.kleus an amateur of rronautic experi ments as his Lordship. The balloon was nor brought on the ground, bet it is raid to be larger than either of thole in which M. Garnerin went up. We have ken the car, and it is certainly bet. ter confirttatd, being railed to a greater height at both ends, and thus rendered much mere realm The ex pence of filling, the balloon is not Co great as has been ilippored. Mr. Bari ett had prepared about twenty large bottles of vitriolic acid, which may airtimer to about Col. and one ton of iron pairings, the ordinary coil of which is front to Bs. per hundred, but Mr. Barrett paid more. To this the expence of machinery, af fifkaats, and labourers, as swell as the materials and conftruCtion of the balloon Ufa, makes cer tainly a very large addition. Mr. Aldrade, f ro m whore grounds Mr. Bnrrett goes up, is the principal fupporter of the experiment; many i other gentlemen were equally earneft. The in cloture from which the balloon is to be let off, is 'ow; but the view from the hills in the park being intercepted by the trees, will not be enjoyed till the balloon has reached the height of one hun dred feet. The lanes about the ground afforded a Orange confufiun of one horfe chaifes, taxed carts, and waggons, intermixed with foot pain ger;, principally feamen or penfioners, alarmed for the fafety of their remaining limbs, and crying out a point a head, a point a flora--a littk to larboard, 1114 pr—heave e a lit, if you plenfe, Sir, and filch other lea lingo. The park, from which the hills mull afford a moll commanding view, after the afcent, was not very full. The deer had no occa fion to be affrighted at the crowd ; they only flared, but did not fly. The taverns were the places to which the greateft numbers reforted ; exhaufled with the heat of the day, and deli' ous to confole themfelves for their difappointment, they regaled themfelves with every thing their pockets could afford, while the landlords with the moil cum. piete hypocrify lamented a mifcarriage which gives them an opportunity of making limilar profits this day. About four, the roads from London were quite thronged with private carriages, hack ney coaches, and Ilage coaches, loaded within and without, while the palfengers, quite unacquainted with Mr. Barrett's difappointment, and only fear. ful left they fhould arrive too late, appeared ago. niffical if they faw any perfon coming towards town ; and if the cattle of this apparent derelidion was explained to them, they were credulous even to infolence. The bridges, and every fpace about town fufficiently large to afford a view of the fky fur any extent, were filled with gazers, looking out for the balloon, with the moil impatient ex pedation, nearly till dark. The difappointment was borne with more good humour than could have been expeded, confidering that it generally allows no excufe to be valid on fuch occafions but the irrefdlible one of tempeftuous weather. All who went down to Greenwich thnnght of nothing when they were there but enjoying themfelves to the bell advantage, and happily no place about London affords more pleafures, or of a better kind. The walks were thronged till a late hour in the evening, and the fchool for the feamen's children had an excellent benefit, the chapel and 'the painted hall having feldom had fo many via -1 tors in a day. At nine o'clock tan night, it became a matter of uncertainty whether the balloon was in that (late of forwardnefs to warrant Mr. BARRETT'S promife to the public, that he would afcend as this day at three o'clock, but Captain SOWDLN, who arrived about half paft nine lift night, and ex amined the Hate of the balloon, pledged himfelf that if he was fuffered to fuperinteud the arrange, ments. the balloon fhould be ready to afcend tat a proper time this day, to the fatisfadion of the Public. Mr. ANDRADE conceiving this good authority, (offered the prncefs of tilling the balloon to go on within his premifes. Mr. BARRETT and Capt. SowoEx at ten o'clock procured feveral failors and carpenters to ant them in getting in readinefs every thing belonging to the Balloon. Several perfons were alto em• ployed ro inflate it with common air, for which porpole they had procured tw pair ,f large bel• lows, and were in hopes that it would be filled by one o'clock. Captain oOWDEN fat up all night, in order to fopet intend the preparations,that it might be ready. tor afcention this afternoon, whcn Captain Sow- DE$, Mr. BARRETT. and another Gelid Cal:41), WCrel to proceed on their aerial voyage. I il ,1 1 A I