Star. — London, England, 1802-01-07 00:00:00

7ENCE. D N. E. DWI. I I 0 a O -jing failed the for Claimer). Mails of the 2d (tow, of 74 guns, 1 L fttt.d and :h, and is to fail Liog for foreigts he Pon, Es Mall ALE; and ----, d at Hamburgh. ard bound failed tic have likewife lofe that came )t yt.t vrz, of Stettin, on, was ftranded I this veffel will is expeeavisitu— have !hared the riana, MEN z els. , and gone into failed this morn yeQerday. The to London, is I, near Derwin ned. The Chrif iagen, from Ba ad full of water ; er cargo will be I to be here wind )oth upward and ties of proceed ill be obliged to Ton, of Shields, he 14th init. on of getting he Is will probably mfladt on the stf h (hips; he met be the Carolina alUe, from Me ad, crew fared x, from Peted holm, it i; Cup ed ; the Marian, Co loft on Dorn .—We have had ight night frail r. .. nrusu. man a V. blows hard. by the Selina, ip, Davis, fr 0134 roa ; and Roth d the Leander, oral; RITC M/I, for Gibraltar aux ; William, IWINGTOIII I for n Laudon ; sad Ss- sts, from Bakimore ; ci,Harvey. from Sip ritTbhos Ncr. l israb, Gray g Ten Brothers, Av ian; Liverpool • frimn Poole; and kfton ; and Mend. 4. from Marietta; , Ford; int Matta ; lithe Eat India once, which ad elve o'clock.— their final leave Evrom CILITZIt t con iptain An maw or HaLv, con. the Honourable ached this years by Mr. HAM IL. 4r. MESTAIR ; lAt t on the bot ; ; one ditto of ditto, of 1200 to of 1200 tons, 200 tons each. e ditto of t zoo t under convoy rived at Barba- ived at Barba ig been driven a gale of wind, lifcharging her hands being on being left on I without being they bore away k/OlitatthEk& The follneving article is exttaifted from a late Paris journal of the 27th ult.. Groupes of curi ous perfons affembled the day before yeflerday around a Stots Highland Officer, who appealed at the Tuilleties with a kilt (jute) that covered half his thighs, and which to theta men fupplies the place of breeches and pantaloons, adopted in the reft of Europe. This coftume has fome refem bl.ace to the warlike drefs of the ancient Romans, sad when the plaid is added to it appears veryeler ::ant. Tha Scots Highlanders teem very much :ached to this old veftment, which, however, is ; :: ;., 2 4 only to men like them, accußomed to (up ruin the hatdfhips of a life Aiwa ravage, and the ir temperance of the feafons. From their earned ii:fancy they are habituated to the rnoft laborious t.xercifes, and at a more advanced age they are familiatlfed with every kind of fatigue. The levies therefore railed among the mountains of Scotland, in t se time of war, form the heft part of the land and naval troops of Great Muhl, and the prefe rence which the Government gave to them when it undertook the expedition to 'Egypt ; the care it took to place at their head a General of their na tion, all indicate the high degree of confidence in fpired by foldiers capable of fupporting the great Furth= of the war, and the influence of the mofi deitruSive climates. " We are acquainted with no people better calcu lated to endure the hardthips of life ar.d ftruggle againft privations. They are confidered, and with jutiice, in foreign countries, as models of patience and ttlignation to their fate. The little progrefs which eommereeandagriculturehave made among them ; fome vices in their legiflation, fuch as the tight of fuccerfion granted excluftvely to the eldell fbn ; the facility with which the youth of an Wand, frequented by a great number of foreigners, can ex patriate themfelves, and i multitude of other par ticular eaten, have given to the Scots the reputa tion of adventurers; but thole who have had the belt cpportunity of examining their charaSer tho roughly, both at home and abroad, know that they are bold and enterprifmg, and that their na tural difpofition and good morals are a furety for their condat to thofe nations among whom they receive hofpitality. When in a Rate of mediocrity, they impofe on themfelves the molt auftere priva- Com, and never purfue illegal means to emerge from their mifery. Murder, robbery, and perjury, ate crimes alma entirely unknown among them. Towards each other they obfcrve inviolable fide lity, wanes the death of Portcus, who was hung by the mob in 1736, in contempt of the laws and the government ; and, in the multi of ao,ooo per fogs; a to vl.rd of fool. was in vain promifed to thole Who we uld give any information of thole ssLo had been concerned in this violation of the laws, but not one voice was heard to accufe the a Khan:. The fufpicions of Government hovered over them, and they were brought before the tri bunals, hut not one individual was tempted by tliis great reward. The fidelity of the Scots High landers was put to a proof no lets fey-re, when the voung Pretender took fh•lter among them after his defeat at the memorable battle of Culloden.— if any inc•Tveniencies are attached to this un lhakcn fiumnefs of charafter,.with what tecurity may not the King and Government, to whom they have fwor a fidelity, entrull their deftiny to fuch a No: 4 e ?" Another detachment of the Guards marched into town yeflerday (of the 3d regititent) from their embarkation from Egypt. They were mart warmly greeted by the multitude who affembkd to witnefs thcir return. The Hkbiessd Said / have agreed to prefent to the brave .pd Highland reg►ment medals, comme morating their tnumph over BONAPARTZ'S eilder-tu the officers medals of gold—to the pri• sates medals of Myer. If London continues to advance in extent and , magnificence equal to what it has done within there few years pall, tee old Englifh jingle, re. corthd by CAMDEN, is not likely Coon to be lie eomplifhed— Lincoln was, Leaden is, slid York otall be The greateit City et the three. The liccntioufnefs of our female coftume, lays a letter from Paris, and the libertinifm it provokes in the other fee, are equally ditgußing. At the Thuilleries it alfumes Tome difguife ; but at the Speetacles, and in private focieues, you fee a naked difplay of charms which leave nothing to conjec ture. The arms, to the very shoulder, and the whole of the bottim are en whim and the ref of the perfon is dißinaly viable through the woven wind that plays about it. There fair fafhionables are called the Econoatifts and the Rionfortfiennet, becaufe, like the Roves of that Philanthropill, they contrive to create the greateß 'poffitile heat with tic fmalleli pollible quantity of materials. The chains, however, the aigrettes, efprits, combs, kr,deaux, and tiaras of diamonds, lead one very much to doubt the principle of fo much parfimony in cloathing. One Would rather tape& that this naltednets Lien aware was the great fecret of being diefl'ed as one pleated, and that.one had an hun dred-fold credit at the jeweller's for whatever was far d d from the triantua.maker. Anecdote o, FREDERICII the 11. of Prtiffia : At one period, WOUTIMIAMS painted in to fmall a lice, that tome of his pictures, like works in ea.' amel, have been put in toilet and fnuff.boxes. Fees sesles the IL King of Proffia, had one of them, reprefenting a worth ofsweitilry, painted on copper. and incrufted in a double cafe gold watch . he nfed to wear, till be gave it to a foldier, by whom he palled one day, as the man was on guard at the palace. The King having remarked that be wore a ..vatch, and doubtful whether his own was fet right, flopped and afked him, what o'clock it was? which gelation threw the foldier into confufion,who vt,re only a watch chain, and had no watch; bat loon recovering, he p ulled oat a mufket.ball, to which the chain was fixed, and laid, " My watch, Sire, does not tell the hour, bat reminds me, that it ii my duty to die fighting in the ferrite of your ffajefty." " A keret was, lobo employs hit time fo,: (Virgin to bow hem time pa," replied the King, and he gave the feather bia own watch. bIIZLIN D YAM I On Tharfday laft, a veftry of the paridsoners of St. Andrew's was held, for the purpofe, amongft other bufinefs, of railing money to continue the building of their Church, when, after applotting a (mall fum to keep the work in progrefs, it was agreed to petition the Right Hon. tbel.,ozn CHAN CILLOR for the grant of wool. on the parifh &cu shy, out of a confiderable flan for which they are at law, and from which they entertain hopes to be enabled to complete the work. On Monday laft Patrki and John Mooney were executed, for (lopping and robbing the mail-coach at Knocknagee, in the county of Kildare. They were hung at the fpot where the robbery was com mitted, near Colonel Ravin's wall, on the road to Carlow. And on Wednefday the noted robber yaw: Ma: chews, was executed atCappagh.Hill, on the great Weftern road, three miles beyond Kilcock, For the robbery of Wm. Ksom, Efq. at that place, fome time fince. The poll•boy conveying the mail from Rofcrea to Parfonitown, was attacked by two armed men, drefed like foldiers, who wounded him feverely, knocked him off his horfe, and robbed him of the Ban. gher and Parfonftown bags of letters dif patchedfrom the General Poft-office the 22d intl. and the Eyrecourt bye•bag. Provifions of all kinds rofe confiderably during the left week. This rage for high bred Meat is a good pretext for railing the prices of plebeian beef, mutton, and poultry. Me fee no profpeEt of again obtaining provifions at a fair and moderate price. Fah keeps up in proportion. The principal natural produelion on our newly. acquired Trinidad, is an imtnenfe lake of liistmen, of fuch a quality as to be ufed in building or re. pairing (hips, without any preparation. Super flition has accounted for this lake in various ways, but it has never, we believe, been examined by Wilful naturalitls. The roads in many places begin to bear an ap pearance of impeding travelling, owing to the great fall of fnow, particularly in Oxford and Gloucefterfhire, for between Frogmill and Witney the fnow in many places is four feet deep. A Dublin Paper of the 29th ult. in a letter to the Lord Mayor complaining of the abominable filthy !late of that city, a(ks, 41 but what will be the indignation of a ftranger when he is informed, that we pay more money for cleanfing our (beets than any other city in the world!—that the corpo. ration of the city only pays two thoufand three hundred pounds annually, for carrying away that manure which is fo fuitable to the poor foil of our country, and which aiiy where elle would be fold for money ; that to facilitate this carriage, there are two canals leading from our city, and that not only Honourable Inn Right Horrenrahle Perim:, Com onffoners, and Governors, have comfortable man/ens and brge diplomas in money for fuperintending this departtnent ?" A few evenings fence as a Gentleman, an in. habitant of the neighbourhood of Charles-flreet, Weftminfter, was palling down the Reps leading from Duke-ftreet, into the Park, he obferved the aged woman who attends there to (weep the Reps in the day time, and in the evening with a lantern, to light the paffengers, to he in a wretched Rate from hunger and cold. He put his hand into his pocket, intending to give her a [billing. On the following morning the called and told him the be lieved he had made a miftake the evening before, and had given her a guinea inftead of a (billing, and (he had brought it back; and for this uncom mon honefly Mr.C. caufed a number of copies of a full “atement of the cafe to be written and polled up in the neighbourhood of Duke.ftreet. Russian . W 1 or sa.—Two interefling periods for Peterlburgb are thofe of the froft and the thaw, All communications are then interrupted for fume days between the different ilinds of the Neva and the new and magnificent town of Peter I. It is to be obferved, that it is not the water of the river that freezes, notwit/aftanding the north cold ; the rapi. dity of its current prevents it. The ificles come already formed from the Lake of Ladoga, from whence they are driven by the wind ; they float on the lake until repulfed by the lea, or, colleCting in a mats at the entrance of the river, they flop, and joining one to another, they fir on the Neva a plat form of ice, which often requires but few hours to be cemented into a folid mars. The ificles of dif ferent fires are feveral feet thick, and loon are teen Hiding on it heavy fledges and loaded cars. A lady of a more genial clime would fhudder at the idea of croffing in a coach and fir fo deep and wide a lake on frail blocks of ice: but at Peterf: burgh there are only a few timid women who are frightened at it. At the approach of the ice all the boat bridges are laid afide, and only replaced after ' feveral weeks, during which period there is no communication except by a road acrofs the river. On returning from a (upper, a ball, or a play, dur ing the night, (hut up in a clofe carriage and wrapped in a warm peliffe, you are apt to forget that you are croffing an abyfs for more than a quattefof a league. When the ice is covered with fnow, and the road beaten, you would not even perceive that you were on the water, if a trickling found .did not inform you of it, and if . ybo were not fa r iled to pafs between lines of ( hips that feem placed on the (now, and which form ftreets on the Neva, that gives it the appearance of a town of a very fingular architeCture.—The time the Neva is frozen is the moll brilliant for Peterf burgh, and winter is the linen (carom—Communi cations are eftablifbed every where; the roads are good; provifions of every kind, game and fowl, come from the extremities of the Empire to the market. In Spring, the ice of the Neva breaks fuddenly, and in an infant you fee the barges fail ing where the fledges Hided. The cannon of the fortrefs announce the thaw, and the commander, in a fuperb Hoop, brings to the Emperor, who, furrounded by his Court, waits for him on the bal cony of his palace, a bottle of water, drawn from the centre of the lake, that then it in all its majefty. The Neva is generally T e z:i r i s in the beginning of November, and remains covered with j ice till the latter end of April." VEtsts, Cupid ! tempt me as wick gold: O ! lead me not for wealth .gray ! Can Love be ever pure that's fold, Or haft beyond the Wedding day t Will not, when the welfare's had, Coldnefs and Indifference rife; Can I appear a moment glad Or happy in ELIZ A ' S CyCl ? Shall I not feet the rattling town, And VitIOUR pats my hour., au ay ; Give, on her with to go, a frown, And bid her in the country flay t Leave tae n.e fo, deceitful Boy ! But at as Cupid fairly mould; Tempt me with loft donee tic joy, With beauteous MARY, wife and good! Whether with riches bk ft or not, With her contented I could be, With her the Palace and the Cot Would have the fclf-fame charmi for ire ! POLICE, &c. MANSION•HOUSZ.—Yeftcrday Mr. Holdfsvorth, the City Martha% brought two miferable looking Children, the one about ten years old, and the other eight, whom be found laft night near the Exchange begging. Thefe poor children were al molt naked, and exhibited a molt wretched ap pearance. Mr. Holdfworth raid, it is the praftice of the parents of there children, of whom there are a great number wandering about the firms, that if they do not bring home a certain fum every night, they are abufed and unmercifully beat. The children raid their parents lived in Shore ditch, and that their father is a copperfmith, and is at prefent out of work, and that fometimes they had bread to eat and at others went without. His Lordfhip ordered them to be taken care of for the prefent, and direCted that an officer fhould be fent to the parents to bring them before him. William Templeman and Ann Lloyd, fervants to Mr. Bifh, flock broker, Cornhill, had a fhort examination, on fufpicion of their being principals or accelfarics in robbing the haute of that gentle man, of plate and other articles, to a large amount, between Tuefday night and yeflerday morning. The prifoners were committed for re-examination. As was George Grimes, on fufpicion of utter ing counterfeit 7s. pieces. S HADW L.—Yelterday two perfnns, of the names of Doyle and Brewer, were fully committed for trial, charged by a gentleman in the City, with knocking him down in Red-lion-ilreet, Goodman's fields, about feven o'clock in the evening, on the 37th ult. and robbing him of a watch. THANES Orrica.—Ycil••rday Wm. Lee, a wa terman, was finally examined, on fufpicion of cut ting away the' hawfcr of the Verona extra Ealt Indiaman, in the month or July laft, then lyinr , on the Kent fi de of the River, part of which hawfer, by the evidence of a young man, em ployed as a waterman to convey it away, was de livered to a woman in Deptford, who is a corn. mon dealer, and who is, therefore, held to bail to (land trial. Lee was committed for trial at the next affixes for the county of Kent. Three men were conviaed under the Bumboat Al, for having various articles in their poffeftion fuppofcd to have been ftolen. MAILSOILOUGH.STILEET.-.- Yefterday William Lonfdale, mailer of the Tap under the Opera houfe, and Ann Lonfdale, his wife, were brought before the Sitting Magiftrates, the former charged with affaulting Cuthbert Ketchen, and alio aiding and affifting a perfon unknown, to rob him of 601. • and the latter charged with alfaulting John Balciron. The Magiftrate obferved, that the offence with which he flood charged was of too high a nature to admit of bail, but he had no objection to allow his wife to be at large, on entering into fufficicnt fecurity for her appearance to anfwer the com plaint for the affault, and in the mean time he muft be remanded for a further hearing, and he hoped the other perfon would then be forthcoming:— The Prifoner was then remanded, and his wife was bailed. HATTON GARDIIN.Fie/din o p the man examined Come days fince, on a charge of defrauding feveral publicans, by regaling at their expence, and after. wards flipping out oftheir houfes without paying the fame, WAS brought up again on Monday, when Mr. Smally, who keeps the Blue Bear public houfe, in Great Ruffell-fireet, Bloemfbury, and a number of other publicans, made various complaints againft him, and flrongly urged the numerous impofitions they were liable to, and the hardfhips they laboured under in confequence. The prifoner acknowledged the different accufations to be true : he was tea ble of the impropriety of his conduft, was ready to give fecurity for the payment of the debts he had contraaed, and raid a friend waited. for that put-- pore. The Magiftrate, after Tome very judicious remarks, advifed a conference between the whole of the panics, obferving, that it they were fat isfied with the terms the prifoner had to propofc for their payment, be would not perfill in advifing a profe cation. The parties accordingly retired, and pre tendy after returned, informing the Magiftrate they were willing to accept the fecurity offertd by the prifoner ; in confequence of which the Magif trate ditmilred him. Accounts from the neighbourhood of Chichef ter slate, tha,t fome nights fince a lad, who had been millin; for many hours, was dug out of a deep ditch into which he had fallen, together with fome Cheep, which had likewife been covered with a valt depth of fnow. He defcribed his fituation to have been at &it deplorable, from the idea of perithing in that melancholy fituation ; but he has coffered much lets than could have been expeded from the feverity of the cold. On Monday the t4th nit. a girl, about four years old, belonging to Mr. W. Bagful, of Trenthay s near Stokompon.Trentobferving a waggoner throw a hammer (which he had been ufing) into the fnow, picked it up, and applied the face of it tol he tongue, to Which it immediately flack fart; and When fire took her hand from the handle, the ham. mer was foltiended from h:r tengue. In this fitua tion the crib of the terrified child were heard by her father, who, taking her in'a cautious manner into the houfe, applied tome warm wafer to her tongue, and in !Ile courfe 4,f ten the ham mer was loofetled, without doing any injin f. We infert this as a caution to others ; for, it' th; ham mer had been taken hallily off, the chill might have been dangzroutly hurt. I-all Sunday t.wo Ladies had their pockets pick ed at the door of a Meeting, in Eaficheap, one of whom loft a pocket-book, containi►;g Bank of Eng land Notes to the amount of 261. and the other 4 pocket-book, but in which there was no valuable property. . On BUnday night, or early on Monday morn. the warehoufe of !Yidfrs. BereAord and Co. in Wood &ea, Chcapti.le, wa; broke open, when Irifh linens and Kery:4,:re werc flolen to a con- Ciderable amount. Yellerday morning, about fix o'clock, a cart, laden with pork and poultry, (landing in Grace church-ftreet, to be unladen, was driven a.vay by fome villains, and was found about el .ven o'clock, near Golden-lane. The property taken away amounts to near 151. Between fix and fever' o'clock on Sunday morn ing a fire broke out at a muffin warehoufe in Ba finghall• areet Poftern, which damaged the pre miles, and burnt the goods. Engines foon arrived, and there being a great fupply of water, the fire was got under without making any farther progrefs. Late on Sunday fe'nnight, the mate of a fhip lying in Dundee harbour, fell from the point of the Eat Pier, between the fhip and the Pier, into the water. By the alertnef, of a perfon prefent, be was immediately taken out, after having funk pretty deep in the water, and almoft got under the (hip's bottom. ExCept a wound on the back part of his head, he received no material injury. On Tuefday fe'nnight, the Portfmouth Rage coach, coming to London, was overtvraed : born four miles this fide of Gofport, by which an iniide paffenger had an arm broke, and feveral others were very much bruifed. Some days fince Mr. TAPPENDEN, of Fufler. lane, coming to town with a friend, flopped at the Elephant and Ccftle, in Sr. George's-fields, at which place a parcel, containing upwards of wool. in Bank of England and Country bank notes, was Bolen out of the feat of the chaife in which they travelled. We have not heard that any of the notes have yet been recovered. Laft Friday afternoon, as an honeft failor was coming out of Somerfet Honfe, where he had been to receive fome wags, he was accofled by a fiv.r per, who enquired of him the name of a pertini he foil was his brother on board the fame (hip? The f..ilor knowing a perfon the enquirer mentioned, they cutered into a converfation, when prefmtly a confederate dropped a pocket book near Tomple Bar, whlch was picked lip by the (harper, when on opening it a fparkling crofs was in it, with receipt to the amount of Sol. He (hewed as it were fome difinterefledn4s to the fai;or, otfe.ring him to go equal (hares in the prize. Having ar yived at Eta Smithfield, they went to a public houfe, when the credulous tailor gave the (harper ten pounds and his note of hand fur the remainder of his (hare. After the rogue was gone, the failor went - to a tilverfmith, who valued the crofs at nos. 6J. Lately was apprehended at Deal, a feaman for committing lime offence en board a merchant flip outward bound, but it has fince appeared that he is one of the mutineers on board the ALBANES3 (loop of ‘var, Capt.,Nr wcom a. When failing on the coaft of Africa the officers and their few ad herents were overpowered in the month of July iBOO, and the mutineers ran her into Malaga.— The Captain demanded her of the Commandant in the name of his Britannic Majefty, being under fuch peculiar eireumtlances as no national honour would countenance ; notwithllancFng which the mutineers were all made prifoners of war, and this man made his efcape. MURDER.—lntelligence has been received by the Concorde, lately arrived from NewlOundland, that a tnoft horrid murder was committed in that ifland previous to her failing by a tailor. Having quarrelled with his landlady, he immediately fnatched a hatchet, and murdered the woman, with her infant at the breatl, and four others.— Being taken, and put in prifon, he found means, during the night, to liberate his hands, and take off his fkockings from beneath his fetters, with which he lirangled himfelf, and that fo effeCtually as to render all means tried for his recovery abor tive. • On Thurfday laft the Coroner's inclnefl. fat on .thc body of an infant. found in the privy of a rc• fpeetable tradcfman in St. John's-fquare, Clerken well, the Sunday preceding. It appeared, lions the evidence adduced before tl'e Jury, that the fervant girl came down on Sunday morning as ufual to do the work of the honk ; bat complain• ing to a young lady in the family, that the was very unwell, fbe fent for a female acquaintance, who, upon enquiry, found it neceirary to call in the advice of a furgeon. When he came, he im mediately fonnd the unfortunate girl had very re cently been delivered of a child; however, the de nied the circumftance ; but, upon a ariel fearchs it was found concealed in a privy adjoining the houfe. She then acknowledged the had delivered herfelf of a dead child, and had difpofed of it in that manner to prevent the 11;ame and dilgrace of fuch an unfortunate fituation. The furieon, upon his eraminatioa, thought differently, for after opening- th e _ b o dy, and minutely M4,11111:11 t ‘ b e child, he w as o f o pi n i on i t was b ola a live. '1 net Jury, in confequenee, returned a verdi& of Wilful Murder againft the unhappy mother, who Dow tics dangeroufly ill at the workboufe, from whence (he is to be removed to the Old 13.1:1ey, by oter of the Coroner, to take her trial at the entt.mg feffions• It feerns the unfortunate female w a s much refpceed by all the family, as being a very good and confidential nrvaiii. Her fecluct:r, wa hear, is a m arr i e d man, kith a wife and tannly; lading nearly in the neThb:mirhnosi• '~