Star. — London, England, 1801-08-22 00:00:00

IXIRTSII:IOUTH, AUGUST This day tailed the 131 , LLEROPHON, of 74 guns, Lord Vifcou'nt GAR LI E 2, to join the Channel fleet ; and Vasuvitis bomb, for the Downs, to join Lord Isltzsos. Arrived the LORD ST. VINCENT cutter, from a cruize. Farther infirdlions were night fent to Lord NELSON, who Rill remained at Deal. Yefterday morning Mr. PETERS arrived at the Admiralty Office with Difpatches from Sir ROGER Coatis, at the Cape of Good Hope. Mr. PETERS landed at Torbay on Wednefday from the CAM- P I ta frigate, the Hon. Capt. LEGG E. The Hon. Capt. Rosser BARLOW is appointed to the TRlum pH, of 74 guns, now at Shcernefs. Lieutenant BINJAMIN PARTY, from the TERRI BLE, one of the Channel Fleet, is appointed Fir(} Lieutenant of the WOW/IRENE. The CURS, TODD, from London to Bengal, was (poke on the 3d of April, in lat. 33. 49. S. long. 6. Eaft, all well. The HIND, from London to Bengal, parted.on the 27th of March. The General Keppel privateer, of Liverpool, has had an engagement with la Mouche French privateer, and after a revere aftion, beat her off. The fchooner Macaque, commanded by a Lieu. tenant de Vaiffeau, with a cargo of wine, brandy, oil, cheefe, &c. from Bayonne to Cayenne, is taken, after a short aftion, by the Conti, s privateer o f j er ky, and carried into that ifland. The iIiDEFATIGAILI frigate, Capt. SCOTT, re turned to Plymouth on Tnefday, from a cruize on the coati of France, in which the endeavoured to cut out of Belleifle Roads a large French frigate of 44 guns, but the was fo itrongly proteaed by numerous batteries, that after exchanging feveral broadfides, the was obliged to defift from the at tempt, as the French frigate warped into (hallow water, and the Imosssriossts drawing a great deal of water, feared g:tting on fome of the thoals, A French Admiral, with five fail of the line and three frigates, ( till continue blocked up in Rochfort by sir E. Pti.Law. We have received a letter from a gentleman who is paffenger on board the Company's chip HENRY Dowoas which Pays, 4e We left the Wand of Madeira on the Itith May, in company with the Narrow, under convoy of the AILETHUER ; we are now (9th June) in latitude t. 00. S. and lon gitude 26. Welt, and the Aerial/se is on the point of leaving us. all well. On the 23d May we had the misfortune to lore overboard Henry Griffith, one of the King's troops, and John Moffat, a lea man, belonging to the HENRY DUNDEE. Every affiance was given by our boats, and two of the Aar usa, but the unfortunate men were drown ed. This accident arofe from the quarter matter at the helm jibing the driver boom, the fore guy of which having given way, broke, and the boom fwept the men of the poop." IXTRACT OF • LETTER. FROM AR OFFICER ON /WARD HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP TUX woLvsaiss, DATED OFF HAVES, AUGUST 8. " As the French fifhing-boats, which were very numerous on this coaft. have fo fueldastly difap pcared in the (pace of this laft week or ten days, it may be very probably con , jeenred that the filler men arc employed in manning the gun -vac's, Bcc. defined for the Invafion of England. Although our Government have fo liberally extended their prate* tion to the fifiermen from an idea of their indigence, and from a generoftty peculiar to Eng liftmen, yet it will appear to you, by the following llatement, that it is a great nurfery for French fea• men. This ftatement is upon a very moderate fcale ; and.the men, only ellimated ten in each boat, are more numerous—many of the boats, efpecially, ha►e from ten to thirty,,if not more, nn board. However, this outline will tend to illu. orate the pofition I have fet our with, viz. the prejudice which we may fultaiii from tolerating the fifnery of the French immediately on their own coatis. They have likewife the privilege or opportunity of afting as (pies. 1 7 1 Wag Boats. 3110 Er STATEMENT. At Havre Aleggiqr to Arts Weihoard of Havre. La Hogue and Cherbourg - - 220 Comae, St. Maim. sad as far as the ISe of gas, s3o Atagivtts Arts 114wasol f Hawn. Skimp and St. Vakareafe - - 200 Dieppe, irrairgpe. and Duakkk - 340 Total arrasiost of bests r3So Number of men, at tee to each boat 13,300 " We yellerday looked into Havre ; and as the fpring tides hare fet in, wee daily espea the fri gates out. One of them has her Royal yards arras. It is certain they have their guns on board, acid are viaualled and watered—every thing, in fad, ready for fea.—The Prefeet of Havre has lately been in Paris." A OTNaa L ATTAR, SA MI DATA. " Sir EDWAID HAMILTON the little fquadron here this morning. alarm was given laR night, b)' the Wotvaasa a,' for the ap pearance oldie enemy ; and we were all at quar ters. She is Rationed at., the month of the river Seine to obferve the motions of the early. At ea t the obferved two veffels coming out of the Pier. At twilight they loomed very large ; but ter a thort intersal proved to be, as they fay. . I zral. However they, as well as feveral others, e detained upon (peculation ; for they are not Lame 1 wrote to you about A few days fence. Wotv rata s is difpstched (and by which Mar I it.nd you this letter), it is underfiood; to St. . r or Cherbourg. " The frigates have each upwards of five bun t.-e,l men on board. There has been k confider itiflus of troops intolhis.town, amounting to limards of eight hundred within this day or two, ;: this news from the Mader of one of the veffels 21,3VC fpoken of. There is great confiertuttion, or t teaß alarm, fur Havre, as Lord NsLsoa is ex + ated to bombard the town. This report is very Pre.alent :idiom The Prefeift from Paris has triad-- a precipitate retreat. Capt. Rotates, com ma:Will the American frigate Masylaad, which was at anchor off thii place, about a month age, but fence failed, is accufed and inveighed againft, with the bittereft iitt ignition, for a breach of neu tral faith, to the prejudice of the French. He is conceived, from haVing had a friendly interdiew with the Englilh Captains, to have divulged mat ters of importance to them. We believe there is no grounds for the jealoufy of the French on this (core." A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER OF ONE OF HIS MA JESTY'S SHIPS, OFF PORT-EN-BAsSIN, DATED •Ucusr 8. " We this day difcovered the fmall fquadron off Hatte ; lb it appears the French veffels of war have not made their efcapc. We heard fame guns laft night, as if from Havre, and apprehended that it was an engagement ; however the canonading loon fubfided. We have jua been trawling, and have caught abundance of fi(h, efpecially come fine turbot, one weighing upwards of 331 b. It is almoft a phenomenon. A difh of fifh is a grateful mefs to us, after a thirteen weeks cruife. A the ii-the with the men of a folitary fi(hing-boat con• firms what has been advancedrefpedting the French fifhermen. A confiderable number of gun-veffels efcaped from Havre about a week ago, on a Wed nefday evening, when we had at fea moll tremen dous thunder and lightning. They ate gone to the Eaftward ; they fay Calais or Dunkirk ; and that an Invafion is meditated on England. They fay we have loft feveral (hips in the Mediterranean, taken by Admiral GANTH EAUSSE. • We expedt to go to Plymouth loon." EXTRACT OF ♦ LETTER FROM AN OFFICER ON BOARD ♦ EXITISH SHIP OF WAR, OFF CHER- BOURG, ♦UGUST 8. There are feventeen fail of gun-brigs and one bomb-ketch in the Roads, blockaded by the MAID STONE, Capt. DONNELLY, and the BLOODHOUND sun-brig, Lieut. BOGUE. The enemy appear at fingle anchor, but dare not venture out. The Wocv Lassa has brought us an account of the engagement off Boulogne. It is with much regret we hear, that this thip, which has been uncom monly active in the fervice, is about to leave us to join the fquadron of Lord NELSON, to whom this country is fo highly indebted for elevating its naval renown far beyond any former period of glory.— The courage and capacity of Capt. WIGHT, who is a flritt difciplinarian, and beloved by a very able and determined crew, will render the fervices of the WOLVERINE very acceptable to the immor tal HERO of the /sltce, who has penetration to dif cover, and generoftty to acknowledge fuperior merit. " Sunday, Aural 9. The CARTWRIGHT cutter, Lieutenant ALT, has kill arrived with difpatches from Capt. PRica, the brave Governor or Proteaor of Marcon. This communication, I learn, relates to a convoy of eleven fail at anchor off la Hogue. They efcaped from Caen River. The wind being at Eaft, none of our (hips can for the prefent attack them:" Lord Nt t.sox, with that humanity and affability which mark kis charaEer, makes daily vifits to the wounded officers and fcamen, and inquires after their health in the moll tender manner. His Lord• (hip has written a letter of thanks to Lord Gsoac s Caveat:int', Colonel of the Derby regiment, for the attention paid by him, in ordering his men to &Mt in removing the wounded from the bOats to the Naval Hofpital, which fervice they performed with the utmoll care and attention. The letter was read on parade at Deal. The Norwich Military Corps, under Major PAT.. rsioN, were infpeded on Monday morning, when their martial appearance, and readinefs to fulfil their engagements, were highly approved. The Lynn Volunteers have undertaken to per form military duty in that place during the inter val between the marching eut of the Rutland Mili tia on Monday fe'nnight, and the arrival of another regiment there. Aprivate letter from Calcutta rays, " A Society of Miffionaries (Portuguefe) have fent a deputation to Pekin, which is Paid tohave fucceeded in its ob jeft, which was, to folicit the Explitoa's protec tion in favour of the Chriftians in his empire, to the end that they might not be molefted, or the Miffionaries fent thither interrupted in the exercife of the duties of their aniffion. According to ad vices received, the Ess,lll.olt, in confequence of the reprefentations made to him upon the fubjeti by tome of the Mandarins who were moil in his confidence, had revoked many prohibitions, and allowed temples to be ereeted for the public excl.- cife of the Chriftian religion in his dominions." The woman who was lately arrefted near Bour. dean:, for having caufed the death of a boy of is, by fufpending him in the (team of a vapour bath, has been acquitted by the Criminal Tribunal of the charge of murder by intention. But to put an end to Inch prelice in future, and as a caution to other guilty frail:, the has been fentenced to pay a fevcre fine, in addition to twelve months imprifonment. A /cry curious, and to the vim of it, difigree. able baurrence, lately took plaCe at the baths of Baden in Atatria. A Lady who was remarkable for the beauty of her conviction ' repaired to the llaths in an elegant argigi. She had hardly dip. ped her bands into the water before the perceived that they were become perfeltly black. She was unable to account for this, but determining howe ver not to expole herfelf to the laughter of her corn. panions, the retired to a corner of the Bath, and undreffed herfelf, intending to want off the black. net's, when the got into the water, into which the immediately jumped up to her chin. On coming out-of the water the found her bofom, her neck, and part of her chin metamorphofed into thole of a Negrefi. This dreadful event occafioned the greaten coulternation in her mind ; and the called in the affiffance ocher friends, btr it was many days before they could (ucceed perfealy in emsfihiv the Slid-retiew what. The cattle of the phenomenon is well known to all Chenille to be in the proper ty of the Baden Waters of blackening all metals, and the Lady had been employing cofmetics, into the compofition of which =lac fubeasces had cowed SPORTING INTEILicENcE. HEREFORD RACES, WEDNESDAY, AUGUICE 19. A Plate of Sol. for all ages. Ld. Oxford's be. c. Crcrwell, by Chance 3 yr.. a fcathcr 14. branfo ,- 4's c. h. Chauntcc, 4 yrs. 711. ralb. - But one heat—it wa-s won with -cafe by Lord Oxford's Creffwell; 3 to 2 in favour of Chaunter at (tarring: Dite&ly after the heat 3to t in fa vour of Crefrwell ; but Lord Stamford drew his horte. The Duke of Norfolk, Lord Foley, Major Snell, and fume more fafbionables were on the ground, but they came when all was over. Chaiiiiter was dreadfully fpurred ; they ran every bit of the ground, but Crefrwell was well rode, and did not carry five (lone. KNIGHTON RACES, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1 4. The Sweepitakes of Five Guineas each, p. p. to which Twenty Guineas were added. Mr. Lord's ch. f. Icon; Spinner, 4 yrs. old, - I Mr. Wcyrnan's b. in. Peerefs , 1 The other Subfcribers paid forfeit. SATURDAY, AUGUST 15. Fifty Pounds given by the Earl of Oxford, for horfes, &c. bred in the counties of Radnor or Hereford. Mr. Evan Lewis's b. m. Editha, 4 yn.ohl, a I t Mr. Weyman's b. m. Peercfs, 4 yrs. old, t a a Mr. T. Lewis's b. m. Doubtful, 4 yrs. old, - 3 3 3 Excellent running between Editha and Peerefs, each heat being won but by half a neck. KEMPLE has returned to town in order to afiift in the arrangements for the opening of Drury lane Theatre. Monday the flyer cup given by Lord Vifcount COURTENAY, was failed for on the river Ete, in front of Powderham Cale : fixtecn boats were en• wed, but the prize was warmly contefted by two boats from Plymouth : one belonging to Mr. DYER, Matter of la NYMPHS frigate, was, how ever, the fuccefsful candidate, and received the elegant flyer cup, value 25 guineas, from the fair hands of the Hon. Mifs Cou TE NAY. The fecond prize of five guineas, and the third prize of three guineas, were won by Plymouth boats ; the fourth prize of two guineas was won by a Lympflone boat. The day being remarkably fine, a large affemblage of company attended. The boats ftarted by a fignal gun about eleven o'clock, and returned to the Goal about one. Camberwell Fair, which has lafted the whole of this week, has afforded a fine harveft for profti tutes and pickpockets. An unfortunate Clergy man, palling through it on Monday, had his pocket picked of his watch. The Edipfe, or Harlequin in China, at the Royal Circus, St. George's Fields, betides its other nu merous attraetions, polka - es the grcateft Splendour of Scenery and Drees, difplays the Coflume, Man ners, &c. of the Chinefe fo corr e ily , and is ac companied throughout by fuch ex9uifite Mufic, which is by Mr. W. WARE, that with the aid of that charming Piece, The Fire King, or Albert and Rofafie, it draws a molt crowded affemblage of ad mirers every Evening. Upon pulling down a houfe in Chelmsford, many years in the occupation of Mr. Nast+, hair dreffer, and digging at the foundation, an human fkull was difcovered, at about feven feet below the furface. That part where this houfe flood, it is laid, was about Soo years ago a wood, but we do not learn that it was ever made life of as a burial- . ground • therefore, by what means this part of the human frame became buried there, is beyond the reach of conjeeture. There is at this time ars apple tree in full bloom, in the garden of Mr. NICHOLLS, of Sawbridge worth, Hens. On Monday latt Tome Mermen 'took a remark able Or off Plymouth, which weighed nearly two hundred pounds. The mouth appeared very (mall, and contained in each jaw three rows pftharp,jug ged teeth ; and when boiled, it was obferved to turn to a glutinous jelly, and would moil proba bly ferve for all the purpofes of ifinglafs, were it found in fufficicnt plenty. It is called a fun-filh. A very curious and extremely rifible examina tion took place yeßerday evening in Bow-fireet, where an Old Lady, who profeffes to cure the Tooth. each, was complainant againfi a Shoemaker, who, like /azo, being " troubled with a raging tooth," applied to the Sybil for the charm, which, not be ing efficacious, the youth of the Lai decoyed the Old La* to his boufe, where he faftened the door, and behaved in fo boiflerous a manner that the Old Lady declared the " trembhd at fiveaty. tcno."—Mr. BOND good humouredly recommend ed an amicable adjultment ; but no perfuafions could induce the antiquated Dottrels to difclofe the component parts of her charm, as the replied in the words of Dr. Lak—i , 'Tis a fecret, and I wont tell." The following affeaing circumftance took place on Thurfday afternoon left :—A family confifting of the father, mother, three font., and a daughter, let off from town to the neighbourhood of Lea Bridge, to fee a cricket match: having dined at a pullic-houfe by the water-fide, the two eldeft fons hired a boat of the landlord, and proceeded to at proper place to bathe; neither of them being able to (wan, the youngeß got beyond his depth, and feeling his danger, implored the aftiftance of his brother. who, lessening his own fituation, went to his fuccour, but in doing that be loft his own life, without being able to fare that of his brother. The unhappy parents, with the other fon and the daughter, came to the fpot, while tome perfons were then dragging for the unfortunate youths, whom they found in about half an hour. All means were tried to reftore animation, but unhap pily without effect. The feelings of the parents 66 finding their children loft to them for ever, may be much eater conceived than ezpieffed. The mother at firft wu much • d, but foon after wards obliged to be • away, haling fallen into a Rate of infenfibility. The eldeß ran was about twenty -three _ years of age , and the younger feventeen. Their bodies were takes boale.autod ad by their father. COUNTRr NIGYS. On Sault& y laft a countryman went tothe ftbp of Mr: Brooke., diaper, in Cambridge, in order to purchafe fume :trticles,for the payment of which he tendered a 51. Bank of England note.' Mr. Brooks perceiving it to be a counterfeit, very pro perly had the man fec tired; who laid he had it from man in the market, who was likew it; ppfeheil.i ed. During their examination, the snail who of fered it had the addrefs to catch the n..te, which he initantly fwalluwed ; fti,a4; emetic v:ac given him, but without etre& The incit :tic Ltaiii,d for further examination. Monday ft.'nniglit, an inquintion was tAken At Witton, by Mr. Coils, coronet, cn the body ut Thomas Turner, aged t z years, fon of Mr. John Turner, of the above place, who was Accidentally killed by a fall from a borle. I.ancafter affizes commenced on Saturday laft. —There arc 63 yitifoliers to try ; of Joni one is charged with murder, one with for.; , Yry,fiine with uttering forged bank notcs,tws with ha, in (urg ed bank notes in their poirefrion, and lcrtntcen with (edition. CHFI.I4SFORD, AUGUST 21.—0 n riid.ly the 7th roll, as a child, about a year and thiee quartets old, was playing at its mother's door, in the nar row part of Romford-fireet, and a Rage c,,ach , A as palling through, the little innocent ran too near the coach, unperceived by the coachman, aod flipped down, when the fbre.wh2el wort ov.,:r its body and killed it upon the (pot. The fire which broke out at the Taylor's Arm:, in Colchefler, !all Friday night, raged for a !port time with confiderable violence, the flames being fed by a quantity of flraw that lay at the back part of the hotafe. The fire had nearly proved fatal to' feveral perfons who were Ace') in the honfc, par ticularly an old lady, upwards of 8o years of age, who had not been out of bed for the lall four years, fhe was wrapped tip in a blanket, and taken out at the window by a ferjeant of the Eaft Etre! militia. Several others efcaped without time to lave their clothes. About 4001. is the ellimated damage. Mr. Benjamin Page, formerly a Miller at Fing ringhoe, was found drowned in the river Coble, on Wednefday fe'nnight, with all his clothes on. The Coroner's Jury, which fat upon the body, re turned a verdiel of Lunacy. The body of Thomas Howard, who was exe cuted here on the 7th init. was carried to Colchef ter, where it lay expoled to public view, in his fa ther's houfe, two days. On the Sunday following, a Funeral Sermon was preached at a Diffenting Melting Houle: and when interred, his particu lar requeft, that the 117th Pfalm fhould be lung over his grave, was complied with. Maar, Aug. 20.—0 n Saturday evening the zd roll. as three boys were taking filcher under a tree at Miles Green, in Staffortlfhire, about four miles from Newcaltie, during a very f:vere tiorm of rain, accompanied with the molt tremendous thunder and lightning ever expericriczd in that neighbourhood, the tree attraCting the elearic fluid conducted it to the poor boys, one of whom was (truck dead on the fpot ; the other two %vele fcorched, and one of them *as flruck with fuch force by the lightning as to be completely lifelefs for a confiderable time ; but various refulcitating means being made ufe of to reftore the fufpended animal functions, the boy at length happily r e covered.— What is remarkable the boy that was killed was not in the lean fcorched, nor had any vifible marks of violence on any part of his body, except two fmall black efchars on one thigh, about half au inch in diameter, and two inches afunder. Friday laff were executed on the gallows neat this town, the five following perfons, vit. George Lacy Powell and John Di ummond, for highway robbery, James Gration for burglary, and John Evans and John Dcnt, for Cheep-llealing. From .the prifon to the place of execution they were fri trolly employed in prayer, and feemed prepared to meet their fate with becoming refignation. Powell and Drummond confeffed to being the perlbns who robbed and murdered Mr. Hill, fume time ago, as he was returning from Alfreton market. On the t tth intl. J. Holden, a labourer employ ed by Mr. Chriflopher Simmonds, of Lullington, in this county, accidentally fell from a waggon load of barley, which he was taking from the held, and was killed on the fpot. The Rev. J. WALTON, of Sutton, Crnfs Hills, in Craven, Yorkfbire, M a letter of Ansa 14., f Sof , addretfed to B. D. PARKINS, of Leuce#ei-fquare, London, the Patentee of the Metallic Trneors, copy of his notes during a ferics of experiments with thofe Inftruments. Betides important cures of rhensnatifm, contraftions, burns, head.ach, af feeions of the eyes, &c. ikc. is the following on a horfe : " A boric belonging to Mr. Slack, of the White Bear Inn, Cats Hills, through a (pride, had his leg exceedingly fweilLd from above the knee down to the foot. A farrier bad tried mew wit►out (meek. Three operations of t►e Traders in the tootle of the day eartfolerabiy reduced the (welling, and re moved to part the lamenefc la three days that (welling was entirely vac. I thee, however, Waved, that the print ipel vela is the bresft was much dlitended. The drawing of the Traders over this vein evidentlfprodaced great &set, as the poor aalsnal trembled exceedingly. I that tricsl, in the fame manner, three different pieces of mends, shaped like the Trac tors, from 'either of which did be exprefs any fenfitin,, but an bringing the Traders in corned again, the trembling in- Ready returned, and it was with sliilculty he tou.l be neid. In 40 SWAMP the vele was much ditnialited ; aod, by tep,st ed Ilk of the Tration for two days more, t►e bode was well." On the ift of April was pubrithed.br the Patentee, an entire thew Work, entitled ' Cafes of fuceetsful Practice with Pea /WWI P hg lc TRACI 011 i t, received Gace4anuary sloe. the date of the fanner pubtkatioa,lft."price is. 'old by J. Minton, St. Paars Church-yard, Loadon.—Of the Patentee le may be boding* by all who ►ave ?archaise! the Trotters. TIN Curse a Goat. Mumma Head-ack Toot Spades% linallas, sad all ana:avaa Dafeaca of Hades ars nibllasd, an Issaumaala. The Traders, to neceltary in every Faintly, i t eJ amens Hodes, .ap be bad, gesidoe, with new and improved " dons for Wiwi than, for Five Cutout the Set, at E. D mos, A. PA. tbs Peornee, in Lek duet-:quart and of Sindia, Chau* and Druggilt. in the Hapnarbet, The portable ware et the Tractor, renders their cart et gip by Nit, perfedry cuavenient. Letters ebeir ammo (re paid) day atteaded sok G cd dfrcc- D. Pt*. rederk Landau. rveysect kora OD ; LOD; Irjv lets i Kr I p. and ....; KIK dir. lart.