Star. — London, England, 1802-09-21 00:00:00

.10.41164 # 17, szlinkult is. The public breakfaft at Dandelion this morning was attendedly not lets than four hundred per ions. The principal attraltion was the grand Bal loon announced for afeenfion this day, and the delcent of a Parachute, with a tabby cat. It bad 01l the drat that could be wifhed, being a fubjelt for converfation for many days previous. As early as eleven o'clock the town of Margate appeared in motion. The pedeftrians were dreffed all intheir bell, and paraded in form down the High-flreet to the public road. Everyhorfe had been engaged over night, and foon after 52 o'clock gigs and whifkeys formed an irregular eavalcade on the cliffs. Before the fafhionables from Ramfgate, tic. arrived, the company affembled at Dandelion, vac entertained with a Concert of Vocal and In firqinental Mufic. Mrs. Q .F ANTRELL fang feveral fivouritt airs with much talk. Abouttwo o'clock, arrived the Duke and Duchcfs of Sr. ALBAN'S in their landaulet, with Mr. and Mrs. Dim, on horfeback. Of the party were, the Marquis of Haaritioron Earl and Countefs of CARTefORT ,, Vifcountefs iiLIBOURNF, Lady H. CAVENDISH, Lady G. Vit.citas, Countefs of JEassy, Sir CH. and Lady Asoit.L, Captain TOWNLEY, Mrs. TOWNLEY Lord COLIRAINB, Lady SOUTHAMP TON, the iion. Mifs FITZROY, Countefs of BEM MOUGH, Mifs CRIED, Mifs Baur, Lord H. VIL- Llelts, two Mifs Labials. The mufic, on the ar• rival of there diainguifhed perfonages, (truck up God fave the King, and afterwards played feveral other loyal and conftitutional airs. The company then promenaded on the lawn, in grouper officer andfevenr. The ladies were, if poffible, dreffed snore elegantly than ufual. WEIPPERT, during the time of breakfaft, played on the Harp, with accuftomed talk and judgment. During this time the Balloon made its appearance. It was compofed of paper fifty-four feet in diameter.— The procefs of filling being entrufted to Lieute nant ORME, and Mr, gym a t t..t. (engineer, from Norwich), they proceeded in the experiment.— The firft thing done, was drawing up the Balloon to the height of twenty feet, by means of poles and a (wive', and then the procefs of filling com menced. A (mall fpirit calk was produced, with lighted charcoal, and placed . in : the mouth of the Balloon; the charcoal was kept alive by whifps of iliaw. About a quarter of an hour elapfed before any fymptoms of filling appeared, but foon after the Balloon began to expand, and in lets than half an hour it appeared full. A tabby kitten was then produced, and put into a cabbage net (much again(l its inclination), and the general undertak ers were bufily employed in conjusi&ion with the fpeelators, in affixing the poor little animal to the parachute (compofed of the fame materials as the balloon.) During the performance of this opera. tion, the procefs of filling was continued, but a temporary delay wok from a trifling circumftance, viz •the balloon's taking fire. The utmoft alarm was excited, but not any ferious confequences hap pily enfued. The fire was loon extinguilhed with out materially injuring" the Balloon, the accident having happened near the bottom. Nothing now remained to be done but to add the neceffary quantity of fpunge andfpirits of wine : this was foon effeBed, and then Mr. Qtiawrati.t. begged the company to give room for the balloon to af cend. It afcended for about ten yards, and, in its defcent, it again taught fire, and from the ea gernefs of the fpedlators for itsprefervation, it was much torn before the flames were extinguifhed, and feveral Ladies burned their petticoats,and the Gentlemen their pantaloons, endeavours to Ave it. On enquiry into the eaufe of the failure, a great hole was difcovered near the top through which the gas is Paid to have evaporated. Al though the failure was a difappointment to many, the greater part of the company were anxious to Pave the poor cat's life: the honour of the atchieve- Menrwas conferred on Lady G. Vit,Li tits, who, with her fciffars, cut open the cabbage net, and fet poor puts at liberty. On Saturday evening their Royal Highnefres the Dukes of You and CLARIS)) c were at Richmond Theatre, to fee Mrs. Joiner play Letitia Hardy ina the Belle's Stratagem. The Theatre was crowded by all the fafhionable company in the neighbourhood. Mr. Fox was prcfent at the . Extraordinary Sit ting of the French Tribunate, on Friday lad. On Wednefday laft Madame RUMANIAN, at her country houfe ofClichy, gave a dejeuner, to which Mr. Fox, Lord HOLLAND, Mr. LIMN C, General FITZ PATAICIC, Mr. ADAIR, and other Engliflimen of rank were invited. Among the Foreigners of didinCtion, were alfo his Excellency the Marquis de GALLO, Ambafrador from Naples, Count A LCOROU 11(1, Count DI Dif KOFF. Among the french, Ccncsal MONZA V, and the Counlellors of , State Itsmii.m.v, (de Saint Jean d'An g ely,) ATHIEU, and MONTMOR EN cg. Among the'Ladies were remarked her Excellency the Marchionefs de LI/CHEM.!, Lady HOLLAND, and the Countefs DY ROT F. Madame RECAMita did the honours of this file with that grace and politenefs peculiar to Etr ; fhe fat at table between Mr. Fox and General tl. Tu a THY ATRa.—The Tragedy of Remo and 7u- Let was reprefented lalt night at Covent Garden Theatre, and was attended by a very numerous Audience. Rowe was performed by Mr. H. JOHN STONE, of whom it may be Paid io general, that though be played with feeling and energy, there was alto a fort of pompous nonchalance 41114 man ner unfuitable to enthufsafm, and the tendcfnefs of It,: lover. Mrs. H. Simms was the YaSet. She teems to have acquired a kind of asnoomy in her utterance. which we think proper:to notice, thus early in the feafon, left it filmic' become habitual. The Farce was Selina and Asor. The Remittance made from the Excite in Scot land, to the Exchequer in England, for the week ending the Bth inßant, amounted to t 30,0001. On Sunday a mad bull broke loofe in White el:apel, and tolled a man, tearing him in fuck a manner that be died inßantly. The bull had near ly caught five others in a corner, all of whom it would probably have killed, kit they had juft time efrmina :I N.APTICAL INTELLIGENCE. MAILS THIS DAY.--WIND N. 13. Alt Ivan. I Dublin, o Waterford Hambergit I French o Data DUL By the Paris papers received this morning We are informed that the (hip la Thards of Rochelle, returning from Cayenne, foundered at fea on the ad of JOly lait, between the Me of Horn and the Azores : the crew were Paved by the Hebe of Glafgow; but the Captain, Waved not to furvive this lois, threw hkureff overboard and was drowned. , We are concerned to Rate the loft of his Majefty's fitly LA • Pouting, of 44 gun% Capt. E. L. Gowen, which 'truck on a rock near Jerfey, and loon after funk. The Officers and crew were landed at jerky, and will be immediately brought from thence in the RTVOLUTIONAIM We are ago concerned to learn the lots of the FORTOWit fri gate off the mouth of the Texel. That Stip with the DIAMOND, Capt. ELPHINSTONt, was employed to convey the Dutch troops from Guerufey to the Helder. They Wed from the Downs on Thorfday feinnight, and on the following day, off the mouth of the Text', experienced a molt dreadful gale of wind. Both frigates drove over a fang band, but the FoarO nit unfortunately (Int& upon another Bank, and Ruck fait. She is irrecoverably loft. The DIAMOND was lived by the prefence of mind of Capt. Et. rim sToWE, in ordering, at a molt critical moment, the (mall bower anchor to be let go, which fortunately held. They were obliged to get out all her guns, provifions, Rorer, and water, before they could get her into deep water again. She is expected at Spithead every day. Yefterday the Difpatehes by the Country Ships 'the Eliza Ann, and the David - Scott, were made up at the India Houle, and forwarded to the above (hips for the Prefideneies of Bengal, Fort St. George, and Bombay. The above Chips only imported from India about three months ago, and have made the utmoft difpatch in the delivery of their cargoes, u they are now on the point of returning to India. The Stirling Cab, Country nip, is under difpateh for Bengal. The Jean, Wilhn, from Peterlburgh for Greenock ,is on more near Revel, and it is feared will be loft. The Hon. Captain Capel is appointed to the Phoebe. of 36 guns. She is under orders for, the Mediterranean. The Mary, Reid, arrived at Greenock on Thurfday morn ing from Jamaica, brings accounts that the Ann, 1114Kinlay, would fall in ten days after her. Arrivals at Port-Glafgow lag week : Lord Duncan, Miller, from Antigua, Phtenix, Ofwald, from Pidtou, Alfred, Clark, from Jamaica, Elbe, Henry, from Demarara, in 62 days. in 32 days. in so days. in 73 days. Lucretia, turnett, from Trinidad and Madeira, in 63 days: Captain Miller fpoke the Favourite of and from London for St. Vincent's, upon the aid July, in lat. 27. 45. long. sa. 43.; and Limlair of and for Briftol from St. Kitt's, upon the zgth Auguit, in lat. 41. zg. long 46. 16. out at days. The matter of the Elbe left loading at Denman, the Glaf sow, Douglas, and the Peggy, Love, for the Clyde. Tlie Peggy would be ready to fail about fix days after the Elbe, and the Glafgow was about ball loaded. The fitip !radar, which arrived on Monday fe'nnight from New York, fpoke on the 22d oh. in lat. 42. 57. long. 33. 2. the brig Hope, Gardner, from Liverpool to Bofton, out as days ; and on the 3ift ult. in lat. so. 47. long. 31. 38. the brig Rofe, of Kennibank, from Copenhagen bound to Rhode lfland, all well. PORTSMOUR, SM. act.-Sailed the GALATIA frigate, to the vreftvrard. DULL SEPTZIIIIZI 50...- Remain in the Downs , the Ships er as p DULL, E. N.E. GRAVESIPID, Sarramsra so.—Paffed by the Lucia, from Sweden ; Alert, —, from Dunkirk; Jacobus, , from Norway ; Elbe, Landabis, from Hamburgh ; Hope, ; Two Brothers, —; and Lucia, Klo(; from Rotterdam.— Sailed elm Tltasuum. Linder. . for Hamblin& • Grove Hilititterc her, for Bremen; and the Bloat, for o dam. ARRIVED At Poitimouth—The Cora, Hutchinfon, from Baltimore. At Plymouth--Araida, —, from Triefte. Off Beachy—Mary Ann, Dunbar, from Grenada. OF Weymouth —Harmony, Nicholls, from Oporto. At Clyde—Lucretia, Benhett, from Tortola. At Leith--Polly, Duncan, from Leghorn. At Newcaftl&-Niger, Baker, from Virginia. At Cork—Fame, tiayman, from Martinique. At Dublin—Recovery, Hardeaftle ; Friendfhip, Laurence; Cecilia, Mainsford ; and William and James, Tomliafon, frac Antigua; Sifters, —, from St. Vincent's; Atalanta, Wilfon; and Albion, M'Guire, from Jamaica. In the River—St. Jean Baptifte, Areante, from Bilboa ; and Mary, Deye, from Waterford. In the Downs—Ann, Burney, from St. Thomas's. At Clyela—Nancyjarney, from Quebec ; Mary, Reid, from Jamaica; and Elbe, Henry, from Demerara. At Cork—New York, Rots, from VirSinio. Between the aid Auguft and the ad init. 495 (hips have pallid the Sound. A Hoop, laden with Geneva, bound from Rot terdam to Li(bon, was' fuffered to run afhore at echevening, on Tuefday fe'nnight, at three - o'clock in the morning, having fprunga leak. The Captain, PIERRE COLLO/46'M o of Guernfey, with the reit of the crew, was faved. The Fortuna, Diamond, Autumn, and Alcmene,, Engin (hips of war, frpnv Guernfey, with troops; arrived in the Texel on the toth. The two former got aground on the ' Lann. The Fortuna was obliged to cut -away het - Malts in the night, and being extremely leaky by ftriking on the ground, the crew was carried afhore in fchuyts, which Had been fent to her alfillance. The Diamond is got afloat, but (1111 remains in the fame place where the ftruck. On Saturday morning Taft , u lady and gentle man returning from Horn ea, by the fand, to wards Aldbrough, in ,Holdernefs, in a gig, at tended by a fervant boy on horfeback, when about half way were furprized to find the water nearly clofe to the cliff where it projeaed, but foppoling theroad before them as file as that they had pallid; they paled forward pail this projection, though with difficulty; after riding a mile further, they were alarmed to find the tide quite dole to the cliff for a long diftance before them, and having driven (lowly on account of the heavinefs of the fand, they concluded the former projection to be' by that time impaffable. Their only refuge was to climb up the Cliff, which in that part was fo fteep as alma to forbid accefs, but providentially they found a ledge therein about four yards from the land,-whither they afcended with their horfe‘ i and fhortly after procured affiftance from Great Cowden, which they happened to be very near. Two men with fpades cut a road for the horfes ; and In the (pace of an hour they all got fafe to the top. The carriage which was left below, was (lathed to pieces againft the Cliff by the fury of t h e w aves Had they remained half an hour longer on the ledge,' it is highly probable they wou ld, with the horfis, have been buried in the deco, as the whole plat fell ill !hardy after, being, 9 I oLto —,.. Yefterdai twenty prifoners were tried, nine of Whom were capitally convieted, vit. Wilk= Herbert, John Reynold:, Samuel Beach, • Francis Ryley, Charles Smith, John Roberts, Edouard Griffith:, Eliz a beth Lane, and Elizabeth Ely, were in dieted fo r a burglary, in breaking and ettering the dwelling houfe of George Skillicorn, in the night 'of the loth of July laft, and foaling therein two wooden boxes called tills, containing penny. pieces, halfpence, and fatibings of the value of forty fhillings and upward; a nutmug grater, and a medal refetnbling a farthing, the property of the Paid George Skillicorn. The profecutor (wore that he keeps a public. houfe in Little Queen-ftreet, near Holborn, and on the night of the Toth of July, he fattened up his houfe, cellar, bar, &c. about eleven o'clock, and was alarmed, bef ore three, by a report of his bottle . having been broken open ; which he found to be fo, the flap of the cellai door having been forced, • and the ii:th of the bar door thrown up. blade tht flap he found a, pair of 'hoes which were all wet and dirty. He did not mifs any thing out of the cellar, but when he went to his bar he perceived that two drawers, which were his tills, were taken away ; they contained pence, halfpence, and farthings ; it was not quite light when he was called up. When he came to the door of his houfe, a watchman came up to him, and in confequence of what that watchman Paid to him, he went with the watchman down Parker's-lane, through Crofs-lane, to Newtener's,lane. At &it only two watchmen went with him, but others came afterwards to aflitt .them, and they entered a dwelling houfe where - the watchman fufpeeted the prifoners to be. They rushed into the parlour. and faw all the prifoners except Elizabeth Lane. Elizabeth Ely was in bed and undreft—there was but one bed in the room. Qne of the men was upon the bed, but he was dreffed. The prifoner Griffiths was leaning again ft the window—Rey nolds was at the table counting. money ; the pen ny pieces lay before him all in rows. He had no limes on him at the time. Smith attempted to make his efca'pe up the chimney, and as he went up, halfpence tumbled down along with the foot. Ai to Elizabeth Lane, the came iti the morning to the watch houfe, and defired that her charadter might be cleared of fufpicion in this bufi nefs, and that was the way (he came to be committed. Bryan Dowling, a watchman, Paid, he was the perfon who (poke to the profecutor. Before the profecutor, (poke to hith, he had made fome obfer vatioris, about twelve at night, on teeing the pri loner Ryley going towards the corner where the public houfe was. After twelve .. .o'clock he heard the' voice of a woman, who he believed to be Eli. zabeth Lane, whom he had known many years, fay, " d—n your eyes, Jack, this is the time to make your ground, for the watchman is out of the way ;" at the fame time he law; Reynolds crofs over the way, towards the profecutor's houfe, up on which the witnefs fprung his rattle. Saw him going into the paffage in Goldfmith's Alley, in Newtner's-lane, but he did not fee The woman.— !le went to look for Reynolds, and Reynolds came back to him, and he took him, and brought him to the watch houfe. He had fhoes on, but he wore them as flippers. He could not get hem on, for they did not at him. The witnefs having told the conftable his reafon for apprehending this man— the conflable having fearched him, and found no money on him, he let him go. As they were com ing away from the watch houfe, Reynolds laid to the witnefs, I believe you are an honeft watchman, and I will give you a fbilling to-morrow. The witnefs Paid, he wanted no treatment. He after wards met the Bow flreet officers, who brought the drawers to l the watch houfe, and then came back again, when they :net the profecutor :—the Bow-ftreet officer laid to the profecutor, " If you ' know of any body who has been robbed, the drawers are at the watch houfe :" On which the profecutor told bim be had been robbed. Then the witnefs and the other watchman went to take the prifoners. They went to a houfe in Newtner's , lane : when they came up to the door, Ryley (poke to the others and raid, " here is Dowling." He was then in the paffage • he ran back direaly, and hid himfelf: he was af terwards found cover ed with ftraw under the ftairs. The witnefs ran immediately to the door, and there he found the prifoner, Samuel Beach. As loon as the door had been broken open, Beach jumped on the bed, and threw the money, where the remainder of it was. The prifoner, Charles Smith, went up the chimney, and was afterwardi got down. The prifoner Grif fiths was (landing between the window and the table—Reynolds was (landing oppofite to the fire place, and the witnefs raid to him, 86 Reynolds, if you attempt to (lir, I will lofe my life but I will take you, for I know you to be a thief." Ro berts was alto (landing there ; and the woman undreffed was in bed : She was Elizabeth Ely.— The prifoner Herbert was lying down between the window and the table. Herbert Paid, " Be fore you take me away, there is a !billing of mine between the bed-cloaths, for it doses not belong - to the property." The witnefs went to look for the fhilling, and it was found. Smith having got up the chimney, and the halfpence tumbling down, the witnefs told fome of the watchmen to go to the top of the houfe and thrim the chimney down upon him and fmother him if he did not come down—but he continued going up, and the half pence were tumbling down ; but on being told that a fire would be kindled in the chimney if he would not come down I he came down, and tak ing out of his pocket nine pennyworth of half pence, laid, " that is all I have got—you cannot hang or tranfOort me for that." The prifoners were then all taken away. Reynolds pulled off his top coat and threw it on the chair, and laid, " Dowling, you have found no money on me."— In this coat there was about five fhillings worth of halfpence, that he would (wear to ; but he would dare to fay there was nine (billings worth. The nuttnug grater Reynolds drops out of his hand: the witnefs law him drop k. The witnefs took all the copper that he found, and carried it to • Several titlier.vitakiffet were exainined l , who corroborated the tormtievidence, and added, that. force halfpence were found in the poffeffiCia efße herts. It appeared, that the boxes in quetlittn %we t ''taken up in Stone..cutterillreety. by one of the Of cers 0f.801.v-flreet, who happened accidentally to go through this plaice about three ink, morning., 4.14c1y of thc,narrie of Margaret Wank" .gave an account of .her being awaked - by a rieire.lat • Stone-.cutter- fire t, fhe thought Ixei own houfe 472.1• attacked—afterwards an handkerchief was pickett up with halfpence in it, but who the handkerchief belonged .to was, never fottitri out. • The two drawers taken-up by the Enw-ftreet . Officer being 'preducedi and the nutmeg-grater, the profecntor fwnre thein,to be his preperty ;and- • he swore pofitively . that there was more than &Tu.- • Ihillings in -them in halfpence, and he, beliiinted: near fifty thillings worth. . • The Learned Judge fummed up the whole', . the evidence, and obterved to the Jury; that ttaiss- • was a capital, offence, that of burglary, .and to • conftitute that crime it was neceffury. that. the . breaking and entering fhotild.be in the night time; w. and in order to be fo, it mill be done at a tins:. when there was not fufficient light to diftinguifh the' features or the conetenance of a . man. Astu-ther two women, the .I.tarned judge laid, he thimght fwearing to.the -voice of one of them,. without, ' Peeing her, and that when the made ..ufe of. an ea, preflion that had no definite meaning,. coupled with her readinefs to . furrender herfelf; -analof the . other being in bed, without appearing to 14ve had any 'hare an the tranfa&ion, it would be too Much to convifL either of them. With regard,to-.ths4lif.. ference that might be fuppofed to bean theireafes he obferved to the jury, that Reynolds and Ryler appeared upon the evidence to have been mutt adive in the robbery. Now, if they .tbonght the other prifoners were not prefent at the. breaking and entering the houfe, nor aiding and atfifting its that at that was to fay, on the watch, ready'aud near enough to give notice to thofe who did it, they could not be found guilty upon this indid ment,althotagh they might (hare of the booty after the at was done, Sec.. _ _ _ The .Jury retired, and remained out of Court about half an hour, and laid, they acquitted them all of the burglary, but that they'were guilty of ftealing in the dwelling-houfe. • Mr. Juice La BLANC afked the Jury of what - value they found the Bolen property to be? They deliberated again,fora . few minutes, and then found the value to the amount- (tated in• the indictment, , and found , all the prifoners,- except the two women, Guilty—Death. The prifoner Herbert is 26, Reynolds r 5, Beach 28, Ryley t 5, Smith 13, aryl Griffiths years of age. James Norton and Miles Girler, for felotionfly af faulting, on the King'shighsvay, Thomas Warner, putting him in fear,- and pitting forcibly from his perfon a leather purfe containing two feven-fhil. ' lin4 „ pieces and three (killings in fliver,his property. The pr ofecutor irappeared *as returning home to Eaft Alton, between ten and eleven'o'clock ore the night of the 7th of Anguft. , On Shepherd's • Bulk Common he was met by .the two prifoners, • who (he fad) came down upon him angle ways, from out a gate : they both came up, collared him, and brandilbed their flicks over his head. Norton laid "D—n your eyes have you got any filver ?" The other interrogated him terrifically, nearly. in a fimilar ways He Paid, he had, but he hoped they would not take it ! This hint produced an im mediate fearch of all his pockets, &c. ; at length they obtained polled - ion of the purfe which con tained the money laid in the indietment : the pro fecutor then bEgged that the purfe might be re turned him, as he had a particular value for The reply was—" D—n your eyes, no delay, be off." He then proceeded to the White Horfe, Shepherd's Bufh, where he met fome of the Bow- , ftreet Patrole, and related his (tory. Two of'them immediately accompanied the profecutor in quelt • of the robbers, and on their way met a gentleman, a Mr. Angier, in a one-horfe chaife, who very laudably took up the patrole and joined in the purfuit : they foon overtook the prifoners on their route to town. They furrendered without tance. The purfe was found in the poffeffion of Griller, and fome other articles not belonging to the profecutor, and a few fhillings, but no feven !haling pieces. The purfe was immediately re cognized by the profecutor, who fwore to its identity in Court, as well as pofitively to the per fons of the prifoners. Nothing fatisfatory appearing in their defence, and the Jury deeming the charge to be fully made out, found a general Verdict of Guilty—Death. Eight were convicted of felony, viz. G. Vaughan, for ftealing a pockeChandkerchief, the property of R. Cecil ; J. Sander:, for ftealing eight live fowls, the property of J. Davis ; Ann Brett and Elizabeth Roberts, for ftealing a •filver watch, the property of E. Paxton Ann Locker, for (leafing two flirts and other articles, the property of J. Carty ; T. Dadley, for (leafing two pair of ear rings, the property of T. Baffett ; and .7. Milo, for (leafing a pocket-book, containing Bank notes to the amount of ssol. and upwards, the property of J. Murdock. . Marjball was charged with the capital offence of highway robbery, in felonionfly affault ing, on the 19th of Auguß, Jofeph Holloway, and forcibly taking from his perfon two (beets, a bolfter, and an apron, value i Bs. the property of John Gill. The circumflances of this cafe are reducible to a very narrow compafs. Jofeph Holloway, a fer vant of Mr. Gill's, of Kentifh Town, was bring ing home the articles Rated in the indiftment, on the night of the 19th of Auguft; he bid got to the door, and rang the bell—while he waited until it was opened, the prifoner, who was coming along the road, matched the bundle out of his hand, and ran off with it. The man immediately cried out " ftop thief," and ran after the prifoner, as did two perthos who werepaffing by. He was loon overtaken, but pre vioukly had dropped the bundle; he made tome re- Mance, and drew out a knife, and before he could.