Star. — London, England, 1801-08-21 00:00:00

w , - -- BRIGH'iTM, auoitsr IS. ['he PRINCE leave us on Mbnday next for a tf ,t time. His Roy*t. HIGHNESS intends re .::wing the troops of the line Rationed at Guild on his way to town, to dine with the Duke of YORK in Piccadilly, and return the following Jot to Petworth, where he will pats a few days .k,th Lord EGRtMoNT. Lord and Lady Wit.tiara Russsi. came down i.tit night. NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. MAILS THIS DAY.—Wind N. N. E. ARMY tr. DVS o Hamburgh, g Dublin, AugWt 17, 0 O Waterford, 3 z Donnaghadee, Auguft Guernfey, Augult i 7, • Jerfcy, Augult iB, DEAL, AUGUST 19. A fignal was 'aft night made from the MEDUSA frigate, for the hired cutters to weigh, and they accordingly proceeded to fea, fuppofed for the Bay of Boulogne. It is expetled that Lord NELSON, With the whole of his fquadron, in which are three fire-brigs, will follow them fome time this evening. The NETLEY fchooner has failed to the weft ward ; and the VI CTOIRI fire•brig came down this morning from the River, and remains with his Islajefiy's flips OVERT SSEL, MEDUSA, LEYDEN, ALRMAAR,SAVAGE, and DART; OTT ER andlsTANcr fife-brigs, liscLa, SULPHUR, and EZPLOSION bombs, CONSTANT arid HASTY gun-brigs. FALMOUTH, AUGUST ao. Arrived.the brig No (Ira Senora Rofanna, WE LC H, from Madeira, in 22 days, and landed a Naval Officer with difpaches, who immediately went off for London : the MILBROOIC, fchooner, oft 8 guns, from a cruize E and American (hip George, Capt. Rics, with brandy, nuts, &c. from Barcelona, for orders. The EARL Sr. VINCENT fchooner has taken and tent in here a French fchooner, laden with culme. The homeward•bound Li(bon fleet, under convoy of the Aldo', Was off the Land's End this morning. * YARMOUTH, AUGUST 20. The litlhcs of WALES, DEANE, is in the Roads with the Mails for Hamburgh of the 18th inaant. —We cannot account for the non-arrival of the Mail now due otherwife than by fuppoting the Packet to be becalmed, there having been but lit tle wind for tome days pall. Arrived the Johanna, Captain Martin, laden With deals and timber, from Norway, and the Hope and Vifrau, Captain Kleutenberg, laden with Llt 6fh, bound to Embden, both captured by the ()turn (loop of war of 16 guns, Captain Dun. sna.—Alfo arrived the Prince Earl, Softrun, from Abo, hound to Amlkerdans, laden with pot-au], detained by the KITE (loop of war, Captain DlGBY—Sailed the Haar brig on a cruize. PLYMOUTH, AUGUST 19. Came in the RsvoLoriottala6,of44guns, Cap tain Twrsosm, from the Eaftward; l'Orszeo, of t 38 guns, Captain Fitzaor, from a cruize off the Spanifh coat; and the Swam cutter of 54 guns, from a cruife. The CONSTANCE, of 24 guns, Captain Mtiuos, flood into die Sound from Sea, end after lying to a few hours, failed again on a cruize : arrived alfcr, the BUSY Revenue cat ter from a cruise, with 140 calks of feized fpirits and a French brig name unknown, laden with wine, pitch and tar, cut out of a bay on the coat of France, by the boats of the HIRON DILLE, of 14 guns. Came in the Danifh fhip Martha, of Co penhagen, Capt.rimirrive, from Morlaix, bound to Altona, having on board carriages and fhoes ; this velfcl was formerly the Martha of Brifiol by the crew of this veffel it appears that the SUE. tissers of 14 guns, and Itsmaan of 18 guns, at tempted by their boats to cut out a French cutter from St. Maloes, but being early difcovered, they were obliged to retreat with the lots of three men wounded.—Came in the Francifco Spanifh Chaffe limit, laden with wheat, from St. Andero, bound to Corunna, taken the soth intl. by the PHOIN IX privateer, of Jerfey : the had taken five others of the like fort, and one French veffel. PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST to. Arrived the Taturern, of 74 guns, Captain HALVXV i from Plymouth; HYDRA, of 38 guns, Captain PAGET, from Weymouth. Came up to St. Helen's the AMPHITRITI frigate, from the Weft Indies; Ft.y sloop of war, Captain DuVAL, friin t Africa ; and Ns fchooner, Lieutenant ?Trim, from Oporto. This evening arrived the Foe rues', Lord BcAuct.sec, from Weymouth. SHEERNESS. AUGUST so. Arrived the Hear: brig of 03 guns, Captain Bons, from Yarmouth, and the EDWINSTO/41 Shields tender from Shields, with impreffed men for his Majelly's fervice.—.Sailed the /Ewa; s, Cap 'ain Sra•mo la, and the Amazon frigate, Captain f - tirrow, to the Great Nore. The HARPY brig is appointed to fail for the Baltic with the convoy now waiting at the Wore. The Silt&PIS has been fitted as a floating battery, and failed down Chan cel to take her ftation as a guard flip. FROM LLOYITS DEAL, Aucusr 2o.—Sailed the SAVAGE (loop/ for Shcernefs.—Several veifjs from Oporto are arrived in the Downs. Win.! N. E. GRAY ESL ND, AUGUST 2o.—Pa (fed by, the Mary Aral, CLARK, fr om Surinam ; Hercules, &BATT, from Hamburgh ; General Moore, Niro!yrs ; Oda, DEXTER; ISIBXCUIy,LOTHRINGTON; and Herfacilo, —, from Oporto ; Ceres, FALSTON ; FCella —; Ceres, —; and Thetis, —, from Dant zic.—Sailed Northampton, BAKER ; and Anne, SINCLAIR, for India ; Thames, Liis oca ; and Ocean, NOBLE, for Hamburgh ; Leith Packet, DAVIDSON, for Bremen ; and Pleon, —, for Norway. ARRIVED. At Tenerife—Two Sifters, Riky, front At Weymouth—General Hunter, —, from Demarara. A t Cork—Commerce, James, from St. Vincent's ; and Three Williams, —, from Demarara. At Newry—Difpatch, Worth, from Ncw York ; and New Draper, Hughes, from London. At Liverpool—Fortitude, Harrow, from Virginia; Kelton , Thompfon, from St. Vincent's; Harriott, Keyfer ; Adelphia , 'Creature ; Richmond, Watfon ; and Provident Succef,, from Barbadoes ; Eagle, Harvey ; and Orange Grove, Hannah. from Trinidad ; Barton, Nicholls; and 'lfhomas, Winder, from Antigua ; Henry, Hutchinfon ; and Clio, Coupland, from Martinique; Sally and Rebecca, Calder, from Surinam; Ar gonaut, —, from St. Croix ; Horatio, —, from Demerara ; Epllron, Liffon, from New Brunfwick ; Union, —, front Virginia; Cornelia, M'l.ellan, from Savannah; Wentworth, Dixon, from Canada; and Eftafette,Ma.ias, front Dantzick. At Clyde—Heroine, Robinfon, from Qiie bee. At Dunbar—Eaft Lothian, Phillips; and North Star, Dan fen, from Greenland. At Londonderry—Ardent, Davy, from Baltimore. Off the Wight—Juno, Blackburn, from Grenada; Sufannah, Leitch, from Martinique; Enter - it-ire, Harvey, from Bcrbicc ; and Favourite, Patterfon, from Surinam. At Lancaller—Penelope, Parker, from Dominica. At Portfmouth—Dedalus, Pawles ; and Hero, Smith, from Antigua; Role, Barron; Simplon, Sheer; and Rof,, Nichol fun, trom Demarara ; Andromeda, Sale, from Nevis; Emily, Philips; Dolphin, Cummings; and Ncw Grove, Barclay, from Surinam; Two Brothers (late Pell), from Martinique; and Enterprize, Harvey, from Berbice. Off Fabnouth—Earl Wycombe, Taylor, from Jamaica. Lieutenant F. PARKER is appointed to the com mand of the INDUSTRIOUS ANN gun-veffel. Captain T. M. HARDY IS appointed to the com mand of the Isis, of 5o guns. Capt. V. C. BF It K E Ley is to take the command of his Majefty'p fhip GENEREUX, now in the Me diterranean, in the room of Captain pi rom. The ALLIANCE fhip of war is Rationed off the Spitway for the defence of the SLAIN. She is com manded by Captain MELLN uism, and is now prin cipally manned by the Effex Sea Fencibles. The utmoft exertions are ufed to compleat the building of the CoLoss us, of 7¢ guns, in Deptford Dockyard, which it is imagined will be finifhed by ehrifimas. Letters from Deal Rate, "that when Lord NE 1.• SON vifitcd the wounded in the Royal Naval Hof pital, he was obferved to pay particular attention to every individual, inquiring their cafes, and con• foling them with a promife that he would fend them good news fhortly. Of a feaman whom he recolleded, his Lordfhip afked him how he was ? the gallant Tar replied, he had loft his arm ; to which the Admiral - faid, " never mind that, I have loft an arm, and perhaps (hall lhortly lofe a leg — they cannot be loft in a better caufe than fighting for our country."—This had fuch an effeet on the Tailors, that feveral of them exclaimed, they only regretted their wounds, as it prevented them from accompanying him in another attack on their ene mies, the French." When Lord NELSON failed latl to the Nore, in (lead of taking the ufual courfe, he cbofe to crofs the Naze, which had always been confidered un navigable for (hips of war. This pattage will in futere be called Nelfon's Channel. On Tuefday a French privateer was taken near Portland : the firing was heard very plain at Wey mouth. The S. W. Paulfon, from Virginia to London, is put back to St. Bartholomew's, in diilrefs. On Sunday morning la(, the Nottingham, of Colchefter, got on the Scroba Sand, and is totally The Honourable Eaft India Company's out ward-bound (hips the ALBION, Dux' or 13tic ctstiox, WARLRY,ALTRED,WOODFORD,TAUNTON CASTLF, Fist.vinlas, and EARL ABLRGAVENNY, were fpoke with at tea on the 6th June lall, in lat. 39. S. and long. 14. W. all well. The difpatch of the following Eafl India (hips is now expected to take place this week: For Bombay.—The Sovereign, Captain Gilbcrt Mitchell, aad the Northampton, Captain Robert Barker. For Madraa.—The Caledonian, Captain John Craig; the Ge neral Stuart, Captain R. A Mari,' • the Monarch, Captain Thomas Mcrtioier; and the Ann, Capt. Alexander Sin Clair. Per Ceylon and Bengal.-1 he Manlhip, Captain J. Logan. For BengaL—The Comet, Captain Thomas Larkins; and the Sarah Chritti.ma, Captain Charles Graham. For St. Helena and BengaL—The Priards Mary, Captain An drew Grieve. According to a private letter received from Ben gal, we learn that the Covet nment General of the Prefidency of Fort William in Bengal, have pre fented Captain WILLIAM Morrar, Commander of the Honourable EMI India Company's (hip the Puot wiz, with a very handfome fword, as a mark of their 'approbation of his conduCt, in his recent engagement with the General Malartic, a French privateer, which terminated in the capture of that (hip. Lieutenant MAC Go it, of his Majelly's 88th Regiment, who was proceeding to Bengal on board the Nola's, has likewife received the thanks of the Moll Noble the Governor General, for his con du& when in charge of the troops, at the time of the capture. • Four large boats, laden with frefh herrings, ar rived at Whitehaven on Sunday morning, from the Ifle of Mann.—That ifland now employs be. tween feven and eight hundred boats, in the her ring.fithery ; to each of which there are feven or eight men.—They an rendezvous at Peeletown ; and nearly five hundred of the boats belong to that Port alone. CORN MARKETS. At Mark-Lane this day, the Wheat track Vta very brilk, and feveral confiderable purchafcs were made at an advance of 3s. to 4s. more than on Wednefday. Oats brifk, and advanced is. Barley, beans, and peafe, dull. Flour as per laft. PORTSMOUTH AUGUST 20. The price of Bread has fallen this week three Affixes, and on Monday next is to fall five Affixes more. Potatoes of the fineft quality are already down to 3s. fid. per cwt. From the prefent aufpi cious harvea almotl finiflied, and the abundant pro duce, particularly of the latter article, every ne ceffary of life will in a few weeks be as reafonable as they have been for many years pail. The average price of oats laft Saturday, at Ken dal Market, was 455. the load ; but new oats were fold at 405.—The load contains 74- Wincheacr buthels; confequcntly, the laft quoted price was equal to 16s. the Cumberland bufhel. The prices of flour, at the fame market, were,— Beft American ss. 6d.—fine rye 3s. Bd.—oatmeal 4s.—lndian meal 2s. Bd. per ftone of 161b.—Beef was at 7d. mutton 6d. veal 41d. and lamb sd. per lb.—Potatoes 6d for 141 b. Thurfday fe'nnight new Wheat was fold in Ul verflon market, at 31. per load, and oats at 13s. per bufhcl.—Old oats at 14s. 6d. and old Wheat much lower than the preceding week. The (Z2artern Loaf fells at Chelmsford for 15d. —The Peck of Flour, 4s. 6d. The following QEantity of Grain was lan week imported into Hull :-451+ quarters of wheat ; 2857 of oats ; 305 of barley ; 4 of peafe ; 314 of wheat flour ; 54 of rye flour ; to of Indian meal ; and 122 tierces of rice. At Shrewfbury Fair, on Tuefday and Wednef day fe'nnight, fheep and pigs fold high, as didialfo horned cattle and good hones, of - which there were not many. Lambs' wool 14d. per lb ; fleece wool (being molly jobbers) from 16s. to 2IS. ; better fort averaged from z6s. to 285. per flonc.— Cheefe from 7.4.5. to 86s. per hundred. On Wcdnefday laft a petty SelEon was held at Chelmsford, for the purpofc of hearing the indi&- ments of the weigher, lately appointed for Chelmf ford Hundred, who, on his infretion, found no lefs than 76 millers, bakers, grocers, butchers, &c. within the raid Hundred, in the habit of tiling weights fliort of the ftandard, and "who not only forfeited the fame, but were kverally fined for their ,carelefsnefs. The prefTnt feafon, Pays a Cumberland Cor i refpondent, is in an equal Ilate of forwardnefs with i that of the year 1776, with ctif exception :—in the fecond week of Auguft, there were Nine Graitney Green Wedding:! It is however worthy of remark, that a fudden rife of wheat, in Cockermouth mar iket, from fourteen fhillingr to feventeenjbilings and _fix pence, the Cumberland bufhel, was confidered as a phenomenon not to be accounted for but by large orders for exportation to the Well Indies ! What a change one quarter of a century has produced ! Lail week a goofeberry was plucked in the gar den of Mr. MILES CHESTER, at Calderbridge, the circumference of which was four inches and a half one way, and there inches and three quarters, the other. It weighed two guineas and two feven fhilling to fourteen pennyweights and eight grains ! Two living alligators were brought to Lancaf. ter, laft week, in the (hip Lancaller, Captain Wissow, from Savannah. They are young, and healthy. Among the veterans in the Commune of Tours, there is faid to be one of the name of John Thurel, who is 103 years of age. He was born in Bur gundy in September 1698. He entered into the Regiment of Torraine in Sept. 1716, from which time he ferved as a private, declining all promo tion. In 1735 he was wounded in the breaß by a mulket ball at the liege of Kehl. At the battle of Minden he received fix fable wounds. He had three brothers killed at the battle of Fontenoy, and a fon killed on the 12th of April, in America. He ferved in all the Wars in Germany, Flanders, and Holland. He enjoys a penfion of 600 livres. His mother lived to 118, and one of his uncles to 130. The' Rev. J. SKOTTLIWORTH, of Cowling-HiU, Yorldhire, in a letter, dated Auguft to. Oki, has addrefred for publication to B. D. PER ;ma s, of Leicefter-fquare, London, the Patentee of the Metallic Traaors, a long lift of cures by thofe In- Rruments ; among which are, three of tooth-ach, too chronic head-ache, two bums, a fevere fcald, and feveral cafes of inflamed eves, one of which follows : " A Perfon bad for three years been much afilieted with a rheum about one of her eyes. For ten days before the applied tome, the eye 'tad been fo covered with a wch, that fiat could not fee at all. Her Phyfician, who bad tiled a wadi, without any benefit, feared the fight was Irrecoverably the could neither aerp nor reit from the violence of the pain and inflam maion. 1 applied the Traetnrs thirty minutes, during which the found great cafe, and loon after was enabled to fee. I ufed them again only twice during the two following days, when the eye wee well; the pain and inflammation being gone, and the fight lettered." On the tit of April was pubUated, by the Patentee, an entire new Work, entitled " Cafes of ficeefsful Praftice with Pan ama's PATENT Ma tcTa•croaa,recalved fine January saw, the date of the farmer publication, ke."priee t is. Sold by johnfon, St. Paul's Church-yard, Louden.-0f the Patentee it may be had grads, by aU who balm prechafed the Tradoes. The Cures of Gout, Stbenmatifirs, Head-ach, Tooth-wit, Sprains, /knifes, and all analogous Model of Hawks which art !subtilised, are inmunerabk. The Triion, fo no:diary in every Family. and among Hodes, may be bad, genuine, with new and improved Area Ups for u&g them, for Five Guineas the Set, of /I D. Pas tries, A. M. the Patentee, in the hook of the late John Hun ter, Surgeon, LeleefterAnare ; and of Frederic timith, Chc odft and Dnissift, to the Haymartet. Landon. The portable name of the Traders milers their conveyance by Conch, or eves b 7 Poe, porfeder convenient. Letters Weight; abide amount (polt-poid) *sly odonticei pt—ig) ing the was awake, and shcn he was gone out of the room the got up and faaened her door, and then contrived to awake her fellow fervant, who flept in an adjoining room, who gave the alarm to her mailer and milli-els. Mr. Jaques looked out of the window, and called the watchman; the vil lains hearing the alarm, made their efcape over a wall of the yard into an adjoining court, and car ried with them feveral articles of plate of confider. able value. It is fuppofed they entered the houfe by the one pair of flairs window. On Tuefday night, or early on Wodnefday morning, the houfe of L. PRIMA -1-, Efq. of Hilling don, was broke open and robbed of plate, wear ing apparel, and other property, to a confiderable amount, with which the robbers made their efcape. The robbery is fuppofed to have been committed by three men, who were feen in a chaife cart, about three o'clock on Wednefday morning, com ing from Mr. PRIMAT'S houfe, towards London. On Tuefday evening the houfe of Mr. Odlin, in , Church-flrect, Paradite-row, Rotherhitbe, was en tered and robbed of a very large trunk, containing property to a very confiderable amount; likewife • the whole of the cath and notes of which the gen tleman was poireffed. Tucfday night Mr. Rendale, of Dean-Rreet, Soho, had his pocket picked of bank notes to the amount of upwards of Cool. Wednefday morning, about four o'clock, a mid dle aged decent drifed man was difcovered in a ditch, leading from Camberwell to Kennington, to appearance almoll dead ; two labouring men go ing to work with force difficulty got him out of the ditch, quite helplefs, and with other Alliance they took him to the neareft public-houfe, where in an hour he recovered, and Rated, that having on Tuefday been at Camberwell fair, with feveral acquaintance, and after fpending the even ing with them they feparated ; that he met with a female, who pretended to know him, and would accompany him home ; and going acrofs the Gelds they were overtaken by a man, who de manded his money; on refuting to deliver he WAS knocked down, when the woman affifted in rifting his pockets of his (*dyer watch, and about two guinea , , after which they threw him into a ditch, where it is fuppofed he had been nearly three hours. Yefterday Yohn Filler was charged at Guildhall with introducing himfelf to a lad carrying a bafket of linen, value 301. in Fleet-Ilreet, sivir.g him mo ney to fetch fume califs, and defirtng him to leave the bafket in his care till his return, which the boy readily agreed to. As fnon as the boy was gone he was for making away from the place, but a gen tleman obferving the tranfitaion, and conceiving him to be a fharper, flopped him till the boy's re turn, who declared he had never feen him before, on which he was put into the care of a conflable. He is fulpeeted to he the fame perfon who defraud ed a lad a few nights fince in Holborn of a boa, containing wearing apparel. Upon both charges he was fully committed for trial. Various robberies having been committed on the !hipping in the River, information was yefter. day given before the Loan MAYOR, at the Manfion Houfe, that eight hog(heads of fugar had been flolen during the evening of Wednefday from the fhip Mariner, lying at Frefb Wharf, Thames-flreet, when his Lordfhip ;ailed fearch warrants, and from the known vigilance of the City Martha!: the de predators will, it is hoped, be loon brought to con dign punifhment. Ten carmen were fummoned for refufing to load their carts with goods from the wh ar f o f Mr. Ogle. It Teems this prthice is become very com mon, to the great detriment of trade, as there car men will only load for particular perfons, and thereby prevent the facility of bufinefs. His Lord fhip fined them each 35. and Paid if they were brought up again he fhould be under the neceffity of enlarging the fine. Wednefday a man, almoll naked (fiippofed to be deranged in his mind, and efcaped f r om con rinement),ge paraded through the City, breaking feveral windows, and continued his way up Ho - born into Hand.court, when he entered the Fea thers Tavern, got into the bar, and did confider. able damage, by breaking windows, bowls, and glades, and cut himfelf in a terrible manner; he was at lafl properly fecnred, and conveyed to the watch houfe. Sunday fe'nnight, one Conti:retrials Ga, a batter, was drowned whilft bathing in the off Sandhall, near Ulverflon. His cries heard for Tome time, but no aflitiance col given. He was a very Ready young man, and death is much lamented by his acquaintance. Weilnefday LsR, a young man, of the nai SCOTT, was drowned %shalt bathing in the way Firth, oppoGte to Bownefs, Cumberland. i .r...i.. '* • t: I RostEtY OF rat IJEWFS MAIS— aL.,ev i,. ags,, i st- 1' , I longing to this mail were found iti a corn-sdd on i Monday laff by lome reapers near the Iliot where i I the robbery wa s co mmitt e d. The robbery was cffe.fled on the 2 0 th of July hill, and for which ,ffence two perfons, father and liin, have been ex. I amined at Bow-flreet. The letters were opened, and the notes of the Bank of England taken out. , , Country bank notes to the amount of upwards of eight thoufand pounds were left behind. The letters were in a very wet date, owing to the re- peated rains that have fallen,and the length of , ;me t they have lain in the fields. They were brought yefterday to the Poll Office. Early on Friday morning hit, the counting. ;.1 bottle of Meffrs. HIDE and lan, common brewers, If at Cambridge, was broke into, and robbed of 221. ' I in copper penny-pieces, fol. in gold and silver, and 1 . a tl. Bank of England Note.—A reward of 201. has been offered for a dilcovery of the offender or . offenders. • A few nights fince the houfe of Mr. Jaques, or- namental ' manufaiurer in Holborn, was broke open : the villains packed up almofk every article 1 ; of value that they could have conveniently carried off, but were happily prevented by a fervant girl iti in the houfe. She awoke and difeovered a man in her room, lighting her candle with fome phofplio- rus ; fhe law him take her gown with him ; the fuppreffed her alarm enough to prevent him know. l AA KIR, It tide, were ould be Ind his e. me of le Sol- od. 2