Star. — London, England, 1801-07-31 00:00:00

V • yuLr 34. All the coat on the Eaftern Part of Kent is in a {late of great preparation to repel the threatened invafion. The Sea Fencibles have been feveral times exercifed on board the REDOUBT, Captain SH E P ERD, lying at Shelnefs Point,for the proteftion of that part of the coal, and the oppofite Chore of Whitftable and Hern Bay. The fquadron under the command of that Officer have reteived orders to put themlelves under the command of the.gal lant an Lord bliEsow, d with fuch a leader what stay not be atc.hieved I Were we to recommend any improvenlent in the organization of that corps (the Sea Fencibles), it mould be, that each of their veffels at Feverffiam, Whitfiable, and Milton, fhould (in cafe of lava ) be armed with a large piece of ordnance each : t he knowledge thefe people poffefs of the coal would render them extremely ferviceable in this intricate navigation. . The voluminous General Infirm!lions to the Of 6cers and Magiftrates on the coati, which were prepared during Mr. Dundas's adminiftration of 1 t h e W ar Department, about three years ago. are now reprinted, and circulated by Government throughtsut all our Maritime Counties. The brave 44th regiment has returned on board the divifion of the - Baltic Fleet under Admiral Foss, and has been landed at Cork. Tha goth regiment lying at Hilfea Barracks, are to embark immediately for Jerfey- Lart week three Battalions of the 9th Foot Marched through Lewes, on their route from Jet-- fey to Silver-hill Barracks. On Monday and Tuefday laft, the iotb (or Edinburgh) regiment of militia. marched to Glaf gow barracks from Ayr, where they had been quartered above a year. On Friday, the 17th inft. the Cluny, Kingufie. Eagan, end l3alleville Companies of Badenoch Volunteers, were infpetfted at Benchar by Major * Volunteers, mat of Fort George. In confequenee of the Militia Regiments being called from Ipfwich, the Loyal Volunteers of: that place, have offered their fervices to :All the Ca *airy in mounting guard; and, agreeably to in. iirniftions received from the General of the Dif trie, have refolved to moiler three times a week, in order to be prepared for aBual fervice, in cafe the prefent meditated attack by invafion from tie French &mild be attempted. The North Devon Militia on Tuefday had a grand field day, at Weymouth. Yefterday Morning Pestles Wizztast of Gson cssyte came over to Portfmouth from the I& of Wight : when his Royal Highnefs got abreaft of the Platform, a royal &lute was fired from the battery, and he was received at the New Sally port, by a Captain's guard of the oft Somerfet Re giment of Militia, with the Colours. • At noon his R oyal Highnefs reviewed the fol lowing Corps on Southfea Common,viz.Company of tho Artillery t Troop of the 16th Dragoons. ...-The following Regiment s of Militia : Norfolk ; Dorfet ; Wilts ; oft et; ad Soznerfett Lin coln • and Woe n efterlire. The different regiments marched in open order, zpd, as they paired the Paints, lowered their co- Every Caps made a moll - excellent ap -.. and, on the whole, it was the' fineft -aaele ever teen in the neighbourhood ort fmouth. -der that the Regiments might come full to the following Vciluitteer Corps, &c. various guards, viz. Garrifon Volunteers, toinmanded tarrt, Sheriff for the County, took Gate t Portfmouth Volunteers, commanded Acton, took the Gun-wharf; Lion, Gates: Ponces Volunteers, commanded by Major ' the Dock-yard duty ; and the other filled by Invalids. number of cation procured Within the limits *• , -t in confequence of the prefs warrants the LORD MAYOiI in the prefent emer been very inconfiderable. None are fuf i carried on board the tender till they previoufly been carried before the Loan - whom their liability to be preffed is aid a number have been difeharged as the tZ i r t atiod • preili warrants. One Who feized attempted to get off on 1 that t ere was a warrant out again& debt. The LORD Mavoit l however, to fufped that there was in this cafe procure a releafe, granted permiftion pretcaded debtor onboard the tender, will no doubt be fpeedlly removed to the enemies of his country. AiSees at Maiditone, there was a caufc its novelty, excited an uncommon mention; Inch a clreumflante has not half a Century ; it Was a trial of a writ ihich Sir Inns Hon zywoon was De- again( Lord Gwvisea, to recover a piece The jury confifted of fixteen Knights. difenflion, a verdict was given in fa nta Hossywooti. Prince Max♦ Joosisa, fon or Sla t, who has been long in confinement a cftlerequence of his joining Nitwit oTpolities tb nor troops, has been releaf - to his relations near Delhi, under an Chosen, a licentious people in the vicinity , are again the occafion of much in that diftrift. They infeft the intercept all communication with the uulefs attended by ftrong parties of friendly difpofition of the King of the Englifh, a fettlernent, it is laid, formed on tfie coaft, for the exprefs our building (hips, as this country produces of timber, admirably adapted for Ship- CORN MARKET. BLit/mar In yefterday's Prices at Bear—raid //60. I Cplartei. The Wheat Market was very dull this morning at Mark-lane—hardly any thing done—prices atiout the fame as Taft Market day. Oats brifk, and about is. dearer. Other articles the fame as lail Market day. The harveft is partially .begun in Sotnerfet, and the neighbouring counties. Several fields of rye, oats, and peafe, have been already cut down ; and in the courfe of a week the wheat harveft will be pretty general.—The hop plantations throughout Herefordthire are in a very thriving condition. Two acres of land, fituate about a mile and an half from Lancaßer, for which the father of the prefent owner gave fortyeight pounds, was lati Saturday fold by private contrad for Seven Hun dred Guineas. Mr. HoLimos, of Devonfhire-buildings, fowed a pint of barley a fortnight before Lady-day; which was cut the 18th infant, and produced 15 pints of grain. A letter from Lewes, dated July 27, rays, gg Th wheat harvell, which laft week commenced pare tially in this neighbourhood, will, in the courfe of the prefent week have become general, a circum- Rance that perhaps has not before occurred fo ear ly in the feafon ' within the memory of the oldeß man living. Mr. Awnassits, of Hamfey, this morning lent about twenty reapers into a field of wheat as fine and as abundant as the earth ever produced." A letter from Chelmsford, in Effie, Rates, that the harveß has commenced pretty generally in that county, and from the plentiful appearance of the refpeltive crops of grain, great hopes are en tertained of a fpeedy reduCtion in the prices of the various articles which conftitutc the neceffaries of life, but more particularly in that of bread corn. The price of flour at Chelmsford has already fallen threepence per peck. Sunday laft a molt deßruetive fire happened at Leaden-hall, in Leaden Roothing, at the farm of Mr. DANIEL ALGAE, occafioned by a boy firing off a gun near an old haulm wall, which, it is fuppofed. caught fire from the wadding. A large double barn, a fingle barn and Rraw-houfe, a c lw-houfe with eleven calves, a calves pen, a hay barn full of new hay, the Rabic with all the going. Beers, and a cart-lodge with four waggons, were entirely confimed. The dwelling-houfe was fe veral times on fire, but was prevented from being deffmyed by the aaivity of thole prefent. Such was the rapidity of the flamer, that no exertions could poffibly have prevented, the deftruetion of the buildings. The engines from Dunmow and Fettled were loon prefent, but every exertion was rendered totally fruitlefs, and not an atom of the buildings remains to receive the prefent corn. This is one of the many accidents which have occurred by the fame imprudent Reps of firing a gun near itraw, haulm, or thatched buildings. In Brittlowell Church-yard, near South End, a Mall bat two wive% buried in one grays ; and, af ter recording their feveral virtues, the Epitaph has the following whim fi cal termination : Were k in my choice that either of the mai= Might be restored to me to enjoy spine ; Which mould I chafe ? Well, thee I know not whether, _ _ 111 mourn far the tors of bath, did will *dawn PAPER CRIDIT.—The too much or too little of Paper Circulation is not defined by the number of lions aetually afloat, but by the quantity of mcrcinindize to be circulated. If, for inftance, the Commerce of this country required at any Fivo, period a medium of 10 millions to circulate it, and at another fubfequent period it had in created Iwo -fold, it is evident that a circulation of 442 millions would be requifite ; and fuch an in create of the circulating medium would imply no abufe of public confidence, but on the contrary it would be a lure proof of increafing profperity ; becaufe every Bill and Note fo ailed would be a donnish fign of fo much merchandise bought and fold, and pOel from one proprietor to another. But the abufe of this fyllem confills in what are ufually called Actanntodation Bills or Notes, be tween the original parties, of which there did not pafi, ever not gives or received, any real value or confederation- Of fuch there are probably a great many millions now afloat, one and all arrant cheats and impofitions on the public, cheats 44 which have increafed, are inereafing, and ought to be fuppreffed :" for then are produaive of a great deal of rnifchief to fociety. They caufe luxury and idlenefs. A London fhop-keeper, who ought to be joehind his counter, is at his country-houfe, or at.t he Races or the Watering Place. Has he dtbts to pay which mutt be paid - , does he abate his exgences and increafe his induftry ? No. he fends his•ootes to another in like circumftances, who obligingly returns his own. Each difpatches a fpecial mefenger to town with there notes. The bankers difcount them, and fo the cheat goes on, until Tome link of the chain breaks. iThe whole fet become bankrupt ; and hence three-fourths of all the conuniffions of bankruptcy in the London Gazette. Such like tranfaCtions caufe an immenfe increafe of price in all the neceffaries and conveniences of life. tit. By tempting the aforefaid fhopkeepers to fpend more in if month than the reafonable pro- fits of a year; and sclly, by enabling the growers and forelbillera ofprovifions to withhold them from market. The farmer mutt donbtlefs pay his rent ; but there Is no an. go to market, betaufe be is grown into credit, and on his fimple note the Vil lage Boxier gives his seta, deducing only s per cent.—The landlord is content with theft &reds and patches of old rags. The market is ftarved, the price of courfe rites; the middle men Bring up like fungufes out of this hot-bed of corruption, and the public miferably fact. In like manner mo , nopolizers and foreftallers mu* pay; but they too have credit with the banker, who likewife affords them the means of fattening on public miferr. This mifohiorous fyltem might be unveiled in many more shapes, but ask ere its mous tcadcacT. . . SPORTJMG ICNITTSFOItD, CHMMt. On Tuefday, July 28, a Maiden Plate of sot 3-mile head: • Mr. C. Smith'a gr. c. Nautilus. 4 yrs. old. I I Mr. C.'Cholmondeley's br. b. Mobbcrly Crab,y yrs. old, 2 dr. Lord Grey's ch. c. Edgar, by Trumpator, 811. beat Mr. Leigh's b. f. filler to Haphazaid, 711. alb. two miles, wogs. BURFORD. Weslnefday, July 29,his Majefty's plate of soogs. for 5-yrs olds. Sir C. Bunbury'r bl. h. Sorcerer, walked over. The Cup, a Subfcription of logs. each, by fix Subfcribers. Mr. J. White's br. c. brother to Viret, by Volunteer 1 Major Snell's b. S. Crocodile, by Toby a The ref! paid. Five to two on Mr. White's colt, who won with cafe. The Bury Races commenced on Tnefday fe'n night, when the Gold Cup, value wogs. and Bogs. in fpccie, was walked over for by Mr. Fane's. Worthy.—Same day, the Town Plats of pl. and on Wednefday the Noblemen and Gentlemen's Purfe of Sol. were won by Sir F. Poole's br. f. Tawny, 4 yrs. old.—Thurfday, a Purfe of Sol. the gift of the Duke of Marlborough, was won by Sir C. Bunbury's b. h. Sorcerer.—The Stewards for the next year are Lord FIANCIS Steam', and GEO. FRED. STRATTON, Efq. At Tiptree Races, which did not afford much ['port, a woman had her leg broken ; the flu& of a chaife came in contaa with the theft of a honk, and killed him upon the fpot ; feveral challis were overturned, and a poney killed. SAILINO-MATEH.—Five boats fluted Teflerday afternoon from Blackfriars Bridge, proceeded to Putney Bridge, and returned to a barge moored off Vauxhall. The conteft lay chiefly between the Caroline, Capt. Tu am an, and the Mercury, Capt. ASTLEY• The latter, with much difficulty, won the prize, which was a Silver Cup and Cover, given by Mr. SMITH, of Vauxhall. The match afford ed confiderable diverfion, and much frill was dif played on the occafion. rRRLAAIf MILITARY PROMOTIONS WAI-OYFICI, DUBLIN CASTLT I ; JULY 20. '' 4 His Majefty has been ple.tfcd to make the fi4 : lowing promotions in the army on this efiablifis. ment : 24th Light- Dra g oon.—Mr. E. S. Trotter Ruthren, Cornet, rite Goulding, promoted. 7 a ft Foot—Enfign Omits, from 624 Foot, Lieptenant; without porthole, *lee Dalrymple, promoted In the 2,5 th • Foot. Prin eels of Wa/es's. or Aberdeen Highland Pencil:4e Infantry—. Enfign Andrew Gallagher, Lieutenant, vice Kerr. Winifred the ferriee b•; lenience of a General Court Martial. Quarter-Mal!ei - -.Serjeant David Dipple, EnEgo, vice Gal lagher, promoted. Mr. Angus M•Donnel, Enfign, vice Kennon, sliftniffed the fervice by femme; of a General Court Martial. Mr. Donald M'Lehd, Enfign, tiee Scarfon, rained. , DUBLIN, JULY al. . • At Wicklow Aflizes Yefterday, Lieutenant-Co.. lonel Sanity, Lieutenant Darby, Lieutenant Reed; and nfign Difney, all, of the City of Dublin Mili T tia t were tried for a riot and affattlt upon Captaiq Jour GITIAIIN of the Came g,egiment, on the f 7da of December lad. They were all fully conviaed.. On an infpeetion of the Revenue ceiling nut of Stamp Duties recently made by D'Aitcylqatioe, Efq. in the Counties of Wicklow and Weiferd, fined one hundred and fortmltree perfons for hav ing kept fpanitls; pointers; Acting dogs, boundi or greyhounds, or for having purlued game with out having the Certificate required by .L iw for that purpofe ; the penalty is 291. for each offence: . In thefe Counties he alfo fined feveral perfons for having fold unflamped hats, and for having retail ed hats without licence. The following account of the icey eitritedinary • cfcape of the prifoners frotnNewsation Saturday morning !all, may be.relied on as authentic i—On the ground floor in the inner yard, IS Prifuneri were confined in four cells, to each of which there is an iron door leading to the upper apartmentsi at the foot of which there is alto an iron door. On Wednefday laft, about twelve o'clock, the prifoners perceiving that their cells were infpeeted by the: turnkeys; conceived it to be a good time to attempt their efcape before the next infpeftioili and ae. cordingly on that day, while they had the liberty of the yard, they agreed on their plan ; whicH the want of a rope to defcend by from the roof, preiented the execution of on thstt night ; but the• next day, one of their wives having cnntiived to convey them a rope, on that night they made the necelfary breaches, which they effeded between (e -ven and nine o'clock, having been locked up at fix: Their plan was to break a communication betvi s een the cells, and thence to die nabs, which they effett ed with no other inflrnmenti than one piece of iron' about fix inches long, and their knives ; with theft they made their way through the thick walls they fopport the arches of the cells.—On afeending the: hairs, they were flopped by a door at the foot irf• the upper flight ; this:difficulty, hoivever, they loon ' overcame, as a wall built in place of the Nana rail.- ing is but four inches thick : they next hid to en•. counter an iron grate in the chimney of an upper room, but by breaking the will at the end of the grate they got above it. Having thus opened a paffige to the roof, tlir . next objea was to get rid of the heavy irons n ith which fome of them were bolted,; they th , :ref ire waited 'till the next night. On their return to their cells they (topped the breaches with ftnnes, and next day the Deputy-Gaoler having an informa-• tion that one of the prifoners had recitteled of a woman to bring him a rope for the purpofe of efcaping, he loaded him with irons, which, how. ever, he contrived to file off, and efcaped with the reft. About one o'clock on Saturday morning, r 6 cf them got on the roof of the Eteftions-houfe, at the end of Which, next to Green-ftreet, they railed.the lead, and fattened a rope to one of the rafters, by which they defcended to the wafte ground be tween the Setfions-houfe and the Sheriff's prifn. The lag of the 16, named Traynor, alias Murphy, diftinetly heard the only centinel in view (who place they detcended) regularly challenge every man as he walked away; they anfwered" a friend, and were fuffered topes into Green-Rivet ; but on Murphy's getting to the ground, the centinel, who by this time had approached the fpot, after challenging, perceived the rope, and exclairged— i, you came down by that rope , " which the other acknowledged, and furrendere. It is not more extraordinary than true that one of the prifoners efcaped with a tingle bolt on. A quantity of pork was yefteiday morning taken out of the river near Wethnead, by Roberts, a Merman, who was dragging for his eel bafkets. A few day ago the miffrers of a lodging houre in Fenchurch-tireet was fwindled and robbed in a manner fornewhat novel t A young man of gen teel appearance had taken her fecond floor in the morning, and about two he returned with a pot. ter carrying his baggage. As loon as the porter had laid down his load he defined him to go to a coffee-houfe in Fleet.fireet, where he would find a box containing fame things of great value ; and with many injundions to take care of it he ordered him to bring it to FenchurchAreet immediately. In a few minutes he recolleeed that he had an ap. ?ointment with Tome one at a neighbouring coffee , houfe. He therefore told his landlady that he muff go out, but that he thould return in half an hour. Before he took his leave, however, putting his hand into his pocket, he faid he lhould proba bly have occafion for a few fhillings at the place he was going to, but diat he had no (mailer piece of money than a col. bank note. The mittrefs of the honk, with more good nature than prudence, offered him a guinea, and with this he immediate ly walked off. She did not remain long . blind to her error ; for the porter upon his return informed her that no fuch perfen as the gentleman named to him had ever been heard of at the Coffee-hoofs in Fleet-thee. When the examined her parlour the found that a watch and feveral olier articles had been Rolm, and the trunks upon being broke d oPen• proved to have been filled with rabbit:h. The different end, as they pa kors. Every 1 pearance, and, military fpeftac of Portfmouth. In order that the ground, th took the ration The Royal 1 by Major Gees the LaneiporF C The Loyal P by Colonel At, and Unicorn G The Porde-a' Catoo, took tl guards were fill The number of the city ) in allowed by the gcncy, has been fered to be cart have p rev t o un, MAYOR, by toli examined, and not within the individual who the pretence the bins for a del" ficing reafon to a cabin= to p to carry the pre whence he will fight agalult th At the Alfa which, from It degree of mem occurred for ha of right, in wh • lendant, againf of land, Th e • After a long di 'bur of Sir ion The young 11111bIll SOM., n teaares, in LI, is Oppofit t and fent to • ort . r The Oman of Midnapoor, difiurbance in "flees, and int Eaitward, unit &Pins. • From the fr Ars towards tl is to be forme e of buildir 'all forefts of t Ji:ding. TOIL CANDIDATA/ IN TN! SAILING MATCH VOA TUC CUP AND COVED MIILI: No. t. Mercury, . Attie'', Lambeth, 2. Caroline, .Turner. Weitroinfter. 3. Cal/Pro, . Chambers, Weftwvinfter. 4. Experiment, . Allen. Looessw. 3. Swift, Throughion, Nine Elms. 6. Mermaid, A. More, Hungerford. 7. Vixen, J. Fairbrother, Weftrainfter. Rowlxo-Marc H.—The Vauxhall Annual Wher ry was yefterday won by Cannon and Birch, of Blackfriars and Pepper-alley. Seven boats ftarted for the prize, and the contest was very fevere. The flores were thronged with people, who ap peared to take much pleafure and intereft in the palling fcene.—ln the evening Vauxhall Gardens were crowded with genteel company. THE CANDIDATES IN TN! ROVING MATCH TO GAIN THE WIltaRT Walt No. 1. Philip Girard. Weftminfter, Wm. Cook. Hungerford. s. la y . Old&Id, Lambeth, Jacob Wood. Hungerford. 3. in. Leese, Blackfriars„ John Shepherd. Lambeth. 4. John Burgoyne, Disaffirm, Fn. Loa. Vauxhall. s. Edward Brontwell, Vauxhall, Wm. Barry. Hungerford. 6. Ja. Cannon, Mackfriars, Edw. Birch. Pepper-Alley. 7. Chi. Weitwood, Vaulhall, Win. Broomwell. VauxbalL The works commenced in Hungary, in zygt, for the conflruaion of a Navigable Canal to join the Danube and the Theirs, are now finitheell this Canal, which comes from the Danube at Metegfer. rig, ncar the Town of Zanor, and joins the Theirs, near Fekkar, runs over a s p ace of fourteen miles; it bears the fame veffels as the Danube, and a pal rage may be made in two or three days, whereas formerly three or four weeks were neceflary. This Canal, the &It of the kind which has been con ftruSed in Hungary, was undertaken by a Society of individuals, authorized for that purpofe, by his bimetal. MAJFSTY who, when informed that the works were accomPlithed, immediately named a Special ComrhilEon to eramine them. This era- Imination has taken place, and the Commiffion has 'made the moft fatisfalflory report. Inftinces appear now and then, in which there is no occafion to complain of " the law': delay."— On Wednefday the t 7th init. a perfon of the name of Rainfos, a common carrier between Barnard caftle and Penrith, had the misfortest to Real three foot-cocks of graft, in a field belonging to the Rev. Mr. S H AW, of Bongate, near Appleby :on Thud day, he was.comitutted for the fame ; on Friday, he was tried at the fefGons, and found guilty ; and on Saturday he was put in ;he Rocks for two hours! A. pretty varier; of bufinefs for four days ! At the above fellions, a fettlement cattle was tried, refpeaing the family of one Swaii, a pauper, which had formerly been upon the parilh of Egre rnont. The refult of the trial fixed them on He verfltam parifh. Warnorland—with an capence of tool. more than it would have incurred by af fording the proper maintenance.—This is one proof (there are many fimilar initancts) oftsrorbial ceconomy. _ Among the numerous accidents which have oc curred during the prelim week, we are forry to record that of Mr. S. Hurrell, at Hatfield Bury, on Tuefday hill, when travelling in his gig, in com pany with Mr. Gibling, whole reins unfortunately broke, and running againfl Mr. Hurrell's whif key, he wu thrown between the two, and his leg catching between the fpokes of Mr. Gib ling's wheel, he was drawn Come diflance with the greatelt velocity, and was not releafed" until his kg was fra&ured in a risoft !hocking manner, and he was otherwife much injured. It is, how everr •: with pleafure we announce that the fever with which he was feized has confidsrably abated, and that there is reafou to hope that the accident win not prove fatal otherwife much injured. It is, bow- to him had ever been heard of at the Locce-nook pleafure we announce that the fever in Fleet-thee. When the examined her parlour he was feized has confiderably abated, the found that a watch and feveral olier articles ere is real . * to hope that the accident bad been lieleti, and the trunks upon being broke ore fatal. QM, proved to have been filled with rubbiai.