Star. — London, England, 1802-09-04 00:00:00

AfAite,frie, 81pr. s. The packet for which fame apprehenfionto were entertained, arrived on Tuefday night, with only t h e tocs of her top mall. She being an oppofition weird, the worn was made of the accident by her dom p eL itors ; but fuck alarms are frequently of i tt ious confequence to the friends of the paten gers. There was a Mafquerade at the Theatre lag sight at 3s. 6d. Maks were advertifed to be re ceived at the AtTembly Rooms, where a good band was provided for country dances, and Mr. Wet,- VERT was to perform un the Harp ; admitton is. ...but the Proprietor of the Rooms has amicably reconciled their oppofition : the Theatre in future i s not to perform on the Monday's Ball•nights and the Alfembly Rooms is not to interfere with the Theatre's Mafquerades. Though the company in general were not nu• 'nevus, the charalers were more fpirited than nfual. Some of them were extremely well ap pointed: among others we diflingufhed an excellent p sfig h, a Pifrot, a Statchman, who fang fame ex cellent Scotch fangs; a Dutchman, a Bellow" a Blue- Coat Boy, excellent ; a male and female Ballad Skrer, who fang the " Beggar Girl," the " Poll Captain," and dealt out love letters to thofe who purchafed their fongs, very fuceefsfully ; 3 _balers; a groupe of Ci.ypfier, a Recruiting Sesjeatat and a Party, ood, but too noify ; a Dicky Get; Flower ; iertmee men, ter. On Friday Mrs. JORDAN has the Comedrof Th e Way to Keep Ilia, and The Sp!ire Child for her Be nefit. The evening's entertainment is by order of the Duchefs of Dkvonsniar. Lord and Lady JIRSEY are arrived. Lord CoLLemin will be here this week. The Duchefs of St. ALBAN'S is one of the moll elegant horfewomen upon the Kentint Coen. There has not been fuch an affemblage of falhion in Margate and its vicinity for many leafons. A !hocking affai r happened left night.—The Hon. B-- , and Tome other Irilh Gen tlemen, having invited a countryman of theirs, who belongs to the Theatre, to dinner, and hav ing (as is frequently the cafe with gentlemen of that country) drank very freely till three o'clock in the morning, the fon of Thefpis, and two others, went to the Sbakefpeare Tavern, where being refofed liquor, a quarrel enfued, in which the waiter got fo roughly handled, that his life is bid to be in danger. The parties were appre hended this morning, and fent to Dover Caine, to wait the event of the poor fellow's recovery . The town is in a confternation, and the affair is a topic of general converfation. PRESTON, SEPT. I. Yefterday morning was ufhered in with ringing Of bells and founding of trumpets. At all the different houfes where the Companies affembled, colours were flying from the windows, and each band of mufic playing, and we may fay with Milton, " And young and old came forth to play;" for it was like calling all forth to enjoy the ju bilee. This morning, according to ancient cuftom, the Ladies attend the Lady Mayorefs to church in grand proceffion. Soon after nine o'clock her Ladythtp arrived at the Town Hall,- full drelfed to receive the Ladies, who about this time began to Amble in great numbers. At one time the number of carriages was fo extremely great, that they were completely wedged up in all direltions leading to the Hall, and although at fo early an hour, fome had come at; far as Liverpool full dreffed, and numbers remained in the (beets blocked up, without being able to gain accefs to the Hall. Several chairs were employed to convey the ladies who refide in the town to the Hall. By about eleven o'clock near .too were affembled. Such an affemblage of beautiful women has fel. dom been teen under one roof. Lancathire cer tainly is the envy of the world for beautiful wo men. About eleven the Hall was extremely crowded, and the heat fo oppreffive, that the Counters of DERBY had nearly fainted. After Come violent exertions of the foldiers and a great number of extra conftables whom the Mayor had very judiciou fl y ( worn in for the occa fi on, provide mg them with very long ftaffs, and when they had fucceeded in forming a parage they joined hands to ea c h oth er 's ft a ff s , b u t i t was with the s . neaten difficulty they prevented the populace from breaking in upon them. The different , Companies who formed the grand proceffion on Monday, arrived at the Half, with colours fly ing and mufic playing ; they affifted in forming paffage for the ladies. The paffisge being properly made, the Corporation, with the town's Regalia, came out of the Hall; they were fol lowed by the LADY MAYORESS, conduced by the Vicar of the Parini ; then followed the Ladies, two and two—the Counters of Maar and Lady CH...R- I LOTTI HOMY (daughter of Lord Dk RBY) ; Lady STANLEY (daughter of Lord DERBY), and Lady ANY LINDSEY ; Lady SUSAN CARPENTER and Mrs. CAWTHORN ; Lady G gait ARCO and Lady HOUGHTON; Lady JERNINGHAM and Lady FITL 'IA LD. The reit of the Ladies followed two and two ; and when they had all got out of the Hall into the ftreet and formed the proceMon, it pro duced one of the molt charming and grand ef fees ever beheld. The Ladies were moft fu perbly dreffed ; each of them wore an elegant falbionable plume of feathers. We cannot com pare this to any thing but a proceffion of the Knights of the Garter at an inftallation. The body of the Church was allotted for the recep tion of the Ladies. Waco they were all feated. no church was ever attended with a greater of femblage of beauty : it appeared more like a grand concert room in London than a country church. After divine fervice was over they re turned in the fame order they came, in grand ' proceffion through the ftreets to the Town-hall. Many gentlemen attended them, to prevent their being annoyed by the mob. The windows and tops of the hooks through which this uncommon ...Ind memorable thew naffed were throngedyrith of the thatch Rua fieeplei and the trees in the I church yards In faet every exertion and con trivance was Made only to get a glimpfe of this very novel and grand light, but great numbers never attained this truly deferable objeEt. We never thought to have feen fuch a crowd in a country town as appeared on Monday, but yel terday's far exceeded it. Every lireet was filled with people, and there was hardly any poffibility ilin The d ifferent proce(Gons of the companies pa. raded round the town in the fame order as they did on Monday, with the additions of Ream-en gines for (pinning and weaving, placed on high ilages, belonging to Mr. HOAROCKS. The lads and men who attended them were drelfed in cotton dreffes. The populace gave the children &opts of applaufe as they pallid through the Wets, (pinning and weaving, which feemed not to pleafe the youngilers a little by the (miles which it produced on their countenances. Numbers are here from London and all parts of the kingdom, and all exprefs themfelves alionifhed and pleated at the fight, and are far from regretting their long journies. The light was allowed to furpafs any thing of the kind ever fecn in this country, and exceeded the ex pedation of every one prefent, as well in point of the brilliancy and grandeur that attended it,:as in refpea of the regularity and decorum with which it was conduced. At four o'clock the Mayor entertained the Cor- poration and a great number of Gentlemen at the Guildhall with a molt fumptuous dinner, to which Lord DEM contributed a buck. The dinner would have done credit to a City of London feat; there was turtle, and every delicacy the feafon affords ; the choiceft wines of various forts ; and after dinner a molt handfome deffert was ferved up, a molt capital colleCtion of fweetmeats, and the mon choice fruits, confining of pine apples, melons, &c. The following toafts were drank—Profperity to the Corporation—The King—Mr. Horrocks— Lord Stanley—Lord Derby—Recorder of the Borough -.Mr. Addington—Bonaparte—Alder man Pedder—The Mayor—Sir Henry Houghton —Stewards of the Races—Lord Nelfon. A remarkable foot race was run at Newton, in Lancathire, laft week—a man from Saddleworth, in ..Yorldhire, and another from Oldham, near Manchefter, were the competitors ; and the York (hire man flaked the other fifty guineas to forty. The diftance was three times round the Newton courfe, or three miles, which the Yorkfhire man ran in thirteen minutes and fitly feconds, having beaten his antagonift more than a quarter of a mile. At the conclufion of the race he offered a confiderable wager, that he would ruh round the courfe ten times more at the fame rate, which was not accepted. An immenfe concourfe of people were prefent, and bets to the amount of more than wool. were depending. A Cm refpondent informs us, that a Gentleman at Clapham has betted he will ride his mare from the Turnpike, Kennington, to the 14 mile ftone on the Epfom Road, on Saturday morning next, as fol lows, viz.—He will walk the three firft miles, trot the three next, and gallop the three and a half laft miles within one hour. Large furns are betted, and is is. expelled, that although this mare has been eonftantly rode through the country for four years, on the average not refs than 25 to 30 miles a day, that the will perform the talk. BARTHOLOMEW Faia.—.-The booths at Bartho. lornew fair, this year, are numerous, and fitted up in their afird ftyle of fplendour. On one hand we have a Theatre Royal, where dramatic pieces are enaded with amazing celerity; and it is ate& that Pisarro and Blue Beard were performed in one of thefe retreats of Tbefpir ,in the very short (pace of . t 8 minutes! Proceeding a little farther towards St. John-ftreet, the attention is called off on the other hand by a splendid Royal Circus, where a perfor mer, who is ftyled Equeirian to Asir Misfits, exhi bits his wonderful feats. There are alto various other receptacles for wild hafts, conjurors, and ' charlatans of every denomination ; hilefifrbied en efeeinments, rational amufements ' with every thing which can po ft ibly tend to exalt and improve the human undstimufing 1 It would not be fair to omit that favourite Amutement of the youthful visitors of both fexes of this elegant place of retort, we mean 'wings, roundabouts, &c. &c. Neither would we be juftified in not recording the delicacies which pre tented themfelves to the hungry ; yards of fried faufages were devoured with peculiar avidity, and, to life the language of Mr. WINDHAM, when de- scribing the pleatures oftorfe-racing—u nothing was to be teen but seams of gin, and tnountaint of gingerbread, interfeded with the appearance of hilarity and univerfal fatisfaaion.".—Acoong other i. Amebic: introduced at the Fair, are a number of Balloons. By tome new regulations very good order and decorum were preferred, more fo than we have witneffed for many years pall, although the !how: are much more numerous than usual. Thurfiay night, about half pale nine o'clock, the rabble, commonly called Lady Holland': Mob, having affembled in Smithfield fooner than nfual, took a turn from thence up Gofwel and Alderf gate-ftreets, and returning down the City Road, and through Finibury-fquare, they abufed, knock. ei down, or robbed almoft every perfon they met. Mr. Allifon, a carpenter in the City Road, com ing to his door with a candle in his hand, on har ing the tumult, was knocked down, and his hat and candleftick were taken from him. Mr. Du pont, linen•draper, of the City Road, had his watch taken from him while handing at his own door; and in attempting to fecure the thief, was beaten with (licks and bludgeons in a dreadful manner : and thofe who appeared with lights at their doors were afrailed with vollies of (tones, and immedi• atelv driven in. From their number it was im poffible for the watchmen and people to fecure any of them. _ _ _ By direaion of the LORD MAYOR, the ftreets in the City were, on Wednefday night, (wept of aU the littera, and fifteen of them were yefterday cow nutted from the Medea HeA6411244449mcw POLICE, &A 1 Guttotiat.t..—Yelletday the Creole was again hrought before the Sitting Alderman, to anfwer to the charges agalnll him for defrauding many perfons of property upon Falk pretences. A great number of others attended to make chatge, but the Alderman finding that they were committed in the county, recommended them to Bow-ftreet, to which Office he likewife fent the prifoner for further examination. He continued to thew his for- mer careleffnefs, and faid they could not hang him. An old offender was fully committed for trial, charged with picking the pocket of Mr. Murdock of a pocket-book, containing bank notes to the amount of 511. in Newgate-greet, lalt Thurfday, about three o'clock in the day. Mr. Murdock, who is a feafaring gentleman, faid he was going to pay away this money, and kept his hand in his pocket, when they haled him, and took it nut. Mr. Kirby, of Paternofter-row, taw the prifoner drop the book a few minutes previous to his appre benison. He faid nothing in his defence, and the parties were bound over to profecute. Bow-s T yr.—The Creole examined before the Lord Mayor, on fufpicion of having been guilty of divers frauds and felonies, was fent to this of fice by his Lordfhip: mod of the complaints againtt him having taken place in the county of 1 Middlefex. Mr. Mackenzie, of Green-ftreet, Grofvenor fqoare, charged the prifoner with obtaining a finglehorfe chaife from him,on hire, and afterwards dirpofing of it for his own gain; which charge be ing made out, and the Magiftrate judging it to be a felony, be was committed for trial accordingly, but will be brought up on a future day, in cafe anyother complaint fhouldbeezhibitedagainft him. Yefterday morning the highwayman, appre hended on Saturday Taft for a highway robbery on Hounflow Heath, was brought up for exami nation. Mr. Henderfon, of Bedfont, having taken the former proceedings, produced the information of Mrs. Scott, Lady of David Scott, Efq. of Broad•ftreet, Rating, that on Saturday, the 28th of Auguft, fhe was flopped in a poft-chaife on Hounflow Heath, ezaaly oppofite the gibbet of Haines and Clark, by a fingle highwayman, in a mafk, who robbed her of a leather purfe, contain ing three guineas and a half, a feven fhilling piece in gold, and fome loofe flyer, and then rode off; that turning round, the met a man with a cart and horfes, and pointing out the highwayman to him, he immediately purfued him. Thomas Ful ler, carman, depofed, that in confequence of the above, he took off his fore-horfe, and galloped Acrofs the heath after the offender ; that he came up with him near Cranford-bridge, and perceiving him put his hand in his great-coat pocket, he feiz ed him by the collar, and after fome ftruggling, they both fell to the ground together; on fearch. ing him at Cranford-bridge, they found a loaded piitol, a mac, and fome powder, but neither the leather purfe nor money taken from Mrs. Scott. He was then carried before Mr. HENDERSON, at Bedfont, and by him committed to New Prifon. In confequence, the parties, together with Richard Bartholomew, the ftable-keeper, of whom the high wayman hired the horfe, were bound over to pro fecute, and the Prifoner fully committed for trial at the next Seffions. He is 23 rears of age, the fon of very refpeaable parents at Kenfington, and appears rather weak in the intelleas, by reafon of a paralytic ftroke with which he has been recently afflited. The mafk found upon him is a black mafk, to reprefent the face of an Indian, with a firing of beads round the neck, and upon the " Wafted heath," in the vicinity of a gibbet, mull have produced a very terrific effea. THANE: Porace OFf ICE.—Yetterday feveral Apprentices, in the employ of Mr. Deadman's Yard, were examined before the Magiftrates, on the feveral charges of felony and defertion from their Mailer's employ, by taking away their tools, under the influence of the combination of the Shipwrights, that had fnbfifted fome ,time back, which is happily terminated. The lads being confidered as ailing under the influence of the revolting fhipwrights, feducing them from their duty, they were &Miffed with a falutary admonition to return to their duty, which they thankfully received : and it now appears that every branch of bufinefs in the Dock Yards goes on with the utmoft harmony. After this cafe being difpofed of, feveral convi&ions took place on the illegality of perfons poffeffing goods which they could not account for. Edward Lerpeniere and Elias Gibfon, charged with having forged a writing, purporting to be the will of Wm. Howarth, late of Manchefler, de ceafed, have been committed to Lancafhire Cattle, as were alto Ann Pollard and Ann Barlow, for having uttered and publifhed, as true, the forged will aiorefaid. On Friday fe'nnight James Mellor, aged 22, convicted at the laft affixes of a burglary, and al to, of purchaling a bay horfe poney, knowing it to have been ftolen • and Thomas Spencer, his coufin, and accomplice in the above burglary, aged 14, were executed on the gallows near Der by. Mellor confeffed that he had praaifed thiev ing for feveral years paft, and acknowledged hav ing perpetrated a great 'number of crimes in Staffordthire, as well as in Derbythire. They did not appear in the leaft touched with remorfe for the heinoufnefs of their crimes ; and fince their conviaion, and in their laft moments, exhibited an affeeing proof of human depravity. Thomas Spencer, fen. (father to the above T. Spencer) condemned at Stafford affixes for a bur glary, is reprieved. As Faancis HILTON, Efq. of Finibury-fquare, was returning home, on Thurfday evening, by Moor-place, a quarter before ten, an attempt was made to huftle him by agang of eight or ten men, calling out, 44 A bu llock." Mr. HILTON, to avoid this party, went out of the path to Mr. ALkx. CHAMPION'S door, when they followed, beat him with their bludgeons, robbed him of his money, watch, hat, and handkerchief, and went off towards Smithfield in triumph. Notwith [landing he cried out murder loudly feveral times 11 I -I_ • LONDON MAIIKET% PRICE OF HOPS IN THE BOROUGH. Bags 61 os to 81 os I Pockets 71 os to tOI tat SMITHiI LLD, September 3. To fink the offal—per ftune of 81b. Beet . 3s 8d to 4$ Btl Veal - its 8d to 6s ad Mutton -ss ad to 6s od Pork - ss od to 6. od lamb ss od to 6s 4d. Stock at Market this morning, licafts boo, Sheep and Lambsl,coo. NEWGATE and LEAI W September 3. Per ftone of 81b. by the carcafe. Beet 3s ad to 4s 4d Veal 4s od to a Sd Mutton p os: to p 8d Pork ss od to 61 of _ Lamb 06dto ss 8c1: RAW HIDES, September 3. I Hides (per ftone) 3s Gd to 3 s Bcl Heavy Calf 9s 6d each Middling 3s 2d to 31 4d Horfe Skins ro to 16s cd Ordinary as 8d to 2s zcd Lamb Skins as od to 4s od Shearlings as. od. to is. cd. PRICE OF LEATHER, per lb. AT LEA DENHA LL. Butts, so to s6lb each, - - and to aid Ditto, Go to 661 b - - -24 d to asd Merchants Backs -39 d to 2td Dreffittg Hides . . iBd to tstd Fine Coach Hides . - 29.1 to slid Crop Hides for Cutting - 20.1 to 22d Flat Ordinary - - 17e1 to tild Calf Skins, .30 to 40lb per dozen, -24 d to 3 2d Ditto so to 701 b - • 2stl to 32d Ditto, 70 to 801 b • -24 d to 274 Small Seals (Greenland) per lb. 3s od to 3s ol Large ditto - - zoos to ter•s per doz. Tanned /fork Hides - 185 to 3os each Goat Skins - - 251 to Gss per dozen Bark per load - 211. lOS. to 231. Os. PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW, September 3. Smithfield. St. James's. Whitechapel. o.Hay 7 •to 7 7 3 to oto 8 o oI 5 o 0 to 716 0 New 3 10 to 6 0 --... Straw 2 Bto2 14 2/40 to 3 3 ol a 80to 2 a 0 Clover 720t0 8 0 I 7 7tateSso I Do.new 6 oto 7 o TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR, Sir—Having had occafirai to go to about two years ago, and having (ince very frequently remarked, that molt of my Acquaintance were al ma as ignorant of that country as they were of Japan, where we are told, by grave hiftorians, that the Dutch are the only Chriftians permitted to trade, becaufe they trample on the Crofs—l (hall thank you to give a place in your Paper for the few following remarks on a country fo little known here, and fo much mifreprefented : I con. fefs, that I went there With strong prejudices againit the lower clafs of Irith, from having heard, it fo often aliened, that Nature had done more, and Man had done lefs for that country than for any other country in this part of Europe. I there fore expected to fee a great part of it uncultivated, and little produftive :—lnftead of this, after hav ing travelled feveral hundred miles through va nous parts of it, I am ttrongly inclined to think, that (exclufive of their, turf bogs, which are as ne ceffary to them as our coal mines are to us) I have Peen more uncultivated ground, in the fame (pace, in many parts of England. I do not mean to fay, that their ground was as well cultivated as ours. That, indeed, would be little fhort of a miracle, confidering how very inadequate their means of cultivating it are, from an almoft want of capital. That they are not fparing of their own labour, there cannot be a ftronger proof than that their common method of railing potatoes requires, if I am rightly informed, at - leap five times the ma. nual labour that our method of railing them does. It is true, that the price of country labour is not, in thofe parts I have Peen, much more than one half of the price here ; but I found the wages of artificers and tradefmen to be full as high there, and in Tome inftances higher, than they are with us. The Englifh language, I believe, is pretty generally underftood, if not fpoken there ; for I met in my ramble with not more than two or three people to whom I could not make myfelf under- Rood. Very different was the cafe in Wales, where not one in twenty of thofe to whom I addreffed myfelf, fpoke one word of Englifh. The Ira are indebted to an Englifhman tor !hewing, as I was informed there, that their language has a much greater affinity to the antient Celtic than any of our modern languages. The high roads of that country are very good, and the by-roads that I law, far better than ours. I law no wag. gons, but their cars anfwer the purpofe of con veying goods, and have one great advantage over our waggons, that they do not break up the roads nearly fo much. Their Inns were far better than I expelled, and probably as good as ours were a century ago. At one of the firft inns I (topped at there, I found they were a good deal furpriled on my calling for half a pint of port wine ; I fuppofe becaufe the travellers who call for wine generally take, at leak every man his bottle. They have very few coal mines, and if I was to form an opi nion from the Irith coals 1 law, they are of a ve ry indifferent quality, and little adapted for mull ma nufactures ; they anfwer, however, very well for burning lime, of which they make great ufe as ma. nure, wherever it is to be had. I was Aimed by feve• ral, that Ireland abounded with coals, if they could difcover the places where they lay. Mines of copper and lead were worked in Ireland near a century ago, and I can fee no reafon for their having been difcontinued, except that they found they did not anfwer. I faw nothing amongit the lower clafs that could juftify, at prefent, the epi thet given them by Mr. Hume and other hi Elm tans. That there is great room far reformation among ft them, there is no doubt, but to one who faw as I did, their poor, but hofpitable, little farmers flar ing their food with the common beggars, who mutt have ftarired, but for the relief afforded them by thoufands whcrwere very far from being them felves in a comfortable fituation, they mutt ap pear in a more favourable light than they are re prefented by many. Left it (hould be thought that the means made ufe of here to relieve our poor were neglected in Ireland, it is but juilice to fay, that I faw the Soup. Boiler fully employed in every little town I paled through ; unfortunately thofe.towns are fcattered very thinly over Ireland, where Poor Rates are unknown. In the belt peopled and molt indultrious part of that colon , try, the North, even villages are rare ; for their weavers have all fmall farms, and in this they ; differ from the manufiidurers of every grim . 5040-