Star. — London, England, 1818-10-15 00:00:00

PARISIAN FASHIONS. Caahemire with largo matta : :s, puce-coloured silks, and black silks, bars d • Napier, are the materials most employed for autum 'SA gowns. Trimmings are little seen ; they are replaced by three or four flat bands, either of ribbon or the same materials as the dress; these are rlaced round the bottom, at very small distances one from the other. A uew cloak has just been adopted by our faslaiorables. It is &mantle which unites two great advantages, that of adding.grace to the form, and protecting it at the same tine front the cold air. Its shape is extremely elegant ; from a entail collar a la 6,;("irlia, falls a cape of five or aix nails in depth, two arm-holes are made for the hands. These mantles are made of cloth or cassimere, lined either with plain or twilled sarsnet ; the colours are various, but generally lined with white. Bou vet% are still made of crape or silk, gets de Naple:.--come few arc sea of sarsnet, but they art not general. Some I.adfra in deli cate health have already adopted swansdown and pluck trim mings, and it is supposed that furs will be prevalent this winter. THEATRES. DRIIRT-LANE..--The Comedy of The Fashionable Lover was performed last night., It is one of those productions which may perhaps have some interest in the closet, principally on account of the benevolent sentiments, and sensible observations upon life and character which sometimes'occur, but as an acting Piece, it is, to say the least of it, but indifferently adapted to produce effect. There is something so languid and undramatic in its structure and language, as in our opinion must defy the exertions of the highest talents in the performers to render it more than tolerable. Some of the parts, however, were well sustained.. Among those we would mention as the most distinguished, Mr. H. JOHNSTON'S Colin Mac leod, Mr. H. KEMBLE'S Tfrel, Mr. WEST'S Augusta Aubrey, and Mrs. ORGER S Miss Bridgemore. The Lady last mentioned had much to do in order to overcome the odious and repulsive aspect of the cha racter itself, and she succeeded as far as could be ex pected. The Farce of My Spouse and I followed, in which a Mr. YARNOLD made his first appearance as Ned. He met with a very favourable reception, and was encored in one of the songs. We consider him as a performer of promise, and think that he•must prove an useful adjunct to the Company. The . House was not very well attended, nor were there many demon strations of enthusiasm en the part of the audience throughout the whole performance. COVENT GARDEN.--Thc Barber of Seville and The Miser were repeated at this Theatre, last night, with the completest success. Mr. W. FARREN'S perfor mance of the latter is one of the happiest displays of humour and character that we have seen. The miser's distraction, upon the loss of his gold, produced the ,jnost powerful effect. The two scenes with Lappet were also admirable. Mr. Aztort played the miser's son with great spirit and judgment ; and Mrs. Gress was very lively and entertaining as Lappet.—ln The Border of Seville, Mrs. Dictons sung with the same brilliant effect as on the preceding night. The dialogue was given with more liveliness, and the co mic situations were more ludicrous in the representa tion. The scene in which the doctor suffers the ope ration of being shaved, secundum artcm, by the bar ber, produced loud and universal bursts of laughter. The House was crowded. Mr. IRONMONGER and Mr. Alderman Cox, are the rcw Members of the Sub-committee of Drury-lane Theatre, in lieu of LOIdYARMOCITH and Mr.WALPOLZ. . . - Miss S. Boor had a crowded house to her benefit, nn Friday last at Shrewsbury, and the following even ing she played .;!Mina Mai:di:oil& and Little Pickle, at the Chester Theatre. _ Tuesday last as Colonel HANNIER, son of Sir Tuo- MAS HANMER, Bart, was proceeding on a shooting party, with Mr. CONGREVE, of Aldermaston Park, Berks, in getting into the shooting cart, one of the pieces went off accidentally, and so dread! ully lace. rated Colonel flaituctt's arm, near the shoulder, that it was greatly feared he would be obliged to undergo an amputation of the limb. Tuesday night a young gentleman, who was on a visit at the house of Mr. hay& in the London Road, arose in his sleep, and jumped out of a one pair of stairs window : he was taken up by a watchman, dreadfully lacerated, and died soon after. Monday last, a wherry going to the Satellite, at the Motherbank, was upset by a gust of wind, when a woman named Hai was unfortunately drowned. She was the widow of the watcrman who was drowned With three Midshipmen of the Tiber, in March last. She has left five young children. The following curious account has been taken from a Bombay Paper :—" Mr. Powzia., Commander•of the Queen Charlotte, informs us of the interesting Circumstance of his having recovered from a rock, 21 miles N.W. oF Nooaheevah (one of the Marquesas) a man that had been its solitary inhabitant for nearly three years. His account stated, that early in 1814 he proceeded thither from Nooaheevah with four others, all of whom had left an American ship there, for the purpose of procuring feathers that were in high estimation among the natives of Nooaheevah: but losing their boat on the rock, three of his com panions in a short time perished through famine, and principally from thirst, as there was no water but what was supplied by rain. His fourth companion continued with him but,a few weeks ; when he formed a resolution of attempting to swim, with the aid of a splintered fragment, that remained of their boat, to the island, in which effort he must have inevitably perished. He had once himself attempted to quit' his forlorn situation by constructing a catamaran, but failed, and lost all means of any future attempt. They had originally taken fire with them from Nooa heevah, which he had always taken care to continue except on one occasion, when it became extinguished', l and never could have been restored but by a careful preservation of three or four grains of gunpowder, and the lock of a musket, which he had broken up for the construction of his catamaran. The flesh and blood of wild birds were his sole aliment: with the latter he quenched his thirst in seasons of long droughts, and the skulls of his departed companion; were Eris only drinking vessels. The discovery made of him from the Queen Charlotte was purely acci dental ; the rock was known to be desolate and bar ren, and the appearance of a fire, as the vessel passed it on an evening, attracted notice, and produced an inquiry which proved fortunate to the forlorn inhabi tant of the rock, in procuring his removal to Nooa beevah, whither Mr. PowaLL conveyed him, and left him under the care of an Eoropcan of the name of Witsoia, who had resided there many years, and with whom the hermit bad a previous acquaintance:. ZNSOLVZI 4 I7 DEBTORS' COURT, 041.14, Colonel Thornton Gokid, sill the Nottinghamshire Militia, was brought up this day to be reheard, hav ing been formerly remanded fork defective schedule. The first objection taken against the:Mendant's discharge was on behalf of the creditors in general, and amounted to this—that the Colonel had shewn an unjust preference in securing by an assignment of some stock, the arrears of an annuity which he had p,aanted to one Benjamin Brown and others. It appeared that 10,000/. was invested in the Stocks, which stood in the names of trustees, and that the 'Colonel was only entitled to the interest accruing therefrom. The Colonel, in March, 1817, after he had been a considerable time in custody, asiigned over the-dividends arising from the above-mentioned sum of 10,000!. to secure the arrears of annuity at that time due. It was contended, that as this trans action had occurred during the Colonel's imprison ment, it was an unjust preference to the annuitants, and was such as was expressly declared by the Act to preclude any prisoner from having the benefit of the Insolvent Act extended to him. It was contended, on the part of the Insolvent, that this assignment was granted under such circum stances as did not make it an undue preference within the meaning of the Act, because at the time it was made, the Colonel had no intention whatever of taking the benefit of the Act, conceiving that his property was sufficient to satisfy the demands of his I creditors. The Court was of a similar opinion, and overruled the objection. . • The next ground of opposition was, that this sur plus, which the defendant stated in his schedule as sufficient to satisfy all his creditors, was not distinctly specified therein ; but it appearing that a suit is at present pending in Chancery against the Colonel's trustees for the recovery of it, the Court was of opi nion that it was not in the Insolvent's power to state it in more express and particular terms than he had done. _ _ _ _ Mr. ANDREWS took the next objection on behalf of l Messrs. Moseley and Co. army accoutrement-makers, Piccadilly, from whom he contended that the Colo nel had procured goods and cash at a time when he was perfectly well aware that he was in insolvent circumstances. The facts were these ;—ln January, 1815, the Colonel sent an order to Messrs. Moseley and Co. desiring a supply of hats for his regiment, which was executed accordingly. It was contended, that the army accoutrement-makers conceived them selves guaranteed for the payment of these supplies both by the Colonel and the Government ; that the Colonel was nothing more than the conduit through which the money was to pass ; and that the Colonel, having received the sums requisite to defray the ex penses incurred, had been guilty of such an act as ought to prevent his discharge. This objection was, however, subsequently given up, and another taken, on the following ground s - e—that as the Colonel went to the King's Bench in November, 1815, and must therefore have known himself to have been in the jaws of a gaol for some months previous, he acted unfairly towards Messrs. Moseley and Co. in getting their acceptances to two bills of his, one for 451. the other for 1001. Mr. ANDREWS here read two letters, the first of which was dated 15th May, 1815, de siring that they would accept a bill for him, at two months, which was payable to Messrs. Howards. in Golden-square ; the second, dated 4th June, 1815, desiring that they would accept a bill for 100/. payable at a month, for which, if they accepted it, he would transmit them another, payable two days' before the former bills became due. . The e Learned SERJEANT observed, that as it ap- 1 peared that the debt for which they opposed him was of a much larger amount, being about 400/. or 5001. he could merely consider it as a common debtor and creditor account, and could not think of remanding him upon it. Mr. ANDREWS, who had appearei very confident of success till this stage of the proceeding, then ob served, that as the Court had overruled his objec tion, he almost despaired of his future opposition.— Previously, however, to giving up his objections, he should take the liberty of asking Colonel Gould some Theq uestions. first question was—Whether the Insolvent was Colonel of the Nottinghamshire Militia at the pre sent time ?—His ansver was in the affirmative. Did he receive pay ?—No. You sign the muster-roll which the Paymaster sends to Government, in order to draw the sup plies ?—Yes. Do you or he draw for the contingencies?—He does. To what do they amount annually ?-861. You are entitled to the surplus ?—Yes. To what may they amount annually ?—To about 401. or 60.'. on an average. Did you never state that they were more conside rable to any person, and that you were willing to give them u??—He had never represented them as large, but had declared bis willingness to give them up.. Mr. ANDREWS finding that he could gain nothing by this examination, gave it up, and proceeded to his next objection, which he took on behalf of ano ther creditor, Mr. Basil George Wood. This Gentleman held a bill for £5OO, which the Colonel had given to a Mrs. Morphew, now become Mrs. Bear, for money lent, and which had since, in the course of negotiation, fallen into the hands of Mr. Wood, and which, with interest, &c. amounted to the sum of £365. Mr. Andrews was going to en ter into the original concoction of this Bill, but wis interrupted by Mr. Heath, who maintained, that as, Mr. Wood was not the original holder of the Mr. Wood could not enter into an examination of the i original manner in which the bill was concocted. He had his remedy against Mrs. Bear or Mrs. Morphew, and could not come forward with any chance of sac sess against the insolvent. The Court agreed with Mr. Heath, and also over-ruled this objection. Mr. ARABIN opposed Colonel Gould, on behalf of! General Arabia. This objection was founded on the following grounds:--The Colonel had granted an annuity of £lOO per year, to General Arabin, in re turn for £6OO, which the General advanced. This was to be secured on a sum of 1:9681, invested in the Long Annuities ; on which, prior annuities had been granted upon this. To this the Court replied, that eneral had been himself guilty of negligence, in not examining . the Annuity Enrolment Office, where he might have discovered what incumbrances were upon the property. A second ground of objec tion was, that the Colonel had not this property at all in the t.ong Annuities. The - reply again ins, that if such was the case, the General had beentuilty of negligence in not examining whether the Colonel had the property in question, a caution which Le Might and ought to have exercised. llns - was the final objection. and being, like all the others, over-ruled, the Colonel was declared entitled to his discharge, to the evident satisfaction of the nu merous assembly which attended the Court. Edmund Heron Lee, who resides in the Miles of the King's Bench Prison, was opposed by Mr. ADOL. rims on several grounds ; but the principal ground of opposition was, that of his having wilfully con cealed his property. The insolvent underwent a long and severe examination by Mr. Adolphus ; in the course of which it came out, that he had, from the month of December until March last, resided in a cottage at Berkhamstead, in Hertford-hire. He the furniture in the cottage belonged to his brother, who now lived in Lambeth Mardi. When asked how the brother came to be the owner of the furniture, he answered, that the furniture had formerly been the property of his wife, and that she gave it to his brother in lieu of a debt she owed him. He said he had not for a long time known where the furniture was. After some closer examination, it came ont, that the insolvent had this very furniture in his pos session at the present time; that he slept the night before on the very bed ; that he din. - rd on the very table, and sat on one of the very chairs, that formed part of his furniture at Berkhamstead ; and in short, that all the furniture was still in his possession. The prisoner was ordered to be remanded. William Newbury was opposed by Mr. Primmest on the ground of hii having conducted himself in a fraudulent manner towards his employers. The in solvent had been the London Agent tor ,a house at Manchester, and his business was to sell their manu factured goods. Ile did not sell them on commis sion, but as a servant employed by the people at Manchester, and receiving a salary of 0300 a year' for his labour. It happened that a certain Baronet of high rank was greatly in want of a sum of money, and employed a person to raise the same by way of loan. This person came to Mr. Maybitry, to borrow the money, and acted as the intermediate agent be tween him and the Baronet. An agreement was made, that the Baronet should receive a large loan on a bond ; but that, instead of receiving it in money, he should take the amount in Manchester goods. The distressed Baronet accordingly, glad to get any thing which could be turned into money to supply his wants, gave his bond to Maybury for £7,500 and took a quantity of goods, the price of which was fixed by the latter so much beyond the common wholesale market price, that the difference amounted to no less than £1,700. The parties at Manchester having heard of this transaction, and conceiving that the goods so disposed of were their property, and that Maybttry being their servant, had no right to take to himself any profit, but was bound to give them whatever he sold the goods for, insisted on his giving them the difference in question. A suit was' instituted accordingly ; and all matters in dispute were referred to Mr. Denman, the Barrister, whose award was, that Maybury should pay the £1,700 to his employers. For this sum the parties at Manches ter put the insolvent into prison, and now opposed his release on the ground of fraud. The Court held, that the parties at Manchester, after having consented to refer all the matters in dis pute to an arbitrator, had deprived themselves of the right of detaining the insolvent for fraud ; and thai the transaction resolved itself into a common con tract debt. The insolvent was therefore ordered to be discharged. QuF,N-SQUARE—Yesterday Wm. Oreentrood brought up from the Depot of the 3d Regiment of Dragoons, at Maidstone, on Tuesday, by James Gil more, the officer, was examined before the Sitting Magistrate. The prioner was charged, under the 30th Geo. 11. with having enlisted in that Regiment while he was a private in the Norfolk Militia.—James Bently, private in the Ist Regiment of Life Guards, deposed, that he ttas on the recruiting service in 1817, and that he enlisted the prisoner at a public house in Westminster ; he was attested before Mr. FIELDING, and afterwards received El bounty, and was transmitted to the above Regiment, where be re mained till about four months ago, when he was or dered to France ; he then confessed himself a deser ter from the Norfolk Militia, and was put under ar rest.—Thomas Nicholson, Serjeant in Captain Dam moil's Company, West Norfolk Regiment of Militia, proved, that the prisoner enlisted in that Regiment the 7th of April, 1615, and had served with them in Ireland, and until they were disembodied at the City. of Norwich. His time would not be up till 1820. Gilmore proved the hand-writing of Mr. Fielding to the certificate of the prisoner's attestation, when he last enlisted.—A Solicitor, who attended on the part of the Crown, said, the prisoner had been guilty of various frauds of the above nature, which induced the proper authority to proceed against him tinder the above Statute, which makes the offence felony, punishable by transportation for seven years. He was fully committed for trial. Row-sTREET.--Yesterday John Ray and James Ed wards:underwent an examination, charged with rob bing, in conjunction with two others, in Bear-street, Leicester-square, on Tuesday night, between nine and ten o'•cloc k, the Rev. Mr. Vickery, the Curate of the parish of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, as mentioned in yesterday's Paper. The prisoners were committed. They were only discharged on Saturday :;fight from an accusation of felony. Thomas Norwich was fully committed, charged with robbing the stables of Mrs. Garrick, widow of the late celebrated actor, of the coachman's clothes. HATTON•GARDEN:-.--Yesterday J. Grauger, a but cher, in Peter -street, Saffron-hill, was charged with cruelty - to a sheep, which he was driving into his shop. The animal would not enter the slaughter house, and the defendant beat it about the head till the blood gushed out of its nose, and one of its eyes was nearly beaten out of its head. He was convicted irkthe penalty of 20s. In default of payment he would be imprisoned a month in the House of Correction. GutuntALL.—Edward Jones was yesterday charg ed by his wife with threatening her life, and with a series of violence for years, the result, of family dis sentions, and of disagreements almost since the period of their matrimony.. They were both respectable persons, and the tale told by the wife was tuost _ . afflicting. They had been mirtied tots:- had two children; but quarrelling emati nth . separated from time to ti me . N o ssoner , arrangements made bemeen them, ti:an pursued the wife to her retreat, and be!la-t I her in the most.outrageous manner, f r e t - 1 ,. , • ing a case-knife to h er t h roat, bi ddirg .(1 1 ,...7 . for immediate destruction, and corstAntl,l, 6 .. - '.' beneath his pillow (when they slept toget one, giving her the same waminn. an --- - of passion he had cut hi s Own i31r021, a fined to an Hospital for a cor.s'.detabl e made a final separation about two ycan which time he traced his wife in he; 1-,•1;•: . -...... 251 again renewed his outtageoes cc-hiuc; • - ings since ; seized one of his chi:el:T• away with it from the house, areal, the first that opposed him. He was street while struggling with the 0;11•:: proved by a Gentleman that the throat, and shewed symptoms of derat:vites lig own defence he told a long story r ca.:A' and comfort, his subsequent sinned by his wife's conduct, and the con,,c of reason. He was ordered b ac k to t h e where a medical enquiry is to be miLie at of his mind. ~'f CI A porter belonging to the Belle S.aqvagt feed Of f ice, Ludgate-hill, was fir.ed 2:is. and cots, Altering the charge up m a ticket for a pr . 111. to is. Bd. to a Mr. Bartlett, from Far:* offence is transportable by a late .let Pr!iz trq but the prisoner confessed his guilt and p:r2.eiir t mercy. -- _ _ _ _ UNtoa-HALL.—Mrs. Morris, fiCarlia ris, late of the 7th Hussars, atter.d.N! y. • the Magistrates of this Office ! _ to ;a preferred against her by Miss Eliza j:nsor, saulting her, and threatening her ir:th peritir.:,rio lence. It appeared that the cviarrel - Johnson living with Captain Morris, dant was obliged to apply to the par:•.h for isErt for herself and family. The Magistrate 12-mersitle unfortunate and deserted situatie7l cf Mori, but reminded her, that she must net ad. I): conduct towards Mrs. Johnson as-ten(*.:„ . . •:lesdua a breach of the peace. Under the cir:un:::.:.:es should not then call upon her to Lid Officer should hold the warrant, and kiw i ; •:•!ur ties before him if a similar occutrence s:..!.:11 • place. . v. bea t - - wet a Cup .e to effs. Tuesday one of the Maidstone stages was et c3r-e, near Town Mailing. One inside ptssenzz: 'nud ki arm broken, and eleven or twelve, outside, rte much bruized. Tuesday night the house of Lady ett.trmit:. Putney, was broken open, the rol)bers en:cri parlour window on the ground floor, and tin,:irz, poker in the room, made use of it to break o'n a pair of folding doors, which were Guard, and re. vented their passage into the interor of the man im They carried of a variety of articles, pinzirsil, wearing apparel, and also a writing desk, rhich wit afterwards found broken in pieces at the lower p of the lawn. The thieves not having putelded to any .other than two apartments, it is mirctuted that they made a precipitate retreat, in cors;T:ence tithe harking of the gardener's dog.—The %Alt tight the house of the Rev. Mr. CMIVALT, at Putney, uai erP tered and plundered of a number of hocks. Where an assemblage of talent and exTe:ince concentrated in one line of practice, a success mus attend their application, not to be found cise:Let This has beeh evinced in the Estah:izhment w ti Medical Board at Charlotte-House, and at Woodstock-House, Woodstcc:•arcat. street, where cures are every day pe:fortned which have baffled the skill of eminat ;,twesn, and excited their astonishment.—Tice have particularly attended to those consequer.sts d a certain disease, which entails the most distressiii, it bilitics, and unhinges the constitution of both ;au. They also remove the effects of those symptoms aris. ing from juvenile indiscretion, from irregular and from a long residence in warm climates-4 :A dew: iption they beg particularly to notice obstbat eruptions in the skin, sore throat, pains in the head :al limbs, frequently mistaken for rlteurnation, strictures, fistulas, sctopbula, dtc.—Messrs. Coortn and Co. after forty years practice in varians Hospitals, are .consulted at Woodstock-street, Orford-strtut, from eight till eight; and at the Medical 11=4 Charlotte-House, Great Charlotte-street, lliackf:in,- road, precisely from twelve until eight in the erer.ing. —Mechanics, and persons of moderate l ac ome,ha . ve advice, gratis, if they attend at certain hours, nom!, Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday mornings , until cii o'clock, and from six to eight every evening. A side door, acd private nom fa ir.aks. - . BIRTHS Friday, the Lady of Lord Graves, of a IA at his Ladki at, Buhop's Court, near Exeter. DIED. Lately, in the sSth year of his age, M. D'Olof•Semirtz, 7e pctual Secretary to the Academy of science., Pre.f..t.A2 tany, Member of many learned Societies, Knight of tie ha Star and of Hasa. Since 'the death of Liameas, hr ;T . i; , he botanist of Sweden, and oat of the most distinguished :I: Kano Two plants perpetuate his Dame. Sunday, near Tunbridge 'Wells, aged 57, Mary Mats: W:•.• throp, wife of Stephen John Winthrop, M.D. At l'iddletnnthisie, Dorsetahire, 'd ia ry, die wit: of the Fa; Charles Philips. Sunday, at North Court, Isle of Wight, after a Icr,g2 7 al. Capt. Ilcnnet, U.N. in his eath year. Friday, Mrs. Wilson, wife of Mr. I. Wilson, bonktella. Exchange, a severe loss to him and seen young ri.elra^. Last week, at Ksmoutls, where she b. 4 gcne t..r the trne,— of the air, in a decline ' Charlotte, dasighter at the 1.1:11 ward Drewe, of Peyhentbury. October 1, at Ileirtor., ts'rs. Sleigh, wet st the net. • Sleigh, of the Methodist PRICE OF STOC Bk. Stock 2691 Reduced 744 73 741 Cons. 751 76 75111 per Ct. 84 4 per Ct. 93t 94 93 , 1 Navy 10511 106 XS YESITPTIAI Long Ans. 19; U:4 In lix 13onds SS Omu. 21 St Exch. Bills 19 40 Cons. for Ac. 77.; Lottery 'rickets t:l9 COAL MAR'' Ships at Market. SWps 5 14 Newt:is:lc • 14j 4 Sunderland 4 KET, Orr. 14. 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