Star. — London, England, 1802-02-17 00:00:00

CORN MARKET. NARY-Imrs, vas. t 7. No alteration whatever has taken place this day in Wheat, Flour, &c.—The prices being the fame as mentioned in our Paper of Monday laft. Yefterday the LORD MAYOR ordered the Bread to be lowered half an affize, to take place to.mor. row.—The Qaartern Loaf will then be fold for slid. Mrs. Bi zziXOTOII has fent off a fine curricle and pair of horfes to her hniband in France. The Poor Gesilmiets and The Critic were perform ed at the Saliffinry Theatre laft week, by the de. fire of the Mayor, for the benefit of the poor. Mifs Ds Cams has found out an admirable method to prevent her Pockets being picked—by not wearing any ! The strarfeketted Paris Card, with the portrait of the owner, is net a new thought. Cap. tarn Gross, the celebrated Antiquarian, who was remarkably corpulent, took the whim of reprefent ing himfey in piBure inftead of name. HIS cards bad A hack view of the Captain ' • but the ftrength of the leg, and broadnefs of the fhoulder, with other fizrall.r marks, rendered miftakes impoffible. THE MISS CRAURR CONESIIT.Sir PHD COG HI zz, on Monday laft, had a party of fixteen Gentlemen to dinner. In the evening the Mils CRAM ER S the Si ft ers to Sir Jona, had a mufical p ar ty. The concert commenced with an ha. Tian air, by BRAMAN. The Mifs ABRAMS fung a duet, accompanied on the piano forte ; and the eldeft Mils Ceases'', who is one of the belt and molt fcientific fingers of the day, fung a favourite air from Eyrida with great effeet. The Mifs THOMYSONS, MILD SR, and Mr. Gesvizt.s, added to the vocal treat. _ About half after eleven o'clock the company fat down to an elegant (upper, and at half after one the party broke up. Among the vifitors were, the Dukes of OR. MANS and MONTPRNSIIR, Marquis of Laws. sow I, Marcbionefs of DowwsH;Rl, Earl MOIRA, Lords ASHIROXS and Rswoos, Ladies Jaws As. TON, RUISIOLD, and C. Futuna°, General Der. Lay, Mars. ORIVILLI, M. P• ANDRIIWS,OIFFORD, SHIRIDAII, CALVERT, and ANGIRSTIIII 2 Mitres two Fratoimos, Locks, MILNER, RUNROLD ) two ABRAMS, two Toomrsoms. The match between Mr. FIATCRER and Mr. OSWALD is, to produce each a horfe to go a hun dred miles, for five hundred guineas a fide ; —they are to hart from Doncafier, on the South road.— Mr. FLITCHIR'S horfe is expeaed to be at Don caner in a few days.—Confiderable bets, we hear, are already made on this race. A South Country Gentleman has undertaken to go on horfebaek from London to Barton water fide, in Lincolnfliire, a dill:trace of i7l miles, in twelve fucceffive hours. The bet is to be decided Tome time in neat month. The Gentlemen of the Monfon Mutt accommodate him with their ftuds ; and although he rides )5 (tone, yet his wind and nerve are fo highly thought of, that the odds run confiderably in his favour. He is to hart from the Gray's Inn Coffee-houfe, and proceed by the Stil ton road. A mull extraordinary felt of allive running was performed by Lieutenant Row am, of the :9th regi ment of foot, quartered at Plymouth Dock Bar. racks, on the line, there ; the bet was fifty guineas, the match to be performed in forty-two minutes. Lieutenant R. dreffed in a flannel jacket, fet off from Clarence-ftreet, at eleven o'clock A. M. a man of war's ten oared barge was in waiting at Mutton Cove. Lieutenant R. creffed the paffage, jumped over the barge on the beach, ran up the very tteep hill of Maker's Heights to the middle barracks, in prefence of fevetal Officers, touched the barrier, ran down the hill, jumped into the boat, croffed the paffage again, and returned to Clarence-theet, in forty minutes, apparently with out fatigue. The diftance is, exclufive of the pail Page, two miles and a half to Maker's Barracks, and two miles and a half back to Clarence-that. On Saturday evening bill, at a quarter before eight o'clock, a Welchman, who is an attendant Waterman of the nand of coaches in St. Paul's church-yard,ftarted, for a conEderable wager, from the gate oppofite to Ludgate-hill, to run IS times from thence round the iron railing, in the fpace of an hour. He performed it Eve minutes within the time, and was triumphantly led off to the Spotted Dog, where he was to receive tompitea, in cafe of Performing the arduous talk he had undertaken. A eery curious incident Is mentioned in a Coun try Paper, as having certainly occurred in the neighbourhood of Clallsmore, county Waterford, only a few days ago :—A countryman had taken fo extraordinary a fancy to a young girl, who lived at tome ditiance from him, and not meeting with proper encouragement in the ufual way of addreffing her, he refolved to carry her off, and marry her by force; and for this pnrpofe engaged a number of fellows to affift him, on an appointed night.—The girl's brother having been informed of this plot by a perfon in the fecret, drelled him felf up in his fuller's cloaths, and pretended to he very bufy in fmoothing linen when the ravilhers approached ; they burg open the door, and placed the fuppofed &mid behind her intended fpoufe, who inftantly galloppcd off to his houfe, where he coal:a:led her to the care of his notiper and Rim, de filing them to be very Lind to her, and to keep her in bed until he went for a clergyman.—By the rudenefs of their gar', however, the fecret of his fez was alnioft immediately betrayed; and the whole terminated in a hearty laugh at the expeuce of the amorous Knight Errant. A very melancholy accident happened at Sea ton iron works, near V4'cit kington, on Monday evening the tft inftant. Three perions were found fuffoezted in bed, in a chamber contiguous to the 1.4 41-furnace, which had been blown in only a lhort time before. Even y effort was employed to regime , nintation, which, with difficulty, was etleaed with regard to one of the fufterers ; but, unfor itt.'.ttly, the two others (a young man about 18, ho' ..11..ut tem years of age) were pail re. ttsveri‘,. iVAIITICAL INTELLIGEVCE. MAILS THIS DAY.-WIND S. • Frcnch, o Dutch, o Hamburgb, o Dublin, • I Waterford, OVt. PLYMOUTH, Faa. ts.—Came in the PLAI6-A. GUI M r, of 74 guns, from Portfmnuth ;. Henrietta, of and from Danttick, Capt. Ma a roc Do ma pis I with naval flora for the dock-yard ; and the Ma ria, Capt. BARBER, from London, for Leghorn, laden with fundries, put in leaky ; alfo the Camilla tranfport, of Newcaftle, J. ANDERSON matter, from Gibraltar, laden with naval (totes for the dock yard. PORTSMOUTH, Faa. O.—Arrived on Saturday LA the fhip Milnes, Capt. At.t.sa, from Shields, bound to Gibraltar; and failed the tame day the brig Endeavour, laden with timber for Shields.— This day failed his Majefty's fhips GORGON and DICTATOR for the eaftward; alto the Sally, South Seaman, Rowe ; and the Montague hoop, both for London.—Saired for Shields the Good Deka, FOTNERINGNAN ; for London, the brig Amiable Clariffa, Sroltss, with fome others; the Guild Adolphus, Swede, ELGAVORTN, with deals for Poole.—His Majefty's chip Buis ALO, to Cowes, in tended for Botany Bay; and his Majefty's thip Lt awry, on a cruize.—Dropt down to St. Helen's, the Eaft India Mips CIRRNC urn, PIRSAVItRANCA, and ALNWICIC CASTLI.—This day was releafed from quarantine the brig Dove, CRAWFORD, lately from Lilbon and Gibraltar. FROM LLOYD'. LIST. DIAL, Fax. t6.—Sailed the IN YLEXIBLI man of war, and CALOLIN♦ frigate for Sheernefs.—Wind N. W. fogey. Gaavisinn, Fla. O.—Palled by the Vrow TreOta, froM Stettin ; Friencithip, Healy's; Vrow Elizabeth, ; Vrow Gefina, Bat/TH.3 ; Vrow Anna, DANDALS ; Endrag h ht, Di rams ; % Jonge ter. MASTER; Vrow Cat arina, —; and Vrow Maria; ---; from Embden.—Sailed the Sally, Disowont, for Virginia ; Embden Packet,--,for Hambtirgh; Freindlchaft, 131/1,15, for Bourdeanz ; Jonge Johan, --; and Vreind fchap, Ras, for Rotterdam. At Bombay—Rockingham, Butler, from the Red Se& At Raekryan—Aurora, Frazer, from Trinidada. At Rotterdam--bleptunua, Krykso, front LiverpooL In the Tad—Maryland, Gardner. from Baltimore. CLYDE, FEBRUARY 3. ArrierS—Gypfey, Boyd. from Lifbon. Cleared outd—Eliaabeth, Ftafade, for Jamaica. GLASGOW TONTINE LIST. Intrepid, Li arrived at Liverpool, from Jamaica. Flora, —, at ditto, from Honduras. _ _ Coini;atree; Brown:in the Clyde, from Lillian. Perfevcranee, Cunningham ; Favourite, fiffle ; Alert, Mae- Lachlan ; and Alexander, GUlies, in the Clyde, from Liverpool. I GR a socx, Fan. American brig Peggy, Tama soli, with fruit from Lifbon, arrived here on Friday laft, owing to the badnefs of the wea thar in corning in channel, put into Ramfey in the Ifle of Man, where the took on board a pilot fur this port. Accounts were received there, from the north tide of the Wand, that fifty hoglheads of fugar in good order, were faved out of the Afia, WGist.; but it is Paid the velel will be a wreck. The Fanny, &Ana, from New York, put into the Holy Loch daring the heavy gale of - Thurf day, and came to anchor above thelialfton Point; was driven admire when the wind checked fudden ly to the N. N. W. but very fortunately the lies on a fmooth Tandy beach, and will receive no da mage. A great part of her cargo, however, muft be difcharged, as the went on during the high tide. One lighter load came over yefterday. The Mary, Nic moss, from New York, laft from Lochindaal, arrived here fafe yefterday ; The was driven ashore there, and it was Paid in a report 'brought from laay, the would be loll; the was howe ver got off by difcharging a great part of her cargo. By this veffel we have learned the following par ticulars of the hurricane of the sift ult. at Lochin daal : The American Clip Mohawk, Belay, from Philadelphia, bound to Londonderry, put in there the evening preceding the gale, after a paffage of thirty-five days, and was the only vet e' that rode out the ftorm ; the following veffels, betides the Mary, were driven on fhore the brig Nancy, of Whitehaven, frcm Virginia, bound to Liverpool ; two brigs, names unknown, one from London, the other from Sweden, both bound for London.. derry ; a Coop bound for Ireland; and a Coop; from Liverpool, bound to Sligo, laden with hops and coals ; the latter loft her bottom, being flovel to pieces ; the reft got all off with no material da mage, and Ailed on Sunday Alt from Locbindaal, in company with the Mary. Arrived alto yefterday, the Chip Neptune, , SPENCER, from New Brunfwick, in twenty days.— She has had very bad weather the whole paffage, the came in north channel—made the land on Sa- turday morning. The Fanny, BRAINS, arrived fafely in the roads this morning ; The got off the beach on filling the fecund lighter. • A policy was opened here on Friday WI, and filled up to the extent of accol: in a few hours,l giving as guineas to receive too in cafe the De finitive Treaty with France ha. not been signed at Amiens, on or before the 3oth ult. Fra. la.—Arrived on Wednefilay, the Diana, CaOfilaßD, from New York, in 3o days, came north, (poke, on the Banks of Newfoundland, a fhip from Amilerdamr bound for New York ; but it blowing vet y hard at the time, could not hear her name. M.At.ttsvrt, a running (hip, from TubAgn, arrived here on Wednefday evening, and pali;%i to Port G e lafgtow yellerday = pafage eight werks ; has expeitenqd very boilierous weather, sod was °blind to throw kraal of her trans, overboard. The atcount of peace bad only readied Tobago the day before the failed. Yelterday a Lady, the wife of a clergyman here, on her way to Ireland, in palling the American (hip Fanny, to get at the Beifaft packet lying off tide of her, at the end of the Eaft Qui, flipped from tlie plank on which the was walking and was precipitated into the fea between the veffel and the Qjay. Several of the intrepid fellows belonging to the former vette!, defcended like lightning after her, and fnatched her from the all devouring gulpb, °title muff have perithed. She was a good deal hurt by the fall. . 711 . 4 Two Friends, Milkitt.Lan, has arrived at Naples from Newfoundland. Yefterday the following veWels failed from the Tail of the Bonk, with a fine fair wind, which 901 continues :—Flora, M'NEAL, for Jamaica; Louifa, Win, for Grenada ; Hebe, AND,. 2SON ; and Glafgow, DOUGLAS, for Demarara ; Nelly and Peggy, Kea, for Hamburgh ; Cathi ine Mitchel, HAMILTON ; and Friendfhip, RUSSEL, for Belfaft ; and Britannia, THOMSON, for Dublin. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. The Ills, Kent, Overyffel, Romney, Veteran, Olatton, Mon mouth, A rdent, Bell/omen:. America, Babet, Sheemefs, Roe - back Tartarus, Pylades, Dircovery, Hcela, Eurus, Woive , in e, Dreads, Juno, Melpomene, Lutine, Ceres, Circe.Latona, Vic tor, HOMO, Proielyte, Dart, Senfibhe Fury, Tyliphone, Shan non, Arrow, Rofaria, Zebra, Bufy, Tuutcrelle, Adventure, Skerdie, Otter, and Weymouth; the gun brigs Haughty, Cal kins Cracker, Eel*, Bouncer, Fetter, Forcer, Contelt, Tearer, Kay, Plumper, Adder, Furnace, Defender, l'ygrers, Piercer, Plumb, and Attack; cutters Speedwell and Trial; hired vef- Si Lady Ano, Grace, Vigittnt, Duke of York, Lively, Mc ledge, Adive, Badger. Tartar, Stag, Role, Falcon, Speedwell, Rqprilk, Ranger, Mann, Fly, Swallow, Hind, Succen, Argos, Greyhound, Swan, Eagle, Antelope, Diligence, Mcrmaid, Dui Hound, and and Hunter; for the capture of the Dut c h 1, .Ik. and Brooderfehap, the lhips Helder, Venus, Mi nerva, and Huffer, in the New Diep in Holland, will be paid on the aoth of this mouth, 'or as loon after as any ~f his Ma kfty's raid &lp or veffels than arrive at Chatham, Sheerneh. or Yarmouth. The proportions of the proceeds of the two hulks and four &fps, due to each individual of the three junior claire. of the Sect aforefaid, arc as follows : £. J. d. Warrant Officers, - 4 to Pety Officers, - - 2 0 I Seamen, - 0 6 8 But which linos do not include any part of the valuation of the Dutch flci.t which furrendered on the 3oth of Auguft,l799. The Lords of the Admiralty have appointed ULic IC Jima:tics, Efq. to the command of the SE RAPH, of 44 guns, now fitting out at Deptfori. Wednefdav failed from Leith Roads, the fol lowing (hips for the Well Indies :—Lady Forbes and Cumberland, of Leith, and Wefinsoreland, cf London, for Jamaica; and Trelawney flatters, of Leith , for Tobago. The Two Friends, Voss, for New York, palled through the Downs on Friday laft, with the wind at N. E. all well. The Patience, Dick SON, from St. Vincent's for Dublin, is put into Martinique, leaky. The Aaive, HAYWOOD, from Ireland for Ali cant, is deftroyed by lightning, near Malaga, crew Paved. LAW INTEL LIGENC E. COURT OF JUNG'S BENCH, FEB. x 6. tORIS W. JOHNES, LK : Mr. Easels& Rated, that he was very much furprifed that this caufe should have been brought into Court, and that the defendant thould have attempted to edge himfelf out of his contraa.— The plaintiff was a printfeller, and the defendant a Member of Parliament, and a man of large for tune, reprefenting a county in Wales,, where he refided. He had a moft magnificent feat in that dillant part of the kingdom, and was defirous of having a complete colleftion of all the caricatures ever publifhed. He employed the plaintiff to make this colleaion, nor was the fancy itfelf a ridiculous one ; it was amufing and infiruaing to fee all die varying shapes and tirades of human folly ; and when Mr. Johnes was at his diftant country feat, and could not fee the fools of this town at firit hand, it was not an unentertaining amufement to view them in caricature. Mr. Erfkine here entered into a very pleafant view upon the fubjea of caricature, which he averred could not be en jeTed•in perfeetion, unlefs a man entered into the femme of it. An odd Eli, a quiz, a gig, were all diftinEt tirades of caricature, enjoyed by the ansa teur, but paired over by the common obferver. It was the lot of human nature not only to in , creafe in wifdom, but to increafe in folly alfo, and as folly increafed, the fubjea of caricature was enlarged. The dog of too years ago was the fame as the dog of to-day, but man had va ried, not only in fifhion and form, but in mind alto, a thoufand different ways, and each extreme had furnifhed a new fubjea for caricature. To thole who could relifh this, it was a (mime of great gratification. It was on this fubjea as it was with botany. The common man walked into the fields, and trod on every plant inditeriminatcly, but the botanik received esquifite pleafure in exa mining. and contemplating all the different con formations and ufes of the various plants which he met with. He obferved his Learned Friend, the Attorney-General, taking a note of this—he prefumed he was a botanift. The ATTORNAY GiNfRAL laid, No I Old) in pot kerb:. Mr. ERSKINE continued, fo it was with Carica ture as with Botany, to thofe who entered into die fpirit of it, it was a fource of pleafure unknown to thofe who did not. He then Rated the contraa, and ffferal letters from Mr. Jobnes, dated from his feat in Wales, one dated in December, 1800, in which he defircd to know what progrefs the collation had made ; and another of the 4th of May, in which he declined taking the collation on account of not being in ready cath to pay for it, and raying, that he had given dirations the lalk Autumn to Mr. Edwards to flop the further pro grefs of the collection. Mr. Erfkine having Rated this evidence, added, that he fhould 3 not wonder if this lubjea afforded new matter for caricature. As thus--1. The Amateur ordering a complete col leaion, his face glowing with pleafure, and his whole frame on the tiptoe of expeaation. Plate 2. The Amateur on receiving his bill. Plate 3.. The trial of the caufe : and Plate 4. Tilt. Amateur on hearing the verdia—tool. damages. Having dil -1 ported al this fithien with wmpll nlosfantro Mr_ Erlkine raid he ihould produce his evidence, which would entitle him to the verdie of the Jury. John Herring, iliopnian to the Plaintiff, and the fon of the Plaintiff, proved, that in June, i 3co, Mr. Johnes ordered a complete colkdion of all the ca . - ricatures ever publilhed. Upon crofs examination they denied that he gave orders to exclude indeccut ones. The ATTORNEY CENTRAL propored to refer dee calif:, which produced thine convcrfation, when, Mr. Juttice LAWRENCE raid, •that if it appear, upon looking at any of dick prints, they were indecent and al.!••ainll thz ralzs of morality to exhibit them, or if they were individual-, fo that if the !Plaintiff were tried for pohlithiog them, he might he found guilty of a libel, Ile should tell the Jury, that they ought not to allow the Plaintiff any thing for fuck prints, under any agres ment whatever. for no agreement to perform that which would be a breach of the law, could be en forced in a Court of Juflice. He did not mean to fay, that this was the charaaer of every caricature print, for Inch as were ridicule of folly, or general manners of the age, were not to be deemed libels. Upon there übfervations from the Bench, the pat ties agreed to refer the attire. GRIM/LDI V. WRITS. This was an :talon brought by •the plaintiff ; who is a miniature painter, againit a young Lady of the name of White (who was going out to In dia), for the value of the portraits of feveral of her friendi, which he painted according to her di. rations. Two witnefres were called on the part of the plaintiff, who proved that the piaures, which were the lubjed of the action, were executed by the order. of Mils Whit; and that it was Mr. Gri• maldi's cultom to hang up fpecimens of his per formances, with the prices affixed to each, ac cording to their fixes. Mifs White faw there fpe cimens, and direded the portraits to be executed in the fizes between Nos. 7 and 9. Neither of the witneffes could floe accurately the different man ners in which the refpe'live portraits were done. Mr. Ease:es, for the defence, contended, that the pictures were not done in that manner %%Lie-, from the celebrity of Mr. Grimaldi's 1::p - ,iz4t.ten, the defendant had a right to expeCt. Lie iztc.r. him full credit for great and extraordinary talta:s, but what he complained of was, that in the pre- Litt cafe he had fuffered thole talents to be wailed, aid had not painted any thing near his fpecimens. He had his client mere daubs, and by no means likenefft.;. U.' remembered a Rory that lie once heard from his late reit; .61ed friend, Sir Jo. fhua Reynolds, upon the fobjed of a bad likenefs, which this caufe brought to his recolledion :—A notorious rafcal and fwindler, who had frequent occafion to hide himfelf from his creditors, never ' thelefs7cletermined to have his portrait taken.— The paifiter he employed did not make a happy I likenefs. When Sir Jolhua faw the pieure, as the was a well-known charatter, he told his friend that he had not been fteccefful in the likencfs. The painter, who was a no:n of wit, immediately e plied, " Aye, there is policy in that, the man. does not wish to be known." This was not the cafe with his fair client; fhe wanted correct like. neffes of her friends, to folace her in a diftant climate, from whence the might never return again ; and as he thould prove there fail's, he tru ed the Jury would think the fum of tool. which file had paid into Court, was abundantly fuffi cient to fatisfy the plaintiff's demand. George Denman, a jeweller in the Strand, and Birch, a miniature painter, were called on behalf of the defendant, but they did not go fur ther than Rating that they had feen better per formances of Mr. Grimaldi's than thole in queftion. The latter witnefs, however, obferved, that the better pidures lie alluded to were copies of Sir Jolltua Reynolds, and the works of molt modern artifts were better when they copied from him, than when they produced original compofitions. Another witnefs Rated, that none of the pi Lures were good likeneffes except one. Mr. Juflice LAWRENCE obferved; that as to the ckarader of the paintings, perhaps the Defendant might have a right to infift, not that they fhould be equal to any thing the Plaintiff ever painted, but equal to what might be reafonably expelled from a man of his (kill ; but in this cafe, the De fendant precluded herfelf from going into that evidence, by accepting the pidures. If they wet e not done as they ought to have been, by a man of the Plaintiff's (kill, the Defendant's way would have been, to return the pidures, on the ground that they were not agreeable to the contract, and then evidence might have been giventi i i had Thew b t e h e a n t they were ill dime, &c. : but that queai„i concluded by the Defendant's accepting the pic tures. 'The contract here was an entire contma, and the Plaintiff here had earned all or nothing, and the Plaintiff mull be taken to have earned all of it, becaufe the quellion upon tile value had been (hut up by the Defendant taking the paintings, &c. Nor was this new doctrine: Lord KEN YON had held the fame in the cafe of the painting of a horfe for an eminent Solicitor in the City ; and the fame had been held in the cafe of the painting of a boric of Sir Harry Vane. As to the overcharge in the letting, which was two guineas, as fpokcn to by one of the altneffes, that might be redeced fairl7, if the Jury thought fit, and therefore the verdid would be for the difference between the tool. paid into Court, and the amount of the Plaintiff's de mand, which was 1331. . Verdict for the Plaintiff—Damages 311. gs. People grown up, and of an y age , th at are qu i re ignaraht of dancing; Ail) those who only w int the I athionable Ileps, acquire them ninft expeditioufly, and in the firit ft yle, at Mr. Ai. E s 's, No. 19, Sher rard•llrect, Golden-quare ; or No. to, Great- Alie-lireet, Goodman's-fields; and thole who love dancing to good maim, may, by fubfcribing to the Sole& Aftemblies there, enjoy a pleafure which as one Alterably in England gives betides, as Mr: Gow and Mr. MACKINTOSH, the molt charming Performers of Ball tel clic in this country, arc poll. tively engaged to lead the Band alternately, from the heniunios of February to the eud of they:Aron.