Star. — London, England, 1813-09-01 00:00:00

ityssik. TITAACT OT 11 PRIVATE LETTER PR64 ST. PETELSEintaii, • - DATE? , TH% 291111 JULY. We coincide with you iii opinion, that although the Atnaistice war prolonged; hostilities will 'ere long recommence; and We should not be surprised if the Ito,,cian courier, who arrived with letters of the 23d in,tant, in 16 days, last Saturday, had broiight the arrangement of a pecuniary aid, in subsidies. _By the same conveyance accounts have been recei ved of General Moreau's arrival at Cotteriburgh, as it would seem, on an invitation from, or an en. gagement with our Sovereign ; and we are curious to see what plAce will be assigned hint in our army, but it is probable he 'hay join that forming tinder the prince Royal of SWEDEN, and his Councils in military operations will at any rate be vier) , useftil." We have received the Secorid and third Billeting of the Army under the command of the CaowN ?Hist:E. The latter is dated Cbarlottenbnrgh, on the 18th ultimo, and contains souse details of importance. His ROYAL HIGHNESS covers Berlin with ar army of 90,000 Men. It is the intention of the French to attack him in that position, and to force !her way to the Prussian capital. A French General of Division (Joattuz) Chief of the Staff of Marshal NET, has deserted, and email]. nicatedthe above and other interesting information to the Allies. THE ARMY. Yesterday his Royal Highness the COLMANWER in CirrmF held a Levee at his office at the Horse Guards: Thu 11tb Light DragnonS, Which lately reiorned from Spain a mere skeltton, is so far recruited as to be able to take the King's duty at Windsor. The Hprse Guards (Blues) have taken possession of Hyde Park Barracks, lately occupied by the First Life Guards. A remount of horses for the Blues will be sent to the Peninsqla forthwith. .. . It is stated, that orders have been issued by Go vernment for a coinage of Hanoverian money, which is to be dispatched at a proper opportunity for the payment of our soldiers at Stralsund, and of the GernAn troops employed in our service, ih that part of the Continent. Wednesday the.lst, 79th; and 92d regiments of the line, and the North York Militia, the whole under the command of Major-Geneial Mowroosiente, were inspected 'at Glasgow, by his Excellency Lieutenant- General WYNYARD. Commander-in-Chief of the forces in Scotlandi; after which the North York Militia went thtough a variety of evolutions. His Excellency coma- Oimented, in the highest terms, the fine appearance or the troops • reviewed. From the novelty of the Spectacle, and the fineness of the day, the crowd was ttiotidet abit The Magistrates of the Police-office having repre iterated, that the Overseers of the parisk of St. Paul, Cbvent►garden, experience great difficulty h recover ing the advances niadeby them to the wives of soldiers (purs'uant to the Act of Parliament), the Secretary at ar has directed that the Agents of the corps to which the husbands of the Women belong, shall repay the said Overseers ail sums so issued, and charge the same to their public accounts. WINDSOR, AUGUST 31. Yesterday, at four O'clOckohe Princess CHARLOTTE Of W A LES took an airing in Windsor Great Park, in her phaeton, with her beautiful greys, attended by the Duchess Of LEEDS add Lady C. OHIORNE. This morning, the Princess CHARLOTTE took an siring in the Great Park, at two o'clock. On her re. turn, the Band of the Royal Horse Guards (Blues) played several select pieces to her Royal Highness at th ! Lower Lodge, under the direction of the Master of the Band, Mr.'SrowAssea. The Sramsn AMBASSADOR came to town yesterday from his seat at Chiswick, transacted business at his house in Dover -street, and returned back to dinner. Sir C. Bur:suns , has offered to receive 41bs. and run Smdeasto against any horse of his year without giving him a sweat (meaning training), as, the owner added, he would :weal his adversary. • Last night large troops of Cockneytportsmen pre pared to set off this morning, at day-break, for Isling ton, Paddington, Clapham,&c. to partake of the sports of the clime within the purlieus of those distinguished Manors, so productive of all kinds of game. A NEW COCK-LANE, OR RATHER DOWNING-STREET Griosr...—Our Readers will scarcely believe, that any story so ridiculous as the re-appearance of the Right Hon. WILLIAM PITT in this sublunary world should have gained credit ; yet so it is. A person of the name of Francis Murray, formerly employed as a constable in taking up French Emigrants, had a de mand of £3O on the Treasury for expences. He as serts, that about eleven months after the public fu neral of Mr. Pitt, he met him on hoe:dark, in the Lon don-road, and determined to have his money from him. He was quite sure of the person being Mr. Pitt; and after much watching, threatening, and abuse, he actually obtained payment of £32 from this identical Mr—Pitt, although he called himself Mr. Chapman. And Mr. Murray went on persecuting the dead.and-alive Minister, because he had also pro mised him a place, until, on Monday, the 9th ult. he was ordered, by a summons from Marlborough street Office, to find bail to keep the peace to the said Mr. Chapman. But he persisted that the said Mr. Chapman v►*as the actual William Pitt, late Prime Minister of England; he was considered as a madman, and suffered to depart. Now, that a man s'aiuld per si•t• in his mistake, in the hopes of getting a place, particularly after he had obtained £32 on the strength of it, we can easily conceive; but we do not think it possible that a writer could be found publicly and seriously to declare his full and serious belief " that Mr. Pitt is not dead, but that he pre tended to creep into a coffin to escape the rude grasp of adverse Joanne." Yet we find the narrative, cer tificates, and discussion, deliberately put forth, and wore ev4Lece is promised. FALMOUTH, AUGIIS4-291 Artiveit the gndeavout, 'Karat, from Liverpool for Lisbon ; and the Cain fierce, NwHoLsort, from London. Passed this Port the isabelli Simpson, one of the Jamaica fleet—the Captain died at Sea about three weeks sinceshe has not been into Scilly with the test of the fleet, having parted convoy somi time before. The coMmy from Portsmouth for Africa called off this port this Morning, but no t esseis were here to join them. Wind N.E. PLYMOUTH, AUGUST ab. Came in the FANcv cutter, from St. Sebastian's and the Isabella Simpson, Captain Doi% one of the Jamaica fleet, bound for Leith, 58 days from Ja- Maica—she was ran foul of by the Caledonia, and stuve in her starboard side, and received other da. wage, but has been repaired sufficiently to catrt her to Leith. Sailed the SCYLLA brig of war on a cruize. PORT 'MOUTH. AUGUST Si. Arrived his Majesty's ships HOPE and Nt•wE, from the Downs ; and the schooner Mar .fret, SiLLAWAY I from Guernsey. Wind I. DEAL, AUGUST SI. Arrived his Majest?s ship BERMUDA, with a con voy from Gottenburg—among them are the following transports: Mars, HELYER; Union, CLARKE; David, MORTON; Isabella, TAYLOR; and the Hawke, Bums —all from Gottenburgh ; also arrived, the! Nelson, MEED, from St. Petersburgh ; the Fly, THORN, from Pernau ; and several othtrs. HARWICH, AUGUST si. Arrived the Lord Nelson packet, Captain DEANE, with a Mail and passengers from Gottenburgh. They passed the outward-bound convoy from Leith, in the Sleeve, about 96 sail in number. The several packets detained here by contrary winds, made an attempt this morning to get to sea, but were obliged by noon time to ,return.—The Baltic convoy still remain in the Rolling Grounds without any apparent prospect of a change in the wind to enable them to put to sea. The Princess of Brazils, KENNEDY, from Rio Ja neiro, for Lisbon, foundered 4th June, in lat. 12. South—most of the crew drowned. STATE OF THE NAVY. The following is the state and disposition of the British Navy, made up to the present day :—Total at sta, of the line, 98 : from 50 to 44 guns, t 4; frigates, 125 ; sloops, &c. 88 ; bombs and Bre ships, 7 ; brigs, 172 ; cutters, 36; schooners, &c. 46. Total, 583. In port and fitting—Of the line, 26 ; froth 50 to 44 guns, 3; frigates, 28 ; sloops, &c. 26; bombs and fire-ships, 0; brigs, 18; cutter', 6 ; schooners, 6tc. 13. Total, 122.—Guard-slups—Uf the line, 5; of 50 to 44 guns, 2; frigates, 3 ; s l oo p s , 5. T ota l, 1 5 . Hospital -ships, Prison-ships, &c.—Of the line, 32 ; of 50 to 44 guns, 4 ; frigates, 2 ; sloops, &c. 2. Total, 40.—ht Commission —Or the line, 161; of 50 to 44 guns, 23 ; frigates, 156 ; sloops, &c. 111 ; boots, &c. 7. brigs , 190 ; cutters, 42 ; s ch ooners , & c . 61. Total, 760 -- Ord inary and repairing for service---Of the line, 69 ; from 50 to 44 guns, I t ; frigates, 62 ; sloops, &c. 35; bombs, &c. 2; brigs, 6; cutters* 0 ; schooners, &c. 3. Total, 191.—Building, of the line, 23 ; from SO to 44 guns, 7; fri gates, 23; sloops, 3O; bombs, &c. 3; brlp, 8. Total, pl.— ! Grand Total, £045. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. The Goldfinch, for the Dolphin, will be paid at Mr. Hawker's Office, Plymotith, on Friday, and there recalled. be Indefatigable, for the Flora; and Daphne, for the Coed Hoffnung and Pluto, on Friday, at Z' o. 1, James.street., Adelphi, alai there recalled. The Venerable, for el Ramoncita ; and the Greyhound and Harrier, for the Victoria and Battavier ; will be paid the Bth of September, at 9, New Broad -street, and there recalled. The mirling, for the Massarine, on Wednesday, on board; recalled at 41, Notfulk-street, Strand; as will the Leonidas, fur the Paul Jones. The Nimble, for the Enigheden, to-morrow; And the Astrea, for la Renommee and la s Nertide, on board, on Thursday; re called at 23, Nortolk-street. The Arkow,.for la Sully, the Sth of September; recalled at 3, Clifford's Inn. The Mom!, that was stationed off "Brighton for the protection of the PRINCE REGENT, has returned to her former station under Sir It. BICKERTON. Extract of a letter, dated St. John's, Newfound. land, Ist August, 1813 :—" The woods have been set on fire here, five days ago, by some deserters from the navy. The fire yet continues on the south side of the harbour, and seems in length about two miles ; but Ido not know how far back it goes. It is truly a grand sight, although not to be much wished for ; as it not only may, if it lasts lot's, endanger the town, but has already destrayed a great deal of timber." Thursday, Mr. ROBERT irytaz, Assiaant-Surgeon of the Niemen, was tried by a Court-martial, upon a charge of drunkenness ; which was proved against him, and he was sentenced to be severely repri. mantled, to serve six months longer as an Assistant- Surgeon, before he is qualified to be a Surgeon in the Royal Navy, and to be admonished to be more care ful of his conduct in future.—Same day, Mr. Mevts, purser pf the Hazard, was tried for unollie:er-like conduct, disobedience of orders, and contempt to Lieutenant BAIVMSHE: the charge was in part proved, and he was adjudged to be dismissed from his offico of Purser of the Hazard. About five o'clock on Monday afternoon, a very alArming fire broke out in the Royal Arsenal at Wool wich, owing to the folly of one of the workmen em ployed in the building, called the Dipping square.— A female expressing a wish to see a rocket-star, the man to gratify her curiosity let off one in his hand, which coming in contact with the fire, he threw it down, and unfortunately it communicated to some combustible matters manufactured on the premises. The drums soon sounded an alarm, and the artillery and marines, with their engines, Were immediately on the spot, and fortunately subdued the flames, which were then raging with great fury. Great anxiety was for some time felt for the safety of the adjoining build ings, which contained loose shells and rockets. Hap pily no lives were lost, and the fire was subdued in about an hour. Sunday evening, Mr. FALKSEN of St. Martin's lane, told some friends who were with him, that he felt a particular heaviness : they accordingly per suaded him to go and lay down, which he did. A short time had elapsed when he complained of being worse; and turning himself round, expired imme diately. lie has lett five children to lament his loss. kege of It drade, at this Theatre, last reening, attracted a crowded and elegant auditory, th e quiet of which wad Materially disturbed hn the appearance of Mr. RAYMOND, in the tharactei of Colonel Cohenterp and so loud was the disapprobitioh .shewn -him, that for many minutes the performance was at a 'stand, friends and foes equally exerting themselves, in to procure fol. Mr. RAYMOND a hearing. At length; arter a tremendous conflict, silence being obtained, Mr. ha said, LrcEIM 7 E4'rAE: ~l7e " LADIti AND GENTLENIZN..-it is now tizteen ran since first I had the honhur to appear on the boards of a London Theatre, during which period I am unconscious of having done any thing that could forfeit my claim to the approbation with which I have had the honour to be received, and I now beg to d e sk, if in auy part of my conduct this evening I have merited the opposition I am now encountering." This appeal was received with a mixture of ap- plause and disapprobation • but finally the lovers of order succeeded ; and M r . itAYMOND again addressed the House, and said, " LADIES AND GIIN namely—if it be your pleasure that I shall give up this character and quit the stage, I shall obey your mandate without a murmur." An universal cry of " No, no, no," followed, ansi thus a determination, to drive from the stage, an able and industrious actor, ended. It is understood that this mode of revenge was adopted by persons who conceived themselves injured, in conseqUence of Mr. RAYMOND'S having been examined at the Police Office respecting the Pantheon Theatre. Without at all considering the propriety of that act, no one will deny, that this mode of retaliation was at once im politic and unjust, and that to attack a man in his professional pursuits, for an offence real or imaginary, given out of his profession, subjects the perpetrator to the chastisement of the law. Besides, in the case of Mr. RAYMOND the apposition was particularly illibe ral. His character in the private relations of life is incontestibly respectable, and in. the exercise of his professional and managerial duties there never exist ed an impeachment against him—while his literary attainments and polished manners justly entitle him to the respect of all whose regard is worth retaining. The performance, though somewhat marred by this interruption, went off with eclat ; —Comm, in the Serf:skier, sung with great taste. Towards the close of the Opera, while in the act of firing the Seradier's camp, some of the squibs went by accident over the stage into the pit, and into one of the centre boxes. The former was soon extinguished ; but in the box all seemed in a blaze for two or three minutes, and the confusion was indescribable. The flame, however, WAS got under, but nut until the L idles were sadly frightened, and one on whoa: the squib fell, a little burnt. BRISTOL ASSIZES. MARY DOLAND V. TIMOTHY DEASY, ESQ. This case had previously excited the must lively interest among the residents of Bristol and the neigh. bourhood of B.ith, as well as of the county of Cork ; the former having been the scene of action, and the latter the vicinity of an estate, (at Phale) value be tween two and a€3ooo per annum, the inheritance of which was collaterally involved in the question now decided, About 23 years since, upon an occasion of the mar riage of the defendant with Anna Malin Barry, the estate alluded to was settled upon the defendant by his father, giving him a life-interest, with remainder to his issue male, or in default of such issue, then to his younger brother, Mr. Rickard Deasy. Nineteen years had elapsed without the birth of an heir to the defendant, when about four years since, the brothers having had a verbal altercation, the defendant and his wife quitted Ireland, and came to reside in Bris tol. At this period the villainous conspiracy, so elo quently developed by the plaintiff's leading Counsel, Mr. Serjeant PELL, appears first to have been con ceived—the earliest public intimation of which was thus given in THE STAR, in September, 18094 BIRTHS.—At Bristol, the Lady of Timothy Deasy, Esq. of a son." This, as was doubtless intended, reached the ob servation of Mr. Rickard Deasy ; but he was with diffieulty induced to believe that a brother's prejudice could prevail so far as to give any foundation in fact to the numerous doubts expressed by mutual friends, whether Mrs. Timothy Deasy had been previously pregnant or not ; and he accordingly resisted every incentive to an investigation of the circumstances, until the imperative argument was urged of his own seven infant children being, through his supineness, likely to be shut out from their rightful inheritance. A considerable period elapsed before any clue could be obtained for the removal or establishment of these doubts, and Mr. Rickard Deasy was on the point of suspending all further enquiry, when, as a dernier resort, he was induced to call upon Mr. D. of Park-street, Bristol, the medical attendant of his brother's family, about June, 181'2, with the desire of obtaining a categorical answer to the question, as a man of honour, it Mr. D. had ever assisted Mrs. Timothy Deasy in the delivery of a child ? But the anxiety evinced by Mr. D. to get the enquirer out of his house, and his peremptory refusal to communi cate with him upon that or any other subject, con firmed the suspicion that all was not right. In the course of enquiries elsewhere, the house where Mrs. Timothy Deasy was said to have lain in, (No. 2, Clarence-place, Kingsdown) was ascertained, and this led to a further disclosure, through nurses and other servants, of the following facts : The unfortunate plaintiff was compelled to quit a respectable state of servitude, in consequence of having been seduced by a fellow servant ; which, being followed by pregnancy, she took a lodging in Lower Berkeley-place, 'where it appears she was first discovered by the medical gentleman alluded to, and by him introduced to the wile of the defendant. Here, acted upon by the 16 all powerful influence of a rich man's ;arse," the plaintiff was prevailed upon to forego the claims of nature, to part from her expected offspring, should it prove a male child. On the 9th of September, 1809, this part of the compact was fa voured by her delivery of a boy, with the professional assistance of a gentleman resident at Clifton, then a partner with the gentleman of Park-street ; who in person within a few hours afterwards, visited theplain tiff, and reminded her of her agreement with Mrs. Deasy. On the following morning (Sunday, the 10th of September), about ten o'clock, this agent again visited the plaintiff, and within a few minutes ter child was taken to his house in Park -street, Erma *hence it was further removed, by a nuns already in waiting, to a retired spot about three miles on the Gloucestershire side of this city, called Crew's Hole, where it was permitted to remain about a fortnight. From the.care of this nurse (with the assistance of a Mrs. Arberry, of West.street), the child was trans ferred, at the Swan Inn, St. Maryport.street, to that of another nurse, who, without seeing the former nurse, received it in a hackney-co ich. To relieve the reader from a most intricate labyrinth through which this devoted infant was conveyed, (not a single link of the clue to which has been left undiscovered), it may suffice that he was finally delivered into the hands of Mrs. Deasy, at the door of her then resi dence in Clarence-place. Within a few days afterward (ab.;ut the 28th of September) the farce of baptizing the said child, by ire name of Edward Garrett Deasy, was performed in the same house, as proved by a certificate in the La tin langegge, exhibited in Court, in the hand-% riting of the Apostolic Vicar of the Catholic Church in this city, who was most piously instructed to premise that this child, being the offspring of Timothy and Anna Maria Deasy, was born upon a day, and at an hour several days previous to actual birth. During this time, the plaintiff was left in total ig norance of the fate of her child, until November Va. lowing; when, by unv..earied exertions, she found him in the possession of Mrs. Deasy, then living at No. 16, King-square, who, after the plaintiff's re peated importunities, permitted her to enjoy the ob ject of her solicitude, as an inmate with the family, for about two months, until the defendant and his wife pretended an urgent visit to Herefordshire, when the plaintiff returned tie her former lodg ng, in Denmark street. After various doublings and turnings by this con ple with their heir of honourable adoption, in Glou. cestershire, Herefordshire, Bath, and other places too numerous to record—with the dodging su..c-s•ion of servants hired and discharged out of si• : •it of each other, even upon the King's highway--zhey reterned to Bristol, believing, perhaps, that they had now to tally baffled all endeavours to identify Cr child as any other than their own, in the Spring of The pl iintiff, in the following D?ceniber, was delivered of a second child. On the of that month (December, 1810,) the defendant and his ever-ready friend called together upon her, then at lodgings in Upper Maudlin-lane, and urged her to the absolute disposal of the child narn.il. Edward. Garrett Deasy ; offering her an annuity of £SJ upon condition that she would abandon the sight or know. ledge of that her first child for ever. •This agreement, after much hesitation by the plain. tiff, was at length determined upon, and witnessed by the agent alluded to. Accordingly. an annuity' to the before-named amount was secured upon the . bond of the defendant to the plaintiff; for the nor.. payment of the instalments stipulated wherein, dua since Midsummer, 1812, this action was brought.— On the following day, the plaintiff was required to execute an agreement, never to divulge or mike known any oldie circumstances respecting her said child, nor to approach near the residence of the defen dant or his family, upon an alleged violation of Vl hiclt agreement, the defendant rested his opposition to the obligations of rhe bond. Mr. Set jeant PELL having made an eloquent expo sitien of the c:rcumstances thus briefly detailed, and • proof of the bond being admitted on the part of the defendant, his Counsel,' Mr. Serjeant Lees, pro ceeded to call several witnesses in support of the de. fence; whose evidence went to prove that the plain tiff had often visited the residence of the defendant ; at times imperatively demanding a sight of her child, at other times, these visits were presumed to be with the consent of the defendant and his wife, as she brought clothing and caps for the child's use. One witness for the defendant proved, that in conversa. tion, about the middle of 1812, the plaintiff, at in quiring for the residence of the defendant and his wife, observed, " they hare broken their obligation to nut, or I would never haie been hostile to them." Mr. Baron GRAHAM summed up the evidence, when the Jury, without leaving their box, in about five minutes, returned a verdict for the pl.kintiff of the amount sued for, with all arrears to the present time. Of the remaining causes for trial, there are three for which Special Juries are summoned ; one of them is an action.by Mr. Stephen Clement Webb, against Henry Hunt, Esq. for the recovery of fees as an Agent at the election for a representative of this city, last July, when the defendant was a candidate. The Mayor and Justices of Bath having taken into consideration the Act of Parliament of the last Ses sion relating to the Price and Assize of Bread, which took effect on the 10th ult have resolved to try the experiment of leaving the bakers tl the natural com petition of trade as uiprice; and to confine their own duties at present to the quality and legg/ti only of bread sold within their jut isdictice. At the Manion-House, yesterday, a Bill Broker, well known at the Bank.. stool charged with having altered the figures of a Bill from £2B to CI 028, after it had been accepted by a respectable Banking House near the 'Change, since which it is understood the Broker bad raised £BOO upon the Bill. Further par ticulars cannot at present be stated. Pet scn tth S HIS DAY I' TWELVE 0 CLOCKI Red 571—Cons. 56157—f0r ac. 511—Bds. la. sts. die. 4 per Cent. 72H-5 per Ct. BG;{—Oran. S{ pr. Bank 14 Anna. t 4 7.46 tbs I—Exch. Bill■ Is. 4•. pr. CORN-EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, aEN'C. 1. Our market continues abundantly supplied - with Wheat, but we had no fresh arrivals this mornieg; the sales are extremely heavy, and where they are forced,lower prices are submitted to than were obtained ea Monday. Vary little doing in Barley, which goes off slowly in small quantities to cornchandlers, having no other demand for it at present. Oats support Monday's price , and all other Grain remain as on that day. At the dose of Monday's market, the price of Flour was redu.e 110 x. per ark., English. Foreign. Wheat, Rent and Essex, 84s. Wheat, American Os. 00. 106 s. per quarter. per quarter. Ditto, F. uffolk, 80s. Ws. Ditto, Dantsic Brs. 1051. Ditto, Norfolk, 80s. ittis. Ditto, Baltic Red 701. 90e. , Rye 444.465. Ditto, liambro . or Barley 98s. 40s. Fine 445. 445. Bremer. 701. 901. Malt, 84s. 90e. Ditto, Brabant Red 70e. 1016 White Peas, 655. 70s. New, Rye, 40s. 465. 745. 76. Barley, 400.46. Grey, ditto, Sas. 565. pats, Brews Small Beaus, 625. e4s. Oats, Feed, Tick do. 56% 58s. Fine OM. 00e. White Peas, 70e. Tea. Oats, Po'atoe, 401. 441. Orey Ditto, 50s. Am Ditto, Poland, 808.;0s . Small Beans, Ditto, Feed, 445. 9 , 4. Tick Beans, Fiat Fleur, per Sack, Li,. NS. American Flssr, Ms.., ellia