Star. — London, England, 1820-02-18 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S YESTERDAY. ODDS ON RACES TO COME. DERBY. 7to 1 agst Mr. Pierse's gr. 18 to 1 apt Brother to Blucher 15 to 1 agst Sailor • 18 to 1 apt Duke 17 to 1 agst Pindaree 20 to I apt Domine Sampson o.sics-4i to 1 apt the Sorcery f. RIDDLESWORTII. S to 1 apt Selima 12 to 1 apt Ninth to 1 apt Pindaree I 12 to 1 agst brother to Comus ltostsv BIU IN AND Sramo.—The renewed match for 100 guineas aside, which was to have taken place this day, on Sut ton or Epsom Downs, and which had been put off before in con sequence of a late mournful occasion, is now off altogether. A letter was received in town yesterday morning, and forwarded to Mr. Jackson, saying that Spring had been suddenly taken ill, with a violent swollen head and body, and that it was impossible he could attend. Indeed his case was considered dangerous. His backers will forfeit the 100%guineas. Friday last, as the Duke of Rummito was hunting near Belvoir Castle, Rutlandshire, his horse fell with him. We are sorry to say his Grace was much hurt. The following Hymns were sung on the day. of the Funeral of our late beloved Monarch, GEORGE 111. at the performance of Divine Service on board the Retribution Hulk, Sheerness ; written by John Hart, a Convict : _ HYMN I. Fall'n are the mighty, gracious Goo! .• . _ Our Monarch, Parent, Friend; Nay Britain kiss thy chast'ning rod, Where Love and Mercy blend ! Our yielding souls with one accord Acknowledging thy will, Would own thy dispensations, Loan, In ev'ry pang we foci ! We bless the love, that spar'd so long, A Father so reveed, By ties Jfectionately strong, To cv•ry heart endear'd! Pure from its source (the sacred page) Ile shank the living streams ; And Light Donal, cheer'd his age, Whit everlasting beams ! Now crown'd with light, and life, and love, In one unclouded blaze, Ile lives, and 'rig:l , , and sings above, The ransoniti sung of praise! IL. This day a solemn aspect wears, . 4 'lFis waited by a Nation's tears: • Lou”—thy gracious children fail, And Death's tremendous arms prevail! The conflict end:—" The Marren calls" Our venerable li,,v'reign falls; Ile liv'd beloe'ti—lamented died, His Kingdom's i,lN.y, boast, and pride! Familiar long with licav'nly things, Ik soar'd na Faith's exulting Fscur'd :Igaint , t the shafts of death, And peaceful yklded ap his breath ! He's ganc, from Sorrow's darkest To GOD, hi. Everlacing Light; Lot: 'tis thy work, our gria' 'fain Lis:, and wilt do ail things well! Jorge 14y thy love, to hoary hairs, Ile left Lis Joe tee, with its cares; When fully ripe, hke corn cut down, To wear a bri;;ht Immortal Crown THE ROYAL CEMETERY AT VVINDSOR.Of the architecture and construction of this building, we have already given a description. In •the niche nearest the centre his late MAJa.art's coffin lies ; at the niche immediately adjoining, on the fight hand, is the Quzebes ; on the left of. the Kula' is the Prin ces AMELIA'S. It is said, that the :remaining two niches at each extremity. will be filled by the coffins of the late Duchess of BRUNSWICK and the` late Duke of KENT. In the right shelf Within the railing, and in the first compartment of the*Gothia column, will be placed the coffins of the lamented Princess CIIAR- LrITTR and her child, and in the corresponding com partment opposite the recently exhumed coffins of the young Priaces AIRRED and Ocravtus. The place for twelve tombs in the centre of the vault is reserved for future Sovereigni. The massive archi teeture of this mausoleum producei an awful effect. There is nothing more gloomy in liot.nmes Dance of Death; and when light is cast upon the golden brilliancy and glossy polish of-the ornaments and crimson velvet on the coffihs 'which enclose the re• mains of the illustrious dead within the walls of this suhterraneous mansion, the contemplative mind, of whatever cast, can enjoy the cold sensation of the Cy'nic, or the profound and reverential humility which a Christian feelS on behAding sopregnant an ltistration of the instability of - human grandeur. ST. HELENA .— Extract from a letter, dated Bth December; 1$19: " I had an opportunity of seeing liosArmirs a few days back, walking along stith one of bis Generals up and down before, the billiard 'room. One of his suite informed me, that hiallealth, , though far from being good, has improved since the tirrival of his surgeon, ANTOMA ken. The latter, it seems ' bad taken the precaution of consulting! some of the first physicians in London, oall of whom: agreed. in opinion as to the 'nature of his - patient's" . complaint, and the necessity of bisgoing through a course of medicine . The following scene, takes place •cfaiirat Longwood.. Every morning, Captain Nt cuot.s, the orderly - Officer, knocks •at the door of llotgarAitris house, and demands to see him in the name of the Governor.. BERTRAND (or MONTROLON) replies, that he will not receive him, and the orderly Officer marches off without demanding anything MoNrnoLom is going home on account of health. Bateraitsp and Madame follow him in a few months." • We are requested to publish the following Letter, as particularly claiming the attention of those who have been improperly treated under this complaint TO TIM EDITOR OF Twit STAR. Sta—Observing a paragraph in your Paper respnsting the Cure of an Hernia (ut a large size), by the Medical Board, at Charlotte-Howe, (neat Charlotte-street, Blackfriar's-road, in i.istice to Bleszirs. Cnorza and Co. I add my perzonal testimony. Having been afflicted. nearly years, and deemed incurable by eminent Sorr;eons, I p.ttiently bore my afflietion, expecting every hoar to be my last: I at length applied to the Medical Board, and have reason to pray for that excellent Establishment, for al though I am nearly 50, I was perfectly cured in a few weeks, and now, thank Goo, enjoy good health. C. CLEVELAND. • Dog and Stile, .St. George's-fidds. Messrs. COOPER and Cm are consulted at Wood stock-House, Woodstock -street, daily, and at Char lotte-House, Great Charlotte-street, opposite the Rev. Rowland Hill's .Chapel. Mechanics have Advice gratis every Evening, from Six till Eight ; and on Sunday Mornings until Twelve o'Clock t N.B. Private Doors at each House, and Private Doors for Female& S . LAW INTELLIGEkdt COURT OF KING'S SENCH, FEHSVARY s I7• • GEORGE ♦ND WIFE V. FERGUSON. This was an action on the case against the defen dant, for negligently leaving a trap-door open in the passage of his house, whereby the plaintiff's wife was severely injured in having fallen into his cellar, and two of her ribs broken. The case was this :—The plaintiff is a journey man bookbinder, and he and his wife lodged in the -house of the defendant, a baker, in Broad-street, St. Giles's. On a Saturday night, in the month of August, 1816, Mrs. George went out to get a pint of ale for herself and husband, and on her return, in going through the passage of the defendant's house, having no light, she fell through' a trap•door, in the centre of the passage, leading to the cellar where the defendant carried on his baking business, and broke two of her ribs. She was confined three months, and the surgeon's bill amounted to Under the circumstances of the case the Jury found for the plaintiff—Damages £4O. BAXTER V. LORD WALLESCOURT. This was ari action by a coachmaker, in Long- Acre, against an Irish Peer, to recover £205, the price of a cabriolet, ordered by the defendant. - Other jobs were also done for the Noble defendant. A pair of square glasses and curtains for the cabriolet, occasioned an additional charge of 1:8, not inchided in the original estimate. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, deducting the charge for the glasses and curtains. DAWKINS t'. WARD. The plaintiff, a labouring man, brought his action against the owner of a house in James.street, Lisson grove, to recover a compensation in damages, for an injury received by falling into an area, which, it was alleged, the defendant 'had left open in a way dan gerous to the Public. It appeared that the house to which the area belonged vas unfinished ; and, se condly, that the spot where the plaintiff was wheel ing a barrow, was not a regular foot-path. The Learned Judge intimated, that the plaintiff could not support the action. In case it had been a public foot-path, he would have committed an of fence by wheeling his barrow on it. His Lordship, at the same time, did not go to the extent of saying a man wheeling a barrow on the foot-path might not support an action for injury sustained by the ne gligence of persons leaving open an area to endanger the safety of the Public. For whetling his barrow on the prement, he would be liable to a pern.lty. . Mr. Gu RN Ey, for the dekndant, consented to with draw a .Taror, which was accordingly done. He then stated, that tbe defendant would give the plaintiff five pounds, by way.l recompense, for the injury he had received. • OLD BAILEY SESSIONS. Yesterday maiming these Sessions began, before the Right Honourable the LORD MAYOR, Mr. Baron GRAHAM, the RECORDER, COMMON SERJEANT, Al dermen, &c. The state sword of the City was co vered with- black crape, and the ShCtifi, Mr. Alder man RomwELL, with the two Under Sheriffs, were in deep mourning. John Laurence, aged twenty-five, was indicted for assaulting Sarah Greenstreet, in Crown-court, St. Leonard's, Shoreilitch, and taking from her a bun dle, containing' some shirts and other articles. 'Ver dict—Guilty of stealing from the person, but not guiltrOf the:assault. Tharas Mork] was capitally indicted, for assault ing Ebenezer Start, on the King's highway, and taking from his person, by force and violence, nine silver tops and a silver deC.. plate, the property of John Douglas. • . Ebenezer Start (a boy) deposed, that he was ap prentice to Mr. - Douglas, silversmith. On the 21st u!t. he was sent to Goltismiths'-hall for some plate, which had been sent to be stamped, and was return ing home, at five iif ihe evening, through. Eagle coin t with the articles in a bag, when, he was valet by. two men, one .of whom was .the prisoner, his companion suddenly attacked'him, :cut the bag out Of his grasp, and ran off. The prisoner, in order to Prevent his c'iving out or pursuing the thief, seized him by the throat, and held .him -in this way with grad violence, until the ether escaped. The. pri soner, who *had a wooden ler, - then left him; but witness being still alone with him in the court, was - afraid- to call out; he, however, followed into the adjoining street, and gave an alaim of " Stop thief!" when, after some diffieuky, • the , prisoner was se cured. • Witness had in the bag which had been cut away from him nine .silver tops; and`a silver'desk , plate; ' The property was never found. The prisoner, in his-defence, made a naming speech tO'the Jury, and - said he was -confident -that •they wial,d not only view the thing as ridicidoui but men attous,.to charge the commission of a highway rob bery against a man with a wooden leg. As to the law of'the kise, .be'svdttld leave that to the-Learned Judge ; but die Jury should not believe the evidence of the boy Start. • • . . • -Mr. Bares GIIAMAM summed up the evidence, and the Jury found the prisoner Guilty—Death.. . • John Hortrood 'and john Btmnchard, both aged sixteen; *eft...indicted for a burglary in the house of Diana Matilda Dedricks, on the 27th of January, and stealing a quantity of butter, bacon, hams, Sec.—. 'Though the prisoners were apprehended on the pre-i raises, the - Jury did -not believe the evidence, aid fousid thins; thertfore—Not Guilty. . The following were also capitally convicted : • • • • Roiert gereboli for brraking and entering the d.wel lhiphouveiof-Sai•ah-Griffith, and stealing a silk shawl. John Bedstead, for breaking and entering the dwel ling-house of James Anderson, and stealing two bed curtains, a quilt,. &c. William Simons, for stealing in Bank notes, ice. the property of James Hutchins, in a dwelling-house. William Pearce and David Williams, for stealing three pair of blankets, the property of John H. Heal. ASSIZES OF THE NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—By a new arrangement Mr. Justice PARK will - open the Assizes for the Northern Circuit, at Carlisle, on Wednesday, the 2Sd instant, and on the following day Mr. Justice BAYLEY will Open at Durham. - Mr. Justice PARE will afterwards proceed to Appleby, and Mr. Justice BAYLEY to Newcastle. When these are over, both Judges will meet at York, and commence the Assizes there on Saturday the 6th of March, and thence pro. teed together, as formerly, to. Lancas,ter, whete the Assizes will be-opened on Saturday the 18th March. • POLICE. . . .. Bo*-sTittraT.—Yesterday, Michael . P7oed, , Patrick Murphy, and Wild, were brought to the Office, and underwent an examination; charged with rob bing the burying-ground of the Parish of St. Cle ment Danes, in ortugal-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, of a . number of dead-bodies.—Joseph Crouch stated, that on Monday morning last, about two o'clock, he saw all the prisoners enter the burying-ground in Portugal -street, _Lincoln's-inn-fields, by a wicket I gate, and afterwards he watched them, having no doubt what their object was, when he saw a large sack thrown over the walli which he had no doubt contained two bodies, and they brought out a small sack through the wicket gate, which he had no doubt contained one body. Both the sacks were put into a hackney-coach, Which was waiting, and drove away by the prisoner Wood, whom he knew to be a hackney coachman ; the prisoners, Wild and Mur phy, rode in the coach with the sacks. He followed the coach to St. Thomas's Hospital, in the Borough, where the sacks were taken in. On the following day he gave information to the Parish Officers of St. 'Clement Danes,. of what he had seen, when an exa mination of the burying-ground took place; it was ai certained that the bodies of three old people, which had been interred on the Sunday, had been stolen, one of them 82 years of age, the youngest was 72 ; they were two women and a man. Only the bodies were taken, the coffins and shrouds remain. A number of other bodies, it WAS ascertained, had been stolen, particularly in what was called the poor vault.— Application was made at Union Hall Police Office, for a warrant to search St. Thomas's Hospital for the stolen bodies, which was granted, and the grave digger and his assistant were taken into custody on ' suspicion of being concerned with the robbers. The three bodies were not found at the Hospital, but several surgeons were found, with aprons and dresses -for dissecting a number of bodies, all with •the heads cut off.-3lr. Gurney, the Rector of the• Parish, attended, and complained of not having received proper assistance at Union Hall Police 'Clifice.—The Vestry Clerk and Sexton of- the Parish also attended. —The prisoners denied the charge, set up an alibi, and recriminated upon the w itress Crouch, whom they charged with having brought forward the ac cusation against them from spite cr disappointment, he being a resurrection man, or body snatcher, as they are termed ; that he had been such from a child, and they had no doubt but that be had gone to St. Clement Danes burying-ground for the purpose of robbing it, but finding that the ground had been worked, and the coffins empty,lie was angry because somebody had been there before him.-2 The prison ers were ordered to had bail, or be committed. The grave-digger and his assistant were discharged. MARLBOROUGU-STREET.-A youth named GOllet was charged with stealing a quantity of silver spoons, the property of-Mr. Nicholson, architect, of London street, Tottenham-court road. The prisoner, who is fifteen years of age, arid an apprentice to a hair dresser in Tottenham-court-road, dressed and shaved the prosecutor for several weeks; and on Tuesday last, he waited in the kitchen until "the children were ready to have their hair cut. After he had left the house, the servant misled three silver spoons, which were left in a saucepan to wash, and on Mrs. Nichol son examining her plate, she missed three others, which had been stolen at another time. The prisoner, on being closely pressed, confessed having stolen the six spoons, and he pointed out one to his master which he bad concealed between the wainscot and the wall in the wash-house ; the others, he said, he had given to another youth named Stephenson, whose face Mr.PARItANT recognised as an old ac quaintance. 'Stephenson denied that Collet bad given him spoons to dispose cf, and much roguish recii mination came out between them. But it turned out 1 that the former had offered to pay for the spoons if he were let go,. and he was remanded. Collet was, fully committed for trial. Aboutlsix o'clock, yesterday morningb a ire broke out at the dwelling-house of Mr. Arkison, dyer, in James's-street, Paddington ; it originated in the dry ing - toom, on the second floor, and had destroyed the' greater part of the room, together with a quantity of clothes which were hung up to dry, before it was discovered, but the house was preserved from being consumed by the prompt exertions of the firemen, and a plentiful supply of water. About eleven o'clock, on the night of Wednesday tennight, a destsuctive fire was discovered in the paper-mill -of Buubum, near Aberdeen, which hid already extended .through all the lower part of the , building, the names, at the same time communicatp ing to the drying-rooms above, where, from the coral bustible nature of the materials, the whole was ass., mediately in a state of conflagration; so that, before the arriv4l of the fire-engines, from the printfield in the neighbourhood, the roof had fallen in a .such being the rapid progress of the devonring element, that in less than an hour from its being discovered, the mill, with the materials, and entire contents, was re duced to a heap of smoking ruins —the walls alone being left standing. Friday morning, about one o clock, an alarming fire broke out in a public-house, in Sandport-street, Leith, which raged with great violence for some time, and consumed the . house in which it began. DoNDEE,Tuesday senaiglit, about three o'clock in the morning, a destructisee fire broke out in the premises of Mr. JAMES PATERSON, in the village of Lochee. The property is composed of two ranges of buildings, which lately formed one of the most 'extensive sail-cloth manufactories in Scotland, and two dwelling-houses, one of which and a great part of the manufactory were consumed to ashes. The circumstances attending this event are of a very sus picious character. The flames were observed to break out at once at three different places, se distant from each other as to render impossible any belief of ac cidental _communication, and with such force' as to terrify the'spectators. The fire was completely got under about ten A. M. 'but was not entirely extin guished at floe P. m. and the ruins presented a fright ful appearance. Some articles which had bees saved from the conflagration were placed in the dwelling house, to which the flames had not reached; and next night, this ,house was also discovered in flames: one of the leathern pipes of the fire-engine had been cut, with the purpose, it " supposed, of rendering _ ', it unfit for usc. WONDERFUL EFFECTS OP 4 INIARICANrc The following extract of a letter from St. Martin's is strikingly descriptive of the ct3olati .cni occasioned by the late hurricane in the West Indies, wherein that island peculiarly suffered: " St. Martin's, 15tb October, 1819. "MY DEAR SIR-I should have written to you be. fore this date, and given you a faint detail of the disasters this colony has met with, from o, e of the most tremendous gales that i believe ever happened on the face of the globe, which took place on the 21st ult. but my mind was in such a state, that I could. not put pen to paper till now. From long experience, and having seen many gales, I amap sie re pretty ego o n d . judge of their presages ; and I saw plainly, ing before, that one was bfewing, and therefore made preparation, in the best manner I could, for its re: ception—but all in vain. At day-light the fellow.: ing morning, it blew hard from the North, and ton= untied increasing till nine o clock, at which time It was as severe as ever I had seen ; but by ta*lvs-, and from that till eleven at night, it was a perfect tornado—nothing could stand it. The gusts of wind and torrents of rain came in all directions; ' and, when they came in contact with each other, the whole country around me could be compared . to nothing but the ocean in its Most agitated state: 1 had, fortunately, come out with ray family to my country-house rather earlier this year than custo mary, and we were there only ten days when the gale happened : had we been in town, every one of us must have been 'buried in the ruins of my town house, the upper stories of which were levelled with the ground, and the deitruction was so general arid complete, that I don't think it was possible for a rat to have escaped. The force and weight of stone that fell on the floors, tho'ugh supported by pitch-pine beams of fourteen inches square, broke through them, carrying furniture, and every thing that was on them, to the stores below. •It was, perhaps, the very best private building in any of the islands, standing on a base of sixty feet square ; and had we been in it at the time of the gale, my confidence in its stability was such, that I never should have thought of quitting it—comequently we must all hare perished. " The houses of my two daughtei - s stood it out, though both damaged; and there are now in the whole town, which is about a mile in length, and consisting of two streets, not more than twenty-five houses standing. The town of Marigot, in the French part of the island, suffered equally; but a fishing- town in the Dutch part s of above a hundred houses, is totally annihilated: the sea broke over it illy) a pond a-back ; and there is now a channel of seven feet deep through the middle of it. The nurntser of lives lost is above 100, and as many more dreadfully maimed and bruised. At day-break the following morning, the prospect of the country around me was dismal in the extreme: every tree and shrub, and every field of canes, that were the preceding day in most-luxuriant bloom, levelled with the earth ; the whole face of nature seemed as if fire had passed over it ; and out of fifteen sugar-works and fourteen &oda ling-houses, that were within my view, only tvits of the latter were left standing—one of which Was my own, though, during the severity of the gusts, it trem bled as if in the severest earthquake; and the roaring of the tempest was such, that we could not hear each other speak ; and it was with the .greatest difficulty that myself and seven able Negroes could secure tls doors and windows from being burst open ; but, by these exertions, the house did not sustain the smallest injury. There were, previous to the gale, sixty- sugar works on the island ; out of which only seven now remain—all the rest reduced to heaps of ruins. Our Government required, from each inhabitant, an es& mate of his losses; and, in order to give you a beam . - idea of our suffering, I send you a copy of mine.— (The estimate alluded to, amounts to neatly ESO,OOO currency.)—Many of the small houses in town, of front 12 to 16 feet square, were carried a mile from their situations, some of them 200 feet up the face of the hills. A small sloop of 10 tons burthen, that was 'repairing on the beach, was taken bodily up, mid carried thrOugh the roof of a large tavern near her; and lodged on the top of a billiard-table, where slim now lies very little injured. My kitchen, stable, and other out-houses, were carried the Lord knows where; for I have never seen a vestige of them, except one of the doors. One of ray mill horses was killed, but my . saddle horses broke Loose and saved themselves." • LENT ASSIZES—OXFORD CIRCUIT. ➢efore.Mr. Justice HOLROYD and Mr. Jastfee Ilatmarasou4 Essaanzaz—Monday, February 28, at Reading. oam:trauma—Wednesday, March 1, at Oxford. Woomuirsasuzaz—Saturday, March 4, at Worcester. Cat or Wozcsarzs—Same day, at the City of Worcester. _Searroansunse—Thursday, March 0, at Stafford. Snaorsotax—VVednesday, March 15, at Shrewsbury. HasutioansnrozMonday, March 10, at Hereford. Motrateurmsutur—Saturday, March 25, at Monmouth. Gaouersreasutar—Wednesday, March 29, at Gloucester. Crrr or Gusucirzza—Same day, at . the City of Gioucesters CHESTER SPRING CIRCUIT, 1820. CUAILLZ4WARZETI,Esq. and &OM Ex.Maassau., Serjeant-at , Law. Morroostasrantaz--Saturday, March 18, at Pool. Thonnozautais—Friday, March 24, at Ilia Ida Fttatstuas--Thursday, March 30, at Mold. CEssauts—Wednesday, April 5, at the Castle of Chesser. BIRTH. Saturday, at Albury Vicarage; iierm, the Lady of the Rev. John Hammond, of a son. MARRIED. At Rathkeale, County of Limerick, W. B. Odell Moulton, Esq. 80th Regiment, to Marianne Margaret Vause ► only daugh ter of the Bev. J. Vauae, late of Limerick. DIED. On the 28th of January last, at Springfield, near Fames, N.B. Neil Currie, Esq. formerly Surgeon of the 78th liniment, much regretted by aU.wbo knew him. On Tuesday night, the 15th, g Woolwich, at - the house of her son-in-law, Captain Stewart, Royal Artillery. Mrs. Baker, relict of the late Captain Hugh Cossart Baker, 27th Grenadiqrss Jan. 13, in the 82d year of his age, Mr. Jobn Thomson, Park!' Schoolmaster, MuthiL He was much esteemed for his social and 'affectionate manners ; was an excellent classical scholar, aid upwards of 66 years a public teacher of youth. May 28, at Lodiana, Nepaul country, John Balfour, Esqs Surgeon in the service of the H onourable East India Company. In the West Indies, aged 24, Philip Henry Mortimer, Esq. Surgeon, son of Philip Mortimer, Esq. late of Waterton', M Margaritta; Henri Blennerhasssett, Esq. son of Captaini Thomas Blennerhassett, formerly of the Kerry Militia, At Trinidad, Lieutenant-Colonel Robertson, of the Aida Army. Hs bad lately joined the South American Patriots, HIGH-WATER at LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Diming • • 27 minutes after ,5 Aft/emelt - a • 44 LONDON ; and pubMigtiy ' Flue, Teseple-Dar4 . F 1 II ~; II It; I : I .1° ~~ i 1 'i