Star. — London, England, 1812-06-05 00:00:00

FATAL THUNDER STORM. A LATIN INSCRIPTION /OR THE INTENDED MONUMENT OF MR. PERCEVAL. lionoratittimi argue de Patch longe meritfasimi rid, Domini SceNceit PtacavaL, lawentabile fatuw, sequentibus versibus, Altitudini sus Regali, PRINCIPI REGINTE eonsecrads, asna• rissime deflet . Poeta. De Petra file diu, sane meritlisimus nous, Pro Putrid file diu vivere dignus erat, Sed diro, ut NELSON, sua clausit lumina plumbo, Ut Maris hicce decus, tic , decus file Toga! !! Ergb tanrorum, BRITANNIA, fats virorura Jacturamque sluml nocte dleque dole !!! CANONICV3 TIUMBLET. TRADUCTION. Pour avoir long-terns, et autant bien que qui que ce soft merite de sa Patrie, PERCIVAL meritolt de vivre long-terns pour sa Patrie. Mais helas ! tout ainsi qu'un plomb meurtrier ferma les pau pieres aux NetsoN, h gloire et la terretir des Men, de mime, un plus meurtrier encore les ferma•t-il aux Putc IVA l'honneur et l'urnement de la Robe ! !! BRETAGNE infortunie, nnn, ne cease, jour et nult, de verter des pleura sur les destinies de ces Brands hommee, ainsi que cur ta perte sensible que to viens d'en faire ! ! ! LA CHANOIN? uutasurr. The French translation is for the sake of the fair sex. BELLINGII O OI.-.-It is true that Bellingham was born at St. Neat's, in Huntingdonshire ; 'his father was an itinerant miniature painter ; and having, in the course of his professional peregrinations, engaged the affections of a widow-lady of some property, at St. Neot's, he married her, and Bellingham was the offspring of their union : his father died whilst he was young, and being an only child, his mother's indulgence, and his own ill-temper, rendered him a very Roward and impatient boy. He was put ap prentice to a silversmith in London ; but when he had served about half his time, he ran away, and was not heard of for three years, when he made his appearance, and having obtained of his mother about ,E4OO, being the remainder of her fortune, he set up the business of a tinman in Oxford-street. During the period he continued in the tin-shop, a fire happened in his house, and great doubts were entertained by the Insurance Office, as to the circumstances by which the fire had arisen. Shortly after this, he Hied for nearly £20003 and went .to Ireland ; here he met with the unfortunate person whom the justly incensed' laws of his country have rendered a widow : she was of a very respectable family and connections. By her means he got introduced to a mercantile house at Hull, where, without any capital, he commenced his speculations in the Russia trade ; the nature of these Lord L. Gower's letter has fully developed, and satisfied every honest and cilspassionate mind of the character of this unprincipled and blood-thirsty adventurer. EARTHQUAKE IN THE CARACCAS. [FARTHER PARTICULARS.] Extract of a letter from the master of a vessel to his Owners in Glasgow, dated La Guira, Ist April. " I have been longer detained than I expected. On the 26th of March I was nearly loaded, but, in con sequence of a dreadful earthquake that took place that day, at ten minutes past four o'clock, P.M. there has been nothing done since, only what I have been able to do with my own boat. The calamity here is at present dreadful; all the houses are nearly down, and the few that stand must come down. The po pulation of the place was three thousand; at least one half of them have been buried in the ruins. I dined ,on shore that day with a few of our countrymen : as , eve filled the second glass of wine after dinner the glasses and decanters began to tremble and jump on the table; we all started up and took different direc tions ; the scene was so awful, that it is beyond the human mind to form any idea of it. When the dust that ascended from the ruins cleared away, the cries of the living and wounded were dreadful, while thou sands were groaning under the ruins. lam happy to observe the cities of Valencia, Vittoria, and Porto Cabello have received but little damage. The loss in Caraccas is said to be 10,000, and the different vil lages in the neighbourhood are altogether in ruins.— As many as can get refuge on board the vessels are taken in. My decks are like a barracks ; those who remain on shore are building tents in the fields." Extract of a letter from St. Thomas, received in Glasgow on Saturday : " St. Thomas, April 7. " At the moment of writing this, the schooner Fa- Vourite is-arrived from Laguira, having brought the fatal intelligence of Laguira, and five cities in Carac cas, being totally destroyed by a most tremendous earthquake ; not a house is standing in Laguira, ex cept the custom-house, which is not now habitable.— In Caraccas nearly all the houses are destroyed. It happened on the 26th ult. which was a holiday among the Spaniards; every church was full, and every one perished, supposed to be at least from 8 to 10,000 persons; many also in private houses are buried in the ruins. Mr. Julien was five minutes under the ruins, but fortunately escaped. My son was in 'imminent danger, the house fell in as he was stepping out.— This is not the worst of it ; a Revolution will cer tainly follow, the ignorant Spaniards attributed it to the will of the ALMIGHTY, as a punishment On them for revolting against their mother country, and for admitting strangers among them. 'The foreigners are all obliged to go armed, apprehending danger in every step they make, and, from the heaps of dead bodies that are burnt in piles, a pestilence is expected in the place." Thursday last a person, aged 77, walked from Appleby to Lancaster (53 miles) between five in the morning and eight at night.— Tuesday se'nnight a Gentleman, bele,lnging to Whitehaven, walked from .Appleby to Whitehaven (56 'miles) in about an hour more than the time above-mentioned. On Monday se'nnight, Mr. JoWETT, Miller, of Old Radford, sold all his potatoes to his poor neighbours at 10d. per peck. He likewise sold a large quantity of his flour, retail, a& the reduced price of 4s. 10d. for seconds; 4s. 4d. for good Thirds ; and 4s. for %vheat flour with the bran in it. At the same time he informed them, he would continue to retail flour at his mill, every Monday and Saturday morning, from nine till two o'clock. It is ma tter of surprise (says a correspondent) that among thY various suggestions to alleviate the distress and inconvenience so generally felt by all classes, from the very high price of bread, that the best expedient adopted during the scarcity in 1801, appears to have been entirely overlooked, viz. the regulation of bread king made twenty four hours. before it war told. It is estimated that this regulation would save one fourth of the consumption, and render it a more wholesome alirient. The Faculty are entirely of this opinion— So convinced was the late Mr. PITT, when Chancellor of the Exchequer, of the importance and expediency of this measure, that on its being suggested to him, he immediately adopted it, and with the universal approbation of the public. It is a fact, not less true than melancholy, that there are at this time immured within the walls of the four principal prisons in the metropolis, upwards of 1500 persons, on whose industrious exertions, probably, three times that number were principally dependent for support. The law having been put in execution against se veral of the men found in arms against their country, at the Isle of France, those on board the ROYAL WILLIAM, at Spithead, from among whom the worst cases were'selected, have been pardoned, and released from confinement; previously receiving an impres sive admonition from Sir RICHARD BICKERTON. Boxatts.—Ford, the young pugilist, arrived in Lon don onWednesday, in a very bad state, and immedi ately put to bed. Considerable sympathy has been excited for him amongst the amateurs, in consequence of so good a man having been so much over matched in weight, and that against a man who will not easily be beat by any one. Upon the whole, he is consi dered to have been trifled with and neglected. Tuesday evening the new Alms-houses, in Gravel lane, Southwark, built by the Rev. Rowland Hill, for twenty-four poor aged widows, belonging to Sur rey Chapel, where opened for their reception, when a platform was erected in front of the houses, from which the Rev. Gentleman preached an impressive and appropriate discourse in the open air, to not less than 3000 persons, from Titus ii. the 12th and 13th verses. "The following is considered a singular circum stance : A thrush, which for four years past has built her nest in the garden of Mr. Anthony Thomp son, at St. Bees, has this year changed her residence, but not quitted the premises. She has taken up - her abode in a bottle-rack, and built her nest in the ca- Vity of a bottle-bottom ! This her cottage is not more than a couple of yards from a back-door, through which sr-me or other of the family are frequently pass ing. The thrush is at present in the quiet state of in cubation, and so familiarized to her old friends and 'protectors, as to suffer them to stroke her back whilst ahe feeds off their hands with the greatest composure. A storm came on at Lincoln in the afternoon of I BOW-STREET.—Yesterday two men underwent a Friday last, which was uncommonly severe, and has long private examination before Mr. REED, who been attended with very fatal consequences in that. were brought trcm Gravesend a few days since 'by neighbourhood. At Southray, a village three miles Adkins and Pearkes. The prisoners, we learn from from Bardney, three boys were killeo by the lightning, Margate, had been living at an inn there for some namely, John East and Richard Pask, aged twelve time, where they paid their bill with a forged fifty years, and Levy Day, aged eleven years . These poor pound Bank of England note. After they were gone, boys were tending geese, in company with another, it was discovered that the note was forged. The pri named Charles Blakey„ibout the sante age, who es- soners were traced to Gravesend, where they were taped in a most providential manner. They were in stopped ; and on searching them and their luggage, a field near home, ane, 'n the storm approached, ' some papers and letters were found which caused a retired to a hovel. Her they sat down on the ground, I strong suspicion that they were carrying on an im- Blakey having two companions on one side, and one proper correspondence with the Minister at the head on the other. of the Police in Paris. A communication of this oir- H7W long they had been in the hovel, is unknown cumstance was communicated to the Secretary of to him, but, in a moment, lie became alarmed. He State's Office, and Adkins and Pearkes were in con jumped up in a fright, saying, 6 , Come, boys, let us sequence sent to bring them to town. Mr. Litch go home ;we shall all be killed in this place." His field, the Solicitor to the Treasury, attended the ex companions did not speak, and he ran home, where amination, as did the Solicitor to the Bank. The pri he informed his mother he thought his companions soners were committed for farther examination. were all killed by the lightning, as they did not speak J. Haina was charged with picking the pocket o( or stir. Several of the neighbours went to the place ; a Mr. Warren, of Walworth, of his handkerchief, immediately, and there found them all lying dead.— yesterday, at the time the guns were being fired in The lightning fell on their heads, and ran down their &James's Park, which charge being clearly proved, bodies, burning their necks, shoulders, and breasts, in h e was committed for trial. a dreadful manner, causing many large brown sores. j HATIVN GARDEN.—Yesterday Maim*. Blakey was burnt on the right a rm an d thigh, having alias Captain Manning, and a woman with whom M a place on each scorched nearly as large as a half- cohabited, of the name of Davis, were brought up, crown. A dog was in the hovel, and received no in- and underwent a final examination, standing charged jury. Two of their shirts were burned, but the out- with having taken lodgings in different parts of the ward garments were not damaged. They were the town, and robbing the same of a great quantity of children of labouring people, and all belonged to bed-furniture and various other artioles. The evi. Southray. dente against the prisoners being conclusive, they - full, PO,LICS. were / committed to Newgatelor trial. Two persons, the keepers nUan old iron shop i n the neighbourhood of Saffren.hill, were brought up, char ged with having on their premises a great quantity of nails, quite new, with their original papers, new shee:- lead, and a leaden pipe, also new ; the whole suspected to have been stolen. The prisoners not being able sa tisfactorily to account for the legal possession of the same, were ordered to be brought up again on a future day, when it is expected persons owning the property will attend. Well: and Cry'ts, with three otherlads, werebrought up, charged on suspicion of breaking and entering the premises of Mr. Forsyth, coachmaster, in the neighbourhood of Clerkenwell, and with stealing thereout five coach axle-trees, and other things.— Some principal witnesses not being present, the pri soners were ordered to be brought up again on a future day. MARLBOROUGH STREET.-A strange occurrence took place at this Office on Wednesday evening, which excited considerable alarm. Two of the Ma bistrates were conversing togethe r i n t h e a b senc e o f usiness, when a genteel looking man approached the table in an assuming attitude, with his hat on, and carelessly threw a pamphlet on the table, deman ding that it should be perused, and the grievances therein complained of redressed, or " he would do for some of them." On his uttering the last expres. sion, he drew from a side-pocket a knife, unsheathed, such as is used for slaying cattle, and then left the room, pointing it at the Magistrates. The intruder immediately made his escape. He again made his appearance at the Office yesterday, and was imme diately taken into custody, and handcuffed. On searching him, the knife which he presented, in his threat to the Magistrates, was found. The prisoner underwent an examination yesterday before Mr. Cow- WANT ; but he assigned no other reason for his alar ming conduct, than that he scught redress for inju ries, which were stated in the pamphlet. The priso. ner's name is Le Turc, and he is a French teacher at an academy, near London. The pamphlet is written in a romantic style, complaining of want of redress for injuries, the nature of which are not. even stated. He had written several letters to the Government Of fices, and complained of neglect in his applications at Bow-street. His whole demeanour implied a de gree of ins mity. He was remanded to safe custody until another day. The prisoner is of Freed' parents, but born in England, has been a French, mariner, and an English soldier, and states himself to have rendered services to Government. MAIRITLD. An Therstiar, the 4th instant, Mr. Edward ita•rlsor., ot Boroodu of Southwark, to Maga, roundest &wetter a ti dar 7 Hall, Esq. of Mruitte-placo, Walsworth. DIED. At Arbroath, as the 2.1 d ult. &Elie James Rennie, in its pt year. On the 26th ult. Mrs. I.n.combe, wife of Mr. E. Lusesafi s . Durliford-street, Stonehouse, Plymou t h, age d 29. At the Manse of Rosskeen, on the 16th ult. the Rev. Tho se Urquhart, nlin's•er of that parish. '1 bursday senniiht, George, son of Majar•Gcneral %o ils CuMberland-street, Portman-square, aged seven years. , Lately, at kis residence at I.eck House, near S. rabane, A. Downing, n'any years Rector of the Parish of Leek. lo India, on thLt loth November last, Leatenant A' esty ß M`Tavisb, son of the late Captain Alexander M Tars*. g ob merly of Garthbeg, and latterly of Nees Cu le. On the loth July 1811, on board the Batavisn Indians: 4n * that ship was on her voyage from Malacca, w i b tise.tam„64 against Java, Charles Archer, Esq. Lletittglant in the benido tillery, at the age of 19. CHALLENGE. MESSRS. CURRIE and Co. Surgeons. late ; n u t Majesty's Service, challenge the wuule world to rc es single instance where their Medicine and method of tureen failed of the desired effect. The practice of many years to t i l particular branch of their profession has not given der ts onsuccushil case. Several Noblemen and Gentlemen, of the first re have been under the we of MuCoMess Currie and Cir sweat of complaints of the Urethra, Strictures, fee. and, i received a radical and permanent cure, rlque.t that may be made to them as satisfactory evidences of the ilend a aZ priority of Messrs. Currie and Co.'s plan of mummy. Ji m of these Gentlemen have bad Strictures from ten to twin y and had been under the care of Messrs. Honse and and other surgeons of equal eminence, who attemtee4 ns by the application of the lunar caustic, without boccie". STRICTURES, Whether recent or of long duration, and which hav e hag% skill ofother Practitioners ; are by their prei.ent hmemailybed reunion, effectually and permanently cured, without they 'l l % suffering the excruciating pain and alarming hespoeb ig , often follows the applicadon of the lunar c. ustic In the consid 20 years eztensloe practice In this metropolis, neuter'. % mod Strictures have been and are daisy under their cos, li e s o d eradication of which are effected by a safe, certain al ay& boats mode of practice, superior to any other yet angles, Messrs. Currie and Co. may be consulted by either ..**.rw a greatest delicacy, secrecy, anti honour, at their beton Num. Hatton-Garden.. Patients in the country are rsqumed b a i i ; the particulars of their ease, age, and general hal* et lislise 4 Inclining a remittent.* (or advice and mediation who - will be given or OEM to any part 01 lb, \MEd's,. MARRIED WOMEN, who save long her dummy their expectations of a taunts , may be aestin..l qui s a am h stances such defects are curable by medical and aka% the removal of such impediments be an obiret of Irwin asluee tainty with others. yet the cure of .itch down by theme progress of renovation, Is the actitrement el their espeteen Patients is the country are teem, seed to state itk p.m% of their case, age, and manner of living, whiten, a Dart Min for advice and medicines, and the same will be bir oartlawa. part of the kingdom. WHEN Men oh Educati"n All.l pto:::ssi eta to use persevering endeavour, to disctwer the Rost woo swain method of treating a tew prevailing DiseaseNth' mew Ail rank of their experience is the best proof of wieriseq.. Messrs. CUSS and Co. Surgeons, have bten :Wombs effig the cure of the following the object of then putitair wady. ai a certain Disorder, frequently contracted ii , a inassantel mai 'cation, and its concomitants, Strictures and tacos, obkt,lp an improved plan, are speedily and effectual Cured; sAM al. bility, whether arising from Bacchanal an in nig.sices. Wag 4. dence in warm climates, er a seem soll•ary vice, so e , .•• happily pursued by the youth of both sears, in the sot mei sterility or barrenness, sod in the other a nunittou inns as h vous diseases, %hick if not timely railed ed, t,rm nat • I. nip tense and consumption. In that distressing state of d.h.lnsr deficiency, whether the coosequenrx of such baneful habit., a arising from any other cause, by which the power, o th, tution become enfeebled, as regularly educated :+argeolis ut tab don, they offer a him, safe, awl speedy restoration to soots: vigorous health. _ _ Ihe result of a long and extensive practice has enabled the; by a superior method, to remove venertal eomplaitt(•, berm inveterate or complicated, without subjeettug the patitattelle least restraint, in diet or nereise; and in recent Cases whoa early application is made on discovery of the infrctum,day s quently perform a cure in the short space of two days. This► precedented success of their mode esf tr.sttuet.t (which kisses been known to fail in one single instance in a practice of during which period many thousand persons of budi sestina been curet; even after severe and injurious methous Ladles pursued by other Practitioners without effect), 'Weer:a them thus publicly offer their advice. Messrs. GOSS and Co. exclusively professing the means, particular complaints, in order that they ni.y nut be marktdir a mistaken few, with the obloquy so justly attached to the Oar rant empiric, think it but junks to themselves to stale, tar rot have been properly eel:mated and initiated Into every Wend the profession (certificates of which, from diffurent boirtsis,lll testimonials from the most eftltilent Physicians, they hire testa wince any inquirer), that the success restating from disk air yours first induced them to deviate from the practice of dup. rah Practitioner, and they presume that their pretensions ow* cute a fair ground fur the unprecedented aisblesce they have been by the public, so lilt/Tally honoured. GOSS and Co. Surgeons, is, Bouvt.rie.ttreet, F 4.04101. Mr. Howard, the claimant to 'the Dukedom of Norfolk, has denied being the author of the threat. ening letters sent to Carlton House. DARING BURGLARY—Wednesday morning, between the hours of one and five o'clock, some robbers made their way into the first floor in No. 11, Catharine street, in the Strand, at the sign of tha Two Spies' wine vaults, the corner of White-hart-yard, and rob bed the apartment of a quantity of linen, &c. The robbers securely effected their escape, after having wrenched off a semi-circular piece of wood with iron spikes, and torn away a kind of wooden pent-house, near the first floor window. The singularity of this robbery is heightened by the circumstance that the watchman's stand is under the very window through which the rubbers had effected their entrance and escape. Friday se'nnight a party came to the house of Pa trick Ryan, of Freagduff, took him out to his yard, where he was placed on his knees, and ordered to cover his eyes with his hands. He was then fired at by two , ruffians who stood behind him, and the vsatentsof two blunderbusses lodged in the backs of his knees'and calves of his legs—Ryan was brought into the Intir mary of Cashel, where his life is despaired of.—He had before got notice of this visit—Cleared Herald. A most atrocious instance of depravity occurred a few days since, in the neighbourhood of Taunton, in the deprivation of a child from its miserable parentl, 1 through the artifice of an old woman. She applied to the poor people, who live in a cottage near Thie -1 ton, for liberty to warm and rest herse'f. This was granted, and the next day she came again, and stole ; away a fine infant about three years old. The dis tressed father, riding all night over the country in quest of his child, luckily met the old hag coming into the town of Chard. They had staid in the fields all night, and the poor infant had been beaten severe ly for not calling the wretch mother. Its cloaths and shoes had been taken away, and the object of the in. human monster was to go begging with the child.— She is committed to Ilchester gaol. Yesterday afternoon the porter belonging to Baker's Coffee•house, 'Change-alley, fell down in Cheapside, ••••••••••••••••....-- in ..an apoplectic fit, with a heavy package on his , Neat Oft LUNIMN : Printed by Limn. Karr. head, and expired ou the spot. published mere, and at the Star Me, • BY HIS MAJESITS ROYAL LITTERs PATENT. • LEAKE's Genuine PILLS, so justly lemon& their superior efficacy hi airing every degree and sysipsi• of the Venereal Disease, the Scurvy, he. without confieematie restraint of diet, la an may, expeditions, safe, and secret mh nee. 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These Pills are most worthy a place in the aliened Masters and Captains of Ships; the more so, fur that they keep goo/ in all climates any length of time, and that they WI now borne the test of near 60 years, with itiereaints cods • • themselves, and honour to their author, Insomuch that demi. last eight years they have radically cured upwards of 40,t1 00 ., sons, many of whom had been discharged UM Hospital' 1411° salivation had been ft equently repeated, and all other metkoll made use of without effect. I Prepared and Sold by the Sole Proprietor, Tees*. Tara", Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, at his bah' No. 9, New Bridge-strect ; where he will give advice, witha l Fee, to persons taking these Pilo, and will answer Pad or lit ten, if peat-paid, OD the MOM terms, observing L s all asso•• most inviolable secrecy, no patient's name ace case d mentioned, but at their own particular request, by during the course of more than 40 years, that lie has had the sli• ducting of an extensive sale of the above medicine, and the P. tice arising therefrom. They are also sold, by his appointment, at the PafeeseliO• 35, St. Albans-street, ; the Torehop, No. lON I A ford-street; Mr. ihsborouglea, No. 7, Fishoereet-lia, oppoiite the MODUDItOt; and by one Penes to every town in Engixud, acc. in Boxes of only 9*. iimeedis with full and plain directions, whereby persons of ashes sites cure thenuelvu with case and secrecy. N. B. Every Box sold In Great tntain is sealed Awith "I l e In which,by favour of the Consuiiimionees, is punted ado% Office " T. Taylor, No.n, New Bridge-atreet."te mimes is felony. HUH WA INK Al' LONDON BillDsin 0. Nitnuw minutes • ..... • • 39 min u tes illinnligig•••••• • • ••• •• •••••••• • •••• •••.«W ..- LOUISIANA. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN IN NEW ORLEANS, TO HIS FRIEND IN ABERDEEN, DATED FEB. 10, 1812. . de We were much alarmed on the 7th inst. at three by a violent shock of an earthquake. Bans had been given on the preceding evening, and probably not less than 3000 people witnessed it. In the grand ball-room, the first shock was noticed by the lights suspended from the cieling being put in motion ; they are about five feet from the roof, suspended by a chain, and formed an angle of at least 20°, by the impulse given by the shock.—The motion appeared to be from W.N.W. or N.W. to S.F. and seemed to me more like the motion of a ship in an open sea, after a storm, than any thins I can recollect. The chande liers, when at the greatest extremity of the impulse, appeared to linger about two seconds previous' to re turning; this lasted two minutes. As you may sup pose, it broke up the dancing assemblies. Thank GOD, no injury was done,which appears astonishing, nor are any of the houses injured. The same evening, at ten o'clock, another shock was felt, but not so severe as the one in the morning. We have not felt it since. We had three weeks ago some slight shocks, and thought it was all over. The Indians, and some hunters from the ♦ast regions south of the higher waters of the Mis souri, report that several large mountains are on fire there; and it is universally allowed, that the shocks were more felt at the western country was ap. proached. A friend of mine, who descended the Mis sissippi about a month ago, when about 200 miles be low the mouth of the Ohio, saw the dreadful effects of one, by its felling several large trees, and by the falling of several acres of the banks of the river. Hea ven only knows what may be our fate, should the shocks be stronger, for the river is already three feet above the level of the city, and rising fast; (and it will, ere a month elapse, be at least from 15 to 20 feet hither), and should the embankments be destroyed, the Mississippi will certainly overwhelm the country, and should this be accompanied by a demolition cf itousey we shall be in a dreadful situation." I to sr ow ili