Star. — London, England, 1803-01-07 00:00:00

BRA TOY HOC'S E GALA Amongft other frnivities at Brayton-Houfe, this Chrilkmas, a Malkect Ball and Supper were given on Thurfday fe'nnight.—The company was more numerons than lall year ; there was a much greater variety of charafters, (few dominos) the drefres not only more fplendid, but more fanciful than on the former occafion,—and, if pofrible, the whole of this motley entertainment carried on with more fpirit. , The illumination of the Gothic Hall.within and without, prodiaced the fineft effeft imaginable. We have already obferved how favourable that edifice is to an amuferitent of this kind, and how much the idea of “ ancient mafk and revelry" is affifted by its, &name, appropriate furniture, and, ap. pearance ; but as fpe&acles of this kind mull be fern, rather than defcribcd, we than notoccupy the time of our readers by a more minute defcription. • Amongft a great diverfity of charafters, fuch as 3ndian Printeres, Virgins of the Sun, Highland Chiefs, groups of Sailors and their Girls, Nuns, Negroes and Negreffes, &c. Ste. ice. there were the following great, or whitnfital perfonages.— the &Sires of Ole fir& clafs very fuperb ; and the whole appropriate.. A Spanith Grandee Henry the Eighth, and Kw/ Q!et`o &tom& 4 Cherokee Chief' ; Harlequin, Columbine, Pierrot, and Buffo ;—a Ditch Burgher and hii brow vts-the God Pan, Mr. Punch, and blether shiptons-rit Maitre-de- Dance ;—a French Opera girl, with Songs ; a Dancing Bear and his Leader; a Witch, a High- Imsder. and his Fortune-telling wife ; two Hunts, (eyeral Turks; an . Automaton Female Figure Lottery Office Seeper.with Tickets. Prizes,Blue Oesii Boys, &c . .-Mother Annch; Mather Cole; a Jew Pedlar, with bis Boa ; the Brayton Poll; feveral Watehmen. and a Bennie* Scotch Fidler,—Night,..-Harmony,—and Nobody; with Unoriginal Song in charailter. „The Mu fi c confined a fifteen performers imiongn wbom were the hand of the Eden fide VADIVIS. • . . The flipper was compered of an imams& va riety of the elioiceft viands • the ifycorationi of the tables were in the firft (tile of &Ilion and de jcarice ; thf fruits and wines of the choieeft finali ties, and in the greaten abundance; whillk the arability of Sir WILFRID and Lady LAWSON inreafed the pleafures of the entertainment, which Was not ended tin about eight o'cloCk on Friday incoming. • • - the following Song was fung by two Gentlemen us the charafters oft," diltrened Seamen, drawing (upon a carriage) the Model of 4 Ship, .full rig ged;—the name Baavrow painted upon her nem. Ludierchil hell ail tie tree's'? I M L the good liftlp the 11 , Wien ire We fat fail; , Witte Hewes fan of Commie sod Mee ; Whi ous awash all tread, and a kit-ekwing Gale:4 Mil We pampa, &fleet throsih the Sea. Not whet dill that ! - -(tiottsk to whimper We ft:oro) Tiore's lima Weather—Shook, Rocha 44 pf fight; And, were's, boa the Wateh--the aka Valli at Matt' Mit Mamas offkaw•holk is the Agit I Mit lielkaito sod I...why, were It be - crififiaA l l o4. , O. Ihirboard. one lAttoord—irle Wed Det e araft!thogife Were now as row lANI Aitibbee 044 thaws °Ma k our Moats Toot led. /taw Irks& fa fperl tlattlekike;—tip a kind wish _ be the illdp—o• the thipdwreeled and latent — Shoo. one Sanimay nit sengot you to mite at the 01*— Tel...ft Heetear. Weak to the NAM! • .lan Wainefday. after the Levee at St. James's, flits Elseßanal' Baron &Laza nits the Swedifb Mailer. way mingled with the Order of the Polar Star. at his hoefe in Howland-hat. by Baron Nosztaalis, echo raprefented Ms Swedilh Majelly at the cerentonr, ids= ma of the Foreign Mini- Oars attended. A faperh cold collation was af terwards fervid with a munificence and national hefeitality fatal& to the occafion, and highly gra flying to the diltiagalfhed perfonages patent. The Kinn was delayed upon is return to Windfor on Wedntlday evening by the pole of his carriage breaking Ina b -dere he changed hales, through the kicking of the riding wheel boric, who threw and hurt his rider. However. the Knits was not hurt ' or feessed alarmed. and went on with fear of Mr. Asattes honks, of the Cranford- Bridge Tim, about (even o'clock. The ROYAL FAMILT come to town on Wedaef day next for the winter feafon. They will, as anal. occafionally vifit Windfor and Kew, but their prin cipal refldence will be the Queen's Mae. WILLIAM Buaaouons, EN. late Advocate-Ge neral to the EaR India cimpany in Bengal. was returned to Parliament for the Botough of Ennif- Julien, the aath ult. 1 The Duke and Duchefs of Stumm, General 1 Macs/nut, Mr. J. BARING, Colonel C. STOUT, and Mr. W. &mots, have attired at Paris. The Earl of Sresaaoulat had a large party on Tuefday night at Mollard's Hotel, in Dover Meet, to celebrate hit daughter's marriage. the Hon. Mill DuTrou to LordA 'sonata, fon of the Earl of Surroza. The young couple are now keeping the Honey Mono at Seven Oaks, Kent ; the company confined of the following, viz. 'rite INS sod Came. et fiberbowne. the Fart and Counter. all %MC tie Hon. jean Demo. we Ms Dumas. Cower Diner. Lady Ferd.Ssrl Tailbet, Sir Pres& Mayans, Mr. Mobslls, Rev. Mr. Art, Mrs. Cooke. Mn. ibnky.twis Mifs Tartars, tie. The Cliriamas Ball annually given by the gen dawn in the neighbourhood of Seven Oaks, Kent, took place on Monday laft at the Ailimbly-rooms. About one hundred patens of heel fetes were pre feat, principally the firs people in that part of the country. The ball was -ortm4 at nine o'clock, with Spaded: Pinch, by Lord A ?ins' ST and Ws THOUITOS. About fifteen couple followed. The dances were kept up with great fpirit till one o'clock, when the company adjourned to an ele gant flipper. At two o'clock the ball recom menced, and concluded at five, when the com pany departed. The Ladies were dreffed very fplendidly in white embroidered mains, with a Profunon of diamonds. CORN M4RKET. 001[11 ILIISF,CTOILS RETURN FROM umetnag. • , last/air 6. Wheat, per Load, from *3l. to 41. Esc. Barley, per Quarter, from 11. Ss, to tL 7L Oats, per. Quarter, from tl. 4s. to 11. Bs. Beans, per Quarter, from 11.. i.s., to al. Peale, per Quarter, from al. as. to at 4s. MARK.I.Aiii, JANUARY gra' We do not obferve any very material alteration in prices of Corn:-Wheat certainly , has none whatever ;-nor has Barley or Malt.:--Bc.ans and Hog Peas are dull, at Monday's prices in confequence of many foreign arrivals, are force- what cheaper.-Prices as per currency. Englilh Wheat, per qr. 485.525. 545. Superfine 593. Fine Dantaic Wheat, sos. 565. Rye, 345. 385. Barley, 245. 265. (Very Fine) 275. 61 Malt, 425. 465. 475. Oats, 15$. 225. 255. Horfe Beans, New, 33f. 34g. Old, 345. 365. Tick Beans, New, 28s. 3os. Old, 325. 345. Hog Peale, 355. 375. Boilers, 345. 421. Carraway Seed, 365. to 415. per cwt. Coriander, zBs. to 3os. per cwt. Canary, 78$. to 84s. per qr. Fape Seed , 341. to 16 1 . per lan. our, 455. sos. per rack. TWiLTTH NIGHT.—The anniverfary of thisFef- tival was lift night celebrated with more than or dinary fplendour. The.example fet by the. Royal Family at Frogrnore was cheerfully followed throughout the fvletropolis Every potlible pt epa ration had been made in every part of the town for the !milk ceremony of drawing King and Qeen. On no former etcalloa have we oblerved fua a diiplay of talk, ingenuity, and elegance, as was exhibited in the principal llreets. It would be an, endlefs talk to defcrihe all we fats, and all we admired.. We Mull confine ourfelves, there. fore, to one or two of the moll confpicuous among the annual Temples of Fancy.. We filed then, as molt deferving of auentiort. Birch's in Corahill. An iminenfe.crovrd rendered the honfe difficult of access, but, having once entered it, the eye was loft in. admiration. one part brilliant palaces vied with each other in beauty and decorative or. nament-- The wane with more than mama !ultra Wed. In another appeared a moated cattle, which, though railed of perifhable materials, indicated ltrength and durability—Materin filterallat Amitlft the Oti Wag battlements were Peen - • - • • • The trees of °doyens* teent, with branches green. At the farther end of this enchanting recce was a roR beautiful painting, for which we underfland p guineas were given to one of our molt eminent *rub. It was an allegorical tranfparency of the mafque of twelfth night. The genius of the night was reprefented in the aft of crowning two young parkins w/to were (eater' on a throne as King and Q_unen. . Wawa Titan, and various lays, fairies, and r/lphx, players upon different inftruments, fur rounded them. The God of Merriment, babited as Harlequin, is leen prefenting a twelfth cake ; and a fcaramooth invites gueßs to the feltivity, difplay ing a pack of cards, and waving an ornamental banner. On one fide, Tertfisbore appeared leading three Grates, with introduced a pay Rpm fur rounded by Cupids with Garlands ; and on the other, Mercury retinas a young foldicr and failor in the charafters of Mars and N/orar, to aft at the celebration of the feftival. The twelfth-cakes which thoufands were eagerly purchafueg there difplayed the moll fanciful orna ments. Debatts, in Cheapfide, wits extremely beautiful. The front was hung with feßoons of variegated lamps ; the interior was at fplendid as poffitle. Vanhagen, in St. Paul's Church-yard, Rich, and many others, whom it would be tedious to enumerate, exerted the utmoß of their (kill to pleafe and delight. In Little Newport-ftreet we noticed a bop, the infide of which exhibited a great variety of emblematical figures, and on the outfide there was a well painted tranfparency, in. which Prate introduces ?Ina" to Briosiwia. In the fide wins were lien Arias/me and Correvurre—the whole prodoccd a very charming effect. and excit ed the admiration of the fpeflators. No pains were (pared to render the juvenile part of rociety happy.—The youth who drew King had his good fortune accompanied with this motto: Let wine and *shire didipate all farrow, This Day be happy, bid Care call to-nsaerovri The damsel who drew queen, exclaimed, I ass the Queen alloy and Mirth, And give to ev'ry Plrafure birth. She who was entitled for the evening to be called Peace, had this legend appropriated to her, Once more 1 cam to bias this fawned Commerce lAA Boorifb, Plenty ever fmlk. Not fo happy was Ote who drew Aunt Antique. Aunt might have been a hasty reelton'el, In the good days of George the Second. It would carry us into too wide a field'• were we to defetibe the mottoes which Mere applied to Al derman Turtle. Lady Loifa Luny, Simon Pure, Giddy Goofccap, Milt Froward, Sir Nicholas Nor. row, Dr. Caudle, Ste. &c. Sm. Suffice it to fay they were all of the molt humorous nature, and tended to enliven the circles of friendthip, in which they were introduced. Pleafure fat on every countenance, and the evening was paffed with a degree of harmony which we &weedy hope will mark its return in every future year. Baddeley's bequeathed annual cake made its appearance as nfual in the Green•room of Drurr Lane Theatre. and uccartoned tome folid fauf faQinn as well as fame harmlefs fun among thole whore efforts are fo often manifefled to di• wen the town. May thole who fo often snake others merry, always be merry thcmfelves. NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. MAILS THIS DAY.-WIND N. E. AtllttD chtthin. o Waterford o Harnburgh ▪ French I Dutch ; • SHEERNESS, JANUARY 6. Thq following is a lift of lhips lying in Sheer. nets Harbour, &c. pear Adm. Sir J SAIIMAREZ ' 4 Capt. JOHN FERILIZIL Antelope so Hutfar 38 P. WILKINSON Ethane 38 C. STUART Anibufeacte 36 —D. ATKINS Blanche 36 Z. Monne Penelope 36 W. R. BROUGNTON Lapwing 38 -- A. SK [NI Cruiser J. 14A NCOCK Harpy E. Hr %woo° Sylph 8 W. GOA'r e TIGHIIOITe THOMPSON guMx (hofpitat Mil)) yo Lieut. ItilclMA N. Minx, Mariner, Confliet, Archer, and Bafillik gun brigs. The UNICORN, of 32 guns, is to be paid off, and laid up in ordinary in a day or two. The Tist rimiest is to be laid up in ordinary, as foon a; the Anstow is fitted. • PLYMOUTH, JANUARY s. Attired, the Neptunus, —, from St. Übe's, in dillrefs; and kat,caz cutter, from a cruize.— Sailed the DASMEL floop of war, for Ireland. PORTSMOUTH, JANUARY S. Laft night arrived at the.Motherbank his Ma jetty's (hip Hound,from Gib: altar, in fixteen days. By her we are concerned to. hear that a ferious mutiny had broke out on boi.rd the Gibraltar of 84 guns, which Billed from Gibraltar for Malta, in company with the Superb, Dragon, and Triumph, and loon after failing the crew of the Gibraltar mutinied, and took polieffion of the ' (hip, and then the was run up under the Items of the other (hips, the crew cheering ; but this fignal not having • the defired etreet, the crews of other (hips retaining their loyalty and difcipline, the mutineers Demme panic firtck; and were then eafily fubdued by their Officers, who behaved very gallantly. The ringleaders were immediately IC- I cured, and three of them had been tried and exe cuted before the Hound le:t the Rock. We are. alio informed by this (hip, that the States .of Barbary have agreed to furrender three of their•ppris lathe French. • The Theis frigate r wo invalids, : left Gibraltar the awe day as the Hound. The Round has had very bad weather, , and her .fails were blown away in a hurricane of wind on the 28th of De , eember. JAIIIMARY , • Pared by, the karl Cambaen and Royal estorge, from London, for India.—The Abundance fore flip is on !bo re near the Hie of Wight. Arrived the Autumn ?loop 'Or - war, Captain Richardloa, from Chatham. riOVER, JANUARY S. Sailed the Venus, idDover, Capt. SMART, for Boulogne, with Lord I...italtßDALlt and other palrengers ; the Friends of Folktione ; the French boat la Dolphin, for Calais; William and Cathe rine, of Sunderland ; Pitt, Capt. GOLDIIIII l'A. chilies, of and for Boulogne,Cappt.Coa■ V s; l'Alex ander, of and for ditto, Capt. Fort., and the Good Intent, Capt. Rik°. Arrived the Duchefs of York bye-boat from C-alais ; and paired by three Eaft Indiamen for the River, names unknown. WHITEHAVEN, JANUARY 4. We had a very revere gale of wind on Tad:lay night, which continued the whole of Wednefday, accompanied with a heavy fall of rain. Satnrdiy was alfo a very flormy day. The Sarah Ann, Richards, is on (bore near Workington.—The Singleton, Harm, is loft at Belcary. The people with difficulty fayed. GREENOCK, JANUARY 4. The Ariadne, Jones's-on, from hence, arrived at Barbadoes, 13th Nov. I I The Alert, M'Lecocair, from hence to Liver- pool, was fare in Campbeltnwn, 3oth December. The Fame, Toomsos, from hence to Dublin, was fafe in Strangford 3oth December, by letter from the matter, who mentions, that feveral yeah were forced in there, and loft on that emit the day before. _ _ _ The Nelly and Peggy, Kis, which arrived left night from Lifbon, was driven as far up Lochfine as Lochgilphead, in the heavy gale of Thurfday laft. It was reported there. that five different veffels were on (bore in Lochfine, one of them the brig Adventure of Ayr, from Quebec for this port, at Tarbert. _ _ Captain Cwitancii•m, of the Hero, arrived here on the 246 ult. (poke the brig Henny, of and for Liverpool, from QLiebec, with a cargo of wheat, out nine weeks, in great diflrefs, having encounter. ed extreme bad weather during her parlige ; the Captain Paid he believed his cargo would be con fiderabl damaged. The True Briton, MiDouo A 1., which failed from London on the in ult. for Cork and Jamaica, on the 9th was obliged to put into St. Mary's, Scilly Viands, and lay there till the tfith, when in a violent gale of wind the parted her belt bower anchor, and for the fafety of the Ibip cut her (mall bower, and run for St Mary's pier, letting go the ((ream anchor, which, however, did not bring the (hip up ; (he drifted on forte rocks, but never - Ruck fall, and got into a fine Tandy bay, and has fuftain ed little diming, ; (he was expelled to fail for Cork about the 3oth ult. Three brigs were driven altore on fame day, and their cargoes much damaged, I which they were obliged to laud. FROM LLOYD'. LIST. JAN. 6—Retnain in the Downs, the inunortallte and Jamaica frigates, Arrow floop war, and ST:ipe gun sedeL— Wiud 8.8. E. Oa Avg sIN n, JAN. 6.—Palled by, the Comet, Larkttss, from Bengal; True Briton, Clark, from Chit:a ; Frederick, Rod man, from Amiterdam ; Vrow Ram'iy, from Lea r Magdalena, from Embdul ; Eleanor, Mallett, from Civita Vecchia; Fero of the Nile, —; Venus, Blrb ; and Chriftophu and Elizabeth, Johnfon, ftorn Lifbon.--Sailed the Rio Nova, Applety, for Mika; Martha, Lewington, tut Dublin; and Fanner, Carneby, for Ldbon. ARRIVED. At Portfmnutb, Friendfhip, Cook, from St. Cbc's—At Ply mouth, Purfult, Johnfou, from Va'encia ; and Unity, Bell, from Malaga—At Falmouth, Richmond, Hathway, from Phi ladelphia—,At Liverpool, Sally,Curtin, from Liihnn—vAt Hull, Fame, Law, from New York—At Cork, Weft Indian, Bain*, from Q2cbcc ; and Dryade, Johnfon, from Maffaeltufet's—At Barbadoes, Milnes, Albion, from New /Punfetrick ; Bolton, R cddle ; and surprise, Carlille, from Africa...At St. Vincent's, King Gesige, Phillips; and Aurora, —, front Africa—At I.ifbon, John, Collks, from NewfoundlandAt Meant. Ha milton, liarrifon from Newfoundland —At Cadiz, Ifahclia. Gordon, tram P hiladelphia; and Thoulas and Sarah, Def. champ, from Quebec. FRAUD ON UNDERWRITERS.--.IIIC illicit tranf: aftion with the brig Adventure, for which Capt. Codling lately paid the tribute of his life in Lon don, when compared with the recent event of a fimilar nature, on which the Inquifition Tribunal at Stockholm, has juft pronounced judgment, be comes a relative °Neel of confederation. This aft has jufl tranfpited in the following detail, and is particularly held out by the German Underwriters in the North as a public and timely warning to all parties. On the 601 fymptoms of rupture between Eng land and Rola, in zBOO, fuch outward bound veffels as got intelligence oftheembargoat lea put into va rious ports of the Baltic, particularly Dantzig, for refuge. Mr. Johan Lades, an eminent merchant, then had one cargo in this predicament confign. ed to him, eßimated at fix tons of gold, m hick he (hipped again as Prullian property, on board the edifh (hip Looifa, Captain Turls Torngren, for St. Peterfburgh ; this /del failed the asth of June, tBoi, with feveral others; at a certain diflance at fea Captain Torngren parted company, and tak ing a courfe quite oppofite to that of the remain ing (hips, proceeded to the Swedifh ifland of Oeland, and arriving at Bode he can anchor. His crew confined of five men and a book keeper, named Johan Ahlfledt, who went on More here, and continued his route to Carlfcrona, from whence he fhortly returned with two merchants, named Otter and Karftrom, and the !!tip's broker Lovell ; the following night thefe perfons had al mon all the goods taken out of the Looifa and put into two lighters, which carried them to Carl fcrona. During this interval Torngren gave him felt out as only mate of the nip, and Ablftedt as Captain, reporting that they came from Riga with corn. The day after Ahlfledt having return. ed on board, they put to fea again. In a (Lore time a mifunderflanding arofe - between the Cap. tain and Ahlftedt, when the latter was beat, nfed, and difabled ; had his arms broken, his head wounded, and his money, which he entrufled to two failors, to take charge of for him, plundered and carried off. Torngren now bored holes in the (hip, and pot Koppers in, which when they got to the latitude of Natelga betook our, and made the men enlarge the holes, fo as to fink the (hip; he then forbid them ever to mention the name of Alhfledt, or to fay any thing of what had parted, and taking out force watches with other valuable light goods, the crew all abandoned the rad, and left her to go to the bottom, with the unfor tunate man lying helplefs and-bed ridden in his cabin on board. Captain Toregren, with all his crew, except Jonas Li;Rig, the mate, who kft the party here, and went away, now proceeded to Natelga, where they took the anal oaths that the fhip's unavoid able &rafter was not produced by the negle& of any individual on board, that they had with much difficulty fared their own lives, and that the mate was unfortunately gone down in the flip as he WAS endeavouring to bring off a compafs out of the cabin. The infurance to a large amount had been madeat Lubeck ; but Mr. Lade's fufpicion was firfl awakened by an Underwriter there re. fuang to underwrite a part of 7o ono marks, and declining for a while to tell his motives, tM goroully preffed for an explanations he declared it was from his experiencing a ikons prefnmp. Lion that fome mifchief would befal the Louifa. —The circumftance foon after being fo fatally confirmed, and getting to the ears of Mr. J. P. Dailby, a very aftive merchant at Carlfcrona. he exerted himklf to difcover the Captain and the fuppofed drowned mate, who were appre hended immediately, upon which the two other merchants took flight, but Carftrong was prem. ly difcovered and arrefled, as werelikewife molt of the veal's crew. A Special Commiffion of the loquifition was appointed, to bring the conniv. ing parties to trial, and the following fentence has Jul been adjudged as an exemplary pa nifloment of an aft fo fyftematically nefarious, viz. Captain Torngren to be beheaded, and his body 'spored on a wheel ; his property to defray the 'truces of the yorofecution Lulling, the mate, and ano ther tailor, aloft aaive in the crime, to be behead. ed. the merchant to pay a fine of four times the value of the lading fraudulently taken of, or to receive forty pair of !tripes, three to the pair, and to do penance on a Sunday at the Church door, at• ter which he is to work three years at the bulks in Carlferona, and his property to anfwer all judicial expences. The broker, J. Lovell, with hishrother T. Lovell, the Diarift Crown Executor, for cons• plicity, to be deprived of their offices, to be con fined for one month on bread and water, and to do three years hard labour at the hulks : the PON. chifFer, and the two Lightermen, who conveye4 the goods off in the night. to be imprifot twenty-eight days on bread and water ; the Strand Surveyor, for negleft of duty, fixteen days of the fame penance ; and the pilot - a number of pefuniary fines . . proved to have bought auy iog this cargo. - n twelve days ;betides au all fuck as wart of tie igi c i ipods oospa,