Star. — London, England, 1814-02-03 00:00:00

I I I I t• STANZAS. For Mr. Browne - - Mr..Kirwan - - Majority for Mt. Browne 2681 23::9 WRITTEN Tn rnMNIkNIORATk THE ANNIVEESAR* OF OF THE BIRTH OF BURNS, 25TH JANUARY. Again we tneet to hail th' auspicious day Which gave to Scotia her iinmortal Bard, Again we offer up the votive lay The humble tribute of out fond regard : Accept, lov'd, honnur'd shade, tke homage due To worth, to Wit, to genii), such as thine, And 0 ! may each succeeding year renew The heart-felt otrring at thy sacred shrine, Thou first of Scottish Bards, though long the illustrious line! What though no sculpitied pile to thee arise, No " storied urn" to deck thy humble grave, No lofty column, tow'rirg to the skies, Nor o'er thine ashes drooping willow* wave; thy virtues live—engraver on our hearts— Thy wit axini—to char:n the social round— Thy genius beams—its dazzling light imparts A ray that shoots to Earth's remotest bounsl—a While bores on every gale tilt magic strains resound. Dear to thy Country are thy " wood.notes wad," Tie patriot song—the Cottar's tender tale— The simple loves of Nature's rustic child, Meek, 'tumble tenant of the hawthorn vale. And worthy of our need thy Satire bright, For still thy nervous grasp undaunted drew The base-born, wretched hypocrite to light, With all the vices of the venal crew, .And Superstition"-, ccre expos'd to abject view. Friends of the Bard—who was to all a friend -0 ! cherish long the mem'ry of his worth, Think on his bright career, his mournful end, Uudniely wedded to Ids parent Earth. Be to the Patriot and the Poet just, Igor let it by a future race be said, While treading all unconscious o'er his due, " Vibere rests th' illustrious peasant's head ? Where, Scotia, sleeps thy Boats s—where are ilia ashet laid ?" Greenock, 25th January, 1824. MAYO ELEOVON.—State of the Poll, Twenty•se. eoad Day : - 34 2. ;ring the late embarkation at Portsmouth of -mpg for Spain; Lieutenant JAritso2t, of the 10th ;sacs, lost a beautiful and most valuable charger, ;ears old, which, thrabgh the negligence of _the ns employed on the occasion, was crushed be the transport and the wharf. This horse was mown on the Turf, having won three or four :s. ie Officers and privates of the Leicestershire ia, who have volunteered for foreign service, tilting in number to about 300 men, marched Leicester last week.• The men- were in the .st spirits, which were ran a little supported by :rention of the Corporation, who presented all tort•commissioned officers and privates with half ,wn each, and Sir WILLIAM WALKER ) . the Mayor, an elegant dinner to the Officers. IKES.—A shocking fire happened early on Tues. morning, in the dwelling house occupied by Mr. carpenter, &c. in Huston Town, which burnt Indy 'avid, and threatened destruction to the ;e of buildings adjoining. Several engines from various stations shortly afterwards arrived, and ithstanding the activity displayed by the fire , the whole of the building was entirely destroyed. fainily had hardly time enough to escape with liver; property to a considerable amount was :aimed. The work-shops which adjoined the pre. :see, were with great difficulty preserved from de. -don. The 'building and stock in trade were inately insurecL . n alarming fire also broke out in the premises Atging to Mr. Hulk, near St. Mary's Church, otherhitheowall, late on Tuesday night, which raged the utmost, fury.. Year was entertained for the :y of the shipping tying in the River, nearly op te. to the spot, from the falling of large flakes of Among the vessels, which threatened the most ;tractile Consequences. The fire was fortunittely tgnished after gutting part of the buildings.— as•not ascertained how the fire was occasioned. aturday night, about 12 o'clock, the lodgers in house of Mr. &PITH ) in Camden-town, were pmed by a strong smell of fire, which, after some arke,.they traced to the bed-room of their landlady, to door f which they forced, and found the unfor- Inatewomas. dreadfully scorched, and almost sa lted, lyirlson her bed, to the curtains of whieb !tad sLt are With a candle, which.she had placed chair, for the purpose of reading a novel. The ies had,•happily, not communicated to the wains. and thus the house was saved. After taking S. into the air, she recovered to a sense of her isery. Medical aid was procured, but little hopes entertained of her recovery. Saturday last the body of Mr. MortcAN, Purser of Mu-riNa brig, who with part of the boat's crew of vessel, lately perished on the rocks under Folk stone Church, was washed on tore at that place. •In pockets were found checks to the amount of sixty pounds ; one of which was drawn on his father, ois a respectable Attorney in Cornwall. From long period he had lain in the water the body was .y much disfigured. 7 riday last, a melancholy accident occurred at _ _ _ .at Melton near Norwich :—As Mr. T. Betts was tng instructions- to his men, who were felling a pollurd tree, it fell before it was expected, killed his itorse on the spot, and Mr. B. was so dreadfully bruised that he survived but a few hours. It is me lancholy to relate, that his uncle, father, and grand -Ither all lost their lives by accidents. During the last few days, a great number of the called Golden Maids were picked up on Brighton beach, and sold at good prices. They float on shore •ite blind, a state to which they are reduced by the now; and it is a fact well known, that after heavy fulls; these fish are always thus found in great abort- Ince. On the mozning of the 18th ult.- the frost was so se. wow, that a wood-pigeon was taken alive in Pitch-- stazden, twat Do tniepmline, haring its feet frozen vi .ag on. which it had alighted but a few Auk ors .; •- 1 , 1 Z 1 I cone For burl trooP 4 hussar four ye person! teen 1 well kr plates. • The arnoun into highest she a-tti the nos avcrowi gave al • tl Et Jay m • Lane, titters range the .vs tom it tnen . • The ' # their 1 tdesui fitises, it:met fortut An Rothe t safety posite fire sr des tru esting It WIC • Sat the h alarm • tirrhe,. the dc watt focate rye li: ou a c cot, v Mrs. ittiser are et Sat the M that stone his pc one p who i the Ic very Fr Gxea ,vin polls hors( bruis • land lathe Di Sit • beacl ignite snow dano Or weer, • • r.int lw•• as WEITIIEII. ICE GALA.--The confidence of the Public in the safety of the passage over the frozen surface of the Thames was yesterday increased. All the avenues from Cheapside to the different stairs on the banks of the river were distinguished by large chalked boards announcing " a safe footway over the River to Bankside ;" and, in consequence, thousands of in• dividuals were induced to go and witness so novel a spectacle, and many hundreds had, what we cannot help terming the fool-hardiness, to venture on the fragile plain, and wiffik, not alone elver, but from London to Bl ickfriar's Bridge. Several booths, form. ed of blankets and sail-cloths, and ornamented with streamers and various signs, were also erected in the' very centre of the river, where the visitors could be accommodated with various mobocratical luxuries.— In one of the booths, too, the entertaining spectacle of a sheep roasting was exhibited. The passability of this part of the Thames may be accounted for by the stoppage of the masses of ice, floating down the river, at London Bridge, and those havOng become frozen together in rude and shapeless lumps. One young man fell into the river at Blacklriar's Bridge, and was drowned ; several others sunk, and were with difficulty extricated, particularly one boy, who fell through an aperture in the ice among some bashes near Blackfriar's Bridge, and was got out with peat difficulty ; these examples, however, seem ed to have little effect on the thoughtless multitude. The warermen contrived to turn the public curiosity to their advantage, not only by levying contributions for the liberty of walking over planks from the diffe rent stairs, but by making channels in the middle of the river, by breaking the ice with pick-axes, and then laying planks across, for walking over which a toll was demanded. A fisherman's boy, of the name of Carter, incau tiously ventured at low water on a large sheet of ice near Westminster Bridge, which from the turtling of the tide and the thaw suddenly separated from the side and carried him. up the middle of the river to wards Millbank, where his cries attracted the notice of a waterman, who very humanely put off to his as sistance, and fortunately, by the application of his oars, he relieved him from his perilous situation. The postman who goes between Penrith and Al ston, it is feared, has been lost in the snow, as he has n-,t been heard of since Tuesday s':'nnight, at which time he was seen at the village of Gamblesby, about half way from l'enri:ll. 111 had two horses with him, which likewise have not been heard of. Wednesday morning, a house at Asterton, near Nozbtry, Shropshire, was thrown down by the vio lence of the wind and the weight of snow upon the roof. The occupier William Poppet, with his wife and three children, were in bed, and a beam falling on the man, his wife, and one child, crushed them to death. Two Children escaped. Last week a man and his horse were found frozen to death on Hingston Down, near Callington. A Coroner's Inquest sat yesterday at the house of Mr. Greenfull, in Newington-road, on the body of a woman, who was found dead in the road on Monday morning last. The deceased was a pauper, on her way 100 miles from London with a pass, and pro. bably met her death from the inclemency of the weather. A remarkably large bittern was shot on the 17th ult. in the parish of Wellow, by Mr. I'. Coles ; and on Saturday a heron was caught at Batheaston—its wings were so encumbered with ice as to prevent us rising : it was taken by the hand, and is now in the possession of a person in Bath. The Solway Frith and channel towards the Isle of Man, for the whole of last week, presented a pheno menon never before witnessed by the oldest inhabi tant. While the tide was making, ell to the north ward of Workington seemed like a large plain co vered with hillocks of snow, and on the ebbing of the tide,.this scene was exhibited till the eye met the hori zon. Oa Monday last, the Revenue boat, statineed at Whitehaven, made an attempt to visit Maryport, to which place it got within about a mile, when it was enveloped among innumerable lumps of ice, some of which were from 7to 10 feet in thickness. The boat was obliged to return to Whitehaven. The oldest seamen say they never saw such a field of ice (as they termed it) but in high northern latitudes, or on the banks of Newfoundland. PERTH, JAN. 27.—The late host has been more severe than any which has occurred since the famous year 1740.—People have been crossing en the ice, above and below Newburgh, which was never done since the year to which we have referred. the in tenseness ofthe cold is indicated by another circum stance. Wild swans hare been observed on the open parts of the. river, below Newburgh. These birds pass the summer in Lapland, Iceland, and other polar regions, • and migrate to lower latitudes in winter, They are seldom seen, however, farther south than the lakes by which the Tay is fed ; and it must be owing either to The want of unfrozen water, or to a cold which is too great, even (or their hyperborean constitutions, that they have been forced to extend their journey to our vicinity. On Tuesday several. people walked up the whole way, from Newburgh to Perth, upon the ice. LONDONDERRY, JAN. 25.—For the last three weeks the weather here has been such, as has not, we believe, been before experienced in this past of the world.— We had previously some slight freezing, but on the night of the 7th it became very intense, and on the following day it snowed almost incessantly, which was succeeded by more freezing and various falls of snow, until about the 10th, when it had accumulate& to such a degree that the road became impracticable to the Dublin and Belfast mail coaches, and indeed to almost every other kind of vehicle. Towards the middle of the month the ice had closed in our river nearly to the !midge, and on the 18th several persons ventured to walk across at Prehen. On Thursday, numbers walked over at our quays, opposite the wind mill, a thing unprecedented crnce the great frost in 1739-40. Many thousands have since passed over, and some few have crossed on horseback. Indeed the ice appears sufficiently firm to carry a loaded cart. It is melancholy to state, that in consequence of the dreadful state of the weather for some time past, the p or in Limerick and its vicinity have suffered so much from cold and other incidental disorders, that there were not less than 19 interred in one dal last week 4 the church-yard of &. Patrick. alone.. fdLICE: BOW-STREET.—.Yesterday Patrick Warne 'Vs as brought to this Office, in the custody of Mr: Cham bers, the High Constable of the Holborn Division, charged, on suspicion, of being concerned in the riotous assembly, in Bainbridge-street, St. Giles's, on Sunday evening, when Edmund Hill, better known by the name of Ned WI, was most barbarously murdered. Elizabeth Skiffington, the wife of a bar ber, in George-street, Bloomsbury, stated, that she happened to be present, in Bainbridge-street, on Sun day night, about nine o'clock, when the riot com menced, and described the furious manner of the nu merous assembly of persons cording out of the pub. lic house, armed with different weapons, threatening destruction to every person they met with, who did not come fron their part of Ireland, accdtpanied with the most horrid and blasphemous oaths. The neighbourhood was so extremely alarmed, that the inhabitants shin up their houses. Some of the rioters, however, who were not armed, forcibly entered some of the houses, and took up the first thing they could lay their hands on. The deceased was an elderly man, whom they attacked without any provocation, and in the most barbarous and cruel manner, and having laid him in a gutter apparently lifeless, one of them observing him to move, desired another to give him a blow to finish him, which be accordingly did. She observed the prisoner among them, to the best of her belief, but he was not armed with any weapon. The prisoner being called upon for his defence, denied the charge on the ground of an alibi, and stated, that, on Saturday night, he was engaged in a friendly row at the White Bear public house, in Field-lane, for which he was sent to the watch-house, and was kept there till Monday morning, when he was taken to the Police-office in Hatton Garden, and was discharged. .Mr. CAPPER, the Sitting Magistrate at Hatton Gar den Office on Monday, happening to be in the front Office, was called in, and he recollected the prisoner having been before him, but was not certain whe ther it was on Saturday or Sunday night that the prisoner was described to have been engaged in the friendly row, as he called it, in Field-lane. It was, however, afterwards proved by the watch-house keeper and the publican, to be Saturday night. Mr. Nmtes, the Sitting Magistrate, in consequence, dis charged theprisoner. Thomas Williams, the well-known character who was detected on the evening < f th. 27th of last month L by Bacon's party of di.: patrol, in robbing the Exeter coach as it was passing through Phillimore-place, Kensington, was brought to the dace, and underv, 9.;. a second examination. Mr. Willan, the ovft,ler of the coach, was bound over to prosecute, as the nominal owner of the proi..rty, and the prisoner was corm mitted for trial. MA RL BOROVGII-ST R • --C/4.!g1. Et.ICTRAORDINARY.•-•- An affidavit of the following singular occurrence, re lative to the desertion of an infant child, abryut four months old, was yesterday made at this office : Honora Thwaite, who resides in Cumming's-rents, George-street, parish of St. made oath, that on Friday morning last there was much bustle in the neighbourhood amongst poor people, receiving the charity of bread and coals. Deponent was standing at her door, when a Woman, dress-d in a shawl, with a small candle in bet hand and a child in her arms, asked deponent to admit her backwards for a minute or two s and, at the same time, begged she would be kind enough to hold the babe. Deponent did so, and since that time she had never seen the unnatural pa rent, but had fed the infant with bread and milk.— The Parish Officers had refused to take the child into the Po: a- house, until this affidavit was sworn. The child was delivered over to the Parish Officers, but no trace has been had of the unnatural parent. MANSION-HOCSC.—G. Burnell, a waiter at the new City of London Tavern, was yesterday charged, under Lord Ellenborough's Act, with stabbing Sophia Webb in the. arm with a knife. The prosecutria, who is a servant in the Tavern, stated, that as she was tout ing some bread at the kitchen fire, the prisoner came beside her for the same purpose : he placed a plate on the fender, whict‘ she accidentally threw down, when he immediately etruck her two blows on ahe breast, knocked her doWn, and, just as she was rising, he stabbed her in the left arm with a knife which he had in his liand, saying, " Take that, you b.—ch, and go to h—ll I" The wound which he inflicted was about two inches long, and one inch deep. Agnes Wood corroborated the statement of the complainant. The prisoner, in his defence, said, the wound was entirely the effect of accident ; and a boy, who was present, deposed to the same effect. The complainant, how ever, said, there were other persons who could bear testimony to the malice of the prisoner. —Mr. Terry, the master of the prisoner, attended, and spoke in his behalf, but admitted that he was extremely passionate. The LORD MAYOR said, the offence imputed to the prisoner was of a capital nature, and he feared be :mot be under the necessity of committing him to take his trial under that charge. He was, however, remanded till this day. HATTow.oAßDEW.—.sarak Jones, for the robbery of Mr. Richard Jefferies, of Shoe-lane, of ,61.93, was yes. terday brought up and committed to Newgate, in order to be sent to Horsemonger-lane, to take her trial at the next Assizes for the comity of Surrey. At Colchester Quarter Sessions, a bill if indict ment was found by the Grand Jury against Isaac Marsden, as printer and publisher of a poem, called The Guild," for a libel on William Smith, Esq. one of the Magistrates of the Borough.—At the same. Sesrions, a bill of indictment was also found by the Grand Jury against John Blaze, for a libel and mis demeanour, in sending to the present Mayor a gibbet inclosed in the case which should have contained the mace belonging to the Corporation. A depredation of the most daring order was disco. vexed in a singular manner, on Wednesday last. A man of the name of Thomas Moore, of vagabond life, seeing the street door open of the house of Mr. VAUGHAN, carpenter, of Eton, walked in, and enter ing a room occupied by Mr. Cox, a Gentleman of Eton College, took from the table five volumes of classical books. He proceeded with his booty to the College, where offering the books for sale to a Gen tleman he met with, they were recognized as the pro perty of Mr. Cox, who at the instant was passing by. The mass wait ekes into custody, and committed to Aylesbury coluny gaol. . • • TO TRB tDITVA OF TEE STALE. •••••••••••■• THE CUMBERLAND AND BEIJ?ORD. Stn—A variety of reports being in circulation re. lative to his Majesty's ships Coarearu.axo and Bata. FORD, to relieve the minds of those who have frieeas or relations on board, you are requested to publish the following statement of the miraculous escape of both ships, which may be relied ou: The CUMBERLAND and BEDFORD formed part of Admiral FERRIER'S squadron, in Hoseley Bay, when, on Thursday, the 20th January, during a violent gale and a very heavy sea, with a very strong lee tide, the Iheivoao parted her small bower, and dropt so suddenly on the hawse of the Comuatar.een, that, notwithstanding the sheet-anchor was instantly lei. go, which parted also, and every possible exerti on being made by both ships, destruction seemed io(yi table, had it not been for the operation of the bt FORD'S jib, combined with the CUMBERLAND'S away cable, and the BEDFORD'S cutting her hest bower cable, in order to facilitate their keeping cleat of each other, they would have come in contact in such a manner as to have rendered their separation impossible, and consequently their destruction certain. The velocity with which the CUMBERLAND'S cable ran out, precluded the possibility of Capt. BAKER'S order to cut being effected; in consequence of which. the BEDFORD could not clear the Custasittetsu's bob. sprit, whicli she threw over her larboard cathead, and in the course of. two minutes left her a petted wreck. At this awful moment, when the safety of both ships was despaired of, the &memo was prowl. dentially disentarigkd, and was observed to seat and make sail, which relieved the minds of thetvlaile squadron fur her safety; but having only One anchor, and no cable bent, and the weather, though hazy, enabling her to keep sight of the Maze, and there)) , to shape her course for the buoys and beacons, Oat fortunately escaped the surrounding dangers of that critical navigation, in t mining for the Nure, and for ereater security she proceeded to the Thants.— Meanwhile the CUMBERLAND was left in the leolt, awful situation, which was increased by lee the cable she rode by ; and the sheet.ancliar being intangled in the wreck, it was some time Lef(at it could be cut away. The best bower not 'winging her up, she drifted so near the Cutlets as to , occasioo the greatest apprehensions for her safety. Forte. nately, the sheet-anchor being at length cleared, was let go, which brought the ship up, and saved het from being lost - upon that dangerous shoal. The weather moderating, with the assistance sent by Lein, Admiral Fte' net ER, and the exertions of her own of. tic,'rs and crew, she was enabled the following gnu. ning to move to a place of safety, when it was faund that the stoe.k of the best bower-anchor was broken. Having got up lerymasts, she arrived at the Nure in safety on the 25th instant. It is a singular circumstance, that the Comm. LAND and BEDFORD arrived at the Nore at the same moment, when they mutually greeted each other's safety with three hearty cheers. It is also worthy of remark, that the*CpNineitLAND on this alarming oc. casion lost no lives—five men only were wounded, and no one dangerously. The BEDFORD had her mizen-mast sprung, and received some injury in lbr quarter, but I am happy to state no person. was her. EYE-WITNE.N.s. . . t g rOM the unsettled state of the weather, the sup* of wheat at Norwich market on Satardiy was raker scanty, and but• few bargains were tb.tde prices much the same as the last. But little business was done on the Cattle-hill; the slew of stock quite in considerable. • A gang of thieves, four or dye in numher, made an attempt to rob the house of Mr. TORREN, at Ash. ton Park, Herts, on the fright of Saturday last. They were discovered in the act of forcing the shutterv o iit consequence of the alarm given by a Newfoundland dog howling up the stairs. Mr. Toiren fired upon them, when the whole clecansped, but one was after wards taken in the pursuit. BIRTHS. On the 30th eh. at Easteott-House, Middlewt, the Lady or Ralph Deane, Esq. of a son. Monday, at the house of his father, I.ower Oebsvenor—.trees, the Lady of Paot Methuen, E.g. M. P. of a son. At lloattington Lodge, near Edinburgh, the 26th ult. the Lady of Lteuttnant-Culutiel George Napier, 52d regiment, m • daughter. 'lle 19th ult. in Hill-street, the Marchioness of Ely, of a son and heir. MARRIED. The 27th utt. at Warfield Church, gerks, Captain Throbs, Royal Artillery, to Jernuna Agues, daughter of Robert f;rabaut, Esq. of Fintry. DIED. The 21st uk, at Sydenhancilto key'. Wiliam Langford, D P. Canon of Wioelsor, and FelloW of Eton College. At Edinburgh, the 18th ult. Mrs. Mar g a r et liett, relict 00 the Rev John Anderson, minister of Stronsay. The 13th ult. w Kinharachy, Mrs. Grieve, wife of the Rev. Nathaniel Grieve, Epivcorat clergyman. '1 he 17th ult. in St. James'. Place, the Countess of Lecan. mother to the present Earl, and Countess Spencer. At his lodgings, at Emmet is, the 11th ult. aged 53, T. Mt:ring Esq. Lieutenant-Colonel in the Hon. East. India Company's ser• vice ow the Bernlmy Estaillshment. At Pittenwesrv. the 12th ult. Mrs. Arson Latidale, relict of the Rev. John Tod, minister of the parish of Denino, in the year of her age, _ _ Saturday Isst, at Major-General Clite's. aged 18, a:rer lingering illness, Matilda Tottenham, youngest &tight& 01 V• Tottenham, Esq. Wednesday, at Whimly-House near Exmouth, fobs Par ker, Esq. upwards of thirty years Captain and Adjutant ha the East Devon regiment of Militia. The 22d uk. '1 homes Craig, of Riccartow, Esq. In the es* • year of Ms age. Mr. Craig-was the representative of Sir Tito. mats Craig, of Riccarton, the great feudal lawyer of Scotland.-- He succeeded his father in January, 1752, and was eighty-tyro years in possession of his estate. At St. Jean de l.uz, on the 19th of December, of the wound' he received on the loth of November, Llewenzat.Colimsl G. Rooke, Captain in the sd re g im e n t o f G u a rs * etseistont-Adju , tant-General with Sir Rowland Hill's division of the British' army in Spain, and eldest son of Lieutenant-Cob:nil Rooks.: Thursday list, at his Chambers, in Clifford's Inn, Jahn Whit field, Esq. many years a performer at Drury•lasie sod Covent garden '1 heatres with the immortal Garrick, whose tirienalship he possessed to ;he hour of his death, and -though not the first in the mimic Erte, was always respected through lire, and sr plauded in the character of the hottest man. • _ PRICE OF COALIie+COAL bdARKZT, FEB. S. Ships at Market Sold Pries*. 514 Ne'wcast'le - 15 -50 s 0.1 to 67s Od 1 Sunderland Of • -60 s Od to Dos Od _ _ _ fp— HIGH WATIA AfLONDT3I4 MIDGE TO-MolrorV: lancning _Meal-mem 9 3Vpres afters LONDON : Printeii by k.ivaLKsiort t ileket Place; aliii ON%bedtime*, and Ili thdp bat OM* Teiripk Bar. I NUJ MEDI sTR I. C GeorlP Wine tj every 1 M.D. c C INCA s e re and 10 aturd 3. 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