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S7I-DISANTE LAN DU D CHESS OF CO.sl. BER.. TO THE EDITOR OP THE STAR. 10, Bridge-street, October 9, 1821. SIR —Having received a letter from Mrs. Ssaags, t h e s oi disante Princess of Cumberland, I send you a copy, together with one of my own, requesting their insertion on public grounds. J. w. PARKINS. 45, King-street, Soho, October 8, 1821. Das Sm—As the friend of the late Duke of Kent, and the l o w of justice, I upon you to contradict a report that is in the world, that I have borrowed large sums of money from younelf, and that every friendship has existed between us but d a sozeed, honou r a ble, and dignified nature. Conspiracy upon conspiracy has been operating, but the independency of your dispo.ition and the sentiments that you have always evinced against oppression, l e ad me to hope that you will, by a letter to the Public, do jostice to myself, as Cousin to the late lamented Duke of Kent, and as Princess of Cumberland, obliged to you f o r many ki n d attentions shewn my late beloved Cousin and my self. T o your discrimination this will be sufficient, and you have m y permission to say how ill I have been treated. Confi dent that nothing but truth and justice will guide your pen in the affairs of myself or individuals in general. I am, Sir, your faithful, To J. W. Parkins, Esq. ALIVE _ 10, Bridge-street, October 9, 1821. Msosn—i have t his instant received your's of yesterday's date, from 4 5, Ring-street, Soho, " calling upon me, as the friend of his Royal Highness the late Duke of Kent, and as a lover of justice, to contradict the reports that are in the world, that yin hale borrowed large sums of money from me, and that . .. tr , fr i en d s hip has existed between us but that of a sacred, ha 41,1!fierl nature." I can most readily and conscien tit m l y a nswer the foregoing questions, viz. that I have not lent ru say Briley ; and, in the latter instance, any friendship and ravdderation towards you, originated entirely in the belief of your being an unfortunate descendant of the Royal Family of this kingdom, and in proof of which you have shewn me many slims documents, and as a further persuasion that you were so, 'De late much-respected Duke of Kent in his corresp.irdence s ud s l ee up to a day or two before his death, as also by docu ment, written with a trembling hand, as you state, the hour before his tlerb, seemed to have gone to eternity under that Wet; and, in sonic letters from Sitimouth, which I have, in the Duke's hand-writing, he acknowledges you as his cousin. This much I .pink prtri.er to publish, as a reason why I have noticed yes iu my private and public character. y ou a r e perfectly right as to " the botrendency of my dispo ,Hon and sentiments which I have always evinced against op pression;" and I can only say, that I am extremely sorry that yeti are not the only one, by many hundreds, who have com plained to me of conspiracy and it-treatment, which I only lack puss e,and not inclination, t o redress! You are also perfectly right when you say, that you are " con &lent that nothing but truth and jurice will guide me in the affairs of yourself or individuals in general." Hoping this will be a satisfactory voucher to your cr.; ditors and acquaintance, I remain, Madam, your's most sincerely, (Signed) J. W. l' tRKINS. _ _ To Mrs. 0. Serres, soi tksanala Princess of Cumberland. The Public Papers have lately noticed, in various ways, the pretensions of a Lady who claims the title and rank of Princess of Cumberland. The following Bill has been everywhere posted up : " Olive, Princess of Cumberland, informs the English nation, that an execution has been levied upon her body for debt, and that the late King had bequeathed to her the sum of X 15,000, which has been proved according to law, and application niade to Lord Sidmouth for the. payment of the same without effect ; *velure, not having received on: guinea from the Government, an any of the said large sum so bequeathed to her by his late most gradous Majesty (her Royal Uncle) George the Third, the Prin tasis under the painful necessity of soliciting the honourable and generous protection of the English nation. " OLIVE. " 45, 'Ling-street, Soho, Oct. 9, 1821." HASTINGS, OCTOBER 9. Yesterday evening the Theatre, situated about a m►7e from Hastings, was amazingly crowded (under the management and superintendence of Mr. Swot) with the inhabitants, visitants, and many individuals from the adjacent villages or environs. Mr. ELLIS TON, the Manager of the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane, and Mr. KEAN, had promised for this night gratui tously to pe , f orm for the assistance and benefit cf the Proprietors of this provincial Theatre. To pass any compliments or encomiums on these highly-admired theatrical characters, whose superlative and esteemed talents are so universally acknowledged, might he con sidered superfluous. Suffice it to say, that Mr. KEAN's aglock, in The Merchant of Venice, and the part of Yang ilding (the Liar) by Mr. ELLISTON, excited in the audience much pleasing satisfactian and un bounded gratification. P.S. W. S. ELLISTON, Esq. made his departure from Hastings for the Metrupolis this morning. THEATRES. COVINTZ A RDEN.—••• The Antiquary was performed at this Theatre last night, for the first time this season. Its merit as an acting Drama, independent of its claims as an Opera, has conferred upon it a sufficient portion of popularity to establish it as a permanent occupant of these bonds. The novelty of last night was Miss HaLLANDE's Isabella Wardour, in which character she acquitted herself so well as to make the absence of its original representative almost for gotten. Her song, " Bonnie laddie, soldier laddie," was warmly encored. With this single exception there was no change in the cast of the piece, and the whole dramatis personee lost none of their wonted ex ertion and success. Blue Beard followed, and went off with increased success. The House was full. Haymankax.—The admirers of theatrical excel len. c e were highly grat i fi ed last night by the produc- WM of the favourite Opera of Rob Roy, at this Theatre, and by the performance of Mr. TERRY, as the hero Of the piece. The abilities which he displayed were of the first order; his representation of the hardy Chief was marked by energy and dignity, without the slightest approach towards either rant or hauteur. Of course, the leading attraction of the evening was Is Mr. TERRY ; but the tasteful singing of Mr. LEONI Lt` and Miss CAREW was much applanded. The former sustained the character of Francis Ostaldeston, the . latter th a t o f Di ana Vernon. Mr. TA YLEU R E was highly successful as Bailie Jamie. The I'lay has been got up in the most liberal style, both as to scenery and dresses, and does great credit to the Manager, unippalled by the tearful odds which he ha. to nounter when contending with t NoWinter Theatres, aan. not ceased to afford the amplest and the most ~vaz!ed series of entertain': ,to the Public. At the mhos of the curtain, Mr..l::anv stated that Rob Roy 10 (ild be repeated this evenlug—an announcement which was received by a numerous and elegant audi ence with acclamation. • NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. ...._: SIR RICHARD Prrir.Cies has at length completed and published that view of Nature, on new princi ples, some partial applications of which he has for some years past submitted to the world. , According to his system, motion applied to matter, and motion transferred from body to body, and from Atoms to atoms, as they exist in various forms and combinations, are the causes of all material pheno mena, without any exception whatever. He divides motion into general and specific; and, by the trans fer of specific motions, he has undertaken to explain all natural appearances. Thus, the fall of bodies to the Earth, and their weight or tendency to fall, he ascribes to the twofold e. the rotatory and orbicular) motions of the Earth, of which every part is the patient, and whose mecha nical effort it is to impel all bodies to the centre; and he has proved that the two motions produce the exact fall of sixteen feet in a second of time. He also ascribes the orbicular motions of the Pla nets to the rotation of the Sun round the mechanical centre of the system, which solar motion impels the medium of space with a force diffused inversely as the squares of the distances; and he shews that an impelling force on the western side of a planetary mass, not only produces the rotatory motion, but that the precise rcration of the Earth of seventeen miles in a minute at the equator, is the exact motion which must be produced by the inequality of the forces on its near and remote radius. The Tides of the Ocean in this theory are necessary consequences of the Earth's rotation round the me chanical centre of the Earth and Moon, and the second tide in twenty hours is a mere return or oscillation of the first tide. In a word, Sir Richard excludes from nature all such principles as attraction, repulsibn, and gravita tion ; he utterly rejects the Newtonian vacuum in space, and treats as a chimera the doctrine of a projectile force. When the loco-motion of bodies is arrested by col lision or percussion, motion is not destroyed, but aggregate motion is then converted into atomic mo tion ; and this, when repeated and accelerated, pro- duces the various phenomena of heat, and all its ex tensive eff-•cts and decompositions. On this principle Sir Richard raises an entirely new theory of atomic or chemical Philosophy. Atoms, according to Hany and Daniel, are of va rious forms; and hence their various affections from the same exciting motion. To these varied affections, the author of the New Philosophy ascribes all the phenomena of mineral, vegetable, and animal orga nization; and he devotes three long Essays to this investigation. Gaseous forms, he ascribes, with Des-Cartes and Davy, to the intestine motions of atoms; and thence, by the parting with, or the fixation of, these moving atoms, he explains the phemimena of combustion and animal heat and energy—consideting them as analogous results of the same cause: in short, we live, says he, not merely on a moving earth, which governs all motions upon it, but amid moving atoms, whose energies are appropriated by our peculiar organiza tions. Electricity is ascribed to the separation of the component parts of atmospheric air, or other bodies containing atoms, which create the oxygenous and nitrogenous, or acid and alkaline, principles ; and, in the endeavour of a disturbed stratum or plate to re unite, arises the peculiar phenomena. When it takes place through a point,, the concentration of force pro duces either a spark or a stroke of lightning. Galva nism is electricity accelerated by multiplied or re peated disturbances of the very principles which create atmospheric electricity. Magnetism is a circulation between the Equatorial Regions and the Poles, which passes through some bodies and not through o thers. The Author concludes this extraordinary volume with a disquisition on Fate and Necessity; and deter mines, that, although inert mass* are necessary pa dents of physical causes, yet that all beings endowed with powers of judging are independent microcosms, governed by their individual varied judgments, and therefore independent of physical necessity; or, in other words, free agents, and responsible for their conduct to moral and social laws. In another Essay the Author treats at length - of the causes of the Geological Changes on the Earth's Sur face, a subject of such unceasing wonder; and he ascribes them to certain periodical changes in the Earth's motions as a planet, by which its two hemi spheres are exposed at great intervals of time to va ried actions of the Sun. But it is impossible in an arti de like the present to follow the w iter through his va rious inquiries; and we have probably done enough to call the attention of the literary and philosophical part of the Public to his discoveries and very interest ing speculations, which, when established, must create a new sera in Natural Philosophy. In Virginia, a Jury that cannot agree on a verdict is called a hung Jury—thus, when the Jury is hung, the criminal escapes I Lord Chancellor HARDWICKE'S attention to busi ness was so great that, on the day of his marriage, he went to Chambers as soon as the ceremony was over, to inspect his papers as usual; he•returned to them in the afternoon, after tea, and afterwards came back to his house to eat his supper, and conclude the ceremony of• his nuptials. ANECDOTE.—HENRY VIII. at the time he ascended the Throne, was highly popular with his subjects.— This feeling was principally occasioned by the ad vantage he; derived from a comparison between the manners of the young Prince, his liberality, his love of shew, magnificence, and pleasure, and the par imonious disposition of his father, HENRY VII.— The immense treasure which his father had hoarded up, said by Lord HERBERT, and other historians, to have amounted to £2,000,000, an unexampled tin : stance in those days, enabled him to gratify his pas sion for reg4l splendour, and, at the same time, to gratify his subjects. He caused a Proclamation to be issued, encouraging all persons who considered themselves aggrieved by the acts of his deceased fa ther's two favourite Ministers, Edmund Dudley and . Richard Empson (through whose agency the old King had obtained the greatest portion of this im• mense treasure) to come forward, make their com plaints, and they should obtain satisfaction. er it „ l ",daY las?, J. HoonsoN, Esq. was elected Mayor W. JACKSON, Esq. and Mr. I. NANSON, Common Councilmen ; Sir Jon ScwELL, LL.D. an Alderman; and Mr. RonEnr Chamberlain. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. REMARKABLE TRIAL. ENFIELD RACES.—Wornasosr, °cross' 10. I The Monileur of Sunday last contains the follow- The Gentlemen's Purse of £so.—Heats, two miles. ing trial of Antoine Simon De!jurdins, suspected of Mr. Glow's b. 111. Souvenir, 3 yrs old, 6st. i lib. - I I having been an accomplice in the assassination of the Mr. Day's gr. f. 3 yrs old 4 2 late Duke of Berry. Mr. Meyneh's Muslin, 3 yrs old - - 3 3 Mr. Messer's gr. In. 5 yrs old, Sst. 71b. 2 4 This man was implicated in the information fired Mr. Farrell's ch. g. 6 yrs old, Bst. - s S against Lourd ; but by a Decree of the Court of Mr. Temple's Britannia, 5 yrs old, Sst. 71b. - - d t 4 Peers, dated the 30th of March, 1821, it was de- Mr. Crickmore's Mountaineer - - 7ur dared, that there was no ground for aprosecution Mr. Clark's c. by Sorcerer - - s dr p Mr. Green's tn. by O verseer 9 dr against him on that account. They, however, s en t Muslin the favourite.—After the heat, Gto4 on Souvenir. him before the Tribunal of First Instance for the De. Won easy. pat t men t of the Seine, charged with holding language The Half-bred Stakes Race did not fill, in public places and assemblies, tending to excite the It was on this Course where the late George Barrington, the assassination of the Royal Family. The indictment Prince of Thieves, robbed Mr. Henry Bare Townshend of his set forth that K on tl.e 10th of bruai V. 1821, Des watch and chain, and f or whi c h h e - was sent on a transatlantic ' voyage. A disciple of hi s , f or t h e same offence, suffered a very jardins uttered the following e‘pressions to a person severe ducking in Enfield Wash; and when recovered he thanked named Gonet, in a public-house:—' I was the ac ids accusers for their lenity. cornplice of Louvel. There were seven of us to strike IRISH TURF CLUB. the blow. We drew by lot the name of him who The Gold Whip, presented by,his MAJWITT to the Turf Club should undertake the task. The lot fell on Louvel. In Ireland, with 100 Guineas added to it annually, will be run At the moment of putting it in execution, he appeared for on article has been Friday approved of by of the next Octohis be Mun r Meeti ng. The following wavering and trembled. We made him drink a bottle ro : Four-year olds lOst. 101 b. of wine to give him confidence. In two years there Five ditto - - llst. bOlb. Four Miles. shall be no Bourbons in Fiance. It was myself that Six ditto - -12 u. 21b. made the poignat d which cut short the days of the Aged - -12 st. 41h. ' Duke of Berry. I walked a whole day in the wood Three pounds allowed to mares and gelding;. This Whip to be challenged by entering homes for it with the Deputy Ranger of liou ogne (near Paris), armed with a musket, in at the Curragh, seven clear days before running, and so be run hopes that the Prince would come there to hunt, and according to the King's Plate Articles. with the intention, if he did, of not missing him." EXTRAORDINARY PEDESTRIAN FF.AT. The Court declared there was sufficient proof to At an early hour yesterday morning a Gentleman named go to a Jury : Ist, That on the 16th of February, Maack an Officer on the half-pay of an intantry regiment, started 1821, Desjardins, in a public place, outraged public to perform ten miles within fifty-five minutes, for a wager of morals, by approving of the attack on the person of One Hundred and Fifty guineas, on the Dighton road, near a MIA village called Nutfield, a short distance from Croydon. The the Duke of Berry ; 2d, That he had uttered expres bet was made a few days since, at a well known sporting house sions offensive against the members of the Royal Fa in the neighbourhood of St. James's, and time was backed at mily, climes provided against by Articles Ist, Bth, odds of six and seven to four. Mr. Mars commenced precisely and 10th, of the Law of the 17th May, 1819; and that at seven o'clock, and performed the distance as follows, stopping in the course of his running twice, to take refreshment: lie should be sent for trial before the Court of Assize ; First - - 2 miles in 10 minutes 31 seconds. and accordingly his trial came on last Saturday. Second - 2 lO - - - 1 - 52 To the interrogatories which, according to the - 6 Fourth - 2 --11 - -10 practice of the French Courts, the President puts to Fifth -- 2 -- :1 -- 14 the criminal as to his guilt or innocence, the prisoner • denied ever having uttered such expressions; and de clared the whole to be a conspiracy on the ,patt of the witnesses against him to destroy him, for what reason he could not tell. The principal witness against him was a man named Petit, who swore, that one day Desjardins came to Goner's shop, and went up stairs to him ; and that Go net's mother came down and :old the witness that she was in great alarm, in consequence of Desjardln's having boasted that he was one of the assassins of the Duke of Berry. In order to get him nut of the house, Petit took him to a public-house, where the former became very noisy ; and, after having again asserted that he was one of the accomplices; that they were seven in number, and that they drew lots ft om a hat, he took from under his coat a pair of pistols, saying, that one should be reserved for him who should ar rest him, and the other to blow out his own brains. He said, among other things, that in two years there should be no more Bourbons in France. Desjardins was badly clothed, and witness expressed his surprise that he should be so, when he had said he was a ser vant of trust in a house of such consequence as that of the Duchess of Montebello (the widow of Marshal Lasnes); but he answered, that be had as much money and fine clothes as be liked ; and that the Duchess furnished the conspirators with resources. He also told witness that he had sought to assassi nate the Duke of Beny, but that no opportunity had offered itself. Gonet, the master of the shop, declared that he was so drunk he could not recollect the infamous things that Desjardins uttered ; they made him so ill that he was obliged to go to bed ; and if he had not been in that state, be would have put him out of doors; but he told his wife to do it. The latter declared, that she was a little hard of hearing, and she recollected nothing that passed at the wine -vaults, except that Desjardins pulled out two pistols, saying one was for him who should arrest him, the other for the purpose of blowing out his own brains. Goner's mother heard him say, that in two years there should be no more; but she did not hear any person mentioned. From the depositions of other witnesses, it appeared that Desjardins was an empty braggart on all occa sions; that he had never been decorated with any Order; that he had never been in the Army ; that so far from having served Bonaparte in the Isle of Elba, he had never been ant of France ; that it was equally false that he had been employed in any capacity in the house of the Duchess of Montebello ; and that his real situation was shopman to a goldsmith. The Jury found that the prisoner had held the language imputed to him, but not in a public place, which amounted to an acquittal of the prisoner ; who was instantly set at liberty, after being admonished by 'the President to be more cautious of his tongue in future. 10 54 53 It will thus be seen that Mr. 1111u* accomplished the dis tance within seven seconds of the given time, having performed the ten miles in 54 minutes and 53 seconds ' which is, we believe, the shortest time on record in the annals of pedestrianism, in which the ten miles have been run. . PEDESTRIANISM. A Gentleman of great respectability and opulence at Chertsey, and who weighs about fifteen stone, has undertaken, for a wager of Fifty Guineas, to walk from the Market-house in that town to that of Guildford, a distance of twelve miles, in three hours. From the well-known habits of the Gentleman, the admirers of pedestrianism anticipate a delectable treat on the occasion. The Duke of RUTLAND is at his seat at Chevely, near Newmarket. Lord Haazwoon will remain in Yorkshire till the hunting season is over. A cucumber has been raised in the garden of Mr. Maccaloch, of Guernsey, which, on Sunday se'nnighr, measured seven feet, and it was supposed would grow five inches more. . A summer-house, in the grounds itf Mrs. GAR RICK, at Hampton, was broken open and robbed last Friday night, and the carpet and various articles of furniture taken away. Very fortunately one article, which its original owner had highly valued, was left behind, on account of its cumbrous dimensions and weight. This was a large arm-chair, made by the direction of DAVID GARRICK, out of the celebrated " mulberry tree" planted by SHAESPEARIL Between the hours of one and three o'clock on Tuesday morning, the dwelling-house and shop of Mr. CHARLES COOPER, grocer, Upper North-place, Gray's Inn-road, was burglariously entered, and robbed of one hundred and four sovereigns, £l5 in notes of the Kingston Bank, a £lO note of the Guild ford Bank, 1:26 in Bank of England notes, and £l3 in silver, amounting in the whole to £l6B, and one silver caddy spoon. Four assassinations have taken place within the last eight days in Paris. The last victim was a woman named Denise Calpin, who was murdered by a man with whom she had cohabited many years, and by whom she had several children. He was arrested immediately after committing the deed, and con ducted to the Prefecture of the Police. A fatal accident lately occurred at Poictiers. A young man went into the garden of the house in which he resided with his wife's family, to amuse himself with firing at a mark. The door of an old green-house served for a target. The moment he discharged the pistol a shriek was heard from within; he rushed forward, and his wife fell into his arms, expiring as she uttered these words, " Jules, you have killed me r Yesterday an Inquisition was held at the Peniten tiary, Millbank, before Mr. Moos, Coroner, on the body of Charlotte Moss, a convict, who died in the prison on Monday last. The Jury returned a ver dict—Died by the Visitation of GOD • There was another Inquest, held before the same Coroner, at the Greencoat Boy, Tothillfields, on the body of Mr. James Brill, aged 47 years. The de ceased lived in Greencoat-Walk, he was in good health on Sunday, and made a hearty dinner with his family ; he retired to rest at an early hour in the evening. Next morning groans were heard in his room by his son, who went instantly to ascertain the cause, and found him in the last agony of death. A medical man was called in, but the deceased expired before his arrival. Verdict, Died in aft of Apoplexy. ' A third Inquest was held by Mr. Htoos, the same day, at the George, George-court, Strand, on the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Child. The deceased was the wife of Mr. Child, of Castle• court, Strand ; she was about 21 years of age, had been married three years, arid had three children. Monday night she went to bed in her usual state of health, and next day her husband found her dead lying by his side. Verdict, Died by the Visitation of Gots in a fit of Apoplexy. Thursday, the 27th Illt. WILLIAM PARKER, 'of Horton, fell down on the road between Horton and Bradford, and instantly expired. It is remarkable that this sudden death took place within a few yards of the spot on which the father of the deceased was killed fifteen years ago, by a blow from a person of the name of Jagger. Sunday morning, during Divine Service in the Parish Church of Berkeley, the congregation were thrown into the greatest consternation by Mrs. SARAH IRISH, of that place, suddenly dropping down in her pew. Dr. JiNNER went to her aid, but discovered she had been seised with an apoplectic fit, and she expired before she could be taken home. C. WAKE, M. D. was on Saturday last elected Mayor of Warwick for the ensuing year, by the Cor poration of that Borough. At the Aberdeen Circuit Court on Friday, George Thom, residing at Harthill, in that county, was found guilty of the murder of William Mitchell, residing at Burnside, in the parish of Tough, by means of poison. Thom was sentenced to be executed at Aberdeen on the 16th of November, and his body given for dis section. The prisoner, who is about 61 years of age, appeared unmoved on receiving the awful sentence, and on his retiring from the bar, said to some of the Counsel near him, " Gentlemen, I am as innocent as any of you sitting there." SOMME OF DIAMONDS.—A most valuable seizure of diamonds set in jewellery has been made by an officer of the Customs of Dover, the amount of which would have been a handsome fortune. The parties for whom they were intended granted themselves the favour to take them to pieces, which renders them liable to exportation, which has been acceded to, and the seizing officer has been allowed £lOOO. A SMUGGLER SHOT.—A Coroner's Inquest was held at Alnwick-green, near Bognor, on Friday last, on the body of James Jurd, , when it appeared, that on Tuesday night previous, a smuggling craft, with 486 tubs of foreign spirits, was chased and boarded by the Littlehampton preventive galley, when the crew of the smuggler simultaneously jumped into the seizing boat, and rowed off with her. Being re peatedly hailed without effect, a discharge of mus ketry followed, which wounded two meu, the above fatally.—Verdict, Justifiable Homicide.