Star. — London, England, 1808-12-27 00:00:00

INTELLIGENCE. Shields ; Two Brothers, Lo. Dolphin, GILPIN % of Exeter, coal near Bridlington. The Hun; I Yarmouth, is wrecked n ear Shields, tor . London, is on Itrii; DEC. 44. Viturnr, from the Mediterra , from Dublin. TSMOUTH, DEC. 26. ship ECLIPSE with a fleet of Wind N. E. DEAL, DEC. ee. Downs his Majesty's ships as per tITH, DEC. sot from Gottenburgh the EGIRIA : and the SAFEGUARD, Lieu 'viand. Remain in the Roads 'ion, Aboukir, Princess Ca. Miasquito, Chanticleer, Ha. E. S. E. ;HEERNESS, DEC. se. produced much damage on this ly ships hive arrived in the particularly to-day : the sbip atiPaiLL, is hid on shore, leaking George, Marmocx, has been by the exertion of the Captain off. Sailed the Challenger Starling gun-brig to Margate crew of the Apelles, lately there.—Remain the Apollo, PATTERSON ; - Dorothea, ETLERS ; Emanuel, Elizabeth, FIBBACR ; and Swan, convoy to the lialtic and Heli severe weather prevents their E. SCILLY, DEC. is. Summer, of Boston, BEN.fourn Lisbon, laden with wine and iftnouth, is under the uecenity of - a part thereof, into lighters, : bhe may Boat off from high of Trescoe, whither she was 18th of November last. .—Came in the Edmond, Joux Pool Messina, laden with oil, rags, bound to Liverpool. During perform quarantine. Also the master, from London to Li. It, in a gale, a brig, in ballast. :oughall, parted herrnooringq, .ks, near the island of Trescoe. DECEMBER 2S. NicuaLsom, of this port, sailed middle of September, for Heligo. having been received from her ' she has been captured ; espe . vessel boicinging to this port positivehe saw herlying off the Scroby from London, w short time ago. reason to suppose, that she may be upon the coast. She is re . aft, with one mast, a launch ; the " Leander of Hull" Captains of -coasting vessels guard against a vessel of this de details of the damage received by at storms, as has reached us: . Sunderland, from London, in halloo, SatirscLty, with the loss of anchor and Dorothy, of Scarbro, for Sunderland, near the Slaw, buu.as expected to be damage —crew caved. Sisskney, put in hers this morning with -, 1 boat Trashed off his decks iii the late Bridlington, and Margaret and On• are on shore within Spurn Pain, and ' much damage. bound from London for Shields, hay and bowsprit away, is come to this Stantland, from Searbro' for this port, lon of mass and sails, which were anchor in the Hawk road. Briton, Calvert, from London for Harwich—the former with the loss of ' latter with the loss of one anchor and put into Harwich, vetch loss of an• . of 100 vessels went Into that port the Ames, where they must remain until they London or 'erne other port. Seventeen v arnsouth beach, some of them di.- , and Mary Ann, Oliver, toiled from hours before the storm commenced; we seen going through Howley Bay on r. Riley master, drove on shore near coast, but was get off again the fold LIM boo from London to Shields, ire at& nd Hornets on S aturday night ; and Captain Thompson, bound from Newcastle of glass, also went on shore the same • both vessels saved. this port to Newcastle, with goods. anchors, on Saturday night, to the Humber, '• above Claythorpe. She Is expected to be from hence to Newcastle, with free, v on the dame 'slight, and it on shone to deem her auto. The vessel, k of Niweastle, from Calmar to HO , m the iTth inn. by the Brittle sloop of state, having six fhet water In bar bold; her sails ent away from the yards; part thrown overheard; and the crew were vats, for the preservation of their lime, sight. The Itdianee, of Bridtutstea, from Gettenburgh for London wit:hip* is on shore ea Lewesteff beach. The Alibis., Grins, of Newcastle, b on shore at Yarmouth. The Amiable Clarissa, Coates, of North Shields, put into Yar mouth, esiW len of &adhere, cables, masts, and alb. On the lath November, off Bornhohn, the Isabella, In company with the Owatr , Norquay, of London, was attacked by two Da. nish privateers, the one of 12 a n d t h e ot h er of 18 guile, whe was beam of by the Isabella, with the assistance of the srew of ' the Vieille, who left their own vessel to help to fight her guns. Whim the privateers sheered off, she took possession of the Ve en.% and earned her off. A heavy fall of snow commenced on Saturday last, and has continued, with little intermission, every suc ceeding day, accompanied by a strong gale, a great part of the time, from the North and North West.! The quantity of snow that has fallen in this neigh bourhood is so great, that in many places the road has been rendered perfectly impassable for caniages. The mail and other coaches from York, have not reached this place since Saturday last. The Doe caster coach, by way of Howden, which should have come in on Sunday night, arrived here yesterday. On Sunday, and the four following days, the bags, with the mails from York, were brought in between ten and eleven o'clock each day, on horseback, from York, the mail guards having to ride eighty miles each day, through the snow, with the mails ; one o f t h em was so severely fatigued, that he lies at Bishop Bur ton, very dangerouily ill. In the neighbourhood of Market Wei&hton, the snow was drifted so much as to be level with the hedg es on each side. The fall of snow appears to have confined principally to the Eastern part of the coast : the South and Western mails arrived each night at York, at pretty nearly the usual time, as did also the Carlisle and Newcastle mails; but those from Whitby and Scarborough were not received for two or three days. A greater fall of snow, in such a short space of time, has seldom been witnessed : and the frost, particularly on Saturday afternoon, was uncommonly intense. We have not yet heard of any serious accident, by land, in this neigh bourhood ; but we are sorry to say, that the damage sustained by the shipping, not only upon this coast, but also upon the whole of the East and South East coast, has been very considerable." Friday last his Royal Highness the Duke of GLovcesTEft arrived at Doylsiord House, the beauti ful seat of Governer HASTINGS ; and on Saturday morning his Royal Highness charged horses at the White Hart Inn, Chipping Norton, on his way to London. Lieutenant Dawsort has been promoted •to the rank of Commander from the date of the capture of la Pninenowraise, and was appointed by Sir EDWARD PELLE,/ to ao post ship la DanagnivatE,..l.4 SG guns, in which he sailed in May last in charge of the China convoy. BRZAD.—This day there being no Court of Alder men, the LOKI, MAYOR, after inspecting the returns, ordered it to remain at the present prices. The Alexander, Arstnis, a very valuable ship, laden with cotton, supposed to have been lost, east up yesterday. She arrived off Portsmouth about nine days ago, when a tremendous gale came on and drove her over to the French coast, and she has been eier since endeavouring to reach the Downs, where she has at length arrived. The Captain states, that whilst on the enemy's coast, he perceived several British ships driven on shore. On Suoduy the Serpentine River in Hyde Park was crowded with skaiters, spans, and spectators. Some confectioners having obtained permission to take ice from that river, they invariably take it from the sides and although it soon gets frozen over again, yet, of course, it must be much weaker than the centre, and in consequence several incautious parties were le; in ; but were soon got out again without receiving any other injury than a good ducking. One of the p. consisted of siz, among them were four young genteelly dressed ; they were let in above their mid., ; their screams soon brought nurnerous l assistants,, but as soon as it was discovered there was no dangly. a considerable liugh was raised at the unfortunate fair sliders. parties Ladies Yesterday the Serpentine River had a most beauti ful appearance, being entirely frozen over ; a number of people attended at an early hour and erected stalls on the ice ' • chaira were also placed for the accom modation of those who wished to hire skaites ; there was also a good supply of hot mutton pies, and gin and gingerbread in great abundance, to the gratifica tion of the holiday folks, who were very numerous. A young man of the name of Stevens, servant to Mr. TIDBAT, of Charlotte.street, Portland-place, was sliding on a pond, at Paddington, yesterday, with a youth, eight years old, his master's nephew, hold of his hand, when the middle of the pond was unfrozen near to which the slide ended. Stevens saw the dan ger, and in disengaging the boy from Wm, to prevent both approaching the hole, he fell within two yards of it, when the ice broke and let both into the water. The servant perished, but the boy was saved. , A young man, named Younger, was drowned on Sunday in the Park, and two boys in the Hampstead Road on Saturday, from similar causes. About two o'clock on Sunday morning the 18th' inst. a most dreadful fire broke out in thehouse of John Green, in Newbegin, Mahon, which in the coure of a few minutes made a very alarming progress, and, from the nature of the building, being chiefly wood, and covered with thatch, threatened at first consider able mischief to the adjoining close and other build ings, which are principally built of the same materials. By prompt assistance, the flames were completely sub dued, without spreading farther than the above-men tioned place, which was entirely consumed. It Wednesday evening, a young woman, in a black velvet pelisse, and in other respects genteelly dressed, who was in the two shilling gallery of the Haymarket theatre, suddenly fell backwards, appa rently in a strong fit ; she was conveyed out to Mr. Hastings, the chemist. adjoining the theatre, who used his endeavours a long time to recover her. but in vain. She was then taken to St. Martin's Work house, where she has lain tver since speechless, sup posed to be occasioned by a lock jaw. She has not yet been owned. - On Sunday morning, an elderly lady, who was at. Liang.acre Chapel, sitting in a pew adjoining the put. pit, aPParentlY se perfect Meth, suddenly 611 off her seat and wend. She proved to be Mrs. Niche, of Meanrs-eourt; Witrdeitflpset., The ,empee vv• moved to her halite; I 771134fT.R5. )• -t it i RAMA NEiIiAm6MTS. BEAUMONT -cline ftwirk a; a" second time, last night, in the part of advidert, in the tragedy of reeks Prvier;ed. She was in more com. plete possession of her powers than upon her first ap pearattce, and confirmed the favourable impression made by her previous performance ; in the fast act, particularly, she appeared to great advantage. The applause which she received was unbounded. Mir , performances, we understand, are merely trials Lefore a London audience. She will gain her olject. and return to Glasgow with the brightest feather in a per pformees cap—the approbation of the Met tin benches. Mr. Pon was the substitute (or Mr . Coons, in Pierre, and even with alloy the play was very well received. The pantomime of Mother Coale fol., lowed, with its usual success. • The first of the new scenes was the Ruins of the late Covent Garden Theatre. Views of Drury Lane Theatre, Opera House, Hay market, Paris, 13ourdeaux, Amsterdam, Venice, and Petersburgh Theatres, were then introduced, and had a very good effect. They were succeeded by an ele gant scene, representing the intended new Theatre.— It was a square building surrounded with piazzas.— The house was crowded to an overflow. DRURY-LANE —Little did FOOTE think, when he made Sir Thomas Lofty, in the Patron, write a drama called " Robinson Crusoe," by way of a burlesque, that a production with that title would really appear, and under the hands, too, of a dramatist like Sum- DAN. This, however, was the case thirteen years ago ; and yesterday evening the piece was revived, with many alterations, and acted to a very numerous audi ence. It is an entertainment exceedingly superior to the comment class of pantomimes, not only in the Har leguinade, but in the serious plot which prcedes the endowment of the fantastic hero. It is divided into two acts, of which the first is an interesting little bal let, the production of the late Mrs. SitiounaN. That tasteful and judicious authoress seems to have made it her particular care, to preserve as much of the original story as could be conveniently dramatized; and we are reminded of DE FoE's affecting narrative by, a thousand little circumstances that would have escaped as ordinary writer of Pantomime, such as Friday's adoration of the gun, the furniture of the hut, the con struction of the boat, and the appearance of Crusoe's live stock. Mr. D'EuviLLE was ,imple, natural, and affecting in his representation of Crum ; and Mr. LAURE.NT, who personated Friday, played exceed. ingly well. Mrs. SHARP as Co/am. l ,inc, and Miss C. Batsrow as Cu/rid, were extremely pleasing in their respective styles, and the piece went off with very good effect. The great powers of the Drury-lane machinery are chiefly reserved for the last scene of the pantomime, in. which a very brilliant and airy orchestra of cherubs and cupids advance and recede from the bottom to the top of the stage with a light ness and ease very much in unison with the appear ance of the clouds that are supposed to support them. The gods and goddesses are here machinery indeed. • THE BEVERLF.Y HUNT.—The Beverley Hunting Meeting has terminated most brilliantly. The hounds have had a capital week's sport. On Monday se'n• night, after running two foxes to ground, they found a third, which.they killed, after an extremely sharp and good run. Tuesday they killed their first fox in 25 minutes ; after which they found again in Holder nos, going the best pace for an hour and a a half; when, owing to its coming on dark, the fox heat them. The huntsman's famous grey horse Holderness, and many others, died in consequence of the severity of the run. Thursday they killed a fox handsomely, but owing to the badness of the weather, without much sport. Friday they met at Dringnoe, where they found immediately, and had a most capital run of an hour and twenty minutes, the last five of which, they viewed their fox, but he got to ground in earth at Rise ; notwithstanding the severity- of the run, not one hound cut of 24 couple was want ing when the fox got to ground. This uncommon g ood week's diversion terminated by a most brilliant and splendid ball and supper, given by the Members.of the Beverley Hunt CM. All the beauty and fashion of Beverley and the neighbourhood were assembled. At one o'clock ISO persons sat down to a sumptuous and elegant supper. After the champaigne had gone , briskly round, the dancing was resumed, and the corn-' pang reluctantly separated at six in the morning. A lUDIARLABLIII Fox.CHASE.—A few days ago, as a gentleman was coursing under Blodv. - ell Rock, near forthywaen Lime-Works, he unkennelled a very large dog-fox, of the greyhound species and, having two couple of beagles, they pursued him through the extensive covers near that rock, to the summit of Llanymynech-hill ; but, being very hard run, he made a short turn, passing through the Gorwell eovery, and along the banks of the river Trunet, near to the village of Llanyblodwell. The beagles then approached him so near, that he was under the ne cessity of taking the road for Llanddu : and leaving those covers on the left, he returned, much fatigued, to near the place where he was first started. He then went through a large cover, called Cowman's Ruff, and to Llanymynech-hill, and, in a lime quarry there, he s:opped for his little pursuers, who, having ran him in view under that hill, opposite the village • of Llanymynech, he ascended a craggy rock, and got into a subterraneous passage of great length, formerly worked (as it is supposed) by the Roman miners. .Bold Reynard, being somewhat warm, could not long 'remain in so close a confinement, but had the auda city to make his appearance at the entrance of the passage, and fought his way out, in defiance of the beagles, and two greyhounds, which he had beaten before ; and taking a direction the same way back, "for a considerable distance up a narrow precipice in another part of the rock, he had no alternative of es caping, but by throwing himself down a declivity of the rock, a little flyther on, at least forty feet high, without apparent injury. He then ran near to the turnpike-gate of Llanymy nech ; but, being met by a canal boat, which made 'him alter his course, he ran over the Stair Cerrig-hill, (where he took another prodigious leap down a rock), and along the turnpike road to Oswestry : and, having stopped a few mi nutes in a. small close near Llyncklys, the beagles ran lint in, view for a considerable way, and he was taken alive, after a hard chase of more than four hours, with littleliwermission. The gardens of Temple Newsam, near York, which ate stated to bays cost the late proprietor 254091- ~ have iiieri . let by the present possessor, the Marquis 'of firitford; fir 491; a year.. r 4 ' - -.-i,--. DVELM, DiCEMBER IYesterday the Secretary of the Bank of Ireland mended at the Stock Exch Inge, awl .1•-•clared it arnent of the advances made by the Baak on Cc. ;a.rnrnent Scrip, will be eztended from uic 4.. n aa. wary to oil r-i•-•-••-- tor one tldrd of the mount. Si limb for de. Id Apelike do. The proprie.o..i, oi the reeri.tt .••• -, - ' l, -. C''''' nstalr matt at 40 per cent. on the Ist of January next. Dammam 28.—The Spencer ii... N ..e • which had not ben heard of since she sailed Iran that placeita Friday last, After encunter; . i• ful gale. put into Studwell Roads in South , Wake. From whence the mails were fon% a• i o Holyhead, and were brought over by the Counties .utter this Morning; Lie Earl and Cuuntess ut %., •:Aav, and upwards of 40 passeagers, were on board the Spencer. NAVTICia 11% . . spy, Pommes, of Sb o f Whitby ; Dolph I 're on' shore flea ' TEE6DALE; of irs [ The Paris Of !iear Yiniiiitli. - • P r- ‘" rafixOth tOP•trnised. the DWI; Yr' r%kiesn4l and Staffof Lite,„..l. OPP 1 PORTSMOU Saga his Majesty's sl dilloparts for Cork. Win ;, DEAL, s • R et ain in the Downs Lot Wind E. S. E. YARMOUT Thsmorning arrived fix sloop of war with convoy ' thonthatn,from Heligo the Roebuck, Bellerophc g li nt , Stately, Calypso, , and Censor. Wind SHEERNE ' lie late gale has prod east, and a great many !' t i jaijoir to take shelter, p Col has, Capt. CAMPULL 1 ' B loch ; the gallrot C . .'ren on the shore, bat b . ' „, : i new she is got oil the Awns, and the S ' ads, to bring up the c i. .. .• d there.—Remain araden, HAS WAN 1 DoI : 1 Q R1101314 j Anna Eliza 0 ..;e ; waiting cony , . and, but the late sev I . •• .11g.—.Wind S. E. ISLANDS of 1 The schooner SUITITT ' Ann master, from Li a - • bound oa Plintouth . ,',. out her cargo, or a 1 .. lighten the vessel, that • mark, at the island 1 i. ., in a gale on the . DIMMER I7.—Carne r sister, from Malta and is I pa, ad madder root, be r stay here she will per . hg Fortitude, °lnnis rr ..1, with sundries. •-• Dec. 20.—Last night, a , , lonthantptonto Yoi drifted on the rocks, tared. i , HULL, DE 1. The batch Leander, N . ~. hence in the middle ..4 and no accounts ha • it is apprehended si - '1 et the Captain of a • tint he is positivehs . his passage frorr • Mt tins there is reason • -, as a privateer s high fore and 0 towsprit, and one jibs don her stern. C , be upon their guard : P m. e subjoin such detail shipping in the recent 1.7111 nets Hannah, Smith, o f S tu Scarborough on Sanas able. Oci Sawday the Jean Doro 't baebowd dross ashore, flea • *lit little damage—cry la Tie Illia, Cray, from Clad • arida and cable, and b• net ... so Ilt ,,L ll ,l4ncheon for ‘ a llittel for Dunde, Bli " •Idto be a got off without e %Vence, Gibson, bow n .Ikch d her foremast an d omi t *. Theni c i alas and Nancy, Sta • on Wednesdaywith k ; . ..... lway w hilst at anc , . Illa Laawl, Chester ; and 1 „ Parto bare put into Han m . ' awl tables, and the Ist hi ne b illet eigh t .4 tame. W u t, has pi . 241 with similar lenses pwarda , 1 , •coliilled from L on d on ; .. neat on shore upon li r a ) . . 7 1. ; :t e se e P:o ► Lroillaed n ee,Antonie, a attn an T , a few houri d that g " 41 7 1 1wniing .heY were see is A & at loal. -, . clwhlt 0031, 1. n; • i a l t the Lincolnshire 1 :... lb t`etta !lira, Captain LIE — "Cyr's d r i ven ..„ . k ..repi, 1400 ash ore a ' Culatia n • ~.„„aer, Captain , a Coard e ;:,,_ a cargo of g P . Thew 1 / 4 4 "ews of Ix Iv, mamas, Jeffrey fr tenet h it , • om is. alit., , r e. little anchors, 1 orilibwr_r little above ?•• The L L datum h inwa - 77, eal (ba b r u l t l ) Carr fn Id tlt .. a wtll b: obliged na ti on int. 1 ,,, _ will b e got o rg . t b 'owls, / Amu ... "wall int o i x — —.., of t * oit a law ts, ”ararlels an t te • iwa•Ta r d t reated state at carg o I f n d d P art of her . :int!. tit ernLtt..l it i * *tube.. is iiibi To THE EDLIOR OF THE STAR. StR---,9pending a few days lately with a Brother lotiquary in the country, whose library, though lot large, contains-a tolerable collecti Nit of 11:.1 k 1 otter lore," I stumbled upop a thin duodecir o v 'lune of 95 pages, entitled Termer de la Ley, in , erse ; Ihe'Author Nicholas Drown, Gentleman. it appears on the ti tle page to have been printed at Dublin, in 1591 ; but whether, in fact, the produc tion of an Irish lawyer, or of an English wit, I was so pleased with the humour of some of the articles as to extract about twenty. Of these I now transmit. three, for the Wrath:as of our English students, and the amusement of your Readers in general. If you think them not unworthy a place in your columns (devoted, I confess, to more useful purposes) the rest are at your service.—Your's, &c. F. A. S. As SON is burning, with a fell intent, Of rick, or barn, or other house, Or LAND, For which the Law Inflicts the punishment Of DtATII to all, with BUNNING IN rat HAND. BA.TTIllv—If A strike E, without a Is mful cause, Sciewroa, knowingly and with design, It's Battery by all our Irish Law-, Both criminal, and civil, and my: trt. FR sz-FtsataT— /Free-fishing is a cox mot; In rivers broad and wide. To all who have a RICHT thereto, And to none aim beside. As a miller, of the name of Poll, on Thursday sennight, was attending his mill at Downham Mar ket, a sudden squall of wind caused it to separate, and to flu in pieces in all instant. The miller who was employed on the upper floor, leaped out, and escaped with a slight bruise ; but his brother was pre. cipitated to the ground , amidst the ruins, and sus tained so mbch injury as to render his recovery hopeless. 'A sailor, of the name of Simpson. lately deserted from a ship of war, and established himself at Ro chester, as the pastor of a congregation of Non.con formists. He was, however, recognized some days . since, and removed from the pulpit to the guard ship at the Nore. . The Stowmarket waggon, a few evenings since, was overturned on the road near At-Weigh Crown, by which unfortunate accident three children were instantly crushed to death, and the mother of one of them much bruised. The journeymen boot and shoemakers in Glasgow, • have refused to work without an advance of wages, - which the masters have determined to resist. • . . . w An unfortunate girl, w ho as very brutally treed •• by a number of young men, a few nights since, in the ' l public streets of 'Worcester, died of tke ill-treatment .% she received. Several of them are in custody. Tuesday. morning last a hay rick, belonging to.; Mr. King, of Wytham, was maliciously set on fire. . . A young woman was lately buried at Blackburar - I whose deatli.was occasioned by having swallowed *ye - quantity of fruit stones seven years ago. ..sti Gtnntham Charch has. lately been robbed of tier' Church plate, to the amount of 2001. the poor's box, and other valuable property. The robbers were traced to Retford ; where two of them left their horses and made their escape. Yesterday, about noon, the body of a young wo- • . man, genteelly dressed in a black silk gown and crape bonnet, &c. was picked up floating in the Thames, near Execution Dock. She had not, apparently, been long in the water. Her name and connections are as yet unknown ; neither is there any knowledge of the means by which she was brought into that melan choly situation. Brennan, the noted highwayman, had the audacity to appear a few days since in the suburbs of Tippe rary, in the open day ; but though several attempts were made to apprehend him, he effected his escape. The Ticket No. 13,106, drawn this day a prize of £lOOO, one of the numbers contained in the first lot of Five Hundred Tickets belonging to the fortunate holders of No. 7081, sold in one-half, one-quarter, one-eighth, and two-16ths, by SIR JAMES BRANSCOME and Co. at their Lucky Offices No. 11, Holborn, 37, Cornhill, 38, Haymarket, and 269, Strand ; where, likewise in'the present Lottery, No. 3256, a prize of R 20,000 No. 13,318, a prize of £5,000, and four prizes of £5OO each, have been sold in 4.8 shares, and where Tickets and Shares are now selling, war ranted undrawn. Next Saturday is the last day of Drawing. A GENERAL BILL O 1 ALL TIC CIIILISTININO3 AND BURIALS, PROM DILCALIDDIL 15, 1807, To DACIMAAD. 14, 1808, • According to the Report made to the King's Most Excellent Ma. jetty, by the Company of Parish Clerks of London, &c. eaairrlstro. avaltD. Males 10,189 Males 10,298 Pommies I••••••. 1•11•1 In all warattor ',Lys MAD. I=lo years of age 6,075 kitty aad Sixty Two lad - Sixty aad Seventy Fin 2,464 .._ , _ _ 1 1 10eieurrest Tee and Twenty Twenty and Tbirty...... 1,200 Ninety ends Hundred 6.5 1 Thrty , end Forty • ....... 1,792 A Hundred — Potty and Fifty ..... .. 1,971 A Hundred and wo 1 Inereasecrin the Burials this year 1,020. ' There have been executed in the city of London and county et Surrey 5, of Nelda number none have been reported te be buried , tee each) within the bias et Mortality. aril/ 7 It I* • . O 0 a