Star. — London, England, 1822-12-05 00:00:00

;!le earliest inteUigenee of hosaitifi r ao is p r oviJed with Spanish op en , triagiatti. lot ra d eis . The Editor of-one or th Preach Papers iase.v alarmed for the commerce if Francs, - h e minks will be annihilated. He says *at ro t a neneh ship that would escape the w ::ich mould then infest the seas under the .:nd blockade the ports during the war. All the accounts from the North of Spain repre -s:nt :he insurrection as nearly at an end. We have in another part of our Paper a view of the ope rations of MINA in Catalonia, to which we alluded yesterday. By this sketch it will be seen, that Mrxx. has 211 the qualities of a consummate Generat—skill, rrudence, pmmptitude, and energy ; and it will be also seen, that his troops have all the properties of soldiers—patience under privations; alacrity a midst the most harassing operations ; constancy in ! ! l e execution of a complicated plan, and ardour in ba d e . This civil war has, moreover, given them the experience and confidence of old troops; it has also f orm ed Officers of merit, probably of every rank ; :..nj the sound of their successful achievements has already reached every spot of the Peninsula, where it has, no doubt, excited a spirit of glorious emula tion, that will supply any number of devoted war lisgs the danger of the country may require. An cli , re.s reached town from Paris this forenoon, vlitc:i left that Capita on Tuesday. The Duke of, WFLusorox was hourly expected ; and it seas rii vymcd that the King of PRANCE would not go to ir.ir i;:i Spain unless with the advice of his Grace, of :lie consent of Great Britain. It was also reported fat the KING would consent to leave the subject to e:e arbitration of our Government. We give these merely as Parisian rumours, wit!)ont attaching any imporntice to them. Sis expreses Lad reached Paris, {tom London, with an account of the fall of the Liglish Funds. We have received the Ilavannah Yotitioso of the cf October, containing the following: Ai, armed brig of 14 guns, called the Congne•ta dor, !:as sailed to cruize before Cadiz, under the com e:dna of the famous Daniels. Oa the same day ano ther brig, of 10 guns, sailed for Laguira. An Amer-- cAn schooner was likewise preparing to sail for Vera Cruz, loaded with artillery and ammunition; and several vessels of war were building for the Insur gt nts of Mexico at Philadelphia ; two cruizers were ready to put to sea, commanded by Almedies and Non of this City. Here are new data, which corra borates what we said in a former Number when creaking of piracy, respecting the share practised in it against our commerce by the Americans them-' I selves, who at present complain se bitterly of it; and I respecting the- pat ticipation cf the United States, through the apparent indifference with which those freebooters with impunity destroy the commerce of all nations, and atc seen to arrive in the ports of Union. , WESTMINSM SCHOOL. JP. • • • t The .fint performance of the Play annually repre sented by the King's scholars, in compliance with the statutes by which this ancient seminary is governed, last night took place in the dormitory. The com pany, which was highly respectable, and included several elegantly dressed females, filled every part of the temporary theatre long before the performance commenced. The . Play selected for the occasion was The Eunuch, of Tnnzana; and the characters were thus filled: Ph:Aida - - - J. Blum Parmeno P. F. UNDERWOOD Thal. Gnatho Cberea Timm Pythias Chremes G. F. Mooar • J. T. a FAwczyr C. J. SHAW R. Eau J. M. Mem W. J. R. 131213111 Dorias AL It. Js aaaaa s how - - T. Katouv Sanwa - - - W. SILVIR • tilophrona - T. R. Ilatc Lathes . W. L. lbraws, The exertions of the young men derogated in no degree from the established classical celebrity of, Westminster School. The praise demanded by a pure pronunciation, by distinctness of elocution, and pro priety of emphasis, may be conceded to the whole dramatis persona; but to those whose characters are prominent in the Play a further praise is due—that of having evinced considerable humour or strong' passion ss hencver the scene required the exhibition of either. Messrs. BRAINE. UNDERWOOD, FAWCETT, EDEN, SHAW, MOORE, and HEATH, particularly dis tinguished themselves. The Play went off greatly to the satisfaction of the friends, relatives, and general visitors of the young performers. We merely state the following important fact for the present, le,tring it to our Readers to draw from it the necessary consegnences—Preparatimis are now making in Toulon for the reception ofa foreignfleet.— A lortang Chronicle. Saturday, the crimson and grey cloth, used on the float, and platform, on his Alsissrv's landing at Leith, were put up to sale in small lots, in the Ex- _ . . change coffee•room there, and bought with avidity. The grey cloth brought from 2s. 4d. to Ss. and the crimson from 6s. to 6s. 6d. per yard. Thursday, the appointment of the Rev. JOHN COOPER, JANIES MITCHELL, and ALEXANDER CRAW- FORD, three Missionaries of the Scotch Missionary Society, took place in Lady GLENORCHY'S Chapel, Edinburgh. They set off next day for London, where they will embark for Bombay; and are the first Mis sionaries who have been sent to India by any Mis sionary Society in Scotland. Saturday last, a Meeting, consisting of the princi pal Land-owners, took place at Hereford, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of petitioning both Houses of Parliament on the unpa ralleled distressing state of tke Agricultural Interest, and the several causes thereof, and at the same time petitioning them to adopt such expedient measures as they may in their wisdom deem best calculated for its relief, and expressing to them the awful conse quences in not affording aid in difficulties so over whelming. Sir Wm. HosKYNS, Bart. was President. A Requisition to the High Sheriff was read, to call at an early day a County Meeting for the above pur -1 pose, which was numerously and respectably signed. A Meeting was held yesterday at the City of Lon don Tavern, farther to consider the project of building subterraneous passages under the streets of the City, so that all repairs of water and gas pipes, &c. may be done without ever again breaking up the pave ments. It ended in the appointment of a Committee, who are to report upon the plan. Much discussion twok place on the points, that the foundations of the houses would be injured ; that neither the probable expenses nor profits were e-timated ; that the Gas and Water Companies should have been first sounded ; that the expense of introducing a Bill into Parliament beyond the threshold of which it might not pass, would be .€7OO. and that it would take a million of money to make a beginning of the work itself. SHROPSHIRE COUNTY ELECTION.— Monday last being the day appointed at Shrewsbury for the Elec. Lion of a Representative, in the room of the late Mem- . ber, Sir JOHN KYNASTON POWELL, Bart. the free holders from the various parts of the county met at an early hour, and at ten o'clock the High Sheriff, ROBERT ERIDGEMAN MORE, Esq. entered the Shire , Hall, accompanied by the Under Sheriff The usual proclamations having been gone through, they then adjourned to the Castle, where the Election took place, at twelve o'clock ; and there being no opposi tion, JOHN CRESSET PELHAM, Esq. was declared duly elected. Mr. PELHAM then came forward, accom panied by his numerous friends, and returned thanks to his constituents for the honour they had done him. The lion. Gentleman was then chaired,Through the city. Numerous parties afterwards dined at the dif ferent inns, where conviviality and good humour pre vailed, and the whole passed off in hilarity. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—Last night Mr. KEAN and Mr. YOUNG, for the second time, sustained the characters of Jqffier and Pierre in the Tragedy of Venice Preserved, and in their usual style of excellence. Notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the wea ther, there was a crowded audience.—The new Diver tissement formed an agreeable relief to the deep Tra gedy that preceded it. COVENT-GARDEN.—Last night the new Opera of Maid Marian was repeated, with the most complete success, to a very numerous audience. SHARP PRACTice.—The following communication is a curiosity in its way. We have often heard of sharp practising, but we should think this instance of an attorney ehargin; 3s. 6d. for an application fcr IJ. of postage, is quite unexampled. COPY or • MMUS rams •t 1 ATTORPIII% " To Postage of Letter sent per Berwick post, Id. " Sia-1 am directed to issue an action against your goods to morrow morning, unless the above sum of one penny, together with 3s. 6d. the expense of this application, be pad to me befart to o'clock to-morrow." . . . . Lislll • *ttditrOifs tleEMBEft i to French . his AA, Jim, . . 7 -.!.!.. .. _ 1 ebnlinnits in the enjoyment oreeeel,- cc• wala The bays* this Morning was literally crowded at there is with :hefty a nd fashion; the Band of the LifeGnards be ph•ates attmi l ded misrplayed. The number of eqiipages was e s ota i sh at one yeriOd so great, that the drivitiottiq rte Steppe' Palle? i 1 III :as COM hallia l:let t e ll) b illid locked is u i p n . at . tendancethii eieni , ngi In FROM A PHILADELPHIA PAPER OF NOVi 2. A Gentleman, just arrived from St. Bartholomew's, reports, that during the month of September several vessels had arrived at that place from different ports of the United States, each having about 20 passen gers, mostly Creoles and Negroes. After being some time in port, they commenced recruiting, then issued proclamations, and avowed their intention to revo lutionize Porto Rico, of which information was given t:) the Governor; in consequence of which several persons were arrested, amongst whom are two mer etant,, on suspicion of being concerned in the above etpciitinn. The vessels had left St. Bartholomew's, with the exception of one schooner, whicli was seized by the Governor. This forenoon we received a Dutch Mail, with Pipers to the IA inst. It appeais by the accounts from Grevenmacher, tlat 117 houses are burnt of the 340 of whiCh the town consisted : the damage is estimated at half a trillkut of florins. A subscription has been opened kr the sufferers. The Prussian Authorities at Treves afforded the most p►ompt and effectual assistance in extinguishing the flames. Accounts from Batavia, dated August 17, state tie firtt cruize of the vessels sent from Bantam ;gainst the pirates has not been without advantage, they havi►tg taken a pirate vessel, which has already a-tived in the road of Bantam ; the crew, consisting of about thirty men, ran the vessel aground and escaped. The ♦essel had two iron two-pounders, four copper swivels, .and also shields, pikes, powder, and ball. Aunnuomx, Nov. 29.—Exchange on London, 39 7—Ditto tnonionths,39 5. On Hamburgh, 54i--..Ditto two months, 345. On Paris. 56i—two months, 56. On the death of the Marquis of LONDONDERRY we sated, among the probable changes in the Cabinet, before the meeting of Parliament, that of Mr. Hun %Woo succeeding Mr. VANSITTART as Chancellor of the Exchequer ; we now understand that this event *ill very shortly take place. Saturday a numerous and respectable meeting of late Gentlemen and citizens of Waterford was held in the Churl x of Commet cc in that City, for the purpose of taking into con sideration Mr. Owert's flan tor betturing the condition of the PION ill Ireland. The Bi.lpip of WATY.R FORD WAS in the chair. W. Owes, in a clear and comprehen.ive speech, detailed his Plan, which is fountle I upon the principle of his establishment at New I.ithak. Sever II other Gentlemen spoke on the subject, azd the meeting the., separated; "every individual," says the Paper, tkoro.rahly convinced, if not of the soundness of Ovreet's doctrine,, at least of the excellent qualities of his and of the sioc.:rity of his rrofesiwts." • lilt ARMY. • • -.- antnirive is rgier - dilbeerVet;tleak* Household 'Weeps's • •1, .Ist Regiment of Life *Gtiaitle,l befteral the Rae Of- Ittamsc vow, Csilonel•-.Wingj or . ' •, • ' 241- Dlao t Gisiserid Std ba.tweasen K.T. Colonel—liegent's Park. • . • - Royal Regiment of Horie• Glands, Field Marshal the Duke of Wtunitsvers,.l.o.. Q.C.B. and G.C.U. Colonel—Knighti. , bridge. Ist (or Gienadlee)Reginsent of Foot Guard*, Field blarghal his Rayal Highness the Duke of Yoas, K.G. G.C.B. and G.C.H. Colonel-Ist Battalion, Dublin-2d ditto, Tuwer-3d ditto, Knightsbridg e . Coldstream. Regiment of Foot Guards, Field Marshal his Royal Highness the Duke of Cassamoe, K.G. G.C.B. end G.C.H. Colonel--get Battalion,'King's Mews-2d ditto, Port man-street. 3d Regiment*, Foot Guards, Field Marshal his Royal High ness the Duke of GLoucewrza, K.G. G.C.B. and G.C.H. Colo nel—lst Battalion, Westminster-2d ditto. Plymouth. The Depots of the 30th and 41st Regiments of Foot are or dered from Albany Barracks, fur the purpose of reinforcing the Provisional Battalion at Portsmouth. Major-General Rannu.t., who went from Portsmouth in the Gt.aaow, to assume the post of Second-in-Command at Bombay, has been appointed to the Command of the Second Field Army ' at Meerut, in the Upper Provinceis of BengaL Lieutenant-General Lord Coamesistaas has been pleased to approve of the head-quarters of the General Officer command ing the Ulster District being removed • from Armagh to Deltas, until further orders. In consequence of the reduction about to take place In the Staff of the Irish Militia Regiments, the number tts be struck off from that of the Waterford Regiment will be 14 serjeants, 40 Corporals, and three bugles ; an order fur which has been re ceived in Waterford. A Court-Martial was lately held at Woolwich, csitl.lecten ant Pou.occ, of tb4 Marines, for disrespect and contempt towards Lieutenant-Colonel tricuots, of the Marines. The charges were completely disproved, and the Lieutenant honourably acquitted. A few days since a Dragoon on duty, on the Sussex coast, watt unfnetimately with his bone. drowned op his way under the Cliff front Seaford to Cuckmere, the tide in the rapidity of its sowing, having overtaken him. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the following Captains Were sworn into the com mand of their respective ships, viz. Captain Jout4 P. Wason (Hythr); Captain Tnowas Hails= (Windsor) ; for Bengal and China. The Lady Boddington Humor, of 22 guns, arrived at Car thagena in July, from London, with 5300 stand of arms for the Colombian Government. In a gale, about ten o'clock, on Tuesday se'nnight, De loner Nicholas, --- Paitsta ' master, from Cote to Amsterdam, , laden with 000 casks of wine and brandy, with seven or elf& hands en board, was wrecked in Seaford Bay. The crew and about 400 casks of the cargo were saved; but the ship, before eight &dock on the following morning, was dashed entirely to pieces-by the violence of the waves. Diu% Dec. 4.—Wind S W.—Canse down from the River and sailed last night, the St. George, &Lowe, for Grenada; An. teas, Brans, for Antigua ; and Bee, WISVAILT. for Smyrna. Arrived to-day, and remain wind-bound, the Scourfield, Sm arm from Newcastle, and Fleetwood, Duct, from Shields, both for Jamaica.t--Put back this afternoon, the Nesbit, GRAY ; Lively, histcurt.t.; St. George, BItOWN ; and s:veral more, par ticulars unknown. _ _ _ HA RWICN, DEC. 4.—Wind W. 3.W.--Arrived the Lord Duncan packet, with Mails from Cuzhaven, and sailed again with Mails for Holland.—Sailed the Leicester packet, with Malls for Cuahaven.—Artived several coasters, for shelter. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 3.—Wind N.—All ships foreign bound re main at the anchorage. FALMOUTH, Dee. 3.—The wind having come frbm the north early this morning, the following outward-bound have sailed : Eliza, for Madras and Bengal; Andromeda and Thalia, for Van Dieman'a Land ; Coromandel; Nina, Westbrook, and William Harris—all for Jamaica • Manby, for Berbice ; Killingbeck, for Antigua; Ea li ng Grove , Dominica; Apollo, i r Demerara; and the rest of the outward-bound, atnounting to thirty sail. PoiAissesress, Dec. 4.--Wind S.S.W.—Arrived from the Downs his Majesty. ship • Siasteownawr ; Ogle Castle, for Madras and Bengal; Borneo, fbr Batavia; Ann Kemp, for the South Seas • and a fleet of 21 vessels , bound to the West Indies. Put back le New Frederick Russian frigate and store ship, Sir Charles WCarthy, Kitty, St. Ann's, Rawlins ' William Manning, Rose, Prince Regent, and Liverpool. Sailed tke Intrepid transport, for Chatham. Active exertions are making to man and equip the squadron under Commodore OweN. A great portion of the best seamen of the guardshipa have entered for the Gloucester. Mr. JOHN Love, Assistant-Surgeon of the Queen Charlotte, is appointed to the Gloucester; Mr. R. Blatt- SHALL (2)ls appointed to the Queen Charlotte, in the room of Mr. Love. Kntosrox, Sari. 23.—The schooner Young Dasher, SMITH, from Carthagena, hands us confirmation of the capture of the Mandeville, after an action of three hours, when she was obliged to surrender by the superiority of the enemy, viz. a brig and a schooner, the same vessels which captured the Swift some time ago, and fitted out of Cuba. They bad previously captured the schooner Creole, JOHNSON, also belonging to this port. Seer. 25.—The schooner Mandeville, SHATHICILD, which we mentioned to have been captured by two privateers, after an ac tion of three hours, had two men killed and four wounded. One of her antagonists was severely cut up, and a number of the crew killed and wounded. Among the killed was a Lieutenant. Seer. 26.—Captain SHITHEAD was much ill-treated by the crews of the privateers which captured the Mandeville, and has been put in confinement. The attack upon that vessel took place about seven o'clock in the evening, off Monkey Island, by the Spanish privateer schooners Panamena and Mascow, and an English sloop called the Creole, which had been antecedently captured, and armed with two guns. Only about 50Ibs. of shells were on board the Mandeville, her goods having previously been landed. The French brig Charles William, front Havre, with dry goods, &c. valued at nearly 200,000 dollars, was lately robbed of the principal part of her cargo, off Sugar Key, by Ithew piratical cruizers. Monday being the anniversary of the birthday of the Duke of Buccuttioit, the ICING% young landlord, about forty of the respectable inhabitants of Dal keith and neighbourhood, dined in Moaatsores inn, to celebrate the auspicious day, which was spent with that harmony which the occasion was so well calcu lated to inspire. , Friday morning, the road over Soutra-hill, near Edinburzh, lay two feet deep with snow. THE REILLUEN OF THE RIVER TYNE.—The keel men have not yet returned to their employment, and as their engagements with the Coal Owners will ex pire on the 31st of the present month, there appears little probability of their doing any more work this year. The proprietors indeed have dissevered so many efficient resources, that their employment here- , after will be held by a very precarious tenure. In consequence of this disposition prevailing, a model of a steam-vessel calculated to carry eight keels of coals, has been submitted to the Owners of Fawdon Colliery. It is calculated that the same number of men now em ployed in one keel, will be adequate to its navigation. Other plans are in contemplation. which, it is con ceived, will be of the greatest advantage to the Coal Owners, though permanently injurious to the keel men. These men have so often promised to return to their engagements, that we have no faith in them. It was generally understood they were to pursue their avocations yesterday morning, but this expectation, as usual, was disappointed. On Friday last, a pro- I position was made on their behalf, that they would return to.work if the Coal Owners would give them 1:2 for binding money, and a guinea for a supper ; 1 but this, of course, they refused to accede to. — Tyne Mercrry, Dec. 3. - • spoirivo ~• - BUNTING. . Wrinntass'a fox-Iwanis vnet at lierritighir4 Shaw on Monday. A 'synth of an hour ensued; but it wai • eventually spoiled, owing to a butcher's dog obtaining a view of the fox, and ineffectuttfintriithik ; an event which took the pack off the scent, and enabled lieynard to escape. Iltrwntcs Estaiblumasall.--A very curlew's eircumitaace curred to the Brighton Subscription . Pack of Harriers, on ,Fri day last. The dogs, according to we kly.eustrun, threw off at the Devil's IJ)ke, atid • soon otter gut ukson a strong scent. A Sharp chace of an hour and twenty minutes followed; over bill and dale, through woods, and crossing several sheets of water. 'llue. horses were completely fatigued and beaten—and ;One were in at the der..th. The victim was neither hare nor foz.blit an animal of dr- canine sliecics , between a spaniel and a terrier, which, alarmed by the tithed cry of the pack, had afforded the diversion mentioned, and Whiab was completely torn to pieees; before the huntsman or any individual of the field could get up to attempt its reseue. • Fox HUN/ING t PZITICTION.—Mr. Hill's hounds afforded an excellent day's spurt on Monday laic to a well attended field. The hounds them_ off ay Wassattd, and found immediately, The first fox Was headed, and went into cover; the secondbroke cover in grand style, nradg fur itiAlield, then Westerby's Winn, past Trei:don the* fOccatv4sh;-thence to Sigilstone, past Catloss to N . wikreling . Whini, which he skirted, • immediately to Ditir.ing's 11114 rhenae to Pringho, through to Bubufts and was killed uss the Sand Fulls, before he could cross th e harnistoa I)rain—pickily for the horses, for they all had enough of it. che worthy owner of the hounds was up, and declared "It was the proudest day of his life!" (it was the finest day.) Among the many good horses that were out, Mr. Bites bay horte rode by the whipper-in ' •'and Mr. Lockets's Grey Peter, were the most d is ti n guished. STEEPLE. CHACE. A Steeple Match was ridden on Tuesday, for 50 sovereigns each, the second to receive back twenty-five, between My *g. SELL, Captain Paoaarr, and Mr. Litnrritssurkw, and which, for speed and intrepidity, has scarcely a parallel. The Start was from Warfield, on the IVokingh.rm road, to go to Winfred House, four miles from Maidenhead Thicket, and seven from Henley-upon/Thames. The Captain was first at Winfred House, by two minutes, from his knowledge of the route, and Mr. Maarseu. second, by superior speed. s The ground, considered twelve miles, was perfornuid in forty minutes. • SIIOt)TING. The Earl of LONSDALI lately ;hot in one day, near Melkin thocpe, three hares, respectively weighing lvellis. nelbs. and lOilbs. which is rare in the occurrence. • Bqxt Tuesday there was a pugilistic contest between two jobbers in the money market, on the Stock Exchange, in which the popular candidate was victorious. A respectable broker being asked what be thought of the business, said, it was favourable to the Bears, as it was portentous if seer. PEDESTRIANISM. Miller,who has undertaken to go 54 miles a day, on the main nomford road, In 14 bouts, Mr four sutcessive days, last night acconsplished his third day's task, and ,arrived at the Pigeons, Stratford, forty minutes within the given time. He is now on his last day, and it seems very probable that he will win his wager, having come in much better with regard to.his swollen legs than he did on Tuesday night. To-night he finishes his task at the Crown and Barley Blow, Gray's Inn-lane. AN EXTRAORDINARY CAT! Last week, while a shoemaker in the south side of Edinburgh was engaged in cleaning a cage in which he kept a lark, he left the door of the cage open, of which the bird took advantage, and flew away by a window at which its owner was then standing. The lark being a favourite, its loss was much lamented. But it may be imagined what was the surprize .of the house, when ha about an hour and a half the cat belonging to the same person made its appearance with the lark, in its. mouth, which it held by the wing; over the hack, in such a manner that the bird bad not received the least injury. The car, after dropping it on the floor, looked up to those who were observing her, and mewed, as if to attract attention to the capture. The lark, now occupies . its wiry prison, with the same noisy cheerfulness as before its singular adventure. A female did penance in the nsualmannef, in Step ney Church, on Sunday last, for defaming a neigh bour's character. Yesterday, at the 3lidilesex Session, Alin Webb Wagon, jun. Esq. residing in Glouceuer-place, Mary-la-bonne, was convicted of obtaining the sum of one hundred and twenty-one pounds from Lewis Harris, by falsely representing himself as the owner of a house, and giving that house as security for the money. As the credit of the witnesses was somewhat impeached, the verdict excited surprised in Court, and the prisoner's Counsel declared his determination to move for an arrest of judgment. Bow-svarrr.—Mr. Bradfield, a coal-merchant, appeared to an information, at the instance of the Principal Meter for West minster, charging him with sending out a chaldron of coals with out being duly measured, and without the meter's ticket. From the evidence of Thomas, a sub-meter, it appeared that the third bushel of the fourth sack was over measure, a large coal project ing over the side of the measure, which be therefore ordered to be struck off. One bushel of the eleventh sack was deficient one half, from the room containing no more coals. Some more, however, were put into the sack, but without being first put into the measure. It was insisted that to give over-measure was as great an offence as to give too little. Mr. Asimutws, for the der fendant, called witnesses, who proved that coals were added to each of the sacks alluded to, so that they were decidedly. over measure. Mr. Bradfield, he said, had excited the spleen of the meters by exposing their neglect and misconduct.—The Magis trates were quite satisfied with Mr. Bradfield's conduct ; but as the letter of the law had not been complied with, adjudged a nominal fine of ss.—To a second information, for delivery with out a ticket, Mr. ANDREWS pleaded guilty, and Mr. Bradfield was fined in the mitigated penalty of one penny, and 21. 64d. to Mr. Taylor, the informer. Corporal Geer of the Guards, was brought up by the Over seers of St. Martin's Parish, with a view to obtain an order of affiliation. Previous to the oath being administered to the frail damsel, the Vestry Clerk observed that she was a dissolute being ; that she had boasted that the father of her first child was a Private, the second was a Corparal, the third should be 2, Serjeant, and so she might go on till she reached the Commander. in-Chief. This boast the damsel did not deny, and the Magis trate animadverted severely on her shameless incontinence. After the oath was administer...d, in which she swore Corporal Geer was the man who in this instance had conquered her virtue, the Magistrate asked the Corporal what he had to say, when he re plied he did not know ; these accidents would sometimes happen. A Serjeant who attended said, the Corporal was in a very awk ward predicament, having several of these affaits on his bands; and within the last three weeks he had married one of the ladies.' Then all you have to do, observed the Magistrate, is to procure two housekeepers to be bound to exonerate the parish from ex penses. " I cannot procure one," was his reply. The Serjeant said, the regiment would have nothing to do with the affair. " Why really, Corporal," said the Magistrate, " you ought to be ashamed of yourself." • " So I am," he replied, " but what can I do? 1 have made one all the recompence I can, and ',Auld marry them all if the law would permit, and provide for the chil dren as well as I am able." The .Serjeint again observed, he bad no bail to offer, and the Corporal was committed to durance tile till the Sessions. Mauston House.—sforses Honey:non was committed for pick. ing the pocket gf Pronice, Esq of Richmond, of £lOO, on the day of Hunt's entry. The prosecutor had been to the Bank to re ceive a dividend, whin on his return his pocket was cut in the crowd. One of his notes wan traced to the prisoner, whom the prosecutor swore to have been near him in the mob. 111 A RLDOSOUGH-STRRET: AR kiln Taaeaa.—•An Hibernian in rags was charged by Jennings, an idficor of the hlendicity So ciety, with begging. The officer stated, that about 12 months ago the prisoner was apprehended and taken to Hatton-garden (Mice on a similar charge. On that occasion he was questioned as to what country he belonged ? He !answered, in a broad Irish accent, that he came from 2hrtirry, In the East Indies. He was then committed for three moths to the House of Correction. lie had repeatedly been apprehended since his liberation.. The prisoner was committed till the Sessions. A very distinct lunar rainbow was observed at Arundel on Thursday Winded. Thisphenomenon had the colour of theisolar rainbow, very distinct and ple;sant, only coosidcrably fainter. • g 'I