Star. — London, England, 1810-09-05 00:00:00

F ELECTION; or, LANDLORD AND TENANT. LANDLORD. For good Sir John Pliant your vote I require; And will brook no denial to what I desire. • TENANT. I prithee, your horour, attend to my prayer, While my reasons I humbly, but frankly declare : This Pliant'S a time-serviog Placeman, or worse, Whose only goad qaalities lie in his purse. I scorn as an Englishman, honest, tbo' poor, To vote for a man whom I'd kick from my door 1 • I NDLORD. So you dare to refuse what of right I demand? Then, good hlester Patriot, give up any Lod. RF.FLr.CTION. Thus from farm and from harbour see Honesty turn'.', Because at Dishonour and Meanness he spurn'd— Asserted a right which sweet Liberty taught, To think for himself, and to speak as he thought. LrcEum THEATRE. • Monday night was performed for the first time— PLO IS ! or, THE NORTH TOWER, CHARACTERS. Baron Ilexatudale, Father to Frederica - Mr. Dow-ro N. Earl Malcolm, a Scottish C:lefrain, in love with Frederica Mr. Hoe rt. Gondibert, a Foundling, in love with Frederica —a rightful heir of Malcolm - - Mr. Flutters. Oliver Arson, a faithful Servant to Gondibert Mr. Satt re. Austen, an old Soldier, Father to Laura - Mr. PENSQN. Arnulf, a Jailor in the Baron's Castle . Mr. KNIGHT. Lurcher, a low Country Fellow, a Deer Stealer Mr. OIRERRI Oswald, a confidential Attendant of Earl Makelm Mr. J. SMITH. Frederica, Daughter to the Baron • - Miss GRIGLIETTI. Laura, Daughter to Austen, and Servant to Frederica - - • - - Mies KELLY. S'ece e on the borders of Scotland, and Northern part of Nor thumberland. FABLE. The Castles of Baron Hexamdale and of Earl Malcolm ere situ wet; near each other. A mutual hatred subsists between these two Chief., the former having refused the hand of his daughter Fre derica, whom the Earl has solicited in marriage. Urged by re verge and love, he determines toenter her father's castle by night, " and hear her away, and for the purpose employs a body of ma rauders, whom he keeps in tonstant pay, to assist hint in the enter prize. He is defeated in his purpose by the arrival of Gondibert and his marrOliver, who arrive at the moment he and his party are entering the balcony of Frederica's pavilion. Gondibert and ' Oliver follow the Earl and his party to the chamber, rescue Fre derica, and drive away the assailants. The Baron and attendants are alarmed; he accuses Gondibert (whom he had reared an orphan in the Castle, and had banished for his presumptuous love of Frederica) as the Author of this attack, to claim the credit of his daughter's rescue, and in which he is confirmed by his return without permission, and orders Ar• nulf, the gaoltr, to confine him in the Round Tower: la the bus tle Oliver eicapet. A plot is laid between Austin, Laura, and Uliver (who is a lever of Laura's) to free Gondibett. This is overheard by Lurcher, who, in revenge for Laura's leaving slighted his love, and to procure his own pardon fur deer:stealing, dis closes the scheme to the Baron, whose head is filled with the Constant idea of plots and schemes against his peace. Laura follows Arnulf to the North Tower, Gondibert's prison, and administeritig a sleeping potion in wine to Arnulf, he sleeps, end Gomlibert is about to escape, but is prevented by the entrance of the Baron. He is again secured in his prison but by accident discovers an iron whkh opens a trap in the floor of the dun. geon, from who're lir bears the sound of voices, and descends the subterranean as a providential means of escape. By many winding wages he descends into a cave beneath the Castle of Earl Malcolm, whoa he encounters, and by threats is indticed to guide back the way he had descen ded; in doing tb.is lie extinguishes the torch, fastens h door by which he entered, leaving the Earl and Oswald confined on the side leading to the Baron's Castle. Gondibert thus effects his escape, presents him self before the Baron, discloses to him the situation of the Earl, They repair to the North Tower ; the Earl and Oswald ascend by the trap, being the only way they could pass from their con filement, and are secured by the Baron and his people. Austin discloses the secret of the Earl having destroyed his elder brother, and attempted to strangle his child Gondibert, who is recovered by Austin, and laid in the path of the Baron, by whom he is fostered. Gondibert succeeds to his rightful inheritance, and re ceives the hand of Frederica. Such is the fable of this Piece, which was received by an elegant and crowded audience with every • token of approbation and applause. The music possessses a well-founded claim to a considerable share of originality. Some of the duets, and several of the !icings, were deservedly encored, and one of them rapturously cheered, viz. And thou art young, my gentle Maid, , And thou, my pretty Maid, art fair ! • Thy form's by Beauty's band array'd ; Thy breath is like the morning air That on a taft of violets plays, ' Or o'er a bed of roses strays; Yet 'twas not form, nor rosy line, That made me love thee as I do. And canst thou tell, my gentle Maid, Why heaves my breast at thoughts of thee Why crimson o'er my cheek has stray'd, When those soft eyes were Mid on me ? 'Twas that in thee I saw comblo'd Pach grace of form, and charm of mind.; • 'Twits virtue only could subdue, And make me love thee as I do. This PHILLIPS sung . with full effect. Some little murmurings were heard about the be ginning of the first Act. But they were speedily suppressed by loud and repeated acclamations. Last night the new Opera was repeated. The-per formers exerted themselves in their respective parts with great zeal and ability, and the general effect produced by the Piece afforded more qualification than on the first performance. Dowron was excel lent in The Baron, and PHILIPS acted with spirit, and gave his songs in a very able style. The new Gothic scenery,so appropriate to the plot,was much admired. The following quaint Epitaph was written by CA - AM, one of the finest scholars in the learned reign of .CHARLES I. and whose fame is by no means propor tionate to his merit : The purest soul that e'er was sent Into a clayey tenement, Jnform'd this dust; but the weak mould Could the great guest no longer hold. The subs:anre was too pure--the Same Too glorious that thither came; Ten thousand Cupids brought 101 l A grace on each wing that did throng For place there, till they all opprest Tho seat in wh!sh they sought to rest; go the Mr model broke for want Of room to lodgi th' inhabitant. BAR runLougw FAIR.—As the present degraded state of Holland clearly proves-that Dutch metal is not so plentiful a commodity as it used to be, it is possi ble that the toys, cakes, and mimic robes of this cele brated Fair may be less rich in ornament than usual. There are, however, fairings, glittering in sterling Engruh gold, which almost all families have now an opportunity of presenting to their favourites : for in staace, what a noble gift would be a Sixteenth only of one of be five Twenty Thousands in the approach. jog State Lottery 1 t COLD-114171-FIALDS PRISON. FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE INQUIRY RELATIVE TO THE ESCAPE OF ROBERTS AND HARPEIt : During the examination of Mr. Ails, sen. he stated tint he was ignoiant.of an opinioi% having prevailed in the prison, previous to the inquiry, that the two prisoners had been assisted in their escape. It how evtr turned out, en the examination of Mr. Haswell, the pris clerk, Oat he had acquainted hint that such an opinion did prevail ; and, consequently, Mr. Ails, scn. examined Daniel Aris, and the boy, M'Na mara, on whose testimony D. Aris was committed. On one of the turnkeys finding all the Fates open, M , Namara informed him of the conversation D. Ails had with Roberts on the preceding night, and the turnkey informed Mr. Hasu el, the Clerk, who com municated it to Aris, the Governor, and which led to the examination. Mr. MAINWANING upbraided Aris, sen. for such a shameful denial of a fact which he must have remem bered ; and the latter observing he had never done an act in :iis life of which be was ashamed, Mr. KAY, the Bank Solicitor, expressed his belie! that Aris never did f s .el shame. The conduct of D. Aris was highly inaecorous De. fore the Committee, and he was reprimanded by Mr. N i tliES, the Magistrate ; he was ordered to be ironed. D. Aris's salary, as principal turnkey in that part of the prison where Roberts was confined, was £1 Ws. per week. There were only two of Aris's sons, and a son-in-law, who married his daughter, employed in the prison. Mr. Newport officiates at present as Governor of both Clerkenwell prisons.—D. Aris will be examined again in a few days. ' The affair of the family of Mr. Aris ought to be a lesson to the Magistrates a Middlesex not to turn a deaf ear to complaints against their servants, from whatever quarter they may come. • The prisoner, who has made his escape, had forged Dividend Warrants, by which he had received near £3OOO. He had also been concerned in a robbery upon Blackfriars Bridge ; in various forgeries of bank notes ; and he was the man who personated Earl Percy about a year ago, and swindled some money lenders out of £12,000 upon pretended annuity bonds. The misfortune is, that in this last instance the proofs were clear against him, and the public have lost the opportunity or getting-rid of the most perfect adept in his art, now in existence. In consequence of the late fabrication of a dividend warrant, a new regulation has been adopted at the Bank, by which, when a dividend warrant is presented for any sum above d:100,-search is to he made before payment, in a hook provided for the purpose, to as certain that the party namei in the warrant is ac tually a holder of stock. In the case above alluded to, the dividend warrant was fabricated with a ficti tious•name for a'2,400, presented at the office for pay ment, and immediately paii, nor was it discovered till it was afterwards &•livered over to another office in the usual course of business, that no person of the name inserted in the warrant was a holder of stock. Two one thousand pound notes, part of the sum re. ceived on the warrant, were immediately changed for smaller ones in the name of a banking-house at the west end of the toss a. POLICE, &c. GUILDHALL.—A legion of pickpockets from Bar tholomew Fair were brought up by the officers ap pointed to superintend the morals of the visitants to that delectable scene. They were all well known characters, and, in order to keep them out of the way of temptation, they were ordered to be confined until Friday, by which time the attractions of Smithfield will have vanished. Mr. Saunders, the Manager, Proprietor, Treasurer, Prompter, Sceneshifter, Puffer, Critic, and General Superintendant of the Horscmanical Circus in Barth°. lomew Fair, attended, in compliance with a Magiste rial summons to answer a grievous charge laid against him for a violent assault. The complainant in this important case stated, that about five years since, he had acted the part of Don Grimacieriano, in a Spanish Melo-drama, perfor med before the Royal Family of the People at Ed monton Fair, for which performince Mr. Saunders became indebted to him in the sum of £1 19s. 6d.— He had frequently made personal application for the money, but he invariably received ill treatment, and IRELAND. EXECUTIOX.—On Friday the 24th ult. the dread ful sentence of the law was put in execution upon .Mn Cherry and Charles Ile, erwood, for the murder of John M'Clure. The prisoners were escorted by a strong guard of several corps of yeomanry, and a de tachment of the Derry militia, from Carrickfergus t which they left at five o'clock A. M. to the towilland of Procliss, in the parish of Drumaul, the scene of the horrid crime, which is hitherto unparalleled in the annals of this country. On arriving.= Antrim, Underwood was permitted to have an interview with his wife, which was extreme ly affecting. This young man, who had scarcely at tained his 21st year, was married only one week pre viously to his apprehension, and not a month before the termination of his life. John Cherry was attended by three of his sons. Upon reachiag Randalstown, the party halted for above half an hour, when the prisoners being brought into the Court-house, and Underwood introduced into an inner apartment, he there in the presence of Mr: Aiken the Magistrate, Dr. Henry, and one or two others, made a full and ample con fession of his guilt. While 'Underwood was in one apartment, the old man was in another, where he was exhorted in the most earnest manner by the Rev. Mr. Pratt, Vicar of the parish, and by Mr. Fulton, the Sub-sheriff, to acknowledge the justice of his sentence, and to confess his guilt ; but, sheltering himself un der the casuistry, that 66 not having struck a blow, he was not criminal," he persisted in continuing deaf to every argument, sitting with his legs across, and taking snuff in quantities, with the most hardened composure. On the arrival at the fatal tree, the Rev. Dr.Hcnry offered up an energetic prayer, to which the youth paid the utmost attention ; but the aged criminal seemed stupidly obdurate. Immediately afterwards, Underwood stood upright cn the car, and with calm firmness addressed the multitude in nearly these words : not unfrequently a good hdng. On Monday, he was walking through Bartholomew Fair, and observing his debtor in the full pride of a markt coat, he again demanded his money, when, instead of obtaining the expected boon, Mr. Saunders jumped from his booth by a sort of Auffling comerset, andi with the fury of a tiger, fastened on him, and committed a gross assault on his person.—This was the head and front of his offending," and for this satisfaction was demanded. Mr. Saunders, on being called on for his defence, made one of his most reverential bows, and in soften ing tones beseeched the Magistrate to withhold his opinion until the plain unvarnished tale was told," as facts alone would warrant. He then proceeded to rebut the charge of the plaintiff; he denied owing him a farthing, and observed, that he had refrained from approaching him until his offensive language became insupportable. He then came from his Thea tre for the purpose of removing him, when a mutual scuffle ensued. "You see me here, my friends, brought to this shameful end in the flower of my youth. 1 beg of you fur the love of Goo, and if you would Wish to escape my fate, to avoid bad company of All sorts, particularly shun cock-fighting, drinking, and swearing; and above all things pay attention to the Sabbath•day, and never 'emit attending meeting, and hearing the word of GOD :—For the love of GOD mind what I say. 1 deserve to die, for lam guilty; but it is a consolation to me that I did not rai►e my hand; beet I might have saved the man. I take it upon my death, that it was my uncle John Underwood who struck McClure upon the bead, and Robert Courtenay who stabbed him with a bayonet: it was this unfortunate old man who caused it all—Galway was as bad e what he swore was•partly true, and partly false—he did not oilzr his daughter in marriage. Then turning to Cherry, he addressed him in the most earnest and pathetic manner, nearly as follows : "And nor, John Cherry, for the love of GOD and your own soul, confess your guilt !" Here the hardened old man looked up most impudently, interrupting him, as if offended, and muttering, " What would you have me to say ?"—" You have been a very wicked old inan, and have been the means of bringing roe here. My (ion ! when so young a creature as I, am so cast down with the weight of my sins, what must be your case, and you so old ; for you know you always bore a bad characte;? For my part am now light, and am rejoiced that I am going to die ; for having begun so young, my sins would have been encreased, if a had not I been cut ofr. The devil had g•it hold of me. Come ! b&gin for Coo's sake, and state all your sins from the first. May Gut) fur give you ! .1-do and every one." ' • A shroud, &c. being produced, Underwood with the greatest fortitude and deliberation divested him ' self of his clothes, even including his shirt ; and hav ing put on the shroud, distributed his clothes amongst his friends, and then said he hoped what he had said before was heard by every one.—" I spoke as loud as I could," said he, " and 1 hope you remember it ;" and whilst the dreadful preparatioa was making, he continued his address, repeating and enforcing nearly the same sentiments. At length, on the car being driven away, the unfortunate men fell to the ground, every thing having been ineffectually done by the mi serable executioner. Above twenty minutes elapsed in re -adjustin g ; the ropes, during which time Underwood stood steady ; and being told that he had a few moments longer, be replied 44 Goo is still good to me, and I have always been ungrateful," and then employed his time in ex horting the crowd ; but Cherry only muttered as be fore ; and while every heart throbbed for Under wood, not a feeling of pity was excited for the hoary villain, neither did he seem to feel for himself. The scene at last closed. Underwood was a fine erect youth of abotit six feet high, light hair and complexion, long visage, and bad a very sensible and rather a gond countenance. 1 Cherry was a set old man, about five feet seven inches high, with a weather-beaten countenance, expressive of low cunning and assur►nce—he could neither read a nor write. While Underwood was dictating what was written down at Randlestown, he exclaimed with great feel ing, " Oh that ALNIIGIITY Goo would soften the • heart of that old man. He has hid much experience ) and I am but a young man and have been led away." It was noticed, titat when Underwood was exhort ing Cherry to confess his crimes, though his sons were near him at the time, none of them joined in that request, but preserved an expressive silence. It is asserted that Cherry has loft seven freehold properties worth from 8 to £lO,OOO. When at the place of execution Underwood asked for several of his acquaintances, and they were called fron, among the crowd and told that the organ wan ted them. Many went forward to him. He shook hands with them and bade them farewell. Previously to being tied up the second time, he held up his right hand and declared that he never struck M'Clure. The bodies were suspended about 35 minutes, and after being taken down, that of Underwood was con veyed to the County Infirmary at Lisburn, for dissec don, but on account of the contrition he had manifest. ted, it was given to his father-in-law and his other friends who applied for it. The body of Cherry was delivered to his sons, who took it away on a car, but on their way home they got drunk, and had a violent quarrel about the division of their father's property. These facts were corroborated by an officer, who saw the whole transaction, and the complaint was dismisse4l. A man named Champion, was accused of stealing £lO from the person of Richard Dummit, on Satur day night, in Blackhorse-alley, Fleet-market, but for the want of satisfactory evidence to substantiate the fact, he was remanded until Wednesday. MANSION HousE.—A veteran of the light-fingered corps, named Francis, was yesterday charged before the Lord Mayor with diving into the pocket of a gen tleman named Hinde, on the preceding evening, in , Leadenhall-street, and taking from thence a silk poc ket handkerchief. It appeared that Mr. klinde was standing at the window of a print shop, when the prisoner came behind him and committed the theft. Mr. Hinde feeling the motion of his pocket, turned round, and saw his handkerchief in the hand of the prisoner, whom he immediately seized, and gave in charge to an officer. He was committed for trial. John Nowlan, a porter in the service 01 Messrs. D - :vey and 'Roberts, chymists in Leadenhall-Street, was 1 BARTHOLOMEW P4i :R. next put to the bar on a charge of felony. - It appeared from the.testimony of John Walsh, a ' After . the ceremony of proclaiming t artholom- 4 clerk in the same house, that the prisoner had long Fair, on Monday, the Lord Mi•yor :and SistriT, t ,„ l been suspected of dishonest practices, and was yester- into their carriages, and returt.ed to the It.lan s , ~ day watched, when he was detected with a bottle, House. . Mr. Sheriff Wood received the huzzas Glu t ; containing seven pounds of quicksilver, concealed in spectators from the moment of his arrival in s mit h . the top of his hat. field until his departure. The mo nteilt t h e hair Ira The prisoner confessed his guilt, and threw himself proclaimed, a loud and surprising peal burst on th e on the mercy of his employers ; but, from the fre ear. Drums, gangs, horns, cymbals, fiddles, crack e d quency of this description of crime, the Lord Mayor, trumpets, broken bassoons, and salt boxes, p ro d ucel with great propriety, committed him to take his trial, a concert sufficient to distract 8.21ial himself in di,: as a warning to others. ; , Hall of Pandemonium. Emperors, Ki ngs , H ark •• . , : qu i ns, Punch, and the Devil,,were immediately in „ c. tion, arrayed in splendid attire. T:ie Lord 111.0. • lisued an order, previous to the Fair, for the stalls t : , be erected outside to the foot-path, and the aven u es to be kept clear. Richardson, Saunders, Sca wto.i, and Polito are stationed in grand s tyl e . A n elegan.. refectory, or genteel suite of apartments, for the sal. of sammes, black puddings, and o th er d a i nt i es, W 4 prepared in the centre of the sheep pens. Amon., the most prominent rarities were a scientific elepha nt, capable of opening locks, unbolting doors, and miny o .Hi i . wild The e,,eepreh;ounffimi with m office s e a: s l as; rarities teo fi i aen n tsi e pw, ,es number erzebraedt giants, i : ao , ri ) fd m til s ,si display ,lni the aswi a or dwarfs, s a , ci i ai tigers,eun , d:::. in d r% %di . 1 G :1:I t.dee , sn , r t . without arms capable of performing works of art.— The City Marshal with his Constables took up ;lair Right Steward through Piccadilly, Hon. Lord and Kensingtonthe inhabitants, were thrown into great consternat i on on Sunday night, between ten and elev en o ' c l oc k , hr the escape of a leopard from a carava n which w 4.; conveying it to B irtkolemew Fair. The a n i ma l ran into the lower part of one of the houses whi c h are re• building on the South side of the stre e t b etween the Church and the Haymarket. The keeper, wh o soon discovered the escape of the animal, r an about in great agony, calling for a blanket and some ropes; but when the people heard the purpo se fo. w?tich they were wanted, they retreated from the spot with the utmost precipitation. Two monkies maimd at the same tune, one of which was taken in an oyster shop on the spot, the keeper of which closed his 4one immediately, lest the monkey might be followed by a more formidable visitor. The leopard, we are sorry i to find, was not taken without injury to one of the men who were employed on that hazardous service. The animal bit one of them so severely that the pent. man was obliged to be taken to St. George', Hoyt -1 tal. The way in which the animal was secured by placing a den before the door of the cellar in which he had sheltered himself, but it was with ro i i small difficulty that he was induced to enter it. Tie! horses, which drew the caravan, it seems, took fright, ran off full speed and overthrew it ; the cage which contained the leopard was thrown out, and so 'hat ' teted in the fall, that the animal easily escaped: On Wednesday a young man, named R. Gore, was drowned while bathing at Margate. The boat of a Revenue cutter hastened to his assistance, and in about five minutes got him ashore, where he was o b serve d to move his eye-lids ; but owing to the mistaken mq,e of holding drowned pefsons np by the heels, it is sup. posed that the small spark of life which had been kit within him was rendered extinct for ever. Friday evening, as the Hon. Mrs. WALPOLE was returning to Waddon, near Croydon, in her carriage, the horses tank fright, front the very vivid lightning which then prevailed, and gallepped furiously along the road. The - coach in a short time ran against a hank, by which it was upset. Mrs. W. had her !tilt arm broken by the concussion, above the elbow ; s!iit was otherwise much bruised. The coachman escaped with some slight . contusions.., ' List Friday evening, as one of the Worthing coaches was on its journey to Brighton, it was over. turned near Buckingham, and some of the passengers materially hurt. A gentleman named Cole, a sohci. tor of NVindsor, who has been sojourning at Brigh ton a short time, was'thrown from the roof with such violence that his right leg was dreadfully broken,his left leg lacerated to the bone, his right arm cut, the wrist put out of place, and the shlulder disloca ted. Another gentleman, named Taylor, also an outside passenger, received a severe contusion on his forehead ; and the coachman and two others %veep hurt, but in A much less degree. Another Worthing coach that was 1 . -Bowing took up the two unfortunate gentlemen most injured, and on their arrival at Brigh- ton, Mr. Cole was attended by Messrs. Hall, Born, and Baker, who, we arc happy to state, after reducing the fracture and dressing the wounds of their patient, left him in a much better state than could have lam expected. . A plumber being lately employed to repair tie pipe of a pump, belonging to Mr. Bond, of Chad leigh, found the carbonic gas from the well (which had Inot been opewd since the dreadful fire at that place, in 1807) so powerful that he would not venture in: two miners, rho had been at work in the neighbour hood, coming by at that instant, one of them • 1101 " i tee' ed to go down, (a ladder, 19 feet in length, had I previotisly been fixed), but before he had descende d ' half that depth, fell otf and sunk to the bottom, aba t forty feet. His cf:mptution followed, and shared de came fate. A joiner, named Nosworthy, causal rope to be I:i.ed round his wititit, and was let 111'4' but on his senses going off, the nonw. of the rer slipped, and he was likewise precipitated to tie b•'• tom. Another man had the rope fastened hetweeT his legs and round his waist, but had not proceed.; ten feet before his senses left hint, and he was Jr.o o 'up nearly lifeless. After this they procured a go?: I piing; iron, by which the three bodies were extricat,' from the well, but the life of each was estinst. M AR RTED. At Liverpool, CA Monday se'eLight, Win. Douglas, Esq. 1-" v tenant-Co:onel of Its Majesty's istb Rtgotunt, to :slarra ., ;f. daughter of Thomas Trtters3l:, Esq. of Evertoa l lilt. On the 30th tilt. at Retrial, the Rev. 1)aohl %Venom r of Rontsey and Troubto y, to Mn. Iluorr., withal. 4 my I ' 4 ' Major Mourn, of the Royal Mantles. Sunday. at East Ti.bury, Ensign Francis Lars i gornr , r'!" 4 York Rangers, to Mary Ann, only datghter ut ;I'..aja I Midgley, 1)IED. On the 21th ult. in the 33d ymr of his av, Cargo J." /tubby, of die Royal Navy. .ONDON: Pranicd and p•lbl.+shrd by LEVEL STA tics, No. 1, Carey-tweet, and at the 24141 e-flu. T SrA Of 4-4