Star. — London, England, 1821-12-26 00:00:00

1 , Come, bring, with a noise, )fy merle merle boys, The Chrisinas-log to the firing; While my good dame, she, Bids ye all be free, And drink to your heart's desiring! Yids the lad year's broad Light the iseta Had, and For good success in his spending, On your psaltries play, That sweet luck may . Come while the log is a tending ! Drink now the strong beere, Cut the white loafe here, The while the meat is a-shredding. For the rare udneeide And the plums, siknd by, To All the paste that!, a kneading! CEREMONIES• FOR CHRIST~iAf. ORM HIRRICK'S HLSPERLDIIS). A SEASONABLE HINT.-. 4. very talkative Gentle man dining with the great Prince of CONDE, having' related several marvellous stories of the late King of PRUSSIA, his Highness requested him to contintw the recital of his life; but the Gentlemair:perceiving ' that the servants had began to clear the table of the good things during his long-winded narrative, broke off abruptly, exclaiming, "but the King died suddenly!'` The late Dr. BARRETT is said to have resisted until nearly the last day medical advice, upon the sole ground of its expensiveness. Some humane person remonstrated with him, and his answer was, he could not afford the doctor's fee. This matter, said the friend, presents itself to me in a light in which it does not, probably, strike you. I take it that you are worth thirteen guineas a day. lam quite sure medical ad vice will save you—and if it only prolongs your life one day, costing you but a guinea, you will be ac tually a gainer, by so trifling a loss, of twelve guineas! " Do you se: me now ?" replied the old miser—" I did not take that view of the case. I agree with you— send for the physician." About fifteen years ago, a male child, wrapped in fine white linen, was laid down at the door of Dr. —, in Sunderland ; the Doctor, actuated by the purest feelings of humanity, had the little foundling taken care of, and has ever since cherished him as his own. Within the last fortnight Dr.— received a letter from an Officer in India, who, after declaring himself the father of the boy, announces the fact of his having settled 05,000 upon him, and executed a deed of gift of L:500 in favour of the Doctor, for the great care which, he understood , he had taken of his son. • About a fortnight since, a dashing fellow, pro fessing to be a man of fortune, took up his lodgings at an Inn in Bideford, where he soon won the affec tions of one of the landlord's daughters. On Thurs day se'nnight they were married, and a few hours after the ceremony had taken place, whilst the happy couple were feasting with their friends, a relation of the gentleman made his appearance, and not being acquainted with the occasion that brought the party together, without hesitation exclaimed, loud enough to be heard by all the room—" Well, brother, you are a lucky fellow! the business about Sal is all settled to our satisfaction, and you may return borne.* The bride fainted—the bridegroom swore—the com pany stood aghast; at length it came out that the newly-married man had a wife and two children at home, and that his visit to the above town was in consequence of a woman swearing a child to him, In the midst of the confusion which this discovery occasioned, the bridegroom and his brother made a sudden retreat, and have not since been heard of. A few nights ago, the Duke of York Inn, in York, was Woken into, and robbed of several pairs of boots : the thieves, scorning to take anything away dirty, stopped to clean them before they went off. Friday as a poor woman, of Ide, near Exeter, was passing a mill-pond in that neighbourhood, she was, by the violence of the wind, forced in and drowned. REMARKABLE TENURE FOR LANDS.—At Brough ton, near Brig, in Lincolnshire, some lands are held by the following tenure. Every year, on Palm Sunday, a person from Broughton, comesinto the Church porch . at Caistor, having a green silk purse containing 2s. and a silver penny tied at the end of a cart whip, which he cracks three times in the porch, and conti nues there till the second lesson begins, when he goes into the Church and cracks it three times over the Cler gyman's head, and then kneeling !Afore him during the reading of the second lesson, he, at the conclusion of it, presents him with the purse and its contents,and having done this, he retires into the body of the Church, and continues there during the remainder of the service. Cum: OF HYDROPHOBIA.--The Gazette de Smite (Gazette of Health), a Medical Journal, published in Paris, contains the following article :• • M. Marc chetti Surgeon of the Hospital at Moscow, being in the Ukraine, in 181,, was requested to give his as sistance to 15 persons who had received the bite of a mad dog. A Deputation of aged men waited upon him, and entreated he would administer help to the unfortunate persons, through a peasant, who during several years had acquired great reputation for curing Hydrophobia. M. Marochetti consented upon certain conditions.—The country Doctor then administered to 14 of the persons confided to him, in a peculiar way. The 15th, a ) oung girl of 16, was treated in the ordi nary manner, for the purpose of proving - the effect of both modes of treatment. To each of the 14 he give daily one pound and a half of the decoction of the buds of yellow broom-flowers, and he examined twice a day under the tongue, the place where, according to his statement, • little swellings are formed, containing the virus of madness. These swellings rose the third or ninth day, and w seen by M. Marochetti. Ve:y soon alter they appeared they were touched with a sharp red-hot needle, after which the patient gargled the part with the decoction of broom. The result of this treatment was. that the 14 patients were cured in six weeks, whilst the young girl, treated differently, died on the seventh day, in convulsions of madness. Three years after, M. Marochetti paid a visit to the 14 persons, and they were all doing well. The same Physician, being at Podolia, jo 1818, had a new op portunity of confirming this interesting discovery.— the happy result of this mode of treatment was the same with reference to 26 persons, who had been all bitteu by a mad dog." CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES. The Duke and Duchess Of BEDFORD entertained a large party of fashionables yesterday at their seat, Woburn Abbey. Lord HOLLAND entertainei a select party at dinner yesterday, at his house in Old Burlington-street. CHARLES Garrftrat, Esq. gave a grand dinner on Saturday to Count and Countess Letvax, Vis count and Viscountess GRANVILLE, and a distin guished party, at his house in George-street, Hano ver-square. The Earl and Countess of HARRINGTON had a dinner party yesterday, at their house in the Stable yard, St. James's. Sir CHARLES and Lady Lowe entertained a select patty of friends yesterday at their seat, Bromley Hill, Kent. The Marquis and Marchioness of BUCKINGHAM entertained a large party of fashionables yesterday at their seat, Stowe, Bucks. The Earl and Countess of SEFTON are entertaining a large party of distinguished fashionables at their seat, Croxteth Hall, near Liverpool. Lord and Lady GAGE are entertaining a distin guished party at their seat, rule, Sussex. The Earl of BRIDGEWATER entertained a large party 'of distinction yesterday at his seat, Ash ridge, Herts. Sir WILLIAM and Lady Hourrox are entertaining a select party of distinguished visitomat their seat, Avisford, Sussex. Sir JACOB ASTLEY keeps open house during the Christmas holidays, at his seat in Norfolk. Lord and Lady BURGIIERSH left the Brunswick House Hotel, Hanover-square, yesterday morning, on a visit to Lord and Lady MARTROROUGH, at their seat, Abingdon, Cambridgeshire, for a few days, on their way to their fathers (the Earl of WESTMOR LAND) seat, Apthorp, Northamptonshire. Yesterday, a benevolent friend to the Irish poor, most plentifully supplied the children of the St.Giles's Irish Free Schools (between 200 and 300 in number), with a dinner of good old English fare, roast beef and pluni-pudding, at their school-house. in George street, St. Giles's. It was pleasing to see the joy and gratitudeexpressed in the countenances of these happy little ones whilst partaking of their welcome meal, on witnessing the attention paid to them by their kind friends and supporters, by personally waiting on them. Yesterday morning, pursuant to public advertise ment, a Grand Pontifical High Mass was celebrated by the Rev. Dr. POYNTER, the Catholic Metropolitan Bishop. At an early hour the avenues leading to the Chapel were completely crowded, and before seven o'clock there was not even standing room; there must, at least, have been 4,000 persons present. A few minutes after eleven the choir commenced the service, which consisted of the most celebrated compositions of HATDN, MOZART, and other eminent composers ; there were also performed a grand Credo adeste fideks, and Gloria in Excelsis, composed expressly for the occasion, and given in the most exquisite style, by a very numerous choir. A Sermon was delivered by the Rev. Mr. Doreatux, from the Gospel of St. Luke, beginning at the words, Glory be to GOD on high, and peace on earth," Brc. from which the Rev. Gentleman delivered a discourse ; after which a liberal collection was made for the sup port of the establishment. The new church of Berkenllead, near Liverpool, was consecrated, on Monday last, by the Bishop of Cii Man. About six o'clock on Friday morning, a stack of chimnies (nearly fifteen feet in height), on a house in Bath-street, Bristol, occupiej by Mr. PEARCE, sta tioner, yielded to the force of the tempest, and fell on the adjoining house, occupied by Mr. HILL. The latter and his wife slept on the second floor, and their three daughters in the attic. Upon hearing the crash, Mrs. HILL jumped out of bed, crying out that her children were lost ! and rushing up stairs, found that the whole roof had been beaten in, and that the three girls had been buried in the ruins. The screams of the family soon brought several of the neighbours to their assistance, and on removing some of the rubbish the girls were extricated, two of them without any other injury than what they. sustained by the fright, and the third with a few severe contusions. It ap pears that part of the roof, immediately over the beds, sustained the weight 'of the falling materials, and thus saved the lives of the girls ! A post of one of the beds was forced through the floor of the room, and some of the bricks were driven into the room on the second floor. The weight of the chimnies pro bably exceeded two tons. The Correctional Tribunal of Marseilles, on the 11th instant, tried Captain Quota tam, accused by the Public Prosecutor of having trafficked in Negroes. He was condemned to the confiscation of his ship and cargo. Extract from a letter from Rio Janeiro, dated Oc tober 24, 1821 r—gg The MORGIANA , Captain FIN.. LArsorr, has had her detained slaver, the Amelia schooner, with 815 slaves, belonging to Bahia, con demned to her. The MORGIANA has sailed to-day for Pernambuco. The squadron on this station, under Sir T. HARDY, ate all round Cape Horn, except the SLANRY and BEAVER, which are in the River Plate, the Donis, at Pernambuco, and the AURORA frigate, Captain Paucorr, C.B. which is here: these ships are lying fur the protection of the British interests at these respective places. Pornamisuco is at present in rather an unsettled state. A Portuguese frigate uiled hence last week, to take on board the Gover- nor, and convey him to Lisbon, to account for his conduct before the Cortes. Prince Don PEDRO'S birth-day was celebrated here on the 12th inst. with very distinguished splendour—the good people of Rio like him very much. The English and French ships fired a Royal salute on the occasion. The French squadron here consists of the Jean Bart, 84; Clorinde frigate, 50 guns; Antigone, 46 guns. The Clorinde proceeds to Valparaiso as soon as refitted..— Sir T. HARDY sailed from Valparaiso for Lima, at the latter end of July.; the OWEN GLENDOWER was to remain until relieved by the CONWAY, when she was to proceed to this place and England. The ship Alesander, in sixty days from Guernsey, and the Nightingale, of Greenock, in sixty-nine dal s from Liverpool, arrived here oa the 16th imt." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CAPTAIN smiTirs: MATCH. . This match, for 200 guineas, to ride ten horses a hundred miles in tight hours, took place on Monday, over a ten-mile piece of ground, at Zearsley, Hants. The Captain rode about twelve stone, and had trained for the match, which was done as follows : Hours. Min. Sec. First ten miles - 42 18 2d ditto - - 39 27 34 ditto - - •••••• 44 20 4th ditto - - 48 22 sth ditto - - 52 18 Bth ditto - - —. 35 10 7th ditto - - 57 8 Bth ditto - - 42 12 9th ditto - . 44 14 10th ditto -.- 47 20 7 12 39 The Captain bad taken 100 guineas to SO that he did the distance in seven hours, but his third horse wanted the whip and spur, sad the fourth fell down, or he wield no doubt have won both the bits. THE SIXTY-TWO MILES A DAY MATCH FOR TEN DAYS. Mr. Wes?, the Pedestrian, completed his sixth day's labour on Monday night, in the neighbourhood of Wefis,Somersetshire ; and, notwithstanding the wetness of the season, he is fresh, and backed at 6t04 to win. He went the first day . to Winchester, and from thence to Exeter, traversing a day's Journey towards London, from thence to I ioniton, Devon, and across the country into Somersetshire. While travelling, he does five miles an hour with ease to himself, and at Intel:a — al, fakes a swinging lunge 50 or 100 yards. Ile purposes finishing near London. PIGEON SHOOTING. A Pigeon Match, at eleven birds each, took place on Monday, an amthall Flat, between Messrs. TATI and Haunts, from Suf folk, againit Messrs. Dove and Ilaaatson, from Ilerts, for fifty guineas a-side. The following was the result :—T.sva killed 10, and his coadjutor seven. Dove killed nine, and his partner eight, which made it a tye. A second match took place, instead of drawing the stakes, when Hatton killed nine and Tsar eight. The opposing party killed eight each, and lost the match by one.—Tare challenged Haws to shoot at 15 birds each, for half the winning money, which was accepted. HAZZJIS killed twelve birds, and his ad versary tea. As Lord BINGHAM was riding on horseback on Monday down Bond -street, his horse fell nearly op• posite Burlington Gardens, and was near rolling over him. His Lordship was covered with mud, but for tunately escaped with only a few slight bruises. There is now in the garden of Mr. TURNER, of Park Hall, chrysantheums, carnations, pinks, and roses, in full bloom. Monday noon, a beautiful rainbow was seen ex tending its brilliant arch over the west of the metro poliF. This appearance, so unusual on the eve of Christmas, excited great attention. Shortly before Earl Bavuunsfs last audit day at Cirencester, his Lordship wrote to his steward, de siring him to communicate to the tenants that he did not wish them, in the present depressed state of the Agricultural nterest, to force their produce into the market, and that he was willing to postpone the re ceipt of his rents till the ensuing spring. In consequence of the present depressed state of agriculture, the Rev. Mr. Msvatcx, Rector of Urch fort,Wilts, has liberally reduced his tithes 10 per cent. being 22i per cent. within three years. Sir T.B.LETH• BRIDGE, Bart. has made considerable reductions in the rents of his tenants in the western part of Somerset shire since 1815, and, with other Gentlemen, is about to make a further reduction. Mr. BASTARD, M.P. has reduced one of his Devon shire farms from an annual rent of £270 to .C 1.50; and Mr. Boum( has reduced one of hisestates in the same County from a rental of £5OO to L.. 100. Saturday, was distributed at Eton, tickets to nine hundred persons, including all the working classes, entitling each to a pound of beef, the fourth of a quartern loaf, and a pint of beer, for Christmas din ner, furnished from a reserved part of the Coronation subscription. The celebrated Braml,er Agricultural Association, of which Sir C. M. BURRELL was the President, is declared to be at an end, owing to the depression which pervades the agricultural interest. A' private letter from Madrid, dated Dec. 10, says, " By the advice of his Council, the King and Royal Family will this day go to the Prado, a Royal resi dence two leagues distant from Madrid ; all rational people approve of this precaution." The father of the present Supreme Director of the Government of Chili (Don.parnard O'Higgins) was a native of the County of Sligo. He was obliged to enter the Spanish service in 1767, from the restrictions then placed on persons of his religious persuasion inlreland. A singular mistake occurred at Park a few days ago, which highly amuses the upper circles of society. MATTHIEU DE MONTMORENCY is a great bigot-- or, as they say, very religious, and goes generally to the Church of Foreign - Missions (Jesuits), Missions Etrangeres. On being appointed Minister, and going to take possession of the Hotel of Foreign Affairs, he ordered his coachman to driveauz Ai:sires Etrangeres: the coachman, being no politician, fancied`it a mis take of the footman, and drove his Excellency direct to the Church of Foreign Missions. ANIMAL INSTINCT.—A Medical Gentleman, in the neighbourhood of Worcester, in the beginning of the present shooting season, borrowed the favourite pointer of a particular frien d,: who was about to visit the Continent, for the Months of September and Oc tober. One day, in sporting, the dog, in endeavour ing to disentangle himself from a hurdle, broke his leg, which the immediate and constant attention of the worthy surgeon in a short time cured, so that, at his friend's return, the dog was delivered to him as sound as before; but the kindness of his careful nurse was not to be forgotten by the faithful animal, who repeatedly paid him a visit. One morning, however, thesentlemen was dist ut bed:in his study, by a scratch ing and whining at the door ; on opening which, he discovered his old patient, and a friend with Mn, (anotherdog), which had broken his leg, and gazed in the humane surgeon's face with•that powerful look of entreaty, which is sometimes so much more pet:- suasive than words, and which, it is needless to say, obtained the ready attendance of his medical friend. ELEGANT GLASSES, FURNITURE, &c.—The No bility and Gentry are invited to inspect the INare roomsof COOPER and Sox, 93, llishopsgate-street Within, where is exhibited an assortment of new and second-hand Plate Glasses, admirably suited to every description of drawing or dining-roams. In the fur-' niture department is comprised every new and ele gant article of upholstery, cabinet, and chair-work, the prices of which are reOuced to such a scale of economy as to attract and ca sure the patronage of rank and fashion. HOW TO GET A CHEAP RIDE! John Kilburn, a person well known on du a list seller, Etc. being at a town in Bedfoze,l Summer, and, according to a turf phrase. qui.e down, and it being the week before I:ichniond near which place he wa. born, to arrive time, hit on the following expedient :—He to a blacksmith of his acquaintance to stamp padlock the word's 64 Richmond Jail," whi the chain, was fixed to one of his le, s, and posedly went into a corn held to sleep. A, pected, he was soon apprehended, and ta k en f Magistrate, who, after some delitieratkn, arch constables to guard him in a carriage to tu t no time being to be lost, Kilburn saying, he been tried, and hoping they would not let hir another Assizes. The constables 1 , 11 their the jail accosted the keeper with--" Sir, do you know this man?" ,1 Yes, very well : it is Kilburn; I have known him many years." 44 We suppose that he hav broken out of your jail, as he had a chain and p a d, lock on with your mark?" " A prisone r ! I never heard any harm of him i n my lite." " Nat.," says Kilburn, " have these Gentlemen, Sir. They have been so good as to bring me out of Redfordsliii e, and I will not give them any farther trouble. I have got the key of the padlock, and not trouble 'Lem to I unlock it; I thank them for their good u , age." Th e distance he thus travelled was about 170 miles. ILCIIESTER JAlL—Since the burning down of th e factory of this jail, on the night of the 15th o f N o . vember, the buildings have been twice discoverel t o be on fire. On Saturday night, the Bth i r dis.. a fire occurred in the wash-house of the prison, which for. . tunately was extinguished without doing any f urt h er ' mischief than merely destroying COOS; do abl e Tian . city of linen, belonging to Mr. Harms-, the nev. I: e2 - er. On Saturday night, the 15th instant, soon after the prisoners were locked up, flame, were discovered to he ascending from the wa -1-house to the laundry ; t h e vigilance•of the task -master, and the other officers of the jail, as well as that of Mr. HARDY, had been very actively exerted in consequence of the two fu: merited. dents happening in such quick succession ; therefore the flames were discovered in time to afford prompt and vigorous application of a quantity of e ate: which happened providentially to be near at ha:,,; ; by t hi s means the fire was speedily extinguished, without doing any serious injury. In a few minutes more the whole of the wash-house, -laundry, bake-house, store-rooms, and offices belonging to the Keefer, would have been in flames, which offices are attached to those of Mr. Tosou, a respectable attorney, of Northover, the adjoining village ; and the va.flagra. tion must have been much more de.tructive C:citha which happened in the factory, if it had not torts nately been discovered when it was. The two female prisoners, through whose carelessness these accidents have occurred, will be prevented from doing further mischief in this way, while they remain in jail, as they are safely locked up in their wards, where they will remain to the time of their liberation, which sill soon expire. Since the 10th of November, when the new Keeper entered upon his office, the jail has bees three times inundated by the floods. On Sunda) last, when the post left Ilchester, the whole surrounding country was overflown, and the post-boy, in return ing to Yeovil, had to ride his horse neatly three quarters of a mile through the water, up to the skirts of his saddle. The water was so high that no cue could approach the jail, without being on horseback or in a boat ; it was seven inches deep in the turnkey's parlour, in the front lodge ; eight inches deep in the kitchen occupied by the debtors ; and six inches deep all over the other parts of the jail. BIRTH. Dec. 17, at Limerick, the Lady of V. H. ILdris, Esq. 6tl Dragoon Guards, of a son, MARRIED. Dec. 19, James Alachell, of .Newby Bridge, Lancashire, s Rosetta Hester, daughter of Captain T. Sanders of the Ha East India Company s Service. Friday, at Tunbridge Warburton Davies, Esq. to Spa Anne, daughter of Sir lames Bland Lamb, Ban. Dec. 18, at Ming, R. Aitchison, Esq. Captain, R.N. to am; daughter of the late Matthew Munro, Esq.. of Grenada. • Mandy se'nnight,at Lyndhurst, the Rev. C. W. Wodekaw, to Lady Jane Hay, sister to the Earl of Errol. Monday se'nnight, the Rev. Mr. Rawson, Dissenting at Pontefract to Ann, youngest d_ughter of John C10th,11,14 Banker and General-Postmaster, of Selby. Dec. 22, at Brighton, the Rev. Dr. Styles, to Sophia kcal daughter of the late Josiah Lane Colvin, Esq. of l'a;iiamtal• street, Westminster. October 30, at Windsor, Nova Scotia, the Rev. John Spratt. Pastor of the United Presbyterian Congregation of wieded, Newport, and Rawdon, to Sarah, daughter of J. P. Clarke, Es} Windsor, Nova Scotia. Dee. 17, at Aberdeen, the Rev. Patrick Forbes, D.D. Pro• fessor of Humanity, Chemistry, and Natural History, in tie King's College, and one of the Nliniaters of Old Machar, to May, second daughter of the Rev. Dr. Glennie, Professor of Nixal Philosophy and Logic in the Marischal College, and one of de Ministers of Aberdeen. DIED. Dec. 18, Lieutenant Sutton Sharpe, 11.14. Dec. 20, in Bedford-street, Covent-Garden, in his 84th yn l henry Curry, Esq. formerly of the island of Dominica. Sunday, at Kingston Crescent, I'ortsea, the Lady of Captil W. Shepheard, of his Majesty's ship Brazen, agzel .52 years. Sunday se'nuight, at Winchelses, aged 64, Mrs. :lime Soptil Heathcote, daughter of the late Sir Thomas Heathct.te, Ban. Dec. 17, at Aleester, aged 70, Jos. Brandish, Esq. Surgeon Ordinary to his Royal Highness the Duke of Susses. Thursday, at Bur3age, county Ctrlow, Dowager Lady 1/463 rtlict of :he late Sir Richard Butler, Bart. Dec. 9, near Kiirea, in the 57th year of his age, the Itet John Smyth, for £7 years Presbyterian Minister of that Co gregation. Dec. 14, after a severe and lingering illness, which he bare with Christian patience, the Rev. Thomas ....idlssou, aged 64 many years Rector of Grasmere . . . hut week, at Gosport, Captain More;, R. Y. aged nye''' fn Armagh, the 13th inst. in the prime of life, the lter. Lint Balt, lt.ctor of the parish of Drumelass, Cttre...e of thcoor Church of Armagh, and Chaplain and Inspector of the Coq jail in that town, At Tivney, Li the parish of Ardatraw, the Stli inst. in theei year of his age, the Rev. Robert Clarke, who o as .12 years of the Presbyterian Congregation in that vd..ere bislofr pitality mid benevolence will be ling r‘nrembered MAI LS Tots DAY.--A RR. DM 0 1 Waterford 0 2 Guetniey and Jersey 0 3 Lisbon 0 0 Holland 1 Douagatlce 0 0 • It R. 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