Star.
London, England, 1808-10-01 00:00:00

PROM LLOYD'S LIST.

CRAVEsr.mo, SEPT. 3 i.—Sailcd the Alert, natter'', for Cadiz;
Return, Crawley, for 0 Wolter; Whim, Bowen, for Algirrs ;
Ant, Harris, for Stockholm •, Blucher, Mercier, for Malta;
Search, Bloomfield, for Oporto ; and the Hope, Humphreys, fur
Dublin.

Brans!' NAvv.—The amount of the British naval
force up to this day, is as follows :—At lea, 92 ships
of the line, 12 from 50 to 44. guns, 13J frigates, ise
sloops, &c. 166 gun-brigs, and other vessels--total
538. In port and fitting, 33 of the line, 4 from 50
to 44 guns, 34 frigates, 69 sloops, &c. 64 gun-brigs.
and other vessels—total 204. Guard ships, &c. 39
of the line, 7 of 50 guns,.3 frigates, 2 sloops, 2 gun-
brigs—total 14. In ordinary and repairing, 46 of
the line, 13 from 50 to 44 guns, 56 frigates, 49 sloops,
&c. 15 gun-brigs and °the* vessels—total 179. Build-
ing, 60 of the line, 15 frigates, 22 sloops. &c. 6 gun-
brigs, andother vessels—total 103. Grand total 1121.

COVENTZARDRN Compastv.—The • Tragedy of
The Gretiass Dasegkee, was last night only remarkable
for the fine pathos and admirable effect which Mrs.
SIDDONS imparted to the interesting Eufthraria. Ia
her-filial attentions to Bander, and her strong expos-
tulations with the tyrant Disapirs, she most skilfully
discriminated every emotion :that could be supposed
to arise from the opposite passions of Love and Ha-
tred.—ln the Farce Of The Poor SekSer, ItectEoost was
warmly received, and loudly encored in the favourite
Air of “ Sleep on my Kathlane dear." MUNDEW was
irresistibly ludicrous in Darby ; and FARLEY rendered
Bogota nwirejrnig. character. Miss BOLTON and Mrs.
Lterom were very melodious as Norah and Katklane.
The himse was crowded, and the Proprietors have,
very properly, to prevent confusion, distinguished
each Box not intended for public reception, by a La-
bel inscribed a Private Property."
Mr. HORNE Toortz has been seriously indisposed
for several weeks past, at Wimbledon ; and, on Monday,
his situation became so alarming that his immediate
dissolution was expected by the Medical Gentlemen
who attended him. Yesterday, however, their exer-
tions succeeded in producing a remarkable change on
their patient, bin he still remains in such a state, as
from his great age must, tender a speedy recovery
doubtful. Dr.fbeatisom and Mr. CLINE have been in
constant attendance on Mr. TOOKE, during the whole
Of this week, and have slept in an adjoining apart-
rifmt:' Sir Faaw:is Bt tiiarr also attends the bedside
Of bit friend with the 'mbit anxious and tender solici-
tude, and has only been two hotirs absent from him
frOm the commencement of his illness.
New Sueumes.--According to annual custom,
the Loan MAYOR, the new and old Sheriffs, Alder-
men, &c. wen; yesterday in procession to Blackfriars-
bridge, where they took water on board the City
barges, and,being landed atWestminster-bridge, went
to. the Court of Exchequer, and were there introduced
to the Cursitor Baron, by the Recorder, with an ele-
gant panegyric on the respectability of their private
characters, and their fitness to fulfil the important of.
fices to which they had been chosen. They were then
sworn in with the usual forms, entered into the usual
sureties, and received an eloquent charge from the
CHIEF BARON.—The Resolution of Thanks voted to
their predecessors on Thursday, by the Livery of
London, in Common Hall assembled, was then read,
when the late Sheriffs passed their accounts as usual ;
after which the antient ceremony of chopping the tillers,
and counting the hob-naik, was performed, and the
old Sheriffs were dismissed. The procession then re-
turned to the barges, and finally from thence to the
London Tavern, where a sumptuous repast was given.
Thursday being the Annual Statute Fair at Walt-
ham Abbey, the shew of youth and beauty at that
place attracted the mobility from every quarter for
many miles round ; and the weather being tine, the
day was celebrated with the customary ceremonies.
Only a few accidents happened on this occasion, the
most remarkable of which was, the demolition of a
cart from Shoreditch, deeply laden with men,
women, and children, in consequence of one of the
wheels coming off. Great was the confusion and dis-
may.—Some ..p rains and bruises were, howevec, the
only damages sustained by the passengers ; but they
were under the neterrity of performing the remainder
of their jaunt:), on fuot.

CHARGE OF Sik INOLIND.
GUlLDHALL—Yesterday Caroline Main, alias Elr
zabeth Mgionald, a fashionable elegant-dressed female,
was charged by Alexander ISI‘Coy, of Invergordon,
Ross-shire, in Scotland, with swindling him out of
£5O. Mr. M.Coy, who speak, a mixture between
the English and Scotch languages, stated, that about
six months ago a man, who called hiniselltd•Donald.
came to lodge at his house in Scotland ; when hahad
been there about two mouths, the Fri sutler came, who,
lie said, was his wife, and that she came from Cromar-
del about two months ago. M.Donald, whose name
the witness had since [earned to Ise Edward Main,
and that he is a noted swindler, left his house, as he
said, to come to London on business, after having
borrowed a considerable sum of money from the wit-
ness. In a short time aft.rwards, the prisoner pre-
tended that she had received a letter from her hus-
band, requiring her immediately to go to London. She
persuaded the witness to indorse a bill for her for 501.
and get her cash for it, to bring her to London. The
bill was drawn on a respectable'hinker in this city.
The bill was returned protested, the bankers not
knowing any thing about the parties, and the witnets
was obliged to pay the 501. lie came up to London
in pursuit of them ; had been a week in town, and
was not able to trace them, until yesterday he by ac-
cident met the prisoner in Cheal'side, when he had
her apprehended.—The prisoner made no defence :
she had a Solicitor attending for her, and she ap-
'peated not to be the least agitated cr disturbed at the i
charge. The Sitting Magistrate said it did not come
under his Jurisdiction —if the prosecutor was fOol
enough to indorse a bill, he must abide by his own
folly. Mr. M,Coy declared that they had. ruined him
and his f.unily ; the zn they had swindled him out
of was immense, and he understood Main had ab.
sconded. The worthy Magistrate expressed his sor-
row that it was not in his power to do any thing fur
his relief. The prisoner was accordingly discharged.
M.situscutouou-srancr.—Yesterday Hugge,
journeyman to Mr. Broadwood, musical.instrument-
maker in Pulteney-street, was committed for robbing
his ready furnished lodgings Of linen, furniture, and
a silver spoon. • _ _ _

Forth, a publican from Aylesbury, applied
at this office on• the preceding' evening for the -reco-
very of his niece, whom he had brought up, and who
as decoyed from his house a fortnight since, by a
gentleman, named Churchman, from London, with
whom she cohabits. The publicax atated, that Mr. C.
slept several nights at his house previous to andather
Abingdon-races, and he returned again on tbs. 14th
inst. on a shooting.party. The niece and her para-
mour were missing in three days atter, but her guar-
dian traced her io her lodgings in Roll's-rents, Mary-
la-Bonne, when Miss refused to return with her guar-
dian. This being a case of which the Magistrates
could not take legal cognizance, they could only ad-
‘'ise the complainant hew to proceed.

QUEEN-SQUARE—YesterdAy Achar Baker was char-
ged-on suspicion of stealing a pointer. It appeared•
that two Police Officers were at a menagerie in the
neighbourhood of the Hay-market, waiting till the
master came in, when the prisoner made his appear-
ance, leading his prey with a rope, and offered it for
sale. The person in the shop, in the absence of the mas-
ter, declined buying ; but the officers, from his shabby
appearance, thought he had not come honestly by
the animal, and therefore detained both. In the course
of his examination, he said he had the dog from vari-
ous persons, among whom he mentioned Tring the
boxer, who was sent for, and although .he corrobora-
ted the statement made by the prisoner, he could not
describe the animal. 'rite prisoner was, however,
discharged, and the dog detained till the right owner
is found.

The miraculous preservation of the Cal: of Li3erty
from the late conflagration is, we trust, a prop;tious
omen, from whence we shall augur that the invaluable
blessing in our favoured isle will survive
'the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds;'
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and that it will verify the prediction of the Roman
poet, when he so aptly and so elegantly said—
•` Ergo etlam, cum me supremos dait ignis
" Virarn parsque mei magma s iperstes erit."

An Irish gentleman being lately present where a
bookseller was asserting that more money was got by
dead authors than by living ones, exclaimed, " At rah,
Sir, but if you do not encourage flying authors, *here
the devil will you find your daid ones ?"

The recent Failure of the two Lottery Coatrt e ors
has proved, that in Lorne in3tan:es there Are too many
iltatie to a trize !

On Thursday night last, about half past ten O'clock,
a fatal accident happened to the Rev. Mr. Vicazits.
of London, on a visit to Ramigate. He had cruied
with a party of friends at the Londe*Hotel diem, and
parted with them in the evening : he went out about
ten o'clock, unaccompanied by any other person, to
walk on the East Pier-head. He had got nearly to
the extremity of the pier, at which place Sir WILLIAst
CURTIS'S pleasure yacht lay moored alongside, when,
in looking over, the night being dark, he stepped too
far, and fell between the vessel and the wall (against
both of which he is supposed to have struck in his de-
scent into the water), a height of about thirty feet, and
was taken up with several bones broken, and otherwise
so dreadfully bruised and lacerated, 'that he expired
about three hours afterwards.—A Coroner's Jury sat
the following day—Verdict ikcidental death.

On Saturday evening last, between the hours of six
and ten o'clock, some daring villains broke into the
house of the Rev. Sir ROBERT PEAT, of Norton-street.

It appears Sir ROBERT had lately had a lease granted
of the above premises, and having employed a work-
man to repair the house, left town for Worthing. He
had put several large trunks, &c. filled wit)-.--plate,
linen, books, clothes, &c. into an upper-room, and
had left a man Servant in the house to sleep in the
room. He had, however, unfortunately left the house
on Saturday evening, when the robbery happened.—
The servant returned at half-past ten, and on going
into the room discovered on the floor a candle burn-
ing, a dark-lanthorn, and a favourite little spaniel
lying on the fluor. irfost of the trunks, boxes, &c.
were rifled ; but we understand the principal loss Sir
ROURT has to lament is that of some valuable pa-
pers, writings, &c. respecting his estates in Poland,
which, although of no use to the robbers, are of
sn-
rieus importance to hip.

GOBBLING INTHE LOTTERY:

Wednesday Mr. CAPEr. and Mr. Wu.son, two gen-
tlemen of great respectability at the Stock Exchange,
waited, at the request of the Creditors, on Messrs.
Wistsii and NESBITT, at Clapton, when the latter gen-
tleman made a thorough confession of the state of their
affairs. Their creditors are chiefly persons in the Stock
Exchange, to the amount of more than '200,0001.
The assets to pay those debts consist chiefly in the
houses which fell to the lot of the City Tickets; some
few thousand pounds owing by two. Noble Lords ;
1 rwooi . in the Chamber of the City of London, which
*as left as a deposit tit the third City Lottery, but
hich is ,now relinquished ; a few thousand pounds
owing by persons for Tickets their own two houses
at Clapton valued at 10,00011. • and a,Seat in a cer-
tain Houte,. estimated at 9000 L—amounting in the
whole to about 150,0001. W the City Houses, valued
at 102,0001. shall fetch the sum they are estimated at.
They also confessed that about 60 or €70,000, of
the Subscribers to the Lottery's mcn.ey had been ex-
pended in what is known by the name of Gobbling
Tickets in the late Lottery. What led to a detection
f this curious business is the determined opposition
Mr. Btu, gave to the system he saw going on, and it
is he, we understand, who has filed the Bill in Chan-
cery for a full discovery. The following is an expo-
sition of what is called the Gobbling Plan :
suffiner two I.othici... of 2;,000 tickets each, tr contracted
, for, at IGL t iced, and the ripener of each Lottery is £20,000,
if the puhEc take only 17,000 tickets in each Lottery, at lid. and

the tickets drawn on.hand produce sOl. each, there will be neither
refit nor loss on the account.
Suppose a Contractor, either originally or by transfers, gets
40,tap0 out of the 50,000 tickets into his ham': at par, and pur-
chases 50,000 near produces at par, he would neither win nor lose.
But if he passed through the books 2,500 tickets, at 201. each, as
..old to Office-keepers, which be can easily do, by sending them
customers to purchase the tickets to bring then' back to him, there
will appear by Sales on his books, a profit of In►. per ticket, out
of which he will have to pay only sesuoo to the Subscribers, who
held the 10,000 tickets, whilst he mill r..cLirr .4:25,000 of those
who sold the Bears, and by that means pocket 1'20,000 as under :

• 4.800,000
40,000

PAIR ACCUIVNT.
50,000 Tickets, cost £l6 c.sch
Expences, two Lotteries

Total Cost 640,000
11,000 sold to the Pnhlle, 201. each - 656,000
16,000 drawn on bald 160,000
Produce f 1140,000
50,000

Par. OW,OOO

0011111.tNG ACCOUNT.
54,000 sold to the Public 1:680,000
4,500 Gobbled 50,000
13,300 drawn on hand 115,000

845,000

X).000

30,000 cost as above

840,000

Nominal Profit - -
'To pay the Holders of 10,000 7 ickets - 5,000
Co,itraetor's Profit squeezed from scars 20,000
The sum to be laid out by an individual, who had a speculation
in Lottery 't ickets, would 1w immense ; if he bought 2300
Tickets, he must advance at least 50,0001. and remain out of his
gooney till the Lottery Iva. over ; whilst a Contractor could buy
et 23470- Tickets for a gobbling purpose, by advancing a trifling
• nun for p der; for if the Office-keeper bought the Tickets of hitn
\ an in. day, and he knew t tat he had sold them, the Contractor could
send for the H !oney the cat day, and gobble afresh; the Contrac-
tor Wing nothire at, rt ; two or three shillitegs per Ticket, the
adherence in price, front what he charged the (Mice-keeper, and
• what the Dice-keeper charged him.

25.000