Star.
London, England, 1808-08-19 00:00:00

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The disputed rate, last year, at Lewes, MONIS
Orville and Cerlifrat, has been settled by the Stewards,
to whom the case was returned by the Jockey Club%
as depending upon a point of fact which the latter
had no means of ascertaining. The Stewards hare
decided, that, as the evidence was equally strong on
both sides, the prise be equally divided between the
parties. • •
A very excellent and well-contested race took place
on Wednesday at noon, on Epsom Downs, between
a bay horse, belonging to Captain Bitten, of the Ist
Regiment of Dragoon Guards, and Captain OLIVER'S
brown mare, Humming Bird. Captain B.'s groom
rode the horse, and Captain °Livia the other. It
was one heat only, over a two mile cot"se. At start-
ing the mare took the lead ; she was afterwards dis-
tanced, but soon recovering the ground . again got
a-bead, and came in at the winning post by a length
at least. The mare won easily. The race was for
100 gs. Although the intended sport was but little
known, there were on the Downs many elegant eqni.
pages ; among the pedestrian spectators were many
amnion of note.

••• • - READING, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16.
The OW Cup, value 600. the rest in specie, the owner of thi
550222 horse being entitled so his wake bacl. Poet miles.
(Tvreive Subscribers.)
Mr. M. Dilly's bh. Gumbo, by Sir Perry, syn old - 1
Mr. Goddard's b. b. Mountaineer, 6 yrs old -1
Ld Barnsnote's im b. Pavilion, aged - 3 •
lhoo 4 on MOuntatoser, $ to 2 apt Gnatho. •
"Vies 3.yr olds, 7st. sib. and 4-yr olds, Bst. 71b. fillies and
geidirgs'atlowed-21b. Two-mile heats.
LE batryiltore's fir. f Miranda, by Sorcerer, s yrs old I I
Capasbi Halaenden's br. d. Corsican, 4 yrs old (broke down) 2 &
9 to 1 n:1 Cordcan.
WEDNESDAY.--Sweepstakes for 3-yr olds.
Ld Barrymore's Miranda, walked over.
.e5O Plate for all ages.
Mr. Dilly's Gumbo - 1 1
Captain kiasernderes Sir ; annedot . - 2 2

anIiaIASPORD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16.
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His Mdesty's Plate, 100 p.
1.4 drosvener's b. f. Ms' by Sir Peter, 3 ynold • I I
Mr. WillLlmes ch. f. by Roaster 8 yra old - 2 dr
A Subscription of sge. each, with SO added, for Hunters reds
by Gentlemen, 121 t. Two-mile heats. (5 Subscribers.) '
Mr. Hem 's b. g. by Corlarder' aged - .1 I
Mr. Emhden's g• .h. tipcculadtm 5 yrs old - 2 2
Mr. L. Kortwright's br. m. Flirtilla, 8 yrs old - 9 3
WEDNESDAY.—The Town Plate of £5O. (Maiden.)
Mr. Williann's eh. 1. by Bower, 3 yrs old - 1 2 1
s Ir. Fmbden's b. f. Highland 1.;00, 3 yrs old . . 3 1 2
lr F. Standish's cit. c. by Mr. ' resale, 3 yrs old 2 dr.
Hunter's Plate of 50gs. entrance added, Gentlemen rider,.
Mr. C. Parker's Shy - - - 1 2 1
Mr. 1. Wright's m - are -- 2 1 2
Mr. Harding s mitre - - - 3 dr
THURSDAY.—The Steward's Plate of ,e5O.
Mr. Williams's ch. f:lie Boaster, -I yrs old - 1 1
.Mr. Hcarn's b. g. *and - . -3 2
"•i r. Emden's b. f. Lass, 3 yrs old • 4 3
Mr. Golding's b. m.erry Maid, 5 yrs old - 2 dis.

A house in the city, connected with India, received
letters yesterday, which positively state, that the King
of PLasia had declared war against this country.
Yesterday morning Count MAtaiosa, accompanied
by som" of the Sranish Deputies, attended the Qua-
-- eting, in Hemmings's-row, Leicester-fields.
..aame Lk: GENLIS. to *hom the Public are in-
debti for so many excellent works, has lately pro-
kced at Paris, a new Historical Romance, intitled
Eelisaire." The genuine French edition with i o.zs,
tad also the English translation, is, we understand,
to be published this day by COLBURX, of Conduit-
street.
The grave and virtuous Reformer: will, doubtless,
hear with uncommon satisfaction that there are to be
;Treat Improvement: in St. Jame:': Palace !
A countryman, after attending a debate in Parlia-
ment, being asked his opinion respecting the Ora-
!ors, replied—,, Why, they talked a great deal about
Eyes and Nose; bat had'nt any thing to do with she
Head !"

Several tootkivs Spinsters of Fashion are highly
lelighted in reading the high price which was lately
given for a broken-mouthed Lure !
The secluded Lover: hear Parson's Green have been
Amply supplied with Ice by a London Confectioner.
'Re trust this is no symptom of inciiiietst coolness I
The most serious and alarming disorders to the vo-
taries of Haut Ton nre
CON 6UMPTION —in the ?odd /
Dectame—in Beauty!—and
ALL OBSTRUCTIONS—it mattes of Diims

pieces ;
.it then went up the chimney, without doing
any further damage. At Dicton, a horse and several
fat sheep were killed in the fields. The Seven Stars,
on Gateshead Fel}, was also struck—some cattle were

A !angst ishing Widow, in the last stage of the tender
paLrion, has engaged a residence in the vicinity of
Si-on !

killed in that direction. Some women in a cart had
a narrow escape, as the cart was much damaged, but
they were not seriously hurt. A pike of hay was en-
tirely burnt at Cramlington. The daughter of Ti-
' mothy Pollock, of the Rose, Halfway-bank, between
this town and North Shields, was standing at the back
door, with a comb in her hand, the lightning struck
the back of the comb, singed it, and curled up some
of the teeth, without doing the least injury to the
girl. A new smelting mill at Derwent-heads, near
BLanchland, was nearly swept away by the flood, to-
gether with a considerable quantity of lead ore."

EXPENCES OF PUBLIC OFFICEL-d•Tt appears by the
accounts presented to the Hou..e of Commons relating
to the increase and diminution of expences in the
Public Offices, bAween the Ist of January, 1806,
and the Ist of January, 1808, that the expences of
the office of the Commissioners of Military Enquiry
were 1,9161. Bs. 9d. le, s during the last year than in
1806. In the office of the Paymaster-General the total
increase in the amount of salaries, &c. in 1807, was
26261 to which is added, a temporary inmate of
17101. Rs. f. rel :yen ex ra clerks employed in bringing PARSONS-GREEN FAlR.—This rural annual fair com:1
up the al rear accon, t of the Paymaster-General to menced on Wednesday, amidst a numerous assent..
24th of December, 1804. An increase in the salaries
blage tfenteel visitants residing in the above neigh:
to the officers under the Auditor of the Receipt of his bourho The tents and stalls pitched on the green,
exhibited a very picturesque appearance. Richardson,
Majesty's Exchequer has taken place between the Ist
day of January, 1806, and the Is: day of January, the emperor of pageantry, erected a most magnificent
theatre, and his Sock and Buskin heroes represented
1808, to the amount of ei`2,120 per annum, pursuant
to an Establishment proposed by the Auditor, and ap- a grand Melo-Drama, classically denominated...fator
proved by the Lurch Commissioners of his Majesty's Patric. The plot and catastrophe of the peace did
Treasury, to commence from the sth of Jan. 1806.
;not detain the audience more than ten minutes, but
i in
No increase or diminution has taken place in the num- that short space of time the Dramatic
Perrone
con-
trived to bring the Devil and Bonaparte in close Ali.
ber and amount of the salaries, et the rates of emolu-
ance. The sports and festivities of the Far were con-
inments and .ees, or of espences to be borne by the Public,
tinned yesterday with undiminished eclat, and .2 more
the offices of the Marquis of BUCKING/AM and Earl
CAMDEN, Tellers of the Exchequer; excepting that pleasing scene has seldom been exhibited.
an allowance of 24L 6s. Id. made by a debenture Newcastle Lammas Fair commenced on Thursday
from the Treasury to each Teller, under the provi- se'nnight. At the Cow-hill on Friday there was but
sions of the Act of the sth of Queen Anne, 4 the ' a thin show of cattle : fat brought tolerable prices,
trouble of his clerks in the payment of certah(leche- ! while lean scarcely obtained a bidder. Good much
quer annuities for ninety-nine years from 1707, cre..l,coms sold well. Very few horses offered for sale ;
aced by that Act, an& the annual sdlowsiaces of tthose of good quality fetched moderate prices. Swine
261. 18s. 81d. and of 131. 9s. 4d. made also by deben- ; Inset with some advance.
tures from the Treasur to each Teller, under the Britford Fair, near Salisbury, was held on Friday,
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provisions of the Act o the 6th of Queen Anne, for ' last. The number of sheep and lambs penned amount-
thef trouble of his Clerks in the payment of certain !ed to 19,000. The sales were very doll, and the ave.:
ether Exchequer Annuities for ninety-nine years, firm ' rage prices full 6s. per head cheaper than last year.-
1708, created by the last mentioned Act, have ceased Wethers fetched from 275. to 395. per head. Ewe,
in consequence of the expiration of those ennui- from 13s. to 275. per head, and lambs from 1 ls. to
19s. per head. The greatest -demand appeared in
ties. The salaries of the four under Clerks in the
favour
offices of Earl Barman., and the Hon. W. F. E. of four-teeth and aged South Down,
EDEN, the other Tellers of the Exchequer, have been homed Wethers. There was but 2... Luray. she and
w of
increased, which is the only increase since 1806. igood horses, and they sold very high.

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WIT, STIFFOLIL, AUGUST IT.
Extract of a letter from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, An- • The Commission for bseding the Assizes for this
gust 16 :...44 The thunder storm, which we experi• County was opened on Thursday afternoon, by Mr.
enced on Monday se'nnight, has, done much damage Justice Hams only; .he Lord Chief Justice, Sir I.
in this town and neighbourhood. Thefollowing is e Motown:en, being detained at Cambridge with causes,
summary of its effects :—'_n this town, the hose and did not arrive hem till after the other Judge had
which suffered most, is that of Mrs. Raisbeck, in attended divine service: at St. Mary's Church on the
Westgate street. The lightning struck the back part, /wowing moneeg,
entered the usual dining room of the family, shivered Thirteen prisuners appeared upon the calendar, of
whom only flee was capitaily movietee, viz. Joseph
a door to pieces, and drove the fragments adoeg the
passage into the front room, tore theeslaister off the Arnold, for hernia:piously breaking into the dwelliug.
wall, and damaged some of the furniture. Several house ef Israel Abrakems, of Ipswich, and steaeng
of the bell wires in the house were melted, and a thereouteunisy Articles of jewellery ; but before he
black mark of considerable depth left along the walls judges left the sown he was reprieved.
where they were. Several of the windows were diat- on account ci the ill health of the prosecutor, who
' tired to pieces, and whole was driven through-44kt could not a ten S, Henry Banger, for maliciously s uts
chimney wall where the lightning had struck upon a :40113
cm the long is of a horse belonging on J. Coe, of
nail. Mrs.' Raisbeck and her daughter liad a Mc*, id, simeeliseharged, upon agreeing to enter into
providential escape, having removed from the Is ems . the m wine eorpe
where the principal damage occurred, a then time-be. 'F.,. pisz„, Nary C di, Elsnoor Grigth, Jaws Sri.
fore, in order to avoid the glare of the lightning. In 1,,, Roe, I„,,„ith, Rekaa Holland, and Thos. livi,n,
the next house, occupied by Mr. &Ming, some of the were acqu i: .ed.
bell wires were melted, windows broken, and the top The case of the two first-named acquitted prisoners
ofahee pcntstruek off. A young man, who was painting exceed a very great degree of incersst, the If. ee.
the inside of the house next door to Mr. Jobling's, was being of such a shocking nature as i. is hoped tezy
struck down, and thrown into convulsions ; but, we never again occur • they being capitally indicted sae.
are happy to say, is now quite rescoiered,Some. tiles der Lord Ellenbcrough's Act, for edministeees.
'were taken off Mr. Leighton's lieuset on the opposite noxious or destructive substances, and using alert
side of the street, but no other .ciamage was sustained means, with a view to procure the abnrtion if a qa:t lk,
' than that caused by the torment of rain which milled echild, with which Ann C.henejeeervant to Mrs. Mary,
in. Two men *. work in the neighbouring chapel Codd, of Haughley, was then pregnant ; and whose
were thrown ageinst each other by the shock, but not ' said mistress had employed Pizzy, a common farrer.
much hurt. The house of Mr. Farrington, Biggs to effect this atrocious purpose. After a trial efeeat iy
Market, was also struck, and the bell wires of two rooms five hours, and the deliberation of the Jury fpr eu
and the stair case melted. The common sewer at minutes, out of Court, they were both acquitted ! bt.t
the head of the side. was so full charged with water, • such was the indignation of the populace, that when
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consequence of the heavy rain, that the pavement !
the woman was released, she was hissed and hooted
was forced up for several yards, and the, water issued all the way from the Court till she took shelter in a
from the aperture, for a considerable titre, as if thrown 1 public-house in the town, from whence she was hastily
by an engine. • I driven off in a post-chaise.
" The lightning struck the house ce.larnes bah, At these Assizes there were seventeen causes en.
Esq. of Jesmond, in two places. The funnelem the leered for trial, the most interesting of which wee the
top of the library chimney was broken in pieces, following :
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thence it passed down the chimney into the library, • . nevus, eta. a. CITINERY.
throwing down the soot, and singeing the hearth.rug. int
le was an action of trespass brought against the
It also entered by a window on the stair head, strqck 1 Defendant, for having cut in pieces, and spoiled cer.
a barometer,- hanging by the ode of the windowel
. eein pasts, reilitAc. of the Plaintiff. The Plaintiff is
.which it shivered to pieces, passed along all the bell- 1 it ector of Bradfield, St. George, and bad placed pct
wires, and went round the gilt frame of a large eiett. and rails round a green, opposite his house, high
cure in the drawing room, which it has completely , enough for cattle op go under, add for the pupate of
tarnished, then pierced the wall a little above •the' eeepi„g carriages, sec. fyif.
. The Pefendant cut them
chimney piece, and disappeared. A large rent Was I, dovs, and after they were aown, cut diem in marry
likewise made in the wall communicating with a closet [ pieces and spoiled them. He entered a justificatic re
in the kitchen, the lock of the door forced off, and i as having a right of common on the green; but it be-
two balls of fire appeared to the servants to fall on the . ing proved that he' might have taken the posts and
kitchen floor, and escape by the door. Fortunately : rails down, without destroying them, the Jury found
no one was hurt, although part of the family were on a verdict for the Plaintiff, damages 30s.
the stair head when the barometer was broken, and woopwenns v. DARBOAD AND tueniscrose
the servants were in the kitchen when the fire passed This was an action brought by the Plaintiffs, who
through it. A windmill belonging to Mr. Hodgson, keep the White Hart, Wickh..m Market, to recovi r
on the Leases, was struck, two a the wands cam- the- hire of their horses and chaises, which were en.
pletely shattered, and the perpendicular axes in the I gaged by a Mr. Larlum, at the late contested election
centre of the mill, down which it passed to the ground, forYarmouth ; but it being proved that he hired tl em,
considerably damaged, particularly at the bottom, not by the authority of the Defendants, but of outer
where a loud exp osion took place, and a man and persons, the Plaintiffs were nonsuited.
boy were stunned and a little singed, but not mate. On the Friday evening, a writ of Inquiry was ex.
rially hurt. A horse running in a post chaise on ecuted, in which John Tiros Hervey Elwes, Esq. was
Gateshead Fell was struck dead by the lighaing, as Plaintiff, and John Pytches, Esq. Defendant, to reco.
also a horse killed at Colehill, belonging to a person ver the value of certain trees, felled and sold by the
at Wcetsled. Two people sitting in a public house Defendant, off his own lands, which were copyhold
on Gateshead Fell were struck by the lightning—one iof the Manor of Stoke by Claret &c. of which the
was knocked down, and the other's arm was benumb- Plainter was Lord.
ed. Mr, Maddison's house, at Birtley, was struck ; The Jury, after the necessary evidence was heard,
the cans thrown fram the chimneys, several windows assessed the &Images at 4831. .ss.
with the frames torn to pieces, and the copping stones The Assizes having ended on Saturday evening,
on the gable end of the house carried to a consider- the Judges, after attending church next morning, left
able distance. At Lumley, near Chester-le-street, the this town, accompanied by the High Sheriff, in order
lightning entered the roof of a house, and killed a to dine with Sir Charles Bunbury, Bart. at Barton,
woman in a lower room. Mr. J. Sheradon, of Hough- from whence they proceeded, on the same evening,
ton-gate, had a cow killed in a field near that place. on their route for Norwich.
Mr. Xirlcup, of Urpeth, had several lambs killed in a
field near his house. The lightning entered the roof
of the house of John Cole, at High Chaytors Haugh,
and forced off the head of the clock, and broke it into

Yesterday n orning, about four o'clock, a fire broke
out in a rick of new-hay, in the farm yard of Captain
Williams, at Mill-hilt, neat Hendon ; several engines
went fro :n Hampstead to.eXtinguish the fire.
The house of Mr. Taylor, cabinet-maker, in Glou-
cester-street, near the Asylum, was, on Wednesday
morning early, broke open,4nd plundered of plate and
wearing apparel to a considerable amount. ••
A singular robbery was commit ed at Camberwell,
on Sunday morning last A 3.7idow lady and her
two female servants left the house, according to ens.
torn every Sunday, to attend divine service, when
two persons drove to the door in a single horse chaise,
which was immediately opened by a confederate
within : one of the villains stood by the chaise until
the other packed up a quantity of valuables contained
in bundles, which were placed in a chaise, and both
drove off undiscovered.
A child, the son of a Mrs. Rolf, of Poland-street,
Yesterday morning, between one and two o'clock,
a daring gang of house-breakers obtained an entrance
into the dwelling-house of Mr. HAYES, flour factor, in
' Gainsford-street, Horsleydown, by means of certain
implements, and took away a quantity of plate • but
whilst in the act of taking goitre o her articles, the ser•
vants heard a noise, and, on an alarm being given,
they were obliged to decamp with the valuable booty
they had already obtained.
Bow-STruti r. -.A boy belonging to one of the
Receiving Offices of the Two-penny Post, yesterday
underwent an examination, charged with secreting a
letter containing a five pound note, which, on applica-
tion at the Bank, was found• to have been pad in by a
banking hou,e in Lombard street, when, after !Tieing
it through different hands, the Publisher of a M rn-
ing Paper proved that be received it from tile pri-
soner, who was remanded for further examination.
MARLBOROUGU-STREST.—Yesteaday an officer in
the army, of the name of Smith, was held to bail for
an assault on Mr. James, a landlord in Mary-la-bonne,
, and sending him a provoking elk Menge. The wail
1 of the victualler is the sister of the defendant, ao4
some family differences had arisen,
hi
cause of
atrabreaaa.—ma
breach oftli; pea e.
was
wyesctheral"sayfusheny
committed for stealing r leg of lamb from a butcher's
stall in the Broad Sanctuary, Westminster.
UNION-HALL.—W. Hughes and Elizabeth his wife,
were yesterday charged with being accomplices in the •
robbery cornnitsed in the dwelling-house of Mr.
Hayes, of•Gainsford-street, Horselydown ; part of the
property was found in their possession, and they were
committed for further examination.