Star.
London, England, 1808-01-02 00:00:00

THE OLD YEAR.

At a late hour on Thursday night, old Tow. by its
annual motion, added another to the many years
already consigned to oblivion The properties of our
kind Friend Thee however, may well be compared
to those of the Pisaie, the offspring of which is no
sooner consigned to dust. than another, more
beautiful, is said to arise from its remains. Hence
the coming year has for many ages been celebrated
with more than ordinary expressions of joy : by some
it is hailed. with dances, songs. or other innocent
amusements, whilst the more thinking Oi of man-
kind, who scarcely suffer a moment at this season,
so replete with incidents that require their most se-
rious reflection, to piss unheeded by them, will readily
place the important moment amongst the fist: of those
celebrated by us Christians at this awful period—
surely none can strike us more forcibly than that of
the close of the year, when we reflect, that, whilst
our constant andbenevolent friend' Tone has been
showering upon us. his. invaliable *blessings during
its annual course only, no less than 30,000,000
of pour mortals having suffered an erinction of
the vital fire, have left their ,g earthly tabernacles,"—
and joined the spirits of the millions who had pre-
ceded them. Each day of the' passed year has seen
86,400 leaving the mortal stage—each hour 3600
each minute no loss thin 60 ; and even during the
short space of every seeinict While* we reflect on the
subject, one of theinhibitants*Of .tAit globe is just de-
parting to that world from whose bourn no traveller
returns."

The employment -of the talents given us by our
good friend Time will afford the moralizer a subject
no less speculative and alarming. l'Xis world, says
Epictetsis, is a theatre, 4nd our part in the drama of
lite is determined by one who gyms the part, and
chooses the actors ;'se it is, who,assigns to each his
particular part, the acting a whieh must entirely
depend on himself, and although to be unemployed
and idle, is 4 sign
onot Only. of a weak head, but a
bad heart,; yet how many "pf us, were we, with Ves-
pasian, to call ourselves to account for the actions of
the day past, would, be. ready with him to exclaim-
-44 Diem perdidi;". Tiine ought indeed to be used to
the noblest purposes, nor should we ever forget the
admirable admonition of Juvenal—

" Carpe Diem."
Siesta says, " We all complain of the shortness of
time, and yet act as though there would be no
end of it." This would not, however be the case if,
with Alfred, we assigned to each hour its peculiar
business. Scipio Africanus, says Cicero, was wont to
say " that he was never less idle than when he was
entirely at leisure ; nor less alone than when wholly
by himself." He was anxious not only to employ
time in the best uses, hut in subserviency to his inter•
nal welfare, that is, with a constant eye to the glory of
GOD, and the good of mankind—wherein consist'
our duty, and for which end all our 7i:ne was given us.

The vast collection of shipping at the Cove of
Cork, was on Friday last augmented by the arrival
of a fleet of eleven sail of transports, with different
detachments of troops on board, under convoy of the
Moselle sloop ; and on Saturday an order was to
expectedly received at Cork to disembark all the in•
fantry on board the tr.in.plrts in that harbour.
The following is a list of the troops on board these
transports. They arc said to consist of nearly 5009
men.

A detathmmt. of the Royal Artillery, corrimande
by Colonel Srawrcn . • 6th Dragoons or Clrbineer
by Major Moab:a ; 9th Light Dragoons, by
—; 17th Light Dragoons, by Lieutenant Colonel
LLOYD.

Fifth Region,lnt, commanded by Lk utenant C
DAVY ; 36th, by Lieutenant Colonel bnuice ;-
38th, by Lieutenant Colonel Neciar ;, 40th, by Lieu.
tenant Colonel Bitowm ; 45th, by Lieutenant Colony
GARDit ; 71st, Major Tour.
The 3d Garriszin Battalion, under the command
_

Lieutenant•Colanel NEDRAM, proceeded on Mo
the 28th ult. from Dungarvan to New Geneva.
At a Militia Meeting holden at Wingham in Kent
on Monday last, the enormous sum of MOTT -TV.
guineas was given for a substitute; the highest boun..:
we believe, ever paid on a similar occasion. .* •
Wednesday and Thursday last, the Royal Cheslti
Militia, commanded by Colonel PAnKiot, marchej
two divisio; s from Lewes barracks, on 'their route
Portsmouth.

A letter from the Master of a privateer, cruising
Bourdeaux, states, that in the beginning of the mon,
of. December, upwards of 150,000 French trooi
passed through Bourdeaux, on the way to Spain any
Portugal. This statement is not however credited
its full extent, by the following extract, with whi
we have been favoured by a Gentleman of high
spectability
!EXTRACT ?ROM A LZTTXR DATXI) owacuts one or xi
MSTY'S SKIPS O.TrIOVIEDIAIII,VOTR 13E0mill/it, 1807

. .
", We boarded an American brig: yesterday afternoon from
Bonrdeaux to New Orleans ; by her we have received the int
genee from the Paris Gesette, dated Paris, Dec. 14; of the arri,
of the French army at Lisboa, and'the depitetire of the Prince
Regent for the Brasil,. There are only tyro frigates in the RE
of Iltiurdeaux, befides the goa;a-ship ; and / do not think there
.any chance of their sailing fur some time to come."
The same Gendeman has ,also furnished us wit
following intelligence from Jamaica :
, ZITRACT PACO* A LlLT7telt ILICCINVI? Iltao3l JAMAICA,
, • • ' IPACICILT, DA 'PD. Tint Alff Ili 29, 1807.
. The seireitglaskwtnter, .crivingto the drf weather, and
eiXes26" since of i gar with' 4pierica, occasioned more t
its onto be paid to the eqltivacion of. provisions, and
• fine taint Mk four *or 54*Montitiliat,likie beep favourable to
so that should the Americans relent the-Measure of putting an
, p their carrying for, our tnetnics. (which I imagine our Gov,
•
went is now at last about to adopt)„so as to go to war with G 1
Britain, we shall meet it in this island with plenty, at least, of
necessaries of life." •

'

• The last China fleet furnished, us with accounts
'the safe arrival of flee
Warley and Wexford East.
Indiamen at the Cape Sept. 2Yd ; in the former -
-Sir EDMUND Chief .Justise of Prince
Wales's Island, whose arrival_atljhe litter place
be most anxiously exppctel, from *the prospsct of
mild and judiciousadministration of the la*sthavin;
the best effect in that island ; and Ave trust tffsluviri
gratified the wishes of Government in accepting
office will lead to a higher situation in tliat Co uitry
Lady'STA.taay, we understand, proposes gcbag,
in the spring. Her Ladyship has resided at Twit)
enharn hitherto.

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1/2:1

r POLICE.
Vit•-•
" 4.

'''.. ' DURLL/NG. . •
,MasmoN-Houss.;----Yesterday a woman in the em-
A meeting took place on sVednesdaV, near Totten- ploy of Mess's. Fourdrinier and Co. wholesale sta-
ham, between Mr. C. a Lieutenant, arid Mr. T. a toners "and pape
rags from their warehr-Makers, was examined
use. on a charge
Collegian, after two ineffectual .previous meetings, of stealing some A gnat
to adjust a difference which subsisted between them, number of women are employed by Messrs. F. to sort
relative to a debt of honour, the former Gentleman the rags, and from time to time those amtlemen have
had been held in sureties to keep the peace, aad at this missea quantities, in consequence they set a watch,
meeting he was slightly wounded in the arm by the and detected-the woman with a smar quantq in her
second fire of his antagonist, when their differences possesSion.—She was committed to Bridewc for a
wise adjusted. w.sek.
On Thursday, about eleven o'clock; .Mr. NARES, WIIITECHAFEI,.—Yesterday Ain Thompson, whom
the sitting Magistrate at Bow-street, received private we have previously mentioned as being in custody for
information that Captain Campbell and Captain Her- stabbing J. Walker, a hlack sailor, with whom she co-,
bert, of the East India Company's service, were to habi .ed, was fully cenonttted•,fr.om this office. The
fight a duel at twelve o'clock that day, on Wimble- Coroner's jury having brought in a verdict of Wilful
don Common ;in consequence of which he issued his Murder. .
warrant against the parties, and dispatched Adkins, Maidaimmuciit'SpatEr.—A haberdasher in Brook-
in a post-chaise, attended by-T. Jones, one of the'pa- street, moved with compassion towards a poor destl-
trole, to apprehend them. They proceeded to the spot tote girl of about ten, years old, took her some days
with all possible speed, where they arrived soon after ago into his house, in order to be serviceable in his
twelve o'clock, but the parties were not there. Ad- kitchen. Having, on Wednesday, occasion to send
kins went to the Bald-faced Stag Inn,
, about half a mile an assortmen' of goods to Str Alban's-street, for the
distant from the spot, and. inquired of the landlord,
insinpection of a lady, he thought he might send them
who inforrnd him that he had seen three Gentlernen a band-box by this wicked little inmate. He ac-
in a chaise go on the Heath, followed by two on horse.- cordingly did so.—After remaining on In r errand
back ; they remained a little more than a quarter of an near four hours, this wretched creature returned with
hour, and then returned; the chaisewent towards King- the box empty ; on her being interrogated by her
ston, and.the horsemen took the road for London ; a master, what she had done with the goods, sirs re-
man in the inn said he heard the report of a pistol while plied, that not being able to find out the lady's house,
the Gentlemen were on the Heath, and concluded she placed the box on the steps leading to a large
they had been to fight a duel. Adkini proceeded to door; and, after resting herself, she returned home,
the Robiii Hcod and Little John Inn; and mide hiqui- without knowing that the goods were taken out. In
ies of the landlord; while they were conversing, the this story she persisted before the Magistrate, who or-
Rev. Mr. Butcher, of Wandsworth, an active Magis- dered her into confinement. Before she had been an
t ate for the county of Surrey, rode up on horseback, hour in the cell, she confessed that she had carried the
who was likewise in pursuit of the duellists, and said goods to a woman in Westminster, whereupon the
he had received private information of their intention Magistrate ordered this notable receiver of stolen pro-
to fight on the spot where Sir Francis Burdett and Mr. perry to be brought before him without delay. The
Paull - did, on Coomb's Warren. The Magistrate I goods were valued at upwards cf 61.
and Officer accordingly joined in their pursuit ; the PICKPOCKETS.—About a fortnight since, a hanker,
Magistrate took the road, and the Officer went thres who resides within a few miles of Shrewsbury, cashed
the wood. Immediately after the officer got upon the I a bill for 4001. for a stranger ; soon after, on reflection,
warren, 'lie heard the report oftwo pistols. As soon as Mr.... ' he thought he had done wrong, and had not taken suf-
Butcher came up, he borrowed his horse, and set off I ficient precaution. He, in consequence, went in pur-
with great speed towards the spot where the reports 1 suit of the man, when he learnt that he, with a
ca me from ;he con met a post-chaise with three gen- companion, had just left, that town in a post-chaise.—
tlemen in it, who proved to be Captain Herberteind i He rode off with all possible speed towards Shrews-
Mr. Simpson, of the Hummums, his second, and Mr. bury, came up with the chaise, stopped it, aid told
George Canr.ey, a surgeon, of Featherstone-buildins. the person for whom he had cashed the Ell, that he
The Officer stopped the chaise, and told the Gentle.- had made a mistake, and wished to rectify it. The
men they were his prisoners. They then rode to the person in the chaise proposed that they should meet at
Robin Hood and Little John Inn, at Kingston-bottom, an inn at Shrewsbury to settle the business, which the
where Adkins left the Gentlemen in custody of Mr. B. ; banker agreed to, and rode on to Shrewsbury. The
and went in pursuit of the other party. In a short time 1 time having considerably elapsed since the chaise
he met a chaise and four, with Captain Cam bell and onght to have arrived, he mounted his horse again,
s and set off to meet them. After riding several miles,
Hotel. The Officer told them his business, and they. 'he came up with the chaise, and found it empty, and
went to the Robin Hood . and Little John Inn, and lon its return home. He inquired of the driver what
then proceeded to London. In the evening they were : had become of his passengers ? who replied, that they
taken before Mr. Graham, . when it appeared that had got out of the chaise, and vralkcd across the coun-
Captain's Cariapbell and. Herbert had fought a duel, ' try. Th:s convinced him that they hid not c: me ho-
when Adkins heard the report of the pistol, without nestly by the bill. He gave an alarm, and having
ei.her party receiving any injury, and on the interfe- i employed Several people to go in pursuit of them, they
ience of the seconds, were reconciled. Mr, Graham, ; were at length overtaken and secured, and not being
however, did
.not think this sufficient, and held the able to account, in a satisfactory manner, how they
p4rties, their seconds, and. the siirgeons. to bail, them. 4 became. pssessed of the bill, or to give a proper ac-
selves.in 2001. each, and two sireties in 1031, each.— : cotint of themselifei, they were detained in th e vs-
The. dispute arose about a female, which took place on . bury gaol, and on tracing the bill, it proved to be the
Wednesday night it a ball. property of Mr. Fellows, a Gentleman.of Lent, who
was in London on Lord Mayor's Day, and had his
pocket picked of that, and other bills and non s, to the
amount of 14001.
Mr. Fellows has attended at Shrewsbury, and iden-
tified the bill. The fellow who obtained the cash from
the banker proves to be one of the oldest London pick-.
pockets, and a general thief and receiver of stolen
goods for upwards of 30 years, of the name of John
Pain. It has not yet been ascertained who his com-
panion is, but he is supposed to be one of thenotorious
&awes gang. .
On Wednesday night, or early on Thursday morn-
ing, the counting house of Mr. Spode, cut-glass mt-
nufacturer, in Portugal-street, Lincoln's inn-fields,
was broke open, and upwards of 100 E in cash and
notes stolen therefrom.
About three o'clock yesterday morning the shop of
Mr. Gould, goldsmith and jeweller, in Fleet-street,
was 1 r ike into by some villains, who, notwithstanding
the pannels of the shop-shutters were strongly lined
with sheet iron, contrived to saw their way through
the styling or frame work,not so fortified; and, easily
breaking the window panes, swept off every thing
within reach, consistmg of watches, jewellery,
gold seals, chains, necklaces, and other valuable ar-
ticles, amounting to nearly 301. with which they got
clear eff, not sin the least degree interrupted by the
vigilant guardians of the night, though there is one
watchman's stand within a few yards of the spot, and
another directly on the opposite side of the street.
On Wednesday evening two old houses in • Mile
End Road, were blown down by the wind. No ac-
cident happened, as they were tot tenanted..
Saturday evenino, as a poor man was returning
from Ms work to Fisher's-alley, Wine Tavern-street,
Dublin, on opening a gate he was startled by the fall
of something which rolled from an adjacent dunghill
into the mire. Providentially a light was procured
in tithe to take up a very beautiful infant, and thus
preserve it from instant suffocation : which only a
few minutes before had drawn its first breath, and
had 'been abandoned, naked, by. its unnatural parent.
An inquisition was taken on Thursday at Cranford
Gate, near Barnet, on the body ef Samuel Gosfield,
who met his death on the preceding day, in contend-
ing with a waggoner in a battle. It appeared in evi-
dence, that the deceased was driving a flock of sheep,
along a lane between Stanmore and Barnet, when he
was met by a waggoner, driving a team ; and some
words having arisen between them relative to the lat-
ter not facilitating the passage of the flock, a combat
ensued. It did not appear that any blows of conse-
quenoe w. re exchanged by the parties ; but on the con-
trary, they generally met, and threw each ether awk-
wardly.. They contended together in that way about.
10 minutes, when Gosfield said he was hurt, and gave
in. . He was removed off the grouud, and died in
two hours after. It was the opinion of a gentle-
man of the Faculty, that the , deceased died by over-
exertion ; and such was consequently the verdict.
The Orion, GnAVm, from London for Surinam,
- I was all well on the 23d of December, in lat. 47. long.
SC. in company with the Beet.

SCOTLAND.

' GOAT Sittisro.v.—About four years, ago, the
sheer, pasturing on the grounds in the neighbourhood
of the city of Edinburgh, were much blested by dogs
in the night time, arid on many occasions great num-
hers them were worried and destroyed. No disco-
very could be obtained of these nightly depredators ;1
and as the mischief still contintrA, the Procurator
fiscal, at the insiance of some of the proprietors, of-
fered rewards, first of '25 guineas, and afterwards of 50
enineas, to any person who should be the means of
" obtaining a discovery in the premises," which re-
wards were offered by advertisements, published re-
peatedly for many months, in the Edinburgh Papers.
and were to be paid by the Procdrator Fiscal of the
county, on conviction.
It happened that a poor. washer-woman at Stock-,
bridge, who had been sitting up• all night, paying the
last duties of humanity to one of her fellow-creatures,
going to the. door of her house early in the morning
of the 17th of April, 1805, discovered a dog worrying
:'seep in the park of a Gentleman at Stockbridge.
The destructive animal had already killed six sheep,
and was chasing theyemainder of the flock, when the
poor veciman, whose name is Charlotte Wilson, frighted
him away. - The
,dog was traced to his home, the'
ewner of the dog was cited before the Sheriff of the
County, and the dog being fully convicted of the
effence,.was executed.
It was some months before the final sentence was
pronounced upon the dog, owing to a litigation which
the master of it maintained with the gentleman whose
sheep had been worried ; but so soon as the conviction
took lace, Mrs. Wilson applied to the Procurator
liaddrior; the .promised reward, which was refused,
chiefly on the groUnd that the information giien l!y
her was not in terms of the aefvertisement. She ap-
plied by priitiOn to the Sheriff of the County, who
iound her entitled to the reward of fifty guineas. 'The
Procurator Fiscal broUght the Sheriff's Judgment un-
der review of the Supreme Court, where the litigation,
la; been maintained for upwards of three years, and
at last the contest was finished by two consecutive
judgments of the whole Lords, ordaining the Peocu-.
rator Fiscal 'to pay to Mrs. Wilson the reward of 50
guineas ; and he was also found' iable in all ixpencs
of suit.

BRITISH NAN-v.—The List of the Naval Force to
this day, is as follows :—At Sea-85 sail'of the line ;
9 ships from 50 to 44 guns each ; frigates, 909
sloops, gun brigs, &c. &c. Total 594.—Others in
Commission 271.--Building and in Ordinary 303.
Grand Total 1100 vessels of war.
The Selina, Captain Rtwrott, sailed from Lisbon
with the fleet, and was captured in the Bay of Biscay
by a French frigate. What appears most remarkable
is, that she was m possession of the enemy 14 days,
before she was carried into a Spanish port, and did
not, during the whole of that time, see a. *ha
truittr of any description.

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I -
CbliNtXetiAG -ARK-1.A.,....,
There are 4 few arrivals of Wheat ta.day, but the
supply is short, and the sales are at small variation in-
price.-There are several fresh arrivals of Barley,
which is heavy sale and rather lower.-White Peas
likewise.-In Beans of the two kinds but small flee.
tuation.-Oats are hr short supply, but many cargoes
expected,, and this trade inclines rather lower.-Flour
without alteration.
GENERAL CURRRNCT AS UNDER:
Wheat, 465. 555. 725. Beans (old) 575. 635.
Fine ditto, 765. 775. Tick ditto (old) 525. 575.
Rye (New) 4Rs. 525. Oats, 324. 88s. 425.
Barley, 32* 445. Poland ditto, 455. 445.
1 Malt (New) 76.4 78s. Potatoe ditto, to 455.
White Peas (Boilers) 1.105.15R5. Rape Seed, 221. 251. 10s.
Grey ditto, 60s. 665. Fine Flour, 555. 4ios.
Second Flour, 50s. 5.55. per sack.
SMITHFIF.LD January 1.
Beef Si. Od. to 6s. Od. Veal ss. I'd. to 6s.
Rd,.
40.
Mutton 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d Pork 4s. Od. to 51.
NEWGNII: AND I.EADF.NHALL MARKET.
Beef 4s. ad. to Si. Od. Veal 4s. 4p. to 6s. Od.
Mutton Ss. Rd. to 4s. Rd. Pork 4s. od. to 4s. ltd.
PRICE. OF HOPS IN THE 130ROIMH MARKET.
Bags, 51. ss. to 61. 6s I Pockets 51. 10s. to 71. Os.
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ECCI.F.SI.‘STICAI. PROMOTION.
The Dean and Chapter of Canterbury have presented the Rev
T. A. Mutlow, one of the Minor Canons, to the Rectory of St
Martin, with the Vicarage of St. Paul's, vacant by the deeca,.e o
I the Rev. T. Freentin
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BIRTHS.
On the 15th ult. PI his house at south Lambeth, the Lady of
HeAry Redhead York-, Esq. of a daughter.
:'.uiday, in ( a •eru:ish-square, the Lady of William Henry
Hoare, Esq of a

DIED.
Sunday morning, at Cooklum, in Berkshire., Mrs. Elizabeth
Plainer, sister to 'Wm. Plumer. Esq. late hienther of Parlianseut
fur the county of He:•tford.
Wednesday morning, at the Rev. A. W. Trullope's, Christ's
Hospital, the Rev. Thomas Mader, late Chaplain to the Br.tii.h
Factory at Oporto.
Thursday rooming, in tt e 6Gth year of 1 i; age, at his apart-
ments in flow-street, Mr. '1 homas Carpmeal, ore of the oldest
officers belonging to the pubilc office. lie was officer :IS year.,
havlng been appointed in the year 1769, by the Lite Sir John 1 ield-
lie •
i;.g. enu one of the most actl:e officers belorging to the office.