Star.
London, England, 1808-01-09 00:00:00

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• SirWtii:tair and Land Cowen oriened their hOs; I
pita& mans yesterday evening to a very nume- 1
r6ns party of their friends, with a most elegant ball
and supper. The company consisted, among others,
Of the °Setts of the sd regiment of K. G. Light Dragoons,
Denbigh, and 2d West YorkWilitiss ; trgether with Lord Glent‘
worth, Hon. Colonel, Mrs. and Miss Burton, Mr. Wane, *en.
and jun. Mrs. Wane, Mrs. Townley. two Mhs Townieys, Ge-
neral Carleton and Family, Major %non, Mr. and Mrs. Gibson,
Mrs and Miss Eden, Mr. and' Mrs. Etederick Yigni and fanuly,
&c. &c.
The ball was led down by Major Sutton and Miss
Curtis, and continued by about •forty couple in two
sets, until one o'clock, when supper was announced,
which consisted' of every choice dish and viand that
could dazzle theeye or gratify the taste. The num-
ber that sat down to supper was about 10D, *id all
were conveniently accommodated in the 13arc-net's
large andelegant dinner-room. During their charming
repast the delightful band of the Deibigh regiment
played favorite airs, and the worthy host and hostess
dealt out, with a most liberal hand, the finest spark-
ling champagne and. other choice wines. Soon after
two the company resumed the dance, which was kept
up with great spirit till past six o'clock, when the en-
chanted visitors reluctantly retired, highly gratified
with their treat.
Every kind of delicate refreshment, confectionery,
tea, and coffee, were abundantly supplied. The splen-
did ball-room was brilliantly lighted up. The ladies
'were elegantly dressed, and displayed much beauty
and fashion. The arrangements of the numerous de-
licacies and ornaments of the table were exhibited with
great taste, and every article was excellent.

Thursday last the Earl and Countess of CRAVES
arrived at Benham House, Berks, on a visit to hey
Serene Highness the Margravine of Alisracit.
The Earl and Counts; of LONDONDERRY, arrived
at their house in Grosvenor-square, on Tuesday, from
their seat near Belfast, Ireland, and yesterday the Earl
and Countess and suite set off on a visit to his bro-
ther the Earl of CAMDEN, at his seat,• Wilderness,
near Seven Oaks, Kent.

Wedneslay, a General Court Martial assembled
at the Bull Inn, Woodbridge, for the trial of R.
CORRALL, Esq. Captain and Paymaster of the 15th
Light Dragoons : the investigation is expected to last
several days.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East
India House) hen the under-mentioned Captains were
sworn into imand of their respective ships, viz.
tihc,
Captain P. hot ,of the Euphrates,for Madras and Bengal ;
Captain C. KY M Eta or the Lard Castlereagh, and Captala W.
Gies,. ow, of the eft:for St. Helena and Bengal.
Captain Grotto Revxotns is appointed to the corn.
Mand of the Theseus, ifif 74 guns.
The Augusta Ntrest Indianian, Capt. Hrrcromos,
from St. Kitt's to London, came into Ramsgate har-
bour on Tuesday night, homeward-bound, having
encountered much bad weather during her passage
and in the-Channel -off Dungeness ; she lost an an-
chor and dimaged her sails, &c. She was obliged
during the voyage to throw part of her cargo over-
board to save the ship. Thurstigy morning an un-
fortunate aceidenthappehedoribodrd the said ship, one
of the sailors fell from the maiTi.tctp yard and broke
one.thigh stminfisloCate.d the ancle of the other leg.
The iissel which nut down a French privateer off
Beach). Head, as stated in our last, was tle Three
Brother;, COOPER, master, belonging to Messrs. Cox,
LENS, of Brenchly, in Kent, and freighted with timber
by the owners, who, we are sorry to add, after Cap-
tain Cooper's gallant exploit, lost both ship :old cargo,
as the Frenchmen who escaped from the sinking pri.
vateer, by boarding the Brothers, made a prize of
her, an] secured the same by steering directly II r a
French port, where they arrived in safety, as appears
by a lettcr received en Friday from Capt. COLLENS.
On Thursday aft, rn :on, while Lord HEATH-
FIELD'S curricle, with two horses, was standing in
Grosvenor-square, the horses took fright, and ran
with the curricle up Grosvenor-street ; by the plung-
ing and kicking against the splinter-bat the pole was
broken, and the coachman fell forwards between the
horses and the splinter-bar, in which perilous situation
he remained till the horses came in contact with a
post in Park-street, when one of the horses falling, he
was extricated by some passengers, after being dread-
fully lacerated. He now lies in a very dangerous
state.

Saturday a curious circumstance occurred before
the Magistrates in Bath. One of the renters of the
tolls on the Chippenham road summoned a driver of
a stage-coaeh for not paying the legal tolls, which had
been repeatedly claimed. At the moment the Ma-
gistrates convicted him, the coachman laid an infor-
mation against the-gate-keeper for having no stamp
in his hat, which he discovered whilst in the hall.—
An investigation came on before the Justices on Mon-
day, when the gate-keeper proving that it was a
newly-purchased hat, and that the stamp had only
fallen from its place, and the hat-maker coming for-
ward to swear that the stamp was fixed.. in the hat
when purchased, and paid for agreeably to the act,
the complaint was dismissed, and the inforzuer sorely
vexed.
Monday came on before the. High Court of Justici-
ary, at Edinburgh, the tria} of Robert Daw, indicted
at the instance of his Majesty's Advocate, for theft.
He pleaded guilty ; and the Jury having inclosed in
the Robing Room, in about half a hour returned into
Court, with a verdict, all in one voice finding the
priscmer guilty,in consequence of his judicial confession.
He was sentenced to be transported beyond seasforlife.
Tuesday the Court proceeded to the trial of Bdrbara
Malcolm, accused of the murder of her female child,
18 widths old, by wilfully pouring a quantity of vi-
triolic acid down its throat. The -trill lasted -several
hours, and the evidence being clear and satisfaCtory,
the inhuman perpetrator was found guilty, and' re-
ceived sentence to be executed on Wednesday the
10th of February next. - •

SPARRING SCHOOLL—The '24igisti2tes of Union.:l
Hall Office having learnt that a number of persons
assembled at a public-bon:sit in; their cPstrict, for the
purpose of learning to spar and box, sent ouvatkir
019Ecers, with privy searchewarrants, who found at one
academy, kept at the Southwark Tavern, Tooley-
titreet, several journeymen, labou!ers and apPra(ttices.
Sixpence a-head was taken for door-money,and apenny
pext ttun for the ese of the gloves. • After their several
hamlet andplaces of residence were taken dawn, and
the gloves carried. away, they were suffetettudixPierst.

NErraeislz4 J,IIVZiAAT 7:

In the night of Tuesday .three despeige ocfnaders
(one committed on a charge of forgery, the; Other two
under sentence .c.,f transportation) 'effected their iseape
from Newgate. The wall through which they re-
treated is about a yard and a half in thickness, and
was coated with new stone a few years ago: - Not the
least suspicion *as entertained by the gaoler of nub
attempt, and co artfully had they replaced the stones,
&c. that not the smallest confusion was elbserviable.—
' Even on the evening of daffy...mac/ape, every thing
seemed perfectly safe, and iiteie secure. Thew,
however, they contrived to till .of by mean-,
it is suspected, of instrunatete whi : biagl been con -
veyed to them by some accomplices, when the die-
scended by means of their blankets, which were fan.*
lying on a dunghill below, knotted together.
On Wednesdeer nights of die' Inniskillen
dragoons, stationed at T • near Berwick
upon Tweed, surprised a boat. atteraptai.g to land
some Geneva near the' ship buildineyard in. Tweed.
mouth ; and on the people in the boat rellitlag tb
come on shore, they were fired upon by the military,
by which one Lambert was dangerously. *minded
(we understand he is since dead) on which they sue-
rendered their boat, with upwards of 40 ankers of
spirits. One man was taken prisoner ; the rdst Made