Star.
London, England, 1808-01-30 00:00:00

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.

GRAVCSIND, JAN. 29.—Passed by the Rollar, Thompson,
from St. Domingo ; Travers, —, from Bombay ; Clarkson,
Stevenson; Friendship, Denning; and the John, Munday, horn
Monte Video.

6614NEY,

WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF OF A CERTAIN

ATHEISTICAL PUBLICATION.

Who is this Champion with erected crest.
Who thus to mortal combat has defied
All those who with RELIGION dare to side,
And boasts the panoply hi which he'stirest ?
Now mark the boast—his spe.ir's a pointless jest;
His helmet Folly, deck'd with plumes of pride.

And countless folds of sophistry supplied
The cob-web coat of mail that guards his breast
Groping his way by metaphysic light,
(Bewildering moon-shine of the mental night !)
In each dark path he views some phantom rise,
That Fancy tel!s him from his prowess flies ;
Till with wild confidence, as phrenzy warms,
„He dares defy th' Omnipotent to arms!"

COVENT-GARDEN tragedy of
Othello was performed last night for the second time
this season. Mr. ItemnLE again appeared in lago. It
is some weeks since he made his first appearance in
that character ; and if in the interval, he has devoted
much of his time and attention to it, they have both been
very unprofitably employed. It would be too much
to say, however, that his performance did not Mani-
fest some signs of improvement.. But either from his
totally mistaking the character, or being physically
disqualified to represent it, he will add nothing to his
reputation by persevering in the performance. He
may be endured, but he will hardly be applauded.
Of this he had more than one specimen last night,
when the ill-timed zeal of some of his injudicious
admirers was checked by the general disapprobation
of the house. Mr. POPE'S Othello is one of the .b?st,
perhaps the very best of his efforts. The audience
was but thin at the rising of the curtain, bat it after-
wards improved in appearance.
The Cummit tee of fifteen persons, aprointed by the
renters of Drury Lane theatre, was for the purpose of
devising best means of recovering the annuities
due to them.
The late Lord PENURYN has left h's whole estate
to GEORGE DAW‘lxs, Esq. This magnificent bequest
was totally unionized for, as from the circumstance
of cutting off the entail, by which it had been before
left in remainder to Mr. DAWKINS, they had not been
'in habits of friendly intercourse. It now appears
however, that he asserud his right only to make the
will of his noble relative his own.
Wednesday last, '250 .of the new-raised militia-men
for the County of Oxford, marched from Oxford to
Wantage, on their route to Pendennis Castle, in
Cornwall, to join the regiment.
All the rooms of state in Windsor Castle are under-
going many improvements. • The interior decorations,
as far as respects the lighting of the apartments, are
of the most costly description—Grecian lamps, of un-
rivalled beauty and perfection, have been hung up in
all the principal rooms. The health of the Royal
Family continues as uniformly good as our most san-
guine expectat.ons could wish. His MAJESTY pur-
sues the same temperate course of living to which he
has been so long accustomed, and dines at two o'clock
as usual. The QUEEN and the PRINCESSES, in all their
domestic arrangements, have adopted the most rigid
economy, particularly in the article of dress.
On Wednesday a wager took place between two
tradesmen in the City, for 20 guineas a side, which
should be first at the four-mile stone on the Clapham-
road, when the one was to make the best of his way
on foot, the other to be rowed in a boat to Vauxhall,
from whence he was to proceed on foot to the destined
spot ; they both started at one o'clock from the Old
Swan, near London-bridge, when the former won the
wager by only half a minute. Large sums of mone;
were depending on the issue.
PutilLtsm.—A very obstinate boxing match took
place on Thursday at Harlow-common' Wilts, be-
tween two professors, named Jonas and Hartry ; the
former entered the list of country boxers, by a suc-
cessful combat with Flower, a coachman, at Heaze-