Star.
London, England, 1805-09-07 00:00:00

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The'Votaries of St. Baitholftew vik?e. on Thmf
day night, thrthan into the toMoR teivi 'it'd cat-
fternatzon, by the luckier: coittrivance of an arcs
Wag, cootie/led, it i, fuppofed, with the light-fingeta
ed tribe. Thug eminent performer Counterfeiting
the utmon horror and alarm, roared out Wilily,
that a tiger had' got look from the Thew II thr,
wild beats, and was ravaging ell before hitn.-1.4.
It was about half pan ten at night when the Wholi
fun of-the fair was at its arm?, and the moon btamet,
her influence on the madding multitude ; the limy
of the tiger was (wallowed Without hefitation, and
all was in an inflant uproat and confufion: The
women and children (bricked and (creamed; the
men rufhed _forward in every direllion,
tables in the 'doors:, with their favour, viand:, %vete
overturned ; the guens, with hair ereft, like
quills upon the fretful porcupine," tenable to efcape
through the crowd, -flood trembling, and exptiliog
every moment to be devoured in their turn, *bile
the old' ladies, who were cooking OAT their charcoal-
pans, flood with Woks of defpa?r, that Would havi
defied the pencil of Le Brun. In vain did the nen-
torian lungs of a doken raree-mot Managers endea-
vour to comfort and undeceive their fiyingctsilomerst
in vain did one of thole gentlemen, thraugh most
ofloitilhiag (peaking-trumpet, repeatedly roat, d—a
my eyes,'all a barn I No tier. What the devil do ye
all run for ?" The word tiger thus repeated in a mag-
nified tone, the found that conveyed it was generally
millaken for the hideous yell of the (erbeious animal
himfelf, which terror re-echoed a, thodrand times.—
Confolation, in this cafe, was like oil call on the

flames it was meant to extinguith. The impetuofity
of the terrified crowd bore dciwn all impediments—
gingerbread, millinery, and tor,. were blended in
one common chaos: and it was above a quarter of
an hour before tranquillity was quite refkored, sb.n
an eager fearch was•fet on foot for the fly author of
all this milehief, who efeaped undifcovered.

The Fair was yeftetday- at tke very zenith of its
glory. The ear is deafened by.hand organs tuned in
different keys, cracked violinr, haffoons, trumpets.
hautboys. clarioneu, tromgones, all performing dif-
ferent ftrains. Then 'there ale Saunders's Troops,
Wilfon's Troops, Ezton's Timis', the African Troops
of Wild Beans, Lionsaygers, Baboons, and Monkies;
the Afiatic Troops of MA Birds, Vulture,, Eagles,
Harpies, Macaws, end, in Blurt, affemblages of the
animal world, holden andfavage, fuch as niter were
found in the fame plate together, fince the embat ka-
tion on board of Noah's- Ark.
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COURT OF PIEL! POUDRE, SEPT. 6.-C 1. SIDE.

Bitten SIIDUCTION. We purpofely
omit the name of the Defendant, as the publication
of it might be detrimental to him at the enfuing Ed-
mouton Statute, and it appeared that he *as mu*
unfortunate than guilty.
Fortuna Moan In illo.
Non Woe
It was an action brought by a very tefpe&able (hop.
keeper againft the Manager of one of the principal
Theatres, for enticing away, and feducing his only
daughter, Mifs Honoria Baker, and engaging her
without his content, as one of the performers in his
company of tragedians. It appeared by the evideece
of the father. that the young Lady had received a
good education, but was pa ftionately fond of the dra-
matic art t in fat, another Hyppolite Clairon. She
frequented private theatres, but I. far was he from
indulging this propeality. that he ferved her precife-
ly as that celebrated lard's had been treated-4w
locked her up—his precautions were in vain—the
contrived her efcape, Bat by what means he was at
a lots to conjeaure. Ht fought after her for leveret
weeks, and began to defpair of move' big her, when
he accidentally heart' the was playing a principal
character in the Defendant's company at Bartholo.
mew Fair. He went and found her arrayed in the
gorgeous coftume of Clytemnefira, and upon his
in-
fil on taking her home, the Defendant Interpol-
poled, and declared he had engaged her at a liberal
falary, and thould compel her to fulfil her engage-
ment. The Plaintiff attempted to ufe force, but he
was felon overpowered, and he had no means of re-
drefs but an appeal to the Court of Pied Poudre..
The complaint having been fully Rated, the Defen-
dant Paid the young woman came to him in company
with a young man, who profeffed himfelf her hat-
band. He had no reafon to doubt the feet, particu-
larly as the Lady's appearance evidenced her cogni-
zance of the comforts of matrimony. He engaged
them both, and this, he Paid, was the fum and fob-
fiance of his offence. It turned out that.the lei &fest
hutband had been long a pei former in the Defendant's
company, and had a wife before ; and it was infer-
red that the Defendant could not have been igno-
rant of this, and confequently that he mull have
been participant in the feduftion of the Plaintiff's
daughter.
Ihe Steward of the Court addtclred the Homage
in a very fenfible fpeech : he obferved, that offences
of this kind (truck at the root of frciety ; that fuch
atrocious ails were calculated to being down judg-
ment on the fair ; that it was a mercy the floe m had
not levelled every booth with the gtound,performers,
managers, and all. It was the duty of the Defeo.
dant to have made an enquiry concerning fo young
a girl, before he prefumcd to engage her, and how-
ever he 'night be ezeufable in a moral point of view,
for his attention to his own interell in obtaining a
valuable allrefs, yet the parent who had 101 l the kr-
vice of his child was juttly entitled to a reafonable
compenfation.
The Homage were of the fame opinion t--they
awarded the Plaintlf si. damages, and ordered the
Defendant to reftore the girl, The Defendant was
obliged to comply with the eonditims before he could
be permitted to recommence his performances.
Caoww Sun.—Jeremiah Nathan. a Jew boy, was
indieted for felonioufly fleabag and fecreting a certain
wooden performer or puppet, called Punch, The
Profeeutor was the exhibitor of an ingenious Fantoc-
cini, and having colleted a crowd of fpetstors, was
furprifed at miffing his principal charalter ; fufpioion
logik oa the prifoaer, and upon fearehing him, Punch
,WeSiound in his pocket. In his defence, he laid he
was only in fun. The Homage found him guilty,
and he was ordered to be imp:Wooed in the cage
'the fair was concluded.

The lilt of Officers of the Navy,
mumerates 144 Admirals. 639 PulL
Colima/14ra, and 2493 Licnicaanta.

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It Captains/ 433
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