Star.
London, England, 1825-08-30 00:00:00

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GRAND SHOOTING MATCH.

The last and perhaps the most skilful shooting match of the sea-
son took place on Friday mid Saturday, between the two crack
clubs (Midgham and Ashton) and the like number (seven) of all
England, for a stake of 1000 sovereigns at least. In all England
it was observed that the crack shots of the Battersea Clubs, Messrs.
Osbaldeston, Captain Ross, Lord Kennedy, and others, were not
enlisted, but those Gentlemen are upon their estates, waiting for
the lit of September. England won by one bird in the two days
shooting at 30 birds each, by bagging 47. kiiiigham and Ashton
killed 26 each, but the latter lost most birds out of bounds. Mr.
Gee, of England, killed all his birds.

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RuEDERr Al* THE AUCTION MART.

The following statement of what took place before
the Prefect of Police at Paris, on the subject of the
robbery of Mr. Robertson, at the Auction Mart, will,
in some degree, erplain the nature of the transactions
which took place after the four 1,0001: n(aes were stolen.
Some time after the robbery Mr. Robertson learned
that one of the notes had been stopped at the Bank. It
bad been presented by a respectable Irish Gentleman,
who at once stated he had received it of Monsieur
Chauvais, a money-changer, in the Palais Royal at
Paris. The number of this note was 303. Mr. Robert-
son immediately set off to Paris, and got an inteo.
preter to attend him to the Prefect of Police, having
previously obtained letters of iecommenclation from
Lord Grenville and other men of rank, to some of the
Members of the French Government, requesting their
aid to detect the robbery. The interpreter, upon
making inquiry about the Palais Royal, learned that
a evney-thanger named Eneiicque had a note for
1,0001. which had been stolen in London. The money-
changer, Emericque, of No. 20, Palais Royal, de-
clared that about the middle of May last, two English.
men, accompanied by a young man (also -English),
who acted as an inter preter, came into his shop, and of-
ferel a thousand pound note for sale; that after
ha:,gling some time about the price they. went away,
st) mg they might return in a few days. In a few days
they did return, and dating the absence of E:nelicque,
tif!red the note to his wife, who after some demur,
purchased it for 25,000 francs. Oa Emericque's
n hone. his wife mentioned what she had done,
and ni lucking at the number of the noteihe discovered
it to be one of those mentioned in the bills. He was
much embarrassed by the circumstance, and immedi-
ately applied to Mr. Rothschild for his advice. Mr.
Rothschild did not choose to interfere in the business,
intimating that he had been requested to circulate the
notice of the robbery, but that he was not bound to
pursue the thieves. A day or two after this, Emericque's
wife observed one of the men who sold the note passing
the shop. Emericque immediately ran out and asked'
him if he had not sold him anote for 1,0001.? saying, at
the same time, that the note was stolen, and themoney
must therefore be returned. The man at first denied
all knowledge of the affair, but on Ernericque's insist-
ing, said—Do you take me for a robber? and asserted
that the note was a good one, and that he had received
it from his banker, in England, adding at the same time,
that he was willing to take b..ck the note, and worn
the money.
.Emericque had not then the note, as it
was at his banker's, and it was too late to get it that
day, but in order not to lose sight of the Englishman,J,
he accompanied him to his hotel (L' Hotel de Valoisol
Rue de Richelieu). On arriving at the hotel, the Eripl
Tishman, without hesitation, placed 2.5,000 francs is
the bands of the mistress of the hotel, desiring her to
pay them over to .Emericque on his delivering to
her the note. The Englishman left Paris that night,
The neat day Emericque paid the note and received
the money.
The Commissaire de Police geve Mr. Robertson a
memorandum, stating that the person who gave the
note to Mr. banelicque towards the middle of May last,
was Mr. Vyse, the brother-in-law of Mr. John Paha,

both established in London, and keeping there a straw-
bat shop. The person who returned to Mr. Emericque,
throlgh the hands of the mistress of the Hotel de Valois,
the value of the note, is Mr. John Mu. Mr. John
Palin set out the sane day for England. Vyse, jun.l
who was bonding at the end of the Faukourg
Mai tine, w..s with them.
Emericque told the Coma:sake that the number of,
the note be changed was 302.
Monsieur Chauvais's dealing, it yet appears, was
with a person who was not known to him, and who re-
ceived the value of the note 303. It is certain, how-1
ever, he had previously teceived notice from Mr.
Rothschild that the note was stolen, and he Will be
bound to refund to the Irish Gentleman, and seek after
the person of whom he took it.
Apia:cation was made to the Secretary of State, to
request, a., French Authorities to interfere, in order to
secure the appearance of Monsieur and Madame Etne-
ricque and.the hotel. keeper, to give evidence at the,
Old Bailey. The Secretary of State has, we are
formed, written to the French. Government, and ex-
pects an answer daily.. .

A commercial house in Stockholm has lately received
a consigament of silver (about 20,000 marks Hamburgh
Banco), which is for the Bank of Stockholm. -
Church Service, according to the forms of the Es.
tablished Church of England, is new performed at a
new Chutcb, built expressly for the English it Boulogne.
• Few persons attain the age of Mr. George Harding,
who died some years ago at Winchester, where he was
buried. He was at the period of his death 116 years of
age, and survived five wives, two of whom he married,
after he was 100 years of age.
TRAVELLING TO AND 'PRONE FRANCK. -- Sixteen
packet-boats, with 839 passengers, have entered the
port of Calais, ant♦ seventeen, with 709 passengers,
have cleared outwards from the same port, between the
7th and 13th instant.

The tribunal of Odensee, in Denmark, recently pro-
nounced a most sentarkable :entente against twenty,
eigh: persons, charged with issting foiged bank-notes:
one is condemned to death, six to have a band cut off,
seven to he sent to the galleys, and fourteen to impri-
sonment and fine. It is Irng since any tribunal sen-
tenced a prisoner to have the hand cut off, except the
capital penalty was pronounced.
At the dissolution of the Parliament, January 2,
1566, Queen ELtimsarn male the following speech:
".I have, in this assembly; fouild so much dissimula•
tion, where I always professed plainness, that I starve
thereat ; yea, two faces under one hood, and the body
rate's, being covered with two visors—succession and
liberty. But, alas! they began to pierce. the vessel be-
fore the wine, was tined, and began a thing, not fore-
seeing the cod. Now,- by this means, 1 hive seen my
wvll.wishers irons my enemies, and can, as me sterneth,'
very well divide the House into four: First, fault; 0-.1
coed, the speakers, who .by eloquent, tales, persuade
others ; third, the sigrivis ; lactlyi those who sat,
still mute, and meddled not therewith, hot-rather ivcit-,
dered, disallowing the matter, who, in my opinion, are
most to be excused."

Dr. Johnson's Dictionary contains the following
number of words, but they are by no means the whble
in the Englieh lairgnage: articles, three; nouns sub-
stantive, 10,410; adjectives 9,053; pronouns, 41 ;
verbs, 7,880; participles, 38; participle adjectives,
1?.5; ditto nouns, three; adverbs, 495; ditto in ly,
2,096; prepositions, 69; cork:actions, 19 ;..intarjer.-
dons, 66 ; total 04901.

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SURREY SEAS. AMU. ST 29.
These Sessions commenced, by adjoulament, at - the
Sessions House, Horsemongelr-lane, before l'Staivarti
:Esq. (Chairman) and Several other County Itagistratsft.
John Simpson Weint, an elderly looking person, wan
indicted for unlawfully intermarrying with .Amelia
Wood, his first wife being alive.
Mr. BA *swim', on behalf of the prosecution, having
detailed the nature of the indictment, and the facts a
the case, the following.wltaesses were examined in sup,
port ot'' the charge. AL
William Lociwood,lllPik to Messrs. Spence andi
Desborough; pa-placed an :attested copy of the marriagttl
registry between the prisoner and Sarah MackellGw, on
the pati.h Church of Sr. Mary Vintry. London.
also produced another copy of the registry of a mer
riage solemnized between the prisoner and Amelia
Wood, at St. Mary's Church, Newington.
Mrs. Milwood Awed that she was present at the mar-
riage of the prisoner and Sarah Mackellow about seven
years since, at the Church of St. Mary Vintry, Lon-
don. The prisoner afterwards lived with his wife about
torte years.
Amelia Wood stated, that she was married to the
prisoner in the year 1821, at the palish Church of New-
ington, by whom she anal one child. The prisoner,
after the marriage, by witness's request, went b y the
name of Simpson.
The prisoner made nd defenee.
The Jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of Guilty, and
he was sentenced to one year's bard labour In the House of Cor-
rection at Brixton.
Mann Bridger and James Harrow, two boys nnder twelve years
of age, were sentenced to seven years' transportation, fur stealing a
time-piece from the house of Mr. Reginald Graham, at Herne Hill.

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. A notification was published at Milan on the 2d
instant, by the Austrian Government, stated to be for
the purpose of preventing any misunderstanding, by
which the contravention of a previous notification,
:dated July 21, might be attempted to be justified. The
!notification then prohibits Austrian subjects from carts
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Sing to be printed in a foreign country any work with'
.or without a date, unless permission be previously ob-,
tained from the office of the Censorship, under certain,
penalties. The prohibition is also extended to the in.
sertioa °Cony article, long or short, in a foreign jaurnaL
It appears by accounts from Naples, that on the 15th
ult. a furious tempest ravaged the Commune of Lego-
negro, in the Province of Basilicala, in destroying
the corn, vines, and fruits ; on the ollowing day, a
countryman was killed by lightning under a tree, near
Mamba: two days afterwards, two shepherds with
their flock, took refuge under An oak, daring a violent
tempest, but both of them, and part of their flock, were
killed by lightning.
Accounts from Chambery also state, that on the 6th
instant, five women, during a thunder storm, took
refuge under a beech tree; two of them ran across the
fields and e.caped ; but the three who remained, were
struck with lightning, and severely injured.
In the ranks of the Sutherland regiment of 1793, there
were one hundred and four William Mackays, and seven-
teen in one company, Capta'n Sackville Siatherland's.
Coitarrianow.—Twenty-one suninionses had been
issued from the Head Police-office, by Mr. Barret,
shoemaker, of Aungier-street, Dublin, *ho charged his
workmen with acts of combination ; at one o'clock on
Wednesday the case was expected on ; however, the
workmen, having duly reflected on the mischievous con-
sequences arising out of combination, and seeing their
error, consented to return to their work, and at once
come into terms of an amicable nature.

Friday, the 12th instant, as a labouring man was
walking in Tawney Wood, about twenty yards from
the foot-path leading from Uley to Nymplisfield, he
obteried a perscin lying on his back, and when he came
up to him fotind he was deal. From the state of the
body, lie must have been in that situation some weeks !
His height was about five feet five inches, dark brown
hair, and had a wound on his right leg ; had on a b: own
coat, blue waistcuai, drab fustian trowsers, black silk
handkerchief, a white apron round his waist, and a
black chip hat with crape round it. A bundle lay very
near the body. containing one dowlas and two flannel
shirts, marked with the initials W. L. and sundry other
articks. His tobacco-box contained a pawnbroker's
duplicate, dated Wotton-Underedge, July 4; the name
William Lake. His working tools consisted of a small
shuttle, picker, shears, &c. such as are generally used
in the silk or cotton fancy ttade; and from part of a
letter found- near him, It is supposed he had been work-
ing in Wiltshire. An Inquest was taken on the body,
and a verdict returned—" Found Dead." The remains
were afterwards decently interred in the Church-yard
at Uley, with the usual rites.—Worreester Journal.
A CIiANZE ton rue LADIES.—A Gentleman, named
Housron, who has travelled much in Aft ica, in a let.
ter from Bahia, dited April 7, 1825, writes to his,
friend at Man-dieter as Pinola f.-6;si I resided in Benin
the greater part of 1822 and 1823, and had I not al-
ready written more than sufficient to exhaust your pa-
tience, I could give you some desciipti .n and anecdotes
of that coontry and pei.ple %%hid 'might amuse you.
But I must close la ith au allu ion to the King's domes-
tic establishment, and whsch m ly iaterest some of your
friends. His fslajesty is a fine noble-looking black
fellow, of about 35 years of age ; beloved by his peo-o
pre and feared by his enemies; and has jet only about:
.500 wives and 40 or 50 children. He communicated
an idea to me, on which his imperial thoughts had for
some time ruminated, and which 1, as other favourites
of Royalty, of course praised, and that highly too; this
was no less than the design, fraught with profound
political wisdom, of improving the blood Royal, by
adding to his seraglio a white Lady ! I offered my ser-
vices to make known his most gracious thoughts to
those of the red rose and the white' of my country ;
on which' he promised to bind himself to make the said
Licly,his only Quern, and his other wives her slaves
and servants. On this we parted, wish his desh ing me
to-give his respects to his trother, the King of Eng-
land, and should his Majestyfte in want of a wife, there
were a dozen of the Princesses of Benin at his Set vice."
Pes.ranzu, Emu. oar Baro.—This Nobleman being
anxious to proleng.the,sittiiii of a jovial company at
his house, proposed another batch of Burgundy. One
of the Noblemen present observed, that it was time to
retire, adverting to the watchman, who was bawling
" four o'clock.' 0 Pooh," 'said Lord BaTrt, "do not
mind that fellow, he is never in the same story half an
hour together."
Pulpits of all religious denominations formerly faced
the West, that the eyes of the congregation might look
to the East as the source of light and insuuction. The
first deviation from this rule was introduced by the Pa- '
titans, and the first Chapel erected North and South,
was that of Emanuel College, Cambridge, founded by
Sir WALTU H astsx, a distinguished leader of
that sect.

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