Star.
London, England, 1807-02-03 00:00:00

THE.ITR E. •

COVENT GARDEN.—YouNG's Tragedy of the Re-
venge was repeated at this theatre, for the third time,
tall evening. In the perf'nation of the character of
'he revengeful Zangd, Mr. KEMBLE gave us a faithful
pi&ure of the perfidious hyporicfy, which marks
the condua of the Moor. Through the whole of the
piece, he difplayed a thorough conception of the de.
tigning artifice, and feemed to premeditate the pro-
greffive lleps. by which he intended the dellrnaion rf
his mailer, h/a4zo. In the .denouernent, where he con.
felfes the full extent of his guil', he became truly great,
and we difcerne•l the brutal latisladion both in his
countenance. ipeech, and aait.n. which fhould per-
vade the foul of the exulting villain. Mr. C. &EMMA
was more animated in illonzo, than we have ohferved
Mtn to he in any other charafter. The lloufe WAS
crowded in every part.

Wednefday evening tali, the Gentlemen of the
GuardF, ilationed at Chatham, with fome G-n ltt- en
of the neighbourhood, performed the tragedy o 1 Zara,
with the burletta of Torn Tktrnb. The houfe was filled
with as elegant aa audience as ever graced its walls,
and never did an audience leave it with grt'ater fa-
tisfaflian at the entertainment they had met taith.
The performance, b.th of the tragedy am,l the bur-
letta, were admirable ; every pert...niter was cntrcdt
and happy in the delineation of the char after he re.
prefented ; there were tome who particularly excelled,
but as all were aetuated by the fame fentiment of
benevolence in coming forward for a eliaritAle pur.
pole, it would be invidinth to make didinEtitms.
As a pot coach was proceeding to the theatre at
Chatham, on Wednefttay evening, with General
Lawson, and a patty of Ladies and Gentlemen, it
broke down and overturned near the Horfe and
Groom in Rochefler, by which accident fome of the
party were feverely bruited, but fortunately, no feri-
ons injury was fuftained by any one.
Lail Friday afternoon, as Mr,. Knit!, wife of the
Mayor of Hereford, was fitting by the fire,her clothes
caught fire, and were inflantly in a blaze; by which
the was fo dreadfully burnt, that the expired next
morning. She was nearly ninety years of age, and
been deprived of her light for feveral years.
Sunday fe'nnight, a man of the name of Denis
Boyle, of Killawel, near Ballymoto, in the county of
Sligo, was inhumanly murdered ; his head nearly
fevered from his body, his tongue almnd dragged
from his head, and his whole frame mutilated in a
manner too horrible to defcribe. The only leafrn for
this horrid deed is entirely afcribed to his having
given teflimony at the late Special Commillian, againtt
one of thole unfortunate beings called Threthers.
A more dillrefling accident from the imprudent
tile of fire arms has not of late occurred than the
following :—On Thurfday fe'nnight a gun, without
a lock, was fent to a gun fmith's (hop, in Chefler, to
get one put on ; the gun, in that Rate, was put into
a vice, and an apprentice was affixing a lock on it,
when a girl about thirteen years of age, with the in.
fant child of her mailer in her arms, came to At a
qtreftion of the apprentice, and flood near the muzzle,
when the boy unfortunately trying the lock, it went
off, and lodged the contents:in her body,car. ying with
it part of the infant's clothes, which it ftt fire to.—
Immediate furgical Alliance was procured, but in
v tin, as the girl only furvived the accident three quar-
ters of an hour. The infant was not hurt.

The Jueges met on Friday in the King's Bench
Treartny Chamber, and chofe their Chtunb for the
enfuing Lent Affizes, as under, viz.

Nourn K —Right Honourable Lord Ellenborough and the
Honourable Mr. Juttice Grote.
MIDLAND-Right Honcurable Lord Chief Jur.ice MausSeld
and Hot.uurable Nir. Barcn Graham.
Hose—Right Honourable Lord Chief Baron and Honourable
Mr. Jultsce H ath.
OlTOED—Honourable Mr. Baron Thompfon and Honourable
Mr. Jutlice Lawrence.
NORTH eari—Honour.ble Mr. Juilice Rook and Honourable
Mr. Jultice Le Tklane.
WE ssr Er. N•-/ iononrable Mr.Juftice Chambre and Honourable
Mr. Baron Sutton.

MUILDBR.—The ftillowirg is an inflance of barba-
rity fcarcely to be paralleled in the annals cf cruelty :
Wm. Williams, of Pentwyn, in the Parifh of Crick-
bowel), a (mall farmer and fhepherd, who had been
accuflomed to attend daily to his flock, left his cot-
tage on the morning of Saturday fe'nnight, accom-
panied by his dog. In the afternoon the dog returned
home without his mailer, and howled fo much as to
have created great alarm in the family. Night coming
on, and the deceafed not appearing, his friends became
much dial-died ; and, on the following morning, his
wife and children, with fome neighbours, went in
fearch of him ; the faithful and fagacious dog accom.
panied them, repeating his howling, and expreffing
figns of great agitation ; he led the parties to a final
coppice, where his mailer was found murdered, his
head having been fplit with an axe. The unfortunate
man has left a wife and feven children to bewail his
fate.—Two brothers, named Timothy and John
who retitled in the fame parifh with the deceafed,
were furpeded, in confequence of the unfortunate
man (who is a contlable) having, difcovered the retreat
of their father, after he had effeded his efcape from
juflice, on a charge of lheep-Realing. They are both
lodged in Brecon jail, under the charge of wilful
murder.
Saturday, at Marlborough Ricer, an Italian of
fortune, arid Come diftindion, named Leipfl, was
charged with having written and fent fetteral letter ,
containing menaces, threats, and abufe, to a Mt.
ADAM, a mercantile gentleman, refiding in Chat-
; lotto street, Itathbone•place, with intent to provoke
that gentleman to fight a duel. The complainant
Rated to the Magittrates, that about two months
ago, he was addreffed by this Signior, in the pit of
the Opera Hnufe, who accufed hitn of having de.
famed and vilified his reputation and charader at
Fribnrgh. in Switzerland, in the year 1803. Mr.
ADAM told him, he was utterly mißaken, as he had
never, in the courfe of his exitlence, been in Sask.
voland ; and, in order to convince the foreigner
more fully of his mißake, he gave him his card, with
his addrefs. The Signior, however, pertiffed in de-
claring Mr. ADAM to be the perfon who had calum.
nutted him, and in confequence of his obßinate re.
fentment, wrote that gentleman a variety of letters,
replete with the molt foul and fcandalous obloquy
and ahufe, intimating to him in his !aft, that unlefs
he would accept a challenge, he muff fiblynit to that
which would irevitably follow. The di fe ulant gate
his own fecurity in tool. an t two furetics in 301. each,
to keep the peacc towatds Mr. ADAM.

BEAUTIES OF THE RHINE.

The following excellent thort account of the Rhine, extradted
from different Authors, with feveral or:ginal Remarks, will,
we doubt not, at this time prove highly acceptable to our
Readers.
The Rhine is one of the molt important rivers in
Europe ; it riles in the country of the Grifuns, from
a Glacier, upon the Commit of Mount Badur, at the
head of a valley, about nine leagues in length, called
the Rhinewald. This is what is efteemed the chief
fource of the Rhine, being that Qiled by the French
the Upper Rhine, and in German the Nearer Rhine.
The Middle Rhine, which riles not far from Mount
St. Gothard, is indeed the longeft ftream, whence its
fource was formerly afcribed to that mountain, yet
the molt eaffern is flared as the more confiderable.—
From its fource the Rhine pervades or borders Swit-
zerland, for about the fpace of 200 Britifh miles,
running N. E. to the lake of Conflance, whence it
bends W. to Bafle, where it begins its long northern
courfe. De Life's celebrated map, in three large
fheets, is now become very fcarce, but certainly none
could better delineate the courfe of the Rhine, and
the adjacent country, at leaft as far as from Bafle to
Bonne;—from thence any maps of the Netherlands
may be confulted ; but for its courfe through Hol-
land, betides Chauchard's, and other of our belt
maps, the Dutch one by Nicolaus Vifieber, publifh-
ed at Amfterdam, may be particularly referred to.—
This noble river forms the grand ancient barrier be-
tween France and Germany ; and its courfe may be
computed at about 600 Britifh miles. On the Ger-
man fide it is diverfified with mountains and rocks,
but from Bafle to Spire the fhores are flat and unin-
terelling ; near Mentz they become rich and varie-
gated ; and, on the confluence of the Mayne, the
waters are diftinguifhable for many leagues. The
Rhinegau forms an amphitheatre, the beauties of
which are beyond defcription. In this neighbour-
hood is Hockft, or Hockham, fo famous for good
vines, that the bell Rhenifh is from thence called
Old Hod. The firft vine, it is thought, was brought
there from France, and they (till call the belt grape
the Orleanois. There has certainly been a wine made
in the neighbourhood of Orleans, that has much the
flavour of the RhenyL, particularly near the celebra•
ted Chateau at La Source, where Lord Bolingbroke
raided for feveral years during his exile : this La
Source takes its name from a very remarkable fpring,
which fudienly riles in the garden, In copious, that
it immediately forms the little river Loiret. The
French in general are not partial to acid wines ; even
the cyder of Normandy is almoft always mixed with
honey ; but the harvell of the bell vineyards of. the
Rhinegau is often bought beforehand at a very ad-
vanced price by Dutch and other merchants ; and
we know how much the belt Rhenifh wines and Old
Hock are efteemed in England. Some of cur own
old rough cyder is equal, if not fuperior to either the
common wines of the Rhine or the Mofelle, but for
that fort, dillinaly called Old Hock, it admits of no
comparifon. Travellers returning from Swifrerland
ufed to find it generally more pleafant to embark on
the Rhine than to go poll to Cologne. A large com-
modious covered boat, with three rooms in it, might
be had for eight louis d'ors and a half, and paffen-
gers could repofe at Coblentz and at Bonne. The
!bores are flat on both fides from Bonne to Cologne,
from whence they might have gone by the river to
Holland ; but, the late King of Pruffia, to encou-
rage the breed of horfes, infilled upon their taking
the poll through his dominions. Upon infpeling the
accurate maps by D'Anville, it will be perce►ved that
the Rhine afterwards divided itfelf into two grand
branches ; the fouthern branch joined the Meufe,
while the northern palled by Utrecht and Leyden.—
On a fubfequent change the Rhine was again fubdi.
vided, and the chief branch fell into the Leck, and
mutt now be regarded as the northern mouth of that
noble river, while the Waal continues to be the
fouthern; (fill, however, it has been infifled upon,
that the Old Rhine may be difliatly traced from
Leyden to the Ocean, but the ftream to called, has
of late years been very accurately examined by fome
Englifhmen, and the ((ream, whatever it is, abfo.
lately terminates in tome land hills, about four miles
N. W. of Leyden.

TH F. NEW 13•11)0 ET.—The power of money beget-
ling money, was never mote pleafingly 'Nitrated
than in the financial arrangements of the Chancellor
of the Exchequer. The Scheme he wifhes to int-
prefs the public with is, that no New Taxes are ne-
ceffary—The Scheme that CARTER wifhes to im•
prefs the public with, is a Cheap Plan of Paying
the Old ones. To thofe who with„ to adopt it—the
time is to-morrow—the place No. 8, Charing Crofs.
—The lofs may be a few pounds—the gain may be
60,0001.
Many aiventurers are felicitating themfelves, that
their numbers in the prefent Lottery are not yet
drawn, as the two momentous Prizes of 30,0001.
each, with other capitals, are Hill forthcoming. In
confeeptence of this great interett, many frefh adven-
turers will deem themfelves happy likewife, on being
able to obtain any Tickets and Shares, before next
Wednefday's drawing, for the remaining molt im-
portant Prizes.
Thirty Thoufand Pounds have charms irrefiflible.
To morrow morning, ten o'clock, prefents a charm,
that, in all probability, will never be renewed ; there
are Two Prizes of 30,0001. befides the atm' Prizes
of 20,0001. pool. moo!. and ;col. Tickets and
shares may be had at Hoassav's and Co.'s, Nos.
26, Combat, 52, Charing Crofs, and St. Margaret's
11111, Borough, warranted undrawn. Nos. 42,569,
and 33979, both Prizes of 30,0001. were fold by
HOIthSBY and Co.
The only Capitals yet drawn in the prefent Lot-
tery are—No, 24,490, m 0201.-23,815, z 0,0001.-
21,295, sccol.—the whole of which
were fold in Shares by 'barks°, BORNE, and Co.
Royal Exchange, except N. 25,295, to,oool. which
was -alio fold imeihares.—N. B. The first drawn on
Wednefday next will be entitled to 30,0001.
THIRTY THOUSVID POUNDS certain for the Firfl•
drawn Ticket the n/xt Day of Drawing, Wednefday,
4th Fehruary.—There is no inliance to be found in
the hillory of Lotteries, of fo Rich a Wheel as the
rrefent, viz. Two Prizes of 30,0001. each, 20,0001.
and Two of 5,0001. each ; aim Four of ',cool. and
numerous other Capitals, &c. The 'lndrawn Tickas
• and Shares are on Sale at Honor s and Co.'F. Offices,
Oxford-fireet, and St. jarnees.llreet.