Star.
London, England, 1825-07-20 00:00:00

VAUXHALL.

CORONATION FETE.

The anniversary fete, in commemoration of his Ma- '
jesty's C. r. nation, took place at these Gardens last
night, when the natural and artificial attracti-sns of the
place, together with the state of the weather at present,
which suffers nobody to go abroad by day, or remain
within doors in the evening, combined to fill them with
a numerous assemblage of respectable company. The
decorations were upon a very magnificent scale, com-
prising the leading and most interesting features of
former galas, with various novel devices. Amongst
the latter were a number of illuminated flags, arranged
along the sides of the Quadrangle, at the lower end of
which the motto .'Coronation of our Royal Patron"
blazed in refulgent colours, surmounted by a splendid
Star and Crown, and beautifully embellished with a
border of laurel in green lamps, with the ruse, thistle,
and shamrock, tastefully intertwined. The variegated
lamps which decorated the trees, as well those that
hung in fanciful festoons from bough to bough, as
those that glittered amongst the leaves of the illumi-
nated grove, again attracted general admiration from
their picturesque effect. The entertainments were k pt
up in constant succesion, from eight o'clock to mid-
night. Les Umbra Chinoii were presented for the first
time this season,: most of the other amusements were
those which we have described upon former i ccasions ;
all terminating with a display of fireworks, on which
M. D'Ermsr seemed to have exerted an unusual civet
of talent: and speaking of artists, it is but justice to
DUFFIELD, the enlightener of these Gardens for the
last twenty years, to say that the peculiar brilliancy of
the general illuminations, and the taste evinced in the
construction of the devices, reflected great credit on,
his inqauity and experience.
The Coronation Anthem was performed in exquiiite
style,. A new Ode in honour of his MAJESTY was also
given by the vocal strength of the Gardens.
Among the company present were—
His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, the Prussian Ambassador,
Admiral Codrington, Colonel Milani), Sir Thomas Morgan, and
Major Chetwynd.

PnovtDFNTIAL ESCAEE.—Yesterday evening, about
six o'clock, as a plumber, employed on a house at pre-
sent re building in Red Lion-street, Borough, near the
Town hall, aas passing along the scaffolding, a thin
board, placed along the wall to supply a chasm in the
scaffolding, gave way, and he way precipitated from a
height of full five stories into the cellar. On being
taken up, to the great astonishment of every one, he
appeared to have suffered no farther injury than a cut
over both eyes (that over the left rather a severe one);
which bled copiously, and walked, by the assistance of
two of his companions, to St. Thomas's Hospital,where
it was ascertained that this was actually the whole
damage he had sustained.
THE LORD MAYOR'S AQUATIC ENTERTAINMENT.—
Monday the LORD MAYOR gave a grand aquatic enter-
tainment ti? the River. The Duke and Duchess of
CAMBRIDGE were expected to be of the party, but their
Royal Highnesses sent apologies in consequence of en-
gagements of an indispensable nature. The company
consisted of upwards of ISO, amongst whom were the
Duke of Bausswice. Lord STOWELL, the Count and
Countess Mt/fibres, Bawl MUNEUAUSEN, Chamberlain
to the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, Sir WATHEN and Miss
WALLER, SitJOEIN DOYLE, Captain Rovss, &c. The
party left Westminster-bridge at a quarter after eleven
o'clock, and reached Richmond at four. They dined on
board the navigation barge, and in the evening the La-
dies landed at Pope's Villa, now in the possession of Sir
WAVIER WALLER. The dinner consisted of turtle
soup and cold dainties. Quadrilles commenced early,
and continued lung, notwithstanding the extreme heat of
the weather. Three bands of military music accompa-
nied the City Barge, which was followed by the Gold-
smiths and the Merchant Tailors barges, and a vast
number of pleasure boats. The River in the neighbour-
hood presented a most animated appearance.
M. de Lalande states, that-he received, from Tantini
himself (the celebrated composer) the following singular
anecdote respecting one of his compositions, which
slows to what a degree his imagination was inflamed.
He dreamed one night that he had made a compact
with the devil, who promised to be at his service on all
occasions; and during this vision, everything succeeded
to his mind ; his wishes were prevented, and his desires
always surpassed by the assistance of his new servant.
In short, be imagined that he presented the devil his
violin, in order to discover what kind of a musician be
was, when, to his great astonishment, he beard him
play a solo so singularly beautiful, and executed with
such superior taste and precision, that it surpassed all-
the music he bad ever heard or conceived in his life.
So great was his surprise, and so exquisite his delight
upon this occasion, that it deprived him of the power
of breathing. He awoke with the violence of his sen-
sations, and instantly seized his fiddle,, in hopes of ex-
pressing what be had just heard, but in vain. He,
however, directly composed a piece, which is perhaps
the best of all his works, and called it the " Devil's
Sonata!" He knew it, however, to be so inferior to
what his sleep had produced, that he would have
broken his instrument, and abandoned Music-- for ever,
if he could have subsisted by any other means.

THE NEW IRISH CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION.
PROM THE DUBLIN EVENING POST, JULY 16.
To-day the first Meeting of this body was held at the Corn
Exchange to make the necessary arrangements to carry into effect
the porpoise Not prohibited by the late statute.—On the motion nr
Mr. O'Connell, the Chair was taken by Mr. Redmond.
Mr. O'Contrem. said, that as there were already
ninety-six individuals composing the New Association*
it was manifest they were sufficiently numerous to pro-
ceed to make the necessary arrangements for business,
They must, however, act deliberately and cautiously,
so as not to violate the late Statute, and, at the same
'time, to conduct the details of the future Association
with effect. There was, he thought, no difficulty iii
avoiding the provisions of the Statute, by acting accord.
inn to the plan detailed in the Report laid before the
late Aggregate Meeting. AR the details of the
business should be consistent with that Report.,
The first purpose of the Association would be to re-
concile all persons of all setts and persuasions through-
out Ireland, and to promote public peace as well as pri-
rate concord. For this purpose it would be necessary
to ascertain, in the districts of Ireland, the local causes
of disturbance, wherever disturbance might arise, and
to devise the proper methods that might be used for its
extinction. They could not, certainly, apply to Parlia-
meat, or to the Courts of Law for relief ; but they could,
through the medium of the public press, give authentic
reports of such disturbances and their causes to the
public. In the South and West, he felt happy in as-
suring the !sleeting, all was now perfectly tranquil;
while, in the Nuo It, unfoitunately, the: e were disturb-.
antes of the most horrible deo.tip.ion. At Magltera,
where numbers of Catholics had beett.slaughteied by
the Orangemen last year, and where the Catholics had
since made up the difference with unsuspecting confi-
dence, he was credibly informed, that the Orange pro-
cessions there were never so numerous or so violent as
this year. A Gentleman who had come into the Ilall
of the Four Courts this day, stated, that in a short journey
which he had made through that part of the count; y,
he had to ride through no less than eleven Otange
arches. Ie Coleraine, the Orangemen defeated the po-
lice, and when the military were drawn out against them,
they forced them to retreat to their barracks. By having
these circumstances authentically stated in the news-
papers, they might obtain redress, and if they did not,
they would at least shew the public who are the Causes
of the grievances of the country.
Mr. PrAnixerr asked how could their grievances be made hem,.
except by correspondence? and keeping rap a correspondence was,
they must all be aware, prevented by the late Act.
Mr. O'Cornt ELL said, that they could not certainly,
without violating the statute, cot respond with -any
Society ; but they might safely do so with ind.viduals:
As to th grievances which he had alluded to, it was
necessary to ascertain the facts, and • them to apply to
them the lenitive of good counsel and good example—
to resist the inuusion of party politics, especially those
which, in this country, excited to ill-will and hatred
among individuals. They would, by the means he had
adverted to, be able to present to 11:e Irish Public a
genuine picture of the causes of the ill-will which might
exist among tht m, to expose the promoters of bigotry
and disunion, and to point out the encouragers of
Orange ptocess:ons. This would certainly be of ad.
vantage, as the cure generally followed Flom knowing
the causes of the disease. The next topic to which the
attention of the New Association would be drawn was
that cf educa:ion. The education of the Catholics
was left alt gether to individual chatity, with the
exception of those subscriptions which, in a'l large
towns, the Protestants so liberally made at charity
sermons; while there were four hundred thousand
children educated by the Catholic Clergy, with-
out receiving the least assistance from Government.
Thers was at present a large sum vested in the M 4rgais
Wellesley, of which, he had no doubt, a portion %voila
be devoted to the purposes of the education of the Ca-
tholics, if the proper condition of the schools conducted
by the Clergy of that persuasion were reported to his
Excellency. From the Report of the Education Com-
mission it appeared that the Kildare-street Society were
now only fit for superintending a Model School for the
instruction of Masters. He thought it right that the Cath-
olics ought to have another Model School in Dublin, and if
that were once established, the Kildare.stieet Gentlemen
would become as useless hereafter as they had been mis-
chievous hitherto. With sespect to education, it would
be the duty of the New Associatien to inform the peo-
ple of England of the real state of that subject in this
country. The Learned Gentleman entered into a detail
of the vast sums of money which had been granted by
Government to the Bible Society—a Society whose sole
employment he stated to be calumniating the Irish and
the Catholic Clergy. He then alluded to the Hibernian
School Society, which was, he said, above all others,ve-
markable for ignorance and impudence combined, and
never was such a set of individuals assembled as its Ma-
nagers. He (Mr. O'C.) then adverted to the curious
assertions preached by the Rev. Mr. son-in-law of the
Archbishop of Dublin (from the connection with whom, be staters,
be could expect nothing else), to the Hibernian School Society,
namely, that when a Roman Catholic died althorn absolution, the
Clergyman went to the grave, and exhuming the body, administered
that Sacrament. When be had applied to the Body for their
authority in asserting this calumny, the answer he received was, that
k bad best. taken from some Ecclesiastical Review so that his
slay emessitim was, that it had not only been preached, but printed
bt some book which he never saw. The next object of the New
Association would be to ascertain the extent of the population of
this country, which he considered to be at least eight mil-
lions, distinguishing the Catholics from the Protestants, and
where it was possible, the Protestants from the lEssenters.—
The forms in Mr. Shaw Mason's book would answer for this pur-
pose. They would have afterwards to ascertain what the Catholic
Clergy were paid in their respective parishes; and probably when
their Protestant neighbours saw on what cheep terms the Catholics
got to Heaven, they might wish to go there at a similar rate. He
then alluded to the late Burial Bill, which, he said, had come forth
literally, and without a pan, a demi letter. They would build
Churches where the Catholics could be buried, without having ths%
relous feelings of their surviving friends outraged. He con-
cluded by moving the appointment of a Committee of Timmy-one,
to draw up regulations for the future Meetings of the Catholic
Asseciation.—The Rev. Mr. L'Estreassoe, after a few observations,
seconded the Resolution, which was carried unanintoudy.

Great relief from the thirst produced by the excessive
heat of the summer, is derived from the cooling solstitive
fruits now in prime. Persons have been known w'vh
advantage to live entirely on currants, strawbeire,,
cherries, and a little bread, during such fierce we deer.
Sunday week the neighbourhood of Manchester was vibned by
a severe thunder storm, which did souse damage at Cadkhead and
Dunham. Same day, the southern part of Westmorland war visite4
by a thunder storm. The pressure of heat in the atmosphere was
almost overpowering during the forenoon. The rain fell in torrent.,
mingled with large hail stones; while birds and beasts sought shelter
from the fury of the storm. Four cows on the grounds of Mi.
Peter Bramwell, at Lupton High, were killed by the lightning.
On the same afternoon there was a tremendous thunder storm et
Kirkby Lunsdale, and in the neighbourhood. The lightning was
very vivid, the thunder remarkably loud, and the rain full in torrcors.
There was a violent storut of rain, thunder,and lightning at Shield-,
on Tuesday last. Thc :ant full in turrui:l/2
was brilliant.

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FIG FIT FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP,
ERTWEEN CANNON AND WARDt. FOR ONE
THOUSAND SOVEREIGNS. .
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Mn the abdication of Spring, the Empire of the;
" Fancy" was thrown into a state of confusion, equalled,
only by that which occurred when Alexander the
Great bequeathed the crown to the most worthy, and at
his death, Antigonus, Cassander, tysimachus, and Se-
leucus, all started as competitors for the throne. So on
the retirement of Spring, the Alexander of his day, the
several Captains of the Ring, who bad repressed their
ambition under the terror of his mighty fist, seized en
different portions of the State, and each supported by a
set of flatterers and followers, claimed, as " the most
worthy," the sovereignty of the whole. From the pro-
vince of Wapping; backed by the pomp and power of
the East, came forth Jan Ward—formed by nature for
victory, he posiessed every quality of a hero ; a frame
moulded for activity and strength ; science the most
effective; and a bead as crafty as a serpent's. Bat
those who dreaded his might, denied him the capability
of its application. His heart was said not to be in the right
place,and the rivalPrinces,questioning his game, laughed
at his pretensions, and refused obedience to his claim.
Vrom the fertile territories of Windsor advanced Tom
Cannon, leading captive the murdered reputation of
Josh Hudson. The genius of Fortune, in the shape of
Mr. Hayne, rolling on a silver ball, attended at his side,
and victory went before his chariot, proclaiming how
often he had won. From the wilds of Scythia came
forth Jack Langan—a true Milesian, swelling and
bursting like a big potatoe. He hurled a loud defiance,.
and challenged all the world, but when the enemy took
the field against' him, he retired into the fastness:s of
his desert, and was only heard of by what that great
torwre Champion (Mr. Dan. O'Connell) would call an
" under growl," which, like the roll of distant thunder,
passed unheeded by. Peter Crawley put in his claim,
like a man and valiant soldier. The architect of his.
own fame, he advanced himself from the ranks by
merit alone. Confident in his own powers, he did not
rush madly into mischief, but collecting in his progress
friends and supporters, waited for the favourable mo-
ment to throw his hat into the ring, and strike a decisive
blow. Bui while the Empire was in this state, and the'
minds of men anxiously awaiting the result, a new
yandidAte appeared ; on whom, as if by one assent, the
choice of all the Fancy fell. Brown, rising from a
distant quarter, slaughtered all the petty foes who dared
to oppose his march, overthrew one of the leading Cap-
tains of the age, and then with the tact of a prudent
General, awaited the issue of the next contest, deter-
mined to enter the lists with the conqueror.
Jem Ward is allowed to be the best fighter of his
day, and the boasting of Cannon, after his double vic-
:city over Hudson, was not likely to pass unnoticed ;
and after several challenges given, accepted, and
broken, the match was at last made for one thousand
pounds. %%yard was backed by a club of friends in the
East, and Cannon principally by Mr. Harm. The in-
erest taken in this affair by Ward's friends, was greater
taut can well be imagined. They seat him to Dn-
rzster, under the care of a skilful trainer, to talcr his
exercise with Metcalfe, the great runner. There he
was put to hard work, and every care used to increase
his stamina and improve his wind. The accounts of his
training were looked for with the same anxiety as those
of the first favourite Of the Derby or St. Leger.—
Everything was said to go on well. He *as brought
dc.wn from thirteen stone and a half to twelve stone
four pcunds ; not a pound of loose flesh left about
him, and his wind was stated to be in tke best order.—
Mr. Hayne sent Cannon to Marlborough for exercise.
His constitution being good, h* wanted very little
professional training, but what was necessary to be
done was managed by Clarke, under the superintend-
ence of Mr. Hayne himself.
That fighting should be in fashion at Wapping and
its vicinity is not in the least surprising. The very air
is martial, and smells of pitch and tar, and other pre--
parations of naval warflue. The Tower of London,
with -its armoury to teach the young-idea how to shcoi,
is constantly in sight; and even the fair sex have a
brimstone look ; but that Windsor should be pugnacioin
is a matter of surprise to us, as it will be of profound
astonishment and curious research to the future historian.
" Thy forests, Windsor, and tby green retreats,
At once the Monarch's and the Muses' seats,"
have lost their character ; and it is a melancholy truth,
that this home of Kings and abode of beauty, conse-
crated by poesy, and rendered sacred by every associa-
tion, is now given up to the licentiousness of the Fancy.
—The place where the mailed Knight wielded his lance
in gallant tourney, winning chaplets to throw at the feet
of beauty, now breeds men for
II Clicks in the gab, and closets forbye,
Pocks on the nob, and, eke, the eye."
But so it is, and Tom Cannon and his backer have to
answer for the Hayesous crime.
There has been more than usual sporting interest
taken in this affair, and large sums have been bet on
Ward at 5 and 6to 4. As the day of fighting ap-
proached, and the excellence of Ward's condition was
ascertained, the betting became still brisker, and iCIS
:sense wagers lay at 6 to 4. Several places were named
for the battle, in order to defeat any determined oppo-
sition ; and it was not until Saturday that Warwick was
declared definitively to be the spot. The coaches from
town were immediately booked full, and it was amusing
to see the milling multitude sweltering and broiling in
the hot sun, on the outside of all the stages running
within 20 miles of Warwick. We had a glimpse of a
party of Ward's friends employing themselves on a
cordial bottle, previous to starting, and select the fol-
lowing as a specimen of the poetical effusions which
'were sported on that occasion. It is a great pity the
Poet Laureat does not interfere, and rescue the Muses
from such company :
Here's a health to thee, Tom Moore,
• • • • •

Nly beat is on the shore."
my seat is with the guard,
IM Richmond sow with me ;
But ere I go, Jem Ward,
Here's a double health to thee!
Here's geed luck, and may'st thou win,
And a groan for Cannon's fate,
And foul or fair in fight, Jan,
Nay you be never beat !
Before Igo, Jem Ward, here's a double heakh to thee!
The stakes and ropes are round thee,
The Fancy cheers thee on;
And mighty sums surround thee,
Suck sums as Spring has won.
Wer't the last fight in the year,
As I gas'd upon the ring,
And fight thee foul or fair,
'Tis thee I'd wish to win.
Before I go, Jem Ward, bere's a double health to thee !
In that fight, as it were mine,
Thy glory I regard;

• .
May 'dory si iasilnr, - •-
aticcoes ccoesto their Tem Ward ! • •
11000.1uhk, and nuy at thou
And.a dt•osei Ib caassoa't raj, -
And fouler fair In fight, Jem. • •
• • • May you be•noVer. beat!
.Aad before f go, Join Ward, here's a double healtli to ghee
Those Whiaticiaow:anythipg of fighting are aware-that
the partisgns are more violent than the principals, and
what between.money and the hot, weather, there never
were more virulent opponents .than in..this good cause.
One of Cannon's friends, who chanced to hear the above
most lachrymose jobbation,. clapped his spurs to, his
Pegasus on the instant, and produced a sonnet of equal
and most cruel merit.
•
" Sall on, thou fearless bark."
•TO TOM CANNON.
Fight on—fight iin,.thou fearless foe, .
And whack this would-be hero Jem;
•He cannot Mt so hard, we know,
As thou, old Tom can slaughter him, •
His blow that passes idly by
Can never win the victory.
Then catch him in the wind or eye,
And, Tom, he cannot win from thee !
right on—fight on—fight at the face,
, Be with him, Tom, till all he o'er ;
Give him no time—no rest or space, 1
. And fight till he can come no more,
And if you win, then you shalt be
The pride—the best of fighting men !
Retire with wealth and dignity,
And rest thee, Tom—but not till then !

Ward, attended by his trainer and backers, arrived
at the Warwick Arms on Sunday night, but removed
to a country inn, Cannon and Mr. Hayne came in the
course of the same day to the Hotel, at Leamington,.
where they had sojourned on the last fighting occasion.
But times are much altered for the worse, and honest
Boniface, who had once patronised the ring, has lately
turned round to become an out-and-outer for the
Church ; and Cannon and Mr. Hayne were absolutely ,
refused admission. They then went to the Swan at
Warwick, where the landlord being a practical Sama- ,
titan, took them in, and gave them to eat and to drink.'
It being then represented that it was prudent to take
the actors in the approaching drama from under the
eyes of the Magistrates, cur travellers were forced to
make a third move, and found at last a resting-place at
Stratford-upon-Avon, a town distinguished as the birth
and burial place of a bard, of whom a London Alder-
man has truly said— •
" Though Shakspeare's bones in this hem plate do lie,
Yet that Mtn fame of his shall never die !"

The town of Warwick has been made known to fame
as the scene of the last fight between Cannon and Hudson,
and, as though love of milling increases by what it feeds
on,it was first in its application to secure the present bat.
tle. After some dread of interference on the part of the
Mayor of Warwick, and another alarm of a still mote
astounding nature, no other than a report that the battle
was to be a cross, and that Jens Ward was really to win,
the arena was fixed upon. In the meantime the town
of Warwick began to fill. The coaches from London,
from Cheltenham, Coventry, and Birmingham, was
loaded in and out, as if there were no such things as as
Act of Parliament and Johnson, the informer, in exist•
ence. The business of the world appeared suspended,
and nothing thought of but the fight. The inns reaped
an abundant harvest, and an advance in the funds was
to be expected from the great investments likely to be
made of profits secured on this occasion. The Warwick
Arms, had it a hundred pair of arms, would have found
employment for them all; and the Swan Hoppers werr
equally numerous and clamorous. The post horses ►
a devil of a time of it, and
Many a beast that got no corn,
Will rue the fight that day.

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All the fighting-mea were present—and, in short,
every patron and hanger•on 'of the Fancy, from Con-
naugh t•place to St. Giles's.
Tuesday morning came, and as soon as
" Day's porter had nohlog'd the paintedOmer,