Star.
London, England, 1809-01-12 00:00:00

OLYMPIC I'AVILIOg:

NEWCASTLE—STREET, STRAND.
(Established by authority of the Lord Chamberlain.)
From theariany disappoint:he:its eimirienFed by several Ladies
and Gentlemen desirous of seeing the Ornbres Chinoises, the
Public are most respectfully informed that they cOmmence at
half past six precisely/
THIS, and EVERY EVENING this WEEK,
16th time these 15 a Serie?Coaale -Carriele, tilled
THE LITTLE WORLD ;
OR, OMBRES CHINOISEO,
:tuestrian Exercise', by the Dot/bit Coiapaay, and Mr. Saila.
27th time, a Grand *made, called
FRENCH INTRilbtka ;
OR, Till OF PORTUGAL.
Principal Characters, by Mr. Crosezasi and /y/13. Parker.
Various Songs, by Mr. Johannot, MIA Wornireen; cc.
To conclude with, iSthtime, the P•011it Pratitermane of
QUIXCd uhweo ;
OR, HARLEQUW N1f4111.140R.
rarlequin, Mr. Crewman ; Quixote, Mr. Cook : Sancho, Mr.
Norman; Afirtb, Mist Blorrigreen ; Florella, Miss Greville ;
and Columbine, Mrs. Parker.
In the course of the Pantomime, various Evolutions by Two
Squadrons of Horse.
Doors open at half-past five, begin at balfipasa •ibros.Second
price half-pant eight. . . -
• Riding Taught front ten till three, by Mr. Delia *ad able
Assista&s.
0. On Monday next will be produced a new Spectacle, and a
int Harlequinade ; with (by desire) the Cotillion and Country
lance by Eight Horses.

THE NEW.COMEDY.
This day was published, Price Half-I-Crown,
VAN AND WIFE • or, MORE SECRETS
THAN ONE. • A Comedy, in The Acts. As It Is per-
forming at the Theurny-Rippi, Drury-Lane.
By S. I. 4RNOLD, Esq..
Printed for RICHARD tIeILLIPS, No. 6, Bridge-Igen ; ;Ad spld
ty Goddard and Chuppk, P> rnali ; Booker, loiadiltriell ;add
ty all Booksellers in Tows and Country.
Of whom may be bad,
The SOLDIER's DAUGHTER. 12th Edition. By A. Cherry,
hq. Price 2s. 6d.
The CURPEW. 7th Edition. Price's, id.

AN-fittbAPfkraterri—tatti. •
TO those who wish for a Dance, without being at
the great erpence of hiring a Bind, from two to fifty couple
any dance to it at one time there are Six. Steps, with a Dewu
and Triangle, three Barrels, lif/Q with dancing. tunes, one Songs,
iffinne, fie. Pipes are all glued in fast, with a Packing Case, &c.
r.maie to go abroad ; cost Forty-two Guineas, will now be sold for.
.airtT-two Guineas ready money, and no abatement.—May be
seen at No.• 5, Leicester-place, 1.-I;leagemquxre, from Eleven
opock to Four only.—lt Aar si,!k feet blich•

TO TILE ADMIRERS OF A FAIR SKIN.
Tie CELEBRATED POLISH VEGETABLE SOAR PASTE.
I DELCROIX has prepared the abbve valuable
4' SOAP PASTE from a recipe of Mr. BROf KOSKI', his friend,
mini= Chemist, in Warsaw, who is the sole Inventor. of this
Precious Composition, whieliobiligtseeos universally,approved of by
Personsof the first rank • rth *lt blank and.frazen country,
r Softening, Nourishing, and Whihuslosithe'Shil, and allowed
In be a certain preventative Sialniietbe cold air stopping the face
card hands, an agreeable perilous', and a most pleasing and ef&-
tlitSciatfix-Onlaire This article cannot in offered at a more
Proper tine than in tee winter season, whbn a trial of two days
/61 prove its Poculiarvirtuee, as well fs its superiority over di cry
Ceevery of the kind ever presented to the Pablic.
s°klssholeside by the Proprietor, No. 56, Potand-street; and
marl by the Prinexp* ol Perfumers in Town and Country.

TO THEI.AbIES OFILUROPE.
ITASSAN's TURKISH SPECIFIC for remov-
ing. SUPERFLUOUS PintERFLUnsOUS
the go=4firouctia. the Fialcset, Nett k, Arms,
and drttidful
tzarina in the Harim, and anion the women, "cl•sicawskbY
*manure of the unfortunate Selfm ill. Zayda Hassan was 33
Y as to gain palmation (at the risk of her life) of.this
secret, which by the Turkish ladies, on aceonnt of tbrir style
&Is, and the manner in which the fac,, and neck are euposed,
ield in the highest estimation. All others must be spurious.
Prevent the possibility a imposition, Lades are requested-tit
rye, that each bottle is signed Z. Hassan, in the Psoptittoell
writing, toimitate wkickis felony.—Priee ss.6d.thst beads.
7ipia Hassan being unacquainted With tbi English lainigi!#se,,
3P;linted kiesirs. Straw intlEdwards,St.PainrsehnieiS-ysrt;
1.1411
Ladies may depend upon being iepplieekwAsthe-dsigla-
Entine. Orders (post paid) inelooda:::* 2411110 r
le or
larger quantity, w#l be pun. elFe444
An Atiatetrient of Is. in

s
THP INFALLIBLE-RAT. P4:llVplyk,_. .
NEW Composition Tot. Diltroling . KAT§ and,
. mia. Thee thin P?petirr, to a!lvvret.l4 die ell
Pd, is not to be ty ' Etet;--in short, itis'ittrunt
L!:. The application le ample, expect* nELanil the
~.t certain.
`..th :re the extraordinary pad A •- - °viers itlPss4"rit.
'' the inventor has fiq irrsi
uently knob. env to take it train h
t 4; 01 1°
4 voth the greaten avidity. ' ' \ .
831 d, t 7 otdct of the Proprietor, by Messrs. Howaad and
'3, Long-lane, Wen Staithedd; Mr. Johnstone, No. Islt
i
tsek-street !:oho : Shaw' and Edvords, NO, 66, Slt Pa. 114 j
iltch.yarcl; M 'r. Butler Nem. 4, " . e ; Maid; Nos 324,
i
°lll'arrl; Messrs. fellionil d 'aid Sart . ; No. s's Lai* Aire r
r' 3?li.e, Carlisle; and by the principal Vendrre of Patent
sin the Uniteid kJ:spire.

Further particulars, together with the Tema put Conditions
of the Contract, =The known, upon apylicatkm at the Secretary's
°Ste, in Pan-Mall aforeapid, any day, between the hours of ten
and four o'clock, where the Proposals muit be delivered, sealed
up, and endorsed f‘ Proposals for Painter's Work," but no Pro-
posal can be admired after the said 25th day of January, at twelve
o'clock at noon of the same day, neither will any Tender be
notiqd =less the party making it. or an Agent in his behalf
shall attend. By Order of the Board,
R. H. CRE--

dAvALRY.
'elt SALE, a Cometcy in a Regiment of Light
Draipsoni.—Partieulars may be known by applyiag to A. at
Mr. Goddard's, Military Bookseller, Coma of Ball-Mall, Loa•
ann.;-:;(Lelers post Raid.)

PORTSPA ISLAND WATBR-WORKS.
To be completed under the authorithx of an Act of Parliament
pm*, for " Supplying the Town )ef Portsmouth. the Garri-
son, Oie Public OiScea, tke Shipping, and Parts adjacent with
good and wholesome Water."
THE Board of Manage* of the PORTSEA
-a- ISLAND W.EkTERTWORIP COMPANY 42ving re-
solved; that the Capital bf E 60,000 should be immediately com.
pitted, that the Act awry be carried into effect with all passible
'dispatch, do hereby give Notice, that Subscriptions for that per-
pose will be recefved # the Company's Offices, No. 8, Bucklers-
tniiy, London, and St. neorge's-squue, Parma; also at Messrs.
1.4*.y...a4 Co. repchurch-street, Bankers is the Company.
Portse4 Island 'Water-Worles, JOHN TAYLOR,
S, Btiekleribury, lan. 10, 1809. Secretary.
MI *bite, ore 119 a eacto be paid by Instilmenseg ezo
per Share, with an interval of at least One Month between the
payment of each Instilment. 415 per Share to be paid at the
time of Subscribiog, Awing a Deposit of S per Cent. and the ant
payment of 10 per Cent. on each Share.
The Searetary will attend the Office from eleven till three o'clock
each diy, where the Regulations and every required information
may be obtained. •
. .

exquvrinmsNT.
'FOHN FRASER takes this method of informing
the Public, and his Friends In particular, that having resigned
the service of acting as Accountant to the Bank of Scotland, he
tya commetuted Staginess in the Retail Grocery line, on the pre-
mises newly built Sy Archibald Goodall, High street, where the
public may he supplied for ready money at the very lowest priers,
with Dolmas, Conpus, Suchones, Green and Hyson Teas, Coffee,
Chocolate, Cocoa' East and West India Raw Supt.*, Lumps,
Refined, Double Refined and Powdered Loaves, Italian Juice,
Poland Starch, Saltpetre, &c. with every other article in the
Grocery line, and reternsihanks to a generous-public, for the en•
couragement he has receive I since opening.
liaddingten, North Britain, Jan. S, 1809.

MONEY.
MESSRS. LUCAS and Co. beg leave to inform
those that muo be in want and desirous of borrowing tem-
porary or permanent sums of money, that they can at all times
advance any sitm from 1001. to 20.000!. and upwards, on personal
or any other security arising from Marriage Settlements, Money
in the Funds, Clergymen? Livings, or Freehold, Coavhold, and
Leasehold Estates, on the most liberal and honourable terms.—
Personal application Messrs. Lucas and Co. daily receive at their
house, No. 19, Jermyn-street, St. James's, either personally or by
letter, post-paid. N. B. Ten years purchase will be given for
well-secured Annuities.

TIMBER.
Fro BE SOLD, 160 Acres of very fine OAK
-11 TIMBER mixed with sotne very valuable A.SH and
ALDER, an of above WO years growth. It is situated within
fifteen miles of. Giotsmell, and twenty-one of Limerick, in the
Kingdom of Ireland, from each of which Towns there is water
carriage.—Proposals (post paid) will be received until the Sd of
March, by Wm. Roper, Esq. 34, North Great Georges-street,
Dublin. and further particulars may be known, by application to
Mr. John Nesbitt, No. 16, Tokenhouse-Yard, London.

VORKSHIRI, EAST:RIDING':
TO SE SOLD AUCTION.—In LOTS,
On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the t ath, 19th, and 20th
Om of January, ISO% at the Tiger Inn, in Beverley, in the
eulnity of York, •
1 HE MANOR of BEVERLEY WATER
TOWN.% in.tbe East. Riding of the County of York, and
settnal Freehold Dwelling-houses, Closes, and Parcels of Land,
situate at Beverley, Beverley Parks, and Hull Bridge, in the said
East Riding.
P%rticulars mar be had of Messrs. Hesleden, solicitors, Barton-
irpon•Hunsher, -Lincolnshire; Messrs. Burley and Moore,
cnlici-
cove Lincoln's-Inn, London ; Isaac Leatham, Esq. Barton, near
horaiton;YOrkshire ; Mr. Joseph Dickinson, of Beverley Parks
and Mr. Hall, solicitor, Beverley. _ _ _

VALUABLE TRADE AND PREMISES.
To be DISPOSED OP on LIBERAL TERMS, with immediate
Possession,
THE GOOPIWIIL mist STOCK in TRADE
connected with , thp Bswinest of a Retail IRON MER-
C 44241% Thitisgficern, which is of the first respectability, has
been for many years extensively and successfully conducted in a
latgc commercial manufacturing Town, within ore of the Mid.
land'COonties ; it, possesses every.desirable. advantage in point of
;ituation, and is Capable .of any ferther.extention that might be
?wished for.
The Puxcloser, if be pleases, may be accommodated with the
premises .at a fair sralitatiosi.: they comprise a .captal Mansion,
with Weinhouses, Yards and other suitable conveni-
'euces,, ali.agoinipg and perfecta! entire.
• The preatni Proptietv is retiring froM business, iv this com-
munication would not Itave.been submitted to the public.
For further information references may•fte xna,de either tts.
Messrs. Baster and Martin, Furnivars Inn, or to Messrs. Rigsby
and Wells, Solicitors, Nottingham.

'This day was published, in One Volume, Octavo,
Price 7s. 6d. boards, the $d Edition of

HINTS to YOUNG PRACTITIONERS in the
STUDY of LANDSCAPE PAINTING. Uiustrated by
Engravings, intended to show the different Stages of the Neutral
'l'o which are added, Instructions in the Art of Painting
on Velvet. By f. W. ALSTON, L.P.
Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster-row.
"-This Work contains plain and clear instructions for drawing
Landscapes , also respecting the miring and mannement of co-
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''HE EAST-INDIA REGISTER and DIREC•
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By JOHN MATHISON and ALEXANDER WAY MASON,
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