Star.
London, England, 1814-09-29 00:00:00

In7oAr OP WASHINGTON.

This beautiful city is in the territory of Columbia,
Ind is situated at the junction of the rivers Potowmac
and the E astern Branch, ettending about four miles
each t sceit scarcely to be tecceedwf in point of sa-
ints, ity AO beauty by any in the world. The land
was ceded by the States of Virginia and Maryland to
the United States, and by them established as the seat
of their Cover ment, after the year 1800. The plan
of the city combines every thing grand and beautiful ;
for although the land in i'eneral Appears level, yet by
gentle anti gradual swellings, a variety of elegant
prospects is produced, and a sufficient descent formed
for carrying off the rain. l'hc city is divided into
squares. or grand divisions, by streets running due
north and south, and east and west. But Irons the
Capitol. the President's house, and some of the im-
portant aress • f the city, run in diagonal streets, from
one principal point to another, which net only pro-
duce a variety de fine prospects, but obviate the in-
sipid sameness, which renders great cities in general
unpieasin,.. The grand leading streets are all 160
feet a ide, including a pavement of ten feet, and a
grav-1 walk 30 feet, planted with trees on each side,
w ach leave 80 feet of paved street for carriages.—
Toe rest of the streets are in general 110 feet wide ; a
few only being ninety feet. The squares or divisions
of the city amount to 1150. The rectangular squares
generally contain from three to five acres, and are di.
vided into portions of from forty to eighty feet in
front, their depth being from about 110 to 3€o feet,
according to the size of the square. There is not a
single house in the city but what is built either of
brick or stone ; so that its appearance is the mast
beautiful that can be conceived. The area for she
Capitol or Senate House, is on the most elevated
eminence of the city, about a mile from the Eastern
Branch, and not much more from the Potowmac,
commaoding .1 full view of the city, as well as the
surrounding country. In a direction due west from
the Capitol, and due south from the President's house,
run two great pleasure parks, or malls, which inter.
sect and terminate on the banks of the Potowmac,
and are ornamented at the sides by a vari,..ty of ele-
gant mansions. Fifteen of the best of the open areas,
where the principal streets cross each other, are named
after the different States composing the Uniur, and
when finished were to have statues or columns to the
memory of their favourite or most eminent men.—
Mee e. thins has hers already selected for a statue of James
Nudism; ! The equestrian statue of Washington was
,erected not long since in another. The eastern branch
of the Potowmac is one of the safest and most cont-
Inudious harbours in America, being sufficiently deep
for the largest shies about four miles above its junc-
tion with th Potowmac ; while the channel lies close
slot* the edge of the city, and is abundantly cap-
tious The city being situated on the great post road,
exacity eqni-distant from the northern and southern
erremities of the Uni, at, and neatly so from the At,
Lactic to the uhio, was deemed the most eligible situa-
tion for th. Congress ; and the rapidity with which
ft has heen built is owing to the excellent and inez-
balistilile quarries of free stone a few miles below it,
on the banks If the Potowmac. The perpendicular
height of the ground on which the Capitol stands is
78 feet ahoy.- the level of the tide in Tiber Creek; the
water of the,Tiber is therefore conveyed to it. When
the city w.s first planned, the expense of creating it
was estimated at £225,000 kterling ; but more than
double that sum has already been expended on it.—
One important advantage it possesses is, that expen.
"sive coal mines have been ascertained to exist its its
neighbourhood.
The destruction of such a superb city, however
greatly the arrogant people deserve such a calamity,
would have been it subject of universal regret. But it
was spared by British magnanimity ; fur it appears
by the official dispatches, that nothing more than the:
Government edifices and property have been destroy.;
ed by the victors, such as the dockyard, arsenal,
ships, and stnres. It does.xsat even appear that a
single private building intihe city has been injured. •

AMERICAN BARBARITY
Montpeli. r, August es.
Horentn ,MiNtorta I —By a gentleman direct from
PI vesbntglt, we learn that a most daring and barb !-
nets mur ter WAS committal at the id Lam at, by A
. * •
small party co marines fr•rm our L dee ou Taes-
'd.ty night of last week.
The articulars as related to us are, that die Hon..
'CALEB Hut., Judge of Grand Isle County Court,
'and last year a member of the legul I ture from Vine-
yard, Nas known ro be a federalist, and suspected by
'die in sines of being friendly to the enemy. A num-
Int of the marines, under command of a Lieutenant
'rfrewry, resolved_to try his patriotism ; and entering
dwelling licuse in the night, called up Judge Hill,
'and informed him that they were teem the enemy,
'and requested information of the strength and situa-
tion of the American forces. Judge Hill informed
them he believe. they were Americans; they denied,
and insisted on information.
The Judge left the room, awoke his son, and re-
'solving, as they woe enemies, to take them prisoners,
• approached them with his gun. and commanded them
to surrender. Lieut.Drewry, however, instead of sur-
rendering or undeceiving the Judge, brought him to
the fl.bor with his broad sword, when a marine put a
period to his existence l►y discharging his piece at the
Judge's head. The verdict of a Jury of Inquest was
'WWII) Mn:der. Application had been made to the
corm .nder of 'be fleet, but the guilty perpetrators
of this must inhuman murder were not to be found.

Saturday eight tons of Specie, its Dollars, were
landed from the 01, actiter, at Deal, (torn whence it
was lemo4red under an escort, in two waggons for the
Islet ropolis.
•
Sunday morning a severe tempest was experienced
in the netObourhoo..l of Hellingly in Susses, where
about two o'clock the lightning set fire to a barn, tke
property of Mr. Jesse --..slid wn, containing three
loads of wheat And fifty quarters of oats, the whole.
of which, together with tw r lodges, a stall., and a
variety of farming implements, were wh, lly consum,
old before any effectu.sl assist4nce to rarest the pro.
gress of the devc.uring skment Meld be obtained.
A gent! man in the neighbourhood of Chester, the
week before last, hired eight min to cut a &Id GI
wheat, which occupied them nearly three days, and
during that time they drank eightpose quarts .of
• strong hoowbrewed ale, mad aziattpsiz Outs of bin-
ter miik.

POllO.

Bows rimer.—Yesterday an information of consi-
derable importance to Stage Proprietors, came on to
be heard before Mr. BARMY., the Sitting Magistrate,
against Mr. Joseph Maulkin, the proprietor of the
Norwich coach, brought by a man of the name of
Read, who called John Brauscomb to prove his case,
of the coich having carried more outside passengers
than is allowed by the Act Of Parliament. The de-
fendant was convicted in the lull penalty of. twenty
pounds and costs. .
J. Snell was charged with stealing a bay mare and
foal. He was apprehended by Clements, the wrote,
at the gate near the Bald-laced Stag Inn, on Monday
night, about I I o'clock. The prisoner is only about
16 years ot age. There was found on him a long
horse's tail, with proper apparatus at the top to tie it
am a docked hone, for the purpose of disguise, to ire-
sent stolen horses being identified. Also a box uith
black ointment, to rub over white or other marks, for
the purpose of disfiguring them. The Gentleman
who owned the mare, not having arrived, the prisoner
was committed for re-examination.
The driver of a hackney.coach was kited 10s. and
costs, for exacting more than his legal fare, and for
abusive language.
HATTON GARDEN.—Yesterday James George Simple
Lisle, alias Arqjor Semple, was brought up for a second
examination ; the Office was crowded, particularly
with Ladies, whom curiosity brought to see this man.
Mr. BURGESS attended as Counsel for the prosecutor,
and Mr. liaunr, in behalf of the prisoner. The poi-
sutler, on entering. made a very graceful bow ;—he
was genteelly dressed in a blue cloth coat with gilt
buttons, a white waistcoat, and light grey kerseymere
pantaloons ; he wore powder, and did not appear any
way embarrassed. He is about five feet seven inches
in height, rather slender, thin featured, and between
:;() and 60 years of age. The first witness called was
Mr. Grammar, she was sworn, and then her former
evidence was read over totter, towlech she now added,
that on better recollection, she had no doubt on her
mind but that the prisoner was the man to whOm she
sold the butter and bacon ; she had no doubt now as
to his person, particularly seeing him with his hat on.
Henry Granthiar, her son, the boy that was sent to
carry the bacion • acid butter, was next called, and
sworn ; his former evidence was read over to him ;
he was asked was that correct, or had he any thing
fresh to add ? he answered it was correct, and he had
no more to say ; he was eross-exaMined by BARRY,
hut he did not equivocate in the least. Idris:rider, the
Lady who lives at 4'2, Gloucester-street, was next
called and sworn ; she remembered some max com-
ing to her house ; she did not see the boy deliver him
the lx4cos and batter, but she saw the boy come with
the eggs after the man was gone ; she took *o notice.
of the man, he only came in and enquired for a Mr.
Montgomery; witness told him be must make a mil.
take, for .that no such person lived there : he bled
pardon, and went Or 'Witness noebuieeng o any
charge aphis,: him, she took no notice-of him, and.
would not know him again ; .she cannot say the pri-
soner is or is not the man, but he had a parcel In his
possession Coming to the door, and sic did not see a
boy with the person. This charge being made oat,
it being a charge of frand, his Counsel, Mr. Banns,
said he was entitled to bail. A second charge was
exhibited against the prisoner by Mrs. Miller, wife of
John Miller, pocket-book maker, No. 8, Bartholo-
mew-close, for obtaining a port-folio and thread-case
from her, in the absence of her husband, under frau-
dulent and false pretences, on the '2oth of July, Isl 9.
From the prisoner's genteel appearance witnesi had
no doubt of his veracity, and asked at the time if the
articles were for Messrs. Hardness and Mints of Wap-
ping ? (for whom her husband worked) the prisoner
said they were, and he should pay for them any same
Mr. Miller called at his countingAinuse; at presient
his family and carriage were waiting for him at trie.l
corner of the street. On this charge the prisoner was
remanded for another examination, in order that .
Messrs. Hardness and Mints might be preient.
QUEEN-43QUAM—I'esterday Lieutenant C. Rivers
complained ot the driver of the hackney coach, No.
1037, per exacting more than his legal late and
abusive langinige. The charge of abuse was esta.
blisfied ; but it was rather a nice point whether he had
re ally taken more than his fare. Mr. Flet.orma held
ui-t he should equally serge the public, and the
coachmen themselves, by convictiug only for the rude
behaviour, especially after the misapprehensions that
bad gone abroad ; and &little more perseverince on
the part of the public, would moon convince the coach-
men that the wholesome statute of the gill Anne was
really very effectiv?, although old, notwithstanding
the existence and operation of the New Hackney-
C6tiois...tlet. Convicted in the mitigated penalty of
15s. and Ss. costs. •

MA ItI.IIOROUGH.STREPT.FOr Ileveria nights past
the neighbourlio.d of Castle-strest,'Oxfend Market,
has been much annoyed by what is termed 46 The
I,urr.ing shame ;" that is, by employing men to carry
•tbout lanterns at the end of pales, as a recipe for the.
upholding of good morals. The fact is, as it turned,
out before' the Magistrates, that three or four penal*
the one of whom keeps a butcher's stall in the marketp,
and the other a tailor in the neighbourhood, had Ms.,
dertaken to regulate the morals of a certain class~4f•
sinners, and proceedings having been institotea
against the moralizer:, in the Ecclesiastical Court, in
return they have adopted the method alluded to.--;-
Four disorderly females were taken into custody on
'Tuesday night, for street-walking, two of whom were
discharged, and two held to bail, and these cases
arose from 44 The burning shame." The Magistrate
Was of opinion, that the complainants were the ag-
gressors, for the very act of employing a set of men
As lantern-bearers, was in itself a breach of the peace,
and the officers belonging to the office were ordered
to attend, and take the peace-breakers into custody ii
the illegal measure was persisted in.

The unfortunate man, Milian Cronus,, who was
stabbed on Monday night. in Brownlow.street, by a
wows with whonm he cuhaloaeJ, was cunvertd to
Middlesex Hospital, where be lingered'in great pain
till Tuesday night, whew be expired. TON unhappy
woman seems tease deeply inipressed wish a proper 1
sense of her situation. She has stated that ago coat-
muted the act,* a time whew she situ 11114119.0,1,
and furious widiS rereage, proceasag: froas=..l
tart' irritation. , usdetsv ow* • .
tios aka the Caietee knout. • • !

14# IAtILLIGANdIi. •

COVET or INSOLVENT DEBTORS.-Szrr. 27.
CHARGE OF FRAUD AND FALsEHOGD.

Corlett, an architect or timber merchant, WAS
examined now for the fifth or sixth time under charges
of fraud and palpable contradictions between his first
an] subsequent examinations respecting his dealings.
Mr. EttsKtua opposed the prisoner's liberation oil
various grounds s such as having first teprevlited
himself as worth JC2OOO, and now worth nothing, and
having sold to his own father one thousand hounds
worth of timber, and remaining ne irly two years in
Prison to spend the money, when he might 11:‘ve been
liberated last Christmas under the temporary Insol-
vent Act of Lord Ellenborough. The Learned
Counsel pressed for the books of the prisoner, but was
told that the same were seized with his eirects at the
time of his own arrest in the Isle of Man, according
to the usage of that place ; and that the want of due
service on a creditor in that island, for wag of which
the prisoner had, on a former day, been remanded,
was now cured, as far as possible, by a copy of a letter
from the present Solicitor to the former one, of the
prisoner now residing there, but who had nut )et rc- I
turned any answer. •
Mr. Set jeant PALMER observed, that no case couli
be more fraught with deep suspicion than the present;
and although he could give little or no credit to his
testimony or conduct in not taking the benefit of
Lord Ellenborough's Act, )et he felt reluctant in re-
manding any man for life while possibility of este nu-
ation remained, as truth orgy by accident have fail..n
from him. The prisoner was remanded for a fortnight.