Star.
London, England, 1809-12-18 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD CATTLE SHEW.

This interesting exhibition continued on Saturday
to attract a great concourse of persons of distinction,
rho patronize the important arts of breeding and
L►ttening cattle ; and of practical graziers, farmers,
butchers, &c. _

Besides the animal mentioned in our last,Mr.Thomas
Pickford exhibited a black and white bull, bred by
him, and kept on hay and turnips, which weighs 201
stone, at two years and ten months old.
Some remarkably large Swedish turnips were also
exhibited.
Sir Thomas Bowes exhibited, in a separate part of the
yard, 58 very fine new Leicester wethers, and shewed
the carcasses of two from this lot, which weighed 161
pounds, and 163 pounds; although only two years
old ; fed on grass only.
Mr. Cothar shewed three fat Gloucester wethers.

Mr. William Coles shewed a large black and white
pig, 20 months old, and another 18 months old, bred
and fed by him on barley-meal and water.
• Notices were stuck up of Lord Somerville's pre7
nifums, to be distributed on the sth and 6th of March
next; and William Shepherd's prizes of various agri-
cultural implements and machinery.
The exhibition continued this day. At half past
two o'clock the Members of the Club met to confirm
-the premiums proposed, and nominate judges for the
next year, previous to the annual dinner, at five o'clock.

Last week, the Remit, Captain MtRRAY, arid
the Wolverene, Captain CARR, arrived at Portsmouth,
from Vera Cruz, having on board three millions of
dollars, on Government and private account. They
left Vera Cruz thirty days since. The Spanish line
of battle ships San Ander and San Dramon had sail-
ed with 12,000,000 of dollars for Cadiz ; the latter
snip was accompanied by the Undaunted, Captain
Lixo, she not being deemed sea-worthy ; and a
few days after she sailed she sprang _a leak, which ob.
?iged her to put into Porto Rico. The specie, it was
t;iought, would be put on board the Undaunted, for
I:er to tai% it to Cadiz. The Franchise, Captain
DAsuwoOth bad left Vera Cruz for Jamaica ; and the
Ethalion; Captain Cocitna NE, or Barbadoes. Colo-
nel COCHRAHE JOHNSTONE retuttned to England in the
Recruit. The Haughty gun-vessel, Lieutenant Wu.-
unt4s, is also arrived ; her two former Commanders
died at Vera Cruz. .

The FRANCHISE frigate, of 36 guns, Capt. Dun-
wo,,,), arrived, on Saturday evening, at Portsmouth,
in 37 days from Vera Cruz, and 23 days from off the
Ilavannah. She has brought home a-million of dol-
lars for Government. The Marquis D'APARTADO
and Don WINS- de VILLA URRUYIA, came passengers
in her. Thty are come from Mexico, purposely to
mike a tour through England. The Marquis pos-
esses one of the nchet,t mines in Mexico. The
FRANCHISE spoke the MERMAID frigate, Capt. HEN:NI-
Kra, a few days since. She had parted from the
convoy which she sailed with from Quebec, in a gale.
The British ships which have lately visited Vera Cruz,
have been very sickly. The FRANCHISE lost 26 men,
besides Lieutenant DAVID JONES, royal navy, and
Lieutenant H. P. CAVANAGH, royal marines. All the
Midshipmen of the UNDAUNTED died there, except one.
Monday last John Armstrong was tried and convict-
ed before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh,
of a robbery in a shop in Dalkeith. He was sen-
tenced to be executed on the 17th of January next.
The tide of Earl CRAWFORD and LINDSAY, we
I:nderstand, is likely to be succeedid to by Captain
CAMPBELL, of the Buffs, who is the grand nephew
and -heir of line to the late great General JOHN Earl
of CRAWFURD and LINDSAY, and who is at present in
Spain, and commanded the grenadier company of
that Regiment, in the action at Coruna ; and also
on the 28th July at Talavera, where that gallant
company suffered most severely ; losing about fifty
rank and tile, killed and wounded.

Colonel WARDLE has published a letter, addressed
to Lord ELLENEORODGHt occasioned by his Lordship
observed in his charge to the Jury, in a late
trial for a conspiracy, that the evidence for the pro.
<rcution was contradictory, and that they must there-
iore look to the probabilities of the case. The Colonel
:Vomits, though in the most respectful terms, that
there were also some improbable circumstances stated
hy the defendants on a former trial, which he proceeds
tl notice.

The Address alludes to the direct contradiction
7,!ven to the testimony of Mr. WRIGHT and Mrs.
Crattxr, by Sir RICHARD PHILLIPS and Mr. 'Luxe-
%Tut ft', both of whose credibility was unimpeached,
but whose evidence was passed unnoticed in the sum.
ming up.
The Colonel concludes with the following obserra-
tions-4, Your Lordship seems at a loss to guess what
r msld indtice Mrs. Clarke to make the discovery which
-,!te did, and undergo for a length of time the exami-
liation of the Hour of Commons, unless she was led
!O hope for a pecuniary recompence at my hands ?
" The answer, my Lord, is not of difficulty ; is
.t cot probable that Mrs. Clarke might look forward
t" a public investigation. as a means of inducing the
Duke of York to comply with the claiths she had
upon him ; and has not the result evinced, not only
that such claims have been attended to, but that a tar
greater sum titan was originally demanded by Mrs.
Clarke, has been paid to her ?—(aUuding to the sum
cl.! 410,000, reported to have been paid to. Mrs. C. be-
an annuity settled on her for life, for- the. sop-
orb= pamphlet.")

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COVEN .GARDEN TIMATIM
Saturday night the Operatic Melo Drama of the
Exile, and the Farce of All Me World': a Stage, *ere
performed to a respectable audience, but by no means
so numerous as on the preceding evening. The pit
and galleries were nearly full at the rising of the cur-
. tarn, and not a murmur of disapprobation was heard.
—On the contrary, the performance was received
throughout with flattering attention and applause.
All the symbols of opposition disappeared. The au-1
dience in the pit kept their seats, and the greatest
possible harmony prevailed, till after the half-price
entered, when there were a few murmurs, and we
still apprehend that part of the treaty is not di.
stinctly understood by the late Belligerent Powers.
—At the final dropping of the curtain, a gentleman
rose in the pit, and from what we could collect, in
spite of the interruption that prevailed, said he was
authorized by Mr. SAVAGE, a gentleman of the O.P.
Committee, who would have himself attended had he
not been prevented by indisposition, to state that Mr.
HENRY HARRIS had refused to ratify that part of the
treaty of the Crown and Anchor, which related to
throwing open the private boxes as they were in 1802.
Mr. SAVAGE, he said, had conversed with Mr.HARRIS
on the subject, and was distinctly told by that Gen-
tleman, that no more than twelve of the annual boxes
would be removed at the end of the season. This the
speaker contended was by no means what was under-
stood by the public. He would forbear going further
into the question, as Mr. SAVAGE would attend at the
Theatre on Monday night, and would require Mr.
KEMBLE to address the House before the play, in
order to the settlement' of this misunderstanding.—
It remains, of course, for those who say that the Pro.
prietors hare not stood by their agreement, to prove
that assertion. The pledge publicly given by Mr.
KEMBLE on the stage was, that " the tier of private
,g boxes in the front of the Theatraiohould, at the
44 end of the present season, be thrown open and re-
, " stored to the public."

The proposition that was made at the meeting at
the Crown and Anchor Tavern was, that " these boxes
should be reduced, after the close of the season, to the
number which existed in 1802." It is upon this point
that those who were hostile to the conduct of the pro-
prietors have misunderstood each other. A great
number of them, with reference to these boxes, had
no other object in view than that they should be
placed in the same state in which they were before
the late conflagration, and this being conceded, and
an apology made for other matters in dispute, these
gentlemen are now satisfied. Others, on the con-
trary, are disposed to adhere to the letter of the pro-
positions, and to insist upon the private boxes being
limited to the number which existed in 1802. And
they say, that without this the public have gained
little or nothing. Eight boxes above the stage were
private before 1802 ; and these were for the mere ac-
commodation of the proprietors and managers ; but
when Mr. Kemble came to the theatre, an encroach-
ment was made on the audience side, and eight more
were made private.

This we believe to be a fair statement of the case.
We lament that after so long a contest the terms of
the pacification should not have been more clear ; but
we hope that the parties will come to an immediate
and perfect understanding.

A box orator pleaded strongly in favour of the Ma-
nagers, and exhorted the audience to be satisfied with
the terms proposed to them.
The Gentleman who had been taken up in the
Cecil-street Coffee-house, also procured a hearing,
from the Upper-boxes, which we were particularly
happy at, as the sentiments he delivered do great
credit to his liberality. He stated, that, in conse-
quence of his having been taken up in the manner
with which the audience were well acquainted, he had
commenced proceedings against the Managers for
redress ; but that, in consequence of the very liberal
manner in which they had come forward, although
he conceived he had been as much, if not more ag-
grieved than any of them, he had abandoned all fur-
ther proceedings, and earnestly entreated the View mal-
contents who still exist, to act with moderation, as
he was confident the Managers would no longer give
the public cause to complain.
Several hand-bills, containing a pathetic appeal to
the 0. P.'s in favour of that most deserving man,
Mr. BansnoN, were thrown into the Pit in the course
of the evening ; and we were happy to perceive they
made a strong and an interesting impression in his
favour ; for we are still of opinion that Mr. BRANDON
has been unjustly used. He was the mere agent of
the Proprietors in all he did, and it is they and not he
whom the public should have visited with their dis-
pleasure. As the Princ.p ils have been forgiven, the
deputy must not be excludA from the benefit of the
amnesty. _ _ _

Three cheers were proposed for Mr. KENIBLE, but
they were not generally given. Three groans were
then proposed for Mr. HARRIS ; and three cheers
were given for Mr. SAVAGE.. The company then left
the pit, some proposing a now meeting at the Crown
and Anchor, others expressing an intention of insisting
on a satisf.ctory explanation from the stage on Mon-
day.—The spikes in the back of the pit, and those that
were beneath the front of the dr.ls-boxes, have been
taken away.

KING'S TBEATRE.—The Comic Opera la Stomesta,
with the same Divertissement and Ballet which were
performed on the opening of this Theatre, was repeated
or. Saturday. The audience was as numerous as could
be expected as this time of the year. The excellent
singing of TRAMMEZANI, and the exquisite acting of
NALDI were much applauded, as were VESTRIS and
ANGIOLTNI in the dances. We could distinguish most
of the persons of fashion who are in town in the boxes.
Saturday night, about nine o'clock, an alarming
fire broke out at the house- of Mr. CAIRNCROSS, cabi-
net-maker, No. 11, Hollen-street, Wardour-street,
Soho, which began in the work-shop, and was not
discovered until the flames burst from the roof. It is
supposed that a lighted candle had been incautiously
left, which communicated to some shavings. The
engines having arrived, the flames were extinguished
jby twelve o'clock. A quantity of valuable maho-
gany in the timber-yard was saved. The confined
situation of the buildings'placed the neighbourhood in
the greatest danger. A house adjoining was unroofed,
4 awl one house burnt down in a court at the back.
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NAVAL INTELLIOENCL

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FALMOUTH. DECEMBER H.

Arrived the Snake packet, in 13 days front Cadiz.
PLYMOUTH AND PLYMOUTH DOCK, DEC. 16.
I am happy to state, that there is every reason to
believe the report respecting the disastrous loss of the
Human is unfounded. Letters were received here
yesterday, stating that she was in Torbay on Tues-
day night.—And yet, on the other hand, she could
not remain there so long, according to etiquette,
without informing the Port Admiral here. They
have lot, however, up to sunset this evening, received
any intelligence at the official department, either in
confirmation of her loss or safety.
The SEAFLOWER brig of war, reported to have been
lost, is safe at Lisbon ; in company with the BAR-
FLEUR, 98 ; NORGE, 74 ; VENUS, 38 ; Costus,22; and
WILDBOAR, 18.

The violence of the wind on Thursday night has
seldom been exceeded, even in this place, which is
exposed to the furious blasts of the Atlantic. On
the above evening, the wind suddenly veered round
to the S.E. and threw such a tremendous swell into
the Bay, that the TEMERAIRZ was for some time in
great danger of foundering ; she pitched most vio-
lently, her hawse-bags were washed away, and the
water poured in so fast at the hawse-boles andbridle-
ports, that it rose in a short time to four feet in the
hold ; but the great exertions of the crew enabled her
to ride out the gale without other material injury.—
While the ship was in distress, one of the Caw sand
boats, with a boy in it, drifted from her moorings
alongside her, and the boy fortunately saved his life
by getting into one of the port-holes.

PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 16.

Arrived the FRANCHISE frigate, Capt. DASHWOOD,
with specie, from Vera Cruz ; and Courlisse French
cutter, prize to the SURVEILLANTE frigate, in ballast.
Nothing sailed.—Wind S.W.
DEC. 17.—Nothing arrrived or sailed to-day. The
Royalist transport has got off South-sea Beach, and
come into harbour.—Wind S.W. by S.