Star.
London, England, 1802-08-31 00:00:00

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On Sunday morning, a wetting tJ'k pine
near St. Alban's, betwLen a Mr. B. of 1.0nd,,,,
and Captain of Cork, in Ireland : this
has been pending (*erne time ; it arofe, we under.
!land, from come words which paired between the.
parties at a former duel, whet cin Mr. B. wa, a
principal, and Capt. T. fecond to his opponcnt—
immediately after the duel, Capt. T. feat a chal-
lenge to Mr. B. who declined accepting it, and tet
off for the continent ; on his return, he met stilt
the Captain accidentally, who demanded separ,,.
Lion for Mr. B.'s conduit, he having called him a
fcoundrel. The appointments were made—on es.
changing shots, Capt. T. received the ball in his
right breaft ; be flaggered mach, and returned the
fire, but milted.—. r. B. Itepped up, raid he hoped
he was not much hurt, and begged they might he
friends. Capt. I'. refitted, and bid him take his
ground. Mr. B. fired up in the air. Capt. T.
hall palled through Mr. B.'s clothes in front, and
flightly wounded him. On the third round, Capt.
T. was wounded in the right fide ; he was ineapo.
ble of returning the fire. The furgeons who at.
tended pronounced Comes hopes of his recovery.—
The parties having intelligence that fume gentle.
men of Bow.ftreet were in purfuit of them, evALled
them by going to a diftance from Town.

L:111 Tucfday the weekly payment into theTx.
clic Office amounted to the enormous fum of
22 5 ,0001. being a quarter of a million of money.
The CLYNE, of 38 guns, Capt. ',ARMOUR, iS
fitting out at Sheernefs, for the purpole of carry.
ing Sir j. B. WARREN to Peteriburgh.

All the furniture, cattle, farn.iniutenffis, camp
equipage, &c. of the late General WAS, ucrou,were
fold by auaion, at Mount Vernon, on the zoth alt.

Mr. ERSKINE arrived at Manchelier on Friday
morning, on his w.ty to Lancafler Mires, having
received a fpecial retainer from the River Metier
Company, navigable from Mane!leiter to 'giver.
pool. The quettion was between the Compaq
and Mr. DOUGLAS, and fome other eminent Mil.
lers, whore premifes bound on the river. In dry
feafons the Millers empound the water for the pnr•
pore of working their Mills, which the Company
contend they have no right to do. On Thutfday
a meeting of the parties took place by appointment,
and the queftion in difput: was coolly diteuffed,
and, after ibme time, it was amicably fettled. It
was too late to prevent Mr. ERSKINE'S having
London, fo that he only has the trouble of his ride
for his fee. Mr. ERSKINE left Manchelier on Sa.
turday afternoon for Prelion.

Of the determination of Government to prole•
cute P Ambigu, which we noticed on Saturcla: , in
confequence of the libels fuppofed to be contained
in it againft the perfon and authority of the FIRST
CONSUL, there is no longer any doubt. M. I'EL•
TIER, the Editor, has, however, fignified his in-
tention of fuppreffing the publication ; and it is
imagined that the French Minifter here, fatisfied
by this mark of obedience, will interfere to pre.
vent the Attorney General from proceeding with
the profecution. The &ft three numbers of this
produaion were certainly diftinguifhed for refined
wit, farcallic humour, and galling irony.

The FIRST CON stn. willies that all his troops
fhould fwim, both infantry and cavalry. In vat-
fequence of which, fince the commencement of
the feafon, the Mailer Swimmers of the School
fur Swimming have given leifons in that an to the
foldiers. It is raid, that on the 23d of September
a large body of troops will fwim acrofs the Seine
in the pretence of the FIRST CONSUL, in order of
battle, with their baggage, &c.

We venture to afferi that no one has done more
than BONAPARTE himfelf towards rendering all at-
tempts to invade this country completely abortive.
Is there now in England one tingle if:cot-giggle la.
coin who vvithes to be ruled by the prefent French
laws? Is there LIM in Ireland one Rebel remain-
ing, who would, in cafe of actual invafion, join
the French flandard ? If there are fuch men, they
deferve well to be flares.

The liberties Tome newfpapers take with the &ea
and ekatla of great men are truly ;hocking. The
AY, Giant has been under the neceility of contra-
dictiag the report of his death by affidavit, in which
he fwears that he is not only U9lO o.7i;e, but cthuf,
at the time he was Paid to be dead !
Thofe Ladies, whofe hufbands bellow cone/lion
too freely, will be glad to hear of a cure. At
Barking, in EtTex, whenever a filherman beats his
wife, his neighbours empty a tack of clef at the
door. Thehufband is next day fo roalled,and aiked
by every one, " So you was tbrilhirg hail night; I
fee by the AI at your door," that he feldom re-
curs to the fame means of admonition.

By a decifion on Thurfday, in the Coyrt of Con-
fcience, it appears that Iv.. 6d. is the legal charge
for a chaife and pair from Piccadilly to Hounflow.
The driver had demanded 155.
A Cloucefter Tanner was laft week fined 201.
for ilealing and killing a beautiful greyhound, for
the fake of thu fkin.

An American Captain, named MEcts, wag
lately murdered on the North weft coaft of Ame-
rica, under circumflances nearly limilar to thole
of the Englifh Captain COOK E.
Such of the eighth Weft India regiment as ap-
pear to have been leall criminal in the late mutiny
at Dominica, are to be fent to Halifax and to the
Ealt Indies: great numbers have hem executed.
M. DE Notes magnificent Book of Travels in
Egypt, has excited conliderable attention in Lon-
don. A complete tranflation by Mr. Ai KIN will
appear in a few days, accompanied by upwards
of an hundred large and interefting prints, ft!-
.fintle, of the originals ; but fo eager is the public
enl iofity, that, to meet it, an Abridgment in two
06tavo Volumes is offered for fale,with only (even
of the Plates, and thofi: of a reduced lire. As
M. DENON travelled as an At-tilt, and his text
chiefly confills of elucidations of the Prints, it is
obvious that a Tranflation, unaccompanied wit
the chief part of the Plates, is but the thadow