Star.
London, England, 1813-02-20 00:00:00

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CO V &NT-GA RDEN THEATRE.

Mer. Immo* list night appeared as Miss Peggy, in
the Comedy of the Country Girl. She was received with
three- roundiof applause, on her entrance ; and her
performance, every scene of which exhibited the
Imp:spat spirit, the broad humour, the awkward ac-
tivity, of the nude holden, was followed, to the ter-
mination cif' the Comedy, with laughter and accla-
Mations. The character of Peggy is drawn with great
felicity. Though an unpolished country girl, untu-
t. red in those deceits which are practised in society ;
still she possesses an ample fund of that which the sa-
tirists term 4. the natural cunning of the sex ;" and,
in pursuing her own inclination, to the discomfiture
of her guardian's hopes, she displays a degree of art,
'srhich would not disgrace a female who had been
initiated into all the mysteries of intrigue. Her park
scene, and that in which Lucy apprises her of the,
affection cf voting Belville, were given with all the
force and spirit of uncultured rusticity. Mr. FAW.
cfrr performed the character of Moody very effec-
tively. The empty coxcomb, Sparkish, found an ani-
mated representative in Mr. FARLEY. The Comedy,
vent off extremely well.
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TWENTY THOUSAND Ponsns.—The Ticket No.
1191, drawn on Wednesday last a Prize of Twenty
Thousand Pounds, (the only one in this Lottery)
was sold at HAZARD, BUttNE, and Co's. Office, Royal
"Exchange, in One Half, One Eighth, and Six Six-
teenth Shares. • .
Five Capital Prizes were sold in Shares by SWIFT
and Co. in the Lottery drawn on Wednesday and
Thursday last, namely, No. 921, a Ptiz'e of selo,ooo,
No. 6025, a Prize of r€2ooo, No. 60!Y, a Prize of
£5OO, No. 2'201, a Prize of ,8300, and `No. 5741, a
Prize of 8200. The fortunate Holders of Shares of
the above Tickets may receive their money on de-
mand, at Swzrr and Co.'s Offices, No. 11, Poultry,
No. 12, Charing Cross, or No. 31, Aldgate High-
Street ; where Tickets of the ROYAL BOTANICAL
LOTTERY, to be determined by the ensuing State
Lottery in May next, are now on sale.

In the last Parliament a very able though unsuc-
cessful Attempt was made to prevail on the CHAN'.
CELLOR of the Excu MUER to relinquish the additional
Tax he had imposed upon LEATHER. He was then
apprised of the ruinous oppression which such tax
would have upon the various branches of the trlde.
Experience has proved the truth :If the arguments
then used against that tax, and the evil attending it
has increased to so great a degree, that we have ob-
served petitions presented this Parliament from almost
every County and Town in the Kingdom, praying
for the repeal of the Additional Tax.—Mr. BENSON,
Member fin- Stafford, has given notice in the House,
that he will shortly call the attention of Parliament
to this important topic ; and we sincerely wish him
'Access in this humane and patriotic measure, invol.
ving the prosperity, and indeed support, of nearly
half a million of our industrious countrymen !
NAVAL EXECUTION IN TUE MEDITERRANEANO-.-OR

Christmas-day last James Wilson and Michael Co.
nolly, two seamen belonging to the UNION, of 98
guns, then lying at Port Mahon, having quarrelled,
Conolly drew a knife .and so desperately wounded
Wilson, that he was obliged to be taken to the hos-
-1 pital. On the 27th Mr. JAMES, First Lietitenant of
the UNION, took Conolly with him to the hospital ;
and on the latter entering the room where Wilson.
lay, he was instantly accused .by the dying man of
being his murderer. Mr. Jaws, turning to Conolly,
rsaid, " Conolly, do :you hear what Wilson says ?"
He replied, " I do, Sir." Shcrtly afterwards Wilson
' expired, and a letter was written immediately to Sir
. EDWARD Pituriv, stating the circumstances of the
case, and requesting a Court-martial, which assem.
bled on the Ist of January, 1813 ; Admiral P,eitmorm,
t President—Sir SIDNEY SMITH, Vice-President; when
i Conolly was adjudged to suffer death, and to be hung
at the fore-yard-arm of the UNION. The Commander
in Chief having approved of the sentence, it was car-I
I ried Litt) effect at seven o'clock in the morning of the 1
1 4th of January.
' MURDER IN KENT.—....The following are some fir-
t then particulars relative to this atrocious transaction,
1` which we briefly mentioned in a former Paper :—As
Mr. SEX, a respectable farmer, was returning home,
4 about seven o'clock in the evening of Monday the Ist
instant, he was waylaid within a quarter of a mile of
his own house, and beaten with a large bludgeon in
I the most inhuman manner, several of his teeth knocked
out, and his skull, jaw, and right-arm dreadfully
fractured. The murderer had placed sticks across
the footpath to entangle the unfortunate deceased,
who, in the dark, tumbled over them, and was im.
tnediately attacked by the wretch lying in ambush, to
accomplish his horrible purpose.—Mr. Sex was found
the following morning, nearly lifeless : he survived,
however, till Sunday the 7thovhen_he died. On the

next day an Inquest was held on his body, before R.
Cwow, Esq. Coroner, and a verdict of Murder re-
tut ned against J. Dangridge, lately one of the labou-
rers of the deceased, residing in a cottage near his
house.— As we before stated, Dangridge left the
neighbouthood the day after the murder was ccm-
minted, and has not since been heard of.
On the evening of the Bth inst. the house of Miss
Bakewell, at Swepstone, near Asliby•de-la-Zouch,
aas attacked by five most desperate robbers. Three
of them secured two female servants, and two entered
the dining room where Miss B. was readinz ; when
one presented a pistol to her head, threatening to
blow her brains out if she made the least noise, and
demanded her money, plate, &c. She replied, she
had very little money, but what she had they should
k tve, and she and a female servant delivered to diem
the plate, of the value of near £3OO, and they then
left the house. Information of the fact being sent to
Bow-street, Pearkes went down, and through his ac-
tivity, two of them, named Smith and Cook, have
been apprehended, and undergone examination before
a magistrate at Leicester, and are committed for re-
examination.
A soldier of the Durham militia, quartered at
Perth, was ordered, some days ago, to mount guard
along with others. Passing up the street to perform
his duty, one of his comrades called to him that he
was too late—the soldier instantly dropt down, and
died on the spot.
In a house in the citadel, Leith, on Saturday, a
pot full of boiling water fell from the fire on a child,
of two years of age, and so dreadful', scalded it,
vied on Suuday.