Star.
London, England, 1823-11-25 00:00:00

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.

• The Tragedy of King John was revived last night at
this House, with unnsnal.magnificence of decoration
and costume. The object' has been to put the thief per-
m:ages of the play, as nearly as possible, into dresses
characterisac of thE period. With this view, the best
• ies extant have bean consulted: and the suits of
/die, fnulconbridge, Hubert, and the Nobles generally
of the Court, ate splendid and tasteful in a very ltiKh
ijeree, Mr. Youxo played King John. The opportu,
!titles of the character are not very considerable; but
Youao's acting was constantly intelligent and eni-
pliatic.ctlAncs KEMBLE.S personal requisites for Foul-
er,' base:me of a very.high order; and lie has long since
ww• mid great credit for his performance of the charac.
'ler; be acted it last night even better than usual—in
&ire and last acts, particularly, with great gaiety
and *lit. tArirs. BA RTLEY was the Lady Constance, and
aced the part very judiciously. The play was extremely
all received by a crowded House, and was given out
rum" petition on rt.:day. A .'Master nom. made his first
IP ieeepice in the character of Prince Arthur.

iiisasyal Highness the Prince of ORANGE, set out or.
weavettay last for St. Petersburg!), and Prince Fax-
goat for Berlin.
Qtr the 45th Oct. the birth-day of the Empress Mo-
ther, fie inhabitants of Moscow celebrated at the-same
tbeetheir deliverance from the French yoke.
Lieutenants Witallott. and ARJON, of the Navy, who
have been engaged for these three years in astronomical
observations on the North coast of Siberia, will return
to St. Petersburgh nest winter. Their labours are ex-
pected to prove of great importance.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and .Duchess of
CIII4IIIIILAND have arrived ai Berlin, from New Strelita
Lord and Lady GWVDTR and family have arrived in
aohobarzkontheir way so teem from their seatfDrunsetond-castle.
Sir WILLiAId Kt: WILTON, s. Privy Purse, Look occa-
sion pc Tuesday to present to Sir. Saint CVAIMIAN, late Mayor of
Windsor, the following most gracious &madam of his Mauary to
the Charitable Institutions of Windsor, via. to the National School,
£5O ;to the Dispensary, £251 to the Provident Institution for assist-
lag the Labouring Classes, £25 ; and to the Lying.in Charity £25.
The hooping-cough and scarlet-fever are prevalent in
many parts of Northumberland and Cumberland.
Petitions are preparing in the maritime districts, to be'
preseuted next Session, for the repeal of the coast duty on coal.
It appears by a private letter from Madrid, that
Riau° is not the only one that will_ suffer—lttas,tow
another Deputy, who votedat Seville for.the Befency,
has been taken in Esttemadura, and is now on his way
to Madrid. In Cadiz several arrests were made by the
Spanish Governor ; but the French Commander, BOWL-
SIONT, released them, and turned out the Governor.-
. Mr. Non., the solicitor, who was engaged in tlfe in-
vestigations at Watford, and whose professional services
have since been -dispensed with, has published a long
vinilication of his conduct and character in a Sunday
paper. Mr. Nowt. positively denies that he was con-
nected with Thurtell, Hunt, and others, in certain
gambling transactions which have been mentioned, and
adds—" the statement in the Bs ighton paper, and
copied into the London points, asserting that Hunt .and
I re, e co-partners in a gaming-house, at Brighton, is a
wrnplete.f.abrication; as I never beheld Hunt in my
life until I eiamined him for the murder at Watford."
In the Court of King's Bench, Dublin, on Tuesday,
Mr. Far,xcia, for sending. and Mr. SHEA, for carrying,
a hostile Message to Mr.O'BaIAN, were brought up
for judgment: when Mr. FARNCII was sentenced to
pay a fine of 1001. and to be imprisoned in the county
;ail of Cork for ore month; and Mr. SHEA, to pay a fine
of la and be imprisoned in the same jail a fortnight.
Sunday evening, a little after seven o'clock, a man,
a porter in the house of Suzawooro and Co. and his wife,
passing- along Church-street, Bethnal-green, were hus-
tled by a gang of ruffians as they were passing through
the posts on the pavement. The tuffians, forctng them-
selves between the man and his wife, knocked the former
down and robbed him of his watch, with which they
got clear of? before he, being an old man, could recover
from his surprise ; but his name, tt Wm. Hubbard, Lon.
don," being engraved in the inside, in lieu of the watch-
maker's, it is hoped the circumstance may lead to the
detection of the robbers, on the watch being attempted
to be pledged.
The inhabitants of Buckingham were kept in a state
of agkation end alarm during the greater part of the nie.t of Sun-
day eel:night,. by the conduct-of, a detachment of the 58th Regi-
ment of Foot, consisting principally of drunken disorderly Irish,
on their way Item Weedon barracks to drigbton. They com-
menced their brutal operations at the Bell Inn, by striking air.
White with a spade, and rubbing him of his watch; toady, the
blow intended for his head fellow his neck. or he would not base
survived it. Every afensive weapon was put in requisition; the
Affray assumed an alarming character, and many persons were mere
or less hurt. 'This happened about ten, add order was no sooner
restored than 'a more terrific row broke out at the Woolpack.—
Some offensive language was used by a drunken drover of the
name of blarlow, when all the soldiers in the house, and some
who were gone to bed, assembled In the kitchen, and commenced
with their bayonets a must indiscriminate attack on every person
who came in their way. The landlord and his wife were laid
prostrate by blows,ost the head; the louder was punctured with a
bayonet near the eye : and others were more or less Injured and
wiraculously escaped. Cries of" Murder !" brought assistance, it,
after breaking open the door, they were ovetpowered by numbers,
antrinarle geed their retreat up stairs, covered by their bayonets.
A long time elapsed before any afters could be obtained, during
which they demolished the windows up sides. and threw ont °nate
populace everything they could get hold of. The civil pvwi'r was
incompetent tit dealing with such armed demons, end between
twelve Ind one o'clock the bugles sounded to arms, and they were
at last deprived of their bayonets, and marched elf as pridmers. On
Sunday giarnlng Eltoy w*ri paraded, and the culprits reeoksfsed.
and on Mende; a Court' Magda was held at the' Cobham Arts,
at ellgtt O'clock ; but *Whet itly sentence or purediment was
awarded for the offender', deter transpired, and the regiment pep-
eeeded in its March insesediately afterwards. A report of their
conduct has hew soassmitted to the Commander-In-Chief, with a
request that the route of the other companies may be altered.—
Ifeoliog ifereiry."
Sunday Le'nnight, a most audacious hoax was prae-
'rhea on Mr: an independent gentleman, at his doming
boa, near Tiekhilk A load halloo awoke hint at midnight, and on
awroachieg the window, he bebeld--not "Deed en it pee brat,
but I mounted on a white pony.-64 I beg pardon for disturbing
you," said the nectninal visitor-'4 lam the Hon. E. P. I have bees
ciiineuaga4— Castle, and intended sleeping at Surrert, but have
%alai / oilseed my way, lost ray servant, and lest my hat."'
Sympathy prompt attesting) to the benighted traveller—the
door was instantly opened, the fire stirred, and the pony taken
tare of. Cognac, in cheerful tumblers, elicited from the hononnsi
able highly-amosing sporting anecdotes; and after esprns
sing lib warmest seknowiedietents foe so polite a reception,
he invited Ms host to shoot at Park, whenever
be chow/ to take the diversion. A bed was kindly offered,'
and' readily accepted; when each wished the other a San mew
Demittast le the Ineeeing had no charm for war adventurous hero—
hiewpatedsh stomach rather required a eardiel, and after a pisul.l
elful lihpiwettcherry brandy, administered in moderate potions,
• horror any small change) four"ibilifnis
,of his,
host ft Ow the omits, kindly thanked him for the loan 41a hat,
and look his deposnare.'

. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
• •
distress
The Rising Son, from Philadelphia, has put kite Cork, in
.
Rattact of* letter from theAnnt at Malwoham, ditipailipt. 9.
" The Delfina del Monis% whit& 'arrived here on the 25th oldnat
from Oporto, has been taken possession of by Lord Coowasate,wnd
the following smelt are under sale by his orders; —llonsbinba,
Della Alliance, Canada.% Nelson, Gloria, S. I. das Larangueros,
and Toninha."

Thursday, the Albion steam-vessel, which was anchored off
Large, broke her chain cable, and was wrecked—nn lives lost.
Fat.notrru, Nov. 23.—Salled the Alpha, Tows% for the Cape
de Verde.
rumour's, Nov. 23.—Wind S.S.W. Arrived the Henrica,
Mass, from Boston ; and Swift, PRA ASON, from Seville.
Pon:mourn, Nov. 24. Wind —Arrived his Majesty's ship
Hassan, from Plymouth ; and his Majesty's ship itrnrote, from
Naples; and the Sir William Curtis, WtiITfITIONAM, from ditto.
AL, Nov. 24.—Wind S. to S.W. inclinable to calm.—Cam*
down from the River the John Shand, Rees, from Jamaica, and
remains, with the rest of the outward-bound—all welt.
Cowes, Nov. ?A.—Arrived the William and Henry, Sovrywos:if,
from New Orleans, leaky; and must discharge; Royer Cosa, from
Bahia ; and The Marys, Fretn.sy, from Tenerife, in distress.
Livearonr., Nov. 23.—Arrived the Transit from Pernam-
buco; Waterloo, CRITCHIML, from Maranbatit ; Lncllla, CAIIDLIA,
from Virginia; Penelope, Roozot, from Miramidd ; and Amity,
Rowe, from Labrador.

Gtartavratt, Nov. 3. —The Master of the Cordelia, arrived here
from .Gtrayaquil and Payta (eighty-six days from the latter place),
States, that the Hooghly has been given up, and sailed on the 19th
of June for Lima and this place, with Cargo*
A aatvito--At Cadiz, the Amphion, Press= ; Peter and Jane,
—; and Briton, Strange, from Newfoundland ; Francis Marvey,
Likely, from Bahia ; Franklin, and Miles, Standish, front Boston.
At Lisbon, Zealous. Wood ; and Gleaner, Bardwell, from London ;
the Belt* Gibbs, from Dartmouth; and the Liverpool _picket,
Bloomer, Newcastle. At Gibraltar. the Jane, AvetT; Tule,
White; Aorta, Curl, from Bristol; Mariner, Douglas, from Let-
wick; Robert, Cumming, from Dublin • Nimrod, Spears, frdin
Bengal; Fanny. Bassett, from Urns • Cornelia, Johnson • rrotn
Guyaquil ; Tertits, Le;ett, from Val;aralso; sag Hutton,
from Buenos Ayres. . • )
£.137' INDI4 INTSLUGEATS.
The East India Company's outward-bioutiCalp, Marquis of Wel-
lington, put into Simon's Bay on the 2d, and sailed again on the
17th 'of August.
Prhe Magnet, WAvflN, frost the Cape, has arrived in the River
—maid from thence the 28th of Augdst, 1823.
Arrivals at the se—The Ocean. Struthers, Nes the Mau-
ritius; the 016 We Maskellar, from Bengal—sliled from the
Band Meads on the lath of May, pad from Madras the 26th June,
hotind-te Liverpool.
Blilinp from the Cape-m The Marquis Wellingtoo, Blaushard ;
the Palmyra, Lamb; sad the Kingston, Bowen, for Madras.