Star.
London, England, 1807-08-22 00:00:00

BRIGH11)N. AUGUST :o.

I yeflerday noticed, that of the number required
of the South Gloucefter Militia to volunteer into the
regular fervice, but little better tban forty of them
turned out. •The regiments into which they were
permitted to volunteer, were the 18th,soth, Sift, and
6t ft infantry. In now appears that the men,generally,
%Med to have an oppo tunity of ferving not In much
in the Marines or Artillery, as in the 3d Suff.,. from
their knowledge of, and atttchment to Colonel Bus•
BURY.

W. Hoar, Ertl. Fellow of King's College, Carty
bridge, and Bari iller at Law, is elated Recorder of
Tamworth, in the room of the late Lord 'Fault Low.

Thurfday fe'nnight, the Return Match of Cricket
between 23 of Meicworth, and t t of "'Lading Club,
was played in Lord le Defpencer's park, near Maid•
(tone, when atter the day's play, the gentlemen of
Yalding Club gave up the game.
A few d, s days fence the workmen on the weffern
Heights of Dover, came to the foundation of a very
ancient fort, tuppoled to have been built about the
fame time that the Caltit was. Cap ain Foal), of
the Royal Engineers, who has the concluding of the
works, has given orders for the whole of the lines to
be traced, fo as to afcertain its extent. It is fo fituated
as to command the whole of the Roads of Dover,
and will make a tine Situation for a mortar battery.

FURTHIIt PARTICULARS OF THII Ftan
JURY SQSARS.—Upon enquiry, we learn that the fire
firlt commenced horn a chimney in the bottle of Mr.
Swan, printer, in Swan-court, the corner of Salifbury-
fquare. No endeavour was made, in the fiat inflance.
to extingu:a; tie fire. through an erroneous fuppoli-
lion that the belt way of cleaning the chimney, was
to let it burn out. It was found, however, wt: rn too
late for remedy, that the flames had communicated
to lime wood work contiguous ro the chimney, and
in a houfe, the interior divifions of which were of lath
And plaifter, dry deals, or old wain& ,t, and every
room, more or left, filled with paper, plain or printed,
w hen the fire got head, a general conflagration was
fcarcely avoidable.
Not only the printing rooms and warehnufes of
Mr. Swan, eaten,' ing backwards towards Water-lane,
but the printing and watelroufes of Mr. Henry, his
tenant ; the premifes and workfhops of Mr. Birch, a
paper-hanging manufalturer, adjacent; thofe of Mr.
s:ee, a portable delk maker ; of Mr. &tiler, cabinet-
maker; the rears of feven or eight houfes in Crown-
vain, leading t' Fleet II feet ; and the upper part of
rye houfe of Mr. C.'ve, coal-merchant, next door to
Mr. Swan, t0.,1c fire.

The flames raged from tz o'clock till 5 in the
rn•lnir g, notwith (landing she deluges of water poured
upon them by near zo engines, actively plied during
the time: and the fire was not got ander until mctt
of• the premites abJyre fisted, were reduced to a heap
of ruins.

Mr. Swats, who hitt a year and a half finee nat.
rawly elcaped a rpoilar dirafter, when the premifes
of his next door neighbour, Mr. OILLVT, were de-
flroyed by fire, had the mibfortune to be now tinin•
lured, and is a lufet to the amount of above
A fimilar calamity involves many indußrions poor
families who lived at the back of there premifes.
RESPITE AND EXECUTION.--111 conkqnente of an
application to Sir SIMON La lhatrc, on the behalf
of Gully, one of the men convieted before him at the
laft Warw'ck Affixes, of vending forged Bank of
England Notes, and who was to have been executed
on F, Way fe'nnight, a relpite was received from his
Lfrdlitip on the Wednefday, flaying the execution until
further orders. On the Friday,abont twelve o'clock,
;rm. Francis, aged 30, and Thomas ilerekh, alias Big
4.5, con% ided at the fart Affizes of utter.
Baker, aged
ing, in Birmingham, 72 forged Bank of England
Notes, were executed in front of the County Giol, in
Warwick. Baker advanced to the extremity of the
drop, and addrefied the rpeetators. He admonifhed
them to be frugal, fober, and indußrious, to avoid
all vicious habit., and take warning by the fatal ex.
ample they beheld in him. " But, above all, Paid
he, " avoid look company ; for, by frequenting bad
company, you are liable to be punifhed along with
the guilty. It was being in my company which
brought that unfortunate man, now in the gaol
(meaning Gully, who was to have coffered with
them), into his dreadful &nation." He then de-
clared, as well as Francis, as they hoped for falva-
don and forgiveners from Goa, that Gully was in-
nocent, and figned a declaration to that (fled in the
pretence of feveral refpedable witneffes.
Saturday -- Jones, mailer of a Rochefier fmack,
was charged at the Manlion Honk with having the
King's naval flares in his poffeffinn. The owner
Rated that they were given to him tome years ago,
from Chatham Dock Yard, as a compenfation for
damage the veffel fullained while in the King's fel-
vice, but not being able to fubltantiate the a&rtion,
he was fined s'.
John Leach, whole apprehenfion has already been
mentioned, has been removed from Maitifione gaol,
and committed to the Cattle of Norwich, for trial,
earged. on his own confellion, with having injured,
and afterwards murdered, Elisabeth Vaughan, at
Gower, near Lynn, in Odober. 1804.. No circum-
fiances to corroborate his coofeffion have, however,
yet appeared.

NAUTICAL INfELLIGBNCE.

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PLY 4/10titli. AUOUSt sti
Came in the Mary, Captiiin AMR, from ferfey ;
Falck, Capt. Hrickibo, from Likion for Tonningen,
with nil, &c. ; Niard, Captain Tyson, from Oporto
to Tonningen, with fugar, wine, &c. detained by the
John Bull privateer; Minerva, Capt. Hotauan, from
Riga, with hemp, Etc. for the Dick yard ; Prroaritz,
of 36 guns, from the fquadron off Rochefort.