Star.
London, England, 1814-09-30 00:00:00

GRAVESEND, APTENIEER 49.

Arrived the Wetzer, Casilenatt, fr.:tu Bremen ; 'tinge Jan%
De Frills, Vrow Anna, Eldi s, ;aid Good Hope, Dogle, &din
Emden; Unity, Chapple, and Jol:anna, De Vrus, from Norden;
Regina, De Groat, Jiinge Peter, Harriot, Two Sist..rs, Brayde,
and Vrow Foika, Duid, front Rotterdam; Icffro Algioe, Busse,
from Groningen ; Two Brotlitrs, —, from Skiedom ; Mille-
le use, from —; I Broth• rs„ Swers, from Rushing ;
Mercurius, Vanderdovcn, aud luuel, Vandencieer, from Har.
ling ; George, Dcverbon, front Calais; Hope, Dawson, from Pa-
lau; Pacific, Paerkin, frost Coctesibulgh ; and the Britannia,
WalLs, !rum S'cily.

flatit.l the Coueeray, Hume, for Pentambticcn ; Rebecca.
Pritchard, for Halifax ; ion:e /an, Pe VeieS, Lot Antwerp; asd
Vruw Mar;;atctta, Ors*:l for Ataszetdarn.

EXTRACT OE A LETTZR FROM A BRITISH OFFICER

TH3, 10T1! PORTUGUL'A CACAM)RES.

" RT.), 13th August, 1514.
" Yesterday we retched this city, which is to be
the quartets of the battalion during peace: the town
sin ill, but plentiful ; and as many good ram:lies
reside here, Ave hok forward to mull pLasanc and
comfortable society ; not that I anticip.ete a long
peace—the state of fermentati:-n in which the minds
of the Spar,i:lrds arc s ems to /atomise but little quiet,
for though the Portuguese Government shoald nrt
take any active part in any disturbance which may
arise in Spain, yet in that event we cannot enjoy
much tranquillity. Tha Spaniards, from what I
could observe, exhibit a kind of gloomy sullen dis-
content, which portends no good to FERNANDO—
they openly accuse the King as the author of that
order (of which he deniei any knowledge) for the
execution of the gallant Baron d'EnoLes and several
other Chiefs; and loudly ask, where is Cxvau.os ?
where the Duke del INPANTADOt and the other great
men that were known to the nation ? and who is the
Duke de Swx,Caztos ?—no one knows. The
tary are dissatisfied, and the Clergy grumble because
though the greater part are restored, yet still some
of their properties and privileges are kept from them.
In short, during our march, I saw no one satisfied
with the King.
44 We are still in the dark as to what may be the
intention of the British Government with regard to
the Anglo-Portuguese Officers ; we most anxiously
look forward to Marshal &REWORD'S arrival, when
something must be made known respecting our fate."
Letters have reached us from 'l'eneriffe to the 20th
ultimo, and it is with great satisfaction we state, that
at length some security is given. to the trade in that
quarter. Four British ships of war were cruizing in
the immediate neighbourl:oud of the Canaries. The
vintage. we are sorry to say, was not productive.
Mr. MarnsoN's lr'use having been burned at
Washington, it would be wise in him to take kdginv
with his friend BONAPARTE, at Elba.

CON! MODMIE ilsitsey—This fellow, when WASIf•
INGTON would not re:mit him to commit piracy anti
phutder on the English, abandoned his country, went
to France, accepted a commis ion under the Direc-
tory, obtained the command of a squadeon of French
frigates, and did actually capture several American
vesials ! This is a pretty practical exemplification of
the benefits of traosferabie allegiance.
Dr. BROWN, the late Master of Christ's College,
Cambridge, has vk itlidrawn his appe.:l against the de-
cisioa of the Vice-Chincellor, wllich deprived him
~f that Headship, and re tired on a Living which he
,)oiessts in Norfolk.

Trr YO nTAT.—If onr Eng1:.2.1 women go to France
to Sc! their riot at the Parisia:ls, the Fretwit Ltiies in
rc.,urn come And pole their tonurts a: us.

CORN EXCHANGE. MAR;: LANZ',

,ZPT. 30.

Oar Market fur Wheat couThut.es very dui!,
of monlay's supply of new fawn h..s x resnaiat yet undisposudl
of, tie: qusli•y beiug infer.or, ar..l our pace, for such lend a:.
full t:s. I.er quarter cheaper. F.x.vgn Wheat ge:s off very slow!),
at n r‘..4itiction of from Es. to s per riozrter. We 11 a :•!nal
quanity o! new Barley from tdctfoik, which obtained Alontlay's
pt ices. Oats ate rather bdttet .4e, Laving La few arrivals ut
that ',rain. In Peas, beans, atter arenas, there 11 little or
no variation.

SNIITTIFIELD MARKET, sr.prEmuna fto
Beet Od to to e.: Veal 6, 4.1 to 7. 61
Mutton 5a OS to 6, 01 l'stk Gs 04.1 to 7* ti 4
Lamb 6s 0,1 to 7s Cds
Caale at 111:,rket..

r nets 720—Sheep and Lambs c,.2ttp —Calves 160—Pigs SOL
HAY AND STRAW, YER LOAD.
Meadow Hay 41 to 51 1 1 Clxstr i Os to 71 Os.
!:o«•ra 01 to cl Oi Slraye 111 Iss to SI ss,

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PARODY. •

AN APOLOGY,
BY A SPORTSNIAN, FOR KEEPING DINNER WAITING•

Too late I rayed—forgive the crime—
Perhaps I've caused you trouble:
But noiseless falls the foot of Time
♦Wen tramping thro' the stubble.
The ebbing sand unheeded sped p+
Hour•gla<ses! I forswore 'em,
When agate ants their sparklets abed,
And birds fell down before 'em.
Oh! who to punctual measurement
Time's happy swiftness brings,
-When whirring Partridges have lent
Their plumage for his wings P W.

ZLEC7ION OF LORD MAJOR.

Yesterday, according to annual custom, a Com-
mon Ei;ll wads held for the purpose of electing a Lord
Mayor for the year ensuing. Alter hearing a Sermon
• by the Lord Mayor's Chaplain, at St. Lawrence's
Church, the present Lord Mayor appeared on the
hustings, attended by several Aldermen, the Recorder,
Common Serjeant, &c. The Crier having command-
ed silence—the RECORDER came forward and stated

to the Meeting, that the Common Hall bad .been as-
sembled for the purpose of electing a fit and able per-
. son to perform the high and important duties of Lord
Mayor for the year ensuing. The Common Serjeant
would order the names of those Aldermen who were
eligible for this high office to be read over to them ;
sr.d they would make choice of two, 1 who would
be returned to the Court of Aldermen fur them
to elect ene, to be the Chid* Magistrate for the year

ensuing.
The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Recorder, then
retired ; .and the Common Serjeant, with the new
Sheriffs, came forwArd on the hustings.
The COMMON SEHJEANT said, the Livery had al-
ready heard, from their worthy Recorder, the impor-
tant business for which they bad been assembled,

namely, for the purpose of returning two of the Al-
dermen, eligible, to the Court, in order that one of
them might be elected to serve the office of Lord
Mayor for the year ensuing. The names of the Can-
didates would be read over to them ; and it would be

their duty to declare; by a thew of hands, which of
the two they considered fit .and able persons to fill that
high office.—The names were then read over, viz.—
Sir Nl...thew Bloxham, Kat Stationer.
Samuel Birch, F.-q.
Matthew Wood, Esq.
Christopher Smith, ka s. Draper.
John Atklns, Fse.. ...
Samuel Goo.lbeh:re, r5q.........
Christopher Magnay Esq.
WM:ant Heygate,Esq Merchant Taylor.
iti.Mert A. Cux, Esq Goldsmith.
When these names had been put to the shewof hands
~ the Sheriffs consuhed together ; and then—
The COMMON SERJEANT said, he was commanded
by the Sheriffs to acquaint them, that, in their twi-
t+ n, the choke of the Livery had fallen upon SA-
MUEL BIRCH, Esq. and upon MATIMICIV WOOD, Esq.
to be returned to the Court of Aldermen.
On the return of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen,
,and
Recorder, to the hustings, the latter stated to the Li-
very, that the Court of Aldermen had eIectedSAUVEL
BIRCAD,Esq. to fill the impoz Lint office of Lord Mayor,
for the year ensuing.
Mr. Aldermati Biiscn then came forward, and said,
that he had to return them thanks for having confer-
red on him the:highly dignified office of their Chief
M .gistrate for the ensuing year. Deeply impressed
with the nature of the high office to which he had just
been called, as well as the importance of the confl
dente they had reposed in him, he begged to assure
them, that he felt most grateful for the honour they
ha.i done him. He knew how dangerous a thing it
was for a nun to be too presuming at the commence-
Warw. of so important an office. He remembered what
• itas, *aid- in ancient and holy writ on this subject—.
14 Let not him that putteth on his harness glory like
him that putteth it off." For this cause he could ra-
ther be content to abide by what might be their judg-
ment, as to what he might deserve at the expiration
of his office, than to court their present applauses. In
public lite he had been before them for more than SO
• years, and his political opinions were well kndwn to
them. But in this happy Lino for freedom of poli-
tical opinion, he had no doubt but that they would
give him the same credit for purity of motives that
they would eipect to be allowed to themselves— (Ap-
ydatue)—They were not ignorant that, when they lt id
elected him to fill the important office of one of their
Sheriffs, he had given up all his political feelings to
the maintenance of their rights, and the cto;tig, of strict
and impartial justice as far as in him lay. That he
spoke nothing but the truth, in stating this, the rink
of thanks which they had been pleased to confer oW
him, at the close of the S'.:eriffilty, would sufficiently
prove. It was then, to their experience of his former
aufduct:,, that be appealed, with confidence, for whA
might reasonably be expecteeTroni him hi the ditA
charge of the high office to which they had called,
him. To talk of the blessings this favoured nation
enjoys, under a Constitution unequalled in the world,
would be an idle waste of their time. Tu talk of de-
fending their rights and privileges, even at the hatard
and expense of life itself, would be but extraneous
matter ; as every man who was, like him, called to
that high office, knew that was the' least that could be
expected from him. But with the example of those
who had preceded him, especially of that venerable
and dignified chatacter who now presided in the Chair,
as their Chief Magistrate, of whom he might say, with
our great Poet, that=
" He bad bdrne I
Andlieen av deer
leith such examplt before him,
i would be impossii t the duties
which they had And if in
the hour when : ly downthis
office, he should •ged its du-
ties with honour and with
impartiality, be —_ .ollow, namely,
that he should have the great and valuable reward of
their approbation and of their applause.—Vasa
ing.) • . • a-
Mr. Alderman WOOD said, he could riot leave the
14j 1;! without returning them his heartfelt thanks for
the high mark of their approbation which they had
conferred on him that day, by nominuting him a fit
prow to fill the. high office of Chief Magtkrate. If

nest year he should be so happy as to be the object
of their choice, and be elected to the first office in the
City, his constant study would be to live in the esteem
of his fellow-citizens.— (Loud Applause.)
Mr. S. Dmos then proposed a Vote of Thanks to
the late Shvritrs, MAGNAY and MARCH, for their im-
partial and upright conduct during their SheriffAlky,
and for their humanity to the prisoners under their
charge.—( See Advertisement in front of this Paper.)
' Mr. Alderman AIAGNAY and Mr. MA win, expressed
their gratitude for the high honour the Livery had
conferred on them ; and the Hall was adjourned.

MANSION HOUSE.....—Yesterclay Margaret I:della
Smart was brought up for re-examination, on a charge
of forging on Mr. Flint, of Fish-street-hill, her em-
ployer. The LORD MAYOR said, he was inclined to
look with some degree of favour on the case of the
prisoner, who, from the multifarious trusts reposed by
the prosecutor in her, might have omitted to account
for various sums she had disbursed to his sans and
others in his employment ; in consequence of which,
deficiencies no doubt, had arisen, which had reduced
her to the situation of 'balancing her accounts by an
offence only to be palliated by the consideraticn, that
she appeared to have derived no pecuniary interest
from the commission of it, as it appeared that she had
not laid out the money in any articles of female dress,
or other extravagant expenditure. Mr. Flint, the
prosecutor, was sorry to view this matter its a diffe-
rent light from his Lordship ; but, in opposing her
discharge, he hoped he should not be misrepresented,
as his motives in doing so were by no means those of
personal vengeance. But since her first commitment,
he had found out that she had been in the practice of
paying his washerwoman with goods from his ware-
house, at the same time charging the amount of the
bills as cash paid to the washerwoman. He could
contradict her written statement, in several parts,
especially as to her snpplying his sons with money,
exctpt once or twice a trifling sum. He had no doubt,
if time were allowed, he should be able to bring for-
ward more cases against her ; and he thought, that
if she were discharged, it would be holding out a
species of encouragement to the many persons em
gaged in his large business. The LORD MAYOR said,
dile was determined to prosecute her, it would be im-
perative on him to commit her for trial ; but by the
consent of Mr. Flint she was committed for a further
examination.

Gult.nnALL.—Yesterday J. Brown, a respectable
looking. young man, was charged by T. Robinson
with personating an officer, and insisting to search a
bundle which he was carrying. The prosecutor
stated, that he was going home, between twelve and
one o'clock in the morning of Thursday, through St.
Paul's Church-yard, with a bundle, containing ankles
his own property, when he was stopped by the defen-
dant, who represented himself to be an officer, and,
therefore, insisted on his right to search the bundle.
Some officers coming up, it was ascertained, that the
defendant had not the authority he pretended to have,
and he was, in consequence, taken into custody. The
defendant said, he had lately come home from being
attached to the Commissariat in France ; and that
he had been spending the evening with some ft lends.
He had certainly done very wrong in representing
himself to be that which he was not ; but lie had not
opened• the bundle. He was discharged on paying
the prosecutor for the loss of his time, &c. •
HATTON GARDEN.—Yesterday J. Bloxant, 12 years
of age, was charged with shop-lifting. Miss Turner
said, .that on Monday forenoon, she went into the shop
of Miss Sleet, haberdasher, in Leigh-street, Bruns-
wick-square, to buy some silk, and saw the prisoner
on his knees behind the counter ; on seeing witness
he stood up, and said he was looking fora halfpenny
he had dropped, but Miss Sleet entering• the shop he
ran off. Witness followed and brought him back ;
when he pulled from his pocket two rolls of ribbon,
and•laid them on the counter. Miss Sleet confirmed
the deposition of the last witness, and added, that the
rolls of ribbon which the prisoner took from his pocket
are her property, and are worth ss. and the thirteen
rolls now produced are also witness's property. These
she found on the floor behind the counter, and which
was taken out of her drawers. The prisoner was fully
committed.

BOW-STREET.—Yesterday Thomas Hearn, a private
watchman at Paddington, underwent a second exami-
nation, charged with wounding J. Saunders, on the
evening of Wednesday se'unight, with a cutlass ;
also, with endeavonring to shoot R. Limbrick, the
Conductor of a Party of patrole,- in that neighbour-
hood,when he went to apprehend him. A certificate
from the - House Surgeon of St. George's Hospital
was produced, which stated Saunders to be out of
danger ; and he attended with his head and left arm
tied np, in consequence of the wounds.he had re-
ceived. He stated, that he was mending a basket at
the door of the 4ing and Queen public house,Padding-
Ket-green,on Wednesday se'nnight, when theprisoner,
elm he had never before seen to his knowledge, came
up to him, and, without speaking a word, cut him se.
veral times with the cutlass used by him as a watch.
man, on ,his head and left arm. ,The other particu-
lars we stated on his first examination. The prisoner
called Mary Foster, who told a rhodomontade story,
in gross and vulgar language ; bin on questioning
her, she proved not even to have been on the sporat
the time, and that she was the probable cause of the.
outrage, as she cohabits with the prisoner, and had a
trifling dispute with the prosecutor a few minutes pre-
vious, and it is supposed she set the prisoner on to the
rash act. She also held a second loaded pistol for
the prisoner while he was presenting one at Limbrick
to endeavour to shoot him ; but providentially it
flashed in the pan, when the officer was getting in at
the window to apprehend him. No credit was there.
fore given to her statement, add the prisoner was or-
dered to be committed.-
Covenn7, who was stabbed by his wife pn Mon-
day evening, in Brounkw-street, is, still living.
Commissioners of Hackney Coaches have, at
length, issued an order to the hackney coachmen, an-
nouncing that, agreeably to the new Act, it is their
bounden duty w li4ve and deliver tickets; that with.
out giving such tickets they have ;no right to receive
any fare ; and that in the event of their being guilty
of g• abusive language, or 'any other rude behaviour"
(9th Anne), they are punishable acccrding to the old
Statutes.
Monday se'nnight, Michael Green was taken near
Waterford, in the act of passing a number of fogged
bank-notes of ,Msssas."Rocties, of Cork ; he ha,l also
in his possession severalcofpetaplatei of other Batiks

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