Star.
London, England, 1807-12-24 00:00:00

eiTY ELEcTlos •

M nday being St. Thomas's Day, a Wardmote
held in the feveral Wards for the election of
(2.,rrym.n Councilmen, and other Ward Officers, for
,`,e )e.r e-fning There were more contested Elec.
ti iqc than has been known for many years. The
followitify, Wards were reprefented by the fame
tleralt.nen as were chofen laft year, without al-
- -!--

te,.tiinn.
Crip,.leggte Within, Farringdon Within, Bread-
ll•eet, Binad tlreet, Coleman•llieet, Aldgate, Port-
foken. giieenhithe, Lime-tireet, Langbourne, Corn.
bill, II:111[11,1w, Dowgate, and Cordwaners.
In the following Wards the undermentioned Gen•
tlemen were elefted without oppdition :
Aided-gate tireet, 11r. G. Blufs, vice Mr. Walter,
reigned.
Bridge Ward, Mr. Taylor, vice Ituf>, refigned.
lithinglgate Ward, Mr. Dunkley, vice Mr lit.ble,
• •
resigned.
The following are the contelled.Wards :
FARRINUDON WI mow%
At four o'clock the numbers were—for
Mcffrs. F. Quin 667 Mars. Young
.541
R rring 619 R Brewer 51.3
T M Barditi 62 t J Brewer 515
Waithman 6 i 3
S'r T Bralifeomb . 6'13 Griifith vs
ikli ID's. J Nichol 595 J bli.wman 481
W J Reeves 576 I T Rttve 455
Wright 550 • Jantes Crook 394
Dawson 544 •
'IL Esteen old Members returned.
CORDWAINERS.
ileffrs liarwi:oil iBo Mars. Abbey 74
Ro NI: iBo S. tones 68
•Ilielsi 10) T..m:dernan 66
Kenthte teo o 'wagon • 65
Smi-h 92 • W. Jones 55
Trimbey 8; I • Blake 52
The eight firft returned.
CRIPPLEGATE WITHOUT.
Ml Sri • Diron 337 Tidi Ms G. Brown 255
Dolly 280 W. R. H. Brown 235
Dacre 273 • Mr. Gwycr 14
The poll was not declared, and the Wardmote was adjourned
until this evening, in conkquence of Mr. W. R. H Brown having
denuded a ferminy, when each Candidate will fix on fix free-
!nen as ferutinters. 6
:BISHOFSGATE WARD.
'Maks. A Windus 19: I Mcffrs Knight
Sir W Rawlins 183 'l' Greenaway
A Rofs 176 T Poynder
E Clark z6o I S Nath
•Geo. Cllde 154 W Fricker
J. Gough 118 lohn Dut &II
G Fade.; sio D Smith
W o.uld 108
The flat fourteen returned.
CANLLEWICK WARD.
Maks Platt
P.driter
•Humpkby
'Kirby
•Groombrido
,ndidates returned.
rARD WARD.
Metres •Fentoo
Slade
Farranee
•I'ownell
•Wekh

:\lclirs Walter 86
1414 84
Minder 84
Gale 84
Foflick 76
The ti,:,lit fiat C:
C. 1.6 iLE BAY
144
I ivwcll 142
lynx 141
'if, aLl.cr 438
Hurlock 137
1 itircomb 134
Mr. Welch reigned, without
• New C

110
107
101
!CO

'2s
I £4
109
97
89

keeping the poll open the limited
:andidatcs.

P, licies are already opened at LLOYD'S, for veffels
44 I the Biazds ; and infurances have been made upon
he f4mc -terms, as to 'LW Well Indieb, namely. as the
Cluderwtiters term it, 8 to return 4, which implies
the ct)rorilete feeling of fecitrity.
Yell erday the Cabinet Minitlers dined with his Grace
the DA:: of PuRTLAND, at Burlington Houfe.
Certain MACLEOD is appointed to command the
Gt., NY, of 98 Vas, at Portfmouth.
Lieutenant WARBURTON, of the CLYDE frigate,
bas been promoted to the rank of Commander.

THE THEATRES.—,The favourite Comedy of the
l', ovate,' Iliilband was performed lall night, at
Dtury-lane Theatre, with the ufual eclat. Mr. ECUs
tok's I or,l Townly difplayed all the qualities of the
amiable and loving hutb Ind, the polite Nobleman,
and man offenfe. Liowtort's Sir Fraacir If/rots:head
had all it.: peculiarities ; while MATHRivs pourttayed
the Konen pm Moody with all the blunt honelly and
tuft icity of the charaiter. The dashing Lady Townly,
An I the amiable and difcreet Lady Grace, could not
have been in more appropriate hands than in thofe of
MIS DUNCAN and Mrs. H. SIDDONS. The merits
of Mifs MILLON in jenny, and of Mrs. SPARKS. in
Lady lVronghead, are too well known to the public to
require comment.
The Comedy of the WO Indian proved very at.
traaive at Covent Garden, where it has not been per.
formed for a conliderable time. Mr. Jokes did great
Janice to the charaller of Belcour, and difplayed much
of the genernfity and fire of the original. Mr. Ham-
satom was unufually fuccefsful in Maj9r O'Flaberty.
He wits repeatedly applauded by the audience.
BLamc HARD'S Perland was much beyond Medi crity.
Mifs NORTON was very interelling in the amiable
Louip ; and Mrs. C. KERIBLE'S Charlotte was performed
with her ufual excellence.

A moil dreadful and fatal accident happened a
fhort time ag.) near the village of Hopson Wafers,
in Shroplkire : It appears that a waggoner was to
rife eat ly on the foil owing morning to accompany
iris mailer's team to Ludlow, to fetch grain ; on the
night [.receding he dreamt that the waggon would
be overturned, and crufh him to death ere he returned
—itpu:i mentioning this extraordinary dream to his
Cie advifed him not to go, but to plead the
retire of illnefs to his mailer ; but unwilling to do
and being firmly perfuadcd that the dreadful
r.atailr iphe would happen the next time he went
'with the team, he let out ; on his return, being fa-
tigued with his journey (inilead of taking every
recautton to prevent the accident he fo much dread-
ed) he unthinkingly, got upon the fhafts and fell
afleep; he had not been thus fituated long, when the
horfes being left to their own guidance, and the
ground entirely covered with fnow, the animals mill
took their way, and went feveral yards out of their
road by which means the waggon was thrown on
its fide, and fell on the unfortunate (offerer, who
was taken up a corpfe ; he was a molt valuable fer•
rant, having lived upwards of twenty years in his
lag place ; and had done Met jullice to every truß
repofed in him. It is melancholy to relate that he
has left a very large family to bewail his lois, all of
whom he took leave of, ere he fet out on iris krurney,
on the full perfuation that he fhould never
_lce them
more.

437 IN~ItI NOU..SE.

Yefterdtty a meeting of the Proprietors of the Eat
India CoMpany was held at this Houfe.

The rninlites of the former meeting being read
and agreed to,
The CIiAIR MAN moved, that the Minute of the
ha Meeting of the Court of DireOors, by which it
was ordered that the dividend on the Heck of the
Company for the lafl half year be si per cent. be
agreed to.

—Mr. ROCK raid it was apparent, from the Rate of
the Company's revenue, as itanding on the face of
the account laft prefented to the Court, that these
was a great deficiency of the revenues of the Corn.
pany for that year, to the amount, if he recolleCted
it, of upwards of 2,000,0001. He wilhed therefore
to know on what ground it was Rated that a divi.
dead to the proprietors to the extent of to and a
half per cent was to be made.
Mr. CHARLES GRANT observed, that from the low
tone of voice in which the worthy Proprietor had
expreffed himfelf, he (Mr. Grant) was not furprifed
that the Honourable Chairman who fat next him,
had not been able to make out the nature rf the
worthy Proprietor's oblation. He (Mr. Grant)
however, was prepared for it. It amounted to this,
that a dividend of profits had been declared, while_
at the fame time on the face of the accounts there
appeared a deficiency. The Honourable Deputy I
Chairman, on the other hand, to meet this objec.
tion of the worthy Proprietor, begged it might be
reconciled, that by the Aft f Parliament, fpecify•
ing the mode of afcertaiuing the dividends, fuch
were to be fettled by the mercantile, and not by the
territorial profits. The dr fi..iency for laft year was
entirely territorial, and would fall to be made up
from the territorial revenue of a fubfequent year.
On the mercantile concerns of the Company, a profit
to a greater event than the dividend allowed had
been realized ; the dividend was therefore iiriCtly
conformable to.the Aft of Parliament.
-Mr. kocx again alluded to the deficiency, and
contended that by the Aft, when any deficiency
oteurredb no dividend was to be declared fur that
year.

Mr. GRANT once mr,reafTerted, that the Ad had
reference to mercantile, not to territorial profits.
The motion was they carried, Mr. Itqck alone
diffenting from it.
On the motion of the Chairman for reading th e
Refoltstion of the Court of Directors, declaring that
neither the Proprietors. the Captain, nor Crew of
the Company's Chip the Ganges were at all im.
plicated, or culpable in the lots of that fhip, it was
ordered that a Ballot of the Court of Proprietors
do take place on that fubjtd on the zoth of Janu•
ary,

MISSIONARIES TO INEMA.

Mr. TWINING role, and ttated that he had given
notice for this day of motion relative to the fending
Miffionaties to India. He was fatisfied in his own
mind as to the imp"•rtance of this ite)jeCt, and alfo
AS to the neceifity of indulging, rather than of at-
tempting to thwart the prejudices of the natives on
the point of religion. He was (atisfied that nothing
could contribute more to the ellablifhment of our
empire in the EaR, than allowing the prejudices of
the natives to take their courfe, by which ultimately
the caufe of religion even would be more effectually
ferved, than it could be by forcing it, without a
proper preparative cn the minds of the prejudiced
people nf thefe regions. He was, however, at the
fame time, aware of the difadvantages which might
refult from the agitation of this quettion at the pre-
fent moment, particularly in the evert of a difitnion
of fenriment in that Court. \He was therefore anxi
our, if polleble, to avoid loch a difcullion, and if he
received faii.fadory atfurances from Gentlemen
within the bar, that their attention had been dire°
ed to this fubjeCt, and that it was their with to re-
drefs the grievances to which he had alluded, he
thould withdraw his motion. The worthy Proprie-
tor thought hirofelf at the fame time bound to fay,
that, fo far from not refpcdting the religicn in which
he had been educated, he was ready to defend it
with his life ; and, in anfwer to another charge
brought againi him, that he had made the prefent
motion from a per tonal feeling againft an Honour
able Director (Mr. Grant) he could only ante
that Honourable Gentleman that the charge was
unfounded.

The Rev. Mr. OSPEN was proceeding to enter into
a difcuflion of the queftion, when he WAS called to
order by. _ _ _

Mr. Twit/trio, who Rated that the very object
he had in view, by the appeal which he had made
to the Dirators, was to avoid difcullion.

The CHAIRMAN concurred in the p.opriety of the
call to order. In anfwer to the question put to the
Dire tors by the worthy Mover, he could allre him,
the point to which he had alluded had not efcaped
the attention of the Board. It was their objet in
every refptt to dilcharge their duty ; and he trufled
the worthy Proprietor, and the Crum in general,
would not take i, for granted that they had defert-
ed it in this instance more than in any other.
Mr. Alderman PRINS'S' could not elect's what-
had fallen from the Honourable Chairman a fatis-
fadory anfwer to the quellion put by the worthy pro-
prietor (Mr. Twining). He was proceeding to en-
large on the fubjed, when
The CHAIRMAN faid, as one Member had been
already called to order for entering into an argu-
ment on the fubjed, it was impoflible that any other
Member could be heard. There was now no quef-
lion befote the Court, and they had nothing to do
but to adjourn. He immediately therefore put the
queflion for adjournment, which was carried in the
a fEt mative.

Mr. Alderman PRINSEP and Mr. Twtxtmc both
attempted to be fill heard, but
The CHAIRMAN informed them it could only be by
a new notice.—Adjourned.

Yeßerday a Court of Direaors was held at the
Eat India Hnufe, when the Lord Keith was taken
up, and Rationed for St. Helena and Bengal. The
Court adjourned at fix o'clock, till Wedncfday next.

The Bank of England are now delivering the
State Lottery Tickets ; therefore thole perfons who
are defirous of procuring favourite Numbers, mutt
immediately apply to the Liceufed Lottery Offices.
Scheme contains 25,000 Tickets ; all the Prizes
afloat (a cii curnitance which hat. not taken place for
many )ems pail). Begins dra‘.ing next March.

AJfER/QA.

136STbN, NOVEMEZR

A litrat time after the late attempt in Baltimore, to
tar and feather Luther Martin, and the Blameful
infult offered to the charaeter of Judge Martini!, a
magifliate of that city, Judge Dot fey had a warrant
ferved on James Blays, as the principal ringleader
of the late mob. Blays offered himfell up, without
refinance, and peremptorily refufed to find hail for
his appearance. The Mayor of the City, fearing
that his commitment would further excite the paf.
ftons of the multitude, and knowing the °Neel of this
infurgent was to excite them to as high a Hate of
frenzy as poffible, by an appearance of petfecutinn,
prudently advifed his difmiffion. While this bufinefs
was ttanfatling, an advertifement appeared in one
of the Baltimore DemeeraticPapers, calling a meet
ing of the " Exclufive Republicans." The following
are the Refolutions palled at this mob aff.mbly ;
which the Political Regifler Ryles, " br frui.s
of mff,::e denunciations; or mobocracy under an executive
bias."

BALTTMRP., Nnv. 9.

" At a very numerous and refpeetahle meeting of the Citizens
of Baltimore, at the Pantheon, on Saturday evening laft, the fol-
lowing Refolutions were adopted :
.00
" Iternlyed —That the conduct of certain civil officers in the
city of Baltimore, in calling upon the military to fupprtf. an ap-
prehended riot, is an example dangerous to the rights and liberties
of the people.
" Refolved—That we can only view the condui of fuch men
as an afrump.ion of power batik to our Conaitution ; iwendcd
to fupprefs the public fewtiment ; and that they &terve the jult
rzprelienfion of Freemen.

Ilefolced—That a Committee be appointed to enquire, %%le.
flier judit•tal Auks do not exiit in this city; and whether there be
rot fonsething radic•dly wrong in the principles of this Corporatio•.t
And the Committee than be empowered • draft a petition to the
General A.lll.inbly, Rating Paid grievances! and report the fame to
a fneereding meeting of the people.
'• Refolved—That fad Committee eonlift of feven refpeelable
Citizens, who (hall make report to a meeting of the people at this
place, on this day week.

" Refo!yeti—That the foregoing ReLiutions be publithed in the
feveral Isa.lers of this city.

" Refueted—That the tharks of this meeting be voted to Jame•
Ways, for his dillingnifhed conduct in the chair.
" JAMF.3 131 AYE, Chairman.
"6 Tu. BLAND, Secretary."
NEW YOR)€, NOV. i 3.

We very rarely trefpafs on the patience of our
reader. with an article fo unworthy their notice a,
the details of a duel. There is, licwevcr, fomething
fo brutal in the affair now to be related, that it r ught
to be recorded for public deteflation. It will be re
membered, that about the tft of 06tober. a duel w
fought between Captain Gordon, of the United States
frigate Chefapeak, and Dr. Stark, a phyfician c•f
Norfolk. It was one of the preliminary arrange
ments, that, if either party firruld fire before the
word was given, the adverfary's tecond fhould im
mediately fire at the one thus offending. The moment
I a fhot was exchanged, without effect, on either fide,
Lieutenant Crane, sd to Captain Gordon, Repped
forward;rdeclared that Dr. Stark had tired bcfore
the word, and immediately fir it him through the
arm. Mr. M'Conico, the D6etoc, fecund, then pte•
rented to fire at Crane, when Capt. Gordon, leeelliirg
his ',rani at M,Cornico's head, exclaimed, "
or you perith." An altercation took place, the remit
of which was, that M'Conico challetted Gordon on
the ground:

The duel between thefe perfons was fought on the
zd in North Carolina. The fir fl (hot was ex-
changed, at eight paces diflant, with out injury
the fecund, at fix, trolt effect. Mr. M,Conico was
flightly wounded in the thigh ; and Captain Go•don
received a wound in the lower extremity of the body,
from which there is no probability of his recovery.
—The letter announcing the event, adds—" The
affair will n flop here, unlefs welled by the civil
authority."—Com.

A fiddler, returning from a merry. meeting between
Alflon and Harwood in Teefdale, in the Roomy night
of the zoth uh. took flicker in a low ont•houfe on
Alllon Moor, which was fo overblown with the fnow,
that he could not get out, nor did any part of the
houfe appear ; and here he moll have perilked, had
not Tome fhepherds, who were feeking their sheep,
difcoveree, him by the found of his fiddle under the
fnow, his playing on which was unqueflionably the
means of laving his life.
Yeflerday morning, at eight o'clock, thirty male
convictF were removed from Newgate, efcorted by the
City Marlhals and Officers to the water fide at Black-
friars, on board a failing barge, to be (hipped at
Woolwich, on their way to New South Wales.—
Among the moll prominent of them was Ryland, the
notorious pickpocket, and Horatio Bro aw, the bigamilt.
ATLOCI^US CRUELTY.—On ilunday, Mrs. White,
of Cannof row, hired chariot from Mr. Gullan,
liable keeper, on the Surrey fide of ‘Vellioinaer-;
bridge, for the purpofe of going to Two Waters, in t
Hertfordthire. The driver flopped at feveral places
to drink, till he became intoxicated ; he, however,
got to Watford without any damage; when Mrs.W.
hired a poll•chaife to purfue her journey, which the
fellow followed for near a mile, ablifing and threat. I
ening Mrs. W. During this time he fl )gged his
heats in sa moll wanton manner. On his return,
near Stamore, he flogged them with fo much vio-
lence, that he broke his whip; he then forced the
handle into one of his bodes, fo that its entrails came
out. The horfe, maddened by this torture, kicked
and plunged, till falling between the splinter bar and
the wheel, it allually split its body between the
flanks. It is unneceffary to add the animal died in
a few minutes. The fellow proceeded with the car-
riage with one bode, and drove with loch violence
into Stanmote, that the pole and the horfe's head
were forced into the parlour window of Mr. Fitch,
and did confider able damage. On Monday night the
honk and chariot arrived, full (peed, at Mr. Gni-
lan's yard-gate, which being That, the pole and
horfe's head broke them open; the horfe then forced
its way into the paffage of Mr. Gollan's residence.—
On inquiry it turned out, that the fellow had not
found his way back to London till Monday night,
when he flopped at the Anchor and Vine public hook
Charing Crofs, and the honk, tired of waiting, let off:
and found its way home. On Tuefday Mr. Gullan
received feveral letters, informing him of the above;
he, in confequence, went in purfuit of the driver,
whole name is games Major, and having found him,
took him before Mr. Naas:, at the Public Office,
Bow.fireet, who ordered him to be detained. The
animal killed was ellimated to be worth 6o guirieas.