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

PENZANCE, DECEMBER 9.

For there two days, the weather has been more
itempeftuous than for a long time pall, and has occa-
Lasted much damage on this coaft. The Hendra,
fofecuntsu ; the Friends, MAYNE ; and' he Mary,
Mance, are totally loft in St. Ives, Bay, with the
exception of only one or two men raved from each.
A veffel froth Briftol, and two veffels with copper,
(one of them from Falmouth) are laid to be totally
let in the fame bay ; fcveral others are mitring, but
it is poffible they may have reached Scilly.
FALMOUTH, DECEMBER 9.

Put back the M,rrittown armed brig with part of
her convoy for Wales, which failed from hence on
the 7th inflant, having been feparated the fame
evening in a gale. Sailed the Marlborough packet,
Captain BALL, with mails for Barbadoes and Jamaica;
alfo the Prince Adolphu? packet, Captain Boustna•
sort, with mails for America. Wind N. E.
PLYMOUTH, DEC. so.
Sailed the SCORPION, of 18 guns; and the &11<r-
man, of zz guns, on a cruize.
PORTSMOUTH, DECEMBER it.
Arrived the Winchelfea and Effez EaR Indiamen,
and the following outward bound •effels from the
towns, viz. the Thomas, Captain ADAMS ; Tevlot,
Jortasom ; Jane, —; Lady Penryn, BURGESS ;
Laurel, —; Queen, Worms ;' Argus, —;
Ecelitre, ; Neptune, ; William, ;
Xcho, SHAW, and the Pacific, ASHLY. Sailed his
Majefty's alp Surly on a cruize, alfe the Naffau,
bit brought to again. It is rf p •rted that two vet
fel' cif the convoy from the Dr wits, were feen !leering
for France, and were well over, luppored to be cap-
iured.
DEAL, DECEMBER Ir.

Remain in the Downs the Princefs of Orange and
Trufty men of war ; Clyde fr:gate, Mini and 'tr.
:ions gun brigs, Harmony viftualler, and the Spe.
eulator lugger.
SHEERNESS, bEC. I 1.

' Sailed from the lore this morning the Swediih
frigate Freya, with the following veffcls under con-
♦oy for the Baltic, viz. the Margaretha, Latin; Tri-
ton, Turnwick ; Apollo, Petetfon ; Anvil, Peter-
fon i and Rofen, Palinqueft.—Wind W.

HARWICH, DEC.zz.
Arrived this day, the Lady Neprean packet,.Capt.
THOIdAS LIVING, from Gottenburigh in nine days ;
brings no particular news. The Lady Nepean
. was chafed yefierday by a large lugger privateer,

off Southwold, which came In near the Store as to
be ken by feveral people from this place. A fleet
of So vet Tels failed from Gottenburgh with Captain
I..tvit46, but fun after feparated in a gale, and he
Ence fell in with the convoy, having only eight fail
in company. one of the (hips retaken at Heligoland
was called Ci:e Britannia of Newealllt. While Capt.
lIKIDCI was at Cuxhaven, the American (hip Two
friends, Capt. LIVINGSTON, in coming down the
river from Glucklladt (in balkil, botind to Charlet'.
ton), was fired at by the batteries at Cuxhaven, and
detained and taken into the pier. The ARIADNti Ina

int in a Ruffian chip with hemp and iron, bound to
London. The Havoc a gun brig has alto fent in a
Ruffian hoy—have not yet learned their names. The
Lath, Captain MILL, from Gottenburgh, with the
tails, is hill detained by contrary winds. Remain
as per lilt.—Wind
, FROM LLOYD'S LIST.
GIAVISIND, Dec !I.—Puffed by the Romp, Chew, and the
Deltic Mcrcbant, --, from Peterlburgh. Sailed the Anfon,
Goodwin, for Gibraltar ; and the Harvey, Harvey, for Tobago.

Extra& of I Letter received by the Maid of the
Mill, from Newfoundland, an ivied at Pert Glalguw,
5111 inaant
" Bay of Built. Neerfoondland,NOV.
"MAR STR••••Sinte writing you this day. a boat has pnt in here
from Ferryland, with the furvivor. frog. the wreck of the uttfor•
tunate brig Rambler, of Leith, which was :walk loft nefir Cape
Broyle on the night of tbc 29tb ult. The followin is a lilt of the
perfons faved—.Adam Ihyfdale. ftcoml Mate ; M•lCiy,
feaman; William Cathin, John Mortal and James nil L.A. prre ti
ilea; James Campbell, James M Kay, and Jean Gum, pafr,n
Sem It would appear that 138 perfut.s were drowned.
" I am, &c. " A. M."
Moft happily for the family of Mr. S. Hammaw,
'oho were all in deep dilitels, :)is fon, luppored io be
loft on board the Boreas frigate, has been taken up
at fea in a fmall boat, whiet he and another young
officer, with two (cameo, had taken pclfellion of, a,
the intlant the Boreas was going to the bottom.
•

Yeflerday afternoon a refpdlable butcher, who
tel in Whiteclivel, w3i tothd by an it i hated
bullock in Smithfield, nearly as high as a two pair of
Hairs window, by which ciiclinsflanee one of his
thighs and Come of his ribs %vete hrrken. He was
Itaken to St. Jaartholomew's Hofpital.

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nertiris.ip czmo 6:trns MEW.
IMMINMED;MiIII•
Mr. &Ales Ur& in Gofwell fireet, was yefter•
day opened for the rxhibitipn of the Cattle, Sheep.
and Pigs tent ht-by Candidates for the Prites offered
for the belt fed. animals. .4

In the early plot of the day, a great number of
11 Graziers, Salem= and Butchers, principally of thole
whofe bufinefs has required their attendance in Smith.
field Market, attended and examined the animals
exhibited ; and in the cootie of the day a large con.
courfe of amateurs lathe .ufeful arts of breeding and
fattening of cattle attended the yard.
The animals had each,* label affixed it its bead,
Rating the name of the nwner, and other particulars.
The Prizes were adjudged as follows :
Twenty Ontneas to Mr W. Fliirrers, for a remarkably hoe dark
Herefordaire Ox; with thii.dditional prize of so guineas, u
being, in the opinion of the 'Ages of the mew. the belt Ox
thews this year, above thevtri...ght of too Rose.
Twenty Guineas to Mr S. Chandler, for his French and Devon
Ox,got by a French bull of Mr T. Crooks.
Ten Guineas to Mr & Chanel/cr, for a black Scotch Highland Ox.
Ten Guineas to Mr G. Matti, for his three one year old new
Leiceftcrivreather fheep. • ,
Ten Guineas to the Rev. T. Platen, for his three two year old
new Leieefter weather (beep.
Ten Guineas to Mr H. King, jun.Yor Ms three one year old South
Down wether (beep.
Ten Guineas to his Gram the Duke of Bedford. for his three two
year old South Down weather !peep, bred sod fed on his Mad-
den Farm.
Ten Guineas to Mr J. Roads, for his black and white ilerklaire
Pig, Is months old, which he fed on ikimmed milk, with the
addition of only 4 bulhels of barley meal.
Ten Guineas to Mr W. Slow, for his black and white High Suf.
folk bred pig, only 9 mouths old.
A confiderable number of excellent animals, of
different kinds, betides the above, were exhibited.
Thomas Pickford, Efq. of Market tirset, Hens, thew
ed fume remarkably fine Swedith mtnips, and others
of the white Norfolk round, and of the tankard fort,
bought as provender fcr his (beep : at the defire of
the company, one of each of the two hit forts were
feleOed and weighed, and were found equal to both.
Boz, and :91b. 140 z. refpeaively !
At four o'clock the principal Members of the Clnb
left the thew yard, and affembled at a meeting it
the Freemafons' Tavern ; hit Grate tht Duke of
Bedford in the Chair.

There were prefent—
Lord Wallahs Raki, Lord Somerville, Robert Efq. Charles
Gordon Gray, Monty Hill. Richard ARley,Thoinas Barker, W.
F. Burton. Thomas Cobb, Paul GUlet, Hush Hoare, jun. Jofeph
Hodkinfon, Robert Honeybourn, Henry Kill, jun. Rev. Thomas
Plalicet, Samuel Stone,Nathaniel Stubbing, Robert Tubs, Edmund
T. Waters, Wm. F. Woodgute, &c.

The award of the judges refpedling the prizes, as
above, was read and confirmed.
The following new Members were elated, viz.
%Mikis' Coles, Efq. Robert Clark Paul, Efq. Charles R. H.
Balky, Jorhua rummer, Benjamin Gray,jun. William M. Scion,
William Flowers, John Wing, Efq. Gilbert Maltby, and Tbonsas
Mercer.

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After other bulibef. had been tranfailed, about 4o
Gentlemen fat down t., an excellent Dinner, the Duke
of Bedford in the Chair. After the cloth was with-
drawn. his Grace gave-----
The IClng—The fbeen and Royal Family—Profiterity to the
Smithfield Club—Tie Plough—Snceefa to Good Grazing—
The Memory of Bakewell—The Duke of Noefolk—SinaU in
Size, and Great in Value—Sir Jofeph &Av.—A Floe Fleece
and a Fat Carcafe.

On Wedrefday, the ad indent, as Jest's Oak',
farmer, in Mofgiel, in the parifh of Mauchline, was
leading his horfe and cart along the Bridgehoufe
Bridge, between Kilmarnock and Mauchrine-, he was
met abcut the centre of the bridge by another horfe
and cart, when the whetl of the two carts entangled,
and Oaa's horfe taking fright, leaped over the pa.
rapet (a height of 3o feet above the lream) with the
cart, on which Oaa's wife was riding. Moll provi-
dentially the woman eicaped without any perfohal
burt ; ',or were the horfe and cart in the kill in-
Tured.
Mr. James Bealey, the fon of a Lady of that name,
who 'elides in Baker ftreet. being on 'Dwarfs., near
Clonbrook, and taking a ride, his horfe took fright,
as it was fupp*fed, at the jingling of Come fheep bells,
and Making a plunge on to the of path, flipped up
with the greateft violence and rolled over. Mr.
Bealey clung to the fiddle, and he was Co dreadftilly
hurt, that he furvived but a (bolt time. His rhath
was oecafioaed by a violent bruife on the fide of the
bead.

On Saturday fe'nnight, II melancholy accident
happened at New Miller Dam, near Wakefield.—
Mr. ttoberts, jun. of the former place. went into the
houfe of Mr. Illingwor th, and, (eating himfelf with
his gun loaded acrofs his 'Crites, one cf the children
began to play with it, when by Tome means it went
off, and, (hocking to relate, the contents were lodged
in the body of a tine boy about four years old, who
cliid in confequence thereof, almoß immediately.
Itroltarr.—Yellerday a Coroner's Inquell fat at
Ponder's Gate, hear Stanmore, on the body of James
Richman Davis. The dcceafed, who was an artifl,
refided near the turnpike at Paddington, and had
been to a houfe near Watford, in a fingle houfe
chaife, accompanied by his niece, a girl about 16
years old ; and on their return in the afternoon, it
being dark, and the ditches filled with (now on a level
with the road, Sir. Davis drove out of the honk.
track, to the fide of the road, when the off wheel
got into a ditch 5 feet deep. The girl was preci•
pitted into the hedge unhurt—but the fall of the
chsife was fo fudden, that the driver was thrown
into the ditch with the vehicle upon him, and was
killed by the fall —Verdid—Accidental Death.
Yefierday an tonna was held on the body of a
labutie, who, while digging a well at Glafshoufe
Wharf, Ratcliff, was killed by the fall cf a pile of
1)7 icks.—Verdi—Accidental Death.

Wedr.efday an inquelt was held on the body of
Mr. Lockey, Quarter Mailer of the Royal Hotfe
Guards ( 15'u:), whom we lately (listed to have died
fuddenly in Windfor Theatre. It appeased that at
the dole of the farce he was feized with a fit, conti•
need in a convulfive Rate for near an hour, and then
expired. Verdie—Died by the Vifitation of Cod.
In confequence of this awful event, the Managers
clofed the Theatre for two nights. The deceafed, we
undertland, was on the point of marriage with a
young lady of confiderable fen tune at Windfor.
W. Hawkefwood, who flan& chatgedon the Co•
roner's Inquelt with poifoning Mr. Packer, of Swin-
don, in Stalfordlhire, his matter, is apprehended: he
had entered on hoard the tender at Brian'. and was
dircovetel by his pctfon correlponding with the de-
fcription given in advertiferneuts in the diffcrist
Newfpaplis.