Star.
London, England, 1802-08-26 00:00:00

FROM LLOYD'. LIST.

DeAL,AunoST rOf the River,the Royal George,
BMOC KIIANRI. from Jamaica; and Hannah. Basra, from
Surinam. Arrived the Fontvxr. Aacata ma, and DIAMOND
frigatev, and Autumn (loop of war, with Dutch troops, bound
no the Teta Wind S. W.

GIATIMND, Aur:o ST 25.—Paffed by, the Creidebas,
Vta-
stn, from Rotttrdam; lary Ann, Past-ALL; and Elsa,
BAC II T, t :Om Danta:e.--Sailed the Hamburgh Packet, Gooey,
far li-mburgh ; VL.rgaretta, DAIMI, for Rotterdam; Sally,
WILL/Am., 101' Arct argei ; Efpapiset, BMA D, for Calais;
ooze Wini:oll, WI L L1.t219, kr Bruffells; and Vrow Madam,
PALK', for Rotterdam.

A letter from an Officer of his Majefty's fhip
la Scvstasv, loft off the Mind of Ceylon, on the
sd of March, lays, " the St 1P43111.11 is 1011, and all
hands, except one, are fp/ed. At two o'clock in
the morning of the 3d of March, (he went on (bore
nn the illand of Ceylon—a flrong current moil
have tAccn us out of our courfe. The night was
paned in the moll anxious way imAginahle, not
knowing exaftly where we were,clofe to the break•
ors, the furf on which got higher every minute,
and all Our efforts to get the Ili'? off preyed in
vain—the loon bilged, and at eight o'clock on
Wednefday night, after fisteen hours revere fa-
tigue, the Captain was obliged to order the pee-
rle, fur the prefervation of their lives, to quit her.
Mink GOD only one man was loft, who was
t..tend dead in the fhip. Had we been a cable's

LOYDON DOCKS.

On Monday afternoon, about four o'clock, the
docks being conr.dered as complete, the water was
admitted. The firlk aperture for letting in the
water was made about a foot under the low water
mark in the pretwiter dam (the place that flood the
Mock when the city r47m gave way fome time
Mice) ; but it was found neceffary, in confequence
of the water coming in very fluwly, to make ano
Cher aperture of the fame dimenlions on Tuetday
afternoon. Such is the extent of this vaft under-
taking, that, although the water ran into the docks
after the rate of Soo or moo gallons in a fecond,
yet the great dock was not completely 'covered by
the next morning at fix o'clock. No kind of form
was ufed upon the occafion of letting in the water,
as was expe'led. The order of the dire,ltors for
opening the dam was known to very few, except
thole immediately engaged in the undertaking.—
To•morrow is fixed for the grand day when the
principal ceremony will take place. One o'clock
is the hour appointed for admitting the flipping.
The Royal Standard will be hoifted at fix o'clock
in the morning on the warehoufe, No. 8, under
which the firlt Hone was laid on the lath of
July 1800. Another flag will be placed on
No. a. Preparations are making for accommo-
dating the Nobility, Gentry, and the friends of
the Direaors, to fee the ceremony. They will
be accommodated on the quay, and on the roof
of No. 8, where 100 perfons may be admitted.—
No kind of extraordinary parade will take place,
and only two fhips will be admitted ; the firft
will be the Henry Addington, the handlomelt (hip
in the River, built about two years fince ; and
the fecond, a loaded (hip. Capt. Sri mrsom, the
principal Dock Mader, it is reported, will bring in
the firft Ihip. An extra guard, of too foldiers be-
longing to the Ift regiment, will attend to preferve
order, and prevent all perfons who have not a Di-
reaor's ticket from getting on the Docks on the
north and welt fide. Roam!. Mts,ucam, Efq.
the Chairman of the Committee, will fuperin-
tend the whole undertaking. No boats will be
admitted on any account into the Dock the hrft
day. On Saturday, the whole of the (hipping now
lying at Blackwall will be admitted.
The whole of the warehoufes are expected to be.
finified in fix months; thole numbered a, 4, and
8, are nearly ready; No. 7 will be the next; No.
6, and 3 will follow. There fill remains fpace for
three more warehonfcs on the north quay. Should
the general undertaking anfwer the expeaations
formed, a fund will be provided to carry on farther
improvements.

The Northampton Fenciblet, !aft week, ar-
r:ved at Leiceller, ;tl.l on Friday continued their
route to their own county, for the purpufe of be-
ing difembudied. They ferved during the war in
Ireland, where an hundred of them were dif-
charged. About two hundred more were dif
charged at Liverpool.

The Carabinee-s have arrived in Dublin from
Dundalk : they are to have the Dublin duty in the
room of the 24th hark, which are to be reduced.
The whole of the Rifle Corps Lift week marched
through Maidaone, on their route to Chatham
Barracks. They are expeded Ihordy to embark,
for the Eaft Indies.

On Saturday and Monday fennight, two troop
of the 3d, or Prince of Wales's dragoon guard s
arrived at Dumf.' ies ; and Tuefday morning a de-
tachment from each troop marched for Annan
and Kirkcudbright. The reit are to remain at
Dumfries.

Laft week two troops of the 3d regiment of dra.
goons (or King's own) from Carlifle, &c. march-
ed through Dumfries on their route to Ireland.
Some alterations arc making in both Honfes of
Parliament, which may add a trifle to convenience,
while they greatly augment the aukwardnefs of
the whole as a piece of patch-work. They cont.&
principally of a gallery in a right line from the
prefent fmoaking- room of the Houle of Commons,
to the apartments of the Serjeant at Arms, on the
Northern wing, which are to be thrown into Com-
mittee-rooms. The broad flight of flone (lairs at
the back of the Court of King's Bench has been
alto taken away, and that whole face is to be
thrown into a lobby to the Houle of Lords. The
long (lone paffage between is to remain in its pre-
, lent Rate ' • but a flight of (lairs is to be opened di-
rally at the Southern end of it into the lobby of
the Houle of Commons, by which the Members
will enter by a (honer way at the angle, than they
now do by the circuitous paffage of the (lone 'lairs
which lead to the gallery. The Speaker's houfe
has been alto pulled down fo low as the lira floor;
lime fay it is only to he repaired ; others that it
is to be rebuilt an the Gothic order, upon the en-
larged plan of the new Parliament Houle.

The Duke of NbRYOLK has added to the
beautiful Rained Window Memorial at Arundel
Cattle, in Suifexi the following infcription in ho
sour of the late Mr. llsoott, the Somerfet Herald,
whole premature death, with that of is other per•
fens, was occafioned by the prefure of the crowd
flaking into the Pit of the Little Theatre, in the
Hay-market, on the 3d of February, 1794.
" I. C. Bronle ex Agro Moo. fferalAte Mitt Somer.
At &iambi &norms, erutitganer, Prohitate, Suavitate
Mormon charm, irruente Turk' in neutron oteukuit,iii
die Feb. 1794. Lt. 46.
A tailor near Halifax is committed toYorkCafile,
upon a charge of fending a treafonalle and threaten
ing anonymous letter to Major Att sw of the 18th
Light Dragoons.
On Saturday feveral German Soldiers were ap-
prehendedatCumberland• fort,Purtfmouth,charged
with having counterfeited One Pound Notes on the
Pottrmoudi and Hampfhire Bank.
Sunday lag a man bathing in the river at Sta%
pleton, was unfortunately drowned.
Society has to rejoice in the difcovery of one of
the molt valuable fpecifics for the cure of deafnefs
ever yet difcoveredt—in very few inftances has it
been known to fail of reftoring that invaluable
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COMBINATION of SHIPWRIGHTS, eft.

A deputation of four caulkers (one from each
yard) waited upon the mailers in the morning,
with propolitions for their return to work, which
w:-re not acceded to. In the afternoon a fecond
application %ea., made by the fame deputation to
their mailers, which, we have every realbn to
think, will be accepted, and the men will return
to their work.

Ye fterday morning at fa o'clock (the ufual time
for the men going to work), the bells of the diffe•
rent yards rung ; the men who had been refralikory
applied to the different yards they had formerly
been employed in, to go to work, but were not ad
mitted, the neceffary arrangements not being made
for their reception. At nine o'clock, when the
bell rung after breakfaa time for the men to re-
turn to their work, they applied again, when they
were admitted, joined the men from the King's
dock yards, and proceeded to their work in a very
regular manner in the yards of Melfrs. WELLS,
BARNARD, and DEM:PISAN they applied to be
admitted at the yard of Mr. BRENT, but were
informed no work would be done in the yard till
after the funeral of their late worthy mafter, Mr.
RANDALL.

POLICE. &c.

PUZLIC-OFFICB, MAILLBOROUGH-STRIZT.—Yec
terday Mr. Bovi, Printfeller in Piccadilly, prefer-
red a complaint againft his female fervant, who,
when he hired her, defcribed herfelf to be a widow.
He flitted, that the had been three weeks in his
fervice, and that during the Taft fortnight his wine
cellar had been twice privately opened. and tome
bottles of wine ftolen. He had fame fulpicion of
the fervant, and had determined to watch her ;
but on Friday night a Gentleman who lives in the
fira floor of Mr. Bovi's houfe informed him, that
he heard a ftrange noife in the fervant's room.—
A watchman was fent for, who, accompanied by
Mr. Bovi and his lodger, proceeded up (lairs.
They were admitted as loon as the fervant had
dretfed herfelf, and upon fearching the room, found
a man Banding in his fliirt and breeches behind the
bed-curtains. The wotaan admitted that the had
had a bedfellow on Friday night. When the came
to live with Mr. Bovi, fhe learned that if fhe
raid fhe was married he would not keep her in his
fervice, and therefore (he called herfelf a widow.
The man who was found behind the curtain, the
Paid, was her own lawful married hulband. He
had called to fee her, and the very naturally of
him to flay all night. In fliort fhe threw her lov-
ing arms around him, and would not let him go ;
there was nothing Runge in the noire they made,
whatever the firlt floor lodger might think of it, but
they did not expedt they would have been ditlurbed
fo abruptly. The Magiftrate difcharged this cou-
ple with a reprimand; and Mr. Bovi paid the wo-
man the wages which were due to her.
PUBLIC OFFICF, SHADWELL.— Yefterday Ed-
ward Foley was committed for trial, charged by
John Sole, with flopping him about three o'clock,
on Sunday morning, in Blue Coat Fields, Ratcliff,
and forcibly taking a watch from his perfon. On
being apprehended and taken to the watch houfe,
he was fearched, but no watch, but a rule and an
oil &in, were found upon him, which he forcibly
took from the prolecutor. He (fated th:tt he went
to feveral pawnbrokers to flop the watch, fhould
it be offered for pledge, which was brought to Mr.
Mafheder, pawnbroker, where it was !topped.—
There being further proofs againft the prifoner, he
was fully committed for trial.
The mate of a Weft Indiaman, and a lumper,
were charged with throwing a bale of cotton into
the barge of Mr. Drinkald, lying alonglide the
(hip, at a time when the was putting off, and re-
futing to take in any more, by which obtlinate per-
feverance one of the men, of the name of Edwards,
was thrown from the gunwale of the barge into
her hold with loch violence that his thoulder was
diflocated, and he was otherwife fo much hurt,
that a furgeon on Tower.hill, to whoM he was taken,
pronounced- him to be in a very dangerous Bate.
The mate and limper are held in fuldtantial bail
to anfwcr for their conduct.

VirHlTlCHATEL.—Yefierday Mary CouVon was
charged by two foreign feamen, of the names of
Lavagnila and Aguil.t, with unlawfully pledging
;heir apparel for nearly tol. She was fined in the
penalty of aos. for each offence, and ordered to
redeem the goods, or, in default thereof, to fuffer
two months imprifonment in the Houfe of Cor-
ration.

MANSION Houst.—Yefterday two men in the
employ of Mr. Alderman Newman, of Snow-hill,
were finally examined, charged on fufpicion of
fiealing, at different times, large quantities of lea-
ther. They were committed for trial.

A few days ago Mr. Rudd, Attorney, of Old.
flreet Road, on a vifit at a friend's houfe in Lin-
colnihire, the family being alarmed in the night by
fome villains breaking into the houfe, the man-
fervant taking a loaded piece, went dowa
Mr. Rudd alto followed, but unperceived by the
man fervant, who conceiving him to be one of the
villains, inftantly fired at him, and wounded him
in fit thocking a manner that he expired in two
hours after. He has left a wife and two children.

On Friday laa as W. Ryall, who worked for
Mr. G. Melmoth, jun. of Sherborne, was riding
in a cart near his matter's houfe, and three boys
with him, owing to mifmanagement, from hii
being in a (Late of inebriety, the horfe run away,
and in attempting to get into a field, the cart
turned over, in confequence of which Myatt had
his arm dreadfully broken, and one of the boys,
his fon, was much hurt.

On Saturday I,IIL Mr. Wright,- of the Strands
unfortumitely fell overboard, and was drowned
in his page by the pact from Boulogne to
Dover. He had been talking very cheerfully a
few minutes previous to the misfortune happen-
ing, with fome Ladies in the cabin ; but com-
plaining of hear, and tbat he was lick in conic-
h. e..•,t noon decks and it is ilinnnr.

tiRTHS.
On die 2j4 infant, at WiWon Shrullyery..
Lady of Lieutenant-Colonel Skinner, of a f.. 11.
At his houfe in Swithin's-lava, the I.ady of Abraham W...
hinfon, Efq. of a Gen.