Star.
London, England, 1824-07-13 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Extract of a private letter :—" Penarth, Cardiff, July 4.—We
sailed from Newport on Thursday morning, for Waterford, with
the brig Fortitude, Captain Conn:, in company. That night it
came to blow heavy, with thick weather. I saw the Fortitude
between eleven and twelve o'clock, but not afterwards. By all
accounts, he got on Ness Sands the same night, and perished. He
had his wife on board, his two children and his servant girl. The
vessel was seen on shore on Friday morning. We put back here
on Friday morning. We experienced a severe night of weather.—
P.S.—Since 'I wrote the above, I hear that Captain Cumny's two
children have been picked up on shore.
Loss or TOE SCOTIA, or POST Guscow.—The following particu-
lars of the loss of the Scotia, were given by the Mate of that vessel:—
" The Scotia, Capt. L Davis, sailed from the Bay of Honduras on
the Ist of April, in company with two other vessels (the Zephyr
and Glutton) which she parted with on the Bth. On the 29th, a
heavy sea fell on board the Scotia, carried away her cutwater and
stem, and rendered her a complete wreck. All hands were imme-
diately employed at the pumps, but their efforts were soon found
to be unavailing, as she became waterlogged and unmanage-
able. In order to avoid the fury of the waves, which now nude a
fair breach over the decks, the Captain, his wife, and the crew (in
all seventeen), were obliged to seek for shelter on the tops, into
which they succeeded in carrying a quantity of provisions. Here
they had not remained long, when the storm increasing, the vessel
upset and precipitated all into the sea. The Captain and his wife
were washed from their hold and lost. The remainder, by great
exertion, made their way to the hull, which shortly after righted
from the parting of the masts, when they gained the quarter-deck.
where they remained enduring every hardship to which their situ-
ation exposed them, for five days. During this time their number
was reduced to ten ; some were washed overboard, and others died
through their sufferings. On the 3d of May the wreck was fallen
in with by the Saguenay; every exertion was used by the Master
and crew of this vessel to relieve them from their perilous state, but
owing to the severity of the weather and the imminent danger of
their own vessel falling on board the wreck, they could only suc-
ceed in rescuing four, the Mate and three of the hands. These
men speak in the strongest terms of the kind attention and gentle-
manly conduct they experienced from Captain HALL. When the
Saguenay parted from the wreck only two men remained.—Quebec
&metre.

His Majesty's ship MAIDsTONZ, Commodore Bou.sw, arrived at
Sierra Leone the sd of May, from Portsmouth, and sailed again
on the sth, with his Majesty's ship aunt, for Cape Coast.
FALMOUTH, JULY 11.—Wind W.—Arrived the Union, BROCILIN.
sums, from London. Sailed the Fortitude, DUTZN, for Corunna
and Lisbon.

PLYMOUTH, Jorm 11.—Wind W. —• Off the port, the Circus,
DRAW, in thirty-nine days, from Sierra Leone, for London—left
there the John, of Liverpool: she reports that a packet had arrived
from the Gold Coast, and that an engagement was daily expected.
Also, the Dykzigt, Scruou, from Batavia for Hamburgh ; Wil-
mington, and Liverpool packet, Mucus, in twenty-five days from
Virginia, for Bremen.
PORTSMOUTH JULY 12.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Pilchard,
Pococx, from Cape Coast Castle in thirty-nine days, with loss of
anchor and cable. Sailed the Mangles, Couu.r., for New South Wales.
Dr.at., JULY 12 —Wind S.W. Arrived the Promise, Titans.
osova, from Havannah ; Karen Elise, JANSAN, from Longsound ;
Sophia, Aim, from Dram ; and V row Etta, RosiN, from Amster-
dam. Came down from the River and remain, with the rest of
the outward bound, the Sir Charles M'Carthy, PRIZED, for Deme-
rara ; Heart of Oak, Roacarson for Quebec • Resignation, SAUN-
DERS, for Buenos Ayres; and Scandinavian, Sestets, for Alicant.
Livlitroox, JULY 11.—Arrived the Ulverstone, CORNET from
Savannah ; Margaret, Corucarron, from St. John's, and William,
Tuomesorr, from St. Andrew's, New Brunswick; and the Fairy
Queen, —, from Quebec.

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G =MOM JULY B.—Arrived at Port Glasgow on Tuesday, the
Cecilia, Harsomt, from Demerara—sailed thence 22d May; left
loading, the Unicorn, Wu.sou ; and Essequibo, BOYD both for the
Clyde, to sail about the Ist of June. On the 27th day, in lat. 17.
21. long. 61. 15. W. spoke the brig William, Was, of Workington,
all well.

It was stated in the Papers some time ago, that the
Officers of his Majesty's ship which carried out to the
coast of America the British Commissioners destined
for Mexico, had formed a much less favourable opi-
nion of the stability of the Mexican Government than
the Commissioners themselves. We have since learnt,
on the best authority, that the only Naval Officer who
proceeded to Mexico, was Captain MURRAY, and that
iris opinion was decidedly in favour of the power of
Mexico to maintain her independence.
Letters by a Leeward Island Mail, were received in
Glasgow on Saturday. The packet must have had a
very quick passage, having left St. Kitt's on the 10th of
June. She brings no particular news. Answers to
letters written in Glasgow on the 7th of May have been
received by her. The weather in both the Windward
and the Leeward Islands was favourable for the crops.
The Asia, Spanish line-of•battle ship, and Aguila cot-
vette, which were left at the Falkland Islands in the
middle of March, by the Jane, Captain WEDDELL, just
arrived in the river, were bound to Lima. They were
fully manned, but had no troops on board.

ENCLItH OPERA 110 USE.
The Opera of Guy Manuring was performed last
night. The cast of characters was strong. The part of
Lucy Bertram was assigned to Miss Nom., ft om the Bath
Theatre, who on this occasion made her first appearance
before a London audience. This young Lady possesses
good requisites for her profession; Nature has been pro-
fuse in her gifts, and no endeavour seems to have been
wanting in turning them to advantage. Her form is
slender and delicate, and about the middle size; her
countenance is prepossessing and intelligent, with small
features; her modest and retiring demeanour cannot
fail to excite interest. Her exertions were justly re-
warded by frequent applause. The music does not
require much science or a great compass of voice to
give it effect, but the power of making it tell all lies in
expression ; which grand qualification this Lady has in
an eminent degree. Her voice is rich and melodious,
without much brilliancy—its upper tones occasionally
veiled and evincing too much exertion. The song of
Rest thee, Babe, was called for a second time. Her success
was such as must give her friends cause to be satisfied,
and we have little doubt of her attaining popularity.
BRAHAM was Henry Bertram—to say more would be
superfluous, as his excellence is so well known. The
other parts were well supported, and the piece went off
with considerable spirit.

The Berlin State tiazelte announces the nomination
of Count Gom, late his Majesty's Minister at Frankfort, to the
post of Ambassador at the Court of London.

There is in the Caraccas Papers received on Thurs-
day, the pieject of a National Bank to be established in
that City, with a capital of two millions of dollars.
The successful precedent of the Buenos Ayres Bank
will doubtless lead to similar establishments throughout
all the other sections of South America.

DEAT4I BY FlGllTlNG.—Yesterday forenoon a pitched
battle took place in Copenhagen-fields, between Smith,
a coachman, and a cad or waterman who attends hack-

ney-coach stands. They quittrelled, we understand, re-
specting the delivery of a parcel, which the coachman
claimed as liis perquisite. They adjourned to Copen-
hagen fields, attended by their seconds, and fought for
two hours and 25 minutes, when they were both so
dreadfully punished that at last they could not stand.
Smith was carried in a senseless state off the ground on
a shutter to the Islington Infirmary, where a medical
Gentleman attempted to bleed him, but no blood flowed;
he was then put into a warm bath, where he shewed
some symptoms of recovery. He however died about
four o'clock in the afternoon, after having discharged
upwards of two quarts of blood. The antagonist of the
deceased was also moved off on a shutter, perfectly in-
sensible—and the seconds have disappeared. The mo-
ther and wife of the deceased arrived on the ground just
as he was being laid on the shutter, and they declared
it was his birth-day, but that he would never see ano-
ther, and they both fainted away, and were with diffi-
culty, upon recovery, torn from the body of the deceased.
Flßef OP JULY AT CARLOW.—The first of July in
this town has been celebrated in a manner calculated to
gratify every Christian and enlightened mind. A pub-
lic exhibition was held in the Roman Catholic College,
at which a number of Gentlemen of every religious
persuasion attandod, and they afterwards dined and
spent the evening in the College. Whatever party feel-
ings might exist in Carlow formerly, they are, we are
confident, fled for even—Carlow Post.

No life was lost at Bandon, on the Ist of July, as
reported in some of the Irish Papers.
Yesterday a fine child, about six years old, was climb-
ing near the works of a one-horse mill, at Mr. Ma-
thews's, cutler, in King's Head-court, Shoe-lane, when
its clothes got entangled in one of the wheels, and it was
instantly crushed to death. The child was nearly re-
lated to Mr. Mathews.

At Lambeth-street office, Saturday, a young man
named Joseph Comerford, formerly supercargo of a
vessel, was charged with forcibly carrying off a young
Lady, named Martha Foster, from the house of her uncle,
Mr. Parker, near Epping Forest. Mr. P. had refused his
consent to their marriage, and during his absence from
home, the alleged offence was committed. The evi•
dente shewing that the Lady's flight was voluntary,
Comerford was discharged. The girl, who is appa-
rently not more than sixteen, had for thirteen years been
the anxious care of her uncle.
A cave was lately discovered in a rocky hill, near
Killin, by following a fox whiai had entered it as a
refuge. It is said to be contained in a precipice of pri-
mitive limestone. The opening is small, but the inte-
rior is said to contain chambers in number equal to
those of an inn. It has no appearance of being an ar-
tificial excavation, and is said to be distressingly cold
and very dark. The existence of such a cave had been
traditionally talked of, as having been the resort of a
famous freebooter, who was betrayed by a paramour,
to whom Duncan Dhu offered, as a reward, as much
gold as she could contain in her two hands. The gold,
however, having been delivered in a melted state, the
recompense proved perfectly suitable to the service.
SHAKER SOCIETIES.—It appears from a statement in
the Salem Gazette, that this singular people are rapidly
increasing in the United States. They have already
16 different societies in the following States, viz. New
York, 2 ; at Lebanon and Watervlict, about 800 mem-
bers ; Massachusetts, 4 ; at Hancock, Tyringham, Har-
vard, and Shirley, about 750 members; Connecticut, 1 ;
at Enfield, 200; New Hampshire, 2; at Enfield and
Canterbury, 400; Maine, 2 ; at Alfred and New Glou-
cester, 350 ; Ohio, 2 ; at Union Village and Watervlict,
700 ; Kentucky, 2 ; at Pleasant-hill and South Union,
900; Indiana, at West Union, 200' members ; making
in the whole about 4,300 persons. The first society
was established at New Lelianon in this State, about
two miles from Lebanon Springs, now one of the most
fashionable resorts for pleasure in our country.
A fine largesized elephant, belonging to Womb-
well's celebrated collection of wild beasts, died at Bough-
ton-Green Fair, on Friday se'nnight. It was 53 years
of age, and cost the proprietor one thousand guineas.
It had been exhibited the day before, and appeared as
well in health as usual. From the situation in which
the ponderous animal was found lying, it is supposed to
have been suffocated by getting its trunk entangled be-
tween its fore legs, and from being unable to estimate
itself in its confined, situation without assistance.
A respectable farmer, residing in the neighbourhood
of Seaton, a tenant of the Right Hon. Lord RoLca, is
the head of a family of eleven children, eighty grand
children, and seven great grand children, who, with
himself and wife, form a family of 100 persons. This
Patriarch is about 70 years of age.
Saturday last an Inquest was held at Billinghay,
Lincolnshire, by C. MASTIN, Gent. Coroner, on the body
of the Rev. William John Turner Broadbent, curate of
the above place, who died in a fit of ap plexy. Vcr-
d ct—Died by Me visitation of GOD.

----"TPORthiaiiiTELLIGENCE.

BETTING-ROOM, TATTJZRSALL'S, JULY 12.
There was not any attendance at the Rooms to-day, in conse-
quence of the absence of the leading betting men at Newmarket.
Since our last report, and up to this morning, some brisk bet-
ting has taken place at the different sporting houses on the July
Stakes, run for to-day (Monday), and the Preston Gold Cup, atd
which:lifers very little from the odds at Newmarket up to Sunday
evening :

JULY MIMS.
7to 4 agst Lord Jersey's colt 156t0 I apt Mr. Wilson's eta
7 to 4 apt Coquette I 5i to I agst Lord Exeter's

PILISTOII GOLD LUP.
7to 4 agst Figaro I 4to 1 agst Negociator

DONCASTER IT. LlGta.
Nothing of any consequence has been done on this Stakes.

NEWMARKET—Sumter, Jute 11.
We do not recollect a July Meeting protni3e to be better at-
tended than the one which commences tu-mortow. The propi:ii.us
state of the weather, the company already assembled, and the ar-
rangements in town for expected visitors, all combine to colifirtri
our anticipations. It is well known to the sporting world, that this
Meeting does not abourokwitt much t unoing, of 4 in otlwr words,
there are not so many different stakes or days' sport, as either at
the Craven, Spring, or October Meeting, yet it is looked up to
with the most lively interest, not only by the breeder, trainer, and
jockey, but by speculators on the Turf, from the very highest to
the lowest degree. In the event of the July Stakes, which comes
to an issue to-morrow, depends the future opinions on the perform-
ances and capability of many of the two-year-old colts and fillies en-
gaged in the Derby and Oak Stakes, at Epsom, next year, who
will now make their first appearance its public running, and thus
enable adventurers in racing to open their new books for engage-
ments on those Stakes, as their judgment may direct.
The Heath exhibited a scene of greater gaiety than we recollect
for some time; it was litetally crowded with females elegantly
dressed, as well as persons of every description, to view the horses
taking their exercise, nearly two hundred of which were out, and
appeared in good health.

At a quarter before five o'clock his Royal Highness the Duke of
York arrived at his Majesty's Palace, and the bells soon after struck
up a merry peal to greet him. Among the other visitors we no-
ticed his Grace the Duke of Grafton, the Duke of Rutland, Lord
Sefton, Lord G. H. Cavendish, Lord Egremont, Lord Strasibroke,
Lord Dunwich, Lord Jersey, Lord Verulam, &c. &c. and the Duke
of Portland, Marquis of Exeter, Marquis of Tavistock, and nume-
rous other Noblemen and Gentlemen are expected hourly to arrive
NEWMARKET JULY MEETING, 1824.
MONDAY, JULY 12.
Mr. %Vanity's Gironette, Sat. 71b. beat Mr. Prendergast's f. by
Soothsayer, Rst.llb. T.Y.C. 100, b. ft.—Two tit lon Girouette.
The first year of a renewal of the July Stakes of 55 soy. each, 30 ft.
colts. Bst. 61b. and fillies, Bst. alb. the New T. Y.C.
Lord Exeter's b. e. Itedgausitlet
Duke of Grafton's ch. f. Gavot

Lord Jersey's e. by Phantom.
Ten started, and nine paid forfeit. The Judge placed two.
Ten to 1 apt Redgauntlet-2 to 1 agst Gavot-7 to 4 apt Lord

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Jersey's colt.
Lord Orford's Addy beat Colonel Wilson's c. by Partisan, est.
each, T.Y.C. 100 sov.—Five to 4 on Addy.
Mr. Moinny's Cinder, Bst. 21b. beat Colonel Wilson's f. by Sooth-
sayer, 7st. 71b. D.M. 100, h. ft.—Five to 4 on Cinder.

TENBU RY RACES.
THURSDAY, JULY 8.
The Maiden Plate of SOL was won in three heats, by Mr. Catoe's
b. g. by Master Richard, beating Mr. Stevens's ch. 1. by I'an, and
three others ; Pan f. won the first heat, and would most probably
have won the others, but after the first heat she fell lame.

The Hunters' Sweepstakes of sgs. each, was won in two heats
by Mr. Pickerill's Silvanus, beating Mr. 13enhow's Trooper.
A Sweepstakes of 5 sov. each, 10 added, was won by Mr. L.
Charlton's Neuter, in three heats, beating Mr. Patric's Actress and
another; Actreu won the first heat.
CARLOW RACES,

These Races commenced on Thursday last, when the meeting
was most numerous and respectable. The Earl of Aldborougb, Sir
D. St. Leger Hill, Bart. and some of the mosjistinguished
amougst the Gentry of the county, were on the Course%
The first race terminated by the bolting of one of lhe taco horses
that started for the Cup, which was in consequence-won bra re-
spectable farmer named Kinsela.
The second race, for .£5O, was admirably contested. Three horses
ran. Alr. Irwin's Pegasus was first of two heats. The day's racing
closed at five o'clock in the afternoon.

A GRAND DAY'S PLAY FOR SHOTS.

The Red Home inclosure, in Battersea-fields, was the scene of
much attraction on Saturday, and all the great shots from Lords
to Commoners were there. The greatest match was for the An-
nual Gold Medal, by members of the Old Hats Club. This was
the fourth Meeting, at 61 birds each. Captain Ross was one ahead
of Lord Pollington, on the last day's shooting ; and on Saturday, at
the finish, the numbers killed were as follow, at 21 yards from the
trap, and a boundary of 60 yards for the bird to fall :
WILIAM
Lord Pollington 12 from 16
Captain Rciss 10 16
Mr. Steed 11 15
Mr. Buchannan 10 15
Lord F. Beauclerk 8 15
In the general match it was a tie between Lord Pollington and
Captain Ross, and in ikooting it off the Captain missed his first
bird. Lord Pollington killed and won the match. Lord Polling.
ton killed 36 birds from 40 in the last three days' shooting.
Mr. Beaumont gave Mr. Roberts three dead birds from eleven
for 50 sovereigns. Mr. Beaumont killed nine, and won ; Mr. Ro-
berts lost without shooting the match out.
Colonel Charity shot Mr. M'Taggart, 100 to 80, at 16 birds each.
The latter won by killing 11 birds.
Lord Frederick Beauclerk beat Colonel Charity in another
match, by killing two birds from three.
The Stare front Dover to London.—After a fottnight's training,
Mr. G. Webb, the pedestrian, started a short distance from Dover
at six o'clock on Sunday afternoon to go to Fleet Market, seventy
miles, in fifteen hours, for 200 sovereigns. lie reached his desti-
nation in ten minutes within the given time (nine o'clock.) He was
attended by Messrs. Hardy and Lee, in a post-chaise, as umpires.

KILLED.
Mr. Harrington 8 from IS
Mr. atbaldeston 7 15
Mr. Bryan 7 15
Mr. Snell 5 12

Lord GEORGE SEYMOUR, Chairman of the Board of
Excise, London, arrived at Glasgow from Ireland on Monday se'n-
night. His Lordship is busy in examining the mode of conducting
the Excise business, and visiting the principal distilleries and
breweries, to see if there can be any improvements made in the
mode of surveying, and to report accordingly.
Sir JOHN Fottnes, Bart. of Craigievar, arrived at Fin•
tray House on the 2d instant. Having recently succeeded to the
honours and estates of the family, and been absent from this corn*
try, in the Honourable Company's service, for upwards of twenty
years, he was received by his tenantry with those marks of attach-
' ment and respect which could not fail to prove highly gratifying to
his feelings.
HATTON- GA ILDIM.--TH RIZ GILACIIS.—Mrs.- Parker, the noto-
rlously respectable proprietor of No. 11, Tunbridge-street, New
Road, was brought up in the custody of Read, junior, charged
with assaulting Miss Louisa Clementine Manners, a fair Cyprian,
who boarded and lodged with her. bliss Louisa Clementine
stated, that a few evenings ago her two sisters (who have esta-
blished themselves in different quarters in the same honourable
avocation) called upon her at the seasonable and early hour of one
in tke morning, on their return from Vauxhall, bringing with them
chickens, ducks, veal cutlets, lobsters, and claret to mull, with va-
rious other agreeable presentations for the supper table. Mrs.
Parker, however, was so disappointed in not finding the visitors
accompanied by gentlemen, that she refused to give any assistance
in the culinary department ; she even refused to allow them the
common apparatus for cooking. They were endeavouring to get
up a little " nic nac" for themselves, when Mrs.:Parker entered
the room and disturbed their conviviality
by tearing a fowl in pieces,
even to the destruction of the " merry-thought," and bela-
boured her and her sisters with the mutilated joints.—Mrs. Parker,
in her defence, stated, that she certainly refused to cook for
the " Graces," as they were so much " disguised" is liquor, that
she conceived a little repose would be more useful. On entering
their apartment to " demonstrate' with them on the subject,
Miss Clementine seized a fowl that was roasting, swore that she'd
make her look handsomer than the " Lady In the Lobster,"
and rubbed her face all over with the dripping. She then ran
down stairs to call the watchmen, when stumbling over a bottle of
wine, she certainly seized Miss Clementine by the calf of the leg, as
being the firmest support she could find. This was the only assault
which could be urged against her.—The Magistrate, though he did
• not object to this mode of self-preservation, yet on hearing-from the
watchmen a general character of the house, ordered the defendant
to find bail for her appearance, to explain the principles of her
domestic economy.

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