Star.
London, England, 1814-03-10 00:00:00

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nutty ',Aim Tim/am—The performances at
this House last night were highly worthy of the ap-
probation of the musical world. The Mount of Olives
was repeated for the fourth time. The opening Re-
citative and Air were finely executed by Mr. NNE.
The Air, Tremble ye worlds ! by Mrs. •DicitoNs, and
the succeeding Chorus, are marked by the genuine
stamp or geninc This production of BEETHOVEN
may be heardinOre-than once with increased pleasure.
The Choruses viere executed with such precision and
excellence as to draw forth loud and protracted plau-
dits. . A selection of music followed, in which Mrs.
DicKoNs, Mrs. -BLAND, Mr. 'LEONARD, 'and Mr. C.
SMITH obtained much deserved applause. The first
act of HAYDN'S Creation followed, interspersed with

Readings; by Miss Smrrit, from MIL-roN, who deli-
, vered with admirable effect the lines cf,the illust) i•qis
Bard. It is blit justice to say, that the orchestra was,
throughout, conducted in a manner rarely equalled..
COVENT GARDEN.—The united 'Powers of CATA-
LAN' and BRA. lIAM prove a powerful attraction at this
Theatre ; and to these are added the talents of Mrs.
SALMON and Mr. KELLNER. After ifth and Galatea,
a grand selection was performed. - CATALAN' en-
chanted the audience by her execution of several
airs. BRAIIAM introduced a new song, composed by
BISHOP, the words from SOUTHEY'S Carmen Triumphal:.
In the course of the evening Me. WESLEY delighted
the audience with a new Organ Concerto, which was
rapturously applauded. Madame CATALAN also in-
troduced the simple, but comprehensive melody of
" GOD save the King," during the perfifirmance of
which the audience arose, and offered a general ho.
wage to the recollected virtues of that SOVEREIGN,
Whose mental affliction is deplored in th. sympathy
and sentiments of the good and wise. The House was
well attended.

The intended opposition of riir. YOUNG to Mr.
MEAN, in the character of Richard, reminds the pub-
lic of that between CARRICK and BARRY, which gave
rise to the distich—
" That sparks of genius glow from both we feel, •
°` But, ptitbee, which is flint and which is'steel ?"
In Coams's exhibition of Monday evening, one of
his luckless associates favoured the audience with
a new reaiiitg, which seethe House in a roar for se-
veral minutvs. The Horatio of the night, instead of
e Would I had been abrggar, acid lived on scraps;'
actually' eidaimed
4' Would 1 had been a baler, and lived on sprah ;"
Many a man has visited the Opera House to obtain
, an Heiress ; Mr. WRIGHT, .it seems, went there to
make one.
A persec in Yorkshire lately made his will, and
left his wife £lOO a year, provided she did not marry
o• but if she did,- then 8200 a year. Being
asked Vy the Attorney why he made such an unusual
provision, he answered, " If She dues no better for
her second husband than she has done for me, I am
sure he will have occasion for it."
The Earl and Countess of JERSEY left the Duke of
RUTLAND'S scat, Belvoir Castle, on Monday, on a visit
to Lord and Lady RANCLIFFE, at their seat Bunny
Park, Loughborough.
►SINGULAR ANECDOTES OF A NORTH COUNTRY
CLERGYMAN.--A Clergyman of the name of Math-
' Son, was Minister of Patteesdale, in Westmoreland,
sixty years, and died lately at the age of ninety. Du-
ring the early part of his life his benefice brought him
only twelve pounds a-year ; it was afterwards in-
creased (perhaps by Queers Anne's bounty) to eigh-
teen, winch it never exceeded. On this income he
married, brought up fOur children, and lived comfor-
t tbly with his neig2aborirs, educated a son at the Uni-
versity, and left upwards of one Thousand pounds be-
hind him. With that singular simplicity, and inat-
tention to forms which characterize a country life,
thus he himself read the burial service over his mo-
ther, he married his father to a second wife; and after-
wards buried him also. He published his own banns
of marriage in the church, with a woman' whom he
had formerly christened, add he himself married all
his four children.
The . following acci&nt happened at Lichfield
during the late thaw :—A little boy, venturing on
the ice of a deep pool, it broke ; there were only chil-
dren present, who immediately ran to give the alarm.
Providentially a young man, one of the French priso-
ners, was not tar off, and at the hazard of his own life,
immediately leaped in, and with some difficulty deli-
vered him to a person on the bank. He was, to all
appearance, lifeless; but medical assistance being soon
obtained, he was restored to life. These circumstances
...2re communicated to the Transport Board, in a pe-
tition, signed by the principal Gentlemen of Lichfield,
reonelting that a passport Might be granted to the
hunlane Frenchman, which was immediately com-
plied with.
A young woman named Hunt, servant at a dyer's.
in Carnaby-street, whilst in the act of taking up din-
ner yesterday, set tire to her clothes, and in a mo-
ment was in a blaze. She ran up stairs, when one
of the workmen hurried her into the street, and by
rolling her in the gutter, endeavonred to extinguish
the flames. It was found necessary, however, to tear
off great part of her clothes. She was much burnt
before this could be accomplished, and v6' taken to
Middlesex Hospital ; but the is not supposed to be in
any danger.
Two persons who were taken drunk and disorderly
into Mary-la-Bonne watch-house, on Saturday even-
ing, were found dead on Sunday morning. The one
was an old man, and the other a woman of the WWII.
HOFFING.—A young man of Nottingham, of the
name of Alvey, undertook, for a small wager, on
Tuesday se'nnight, to stand on one foot 21) minutes,
and then, without setting the other foot on the ground,
or touching the leg or foot on which he rested, to hop
one hundred yards at fifty hops.. Though the wager
was small, many bye-bets were pending ; and, in the
afternoon, he went with his friends to the race ground,
to put his strength and agility to the test. He rested
the prescribed time on one foot, and then took off his
coat, waistcoat, and one shoe, resting entirely on,the
slime foot, and sprang off to perform the lasecondi-,
tion of the wager, wfuth be did inforty-two hops. He
then stood on the same foot, and offered,for another
bet, to standtwentq minutes more, without touching
the earth with the raised foot, and go the ground over
again at fifty hops ; but none dired take the offer.


POLICE.. • .
Arrow-GAnnEti.—Ttiesdayeverting,Mllitmlanser
Sirritt) a private soldier, was apprehended by one
of the police officers of the above Office, for stabbing
a man of the name of John Everett, with his bayonet,
In the tap-room of the Cumberland Arms public-
house, Battle-bridge. The weapon penetrated through
two coats, two waistcoats, and his shirt, and wounded
him in the side, the point • of it coming against the
ribs. He is now in Coldbath-fields prison, to be
brought up for examination.
Mary Ann .Appleby was brought up yesterday, by
John Barnesby, constable of Saffron-hill, charged
with obtaining goods of various trades-people, in the
neighbourhood of Hatton-Garden, in the name of
Mr. Hornidge, of 84, in that street, with whom she
had lived as cook. She was fully committed.
.UNION HALL—ColemanKelly was yesterday brought
13:!fore Mr. E VANCE, the Sitting Magistrate, charged
by one of the parish-officers of Bermondsey, with hav-
ing deserted his two infant children. The prisoner,
it appeared, had most unfeelingly left them unpro-
tected in the street, where they remained exposed to
the inclemency of the weather till some of the neigh-
bours, in compassion, took them in and fed them,,
and then conveyed them to the workhouse, where
they had since remained. The officers of the parish
having found out where the prisoner worked, pro-
cured a warrant and took him into custody. On in-
quiry it appeared that he had earned no less than
thirty-eight shillin4s during the last week. Ile was
committed to the Sessions for want of

MANSION HOUSE.—Alderman Aricims yesterday
preferred a, complaint against a butcher's boy named
Gibbs, charging him with a nuisance under the fol-
lowing circumstances. The Worthy Alderman said
he had been met by the prisoner who was carrying
a tray on .his shoulder, and walking on the pavement,
and it was with the greatest difficulty he avoided
having the corner of the tray in his eye, although
he turned off the pavement to avoid it, and he did
in tact receive a severe blow with it on his shoulder.
Having frequently seen instances in which the public
had been much inconvenienced by this practice ex-
isting generally amongst butchers, he was determined
to take legal.advice, how far in future sach a nui-
sance might be prevented, and it was with that view,
and with no desire to, have him punished, lie now
brought Gibbs before his Lordship. He had no
other object in this but public convenience, which
would appear more- plainly when he stated that
Gibbs was in the employ of his own butcher (Mr.
Day), and that the meat he was carrying was • hat
which he (Alderman Atkins) expected to partake
of for his own dinner.

The Logo MAvoit said, the question of nuisance
was certainly one of a legal nature, on which he could
now give no opininn.
The Worthy Alderman said he was aware of that,
but lie begged to give notice to Mr. Day, that he
should take legal advice cn the subject.
Punishment not being pressed for against the pri-
soner, the Lord Mayor reprimanded him fur his
carelessness, and dismissed him.
Mr. DottsFoan, Common Councilman, exhibited
a complaint against his apprentice. The defendant,
who is an out-door apprentice, it appeared, had of
late incurred his master's displeasure, and had
in consequence withheld himself from his duties.
MI. Dr. sent to his lodgings, to acquaint him, if he
did not come to his business, lie should he under the

necessity of sending an officer for him. This offended
the young man's dignity, and he returned for an-
swer, that if any man attempted to • take him into
custody, he would blow his brains ;alt. He however
promised to call on Mr. 1). ; and on Tuesday did so;
when Mr. D. remonstrated with him on his mi ,con-
duct, and told him, if he again absented himself from
his duties, be should send a warrant lait:r him. The
defendant again repeated, that any man who attempted
to lay hold of him. should receive the contents (la pistol
Mr. D. irritated at this language, rejoined—" I will
take hold of you, then." Upon which the defendant
drew from his breast a pistol, and presented it at his
master. Mr. D. however, seized the weapon, and
secured the offender. On examination, the pistol was
fourd to be loaded with four slugs, blot not primed or
cocked. Mr. D. expressed a wish that the young man
should be severely reprimanded for his conduct; but
said, he had no desire to treat hie' with hat shness.—
The LORD Mavott lectured him in a becoming man-
ner, and directed that he should be taken befo:e the
Chamberlain as a refractory apprentice.
PUBLIC OFFICE, Bow-Slats: '.--Yesterday an invest'
tigation of the extensive robbery to the amount of
teveral hundred pounds, at Mr. Miles's bed-furniture
'warehouse, in Holborn, took place at the above
Office before Mr. MARES. The robbery was disco-
vere:.l by some of Mr. Miles's furniture being seen to
be disposed of in the Minories, in a public shop
there, since which time _ a number of persons have
been discovered to have been concerned in receiving
the stolen property. Since former examination, strong
suspicion being entertained that part of the stolen
property was in a house in Shoemaker.row, Aldgate,
kept by a Mal. 4aron, a search warrant was obtained
from the LORD MAYOR, when two bundles of muslin,
the property of Mr. Miles, were found there, which
were identified to be the property of Mr. Miles, the
City-officers seized it, and they were about to take
Mrs. Aaron into custody, when a young woman who
was present, who said her name was Moore, and that
she was the daughter-in-law of Mrs. Aaron, claimed
the muslin as her property, which induced the offi-
cers to determine on taking them.both into custody.
On searching Mrs. Aaron they found on her person,
wrapped up in an old stocking, a Bank OT England
note for 4100, and small Bank of England notes to
the amount of £lOO, also between sixty and severity
guineas. The officers took both the women before
the LORD MAYOR, when Ins Lordship was pleased
to order them both to the above office, the investiga-
tion having commenced there.
Yesterday the son of Mrs. Aaron attended during
the examination, and claimed the Bank notes and the
guineas found upon Mrs'. Aaron, as his property ;
but as he could not account,satisfactorily how he
came into possession of 'the £lOO note, the cash and
notes were ordered to be detained for the present.
—There was also_a ,large quantity of broad cloths
found in the possession of Mrs. Aaron. She said she
purchased the muslkis Patrick O'Neale, who has
been in custody some time for this offence.
Mrs. Aarorr was committed for 'further examina-
tion. Her daughter-in-law was liberated on two
friends becoming answerable for her appearance.

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. DIVIDWDS to be midi at GUILDHALL.
March 29, James Monteith and James Sequeira, draceehurch-
street, druggists, at alenten. April 16, Daniel Goodall and Tho-
mas Wilkinsots,Paterna.ster-row, crape-manufacturers, at eleven.
April 9, Alexander Ileslop and Joseph Sadler, Bow-lane, ware-
housemen, at eleven. April 9, John Louis Martell, of Lower'
Thames-street, merchant, at ten. April 5, James M‘Callum, of
Chtistopher-street, Finsbury square, merchant, at twelve. larch
29, Edward Adams, of Whitcombe-street, bit-maker, at twelve. •
March 29, Benjamin Lewen, of Bishoocgate-stree-, jewelle-, at
twelve. March 29, Joseph Nelson and Francis Atiderion Sturge
Bow-lane, warehousemen, at ten. April 2, James Warren, Cog-
gisball, Essex, draper, at twelve. March 29, Gco: ge Burch, Swan
Tavern, near Battei sea Bridge, victualer, at ten. Mardi
Wm. Birch and Charles Lucas Birch, Great Queen-street, coach
makers, at twelve. April 9, Samuel Nolbrow, Bishop,rat.—street,
mariner, at eleven. March 29, lotepli Mears, Fench:Jrch -build-
lags, merchant, at twelve. h1.1.-ch 15, Was. Fawcett,: Criluscott-
street, Bermondsey, carpenter, at twelve. March 29, Thomas
Baker, Rochester, draper, at ten. April 2, Samuel Coekburn
High•street, St. Mary-la-Bonne, merchant, at twelve. March 29'
Thomas Grainger, Long Acre, brass-founder, at ten. March 29'
Wm. Austin, Ellis-street, Chelsea, bricklayer, at twelve. March
29, James Linnell, Streatham-street, Bloomsbury, carver and
gilder, at twelve. April 2, John Daniel (lose, junior, Walbrook,
merchant, at twelve. March 29, Win. Armstrong, %Vappipg,
ahip-chandler, at twelve. April 5, Cornelius Charlton, East Far-
leigli, Kent, yeoman, at ten.