Star.
London, England, 1815-12-23 00:00:00

DECEMBER IS.

The Quars has taken various excdrsions in the
6ighbourflood, and expressed herself dAighted with
the bold and magnificent seen ry of this coast.
Several of the towns-people have had the honour of
waiting on her MAJESTY* who has freely purchased
of them articles in their respective tioes of business.
The QUEEN and the PUINCESSES left us tor Wilidsor,
precisely at nine o'clock yesterday m,:rning. The
Countess of Hastancorom. MAdline BreIICENV,RFFe,
Miss Rice, and Colonel DESBROWE, formed the suite
of her MAISICTY.
We are assured, from the first authority, that the
Qurrn will rem.", her visit on or about the 6,11 of
bnuary ; asrd that. the Pn/Nctas Cumwirrs oz
WA...Es will return with her M.4JEsTY.

We shall also possess the Duke ot NVELIANOTOK,
whom our generous PRINCE leas invited to partake t.f
the noble hospitalities Or the Pavilion.
Her MAJE., I v, previous to he; deparvire, gave £5O
to the poor ot the parish, an.l BI(1 to the 1) Ilar
Snciety.—The PRINCE SFS, ulso, piesented sea each
to bltli of the above.oltets. ' •
Tfie .I)CICH AMBASsAOIII. t. is Arnong•nur lateit
ar-
rivals ; so that we hie now. the 'representatives of
neatly *AI the Sovereigns ot Eirope in thus town.
The Marquis and Marchi-iness of SALIAURY leave
us this day for their seat at Hatfield. Vi,couni CitAN-
BoultNC will set off to-mutrow for the same
nation.

S

FUNERAL OF HIS GRACE THE DU
OF NORFOLK.

The wholeof the attendants to the funeral of the
late lamented Duke, assembled at Norkik Flimsy, St.
James's square, at lialf.past .eireu o'clock this morn-
ing. The cavalcade moved soli' after eight, in ,ader
to be at Dorking by lout, when the funeral cetenioni
id to take place immediately. The body Will be de-
posited in the same vault where his fatht.rand his flint
Duchess lie. The following was the order of lito-
Cession :
Two Mutes oti horseback. with staves sad draws.
State Plume,. supported by 'lime Pages.
Eight Horst Men. pi COMORO atirementa. •
State Horse,
With Principal Servant of the Houseliold bearing the ercieri.
and Cit4ton, led by Two Pages.
Hearse and sia Horses.
• Fla Mourning Coaches and Sit.
Family Carriage, with three Servants in Crape; and numerals
Carriages of the Vect.a.rd's Friends.
HP. COFFIN, •
Coirered with rich crimson silk Gent's velvet, with handsome
gilt and burnished orn:ment% and rich magolve handles, sail
the plates entraved with the fall arms and supporters.

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THE INSCR I P
" Depmitum
lorincipis
CAROLI HOWARD Ducit de NORIOLK,
Cosuith Marischalli Anghia,
Jure bereditario;
Comitii iterum de Arundel tt Surrey,
Baron!" de Fitz-Alko, Maltravers,
Clun, et Osaraidestre, &e. ice. . •
Qui Diem Oblit Supremum,
Die XVI. Decemkria, 'Anne q s iacro M,OCCC,XV.
Annum Agetis uagesimuni.
Among the Private carriages .we noticed those of
Lady PETRIt. Countess FALCONBILIiOO Earl of HAlt•
KINOTOI4. Sir GILBCRT BLANit his Grace's Physician,
and his Grace's private carri.ige.

The newly-married Mr. and Lady Cram:orris
Hovratab are now Earl and Countess of SURREY..
Yesterday morning a young man, lately arrived
it= France, having seated himself •in a chair to
breakfast at his lodgings in Green's•court, L the
Pulteney-street, Golden-square, suddenly drtspped
down and expired on the spot, without ,previously
complaining of any illness.
Thursday se'nnight, a servant maid of Maidstone,
attempting to•reach something f i otn a cupboard over
the fire-place, incautiously put her kocon cite tender
to accomplish 114 purpose (in,tead.of a chair), when
her clothes-instantly caught fire, which S.; al Armed the
poor girl thatlnSte id oh atttisipting to extinguish the
flame, she ran halt trantie ,nto the stteet, re-isting the
humane attempt if a neighbour to stop-her progress
—her speed naturally proved destructive, :for in an
it 'she was enveloped in a complete blaze, and
her clothes literally .all burnt.ott-leaving her in a
most agonizing situation, in which she now lies with
very faint hopes of recovery.
As Captain Tonsiesos, of the Cistns, Newcastle
trader, and two of his brother Captains, were pro.
seeding on board their vessels in a sculler, about n•ne
o'clock on Thursday evening, one of the Captains
Suddenly started up to'prevent a barge running foul
them, when, by reason of his leaning too union on
one side, and the tide running very among, the scut-
ler upset, aid the whole were plunged into the River.
The tonsequence was, that Captain TIIMeIPeON and
another were drowned; but the other Captain and
the scullerman by a miracle were saved. The Captain
and scullermati %etre driven by the tide near to a boat,
When a person who was in it, seeing a hand above
water, instantly caught-holl of it, and drew the per-
son into his boat, who proved to be the Captain of
the Dorothy-, and to his great surprise the scullerman
had clung fast to his leg. The body of Capt. Tonsil..
sort has been found, and taken on shore, but we d o not
learn that the other Captain has yet been found.
ROBElRY.—Thursday night, about 11 o'clock, a
young man of the name of DaNnv, who for the last
nine months has lived at Dieppe, in the capacity of
waiter, and who has recently arrived in this country,
WAS stopped near Brighton, by three men, who robbed

the was of noble w 45 -- -
bravely fought in him of all his money, consisting of l L gold Napoleons,
received several and ,ES in notes. The ruffians, not satisfied with laflict-
'aris he had been ing this 'injury, knocked him down with bludgeons.
than £5OOO. He and kicked him about the body in the most brutal
ton, in the hope of manna, after which, they tied his legs, and threw
Townsend him on a dunghill, leaving him for dead. It was some
of him, fearing his time before the unfortunate man sufficiently recovered
Aeration, and con- to kown the cords from his feet, when he succeeded
Alien Office. yin gaining the road. He remains dangerously ill.

' TO THE SPIRIT OF A DEPARTED
PARENT. .•

eplift of her I still revere,
Thrugs but by name I know;
Bost thou with anxious eyes survey,
Thy children's course below ?
Hut thou through life my footsteps waded,
And bless'd, with grateful pride,
Thu Friend who with a mother's are
A mother's loss supplied ?
And dose thou et:lbl joys resign
'this ►orm awhile to see ?
Oh, happier than tby mortal chit,
Who can hut piettue thee !
Blest elude ! a guardian angel still,
Our wayward thoughts coon-out;
So may we never blast thy hopes,
Or grieve thy sainted soul!
One child has reach'd thy bright abode,
May we as worthy prove.
And gracious Heaven receive and bless,
A Family of Love!

F. D. C.

BRITISH *No Fortreax BIBLB Soctwoe.—Tuesday,
the sth inst. the Earl of Ltveatexte presided at the
second Ann.versarr of the Cinque Ports Auxiliary
Bible Society, (in Dover) of which his Lordship is
the President. On taking ,the Chair, the Noble Earl
adverted to the dignified stake to ‘vhich, under the
superintendance of Dwiee Psovtomeee, this nation
had been raised in the estimation of Eurnl'e ; which
rendered it important for us to justify this goad opi-
nion, by shewing that Britain, great in arts and arms.
vas by the tone of her moral feeling, juttly entitled to
the pre-eminence she had so happily attained. It be-
came our first duty to spread the benign i•Oluence of
Christianity, the anowledge of pure religion, to the
utmost bounds of the earth. Ills Lordship remarked,
that this Society had its origin at a period of na-
tional calamity, when the bonds of civilized society
were nearly burst asunder ; and we should demon.
straw that now, when.prosperity was smiling on us
itli her choicest favours, We would not relax from
aur exertions, but with increased ardour determine,
that, in prosperity fir adversity, we would persevere,
till the whole world was illumined with the light of
poen( :.iiion.--On receiving the thanks of the
Mecitiig, his Lordship entered more particuldrli into
the nature and merits of the Institution. As A Mem-
bt r of the Established Church, from education and
habt, out so from. consideration and conviction.
he Wis p irly desirous of promoting. its inte.
sts to ffe utmos. of nis Ability ; under this impres.
moo, e had ria ently aepeared, on a public oceasi,n,
as a supporter of the Society for Promoting Chris i in
Knowledge. He was anxious to extend the interests
and advantages of that Institution ; but he saw no
reason why he should not at the same time afford the
British and Foreign Bible Society every assistance in
his power, and evince an equal anxiety to promote its
`success. The objects of the two Societies were one,
that of dispersing the uncorrupted Word of Goo :
and as the means in each were pure, he should always
Consider it an honour to aid them, or any other So-
ciety, which had the same object in view, and was lA.
bouring to effect the same end—the dissemination of
Christianity over the habitable globe. His Lordship
was a friend to the Bible Society, because it could
operate where, from national custom, or the preva.
knee of different sentiments, the Society for Promo-
ting Christian Knowledge would not obtain a4mis-
sine. The universality of the object proposed by the
British and Foreign Bible Society, and its tendency
to unite all Christians; however divided on subjects of
minor concern, in the bonds orChristian sympathy
and benevolence, gave it, in his Lordship's mind, a
powerful claim to universal support. The Noble
Earl concluded a speech of great energy, liberality,
and decision, by stating, that in accepting the office
of President, he had considered that he was perfor-
ating an act of duty ; and if his influence had had the
happy effect of benefiting the Ibstitution, his end was
fully answered ; and he should feel it his duty to
persevere the zealous friend of the British and Fo-
reign Bible Society as long as lie existed.—On quit-
ting the Chair, his Lords -hip presented the Society
with a second donation of £5O.
SCHOOLMASTER'S SOClETY.—Yesterday a very nu-
merous and respectable Meeting of the Benefactors
of this excellent Institution dined at the Crown and
Anchor Tavern, the Duke of Krer in the Chair.
After dinner, 46 The King"—sec the Prince Regent"
..0.66 the Queen"—and 66 the Royal Family," were
toasted with the warmest demonstrations of respect
and regard.
The CHAIRMAN, in describing the object of the
institution, impressively enforced the duty of all
orders of Society so promote its success. For what,
he asked, was man without education and surely
those who gave that education ought at least to be
protected from the calamities IA want. The proles..
sion of a School-master was that which perhaps was
productive of most utility to the public and least
beneficial to the professor : for he had to struggle
against obstinacy ant 3 ignorance, without any mate-
rial prospect of fortune or of fame. He had to op.
pose every species of ill-temper, while he ought to
preserve his own: and he was sore that all who hem d
him, would agree, that discipline wits best preserved
by the least possible infliction of punishment, which
eras the characteristic of English teachers. The
.public then had a debt of gratitude to discharge to-
wards those Gentlemen, and it was pecpliarly incum-
bent upon that public to pro Ade that its great bene-
factors should not, under the pressure of age and
infirmity, be deprived of the comforts of life.—
(Hear, hear).—His Royal Highness concluded with
ProPosin4"."." Success to the Society of School.mas-
Teri, instituted for the Benefit of their Vs'idows and
Orphans, and also for the general Relief of distressed
Members of the Profession," which was drank with
acclamation.

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After some excellent songs by Messrs. Dignum,
Broadhurst, and Lefts the health of the Lord
Mayor, and prosperity to the City of London."
His LORISIIIP rtturned thanks, and pleaded
strongly in favour of the Institution, which lip pledg-
ed himself to support by all the means in his power.
Ile was, indeed, always an advocate for the educa.
lion of the people, and, of course he must wish to
have those who taught adequately rewarded.—
Therefore he would support the grant of £5OO from
tias Corporation of London to the National lastitu-1

tion, and he raped that the beerahty of t'te torpora-
tion would also be extended to the object of this lairs
dable Society's.
Upon the health of the Sheriffs being drank,
Mr. Slwriff.Bux returned thanks in -glowing lan-
guage. He expressed his wish and hope that those
meritorious Gentlemen, who, by the communication
of knowledge, laid the foundation of the fortune of
others, while they had no opportunity whatever,
from the inadequacy of their remnneration, to pro-
vide any fortune for themselves, should at least be
preserved from absolute want. Such being the oh.
jeet of this Institution, it should ever have his cor-
dial support, and he concurred with his worthy
Friend, the Lord Mayor, that the Corporation of
London would liberally lend its aid to support th.:
Institution.--011 the health of the Committee,
Mr. Russet:L, as the Chairman of the Committee
of the Institution, addressed the Meeting, and ex-
pressed a wish, that in order to augment the
funds of the Society, one-third of the pocket-money
usually allowed.to pupils should be appropriated to
its support. He did not apprehend that the pupils
would have any objection to such an appropriation,
for the pupils were generally rational Nip, if their
parents were rational also.--(hear, hear.)
The Duke of Kim., in pieposing the health of
the Duke of Cambri.fge, the Patron of the Institu-
tion, reported 'a. communication from his Royal
Brother, expressive or thi most cordial wish fur
the success of the Society, and his determination,
if possible, to attend t;a: twat Anniversary.
The order to facilitate the attendance of the Lord
Mayor, Alderman Hcygate, and other City Oili-
cers, who ate obliged to attend in their several
Wards on St. Thomas's Day, the next Meeting of
the Society was appointed for the 20th of December,
especially in consequence of the appointment of those
Gentlemen as Presidents of the next Meeting.
On .he retirement of the Duke of Kent, Mr. ling-
sell was called to the Chair, and the Meeting, which
was marked with peculiar conviviality, broke up
about eleven o'clock.

The Subscriptions were, we were happy to see, ex-
tremely liberal, and among them was the sum of
£5O from the Pitt Club.

The spew of Chriamiu in Covent Garden k less
this year than o'er was remembered at the same pe-
riod. in consequence of which the 66 Kin
Milne+ has risen at least 20 per cent. in the ratan.-
don of the lair expecting purchaser.
The Norfolk coaches arrived in town yesterday,
without a single passenger, all of thorn being heavily
laden, both inside and out, with Norwich turkeys, and
game of every kind, from that sporting county.
The chew or aninial food yesterday morning at
Lead-nhall market, was uncpmmonly large, and 50!..1
at nearly 30 per cent. under the prices of last year ;
poultry of every description was plentiful, and eqtMlly
reasonable.

A Gentleman in the neighbourhood of Ongar,
Essex, who is somewhat curious in his hume-m ide
winesi had reserved a cask of rather superior quality,
intending to tap it at Christmas; and anticipating the
day, he often looked at it with a pleasing anxiety for
the coming time. Passing the cask the other day, he
gave it a tap. when to his great surprise, h. rpewived
a Aollew reply ; and on examination the wine was
gone I It was soon discovered that the cask had been
tapped by a rat, and the contents drawn oft After
receiving the droppings from the small bole first
made, Mr. Rat had, on finding the wine better at the
last than at the beginning, and not being supplieJ
with a titter, increased the aperture sufficiently to get
in and finish his undertaking, which was done in a
very complete manner. The cask contained twelve
gallons.
The rival Theatres are both getting up their Christ.
mas Pantomimes in great style. The scenery.on that
at Covent Garden is chiefly laid in China ; that at
New Drury in England. The former is under the
direction of FInLEY, and the latter of Diamm.—
Each of these performances is to be preceded by the
disgusting Play of George Barnwell, than which, with
the exception of The Orphan, no theatrical exhibition
can be more at variance with correct feeling.
Plum Pudding and Pantomime, Mince Pie: and
Grand Fairy Tales, are to be alternately in vogue, we
presume, at the ensuing Holidays, as all the Theatres
have announced nightly preparations for the public
gratification. The Cocos is not behind its competi.
tots, and report speaks favourably of the noveltieis to
be produced on Tuesday and the following Evenings
of the Week.

ELLISTON, in addition to his other Theatrical spe-
culations. has taken the Worcester 'fht,itre, which
he ppened with • his own performance iof the Three
Single: in Three and Ilse Deuce. His three principal
pertormera are Mr. and Mrs. JOHN littuNTom, and
their charming daughter.
Qum-swam--Yesterday Efizahrils Gore was
charged with committing a most violent assault on
Mr. Nathaniel Lienes of St. Jamees-strect. Mr.
Lienes stated, that the prisoner was his servant : that
on Wednesday night. when he had company, she ab-
sented berselt against his come 1.-; next morning he
was going to dress, in order o wait on his Royal
le Highness the Duke of Kent. happened to go into
1/1
the kitchen in his shirt sleeve , when he met her : he
remonstrated with her about the impropriety of her
conduct, when she turned to, a la Belcher, seizing him
by the collar, and striking him about the body in a
most desperate manner, until Mrs. L. came to his as-
sistance, whom she served in like manner ; at last. lie
got himself extricated, but not before she tore all his
linen into pieces, with such power, that he believed
all the brewers' men in London could not secure her.
The prisoner admitted this fact, but said that he first
assaulted And kicked her.—Ordered to find bail.
GANG OF FORZIGN Tutivas.—Yesterday J. ilitlal-
Ash and Mumma &ramp two Lacers, underwent a
second examination at the Mansion-house, charged
with being concerned with a gang of their country.
men to plundering various jewellers shops in the City.
A number of persons identified the prisoners. Not
an article of their plunder has been traced. The Lunn
Maven said, that notwithstanding the failure of
such proot as would enable him to commit the prisn.
ners, he thought the depredations were of too serious
a nature to discharge them, and trusted, that by the
activity of the officers, and the appearance of some
individuals who could bring home a charge of felony
effectually, upon the next examination, the viidiculty
would be removed. The prisoners were theraere re-
manded. , •

This was an action upon a policy of insurance on
the ship Industry, at and from London to Tenerife,
and back again. The loss Was avowed to be by pe.
rils of the era. The facts of. the case went as fol-
low :—On the 7th of July, the Indust: , paisin the
Rock of Lishtm, in her voyage oatwards to the Ca•
naries, w.vs holed, at nine in the eve.i.i.tg, by it Bri-
tish armed neichantman, called the :'.l! las, iI.(X) tons
hurthen. file night was dark, and reither vessel
uld &stinctly see the other, but car imagined of
oiL other that she was about to et,couliter a French
privates r, and Ow Midas made pieparati .ns to receive
the expected boardint; of her supposed enemy The
ICAptain of the liiiisistry, in answer to the hailing of
cit. Midas, told who he was, from whence he came, ,
snot %t hither bound; he repeated this twice, when the
Midas, conceiving it to be a feint, immediately fired
a hl 048S;de of three guns into the Industry, and (von
another discharge of one gun, the latter vessel sunk.
The c:etv, however, had time to get on board the
Midas when the unfortunate mistake was discovered.
The question, under these circumstances, seas, whe•
Cher this was a loss by perils of the sea ? the Attorney
General being to maintain the affirmative side of the
proposition.
Lord EI,LIMBOROIIOII said he had no objection to
allow the question to await the de,:ision of the Court
sitting in Bloc; and for this purpose recommended
that a verdict should be taken by the plaintiff, sub-
ject to a motion by the defendant to enter a nomuit.
Nis own opioian was at present decidedly against the
plaintiff's right to recover. There was no peril of
the sea in this case. If this were a peril of the sea,
it might with equal propriety be said that captive
was a peril of the sea, or that destruction of a ship
by a laud battery was a peril of that description.—
Strictly speaking, peril of the sea was classed only
with marine accidents, such as storms and tempests,
and were perfectly distinct from loss by capture or
the sea blunder which had . occurred in this case.
This wal not like the case of one ship !whirr driven
against another by the violence of the sea, by which
destruction to the other ship was produced. It was,
in t.liort, nothing more than a sea blunder.
Verdict for the plaintiff, subject to a motion to en•
ter a nonsolit.

Best Heifers and Steers---&er ,o;(l,nary 0:1 to v. ct,
*tome) -Si al to s. 4.1 Market Call as.
lbtid:lling: 4.1 ttt to Y. tat i•tte I tor -c ti, a.

PRICE oe

I :11.L.OVV:

St. James's Market 4s Od l'own 'I Allow it • ~I
I
Clare Market - 04 Od Yellow Itustia 1114. I 1
Whittehapel Markd pIId i White ditto two „1
per stone of alb. .--,-..-- I Soap ditto GU, 0.1
Graves 15s thl--fluo I 11r,•e,, I its Od.

BuPttits,Cst (t)oFsGI s't I 1
35 to 11-'(1".
(• 4011olt!! ! ‘:4
Ditto, 5' o 66tha 24ft •21,1 Ditto LO to 1011), t 4
Merchant. Backs 114,1 tO,I, Ditto 70 to toilbs 2uti .z,„l
Dtessio3 I Bch., l cal 17 d Small Seals Greenland ;
Fisie-C..ach Hides 17itt Jtl d I.arge ',qt.., per do_ 13 , Leq.

COAL M AKA F. l', Ilk.Ct Al Utl-t-7.1:"
Ships at Markel. Slily !'oll l'nee.
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1 Stone Cual 0 00% 01 to toe.

bent upon that public to proVide that its great bene. mien Into pieces, with such power, that
**cons should not, under the pressure of age and all die brewers' men in London could not
.. Infirmity, be deprived of the comforts of life, rhe prisoner admitted this tact, but. said 1
1 (Hoar, hear).—His Royal Highness concluded with assaulted And kicked her.—Ordered to fin
1 proposing...." Success to the Society of Schoohnias. GANG or Forman Tutivas.—Yesterda
41
il S and Meri, instituted for the Benefit of their Widows and LA ___NININO Serino MO LitliCath u
Orphans, and also for the general Relief of distressed second examination at the Mansion-howY
Members of the Profession," which was drank with with being concerned with a gang of the
IS acclamation. men to plundering various jewellers shops
LI • After some excellent songs by Messrs. Dignum, • A number of persons identified the prise
74 Broadhurst, and Leet, the health of 44 the Lord an article of their plunder has been traced.
T.l Mayor, and prosperity to the City of London." Maven said, that notwithstanding the
1' . His Loaxisme rtturned thanks, and pleaded such proof as would enable him to commi
strongly in favour of the Institution, which h. pledg. ners, lie thought the depredations were of
V. ' ad himself to support by all the means in his powcr. a nature to discharge their, and trusted, I
Ile was, indeed, always an advocate for the educa. activity of the officers, and the appearani
... lion of the people, and, of course lie must wish to individuals who could bring home a chart
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~. have those who taught adequately rewarded.— effectually, upon the next examination, ti
Therefore he would support the grant of RV* from would be removed. The visorless were tl
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tils Corporation of London to the National lastitu- manded. ,
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