Star.
London, England, 1814-12-21 00:00:00

THEATRES.

•
DAURY.LANE.—We felt considerable pleasure in
witnessing last night the return of an old favourite
of the public to the boards of this Theatre. Mr.
NUN DEN, after a long absence, the more to be re-
gretted as it was occasioned by illness, appeared in
the character of Old Rapid, in the Cure for the Heart
Abe. His first entrance was greeted with loud ap-
plause, which continued for some minutes. and his
exertions afforded the highest satisfaction to the
lovers of that broad and prominent humour for which
ha is so remarkable. Mr. ELLISTON was spirited in
Toung Rapid, and received great applause. The other
performers did, for the most part, ample justice to
their respective characters.
COVENT-GARDEN.—This Theatre was last night
attended by one of the most crowded and brilliant
audiences we have seen this season, to witness Mr.
Klestni.x's performance of Macbeth, (being annouced
as the last of his engagement): His reception was
the most flattering and honourable tribute which
could have been paid to his great talents. On his
first appearance, the whole house rose, as by consent,
and the shouts of applause, and the wavings of hats
and handkerchiefs, continued for several minutes.—
Mr. KEMDLE'S excellence in this character has long
been acknowledged ; but, much as we have admired
him on former occasions, we never saw his powers
exerted with greater effect than they were last night.,
In the soliloquy beginning " If it were done, when
it were done ;" and in the dagger soliloquy, he was,
greeted with the loudest approbation; and the man-
ner in which he pronounced the sentence, " We will
proceed no further in this business," when urged by
LadY Macbeth to the murder of Duncan, was strongly
expressive of the feelings which might be supposed
to allitate the mind of the yet only half-determined
murderer of his Sovereign and his friend. Again,
when reporting to Lady Macbeth what passed in the
chamber of the King, during the time he was com-
mitting the foul dee of murder, Mr. KEMBLE gave
all its effect to the expression, " I could not say GOD
bless us !" And again, in the banquet scene, where,
on the disappearance of the ghost of Banque, he .ex-
claims, " So, being gone, we are ourselves again ;"
Mr. liemsLE's manner electrified the house. The
manner of giving the speech beginning" To.morrow,
and to-morrow ;" and the varied expressions of coun-
tenance, arid agitation of body, on hearing from
Macdl that he was not, in fact, born of woman,
wete tinished specimens of the histrionic art. Mr,
KEMBLE fell amidst the plaudits of the atilience,
who, in compliment to him, dki not suffer the per-
formers to proceed with the remainder of the Tra-
gedy. Mrs. RENAUD'S Lady Macbeth is a perform-
ance of considerable merit. Her most successful
scene was that in which she whets by her reproaches
" the almost blunted purpose" of her husband. Mr.
CONWAY, for the first time on these boards, sustained
tie character of Macdvf; but in our opinion he failed
entirely in the attempt: he rants too much. In the
beautiful scene in which the noble-minded Nadi
receives information of the murder of his wile and
children by the bloody-minded tyrant, Mr. Coswar's
ranting destroyed the effect of the scene entirely. He
wholly " over.stepped the modesty of Nature"—he
out-herodesi Her ed.

QUEZN-SQUARE.--MoilifLy Thomas A'ort W2A again
brought up for examination, on the charge of haviog
stolen from Mts. Bishop, of whom he had taken No.
4, Hans-place, Sloane-street, well furnished, at 4200
guineas per annum, a counterpane, linen, glass, fea-
thers out of the beds. &c. On this occasion the O.

Tice was crowded with Gentlemen and tradesmen, all
of whom complained of fraud having been practised
on them by the prisoner, within the last year; who,
within that time was charged to have lived in almost
every part of the town; to have carried on his
sclictries under the various names of Smith, Cotteril,
Nott, &c. ; and to have assumed the characters of
Colonel, Captain, Esquire, Land Agent and Sur-
veyor, Moneylender, Fortune-teller, &c. ; but al-
ways sinking his original business of Barber.
The robbery of Mrs. Bishop was before proved:
part of the goods were found at a pawnbroker's, and
the remainder at a private lodging, in a stable-yard
behind James-street, Westminster, to which places
' they had been conveyed by the prisoner.
Yesterday the owner of the lodging stated, that
Nott took the roots a fortnight ago, at 2s. a week ;
that lie had since paid sixpence on account of rent ;
that he brought in sofas and other fine articles, which
was deemed very ominous by himself and wife, as
it was the first time a fine sofa had ever been in their
house.

Mr. Johnson, a broker, owned this sofa, and
charged Nutt with obtaining it and other articles,
pier glasses, dt:c. preteoces, s,...y:ng he wanted
them to furnish 1,11.111 s, place, and that he'was a
gentleman of property A land surveyor ; and he
referred for a character to a person who said that Mr.
Non had been a Colonel.

Mr. Williams, of Bell-yard, wine-merchant, next
preferred a similar charge. The prisoner, then re-
siding at No. 2, Park-place, ordered some wine, pro-
mising to pay ready money for it ; but when he got
it into the house nothing but a bill was to be obtained.
Nott wanted more wine, deeming the order sent in
one much too small for a Gentleman to give to an
honest tradesman; but as Mr. W. did not like the
look of Mary Clarke (now in custody) and other wo.
men about the house, he would not take another or-
der. He afterwards met Mary Clarke at Marlbo-
rough-street, applying fora warrant against Mr.
Nott for giving her a black eye, and otherwise beat-
i:tg her ; when she observed to him, that Nou bad
ca►led him a fool fiir taking a worthless bill foi his
wine. Nutt said he was acquainted with Lord Win.
chelsea and other great men, but Mr. W. never sent
any more wine.
A Gentleman from Ludgate-hill produced a bill
which lie had taken from Bloomfield, who received
it from Nott ; and he added, that in consequence of
the villainies of the scoundrel at the bar, Bloomfield,
an industrious tradesman, was a ruined man.
Nott---,. That's a lic—he wanted to cheat me ; but
you are not the only person that can willies of me!"
A brush-maker, of Bermondsey, while prisoner
lived iq the Kent-road, then carrying on the business
of a Dentist, charged him with having obtained
tooth brushes amounting to about £3. When Nutt left
that place, which he did without paying any rent, he
was traced to Lock's-fields, where, in conjunction
with another, he had turned Fortune-teller A

charge of a more serious nautre was nest pre
ferret' against Nott, namely, one of forgery. Cap- ;
tain Mathews stated. that he discounted a A'3o bill
for a Mr. Cardiff, it being drawn by William Cot-
teril, and accepted by William Brown ; but when it
became due Brown had absconded, and Cotteril was
not to be found at his residence, Burlington Gardens,
where he had carried on the business of a money-
lender. Cotteril, however, was traced to Park-
place, where he had taken up the name of Nott ; and
having left there he was traced to Slo.in--street, witere
all clue was lost. Before the bill became due the pri-
soner called and said that he was Cotteril,
and that he was the drawer of the hid. He was sure
of the person of the prisoner, and Lc could produce
other witnesses to support him in this fact ; and the
writing was the prisoner's.
Nott said this was all a delusion ; he never had but
one name, that was Nott. He was the son of Mrs.
Newcombe., wife of Alderman Newcombe, of Stam-
ford, Justice of the Peace, &c.
Committed for re-examination, as other charges
might be preferred against him.
Yesterday T. Neu, alias J. Smith, alias W. Cotte-
ril, was further examined on charges of swindling,
en which occasion an office full of new complainants
appeared, and many new charges were made. A
taylor, who received a bill from Nott, whilst he lived
at Pentonville, had never since been able to discover
the prisoner, though the cloaths were obtained on a
ready-money bargain. A. Turner, from the Borough,
said, that while the prisoner was living in the Kent-
read, carrying on the trade, of dentist, he received an
order to send in sundry goods, with the bill, as they
would be paid for immediately. - A bay carried the
articles, from whoin Nott'tontrioad to get them, and
said, that the master must call for the money. He
called in vain, never being able to see Nott, and soon
afterwards be left that residence, without paying any
one. He also traced him to Lock's-fields, where the
business of dentist was changed for Ciat of fortune-
telling ! He next met with him on the City-road ter-
race. He then said, he had just triumphed over
many difficulties, and was ping on prosperously :
he was carrying on business in the City as a mot.ey-
agent, &c. and had an office in Bury chambers, St.
Mary Axe. He then handed his card, containing,
on one side, a plausible address to-the public, de.scii-
bing the arts and deceptions of persons in general
engaged in that line ; from which, of corpse, he was
himself free, and inviting persons in want of aSS(st-
....time to apply to him, whose honour might be relied
on. He was next traced lo Patk-lane, where he acted
as a land-surveyor ; after which Turner,' lost him, till
his apprehension. Mr. Hoffman, of the Strand, sta-
tioner, received an order from the prisoner a ti.w
months ago (he then having a counting-honse in
Chancery lane, and calling himself
a land-surveyor), for books, station try, &c. Mr. H.
sera the goods, to the amount of SI. and desired the
boy not to leave the articles without the money. Nott;
however, wheedled the bay out of the goods, since
' which he mild never get a farthing. Others com-
plained of frauds whale the prisoner lived in Cumber-1
land-rote, under the name of-Cotter:l, which place he
left for I,2llosec-street ; and ;hen isr l'ark-lane, as Nott.
Bills of exchange, with bath these names, were pro-
duced, as haviipt been received from the prisoner, be
identifying himself to have !Lien the drawer, under
both names. A lot'cr vats received by the M igi.-
trines from a Lady, statiny, that the real name of
the prisoner was William Cotteril, and that he was
originally a hair-dresser.
Mr. COLQUIIOUN was astonished at the unparalleled
depravity, effrontery, and impudence of the prisoner.
who even IiOW evinced not the least feeling when he
was trembling on the very edge of the gallows. His
scheme of depredation and fraud appeared to have
been at work in almost every parish in and about Lon-
don, and no artifice was thought too low—no trick
or mask too degrading—to realize its object. The
prompt manner in which gentlemen and tradesmen
had come forward to develope the infamous charac-
ter of the prisoner, when they had no hope of reco-
vering any thing, did them infinite creclia—Com-
mined for further ex•imination on Monday next.

80K...5T E eT.--Yesterd a y Sophia Parry, of Shire-
lane, was charged with taking iilegal insurances in
the State-Lottery.—Catharine Bondy stated, that she
had lately lived as servant with the prisoner. On the
night of the 29th tilt. she was in the kitchen, when
the prisoner said, Kitty, now is your time to make
your fortune, if you would like to Lire any thing to
do with the Lottery, which was to be drawn on the
following day; to which she replied, she should like
to insure the 600, 70'), and 8(X), for the first-drawn,
for one guistea each ; the prisoner a rote the numbers
down, for which she was to pay 2s. 3d. or 9d. for each
hundred, and the prisoner told her, if the lira-drawn
number was in either of those hundreds she would re-
ceive a guinea. She then lived with her three or four
weeks, and had entered her service for the purpose of
detecting her in taking illegal insurances, which she ha, i
understood she carried on. On die morning of tl:e Tit!:
ult. the prisoner paid her her wages, deducting the
amount of the insurance.—Mr. Ailey cross-exanni:ed
the witness. She denied expecting E.l. or any given
sum, if she convicted the prisoner. She also denied
threatening to be revenged of the prisoner when she
quitted her service ; but acknowledged that the pri-
soner scolded her, and sire scolded again. The pri-
soner was sentenced to one month's imprisonment.
MANSION4IOUS E. Captain of the
country ship Caroline, from flombay to Europe,
was charged on suspicion c f having murdered, on
Friday the 2cl of October last, John Deszer, a quar-
ter-master on board the said ship, on the pa'ssage to
Europe. In support of the prosecution, several of
the ship's crew appeared to give evidence. Their
testimony went to prove, that on the morning an
which the deceased met his death, the ship being then.
within a few days sail of the Isle of France, the.
Captain preferred some complaints against the• de-
ceased, and he was tied up to the mast, when, after
receiving a slight punishment, he was released. After
breakfast time, however, the deceased was ordered
into the cabin, where the Captain demanded an ini
,petition of his papers and accounts. The Captain'n,
servant, and another person who was then in tyre C 4
bin, were ordered to withdraw, and the deceased and
the Captain was left alone. One or two of the wit-
' tresses deposed to the door of the cabin being locked,
while others stated it was merely closed to. A short
time after the Captain and the deceased were left to.
gether, a noise was heard, as if proceeding from s•m:e
person receiving a beating, which was followed by

•he cries of lc mercy," and " release rnr."
after this a shout issued firm some part of the s'aiN
that a man was( verblArd, an.l the Captain WAS see/
rushing upon deck, and nude jog out the boat, Tag
alarm then became general, ansl evci y.etertion
made to save the man who was tI
a iservetlastrugg.iri
in the water, a sh-rt distance from the ship. Tile
ship was et this time sailing at the rate Pf seven ge
eight knots an hour, and there was a heavy
Every effort to save the deceased was itieffectu.l.
The Captain, in his defence, said, that he did re*,
n:and, in severe terms, the conduct f the •deccism.l,
and acknowledged having struck or slapped him ie
the face, and taken hold of his ear, while its the cabin;
that after he had done so ho sat dawn At tile table to
write, and left t'Ae deceased also sit:ing•in a corner
nf
the cahin ; that he saw nothing further of him until
he heard A noise at one of thacabin windows, all of
which were open ; that be there observed wine part
11 of the body of the deceased, who instantly threw Wai-
-1 self i:;to the water. The investigation occupied more
than two blurs, and the Lord Mayor ordered the
Captain again to be brought up in a few days, and all
the ship's crew who knew any thing ut. the matter to
appear.

800 HS.
Lately, In Waterford, the Lady of Captain )(alma, of a
daughter.

At Bermuda, on the With of October, the Lady of Major Go.
neral Hnr•ford of a tlmg'iter.
Thursday, at Doding•on, in Gloucestershire, the Hon. Mn,
Codrineton, of a dauzlrer.