Star.
London, England, 1801-01-30 00:00:00

POOLE, JANUARY 27.

Arrived--the AtEiTe, WILLIAMS, from Pont.
mouth; Phoenix WHITAKER ; Amity, CHURCH,
and Brothers, WHITTLE,I from London ; Duke cf
York, COUGAR, from iriftol;• Breeze, GORTON,
from Sunderland; Bee, BISHOP, from Oporto;
and Harriet, Sams, from Newfoundland.

Sailed--the Mari, ERSTFR, for Liverpool;
Ann and Mary, HATCHARD Endeavour, Sour,
and Swanage, Rossivia, for Portfmouth.

The Barbara, GARDNER, from the Southern
Filbery to London, is taken by the Spaniards, and
carried into Guaquil, in South America.
The Lark, from Lynn to Liverpool, was taken
on the tft init. off the Land's End, and deferted
the fame night, being leaky.
The Annabelle, OLIVER, from St. Kitt's to
London, is on fhore near Brett, after being taken
by the French.
We are concerned to Rate, that the hopes which
have been entertained of the fafety of the Ot trus,
appear to have but little foundation. She fell
Bombay on the pit of Oftober, 1799, on a cruize
in the Gulph of Petite ; the was feen on the 4th of
November, and on the sth, the moR tremendous
hurricane took place that had been known in In-
dia for upwards of feventeen years. fence which
time fhe has not been heard of.

Friday night, about twelve o' clock, a fire broke
out in a wright's ihop in King-Brat, Glafgow.
The houre was materially damaged, and a confi-
derable quantity of wood dellroyed. The alarm
given by the police watchmen, the immediate ar•
rival of the fire engines, together with the salve
exertions of the fire-men' and a number of journey.
men bakers, prevented the tenement from being
confurned.

An unlucky circumftance lately occurred to in-
terrupt the mirth of a Ball, given by the Swedifu
Minifter, st Berlin. The young Count Ora
an Officer in the- Regiment of Mollendorff, and
the iffue of a Preteßant Family, which had be-
come Refugees after the Edit& of Nantes, dropped
down dead in the middle of the dance. This event
had a confiderable effe!t on the other dancers. On
opening him, the furgeon dircovered that his death
was occafioned by his having 'tied his neckcloth
too tight, which produced the apopleetic tit in
which he was carried off.
As a Gentlemanne ar Mallow, in the County of
Cork, was leaning over the palif; des adjoining Ins
houfe, and his cattle were driving in to the place
where they were itfually kept, a favourite bull
happened to Rrike him in the loft part of his hand,
near the thumb, with his horn, which gave him fume
little pain, but not perceiving any inconvenience
from it, he went to a fair the next day, when he
felt it painful, and applied to a phyfician, who
fiw that there was a mortification. and amputated
I the thumb ; but the mortification communicated
to his arm,.and appeared likewife in his throat, in
confequence of which death valued in the condi
of fix or (even days after the accident.
A few nights fine, a Watchmaker's holif at
Gravefend was broke open; the thief entered at
the cellar window. It appeared that he had failed
in endeavouaing to open the door which led to
the (bop; and the family being alarmed, the
watchmen affembled, who, on tearching the pre-
miles, found that the offender had left behind him,
one good flyer watch, not however belonging, to
the ihopkeeper, ist his *WM ; it having been ditco-
vcred hanging by the chain on a nail in the cellar
window. flippofed to have been drawn from the fob
0* the thief in making his batty retereat.

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ODE TO WINTER.

ly TMOMAI CAMPBELL, ESQ: AUTHOR Of !Hz
PLEASURES OF HOPE.

When firft the fiery mantled Sox
His heav'nly race began to run,
Round the Earth and Ocean blue
His Children four (the Sadism) flew :
firß, in green apparel dancing,
Smil'd the SIMI ma With angel face;
Rofy SUMMER next advancing

Rufb'd into her Sire's embrace—
tier bright-bair'd Sire, who bade her keep

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For ever near& to Ma (miles--
On CALPIet ofive-(hided Beep,
Or Indla's eitron-cover'd Iflet,
Mort remote and br.aom brown

The %nem of VI se TAG' bow'd before his throne
A. rich Pomegranate gemmed her crown,
A ripe Sheaf bound her zone.

Rut howling WTNTEII Bed afar
To bills that prop the Polar Star,
And loves on Deer-born Car to ride
With barren Daau Wass by his fide,
Round the more where loud Lofoden
Whirls to death the roaring Whale,
Round the hall where Runic Oden
Howls his war-fong to the Gale ;
Save when down the mooed globe

He travels nn his native Storm,
Denow'ring Nature's gray robe,
And trampling on her faded form;
'Tin Light's returning Lord alfume
The waft that drives him to his Northern field,
Of power to pierce his raven plume
And chryftal-eover'd thield !
0 Sire of Storms, Whore favage ear
The Lapland Drum delights to hear,
When Fat nal with her blood-fhot eye
Implores thy dreadful Deity—
Arthangel Power of Defolation,
Faft defeending as thou art,
Say, bath Mortal Invocation
Spells to tooth thy Rony heart?
Then, fuller Warne,. bear my pray'r,

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And gently rule the ruin'd Year;
Nor chill the Wand'rer's bofom bare,
No freeze the Wretch's falling tear;
To alluring Want's tmsnantled bed
Thy horror-breathing agues craft to lend,
And mildly on the Orphan head

Of iNNOCINCI defcend!
But chiefly (pare, 0 Kiwi; of Cr-tient,
The Sailor on his airy &muds—
When Wrecks and Beacons Brew the Steep,
And Spedtra walk along the Deep;
Milder yet thpinowy breezes
Breathe on yonder tented (bores,
Where the Rhine's bright billow freezes,
Where the dark-brown Danube roan!
Oh, Winds of Winter, lilt ye there
To many a deep and dying groan?
Or !tart ye, Demons of the Midnight Air,
At &ricks and thunders louder than yout awl
Alas, e'en your unhallow'd breath
May (pare the Vietim fallen low
But Man will ail no truce to Deaths:.
No bound to Harem Wee I

THEATRES.

covairr-iaaania.
On Tudday, the Stranger was performed, for ,
the firft time at this Theatre, for Mr. Cooee's
benefit. A houfe, undually crowded, muft have
been highly gratifying to that diftinguithed alor.
We expelled to be pleated with Mr. Coons;
but we expelled to fee him fall that of Mr
KF.IIBI.C. In this charader, a different fpecies of
aging was required : he was not here called upon
to pourtray the malignant pafflons of a Richard,
the guilt and remorfe of a Macbeth, the jealoufy of
a Kitely, or the revenge of an logo, but to depia
the penfive grief and the mifanthropic morofenefs
of a man, naturally benevolent, but loured by un-
merited fuffering, and affeCied by difappointment
in what is deereft to a feeling heart. In his ge-
neral conception of the charatter he was excellent ;
he was frequently tender in his tones, and fome
times animated and interaing in his countenance.
On the whole, he was ftrong and imprellive. But
he certainly fell fhort of Mr. KIMBLII. The latter,
we think, excels in Potreekka, and in the Stranger;
becaufe his features are belt adapted to a fettled
rnifanthropie gloom ; and we wonder that he hat
never thought pf reviving. Tinos of althea:. The
former, on the contrary, inflead of a frown, ap•
pears to wear a (mile. 'That (mile may be
adapted to Richard, to logo, to Glosalows, to IdeAhree;
but mull fail in the prefent inftance. If, in fome
inflames, we allow him to be the bcft aelor on the
London Stage, our applaufe in general charatters
mull be guarded and qualified. Sometimes we
are aftonilhed by his beauties, fomctimes by his
failings. It mull, however, be obferved, that he
laboured under a violent cold, which, after the et-
•rrions of the fourth all, rendered him (carcely in-
telligible. He certainly might perform the Stranger
better than he did on Tuefday.
Mr. MURRAY'S performance of the fhort part of
'robs: was as correl, as affetting a perform.
awe as we have ever Peen. Here Covent-Garda
ekc.:l6 Drury- Lane. Simmons too has the advantage
o•+er Lat. His defeription of the accident of bit
I.vrdjko was highly finifhed.
H. JONNSTOM were leis Riff in the neck, he
a..:id play better.
Had not Mrs. LITCHTIRLD to contend with Mrs.
S‘Dootts, the would be more admired ; though the
R 3, upon the whole,very defervedly applauded.
To the general plot of the play we have firong
ehjaliong. Theli: might be edity removed by a
little alteration. Mrs. Wailer may forfake her huf-
band, but her honour ought to remain inviolate.
Her remorfe would be as arong, and the cata-
Arophe more affeding. becaufe more within the
bounds of probability and decency.
Let us add a hint to the MANAIIIR. In one of
'he moll interelling (cones, while the char:teen
Si the Stage were endeavouring to excite teats in

the audience, a phy-houcc lonner, from behind
the fcenes, opened the door of the Stranger's cot-
-tage, difplayed his thicknefs of neck, and thinnefs
of head, and exhibited the flare of a vacant laugh.
It was not till after a long hifs from the Pit, that
the fellow ceafed to difturb the audience, by 'hut-
ting the door, and excluding himfelf. The pro-
bability and the Million of the fcene thould never
be violated unneceffanly : and we are fuse that
the man of front would not have dared to intuit
the audience of Drury Lane, had Mr. Rs. st tit s been
on the Stage. " Something too much of this."
Cathanine and Paruebio changed the tears into
laughter. It was excellently performed. Mr.
Lewis, notwithftanding his indillinetnefs, and
Mrs. MATTOCKS, notwithftanding her years; com-
manded our mirth.

GARRICK'S Ode on SILAKBSPIARK was, in con•
clufton, forcibly fpoken by Mr.COOKE, and Tung
by the vocal powers of the theatre. Mr. COOKE
had reafon to thank the boufe for their crouded
attendance ; and the honk had no lefs reafim to
be pleafed with the entertainment of the evening.

DRURY-.LANE.
LaD night a new Operatical After-piece, in-
titled The Veteran Tar, the produtlion of the two
ARNOLDS, father and fon, was performed for the
firft time ; and, upon the whole, rather favourably
received. The principal part of the fable confills
in the fhipwreck of an Englifh veffel on the coati,
the e fcape of the Captain's fon, his love for Cicely,
a pretty village girl of the place, the difcovery of
the reD of the crew's fafety, and alto that of his
father, whofe content to his marriage he obtains
by gallantly boarding a French privateer, with
the aid of his companions. The illnefs of Cicely's
father affords an opportunity of introducing a ri-
diculous old apothecary, who is the rival of the
young tar; and the main plot is further embellifhed
with the union of the filler of Cady with a rullic
lover ; but it; chief meriti is its adaptation to the
(late of the Country at the prefent moment, and
its tendenCy to animate the patriotic feelings of Eng=
lifhmen; for there is but very little novelty in any of
the charaders, the moll prominent of which is that
of a hardy tailor, admirably fulbined by BANN as-
TER, the Captain of the privateer, which has been
wrecked upon the coati.
The dialogue, with the exception of certain pal--
rages complimentary to the heroifm of feamen,
&c. is languid and common place. The mufic,
however, is very pleafing, and the principal Songs
were delightfully executed by Mrs. MouwraiN and
Mill STEVENS : the piece, however, wants a more
prominent finging man than either Mr. TR u spear.:
Or Mr. DECAMr.--Strur and WEWITZER had two
Dale parts, an hypochondriacal Patient and a
foppifh Village Dottor, but neither of them told.
On accoutt of the mufic, however, The Veteran Tar
is likely to have a fhort run, though tome oppofi-
tion voices were heard at the time of giving it out
for a fecond renefentation. The Overture, in
which is introduced the movement of 4, Hearts of
Oak." is a very unified compofition.
The fcenery is confined nearly to two views i
village on the coat!, and a Dorm at tea, in which
the young tar is teen making his efcape to fhore.
The beauty of thefe, however, compenfates fir
their tisanes. The hcnife was full, and brilliantly
attended. The following Songs were. all encored :

SONO;—Ccez
Yee, diem old maid, if a man I can't RM.
That my fancy has planed as quite to my mind;
His heart Ihall be open, his countenance too,
And his hand, or he never will do :
In theft, to convince me he's this thing and that,
My heart, when I fee him, malt bounce—pit-alat.
care not for earn, or for acres in Rote,
With a man that I love I can sever be peer;
Nor with one I deteft can I happy be made,
Tho' I flaunted in fattbts, in Albs, and brocade.
In Mort, I'll neer wed in this world, and that's flat,
Till my heart faysm that's he," with a bounce—pit.
DUET.—Ltsevra and CICZLT
Hark, hark ! the village bells delightful found,
In cadence fweet they die along the vale ;
Now lowly murmuring o'er the broken ground,
Now loudly (welling on the travelling plc !
Hark, how they echo round the rocky (bore;
Now, fort they Real refponfive on the ear;
Now, caverns deep rebellow to the rear,
In founds harmonious, audible and clear.

SONG.--.Toss STURDY.
Odds life! when a War gets bother'd with love,

He's all one as a Ibip without rudder or fails ;
That the roaring of buffeting billows malt prove.
And mart drive at the mercy of thuricFring gales.
His cargo's afloat, all his mails by the board,
' A them hulk without ballaft the heavily moves;
" Helm a weather," he whimpers; he fighs his awl ;
" Belay, boys '—S lubber, he pipes out, he lons."
But fce him tight rigged, sad far duty agog ;
A light-hearted Jolly briar crew man the Wands;
He fps ings upon deck, he diftributes his grog,
Pipes all bands from below, and his light canvas crowds ;
No thoughts crofs his mind but of drubbing oar fees,
The proud flag of Britain in triumph unfurl's';
A fignal,a brccze, boys, three cheers, and he goer.
Takes his pr.zos—and is pried by a woed'ring world.
The Monfeers love to dance, let 'ens dance o'er the main,

With Minheer and the Don ; tho they 'kw a fah dip,
Why the French well (eon teach how to dance hock again.
And the eothcrs can't ante, we'll loon teach 'cm toil*.
Let eur navy be ready with canvas unfurl'd,
For w9kn England b threaten'd we always are ready,

And our dear little England defies all the world.
To oar King and our Country Bill (heady boys, Ready.

On Saturday tail, the 24th init. an elegant Ball
and Supper were given by Mrs. Csav, of Torr
Abbey, to above 150 of the Nobility and Gentry
of the neighbourhood, in honour of the birth-day i
of Earl Sr. Viscitur, who on Tuefday the sods
attained to his 66th ycar. The Entertainment
was particularly fplendid, and new rooms with ap-
propriate decorations were fitted up for the occa.
lion. In the coutfe of the evening, a tang, written
by a Gentleman relent, was lung in honour of
the day.

LAW INTELLIGE4VCE.

COURT OF RING'S BENCH, JANVARY 39.

THE HMG 17. NEAL.

The Defendan unrierconvietion for a libel,
in the nature of a caricature, on Mr. W. Keate, the
Surgeon-General of the army, and was permitted
to Rand exculed upon the payment of the colts of
this profeeution, and a nominal fine, by the con-
tent of Mr. Keate.

CRIMINAL INFORMATION.

Mr. Gums moved for leave to file a criminal in-
formation againd Samuel Baker, Efq. Mayor, as
we understood, of the Borough of Yarmouth, for
having given to a party a copy of an incorred con-
viaion, by means of which the party who had the
copy moved for a certiorari, and then the Magif-
trate made out a correu convidion' by means of
which again the party who moved for the certio-
rari had all the coils to pay. This was the fault
of the Magittrate, for had the first form of the
conviftion been the fame as the lait was, this party
never would have moved the cafe by certiorari at all,
whereas by this mistake he was led into error. If
a Magiltrate had this power, he might invite par-
ties to move for Certiorari writs on the ground of
defeaive conviaion, whenever he pleated, and then
afterwards make out a corred conviOion, by which
all the expense would fall on the party fuing out
the certiorari, by which all fecurity for the pay-
ment of cods was entirely loft ; for the certiorari
could not be had in thefe cafes, without fecurity
for the payment of cods, and thefe coils mud al-
ways fall on the party fuing out the writ, if it ap-
peared ultimately that the convklion, when re-
turned, was regular, which it might be, although
the firft draft of it, of which the copy was given,
as in this cafe, was irregular ; this motion was
therefore intended to putMagiftrates a little more
on their guard.
The Court held, that in the find place, the giv-
ing of any copy of the convidion in this cafe, was
mere matter of favour, for that the Magiftrate
was not bound to give it at all ; that it frequently ,
happens to Magiftrates, after hearing evidence, to ,
draw out the form or the minutes of -a conviaion, '
and the whole is afterwards, fometimes, fettled by
Connie' before it comes to maturity, and is re-
corded as a conviction ; and that, therefore, it
would be the greateft of all hardfhips to make a
Magiftrate liable to an information for the inaccu- '
racy of a draft of which he had good-naturedly
given a copy.—There would be no end to this, if
applications of this fort were to be encouraged :
it might go to all the minutes of Courts upon
which the mod folemn ads are done : for inflance,
a perfon might be convided for a capital offence,
and even executed upon a verdid of guilty, and
the folemn record of the order, to be banged by
the neck until he be dead, &c. was made up in
due form of record afterwards. There things were
too plain to be difputed. The Magilirate bete
had done nothing that was corrupt, and there was
' no pretence for this motion.—Rule refuted.