Star.
London, England, 1823-08-19 00:00:00

L'IliAL L O.4RDENS.-

Though the weather was rather unfavourable last
night, yet these Gardens au' acted a considerable as-
semb.lage of rank and fashion. The Anniversary of
the Duke of Yogic's Birth-Jay was celebrated with a
,rand Military Fete, and tlie entertainments com-
a
prisedall the various novelties which had been pro.
t;ticed on the more i nportant occasion of his MA-
jESTV'S Anniversary, together with the addition of
an interesting Billet in the Venetian style. The de-
vices were all of an appropriate character. The trees
vere hung with emblematic flags, and to the south
of the Orchestra; vere seen, in vivid lamps, the words,
" The Duke of York and the Army." In the fire-
works was exhibited a bust of his Royal Highness en-
circled with the words—" The Duke of York, the
Soldier's Friend." Tte whole display wised off with
peat eclat. At the conclusion the followingaddi•
tional stanza to 66 GOD save the King," was sung in
tull chorus :
Where rowed by war's alarms
Britons will mit to arms
And guard their King.
Their land they will defend
-While shouts the welkin reel"
Of " Yogic. ! the Soldkr's Frierd,
And Grousa our King
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The merchant-ships of England are nearly 93,000,
end floored by 160,000 sailors.. _

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OaToooßAriltcat I. CURlMlTy.—Thefollowin sin- lag to.their desire/
gular inscription is said to be litetAlly copied from.a
Colic/was IsottesT.—An Inquest was held yester-
sign -board in Liverpool: —'4 Shetvs Maid and Men day at the Nag's Head, Bushy, on the body of Richard
dead Hear."
Huntingdon, a navigator, who died from the effects
HA YMARKet I, egArets.--,After the new and pop*.. of a boxing match with Gabriel Turner, an itinerant
la: Comedy of Sweethearts and Wives, and the Firce tinker, on Friday. The parties met at a kind of fair,
of Mrs. Smith, the musical entertainment of The and having disputed each other's manhood over their
Farmer was performed at this Theatre last night. pots, they agreed to meet in a field at six o'clock;-to
Tice Jemmy Amps of Mr.fLealAY WiSfilli Of humour. fight for a sovereign each. They were attended' by
Molly illaybush, by Miss Lova, .and Deity, by Mrs. seconds, and shook bands. The fight lasted more than
Gums, were equally amusing, The best proof of the an hour. It consisted chiefly in- throwing. At the
performance of the whole Piece was, that a full and finish of the thirty-seventh round, the deceased
respectable house sat it out to the last, note ithstand• dropped his head upon his second's shoulder, and
ing the full feast That went before rte never. raised it afterwards. Mr. Munns, a surgeon,
Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, two over-driven proved that the deceased died from a rupture or one
beasts, going down Shoe-lane, ran at several perspes, of the vessels in the head. The Jury returned a ver-
who however, with one exception, succeeded in dice of—Manslaughter.
escaping froze the threatened danger; two children • ea
. ATKIOTISM.—It is well known that Major-General
were standing 'Near- the deter of -Mr. BitADFORD, an MAarsx who died some years since in the service of
apothecary, as the furious beasts passed, one of them the English Eastlndia Company, after having made.
tan et-the youngest (a fine boy about two years and an immense fortune, bequeathed a considerable le-
a half old), and tossed it at least six yards from the guy to the. city of Lyons, his bitch-place. A num-
ground; the little innocent fell upon its side in the bet of judicial inquiries and proceedings took place,
utter,' and, by almost a miracle, escaped unhurt. with respect to this legacy. Among the rest a corn-
The oxen were eventually ounel under a gateway, mission was sent last summer by the Court of Chan-
,
and.secured in a leather wet eliouse. They had every cery to Lyons, to examine witnesses, and to receive
aplearance of hating been over-driven. depositions on the subject. Eventually the payment
Monde), .last George Wilson, the celebrated
.pe- of the legacy has been directed by a decree of the Su-
destrian, was convicted by the Mayor of being a preme Court of Judicature at Calcutta, dated the
rogue and vagabond, in• having ran retiree and left 2d of December. 1822. The sum adjudged amounts
his wire chargeable to the parish of All Saints, and to no less than 1,927,000 francs, above £BO.OOO. ster-
sentenced to three months hard labour in the House ling; besides an annual payment of 12,500 francs for
of Correction. He was apprehended at Carlisle last the relief of the inhabitants of Lyons confined for debt.
Saturday afternoon, by T. Forsyth, the officer. DEATH-BED CONFESSIONS.—In an ejectment case,
A few days ago, as some workmen were removing which was tried at the late Assizes of Wexford, the
the foundation of the once celebrated Monastery of ltev. Mr. Moncets, a clergyman of the established
Leadenhall, which stood where the Market now Church, being examined as a witness, declined to an-
stands; they found, under-a large stone, which lay at swer a question put to him, on the ground that his
the foot of a staircase, the mummy of a mtinstious answer would disclose matters communicated to him
rat. The animal, to all.appearance had been starved by a person whom he attended at the time of his
to death, as the belly is greatly collapsed. Its head death in the exercise of his spiritual profession. The
is disproportionably large. The teeth are worn down Catholic clergy always object to disclose what
to stumps, and the nails on theclaws appear as if they occurs on such occasions, on the ground that the se-
ead been filed. The legs, particularly those of the crecy of confession imposes an insurmountable °Wi-
en a-part, are thicker than those of a cat ; the tail is gation ; but the objection is new, we believe, on the
immensely thick, arid is covered with the scaly rings
.part of a Protestant clergyman, The point was ar
e bleb are peculiar to the rat. gued at some length by Mr. HAMILTON for enforcing
Daring the night of the 4th instant, the Marine Pay an answer; and by Mr. O'CoNNlti.l. for respecting
Oilice at the Barracks at Woolwich was broken open the conscientious scruples of the witness. Mr. Justice
a ad.robbed of £25. The entrance was effected by Jess, who presided,. said he would step into the
breaking down a part of the wall large enough to County Court, where the Chief Justice was then
admit.a man, and the place in which the money was sitting, and consult hire upon it. When he returned,
kept was, forced opcn with a chisel or crow-bar. he stated to the witness that he was -under no such
When the robbery was discovered, several privates of obligation of secrecy as would prevent his answering
the Miiines were taken into custody, and Salmon, the question. The Reverend Gentleman expressed
one of the principal Bow-street Offieees, was sent for, his regret that he roust still decline to answer. He
He could discover nothing to criminate the persons then stated that he had consulted his spiritual sups-
in custody, and they were discharged; but he conti- rior, we believe the Bishop of the Diocese, who ap-
nued his ingenics, and visited most of the bores of proved of his determination to maintain an inviolable
ill fame; in the course of which he learnt that James secrecy. The Court declined taking any measure
Taylor, a marine, had given one of the girls several with a view to enforce an answer, and as this was the
sovereigns as a present,. Salmon apprehended him, principal witness on whom the plaintiff's case de-
sod, on searching him, found two sovereigns and perided, a verdict was given for the defendant.—
some silver in an aperture cut in the inside of his Dublin Evening Post.
waistcoat :he also found between his bed and the IRISH CoINERs.—An immense number of base imi-
sacking a bunch of picklock-keys, and it was further cations of the new coin have been circulated very rip'
ascertained that fie had made a full confession of the cently, and no doubt in various parts of this king- •
robbery to a comrade before his apprehension. This dom. The discovery was made in the sth Pivision
comrade was made a witness for the Crown, and the of Police on Saturday, when Mary Meares, Terence,
prisoner was fully committed to Maidstone Jail. Sarah, and Lawrence Conolly, were taken into cus-
Ricer OF ATTortrates.—Yesterday a warm alter- tody on a charge of passing base coin, purporting to
-cation took piece at the Hatton-Garden Police Office, be of the Bank of England, each for the value of one
between Mr. LAING, one of the Magistrates, and Mr. shilling. The Conollys are stated to have had seventy
PRICE, an Attorney, of St. James's-walk, Clerkenwell. new counterfeit shillings in. their possession, Robert
—Mr. LAING had refused to allow him to interfere, Richardson was also confined on suspicion of being
though employed by the prisoner, In a case of felony, an accomplice of the above persons, baying three 'site,
but a principal witness being absent, the hearing seasiver watches and some gold in •hiapossession; sup-
postponed till two o'clock: the matter then rested with I posed to have been stolen. Peace.offeer Cluidorifole
hlr. PRICE merely saying Attorniee Were usually al- lowed the accused in Great Bietairhstreee, and alti.•
lowed to be present as a matter of courtesy. Among mately was enabled to trace thelvltole party to their;
the business that occupied the interim, was an appli- lodgings in Cole's-lane. They's,Jrnitted having re-
ration for a warrant to take into custody some person ' cently arrived from Liverpool, but Said Alles were
who had sold a petit-or watch as a silver gilt one to I only three days in Ireland ;71 bate imitations of stele
the applicant, a Mrs. Taglionali. Mr. LAING refused bogs, described as below, and kept in soft paper,
the warrant, as it was, a matter of bargain, *and re- i wrapped like agrosi of buttons, were found on the oce
commended her to apply to an Attorney. She stated casion. After ;a minute investigation, R. Richardson,
her case to 'Mr. PRiCe, who came in at the mernerit, Terence and S. Cc:Molly, and Meares, were fully com-!
and he renewed the application for a warrant.— witted to Nesigatefer teial at the ensuing Commission.
The Magistrate refused to hear him as an attorney, The greater pert of the imitations of the new shillings
and told him he had already heard the case and de- are dated 1820, of George 111. On the head side, the
aided on it, and on Mr. PRICE repeatedly claiming forged coin, although generally admirably well eze-
the warrant as a right, ordered him to b. turned I ;tried, differs materially at the edge, the milling of
out; which order was enforced. On the first case ‘ which is badly finished, It will be found that by at-
coming on again, Mr. Parcile-entered, claiming to tending to this, the beet mode of detecting the base
he present, if nut to interfere, but was again forcibly metal, an attentive observer' can avoid taking it.
.ejected. Mr. Pates has already served notice .of These is a vast diffetence in. the ringing also, the
action on the officers, Limbrick and Reed, jnnior, who round of the good coin, altbongli not perfectly clear,.
executed the Magistrate's order, and has declared his I gill rough more so than that of the base one. The
intentioneo bring the case, as againsothe Magistrate, ' crow* over the arms of thegenuirre coin is larger than
into a superior Cow. in the course of the alterc.o 1 the -other, and the general 'colour darker; three Mk
tion, which was carried on with considerable warmth i notes hard rebbing.will discover the copper of which
on both sides, hle.Pates appealedto Mr. SerjeAnt ,this imitation .coin is composed. A number of base,
.SieLost, who, unwilling to interfere, merely ehrusgedlhalfscrOwos have, iris to be apprehended, been also
his shoildets leithout making Aily T,pl,y• I Wel/ ?et into circulation, especially ire Dublin. - -
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.NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.,

EAST INDIA SHIPPING. "
- The Mary Ann, Captain WAfttuncrrox, recently arrived from
Ceylon, sailed from thence the 21st March ; Cape, 50th May.
PASSENOICIM—Mrs. Renwick add child; Mrs. Ilavhersoti;
Captain Renwick, his Majesty's 11.54 Regiment ; lieutenant
Macpherson, his Majesty's Artillery ; Assistant Surgeon Ray,
Madras Establishment ; and Dr. Nicholion. ditto.
The Orpheus, Captain Firing Av, from Alaurithis and Ceylon,
had arrived at the Cape, and was to sail for England the Ist
of June.

Outward-bound ships expected to sail this week :—For Bom-
bay, James Sibbaid, Fosses, from Portsmouth, wind-bound ;
Sarah, Bowits.; and Cambrian, CLA axiom, from Deal.
For Bengal—Asia Ham, from Deal, wind-bound ; and Lady
Kennaway, Sintrutx, from Portsmouth, the 23d instant.
For th.• Cape and Bladras—llope, FLINT, from Portsmouth,
the '4th instant.

For Van Dieman's LandaAsia, LlNous, with convicts, from
Portsmouth, wind-bound; and Aguilar, WATSON, front Deal,
wind-huund.

For New South Wales—Guildford, JOHNSON, from Ports-
mouth, the 221 instant, with convicts.

, For the Cape—Aquatic, BARKERS, from Deal, wind-bound.
The Radius, FANNING, from New York, grounded in Prince's
Dock Basin, Liverpool, on Saturday night, and filled with water.
FALMOUTH, Amon 17.—Wind W.S. W.—Arrived the John
Craig, GREY, from Ili° Janeiro—sailed the 31A May.
PLYMOIITN, AIGCST 17. —Wind S.S.W.—Arrived front Lou.
don, the Kelly, British Tar, and Sophia, fur Quebec. Off the
Port, the Minerva, DALIN for ditto.
PORTSMOUTIJ, A rt:c ST 18.- Wind S.W.—Arrived the Success
transport,fromQuebec,—Sailed the Lady Comberinere, for Tri-
nidad ; Probity, for Malaga ; George and Montmorency, for
Quebec.—This morning the wind got round to S.E. the outward
bound got under weigh, hut several brought up again and remain.
Ow., AUGUST 18.—Wind S.W.—This morning the wind
changed to S.S.E. and has since backed to S. and S.S. W. when
-the following outward bound sailed—Kent, Magnet, William,
Aguilar, Sarah, and Elizabeth—some of which are now(six P. M.)
bearing up, the weather being at integvais very thick..—Arrived
the Myrtle, RostsoB, from St. Michael's.

The Dawlish Regatta, last week, was well attended.
Mr. Turner's Invincible won. the Silver Cup. The hall in the
evening, at Sore's Rooms, was very brilliantly attended by all
the Fashionablet in the
his asserted by nautical men that the French can-
not
blockade Cadiz by sea. In September the Levant
wind begins, and, when coming from the eastward,
the blockading squadron cannot touch a single vessel.
In October the south-westers prevail, and then the
French will be unable to keep their cruising ground,
and will be glad to seek shelter in Gibraltar, and to
get out again they must wait for a Levant wind.
On the 10th instant a vessel was dispatched from
Cadiz to Vera Cruz with 325 pipes of brandy, 1108
ditto of red wine, 105 boxes of raisins, 500 jars of
oil, 30 barrels of almonds, as part of her cargo,
which certainly shews no great scarcity.
TERRITORY OP Povars.—Notwithstanding the at-
tempts which have been studiously made, of late, to
condeal the deplorable results of the emigration to
this quarter, we learn with regret, that the unfavour-
able accounts received about two months agn, by '
way of Honduras, fell short of the truth in desctibing
the miserable condition to which the deluded emt- 1
grants had been reduced, and, consequently, that the
letters which have recently been publidieJ as coming '
fum the Poyais settlers must be either positive fabri-
cations at home, or framed abroad for the purposes of
deception. It may, however, partially relieve the
anxiety of the friends of the settlers to know, that on
their destitute situation lazing made known at Hon-
duras, the Chief Magistrate, Mr. BENNET, dispatched
a schooner to Black River, and, in one trip, it, the be-
ginning of May, brought off 106 men, women, and
children, in a state of destitution, and perishing under
the noxious influence of the climate. These, we be-
lieve, were part of the emigrants who sailed from
Leith in the Kinnersley Castle, in January last. At a
second trip the schooner brought away the remainder
of the people, together with Colonel Hata., the Go-
vernor of Poyais, and the effects of the emigrants.
Every attention and assistance, which humanity could
suggest, was paid to the unfortunate people on their
arrival at Honduras, the sick were placed in the Hos-
pital, and all, in short, one way or other, supported
and provided for.—Glasgow Courier.
Much damage appears to have been done last
month in the United States by lightning. The
schooner Mariner, from Charleston, was struck by
lightning, off Old Point Comfort, on the night of the
11th ult. at eight o'clock. John Pedro, a Portuguese,'
was struck to the .deck, and survived only five mi-
nutes. The Captain, two mates, one passenger,
and all the crew were knocked down, and remained
senseless from five to ten minutes, the pilot also was
struck in the mouth by a splinter and laid prostrate.
Fortunately no one was seriously injured but Pedro.
The foretopmast and fore top-gallant-mast of the
schooner were shivered to splinters, the foremast con-
siderably damaged, the jib torn, caboose broken to
'pieces, and five planks of her deck torn away.—On
the same evening the blacksmith's shop of Mr. Fair-
child, in Stratford, was struck with lightning. When
the shower commenced Mr. Fairchild was sitting on
a chest, in his shop, but not thinking it safe, he went
out, and had not proceeded more than three rods be-
fore the chest was struck, and blown to atoms: the light-
ning also struck a button-ball tree, before Mr. Mar-
shall's door in Stratford, On the same day two cows
were killed by lightning, belonging to Captain Brew-
ster of Black Rock, . .
MARVELLOUS ESCAPE. -••• Last week a deaf and
duMb lad, employed as a cutter at. the Flint Glass
Work, Greenock, met. with a singular accident, to
which he narrowly escaped falling a sacrifice. While
at work, his apron or some other loose portion of his
apparel having come in contact with one of the h0ri...1
zontal shafts of the drums, and by some means ad-1
hired so it, I.e was instantly drawn in, and twirled'
round the shaft longitudinally, exhibiting precisely
the position of a roast- on a spit 1 The shaft working:
at a distance of scarcely a foot from the ground, and
there being not much more vacant space, on either
side of it, destruction seemed inevitable ; yet the pocr
lad, after having made repeated revolutions, in the
icourse of which he was divested of every article of
his wearing apparel, excepting a fragment of his
trowsers, was at length flung behind the shaft, from
which he emerged in a state of nudity, having sus-
tained, in addition to the fright, only a few slight
braises, and having had his skin somewhat lacerated
by the ungentle operation of the machinery in de-,
robing him. It is remarkable also, that even his neck,'
kerchief had attached itself to the shaft, the ends
probably coiling round it, but luckily for the wearer
ihe was saved trona strangulation by the kerchief
igiving way behind. The whole was the work of so
short a time that the mischief was .010r.befOrIS he
thine could be stopped: . . .

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