Star.
London, England, 1813-03-05 00:00:00

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THE PRINCE: REGENTS COURT.
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Yesterday a most splendid Court was held at Carl-
ton House, consisting of a Levee, a Privy Council,
a Chapter of the Knights of the Gaiter, and an In-
vestiture of the Knights of the Bath.
About half past one o'clock the Marquis of &mit-
INGHAM had a private audience of the PRINCE Re-
sort, and delivered to his Royal Highness the Order
of St. George, worn by the late Marquis his father.
Soon after, his Royal Highness proceeded to his
State Rooms and held a Levee, which was attended
by the Dukes of YORK, CLARENCE, KENT, CUMBER-
LAND, and CAMBRIDGE-.—the Archbishops of CANTER..
BURY and YORK, the LORD CHANCELLOR, and the rest
of the Cabinet Ministers—the Foreign Ambassadors,
the LORD MAYOR of Dublin, and a number of other
distinguished personages.
1 After the Levee, his Royal Highness held a Privy
1 Council, to which the Marquis of -BUCKINGHAM' was
lintroduced, and sworn in Lord Lieutenant of the
County of Buckingham.
Preparations were then made for holding a Chap-
ter of the Most Noble Order of the Garter 19 an anti-
; room; and the PRINCE having notified that he was
ready to hold the Chapter, the Officers and Mem.
bens in their full robes, proceeded in the usual order
to the Great Council Chamber. where his Royal
Highness the PRINCE REGENT, representing the
i Sovereign, being seated, they all bowed and took
their seats at the table prepared for that purpose.-
1 • The Chapter being opened by the Prelate of the Or-
i der, &c. a vacancy was declared, by the death of the
late Marquis of BUCKINGHAM. The Members then 1
i proceeded to the election of another Knight ih his
i room, which was declared to have fallen on the Mar-
-1 quis of WELLINGTON, who not being present, the
usual ceremonies with a new Knight did not take
place. The Members then rethed, and the Chapter
was broke up. Alier the Officers of the above Or-
der, who also beloi.,,t, to the Order of the Bath, had
changed their rubes, they proceeded to the Entre
Room, where the other Officers, and several. Mem-
bers of the Order, were assembled, and walked in
grand procession, in the usual order, to the Plumes
Cleat, where he was in waiting to receive them, at-
, tended by his great Officers of State ; and Admiral
$ BERKELEY being introduced by the two junior Knights
present, the gallant Admiral knelt before the PRINCE,
when his Royal Highness placed the sword of state
on his left shoulder, and made him a Knight of the
Order. The Duke of YORK then, as Grand Master,
took a red ribbon of the Order from a crimson velvet
cushion, and presented to the PRINCE, who invested
the Admiral with ii. General LEITH was afterwards
introduced and invested in a similar manner with the
Order. The Members then all bowed to the PRINCE,
.and retired. The PRINCE next gave audiences to the
Earl of HARROW Y, the LORD CHANCELLOR Earl of
I LIVERPOOL, the Marquis WINCHESTER, and ;he Earl
1 of HARRINUTON.

PRDSETRIANISM.—Mr. James-'n yesterday petfor-
Toed a task of one mile and a half in seven minutes,
on the Kilburn-road. The match was for twenty
guineas. At starting, the bets were two to one against
the performance.—A miller, of the name of Yeoman,
started in Oxfordshire, on Monday, to go on foot 360
piles in six days.
leduasst.—Apitched battle took place on Wed-
nesday morning, in Harper's fields, between Bob Red-
head, of bruising celebrity, and J. Hall, a waggoner,
of Feversham. They set-to at seven o'clock, with
determined resolution, and fought for 40 minutes.—
Both combatants were shockingly lacerated about the
face, and the latter was nearly blinded of his right
eye, besides suffering very considerably from body-
blows. The former came off victor, and they were
both drove home in a coach.
The case of BLACKER V. LORD FERENC/4 and CO.
came on to be heard on Saturday, in the Court of Ex
chequer, Dublin. It was a Quinn: action for usury,
alledged to have been committed by the defendants
in taking a commission of one-half per cent. on certaii.
dealings, and in withholding a rebate of interest or
certain Bills of Exchange. After the plaintiff's case
had been stated by the SOLICITOR GENERAL, and some
evidence gene into, the plaintiff was nonsuited.
was the second nonsuit on this case.
HATTON GARDEN.—Yesterday a man was convic-
ted in the penalty affixed by the Act, charged with
having in his possession a quantity of saplings, sus-
pected to have been stolen from a Gentleman's gar-
den at Hampstead.—J. Hill, alias Davis, was fully
committed, charged with uttering forged bank-notes.
MANSION HOUSE.—William JYest and Riciard IVait,
clerks in the employ of Messrs. Edward Dew and
Thomas Watson, of the Long-room, Custom-house,
were charged before Alderman Sir JOIIN EAMER with
an assault on the person of Thomas John Waters, a
Quaker, in the habit of transacting business there.—
The complainant said, that he had been near four-
teen years at the Custom-house, but that several of
the Junior clerks in the Long-room, have, of late,
thought proper to annoy him whenever he enters the
Long-room, with placards and caricatures, tending
to ridicule his character and religious principles :
one instance in particular, was that of dressing up a
boy in a large broad brimmed pasteboard hat, and
setting him to walk up and down. before him, and
thrust the brim in his face ; all this naturally attrac-
ted a crowd of persons round him, many of whom
joined in the uproar, in the course of which various
assaults were committed en his person, from which
be was prevented from going on with his business.—
He then produced his great coat, which had been torn
In one of the scuffles, his silk umbrella nailed to the
desk, and a large piece of coal which had been'thrown
and struck him ; and said, as he considered the two
persons now in charge to have been principally con-
cerned in the affrays, he had made them the subject
of the present complaint, as an example to the rest.—
The Magistrate persisting in requiring the com-
plainant's oath, in support of the charge, as it was of
a-trirninal nature ( which the complainant refused to
give, on account el his religious scruples) said that
be felt himself bound to dismiss the complaint ;—pe,
however, first addressed the parties upon the extreme
Impropriety of their conduct, in thus persecuting a
nressed his wish that this
.t would have the effect
for the future, as it might
serious consequences ;
faithfully promised, they

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ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S °FMCS
" Head-quarters, Quebec, Dee. 17,1812.
ORNERAL ORDER.
" Rh Excellency the Commander of the Forces
has great satisfaction in announcing to the troops
under his command, that he has received a report
from Major-General Sheaffe, communicating the de-
tail of a partial action with the main body of the ene-
my's army, under the command of Brigadier-General
Smyth, on the 28th of November, on the Niagara
frontier, between Chippawa and Fort Erie, which
terminated with distinguished honour to a very small
division of the British army, under Lieutenant-Colonel
Bishop, who, in a most spirited and gallant manner,
defeated and repulsed an invading enemy, so vain-
glorious in the great superiority of his force, that he
had, with an ostentatious pretence of humanity, pro-
posed the surrender of fort Erie, to avoid an useless
effusion of British blood, and which was instantly re.
jected by Lieutenant-Colonel Bishop, with the con-
tempt it merited.
46 The enemy was gallantly opposed in landing, at
two o'clock in the morning, by the parties under
Lieutenant King, of the Royal Artillery, and Lieu-
tenants Bartley and Lamont, commanding detach.
ments, of 30 and 35 men each, of the 49th regiment.
Lieutenant Bartley prevented for a considerable time
the landing of a force more than ten times his num-
ber, and did not relinquish the contest until his party,
reduced to 17 effective men, was threatened by a
strong detachment of the enemy, who had landed on
his flank. He made good his retreat, and joined
Major Ormsby. Lieutenant King and Lieutenant
Lamont resisted with spirit the advance of the enemy,
until both these Officers being severely wounded,
and a number of their men killed and wounded,
they were under the necessity of giving way to an
overwhelming force : the wounded Officers fell into
the enemy's hands.
" Major-General Sheaffe expresses, in the strongest
terms, his entire approbation of the celerity and de-
cision evinced by Lieutenant-Colonel Bishop, who
moved with reinforcements from Chippawa, and met
Major Ormsby, who had marched with the detach-
ments of the 49th regiment from Fort Erie, and also
detachments of the 41st regiment, and of militia, un-
der Lieutenant-Colonel Clark and Major Hatr. At
day-break this force advanced to meet the enemy,
and made prisoners a Captain and 38 men of the ene-
my's artillery, and recovered the guns which had
fallen into their hands, and remounted them on the
batteries. This force formed to receive the threat-
ened attack ; but the enemy being much galled by
the musketry, and suffering considerably from a six-
pounder most ably served by Bombadier Jackson, of
the Royal Artillery, turned their boats to their own
shore, after a vain display for several hours of their
numerous armament.—From the numbers left on the
field, and the boats that were sunk, the enemy's loss
must have been very great.
" A heavy cannonade was kept up from all the
enemy's batteries during the day, but with little
effect. _

g 4 His Excellency cannot express, in sufficiently
strong terms, his approbation of the steady discipline
and intrepid firmness displayed by the troops on this
occasion, who, undaunted by the superior force of the
enemy in numbers, have evinced a brilliant and glo-
rious example of the pre-eminence of British
Major-General Shea& reports the assistance rendered
by Major Ormsby, and the Officers of the 49th regi-
ment, and 41st regiment, and the light infantry com-
pany of the Royal Newfoundland regiment, under
Captain Whelan, and of the militia, under Lieutenant-
Colonel Clark, and Major Hatt, and Captain Kirby,
of the Artillery, and of the Indian Warriors, under
Major Givens, as having been gallantly and judi-
ciously displayed, reflecting the highest honour on
every individual engaged. 44 EDWARD BAYNES,
" Adjutant-General North Anterka."

The dead body of a young man, about 18 years of
age, was this morning taken out of one of the drain-
ponds, in the Regent's Park. The young man worked
on Willan's farm, had been missing since Tuesday
evening, and is supposed to have fallen into this pond
as he was crossing the fields from his day's labour.
A Coroner's Inquest was held yesterday at Shad-
well, on the body of Mrs. Margaret Wilson, who
had fallen down by the fire in a room where she was
left by herself. On her friends returning, they found
her severely burnt ; and it is supposed it was occa-
sioned by a tit, to which she was subject. Verdict—

Casually burnt.*
Monday the funeral of one of the Paymaster-Ser-
jeants of the London Militia took p'ace at St. Luke's
Church, Old street, which being attended with mili-
tary and masonic ceremonies, occasioned a Large
crowd to collect, when several persons having as-
cended the tops of the columns at the entrance of the
ground, one of the stone urts with which they are
surmounted fell down, and alighting on a boy's leg,
fractured it in a dreadful manner. It also grazed a
woman's arm, but did no material injury.
At the Norwich Corn Market, on Saturday, the
supply of Wheat was not equal to that of last week.
The best samples sold readily at an advance of Is. to
2s. prime dry Wheat being 60s. to 635. per coomb.
Barley was also brisk in demand, at rather more
money, viz. 345. to 365. for fine malting samples.—
Oats 245. to 265.; and fine, for seed, 28s. to 30s. per
coomb.—The ahem, of beasts on the Cattle Hill was
but moderate, and the prices were quite as high as
they have been of late. The pens were but scantily
filled with sheep and lambs, for which great prices
were demanded. Few horses were shewn, and those
of an inferior description.

quiet 'individual, and expres
public notice of their conduct
of deterring them from it fa
1 otherwise terminate in more s
which having, at his request. 1
were then dismissed.