Star.
London, England, 1802-02-12 00:00:00

COUiVTI{r N.EWS.

Howriv, Jaw. tg.—The Marquis of HAINTLY,
who is the adoration of all ranks in this part of
Caledonia, alrembled a large party by fledges, &c.
at the c .mmencement orate great fall of fitowsin
December, at his famed bottle of bufpitality,
Huntly Lodge. There the ancient feudal fyll•m
is revived, of keeping open houfe, with oxen,
bread and beer to the poor : fidlera and pipers to
enliven the hall, and hngfheads of claret and ma-
deira drank from the calk by all who fliare.tbe
Noble Marquies hofpitable hoard. Upon her Ma-
jetty's birth day his Lordfltip called out the l'o.
lunteers of Hun*, who fired in honour of the
day, and drank her MajellyN health amidll all the
pomp of war. In the evening the Marquis gave
an elegant ball and flipper, where our gracious
IQtteen'a health was drank with three times three.
The deifert was ornamented with Rags, upon which
were inferibed the tenth to be sweat...o GOD
biers our King and his Family I may they' long
reign over this land of Liberty, blelled, and
bleffing a free and happy people."—" Her Ma-
jefty, &c." In the middle of the table was a Fame,
reprefenting the gad regiment; with the colours of
that corps and of the od, with this infcription :
44 The brave pd and gad, who have di ilingui (bed
thentrelres for honour, fidelity, and courage."—
There were many other infcriptit'ns. The bonny
Duchefs joined in the dance with her fun and on-
1y one regret was felt, that the lovely Lady
eloactou could. hut (mile her approbation, hav-
ing ber for fume time very unwell There have
been boric races alto of excellenaport on the race
ground at the Old Cagle of Huntly, by the Mar-
quis, Lord ERROL, and Sir JOHN GORDON, highly
entertaining to the Pitchers, Lady Eitaot, all the
gay party of the Lodge, and the country around.
Emir NUIG H, Fri. 6.—On Tharfday night, be-
tween ni'ie and ten o'clock, a fire broke out in a
(mall tenement occupied as a lint faftory, near the
Potter-row Port.—The materials being co cornbuf-
tible,inlian:ancoufly burll into a blaze,and affirmed
a very awful appearance. The fire-engines, how.
ever, being, foon brought to the (pot, fuceeed.ad in
ertinguillitr.g the flames before much damage was
done. While the fire was raging, the inhabitants
in the adjacent tenements removed pats of their
property. One article of furniture was brought
forth from a honfe, which excited aflonithment in
all, and terror not to a few. This was a cern, with
a lock and,key on it, which the proprietor got made
for himfelf along time ago, and now ufes for hold-
ing fmalllarticles. Upon the prefent occafir nit
contained a bottle of gin, fume old newfpapers,
pamphlets, &c. _ _

In Moraythire the winter has been remarkably
fevere. The roads in many parts of the country,
particulaily in the parithes of Roches, Aberdour,
Knockandow, Strathfpey and Dollas, are blocked
up, and rendered entirely impaffable, the !now ly-
ing in lonic of there place ix and is feet deep.
Tee. B.—Friday Lord CRAIG, Ordinary, in the
Parliament Houfe,.gave judgment in a caufe found.
ed upon the following eircumflances:—
" A gentleman who is a merchant in Leith, har-
ing forme time fence been in Muffelburgh, a perfon
there informed him that a refpeEtable Company in
Leith bad 114ped payment. In confequence of this
be fent information by a letter, to one of the public
banks in Edinburgh, of what he had heard. The
Company having been in the praelice of doing Wi-
nes with this Bank, enquiry was of courfe made at
the partnen whether the information vra s well fo und-
eil? The refult of the enquiry (hewed the report to
be without felndation, as the Company's affairs
were id a very flourifhing &nation. This being fully
*remained, an action of damages was brought by
the Company againft this Gentleman for propa.
gating the repot t.
Mr. James MORTGODI lir' advocate, appear.
ad for the defendant, and admitted that his
client had been mifinformed, but that in giving the
information to the bank he was not influenced by
any motive of doing injury to the profccntors, and
that his conduit was prompted by being connecled
with that bank, which made him this It it proper
to communicate what he had heard. The reporq
bad not originated with him, he had mentioned
from whom he had got it,;ncl merely retailed what
that perfon had informed him of.
The Hon. HRWRIERSKIN F., for :he profecutors„
Bated that the defence which had been ht up was
by no means fufficient to juflify what the defendant
had done. The credit ormerchanta was a delicate
fubjett, as the belt man in the country might bq
ruined by a falfe report; that it became the de-
fendant to have made particular inquiry into the
truth of fuch a report before he took tech a Rep
as be bad done by writing to 'Fe bank on the fub-
jea. As he had aged without taking the trouble
of being better informed, he mull therefore abide
the confequencesi and as the injury attempted
againft the charadter of this Company had been
publicly done, fo they had a right to have that
charadier publicly vindicated in Court, and da-
mages and expences awarded.
After hearing parties, the Lord Ordinary pro-
nounced an interlo -itor, finding the defend:int li-
able in gob. in name of damages, befides all ex-
pence..
On Thurfday night, one James Hamilton, a fer-
vent man, on his return home with a horfe and
cart, while croCing the water of Logic, Fara of
Old Monkland, about fevers miles eatt of Glafgow,
f,•11 in, and was unfortunately drowned; his body
was riot found till next morning.
On Saturday,Atmensß FRACF TYTL ER, E.
finifhed his trials as Lord Probationer took
the oaths and his feat on the Beach, as one of the
Lords of Seffion, by the name of Lord Woon-
fIOUSILIS.
On Wednefday, about to o'clock, a fire broke
out in the premifes belonging to Mr. Mot-teen,
iltuated at the head of Herring-fireet, Greenock,
rhieb as full bore a very alarming sppcarance,
'nit by the fpeedy of flance of two ire engines, a
plentiful fupply of water, and the fpirited exertions
',ldle Loyal Greenock Volunteers end Argyiefhire
?•irlitiot, it was happily loon got under without
u Bch damage.
The town of Greenock has, during the lalt win

ter, heenconfidtralilv Welled by a gang of thieves,
who hake committed depredations to a confider-
ahle amount. Lail week .they broke into Mr.
William Scott's cellar, at the Earl (Inay head, in
the immediate neighbourhood of the watch, and
carried nff three firkins of butter. On Tuefday
day night they broke into another cellar, at the
back of the Cuftornhoufe, belonging to the fame
rerfon, but being,alarmed at the approach of a
man, they ran off and left behind them the imple-
ments with which they forced it open : they had
been in the aft of cutting up 4 bale of Rufiia linen.
Same night they attempted to break into the Chop
of Mr. Robinfon, in Shaw-fireet, when, forcing
open the lock of the door, after breaking off the
padlock, they were alarmed and made off.
HULL, 9.—On Monday evening lag, as
the Rev. Robert Barker, of Hollym, near Patring-
ton, in Holdernefs, was returning on horfeback
fr m \Vineftead, about halFafter feven o'clock, he
was attacked by a footpad, near .the Winefiead
turnpike bar, who fitddenly fcized the reins of his
bridle with his left hand, holding at the fame time
a naked fword, (which he drew from under his
jacket) in his right, and, with horrid imprecations,
demanded his money, and robbed him of four gui-
nc;ta and a half in gold, and a few thillings in ill-
ver ; immediately after which, he proceeded to-
wards Hull. He is fuppofed to be a man, who,
about nine o'clock on the fame evening, attempted',
to rob another want in Keyingliam:field, and at
whom he difcharged a pitiol.
A few days ago a man was apprehended in this
town on fittpicion of being a fwindler.—Upon
examination before the Mayor, it anpeared that he
has been for the (pace of two or three years, em-
rlovA in colieaing fuhfcriptions, of five thillings
ea. h, fur a book which he denominated a Ready
Reckoner, and for which he has coileEtcd from
the public in Manchefter, York, Hull, Carlitle, and
feveral cthe7 large towns, upwards of fnurhundred
and fifty pounds; which it feems probable has been
fpent in an idle and diffolute manner; not being
able to give a good account ofhimfelf, he has been
punned by whipping, and returned with a va-
grant's pafs to the neighbourhood of Matichetler.
On Friday morning latt, a fine boy, three years
of age, belonging to Thos. Spicer, in Milk-fireet,
in this town, was feverely burnt in the neck and
face by fume lighted fhavings falling upon him as
he fat by the fire•fide ; having been left with his
brother, about ten years old, while the mother
was gone to the market.
Saturday laft, as Captain HARRIsom, of the brig
Neptune, laying in the Humber, was going on
board from hence, with three men and two boys,
the boat in which they were, ran foul of the cable,
and (hiking againft the brig, went in two. One
boy on the bow of the boat laved himfelf by grafp-
ing the cable ; two of the men clung to one half
of the boat, and another to an oar, till they were
taken up ; but Unfortunately the Captain and the
other boy were drowned.
Yellerday, as T. MURTITT, of Whitby, a tea-
man belonging to the (hip Arid, was walking
along Chapel-lane, in this town, he was taken
with a fevere fit of coughing, and went into a
public•houfe to fet down a boa he had in his hand,
when a blood veffel broke, and he very loon bled
to death.

In the dulk of the evening of Wednefday fen-
night, as Mr. Fawcett was returning to his houfe
at Komi/hop, near Leeds, he V 73% flopped near
that place by a footpad, who demanded his money,
but on Come remonflrance from the gentleman, he
thought proper to decamp.
About nine o'clock on Tuefday evening, a part
of the manufaelory of Mcffrs. Markland, Cookfon,
and Fawcett, at the Bank, in Leeds, took fire, it
is fuppefed, from the fnuff of a candle, or the em-
bers of tobacco. The confequences, no doubt,
would hare been fcrious, had not the fire been Coon
slifeovered, and extinguifhed by the greatefl exer-
tion of the military and inhabitants, before it had
extended to the centre and the principal part of the
building.
On Friday !aft, William Brown, journeyman to
Mr. Clarke, paper-maker, of Tealby, was caught
by the wheel of the mill, and bruited in fo fhuck-
hig a manner as to caufe his death in a few hours.
On Tuefday lall, WM. MORTON, ferryman at
Stockwith near Gain(borotsgh, fell off the ferry-
boat, and was unfortunately drowned.

On the evening of the 24th ult. the houfe of Mr. li
R. Bond, at Frampton.upon.Severn, was broke
open, atui robbed of :al. in money, fome articles
of plate, and other property. And on the 3:ft the
thop of Mrs. E. Cook, of Minchinhampton, was
pillaged of call, and other property to a confider-
able amount. A great quantity of blood having
been afterwards found in and about the premifes,
it is coojeftured that one of the robbers met with
Come dangerous accident.
The counting houfe of Mr. Clutterbuck, of Min.
chinhampton, was alto, on Thurfday Taft, broke
open ; but the villains were difappointed of their
booty, as the preceding night 7001. were removed
to a place of tlifety ; and they only found about
ys. worth of penny pieces. Saturday Robert
Daniels, charged with being concerned itithe above
robbery, was committed t gaol.
On Monday fe'nnight as feveral labourers were
removing a rand bank in the bat of the Queen's
Dock, Liverpool, the upper part of the bag: was
perceived to be falling down to the fpot where the
men were working. All of them, however, had
time to efcape, except one, who was overwhelmed
by the land, and killed on the fpot.
On Sunday fe'nnight, in the evening, one of the
Shieldt coaches, on its return to Newcaftle, near
the three mile !tone, was thrown over, and feveral
of the parengers, :8 in all, were feverely hurt; the
coach was nearly (tailed to pieces.
TM:I4NT fe'nnight, as Mr. G. Wilfon, watch-
man, of Maidenhead, was carelefsly playing with
a loaded gun in his QWII 110111 C, it accidentally
went off, and wounded his wife in a aloft !hocking
manner.

On Friday the body of a fearnan was dallied on
'!bore, under the Hoe, at, Plymouth : it was in a
Idteadful condition, both arms and brad being off,
and the body much mangled. The Coroner's In-
quell Nand a verdid ofdiowned.