Star.
London, England, 1809-10-03 00:00:00

FOREIGN JOURNALS.

At a late hour last night we received German pa-
pers to the 23d and Paris papers to the 24th ultimo,
from which we have given some extracts.

In none of them is the veil removed which has for
some time covered the proceedings of France and
Austria. Both parties still continue their military
preparations, and the Tyrolese remain unsubdued—
but the negociation for peace is still carried on.

A letter from Rome states, that all the Heads of
Religious Houses throughout the whole of the Papal
States, have been carried to France under an escort.

AUSTRIAN PROCLAMATION.

Just as this Paper was putting to Press, we received
the following important Proclamation. It requires
no comment from us :

MUNICH, SEPTEMBER 14.
Our Court Gazette contains the following General
Orders, published in the Austrian head-quarters :
My beloved subjects, and even my enemies,
know that I did not engage in the present war from
motives of ambition, nor a desire of conquest. Self-
preservation and independence, a peace consistent with
the honour of my crown, and with the safety and

Tranqmagy or my people, i
and sole aim of my exertions.

" The chance of war disappointed my expectations;
the enemy penetrated into the interior of my domi.
nions, and overran them with all the horrors of war;
but he learned, at the same time, to appreciate the
public spirit of my people, and the valour of my
armies. This experience, which he dearly bought,
and my constant solicitude to promote the properit y
of my dominions led to negotiations for Peace.
" My Ministers impowered for that purpose have
met those of the Fren ch Emperor. My wish is an
honourable Peace, a Peace, the stipulations of which
offer a prospect and possibility of duration. The va-
lour of armies, their unshaken courage, their ardent
love of their country, their desire strongly pronounced
not to lay dawn their arms till an honourable peace
shall have been obtained, could never allow me to
agree to conditions which threatened to shake the very
foundation of the Monarchy and disgrace us.
" The high spirit which animates my troops, af-
fords me the best security that should the enemy yet
mistake our sentiments and disposition, we shall cer-
tainly obtain the reward of perseverance.
(Signed) FRA NC IS."
44 Consorts, August 18, 1809."

A transport with 250 of the Buffs sailed from Ply-
mouth on Sunday, convoyed by the ORESTF,S, for
Portsmouth, whence they will proceed, with other
troop ships, to Lisbon, to reinforce Lord Wr_LLlNG-
fox's army.

Lieutenant Colonel TORRENS is appointed Secre-
tary to the Commander in Chief, in the room of Co-
lonel GORDON, promoted to be Commissary General.
Colonel TORRENS attended the Commander in Chief
yesterday, at his Office, in his official capacity.
Lord ELDON was not with his MAJESTY at Wind-
sor, on Sunday, as stated in several of the Papers of
yesterday. His Lordship was amongst the pedestrians
in Hyde Park.
BREAD.—There was no Court of Aldermen this
day. The LORD MAYOR, after inspecting the returns
of the Bakers Company and Meal Weighers, ordered
it to be advanced Id. in the peck loaf.
The French five per cents. were on the 18th ult. at
76 1. 80 c.

Sunday morning, Dr. G—N and Dr. B—v, two
physicians of eminence, at Plymouth, in consequence
of an altercation which took place at a Corporation
Meeting on Thursday, met on Plymouth Hoe, with
;ntent to fight a duel, but a knowledge of their inten-
tion having got to the ears of justice, the Police Offi-
cers attended and took them bcth into custody. They
were taken before the Mayor, and bound over to
keep the peace.

Tuesday last, an spit- of honour took place near
Chalk Farm, between two journeymen in the employ
of Messrs. BROADWOOD and Co. Piano-forte-makers,
which originated in a dispute the preceding evening
respecting the tuning of an instrument. At an early
hour the parties met, attended by their seconds, at
the bottom of Primrose Hill, when after exchanging
two shots, one of the combatants either supposing
himself wounded, or apprehending the consequences
of a third are, dropped down. Some labourers,
whom the reports of the pistols had attracted, coming
up at the time, and his adversary taking them for
Officers of Police, immediately made his escape, and
has not since been heard of.

Yesterday afternoon, at file o'clock, a hackney
coachman who was driving his carriage quickly down
Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, suddenly fell from
the box and pitched on the stones on his head. The
wheels unfortunately passed over his head and arm
while on the ground, and he was carried to Mount-
street workhouse in a state of insensibility, and but
slender hopes are entertained of his recovery.
A most shocking accident occurred on Saturday
evening, which ought to serve as a perpetual warning
to mothers not to leave their children at home unat-
tended. A woman of the name of Jones, residing in
King-street, Drury-lane, going out to market, very
incautiously left her young children in her apartment,
and locked them in it. The eldest, a child about five
or six years old, took the kettle, which had been
placed on the fire by the mother, to be ready for tea
when she returned home, and poured the boiling wa-
ter over its sister, a helpless infant in the cradle, by
which means the little innocent was so dreadfully
scalded, that little hope is entertained of her recovery.
ODD FELLOWS.—Yesterday, at Union-Hall, James
Bartlet, Wm. Wilkins, Thomas Roar, Thomas Bartlet,
John Barilet, and John Martin, Members of a Society
of Ddd Fellows, were charged with violently assault.
log and beating John Magowan. It appeared that the
Lodge met at a public-house called the Jamaica Cof-
tee-hop§e, in the Borough, on Tuesday evening last,
when the Plaintiff attended, for the purpose of being
' introduced into the club ; but to qualify him for -ad-
mission, it was necessary he should be initiated in
certain secrets and mysteries peculiar to the Society ;
and preparatory to this, Bartlett, one of the Defen-
dants, betted a sum of money that he would lift three
' of the heaviest men in the room at ence, and the
Plaintiff being short and punchy was selected as one
of the three ; the three men, for the convenience
of the one who was to lift them, were ordered to lay
themselves at length on the table. Accordingly
two of them laid down first, and the Plaintiff being
previously ordered to pull off his coat, was directed
to stretch himself at his length, with his face down-
wards on the top of them. The farce then began :
his two companions seized him, one by the head and
the other by the feet, and the rest of these comical fel-
lows proceeded to beat him most unmercifully with
pieces of rope, knotted handkerchiefs, &c. the poor fel-
low being all this time confined in such a manner, that
he could not perceive who struck him. Two of the
members, however, who were not so funny as the rest,
did not approve of the sport, and by their evidence
the defendants were all convicted.

The Magistrate, Mr. Fish, observed, that this was
a most outrageous and unprovoked assault, and un-
lets they could find means to satisfy the prosecutor,
he should commit them all for trial. On retiring
with the plaintiff, they accommodated the Matta by
agreeing to pay him £lO.

REPORT OF THE COMMIT FEE.
IkION DAY, OCT. 2.
The Committee for examining the affairs of Covent
Garden Theatre, consisting of the following Gentle-
men : Alderman SIT CHARLES PRICE, Bart. M.P. Sir
TnamAs .PI.UNIER, lint. his Majesty's Solicitor Ge-
neral, JOHN SYLVESTER, Esq. Recorder of the City
of London, JOON WHITMORE, Esq. Governor of the
Bank of England, and Jots .; JULIUS ANGER, I Gzx,Esq.
have authorised the Proprietors to publish the follow-
ing Report in their names :
We do hereby certify, that, after a full and atten-
tive examinatior of the subject uh:ch we have been
desired to investigate by the Proprietors of Covent-
Garden Theatre, for the satisfacti:;n of the Public, in
respect to the rate of profit received by them from the
late Theatre, and likely to be received from the new,
that the following is the result of our iiluiry :
The rate of profit actually received np.rn an ave-
rage of the last six years, commencing in 1803 (the
period of the present co-partnership in the Theatre),
upon the capital embarked therein, we have aNcer-
tained to have amounted to six 3-eighths per cent.
per annum, charging the concern with only the sum
actually paid for insurance on such part of the capital
as was insured ; but, if the whole of the capital had
been insured, the profit would have been reduced to
very little more than 5 per cent. and, for want of this
full insurance, the Proprietors being in part their own
insurers, sustained a loss by the late fire, for wh:ch
no compensation has been made, to the amount of
more than the whole of their profits for the above
period of six years.

- The rate of profit likely to he received in fatere
from the new Theatre, depending in part upon the
amount of bills, not "yet delivered, and of estimates
not fully ascertained, and on the future receipts of the
house, which are subject to various contingencies, can-
not be ascertained with the same degree of certainty;
but, upon the best consideration we have been able to
give to this subject, after having recourse to every
source of information, oral and written, we are fully
satisfied that the future profits of the new Theatre, at
the proposed advance in the prices of admission, will
amount to only three and a half per cent. per annum
upon the capital expended in the Theatre, if the same
he insured ; and that, upon the same supposition of
insurance, at the former prices of admission, the Pro-
prietors will, in our judgment, annually sustain a loss
of near per cent. per ann. on their capital.

CHARLES PRICE.
THOMAS PLUMER.
JOHN SILVESTER.

JOHN WHITMORE.
JOHN JULIUS ANGESRTEIV.
The account of the receipts and expenditure of the
six last years will be published to-morrow ; and the
public are respectfully informed, that the Theatre will
be re-opened on Wednesday next with the comic
opera of The Beggar': Opera, and the farce of Is he a
Prince ?

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING-1801.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 9.
Mr. Craven's Black Diamond, Bst. 21b. beat D. of Grafton's
c. Doleful, by Sorcerer, out of Bounty Sit. 61b.-Across the Flat,
200 gs. h. ft.-Two to one on Black Diamond.
Mr. Vansittart's Currycomb beat Ld. Lowther's Tot, Bst. 71b.
each.-Two-yr. old Course, 200 gs. h. ft.-Six to four on Curry-
comb.
General Grosvenor's Trump, 7st. 91b. beat Mr. Craven's Bean
Nash, est. 71b -R. M. Gen. Grosvenor to stake 300 gs. to 200 gs.
-Five to two on Trump.
Mr. Shoke,pear's Nondescript, 7st. Sib. beat 1). of Grafton's
Miltonia, oat. 71b -Last half of Ab. M. 160 gs. h. ft.-Two to
one agst. Nondescript.
The Second Year of a Renewal of the Subscription of sgs. each,
to be run for by 4-yr. olds, carrying 7sr. 71b.; 5-yr. olds, est.
61b.; 6-yr. olds, tist. 131 b.; and aged, 9st. 21h. B. C.
Mr. Kellerman's br. m. Muds de Venus, .syrs. - - 1
D. of Grafton's br. c. Vandyke, 4yrs. - - -
Sir C. Bunbury's h. f. Agnes, 4yrs.
Ten to 1 agst. l'Hude de Venus-3 to lon Vandyke-7 to 1 agst.
Agnes.
Mr. Craven's. Beau Nash, Bst. 21b. rec. 125 gs. from lA. F. Ben-
tinck's Job Thurnberry, Bst. 101b.-Two yr old Course, 100 gs.
h. ft.
Mr. Payne's Bulrush rec. ft. from Mr. Vansittart's Burleigh,
lit. 51b. each.-Two-yr. old Course, 200 gs. h. ft.
Gen. Gower's :Mirth, 7st. 51b. rec. from Ld. Sackville's Snail,
Bst. 71b.-Across the Flat, 100 gs.
Col. Thornton's ch. g. Thornville rec. from Sir G. Websteei
ch. g. Zig-zAg, 10st. 71b. each.-Across the Flat, 300 gs.

Nil PAL INTELLIGENCE.

PLYMOUTH-DOCK, OCTOBER 1.

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This day the SCYLLA brig, built at Dartmouth,
was put in commission at this port ; as was also la
NIEMEN frigate, and the command of her given to the
gallant Sir MICHAEL SEYMOUR, by whom she was
taken : she is as fine a frigate as any in the navy.—
This afternoon the TONNANT, 80 guns, and the CAP.
TAM, 74, came up harbour to be repaired. The
SWALLOW sloop is also coming up harbour.