Star.
London, England, 1804-10-05 00:00:00

Rordt, FAMILr.

War mourn, OEt. 3.—Laft night the Royal Fa.
mily attended the Theatre ; the performance.; were,
TLe lt'cn.4•r, and 'Wing the Wind i which went „a
highly to the fatibfaaiuo of their Majeities and a
crowded audience. _ _

Early this morning his MAJESTY infpeaed the Ger
man Legion; and after hreakfaft the whole of the
Royal Family, accompanied by nearly the entire of
the beauty and fafhiop of the place, made an aqua-
tic excurfion on board the Royal Sovereign yacht.

Yellerdsy the Houk of Lords met, pit& da. and
their next .meeting was prorogued by Lomminion
until the 27th of November. The LORD CHAWCFL
Loa, Lords HAWRASSURR and Est.owsnitoucm, far
as Coromblioners in the name of the KING.

Yellen'? y difpatches were received from Admiral
Cosy wAssis, off Brett, dated the aBth alt. The)
were brought by the VT 1,, 0174 guns, arrived
at Kynaouth ; and Rate the harbour ofitochefort to
be clofely watched for the purpofe of preventing any
gun boats from entering that port.

YellerdAy a Board was hold at the Admiralty, for
the examination of difabled fearrien and marines, foi
admi Ilion into Greensick Hofpital.

The contract for Applying the Navy with frith
proviiions, was yetterday taken by Wins. B iccs,
Buzeowss, and CANNING. The quantity
contracted Ir.r is comparatively much linaller than
*foal, being fly goo° tierces of pork, and 60c0
tierces of beef. The c...mpetitors were very nume•
roue. Among them were Mellis. Aldermen FLOW.
ER, ROWCROFT. JORDAN and &UAW t J. GAMIN and
CO. j THORNTON and Btittartura, The price taken
is fuppofed to be low.

The Confervator Eflabliffinsent of Dublin has un-
dergone a modification, by order of Government.
Inflead of fifty difirieli, the whole are now coroprif-
ed into twenty.one, which will be a laving of twenty,
nine clerks, and the ♦ent of as many offices ; this
alteration is only for fix months, a new Bill being in
contemplation, to be brought forward early in the
next meeting of Parliament, relative to the gover-
nance of that city.
The Right Hon. GIORGI Ross is returned to fent
for the Borough of Chritichurch.

We are autiorifed totoatraft a paragraph copied
from the 'stench into tome of the Englifh newfpapers,
in which it is Rated that Sir JAM 11 CIAOFORD broke
ha parole in quitting France. It is impolfible, at
prefent, to lay before the isublie The cirennallances
of this Gentleman's departure from- that country,
in which be was treated with osscomnion rigour.
Suffice it, therefore, in the mean time to fay, 0* hit
was we band dy day ti ohaleow se rowan is it.
ELICTION roe LORD MATOR.•—At the clofe Of the
poll at Guildhall yeilerday the numbers Rood as fol•
tow :
For Aidarinse Perebar4 • • 1196
Mantuan Sbaw • • 243$
Al4cresfte Flower - •
_6O

The Duke of Oat tans, Dnke de MO $llll,
Count Beauro Lets, And tome other Gentlemen, left
Brighton 1.411 v. t_ic, on a vifit to the French Coaft.
Fhey were driven by contrary winds clofe under
Bowlogue, batteries of which filed at them, and
the fkot and firefly fell in abundance around the vet:
lel. Fortunately, howevet.thet got off without expe-
riencing any injur.. and fleeted for DOngenefs, where
they laudtd in iafety, proteeded to London.

There Lre54,000 difciplined foldiers. regulars and
militia, within the Kent and Suffer didrias. Mar-
tell° towers arc ereding on every point. of the cu 4
here they can be of lervice.

The Dutch have made a prnpoUtion to our Go•
vernment for an exchange of prifoners.
Pisar►o, and The Workbag Day, were performed
laft night at Drury Lane. Mr. Rsvmorto (Whined
the part of Rolla, with luccef, Mrs. josostes Lady
t.ontli, i the Afterpiece, as utual, enraptured the
audience.—Her Fong was given with the mull mot-
fite fweetnefs and delicacy.

The 141 of the frith Bards, named Hennefy, a ve-
nerable old ice', shove 70, relides at Dundalk, in
the North of Ireland. He is blind ; and upon the
old national inftrument, the Irifh harp, he is juilly
elteemed as the Orpheus of the country. He has
fublifted for many years upon the generofity of his
occafional vifitants.

Two tradefmcn in Shadwell, admirers of one and
the fame Lady, both candidates for her favour, and
jealouq, of courfe, refolved, Lin week, to decide their
quarrel with fword 'and viol, in Stepney Fields,
near the Ben Johnfon's Fkad. The challenge, how.
ever, having tranfpired, a party of constables from
the Police Office, Shadwell, took the amorous heroes
into custody, and they were bound over to kelp the
peace.

In a garden in the Mill-hill of Muffe'burgh, belong-
ing to Mr. Rouser isiois, vintner there, n an apple
tree with three different crops f f,uit this feafon—
One fully ripe, thc fccon,.l as large as walnuts, and the.
third in blotThm.

On Saturday the 2:d ult. there was dug tip in
a field At Leonard's HAli, near Perth, a pottatoe of
the eariy Champaign kind, ueighing no lefs than 251
ounces. At the fame root their were a great num-
ber betides, fume of th:ta nut lefs than nine or ten
ounces.

The hop-grritind. of Siiffex, we believe, were never
known to be more proditelive than at the prefeni
fon. Their general growth is etlimated at alvoa
two cwt. per hill, whidi is double wha: is deemed a
fair average crop. The weather has been ertiemily
favourable to tl.e picking, which the prefent week
will complete. They ate for the moil part of excel•
lent quality, h lying ertiiely cfcaprd the mildew.
which we iincl.,r,Luid has been more ur leis injurious
to the crops in Kent.

At Jeillitegh fair on Tnefday ft.'nnight, there was
a middling K.,od flinv of black cattle, there were,
however, but few fouth country buyers, and conies
quently a dull ft:e , good lit bri uAllt A tolerable
price, but lean anJ ynunm. cattle w• re bought very
e,tinfiable, anJ many went out the fair uniHd.

The tup fair At }la,* ick nn Saturday fc'nnight WU
uncontrnr.nly full, and a rester variety than ufaal.
A gnnd number were 1.61 d, but mr.re remained unfold
fornt S,.uth Downs letched rei;•:Uable prim., that
kind cutnirqg nun: int. requelt.