Star.
London, England, 1801-07-31 00:00:00

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All the coat on the Eaftern Part of Kent is in a
{late of great preparation to repel the threatened
invafion. The Sea Fencibles have been feveral
times exercifed on board the REDOUBT, Captain
SH E P ERD, lying at Shelnefs Point,for the proteftion
of that part of the coal, and the oppofite Chore of
Whitftable and Hern Bay. The fquadron under
the command of that Officer have reteived orders
to put themlelves under the command of the.gal-
lant an
Lord bliEsow, d with fuch a leader what
stay
not be atc.hieved I
Were we to recommend any improvenlent in the
organization of that corps (the Sea Fencibles), it
mould be, that each of their veffels at Feverffiam,
Whitfiable, and Milton, fhould (in cafe of lava-
) be armed with a large piece of ordnance each :
the knowledge thefe people poffefs of the coal
would render them extremely ferviceable in this
intricate navigation. .

The voluminous General Infirm!lions to the Of-
6cers and Magiftrates on the coati, which were
prepared during Mr. Dundas's adminiftration of 1
the War Department, about three years ago. are
now reprinted, and circulated by Government
throughtsut all our Maritime Counties.
The brave 44th regiment has returned on board
the divifion of the -Baltic Fleet under Admiral
Foss, and has been landed at Cork.
Tha goth regiment lying at Hilfea Barracks, are
to embark immediately for Jerfey-
Lart week three Battalions of the 9th Foot
Marched through Lewes, on their route from Jet--
fey to Silver-hill Barracks.
On Monday and Tuefday laft, the iotb (or
Edinburgh) regiment of militia. marched to Glaf
gow barracks from Ayr, where they had been
quartered above a year.
On Friday, the 17th inft. the Cluny, Kingufie.
Eagan, end l3alleville Companies of Badenoch
Volunteers, were infpetfted at Benchar by Major
*Volunteers,
mat of Fort George.

In confequenee of the Militia Regiments being
called from Ipfwich, the Loyal Volunteers of: that
place, have offered their fervices to :All the Ca-
*airy in mounting guard; and, agreeably to in.
iirniftions received from the General of the Dif
trie, have refolved to moiler three times a week,
in order to be prepared for aBual fervice, in cafe
the prefent meditated attack by invafion from tie
French &mild be attempted.
The North Devon Militia on Tuefday had a
grand field day, at Weymouth.
Yefterday Morning Pestles Wizztast of Gson-
cssyte came over to Portfmouth from the I& of
Wight : when his Royal Highnefs got abreaft of
the Platform, a royal &lute was fired from the
battery, and he was received at the New Sally
port, by a Captain's guard of the oft Somerfet Re-
giment of Militia, with the Colours. •
At noon his Royal Highnefs reviewed the fol-
lowing Corps on Southfea Common,viz.Company
of tho Artillery t Troop of the 16th Dragoons.
...-The following Regiments of Militia : Norfolk ;
Dorfet ; Wilts ; oft et; ad Soznerfett Lin-
coln • and Woen efterlire.
The different regiments marched in open order,
zpd, as they paired the Paints, lowered their co-
Every Caps made a moll- excellent ap-
-.. and, on the whole, it was the' fineft
-aaele ever teen in the neighbourhood
ortfmouth.
-der that the Regiments might come full to
the following Vciluitteer Corps, &c.
various guards, viz.
Garrifon Volunteers, toinmanded
tarrt, Sheriff for the County, took
Gate t
Portfmouth Volunteers, commanded
Acton, took the Gun-wharf; Lion,
Gates:
Ponces Volunteers, commanded by Major
' the Dock-yard duty ; and the other
filled by Invalids.
number of cation procured Within the limits
*•,-t in confequence of the prefs warrants
the LORD MAYOiI in the prefent emer-
been very inconfiderable. None are fuf-
i carried on board the tender till they
previoufly been carried before the Loan
- whom their liability to be preffed is
aid a number have been difeharged as
the tZirtatiod• preili warrants. One
Who feized attempted to get off on
1 that t ere was a warrant out again&
debt. The LORD Mavoitl however,
to fufped that there was in this cafe
procure a releafe, granted permiftion
pretcaded debtor onboard the tender,
will no doubt be fpeedlly removed to
the enemies of his country.

AiSees at Maiditone, there was a caufc
its novelty, excited an uncommon
mention; Inch a clreumflante has not
half a Century ; it Was a trial of a writ
ihich Sir Inns Hon zywoon was De-
again( Lord Gwvisea, to recover a piece
The jury confifted of fixteen Knights.
difenflion, a verdict was given in fa-
nta Hossywooti.
Prince Max♦ Joosisa, fon or Sla-
t, who has been long in confinement
a cftlerequence of his joining Nitwit
oTpolities tb nor troops, has been releaf-
- to his relations near Delhi, under an
Chosen, a licentious people in the vicinity
, are again the occafion of much
in that diftrift. They infeft the
intercept all communication with the
uulefs attended by ftrong parties of

friendly difpofition of the King of
the Englifh, a fettlernent, it is laid,
formed on tfie coaft, for the exprefs our-
building (hips, as this country produces
of timber, admirably adapted for Ship-

CORN MARKET.

BLit/mar In yefterday's Prices at Bear—raid //60. I Cplartei.

The Wheat Market was very dull this morning
at Mark-lane—hardly any thing done—prices
atiout the fame as Taft Market day. Oats brifk,
and about is. dearer. Other articles the fame as
lail Market day.

The harveft is partially .begun in Sotnerfet, and
the neighbouring counties. Several fields of rye,
oats, and peafe, have been already cut down ; and
in the courfe of a week the wheat harveft will be
pretty general.—The hop plantations throughout
Herefordthire are in a very thriving condition.

Two acres of land, fituate about a mile and an
half from Lancaßer, for which the father of the
prefent owner gave fortyeight pounds, was lati
Saturday fold by private contrad for Seven Hun-
dred Guineas.

Mr. HoLimos, of Devonfhire-buildings, fowed
a pint of barley a fortnight before Lady-day; which
was cut the 18th infant, and produced 15 pints
of grain.

A letter from Lewes, dated July 27, rays, gg Th-
wheat harvell, which laft week commenced pare
tially in this neighbourhood, will, in the courfe of
the prefent week have become general, a circum-
Rance that perhaps has not before occurred fo ear-
ly in the feafon' within the memory of the oldeß
man living. Mr. Awnassits, of Hamfey, this
morning lent about twenty reapers into a field of
wheat as fine and as abundant as the earth ever
produced."
A letter from Chelmsford, in Effie, Rates, that
the harveß has commenced pretty generally in
that county, and from the plentiful appearance of
the refpeltive crops of grain, great hopes are en-
tertained of a fpeedy reduCtion in the prices of the
various articles which conftitutc the neceffaries of
life, but more particularly in that of bread corn.
The price of flour at Chelmsford has already fallen
threepence per peck.
Sunday laft a molt deßruetive fire happened at
Leaden-hall, in Leaden Roothing, at the farm of
Mr. DANIEL ALGAE, occafioned by a boy firing
off a gun near an old haulm wall, which, it is
fuppofed. caught fire from the wadding. A large
double barn, a fingle barn and Rraw-houfe, a
c lw-houfe with eleven calves, a calves pen, a hay
barn full of new hay, the Rabic with all the going.
Beers, and a cart-lodge with four waggons, were
entirely confimed. The dwelling-houfe was fe-
veral times on fire, but was prevented from being
deffmyed by the aaivity of thole prefent. Such
was the rapidity of the flamer, that no exertions
could poffibly have prevented, the deftruetion of
the buildings. The engines from Dunmow and
Fettled were loon prefent, but every exertion was
rendered totally fruitlefs, and not an atom of the
buildings remains to receive the prefent corn. This
is one of the many accidents which have occurred
by the fame imprudent Reps of firing a gun near
itraw, haulm, or thatched buildings.
In Brittlowell Church-yard, near South End, a
Mall bat two wive% buried in one grays ; and, af-
ter recording their feveral virtues, the Epitaph
has the following whimfical termination :
Were k in my choice that either of the mai=
Might be restored to me to enjoy spine ;
Which mould I chafe ? Well, thee I know not whether,
_ _

111 mourn far the tors of bath, did will *dawn
PAPER CRIDIT.—The too much or too little of
Paper Circulation is not defined by the number of
lions aetually afloat, but by the quantity of
mcrcinindize to be circulated. If, for inftance,
the Commerce of this country required at any
Fivo, period a medium of 10 millions to circulate
it, and at another fubfequent period it had in-
created Iwo-fold, it is evident that a circulation of
442 millions would be requifite ; and fuch an in-
create of the circulating medium would imply no
abufe of public confidence, but on the contrary it
would be a lure proof of increafing profperity ;
becaufe every Bill and Note fo ailed would be a
donnish fign of fo much merchandise bought and
fold, and pOel from one proprietor to another.
But the abufe of this fyllem confills in what are
ufually called Actanntodation Bills or Notes, be-
tween the original parties, of which there did not
pafi, ever not gives or received, any real value or
confederation- Of fuch there are probably a great
many millions now afloat, one and all arrant
cheats and impofitions on the public, cheats
44 which have increafed, are inereafing, and ought to
be fuppreffed :" for then are produaive of a great
deal of rnifchief to fociety. They caufe luxury
and idlenefs. A London fhop-keeper, who ought
to be joehind his counter, is at his country-houfe,
or at.t he Races or the Watering Place. Has he
dtbts to pay which mutt be paid-, does he abate his
exgences and increafe his induftry ? No. he fends
his•ootes to another in like circumftances, who
obligingly returns his own. Each difpatches a
fpecial mefenger to town with there notes. The
bankers difcount them, and fo the cheat goes on,
until Tome link of the chain breaks. iThe whole fet
become bankrupt ; and hence three-fourths of all
the conuniffions of bankruptcy in the London
Gazette.
Such like tranfaCtions caufe an immenfe increafe
of price in all the neceffaries and conveniences of
life. tit. By tempting the aforefaid fhopkeepers
to fpend more in if month than the reafonable pro-
fits of a year; and sclly, by enabling the growers
and forelbillera ofprovifions to withhold them from
market. The farmer mutt donbtlefs pay his rent ;
but there Is no an. go to market, betaufe be is
grown into credit, and on his fimple note the Vil-
lage Boxier gives his seta, deducing only s per
cent.—The landlord is content with theft &reds
and patches of old rags. The market is ftarved,
the price of courfe rites; the middle men Bring up
like fungufes out of this hot-bed of corruption, and
the public miferably fact. In like manner mo ,
nopolizers and foreftallers mu* pay; but they too
have credit with the banker, who likewife affords
them the means of fattening on public miferr.
This mifohiorous fyltem might be unveiled in
many more shapes, but ask ere
its mous tcadcacT. . .

SPORTJMG

ICNITTSFOItD, CHMMt.

On Tuefday, July 28, a Maiden Plate of sot
3-mile head: •
Mr. C. Smith'a gr. c. Nautilus. 4 yrs. old. I I
Mr. C.'Cholmondeley's br. b. Mobbcrly Crab,y yrs. old, 2 dr.
Lord Grey's ch. c. Edgar, by Trumpator, 811.
beat Mr. Leigh's b. f. filler to Haphazaid, 711.
alb. two miles, wogs.

BURFORD.
Weslnefday, July 29,his Majefty's plate of soogs.
for 5-yrs olds.

Sir C. Bunbury'r bl. h. Sorcerer, walked over.

The Cup, a Subfcription of logs. each, by fix
Subfcribers.
Mr. J. White's br. c. brother to Viret, by Volunteer 1
Major Snell's b. S. Crocodile, by Toby a
The ref! paid.
Five to two on Mr. White's colt, who won with

cafe.

The Bury Races commenced on Tnefday fe'n-
night, when the Gold Cup, value wogs. and Bogs.
in fpccie, was walked over for by Mr. Fane's.
Worthy.—Same day, the Town Plats of pl. and
on Wednefday the Noblemen and Gentlemen's
Purfe of Sol. were won by Sir F. Poole's br. f.
Tawny, 4 yrs. old.—Thurfday, a Purfe of Sol. the
gift of the Duke of Marlborough, was won by
Sir C. Bunbury's b. h. Sorcerer.—The Stewards
for the next year are Lord FIANCIS Steam', and
GEO. FRED. STRATTON, Efq.
At Tiptree Races, which did not afford much
['port, a woman had her leg broken ; the flu& of
a chaife came in contaa with the theft of a honk,
and killed him upon the fpot ; feveral challis were
overturned, and a poney killed.

SAILINO-MATEH.—Five boats fluted Teflerday
afternoon from Blackfriars Bridge, proceeded to
Putney Bridge, and returned to a barge moored
off Vauxhall. The conteft lay chiefly between the
Caroline, Capt. Tu am an, and the Mercury, Capt.
ASTLEY• The latter, with much difficulty, won
the prize, which was a Silver Cup and Cover, given
by Mr. SMITH, of Vauxhall. The match afford-
ed confiderable diverfion, and much frill was dif-
played on the occafion.

rRRLAAIf

MILITARY PROMOTIONS

WAI-OYFICI, DUBLIN CASTLTI; JULY 20. ''4
His Majefty has been ple.tfcd to make the fi4:
lowing promotions in the army on this efiablifis.
ment :

24th Light- Dragoon.—Mr. E. S. Trotter Ruthren, Cornet,
rite Goulding, promoted.
7 a ft Foot—Enfign Omits, from 624 Foot, Lieptenant;
without porthole, *lee Dalrymple, promoted In the 2,5 th
•
Foot.

Prin eels of Wa/es's. or Aberdeen Highland Pencil:4e Infantry—.
Enfign Andrew Gallagher, Lieutenant, vice Kerr. Winifred
the ferriee b•; lenience of a General Court Martial.
Quarter-Mal!ei--.Serjeant David Dipple, EnEgo, vice Gal-
lagher, promoted.
Mr. Angus M•Donnel, Enfign, vice Kennon, sliftniffed the
fervice by femme; of a General Court Martial.
Mr. Donald M'Lehd, Enfign, tiee Scarfon, rained.

,
DUBLIN, JULY al. . •
At Wicklow Aflizes Yefterday, Lieutenant-Co..
lonel Sanity, Lieutenant Darby, Lieutenant Reed;
and nfign Difney, all, of the City of Dublin MiliT
tiat were tried for a riot and affattlt upon Captaiq
Jour GITIAIIN of the Came g,egiment, on the f 7da
of December lad. They were all fully conviaed..
On an infpeetion of the Revenue ceiling nut of
Stamp Duties recently made by D'Aitcylqatioe,
Efq. in the Counties of Wicklow and Weiferd,
fined one hundred and fortmltree perfons for hav-
ing kept fpanitls; pointers; Acting dogs, boundi
or greyhounds, or for having purlued game with
out having the Certificate required by .L iw for
that purpofe ; the penalty is 291. for each offence:.
In thefe Counties he alfo fined feveral perfons for
having fold unflamped hats, and for having retail
ed hats without licence.

The following account of the icey eitritedinary•
cfcape of the prifoners frotnNewsation Saturday
morning !all, may be.relied on as authentic i—On
the ground floor in the inner yard, IS Prifuneri
were confined in four cells, to each of which there
is an iron door leading to the upper apartmentsi
at the foot of which there is alto an iron door. On
Wednefday laft, about twelve o'clock, the prifoners
perceiving that their cells were infpeeted by the:
turnkeys; conceived it to be a good time to attempt
their efcape before the next infpeftioili and ae.
cordingly on that day, while they had the liberty
of the yard, they agreed on their plan ; whicH
the want of a rope to defcend by from the roof,
preiented the execution of on thstt night ; but the•
next day, one of their wives having cnntiived to
convey them a rope, on that night they made the
necelfary breaches, which they effeded between (e-
-ven and nine o'clock, having been locked up at fix:
Their plan was to break a communication betviseen
the cells, and thence to die nabs, which they effett
ed with no other inflrnmenti than one piece of iron'
about fix inches long, and their knives ; with theft
they made their way through the thick walls they
fopport the arches of the cells.—On afeending the:
hairs, they were flopped by a door at the foot irf•
the upper flight ; this:difficulty, hoivever, they loon
' overcame, as a wall built in place of the Nana rail.-
ing is but four inches thick : they next hid to en•.
counter an iron grate in the chimney of an upper
room, but by breaking the will at the end of the
grate they got above it.

Having thus opened a paffige to the roof, tlir.
next objea was to get rid of the heavy irons n ith
which fome of them were bolted,; they th,:ref ire
waited 'till the next night. On their return to their
cells they (topped the breaches with ftnnes, and
next day the Deputy-Gaoler having an informa-•
tion that one of the prifoners had recitteled of a
woman to bring him a rope for the purpofe of
efcaping, he loaded him with irons, which, how.
ever, he contrived to file off, and efcaped with the
reft. About one o'clock on Saturday morning, r 6
cf them got on the roof of the Eteftions-houfe, at the
end of Which, next to Green-ftreet, they railed.the
lead, and fattened a rope to one of the rafters, by
which they defcended to the wafte ground be-
tween the Setfions-houfe and the Sheriff's prifn.
The lag of the 16, named Traynor, alias Murphy,
diftinetly heard the only centinel in view (who
place they detcended) regularly challenge every
man as he walked away; they anfwered" a friend,
and were fuffered topes into Green-Rivet ; but
on Murphy's getting to the ground, the centinel,
who by this time had approached the fpot, after
challenging, perceived the rope, and exclairged—
i, you came down by that rope ," which the other
acknowledged, and furrendere. It is not more
extraordinary than true that one of the prifoners
efcaped with a tingle bolt on.

A quantity of pork was yefteiday morning
taken out of the river near Wethnead, by Roberts,
a Merman, who was dragging for his eel bafkets.
A few day ago the miffrers of a lodging houre in
Fenchurch-tireet was fwindled and robbed in a
manner fornewhat novel t A young man of gen-
teel appearance had taken her fecond floor in the
morning, and about two he returned with a pot.
ter carrying his baggage. As loon as the porter
had laid down his load he defined him to go to a
coffee-houfe in Fleet.fireet, where he would find a
box containing fame things of great value ; and
with many injundions to take care of it he ordered
him to bring it to FenchurchAreet immediately.
In a few minutes he recolleeed that he had an ap.
?ointment with Tome one at a neighbouring coffee-
, houfe. He therefore told his landlady that he
muff go out, but that he thould return in half an
hour. Before he took his leave, however, putting
his hand into his pocket, he faid he lhould proba-
bly have occafion for a few fhillings at the place
he was going to, but diat he had no (mailer piece
of money than a col. bank note. The mittrefs of
the honk, with more good nature than prudence,
offered him a guinea, and with this he immediate-
ly walked off. She did not remain long. blind to
her error ; for the porter upon his return informed
her that no fuch perfen as the gentleman named
to him had ever been heard of at the Coffee-hoofs
in Fleet-thee. When the examined her parlour
the found that a watch and feveral olier articles
had been Rolm, and the trunks upon being broke
doPen• proved to have been filled with rabbit:h.

The different
end, as they pa
kors. Every 1
pearance, and,
military fpeftac
of Portfmouth.
In order that
the ground, th
took the ration
The Royal 1
by Major Gees
the LaneiporF C
The Loyal P
by Colonel At,
and Unicorn G
The Porde-a'
Catoo, took tl
guards were fill
The number
of the city) in
allowed by the
gcncy, has been
fered to be cart
have prevtoun,
MAYOR, by toli
examined, and
not within the
individual who
the pretence the
bins for a del"
ficing reafon to
a cabin= to p
to carry the pre
whence he will
fight agalult th
At the Alfa
which, from It
degree of mem
occurred for ha
of right, in wh
• lendant, againf
of land, The
• After a long di
'bur of Sir ion
The young
11111bIll SOM.,
n teaares, in
LI, is Oppofit
t and fent to
• ort.
r The Oman
of Midnapoor,
difiurbance in
"flees, and int
Eaitward, unit
&Pins.
• From the fr
Ars towards tl
is to be forme
e of buildir
'all forefts of t
Ji:ding.