Star.
London, England, 1814-02-05 00:00:00

N4V4L lAtisalczmdz.

EAST INDIA INTELLIOENCIL
The Sw.u.ww, captain BRODIE, Wen with rie
and Cotton, is arrived from Bengal at Gravesend, last
from the Isle of France, which she left the third of

November..
• The JOHN PALMIER was at the Isle of France, and
about to sail for Bourbon.
`!'be MORKIITOTON country ship left the Isle of
Frailest tba4siNovember, and vas G, touch at the

Cape.

CaptaM B*onsa passed St. Helena about the 10th
December, stand saw ten ships lying in the Roads.
FALMOUTH, FEBRUARY 9.
No arrivals.--,Sailed she Adventure packet for
Plymouth ; in going out.of harbour she ran foul of
and carried away the bowsprit of the Resolution
transport.—. Wind !d, W. fresh breezes. .
PORTSMOUTH, FEBRUARY 4.
Arrived his Majesty's ships ESP! OGLa and GRIM,
from the Eastward.--Sailed the ETNA LtON frigate,
with about forty sail of transports, for Passages.; his
Majesty's ships GLOUCESTRS, CA RNATVIN, and RO-
TA, with a fleet for the West Indies; the BULVA RIC
man of war, with a convoy for Bermuda and the Ba-
hama Islands; the SATURN, H v ORA. and Burraco,
for the North-American station; the HAZa it D frigate,
for Cork; MUROS sloop of war, to the W?stwil'd ;
HANNIBAL, SSA HORSIt; WOLVIAI NV, and SWINO/R,
for off Cherbourg.—Came into harbour his Majesty's
ships (late) TIGRE. MARLBOROUGH, and MIII.I)OMENt..
Went opt of harbour, the Hope, BUTTINFI ILL, for
Madeira.—His Majesty's ship•ALaicoita is appointed
convoy to the Brazils.—Wind East.
VEAL, FEBRUARY 4.
Put back by contrary winds, the Rorat.tin sloop
of war, with a convoy of transports that sailed yes-
terday for Holland. Sailed the whole of the outward-
bound merchantmen, transports, coasters, and col-
liers, under convoy of the GRIFFON sloop of war and
NYMPH 'cutter, to Portsmouth; his Majesty's ships
DIRMUDA and ToinicrArr on a eruite. Arrived the
FOiILSTONI lugger from the Roompot.
MARGATE, JANUARY at.
Saturday night we had a heavy gale at W.N.W.
which did not do any damage to the shipping in the
roads. But as the Queen lugger of this port was
going out with an anchor and cable, she ran upon the
advanced work of the pier head and sunk--the crew
with some difficulty were saved. r.e Thomas and
Elizabeth of Brnadstairs, being near, her people took
the anchor and cable on board, and though they made
the ship for which they were intended, the storm
had then so increased that it was impossible to pat
them on board of her ; they then made for Broad.
stairs, but through the inclemency of the night, it
was with difficulty they reached that place, with the
crew so overcome with cold, that one of them, Hills,
died, and four others are hardly expected to recover.
Very little damage was done either to our harbour
or town.

Lord Mum= gave a grand dinner yesterday, at
his house in the Admiralty.
The Transports having the 2d Battalions of the
11041 and 81st regiments on board, the former eom.
snanded by Colonel HAMILTON, and the latter by
Colonel MILLING, sailed on Thursday from the Downs,
fi'r Holland, but owing to contrary winds returned
yesterday, and again anchored in the Downs.
The 29th Regiment, 4 or Roleia Heroes," (now
on their way from Cadiz to Gibraltar) have been
very successful in the last volunteering from the Mi.
litia, 300 men having joined their depot at Cliches•
ter, This gallant corps is now upwards of 1000
stronz, and may look with confidence for a 2,1 Bat-
talion.

A gun-brig hat: arrived at Sheerness with a mail •
from Heligoland. The Lady Nepean packet is
froze up at Heligoland, and the Henry Freeling at
Gottenburgh.
The CHEROKEE sloop of war arrived in Leith-roads
on Tuesday night, from a cruize. She has brought
up with her a Danish cutter privateer, mounting sic
guns and 25 men, front North Bergen, but which
bad not taken a single prize.
The Paragon, FROST, iI"CM Hull to Lisbon, struck
on the -Kentish Knock on Thursday, and was *ban.
cloned by the crew.
EAST-INnta. House.—Yesterday a Court of Direc-
tors was held, when Captain T. LARKINS was sworn
into the command of the ship Warren Hastings, con-
signed to Bengal direct. A Ballot was taken for the
determination of the following Question :
" That this Court approve and confirm the following Resoht-
". don of the Court of Directors of the 19th uk. viz.
" Resolved By the Ballot, '1 hat the Court taking into cons!-
" deration all the circumstances relating to the former appoint-
" meet of Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Hislop, Bart, to the
" situation of Commander in Chief' at Bombiy, to his capture,
" and t o his subsequent appointment at Madras, is of opinion,
" that the sum of ifilsoo only, be given to Sir Thomas Hislop,
" In plade of 11900, op originally proposed by the Court."
At six o'clock the glasses were finally closed and
delivered to the Scrutineers, who reported the num.
bens to be--
For the Question

181

• 34.

lelejoeity against the Questlon - —ll7

MURA'I', SOI-DiSAN r KINL; OF NAPLES.

(Continued from yesterday's Paper )
On the occasion of the death tA IVLARAT, MotAT
sent to the Jacobin Club, in the street St. Honar, at
Paris, the tollowing letter, printed in.Le Journal del
Javobins of July 28th, 1793 : •
s' buoTusits nrn nom:ls—Chance nude my nan4
nearly the Same with that of the ever-regretted mar-
tyr of equality, MARA") ;fellow.fee/ing made me his
admirer, before conviction made me his worshipper,
or patriotism his follower, defender, and mourner.
Others have offered perfumes upon the altar of this
their country's God of Liberty ; others have com-
posed hymns to the glory of this the best and first of
French republicans ; others, again, have placed his
bust by the side of the immortal Gracchus, Publi-
cola,and Brutus!

" A soldier who possesses nothing but his love of
liberty and his valour, his enthusiasm, sansiuloniens*and
his sword, can neither build altars, nor carve statues,l
neither sing apotheoses nor mite deifications: but he
can do -more ;—he can immolate himself. If arfheca-
tomb of the carcasses of MA RAT'S friends had been,
decreed, upon its summit before this day should have
becn placed my corpse. It is neither ambition to
shine with borrowed colours, nor presumption to
think that millions of sans-culottes are not as good
patriots as myself. It is neither meant as a reproach
to the luke-warm zeal of others, nor as a praise of
that ardour, which almost consumes me, and forces
me to desire to eternalize the name of MARAT. No !
I am much above those petty and selfish considera-
tions. I am a sans-culotte by birth as well as MARAT;
my father died a victim to the tyranny of Kings, as
be did to the treachery of kingly aristocracy. lam
married to a sans-culotte woman, now in a situation
to give citizens to the Republic. Let my progeny
in . tortalize the memory of MARAT, by permitting
me to change only one letter in my name. I pro.
mice you, brothers and friends, upon the faith of a
jacohin mountaineer, that, should I observe any aris-
tocratical inclination in my children, another Brutus,
I shall be their executioner ! Accept, therefore, this
patriotic offer from your devoted fellow sans-culotte•
—The *obit's for ever I The mountain for ever !
The guillotine for ever !—Health and fraternity.
(Signed) 46 )(PRAT ci-devant MARAT."

This offer, however, was declined.
In the winter of the-same year, 1793, MURAT COM•
UMWled at Lyons a brigade of the horse Chasseurs
of the revolutionary army, with the 9:h regiment of
dragoons. These corps were chiefly employed there
to arrest those inhabitants, whom the vengeance or
ferocity of the pro-consuls, COLLOT D'HEnBOIS, Du-
BOIS-CREANCE) Foucuz, and others proscribed ; to
escort them, after their mock trials, to be executed,
or to execute them, by, shooting, or cutting them
down with their swords. In the spring of 1794, he
was ordered to join the army of the Alps, where he
continued without distinguishing himself until 1796,
when BONAPARTE assumed the command over that
army In June, he accompanied' the French Minis-
ter at Genoa, Faypoult, to the Doge,. with a sum-
mons in the name of BONAPARTE, to order the Impe-
rial Ambassador to leave the territory of-the Repub-
lic of Genoa within 48 hours. He here behaved with
such insolence, that in was with difficulty the old and
respectable Doge, whom lie had so ct,wardly insul:ed,
could prevent the people from tearing him to pieces.
Of the plunder of Italy he had a most ample sha re.
It is not our business to mark him out for vengeance
t. r any acts of atrocity committed by him agaittst
men with arms in their hands. We shall, therefore,
pass over such of his achievements as were stricel
military— it is his fitness as an European Sovereig
which we are now discussing, not his qualifications
a C.lptain of Brigands.—(n be iontinued.)

Bow-sinzerr.--A long investigation took elate
yesterday; before Mr. Noes, at this Office, respecting
the loss of a parcel, containing half bank notes to
the amount of XISOD, sent from Atherstone, Was-
wicks ire, by a coach, to the Golden Cross Inn, Ch.a.
-ring Cross. It had, been marked off by the book-,
keeper, but no traceemild be made' of it. The Ma-
- gistrate considered their mode of doing business very
slovenly, but no person was ordered into custody.
MA,b41051 H005z....T habited like a Qua-
ker, was yesterday examined, on a charge of forgery.
It appeared that, in the early part of last .weekohe
prisoner went to the shop ot. Mr. Thoroughgood, an
'engraver, inCheignside, presenting anthtbridgehank-
note, said his name swig Smith; that he was partner
in th:at Bank, and desired Mr. T. to engrave him a
plate corresponding with the note produced, and,
when done, print hum off one hundred copies. Mr.
Thonoughgood immediately put. the- order in hand,
bt4 some suspicions having arisen in his mind? 'he
went to the house of Masterman and Co. where the
Uxbridge bank: notes are made payable, and enquired
whether there were any of the partners of that firm
in town ? He was answered in the negative, upon
which he described the perstin who had gi‘'en
the• order, and mentioned the conversation which had
taken place. Messrs. Masterman said, that none of
the firni of the Uxbridge Bankanswered this descril-...
• tion, and it was arranged; that when •the prisoner
should conies for the impressions, he should be taken
into custody. Accordingly, on Saturday last, when
he callosi at Mr. Thoroughgcood's shop, an nfficer
was in waiting. Herecvived the plate and impres-
sions, and paid for them ; but just as he was quitting
the shop, he was seized and taken to the Mansion-
House, where he was searched, w 4 in ls 4 possession
were found not alone Eike-plate, whichite bad received
• of Mr. 'lloroughgood, but a considerable number of
. forged Sank of England nnteui-• He underwent a
private examination, and was remanded till .yester-
day,
_wheel the Solicitor of chit ligeartettencied ; and
the eit.e having been gone. 44%0. wei filly commit-
ted fur ilia.

PA IR ON Tfft

The sports on the Ice were continued yesterday
with increased effect. In addition to the implements
for amusement brought forward the preceding day,
several swings were erected, and kept in constant re-
quisition. The footpath in the centre of the River
was hard and secure, and among the pedestrians we
observed four donkies, which trotted a nimble pace,
and produced considerable merriment. At every
glance the spectator met with some pleasing novelty.
Kitchen fires and *taco wereblazing and boiling
in every direction, heed animals, from a sheep to a
rabbit, and a goose to a lark, were turning on num-
berless spits. The inscriptions' on the several booths
and lighters were variously whiinsical, one of which
ran humourously thus : " This Shop to Let.—N.B: It
is charged with no land-tax or even ground--rent ,'
Garni4g, in all its branches, threw out different
allurements, while honesty was out of the question.
Many of the itinerant admirers of the profits gained
by E. 0. Tables, Rouge et Noir, Te-totann, Wheel of
Fortune, the Garter, &c. were industrious in their
avocations, leaving their kind customers without a
penny to pay for the passage over a plank to the
shore. Skittles were played by several parties, and
the drinking-tents filled by females and their compa-
nions, dancing reels to the sound of fiddles, while
others sat round large fires, drinking rum, grog, and
other spirits. Tea, coffee, and 'eatables, were pro-
vided in amPt! order, while the Rassengers were in-
vited to eat, bI way of recording their visit..
Several respectable tradesmen also attended with
their wares, selling books, toys, and trinkets of every
description. Those who made purchases were pre-
sented with a label, setting forth, that the article was
bought on the Thames frozen over.
A number of printers having brought their presses,
pulled off various impressions, which they sold for a
trifle. One of these stainers of paper addressed the
spectators in the following terms Friends ! now
is your time to support the freedom of the press. Can
the press have greater liberty ? Here you find it
working in the middle of the Thames, and if you en-
courage us by buying our impressions, we will keep
it going in the true spirit of liberty during the frost.''
One of the articles printed and sold contained the
following lines.:
" Behold! the River Thames is frozen o'er,

Which lately ships of mighty burden bore!
Now different arts and pastimes here you see,
But Printing claims the superiority.
" Pyintvd to commemorate a remarkably severe Frost, which
comstienced December 427, 1813, accompanied by an unusual
thick Fog, that continued eight days, and was succeeded by a
tnniendou, fall of Snow, which prevented all communicatTim
with the Northern and Western roads, for several days.—The
1 flames presented a complete field of ice between Lcndon and
Blackfriars Bridges, on Monday, the 31st of J nuary,
1814."
A Fair is this day (Fet:uary 4,1814) held, and the whole space
between th two Bridges covered with spectators."
The above was surmounted by the Prince Regent's
Feathers, and motto Ich Dien, entwined with oak and
laurel. On each side a ship, as the emblem of Trade
and Industry.—Another.:

•
" FROST FAIR.
Amidst the arts which on the ha.•nes appear,
•To tell the wonders of this icy year,
Printing claims priorplace, which, at one view,
Erects a monument to Frost and you !"
" Printed on the River Thames, February 4, hi the fifty-fourth
y ear Of the nip of ittilis Ocorg. tit. Tttitu, A. 1.. t ► 1."

Another—
" 'Phis was printed on the River Thames, on Friday, the 4th
of February, 1814, opposite Queenhithe Stain."
- -

There were several copper-plate presses, which
rolled off various appropriate prints.
Among a few casualities which happened, was
one in which the interposition of PROVIDENCE was
most remarkably manifested. In the afternoon, !se-
sween four and five o'clock, while thousands were
traversing the ice between London and Blackfriars
Bridges, an accident, which excited a most painful
interest, took place. While the River is completely
frozen over in these parts, owing to the rapidity of
the stream the middle of the passage of the centre
arch of London Bridge is clear of ice ; the tide, on
its return, flows rapidly through it, and the sides only,
close to the abutments, are frozen. Many thought-
less persons, vying with each other in courting dan-
ger, not content with viewing this scene at a distance,
scrambled over masses of ice, and proceeding upon
the frozen margins under the arch, placed themselves
upon the abutment of the pier below the htiJgt!,
from which they viewed the River, which is there
perfectly open and in full flow. Among these bolsi
adventurers was a groupe of three men, two of whom
were busily employed in throwing heavy pieces of
ice upon a large one, which projt..cted over the ex-
tremity of the abutment, for the purpose of ascertain.
ing its strength. Having thus satisfiedthemselves of
its sufficiency to bear their weight, one of them; a
stout man, advanced upon it, trying his way with
his stick ; but he had not taken massy steps when
the whole broke with a loud crash, and he vas preci-
pitated with it into the vortex below/ and disappeared.
—ln the course of a minute, however, those upon
the bridge beheld him come round with the whirl-
pool, supported by x piece of that ice which had be-
trayed him to his dreadful situation ; this piece was
about a yard and a half square, and though im-
merged itself, so far supppot Led hire as to keep his
head alivive water. • He seemed to hold it fast in
his arms, but presently he was taken into the rapid
current ender the arch, and was swiftly borne down
the stream. Shouts for assistance and for boats re-
souoded from people on the bridge, and the watermen
on the kit bank lost no time in putting three boats
from the slmte. In this situation he continued to
float, and soon approaching a more violent eddy in
the stream, he sunk and disappeared again. Pre-
oently, how eyee, he rose' again, and one of the boats
was not far behind, but before it could reach the
place, he sunk for the third time, and the boat passed
over.the spot where he went down. His case now
seemed hopelt'ss, but to the great joy of the anxious
spectatui s, he was soon obierved in the astern of the
boat,: and the waterman extending his oar, with its
assistance rescued him, now nearly exhaustesl;from a
watery grave.

A Fair wasyesterdly held on the ice of Chiswick.-
Among other diveisicos, six young Virgin: ran, or
rather Akjefsed for -a decorated chemiu ! while the.
opposite sex were endeavouring to rival the distortions
of Grimaldi, by grinniug through horses' collars, for
a.pair of buckskin raufltatcha,
The Serpentine River was yesterday criowdidit and
among the %ay throng We tinaessed *WO-
guisbed Fisfiionables.

-..‘
n THE EDITOIe OF THE STAR. . ;1

formerly had occasion to advert to the mi.
serable state of those receptacles for the Poor, called
Farm Howe:, to which thei are transferred by opu-
lent Parishes, that wish the -burden of locally sop!
porting them to be shifted off their shoulder, and
where these objects are kept on a meagre subsistence,
are literally in rags, and a deplorable state of misery.
As I understand nothing has been done to remedy
this crying evil, I trust that a Parliamentary inves-
tigation will take place; since the very ekistence of
,such places conveys a national reflection—where the
aged and diseaseq, poor are huddled together in these
hovels of wretchedness, and are deprived of that com-
fort, cleanliness, and accommodation, which their seve•
ral circumstances so imperiously demand. vikron.

Wednesday se'nnight a Gentleman was knocked
down in King-street, Glasgow, at night, and tubbed
of fifty pounds.
Same night, another Gentleman was robbed of his
pocket-book; but the thief being pursued, he was ap-
prehended, and sent to jail.
About seven o'clock last night, a ticket-porter,
carrying a heavy load on his head, going up Lud-
gate-hill, hiippened to slip, fell on his back, and the
load fell on his breast. He was immediately taken
to a surgeon's at the end of Warwick.-lane, for as-
sistance, but iu vain, as he expired before he was
brought in.
W. Rawiec, a wretched looking man, was yester-
day brought up to the Mansion-House, charged
with stealing a half-quartern loaf from a baker's
basket. He pleaded hunger, and want of work, as
an excuse. The LORD MAYOR proposed sending him
to BriJewell, and having him receive the correction
of the house ; the baker, however, said he was no,
friend to whipping, and, at his request, that part of
the punishment was ordered to be withheld.

SINGULAR AND AwFut. CitscumsTANces.—On Sun-
day week, three men went from St. Dennis, near St.'
Columb, ler the purpose of tracing rabbits. They had
not proceeded tar before one broke his thigh in souse•
quence of a tall ; soon after which' another fell into a
tin pit ; and (melancholy to relate !) on the following'
day the' third was found dead I
SHEEP BURIED AN•THE SNow.—AbOut a• fortnight
hack, six sheep, the property of Mr. iilackbotne, a re•
spectable farmer, residing at Stock, near Chelmsford,
in Essex, were missed by the shepherd. Every means
which ingenuity could devise for their discovery was
tried, but in vain, till last Monday, when, as wale of
the lahouiers were cleating away a heap of snow
which hid drifted against the gitew.iy, they disco-
vered traces of the sheep ; and upon digging further
they found three of the poor animals. in an extremely
seduced state, but still perfectly lively. Upon pia-
suing the search turd-let, the other three were Sound
in a similar state. They had completely devoured ail
the herbage within their reach, even to the roots, and
from deficiency, as appeared by some of their coats,
it was believed they had literally eaten the wool from
each either'..s back.

•

THE. mziRKETS.

SMITHFIELD MARKET, FEBRUARY 4.
tit st ome or 811 b. To RINK Tat Wi'lfAL.
Beef 6s ed to is 4d Veal 7. ud to 8s 4d
Mutton 6s 41 to 'ls 611 1)..a. Od
Beasts, 730 —Stteltp, 3,450 —C.ilitec, 90—Pis, 14 O.

• PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW IN SMIIHeiIaLD.
Meadow Bay 41 Os to 51 Or Clover 41 Os to 51 Ot
kowen 01 us to UI 4;6 I waw li oas to 11 „Os

NEVtiGATE aNJI I..i.ADENHAL-1. mAkiais.
(by the Carcass)
"leer, per at. 4s 4:1 to Q. 04 Veal - 6s Od its is Oa
vlutton 41 8d to 6. 411 l'Airk - 7;13,d to 88. t.'

PRICE OF HOPS IN THE 13)ROUC-1 14181KKI.
- NEW BAGS. NEW NOC.KEiI.
`Zest 01 6s to 91 9., Kent' :I 0, to 121 6•
iussez 61 Os to 81 & i Swam 71 O. to 101 0;
Losez 81 Os to ill Ui !Farnham 101 Os to 161 10;

VRIOES OF HAY AND STRAW YESTERDAY.
S . JAmitt's. RIM EeiIAPILL.•
Hay 31 9. ru 51 Os thi Filly - 41 4s to 51 8.
•-riw 11 102 to 11 is; oLI Straw - 11 P:s to 11 18s
I Clover - GI Gs .• 71 0

RAW HIDES.
Best Heifers and Steers: (err Ordinary us Od to 2. 4,1
stone) % Od to Ss 4d Market Calf - -14 s each.
Middlings, 2s 6d to fa ISLi i Enm.kiarse 14s U.I to it:a CU
tillearlings, 54d to 96d—Lamb Millis. Ot,d to UO,l