Star.
London, England, 1812-03-17 00:00:00

- .IEAUL EXCURSION.

to etintk the attion, and therefor* pray that tho
judlimeot of the Court of Session be reversed.
'1 he respondents humbly hoped, that the interlo-
cutors appealed against would be affitmed, fcr the
following reasons :
Ist. Because the father of the respondents wu deprived of his ,
life, in consequence of dip culpable negligence of the appellant;
and according to the law of Scot land they are en•itledtodamages,
in reparation of the severe loss and injury they have sulfered by
their lather's untimely deat;i. 4
2d. Because the sum of damages which has been decreed by
the Court of Sess;on, cannot en any point of view be considered
as more than was jug!), tile, considering the grievous ar.ti
table injury which was inflicted on the respondents by the ap-
pellant's negligence. The House of Lords (20th Feb. 18 1 :;) or-
dered and adjudged " That the said petition and appeal he, and is
hereby disni,ssed this House ; and that the said ititeriocutors
therein cumpiained of be, and the same are hereby aairmed.: and
it is further ordered, that the arpellant do ply, or cause to be
paid to the said respondents, the stun of ,C3tso tar their CMS, in
respect of the said appeal...
The pursuer now presented a petition to the
Court of Session, craving their Lordships to apply
the above judgment of the Right Hon. the House of
Lords, and to decern for payment of the interest
upon the £BOO of tl'e damages,and £lOO of eNpences
found due by the judgment of the Court appealed,
from Whitsunday, and of the 420 from the '2.1 July
1806, and of the whole in time coming, till paid:—
The Court (sth March, 161'2) of consent of the de-
Ifender, granted an interim decree for the principal
sum and expences, and as to the claim for interest, ap-
pointed the petition to be answered the first box-day.

Madame Rractunn had the temerity to ascend
from Koningslierg in a balloon on the t."..1d January,
whet' she ran great hazard of her life. The follow
ing is her relation :
" The ascension was rapid, but regular, and without any coo-
iderable.vicillation. I bad scarcely passed the clouds, however,
when the swiftness doubled, and a violent hurricane tossed the
balloon to and fro in all directions. I was standing in the gondola,
holdlogowith one band the inf.-rior orifice tightly tined, and with
the other my barometer suspended ky a string. be balloon be-
came on a sudden prodigiouey inMed, and the mercury in the
barometer stood only At elev.n inches. I fainted, the c-Iti and
extremely raribed air biteing neatly devolved me of respiration.
I however in a moment recovered my seems; but this moment
was the most (oast! of my life: I found myself lying in the goo.
doia—my barometer I had lost. The first object I perceived was
the balloon empty, torn through its whole length, thus forming
several long *tripes, &Wog In the middle of the net which was
torn in the same meow; several detached piton Mit were like-
wise floating in the air. I started up suddenly, seeing death thus
staring me in the face; aed by this motion, a part of the net,
which still held the balloon was torn with violence, and I was
only suspended by some threads. A moment atter, another gust
of wind struck the side of the taffety; and to descend through the
, clouds touch the-summits of some trees, and faint away again,
I was the affair of an instant. When I came to my senses again,
found myself in the Innate of the Sieur liiiiariaane at Sam I.
[ Thither, in fact, Madame Reichard bad leen conveyed, half
dead, by sonic peasants, who had found her on a rock, with the
remains of her balloon, and by her fide the yeadola, only heist
by three aright cords by which it had been originally suspen.led.)

The following are the appointments for the en-
suing Spring Circuits in Scotland :
SOUTR—The Lord Justice Clerk and Lord Hesmand.
Jedburgli Wednesday April IS.
Dumfries Monday .-- 20.
Ayr Saturday - 25.
NART it—Lord Armatlale and Lord Gila's.
Inverness Friday April 10.
Aberdeen Friday .---- 17.
Perth Wednesday 22.
Warr—Lord Mcadnwbank and Lord Woodhouselee.
Stirling. t,aturday April 18.
Inverary Thursday 23.
Glasgow Monday ..-- 27.

POLICE.

A decided superiority of Chances, 26, Corral;ll.— I
Ruinous' and Co. respectfully acquaint the Public,
that the Lottery to be drawn the 80th of next month
claims a preference to any preceding Lottery, having
a long list of Capital Prizes, and so well arranged as
to meet with universal approbation. Ticket, and
Shares are selling in great variety, and at the lowest
prices, at their old-established State Lottery Office,
Cornhill, where all prizes are immediately paid.—
Orders by Pbst or Carrier executed with fidelity and
dispatch. Schemes at large gratis.
Wednesday, an old woman, in the act of filling a
vessel with water, at a well in the Citadel, Leith,
fell in, and was drowned before the accident was
discovered.

-- I Wednesday afternoon, as a Gentleman's carriage
BeW-STREET.—Yesterday &mud Cubits was charg- ! Was returning from Herriot-row, Edinburgh, where
ed with beating - and ill-treating Sarah Oakley, his it had set him down, the foot-board unfortunately
apprentice, from the parish of St. Andrew's, Holborn. I gave way, when the coachman and footman were
Ihe defendant had beaten her, and the only place het thrown from the box, anal the horses immediately ran
had given her to sleep in was the landing-place of the : off ; a carpenter, returning from his work, incau-
stairs, sometimes only on the boards. He had fie-' tiously endeavoured to stop them ; he was rode over,
quently turned her out of doors, when she has been' however, and so severely hurt, that his life is des-
humanely taken in by a neighbour. The complaint paired of. The coachman had both his lees broken,
was brought forward by a lodger of the defendant's. and is not expected to live. o
—The Magistrates postponed their decision. I On Tuesdee last, the waggoner of Mr. Arnold, of
Thomas IVathinson was fully committed for trial,' Bramley, Surrey, was found dead on the road near
charged with feloniously stealing a quantity of wine, Wandsworth. It was supposed he was riding on the
the property of Mr. Robertson, from his cellars, in shafts of the waggon, and falling into a sleep he fell
Villiers-street, in the Strand. Mr. Robertson said, from the same, and was crushed in a shocking manner
he might be robbed to a considerable extent, without by the wheels going over his body.
discovering it, his stock being so large; however, .
A melancholy accidenclately took place at the
lately he suspected that he had been robbed, and .
distillery, near the Water-course, at Cork. It appears
three of his porters have been taken into custody.— distillery,
great wooden vat, which had been the common
One of them had been in his employ eighteen years,
with liberal wages. He declared that for the first . reservoir for about three or four hundred tons of water,
fourteen years he had net robbed his master of the situate in that part of the premises that lay next to
the road burst by the excessive pressure, when the
most trifling article; but confessed he had been a '
adjoining wall was suddenly forced from its position,
participator in frequently robbing his master for the
add three persons, who were passing at the moment,
last four years. The two other porters made similar
I
confessions; but all of them agreed. in accusing the literally crushed to death.
prisoner Watkinsoa, who possessed the greatest confi-1 Saturday se'nnight B. Minuet-, aged six years, the
son of a labouring man in Trowse Millgate, was d--
dente of his employer. It appeared that he had been
sired by his father to go to school, to with be pre-
stealing wine to a very great extent, such as hogs- sired
going to Norwich in his father's cart, though
heads of port, 24., %), and sixteen dozens of claret and ,
Madeira, which had been sold to tavern keepers, cof- in opposition to his d.rections, and whilst his father
fee-houses, private gentlemen, and others, semeef was in the house, he took the opportunity of conceal-
times in his own name, sometimes with permits, and ! in himself under a tent at the tore part of the cart,
and in that state proceeded unobserved. On unload-
at others without any. It was supposed some of the !
his cart, the parent found his child lifeless. His
purchasers would have been implicated, but none of ink
death appeared to proceed from suffocation, behaving
them are in custody. On the porters being detected
and taken into custody, the prisoner absconded, but
palled an iron bar upon his chest, in endeavouring to
afterwards surrendered, and the porters were admit- avoid detection.
ted evielences against him. They received a small Friday S. Beale, a pilot, of Portsmouth, was
proportion of what the prisoner sold the wine for. / moving the Bushgrovc transport down the harbour,
Gutermeeee—Yesterdey a young man, calling . when the warp with which they were canting her,
himself John Brown, attired •in the dress of a sailor,: broke with great violence, a very heavy strain being
was brought before Sir JOIIN ANDERSON, the Sitting; upon it, and the part attached to the ship flying on
Magistrate, accused by Mrs. Page, keeper of a lodg- : board, struck Beale, and broke both his arms ; woun-
ing-house on the banks of the Thames, with having ded the Captain (Thompson) in the hand, and frac.
absconded and carried away some valuable pro- tuned a boy's head. Beale and the boy lie in a dan-
perty from the house of which she wis proprietor. geroui state. !
—Mrs. Page said, that a few weeks ago the prisoner EXTRAORDINARY Seeen.--On Tuesday last, a
came to her house, requesting to be accommodated , party of Gentlemen, for a considerable bet, set oft
with lodgings, saying he belonged to a foreign vessel I from the George Inn, Portsmouth, in a barouche and
coming up the river, and giving her letters of post four horses, to reach London, a distance of 72 miles,
respectable reference as to character and surety ,in seven hours three quarters ; which, to the astonish-
for her rent, which she, dazzled by the assumed ' ment of both parties, was accomplished in five hours
simplicity and seafaring countenance of the man, and thirty-one minutes, being two hours and fourteen
forbore to go and inquire after. When fairly fixed - minutes leis than the given time ; averaging above
in the house he began to talk of his adventures
abroad, and particularly insisted on the comeliness .14; miles an hour.
and adroitness of a monkey and a parrot which he had Doeentss.—The. journal of the Department of
!Professor. of Natural History, to the Preteet of the
left behind him in the ship, and which he very Inge-
Cotes du Nord contains a report from M. Le Maoux,
niously desired the landlord, who was a waterman, i Department, stating, that some,fishermen o: Plan-
to take his boat and bring up t:ee river and keep for ,
mi.
telaaalenee lately fell in with seventy enormous dol. I
his pains. After proceeding with a variety of
phins, which they chaced. One of these animals, I
nccuvres of too common place notorietj to relate! bavin,
been wounded, fled towards the shore,' and
here, he finally requested one of the lodgers to lend' °
all the rest proceeded in the same direction. Having
him his umbrella, to walk opt in a shower with,
got aground, and being deprived of their element,
which was directly given him, and then he absconded, I
they struggled several days uttering mournful sounds.
carrying away a great coat belonging eo the land-;
i The scene filled the spectators with pity and terror.
lord. The prisoner, in his defence, admitted that he
had taken the coat, and accepted the umbrella, which I 'Among the seventy twelve were sucking, each seven
fret and a half long ; the largest of the adults
nineteen feet long, and her greatest was a
he gave to a hawker Jew, then in Court, for three I
; female, &cum-
shillings each. He expressed the utmost readiness to
fight for his King and Country. The Jew appeared i Terence was ten feet.
in court, and utterly denied having any acquaintance
with the prisoner, or having rurchased, at any price,
the articles in question. The prisoner was fully
committed for trial, and the parties bound over to

prosecute.
A stout Hibernian, from the County of Mayo, had
to find a couple of sureties for his peaceable demea-
nour towards a publican of `Vest-street, whose beer
he had tippled, and whose windows he had smashed,
in a kind of parting frolic, On Saturday evening. -

BIRTH.
At Sheerness, on the 9th inst. the Lady of Wm. Cogh craft,
Esq. Commander of ti.e Sussex, of a son.

On Thursday, Lieutenant John Sandy:, ofhis Ma-
jesty's ship VOLAGY, was tried by a Court Mar:ial at
Portsmouth. on a charge of intemperance on his watch
at sea ; he was only sentenced to be dismissed from
the VoLAox, in consequence of Tavourable circtun-
stanceL. C. Wation, for desertion from the ROYAL
WILLIAM, was sentenced to receive, 100 lashes; J.
Far:nine:on, and/. Hans, for desertion from the GUAM.
Pcs, 2gu lashes each.

• DIED
Sunday evening, die Hoe. Lieutenant-General Vera Poulett,
of Addington :louse, Bucks.
At Calcutta, on the lit September last, Lieutenant William
Crooks, of the Honourable East India Company's 23d Regiment
of Native lorantry, son of the late William Crooks.
At Antigua, of the yellow fever, Lieutenant Richard Little, of
the 15th Regiment, son of the Rev. John Little, of Goulevilie,
county Roscommon.
'1 he 29th ult. at Mount Henry, Queen's County, Ireland, in
the 74th year of her age, Mary, widow of the Lite Henry, Lon'
Baron Alinaly, of Tenehck, county of Lon ford.
Rcv. John ha'dwin vicar of Southropp, Gloucestershire, and
late Fellow of Wadbaml College, Oxford.
Rev. T. Davis, rector of Saltford, near Bath.
IN Am ram A. Gloucester, Captain Nathaniel Warner, aged
69, a elistluguiebud revolutionary officer : he was one of the last
to retreat train Bunker's Hill —ln Ahnwell, N. J. Mrs. Lucretia
Chamberlin, aged 103; had been a widow 50 years.—has Vl'ind-
aoriCrin. dr. Small Atoroky, aged LOl.

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