Star.
London, England, 1802-09-11 00:00:00

SOUTIMMPTOM SEPT. 9.

It is not a little lingular, that whiff the trantic-,
Lions at all the other watering places on the coaft
are blazoned in the Newfpapers, this charming
and falhionable fpot iltould be paired over in total
filcnce ; we envy not, however, the good folks of
Brighton and of Margate their dearly acquired
motor iety : we have feleaion inftead of buftle, and
cheatfill gaiety in the place of afi-race and in-
temperate merriment. The rational and the in-
valids, of both fetes, will not hefitate where to
bellow their preference.

BARRETT, the unfuccefsful Aeronaut, is about
w try if the keen air of the Weill Mountains
will be more favourable to him than the dente at-
mcdphere of the vicinity of the metropolis : on
Thurfday fe'nnight he went over in the packet
from Ilfracombe to Swanfea, from whence he in-
tends croffing the Briftol Channel in his Balloon
the firft northerly wind.
Mr. Nether is appointed Mayor of Dover. A
good yaw for opening the door to France.
A glover, who had lately opened a new Chop in
his line in a country town in the Weil of England,
was advifed by a friend to advertife in a newt-
paper. No, Paid he, I think that a band-bill is
better fuited to my bufinefs.
There has been a great deal of 'booting, but not
much game. in Epping Foreft, fence the ift of Sep-
tember. Finger: and 1- awed.: may be teen flying
about before the unerring aim of the Cockney fportD
men in every dire&ion.
J. G. SHADDICR, Efq. is the molt flulful (hot in
the county of Suffolk this year. He killed, on
the ath in ft. eighfeen brace and a half of partridges.
.—There is no gentleman in the county who has
greater privileges upon the lands of the freeholders 1
than hirafelf.
The !laughter of birds in Sofia has been lets 1
during the four firft days than ever was before
known. The Lewes Rage-coach, which has ufu-
ally carried to London upwards of an hundred
brace on the two firft days, did not this year carry
more than a dozen birds ! This unprecedented
•- deficiency is in Tome meafure attributable to the
great quantity of corn yet abroad.
Mr. PANTON'I Fratl4oll4 811. ylb. is matched
againft the Duke of GRAFTON'S Duchteng 711. t ilb.
two-year old courfe, at Newmarket, the next fe-
cond 06tober Meeting, for fifty guineas.
A Grand March of Cricket was played on Tuef-
day, at Kenfington, between t 1 t.f Kenfington
againft i t of Middlefex, for 200 guineas a fide.
—Kenfington won by 3o runs. Even betting at
Carting.
On Monday was played a Grand Single Match
of Cricket, in Lord's Ground, Mary-la-Bonne,
two Gentlemen of a fide, for 5o guineas, between
• Mr. Famine and Mr. Baavois.—Mr. Female won
by 28 runs.—Six to four on Mr. Fumes at Raft-
ing.
Od Tudday was played a Grand Single Match
of Cricket, at Atam's new Ground, at Montpel-
lier Gardens, Welworth, one Gentleman againft
two, for too guineas.—Mr. BARTON won by so
runs.—Five to four on Mr. BARTON at Rafting.
It appears the French papers that a confide-.
nble degree jealoufy prevails betwixt the French i
and Foglifh on the fubjee of drefs. The
•Parifian DRUM age to be quite !hocked at the
dddity of the Engli& faihions, and our fair coun-
trywomen in their turn are not lets amazed at the
extravagance of the Parifran coftume. Both par-
ties have taken up the matter warmly, and the
*salts of the queftion are•very gravely difcuffed in
their refpeeive Coteries. It is to be hnped that
means will be found to adjuft this molt momentous
affair in a friendly manner, and that the fair dif-
putants will learn to allow each other Tome degree
of merit, without comprOmifing the good under-
landing of the two countries.
The great fair of Beaugaire, in France, has been
eondueed with lets diforder than attended our
fairs of Camberwell and Peckham. Not a fingle
. theft, robbery, fwindling trick, or quarrel of any
"confequence took place at it. No fewer thin 2to
veffels came up the Rhone, with goods to be ex-
pored to tale. Thefe were 4o more than came iaft
-year; 113 of thefe were French, 57 Spanifh, 38
from Genoa, and two from Naples. In confequence
of the peace, the purchafers from Spain were, this
year, not near fo many as on the lift. The tales
were, in general, languid, and difcouraging.
DRIADIFOL ACCIDSNT.—A moll melancholy
(cone was •on Tuefday night exhibited at OM
a fmall town about two miles from Feverfharn :
While the inhabitants were quietly engaged in
their feveral occupations, little expecting danger,
the moil tremendous explofion was experienced
by the blowing up of the Powder Mill, fhaking
.every houfe to the very foundation, doing much
-damage to the buildings, and deftroying windows
without number. " No certain caufe for the acci-
dent can be draped, as on thefe melancholy °c-
ations every perfon and thing is (wept away
within a certain digitate, and no one left to give
us the real caste. flo Coon as any one would ven-
ture near the (pot, it was difcovered that five poor
fellows and two horfes bad loft their lives, their
limbs being fcattered in .all direitions by the ex-
plofion. The names of thefe unfortunate men
were, Wight, Coveney, Hafting:, Taylor, and
Thirfton, all workmen in the Mill: they have left
large families.
On a Wither fearch another poor creature wits
found, named Symonds, Rill alive, but dreadfully
torn and Mangled. Inilant care was taken of
him, and ever/ means ufed to get from him the
caufe of the accident; but be was unable to_ utter
a word, and died in about an hour and a half.—
The general opinion is, that the ;Finding machine
was going with too much velocity, and that the
wheels had in conference taken fire.
Some peculiar circumftances on this oecafion
are worthy of notice. The Gentleman who eon-
dugs the bufinefs, had left the door of the Mill
only two minutes before the explofion, and thus
trcaped death ; and "floor fellow had only that
ainatli lOW into din Ma and was darned: i