Star.
London, England, 1824-04-28 00:00:00

SPARRING.

Vie Fives' Court was yesterday graced with a Marquis, Lords,
M.l'.'s, and Corinthians of ‘,lliOllS shades. It was a meeting
for the benefit of Bitton, the Jew veteran. The sets-to were not
only abundant, hut the matches were well regulated, as follows:
The first was between Baldwin and Tnn f)liver.—A manly one,
Vslth equal advantages, rough and smooth, until the piper appeared,
and settled the bout.
Reid, the conqueror of Cooper, the C.yp-cy, made a good set-to,
and had the best of Seabrook. His skill, b mired by manhood, was
decisively advantageous.
Peter Warren and Cobham had a manly hoot, but the former
had too much ring practice at his amuley's ends.
Barney Aaron, the brave little Jew, aid Deaf Davis.—This was
the best bout of the day. Barney was obliged to be on the strict
look out for an undeniable customer. Sonic striking features. of
science were exemplified, and Harney closed it with best.
Ruin, the nephew of Ben, and a promising young aspirant, full
of youth and strength, set-to with another a stone man as gocd as
himself, and what was short in science was made up by resolution.
Aby &Loco and O'Neil gave much satisfaction by most scientific
movements. The parries were masterpieces of skill.
.Shelton and a Lite Guardsman.—This was a display which
showed strength, and youth had no chalice at glove work scien.
tifically displayed.
Button am! Richmond wound up the sports in a good set-to, and
the amateurs bolted quite satisfied.
JOSH. HUDSON AND SA NIPSON, THE BIRMINGHAM
MAN.

After the Fives' Court Exhibition, some of the amateurs mus-
tered at Jack Randall'', over eubstartiAl wear and Plat. for the palate,
subsequently to which the whole of the bat:le money, 1011 sove-
reigns, was deposited for the fight between these first-tate men, on
the 11th of May, Heavy stakes were betted on the event, begin-
ning with five to four or, the gallant and leaving off at more
than six to four. It vela be a very interesting combat.

The mortality this Spring at Dover has been unusually
great; on Saturday last them was no less than 19 per-
sons lying dead and unburied.
Yesterday a Meeting of the Magistrates of the County
of Surrey took place at Ilyegate, w I Mr.B ittscoE again
attacked the Tread- wheel, and stated, that prisoners
were occasionally chained mid handcuffed to the wheel.
This charge was rebutted by a great number of the
Magistrates, amocg whom were the two Members for
the County. It appeared that two soldiers who were
imprisoned had mutinied and violently assaulted the
jailer nod his turnkey, and that these furious fellows,
who had in fact threatehed to tip up a 9 who had the
superintendance of the pris,ai, were, on that occasion,
as well as on account of having refused to work, and
having rent their beds, handcuffed to the wheel. A vote
WAS passed arprOsing of the jailer's condo t, and Mr.
Illitscoe gave notice that he should submit a motion on
the suhject.of the ti ead-v.dieel upon a ((stare occasion.
' JiltNtwr: Itirxt.ucEtat.—Copper Ores sold at Redrout:hnoe Copper,nThurs.
day last, 1,29 L tons ; a•rerage produce,B --41113tfii1Y fi
1114 tons.— Ainolliit of &lir, A 13,754 I+•—+average standard, flO9.

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CORN-EXCHANtiE, AI.IIIK-LANE, APRIL 2&
The arrivals at Grain iti I;eticral ere u:1;y nt. Berate—Wheats
2,400 quarters; Barley, i,400 qrs. Oats, COO qrs. Four, 3,500 sacks.
The false returns lately made, With a V1.2.W to liberate the bonded
corn, has filled the buyers' minds with so moth apprehension
as nearly to have stagilatt,l the Corn Trade in all the Markets of :he
Kingdom, and, till confidence is again restored, trade cannot return
to its natural state. It is, therefore, almost needless to say, that
there is marcely any business doing here, and prices may be consi-
dered nominal, with little 'Corn at Markel.

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THE HEIRESS'S COMPLAINT.

FROM THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

Why tell me, with officious zeal,
That I am young, and rich, and fair,
And wonder how my soul can feel
The pings of sorrow and of can??
Why dost thou count the golden store,
The sparkling jewels that are mine,
And name the suitors o'er and o'er '
Who breathe their incense at my shrine ?
Know that I scorn the sordid train
Whose loveless vows are bought and sold—
know that the heart I sigh to gain
Despises, spurns, my worthless gold
I love—l dare not breathe his name,
The son of genius and of mind ;
lie climbs the steepy path of Fame,
Content to leave the crowd behind !
And while in halls illumiii'd bright,
I hear the same false flatter; :s o'er,
De patient wastes the midnight light
In studious toil, in learned lore !
Seldom he seeks the giddy throng,
And then he stands retied, apart,
And views the dance, and hears the song,
With listless look and joyless heart !
Ile turns from Love's all-speaking eye;
Ills mind to fame, to science clings,
Thron'd in a world of visions high,
Of deep and vast imaginings!
Aiy vaunted wealth, my flatteed face,
The praise of coxcombs may employ ;
But he regards that dross at base,
He holds that beauty as a toy !
Yet must I still reluctant wear
These flashing gems, these robes of state,
And nightly must submit to share
• The paltry vanities I hate!
Oh ! never shall the world deride
My passion with unfeeling jest,
While smiles of more than Spartan pride
Can hide the tortures of my breast!
Thy teats flow fast—now judge if gold
Can banish anguish from its shrine ;
And say if ever tale was told
So sad, so sorrowful as mine?

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NAVAL FIA•G AT IVUOLiVICH.

The entertainment lately given by the Officers of the!
Royal Marines at WOoIWICII CO the Duke. of CLARENCE,
exceeded, in regard to sumptuous inagniEcence, any
thing of the kind that was ever before witnessed,/ while
the reception given to his Royal Highness by thoff meri-
torious servants of the Public was marked by the kindest
and most generous feelings of loyalty towards their il-
lustrious guest. At an early hour of the day when he
honoured them with his company, the Royal Duke,
who is General of the Marine Forces, was received in
the barracks, where all the men belonging to the divi-
sion who are not serving in ships of war, and who
amount to about 700, were drawn out in line, and went
through several evolutions in a style of military exact-
ness that would have done credit to any regiment in his
Majesty's service. They are a fine body of men, and
their appearance was excellent. His Royal Highness
next inspected the different rooms of the men through-
out the barracks, and afterwards saw them at their re- •
spective messes, from which none of them were suffeted
to be disturbed while he was present. Ile was pleased
to express himself in terms of war m approbation of the
cleanliness and good order, as well as the admirable
discipline which prevailed amongst them. Between six
and seven o'clock in the afternoon the dinner was
served up in the grand mess-room of the barracks. It
consisted of every delicacy which the season could af-
ford. The Duke being ushered in by the principal
Officers, took his seat at the head of the table. Among
the other visi,.ors were
Colonel Fitzclarencc, Sir Thomas MDT, Sir Cunireve,
Lieutenant-General • acleod, Adjutant-Gtoo2ral of Artillery, Sir
Alexander Dixon, Colonel Ford, of the Audio y, the I lononrable
Mr. Eardley, Commodore with stveral other Officers
of the Artilleq and Ordnance.
The company amounted altogether to fifty-four per-
sons. The Officers took their seats to the right and left
of their illustrious visitor, according to then seniority.
His Royal Highness, though highly gratified with the
splendour of the banquet, was remarkably abstemious
eh in eating and drinking. Ile dined off a single
dish, and contented himself with a small quantity of•
sherry wine mixed with water. When the cloth was
removed, the l.ealth of the KING was drank with four
times four. The Duke of YORK and the Army was
the next toast. When the health of the Duke of CLA•
RENCE was drank, his Royal Highness expressed his
acknowledgments in a neat speech ; and afterwards, on
the Royal Marines being given, he was pleased to speak
of that force generally, and of the Woolwich division
in pat ticular, in terms highly flattering and comilimen-
tary. The Royal Marines he said, had, while serving
on board his MAJESTY'S ships, been at all times distin-
guished for their valour, and their loyal and orderly
conduct ; and while serving on shore, they were equally
as efficient as any of his MaJesee's land forces. He
was particularly delighted with the great improvement
which he had that day witnessed in the manoeuvres and
discipline of the ‘Voolwich division, which, front a'
small beginning had been raised to a tine and effective
body of men. During the whole evening, his Royal
Highness conversed in the most familiar and affable
manner with all the old Officers who sat near him, and
did not retire until eleven o'clock.

Monday, the 12th instant, the Earl of RCMIES re-
turned to Scotland from his studies at Eton College,
when a number of the servants, immediately connected
with the estate, were assembled at Leslie House, to
welcome the young Nobleman to the ancient seat of his
illustrious forefathers. Upon this happy occasion mirth
and joy, abounded, and the meeting was farther en-
livened by the presence of the Baltiirnie band, who
played some beautiful slow airs and reels. The dance
was kept up with great spirit till a late hour, and the
bumpers were respectively drained to the health of Mr.
LESLIE (to whose cheerful di'position the Meeting owed
much of its hilarity) and to the young Earl, mixed with
many good wishes for prosperity to the house of Leslie.
A Cornet of Hussars, who was not the most poll Died
in his manners, having recently joined his Regiment, w
asked by his Colonel, " what his father was?' he
"aplied, farmer !"—" Pity your father did mot make
you follow his tiade." Upon which the Cornet asked,
" Pray, Sir, w hat is your father?"—" A Gentleman,
Sir."—" Pity he did not make you one."
Gwen:mg, Aram 20.-:-The body of Archibald
.Thomson, winch
sunk with the nurns steam-boat on the 18th of February, WAi
found on S.ltueday last, cast ashore at Leven, two Mika below Gott-
rock. The 111,;lket praisers due to those who took charge of him,
in securing his Looney, and delivering it up to his friends the same
evening. Besides his loose money, there were two letters in his
.pockets, the one containing four guineas, and the other two; but
• although the letters Were rendered mostly illegible, the paper-money
Twat tick butt. He h.id in all between £6O and £7O of money
about him, and a silver watch, which was also recovered. Ile was
decently interred in Gouruck on Sabbath evening.

POLICE INTELLMENCE.

BOW.STREET.

CREDULITY, SODA WATER, &c.—A young woman of very-genteel
address and appearance, who gave her name Mrs. Elisa Louisa Edey,
was brought before dr. Ileac% yesterday, in custody of Nicholls,
charged by a whole host of angry prosecutors with having wheedled
them out of their money, by representing herself to be what
she was not.
This Mrs. Eliza Louisa Edey is the professed proprietress of the
coffee-shop, No. 24, Charing-cross—a sort of minor coffee-house,
for the dispensation of ready-made economical coffee, well-greased
muffins, ginger-beer, and soda water; and she is moreover the re-
puted relict of a Mr. Edey, by whom the said coffee-shop was esta-
blisi,:d, and who was some time a purser in the Royal Navy, but
was in no degree related to Dr. Eady, the wall-Chalker.
The first person who came forward from the crowd to prefer
his comp:aint against her was a fresh-coloured elderly Gentleman,
named ; before he began, the Magistrate directed that Mrs.
Ede), should be accommodated with a chair, she seemed so much
oppressed by her predicament. A chair was accordingly brought
her, she seated herself very gracefully, and then Mr. Hallen de-
posed as follows : •' I came to tow!, from Devonshire about three
weeks ago, and took up my residence at the Golden-cross, Charing-
cross. On the Thursday following, I breakfasted at the house of
this Lady—at her coffee-house, No. 24, Charing-cross. Whilst
there, I asked her it she let lodgings, and she replied that she bad a
room which she could get ready in a few days. I agreed to take
it ; and on the Monday morning following, her servant came to me
with a note, saying the room was ready. I sent my luggage by the
servant, and in half an hour after I went and took possession of the
room. I had then some conversation with Mrs. Edey, in the course
of which she informed me that she had unfortunately indorsed a
bill for £3B, which bill was returned dishonoured, and she should
be arrested unless she could settle it that day. This, the added,
would be a serious exposure for he:, for she was quite out of her
sphere in her present undertaking; and she wished she could meet
with some friend who would advance her five and twenty pounds
until the following Saturday. She also said she was the widow of
Captain Plomer, late of the 10th Hussars ; that she was the daugh-
ter of General Dunbar, who was some time ago Governor of
Jersey, and was unfortunately drowned ; and that she was in the
receipt of £lOO per annum from Cox and Greenwood's, as ruSion
money. Relieving all this to be true, I lent her .£25 upon her pro-
mise to return it on the following Saturday, but on the Thursday
she absconded, and I never saw her again until I met her last night
in the Haymarket. I have made inquiry at Cox and Greenwood's,
and I find that her story of rite pension is utterly false, and that she
never was knowo the re at all." Witness lit.re put in a number of 1
letters which had pass:A between him and .sirs. Edey, which the
Magistrate read, and then observed, " I should infer from these
letters, that this money was advanced by you, tot your oirectiowde
friend, Mau,' upon a erivate understanding of some kind or other,
and not upon the representations you have mentioned."
Witness said she had made similar representations to a number
of Gentlemen then present in the office, who were all ready to pre-
fer charges against her.
A number of Gentlemen instantly pressed forward and rather
clamorously alleged many things against her, but she requested the
Magistrate to allow her to reply to Mr. Hallen before he listened
to anything further, and his Worship having expressed his willing-
ness to hear her, she went into a long story, in which she accused
Mr. Hallen of having read epigrams to her, and talked love and
nonsense to her, and having pressed money upon her, and having
taken her to the Swan at Windsor, and finally, having succeeded in
seducing her to his bed.
To all this Mr. Hallen emphatically exclaimed, " It is false ! So
kelp me GOD!" Ile seemed utterly astonished at her words, but
nevertheless she coolly proceeded to detail many matters which we
had rather not mention, and she ended by declaring that his man-
ners became so disagreeable to her, that she left her house on pur-
pose to avoid him,
Mr. Hairs put a number of questions to her, touching her real
name, and with much trouble he elicited from her, that she was riot
the widow of Captain Plorner ; that she was not the widow of the
late Mr. Edey, because she never was his wife, but only lived with
bins as such; and that she was, in fact, the widow of a Mr. Web-
ster, who died some years ago in France.—His Worship, however,
Was of opinion, from the tenour of the letters put in by Mr. Hallen,
that he had no remedy but by civil action.
Mr. Garratt, a solicitor, now came forward, and stated that he
also had been grossly imposed upon by Mrs. Edey. She consulted
him professionally as to the disposal of leases, the recovery of large
debts, &c. as though she was a person of large property; she re-
presented herself to him as the widow of Captain Plomera and
niece, by marriage, to the late Master of the Rolls, and she even
put herself into mourning on the death of that dignitary. In short,
her manners were so lady-like and prepossessing, that he believed
her to be a Lady, and as such he introduced her to his wife, and"
i had actually become engaged for her in the payment of certain ac-
ceptances, for which he was yesterday threatened with proceedings.
This witness did not say how be, a solicitor; could believe that a
Lady of large possessions and accomplished Manners would conde-
scend to become a pumper of soda-water, a liberator of ginger-
beer, and a coddler of coffee at three-pence a pint ! He had no
specific charge to prefer against her, however, and as she did not
deign to reply to anything he had said, we pass on to the next
charge. But we should first observe, that it was here stated, both
by the Solicitor and the country Gentleman, that she had repre-
sented herself to have the honour of being known to his Royal
Highness the Duke of York, the Duke of Wellington, and Sir Ri-
chard iiiruie; and that his Royal Highness and his Grace of Wel-
liugton, often called at her shop to taste her soda-water !
The next charge was made by an old man and his daughter,
trained Withers. The old man officiated as waiter in this accom-
! plished Mrs. Edey's coffee-shop, and she had contrived to coax the
daughter out of 201. under pretence of wanting it to pay elpenees
at Doctor's Commons, in consequence of having to administer to
Mr. Faley's will; and Mr. Garrett produced a paper, which he
said she had drawn up for the purpose of imposing upon this young
woman. It purported to be a schedule of certain property belong-
ing to her—viz. " The house at North End, 5,0001. furniture in
the same, 5001. the lease of the house in Regent-street, 5001. furni-
ture in the same, 2001. arrears of annuity, 2001. bill over-due from
Mr. (Somebody), at Valparaiso, 751. lease and good-will of the
hotel at Charing-cross, 7001." And many other items of the same
kind, amounting altogether to many thousand pounds.
Mr. Haw.: observed that this charge, like the others, was not
tangible. It was evident that the young woman had parted with
her money on the credit of the sum total in the schedule now pro-
duced; and as there were many items in it which could not be ne-
gatived, the charge of fraud must fall io the ground.
Sir RICHARD Ram said it must be considered a matter of debt,
for a bare naked lie could not be construed into a felony or misde-
meanour. The whole of these charges, he said, was another proof
of the facility with which credit could be obtained in the present
day, when people were so anxious w be doing something with their
money, that they would intrust it to Jack Straw or the Man in
'the Moon.

Samuel House, a broker in Sloane-street, was the next who came
forward against her • and, though he was not actually a sufferer like
the rest, his was the only case which the Magistrates could take
cognizance of. It appeared in this case that the lady-like and ac-
complished sodawater-pumper bad fixed her affections, within these
few days, upon a stately young Life Guard, named Whituell ; that
she was actually in treaty with the Colonel of the Regiment for the
discharge of this man; and in her anxiety to have apartments for
her gigantic lover, she endeavoured to procure furniture on credit
from this Mr. House, by calling herself " Mrs. Whitnell," and re-
let ring him for her character to her housekeeper, one Mrs. Dexter,
her sight-hand woman, confidant, and factotum ; who, on this occa-
sion, changed places with her mistress, and became " Mrs. Edey,"
on purpose to give au excellent character of " Mrs. Whitnell." But
Mr. House was not to be bamboozled, and so he saved his tables, &c.
Mrs. Edey, in reply to this last charge, admitted her love for the
Life Guard, but declared that all the rest of it was a vile conspiracy
got up by the country Gentleman aforesaid, in pure spite. It was
lac P-I/rY revenge, she said, of a disappointed man.
'1 heir Worships, however, saw the matter in a very different
light, and she and her housekeeper, Mrs. Dexter, were ordered to
give t wenty-four hours notice of boil for conspiring to defraud Mr.
!Luse, the broker.