Star.
London, England, 1807-12-29 00:00:00

SUSSEX, DECLAIBER 26.

Tuefday as Captain H Ilingbury, of the stare.
Militia, was hunting rear Pod] tde, ia taking a teap
over a hedge, his horfe fell with him into a ditch,
which the Lipt n was unacquainted with, by which
accident, he had the misfortune to break his collar
bore. He received to farther injury.
Thurflay fe'nnight Captain Clarke, of the Vulture
totter, going out of Rye, captured two loggers,
with uawtrds of feven hundred calks of Hollands.—
And on Monday hall, lie toe( a hog boat, with near
four hundred parcels. The whole of the goods were
fafely lodged in his Majeity's Cullom Houfes of
Newhaven and Rye.
A few days ago, as the wife of a man of the name
of hl.arfh, gardener to G. Matcham, Efq. of Truck
ers Hatch Place, neer Handcrofs, was fitting by the
fire fide, (he was taken in a fir, and fell into the fire ;
Mr. M. reaffiatt at the time, rendered the poor wo•
man every affi lance in his power, but too late ; (he
having been fo dreadfully burnt, that the expired in
a few baurs, in the greatell agony.
The fogs f r lime days pall, have been very un-
pleafant, particularly in the Weald ; where many
perfcna though per fealy acquainted with the roads,
have been 101 l for a cnnfiderable time, and feveral
pol chaifes, although affided by lamps, were unable
to proceed faller than a foot pace, but we have not
heard of any accident takieg place.
The melancholy fate of Captain Sargeant, follow.
ed by the defiruelion of the murderer, Allen. it was
hoped weuld, however dearly purchafed, have freed
the country from the alarm occafinned by this new
and dangerou“mode of depredetinn ; hut in this
expectati al we have been unfortunately difappointed,
for about a for:night !ince, Mr. Brna, living at
Portfea, was (loved on the tuna:lce road between
aiavant ar.d En.fwortla, by a forapad, wral t up in
a lo ,fe great coat and armed with a gun, who rob-
bed Lim ef what money he had Aria him. A few
days flatfeet teetly the afil 'ant of Mr. flicks, furgeon
at Havant, eves flopped n-ar the fame place, by a
perfun anfwering to the al) :ye defcription, who de-
manded his money. but not happening to have any
about him, he scat (offered to pals on. On Thur (day
the rill ino.eat, .r.edgewick, a baker, het a; at
Havant, was flopped between five and fix o'clock in
the evening, t n tie ferne road, about a quarter of a
mile from Have at, and, apparently, by the fame
Ferree, who la bbed him of fourteen (billings. About
an br.ur wards a clockmaker, of the name of
Avtrtl, who refides near Enfwortii, was attacked
near the milellrne between Ernfworth and Havant,
and robbed of a clack, which he was carrying nn hi;
arra ; and nit being ready to part with it and his
money, as the rab'ie.rewifhed, he'was feverely beaten
are. wounded by the villain, and his pocket cut o:.
He funn after robbed ;mother perfsn of what money
he had about him. The three !aft mentioned rebbe.
ries being committed in fa (hart a (pace of time, in
one evening, eaufed a canfiderable fenfation in the
neighbouring towns of Havant and Enifworth. At
the later place. nn the alarm being given, the Corps
ref Valanteers ietrnediately turned out ard fcaurtd
the eeighbouring country, but without any fucceft
as to the ptiecipal objea of their parfait. On Sittnia
(tea evening, at eight o'clock, Mr. Ttibe, a refpea
able farmer at Lerdifeaoo, near Stanilead, about
four miles from l's.irnfworth, on his return from
market, a. r his own !mule, was fuddenly fired at
by fume rat-lion, by which his hnrfe was feverely
wounded. He narrowly, bat happily efcaped injury,
thotigh fix (lugs were clifeharged at him. A few
nrevions to thiia Mr. Knight was robbed of his
watch and money, near Sir H. Feathertionchaugh's
at Up-park. The country being thus infelted, and
travelling having become ready dangerous, the
Magifiratesrefident in the neiglihombood of Havant,
felt it their duty to rfart to throng and aaive mea-
fares, to endeavour to deten the agendere, and to
deliver the conetry from this evil. Accnrdingly they
met on Monday tall, at Havant, and convening to-
gether the Canflables and Peace Officers of the
adjoining parithes, invefled them with proper antho-
rity In fearch for anlappreleend all lapelled pedals,
and all idle and tlifarderly perfuns whatever, in their
rccpeaive diftriar, efpecially all fuch perfuns who

may be found nn Emfworth Common, Hann!
Thicket, and the fun-minding Forel..

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The Gazette of Saturday contains a requeft from
the Admiralty, that all petfans, whether in his Ma
fervice, the fervice of the Eaft India Corn
pang, or the merchants' fervice, who poffefs informa-
tion refpe&ing the fituation of tiny rock, fhoal or
danger, not yet pnhlilbcd, will tranfmit the fame to
the Secretary of the Admiralty, flying the autho•
rity on which their information is grounded, for the
purple of completing a feleflion of charts, for the
ae of the navy.

The Leiceiler packet failed on the 23d inft. with
a mail fnr Go:tenburgh. The brother of the Ruffian
General BENNICSEN, and the Cnunt BINCHIENDALFV,
Sect etary to the Prtafian Ambafrador, were pafrengers
on board this vefrel.

The Danifh Well Indiaman Montreal, from Monte
Video, bound to Copenhagen, laden with tallow,
hides, copper, and bark, is fent into Portfmonth by
the B.illiant, Captain SMYTH ; and the Carolina,
horn Figuera, bound te Guernfey, laden with wheat,'
is fent in by the Sheldrake, Captain THICKNISSE.
The Riling Sun fchooner, Captain Vaxxoo, was
npfet in a gale on the 23d of September, on her
parrage from New York to Trinidad, when the Cap-
tain and crew (twelve in number) deferted her and
t'ul: to the yawl. After being nut fix days, and
having wahing to fublitt on but fix apples per man
a day, they were taken on hoard an American Ihip,
which fell in with them. They wcte in a dreadful
flare, from flarvation.
Letters from Cadiz were received in town on S-.
turday, one of which contains the following Rate.
ment :—" Several of the perfons arrefled in conic-
(pence of the detalion of the cunfpiracy, have been
lecently releafed, both at Madrid and at Sitioes
Itcalei. Whether the Duke de l'lnfantado and the
Duke San Carlos are Rill in cutlody, I have not been
able to learn—nor is it known at Madrid. But as
both thefe perfonages were arrefied at fume diftance
in the country, their releafe may not be fo loon
known in the capital. No appreheofions,
appear now to be entertained for their fate."

Madrid Gazettes of the 6th and rod: ult. have
alfe bean received. They are wholly filent concern-
ing the entrance of the French into that metropolis,
which was laid to have taken place on the 9th. The
following article is from the Gazette of the 9th :

""•PAYONNE, OCT. so.

Field 114arthal Don Pedro Rodriguez de la Buria, elm/1111E111-
er! by the Court of Spsin to receive the French army, arrived here
on she 27th latent. to conirliment the Gen, ral iu Chili Junot—
a corps of Dragoons alto arrived here yellerday, and let out to-day
for Spain ; this mortifog likewite the General in Chief, wi,ls his
Staff, for that kingdom ; and at prefent there is not any corps re-
maining here. The fecond army of the Gironde will begin to
enter in the middle of November, and will confift, it is Paid, of
11 .0..)0 men."
AtenTwEit Corrrsv.—A letter from a Gentleman,
dated Crantits, Orkney, Onober 30, far, "
Lafi
night I oblerocd another Comet. it was nearly ver-
tical to this place ab trt eight o'clock. The nucleus
is fully as large to appearance as the other Comet,
rvbieli is silo This new Comet is very
large and dillinet. It appeals to be on its approach
to the fun, will probably be vifible for a cordiderabte
time, and feems to have moved, (ince I firfl faw it
lali night, about two degrees."
'The ground work of the popular new Chriflmas
Pantomime, now performing at ASTLEY'S Pavilion,
Wych-fireet, with great applanfe, pourtrays the
ctiftom of various countries in the time of the Sax-
ons, particularly thufe of Suffer, Herefordfhirc,
and Glouceflerfhire, which ever at the prefent period
exifis ; it is called the Weil Bowl, which being filled
on the eve of Chriflmas, at the expellee of the Lord
of the Manor, the neighbouring villagers aff.mble
at midnight, light fires in the fields, and drink each
others health ; an ox is alto exhibited, on the horns
of which a large cake is fixed, while the animal
being g,red by varioos perfpns, (who at the fame
time form differ..ot figures and dances) is at leng
tofildrn the air, and failing either Era, Weft, North,
or South, was construed to denote either plenty or
fcarci:y. Thik merry making being interrupted by
a contention r.f the elements, difperfes the affrighted
peafantry, when the allegorical reprefentation of
Chrillttlas fi -ding a timbering Piper remaining,
transforms him into Harlequin, gives him power
and fends him forth to Liberty Sall, an antiwie
Mannar', fir the rurpofe of eloping with the daugh-
ter cf. Sir 2727. pi 1 rn'ity, an old fox hunter, when the
riftial eccentriciii-rs and humourous incidents t.l
Ilarlequivade know, to the difappnintment of the
porfuers in the general chace,, but to the final tr.cun
ciliation of all parties.

A Gentleman (peaking of his very .numerous in.
vitati..ns this Chi itlmas, a humnurous acquaintance
replicd—l have hut two ; but they are irrefillible
ones ; ac each will prove a capital treat to many of
the guetis. Bring alkyd to explain himfelf, he re-
:, ;inel—s• The two p-we:ful invitations I allude tn,
ate frun F. tune and ChaLc.:." The Schemes of
the S:a:e and City Lotteries, now depending, will
thew the confequence of there invitations.
Few buil:ling; in London have ever attraEled
greater attention than what is now paid to that mig-
aiticent arcaure in Skinner-Il Tett, which is defigned
for the gtztrideft ht:tel in Eturpe. 'fhoufands ut
paifengers daily gaze on it with no lefs fnrprize than
admiration. When it is confidered that this Inperb
hcufe is only one of the numerous Capital Pt izes in
the depending City Lottery, it may eafily be con-
ceived what a general intetell f-Jr adventure its fchtme
mutt excite.

There are three brothers and a finer, of the name
of Danglifon, at Ke(wick. in Cumberland, whofe
united ages make 324. pears!
Titurfday the chaife t.f Mr. COOPER, of Romford,
was overturned in linion.nreet, from the obliin..ey
of a waggoner in the management of his horfes ;
Mr. and Mils C. were both thrown rut, and now he
in a dangerous (late. The driver of the waggon is
in culit,dy.

A fpecieg of fwindling has been carried on ex-
tenli7ely below Exeter, by a genteel looking man,
who ufcd to drive in great hatle from inn to inn;
reprefenting timid/ to be the bearer of Govern-
ment difpatches, and fucceeded in obtaining fume of
money at the principal houfes in each town or village,
He was generally babited as a naval officer When
engaged in thefe fraudulent purfui:s, :Ind at other
times as a private gentleman.