Star.
London, England, 1814-10-03 00:00:00

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• SPORTING INTLI.IGENCE.

DONCASTER MEETING, 'WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 20.
OWeepstakes of 20gs. each, with togs added, by the Corporation
of Doncaoer, for 3-yi old fillies, Ost. 21b. each. St. Leger
course. (12 -ithscribers.)
M. Osseo gtie*s bby Orville - - • 1
Mr. Peirse sb by Dick Andrews . . e
Duke of Hamilton's b Anna - . - 3
One hundred Pound Place, for three and four-year olds; S-yr olds
75t.51b.; 4-yr olds, Bst. 71b. To pay Sgs. entrance which will
be paid us the owner of the second horse. Two mile heats.
Duke of Leeds' cb. e. Hecus Pocus, 4 yrs - 8 1 1
Mr. Kirby's b. c. Fait ville, 3 yrs - - 2 4 2
Duke of Hamilton's bl. c. Molinetur, 4 yrs • 4 2 3
Lord Milton's b. c. Cossack, 3 yrs. - - 1 3 4
Mr. T. Duncombe's b. c. by Chance, 3 yrs. - 5 dr.
Match for 200 gs. h. ft. Bst, 71b. each Leger Course.
Lord Darlington's ch. c. by Remembrancer - I
Sir B. It. Graham's, hr. c. Crickett tr - 2
Sweekstakes of 25gs. each, for horses, &C. flora frit the property
of the Subscribers, or their confederates, three months before
the day of cunning; 4-yr olds, 755. 91h.; 5 yr old,, Bst. .51b ;
6-yr olds and aged, Bst. 101 b. Four-years old fillies, to be al-
lowed 41b. Four miles.
Mr. Watt's ch. L Altisidara, 4 yrs - - 1
Lord Milton's lac. e. Camelopard, 4 yrs - 2
MR. SADLER'S ASCENSION.—Mr. Sadler ascended
with his magnificent balloon this day (Thursday) at
half-past one o'clock, and descended at Micklewaites,
Billingley-green, near Darfield, Barnsley, ten miles
and ahalf from Doncaster ; but from the various di-
rections which the balloon took, its actual course must
have been upwards of 20 miles. The ascension was
allowed by judges to be one of the grandest and finest
ever seen. The descension took place about ten mi-
nutes before three o'clock. The voyage was safe and
pleasant. The previous process for inflating the bal-
loon was carried on with perfect regularity, and ex-
cited great interest. The concourse of people was
. immense.

DRURY-LANE THEATREs-Mr. SHErtIDAN'S Come-
dy of The School for Scandal, which, in modern
days, stands unparalleled for brilliancy of wit and
poignancy of Satire, was represented on Saturday
evening. Mrs. DAVISON'S delineation of Lady teazle
was excellent. She depicted, with peculiar truth and
spirit, the errors of the head, into which the conta-
gious example of fashionable company, aided by the
insidious arts of a plausible hypocrite, had led a
thoughtless, but not a vicious woman. Mr. EU.ISTON
supported the character of Joseph Surface with great
ebiiity. The library scene, in which his villany is
discovered, was, from first to last, and there is much
variation in the different incidents which constitute it,

admirably performed. Mr. RAE was the Charlet Sur.
face of the evening. He supported the character in a
genteel style. The House was crow dvd, and the
Comedy was well received.
A subscription is going on for erecting, in Bristol,
a monument to the memory of Tuoatas CIIATTEE-
Tem Forty-four years have elapsed since this un-
fortunate youth fell an untimely victim to despair.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH has lately purchased the ele-
gant mansion house belonging to the late Mr. GOLD.
'MID, with its furniture, at Roehatnpton, also the
beautiful grounds, gardens, and land attached to it.
On Saturday the Puntca REGEST, attended by Gene-
ral BLOOMFIELD, honoured the NJble Loud with a
♦isit, to view the premises ; after which the Learned
Lord entertained the PRINCE, and a party of nine
others, with a sumptuous Limner.
The Chinese Bridge, in St. James's Park, was the
grand magnet of attraction to the Sunday Pedestrians.
It was crowded with passengers the whole of yester-
day, and long after night fall.

The Temple of Concord remains in halo quo, in the
Green Park.

DREADFUL FIRE.—A dreadful fire broke nut on
Saturday morning, at St.Neot's, Huntingdonshire, in
the street leading towards Cambridge, called Cam-
bridge-street. It is supposed to have happened in
consequence of some men who were splitting wood by
means of gunpowder, some parts of which had been
blown and alighted on a thatched building. Eleven
houses were consumed, the flames spread so rapid, in
consequence of the wind being very high and the
buildings in a very dry state. Many of the poor inha-
bitants have lost the whole of their furniture and
other property.
CortoNot's ImauEsTa.—An Inquest sat on the body
of Hannah Sly, on the night of Thursd iy last, at the
Middlesex Hospital, before G. HODGSON, Esq. Coro-
ner. It appeared from the evidence of Sarah Ridge,
with whom the deceased lodged, that Mrs. Sly had
been separated from her husband some time ; that she
was a hard working woman ; that on Saturday the
2-tth ult. witness went out, leaving Mrs. Sly to keep
house ; and that on her return she found Mrs. Sly in
bed, extremely unwell, and complaining that she had
hurt her-elf very much, by tumbling down some area
steps. She was af:erw4rds taken to the Hospital, and
in the course of the night died, in consequence of a
fracture in the skull, and a wound in the organs of
the ears, according to the Hospital Surgeon's testi-
mony. Verdict—Accidental Death.
An Inquest was also held on the body of John
Rutledge, a prisoner in the King's Bench Prison.
He formerly kept a public house in Panton-street,
Haymarket, but unfortunately had been a prisoner in
the King's Bench for the last two years. He died
rather suddenly in the night of September 26. Ver-
dict—Died by the Visitation of GOD.
A singular scene was witnessed on Wednesday
Morning at White Hawk Hill, Brighton. A post-
chaise stopped near the alms-houses, from which two
gentlemen, in driving great coats, alighted, and walk-
ed to the hollow near the Race-course, where they stood
apparently in serious conversation. A few minutes
at ter, two officers came across the Downs, in the direc-
tit.n of Rottingdean, attended by a servant, who led
the horses back. The parties then advanced, and
after bowing, two of them measured the ground, and
after placing the others at a short distance, deliveredto
each a pistol.
-At this instant a carriage and four came
op at full speed, from which a young Lady threw
'herself into the arms of one of the Gentlemen in plain
clothes, who dropped his pistol, and she appeared to
faint. The other principal flew to her assistance,
and whilst they were endeavouring to recover her, an
elderly Gentleman, extremely lame, hobbled from
the carriage. After a lapse of time, the Lady re-
,vived, and a conversation ensued between the whole,
which terminated in the Gentlemen shaking hands,
and afterwards driving off together, with the Lady,
in the coach, in which she :tad the old Gentleman ar-
rived

The fnllnwlng letter from Mr. &Mir ANZ, an Officer
of the Staff' of Prince CHRISTIAN, will be read with
considerable interest by all those who feel for the
situation of Norway. Some of the incidents contain-
ed in it have been already given to the Public ; but
as it is the only connected account which we yet
have from a Norwegian, and seems dictated by a
strong and certainly mast amiable feeling of patrio-
tism and loyalty, we have been induced to insert it
at full length :
" Krom, in the Parish of Veilbye, August 29.
le Were I to give you, my friend, the slightest
detail of all the events which have taken place,• I
must write a volume, and I have no time here at
head-quarters. Accept these lines merely as the
ovti flowing of my heart. The Swedes attacked the
Hualue islands and occupied them ; oar flotilla had
orders t) do nothing in their defence. The King
moved his headquarters to Moss. The Swedes ad-
vanced by Borbye, penetrated by the valley of Tiste,
and marched on Fredericshall. Staffeldt, the traitor,
did not even assemble his brigade to defend himself,
but withdrew and delivered up to the enemy, the
Swinesund, and all the country to Fredericstadt.—
The King (Christian) quitted Moss, passed the
Glommen, assembled together the brigades of Staf.
feldt, Hegermaun, and Stabell, near Itaixested, or
rather near Bodal, and was determined to come to a
decisive battle with the enemy. Staffeld, who com-
manded the van guard, reported that the enemy only
made demonstrations on that bank of the Glommen,
but that it was his intention to force the bridge at
Kjolberg, and take Christiania, before the King's
at my could return, and save the Capital. The King,
believing him, ordered a general retreat on the Glom.
men ; but he saw himself pursued by the principal
force of the enemy, who occupied all the eastern bank
of the Glommen to Onslaiund, where a bloody battle
was fought, as the Swedes attacked our entrench-
ments. After a redoubled attack, the enemy was
forced to yield to our courageous resistance. This
cannonade of five hours cost the Swedes nearly 10E10
men, in killed and wounded. We lost two officers
and twelve soldiers. The King was present, and was
received by all with reiterated acclamations. After
gaining this decisive battle the fault was committed
of quitting the entrenchments, passing the GI =men,
destroying all the pontoons which connected us with
the eastern bank. And why ? I have been told,
for fear, lest the enemy should at length force our
tete de pont, and pass the bridge at the same time
with our battalions. All this exceeds my comprehen-
sion. But the King and the whole army were already
sold by the damned band formed by Count Wedel.

" Krageroe, the key of Frederickstadt, with 1200
men, capitulated without a man being lost. The
fortress of Frederickstadt, the paint d'appui of our
right wing, also capitulated without losing a single
man. Lieutenant-Colonel Stahel who commanded
the corps left on the eastern bank of the Glornmen,
retired without attacking the enemy to the fort of;
Blakjae, till he passed the Glommen himself, and
left the eastern bank without defence. These news
quite dispirited the King, already tangoed by an as-
siduous labour by day and by night for two months.
His nerves suffered greatly, and he was quite over-
powered. The head-quarters were withdrawn to
Moss, where the Swedes, who in different affairs had
lost 500() men, demanded the armistice and posses-
sion of Frederickstein, with the calling of a new diet,
and the disbanding our best soldiers. The King was
not there—he was like a man who had lost the use cf
his reason—he saw that he had been betvyed—that
all WAS lost in one campaign. The County 931 State,
in which General Haxthausen was the only military
man, accepted the Convention, and the war was thus
at an end. The King retired to the Island of Lade-
gaard. His fate is a cruel one—he seems as if de-
prived of lite by the intensity of his mental suffer-
ings. It is believed by many that poison was admi-
nistered to him, but this is disbelieved by the physi-
cians. The people wished to massacre all the Com-
missary-Generals who gave the King false informa-
tion respecting the provisioning, and who neglected
to do their duty. Haxthausen too was in the pay of
Count Wedel. His house was attacked, his windows
broken, and it was intended to enter and assassinate'
him, when several people called out that he was at
his country-house. The people went there. There
was a great company in his house, when all of a
sudden the cries of the populace were heard, and the
windows were driven in. The fear of the company
was general; but Berg, Councillor of the Chancefy,
and Sommerhjelm, Councillor of State, who were
there, went out to the people, and assured them that
Haxthausen should be deprived of ail his offices, and
become responsible for his conduct. These promises
were accepted of, and the people departed, after de-
stroying his gardens. Some Swedish Commissaries,
a General Biornstjerna, a Baron Wrede, and a Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Werdenhjclm, arrived in the city; the
people determined to massacre them, and went in a
body to their lodgings. I perceived the danger likely
to follow from a violation of these diplomatic cha.
racters, and I was fortunate enough to reach the
house, where I contrived to get the Swedes disguised,
and I conducted them to my apartments.
" The whole town is in uproar, with soldiers and
horse patroles, whenever a Swede arrives. The hatred
borne to them is inexpressible. Haxthausen has fled,
and several persons are to be impeached Al the ensu-
ing Diet. For three weeks past, I never saw the
King till last Thursday, when I called upon him to
tranquilize him ; but where can this poor-King ex-
pect repose but in his grave ? General Alirecteld,
who distinguished himself, is again appointed Corn-
trtander-in-Chief. By his order I am placed on the
Staff, and I am at present here with an ardent desire
to have it again in my power to exterminate the
Swedes. BLit I am no longer what I waa—l have
suffered too much from the fate of Norway and my
King. I foresaw the treachery, and I counselled
efficacious measures,but I was not believed. Would
it be believed, that whole battalions have laid down
their arms and gone over to the Swedes ? Would it
be believed, when on the 25th of February the Nor-
wegian swore to give his blood and his life for the
independence of Norway ? Ino longer know what
to think, not even whether there is a great and noble
Being who delights in good and detests evil. But
many a brave Norwegian has fought violently. Give
all those who take an interest in the fate of my King
and Norway au ilea of what has taken place here."