Star.
London, England, 1809-01-07 00:00:00

BY JOHN t4AYNE.

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Hail, gentle stream ! for ever dear
Thy rudest murmurs to mine ear !
Torn from thy banks, tho' far I rove,
The slave of Poverty and Love,
Nc'er shall thy Bard, where'er he be,
Without a sigh remember thee!
For there my infant years began,
And there my happiest minutes ran ;
And there, to love and friendship true,
The blossoms of affection grew !
Blythe on thy banks, thou sweetest stream
That ever nurs'd a Poet's dream !
Oft have I, in forbidden time,
(If youth cou'd sanctify a crime E}
With hazel-rod, and fraudful fly,
Ensnar'd thy unsuspecting fry ;
In pairs have dragg'd them from their den,
Till, chac'd by lurking fishermen,
A'aray I've flown, as fleet as wind,
My lagging followers far behind !
And, when the vain, pursuit was o'er,
RetLru'd successful as before !

Sir Rionann PaILLIPS has given Mr. ARNOLD four
hundred pounds for his new Comedy, and it will ap-
pear on Monday.
DRURY-L.NNE.—Last night, Mr. ARNOLD'S new
Comedy of Man and Wife ; or, More Secrets than One,
was performed, a second time, to a crowded, and,
if possible, a more applauding audience than on its
first representation. This piece 'possesses so much
pleasantry, variety, sentiment, and good-humour, it
may be already pronounced an established favourite
with the public. The whole of the perfOrmers de-
serve the Authors best thanks for their great exertions
in his favour. The applause continued long after the
conclusion of the Epilogue.—The Countess of Motait
and LOUDON, and her party, sat in his Royal High-
ness the Prince of WALES'S box. All the Fashion in
town were present.
HAVMARKET.—Last night was performed, at this
theatre, the Play of Speed the Plough. With respect
to the manner in which the characters were filled,
those who have seen the Sir Abel Handy of Mr. MUN-
DEN, and the Farmer .4fshfiekl of Mr. EMERY, must be
satisfied of their adoption, and it will be only ne-
cessary to observe, that their exertions, upon this
night, were as happy as we recollect to have witnessed
at any former period.
TWELFTH •McHT.—The anniversary of this Festi-
val
,was celebrated last night, with its usual splendour.
The confectioners' shops vied with each other in the
variety and ingenuity of their devices. • It would be
an almost endless task to attempt to describe the dis-
play of Twelfth Cakes, with all their ornaments,l
which decorated the counters ; and the blaze of liotl
that exhibited them to the eager eyes of the admiring
crowd in the streets.
DRURY-LANE.—After the performance of last night
the Annual Twelfth Cake, left by the s ill of BAD-
DELEY, was divided as usual, among the sons and
daughters .of THESPIS. Much gaiety and good hu-
mour prevailed.
The Princess of VirALEt gave a grand entertainment
last evening? at Kensington Palace, in. honour of the
Birthday of the Princess CHARLOTTE. About twenty-
'four persons. of distinction partook 'of the banquet.—
in the evening cards and music were introduced. The
party did not break up until a late hour.

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THE ARMY:
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A further supply of horses for the artillery service;
marehed,from Chatham on Tuesday to embark for
Spain: A detachment of the gunner drivers, cot sii=
tang of 40 men, and about 80 horses of the sable esta-
blishment, are to take with them 300 of the most
active and serviceable horses which have been top;
plied for the contract work, on the fortifications car=
rying on at that Place. .‘
General SHERBROOKS is arrived at Portsmouth, to
take the command of the troops lately arrived there
from Ramsgate. They are to sail under convoy of
the Isis, of 50 guns. General SHERBROOKE has ap-
prised them, that their service will be an arduous one.
He has, accordingly, given orders that no Officer
should take more baggage with him than he would
undertake to carry ; and that no woman shall accom:
pani the Expedition who is not able to bear great
fatigue.
The Expedition from Portsmouth has not yet been
got off. Yesterday, they were employed in embark-
ing-the horses of the Guards and of the Staff, and
last night or this morning the General Officers and
Stall .were to go on board—but now it is late—the
wind is quite fair, and may continue so for some
time. From whatever cause it proeeeds, we are
almost uniformly tardy and Unfortunate in fitting
out our expeditions: As we have''sitch abunchlitce
of ships -to convey them, why were not the .En-
gineers and Artillery, with the 87th and 118di,
regiments, sent off on Tneiday By this tinw,
with the ,wind which has prevailed, they Might have
landed in Spain. The Guards might have followed
with another convoy—their horses, the artillery
horses, and the gunner drivers, might have been sent
after them, and the troops from Scotland and Irelancki
should have proceeded in separate convoys as they
were ready, or all might have rendezvoused in a har-
bour in Spain. Much inquiry into, and amendment
of the various departments of the army are needed:
The 2d battalion of the 11th Foot is on its march
from Brabotim Lees to Chatham.
A few days ago a detachment of the 37th Regi-
ment marched into Shrewsbury, under the command
of Captain TEMPLE FENTON, where, it supposed,
that Regiment will be quartered on its arrival froin
the West Indies, in which country it has served for
upwards of the last nine years.
FRENCH ARMIES.
The French Armies are eontructed altogether on
the model of the Roman Legions. We often see the
words corps and di;isions mentioned in the French
bulletins, and often in the English translation, we
confound these terms. 'lt is essential to mark the
difference.

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A corps is a cohiplete army, under the command
of a Marshal. It consists of two divisions of infantry,
and one division of cavalry, besides its proportion of
artillery, engineers, in inerS, guides, and commissariat,
and is composed as follows :
Two divisions of infantry, each commanded by a
General of Division.. equal in rank to our Lieutenant-
General.
Each division consists of two brigades, each under
the command of a General of Brigade, equal in rank
to our Major-General.
Each brigade of two regithents.
Each regiment of three battalions.
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Each battalion of nine companies'.
Each company of 117 men.
But in time of war the grenadiers are detached
and formed into separate battalions ; so that each bat-
talion has eight companies, and taking off the odd 17
men per company, each battalion on an average has
800 men ; so that each regiment of infantry is 2100
strong.
A division of cavalry consists of two brigades.
Each brigade of two regiments.
Eaeh regiment of 1000 men, but on an average
they are hot more than 800.
So that in each division of infantry there are 9600.
In each division of cavalry 3200.
And to form a corps there are,
Trio divirions of infantry
One ditto cavalry
Artillery, pioneerS, guides, &c. say

19,200
3,200
600
rn all about - 23,000 men.
But they necessarily vary according to circum-
stances from CO to 35,000 men.

A Corps therefore under the chief command of a
Marihal, is an army, with three Generals of Divi.
•sion, and six Generals of Brigade under him. it is
certain, however, that BONAPA.TE does not always
adhere to his rule: The Dukes Marshals do not
always accompany their own Cort.. Thus SOULT was
hurried into Spain, because his great talents were
thought indispensible, although his corps is one of the
two which the last Bulletins state have just passed
the Bidassoa. BONAPARTE also detaches divisions of
cavalry, and even constitutes a corps of cavalry, as
his best manoeuvre is rapidity of action.
If our readers, however, will attend to this con.
structiOn of his force, they will be able to estimate the
amount of the French army in Spain.

A very serious disturbance took place in the gsr-
rison of Colchester, on Christmas-Day, between the
4th regiment of foot and a militia regiment, in which
upwards of a hundred men Were wounded on both
sides, and one killed.
Sunday as James Miller, fifer to a recruiting party
of the 91st regiment, at Kilmarnock, was going home,
a good deal intoxicated, he met one Rowan, a deser-
ter, and had just laid hold of him, with a view of
taking him to his officer, when he stabbed him with
a pen knife, in three places in the belly, so that a
great part of his entrails came out. He languished
till next morning, when he died. Diligent search was
made after the villain, but unfortunately without
success.

Iifx.SIMINSTER SESSIONS.

testerday Thomas Lucas was indicted for an assault-
ing Hart Levy, a Jew clothesman.
From the evidence of the prosecutor, it appeared,
that he was pursuing his business, and dealing with
some of his customers, near a stand of hackney coaches
in Charles-street, Covent Garden, when the defendant,
who is himself a gentleman of the Whip, but not a
member of the Whip Club, assailed the prosecutor.
and, in language not the mo .t decorous, but the most
flippant, charged him with being a common cheat
and notorious swindler, at the same time cautioning
the customers not to deal with him.. Whereupon the
ifebrew threatened him with an action of damages
for slandering his fair fame and reputation ; this not
being much relished by Jarvis, he vowed he should
have some reason to take him to Westminster Hall,
and, leaving his coach and horses, retired to a public
house for a few minutes, to give zest to his elbow; on
his return from whence, he served the poor Jew with
a dexterous 46 facer" under the wheels of his coach,
and, mounting his box, drove off. This was proved
by another witness.
The defendant endcovoured to justify the assault,
by stating, that the prosecutor had spit in his face ;
to prove• which another hackney coachman was
cal-
; but as Moses recognized in him an old custo-
mer; whom he was recently obliged to summon to
the Court of (ilmancience for the value of an old coat
he had sold him some time ago, his testimony got
very little *credence, and the defendant was found
Guilty.
The Court sentenced him to a short imprisonment.
Several petty larcenies were tried, among which
were a man and a,woman for ste.tiing pewter pots ;
the former was sentenced to suffer six months impri-
sonment, and the latter three months imprisonment.

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Bow-:TAKE?.—A person accused of aawlohe ry at
EdiubtuFh, who bad Utensil) custody at the 13rown-
Belts waiting the.atrivar of witnesses from Scotland
to identify him, has made his escape under the fol-
lo*lng circumstances t—Yesterday moining, he said
he Wanted to go into the yard, When a man, the sei.
vant of Mr. Mazird, the' landlord, attended him as
usual. When he was about to return into the house,
again, he suddenly knocked his attendant down, and,
in consequence of some paling which separated that
yard from the butcher's, the house adjoining, there
was a free and uninterrupted access to a large space
of waste ground, at the back of Russell-street, which
leads into a narrow court, in Russell-street, through ,
which he made his escape. The hue and, cry of—
" SOP Thief !" was raised, and several men ran in
all difectioils, but in vain.
MANSION 1-louSt.--4Yesterday J. Cunningham was
charged by a Serjeant of Marines, with having, en-
listed with him, and after taking the bounty money,
deserting and enlisting with another Serjeant. The
prisoner acknowledged the fact ; but said, he was in-
toxicated at the time, and was incapacitated from a
boy from being a soldier.
Alderman t olinerl, (who sat for the Lord Mayor)
told him, that as he had not been attested, the Act
of Parliament allowed him twenty-four hours for
consideration, and if he altered his mind in that time,
by paying twenty shillings smart money, and return-
ing the bounty, he might be discharged ; but the pri-
soner not being able to comply with this, he was com-
mitted.
HATTO GAnD!N._Yesterday John Benton was
fully committed for trial, charged with stealing a
muff out of the shop ofMr.Sneider, furrier inHolborn.
SIIA DWELL.— Yesterday Mary ifyleit and Mary
Gill, were fully committed for stealing goods in the
shop of Mr. Bennet, in the New Road, St. George's
in the East.
MAR LBORovoi-yrnzp:T.---Thursday __....... Forster,
was fully committed for obtainir.g admission, as a
servant, into The family of a Mr. Stott, by means or
a fictitious character.
ITNion FIALL.--Another of those wretches who
Make a practice of accusing persons of detestable
crimes, for the purpose of extorting money from them,
was yesterday fully committed fur trial name
is Thomas Hall.
Boaugu.—A casual reneoistre took place on Monday
last between roux: Belcher, the famed pugilist, and a
couple of countrymen, in the neighbourhood of War-
field, Barks. James Belcher is in training in Berk-
shire, for the approaching. combat with Crib, as is
also Young Belches,
who it has been stated is to fight
Farmer. Young Belcher had gone six miles from
homeo on Monday, to see an acquaintance, and on his
way back in the evening he met two strangers, who
treated him uncivilly without any provocation ;
boasted of having been in • company with Belcher
(meaning the bmtter)" snd insisted cm. a hit of jiht.
The pugilist declined, until the countrymen had each
alternately given the object of attack a few flips in the
face, when he turned to, and gave them a deservedly
good thrashing. The countrymen, and particularly
one of them, turret', when they had each received a
blow, and they suffered the pugilist quietly to depart,
although they were considerably his superiors in
weight and strength.
A pitched battle was fought yesterday at Lang.
lei-batch, near Hounslow, between Flowers. a man
bt some note, in Berkshire, and Davey, lately a
waiter, at Marlborough, for twenty-five guineas, when
after fifty-eight rounds hard fighting, avey was de
Glared the victor. •

On the I 7th ult. a young man, servlnt to Mr

DR. JAMES'S POWDER,
For Fevers, Colds, Agues, -Influenzas, Measles, 3cc.
AVender of Medicines,• tormorly a labourer in the
Doctor's garden, has lately advertised himself" as the 0r...
" ginal and only person who ever prepattd the Fever Powder for
" the late Dr. James ;" but as it has been proved that this Medi-
cine was sold before he was born, and tht.refore that he could not
have been the" original Preparer," he now shifts his ground, and
declares " that he assisted in the preparation two years prior to
" the Doctor's decease, the person who usually prepared them
" being in a bad state of health, &c." and thus, by his own skew-
ing, it appears that he was not " the only Preparer." It happens,
however, that Mrs. Evans, here alluded to, who lived many years
in the Doctor's family, and survivedshim, was, in truth, the only.
person who attended the fires and assisted in the process till his
death : a man was occasionally employed to pound the ingreclietns.
which is all this pretender, Mr. Perrin' can have done, and
which he dills " assisting in the preparation ;" so that after the
gross falsehoods of being " the original and the only Preparer,"
his pretensions resolve themselves into the mere quibble " of as-
" sisting in the preparation," because he pounded the ingredients.
But even if he had.been admitted to assist Mrs. Evans in her part
of the process, he could not have obtained the secret of this Me-
dicine, for, according to Dr. James's affidavit (published by his
Executors in 1777), it bad only been communicated to his Son
and Mr. Newbery—a discovery, moreover, that has ever baffles{
the skill of the most eminent Chemists.

The genuine Powder is to be had only from F. Newbery and
Sons, N 0.45, St. Paul's Church-yard, London ; or at Dr James's
late house, in Burton-atreet, in Packets, price t2s. 6d. each ; er in
Bottles, containing 12 Packet+, as made up for the Army and
Navy, price 11. s including the duty. Observe that the words,
" F. Newhery, Nu. 45, St. Paul's," are engraved in the Stamps

CORDIAL•BALM OF GILEAD.
4ls there .no Balm in (Aka? Is there no Physician there ?
Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people reco•
Vali I'r Ser. viii. 22.
44 The LORD hAth caused Medicines to grow out of the earth,
,and he that is wise will not abhor them; for with such cloth he
heal men and take away their pains." Eccl. xxxviii. 4. 7.
IT is notorious that various disorders of the human
frame are brought on by diis;pation in youth, and the gross
(violation of those rules which prudence dictates for the preaerva.
Ilion of health, and laying a foundation for a long and happy life,
with a firm and strong constitution. The blessings pf health are
no sooner lost, than painful experience teaches the inestimable va-.

lue of it, and the unhappy patient looks Around, too often, alas

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Ashton, of Chestcrwood, near Haydon-bridge, was in vain, for the rneuns.cdits
OreictoDva!
BALM OF
Solomon, of Li-
sent with a horse to conduct his master home from verpeol, recommends his C
9F GILEA. D to
all those whose constitutions have been impaired by early impru-
a neighbouring farm, where they were making merry donee, and whOse nerves are afflicted by intense study, the too free
after the first trial of a newly finished thrashing ma-
Use if ardent spirits, tea or coffee; as well as to all persons who
chine. The youth being long in returning, a servant are enervated by long residence in Got and unhealthy climates
in which cases it will invariably prove of the most ;
~,,, of thefamily could not rest until she had prevail.. sovereignt e_...-
eacy, bracing the relaxed nerves, strengthening and invigorating
ed on one of the men servants to accompany her in the constitution. The various weaknesses peculiar to the fair sex
looking After hint ; lit their road, they heard a faint come immediately under the power of this resdtorative, and many
try below the ford in a brook which they had to ladies of fashion and respectability have feutunet
witithtofobe the best
when the girl hetokally plunged in, and, wad. medical appendage to the toilet they ever
'pet
'the decayed spirits, dissipating head-ach, faintness anrcirelaeningui 'or,
ng
Cross.
log frtcrootly up to. bee !Diddle, in a most extreme
a pies sing vivacity, chasing away melancholy, and giving
croeamrgort and strength to the whole s
cold nights found the.olrject of her search immersed
Prepared by Dr. Solomon, GileadystHe7use, near Lis rat in
to the neck in watt', with his head out, and to all
appearance lifeless, having lam there, it is supposed; to.s: 6d.
h and 335. bottles ; the latter contain four of the former, by
watc the purchaser saves es.—Every genuine bottle has a stem p, '
four ileum He was
,_ immediately conveyed to a
whichbears the Proprietor's 'tame and address, " Saml. Soloman,
Liit 1" to
postageinutate which
f is felony.
teigoooring cottagei where, by.the assistance of a
from Hayes-bridge, he was reanimated, N. B. he
to the Doctor must be paid,
Ziln i fair way of recovery. .1-It had taken too and 10s. 6d, as a feeinaclotaendifor advice.
Sold by all the t;isputable Medicine Venders Booksellers, &c
witch drink at io cl which the farm above:n:lU At ) occa- .
op every principal town in England, Ireland, So thnd; and'aini e.
rica,pricyHalf-a-Gulnca abottle, with copious directions sealed up
siened him to niiss his road.

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