Star.
London, England, 1805-12-26 00:00:00

LORD NELSON.

Tuefday a Committee of the Corporation of Lon-
don, attended by tl.e Remembraneer, waited on the
flight Hon. Lord HAMAESSIMY, finally to arrange
the ceremonial part to beobferved by the Corporation
at large, at the funeral of Lord tilsLson. The Com-
mittee confined of the following eight Gentlemen:—
Deputies& R err, Pr aos R,SirW. Raw LI a 3, Noe NOLL%
WADI), GOODSENIZI; Meffrs. Dixon and j. Boaa.
At the funeral of Lord Nsi.som, the whole of the
morning let vice will take place prior to the burial
fervice. The cable that now extends from the top of
the Dome in St. Piul's is intended to hang all the
Colours of the different Powers taken by the gallant
Lord; at the top will be difplayed the &Ili& Flag
of the Vi dory, which, on a fignal being given, will
be lowered into the grave, with the remains of the
ever-to.be-lamented Noble Earl.

The carpenter's and undertaker's men are going on
faft with the preparations at the Painted Hall in
Greenwich Hofpital. The platform upon which the
pale are to walk, is now completely 6niffied ; it is
divided into two palfages for people, each about eight
feet wide ; part of the wells are bun with black, a
canopy of black velvet, with black fringe, is put up
at the wellern extremity of the ball, where the body
is to be placed. The public is to enter at the gate
next the River, and go out at the weftern gate. The
public are to be admitted gratis into the hall on this
occafton, though at other times 3d. is paid by every
perfon who fees it, and this money is appropriated to
the tile of the charity. If no nnforefeen accident oc-
curs, and no unexpefted delay takes place, the lying
in Rate at that place, will be on the sth, 6th, and 7th
of next month ; and on the Bth, there will be the
proceffion by water to Whitehall, and if the public
!hall not be extremely anxious to ke the Rate at the
Admiralty, the body will be removed the next day to
St. Paul's, where the tail folemnity will take place ;
but it is Not fuppofed at prefent that at all events the
burial will be law than the loth of next month.
The order of the Rate at Greenwich, at the Admi-
ralty, and the form of public interment, will be nearly
the fame as that which was obfkrved at the time of
the death of the Earl of Sandwich. The lying is
Rate at the Admiralty for more than one night will.
if poffible, be difpenfed with, as the keeping a public
office of its importance might materially impede the
bufinefs of the public.

The Hon. General Gomm*, the Earl of BocetaG.
ANISHIRI, and the Earl of Sprawl, are the purebafers
of the Cenral old honfes leading from Hamilton-
ftreet to Hyde Part Terrace, which are immediately
to come down, and, in their place, will be built three
elegant large manfions, in a parallel line with the
Terrace. The pntchafe money for the freehold, is
laid to be Hoed.
Sunday night three french prifonets efcaped From
a prifon (hip in Hamoase, and took a boat dole ai
fide, but the gale upfet it; two were drownedin
the other fwam along-fide, and was taken on board
almoft dead with fright.
The ambitions views of Botta:airs are thus dif-
chafed in a pretended letter from Vienna, dated the
sad of November, which appeared in the Paris Paper,
called the Paliciik, a demi-official Journal, On the
loth inftant.. The writer lays--0 I with to fee Auftria
lofe the Tyrol and Saltabonrg,in favour of Bavaria,
which fbould be crated into a kingdom ; the title of
Emperor of Germany fupprefed ; Narocaom made
Emperor of the Weft; a new kingdom formed of
Turkey in Europe ; and the FrenchcSpaniards, Ger-
mans, Italians, and Greeks, united under one Chief;
iter prevent the Scythians from ever piling the Dar-
danelles, and traverfing Poland. This Chief of the
Weft will be mailer of the commerce of the Eat;
and lila% when be choofes, make a jourpey to the
Gangeo
M. MAIM, v celebrated aaor of the Comic Opera
at Paris, has lately gained a caufe againft Mademoi-
(elle SIMONET, his firit wife. M. MARTIN was fr..
perated from her in the year 4. by an as of di.
vorce, palled by mutual confent. Marlensolfelle
&mow sr claimed a penfion of three thonfand francs.
The Tribunal, in the 4ta inflame, adjudged, that he
ffionld pay woo francs. On appeal, Mademoifelle
&mower's demand was difmiffed, on the ground that
the ezercife of her talents was, in her erofefEon, fuf-
ficient to procure her a maintenance.
At Peafemore, near Newbury, the baptifm of *
child was attended with the following fingular
cumftance--Joran Janis, the fon of J s s and Et 4-
*aims MiTCHIL, was baptifed on the fame day on
which bis father came of age. The child had the
fame godfathers and the fame godmothers as his fa-
thee, what were alto bis great-grandfathers and great
srandmothers.
On Wednefday IA was killed. at the Earl of.
Carlitles Farm, Cattle Howard, a molt extraordinary
pig, of which the following is an accurate defcription
as to weight and fize ; he had only been fed twelve
months; and had nothing but common ford given to
him :—Wight four quarters 6;ft. 4ab. offal, &c. h eft.
Total Soft. 41b. 141 b. to the done ; length 8 feet.
girth 7 feet, height 4 feet.
As fume workmen were digging, about a fortnight
ago, in the Cellars of the Crots Keys, Gracechurch-
ftreet, for the purpofe of enlarging them, they found
it neceffary to break through a wall which obarnaed
their progrefs, when they di-covered a vault, which.
on entering, they found contained a quantity of hu-
man bones, and a coffin, with the skeleton of a man
in it. A dagger, of an ancient and curious form,
was lying by the fide of him, which is in the pOlief-
fion of a refpeaable wine and brandy merchant, in
the neighbourhood of High-flreet, Lambeth. It is
conje&ured, that theft relics mull have lain buried
fqr Tome ceaturie' pall, and that the cellars joined
the vaults of a monaflery Ludt on the fpot in former
times.
Yefterday morning, about one o'clock, Skinner, a
conftable, apprehended a man in his_ apartments in
Bride-lane, Fket 4treet, charged on fufpicion of has.
ing committed forgeries on the Banks at Sheffield and
Rotherham, in York(hire. He was fafely lodged in
the Poultry Compter.
Early yefterday morning a milkman, of the name
of Ltoaava, was attacked by three men on Finchli
Common, who knocked him down, and robbed him
of 4s. (scl. and fpilled his milk, becaufe be bad no
more money.

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