Star.
London, England, 1805-10-03 00:00:00

COTENT GARDEN THEATRE.

hall night Mils SMITH, from the Bath and
Theatres, made her firil appearance on this ilage, in
thecharaelerofLadi Townley, in the Comedyof the Pro.
void Ilejband. The figure of Mifs SMITH is below the
Itandard of fine forms, and her face does not abound
in expreffion ; the Teems, however, fufficiently well ac-
quainted with the hufinefs of the Rage; but her mm.
ner of (peaking k
is fehooaught, and her aElion is rt
they embarraffed. In her delivery of the furious
lan-
guage of felf-conviction at the end of the Play, the was
more fuccefsful than in the fprightly fillies of ditl.
pated high life, but in neither fituation did fire mani.
fell what confiitutes the effenee of fine aeiing..-a
lively feeling of the author's text. We muff, how.
ever, make Come allowance for the difficulties which
eircumforibe and deaden the faculties of a novice,
(landing before the awful tribunal of a metropolitan
audience. After the Play, the recited CoLuss's
Ode on the ?affirms with confiderable effect, and was
much applauded. The audience that witnefied her
performance was elegant, and rather numetuus,.-.
Refpaling the general bufinels of the Comc'y, as
managed at this Theatre, we have nothing new us
offer.

The Marchinnet% of EMIR left town yefterday
for Langley Park.
Lnrd Duoicalitiow removed yeferday from Pm-
brokeftreet, Whitehall, to his new ref-Waite in Graf.
ton-ftreet.

Bond-ftreet yeller& y was more crowded with No.
bility than it has been fnr leveret weeks ;
_ _ _ .

kits Grace the Duke of Devonihire in his euriicle and pair;
Lord and I.ady Henry Stuart in a !avouch; the Dowager (`nun.
td. of Buckloghandhire; Sir John and Lady Pennyman : Lord
Terlh4rn, Lady Cornwall, Lady Dudley and Ward, the Earl of
Lelecfter, Vircount Duneannon, the Hon Mils Thurlow, the
Hon. Mn', Bland. and James Uoyd, Efq. in a new phaeton and
pair, were uttongit the Faildostables of the day.

Srapnan KRMIILII in playing Faye may divide
the palm with Hisnaason. If be has not fo good z
head for the part, he ha* a better/math.

We have feveral aitreffeb at pre ient who might grace
a consul; but the critics complain that the liage never
was fo deftitute office ladtes.

The following quaint Epitaph it In Finfbury
Church-yard, near Chatham :

" Time was, I Rood as thou ddt now.
And view'd the dead. is thou dot! me :
Ere long Moult Etas low al I,
And others nand to look on thee."

Saturday failed from Leith Roads, the fled fo the
Baltic, under convoy of the &emus, Capt. barn,
and the (hips for Tonningen, under charge of the
Magdalene. _ _ _

His Majcay's fhip the Oct2v, will be launched at
Woolwich, on the 24th infiant. She will carry 9S
guns, exclufive of carronades, and is much larger in
her dimenfions than any of our old fiat rates. Her
length on gun deck, tg6 feet, extreme breadth
st feet, burthen in tons, 2,269. Htr keel was laid
down on the flocks on the asth of Odober, 17ga,

Under the articles of treaty Taft concluded with
the Nabob of Oude, the grofs jumma of the ceded
difitias amounted to t.50.t0,000 rupees, which is
calculated to cover the fublidy and eapences of Cita
Adminifiration. The former fnbfidy. paid by his
Highnefi, was 1,30.t8,000 rupees. The whole coun-
try of Oude is reprefented by the Taft official docu-
ments from the Prefidency, to be advancing in agri.
culture, commerce, and population.

According to the lag difpatches from Moulton, by
way of Agra. it appears that the affairs of the Pun-
jab fill remain in a very unfettled fate. The Lit
year has been rather unfavourable, and the collec-
tion of the revenues having been exaaed with uncom-
mon rigour. the natives have remonfirated ageing
the crmduit of the officers employed in that fernee in
a very high tone. The Government has taken the
alarm on this ocattion, and vat bodies of troops.' an.
moving in every direaion.
Advices from Amboyna, dated January g, me!,
don the alarming
.increafe of the Magadino pirates
in thole leas, notenthflanding the revere repulfes they
have recently received. It is reported that they have
had the temerity to attack a French lugger built pri-
vateer, which lately made its appearance on the
coati. and attempted to board her. The cog:-
quence of this raft) determination was the deftruaion
of the principal part of their fquadron.
It mutt be matter of fatisfaaion to the friends of
humanity to learn that the inaances of mortalirT and
illncfs on board country (hips from India to En3land
appear to be rapidly decreafing, in confequence of
the regulations which have been adopted by the Born.
bay Goven nment, for fecuring their better treatment,
and medical affillance.
A new treaty is fct on foot between the Bengal
Government and the Begum of Sumroo. which, we
are affured, will arengthen the mutual relations of
amity between thofe Powers, and be eventually pro-
duaive of reciprocal advantages.
We learn, that a woman in An ;triton, in the neigh-
bourhood of Glafgow. who has been aillieed with a
dropfical complaint fince the month of June, has re-
ceived great relief,and there is a fair profpea of a cure,
from eating the leaves of Bohea tea. The preferip-
tion is—" About two large cups full of Bohea Tea
is infufed in a quart of water, and, during the day,
the decuaion is to be drank, and the leaves eaten at
(tort intervals."
Saturday a very alarming fire broke nut in the pre-
miles of Mr. William Home. baker in I)unfe, occa•
finned by the vent of the oven taking fire, and the
(parks communicating to the roof of the adjoining
honk. which was thatched. It made a very rand
progrefs, and had it not been for the very laudlb'e
exertions of the volunteers and inhabitants, the de
maze fullained might have been much greater.
'On Monday night, about half pall nine o'clock, as
one of the Deplord coaches was returning to that
town from London, it leas overturned into a very
large and deep ditch, between China Hall and the
turnpike. 'Pere was only one man paffenger, and
he was got out without much injury. The coachman
Fsd horfes were nearly fuffocated in mud.
On Saturday Wm. Roberts, a feaman belongin!,•
to his Majefly's (hip TRIDENT. at Chatham, fell ;11
the hold of tt,e Cass-mom, in it fat: of itroticationi
and was tuffocated by the large quotity la::
which eras collated thsrc,