Star.
London, England, 1807-10-06 00:00:00

TR UR°, OCIOBRR 3.

We lately (Wet), that;feveral feamen of the Ame-
rican States tchonner Revenge, had offered to enlill
with an officer of the Britith Royal Marines, now on
the recruiting fereire in Truro, but that he had fent
them back to the American Commander with a de-
claration that he could not countenance deferters.
We fitou'd have been happy to Rate; that this ho-
nourable cnnduet on the part of a Britith officer had
produced an equally honourable return from the
'American ; bt;t what will the American declaimers
upon national honour and political juflice fay, when
wo tell them, that Captain Reed cf the United States
ferooner Revenge, an officer and a velfel rendered
cnnfpreuous by being the bearer of infiruaions from
the American Executive to its Minilter in London on
a difputc between the two countries, in which defer.
ti, n and the enc-•uragement of deferters form fo
prominent a feature—that this Captain Reed fo
obliged, and fo ltimulated to honobrable feeling, re-
futed to give up one of his crew who had declared
himfelf a deferter from a Eririfh regiment ? Yet fuch
is the fan. It is a feet ton, that fevetal others of the
crew cf the Revenge declared themfelvea Britith
fabjefts ; and that they were nest claimed as Inch,
and taken nut or the (hip, was Owing to the delicacy
and prudence of the Britith officer to whom they
offered arena-elves, who, c mlidering that the wife!
was waiting the re:urn of difpatches from the Amt.
'jean Minilier, would not furnith a pretence to the
Americans th it their vefTel had fuffered any detri-
Ment or delay in her million, by weakening her crew.
General Phipp; (brother of Lord Mulgrave) has
been fnme time in this neighbourhood upon a nail
tar,. iturpe6tion ; and General Nugent is expaled
here rn day on a limilar
The praElice of wrefiling, which had confiderably
declined in this county, has been revived late with
great fpirit. In the populous neighbourhood of Re-
druth, few weeks pais without a match, at which
fame thottfaods attend ; and it is pleating to obferve
that, from tlse countenance and maqagement of re-
fpeaable perfms, thefe meeting.; are freed from the
quarrellb.g and diforder that formerly charafierized
them. Several other towns have their annual wrell-
hogs, and liberally reward the fucceisful candidates.
Amor g the neighbouring towns which have lately
revived or intli:uted annual games of wteftling,
girgling, jumping in tacks, and running for (mocks,
we have now to mention the celebrated borough of
Tr egoney. They commenced there on Tuefday hail,
and were continued of Wednefday ; when athletic
Trufcott, of 6t. Stephens, wen the bell prize at
%railing; Tom Jerkins, of Vet yan, the feconcl.—
Jumpinz, in lacks followed—and jumping to the
fiddle followed that.

Between four and five o'cicck on Monday fen-
r:ght, in the morning, a gr-cer's (hop in Trongate,
Glalgow, nearly opp,,rx,e to the Tron Steeple, was
broke into by forcing r ff a window fhut ter and cutting
out a pane of glafs, apparently with a diamond. A
boy who was teen lounging about the. fisop, was ap-
prehended and carried to the Police Office, wheye a
quantity uf nutmegs were found upon him, viliich he
had taken out of a Phew glafs in the widow,,, The
hack door of the (hop being found 'open, two men
mete fet to Watch it till the owners came. Nearly an
hour had choke], when a naked bpy fprang by them
and almoa effe6ted his eicape. It lector he, bad gone
up the cbiatney, in which..he krippid, ;alrhis
clothe", is 'hit hope of effeeking" his efcgre by' e
roof. In the forendoti, they were carried before the
blagifirates, who committed them to feiarate cells
in Bridewell, ,till farther examination.. Thefe boys
are from Ireland. ;and, though curly about 14 years
.of age, are feemingly old offenders; they fay that
they !ladled from Belfaft from fear of being hanged;
and that three men tame along with them, but they
would not tell who they were.
Tutfday Mornio&another (hop, nearly at the bead
of the Grallowgate, was broken into, and calls .and
tobacco to the value of about feven pounds flerling,
and a.drab upper coat with velvet neek, carried off.
The (}top was entered by .a back window, tihich
looked into an open coal cellar ; the window !hurter
was forced open, and an iron Ilaple'torn out of the
wall with part of the.fione. An iron poker was left•
in the (hop. in which they broke open a (idle, and
she cafement and four panes of glafs rf a ;Pilule*
rbetween the back and fore (bop. The port attire
ineafurekare nal% for the dilcovery of there &pre.
datorigirich them remains little doubt, ilr:uld
they I In that city.