Star.
London, England, 1802-08-23 00:00:00

WEI-MOUTH, AUGUST

Pas Royal Highnefs the Prince of Watts ar-
rived ye.;eiday al,ernoon, And after promenading
th.:E.F..inade %rich the KING and the PRINCESSES,
(pea the evening with their M—sits-rics at Glou.
ceder Lo,.!ge.
'Tic mornine; his MAJESTY, accompanied by
tl:e Prin.:: of IiiALES and Duke of CUMBERLAND,
at:ended by Colonels CARTWRIGHT and Firzeny,
rode to M ti.len Cagle, to review the Oxford
riles, now in quartets at Dorcheder. The QUEEN
and PRINCESS t• S rode in their coinages through
the village. of Upway.
Lalt night a private of the Guards broke open
the houfe of Mr. BOLT, and dole a Myer watch ;
heing fLaprifed by the neighbours before he had
time to perpetrate further depredation, they pur•
1:z.1 him, and found him concealed in a boat,
wrapped in the fails; after undergoing an exami-
-11!•oa before the Magillrates, the culprit was
committed to Dorchefter prilim, to take his trial
at the allizes.

There will be a villble eclipfe of the fun at nine-
tetn minutes pail five, on the morning of Saturday
VV.

Alderman Coma' is gone for a few weeks with
an Englilh Gentleman who has bufinefs in Cham-
pap,: and Alface.
Lord and ricr, RolaNays, Sir WM. BARKER,
Colonel and Mrs. BLENNFRMASStT, Rev. Dr. Bit ts•
cot, and Rev. Mr. and Mrs. BowLis, are among
the latt arrivals at Bath.
Yarmouth, which is at prefent the Afargais of the
City of Nc wich and County of Norfolk, is very
14 of company. Among others. are Lord
lAS and Lady FITLROY ; Sir M. B. Foot E.,
Lad) and daughter; Lady and Mr. Ha cvos, &c.
At 3:anmore, on Monday, the 16th of Angit:l,
the iirli Sialdcrlption Bali for the feafon took place.
Though the fir it Balls are in general thin, owing
to the heat of the room, and the abfence of neigh-
bouring latniiies, it was neverthelef, one of the
bell attended of any that had ever been remem.
tiered. 'the hail commenced at eight o'clock, with
Airs. (...a.-a',nr ,' Trap. About twiny couple went
down. It was opened by Mir, Rum), daughter
of Princ.:fs CASILLCICAL.I, and Mr. J.
AfgficrSetwell f.liowed, &c. Among the company
were Princefs CASTLECICALA and the Mica Row.
ro's, part of the Marquis of Astatoes's family,
&c. The intenfc heat prevented the Marquis of
Amon s's amodance.

Great preparations are making at the Hague
for the reception of the FIRST CONSUL, who is ex-
pelled to vitit that city on his tour through Bel-
gium. He is to he accompanied by the Prince of
ORA`iG R. The French garriinn at the Hague cc-
lebrated the birth day of the FIRST CONSUL.

On Friday lafi an Officer undertook to run from
Louth to Horncattle, for a fmall w ages., a dillance
of 4 miles, in two boors, but performed it in one
hour and 58 minutes and a half.

Advice, have been received from the Cape of
Coy d Hope, hating that the Hottentots have fo-
mentA a difpute among tbemfelves, and numbers
are fAid to have (*Allen.

Mr. Nell is's b. h. Liu& 8.7, is matched againft
Mr. A ADZEWS'S ch. h. by Edmund, one four•mile
beat. at the enfuing Lcicctier Races for 300 gui-
neas.

A novel kind of funeral took place a few days
ego at Rayleigh ,• Mr. J. Downs, a farmer, who
died at the age of 64, ordered that his body fhould
be drawn on his own waggon to the place of in•
terment by four of his own horfes ; they were kd
by fair of his workmen, clothed in new leather
jacket., and each wearing a pair of hedging gloves.
On Saturday fennight, at about half paft ten
o'clock in the evening, the moon rendering the
aven:ag as light as day, a young lady was walk-
i E alone at Brompton Crefcent, when a hackaev-
e tcil d) ew up, and two men forced her into it, in
fpito r f her ineffedrial aruggles, and repeated cries
o'-" Murder, rape, my father, my mother!
&C." The cries, however, brought feveral perfons
out of their houses, and among the ref, a young
gtntlernan (who the writer hopes will be induced
hereby to give, at one of the public offices, fuel;
irni,.maticn as he was able to procure). This
Gentleman foon overtook the coach, and being
dole to it, noted down the number, but not till he
had received Come revere blows with the whip from
the coachman. When the coach reached Hyde
Park turnpike, it either flopped, or was flopped,
;Ind the men within produced a letter, purport-
ing, that the lady was Mils —, who
was infant, and had efcaped her keepers, who had
then again fecured her. On this the young man
iu quelfion difcontioued the purtiait, and no fur-
ther enquiry has been made, though the circum-
fiances naturally excite great curiofity, converfa•
tiun, and fufpicion, in the neighbourhood of
brompton.
Du r t.—ln the cafe of Bennett v. Grigby,which
was tried at the lail aflizcs at St. Edmund's Bury,
lir. ALDL R sow was Counfel for the Plaintiff. Mr.
Grocer, the Defendant, conceiving himfelf to be
tcfleaed upon by Mr. A. in part of hie addrtfs to
Islc Jury, applied to that Gentleman for explana-
tion. Mr. A. informed hint that he had not made
any affertion injurious to Mr. G.; that the itVerrntes
made by Counfel from evidence are never under-
h) be their ell,rtimr; that this was all the ex-
which the nature of the cafe admitted,
he hoped it would be fatisfailory. Mr.
allowed that Counfel were not refpon-
their conchifions from evidence ; but he
that Mr. A.'s obfervations, of which he
ted, aide in any refpea out of the evi-
the carife. To this Mr. A. could not of
' all attempts to produce a reconciliation
ineffeltual,atneeting took place on Monk-
I, near Norwich, on Tuefday evening, at
lock. Mr. ALDERSON was attended to the
Mr. MACKINTOSH ; and Mr. GRIGIT by
,ar a. Two Hoots were exchanged with no
tlian that of Mr. C.'s firft ball palling
the fkirts of Mr. A.'s coat. A cordial re.- j
lola was afterwards

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