Star.
London, England, 1802-08-18 00:00:00

FEMALE SWINDLERS.

Mr. EDITOIL.—The many trials you have lately
recorded of female Sharp, and Sharper: have im-
prcffcd my mind with a conliderable degree of
melancholy. I like not this ambition of the fair
fex to equal us in all our follies and crimes ; and
it (hocks me that the time is come that one may
fay with, propriety to any thing in the (tape of a
lady, " Thou (halt not fleal." I thought they
would have been content with a very lax interpre
tation of the Seventh Commandment, and with full
permiffion to Al! with all the charms Nature has
Fiven them ; but fence they have paired from kill-
ing to (healing, and are more anxious to fecure our
purfes than our hearts, I fear a great degeneracy
is not far off.
What is become, Sir, of the ancient delicacy and
high fpirit of our females, when, inftead of captivat-
ing our affections, they trick us out of tables and
chairs, and are more defirous to flea! a be4:l, than'
to make ufe of it ! Why are thole bright eyes that
ufed to enchant us with a tingle glance, now wan-
dering o'er our (hops in quell of what may be
' podded ? And why are the tender affeainns, the
gentle hopes, the delicate fears of love wafted upon
a piece of lace, or the furniture of a fidebr•ard !
Why do they look fo intensely at a pier glafs, not
to contemplate their charms, but to convey it
away ; and why do they who were once captivat-
I ed with the youth excelling in grace and mein,
now fix their affections, 0 ominous paffion ! upon
a fet of hangings ?
Surely, Sir, here is fome fatal perverfion of tafte
fprung up among us, and threatening to overturn
the whole fyllem of focial love and harmony. The
time was when cot young men were cautioned by
our experienced tutors and guardians againft
fparkling eyes, cherry cheeks, dimpled chins, po-
tithed foreheads, and ruby lips ; when the (welling
bofom threatened a tempeft in our hearts, and the
winning (mile was irrefittible feduCtion ,• when we
alternately experienced the pleafures of hope and
the torments of defpair, and had no enemies to
encounter but flames and darts. Ali ! how fad the
reverie, when all the precepts of parental wildom
and of Page experience are compreffed into thole
few and vulgar words—,, Tide care of your parka:."'
Tell thefe infatuated females, Mr. Editor, that
they have widely erred in this new calculation of
female policy, this new expedient to avraa our
attention. Tell them that men and houfehold fur.
nature are not to be caught in the fame trap; that
barrilters are very deficient in their refpea for
beawiful felony and =amplified fraud ,• that a Court
of Justice is not the circle in which the charms of
the fez thine with the brighteft hiftre ; that Juries
Ana Judges are not to be taken in with well written
letters, or fentimental faintings, and that the rug-
gedell road to the Temple of Hymen is that which
leads throrigh the Old Bailey.
Dear enchanting creatures ! be no longer the
(laves of French clocks, porcelaine, and candela
bras, of pier tables, fecretairss and girandoles : Be
no longer captivated with damafk curtains and
Turkey carpets, with Pembroke tables, with or-
. moulu and Wedgewood medallions ; and if we
• muff be compelled to make honefi quorum of you—
, 0 I by all the loves and graces ! let it be in the
OLD war. DAMON.

BIRTH.
On Friday morning, in Hadepitreet, the Lady of William
Blackett, Efq. of a fon.

MARRIED.

Lately, Mr. P. Mackay, Merchant, Edinburgh, to Mifs
Anne Taylor, daughter of the Lite Wm. Taylor, Efq.
This morning, At St. George's, Bloomibury, George Leckie,
Efq. of Finibury4quare, to MI6 Elisabeth F. Corner, daughter
of John F. Corner, Efq. of Edinburgh.

DIED.

At Crief, on the 9th infant, Mr. Robert Gardner, writer
in Dundee.

At Tobago, on the 6th uh. Mr. Andrew Hood, late of Tor-
bokun.

A few days ago, at Rocky, in Hertfordfitire, Robert Thew,
Hiftorical Engraver to the Prince of Wales. He was born in
Yorklhire, about the year 1738, and was a man of a very extra-
ordinary mechanical genius, which had but little cultivation,as
his education was altnoft entirely negieded. He was appren-
ticed to a cooper, and which trade he afterwards for Come time
follteoed ; he then applied himfelf to the (lady of optics, and
made a very curious camera obfeura, on a new principle, which
gained bins the patronage of the Marquis of Carmarthen, (after-
wards Duke of Lccda) ; at about the age of aB, happening to
fee an engraver at work, though he had never pradtifed draw-
ing, he got a copper-plate, and engraved an old woman's head,
from a painting by Gerard Dowe, which 6rft attempt was fo
very extraordinary, that he was appointed Hiftorical Engraver
to the Prince of Wales. He has !ince engraved a great num-
ber of capital plates from the paintings of Sir J. Reynolds, Skate,
Weftall, Sniirke, Fufeli, Northcote, Peters, ate.
At Stonehaven, on the 3oth ult. at the age of 96, John Sloane,
Bar-Officer of the Sheriff Court, ading Conftable, and Keeper
lof the County Jail of Kineardinefhire. This man afforded fo
remarkable an inftance of ftrength and agtivity in old age, that
a ikon account of his life defence to be recorded.--He was
born in the neighbourhood of the town of Ayr, and had a dif-
dna remembrance of the rebellion in x 7 tionni of the circum-
ftance attending the return of his father from the battle of She-
riffmuir, in which he had been engaged as a private in the Earl
of Stair's dragoons, one of the two regiments which, led un by
the Duke of Argyle, routed the left wing atilt rebel army.—
lie was a farm fervent till the year 1738, when, at the age of
32, be enlifted himfelf in the 6th regiment of foot, then com-
manded by General Guile, aid-de-aunp totting George 11. Hav-
ing in 170,entbarked with his regiment to juin the arnument
under Admiral Vernon and Gat. Wentworth, ailing againit the
Spaniards in theWeit Indies and South America, he was employ-
ed in feversl of the unlucky expeditions In there countries, and ,
particul-ely in the attempt to trots the ifthmus of Darien for the
purpofe of attacking Panama. .When there Commanders were
ordered home, with the remainder of their forces, he wa . one
of the few who were fpared to return to Britain. He feared
in Scotland during the rebellion 1745, and afterwards did duty
to years in Gibraltar, from which he returned to Britain about
the time the unfortunate Admiral Byng was brought borne a
prifoner. After being 27 years a foldier, he, in 1763, received
I his difcharge, and was admitted an out-puifioner of Clitifett-huf-
pital. From that time he refided conftantly in Stoneliaven, per-
' forming, during the Lill 37 years did, life, the duty of an active
and malty executor of the law, in which occupation, his fuperior
manual prowers was often difplayed. He was thrice Married, asid
the left time, within there two years, toa young woman. He was
a brawny man,3 feet 11 inches high, uniting a very athletic ap-
pearance with nail fyntmetry of Rape. Even at 96 his gait was
perfectly erect and eafy. Within the latt twelve months art his life
Itches been known, without refuting trouble to himfelf, to walk
from 3o to ao miles a-day, in the execution of his duty as a She-
, riff's Officer. He always enjoyed good health; and there is every
reafun to prdume that his life might have been confiderably
farther prolonged, had be nut, at the late county eledion, in a
moment of hilarity, forgotten that he was old. By drinking
too freely he was relied with an inflammation, which in eight
I days put an end to his life.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDOEVO.A;LOitItI
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nEPIARABLE DECAYS and WEAK.
NCSSES, brought or by diflipated plelfkres. hard drink•
ing, and too powerful eoliths of Mtn-limy (the INN,e or
producing (Hiles flirg pains in the Pack .ind I An., rembltrg...
Feeblem fs, Horror, of the Mind, Nervous De:if fa, hr. he,
are cured hy 1 it:N*l Lie. It csl OK ATIVC HA ES., M
HEALTH, well known upwards of to years for its !nkft6nalle
virtues. As a Teem: proof of its great efficacy, .1 Gentleman ~e
rank, for an alarming M'eakticfs, had been unclerthe ewe of a 4
eminent Surgeon feveral months, without olstaiiiing any reliv,
was curedin a few days by this Rdtnrarive Medicine, Nume-
rous Gentlemen in fimilar fituations have received ‘.4„4 htn,
fit ; in fhort, this Rettorative Adi dielne is now in had a repute,
as to he recommenered by many of the Fitenity.
cry A Vamphlit on its. Virtues, with a Lilt of important
Cures, may be had of the Venders.
Sold at Wade's Medicine Vi'arelionfes.No. t 6;. flat-11.reet,
and No. tl, Ohl Botiq Rice; ; Tutt's W.,relioule, fruit
trance Royal haehange ; Shaw, No. 74, Borough ; Bacon, Os:
ford-Itrect ; and by all Bookfellers and 'eiders of Medicines'
in Town and Country; price 6s. 3d. the (mall Roy larger.
Boxes. eontaibing the quantity of fia (moll may he had We
Bs.as made up for the Army, Nos;, and mints.

SCROPHIILA, or KING', EVIL, and ASTHMA ('ored.
To Mr. Lignum, Surgeon, at his Difpcnfary. No.3', Bridge.
itrcet, Manchrfter.

Barton,in the ?arab of Eccles, in the County of
DCAR SIR, LlllKallrt, Nov. VS, t-911.
ACTUATED by ;t principle of gratitude and
juftice to fociety, and your Drops. add,xl to my own
eonvidion, obliges me cordially to willed's and vouch tot their
vcry extraordinary powers have, for thirty-fix yeark.hteu
affileted with the above complaints, although molt or the ft.
culty, under whole care I h,.ve been, termed my ailliedinti
fcorbutic, till, happily, I came under your care. when you pro-
nounced my cafe to be ferophulous: about fix month, ymo, a
lady In the neighbourhood of Barton, hearing the depinrMe
condition I was in, vifited me, when, immediately, the arm-
oufly recommended the ufe of your Drops, at which time I
was in Inch a calamitous Rate, as I think fcarcely ever ~nor
mortal was—my right arm and left leg were both (welled to),
truly alarming degree, in my arm and hands there were up-
wardi of twelve running wounds, which iffued a large quarolty
of ichorous humour, attended with infufterable pain ; my 1,-g
and foot were fo fwollen, that I had not boen able to get either
thee or Rocking on for many months; there were likewile
many wounds in my leg and foot, which difehargol a beet
quantity of humour, fimitar to that which ilfued from my haul'
and arm, but was fomewhat more plutinnua ; and, to add .n
my diftrefs, I was much afilieled with an altlimmic comp:aint
and intermitting fever, for twelve months, OATS' other d.r,
together with depraved appetite. fah.tnt fs, hornet's and Ink-
ing of the fpirits, and my Reels was as it were tutal!y deputed
from me, as I had not known what it wax to experience a CROW'
Bap for many months; fuck was my lamentable coodnita,
that I was carried to and from my bed, and worn almoft
Ikeleton : indeed, it is impofilhle for me to defcribe the firm'.
tints to which I was reduced. when I began taking your Drops;
before 1 had finithed one (mall bottle, I found myfell ninth het-
ter. ; but how shall I expects my grateful thank. to Goo, and
you, for your ineftimable preparation, when, by the time
had taken three (mall bottles, I could walk from my own hrinfe
to and from Manclwfter, a dUtance of sets or eleven mile,. and
by taking three more bottles. I am perfestly reftored to heals";
I am now in the fizty-fecund year of my age. and what !W.A.;
back it ftrikes me with aftnifhmon, to confider what a poor
emaciated creature I was for In molly years—that your merit
and goodnefs may be rewarded in this world, ati will as in the
world to come, Is the Ilneere with and prayer of. dear Sir,
. .

Your devoted humble fervant.
Attelted by SARAH PRES IWICK
R. GUEST, Curate of Eccles,
WM. Lowe, Overfeer of the Poor,
Pros. Rortr, Schoohnaiter in Barton,
joint PHILLIPS,
JAMES SMITH,
SAMUEL LAMB,
RICHARD BUCIELCT,
TIROMAS PARR,
THOMAS COLLINS,
SAMUEL HURST, WOrflEy.
One es. 6d. bottle is fufficient to convince the affilded of the
falutary effeEts of the medicine.
vOi There Drops are fold in moulded Iquare bottles, at 126.
11M145.641.
One 12S. bottle Is equal In quantity to three es. 6d. ones
They maybe had wholefale or retail, at Mr. Lignum's
penfary, No. S 7, Bridge-ftreet, in Manchefter ; and a: Homo I
and Evans's, No. 42, Long-lane, Welt-Smithfield, Pole whok
fele ewes in London; and retail by the following prrfooy:
H. Conde% 47, Minories; W. Clark, 269, Borough; jovial).
33, Whitechapel ; Jcbouh, tso, Oxford-ttriet; Sutton, IV.
Long-Acre; Wade, Old Bond-greet, and 163, Fleet-Rivet;
Tutt and Bubo°. Royal Exchange; Knight, Norton Faikitt;
Turtle, 127,Straad; Ward,324, Holborn ; and by the Fin--
pal Vedder, of Medicines in every town in the United Kimit-
dom.

VENEREAL BLINDNESS,
To Mr. Thomas Taylor, Surgeon, Nu. 9, New Bridge tired
MCA it SIR, London.
IT is with the molt heartfelt fatisfadion that I ad.
drefs you on the incomparable excellence of ynul inrabalita
PA-CENT PILLSrIII the tit,
year I had the misfortune to contract a Venereal Comp Lint
attended with the molt alarming and dangerous lymptuans; ia-
afmuch,that I have been confined to my room fora whole wrck
together, and not able to ftir out of it ; 1 had no reit night nor
day, and futlered the molt excruciating pain and ;invent, did
what was wurfe, my Eyes grew weak and fu that I
could (came difcern any object, if ever fo dote to me, and et-
portal nothing leis than the total fors of my light.—Fruin a Rout,
healthy, and ruber corpulent man, I became a mere lhadow,
and an objet of pity and compaillona—My friends had allgivea
Inc over, and thought my recovery impoffible. In this dreadfil
Itate, and expecting every minute to be my Lift in this world,
I was fortmnately recommended by a neighbour to try your
Medicines, but having tried all medical aid to no purpote, and
been at an enormous expellee, it was Tome time before I coulti
be prevailed on to take them; at lalt I fent for lix luttes, and
before I had taken them all, I found ennfiderible iwnefit; my
pains gradually decreafed,and my rye-fight grew better, snits
the great furprize and allonifhment of all my friends, (afb:r tsk.
ng three boxes more), my health and ftrength was perfectly re-
(tiered, and I am now, (thanks to my 000 and your invaluatelt
Medicines), as well and hearty as VAX I was in my life.
Your obliged humble fervant, R. L. LEIGH.
High-Itreet, Birmingham, November 1, 1799.
Vogue at full liberty to publiik this in any manner you think
roper, for the benefit of fockty at large, and which I dwaid
have fen t you fouler, but was fearful of a relapfe.
The above Medicine is carnefUy reemuneaded to all perfons
that are in any doubt of their being entirely fret: every Ve-
nerealAlleCtion, particularly to thole about altering their con-
dition in life, as-it will certainly eradicate every taint of that
nature, of however lung Banding, or however thiguifeil Stair
the appearance of other difurdizs it may be ; r.sr Scorbutic,
Glandular, and Cutaneous Complaints it is Aro na nmmcu.ld
to be taken, aped:ally in the Spring, Summer, and Fall.
Prepared and fold by the foie Proprietor, TliONl.v: TAIr
LOB, Member of the Corporation of Surgeon., Loinbai, at
his hunk., No. 9. New Bridge.ftreet ; where he will give Ad-
vice, without a Fee, to weans taking thdc Pills, and will an-
fwin. patients Letters, if poll paid, on the fame terms, oliter:-
in in all cafes the molt inviolable Secrecy, De Perfon's name o:
cat.: having been mentioned, but at their own particulir trapicit
by the Proprietor, during the comic of more than 15 years, that
he has had the conduct of an exteillive Cale of the above rah;
eine, and the practice :ailing therefrom.
They are ;silo fold by his appointment, at the Perfumer.%
No. 35, St. Alban'*-lirici, Pall-Mall; Mr. Rohert.Un's Toy-
ihop, No. 103, (Ward tire.; ; Mr. Steel's. Bookfellir,
ire Is
Union-row, I.ittle Tower-Hill; and by one Perfon in tatty
eunliderable town in England, in Boxes of only 26.0. 001
feakd up with Ailland plain Direetions.

LON )01.1 Vrinted 1a the Prnpnetors by JOHN DANTE!
(of Canby-ltreet) at the ; Paiwytmo-Orrier. No I.
Carry-fteeet, andspahlithel hy UMW K NT (of Can-
. ticifuryinace, Lannbre),t-. No 1. earerltreet, and at the
. Skya-Orrea, Towile-Bar ;to which Other all Collllll4lli.