Star.
London, England, 1825-09-03 00:00:00

LONDON BURNT.

Yesterday was the one hundred and fifty-ninth anni-
versary of the Gteat Fire of London, which broke out
Sunday morning, September 2,1666, (0.5), and, being
impelled by ttitmg winds, raged with irresistible fury
nearly Tour days and nights ; nor was it masteied till
the filth morning after it began. There is a slese:ip!ion
rif this ti etuendous file in a 4-are tract,, published in the
year 1667. entitled " Vincent's GOD'S Terrible Voice in
the City," which begins as follows it, was the '2l ul
S;ptembsr, 1666, tint the anger of the LORD was kin-
dled against London, and the fire began; it began in a
baker's house in Pudding-lane, by Fish-street-hi!' ; and
now the Loan, is making London like a fiery oven in
the time of his anger, and in his ss I-Ith doth devour
and swallow up our habitations. It was in the depth
and dead of the night, when most doors and fences were
locked tip in the City, that the fire did break forth and
appear abroad like a mighty giant refreshed with wine."
It has been said that this fire, which began at Pudding-
lane, ended at Pye corner. The lofty pillar at the
bottom of Fish-stieet.hill is a monument set up in corn.
meutoration of this dreadful fire; but the origin of it,
as thereon detailed in a Latin inscription, is much mis-
stated. Pope has sail uf this monument—
" Whete lo.ndon's column, pointing to the skies,
Me a tall bully, lifts its head and lies."

Account from Frankfort of the '2sdl ult. state, that
the Queen Dawager of WinTrmisunG v.as expected in.
that city, to pay a visit to her Royal llighness the Land-
gravine of Masa HOMBURG, her biger, and to the
Duke of CAMBRIDGE. her brother.
The Emperor and Empress of AUSTRIA were to ar-
rive at the Palace of Luxemburg on the 22J ult on their
return from Italy. His highness Mince MerTEßNicu
arrived at Vienna on the 19:h ult. from Ichel.

Wednesday evening, about half-past eight o'clock, a
male child, apparently about six weeks old, was found
in the passage of Mr. Owen's house, 46, Little Britain,
Aldersgate-street. The child bad on, when found, a
calico bed-gown, a night-cap, and two pieces of blanket
wrapped round The body. The infant is under the care
of the parish.
SUDDEN DEATH.--An elderly Gentleman, its the act
of passing down Oxford street about eleven o'clock on
Thursday morning, suddenly fell down, and expired,
It is said that a new Police Office, for the county of
Surrey, is to be erected near Horsemonger-lane Gaol
and the new Court of Requests.
There are eighty-nine horses named for the Great St.
11..eger stakes at Doncaster, which are to be run for on
Tuesday, the 20th of this month.
Sunday, part of the small church of the parish of
Panarew, near Monmouth, fell down during Divine
Service, but happily without any worse consequences
than the temporary alarm of the congregation.
The wasps are remarkablynumeroos this season. The
application of indigo in a woollen bag, as used by
laundresses, affords speedy relief from the agony of
their sting ; sweet oil soon :flays the pain.
At the settlement of the Account at the Foreign Stock
Exchange, which took place on Wednesday, a broker
of the name of BALPA UR was announced as a defaulter.
Ilk fai:ure is said .to be owing to the desertion of some
of his employers, who have taken advantage of the law
which declares all-time bargains illegal, to decline the.
fulfilment of their contracts.
Thursday, the 18th August. an alarming fire broke
out, at four v.st. in the roof of Coin-house, the seat of
ALEXANDER MACCLEAN, E q. of Ardgowari, Argyle-
shire, which, notwithstanding the most prompt assistance
of several hundred Highlanders from the surrounding
shores of the Litiuhe Loch,' was by nightfall -burnt to
the ground, leaving merely the outward walls of the
centre mansion, The wings- escaped, and although
the greater part of the furniture was rescued, not a
person was hurt.
The following has been giien as the average length of
an out and home voyage to the East :-..-China 353 days;
Ihngal 365 days; Bombay 320 days : Batavia 300. .
We statei nu Saturday last, that Government had
decided on .sliscontinuing the practice of using iron
protectors to ship7-sheathitta, as recommended by Sir
Humpy HY DAVY ; the following is a copy of the Mi-
nute or Order issued :
" Jury Mk, 845.—1 n pursuance of an Order from the Lords
Commissloners Of the Admiralty, the Officers are to consider it as
a general rule, that no sea.seine ship is to be fitted with Sir H.
Davy's Protestors ; and that when such ships, in geoid condition,
come into dock, front time to time, to refit, the Protectors now
spots them ate to be censored.
" TM Protectors are, however, to be applied to-ships in good
fnustlidiln in- Ordinary ; and when such ships are brought forward
for soa-oerviee, the Protectors are to be removed, end the colper
deemed"

EQUESTRIAN FE4l$.

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Oti the Sd of May, 1756, a young Lady, who at Newmarket
had laid a wager that she would ride 1.000 miles in 1,000 boors,
finished her match in little more than two-thirds of the time. At
her coming in the country people strewed flowers in her way.
The Marquis de la Fayette rode, in August, 1776,-from Rhodes
131 Ind to Boston, in America, nearly 70 r..les distant, in seven boort.,
and returned in six and half. •
In October. 1739, Mr. Fozard, of Park.lane, for a wager of
one hundred and fifty guineas against one hundred, undertook to
ride foray miles in two hours on Epsom Race Course. He rode
two miles more than agreed upon, and performed it in five minutes
under the time allotted.
Mr. Wilde, an Irish Gentleman, some years ago rode 127 miles
on the Course of Kildare, in six hours and twenty minutes, fora
wager of 1,000 guineas. .
The celebrated Count de Montgomery escaped, 'from the mai-
*acre of Paris, in 1752, through the swiftness of his horse, which
carried bim ninety miles without halting. • .
The performance of Nicks, the highwayroso, who committed a
robbery. at Gulden', afterwards ensiled the ferry over the Thames,
end rode to York on the same horse, in 16 hours, is well known.
Mr. Cooper Thornhill, an innkeeper, of Stavin, in Huntingdon-
shire, rode trout that place to London, and back again, and Ow a
second rime to London, in one day, which made in all 21.3 ',Wei.
He undertook to ride this journey with several horses in fifteen
hours, but performed it in twelve hours and one quarter.
The late Lord James Cavendish rode from Hyde Park Corner,
to Windsor Lodge, which is upwards of twenty miler, iu Aess than
an hour.

Sir Robert Carey rode nearly 300 miles in less than three days
when he went from London to Kdisiburgh, to infia-us King Junes
of the death of Queen Elizabeth.. In the courbe of bis journey he
had several fall% and received some severe brakes, which occa-
sioned him to appear in the Royal presence battered and bloody.

Accounts have been received from Syria under date,
Berut, June 4, which. announce the arrival there of se-
veral Fr elide Italian, and Pied monteseOfficers, hid
catered into the service of the Viceroy when his inten-
tions appeared to be hostile to the Porte, but who had
taken the earliest means to escape on his declaration of
hostility to Greece. It was the intention of these Offi-
cers to join the Greeks, but such was the dealerahle
state of their finances, that they were destitute of the
means of proceeding, and were, indeed, entirely de—
pendent on the charity of the inhabitants for support.
Letters dared Tuesday last have been received limn
Amsterdam, but it does not appear that the panic which:
has agitated the London market has extended to that
place. The stocks of different denominations main•
-
tained their current value, while discounts were made
_by the Bank at three per cent. and loans on stock were
effected at an interest of four per cent.
Bedding speculations have become quite a madness
in France. We cite one example to give an idea of the
extent to wh;ch it is carried. A few years since the
ground in the Plaine de Sablons, fronting the Bois du
Boulogne, was sold for three thousand-pounds sterling.
It has been divided this year into building lots, and
paid the proprietor three hundred and twenty thousand
pounds sterling.
Mr. TELFORD has been lately engaged in making-a
survey of the road from Salisbury to Shaftesbury,
Sherborne, Ye evil, Crewkerne, Chard, and Hoton,
for the purpose of pointing out those improve ruts
which are necessary to nuke this the best, as it is tin!
doubtedly the nearest, line of road from London to
Exeter. It is stated, that the road may be so improved
as to save at least one hour in the conveyance of the mail
from London to the %vest of England.
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday se'nnight, an In-
quest was held at the York County Hospital, on the body
of J. Dalby, who had died in that hospital on a former
day. Tire deceased and had a qearrel during
the race week at York;anal while the learntr put him,
self in an attitude for sparring, the latter struck him a
blow on the head with stick, which made him reel
like a drunken m tp. The Jar y returned a verdict of
44 Manslaughter"' against Be 1. who has absconded.
Da-by was a shremaker. He was a native of Thoreer,
near Leed=s and his father perished some years back in
a snow-drift. Ile left his home about six in the even-
ing, %%hen he was perfectly sober. He is 'epic:crated as
heving been a very inoffensive young man, and re-
markably sober and industrious. Bea is a a respect.
able family.
CHOICE o A CARPET.—Persons who are disposed to
study durability more than ornament, should always
select a cat pet the figures of which are :null ; for in
this case the two webs of which the carpeting consists,
are always much closer interwoven than in carpets
where large figures upon ample grounds are represented.
A man named John Mennieg, a beggar, had the
brutality to assault John Carroll and his wife, in whose
house he had been hospitably entertained, in the county
of Meath, and literally fractured their skulN. Their
lives have not been pronounced out of danger. A ser-
vant woman was also badly wounded by the monster.
It appears not to be sufficiently understood that shop-
men, under 18 years of age, and apprentices' bound
until 21, arc net cha• geable under ,the Assessed Tax
Aets, if wholly maintained and lodged in the houses of
their employers—that horse; and ponies used for drawing
taxed carts, if they have net been ridden, are not charge-
able with any duty, under Schedule E, of the Act—
and that occasional grooms are not charge-able to any
duty, if retained fur the purpses ;if trade or husbandry.
Sr. JAMES'S PA RK.—I :s amusing to cast back our
mind on former titnee and to compare the present con!
dition of London wet': what it was even within the com-
parative short period of 12J or 30 years. Who that
now saunters leisurely e'en the Mall of St. James's
Park would dream that it was so recently within the
rigorous operation of the Game La es, and which ex-
tended with equal strictness to the distance of 10 miles
of Whitehall, within which limits any one would now
find it difficult to fire a gun without breaking a shop
window ? An advertisement will be'found in the Lon-
don Gazette of October, 1690, offering rewards for the
deteesiOn of offenders killing Game in SeJames'sPark.
It was a saying of Lord Halifax, that when men of
quality become scoundrels, it was no wonder at all if
scoundrels should be made men of quality. He used
also to say, that where a little rogue would deserve to
be fined and imprisoned, if a Lord should be guilty of
the same practices, I would retire him hanged, out of
respect to his quality.
When Mrs. Bracegirdle, the actress, complimented
Mr. Secretary Craggs upon his liberality to Mrs. Cent-
Byre, to whom he sent twenty guineas, on her dedi-
cating to him her farce entitled The Humours of Eke
dons, and mentioned tliat his generosity appeared the
more extraordin try as the farce had not been acted; he
replied, that he did not so much consider the merits of
the piece as what was becoming a Secretary of State.
An American Journalist gravely :elates that " nu-
merous fish have been found • floating Ilion the waters
of the Schuykill, supposed to have dird ,ntt a stroke of
the sun!" This, by the bye, is only a prose version of
the celebrated lines of the Yoe:,
The sun's perpendicular beat,
Illumined the depths of in e. se 3,
; And the fishes, twginni! g
Wed it how to: v.•!: sh3:l bt "

POLled INTEL LfGENTY.

MANSION-HOUSE.

A Gentkman brought forward an interesting case of a family
suffering under poverty, from unavoidable misfortune, after a lung
course of prosperous indunry,and his Lora:mar undertook that they
should be relieved from the melancholy prospect of a workhouse.

130%V.STREET.

Yesterday, JttM Prate, the tall coachman, who was accused, by
the witnesses brought by Mr. Martin on Thursday, with being the
-inan who was guilty of acts of cruelty to a horse in the Strand, on.
Saturday night last, appeared again before Mr. Muumuu., as did
Wells, the mats originally summoned. '
Peate produced, as his witneues, to prove his entire innocence,
Mr. Sanson, a Gentleman residing in Bryanston.square, and a water.
manwho attended a coach-stand in Adam-street, Portman-tquare.
The latter swore that Pent was on the stand Inentioned from five
minutes past six till twenty, minutes before seven on Saturday
evening, and Mr. Sarison said that he hired his conch at that time to
take him and his family to the Haymarket Theatre, and he waited
to bring them back when the performance.. were over.
Upon this evidence Mr. Martin consented to withdraw the in.
formatise, and the case was dismissed. Peate complained bitterly
of the loas of time, and other. inconveniences he had suffered by
bei:,g " falsely" accused.
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M A RLBOROUG H-STR EET.

lenses Crider, a dashing young fellow, was yesterday charged with
bring a systematic robber in lodgings. The prisoner seeing a paper
in the window of blr. I l'andscorne, of Great Windmill-strett, be
knocked at the dm., and viewed the apartments. Ile agreed to
take them, and gave a reference to a person three mile► distant. He
came to the house at ten o'clock in the evening, and left it the fol-
lowing morning at five o'clock, with the sheets of the bed in his
possession, which were subsequently found pledged at a pawnbro- ,
ker's in the neighbourhood. There were not less than eight other
simil if robberies said tole cor.:initted by him.—The Magistrate
ordered the prisoner to be brought up again on Friday neat.
bi A RY.I.A.-BONNE.

A poor man applied for directions how to proceed, in order to
obtain a reward from the Humane Society. lie stated, that he
had been ill for some time with a bowel complaint, but on Sunday
he went nut with his brother, for a walk in the Regent's Park, and
while standing on one of. the bridges a friend joined them, when
they saw a respectable looking man walking to and fro in a dis-'
tracted state, and s.lin after jump into the water. His brother fol-
lowed to extricate him, but the situation bf both becoming perilous,
the friend followed, and all three were straggling together; when
applicant, forg.t-sting his imbecility, plunged in, and brought the
first man safe to shore, and afterwards his brother, and his friend
contrived to scramble to the bank. The Magistrate said, his
conduct was highly praiseworthy, and if he applied to the Secre-
tary of the Humane Society, he had no doubt he would be
amply rewarded.