Star.
London, England, 1812-04-18 00:00:00

SPORTING lATEnLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING, itlit
FIRMAV. APIM 17.
Lord Sackville's 1. by Dick Andrews, 7st. 41b. beat Mr. Mil-
Beverley, Sit. 10Ih. Across the Flat, 200844--5 to 400
14 Sackville's f.
Mr. Craven's Tooley, by Walton, beat Duke of Grafton's bre;
ther to Joke, Bst. 71b. each. Across the Flat, 200g1.-2 to lon
Tooley.
I.ord Sackvi;le's Pan, Sst. 21b. boat Mr: Andrew's Morel, lat.
81b. Ab. 200g5.-7 to 2 on Pan.
Lord Darlington's f. by Ditto, B*. Slb. beat Can Girwer's E bj
Sorcerer, 76t. 12th. Two•yr-old C. IoOgs.--$ to 4on Lord Dar:
lington's 1.

A Subcriptitir. Handicap Plate of ,R5O for 3-yr-olds and
upwaes. Across the Flat.
Mr. Bowan's% b. h. Invalid, 6 yrs old, 6st. bib. - 1
Ld G. H. Cavendish's br. h. Florival, 5 yrs old; Est. 1416. 2
Mr. Lake's ch. m. Britannia, 5 yrs old, 75t.1l lb. S
2 to 1 apt Inv,lid-5 to 2 apt Florin!.

Yesterday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was
held at the Foreign Office.
OXFORD, APRIL 18.—Yesterday a convocation Of
the metnbers of this university was held to consider
the propriety of petitioning Parliament against the
Catholic claims. Two petitions, prepared in the
usual quarter and couched in the usual turns, were
submitted for their approbation. These having been
read, were, after a strenuous and unprecedented op 4
position, carried in the affirmative.
All the recent accounts from the Baltic concur in
representing the disposition of the Courts of St. Pe:
tersburgh and Stockholm to be most favourable to.
wards this country. The Russian Governmeitiott,ju
order to facilitate the introduction of British ss
has gone so far as to dispense with prompt payment
of the duties by the importer. Eighteen months cre;,
dit will be given. One half of the goods are even to
be delivered up to the merchant, and the other half
only is to remain under lock and key at the Custom.
house, until the whole duties are paid.
It is reported that Sweden has ordered restitution
of the value of the seizures made at Carlshian, of
British property. Mr. THORNTON is said to have car-
ried out with him 480,000 in specie, being the balance
due to Sweden of our last subsidy, the non-payment
of which occationed the Carlsham confiscations.
The account of the capture of the Rivoli, of 80
guns, in her passage from Venice to Corfu, was re.
ceived from Vienna. It vras me ti n. 41 ;It two sec.
cessive posts from Venice to Vienra, and there is tit-
tle or no doubt of its being correct. She was laden
with stores, provisions, and troops, for Corfu, and
was arwue ens lace. One of our frigates, whose name
we have not yet heard; laid her on board in themost
gallant style. The action was long and severe. She
had most of her masts carried away, and 400 men
either killed or wounded.
We are sorry to state, that the last =robins re-
ceived from the Mediterranean, mentions that Lord "
HENRY Larixox, third son of the Duke of Runtaserre‘
had fallen from the topmast cf the Bums, (of which
ship he was Lieutenant) into the sea. Lotd ifsantst
being exceedingly beloved, one of his shipmates ina•
mechately leaped overboard after him, and breeiht
up the body, but it was lifeless. Lord Haney waft
in the 15th year of his age, and promised t• be bp
ohaament to his profession.

fUh'ER,V. OPTHE DUCHESS OF GORDON.

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Thursday the remains of the Duchess of GonDoN
were laid out in state, at the Pulteney Hotel, and were
removed yesterday morninF, at half-past seven, to be
interred in the Church of Alva, near her late beautiful
residence, Kinrara, Badenoch, distant horn London
620 miles. The cavalcade consisted of—
Six Men on Foot.
Six Horsemen.
A Man, bare-headed, bearing Ducal Coronet, and Cushion.
Hearse, with six Horses, and Escutcheons.
Mourning Coach, with her Grace's Upper Domestics.
Ditto, Undertaker's, with six Horses.
Ditto, ditto, with ditto.
Duke of Gordon's Carriage and Servants.
-Marquis of Huntly's ditto.
Duchess of Richmond's ditto.
Duchess of Manchester's ditto.
Duchessa Bedford's ditto.
Marchioness Cornwallis's ditto.

Lady Madelira Palmer's ditto:
(Confined to the Family only.)
The Marquis of HUNTLY is to meet the funeral at
Kinr:ua, and attends the interment.
The Coffin is covered with rich crimson velvet,
coronets, &c. and bears on the Plate the following
Inscription; JANE MAXWELL,
Ducurss OF GORDON ;
Born 170,
Obiit 11 April, 1812. 2Etat. 63 years.

Lord KEITH continues to reside at the Govern-

meta House, Plymouth-Dock, and h to make it his
residence as often as the SAN JOSEF puts into Caw.
sand
The public will 'rejoice to hear that there is
great probability of the out-ports being admitted to a
free participation of the trade to China. The pre-
'sent agitation of this interesting subject, by the en-
lightened part of the mercantile community, has ten-
ded to remove all those fears and dangers with which
the Company have so longand so successfully alarmed
• this nation. It is a nctonous fact, that the Teas sold
at the Company's Sales; on an average of the last 10
years, have been 85 per cent dearer (duties out of the
question) than the Teas imported into New York by
the Americans, who, in common with all other na-

Liens at peace with this country, are allowed a direct
trade to China, which they carry on to a. great extent,
and an immense profit, while British subjects are
most vigilantly and jealously excluded from all par-
ticipation in such trade.
In the wager cause between Sir Mark Sykes and
the Rev. Mr. Gilbert, on the subject of Bonaparte's
life, a Rule for a new trial was granted en Thursday,
in the Court of King's Bench. Lord ELLEN BOROUGII
thought that the claim of the Rev. better might be
resolved into that of ae annuity. Flis Lordship
thought the question was worthy of being argued.
A Rule was also obtained, in the Court of King's
Bench, on Thursday, to slim cause, why a criminal
information should not be filed against Henry Wise,
a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, for provoking a
Magistrate of the name of Bradley to fight a duel.
Lord ELLENBOROUGII granted the Rule, as the pro-
vocation scented to have been given in connection
with the exercise of Mr. Bradley's duty as a Magis-
trate ; but he thought this a case in which the parties
might relieve each other from the necessity of coming
before the Court any further..
At the Devon Sessions on Thursday se'nnight,
woman was sentenced to be imprisoned for twelve
months, for having, as a fortune-teller, extorted from
a credulous girl, at Sidmouth, the sum of E 3. ss. 6d.
for telling her that on a certain day 2000 guineas
would jump up through thefroor accompanied with 1000
pounds worth of silver!
Pierre La Roche, the French prisoner, sentenced to
death at the late A!sizes for Launceston, Cornwall,
was executed on Monday last. He was a 'young
man of interesting appearance and of engaging ad-
dress. The natural powers of his mind had been
aided by a good education, and he was generally be-
loved, by all who knew him. Unfortunately, the
leisure which the prisoners have, added to the desire
of profit, induced him to turn his ingenuity to ac-
count, in the-manufacture of Bank-notes It is to be
hoped that the execution of this fine young man a't ill
have a proper effect on the prisoners in Hamoaze,
who have for three or four years been actively em-
ployed in this nefarious manufacture.
The pickpockets reaped a plentiful harvest on
Thursday night. at the Argyle-rooms Masquerade.
One'Gentleman had a snuff-box, value four hundred
guineas, taken from his waistcoat pocket; and during
• the bustle occasioned thereby, another Gentleman
lost his pocket-book, containing bank notes to a con-
siderable amount.

Yesterday -- Neveland was fully committed
from Hatton Garden Police Office, for uttering for.
fled five pound Bank-notes, in various places ; parti-
cularly at a pastry-cook's shop in Islingam.
an Tuesday last a poor boy was murdered in a
wood near Woolwich, by a ruffian, who having rob-
bed his master, and being pursued, fled for refuge to
the wood, where being seen by the boy, the fatter
streamed with terror of him, on which .the villain
seized and strangled him ; he was apprehended soon
after, when he confessed that he was newly three
hours in perpetrating this horrid deed !
A singular match took place on Saturday last be-
tween two officers stationed at Canterbury.—Cap-
tails M—, of the 9th regiment, engaged to hop 50
yards, while Mr, B—, of the 4th dragoons, ran 60
yards, which was won by the former by A yards.
A gentleman of the name of Frogard, of Berkeley.
street, undertook on 1 resday, for a wager of 100 gui-
neas, to go on foot 30 miles in four hours, which he corn.
i pieced n 7 minutes within the given time. Betting
was 2to 1 against the performance. The pedestrian
did 16 miles in two hours and five minutes.
A Lieutenant Groats undertook, on Wednesday
morning, for a wager of 100 guineas, to go on foot
from BFackfriars-road to Canterbury, and from thence
hack to Stroud, seventy-two miles, in twelve hours.
Mr. Groats had also an engagement to do 14 miles
within the first two hours. He performed half the
distance at Moor-street, in five hours and folly mi-
nutes, and appeared tolerably fresh; but having done
60 milesvhe lagged; yet, being within time, by the
aid of refreshment and good rubbing, he did the
wonderful Herculean journey in six minutes within
the given time, by most extraordinary exotion in a
-vary crippled state.
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MARK TS
NEWGATE AND LEADENHALI. MARKET.
Beef 4s 4d to 5s 4d Veal Ss Od to 6s 8.1
Mutton 5s Od to 6s Od Pork Ss 44 to 6s 81
Lamb is. Od. to 89. 4d.
PRICE OF HOPS IN THE BOROUGH MARKET.
Bags. Pockets.

Kent 41 Os to 61 Os Kent 41 Os to 71 Os
Susses 31 Oa to 51 Os Sussex 41 Os to 61 Os
PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW IN SMITHFIELD.
Hay 51 Os to 61 Os New Clover 61 Os to 71 Os
New Hay 01 Os to 01 Os Straw 21 los to 31 Ss
COAL-MARKET, April 17. •
Ship/at Market Sold Prices.
51i Newcastle 3o 3.15. 6d. to 545. Od.
1 Sunderland I 48s. 9d. to ON. Od.
2 Cinders a 2bs. Gil. to 00s. Od.
We are happy to find that the immense track of Waste Land,
generally known as Bagshot Heath, will soon bear marks of cut-
Ittvation and improvement. The Landholders In the parish of
Windlesham have laudably set the example; and their Bill has,
we understand, passed the Commons—other parishes will fal-
low; and it is supposed that So or 40,000 acres of land'will, in
consequence, be brou3ht into tillage. The persons who bring
forward these inclosures must not be daunted by the opposition
which will generally be made by particular individuals, interested
is the lands remaining In their original states

BIRTH.
Tuesday, in Queen-street, May-Fair, the Lady of Colonel
James Orde, of the 99th Regiment, of a son.

MARRIED. .

Wednesday, at Finmore, Oxfordshire, Dorset B. Newman,
Esq. Captain in the Royal Bucks Militia, to Mary, daughter of
Wm. Holden, Esq. of Harpur-street.
Wednesday, at Bristol, the Rev. R. Govett, Vicar of Staines,
to Miss Sarah Romaine, youngest daughter of the Rev. Doctor
Romaine, Reading.

Monday. at Vandzwerth, Earle Lindsey Daniell, Esq. of the
Island of Antigua, and late Captain of the l 2th Light Dragoons,
to Elizabeth, daughter of the late William Walker, of East-Lill,
Wandsworth.

April 14, J. W. Brydges, Esq. of Watton-court, Kent, to Lady
Isabella Anne Beresford, daughter of the late, and sister of the
present Marquis of Waterford.

DILD.

Thursday evening, at an advanced age, Dr. Francis Annesley,
Master of Downin, College, Cambridge; and during thirty-six
years Member of Parliament for the Borough of Reading.
In the month of February last, of a fever, at Port Mahon, in
Minorca, whither he had been removed from his Majesty's dills
Warspite, Henry Robert Lloyd, Midshipman in the Royal Navy,
and youngest son of the Rev. T. Lloyd, of Peterley House,
Bucks, in the 15th year of his age.
Wednesday se'rinight, at Frome, Mr. G. Edgell, Attorney at
Law, and Clerk to the Magistrates for the Division.
April 18, at Walham-Green, in the Sist year of his age, Wm.
Shaw, M.D. .

April 13, at Clapham, in kis 43d year, Lieut. R. Lad, ana,R.N.

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