Star.
London, England, 1805-10-11 00:00:00

TIM JIAR KRIS.

• •ICORN EXCHANGIii, MARK:LANI4 OCT. If..
There ;re tu.daya few frefb arrivals of new Wheat;
the Millers in general decline purchafes, and thole
fold are at lefs price; inferior, as of late, without fak.
On account of the late redultion, the foreign arrivals
of laft week are principally intended for exportation.
Barley dull tale at left, and looks downwards—Malt,
with the two kinds of Beans, at little difference—But
few ordinary Grey Peas, at high price; new eapeaed
—alfo a few Oat arrivals from Lincolnfhire, and are
a trifle lower—Flour without alteration.
OENSAAL CURILIWCY Al ISPIDZI
Wheat, 421. 6.05. 668. per qr. Grey Posfe 46s sos.
Fine Ditto. yos. 765. od. Beans, sos. s6s.
Rye, sos. 366. od. Tick Ditto sass 48'. ad
Barleyo2l. sm. cd. Oats, 265. sos• 30.
Malt, 725. ;Es. od. Poland ditto sss 37s ad.
White Peak, 521.585. od. Rape Seel, pi. 421. per Wt.
PRICI Of FLOOR.
Fine Flour 6ss. to 681. Seconds hos. to 6ss. per tack.
SMITHFIELD MARKET, OCTOBER rT.
This day's market was but thinly fupplied with
Cattle. The prices are fomewhat advanced finest
Monday's market, and the trade was not very lively.
—The builnefs of the Hay market was rather flat.
Straw fold at reduced prices—Hay and Clover muck
as per lall. We give the following as a coffee la
of the prices and numbers :
To Bak the offal—per foss of slb.
Beef 4s od to ss .sd I Veal se od to ss id
Mutton od to ss od Pork ss od to 6s of
Lana ss cJ to ss 6d.
lISAO or CATTLS /NIS DAT.

Beats 4110--Calves tgo—Sliesp 2.740--Plll% 370.
met or MAT AND STRAW an Sierra SISAL
Hay, per Load, • - 31 to to 31 th
&raw. • - II too m at la
Clover 41 05 50 41 we
COUNTRY MARKETS.
NSWCAsTiIt, OCT. s.—We had a goad (apply of Wheat to •day.
which fold brincly at an advame tot 48. per qr.. Oats n. per. qr.
lower. Arrivals mattoife taps qrs. wheats 9394. tici lirs•
malt, and 894 facks of flour.
CURRENT Priem.—Farmer's wheat (per qa.). as. t 1,30•0
Ditto new, 541. to pls.—Rye, 448 to os —Barley. 3sBs. to 44a,—.
Oat, asis. to 338.--Beans, 4os. to 44o—Puce 3is. tie 4,10."
Malt, 78s. to 8x..--Flottr.6os. per fat*.
Mae SSTs Wednefday there was a hill motet of MHO
and &top, but only few lambs. Cattle fold reader, bit many
(beep remained unfold. Beef, from Este 7s3d. per tome. Mot.
too, 6s. to is. Lamb, 64 6d. per Roos, Inking offah —What,
seo. to 761. per qr. Rye, 488. Oats, ass. 4d. to 3cs.
Blayne& .—Wheat. sos. to 3.31. Barley, am. to aqs. Oats,
us. to aBs. per boll of 6 Winebeßer bawls.
HADD imaron.—Wlwat, per bolt of 4 Windi. bolo* Ms. to
ans. Peak. a•: s. to 11s. Beans, 2IS to US. Batley, a4s. to ats.
Oats, so.. to a4s. 6d. per bon of 6 Which. bull.

We are happy to learn that the Two Thonfand
Pound Prize drawn on Wednefday, was all f •ld in
Sixteenth Shares, molly to labouring men ; she la&
Share was fold at Nine o'clock the time morning,
jult before the Drawing began.
The highctt Prize yet drawn in the prefent Lottery
is a soool. all the other Capitals remain in the wheel.
Monday will be the fourth day of drawing. Tickets
and Shares, warranted undrawn, continue on fate at
Swar and Co.'s Office, in the Poultry.
Brough-hill fair on Monday fe'nnight, was, as
anal, very well attended, and the hew of cattle
the greateft feen of late years. Good holies fetched
capital prices, but the middling fort had only a
dull Pale. On the firtt day, a man was deteled in
the ad of picking another's pocket, and immediately
taken to Appleby jail, to take his trial at the nett
Affizes.

The whole of the Lunatics being removed from
Bethlem Hofpital to St. Luke's and Hogfdun, the
MI day's tale of the Tall pile of buildings, commenced
on Wednefday, the ground being purchafed by the
City of London, for the purpofe of building a magni-
ficent fabric, to be divided into Lefture Theatres, to
be appropriated for Hißory, Chensifiry, Navigation,
Mathematics, Philofophy, Genealogy, Chronolggy,
and Trade, to which will be added a Liberary fuited
to the above, that will furpars any of its kind in Eu-
rope, and it is Paid that upwards of 250,0n01. is al-
ready fitbfcribed towards this great commercial and
wonderfulundertaking.

A few days ago Mr. Locker, of Tillington, near
Stafford, was attacked by a bull which be kept in a
field, and not being able to efcape, was knocked
down, and bruifed in a terrible manner. In this
alarming fituation he had no other alternative than
to lie flat on his face. Fortunately the bull's horns
were fo curved as nearly to meet, which prevented
him from goring, or he mon have log his life.—
When the favagc animal had trod and butted upon
him for Come time, it retired. We are happy to
learn that Mr. Locker is in a fair way of recovery.
A few evenings finee, as the gallant Vice.,Admiral
Sir T. Ducxwotra, K. B. was walking over the new
horfe.road making on the Stonehoufethill, Plymouth,
not knowing that the road was broken up, he flipped
his foot and fell down the hill (even or eight feet.
By the fall he brnifed his tide and hurt his wrill, but
providentially received no other damage, and is now
quite recovered from the accident.
On Thurfday fe'nnight three fellows were taken
np at Whitehaven, dreffed as femme% pretending to
be lame, and begging and importuning relief, rr. the
great annoyance of the public. After impofing upon
numbers of credulous Fterfons, and picking op a
great many pence, in the courfe of the day, their
frequent potations had fo far got the better of their
awning, that they appeared in the Rreef about five
o'clock, exceflively drunk, mid had Mt fet op the
howl with which they had before fofficiently 'hocked
the ears of the people, when they were feized upon,
and taken before the Magiffrates ; who, after due
examination, committed them to the Houfe of Cor-
reftion, as vagabonds and impollovs I not one Of
them being in the leaff maimed, or apparently (offer-
ing any bodily weaknefs, except from intoxication.
BOXlNG.—Yetlerday there was a pitched battle
fought near Bayfwater, between two Jews, for five
guineas the fide. The concourfe of fpedators affcm-
bled to witnefs the contefi was immenfe, among whom
were feveral amakors of the art. The fight haled f r
one hour and ten minutes, during which time theta
were about Go rounds. The
relent reckoned that it was
as they had for (ewe time •

ri

lie Ina; : who were
is as well-fought a battle
witnelfcd.

TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE STAR. .

Sts-.-As the dud whieh•has recently takea place
between Capt. B. and Mr. I'. has given rife to feveral
Life reports of ;the circumbances attached to it, to
the prejudice of the. individuals concerned, I have
taken the liberty to fuhjoin the has :
On Sunday lag, whila walking on the Sands at
Worthing, in company svi,h Captain B. and Lieut.
W. Capt. B. fuddenly quitted us, and walked up to
Dir. P. who, upon the Captain ufing fome harfh ex•
pi effions, Renck him; a feta: enfued. Lieut. W. and
I in crfered. Captain B. Willed upon having tacit-
ta,ftion, and Mr. I'.'s addrefs. The latter Mr. P.
raided, but faid he would attenn Captain B.'s ap-
pointment, and that he would be at the library
until three. Mr. P. then addreffed himfelf to
me, and requefted I would meet him there at half
raft two, which I agreed to do. Mr. P. imme-
diately hit 'is. I accordingly met him, when he
bated Ow difficulty he was under, as unacquainted
With any nerfon in the place, to whom he could con-
fide the as rangement of the matter, and, in preffing
terms, urged me to affitt him. He then bated to me
that the difptite arose fame months previoufly, by
Captain B. making fome indecorous obfervations
upon a young lady, an acquaintance of Mr. P. to a
party with whom the Captain hsud been dining at a
coffee bottle. Mr. P. had relented it, which produced
high words, and an exchange of glans, the only
weapons that could be tired, by their being at diffe-
rent ends of the table ; by the interference of the
company, and as the Captain was much intoxicated,
the matter druppid, and being grangers to each
other, they had never met until that morning. Mr.
I'. added, that it was totally repugnant to his feelings
either to take the life of another, or wantonly expofe
his own, and therefore requelled me to avoid a duel,
if poßible ; at the fame time infilling that nothing
like an apology by him could be made, as he cola
dered the Captain the aggreffor. althoneh he had that
morning (buck him fit R. At three Lieut. W. came
with an appointment for four. I bated to him that I
had taken upon me to aft as feco id to Mr. P. in the
hope of procuring an amicable adjußment ; to which
Lieut. W. replied, that the Captain would hear of no
mediation, and eapeBed the appointment to be ob-
ferved. I then communicated with Mr. P. who with-
ed the meeting to Rand over until the next day, as he
had nu and propofed three o'clock the next
day, and that, to avoid inconvenience to Capr. B.
who intended to return to Chicheller, he would meet
him near the town at chat hour ; it was accordingly
fo fettled; on the Monday morning I called on Lieut.
W. and we agreed that the meeting fhould be in a
field Noah of the Town. A little before three,
I met Mr. P. as appointed, and we walked together
to the ground. Lieutenant W. and I then meafured
twelve pac.s, and then loaded the pittols. Mr. P.
requelled the pans of his pillols might be filled full ;
when loaded, he offered either of them to Captain B.
who declined taking either. They then took their
ground, and at the word, as agreed, they both faced.
Captain B. fired ; Mr. P. who had not brought his
pith,' to the level, befitated a moment, and fired
his piitol in the air, and then advanced towards the
Captain, and :,:flted if he were fathfied ? to which he
replied, 44 certainly not, unlels you apologize." Mr.
P. anfwered, 44 that I certainly will not." Lieut.
W. and I then interfered, and requefted the matter
might relt there, but Captain B. infibing upon having
,an apology or proceeding, Mr. P. took me by the arm,
and faid, as there was no alternative, he begged the
pistol he had fired might be reloaded ; adding, that
he fhould then not hefitate firing at his adverfary,
after fuch condat. They then took their ground,
facing each other ; and, at the word given, the Cap-
tain bri;:ging his pittol upwards to the level, and Mr.
P. his by a circle, they both fired together, and im-
mediately evinced being wounded. Upon going to
Mr. P. be can neitly enquired if the Captain were feri-
oufly wounded, as he feared he was, his pittol having
dipped. occafioned by the obflinacy of the trigger,
and laid, lie was wounded in the thigh. I found Cap.
taro B.'s right arm broken. Mr. P. expreffed himfelf
gratified by finding the wound not likely to be dan-
gerous, and expreffed his regret at the event, as did
alio Captain B. I then accompanied Mr. P. to the
chalk, as did Lieutenant W. the Captain. Their
wounds are nut likely to prove ferious.
This is a true lla.curent..—l am, Sir, your's abe
tiently, T. C.
fleece lan, Chichcfter, S-pt. 25, dos

The Marquis of WATBRFoItn has taken a houfe in
George-greet, Hanover-lquare, for the feafon
Old Sam 011. BEST, the famous pretended prophet,
,-as recently interred in a burying-ground in St.
George's Fields. He died at the age of go years,
and had been for many (30 or 40) years well known
in town by the appellation of Poor IMj. During
the latter part of his life he had frequently, (hilted
his refidence, and had very confiderably decreafed
is his fame as a prophet. But about fifteen years'
ago, he was in Shoreditch Wurkhoufe, where he,
occupied a Wall, which was dedicated to the
exhibition of a rear number of work, executed by
,hinifelf in draw. The fubjefis of there works were
taken from different paffages of Scripture hillory :
in the middle of the Tom there was a whimfical
teprefentation of the broad and the narrow way,
&c. The Prophet had a bed in a corner of,
the ward, fur rounded by a fort of draw checquer-
Work, and be Gt by his bed fide on a chair, from
aeLich he delivered his oracular dilcourres on the
ehaiathrs and fortunes of numerous individuals,
who at that tint:: flocked to fee and heor him.—

acquired a rrcllleaion of a vet number
of palfages from the Bible, which he repeated, fuit.
ably to the perfons who litlened to him, and few
who attend:d went away, without perceiving Come-
thiilg lupe' natural about him. He made no ufe ofd
books, and was highly offended at the produttion
of ..ny, ail-cuing Mat his facility in quoting was
entirely the area of iofpiration, or of comtuunica-
tion to him from the Angel RAPtIAEL. The number
of his vifitors, in the days of his fame, was alto.
nirliing ; and among them were fume perfons of
high dilliation, of both feces. Monfy he affeaed
to from; but there was generally a vy convenient
mat: on at the .loor, for the purpofe of colleClion. His
impolture or lunacy gained fo much on the public,
that fame Clergymen vifited him frequently. and
took coufiderable pains in pamphlets to endeavour to
'spore the ahrordity of encouraging him.

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