Star.
London, England, 1824-11-23 00:00:00

THE THEATRE'S.

ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE.
Mr. Miertraws last night closed his perforMans,ei for
the season. The House was crowded in every pan. The
piece presented was Me Trip to America; and never
WAS this incomparable mimic seen to more advantage.
At the conclusion of the evening's amusement, Mr.
'MAvtiews came forward, and addressed the audience
to the following effect :
.4 Callow as Gawri.sonnt—Allow me now to throw of my,
adopted character, and assume my real one, and In that, to perform
the molt pleasing task which can be imposed on me, viz. to return
you my most sincere and grateful acknowledgments for the flat-
tering patronage and encouragement which I have received front
you, during my appearance before you.
" Ladies and Gentlemen the . pleasure which I feel in re-
turning you my thanks on this occasion is not unalloyed by pain.
occasioned by the necessity which I am under of bidding you fare-
well fee the present. Other engagements will occupy my time
'and attention until February neat, when, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I shall again, with your permission, have the boomer of appearing
before you. The interval will be devoted by me to making such
arrangements, and preparing such an entertainment as may contri-
bute to your amusement, and prove in some degree worthy of the
very Battering patronage with which you have honoured me. Lo-
llies and Gentlemen, until the period I have named, I most re-
‘ipettfully bid you farewell."
The Address was received with, and the curtain fell
amidst, the warmest expressions of applause.
Covent-Garden and Drury Lane Theatres are busily
preparing novelties; each announces a new Tragedy. At Covent-
Garden, The Fromm Lake is to shine forth. At Drury, a grand
Oriental Romance, and an Operatic Farce, are in rehearsal. Success
attend them all.
The minor Theatres are very well attended, an they
p•
resent the public with a succession of variety that exciteaattentioot
and adds considerably to the generatstock of public amusement.

MESSRS. MARSH, STRACEY, AND CO.
TO THR EDITOR OF THE STA&

Sia—l beg to inform you, that the statement in TAE New Vines
and Morning Clown& of this morning, relative to some transaction
of Messrs. Marsh, Sttacey, and Co. is, as regards what is alleged to
save passed with me, wholly incorrect and unfounded.—l am,
your obedient servant,
Broad-street, Nov. es, 1524. WILLIAM BURTON.

The KING does not for the present mean to •isit
either of the Theatre.:.

Yesterday the Loan CHANCELLOR and Sir C. STUART,
the late Ambassador to the Court of Franeet bad audiences of
the Rao.

—l'llel:hem of Your( had a dinner party yesterday, at
hie residence, Stable-yard, St. James's.
Yesterday the Duchess of GtoncstrrEn received vi-
Alts from the Duke of Yoax and the Binceas Sarnia. The !foga
Duchess was better yesterday.
An elopement has taken place from Leicester, within
the last few days, which has excited no inconsiderable portion of
enaernation during the last week. The gallant is a married man,
between forty and fifty, lining a public dice in the town; the Lady
unmarried, about twenty-five years of age, recently living as com-
panion to her seducer's wife, and the daughter of a respectable in.
habitant. The Injured wife, it seems, was prevailed upon to visit
a watering-per a week or two ago, and her absence was taken
advantage of to make arrangements for the intended journey.
fullitivthi:tildeCtLoard.
&lOM'S is said to be the place of retreat which the
the ad u
In tact, a passage of
stalAtitairos
aistaatniedvainat tThrieste Activities
t 2 days t as the ship passed the Dardaneuess s part of the Turkish
fleet lay there, in bad condition.
The Duke and Duchess of Sr. Loassizo, and the
Duke and Duchess of SAIII Wittman, have arrived at Brussels.

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The most active measures are in progress for fully
organizing the Naval Coast Blockade. New watch-houses are
forthwith to be erected at Bletchington, Newhaven, Bear's Hide,
Saltdean, Rettingdean, and Black Rock. The lands are already
purchased, and the building contracts taken.'
Yesterday, in the Court of King's Bench, Mr. Wat-
son and Mr. Bliss, found guilty at the last Sittings of the Court of
Assaulting Mr. Mann, received judgment. The assault rose out of
the party feuds which have so long existed in the parish of Bethnal..
green. The COURT, after lamenting the circumstance that party feuds
should in any ;parish be carried on to such an extent, sentenced
the defendant Watson to pay to the King a fine of £5O, and the
defendant Bliss to pay to the King a fine of 101. and to he severally
imprisoned in the custody of the Marshal of the Abraham until
such Ernes be paid.
The letters from the out ports (as might be expected
from the violence of the late gales) give some melan-
choly accounts of the shipping on the western coast.
Many ships, we regret to state, appear to byte been en-
tirely lost with their crews ; the pieces of wreck, and
other circumstances, leave little room to doubt of these
disasters. Amongst the vessels lost are many foreign
r ships, whose names are unknown.
This morning the metropolis was visited with a
strong gale, which blew from the S.S.W. It has
done considerable damage to the houses near the
water side, on the north side of the river below bridge.
Tiles and chimney pots fell in all directions, and as a
hackney-coach was passing through Rosemary-lane, a
chimney-pot fell on the roof. The streets in the vicinity
lof Goodman's-fields, are literally strewed with tiles.
A boat crossing the river below bridge, was upset ; the
waterman and two passengers saved. Two barges
were drove by the wind from their moorings at Bank-
side and carried by the ebb tide, one on the starlings of
LonClon•bridge, the other stops up completely the sixth
arch oci the north side of the bridge.
Vie Three per Ceats. at Par—and aO,OOO or
£30,000 to be gained by the risk of only £4. 19s. !I This is lite.
rally the ease, as Bun guarantees to those who may purchase at nu
Orrscas any of the Stock Prizes in the present Scheme, et kart
£lOO is iforteyfur every £lOO 3 per Cents. He also pledges himself
to every Parchawr at arts Orncas to return £lB for every Whole
Ticket, and in proporticn for Shares, to those who do not obtain a
good Prig: on the 16th Daciusaza, if applied for within Ten Dap
from that date, and as the Two £20.000 Prizes must be drawn in
the first five minutes, and all the other Capitals (intludingarni the
ieso,ooo Prises) may be drawn thin day, it is certain that many
persons must gain large fortunes by that Dais Dapping, and no one
need risk tame than £4. les. by a Whole Ticket, or Os. 6d. by a
Sixteenth : the full particulars of this advantageous Mode of &dyes.:
ture may be had gratis at either of BlM's Offices, 4, Cornhill, or
9, Charing-Cross; where the Grand Prise of 'norm TioWitann
Poulton, No. 15,756, drawn on Wednesday, the ad instantl was
told in Shores. Also Two £20,000 Prints, and 43 other CapitaUl
aU *awn within a Month.

THE LATE CONFLAGRATZON IN
EDIA litltCH.

FROM TUE CALEDONIAN MERCURY OP SATURDAT
We gave such particulars in our last of the late talc.
mitous fires as we were able to collect in the alarm and
confusion then prevailing. The extent of the desreati-;
could nit at that time be exactly traced. But now th,,:
the crisis is past, and that we have leissuse to survey
the scene of ruin, it appears more frightful even char,
we could have imagined. Along the front of the liih"
street there are destroyed four lands of six stories each
besides the sunk stories; from these down toware'
the Cowgate by Conn's Close, two wooden lands; in the
Old Assembly Close, four kinds of sit or seven storiet-
six smaller tenements in Borthwick's Close ; four lard:
of six stories in the Old Fishmarlcet Close. 1/.)wolooni.,
nearly as far as the Cowgate nothing is to he seen b,,,
frightful heaps of rain, to which all approach is reedeleci
dangerous by the walls which are still left standing
different places, but in an extremely tottering condition.
Along the front of the Parliament-square, tour double
lands, or (torn seven to eleven stories each, have been
destroyed, great past of the walls of which have tat.
len ; other pasts are still standing, but in such a Ow.
tered condition that they threaten destruction to the re.
o • ining houses near them, in consequence of which, it
was yesterday judged expedient to order their befog
pulled down. It is difficult to estimate the number ti
families that have beers rendered houseless by the pre.
sent calamity, but the number cannot fall short of 250.
Such a seene of calamity as this is seldom paralleled in
the annals of domestic life.
About eleven o'clock on Tuesday morning, a portion
of the building occupied by the Courant Office, imme-
diately over the premises of Mr. Rymer, gave way, at a
moment when unfortunately three boys were in it._
One of them move lucky coon the others made his escape.
The rubbish, in falling. shut the two folding doors, just
so as to entrap the second, who was released from his
perilous situation by the tearing up of the door;
right foot seemed to be severely hurt. The third boy
was totally overwhelmed with the rubbish, from whence
his miserable father recovered his mutilated corpse on
Thursday morning.
Thursday and yesterday the workmen have been em-
ployed in pulling down such parts of the walls as are
yet standing ; but they are so :battered as to threaten
destruction to everything pear them. The ruinous wall
which was left standing in the Parliament-square has
such a dangerous appearance, that none of the workmen
can return with any security to the workshops or print-
ing-offices in the Old Fish-mat ket Close, until it is pulled
down, which was hut pattially efkcted yesterday after-
noon. The walls of the burnt tenement in the Old Fah-
market Close were pulled down yesterday, and fell in
such masses on the porter's lodge of the Police Office as
,completely to level it with the ground. The guard-
;room on the left side of the gate is also much injured.
The police °niters found great difficulty in removing
the inhabitants of those bosses which seemed to be its
danger from their proximity to the standing ruins.
Yesterday a body of about forty seamen and marines
was brought from the ship of war in the roads, with a
chain cable and some other necessary preparations, for
the purpose of polling down the gable wall overlook-,
'ing the Cowgate: The preparations were completed
last night; a chain cable having been got through one
of the windows, and brought round by the back of the
wall, is attached to a block and tackling, the whole
fastened to a large beam of wood in the north side of
the square, which is secured by a wooden pile driven
into the ground. They are at present proceeding to
pull down this wall. The ruinous wall near the Police
Office is to be undermined. The plan, we understand,
is to blow up the under-put of it, and at once bring
down the whole mass towards the Parliament-equate,
to which it already inclines. They are at present err
gaged in mining, kir the purpose of completing this
hazardous operation.
The subscription already commenced, we are happy
to say, is of the most liberal character. Sir William
Forbes and Co. have generously contributed i.:500.
Considerable apprehensions were entertained respecting
the bell of the Tron Church, which, (tom its enormous
weight, about two tons, was expected to come to the
ground with a dreadful crash. Such was the heat of
the flames, however, that it soon gave way, and came
down piece-Meal in a melted state. We have seen a
fragment of it, which a Gentleman proposes to deposit
in the collection of the Antiquarian Society, as a me:
mento of this lamentable occurrence.

COURT OF k.MG_BEN(3I, N0P.92.

THE KING, 011 THE IiROSECUTION Of THE MARQUIS OR

HASTINGS. V. THE SUNDAY TIMES.

Mr. SCARIATT moved for a r ule, calling on the pro-
prietor and printer of ilia Sunday T inter to shew cause
why a criminal information should not be exhibited
against them, for a libel on the M4quis of Histingss
It was headed, " Intended impeachment of an illustrious
personage ;" and proceeded to state, that " extraordir
nary discoveries had been made at the India House r
arid to insinuate that, in consequence of a deficiency to
the extent of 300,0001 e the Coon of Directors intended
to impeaCh an illustrious person, with an allusion to the
apparent determination to withhold the usual pension
from the late Governor-Gene al in India. The Marquis
cff Hastings, in his affidavit, stated, that he believed the
paragraph was intended to apply to him ; that he had
been Governor-General of India from October, 1813,
tO January, 1823 ; that, doting that time, thee was no
deficit in any account whatever under his controul; that
he had never participated nor sought to participate in
any fund to which, as GovernOrAleneral, he was not
fully entitled; but that, on the contrary, he had refused
to take advantages, which, he un.terstood, felted 01,1 y
an custom, and not on positive law. The Noble Marquis
further deposed, that theme was never, to his knowledge,
any intention of preferring an impeachment against him
on the ground of a deficiency or on any other cause; that
no accusation or complaint of bud) a nature ever was
made against him ; and that he believed the proceed-
ings at the India House relative to the grant of a pel.,
sion rested on other and different grounds. Thus ti:lt
Marquis of Hastings had given a lull denial of all the
allegations in this libellous paragraph, and all the in,
ferences which could be drawn from it by the reader.
The LOUD CHIEF Jusrecit.—HaVe you alli.lavks to Ming home
the publication to the parties against whom you move?
Mr. Scams:v.—l have, my Lord.
The Loan Cum Juirrsm—Then take a rule to shew cause.

A letter from Hanover states, that in the course of
this mouth, several stags are to be caught alive on the Deists
MOuntain. to be sent to England, and that tbete was lately a grand
wild boat bunt.
M. thICUERMANN, who his lately been Charge
d'Affaires at Madrid, front Saxony, is appointed by the Kivu tri
SAMMY 10 fill the taw post at the Coati of London.

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