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London, England, 1812-08-22 00:00:00

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- TOE MARKErS.
BRITISO ;MUMMERS IN FRANCE. • ,‘ '''' .s. tone .
• ...........-. . SMITHFIELD. August 22. 1..-!..,..,i4
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Beef 4s ed to Ss ad I 6'41 ss Od to 'IS Od
Portsmoutb, August 19. Mutton 41 •ad .tc1136 10d j Pork Ss Od to 71 Od
Lamb 6s. ed. to 71. Od.
SIR-An accident prevented me, until this day, 580-Sheep and Lambs 7,200
tieing an extract from the French prints; which ap- , 4 ~Jlii.osts, ati(mes,
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290. 9 r-- •
red.an your Paper of the 14th instant.: it is entitled POOR Or HAY AND 5T0.1.6; IN SMITHFIELD.
A List .of the Enlish of all rattics, who have bro- , Hay 1 41 ,os to al tok.-Nom Clover 31 tos to 71 101.
n their parole, and escaped from the towns where New Hay' 1176, to 51 0. Straw 21 5s to 31 10s.
erresided since the reoewal of hostilities, up to the NEWCATE AND LEADENHALL MARKET.
August; 1812.4 No blame can possibly be im- Beef es 04 -to 5. Od Veal 46 ad to 61 Od
Mutton 4s 4d to 5s 44 Pork S. ed to 71 Od
i ted to you for the incorrectness of the above•named Lamb 4s. 4d. to 6s. Od.
tract, and the credit doe to the public papers of PRICES OF HAY AND STRAW. .
: at nation; is, in general, justly appreciated by Eng- Sr. JAlMllltell. WatTycHerst.
men; but, as mans may be led to- conceive that all Hay L 1
. os. to 61. 61. 04. Hay 51. Os. to 61. as
• 'dames in that list come under the designation of Straw et. lis. to st. leo 04. Clover 71. 75. to Ni. 15s
Straw 21. 16.. to 31. 8s
title, you will oblige me, and I trust also many
PRICE OF HOPS IN THE BOROUGH MARKET.
my friends who must be equally displeased at
Bags. Pockets.
ing themselves in such company, by noticing in Kent 41 lOs to 71 Os Kent 51 lOs to 81 101
•itir valuable paper that, it is not only a list of the Sussex 41 Os to 61 6s Sussex 51 Os to 71 Os
nglish who have broken their parole, and escaped Eleez • 41 101 to 61 los Farnham 101 Os to 121 Os
err, the towns where they resided, but equally so of RAW HIDES.
lose who have broken no parole, but who effected their Best Helfer, and Steers (per I Ordinary 26. 04. to 25. 24
stone) 3s. Od. to Ss. 44. Market Calf 17s. Od. each
• cape-not from the towns where they resided-but, middlings a 6d. to 2s. 84. English Horse 134. to 15s. Od
au honourable manner, from the prison: in which Lamb Skins Is. 94. to 3s. 3d. Shearlings Is. 6d. to -d
were strictly confined. PRICE OF LEATHER IN I.EADENHALL MARKET.
Aran authority for the truth of the above assertion, Butts 24d 25d Calf Skins 28d 35d
subeceitio myself, Sir, your very humble servant;
Disco sod
20d 274 Ditto 38d 454
Was.
M,Lz Merchants
00, Lieut. R. N.Dressing
Backs 234 254 Ditto 384 44d
Hides 194 204 Small Seals 34d pea
P. S. Most of the names in the list are much mud- Fine Coach Hides cod 224 Large ditto 120 s 1806
:. ted, and there are several omissions. Crop Hides for cult. lad 201 d Tanned Horse Hides 194 225 d
.......-.-. Ditto 214 23d Goat Skins 34s 628
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- PRICE OF TALLOW.
Among the list of English prisoners whom the
A letter from Dover, dated August 19, says- PRICE
James's Market 4s 7/01 Town Tallow 79s Od
Clare Market 4s od Yellow Russia 80. Od
rench state to have broken their parole, are the Wbi techapel Market 4s 74 White ditto 00. 04
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Ames of Captain Sutton and Mr. Morphew, both of per stone of alb. ---- Soap ditto 00s Od
. is place. The assertion iS equally false, as it was . 133 ant Melting Stuff 66. Od
ith regard to Lord Yarmouth ; for neither of those Average Is 7d Ditto rough . 40s Oil to 42s
Graves 2cs Od. Good Dregs 9s Od
• ersons ever gave his parole, or received any allow. Yellow Soap 90s-Mottled, 1045--Curd, 108s-Palm 965.
ace whatever, of the French Government." Price of Candles per dozers, i 3s. Od-A-Moulds,l4l Cd.
TOWN of CROXTON, HANTS.--The Anniversary of COAL-MARKET, August 21.
is Town was holden, on Monday the 27th inst. at Ships at Market Sold Prices.
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e George Ina, Portsmouth, THOMAS Coorron, Esq. 201 Newcastle 20i 48.. 6d. to 545. Oa.
a the Chair. There was, on this occasion, a sump- 2 c
1 Suuniderland 1 455. 9d, to 00s. Od.
ty n 1
2 485. 04.
uous dinner and excellent wines provided by Mr.
IBRIDOZ, Avo. 20.-Whe_at per load, £2B Os. to £4O 10,.
11illett. 66 The Kum," "...PRINCE REGENT," and Barley, per 4r, 695. od. to 71s Beans 735. Od. to 84s. Od
a her loyal toasts were given.; the Gazette arriv. Oats 425. Oil. to 70. I Peas 00,. od. to os. Od
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g that day, Earl IVILIINOTON's health was also ()loose, August 15,-Tke second heseprice of a bushel of
• 'wen, and received witteitstptures Of applause, with Wheat was 17.. od. according to which price, and a due allow-
.breeaimes three success to hint and his brave armies note made to the baker, the aseiZe and price of bread arc as fol-
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a low, viz.-The peck loaf household. to weigh 17 lb. 6 oz. 51.94.
rider his command, &c. There was given-w Sttc- 'The half peck 2s. toid. and the smaller in proportion.
oess to the Town of Croaton, and may it ever Boil- ASHFORD FAT STOCK MARKET, AUGUST 15.
rish in honour and memory of the Chairman, for Beef, 1U Od. to 14s 6d. per score.
having caused one of the first Terraces in England Mutton, 56 od. to 56 104. per stone.
to be erected, calledrthe King's Terrace, with a Lamb, 56 ad. to es Od. per ditto.
beautifol.statuo of his present Majesty in the centre Beasts about 230, Sheep 930 Pigs 35. Calves 25.
thereof.. . . At Woodbridge Market, (Suffolk) on Wednesday, new wheat
• was sold from 63 to 665. Black oats from 29 to 33,.
On the evening of Tuesday, and early on the morn-
TairHaayssr.-The most gratifying accounts continue to be
ing of Wednesday, a rural festival was given by the received
t fromabundant
parts of Kingdom of the crops of
Earl of IlucHan, at Dryburgh Abbey, at the masonic hta.
dedication of a very simple and pleasing building of .................-...
the lonic Order, which was founded on the 12th day Wednesday last, during a violent thunder-storm,
of August last year, with the design of doing honour the lightning set fire to
Wimbledon,
several- ricks of hay belonging
to the memory of THOMSON, the Poet of the Seasons, to Lord SPENCER, at
on the banks of his native stream. With tMi dedi- sprint,. to the value of selooo. Several fire-engines
cation was combined the celebration of the birth-day having left town to extinguish the flames, it gave rise
of his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT. to a report that his Lordship's house had been burnt,
Sunday last, the ceremony of devoting a church but we are happy to state, that it has not suflered in
to the worship of Goo was solemnized at Buxton, the least. •
where the Lord Bishop of LICHFIELD and COvElernv A greater compliment cannot be paid to the Gal-
consecrated the new church, in the midst of an ex- lant Marquis of WELLINGTON than that which Mr.
eeedingly crowded audience. It is an elegant and Poe pays him in his Song of Arthur the Brave,
commodious edifice,-capable of containing a thousand and every one must join the Poet in the following in-
persons; and was founded by the late Duke of Da- vokation :
VONSHI9I2. The spire is intended to be 50 feet above Oh ! grant, ye Guardian Powers,
the roof of the church. That Albion's valiant Son
CORONER's INC/MT.-An Inquest was yesterday May live to wear the laurels,
held at the Crown public-house, in Essei-street, He has so nobly won !
Strand, on the body of Elisabeth Hamper, who sod- A Second Edition of this Patriotic Song, so uni-
denly expired near St. Clement's Church, during the versally admired, is already published.
illuminations on Wednesday night. It was at A Card to Ladies' of Fashion and the Fashionable
first imagined that her death had been occasioned irorl.l at large.-The inimitable LoNG STAYS, invented
by the sudden explosion of a blunderbuss which was and manufactured by MARSTON, 24 and 25, •Holy-
discharged near her at the moment she fell. Her well street, Strand, have occasioned considerable asto-
brotheron-law, however, from whose house she was nishment in the circle of Fashion. The unique pro.
coming, stated, that she was subject to spasms in her perties of the invention, the superlative elegant
stomach, to which it was supposed she fell the tic- style in which they are executed, the matchless taste
tim. Verdict-Died by the visitation of God. and beauty of the article, have excited general atten-
Bow-mum-On Thursday afternoon J. Quinton tion.-Ladies about to leave Town are requested to
was charged with firing a pistol at J. Biigden and nonce especially an invention highly worthy of their
two young Ladies, on Wednesday evening. Brig. notice.
den, who is about fifteen years of age, is an appren- DANIEL Dawsoe.-This celebrated convict of the
tice to Mr. Bailey, a builder in Thayer-. treet, Man- turf, who has so deservedly suffered the penalty of
chester-square, and was sent by his master to escirt death, had been many years a toulter, that is, a person
the Ladies home, when the prisoner discharged a• is. who hides up between the furzes on the heath to see
tol between the heads of the boy and one of the fe. the trials of horses, and reports t?), the Rater:, who
_ males, the contents of which lodged in the side of have confidence in his judgment and'honour. Though
• Brigden's head, and by which his eye was in danger. perfectly illiterate, he had a comprehensive mind,
On his return he found Quinton near the same spot, and was esteemed an excellent juege, so as readily to
committing similar outrages, when he remonstrated distinguish accurately the superior powers of one
witlibim for the injury he had done him ; on which horse over another. Lord F. Osborne had been twice
with Dawson after his condemnation, at the convict's
the prisoner threatened to kick him. On informing
his master what had happened, he went to the priso. own request; but, .having heard what he had to
ner, and required an explanation ; but the prisoner communicate, gave him no hope of mercy. Dawson
set him at defiance. He was ordered to find bail. had made tome secret communications to Lord Po-
John Smith was charged with wantonly throwing ley previous to his condemnation, and his Lordship
squibs and fire-works at a young woman named was certainly much disposed to save his life. He
Elliott, who was standing at her own door, during persisted to the last, that he never intended to destroy
the time of the illuminations on Monday evening.- the horses by poison, but only to incapacitate them
i He was fined 20s. and 4s. costs. Or •- , i, from winning ; and said, that about '2O horses were
A dashing charioteer yesterday drove his gig with thus /shrieked at Newmarket within his knowledge,
but that neither licx.arel nor Clinker were so physicked.
such violence against the fore horse of the team of a
He had certainly a design of self-destruction, and
waggon, in the Strand, that the off shaft 'entered
the breast of the animal six inches, and he died upon avowed it ;. but was reasoned out of so desperate an
act by his afflicted miferand the Chaplain. He slept
the spot. The address of the careless driver was as-
tertained, and hi wilt have to pay for theinisnal. from eight o'clock in the evening till two in the
The house of Mr. Hoops
morning before his execution, without waking; and
betb, was entered early on Min -Bridge-4Wonday morning, by some Lam- ;
then ate a hearty breakfast. Previous to receiving
the Sacrament, lie tied a yard of black ribbon round
thieves, and robbed of plate to a considerable amount.
his neck, which, at his dying request, was afterwards
They were disturbed by a gentleman in the house,
and, in their flight, dropped two pair of silver can-
conveyed to his wife. He declared that he was im-
dlesticks and a silver tea-pot. pressed with an idea • that he should ascend to
Heaven from the Drop,' which being let fall, he died
Thursday night, an elderly man, a Scotchman, sat
down to rest himself, at the door of the Red Lion with little more thalamie momentary struggle.
public-house, corner of Great Wild-street, Lincoln's HIGH WATER Al' LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
Inn Fields ;he was immediately seized with an apo- Morning ... ........ ................ 48 minutes after 2
plectic fit, and died shortly afterwards. The body re- Afternoon ....•.:-;........... : 3 minutes after 3
mains for a Coroner's Inquest at the public-house. BIRTHS. - • -
On the morning of Monday last, three masons ern. Lately, at Cork, the Lady of • Capudii tiptee• , Royal Navy, of
ployed upon a new house on the North side of the a daughter.
!slew Town of Edinburgh, were unfortunately piece- On the 18th instant, at Shepherd's Bush, -the Lady of Charles
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pirated from the height of five stories, by the scaffold. Fauquier, Eq.of a daughter.
ing giving way. One of them was killed on the spot, T DI.:„D.
The beginning of. June,, Mrs Pitman Goad, mother of (be
•eaandtothreecootrer. two, though much bruised, are expect- I lady Vita- Admiral urn, in the
melee
of the Emperor
of
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