Star.
London, England, 1810-11-29 00:00:00

CANTERBURT, NOTSMEZR 27.

Dncroa OLLA PM—A circumstance of a very
strange nature occurred in this neighbourhood, wii!i
the harriers, the day before yesterday, and as it may
be acceptable to the sporting part of your Readers, I
have deemed it worthy sending it >mi.. The hair ers
had been drawing three covers without success, when
an Apothecary, in taking a leap, broke a bottle cf
anniseed mixture, and his horse taking fright at the
same time, the hounds folluwed the scent with such
avidity, that the field felt for the safety of the rider.;
fortunately, a few Gentlemen, accompanied by the
huntsman, succeeded in heading the hounds, and res.
cuing the Gentleman from his perilous thuation.

Saturday, the I7th instant, as a boat belonging to
the Alpl:ea sloop of war, on the Dungeness station,
was coming on shore with eight persons, it upset, iu
sight of several boatmen on the beach, who immedi-
ately launched Mr. Mortley's revenue boat, pushed
off, and preserved five of the crew, but the threo
others were mini tunately drowned : one of whom
was the surgeon, the two others seams belonging.
to the sloop. Two of the bodies were pi( ked up near
Eungeness, and buried at Romney on Friday last.—
The surgeon's body was found nn the shore near
Brockman's barn, from whence it was conveyed to
Dymchurch for interment.

Joseph Newsom who was comrnittod to Westgate
gaol for farther examination on a charge of forgere,
AS we have before stated, was on Friday last fully
committed fi-r trial, charged with has ing feloniou:r
uttered, and published as true, a certain false, forged,
or counterfeit paper, partly written and partly primed,
purporting to be an order for payment of money
drawn by John Brown, with intent to defraud Messrs.
Payler and Co. of the sum of ten guineas.
A poor boy of the name of Mutton about eleven
years old, the son of a labourer in the employ of Wrr..
Cantic, Esq. 'of St. Stephen's, near this City, was
drowned in the river Stour, about six yesterday
morning, near Mr. Slaughter's tan-yard, in North.
lane, undez the following unfortunate circumstances:
He had been sent by the servant of Mr. Slaughter
to light a candle in a part of the tan-yard on the op-
posite side of the Stour, and in crossing the bridge
which c^nnects the premises, on his return with the
candle, it is conjectured from his anxiety to preserve
it alight he made a false step and fell into the river.
The noise occasioned by his fall in the water alarmed
the workmen, who, with poles, &c. made every pos-
sible search to the body, unluckily, however, it was
nearly seven &clot& before it was found.—Medical
aid was immediately procured, but it was of no avail,
the vital power beir,g wholly extinct.

We have seen a letter from Monmeuth which con-
tradicts the report copied from a Morning paper into
most of the daily journals of a ilf,rni.ra having been
caught by the fishermen of that r.!ace.
About halfpaq three o'clock in the afternoon of
Tbers.lay, the village of Seddlescamb was alarmed
by the appearance of a phencnaznon rarely observed
on land, but wal known at sea by the denorifination
'of a water spout. A cloud was “bserved to ascend
with rapid whirls to a considerable height, and these
burst, with a tremendous hut pectdiarly sounding
crash, totally dissimtlar from the usual noise of thun-
der. The c:cplosien was fcdlowed by the fall of se.
venal pieces of earth, a heavy shower of hail, and .ill
the awful scenery of a storm.

Monday night a fire broke out in one of the rhim-
flies of Carletnn-bouse, btt was gut undo.• before the
engines arrived.
A Serjeant of Marines, in the Paymaster's Office,
has decamped with a ccusiderabL sum o:. 111WIty
is UM yet token.