Star.
London, England, 1816-07-19 00:00:00

STATE OF THE O1)D3-BETTI:4C: ROOM, JULY LS.

lilt DUNCAiI rEa ET. 1.1%::"il,
5 to 1 agit Brown Bread 10 to I : est Ntaritlane
6to 1 agst.l.A. Derby's colt 12 to 1 apt Wathcot Lass
9 to l agst Luciter 1 i to I apt Poltt
9to 1 apt Waterino Il6to 1 art any other.
rut NICIVIIAIIt LT ST. LEXZR.
6 to 4 Panes Leopold against Milton.—Even betting the tir6
agalost the field.

Tat DERBY, 1817.
9 to 1 against Duke of Grafton's Waterloo.
16 to I again.t Brother to Ssnohnsko.
16 to 1 againg any other.
PAODIrCt lITAICIS AT TOM

\Vathcot Lus the tavilorite-5 to 1 agst her winning.

This morning, at four o'clock, Capt. WithrowEt%
,of the First Regiment of Life &larch', started front
Westminster to run to Britt,liton in five hours, with
A tandem and pair of blood horses, without changing,
r a wager of 500 guineas. Ile was accompanied
by eight Gentlemen on horseback and two in gigs,
and from the excelle. t inanni.r in, which he appeared
to manage the reins, together with th regularity of
the work of the horses, there can be little dcuht of
his performing his arduous undertaking. Bets, how-
ever, are three to one against the performance, and a
vast sum of money is depending.
BLACKHEATH Peo emu ANISNI. EATON'S FORM.
FIFTH DAY.--EATON was accompanied the shale of
last night, not only by his regular attendant, but by
some of his confidenti d friends, at.. is going cn well
still : the completion of his most extra:irdinary un-
dertaking being now nearly up, he feels hints?li quite
at ease : the time fur his finally acctarpishing his
task is to-morrow afternoon, at four o'clock, when he
will have performed 1,100 miles in 1,100 hours, a
pedestrian fete hitherto unknown. In the evening of
yesterday, the Heath, as usual, was very crowded ;
and the concourse of persons who have daily re-
paired thither, particularly from town, besides those
that have cruised the water daily to Greenwich, has
been immense; and this morning he made good his
1068th mile.— EaroN's enemies having endeavoured
to obstruct him, more p.irticulatly in the night times
his friaids, who accompanied him the whole • f last
night, to.ik precautions io prevent tl.e like occurrence
being repeated; —one patty goes bel.re and the other
behind him.

EARN cr, rue ESSEX PrnrAntax.--Yesterday
lianisice urns visized by numbers of persons, amongst
sellout were many spoiling men and amateurs of the
fist, some of vat to %%ere of opinion that it was int.
possible for the veteran to complete his undertaking,
on which hi, c nfidential friends were a'.l on the
alert, taking all the odds offered them against him.
BARNET throughout the whole of yesterday made
good his task, cheerfully performing I.k mile and a
hall in 23 and souvtime, '24. minutes. The pressure
of the crowd on the ground, which is rather c,,ritined,
was so great, that his friends with difficulty were
tumbled to keep the course clear at time,. BARNIIT
now experiences every a teation from the landlord at
the Duke's Wad, who is determined ter spare no ex.e
pense to make him perfectly comfcrtable during this
match. Hi, friend MEND.!ZA continues constantly
with him, and renders him every attention necessary,
and is particularly careful :* to BARNET'S diet.—
MENDnZA expresses his confident hopes of the little
Hero winning his match, who this morning, at 29
minutes after six o'clock, finished his S4Oth mile
land a half.

WRESTLING.--The Exeter annual grand wrestling
commenced on the Bth, when the herculean nolo:yr
was thrown by the noted Jackman ; but he had af tor-
wards to wrestle with Mathews the younger, who
held him out for more than three quarters of an hour*
when neither being able to gain the mastery, it was
' decided that the prize should be equally dtviJed. In
consequence, however, of several serious accidents,
the further progress a the diversion was stopped by
magistet iel authority on the"' 1-th. One in ,n kid a
rib broken, another was disabled by a violent kick on
the knee, end a third received a severe contusion in
his shoulder. But a more fatal catastrophe betel Mr.
Street, proprietor of the New Castle (tin, who, in
wrestling with a !fiend, outside the ring, fell on his
coinpani nes foot, and received so violent a rupture
as to be obliged to be carried home, where he expired
in great agony the next morning.

CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, JULY 19.
We 1 a.l rather more demand for Wheat 'bib moan-
ing, and what sales were effected were at an advance
co: 21. per quarter, on accost of the unfavourableness
of the weather, and the certainty of a backward bar-
!esti—Oats are also Is. per quarter higher—Barley,
Peas, and Beans, fully support Monday's price!.

ismrninsw MARKET, JULY 19.
Best 4* 4d to lb 4G i
Veal 6r 01 to 6* 01
Mutton 44 4d to Ss 4d Pork Os RI to Ss 64
Lamb 61 od to 7s Od.

Besets 550—Sheep and Lambe 70401--Calves 300-41 p

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A. TRUTH.

7111 high the glass—yet higher still—
Pleasure like this can never cloy ;
Wine sere will banish every ill,
And laighter is the proof of joy!
Mistaken wretch t the wine may drown
' The senses, bat it drowns not care,
And laugiver is a veil that's thrown
To hide from every eye despair. "
True bliss is like a quiet scene,
A Summer evening's gentle breeze—
'Tb silent all, and all serere—
Noise skews a heart that's 111 at ease!

THE. LIWITELNTII OF JULY.

This day, appointed by the Continental Prcignosti-
cator for the destruction of the world, has, to the
great joy of many, passed over wttfiont any confla-
gration—and people are again building and planting
and marrying and giving in marriage, as in the days
of NOAH. WO y edifying. rumours are in circulation
respecting the pious resolutions ok certain individuals
in anticipation of the day that is now past, but we
shall for the preiient confine ourselves to rianinding
the public of effects formerly produced when a simi-
lar catastrophe was expected.
From the account given by that plaits matter-of-
fact man, Dr. JONATHAN SWIFT, of the consternation
which pervaded the metropolis a little more than
* century ago, on the appearance of Mr. %Villeins's
comet, it seems that in less than a quarter of an hour
after that celestial visitor became visible, though this
took place at the unrhasonahly early hour of five in
the morning, " all Cheapside was crowded."—
" Several thousands of persons were assembled, and
seventeen of them were on their knees in actual de-
votion. One hundred and twenty-three Clergymen
were ferried over to Lambeth, who were reported to
go there to petition that a short prayer might be
penned for the occasion, there being none to be found
in the regular service adapted to such an occasion.—
A great man, whom at that time it was not thought
prsudent to name, employed all theWcdnesday morn-
ing in making up such an account of the matters
entrusted to his care as should appear fair, in the
event of his being called upon speedily to produce it
in the other world. Two Lords and three Com.
*toners threw up their pensions, imagining a pension
was only an annual bribe. All the other great pen-
sioners had their scruples quieted by a Clergyman or
twd of distinction, whom they happily consulted.--
Several of the very richest tradesmen of the City
gave away shillings and sixpences to beggars who
plied at their doors. One wealthy Chuictiwarden,
with his own hands, Oise ibieed fifty twelvepenoy
loaves to the poor, by way of resti•ution for the many
great and costly feasts which he had eaten at their
expense. The evening ar.d nig!.t through t!.e u hole
town were spent in eesotkas both public aid privaze;
the.churches for this one tray were so crowded by the
• Nobility and Gentry that thousand.: u. t
common
people were seer. playing in the public streets."—
till this and much mote, we aie told by Stale r,
occurred on that occasion, aid the precedents !ear
furnished, are, we hope, stitliciela to keep in counte-
nance all sorts of honest, charitable, pious acti-m.:,
that conscience may have proinpted any ut our telitv.v.
creatures to have committed in the coarse of the day.
The seqoel to this story it. may Le weii t, quote. It
appears then, the alarm being over, " al the quality
and gentry were iirefraly ashamed; nay, s.-arrie 'utterly
disowned that they had manifested any signs of re-
ligion. But the next day, even the common people,
as well as their betters, appeared in their usual state
of indifference. They drank,, they swore, they lied,
they cheated, they plundered, they gained, they
quarrelled, they murdered. In short, the world went
on again in the old channel."
But, lest what passed at the period to which we
have just referred, should, from its ancient date, pro-
duce less effect than could be wished, we will now
recall to their recollection what took place more
recently. On the Sur day of February, 1750, the
City of London w.is alarmed by the shock of an
earthquake; and on die very same day of the next
month, between five and six in the morning, the in-
habitants of the metropolis were again affrighted by
a second shock more violent than the first, and abun-
dantly more
_alirming, as it waked the greater part
of the peopleWom their repose. It was preceded by
a succession of thick low flashes of lightning, and a
rumbling noise like that of a heavy carriage rolling
over a hollow pavement. The shod. itself consisted
of repeated vibrations, which lasted some seconds,
and violently shook every house front top to bottom.
The chairs rocked, the shelves clustered, the small
hells rang, and in some places the public clocks were
• heard to strike. Many persons, roused by this terrible
visitation, started naked from their beds, and ran to
their doors and windows in distraction ; but no life
was lost, and no house overthrown by this concus-
sion, though it was so dreadful as to threaten the
immediate dissolution of the globe. Much alarm
WS excited by the consideration, that the two shocks
were periodical ; and this was strengthened by the
admonitions of a fanatic soldier, who publicly
preaclied ap repentance, and boldly prophesied, that
the next shock would happen on the same day of
April, and totally destroy the Cities of London and
Westminster.. In consequence of this tremendous
prediction, the churches were crowded with penitent
sinners; the sons of riot and profligacy were over-
awed into sobriety and decorum ; the streets no
longer resounded with execrations, or the noise of
brutal licentiousness, and the hand. of charity was
liberally opened. Those whom fortune had enabled
to retire from the &voted city, fled to the country
with hurry and precip.tation, insomuch that the high.
ways were incumbered with horses and carriages.—
Many of those who in the beginning had combated
these fears with the weapons of reason and ridicule,
• b gan insensibly to imbibe the contagion, and felt
their hearts fail in proportion as the hour of probe.
Lion approached. In the evening of the eighth day
of April, the open fields that skirt the metropolis
were filled with an incredible number of people
assembled in chairs, in chaises and coaches, as well
as on foot, who waited in the most. fearful suspense
till morning, and the return of day disproved the
truth of the dreaded prophecy. Then their fears
vanished, arid they returned to their respective habi-
tations in a transport of joy, and were soon reconciled
to their abandoned vices, which they seemed to re-
itSale with redoubled affection.

7.,TT

POLICE.

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THE CONSPIRACY.

MAIMS Howe.—Yesterday morning the LORD
MAyorc entered into another private investigation
of this extraordinary and 'most infamous conspi-
racy, in consequence of two other persons named
Barry and Ryan being apprehended since Wednes-
day. The examination was resumed in the evening,
and continund em * late hour.
From the information derived from some of the
parties, who expressed a wish to become evidence in
the case, it was ascertained that Barry, who is son of
the man of that name at present in custody, was
concealed in an apartment in Lamb-passage, Bun-
hill-row. White and Harrison, the officers, in con-
sequence repaired to that place at three o'clock yes-
terday morning, where they found him in bed, and
alter some difficulty (the man being in a state of in-
toxication) took him into custody. They then pro-
ceeded to an obscure lodging in Ratcliffe-highway,
where, being compelled to break itt the door of his
apartment, they apprehended Ryan also. The latter,
it now appears, was the person who usually furnished
Barry .'nd his son with the money, in order to pro-
cure persons who might become objects of a prose.
claim', and it was by them, in conjunction with
whets, that Quinn, Reordan, and Connell were selec-
ted. The examination of the younger Barry and
Ryan took place in the presence of Nock and Pei.
ham, each of whom has, as we already stated, offered
to developet not only this, but other conspiracies,
which is now not inaptly termed by the officers them-
selves o the estate of blood." It is bat justice, how-
ver, to state, that as yet no regular officer of justice,
save one in Middlesex, (Vaughan) has been preyed
to be concerned in the gang of conspirators, which,
we understand, amounts in number to about twelve,
and is composed chiLfly of persons who have been in
the habit of loitering about the Old Bailey and the
Police Offices.

The prisoners Brod, Telhanhand Barry the younger,
alias Danid Browne, made a full voluntary confession
of every fact within their knowledge. The case of
Timothy Ryan having undergone a strict investiga-
tion, and nothing sufficiently strong having been
proved to warrant his detention, he was discharged.
At the close of the examinations we understood
the LORD MAYOR to say, that the whole of the accu-
sed parties should be brought np together for a pub.
tic hearing on the next occasion.
BOW-STREET —Yesterday the investigation of tl:is
infamous conspiracy was resumed before Sir N. Co-
SANT, Mr. BIRN let Mr NA RES, and other Magistrates.

In our Paper of yesterday we gave an o-uthne of
some die plots entered into Ly Maday, Hubbard.
lisahven, Vaughan, and others, for tl,e purpose of
discovering innocent men, who were to be made the
victims of preconcerted guilt and viliany. Mackay,
whose case does not appear to he of quite Fn flagrant
a nature as that of his abandoned compeers, y ester-
day made a full and shocking discicsure cf the vari-
ous cases in which he had been concerned, and 01
others which had come to his knowledge. Tl'e fol-
lowing will be found to be the exact suus:ance of hi,
confession :—He states, that about a week beiore the
last Kingston Assizes, Hubbard came to him, and
said that he had discovered two men, named Marrs
and Flannagan, who were willing to " star the glaze,"
(in other words, cut a pane of glass, for the purpose
of removing something from a shop window).—
, Mackay said he would mention it to Arch, (meaning
Archibald Ruthven) with whom be had always before
acted. The parties accordingly consulted, and
agreed to meet together at a public house, neat
Westminster Bi idge, to arrange their plans. Having
met, they shortly decided that Hubbard should go to
what is called a " flash house," not very distant,
and bring out those who were to act as his compa-
nions in the .4 crack ;" Mackay and Ruthven, at the
same time, removing to a public house opposite the
" flash house," in order to watch the movements of
the party. After a considerable time, however, Hub-
bard joined them, saying, his men had " flagged,"
and did not meet him. They then agreed to meet
the next night at the same houses, Hubbard entering
the 64 flash. and Mackay and Ruthven the opposite
house. Soon after, Hubbard with his two compa-
nions came out of the house, and proceeded in the di-
rection of the Borough. During their progress they
stopped to look at some, and entered different shops
without succeeding in their purpose. At length they
reached Bermondsey, where they stopped at the
house of Mr. Littleford, of Long-lane ; Mackay and
Ruthven at this time standing at the corner of the
street Watching them. Mackay soon afterwards
paced them, and observed them engaged in breaking
the window, The sound of the glass breaking was
soon after heard, and the 44 job' being' completed,
the parties were about to escape. Hubbard, who
had previously concerted to run with his companions
towards the officers, led the flight. Mans, however,
ran a contrary way, and Ruthven and Mackay.eafver
to seize the depredators, suddenly met them—M'ac-
kay laid hold of Flannigan, but Ruthven, by mis-
take, initead of Marrs, caught Hubbard in his arms;
the latter, upon being recognized, WAS of course im-
mediately let go. This, when Flannagan was,
brought before the Magistrates for examination, was
accounted for, by stating that the person of the man
seized had been mistaken in the dark. Flannagan,,
being examined, was fully committed for trial.—
To detect Marrs, Hubbard gave iu'ormation to
Mackay and Ruthven of where he was likely to be
found ; and on the following day they repaired to a
public-house in search of him, but he was not to be
found. On the next morning Marrs having met
with Hubbard, stated to him that the officers had
been after him, and he wished he ( Hubbard) would
accompany him out of town. This Hubbard agreed
to do, and appointed to meet him at a ,4 flash-house"
at six o'clock the same evening. With this arrange-
ment Mackay and Ruthven were instantly made ac-
quainted ; but the latter being on duty was unable
to attend, and an officer who has been some litre
suspended, named Johnson, was engaged to supply
his place. Hubbard having made his arrangements,
Mackay and Johnson went to a pui2lic•honse in wait-
ing, and soon after the former waited upon them,
stating that Marrs was then at the 14 flash-house."—
Here they repaired, and watched for some conside-
rable time, expecting that Marrs would come out,
and net wishing to enter for fear of Hubbard's being
suspected. An hour having elapsed, and Marrs not
.appearing, Mackay went in and informed him that
be was " wanted," and being taken into custody

and brought before the Maghrtatt% was
nutted, and, together tvith Rannagan, tried and
Convicted at the last Surrey Assizes. The property
taken from the window of Mr. Littleton" WAS stated
to be worth about fourteen-pence. Uper. the convic-
tion of these persons, a reward was given of two Ty-
burn Tickets, and the sum of £BO. One of these
tickets was awarded to Mr. Littleiord, the prosecu-
tor, with £4O; the other ticket was given to Rini-l-
een, with eti'2o ; and £2l) was awarded to Mackay.
After this Ruttiven prevailed upon Mr. Littleton" to
make a joint end equal division of the money, to
which the latter consented ; and there Lititz a deduc-
tion of £l4 for Court expenses, there remained to
each the sum of 5826. Mackay, Rutliven, and Hub-
bard afterwards met at the a Two Spies" public-
house in Citherine.street, Strand, where it was pro-
posed by Ruthven; that his Tyburn ticket, worth
4112, should be appropriated to the general fund,
making the sum to be divided between these three
g7B. Mackay then proposed that•there should be
a fourth dividend, in order to remunerate Ben
Johnson" fi.r his trouble. To this Ituthven %you'd
not consent, and withdrew with his own share.—
Mackay, however, succeeded in cau,inr Hnlskaril to
consent to a division of their j.,int shares, and John-
son got a third—that is, between ,el 7 and £lB each.
Ruthveii's dividend was about

Mackay ourther stated, that Pelham, at present in
custody in the City, hid come to him upon a certain
occasion, and asked him if he could procure 4'3,
he wa, enabled to put him into a good thing for
the. Mint the joh was all ready to their hands, and
the men at yew k.'t This he (Mackay) declined.—
When the four hishmen were tried for coining last
Session (hut who %Vele acqiiito.-J upon a poim urged
by Mr. Jusice BA Y LEV in their layout). he s:tw Pel-
ham and a person named Ryan, who told hint that
Vaughan had advanced money to do the job, and
that 1) elcons and Alio-son were in it." In few
days aftcr this, Pelham told him, that it he (Mackay)
would advance him money to hay counterfeit
he would put him in " such another concern,"
and he would find the men all ready and at wird
This he also declined. Dickons afteiwards com-
plained to him of the money he had lost in treatim;
the Irishmen, and of the unfortunate job it was
the tour men being acquitted.
On another occasion, Mackay saw Vaughan give
two bad dollars and lour bad shillings to a person
named O'Shea, who was to procure an innocent torn
to buy some article from the mother-in-law of
Vaughan, who lc,.eps a chandler's shop in Gray's
Inn lane. A small quantity of good silver was also
Ito be given to VA, ntifortimate piton, in order that
when tie was seareied there might appear no excuse
tor passing the had money. Mackay afterwaid, saw
O'Shea f o into a piLlic-honsi:. and shorty return
with a poor whmai donett Jto go into the
bvfore-meati.Oted. Tae sad ir did su; O'Shea
!fled, and inime,:ian ly the torrier, having changed
some bad money, came wit with a loaf. He was
instantly seized by Vaughan, who was in waitif,g,
and havin:! hi;:t and brought him before the
IlMag.s,rate, Ile was I teJ for trial, and
convicted.

There were 19 vertl other cases of an equally at7n..
citrus 11-1:111C mentioned by Mackay, which came
withiu his knowledge by information from, and c:u:•
nexion with the paint:: concerned. Not being able,
however, to give tlitm st►llicient authenticity, they-
were rif:t received as evidence.

On Tue,day right, when Mackay was taken into
custody in bed, there was round upon his table a
letter addressed to Mr. Westwood, or the Bank, dis-
closing all he knew if the circumstances of the pre-
cent inquiry, and surrendering the names of The cri-
minal parties.
The prinCipal actors in the diabolical scene as it
relates to the coining, we understand to be Pelham,
Block, O'Shea, and Mac Power.
Jt ferson and Dickons were, alter the examination
of Mackay yesterday, ordered to appear before the
Magistrates.
G. Browne, Mackay, and Drake, are now in ens-
tody ; Hubbard is also in Horsentonger-lane ; Roth-
yen was secured, and we believe bailed; but Vaughan
is not yet Int thcoming.
The investigation of these extraordinary and infa..
mous conspiracies may of course be expected to con-
tinue daily for a siort time.

QUEEN-SQUARE. - SWINDLING. Francis Murray
was brought tip on the charge of swindling and rob-
bing.—Henry Harris, of 49, Holywell-street, sales-
man, charged prisoner with having defrauded wit!!
ness of £l5, under pretence of having a large sum
of money due to him from the Navy Office for wages
which he found the prisoner had actually received.
twelve months ago.—Richard Oliver, No. 3, Ray.
street-place, Clerkenwell, and J. Newcombe, a but-
cher, of the same place, charged him with tWo simi.
far frauds under the same pretence.—Prisoner was
fully committed.—Mr. Bolton, publican, in Queen.
square, and eight others, were bound to prosecute.
MANSION-liousß.—John and Edcvard Smitli were
finally examined, charged with burglationsly break-
ing and entering the dwelling.houses of Messrs.
Knight and Neat, in Sivreting's.alley, Cornhill, on
Sunday night last, and fully committed for trial.
HATTON-GARDEN.—George Blaker and Glace his
wife, were examined, charged with littering forged
notes, purporting to be of the Bank of England.
The prisoners were fully committed for trial.

A porter, carrying a gasometer, and a basket,
containing '2B bottles of vital air, was robbed of the
whole ot his charge, on Tuesday night last, near
Storey's-gate,Westminster. The thieVes must, doubt-
less, have experienced no ism4ll disappointment on
examining their booty, to find, instead of some ex-
hilirating liquor, that the bottles, which were so well
corked, contained apparently nothing!
WeJnesday se'nnight Leeds was visited by a violent
thunder storm, which continued will tniebated fury
for mar two hours. The electric fLii .1 struck a house
near Knostrop, occupied by MI. BENJAMIN GA Iti:rrr,
and also several other houses, but happily la ithout
doing any very material damage. A %%dyable horse
belonging to Mr. BENJAMIN ATKINSON Was also struck
dead in a stable at Hillhouse-bank.

PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY.
Bank Stock, 220 onisl iu m.
3 per Ct. Red. 64164 India lion 6 6 5 pr.
3 per Cent. Cone. 63ifia Exch. Bills s 5 pr.
i per Cent. 794 f t Conleolt for A cc. 65 641 651
; per Cent. Wavy 944 99i 91ff I Lwt.et y 1 ick.cts, 4'g:S. I Us.
Long Ann. 1915-111