Star.
London, England, 1817-06-09 00:00:00

77!C l'Afik.

Hyde Park was in the early part of the afternoon
y !sterclay crowded to an excess. The loo:paths were
s arcely sufficiently capacious to contain the pedvs- I
t ians, and in crossing the roads their safety was too
often endangered by the rapid pro4ress of landaus,
landaulets, chariots, tilburies, and every other descrir-
tion of wheeled vehicle, which wete proceeding Arra
the grand line, from south to north, and rise
In the mirror of the mode we saw nothing new—
silks and sajins, shawls and spencers, the Oldenburgh
bonnet of Leghorn straw, and boots of drab jean
with Morocco vamps, prevailed. A few elcantr.•
sported satin boots, the colour of Pomona green. lo
the circle were
The D.tchesses of Marlborough, Montro.e, Levi.; Muc;iii..
virtu:a of t hossond, Co.ohnondeley, Downaliire, Dun.:gatl, Win.
chaster, Bath, Conyngham ; the Coup uses Harcourt, I.onsdale,
Bridgewater, Dowager live: pool ; l.a3ie, Gr. vii!e, Nlillatay,
M. Wynyard, 00410% J. Vyner ,Ftel4ing, vont.) Long.

l'he duly alley was thy• 01,4, which the high wind
;:nclued very unpleasant ; this tr;sf.rture. however.
was happ►ly allayed about five o'clock by a soaking
shower or rain, which put the ,4 gay thr►nng" rather
into► disorder; and in a less th:►d a quarter ut an hour
thL Park was hut ally deserted.

Yesttrday Divine &twice was perfnmed at Carl-
ton klonse by the R:•v. 1)r. StANIXR CI Alekr.
Saturday and yesterday Princess Crraittorva and
Prince LZOPULD had select siinner p.uties at Char-
wont.

The Duchess of Yorut attended Divine Service yes-
terday at IVliitehali Chapel.
Yesterday the. Luke and Duchess of Cuassomanv
and the Prince of Sours attended Divine Service at
the Ch.ipol Royal, St. James's Palace.
The Rev. Mr. BLostnetto is at present the only re-
s;tl.;nt at the Brighton Pavilion, and the Reverend
Gentknian is daily recovering from his lite sieeid?nt.
The Pursue REGENT gave a grand dinner on Sa.
turday to the Prince of SfILMS, at Carlton-house. The
Duke and Duchess of CCNIBERLAND were present to
meet their Royal Relative. There were alsr, present,
4 he Pricer Esterh?ry, the P:ince Castelc:ca:l, scverst of the
Cabinet Mir:taws and their Lai'ies, and the Foreign Arnhl.sa-
derb aid their Ladies, the Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford,
the Ma! trlii red :v; CillCl:leNd or Abercorn, Ste.
Lord and Lady M2LttnurNr. had a dinner party
ye,terday at their house, Whitehall.
Marquis and Marchi:ntss CI4OI.3arNDELPY enter-
tained a patty of distinction yesterday at Cholruon-
deley House.
The Marquis ard Marel'inness of Bvcosofram
gave an elegant entertainment yesterday to Lad and
Countess ka:tresta.s, Lord and Lady GiteNVILLIL,
the Honourable Tixr,v.ts GacsVILLC, lord GLAS.
10NBL'ItY, Lord EISIUNGTON, and a nu-.neroc; party,
at tuckini;hato HoLsr.

Earl and Countess TALBOT entertained on Satter.l
day the Msrchloness of SausnuttY, the Dowager.' I
V Marchioness of DOWNSIME, Earl and Countess
fif:LAM, Lail of WINCHILSEA, ..rd a numerous party,
at their rtsch:nce in lirilovir-squire.
Lady CASTLILIMAGII entertained a large party 01
distinguished IFastn,::: ,bles with ait deg 4flt supper on
baterday at;,er the Oiwra, an Ler house :n Si.JAMtS%-.!
'square.,
The Countess of Mrsonee's Concert had Its full
share of attraction. It was held on Friday nigh?, it
her Ladyship's elegant mansion in Gloucester-;lace.
1
'the interior was fitted 'up in a very brantiful man.
ner ; flowering shrubs occupied every vacant space.
The drawing-room wind..Wb were moved, mad trans-
parent shades substituted. An unusual degree of
brilliancy kervoded; the chandeliers were rnrginfiecht. I
The music corns need at half-past nine o'clock : it
was wholly Italian. All dm Itadiog [serious-ars con-1
netted with the Open Howse %litre there. re.
(trasient tables abounded with every delicacy. Tills
delightful treat concluded between elm and clime:
o'clock in the morning. Thar were present about
300 Fashionable', among whom were ~ I

The Rub-lan Ambassador ar.d his Iwdy, Countess Dowager or
Mesburough, Countess Feuc•roberg and Mss Cluster, Lady Ca-
roline Batlusrat and Lady ilattnirst,irlaemisitess*Melbourne,
lady Hyde Pa• kyr, Lady Sarah Savine, Sir Cbarles and Lady
Lithe, Counteut Dowager of Liverpool, MI,. Morgan, l.ieute.
nant-Culoni•t Eustdce, and nir Lumley Skealngton.

QuallrilLr have had hut a shott tun. They have'
now had a lamentable descent, not from the drawing-
room tc the kitchen, to supersede the' Centre dame, I
but from Absiam's 1.1 liockley in the Hole. Though
they have not yet fallen into the kitchen, the kitchen
has risen to thew. Some days ago the Lady of a
Noble Admiral, lately returned trom the Mediterra-
nean, happened to conic hone from a Ball unexpect-
edly, when her Ladyship foursl all her domestics bu-
sily employed in a quadri& in the drawing.room, with
the chandeliers lighted up, and a regular band of
two violins, a bus, and a harp. Her Ladyship
owns that they danced them with as much spirit and
grace as it visible elsewhere.
New Mots sr BEING AT Mmes.—A late French
traveler; who was presnrit at one of the brilliant par-
tics of Lady M. S. relates tie following sistenlar ant e-
dote : Tl:e Lady of the house being convinced of
the impracticability of paying personal attention to
7(70 guests, ordered het carriage, and drove off to
spend the evening with an intimate friend, without
ever bring missed by the party."
DANGER OF CUTIIM, :IMRE THE PoINT.—In an ac-
tion of damages heir a breach of promise ut marriage,
lately brought before one of our Courts of Law, the.
lair ,:etench,r.t alledged, that after the signature ash':
contract, her intenued husband was continually dis-
-1 pining with her concerning the size of the stick- with
*itch the,Enelish lass, authorize husbands incorrect
their wives. 'Flits subject of conversati:n at length dis-
gusted :he young Loy, and she tuck the road to Gretna
Green, with a lover less versed it, the lex matrimsnii.

It is imivvrsAlly acknowledged, by the most respec-
table Fart of the prote,sion, that the Medical lioar4s, egah-
fished by the et:le:oared-Surgeons of Charlotte Hctife, laacktriars
R 03,1, and K oodstock-street, Oxford-street (a few doors from
liot4street), a:e the fountain head for advice. It is a fact, that,
by tie muted Tafel'. s of these Gentlemen, upwards of Six I Lou-
sand Nat' ems have been cured annually of obstinate Diseases;
many of whom had been discharged from Hospitals, and hun-
dreds had been improperly treated by pawns igaorant of asi
givtant branch of the profesituo.—Messrs. COOPIR MU ti tote
and Co. are consulted daily by all ranks of people, at each of their,
Eftablishments; or by letters from the Country, stating their
case, when Medicine and Advice are sent to all parts of the
K wisdom .—Th ere are side doors attach house, and private rooms
tor fear g,les.—Direct Charlotte House, opposite the Kev. Rowland
Illlfs Chapel; or WOOdiICoCIL HOW!, near New Bead-street.

CHILD STEALLiVG-TrIE THIEF T.IKEW.

EXTRAORMNARY DELINQVFNCY.—Fri.Iay evening,
about seven o'clock, Mrs. Pester, wi!e of a respec-
table butcher, in QuAec-street, Peri man-square, mt.!
ployed a little girl to take her chili, an infie:,t
about Eve mentlis old, towards the Regent's VAL:
an airing. The girl was pasting near Montague
House, when tle was accosted by an elegantly rites- I
sed female, who, after beqtowing many encomiums
on the gs extraordinary" beauty of the infant, and
i•:qiiiring who were its parents, Sze. tryte.,sted, in a
careless manner, that the girl w.,uld be kind eteiugh
to take a letter for her to the neaftst p .t office, fer
which she would give her a shilling. ih obwrv..l,
at the same tinie, that she would take care of the
‘, dear little creature," meaniiig the infant, wail she
returned, cautioning her not to delay upon the road.
The girl, rejoiced at the prospect of so hands rue a
resard, teadily undertook the 'like, and set oft with
the letter. She returned in about ten minutes, when,
to her utter dismay. neither the lady nor the child
were to he seen, and immediately ran oft to the mother,
'arming via oily that the child was lost. Tito un-
fortunate parrat, scarcely waiting to bear the p.irticu-
lars, set off in pursuit of the wretch who had stolen!
her child. and after running about the neighbour.
hood until she was completely exhausted, she retur-
ned home in a state ot the nr.st dreadful agitation.,
and shortly after MI into fainting frt.., in which state
she remained for several hours. The whole neigh-
hottrho:4l was in a short time raked, and messengers
were dispatched in every direction, but no intelli-
eence of the route taken by the drlinqutil could to
obtatned. About eight o'clock, however, a repot t
was in circulation, that a woman and child, *mom-
ing the de:cript:‘,n of those they were lit search, had
taken a hackney coach from the stand in Dmet-
street. It was then imagined by the pursneas, that
it was her intention to set,ofF by oze ot the coaches,
from Charing Cross, and thither the was quialy fol-
lowed by two persons in a coact, but the pursuit was
vain. Every exertion was ‘ublecinently in/J.l to
trace the offender, but they have hitherto prOved un-
successful.

IittIGHTO)I, JUNE 7.--MYsTratous
This wonting. about half past tour o'clocik, a respec-
table dressed Lady, with an in!ant in her arms about
six mouths drove in a post cliaiLc to the Now
Ship Inn. Sze immediately unlined breakfast and
some loud. Her manners indicated concide-
rabie agitation, and she did not take any refteslimmt
which teas !nought up, but desinct a :ties:. lit cherry
wire for the child. half rast hill:, o'clock she
took her departure for Arundel. In lers than an
..our another chaise drove to the Inn, with the pa
rents of the infant in pursuit of the person, who had
purloined it from the nurse maid, in the neighlyir.
hood of Manchester-square. Tull were accompa-
nied by the post bcy who had driven the curluiner
tile first stage out of London. Upon learning the
route the Lady had taken, the parents instantly re-
newed their journey to recover thi!ir lost offspritig.—.
No tarther tidings nad been learned up to this bieht.
CLlFutsTitii. JUNE —7.—A most singular circum-
stance occurred this afternoon :—A respectably dres-
*el female was apprehended at the Fleece Inn, on a
charge el Child sleeting. It appeared she stole an
intact, seven weeks old, yesterday afternoon, from a
person in Liordon ; whet., by a nest previdentialdia-
Envoy of the post boy, who drove her the first stage
Iron, Lbesooo, Vie lather of the little innocent traced
her. Site had taken a place to proceed to Ports-
mouth, at four o'clock, but the father happily an iced
about halt an lit.arr after her.

CDILDR/O1 BURNED TO Di A rit.--Tuesclay an In-
quest was held at Stamlord, on the body .it RJbert
Dell; aged three )e..rs, son of John Bell, labonrcr,
IMO Ss. Paul's Crate, who was burnt to death. The
mother gc•t up is the morning, made a fire, and went
into an au joining close to milk a cow, leaving the de-
ceased and another boy, few years old, in bed ; ua
her return, she found that the deceased had got down
stairs. and by some accident set bis gown on hrr,
which occasioned his death.—Verdict accordingly,.
A child of Thomas Roper, at the Cherry Holt, in
the parish of Sl:!rbeck, was burnt to death on Friday
night last. Verdict—Accidentally.
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PiLLOßY.—Saturday B. Teeich, convicted of per-
jury, on becoming bail in the Court of Common
Pleas, stood in the pillory at Charing Cross. The
delinqth:nt was one of those who, destitute of all pro-
perty or character, arrange themselves in the neigh-
bourhood of the Judges' Chambers, for the purpose
of hiring themselves as bail. He had assumed that
character in an action for a ecnsidera'ale sum, swear-
ing to the possession of sufficient property, and a re-
sidence which had no existence. Having thus ob-
tained the sanction of the Court to his becoming bail,
the result, in all probability will be, that the plain-
tiff in the action will lose both his c4ell and his costs,
upwards of 4/200. The solicitvrs, v. hese cl!ent had
been thus detraucled, prostcoted h;ni at their rtve
expense, and sviCP peat diCiculry ; in consequence
of the norm:revs And :nO4l manceurres resorted to, !r;
order to dete.:t justice, but succeeded in obtain:or a
couv;ctien. It being a bailable offence, the Fist•ver
gavehis prosecutors no loss than nincteeo Ectices of
bail, composed of persons resident iry the most oppo-
slte points of the town. He is 4150 to be irnprismcd
six months.

Putuc-licusEs.—lt appears from the Socend Re-
erort ot the Police Committee, thatshe rucropuly
Pubiic-houses by the Dressers is not confined to the
Metropolis. Berkshire the evil seems to have at-
tained its acme. The Report states--,, Mr. Sri:nitre,
a Solicitor connected with the town of Wallingford,
informed your Committee, that out of eighteen Pub-
he-houses in that town, fourteen belotg to Biewors,
twelve or thirteen of which are the property of one,
who is, besides, a Magistrate of the couety'of
end Alderman of the Boro•rgh. This witoass
that the complairits against the badness of the Beer
are universal ; and, from experience, he know., that
from this cause alone, the cororrion people are driven
to the use of spirits. He adds also, tl.at at Newbury
the monopoly is so complete, that ju the Borough of
Speenharniand there are ten Publie.bouses belonging
to a Charity, eight of which are in the hands ot one
Brewer, and two in those of another. Your Commit-
mittee consider this monopoly to be a great grievacce,
and deserving well the consideration cf the Legisla-
ture, in order to limjt its further progress, and to re-
lieve the ruslic front its cu:schitvour cocacquerces."