Star.
London, England, 1821-10-11 00:00:00

THEATRES.

COVINTZ A RDEN.—••• The Antiquary was performed
at this Theatre last night, for the first time this season.
Its merit as an acting Drama, independent of its
claims as an Opera, has conferred upon it a sufficient
portion of popularity to establish it as a permanent
occupant of these bonds. The novelty of last night
was Miss HaLLANDE's Isabella Wardour, in which
character she acquitted herself so well as to make
the absence of its original representative almost for-
gotten. Her song, " Bonnie laddie, soldier laddie,"
was warmly encored. With this single exception
there was no change in the cast of the piece, and the
whole dramatis personee lost none of their wonted ex-
ertion and success. Blue Beard followed, and went
off with increased success. The House was full.
Haymankax.—The admirers of theatrical excel-
len. ce were highly gratified last night by the produc-
WM of the favourite Opera of Rob Roy, at this Theatre,
and by the performance of Mr. TERRY, as the hero
Of the piece. The abilities which he displayed were
of the first order; his representation of the hardy
Chief was marked by energy and dignity, without
the slightest approach towards either rant or hauteur.
Of course, the leading attraction of the evening was
Is Mr. TERRY ; but the tasteful singing of Mr. LEONI
Lt` and Miss CAREW was much applanded. The
former sustained the character of Francis Ostaldeston,
the. latter that of Diana Vernon. Mr. TA YLEU R E was
highly successful as Bailie Jamie. The I'lay has been
got up in the most liberal style, both as to scenery
and dresses, and does great credit to the Manager,
unippalled by the tearful odds which he ha. to
nounter when contending with t NoWinter Theatres,
aan. not ceased to afford the amplest and the most
~vaz!ed series of entertain': ,to the Public. At the
mhos of the curtain, Mr..l::anv stated that Rob Roy
10(ild be repeated this evenlug—an announcement
which was received by a numerous and elegant audi-
ence with acclamation. •

NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.

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SIR RICHARD Prrir.Cies has at length completed
and published that view of Nature, on new princi-
ples, some partial applications of which he has for
some years past submitted to the world. ,

According to his system, motion applied to matter,
and motion transferred from body to body, and from
Atoms to atoms, as they exist in various forms and
combinations, are the causes of all material pheno-
mena, without any exception whatever. He divides
motion into general and specific; and, by the trans-
fer of specific motions, he has undertaken to explain
all natural appearances.

Thus, the fall of bodies to the Earth, and their
weight or tendency to fall, he ascribes to the twofold
e. the rotatory and orbicular) motions of the Earth,
of which every part is the patient, and whose mecha-
nical effort it is to impel all bodies to the centre; and
he has proved that the two motions produce the exact
fall of sixteen feet in a second of time.
He also ascribes the orbicular motions of the Pla-
nets to the rotation of the Sun round the mechanical
centre of the system, which solar motion impels the
medium of space with a force diffused inversely as
the squares of the distances; and he shews that an
impelling force on the western side of a planetary
mass, not only produces the rotatory motion, but
that the precise rcration of the Earth of seventeen
miles in a minute at the equator, is the exact motion
which must be produced by the inequality of the
forces on its near and remote radius.

The Tides of the Ocean in this theory are necessary
consequences of the Earth's rotation round the me-
chanical centre of the Earth and Moon, and the
second tide in twenty hours is a mere return or
oscillation of the first tide.

In a word, Sir Richard excludes from nature all
such principles as attraction, repulsibn, and gravita-
tion ; he utterly rejects the Newtonian vacuum in
space, and treats as a chimera the doctrine of a
projectile force.
When the loco-motion of bodies is arrested by col-
lision or percussion, motion is not destroyed, but
aggregate motion is then converted into atomic mo-
tion ; and this, when repeated and accelerated, pro-
duces the various phenomena of heat, and all its ex-
tensive eff-•cts and decompositions. On this principle
Sir Richard raises an entirely new theory of atomic
or chemical Philosophy.
Atoms, according to Hany and Daniel, are of va-
rious forms; and hence their various affections from
the same exciting motion. To these varied affections,
the author of the New Philosophy ascribes all the
phenomena of mineral, vegetable, and animal orga-
nization; and he devotes three long Essays to this
investigation.

Gaseous forms, he ascribes, with Des-Cartes and
Davy, to the intestine motions of atoms; and thence,
by the parting with, or the fixation of, these moving
atoms, he explains the phemimena of combustion
and animal heat and energy—consideting them as
analogous results of the same cause: in short, we live,
says he, not merely on a moving earth, which governs
all motions upon it, but amid moving atoms, whose
energies are appropriated by our peculiar organiza-
tions. Electricity is ascribed to the separation of the
component parts of atmospheric air, or other bodies
containing atoms, which create the oxygenous and
nitrogenous, or acid and alkaline, principles ; and, in
the endeavour of a disturbed stratum or plate to re-
unite, arises the peculiar phenomena. When it takes
place through a point,, the concentration of force pro-
duces either a spark or a stroke of lightning. Galva-
nism is electricity accelerated by multiplied or re-
peated disturbances of the very principles which create
atmospheric electricity. Magnetism is a circulation
between the Equatorial Regions and the Poles, which
passes through some bodies and not through others.

The Author concludes this extraordinary volume
with a disquisition on Fate and Necessity; and deter-
mines, that, although inert mass* are necessary pa-
dents of physical causes, yet that all beings endowed
with powers of judging are independent microcosms,
governed by their individual varied judgments, and
therefore independent of physical necessity; or, in
other words, free agents, and responsible for their
conduct to moral and social laws.

In another Essay the Author treats at length-of the
causes of the Geological Changes on the Earth's Sur-
face, a subject of such unceasing wonder; and he
ascribes them to certain periodical changes in the
Earth's motions as a planet, by which its two hemi-
spheres are exposed at great intervals of time to va-
ried actions of the Sun. But it is impossible in an arti-
de like the present to follow the w iter through his va-
rious inquiries; and we have probably done enough
to call the attention of the literary and philosophical
part of the Public to his discoveries and very interest-
ing speculations, which, when established, must create
a new sera in Natural Philosophy.

In Virginia, a Jury that cannot agree on a verdict
is called a hung Jury—thus, when the Jury is hung,
the criminal escapes I
Lord Chancellor HARDWICKE'S attention to busi-
ness was so great that, on the day of his marriage,
he went to Chambers as soon as the ceremony was
over, to inspect his papers as usual; he•returned to
them in the afternoon, after tea, and afterwards came
back to his house to eat his supper, and conclude the
ceremony of• his nuptials.
ANECDOTE.—HENRY VIII. at the time he ascended
the Throne, was highly popular with his subjects.—
This feeling was principally occasioned by the ad-
vantage he; derived from a comparison between the
manners of the young Prince, his liberality, his
love of shew, magnificence, and pleasure, and the
par imonious disposition of his father, HENRY VII.—
The immense treasure which his father had hoarded
up, said by Lord HERBERT, and other historians, to
have amounted to £2,000,000, an unexampled tin:
stance in those days, enabled him to gratify his pas-
sion for reg4l splendour, and, at the same time, to
gratify his subjects. He caused a Proclamation to
be issued, encouraging all persons who considered
themselves aggrieved by the acts of his deceased fa-
ther's two favourite Ministers, Edmund Dudley and
. Richard Empson (through whose agency the old
King had obtained the greatest portion of this im•
mense treasure) to come forward, make their com-
plaints, and they should obtain satisfaction.

erit„l",daY las?, J. HoonsoN, Esq. was elected Mayor
W. JACKSON, Esq. and Mr. I. NANSON,
Common Councilmen ; Sir Jon ScwELL, LL.D. an
Alderman; and Mr. RonEnr Chamberlain.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

REMARKABLE TRIAL.

ENFIELD RACES.—Wornasosr, °cross' 10. I The Monileur of Sunday last contains the follow-
The Gentlemen's Purse of £so.—Heats, two miles. ing trial of Antoine Simon De!jurdins, suspected of
Mr. Glow's b. 111. Souvenir, 3 yrs old, 6st. i lib. - I I having been an accomplice in the assassination of the
Mr. Day's gr. f. 3 yrs old 4 2 late Duke of Berry.
Mr. Meyneh's Muslin, 3 yrs old - - 3 3
Mr. Messer's gr. In. 5 yrs old, Sst. 71b. 2 4 This man was implicated in the information fired
Mr. Farrell's ch. g. 6 yrs old, Bst. - s S against Lourd ; but by a Decree of the Court of
Mr. Temple's Britannia, 5 yrs old, Sst. 71b. - - d t 4 Peers, dated the 30th of March, 1821, it was de-
Mr. Crickmore's Mountaineer - - 7ur dared, that there was no ground for aprosecution
Mr. Clark's c. by Sorcerer - - s dr p
Mr. Green's tn. by Overseer 9 dr
against him on that account. They, however, sent
Muslin the favourite.—After the heat, Gto4 on Souvenir. him before the Tribunal of First Instance for the De.
Won easy. pat t men t of the Seine, charged with holding language
The Half-bred Stakes Race did not fill, in public places and assemblies, tending to excite the
It was on this Course where the late George Barrington, the assassination of the Royal Family. The indictment
Prince of Thieves, robbed Mr. Henry Bare Townshend of his set forth that K on tl.e 10th of bruai V. 1821, Des-
watch and chain, and for which he- was sent on a transatlantic '
voyage. A disciple of his, for the same offence, suffered a very jardins uttered the following e‘pressions to a person
severe ducking in Enfield Wash; and when recovered he thanked named Gonet, in a public-house:—' I was the ac-
ids accusers for their lenity. cornplice of Louvel. There were seven of us to strike
IRISH TURF CLUB. the blow. We drew by lot the name of him who
The Gold Whip, presented by,his MAJWITT to the Turf Club should undertake the task. The lot fell on Louvel.
In Ireland, with 100 Guineas added to it annually, will be run At the moment of putting it in execution, he appeared
for on
article has been Friday
approved of by of the next OctohisbeMunr Meeti
ng. The following wavering and trembled. We made him drink a bottle
ro :
Four-year olds lOst. 101 b. of wine to give him confidence. In two years there
Five ditto - - llst. bOlb. Four Miles. shall be no Bourbons in Fiance. It was myself that
Six ditto - -12 u. 21b. made the poignat d which cut short the days of the
Aged - -12 st. 41h.
' Duke of Berry. I walked a whole day in the wood
Three pounds allowed to mares and gelding;. This Whip to
be challenged by entering homes for it with the Deputy Ranger of liou ogne (near Paris), armed with a musket, in
at the Curragh, seven clear days before running, and so be run hopes that the Prince would come there to hunt, and
according to the King's Plate Articles. with the intention, if he did, of not missing him."
EXTRAORDINARY PEDESTRIAN FF.AT. The Court declared there was sufficient proof to
At an early hour yesterday morning a Gentleman named go to a Jury : Ist, That on the 16th of February,
Maack an Officer on the half-pay of an intantry regiment, started 1821, Desjardins, in a public place, outraged public
to perform ten miles within fifty-five minutes, for a wager of
morals, by approving of the attack on the person of
One Hundred and Fifty guineas, on the Dighton road, near a
MIA village called Nutfield, a short distance from Croydon. The the Duke of Berry ; 2d, That he had uttered expres-
bet was made a few days since, at a well known sporting house sions offensive against the members of the Royal Fa-
in the neighbourhood of St. James's, and time was backed at mily, climes provided against by Articles Ist, Bth,
odds of six and seven to four. Mr. Mars commenced precisely
and 10th, of the Law of the 17th May, 1819; and that
at seven o'clock, and performed the distance as follows, stopping
in the course of his running twice, to take refreshment: lie should be sent for trial before the Court of Assize ;
First - - 2 miles in 10 minutes 31 seconds. and accordingly his trial came on last Saturday.
Second - 2 lO -
- - 1 - 52 To the interrogatories which, according to the
- 6
Fourth - 2 --11 - -10 practice of the French Courts, the President puts to
Fifth -- 2 -- :1 -- 14 the criminal as to his guilt or innocence, the prisoner
• denied ever having uttered such expressions; and de-
clared the whole to be a conspiracy on the
,patt of
the witnesses against him to destroy him, for what
reason he could not tell.
The principal witness against him was a man named
Petit, who swore, that one day Desjardins came to
Goner's shop, and went up stairs to him ; and that Go-
net's mother came down and :old the witness that she
was in great alarm, in consequence of Desjardln's
having boasted that he was one of the assassins of the
Duke of Berry. In order to get him nut of the house,
Petit took him to a public-house, where the former
became very noisy ; and, after having again asserted
that he was one of the accomplices; that they were
seven in number, and that they drew lots ft om a hat,
he took from under his coat a pair of pistols, saying,
that one should be reserved for him who should ar-
rest him, and the other to blow out his own brains.
He said, among other things, that in two years there
should be no more Bourbons in France. Desjardins
was badly clothed, and witness expressed his surprise
that he should be so, when he had said he was a ser-
vant of trust in a house of such consequence as that
of the Duchess of Montebello (the widow of Marshal
Lasnes); but he answered, that be had as much
money and fine clothes as be liked ; and that the
Duchess furnished the conspirators with resources.
He also told witness that he had sought to assassi-
nate the Duke of Beny, but that no opportunity had
offered itself.
Gonet, the master of the shop, declared that he was
so drunk he could not recollect the infamous things
that Desjardins uttered ; they made him so ill that he
was obliged to go to bed ; and if he had not been in
that state, be would have put him out of doors; but
he told his wife to do it. The latter declared, that
she was a little hard of hearing, and she recollected
nothing that passed at the wine-vaults, except that
Desjardins pulled out two pistols, saying one was for
him who should arrest him, the other for the purpose
of blowing out his own brains. Goner's mother heard
him say, that in two years there should be no more;
but she did not hear any person mentioned.
From the depositions of other witnesses, it appeared
that Desjardins was an empty braggart on all occa-
sions; that he had never been decorated with any
Order; that he had never been in the Army ; that so
far from having served Bonaparte in the Isle of Elba,
he had never been ant of France ; that it was equally
false that he had been employed in any capacity in
the house of the Duchess of Montebello ; and that his
real situation was shopman to a goldsmith.
The Jury found that the prisoner had held the
language imputed to him, but not in a public place,
which amounted to an acquittal of the prisoner ; who
was instantly set at liberty, after being admonished
by 'the President to be more cautious of his tongue
in future.

10 54 53
It will thus be seen that Mr. 1111u* accomplished the dis-
tance within seven seconds of the given time, having performed
the ten miles in 54 minutes and 53 seconds' which is, we believe,
the shortest time on record in the annals of pedestrianism, in
which the ten miles have been run. .
PEDESTRIANISM.
A Gentleman of great respectability and opulence at Chertsey,
and who weighs about fifteen stone, has undertaken, for a wager
of Fifty Guineas, to walk from the Market-house in that town
to that of Guildford, a distance of twelve miles, in three hours.
From the well-known habits of the Gentleman, the admirers of
pedestrianism anticipate a delectable treat on the occasion.

The Duke of RUTLAND is at his seat at Chevely,
near Newmarket.
Lord Haazwoon will remain in Yorkshire till the
hunting season is over.
A cucumber has been raised in the garden of Mr.
Maccaloch, of Guernsey, which, on Sunday se'nnighr,
measured seven feet, and it was supposed would grow
five inches more. .

A summer-house, in the grounds itf Mrs. GAR-
RICK, at Hampton, was broken open and robbed last
Friday night, and the carpet and various articles of
furniture taken away. Very fortunately one article,
which its original owner had highly valued, was left
behind, on account of its cumbrous dimensions and
weight. This was a large arm-chair, made by the
direction of DAVID GARRICK, out of the celebrated
" mulberry tree" planted by SHAESPEARIL
Between the hours of one and three o'clock on
Tuesday morning, the dwelling-house and shop of
Mr. CHARLES COOPER, grocer, Upper North-place,
Gray's Inn-road, was burglariously entered, and
robbed of one hundred and four sovereigns, £l5 in
notes of the Kingston Bank, a £lO note of the Guild-
ford Bank, 1:26 in Bank of England notes, and £l3
in silver, amounting in the whole to £l6B, and one
silver caddy spoon.
Four assassinations have taken place within the last
eight days in Paris. The last victim was a woman
named Denise Calpin, who was murdered by a man
with whom she had cohabited many years, and by
whom she had several children. He was arrested
immediately after committing the deed, and con-
ducted to the Prefecture of the Police.

A fatal accident lately occurred at Poictiers. A
young man went into the garden of the house in
which he resided with his wife's family, to amuse
himself with firing at a mark. The door of an old
green-house served for a target. The moment he
discharged the pistol a shriek was heard from within;
he rushed forward, and his wife fell into his arms,
expiring as she uttered these words, " Jules, you have
killed me r
Yesterday an Inquisition was held at the Peniten-
tiary, Millbank, before Mr. Moos, Coroner, on the
body of Charlotte Moss, a convict, who died in the
prison on Monday last. The Jury returned a ver-
dict—Died by the Visitation of GOD •
There was another Inquest, held before the same
Coroner, at the Greencoat Boy, Tothillfields, on the
body of Mr. James Brill, aged 47 years. The de-
ceased lived in Greencoat-Walk, he was in good
health on Sunday, and made a hearty dinner with
his family ; he retired to rest at an early hour in the
evening. Next morning groans were heard in his
room by his son, who went instantly to ascertain the
cause, and found him in the last agony of death. A
medical man was called in, but the deceased expired
before his arrival. Verdict, Died in aft of Apoplexy.'
A third Inquest was held by Mr. Htoos, the same
day, at the George, George-court, Strand, on the
body of Mrs. Elizabeth Child. The deceased was
the wife of Mr. Child, of Castle• court, Strand ; she
was about 21 years of age, had been married three
years, arid had three children. Monday night she went
to bed in her usual state of health, and next day her
husband found her dead lying by his side. Verdict,
Died by the Visitation of Gots in a fit of Apoplexy.
Thursday, the 27th Illt. WILLIAM PARKER, 'of
Horton, fell down on the road between Horton and
Bradford, and instantly expired. It is remarkable
that this sudden death took place within a few yards
of the spot on which the father of the deceased was
killed fifteen years ago, by a blow from a person of
the name of Jagger.
Sunday morning, during Divine Service in the
Parish Church of Berkeley, the congregation were
thrown into the greatest consternation by Mrs. SARAH
IRISH, of that place, suddenly dropping down in her
pew. Dr. JiNNER went to her aid, but discovered
she had been seised with an apoplectic fit, and she
expired before she could be taken home.

C. WAKE, M. D. was on Saturday last elected
Mayor of Warwick for the ensuing year, by the Cor-
poration of that Borough.

At the Aberdeen Circuit Court on Friday, George
Thom, residing at Harthill, in that county, was found
guilty of the murder of William Mitchell, residing at
Burnside, in the parish of Tough, by means of poison.
Thom was sentenced to be executed at Aberdeen on
the 16th of November, and his body given for dis-
section. The prisoner, who is about 61 years of age,
appeared unmoved on receiving the awful sentence,
and on his retiring from the bar, said to some of the
Counsel near him, " Gentlemen, I am as innocent as
any of you sitting there."
SOMME OF DIAMONDS.—A most valuable seizure
of diamonds set in jewellery has been made by an
officer of the Customs of Dover, the amount of which
would have been a handsome fortune. The parties
for whom they were intended granted themselves the
favour to take them to pieces, which renders them
liable to exportation, which has been acceded to, and
the seizing officer has been allowed £lOOO.
A SMUGGLER SHOT.—A Coroner's Inquest was
held at Alnwick-green, near Bognor, on Friday last,
on the body of James Jurd,, when it appeared, that
on Tuesday night previous, a smuggling craft, with
486 tubs of foreign spirits, was chased and boarded
by the Littlehampton preventive galley, when the
crew of the smuggler simultaneously jumped into
the seizing boat, and rowed off with her. Being re-
peatedly hailed without effect, a discharge of mus-
ketry followed, which wounded two meu, the above
fatally.—Verdict, Justifiable Homicide.