Star.
London, England, 1804-01-04 00:00:00

70 THE EDITOR OF THE► STAR.

Deennber 2;, igc.7.

Sir—Mr. CONSITT has replied to my Contradic-
tion 'of his Statement, relpeeing the Curfory Re-
marks, by tome new infinuarions as deßitute of foun-
dation as his former affertions. He elks, " Whether
can folemnly declare. that no civil. SPOKEN Gen.
rt.IMAX bought 750 Copies in one.or, at moil, in tun
bargains ? and whether two Bookbinders' boys did
not go down to the General Poll Office, Come time in
Oa riser ha, loaded with Curfory Remarks ?"—Now,
to each of there cptellions, Co far as my knowledge
goes, I do folemnly give a direct and politive nega.
live ;—and having thus anfwered dillinely two dlr.
tine charges, in which Mr. COINSTT has alerted two
dire& falfehoods, I !hall notAin future, trouble myfelf
or the public with any anfwer to any farther charge
from the fame quarter.

To his Remarks upon myfelf, as a Pooa Boors it,
Let, I have only to obferve, that his contempt for
the profeaon may, perhaps, arife from a retrofpeet
of his own cendutft, while he exercifed it. He was
himfelf, till very lately, a poor Bookfeller. What
new dignity he may have now acquired, I know
nut; and whether there be any material difference
between him and me, except that I have never been
accufed of premeditated falfebooda I leave to the
judgment of the public.

• I am, Sir, ynur obedient Servant. j. mArcaaan.
190. ritcadazy, Lawton.

Two young men, named &moats and Powia, fell
laSt night from the flies on the Stage of Covent Garden
Theatre during the representation of the Pantomime.
being a height of at. !call 35 feet. The former rc.
ceived Come irjury in his Skull, and the other was
much bruited. Dr. KINKIDY of Great QEeen-lireet„
was fent for, and Mr. Pre PSON. a Surgeon, happened
to be preterit. The unhappy tuff had of courfo
every aid which medical Skill could afford.

Yefterday morning, at half pea ten o'clock, George
Auguftes Matthews. a drummer of the 3d regiment
of the Royal Eaa India Volunteers, was tied up to
the halberts. in the Company's yard, at New-greet
Warehoufe previous to which the regiment, bands
&c. and officers, were drawn up in clots order, Mr.
Emmy, (argon to the brigade, attending. The
fentence of the coort.martial having been read, the
fubftance of which was, that though the crime of
defertion, heightened by feveral aggravated theme-
Sanas, deferved the punithment of Soo lathes, yet,
in confideratlon of the extreme youth of the offender,
and in hopes of his good condos in future, the court
had mitigated it to so lathes. One of the drummers
then proceeded to inflit% the lathes, when, after four
litotes had been given, Major Sutra ordered the
bpy to be untied, and (fated, that in compaffion of
his youth, and its being his firft offence, Colonel Ro-
sERTS had been pleafecho remit the remainder of the
lenience. The lad's father is a grenadier in, the bri
gade, and expreffed himfelf thoroughly fatisfied with
the jufli:e of the fentence, and equally grateful for
the lenity (hewn to his fon.
The late heavy gales have forced a number of Mips
from the Baltic, bound. to different ports in England.
into the Frith. One of thefe Mips arrived in Zeith
Roads difmailed, and general of them have faced
more or let's damage.

On Tuefday fe'nnight, the (hip Enterpriae, of
London, from the Baltic, was driven towards the
ifland of Inthkeith, when it was judged advifable by
thofe on board to cut away the main and miten malls.
to Cave the (hip and cargo, when the rode opt the
gale. Before the malls were cbt away, the (hip was
in very Mallow hater. The people. on board beard.
daring the height of the gale, the cries of feveral
potions in dißrefs not far. tom their own Qsip, which
they fear was a boat that had *Tercet incoming from.
Come of the other (hips to their relief.. '
The following is an cured of a letter front Aber-
deen, dated December as :
•' I prefume that you have heard of the Guardian
being boil near Memel; I then procured a birth on
board a Ihip called the Mary of London, Captain
Wrangham ; we accordingly failed from Elfineur on
the sith day of December, under convoy of the Ca.
RYSFORT frigate. The fecond day after we left Eltir
neur, it began to Elow very frefh, which terminated in
a vs: y heavy gale of wind. Our chip being leaky at
the bet, now got fir bad, that we were obliged to
pump night and day and the (hip being water Ici_g-
ged, it was determined to take to the long boat. We
got accordingly what things we could out of the ca-
bin, it being half full of water, fuch as bread, two
hams, and tome liquor, with a compafs and a qua-
drant. We had nit time to put the things in this
long boat when the (hip upiet, four of the people were
drowned, and the cell of us got upon her bottom.
itere we remained about an hour and an half, ex-
peilting every minute to be wa(hed away. There was
a fhip dole to its, but could render us no affißance
however Goo was with ns, for a heavy fea [truck her.
and carried away the three marls, which were under
water, when the (hip inflantly righted, and we got
on her deck: Nothing was to be feed but the wreck
of the malls which the rigging held, but the deck was
completely cleared. In this fituation we remained
four days and three nights, without fo much as a bif-
cuit, an ounce of beef, or a drop of water, and con.
Randy wet. On the 3d day one of our men died of
hunger and cold, and on the 4th another. We were
reduced to the neceffity of eating two fmallcatt, which
had clung to the wreck. On the fourth night we v.:
among! breakers ; and it being the fecond :ime that
the Rrock, the knocked her bottom from her top fides.
We now lathed outfelves to the bowfprit with ropes,
and, in about two hours we got on (bore, but with our
legs and hands fo (welled that we could badly crawl
to a (mall houfe which Rood on the beach The neat
day all the people for twenty miles round:ante to fee
us ; indeed we were moll lamentable oljeAs I—our
faces and bodies quite emaciated, and our hands and
legs greatly fwelled. A donor was fent far, but
am afraid two of our poor fellows cc ill Icife their toes.
The people behave uncommonly kind to us , we have
been in bed two days, but I can now walk a little.—
It will be but a poor Sihrillmas ; but I did not mina
to fee one at all. It was on the • 9th, between eight
and nine in the morning, that the thip upfet s—stte
hands were twelve in number, of whom four were
drowned : two died through cold, hunger, and fa-
tigue; and fas got on (bore."

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