Star.
London, England, 1820-12-01 00:00:00

RECORDER'S REPORt

Yesterday the RECORDER made his Report 0.111;ii
MAJESTY of the following capital convicts under se,
once of death in New ate, viz.
Henry Harris, Marks Lee, Sarah Price, Thomas Good;::
Elisabeth Callaghan, John Newman, and John Madden, fc.;
uttering forged Bank-notes; George Orford and Peter Tvir.7,
for burgle.), ; William Fisher and Thomas Brown, for 11,;.
bre:king in the day time; John Davis, William Sidney Srei:!,
(aot reported), Joseph Pilinger, George Edwards, Richard lira&
street, John Hemmings, James Jacobs, Thomas C.rr (not re.
ported), Robert Webster, Daniel Low, and John Fox, for hi•it.
way robberies ; Charles' Evans, Susan Thomas, Henry Todd,
John Napper, Henry Lee, John Thomas Manic, John Kee,
Adam Duckett, Hannah Jarvis, and Thomas Catnn, for stealii
in dwelling-houses; William Tuckfield, for btree-stealing ;
mas Skinner, for beastiality ; Thomas Webb, for sacrilege;
Thomas Fuller Harnett, for forging an acceptance to a Bill of
Exchange; and F.dwud Charles Tierney, for stealing goe,,,
from a vessel in the Port of London;
—When Joseph Ellinger, George Edwards, Thorms
Webb, Sarah Price, John Newman, John Maddc4,
Henry Harris, and Thomas Fuller Hartsett,:were or-
dered for execution on Tuesday next. The othei!
were respited during pleasure.

VETTING AT TATTERSALL'S YESTERDAY.
ODDS ON RACES TO COME.
Daltsr.
14 to 1 apt Gustavus 20 to 1 apt Truth
16 to 1 apt bro. to Partisan 20 to 1 agst Sycoraz
18 to 1 apt Cowslip 22 to 1 apt PrudenA
18. to 1 agst Charm 25 to 1 apt Tuba
22 to 1 agst Jock
Oats.-9 to 2 apt My Lady.
at. LIME&
10 to l apt Jack Spiggott 18 to 1 apt Colwell
14 to 1 apt My Lady 20 to I agst Mr. Pierre's f.
BOXERS.
A novel match has been made for Turner, to fight Hicimca,
the Gas-light man. Hickman is to fight 150 gqineas to 80.
ner is under eleven stone, and Gas above twelve. Turner, boy -
ever, thinks he can win, and the other makes certain of it
2 to 1 on Gas.

NATURAL CURIOSITIRS.—M. LALANDE, the cele-
brated French Naturalist, who was commissioned by
the French Government to make researches in tIL:
interior of Africa, arrived at Bonrdeaux on the 3.1
instant, after an absence of two years. He has
brought with him, among other objects of curiosity,
the skeletons and skins of an enormous hippopotamus,
is rhinoceros, and three whales, one of which is 75
feet in length. It was not till, after a month
in the midst of imminent dangers, that M. LALANDE
met with that drew-Vol monster, the hippopo'anius :
when he received his death wound, he rushed ra-
pidly into the river, which he discoloured with his
blood. It required to i pair of oxen to draw hint
out of the river, and M. LALANDE was compelled
to erect a rampart. of bamboo cane round the dead
animal, to protect the carcase from being devoured
by wild beasts. The whole collection brought home
by M. LALANDE for the Museum at Piris, comprises
15,000 articles. This enterprising Naturalist speaks
with rapture of the kind and hospitable conduct of
the British settlers. A Paris Journal says, "Great
praise is due to the English for their hospitable and:
generous conduct towards M. LALANDZ. The
Commander. Da the station favoured him in every way
in his power, .Hunting the hippoßotansus is prohibiteA
under severe penalties ; but this interdiction was dis 7
pensed with in favour of the French Naturalist they
aided him in everything calculated to insure
without, however concealing front him that they
thought success impassible. When, contrary to all
expectatioq, he had succeeded, the English cor-
dially rejoiced, and loaded the fortunate hunter with
sincere congratulations."
EXTRAoRDINART I,EL.—A few days ago, an eel,
of the common species, but of extraordinary dimen-
sions, got entangled in the herring cruiver on the
Firth of Forth, near Higgins' Neuk. On being ap-
proached by the fishermen, it flapped its tail most
violently, and, had it struck any of them, there is no
doubt he would have forfeited his life for his temerity.
Aware of their danger, they cautiously approached
it, and, after many efforts,. they. succeeded in fixing
it with a hook to which was attached a cord, and
dragged it on shore, where they triumphed over their
vicum. When measured, it was found to be 18 feet
in length, and two feet in girth at the middle.
The skin, which is stuffedrand which we understand
k in the possession of Mr. Higgins, the proprietor
of the.eroiver, must excite the attention of the Natu-
ralist. Part of the fish being dressed, waifound to he
most delicate eating.—Stirlang Journal.
MELANcuoLY Accrontr.—Tnesday se'nnight, the
infant son of a Gentleman, in Dean-street, Stockbridge,
near Edinburgh, was smothered, by being laid in ed
under too great a quantity of bed-clothei; The poor
little innocent bad lain in bed from five until after
six o'clock, behind the mother, and although the
usual methods of resuscitation were immediately etn-
ployect, after discovery of the infant's situation, as
inhaling the lungs, immersion in a warm bath, fric-
tion, and other stimuli, the child never spewed the
least signs of life. These remedies were sedulously
employed far two hours and a.half. 'The practice
of covering children with heavy bed-clothes cannot
be too strongly reprObated. Infants are unable to
bear a load of clothes ; besides, if there happens to
be the least inequality in the ;bed, they are very apt
to get into it, or creep too near the mother (who is
seldom able to take the necessary charge of a :child
at that time), which they do instinctively for heat,
and if the mother, overcome by fatigue, .should
chance to fall asleep, which is by no means unlikely,
the great danger to the helpless offspring may easly
be conceived. What rendered the. present case the
more distressing was, that the mother had never
fallen asleep, and the midwife was in attendance the
whole time.

MARRIED.
Nov. 21, Jahn Tburnham, Bs+ late of Messina, in &alio
to Elizabeth, daughter of the Rei. John Roister, of CairneT•
Nov. 7, at Holmhill, Dumfries-aire, Adana :Moinisan.
of Liverpool, to Harriet, eldest daughter-4g die Mil Capt. Ws.
Douglas, of the nth Regimental 7404

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Nov. 8, st Cheltenham, -Gapt, Valendoe Fleeing, of ba
Majesty's 9th Regiment of Poet.
Thursday, aged 79, Richard Thorstos, Rao, of woad-street,
Southwark, a Magistrate for Southwark and also for the eselal
of Battey.
1a2a17 'alai at Port Louts, Mauritius, George Wzugh,
Sept. 14, at his Pen, Mount Plenty, in Si. Ann's, Jamaica..
aged 98, the Hon. John Hiatt, Custos Rotulotum and Met
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of that Parish, and asst
of the Allaistant Judges oaths Espresso Court of Judicat..re..

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