Star.
London, England, 1811-09-20 00:00:00

DUBLIN, SEPTPMOSR 14.

Monday last the Curragh races commenced, and
the weather was uncommonly fine. Nine different
races took place, which attracted a numerous assem•
blage of every description in society.—The different
matches were well contested ; those which created
most: interest were the match for the cup and 220
guineas, over the course, between Colonel Loftus's
Hollyhock, and Mr. Mark Browne's English horse
Pope—won by the latter ; odds at starting, two to
one in favour of Hollyhock. The next was a match
of considerable interest, for .500 guineas ;—lreland
tag iinst England ; Mr. Bruen, county of Carlow,
having wagered for that sum with Sir Wheeler Cuffe,
that he would produce an English horse, which would
beat any Irish-bred horse that Sir 'Wheeler should
bring against him, two miles. At starting, the odds
wee:• considerably in favour of Mr. Bruen's English
noise, White Nose, Sir Wheeler being disappointed in
procuring a horse which, in all probability, would
have proved the Champion of Ireland. Slug was the
horse that was beat upon this occasion, but neverthe-
less made a good r ice. The day's spit did not con-
dude until dark. The stand-house was considerably
et owded with the first cbaractersin the neighbourhood.

D9VER, SEPTEMBER 17.

All is still alive in the neighbourhood ; the long
protracted residence ,if the Royal Buckinghamshire
Militia makes the town a scene of continual gaiety.—
Balls, Concerts, and Card-parties follow each other
in rapid Succession. In addition to those entertain-
ments, on Monday last, a Play and Vane were g9t up
by the Military Gentlemen in the district ; they were
the popular pieces of John Bull and The Devil to fray.
The cast in the play were as follows:
tiir Simon‘Rochtlale - Capt. Drew, Miikl,eseit Militia.
Peregrine -- • Capt. Burroughs, Royal Engineers.
Dennis Brulgruddery - Capt. Bolton, 231 Light Dragoons.
Job Thornberry - Dr. Russell, Bucks Militia.
Toni Shuelet on - - Hon. Mr. Tordano, Royal A rtillery.
Frank Rochdale - Mr. Drawbridge, ditto
John Burr - - Capt. Browne, Bucks Militia.
Dan
Lord Fitz Balem - Capt. Cope, Backs Militia.
Lady Caroline Braymore Miss Hartley.
Mary
?Ars. Brulvuddery - Mrs. Taylor.
A very excellent substitute was found in Captain j
'BOLTON for Irish-JOHNSTONE. Captain BURI:OLIONS
was a most excellent Peregrine, Mr. Tontuavo, an
admirable Tom ShrthElon, and Mr. RouvE, reminded
us much of EsiEIY. Dr. RussELL's Job Thornberry
was equally deserving of praise. Dr. RUSSELL play-
ed Jobron, and Miss BAMVIELD Nell. The Ladies,
who are attached to the regular drama on the Mar-
gate boards, played with great spirit, particularly
Mrs. TAYLOR, who was a great favourite. All the
flualtionables in the vicinity, and we have a prodigi-
ous number for such a place as this, were present, and
not a few were of • titled distinction. Toe perform-
ances began at seven o'clock, and concluded at ele-
ven. -A military band played in the Orchestra. On
the following evening, a Ball was given at CoPE
LAND'S Assembly Rooms, which were elegantly de-
corated and illuminated for the occasion. The dan-
cing Commenced with llforgiana in In-land, by Cap-
tain BOLTON and the Countess of TEMPLE about 25
couple followed ; reels, waltzes, and strathspeys,
were danced until three o'clock in the morning.—
There were present, among others, the following per-
sonages of rank and fashion, viz :
Marchioness of Buckingham Earl and Countess of Temple,
Lord George,Grenville, Lady Airy Arundel, General and Lzdy
C:s:h. rine 'Stewart, Hon Mr. and Mrs. Georpe Rookwood, Ge-
neral 'Gilson, General and Mrs. Carleton, Lord and Lady Ellen-
bormigh, Colonel Rubinson, J.ady Curds, Captain Weatherall,
of the Royal Navy: Captain Cutliffe, of the 23d Light, Dragoons;
Colouel Ford, of the Royal Engineers; Hon. Captain and Mrs
Tetnple, Captain and Mrs. Massey, Captain Wintliorpe, of the
Boyd Navy; Mr. and Mrs. Minch, Mrs. Fectur, Captain Cos,
of the 23d Dragoone; together with a party of the lieneywood
firmly, and ali the fashiouablea resident at itatuliate, Megaton,
sod Liroadst*ri.
---
it is stated in a Westmorland paper, that a sister
of the late Captain Cool( has resided many years in
Packhorse-yard, Stramongate, Kendal. Her name
is AoxEs HAltKrlt; she is the widow of SIMON Han-
Rea, aad is now at the advanced age of eighty-eight.
She displays a quick discernment, has a good flow
of spirits, and a retentive memory. She has had ten
children, but they have all left her except the xoung•
e-t daughter. Their manual employment is spin-
loig and knitting worsted stockings, which affords
tent but a seamy subsistence.

POLICE.

GCTLDHALL.-.. Yesterday --- aamkrlain, the
driver of one of the Bath and Bristol stages, was
charged with having paid more than the standard
price for gt?ineas. It being understood that consider-
able traffic of this kind was carried on by stage-
coachmen and guards, Brockwell, a Bow-street Offi-
cers, was induced by the Solicitor of the Mint to en-
deavour to detect it, and accordingly set out for Sa-
lisbury. He returned yesterday on the outside of
the Bath coach, of which the prisoner was driver,
and, in the course of the journey, he entered into
conversation with him on the alledged scarcity of
guineas, and expressed his surprise at having received
some guineas in part payment of a sum he had
just received, and intimated a wish to dispose of them
to advantage. As the coach drove through Charing
Cross, he pointed to a silversmith's shop, and asked
the prisoner if that was not the place at which he ge-
nerally sold his guineas, as he was desirous of dispo-
sing of those he had received; the latter replied in
the negative ; but said, if he wished to sell them he
would give him 12`2s. 6d. each ; and the informant
,agreed to meet him at the Tap of the Swan with
Two Necks, Lad lane, in the course of an hour.—
The meeting took place accordingly, and the defen-
dant put chased eight, which had been previously
marked. After some conversation between Mr. Al-
derman Wood, and Mr. Powell, the Solicitor of the
Mint, as to the nature of the offence, and the law asp.
plying thereto, the prisoner was admitted to bail fur
further examination.
C. Parson/ was charged with stealing a quantity of
lace and a /CIO note, in the house of Mr. Hughes,
laceman, of Wood-street. A young man who sleeps
in the shop, was awakened by a noise, about eleven
o'clock on Wednesday night, and perceived two men
going out of the street door. He immediately pur-
sued them, and kept the prisener in sight till he was
apprehended. A b4g, containing the lace, was picked
up la the course they bad taken,.but the banknote
could not be found. He was fully committed.
Yesterday a foreign sailor was charged with cut-
ting and maiming Mr. Barnett, a baker in Hounds-
.ditch. Mr. Barnett said, the sailor came into his
shop on Tuesday evening, and snatched up a loaf,
when the witness pursued him, and a struggle took
place ; both fell, and the prisoner with a razor cut the
prosecutor in the head. The prisoner not being able
to speak English, an interpreter was procured, who
repeated to the Lord Mayor what the prisoner said,
that his name was John English, that he was born in
one of the Greek Islands, and spoke that language ;
that having no employ, he was starving. He was
fully committed upon Lord Ellenborough's Act to
take his trial.
BOW-STREET.—About a month since the Dublin
Bank paid a forged draft to the amount of £2OO, to a
young man, named Anthony O'Binns, in the employ
of Messrs. Smith and Nicholson, woollen-drapers, In
Dublin, and whom they had brought up from a boy,
having taken him nut of the Foundling School. On
I enquiry after him, it was discovered that he had ab-
sconded. A tradesmiin of Dublin, who was in Lon-
don the latter end of August last, on his return home,
being informed of the forgery, and description of the
young man who had uttered the forged draft, recol-
lected meeting with an Irishman who answered the
description, at the Bull-and-Mouth Inn, Bull-and-
Me-ath-strect, when he was in London, who said he
was an entire stranger in London, and had lost his
trunk. Information to this effect was sent from the
head Police-Office in Dublin, to the Public Office,
I Bow-street, on Tuesday. From this communication
' only, Adkins went in pursuit of him, traced him into
I
the neighbourhood of St. George's-fields, on Wed-
nesday atternoon, and took him into custody. In
the evening he underwent an examination before Mr.
Nam. at Bow.street, when he did not deny being the
I man described. Adkins, on searching him, found
19 lottery shares, and notes and cash to the amount
of £77. He was committed for further examination.
I HATTON-GARDEN. —Yesterday five bakers in the
parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, were summoned by
the Court Leet Jury, for selling bread short of weight,
when it appearing to be the first a; ; earance of lour
of them at that bar, they were fined in the mitigated
penalty of Is. per oz. but the firth being an old sin-
ner, was mulcted in the full penalty of ss. per oz. and
all the bread ordered to be given to the poor.
MARLBOROUGII-STREET.-A man of the name of Rarr,
a valet-de•chambre to a Gentleman of fortune (out of
livery) was yesterday charged at this Office, by a re-1
spectable tradesman in Mary-hi-bonne-street, with cri-
minal conversation with iris wife, under her own roofyl
on Wednesday evening. The prosecutor's relation of
this singular affair was as follows :—He had been
given to understand, against his belief, that his rib was
faithless during his absence from London, which fre-
tquently occurred in business, and on Wednesday he
I pretended to have home for the country, in order to
satisfy himself how far the report was correct. The
' lady took her evening walk about dusk, and at
the corner of Wimpole-street she met the defendant,
ho accompanied her back to her residence, and after
I some chat at the door both walked in. In a short time
after the husband saw a light in his bed-room, and no
longer able to endure anxiety so painful, he got into
the house, and stealing gently to the bed-room door,
he was sati:fied iris rib was an unfaithful jade. 'lie
door was locked, but he burst it open with fury, and
beheld the defendant in the arms or his wife. The hus-
band attacked the unwelcome stranger a la Crib, and
he made a precipitate retreat into the street, where he
begged for mercy, which was administered by taking
him to the watch-house. The gallant denied ever
having seen the Lady until captivated by her appear-
ance in the street on Monday evening, and as a proof
of the sudden attachment to her person, he had pre-
sented her with a one-podnd note. The husband sO.I
lemnly protested he had every faith in his wife's virtue
until he had oculardemdnstration of her guilt.—The
Magistrate had no jurisdiction to punish, it beinga case
at civil law, and the defendant was discharged.
1, A Coroner's inquest sat yesterday at the Goat, at
Knightsbridge, on the body of J. Warfield, a team.
driver, who was killed by falling under the wheels of
a country waggon, at two o'clock on Tuesday mor-
ning, supposed to have been asleep. Verdict—Ac-
cidental Death.
A child was run over on Monday by a brewer's
sledge, in Brewer-street, by which tuifortunatte acci-
dent both its thighs were broken.

SCOTLAND.

Saturday se'nnight, came on at Greenlaw, before
DAVID DOUGLAS, Esq. Sheriff-Depute of Berwick-
shire, and a Jury of greet intelligence and respecta-
bility, of which HUGH SCOTT, Esq. of Harden, was
Chancellor, the service of a Brieve Of Furiosity and
Idiotry, raised by John Gregson, of Holy Iseind,
and others, against James Trotter, Esq. of Belches-
ter ; when, after a trial whtch lasted above 14 hours,
in the course of which four medical Gentlemen, of
great eminence, and many other witnesses were exa-
mined, the Jury, to the satisfaction of the Judge,
and a very crowded audience, returned an unanimous
verdict in favour of Mr. Trotter, finding the heads of
the Brieve not proved, and dismissing the claim of
the raisers of the Brieve.
CIRCUIT INTELLIGENCE.
STIRLING, SEPT. 9.—The Circuit Court of Justia
ciary was opened here on Saturday last, by the Right
Hon. Lord HERMAND.—Robert Cochran, sawyer in
Alloa, indicted for forging and vitiating documents
of debt, was outlawed for not appearing.—The
Court then proceeded to the trial of Robert Brown
Anderson, and James Menz;es, alias Robertson, pri-
soners in Stirling jail, accused of breaking into the
shop of James Russell, merchant, in Grahamstown,
near Falkirk, on the night of Saturday, the 23d of
February last, and stealing therefrom a cask of brandy,
two chests of tea, a drawer containing copper coin,
and a loaf of sugar.— Jahn Burns, chengekeeper in
Falkirk, Elizabeth William:, his wife, and Alexander
Logan, changekeeper in Denny, were included in the
same indictment, for receiving the said goods, know-
ing them to be stolen. The trial lasted till Sunday
.morning ; and this day, the Jury returned a verdict
of Guilty, against Anderson, Menzies, Burns, and
his wife; and acquitted Logan. Anderson and
Menzies were sentenced to be executed here on the
I 1 th of October next; Burns and his wife to be
transported for 14 years; and Logan dismissed from
the bar. The Court were next occupied with the
trial of Moffat GOVeldry. f r forging a bill of £3O.
At the conclusion of the evidence, the Advocate-
Depute restricted the libel to an arbitrary punish-
ment, and the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.—
He received sentence of transportation for seven years.
AV 11, SEPT. 12.—The Circuit Court of Justiciary
was opened here, on Friday, by the Right Hon.
LORD JUSTICE CLERK, and Lord ARMADALE.--The
'Court were occupied during the greater part of that
day with the trial of Alexander Kerr, sen. Alexander
Kerr, jun. Archibald Cook, James Nichol, and John
Murphy, indicted for the crimes of assaulting and
deforcing certain of the Ayr Custom house Officers.
The general facts libelled were distinctly sworn to by
James Campbell, tidewaiter, as affecting all the pri-
toners, and by John Taylor, tidewaiter, as affecting
three of them, with the addition of the specific facts
committed by Archibald Cook, and Alexander Kerr,
jun. in knocking him down, kicking and 'trampling
on him. The evidence on the part of the prosecu-
tion being closed, and some exculpatory witnesses
examined, WILLIAM BOSWELL, Esq. Advocate-De-
pute, addressed the Jury in a short energetic speech,
in which he maintained that it was abundantly clear,
that all the prisoners bad been engaged in the smug-
gling, and that three of them had been guilty of the I
assault and deforcement—and by JADIES FERGUSSON,
Esq. senior Counsel for the prisoners, who employed
such ingenuity in endeavouring to chew, that the
evidence had completely felled in respect to Alexan-
der Kerr, sen. and John Murphy, and that it was IC•
(wive as far as it related to the identifying of the
I °the! three. After which his Lordship shortly sum-
med up the evidence, and stated, that it came com-
pletely home to the prisoners, Alexander Kerr, jun.
Archibald Cook, and James Nichol.—The Jury re-
turned a verdict, on Saturday morning, of Gutty,
against the above-mentioned Alexander Kerr, jun.
Archibald Cook, and James Nichol ; and of Not
Guilty, in the case of Alexander Kerr, sen. and John
Murphy, upon which, these two last were dismissed
from the Bar, with a suitable admonition from the
Lord Justice Clerk, who pointed out to them, in
forcible language, the illegality of smuggling,
respect to the revenue and the fair trader, the guiit
to which it frequently led, and the dangerous cense-
quences with which it wits often followed. Alexan-
der Ken, jun. Archibald Cook, and James Nichol,
were sentenced to six months imprisonment, and to
seven years banishment from Scotland.
Afterwards, John Armstrong, srenetime sailor on
( board the Helena, of Workington, was brought to
the Bar, accused of the crime of rape ;_ but evi-
dence having been adduced to identify his person
during the commission of the crime, the Jury return-
ed a verlict of Not Guilty, and he was therefore dis-
missed from the Bar, alter a most feeling and im-
pressive admonition from Lord ARIMADALE.
The Public Prosecutor not considering him,elf jes-
tified in proceeding with the trial of John Carr, in-
dicted for murder, on account of the absence of some
material r.itoesses, deserted the diet pre Lao et temper:.

By a late decision of the Judges, confirming that of I
certain Commissioners in the north, on an appeal,
taxes payable on animals, are payable not as to the
species or breed, but as to the use to which they may
be applied.
Saturday, a respite, during pleasure, was received
at Edinburgh, in favour of William Mitchell, at pro-
seat under sentence of death in the tolbooth there.
An action brought by Miss Hannah Itodsl, late of
Leeds, against Mr. Ilt).lgson, of Darlington, surgeon,
for a breach of promise of marriage, stood on the
cause list at Durham Assizes, and attracted a great
number of people tr'n► Darlington, where it had ex-
cited a strong interest ; the cause, however, was never
entered into, but a verdict taken for the lady..by ctm-
sent, for five thousand pounds, subject to a tzlerence
of Court.

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Last week, a woman in Montrose having some lint
fastened round her waist for spinning, in that state un-
thinkingly approached a fire, when the flames taking
hold of the Int, cot= tune !ted to her clothes. R,ltl. be
tore they could be extinguishel, she was so die tdfully
burned, that her recovery is very tllubtful.
Early on Saturday morning, the premises of N'Tr.
Hall, wine and brandy merchant, in Duke-s r.-e.,
Lincoln's-Inn-fields, were entered by thieves, who, it
is supposed, got access to the house, backward. from
the stable-yard. but an alarm being given by the bark-
ing of a large Newfoundland dog. the villains fled
without effecting their purple,'
,except carryinie. off' a
valuable window curtain. '

P dR77:

ritONI A CORSESPONDENT.—We have been to often
disgusted at the flimsy pictures under which selfish
Politicians launch out in the praise of party feelings,
and attachments, that we cannot resist the tempt:a•
tion afforded by the la-x number of tl e British Re,
view to extract the toll .wing observations. They are
to be found in an article Mr. St rjeant tisxwono's
Vindication of Fox's Hiitori, and form but a small
portion of some very stiikirig pa,sages both on party
politics in ge,.e:al and on Mr. Fos's Politics in par-
ticular When Paulin v.( c has bestowed upon
an individull th se origiral gilt w:tich demur A des,
tination to the no') est plop nes, his cunatty has cause
to deplore the iniquitous mischance which gives his
early and bloomilg tale As to the selfish intr goes 4nd
narrow contests c f party. Such a school mg form
the public man, in the vulgar view of that character.
but the true Pan iot virttioJs Statesman can never
be the product of such a culture. When the young
and ardent mind is made to receive the first elements
of potty. in strict and inseparable conjunction with
the ambitious objects of a p .rticular set of men, to
lisp its political creed in the idiom of a party, and to
confound the great interests of a nati,in With the tor.
tunes and fluctuations of particular bodies, rare in dee&
must be its native streng.h to burst these. barriers,
and ruq,the race of honour with the patiiots of anti.
quity. There is something so cl.-lightful to youth is
jumping into honours, and in actioiring, without de.
lay or drudgery, a beardless rem wit, that we cannot
wonder that the shortest road should be selected which
leads to distinction. The shortest method is to fall
into die ranks of some disciplined corps, aid with( i.t
the knowledge necessary to :tppreciate its cause, to
help to talk it into victory. The trite value of rneasta,
is thus gradually lost in the contemplation of partial
objects, and the tongue is suborned to celebrate feel-
ings in which the hes-m has no part Ths prtfessico
of politics is embarked in as an :deems:ire, a specula-
tion of profit, not as a field cf duty and beacficence."

ADVFATISEMENT—To those who wish to be well ac.
quaieted with the sanguinary warfare that the French
are carrying on in ne Peninsula, and their cruelty
towards the unfortunate inhabitants, we rectetitatt.d
the perusal cf a new work, just publis:Hal, int;tk,(,
" Santos dr Mosamise, or Am:4: if a Ilistrist Fat6i4,"
founded on recent facts, in S vols. Bvo. dedicated to
the memory of the late Duke of Amami. aseca, by
the Author of the Historical Chart of the eventful
reign of his present Majesty. Sold by N. L. Pannier,
15, Leicester-place, Leicester-square, price 18s. sewed.
Comm.—The Newtonian theory, a that the Sun
is. a body of fire, that its rays are asaterid, and that the
Comets are designed to supply it with fuel to keep up
the equilibrium of the Universe," seems very incon-
sistent with that beautiful simplicity which is ob-
served in all natural objects within the reach of man's
examination. Distance, in the hand of ALMIGHTY
Power, is as nothing ; and the whole phcenumersa of
Light and that could be as easily produced, by nn-
erring Wisdom, from atmospheric Warner without ex-
haestion, as by material ignition. The old Philoso.
phers considered the Comets merely as wanderers sts
the immensity of space, but portentous of great events
to all who courted their influence ; and as the pre-
sent Comet will shine with increased lustre on Tues.
DAY, the 22d of OCTODER, this. accounts for the at.
traction of the present small State Lottery, of only
15,.500 Tickets, with more Variety of Capital Prizes
than for many years past, which will all be drab n on
the sante day.
The value of Dr. Fitrestaat's GVTTA SALVTARM
has been so long proved, that nothing of the present
day can bear a competition with it, in all the ditfe-
rent stages of a certain disease, which it effectually
erres and eradicates from the habit, without exciting
the painful feelings and exposure that attends saliva-
tion—without debilitating the constitution in any de-
4ree, or even requiring confinement from business or
restriction of diet. The radical virtues of these ines-
binal)le Drops have proved their claim to puble
probation fur more than SO yeiirs. in all the debility
of both sexes they prove a never-failing restorative—
whether the debility is produced by, too free use of
mercury, by illicit pleasures, or the effects of a warns
climate To travellers and those going abroad, they
cannot be recommended too strongly, as they will re-
ceive a safe, speedy, and complete cure, in all olp
stubborn gleets, and every weakness that affects the
bladder and organs of urine. By its efficacy many
women have become mothers, who fur many years
had been deprived of that happiness.—Sold wholesale
and retail, at Mr. Butler's, No. 4, Cheapside, corner
of Paternoster-row ; and retail, by Belam and Sharp,
Portsmouth ;. Hall ai.d Johnson, Gosport ; Alleuit,
Weston, Mallory, and Jones, Portsea ; Tram-mars.
Exeter ; Cookworthy, Gilbert, and Hot-
land, Plymouth; Newbury, Dublin; Barter and Mac-
. dOnahl, Glasgow; Smith, Mandcrston, Scott, and
Cargill, Edinburgh ; Crutwell, Bath ; Ross and Peck.
litril ; Gregsem and Billinge, Livinyeal ; Staias and
Lynch, Manchester; Bowen, Norwich ; Knott and
Lloyd, 13irmineham ; Gregory, Btighton ; and most
Medicine Venders, in bottles, at 2s. tei. 4e. 641. fat 2..f5.
The population of the County of Rutl,:nd is 7,951
males, 8,1 t 9 females ; total 16.580, being an increase
of only Si since 18(11.

MARRIED.
At Angtruther, on the 9th in,t. Capt. C. Rob S. royal :o
harp, daughter of the late Mr. Janus Rodger. of that plat..

Dal).
Tuesday morning, at Ball's Park, Hens, isalla Geortisna;th'sil
daughter of Lord John •I'ownshenJ, sfier a severely kisinful and
long protrarii C. Illness of there years cot tinusnce.
At fbmiestnun, ileac Glasgon , or. the 9th instant, Mr. Me
lieechmaii, for more than 40 years a puhli: teacher PAisb-rt.h.
Early au 'Eussday morning, atter an illaev of only a f w Li -
notes, Mrs. Glas.e wife of the Rev. Dr. Glare. Rector of •
se, e, x a lady,' whose uniform course of piety, and unit
sal benevolence, proved the best Preparation for tbs... stroke which
suddenly carried her from the trials of the present world to die
enjoyment of heavenly bliss,
At Belem, iti Portugal, on the WI alt, Alexander Macilowall,
Surgeon to the Forces.
Sept. 8, in Lahcaver, eget! 16, Miss Isabella Tindal, o..ut hie;
and only chili! of H. 'lir %tali 11. g. of Bernice—The death Alt
yaw.: Lady was occasioned by het clothes taking fire, as she vi
rei.l.ctor a hitter In a smoothing (gnu, so Saturday morning.

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