Star.
London, England, 1803-08-25 00:00:00

BRIGHTON, AUGUST 23.

The Race Stand, it appeat s, was fet on fire through
the careldli!ef. of the family who had been permitted
to occupy it. The conflagratiun, notwithltandinw it
aappened about mid-day, Was ditlinetly obfervab!e
at a dittance of upwards of thirty miles. Mao), pen.
ple from various parts of the country, fome on but k-
back. come on foot, entered the town dating the fuc-
ceeding night and day, to make enquiries ref/ meting
it, as apprehettli,,ns prevailed that the enemy had
made a defeent on that part of the coal), and was
evincing his love to the natives by fetting fire to their
property. It is fomewhat tingular, that as an officer
of the Prince's Regiment, attrafted to the fpot by
the volumes of flame and fmoke, which :decoded o,
the clouds, was reviewing the terrific encroachments
tf I h:: devout jog element.a cat, dreadfully Gaged and
territi,tel, fp nog thrcv:gh the blaze, and alighted on
his thouller. The officer, fomeshat furprized, at
tit II endeavoured to (hake her off ;—but poor Pufs,
tittniy using her claws in Taia jacket, was not fo
vaiily to be got rid of. The Officer perceiving her
relunance to quit him, at length humanely deter-
mined, that as the had, in the moment of danger and
.tfliight, flown to hint for prate Rion, the (hould ac-
company hint to the Barracks. They accordingly de-
Icended the Downs together, and Pufs, well taken
care of by her new mailer, affords much merriment
to his friends, as he relates the pat ticulats of the cir-
cumflances which firtl introduced them to each other.

The Nile cutter privateer, Jostra Galilee, Com-
mando, on her lunge to the Aire, paffed by t:iis
place on Saturday, with a large French Weft India-
ma, laden with cotton, indigo, coffee, Ete. which the
Nile had captured a day or tw.s before, near the
Wellern Ms. The cutter, as the came oppofite the
town, fired a faltite of ten guns, and then feet a boat
afliore, with a few articles horn the prise, among
which was a curious parrot, that, it is Paid, can arti-
culate words eorradly and diflinaly, in two or three
diffrrert languages, and is intende4 as a prefent to
the Prince of Wai.es.

Tl•ere is now forming in the City a Regiment of
Intintry, under the name of the Loyal London VA.,
km, which, we undertland, already coot-ins of near
12O* of the ErR tradefmen in the Metropolis, who
twill be accoutred at their own expence. They hare
chofen jinni PUOLCY KiNIIIIOTOII, Efq. Banker, of
Lombard-fireet, and High Sberif for the County of
Sundt, to be their Lieutenant-Colonel.

A moil ref Sable number of the Yeomanry and
Tenantry in the neighbourhood of Woburn. dem-
bled on Sunday at five o'clock in the afternoon, in
Woburn Park, to fignify to his Grace the Duke of
;IDT0t1), that they widicd to ferre under his com-
mand as cavalry. They were all well mounted upon
their own holies, and made a mod refpeaable ap-
pearance. The Duke defired them to form a circle
tounj him. and he addreted them in a lhort and
powe; fel fpeech:
Law Tilt set-ism —A meeting was held on Saturday
that noble and venerable apartment. the Middle
.'emple Hall, when Mr. Easeine. who had she day
before been elcaed the Colonel of the Law Affoeia-
tioo. addrelfed the Corps nearly to the following
effea—

" Oa Kr test en-nMlsees resollaft the mean witch relguires
me to prefent miler to your modes, when 1 1001 l round alma and
perceive the enlightened and aurnmous audience before whom
appear, I do declare to you, that whatever habit I may have Sc.
I,l=dat making public midterm, rauft give way to theta lath-
viddith I feel in making an added. toms. Yon have called
Me to a port of great c. edifices., In a Dish arduous and ethical fee-
foo ; tabs your commander at fuck a time, and fe foci a rifts of
arm would be honour eroogh—but formething more than honoar;
footetbieg more congeatal to my ndod.femetbing adds more mar •
ly moats my 6:ability in its aceompseiment. I ham been taid.aby
appointment was abfulately muniments. Theorist eiraisnitymest is
the fining of all my feelings—your unanimous furragra, I know I
could eat lieve,unilefs I had with them your unanimous aradammt.
't hat thought It is which pervades me to thadepth of my heart
Gentlemen, l .in appreheave (sod I have no other fear) this you
will err& too great things from as; you may. perhaps,
that I Stall bring into the fiedd the accomplamer is and t-lents of
as ape:tread Ofterr, becaufe I have beta formerly in aft a: fa-
Mee. Trise it Is, that I once had the honour to serve ac King la
both the military prokSons. 'three was a dose whoa Game mili-
tary of minsuento, I emit, wa: mimct but time her crowd a great
deal •t what I had team t. Give me leave, however, to fay, that if
t And I have forgot every thing I formerly knew. I (ball WO; It no
trodale, an your meow*, to go hack again to my radiate:no, and
train over again • hat was heretofore familiar to me in predict
Ural-men. tie ma eattave medium have been taken, and,
e...aba, meetrarily, by our Government, to call out the
fireryth of the country. There bate been Several opinions as
to the mot ado's mode of arming. I profits myfelf a great
friend to the Volunteer fyfics I think it. upon the whole,
more energetic than the Levy ore M 41.. I beg pardon for
agog. this esprellion, for I hate ern a ward borrowed from
that country with which we are at war. (Lewd stiollo).
is not numbers alone, that I look for in defence ; It is
the (pirk which .nintates, more than the numbers which comport,
yr military ewes, that forms the bulwark of detrice. I knew
Ad fpirit with which we are animated I it I. enough for you to
rerased In whit country we are ibing—that our free Coral/81-
'mi, hag ften4 Sock of ages; that the whole of oar
ellsib!ihraznt and ieftituri.ms, and among them, eat invaluable
tteefury of Iqe matins, which femme the freedom of the bud
for us. and is traanakted to oar potierity ; that every thing, which
to you and me fared, is to be ravaged by the ddlroying hand
an bending ofuryer—to think of Intl things for an infant is
monk to Ou your beams to the full 1 fuels fcntlments as theft
id.es abaft pee ate; fueb feadments as muff light up the mind of
veer, man, and Invigorate every nerve In his frame, whoa he
awn. s, that the polidealeziftence of the eau is at Iteke,are the
Ida which I with to fee oppofed to the iovadetia oohs which
will be madnefs for my invader to attempt to penstrate.—
aentlemen, I will hazard moth confide:stir my opinion tbet I do
not Mick this larader will vesture to land uponoar :mita—Bat
what if he dom. I MI hipper( hito landed—what of that f Still
ty wware impregnable. W at it landirg,tmle's he can Poke the
pith of the country f if the mind of the country is impregoalsk,
n.ln for C...at MAD who Were it violence. let If we arc to look
fuels an event, let es aro look to dm fort or force we Peal have
a to; upon. Hera again I advert to the Volonmen ; there will be
fts miltruft smiler diem; " emsfudon work toeffeended." The
Aker will know hit nun and the men their Commonly; there
till be no treachery. when there la a mutual madame:
Gattlemcts, l Iliad trouble you only with a few words mere:
lough I DM mica within a watt or two of arriving et that age.
hen the Lei-Mature woull flippers me beyond the period Med-
lar, duty, iufte../1 et filing the lineation of a Commander; thob3h
know all. that my firma is not what It has been; MB I mutt
ay, that any man to whom nature has left soy length, would he
a traitor to be. country, .114 he not come forward In foci times as
Mode. Placed, a. I am, at your bead, by your unanimous farrago
wham a T have left of awry, either of mind or bodily ftrength.
is yarn. \VS:fever (Tatham I ars rafter of. will,with the ma
fosfere otel,to dried to yocr kroice. Called to be your head,
I will set as MO as Mayas I ma hal the dears of my command
with eacioncy, with honour to n.ifelf, and fatiatllon to you.
And I d„, tgubfidly roadie ran. that the moment I dog god
amid( to he deficient in sheds yelped, I ssift no lemor eammor in
the pelt which your partiality has conferred upon tam'
Mr. EILSRIIII.I fpeech was received with the molt
.d, of applaide--tt is only a very imperfia &etch of
which we hate here attempted to delineate.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE►.

YORE AUGUST MEETING.
MONDAY. AUO. 2.

His Majdtv's :cogs. for all ages; 4. /r. olds, tot. gib.
5 yr. olds, t ilt. 61b.; 6 yr. olds, 13t.; aged, 1 zit.
21b. Four miles. _ _ _

Lot; Oarlirgton's Aponlitcs,by Sir Peter, 6 yr. old • i
Mr. Suite, es b. c. by Standard. 4 yr old - - a
S!r r. St.indUk's lluxbury, by Sir Peter, 4 yr old - dr.
Lord Stnahmore's b. Iv by Walnut, 6 yr. old dr.
Mr. Barlow', b. It. by Jupiter,s yr. old. - dr.
At ltarting 5101, and in running io to 1 on Agonifles.
A Subfcripticin of zags. each; 4 yr. olds, 811.91 b.; 5
yr. olds, 8(1. 51b.; 6 yr. olds, and aged 811. zolb.
Four yr. old fillies allowed 41b. Four miles.
Lord I)arlington's Haphazard, by Sir Peter, 6 yrs. old z
Sri T. Oafeolgric's Lenox, by Delpini, 5 yrs. old - a
Mr Gariorth's b. c. by Traveller, 4 yrs. old • 3
Ota.c of Hamilton's b. c. by Walnut, 41T* old - 4
Mr. Wentworth's Printrufe, by Benitiabrona,4 yrs. old 3
Sir H. T. Vane's Baernati, by Traveller, 5 yes. old - • 6
Lord litzarillam's Nlinaele, s yrs. old - - pd
I t to 5 on Haphazard, and 3 to I again& Duzbury.
Produce Siveepfiakes of tongs. each, h. fr. for 4 yr.
olds. colts 811. 71h. fillies 811.41 b. Four miles.
Sir F. Star dilles e.Duzbury, by Sir Peter, out of Stance x
14 Fizzwillisin's b. c. Orville, by Beningbrough - a
Sir T. Garcoignes ch. f. by Buzzard - 3
Sir P Stardillit, c. by Sir Peter, out of Heratia • pd
Leh Fitzwilitanis eb. c. l.y Standard - - • pa
111 r. W,lfon's f by Buzzard - - I'd
Id P1.:4 willianss. by Buzzard, out of Pevct ' - Pd
Sir H. T. Vanes c. by Beningbrough • • Pd
Sir IL T. Vane's 1. by Overton - • -
Six to 4 on Orville; 2 to 1 agfi Duxbury, and
to t agft Sir T. Galcoignc's 1.
Sweepll4kes of 200 gs. each, h. ft. for 4 yr olds; colts,
8.1.71 b. fillies, 811. 41b. Four miles.
-•-- - • • - • - - - -

Sir T. Gsfeniguese. by Beitingbroagb • - a
ord FitzwiMana's e. by Bustard - • s
Lori Fitswilliant's C. by Standard, out of Matron - pd
Mr. Dawfon's e. by Mr. Taste, out of Purity - pd
Sir H. T. Vane's e. by Benlngbrough - - Pe
Mr.B. Daly's e. by 1 om Tug, out of St. Bridget - rd
Mr. B. Daly's e. by Tons Tug, out of York's dam .. pd

Monday morning early, as Crime boys were walk-
ing in a held behind the Bowling-green„hatife, So-
mers ToWn, they law in a ditch a fmall deal box,
which, on opening, they found to contain a deadchild,
a'Jout fix weeks old, which they took to the Bowling.
green-houfe, where it lies for the Coroner's Jury.
On Tuefaay afternoon the Coronet's Jury :ook a
view of the body of the child, and, upon a chic in.
velligaLion, it appeared to be about fix weeks old,
and had been ii-the box fame time, with lime ftrew•
ed over it, fo that its fez could not be diainguilhed.
The Jury returned a verdiB of wilful murder againa
tome perfou or perfons unknown.
Tuefl'ay at noon B. Bertazzi, an Italian, who was
conviEted bet:ne Lord Ett.xmattounit, in the Court
of King's Bench, about fix months ago, of felling
obCcene prints, was, purfuance of his lenience,
brOught from Newgate, under a lirong &ors of con-
&lsles, and placed on the pillory in the wide part of
the dreet between Temple-bar and St. Clement's
Church.

George Foy, convifted ((highway robbery, was on
Saturday lad executed in front of the County Gaol
G:ouceiter.

Maystosz-House.—John Simplon. accufed of rob.
bing feveral Coffee hooks, in which he had OCCA-
lionally lodged, was again brought up on Toelday for
examination. Several additional charges were pre-
ferred againft him, and the former evidence was re-
peated. Mr. Brown, of the Crown Tavern, Aldgate,
was among the perfons who appeared againfl him.
In his defence the prifoner perfifted in his former
affertion, that he belonged to the navy, and had
quitted the Ifis only three months ; that his name
was not Simplon, and that fooner than declare his
teal name he would fubmit to any punillment ; that
he had an aged father and mother, to whom the
knowledge of his prefent fituatinn would prove a
death blow. He folicited the Lord Mayor to give
him up the key of his trunk. and a pair of fpetlacles,
of which he laid he Rood in need. He, how-
ever, declined telling where his trunk was. He was
fikly committed, and the different parties bound over
to profecute.

nia-rms. •
On the aoth 114. the Lady of Captain Whitby, of the Royal
Navr, of a daughter.
On Thoriday lati, in Wignsore-itreet, Cavendilh-fsnate, the
Lady of Captain Poyntz, it. N. of a hrs..
On Friday Wt. at Dawilib, the !Ad, of W. Williams. Ertl. of
Lb:coin's btu Heads, of a fon.