Star.
London, England, 1816-05-31 00:00:00

aIAITHFIELD !WARIEST, MAY si.

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The Derby Stakes ;.of . ,• . .e*, for three year .old coke,
Sit. 7lb. fillies, Set* • shoilost Mile and a half. The owner
of the second home torect4rellnigs out of the Stakes.
H. R. H. the Dultknilfork's b. ellY Hedley, out of Grantarie
IA G. H. Cavendish's Nectar, by Walton, out of l'Hulle
Venus •
Ld Stawell's ch. c. by Walton, owe of Famine -• • S
12 started.-1 he judge placed but three.
5 ta's ago Nectar-5 to 3 agst Grey' Slfhtv-7 to I iget Allen
---15 to 1 ags• Pantitta-16 to I agst John of Parisoollo to 1 agst
the winner—.2o to.l ags Pipy4na. . . .
• Sweepstakes of Ten Guinea. each; with 20gs. added from the
Racing Fund. The last mile. The winner to be sold for 210 gs.
4f demanded; Sci.
General G.ower's Claribell, 4 yn old, 7st 21b. - 4D 1
Lord Stawell's Go!den Leg, 5 yre old, wt Sib. • • a
' Mr. Chlrhoit'sPompey, 4 yrs old, 7st 21b. '
Mr. lhake's Sir Chr.stopher, 4 yrs al, 7st sib. - 4
Mr. SaJhr's Venus, S yrs old, 6.t 41b. .• . 5
No betting.
PIPe of 4'50, for all ages, three yr. olds, Est 71b. four, SC I've,
Set bulb. six and aged, 9,t; the winner of one Plate or Sweep-
stakes this year to carry Sib. of two 51b. staid of three 71b. ex-
tra Two miles, heats.
Duke of Rutland's Fandango, 4yrs old
Mr. J. Perran's Caper, 4 yrs old
Mr. Hill's ch. a. by,Rubens, 3 yrs old • •
5.t0 4on Paudango.
The interest usually excited by the race for the Derby Stakes
was not. so great this year as on former occasions, the field being
generally considered to be weak.. At the poet the betting was.
eat, with the exception of the two great favourites, Nectar and
Grey Skim, who were deeply backed. At starting Pantina and
Nectar came in from until Tottenham's Corner, when the Had-
ley colt came up, and the horses got into deep running; the win-
ner won dont. ,
The weather proved very favourable, sod there was a nume-.
root concourse of spectators; ainougst whom was his Royal
Highness the Duke of York, whti wait greatly elated at the suc-
cess of his colt, it being the first Derby Stakes his Royal High-
ness had ever won. The odds had been 100 to 5 agst the colt.
Am:Halle—The following facts may be worthy of record,
the authenticity. is undeniable.—As Mr. John Wane, grocer,
Penrith, was following his favourite recreatibn of fishing with
a rot, in the river Eamont, on Friday sennight, after taking a
quantity of trout, in a part of that river near to the Giant's Cave,
he found an unusual attack made at his bait, and immediately
discovered he had hooked a young otter, about 7lbs. weight, and
apparently about four mouths old; owing to the good condition
of his tackle, be was so ionunate as to bring it within reach of
his hand net, but no,sooaer did he so, than the young savage hi:
the rim of it in two, although made of brass wire about of an
kith In circumference, he nevertheless contrived to throw it over
his bead on the bank, and pursuing his success by intervening
between the animal and the water, he, alter repeated attacks, and
not without considerable d:ificulry, seized upon it. Flndlogitseif
in a very unusual element, the animal made a loud whistling
mite, which brought to it (no doubt with a view of relief) the
parents, and along with them five or six young ones, which im-
mediately swimming to the edge of the water, set themselves in
battle array, by rearing themselves on their sind legs, and fol-
lowing the example of the captive, by setting up a loud whistling
noise, sporting water at Mr. Wane, and showing every symp-
tom of the most savage ferocity. They dont not, however,
make any personal attack, and Mr. Wane, content with his
prey, made the'hest of his way along the batiks to a neighbouring
house' about 300 yards distant, the old otters following Lim the
whole way, evincing the must parental affection. Having safely
lodged his captive, he resumed his 'port. and, before five o'clock
in the afternoon, having commenced fishing about six in the
morning, he actually killed 67tbs. weight of trout,. which pro-
bably is the greatest number ever taken by the rod in the lame
space of time. He has now the otter in his possession, and the
mime, from Li. kind treatment, appears domesticated.

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• 2 dr.
- 3 dr.

The State Lottery &fished drawing yesterday—
during the day numerous persons were seen observing
the messenEers who passed from Cooly_r's Hall to
Buss's Office, to announce the Capitals drawn, where,
as usual, the greater part of them were sold, amongst
others, No. 9.759, drawn a Prize of iti'3o,ooo, and
which, we are glad to land, went to the Public in
Twelve Shares.

HAYMARKET THEATRE—The following Performers
are engaged for the ensuing season : , •
Mr. Fawcett, Mr. Jones, Mr. Terry, Mr. Tokely, Mr. Dn-
russet, Mrs. Davenport, Mrs. Gibbs, and Miss Carew, all from.
Covent-Garden; Mrs. Clover, Miss Nash, and Mr. Barnard,
from Drury-lane ; Mr. Merger, and several celebrated provin•
dal Performers and others, from the minor Theatres.

OBERON% OATH.—Poor THONIPSON, the anthor of I
this Piece, fell on Sunday last, a prey to acute feel.
ings. The ungenerous, and we may add unmerited,
attack which was made on Oberon, on the first night,
affected him very much; for he had been led, by fa-
vourable reports of the performers, to expect it would
be crowned with the most brilliant success, and had
calculated on producing a piece annually, which would
have been a little annuity to him. The excess of his,
disappointment could only be equalled by his trans li
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porta of joy, when, on the second representation, his
production was honoured with universal applause.
Thus plunged from one extreme to the other, he was
taken alarmingly ill on Saturday,. and died the next
day. He was at Drury-lane on Friday night. We
understand that the worthy Managers of Drury-lane
intend to alter and compress Oberon': Oath into one
act, and to perform it for the benefit of the author's
unhappy wife and thrOe children, who are left totally
unprovided for.
cumin ROBBKRY.—ASSIZa COURT, PARIS.—The
following strange affair has just come before the
Assize Court at Paris For a long time the
lodgers in a fur. :fished hotel in the Rue Vieux Augur-
tins, kept by a woman named Marchand, aged thirty-
seven years, had been robbed secretly of. many valu-
able effects, but the thief remained undiscovered.—
The Commissary of Police was applied to, but no de-
tection took place. At length M. .Lieppmann, a clo-
thier to an Austrian division, having missed several
pieces of fine cloth, became curious to know who this
secret plunderer was : he consequently one day doubly
locked his dour, and announced his intention not to
return till late, but left in a closet of his chamber a
friend named Moss. The man temained in this con-
fined situation about three hours, when be observed
the door open gently, and instead of his having occa-
lion to use the pistols he had provided himself with
against some " black-bearded banditti," he saw enter
upon tiptoe a female in white, with a taper in her
hand, as slowly, and with as much mechanical stea-
diness, as Lady Macbeth there was a certain wildness
in her eye-as she gazed round the apartment—it was
but momentarily; for, fixing upon a rich piece of
broad cloth, this interesting personage was about to
make her exit ; but alas! Monsieur Moss sprung
forward and seized her. ; when, to complete the stage
effect, he immediately discovered her to be the snis-1
tresrof the house herself. She attempted an excuse
by saying she was addicted.to somnambulism. Moss
was an infidel; she then attempted caresses—but in
this also Moss was a stone. She was delivered up to
justice, andat the last sitting condemned to eight years
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imprisonment sad the pillory.

EA GAOL
saiiints,'stiot st
If freedom from the Freticli
horrible Conscription; the stattibilation .
intercourse, the destruction of property„
Continental burning system, and the.prohibitioi of•
speaking and writing according to the dictates of a.
free mind, be 'a blessing,' it should have been as.,
petted that the Belgians would have been both con-
tented and happy. The union between Belgium
and Holland was a measure of grand policy, which I
could not fail to give satisfaction to evert European
Power, while so fir from degrading, it elevated the
Belgians, who, till this union, have ever been a de-
pendant people, subject to foreign domination. So
far, however, are the Belgians from bring pleased
with the ch'ange, that no greater affront can be offered
to them thin to tell them that their deliverance was
the fruit of the victories of the Allied armies, Theirs,
antipathy to the Dutch is as great as can be conceived.
and no man who has travelled in Belgium can doubt,.
that nothipg but the presence of the Dutch tromps
amongst them, and the Allied armies on the frontiers,
prevents this feeling from breaking out into open re.
volt. Two members of a Committee of Commerce,
a Belgian and a Dutchman, on a late occasion; at'
the Hague, where they were attending on their par-
liamentary duties, actually came to blows, And,
another distinguished Belgian representative, was
heard bitterly to complain of the degradation to
which the Belgians were exposed by being obliged to
attend the Parliament ;in so villainous a country as
Holland; a Dukedom from whose King he would
scarcely consider an object of ambition. This cir.
cumstance is mentioned as a sample of the general
feeling ; for it should not be forgotten, that in the
formation of the Second Chamber, each Member was
nominated, and indeed appointed by the King, who
-Would unquestionably elect those men who he had
the strongest reason to suppose would best support
the new constitution. The orange cockade is rarely
seen in Belgium, and the want of, attention paid to
the King on his entering any Belgian town, is as
strong a proof of the truth of what has been asserted
as need be adduced.

Unfortunately, with the desire no doubt of conci-
liating, and of strengthening the hands of the govern-
ment, the eerfrioyies of all descriptions, under the ty-
rant Bonaparte, have been permitted to retain their
_places. These men ate almost universally staunch
Bonapartist:, and some of them% in the department
of the Customs, in enmity to British commerce, so
conducted themselves on a recent occasion, as to ex-
pose themselves to the possibility of being charged
with rebelling against the authority of the King.
The case to which [ allude came lately to my know.
ledge, and when I trouble you by and by with a
few observations on the commerce of this country,
the particulars shall be.detailed, to afford the English
nation an opportunity of judging of the difficulties
which are thrown in the way of Engliss commerce,
and to give the King's Ministers an idea of the cha-
racters of some of the men in tvliom his Majesty has
misplaced his confidence. The thing which greatly
excites the hatred of the Belgians to the union, are
the contributions which are levied on them in aid of
the Dutch. Of this they complain at most unjust,
fo, getting that were they still united to the French
they would have to p.ty their quota of the French
contributions, without the benefit of truJiag to the
rich and extensive Dutch colonies.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF RING'S BENCH, MAY So.
CHAPMAN V. ItERVf.
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The plaintiff declared, in an action upon the case,
to recover compensation in damages for a malicious
prosecution for an assault, which the defendant had
preferred against the plaintiff's wife.
The case appeared to be this :—The plaintiff, who
is a cow-keeper at Hackney, being indebted to one
Ruddock in the sum of £1 14s. was sued io the Court
of Requests for the debt ; but before the warrant of
distress was issued, he sent and paid the money. On
the 29th of January, about a fortnight after the debt
W.,s discharged, the defendant, who was beadle of
the Court of Requests, came to the plaintiff's house
with a warrant of distress for the. debt. Not finding
the plaintiff at home, he told his wile the object of
his visit ; the wile explained that the debt was paid,
and remonstrated with the defendant upon the injus-
tice of proceeding to distrain atter the demand wa
satisfied ; upon which the defendant ltcame exceed-,
ingly abusive, seized the wife by the neck, and pressed
her with one hand against a brick wall, and struck
her repeatedly upon the face and head with the Other,
loosened her teeth, cut ber mouth, and would hag
done her other personal injury, but for the interposa.
;ion of the persons present. The defendant th
preferred a bill of indictment against her at the en;
suing Middlesex Sessions for an assault upon him ;
but when the. case came.to be investigated, the Jury
immediately gave a verdict of acquittal. In conse-
quence of this proceeding, the present action 'for a
malicious prosecution was brought.
The ATTORNEY•GENILRAL went to the Jury own
the' improbability of the case, and called the defen-
dant's son and another witness to prove a probable
cause for the prosecution ; but the Jury, under the.di.
section of the Learned Judge, found a verdict for the
plaintiff—Damages, LlO.

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work were such al tended to save the plaintiff ex-
pense; and that the defendant always recommended
to the plaintiff to stick to his agreement. The wit-
ness, however, acknowledged that the prime cost of
the articles used is constructing the cabinet must
have been £B9 15s. and the Jury found a verdict for
the-plaintiff for MO, deducting 4122 from his full
demand.

OLD BAILEY.
Yesterday Joie Primrote and William Gsve were in-
dicted for feloniously breaking and entering the
stables of the Earl of Darlington, and stealing there-
in sundry articles of wearing apparel, the property of
his Lordship.
r It appeared, from the evidence of Jesse Whitting-
ton, the coachman of the Earl of Darlington, that
his Lordship's stables were attached to his dwelling-
house. and were situated in King-street, St. James's.
square: On the evening of the 18th inst. he left the
stables about half past eight o'clock; having pre-
viously locked the doors, and secured the premises
in the usual manner. He returned, in company
with his father, about half an hour afterwards, when
he observed a light in the loft, over the stables. He
found the stable door open, and on entering, he
called out " Bob," supposing that one of the postil-
lions had gone into the loft. He was, however, an-
swered in a strange voice. His father immediately
desired him to run to a neighbouring public house
and procure assistance. He did so, and returned
with two persons—they armed themselves with pitch-
forks, and ascended the ladder leading to the loft.—
In the loft they discovered the two prisoners, with a
bundle behind them. The bundle contained a pair
of small clothes, a waistcoat, and various other ar-
ticles of the witness's livery. The prisoners surren-
dered without making any resistance. About a week
afterwards, when the stables were cleared out, a crow-
bar, two skeleton keys, a bottle of phosphorus, and
several matches, were found in the litter. The.priso-
ners were found Guilty—Death.
Sarah Gilbert was capitally indicted for stealing,
in the dwelling house of Sir George Thomas Smart,
a quantity of silver knives and forks and a variety of
articles of plate. consisting of one hundred and twenty-
one piee,es, a great part of a service.
The procesutur is a musical professor, residing in
Great Portland-street, and. on the 10th instant he
gave a splendid entertainment to a distinguished
party of musical and literary characters ; the day
following one of his servants, Louisa Hall, collected
the plate, and having cleaned it, deposited it in a
table cloth, fit to be removed to the plate closet--
There were a great many persons employed about
the house, among whom were two porters, named
Keef and Dennis, who, on the day meotioned in the
indictment, saw the prisoner first in the second floor,
and afterwards in the lobby ; but supposing that she
was employed in the house, they did not trouble
theinelves about her. In about half an hour the ser-
vant, Hall, missed the plate, and in less than two
hours afterwards both plate and prisoner were at
Marlborough-street Police-office.
Mr. Thomas, a linen•draper, of Oxford-street, saw
the prisoner (whom from some cause or other, not
explained, he had known) looking about Sir
George's house. An hour had not elapsed before he
again SAW her in Edward-street, Cavendish-square,
carrying a bulky bundle, and suspecting her, he our-
sued her, she hastened down a passage in which
there was no thoroughfare, and finding she could not'
make an escape, said —" they are not my property,
and I surrender them to you." Mr. Thomas had her
taken to Marlborough-street, where the .plate was
fully identified by Sir George's servants She pleaded
distress in extenuation of her crime. The Jury found
her Guilty—Death.
William lmber, aged 18, was indicted for assaulting
John Morgan on the King's highway, putting him
in tear, and taking from his person a quantity of sil-
ver on the 7th of April last, (Palm Sunday).
It appeared, that. on the morning of the day stated
in the indictment, the prosecutor, accompanied by
another person, had occasion to leave town at an early
hour. Between five and six o'clock they reached
Hornsey Wood, where they met with a gang of about
fifty or sixty persons, some of whom attacked and
knocked them down. The prosecutor was held by
the prisoner upon the ground, and much abused,
.while his pockets were rifled of all he had got.. His
watch was also attempted to be drawn out, but the
.chain breaking. it .was saved. The prosecutor rose
several times from the ground, but was as frequently
knocked down again. The party, after deliberating
for some time what they should do with him, deter-
mined upon sparing his life, and left him. Upon his
recovery, he was approached by two persons who-
proved to be officers ; and the latter persons having
met the gang, and among them the prisoner, they
were pursued to an adjacent public house, and the
prisoner being fully recognised& was taken into cus-
tody. Guilty---Death.
He was then pu t to the ban, u pon another indictment,
'charging him with a like offence upon a Mr. Marsh,
the companion of the last prosecutor.
• Mr. Justice BAILEY said, it was quite sufficient
that the prisoner was once capitally convicted.
Willie's Soames (commonly called Bill Seams:),
Jame; Goofier, and John Cooper, were indicted for pick-
ing the pocket of a Mr. Souter, on the 20th of April
lasto of his pocket-book, which, however, contained
nothing of the smallest value, except a few stamps.
The prosecutor.was going into the city, in company
with a friend, about eleven o'clock on the day above
mentioned : he was altogether unconscious that he
had been robbed, till in St. Piul's Church-yard he
was apprised thereof by Vaughan, an officer belong-
ing its Bow-street, who had seen the theft committed.
Vaughan had first observed the prisoners attempting
to pick pockets in Fleet-street; he followed them, and
on Ludgate-hill saw Soames gently lift up the skirt
of Mr. Soutei's coat.with one hand, while siith the.
other he drew out the pocket-book, which he imme-
diately habded Over to one of the Coopers, and the
party then retired through Creed-lane. The priso-
ners, discovering they were watched, ran off. Vau-
ghan, after ineffectually endeavouring to apprehend
them, hastened to overtake the prosecutor, whom he
informed of his loss, and took his address. Three
days after, Vaughan, with the assistance of Dickona,

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