Star.
London, England, 1816-08-28 00:00:00

to I an.ls-to on Blacit-o-moor.

lure wu a numerous awn:hi:Tr of hp.ctaiors, amergst
whom were some of the Royal Family, who expressed them—
selves highly pleased with the brat.

TUNBRIDGE WELLS RACES, 1816.
Fts ST DAY.-111e Manor Bowl of Fitly Pounds, for all ages.
Three mile t eats.
Mr. Johnstone's b. g. Pranks, 5 yrs old . 2 1 1
..V.r. Howard's c. g. lack, 3 yrs old - - 1 2 g
Mr. Drowns br. g. Marksman, aged (winning easy) Fell.
NU. Weaver's br. m. Kentish Lass, 3 yrs old Fell.
The Sweepstakes of Fifty Vounds—Two mile heats.
Mr. Hart's br in. Bechtel, 4 yts old • I I
Mr. Paimer's club. Reaper, 5 yrs old . 2 2
Mr. Cumming's bg. Frisk, 5 yrs old .
Mr. Dickenson's c. m. Scomb Fan, 4 yrs old
Mr. Wast.oresla. m. EpsOm Lass, 6 yrs old
Mi. Weaver's b. m. Kato° Lass, s yrs old
SeCOND DAY.

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4 dr.
dir.
dii.

The Towo Cup.—Three Mlle beets.-1 he winner of the Manor
Bowl to carry Sib. extra.
Mr. Shiffner's c. m. Southdown, 4 yrs old -
Mr. Hart's br.L Rachel, 4 yrs old - -
Mr., Pengree's b. g. Pembroke, aged - -
Mr. Garner's c. g. Gadfly, 6 yrs old .
Mr. Cumming's b. g. Fun, sin old - • -
The Sweepitakes f Fifty Pounds, weight for age.
Mr. Shiffoer's c. f. Southdown, 4 yrs oke(3olb. extra) 1 1
Mr. Commas's b. g. Frisk, syn old - 2 2
Me. Pengree's b. g. Pembroke, aged . . 3 4
Mr Garner's c. g. Gadfly, 6 yrs old - 4 3
The riders of the two bor.es that fell were not much hurt.

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2 2
3 4
1 3
dig.

Hereford races commenced on Wednesday last.—
In the second heat for the A6O plate, on Friday, the
coatest was severe between Mr. BOAST'S Silverhcir
Ind Mr. MUNIRY2S Mortimer; the former was second
by a few lengths, when, at the instant of coming in,
he fell on the spot, to run no more ! The owner is a
professed rider ; and the horse was valued at about
at2oo. Lord 50511418 was nominated Steward of the
next races. The hitt fingered tribe were numerous in
their attendance, and active and successful iu their
depreda; ices.
Monday and Tuesday se'nnight there were races
at Portobello, near Edinburgh. The first slay the
'sport was pretty good, but on the second it was rather
Isdiffereht. The weather being line, a number of
spectators were present. A small guard of the ctli
Dragoon Guards were on the ground, iced their &w-
-ham', on horsetack, entertained the company with
several excellent tunes both days.
Tbursday a match of running took place between
the gentlemen of Canterbury and the gentlemen of
Faversham, which was decided in favour of the for-
mer, the latter not getting a single stroke.

IsmanioN appeared again list night at the Lyceum
Theatre in the character of 3JachealA, and gave the
longs in a style and effect exClthively his own.—
The audience felt, and energetically expressed their •
satisfaction. It may be said of INet.euoN's voice,
that, like the British oak, vet or eliy, it remains sound
• and flourishing; and we trust it will never be trans-
planted to the ungenial soil of Arne' ica, or be seared
.at home by neglect.
Mrs. FAUCET? concluded her engagement at the
Margate Theatre on Saturday evening. The Play
was Smiles and Tears, which was most excellently
acted. Miss SYDNEY, iu Cecil 11124.0-ding, displayed
talents of a superior order. 'l' house was crowded.
Miss S melees appeared Ica the tit st time on the
Irish Stage, at Dublin, on Monday last, as Rosetta.
The Edinburgh 'flicaire aimed on Friday night,
after a season upon the whole extremely productive.
The play was The Sehcol fir Seasulal, in which Miss
O'NEILL- and Mr. ABM IT tor•k their leave of the
audience in the characters of Teazle and Charles.
The Southampton l'heatte., which has. been newly
decorated, opened last with a very trisect:able
company of performers ; at the head ref the vocal iist
stood Miss HUGHES, of Covent Garden Theatre.
The Ittchinond Theatre opened on Mooday, under
the active management of Bevent.Kv.
There are several of the corps drarnat:que of CO—
vent•Garden now in Paris. Messrs. Yuu:s.:, C. Kest-
ELI, CONWAY, and LitTON, are there. Their first
visa has been to TALNIA, by whom they are treated
in the most friendly manner. Tatata speaks EnglisTi
well, and even acts some scenes from SUAKSFEARB,
in which, unfortunately, his force and feeling are
cueettracted by the insurmountable defect pt pro-
11,:aniation. It is curious that the name of KEMBLE
:sot near so familiar to the French as that' of Mrs.
dioooes. They readily admit her to have been the,
greatest actress that has yet been known.
Sir Alm B. WARREN. is amongst the distinguished
isat.iiers at Bridlington Quay.. In passing through
Ed, late in the evening, a post chaise, in which were
part of the l',..tronet's family, was in the dark precipi-
wed into a large excavation, made for a new sewer,
by which the carriage was dashed to pieces, but the
persons in it escaped without any material injury.
Thursday a shipwright•of the name of HUICUIN.
CON fell from a ship's side into the Dock at Chat-
ham, and was al much hurt that lie died in two days
!ter, He has letaa widow and four children to la-
ment this sad catastrophe.
Monday evening an Inquest was held at the Lon-
don Hospital on the body of Deborah Collet, a fine
girl, seven years of 'age, v.:lose death was occasioned
by its clothes catching fire during the absence of the
'cote'. The poor child had lingered in the greatest
agony since Thursday last.— Verdict, ofeeidental De.dh.
limiAltiCABLS PagstotVATlON.—Sunday a boat in
which were six urchins, upset at Milbank, when a
lighterrnan instantly jumped in and saved five of
them; the sixth, who was heavier than the rest, and
was on the point of sinking, had nearly baffled the
exhausted strength of the humane preserver, when a
Gentleman viewing the circumstance from the shore,
sent off a Newfoundland dog ; which, seizing the man
by the collar, dragged him with the drowning lad to
the shore,.Who was immediately put to bed; and, in
a short time, suspended animation was restored. The
ethers Were enabled to walk hotue..A• handsome
col:ection Was made by the spectators
,for the brave.
%flow, who richly deserved ir. •

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iloir-rreeer.—iresterdsT Parkes and Vicheii airfoil at the
°Ate with a min of the titote of /fare in their custody's Mint
beat, charged on auviciott of beings smoggier, and, shooting
marine about a month sineei on the beach at Dol, Wheal at*
racked by the marines belonging to the frigate stationed ihere Or
the Colinnisratters of tb'e Custom-house, tq prevent smuggling.
The marine, we are hippy to say, did asst die of hit tendn I, but
he is still confined in the Hospital. The prisoner it %Lae brother
of the man who was aditiitted an evidence against Frost add
other smugglers, who were convicted at the Spring Assizes for
Kern for ti murder of several Revenue °thetas. The prisOner
will be esturtined un a future day.
STEAK-BOAT' —Yesterday the question as to the legality of
boats worked by steam, which has been some time in agitation,
Came MI to be beard before Mr. BIRNIL and S'r Wawa Paa!
so ta s. It exited cons.derable interest, particularly among the
watermen, numbers of whom attended. The question came
before the Maelstrate in the shape of an information laid against
Mr, John Dickies, a coal merchant, in Surrey, charging him
with being a Proprietor of a email' boat or vessel, known by
the name of the Ric:mon:l Steam Yacht, which was let out for
hire between Gravesend and Windsor, on the River Thames, he
nut being a free waterman, contrary vs tile Act of Parliameot art
the 2d Geo 11. c. 26, passed tor the protevion of wit:trine:l who
have served seven years appreaticeship to a free waterman on the
itiver Fianna.

On the information being read, some difficulty arose on thio
defendant not uppearlog to plead to the charge. wbeu Mr. TWO.
the Coy Remembrancer, stepped forward, and stowed hitnecil
the Solicitor to the Richmond Steam Yacht Company, stating
that Mr. Dinkins was eatretnely lame, and it would bar., been
with great that be could have been brought to the Olfize
in a coach, and therefore he hoped he might be allowed to plea)
for hint, as it a conviction should take place, the penalty was
only LW. This not beiug opposed on the part of the prosecu-
tion Mr. Tyr rel pleaded Not Guilty.
Mr. Shelton, the Clerk ot" the Rulers of the Watermen'a Com.
pany, atteuded to conduct the prosecution. He stated at large
the Act of invent under which this information was laid.
It did not allow of any per.on working a boat ur ve.sel for hire,
between Gravesend and Windsor, ra-:ept they had served an ap-
prenticeship of seven 'ears to a freeman of the Thames and if
the Waterntan's Company. He recited certain exceptions in the
Act of Parliament. The defendant was ust a tree waterman,
and bad acted as a partner in a certain boat mica theßlclimand
Steam Yacht, to carry passengers for hire and gala, on the sth
Instant, by which he had forfeited the penalty of £lO. ro prpve
which he should call two witnesses.
James Hillier, of Mortlake, a tree and qualified waterman,
stated, that on the sth iticant he engaged a passage on board the
Richmond ;team Yacht, from Rh:hp:mid to go to Queen/tithe.—
Here it was thought there was au end to the prosecution, a.
Queenbithe Is in the City of London ; but on interrogatitig the
alines', it turned out • that he did not pay for his pasiage at
Quecilliithe, which con.tituted the ofieux, but lie paid whets
the boat was near the Fulham shore, in the county ot liddleace,
and received a ticket, which he delivered nn leavin•,b the boat a:
Quectittithe, and it lie had lost it lie must hare paid again. It.
was not explained what purpose this ceremony w... to answer.
He paid the money to Mr. Fuller, who was acting on ho:::d it:
conducting the navigation. There aiipeared to Le five men a.-
, slating 'hi working the boat; they were not all It etintoodf th.e
'water. Mr. Fuller was the ataa who gave orders to loiter the
chimney.

On his cross-examination by Mr. DOLLAND, who attended for
the Company, he aimitted.ihat he knew all the crew who workt.:
the Steam-boat, and that they were all free of the River elee; t
oar, and be oily worked the engine.
Thomas William Cru,:en.len said. he resided in 9:otter...emir,
Canibeth ; he is a 1,,1!et of tie W ate rmet,'s Company ; ua the
ins.aiis he went rr bo.ral the Richmond Steam I"...nit is meth•
mond, and,agreed to be conveyed :o Lordon l i compai: f wall
the arbt WILMS. (ii'llitr ); he agreed with a matt of the name to
Arnold, who was the., 'steering the Steam Boat; he raid his fa:e
in a *Littler manner to what Haber did, to a man oi the name
of Fuller, atho gave directions to work the.paildles, Ste.; he
believed there were about htry pas-erasers on board, who all raid
IoP their passage ache id; he admitted that he knew the Steam
huat was regis.ered at Watermen's Hatt as Abraham Sandersoa's,
who ta a tree waterm.,n. He was next called, and said,he residie
ia the Lower Melt, 1-laranieremith; he is in no business now,
but is a free waternem ; he knew the vessel or boat eallvd the•
Il.clintand Steam Yacht; there has been another, bet on :lir sth
instant there' was uu other of that description worked haween
lonstion and Riesinund. Joseph Feder was tilt bead on that
,day to assist in itavigatiog the 'met under his direction. culler
was imployed occasionally to tahe the money front the passim.
gets, but tie did nut reculiect that he paroctilittly e as tru 0.1 the
sth He did no: know who the partners 1:1 the Ste ant
were. He acknowledged that he was one, and helieve.t the de-
tendent John Dickins to be one; he saw his name to .erre-
anent on the subscribers concerns, but he did nut see him slits it,
which was all he kite.* it by. lie might have sold h:s share for
any thing he knew. lie never received any direction, from the
defendant upon the suhject,nor had he any commiinicarlises with
him respecting it. believed Mr. Tyrrel, thr City itentem-
brancer, to be one of the partners; he had paid him money on
accoein of the concern, and had also paid money to his son. Hr i
believed there were forty partners, as there were as many pre-
prietors. he property of the boat was divided heti sixty ~hates.
He received all the produce and, earnings of the boa:. lie farmed
it of the Company. 11: was a tree waterman, the boa wa. rte.
lin teed in his name at %Vaterniale, Hall and the Cesium House,
and he was answerable for a i the damage it might do on the
1 lemma. All the people emph yed ander him to navigate the
keret were free waietinen except one, and his Wane's was on y
to regulate the fire. lie /tired the boat for a certain sent, and
carver hail any cowmen:cation directly or iodine:ly with the des
tendant uvisa the subject in any respect.
Oh the crobeselassnuation he said he paid a certien sem for the
boat, and the oveeplus was his profit.
• 1 he ALI GISI all re observed, that when the Act of Parliament
was passed, Ile was 5ui:134.1,101 the Legialatuie never coetempleted
that a boat would be wrought by steam.
in his turther cross esatoinatiun, he said it was nothing to the
Proprietors, whether the host was full of employ cr me. Site
bee Lotman building ail fitting £2,ebo. Hs considered the
letting out of this boat to hint, to be upon the same principle as
barge. and boats were let net to hire hea7l parts of the •1 banns.
He dented that It was a scheme devised to evade the operation of
the Act of Parliament. He considered that the boat wuuid not
fast above Iwo years, the wear and tear was so great.
William Howell, the Water 13eildf of the City of London, and
a free waterman amid 'letterman of the 'themes. was one of the
owners of the Richmond Steam Yacht. He did not know W.:e.
thee the defendant was an owner or not, he never saw him at
any meeting. Tbe shares were frequeivly sold.
John Nelson, the Deputy Witter Bailiff in the City of London,
and a free waterman and lighterman. lie is one of the owners
of the Richmond Steam Yacht; he had heard It said that the de-
fendant was a proprietor, but he itever bey, him giving arty (Lice-
uon iitoo the business; lie only knew hint as a coal-merchant.
Mr. Sitawron, the Clerk of the Waterman'e Company, and
who conducted the *prosecution, stated, that be had served a
notice on Mr. 'fyrrel, the Solicitor to the Company. to produce
the necessary writings or documents, to ascertain who were the
kpruprietors.
Mr. BOLLAND objected to this, as to prove any thing relative
to the defendant.
This was persisted in, and objected to at considerable length,
Mr. Simi:row contend.ng that he bad a right to question Mr.
Tyree* as to his general knowledge of the duientlant, Mr.
HOL-
LAND urging that Mr. Tyrrel was known only as Solicitor to the
Company, and as such was engaged for the whole,, and if the de-
lendant was a pan-owner, he could not answer, as a penalty was
attached ; and if they did not prove the defendant a part owner,
the) would prove nothing, hat which could not be done through
a Solicitor; if it was admitted, It would destroy all confidence
between Solicitor and Client,
Mr. Mame said, be thought the usual courtesy to Solicitor,
ought to be allowed In this case, and that a Sufic for should not
be called to prove a material tact.
Mr. SUIILTON then said, probably he should be deemed press-
log 'too far to call Mr. Ilene* son, who It was admitted was his
Clerk, and acquainted with his cilent's secrets, and then acknow-
ledged that he was defeated, but would try It aphis The coat-
i:4ms was accordingly dismissed.
Suanwait. Orriec.—An inhalation wee beard under the
Pilot's Act, 52 George 111. cep. an, against Mr. R. apetscac.—s
Nathaniel Fisk swore he was a Pilot appointed by the Trinity
Him*, and produced his license. On the Mt of July last ow,
went on board the ship Staines, Captain it.• Spencer, at 4 asked
him where he was bound ? and he was answered to thighurgh.
lie asked bun if be wanted a Pilot, and be said Nei fie beard
the Captain give ditectioas—.lse proshieed hie waning la a not

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Ind be would net took at it, resegiiin, lie tuffeteci
ens his eon; did. He continuedan bond, offessug his earvice4s
tin he got to Blactwali; Whet: he called e witernittn 141 %Tent on
*lnge. The information was for acing as Pilot being bound to
i foreign port, having hp Pilot On board, contra°, to the Act of
Pirliametit. After consi,lerablE argunnlnt between Mr. Laws,
counsel for the prosecution, and Mr. Andrews, fur thei defence;
the defendant was convirteleand fined XX.
Another info, maihm iral exhibit d by the same per/ an, tinder
the same Act, ieainst esptain James Nesbit, of the :;etilloor
packet, for the sane offence, and Nvh., alio was coivicted and
fined t2O.

Minns-HALL —Jahn Dale* was yes erday brut: Ott before
Mr. Serjeaat Set.t.ox. charge) by Mr. .him Mtn wit!l rap? ng
him on the highway and robbing him of his watch. Mr. Jinn
stated, that he had heel spending the evening of Fridl with a,
friend. and had been drinktng freely. Ou his way hotn!, helween
One aid two on Saturday m,rning, war stopped bt the pri-
mmer in Little Guddford•craet, %viva twining him by the collie
with one hand, with the other dre* the watch out of bi. fob.—
Upm which the prosectvor in his turn wind the prisoner, and
at the same time called loudly for the patrole; an osficet named
11'illuants came up, and took the prisoner into custody, on which
the prist•iter threw the Watch away.
Williams stated, that hearing Mr. Tlinn call, he went up to
the spot, and rotted hint stroggiing with the priginv, and, on
Iteariug his qtory, h, took the prisoner into cuitmlf, and con-
veyed hint to the watch-liothe. The witness picked up the ease
of Mr. ainter watch near the apn., aud a woman named lel.
.Preys fout4 the watch 'a
few yards front the place where the
pra.4eutur was stopped. •
It appeared on further inquiry that the prisoner was a blind
nwndieatit, well known to the olflizer4. On being qu•-•tinned by
the Magi ;trate, he denied all kimatl,..dm of the rubbery, but not
being able sathfact.ody to zwc.s.illt forlseiny, in the street at such
an h:bur, be was consniltteti Inc re-eyamitiatioii.

OVIEN-SqUAltt..—Yriterthsy Crpram liurd, of the Cuziil ,
exhibited a complaint agaiwit the driver of the hackney coach,
No. 599, for &laming him I more dealt his legal fare. Tile
Captain took the .0 ouch Ut Sinaile-*treet, and oi•it,t••d
blot to drive to Brimik strew, for widit he charged 8t the
twice being lei+ than a 2s. E.re. The Cuachmsn p:ead,:d
and was lined 150. and costs. •