Star.
London, England, 1816-06-27 00:00:00

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- betneT.Laxa.—Noteritiftg the very oafs-
towable state of thi weatbab, that sneritotioturfier.
•ant of the Public, and most worthy individual, Mr.
SPRING; had a crowded and. brilliant Woe to his
betiefit lait night.—Am*g the fashionable* present
we noticed the following :
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The Dube= Of Wellington; Marquis and Marationma claw&
ilseadeley, East sad Cakes& of Me7borough. Hon, Lady Ms..
son, Earl and Countess of Berborough, Ead and Qintiness of,
Essex, Might Non. Lord and Lady Dammam' ,IMarial of
Haadfort, Lord and Lady De Dutiltanyille; Lady kidney, Lord
and Lady Holland, the Lord and Lady Mayers*, Lady Weak
Sir lobs and Le* Frederick, Sir 0.3: and Lady Rush, Lady
Collingwood, Lady Dryden, Admiral and Lady Moorkhava, the
Right Hato Colonel M'Maboa, the Honourable Mrs, Fortesate,
Honourable Miss Hawke, Honourable Mr:Sardis; Honourdde
Mr. Nihau, Colonel Herries, We 1. Tykka, alt E. and Mr.
Howarth, Mr. acid Mts. Coon% Major Aubrey, Re. , •

Her Royal Highness the Princess CillAamii-im 2601
thlb Prince of ULRIC°MUM, intend to honour Covent
Garden Theatre, on Monday, to see Miss O'Netti
in the character of Jail, and Timor shsTartar.
Mr. Kash is engaged for three nights to perform
In operatic characters, in the new English Opera.
The theatrical world ate highly interested :in this
hew attempt.
The Hottentot Venus, after being embalmed. has
been preserved in spirits at Paris for the edification of
the rising beaux of another age:
Thus will the amateur how where to And her,
Reiuied to kern she leaves her eharms--behlud her 1
7 amities or !Akita —it is all Ms horse i•
terday the Lottery was all drawn, when the Ticket
No. 925, a Prise of deo,ooo, *as sold by Wass in
five Shares. His fame for selling Prises of aso,ooo
haA bees some tithe established. but it appears that it
is all the same to him. Twenties or Thirties", which-
ever the Scheme cordains, go to him, and you are
sure to be amongst them.
The following lamentable dent occurred lately at
Koelston, near Swansea, and ought to operate as a
caution to those who are in the habit of using poison
to destroy rats or other vermin. Two youths, bro.
them of the name of Hoskins. the one 17, the other
19 years of age, being in a progressive state of reco.
very from a fever, requested their mother to site
them, instead of a medicine prepared for them. some
brimstone and treacle. A basin, containing a preps.
tion of arsenic for destroying rats, being ',Wed on a
shelf, and the unfortunate youths supposing it to be
brimstone and treacle prepared for them by their mo-
ther, took each a portion of this deadly poison, and
shortly after expired in the most excruciating torture.
On being opened the cause of this calamity was in-
stantly discovered. Verdict of Coroner's Jury—
Accidental Death.

The Freemason coach, on Sunday night last, on
its journey from Barnstaple to Tampon, was robbed,
it is supposed, near Halberton, of a trunk and seve-
ral articles out of the luggage part of the coach. This
robbery was effected with some art, as the thieves
had to open a lock of very difficult construction, and
after taking out the articles, it was again locked, so
.that the robbery was undi•covered unlit the coach
arrived at Taunton. _ _ _

Osmium—The grand match between the Mary-
la-Bonne Club and the County of Hants was decided
on Tuesday, by six wickets in favour of Hants.—
Betting at starting, 6 to e on the Club; aftewwarsb,
2to I on Hants.
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'Boanore.—The soave& fight between Carter and
Robinson the Black, had excited much anxiety in the
apoeting world, Carter having beat thelatter easily in
in less than minute: ; but many notions have gone
abroad relative to the said fight, and suspicion was in
a great measure verified when the Black-undettook
that Carter could not beat him in half an hour for
twenty guineas. On this point the Black was backed
at 5 and 6to 4. We shall not enter into the reports
of the day ; but Robinson was the favourite eteaely.—;•
Seconds, Cribb and Harmer for Carter, and Oliver
and Richmond for the Black.

Ruuod 1. Carter bit short, and the Black p* sway. but Caner
- planted his favourite kit-banded Mu upon he faster than the
technical one, two, sad, in closing upon bias, Minna went
down.
2 Carter hit his adversary and broke assay, but be appeared
la very bad condition. He got in and thaw his adversity.
At would be a burl fsque on fighting, and a moc-
kery so the amateurs, to give rounds descriptive of
this battle, which aff sided not a 'single pint to state,
but that Carter won it in tom inisnan and a har ku
*hangs jives time. In the whole of the rounds, the
Black man never had a chance. He stood Carter's
hitting for twenty minutes, without manoeuvre, and
in some of the rounds he was backed, that is to my,
S to 1 was taken he would win the event. He fought
some of the rounds well, but be was obliged to fight
a man fast upon him, or is down be resorted to tho
first expedient until the keath was nearly hit out of
him. He had only one eye hit op, and with a peep
of the othtr, he took a comfortable birds. It only.
wanted two minutes and a half for hint to win, but
the umpires decided -against him, upon the articles,
which stated a stand-upfight.
Carter, as a man out of condition, fought with
much bravery anti determination, and since the, day
of the Lancashire hero, Gregson, no one has greater
claim to the amateur's support (as affording amuse-
ment for the day), nor do we think the patesian pa-
tronage on such occasions will go unrewarded in the
future efforts of Carter as a rising pugilist.
A second fight took plact between Linares, *
Jew; and Curtis, who lately hewed off in great style
with Ballard, a well-known Westminster lad, Curtis
was knocked down in thkfirst round, and he was not
treated very kindly in the two subsequent rounds..
He was backed at setting-to at 2to 1, and the odds
got even against him. A very regular fightlafter.
wards took place, and Curtis had the best of it, but
to real judges only, throughout. In the !IA round
both men fought with their basks suspended the
-ropes, and thorough breed was here ezl.e•
Some good fighting afterwards nook place, sod at
, leogdi the Jew, wa on his legs, gave-in wits a at
cadets of arm. This fight lasted an hoer allif
seven minutes, and C's . proved himself a very spi.l
petier man, opposed to lest and ma w_l
Pew and Ifut Comte, Dick contended for WOW
purse, when the former gave it in, in the course Of 4
few rounds, to the great surprise of the spentators.
The dead sports of the day were cbachtded with
a hil.beis, for a silver collar, to be given to the
Vr :4.
lio went out to hoe the hell the greatest number
times. The poor boll wss sfleadfully• harmed, '
affusdedinfinite sport so tbejashissaila resift

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Plllloo4oTting COMM iiikk fli
IaSSIILL Maw* iOßlteaK, . AND JOHNSON NI HIS
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t • DOHNINAN.
VI& cam Wm before the Court on the admit:
lion 411theingieilin: *as a question respecting
the last VIII' tettatiterit of Jalltbs Johnson, for-
merly of the island of. Jamaica, and late of kipper
;uMllimpole-street, In the county of Middlesex, Esq.
sed. The paper propounded was all in the
hand writing of the deceased, and was written on
the back of a_printse letter be had recei;ellitrim the
East India House, Leadenhall-street, which letter
bore date the 6th July, 1814, but the testamentary
dispositiAs contained on the other side of it were not
signed by the deceased. dated, or attested by wit-
nesses, and several blanks left in respect to the sums
Wended to be given by the deceased in the way of
legacies. It appeared that the deceased had regu-
larly executed a will before he left the island of Ja-
maica, which'bore date the 21st of June, 1793 ; that
since that period both his family and property had
considerably increased.
On the part of the widow and'ode of the executors
named under theiaill of 1793, it was submitted by
Counsel, that this Tatter paper must be considered as
an oneieented and imperfect paper.
The Court (Sir JOHN NICHOLL) after hearing the
other side, was clearly of opinion that the paper in
question was nothing more than a mere memoran-
dam of the deceased's for his future consideration,
and, therefore, it could have no legal effect.
The Court accordingly rejected the allegation.
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE U.

THK KING b. SHIM

This was a case in the Crown Paper, and occupied
the whole Morning. It was a question, whether the
dbfendant bed been duly elected Mayor of Colches-
ter t---The Court held, after hearing the arguments,l
that he was not duly elected according to the charter.
The parties had liberty to turn the case into a special
verdict; and if upon the result the judgment of this
day be affirmed, ac will have the effect of dissolving
the Corporation.