Star.
London, England, 1811-11-09 00:00:00

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EXTRAORDINARY Kingston, Jamaica, on
Sunday, the 31st of August,.Mr. T. Hay, mate of
the ship Hamilton, Reeves, harpooned in that liar.'
hoer a fish, called a Devil. From the instant the
harpoon pierced the animal, the boat was towed to
windward for about thirty minutes, at the rate of six
knots an hour, when several boats proceeded to the
assistance of Mr. Hay, and by the aid of boarding-
pikes, harpoons, aloe. they succeeded in killing the
fish, which measured from the tip of the nose to the.
end of the tail 12 feet, breadth from fin to fin fifteen
fret, length of the tail five feet six inches, circumfe-
rence of the mouth six feet, and the horns two feet six'
i..,:lws in length.
The amazing quantity of herrings lately found in
Killala Bay and the neighbouring coast, and the pe-
cuniary advantages derived from their rapid sale
trough the country, induced a greater number of
fishermen than usual, on Wednesday s'ennight, to
venture too far from shore into the angry and un-
stable element (and no coast on the island is more
rough or dangerous) when, lamentable to relate,
their hopes of gaining much were, towards morning,
suddenly. blasted, and, it is said, upwards of 13 souls
were pi ecipitated into the abyss of eternity !
Friday se'nnight the quantity of rain which fell in
Edinburgh was immense. On Saturday morning,
the Meadows presented, from the one end to the other,
almost a complete sheet of water. Owing to the
high tides and a great fresh in the harbour of Leith,
sevtr it houses on the shore were under water. The
rivet Esk rose to a greater height than ever remem-
bered, and a number of articles were carried by the
force of the water into the sea at Musselburgh. It is
also said, that the late high tides have done conside-
rattle injury to North Berwick harbour, and to seve-
r:ll n her places on both sides of the Fort. In the
south of Scotland, the rains have also been excessive;
and in the low part of the town of Dumfries, several
of the houses h the been inundated, and about two
hundred people, in consequence, obliged to remove
from their habitations. At the Isle, near Dalswinton,
a farmer lost upwards of fifty sheep. The Clyde,
near its source, it is said, flowed into the Tweed; and
both i ivers have overflowed their banks to a greater
extent thin has been known for thirty years back.
Tht wi id on Wednesday se'nnight having suddenly
cleingeJ round to the N. E. brought on, at Shields,
one of the highest seas ever remembered by the oldest
ithabitant. It rose in so sudden and unexpected a
enanner, that a little boy, who, with a companion,
was amusing himself amongst the rocks in Tyne-
!tooth Haven, was washed away and drowned ; the
or er with difficulty saved Itinsell. The whole of the
bathing-houses in the Haven were carried out to sea,
aid lost For upwards of a week, indeed, the sea had
been very much agitated. and the weather stormy.
The high tides have washed away nearly the whole
of two ships fa ship-building, at Lowlightg, near
Cliirord's Fort, North Shields, together with much of
the adjoining land near the fort-gate. Wednesday
and Thursday se'nnight, it washed away some thou-
s suds of tons of earth and rubbish, laid bare and then
tore up the foundations of an old fort, which, from the
vature of the cement between the stones, seem; to have
ex.stei previous to Clifford's Fort, built in 167'2.
A son of Mr. Tihbey, of Pimlico, was unfortu-
nately drowned on Wednesday, whilst amusing him-
self with znotlier. youth in a boat off Chelsea College.
Three men, all of Barre,w, Someraetshire, and in.
reputable circumstances of lite, have been committed
I;chester gaol, for plundering and carrying away
rum which had Leen brought up by the tide, from the
wreck of the late ship Rebecca, of Bristol.

Yesterday .1. /Fairy was indicted for stealing t.
.Cl, and two RS notes, the property of J. Eades, fro.
his person. The prosecutor, a builder, in Islington-
road, in 1809 became acquainted with the prisoner
by his visiting a public house in which he spent his
evenings. On the :tit of June, 1809, he met the pri-
soner in Penton-street, Pentonville ; the prisoner
asked him to go and have a glnss of ale at Belvidere-
house, which they did. On leaving that house, they
went to the Vernon Arms, and had some punch, and
then walked across the fields to Copenhagen-house,
where they had more ale. They then agreed to re-.
turn to the Marlborough Arms, at Islington, to take
a parting glass ; but before they get there, they drop-
ped into another public house, and here they had a
drop more. Finally they went to the Marlborough
Arms, where they crowned the evening. At parting,
a friendly dispute took' place who should pay. When
the prosecutor pulled out the notes, and insisted on
paying the reckoning. This was in the passage of
the Marlborough Arms, and the prisoner there jos.;
tied the prosecutor so, that the latter felt with the
inotes in his hand. In helping him up, he endeavour-
ed to unclinch the hand in which the notes were, but
without effect. The prisoner then said, You have
got plenty of notes, you can lend me some." He
was considerably intoxicated at the time, and did not
know whether the prisoner was so or not.
Here the Cosmos SERJEANT told the prosecutor,
that if there was any loan, although it might be half
forcibly and half reluctant, he could ant sustain an
indictment for felony. His only ways if the prisoner
refused to refund the money, would be to bting an
action against him ; but the prosecutor denied that
he had ever let him have the money as a loan.
Mr. Churchill, of the Marlborough Arms, depose)
that the prosecutor was very much in liquor, but the
prisoner did not appear to be so. Witness saw Eades
lend the prisoner al.
The COMMON SERJEANT directed the Jury to ac-
quit the prisoner, and advised him to pay back the
money ; but be persisted in saying that he never re-
ceived it.
The following were convicted of felony :—Jane
Proctor, for stealing three pewter pots; T. H. Marsh,
for embezzling £3 18s. 6d. received by him on ac-
count of his employer ' • A. Wooler, for stealing al
pewter pot ; and Mary Rynes, for stealing a bonnet,
a shawl, and an apron.
Same day the Sessions ended, when sentence was
passed on J. Miller, G. Float, T. Murphy, E. Levy,
and J. Evans, to be transported for life ; W. H. S.
Henningham and J. Pollard, for 14 years • 30 for
seven years ; three to be imprisoned in the House of
Correction for two years ; 13 for one year ; and '2O
for six months ; 11 to be imprisoned in Newgate for
various periods ; seven to be privately and four pub.
licly whipped ; eight judgments respited,_wAeraeiournedto and
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23 discharged by Proclo- -•--
4th of December.

The Holders of the few remaining unpaid Sharesl
of the following Prizes, Sold by BISH, in the Lottery
that finished the 22d of last month, are requested to
bring them for Payment, or to Exchange them for
Tickets or Shares in tl e Extraordinary Little Lottery
to be drawn on Tuesday the 19th of this Month.

CLASS
C

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3,3411
3,353 - -
1,853 - B
1,553 - C
4,055 - -
3,1155 500
5,863 - - B - - iN
2.4152 A • - 500
T. Bun desires his friends to notice, that to a co.-
ta;nty, Tickets and Shares will be scarce before the
Drawing, as the whole of this hide Lottery does not
consist of more than half the number usually sold.—
Whilst Tickets are to be had, they will be soli without
any partiality, at No. 4, Corahill, or No. 9, Charing•
Cross.
Yesterday a woman, namen Willeto, was fully
committed from Hatton Garden Office, charged with
uttering, as a twenty pound note, a flash note for
Twenty Pence, in the shop of Messrs. Price and Co.
in Holborn, alter looking out goods to the value of
ten pounds.
Thursday night, Mr. Hunter, of South Audley-
street, Grosvenor-square, while passing the end of
Short's Gardens, Drury Lane, was hustled by three
fellows, and robbed of a silver watch and seals, with
which they escaped towards Belton-street.
On Monday last J. Robinson, an American- Negro
(formerly belonging to the Aurora schooner, one of
the Plymouth criiizers), who received sentence of
death at the late Assizes at Exeter, for a daring bur-,
glary in the shop of Mr. H. Lambert, silversmith, of
Pembroke street, Plymouth-dock, broke out of the
Bridewell, at Exeter, accompanied by J. Rodriguez,
a Spaniard, who had also been sentenced to death,
for a burglary at Teignmouth. Before they depar:
ted they broke open the tailor's shop in Bridewell,
and stole three pair of breeches. From their being
but ill provided with clothes, and having no money,
it is supposed they have made off to Plymouth, for
the purpose of entering into the King's ships, and a
suict search is now making for them at that port.
On the evening of Tuesday se'nnight J. Stewart,
assistant miller in the wheat-mill of Dumfries, was
killed by the spars of the upright shaft—his skull
being literally dashed in pieces. It is remarkable in
the death of this man, that on the Tuesday preceding
the melancholy accident, he had his hat cut from
his head by the spars of the same shaft.
Thursday se'nnight, as four men, named Clark,
Elliott, Park and Smith, were descending a coal-pit
at Seton Delaval, the rope slipped off the pullies, and,
in consequence, getting nipped nearly in two, gave ,
way, and the men were ptcipitated 0 fathoms, and
all killed on the spot.
Thursday night, about a quarter before 9 o'clntk.
a splendid meteor illumined the visible horizon of the
metropolis. It appeared above the loose clouds,
thr,-.41 which Jupiter was scarcely perceptible, and''
passed over an amplitude of about 60 degrees in the'
third of a minute. Its greatest altitude, when
first distinguished, was about 18 or 20 degrees; and
it disappeared in the N. N. E. part of the horizon.—
Its diameter was about the 6th of a degree ; its mass
compact, • its light dense, and the colour on the,
ground and among the clouds was blue, such as is
produced by the combustion of Roman candles.

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