Star.
London, England, 1818-02-10 00:00:00

DOVER, rr•.BRUARY 9.

Arrived off this Port, the Astrea transport, from
Portsmouth for Chatham, with invalids.

ITARWUCII, FEBRUARY &

Wind W.—Arrived the Thetis, tiro,: ES Charlotte,
MAY ; and Jane, MoNrsiimax ; with Mails, &c. from
Gottenburgh.
GRA v MEN D. FEBRUARY O.

Arrived the Prince of Orange. Mitt, from Rotterdam ; and
the Prince of Waterloo, Page, from OstemL—SMled nothieg.

CUiTOM-lIOUSE, FEBRUARY 9.
SHIPS CNTF.AFI) INWARDS--The Sheffitid, Wood, from Hull;
Harmony, lkdwith, and Flora, Cooper, from Antwerp; Lis-
bon Packet, Tucker, from Lisboa; and Priam of Orange, Fl-
lie, fro:n Rotterdam.
Orrwsauw.--The Betsy, Richards, for Dublin; Duke of
York, Fryer, fur Itott:rd.tm; 'trypbrna, Couch, for Alaraut-
ham ; Commercial Packet, King, for Ostend; 'Direr VrLmds,
Witty, for Elsineur,' Pillau, Konigsberg, and Llbing; Friends,
BILIITICT, fur Leghorn; Reptunis, Bakker, for Lharteic; Ann,
Laybourn, for Malta, Smyrna. and Constantinople; Briton,
Ili-bards, for Antwerp; and numb', Thompson, for'Madeira,
St. Helena, Fort St. George, Fort William, and Prince of
Wales's Island.

The Sally, Bowen, from New York to Limerick,
was abandoned by her crew 6th ult. in lat. 39. long.
,r, 62. bein in a leaky condition.
The utation of the Austrian Sinking Fond has
announce that on the 26th ultimo it would again
burn ten Millions of
.paper currency on the glacis, of
which 8,650,000 florins had been received by volun-
tary contributions to the loan, and the rest by means
of the operation of the Banks.
Friday night, during the fog. Mr.Weittso JAMES,
eldest son of Joserit Itiazs,Tssq. of Esher, Surrey,
and his servant, who were proceeding in a one-horse
chaise to the residence of Mr. Itmas, drove into the
River Thames, in Kingston, in an attempt to cross
the bridge. Mr. JAMES was unfortunately drowned;
the servant and horse were saved.

. The late showers of snow, which were scarcely seen
'in the Metropolis, having proceeded from the south,
continued, on the coast of Sussex, for two or three
days, during the middle of last week. Beachy Head
was on Tuesday completely covered with a' fleece,
though not with the usual Rocks ; and Hastings ex-
periencid a heavy fall an Thursday. The boats that
arrived there from the opposite coast, bring intelli-
gence that the snow was lying about Boulogne more
than five feet deep.•
CALEDONIAN ElllllllTrox.—Yesterday evening,
the English Opera House opened with a new species
of entertainment, under the patronage of his Royal
Highness the Duke of Sussva. A troop of High-
landers exhibited their skill in bag-piping, dancing,
broad-sword fighting, and other exercises of their,
country, to the admiration of a London audience.—
The Highland music, which differs much from the
Lowland Scottish melodies, possesses, nevertheless, a
high degree of animation and pathos. The Braid-
sword fighting was excellent, particularly a Comic
Sword Dance. The exhibition was, on the whole, ex-
tremely interesting, and received with much applause.
THE HORRID MURDERS AT GREENIVICH.—Yester-
day ate Inquest was held at the White liart Tavern, Greenwich,
on the murdered bodies of Mr. Bird, (aged 88) and his house-
keeper. The bodies gnu remain in the same state as we yesterday
described. After takisig a view of them, the Jury proceeded to
inspect the house, garden, Ace. to ascertain by what means the
murderers had gained admittance. There is a brick wan about
eleven feet high divides the deceased's garden from another in
the rear, eallesi Potties garden; in Powis's garden the marks of
many footsteps were traced ; the tile of a summer-house lay on the
ground, and appeared to be newly broken by some person in
climbing over the wall, as the marks of footsteps appeared quite
plain on the mould in the deceased's garden. In this garden the
old Gentleman chiefly passed the day, and took much delight in
beautifying it. Two bottles, which appeared to have been re-
cently emptiA, and a tobacco-pipe, lay on the parlour table,
having the marks of blood on them, from whence it is conjec-
tured that the murderer or murderers must have regaled them-
selves. Nothing in the house being disturbed, it is supposed that
the crime must have been committed by some person or persons
who were rot strangers to the family. It appeared from the evi-
dence of several witnesses, that, on Saturday night, about ten
o:clock, Mr. Bird's door was observed to be open, and a woman
standing nearly opposite to it, and nearly at the same time three
ill-looking fellows were seen lurking abotit that part of the street.
—The Instrument used by the perpetrators of the deed, is sup-
posed-to be what is called a lath, or plasterer's hammer ;itis a
hatchet about two inches wide at one end, and a hammer with a
square face and chequered at the other. The head of the female
was cut with the hatchet part of the instrument in many Om vi
three inches deep. Mr. Bird's hearrevas struck with the hammer
part, and had boles in it an inch and a half square.
On Sunday morning, the brother of the deceased, Mr. Bird,
called on his brother's next door neighbour in consequence of
his not receiving any answer to his repeated knocb at the door ;
they got over the wall, and found the place safely shut up, they
suspected all was not right, and repaired to the front at the gate,
and forced it open, their endeavours proving vain in tryirg to
open the'street door, the key being at the inside. They then
forced open a back window, and on opening the door beheld the
horsid spectacle.

A watchman In London-street (the street in which the de-
ceased resided) found a eandle and candle-stick in the cellar of
the deceased's house, placed under a wooden utensil, for the pur-
pose, no doubt, of setting fire to the house.
The Corocier said that no evidence had been adduced to it
the murder on any particular person, and if the Jury thought
proper, as It was late (elevenetiock last night) he would adjourn
the Inquest to a future day. ' The Jury were of opining such a
proceeding would be best, sad it was adjourned accordingly?—
' The Jury entered into recognizances Lt the aunt of 40 pounds
each, to appear at the time appointed to renew the investigation,
The Jury roots; was crowded to excess, end the street was
throng"d throughout the day with persons-of all desetiptiocs,
horrified in the contemplation of the dreadful evout.

LAIr INTELLILT_Ver.

courrf OF KING'S BENCH, PEBEL7:4I,.t
Arthur ThiaiSeafood, against whom Lard Sul
exhibited Articles of of the Peace, or, S.no.f.tv,,
sending him a challenge to fight, wa%
custody this day before the tour: cf Kial: ,;41
when he admitted the fact of sending the ‘Ear
and was remanded until ThunaLy, wheu nil
brought up again to hear the judgment cf thc.c.
as to the securities to be required from '
FillitUAßY OIL THUM
-

Mr. MARRYAIT MOMd to set as...de ;kite:eel)
Court, obtained last Term agair.st Mr.
eminent merchant in the City, and Mr. Cimc,7.l
broker. under a 'charge that they had col,:pici
raise the price of oil by fictitious and tom! .44
and also by engrossinf the markets from il;;;„1
country is supplied. The Learned Coulid 314

proof to shear Chat there was nothing iri
of the purchases made by Mr. IfilLers,
being in the usual regular mode of dealia.• ;
tended that the charge of engrossing and
could be affixed on the Subscnption Socie:y
propriety than 'they had attempted to throw it,;
client.—After some ingenuity of argument bra
SCARLET?, OA the other side, the 14.,:1rt a:
discharged the Rule.

Tllll Kl2i. V. WILLIAM 111-117.:F.

The ATTORNEY GENLEAL moved, tha: dl4
land, William Byrne, be brought cp w recLivt
judgment of the Court, for having tair:: 5r cis(
four hundred guineas from a Gentiew,r.
of Cuppage, a son of Genet-al Cuppage, j:,
India Service, fur his interest in procuring A
in the Pith Regiment of Foot.
.

The dcfen.l4—nt had suffered Judgment tr. !74)'!..,
fault :01 the trial, and had since put in sir:l-al •
dits from persons of consequence in the miii u.
vice, who spoke highly of dig diaea2,...r.:'s
Mr. Byrne himself had also pot iu a❑

mitigation of punishment, in w!iica he decL:4.:
tota,l ignorance of having acted in
the laws of the ' Ind.—The seateac:: of Liit C

that the defendant should pay a ha.: of :II
Kings sind that he should be imptiscgrza
tody of the Marshal of the Man.halsea

be .paid.—The defendant respectfully
Court, and retired.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FEET:U.:Li'
LOWDEN V. lIIERONS.
This day the Court a new trial
question, concerning torr Cdovent-Girden
in respect of peas, bears, and vegetaliles. Tar •
was brought by the Lessees of Coyeta-g2rdn Y
ket, under his Grace the Duke of Betiard, tc MCT
the said tolls of the defendant, a marketiarde=
The Jury found a verdict for the pliintilf, L
Bd. The new trial was obtained on the grenn.l
the Noble Duke, who holds Covent-garden
by Royal grant, did not make out a right to ti.c,
claimed by the Lessees Of the Market.

COURT OF SESSION.

EDINBURGH—An important question, which
lately been in dependence before the Court of Sew
in Scotland, respecting the right of the 31iyistr
of Edinburgh to erect a certain line cf buildings,
sidered by the inhabitants at large to be &Irani •
of the general beauty of the town, and INT 2 * *
class of feuars as a violation of their chxtes,, was
far decided on Tuesday last in favour of the ca.
plainers, that the Bill of Suspension agaiaNt ti .
gistrates (equivalent to the English Rule t,
Cause) was passed by a majority of their Lcr
of three to two. The opinions expressed by the
afford reason to expect that the ultimate deusik2
be to a similar effect.

141 Saturday Captains F. and B. late of the r,rn '
Gnardi, left town in a chaise and fon . in i.;i:01-
have an honourable renroxtre at Calais, attci..l ,
Messrs. B. and H.

We understand that a Very interesting and
Cant Pamphlet, by Count LA NJumtis, was pta::S
in Paris on Saturday last, on which day
5000 copies were sold.
Those persons who may be inclined to roc.: I
smiles of Fortune in the present Lottery, under a
particular number, may obtain it by applying to di
at his Offices, 4, Cornhill, or 9, Charing-Gros:
will procure it for them at the Bank. An early
cation will, however, be necessary, else it may
casual customer.--The Drawing begins 4th ci M..-:
the Scheme contains Three Prizes of 30,000/. asi
other Capitals; and, independent cf the Money .5
ted for the payment of the Prizes, 81511 has :71.1.Z
arrangement, by which certain Blanks w:,l be
tied to 12 Pipes of Port Wine.

Voters Norses.,—Allodirg to the Late caw of Mx 1....- 4
writer in the DuNisi Amor/sat says of Irebad--" We ,!•:.: r"
matters better in this country: to the honour of oar N.,
Banks the principle on which they proceed is directly .h. • '
of that of the Sauk of England. Instead of declining Is r n
nicate their secret, they take every possible means to int '-';
public; instead of demanding possession of the fargai '
and punishing with imprisonment anti et penis the -
of them, they instantly return tie Note v. hen s.r., ,•:-•••
Instead of the necessity of varying their nueet, to e.: .:.
briraiurs, which is in truth deceiving tik-peittc, tor: ,:'
preserve an identity of character, by wharfs :he pi....,:,: so 2
come competent judses on a qaestion of gen. ~,..tea ; •••'
place of concialmcnt, they have Actually fer,‘, h. AI 'llls
tern, Magistrates, and other revrztable rerun:,..
.1(1,1 '
1[1147,110M, with fac-similes or proof imprea..o.•,..i •J-.
as permanent standards for ptblic rveti•eace. 'I NI., ••
given a security to their Notes, bevodd even v.'.1.1 •'..;. '
IXMOU ; and the fabricator.., cr utterers, ale .1c::-.•....!. •-.
Attempt to deceive V.:e pnblic."
BETTING AT TATTERSAT.I.'S TI::-Ti.r.::%1
DEitirs, 'Fie.
14 to 1 age R;:-.1-1::
16 t.., 1 apt IL .
11.1 to 1 acct 11.
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PORT.
6 to 5 on Manfred ag,t Sylv.utus I S to 1 agat S. iv:
3 to 4 agst :11aLtfed S to 1 ::gar t

9 to 1 agst Milton
10 to 1 agst Allqretta
11 to 1 agst Crecy

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On the 29th ult. Franca, wife of Wm. Milt:,
Purtugal-strett, I.iacoin's lun, uriverk.l:y
friends. her rcmiiys are depositc.,l in die f.intify
y,

COAL T.IARK FT, F P.
Skips at Market. Ships Sok!. nrr.
boi Newcastle 2tii 36/. Od. to 4.e& u°'
sSunderland 3•ls. 6.t. to::!,‘ 94,

111(1)1 w.vrtit AT LONDON Mil I)(; 7.1 11!I
Morning mint:i, ..ttef
Aftrrnrioo - 4,4

LONILIIONa Printed ■rd rAliAhtil by LE Vl.l. P..°
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