Star.
London, England, 1810-01-18 00:00:00

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 17.

Arrived his Majesty's ship TERMAGANT, from the
Dowm—Sailed his Majesty's ship TyntAN, with the
Monarch, Earl Spencer, and Lord Keith East India-
:nen. His Majesty's ship Tamccuo takes convoy
to the Downs•--Wind N. W.
DAL,D JANUARY 11.

S-a:led the American fripte John Adam, to the
Tzsiwa:d. Arrived his Majesty's ships MAJESTIC and
PRINCESS CHARLOTTE, from the Baltic ; HERO cutter
Lid FLY sloop of war, from Sheerness.—. Wind S.W.
YARMOUTH, JANUARY 17.
Sailed this morning the BOLD gun-brig, with sit
gun-brigs for the Nore ; the British Fair cutter, with
transports for Portsmouth ; and Mosnurrto and
EMIR& sloops on a cruise.—Remain the ROEBUCK
MI TARTAR frigates ; DRAKE, BRUME% BLAZER,
and RICHMOND gon-brigs.—Wind S.W. sharp frost.
TORBAY, JANUARY 15.

nartmo.
lank PAu.s.-i-tke C al ih St Jausess tittle ht 4
yesterday a most curious Nsp_eatante, a_row of aecomi•
ntodation ladders td

and plinks being placed close
the iron-railing, and the banks of the canal being
lined with stalls, furnished with refreshments and
cordials, such as hot elder wine, gin, brandy, &c. &et
gingerbread, hot mutton-pies, &c. The assemblage
on this congealed element consisted of upwards of
300 persons, chiefly from the neighbourhood of West-
minster. any of the figural:to attempted to shew
their skill and agility in the art of skaiting, but were
very deficient. The banks of the Serpentine river
*ere lined with fashionable company, who were
higblysratified with the appearance of an elegant
female; In a green spotted dress, with a scarlet Spa-
nish mantle) attended by two Gentlemen. They
were allowed by the amateurs to be perfect masters
of the art; but the Gentlemen were decidedly ex-
celled by the Lady. Among other proofs of merit,
she cut out the letters 0. P. with a precision and
neatness truly astonishing. The Duke of Anuvi,a,
who was skaiting at the same time, did not depart
until dark.

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Yesterday, whilst a young Gentleman was amusing
himself with skaiting upon a pond behind Newing-
ton, and passing over a bole near one of the springs,
the ice gave way, and he was on the point of becom-
ing a victim in sight of several spectators, when a
boy about 12 years of age went to his assistance, and
by handing out a rope tied to a stick, was enabled by
the help of his comrades to extricate him from that
fate which at first appeared inevitable.
On Moiday afternoon, a young man, son to Mr.
SIMPSON, salesman, in Tothill-street, Westminster,
ventured to strait on the ice, on the canal, in St.
James's Park,when it broke, and he was unfortunately
drowned.

Loscievvrv.—M. de Fot sistuxa who is described
in the French papers as Physician and Patriarch to the
Freemasons of France, died lately at Paris at the ad-
vanced age of one hundred and twenty.
The Duke of RICHMOND'S infant daughter has been
christened at the Castle, Dublin, and the Earl and
Countess of HARRINGTON, as Proxies for their MA-
JESTIES, stood Sponsors. A splendid ball and supper
were given on the ocetsion, enlivened by the presence
of the Duchess of Gomm The present makes the
fourteenth child of their Graces, the whole of whom
are living—there are seven sons and seven daughters.
The Earl of CHOLMONDELEY gave an elegant en-
tertainment on Tuesday, at his seat at Thames Dit-
ton, in celebration of the birth-day of Viscount
MALPAS, who attained his eighteenth year.
The Lords of Council, on a Memorial being pre-
sented by the Cotton Manufacturers of Glasgow, have
suspended the granting of L'cences for the Exporta-
tion of Cotton Wool.

The gale continues with unabated fury, and all
t!:e vessels are crating and running iii here ; eight
nits arrived in the Picr, the names of some you shall
ilave .it the bottom.--John and Sally, of Carmarthen,
Deptford, bound to Cork, with naval and vic-
szores, THOMAS ROGERS master ; also Ap-
polionia, JOHN PARRY, ditto, from Woolwich, to the
Dock-yard, Plymouth, with stores.
LEITH, JANUARY 13.
Wednesday the Ntosrmaatz sloop of war went
It of this harbour. The Lincoln, RtcHmovo, and
Forbes, NELSON, West Indiamen, arrived at
mess the 28th ult. all well, on their outward.
passage from Leith to Jamaica. The Roberts,
master, from St. Andrew's, New Brunswick,
.:ived in Burntisland 22d December, spoke the Ro.
• Joii!:sroN, master, from Irvine, bound to St.
:e\e's, in the bay of Fundy, in lat. 43. 40. N.
;. 67. 12. W. on the 4th October ; the ship Kite,
•1 FR master, from Liverpool for St. John's, in
42. 2S. N. long. 63.23. W. on the 26th October t
• the sloop Fox packet, Hamilton, from Greenock
St. John's, in lat. 47. 8.5. N. long. 4.2. W. all well.
• Atlas, Guseote, from St. John's, New Brunswick,
timber, bound to Shields, is arrived at Aberdeen.'
FROM LLOYD'S LIST.
Glom nND, JAN. arrivals.--Sailed PAdeline, 'IA4I-]
r, tar Sreyrna; Sindrey, and Hanna, Pert fur Per-,
'‘34co; grown, Hewlands, for Hayti; Elizabeth Sophia,l
n, tor lariaica ; Neptune, Kerkins, for Martinique, and
Robinson, for Gibraltar.
,411r4P—A: Dartmouth, Ann, Slur, from Lisbon; and the
arY, Wird'r.r, from Newfoundland. At Pinzance, Boyar,
from Cacila. At Heligoland, Martha Beaton, Smith, from
At doll, John and Sarah, —; Bell, Brandam ; Per-
=, Hinter; and Frankferd, 'rate, from Stockholm. In
Me, Friends, Harrison, froM New Branswiclt. At Rio
), Alexander, Pine; Swift, —; Diamond, Hall; Adven-
---; and little Venus, --, from Liverpool; Swift,
tn, from London; Prince of Brazil packet, from Cadiz ;
from Falmouth; Glades Cotton, —, from
'erifft ; and Adventure, Sinie, from the Cape of Good Hope,
y, Genre, I •)gart, from Stockholm. At Rio, Mary Ann,
truer tht River Plate. At Monte Video, Jose Americo,
from
Aifrodeta, from Con'tantinople to Malta, is
.n and car. led into Tripoly.
T 4 Fratifis, Whiting, from Teignmonth to Fayal,
ivt tin shore in Torbay, on Saturday.
The //clic AP, ?isms, from Lisbon to Liverpool, is
• into rerrol with damage.
Tuesday night a barge, heavily laden, going
London-bridge, was sunk, owing to the
current and floating ice. Happily no lives were

4 dip has reached Liverpool from Boston, bringing
to the 15th ult. Such as have fallen under our
contain nothing of public importance.—
. ship was to sail from the same port, the day
that to which we have just alluded.
A rePOrt was revived yesterday that several French
had made their appearance in Bengal river.
:count of this kind was received Ems days ago,
Was totally disbelieved.

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.er WiStekditY ."---•-•• hitter, one of the Aepitty turn.
Ifeys-in Horsemonger,-lane Ganli Was tried for an as-
*atilt oil the person of a brawny Scott, nutted Dust:
tack Campbell. It is somewhat rettiarkable, that the
defendant had been, during the whole of the present
sessions, attending on the different prisoners put on
their trials, and Was how himself the last on the ca-
lendar to be tried,
The circumstances of the case, as stated by the
prosecutor, were briefly as follow : —Some illLivill
had existed between him and the defendant, in conse-
quence of his having been obliged to distrain for rent
on the goods of the latter, who was a lodger in his
house. From that time, which was about 17 months
past, until the month of January, 1809, no opportu-
nity for revenge occurred to the defendant. How-
ever, in the month of January, 1809, both parties ac-
cidentally met at a public house, when the defendant
immediately fell upon the prosecutor, and beat him
most unmercifully ; blackened his eyes, and bruised
his body. The next day Campbell lodged his com-
plaint before the Magistrates; the defendant was ap-
prehended on a warrant, and ordered to find bail to
take his trial for the assault. For a whole twelve-
month, however, the indictment remained in terrorenr,
over his head, without the prosecutor giving notice
of trial to the defendant, who was himself obliged at
last to stick a public notice on the gates of the Court-
!house, intimating that he should demand his trial this
Sessions.

The defendant called the landlady of the public-
house to refute the charge. She, however, had only
seen the defendant and the prosecutor in close contest
with each other ; but had seen nothing of the com-
mencement of the rencontre.

Mr. NOLAN made an eloquent appeal to the Jury
on behalf of the defendant, whose peculiar situation
reminded him of the last scene of the burlesque tra-
gedy of Tom Thumb the Great, where the different cha-
racters in the piece terminate each others existence,
one after the other. Tom Thumb kills Huneamunca,
Dollololla kills him, Lord Grizzle kills her, the Aug
kills him, and at last the King kills himself, leaving
nobody to perform the funeral obsequies to the dead.
So the unfortunate defendant in this sceoe after hay.
ing been the eye-witness and assistant in the legal dis-
posal of the persons whose names filled the catalogue
of the present Sessions, is now himself within the
grasp of the law. He trusted, however, that his of.
fence would not be visited with the same severity as
some of the cases which had been presented this Ses-
sion to the consideration of the Jury, when the cha-
racter and usual demeanour of the prosecutor in
this case were laid before them. It would be sufficient
for him, in order to induce the Jury to receive the evi-
dence of the prosecutor with caution, to shew that he
was a man whose temper was most irascible, and
whose violent dispositions had been already the sub-
ject of judicial consideration. He should prove, that
he had been committed to the County Gaol, on a
charge of an outrageous assault, in having bit off
the nose of a man named Walters. The learned
Gentleman then adverted more :circumstantially to
the evidence given by the prosecutor, from which he
inferred, that the probabilities of the case were in fa-
vour of his client.

Two gentlemen, of the names of AYRES and Hon-
NINGTON, were yesterday arrested in the field near
Hampstead, just as they were preparing' to fire at
each other, by two officers, and subsequently held in
substantial sureties to keep the peace.
Boxpro.—A determined boxing match, which for
intrepidity and bottom has not been excelled in the
modern school, took place on Friday last, on Hea-
ther-Heath, Hants, a few miles from Odiham, where
Mendoza and Humphries fought, between John
Beard, a servant to Captain FAVELL, and Browne, a
farmer, for 100 guineas, before several hundred ad-
mirers.
The combatants did not display that kind of
science in the art of fighting, as practised by the re-
gular prize-bruizers of the day, but they made up
for it by woeful hitting, and determined courage.—
Ttr: contest lasted one hour and 40 minutes, and et ery
minute of the time was expended in exchanging blows,
and not more than about four rounds ended with
closing, one Of the combatants having fallen in every
other round by the force of blows. They fought
blind for the last ten minutes, and Browne, who was
the more powerful man, was the conqueror. He
fought for his own cash.
Yesterday morning, at three, a fire was discovered
in a small-house adjoining the White Hart, in Gravel-
lane, uthwark, which soon communicated to and
destroyed that building, and materially damaged se-
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veral ther houses in the neighbourhood. It was fr .t
discovered by the watchman, who, by his activity in
alarming the inhabitants, was certainly the cause of
preserving several lives.
Mrs. Seymour, wife of the keeper of Hyde Park,
was burnt so deplorably on Monday night, that she
now lies in St. George's Hospital, without hopes of
recovery. Her shr;eks alarmed the collector at Hyde
Park Corner gate, who, on entering the house, found
the sufferer with all her clothes, even to her shoes,
burnt off. She was just able to state that her apron
caught the blaze while taking an iron from the fire.
At half-past two o'clock, on Tucsday, the coming.
house, No. 4, in the King's powder-mills, at Fever-
sham, blew up with a most tremendous explosion.—
Of the six men employed in the building at the time,
four were blown to pieces, and their bodies and
limbs were scattered to a distance of upwards of 100
yards from the scite of the building. One of the arms
was found on the top of a high elm tree. The fifth
man was taken up alive, but no hopes of his recovery
are entertained. The sixth man, George Holmes,
the foreman of the work, singular to relate, was found
alive also, sitting in the midst of the smoaking ruins,
' with his clothes burning • but he was otherwise not
much injured, and is likely to do well. At the door
of the corning-house was standing a tumbril, or co-
vered waggon, with two horses and a driver. The
waggon was blown to pieces, and the driver and
horses were killed. Of three horses employed within
the building, two have perished, but the third is liv-
ing. The scattered remains of two of the men were
collected on Thursday evening for interment; those of
the other three had not been found. No circumstances
have transpired from which an opinion can be formed
with respect to the cause of the accideat : it is the
third of the kind that has happened at these mills
within these seven years.
Sittings appointed in Middlesex and London before
A wager, to a very considerable amount, is now the Right
Honourable EDWARD Lord ELLENDOROUGH,
waiting the decision of a great Law Officer : it is Lord hiefJustice, &con and after Hilary Term, 1810:
whether a person gaining by one number in the, pre- IN TERM.
sent Lottery, RBB,OOO, would (if known to the Cotn- MIDDLMZ•
Feb. 9
-.. .. Jan. 19
LONDON.
tnissioners) be compelled to pay the Income Tax this Saturday : ... jpaneire raturasondayr
year, for coming into pos ession of that large sum on FridaY
Friday . - - - 9 Saturday . . . 10
Valentine's Day, that being before the time of making
AFTER TERM.
zeturns of Income for the year 1809? Tuesday . - . . 13 I wak3.6421 . . 14

The Jury found the defendant—Not Guilty.
Margaret Marti,: was indicted for assaulting Sarah
Fiddeyman, an infant under three years of age. The
circumstances of the case were as follow :

Mrs. Martin, the defendant, resides in Gloucester.l
street, Lambeth ; and the infant is the child of one
of her neighbours. A quarrel, it appeared, had arisen
between a lady who resided in Mrs. Martin's house,
and another of the fair sex who graced the same street.
The quarrel had collected a number of spectators;
amongst the rest a butcher on horseback was a looker
on. Mrs. Martin, whose prowess is well known in
the neighbourhood, had, it appeared, issued forth
from the house armed with a hair-broom, which she
determined to use in behalf of her lodger, and for
the purpose of dispersing the mob, and the butcher
being the most prominent oljed, became the first point
of attack ;, the broom, however, not possessing power
sufficient to set the butcher's nag in motion, she re-
salved to adopt the Irish mode of :Inning restive cattle,
and relinquishing the broom to her fair ally, she re-
treated into the house, and returning with the kitchen
poker, she, with athletic arm, launched it full against
Ithe butcher's steed, and the crowd by whom he was
surrounded. The poker unfortunately taking a wrong '
direction, struck the infant, who was standing at its
parent's door, and inflicted a very dangerous wound
on its forehead.
The defence set up was, that the defendant had not
intended to injure the infant, and had expressed her
sorrow immediately after it happened.
The CHAIRMAN observed to the Jury, that it was
immaterial whether the defendant had intended to in-
int the prosecutor ; she used an unlawful instrument,
a .d must answer for the mischief arising from her
own imprudence.
The Jury found her Guilty, and the Court sen-
tenced her to six months imprisonment in the House
of Correction, and at the end of that period, to find
sureties for her good behaviour for five years, herself
in 1100, and two sureties in £5O each.
After the sentence was passed, the husband of the
defendant came forward, and, addressing the Court,
said he was willing to give the prosecutor 40 guineas,
and to find securities for the defendant's good con-
duct for five years, if the Court would change the
sentence from imprisonment to fine. He stated that
the father of the child was satisfied with the offer.
The CuAIRMAN, however, observed, that the parties
concerned might be satisfied, but it was also necessary,
for the satisfaction of public justice, that punishment
should follow conduct so violent as that of the defen-
dant had been ; the Court therefore could not sanc-
tion any such compromise.
The Sessions adjourned.

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(01411111 i NASSIONS,

At the life Chelmsford Quartet Sessions,
Shelley and John Tunbridge, were convicted of do
two caravansi tin the highway, in the town of
ford, in a very furious manner (supposed to be t
and thereby overturning and breaking the char
ic
Mrs. Sheppard, in which she and her daughter
travelling, and who were much hurt, and their I
put in intrainent danger. The defendaiits wete
tenced to several months imprisonment.
At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, .
the county of Devon, held at Exeter, on nuts&
last, Mr. Daniel Thomas MCarthg, a clerk in hi- '
jesty's Dock-yard, Plymouth, and of respectable c'..
inections, was tried on a chkrge of felony, in stealing
a set of plated casters and stand, from the house of
Mr. Watkins, the Crown Hotel, in Plymouth
trial lasted seven hours, and excited considerable
terest ; but the evidence being defective, and
soner having a host of respectable witnfses,
character, the Jury returned a verdict of Not
much to the satisfaction of a crowded Court.
At the Durham Quarter Sessions, held onlVionda
se'nnlght, Robert Mark, of Cheswick, in the -
of Holy Islatiek for stealing one sack, and one
of wheat or meal, the property of Thomas
and Jame* Laidler, was sentenced to be imprisoned
in the. Home of Correction to hard'tabnur
month.---George Chicken, of South Shields,
taining ale, by altering the ticket given to
defraud Messrs. Cookson and Co. to be imprisoned
in gaol for three months.—Hurnble Jackson,
Heighington, for picking the pocket of John Joplin)
and Hunter Jones, of Bishop Aucklaait, for ste
one ass, the property of Suttees Jopling, each .
imprisoned in the House of Correction for six months.
—Michael Wharton, of Wolsingham, for assaulting
JohnWelands ; fined ls. and discharged.-...W
wick, for stealing gun-powdet—Not Guilty.
At the general quarter sesaions for Newcastle,
Wednesday se'nnigbt, Wm. Campbell, alias
Campbell Moody, for stealing a pair of leather breeches
from ThomasGoodbarn, was sentenced' to 12
hard labour in the house of correction; this is ,
time he has been tried and convicted at Newcastle,
The following were sentenced to hard labour
house of correction :—Eliz. Brown, for stealing
ing apparel ; and John Armstrong, tot stealing
iron backhand, 6 months Mary Irwin, for stealing
wearing apparel, and Richard 'faylor, for +
geese, S months ; Wm. Marro for stealing a
months ; Wsn. Jobling, for stealing barley ftom
Tyne brewery,. 1 month ; Sarah Lindsey, aged
for stealing two pieces of velvet, to be kept in • -
confinement and to hard labour 2 months.
Waters, charged with stealing a piece of beef
acquitted. Duncan Mac Dour], vittaallero
Quayside, was found guilty o a violent assault
watchman in the due mention of his. duty, and
tenced to pay a fine of £lO to the king. True
were found against Thomas Brooks, a private
6th dragoon guards, and William Winhatn,
royal artillery, for violent assaults on watchmen
they were both committed to gaol fot want ,
ties.
' At the Northumberland Sessions held at Illorpett,
on Thursday se'nnight, raylor was Found
guilty of stealing stockings and gloves frortr the amp
of William and John Dodds, and sentenced to 16
days hard labour in the House of Correction ;
Ws Taylor, charged as an accomplice, was aaquitte&

Friday. last came on, at Edinburgh, the Trial
fame: Cumming:, soldier in the 94th -Regiment, -
sed of the murder of John king, also a soldier ,
same regiment, by stabbing him *MI a bayonet, .
fit of passion. The Jury found, that the Prisoner
was insane at the time he committed the act;
Court ordered him to be delivered over to the
his friends.
A watchman, in the station of Bedford-street,
vent Garden,_ aged 13, of the name of Barnes,
brought to Hatmn Garden, Oflice, for remissness .
duty, on the night of the robbery of Mr. Custard,
woollen-draper there not being any criminal
against him, he was dismissed, with an observation,
that such aged persons were unfit for such duties.
Saturday afternoon, three fine boys, the sons of
Mr. GLYNN, iron-founder, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
were nearly killed by the explosion of gun-powder.—
They had gone into the cabin of a vessel lying at the
North shore, belonging to their father, and on disco-
vering a flask of gunpowder, began to a#nuse them-
selves by throwing a little into the fire, when a spark
communicating to the powder in the flask, the whole
exploded, and scorched all the boys in a most dread-
ful manner. The eldest boy, who held the flask,
suitered most, and considerable , fears are yet enter-
tained of his recovery; but the others, we are happy
to say, are now out of danger.
Tuesday morning as three children of Mr. Pins,
of the Old Barge-house Wharf, Surrey-side of B 1 ick-
friars-bridge, were playing on the Wharf, the younger
of them being only three years and a half of age, -by
overrunning himself was precipitated from the wharf,
a height of at least twe ye fe 1, into the Thames ;
ere eider brother, only eleven years old, seeing the
danger of the poor child, immediately jumped into
the water to endeavour to rescue him ; the second
brother, nine years of age, in Ilreadful anxiety for
the fate of the two others, also jumped in, and had it
not been for the humane interference of Mr. Doe, the
brother to the boat-builder of that name, who was
near the spot, on some crafts, and had witnessed all
the transaction, most probably they would all have
met a watery grave, but he went into the water and
rescued them all, to the unspeakable gratification of
their parents, to whose care he delivered them.
Sunday se'nnight, the following melancholy acci-
dent happened at Bernie :—Alexander Paul, who
drove the mail coach from that place to Stonehaven,
had gone into the stable to get the horses ready
against the arrival of the coach from Montrose, and
having fallen asleep at the end of the stable, his candle
set fire to the straw. On going to take out the horses,
the unfortunate man was found burnt to death ; and
such was the suffocation occasioned, that it was with
gala hazard the horses could be got out alive. Me
ad drove the coach for that stage, since its first esta.
blislunent, and has left a widow and three children to
deplore his loss.
Brandy his.fallen in price in consequence Of the
supplies already received, and much more are ,bo-rtly
'expected.

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