Star.
London, England, 1810-01-17 00:00:00

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SURREY SESSIONS, JAN. 16.

Jane; Parsons was indicted for stealing a, guinea,
a half-guinea, and a seven shillings piece, from the
person of James Wiseman, on the sth of Novem-
ber last.

The Prosecutor being called, said he was too much
intoxicated at the time the robbery took place, to be
able to state any of the citctunstances attending it,
except the loss of his money.
A witness named Appleton, said he was at the
Dun Horse public-house, in the Borough, on the sth
of November last ; the Prisoner and the Prosecutor
were there ; the latter very much intoxicated—the
witness observed the prisoner, who was sitting near
the prosecutor, feeling about his pockets, and soon
after he left the house. The witness then went up to
the prosecutor and saw that his breeches pockets were
turned out, and two one-pound notes were lying on
the seat by his side. He immediately went after the
prisoner, and overtook him a short distance from the
house. When he charged him with the robbery, the
prisoner took some money from his pocket, and said,
" Here is all the money."
The Prisoner, in his defence, acknowledged that
he was at the Dun Horse on the morning mentioned.
The prosecutor was there, very much intoxicated, and
WAS tossing up for one pound notes. The prisoner
drank the liquor he called for and left the house—he
had not proceeded far before he was stopped by the wit-
ness, Appleton, who charged him with the robbery,
when he pulled out his money and said, " here is all
the money I have got," and not, as the witness had
stated, g here is the money.'
The Jury, after a short deliberation, Acquitted
the Prisoner.
ElizaLeth Smith, charged with stealing a box of
wearing apparel, and some love-letters, the property
of Ann Cox, her fellow servant, was found Guilty,
and sentenced to be transported for 7 years.
James Cork!, charged with stealing a quantity of
iron, the property of Mr. Collinger in Bridge-
road, in whose employ he was ; and James Goodall,
charged with stealing a sheet from a public-house,
where he had lodged, were found Guilty, and seve-
rally sentenced to three months imprisonment in the
House of Correction.
Mrs. Mary Jackson, a respectable matron of sixty,
was indicted for an assault on the person of a man
named Wood.
It appeared from the evidence, that the prosecutor
and defendant ate neighbours residing in St. John's-
lane, Walworth. For a considerable time past, a
species of civil war had raged between the families of
both parties, in which each evinced their cordial ill-
will towards each other by frequent acts of violence.
About six months since, the defendant convicted the
prosecutor in the Spiritual Court of Doctors' Com-
mons, of a Jibe}, he having called her by the oppro-
brious epithet of wh—e, for which he did penance in
a white sheet twice, in his parish church. Since that
period, shame and vexation had not a little contri-
buted to fan the flame of Mr. Wood's jealousy, who
burned for an opportunity of wreaking his vengeance
on the head of Mrs. Jackson. His hopes with this
view were fr.mtrated by want of opportunity, until
the beginning of December last, when meeting her in
the vesiitut. of the building they respectively inhabited,
he accosted her in terms the most indelicate, and call-
ed her by every epithet the fecundity of his imagina-
tion could suguest, save that of a gentlewoman ; the
;rritability of Mrs. Jacicion's disposition could not fail
of being considerably stimulated by this address, and
she replied to him in a strain, though not quite so in-
decent, yet equally forcible, and followed it up by
pulling him heartily by the nose, and reproaching
him for his ruffianly and unmanly conduct. Her
unfortunate intemperance furnished the irritable dis-
position of Wood with an appropriate handle to gra-
tify his hungry spleen, and he accordingly lodged
his complaint of assault against the defendant next

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 16.
Arrived the Vesuvius bomb, from a cruize--
Sailed the PRINCESS CHARLOTTE, for Plymouth.
DEAL, JANUARY 16.
* I Came down from the River the CREATON sloop of
We have reason to fear that the idea of attempting I war.—Arrived the BEAVER sloop of war, from a
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to maintain possession of Portugal is again enter- . •
cruise.—Sailed the TRINCULO sloop of war, for Ports-
tair,d We judge thus from the tone given to the
mouth.—Remain in the Downs, the John Adams
der.:•oilicial intelligence which is suffered to transpire
vita any accounts arrive from the peninsula. The American frigate, Harmony victualler, Speculator
Lis: dispatches from Lord WELLINGTON, it is said, . lugger ; and his Majesty's ships as per last.
a speak confidently of the sufficiency of the means he i YARMOUTH, JANUARY 16.
rssesses for the defence of Portugal. While the
Sailed this morning the PROMETuEus and BLossom
British army, consisting of 25,000 men fit for duty, :
sloops of war to the Westward. Ships remain, ex-
is stationed in the best positions for covering Lisbon,
tilarsli.il IlEaFsFoito has an army of 30,000 Portu- cept the above, as per last.—The Jonge Ann, of 01-
~,ese on the north eastern frontier." I denburg, M. H. OLDENBURGII master, from Amster-
mevate letter from Lisbon, of the 6th instant, dam, with wheat and oats, put in here with loss of
states,that advice had been received there of the Spa- anchors and cables in the late bale.
rlji Government having declared the Prince of
TORBAY, JANUARY 14.
Bitaza Regent of Spain during the captivity of FER- ;
The gale continues wit
I:WO VII. We place no reliance on this state- with unabated fury, and lam
oere. Intelligence is stated to have been also received .very apprehensive that if the wind does not veer fur-
:elm Rio Jeneiro, that shortly after the arrival of the ther to the northward, that one-half the fleet now in
Spanish Ambassador there, M. ANTONIA DE ARAIJO
the Bay will drive on shore. The brig Captain
and M. D. J. Da ALMAIDA were appointed, the for.
wier Minister for Foreign Affairs, the latter Minister Statenton, that I wrote to you of yesterday, was
of War.. : boarded in the storm by our Brixham Pilots, who put
After a lotig cessation of Intelligence from Wal. a man on board, and fortunately, for about ten at
them, accounts have been received, through the night she parted, and the pilot ran her on shore at
cerium of a vessel which arrived yesterday from that Elberry in Torbay, and thereby saved the crew, and
toast. 'The French, in retaking Ossession of the
perhaps the ship. She is laden with chalk, hoops,
OEI3, had hitherto not molested the inhabitants or
.eir property, and no fears were entsktiined of the &c. bound to Cork. The brig Friends, of and from
general seizure and confiscation of mercleindies shith Teignmouth, for Fiol, JOHN WHITEWAY, master,
vas at first apprehended. `parted hek small bower, and to save the vessel and
Prince STARREMBERO has receivtd from his Court lives, cut away the best bower, and ran her on shore
frah and more urgent instructions to return to at Fishcombe, in Torbay, saved the crew, but I am
Vienna. • We may therefcire conclude, that his Ex- .
apprehensive for the ship. Two other brigs and a
telex)! must leave this country very soon, though ;
whenever he does, there is reason to suppose it shi are drivin near the spot—it is a melancholy
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will be with reluctance and regret. His departure ; sight. Five of our Brixham Pilots are on board so
sill of course completely refute the assertions so often i many different vessels in distress. It was the ALERT
vat abroad, that his Excellency was to be the me-I
i f and not the Fuer) sloop of war, Capt. RORY, that
d'turn of a pacific aegociation between this country . •
frame. `arrived and remains here, 19 days from St. John's,
, • having had bad weather, and only brought four of
her convoy safe home ; it was a large sloop between
80 and 90 tons, that she fell in with dismasted, off
Scilly, name unknown, her upper streak painted red ;
her bowsprit also gone, her hatches open, and part of
her cargo of fruit gone, as was most of her materials.
The officer of the ALERT could find no papers on
board that could lead to a discovery where she be-
longed ; she fired several shot at her to sink her.—lt
blows heavy and much sea.
ABERDEEN, I .kNUARY 19.
After very blowing weather from the southward
for some days, we had yesterday a- violent gale from
the same quarter, with a very heavy sea on the coast ;
but happily, we have heard of no loss of shipping.—
During the gale of yesterday, as a seaman with a boy
were endeavouring to warp out a boat, by a rope from
a vessel at the quay, the boat was by the rapidity of
the current carried down, leaving the seamen clinging
to the rope ; ia which situation, after remaining a
short time, he was unfortunately carried off and
drowned, before any assistance could be afforded him,
by the numerous spectators whowitnessed the accident. /
Yesterday, came on the Election of a Director of
Monday last, the brig General Pelafox, hloxic, off the East-India Company, in the room of Sir Wsr.
Liverpool ; and sloop Sampson, OLIVER, of Hull, Bessi.r.e, deceased.—At the close of the ballot the
both in ballast, arrived here in 13 days from Heligo- numbers appeared as follows :
land, where the former had been ashore and received For Colonel TAYLOR 961
For R. Twiensc, Esq 756
considerable damage. By the* we learn that there
The numbers were not
intelligence declared in Court.
had been agood many losses of shipping on that
island in the late gales, particularly the storm of the
The apprehension o
from India begins to operate powerfully on the minds
lith ult. when several vessels were driven ashore, and
of speculators. The sale and transfer of India stock,
other. to sea, without anchors or cables. which had been for some time remarkably slack,
Thursday last, in a gale from South, the Monkey has lately become
have very brieffecsk. Bargains
in the course
to a consi-
eun-brie- Lieutenant FITZGERALD, arrived here from derable amount been ted, and
b b 9 of yesterday, that stock was found to have been re-
Gottenburgh, after a passage of ttree days, having
dieted nearly £lO per cent. in value. Towards
left that port on the afternoon of Monday. The the close of the market it rose again to £2 per cent.
'Tile;; per Cent. Consols also experienced a fall of
Monkey brings dispatches from Admiral DixoN, who
was left with five sail of the line, four frigates, and nearly half
t sc per
arc cent.
of money. the cause of which was ascribed
some smaller ships of war, besides a fleet of about to the gity
A letter, dated Auxerre, on the 21st December,
100 sail of merchantmen, waiting a favourable wind
states, that a general remove has taken place among
to proceed on their homeward voyage to Britain.—
I the British prisoners throughout France ; and that in
The ships of war lie below the Castle, and there was !future they were to be divided into classes, and each
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no intercourse with the shore, none of the officers class to be stationed in a different place. Auxerre
being allowed to land. was fixed on for the masters and mates in the mer-
chants' service, receiving pay from the French Go-
FROM LLOYD'. LIT. vernment., about 1400 of whom were stationed there,
GlAtrEsztito, JAN. 16.—N0 Wilds arrigsvd this day.--Ssiled
and the liberty of the town, but were not allowed to
the Betsey, Swinton ; and Leooldas, Cos, tor Rio Janeiro ; and
pass the gates.
William, Herat, for Trinidad.
DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. On the 3d inst. an awful accident happened in a
The Hearty, fur the Marra Elizabeth, recaptured Nevemter coal pit, in the parish of Ivfadely, Shropshire. On the
e, i 808, and for the Bent Bergitte, captured April 24, 1809, was preceding night the sulphur took fire, and kindled
Paid on board on Friday last, and will be recalled on Tuesday,
the timbers which supported the roof, at which time
and Friday's, at No. 29, IsSez-serees, Strand. there were 13 men and eight horses down, but, pro-
m saisetie, tot the Johanna, sued
at
June S, I non, win be
paid on her arrival in port, and recalled at No. 1, Junes-street, videnually, they were all got up without injury.—
Adelphi. Next day, however, about noon, four men went down,
The Lief, for the Nostra Senora del Rourio, captured March
for the purpose of endeavouring to extinguish the fire;
t 5, 180% will be paid on board on Saturday next, and recalled at
but after remaining there half an hour, the sui-
No. Z 3, Surrey-street, Strand.
.) phur became so powerful that they were all suffo-
cated, without a possibility of rendering them any
The Bon Aventure, Kida,. from Seville to Lem
don, was found off Scilly the 10th instant, di: m ,sted
I itSSistance.
and domed.

Le!terc of the 11th inst. were yesterday received
from Holland. They ,state, that the city of Frankfort
had been anneted,wahe kingdom of Westphalia.—
King Louti.had not.returned,n4was it knowtt when
he would.
Admiral DICES Me arrived at the Admiralty yes-
terday from the Baltic.
Ocn DRURY.—A final meeting was yesterday held
_between the Committee of New Renters and the Pm-
prietors of the late Theatre, at which all difficul-
ties and misunderstandings were effectually removed,
and the arrangement proposed on the part of the Pro-
prietors unanimously adopted by the Committee.—
Tac terms are considered as so fair and liberal, that
there is no doubt of the recommendation of the
Committee being adopted at the nest General Meet-
ing of the Renters. This main impediment being re-,
moved, the revival of Old Drury will be the speedy
li,equence.
TuraTttE, CovENT GARDEN.—Last night, at this
Theatre, Mrs. WE.sTON, who made her first appear-
on Saturday last, as Portia, in The Merchant of
rn;er, took that of Isabella, in Sir RICHARD STEEL'S
sentimental Comedy of The Conscious Lovers. It is a
part well siited to her powers, and she sustained it
with considerable dignity ; but, as we have observed,
she is too artificial in her action, and she sometimes
AiStl 11!;sti Lutes formal grimace for expression ; but
taese are detects which time and familiarity with a
Lo'lloa Theatre will probably correct. CHARLES
gave a gentlemanly deportment to Tour,
and Mrs. H. Jotts:s-rosr, was interesting,
tlyaigh now and the:l rather mincing in Indiana.—
Joy:v.s, and Mrs. C. KEMBIS, were very sue-
•t.•l.;l in Cimberfon, Tom, and Phillis. The House
10. crowded.
M.)1.1.ay evening Hobart House, the residence of
C' enters of ButatiNcotamsione, was opened for
ti:e Erst -time this season to upwards of 200 persons
51 distinction and fashion. The entertainment con.
•.sted of a concert of vocal and instrumental music.
iween the first and second act the company promena-
ded through the rooms of state which are singularly
towel and splendid ; the hangings are composed of
:India and chintz ; azure blue was the favourite CO.
tr, and the style a-la-rec. At half past eleven ar-
tl-:c Princess of WALES ; her Highness was re-
Aed at the great entrance by the hostess, and es-
"reed to the concert room. Here the Pittscess was
Lrrnally introduced to the representative of the PER.
It.\N Mo.:Aern, who returned the curtesey made by
her I I: Oness, with an admirable grace. The charms
tf melody were highly gratifying to his Excellency,
tolio repeatedly expressed his approb.ttion agreeably
to the cu,tont of his country. The party did not
h.rcak up until two o'clock in the morning. Among
the company present were
Thu Portuguese ambassador, Duchess of Leeds, Marcbionoss
Salthur, the Ladies Cecil, Earl Gower, Mr. Drummond,
T 47 tie Wirt, Miss Manners, Lord Wentwnrth, Earl mid
Coun-
non. Mr. and Mrs. Walpole, Earl and
rwinv Dartmouth, and Mr. Smith.
" ikon save the King" was played by the band when
1:le Princess of Wa LES entered the house, and retired.
Vle Countess Dowager of BUCKINGIIAMIIIIRE gave
et first grand rout this season, on Monday evening,
Ler :ousc, Grosvituor.:place. It was numerously

morning.
The Jury found the defendant guilty, and the
Chairman was pleased to sentence ht.!. to pay a
fine of £lO, and to be imprisoned until the same was

paid.
The defendant, being unable to pay the fine at the
moment, remained in durance vile.