Star.
London, England, 1819-03-22 00:00:00

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Sir Delete Limo is elsotoiksitethaSeiettnnent
of lilhiolisreaciat -by- the death of Sir
CUTLER. Lord BERECIORD is to get the 69th Foot;
and Sir GORDON DRUMMOND is to be Colonel of the
68th Regiment, in the room of his I,ordship.
Colonel thaysei Military Secretary to the Nike
of WELLINGTON in his several campaigns, has suc-
ceeded Lieutenant-Colonel Cnaru4N, as Secretary
to the Master-General of the Ordnance, The latter,
it is said, retires on a pension.
Saturday, upwards of 150 men of the Honourable
Last India Company's Artillery and Infantry march-
ed from Chatham to Gravesend, to,embark for India.
Monday, detachments of the Royal Scots, 34th, and
69th Regiments, likewise marched to embark for the
same destination.

Monday morning the remains of Major-General
Tit ost 'L'ItoTTEft, Commanding-Officer of Artillery,
in the City of Dublin, were conveyed under escort of
a troop of horse artillery, followed by a vast number
of artillery and other Officers in carringes, from Ste,
phen-street to the Pigeon-house Dock, where the
body was placed, with military ceremonial, on board
a packet for removal to Scotland, tit?. native land all
this esteemed and much regretted Officer.

Lieutenant-Colonel :11,CAnTiiv, the Governor of
Sierra-Leone, issued a Proclamation on the 14th of
July, announcing, that he ' had taken possession of
the Isles de Loss, ceded to his Britannic Majesty, on
the 6th of that month, by MONGO DtstuA, King of
the Bago country, and all his Chieftains.
On Wednesday Rear-Admiral HARVZY returned,
'from the Leeward Island command, in the ANTE.

LOPE, 50, Captain GEORGE SAYER (2), having been
succeeded by Rear-Admiral DONA Lp Castra eta., who
arrived at Barlladoes on the 28th of January, in the
S.v..tscrav, 50, Captain WILSON. Admiral CAMP.
saw. was in better health than when he left England.
The Sactsausty was left at Ilarbadoes; the ELTRYA.
Lus, Captain Ilustrissox, and RALr.rom, Captain
BE 11MG A ROT, were at Antigua ; the I.*:.v, Captain
TO MK I ssox, was at Trinidad. These ships compose
the squadron on the station. They uT.re all healthy;
as were the troops stationed at all the islands, under
Lord COM RERMER N.. Antigua and Tobago had been
visited with climactorial disorders, but which, hap
pile, soon disappeared. The ANTELOPE left Barba-
does on the '2Bth, and Antigua 31st January. On the
3d instant fell in with the ttansports having the 21st •
Regiment on hoard, ofF Scilly, bound to Ilarbadoes.
She sailed on Friday fur Chatham, to be paid off.,
Captain ROE ERT BOYLE, R.N. came home in the AN-
TLLoPE, and an Officer and some invalids from the
'2d and 63d Regiments. Six men, late belonging to
the 60th Regiment, who have been sentenced to
transportation to New South Wales, were likewise
brought home in the ship, and have since been re-
moved to Portchester Castle. _ _ _

On Wednesday last the Alfred transport arrived
at Plymouth, with timber, for the Dock-yard there,
which was cut in the forests arc and Sierra Leone,
She had a tedious passage of ten weeks. The Echo.
IlowE, with a number of Missionaries on board, had
arrived out in the sht.rt space of nineteea days, from
she Downs. Lieutenant Bytcsos, and part of the crew
of the CHERUB, who were left on the coast a detain-
:ed slave-trading ship, are come home. The nefarious
though.most evidently engaged in this con-
tfq.9offirmirceb could nut be coadernr.,:d. Many
b the principal Claiises in the serera- Treaties on this
subject are so'codused, and evasively worded, that,
combined with the want of Judicial Authority in the

Admiralty Court at Sierra Leone, the cause of slave.
prevention isulmost hopeless. The TARTAR, Com-
modere Eir Geonoe Cozl.l zp, K.C.B.e.as cruising to
lee Ward ; but the coast swa7rocd with schooners tak-
ing in slaves, thousands of whom Were shipped every
month for the Havannah and the Brazils. The three
expeditions in progress for the discovery of the source
of the Niger, had all united at-Galen:, where they
were waiung for fresh supplies of presents and stock
from Gambia, their original supply having been ex-
hausted: • The French part of the expedition includes
men of very considerable literary and scientific talents.
Wednesday morning, about three o'clock, Mr, liens
cnit's woollen manufactory. Galashiels, was burnt
to the ground. The tire was occasioned by one of
the workmen having fallen asleep and left a candle
burning, which had fallen amongst some wool, and
the fire communicating to the rest of the premises,
the whole was consumed in two hours. The same
house was burnt about six. years ago.
Recollect! HAZARD and Co. are the Contractors
for the present Lottery.--Ibiz4nn and Co. sold all
the Thirty Thousand Pound Prizes in a recent Lot-
tery, aid the last Thirty Thousand Pound Prize ever
drawn. TO•MORROW, at Four, Lottery begins, con-
taining Three Prizes of £20,000, besides Thirty-seven
ether Capitals, and as extra Prizes for the first day,
Eighty whole undrawn Tickets. Hazaito and Co. s
Offices, 93, Royal Exchange, 26, Cornhill, and 321 e,
Oxford-street, corner of gwaßow•street.
lixoweeeoc is Powea.—Nothing can be more
true than this apothegm ; for if we knew where to
obtain the Three 7rizes of £20,000, we should have
ellepowir of 'maim g ourselves happy and indepen-
dent for life. In the absence, therefore, of certain
knowledge, we should attend to the indications of
good fortune, which have always been conspicuous
at the Offices of G. CARROLL, No. 19, Cornhill, and
Oxfcrd-street, particularly in the last Contract,
when he sold No. 2,387, a Prize of 50,0001. No.
7,003, a I:4,000, and others of £l,OOO, £5OO, &c.,-
The Drawing will commence Tovmoasow.
Yesterday the Condemned Sermon was delivered
in Newgate in the presence of a numerous audience,
by the Rev. Dr. COTTON, to the four unhappy men
ordered for execution on Wednesday. Their conduct
was very becoming their awful situation. A pathetic
address was delivered to each by the Ordinary, which
seemed much to affect them.
Friday sennight, Sarah Hurst, of Little Horwood,
convicted at the late Aylesbury Assizes of poisoning
her husband, was executed pursuant to her sentencs.
The wretched women said nothing at the place of
execution, bait after her apprehension she made a AOl
c.onfcssion of her crime.
Wednesday morning James Hard was executed aS
Hertford, pursuant to his sentence, for setting fire to'
his master's barn.
Saturday lasts a man of thelname of Bray. a waterman of
Putney, erdeavouring to shoot the centre arch of Lac/km:edge,
the tide coming up strong, the boat uatornuiately urant. and be
was cbawneit

P. ,13.! JPOntiki MIR= 20.
•
. e . uAtelitattuit;tta? at
. at. Dover, at. six o'clock on Fnday
Ilibteiggi: be was itprelyeel by a guard of honour, con -
r
et the dep9Vsi;th4:47th• 24th, sled 47th Re-
' Wei the. "d of Captain Mtitnicx,
thoi7th** -The 0 eta Of the Garrison were of
terwards presented to the Archduke, and partook
of an elegant
.13reakfast, prepared it: Wright s. On
the Arthiloke embarking sa die afternoon, he ex-
pressed himself in high terms of approbation of the
appearance pf the men of the above depots (who are
on the eve of embarking for India) o.nd of the talus
nity and attention of the Officers of the above depots,
who are now commanded by Major STEWART, of
the 24th Regiment of Foot.

The name of Mr. MAZWEEL should have been in-
cluded in the Minority on the two Junior Lords of
the Admiralty,
Besides the conviction at the Devon Assizes of Sir
MAN Asiwu Lorita, for bribery, at the late election for
the Borough of Grampound, Alex and keinoits,
were also found guilty on two separate informations
against them by accepting bribes for said Borough.
The approaching Sittings of the Insolvent Debtats
Court are expected to last above a fortnight. There
having been no Sittings for the last six weeks, on ac-
count of Serjeant Rum NINGTON being indisposed, there
are now 722 applications pending by Insolvents for',
their discharge.
The total number of Insolvents' estates assigned by'
the Provisional Assignee in London, since the come'
mencereept of 'the Oct in 1814, up to the 31st of
l:Pticentiber, 1818, is 1.01.8 ; and the gross amount of
the monies got in by the. Receiver of the Court, for'
the benefit of the estates of Insolvent Debtors since
his appointment on the 10th September, 1816, to the
31st last. is 4;15,229.25. 4d.
Advices front Batavia, to the latter end of October,
were received on Saturday. The market was over,
run with American traders, who were purchasing
coffee with great avidity, on account of the approach-
ing duty to be laid on all articles exported in foreign
vessels. The Americans pay for their cargoes only
in dollars, and their speculations had advanced the
price of . coffee from 16 to 24. dollars the pecul, an-
swering to about 1401 b. avoirdupois. The new duty
will be two dollars the pecul.
The last letters from Antwerp mention, that
300,00016. of coffee had recently been purchased
there on Dutch and Hamburgh accounts.
Trig LATE MR. BooNes Wl4 L,—The personal
effects of the late CHARLES BooNE, Esq. of Stan-
hope-street, May-fair, were stated in the Prerogative
Court as under five hundred thousand pounds ; upon
which the probate duty alone amounts to six thou-
sand pounds. The bulk of this, as well as the pro-
duce of all his freehold, copyholcir and leasehold
estates, which, by his will, he desires to be converted
into money, he has left to his daughter, tlattitirr
Daustreoeti, wife of WILLIAM DRUMMOND, ESq. COMP
monly called Lady Deusisiceso, for life; the other
bequests, though considerable in themselves, being
comparatively trifling. Upon her decease, twelve
thousand pounds Three per Cent. Consols each, are
given to the Executors, General GEORGE GanTir,
General Thomas GARTH, and JOHN FULLERTON, of
Thryberg Park, in the county pf York, Esq. (in addi-
ttion to Eve thousand pounds each, of like stock, left
to thsni immediately, for their trouble as Executors).
Ten thousand pounds Three per Cenr. Copepls are
permitted to .be disposed of by. Lady Dnplemosn,
during her life,,at her own discretion; on her decease,
the sum of twelve thousand pounds is bespeathed to.
ELIZABETH BOONE, the niece of the testator; and
four or five similar sums to other legatees of the name.
of GARTH; the residue is left to the testamentary
appointment of Lady DnptesioNo; and, in case of her
demise without making disposition of it, it is given
to the said ELIZABETH BooNE. There are several
codicils, by which provision is made for servants and
others ; and the legatees in the will have considerable
immediate bequests; the said Miss Booze ten thou-
sand pounds of the aforesaid stock , and those to the
Executors are greatly augmented. These will all
pay stamp duties independent of the six thousand
pounds on the probate. The probate issued from
under seal on the the 13th instant. General
GARTH has not yet accepted the Executorship.
II....SPERATE ATTEMPT AT Assatisteerios:.—On
Teeiday last, about seven o'clock in the evening, a
most atrocious act was committed near Stprrington,
by a young man, of ihe name of Jame.; G 4.4 a la-
bourer. Mr. Gibbs, gamekeeper p Lord De La
Zoete', of Parham, sent his son, a youth foureen
years of age, with a letter to a small inn ou Cootliamr
common, about four hundred yards from l‘fr. CiLbs's
house, While in the act of returning from the inn,
the lad was suddenly knocked down by a man, and
dregged to a short distance from the road, where the
villain pilled put his knife, and cut the throat of the
youth in .two places, in a shocking manner. le the
third attempt to complete his murderous design, the
youth seized the knife, and wrenched it from the
hand of the assassin, and threw it over the hedge.
crying " Murder! ames Gibbs, do you mean to
murder me?" Two persons, who were crossing the
Common at the time, immediately proceeded to the
spot from whence the cry of murder issued. Try,
villain hearing them, made off, but was imroedlatelyl
pursued, and apprehended ;t his lodgings, with 14111
frock and jacket very bloody, lie at first stated that
be knew nothing of the affair ; but he afterwards
confessed that it was his intention to have murderedl
the lad, if he bad not been prevented by the two pipe
sons coming to his assistance, although he had beso.
lying in weft, he said, for smother young man, with
whom he had a dispute on the Sunday evening be-
fore, about some girls. The youth at present is in a
eery weak state, from the loss of blood; bet It is co.
pected that he will recover. Gibbs is eboot nineties.
iyears of age, and prior to this breei...--ble transaction,
bore axod character: fle has been fully committed
Ho am Gaol for trig.' The father of 'the pri-
soner has been in a state of distraction ellr-since the
horrible affair.
Saturday mgr.° abnut dues o'clock,aatalanndati broke
out in the Star asul-Cruser .t±y.
at Putney, which, in a short dfne,ffipd;thiiigleoiX.lg uhf
-
-..4e• and did sonic dint4t,r fa 141;06e... .011
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Mr, KR44117 and Me AUTiIOR nit ArI'AZIANB,
TO THE EDITOR OP THE 04114
KEAN has not disowned the Letter; I am, there,.
fore, reluctantly obliged to believe, that it emanated from him-
elf; rather than from one of those enemies, who, conscious pf
their own Insignificance, are ever active in their malice against
oslebrated characters. In fact, I really thought that some one
had assumed Mr. lizam's name, for the purpose of doing him the
short and little injury of a day; instead of which it appears coke
his own, and the injury must last for years !
Circumstantial evidence, Mr. Roma, i,, aolnetimes, far bet-
ter than positive. Mr. Kurt knows, and every one most know,
that I cannot, by any association, hive positive proof of what
passed, many month; ago, MT:ie.-de conversation. Ikt the ful.
lowing extract front a Newspaper, of this day, furl:idles such 4
fortunate eowirrientary on my tent, :hat I thIA, ao arguintnt
will be esteemed necessary to Frove, at least, the prixt6lq of
my statement.
I have stated in the Preface to the Italians, that a Gentleman
havitl sent a letter, rel :tire to a Tra;;edy he bait swiftest, CO
Mr.IILXAN, Mr. Krau retarr.ol tar answer, that micas the entire
interest centered in the character designed for him, it
wither min bit repatetio4 ;tut Me later...44s 44!e 1-;.:catre Ova
Avoid be accepted. This ass. rtion Mr. Re.aor and yet it
does most unfortunately happen, that the very flentleman,..alia
. .

told me this, has, in the Chaol bicA of this day, I;ivcn the fullowinF
atement

" The letter sent to Mr. Ks.tw indicated that there were two
characters in the piece, as it then stood, either of which might
be so written up as to render it the principal; and Mr. Kstax
was nequesseil to say which of the two he would prefer, that it
might be altered accordinoly. Mr. KEAN, Aituout waiting to WO
dot MS. wrote back,' the character ciliated to me fs t4e ckicf
,tied of SAC Play, it will me Le con:iftent with ray reptdation, or ;lee
interest of Drioy lone Tinatre (o accept Now the chief object
was to snake a good Play ; and the story required that the three
female and two of the male characters, should be such as would
require good acting, though the Author wad prepared to give
coospicuons prominence 'lea which ever of the latter Mr. Kau
might most Offect."
If, after this conQrmationof what I have asserted in one in.
stance, M. Kw should still deny the substance of our convert
satiana, I gall think thyoelf jostilled, much nano my will, in
potting him to a test, from which his !miter judoment must re,
coil. And yet surely the man, who is pot to be lielit.ved uoun
his word, is not to be believed upon his oath!
Ilitherto, in the nosing of many dilleculiies and injuries, I have
been fortunate enough to coonnand a considerable portion of pert
I Tonal respect ; and I am proud to say, that, to the best of spy
belief, I have never lost a Single FliwNn. But I give public nu-
Sue to all my friends, numerous and respectable as they are,
that I shall have a contempt tor aoy one of them, who nuo.,
hereafter, shake me by the Lind, if I do not come successfully
out of this controversy—and I now call upon the more active
' portion of the Sus-Comstim To of lest year, not only to lose.:{
friendship for me, as a man, but fee the sake of public justice,
for the ititeoests of the Propretots of the Theatre, and out of re-
spect to the acknowledged talents of Mr. KLAN, I CO upeq
them instantly to come forward and convict me publicly or o
folo hood, if I am wrong in 5!....tir7, that Mr. KEAN, FneViCl:ll
to his journey into Scotland, g.tve a'aistinct and positive pledge,
that nothing on his pan thcold prtroon my Tragedy from suc-
ceeding 'l7le Jew ti Motto, and that too, without ally ofeeenccta
c0nw0.4.n.•
That Mr. Mower, when be found the conduct of Mr. Kra
was operating to my disadvantage, might, two cc three rwiat4s
afterwards, plead the great expenses I had been put to, and the
loss in time and looney I should sustain, it after t.:ts solemn
pledges that had berm given, my Tragedy should not be per...
funned, is vei y ponoble. Fur havieg !Log been In the habit of
reading SENECA and ltoonou o 1 felt no shame in confessing tq
Mr. Moose; nor do I now ill publicly confessing to the :void,
—that, item sever4l rersnus not keeping their engagements with
me, my truly eocellent wife, my children, anti noosed, were, leg
the time, in great comparative want !
From the second month of my marriage, up to the moment
in which I am writing, I have been visited with suns a series of
afflictions, as are, I think, scarcely to he parallelled in the zoooh
of private life ! But 1 ant too proud to excite even thesis:4:lo;y
of the public ; much leto et Mr. Keats.
.1 ono
also toe sensible of the beautiful oov-otao'es of adversity to re,
pine ; :h' ugh it would be IIIiEUE4I4.Us, did I not, sometimes, feel
impatient.: and di-gust.
!teas, I umbastand, :s occadoc4ly ip the habit of deli a
generous actions to I.ieti,ons of Lis own profesaion ; 'httt for hlrti
to presume to the comittioence of exercising couVaTalon towards
me, would trove been a subject fur my ridicule, were I not se
far advanced in the imerwkeige of human nature to koala that
riehiode is the tettlimp d.ztotttoht misses.
lly the more active of the Stab-Committee, t,cfccum.,
mean I'ATI4 NOUNS, Esq. Mentber for (:evenly, Colonts
Dot:etas, of York-place' Baker-sweet. These •Gentlon.cit aid
of high conii.lcratiun in 11.0 country, and I call 'upon them, es
men, and as fientlemen, LAP do that justice to Alr. KEAN, wltir4
I should were I plan, d in Mr. KEAN'S situation, to
administered to myselt. Should they be silent, their silence
must, of course, 4; cwastrned to toy benefit.
Mr. Krou states, in Lis tinfortonote letter, that when t c r.:.1
my moot of all Awl Trogetrio, the only feelings it excited or.o 6
the ?erica goers wet e 0m0nt...//oVe I. righter, and rity f r C,:.;-
Skirt
Xuw, this is either a ;.* urious fsct, or an aietio.ng AXE
don. lam, therefore, resolved, that the public shA know !Ls
actual truth or untruth of this asser:ion; «ad. I eilluptin
Ilse, Mr, r,orit, and Mrs. fiooyr.ut to State, taitol:,:o,io a L. t';',
and ain't as 4511.- &tail as ih,siKe, whether :key Mu Or
commit that most disoracolui..uporage on private feeling, e
Mr. KEAN so roundly has oi.oused alietia 1 If they at;the wicrll
will have a sum criterionti which to judge of !lulus: if they Uhl
not, something better than my assertions will he effordeel to. dip
world, by .winch they max judge the veracity of Mc. Kest).
THE A.lO 1.108. OF " TIIE
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..Iforch 2l, 1819. N.tt UR P.."
• Mr. KEAN modestly says-1* Mr. P. hltioak ricked with
some ability my persoual comps:ion for Mr. inocui.so.
qoence of which I undertook w aot in his ritsze •
• The e':celknt :Mts. llottitioo ands Wai.oier, nye io
America ; but I request thept to ta,ke the; eardesi oppostunn yof
jot-warn:l; me with tloir testimony •
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By an official Return of the Impicirtt Of•drlin, Ice.
for the two last years, uputi the ttibleof,theinawse
of Commons, it appear:s that, these wero',lihp4/1441.L.
, • da
pf Wheat 4181,50 ian• . ;Atom
Beans
Barley 714,3&0 .14" .Soptoesstrr"
545,544 ..„,. di
Wheat Flour 1,078,113 Curt, 577,580X141.
AVERAGE PRICES of CORN M Engbnd sod AVajea, boss
the Returns received:in tie week nuking March IL 4E49.
Wheat I: ye. Earley Oats. Btat:ll.ol'eass.
d. s. d. s. d. a. 41. I. 4,
79 4 57 5 59 7 33 3 ,415
COR,--EXCH NGE, AR.K.ldailt, • it se, .
The supply of Wheat this snorr.ing frtinvgettt and
Essex being large, and the demand fOr which very
trifling, sales were effected with• difficulty.lt. a re,
duction of 2s. per quarter on the finest qu4litits,
whilst the inferior descriptions were tendond on
lower terms, but could not be dispoied of. Barley is
25. to Ss, cheaper, and only prime samples fr.una
buyers. Oats ate full ls. per quarter lower than en
this day weeir4 and went off heavily at that decline.
Beans and rim scarce any thing doing, and
prices nominal. •
seccusis? Oman Beans sp., ~.004 544
Xenc.434 114 ditto 446 49s
Eoe; 78. Oats, Potutoe 34s. 36$
Suffolk .v,.,+tiq.044411a 78s Poland . , .... 33s 34a
Norfolk .'•—• .re! Itr;201 74s -- Feed ..... 5.98
Rye--; 62,1 Flour, per Sack Ns 63s
Barley ('N-,ti) )501 RaPfsetAl Per last tis
tit't M.l°7* 82$ FOLZIGIL
p „.404 44. WEeat, Dantzic ...... 7os 78.
461 60s Baltic Red, Hatnbro' or
its. Bremen, Brabant red 064 140
• ITitypi.j,D 1014KET, IIA4CH
SeCt 114 to 56 44 Veal 5. Od to 7i pd
Ilitstrls .1.44 e 0 0a 6.1 44 Pork
and Lititilo 1340—Pip no,
A STtt W nit MISR.
S _to ia.. o.lBtegir MOO, • •:5s
1 141.0f011.. 10°,11b4* -oe
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Meta mil grevew,AL .:.53ii: C.,.:v; a1.:12.617•6:6 .',C... i-:: ..,'.• ... " . 11011014 ... ...?
Thursdai Waldo& Stiecipsdlic. *be Apia. Plai--1
Skeibrrd and Sh hi",:ft litiA!ii,tn, . : :. ...
and without ilpeaktaii.knoiked . witit",l, *€' 1° * A
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robbc4 tdul of litS Watch, tint; awl
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