Star.
London, England, 1817-07-29 00:00:00

SPORMI INTEL I.; ATE.

STATEMENT of the ODDS on the DONCASTER
LEGER STAKES, Ike —lnly N.
Taken.—a•—'l4 to 1 asst. Mr. Watt's e. by Whitelode.
7'akett--75 to 1 asst. D. of Hamilton s 'trade's.
l'aken-11 to i apt. Sir r. Stanley's Wirral!.
Takeo--11 to I ag.t. Stainskaough.
II to 1 art. Mr. CattertonN Sober Rob!o.
13 to 1 age. Mr. Fletcher's Canttliun.
DERBY 6 FAKES, 181$.
14 to 1 ag.t. air I. Shelley's brother to Crecy.
to 1 agst. Mr. Crockford's c. out of Sister to
Remembrancer.
17 to 1 apt. any other.

Letters of 15th May from the Portage, mention that
i.nrd SELKIRK, leariiig he might not malve good the
title by winch beheld Fort William, and afraid also of
meeting the C,nimissioners sent up by Government,
hail ►etreated with the whole ot his forces towards
the Red River.

The Awl petticoat fashion has produced a schism
among the Ladies. Every female who wears long
petticoats is now set down as having Mid leer.
A cause was tried in the Grand Court, J►maica,
on the 7th of last month, which appeared to involve
an interesting question of public law, as connected
w►th the actual condition of the Insurgents in South
America. A Venezuelian Government schooner,
the Condor. commanded by Captain Philipe Estevez,
arrived at Kingston, and a replevin was issued against
her by the agents of her original owners, who were
Spanish subjects residing in the Havannah, and firs
whom she was captured by the Insurgents. A mo-
tion being made to discontinue the replevin, the
Court considered the question in three points of view,
first, how far the plaintiffs could proceed in a British
Court of Justice to recover a vessel which, by their
own confession, was engaged in a traffic directly in the
teeth of the abolition Acts of Great Britain, at the mo-
ment of its capture ? !dly, whether the Cow t could
decide upon a great political question between Great
Britain and the subjects of another country, in a state
of civil war among themselves, when the British Go-
vernment was maintaining the most marked neutra-
lity towards both the contending parties ? thirdly,
whether the Condor, coming in a public character'
from Venezuela, not only with dispatches for the
Admiral on that station, but with dispatches to be
forwarded from him for our own Government at
home, which might be of the utmost importance to
the Mother Country, was not entitled rather to the
protection of the Court, than to be considered as sub-
ject to be detained by its process, and that particu-
larly at the instance of subjects of Spain ? The Court
delivered no opinion upon the first point, and the se-
cond they considered as not coming within their ju-
risdiction. They therefore determined that the Con-
dor came in a character which entitled her, by the
law of nations, to protection from civil process, and
that the replevin was consequently improperly brought.
On Monday the fist instant, Ayr jail was ag.in
broken, and three of the prisoners escaped. These
three prisoners were confined in the very strongest
room of the prison, usually called the condemned
cell. Nevertheless, by the means of a single common
mason's iron, they raised up one of the Bags of the
floor. broke so iron grating on which the stone lay,
and also an arch upon which both are founded.—
Through the opening thus made, tbepri loners dropped
into the cellar where the fire engines are kept, the
lock on the door of which they wrenched off. and so
got to the street.—Their flight was discovered almost
instandy, and officers dispatched in various directions,
but hitherto none of them have been caught. This
is the third time within a twelvemonth this prison has
been broken.

IMPLIDENT Roaseriv.—Friday afternoon, as the
domestics of General FANNING, of Upper Seymour.
street,Portman-square, were at tea in the back kitchen,
a footstep was heard in the passage leading to the
area. One of the female servants coming out to as-
certain who it was, saw a boy going out at the door.
She asked him his business, when he inquired if a
Mrs. -- lived there ? To which receiving an answer
in the negative, he departed. In a short time after,
several articles of plate of considerable value were
missed from a table in the front room, where they
had been placed preparatory to heingcleaned. A search
was instituted for the depredator, but wi►hout avail.
Several houses in that quarter have lately been plun-
dered in the same manner.

Coaoxxit's Isyouitsr.—An Inquisition was oaken
yesterday afternoon sidle St. John of Jerusalem. Ro-
samond-street, Clerkenwell, on the body of James
Cull, aged 35 years. the son of Mr. Cull, plumber,
Btc. Rosamond-street, Clerkenwell. A surgeon stated,
that he was seat for to the deceased on the morning
of Wednesday last ; he attended him immediately at
his father's house and found him dead and cold ; at
the request of his friends be opened his head, there
being an external blackness► When he had opened
the external skin he found the skull fractured, and
about six ounces of coagulated blood on the brain
that had effused from a blood vessel which had been
raptured. The skull was remarkably thin, and a
blow of no very great violence would possibly have
caused the fracture which produced his decease.—
William Tibbet, son of Mr. Tibbet, 6, Bowling.
green-lane, being sworn, stated, that on Tuesday last,
between seven and eight o'clock at night, the deceased,
himself, and four others, went to the Merlin's Cave
field, Spa-fields, o play at cricket. While he was
throwing the ball, he heard one of the boys call to
James Cull, and ask him, it be allowed Martindale
to sit on his coat? he replied. no; and went up to
Martindale and pulled the coat from under him ; as
Martindale rose from the ground, he accidentally
struck the deceased with his elbow on the head, the
deceased struck him again with his clenched fist, and
was in a violent passion, and Martindale struck him
a back-handed blow. The deceased walked away,
and laid himself on the grass. He (witness) went
up to the deceased ; he said that he was hurt ; he went
up to Martindale, and asked him how he came to hit
the deceased so violently ? he replied, that he did not
intend to hurt him, and only struck him in return for
a blow he gave him.—Henry August Roux sworn,
stated, that he saw Martindale hit the deceased with
his elbow accidentally, as he was rising from the
ground; he beggsd pardon of the deceased, but he
being in a passion, struck Martindale with his closed
fist, and Martindale struck him again with the back
of his right hand. The blow he gave him with his
elbow might be very violent, but he was certain it
was not given intentionally. The deceased was found
dead in his bed nest morning. Verdict—Died from
A btu w he received in a scufll accidentally.