Star.
London, England, 1818-01-03 00:00:00

, and the nume-
tEe hletropolis
irous w math-
iy plan which
in whatever
time, how-

directing the

confound the
make a regular
constant hal.it

. exciting com-
Police Report.--
shocking practice
- many hours in
season of the

are hired for
unnatural sleep,
unwilling to

although, he
charity may be

he deplores.
Parish is bound
hundmds of such
• procuring
sufbi-
think the pri.
them with the:
purpose, ands
for which thee,

.MAIFISTY received
branches of the Royal
Castle, who arrived on a
Princecscs; amongst
• GLOUCESTER,
of CLARENCE.
Is returned to
WYNNE and
'rants.—The 3d Re-
ly in Windsor
had a select
the. Castle, to
New Year.
'''EEN and Prin.
rogmore.--The
Oatlands, tltis

are gone to
YORK —The

reviewing the Third
dined with the

CP
61.0

.1 earls on the
Riding Sohool,
:one joined the
appeared to take
the streets and

Wedoesday at Btithatia
two new Mem-
', ; the former
to the office
appointed to
on Wednesday,
'clock, at the Ito-
LORD CnAs-
Vi,:count SID-
BATHURST,
qt of the fiat.
Council broke'

• excellent King's
• at Kew. A
A his Majeufa
Prayers. In the
among other
and defend our
iEORGE ; let his
religious, and
," &c. In his
words " King

to his Clergy
their srrnons, rt.
excellent Mo-
to the Throne,
Chapel Royal,

. -
preacher in his
the Emperorof
`hided to ;. and

the Minister,

Jld, as a lemn
arising him that
)raised, an,l not
iu future from

►onoucn have
tenheim during
the Earl and
SPENCER, Mr.
tar, Mr. Mrs.
Mr. Tiutrtais,

And en Sa:

families were
honour of the
'oms. The
Int concert, in

accbmplished
Several eminent
, were engaged
ze day's enter.

Noble donor.

there are 16
of the Rouse of

stater, thnt
Thftsaly, soiree
?k Lodi, named
cur Pachaoras
Janniwo, with
VI his rot: jets
the liarl,ar::7 to

7'ilt ARMY.

On the C:.7tb ultimo the leUth Regimen arthtsd
from Cairsda, and are at present quartered 3t
chaster. It is expected that tLc Regisner.t will be
disbanded in a short time.
The 95th Regiment, at present quartered r Derby
and the surmunding towns, are under ordc:s to
march to Liverpool, whence a &tar-karat is to mak%
to the Isle of Alan.

A letter from Calcutta, dadki the iGth cfJu:y. re.
ceived by way of America, says—a The Marqw-,
Hastings has left here and proceeded up tine country
to manage an attack to be made when the hairs temp
on the Rajah of Bertpore., a place of uncommoi
strength ; and it is generally believed that they win
carry it, as the means arc adequate, Ind will not be
spared under any false notions of economy."
A Cape of Good Hope sheep vas displayed yr.
terday, at the shop of a Dutcher, the tail of Math
(one solid mass (lilt) measures in length Sf; hide,
'is eight inches in breadth, and 19 inches and a halt
round, and weighs upwards of 18 pounds.
Mr. Tama, of the Mitre Tavern, last week, tr 4.
tributed ten pounds worth of bread to the poor iria.
blunts of Chatham, a liberality which -.vas sea-c-4.
lily applied, and proved a source of comfort to riaty
a needy sufferer.
On Christmas-eve an unprecedented eram?le
liberality was displayed by Mr. FRANCIS SMITH sr:,,,
distributed among the poor affix parish okt Lyn. s
consisting of upwards of 450 perstni, a &maws cl
'bread, beef, and potatoes, most judiciously arraert!,
according to the number in each family; the angle
persons receiving a small loaf, a pound and a lake,
beef, and half a gallon of potatoes: and thel.t.ge;
family, consisting of a man, his wife, and eight du%
dren, four large loaves, twelve pounds of beef, aL4
three gallons of potatoes. The articles of dist-ii•:-
don, particularly the beef, were of the most meek=
quality,
quality, and will, we trust, gain him that er.ter:::-.1
respect so justly due to his humane and litneset:.-.
conduct.

There is in the collection of a Gentleman at Pa'.
dington a curiosity of the following descriptit
'is the body of a boy, apparently about 12 wears
'which was found in an erect post;:re, with 4-e
on, in a vault under St. Bototph's, Aidgate,
Church, in the year 1742, and it is supposed Lisa:
boy must have been sliat in at the time of the pla,
in London, in 166.5, as the vault had not been cc(
from that period until the time mentioned wi.rn
Church was pulled down. The extraordinary
cumstances attending this %body, are, that tbe
fibres, and intestines :sre all hard, atid rery

the bones appear. It weighs about eighteen Fl
ISLE or MAN, Ste.--It is essential to tale se:,

shipping. and therefore of importsree -to all pre
interested in the trade to and about•t},e Ide cf

that mariners should be accurater acquainted
the bank or banks which appear to hare Weir
up between that island and the.coar. of Curnbe.
In the yeah 1816 it was announced, that 24'.
COCLTHA MD, or at. 134 V, trawl-boat, of Whitelorrt
bad discovered a shoal of about duet or three
half fathoms, at low 'A-Ater. goring tides, from
least water upon which St. Bees s Had bart,i
compass E. half N. and Red Brows, near Rowse
W.N.W. and which has therefote been inserted
charts, bearing, in a erne direction,
Ramsay Bay, and nearly in a line with 3-. c
Bank. In June, 1817, from some remarks

and soundings taken by Mr. W. Poarza, Mat
the Royal Navy, and Mr. TODD, Teacher of
thematic; Whitehaven, it appears also, that a
lies to the eastward of that called King WI.
Sand. This is about 600 yards is Intl,. Note
South by compass, by SOO in breadth. It hat
ten feet over it at low-water of spriaz tides, and
ill lat. 54 deg. 96 min. 12 sec. with Burrow '
N. 16 W. Maughraltre Head 5.78 deg. 44
and Douglas Head 8.71 deg. W. by compass.
A Vl'lja Correspoadeat of a Pt
cal Journal, speaking of " Ttoms:e's Seams,
quests that some cf its numerous readers
obligingly acquaint him whether, 411er 4,14
any Edition was pub:ished with bit rasrt.
correction. I r "At the same tint. would feel •
ful for similar information respecting Gay's F:34:.
Till CAP OF MAINITFNANCE.TOLS append-
the regal state of the British Scrv..reigns was
.sally conferred on King HILVRT 15'
Pope Jutans IL together with a Swerd, rent.
the point, and the title of .. anishanairista,,-
was for a time transferred from the Crown of F:
These seem to have been meant as emblems of the
and milker/ defence of theChrinian faith,and

peculiarly applicable to the Yaw% pers.rai a
ance in Parliament, surrounded and vati.or.cd
whole strength of die teals/v.l'nd uning :or
the legislative and executive funetims of the
and the Cap has :sever bees bore on any tathe
sion than that of •the King's meeting tat Pali:
The above-mentioned Prince was invested w

Cap and Sword, at a magnificent and solemn
monial, which took place, for the parpose,
t.lathedral Church of St. Paul, on •the 1 of
1513, when his Holiness's Prothoootarr ctF

as representative of the Sovereign Per
that period, the Cap of Maintenance has
made part of the regalia with which the Kiflg
rounded when he meet: the oiler Estates

Realm ; but the Sword has been long &sew
ordinary 13ritish Sword of State being &mint
ficient. It is said that there exists an herceitary
to bear the Cap of Maintenance before his MA

(eoy such is presumed to exEst) 4 the fain`.;
Marquis of WIMUESTER ; Oilt of ere V 7:
instances presem.ti mcnrded, of royal p
sions to -PlOArmirtnt, front the time when H
Vlll. received the Cap in 1513, to the year
it is 'positiveTy stated, that his. LoedaLip
decessors, Marquisses of WiNcttanza, or

of Boxron, bare the same in a great in:jerky,
stances. either by themselves in person, or by
men who ectrie ,:t their deputies; and since
cession of our illustrious Ractayr to the royal
the Cap of Maintenance has been uniform:lv ha,'
-the present MarqUi4 of N'teettestaa.
sence of any commission Or other written ins:
actually conferring the right, the evidence of
is perhaps of equal weight and decision; such er
at aity rtte furni,l7es a strait:apron to. el(
pesticidal in, %Quin 4,o.better right can be
exist dien rze.

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..1.2K •-•-••••••••-, i'..- ,-• "%o. '"-'''' ' ' —. named Hidalgo, who had acquired singutar 'influence affording relief te distressed Seamen, and
4 • VIE EVENING STAR. over the India:set the revelation beltan to wawa foe. Mitt Vageollis about the streets Zrf tfie I
- ,
~,„. -
isidaw..appearance. Thar •appaaaed in greiggidgat and We shall. of cow" be very Sesirou
:, . •
• • - • LONDON. etker the arrival of the rueflie Yesegas. Hidalgo, bast not assistance in furtlierssice of any
• .. .
• al..the head of a motley army of 80,000 men, seized may be ingested for relief of diStress, i
SATURDAY, JANUARY 3,1818.. E .. t
he royal treasure at Gomaxuato, and possessed him- situatiosi it may appear. At the same
PRICE or STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE atiocK.
•sai of some of the richest mines. He assumed the ever, much precaution is requisite in di
Reduced 81 jfes-Cona• shut—Cons. for °IT 8211 banners of the ancient Emperors of Mexico, and dis. management .of a fund so as not to co
4 per Cent. 981i—Navy sper Cent. shut
played the of G
i Vir
image of the gn tiadniouP•
ethe. real objects of misery with those who rani
1
lidia Bonds 98 98 pr.—,Exch. Bills 17 21 pr. '. favourite object of she 'Catholic worship in Mexico. trade of begging, and who are in the col s ...
•
SOUTH AMERICA. " Hidalgo marched within a few leagues of the of resorting to the various tricks for ext
• arrived from city of Mexico, and iflhere had been in its walli any passion, so ably detailed by th' Police
f We understand that a vessel, lately
St. Thomas, with Letters to the beginning of Novara-
active party in his knout, the forces of Venegas were We have before alluded to the shocki
ber, BOLIVAit had ob-
.
brings accounts that General
so inferior and so dispirited, that it must have fallen of exposing very young children for ma
into his hands. But the Archbishop and the 'aqui- the great thoroughfares, at this bitter se
tamed two signal victories over the Spaniards,
sition having published a s•sertm. decree of -excom- year. Many of these unhappy objects a
in consequence of their losses, were ilyinvietTeryh°'
ninnication against him, the Inlsibitants of the city the day, and laid put in a forced and urns
.6'
direction. and of the province remained passive. spectators of to attract the passihg stranger, who is i
The following is a copy of a letter written by
i the contait. After a long delii before the ejtes which omit a possible chance of doing good,,
Gentleman who some time ago went out to the Fro!
man.. gave his opponents the oppounity of collecting their reflects with pain, that his own act of cha
vinces of Venezuela, and addressed to a young
i fortes, he withdrew in some confusion. His army perverted to the increase of the sufferings
who lately left this country for the same destinations
t was pursued and defeated by the Spanish General As by the law of England every Pars
" Ravin yesterday received t letter from my son 13.---, ,
dated the vat July, from th, td*, of yrapn, in din asee,se' Calleja. . It is a remarkable fact, that in the towns to support its paupers, and many hund
isle—'a, annseedng an safe arrival there, and his intention to joie submitting to his power, he issued a coinage with the wretched beings are desirous only of pro
the Patriotic forces there, I take the lilsesty of aonisfini Yew head of Ferdinand the Seventh, Having been twice dent to pass them to their homes, we tl
with another braes forum, and to.inforrkyoli ire( hit ire/daily defeated by the4tpaniards, he was treacherously at- mary endeavour should be to provide th
and intended mantanas. On his arl'''"l *lt'll'a' he 'in: tacked and taken prisoner by a General of the Inde- proper and comfortable means for that c
Mr. G.—.4s,eatgeon who went oat with US, ereteiodile4 4
one ortho,oo, boosts la that town. sad ,soe out de he,.. pendefito and himseletvith all his Officers were put to see these means applied to the end for
nour pieced at their'door. • The nen day ilie Cesiunautes or ate .4F, death. are given.
District arrived. his name Ibtaito. sae, and offered his house and n Several chiefs continue .o a
desultory war, of
all the assistance in his poser, and being about to advance his whom Rayon, a lawyer, and Morelos, a priest, were WINDSOR, JANUARY 1
1 head-quarters four days' march nearer to die enemy, gave them
most conspicuoes ; they formed a Junta, which still _
their choice either to proceed immediately to Mamba and join This being New Year's Day, her Man'
• 3EIHIO/01edged Ferdinand. Calleja took Zitiquaro,
General Row, or stay and proceed widt him, and he believed the coneatulations of several branches c
they should choose the latter. He observes, that when they the residence of this Junta, and most barbarously, Family, and others, at the Castle, who
aisle:thorn St. Thomas, they intended to go up the river Orinoko, as well as most unwisely, razed to the ground every visit to her MAJESTY and the Princess:
but the ships happening to get short, they took another lourse. building in it. Morelos, after many actions with whom were the Duke and
the
sof C
The OrinokoW AS full of combatants, and they luckily escaped the
Royalists, and after destroying the Royal maga- the Duchess of YoaK, and _ Duke ot.
meeting a flotilla of fourteen Spardsh &thew, who had, despe- . —This afternoon the Duke of CLARENCI
rate battle with six Pat.'
iiecntris, in which tack Itivivro asnes of tobacco, which were of the t value. Bushy Park.—Arri ved at the Castle, Mr.
vends. One of the Patriot fled:4ra* came into the course of the took the town of Acapulco, and 'effectually trapped Lady CHARLOTTE BELASYSE WYNNE.—
• vend in which It. was, and to her ?or a Spaniard, fired the' communication between Vera Cruz and Mexico. ginient of Foot Guards had a Field-day
t at her and brought her to, and as the vessel hoisted Danish as The Junta was succeeded by a COngress, which met Great Park.—This evening the
.QOEIN
partry of the neighbouring Nobility at ti
well as Venezuelean colours, the Patriot venni at first sight mit. at a distance of 40 leagues from Mexico, and framedt of the New.
1 , took the former for the Spanish flag. However, having been
enured the pass noes were Officers going to join the Patriotic
rinse,
they cried out 1 revs to Ittrrio I' and came along-side...-
I%e Spaniards had aortae time before entered Traps. , haring
and published a democratic Constitution. Acapulco ceeerate the commencement
JANUARY 2.—This morning the QUEI
has been by the Spaniards ; but the Colonists core ELIZABETH took an airing to Fro
fitted out privateers in the Gulf of Mexico, Duchess of YORK left the Castle for C
days—Generals TAYLOR and DRILIDE
and cosi:Awed horrid cruelties, and destroyed the grestesrpart ' have been able to receive supplies of arms, ammu-
(humid: on a visit to the Duchess of
of the provisions of the place," nition and ,Officers—thcy have been joined by the of r.
Duke tiLOUCILVERR, after review• ing
GENERAL MINA. Fseach`Geaesel Humbert, and by Mina, son of Mina, Regiment of Foot Guards, this day, die
lot:oust be in the recollection of our Readers, that whose !amperes illustrious in the Spanish war. ' Officers at their Mess-room. . '
' jp a-late Royalist account we were informed of the r " The accounts of very recent transactions are in-
complete defeat of this Patriot Comuanevs—that a°‘ complete and obscure. It would, however, appear, RRIGHTON, JANUARY
a vestige of Mil" or AisP°lll' ws isies*Se'sw!—The that the province of Puebla is still occupied by the ____„__
offieipl Report of General Lesley himself, contained Independents, The PRINCR REGENT was yesterday
in a Havannah Paper of the 20th October. too longlln ts, and that nearly all the other Pro- Palace lawn, and afterwards in the Ri
sines are traversed by bodies of armed men, who but not in public. The Duke of Yes
for insertion, especially as it proves false in the riii- I intercept the course of trade, and prevent the work- promenaders on the Steyne, and appe
cipal particulars, is a complete satire on military I jag of the mines, and even the common occupation, Piaasure in extending his visits to the
Bulletins, and bears in every line of it a pompous of agriculture. more remote parts of the town.
aff,setarioa.of bravery, without any legitimate claim es Don Juan Apodaca, who resided in England at
to- This document avouPies near* four Pains ill Foleish Minister for several years, lathe preetitlfice- :The Privy Council held on Wednesday
o•
was for the purpose of swearing in tiles
the Havana Diary, and Particularizes With "marl' soy, and having abandoned the po'icy in which his here Mr. LEACH. and Sir W. A'Coufte
able minuteness the whole progress of his pursuit of 'lpredecessors had in vainpersevered, has adopted with on the occasion of his being promoted 1
the Patriot Chief, and the ensuing blockade of a Part " success a wiser system of reconciliation." of Vice-Chancellor, the latter on being
of the forces of the latter, under General Monaco, _ a foreign mission. •
A Cabinet Council was summoned on
in the fort of Comanja. •••• - • .
Some idea of the importance of the Freedom of which assembled yesterday at two o'cloc
He mentions the rapture with which he anticipated
the reign Office, and was attended by the l
Provinces of South America to the Commerce of
tht• capture of the fort and the garrison, with the' Great Britain may be formed from this fact, that CILWR' the Earl of Livaarooe, V
munitions of war, which he was led to believe, by the MOUT*, Viscount Cstsetaitersen, Earl
nearly every ship now loading in the London Docks Viscount Metvittx, the CHANCRELOR
representations of some stragglers from Mtsta's army
is bound for Buenos Ares. It is possible that the am
use,and Mr. CaNsurra. The Co
,
*Mom he had taken prisoners, were immense, and
spirit of adventure May have .ken an excessive im- up at a quarter before fotw.
seemed almost to believe that his anticipation was a
pulse in this direction ; but were only one half of ANICDOTE OP HIS MAJESTY.—Our ext
•
reality, and that he bona fide had his enemy in his of. a visits some years since were frequent
the number freighted on a reasonable prospect
bait
boti.sr aasgtodt at this Palace, found in
power. But having made great preparation for the
nood
market, the importance of so large an outletl
siege, and moved to the attack with a force a 1800 'to book of Family Pr:
produce and manpfactures would still be first, on tile -Lord's Day, the following,
men, he entered the fort without the least resistance,
abundantly manifest. When Old Spain held the pious sentiments occurs:—" guide and
Mere king none within to defend it !and he expresses
rule over these rich and- extensive • s, we were most gracious Sovereign Lord, King GE
his mortification at finding that the enemy had eva-
excluded frorfW ..o . .
al g a single ship to them.
cuated the fort the night previous, leaving behind
have we to expect Mould that rule be restored? his reign happy to himself and people,"
.. , them but few articles of value. Ile notwithstanding The own 'used-writing, he had effaced the v.
. invariable policy of the Old S •sh Govern- Gomm," and written " thy sollolli r
• congratulates himself; with much apparent satisfac- meet, as regards her Colonies, was to prevent as The order of the Emperor of RUSSIA
don, on his uninterrupted vigilance, by which he was much as possible all intercourse betwixt them and not to utter any praises of him in their
enabled to take prisoner, not MORENO himself, but
1 other nations. The most depressing regulations were sembles an anecdote respecting our e
• the *isle on tubulehe escaped ! - in force to shackle their internal trade ;no man could narch, who, soon after his accession to
._ . . . attending Divine Service in the Ch
In a word, this document, such as it is, furnishes
sell the smallest article, not even a row of pins. with- at St. James's was eulogized by the pi
• complete evidence that the situation of MINA, insteadiont a license, and these licenses were sold at the most sermon much in the same manner as the
of being desperate, has been improving, during the extravagant rates. A stranger coming into a Pro- RUSSIA kad been on the occasion ails
whole progress of his present expedition. And by wince and offering goods at a fair price, was certain to therefore he next day sent a message to
snore recent accounts from Vera Cruz, received by a be sent to prison, and to have his goods confiscated. which should be written in letters of gol
recent arrival* at New York, we learn that General _,_ for Kings as well as Ministers, approi
Under so detestable a system of go m
More bad 'arrived with a powerful force. in the esnt the " he went to church to hear Gon pm
energies of num must have for ever remained dews himself," and desiring him to forbear ii
t neighbourhood of Mexico, and that therowas little mant, and the most fertile regions eternally =pro- such improper topics.
doubt •of his accomplishing the project he had in ductive to the world. The utike and Duchess of MARLEO
contemplation. Is was even reported in some recent been entertaining a large party at Biel
accounts, and•the same fact is repeated in thdse now the Christmas holidays, consisting of t
An Article entitled " Gustav AND ENOLISH MA- Countess of JERSEY, Lord CHARLES 8
before us, that a good understanding was expected
NUFACTURES," given in another column, is an ab- and Lady Matte Boyer, Sir Haiti
to be effected between him and the persons compos- and Miss DAEHROOD, Mr. TIERNEY, IV
street from an article in the Algenwine Zeitung which
• ing the immediate authority of Mexico, and that they . ' Mr. AGAR, and several other friends.
may be useful to some of our Man .
e: would unite in maintaining it independent of the turday last many of the neighbourink
ufactuong friends,
Spanish Government. The writer, it will be seen, admits what we have invited to a splendid repast, given in I
always maintained, that the purchaser will ever pre- birth-daseeofs the Marquis- c BLARE
The following information respecting the progress
of affairs in Mexico, relative to the present stniggk,
for what he can purchase at the cheapest pri.pce,. ilLof evwhente la
is Grace
Gricocencalnuddehdis by
am m.abibrie
arses
will enable air Readers to form some opinion re- equal quality, whether home-made or form dtuArme
1 speeting one of the most important of the Spanish Manufacturers can only expect them to
in
a hter bore a distinguished par‘. Se
ror the occisior., and the whole of the
:s from Londca and Oxford, s
Colonies : preference, by maintaining superiority, in quality as
, • sc The colony of Mexico is on many accounts the
_7ll as cheapness. They will better understand the tainrnent did honour to the taste of the
alle ations, respecting the desiderata which
new Senators, and 125 new Members of
i In the prent Arr.ericar. Congress
leading object roe anxiety to the mother-country in writer's
g
the present contest. The population exceeds six mil- constitute excellence than we can, and It will be for
lions, that of the capital alone is leo,ooo. Hinterest to attend to them, that they may main Represent We"'
inet,terthefrumGovernoBmFr'r of Epirus tlan:fiTtl
bolt states it to be the most civilized of the Spanish- min the prefer
their
preference, which their products command, pAcAti.
. colonies, and its mines, its harbours, and its position in point of sale on the Continent. months since, ordered a beautiful Greek
reader it the most valuable. • Euphrosine, bf whom his eldest sonaktenc
enarnotuedi to he drowned in the sea •
of
• a TAnquillity had been preserved as long as the
We give, in another part of our raper, a Report of' 15 of her female friends ; bus as twine
i
• Archbishop was Viceroy, but a conspiracy having the proceedings of a Meeting which too' Place-Tenor- would execute his cnstmando he had ti
been formed by some Spanish Officers and a curate. day, for the purpose of considering the best moan( learry them persor afly into effect. ,
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