Star.
London, England, 1818-03-21 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

Sta—Can any of your Readers inform me, whether the situa-
tion of Whitester, or Bleacher to Chelsea Hospital, is a sine-
cure (said to be worth 5001. a-year), and whether it was lately
held by a woman? S. S.

At Chelmsford Assizes, George Latoford was in-
dicted for stealing on the c2d of September, a paro-
quet, the property of Stephen Kempshead, an inn-
keeper, residing at Chadwell.—The maid-servant of
the prosecutor was the principal witness in this case,
to prove the loss of the property in question. She
was fully convinced that the paroquet was in her
master's cellar a very short time before the theft,
by his addressing her in Lis usual amatory terms,
and calling her " a pretty creature" when she went
into the cellar. This piece of ornithological flat-
tery might fix the circumstance of possession most
strongly in the mind of the witness, though she
was certainly not a Venus de Medici.—lt appear-
ed that the prisoner sold the bird, shortly after it
was stolen, to Mr. Serjeant Vaughan, and told the
servant that he had caught it between Colchester and
Manchester ; the Learned Serjeant purchased it for
15s. but returned it to the owner as soon as he dis-
covered it had been stolen. The servant, who then
lived with Mr. Seri?antVAUGHAN, but who had since
left his place, and was living with the Dowager Lady
Lubbock, proved that the prisoner sold the bird and
was paid the money. The principal fact by which
the par:ottould beideatified, was its eloquence: and
in eaerting anturical faculties, it elicited not
only much iaugia..er irom the whole Court, but
even the Bench Vr.is.convukt.l by the oddity and ec-
centricity-of its cjaculaticai. The pi osecutor knew
it by its ',dug able to call " Waiter, bring a bottle of
old Port!"--,4 Pipe all hands a-boy!" and utter seve-
ral other ludicrous exclamations, of its capability to
do which it gave striking proth to the whole Court.
•The Jury found the prisoner months
impri;onmcia.

L INTELLMENCE.

INFORMATION TO MASTERS OF VESSELS TRA'
DING TO OSTEND AND THE SCHELDT.
EXTRACT O► A LETTER ►ROM TUE AOEKT TO LLOYD s, AT OSTEND,
DATED MARCH Is, 1818:
" On the 20th instant will be lighted up, the New Light or.
the Church of West Capelle, in the Island of Walchercn. This
will be very conspicuous ott appr,aching the Nand from the
Northward of Westward, as the Light will consist of 3S Lamps,
with, I understand, 8 Reflector of 52 inches, chewing a light on
220 degrees of a circle."

PLYMOUTH, mArtrii 19.

Wind S.W.—Came in the Trio, 13.utclinm, from
Newcastle to Dourdeaus.

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 20.

Wind N. W.--Arrived the Nicolai Powlowick,
JOHNSON, from Amsterdam for Belfast, last from
Ramsgate. Sailed the Quebec, WILLIAMS, for Gib-
raltar; Nautilus, HART, for Cardiff; Melville, SMITH,
for Cadiz ; Matthew and Thomas, GRAY, for Liver-
pool ; and Good Statesman, POOR, for Liverpool.—
The schooner Dart, —, has been repaired, and went
out of harbour this day, and will sail fur the Coast
of Africa the first fair wind.
DEAL, MARCH 20.

Wind N.—Arrived and remain in the Downs, the
Cerberus, OWEN, from Bengal—sailed 16th October;
and the Naiad, Iluctsoras, from Lisbon. Came
down from the River the Ageriora, POSTGATE, for
Rio Janeiro ; Ripa, FORSTER, for Havannah ; Letitia,
Mowroomanv, for Pelfast ; and the Cape packet, for
the Cape of Good Hope ; and sailed with the whole
of the outward-bound for their several destinations,
with a gentle breeze from the Northward.