Star.
London, England, 1819-12-20 00:00:00

THEATRES.

Kftro's Thearat.—This magnificent scene of pub-
lic amusement was opened, the first time for the
season, on Saturday evening, under the most fa-
vourable auspices. The arrangements made by the
Managers for commencing the Opera campaign with
eclat, were, from their character and extent, so highly
appreciated, and expectation and curiosity. were so
generally excited, that even at an early hour the Pit
presented that gay and animated picture which a
numerous company, consisting in a great degree of
Ladies elegantly and splendidly dressed, must neces-
sarily create, and soon after the rising of the curtain
the Boxes were adorned "With all the luxuriance 01
wealth and beauty, which, added to the general splen-
dour of the House, and to that air of comfortable
magnificence which pervades the structure, com-
pleted, perhaps, the most brilliant spectacle which.
could be exhibited by any country in the world.
The representation of MOZART'S delightful Comic
Opera, i.e No= di Figaro, introduced for the first
time, to an English audience, Signor Amstar, in
the character of Figaro. The remembrance of NALDI
in this character must still be fresh in the public mind,
and operate in some degree to the disadvantage of
any immediate successor ; Signor ALRERT, however,
acquitted himself with very considerable ability, and
received 1..0m the audience the most flattering de-
monstrations of their favour. The Count was per-
formed by AMEROGETTI with his accustomed excel-
lence, and Madame BELLOCHI and Miss CORRI, in
Susanna and the Countess, were warmly and de-
servedly applauded. The other characters were.per-
formed extremely well, and left nothing to be cen-
sured or desired in the representation.
After the Opera, a new Ballet, composed by
Mons. HoLLiN, entitled Le Sultan Genereux, was
exhibited, and introduced three new candidates for
ptiblic favour, in the persons of Mons. LE Catoostut,
-Madlle. ELIZA, and Mons. LA 131.0 ND. Madlle.
ELIZA is an accomplished dancer, and shared the
applause of the House with our favourite Mthamte.
The new Ballet is a pretty 'composition, and takes
its title from the generosity of a Turkish Sultan, who
resigns his pretensions to a highly-prized fair one, on
learning that a mutual attachment had previously
subsisted between the Lady and his own son, who
had visited her cottage in the disguise of an humble
iadlvidual. The scenery is of the most beautiful de-
scription, highly appropriate to the varying incidents
of the little story, and in some parts magnificent in
the extreme. With such acc,onipaniments, apd aided
by the fascinating charms of such performers as ezh4.l
bited on Saturday night, and some exquisite music,
the Ballet cannot fail of becoming a favourite.
The Duke and Duchess of KENT, and Prince Tip
num, were present during the whole performances.
COVENT-GARDEN.I-44 Cr,ssdy
.frrors was
r.tperated ofiSatiirday eveging, ;mid y its various
.rtractions did not fail to collect a crowded and
fashionable audience. Miss STEPHENS and Miss
Title received the met. flattering Marks of public
.
approbation.
In the Interlude of Sylvester Daggersono4 Mr.
Yirzs's extraordinary talents excited' die uninter-
miuing mirth of the House.
Previous to the Farce, which was Ban Tan,
..I..wza came forward, and delivered the following'.
Apology.
Labizt sans GENTLE:I:Er—In consequence of severe indispo.
.sition with which Mr. FiRLIY has been suddenly attached, he
fells himself tmalole to appear in the part of Jissamj, for which
his name appears in the Bill. From the lateneu of the haus%
the Manager has not thought it proper to attempt a change in
the Entertainment—and Mr. Yerits has, at a mainens's nada,
kindly undertaken to appear iu the part."
This Address s'as favourably received, and Mr.
Yfatei acquitted himself of his undertaking With
great credit. _ „
The forthcoming Holiday Pantomime at Covent
Garden Theatre, is founded on the old popular Ro-
roance of sop OtiZarej in vhich GRLHALDI is to be
the Sancho.

MADAME DE GENLIZ French National Tale, enti-
tled Julien Debnour i gi, The New Ora, we under-
stand, has caused as great a sensationin the circles
of Paris, as Lady Morgan's Florence has done among
those of London and Dublin. • After various interest.
ing and amusing scenes resulting from marriages,
intrigues, and personal observations, evidently made
in society, during which a number of very singular
characters are introduced, Julien's Memoirs give a
very animated description of many of those circum-
stances which preceded the Revolution. The dread-
fill and sometirr-s ludicrous incidents which occur-
red almost daily dining the reign of proscription and
terror, are forcibly described in this work; there is
also a strong vein of satire running through the
book, and a number of well-known characters, by
no means equivocally pointed out. •
Cowmen's Isinumrs.—Thursday, an *Rest was heW at the
Horse and Groom, King-street, Long-Ade, on the !pod of Mr.
J. Breather, late of Pickett-street, Temple-Bar. On •
night he was at the above house, attend:lig a heftily Fonlety.--i-
Be was missed at an early lour, but was 'apposed tq bas* ;one
tone. It scrims, however, that, in going int* the yard, be slip
red down a steep pair of stairs, leadi4 to a cellar, bp which
means he was so dreadfully kart as so mmelpla dm& The as
was not discovered till the sepp papWp,.. Iferdich-44s-
ride-vital Death.
Saturday ao Inquest was held 3. Orin* Ell.ta*elk Be-
van, a child only Lie firs 041 irg war i,irp,
fl to treatk la 4
eir
house in alf-Pnoon-aftYs 410442aWstreet. to her
anfli
ther's absence. The Letter herf ' iwit but ten tifee,• ' '
locked the infant in the' roOni. . lliini !id Mani siW
smoke, and, itrir seasrildng, &Mid ter 'lit 10( wiz die --
burned most shockingly. 600141nitriangt sea* r, Am%
51;
beat me ; your Bessy !met play riles ire 'any ityat.7 be.
ceased was carried to Baribilonseies Hoipfth- where she
died, an hour after her arrivaL liertlica—AccldentatPeatb. '
• Same day, an Inquisition was taken on the body at 8. TIM.
ner. about 18 years old. The deceased was a kahk-hqym the fa.
milt' of a Gentleman, at Clapham-rise, and used to sleep ha a
room over the harness-room and coach-house. On Friday even.
ing, about seven o'clock, ke Irk off worh, and watts) bed; bit
fellow-servant shortly alliter west to call bbn, and found bins
dead. It appeared ikat a cliaing-diah, with a quantity of
charcoal, was in the corner of the room. 'Verdict—Sulfocated
..
by the effects of charcoal.

Mammosouoit-maastr.--Saturdity. Jain Bates was fully tem.
witted for keeling a pair of shoes frOsia shosill the Edgeways-
road. He was seen by an opposite neighbour to enter tile shop,
about eight o'clock, the preceding night, whilst the master was
lout, and taking out a foot-rile,bepn to measure seveial pair of
toes till he bad found a pair to St him, which he put on, and,
without farther ceremony, walked.ollt He was, howeier, fol.
lowed, and apprehended. On being called upset for his defeam,
be admitted the fact, but said, be had only dans kiss' Jos /W
Magistrate—m larks, my Mead, do not stag the Kt late ib,
Mr. bans was, acoosdingly, taken to the ear I

LAW INTZLLIGENCE.
COTTAT'OF CINC/8 BENCH, DIDCBKIIEIt 17..
• BOWYER V. SOW&
The plaintiff in this case is a rnealman, and the de-
fendant a Major in the Army. The action was for
an assault and battery. It appeared in evidence, that
the defendant called at the house of the plaintiff, ac-
companied by his servant, and asked to see the plain-
tiff. On the plaintiff's coming out, the defendant
asked him if he had not, in the hearing of his servant,
said something that reflected on his courage and con-
duct in the battle of Waterloo? The plaintiff denied
that be had. The defendant then called his servant,
and appealed to him. The servant said, that the
plaintiff had said so. The plaintiff said he did not
think he had ; that at the time alluded to he was in
liquor; but that if he had made use of any ex-
pression reflecting upon him, he was very sorry
for it, and hoped he would forgive him. The de-
fendant said no, it was then too late, and produced
an Attorney's letter, threatening the plaintiff with
an action, which he proceeded to read to him.—
The plaintiff repeated his apology, and was retiring
to his house, when the defendant, with the thick end
of a nobbed stick, struck him violently on the face and
head. Upon this the plaintiff closed with the defen-
dant, and seized the stick, which he attempted to wrest
from him. Defendant called his servant to assist him
The servant left the horse which be was then hold-
ing, and ran to his master's assistance; notwithstand-
ing this, the plaintiff succeeded in getting the stick.
The defendant then went away 'with his servant,
leaving the stick in the plaintiff's hands. The plain-
tiff's nose and lips were cut, and his arms and shoul-
ders bruised.—The Jury found a verdict for the
plaintiff—Damages £5O.
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MCC IC MI ER 111,..+*OLT V. )10*
This was an issue directed by the fairgßo CHAN-
ceitoa, to try the validity or a Commission of
Bankrupt, issued against one Joseph Wood, the. bro-
ther of the defendant.
There were three questions directed by the ckitt-
cma.oa to be tried :-1. Whether the commission of
Bankrupt against Wood was sued out at the ex-
pense of the defendant ? 2. Whether it was sued
out by procurement of the defendant ? and Sdly,
Whether by concert between the hankrnpt and the
defendant? This was one of a class ,of cases which
has of late been brought before the Courts, under
the denomination of Kanufactyred commissions.-=
The bankrupt was a porter-dealer in Liverpool, end
the defendant, his brother, was butlerto a Gentle-
man, named hkklab, residing in Great Cumberland.-
street, Portman•square. Being in a state of embar-
rassment, the batihrupt applied to a Mr. Sherwood,
whose experience in such transactions, he presesned,,
would help him through his di/het:hies. Meetings
took place apart the subject, at the house of
can, named Thomas, in Gray's Inn-lane, and at
length it was arranged that a comnairsioo should be,
sued out in the name itf.the defendant, as petitioning
creditor. A Mr. liull was appninted .Solicitor to.
the Commission, and in the petition, and other pro-
ceedings, the hankropt was described as a merchant
of Liverpool, and the defendant as a Gentleman, re-
siding in Great Cumberland street. The sub,sequent;
proceedings which took place, having raised a sus-;
picton that all was not right, some of the creditors
thought it proper to petition the Lord Chancellor to
supersede the Commission. On that occasion, and
now, it turned out that the bankrupt, instead of being:
a merchant, kept a porter-cellar in Liverpool, and
that his brothers the petitioning creditor, was a;
Uentleman's butler. It was proved in evidence, that
when the defendant was served with a copy of the
petiricu last referred to, at his roaster's house, he'
said, he had merely become a petitioning creditor to
serve his brother, and that he knew nothing what-
ever of the proceedings under the Commission, nor
, had he had any communication with Mr. Hull or

Mr. Sherwood. 1
Mr. Hull was the only witness examined on the
part of the defendant, and after ht had concluded
his evidence, the Jury said, they did not wish tol
trouble Mr. Scarlett in reply, or du Chief i*stice to
sum up, they were so perfectly satisfied of the onsr"
picious character of the transactioe•
The Cniar Josruss, however, directed their at-
tention to the precise questiensthly wire called upon
to decide, and having dope so, they immediately
found for the plaintiff, thereby alfirming the three
questions above-mentioned.

BENNETT V. IfENDERSON.
This was an action to recover the sum of £122,1
15s. being the price of a eurricle sold ro the cleivid-
ant by the Plaintiff, who Is a coach maker.
It appeared,
,in evidence, that dip defendant, who
Is a Karr in the Army, wrote home from Quebec,
where he was stationed as an engineer, about five
years since, to bjs cousins, Iviessrs. Henderson then
merchants in London, deAring themio send him out'
a curricle. •The };.tier accordingly ordered a curricle'
of the plaintiff; it way made, packed up, -Ind sent,
by the next ship to Chtebes, with other property
shipped on 'Messrs. Helidersons' *count. The d -
fendant pats remitted bdls to his cousin, on account.
and much more than was sufficient tq pay for the
• curricle. The plaintiff had sent in his account to
Messrs. Henderson, debiting them the amount of
rhii de raid fer the cittricle: Since then they had
;failed in business, and were now absent abrOad, ad-
insting their accounts. The defendant having lately
reinined to 4ugland. theepresent 3ctioa was brought.
The cute, hail= summed np the case for the
Jpry, and left it to them to determine to whom die
Credit had been given. If to the defendant, they
were to find for the plaintiff ; but if to Messrs. Hen-
derson, for the defendant. •
The Jury found their verdict for the defendant.

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p. fire broke out at wilmingtoo,
on the .th 1;04*, wisch NOR 3WII b9ulAll.
and occasioned 'a loa,a g‘wr tp the amp* of
);090,c(p of dollars. y We wits lash that of
a Captain ragapio * 4s, who vas crushed to
atoms by the fall of a bogie, into which be lad veer
cured, to save the property of a neighboui. The fire
was strongly suspected to have been the work, of an
incendiarz.--4 fire had Op broken opt in thf Forests
of the Dismal 4wamp. in Near Joetfy, in tile I,aftsi
end of tom,gan. ciptinued Wining atgat of
riZtaCts " *atria. Tt 41moir
attopt acres tabor.