Star.
London, England, 1810-10-12 00:00:00

G4LwAr, OCTOBER 4:

Monday night last, the greatest take of herrings
remembered here for many ye:trs took place at Our
Roads ; such was the trantity taken, that at €2os. per
thousand, it was computed that the fishermen would
have received no less than £3OOO for the night's
fishing ; nntwithstanding which, they mom to have
no inclination to take advantage of what l':;ovizsysce
puts in their power, for yesterday evening they enter-
ed into a combination for putting a stop to the coast-
ing boats throwing out their nets, at a time wllen, we
are given to understand, our bay swarms with that
useful fish ; which having come to the knowledge of
AN Mei; Monk's, Esq. Commander of the Towns-
bend revenue eruizer, he immediately hastened to
arm his boats, for the purpose of put;ing a stop to
such unlawful proceedings, and in despite of his ut-
most vigilance, those deluded people, to the amount.
of several hundreds, armed with sticks and stones,
put off from the shore, for the purpose of opposing
him by force : be was compelled to fire several shots,
in order to disperse them. •

A Clergyman was in the endedt of somebody's
barouche to-day ; that is, the dicky-hoz, where he
had the m.m igement of the re;ll,, and of caited
for the coachman ; a custom almost as common with
the clergy here as with the lay-dashers.
I Tuesday night, a middle-aged woman, of decent
A poor woman in this place, who• had- received
,e 25 on her son's account, who ison board ship, sent As an instance of the singular warmth and mild- appearance, representing herself to be a servant out
for her daughter, a servant girl, residing a short dis. ness of the season, there is now in the orchard of of place, obtained a lodging at No. 37, RedcrOss-
tance in the country, a fees days ago, to receive part Clonden Bank, Dumfries-shire, a pear-tree in full street, Barbican, and the next morning absconded,
.of the money. The girl attended, to eaboin the mo- blossom and new fruit, as perfectly as in the month of after robbing the apartments of a great quantity of
tiher gave £l4 10s. and, as it was too late for her to May 1 `wearing apparel.
• return to her place that day, a lodging was provi- A facetious Country 'Squire, who thought his two ln consequence of information received by Eire*
ded for her in Steyne-street, where she slept with sons consumed too much time in Armin and shooting, EVANS, Esq. High Sheriff of the County of Lime.
some woman who had previously engaged a bed in the very sarcastically styled them Nimrod and Ramrod. • rick, he scoured a circuit of above twenty miles, t
house. lit the morniee, the girl in question found her A Lady praising the mildness of an Officer of the ' few nights since, aceotnpanied by a party of the North
companipn had decamped, and, what was worse, had South Gloucester Militia, in punishing drunkenness Mayo regiment, and yesterday ee'nnight lodged ht
taken with her the while of the money she had receiv. by making the offender carry a heavy log of wood gaol Luke Williams, alias Captain Dasher, charged
ed from her mother, together with a parcel of wearing through the town, a Gentleman observed, he thought .witli treason, robbery, and felony !
apparel, which included the principal part of her warc • it unjust, as the man of his own accord had previ- ! Last week a boy oil board l'Atoen frigate, Capt.
robe. The deliriquent has not since been heard of, ously taken more than he could carry. i Wor.ye, received a dozen lashes on his posterior:, for
but a description of her person has been sent to Bow- robbing a French prisoner then on board the eessel,
PEDESTRIANISM.—Mr. GIBBONS, who undertook to
street, which, we.sincerely hope, will lead to an ulti.of an English halt.guinea and some Fteneti silver
go from Hammersmith to Bath, and back, at the .
mate detection.. The boy was oberryed by a *Olsen belonging
rate of four miles an hour for the whole distance, for (43"
Monday evening last, Bexhill and its neighbour- 200 guineas', and who started on Tuesday morning to l'Aigle, while laying in his hammock, who mi.
hood were enlivened by a brilliant entertainment, at six o'clock, was yesterday, at ten oclock in the mediately informed the Lieutenant on deek of the
consisting of a ball and supper, given by the officers. morning, at a place called' Meld, about two miles robbery, and the boy's hammock was searched, and
of that gallant and distinguished corps the 2J bat- from Marlborough, still travelling; but in a weak the French prisoner's property found. After theismy
talion of the e 1 st infantry, and the German Legion, state, and with feet blistered and legs somewhat , had received his punishment before all the prisoners
in the Barracks, of which various individuals of dis- swollen. The pedestrian had to perform 72 miles ►on board, moth to the honour of Captain Wolfe, he
tinction of this town, and all the rank, elegance, in 16 hours, which is at the rate of four miles and a I was dismissed the ship.
fashion, and beauty of Hastings, Battle, and the sure half an hour, but he had the night to perform in, his I Yesterday a bricklayer's Limier lOU frosts there
rounding country, partook. The ball was opened at time being up at six o'clock this morning. Betting of a house in Gravel-Line, East Smithfield, and was
nine o'clock, and the goddess of the light fantastic toe is against him, but the pedestrian is confident of so much hurt as to expire while taking hiei to the
continued to enliven her votaries until about an hour winning.. i hospital.
after midnight, when the supperonom (the spacious At Luton, Bedfordshire, on Saturday evening, the I A son of Mr. Tyrrwhitt, of Union-row, Chelsea,
mess-room of the 81st) was thrown open, which dis. years old, was yesterday kip W by akick from
common pond, situated in rather an •, eight 22d ult. the '
closed a spectacle at once simple, interesting, novel, and elevated pert of the town, which, as theee had been la led horse, in the King'e-roed. The, person who led
grand. The tables, three in number, were covered with
the choicest viands that the season could produce, or no rain for some weeks, was getting rather shallow ; the horse appeared like a groom, and rode off with-
namented and embellished in the most fanciful and of • water, suddenly filled, and continued discharging i Out any apparent concern.
a great quantity of water for some hours. It since Tuesday se'nnight, a seaman flamed Simmons, in
pleasing manner. They were presently surrounded has continued quiet as usual. A similar phenomenon a state of intoxication, fell over the parapet wall near
by the gratified guests, in number about one hun- took place at the precise instant the dreadful earth. the Scots Gate, Berwick, into the greet, end was
dyed and forty. The room was tastefully adorned quake happened at Lisbon in the year 1755. taken up nearly lifeless. .
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by various devices of crowns, stars, &c. formed i
1 Colonel Howell% M. P. for Gloucester, is at pre- A few days ago as the Blackwell WlN:tarries was
with' bayonets, the polish of which, as variegated .
' sent confined at Selisbnry, in consequence of having crossing a plank to go on board an E ist India ship
lamps were interspersed about them, occasioned a..
most brilliant and striking effect. Round Loather. bed his shoulder dislocated by a full from his horse, in the Dock, he fell into the water, and was got out
,
hourgh's grand representation of the Battle of in that neighbourhood. with great difficulty. He lint his watch out of his
Maida, a battle in' which the 81st had so bravely, Monday morning, at Brighton, the Count de Gnaw. waistcoat pocket, but kept his letters Life in his hand,.
distinguished itself, and procured its honourable , MONT had the misfortune to break the patella of his though under water for some time. He went home in
bearings on their appointments, the colours of the . knee in the riding-house of the horse-barracks. He the uniform clothes of a Midshlpnien, which had been
Regiment were as tastefully displayed as the shat- • promises to do well. lent him, but his wife refused for some time to admit
tered state in which the action of Corunna had left i A melancholy eventoccurred at Lewes on Tuesday him; not knowing him in his new habiliments,
them, where the lamented Sir Jour MOORE purchased ' evening last, to a man whose name was HOMER, be. Sunday se'nnight Ste body of a young matt Ills
victory att the price of his valued life, would permit, longing to the 37th Regiment quartered in the bar- found floating in the river, opposite to the Ferry-bolt
and on which glorious day the 81st had again borne ' rats at that place, who imprudently went to cut some I landing, North Shields; he was servant to an officer
-so conspicuous a part, the brunt of the battle, forty.: turnips in an adjoining field ; when some person, at belonging to the 82J Regimeat, lying at Tynemouth
nately for their honour and reputation, having fallen , present unknown, discharged a gun loaded with large barracks, wpo had late in the night of Friday se/n-
-on themselves, the 4th, the 2d, and the 50th. ! slugs at him, many of which passed through his kid. night been in a public house with some young 1314111
Towards three o'clock dancing was resumed, and, ; neys and liver. The poor fellow, who was a volon- belonging to the ship Bannister, whom he accompa-
with suitable vivacity, continued until seven, when i teer from the Northampton militia, lingered until next nied to their boat then lying at the new quay. On
the company began generally to retire, highly pleased ' day, when he expired in the greatest misery. An In. their putting off, being rather in liquor, he sprung
with the entertainment they had enjoyed.. quest sat on the body yesterday. off the quay, with the design, as is supposed, to go
f h
A fete on a scale so extended, so tastefully got up, Thursday morning se'nnight, upon the beach near on board with them, but ailing into the water, e
ug
and so excellently managed, parsimony being in no the Bulwark, Whitehaven, was taken a beautiful cock was carried down with the ebb-tide, and though one
shape included in any of the arrangements, perhaps pheasant, about the size and weight of a dunghill of the young men instantly swam after him, be wes
was never before seen in the neighbourhood of Bexhill, hen : with a darkish purple coloured breast. When unable to render him assistance. His face and head
and which reflects the highest credit on. the talents of. approached, it was obvious (from the very slight el. was much mangled when found.
the Stewards, and the liberality of the veteran don Ors fort it made to escape) that it bed been much ex- Last week, in consequence of the completion of an
of the treat. hausted with flying; probably a straggler, by some extensive building at Bitelifield, near GrantheSsi, the
Agent of Sir THOMAS CLAROBS, Bart, gave a treat td
accident detached from that immense tribe of birds so
frequently seen in the woods of Calder Abbey. the farmers and other inhabitants of that place, seve-
The State Lottery to be Drawn on FRIDAY NEXT, rap of whom continued drinking until the following
morning, when, between the hours of five and six, a
contains Five Prizes of 4-20,c00, and Not. Three
Blanks to a Prize. It is,the only Lottery.to be Drawn quarrel suddenly atone between Edward Porter, of
this Year. Bitchfield, and Joseph Watsbn, of Chapel Aldersey,
in the
.county of Yorl, both being much inebriated.—.s
They immediately prpcecded to tight; and in the
The orders from every place; by post, from the
conflict W tson gave Porter a mortal blow near the
Orkneys to the Land's End, flux with great redun-
dancy, as well as from every part of the metropolis, ribs, on the left . .
Watson has once been committed by the Coroner to
short on
and the neighbouring villages, to the Offices of
HORNSBY and Co. for Tickets and Shares in the pre-1 e
tne Castle te Lincere, to take his vial at the nett
sent Lottery.—The last five Lotteries have produced Assizes.
MARK LANE.—This day the Market has a conti•
among HORNSBX. and Co.'s friends the following re-
nuance cf large remainingsupplies of Wheat, markable Capital Prizes : five of A 20,000, three of
£lO,OOO, four of £5,00Q, five of £'2,000, ten of •
and
and those at leas prices—Barley fully at last quota-
presuming on
lafurther reduction, few sales are made,
£l,OOO, aid twelve of £5OO, at their old established
State Lottery Offices, 26, Cornhill, and St. Margaret's lion—Malt dull sale—White Peas rather dearer—,
Hill, Borough.
Grey, and Beans of the two kinds are somewhat
Sunday night, spme rogues broke the shop window lower—There are tolerable supplies of Oats, and this
he
of Mr. Dowset, watchmaker, in the Highstreet, Mar-
trade quoted at little variation—Flour hardly at t
gate, and carried off several valuable watches. currency.
Forty-one thousand nine hundred and ninety guar.
tars of wheat were imported within the first seven days
of this month into the port of London.
A woman applied for relief the other day, to the
officers of a parish in the Borough, and stated, that
she had beenelierif bra speculation in walnut:, at Croy
don Fair! -; . • ' •

DUEL —A meeting lately took place in Orkney,
betwixt Major W—T and Lieutenant who re-
ceived the Major's fire without effect, and, having
fired his pistol in the, air, the seconds interfered, and
the affair was happily made up.

REMAIIKABLIS RLSTORATIOV OF SICILIT.-Mr. Pun-
xfs, oilman, of Chancery-lane, has a son who has at-
tained his 26th year, who had been blind from in-
fancy. Several oculists in London had been applied
to, but they all pronounced it impossible for him to
obtain his sight. He WAS brought up to the musical
profession, and had attained considerable eminence
on the organ and double flageolet. About two months
since a gentleman from the country saw him, and
undertook to restore his sight. At the first operation
he saw sufficient with his right eye to distinguish a
jug, and a candlestick on the table ; also a chandelier
on a piano-forte, but he could not tell what any of
them were till he felt them. The gentleman being
in London but for a few days, Mr. Purkis, jun. went
to his residence in the country, where, after three
operations, he has obtained his sight in both eyes.—
He expresses the greatest surprise at the difference of
the faces of • persons. He is now at Exeter, where
the professors and amateurs got up a Concert for ins
benefit last Friday. which was attended by about 500
persons. He is visited by persons from a considcrabie
distance, to hold conrctlatum with him.

drYItRAL ItURRIENCY AS USTbilt.
Wheat, 635. 78s. 90s. Beans, iSs. 545.
Floe di- tor 945, 974. Tick ditto, 445. 515.0&
Rye, (new) 425. 4@s. Oats, 941. 115..445. -
Barley, 935. 489, Pcbttd tato, MS. 391,
Malt, 795. 80s. Potatoe ditto, 4115. Os
White Peas (Boilers) 525. Mt. Rap Seed £45 in.
Orel ditto, 40s. Us.
Roo flow, Us: to 0000t.41moolii ow. to OR

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