Star.
London, England, 1810-07-24 00:00:00

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AtUNGO PARKA.

This place is filling very fast ; upwatds of 600 pe!..
sons were brought in the space of four days by the
packets. The Band of the Stirling Militia perform
every morning cin the Fort, which makes the prome-
nade very lively and pleasant, and in the evening in
Cecil-square. Last night WRIPPRRT gave his first
musical promenade, at KnistAN's Great Rooms, which
was attended by the first fashion of Margate, Broad-
stairs, and Ramsgate. Upwards of 400 persons were
at this delightful amusement. Our Libraries are the
evening lounge. Our ball commences this evening.
Yesterday a man oPthe name of HAYWARD, upwards
of 60 years of age, fell from the shaft of a coal cart,
and was killed on the spot.
A few days since a servant girl, in Cecil-square,
fell into a well with the bucket ; she was got out, and
fortunately not hurt.
The New Pier is in great forwardness--upwards of
100 workmen are daily emplcyed.

BREAD.—At a Court of Aldermen to-day, it was
ordered to remain at present prices.
A letter has been received at Plymouth, by the wife
of Gill (the man who was, taken away in the powder-
hoy), dated at Morlaix, in which he states, that there
were only eight Frenchmen that made their escape in
the hoy ; that they were armed with long knives, and
on his calling out to give an alarm, they threw him
down the hatchway, with such force as to stun him
for some time. On his recovery, they promised to let
him have the boat to return when they got half seas
over ; but a heavy squall soon afterwards came on,
and carried away their mast • the weather was so
tempestuous, that they were three days getting over,
and many times in danger of foundering.
On Thursday last, a young woman, employed in
feeding the rollers used in the le id mill of J. K. Pi-
card, Esq. in Hull, for the purpose of crus:ling the
lead, unfortunately suffered her hand to be caught by
the rollers, which immediately drew in her arm nearly
up to the shoulder, and lacerated it so dreadfully,
that she was obliged to suffer amputation.
The question which has long agitated those concern-
ed in working as vratermen on the river Thames, and in
that character assisting ships up or down the river,
viz.—" Whether there are in every 24 hours two or
four tide: : each tide payable by A:t of Parliament,
half a guinea to each man so employed ?" has been
determined at the Trinity House, against those who
contended-that each flood and each ebb was a 'sepa.
rate and distinct tide; so making a waterman's pay tv
guineas in 24 hours; and that it is thus established
that the Act of Parliament directing the payment of
10s. 6d. each tide, means that sum for both the eb-
bing and flowing of a tide ? this tieing no more than
the flux and reflux of one and the same tide.

A few days since as Mr. and Mrs. BARRER, wi.h
two other ladies, were return lig to Cambridge from
Heasingfield, in a •ehicle called a Pic Nic, which
carries two persons before and two behind, the horse
being irritated by flies, turned his head in such a
manner as to get entangled with the harness, and
tore the bridle from his head—he then run away,
when the parties were thrown nut, and at Lord's-
bridge Mrs. B. was thing with such violence over the
bridge, that, striking against a projecting part, she
was killed on the spot.
Saturday afternoon, as Mr. Bum, of Tottenham-
street, was riding along Highgate Hill, the horse
stumbled forward, when Mr. B. was thrown over his
.head, by which he bad an arm broken and was much
:bruised.

-On Sunday evening, a lad bathing in the River, at
Fulham, was seized with the cramp and drowned.
His body was picked up; and.proved to be one Solo-
mons, residing at Putney.
The mail coach going from Edinburgh on Mon -
day fotenonn, broke down about four miles from Glas-
sow,nnd a Gentleman had his shoulder dislocated.
- . An alarming fire broke out in the Canongate Foun-
dery on Friday night, between 7 and 8 o'clock, which
was, however, happily soon extinguished.
- Saturday morning a fire broke out in the house of
Mr. STOKES, printer, Chelmsford, which, together
with two adjoining houses, were entirely destroyed.
Friday afternoon as two lads, named Wheely and
Leeson, were sailing in a boat in Barking Reach, the
boat was run down by a coasting vessel and sunk ;
the former lad was drowned, the other was saved by
a ship's boat.
Yes,..-day a shocking accident happened at the
'corner of Queel•—street, next to Drury-lane. A cart
was turning the corner loaded with an immense quan-
tity of flag pavement stones, the sides of the cart con-
sisting only of strong upright stakes, without any
'boards. By a sudden jolt the stones were shaken
against these uprights, 'hick broke, and down came
the stones with a terrible crash, overturning the cart
at the same time. Unfortunately, a man was passing
at the time with a truck, and part of the stones falling
upon him, he was terribly bruised, and some of his
ribs broken. He was immediately taken to an Hos-
pital, with but faint hopes of recovery. The truck
was broken to pieces.
CONSPIRACY. Yesterday, at the Sessions-house,
Clerkenwell, Hilt, Ramsey, Gose, and Clarie, who
were convicted of a conspiracy in extorting money
from a person of the name of Thomas Fitzhugh, un-
der a threat of charging him with an attempt to com-
mit an abominable crime, wer&brought up to receive
the judgment of the Court. Mr. MAINWARING ad-
dressed them in pointed language, and told them that
-they were brought up to receive judgment for one of
the realest offences that could be committed against
an individual, or against society, namely, that of com-
bining together to extort money from another, under
the pretence of their not prosecuting him for a hateful
and disgusting crime. ilesired that they would
understand, that if the person whom they imposed
upon had even been guilty of the crime imputed to
him, yet they nevertheless were equally guilty of the
offence imputed to them, because it was the height
of wickedness Vs screen from justice so foul an offence.
He then sentenced each of them to twelve months
imprisonment in Cold-bath-fields.
A Calm-I--The Friends of the late Maas Honosou
Brewer, and the Public,• are respectfully informed,'
• that :the Brewery will be carried on by the Executors,
..:.for globose& ef the &ma', in every respect as before.
—Their future order& te treated with the greatest
attention.

pasmare

clearly determined the point whetildr Ur. Mango
Parke was living or not ; it however, appears proba-
ble the former, and it will give me greAt pleasure if;
at a future period, I am CnAhleJ to put it beyond a
doubt. I have the h.mnur to be very respectlully.

The. 60. latlty of the public, to be made acquainted
.with the fate of this industrious and dauntless travel-
ler. we are happy to relieve, in some measure, by a
publication of the followhtg letter, which may berelied
upon as genuine ; and we sincerely hope that the in-
telligence which it contains, may be ultimately con-
firmed by Mr. Parke's return, into a certainty of his
existence, of which doubts have been so long and so COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY 23.
reasonably entertained: THE WICAVERs CoNte %NV IL CASE.
Mt. Serje int SliEviltotEl aid, the pla'ntiff• in this
Extract of a Letter from Mogadore, May 25, 1810,
ease formed one of them .st ancient Como cores of
SIR—I had the honour of addressing you last the
the Cit; of Lond.m, having a Clam ter of In: ap. 7th of of November last year, and having lately heard
tion now in their pr,
d on] as far h%cit as the
the vessel had been captured, I shall, previous to en-
reign of Henry 11. Si) that it mien msly he sial of
.tering on the immediate subject. of this, recapitulate
em, the id as Company from .ime
the contents of my former..,. i
th
, whereof the h memoryexisted of m ina w.,s not to the coat! ary.
In the spring of 1803, a number of persons were
here from Tombuctoo, who almost all confirmed the It was also the ancient and Laudable practice of the
. Company to have an annual dinner on St. James's
intelligence you had got from Mr. Jackson, of a boat
' Day. Lord Ma:or's Day, and the other usual City
with Christians having appeared, and lay to off the
Feasts ;and by a bye-law this d niter was to he pro.
port of Catra—of their having hoisted a white flag,
and of their having passed Tombuctoo without having vided by Stewards chosen by the Comp iny, any it
whom declining the hoaour, was to ply the ens ()-
entered it, or having had any communication with it.
miry fine of £2O. The defendant, Mr. Case, was
They also confirmed what I wrote in my former let- .
! chosen a Steward for last St. James's day, but de-
ter, of their having been attacked by the Tuercks,
dined to serve, and hai a'so nfteed to pay the cus-
and that at the time of their being off Catra, there ,
i tomary fine of £2O, to recover winch the acts . n was
were remaining six white persons and two blacks.—
now brought. 64 It (added Serjeaut Shepherd) the
The slaves they had purchased of the King of Barn-
barra, *hom all persons report as having acted merits of this case depend solely on the custem, I
trust I shall have little difficulty of establiAting it in
towards them in a very friendly manaer. He is since •
the City of London, where the comforts of a good
dead, and I do not hear so favourable an account of
dinner are so well understood."
his successor.
Chief Justice MANSFIELD enquired, if by providing
In the summer of 1803, several other persons came
a good dinner, the Stewards were also undersaxal to
here from the interior, who informed me, they had
met with the Christians at the second Grand Cataract pay for it ?
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on the Niger, or as they call it, the Nile, which they M. Seeant Leas, for the defendant—" Yes. my
were preparing to pass. They said the Christians
Lord, and the Company claim a fine of de2o, from
were then out of danger, as to being killed, but ac- Ithe man who declines serving."
knowled ed they might probably be stopped, made ! The charter by which the Company was incorpo-
slaves of; and that no further intelligence might ever i rated in the reign of Henry 11. was then produced
carefully preserved from the injuries of die weather
reach us respecting them. They told me there were
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three great cataracts on the Niger cr Nile, and as my Ina less case. The plaintiffs, however, failed in
rovin that the die was provided the exace
information has been derived from a variety of per-
op gf the stewards, fornn itr appearedovide fromat books of the
sons, I have no reason to suspect its, ve'acity, either
with respect to their having fallen in with Mr. Parke's Company, as old as 1690, that the Stewards had then
ch aged the dinner to the Company.—A nonsuit was
party, or the actual existence of the cat:tracts.
therefore entered.
A person who was here lately from Tombuctoo,:.
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and who is particularly connected with our house, in- I KFYLEGER v. SHORT.
The plaintiff, a crimp, brought this action to re-
formed me, he also saw the boat off Catra, that he i
; tearer £2l, fur three men sent on board the ship corn.
was only a short distance from them, and that two
' mended by the defendant. The questi In w.t, whe-
or three months after, a friend of his procured from t
char the men had been properly procured? The Jury
same Tuercks a number of books, drawings, and ma-
nuscripts, which, he said, belonged to the Christians ! found a verdict for the plaintiff, subject to an award.
Several causes were tried, but none afforded any ia-
who passed in the boat. His description of these papers I
terest of a public nature.
was so particular, that I think there is every reason
i TOLSBN 17. CRANSTON&
to suppose them to be the drawings, journals, &c. of
This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who
Mr. Parke. The Moor has gone into the interior, and
is commander of a West-India tradec, to recover the
has promised to do his endeavours to procure them •
sum of 75 guineas for the passage of the defendant,
for me. I also furnished him with memoranda, to
who is the mother of Lord Cranstone, and her ser-
which he said he would attend, and at parting assured
vans, from the West-Indies.
me, that if any of Mr. Parke's party were livine in /
On the part of the defendant, Mr. Scarlett put in
those regions, he would ascertain the fact, or if afil:ad, '
i the deposition of Lord Cranstone, taken (by consent)
endeavour to learn where they met their end. I in the West-Indies, which stated, that his Lordship
As it is the interest of the person I alluded to to
; had agreed with the defendant to pay 44) guineas ter
oblige me, I have no doubt of his exertions to obtain
his mother's passage; but afterwards mentioned that
as much knowledge respecti..lg the actual situation of
she had a wish to take a servant to England with her,
Mr. Parke and his company, or of their deaths, as is
The plaintiff asked what sort of a servant ? and his
practicable. *at persons may remain a long time in Lordship told him it was merely a boy; to which the
the interior without any accounts of them reaching'
Mr.
piAseiu.m
plaintiff replied,—" Oh, then we will say nothing
any parts of the coast, is certain, and I have had about him."-40 guineas had been paid into Court
within these few days a proof of it, in a gentleman to cover the plaintiff's demand.
who was wrecked on the Arab coast, in the beginning •
of 1806. The Captain of the vessel was ransomed • Lord ELLENBoanvott observed, if the Jury gave
credit to his Lordship's deposition, they must find a
by us for £l4OO, dollars in the first instance, and verdict for the defendant. The Jury, after a short
many heavy charges were added to it. He was brought deliberation
to our house in June 1807, and shortly after all his , found a verdict for the defendant.
' BUTTER V. DROWN.
surviving crew were brought up. His passenger re. ! This was an action of Troyer, to recover the value
mained in captivity in the interior, and from the date ' of a chaise.
of his last letter of the 25th August 1807, till within i
these few days, I have never been and a friend able to get any in- for the plaintiff, stated that his client
having an inclination to indulge them.
telligence of him, so that he was concluded dead. Two
solved with a country excursion, hired a gig to go to
days ago, I learned from a person who came from •
Barnet fair ; but soon after they se out h,und the
Tessared, that he was still there, and kept to hard vessel they had embarked in was not sea-worthy ;
labour. If, then, a Christian could remain unheard they arrived, however, in safety at the port to which
of in the neighbourhood of Widnow, it is not unlikely they were bound ; but whether it was, that die lading
Mr. Parke, or some of his party, may yet make their •
/on the return-voyage was heavier than that which they
appearance. took out, whilst yet at some distance from town, the
When our friend returns from Souden, I shall in- carriage capsized, and became a mere wreck ; in this
form you what success he has met with ; such was situation they akandoned it, or rather gave it in charge
the substance of the letter I had the honour of writing • to a person now on the spot (the defendant) with a
you the 7th November last. I request, that he might keep it till they sent for it ; he
Our friend returned from Souden this morning ; his : accordingly took it into his case, but soon became
journey has been rapid, as he did not go with the ca- i
tired of his charge; and to get rid of the burden sold
ravan, bet on a dromedary, and accompanied by only I
i t to the first bidder he could find.
one person. These circumstances were proved in evidence, and
A vessel being on departure, I profit of it to give
that it was sold for £3 10s.
you such information as I have from him. He has Mr. Gaautow, for the defendant, contended, that his
brought a letter from Tombuctoo, dated two months client was justified in what he had done ; the gig was
and twenty-five days since.- The person who I em- left by Some person whom he did not know ; and con-
ployed desired his friend to give the particulars in
, tinued in his premises so long that he was much in-
the form of a letter, and the following is a literal i convenienced by it, and, there e, gave public notice
translation of it :—'f bed
in the papers, that if it was not etc away by a
46 Concerning the Christians, I have made great in- certain day it would be sold ; and no one coming to
(pities after them ; they came from Sego to Sinsinde, claim it by the time mentioned, it was sold by public
and they passed by Jennie to Kabar—some of them I auction.
died; there remained of them only four alive, and Lord ELLENDOROCGII said, that the defendant ctr-
they went and killecra Sheriff or Prince, on the way tainly had no right to sell the carriage ; the implied
by the side of the Nile, and 014 fell in with the contract was, that he should keep it till called for ; if
Touarks at I3ounba, and they fought and slew some it was not called for in a reasonable time, he had a
of the Touarks, and they went on till they passed to right to disconvenience his premises of it ; but had no
Henbara, which is ten long days journey from Tom- riht whatever to sell it ; and the plaintiff was en-
buctoo, and I have heard no more of them but this. tied to receive the sum which it produced.
I don't know if they are dead or alive, GOD only The Jury found a verdict fur the plain.iff for £4
knows, and on the road from Shugo, and along the 12s. being the net proceeds after the expenses of the
side of the Nile, no one has spoken with them, and sale were deducted.
they were in the practice, whatever land they arrived I
at, to write it down, and to buy and sell with the
people in their boat. They made presents to the Kitig
of Bambara, and he protected them and treated them
well, and this is the news I have of them, and peace
be with you."
Written at Tombuctoo, on, the 1541 i day of Moharrim
el Harram, in the year 1225.
Our friend will return to Tombuctoo very shortly,
and he will •then make inquiries after Mr. Parke and
his companions at Henbara, through the medium of
some friends he has there, and he will endeavour to
trace them from Henbara, where they were last heard
of; and if any of them are living, will, if possible, get
them to write their names on paper, and forward' it to
me. The Moor gives me hopes he will procure me
the journal, drawings, &c.
Ihe Talk or Cadi. at Tombuctoo,. who used to
write Mr. JaCkson, is lately dead. I should have been
happy if the information had been such as to have

LillV INI EI.I.IGIIA.Z.

DIVIDENDS.
A.::tust Is. William Dixon and Henry Dixon, of Rotherhiths,
Surrey, timber-merchatlts, at twelve, at Guildhall..—lacy 27.
Wm. Brown, of Wormwood-street, Loudon-wall, London, vie.
tualler, at ton, at GuildholL—A unlit le. Charles Davis, of Ssint
John-street, hliddlemx, carpenter, at ten, at Guildhall.—Angust
IS. Joseph Swan, of Qatar, Lincolnshire, menet.. draper, sad
grocer, at eleven, at the Spittle Inn, lAncoinshire.--bept. e. Jamas
Ball, of New Sarum, Wilts, vietualler, at ewesy at the White
Hart Inn, New Sarum —August 18. Ann Devernsh and Henry
Newport, of Villiers-street, Strand, Middlesex, upholsterers, at
twelve, at Guildhall —August lg. George Snuth, of Newcastle. -
upon-Tyne, woollen-draper, at eleven, at •• e Shakespear Tavern,
Newcastle-upon-'l'yne.--August 16. James Collins, tate of Gos-
port, Hants, huildtr and stone-mason, at one, at the Military
Arms, Horton, near Gosport.--August 14. Junes Bull, of the
parish of Kingston, Isle of Wight, Hants, corn-dealer and factor,
at three, at the Bugle Inn, Newport.--Sept. 3. Edward Carr, of
Whitstable, 'Kent, carpenter, at eleven, at the Guildhall, Canter.
bury.--August IS. David Rees, of Swansea, Glsmorganshire,
shopkeeper, at twelvo,nt, the Rummer Tavern, BristOL--Augoat
is. Henry Hcrve, of Chearide, Loudon, jeweller, at twelve, et
Guildhall.

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