Star.
London, England, 1828-11-06 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

WAILS AZIUM TIN DAYrDbblin I—Waterkg4l-Bramee 1—
Enders I.—Hambutgb 1.
The Amelia, front famine. was on abuse la tb flock Mattel.
Liverpool. on Tuesday.
DIAL, Nov. s.—Wind Russian brig of war anebored
ht the Downs.

Poarsmouvu, Nov. s.—Wind B.E.—Arrived the Catharine,
Fsennfaxoci, from Nants, whb loos of fore-yard and fore-sail.
PLvssourn, Nov. 4.—Wind E.—Arrived the New Eagle, Macs:,
(ruin St. John's ; Jane, Lamson, from Charente.
FALMOUTH. Nov. 4.—Wind 8. to S.S.E.--tiailed the Good In-
tent, MACDONALD. for Terceira.
Samoa, Nov. s.—Arrived the Lark, Itunzatz, from ;
Julia, —, from Oporto.
Gatanocx, Nov. S.—Arrived the Mariner, Lawson, from Hon-
duras; Ann, GaAs?, from Miramkhl; Warrior, Mosuses, from
Archangel; James, hl'Lzan, from &ruin.
HOLTIMAD. Nov. 4.—Arrived the Elisabeth, from Demerara.

This day being the commencement of Michaelmas
'etal, the Judges, as usual, met the LORD CHANCELLOR,
Ind after breAktast, proceeded to the Courts at West-
bin:ter. _ _

The terns paid to prosecutors and witnesses at the
teptember Old Bailey Ses.i9ns alone amounted to the
ensolnous sum of 1,8911. 15s. independent of the City.
eases, and the costs at the Cleikenwell Sessions.
TIM GRUN PARIC.—A great number cf excavators
and others'are now employed in waking a semi-circular
bank, at the South-east side of the Green Park, pre.
.paratory to the baiin being cleaned and improved, and
leaving a space to contain and confine the mud and
other filth that have been accumulating for years in thre
basis, and which are to be removed immediately. Them
are two apertures made from the basin into the tem•
porary area, and when the former is thoroughly cleaned
the water will in future be of course more pure, and
furnish a supply to the new Palace erected in St. Jamei's
Park.
Last evening an Inquest was held at the White Horse,
in the Gr. ye, Hackney, on the body of Mary Ann
Mee, 24 years i f age, daughter of the proprietor of the
Britannia Tavern, in that neighbourhood. It appeared
that the deceased was preparing a mixture of turpen-
tine, bees .wax, &c. in a pipkin to polish furniture, and
had very imprudently placed it on the fire, when it
boiled over and caught fire. The deceased took the
pipkin off the fire, when the flames communicated to
her clothes, and she was so dreadfully burned that she
died the next morniug. A verdict of Accidental Death
was returned.
Last night, at about ten o'clock, a most dreadful ac-
cids:nt took place in Henry street, Commercial road,
Lambeth, by which the life of a fine boy, aged 13,
son of Mr. James Lucas, a coal and provision merchant
in that street, is despaired of. The unfortunate lad, and
several of his companions, were celebrating the anni-
versary of the Powder Plot by discnargiug fire works
around a large bonfire. and the injured boy, who bad
provided himself with a large quantity of squibs,
crackers, and other cumbustibles,whichhe had deposited
in his pockets, was by some of his associates pushed ou
to the fire ; his clothes immediately caught the flame,
which consmunicated with the fireworks in his pockets.
and in an instant the poor lad was surrounded in the
discharge of the squibs, beside the flame of his clothes.
In this Mal, be ran home, where the flame was extin-
guished, and Mr. Fitzpatrick, a neighbouring surgeon,
upon examination, discovered that his thighs and lower
part of his belly were so much injured by the fireworks,
that it was most advisable to remove him to the hospi-
tal. where be now lies in a very doubtful state.
Daring a storm which occurred at Ramsgate, in
16'22, a wave broke upon the Pier with tremendous
violence. rising above it to the height of 14 feet, and in
falling on the pavement, raised a 36 pounder cams.
trade, aids its carriage, over a stone ledge several inches
high, and. swept it into the sea. Some idea of the force
of the water may be inferred from the fact that it would
base required the united strength of 20 men to have
pitcht4 tbe carronade over the ledge.
Yesterday morning, about eleven o'clock, as a Gen-
tleman retkling in King's Arms yard, Coleman-street,
was ploceetling from Holton towards the City. when
near the Rosemary Brauch, between SO and 40 ruffians,
who bad a Guy Fawkes on an ass, instantaneously ru.hed
on him, and be t him with their sticks in a most violent
manner, and roboed him of five sovereigns. and a geld
watch, chain. and seals, of the value of 70i. and up-
wards. Inforraation was immediately received at the
Police Office, Worship• treet. and two of the officers
Were Mat in permit of the offenders.
Yesterday afternoon, about five o'clock, a fire broke
out in the first floor ot the premises of Mr. Key, a book-
binder in Sermon-lam. near Doctors' Commons, and
from the luantity of !vote paper about the house, there
seemed little hope that it' would escape destruction. By
tla prompt assistance of the neighbours and some fire-
mall however, the flames were speedily quenched. In
the first moment of alarm, Martha, Lawrence, a girl
about eleven years old, conceiving it was impossible to
escape by the staircase, sprang from the window of the
third story, and, falling upon the pavement, was taken
to the hospital in a pitiable condition. She is, bow-
ever, expected to recover.
Tuesday, while two of the Minister's (of Dornoch)
servants were employed in digging Chu from a bank,
at the west end of the town of Dornoch, called Tomo
Ray, a large part of it suddenly fell upon one of several.
children who were amusing themselves near the spoilt
the time.. It oas not known at first who was the little
sufferer ; butts number of people having collected, the
body of a fine girl, daughter of the occupier of the mail
coach receiving-house, was dug out. Although medical
aid Was promptly procured, all efforts to restore anima.
titan proved ineffectual. The state of the agonized
parents may be imagined, but cannot be described.—
Inverness Jorreel.
Sr. Ives, OCT. 30.-No fish have been seen since
Sunday week. On tbat day about 800 hogsheads were
enclosed, and theism night, by moonlight,l,ooo more.
The total quantity taken bete this season, including
those shipped, will not exceed 12,000 hogsheads. The
season is now considered at an end. Several woodcocks
have been shot in this neighbourhood the last week;
they ate very plentiful this season.
The vessel recently seized at Gravesend, containing
a valuable cargo of contraband spirits, and called the
Nancy, of Boston, was built at Hastings about twenty
years ago, and was employed in the London trade to
that port until stain two or three years. He
original name was the Farmer's Delight, from the cit.,
cumstance of her principal owners belonging to that
class, and bet being chiefly engaged to carry 2014-
tural produce. About dues years ago the Farineeit
Delight was wrecked on the southern coast, and the
bull was brought into Hastings, where, after reposing
for twelve or eighteen months, she was refitted, sent
over to France, and was employed in the smuggling
trade. in which it is said she has made two or three
itieeetsful voyages before she attracted the notice of
the inspector. According to the principle on which it
is understood these speculative' are carried on, the
au nei s of the Nancy will be amply iedenisthed by their
former success for their pietist 1004

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LINN EA N SOCIETY.
The first Meeting of the 45 h Session of this Society
took place yesterday, at the S 'ciety's Howe, Soho-
hqUare ; A. B. LAMMT. V.P in.ihe Chair.
A number of Gentlemen were introduced, and took
their seats for the first lime as Fellows. The Rev. D.
W. Drake, M.A. J.W. Lubbock, J. Pereirra, J. S. Dun
can, Esqrs. and mhos, were balloited for, and duly
elected.

Mr. R. TAYLOR read a curious paper on a new species
of doi mouse.

Among the presents to the Society was a drawing of
a new species of pheasant, brought to this country by
Lady Campbell from India, the bird having been given
to her Ladyship by the 161. g of Ava, and caught in the
mountains of Cochin China.
Mr. BICHENO. the Secretary, delivered the annual
address on the meeting of the Society. Speaking of the
impediments to making natural history a popular sub-
ject, be observed, that we continue, in works intended
for the English public, to lock the science up in a lan-
guage only known to literati. The people add most to
the vocabulary of every language. the poets are next in
Authority, and the philosopr ers last. The paper went
on to show the advantages that would result to the
science of natural history by the employment of terms
suitable to the conception of general readers; and con-
cluded by exhorting the Fellows of the Society to a
strenuous application in furthering the objects of the
Society.

The thanks of the Fellows were given for the paper,
and the Meeting adjourned.

A FATHER'S LEGACY TO HIS CHILDREN.

Si JAMES KENNET) ESQ..
MOM ACKUMANIeII " 701101 IT ME NOT TOE 1829."

When I am dead,
And this frail bead
Lies basted is welcome rest,
O'er that sweet sleep
Nor wail nor weep,
To die is to be blest.
Bet, hand in band,
Together stand,
Over the grassy moond;
And ever vow

To live as now,
In love and union bound.
Be to the last

Firm friends and fast.
On truth and bosom beets
In shine ar sterns,
And you'll perform
3dy will and testimont,
Flail this trust,
And o'er my dust
For tomb and trophy 4 plant,
A wooden rail.

Where the nightingale
Ny requiem may channt.

The extensive premises of Gale, Baker, and Wards,
wholesale druggists in Bouverie.street, Fleet.street, were
broken into on -Tuesday night, and all the desks in the
different departments completely ransacked, but fortu-
nately with very little loss of property. It is evident
the thieves were disturbed, as two bags were found
filled with various articles, intended of course to be
taken away. All that has at present been missed, con.
situ of a pair of pistols, a musical snuff box, two great
coats, and a few pounds in cash, from one of the clerk's
desks. An iron closet in the counting house escaped
search, owing to the fellows putting a wrong key into
the lock, which, in attempting to move, they broke in ;
consequently could not use picklocks.
M.twouttaTen.—Some surprise was excited here on
Monday by the unusually early arrival of the Robert
Bruce coach, from London, which game in at twelve
o'clock at noon, instead of about four in the afternoon.
Reports were spread that an express of great impOrtance
was travelling by it. The fact, we understand, was,
that the coach bad been engaged to Wing down a large
quantity of sovereigns, tt is said no lems..than 16 cwt.
for the use of the provincial Banking Companies of Ire.
land, upon some of is hose brooches a severe run was
taking place a few days ago; and that the time of the
coach's starting was altered, to allow of the gold being
got to Liverpool, and shipped by yesterday's steam
packet. •
FATAL AOCIDINT /1011 Flag Anus.—Monday even.
ing, about hall-past nine o'clock, a fatal accident oc-
curred at the. house of Mr. Swage, pawnbroker, Para.
dise-streei, Lambeth.- Two of Mr. Ravage's youtig
men, John Temple, a nephew of his employer, and
James Bury Burnett, both about 18 years of age, after
;he shop bad been closed, were talking together of some
fireworks they intended to let off on the anniversary of
the Gunpowder Plot, when John Temple, taking up a
pistol (which had been previously loaded unknown to
him), unthinkingly said, 401'11 try this pistol ;" and
poinit)ianifc towards Burnett, it immediately_ went off, and
the entering the lower opt of the forehead, shat-
tered the skull of the unfortunate lad, and he instantly
fell dead. Temple immediately honied out, in a
frantic manner, for assistance; but upon the arrival of
Mr. Young, the surgeon, that Gentleman at once pro.
nounced that death must have instantaneously followed
the shot.

Yesterday an Inquest was held at the Crown, Church-
street, Lambeth, on the body of James Sixty Barrett,
aged seventeen, the youth who was accidentally shot by
John George Temple, at the house of Mr. Savage,
pawnbroker, in Paradise-street, Lambeth. It was stated
by Mr. Savage's foreman, that the two lads were
in Mr. Savage's employ, and were on the most ex-
cellent terms with each other. He was sere that
the death of the poor lad was produced by acci.
deot.—At the desire of the Jury the lad was called
in. He appeared about eighteen years of age, and
seemed to feel the most poignant grief at having been
the cause of the death of the unfortunate youth. Atter
Ihe had recovered himself, be was sworn, and be then
stated that the deceased„ after they bad done their
business, filched dawn the gunpowder, in order to
make swam squibs; that be (Temple) loaded the pis-
tol, as be intended to Ire it off in the yard, and, in
ceder that it might snake a loud report, he put some
shot In. bat forgot to prime it; be was raising the
pistol With bah his bands, to rime it, when it went
off, at the halt:cock, and-the contents lodged in the
heed of the deceased. who fill instantly ; be exclaimed,
" Ob. Lad r and never-spoke more. He assisted him
uptbut be-fell again; he then booed a handkerchief
'round his bead, and ran to Mr. Kemp', a neighbour,
Who procured the assistance of Mr. Young and his
a'ssimust.—T4p Jury returned a verdict—" That the'
deceased esmeity his death by being accidentally shot'
bP John George Temple—The brothers of the de-
cessettehpressed themselves satisfied with the verdict.

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NEW LONDON BRIDGE.
•a—or.
Yesterday morning an adjourned Court of Compen-
sation was held at the Town Hall, S mthwatk, before
the Loiu MATOE, Aldermen ANSLEY. J. J. SMITH,
WOOD, C. SMITH, and the RECORDER, to decide upon
the claims of Mr. John Bailey, furnishing ironmonger
and smith, for the lease an ,goodwill of the premise,
No. S08;-on the left side of the High-street, Borough,
required for the approaches to New London Bridge.
Mr.Woodthorpe having put in the claim made, being
for both interests 1,8751.
Mr. ROLLAND, in the absence of the Common Ser-
geant. opened the case on the part of the City, and
called Mr. George Smith. surveyor to the Mercers'
Company, whose estimate for the lease, thitty•nine year b
and a half to come, was five per cent. and seventeen
years' purchase, on the clear rent of eighty pounds per
annum. 2501. Mr. Kay, architect for the Post Office,
precisely similar. Mr. Charles Wharton, clerk to Mr.
Hoggart, auctioneer, Twelve years' purchase, 2001.
• Mr. PLATT, for the claimant, dwelt at considerable
length on the right of his client to most ample remu-
neration. lie bad given M. for the residue of the
lease, erected a workshop at the expense of near 2001.
and been established on the spot for 20 years under the
singular advantage of conducting his business without
offence to his anghbours, which in no other situation
whatever was he likely to do; and insisted that the
claim for the lease at 5701. was not only fair but mode-
rate, though the witnesses on the other side bad the
modesty so put it down at much less than half that sum.
To prove his statement the Learned Gentleman called.
Mr. Newman, Surveyor to the Consmis.ioners of
Sewers. Total estimate, 5621. Mr. Guilt, Surveyor, 5521.
On the score of the good will, the receipts and el:
penditures for the last Wee years were submitted. and
the average annual clear profit proved to be 8111.
Witnesses being heard on the point, and Mr. BOL•
LAND having replied, the Jury retired, and after about
half an hour's consultation, returned—For the lease,
4601. good will, including fixtures, expenses of removal,
&c. 9521. 6s. 6d. in all, 1,4121.65. 6d.

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