Star. — 1811-02-12 (London, England)

CIIIOROS, FINALE. Raise the song to British glory, Proudest theme of martial story; !dingle in the choral strain, Heroes living—heroes slain; P. Sound in song the warrior name, Pride and boast of patriot fame!  •  ,  The fall of snow in the neighbourhood of Ban• bridge, on Thursday, surpassed any remembered by the.oldest person there ; the turnpike road near Dromore was completely filled up between the hedges. The coaches for Dublin and Belfast, with the aid of the passengers, made good their journies, till they got about hall way between Dromore and Banbridge, where both found it impracticable to proceed farther. The mail coach from Dublin, being in company with the Newry fly, assisted by the passengers (14 in number) gut those coaches drawn into, Banbridge ; but the coach from Belfast arriving at the'same plaee,,some time after, was left in the snow, where it remained till Sunday, when it was remora; by the exertinns of some Banbridge gentlemen, Who I took much trouble in collecting nearly 200 men to cut open this part of the road. One of the Martello Towers on the coast of Esse:, dear St. Osyth, has given way. Its first inclinatiog was several feet one way : in order to restore it to itS situation, the ground was excavated on the other side, and it has now gone back with an inclination in nearly the same proportion the other way. What is very singular, though the fabric must have sustained a great degree of percussion, no crack or fissure appears in the brick-work. A monster in human shape has recently been very active in the neighbourhood of Hampstead, in malt-4 ing unmanly and indecent attacks on unprotected fo.l males. He met a lady of respectability, a Mrs. B—, on Friday last, on the road leading from Highgate to Hampstead, and after treating her in the most inhuman manner left her in a lifeless state near to Lord Mansfield's park-gate. She was shortly afterwards discovered by a gentleman accidentally passing, who conveyed her to her residence. A very atrocious attack was lately made upon the centinel pasted at General Floyd's door, in Cork, about two o'clock in the morning. A man wrapped up in a great coat passed the centinel at that hour, and haying given the customary reply to the sentinel's challenge, and passed on a few paces, 'turned suddenly about, and discharged a pistol at him, which unfortunately wounded him severely in the foot, a little be-1 low the ancle. The centinel immediately fell, and the assasin fled. Whilst down, however, the soldier loaded his piece, and fired it in the direction which the villain had taken, but unluckily without effect.— As-soon as this daring outrage was communicated to the Sheriffs, a pursuit was commenced with the most laudablepromptitudeafter the offender, but he escaped. A man of the name of John Oughtcn, formerly a rsident at Kenilworth, but who has for about the last 15 or 16 years beets employed in a brewery at Co. ventry„ was examined on Tuesday, before C. G:, Wade, Esq. and committed to the county gaol for re-examination, charged, upon his owu confession, on violent suspicion of having wilfully murdered, at Keailworth, one Richard Whitton, (4 young man of irreproachable character, and of respectable connections) on the 20th of October, 1790. Charles Lee, late a resident of Kenilworth, and who, our Readers will recollect, was sentenced to fourteen years transportation at the last Assizesior that county, forhaving Imged Bank of England bills, first made a disclosure of this lamentable, and hitherto inysterieus transaction. We understand he has beeit detained frost waili4g with the other convicts from Portsmouth, F ' oaanuication.  -•