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f 779 • 9 77 twice beaten the Turks: inThessaly they :re reduced to act on the defensive. The latest letters from Corfu mention, that the plague makes the greatest ravages in the Turkish Beet, and that it is even on board the Admiral's ship. FRENCH FONDS, OCT. 9.—Five per Cents. opened at 92f. 90c.—closed at 92f. 95c. German Papers to the 4th inst. reached us this forenoon. • A letter in the Swabian Mercury says, . 4 if we may judge from the state of the fonds of various States, and the rise of their paper currency, it is evi dent that all those who are interested in them must consider war as highly improbable." The writer then proceeds to state, on the information of the best in formed persons, that " the united efforts of the Courts of Vienna and London will be exerted in the approaching Congress to maintain peace in Europe, and it is not doubted that they will succeed in dis pelling the storms that threaten the western part of our Continent, as they have done in the east. Austria and Great 13ritain,whose mediation has been crowned with such success in the differences between Russia and the Porte, will now probably step in as mediating Powers between the French Government,svhich thinks its safety endangered by the new order of things in the Pyrenean Peninsula, and Spain, which persists in maintaining the Constitution of the Cortes." We are, however, yet to learn that the mediation of Great Britain and Austria has been successful be tween Russia and the Porte; their differences, we be lieve, remain precisely in the same state they did twelve months ago, with this difference only, that Russia assumes a humbler, and Turkey a higher tone, than at the commencement of the negociations be meen them.—The following are extracts : BOLOGNA, SEPTEMBER 24. Yesterday af:ernoo❑ his Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Sweden arrived here with his suite, and a!ighted at the 130auharnois Palace. This morning be has set out for the capital of Tuscany. The day before yestei day the equipages of his Ma jesty the King of Naples arrived here, and proceeded yetterday to Modena. REGGIO, SEPTEMBER 17. The learned world has just sustained a great loss ty the death of the celebrated Natural Philosopher, Mathematician, and Philologer, the Chevalier di Giambattista Ventmina, Professor Emeritus of the University of Pachra, and Member of many learned S-. , cieties. He died on the lOth instant, being the I.►st day of the 76th year of his age. TURIN, OCTOBER 1. The Senate has offe:ed considerable rewards for the apprehension of some robbers, who in the night of the llth ult. stole Cie sum of 42,781 livres in the College of the Jesuits, at Novara. FRANKFORT, OCTOBER 4. Letters from Munich announce that Field:Mar shal Prince Wrede has been appointed Commander ir•Chief of the Bavarian Army. M. de Treva, the 3linister of War, having asked leave to resign, the King has appointed General Mainot to succeed him. SWITZERLAND, OCTOBER 2. The G; cat Council of Berne has certified, without reserve, by a majority of 142 to 42, the tommercial Convention concluded between fourteen of the Can tons. The amount of the extraordinary duty on corn and wine is to be applied in favour of the late Bi shoprick of Basle. The Great Councils of Basle and Zurich are summoned for the 7th of October, to give their opinion on the Commercial Convention. In summer the inhabitants of all the South of Ger many are clothed in Swiss cottons, especially such as are manufactured in the Cantons of Zurich and Ar zovia. Many thousand piecec of calico, manufac tured in the country about Hitna, Bauma, Wezikon, Wald, &c.- -go to Augsburg, Munich, Memmingen, Xempton, &c. The measures of reprisal will suite the Canton of Zurich better than any other : it de rives the advantages of them, without bearing the clisadvintages,becasse it needs none of the articles on which the duty is laid. VIENNA, SEPTEMBER 48. Her Imperial Highness the Archduchess Henrietta is doing as well as possible. The young Archduke Rudolph is likewise in perfect health. .• . , , , . . • Metalliques 82 I.—Bank Stares 1137. r. We have received Bombay Papers to the Ist 9fl June. On the 26th of May, Mareschal CORREA D the Chancellor of the Supreme Court of Judicature of Goa, Lo u el no, and the Judges of the same Court, SIAGA LHA INS, ROCHA, and ABREO, landed at Bom bay from Goa, whence they had been suddenly ex pelled by order of the Government. These Gentle men are said to be of the first respectability of Goa, three of them having been Members of the Constitu tional Governneent installed in the month of Septem ber last. Besides the above-mentioned Gentlemen, it is said that the Archbishop Primate and General Got:turner will meet a similar expulsion. Above a kindred inhabitants, and amongst them many Vicars and persons of distinction, were lying in the dungeons ((Goa, by order of Government, without any corn- 1 municition being allowed to them. Some houses bad been robbed, many people wounded and treated by the soldiers, and no persons could pass along the street of Pangem without being insulted. Several individuals had left the country, and others were putting themselves in readiness to do the same with all possible speed: 7 I tom ELDON. 1•1•11•••••• TO VIE EDITOR OF IMF. STAR. rely upon your candour for admitting a few observations on a not over-goodnatured para- I graphs which appeared lately in your columns, con cerning a distinguished Nobleman—the circulation whereof, in a variety - of other Papers, has surprised me less than seeing it in your's, which, though often much opposed to my political feelings,l have, for above five-and-twenty years, preferred to all others, on ac count of its honourable rejection of everything bor dering upon personal detraction. • That Lord Eldon might, when young, have (as he has even done in his maturity) aided the abilities which PROVIDINCE be stowed on him by more than ordinary industry, or that without that early industry he would scarcely have arisen to his present elevation, I feel no inclina tion to dispute ; but if he really had a master of the name of Bray, who could be so unworthy of the trust reposed in him as to stigmatise that industry by the appellation of plodding, or so undiscerning as to suppose that he had several pupils of superior talent, I should be indeed surprised could I suppose him to be related to the venerable and enlightened Editor of Evelyn's Memoirs. But that any gentleman of the name of Bray was the person who deterred him from retiring to Newcastle, I not only positively deny, but I am induced to state who that person really was, by being thus enabled to mention a pleasing and in disputably authentic anecdote of another eminent legal character, lately deceased. Upon its being ru moured that Mr. Scott (who had even then attracted the notice of the Lord Chancellor, Lord Thurlow) had taken a house in Newcastle, Mr. Mansfield (who was much his senior, and was in considerable prac tice at the Chancery Dar), though personally unac quainted him, accosted him one day as he was going out of Court, and asked him whether such a report could possibly be true ? Mr. Scott replied in the affirmative, alleging as his motive the hopes which had been held out to him of sufficient business there to ensure a present competence ; and Mr. Mansfield having strongly remonstrated on the want of spirit there would be in relinquishing for them his flat tering eventual prosperity, he candidly confessed himself compelled to do so, with a sigh, by the imperious necessity of an immediate subsistence. — Whereupon Mr. Mansfield, much affected, inquired what he should consider as a sufficient immediate subsistence to induce him to remain in London? and a very moderate sum having been mentioned, an swered that he would himself undertake instantly to throw into his hands conveyancing business enough to produce him double the amount, an office which he immediately accepted and punctually fulfilled ; and Lord Eldon had, in due time, not only the satis faction of making that very Mr. Mansfield Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, but of recalling the circumstance to his recollection when he an nounced to him his appointment. Whether the fa mily whose name was so unkindly introduced in the newspaper paragraph were influenced in their dis like of a match by the ordinary calculations of prudence, or not, it would be quite useless to in quii e ; but to assert that the fortunate holder of the Great Seal had a base pleasure in fixing it to the downfall of his wife's family, is what the writer of the paragraph in question could not have a right to as sert, since he could not know it—whatever he might. deduce from the feelings in his own bosom ; but at all events he might at least have completed his case, by adding, that if Lord Eldon really retained any angry feeling, he at length took a nobler revenge, by pro curing for this Lady's brother the Receivership of the County of Northumberland; by bestowing on the Clergyman who had married her the most lucrative preferment in his gift; and by providing, out of the patronage placed by the laws of his country at his disposal, for nearly evety member of the numerous family. I am, Sir, your's, &c. JUSTITIA. • The article to which our Correspondent alludes did not origi nate with the Seca, but was copied from a blerning Papez.—ED. • rim ARMY. ORDER RESPECTING HORSES OF CAVALRYe REMOUNT HORSES. The moot favourable season for the purchase of remota tweak is during the maims, and the Commanding Officers of Reid - silents, when they require horses to complete their establish ments, are to make their purchases, as far as. possible, doting this period ; but it is not intended to preclude them from avail ing themselves of the opportunities which the fain, held during the spring and summer, may afford. Hones, If bought in the winter, would require peculiar at. tendon to against the dlae2ses to which they are subject in coming guard or from the open fi elds, into stables. The exercise of rem ount h orses must be regulated by their age, I strength, and condition ; they seldom join a Corps in a state fit i for immediate work; as a general rule, therefore, it will be pro per, that walking nerdy only should be required of them for the first two or three weeks; the duration of their daily exercise should be gradually increased as their feed on hard corn is aug mented, and at no time must their work be such as to break their spirit, or to reduce their condition. HINDOO LAWS. " For contumelious language to a Brahmin (says the law of Menu), a Sudra must have• an iron style, ten fingers long, thrust red hot into his mouth ; and for offering to give instruction to Priests, hot oil must be poured into - his mouth and ears." "If (says Hal hed's Code of Gentoo Laws) a Sooder sits upon the carpet of a Brahrnin, in that case the Magistrate, having thrust a hot iron into his buttock, and branded him, shall banish him the kingdom ; or else he shall cut off his buttock. For striking a Brahmin, even with a blade of grass, or overpowering him in argu ment, the offender must sooth him by falling prostrate. A Brahmin, whether learned or ignot ant, is a power ful divinity, even as fire is a powerful divinity, whe ther consecrated or popular. Thus, though Brahmins employ themselves in all sorts of mean occupations, they must invariably be honoured, for they are some thing transcendently divine." " If a Magistrate has committed a crime, and any person upon discovery of that crime, should beat and ill. use the Magistrate, the Magistrate shall thrust an iron spit through him, and roast him at the fire." " A King (says the law of Menu), is formed of particles from the chief guar dian Deities, and consequently surpasses all mortals in glory. Like the sun, he burns eyes and hearts; — nor can any human creature on earth even gaze on him. He, fire and air ; he, the God of Criminal Jus tice; he, the Genius of Wealth ; he, the Regent of Waters ; he, the Lord of the Firmament, A King, even though a child, must not be treated lightly, from an idea that he is a mace mortal 1" NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. , EAST INDIA SHIPPING. The Florentia. RIMEMINGTON, from Bengal the 26th January, Madras the 20th March, Isle of France the Sd June, and St. Helena the 15th August, is arrived off Portsmouth. The Hadlow, Como's, from Bombay the Sd June, is arrived off Dover, and brings an account of the Brailsford, &mum, and the Swallow, Rom, from London ; also the Seaforth,Jouzs, from Liverpool, having arrived at Bombay. The Elizabeth, &roar:, from Sumatra the Ist June, is arrived at Cowes; she is an American ship, and waiting for orders. No accounts have yet been received of the Baroua, Eiurcern- SON, from Madras, or the Lord Castiereagh,BlLlCOS, from Bombay. PASSIM/3EIW IT 111. FLORERTIA-Mrs. Harriet Dare, Mrs. isabeilitiarniam; Lieut.-Colonel Hastings Dare, 95th Regiment Native Infantry, Bengal; Major B.C. Garnham, 29thKegiment ; Mr. George Gordon, from Madras; Misses C. Dunn, A. Boyd, L. Blackball, K. Syme, and three Misses Garnbam • Masters A. Ross anti M. Boyd; 15 invalids, one woman, and th ree children. SHIES LEFT AT ST. HELINA..—.The Indostan,WiLtuatsow, from Madra4, idled the 20th May, and bound to Liverpool; and the Vanaittart, DaLavairim., from China for England. TRADE WITII HOLLAND. i t " No. 6, Circus, Minories, Oct. 11. " Stz—l have the pleasure of acquainting you that the Dutch Government has issued an order by which British ships, in respect bf tonnage and lastage dues, are placed upon the like footing with Dutch ships in the ports of the Netherlands, and that the exemp tion from the extra dues will take effect from the sth day of July last past. I am, Sir, &c. (Signed) "JOHN HALL. "Mr. John Bennett, jun. Lloyd's." LOSSES AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. The Olive Branch and Leander hate been driven on shore at the Cape of Good Hope, and were to be sold the first week in August. The Royal George, from New South Wales, and the Sun, were driven on shore at the Cape of Good Hope prior to the 7th of August, but expected to be got off. The Adriatic has been condemned at the Cape of Good Hope. DUAL, OLT. 11.—Wind W.S. W.—Arrived and sailed for the River, the Florentia, ItgIIMINGTON, from Bombay ; Malabar, A scout u, from Batavia ; Temple,Wa La aa, from Jamaica ; John, Tavi.oa, from Virginia; Tropic, Baanoroan, from Barbadoes ; and a transpott from the westwa rd. Came down from the River, the llichard,Wittwasox, for Demerara; Ann, Lowar, for the South Seas; and Truxillo, ANDERSON, for Maracaibo. Potersmoorii, OCT. 1 I.—Wind W.—Arrived the Hero,--, from St. Andrew's. Sailed the Kutusoff, 1)01[100/100E% for St. Petersburgh. FALMOUTH, OCT. 10.--AVind W.S.W.—Sailed the Adeona, STIMART, PIIChaftI ) WILCOCZ, Union, BROICENSHAW, for London. Doves, OCT. 11.—Passed this port last evening, the Hadlow, CHAIM, from Bombay; lda, Louisa, from St. Croix; Temple, WALKER, Briton, °moo, and Amazon, HOLDHR, from Jamaica. FENZANC; OCT. p.—Yesterday morning the Norwegian barque Reder Due, of Porsground, Captain Fiontitsukax, lying in Portkleven New Harbour, had nearly been lost in a very vio lent gale from the S.W. which forced a very tremendous sea into that place. By much exertion, and great assistance, the vessel has been preserved from shipwreck; but she has suffered very considerably in her hull, and will be obliged to be brought up to Penzance Pier to be repaired.—Arrived the Lyme packet, of Lyme, Ctaitic, bound to Cork.—Weather much moderated — wind still S.W. Cusrom-House, OCT. 11.—Ships Entered Inwards :—The Friends, from Jamaica ; also, the Charles Forbes , from ditto ; Jonge Pieter, from Bilboa ; Jane, from Oporto; kitish Union, from Seville ; Paci fi c, from Quebec; King of t he Netherlands, from Rotterdam; George and James, from Africa ; Good In tent, from Malaga; Tiffin, from Tobago ; Trio, from Trieste ; Ruby, from Malaga ; Vier Gebrocders, from Ostend ; Iris, from Bilboa • Mary, from Jamaica; Polly, from Quebec ; Lark, from Ostend; Lord Vernon, from Cork; and Lord Melville, front Calais. Entered Outwards :—Esther, for Dublin ; Fils Unique, for Rouen ; Sirene, for Calais; James Harris, for Jamaica ; and Perseverance, for Calais. Cleared Outwards :—The Melanie, for Marseilles; Furst Blucher, for Rostock ; Brothers , for De . merara ; Manly, for St. Vincent's; Lord Melville, for Calais; Fabius, for St. Übe's ; and the King of the Netherlands, from Rotterdam. During the squall, about three o'clock on Sun day afternoon taut, a boat upset off Seasalter, in which were six men, who after they had been in the water a considerable time, were saved by the exer tions of Mr. OAK, Midshipman of the Coast Blockade Service stationed there. Tuesday se'nnight, Mr. MONCUR, Rector of the Grammar School, Perth, went to bed in apparently good health ; but was found dead next morning. Yesterday aftettioon a person driving a light cart in Bridge -street, Blackfriars, came in contact with two drays, by which both the shafts of the cart were broken, and the driver thrown out with great violence. The horse had one of his hoofs forced off just by the fetlock, and was obliged to be killed immediately. Sunday, George James, nephew and apprentice to Mr. George Hastie, stone-mason, of Nottingham, went to see an aged relation at Stanton, by Staple ford, where he spent the day. About five o'clock in the evening, as he was on the point of betting out on his return home, he imprudently ascended a walnut tree, from which he slipped and fell, and was so much injured that, although medical aid was speedily pro cured, he languished till six o'clock the next morning, and then expired. He was in his eighteenth year. The report which the wags are circulating, that the fire at our Office, on Thursday evening last, originated in the spontaneous combustion of a number of poli tical articles is totally destitute of foundation. We do not deal in such dangerous ware. The truth is, that our "devil" was endeavouring to purify a num ber of communications by fire, but not being care. ful enough of the process, the flames unfortunately spread to a number of poems in manuscript (the' collection of the last two years), which, by reason of the spirit contained in them, made a fine crack ling blaze, and finally exhaled in Ames etherial.— They went off in a most glorious smoke, but burnt so furiously at first as to scorch the wainicuting of the room, and burnt a hole through the Boor. We trust our poetical friends will now see the propriety of not burdening us in future with so many original *rses. We always considered the% very dangerous articles. —Philadelpkia Unioft .~~ • . wgr , W!• - • V7 7, ' SPORTING INTrLUGEATE. THE EOYAL CALEDOXiAN HUNT mast MONDAY, °cities t. • Over the Course at Musselburgit. His Majesty's Plate of 100 gs. free for any horse. ire. NW miles. Three-yr-olds, est. 41b. four, 96t: 41b. five, 9th 101 bi six, and aged, lost. Sir W. Maxwell's cb. h. Monreith, 5 yrs old Sir D. H. Blair's b. h. Milton, 5 yrs old Mr. Arinstrono b. c. The Packman, 4 yrs old Mr. Johnstone 6 b. h. Sir Thomas, 5 )rs old Won easy. -, ' 2 a i 4 The company was urn sually thin. The Stahel Wai-eatif de serted, and the carriages few beyond,all precedent. Amontr a Gentlemen present were—Sir It. K. Dick, Sir A. Don, Kelburne, Sir J. Beresford, Sir D. H. Blair, Sir A. Ramsay ) \ Lord Be rriedale, Sir James Baird, Lord T. Reay, Mr. nesse, Mr. Witham, M r. Witham, jun. Mr. Johnstone, Mr. Marathon Dundas, Mr. Crowther, Mr. Greathead, &c. &c. I:III63DAV, OCTOIII6It 8. Fifty Guineas, by the Hunt, added to a Subscription of ton Guineasteacir, for 3-yr-olslsi colts, ttst. 3lb. Miles ) est. Twd miles—five Subscribers or no race. Mr. Baird's br. e. The Pirate . - - Lord Kelburne's b. c. Sir William - - - Mr. Carnegie's b. f. Meeta - - - - The other two Subscribers did not name. An excellent race, and won only by half a head. . Hon. Mr. Ledie's P H E a ß m t b il l c t o R n l A a Sir D. H. 11Lir'i Maria Sir D. Moncrielfe's Caroline Sir A. Ramsay's Egiinton RACES--Ocr. 2. A Gold Cup, 100 gs. value: .. .. .6 - Match—Fifty Sovereigns, In ft. Mr. Grant's c. g. by Hambletonia agst Sir D. Merictiefell c. in. Louisa. Gentkmen riders. Won by Louisa. A Plate of 50gs. given by Sir David Moncrieffe. Sir D. Moncrieffe 's Louisa 3. - I i Sir D. H. Blair's Maria - . 2 .2 Mr. Grant's c. g. by Hambletsnia, aged 4 3 43 Mr. Carleton's g. f. Hambletonia, 37n old 4 4 3 THIJKSDAY. o A Sweepstakes of lOgs. each, with £5O added from the Racing Fund. Hop. Mr. Leslie's m. Hambletonia, S yrs old Ld Kennedy's Fglinton, aged Sir D. Moncrieffe's b. g. Warlock, 4 yrs old A Plate of £5O, given by the Hunt. Hon. Mr. Leslie's Ilambletonia, 5 yrs old Sir 1). Moncrieffe's Louisa, 5 yrs old PEDESTRIANISM. Yesterday morning, a match, which excited vety great interest at the Club Houses, and upon which there was heavy betting, was decided on the Kilbern-road. Captain SMITH. well knowri in the sporting world as a good pedestrlin, undertook to run five miles in thirty minutes for a stake of Sol. pay or play, and time for the favourite at odds. He started at eight o clock front Maids-hill, a mile in and out, and finally performed the match, not having even a second to spare. The umpire and time-keeper declared, that the distance had been fairly performed in the stated time, which had the effect of settling all murmurs as to the bets. The Captain was greatly fatigued. 1 0 2 dt Henry Andrews, Esq. of Shrewsbury, while on It sporting excursion on Saturday. last, at the Park near Oswestry, met with a fatal accident. About four in the afternoon, having discharged one barrel of a double gun, he was reloading it, when his knee having touched the trigger, the other barrel went off, and lodged the contents in his head, and caused his in& scant death. The deceased had served in most of the battles during the Peninsular war, and had received several wounds. This morning, about six o'clock, a woman, known at Billingsgate by the name of Young Sall, in passing the Borough side of London Bridge, was knocked down by a cart, driven by a butchers boy at a most furious rate; the woman received so much injury, that she was taken up in an insensible state, and col - .* veyed home with little hopes of recovery. As Joseph Coulson, servant to Mr. John Turner, of Bushill, Yorkshire, w.:s going to Hull, on Mcnlay morning last, between two and three o'clock, he was stopped between Newbald and Hunsley, by three men ; one seized his bridle, another attempted to pull him off, but he leaped from his horse, knocked the man down, and remounted, expecting he had got clear off; but they crossed an angle of the road near Hunsley, and came up with him again, dragged him from-his horse, robbed him of his watch, £l9 19s. and stabbed him several times in the breast with * bather's knife. He heard one of them ay, " D—n him, don't spare the knife!" During the struggle, his horse got away, and they heard the :Animal's leet, which caused them to leave the man for a time, stir. posing some person was coming ; when tley foind the mistake they returned, most likely to fittilt the bloody deed, but he had crept a little out of the road behind a bush, and they missed him. He now lies dan gerously ill at Little \Veighton. The attention of the Oxonians was on Saturday attracted to a novel carriage which arrived in that city and ro cked universal attention. It proved to be the travelling carriage of Mr. Tuarria,the celebrated Blacking Manulazturer, of Lon.. don. It is a four-wheeled carriage (invented by a Mr. JorixsoN) which, though as neat and easy as a phaeton or curricle, from having no iron springs, avoids the duty on spring carriages, by coming under the appellation of a " stage-waggon," and as such is regularly licensed at Somerset-House. The wheels are es. tremely neat and light, with patent axletrees, and stand upright, by which a considerable deg ree of friction is avoided. The axletrees are iron : from the lder one, near the wheel, on each side, is fixed a bar of lancewood ; these meet on the centre of the fore axietree, and serve at once for connecting pole and springs, the body of the carriage being poised in the middle of them. The front axietree turns on a small circular plate, and is neat and secure, though entirely without the framework in the front of curricles and other carriages. The shafts, which are of the cabriole construction, are immediately attached to the axietree by joints. But the greatest novelty and advantage (if, indeed, so ingenious an evasion of the duty be not of tantamount importance) is the manner by which the horse, should he be restive or run off, may be instantly detached from the carriage by a simple operation of the driver. This is contrived, without any sacrifice of neatness, or of ease to the horse or rider : the traces are short; attached to each is a small plate of iron so formed as to embrace three sides of the square shafts: through the parallel sides of these irons is a hole, as there also is through the shafts, to which they are consequently t y affixed by means of an iron pin. Directly over this there is a curve or bridge of brass screwed to the shaft ; through the top of this arch a strap leads, fastened to the top of the pin, so as to pull it straight out; when the pins are inserted another strap is put through them in the manner of a linch-pin, to prevent them from starting out; the straps are, at a convenient distance, united, and lead along the shafts to the front of the carriage, like a bridle, On pulling this, the straps that fasten the pins below, being the shortest, disengage themselves; and the upper ones then draw out the pins: the horse, with hit harness, is thus at freedom in a moment; and the shafts, as the rein does not draw along them further than is necessary to pull out tho bolts, are, by the same operation raised from the ground.— The whole machiue, which is neatly painted and decorated, and is as handsome as any curricle. weighs only about Ile cwt. and may be dragged about by # schoolboy. The body is the same as that of a glg. In the frost, according to the Act, is the far•famed owner's name, and the number of the waggon ; and above it, in Mining, but not conspicuous letters, Is painted what may 14 seen on the street corners of every town in Great Britain. from the Land's End to Johnny Groat s House, is UN Tummies Blacking." • N ti }, jr ; op I 1 •RF