Star. — London, England, 1822-07-27 00:00:00

, Madrid. The . eourier who toot • the news to St. Petersburgh could not arrive there before the 20th or 21it. The couriers who shell bring back to Vienna, London, and Paris, the decisions of the Emperor, cannot arrive in time three capitals before the Ist, s:h, and the 6th August. Now it is difficult to believe the Corn will instantly agree as to the r,irtant question, whether the affairs of Spain ought t o form part of the objects of deliberation of this Congres, already so numerous and grave.lostrnal des Debata. • ! was obliged b cut its cables: a severe cannonade be- I gen: the fire ships were brought into the middle of the 'Turkish fleet, and approached the Turkish Ad miral's-ship to set it on fire, but the wind being'un favourable the Capitan Pacha had time to fly. After the action had continued four hours, the Tut kith fleet, though above six times superior to the Greeks in num ber, as well as size of the vessels, disgracefully fled. The Admiral highly commends the valour of his Officers and men, especially Captain Anastasio, of the Alexander brig, who fought with two Turkish frigates, which he put to flight. Several French and German Officers, on board the Greek fleet, distin guished themselves. Though the attempt . to burn the Turkish fleet at anchor failed, yet this victorious combat of ten small Greek vessels with the whole T Akish fleet, consisting of six ships of the line, of the A . size, ten frigates, and above thirty cor vettes and brigs, will be ever memorable. We have accounts from Athens that the Turks in the citadel can hardly hold out a fortnight. If ae bad but some battalions of Germans and French here, our beautifulGl.eece would won be free, and it would gratefully assign to its deliverers permanent abodes in its fairest villages. ~, I have been ordered hither," says the writer, " with several artillerists, to super. intend-the erection of batteries to protect the harbour. We hope that German hearts' will not become cold to the cause of Greece ; and we impatiently long for the arrival of souse of out German countrymen. He whose heart is animated by generous feelings, and who does not go to Greece with merely interested views, is received here with open arms." Vrarnea, JULY 12.--Iletsllique3,74--Bank Shares. 771 9-10. JULY 13.—Metalliques, 79 5-16—Bank Shares, 772 k. . . ^7~r Tsn Tp DISTRESS IN IRELAND. .. ;nom LEAMINGTON SPA, JULY 26. • We hada most dreadful storm of thunder and light ning here yesteiday afternoon, accompanied by tre mendous showers of rain. X fire-ball passed down the chimney of Mrs. - HARTWELL, at Cotton End, War , wick, and explodedin the kitchen, where Mrs. HART WELL and her ni ece sac , an d the servant g i r l w as in the act of taking a smouthing-iron from the fire. Mrs. HARTWELL was knocked senseless off her chair, and her niece (Miss Paoh) escaped with only a slight b!isa ter on the knuckle; but the servant maid was burnt in a most dreadful manner down her arms, and also about the face ; she is, however, recovering. Our Spa begins to fill apace ; and their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of GLOUCESTER have taken Wellington House for a month certain, from the Ist of August; her Royal Highness the Princess AUGUSTA is expected - to accompany them. We are all in a bustle, preparing for the Royal Visitors. The improvements here go on very rapidly ; and it is expected that it will Ise a very full season. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of DENMARK lately honoured the Spa st ith a visit—and happily found great benefit from the mineral waters. ~ ;.,,.. FROM TH2 DUBLIN JOURNAL OF WEDNESDAY. Our private communications, received this morn- , ...-... ing, contain very alarming statements regarding the extent and intensity of the prevailing distress in the South and West. From Kanturk (20th July) we learn, that the claimants for relief are most frightfully increasing. There are from four t• .5000 persons in actual distress. The crop in this district,• will be at least three weeks later than at Carberry and the lands along the coast. In the parish of Tullalease the distress is equally severe, 300 persons depend upon daily employment for daily subsistence, and there Are not three pounds in hand to meet the emergency. Distress rages more violently in the mountainous parts than in the more cultivated lands. In the neighbourhood of Newmarket there are 7000 people depending on sup plies from the Mansion-House, and in the parish of Kilman there are 6000 who have scarcely received any aid although in the utmost wretchedness. At Freemount, the situation of the peonle is dread ful. It is impossible, says our correspondent, to give a just idea of it—the:funds of the Baronial Committee are exhausted. The distress has encreased within these last ten days. There is a small encampment in that quarter, and groups of famishing creatures be siege the tents crying fur bread. • Such is the melancholy nature of our information, and we ,have authentic documents to establish its truth. In the Sligo - Journal it is stated, that to some of the poor people from their immediate want have been obliged to have recourse for food to the crop of potatoes lately planted, aad which has not yet had time to yield the produce.—One poor man was found by one of the Roman Catholic Clergymen of this town, in the act of finishing the digging of nine yards of the potatoe-ridge in his garden, to obtain a single meal for his starving family—and our Chief Magistrate has discovered persons, in day light, in this neighbourhood plundering the potatoe fields. The calamity that must ensue from thus anticipating future subsistence, should, if possible, be averted. Orders have been given to dismiss four hundred labourers to-day—but we trust the Committee will be able to reinstate them again, as the situation of those wretched people, and their families, without work or means of support, must be indeed miserable—the number of labourers last week amounted to 11501 d egrir"7 9 "7*.rl 9 *Tim", „ , . TIM ARMI'. Friday se'nolght, upwards of 400 men betook's', to the Hnn• Eist-India Company's• Artillery and Infantry, marched from the depot at Chatham, for Gravesend, to embat k for India. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. DEAL, JULY ft—Wind S.W.—The Thames Indianian, So: vereign, and Saucy Jack, Southsearnea, and several other out ward-bound vessels, got under way this morning, with a light breeze from W. by N. It soon backed into the W. by S. and the Thames and several more bore up again, it blowing fresh, and every appearance of thick weather. Arrived and sailed for the River, the Mary,. Htmuctre, from Quebec. his MA sty's ship Pnatrex, from Portsmouth. Came down trom the Rives, the John, Triomf, for ilavannah; Cornet, M`Pristison, for AL.- deka ; Countess of l larcourt, Brown, for Van Diemen's Land ; Creole, COTESWORTII, for Pernambisco.—Flalf-past Six: The Royal Sovereign. Saucy Jack, &c. still keep the sea. Cusnow-House, JULY 26.—Ships Ehtered [smear.!': William Bryan, from Jamaica; Fame, front Petersburgh ; Prince of Orange, and Mercurius, front Rotterdam ; Prospect, Latona, Arethusa, Eagle, Cornwall, and Freedom, from Quebec; Ca nada, from St. John's; Lord Melville, front Calais ; • Prince of Waterloo, from Ancona; Amelia, front Cadiz;. Elizabeth, from the South Seas; and Sam, from Sligo.—Entered Outwards: isabcila for Charleston ; N eptune an d L ar k, f or O sten d ; Sprightly, for Rotterdam; Esperance, for Ghent; Wheaten, for Gibraltar.—Cleared Outwards: Jenne Isabelle, for Ostend; Argonaut, fur Petersiourgh ; bird Melville, for Calais; Albi- Ma, fur Demerara ; Gude liofitiung, for Stettin ; Sarah Marga ret, fur Bilboa. ODESSA, JULY is The last accounts from the Pelopnnesus have re vived the hopes of the Greeks here. Their interests prosper not only in the Moi ea, hnt also in Epirus, fhessaly, and Albania. The Capitan Pacha seemed w have been chained to the blood-stained rocks of Chio; he was there on the 19tb, and had, up to that time, undertaken nothing. It is said that this Admiral, whose mildness and affability have been lauded in the Austrian Observer, has estahliSbed a great cham ber o torture in his own vessel, where he inflicted torture on distinguished Chiotes, in order to force them to discover their riches. T:,e Journe des Debats, in a note on -this. article, say , —" Thei e are so many confused rumours respect. ing the Turkish fleet, that it is impossible to get at the with. The Allgerneine Zeilung, of Augsburg, has received two letters from Constantinople, one of the 26th of June, according to which, a dozen Greek fire.,lups blew up the Turkish Admiral's ship, and the Ca v itan I'acha had been conveyed, dying, to the Isle Scio. According to another, of the 22d of June. the pestilence rage..l on board the fleet, which v,..te.1 it from going to - the Mores. The Allge mc;pe Zritieng guet anteea neither of these letters, and stuff, that they arrived the same day, though bear irq; dderent date:.—The Greeks in Paris have re ceive..l letters from Cot fu, which confirm the death'. Live capture of Napoli di Romania, after three at tacks.'—(Note of the Editor.) CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 26. DIVINE vei,;eaace begins to be displayed, and the cause of litini.thity has found avengers. The Cap tain-Pacha, that teiocious Mussulman, who plunged a:i the inhabitants of Selo into the abyss of calamity, n o hifiger exi-ts. The Greeks have displayed a cou rt e rind a boldness, the result of which will resound through ail Europe. On the 22d of June, the eve of the feast t f Bairam, three Greek vessels, charged with combustibles, passed the Turkish fleet, and, un der cover of the friendly flag which they had heisted, approached the ship of the Admiral. The Turks, cccupied with preparations for their feast, paid little attention to the fireffiips, and the Greeks had thus time to throw their fusees on the Admiral's ship, v.hich soon was in flames. Disorder immediately spead among the crew, and each man tried to save himself from the conflagration. The Captain Pacha, f burnt, was transported to the blood-stained shores ct the Ise of Scio, which he bad atrociously laid waste, where, after half an hour of torment, he ex- Thiee Turkish vessels were much damaged, and the rest of the fleet dispersed in different direc tions, dreading an attack from the Greek fire-ships. The last days of the Ramadan were distinguished in the suburbs by the greatest disorders. The Turkish baths were of tined, and Turkish women and girls torn from them: The Grand Vizier repaired thither in disguise; but he was attacked by the mutineers, and tranquillity was not re-established till the Sultan ha] declared formally that he would quit Consianti- Lople with all his Court, ail(' that he would carry the seat of Government to Asia, if tranquillity should not be re-established. The Government, aided by the "Grand Vizier and Ibrahim Pacha, never displayed more force. The day before yesterday, eighty-four young mutineers were executed in the streets, and the others disarmed. All the necessary measures fcr the protection of Pera had been taken. The affairs of the 11Iarea assume a dismal aspect for the Poi te. The Pacha of St. Jean d'Acre has taken Damascus, and the Persians are at Erzerum. The Porte has, it is said, received official news of these events.—Allge- =eine Zeitung. FRENCH FUNDS.—Five per Cent. Consols opened at 91f. 55c. highest, 91f. 70c. closed at 91f. 50c.—Bank Stock, 1,600 f. This forenoon we received a German Mail, bring ing Frankfort and other Papers to the 20th instant. The accounts from Constantinople, which are not later than the 25th ult. state, that though the Bairam was finished, business had not been resumed. An .ntraordinary courier had arrived from Vienna in .rine day:, but the nature of his mission had not irap!..p.ired. The following are extracts : FItINKFORT, JULY 19. The German Jcornals contain an account from Tlydra of the 4th June, which states that, on the news of the lauding of the Turks in Scio, a Greek' fleet of 50 sail (all small vessels) was sent to cruize Scio ; that the Turkiskfleet fled at their approach, and the Greeks took some Turkish boats ; but the To: ks having a strong garrison on the Island, and Greek fleet having no troops on board, the Ad ruiral could only approach as near as possible to the chore and seed boats to assist the islanders in escaping. *fire Turkish &et soon rtturned with reinforcements, aid that of the Greeks withdrew to cover Samos. On the SI st of May, the Greek Admiral, Andreas II with only ten vessels, accompanied by his fire made a oilitit attack on the Turkish Beet, which THE KIAG'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND. Thursday, the FORTE frigate, and EGRRIA sloop of war, two of the Royal squadron destined to convey his MAJESTY to Scotland, passed through the Downs from the !westward, for the rendezvous at the Nore. EXTRACT OP A PRIVATE LETTER, DATED EDINBURGH, JULY 23. "The announcemet of the Royal visit has set us all upon the qui Woe ; and Auld Reekie' was never in such a bustle as it is at the present moment in making preparation to give our beloved SOVEREIGN a hearty welcome. Not only are our public buildings be7ng furbished up, but every good housewife in Eciin burgh is putting her hcuse in order, to accomn o date the country cousins who are already cro*ding in upon us to get a peep at Majesty. " The utmost exertions are making to complete the new road from the Palace to the Calton Hill, which, I need not say, will be a considerable improve ment. The number of men employed, and the zeal and assiduity with which they labour, gives us hopes that it will be finished before the arrival of his MA JESTY, who is expected here on _the 11th of next month. A semies of splendid entertainments ate talked of, but the plans are not yet sufficiently ma tured to be made public. " We all regret that our gallant 42d are not here; though it is supposed that the Royal Company of Archers will claim their old privilege of defending the KING'S person, as a body guard, within six mile% of . the Capital. This Company, which owes its origin to the Commissioners appointed in the reign of JAMES the First ft r enforcing the exercise of Archery, was revived during the reign of his late MAJESTY. It now consists .of above a thousand members, among whom are most of our Scottish Nobility and persons of distinction. Such a guard, we doubt not, will be most acceptable to his MAJESTY, and we are all an ticipating the pleasure of seeing our Sovereign es corted by this fine Company of Nobles and Gentle men. They will, I assure you, make a goodly shew ; for their uniform is tartan, lined with white and trimmed with green and white fringe, a white sash with green tassels, and a blue bonnet with a St. An drew's Cross and f;athers. " It is not yet known whether his MAJESTY, en his landing, will proceed direct to the Palace, or re pair, in the first instance, to Dalkeith House, and make a public entry into our ancient city on the fol lowing day. Eyer since it was positively known that his MAJESTY intended us the honour of a visit, stran gers have been pouring in both from the north and the south ; lotings are already getting both dear and scarce; and it is espected that before the KING arrives there will not be a bed or a room unoccupied. " Our ingenious artists, Messrs. FORREST and SONS, have just finished the design bE a very beautiful medal, on the subject of the Royal visit, which will immediately be struck in gold, silver, arid bronze.— The obverse, which contains a most striking likeness of his MAJESTY, has been cut by a very promising young artist of this city. The reverse contains an allegorical representation, happily descriptive of the event we so eagerly anticipate." Yesterday, the Duke of Yong transacted military business with the KING. A Board of the Lords of the Treasury was held yes terday, at the Treasury Chambers. Letters from Smyrna state, that the Greek Admirals have issued a Decree declaring certain pails of the Greek coast in a state of blockade, but which the British Commanders had refused to recognise. A ieport was circulated yesterday, that the Dutch Government had resolved to acknowledge, uncondi tionally, the independence of the States of Solltil America. Although it is extremely probable that this will soon be the,case, )4t we believe the state silent is premature. SPUR LAG IIti'LLLIGE,VCE. WINCHESTER RACES—WEinasnav, JULY 24. A Sweepstakes of 25gs. each, for three and four year olds.— Straight mile. Mr. Fellowes's b. f. by Colossus, 4 yrs old - . 'I Mr. Forth's Matilda, 4 yrs old . 2 Mr. Whiteside's Incdntat,r, 4 yrs old - - 3 Mr. FSAlitel. Like, 3- yrs old - 4 Two others started. King's Plate. Four mile heats. Mr. Whiteside's Incntator, 4 yrs old - Mr. Braithwaite 's Vanlon, 5 yfs ad - Mr. l'ortal's Siting, 4 yi s old - Sweepstakes of sgs. each, for all ages. Heats, the Cup Course. Mr. Shard's b. c. by Don Cossack, 4 yrs old - 3 1 1 Mr. liraithwaite's Philip, 6 yrs old - - 1 2 2 Mr. King's brother to Red Rose, 4 yrs old - 20 0 Brother to Red Rose fell lame. THURSDAY, JULY 25. • The Sr. Leger Stakes of 25gs. each, for three-year olds. Last mile and a half. Mr. H. Jones's ch. f. by Mrtisan • - I Lord Palmerston 's b. c. by l'hantom - - 2 The July Stakes of 21gs. each, for two-year-olds. Three cparteis of a mile. Mr. Shard's h. 1. by Smolensk°, out of Legacy - 1 Mr. Fleming's ch. c. by Smolepbko - - 2 The City Members' Plate. Two-mile beats. Mr. Braithwaite's Vanloo, 5 yrs old 2 1 1 Mr. Green's Trance, 5 yrs old - - 1 2• 2 Mr. Farquharson's b. I. by I laphazard, 4 yrs old 3 dr 1 It 2 2 5 3 ROWING-AI AIC H. Yesterday the annual Prize Wherry given by the Gentlemen of the Funny Club, was contested fur by the following seven pair of oars : 1. James Mullett - - - Temple Thomas Howell - - Westminster - - Scarlet. 2. Richard Morton - - Blackfriars ' Wm. I:owell - . - Westminster - - Purple. 3. J. Matterman - - - Stangate Wm. March - - Vauxhall - - Orange. 4. George Maynard - - Lambeth Charles Matthews - - Waterloo Bridge - Light Blue. 5. John Mitchell - - - Strand-lane Rich. Dolwin - - liorseferty - - Pink. 6. Chat les Bannister - Westminster Edward Perry - - Lambeth • 7. James Uwins - - Westminster Rich. Parson - - - Bankside - - - Yellow. The first heat was from Westminster-bridge, round a boat moored off the second windmill beyond Vauxhall, down the Surrey shore, round the beacon off' Hungerford, and back through the centre arch of Westminster-bridge. The first three boats of this beat only were entitled to row for the second and final heat.—The second and winning heat, was to start from Westminster-bridge, round a boat moored below Battersea bridge, back by the Surrey shore, to the Mize Wherry moored off Cumberland-gardens.—At four o'clock, the boats took their stations off Searl and Godfrey's, and on a Signal gun heit:g fired, they all started, and, until they arrived off Combei land-gardens, kept very close; but in returning, Uwins and Parson shot a-head a boat's length, followed by Morton and Howell, Maynard and Matthews, Mitchell and Dolwin. Considerat•le interest was now excited, but the heat was won by Uwins and Farsonreacb ing the winning-mark first. Morton and Unwell second, and Maynard and Matthews third, and consequently they were de clared ,tht competitors for the grand heat. A!)out seven o'clock the successful parties in the preceding heat having arranged themselves in readiness, started from Westminster-bridge for the prize, round a boat moored below Battersea-bridge, and down the Surrey shore to the Prize Wherry moored oft' Cum berland Gardens, which was decided in favour of Parson and Uwins, who instantly leaped into their prize amid loud ap plause. The boats on the river were very numerous, and an immense concourse of spectators appeared ou the bridges and along the banks of the shore. - - - Green. PED EST RI AN I SM. Blakeslcy; the pedestrian, midi:conk his match yesterday, to run 15 miles in an hour and 35 minutes, in Ashford Park, fot a bet of 100 Guineas. Ile did Lis first three miles within 18 minutes, and he perfornitd live ntiks in u 9 minutes and 18 seconds. He continued on at a winning rate, and did ten milts In one hour and one minute. He was at this time backed 6 to .4 to win, but he fell lame in the latter part of the 14th mile, and could not get on, having more than seven minutes left for the last mile. The lameness was a sprain in the right allele, which lost him the match. Another race of 100 yards was run, for five guinvas, between Cartwright anal Fielder, which was won by the former, in eleven seconds. His MAJESTY rode out in his carriage yesterday. Yesterday morning, the Duchc•.s of GLOUCESTER, acconfpariied by the Duchess of KENT, left town for Bagshot. Sir WALTER STtntimo had a select elegant party last night, at his house in Pall-Mail. Thursday es•enhtg, Lady SOTIIIA HEATIICOTE en tertained a 'distinguished circle, at her house in Gros venor-square. Thursday, a mare and foal were killed, during the storm at Diakelow, by the lightning. _ Yesterday several persons were fined at li4w-street, for having sold fruit, &c. in Covent-Garden Market on Sunday last. A whole family, of the name of Goodwin, who had the care of a house its Walford-road, were a few days ago *tacked with brain fever to so violent a degree, that the Whet jumped out of a high window and was neatly killed, and the rest of the family are still in a most alarming state. War WIT !—A gentleman having lately fallen into the river Eve, was relating it to Sir T— A—. o Yau wi ll su ppose, said he, " 1 was pretty well wet" " Yes," replied the witty Baronet, " wet, certainly, in the Fir-stream 1" Meta—Yesterday morning a meeting took place at Worm wood &rifts, between 'Alt 13 --at, a medical student, and Me. K.—, a private gentleman. respecting a dispute which took place a few days since in a billiard-room at the west end of dui town. They tired two shots, and In the last fire both bag slightly wounded, the affair terminated. The term of Mr. WonLan's sentence of imprison ment in Warwick jail exp ired on Thursday, and tie was of course liberated, on which occasion the arab gave him a public .dinues, t va 3 ar n skot their Birminghamsense of his polinc.ll conduct. BARONY OF ERRIS. The following appalling statement dears up the disputed qtestion as to the number of those who have perished in Eris by famine and disease: " I was one of those appointed by the Mayo Central Com mittee, the week before last, to inspect the state of Erris, and having traversed that remote and neglected Barony, I shall be backed by my colleagues of the mission in assuring the Public, that 127 persons, as appears from our notes, taken on the spot, did actually fall victims to famine and dysentery, from the Ist of June to the 6th instant, in the parish of Kilmore, within the Mullet. The fact would, of course, In time, speak for itself; but the assertion of it was made, uncontradicted, by the Parish Priest, before Denis and Robert Bingham, Esqrs. and other re spectable inhabitants of the neighbourhood. Indeed, the dis torted countenances, swollen limbs, and feeble figures we beheld, proclaimed but too sure a corroboration of what we had heard, exclusive of other instances of extreme wretchedness and actual death, from this cause, that we ourselves were destined to wit neut. (Signed) " Joserm Macuosinnx." We understand that several eminent Literary Gen tlemen have undertaken to give Sketches of the lead ing Members of the Irish Bar, which will appear in successive Numbers of The New Monthly Magazine. The cause of Religion, and the rapid diffusion of the Holy Scriptures in all nations, will be promoted, and accelerated beyond all that could have been an-' ticipated, by the recent publication of the cheap illus trated Bibles, Testaments, and Common Prayers.— By adopting all the improved ecoflomy of modern art, these books, hitherto uninviting to the young and ignorant, will at a very trifling additional cost, be hencefor ward the most attractive books in exist ence. Two hundred and fifty-six effective Engravings, from the designs of the great Masters, have been ac commodated to the Bible, one hundred to the Testa ment, and seventy-two to the Prayer-book. A more legitimate object for universal patronage never was submitted to the world. Early on Thursday morning the premises of Mr. BAINBRIDGE, Lisson Grove North, were broken into, and robbed of a quantity of silver articles. The house of Mr. W. BROULKY, of Old Quebec-street, was also robbed a few days since of the whole of the sil ver plate, with other portable articles. Thursday afternoon, a youth between fourteen and fifteen years of age, son of Mr. ATKIN, of Stretton ground, Tothill4ields, went to bathe in the River at illbank, with a number of other boys, and was un to, tundtely drowned. There are a number of holes about this part of the River, and several persons have lost their lives there within the last two or three months. Yesterday, a Special General Court oF Proprietors of East India Stock was held at the Company's House, in Leadenhall• street, for the purpose of submitting to the Proprietors, drafts of a Bill now pending in Par liament, for continuing, for one year, certain Duties on East . India Sugars, which, after a short conversa tion, WA% agreed to, stns vcwe, and tbe•Court adjourned. • . , •• • or ~" I ~.'