Star. — London, England, 1821-10-24 00:00:00

ODESSA, SEPTEMBER 22. ' Within these few days there have been again seve ral arr ivals from C onstantino p le, by which we have private letters from that city up to the 16th inst.— ;The tame uncertainty still prevailed respecting the expecte d declaration of our Court ; but the Turks, h o wever, appear to entertain some hopes of peace. Tlre Hatti Scheriff, 'before-mentioned on the state ment of the Captain of a vessel, as having been is sued by the S u ltan, to command a general arming of i the Mussulmen, is reduced, according to letters re ceived to-day. to some new precautions of a mili tary nature, ordered by the Grand Vizier. Our situ ation becomes every day more singular. All that we saw for some time back grave us mason to infer that a s peedy comme nc ement of hostilities was probable ; we ' ve n ow more and more convinced every day that , e were before mistaken. We are in some measure boa il eter ms with Tun key, as all commercial inter course is s uspended, and the hopes of peace become m ore confirmed. Everybody joins in the wish that this unpleasant state of uncertainty may be soon ended. The return of the woollen manufacture of the West Riding of Yorkshire, for the Quarter ending the 30th of s e2te mber last, has just been made up, and we are h ap py to report, that the quantity of goods mann fumed within that period exceeds the most flourish int Quater in the memory of man. Eros relates, that in 1756, the Sieur do VAL, Dra to the French Ambassador, M. de VERGENNES. C: announced the double bond of alliance and or nage which had united his Court with the House o f Nutria, received from the ltcis-Effendi no other A nswer than “ that the Sublime Porte did not trouble itself about the unian of one hog with another!"— The comparison was certainly not very complimen tary to the Houses of Bourbon and Hapsburg. A si milar answer was given by the Vizier KUPERLI to the French Ambassador, Monsieur de la HAYS, even in the brilliant xra of Louts XIV. When that Minister announced the splendid successes of his Sovereign over the Spaniards, the Vizier replied—" What care 1 whether the dog eat the hog or the hog eat the dog?" So degrading is any connexion with infidels esteemed, that the Janissaries employed as guards to a European have the general appellation of Swineherds ! Dr. CLANNY, of Sunderland, has presented to the Literary and Philosophical Society of that town a I say fine collection of insects, made at the Cape of G oo d Hope, by C. Cow Lotion, Esq. which is so much the more interesting to the entomologist as it is un derstood to be complete. This forms a valuable ac companiment to the beautiful collection from Deme rara, preseoted to the Society some time ago, by Mire ANDERSON, and which has since been scientifi cally arranged by Mr. Fox, of Westoe. Dr. Dutotut, an eminent French physician, died soddenly at Paris on Thursday last, in the 66th year o f his age. Himself, and fifty other physicians, had assembled at a dinner to celebrate the festival of St. Luke, when, in the middle of the first course, he was seized with apoplexy, which, in spite of the medical aid of his brethren promptly administered, terminated Lis life in five minutes. The Society of Agriculture, Science, and Arts, at Chalons-sur-Marne, has off ered a Golden Medal, value 300 francs, for the best Essay upon the fol lowing queLt:on:-- ,, Which, in time of peace, are de best means of rendering the leisure of the French soldier most useful to himself, to the Army, and the Mate, without injury to his national character and military spirit?" By means of an invention of Mr. W. Hooray, Mas ter Shipwright's Assistant at Woolwich Dock-yard, a man is enabled to work under water, and the danger ces practice of heeling ships hitherto practised is ren dered unnecessary. The water-pipe and cock (a con iderable distance under water) of his Majesty's ship fining at Woolwich, was by this contrivance lifted on Wednesday. Tuesday se•nnight, his Majesty's steam-packet Busier, intended for the conveyance of the Mails horn Dover to Calais, arrived at the former port from the River. She is about 110 tens•burthen, and las two engines, each of 24-horse power, and is con sidered by connoisseurs to be a fine-looking, well built vas& On Wednesday she took the Mail for Calais, returned the next morning, to be in readineis so take the one of Friday, which having done, she re turned to Dover on Sunday, crossing the Channel, with the wind peculiarly adverse, in little more than four hours. The New Monthly Magazine for November 1, will contain, among many other interesting articles, the int part of a Lecture on the History of the Middle Ages, by the celebrated SISMONDI, communicated to the Editor by the Author. THE CAUBRO-BRITON.—The admirers of the an cient literature of %Vales, and of the Celtic Nations rurally, will be pleased to hear that the above po pular Work, devoted especially to its cultivation, will immediately be resumed, under the superintend lace of the original Editor. It will appear, as be fore, Monthly, and at th e f or mer price of ls. 6d. each Number, but upon an enlarged scale, calculated to admit of considerable improvements in the plan of the Work. No. 23 will be published on the Ist of November, by SIMPKIN and MARSHALL, Stationers Hall -court, Ludgate -street, to whom Communica tions to the Editor, free of postage, are requested to be addressed. DREADFUL F1RE...41C corn-mill of Mr. n. REY. Rotas, at Harvington, near Evesham, and the paper mill adjoining, of Messrs. FLINT and Co. were totally 4 legtoled by fire on Saterday se'nnight, and we me ta add, that corn, flour, &c. to the amount of Tell a ()ley to the devouring element; the stock in the paper.mill was by great exertion rescued from destruction. The fire, which commenced in the corn milli broke out about three o'clock, and such was its devastating progress, that notwithstanding the inde fatigable and praiseworthy efforts of the neighbour hood to restrain its fury, the premises were reduced to a heap of ruins, before the engine from Evesham, Which' was immediately sent for, and promptly dis patched, could be brought to the spot. Mr. REYNOLDS is a severe sufferer by this event, no part of his stock being insured. The mills were the property of Mr. MARSHALL . , and were insured in the County Fire Office, but to an amount far beneath the loss sustained hY their destruction. The cause of this disastrous con. %ration has not been precisely ;met :ained, but the nit.g probable conjecture is, that it o:iginatcd in the tacdua of the machinery. IRELAND. The Irish Government are indefatigable in their labours to investigate the causes of the outrages in the disturbed districts, and to apply an efficient re medy: His Excellency the LOltD LIEUTENANT, we are assured, spends several hours daily at the Castle. devoting his personal exertions to these objects. His Excellency was thus engaged the whole of Friday and Saturday morning. Mr. Secretary GRANT, who had arrived from his seat in Scotland, Mr. Secretary GREGORY, and his Majesty's Law Officers, were in consultation with the LORD LIEUTENANT till a late hour on Saturday evening. Major WARBURTON, the I Chief Police Magistrate in the county of Limerick, was summoned to Dublin to afford information per sonally regarding the outrages which disgrace that county,, and examined some hours on the subject; , after which he immediately left the Castle to resume' his functions. The attendance of Sir DAVID BAtnn, l Commander-in-Chief in Ireland, has been required ; and Government has directed barracks to be engaged at Shanagolden, Ballingarry, Rathkeale. Drumcollo her, and Askeaton, all in the county of Limerick. DUBLIN, OCTOBER 20. The intolerant party has obtained another recruit in Dublin, in the person of Ex-Sheriff BRADY,a man Knighted by the KING himself, as one of the support ers of his system of conciliation, and who we did not expect to find a deserter from the regiment so soon after he had received the bounty. At the breaking up of the Quarter Assembly on Friday evening, Sheriff Ssami invited the whole Corporation to dine with him at Morrisson's, whine he had ordered dinner, and, as the candidates for. Aldermen were there to declare themselves, a more than usually numerous attendance took place, consisting of between ninety and one hundred members, when Messrs. ARCHER, Foot, Wutreotto. and BRADY, declared themselves aspirants for the Aldermanic gown. On the health of the wor:hy Sheriff being drank, he availed himself of the opportunity of stating, that when last he had the honour of presiding in the Chair, he appeared, by the line of conduct he had adopted, to have given offence to some Members of the Corporation, by not giving a particular toast ; but he must assure the Gentlemen that the line of conduct he had then pur sued he would still fearlessly follow, and not be biassed by any one; he could not be in that Chair as a puppet, by pulling this string or hat; he was not to dance, or sing, or make a speech, at any man's pleasure. He did conceive from his heart that in obeying the mandate of his Sovereign, he was b,:t supporting the interest and independence of the Corporation of Dub lin, and he did, therefore, hope no one would dictate to him what line of conduct he was to pursue. Things were going on so far so well, when a Gentleman got up, and declared he would drink the " Glorious Me mory," in spite of the Sheriff; on which Sheriff most manfully stood up, and declared he would either be supported in the Chair or leave it, which, we re-, gret to find, was the case. Sheriff BRADY was then voted to the Chair, and the toast was accordingly given by those who were opposed to Sheriff Smirn. At the Quarter Assembly on Friday, the vote of thanks to Sir A. B. KING and the Mansion-House Committee, for their conduct on the occasion of the KING'S visit, was carried only by a majority of ten, the ~umbers being—Ayes, 50—Noes, 40. The Mem ber of the Co. poration who brought forward the mo tion said, he was induced to propose it, in hopes that it would be negatived, a rumour having gone abroad that within the last six months the politics of the city had become much changed. yarn: Tne DUBLIN PATRIOT OP SATURDAY. Weinesday, the 17th instant, about noon, as Mr. C. Sparling, a res t ectable farmer, with his wife be hind him on horseback, was riding towards New castle, in the county of Limerick, when near Ash. grove, two men armed came from behind a ditch, one of whom seized the bridle, and the other fired, and shot him through the body, just under the heart; the horse started and turned sound, when the other deliberately fired at his back. He died about twelve hours after: the wife was not molested. Mr. Sparling formerly lived at Patrick's Well, where, about five years since, his house was attacked, when he was' dreadfully mangled, and left for dead; and a man of the name of Cross, who was in the house, was killed. When the report of the shots which had been fired at Mr. Sparling was heard by some of the peasantry who were then working at about the distance of a quarter of a mile from the place, some of them im mediately exclaimed, " There goes Sparling l"—The cause assigned for the murder of Mr. Sparling is, that he took an unoccupied farm from Lord Court ney's Agent within the last three years. Such horrible events occur so frequently, that the feelings of nature seem to be extinct in the hearts of some of the peasantry. If any one asks,." Who is the man who was murdered on such a night?" the usual answer is, '6 Only a Policeman !"-or, 66 Only a Tythe Proctor!"—lt is said that an oath to the fol lowing effect is administered to the deluded peasantry: —" No Rents, no 7'ythes, no Taxes!" Two persons were murdered on Tuesday last, the 16th instant : one of these unfortunate persons, a man of the name of Ivis, had been a Tythe Proctor, and had lived near Askeaton; the other victim was a man' named Fitzgerald—but what oircumstance had in duced the assassins to take away his life, was not publicly known. We have been informed that a man of the name of Gorman has been waylaid and murdered in the county of Cork. This was the man who warned the Magistrates of the intended attack on Mr. Ivis's house last month, at which several persons were killed. To these bloody atrocities we have to add the Com mission of another murder on Thursday evening— that of a Policeman, while in performance of his duty. LIMERICK, OCTOBER IS. Thursday, the I-Ugh Sheriff received a third respite to stay the executiun Michael Shaughnessy, who was to underg. , the sei.Lence of the law this day, at Newcastle, to the 2i!! , instant. The intimation states, that Shaughuessy's .'Aistence will depend on peace being restored to .the western part of the County; and that the at TIIS plundered by the banditti should be immediately restore.l. This gracious and merciful advice of t' Government has been communicated by the Shera to the Right Rev. Dr. Touhy, for the purpose of being announced by the Clergy to the con• gregations of the Parishes which are most disturbed. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. SPARRING. Little 11 , m en, the coster-monger, who is matched to fight the I Bow Lad on the 30th instant, had a benefit at the Royal Tennis court yesterday, which was well attended.-There were some excellent mauling sets•to, but those more distinguished for science , were between Randall and H. Holt, which was perfec tion itself, and Teattlak and 4/58ot. The latter made a real fight of it, with equal success. MATCH AGAINST TIME. A match was run yesterday morning, for a considerable sum, by a young Gentleman, from the corner of Paternoster-row, Ave-Maria-lane, to the Obelisk, St. George's-fields, in ten mi nutes. Mr. lip started at a quarter past six, ran down the Broadway, along Water-lane, and along Blackfriars-bridge, where he crossed to the right side of the Surrey-road, and reached the Obelisk at twenty-one minutes and a half past six, winning his wager by three minutes and a half—ten to one on time. TO LADY HOLLAND, ON NAPOLEON'S LEGACY OF A SNUFF-SOL Gift of the Hero on his dying day. To her whose pity watch'd, for ever nigh; Oh! could he see the proud, the happy ray, This relic lights up in her generous eye, Sighing, he'd feel how easy 'tis to pay A friendship all his kingdoms could not buy! Paris, July, 1821. THOS. MOORE At Nine o'Clock on Tuesday Morning the Wheel goes round, and within a few minutes after Somebody will find himself possessed of an independent fortune of Thirty Thousand Pounds, real Money, not Stock. The Egyptians wrote on linen, as appears by the bandages on their Mummies, the cloth being fist painted over. Moses may have written on such a cloth, not liable to crack when folded—Papyrus was not known till after the building of AlexAndtia.— Parchment was adopted by EumENEs, in the second century before Cnatsr. FRENCH ELECTIONS.—The result of the Elections (says the AlAiteur) is now known. Every one calcu lates the ptpbabilities, and compares the relative force of the party to which he attaches himself. It has been justly said, that ever y name which comes forth from the electoral urn is a declaration of principle, and here it is seen, beyond a doubt, that France rejects the Re volutionists: the Chamber will then present, according to every probability, a majority decidedly resolved to insure the triumph of legitimate Royalty. The only thing which remains to be desired is, that this majo rity should be agreed as to the means. If it should be divided into two or three sections, would not the minority be more powerful than each separate divi sion ? This is the question which at present engages attention, and will, we trust, be solved to the great advantage of the Country and the Monarchy. The sum of £5300 was received at the Custom house, Portsmouth, during the last year, for duties on eggs, which pay tenpence for every 120 imported; consequently, 15,261.,000 must have been landed at that pott during the twelve months. It is singular, but true, that many of the eggs importeil into this country, are sold retail in London at eighteen and to enty for a shilling, while the importers, for what they sell on the coast, demand eight shillings per hundred I It is reported that a Jury will be speedily called upon to decide the legality of claims, embracing, it is said, nearly two-thirds of the valuable property long' enjoyed by the• Corporation of a Borough Town in the West, not 100 miles from Exeter. The claimant is a very poor man, and very sanguine of success. Sunday night, during the storm, a daring and ex tensive robbery was committed in the upper story of the house of Mr. CAMERON, a pawnbroker, at the corner of Drury-court, near the New Church, in the Strand. About twelve o'clock on Monday, one of Mr. CAMERON'S servants, on going into' the ware house at the top of the house, discovered that it had been broken into and robbed ; above three hundred different pledges were unpacked, and a selection of the most valuable of their contents had been made and carried off by the thieves, the others were strewed about the floor in every direction. An entry had been effected by forcing the sky-light out, and it is conjectured, from the manner in which the place was found, that they must have remained on the premises for several hours. Footsteps were traced over the tops of the houses to an untenanted house in Swan yard, where it is supposed the robbers divided their booty, as some paper in which the stolen property was enveloped was found. Their passage over the houses must have been extremely hazardous, as they were necessitated to pass for about 60 yards along a wall nine inches in thickness, and 50 feet in height. A female was apprehended on Monday evening in Drury-lane, having in her possession at the time a damask tablecloth and a pair of buckskin breeches, which have been identified by Mr. CAMERON as be- ing part of the stolen property. The re-examination of the case of Wyatt, the sexton, and Howe, the grave-digger, of St. James's, charged with stealing inscriptions from coffin lids, took place yesterday at Marlborough-street Office. Howe was committed to Newgate for trial, and the sexton was held in sureties to appear to take his trial. The Magistrates of Ayr have received a respite, during his MAJR.STY'S pleasure, of the sentence of death pronounced on Allan Car;ewell, at the last Cir cuit, for forgery. THE SLAVIC TRADE.—It is computed that the number of Slaves annually imported into the city of Rio Janeiro alone, in the course of a year, is from 20 to 30,000, besides what are imported into the other parts of the Brazils. . Hum. WHALE Fisusay.—The following is a sum mary of the comparative produce of the two last years of this trade:—ln the year 1820, the amount of oil produced by the importation of blubber was, for llull, 8048 tuns; for Grimsby, 180 tuns ; making in the whole 8228 tuns. This year, the amount is calculated, at the outside, at 5794 tuns, making a diminution of produce for this year, With all its-ha zards, of 2434 tons. We had hoped to have an nounced the arrival of the ships that had escaped the destruction we have recited, but are denied that plea sure. We can, however, state, that they are at no great distance from home, anghat in a day or two, without further accident, they will be in port, and the sem of ' the injury experienced known. We are sorry to say, that this injury is not confined to the ships recorded 1 as lost, but that several others have received great 1 damage and run great risks—such risks as make us • 'shudder in the recital, and almost wish that not auc . thership should be sent to Davis' Straits. • Yesterday morning, between two and three o'clock, Mr. GROIUM Ports, of North -street, Lambeth, one of the proprietors of the Woolwich coach, was awoke by a cry of fire: he instantly leaped out of bed and alarmed the family, for the house was then in flames, rushed down to the stables, turned !rime the horses, seventeen in number, and succeeded in saving the whole of them. He next proceeded to collect his fa mily, and found his son missing ; but be almost im mediately appeared at the window and boldly threw himself into the arms of his father. The house was com pletely gutted before the engines could obtain water. Wednesday evening. a pile of faggots, containing six loads, standing near Longpari.h, belonging to Mr. LAWRENCE, of Sutton Scotney, was wilfully set on fire, and the whole consumed. Yesterday, a young woman, of the name of Mary Lloyd, servant in the family of H. Cox, Esq. at Up. bridge, having some business to transact in London, went to the Three Tuns Inn, in that town, for the purpose of going by the coach, which bad not come up, and she retired to the parlour to await its arrival. She had not been there many minutes before she fell back in the chair and expired. Medical assistance was instantly procured, but the vital spark had fled. Friday afternoon, a female residing in Birmingham, and who was subject to fits, fell into the fire, and was burnt to death. Yesterday, about one o'clock in the afternoon, a bricklayer, who was at work on the top of the house of Mr. BRIGGS, pawobroker, in St. John-street, un fortunately missed his footing, was precipitated into the street, and killed on the spot. He has left a wife and two children. _ Yesterday, an Inquest was held at the Coach and Horses, Isleworth, on the body of Mrs. Hopkins.— It appeared, that while the coach was stopping to let a Lady out, the horses started off at full speed, and over turned the coach, there being no person left at their heads; when the deceased was thrown from the roof, and so much injured as to cause her death. Verdict —Accidentally killed by the overturning of a coach. An Inquest was held at the King's Arms, Houns low, on the body of W. Lynch, who got behind the Englefield-green stage ; when his foot slipped, and his apparel becoming entangled with the whrel, drew his body between the wheels and the body of the coach, by which his breast-bone was broken, and his body squeezed flat. Verdict—Accidentally Killed. Tuesday se'nnight as the Bristol Mail-coach was leaving Marlborough, the horses took fright and overturned it, by which accident the coachman's skull was fractured, and he died the next evening.— The guard was much hurt in one of his arms, but is in a tair way of recovery. There were four inside and three outside pas engers, but all escaped without material injury, except one Gentleman, who is in a fair way of doing well. Monday evening, a covered caravan, belonging to the Earl of LIVERPOOL, was robbed on its way from London to his Lordship's residence at Combe Wood, of a quantity of linen and other valuable property.— The robbery ii supposed to have been committed near the mile-stone on the Wandsworth-road, and was ef fected by means of forcing off the padlock and iron bar, which secured the door at the back of the caravan. Saturday last, a bill was preferred before the Grand Jury, at Westminster, against Edward Horner, for the murder of John Wilson, who was killed when fighting a pitched battle with the former, on the morning of Sunday se'nnight, at Millbank, Westminster. The Jury ignored the bill. Homer has been committed to Newgate, and on Friday next will be arraigned at the Old Bailey, upon the Coroner's warrant. Monday sennight was committed to the House of Correction, at Birmingham, Alizabeth Stephens, for fortune-telling. It appeared that she charged her customers Is. if their fortune was told by cards; 2s. if by the glass; and ss. if her response required a communication with the planets. 'She has practised in this way upon many servants in that place. There were found £l5 in Bank notes sewed up in her clothes, and 20s. in silver iq her pockets. She had lately come from Bristol, where she had carried on the same trade, and left that place for fear of prosecution. MANCHESTrk OUTRAGII.—We learn from Man chester that actions fpr assaults have been commenced against Major Birley, Captain Wittlington, Mr. Alex ander Oliver, and Meagher, the trumpeter, for their conduct on the disgraceful 16th of August. The name of the plaintiff is Johnson, but not the indivi dual of that name who was tried with Mr. Hunt. Should Mr. Johnson persevere, the actions will come ou for trial at the Lancaster Assizes for March next. The best legs of mutton and pork were sold last week at Plymouth at threepence-hait'penny per pound —a pair of soles weighing eight pounds, one shilling, and inferior fish in proportion. A bird of very uncommon appearance, called, in Northumberland, the golden-headed wren, was seen on Friday near Long town . It is about the size of the humming-bird, .fts a beautiful tuft of bright red on its head, alai the feathers of its wings are of va riegated colours. We are glad to meet, on Mr. PHILLTIPS'S atrthotitr, with a full and 'atisfactory refutation of that most unlikely theory, that the golden pippin, and some others of our very best apples, wet e degenerating, and rapidly disappearing, from mete sympathy with the patent stuck. Last year, both in Covent Garden market and the nurseries round London, there was as fine and as plentiful a crop of golden pippins as was perhaps ever known. An apple has been gathered at Aldbury, near Salis bury, weighing one pound and an ounce, and mea suring 14 inches in circumference. P RIC E OF WHEAT Im FatLacE.—At one of the largest monthly corn markets in Picardy, last week, the very best seed wheat sold at sixty francs (fifty shillings) the 3001b3. French weight, which is ten francs, or Bs. 4.d. more than the same kind of wheat sold for at that market, at this time last year. Cosa Esesonve Nunot-LAys, OC 24.—We have bad las little Wheat, fresh in since 111onday, but a very Inge quantity remained over from that day's supply, and prime dry samples support the prices of that day ; but there is scarcely any demand for the rough and inferior qualities. What little fine bright Bar ley appeared to-day, sold P. per quarter higher than on Mon day, the recent decline of prices Imving produced an increased dearand—but there is no amendment in the discoloured and sprouted samples. Beans, Peas, and Oats were very be-vy sate at Monday's prices, , owing to sufersblmdant arrivals. Ste 4 MO dOle Ile o 3 4 ' _ t ;PF 4 Pl 7 . s o'sl '