Star.
London, England, 1808-08-02 00:00:00

HULL, JULY so.

A convoy is appointed to sail from the Humber on
Monday next, with the ships bound for the Baltic.
The Prince William, Captain Mor, r, arrived yester-
day at Grimsby, from Gottcnburgh, with four ves-
sels ; one of which, belor ging to New York, is last
from Gottenbargh, with hemp for a market.

WHALE FISHERY.—The following ships arrived
here last night and this morning, viz. From Davis's
Straits—Samuels, MARSHAL, 20 fish, 600 butts blub-
ber, and 10 tons fins; Trafalgar, ROSE, 17 fish, 550
butts, 10 tons fins ; North Briton, BRIGGS, 124 fish,
380 butts ; Prescott, CLARK, 13 fish, 430 butts, all
filll ships. From Greenland—Egginton, TauEmAY,
19 fish, 170 seals, 375 butts, 6 tons fins ; Aurora,
&AiDtta, 38 fish, 700 butts ; Richard, WAKE, 17 fish,
300 butts ; and the Sarah and Elizabeth, EWDANK,
21 fish, 81 seals, 270 butts of blubber.

Captain WAKE, of the Richard, reports, that the i
buncombe, TAYLOR, entered the Huinber along
with him ; the Duncombe had 131- fish. The for-
lowing is the best account we have been able to ob-
tain of the success of the other Greenland ships, viz.
I-lull—Ellison, HOLBERRY, 34, upwards of 200 tons
oil ; Oakhall, BLesxissoPf reported 12 Ash ; Perse-
verance, full cn 28th June ; Truelove, MILNE'', full,
270 butts ; New Manchester, HUNTIIR, 19 fish, 3+o
butts of blubber, on the 26th of June, and fish in
plenty ; Elizabeth, Dior, 12 fish, full. the last
vessel was passed by Captain Rose in the Straits on
the 26th ult. Davis Straits—Gardener and Joseph,
14 fish ; Cato, 9 or more ; Lynx, 8 ; Brothers, 12 ;
Thomas, 11 or 12; Symmetry, 9, 3 small; Mary
and Elizabeth, 13i ; and Leviathan, 12 ; both full :
Fauconberg, of Grimsby, 4 fish.
The following is a statement of the vessels belong-
ing to the other ports : London—Dundee, 28 fish,
140 tons ; Effort, '26 fish, 145 bons; Experiment, 25
fish, If 4) tons ; Inverness, 10 fish, 140 tons; Vigi-
lant, 22 fish, 120 tons; Ocean, 10 fish. Newcastle—
Catharine, 18 fish ; Middleton, nearly full ; John
and Margaret, 13 fish, full (arrived). Lynn—Ex-
periment, 22 fish, 120 tons ; Fountain, 15 ash, 70
tons, on 6th July. On Tuesday last, the Aimwell,
AGAR, arrived at Whitby, from Greenland, with 21
whales, which are expected to prodnce nearly 130
tons of oil. The Thomas and Ann, of Leith, Cap-
tain NEWTON, arrived in Leith Roads on Friday,
from Davis' Straits, a full ship, having 18 whales on
board. The Lively cutter from Greenland, with 2$
fish and 70 seals, a bumper ship, has also arrived at
Berwick.

BARBADOES, JUNE 9.
On the 2d inst. the Cork and London fleets having
formed a junction at sea, an ived in Carlisle Bay ;
before the Bth, they all sailed with convoy for their re-
spective ports, except one or two ships for Trinidad,
ice. which are yet here.
Jut4e 14.—The first May packet is now standing
into the bay—to delay until she anchors would lose
me the opportunity.

• MAIRA, IUNE s.
Since my last, theDE
Melpomenee and 'Halifax, for
the West Indies • °assays:nos, for Halifax ; LEO-
J'ARD, for the Cape of Good Hope ; Turns, for the
East Indies; Parstnint:, LIGHTNING, and SERAPIS, for
the Brazils; and Mtrrner., all with convoys, have
touched at this island.—The UNDAUNTED, on a cruize,
and Benz/ANT, for Guernsey, have also been here.
The APRIC.AINS arrived this day from a cruize off
the Canaries • she has brought in with her $ Spanish
brig letter of marque, of eight 12-pounders, two
6-pounders, and forty-two men. She was bound cn
a forty days' cruize, and had only left Larzarotte one
day. The Az tmanus will sail again to-morrow on
am other cruise.

04L.fICIAIV41.
NUMBER XI.

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" Take hint, and cut hint out in tittle STwat."

Queen ELIZABETH, in one of her rambles through
the neighbourhood of London, observed many beg-
gars lying in her way. She was at last provoked to
say to one of them, Pauper übique facet ! To her in-
finite surprise the man instantly Teplied,
In thalamis, Regina, tuis hie nocte jacerent,
Si foret hoc ♦erum, Pauper rbiTate facet 1

King JAMBS the First, hearing a Sermon, of which
politics constituted the principal part, asked Bishop
ANrumws what was his opinion of it ? " Please your
Majesty," said the Prelate, " it may, by a very cha-
-46 citable construction, be called a Sermon."

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4, Your wine is more sour than your vinegar," said
a traveller to an innkeeper. •' No, no," replied the
latter, 4, that cannot be, for both come from the same
cask."

To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon
ourselves.

A merchant insisted on reading a poem of his own
composition to room, and began in a pompous tone :
1, Hear me, 0 Phabus, and ye Muses nine !"
Pray, Mr. Foote, be attentive 1"..—" I am, Sir;
nine and one arc ten. Go on 1"

Some Scholars from Cambridge once came to Ox-
ford, to dispute with the Scholars of that University
with expectation of success and conquest. Friar
BACON dressed' himself like a thatcher, and came
from the roof of a house, where they had stopped on
their entrance into the City, and seemed to examine
them with a curious eye. Rurtice, quid quariil said
one of the Cantabs. Ut mecum versXaris, answered
the pretended thatcher. Being asked, Vertifitator to
he replied, Non melier slit ab ortu. Finding that the
very thatchers were so learned, they did no.t.think it
prudent to risk a dispute with the Scholars, and re-
turned to Cambridge.

PARTY CHARITY.—" I hope that HEAVEN will in•
tervene in due time, to turtt the savage hearts of all
the supporters of the Popish Cause ; that it will in-
spire all our clergymen with a just sense of the dan-
gers our Church will incur by the abandonment of her
own righteous cause ; that it will give them grace,
wisdom, and understanding, to see the faggots prepa-
ring, and the funeral torch lighted to glut the barba-
rous bigotry and bloody superstition of a race of am-
bitious and ignorant heathens, who knew not the GOD
of Truth in simplicity, but worship him darkly
through the misty and corrupted channels of paganisin.
I also pray that we, who remain firm to the true and
genuine principles of toleration, who cherish the law - .
liberty, and established polity of our country, both it
Church and State, and who are not to be discouraged
and intimidated by the secession of the unsound mem-
bers of the blessed Legion, . who are fighting in the
sacred cause of Heaven and human nature ;—I pray
that we may, on the day of need, have our hearts and
hands strengthened to cut the throats cf all those,
whe, dissenting from our immaculate principles, put
in danger our most pure, excellent, and constitutional
Mother Church."
• This is taken verbatim from a M.S. letter of one of the vio-
lent writers against the Catholics. He is doubtless as much in
earnest as most of the Right Honourable Gentlemen on the same
side.

The late WILLIAM BARTON, of Frotte-Selwood,.
Somersetshire, Esq. gave, by his will, 50001. Bank-
stock, together with the accruing dividends thereon,
to his fra and Jecond cousins, who should legally prove
such relationship within two years from the time of
his decease. So many were the applications, foun-
ded and unfounded, that the executors found them-

selves obliged to refer the discrimination of the legal
from the surreptitious claims to the Loan CHANCEL-
boa; under whose decision a satisfactory distribution
of the whole (amounting to more than 11,0001. ster-
ling) was a few days since made, by the executors, to
seventeen families, the legality of whose claims was
established in the Court of Chancery.
A fatal accident occurred on Saturday evening last
to Lady ANNE Smiles groom, after setting her La-
dyship douli at the Duchess of YORK'S, at Oatlands.
On his return home to Mr. SMITH'S house, Woburn
Lodge, near Virginia Water, a spirited animal on
which he rode suddenly took fright, between Wey-
bridge and Huddlestone, and threw him with great
violence upon some timber. The back of his head
came with such force against a piece of timber, that
it shattered his skull to pieces. General FirzpArsi "Ks
groom was close behind the unfortunate man, aria
took him up. He expired in his arms without a groan.
Last week, as the two Mr. Coons, sons of the late
Mr. CoovE, tobacconist, of Stratford, Essex, were i
driving a horse in a gig, from London to Stratford,
finding thmselves incapable of governing the animal,
and being intimidated by the apparent danger of their
situation, they took the resolution of jumping out of
the vehicle, when one of them received a severe con-
tusion on his temple, from the effect of which he lan-
guished a few hours, and then expired. This unfor-
tunate accident happened very near their home.
Satu.day an eminent rope-maker, in Rotherhithe,
complained to the Borough Justices that two of his
apprentices had left his employ, and entered inns the
naval service, taking a bounty, and declaring them-
selves not to be apprentices. They are on board the
tender, and the proper means are taking to bring them
to punishment. The last Mutiny Act makes this a
transportable offence.
Saturday se'nnight, at noon, a fire broke out at '
Melbourne, on the premises of Mr. Hawkes, of Mel-
dreth, which burnt down the house, and out buildings
adjoining : the flames also communicated to some
premises opposite, the property of Mr. Jarman, and
destroyed some out buildings, as well as three cows
and five hogs.
Wednesday se'nnight, at three quarters past ten
o'clock, a fire broke out in the farm yard belonging to
Mr. William Hurrell, jun. of Newton, near Cam-
bridge, which consumed three barns, with a consider-
able quantity of cora therein, a cart shed, and a
threshing ma-thine.
Sunday se'nnight, the Carron, from being quite
dry in the channel, was in a few minutes roaring
from bank to bank, supposed to have been occasioned
Iby a water-spout bursting up the country.