Star.
London, England, 1822-11-02 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Committee at LLOYD'S have voted £5O towards a sub-
seriptiiin opened for the relief of three widows, ten children, and
three aged parents of a branch pilot for the Pentland Frith, and
two boatmen, who were drowned o the 10th of October, in en-
deavouring to get on boird the London, Greenland ship belong-
ing to Montrose.
Thursday the Court of Common Council voted £3OO to the
Floating Hospital for Seamen. The sum applied for on behalf
af thi• Charity was only .4'oo.
The Swift4ure, Captain CADDY, lately a packet belonging to
Falmouth, is engaged to take the Portuguese Deputies to the
Pra;tils who refused to sign the new Constitution.
The Tatman frigate, of 42 guns, was commissioned on Mon-
hy Captain THOMAS BROWN; Lieutenants AL Aroataazr,
3.6. l ser-a a. and F.. J. Aestsraorra, and Mr. GEORGE Mitzta,
Purser, are also appointed to her. It is expected the l'aaraa
wit; .. to Sloth America.
The ship Wanderer, Warooen, which arrived on Wednesday
From QUCh2C, in twenty-five days, spoke, Oct. 5, in the River St.
tzwesice,the Lord Exmouth, BARRET; and Hannah, yenta,
from Cii• port for Quebec; and on the 17th, off the Western
; the Matilda. CIMING, from Newfoundland for the Bra-
za.,. The Success, tat.t.scoar ; and Perseverance, &rano:ewe,!
bad arrived at Quebec, from this port.—Plymouth Journal.
Botanearx,oc7. 24.—Information has been received here of
the loss of four vessels near Bayonne, one of them said to be
Englidt.
ARCHANGEL; OCT. 4.—There is a report of two vessels being
lost in th.: White Sea.
Fat.atourti, Ocr. 31.—Wind &W.—Arrived the Dispatch,
BARR yrs% from Exeter for Lisbon. Sailed the Woodford, CH.te-
atas, for Madras ind Bengal; Standard, LOTHEILINGTON, for Ja-
maica ; Woculpark, Monne, for Ihnninica ; Jean, CUMMING, for
Odessa ; and Helen, 'Mum., for Lisbon.
I'Lvatoern, Oct. 31.—Wind S.E.—Arrived the
nitsci, from London for Venice;- Surprise, LARZIAN, from 111 a
lags ; anJ henry, Kat.wee, from ditto. Sailed the Onder-
Deming, for Sutinam.
Posersuourn, Nov. I.—Wind &W.—Arrived the Hope, Now.
it's, from the Downs for the South Seas; and his Majesty's ship
Vat.oenus, from littlifax.
Dear., Nov. I.—Wind SW.—came down front the River
last night and this morning, the Llan Rummy, Tussah; Ruth,
Altaceoe; Hero, SLANTS; and Hibbert, PIATi for Jamaica;
Latona, Loma, for Demerara; the Sarah, Scorr, for St. Mary's ;
Hefty, Wahl-, fur Cape Coast Castle; the Sermon, OweN, for
Trieste; Balfour, Gll7lllol‘. for Liverpool; Liberty, Faastetors,
for ()polio; and I.usitania, Gtssoxs, for ditto. Arrived this
morning and sai!ed, the Indian, RODGYR; in twenty days from
I,loebee. Put back by adverse winds, the Killingbeck, for An-
tigua ; William, Trinidad ; and a brig, particulars unknown.
Cusrom-House, Nov. I.—Ships Entered Inwards : Adamant
a::d Grace, from Ilaniburgh ; Sarah Jane, from Harlingen ;
L•rd Midgrave, Eliza, and Amethyst, from St. Petersburgh ;
Earl Moira, from Quebec • Yessery, from Worcum ; Mary Aan,
kora Stettin ; Sit John Cameron, from Ilavasinah ; Joseph and
Ann, from Antwerp ; Friendship, from Cuba. Entered Out-
yards: Le Commerce, for Antwerp; Commerce, for Calais;
Err! Ezremont, for the Cape of Good Hope ; Lady Campbell,
(Jr Madras; John, for Jamaica ; Elizabeth, for Oporto ; Hero,
tor Genoa ; lioher!, for Messina ; and Esperance, for Rouen.
Cleared Outwards: New Frederick, fur Cadiz ; Prince Regent,
for Nlogadore • Jane, for Hamburgh ; l'acific for Venice ; King
of the !Netherland-, for Rotterdam ; Prince Regent, for Tobago;
Lord Melville, fur Calais.

During the•third quarter of this year, 474 Swedish
ships have passed the Sound.
It is reported that two Commissioners are going
from Copenhagen to the East Indies, to enquire into
the situation of the Danish Colonies there, the con-
duct of the public officers, &c.
FOREIGN TRADE.—The Merchant, Ship-owner, and
Ship-master's Custom and Excise Guide; comprising
every species of Information relative to the Trade be-
tween the whole of the British dominions and all

other parts Of the world, accompanied by Maps,
drawn and engraved expressly for the work, is just
Tubihhed, by Mr. Pore, of the Bristol Custom-house.
Eighth Edition, brought down to November 1, 1822.
Price One Guinea. Sold by all booksellers.

Private accounts from Verona state that the Duke]
Of WELLINGTON appears much better. He arrived
from Padua on the 16th. All at present is gay and,
theatrical at Verona, although neither of the Empe-
rors has yet visited the Opera; and as to the Emperor
of RUSSIA, he derives no enjoyment whatever from
scenic representations, and scarcely ever goes to see
them in any country. Indeed, it is said that his bi-
iitILIAL MAJESTY takes pleasure in nothing but in the
tuost intense application to state affairs. Ile remains
in his cabinet during the greater part of the day,
writing, reading over official documents, or consult-
ing with his Ministers. The Ex--Empress MARIA
LOUISA is at Verona, and appeared on the 16th in
one of the boxes of the Opera, attired in a simple but
interesting manner. On her head she wore a plain
round cap of Brussels lace, tied under the thin with
a pink &bon; and her robe was of homely Scotch
tartan, made in the fashion of the country. She dis-
played neither pearls nor diamonds, and there was
no adventitious circumstance of dress to distinguish
her from any female in a comparatively humble sphere
of life. Her countenance very much resembles the
portraits of her that are published in London, and to
the ordinary observer would appear both pleasing
and intelligent, but wears an air of peculiar dejection.
The police ire scouring the town of all visitors who
cannot shew satisfactory grounds fer their application
to remain in it ; and the Duke of WELLINGTON. is
constantly importuned by Englishmen, desiring to
be protected from summary mandates of removal.—
General NIACAULEY, who has served for a long time
in India, and who is now the active coadjutor of
Mr. ALLEN in his efforts to get the Slave Trade com-
pletely abolished, received from the police an order
to attend immediately, and on doing so, he was com-
manded to quit the town within twenty-four hours,
though he had in his pocket their own ticket of leave
for a month. In consequence of this, he applied at
once to the Duke of WELLINGTON, who with some

cifficulty obtained permission for him to remain for
a lew days longer. No idea can be formed of the
o: deal to which strangers are subjected before they
Are alleftd to sojourn at Verona. With the tourist
for pleasure, however, the business is very brief:—
" What brings you here, Sir ?" interrogates the
Commissary of Police. " 1 have come here for plea-
-397e," is the reply. " Then it is not our pleasure that
you should remain here for pleasu'res" is the laconic
ceeision. Mr. ALLAN, the philanthrophitt, is here
urging the cause of Africa, with all his might. He
regularly appears before the Sovereigns with his hat
on, and they as regularly admit him in the character
of a privileged friend. The opening conference, it is
said, referred to the subject of the Slave Trade; and
ie Ministers have trice been occasionally engaged
in reading over various documents connected with it.
The more inaportant business of the Congress would
cot commence till the 22d.
A day-labourer at Soderkoping, in Sweden, in a
fit of passion, struck his lunatic step-daughter witla'j
an ass: the blow was not mortal, but the girl fell'
into a state of insensibility: when she had recovered,
after some time had eripsed, ir appeared tkat her un-
cLustimili
Ps w-as restored.

2'o THE. EDITOR OP THE STAR.

• Spt—Ji was highly gratifying to me to observe in
your Paper his Majesty's intention to institute a Nit-
tional Museum. Some years ago you inserted a
proposal, which I sent you, to raise a public subscrip-
tion for that purpose. I proposed that every artist
of eminence in this country should present the Collec-
tion with the most splendid specimen of his art. A
sum of money always in the hands of the Committee
would tempt the proprietors of pictures, at home and
abroad, to dispose of some of their most valuable
pieces. A trifling sum paid for admission would pay
the expenses of the house.
Had his Majesty's taste and munificence been pre-
valent in the last reign, this country would now have,
to boast the richest Museum in the world. The
Houghton Collection, which was miserably suffered
to go to Russia, would have laid the foundation of
it. And had not the cold policy of the Administra-
tion in 1796, refused the provisional sum of a poor
£20,000 to some Members of the Dilettanti Society,
then in Italy, the Farnese Hercules, the Apollo Bel-
videre, and the Venus de Medici:, would have been
purchased and brought to England. I scruple not
to assert that ten times the sum would have been a
very low price for those invaluable treasures. But
what can be yet done. I trust will be done by a ge
neral wish to second the laudable and patriotic view;
of his Majesty. A COUNTRY CLERGYMAN.