Star.
London, England, 1805-10-31 00:00:00

BOTAV r air.

We learn by letters jun received from New South
Wales, hat that Colon, continues in a very Roma-
Lag Rate. But it is with concern we find that the
natives Rill evince that holile fpirit towards the Eng-
lifh, which has proved hitherto unconquerable by the
moil repeated ails of kindnefs. A new fettlement
has been lately formed by Colonel PATERSON in a
very favourable fituation, on the hanks of the Der•
went, and which is Paid to be in a very thriving con-
dition. Captain Ulan, of the Royal Navy, who has
been appointed. Governor of New South Wales, will
proceed thither in one of the firs !hips to relieve Go-
vernor Kivu.

While BINIIILONC, the Botany Bay Chief, was in
England, he was treated with that diftinttion and
favour which the faihionable world lavifbes on every
novelty. The following account of him after his re-
turn to his own country may not be unintereffing :
While in England be was prefented to many of the
principal nobility and lira families in the kingdom,
and received from many of them prefents of cloth
and other articles, which a ravage of any other coun-
try would have deemed ineftimable. It was not fo,
however, with &Kimono ; he was no fooner re-
landed in his own country, than he forgot, or at leaft
laid afide. all the ornaments and improvements he
had reaped' from his travels, and returned with in-
creafed relifh to his favage habits. His clothes were
thrown away, and he again became as complete a
New Hollander as if he had never left his native
wilds. It mull not, however, he denied, that Ban-
:motto is fomewhat advanced beyond his country,
as he can occalionally converfe with cafe and interell.
The names of Lady Svrialy and Lady Jams Dum-
as are often in his mouth, and he appears piny
grateful for favours received from them. It is not
unpleafing to title° to his account of the wonders he
had teen in England. One incident he relates with'
all the fatisfaetion of a favourite fiery that of being
at the honk of a very refpeßable gentleman, and'
furrounded with curious vifitors, when an old gentle-
man, unmoved amidst the general eagernefs, took no
further notice of him than by a fingle glance, and
then, helping himfelf to a pinch of fnuff,requelled the
company to pafs the bottle. This gravity and apathy',
Teem to have made a greater impreffion on the mind of
Bennelong than all the wonders he had fees, and he
confiders tho old gentleman as, perhaps, the wifek
man in England. He is Rill fo addided to di inking,
that he would never be fober if he could obtain
liquor ; and when intoxicated, he is intolerably rnif-
chievous. He is, in truth, a favage, beyond all hopes'
of amelioration by culture, and was, at the time of
the veffel's failing, which brings this account, fine to
Coventry, as incorrigible.

On ratorday evening, about nine o'clock, Mr.
Taylor, carpenter, refiding near the church at Ro
therhitht, in returning home from Lilliput Hall, un-
fortunatclrwalked into the river, near Cherry-garden
Stairs, and waf drowncd.—The body was found next
morning, with the face very much bruifed by the falL
It is laid that in Great Britain the number of people
capable of rifing in arms ex Nee, from Is to 6o years
of age, are 2,744,847—that the Volunteers in the
united kingdom fall March mete yochooo--that there
are about 93,030 martiaget yearly—that, of 63 Mar-
riages three only are obferved to be without offspring
—that every 38 years produces a new generation;
confequently, there have been 176 generations fince
the creation of the world—that thcte die in Great
Britain every year about 332,708 ; every month
abort x5,59=; every week 6,893; every day 914 ;
every hour about 4o ; and every three minutes z !
Tne Misraaa.—The late King of Prunia ufed to
drefs in fo plain a manner, that when he travelled
about his States, fuck of his fubjeas as did not know
him, treated him with no other refpea than they
would an ordinary man, Once, as he was riding
about Bolin, without attendants, and very plainly
clad, he perceived a young woman digging in the
fields, of gigantic nature, being near feven feet high.
It is well known that the King had a particular pre-
dilation for tall men, and as his greatett pailion lay
that way, he (pared no expence to procure them
from all parts of Europe, for forming, as he did, his
regiments of giants and grenadiers out of them. At
fight of this tall woman, he imagined that a couple
la the kind mull produce vet y large children. He
I difmonnted, and coming up to the peafant, entered
into converfation with her, and was overjoyed to
hear that the was but nineteen years of age, flill a
virgin, and that her father was a fhoemaker. Here-
upon, he rat down, and wrote the following note to
the Colonel of his Guards :

" You are to marry the bearer of this note with
the tidied of my Grenadiers. Take care that the
ceremeny be performed immediately, :and in yout
pretence. You mutt be refponfible to me for the ex-
ecution of this order. 'Tis abfolute, and the leaff de-
lay will make you criminal in my fight."
The King gave this letter to the young woman,
without intorming her of its contents, and ordered
her to deliver it punthodly according to the direc-
tions, as it was on an affair of great confcguence—he
afterward, made her a handfome prefent, and conti-
nued his route. The young carman, who had not the i
leap imagination it was the King that fpoke her,
believing it was indifferent whether the letter was de-
livered by another, fo it came fade to hand, made a
bargain with an old woman, whom the charged with
the commiffien, laying an exprefs injunaion on her
to fay that Ile laid it from a man of Inch a garb and
mien. The old woman faithfully executed her met
fage. The Colonel, furptifei at the contents of the
letter, could not reconcile them uith the ap,e and
figure of the bearer—yet, the order being peremp-
tory, he thneght he could not without danger recede
from obeying, and fancied that hi. Majeity wanted
to punilh the foldier for fume mifdemeanor by match
ing him in fo difagreeable a manner. In Ihort, the
marriage was celebrated before hint, to the Wee re-
gret of the grenadier, witilft the old woman, exult-
ing with jny, affirmed an air of the higheft fatisfanion.
Some time after, the King, nn his return toßerlin,
was eager to fee the couple he had ordered to be mar-
ried ; when prefented to him, he fell into a very defpe-
rate paffinn. The Colonel, in vain, endeavoured top&
tify himfelf, and the King was implacable till the old
woman conkffed the truth, finifbing her tale by raif-
ing her eyes so Heaven, and thanking PROVIDINCE
for conferring on her a benefit, the more figual and
acceptable to her as unexpeited.