Star.
London, England, 1825-08-27 00:00:00

TRAVELLERS IN AFRICA.

The spirit. of enterprize which the late ever-td-he-
lamented Dr. CLARKE so powerfully excited anionic the
Members of Cambridge University, has not suffered
any abatement. A young man of fortune, lately c
Trinity College, Mr. BLANK, returned to Cairo with
his friend, Mr. CROMPTON, on the 15. h of last May,
after a journey across the desert, wtfch was attended
with a good deal of hardship, from the want of wits
and from the excessive heat. They had pursued the
route of Moms and the braeliteg,_ and travelling pith
the Book of Exodus in their hands, had reached Mount
Sinai. They drank their coffee on the spot where
Mons received the DecAlogue, visited the cave in which
ELIJAH had taken refuge at Horeb, and placed tberti-
selves on the stone whereon Moses sat when his hands
were lifted up whilst Israel fought against Amalek.
They discovered alto several caves contairing curious
objects of antiquity, not hitherto known nor visited by
-any traveller, On their return to Cairo they were pre-
paring to start for Jerusalem and Damascus. We
hope to be gratified with further particulars of these
interesting travellers.

The Translation of the Fifth and &Eh Volumes of
Madame de Geolie Memoirs will appear about the First at
September.
The severnloiatements nf tbc departure from town of
Captain Cr....wastto g, f
intrepidinterior traveller received his
final instructions from the Secretary of State's Office
for the Colonieson Thursday, and lift town the same
evening for Portsmouth, where he will directly em-
bark on board the BRAZEN frigate, Capt. WILLEs, for
the Bight of Benin. In the hazardous journey of es-
ploring his way to Sockatoo, he will be accompanied
by Mr. DICKSON. who proceeds in the capacity of sur-
geon and naturalist, and by Captain ROBERT NANCE
and Dr. MORRISON. On reaclling the interior, the two
latter .Officers proceed to the lake Tsad, and after in-
specting its various coasts, will pursue an eastern course
towards Abyssinia. From all information hitherto re-
ceived, there is strong reason to suppose that the Niger,
or Joliba, falls into the sea somewhere in the vicinity of
the Bight of Benin, and is not connected with the Nile,
as hitherto has been conjectured. Sanguine hopes are
entertained that Captain CLAPPERTON and his adven-
turous partners may reach Timbuctoo Lefore Major
Lama, whose departure took place about six months
since, by the route of Tripoli. The present mission has
the intention of opening a new channel for the exten-
sion of bur commerce.
Thursday afternoon, as Sir ALFRED and Lady Mon-
Taoue, accompanied by BOLTON STRETCH, Esq. were
proceeding for Brighton, in an open carriage and four,
the leaders, while going at a very rapid rate dOwn
hill at the other side of Brixton, became frightened
and unmanageable at the sudden falling of a boy's
kite before the animals' heads, by which the Carriage
came against a waggon, and was overturned. We
regret to say, that Sir ALFRED had his arm fractured
below the elbow. Most fortunately her Ladyship and
Mr. STRETCH sustained no injury. The two servants
who sat behind, one her Ladyship's maid, escaped
with a few slight bruises. Sir A. and 'Lady MOSTA.
GUS are returned to their house in the Regent's Park.
CHILD KILLED BY BEER.—A Mr. Heaps, a sales-
man, of Leeds, has a small brew-house in a retirel
part of Headingley, where he had some briCklayers
employed on Saturday. In a dwelling adjoining the
above, a tanner, of the name of Richard Archer, who
works in Mr. Shipley's tan-yard, at a short distance,
resides, and had, until the circumstance we are about
to relate, a family consisting of a wife and two chil-
dren. One of the latter is it infant; the other, a
fine boy about six years old; went into the brewhouse
on Saturday, while the bricklayers were there, and
they having some beer to drink, gave the child about
a pint of it. In the course of the evening, the boy
became unwell, and about twelve o'clock on Saturday
night his illness assumed the most alarming sympton.s.
Medical assistance was then obtained, but every effort
to save his life proved vain, and he expired on Sunday
morning. The child was previously healthy, and his
sudden death, from no assignable cause but drinking
a larger quantity of beer than certainly ought to have
been given him, naturally excited great astonishment
in the village, and a Coroner's Inquest was accordingly
summoned on Monday, and the circumstances of the
case minutely examined, but the Jury have not yet
come to a decision. Mr.- Heaps makes the beer at
Headirgley, which he retails in Leeds. What the child
drank is sold at fourpence per.pint, had been brewed
'rom two quartets of malt, with sixteen pounds of
.cups, and was what is termed the'4 first coming 011."
Several highway robberies have been cominitted
within the last fortnight; in the neighbourhood of
Winchester.

RIM