Star.
London, England, 1823-05-20 00:00:00

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_ stated a private letter from Paris that
CHAPPE, director of the telegraph, the son oldie is.,
ventor, has been displaced because he refused norm
hiename to some dispatches which were intended te
be published, but which were not trausmitted in the
form which it plca,ed the Ministry they should asturoe.
MINA is now in the scene of his frrmex exploits.
Surrounded by hostile armies during the last war,
-his deeds were but known in part. How often %rem
corps of 15 and 20.000 men rapidly formed by the
French, in order to overwhelm him! They never
could bring him to action. They covered ?Inane
and Arragon, too, with castles, as they did the rest
of Spain, on the system of the Moors. Mix* reduced
them by regular siege; he opened trenches; made
breaches; stormed and carried their forts. Huta had
his battering-guns too, in the last war. They trere
buried in the mountainswhen in danger; they were
disinterred when wanted.

A terrible volcanic eruption took place inJanuari
last in the island of Java. Four villages were burnt,
and two buried in the ashes.

Sunday last, a scene of a peculiarly interesting de-
scription presented itself at Sheepshead, neat Ser.
field, when a sermon was preached by the side oft
small rivulet, near that town, and the solemn ordi.
nance of believers baptism was administered to eight
persons, on their profession of faith in the &noes
SAvioun. The concourse of spectators was beyond
precedent in that neighbourhood, being estimated et
nearly four thousand.
The Society Arti S4utifera, of Amsterdam, mg
on the 14th inst. to celebrate-dre anniversary el do
discovery of Vaccination by the immortal Junta
M. Van der Breggen, President of the Society, made
an animated address, in which he did merited justice
to the illustrious deceased, whose bust, covered with
a veil, stood before him. In the middle of his dis-
course, he took off the veil, and placed on the bask
the Civic Crown.
The American Society for ameliorating the condi.'
lion of the Jews have advertised for 15 or 20,001
acres of land, for the purpose of forming a settle-
ment of such Jews as will renounce their ancient faith,
and adopt that of the New Testament.
A batch of new Peers having just been made, a
Lady of rank was not sure whether she was in the habit
of visiting (that is, exchanging cards) with one .of the
new Peeresses ; and she referred to the footman in
waiting, who was accustomed to deliver such earth.
" Do I visit Lady H. r was the question ; to which
the servant replied, " Your Grace has not visited her
since the Creation r
Tan SEDATR COMMONIR.--A Member of Parrim
ment never spoke in the House of Commons btu once,
when, in the middle of a debate, a certain noisy Mem-
ber, looking accidentally at him, bellowed, 0 Beer,
bear, hear r to which he calmly replied," Inner do
anything else, Sit." The answer immediately got the
applause of the House.

The celebrated Mr. DUNNING having once to et-
amine an unfortunate gentleman, who by unexpected
losses had suffered imprisonment for his debts is ela
King's Bench, ventured to ask him, in a tone badge-
i ng, as the gentleman thought, upon contempt,W
he went to prison ? a To avoid, said the wine*
gravely, a the well-known impertinence of Dal%
STRONG REASONS AGAINST MARRIAGE.--gg
Sir, do you ever intend to marry r-.. No, I camel
say I do, as I never was accustomed to a wife. I ant
not much inclined to matrimony ; for, throegh ita
whole course of my life, I have never found anytime
agree with me but what I am accustomed to.*
The New Edition, just published, of Maillal.Ad*
CAMTAN'S very interesting Memoirs of Marie
nette is 'embellished with an additional Portrait, and
very striking Likeness of that unfortunate Qum
The Sketches of the Irish Bar, Four of which here
appeared in the New Monthly Magnine, buret:cited.
an extraordinary interest in Dublin: the Fifth Sketch.
which will appear in the Number for June I, Will
contain, we understand, a Memoir of the SolicitaP
General, Mr. Joy.
The merchants of the City who have had proper
seized in South America, by the different Insures
Governments, to an immense amount, and from the
various changes which have taken place, were env
ble to obtain any redress, are put into the higbeit
spirits, by the orders which have been transmitted te
the-British Admiral, Sir THOMAS HARDY, which VS
to demand restitution of all property seiaad,
any exception, provided it can be proved so Irbil;
to British subjects.—/'sfelic Lzdger. ,
From a Parliamentary Return respecting Balk'
' refits, fi appears that, on an average of the du alt
years, the debts of English bankrupts amounted.
the amazing SUM of 43,4564112 a-year. The diet.
dends fell short of £4500, little more than bail'
crown the hundred pounds. The dead Jessie VW
than 15 per cent. upon the income ham traded inerl
sort, which was assessed for the Property Tsai. • •

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SIEGE OF BAHIA.
The following was this morning posted at t.ton,',l 111
iXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM BREST, DATED VAT
1171 I arrived here this day in the French frigate
Cleopatra, from Bahia, in 53 days. When I lei; Fr
the siege of that city was still continued*bv the Bra. y
zilians, under the command of General Labetat, and
its defence by the Portuguese, under General Madeira; ordd
A Brazilian squadron had sailed from Rio Janeiro, tth
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and a Portuguese one from Bahia, and both were • Tt
the neighbourhood of the latter place, Fresh prisvi. ordd
sions of every kind were very dear at Bahia, which,
added to the stagnation of trade, was producing great Dr
misery and want among the lower classes of society." T
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A letter from Mr. BIRKBECE, of a recent iateoli tttrMil
presents his settlement in the Illinois as continuinim I
be favoured with health, and in a thriving conditiott,
ton
A letter, dated Marseilles, the 6th instant, Say; len.;
according to accounts recently received from Tunic 1
the Bey had given orders for two Ambassadors to s
'embark immediately—the one for London, wad
the 'F; trs
other for Copenhagen. 0
Letters received from Seville, dated the Bth iv, she
state that
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,AtlinitchweNCAotrutesforil rstt
put an
loan, and had given fresh powers to agents M Eq. trYt
land to negociate for a new loan on the best terms
which can be obtained.
It is stated in a private letter from Paris tn.. r. I'i'