Star.
London, England, 1824-11-19 00:00:00

ELOPEMENT INTERRUPTED.

WATERFORD, Nov. 15.—Wednesday morning, Nrr.
Jou n JOSZPII Prat, of Nleckleriburgh -street, Dublin, ac:
tompanied by Mrs. Mowt.ns, of North Cumberland-
street, arrived at Shanahan 's Hotel, in this city. After
exchanging horses they immediately drove off for Dun.
more, where they were, in consequence of the non-arri.
val of the steam-packets, obliged to sojourn at Cherry
hotel, until Saturday morning. when they were over.
taken by the Lady's husband, Mr. Geom.:a Frtznerucic
Mowmas, a respectable solicitor, accompanied by aim.
they proles,ional Gentleman. An unpleasant and rather
violent rencontre took place between the parties. Mi.
MowLDs seized upon a box, which, it is said, cootaine,r
a good deal of property, and, with the rest, gnig
watch, that had been carried off by his wife.—He ha
Mr. Pim arrested on the charge of robbery. About
noon, on Saturday, the parties crone up here from Dun-
more, accompanied by two of the police, and appealed
before HENRY ALcocz, Esq. a Magistrate, who, nrna
investigating the charge, and not deeming it suffi.:ient;.:
supported, discharged Mr. Pm Mr. and Mrs. Nlowi
shortly after set off for Dublin, and Mr. Pit tettnne4
to Dunmore, on his way to England. Mrs. Mowurs
has a family. Mr. Prat is but twenty-three years of age,
and is said to have little or no property.

ENGLISH FASHMABLES IV II'ALY.

EXTRACT OF A PRIVATI LETTER PROM NAPLES, OCT. 30•

"On my arrival here the other day 1 founditihes gay
season had commenced, by Mrs. Hamilton's (the Blom!)
Minister's Lady) weekly parties. It is at Mr,. : that
the first amateur singers are heard, and that Lady her-
self executes the most difficult pieces in a very p!easieg
and scientific manner. I cannot say there are so many
of onr countrymen here as the approach of .winter
usually brings—perhaps it is that, as the Holy Year be-
gins at Rome in a couple of months, when that city
will be at the height of dulness, the lovers of gaiety are
determined to indulge in it as long as they car., and the
Duke of Braciano (Torlonia), though he makes them
pay for it, certainly gives most agreeable entertainments
" Lord Harrorwhy, and his charming daughters, the
Ladies Ryder, have been here the last ten days, but they
make but a short stay. His Lordship had a private
audience with his Majesty a few days since, but it was
not:of long duration ; for the King recollected that it
was one of his hunting days, and hurried off to his sport.
" Lord and Lady 131essington have the Duke de
Gallo's villa at Capo de Monti, where they are rusti-
cating. The Margravine of A uspach is arrived.frour Eng-
land full of health and activity, and begir.s to think of
indulging vs with some "prorerbes dramatique." Lady
Drummond's Fetes, of which everybody talks, wig
shortly begin. Fortunately for the amateurs of musc
Mrs. Hamilton " receires" for two months longer—Mr.
Hill is not coming till the beginning of the )car. In
fact, from what I can learn, Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton
will be generally regretted.
" The Marquis of Hastings still keeps at Mika,
though the Sciroceo wind does not agree with
Sicily is visited now a great deal, from the steam boat,
which plies regularly between this and Paler mu, making
the voyage a certainty in twenty-four boors; while t.n
or three days were !tithe, to thought a fair passage.
The Government as yet does not patronise it—partaking
'a great deal of the prejudice of the peoi.le; but this is
fast wearing away with the Lazaront, high and low ; by
and bye the Government will see its interest is to bring
Sicily as nearly as possible to the seat of Government,
and steers-accomplishes this.
" I had nearly forgotten to mention an elopement
which has just taken place, and which creates a good
deal of bustle. The parties are a son of a Noble Lord
once high in official power, and a daughter of a Russian
Nobleman of great affluence ; they became acquainted
at the Baths of Lucca, from whence they eloped. The
young Lady is a dark beauty, and of a very romantic
disposition ; her father is represented to be so incensed
as to deprive her of all future expectations from him.
This disapprobation of the match is by no means con-
fined to the Lady's relatives—it is mutual, though pl.:,
ceeding from opposite causes."

Letters from Porto Rico, by the Leeward Island
Mail, state that there has been a great hurricane at that
place. In St. Thomas's it has thrown all the wharts
down ; several sloops and schooners are sunk.
A vessel has arrived at Cowes from Rio Janeiro, in
45 days, but the letters are not in town. Letters were
received yesterday by another arrival, but their date%
are antecedent to those already published.
Letters by the Leeward Island packet state, char.
there has been a severe tempest experienced at many of
the Islands to leeward, which had done much injury to
the buildings on shore, and several small coasting
vessels were sunk daring the gale. A plan for the fol.
oration of a Company, for the more expeditious commn•
nication with the different West India Islands, by mews
of steam. vessels, had been very favourably received,
and would be shortly put in execution.
The Americans do not slacken their exertions i,t
aid of the Greeks. In addition to the subscription al-
ready announced from that City, 4:1,311 Ba. Bd. have
been remitted to Messrs. Ilartssu, Ilitouseas, and Ct...
to the order of the Greek Authorities.
The Churchwardens of St. Mary Woolnoth, have cir-
culated a printed list of the places where the file cocks,
&c. 17e situated in their parish, and had their BeaJle
instructed some time since by the Tomcod to open the
cocks hom the main to the service pipe within the p-
aid). It is suggested that if other Parish Officers would
ado' t the same system, there would not be the want of
watt vso universally complained of. . .
Yesterday, at the Auction Mart, Sutton Hall Mansion,
Manor and Estates, the property of the Marquis
Oassonoe, was purchased by Mr. ARKWRIGIIT, the
Cotton Spinner of Manchester, for 216,0001. NIT..
RoartasoN, the Gentleman who purchased Chilcote,
brought with, him, in his pocket-book, nine notes of
1,0001. each. Ile paid, as a deposit for his Ir.? chase,
5,0001. and just at the close of the sale, he had hi,
pocket picked of the remaining 4,0001. with which
booty the thief got clear off. Mr. Rovrxo3:e imme-
diately went over to the Bank to give notice of the
robbery, and to stop the payMent of the notes. The person
of the man suspected to be the thief, is known to therolice.
The BONAPARTE FAMILY.--It is not the Countess
SORVILIAMIN El-Queen of Spain, who has left Brussels for It%).
hut the daughter of the El-King and Queen, who came from tlw
United States last August to Europa, Joseme Poona want* anti lo*
spouse are fairly domiciled at Philadelphia, near which he h..*
bought a lone estate, and is termed the Count SINIVILAtIIt‘•
LUCIKN'S SON PiriliCe CHAPLAIN lives with him ; he i+a corpulent
young nun, a good deal like Narourol. The son of Storm: is at
college at Boston, and sometimes makes one in their family circle.
As tie llooksvaasa family consider tbek position unique at presents
that of deposed Royalty, they setae disposed to foigh alliauceS anon;
themselves only, and it is believed that Prince OSA rtes is destiiltld
to be the spouse at the young Lady alluded to.

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DREADFUL FIRE
_IN EDINBURGH.
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.
"Eunatuson, NOv. 16, 1824, Ftta,
171. AR SIR— As the public prints of this morning will
give you a very imperfect account of the awful and
alarming fire which we have experienced, and which
still rages in this City, 1 presume a few lines from me
may not be altogether an intrusion. Perhaps there
never was a fire in this City which has done so much
harm and has threatened so much. It broke nut last
eight, in one of the back lands, as we tel m them, of a
small court, in the Old Asiembly Close. I should, how-
ever, inform you, that from ,the immense height and ex-
tent of the buildings in the Old Town of this City, they
are termed a land of houses, which extend from one
gable to another, and these lands are, in many in-
stances, ten and twelve stories high.
From these back lands the fire raged with great fury
long before the engines arrived, or were able to play
upon them, from the narrowness of the closes. It com-
municating with the lands towards the front, facing the
High-street, the engines were naturally directed towards
the flames in that quarter, considering it hopeless to
attempt to stop the fury of the devouring element behind,
At the hour of midnight and towards morning, the
gene was awfully grand beyond description. At half-
past three, am. four lands to the front, consisting of
fifteen windows in one line, and each land of six and
seven stories high, in which were two wine and spirit
shops, and an apothecary's, were in a blaze from top to
bottom. These added to the houses, seven or eight,
that were in flames behind, and in a very dark night,
brought to my imagination the awful ♦isitation of the
ALMIGHTY on the Cities of old, as recorded in Scripture;
or, perhaps, the destruction of a town under an erup-
tion of Mount Vesuvius. At several periods, houses,
even on the opposite side of the street, were on fire, from
the sparks of those in which the fire originated. These
alarms were instantly followed by the inhabitants
throwing from the windows everything that could be
moved. The Tron Church was allotted as a receptacle
for the furniture of the sufferers, and delighted were
they to get it so well sheltered. But, melancholy to
relate, there it was not even safe; at half-past eleven
this forenoon, the steeple of this Church took fire, from
the sparks, although it is at a distance of seven lands
from those burning : all the engines proceeded to it,
thinking the other fire considerably abated ; how far
this was correct every one must ha-e his own
*pinion, but to me it appears hard to leave to
the flames the dwellings of others, many the most
miserable and destitute, to save a public building.—
The Church was saved, if the half-burned roof not
falling in be a sign of safety. But the steeple, which
was separated by a thick wall from the Church, is

completely gutted, and, in perhaps too happy language
for the occasion, it may be called a noble ruin. Houses
'were in flames in all directions, and the terrified init-'
bitants were everywhere removing their furniture, ap-
parently certain that nothing would appease the raging
of the flames. but the destruction of the whole city.
The flames still cage in the original quarter, towards
the Cowgate. We know not the extent, but they are
seen in all directions. The wind has been all day
blowing hard from the West, and I may safely say,
GOD knows only where it will end.
Reports the most absurd are abroad, of six persons
burned, and ten missing. There is not, I believe, a
vestige of truth in them, but a good many persons have
been severely hurt.
I shall leave this open to the latest hour, to give you
all additional information.

11A 10-PAST SLIMS, P.M.

There have been heavy showers of rain for these two
hours, and at present there are only columns of smoke
rising from the front ruins; but in many places, ex-
tremely scattered behind, flames are seen, though not
cf any extent. All the engines are still at work, and
if the rain continues, we may hope there will be no
farther ravages, though the number of these small
flames throughout the back lauds are such, that none
in the neighbourhood can lay themselves down to sleep.
The hundreds, I say without exaggeration, to-night
without a pillow to rest on, must cause every heart
really human to bleed.

EXTRACT DE ANOTHER LETTER•

Eattiscooo, Nov. 16, 1824.

411 the lands between the Old Assembly Close and
the Old Fish-market Close are burnt down. The Tron
Church also caught the sparlcs flying around, and I
au the steeple fall about one o'clock, P.M.
Te following account of this dreadful calamity is
from the Edinburgh Papers:

/ROM TUE EDINBURGH STAR.
Nov. 16.
About ten . o'clock last night, a fire broke out in'
ore of the tenements over the Apothecaries Hall,
at the head of the Old Assembly Close, in the High-
street; and its consequences, as far they are even yet
known, have been more fatal to property than any of
the conflagrations which it has ever fallen to our lot to
record. But at the moment we are writing (half-past
six, a.m.) the Mimes ate bursting out in a direction
where they must defy the feeble resistance that can be
opposed to them.
In the High-street, four more buildings of six or seven
stories high, have yielded to the raging element, ex-
tending the scene of destruction from the building in
which it commenced to the Courant office, including
the latter. Only two buildings remain entire between
the ruins of the late fire and ;he devastation which has
just been occasioned. There are, or were, four rows of
substantial houses, forming sever al of the small avenues
which communicate from the High-street to the Cow-,
gate. The gables of these houses, which front to the
High-street, are now bare skeletons.
The flames now made rapid progress Liu the roofs of
the immense buildings which divide OA Assembly
Close from Borthwick's Close, and that ii om Old Fish-
market Close. In Bortbwick's Close it b impossible to

get an engine, and even In die PROvutteet the exertions
of the firemen were attended with little effect, and the
b.?ildings in the back ground were almost despairingly
relinquished to the fl canes. The weather seemed favour-
able to the progress of the fire.
The whole of the night presented a scene of uproar
confusion, and alarm. -.Some parcels of furniture were
deposited in the Parliament-square, within the Royal
Exchange, and in Hunter-square, and men, women,
and children, crowded the closes leading to the Cow-
gate. From one situation in High-street the scene was
awfully grand. The unroofed walls enclosed a sncces:.
:ion of illuminated areas, among which the liery em-
bers fell like rockets on a blazing citadel.
Many accidents happened. One poor man, on whom
part of a roof fell, was carried to the Royal Infirmary.
Another man, who was conducting the pipe of an
engine, at one of the windows in the High-street, was
nearly precipitated into the flames, owing to the window
falling in; but he was so fortunate as to recover his
position on the ladder, and came sliding down with his
clothes on fire, and all engine playing upon him.
liaar-rase Easier, •.x.—Two more individuals have been
carried to tb.: Infirmary, seriously injured. Three engines are now
stationed in Old Fish•market Close, and by a great extent of pipes,
they are able to bear upon the houses in Borthwick's Close. In
addition to the four buildings in the high-street, seven or eight
lofty houses in the back lanes have either been destroyed, or are
now subject to the dames.
HALT-TAST TwtLvs o'CLocx.—Some accidental sparks have com-
municated with the leads of the Tron tower, which is in a blaze,
although this Church is 300 yards from the scene where the fire
broke out. •
All the principal buildings in Borthwick's Close have been de-
molished, all but the bare walls. We cannot estimate the number
of houses destroyed, but at a veneure we should say, that fifteen or
sixteen entire buildings, or lands, as they are here called, luve bees
completely gutted.
Ilat.e-Ltsx this. —The Tron steeple bas fallen. The Church is
in flames. A party of dragoons are in attendance, keeping the ground.
Seven, Ln.—The Tron Church has been saved with compara-
tively little damage, except the loss of the steeple. In the Old
Fish-market Close the engines are still employed, but there seems
little further to apprehend front the fire. In the Old Assembly
Close a gable leans on the opposite building, and forms an arch.
The situation of the ruins appears the more imminent from the
violence of the gale, which has this evening sprung up from the
West. We are sorry to hear that several lives have been lost.