Star.
London, England, 1824-05-15 00:00:00

GAME LAWS.

On the Motion of Mr. S. Niroxxxxr, fur the recommittal of the
Game Laws Bill,
Sit J. E. BItYDGES moved as an amendment, that it should
be recommitted that day three mouths.
After a few observations from Mr. LOCKHART, the amendment
was withdrawn, and the Bill ordered to be recommitted on Mon-
day next, it being understood that it should be debated on the third
reacting, which was fixed for Friday next.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned at Half-pat Twelve o'Clock.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1824.
THE FUNDS.

SPOOK EXCHAI4GE. TWELVK O'CLOCK.

Consols opened at 961, for the Account, and got up to 96i, is
at which price they remain steady up to this hour; and for next
Account 96,70 97, with little business doing.

FOREIGN FUNDS.
At the opening of the Foreign Market £lOO,OOO Austrian Stock
WAS purchased by an eminent Hebrew Broker at 98.

Current Price,, : New Spanish 15i. Old 2016, Russian 97},
Chiliau 601 4, Mexican Scrip 7, Austrian 97* French Scrip I.
Colombian Scrip lA, Colombian 854 to Greek dis. Alliance
Shares 171 to 18, New Prussian Oki Irish Shares 11,
3 pre.

French Itentes, printed price, May 15, 104 f. 50c. After 'Change
1041. 85c. Spanish 17;; to 18.

Romic, Aran. .':',.—Exchange on London, 48. 1-10; on Paris,
iOS.
PII ICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
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India Stock 299%—India Binids 1755. 765.
Each. Bills (1.1,0U0) 41s. 435. 38s. 445.-5w.40). 455.
Consols for Acct. 96Y4

It is with much regret v‘e have to announce the death
of that way ward but highly-gifted genius, Lord BYRON,
which took place at Missoloni:lii on the 19. h
" There is a tear for all that die," as this N, ble Yost
.rbsei yes in his elegy on the death of one of his fi iends;
and whatever may have been his errors, he must be a
. igid moralist, indeed, who does not inutile a sigh fo:

the fate of a. Poet, who, possessing talents of-a transcen.
dant nature, has perished in devoting thou to the
emancipation of Greece—for in this cause he has fallen,
and &reply indeed will his loss be felt.

Although it would be impossible to defend some tf
the recent publications of Lord Ihnox, yet to us his
failings always rather appeared those of education, ;iv
a yielding to the immediate society in which he mil..
filed, than errors of the heart; and Ureic ale miny acts
of his which not only do honour to his rank
I.fe, hut to humanity. His memory will, however, itv..
in his vi of ks, and in his exe:tions in the carne t f Gteect,
is hen his failings will he forgotten.
In another part of our Paper we have given a ~q,e.
what detailed Memoir athis distinguUed Peer aauPt•ez

We have teceived the I'.t is l'iyers of
and Tlairsday, with plivate letters of the d•ite.

It appeals by the Papers of Wednesday, tl.,it ti C
much talked (f, and long promked amnesty it i!,c
King of St,.ttN, has At kngth been rna,ie ; •„,11
it is just such an amnesty as tritht b exi,ected
tLe tole•ance and forgi‘bg disi,osition of the prese:t
rulers of .pain. That k, it promkes a tree parti(.n
every per,on who never oliended the (lovernme,;t
the Absolute King. According to the Jc.an,-;1
De.'.res the following are the principal exceptions
the amnesty.

" 1. 'The Chief: of the Insurrection of the No of Lcon.

" :2. The Members the Corte' . who praeldinted the t.pc,,.l'zq
of tl,e King at Seville.

" 3. The Chief, of the ?library Insurrectiors in the difre:elt
parts of Spain, at Madria, and other cities.

" 4. The assassins of Venu• •.t, the Judges of Elio, and the au-
thors of the massacres in the pri.ous of Uten.ula."

If we could have a list of the cla.o.es who are to !me
the benefit of the Royal mercy, we shc•ald be better
enabled to judge of the 'tile on which this Decree for
punishing several thousand persons had been formed__
for to call it an amnesty is a mockery and an insult.

It appeats that the Spanish Goveinntent leques:ed
the presence of the French troops in Spain after the Ist
of July next ensuing, the tern' previouly fixed for their
departure ; and to this request the French Govetnnielit
has acceded, .on condition that this WM-anal aynne,ty
should be published.

PRIVATE COR RESPONDENCE.
" P‘icN, MAT 13.

"The rumour is, that the King of Spain has been so.
licitvd by the French Government to recoltnize in some
shape, and to a certain extent, the o;d loan, l;is siur
manual having authorized it ; this is stygest...d on tLe
score of policy as well as justice. M. de Chattauhlianl
has the credit of this honourable suggestion ; he thinks
it due for the honour of the Spanish Clown, as well as
for the support of Spanish credit."

This morning we received the Diario di Ro►u:l to the
25th ult. and the Gazatti Pie-modeze of the 4th
but they ccmain no political news.

Frankfo►t Nape►s to the btli instant, also 'cached ::s
this morning. The following arc extracts:
FRANKFORT, APRIL 7.
The Oriental Spectator, in its most recent number;,
mentions some cliqressin; instancesof European ships th.it
were going to land on Chits, Mytiene, and the cea:l;
of Asia Minor, having been fired upon by the Turks,
who arc full of suspicion and blinded by their teen,
and concludes with the following warning, which slims
how formidable the Greek seamen must have becemc to
the Turks.

" We consider it our duty to warn all n tvigatars
that they cannot be too cautious how they approach
coasts of Asia Minor under the pi emit cirtura,tances,
in the state of suspicion and excitement in «hick tie
Turks now are. The most anxious vigilance is exer-
cised at every anchoring place, since the Greeks have
been in the habit of landing sometimes at one place,
sometimes at another."

Yesterday Lis MAJESTY was quite domesticed at
Windsor Castle, as it rained incessantly the whole of the day.
The Duchess of NORTIIUSSBEHLANdS Second Assem-
bly last night, was no less splendid than the first.
The lion. Mrs. GOSLING entertained a large party of
fashionahlts yesterday evening, at her house in Portland-place.
Lord BELGRAVE had a grand dinner party yesterday,
at hi, house in Grosvenor-square.
Cigar. CON.—A singular case of Crier. Con. is shortly
to be tried at Cork. The injured husband of the alleges gay Ladyi
Is on half pay. The gay Lothariu is on full pay, and is the Adjutant
of a dashing regiment of Lancers, at present in quarters, nut one
hundred miles distant from Cork. The proofs are likely to produce,
in their detail, some extraordinary incidents, which took place on
the Black-Rock Road, while the husband was oil the " salt seas."

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We regret to state that Lady Amtimisr met with a
most unfortunate accident, on Saturday the 13th December, wink
riding from Calcutta to the Park Barrackpore. Her adyship
fell front her horse, and was compelled to return to Calcutta, wlieri,
on her arrival she was bled; we arc happy, however, to state,
though severely bruised, when the last departure took lace, her
Ladyship was nearly recoverA.
This is the third day and night on which it has rained
throughout in London. One half of the streets is broken up on the
pretence of re-paving by an improved process, and the other hid:
ancle-deep of mud, having undergone the sane operation.
Extract of a letter frown the Agent to Lloyd's, dad
I-lavannah, April 1:—" The Telegtaph, Rau:, Irmo 11uordiasix,
was det::itied off the Cape de Verdi, manned, and sent into this
pert on the 23th ult. by the Spanish armed brig Romano, havitig
found in her warlike stores, b;sund for the coast of Lima."

DOVER, MAY 13.—Arrived his Majesty's steam-
packet the ARROW, with two carriages and 70 pa..sengers ; also the
Sill I With five carriages and a number of passenger.. An open
boat, with dispatches, arrived this afternoon; they were
diateiy forwarded to London. Several Spaniards, annh;gar whom
was a Field Officer, lately belonging to General hissrs's ar...y,
landed here today from Calais.
_ _

The Literary Gazette of S.curday, 15th May, am,
tains a detailed Account of Brun Wrangel's extraordmary Eng:-
ditiun overland fro:n Siberia, towards the North Pole, in Slee::
drawn by Dogs, 43 days on the Ice, &c.—The Reviews are of lk
on Expression Mrs. Graham's Chile— Miss Mitford's Vihre
Sketches (with a Tale}—hooch's Dictiouary—Cochrane's I earl k.
able Travels Lyou's Narrative, with Esquimaux Contrasts rn
Deptford Fetex, &c.—Notice of the Dzatit of Lord Byron.—ln 1:
other branches, the most curious Articles are, An Account of
Fossil Mammoth Bones, discovered in Eswioi—A Mtlical Report,
and important Theory of Apoplexy—Poetry—Exhibitions
Arts-- Dramatic Critkisins Varieties, Literary and Srlentirr;
and the Sights of Loudon, with a minute description of the ;de,
orated Sicilian Dwarf—The Literary Fund Aiiiiivksary—Ci...:;..o
!latching—A Farce, &c. Itc:—Publidhcd every &warms',
W. A. StAires, (Exeter 'Change), Strand, price SJ. or stailly.6r,
for Country Ciiculation by Post, in Is.

BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR, OF LORD BYRON.

GEORGE GORDON BYRON, Lord BYRON, whose death,
connected as it is with the noblest of causes, must ex-
cite universal regret, was the lineal descendant of a fa-
mily distinguished even so early as the Conquest, when
his ancestors were considerable landholders in Lan-
cashire. In the feudal ages, the Byrons were always
foremoit in the field, when their Sovereign w.ts to be,
served, or glory to be won, by the v, sword. T ofl
the llyrons tell at the battle of Cressy, and another sig-
nalized himself in the field of Bosworth, and contri-
buted, by his personal prowess and skill, to tear the
crown frorn the hea.l of Richard 111. In the wars be-
tween Charles the Fl, ..t and his P.trliament, the Byrons
irispo:ted the Royal can-e; and in the battles of Edge-
hill and Nets bury. contended with great gallantry
against the Parliament forces. In the battle of Marston
Moor, seven brothers were engaged, four of whom fell ;
circumstance that has been beautifully alluded to in one
of the earliest, and at the same time one of the sweetest
of his Poems—his (4 Adler( to Newstead Abbr y," which,
„, cow :lining notch of the history of his family, may
pror I introduced in his Memoirs.
Through thy battlements, siewstead, the hollow winds whistle;
Thou, the hall of my fatherb, art gone to decay;
In thy ot,ce smiling garden, the hemlock and thistle
Have choked up the rose which late bloom 'd in the way !
Of the mail-cover'd barons, who proudly to battle
Led their vassals from Europe to Palestine's plain,
The escutcheon, and shield, which with every blast rattle,
Are the only sad vestiges now that remain!
No more doth old Robert with harp-stringing numbers,
gai,e a in the breast for the war laurel'd wreath;
Near Askalutt's towers, John of Iluristan • slumbt•rs,
Unnerved is the hand e.f his minstrel by death !
Paul and Hubert too sleep in the valley of Cres,y ;
For the safety of Edward and England they fell ;
My fathers, the tears of your country redress ye ;
How you fought, how you died! still her annals can tell !

011 Marstont with Rupert t 'gainst tra;tors contending,
FJor brothers enrich'd with their blood the bleak fichl,
For the ri,;hts of a monarch, their country defendiog,
fill drat: their attachment to royalty seal'd !
s!iasies of heroes, farewell! your descendant, departing
From the seat of his ancestors, bids you adieu!
Abroad, or at home, your remembrance imparting
;New courage, hell think upon glory and you !
Though a tear dim his eye at this sad separation,
'Tis nature, not fear, that txeites his regret;
For distant he goes, with the s'ator, emulation,
The fame of his fathers he ne'cr caa forget !
Thst fame, and that memory, still will he cherish;
Ile vows that he ne'er will disgrace your renown ;
Like you will he live, or like you will lie perish;
When dtca)'d, may he mingle his dust with your own !"
• Iloristan Castle, in Derbyshire, an ancient seat of the Byron
fatrilc.

t The battle of Marston Moor, where the adherents of Charlei I.
were def,ated.

Son of the Elector Palatine, and related to Charles I. Ile
afterwards commanded the fleet in the reign of Charles
Sir John Byron, one of the brothers who survived the
fatal battle of Marston Moor, was, for ~the services of
himself and his family, raised to the Peerage by pa-
tent, dated Oxford, October 24, 1643, creating him
Boren Byron of Rochdale, in the county of Lancaster,
with remainder to his surviving brothers, and their male
issue respectively. John, first Lord Byron, died with-
out is .ue, as did his brother and successor to the title,
Sir Richard Byron, who was knighted by Charles I.
On the death of. Richard, second Lord Byron, he was
succeeded by his brother William, who died in 1679,
and was succeeded by his son William, who married
the dini-do.ei of Viscount Chaworth, by whom he had a
son, William, fourth Lord Byron, who was born in
aiid became Gentleman of the Bedchamber to
Prince George of Delmar k. By kis third wife, Fran-
ces, (blighter of William, Land Bet keley, he had five
sons and a dauAleer. William, the eldest son, was born
in 1722, and succeeded to the title on the death of his
father, in 1736. In 1763, Lord Byron was tried by his
Peers in Westminster ILili, for wihtil murder, in killing
Mr. Chaworth in a duel. Ile was found guilty of man-
slaughter, but when brought up for judgment, he
pleaded his privilege, and was discharged. His Lord-
ship died at Newstead Abbey, May 17, 1798.

The Honourable JOHN BYRON, his brother, born at
Newstead Abbey, on the Bth of November, 1723, is
distinguished in our Naval History for the hardships he
encountered in the expedition under Commodore Anson,
and for the expedition he himself commanded shortly
after the commencement of the last reign. His narra-
tive of the sufferings of himself and his crew in the
ship Wager is well known; and such was his constant
ill fortune at sea, that the sailors gave him the appel-
lation of " foul weather Jack."

Admiral BYRON married the daughter of John Tre-
sannion, Esq. by whom he hxd two sons and two daugh-
ters. JOHN BYRON, the eldest son of the Admiral,
man ied Miss Gordon, a Scotch Lady of noble descent,
lreing the last of a branch of that family whiz') de-
from the Princess Jane Stuart, daughter of
Jones IL tvlio married an &ill of Huntley. By this
Lady I,e had GEORGE GORDON Lord BYRON, the sub-
ject of the present Memoir, who was born January 22,
and •ucceeded to the Peerage on the death of
Wiccr.v.i, filth Lord BYRON, in 1798.
The early part of the life of L'l'd BYRON, who sue.
ceeded ra the Peerage when only ten years of age, was
passed in Aberdeenshire ; and it appears that the wild
scenery of :he spot in which he passed his early years,
remained always deeply engraven on his memory. In
his first publication, The hours of Idleness, there is a
poem on Lachin y Gair, to which he prefixes a liort in-
troduction, in which he says, it i. one if the mo,t
sublime and picturesque amongst our Caledonian Alps.
Its appearance i, of a dusky hue, but the stimuli: is the
seat of eternal snows: near Lachin y Gair, I spent sonic
cf the eally part of in> life." In the poem lie breaks
out thus:

Yet, Caledonia, beloved are thy mountains,
Round their white sununi:s though elements war,
Though cataracts foam 'srea.l of smooth flowing fouutaiwi,
I sigh for the valley of dark 1. l& na Garr!
" •Ah! there my young footsteps in infancy wander'd,
My cap was the bonnet, my cloak was the plaid;
On chieftains lbng perisled my memory p,inler'd,
As daily I strode through the pine-cover'd glades
ts•tiught not my home till the day's dying glory
Gave place to the rays of the bright polar star,
l'or fancy was cheer'd by traditional story,
Disclos'il by the natives of darns Loch ita Garr !"
It has been said, indeed, that the liberty he •enjoyed
ct ranging the hills without couttoul, at that ea• ly pe•
tiod, that hi...frame, which was delicate, might be invi-
gorated by
,air and exercise, made hint ever afterwards
impatient 01 restraint.
'lnwards the close df the rear 1798, he was removed
to harrow. Speaking of iris studies these, his Lord-
ship says in a note to the fourth Canto of Childe Harold,
" ht some pints of the Continent, young persons ate
Wight honi mete common authors, and do not read
the best Classics till their 'natality. I certainly do not
speak on tins point front any pique or aversion towards
the plug vf my education, Jl teas pot a slow though

an idle boy ; and I believe no one could be more at-
tached to Harrow than I have always been, and with
re
myason pa: tof the time passed there was the happiest
of
and my preceptor (the Rev. Dr.. Joseph
Drury) was the best and worthiest friend I ever pos-
sessed, whose warnings 1 have remembered but too well,
but too late. when I have erred," &c.
At the age of little more than sixteen, he removed to
the University of Caulbridge, where be became a student
of Trinity College.
At the age of nineteen he left the University for
Newstead Abbey, and the same year gave to the world
his Hours ofidloress. A work which met with a strong
reprobation from the Edinburgh Review, and called
forth one of the severest satires of the age by his Lord-
ship—his " English Bards and Scotch Reviewers."
Among the early amusoncots of his Lordship, were
swimming and managing a boar, in both of which he is
said to have acquired great dexterity even in his child-
hood. In his aquatic excursions near Newstead Abbey,
he had seldom any other companion than a lartr New -j
foundland dog, to try whose sagacity and fidelity, he
would sometimes fall out of the boat, as if by accident,'
when the dog would seize him and drag him ashore.:
On losing this dog, in the autumn of 1808, his Lordship
caused a monument to be erected, commemorative of
its attachment, with an inscription, from which we ex-
tract the following lines:
" Ye who, perchance, behold this simple urn
Pass on—it honours none you wish to mourn!
To mark a friend's remains these stones arise—
I never knew but one, and here he lies."

On arriving at the age of manhood, Lord BYRON
embarked at Falmouth fur Lisbon, and from thence pro.
ceeded across the Peninsula to the Mediterranean,
company with Mr. Hobhouse.
The travels of Lord-hip are described in ChiMe
Harold and the Notes. It is somewhat singular that
hii Lordship should have then had a narrow escape
from a fever in the vicinity of the place where lie has
just ended his life: _ _

" When, in 1810," he says, " after the departure of my friend,
Mr. I lobltouse, f-4. England, I was seized with a severe fever in the
Morea ; these men (Albaniaas) saved my life, by frightening away
my physician, whose throat they threatened to cut, if I was nut
cured within a given time. Tu this consolatory assurance of post-
humous retribution, and a resolute refusal of Dr. Itumanelli's pre-
scriptions, I attribute my recovery. I had left my last remaining
English servant at Athens; my dragoman or interpreter was as ill ,s
myself, and my poor arniouts nursed me with au attention which
would have done honour to civilisation."

While the &Lisette frigate, in which Lord BYRON Was
a passenger to Constantinople, lay in the Dardanelles, a
discourse arose among some of the officers respecting
the practicability of swimming across the Hellespont.— •
Lord BYRON and Lieutenant I,kenlicad agreed to 'rake
the trial; they accorjiligly attempted this enterprise on
the 3d of May, 1810. Tire following is the account
'given of it by his Lordship
" The whole distance from Abydos, the place from whence we
started, to our landing at Sestos on the other side, including the
length we were carriLd by the current, was computed by those on
board the frigate at upwards of four English miles; though the actual
breadth is barely one. The rapidity of the current is such, that no boa:
can row directly across ; and it may in sonic measure be estinitcd,
from the circumstance of the whole distance being accomplished by
One of the parties is an hour and five, and by the other, in an hour
and ten minutes. The water was extremely cold, from the melting
of the mountain snows. About three weeks before, we had made
an attempt ; but having ridden all the way front the Troad the sane
morning, and the water being of an icy chillness, we found it neces.
sary to postpone the completion till the frigate anchored below the
the Castles, when we swam the Straits, as just stated, enteriag a
considerable way above the European, and landing below the
Asiatic fort. Chevalier says, that a young Jew swam the same
distance for his mistress; and Olivier mentions its having been
done by a Neapolitan ; but our Consul at Tarragona remembered
neither of those circumstances, and tried to dissuade as from the
attempt. A number of the Salsette's crew were known to have ac-
complished a greater distance ; and the only thing that surprised site
was, that as doubts had been entertained of the truth of Leander's
story, no traveller had endeavoured to ascertain its practicability."
This notable adventure was, however, followed by a
fit of the ague.
He returned to England, after an absence of nearly
three years, and the two first Cantos of (Ude Harold
made their appearance a few months afterwards. To
this Poem, in rapid succession, followed the Giaour and'
the Bride of Abydos, two Turkish stories ; and while the
world was as yet divided in opinion as to which of these
three pieces the palm was due, he pi ()Arced his beautiful
Poem of the Corsair.

On the 21/41 of January, 1815, his Lordship married,
at Seham, in the county of Durham, the only daughter
of Sir Ralph Alill'Jank Noel, Baronet, and towards the
close of the same year, his Lady brought him a daugh-
ter, for whom he always manifes;ed the strongest affec-
tion. Within a few weeks, however, after that event, a
separation took place, for which various causes have
been stated. This difference excited a prodigious sen-
sation at the time. His Lordship, v, bile the public
anxiety as to the course he would adopt was at its height,
suddenly left the kingdom, with a resolution never
to return.

He crossed over to France, through which he passed
rapidly to Brusels, taking in his way a survey of the
field of Waterloo. He proceeded to Coblentz, and •
thence up the Rhine as far as Basle. After visiting
some of the most remarkable scenes in Switzerland, he
proceeded to the North of Italy. He took up his abode
tbr some time at Venice, where he was joined by Mr.
Hobhouse, who accompanied him in an excursion to
Rome, where he completed his Childe Harold.
At Venice, Lord BYRON avoided as much as possible
all iutercoure with his countrymen. He quitted that
city, atid look up his residence in other parts of the
Austrian do,iiitlions in Italy, which he quitted for Tus-
cany. lle wets joined by the late Mr. Shelley, and af-
terwards by U r. Leigh Hunt.
lii; patrimonial estate received lately a large in-
crease by the death of Lady BYRON'S mother, and a
valuable coal mine, said to be worth 50,000/. had been
disceveted on his Rochdale estate before he left Eng-
land, so that his death he must have been in the pos.
sebt,ion of a large income.
The visit of L,;rd BYRON to thecce, the last, and
perhaps the greatest act of his eventful life, will endear
his memory to every one who can feel an interest in the
fate of a country, doubly endeared to our recollectior,
by their past glories and long continued oppressions..
Several days ago we stated, in an article from hevesit,
that his Lordship kid been much indisposed, but he
had perfectly recovered, and his last sickness was of a
different character ; a cold, attended with an extraor-
dinary degree of iaflammation, terminated the life of
this distinguished Poet, at Alis,olonghi, on the 19th of
April, after an illness of ten days.
The following letter, announcing the death of Lord
liyuoN, has betar addressed by Prince Maurocorda,o to
die Secretary to the Greek Committee:
" 14th (20;h) April, 1824..
" Sir, and my very dear Friend—lt is with the greatest allicaan
that I Whit the uuty of giving you the sad news 01 the death of Lord
13vitoti, :titer an i!lness of ten dap. Our lo” it irreparable, and it
is whit justice that we abandun ourselves to iticon,olablt.. sorrow.
Notwith•tant:in the difficult circumstances in which I ant placed; 1
sii.o ammo to peituran my duty towards this great mist; the

eternal gratitude of tyty.country seal pethaps be the only true tri-
bute to his memory. The Deputies will communicate to you the
details of this nselanchAy event, on which the grief which I fed
will tint allow me to diveli longer. You will excuse—you will
justify, my being overwhelmed with sorrow, and accept the assur-
ance of my devotion and the high consideration with which I have
the honour to be, Sir, Your very humble and very obedient servant,
"To J. B. wring, E,q. " A. MAUROCORDATO.
Secretary to the Greek Committee."
TRANALATION OF THE PROCLAMATION iscurn IT THE GREER AEITHO-
IIITIF.% AT NIISS",LONCIHI, TO THE INHABITANTS, WHO WERE BY °MEE
•RELYIEO IN THE CELEBRATION OF THEIR EASTER FESTIVITIES.
" Plt 0 V IS ;ON .1 I. GOVLRN M ENT OF GREECE.
" The present days of festivity are converted Lao days of bitter
lamentation for 311—

" Lord Noel Byron departed this liZe to-day about eleven o'clocki
in the evening, in consecuence of a rheumatic intianimatory Ewer,
which had lasted for ten days.
" ID. ring the"tiiiie of his it nes, your general anxiety evinced the
profound sorrow that pervaded your hearts. All cl:tsies without
di:tin.:tion of sex or agt,oppreaszd by grief, entirely torgot the days
of Eacter.

" Tnedeath of tl.is illustrious parsonage is certainly a most cala-
mitoos evect for all Greece, and .Noll more lanie;:t.ill!e fm- this city,
to which he was emin•qitly partial, of which he heit•anie a citizen,
and of the dangers of which be was determined person ally to par-
take, when circum,tar.ces sLculd ;(quire it.
" His munifi.:,ut donation; tithi• commin•ity ore befor..! the eye,
of every one; and no one amore4t us ever cr ever will
cease, to consider him, with the purest and most grateful sentiments,
our beneractm. •

" Until the disosirlons of the National Government rezarding
this calamitous event be known, by virtue of the Decree of the Lc-
gislature, Nn. 7.14, of date the 15:h October, it is ordaired—
" 1. To-morrow, by sun-rise, thirty-seven minute-guns shall he
fired from the batteries of this town, equal to the number of years
of the deceased personage.
" 2. All Public Offices, Including all Courts of Justice, shall be
shut for three r3!loxing days.
" 3. All shop., except thole for provisions and.medicires, shall
aho be kept shot; and all sorts of itindcal itv.truments, dance.
customary in these dar, ail tort, of te:-.tivity and merriment in the
public taverns, and evegy other sort of public attlihement, shall
I cease during theabove-named
II 6' 4. A general mourning shall take place for twenty-one days.
" 5. Funeral ceremonies shall be performed in all the churches.
(Signed) " A. NI A Cllo..7oltDA'fo.
" GIORGI:1 PRAU)I, S.cretary.
" Missolongbi, 17th April, 1824."

TUE ARMY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.
LORD LONDONDERRY AND MR. BATTIER.

32, Groweilor-place, :%Lty 14, 1864.

SL -It was not my intention to publish in the Newspapers tiny
account of the trent which occurred between the Marquis of Lon-
donderry and Mr. antivr ; but having seen in your Paper of this
ereniog a statement purporting to be drawn out by liemen int-
Colonel Western, but published by Mr. Battier, by no means so
fall as it ought to be, to give the Public a true idea of the ta an-ac-
tion, and not the copy of the statement shewn to me by Lieutenant.
Colonel Western, on the 10th instant, and which 1 signed, I think
'it proper to :lend you for publication a statement of these transac-
tions, which I drew out on the 6-h instant, which I communicated
to Lieutenant-Coionel NVestetn on the followini, day, and of whirl:
I sent hint a copy, after making additions according to his observa-
tions. Lieutenant-Colonel Western has admitted the currectness
of this statement, upon two different occasions, as appect s by the
er:emoranduen written by myself, in his presence, on the ith instant,
and by that written by Lieutenant-Colonel Western on the 10th
May. I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
11. IIAItDINGE.
sth May, Twelve o'Cl,)ek.
- - -

. _
Lieutenant-Culonel Western delivered a note to Sir 11. Flartlinge,
from Lord Londonderry, referring Colonel W. as the bearer of a
challenge to Lord L. from Mr. Battier, to Sir Illenry.—rie mes-
sage was stated by Colonel W. to be founded on the circumstance
of Lnrd L. having desired Mr. 13. not to dine at the regimental
mess, on the 24th November last.—Sir Henry, without to:cling
into the merits of the circumstance abovementioned, expressed his
opinion that 13. was not entitled to require private explanation,
or personal satisfaction from Laid L. after he had chosen to adopt
the unusual course of satisfying his feelings by appealing to tie: Pub•
lie; and if that mode of redress were nue, felt by Mr. B. to be in-
sufficient, it was no affair of Lord L.'s, and that, after a lapse of five
months, any claim which he might have had, in the first instance,
appeared to be lost by the delay, as well as by the appeal to pub-
lic opinion.
Lieutenant-Colonel W. admitted that, in his opinion, there was
no absolute necessity, on the part of Itlr. 13. to send Lord 1.. a
challenge after what had passed, but that Mr. B.'s sense of the in-
jury he had received, by being desired to quit the mess-room in the
presence of Ladies, induced him to seek the present mode of satis-
fying his feelings, which had been severely wounded by the silent
trenipt with which Lord L. had treated him, by not noticing
his letters.

This may be considered as the substance of the conversation which
passed, Sir Henry proposing to confer with Colonel W. at three
o'clock, when the following letter was presented by Sir I Leary
No. 1.

“ 52, Grosvenor-place, May 5, 1824.

" Sta—l think it necessary to repeat most distinctly to you that
cannot admit Mr. Battier's right to call upon Lord Londonderry
for private satisfaction, after Mr. Battier's appeals to the Public fur
the last 4 months. As you have also stated to me your opinion most
unequivocally, that there is no necessity on the pa: t of Mr. Battier
to have recourse to the proceeding he meditates, I cannot reconcile
it to my sense of honour and propriety to sanction any such mea-
sure, where both the seconds are of opinion that the principals need
nut meet.—Disapproving, therefore, in common with you, of the
proposed meeting, 1 shall avcid seeing Lord L. till I have conferred
with you at three o'clock.—l am, &c.
Lt.-Col. Western." (Signed)

" 11. HAIIDINGE."
Three o' Clock, r. Nr.

At this interview, Colonel W. stated, that an etplaiiation tram
Lord L. or from Sir Henry, informing him that ther.: had been no
intention on the part of Lord L. to question Mr. B.'s character as a
Gentleman would satisfy him.
Sir Henry not admitting, on the pact of Lord L. Mr. B.'s claim
to a private explanation, after the pref.:l-trice shewn by that Gen-
tleman for a public vindication of his character, declared any such
explanation to be inadmissible. And although he bad avoided see-
ing Lord L he stated his Lordship's readiness to meet Mr. Battier,
as expressed in the uote brought front Lord L. by Colonel W. the
objection to the meeting being oil the part of Sir /laity, and foe the
reasnns already given.
At this interview every means Of arrangement having been dis
cussed, Colonel \V. delivered the following note:
No. '2.

" May
_5.

" Sia—having seen your note, and admitting that there is no
absolute necessity for Mr. Battier to. call on the Nlarquis of Lon-
_hind-Try, sentiments in which I the. more readily participate from
former years of service with you. and as Mr. Battier has placvtl
hooter in my hani.ls, I shad have no hesitation, atter.the conversa-
tion that has taken place between us, to assure my fi lend that our
mutual impression .as tile friend> of parties is, that after the pain-
city which has already taken place, nu further steps are necessary.
" Allow me to express .my satisfaction that this unpleasant busi-
ness should have falien into the hands of an Officer with whom I
have formerly served, and for whont I always entea tallied the highest
opinion. " I am, &c.
- (Signed) "O.M. T. WESTERN.
" Sir 11. Hardinge, &c. &c. &c."

Five &Clock.
Sir Henry Natiliages note in answer to this, is the fullowing ; viz.
Nip. 71:

" 32, Grusvenor.place, May 5.
" have received your reply,.and request you will inform
me of your ultimate intentions before the evening closes.—f am, &c.
" Wesura. (Sisned) " 11. lIAItMINGE."
Hall-past Six, F.M.
_ _ _

Colonel W. having conferred with Mr. B. returned to Sir Henry
at half-after six &clot's, requesting an
.explanation or a meeting.
The latter was immediately acceded to.=• The parties, it was con-
sidered, could not meet before half-aftereight or nine o'clock. which
was deemed vet y objectionable by both the seconds. A misappie-
liension, however, arose on this point. Colonel W. conceiving the
appointment for the meeting to have been at nine o'clock the s-anrc
evening, and Sir Henry at nine o'clock the next morning: Sir 11. 11.
having communicated to Lord 1.:. the arranzemeht he had made,
wrote the following letter :