Star.
London, England, 1825-10-27 00:00:00

FROM THE ABERDEEN CHRON ICLE.

Monday, the Bon Accord, Parker, arrived here from
Davis's Straits, with five fish, 85 tuns of oil. Captain
Parker, we regret to state, brings such accounts of the
'situation of the ship Active, Gray, of Pete:head, as to
lead to the most serious apprehensions for her safety.
The ship, it appears, had gone into a bay or inlet, either
that of Exeter Sound, lat. 66 deg. 30 min. N. long 61.
deg. 15 m. W. or an inlet at Cape Walsingham, lat. 66
deg. N. long 60 deg. 50 min. W. where owing to a
gale from the South Eastward, a body of ice had
grounded on the bar or entrance, and had afterwards
accumulated in such masses, and to such extent, as by
calculation to run 11 miles without her, to seaward.
The crew, in this alarming crisis, had left the ship, and
gone on board other vessels, with the exception of eight
or ten men, who had consented to remain with Captain
Gray during the winter. But they were dissuaded from
this hazardous undertaking by Captain Humphray, of
the Isabella, of Hull, to whom they had applied for a
supply of provisions, and who gives the above parti-
culars. In the meantime the Resolution and Traveller,
of Peterhead, had agreed to remain ten or fourteen
days, until they saw if by any change of the weather
there might be a prospect of the Active getting de ir ;
failing which, they were to bring off the remaining part
of the crew, and leave the vessel. The Active had got
seven fish, and rode at anchor within the barrier of ice,
which had been formed as above stated. On Wednes-
day evening it came to blow a heavy gale from
the northward, which afterwards increased, and con-
tinned with extreme violence during next day, and the
night following.
Thursday morning, two whale fishing ships, sup-
posed the Le:WA, Clark, and Middleton, Cargill, of
this place, were seen off this (Aberdeen) Bay, but were
obliged to run to the southward, and in the course of
the forenoon, six or seven square-rigged vessels ap-
peared, endeavouring to keep to windward, but they
were the following night driven by the fury of the
storm to the southward; some of them were supposed
to be Davis's Straits whale fishing ships, belonging to
Peterhead, and one of them which appeared to have a
poop, was believed to be the Traveller, so that the late
of the Active must soon be known. One brig, by
signal, was known to be the Tarcy, Jaffray, of Aber-
deen, from Pictou. Captain Macintosh, of the Ingria,
of Hull, when at the whale fishery this season, landed
on the east coast of D oils's Straits, near Wilcox Point,
lat. 74 deg. 10 min. N. long 57 deg. 15 min. W. that
he might get to some high point of the land, front
which to view Melville Bay, in order to discover it
there was any passage through the ice to the northward.
After landing he was attracted by the appearance of
one of the huts of the Es quimaux, and on entering it
found, sh ith horror and surprise, the bodies of 22 of
the natives, who appeared to have perished in the
course of the winter, some of them being in a state of
putridity. They had their fishing and hunting ap-
paratus near them, and among the latter were three
ifle fowling-pieces, which were of course brought away.

It was remarked on the Coronation of the Empress
of AUSTRIA, as Queen of HUNGARY, that there had
been ten kinfs and five Queer.s crowned at Presburg
since 1.563. rhe last Coronation t ok place on the 7th
of September, 1808, when the ceremony was per-
formed for the Empress MAMA-LOUISA, the third wife
of his present Mitassry. S!:e died ire 1816.
The new law fur regulating British weights and MCP
Isures comes into operation on the Ist of January.
Yew trees, formerly so common in Church-yards,
were, in 1483, ordered to be planted in those places for
the making of bows used in archer}'.
Extract of a letter front Durham, dated October 24:
" A circumstance occurred yesterday at the Cathedral
perfectly novel and unprecedented here, and which has
made no little sensation. Immediately after the com-
munion service in the morning was over, and before
the sermon, one of the Minor Canons read a legal docu-
asent of great length, but in so low and indistinct a tone
as to be inaudible, or nearly so, to the congregation. It
was, however, soon ascertained to be a writ of teques-
tration, by virtue cf which all the property and future
incame of Dr. John Hall becomes vested in his credi-
tors for the sum of 35,8001. Toe Dean himself was
present, and compelled to listen to the whole. It is
under teod that the principal creditor is a banker
and a resident of Oxford. Dr. Hall WAS raised to the
dignity of Dean of Durham on the vacancy occasioned
by the elevation of Di. Burgess to the See of Salisbury,
a few months ago. The present Dean is said to have
received no less than 10,0001. at one windfall since his
appointment."
From the Agent to Lloyd's at Dover, dated October 2.5:—" The
cargo of the Baron of Renfrew lays scattered on the coast, between
Calais and Dunkirk. A great deal is secured, and much more will
be saved, and taken above high water mark, If the weather remains
moderate."
EPIGRAM.
u Vat is vane rout ?" a Frenchman thus inquired
A rout ?—A party at which folks get tired.
" Ab, be mg,fait ! Ye have dose parties too ;
De rout vat fagg'd me most—•-vas Waterloo."
(Literary (aunt)

CHILI.

Extract of a letter, received at Providence, dated San-
ttago, Chili, June 1, 1825 "As respects news, all I have
to communicate is, that the Congress of this country,
which has been in Session for the la t eix months, was
dissolved on the 17th ult. by the Ext cirtivv, at the peti-
tion of about two-thirds of the Menibers. They had
made several attempts to come to a resolurtio•t among
themselves to dissolve, but these proved ifretizarral,
owiag to the clamour of the mob collected on the Cior
of the house, and in the adjacent streets, and even of the
Members of the Sovereign Body. It may he said, th it
they have done nothing of a publi: nature, in the six
months during which they have been sitting. The Bill
of Rights WAS left unfinaed, after the passage of some
fifteen or twenty of its many at tides, so that the funds•
mental law of Chili presents a curious and heterogeneous'
specimen of political and legal patchwork Font).
nately, the liberty de facto, enjoyed by her citizens, is
as great (that is, political liberty), a; could be wished,
and not likely to be infringed by the present Di-
re:tor, whose total want of ambition and mild sway
has rendered him de,ervedly popular ; this circum-
stance renders less frightful the absence of that liberty
de jure which the 11 11 of Rights was calculated to de.
fine am! secure. The direct co,ttribution was also left
in the ink-horn, after having undergone more discus-
sion than our new Tariff Bill; in the meantime there
is not a dollar in the national money box, and the finan-
cial department is in the utmost disorder, so muc't so,
that it Is is been found impossible to procure a person
of adequate tal•nts and sufficient respectability, who
would accept of the heretofore desirable and respectable
place of Minis:et of the Treasury. It has been offered
within these few days to several of my friends, who
have utterly refused it, notwithstanding the urgent
solicitations of the Director himself, and backed by
many friends, that they would accept, and this, al-
though the salary annexed to it is quite respectable.—
Notwithstanding all these clogs upon her progress,
Ch li is making, if not rapid, at least visible and grati.
Eying advances towards permanent political and reli
gious liberty and right government. Chili is about to
adopt the federative system. Each of the three Pro-
vinces of Coquimbo, Santiago, and Conception, to have
its Provincial Legislature for the exclusive manage.
ment of the Provincial and Municipal Affairs, with a
National Congress to meet at the capital, for the dis-
cussion r.f national matters. Coquimbo and Concep-
tion have already organized their assembly, and that of
Santiago is to convene about the 20th of this month.
The object of their present meeting is to appoint two
Commissioners from each Province, with full powers
conjointly to fix the Law of Election for the National
Congress, &c. which Congress will determine the nature
and conditions of the Confederation. The adoption of
this system will put an end to the sectional jealousies
which have heretofore existed among the Provinces,
and by giving to each the privilege of managing its
own affairs, insure greater regard to local interests."

POLICE I NI'ELL.IG E.N CE.