Star.
London, England, 1822-09-24 00:00:00

ROB ROY MACGREGOIE

When Roa ROY MACGREGoII was on his death-bed,
a Gentleman, IA hum he had reason to consider as an
enemy, came to see him. On being requested to ad-
mit the visitor to his bed -side, he said, " No enemy
shall see Rob Roy in the posture of defeat. Raise
me up ; put on my clothes, and buckle on my arms,
and then admit him." He was obeyed : the guest
was received with cold civility by the dying man,
and in a short time departed. " Now," said Rob
Roy, " now help me to bed and call in the piper.",
The piper appeared, Rob Roy shook hands with him,
and desired him to play Cha tuik tuikadgh, and
not to cease while he continued to breathe. He soon
expired, with the " voice of war" pealing around him.

BENEFICIAL AND EXTENSIVE LEGACY.

JOHN M‘LACHLAN, Esq. formerly teacher of Ma-
thematics in Glasgow, who died in Spring last, at
Calcutta, has bequeathed a handsome legacy, sup-
posed to be about Twenty Thousand Pounds, the resi-
due of his fortune, for the establishment of Free
Schools in Glasgow, for the education of male and
female children of poor Highlanders residing in and
about the city, and supplying books and stationery
to those who are not able to purchase them. The
trust is confided to the LORD PROVOST and Magis-
trates of Glasgow, the Ministers and other Members
of the General Church Session, and the Ministers and
Managers of the Gaelic Church or Churches of the
said City, for the time being, and to their successors
in office for ever. The boys, besides a grammatical
knowledge of the English language, are to be taught
writing, arithmetic, and book-keeping ; the girls, be-
sides a proper knowledge of the English language,
writing, and the first five common rules of arithmetic,
are to be instructed in needlework, and such other
useful employments as may enable them to gain an
honest living after leaving school.

The executor of the Rev. PETER BEAUVOIR, late
of Downham-hall, in the county of Essex, paid last
week the sum of £38,000 to the Stamp Office, being
the duty on £720,000! payable to the residuary le-
gatee, RICHARD BENYON (now RICHARD BENTON de
BEAuvoin). This fortunate legatee was no relation
to the testator. Above £50,000 were otherwise left
in legacies. The immense property was bequeathed
by the testator independent of his freehold estates,
which are of considerable value. In addition to this
prodigious w ealth, the testator possessed and retained
till the day of his death a living of £3OO a year!
Thursday night a fire broke out in an old wooden
tenement, the corner of Lady Wynd, at the foot of
the West Port, Edinburgh. The house had long been
used as a common resort for lodgers of the humblest
description, a great number of sshom were, in conse-
quence of the calamity, thrown out of their quarters
for the night. By a plentiful supply of water, and
the assistance of the neighbours, the flames were con-
fined to the tenement, which was completely demo-
lished. It is feared that some lives have been lost,
' an an Irish labourer, who occcupied one of the gar.'
rets, with two of his children, are missing. Upwards
of fifty families were burnt out. The fire is under-
stood CO have been occasioned by a candle falling on
one of the miserable pallets, composed of shavings or
straw, on which most of the wretched inmates slept.
NATIVE GRATITUDE I—Friday, at the Recorder's
Court, Dublin, a woman was indicted for stealing a set
of bagpipes horn Denis Sullivan, a Kerry piper.—
The woman was acquitted, and the Court ordered the
pipes to be restored to their owner, a poor miserable
looking man, whose care-worn cheeks and hollow eyes
(though unfavourable to the expression), evinced the
greatest delight at again possessing the source of all
his joy, and solace of many an hour of griping poverty ;
in the,fulness of his heart, the Kerry piper begged
the Court would allow him to strike up GOD save the
King, or Patrick's Day—the Court, however, begged
to dispense with this proof of the musician's gratitude.
NEW INSURANCE COMPANIES.—Dr. PRICE said of
the Projectors of Insurance and Annuity Schemes in
his day, (about 4.0 years since) " they believe that
the schemes they are supporting will last their time,
and that they will be gainers, and as to the injury
that may be done to their successors or to others—it
is at a distance, and they care little about it," in the
event they all failed; but the Projectors of the pre-
sent day, find it of little consequence whether their
schemes " last their time," or not ; for it, by under-
selling, they can only raise a business, they gain a
profitable employment; and when they have ex-
hausted the money they have collected, a new set of
dupes enable them to start a new scheme, and gain
new pri,fits. Two new Insurance Companies are an-
t nounced, to effect Insurances at 25 per Cent. under
: the ordinary rates, the Projector of which was the
Manager of an Insurance and Annuity Company,
which, after a run of some years, he finished, without
leaving the Annuitants and Shareholders a Shilling !