Star.
London, England, 1823-09-05 00:00:00

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AZ. ,4 N APPEAL to the COMMON SENSE of sbe
PUBLIC—It Is not often that such an appear catt be
made in favour of a Lottery ; but the PRESENT SCIIEUE
and the PRESENT PRICES afford such rational changes of
success, that very person of common sense, who inveitizatts
the subject, will feel it his duty to take advantage of the upper-
tunity, and put himself in the way of getting Twenty Thanoand
Pounds. where the PRIZES in the Schema are more numerous
than the Blanks! !! and the Tickets may be bought at any,of the
Ofilces for Onethird less than the usual price; for a Whole
Ticket is reduced more than F 8 ; even a Sixteenth is setting for
10s. less; and all other Shares are 4s cheep in
_proportion. Tbr
DRAWING will BEGIN on THURSDAY, 23th of THIS
MONTH.

A SAVING OF ONE IN THRIVE..
SWIFT and Co. remind their Friends and the Pub-
lic that the drawing of the State Lottery will commence on
the 25th of this Month, and they recommend to alt Clubs, So-
cieties, and Individual Porchasers, to avail themselves of the
present extraordinary reduction of more than one-third in the
prices of Tickets and Shares. More than Half the Tickets in
this Lottery are sure to be Prises ! The very First Prize will
have £lo,ooo.—There are Three of £20,000, Two of hlO,OOO,
'besides Forty-four other Capitals, and nearly 10,000 smaller
Prizes, in the Scheme. Tickets and Shares are Selling at
SWI FT and Co.'s Old and Fortunate Offices,
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11, POULTRY •
I 31, Ausakta limn &TIMM ;.
12, Grantee Cams;
Where Schemes at large may be had gratis.

HENRY'S CALCINED MAGNESIA continues
to be prepared with the most scrupulous care and atten=
tlon, by Messrs. tuomAs and WILLIAM Ilniar, Mhnufitcturinj
Chemists Manchester. It is sold in bottles,. price 2s. 91. or
with glass stoppers at es. 6d. stamp included, with full directions
for its use, by their various Agents in the Aletropttlis, and
throughout the United Kingdom; but it cannot be genuine, un-
less their names are engraved on the Government Stamp, hich
is fixed over the cork or stopper of each bottle. Of most of the
vsuders of the Magnesia may be had, authenticated by a similar
Stamp, HENRY'S AROMATIC Smarr of VINEGAR, the invention of
Mr. Henry, and the only genuine preparation of that article.

LORD BYRON.

We quote the following account, from an Ameri-
can paper, of the interview of certain Americans with
Lord Byron, at Genoa : " Genoa,
" 1 have been rambling about Italy for fourteep
months, and know every road in it Letter than any
one in America, and every greet or lane in Milan,
Florence, Rome, Venice, &c. better than the
street in Richmond; I am, however, I believe, about
to quit it, I fear, for ever. I am here lingering oil
the end. On the 16th we waived here : about two
miles from town we overtook a Gentleman on horse-
back,
attended by a servant ; I looked at his face,
and instantly recognized him, from a portrait by an
American painter, West, now at Florence, to be the
most extraordinary man alive; a glance at his dis-
torted foot confirmed it—we rode on : part of our
object in visiting Genoa had been to introduce oar- •
selves to him. Accordingly, next day we wrote' a
short and polite note, requesting leave to pay our re-
spects, to which we received one equally polite, re.
questing us to call next day at two o'clock. We went;
a servant stood ready to receive us, and we were
shewn into a saloon, where we waited with beating
hearts for about a minute, when he made his appear-
ance. He is about five feet six inches high—his
body is small, and his tight leg shrunk, and about
two inches silo. ter than the other—his head is beyond
description fine. West's likeness is pretty good, but
no other head I ever saw of him is in the least like him.
His forehead is high, aid smaller at the top than
below (the likenesses are vice versal.. His hair, which
had formerly hung in beautiful brown ringlets, be-
ginning to turn grey, he being, as he told us, thirty-
rive years old. His eyes being a light blue and grey ;
his nose straight, but a little turned up ; his teeth
most beautiful; his head is perhaps too large for his
body. Who is he? One of our company began a set
apology, which he cut short by telling us it was use-
less, for that he was very glad to see us ; and 'then
began to ask us questions, 50 ill a minute without
waiting for an answer L's any, and if by chance it was
made, he seemed impatient if it contained more than
two words. He flew from one subject to another,
and during about an hour and a half talked upon at
least 200 subjects—sometimes with great humour,
laughing very heartily: at length looking round, he
asked with a quizzical leer which of us was from
old Virginny? I bowed assent; then followed a ca-
techism, to which I occasionally edged in an an-
swer. Have you 'been in England? How long
have you been in Italy ? Is Jefferson alive ? Is it
true that your landlords ,are all Colonels and Jt:s-
- Do you know Washington Irving? He it
decidedly the first English prose writer except Scott.
Have you rend Bracebridge Hail? (I answered
no). Well, if you choose, I'll lend it you? hereit
iss Have you - any Ameticen books. to lend me
I anevery desirous of reading the Spy. I intend to
visit America as soon as I can arrange my affairs in
Italy. Your morals •are much purer than those (.1
England (there I laugliesl—those of the higher classes
of England have become very corrupt—(l smo-
thered my laugh,). Do youthink, if I was to live io
America• they would ever make me a Judge of the
Ten Pound Court? Ts it true that an Englishman is
always insulted in travelling through America.?. We
assured him not. He then told, us* more laughable
stories of the ridi&slous biographies made of ham,
especially by the French. - One of them represented
him as a gloomy; miserable mortal, keeping the skull
of his mistress as a drinking-cup. I told him that
was pretty much the idea we had of him, as we con-
sidered him a sort of Vampire (he laughed heartily).
He said Bracebridge Hall was beautifully written ;
but as for the characters, they only exist in the brain
of W. I. There are no old Englishmen, no yeomen.
The English have lost everything good in their cha-
racter. Their morals are particutirly bad (here I
thOught he really was quizzing us). In fine; he kept
us for an hour and ti half constantly amused, and ilk-
Missed us well satisfied with our interview. Llis
manners are most charming and fascinating ; ;led it
he is, as they say, a devil, he is certainly a merry
one—nothing gloomy. His voice is low and me:,
and at first sounds affected. Now who is it? Iliho
is the man about whom I have written a whole letter:,
It is Childe Ibirold, Corsair, Don Juan...in plaia
English, 'Lord Byron."