Star.
London, England, 1802-08-31 00:00:00

DUBL IA; AUGUST 27.

On Monday, 23d intl. the fonndation !lone of the
WI Lock of the Grand Canal, sherd that work
:mites with the river Shannon, near Banagher, was
i aid by RICHARD GRI PATH, EiCI.I3IIC Gc the DireC-
•ors of that Company. We congratulate our
zonntry on the near approach which this great na-
• ional undertaking makes towards compLtion.—
We have watched its progrefs with anxious plea-
.nrc for many years pall, and we have leen the
oeneficial effects of that progrefs in the advance-
ment of agriculture into the heart of the kingdom.
When we look to its junClion with the Shannon,
and behold that noble river extending its fertile
hanks, So miles in length, through Rofcommon,
Galway, May o,Leitrim,Welimeath, King's con nt y,
ipperary, Limerick, and Clare, made navigable,
at public expence, free from toil, and brought by
is jonetion with the Grand Canal, into contatl I
with the market and port (4 Dublin, we are at a
lois how tocalculate theextentof public advantage,
or to compute the amount of well-earned private
gain which will refult from the accomplifhment of,
fi bold and fig well-condutted an undertaking.—
We undo (land that the works between Tullatuore
and the Shannon, are proceeding with uncommon
vigour, and that there is every reafon to expe& they
will be completed within t z or 1+ months.

ThUrfd.ty laa one Thomas Proftop, who is up-
wards of 83 years of age, went to a carpenter in:
Lancal r. and coolly befpoke his coffin, fot which,
howc, er, he would not give more than 14s. declar-
ing that he got one made about four years ago, I
much cheaper ; but his brother having fince died,
he had given it to him. The coffin was accordingly
delivered to the owner, and paid for the next day.
This fingalar chara6ler, who is pallid of fume
li.tle property, had his will made a few days ago,
and would pay only as. for it. He has alto given
ont• of his deceafed wife's printed cotton gowns to
a perfon to make into a fhroud for him.
On Wednefday lali the dwelling houfe of Ro-
bert Robinfon, farmer, a detached building, fituate
at Litti.beek, near Whitby, was burnt to the
ground. fire, it is fuppofed, had been corn-
' municated from the oven. The whole of the fa-
mily were in the fields, at a diftance, reaping the
h-rreft when the accident happened.

On the 24th inflant, at Plymouth, it blew a
frefh of wind with rain and fqualls at S. W. a large
boat, in turning up Hamoaze, near Torpoint, the
fheet being belayed, jibed, by which means the
upfet, and out of t 4 perfons, two were drowned.

On Sunda/ laft, at the anniverfary of Kilma-
cow Patron, a riut enfued, in which a man of the
amt. of Wan was killed on the fpot.

During a violent thunder form on Wednefday
fe'nnight, four fervants and four honks in a liable,
at Langthwaite, in Millom, were (ruck down by
the lightning, and one of the honks killed.
On Thurfday a chimney (weeper in the neigh-
bourhood of Oxford-ftreet, fell down, and wasrun
over by his own night cart, and killed on the (pot.
On Saturday fe'nnight, a fine child, in Argyle-
fired, Liverpool, about 17 months old, playing
with the Kopper of a vinegar-cruet, unfortunately
got it into its throat, and though medical alliflance
was had, the child was fuffocate4, by the bulk of
the lloppergetting into the wind pipe ; with great
difficulty it was taken otit, and every means tired
for upwards of two hours to refore animation, but
without effeet.

Lail week a melancholy accident happened
near Downend. A man, his wife and four children
were travelling in the Oxford waggon, which the
driver left in the care of his boy ; immediately af-
ter the waggmer left them, the man got out ofthe
waggon, and intiffed on having the whip from the
lad, and driving himfelf; the lad reludantly gave
it him, and no former had the man (truck the hind
horfe, than he kicked him in the tide, through
which he fell under the waggon, and the fore
wheel going direly over his head immediately
crulhed him to death. His wife and 'children
ware w•itneffes of his untimely end.

Friday ev:ning a boy fell from a barge at the
end of Beaufort lluildings into the Thames. Every
effor to recover the body was ufed, but proved
fruitlefs. The unfortunate child was a pauper in
St. Giles's Workhoufe, and was fent from thence
to take care that the coals ordered for the Work-
honfe were not flolen as conveyed thither.
On the i6th inflant, a bny employed in the fac-
tory of Mr. J. Pickno, of Burnley, was caught by
the drum of the machinery, and bad his head
twilled from off his body.
Tuefday 'all, a child of Mr. Robert Gundry's,
collar•maker, of Sherborne, fell from the nurfe's
arms, and frattured its fkull, and died in confe•
quence.

On the 20th inf. Eliz. Boar, about 12 years of
age, carrying her gleaninzs to her father, who was
driving a cart for Mr. Bunn of Cam.
bridgethire, the was thrown down ay the fecond
honk, and the wheel going over herr killed• her on
the fpot.

On Saturday evening as a gentleman of War-
dour-ftreet was coming to Town through Streath-
am, he unfortunately fell from the roof of a coach,
and broke his thigh, and now lies at Streatham
without hopes of recovery.
Thurfday la ft, as Mr. John Sherepoint, aged 70,
of Kennington, was unloading a timber carriage,
at Alhford-, he fell from the top, and a piece of
timber filling upon him, he was inftantly killed.
On Saturday evening tall as William Mickel',
a carpenter, of Bigglefwade, was going into a field
of Mr. Steward's, builder, of that place, along with
a youth of about fixtcen, who worked with him
at Mr. Steward's, merely to amufe himfelf with
mowing fOmc barley, the youth unfortunately cut
him fo clefperately in the leg, that he bled to death
a short time afterwards.

Sunday fe'nnight as a butcher of S4eiHeld was
,driving two bealts to the flaughter.houfe, one of
ahem became mad, and attacked Mr. Bsaopots, of