Star.
London, England, 1822-10-07 00:00:00

the claim to the additional dety of l 5 per cent. on
British woollen goods.

in the district of Lemford, was alitagt ea** dr
stroyed by fire ; the CAureh, the Aboa, 137 Isonsest
and 39 bares, were consumed. Olt the lads, forty-
nine houses and other buildings were burnt down in
the village of Steierberg; and on the 244 h, twenty-
eight houses in the town of Kausthal.
ST. PETERSBUROII, SEPTEMBER is.
An Ukase has been issued, in eleven articles, deter-
mining the commercial relations between Russia and
Poland.
Ocr. I.—Eitcbsage on London. 36-11. 57-2.
Sr. Dersasovaok, Sim 17.—Eschanse on London, 10142.

This forenoon we received a Lisbon Mail, hi inging
Papers to the 29th ult. The proceedings in the
Cortes, on the subject of the Brazils, possess consi-
derable interest. They are calculated to hasten that
separation of the two countries which has long ap-
peared luevitable.--The following are extracts :
LISBON, SEPTEMBER
SITTINO-01 THE CORTES, IMPTICINEER 20.
The Order of the Day was' the debate on the opi-
nion of the Committee of the Constitution, on the
motion -of Senor Miranda. After a considerable
debate the Ist Article was put to the vote, and ap
provedin its original form.
• Art-1. The Decree of the 3d of June tut, convoking Consti-
tuent Cortes in Brazil, is null.

An addition to this article, proposed by Senor
Xavier Monteiro, was discussed. Senor Barrata dis-
approved of it, saying it might lead to fatal conse-
quences, andthat the Prince might call the Emperor
of Austria to his aid.—(These last words Caused con-
siderable noise, not only in the Assembly but in the
galleries, which was not appeased till the President
had several times called to order.)—The addition
was rejected.
Some Members having spoken on the 2d, 3d, 4th,
sth, 6th, and 7th Articles, they were approved,
las follows:

e. The Minister or Ministers who signed this Decree we highly
responsible for the illegality of so despotic a determination, and
shall be Impeached.
3. The Government of Rio Janeiro, disobeying the Cores,
and constituting itself Independent, is a Government de facto
and not a Government de jure, and the voluntary obedience of
any Authority will be criminal.
These two Articles are rather different from the
form in which they were at first proposed. In the 3d,
after the word Independent, were the words against
the inclination of the People of Brazil, which were
omitted on the motion of Senor Benet° Feio, who
observed, that from this it might be inferred that if
the Government of Rio Janeiro had acted thus with
the consent of the People of Brazil, it would be a
Government de jure, and consequently it would fol-
low, that any Province of which an Empire was com-
posed might declare itself independent at its own
pleasure, a principle so monstrous, that no person,
however democratical, has ever yet maintained it—
so absurd, that it cannot enter into any head where
there is the smallest spark of reason or common sense.
4. The delegated power given to the Prince being at an end.
the King is immediately to appoint a Regency, to exercise the
delegated power as decreed by the Constitution.
5. The Prince Royal is to embark directly for Portugal'
within one month after the present Decree shall be notified to
him; and if, contrary to expectation, he should not obey this
decision, the measures shall be taken which the Constitution
provides when the King or the Prince go out of the kingdom
without the permission of the Cortes.
6. Any Commander of the Sea or Land Forces who shall
obey the actual Government of Rio de Janeiro, shall be ac-
counted a traitor, unless compelled to it by force.
7. The Government shall, by all the means in its power, pro-
vide for the execution of these Resolutions.
Two opinions of the Committee, relative to the
refusal of some of the Brazilian Deputies to sign the
Constitution, were discussed in the sitting of the 20th
and 21st, and approved. The Committee judged the
reasons alleged by these Deputies to be insufficient.
In the Sitting of the 23d the Deputies signed the
Constitution, 136 were present, 20 were absent. In
the next Sitting four others signed. At the eud of
this sitting the President said that the Constitution was
now sealed and furnished with the signatures of the
Secretaries, and he proposed that the Social Compact
should be now declared to be complete. This was
approved, and it was then declared that 16 Members
had not signed, nine of whom had alleged sufficient
reasons and seven had not assigned grounds. Amongst
the former were four from Brazil,. the latter seven
were all from Brazil. All the other Brazilian Depu-
ties signed.
In the Sitting of the 25th, the Project of Decree was
brought forward to create a new Order for the re-
ward of merit ; and on the 26th, the commercial re-
lations between Portugal and Brazil.
On the 25th, Lisbon was witness of a most magni-
ficent and impressive ceremony—the procession of
the Deputation of the Cortes, to present to the King
the Constitution of the Portuguese Monarchy. When
I the President of the Deputation addressed his Ma-
jesty, and came to the passage where be said the King
was at liberty to take the oath to the Constitution, or
not, his Majesty interrupted him, and said he had
already, sworn to the bases, and would keep his oath,'
and that he now swore to the Constitution.

New York and Philadelphia Papers arrived this
morning to the £d September. The following ate
extracts : - .

ABSTRACT OF A
Of

gni raglantirr Tar MTN! WM% Of awamea.
Whereas, bf an Act of Congress of the United States, pug:4
en the 6th day et May last, it was provided that, en satisfae_
tery evidence being given to the President of the United State.
that the ports in the Islands or Colonies in the West !rules:
slider tbe destinies et Great Britain, have been opened to the
*Meth et the United Stases, the President should be, and thereby
welt, antherined to issue his Prochunation, declaring daft *:
pertirelf the United States should be spelled to the vessels of
Greet Britain, employed in the trade and intercourse between
the United States and such Islands and Colonies, sebieet to sack
reciprocal rules and restrictions as the President of the United
States might by suck Proclamation make and publish. And
whereas, satisfactory evident= has been give? to the President
el the United States thst the ports herein named, in the fsland:
or Colonies in the
_West Indies under the dominion of Great
Britain, have been opened to the vessels of the United States.--
that is to say—(Then follows the names of the different ports in
the West Indies).

era

To vessels of Gum Britain borraftde British built, owned,
and the master and threo.fourths of the mariners of which at least
shall belong to Great Britain, or any Unised States bulk ship or
vessel which has been sold to and become the property of British
subjects, such ship or vessel being also navigated with a mauler
and three-fourths of the mariners at least belonging to Great list
coin ; and provided always that no articles shall be imported into
the United States in any such British ship or vessel, other than
articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the British
islands and Coloniei of the West li.dies ; when imported is
British repels coming from any such Island or Colony, and
articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the British
Colonies in North America, or the Island of Newfoundland, is
vessels coming from the port of St. John's in that Island, or from
any of the aforesaid ports of the British Colonies in North Ame.
rica. By the President, JAMES MONROE.
NEW YORK, AUGUST 31.

Captain Thompson, who arrived at Baltimore in
seventeen days from Laguira, states that the Spanish
General, Morales, had returned to Porto Cabello from
Curacoa, and landed his troops.
BOARD OF HEALTH.—The assistants reported that
they had inspected four more stores in the infected
' district, making eleven in all, and that they had been
unable to discover any putrid hides, or other dis-
cernible matter, that could infect the atmosphere. 'A
long communication was received from Dr. Ackerly,
who states that the prevailing fever, he is willing to
believe, was imported ; but he has enumerated sundry
causes that have a powerful agency in keeping it alive
and spreading it, such as narrow streets and ditty
lanes, sinks, and burial-grounds. There are but three
new cases to-day. Among the depredations com-
mitted in the infected district, %se learn that several
houses have been robbed.

The accounts from Ireland this morning are of the
same character as those which have lately reached us
from that ill-fated country. What these are we may
learn by- the proceedings of the Magistrates of the
county of Cork, assembled at Mallow, on Saturday
week last, where Lords DONERAILE and EmNtsmortu
and eleven other highly respectable Magistrates at-
tended. A number of Resolutions were entered into
on the system of conflagration and outrage which pre-
vails in that country. One of them declares—
" That scarcely a night passes in which some malicious de-
struction of property by fire does not take place ; that the pro-
perty so destroyed is, in general, corn or hay, set apart for tithe,
or belonging to persons who have made an agreement with the
Tithe Proctor."
The following extract, from the Cork ltfernintile
Chronicle of Wednesday, contains a new list of
CONFLAGRATIONS.
Saturday night, between the hours of ten and eleven o'clock,
the extensive haggard of Mr. James Fitzgerald, of Faha, within
about half a mile of Carrigbtowhill, was discovered to be on fire,
and In a short time the whole stock contained in it, consisting of
the produce of thirty acres of barley, five acres of vetches, thirty.
five tons of hay, and two large stacks of oats, was entirely con-
sumed, together with a cabin immediately adjoining, to which
the flumes communicated. The haggard was distant from Mr.
Fitagerald's residence only two or three fields, yet such was the
violence of the flames, that notwithstanding the short distance be
and his family had to go to the spot, it became impossible to save
any of the stock, and the atrocious ruffians who committed this
daring and malicious outrage were gratified to the fullest extent,
by the accomplishment of the utmost possible injury that could
be effected. Such was the blaze which the fire sent forth that
it was seen from Lapp's Island and the surrounding quays on Sa- •
turday night, by many persons whose attention was drawn to it
by the great glare of light that spread through the firmament.,
The distance is between seven and eight miles. Sunday morning
the place was visited by several of the surrounding Magistrates
and Gentry, but nothing was elicited which could lead to the dis-
covery of the offenders.
One night last week, a very extensive haggard, belonging to
Mr. Heffernan, was attempted tobt destroyed by setting fire to
the centre stack. The smoke was discovered before it had ig-
nited by some of his neighbours, who immediately apprised Mr.
Heffernan of it, and rendered their assistance in throwing down
and removing the rest of the stack, which with the help of others
immediately in Mr. H.'s employment) they succeeded in getting
done, without any further loss than one stack.
It was reported at Mallow, on Monday, that two men had
been taken up the night previous, between that town and Fen.
moy,having a red hot turf in a kettle. If the fact be so, there
can be little doubt of their object.
Monday night, two stacks of corn—one of wheat, the other of
oats, were maliciously burned at Ballynansona ; the smoke front
them, which had not entirely subsided yesterday, was witnessed
by a Gentleman coming fkom Mallow to this city.
FROM THE CLONMEL ADVERTISER.

Sunday night last, a dwelling-house on the lands of Rosser
The St. John Baptist, in 47 days from Pernam• town, near nudes, together with a quantity of wheat, mas •
buco, has brought accounts of serious disturbances in burnt, and we bast every reason to suppose maliciously. The
that Colony, and excesses against the European forces bouts was occupied by ass Miles Hough, who, as well as his
...tr mu man named Carroll, narrowly escaped. On
and inhabitants. It brought forty passengers, and ' and a
more are expected with an English vessel. It is nn-
being awoke by the barking of a dog and the lowing of a cow,
they discovered the ',milli in gamest and had merely thus to
derstood that the Portuguese Government i-eltmlnish
iese wheA the room kli in.

PLACEMEN and PENSIONERS in IRELAND.

Among the Parliamentary Reports of last Ses.
sion there is one instructive document, entitled, " A
Return of the several Perions in each Public Office inil
Ireland holding two or more Offices or Pensions," &C.
and, strange to add, the document so described, con-
tains not more than 29 folio pages, consisting only of
the names of Ladies and Gentlemen, with the nature
and amount of the pecuniary gratifications which they
have severally been permitted to appropriate. We do
not mean to dwell on the instal ce of Mr. GREGORY,
Under Secretary in Mr.GOULEURN'S office: his rank
gives him a claim to some notice, but it shall be brief.
This Gentleman has a salary of £2OOO per annum, and
he has besides a pension of £5OO per annum, with be.
nefit of survivorship se his wife. This is moderate on
the Lady's part, considering that she is a Trench—a
sister of Lord CLANCARTY, the Peer who performed
so indefatigably the simultaneous duties of Postmaster
General and itinerant Ambassador not many years
ago: they are both cousins of the late Marquis of
LONDONDERRY. The next we shall remark upon is
a Mr. SIDNEY STREITFEILD, who is Private Secretary
(at three hundred pounds per annum) to Mr. PEEL.—
But he is also second Clerk in the Chief Secretary's
Office for Ireland, for which he receives £460 per an-
num, but hires a person to do the duty. Now the
country ought to know the exact sum for which this
Gentleman is able to procure a competent deputy, which
sum ought tobe the limit of the charge upon the Public.
We come next to the Customs—an ample field,
tut one over which we have not time to tratel other-
than hastily. Mr. HRNRY HAMILTON, of a fa-
mily well known in the records of Dublin Castle, is a
Commi,sionet of the Board, at per annum £l,OOO,
Ile is also Customer of Dundalk and Newry 651.
Also a pensioner on the Civil List S5O

£2,004
ItcsERT WYNNE, Esq. is a superannuated Commis-
:loner, and has also two pensions of £3OO and 4.:9.00 per
annum. There is then the Hon. WILLIAM LE POER
TRENCH, another of the Clancarty family ! Secretary.
to the Board, 1..:92.5, and a half-pay Navy Captain at
1:221. We know well that it may be thought un-
mannei ly in us to suggest to a member of that noble
house, the expediency of giving up £220 to the na-
tion for so poor an equivalent as £925. The Right
Hon. the Earl of DONOUGHMORE is a searcher, a
packer, and a gauger, at per annum £1,07.5 ; but he
is also a superannuated Commissioner at E 1,600!
The same Peer is moreover a Remembrancer to the
Exchequer, of which, for some reason, or through some
means or other, the value has not been ascertained.

Now his Loichhip must permit us to ask him, if
he were superannuated and unfit for duty as a Com-
miscioner, how comes it he can discharge the duties
of a searcher, gauger, &c. at Donaghadee, and of a
Remembrancer in the City of Dublin?
The list is so long, and our limits so narrow, that
we cannot indulge our Readers with any further sam-
ples of the intelligence with which it abounds. Mr.
'l'. STAPLES, Mr. W. S. MASON, Mr. T. ORDE LEES,
are, each in his way, so many edifying instances of'
public virtue, economy, aod official übiquity, in Ire-
lane', and we recommend them accordingly to the
attelition-of the reader.

The Duke and Duchess of CLARIDICIC and suite
arrived yesterday afternoon at Bushey Park, from
the Continent.

Yesterday evening his Royal Highness the Duke
of CAMBRIDGE arrived at the King s Palace at Pim-
lico, in his travelling canine and four, accompanied
by Colonel PLATT, from Brighton.
The equestrian statue of his late MAJESTY was on
Monday elcvatei on its pedestal in London-road,
near Liverpool. It hof fine bronze, but of a tint
Less dark than NELSON'S Monument—is of the size cf
life, and an excellent likeness of the late KING. Lon-
don-road Has crowded the whole day with spectators.

Thursday and Friday se'nnight, H. BsouGNAlt,
Esq. M.P. visited Mr. Owe's% interesting establish-
ment at New Lanark.

Tuesday, Sir FRANCIS BURDETT visited Mr. HUNT
in Ilchester Jail, to congratulate him upon his ap-
proaching liberation. The Honourable Baronet passed
through Ilchester with his family, on his way from
Sidmouth to Foothill. From thence he proceeded to
Bath, in his road to Foremark, in Derbyshire, where
he is going to enjoy the pleasures of the chace.

DEATH Or MR. BROOKS.—Mr. SAMUEL BROOKS)
of the Strand, so well known for the active share he
Las for many years taken in the politics of West-
minster, died yesterday, at Margate, aged 65 years.
Air. BROOKS was Treasure; of the Westminster Asso-
ciation fur Preserving the Purity of Election ; and
was always one of the most zealous supporters of
Sir FRANCIS BuRDETT and the opposition Candidates,
at the Westminster Elections.

DUEL—Mursday morning a duel took place bt-
ivven Captain P.....1t) of the Marines, and Mr. M—s,
a.Gentiesitan )(flown on the 'Change, occasioned
by a dispute on Wednesday yelling at Covent-Garden
Theatte,.Captain P--a, either to:9up mistake or
otherwise, having forcibly taken possess:vn of
.a
haokney-coach; which Mr. M—s had retained for his
family. Mr. M—s, on coming up to the Coach, found
the Captain just about to enter it, be having'pte-
vinusly handed a Lady in. Mr. M—s remonstrated,
but the Captain refused to give up possession. High
'words ensued, and the result was the meeting in ques-
tion, which took place at the back of Holland House.
The panics fired at the same instant ; Captain P—it's
ball passed through the collar of Mr. M—'s coat,
and the Captain WAS slightly wounded in the right
aim. The seconds then interfered; the Captain de-
clared his readiness to apologise, which was accepted,
and the parties returned to town good friends.