Star.
London, England, 1822-07-27 00:00:00

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Madrid. The .eourier who toot • the news to St.
Petersburgh could not arrive there before the 20th
or 21it. The couriers who shell bring back to Vienna,
London, and Paris, the decisions of the Emperor,
cannot arrive in time three capitals before the Ist,
s:h, and the 6th August. Now it is difficult to
believe the Corn will instantly agree as to the
r,irtant question, whether the affairs of Spain ought
to form part of the objects of deliberation of this
Congres, already so numerous and grave.lostrnal
des Debata.

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! was obliged b cut its cables: a severe cannonade be-
I gen: the fire ships were brought into the middle of
the 'Turkish fleet, and approached the Turkish Ad-
miral's-ship to set it on fire, but the wind being'un-
favourable the Capitan Pacha had time to fly. After
the action had continued four hours, the Tut kith fleet,
though above six times superior to the Greeks in num-
ber, as well as size of the vessels, disgracefully fled.
The Admiral highly commends the valour of his
Officers and men, especially Captain Anastasio, of
the Alexander brig, who fought with two Turkish
frigates, which he put to flight. Several French and
German Officers, on board the Greek fleet, distin-
guished themselves. Though the attempt .to burn
the Turkish fleet at anchor failed, yet this victorious
combat of ten small Greek vessels with the whole
T Akish fleet, consisting of six ships of the line, of
the A . size, ten frigates, and above thirty cor-
vettes and brigs, will be ever memorable.
We have accounts from Athens that the Turks in
the citadel can hardly hold out a fortnight. If ae
bad but some battalions of Germans and French here,
our beautifulGl.eece would won be free, and it would
gratefully assign to its deliverers permanent abodes
in its fairest villages. ~, I have been ordered hither,"
says the writer, " with several artillerists, to super.
intend-the erection of batteries to protect the harbour.
We hope that German hearts' will not become cold
to the cause of Greece ; and we impatiently long for
the arrival of souse of out German countrymen. He
whose heart is animated by generous feelings, and
who does not go to Greece with merely interested
views, is received here with open arms."
Vrarnea, JULY 12.--Iletsllique3,74--Bank Shares. 771 9-10.
JULY 13.—Metalliques, 79 5-16—Bank Shares, 772 k.

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DISTRESS IN IRELAND.

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LEAMINGTON SPA, JULY 26.
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We hada most dreadful storm of thunder and light-
ning here yesteiday afternoon, accompanied by tre-
mendous showers of rain. X fire-ball passed down
the chimney of Mrs.-HARTWELL, at Cotton End, War-
, wick, and explodedin the kitchen, where Mrs. HART-
WELL and her niece sac, and the servant girl was in
the act of taking a smouthing-iron from the fire. Mrs.
HARTWELL was knocked senseless off her chair, and
her niece (Miss Paoh) escaped with only a slight b!isa
ter on the knuckle; but the servant maid was burnt
in a most dreadful manner down her arms, and also
about the face ; she is, however, recovering.
Our Spa begins to fill apace ; and their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of GLOUCESTER
have taken Wellington House for a month certain,
from the Ist of August; her Royal Highness the
Princess AUGUSTA is expected-to accompany them.
We are all in a bustle, preparing for the Royal Visitors.
The improvements here go on very rapidly ; and
it is expected that it will Ise a very full season.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
DENMARK lately honoured the Spa st ith a visit—and
happily found great benefit from the mineral waters.

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FROM TH2 DUBLIN JOURNAL OF WEDNESDAY.

Our private communications, received this morn-

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ing, contain very alarming statements regarding the
extent and intensity of the prevailing distress in the
South and West.

From Kanturk (20th July) we learn, that the
claimants for relief are most frightfully increasing.
There are from four t• .5000 persons in actual distress.
The crop in this district,• will be at least three weeks

later than at Carberry and the lands along the coast.
In the parish of Tullalease the distress is equally
severe, 300 persons depend upon daily employment
for daily subsistence, and there Are not three pounds
in hand to meet the emergency. Distress rages
more violently in the mountainous parts than in the
more cultivated lands. In the neighbourhood of
Newmarket there are 7000 people depending on sup-
plies from the Mansion-House, and in the parish of
Kilman there are 6000 who have scarcely received
any aid although in the utmost wretchedness.
At Freemount, the situation of the peonle is dread-
ful. It is impossible, says our correspondent, to give
a just idea of it—the:funds of the Baronial Committee
are exhausted. The distress has encreased within
these last ten days. There is a small encampment in
that quarter, and groups of famishing creatures be-
siege the tents crying fur bread. •
Such is the melancholy nature of our information,
and we ,have authentic documents to establish its
truth.

In the Sligo- Journal it is stated, that to some of
the poor people from their immediate want have
been obliged to have recourse for food to the crop
of potatoes lately planted, aad which has not yet had
time to yield the produce.—One poor man was found
by one of the Roman Catholic Clergymen of this
town, in the act of finishing the digging of nine-
yards of the potatoe-ridge in his garden, to obtain a
single meal for his starving family—and our Chief
Magistrate has discovered persons, in day light, in
this neighbourhood plundering the potatoe fields.
The calamity that must ensue from thus anticipating
future subsistence, should, if possible, be averted.
Orders have been given to dismiss four hundred
labourers to-day—but we trust the Committee will be
able to reinstate them again, as the situation of those
wretched people, and their families, without work or
means of support, must be indeed miserable—the
number of labourers last week amounted to 11501

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TIM ARMI'.
Friday se'nolght, upwards of 400 men betook's', to the Hnn•
Eist-India Company's• Artillery and Infantry, marched from
the depot at Chatham, for Gravesend, to embat k for India.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
DEAL, JULY ft—Wind S.W.—The Thames Indianian, So:
vereign, and Saucy Jack, Southsearnea, and several other out-
ward-bound vessels, got under way this morning, with a light
breeze from W. by N. It soon backed into the W. by S. and
the Thames and several more bore up again, it blowing fresh,
and every appearance of thick weather. Arrived and sailed for
the River, the Mary,. Htmuctre, from Quebec. his MA sty's
ship Pnatrex, from Portsmouth. Came down trom the Rives,
the John, Triomf, for ilavannah; Cornet, M`Pristison, for AL.-
deka ; Countess of l larcourt, Brown, for Van Diemen's Land ;
Creole, COTESWORTII, for Pernambisco.—Flalf-past Six: The
Royal Sovereign. Saucy Jack, &c. still keep the sea.
Cusnow-House, JULY 26.—Ships Ehtered [smear.!': William
Bryan, from Jamaica; Fame, front Petersburgh ; Prince of
Orange, and Mercurius, front Rotterdam ; Prospect, Latona,
Arethusa, Eagle, Cornwall, and Freedom, from Quebec; Ca-
nada, from St. John's; Lord Melville, front Calais ; • Prince of
Waterloo, from Ancona; Amelia, front Cadiz;. Elizabeth, from
the South Seas; and Sam, from Sligo.—Entered Outwards:
isabcila for Charleston; Neptune and Lark, for Ostend;
Sprightly, for Rotterdam; Esperance, for Ghent; Wheaten,
for Gibraltar.—Cleared Outwards: Jenne Isabelle, for Ostend;
Argonaut, fur Petersiourgh ; bird Melville, for Calais; Albi-
Ma, fur Demerara ; Gude liofitiung, for Stettin ; Sarah Marga-
ret, fur Bilboa.