Star.
London, England, 1815-12-25 00:00:00

ANNUAL LECTURE AND CONCERT.

By desire, and under the immediate patronage of the
Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR, in the magnificent
Assembly Room, City of London Tavern, Bishops-
gate street, on Thursday, January 11, 18(6, will be
delivered a LECTURE on Asramomv, in which all the
Stars will be shewn, so that they may be afterwards
known in the Heavens, by BUNNELL GEORGE TIIORN•
Ton. Esq. Lecturer on Astronotiy. Aftetwhich, a
most SELECT CONCERT. under the direction Of Messrs.
GUNN, CHAPMAN, and Moss, in which several Ladies
and Gentlemen of the very first-rate ability and pro.
fessional characters have promised to perform, during
which several Natignal Songs will he introduced. A
Military Band.,Admission to both Lecture and Con-
cert, Six Stallings a Ticket. The doors open at Six,
and the Lecture begins at Seven precisely. N.B.
This rand Room, the finest in the world, will be
well aired, and is calculated to contain with ease one
thouiand persons; and should there be any room,
half-price will be received at nine o'clock.
Tickets may be had, And places secured, at the
City of London Tavern. Already three hundred'
Tickets have been disposed ot.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, DECEMBER 25.
The Hon. and Very Rev. Dr. Legge, (brother of the Earl of
Dartmouth), Dean of Windsor, is appointed Lishop of Oxford.;
and Dr. Hobart, brother to the Earl of Buekinghanuhire, is to
suecerd •rp the Dettnry of Windsor.
'l'll, I', v. Dr. Pett, Principal of St. Mary HaU, it elected Canon
Of Christ Church.
The Rtv. Mr. Deane, of Brasennoae College; Is elected.Ptim
cipal of St Mary Hall.
Tuesday, Mt. James Vincent Jones, of Jesus College, was
electetl Fedow of tint, Society ; and on the saute day Mr. A. B.
Liam It was tieLted ;-citolar or the same Ilocitty.
Yesterday Mr. James Wotslcy was admitted Fellow of New
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Colh ge.
tionday, the last day of Michaelmas Term, the following Gen-
Com n w. re admitted to degrees.
DOC' of in o+o Law.-10h11 Shaw, Esq. Barrister at Law, of
ac society of the Tenmk, B.C.L. of Hertford College, and now
of St. al'han's lia 1.
'Mager of Arta—Rev. L.lart Robtrt Edwards, of Pembroke
Col:ete.
BacLeLrrs of Arts—Samuel Wildman Yates. of Balliol
; '1 tomb 11111, of Christ Church; aril Mr. William
Prowse, of Ft
'1 he numb; r of Degtees in this Term was—One D D.—One
D.C.l,.—Tbree 11.1).—One B.C.l.—Twetity uee
live B.A.—Matticuldziz.as
ECCI.Lsi ICA I. PM^ kinTICINS.
Rev. Robert Clayey C riMth, R. A. Sr 11.11 a r of Wailham Col-
lege, has be.. ti resented to the Kt c! nr y of Cu rpley, Wilth, vacanr
by the rt.'s/gnat:on of the Biphop of Hereford.
The Bothop ct Wircheater has been pleased to grant unto the
Hon and Rev. RichArd Carleton, Clerk, P.A. his Lordship's
licence to ;•, Kum the office of s pcifliary curate in the
dwell tit MrollVt.ke; and to G..P. Lowther, Clerk. B.A. the
like audit:ray to act at in'Tcriliary mate in The rat ish churches
of Mott iston and Shot ell. in 'lv Iple of \V tg..t.
The Governors tit 11.1.ctne, ► sere;ordshire, have unanimotilly
appointed the ••v. John 1 hornas, M.A. Head Mast.r of tilt
bald t,ehool, to the vic.rage of OUeton, in that cote:ty..
Rev. R. H. Vr tatcluck, to the perpetual col :icy of Clurl:tin
Leicestershire.
Rev. I'. Egerton, to the valuable rectory of *l'arporley, Cheshire.

We are ;nforrned by an Acting Member of the
Noawicir UNIoN GENERAL AhsOCIATION FOlt FtBE
ISA:RANCE, that the institution pays this year no less
than £29,260 duty to Government, bring an increase
on the amount paid last year of 413,877 ! The As.
sc,ciation; we naderstand, now ranks above thirty of
the thirty-five Offices established in this kingdom ;
sufficient proof that the merits of the Union piati
begin to be properly appreciated by the public. It
is indeed to be wished that th:.l system was better un-
derstood, as its general adoption would cause a ma-
terial saving to the community. Nearly Thirty
Thousand Pounds has been paid back to the insured
in. Dividends upon the Pr/minim they deposited, and
the amount of these returns is annually increasing.'
establistfinent of Committees in the principal
Towns has materially contributed to the progress of
the Institution, from the satisfaction which the In-
surers have felt at having all claims on the Associa-
tion settled by their respectable neighbours.
Those who have lived rather gay, and are about
entering into conjugal felicity, are informed that Dr.
COOPER, and three Surgeons, of SO years experience
in Strictures, Fistulas, Debilities, Ike. atc. have estab-
lished a Medical Board at Charlotte-house, Great
Charlotte-greet, opposite the Rev. ROWLAND HILL%
Chapel, Blackfriar's-road, by whom the public are
cured without salivation or confinement. The
Board claims the attention of those who have attempt-
ed the cute, or who have consulted men ignorant of
so important a branch of the profession, whose im-
proper treatment has ruined thousands. Eruptions
on the head, face, and body, sore eyes, throat, mouth,
and nose, vertigo, noise in theears, deafness, dimness
of sight, pains in the head and limbs, frequently mis.
taken for rheumatism ; weakness in the knees, swelled
ankles, &c. are symptoms which appear years after,
and top ot ten embitter the matrimonial state. Messrs.
Cooeta and Co. are consulted daily by all ranks of '
people, every morning until nine o'clock, and from
twelve till eight precisely ; or by letter, inclosing
a fee (for no others are answered), stating their
case, when medicine and the best advice is sent
to all parts
.of the kingdom. They also cure the
piles and fistula, without burning or cutting; and
give advice gratis, on Tuesday, 1 hursday, and Sun-
day mornings, till twelve o'clock. A side door and
private rosins for females.

AFFAIRS A 7 NISMES.

" Amaral, and authentic Ddails relative to the Aatiri,
Ninner Let em the Catholic: and Prahreants." Given
from Authority.
The situation of the Department of the Gard is so
,eculiar that it has long been impossible to govern it
according to the same eenrral principles which might
be applicable to the rest of Franc.,
At the commencement of the Revolution two dis-
t nct parties, decidedly opposite v, each other, were
i'iamed in the Gard. Almost all the Protestants, and
small minority of. the Catholics, adopted the inno-
vations ; whilst a great majority of the Catholics,
ind a very small number of Protestants, remained at-
tached to the King and the laws of their ancestors.
In this position the Royalists,. forming a majority
of two to one, opposed by the inert force of opinion,
the progioss of revolutionary ideas to that country.
flu !nadirs of the opposite party resorted to what
11.:s silt.~ been called a Coup d'Etat. On the 2d of
May, 1790, ten thousand armed peasants, from the
most remote points of the Vannage, the Gardonesque„
and the Cevennes, (districts peopled almost entirely
by Protestants) were simultaneously united with the
revolutionists of Nismes ; fifteen hundred Catholics
were massacred, the churches were profaned ;—the
priests were assassinated at the altars ; the town was
exposed to pillage for three days, and the country for
two months.

The National Assembly covered these enormities
with the veil of patriotism, and they were soon loit.
amidst the multitude of crimes by which they were
followed. The revolutionists of the Gard viewed
with satisfaction the completion of the regicide ; be-
cause they thereby anticipated the speedy accom-
plishment of their favourite project, the establishment
of federate Republics*. But the fury of Robespierre
struck indiscriminately the enemies of the unity of
the Republic, and the partizans of Royalty.
The iron hand of Bonaparte repressed all ; Catho-
lic and Protestant, equally subdued, were at first uni-
ted by the common hatred of the Tyrant ; but this
sentiment soon yielded among the Protestants to their
invincible aversion to the House of Bourbon. On the
tint rumour of the presumed return of that august fa-
mily. they suddenly became the zealous partizans of
,the Usurper, and were profuse in the efforts and sa-
crifices they made for his cause. Though apparently
submitting to the restoration, they could not disguise
their discontent at that event. They considered the
sincere and unaffected . expression of joy hit the part
of the Royalists as an insult ; and the local Magi-
stracy being in their hands, they employed their au-
thority to discourage demonstrations of attachment
to the King. Several quarrels took place, but the
injured Royalists never could obtain justice to
• The inhabitants of the Gard became then divided
as in 1789. Almost all the Catholics were for the
King, and nearly all the Protestants were of the op-
posite party. Thus the line of separation between
political opinions was also traced by the difference of
religi.m.
About the end of the year 1811 the Bnnapartists
loudly announced the approaching return of the
Tyrant, and their Chiefs corresponded directly with
the Isle of Elba. The Duke of Angouleine on his
arrival at Nismes, in the beginning of the year 181.5,
made an appeal to the faithful subjects of the King,
and within twenty-four hours six thousand men pre-
sented themselves. TIL! Prince selected two thou-
sand, among whom were included 17 Protestants.—
,This corps accompanied the Prince into Dauphiny,
and its courage WM' C 911.11 to its fidelity.
But the opposite party, become stronger in conse-
quence of the absence at these brave mot, promoted
the revolt at Ntsmes ; on the 3d of April twelve hun.
dred peasants from the Protestant vailies were
armed,' and followed the traitor General Gi!ly, who,
with the troops of the line and the half pay officers,
occupied the Pont St. Esprit, where the Prince had
left only a depot of '2OO men.
The Doke of Angoillesne could, without incurring
any risk, lotve made his individual retreat through
t. e mountains ; but his magnanimity made him wish
to becur;!. %bat of the brave men who had followed
him. On the 9'h of Apiil he signed the Convention
of ha Palod. All the wadi kn ws how shamefully
that Treitty was violated, but many are ignorant of
the barbarity with which the Royal Volunteers of
:he Gard were treated by their fellow-citizens.
Tiiey weres attacked in all the Protestant Communes
through which they passed unarmed. In their re.
treat they were all stripped, maltreated, and several
of them were without mercy massacred.
Those who were inhabitants of Nismes found on
their return the entrances to the town occupied by
Urban Guard. They had to endure the most inhu.
man treatment. Their wives and daughters were in-
sulted, their houses pillaged, their vines destroyed,
and all their property ravaged ; personally pursued
in the neighbouring Communes, where their compa-
nions in arms experienced the same fate, they were
at last compelled to take refuge in the woods and the
mashes.

The number that perished in this persecution, the
duration of which was equal to the reign of the usur-
per, is unknown; but 0..6 is Certain, that four hun-
dred of the Duke of A ngouleme's corps are missing,
and that not one hundred were killed in the plains
of the Drome and the Isere. The greater part of
the remainder Mit therefore have (Allen in this per-
secution.

The whole of these atrocities were committed by
the Bonapartists, who were ahnost all Protestants
On the Ist of July the Royalists took possession of
Aiguemorte and Beaucaire ; the Royal standard was
hoisted, and all the Royal volunteers who could find
an opportunity, soon assembled at Beaucairei to the
number of 3000 men. The command was given to
a Protestant Royal General, a circumstance which
leaves no doubt as to the spirit which then guided the
Royalist Chiefs. The Royal corps of Beaucaire, al.
most destitute of arms and ammunition, successfully
repelled the combined attacks of Generals Gilly and
Casson, and prevented their junction.
The Chiefs, wishing to avoid the disorders which
were to be apprehended from the occupation of
Nisrnes by force, proposed to the Magistrates that
they should bring back the town to its allegiance,
dismiss the Urban Guard, which had acted with so

• See the Acts of the General Synod of the Reformed Churches
of France in 1718, in which a Om is laid down for the division
of krauce into dl fledend Republics.
More than 2eo complaints submitted to the Tribunals have
Itad no result is consequence of the culpable connivance of the
Public Administration.