Star.
London, England, 1824-07-16 00:00:00

PROPOSED SCALE, Su.

If all the parties are detained—the whole.
If two or more, not being tie 'Aisle, are detained

—seven-eighths.
If one, being a seafaring man, and eonvieted—thre
If one is detained, with the vessel, or other means

If one person is detained, not a seafaring man,
hvoeightbs.
If a vesseisimp; with its lading, is seized,
meson being • e-third.
If goods fo and concealed, and the smuggler
toradeted In coisa=lowatli and by the citations
I.linals so loft
goods fowl, aid as person sobsequestly -
*MU '

If goods seized, and parties subseipiendy convicted
such seizure, and by the exertion of the Batson—
If goods seized only—one-eighth.
According to Appendix N 0.2, the expenses
in the purchase of premises, and in the erection
ings for a distillery in St. Catherine's
foundation of rats, &c. for the re-distillation
spirits, amounted to 42,8251. 10s.
According to Appendix N 0.9, the estimated
profit derivable by the Public from the re-distillation
seized spirits is 3,9941. In the last year. ending
there were sold 40,609 gallons of redistilled
the expense of re-distillation having been 7
lon ; and 121,044 gallons of geneva, the
of which also cost Is. Id. per gallon.
And, according to Document No.lo, the
incurred by the removal, re-distillation,and
spirits from 1807, and for the purchase
the distillery at St. Catherine's, was 153,3821.
produce arising from the sale of re-distilled
the like period was 234,7011. and, allowing
timated value" of the premises, &c. (92,1'11
the stock on hand (24,8281.), &c. this account
4, total gain to the Revises" to be 181148*

Papers front Tobago .to the 4th of Jt..
received. The provisions of the Act of Parlbitnatt
trade in slaves is made a capital felony, had been *-
proclamation from the Governor. The contents
generally are wholly unimportant.
A Letter from Kettering states, that
to describe the interest that the illiberal of Lord
every town the procession passes through, which
the neater it approaches Bucknell.
A Morning Paper says, " On Tuesday
twelve o'clock at noon, a man, sparing the Spanish .
found at Bayswater, suspended by a cord from a ft
observed, and soon cut down, and his life preserved.
at all extraordinary, if, wish hanging, be could
or any other language.
A letter received yesterday morning from
states that the troops that were at Hinckley, Su. are
ire stocking weavers have returned to their work.
REMARKABLE COINCIDENCIL—Mhree
name of Rtucaorr, all of Box, Wilts, were
viz. T 1103145, on Thursday, at Monekton-Combe,
waggon going over him ; HOUR; on Saturday, 1
building at Twerton ; and Joins, also on Saturday,
the battlement of Mr. Lord's house at Farley I a
der broke just as be had gained the top. They have
and families.
A Gentleman, boat-shooting last week
Stour, about two miles from Harwich, shot
heron, which had fastened on its leg a piece
with the following insciiption: " Major
Didlington, Norfolk, 1823, N 0.50." After '
wounded, he escaped in the mud, where 1.
himself with much vigour, against a famous
that was sent after him, upwards of 1'
quently plunging the dog's head into the
at length succeeded in getting the neck
and thus vanquished his powerful and fierce
A heron, bearing the above inscription, •
stand, shot some time since in Germany.
A poor man, at Udine, the capital of
under the frightful tortures of the hydro/
cured with some draughts of vinegar,
mistake instead of another potion. Aph
dua, called Count Leonissa, got intelli
event at Udine, and tried the same :erne(
tient that was brought to the Paduan 111
nistering him a pound of vinegar in the
ther at noon, and a third at sunset; and
speedily and perfectly cured.
The Act of Parliament passed last Session,
ing untried prisOners from being punished b-
at the tread-mill, has occasioned a very
form in those jails where the practice prevailed.
necessity of such an Act reflects no great
who inflicted punishment upon persons
were tried.