Star.
London, England, 1802-09-25 00:00:00

fu Yarmouth Room,
Hamburgh.
At Hull—At-bane, Wall, from Zant.
At Dablin—Prham Edward, M'Cabe, frorrt_Barbadoes.

Packetl, booth. from

At Harre--Peter, Thomas, from New York,
At Bourdeaur—Lovely Peggy, Harris. from Dalin; and
Induftry, Bowden, from New York.
At Vile—Betfey, Wheelwright. from Sr. Thanes's; Reffe-
Dr..k.e, from Mogadore; Commerce, ameba ; and
Vigilant, Majors, from New York.
At Bareelona—Chatty, Sager; and Nosey, Welker, from
%ace. •
At jamaies..—Molly, Weftcoat, from Exeter.
At Botany Bay—Venue, Whop, from the Cape of Good
HoPe•

The Therefe, LILA?, from (ette, is loft on the
Saints.

The Mary, Git.c ma :yr, from New York to Lon-
don, having loft two of her malls in bad weither,
has put into Nova Scotia to refit.
The Earl St. Vincent, Bcv, from Mena to
London, is put into Lifbon, leaky, and will be
obliged to unload a great part of her cargo.
The following extra& of a letter has been hand-
ed to us for irifertion ; and, from the important
difeovery which it contains, we doubt not will be
found, upon perufal, to intereft all feafaring men,
and thofe of a philoiliphical turn of mind:
" Oisikovr, Augaft a
as ,
the fol doe.
"An affair of fo much coefecksesi to mankind .
imstag, it were crinkles* is me to am*,l 1 therefore rtqacft
of you to make it as, public as poffells mesas your fea-faring
and philorophind friends.

" Our mutual Mend, before his departure left lid! for Phila-
delphia, eonitrudted a machine, awmtly Ample, but which
is iniinitay more valuable to navigation tan the enroll. It
was brought to me, together with his logrbook., by a fellow paf.
Center homewards, who I;Am:hill' bad paid no attention to the
ufe of the apparatus, which eras the more unfortunate, as our,
friend died within three leagues of land.
It is a magnetic boll, Boating in a bafon of quiekehrer. The
ban is painted all over, to keep the quickfilver from penetrating
the pores, which might anbarrafs the evolutions, which costing,'
I dare not deftroy to maniac the materials of the ball; but,
from its weight it muft be metallic, yet it SOUS high in the
• Sirset be took it from this place, I perceive he has mark-
ed it with Hoes of longitude and latitude, like a geographical
•fpaleve. This, I prefume, he has done on his voyage out.
ward, the Journal of which, it is likely, is left in Americar-dhlt-
this wideh I ponds begins with the ezaa point of latitude
and longitude of Philadelphia., and records the zenith of every
day, as accurately as if be had been on Terra Firma. In bed,
he told the Captain his diftame from the waft of Ireland to a
minute, by looking at his machine.
" The properties of magnetifm are not yet funiciently known,
and they have, heretofore, been applied to ufe only in the form
of the needle. But it appears to ponds, halides its well-known
malady, a.propenfity to retain its native relative patioh on the
earth ; that is to fay, it turns upon an azis, like the earth, one
point always pointing at the pole-ftar. Beyond the line, this'
point upon thi ball is below the horizon ; and on the (bores of
America, thelingitudipal line,-which now is its meridian, was
tar down the fide : So that; if he had failed round the earth, his
little ball would have Medea completkrevoludon upon its Asia."

In the courfe of laft night an alarMing fire'
broke out at Mr. Sismiv's, Attolttey, Norfolk.
Rivet, Strand. Help being forinn4tely :loon• ob-
tained, it was got under in a (lion time, but-. not
till the upper part of the houfe, where it fire com-
menced, was deftroyed.
As Colonel and Mrs. MIRCIIIR were returning to
town on Wednefday afternoon, in their curricle, a
gentleman's carriage in Sloane•ftreet ran againft
them with fuch violence as to lath the curricle

almoft to pieces. Mrs. M. was thrown out, and
'lay for fome time fpeechlefs. Colonel M. was •ery
much bruifed. •

The bureau of the Archduke Joint was broke
open on the ad infant, while that Prince was at
dinner, and bank bills to the amount of 2000 flo-
; rins were (Wien but the infignia of the Golden
, Fleece, fet round with diamonds, which Duke
Ar.stax, 'of Saxe Tefchen, made him a prefent
of, and other valuable jewels, which it alfo con-
tained, were not touched. _ _

On Saturday were executed at Lancafter, Elias
Gibfon, for forging a will, and N. Sherlock, for
highway robbery. They acknowledged the juf-
%ice ittheir fentences, forgave their profecutors,
ald hoped their untimely end would prove a
walang to all young perfons to be content with
the rewards of induftry ; to be thankful for the
fituatiOtt it has pleafed PROVIDINCI to lace them
is, and not to give way to a • and ram-
.