Star.
London, England, 1824-09-10 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The following Was posted at 'Lloyd's yesterday :
" Admiralty Office, Sept. 9, 1824.
" Sir—l am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of the Committee
for managing the affairs of Lloyd's that it appears by a letter which
has been this morning received from Vice-Admiral Sir Lawrence
Basted, dated at Jamaica the 27th cf July last, that the Lion and
Assiduous schooners, with boats from his Majesty's ships Pyramus
and Seraphs, having been sent by the Vic- Admiral, under the orders
of Lieutenant Hobson, of the Lion, to examine the south shore of
Cuba, in search of some pirates who hid captured the British sloop
Honesty, and ill-treated Mr. Duiphy, her supercargo, the results of
this cruise had been the capture of a piratical schooner, the destruc-
tion of two piratical feluccas, and the rescue of the Captain, Mate,
and five seamen of the American schooner Martha Jane, from Boston,
who were confined on board the pirate schooner after their vessel
had been plundered and burnt by her.
" Six pirates were brought to Jamaica, who were fully Identified
by the Americans, and were committed to jail to take their trial at
the Assizes, in Angubt ; and a Spaniard had alio been sent in, who
was identified by Mr. 1)olphy as one of those who ill-treated him
on the south shore of Cuba.—l am, Sir, your vet4y bumble servant,
" To Mr. Bennett, Lloyd's. " JOHN BARROW."

The Shannon, from Campeachy, has been burnt at
Terminos, by pirates, and the crew murdered.
The Neptune, Aasitrrnoso, arrived at Aberdeen, on the Ist inst.
from the Greenland Whale Fishery, with three fish, about 60 tuns
of oil. Left the fishing-ground on the 15th nit. at which time, be
thinks, there might remain eight or tea British vessels. Among
these, the Jane, Bence, of Aberdeen, which, although previously a
clean ship, had, on the 7th ultimo, killed two large fish, supposed
to yield about 40 tune of oil.
Esimouvu, SKIM B.—Wind S.—Arrived the Shannon, Ql/NiGNA,
from Bahia in fifty.eight days.
Pisssount, Sart. B.—Wind a—Arrived the Escape, Cox, from
Faro ; and Wanderer, WAYGOOD, from SL John's New Brunswick.
Off the .port, the Orynthia, HOLTON, for Bombay; a brig, from
Trinidad; and the Vertumnus, Luau, from Zante. Sailed the John
and Mary, for Bourdeaus.

Ina 6e los

Dam., Sin. 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrived and sailed fur the River,
the lady Arabella. Ratings, from Vera Cruz; John, Porvzxwm.s.,
from Jamaica; and Albinia, SHAWN/11TH, from Demerara.
Ltvzsroot., &try. B.—Arrived the Alexander, WEYMOUTH, from
Pernambuco—sailed the 2.5 th July, in company with the Dart, for
this port ; the Mary and Elizabeth, for London, sailed the day be-
fore ; Friends, Porn, from Quebeo—sailed Bth August ; Livonia,
SMITH, from Montreal; David Shaw, HASHISH; from Halifax;
and the Malvina, Rim's, from Malta.

CUSTOM-HOUSE, SEPT. 9.
Snips ENTIRIM INWARDS -•••• The Rucker', from Petersburgh ;
Rover, from Naples; Traveller, from Dem ; Milford. from
Mogadore ; John. from Bilboa ; Marquis Wellesley, from Grenada ;
Vrow Margins, from Rotterdam; •Lovely Cruiser, from Oporto;
Britannia, from St- Kitt's ; Atalanta, from Madeira • Maitland, from
Alexandria; Hero, from Jamaica; Eden, from Quebec; and Her-
cu!e, from Dunkirk.

ENT6IIII3 OUTWARDS The Maria, for Lubeck ; &Ilona, for
Hamburgh ; Percival, for Grenada ; Monmouth, for the Cape of
Good Hope; Waterloo, for Jamaica; New Frederick, for Vilboa ;
'and Rambler, for Malta.

CLo►alNo thrTlVAllne—The Portsea, for Madras; Minerva, for
l‘lalaga ; Britannia, for Stettin; Dorothy, for Elsineur ; Diana, for
'Genoa; and Britannia, for the Coast of Spain.

The sandy road from Hamburgh to Berlin, which
has so muels impeded travellers, is to be substantially
ilepiired at the expense of the King of PRUSSIA and the
Duke of MECKLENBURG.

. Very little corn now remains uncarried in the south
of Devon. Excepting a little that was carried early,
before the fine weather, it is housed in excellent condi-
tion. The quantity and quality of this year's crop was
never exceeded. Turnips and potatoes are as fine crops
as can be remembered. Cider is three guineas per hhd.
The neighbourhood of St. John's Hill, ShrewsbOty,
was thrown into great alarm, a few days ago, by the
'cries of a male and female in the upper story of the
house of Dr. Lawrence. A large concourse of people
assembled, and were horror-struck to see a young man,
in the service of Dr. Lawrence, hanging by his hands
from the leads upon the top part of the house, arid held
by one leg by a nearly naked woman, leaning through
the upper garret window. The terrified woman, in a
few moments afterwards, fainted away, and the young
man being unable to maintain his hold, fell into the'
arms of a pigman. Neither of them sustained any injury.
The young man had been afflicted with delirium.
BURGLARY.—lnformation was yesterday received at
Mary-la-bonne Police-office, of the premises of Mr. Hol-
lied, of Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park having been
broken into the preceding night. Staples was dispatched
to view the premises, from whose report it appears the
thieves forced back the shutter, and so gained an en-
trance into the parlour, from whence they got the iron
cash-box, which they wrenched open, and carried away
its contents, consisting of about £5O in money, toge-
ther with bills of exchange and promissory notes to the
amount of £2OOO, and also'a bond for the same amount,
Oriel' had been given as a collateral security.
At an Inquest held a few days since, before G.
(irritant, Esq. Coroner for the eastern division of the county of
Sussex, on the body of Mr. Steer landlord of the Marquis of
Granby Inn, at Sompting, it appeared in evidence that the deceased
lad taken a party to Brighton the day before, in one of his own
Post-chaises; and that on his return home on that part of the road
between New and Old Shoreham, the felloe of one of the fore
wheels of the abase by some means came off, and the sudden and
-nexpected shock occasioned thereby dislodged the unfortunate
!ran from fhe bar of the chaise (where he sat to drive), and preci-
l''ared him to the ground, when it was conjectured, from the ap-
pearance of the wound in his head, that one of the spokes of the
wheel must have actually gone thronh his head. By the traces of
Cloud upon the ground, it appeared also that he had been dragged
some distance after his fall, it was supposed, from sonic of his
tlotheshanging to the broken wheel. The horses with the chaise
reached the toll-gate at Shoreham-bridge before the accident was
discovered to have taken place. The absence cf the driver imme-
diately caused a search to be made, when, no: far front the gate,
Psi' Stv,er was fciund prostrate on the ground, ar.d his skull frac-
isrtd, and convulsed with the agonies t.,t. death. Coroner's verdict
Accidental Death.
When Peneloa was Almoner to the King, and attestd-
ig Louis XIV. to a sermon preached by a Capuchin,
fell asleep. The Capuchin perceived it, and break-
: g off his discourse, Awake that sleeping
abbe, %side cornea here only to pay his court to the
„.
ling," an anecdote which he often related with pleasure
"!ter he was Bishop of Cambray. At another time the
}Pig was astonished to find, instead of a numerous con-
in his chapel, only Fenelon and the Priest.
Vi hat is the re.4slo of all this?" said the King.—" I
caused it to be given out, Sire," iepliei Fenelon, " that
lout Majesty did not attend chapel to-da-f,• that you
might k;,•,w who came to worth4l Gun, and vkho to
fitter Ki.tg."

•• • i 1 LAND.
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WA TaIIFORD, gEPT.4.—EarlronWednesday moaning.
• two dwelling-houses and a barn, at Ashtown, within two
miles of Kilmacthomas, in this county, were entirely
burned. These houses belonged to two men of the
name of Power, cousins, who, it is strongly supposed,
incurred the displeasure cif some miscreants, by having
lately taken a farm. The Right Honourable Lord
George Beresford and the neighbouring Magistrates
have been active in investigating the matter.
Sunday, between twelve and one o'clock, a most
alarming fire was perceived in the hay-yard of Belmont,
the seat of. Thomas Walker, Esq. by which a great
quantity of hay and corn have been consumed; and
were it not for the prompt assistance and continued
exertions of an immense body of people, assembled
without distinction of sex or rank, Irons all parts of the
neighbouring country, there is no doubt, from the rapid
advance of the flames, that the whole farm-yard would
have been destroyed. We are sorry to say, that in the
dusk of the evening, some men who had been em-
ployed in extinguishing one of the ricks, suffered them-
selves to repose on it, and were immediately discovered
in a senseless state from suffocation; from which every
aid and the promptest medical assistance could not
rescue two of them, named Murphy and Rossiter, on
wham the noxious vapour had unfortunately too fast
a hold. All the others are quite out of danger.—
Wexford Herald.
Saturday, Counsellor M'Mahon appeared at College-
street Office, and lodged a complaint against Eliza
Bobbin, alias Burk, alias Hinds---. 4 that sherdid, in the
most treacherous, horrible, and atrocious manner, as-
sault, knock down, and otherwise ill-treat him; that not
being satisfied with thus destroying him, she proceeded
to souse him in a large tub of dirty suds, to the manifest
danger and injury of his health and spirits: The Coun-
sellor) in confirmation of his statement, produced two
large stones carefully wrapt up in white paper. After
returning thanks for the attention he had received, the
Learned Gentleman retired with the formidable missiles
which had been levelled at him, on understanding that
he was to return for the purpose of proceeding against
his assailant in manner and form as he should, in the
interim, consider expedient.

It is stated, that by the adoption of the proposed ship
canal for the junction of the English and Bristol Channels,
Wales and Ireland would, as it were, be brought nearer to London
by two or 300 miles, and accessible at all seasons ; and the prevail-
ing westerly winds (which often latt eight months in the year) that
now prevent the passage round the Land's-end, would be fair for
a voyage to Loudon by means of this canal.
Yesterday the prisoners who stand 'committed on
charges of felony were removed from the several jails
in the City of London and county of Middleset, to New-
gate, preparatory to taking their trials at Justice Hall,
in the Old Bailey, on Thursday next. The calendar is
very hoary, and the number of street robberies great.
A healthy stout man, who usually threshed in the
barns in Dobbie's Loan, Glasgow, a few days agohired
rhimself to go into the country to reap corn: when
warm, he took a drink of cold water, became ill, and
died on Sunday last. . .
Tuesday the Sitting Magistrate, at the Police Office,
Glasgow, fined aman in one guinea, for annoying a
Gentleman with anonymous letters. -
Monday se'nnight, Mr.Jobn Neilson, farmer, Shedog,
Island of Arran, put into his barn-yard eight acres' tlf
wheat, and on Tuesday, six acres of beans, all in good
condition, and the grain excellent
The following singular circumstance lately oecurted
on the farm of Mr. Richard Patrick, of &MOM in the
county of Hereford :—A hen pheasant drove a partridge'
from her nest, wherein were ten eggs, and took it to
herself; she laid twelve eggs in addition to the par.
tridge's, hatched the whole of them, and the young birds'
of both species, with the old pheasant, have ever since
continued together under her maternal care, as if they
all belonged to one class. The hen partridge, on being
deprived of her nest, made another about ten yards
from-the former one, where she laid twelve fresh egos.
AWFUL EFFECTS fir THE THUNDER STORI.LI.PUCHIg
the storm with which the metropolis wason Wednesday
morning.visited,the vicinity of Vauxhall, and particularly
Glasshouse-street, were thrown into an indescribable
state of alarm and agitation by the falling of a meteor
on the tops of two houses, Nos. 29 and 30, which carried
away a stack of chimneys, a portion of both roofs, and
descended through the house, carrying everything
moveable with it in its courser until i: reached the bed.
room of Mr. and Mrs. Cooke, who were asleep. A
body of flame here presented itself to their astonish.
meat, which burst with a loud report, destroying every
thing in the apartments. Providentially, though troth
houses were inhabited by a great many lodgers, no one
sustained any bodily injury.
THE HOPPERS IN KENT.—Extract of a private letter
from Wateringbury, dated Sept. 7:—" In this neigh-
bourhood, as is usual during the month of September,
we are infested with men, women, and children, of all
sorts and complexions, and almost from all countries,
attracted by the employment offered to them by the
different hop-planters in this neighbourhood. I speak
within compass when I tell you, that there are. many
thousands (composed principally of the low • Irish)
within a circuit of five miles around us. We are actually
afraid to retire to rest, as not a night passes without
serious and alarming squabbles taking place between
them. In the parish of Barming, where .Mr. Ellis's
plantations are principally situated, broken heads,
bloody noses,-and frightful riots are the order of. the
night (when their day's work is over), which does not
cease until the morning sun summonses them to their
work. Yesterday there was a most alarming disturb-
ance in our village between the different hopping fra-
ternities, which originated in a dispute between the two
parties—the "native Irish" and the " native Engl4h,"
as they are designated by themselves. By the evening
they became most desperate; and after committing
various breaches of the peace, they forcibly took posses.
sion of the house of the turnpike-gate keeper, and they
were not expelled without several persons being severely
wounded, and one man, of the name of Startup, had his
eye nearly cut oat with a reaping-hook. Two or three
of the ringleaders were taken into custody with the
greatest difficulty, the rioters rescuing their comrades
as fast as they were secured by the constables. We,
expect to have, all around this neighbourhood, more
than an average crop : all our harvest has been got in
and, thank GoD, we never had a more productive one."
FATAL DUEL AT STRASEURGOR the 9th ult. the
Viscount d'A. Lieutenant in the Ist Regiment of Bench
Dragoons, and nephew of a Minister, fought a duel
with -M. Vora CLowirz, an Officer in the Bavarian
'service. Unfortunately the Viscount was so severely
wounded, that he died the next day. M. Von CLowtrz
-fled ; but both the seconds were apprehended and lodged
in pr4on.