Star.
London, England, 1824-12-13 00:00:00

SHOCK OF •4N EAgniQUAKE.

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PUR7II ER PARTICULARS.
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Last Mondayi'a few minutes before two o'clock in
the afternoon, a shock of an earthquake was very gene.
rally felt at Portsmouth and its neighbourhood, also at
Havant, Emsworth, and Chichester. The shock, al-
though it was not accompanied by any report, put both
light and heavy furniture in a tremor for about four
seconds of time. The floors seemed to heave up a little,
the windows• in consequence shook as they do by means
of heavy gusts of wind; and suspended articles, as bird-
cages, &c. oscillated some seconds after the shock had
subsided. Them was no unusual appearance in the
state of the sky, or about the sun at the time; but dur-
ing the mottling, the sky had been filling with light
clouds, and soon after the sht.ck, a stratum of low elec-
tric clouds sprang up with the wind from the S.W. and
the upper stratum changed from a grey to red and lake
colours, some time before the sun had set. If the shock
was not caused by the fall of a meteorite upon the
earth, it probably was the effect of the earth sinking;
somewhere in the southern part of England, in conse-,
quence of the great quantity of rain that has fallen
during the last three months. It is now about twelve
years since the last shock was felt here, which occurred
in the night, and was more violent than this one. A
smark shock of an earthquake, accompanied by a loud
report, was also felt at Cantle, in Perthshire, on the
Bth of last August. •
Carotenes, Dze. 8.
The earthquake here on Monday was very alarming.
Many families ran out of their houses in great trepida-
tion; several people felt the chairs move under them.
The bells rung is many houses, and glasses jingled. In
the mat ket-lr:use, apples were seen rolling off the stills.
At Aldwick ind Bognor, it was also very sensibly felt,
as likewise in the parts adjacent.

NOTHER ACCOUNT.
Monday afternoon, about two o'clock, the shock of
an earthquake was very sensibly felt in the city of Chi-
chester, which alarmed a considerable portion of its in-
habitants, many of whom ran into the streets, in the
greatest consternation, under the impression that their
dwellings were actually falling. In several houses the
bells were set a rinsing, and the window-blinds un-
rolled ;* and one individual states, that he was sitting in
a small roam, and distinctly saw the walls move from
south to north, out of their 1 erpendicular, and as in-
,stantaneously resume their position. The shock lasted
from three to five seconds. We have not heard that it
was felt further in this direction than the vicinity of
Arundel. Allanr persons imagine that there has been an
earthquake in some place abroad, as in the year 1812, a
shock, but much slighter, was experiencedin Chichester,
which at the time proved so destructive to property in
the city of Caraccas (West Indies).—Hampshire Teleg.

The Middlesex Magistrates have at length consented
to permit a road to be made through the cbunty ground,
at the back of the House of Correction, connecting
Guilford-street with the new thoroughfare from the
north-west part of the town to the City.
An Inquest was held on Thursday, at Swell, near
Langport, on the body of Martha Meade, aged three
years, who was shot by 2 boy in the same house. It was
proved that lad, aged 12, had been entrusted with a
gun belonging to the occupant of the house, aqd had
brought iti home loaded the same day. Islo persuasion
would induce the lad to say how it happened. The
Jury returned a verdict of—" Chance Medley, and
that Josiah Pestor.was the cause of the death."

Monday last, as a youog_man named Cornben, son of
Mr. B.Cornben,ol the parish of Snuthwell; in the island
of Portland, in company with two other young men,
was traversing the beach, opposite the two light-houses,
all of a sudden the cliff above gave way, and he was
buried amid many hundred tons of stone and earth.
CHAS! ExTrtaortortearty.---The Constable of Swin-
don was on Friday last entrusted with the custody of a
man, for the purpose of conducting him to the Peni-
tentiary, near Devizes, for bastardy. The fellow c-oma
very peaceably till within a few hundred yards of the
prison, when its terrific appearance at once startled
him ; he looked at the prison—then at the Constable,
and stood fora moment as if he had been petrified.—
"It is but for a bastard at last," he said; and, darting
from the Constable with the rapidity of a greyhound,
he leapt the hedge on the road-side, bounded across
the various fields and over the hedges, until he came
into Rowde-lane; here he was met by three or four
labourers; who were about to stop him; but, " it is but
fir a bastard," he again said, and they very good na-
turedly suffered him to pass. Up to this place he was
pursued by the Constable, with a voice that might be
beard at Swindon, hallooing " Tall) ho—a prisoner !—a
prisoner!—tallyho, a prisoner r Unfortunately, how-'
ever, the Constable was a bad huntsman; he had not
been used to leaping the hedges, at each of which he
met with a complete summerset." The prisoner, in con-
sequence, gained considerable ground, so that it was
found fruitlesss any longer to continue the chase. The
man for bastardy again took to the fields, and has not,
we understand, been since heard of.
MADAME ITURBID/L—(Ezu act of a private letter to
a Gentleman of Philadelphia, 'dated Barratatia, Oct. 8,
1824): " Madame Iturbide, the ex-Empress of Mesico.
has been domesticated with us for the last ten days.
She landed on the Island from the schooner United
States, in twenty days from Soto de la Marina, fiom
which place she was compelled to make a precipitate
retreat, after the execution of her husband, the News-
paper accounts of which are substantially correct..r-
Though in an advanced state of pregnancy, she sustains
herself with much firmness under her misfortunes, and
must have had considerable pretensions to beauty when
young. She has eight children, six in Lyndon, and two
the youngest) with her. Her attendants are, a priest, a
nurse, a French chambermaid, a Spanish cook, and an
Italian valet. She manifests a strong desire to make herself.
agreeable; but her utter ignorance of every ether, save
the Spanish language, compels us, in a great measure,
to take the will for the deed,. She is so little in the habit
of administering to her own wants, that if a fly or mos-
quito rest on her hand, she will call a servant to dis-
lodge it.; and a cigar appears to rank with her among-
'the necessaries of life. I said she was domesticated vitt:
or : I should rather have stated, that she was the guest
of, Mrs. Peterson, Commodore Patterson's Lady, who
is here to avoid the prevailing fever of the city. She
goes to New Orleans by way of the lakes, the first wind
I that serves : from whence she is destined to Baltimore
and New York, which she will reach by ascending the
Mississippi, and croisinilthe mountains. After her a,o-
couchement she goes too :Won, when a yearly pension
of 8000 dollars, allowed her by the Mexican Govern-
ment, is to be paid; but mines Italy as her ultimate.
destination."

POLICE INTELLIOENCE.

M A N SION- H OUSE.

By an. old Act of Parliament, provision ships of limited Wed",
are permitted to discharge their cargoes at Billingsgate Dock, oyez:
which the oyster boats, that arrive in great numbers at this period 0;
the yeas, have been in the habit of exercising as much authority as if
they were the prtiprietors of it. About a week ago, a veutt
laden with salt, which it is said comes under the head
arrived in the river, and approached the Dock tor the purpo,e of
charging her cargo. The Monopolising oystermen intmc rider
entered into a combination to prevent the introduction, and die„,,
their boats across the Dock, being determined to resist, pi ct ::rt.:
all attempts upon the part of the salt vessel tt- advane.•. In
extremity, the crew of the latter applied to the Clerk of the Market,
who informed •e Lord Maymr, that his interference was ne.cessa•r,
The Loan Maeoa sent Mr. Brown, the Marshal, and some oi.
leers, to bring the obstinate oystermen to reason. The Cietk
the Market, tioding _decisive course necessary, took
cut the hawser of the boat nearest the sh4e, in order to optu
sage for the ship. This operated as a signal to she oystei
shewed an obstinate resolution to resist all the eltOrtA of
One of them seized a hatchet, swore he would cut down ally ala;
who attempted to move a boat out of its station, and htg.iii to cte.
the hawser of the salt-ship. John Forrester and Ile kerb. the
officers, .leaped into the boat+, for the purpose of seizing the mast
violent of the aggressors. They succeeded in their uhi:ct, at 4
brought away one of them to the Mansion-House, but nut uuti!
they got the salt-ship into the dock. Multitudes of fellows having
got mind the officers, things had rather an alarming appearuucc.
No further violence, however, was attempted, and on the man ex-
pressing contrition when brought before the Loan Marcia, his
Lordship discharged him.