Star.
London, England, 1822-05-21 00:00:00

BERLIN, MAY 9.

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On the 25th April, the diligence from Erfurth to
Berlin was attacked, about half a league from Er-
furth,_ by four armed men; who robbed it of 2,100
dollars. The guide, who was alone in the diligence,
defended hintself bravely, wounded two of the rob-
bers, and was himself slightly wounded, as well as
the postillion. Thanks to the activity of the Local
Authorities, the criminals were discovered three days
afterwards, and great part of the property recovered.
Accounts have been received from Gergenti, in
Sicily, that Michael Angelo Alessi, the murderer of
the much-lamentW Prussian Naturalist, Monsieur
Schweigger, has been condemned to death.---
M. Schweigger, it seems, imprudently made his
botanical excursions with no attendant but this postil-
lion, often gave him his collections to carry, and
used to say to the inhabitants, 4, that they possessed
treasures which they did not know." Hence he was
taken by some for a conjuror, by others for an adven-
turer, who sought for lucky numbers in the lottery.
Schweigger sometimes received money on letters of
credit from the Governors of the Provinces. The
postillion once thinking he had just received some
money, resolved to murder him, which he did on the
28th June, by striking him on the head with a cudgel
as he was stooping to drink out of a spring.

His Mnierry's visit to the. Continent is at present
suspended, in consequence of the arrival of the Prince
and Princess of DRNIIARE, who were not expected in
England so soon. Within these few clayf orders have
been sent down to Brighton, to complete the pro-
jected alterations and improvements in the Palace,
with all Convenient speed. It is said to be the inten-
tion of his MAJESTY to go down for a day or two, in
the course of a fortnight, for the purpose, it is said,
of arranging a series of entertainments upon a mag-
nificent scale, in honour of the visit of their Royal
Highnesses the Prince and Princess of DENMARK ;
and a very extensive circle of great and noble persons,
in the immediate confidence of the Kino, are to be
invited. It is likewise intended these distinguished
Foreigners shall enjoy the splendid, but more se-
cluded hospitality of the Cottage in Windsor Park,
during Ascot Race week, and that their domicile
shall be in Ctimberland Lodge.
The report of an intended Royal Marriage is re-,
vived. Letters from Portsmouth inform us, that the
Owan GLENDOWER frigate, commanded by the Hon.
Captain SPENCER, has sailed for Copenhagen, on an
especial mission. Surely there is de more meant than
meets the ear" in these prniceedings.
Prince CHRISTIAN of DKNDIARICI who is now in
London,. is about thirty-six years of age, and has a
son by a former consort; he has no issue by his pre-
sent PRINCESS who accompanies him, and whom he
married about eight years ago.
Yesterday the Duke of Tonic transacted military
business with the KINo.

New Brunswick Papers arrived this morning to
the 10th of April, and Halifax to the 21st. The fol-
lowing are extracts:
MESSAGE FROM THE COUNCIL, MARCH 16.

Mr. Seeman—Ordered, that Mr. Black inform the House of
Assembly that the Council have agreed to the Petition to his
Majesty and the two Houses of Parliament, prepared by the
joint Committee of the Council and Assembly, on the subject of
opening the ports of the West Indies to foreign vessels.
The House resolved Rself into a Committee of the whole
House on a Dill to provide for and maintain warmed cutter,
for the protection of the revenue cf the province.
HALIFAX, APRIL IS.

Saturday evening, the Princess AUGUSTA honoured
the Italian Opera with her presence. Yesterday her
Royal Highness had a select party to dinner.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY had an audience of.,
hiSMAJESTY yesterday.
SAtutday, the French Ambassador had a long in-
terview with the Marquis of LONDONDERRY.
Yesterday the Governor and Deputy Governor of
the Bank of England had an interview with the
CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER.

The Agricultural Committee is said to have ter-
minated its labours : those labours remind us of the
epigram on a French monarch—
,. The King of France, with forty thousand men,
" blarch'd up the hill, and then—rode down again r.
The Agricultural Committee, after numerous sittings,
after two Reports, several evenings discussion in
Parliament, and a new law now in progress, leave
Agricuhural Distreu precisely as they found it; or
rather they have aggravated it, by holding out hopes
that could never be realized!

The new Ecclesiastial arrangements caused by the'
vacancies which have recently occurred, were finally
determined by the Lon) LIEUTIMANT at the audience
on Thursday last. The following are the changes
which will take place:
The Archbishop of Dublin (Bzussronn) is advanced to the
Primacy.
The Bishop of itaphoe (Dr. Kamm) will be Archbishop of

The Bishop of Down becomes Archbishop of Cashel; and
Archdeacon Busts is to be Bishop of Down.—Daeldit Asper.
The Hon. and Rev. GERALD VALERIAN WELLES-
LEY, brother of the Marquis War.z.zsunr, has been
mentioned as likely to become one of the new Arch-
bishops; and the Hon. and Rev. PACKENHASI,
Dean of Ardbracken, brother of the Earl of LONG-
roan, and of the Duchess of WaLunurow, as likely
to succeed to a Mitre.

By letters received from a mercantile house in New
York, it appears the Custom-house Officers there
have grown extremely rigid; and in future, persons
shipping property to any part of the United States
will do well to attend to the American laws. The
following is an abstract:
All goods shipped to this country are subject to e 3 valor►
duties, and must have invoice attested before a Notary accom-
panying them ; and if any articles are doubted as to whether
they are the grow* or produce of the province of New Drumwkk, an attestation must be produced ; failing which, they will
be sent to the Public Store, there appraised, and fifty per net
added to the value, together with appraiser's fees, Ste.
WASHINGTON, APRIL 4.

The French, Spanish, and Russian Ministers are
breaking up their establishments here; this does not
indicate any hostile feeling, except, perhaps, on the
part of the Minister of Spain,who has certainly taken
in dudgeon our acknowledgment of Spanish America.
M. de Neuville proceeds to Lisbon: since the above
Gentleman's last return from France he is understood
to have been engaged in negociation with our Go-
vernment on points of a commercial nature; and it
is said that he bas exhibited an uncommon degree of
gall ; this is the more remarkable, because, before he
went to France, of all the foreign Ministers he was
the most cordial with our Administration—but he is
a man of quick temper.

In another part of our Paper wOl be found a com-
munication, entitled 44 IRISH GRAZIERS' MONOPOLY."
Why the author should have given suth a tide to
his paper we cannot understand, as we know of

The Irishman says-61 Strange circumstance that
the soldiers of England should feel more anxiety for
the sufferings of Ireland than the loyal Orange Yeo-
manry of Ireland. Of the contributions of the latter
we have not as yet heard one word, though they were
lamong the first to volunteer their services to cutdown
the peasantry of the South r
The idea of establishing Banking Companies upon
the plan of the Scotch Banks, has received a great
shock in consequence of the failure of the East Lo-
thian Banking Company, the subscribers to which are
called upon to subscribe 250 per cent. to make good
the deficiencies of that establishment.

Green peas, ready for boiling, were sold on Satur- I
dar.in Covent-garden at six shillings per quart.
MINING luTzu.roxaca.--Copper ores sold at Red-
ruth on Thursday, 1157 tons; standard £lO9 Bs.
Copper ores for sale-next week at Truro, 1843 tons.
Tna Muazuai, No. IV. published 18th May, and
continued weekly tprice Bd. or /see by post, Is.) con-
tains Particulars on the Consecration of St. Pawns Chun*
its Architecture, Stc.-2. Improvements and Nohow. at *At
Metropolis.-3. Eloquence of Dlr. guiperadeasse—
S. Original Poetry, badmen Extracts ham as esgehlished
Poem by the Rev. W. L Downes-4. Floe Arts t site
don, and the British Isetitudon.-7. The Drama t aim%
New Play at Covem-Gordwa—tba /C*'s Visit to Destyslose
—.Masquerade at theAmea-Rouse—The Opera.+4. loviswa
of Gifford'e PersittelWeidiaition's Vl* to Ittliopia —Wads-
worth's Tour on the Oseninent--Percy Ansalotes.—Widt Va-
rieties, nest* Pisa of Aavosioaists Dow open, &e. ate.
Published by Jew Mama, M,Flest-street, every Saturday
morning; and sold also by aff Soo es, Newunsn, Post-
masters, dtt.


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'no larcptismitse lobe • bia %e'er a oil • 71.17 ARMY; ' • . - •
sivo imillopoli in the *ming of cattle. But
thing is rut,' nisP.Slit "in his lessoning— st I=7 mare front litigeiravSfy illitaGcrit"lnerrod!
panely, that be would wish the English Grazier to Barracks in Sheet.street, where both Regiments were the Foot
many an exclusive tinilepoly for the supply of The
(at in die Is it* Tiatortil eritorennd in diem 1%11'1:
hum) the English market with butchers' meat.. We ' through the awn Oa their ietura to their own Barrack,. PThey
ales played in the evening en the Terrace, to a numerous CoMpazry.
ate, however, such enemies to monopolies of every
kind, that we sincerely hope that the Would-be 1110. liamh/The Briannscr tick t
wo ransport, with
461214 and .1;;:c7 Ten.
nopolists of both butchers' meat and corn, Whether Roads, of the Idea Wight, waiting for a wind. Nighty-three
et
Irish or English, will be ultiniately defeated in their tanks frees
Southamptoo,dmrand quartered /shave Albany Bar.ed
r:ks.C"" frog
aim, As we wish to see everything connected with A detachment of the 72d Regiment embarked on Wedttesday
this subject fairly discussed, we allow the Advocate l!einlymo'uath ttole.relleve the detachment of the Mb; stationed at
for English Monopoly a place in our columns, per-
seeded that the more this question is investigated the
More abominable and unjust will it appear, to fetter
or restrain, in any way whatever, the free circulation
and interchange of the direct and indirect products
of industry over the face of the whole earth.
Leonoaw, MAY 7, 1822.—Extract of a fetter from
Tunis, from the Austrian Consul, dated the lst May,
received this morning:
" A vessel has just arrived in eighteen dais irom Coasts:
thsople: she brings information that all the dillerences.between
the Porte and the Russians had been amicably settled. The
former are immediately to evacuate Wallachia and Molds-
via. The Ottoman fleet, consisting of be: ships of the line and
as many frigates and transports, had landed at the bland of Selo
7000 men, which, together with 4000 thit were shut up in a for-
tress, had made a massacre of the Greeks, and afterwards sailed
for Sarum."

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NAVAL INTELLIGEIVCE:

The Jupiter, SS, hat been brought down Plymouth !urbane
to be fitted for commission, and will take out the Right Hon.
Gomez Calcines, as Governor-General, to India.

Friday evening the sloop /ferrules, of Arbroath, with a card
of lime, caught Are, near the mouth of the river, in consequence
of having sprung a leak. The Captain made all possible hare
up the river, and ran the vessel ashore at the et al j, and e.:e
sustained but little injury.
The ship Lady Raffles, Capt. Jamas Cortveztt, sailed frc:ll
the Downs on Friday the 17th inst. with the following passenzkrs
for Madras and
For Madras—Capt. Willows, Mrs. Willows, Ilia Willow,.
Mr. kfetcalf, Dirs. Metcalf; Miss Minchin ; Rev. R.
vts, B. A. Company's Chaplain; Capt. Tennant; Mr. Ninu-o
Mt, Assist. Surgeon; Mr. K J. Yateman, Assist. Surgeol;
Mr. J. 8. Mott, Mr. J. Simpson, Mr. Geo. Woodfall
For Calcutta—Sir Samford Wbittingham, K. C. B.; (Atka:.
Col. Artnstrong, Mrs. Armstrong, Miss Armstrong, Miss Emeta
Armstrong Mrs. Colonel Nl‘Coomb, Miss M•Coomb ;
Hungi rford ; Mrs. Law; Miss Hades; Miss Bristow; Mr. J.
Rona:d, Assist. Surgeon.

Ferstouvu, Mar 19.—Wind N.—Arrived the Lady Lraira
packet, Darman, from New York and Halifac.
PORTSMOUTH, MAT 20.—Wind Westerly.— Arrived the Lord
Liverpool, Coutsow, from the Downs for Van Dienia:i's
' Drat., MAT 20.—Wind N.E.—Came down from the River
last night, the Montreal Gaeta-Li for Quebec; also this morn-
ing sod sailed, the Castor, Bowsaw, for the South Seas; and
William, Smart, for Quebec. Arrived and sailed for the Itiver,
the Brothers, Founts, from St. Michael's ; Joseph and .las:e,
Henrys; from Demerara; and Flying Fish, Br.-..sr, tr.ra
Gall'-.
CIISTOWHOUS; MAY £o.—Ships Entered Inevardss_Te
Edgar, from Riga; Flying Fish, front Ouend ; Three lkothers,
Desire, and Henry, from Lisbon; iteeolution, from Liverpool;
Margaret, and Samuel, from St. Michaels; Quint:Liao, from
Memel; Proteus, from Honduras; Margaret, from Antwtrp
Hugh Crawford, from Jamaica ' • Aurora, from Gibraltar ;
from Ancona • Lord Nelson, from Dantaic; Tennant, from
Belfast; Alliance, from Waterford; and Nassau, from M.. 11.1.4.
Entered Outwards: The Filey, for Hamburgh ; Duke of Yurk,
for St. Mary's; Nimble, for Seville; and Mary Ann, for Dublin.
OesredOutwards: The Garland, for Newfoundland;
for Rotterdam; James, for Elsinore • Accord, for Rou.n ; l't
severance, for Hamhurgh ; Tamerlane, fur Genoa; and
for Quebec.

The Spanish letters received by the last Mcil, corr.rlain
bitterly of the manner in which the roads are infested wi:h rlS-
bers, who at the same time act the part of political deprc,la-
tors. The mail, containing the letters from this country ti
Bilboa, of the 26th of last April, and which separates from the
Madrid man at Vittoria, was robbed by half a dozen of thee
banditti, within two leagues of the place of its destination.
As an illustration of the singular character of the last wir•.ter.
it may be mentioned, that while the thermometer was some de-
ones above freezing in Russia and Sweden, they were skein,:
and driving traineauz at Madrid, through the whole of January,
and several persons were frozen to death in the streets or Li,hon.

The river Wear was much swollen on Saturday morning 1...1t,
from the quantity of rain which had fallen the two previo...s
days. Sunderland bridge, three miles south of Durham, was
rendered entirely impassable.
The fall of rain in Yorkshire on Thursday and Friday se'.:-
night was so heavy as to overflow the run. s in many parts.
The importation of ice into this kingdom pays u &
duty on its arrival. A dispute arose a few days ago about the
value of a cargo, and before the dispute was settled, the Captain
tithe vessel was deprived of his freight, and the Custom-house
of the duty, by the melt.n.; of the ice.
The neighbourhood of Wolverhampton has been perfectly
peaceable daring the last week ; and although some of the miners
are still holding out for wages, their number is gradually dimi-
nishing. A detachment of the Greys, and two companies of the
2d Foot, are the only mi Lary remaining in the town.
Saturday evening, about dusk, a gentleman named Adam s
crossing Hyde Park, was attacked by three ruffians armed with
bludgeons, who knocked him down and beat him most severely,
till he became insensible; they then rifled his pockets of I.is
watch and money, and dragged bins into one of the sand pits,
where they left him for dead. Sunday morning a gentleman
passing that way heard bins groaning, and came to the spot, but
the ether was incapable of giving any account of the transactions..
The gentleman procured assistance, and he was talon to S!.
George's Hospital, where, on examination, mostly all his :.bs
were found fractured, and he was in other respects in c...t teriu.::,:y
ifijured. Hs now lies in the Hospital in a most dangerous state.
Monday night, the 6th inst. Linsted Lodge, the seat of 1.cr.1
Tantrum, was broken open, and various articles of plate and
wearing apparel stolen. The burglary is supposed to have 13=3
concerted by persons well acquainted with the premises.
At the Blackheath Bible Society Anniversary, held on Satur-
day, at the Green Man, many of the Nobility and Gentry were
present; the platform erected for the speakers gave way, a:l
several persons, among them 'Mr. Vansirra ma, were throwa
down, fortunately without receiving any injury.
Five sisters, all widows, are now living at Crediton, the youngest
of whom is eighty years of age, and the eldest above ninety.
Tuesday afternoon, an elderly woman, while sitting on a star
in Queensferry-atreet, Edinburgh, was observed to fall bac:-., an.l,
on being lifted up, it was found that life had fled. On an ex..-
urination, it was ascertained that her sudden death bad been oc-
casioned by a piece of meat she had been in the act of swallow-
ing sticking in her throat.
Tuesday afternoon, Mr. DAVID Laminae, Atholl-place, Perth,
wasappaarensetlyrvedin gittkodingheallis ltiar.suaAl fwtealrkhiaskrielgturnthe Bridgebome, of Perth,heet:
his room, where he was soon after found by Mrs. LI:MSIMI, re-
clining upon his chair. a lifeless corpse. A stroke of apoplexy is
conjectured to have arrested his life. Mr. Lestsnor for many
years acted as a writer in Perth, and occasionally Sheriff-Substi-
tute of Perthshire.