Star.
London, England, 1822-09-20 00:00:00

- The 'siert ivhiclr hos been spread here of a loan
of fifty millions of teals, contracted by the King for
his (plan accowd, with some foreign house, .is Wholly
absurd and ridiculous.

Extract of a letter from New York, dated Aug.7l

" The yePow fever continues to rage in our city, and we raa-
not now expert to be relieved from It till the frost sets in. Times
are new hard in this country. The number of 'failures in tee
city of Boston has been great, Ws. about ninety of the lirst.eare
Itontes; and a number of merchants, whose credit and respect-..
Nifty had been hitherto undoubted, are now failing in this city.
This wiU have the elect of lowering the price of our Govern.
meat securities."

Yesterday the whole ot the Foreign Ambassadors
and Ministers in town paid visits of congratulation to
Mr. Secretary CANNING, at his Office, in Dosvuin.
street, on his being appointed Secretary of State Cur
the Foreign Departmeni.
The nuptials between PHILIP POSEY, Esq. and
Lady EMILY Mumma, second daughter of the Earl
of CARNARVON, ate expected to be soleoinise.4 next
week, at his Lordship's seat in Berks.

The Duke of CLA MINOR was expected at Brussels
on Sunday last, on his return from Get many to London.
The Duke of CirstarmaND arrived on the 29th
ult. at Ofen, in Hungary, from Vienna.
Lord HARLZY has left England for Franre, on IC-
count-of the sudden and alskrming'indisposition of hit
sister in Paris.
Monuments voted by Pailiment to General Foono
Bowas and Colonel Catrou'itti, have lately been
erected in St. Paul's.
The figures in alto rdie'co,' in front of the Opera
House, are rapidly advancirtg. •
A grand Mews is building at Pimlico, in the.room
of those at. Charing-cross, most of which, owing to
the new street' that is to face St. Martin's Church,
being obliged to be pulled down. It commences at
the stables knewuby the name of the Duke of York's,
and will proceed considerably higher than the Itidin7
House, which is to.come down. The termination of
the new Mews will be very close to the Palace at Pim-
lico. A reg space of the garden is requited for it.
The following Performers are already engaged for
the ensuing Covent-Garden dramatic campaign ;
Messrs. MACREAITY, BA RTLEY, T.P. Cooks, and Miss
PATON. The following are in treaty with the new.
Management :—Mr. YOUNG, and that most excellent
actress in certain characters, Miss KELLY.

Miss Foote,. of Covent Garden Theatre we :we
sorry to say, is in a very declining state of health.
Mr. REYNOLDS has a Play, accepted by Mr. Ect.ts-
TON, which is to be one of the early novelties at tlt:
commenCtment of the season.

A fine specimen of that rare British bid the Untk-
ided gull—the dams crepidaius of LtrrrllEtrs, was shot
off Ryehope a few days since, and has been sent to
Newcastle for preservation.
During the ceremony of laying the first stone of
the new Church at Preston, while the'Vicar was en-
gaged in invoking a blessing upon the undertaking,
a woman was endeavouring to extract a watch from
the side of another woman in the crowd, and suc-
ceeded. M gaining posse!,siiin (if it, but being instantly
detected she was' apprehended,. and has been com-
mitted to take her trial for the theft.

Last-week, at Spaiton, in Somersetshire, three aged
persons viz. John Willis, aged 86, Nm. Cole -an,
aged 80, and Betty Thomas, aged 80, fell down sud-
denly, the same day, and died. They %%ere all the
day before enjoying their usual good heAlth.
Wednesday te'nnight, a most destructive fire took
place at the farm of Savock of Deer, by which the
,greater pirt of the crop in the stack-) ard, and the
whole of the farm offices were destroyed. By thi;
accident, which was caused by A spark from the ashes
carried out of the kitchen, Mr. Brebner, the tenant,
has lost about 400 bons of grain; and we arc sorry
to hear he was not insured.

SHOCKING OUTRAGE.—WEXFORD, SEPT'IMBER 12.
—lt has seldom been our task to record a more pre-
meditated and barbarous outrage than the one we
are now about to communicate to our Readers :
Bridget Bent, aged eleven years, the only child of
poor widow living at Bellevue, returning home be-
tween nine and ten o'clock on Sunday morning,
having been absent but a few minutes, saw a woman,
named Margaret Devereus, who lives at Birchgrove,
a short distance from Bellevue, sitting upon a stool
inside her mother's (the widow Bents) door. When
Bridget Bent,. whose mother was at chapel, ap-
proached, she was asked if she had seen two little pigs
upon the road ? to which she replied in the negative.
On entering the house, the little girl perceived that it
was plundered, and demanded of Margaret Devereux
why she had turned up her mother's box, and scat-
tered her clothes about the floor? The latter im-
mediately said, "I'll kill you if you say that I touched
her clothes !" at the same time taking down a flesh-
fork,with which, having knocked the unfortunate child
down upon a quilt, she continued striking her vio-
lently upon the head, till her cries were no longer
heard. The wretch then listened to ascertain if the
had completed her murderous work, and finding the
child breathing, again struck her upon the head, tii
the fork was nearly doubled. She then took the pitch-
fork from behind the door, and struck her, using both
the handle and iron part, and stabbed her with it irs
the side and arms. Having listened a second time,
and not hearing the breathing of the child, who, not-
withstanding this brutal treatment, still lived, and
had the address to hold her breath, she imagined she
had effected her purpose, and departed with her
booty, which consisted of a few yards of calico, two
or three caps, some tea and sugar, and four ten-
pennies 1 In the evening of the same day the offender,
who•rs about 23 years of age, was taken in the cabin
WA. iholives, and committed to jail, and the inno-
cent object of her brutality conveyed to the Comity
Infirmary. Though her head is in a frightful con-
dition, covered with wounds, and part of the scalp cut
away,•Tat ao fracture was made, and hopes are en-
tertained of her recovery.

THE ARMY. - -

ORDERS

Particular alders have been riven to tin tsfri Reg Wants of I
Life Guards, and the Royal Hone Clara lamb not to Awe
the upper lip.
ORDERS RESPECTING 077/ICRitil RIISAREITIO FROM TIM
UNITED ILINGO•31 FOR • irontlON STATION.
Officers, on their arrival at any lint-pert, fee tbs. purpose et
embark inz, are irmr.e.hately to rrr 're theoaselvve se Ye Gene-
ral
cr other Officer in the command of the troop (if of a rank
superior to themselves:, and to consider themselves ender his
command until they saiL
They must egnstantly appear in their proper eniforms &Am
their stay. and must, in every particular, coofens to the regula-
tions and di-Opium of the garrison. This order applies esonly
to Officers, who, after embarkation, may occasionally Minis
leave to lard from their vessels.
In al/ cases where Officers obtain for themselves the means of
proceeding to join their Regiments on foreign service, or warm
they do not embark under the orders of a General, se other Of-
ficer by whom regular reports are made, they are respired to
report to the Adjutant-General, the day ca which they embark,
and the name of the vessel in which they take their passage.
They are to snake simiLir reports to the Officers commandiog
the Depots of their Regiments, through the Adimant.General,
in order that they may be correctly accoonted ter in the Regi-
mental Returns.

General and Staff Offteers, embarking far foreign stations,
are to report to the Adjutant-General the day on wilds they en►-
bark, and the name of the •esrel in which they *eke their 'amar-

NATAL INTELLIGENCE.

Tire Durrh slip Wilhelm Frederick, Norma'', from Riga to
Tarim, wb.cf pa into Cowes the 6th October, 181, with less
of tiree topmasts and leaky, went into dock chore yesterday to
be repaired.
Tuesday se..might, at now, the William, Taotoa, of 13tyth,
railed from theuce, coal laden, and at half-past nine in the even-1
ing she and the Amity, GRIT, of South Shields, came iu cootact
different tacks, wind W. N. W. The blow on the starboard
bow of the was so great that she went down in five
minutes, and out roan was lest. The rest oldie crew saved ;hem-
s:toes by gortirg on board the Amity.
PLVUOLTII. Srvo. Is.—Wind N.E—Arrived the Hiram.
Val-to. from Leghorn ; Golden Spring, S room, from Jamaica.
Siilyd I.le M rcui!lion, l ien. 311111, for Prince Edward's Island.
l'o isnoorw. Strr. 19. Wind N. Pot in by contrary
• the flash, front /Unlit-1; and Gover-
n t Wo.sos, front Demerara. Put back the Alex-
ander, You'c.
DIAL, Stir. sm—Arrived this morning and
sailed for the River, the Triton, Da stay, from Bslfast. Remain
in the Downs, die Sa:l7.si frigate and Itlistr.ce East India
pilot yacht.
I lota, S rr. l B.—The Tref .Igar, from Grcenlard, is supposed
to be in the Hun ?acr with one fish, =4l alma 1.5 tsar of oil :
she is touch damaged.
PiNtaiscit, Sent. 17.—Arrived the French sloop its Deux
Cousins, of Bret, Captain Fa casocm, with a cargo of mak tram
nary for Crest; the French sloop les Deux Amin, of Rouen,
Caroni L. NI cur, with a cargo of iron frost Cardiff fur Rouen ;
the smack Amity, of Penzance, Captain Hoorn, with a cargo of
salt. from Liverpool, for the fishery; this smack Liverpool, of
Truro. Captain Jzortxos, with a cargo of hides, tar, pitch, &c.
from Liverpool for this port ; schooner William and ii.sther, of
Peounce, Captain Hrzcoiss, from Newport, with coals; ketch
Joke, of Purthelly, with coals ; brig Ruby, of Perth, with a cargo
of sundries; sloop Cores, of Fuwey, Captain Rowtit, with a
cargo of coals, frost Newport; sloop Joker, of St. lees, Captain
Thomas, with coals, from Newport. Sailed the brig Josepha,
of Penzance. Capt. Satozzascio, for Newport; the French sloop
le Nestor, of aierboarg, Captain Lance, for Swansea, to take on
board a cargo of coals for Brew.
Sari. the French sloop les Deux Arnis, Captain
La Marv, for Rotten ; les Druz Cousins, Captain FALANCILS, for
Brest ; sod the smack Liverpool, Captain Jzoonms, for Truro.
Just arrived in Mouttes boy, the bri; Sisters, of Penzance,
Carats Musa's, from Potersburgh for Dublin.
Cu s root-Hum; Sent. 13.--Slips Entered Inwards :
Harria,Perseverance, Scants, John, and Ant, from Hamburg's;
Pallas, tram Gottenbuzgh; Oscar and Christopher, from Arch-
aogel ; Swift, from Embdca ; NVlliselnaina and Rapid, from Rot-
terdam ; Prince of Orono and Vittoria, from St. Petersburgh ;
Najzide, from Pillau ; Charlotte and Jacob, from ldemol ; liar-
badom Packet, from Antwerp; Union, from Calais. Er:stored
Outwards: Hope, :or Tobago; General Murray, fur Antwerp;
'a‘lagnet, for Cape Cars Cut le ; George the Third, foe Jamaica;
Socrates, for Vera Crux ; Vigilant, far Hamburg& Cleared
°awards : Maria Crowther, fur Naples ; Fairy Queen, for
Core Coast Castle; Semaphore, foe ; Suaumah, fur
1)111,1in; Economy, for the Cape of Good Hope.