Star.
London, England, 1823-08-15 00:00:00

DEATH OF TAM USHANTER.

At Lochwinnoch, on the 9th inst. died Thomas
Reid, labourer. lie was born on 21st of October,
1745, in the clachan of Kyle, Ayrshire. The import-
ance attached to this circumstance, arises from his
being the celebrated equestrian hero of Burns' poem
—Tarn O'Shanter. He has at length surmounted
the 66 mosses, tivers, slaps, and stiles" of life. Tor a
considerable time by-past, he has been in the service
lof Major Hervey, of Castle Semple, wine months of
'which he has been incapable of labour, and to the
honour of Mr. Hervey be it named, he has, with a
fostering and laudable generosity, soothed, as far as
lit was in his power, the many ills of age and disease.'
He, however, still retained the desire of being fu' for
weeks together."

We regret to find that the King of SARDINIA, by
a formal Decree, has re-established the Society of Je-
suits as the privileged teachers of youth within his
dominions. The J-suits must have been much al-
tered, to render thein the proper guardians of youth
in the nineteenth century.
Lotto BYRON.—Accounts from Leghorn of the
23L11 ult. state, that Lord BYRON arrived there on
the 22d, and sailed the next day for Zante, on board
the English brig Hercules, Captain SCOTT. He will
immediately go to the Peloponnesus; he had several
Greeks with him, and some English Officers as well
as ammunition and 70,000 piastres for the Greeks.—
Lord BYRON, says the Brussels Paper; with his lyre
in his hand, singing Erebus and Destiny/, has sailed
for Greece,whicb wanted nothing but a Tyrtzus.
Some time ago, a young man in Glasgow, who had
carefully attended all the KING'S outgoings and in-
comings at Holyrood House, and been much cap-
tivated with Royal appearance and manners, pro-
posed to form a Society to commemorate his MA-,
JESTY'S gracious visit last year to his ancient king-
dom of Scotland, and with this view made applica-
tion to his Grace the Duke of MONTROSE to use his in-
fluence with his MAJESTY to write down the memo-
rable toast which he gave at the Magistrates banquet,
in the Parliament House, Edinburgh. His Grace most
obligingly undertook to request this favour from his Se-
lfsame, which his MAJESTY, with that condescension
and good humour frf which he is so distinguished,
instantly granted, and wrote down with his own hand
on a card, " The Chcftains and Clans, and Gop bless
the Land of Cakes. G.R." This has been accord-
ingly forwarded to the person who applied for it, ac.
companied with a very polite letter from his Grace
should meet this day,theAnniversary of his MAJr.sres
the Duke of MONTROSE. It was decided that the Club
landing in Scotland, on which occasion the Royal
present will be exhibited to the Meeting, set in an ele-
gant frame, with suitable emblematical devices, by
Mr. FINLAY, his Majesty's carver and gilder.
Duet. ExErtwoRDINART. Wednesday afternoon a
knight of the yard-wand and a son of Neptune met
in a field at Preston, near North Shields, to termi-
nate an affair of honour. The heroes were furnished
with large horse-pistols, but in their hurry they for-
got bullets. This difficulty was obviated by their
purchasing a pennyworth of marbles, which their se-
conds (a pugilistic typograph and a Greenland tar)
wisely omitted putting into the pistols. The fire was
consequently harmless, and the combatants, both full
of Dutch courage, were in high dudgeon at their se-
conds, who advised them to end the quarrel with
their fists, when black eyes and bloody noses were
served out with right good will, till the man of buck-
ram fractured his arm. .
The statement which we eopied a few days ago
from a Morning Paper, respecting Lady CARO&INE
LAMB'S treatment towards a discarded servant, has
been declared by Mr. LAUB, before the sitting Ma-
gistrate at Queen's-square, to be utterly false. The
woman, it seems, was hired by Lady CAROLINE as a
single woman. She said that she was unmarried,
without followers. Her name was then Drummond ;
she soon afterwards acknowledged that her name was
Lang—that she was married, but that the family
should suffer no inconvenience from her husband's
visits. After some days it was discovered that this
man, was actually secreted by her in the house. She
was then desired to leave, and not at ten o'clock in
the night, but early in the day.
Shortly after Mr. LAraa's withdrawing, Mr.WiirrE
addressed the Reporters present nearly in the follow-
ing terms :41 I am very sorry that I should be com-
*pellet' to have recourse to very unpleasant means, in
order to counteract the evil which every day arises
from the publication of cs-parte statements. I must,
however, as far as in me Lies, abate the evil, and 1
AM acquainted with but one way in which I can ef-
fectually accomplish that object-.by requesting-all
le porters to leave this room."
The order of the Magistrate was, of course, in.-
*stantly obeyed.
CORN EXCHANGE; MARK-LANE, AUGUST 15. •
The continuance of fine weather and the little disposition that
I the Consumers feel to augment their stocks, hays pbced
'our Mar-
-1 het. in a complete stagnation, and so much so, tbat not a sleds
pie bas b:en made of any kind of Grain, eacept Oat., whisk
article supports Mondays quotation. As it is now fully known
Oat the ports will not open, and the opinion of the Law Offices.
being in favour of the Boston rend% all other Grain must be
looted the same as Last Monday.
SMITHWIELD MARKET. AUGUST IS.
The supply at Market this morning was fully suSkient for
the trade, and the prices of all dessriptions of cads remain much
the sante as on last market day—Bee, per stone of -*lbs. 3s. to
lia. Dd. Mutton, 32. 2d. to 4s. 2d. Vsid,tv.tk- to Ys. Od. Lamb.
as. Od. MU. Od.

• COURT OF CHANCfRY—TOI4I4.-
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LORD PORISNIOUTIV't • -..
This morning the ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved
that the Master's Report upon the subject of.the main-
tenance of the Earl of Portsmouth, be congrnied.
The Loan CHANCRLLOR.--" Hand it °plc) noe,.for
there most be a very special order made in.thit mat-
ter."—The Master's Report was then handed'up to
his Lordship, who will take time to consider of it.
Although his Lordship will to-morrOw.cortclude
his Sittings publicly in the Hall, yet he will six in his
private room next week, he having already given leave
for a motion to be made to him on Wednesday next.