Star.
London, England, 1801-10-03 00:00:00

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DUEL.—If the records of domellic calamity.,
written in the blood of the Dacha, we-e not al.
ready fufficiently horrible and amiaing to ca:l for
the influence of the Legiflature, and the execration
of good men, we have, with the deepeft regret, PR
.tdd another catafirophe to the number.
On Thurfday laft, in coufequence of an elec-
tioneering quarrel, James MOONS O'Domst., and
DENIS BINGHAM, Efqrs. met In the neighbour-
hood of Ballina, attended on the part of Mn
O'Dovsx, by Colonel CHARLES L. FITZGERALD ;
and on that of Mr. BINOHAM, by Colonel Jack-
SON.—On the firft difcharge, Mr. BING Hetes lime
took effeet, palling through Mr. o'.llom Les heart,
and killing him on the fpot.
Had a profligate chara4er thus died, fociett
would benefit even by the breach of its laws, but
in the death of the worthy and lamented James
Mooss O'DoWEL, his King has loft a moll loyal
fubjed, and his country a good man and a zealous
friend.

On the ground he wrote the following letter :—•
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T► the INDEPENDENT ELECTORS of the Count/
" of MAYO.

" Wins, Sept. 24, 4.21.
" Should f fall in the eooteit with Mr. Emcee's, it la la
fupport of your caufe, of the independence of the county of
Mayo. Had I lived, It was my determination to have dune
all in my power to have prevented you from being fives, 104
the comity from being made& borough. You yet, t feel, will
do it, and 1 carneitly intrcat all my friends to give their Werra
to Air. DILL° N, and any other perfun whom the independenS
tomtit Mill nominate as his colleague. •
" Farewell, my friends,
" J. M. OTONEL."
On Wednefday the 234 init. General Sir Wrt.
Meows arrived at Athlone, and after reviewing
the Light Brigade on Thurfday and Friday, ha
vifited the general hofpitals, attended by Dolor
Cowin and Staff-Surgeon KENJI IWO.
Styr. 29.—This morning James and jefip6
White, two foldiers of the North Cork militia, lately
convidled before a Court Martial,of a confpiracy to
deliver up to the rebels a poll in the county Wick-
low, were conveyed under a ftrong efcort of horfe
to Wicklow, the head quarters of the regiment,
there to be shot purfuant to fentence,

Three perfons were on Sunday brought into
town by a military guard, who were apprehended
in one of the Grand Canal boats, near the ninth
lock, charged with knowingly uttering and de•
frauding feveral perfons with forged bank notes.

CH it astir Hos PITAL.—A very melancholy event
took place here yefterday morning. Two of the
Petitioners, called" Captains," had entertained an
animofity towards each other ; bnt it was prevent-
ed from breaking out into violence by the influence
of a fuperior officer, who conßantly laboured to
reconcile them. Death unforoinately removed
that reflraint ; and the enmity, of which we know
not the caufe, at length produced the fatal cleft
fo long dreaded. Between fix and (even o'clock
in the morning, one of them came to the chamber
of the other, as he was in the aft of riling from his
b:d. He brought with him a-cafe of pitiols, which
he bought the day before, and, prefenting one of
them to his adverfary, infilled upon his fighting
him, which he declined, and !hut his door, a half
gtafs one. The affitilant did not, however,go away;
but, turning round, he fired through the glafs v in.
dow in the door, and (hot the unfortunate man
within right through his heart. The report of the
pißol excited an immediate alarm, and attraCted
all the people of the place to the foot, where they
found the two old Captains, one dead on the floor,
and the other at the door, from which he never
made any attempt to (hr. Being quellioned as to
the melancholy event, we underhand he gave the
above account of it, raid it was he who fired the
(hot, and did not betray any coniCioufnefs of his
having done a criminal or improper aft. They '
were both nearly 8o years of age.
The following account of a very fingular bridge
at Sirinagur, in the EaR Indiei, is related by a
Gentleman who croffed it a few months ago. This
bridge, or contrivance, is called a Jrolah : two
fcaffolds are eretfted, in the form of a gallows, one
on each fide of the stream ; over there are firetched
very thick ropes, to form on each hand a support
for the reit of the bridge ; to thefe, by means of
pendant ropes, a ladder is fixed hot i•ontally, and
over this tottering frame the travellers pats. The
main ropes are to flack, that the middle of the
bridge is within a foot of the wat:r. Its breadth I
will barely admit of two persons abreafl. The cur-
rent runs beneath with great rapidity, and it would
be inevitable dear-a-lion even to the moll expert 1,
fwimmer to fall from this bridge into the River,
for the breadth of this rapid area ni is about eighty
yards, and its depth from ten to twenty feet,
The city of Glouceßer is at prcfcnt under an
alarm much greater than if the French army was
at its gates. Government has lent down fifteen
waggons full of irunpowd-r, with tome artillery,
&c. to form a depot, Glouceher being an import-
ant point in cafe of invaflon ; but no place being
prepared to receive the gunpowder, nor any Reps
taken towards the depot, the Parton of St. Mary's
has charitably lodged it in the chorch-yard till fur-
ther orders : but the inhabitants remain in a hate
of the utmoft alarm, as the blowing up of the
powder, they apprehend, might dedroy dr. a hole
town. Several perfons have :actually left the place,
and a-rt a foul went to hear the Parton on San-
day—the people cannot fleep in their beds for fear.
The new grand fpeCtacle of King Cafar, or ale
Negro Slave, at the Royal Circus, St. Geor
Fields, may certainly vie with any piece that
appeared at either of the Summer Th:atre‘,
the Prong interell of its Rory, and its s at lott.
meters throughout; the music by that admii
COMPOCCT Mr. W. Walt, poifoffes the g'
beauty, and is finely adapted, as is also the
nem which is capitally defigned and erecut
and finer dancing has perhaps never been
netted than that difplayed by Mils A Dams
Miff Divvy. This piece with the It', and
furprifing feats of Hortemahilop, Re. draw
met overflowing audiences es :r) e•

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