Star.
London, England, 1809-10-09 00:00:00

HARWICH, OCTOBER 8.

Arrived lesterday morning, the Auckland packet,

captain BaincF., from Heligoland, and the Lady
Frances, Captain RUTTXTt, from Gottenburgh ; and
last night, the Prince of Wales, Captain MASON, and
the Beaufoy, Capt. Noici9s, both from Gottenburgh.
with mails and passengers. A Swedish Messenger
came over in die Prince of Wales, and set off imme•
diately for London —Sailed yesterday, the K►ng
George, With a mail and passengers, for Flushing.
The packets for Heligoland and Cottenbufgh are
detained here by contrary winds, as well as a large
fleet of colliers, coasters, &c.

MUM' IPESII.VIUS.

A letter from Naples, dated the 9th ult. gives the
ii,r; accoimt of the state of this Mountain:

3 Alter a few days of tranquillity, the eruptions
Vzsm ius recommenced. On the 4th of September,
crawr opened to the South East, much larger
at that which was found in 1807. This mouth has
ice that time constantly vomited a vast torrent of
which takes its direction towards the t,:wn of
Ila Torre, which was formerly destroyed by an
iption cf the volcano. This tonent divides in two
inches, and forms an island, at the extremity c.f
rich the lava unites, and produces a lake of are, in
district of A trio del Cavallo. No damage has

. taken place ; and there is nothing to be feared,
iless the torrent should change its direction or be-
Ime more impetuous. In the night of the sth, as
the month of -August 1732, Vesuvius vomited an
imense quantity clashes, stcoes, and smoke, form.
upon the mountain a second mountain, the sum-
it of which appeared to rise to the skies ; but these
ibstances receiving an impnlsinn absolutely perpen-
Aar, have fallen into the crater, or in its neigh-
tirhood, but have not done any injury either to the
iabitants or the houses, nearest the eruption. &-
al people have departed from the town to observe
ire closely this remarkable phenomenon. ThosS
lo were led merely by curiosity, have gone as far
Portici, Resina, and Della Torre, where they have
ink to Mount Vesuvius, the eruptions of which, it
.aid, are among the causes of the goodness of the
R. The Philosophers, however, exposed them-
yes to •very danger ; and several learned men,
tded with chemical and physical instruments, have
[nibed the mountain to make experiments, the results
which will without doubt be made public."

Film—About seven o'clock, yesterday evening, an
firming fire happened at a small hcuse inhabited by
Cleaver, a coal-dealer,in Clayton-street,near Ken-
gtn Common. The family were at chapel when the
,nes were discovered, and notwithstanding the doors
-e burst open, the neighbours were unable to save
pantity of goods which had, been lately brought on
• premises. The lower part of the housetentained
wood, &c. which burnt rapidly, and made a
ing light in the firmarnent. The different engines
ived with great promptitude, and about nine o'cick
fire was extinguished. The damage-done is con-
to Mr. Cleaver's house and some stables back-
wards. The former is burnt to the ground.
The following afflicting accident occurred a few
days ago, at Wigtoft, near Boston. A nurse charged
with the care of a women lying-in, and her infant,
only two days old, and also of a little girl abont three
years of age, being obliged to bring water from a pit
about eighty yards distant, the girl, during her ab-
sence, went out, and brought in an armful of straw,
and staled close by the fire. The straw was quickly
in flames, and having c Anmunicated to the clothes rf
the child, she ran nut of the house shrieking : the dis-
tract,d mother immediately sprang ft orn bed, over-
took her, and extin!ruished the flames, but, alas ! too
late. The little gill lived 10 hours, in less agonr than
might he expected (her left breast being dreadfully
scorched) and then expired : and the afflicted mother
lie; in a state which precludes all hopes of recovery.
Early On Thursday morning, as a boy was riding
a tine !union in Park-lane, the animal became un-
madageable and ran away : a soldier seeing the boy
in such a perilous situation, put himself in the way
of the horse, with an intent to stop him, when he
turned round, and with a furious kick broke the sol-
dier's thigh, who was immediately conveyed to St.
e;:erg..,'s Hospital ; the boy was thrown off, but re-
teived an set ions faint y. _

In the night of Tinn,day last, between the hours of
t Nelve and one, the hot se of Mrs. Toilast, shopkeeper,
at Broomfield, near Maidstone, was hurgl.ri,ludy
broken open by two ; one of whom, disguised
in a black crape entered her bed-room, and, with vio-
knt threats, demanded her money ; she told him it
was in her pockets, hut, not satisfied with their con-
tents (there being only four shillings and sixpence in
he opened a chest in the ro.)m, and took from
thence Bank n.,tes and cadt to the am- 4.3.nt of £27 and
upwards ; after which he proceeded to search the
r-,:htr boxes, but not finding any m"re money went
do ...7n stairs, and with the other, who stood at the
bot:om of the staircase while the other was em-
ployed above, made off, taking with them from the
shop a small parcel of tea, and a few halfpence from
the drawer in the counter.

The following, is au extract from an old and scarce
book entitled iiiiero-ewsograpithi ; Or, a Piece ,yr ile
World .thscovered ; In Essayes, and Characters. The
mint!) Edition, London, 1;..;9. Thes: Characters are
written in a style tl:At would not have disgraced
Theuplme.tns, or La i'.,ruyere.
" A Dautotaan

44 h one that will a man tomorrow morning :
but is now what you ke him, for he is in the
rower of the next man, and if
.a friend, the better --•
One that bath let go himself from the hold and stay
of season, and lies open to the mercy of all tempta-
tintis. -No lust but finds him disarmed and fenceb!ss,
an-1 with the least assault enters. 14- any mischief
him, it was not his fault, for he laid as fair for
. a! c ,uld. Every man sees him, as Cham saw his

r Coe fir.t of this sinne, an un.ropered man, and
.ugh his garments be on, uncovered, the secretest
parts of his sa,tl lying in the nakedest manlier visible:
all his pas3ions come otit now, all his vanities, and
those shameltiller humours which discretion clothes.
llis nody becomes at last like a niyrie war, where the
spirits beclog'dind cannot pass: all his members
• e out of orfice, and his heels do but trip up one ano-
t er. He is a blind man with his eyes, and a cripple
with his legs nn. All the use he bath of this vessell him-
selie, in hold thilsmuch ; forhis drin king is but a scoop-
ing in of so many quarts, which are filled out into his •
b(dy, and foat filial nut again into the room, which
is commonly as drunk as he. Tobacco serves to air
is his only breath, and
• greatest enemy to him-
n(l, and then most in the
rying a mastery, who shall
men come from him as a
Ind ui.. Nothing takes a
-edit, and businessc, and
carelesse what becomes
enter on a serious thought,
tglitachollY, that it sends

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bun after a washing, and• .
, breaLhiug-while. lle is the
wife and the next to his fziei
act of his kindness, is but try
sinke down first : And rr
banal, wounded, and bowl
. ,
wan of more from his cre
, make. him mnrerechlessly
f ' of all. Indeed he dares not c
or if he do, it is such a in
win %lobe cloak agii;L"
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