Star.
London, England, 1823-08-22 00:00:00

Krivcs um' TO SCOTLAND.

THE FIFTEENTH OF Attouar.—The auspicious and
memorable day ma which his Majesty King Grottos
the Fourth first visited " the land of cakes,' was ce-
lebrated here with considerable spirit and eclat. The
porches of the King's Arms Inn and Dumfries and
Gallm% ay Hotel, were each decorated with gigantic
Scotch thistles, as well as by a plentiful supply of the
emblematical heather; the bells, at intervals, rung a
merry peal ; and exactly as the clock struck twelve,
a party, headed by Mr. RANKINE, fired three rounds
from a twelve-pounder stationed on the Corbelly-hill.
In the evening upwards of 30 Gentlemen dined in the
King's Arms Inn, under the name of " The Southern
Welcome Club," Provost KERB in the Chair; Mr.
JAMES SIIORTRIDGE, croupier. When the Chairman
rose to propo,e the KING'S health, a signal was given
to the bell-ringers, IA ho immediately set the clappers
in motion, which, added to the long-continued cheers,
had a very pleasing and exhilarating effect.
In the course of the same day, the operative Lodge
of Freemasons assembled in their Lodge-room here,
in honour of the same gratifying occasion. As the
cheerful glass went round, the brethren testified their
feelings of duty and affection to the Royal Patron of
the Craft, and spent the evening with the utmost hap-
piness and decorum. A number of songs were sung,
and toasts given, such as, " The King," " The Grand
Lodges of Scotland, England, and Ireland," " Our
Provincial Grand Master," dec.—Dumfries Courier.

Monday last, the Right Honourable WILLIAM
IIUsKISSON, our highly respected Representative, ar-
rived at Seaford' House, the residence of Julia GLAD-
STONE, Esq. M.P. where a party of Gentlemen met
him in the evening to dinner. List night the Right
lion. (ientleman dined with JOSEPII lIIDRERSON, Esq.
and a party of friends; and this evening he will again
dine rt Mr. GLADSTONE'S.

We ttn:er stand that tke Right Hon. GEORGE CAN-
N' NG, t;ie flight lion. WILLIAM HUSK MON, Lord
GLOUGE IleNTitica, and a large party of the Nobi-
lity bind Gentry in the neighbourhood of Winder-
mere, will be entertained by JOIN BOLTON, Esq. at
th Stnrrs, the delightful residence of that Gentleman,
on the 25tli in,t.—Liverpool Courier.
A beautiful column of granite has been erected at
Vincennes, upon the spot where the unfortunate Duke
d'ENGII Et N fell, with the simple iuscriptioa—" Hie
cecidit," in letters of bronze. _ _

The Marquis of Douno, the eldest son of the Duke
'f WELLINGTON, is still at Eton School, where he is
reporte to be a youth of great promise, resembling
the Noble Duke, 116 father, in person.
The private letters from Paris state that the French
Govet nment have forbidden all Brokers in the funds
to soeculate, on the forfeiture of their license.

Margaret Boag, from Dunning, has now been fully
comm►tted to stand trial for the murder of Elizabeth
Bowie at that place, uptiards of five years ago.
A woman named Manning, said to be respecta-
bly connected, residing near Bangor Ferry, took her
trial on Friday, for the wilful murder of her husband,
by cutting his throat, which terminated in the ac-
quittal of the prisoner.—Chester Courar►t.
Camberwell fair concluded on Wednesday, and that
of Peckham commenced yesterday.
There is at present in the Armagh County In-
firmary, a man who had a tumor removed from his
right shoulder and arm, which weighs 9lbs.avoirdu-
pois--measures two feet in circumference at its
largest part or base, and one foot at its apet or neck.
It is of that description called adipous or fatty, and
abounded with blood-vessels of very great size. The
man is in a fair way of recovery.
Wednesday night, the Victory public-house, in Ed-
ward-street, Battle-bridge, was broken open by some
miscreants, who, after regaling themselves with the
contents of the larder and bar, and killing a bitch,
which was with two puppies in the wash-house, de-
camped with several silver spoons, and about 345. in
silver and copper.
Yesterday, the ship Ann, a West Indiaman, lying
at Blackwall, delivering her cargo, was run foul of
by the Hero, and thrown on her side against the
Dock, when her masmsnapped close by the deck, and
she immediately bilged and filled with water. For-
tunately no lives wete lost.
BALLOONS.—III the campaign of 1793, the French
Generals made balloons useful in military move-
ments. They had no less than 28 ascensions in Bel-
gium, and.at the battle of Fleurus General Mona-tan
remained to o hours elevated in a balloon. He sent
General JOURDAN two letters written 200 fathoms
high in the air. They enabled him to gain a battle,
upon the success of which depended the conquest of
all Belgium.
Three n omen partook of some cowslip wine, on
Monday evening, the 4th inst. at Grimsby, which had
nearly proved fatal to two of them. The wine had
been put by mistake into a cask in which a solution
of arsenic had been kept, and the beverage had -be-
come so strongly impregnated with the po►son, that it
produced the effect almost as soon as it was taken.
A Coroner's Inquest, which brought about the ques..
lion as to the right of surgeons opening the bodies
of persons to particularize the cause of death, was
held last night at St. James's Infirmary, Poland-street,
Oxford-street, on the body of Thomas Morris, aged
39 years. The deceased had for nineteen years been
a Serjeant in the 90th Regiment of Foot, but a few
months ago was disbanded on account of an asthma-
tie complaint. On Wednesday evening, about five
o'clock, he was passing Mr. Egg's, the gun-maker, at
the end of Pic:adilly, and was suddenly observed to
fall, when the blood gushed forth from his mouth in
torrents, and life was fleeting fast, when he was taken
up and removed to Mr. Alcock's, a surgeon, hard by,
and from thence to the Infirmary. After his disso-
lution, a desire appeared on the part of the surgeon
to open the body, stating his inability to get at the
came of death otherwise. The beadle consequently
.applied to the relatives for that purpose, who were
repugnant to the measure, observing that the appear-
ances, coupled with his dissolution, certainly pour-
trayed that death ensued from a natural cause ; the
Coroner was of the same opinion, and refused to
grant any order for opening the body, and stated he
believed it was against the wish ofJuries in general,
that a body should be mutilated, when there was suf-
ficient rea•onable appearances to account for the cause
of death; Mr. Lacon, Mr. Alcock's 'assistant, in his
evidence before the Jury, was of opinion the deceased
died from the rupture of a blood vessel. The Jury
Were unanimous in the same opinion, and returned a
verdict—Natural death by the visitation of God.