Star.
London, England, 1814-07-29 00:00:00

TH.6 GRAND JUBILEE.

The Ordnance have ordered all the gunpowder to
be taken from the magazine in Hyde Park and con-
veyed to Woolwich, preparatory to the Fire works
and Naumachia on the Serpentine :—not that any
danger was apprehended, but that that department
was anxious to remcve all possible ground of alarm
on the public mind.
The preparations in St. James's and &,e Green
Parks are almost entirely completed. A great num-
-bee of the Chirese lanterns were yesterday hung up in
the walks of the former, each of has different
devices, including every thing classical, rural and
sportive, and when lit up must produce a most beau-
tiful effect. The Bridge and Pagoda are finished,
and present an appearance at once elegant and grand;
and the lawn is nearly'covered over with marquees.
The grand Tower in the Green Park is now exposed
to the public view. This is an elegant circular struc-
ture, containing four large openings like windows, in
which the paintings will be placed. Between each
of these are coupled projecting pillars in imitation of
Sienna marble, supporting an entablature, on the
frize of which are appropriate. inscriptions in gold,
and .surmounted by 'a balustrade. The edifice rases
ra.ll higher in its circular form, and from the tep the
grand discharge if rockets w,li be made. On the
-roof of the sub-structure, round the tower, are placed
busts on pedestals, palm-trees, catherine-wheelt, and
•rnamental tire pots. •

' A letter from Basle,' dated the 2d instant, says,
For some time past no more corps of troops h ►ve
passed through here, but merely prisoners, convales.
tents. and convoys of carriages under the escort of

Austrian troops.
66 Some days ago the officers of the garrison of
Huninguen had an entertainment, about the close of
wiaich, when the wine had mounted their heads, they
placed a bust of Bonaparte on the,table, drank to the
health of the tyrant, and poured out a thousand
threats against the Bourbons. It cannot be 414psem-
-4.l4wi•that the.most frightful spirit reigns among the
troops and the inhabitants of many of the provinces of
France, and in eur vicinity. At Mtslhausen and at
Colmar, shouts of Visre Napoleon ! mein aux Bourbons I
are openly heard. In short, a great part of the nation
are so depraved, that a number of persons who cume
from France express their cuspicions that there will
won be bloody scenes."
By a letter horn Smyrna, of the 4th of Sane, we
that the plague, which had committed the most
high:fill ravages there, had put an end to all corn.
coerce. The deaths were about 500 daily. Up to
that period about 20,000 Turks, and 10,000 Greeks,
Armenians, Jews, &c. had fallen sacrifices to the
plague. I'he port, was altruist completely empty of
shipping ; and Smyrna, which. lately captained ohs
hundred and eighty thousand inhabitants, seemed Bowl
a desert. _

Sunday se'nnight, a tradesman from Lancashire,
who kept a shop in Union-hall,4oog Chester Fair,,
- went to examine his box, acitie I sags in Cow-lane,
in that city, when he fo nibs d been picked,
and the box robbed of foolish man, in.
stead of employing a ptinter and a police-officer, im-
mediately hired a chaise, and set off into Wales,, to
consult what is vulgarly termed a fortune-teller. It is
need! to add that he has not discovered any trace
of his property ; and in addition to his first loss, be is
threatened with an action, for having publicly accUli-
ad an innoce►t person of the theft.
Saturday night a laboUring man, residing in York-
street, Battersea-fields, under an impulse of jealousy,
procured a sharp knife, and proceeded up stairs into
the bed-room, where his wife was asleep, and mangled
her in the face in a dreadful manner, ind afterwards
cut her throat.— A surgeon attended immediately,
but she now lies without hopes of recovery. It is re-
markable, that the daugh►er of she woman came to
♦isit her mother on the Monday morning, in conse-
rve:ice of a dreanron the preceding night, in which
she actually declared she saw her mother cut in the
manner already specified. They bass beep flurried
wily 50 years.