Star.
London, England, 1822-08-23 00:00:00

COPENHAGEN, AUGUST 13.

The volcano of Oefield Jokkel, in Iceland, which,
since its first eruption, had remained quiet for half
a year, broke out again with great violence on the
26th of June, and has done great damage to the
surrounding country, by the vast quantity of ashes
which it has cast up.

During the summer several English ships have
visited Iceland, for the purpose of fetching cargoes
of ice, but did not obtain their object ; the expense of
conveying the ice to the coast being so great that it
would not answer. Two of these vessels have perished
in the floating ice from the polar regions, and only
about twenty of their crews saved.

Private letters from Boston, in the United States,
of the 25th July, received yesterday, bring accounts
of a number of failures in that city : one house has
stopped payment to the amount of nearly two hun•
dred thousand dollars.

On the evening of the day when the intelligence
reached Paris of the death of the Marquis of LON-
DONDERRY, it was remarked, that not an Englishman
appealed at the Opera.
Lord CAST LEKEAGH and his tutor, Mr. TURNER,
left Hatchetes Hotel, Dover-street, yesterday, for
the Continent.

It is said that when his MAJarry and Sir WILLTAM
CURTIS met in their Highland dress, neither could
command their gravity !
Their Highnesses Prince Christian Fs ederick of
Denmark, and his consort, Princess Caroline Amelia,
arrived at Altona on the 15th instant, in good health,'
from their foreign tour.
It is now formally announced that the rich heiress.
Miss PATTEN BOLD, is about to be led to the by meneal
altar by the Polish Prince SAPIERA. It is said to be
the intention of the Prince to become naturalized,and
to fix his residence in Lancashire, where the Lady's
estates are chiefly situated.

A letter from Vera Cruz, dated June 15, says—
's This country is at present by no means in a settled
state, and it is probable that the Government will be•
obliged to resort to strong measures to gain possession
of the fort of St. Juan de Ulloa, which it is intended
to do, should: the castle not surrender prior to the
cool season setting in in October. The means for
doing this will be the evacuation of this city, except as
a strong garrison, till the castle surrender by starvation.
—This plan appears already so much to influence
the inhabitants of this place, that three-fourths of its
wealthy and respectable commercial houses have -re-
tired to Xalapa and other parts of the country, giving
up all idea of business until this matter is concluded,
leaving their establishments here, but without pro-
perty or money, under the care of a clerk, merely to'
keep open the concern."

Tux KENG'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND.

ammilmo

PRIVATE LETTERS.
EDINBURGH, AUGUST 40.—Fns o' Mom
The mighty mass of people which thronged the
streets of the Scottish Metropolis for two or three
days previous to the arrival of his Masarry, and
which conducted itself so well during the Royal
entrée, and the subsequent illumination, has gra-
dually melted away; and though the streets still ex-
hibit plumes, badges, and turbans, and a few of the
inferior grades of the people continue to arrive, yet
the general movement is now towards home. The
general observations, too, have begun to be mingled
with not a little of the national ingredient of eco-
nomy, and calculation of consequences; and as the
good tits retire from the precincts of Holyrood, one
may, as often as one pleases, hear such observations
as these—" Weel nae doot it's a bonnie sight ; but,
dear keep us man, k costs an awfu' expense ! I'm
sure monie o' thae Highland bodies wha hoe come
doon wi' their tails, or what d'ye ca them, had mair
need to stay at hame and provide something against
the winter." Let it not be supposed that there is any
thing of disloyalty in these and similar remarks.—
Far from it, the persons by whom they are made,
have uniformly the word " welcome," upon their''
buttons, the effigy of his MAJESTY very finely struck
in block tin hung round their necks ; and a rosette
upon their breast as big as an ordinary cheesecake,
made 9f the' national colours, blue and white, with
a St. Andrew in the centre—some of them indeed
have a coutse of orange ribbon in the said rosette;
but they contrive to leave it doubtful whether this is
worn to shew that they pay scot and lot within the
city of Edinburgh, or that they are determined to
continue genuine Whigs of the Covenant. Nor let it
be supposed that the Scots are the less loyal, because
they have left off shouting and wandering about the
streets of their metropolis, And returned to their la-
bour. They know 'that loyalty is something far more
substantial than this—that the train attendant upon
the KING must be fed, that the trappings cost money,
and that the persons who are thus gaily apparelled
and run after, like the lilies, " toil not, neither de
they spilt ;" and that, the' efore, if the remainder of
the People—those who form no part of the state and
ceremonial of the exhibitions, were not to put their
hand to the plough and the shuttle, and the hammer
and the axe, there would speedily be an end of the
exhibitions themselves. Who are the persons that
resort to New Palace-yard, when the Parliament is
to be opened or prorogued by the KING ? Are they
the more industrious and opulent citizens of London
and Westminster, or the substantial yeomen and far-
mers of the midland counties? No such thing. They
are the idle and the dissipated, who are glad of every.
excuse for being away from their work. Now if
this be the case in London, where the people arc fa-
miliarised to the KING, it must become the case in
Edinburgh, just in proportion as the people there
become familiarised to him. It must not, in short,
be inferred that the Scots are disloyal because they
do not collect daily into crowds and shout. They
saw the wonder once—they had every appearance of
being delighted with it : and they must not be found
fault with that, while even in the ardour of that de-
light, they have got them home to produce their
portion of the funds whence the pomp and the glory'
are supported. It is this retiring quality—this con-
sciousness that the " time to work" is much longer
and more important than the " time to be idle,"
which formed the very foundation of that high com-
pliment which the people of Scotland drew from the
KING. It is because they are in general retired and
industrious, that they relish and adorn a.spectacle
when they do come abroad to see it.
When those ciitumstances are borne in mind, we
are sure it will be deemed no symptom of disloyalty
when we say that the crowds which for the last two
or three days have attended the art ival and departure
of his MAJESTY are not much larger, or more dif-
ferently formed, than those which we meet with upon
ordinary occasions. _ _ _

When the grand progress is to be made, and tie be-
lieve it is fixed for Thursday, we shall have the people
out again; and when the banquet for which the Parlia-
ment House is fitted up in very fine style, shall come
to be served up, it will he found that there will be
no lack of stomachs. To a people who must live and
pay taxes out of the present scanty returns of their
lands, or the labour of their fingers or their head, the
approaches to shews and spectacles—even Royal
ones—are somewhat analogous to the approaches of
the fly to the candle ; once, and not too near, and it
is but a scorching ; but repeatedly, and nearer, and
down drops the buzzing idler, deprived of all means
of future flight. The Scots are too calculating not
to know this, and too wary not to avoid its effects.