Star.
London, England, 1809-10-26 00:00:00

ROTFERbAM, OCTOBER 18.

There are advices from Constantinople, which men-
tion, that the Porte had rejected the proposals of the
English Ambassador, Mr. Adair, respecting a free
passage thmugh the pardanelles ; and that he would
most probobly be under the necessity of taking his
departure, should he continue to insist that certain
islands in the Levant should be occupied by English
troops. The same letters say, that successors had
been appointed to certain officers of high rank.

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,SPORTING DITELIGBNCE.

CALEDONIAN HUNT AND tELSO RACES.

NEWSDAY, OCTOBER 18.—The King's Hundred was run for
over Caverton Edge, and won by
Mr. Cumming' a.Silvio, 1 1
Mr. Story's Cramlington, - . 2 2
Sir H. V. Tempest's Little Fanny, - - dr.
1 Mr. Simpson's chesnut horse, - - dt.
A fine race—Ten to live on Cramlington during the first heat,
which was won by half a length.
TuesDAy, OCTOSTD 17.—A Purse of SOgs.
Mr. Baillie's bay filly Penelope, - - • -
Sir Alez. Don's eliesnut filly, - - -
AVEDSZSDAY, OCTOBER 18.—A Purse of SOgs.
Lord Strathmore's brown filly, - - - 1
Sir H. V. Tempest's I.ittle Fanny, - • 2 dr.
Mr. Baillie's bay Colt Mark Anthony, - - dr.
The following are among the company who have
arrived for the Races :
Right Hon. the Earl and Countess of Home, the Right Hon.
the Earl of Elgin, Sir J. B. Riddell, Sir Alexander Don, Sir John
Scott, Sir John and Lady Pringle, Sir William Ctiningham, the
Hon. Gilbert Elliot, George Ramsay, Fag. of Bannon,
Robertson, Esq. of Ladykirk, and family ; George Baillie, Esq.
J. N 6 Macleod, F-sq. of Macleod; Mr. Spottiswoode, of Sporti%-
woode, Major Riddel, Mr. Boswell, of Afilech, B. Monroe,
the Right Hon. Lady Minto and faintly, &c.

2 dr.

On Saturday let, Major Cook's fox-hounds met at
Kelvedon Park, near Ongar, for the first day's hunt-
ing this season. At ten o'clock, the hounds were
thrown into cover, but not Ending, they left the Park,
and went to Prickler's Wood, where, after chopping
a cub in cover, they unkennelled an old fox, which
they ran for an hour and three quarters; and killed.
But the death was rather remarkable ; the fox being
hard pressed, was killed in endeavouring to cross
Ongar river ; when two gentlemen, who were riding
for the brush, immediately left their horses, and
plunged into the river, where, struggling together a
considerable time for the brush, with the whole pack
about them, tearing the fox, one at length succeeded
in cutting it off, and the fox immediately sunk. The
Major a little vexed that the hounds should be de-
prived of their prey, one of the gentlemen who had
been m the water plunged in again, and succeeded in
getting the fot from the bottom, and it was given to
the hounds. Such desperate riding has seldom before
been witnessed in Essex.

The Aeronaut Bittorf, of WarY:burgh, made, on
the Ist instant, at Lcipsic, his twenty-first ascension,
with a p'►per balloon of forty-eight ,feet diameter.
He ascended to a considerable height, passed over
the city, and descended slowly, about a league and a
half from it.

There are, just now, in a garden belonging to, a
Gentlenian in Dumfries, some vines, on lvhich theta
is :t eonsiierable quantity of grapes in full perfection.
These rlants have never been in a hothouse, but
have always been exposed to the 'open air.
Sittings appointed in Middlesex and London, be-.
fore the Right Hon. EDw.tnn Lord ELLENuonouoir,
Lord Chief Justice, &c. in and after Michaelmas
rerr 1, IFO9 IN ThitNl.

Itruai.EstS. LONDON.
Saturday - - - kotr.ll • Monday - - - Nov. IS
Saturday
baLurday O5 Monday - - - - • 27
AFTER TERM.
Wednesday - - - - 29 Thursday

THE COURSE
Amsterdam, 30 10 2 U
Ditto at sight, 30 3
Rotterdam, 9 12 ¢ LT
Hamhurgh, CS 6 21 U
Altona, 28 7 21, U
Paris I dr.y's da. 20 1 Liv.
Ditto, 2 Us. 20 5
riauril iux, do '2.0 5

Niadrid,

44 Effect.

Cadiz,

40 }.tic[.

Lli'boa,

41 Effect.
Rio Janeiro 71 Mali

CAN Fit BURY.
Br. Wheat 92s Cd to 'Ms od
New ditto 80s 00. to 110 s Od
White ditto 953 Od to 1163 Oil
Seed ditto 90i od to 12tis Ud
New 84 to'l I lis—fine 00s Od
Rye 58s Od to 61s Od
Barley 44s Od to 53s Od
Oats

345..0d to 4%_:s Od
Beans siis Ott to 60s Od
Tick 5As 01 to 60s Od
Hog Peas 59. s Od to 545. 041
Boiling ditto 80s Od to 90s Od
Tarts (bush.) 7s Od to 9s Od
Brown Malt 964 04t to Os Ott

BIRTIIS.
Wednesday se'nnight, at Carmarthen, the Lady of John Owen,
17. sq. M. P. for Pembroke, of a still-born son.-
On the 14th instant, at Shelton] Cottage, near Cambridge, the
Lady of 13rigadier-General .A. ;phell,•of a Sun.