Star.
London, England, 1814-02-04 00:00:00

PORTSMOUTH, FEBRUARY S.

Arrived his Majesty's ships BriNIBAT and WAturnyto
74, grins each, from the Downs. Came in the 'VI ML•
LIGENT gun-brig. The convoy remlin as before.

DEAL, FEBRUARY s.

Sailed the RINALDO sloop of war, with a (Frit n
of transports, having a detachment of thy 301.11 nn.l
81st regiments on board, for Holland; the Ar rtv,
hired armed cutter, with dispatches for Atimir.ll
Yount; also several homeward bound vessels for the
River. Arrived his Majesty's ships CADMUS anti
GRIFFON, from a cruize off the French coast ;
FENDRR lugger, from the fleet in the Roompot ; and
remain with a fleet of transports, with German'sol-
diers on board, for Holland.

Counter orders were issued on Tuesday to the de-
tachments belonging to the regiments serving in In-
dia, .hose departure for that part of our empire was
suspended a short time since, with the intention of
sending them to reinforce Sir I'. Ga A HA m, in Holland.
These detachments are, therefore, now to embark for
India, according to their original destination.
Accounts from Bombay are said to state, that the
troops of the Pacha of Egypt, after having entered
Jedda and Mecca without opposition or bloodshed, de-
tached a force against 'rail, the only place remaining
in the hands of the Wahabees. The power of the
Sect is, therefore, looked upon as annihilated in that
part of Arabia. •

Last night, between flint and fen o'clPck, a fire
was discovered on the. premises of Mr. Honosow.
stationer, in the ftent-toad, which in a short time
consumed the whole of the building. Fortunately
the adjoining houses were preveu:ed s' aring a similar
fate by a strong party.wall.

The mortality in Dublin since the commencement
of the fogs, has been computed to amount to from
140 to 100 per diem!

In the town of Boiton, more than one thousand
pounds has been raised in three days, for the relief of
those living within its boundaries, who suffer under
the pressure of the winter season !

One of the Mail-coaches was last night overturned
by coming in contact with a heap of lumen snow, at
the top of the Haymarket.

A Sheriff's Officer, being lately solicited to take a
part in a trio, observed, he was a much better hand at
a catch !

To THE EDITOR.-Sir, During the severity of the
present season, the beadles of the parishes have a more
than usual power over our distressed fellnw-creatures.
It may often depend upon them, whether a distressed
object shall pirish in the street, or shall receive a
temporary relief, and become again, perhaps, an use-
ful member of society.' Let me, therefore, by means
of your Paper,recommend it to the Clergy and to their
Churchwardens and Overseers to encourage these per-
sons to an humane exercise of their duties, and, what
may be often necessary, to correct their disposition to
judge ill of the poor, for the sake of their own ease.-...-
The Public are little aware of the effect, arising from a
sense of power in the minds of persons in this class. The
gold.hound hat and coat, which to others seem as hu-
miliating as a livery, are worn by them as marks of
dignity and authority, amongst their dependent poor.
They represent themselves to be objects of compassion,
wheu they beg their offices of us ; but no sooner is the
laced coat put upon them, than a sense of importance
fills their minds, and this too often ends in hardness
of heart and pampered indolence. Nothing requires
so much education as the art of enjoying power,
withoitt abusing it. The mechanic may learn his
trade in a tenth part of the One necessary for
rendering him moderate and lenient in enjoyitz
the wealth and consequence he may acquires by it.
—A Pe .v years since, I was myself a witness to
the difficulty there was in persnading one of thew
beadles to remove from the streets to the workhouse,
'a poor, but very decent woman, full sixty years of
age, who had fallen down from fatigue and sewn
of nourishment, in returning from Greenwich, where
her husliand was a pensioner. She was, however,
carried to the workhouse, where she received, it night,
a basin of broth, and the nest morning another of
rice-milk. • She then voluntarily set out for her owa
home, a few miles off, full of thankfulness for the
kindness with which she had been treated.—Thus
was a fellow-creature saved, in all probability, from a
miserable death. But this would not have been, if
Mr. Beadle had not bt en pretty closely pressed by an
inhabitant ; for it was eleven o'ch,ck, and he had
got his slippers on, and he wonder ed.what the woman
could mean by coming at that time of night 1 A. a.

CORN MARKET, MARK• LANE, FEBRUARY 4.
Our Market is quite deserted—nothing transacting, the stalls
empty, and the prices nominal; therefore, until the thaw comp
menses, we expt.ct no alteration.

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