Star.
London, England, 1825-08-02 00:00:00

THE KiAG.

Ills lga:rtsrr =lead in town, from Windsor, this day, at one
o'clock, and held a Council of his Ministers at Carlton Palace,
when the itimoatiza of LONDON attended, to make his Report of the
capital convicts under sentence of death in Newgate.

FASHIONABLE. INTELLIGENCE.

The Dowager :%larebioness of Salisbury left town yesterday for
Hatfield. _ _ _ _ _ _

Emily Marchioness of Londonderry left town en Friday, for her
seat. North Cray, Kent.
The Earl and Countess of Darlington and family left town yes-
terday, for their seat, Raby Castle, Durham.
Lord Harvey left town yesterday for Tunbridge Wel:s.
Countess de Grey left town yesterday, for her seat, Wrest-house,
Bedfordshire. .

The Earl and Countess of Falmouth left Woolhampton, Berk:,
yesterday, for their seat, Tregothan, Cornwall.
The Hon. and Rev. Mr. Boscawen left town yesterday, for his
seat in Kent.

The Niarq.iis of Camden left town yesterday, for his seat, the
Wilderness. Kcnt.

The Duke and Duchess of Richmond left town yesterday, for
their seat, Goodwood, Sussex.

THE ARMY.

Tuesday, the First West York liniment of Militia assembled
at Doncaster for 28 days' training and exercise, under the com-
mand of Colonel FOUVTATNE WILSOK. _

A detachment belonging to the 7th Dragoon Guards marched
yesterday, from Westminster for Bristol, on route to Ireland.
Detachments belonging to the 12th, 43d, and 65th Infantry,
marched yesterday from Westminster for Plymouth.
A detachment of the Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards marched
on Saturday last from Westminster, for Canterbury.
A detachment belonging to the 4th Regiment of Light Dragoons
marched on Saturday, from Westminster for Maidstone.
Detachments belonging to the 44th, 45th, 53d, 57th, 59th, and
82d Regiments of Foot, marched on Saturday last from Westmin-
ster for Chatham.

The Sd Battalion of the Grenadier Regiment of Guards arrived
on Saturday last at Liverpool, on route to Dublin.
Tuesday, the Officers and men of the Berks Militia were disem-
bodied, the period of actual service having expired. Upon the arms
bring returned into the store on the day previous, Colonel Room.
soaw expressed his approbation of the conduct of the men, and
the very rapid progress they made in their military duties.
Dumsaarow. JULY Yd.—The Dumbartonshire Yeomanry Cavalry,
under the command of Major Dexutyroun of Coigrain, marched into
quarters here this day, for the usual period of eight days' permanent
duty. This fine corps has mustered extremely strong, and the men,
notwithstanding the oppressive heat of the weather, appear to be
animated with the best spirits.

WINDSOR, AUGUST I.—His MAjtaft left the Royal
Lodge, at four o'clock this afternoon, intis pony phae-
ton, fAlowed by his suite in two others, with outriders,
for Virginia Water.. After enjoying .his usual .excur-
sions on the Lake; the Kum will dine in the Royal
Marquee, erected for that purpose. His MainTY in-.
variably after dinner resumes his place in the pleasure
boat, where he continues-until seven o'clO4. To!..mor-
row his MAJESTY is expected to leave the Royal Lodge
for London, and return in the evening to dinner.
Mr. Secretary CANNING returnod from attending the
Ku's at Windsor, on Sunday. to the seat of Sir GsolosliVws.l
rumrsa, to dinner, at Cltfden, near Maidenhead. Yesterday
morning, about balf-past ten o'clock, the Right Hon. Gentleman'
left that place for Cheltenham. .
Yesterday morning the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHR-
mm arrived in town from Beckenham, in Kent. The Right Hon.
Gentleman transacted business at the Voreign'Oincei and in the
afternoon returned to Beckenham.
Ye.terday evening the Danish Minister transacted
business at the Foreign Office.
Mr. PLANTA arrived at the Foreign Office yesterday
afternoon, from a visit to Sir Gnaws WARILICUDIM
The Bishop of LONDON and his amiablt'family, are
at present sojourning at Dour.
The EArl and COORteiS BATHURST left town yester-
day afternoon, for his Lordship's country residence, near Cirencester.
His Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON has been una-
nimously elected a Member of the Berkshire County Club; the
usual method of ballot having been declared unnecessary.
ROBERT WILMOT- HORTON, Esq. M.P. left town on
Saturday afternoon, for Tunbridge Wells. •
Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH passed through Leeds, on
Wednesday, on his way to Harrowgate, whither be has gone for
the benefit of his health.
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Tuesday evening, about eight o'clock, a loving
couple from the South, who, it appeared, bad travelled at a furious
tate, arrived in a post-chaise and four, at the Bush Inn, to this
city. The chaise and horses were quickly changed, and the party
drove off rapidly to Gretna. At two the next morning they re-
turned to the Bush, on their way southwards.—CartisteJournal.
Yesterday, his 'Excellency , Cuunt LUDOLF, Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the
King of Nang', jointly with Mr. N. M. Itornscsaxn, and ac-
companied by Mr. CHARLES Gann Notary Public, cancelled
and deposited in the Bank of England, the amount of thirteen
thousand eight hundred pounds in special bonds of the said Loan,
being the second half of the sum fixed for the redemption in the
year 1826, including the saving of interest on the amount de-
posited the Ist of February last.
Some of the PAri.ian astronomers say we shall have
Hate or no rain until the end of the autumn, the disk of the sun
being more free from spots than has been known for several years.
A genial shower this day, with the appearance of much more rain,
is, however, likely to retute the Parisian Sevens.
Eul FITZwILLIA NI and Lnrd MILTON have arrived
at Wentworth House, near Rotherham.
QUEENSBERRY CLAIMANTS.—The LORD CHANCEL-
Los has made an order for payment to all the Scotch claimants upon
the late Duke of Quzissaitaav's estate, who have obtained decrees
or judgment* in the Court of Session in Scotland, affecting the
said estate.

The French.. Ambassador, Prince POLIONAC• is 1101
yet returned front Paris, and the Marquis PALIVIILLA had an in-
terview with Mr. S.creta:y Cantinas at Coombe Wood, the day
before his return to town. _

Mr. Secretary CANNING, previously to his return to
London, intends to pay a visit to his friend Colonel BOLTON, at his
beautiful villa of Storrs, in Westmorland, oa the borders of Win-
dermere Lake.

I'lhe LORD MAyon, and a large party of Gentlemen,
dined with the Goldsmiths' Company, yesterday, to commemorate
the happy accession of the family of his present Maaetry to the
Throne of Great Britain.

The first amount of 66 Rent" publicly announced to
have been received by the New Catholic Association was 151.
It was expected that Mr. Christmas •would have
been re-examieed yesterday, at Bow-street, on the charge of em-
bezzling property belonging to Messrs. Haws, the bankers, in
Fleet-street. The order for his appearance has, however, been
again countermanded.
The Abbe de ST. FARE, a natural Eon of the too'
celebrated Nair Boaciza, died on Sunday se'nnight. He :was
one of the innumerable examples among the French of the incon-
veniences to which they will submit, under the most painful cir-
cumstances of infirmity or old age, rather than not enter into so-
ciety. Totally deprived of the use of his limbs, and with all the
digressing appearance of bulk of a man in the dropsy, he was to
be seen, until within a few months, wheeling tiinistlf about in a
erlin's chair, in the salons of the fashionable company of Paris,
apparently enjoying himself in conversation or his rubber of
?Agit, es if be were in perfect health. Ir no other mpect Was he
t all retninkable.

' II

. WI? ENGLISH AT, ilov4oGNE.

TO TIIR,EDITOR Olr THE STAR.
• Bouwares-sot-noti Jumi 29, 1825.
Stn'--Seeing this morning a letter in one of out
Weekly Papers here (TheAnnotateur &ulonnais), written
by an Englishman, who has reason to be proud of the
spirited manner in which he vindicates the assaulted
Character of h;, countrymen, and deprecating, in the
strongest terms, t!'e conduct of an individual, who,
influenced by the bai.e;t motives, wrote an article to
the Marring Herald, which a4reared on the 22d,
FALSELY CALUMNIATING t!, character of the British'
residents in this town, I think it my duty (as your Cor-
respondent here) to lose no time in forwarding you a,
copy of the cane, as the best means of protnoting that
publicity which the exposure of UNFOUNDED SCANDAL
so imperiously demands.
(COPY.)
" SUNDAY, Jinx 24,1825..

" Ma. Enroll—l have this moment observed, in the Morning
" Herald of Friday Jut, a paragraph trent the pen of some scrib-1
" bling, low-nth:dad WITLING, relative to the nature of the society
" of Boulogne, and am perfectly astonished that any respectable
" Paper should give insertion to so feeble aril so groveling an at-1
" tempt to any community. Among the most exceptionable
" ' personages' to be met with in this town, no doubt the most ob-1
" jectionrble is the wretch who wrote that paragraph, with a view
" to reduce others, if possible, to tits own level, being unacquainted
" with the many most respectable and estinsabk families and
indict-
" duals residing at Boulogne-sur-Mer, whose doors are unquestion-
" ably shut against malicious slanderers, of which ma is 014 Z ! That
" Boulogne, like every other ' Wavvtuia PLacs,' cannot bt.tast of
" an inintacuk:e society is too clearly demonstrated- by, the ae-
" knowledged presence of a demoniac calumniator, whosejaundiced
" eye can only perceive, in a very numerous and mixed society, the
"few bad among the MANY Goon and *MAUR characters to be met
" with at this fashionable and gay *watering place.' The assassin
" who murders an individual, is often caught and banged; but thi
" wretch who endeavours to murder the character of a community,
1‘ is more worthy of the gibbet; and is as great a pest to society as
" the assassin ! The concluding sentence of the paragraph alluded
to, spews that its writer fortunately moves in a circle of his own,
" if such actually exists here, and that psis quite aufait at the tricks
" of his associates, which verifies the vulgar English proverb, ' Set a
" thief to catch a thief.' _ _

" I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, T.
" Yon are at liberty to give my name to any man who avows him-
" of to be the writer of that paragraph, and to refer him to me for
" any further satisfaction."
Hoping, Sir, to see you evince (by the speedy inser-
tion of the above in your excellent Journal) your coin-
cidence with my own, and that of every true English-
man's opinion, that scandal cannot be too widely
exposed, or too loudly denounced,
I beg leave to subscribe myself, with every respect,
VINDEL

, NAP-AL INTELLIGENCE.

PIRATES.

The following is an extract of letter from the Agent to Lloyd's
it Honduras, dated 15th June:—" The Robert, Dustor, arrived
here on the 23d of May, from Greenock and St. Thomas's, was
boarded by a pirate the same day she left the latter place, who
took Captain Dvst.or out of his vessel, kept him on board for three
hours, and then dismissed him. The pirate was a schooner,
mounting one long guri on a swivel, with muskets, &c. Captain
D. says, he taw the same vessel at anchor while he lay at St. Tho-
mu's, with only four or five men; while he was on board she had
about sixty men, all ruffians of different nations, Captain and all
hands in a state of intoxication. They told him they were Colom-
bians' and waiting for the brig Hunter, Captain Nicot.x., bound
from St. Thomas's for La Guayra, with a considerable quantity of
specie, and tat passengers. The Captain of the privateer said, that
.when he went into St. Thomas's to reconnoitre, he always landed
his hands on Crubb Island, and Captain D. has no doubt but he
must cruise with the connivance of the Authorities of St.Thomas's,
or the residents cf that island." _ _ _

Arrived off Scilly, the Castlereagh, WzraserxAst, from Mirami-
chi; Reza, STocsszo, from Cadiz; Hope, Maws, from Lisbon.
Fautouxisjorm 31.-- Variable, light airs.—Arrived his Majesty's
brig Cassruos, from Plymouth. Sailed the .Velocity, Baooxs,
for Valparaiso and Lima; George, Jamas; and Alfred, Ram,
for London.
Pee/KOUT/4 Jevv 31.—Wind S.E.--Arrived tho Vesper,
Jar-
ritsoN, from Sierra Leone, in ten weeks; and Eliza, Bow.sana,
from Fignieras. Sailed thel City of Rochesy. r, TWDALX, for
St. Petersburgb ; New Thomas, Quiscatv, and Brutus, for London.
PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST I.—Wind W.—Arrived his Majesty's
ship Crania, from the Mediteranean, and is under quarantine ;
Aretbusa, JAMISON, from Quebec; and Zephyr, transport, from
the eastward. Passed by the Mexican ship of war Swiftsure, TILLY,
from Vera Crux. Sailed the John, Maros, for Riga. Arrived the
Royal Mail, from Honduras.
Wednesday, the ship Boyne passed by for the River, from Ma-
dras, having sailed thence on the 15th January, and from the Cape
of Good Hope, the 18th June, and landed here, Capt. Gaoaoa
TINCOMIII, R.N. (charged with dispatches), Mr. Noacocx, Purser,
Messrs. Lake and POINIA3I, Midshipmen, Inc of the Lurie.
Having had a long passage from. Madras, he does not bring any
news from Rangoon. The distribution of the Naval squadron was
as follows :—Ltrirar, 46, Commodore Cos, lying at Madras on
the 15th January, to sail on the 224 for Trincomalee and Bombay
(if found not wanting to aid the operations of the army at Ran-
goon) ; Taxan, Se, Captain J. G. Banns, C.B. going to suc-
ceed the ALLIOATOB, 28, Captain T. ALXIANDER, C.B. in the
command at Rangoon.; AZACHNE, 18, Capt. Casts ; r &waltz,
18, Capt. Rirvits, carrying on operations in conjunctio,. with the
army at Rangoon; Tit; 28, Captain FRXD. MARRYRT gone to
Singapore, for the Pulicat Merchants (she had recently lost seven
by cholera rnorbus, at Trincomalee); Lune, 20, Captain FRI%
Mater...Tr' lying off Manahan. Appointments:—Lieutenants A.
WHITE and J. N. Porauav, to the Weer ; Mirrors, to the 'rags;
TiOIINTON, to the ALLIGATOS; BleFiN, to the Ties; CAWLI.IIO;
to the &rut&
Dear., Auousr I.—Wind light and variable.—Arrived and Sailed
for the River the Julius, Jacksox, from St. Kitt's; Ark, RANCIti,
from Berbiee • Boyne, &rumens, from Bengal; Providence
from Newfoundland; Martin, from the Westward and William
Lushington, Soonaus,froos St. Kitt's. Sailed. the Cato transport,
for Cork ; and the John Dunn, IVPl3x.iern, for Van Dieman's Lard.

THE CROPS, GARDEN

Sic.

In constquerce of the almost unprecedented continuance of
warm weather, the greater part of the corn crops are nearly fit for
the sickle. In Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, Hertfordsuire,
Oxfordshire, and some other counties, large quantities have already
been reaped. The quality and amount of the crops are exceedingly
various, some being plentiful, and full in ear, and others altogether
as bad. The wheat, generally speaking, is both plentiful and
good ; barley not quite so favourable. Oats and rye are tolerably
good, but not so good as we remember in some former years. The
accounts of the crops from the Northern Counties are generally
favourable, but they will not, of course, be down for some weeks
yet. The hop account is decidedly bad, as are also the turnip pros-
pects, which, as well as the artificial and the natural grasies,
suffer much from the want of rain. Potatoes, with the exception
of some few favoured spots, have not been very productive. Those
vines which were not blighted by the spring frost present a very
fine shew of grapes. Some few other fruits have also profited by
the weather; hut, generally speaking, it has produced a sad fall in
the leaves of trees, particularly those in very dry situations.
Heat and want of rain is much felt in the Kitchen Garden.
Gardeners say, if this weather continues a fortnight longer, vege-
tables will not be brought to market but in very small quantities,
and those which are made to stow by excess of labour (watering),
will fads a remarkably high price. Those productions which re-
quire heat are now most abundant. Apricot trees have seldom been
so productive. The walls are covered, in most warns situations,
with fruit. Cucumbers are fine and plentiful. Cabbages, Lettuces,
and Battersea Beans, are burnt up, and not fit to cat. Potatoes,
in some grounds, are almost baked by the solar heat.

• His Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSEX, Sir J'LLN
Dolma, and several other Gentlemen of distinction, honoured the
Fishmongers' Company with their presence, at their Hall yester-
day, to witness the starting of the young watermen for Dogget's
coat and badge. The whole of the party afterwards partook of an
elegant dinner in the Company's Hall.
There was a n:ost splendid exhibition of the Aurora
Borealis on Tuesday night. ft was seen by many persons in tke
neighbourhood of Carlisle, and further North.
Almost every st:ecies of game has been unusually
prolific in the present year. Pheasants, part:Mgt.:, *ar.ti hues;
' sic very abundant, large., and vigorous.