Star.
London, England, 1824-11-09 00:00:00

MA. MARDYN.

We have seldom seen an act of more deliberate ma-
lignity than some anonymous slanderer has committed
in a letter which appeared in an Evening Paper of yes-
terday. The objects of attack are two,—one an indivi-
dual on whom the grave has closed, and consequently
is no longer able to defend himself; the other is a fe-
male, whose sex ought to have protected her from gra-
tuitous insult. The individuals to whom we allude are
Lord Byron and Mrs. Mardyn: this Lady, it is known,
was almost driven from the stage in consequence of a
malicious rumour which coupled her name with that of
his Lordship. It is well known that the rumour was
false, and that Lord Byron always declared that he
never saw Mrs. Mardyn, except in the Green-room of
the Theatre.

The anonymous writer of the letter to which we
have alluded, repeats the old story, and in a strain of
vituperation abuses both Lord Byron and Mrs. Mar-
dyn. The scandal we of course shall not be expected
to repeat, but we copy the following refutation of it
from a Morning Paper. Alluding to the original
letter, in which Lord Byron and Mrs. M. are so grossly
and wantonly abused., the writer says—

" No one who reads the above letter can for a moment mistake
its snatignarst import—nor, I should hope, for an instant hesitate to
condemn its snioton/y severity upon a female, who, whatever may
be her frailties or origin in life, has often given proofs of considera-
ble talent, and is at least innocent of the stigma here intended to be
affixed upon her. If the writer would dare speak out, he would,
no doubt, revive the somewhat stale fabrication of the differences
between Lord Byron and his Lady, arising out of an intimacy with
Mrs. Mardyn; than which nothing can be more false, as most of
his Lordship's personal friends can, If they please, testify. That
the unhappy occurrence was accelerated by some symptoms of
jealousy on the part of Lady Byron there is no doubt, and that
they were occasioned by the accidental visit of an Actress is
equally true; but the visitant is as much unlike Mrs. Mardyn
in person as it is possible any two persons can be to each
other; suffice it to say, she is still a member of one of the
London Theatres, and the mother of several children. The
great offence of Lord Byron on the occasion alluded to was. his
ordering his carriage to the door of his own house to convey the
Lady home, free from the inclemency of a dreadful storm,which cir-
-1 eumstanee being made known to Lady B. by some, officious domestic
spy, she in a St of jealousy hurried down stairs with her infant in
her arms, :rated herself in the carriage, and drove off to Doctors'
Commons, to consult with a Proctor oa the proper mode of pro-
ceeding. Such is the accredited fact, and it is but fair Mrs. Alardyn
should be exculpated front the serious charge of having produced
the unhappy difference, although (except for your private informa-
tion) I think it unnecessary to give the name of the real off:uder."

M. de VARGAS Minister from Spain to Rome, died
On the 23d of October of a fit of apoplexy. M. le Commas de
Vizassa, his Secretary of Legation, became Charge d'Affaires.
We have heard, with great pleasure, that his Excel-
lency the Lean LIEUITNAIRT of Lumano is nearly recovered from
his late bilious attack, and a slight indisposition from cold.
Lord STRANGTORD embarked at Constantinople, for
Trieste, on the Bth of October.

_ .
This morning the Worshipful Company of Gold-
smiths assembled at their Hall, in Foster-lane, and partook of break.
fast, previous to going to Guildhall to accompany the Loan
The Pensioners were clothed, and mustered in the court of the
Hall, thirty-eight of whom were clothed in green gowns with yel-
low collars' caps of the same, each man carrying a shield and spear,
preceded by an usher superbly dressed, wearing a ruff round his
neck and ostrich feathers in his cap, and carrying a baton in his hand.
A large party of Gentlemen Pensioners; old Bachelors, in number
twenty-eight, dressed in a very grotesque manner, with cocked hats,
large wigs, and staffs; two bands of musk; trumpeters and kettle-
drums, all mounted on beautiful cream coloured-horses, richly
caparisoned, marshalkd by Mr. Harrison, arched round the
Court three times. The above all wore iarge favours of green,
crimson, and yellow.
Doer..—At an early hour on the morning of Satur-
day, a meeting was appointed to take place within a
short distance of Guildford, in Surrey, between J. H.
M—, Esq. and Mr. B—, of South Dolton-street, at-
tended by their respective friends; but in consequence
of the active intetferencelof one oldie Gentlemen in the
commission of the peace (who had nearly secured Mr.
M. at the house of a friend on the previous evening),
the time arid place of meeting were changed by mutual
consent, and the parties met yesterday morning nearly
midway between Brentford and Hammersmith. Two
shots each were fired without effect, and the difference
was then amicablyadjusted.
Tuesday afternoon, a concussion of the air, not unlike
the violence of a tropical tornado, was experienced in
this neighbourhood. The wind rose suddenly, and
with such force, that many houses in the country, within
a few miles of this place, were unroofed, and the win-
doss s driven in. A considerable quantity of cloth was
carried up by the whirlwind from Lancefield bleachfield,
part of which was recovered from the east side of the
Tay. At Leitch Hill, a pear stack has been carried
away, and not a vestige spf it since seem—Perth Paper.
During the past ten days there have been stveral
flights of happy pairs" through Carlisle, towards the
shrine of Gretna. On Wednesday, as old man from
Askham, Westmoreland (aged 60), flew thither on the
wings of love, with a buxom damsel of twenty. And
yesterday a more elevated couple drove northward, in
chaise and four full gallop. Wipo they were, or whence
they came, no one can tell; but, like the late Lord
Erskine, the gentleman was veiled as be hurried through
the town ! These are rare times for the brandy-loving
noose- t y er.
Gibraltar Papers to the 18th ult. confirm the state-
ments previously received, that the Dey of Algiers had
informed the Sardinian Consul, that unless the tribute
which he had thought fit to demand of the King of
Sardinia was paid within the month of October, war
would be declared against that Power. The Dutch
Government had likewise been informed, that unless
they dissolved their alliance with Spain and made the
customary present to the Dey, hostilities would forthwith
be commenced against the Netherlands flag. War had
been declared by the Dry against Spain without any
provOcation, and a fleet consisting of twelve vessels of
war had been fitted out and sailed from Algiers against
all vesselsender Spanish colours.
New Brunswick Papers have reached us to the 12.11
ult. and Halifax Papers to the '2lst. but they cord:tits
nothing of importAtico.

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minutes. The low light is intended to be stationary a, betor,;,
its magnitude considerably increased, so as to rendet it more
rally beneficial to mariners.
It is stated that ten gun-brigs, of 235 tons each, are immtd:
to be put on the Falmouth station, as additional packets
The Wastes, 18, Captain Lerenrosto, arrived at D..ionpor!
Sarut day se'nnight. having lost sight of the experimental stpiado:
and sailed the next day for Portsmouth.
The HARLEQUIN, 18, *as paid off on Thursday, and recnient,..
sinned. Capt. JAMES Score, late of the Meteors bomb, is appon;:.l
to the command.
The Arriage, French • corvette, put into Drvooport o 7 g...
day ee'anight, from the Mediterranean, and soiled. tot W,.,;„t,(1.,.
for Brest. :•
Remain in IIantoazeBRITANNIA, %Nitwit -Casa Ix, ~,,
BOAMCNA, &IRMA, GANNET, SCYLLA, PARTHIAN,
QUIN, LINANTICLIMIL, Flee, and NEI MAN ; and VANUTLECA 41..1
lIA Rrr revenue cutters.-a-At the Island—Canatios.
The GAxass, 84, Capt. K LISLACI, C. B. was paid of on ‘1„,14.14
se night, and recommissioned the following day, as a guard 4111 V
r.
making the fifth now in Portsmouth harbour.
Lieut. Wm. Ilettvav is appointed to the Ilestarts, vice Ileakr,t.
The Alines arrived on Sunday sennight, from the I Ll,fax %taunt.,
having completed her three years, and is come into Portsmooch kn.
bout to be paid off into ordinary. Sbe Mad an extremely fine pas.;7,
from Halifax of only seventeen days. ltear-Admiral Lee inns.
tunately broke his arm by a fall from his horse. nn the 111th oa.
but was doing well when the Atoms left. The &Lento had artiN
there from Quiebec, on the 111th ultimo, having landed 31r. Giant.
Naval Storekeeper, at Kingston-yard, and was to proceed with tone
JOPSTRI to Bermuda, about the middle of this month.; the Ikt-
reast was cruising in the Bay of Fundy for the suppreolon
smuggling; the Mesas was to sail with the mail from Halifax to
Bermuda in a few days • and the SAMA RANO was expected with tht•
mail from Bermuda • the Rteszuse was absent front the statio,,
having gone from Quebec to Jamaica, with the Naval Storekrelm,
removed from Kingston to the latter Naval Arsenal. Mr. Ilsrtra,
Master of the klastat, and klr. A assereotio, Assistant-Surgeon, call,
house invalided; and the Second Muter of the Junes* wag ail.
pointed Acting Master of the blzarat.
Monday se'nnight, the ship Coriolanus, Baessott, master, put into
Spithead, from London. bound to Cape Coast Castle, with rice;
also the Hannah brig. DICIPSON, front St. John's New Brunswick,
for London, with timber; the Stately ship, Aeons, master, front
London for Jamaica, also arrived on the same day.
The Voyagers, of Shields, Coarse, from L'etersburgh, was totally
lost on the 10th salt. on Gmhland—cren saved.
The Vigilant, Con, from Liverpool to Wyburg, was totally lost
on the 18th ult. off Wyburg—crew saved.
The Aurora, 'lummox, was driven on shore in the Texel, on
the 3d instant.
FALMOUTH, Nov. 7—Wind S. W.—Arrived the Lady Wellington
packet, from the Mediterranean—sailed from Corfu the 22d Sep.
ember, Malta 2d October, Gibraltar 23d. and Cadiz 25th; the
Zephyr packet, from New York—sailed 9th October and from
Halifax 224 ditto; New John (late Rosman), from Sierra Lee/in-
--sailed 2d September.
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 7.—Wind W.—Arrived the Spring, &ewe,
from blentel ; Laura, Lisaintst, from Quebec in twenty-five days;
Medway, Eataasosti, from Rio in eighty-t Our days, fur Hamburg's.
Off the port, the Smyrna FARMER, from Smyrna. Arrived the
Margaret, Lictax, from Landon for St. Übe's.
Puazsatouro Nov. B.—Wind W.—Arrived his Majesty's shim
Rose, from the Mediterranean; CHAMPION and PANDORA, from a
cruize.; Columbus, JACKSON; and Doncaster, MARSHALL, front Que.
bee in twenty-six days. Passed by for London, the 'Trieste, FA,..
ma, from Trieste in forty-four days. Arrived the following out.
ward-bound vessels from the Downs, viz.—Lady Keith, Alfred,
Mirabies, Julius, Cambridge, Sarah Christina, Thomas, George
Ilibbert, Maitland, and Competitor. Put back the Asia, Pore;
Shipley transport ; Madras, Cows= ; Albion, —; William MlR-
fling, SMITH ; Prudent, —; IleSO, CLIDISSMOS; Stately, EDGAR.
DUAL, Nov. B.—Wind &W. —Passed through, the Neptune,
Wane, from Rio for Hamburgh; also and sailed fur the River, the
Tipten Hall, &norm:son, from Messina. Came down from the
River and remain, the George the Third, Porn-swims; JChn, Stu ;
&dada, Mate; and Barclay, Fatima, for Jamaica; Ocean,
WHITTLR, for Honduras; and Robert, Itarnosve, for 31unteerrat.
Arrived the Margaret, —, from the Westward.
Livestrooc, Nov. 7.—Arrived the John and Thomas, —, front
Quebec; and the Comet, Mittman, from llirantichi..
THE LATE SIR CHRISTOPHER PULLER.

Bishop Heber, in his primary charge at Calcutta, no.
ticed the death of Sir C. Puller in the following terms:
" A few days only are gone, since, with the anima:
tion of his benevolent countenance, he expressed to me
his gratitude to Goo for many blessings which he had
received, and his desire to dedicate to him, through
Jesus CHRIST, a larger portion of his time, his means,
and his influence. A few hours only are passed since
these good resolutions are gone thither, Where they are
best known and appreciated by a gracious Goo, shorn
he had served from his bomb, and who, when the
noon of his life had scarcely begun to decline, saw fit
'to call him to his recompense and his repose.
"In him India,—in him the Anglo-Indian church,—
in him the cause of missions here, and throughout the
world,—in him the poor of every caste and of every
'country have lost a fearless, a kind, a bountiful, and an'
unpretending friend. But he will not have died in vaiik
'.if the consideration of his sudden mortality shall induce
us to ponder the worth of this vi odd, in regions where
the present moment is all which we can be said to hold
of it, and shall so teach us to number our days that ue
may apply our heat is unto wisdom."