Star.
London, England, 1825-07-29 00:00:00

THE DUKE OF ORLEANS.

The following curious characteristics of this Prince
are related in a private letter from Paris of the 4th inst.
4, Everybody knows that the Duke is excessively rich,
but it is not generally known that he is his own steward
and accountant. He knows his receipts and expendi.
Jure to a centime. If he builds, he superintends, and
scertains the cost of the materials. Where he farms,
he is his own chapman. He cuts no grass to make hay
because he might have idle fellows who would make
two days work of one, and the hay might be wasted.
He therefore goes into his fields with those who wish
to purchase, and sells the grass as it stands, so that all
the expense of converting it into hay, and of its re-
moval, falls upon tke purchaser. He then calculates
how much hay his horses ought to eat in a year, and
purchases at the best rate to that extent. He does the
same also with his corn. Thew the Duke has no kitchen,
and consequently no cooks. He is supplied by a traiteur
at so much per dish; and here he is 'so economical in
the prices, that one traitsur has, it is said in Paris,
failed by the undertaking. What is left at the Duke's
table belongs to the traiteur, who supplies the upper
servants with it at so much per head ; and what is left
there goes on the same principle to the lower servants,
for all are upon board wages. The Duchess is equally
careful in her way ; and thus the enormous fortune of
the Duke becomes daily more considerable."

FRU:ORRICK PARFET, Esq. of Missenden, Bucks,
dropped off his horse and expired, on the morning of
Monday, when riding over his meadows. He had com-
plained of a giddiness in his head in the morning,
wbich had gone off, and he was in good health when
seized with the awful visitation.
It appears by the Coroner's accounts recited and al-
lowed at the Manchester Quarter Sessions, that twenty-
two persons have sacrificed their lives in that district,
during the last three months, by excessive drinking.
Thursday, at two o'clock, a fine steam-vessel, of
140 tons burthen, named the Bolivar, and intended for
the Colombian service, was launched from the building
yard of Messrs. GRAYSON and LIADLRY, Trentham-
street, Liverpool.
Wednesday, a large quantity of porpoises made their
appearance in the river Taw, and came up as far as
Bideford-bridge, much to the amusement of a vast
company of spectators.
Last week, at North Shields, a fellow issued notices
that he would be At Home on Friday evening, and enter-
tain the public with his recent, Trip to Paris, consisting
of recitations, songs, Ste. He kept his word—first pocket•
ing the money, and then disgusting the audience; but
if at borne at night, to the mortification of his landlord
and whets, he was absent at an early hour next morn-
ing, and forgot to pay a single debt he had contracted.
An infant, about a month old, which had been de.
setted by its unnatural parent, was found, on Tuesday
night, near the entrance to a wheeler's gate, in Park-
street, near the Borough Market. A man who hap-
pened to be passing by the place about one o'clock in
the morning, had his attention called to. the spot by
the cries of an infant ; and on going to the place, he
found the little creature on the ground, wrapped up in
a piece of coarse flannel. It was immediately taken to
St. Saviour's workhouse, where it now remains.
LAM OF NATIONS.—The Court of Cessation at Paris
has lately decided a point of some importance to vessels
approaching the colonial dominions of France. In
former times, regulations forbad every vessel to ap-
proach the coasts of the colonies nearer than one league.
Lately, M. Lardenoy, Governor of Guadaloupe,
tended this restriction to three leagues. Six English
vessels—the Anne, Sarah, Charlotte, Teazer, Bell;
and the For, and one American vessel, were detained
under this order of M. Lardenoy, and condemned as
good prizes by the Colonial Authorities. But this de-
cision was annulled on the 25th of November, 1824, in
consequence of a requisition of the Minister of Marine.
Afterwards a French vessel, the Adele, returning from
St. Thomas's to Martinique, was seized within three
leagues of Guadaloupe, and confiscated. Against the
confiscation the owners appealed, and the question was
to ascertain it M. Lardenoy was authorised to snake the
regulation which the vessel had violated, and if the re-
gulation of 1784, commanding vessels that were coming
into any of the ports, to make themselves known
at the distance of three leagues, had not been falsely
applied by the Colonial Tribunal ? After a profound
,and luminous discussion, the Court decided that the
Colonial Legislature had wrongly applied the law of
1784, as that was only applicable to vessels entering
the ports, and had no relation to vessels passing along
the courts pursuing their voyage. It accordingly an•
nulled the decision of the Court below.

DIED:
Thursday se'nnigbt, at KUlough Castle, county of Tipperary.
the Honourable Matthew Plunkett, only brother of the late Right
Honourable Thomas Lord Louth.

At his father's home lot Sassier, aged 24 years, John MiCreigbr,
Esq. Member sr the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
At Clancoole Terrace, Bandon, Colonel Hewitt, youngegt son cf
the late Rev. Charles Hewitt, of Clancsole, county of Cork.