Star.
London, England, 1804-11-22 00:00:00

DIYALIN, MPEIVD&R IS.

on Tnefday lark the High Sheriffs and a Depu.
Won of the Common Council, waited by appoint-
Ment upon Sir EVAN NEPIAN, with the refulutions
to which they had agreed at Michaelmas .kffem-
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bly. There refolutions particularly corn; 'silted of
the ruinous and filthy nate of the Rm is of Dublin ;

the frauds by which the price of corn and other pro-
vi f ans is fo extravagantly enhanced; the &firers to
which every kind trtrade is fubjetled by the want of
Myer coin for change; and, finally, the great incon-
N4...flee fuffered in the principal Ilreet%...of Dublin by

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the want of an avenue from Cattle-beet to Ship-
(beet, ranee the clofing of the pot ern of the Caßte-
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pate. This tefpeaahle Deputition was received in
the mat polite manner by the Chief Secretary he
enreted fully into the feveral topcs propounded, and
anted the gentlemen of the with of Government to
accede to their defiles. Refpetting the paving and
e;eanfing of the areas, Government had, he Paid,
already an contemplation to propofe Come effectual
temedy ; that the &Neil of corn and provifions was'
now afilually under their confederation; that mea.l
fares had aBually been taken for procuring, as fpeew
slily as the dies could be executed, a fupply of change
fot this country ; and, finally, that the avenue be-
tween Cafile-fireet and Ship-fireet ffioultf be imme-
diately opened. The Depotation continued for Come
time with Sir Eves, fuggetting their own opinions
upon thefe feveral fubje&s, and dircuffing the diffi-
culties which occurred in the cuurfe 11 et.nverfationi
and departed highly gratified by the polite and at-
tentive reception with which they had met.
A few nights ago-n fire took place in a haute in
txthequer-Ilreet, owing to the carded-ads of a boy
who let a candle fall among tome hay on which he
went to Beep. Owing to the exertions of Bennett, the
engine keeper of St. Andrew's parifh, the flames were
got under, and the life of the boy was fortunately
famed.
Major Stu and Juflice BELL, by uncealing exer-
tions, have fucceeded in breaking duce diftint knots
of villains—one, a gang of robbers; another, a het of
bank note forgers ; and a third, a party of dollar
and bank.token comers. They have all been tom-
tnitted for trial.
Srorrasn.—Sir Fesron Avtnea's bounds, with
the Kildare Hunt, had an excellent run from Cor-
b.dly on Monday Morning tag. The hounds found
01 at day-light, and forcing the fox in.mediately
from this famous hill. he tried both Davidkown and
Yellow Earths' and finding diem fltut, he went of
gallantly over Hugheftov:n, Stratford, and Belleeke
Hills, were being turned by country people, he went
dff beautifully for Friardown and Turnaunt, in
which he was run to ground. The fees lay Co high
over all this fine grate country, and the hounds car-
oled tech a head, that all the horfemen were beat in
the beginning ; there were only a hentfman and two
Gentlemen that got in at the end of the hunt by the
advantage of knowing the thortefl line of country.
NOVEMIIki 16.
The meafures adopted at our Cufirsm-houfe have,
far tome days pail, engrollid almoft all our atten-
tion. You mutt have heard from the Id& Papers,
that nearly the entire of the officers in the Excite
Deparzment, were, on Monday lafi, fuddenly
yeneled, end their places filled by a draft from the
country. A Rep of this kind, where no delinquency
was proved, or even infinuated, naturally excited
load murmurs againil the perfon from whom it
flowed, (Mr. Forret) the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer ; nor have thefe murmurs been confined to the
difplaced officers. The Revenue Board, who were
not even confithed on the expediency du, are highly
offended, and a very angry altercation is (aid r. have
taken place yelleseley on this fubjea between Mr. F.
and Lord D. the fenior Commiffioner. It is alfo Paid,
that that branch of the Revenue, the collation of
which is the immediate objet of Reform, hes coals-
illarahlreleclined within die haft three months.

Vrednefday lag the Weigh Houfe of Leith was fold
for zlool.
Letters from Fezerfburgh, of the aoth ult. mention,
that near the fouthern angle of the forty 1. of Etna-
goria, a hill on the fummit of a mountain, fituated
contiguous to ala ke Soo fathoms in circuit, began
an
to (well on the ath of July 'ail, between twelve a
one o'clock at night. The hill rote about twelve
fathoms, and then Will with lightning and a rum-
bling noife like thund:r, emitting burning clods and
ignited Bones, which were thrown a conliderable
height, and to a diflance of roc fathoms. Next a
clear flame made its appearance, Which fpread a clii-
agreeable fmell, and blazed for an hour and a halt.
The eruption occupied one half of the lake, forming
a hill of ten fathoms in height, and 300 in citcumfe-
fence.
By the lag accounts (root Botany Bay, we learn,
that Crofsley and Robinfon, two noted Attornies,
who were tranfported thither from this capital, have
realized conliderable rums of money, they having for
tome years engroffid, or rather divided between
them, nearly the whole of the legal Wind's of the
colony. in their proteffional way. Crofsley's time
of !entente having expired. and his pockets being
pretty well replerifhed, is about to return, and be-
tome once more an orsa:wits to his profeffion in Lon-
don, leaving the colonial Reid open to Robinfon,
whore lenience of tratifportation is to endure for life.
Barrington. who combines in a Rate of idiocy, which
difqualifies him from dilcharging the duties of High
Corglable, is maintained on a pealioo of 601. a year,
allowed him by the colony.
The trade of Fortune Hunting, whether by Mar
riage or Legacies. is generally attended with a deal
of vexatious trouble:. Its the former purfuitar, many
Bair-breadth etc.:pc+ from pertonal danger,
quently caper ienced by the adventuring gallantsy
and in the latter, people often dangle hog their lives
away, before the death of the parties malice their
expectancy. Yet there is a mode of fortune-hunting,
and but cne, where all danger, labour, and trouble
arc avoided. This objeft is evidently a State Lottery.
Here the only trouble, if it can be termed filch, is to
Rep, or to fend to a Lottery Office, and the only ex.
pence, the very final" one. comparatively (peaking, of
purebafing a Ticket or Share. which,
Maim p without a
for-
lois
vi our precious time. may in refent
tune of magnitude. Whoever reads the Scheme of
the cnfuing Lottery, will plainly perceive it is one of
t!'e :nod islezeßing that ever foliated the embrace of
.....tventurers.