Star.
London, England, 1822-07-12 00:00:00

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argintasood Foot, diatessoid by Litrawatiat-Coload Jemmy
arrived at Livoryiol, oa Heir way to hello&

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P 99119909, JULY 4.—!ldled the Free& sebooner La Creel;
of Brest, Captain Beaune, for Swansea; the -brig Wasedoc
Banns, with clay, and 900 casks of new potatoes on board, for
Liverpool; and several boats, with new potatoes, for Pt7mc,ott,
Weymouth, and Portsmouti.:—Artived the smack Niro;
rpckm
,Ilsosoare, from Bristol, with sundries; brig Garree
&Trairs, with coals, from Swansea ; schooner Liberty,
?yaws with ditto, frau Swansea ; and several other content.—
Yesigarliay, the Preventive Water Guard at this pert. under th.
command of Captain Amass swept for and-souk up 59 tubs cs
*sits • and this day Ave other tube have been brought frost
Prussia's Cove, by **boat stationed there.
F44.llonsitf JILT 9.7—Wind W.—Passed this part, the Pam.,
from London for Quebec. Arrived 'the Fortitude,
CLUBBY, from Gilboa.
PLIWOUTII, JULY 10.—Wind W.—Arrived from London the
Nassau, Tasseatim, far Malaga; and Brasilia. Rawbox, fur
Gibraltar.

71;;;;;aoirra,Jvt.T11.—Wind S.S.W.—Passed by the Bosco,
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Roos, from Beset:dm for London. , - •

ihiaa, Jinx IL—Wind S.W.—Salted this morning the Ruhr,
Constar, for Lisbon; and the rest of the outward-bound, :air
their different desdnattons. Came down from the River, ac;]
remains, the Heart of Oak, Romani., for Demerara. Arrived
and sailed for the River, the Planet, BAZCLAT, from Jamaica;
Auteus, Bram; and Mayo, from Antigua.
Cusrou-House, Jinx 11.—Ships Battered Inwards:
Thalia, from Jamaica ; Percival, from Grenada ; Sarah ata
Margaret, from Hamburgh ; Talbot, front Calais; and little.
verance, from ditto.--,Entered . Outwards ; The Earl il,thurn.
for Rotterdam; Saha, for Antwerp; Budget, for Plailacklphia;
Briton, for Belfalt ; Lenach. for Batavia; Dart, for o,cer.:.;
Sally, for Cork; Venus, for Philadelphia; Tontine, for B.lbos;
Helen, for Rip; Rambler, for Hamburgll ; Lark. for o.tend;
and Spanish Patriot, for Cadiz;.—Cleared Outwards : The Mots,
for Philadelphia; armony, for Hamburgh; Talbot, for Cy.
Isis; Laurel, for ablator ; and Velocity, fur St. John's.

Saturday, as Major FITZCLARENCE was riding is
Hyde Park, he observed a boy fall into the
into which the Serpentine River empties itself. 1:s
instantly dismounted, leaped into the water, catigi:t
hold of the boy, and brought him cut, when the ne-
cessary means being taken, in which the gallant MA.
jor most actively assisted, suspended animation was
restored.

The Duke of BEDITORD continues to make 1: a:, ry
progress in his recovery.—Bulletin received yestet
e " EDISIAIOII COTTAGE, ..lcor 9.
The Dike of Balms. continues to make tivour.::)le Fr).
grew. r (Signed) " S. W001.11,1D6
The Marquis and Marchioness of LA NS ig) N gave
an elegint entertainment on Wednesday to—
Earl und Cotintess Cowper, Lard and Lady Holland, the Ent
of Darlington, Earl of itoislyn, Earl of &Icon, the F.Arl
Countess of Jersey, EarlThAoet. Lord Auckl and, A r. I irut.i,
Mr. Luttrell, Sic. at Lanadown House, Berkeley-squar..

The Dowager Countess of CLoriza ELL gave a :oler
sumptuous Entertainment on Wednesday la-r, at her
house in Portman-squire, which was attenae.! by—
The Earl and Countess of Ormond, the NeapOlitan
Earl and Countess of Clonintll, Countess LAS dolpS, Lord llow;n1
of Effingham, Sir John and lady Murray, dr. and Lady Ma-
lone Pindar, Ilan. Major. Finch, Mr. Napier, Earl of Craa.
brook, &c, &c. _ _

The Proprietors of the South wark-bridge have com-
menced making an elegant new street, from linio,:-
street .to the Borough-road, which will be direct with
the Bridge. This will prove a great convenience, as
London-bridge must necessarily be impassable in 3
few weeks, when the whole of the traffic .nrUit be re-
moved to the iron bridge.
Yesterday the General Committee of the Nationd
Society for the Education of the Poor in the princi.
pies ot the Established Church, held their Meeting
at St. Martin's Vestry Room. His. Grace the Are:-
bishop 01 CANTERBURY, Bishop of EXETER, 110:).
Jastice PARK, Archilta.<4lPOTT, and other Mel,l:ers
of the Committee were present. Eight fresh sc:1:.ols
were united to the Society, and several grant,
money we: e made towards the erecting ot
' rooms ; amongst others, 3001. to Botd,ington,
to Fulfurd, 1001. additional to Amlwch.
The shock ot an earthquake was felt at St. Jan ca
the B.h ult. which la teJ about 30 seconds, aid in-

jured a number of buildings, the walls of w:lich fc.;;
111 some instances tables weir thrown over, glasses
iroken, &c. The inhabitants were much alarmed,
and fled into the streets—they were apprehensive or
another shock, but it had not taken place on the
Accounts from Valparaiso, of the 17th of Feb:l!atrt
state, that the differences between Lord Ci)ciiit.‘ NI
and General SAN MARTIN had not been reconci:z.:.
Reports unfavourable to the latter were in circz.l.t.
tion, and such epithets as 6 selfish, cruel," .:eteft-
able, 4 villain,' and 6 plunderer; nese applied to I:ic.
The Chilians rejoiced that COCHRANE was arra-
-I.riating to his own put pose 500,000 dollars of try
sum which SAN MARTIN entrusted to his safekeep-
ing, and which constituted one-hail of the amou,:t ct
which he had defrauded the Chilian Govertunent.

THE Museum, No. XIL (a new Weekly Journal
devoted to LITERATURE, the FINE ARTS, SCIESCIte
ANTIQUITIES, the DRAMA, &c.) published Ju!y 13,
(price Bd. in London And its Environs, orfree by 1:04,
Is.) contains:

Reviews of I halite. Table Talk ; or, Original Essays, vol. IL
—O'Meara's Napoleon in Eeile—Mrs. lit:gland's Talcs of the
I%h:inn—Original : Letter from Paris, . No. V.—The l',:mrs
Book, No. IV.—Wansteati House—Education and Accutrp.:ll.
ments--Tbe Man in the Bell—Raspberry Vinegar—Orv..-1
Poetry.—Fme Arts: Statue of Achilles in Hyde Park-146
Exlsibition.—The Drama : English Opera House--Haynurkr:.
Varieties Character of Dr. Johnson—lron Steam Boat—l. lo •
versity Intelligence—Literary Announcements, &c. &c.
Published by J. Mit.Laa,6o, Fleet-atreet, every Saturday ;
also by all Booksellers, Newsmen, Postmasters, atc.

At Brent, near Ivy. Bridge, many of the inhabi!•
ants have been amused by the frequent visits et
blackbird in the adjoining fields, which imitates wi:l
Freat clearness the crowing of a Bantam cock.-
twenty pounds are offered for the capture et t,-::.1
woodland mocker!

SILIDDRN DENIAL OP LADY G. PaArr.—The
'Family of CAMDIN have been thrown into a state of.
great affliction in consequence of the sudden death o;the eldest daughter. The Marquis. Lord linii"7
/welt, and the three youngest daughters, had 10.
town, on Wednesday, for the Wilderness in Kent;
the Marchioness, aad the lamented deceased, re'
mained in town, for the day. About three 0'4:4)4
the young Lady was seized with a shivering
supposed to have been caused by her having w•ilk.'l
in the garden with thin shoes. Sir HANDY HALFOI)
attended, and having prescribed the proper remedY)
his interesting patient seemed perfectly mu. el ed.
Uufortimately, however, the fit returned at hall pot
five, aad at six, the amiable Lady expired illate
meow of her mother.

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S .

PUBLIC DBFAULnis.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR, LONDON.
Pub, 4th July, 1844.
_ _

Sia-7-Flaving observed in a Foreign Journal this
clay, an Extract from your Paper of a Return to thb
House of Commons, in which my name appears as a
Public Defaulter, as Agent to sundry Regiments, to
the amount of upwards of 40,0001. I take the ear-
liest opportunity of observing to you, that the state-
ment in question is substantially false—l neither
owe nor ever owed to the Public the sum so stated.
IVha:ever balance may be due to the Public on the
anal audit of my accounts, which are not yet passed,
is already undertaken to he secured in the most un-
exceptionable manner to the Government.

I remain, Sir, your very obedient Servant,
P. B. DB BLAQUIERF..

• • 1
0„0 We give ready insertion to the above letter, as we wish
every person who conceives himself aggrieved by anything that
pas appeared in the STAII4 to be heard in his own defence. in
justice to ourselves, however, we must observe, that the state-
ment was taken, as it purported to be, from a Return made to the
house of Commons. In that Return, Peter Boyle Blaquicre,
partly on his own account, and partly as executor of Edward
Leahy, deceased, stands as a defaulter in the Irish Military Ac-
counts, in various sums amounting to upwards of 42,0001. of
which not a shilling has yet been recovery!, though a sum of
56731. three per cent. stock, 6991. in cash, and " a mortgage of
the I..nds of Portlernen, in the county Of Westmeath, of little
value in consequence of prior incumbrances," are expected to
be rendered available to the payment of these debts. The re-
turn adds, that the Colonels of the several Regiments who ap-
pointed Mr. Blaquiere to the agency, may be held responsible,
and sued for the deficiencies. We are, however, very happy to
hear from Mr. Blaquiere, that the Public will not be a loser in
this instance.

No account has yet reached town of Mr. A/MR-
CROMiIi, or of the Messenger of the House of Com-
mons who was sent after him on Tuesday evening,
with the Sreastrit's_warrant for his immediate at-
tendance in Parliament. Unless the Ho .Gentleman
has been intercepted' in his way,
G. By this ise.ts at trobro'-town,
" If man and horse bild good."

A Correspondent recommends that the floor of the
House of Commonsihould be matted, like that of the
House of Lords. Since some Members of the former
have adopted the dandy fashion of copper-bottomed
shoes and hoots, their clatter is a strange disturbance
to the audibility of the speakers.
The Highgate Chapel Bill is, it seems, to be per-
severed in. This Bill professes to have for its object
the diversion of a fund left by will for the support of
a perpetual Grammar-school at Highgate, to the
bailding of a Chapel, and the payment cf a Clergy-
man. It is admitted that all questions of private pro-
' perty come under. the jurisdiction of the Courts of
Law or Equity: and it places in no very reputable
point of view the motives. which govern the authors
of this Bill, that the whole subject embraced by it is
actually now before the LORD CHANCELLOR, whose
decision the Bill anticipates, or rather condemns be-
foiehand, inasmuch as, if the justice of the case were
with them, the abettors of it need not be so impatient
for legislative interference to enforce their claims.—
But the meditated cosstraiention of the will of the
founder, and consequent iftvaxion upon the rights of
property, the inhabitants of Highgate conceive to be no
less snani:est in this measure,:than they do its ten-
dency.to abrogate the Courts of Jnstice by tempting
amajosity of both Houses of Parliament to take on
themselves the functions of LORD CRANCRLLOR.—
Sir ROGRR CMOLPIELRY left his money to maintain a
flee Gs animar-school at Highgate—not to endow a
Church, or to yield a large in*me to a Clergyman;
and with what face can the advocates of the Church
of England defend her sacred rights and vested pro-
perty against those who would lay them both prostrate,
if here the self-called friends of the 'Establishment
presume to found an extension of its interests upon
the direct violation of a right of property sacred as
that of the Church itself? A house of prayer built
upon-the ruins of common honesty will not much
serve the cause of religion: nor is it short of insult
and irreverence to think of consecrating to holy pur-
po.uthe plunder of the living and the dead!
At.stacat's Grand 13411 was again most splendidly
attended on Wednesday. The Party exceeded 400.
Among the quadrille dancers wet c
Count D'OissAv - . Bliss MAMMON.
Lord BitUDIENSLL • •• - Lady C. Poem
fir. Blot.rsou . . - Lady F. blosirtmlit.
Captain D'l•sss - . . - Lady C. Turns.
Lord BIUNCASTILS - - • Bliss CooßntliTo/4
Lord U. Botemics - - - Bliss Sayssons.
Captain B lady Sr. CLAM.
Lord J. TUYNXZ • - - Miss C*usiso.

Warrnaa.--Yesterday eight men and a Jew boy
were whipped in the Sessions House-yard, in the Old
Bailey, in presence of a greater number of persons than
usual on such occasions; aad, it was remarked, with
One
severity than has been known for some years.
One man during his punishment fainted away, while
some of the others behaved with the greatest inso-
lence. Six were also privately whipped, one of whom
having recelVed a lash after the word halt, told the
executioner he would punish him for giving him
mole than his due!

linzA au and Co. sold the Two first 820,000
izes in the last Lottery Contract.—Lottery begins
Next fuesday, when ten Capitals are sure to be
drawn, and may be gained at a trifling risk, as every
Purchaser may return his Ticket or Share after taking
the chance of the first day, at a small reduction from
the pt ice he gave, viz. only El. 18s. on a Whole
Ticket, and Four Shillings on a Sixteenth—other
Shares in proportion (if brought back before 26th
'July). Wheel contains Two if £50,000, Tvio of
£20,000, Consols, &c. &c. Not Two Blanks to a
Pri'•.—HAZAeD and Co.'s Offices, Royal Exchange
Gate ; 26, Cornhill ; and 324, Oxford-stet.
Frac.—About two o'clock yesterday morning a fire broke out
at a cheftemonger's in Charles-street, St. George's in the East.
The filmes were very extensive is the lower part of the house
when the fire was first ditcovered, and great difficulty prevail-
ing before the inmates could be awoke and made sensible of their
perilous situation, it was feared they would become a prey to the
devas•ating element; they were, however, at length roused, and,
nearly suffocated by the smoke, effected their escape out of the
windows, in a state of nudity. The fire raged with such fury,
that although there was a plentiful supply of water, and several
engine s on the spot, the house was nearly completely gutted,
and almost the whole of the stock in track mid fu►niture Were
iteigjicil before It could be got lades.