Star.
London, England, 1822-08-15 00:00:00

When bonny Mary tonch'll our shore,

Our sires the beach did
And her hard fate we still deplore,
As th. 4 did langsyne.
Since auld langsyne, my bairns,
Since auld langsyne,
Auld Scotland's rearstled up the brae,
Since auld laogs)ne !
When J.uuie left attld Ilolyrood
Our fathers did repine;
She's had a Iniely widowhood,
Since auld langsyne.
Since auld langsyne, my bairns,
Since auld langsyne,
Auld Scotland has stood mony a brush
Since aulti langsyne !
Come, Arthur, raise your lighted crest,

Make a' the Loudons shine,
An' tell we've got a Royal guest,
As we had langsyne!
As we had langsyne, my bairns,
As we had langsyne,
The" Gude,King Robert" wore our Crown
In days o' langsyne!
Edinburgh, August, 18"32.

NV. B.

Saturday. the Marquis of WiscuaLstA arrived at
Ediub.irgh.
Sunday, the Righ Hon. Mr. PEEL arrived at Dal-
keith Palace.

Sunday, the Duke of Movraoss, Lord Chamber.
lain, and the Duke of DORSET, Master of the Horse,
• isited Dalkeith Palace and stables, and approved of
all the arrangements made for the reception of his
MAJESTY. _

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Lord MACDOVALIII has left the British Hotel, Jermyr:-strect,
for Scotland.

The Earl of Kissort. kft town on Saturday last, for Scotland.
Monday, the Taff of the MAcuitook mustered on
the Mound, at Edinburgh, in full costume.
A very elegant gas light has been mounted in the
centre of the square of the Palace at Ilolyrood House.
• When the KING went to Ireland, be had to provide
almost every article of game, venison, and fruit, him-
self: but how different will be his fare in Scotland !
The abundance of things already sent in for the use of
the household, is enough to surfeit all his MAJr..stv's
suite.

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MELAIVCIIMY•psdini or SIR -SAMUEL
A(ICHMITTY. • •
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FROM THE DVELIE ESSEIEELIL 01 HOWDAT: •
It is with feelings of sine** and deep regret that
we. announce the death of this brave anti excellent
'Officer, which took pipet about four dclock yester-
day. Sir SAMUEL. was riding in the•Phaenix.Park,
in company with Colonel Titoantost, when he was
.seized with an apoplectic fit and fell dgad from his
'horse! He was put into a carriage, which happened
to be passing at the moment, and conveyed to the
Royal Hospital, where Surgeons REYNELL and
M.AuLay, of the Royal Infirmary, were in imme-
diate attendance, and opened a vein in Sir SAMUEL'S
left arm, and tried every means that professional skill
and anxious seal for the recovery of. this distin-
guished General could dictate, but without effect.
The vital spark unhappily was extinct. The body of
'Sir SAMUEL will be sent to England this day.
General Fyatta'has been written to express to come
to town, and take the command of the Army in this
country, ad interim, he being the oldest General on
the Irish Staff. By the death of Sir SAMUEL Amt.
story a vacancy occurs in the Colonelcy of the 78th
Regiment of Foot (Highlanders), now quartered in
Carlow. Sir Snstuat. was as amiable in private life
as he was distinguished in his professional career.
Ilis death creates a blank in society, as well as in the
military profession, which cannot soon be filled up.
" Phoenix Park, Sunday, August 11, 1822.

" In consequence of the melancholy event of the death of Sir
SAMUEL AUCtilltrrY, the LORD LIZII2SICA7C2 has postponed the
celebration appointed for to-morrow, 12th August, until further
notice. (Signed) " HENRY WEBSTER,
Captain and Aid•de•Camp.•'

MISAPPLICATION OF THE FUND FOR THE
RELIEF OP THR

FROM THE DUBLIN JOURNAL OF MONDAY.

" It was stated in the public prints, that the number
of persons receiving aid, in the county of Mayo,
from the Government and charitable funds, exceeded
the whole number ascertained by the late census.—
As it could scarcely be imagined that those Gentle-
men who composed the central and local Committees
would either intentionally misapply the monies en-
trusted to them, or carelessly neglect their duty, it
was surmised, that the census had not been accurately
taken, and hence the number of inhabitants in Mayo
far exceeded that returned by the enumerators. We
could easily conjecture the cause of the following
fact—namely, that relief was afforded to 311,400
persons, while the total amount of the population was
not more than 297,000. It was quite evident to us,
that the-Committees had been deceived by the claim-
ants, thousands of whom must have appeared under
different names and disguises. Where the mass of
misery so widely extended, it was to be expected that
some degree of imposition would take place ; but
when the Committee were in possession of the popu-
lation returns in each parish and barony, the dis-
crepancy of the number of applicants, and the number
recorded by the census, ought at least to have ex-
cited suspicion, and induced a more strict investigation
into the circumstances." •
The Hon. F. CAVENDISH has addressed a letter to
the Public on this subject, which certainly shews that
there has not been such care and attention in the dis-
tribution of the- money, as has been bestowed in col-
lecting it : in short, that it has been a job, in which
individuals have served themselves and their friends,
out of a fund raised by exactions on the benevolence
of the English, even to mulcting the poor soldier
of his day s pay.
Mr. CAVENDISHS letter is dated Castlebar, Au.
gust 8. He says
It is a fact, that potatoes sent for the relief
of the poor of this town, were sold to persons in busi-
ness in this place at three-ponce per stone, and to the
poor at four-pence; that while the poor of this town
and vicinity were literally starving, a portion of those
potatoes were sent to the Parish of Belcarra, for the
use of the tenants of an estate over which the person
to whom the potatoes were consigned is agent. It is
a fact, that on a spot of around, not more than .from
one to two acres, the private property of an indivi-
dual, a sum exceeding 121.50 has been expendedl—
It is a fact, that certain families in this town in in-
dependent circumstances, for superintending works,
&c. have 'received a considerable sum weekly out of
the charitable fund, while there are numerous fami-
lies, equally competent, and in the deepest distress,
who have not been employed. If the central Corn-
, mittee had thought tit to inform me they were about
to make inquiry as to those complaints, I could have
proved them to their satisfaction; but, as they have
only sought information from the offenders, they
were nut likely to come to any other conclusion than
they have done. 'The Committee having concluded
their inquiry, sent for me, and asked if I had any
charge to prefer against the Local Committee ? I de-
livered in a written paper in the words following :

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Thursday morning, between five and six o'clock, l'ilAcolrit
Anderson, a lamp lighter, being disappointed in his intention of
leaving the Argyle steam-boat at Govan,leaped overboard at tin:
Dinthouse, in order to swim ashore ; but, by the time he was
within five yards of laud, he was overwhelmed. The steam-
boat stopped, and made every exertion to aid him, but without
success, and the crew proceeded on their voyage without finding
the body.
GLasuovr, AUGUST 11.—FATAL ACCIDIENTo—Last night, about
eleven r. se. the I lercules steam-boat, belonging to Glasgow, on
Ler way front Greenock to Campbeltown, when off Greenock,
b:ifortunately came in contact with, and run down, a boat or
u !airy filled with poor people front the Highlands, on their
nay to the southern districts to labour during the harvest. Out
at forty-six persons on board the boat, only four escaped a
watery grave—and one of these, a woman, was taken up in such
an exhausted state, that she is since dead. One of the four un-
f :tunate survivors a man, has to mourn the loss of his wife,
two daughters, and a son, by this fatal catastrophe. The steam-
boat had out lights, and also a proper watch, who repeatedly
hailed the wherry; but, owing to some fatal inadvertence, or
; robably from not understanding English, the unfortunate boat
continued her course till escape was impossible. The fatal aecii-
dent happened betweeen Gourock and the Clock Lighthouse.
J.k.! Highland wherry was from Mull and Icohnkill. When
site sunk, the cries of the poor people were distinctly beard front
slwre; but the generous attempt to afford them relief proved
unavailing. The Master, ALLAN M'lonts, and the other boat-
men, were among the sufferers.
CUM.TONI:ICH, AUGUST 13.--FATAL EPTICT* OP LicTirrirG.
—The awful effects of a thunder storm were experienced here
yesterday. About five o'clock In the evening, the sky became
suddenly obscured with dense clouds, from one of which, nearly
vertical and highly electrified, issued an extremely vivid flash of 'I
Li:inning, followed at an interval of about three seconds by a
tremendous and lengthened peal of thunder : the electric fluid
vruck the chimney of Mr. Voids house at Boit, about a mile
from hence, passed through the roof and out of the doors and
window, knocking down four persons in its progress; two, we
~re sorry to say, never to rise more. The one a son of Mr. J.
Town, five years old, and Thomas Barnes, a labouring nuns who
has left a wife and seven small children to lament his loss.•-••• 111-
tviertil have been held on the bodies, and verdicts returned of
" bieti.by the visitation of Goa"

" Charge against the Local Committee pf Castlebar, to whom
the Rev. W. if. Smith and Hughes were Secretaries, and Charles
O'Malley, Esq. Treasurer, for having received large sums of
money, intended fur the relief of the Poor, drawn from Private
Subscriptions, from Government, from the London Tavern,
Mansion House, Liverpool, and Belfast Committees, from his
Grace the Archbishop of Tuam ; and, having so received the
same, have not, during a period of five months which they have
presided, rendered to any persnn an account of their disburse-
ments, although the Central Committee had appointed a Com-
mittee of Accounts, who, by public advertisement, in the Mayo
Paper of the 25th July last, required Local Committees and
individuals to tender their accounts on or before the 29th July,
to be audited by them."
This was my charge, which was deemed frivolous
and vexatious. I called upon the Secretary and
Treasurer, in the hearing of the Central Committee,
to produce those accounts—they are not forthcoming;
surely a Committee presiding for five months, in-
trusted with monies for the relief of the poor, de-
rived from various sources, should be able, :it a mo-
ment's notice, to produce their accounts. Have not
each party who subscribe to those funds ts.undotibted
right to know how their money IrsiibeetOistributed ?
It those accounts should be ever produced, and the
disbursements cot redly stated, I undertake to satisfy
any rational mind, that the most shameful abuse has
existed. It has been stated by a Member of the
Mansion-House Committee (and urged by Slim as a
defence ft); the party), that this Committee do not re-
, quire from any person to whom they remitted money

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usta aCCOMto until the business. seas all 16 wound up."
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—lle also stated, the very lame views influenced the • -I.—‘
London Tavern. Committee; yet, on reference to
br:lid4D:i:llo
rdergiitintat,
lEistwilireettali4ultetinteMom.auen.,ilf.
treduatlioAniffilbalg,
their letters, covering remittantti, they expressly tr.
call fora Particular account of disbursements, which wijaltent,Alli"ist is.sitiroo",lll4rindgck'ss. Mews; 2d Battalion
by some Committees are transmitted to them weekly.
Regiment, Ist Battalion, Westminster- Quarters; Bat•
This Learned Gentleman, lit this partitislar instance,
has spoken, I presume, without authoriir. When be-
a tattlai niotnaersdc
whichhed iut
wereo llu bitlianti.ooo, • *
ta-usi3SJuineu'rdally,yrwtheuthl.st Regiment of Rum Guards arrived. at the
fore the Central Committee, I produced a list of fifty-
three instances of scandalous abuse existing in this Pige°""se
town, selected from some hundreds, and offered toorane tinViewe todk RA'hi
havetlsem,selves in a manner highly
prove them to the Committee, which they declined— exemplary anti soldier-like,ni relied for Galway, which
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instances of women drawing meal, gratuitously, for to be their head-quarters, and thence to be distributed, in verietig
detachments, thimigh die Country' They ate replaced.. by the
themselves, their husbands, and families, in their maiden
name—while their husbands were drawin a
it for their 4tOti)hublthergiment, the entire of -whose divisions have•
*rived
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entire family in their own name—instances of families Monday the rifle-shooting, by.the Yegers of the Hotinbrahle
drawing relief in this parish, also in a neighbouring . Artillery Corps, snob place in the new practice grOtilii at
one—families drawing gratuitous relief who are em. Woolwich.. The comest 'Mr the medal was exceedingly good{
ployed on public works, and paid for theirlabour— op
rinrt firrii.ngb
oracularly for the Krto's medals, ' which was won, by very DIM
instances of tickets to obtain meal being issued by at
rX.llso,l.ards,
he ,only by, theilast
equal in
allowed). be
members of tee Local Committee, in which the names kits till the last a"
fire. tTliu celeritymr
and gealtrie:tofile.nusbber.fg
of persons are inserted that do not exist. The par. was afterwards sbewn at a target occupying a space egual to five
tion of meal granted to each member of a family or six men in line. This was performed by 16 men oldie Cams
gratuitously is nibs. per week. In my list, parry eight being stationed at 250 yards, and the same weber
I se'
..lesoOn e yliart-idits.diusitlauceich
w;
as cam d ognav:itthheni the
surprisingsignra:
rapidity
oitetta
lotted thirteen families, consisting of forty-two per-
saos ; the quantity they should receive, at 31111 s, to 30 Lutes. The destruction such shooting would priddeeywaft
each person, is 1471bs.—it is a fact, they draw 2731b5. most strikingly displayed upon the face of the target, which **s
This Central Committee only permitted me to ad-
Ii
4 tirashliy covered with hits, and must have been struck by at
duce one instance of abuse: it was a ticket granted
by a member of the Local Committee to a woman
of the name of Ferack, six in family marked on the
ticket, in order to.enable her to draw 3ilbs. of meal
weekly for each of those six. What is the fact? In
place of six in family, she was only married within
the year to a man of the name of Murphy, who was
employed in the service of the Local Committee, at
2s. 6d. per day. Observe, the ticket was in her
maiden name, a most palpable fraud; but it is deemed
frivolous, because the fraud had been detected before
meal had been issued. This Central Committee, whose
duty it is to guard the Government (who provide
the fund) against imposition, declined going into any
other case but this one. I had pot read to them my list.
I had not stated one single abuse I intended to prove
except the one ; and, wlyile in perfect ignorance of
the nature or extent of the cases of abuse I intended
to adduce, they resolved unanimously they were
all frivolous and vexatious! The Central Committee,
who have been presiding for five or six weeks, have not
as yet, as they informed, audited an account. I con-
fess I do not think that redounds much to their credit.
Previous to their appointment, the relief issued to
the county was about 30001. per week ; they have
increased it to about 70001. while the population
is 297,000, they extend relief to 311,400; the
Union of Castlebar, in which this Committee pre-
side, contains, by_the parish books, about 1,500 fa-
milies, while 3000 families are returned as receiving
relief. Are -not these fasts sufficient to rouse the
attention of the Central Committee? Do'not they
convey evidence of existing abuse? Is it not their
duty to seek information ? They preside with their
door closed : two police stationed at it, to prevent
any person obtaining admittance, unless especially
sent for. Persons have attended to afford information
and prefer complaints. I could not obtain admittance.
I have remonstrated with several Members of that
Committee against this secret proceeding on a public
question; they answered me, they obtained informa-
tion from Members of Local Committees. If there
was a misapplication of that fund, which there is, is
it likely the persons to whom it is confided would
complain against themselves? I shall state a fact,
that should impress the Central Committee with the
necessity of seeking information from other persons
besides those to whom they confide their fund :—A
petition was, as I am informed, presented to the Cen-
tral Committee, on the 23d of July last, from the in-
habitants of the village of Kanturk, alleging they had
been employed to cut a canal to convey water to a
mill; that they had given seven days' work, and could
only obtain payment for thefirst day. This petition
was not answered. On the 50th, they prepared a se-
cond petition, which was delivered into the hand of
the President by a Member of the Committee. These
poor men have not, as they inform me, to this hour
received redress or answer."

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

-By an Act of Parliament recently passed, persons
giving alms to beggars are liable to be bound over to
prosecute the objects of their bounty. ..
lays m Pooa.—.Yesterday Mr. Davis, the pass-master for the
county of Middlesex, applied to the sitting Magistrate at Hat-
ton-garden for a warrant against an Irishwoman residing in his
neighbourhood, under the following circumstances:—Mr. Davis
stated that the preceding night he had 154 Irish poor in his
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house, in order to be passed to Bristol and Liverpool, on their
way to Ireland; 119 of which number he sent off that morning
in five large travelling vans, and as the poor were getting into
the vans the woman in question came mid began to harangue
them in the Irish language, in order to stir them up to a state of
mutiny, in consequence of which, many of them became re-
fractory, and refused to go. A great number of the town Irish
assembled, to whom she particularly addressed herself, in order
to excite them to rescue (as she said) her countrymen and women
front his clutches, and many of the persons so assembled ap-
peared ready to lend their aid, so that be had recourse to the
parish constables and others, to prevent a riot, and he finally
succeeded in securing them in the vans, and escorting them out
of town. On their way many of the poor were happy to be
passed, as they declared they could not either get money or work
since they cane to England. -The Magistrate told Mr. Davis he
should be protected, and ordered the warrant immediately.
Masur-La-Ronns Orescx.—Yesterday the Rev. Thos. Smith,
of Garden House, Kentish Town, appeared before the sitting
Magistrate, EDMUND Gramm, Esq. to prefer a complaint against
a middle-aged, gentrxi-looking woman named Flowers, for abuse,
and insulting expressions nude towards him.
l'he complainant stated, that about nine o'clock on Tuesday
evening, as he wai-passing along Oxford-street, the woman called
after him, saying, " There goes the Bishop !" and made use of
several base and vile expressions; he, however, proceeded with-
out noticing her for about twenty yards, but finding she conti-
nued her abuse, he became fearful of some personal violence, and
gave her in charge to the watchman.
The worthy Magistrate severely censured her on the impro-
priety of her conduct for abusing any person who happened to
be a Clergyman, and asked if she was a married woman ? she
replying in the affirmative, he instantly ordered her to find bail.
The parties had not left the Office long before the Reverend
Gentleman returned, and informed the Magistrate, that in con-
sequence of her husband begging hard for her forgiveness, he had•
consented to an apology.
The female was then brought before the Magistrate again,
whn informed her that the Gentleman had most humanely con-
sented to allow her an indulgence of which she was by no means
deserving.—'flee woman then curtsied, belied the Clergyman's
pardon, and retired with her friends.
Bow-STKEZT.—,bIot Gee, about sixty years of age, i coal*
meter, who had been brought up in custody, chatted with a
gross misdemeanour towards a girl eight yeah old, oral finally
examined and fully committed for trial at the S:ssiuns.
The priioner said, he had bail ready to answer for his appear.
ante ; but he was told by Mr. HALLS. that he must be bound
I himself in two hundred pounds, and two sureties in one Mtn.
I
dred pounds each, and that twenty-kW boon' sodas of .bail
1 most be giVell• , .. . .

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Fazuoutn, Auousr 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Sandwich
packet from Jamaica; sailed 9th July; and from Crooked
ItLind the 16th. Sailed the Robert and Mary, for London:
Pr.vansurn, Aecurr 13.—Wind W.--Arrived the French
brig Little Betty, prise to his Majesty's ship Irmartna ; and
Two Brothers, Lawsuit, front Euro. •
INDIMMOUTAII, Auausr 14.—Wind Southerly.—Arrived the
London Packet, Taacar, from the Downs Mt BctitOn ; and his
Majesty'a ship SHAMROCK, from a cruise.
• DEAL, Auousr 14.—Wind S. W.—Came down from the River
last night and remain, the Usk, SMTII, for the Cape of Good
I lope ; Nereide, Lauunt..tx, and Jason, GAM.Lr, for ditto;
Commercial Packet, for Malaga ; Exchange, TiIIRAIL, for Rio
Janeiro. Also arrived last night and sailed for the Risser, the
Duke of York, Fizr.aysos, from Fayal.
Cesrost-Housit, Aucoorr 14.—Ships Entered Inwards: Au•
rora, from Havre; _Hercule and Eliza, front Lisbon ; Waterlooi
from Canton; Borleigh, from Tobago; Louisa, from Jamaica;
Fortitude, from Guernsey; Richard and Ann, from Stangate
Creek; Paris, from Petetsburgh I Anthony, from Wexford...-.
Cleared Outwards: Hoffnung, for Bremen; Britannia, for Ham-
burgh; Juliana, for Copenhagens Elizabeth, for Berbice;
Union, for Antwerp; John Dugan, for Malta.
Aaartzo—At Demerara, the Onslow Crews, from St. An-
drew's (N. B.); Cornelia, Martins, and Vrede, Sturk, from
Amsterdam. At Rotten, Snelhern, Smith, from London. At
New York, Actress, Anderson, fsom Malaga; Euphrates,•Stod•
dart; Hercules, Gardener; Mary, West; and Robert, Mackie,
from Liverpool ; Euphemia, Itobinscn, from Newcastle; George,
Burt, from Teneriffe ; and Reuben, Eliza, from St. Übe's, At
Boston, Rauelas, Jackson, from Liverpool. At Philadelphia,
Dido, Matthews, from Liverpool; and the Decatur, Cushing,
from Havre. •