Star.
London, England, 1822-10-03 00:00:00

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piriShioners for their tits.
and' induced. several t,
the farmers to bring them to the church-yard of his
Parish Church, but could not prevail upon those per-
sons to bring them any further. Their loads of hay
and various kinds of Corn, were thrown out of the cars,
promiscuously into the church-yard, and such was,
the prevalence of the' ystem of terror that not a man,
could be got to stack or rescue the confused mass.
—With a view to bring them to Mallow, * distanceof about four miles from this Church-yard, and Urere
to have the corn and hay properly secured, Mr. Ben-
nett hired the horses which were afterwaills so bar-
barously maimed ; and on the same night on Which
this cruel act was committed, a notice was posted,
containing the terrific threat, that ,g if any one pre-
sumed to draw that corn, &c. he may bring his coffin
with him r The menace had the desired effect. Mr.
Bennett has been unable to get any assistance in re-
.moving his property from the Church-yard, and there
it lies. The outrages in that neighbourhood were not
confined to the above-mentioned facts-7-they were
numerous and appalling, as we learn by a letter re-
ceived this day from a Gentleman who resides in the
house of the High Sheriff, at Churchtown, dated on
Wednesday night, which contains the following
alarming expressions Burning every night quite
close to us—it has now the appearance of St. John's
eve—we can see the fires quite plain !
It is scarcely necessary to remind our readers of the
practice on the night of the 28d of June, the eve of,
St. John's-day, of lighting bonfires in every part of
the country. It appears that those ruffians, who are
thus setting the country in a flame, have been insti-
gated by persons possessing much more knowledge
than could be expected from the wretched instru-
ments employed in those outrages. The incendiaries
being aware of the vigilance of the Magistracy, the
military, and the police, bane procured a chemical
preparation, which being placed in a stack of hay or
corn, sets fire to it in some time after the preparation
has been deposited; those miscreants then, by being
aia distance from the fire, escape with impunity.—
This has been rendered manifest by an occurrence
which took place on Tuesday night. Sir HUGH-
GOMM, the Officer who commands the military in
Buttevant, and the surrounding district, having re-
ceived information of the intention of burning a hag-
gard, on that night stationed a party of soldiers in,
ambush, hoping thereby not only to prevent the mis-
chief, but also to seize on those who intended to com-
mit it. After waiting a considerable time, the party,
to their inexpressible surprise, beheld the haggard
burst out into flames, without the appearance of any
agent to produce the conflagration."

A Galway Paper says—" Fever every day adds to
the sick list of some of our worthyband most useful
citizens. Drs. Browne, Keogh, and O'Shatighnessy,
are tthis moment lying under the infection, the ma-
lignity of which has attacked and is oppressing a
greater number than can be well conceived by any
persons not immediately on the spot. lizAvzs alone
knows where it -will end; and every person. whn can
at all leave our ill-fated town, is doing so—our
streets are in a manner deserted. The Hospital, as
we before mentioned, is full to excess, sand people
complain pretty generally that the convalescent are
not suffered to remain a sufficient length of time in
the House appropriated to their reception."
IRISH PAUPERS.—One hundred and sixty-six Irish
paupers, of both sexes, have been removed within the
last four months from the parish of Poplar, to Mr.
DAVIS, the Passmaster fir the county of Middlesex,
for the purpose of being passed home to Ireland.—
The expense thus incurred by the parish is £74.145.
being at the rate of 9s. a head for each pauper.
Mr. ROBERT ILLINGWORTH, of Dewsbury, has had
this year two crops of peas on the same land. On the
26th of February he sowed early peas, which were
ripe in July, when he again sowed part of them as
seed ; and on the 22d of the present month he ga-
thered, of the new crop, a peck of fine green peas,
and has abundance yet to pluck.

Talking of the threatened invasion by the French,
in 1798, Admiral Lord BRIDPORT drily observed—
., They might come as they could; for his own part he
could only say, that they should not come by water 1"
The new navigable cut at Old Windsor was opened
on Thursday last. The advantage of this improve-
ment to the navigation will be ♦ery great.
The Sierra Leone Gazette of the -20th of July says

—" We have again to bear testimony to the success-
ful zeal of Lieutenant Haan in the cause of Africa
and of suffering humanity. Yesterday this distin-
guished Officer brought into harbour a large Portu-
guese brig with 300 slaves on board : she proves to
be the Estrella, M. P. dos Santos, master, cleared out
at Bahia for Malembo, and furnished with a Royal
passport to take slaves from that place; she was,
however, seized in the Bight of Benin, :Inc 'days from
Lagos, where her cargo of human flesh was shipped.
The Estrella had been previously boarded by the
Thistle off Cape Coast Castle, at which time the Mas-
ter professed himself to be bound to Elmina for a
supply of water, provisions, kc. to enable him to pro-
ceed on his voyage ; but it now appears, that the only
supply he procured was canoes, which, we lament to
state, are there furnished to every slave-vessel with-
out the least reserve.
4, in the River Calabar, Lieutenant Hagan detained
another Portuguese vessel, the San Jose Hallaxa, with
20 laves on board. This vessel,- a schooner, was
found on examination to be in so leaky a state that
she could4,not be brought to this port; she was there-
fore destroyed, the slaves being first removed on board
the Thistle. Donna Maria da Cruz, daughter of the
notorious Gomez, of Prince's Island, is the sole owner
of the San Jose Hallaxa. The schooner Conceicao,
condemned in the Mixed Court some time since, was
also the property of the same Lady, who, it would
seem, bids fair to rival her father in-slave-cl;aling noto-
, riety. Gomez was formerly Governor of Prince's Island,
--and at present holds a high station among the Hon.
Council of his Most Faithful hlvdcstr 10 that Wand."

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eking a large seitespeadog watch, w# a; ohnin. Wl*
ins to Lay Jexefillertesa, was Inn of &Amodio Id whist
her ladyship west goo the
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MIDGBA St RUNT Mitilt/100-aft.
The Machos Stakes of .MO, by sibeerfpent.er 7Ft. es4ilrldh
IS pulled. Beets, two sass; dirtying Mt.
Mr. Dines fr. h. lisslinder - 4 1 it 1
fair. Goulbirsee Gipithy fast - 1 4 • I
cal*. Hamel 13. C.- itTnaf • • •If 1 V
Mr. Boeveriesdpindie • - ••
Ir. Is dr
Mr. Harrison% !bifida - _
Alter the hat. Nee en Carlolsder g end 1111 Mirdk.sate tie
wood hest. The apiri wee lease In the iseehest.
Fintepsiskes of bp. Seeh, wish IS Wed; Sit berms not the-
' neigh bred.
Mr. B. Forth's Predigal
Mr. Hudson's Gossip -
Captain loners Bally

Bight waited. Thee/hub was line racing.
HUNTING.
Graeae Oseasneeres. Nag. has uodertakes the Therlaw Hunt
Which has be fic mew seasons hunted by tip Bast ResezHound;
The Devoe Stag Hounds are likely to be continued.
• SHOOTING.
A few days deer, Meet,' brace and a bate partridges were
killed by two guns, between the hours of seven A. M. and five in
the afternoon, at licickvisw, in the county of Westmeath, the
rent of James Fetherstone, &q.
PED EST it I A NIS M.
The match between Betteridge, the Berkshire runner, and
West, the Canterbury man, took place on Tuesday, for 100
guineas, a short distance fromi that city. It was a match which
attracted mach company. The pedestrians ran ten miles against
each other, and Betteridge woe it, doing the ten miles within
an hour.
Another match, which exceeds any pedestrian feat on record,
took place yesterday morning, in Cranbourn Grove, Windsor
Forest : numeral, a Gentleman's groom, was matched by his
master for 100 guineas, to run tee miles. in 56 minutes, whisk
we believe was never before attempted. The pedestrian is 20-
Team of age, and the following is an accurate account of the
time each mile was done in 3
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In. S.
7th Mile 5 57
ith ditto - 6 411.
Ilth ditto - 5 44
10th ditto - 5 45

Ist mil 5 90
2d ditto 5 20
5d ditto 5 51
4th ditto - 5 52
sth ditto - 5 40
6th ditto - S 54 1 Total 55 51
The he. miles were done in 27 minutes and 25 seconds, with-
out visible fatigue • but in the ninth mile there seemed some-
thing amiss, and betting was 2 to 1 on time. It was a momentary
loss of wind, which the pedestrian recovered. The perforate:
is a Yorkshireman.
BOXING.

A quarrel took place hist market-day at Frome, in Somerset-
shire, between/two men a when about to set-to, one of them ob-
served that his opponent had but one eye, and, scorning to take
the leasradvantage, immediately and gallantly tied his handker-
chief over one of his own eyes ; but, not being accustomed to be
hoodwinked, this brave fellow was soon obliged to knock-under
to his one-eyed antagonist.

Dr. Bumf, now Physician to Greenwich Hospi-
tal, is said to wear the ball, mounted as a brooch,
which caused the death of the brave Lord NELSON,
in the battle of Trafalgar.
The passion of Da-Luc, the natural philosopher,
for music was so predominant in his latter days, that
a piano was placed by his bed-side, on which his
daughter played great part of the day. The evening
of his death, seeing her father ready to sink into a
slumber, she asked him—" Shall I play any more ?"
-" Keep playing," said he, " keep playing."—He
slept ; but awoke no more!
BLUCHER'S MONUMENT.—It is known that the
late Field-Marshal BLUCHER had selected a spot be-
tween Kirblowitz and Waigwitz to be the place of
his interment, over which he had expressed a wish
that the only memorial of his interment should be a
plain stone. After considerable search, a great mass
of granite was found on the south side of the moun-
tain Zobten, near Gorkau, out of which a cube of
24. Rhenish feet in breadth, and the same in height,
was to be cut, in order to be placed over the grave.
When the cutting bad proceeded to about 1$ feet
deep, it was found that the mass of granite was cut
through by a layer of crumbling clay ; in conse-
quence of, which the monument cannot be more
than 13 feet in height, besides not being an exact
cube. The block is still considerable, and will weigh
from 10 to 12,000 quintals. For three years, a
master stone-cutter, and 16 assistants, with two men
to clear away the rubbish, have been daily em-
ployed, from May to November, to release the block
from its position. It now stands, as it were, in a deep,
hole, and is supported solely by the props around
and benriath it. The hammer or chissel were but of
little use in shaping this colossal block; powder, of
which six or seven pounds were daily used, was
found necessary to blast it. The removal of the block
is expected to be attended with considerable trouble.
Racottacrioms.r-There is great reason to believe
that the celebrated Regicide and usurper, Oliver
Cromwell, died just in.good time to save his power
and reputation; many circumstanceshavetranspired
which afford foundation for this opinion. Among
others the following anecdote, frequently related by
the late Lord Chief Justice Willis, may be taken as
one :—A cause respecting a right of common came on
to be tried before that Learned Judge, at Cambridge,
and upon the accuracy of the testimony given by a
-farmer of the age of 95, it was decided in favour of
the right. The venerable appearance of the witness
attracted the particular attention of his Lordship,
who had generally a particular curiosity to inves-
tigate the causes of longevity. He put several
questions to the old man, relative to the his-
tory of his times. In answer to one of them,
he said, he remembered the death of old Cromwell
very well. 66 What time of the year was it r said
the Judge.—" Why, for the matter of that," he
replied, 66 I seldom reckon by the months, but I
remember it was between hay harvest and bean glean-
ing, and that I and several other boys went out steal-
ing bean stubbles to make a bonfire
" And were yeu not afraid of the Just
said his Lordship. "Oh, not at ail (hi
rice was inclined, or indeed dared to
for that, as the whole county was in
the occasion from one end of it to the
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