Star.
London, England, 1825-07-19 00:00:00

THE DUTIES OF WOMEN.

Imes should still be le en

Fair womsta's
In holy meekness bending;
Preferring to the throne of Love, •
The prayer for all ascending !
lice geode arms should still expand
To hail Repentance turning ;
And hide upon her ehasten'd breast,
The cheet'whers Shame is burning I.
And Woman's voice should still be tun'd
to soothe the heart that's breaking :
To lull discordant minds te peace,
Each soft affection waking!
Poe Woman is the star of home,
Man's darker mood beguiling;
And who for *et mud joys would roam,
If she retained him, smiling?
That rosy spell, by Temper wove,
From Pleasure nought should barrow;
The beam which gilds the bridal mere
Should shine thro' age and sorrow!!

BARBADOES.

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY. APRTL 5, 1525.
Mr. Moore was called to the Bar, and examined as follows :
Question front the Speaker.—Are you In passesston of any fact
that Blethediet Preachers are expected here?
Answer.—l am.
The Speaker —State to the House all you know on the :abject.
Answer.—The acting Magistrates of the Town, off
which I am one, received a letter from his Excellency
the Governor, dated the 31st of March, in which his
Excellency states. that from a communication from
Earl Bathurst, he has reason to expect a Missionary or
Missionaries from the Wesleyan Society, for the purpose
of re•est*blishing a Chapel; and his Excellency calls
Lron us to afford him and them all the protection in our
power in all legal proceedings in which he or they may
be ergaged.
Thz s!,taltr.—Arc you is pnaession of any circumstance-
=sigh: have led to these histruellors from Earl Bathurst?
Answer.--The Acting Magistrates of Bridgetown
Were called upon in October last to afford to Ann Gill,
a free coloured woman, all the protection in their
poatt, to prevent the public ftom assailing her house,
t• 1-tcll was produced by a Petition from that woman
to Lis Excellency the Governor, in which she stated,
that having opened her house for public Methodist
sneetings for the admission of all sorts of people, she
feared, and had been informed, that the populace
v./mid destroy it. The Magistrates took every precau-
tion in their power to preserve the public trAnqeillitv,
and to save the wotean's house from dearuction ; and
tney advised, send watratd her not to have these public
meeting. in flume. as they would surely be productive
of evil, and pethaps be her destruction when the public
authoritits wete not at hand to :afford
~her protection;
and on the night of the 9.1,t cf Qctuber, when the ap-
Fe',endeil a.tack v:As expected, ale Magistrates sat up
.the vike le night it: an oppo.ite house, in order to /re-
v elt I', but no aue:opt vas made on that. night, pot
1.4 s any beto since rea.re niulest her. On the i;.2.1
of tt:e last month, the GOvertior wrote to the
bates, desiring them to make a Report to she Privy
Council of th, it conduct .on she occatien, in conse-
quence of a letter he had received from Lid
Bathurst, e«►Taining thew u cot : " FrAti this Coat-
spondire.e, you will Jena my desire, that an inquiry
should'be instituted into the proceedings of the Ma-
gistrates, who ate alleged to have suppressed the meet-
ings holden by the ‘Vesleyitis in a private dwelling-
house since the destruction of the Chapel ; that you will
therefore take the most .effectual means to ascertain
what Were 'the circumstances of the transaction; in
what Manner and to what 'extent the Magistrates in
terfered ; and what were the reasons which appeared
to them to require and justify their interference." This
communication, I understand, was produced by a letter
which this Ann Gill had written' to a friend of her's in
England, stating that the Magistrates bad prevented
her having public meetings.

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Tuesday list.,nct. a single hogshead of sugar stood
for sale inour;sausple room, a circumstance, webe-
lieve, unprecedented. The sales mote than keep pace
with the arrivals. nor do these sales proceed from specu-
lation, but merely from the actual demand occasioned
by the wants of the county. The cotton speculations
Dave had just such a result as might have been antici-
pated. After having deranged the trade of the coun-
try, and thrown tens of thousands out of employment;
tl:e price is sur.k to' nearly what it was when the rise
commenced, and sales, even at this great reduction,
tan. with the utmost difficulty, be effected. Other
snerketereem also to be on the decline.--(it'rcLoe•Ccur:.:
Thursday night, his Imperial Majesty's frigate Kruieer,
of 44 guns, commanded by Captain LAZA 110/3, arrived
at. Portsmouth, fro:n the north Pacific Ocean, and a
resit to the Russian Settlements on the North-west
Coast of America. This ship sailed from Spithcad iu
November, 1829, with a Government store-ship in
company, proceeded to Rio Janeiro. Van Dieman's
.;.and (and was the first lt,t,:iaa tut that ever visited
Oat qua:ter), C.Ptaheite , and PJrt .ilrat,ciseo. in Cali-
4rnin, at,which Litter pl.tce;.:o and her consort landed
:age ventity of ...au. e They then proceeded to
lovat EdgeeuntLe Sound (4 It trbour in the vicinity 01
(-oak's ildet)„. winre,the dtussians have a garrison and
fur post. Hue more stores were landed, and
t..• 9 storo-ship• i:irted. company, with supplies for the
Alsutian Llands, and the port of St. Peter and St.
Phut, in Kaintschalka. TheKruizer, during this pro-
g-e 3) «nd ;n her homeward passage, made a few trifling
1-rvz7s, but effected no discov7rtes ; she did not go to
r...e Northward of 57. She again touched at Cali.
f:.:7le, and mad:: her passage thence to Rio Janeiro in
:.-7.etv-two days; and iu seventy-two days trnm Rio to'
a'.e.e.e.tel, on her way to St. Petersburgh.
leel, which was prevented by the gendarmerie on
:::;-;day last, took place the next day, between Count
•-•nd General Gourgaud, on account• of the severe
• and abuse printed by the latter, with regard
iegur's late work, giving an account of the campaign
Russia. Count Pajol and Colonel Deschamps attended
Count Segur as his seconds, and Generals Count Loban
Dejean, Gourgind. &gar having received a slight
voural in the arm, and Gourgaud one in .the body. the
words interfered, and a reconciliation took place. •
The American Papers last received, contain •in ac-
cot= of piracy and murder committed inr.February
last. In that month, the brig Edward, Captain Fan
r.eLCIi of New York, was captured by a piratical
s :booster, of about EC) tons,' commanded by an Arne-
trican, with about forty or fifty men' .who,.on boarding
the btr..g, murdered the Captain; whose head they
Levered from his heel-, and several of the crew Were
severely woopdcd.