Star.
London, England, 1815-12-28 00:00:00

I::iAL, DECEMTER E 7.

Pot back by con'rary winds, the .Inlin Parry,
fir Jetnnica ; Jule, Yot7Nc, for St. T:r.,ri
Cane down frtm the River, the I.3dy Pd:f Mlle,
LocuxEn, for Indi4 • ATUTltiti, lIUTtLIINV,N, for
; bilsrosn, for G':10;+; Gr!r:.

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ham, VitAND, Wrbite ; „ VALLN,NrIt.
Dominica, and remain in the Dawns with the rest of
the outward-1)0,11d as before, and the MU ird,
homeward bound ladiaman.—Wind N.N.W.
ItAAUGATE, DECLMKR 97.
In the Leavy gale from thy southward hst night, a
great many transports, with troops from r.
rived in this harb,mr : from the darkness of the nit!ht

there was great confusion amongst them ; many have
received damage, and we fear some 1i -set have been
lost hi conseq'.ence. The sloop Prosperity, nice.
Master, of Barna-ad!), from London to Havre, with
tobacco, &c. is sunk at the hick of the East Pier,
after being on shore in Regwell Bay. Came in for
shelter, the Lark, WILL, in a leaky state ; Mayri river,
STAY, with loss of anchors and cables ; sloop BrOk.
HANDING, with damage ; and the Wins:nal, 'Limits;
lire, PI ; and Nancy, PALLING, without
wage.
At-lived fr:nri the Downs the Lord Carn,len trans.
otnt, No. with loss of an anchor and cable. The
'riiton and Brisk transports have likewise crme in
horn the Downs with damage. Our harhoir is very
lull of shipping, waiting to proceed down Charnel.

COVE OF CORE, DECEMBER
/Mired yesterday his M3iesty'c ship FLT.

The Earl Moira, just arrived from Chira, expe-
rienced such tempestuous weather in the Do•vns as to
be under the necessity olcuiting away her anchor and
cable, and to make for Margate Roads: On her pas.
sage she had a narrow escape in running against ann.
ther vessel. Had ih•iy come in contact, one or butt'
must have gone down, from the viol:Tee widi which
the ships must have met, on account of Cie gale.
The Earl Moira endeavoured 1,) tonell at::.:ielrua,
hut was fired tipnn and pi.:7ented se, The
Purser of the Earl Moira airived yestmliv at die
India House, belt was the bearer of no iutelii!ence of
importance ; nor could it well he err ,reed, es these
are later accounts from India than any c.ro be
brought by this conveyance.
Letters from St. Kites, received in Gi:s,-;erv. state,
that some runnawsty ncgrces, in that 1,,i41::1, had
formed an encampment in the mount aii:n, proved
Very troublesome to the inhahitartl at larvi..
The subjoined es-tract from clatA C-mg.
Hari, the capital of Sardinia, ain3ot rise middle of
November, contains w•rti new and mar a
particulars of an outrage corn witted l&y tit: pis ties t f
Me,liserrinean Africa, already noticAl in the Isclicla
p wets ;•—" The r. t A‘; ;4:41: but. made
a debccot on the adjacent isle &:1 Anti•:ch ; t.
bitants made a vi„.,,nrous resist ay cc; tl3tre 1:4 v• lot ea
nurtilr.-rs of killed on both side; amongst th ne
whom we hive lost is the ()fiver who
the battery (Lieutenant the roamber ot the
enesLy was superior to olor'. They have succeeded
in call y:ng fnff one I:undr.l 1511,)
have been told at 41a7.•.t ! A Baruatic frigate has .n.
silted uc, by ancimilog i:; t:ic %cry h ty & f
where she rentaisied several days, visiting and trArch.
iag all vesil. bound in t r cot. Judge if it ire not
thrie.that these horrors should c•;:se."
1 late accounts received from Buenos Ayres. is
appears that the Spanish army in Upper Pero, ..cting
under the orders of PEZUKI.A, is situ tied in 0 lee
points, v:z. Cosnio. Cliallapata, and Oruro, and his
troops amount to 5,000. His position, consequently.
is about 30 leagues north-west of Potosi. The Buenos
Ayres army under RouPEAtt, occupying principally
the latter place, amount to 6,000, independent of tne
auxiliaries, with which he rr.ight unite as many as
14,000, but a great proportion would be without
fire arms. When the Spanish General entered Cusco,
he hung PUMACAGUA, en Indian Chief, descended
from the ancient Incas of Peru.
Accounts from Warsaw of 'the 7th of December,
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mention the departure of the Emperor Alexander for
Petersborgh, and state that the eA6l,slintert of
the new Pi.lis% Gnvernment v:.as expcced immedi-
ately to take place. It was gent•taily believed that
the Polish General of Division Z wouid be
appointed Senator. and Viceroy of Poland. lie is
an officer who has seen much service. and was in all
the Polish and French campaigns, even that of '
Egypt. In the last Russian campaign be lost a kg.
It will be ratter a remarkable cireunicto.ce to this
vies if the Emperor's chioce fall upon him.
Although the letters we saw from Rio Janciro. by
the last packet from thence, were s;lent on the so's.
jest of Diarshal BLIZESFOnD'S a:rival there from Lis.
bon. others we have since seen mention Lis having
I reached his destination about a fOttilitt before the
packet sailed ; that he had had several interviews
with the PRINCE RECENT, and had siizceeded to the
fullest extent in lz;s mission. So little delay *svaL ne.
cessary in the o!iject he had in view with the Re.,:e.0.,
that it was expected he would be invested with Jolt
powers with respect to the disposal of the Portugu-se
troops in cases ut emergency ; and that by the 15•11
of bkivember he would be ready to return to Potoi.
gal in the Fanta, on board of v. Bich veLsel he pte-
cecded from Lisbon to the Braz!lb.
A gentleman who has just returned from Moot
Cassel states, that that part of VitNimaimes defenc.',
which stated that his house and gardens were de-
stroyed, is totally false. The only demolition con
milted was by himself, as he ordered some cottatcs
opposite to his mansion to be destroyed, for the
,pose of improving his prospect.
ileorten.—The Oakley Hounds meet on Slur:
lithe weather permits; the HAtfteld Hounds mee
at thicket Wool. at half-past ten; the Essex Ho•
iaturday, at Matching Gwen; the Duke of Grath
alt4:110•1110CrOW at thirsty **OW, at bait-past tea.

for the put-
lay at Gahm
on Srurday
rinds meet on'
non's tiousi4
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•'POETRY.

LITERAT URE.

(!4014 A OtIRMAN PAM.)
HEIDELBERG, DECLMBER 4.

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1111ONFEIN DESCRIPTION OP THE GARDEN 0# ALtINIHNI,
EITUAtE IN TILE ISLAND OF PHAEACIA, THE MODERN
CORFU-IMITATED.
In eoriu's isle a spaCious garden Hes,
Where blooming shrubs In gay profusiob
Then sweetest flowers In varied colours blow,
And fruitful tries in indless vigour grow ;
The luscious pear anti blushing apple vie,
With golden melons to delight the eye;
The tempting figs their purple Mitt displays
Whilst olives ziperl in the genial ray.
No chilling blasts the bending boughs assail,
No blighting tempests and no seatCring gale:
Alike in winter as in summer stand,
These fair rewards to bless the gatherer's hand.
Herr constant zephyrs shed a sweet #erfume,
Mature the trust, expand ,he opening bloom ;
The ripening apple takes the fallen 's place,
And following pears the alter 'd branches grace;
Where figs matued bestrew the neighbering ground,
Succeeding numbers in their stead are found.
Here laughing vines their loaded arms extend,
And budding Spring with Autumn's harvest blend;
In purple ranks the full grown clusters lay,
And spread their perfect beauties to the day:
Whilst near, the opening buds perfume the gale,
And scatter fragrance dim' the happy vale;
Beyond the flowers extend their lengthen'd re*
And boast the beauties of HitAv'N's varied bow,
While cooling waters from the fountains rise
And throw their sparkling bounties to the skies !

ALVIIED.

We can now communicate correct information on
circumstances not only interesting to this University,
but to the Literature of Germany. It is well known
that the University of Heidelberg possessed, until
the year 1622, a collection of books and MSS. the
most considerable in Germany; and which. in Joseph
Scahger's opinion, was at that time richer than even
the Vatican library; and that this celebrated library,
whose MSS. alone were valued at 80,000 crowns,
was, in the above year, in consequence of the capture
and plundering of the city by the army of General
Tilly, sent as a present by Duke Maximilian of Ba-
varia to Pope Gregory XV. and conveyed from
Heildelberg to Rome by the famous scholar Leo
This Heidelberg library, at least as much
of it as actually reached Rome, (fur many of the
manuscripts were torn or dispered among private
bands by the sacking of the city) formed since that
time, wider the name el Biblietheta Palatine, a para..
culer division of the Vatican library; and in most of
the manuscripts there is still to be found, as a memo-
rial of the fate by which they were torn from us, a
leaf with the Bavarian area, and the following in-1
ecription--‘• Sum de Biblicthrea quern, Ifeidelbersa copra,
:Odium fait et Pepe .Gregorio XV. fro/rheum misit Maxi-
sedianus sarisugue Bavaria Lux et S.A.I. Ekon 1623."
Thirty-tight of these MSS. formilig part of the 500'
MSS. of the Vatican which the Papal Government
ceded to the French Republic in 1797, by the treaty
of Tolentino, were deposited in the national library
at Paris.
We have long wished fur the recovery of our lost
treasures, aced at last the opportunity presented kelt.
on the general restoration last autumn of the works
of art, of which the French had robbed other coun-
tries ; and this opporamety, which offered the pros-
pect of recovering not only the thirty e.gl,t lieidel-
Isere MSS but the whale of the ISibliutheca Pala.
-tins carried to Rome, was not left unimproved by
our Government. As soon as it was ascertained that a
tecllmafon of this kind wisuld be readily attended io
by the Ministers of the Allied Powers, Preftssor
Wilken, Protector of our University, was commis-
sioned on the 2d of September, to-proceed to Paris,
in order to prosecute the claims. To the uncom-
monly active assistance of the Austrian Mieister,
Count Wessenberg, and the 1'; ussian Baron Hum.
%whit, we have it to ascribe, thut the Papal Commis-
sioners, the br aher s Canova arid the Abbate Marini,
agreed without any difficulty to give up the thirty-
eight MSS. to the University of Hcidelberg,• the
Pope's apprtbation being first obtained ; and that in
the mean trio e, until this sanction, the above MSS.
should be placed.in the hands of General Muffling,
the Governor of Paris, which was accordingly time.
That the Papal approbation would not be witehtld
'night have been expected with certainty from the
known reasonableness and justice of the present head
of the Church. This hope has not been frustrated.
To day a letter has been recervtd from Prince Hat.
denberg, acquainting the University that the Pope
etas Keen his consent to the restoration of the above
thirty-eight MSS.
Thus a part of eur once celebrated literary treasures
returns to es, among which is the famous Codex Pil•
htinus of the Greek Anthology, the MS. of small
geograehical works, the Antoninus Liberalis, which
Bast in Lis critical letters to M. Boissonnade describes
and uses in so masterly a manner, four ancient and
valuable MSS. of Plutarch's works, &c.; and we are
also entitled to cherish the hope that the Insure steps
taken for the recovery of these remaining in the Va.
tican, will be equally successful. Among others we
may expect that the valuable monuments of our an-
cient larignage and poetry, which could with diffi-
cal), be made use of at Rome, will be restored to
their home from banishment. It may undoubtedly
be hoped that the literary treasures torn from Get-
by inconsiderate religious animosity, will be
hi gly restored by the Papal Chair, that has been
uglily indebted to the Powers of Germany.

We understand, that since a late expulsion of four-
teen Cadets hum the EASt India College, at fien-
d, the Marregersilave thought fit to lessen the pu-
isliment ()1 eleven of those young gentlemen to a
%cation of two terms. Three still remain expelled.
le,rnpr►aa ISlstwooarinum —ln 1770, at a Newm"r-
-t iAeeting, Loid G. offered Captain
MOO guineas for his stallion iclipte ; how lucre.
)Ie socver it may appear, yet we are assured that
aptain O'KELLT, having a ew nights after had a
oposal maJe to lum taw purchasing that Contras
rse, menu, and tnik►K ing as d.e to rms : Ar2o,opo
,wn, an annuity. of ARV well lamed during his
and throe brood oars&

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