Star.
London, England, 1825-10-11 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

Stn—l am one of those who think something might
be done for the Greeks in the way of negotiation. I
would not have this country involved in war again for
any nation, or for any cause, if possible to avoid it ; but
I do think that either Great Britain, or the Holy Al-
liance, or both united, should use their endeavours to
bring about an arrangement between the Greeks and
the Turks to prevent further bloodshed. It appears to
me to be shameful, that in a Christian land, which
Europe is, and in the knowledge and neighbour.
hood of mighty Christian Princes, three or tour mil-
lions of Greeks should be oppressed and enslaved by
thirty or forty millions of Turks. In former times such
a circumstance would have roused all Europe to
their rescue.
These Quixotic notions are fortunately relinquished,
but as much may be done by negotiation as by force,
if the Christian Princes wotrld use their endeavours.
The Greeks might slimly be permitted to have the
Dforea in quiet possession, and some of the jslands in
*the Archipelago, without their interfering with the
Turks or the Turks with them. _ _ _

Look at the case of the slave trade; we interfere by ne.
gociation with the policy of other nations to get that abo-
lished, and why not interfere in the same way to relieve
Christian captives, who will now, if they are conquered,
have no mercy shewn them? We compelled the Dey
of Algiers, in a hostile manner, to release his Christian
slaves, although very few were our own countrymen ;
why, then, not interfere in a friendly manner now ?
I hope as a Minister is going out express to Constan-
tinople, and another to St. Petersburgh, that some such
humane and charitable assistance is about to be afforded
them, and that their appeal to us has not been without
acct.—l am, Sir, your's, &c. J. O.

Wednesday, a melancholy accident happened at
Devon Iron Works. A young lad, of the name of
Hunter, in stepping over one of the wheels of the ma-
chinery, employed by the Company in drawing up their
ironstone on an inclined plane, it got hold of his crow-
tiers, and drew him in between it and another wheel, by
which he was so dreadfully mangled that he only sur-
vived a few minutes.

Saturday, as a lad was conveying home a basket of
linen, he was overtaken, near the Adeiphi, in the
Strand, by a shabby dressed female, carrying a bonnet-
box and a bag, which she requested him to take into
John-street, observing, that he would have to receive
a sovereign, and put Is. 6d. into hit hand to give in
change, promising, on his return, she would reward
him, and in the meantime she would take care of the
basket. The silly boy went on his errand, and was
scarcely absent two minutes, when he found the woman
had absconded with the basket and its contents. The
parcels contained five old bonnets of little or no value.
A dreadful accident happened at Yarmouth, in the
Isle of Wight, last week, whilst some men were en-
deavouring to get a stubborn bullock from the hold of
a vessel to the shore. A man, more adventurous than
the rest, descended into the hold for the purpose of ad-
justing a rope round the horns of the animal ; but no
sooner had he alighted at the bottom than the irritated
beast made at him, and gored and otherwise injured
him in such a dreadful manner that he died.

MENAI BRIDGE.--At length this magnificent and
stupendous bridge is united and fixed across the river,
and the whole, we find, will be completed before De-
cember. Several parties are daily crossing along the
chain: and it is worthy of remark, that during the
whole period in forming the stupendous rods, a perfect
gale was blowing. OWEN WILLIADIS, Esq. M.P. of
Craig-y-don, and a party of Ladies and Gentlemen,
were the first who passed the hridge. Among this
party was Mr. SOLA, well known for his musical ta-
lents, who is on a visit to a neighbouring Nobleman,
and who played GOD save the King on the middle of the
bridge, and the souuds reverberated to a great dis-
tance. Mr. 0. WILLIAMS had nineteen guns fired in
honour of the 'occasion, and sent ten pounds to regale
the workmen. lie had also a select party to a splen-
did dinner. Mr. SOLA sung an air, which he composed
for the occasion, which was much admired and encored
The party did not separate till a late hour, and festivity
prevailed throughout the vicinity; a due tribute to the
importance of the undertaking, and the successful pro-
gress of its execution.
CATS.—The following extraordinary anecdote of the
sensibility of cats to approaching danger, from earth-
quakes is well authenticated. In the year 1783, two
cats, belonging to a merchant of Messina, in Sicily, an-
nounced tot im the approach of an earthquake. Before
the first shock was felt, these two animals seemed
anxious to work their way through the door of the
room in which they were. Their master observing
their fruitless efforts, opened the door for them. At a
second and third door, which they likewise found shut,
they repeated their efforts, and on being set completely
at liberty, they ran straight through the street, and out
of the gate of the town. The merchant, whose curiosity
was excited by this strange conduct of the cats, fol-
lowed them into the fields, where lie again saw them.
scratching and burrowing in the earth. Soon after there
was a violent shock of an earthquake, and many of the
houses in the city fell down, of which number the mer-
ebant's was one, so that he was indebted for his life to
the singsaar forebodings of his cats.

EXTRAORDINARY CLAIM ON THE DUKE'
07 NORTHUMBERLAND.
The unfortunate Mrs. Webster, to whose grandfather
the Northumberland fabrily has been indebted fur up•
wards of 60,0001. and who has been, since the paper
acknowledging the obligation was so unfairly given up
to his Grace, totally neglected and abandoned to parish
relit& almost daily haunts the Mansion-House, in the
vain expectation that her misfortunes will yet excite
some compassion. It was stated, in the detail of the
circumstances which formed the basis of her application
to the Lord Mayor, that it was understood his Lord-
ship had written to the Duke of Northumberland upon
the subject.' This, it appears, is not accurate. His
Lordship considered that as the case was one of a
family nature, and of which a Magistrate could not
take cognizance, it would be improper for him to in-
terfere in that manner. He, however, fur the purpose
of enabling the Duke to form an estimate of the merit,
of the claim, directed that the City Seal, which has
engraven upon it the appropriate motto, 44 Domine
disi;e nos," should be impressed upon a letter written
by Mrs. Webster to the Duke, and Mr. Hobler, in order
to assist in the humane expedient to place before the
eyes of his Grace the distre.ses and the claims of the
unhappy pauper, superscribed the letter, and wrote the
word private" upon it. But to this letter no answer
has yet been received. The poor woman, it seems,
has more than once declared that she will submit
without murmuring to the castigation which awaits an
impostor, if one sentence she has uttered be found to be
incorrect or exaggerated, and she refers to the names
of individuals whom she spoke of as authorities, and
who never came forward to deny one word of her story
in evidence of the accuracy of her details.
Mr. Lomas was, she says, born in the county of
Derby, in the year 1714, on the day King George I.
made his public entry into London. At a very early
pericd of his life he manifested high intellectual power.
At Northampton, where he received a great part of his
education, he first became acquainted with Hervey, the
author of fhe Meditations, and their friendship lasted
as long as their, lives, which were directed in every act
by the very spirit of religion. Mr. Lomas was patro.
nised by Mr. William Pitt, of Sherbourne, in Dorset-
shire, a near relation of the Earl of Chatham. He was
obliged to this Gentleman for the liberal education he
received, his father having been ruined by the failure of 'I
the South Sea Baok Company, at the period of despe-
rate and hopeless speculation. In the year 1737, he was
introduced by Mr. Pitt to the Earl of Hertford, aud
appointed by that Nobleman to the sole management
of his estate. One of the principal delights of the Earl,
who had fouls/lit necessary to retire to Percy Lodge, in
Buckinghamshire, on account of violent attacks of the
gout, consisted in the correspendence of Mr. Lomas
and Mr. Hervey, who were equally eloquent and im-
pressive upon the sublime theme on which their
thoughts were constantly occupied. The Countess, who
was acknowledged to be a judicious patroness of lite-
rature, was the most intimate friend and companion of
the celebrated Mrs. Rowe, whose life may be said to
have been one constant prayer, and some estimate of the
worth of the Countess may be formed from that fact,
as well as from the declaration made by Queen Caro-
line, Consort of George 11. that she was a pattern of
every moral excellence. The Earl of Hertford, in the
Duchy of Somerset, in the year 1747, succeeded his
father, who was styled the proud Duke of Somerset,
and with whom he had been at variance for some time.
He had but one son, Lord Beauchamp, who died
abroad in his minority. In 1749 the new Duke, who,
had never ceased to express the utmost respect for and
admiration of Mr. Lomas, died, and in 1751 the Dow-
ager Duchess, who had soon after her husband's decease
s/sewn unequivocal proofs of attachment to Mr. Lomas,
consented to be that Gentleman's wife. They arrived
in town on the 18th of July, from Iver in Buckingham-
shire. The carriage was dismissed in Tavistock-street,
Covent-garden, and the Duchess was conveyed in a
sedan-chair to the Fleet Prison, where marriages were
solemnized pretty much as they are solemnized at Gretna
Green. Mr. Lomas walked on before. They lived as
happily as it was possible to live, and soon after her
death he gave that extraordinary evidence of his affec-
tion for her memory, which he was determined never
should be reproached on his account, by placing in the
hands of the Northumberland family the Duchess's
bond for 60,0001. Among Mr. Lomas's intimate friends
were many of the Nobility, amongst whom were the
Earl of Tankerville,Lord Osulston, and Lord Kilmurry.i

The 21st inst. twenty-nine bceurs de L Charite, ac-
companied by two priests, and coming from Aix-la-
Chapelle, passed through Frankfort. Their pilgrimage
is into France, by way of Strasburgh, but their object,
or the precise town to which they are destined, has not
yet been ascertained.
The Government of the Grisons have decided to con-
struct a new road, during the summer of 1826, from
Silvaplana to Stalla, which will be passable for carts
and other carriages by the passage Julier, the height of
which is 5480 feet above the Lake of the Four Cantons,
or about 6830 feet above the level of the sea. This road
will form a communication with the road from En-
gadine, and that from Stella, in the valley of Oberhalb-
stein, to Coire.
Friday, as Mr. T. BARBER, of Albion-place, Wal-
worth, was passing along by the Town-Hall, High-
street, Borough, he nas robbed of his pocket book in
the following manner, by on: of three or four respect-
ably-attired young men, who were all doubtlessly con-
cerned in the nefarious transaction :—Mr. BARBER, in
lendeavouring to take the wall, was met by one of the
party, who seemed to be in a great bustle, and a second
individual, on the other side, at the same moment
jostled against them both, whilst a third clo.ed upon
them, apnlosing in these terms for the apparent rude-
ness—a lam extremely sorry, Gentlemea, :o have been
forced on you, to y-ur annoyance, in this man-
ner, and I humbly beg pardon of each and all." S;r,
you have it," answered one, " and I beg to say the
present confusion has arisen out ( f a little too much
eagerness on the part of a Gentleman, who was anxious
to pass along the paw rather quicker than he valid:"
The party then dispersed, when Mr. BARBER found, an
a few moments, that his pocket-book, which fortu-
nately contained nothing very valuable, excepting two
strings of pearls, had been cut out of his pocket.
Da. Jomesow.—To a person who regretted to Dr.
Samuel Johnson, that he had not been a Clergyman,
because he considered the life of a Clergyman an easy
and comfortable one, the Doctor made this reply :
a The life of a conscientious Clergyman is not easy.—
I have always considered, a Clergyman as the father of
a larger family than he is.able to maintain. No, Sir,
I do not envy a Clergyman's life as an easy life ; not
(. do I envy the Clergyman who makes it-an easy life."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-110US.R.

A woman named Smithson, was brought before the Lout) Maros,'
to account for the possesston of a snuff-bor. The box in question,
which was of very high value, bad been presented to Mr. Andrew
Grierson, a Member of the Town Council of Edinburgh, as a re.
ward for his services. and be, of course, greatly valued it. Qn Fri-
day last, Mr. Gricrson went into the Mansion-House to witness
the proceedings, and while the LORD MAYOR WWI admonishing a
young thief, Mr. G.'s pocket was picked of the box in question.
He advertised it, offering a reward of three guineas for its reoo-
very. The prisoner offered it in pledge at the shop of Mr. Sadler,
in Bishopsgate-street. She said a man had sent her to procure the
money, but the box was detained.
The Loan MAYOR being of opinion that there was no imputa-
don on the woman's character, discharged her. Mr. Sadler would
not accept the reward, but gave it to the Guardian Society.