Star.
London, England, 1824-10-13 00:00:00

MARGATE. OCTOBER H.

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Mr. Crofts, the landlord of the King's Head Inn,
who was robbed last week of 1,800 sovereigns, is re.
turned from France) the person whom he suspected and
went in chace of, proving not to be the depredator.
Margate has fallen with the fall of the leaf. Many
oT the bathing machines are laid up for the winter, most
of the magamus de•mode are closed, the Jewish Boule-
vAs are about to take their flight to Duke's-place, and
the depots of smuggled French silks to Spitalfields.
The brilliant illuminations of the Libraries are no longer
eclipsed by female ,beauty, and the sprightly seigns of
Pam and the. Dice are no more.

An etipement took place from here on Wednesday,
which hai plunged a respectable family into extreme
disttess. The seducer is a married man, and resideJ iii
the vicinity of Thames-street. The young Lady, %%lin
is not more than sixteen years of age, came also flora
London, and resided with part of her family in Queen-
street, adjoining Cecil-square. The parties bicame ac-
quainted last season, when on a visit to Margate, at one
of the public break fa,,ts at St. Peter's, where they danced
together. On their arrival here this season, the young
Lady was unfortuna•ely permitted to take occasional
airings with her gallant in a sinikle horse chaise. On
Wednesday he again drove her out; but not returning
for two or three hours after their usual time, the young
Lady's friends became alarmed, and on inquiry at the
Royal Hotel, where the Gentleman lodged, found that
he had left it, and that his trunk had been removed.
On further inquiry, they ascertained that the parties,
after having driven home the chaise, had hired a boat,
remained on the water till the arrival of the Calais
steam•packet, and then embarked for France. The
young Lady's father and mother immediately left Mar-
gate in pursuit of the runaways, but the other part of
the family still remain here.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
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The East Susses Fox.hounds meet to-morrow at Lautthton
Saturday, at Newick Park, and Monday next, at East Dean.
The Brookside Harriers meet for the season on Mondays, it
Newmarket-hill; Wednesdays, at Lewes Race Course (on the alter-
nate Wednesday, at the Kennel); and Fridays, at Telescombe Tye.
The Somerset sithscription Fox-hounds meet on Friday, at Win-
down, Enmore.
PERTH MEETlNG.—Wrovesoav, OCT. 6.
A Gold Cup, value 1004 s. by ten Subscribers. Twice towed.
Mr. Maule's cb. h.' Lidston 1
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Sir D. Moncriers Shuffier

Mr. Carnegre's Belmour
Mr. Grant's Baron Bowes

Mr. Farquhar's Meta
Sir W. I%laxwelrs ch. h.
Fifty Pounds. Heats, tide* tam&
Mr. Mania's Prosody . •
Sir D. Moncrieff's Shuffier •
STONE RACES—(STAFFORDSHIRE).
The second year's Races took place last week, and were well at-
tended ; the sport was also good. The Sweepstakes *es won by
Mr. Booth's b. h. Shiboob, beating two others. The Cup, by Mr.
Deakin's br. f. coming in first both heats, beating four others.—
There were several Matches and Pony Races in the course of the
two days, and the disgraceful sport of bull-baiting, hitherto carried
on, has been done away with. Captain Yates and James Astbury,
Esq. are appointed Stewards for the nest year.
TRURO RACES.
A vast concourse of people of all descriptions, on foot, on horse-
back, in carts and carriages, assembled on Tuesday last in a field
about two miles from Truro, on the Bodmin road, to witness the
covet spectacle of a horse race. In a race between Captain Wight-
man's hr. h. and Captain Gilbert's b. m. l'otteen, Captain Carthew
rode Captain Wightman's br. b. and Captain Gilbert Potteen. Tst
this race the attention of the field was universally drawn to the ea, y
and elegant style of Captain Cartbew's riding, when on turning a
sharp corner on a descent near the winning post, his horse stumble d,
Captain Carthew was thrown with considerable violence over his
head, and so great was the shock, that the unfortunate Gentkin.n
was instantly deprived of sense and motion. The most intense
anxiety now prevailed. Happily four Medical GentlemEn were
present, who premed forward to render their assistance. Captain
Carthew was bled, and on recovering a little was conveyed front
the ground in a carriage.
Wednesday, the race between Prestwich and Bedoe, for 200
sovereigns, 600 yards, over Rnutsford Race Course, was decided
in favour of the former. It was an excellent race, run in a very
short time, and won by about six yards.—Betting at starting, b to
4on Bedoe. The same afternoon Bedoe offered to run the winner

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300 yards for 200 sovereigns, over Knutsford Course.
STAG HUNT.
Thursday, a fine stag, supplied, as usual, by that ttue sportsman,
E. Haatll, Esq. of Daiemain, was turned off near to Maiden Hill,
amidst a numerous assemblage of people, and a greater number of
horsemen than has been witnessed for many rats. lie was since-
yawned at ten minutes past one o'cliick, and went off in the finest
style, and, from the direction he took, affotded the spectators a fine
view. He crossed the road leading from Carlisle to Penrith, direct
to Newton, thence returning and recrossing the Carlisle road, near
Eioscowar, to the Low Mill, near Bazonhy, where he was taken,
after a fine chace of nearly five hours; and, considering the length
of the chace, and numerous high walls which were presented to the
horsemen, very few of them were spilt.
THE SIXTRICN Mrita Raca.—The mare performed the first round
in seven minutes and forty seconds; the second within a second of
the first, and continued to do the miles within four minutes. Half
"die distance was accomplished in twenty minutes and forty-nine
seconds, and the whole was completed, with only one break', in-
fifty-nine minutes and ten seconds.

THE MARKETS.
CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, OCT. 13.
There is not much Corn of any kind fresh up to-day, but a good
quantity of Flour. In consequence of the top price of Flvur being
advanced to 60$. per sack, more money is asked for Wheat, and
this article is certainly rather dearer. Barley sells heavily today, '
and appears declining in value. Beans and Peas well support Mon-
day's prices. Oats are not much in demand to-day, and they re-
main as last quoted. Arrivals... English Wheat, 4,300 quarters;
Mirky, 3,100 quarters; Oats, 3,800 quarters; Irish Oats, SOO
quarters; Foreign Oats, 7,400 quarters; Flour, 8,900 sacks.
(FROM TH It LONDON MC* CURRENT, 0cr.12.)
BRITISH PLANTATION SUGAR.-The market for Raw
Sugar has been steady this week. Brown Jamaicas have sold at
545. good ditto 565. and good refining 575. to 58s. A board of co-
loury Sugar was sold to-day to a grocer at 83s. per cwt.
Reviews Swaim-Large lumps are inquired for, but the better
sorts, at about 775. to 78s. are neglectedodthough much cheaper in
proportion.
• loamy &maim parcel of fine white Ifavannah has been
sold at 40$. per cwt. inferior Whites and Bhail dull.
East Imam Suaaas.-Ten thousand seven hundred bags, &c,
Bengal Sugar, offered for sale on the 6th inst. went off as follows, •
viz.-White 295. to 525. 6d. inferior ditto 255. to 28s. Yellow 21s
to 245. 6d. per cwt.-About 1,000 bags were withdrawn.
COFFEE.-The market has been dull during the week. By
public sale, about 1,100 casks Plantation and 1,400 bags of Foreign
were offered, but a considerable proportion was taken in, at nearly
former prices. Good ordinary St. Domingo sold at 60s. Brasil
575. &I. to 595. 6d. Plantation as quoted. The sale of 800 bags
and 780 hales Rat India Coff...e went off very languid ; Mocha was
principally taken in at 6;is. to Iles. Cheribon 60s. to 635. Ceylon
and Sumatra 545.64. to 595. per cwt.
R ICE to-day, 135 barrels Carolina, as follows-.-New 335. to 345.
Old 31s. to 518.6 d. per barrel.
PIMENTO.-Four hundred bags sold at 90. to 911 per lb.
demand less spirited.
BPIRITS....Iium maintains former prices. Brandy continues
depressed; prices unaltered.
PROVISIONS.-The supply of Butter from Ireland, sham our
last, was 15,000 firkins, and from Holland, Ac. 5,000 casks s with re-
spett to prices, we have to notice se advance of Bs. per cwt. on •
Dutch, and about Is. on Isiah. Beef and Pork fully maintain foe-
n.er rates.
OIL.-Accounts received by the Frances Mary, from Davie
Straits (with 140 tuns of oil), are unfavourable, as the Ship messed -
only 55 tuns of OA when she sailed on the 9th of Septembers Oil
consequently advanced, and holders required 4U for nimbi but
the buyers expect an Improvement hi the Fishery by next arrival.
HOPS.-Picking is now finished ; two or three parcels of in*
Mid. Kent Hops have been sold at sel 7s. pet cwt.

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II Alt VEST HYMN.

.Renacmber that Mom magnify kis work, Wick men khdd.
Jon :A. 2.
Oh, for the Royal Minstrel's lyre,
-Ir4l Gratitude my soul t' inspire
With her harmonious gtrains:
Jetturam's goodness to rehearse,
Which tills the boundless Universe,
And all that it contains!

his loving kindness we behold
In Summer's heat, in Winter's cold,
In Autumn and in Spring;
The thuuder's roar, the lightning's glare,
The whirlwind's rage, and softest air,
From Ilex their being bring!
The buoyant clouds, at Ills behest,
Down from their wid*.spread, fosering breast,
The liquid fatness drop:
The Sun emits his quickening rays,
Earth's veget.!ble tribes to raise.
And then matures each crop!
his goodness crowns the rolling year,
Instinctive life through every sphere
Proclaims th*Atutotere's care :
The joyful land o'erspread will grain,
And plenty with her teeming tram,
That " Gem is Jove" declare !
Oh! then, shall man, most truly blest,
Creation's Sovereign Loan contest,
. Not praise his Ms MI'S name ?
Forbid it, lat Creation cry,
Forbid it, Ileav'n and Earth reply,
Forbid is, love and shame!
Oh, for the Royal Minstrel's lyre
To celebrate Tessa, glorious SIRE,
Whose bounteous band supplies
That daily food so freely giv'n, 4•-•
And sends us down the bread of lltav'n,
That we to Drain may rise!

UPPER CANADA.

Extracts from a letter recently received,' written by
Mr. A Paterson, late of East Kiibride, near Glasgow,
and one of the emigrants settled in the township of,
Ramsay : •
ss We have very good neighbours, both Scottish and
Irish. All the Kilbride people who came out with us
arc in good health. There were five hundred settlers
came from Ireland last year ; perhaps you would hear
what grant the Government gave to them. They are
not the best settlers in general. Many of them have
left their lands, after getting what they were allowed.
They are all Roman Catholics, except five families.
Those oho are near us have been very quiet as yet.—
We had very good crops last year, and plenty to spare.
Frent car bushel we had eighteen bushels of wheat,:
weighing 6llbs. each, and would have had more, but
it was rather too ripe before we got it cut, being
busy with the hay. It comes so rapid that what is cut
one day may be stacked the next; and the hay which is
cut in the forenoon must be put in ricks in the after-
noon, or else the sun would injure it. We have had a
very pleasant winter: a little snow fell on the Ist of
November, and continued, with occasional showers now
and then, until the 10th of April, when we had black
ground again: The snow was not so deep, nor the win-
ter so cold (except for a few days), as the two former
years. We had only one day of rain from the Ist of
November to the 12th of April. There is a church built
in the village of Lanark with the money collected in
Scotland. ldo not hear of any other churches. We
have a meeting in my father's house every four weeks
—one of the settlers from Glasgow comes and gives us
an exhortation .from the Scriptures, and prayer. We
have ether meetings fur prayer in the neighbourhood,
almoq every Sabbath. My father gave an acre of his
land for a school-house, which Ins been built and is'
now occuried. James A. is the teacher; he receives
£9 per annum from the Board of Education in Perth,
and twelve bushels of wheat from the settlers. There is
to be a tnill built this summer on the Indian River,
about one mile from us: there are plenty of fish in that
river. The partridge here is about the size of the moor-
fowl in Scotland. We have plenty of wild ducks, geese,
and pigeons. I have seen limestone, but no coal or iron
stone, or free stone, which would answer for grind-
stones, except a kind which we get at the Mississippi
Falls, for sharping our axes. This settlement is in
the district of Bathurst, and county of Carlton. William
Morrir, Esq. from Scotland, is our Member of Parlia-
meat, and every one who holds a hundred acres of land,
and has got his deed, hai a vote for the Member; and
begets a small sum from every settler, according to his
amount of rateable property. The most of the people
in the old settlements are from the States, and are called
Yankees; they have different names to things from us.
What we.call counting is by them called sparking.—
There are a great number of bachelors here, and they
are much in want of wives and housekeepers. If there
was a grant of girls from Britain, they would be of
great service to them in milking their cows, cooking,
mending clothes, and washing. There has been a great
demand for potash. We get 4s. for field ashes, and 6s.
for house ashes, a bushel. We expect you sill all come
out next summer."

The wonderful Ox, bred and fed by Sir W. Maxwell,
wf Monteith, on his lands in Galloway, was slaughtered
at Ayr last week. This animal was extraordinary in
many respects. lle exceeded almost every beast of the
kind lately feared in Scotland, not only in bulk, bin
surpassed them likewise in symmetry of form, and
beauty of skin. Indeed he was considered so singular,
that be was carried through the kingdom in a caravan,
exhibited as a public spectacle, and was well known to
*the world by the name of " Fat Charlie." He was the
produce of a bull of die far-famed Teaswater kind, and
of a cow of the equally famous Cunningham breed,
and was about eight yews old when brought to the
shambles. The four quarters weighed 1O stones of
16 oz. to the lb. and 16 lb. to the *stone. The tallow
weighed 13 stone. 5 Ih. and kite hide 7 st. 8 lb. and ex-
clusive of the offals, the beast weighed 125 st. 13 lb.
Through the rib the thickness measured 9 inches, and
the la: along down the back 41, and the back-bone five.
An old actress, very proud ,of her charms; used to
Lave the play-house call brought into her bed-room
every morning. One day a man came in who she
thought was the call-boy. " Lay it down," says she,
" Ledger."—" Wlfat do you mean by Ledger?" says
the man: " I dye for you."—" Lord bless me! who CAR
this be?" said the actress—" 4 die for you!—Dear me ;
there is somebody in love with me; let me see who it
is." She pulled the curtain aside, and seeing a shabby
tellofv, demanded what business the impudent 'local
had there?—." d)e yotu clothes, Ma'am," said he,
" and am come for y!►ur bornhasine petticoat !"
To citnoax A Gaosv.—The bill and feet of a young
one wiil be yellow', and throe will be but few hairs
upon them: if oh!, they will he red: if fresh, the feet
will be rliable: if, stale, dry and stiff. Green gkese
should be scalded; a stubble goose picked dry.

ATTA WIRD PEERAGES. J
FRASER OF LOVAT.
The family of Fraser is of Norman extraction,though
its origin is peetiliarly- darkened by fable. The reign
of Malcolm Canmore has been assigned as the era of
their settlement in Scotland : fabulists have not, how-
ever, been wanting to carry that event as far back as
the reign of Achaius. The first Fraser who appears in
charters, is Gilbert de Fraser, in the time of Alexander
I. In the reign of Alexander 11. Bernard Fraser flou-
rished as Chief in Tweedale, in which district Oliver
Castle was the family residence; and the stem from
which successive migrations carried the name to luver-i
ness and Aberdeenshires. Sir Simon, called Pater in.
the records of the time, to distinguish him from his son'
and successor, inherited the possessions of his father
Bernard: we find him acting a distinguished part on
the political arena of the day. His name occurs among
the " Barons" by whom Alexander 111. got the suc-
cession to the throne of his grand-daughter acknow-
ledged, 5:.11 February, 1283. Ile left two sons, Sir
Simon, his heir, ancestor of the Lord Fraser of Lovat;:
and Sir Alexander, Chamberlain under Robert the
Bruce, the pt edecessor of the F. aser of Cowie, now Lords
of Saltoun. During the severe struggle in which the
ambition of Edward 1. involved Scotland, these brothers
Were ever foremost at their country's call. First, Sir
Simon the elder, in conjunction with one John Cumine,
of Badenoch, gained the battle of Roslin, in February,
1303 ; and he and Sir William Wallace were expressly,
excluded in the Great Council of St. Andrew's, from
the general amnesty given to the Scots; but neither
exile, imprisonment,' nor seizure of his e.tate, could
shake his devoted loyalty. At the battle of Methven,
King Robert the Bruce WAS thrice dismounted, and as
often replaced, by the intrepid valour of Sir Simon ;
he saved his Monarch's life at the expense of his own,
for being taken prisoner by David de Breghyn, he was
put to death, on the Bth of September,l3Q6, at London,
under circumstances of horrible barbarity. No refine-
ment t.f cruelty (as we learn from M. Westminder)
was thought too severe for a man so determined in his
hostility to the views of the English Sovereign. Se-
cond, Sir Alexander married Mary Bruce, sister to the
King, and was killed at the battle of Duplin, on the 3d
of August, 1352. The eldest son of Sir Simon, like-
wise of the same name, was captured at an early age
by the English. and sent to France ; bur he succeeded
in joining his former comrades, and distinguished him-
self both under Bruce and David 11. the latter of whoni
confirmed to him the grant of she estate of Lovat,
gifted to his father, and which had fallen to the Crown
on the forfeiture of Sir John Bisset, anno 1242.
Hence, from their founder, the Chiefs of Lovat are
always called Machimie, that is, Simpson, or son of
Simon ; as also Machimie-More, son of the Great Si-
mon. Sir Simon's two daughters carried his south
country estates into the families of Hay of Locherwart
and Fleming of Biggar, ancestors of the Marquis of
Tweedale and Earl of Wig toun. Three descents brought
the Chieftainship and possession to Hugh, documented
in an indenture with Lord Fenton, 3d March, 1416, as
" Lord of the Lovat." He married Janet Fenton, but
the marriage articles prove his title to the property be-
fore his union, in opposition to those writers who would
derive his right from his wife, as heiress to her mother,
a daughter of Bisset of Lovat. Equally inadmissible
has been the attempt to engraft the Lovat title by mar-
riage with Mary, daughter of the Bissets. Record no-
tices but four daughters of that House :-1. Mary,
married to Gregory le Grant, whose sons witness an
agreement in 1258, e ith the liishop of Moray; 2. Mary;,
3. Cecilia ; and 4.. Elizabeth, daughters of Sir John
Bisset, last of Lovat, 1258, all married ; the first to
David de Grahame, the second to Wm. Fenton, of Beau-
fort, the third to Sir Andrew de Bosecho. Hence nei-
ther of these Ladies could have allied themselves, as is
pretended, pith Sir Simon Fraser; and the three crowns
never were the Bissies' arms, but arms of concession,
granted to the Lovats on the marriage of Julia Ross,
niece of Robert Bruce, with Simon Fraser, son of the
great Sir Simon. 4, Hugo Fresale de Lovet" had a
safe conduct to King James at Durham, 1423. He was
one of the hostages on the King's return, 1424. It was
adriiitted in a law-suit for the title in 1730, that there
never was a patent of the dignity; but it is likely the
family were ennobled in James First's reign, at a period.
subsequent to 1480. By a deed,, dated 26th March,
1539, Hugh, fifth Baron of Lovat, resigned his lands
and honours into King James Fifth's own hands, and;
obtained a charter, settling both on his heirs male for
ever. On the death of Hugh, 11th Lord, without issue:
male, the title and estates reverted to his grand-uncle,
Thomas Fraser, of Beaufort, as the first collateral
branch; and in July, 1730, the Court of Session rightly
adjudged the same to his son, Captain Simon Fraser, as
his heir male under the destinatien, in 1539, in a com-
petition with the grandson of Hugh, 11th Lord. Of
this last Lord Lovat it is now needless to speak ; his
actions and death ate alike well known. His son, the'
late Hon. General Fraser, obtained a restoration of the
family estates, which he' placed under a strict entail on
the respective branches from their common ancestor.
By the decease of the General and his brother without
issue, the succession of this illustrious house and its ho-
nours opened to Thomas Alexander Fraser of Lovat and
Strichen, the male heir and representative of the fa-
mily, being lineally descended from Thomas Fraser of
Knockie (second son of Alexander 6th Lord Lovat)
who acquired the estate of Strichen in the year 1589.
Mr. Fraser married on the 6th August, 1823. Charlotte
Georgina, eldest daughter of Sir George Jerningham,
Bart. now Lord Stafford, and has issue.

DEATH BY FIGHTING.—Hawkins, a coachman, and
liattray, a bricklayer, hiving quarrelled at a public-
house at Newington, on Monday night, they agreed to
decide it in the morning for a sovereign. After fight-
ing some time, Hawkins received a blow on the side of
his head which caused his death in half an hour.
ORIGIN OF THE ORDER OF KNIGHTS Or THE ROUND
TABLE.—King Arthur, observing many quarrels about
precedency amongst his Kuights about the year, 516,,
caused a round table to be made, at which all the Order,
including the Sovereign himself, took their seats promis-
cni.usly ; to this table none were admitted but those
Iwho had given sufficient proof 'of their valour and
dexterity in the ose of arms.—The following is a list of
the First Table of these Knights :

Arthur, King of Great Britain.
King Rions Kelm de Seneschal
King Karadoc of I Yrien, the son of
Wales King Artian
The King of Clare Brun, or the Black
The Duke of Cia- Bedunier, the Con.
rence stable
Hector dr blared. Ag!Dual
Blioberis Securades, an 4
Gueriot Patt ides.

Boors,
(Maio!,
Percival
LaU ncel ot
Gawanne
Lyonnel
Hellas le Blanc
King B-udomages
Ki:4; Ydur

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
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AIANSION;HOUSE;
For some time past active exertions have been making to este,
iblish in the City a " Corn, Flour, and Mead Company," which;
the Gentlemen concerned in the speculation say, will be calculated
to supply, exclusively, the whole Metropolis with those indispensa-
ble artitlza of life. To induce persons to become members, a
pamphlet, written by a person named Maton' has been industri-
ously circulated. It is addressed to the i.oe Mauna, as the indi-
vidual most fitted, on account of his statiou, to take cognisance of
the subject of bread in the metropolis ; and from whatever source
it proceeded, an impression has gone abroad, that his Lordship had
not patronised the new Company, but took an active part in the
suppression of the establishment. In the course of the last fortolaht,
a number of Gentlemen came to the Mansion-house to consult his
Lordship upon the subject ; and one of the members of the new
Company formally applied to his Loldshie, with the request that
be world place himself at the head of the proposed Institution.
The Losa Nlacmt expressed his respect for the motives of the
Gentlemen who had been persuaded to allow their names to be put
at the head-of the concern, and said be knew them to be men of
too much honour to permit the existence of a doubt that they con-
sidered that such an Institution was just, and would be beneficial.
But he entertained far different views of tile subject, and could not
consent to have his name made use of in the manner proposed, u
he felt that such an Institution would be nothing less than a com-
bination, destructave sf the freeitn, and opposed to the first prin.
ciplep of trade.
The party contended warmly, that. the plan was for tife general
good, to which private interest must ever give way, and that the
Institution, when actively operating, must produce incalculable be-'
nefits.—The Loan Mayor', we are informed, inquired, what, sup-
posing the plan should be as extensively countenanced as the can-:
guine projectors seemed to expect, must become of the baleen,
their families, and the thousands who were dependent upon that
business for bread? Ile declared, that he felt himself called upon
to express himself thus decidedly, and he hoped that the respect-
able men who had given their names to the Institution, would
adopt a similar opinion.

M I I