Star.
London, England, 1817-09-23 00:00:00

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In the &niter continuation or the wee MINA!.
evidence of Mr. Poynder, referring to the elects
produced by the habit of drink Ag. it appears iii it be
enneiders that the suppression of this vice w•mld et.
cord in is be.icrts the ttiv:.ntte raised horn
ti m. In this v:ew of the subject, he I .mks at the
great experid;nire of the police, of the public prose.
eutiniF., of the remov 11 of c.mvict., of the money
paid fur conviciicn ft w the hulks, and for
tranrpqrtation. He soles that, in the last year of
his off ::al empiny Iman. the disbutsemems of the
Sheriffs London and Ali idlest-a were anoie we've
thousand ;wools, including neatly sc.t ()On for re-
wards on convictions in the City and C env!. He
observes on the muhiplicati tiv of (fences, whiclrhave
increased the duration • f the Old Bi ies Sessions.
So much anginentutistn of nopul irion may h •ve con-
tributed to this ; but this G-ntiem othiks that the
inere•sse of crime itself is to be trace.t •u dui igloo.
Taking the receipt iuto the Esen•squei Ey t. e
latiens and the dillies oil foreign spirit. tor cte last
five years irtu con.id.rativn, still he aainceives, that
thistles keen :heir should be actual gain to the sere-
our, yet Vete would be no public loss, while a glut
advantage to pintlec narrals might be obtained.
Toe hied:ly of iii oducing spirits into the metro:
politan prison ( Ne.vgat4.), n regula.
boos, is next mentioned and it seems that the errors
of the faiends of criminals, assisted by the laxity,
turpitude, or nu hour of jailor', are the means for
convesing the instruments of intoxication to etimi•
nal, even almost up to the awful moment of death.
lair. I'ayuJ r ascribes the largest oiroportion of Jan-
till,: der Ave)? to me vice of drinking, through the
1 hoboes VI rick relatives; the vice, 44 their parents •
tendetini them vicious and profligate. and ainoist
tiepeiess. Drunkeniens. he justly observes. leads to
gambling and thieeing; and to all sons ofienses.
Toe immorality of parents inives the way for the tail
ut their utlpring. by nultilying all ideas of delicacy,
'honesty, and honour ; and thatin a more peculiar
• Hy, :zs to your:. nuguarde f. uneducated. and Ur.
%LIS:VC/111g teal:4loS. Mr. Ilaynder observes, With
lunch truth. that pare-as are often the destroyers of
ot..eittnes of their own children. Indeed nobody.
who has looked justly at society. can doubt that the
couatettance and et.ectsiageasent given by age and •
experience to the burttieg passions of the youthful,
are among the must pregn tot .c Jules of the wont
evils by which a mad or worn in, in maturity, may be-
stow hurtful and vicioits to the woole human rase.
He 'milks that the addictiau the'pareets to di trika
ing. does. in a great extent, •akt off their attention
thee, children : and taut it also leads to hahi.e o°
insubordination and sedition, by nebtc/t he eh .Its the
lots is greater then by the carii.ll diminution o= the
reveling from whir causes. Cashman, who was
it..nked. stated that he joined the triobin intox.cation.
Wad the violence end wickedness of several of eh:
other • iorers are Attribuied to the like destructive ha.
bit. Mr. rnynder pat ticularly mentions the cases of
the min ::erers of tilt. Horsetail, of Huddersfield,
who liasi previously to their crime become intoxicated.
lie qultes Dr. Wilen's opinion. also thiuks, that
spirit snivaing first affects the stomach and bowels,
hot that much mote than an eighth of all the deaths
in the ni.-tr,ipatis of pers./in above 20. happen by this
vice. He ihustraws this by his own experiecce .fthe
Cases in the hospitals of this city, and thence consi-
ders that she vice of drinking is not only a moral
pestilence, but a phyareal scourge. Even at Betblent
Hospital he has had opportunities of rib ,erving thlat
insanity was freeinetn:y owing to thiiikite.t. Le
sounds his opittion On the experience 01 twelve yeaiu
WII:1e x tendeitcy to ssiaJi:e.,s appears to be lierci2i.
cmy, it is easy itt conceive' that drunken hal•its in-
crease the diivesition. Drnakenness frevently
'ions, of ttselt, a speci,a t.sti p,,r.4ry lunacy, the ev;l
tfreels of which nit daagerous to the individual.
After some geueral observations on the vice and sin of
druil-i:nu.s, tins respectable Gentleman proceeds to
state his views of the enormities to which an indul.
genet in it neseniatily leads the unhappy victim of
netenaperance. Flom his experience he mentions ob-
duracy of heart, distaste fur labour, waste of time,
infaivation tat habit, and the difficulty of abandon-
ing it, Neglect and contempt foe religion and the roll.
gious institutions, and the Minty to health and life.
U 3 each of these topics his evidence is ample and :n-
-structive. He spews„ with sufEch tit ilea:nets, how
I a pernicious habit checks the best feelings of the heart
land impairs all the moral sentiments. In the second
place has observations are undeniable, that the indul-
gence in drinking produces a dislike to active and
dustrion: habith.which is of itself of the greatest de.
triment to the moral character, in whatever situation
of life the individu•it, male or female, may perchanre
be placed. Tile hatred of labour must, unquestion-
ably, occasion the love of idleness, titan which there
is, as all history thews, no more prolific parent of
vice. As to the infatuating nature of spirit.drinking,
he observes, if that it is a r.:rt of miracle for the
nearest friend to get a man out of it."
r 7. ro tole!' states the case of an individual, who,
sensible of his lel:unity (drinking spirits) and of the
attention of his friends to prevent him from it, was
yet unable to divest himself of the baneful practice ;
.114 d consequently fell a victim to it. As to the effects
of systematic inebriation in a religions view, this
Grutlett.n states, what all moralis's and pious men
must agree to, chit sobriety is a great and important
virtue. As to health and lite, he obst ryes, that drain.
drinkers' children ate generally diminutive and sickly,
and that in adults it destroys the animal economy,
generally produces a depression of spirits, while the
stimulus that becomes necessary leaves after it a
weakness that requires a repetition of the fatal d ere.
Dropsy, consumption, paralysis, and apoplexy, all
frequently follots in the destructive results. The cis.
like to labour, he :hews plainly cutting.), is a coolie.
quence of the vice of drunkenness, proJecing all sorts
of wretched results, by the piefesence cf idleness
divipat-ion to activity and

THE EVENING STAR.

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TUES!' Y. SEi'TENIBER 23, 1817.

PRICL 5" I (ICI.: 'MIS 15/51 A 1"I'W EINE O'CLOCK
Reduced shut—Consols. holt —Do. f^r f ict
4 per Cent shut—Navy. 106/;—India Bondooothing done.
Bank Long Anno.shut—Exchrquer 2.24. to 275. pr.

The Paris l'ap. rs of Saturday arrived this morning.
The Electi, ns were. to commence on Saturday,
and it will he several clays before they are completed.
Although oily one-fifth of the Chamber is to be
completed, an extraordinary importance seems to be
attach( d to the choice of Member:. All the Journals
teem w•i:h articles impressing most earnestly on the
Elect.irs, that according as their choice may be, it
will render the present period either most fatal or
most salutary to tl e welfare of their country.
A certain list of " Candidates preser.ti:d to the
Electors of the Department of the Seine by the Friends
of Legitimacy," having been im!ustriously circulated
in Paris, as proceeding from the Etat-Major of the
National Guard, Marshal OCDINOT, the Commander
in-Chief, has issued an Order of the Day, in which
he warns them not to suffer themselves to be ensnared
by such a manceuvre, and trusts that they will sub-
mit to no orb dictation but what a love for their
Country and thrir King inspires. Among the- ittdi-
• viduals mentioned as most likely to unite 'majority
of suffrages, is the celebrated Larayerrit.
Frans an article, which has alt the semblance of
coming from authority, we are glad to perceive that
the Projet of Law, which has been for some time ma-'
Luring for improving the condition of the French ,
Clergy, will not have the effect of adding any thing
to the burthens of the people : and yet the .way in
which this is to be accomplished, is, we think, of a
mature which may well occasion some doubt as to the
advantage actually gained by the people. A Royal
Ordonnance, it is said, has kept funds in re-
serve, to encrease those which have been set apart,
by law, for the support of the Clergy; which is in
other words ta say, (if it is saying any thing) that
the King has kept twlic something which the law has
not given him, and which something he is going to
confer out of his own bounty, on a class of men on
whom t, e law has itself not thought proper to bestow
it. Now where is the gain to the people here ? Are
not the funds alter all, by which this encrease of
provisi.,n is to be made to the Clergy, the funds
of the people themselves ?—And, is it not a moc-
kery to tell them that this increase will cost them
nothing additional, because, forsooth, his Majesty
has managed so adroitly, as to extract the money
from them already, without their knowing any
thing about it ? A very mockery we certainly
do think it ; and yet, after all, the gain may be con•
sidered so far on the side of the people, as to justify
our being glad enough at the course the affair is
taking. since what was abstracted, or reserved, as it
is called, so secretly, might for certain have been re-
tained quite as secretly, and it is always mneh plea-
santer to be reconciled to a plow lewd, than duped
by a concealed extortion.
The British, Hanoverian, Danish, and Saxon troops
have. since their reviews by the Duke of MILL/sm.
1011. been again dispersed among their several can-
tonments. Their condition and discipline are praised
bythe French Journals. The Due.* returns imme-
diately from Alsace, where he has reviewed the Au-
strians, to his head-quarters at Mont St. Martin.
The statement which we gave yesterday, that an,
Extraordinary Courier had arrived from Rhodes with
the judgment pronounced against the assassins of M.
FUALDIss, is now contradicted. No such Courier had
arrived op to the night of the 19th ; nor is it yet au-
thentically known what the judgment is.
French Funds. with div. from 22d Sept. 66 f. 45 c.
DREADFUL VOLCANO.

BATAVIA, Maac■
Various letters from Baujoewangie mention. that
swards the middle of January, the mountain ldieng,
situated at about twenty.four leagues from Baujoe-
waugie, began to break out and spread fear and de-
solation over the surrounding country. On the night
of the 2343 and 24th of January, there was a great
eruption j immure columns of fire and smoke, and
inflammable substances, ascended from the -mons-
tab with a noise similar to that of thunder or oral-
- ; the earth quaked even as far as Baujoewaugie.
prodigious quantity of cinders, earth, and sand,
vomited forth by the mountain, soon covered all the
ighbouring fields, and utterly destroyed the crops
rice, which had before presented the tnost beautiful
appearance. The air became so surcharged with clouds
ashes and sulphurous smoke, that it was scarcely
possible to respite, and for several days afterwards the
light of day was scarcely visible at Baujoewangie.-
111 e greater part of the birds of the air have perished,
sad along the rivers nothing is to be seen but dead
fish floating on the surface of the waters. Enormous
blocks of stone, and trees of a prodigious bulk, were
precipitated with a fearful crash from the highest
mountains, and overwhelmed in their course, houses.
bridges, and every thing which they encountered.
The rivers every where burst their banks, and in
• many places rose as high as 14 feet above their ors&
nary level. The affrighted inhabitants fled from all
parts towards the shore and town of Baujoewaugie,
but were stopped at every step in consequence of the
• Toads being tenderedimpassable by the inuadasieer
and the destruction of the bridges. The subsequent

news are somewhat more assstieg t the Monnta;n has
seated to emit any more fire; but the atmosphere
continues darkened with clolds of ashes and smoke,
nor have the inundations yet abated. The desolation
occasion J thisAlisasuout phenomena is fearful ;
and there is 'Lawn to apprehend that it will occasion
a great scarcity of provisions. Many people are sul-
king; under diseases occasioned by the bad quality
given to the waters by the ashes, and a general mor-
tality hat seix:•d the hornet cattle. In the district of
Gabang a mountain tumbled down on the 27th of
February, and buried eight families who dwelt upon
it. A similar event took place in the night of the
4th and sth of March in the district of Talaga, where
a number of houses, with. all their inmates, were in
like manner overwhelmed in ruin, and not a trace of
their existence left.

The Mission of the Russian Goneral YERSIOLOFF
to the Persian Court, has revived the public attention
to a subject ot ten touched upon, though perhaps 'never
as yet viewed with all that seriousness which its im.
portance demands—we mean the practicability of an
overland invasion of our East Indian possessions by
same of our great Continental rivals. It is averred
as a fact, in the able publication, On the Power of
Russia, ascribed to the pen of Sir ROBERT W ILSON,
that BONAPAIITS had resolved, in the event of his
succeeding in his attempt on Russia, and reducing it
to an implicit co-operation in his designs, actually to
make the experiment of such an invasion of the Erin;
and of the accuracy of this statement we happen to
be enabled, by one of our nilitary friends, to furnish
%hat must be allowed to be no insignificant corrobo-
ration—the plan of the expedition itself, as digested
by BONAPARTS, and subsequently found among other
documents, in the military portfeuille of France. The
billowing is a literal translation :

MEADS OF PLAN FOR EXPADITIoN AGAINST THE BRIM!

POWER IN INDIA.

" France, Russia, and Auo Ha, to co operate in the en'erpriae.
" franca and Kui►ia i•; canjuncuon to ward. an army of
70,W° men to the banks of the Indut : . . . .

•
" Austria to allow the French troops to march trough its ter-
ritories and to assist thar descent down the Danube to the
Black Sea:

" A ltus.iao Army of 35,000 men to autmble at Ammo;
85,0t/0 of 'tient regolar troops; 1e.t40 Co.sack,:
" his army to be conveyed on the Caspian Sea to Astrabad,
there to await the arrival of the Prestos Army :
" Astrabad to be the rendesvosir of the Cembiurd Armles,the
seat or the magazine. military 'torts and previsions, the atn•
rral point of the tines of communication between Indo.tan,Frattce,
and Russia:

" The French Divi•fon of 35,000 mein to embark in boats on
the banks of the Danube, and salt down that river to the sleek seas
" On their arrival in the Ersine sea, to proceed in transports
seppiied by Russia, across the Dyck Sea, and the sea of Asopls t•
agastroc
o paw thence up the right bank of the Don to the small
Cossack town of Piati•labutoca :

" FO MKS the Danube there, and march by land to the yid.
Lily of the City of Czaritzin on the right bank of the Volga:
" To embark on the Volga anti descend to Attratan:
" From Antruan to bail along the Caspian to Astrabad:
" Out the 'auction of the French and Itosbians at Astrabad,
the combined Army immediaely to begin hs march:
" And to proceed by the Cities of Herat, Arab, and Cadabar,
to the right bask of the Indus,
LINOTU Or TUX MARCU Or TUC IXXWCI ARV-
" Passage down the Danube - - - 110 days.

LINO/II Or TIVI MARCII Or Tar mums AUNT.

" From the loom b of the Danube to Taganroe If
" From I aganrue :o Pratt-lzbianca - • 40
" From Piau-bbianca to Czari zin • - 4
" From Csaritzin to Astracan - . - 4
" From Astracan to Aurabad . • 10
" From Astrabad to the ku:us - . - 45

• Total, lig days."

The PALMS REGENT, it is said, has signified his'
intention of appointing an additional number of
Naval Officers to be his Royal Highness's
Coop, which honour is to be considered a step of
promotion in the same way as it is understood in the
Army, when aa Officer was appointed Aide-de-Camp
to the Bute.

The Palace Rxerwr's aquatic excursion has made
a sea voyage all the rage among the web-footed vi-
sitors at the watering places on the coast. There were
four yachts at Plymouth on Saturday, all fall of fa-
shionable parties.
A boy was yesterday convicted at the Old Bailey,
for stealing/mfr. The fowls were afterwards found
in Pk-street, and the boy in Dad-lane.

The landlord of the sign of the God Moos, in a
town in the west of England, has been refuted a li-
cence by the Magistrates for keeping a tfisertierly hostel
The Annual Meeting of Winnstay Agricultural
Society took place last week, Sir WATEIN WILLIAMS
WYNN, President s S6O sat down to dinner.
Forest Fair; annually held in the Forest of Which-
wood, in Oxfordshire, was held on Wednesday, at
which the moil rustic amusements took place. The
Duke and Duchess of blAaLsoitovon and Lord
Canectuu., were present.
The subscription for the relief of the debtors in the
old jail of Edinburgh bat fully answered the purpose
intended. The subscribers will be gratified to learn
that their generosity enabled the Committee on Tues-
day to throw opal the door of the jail, and liberate
every prisoner confined there for debt ; and a small
balance still remains, which is to be applied in aid of
the families of those most in want. The criminals,
25 in number, were removed to the new jail on Mon-
day se'nnight. The two Millvogues, M'Cristal, and
Janet Douglas, under sentence of death, were sent to
the lock-up-house.
A Russian Ma* ScHwaxow was lately made pri-
soner by one of the wild tribe of the Cements, who
did not release him, till they had received a ransom
of 10,000 rouble‘ The Emperor .-ALEXANDER con-
tributed part of the sum.
Captain EDWARDS, of the country ship Decals, who
arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday, from Bengal, last
from St. Helena, with part of the 66th regiment on
board, was introduced to BONAPARTE, and stayed
two hours with him. He found the Ex-Emperor in
a pleasant mood, and took a glass of wine with him
_,
in the onssarn-roots. Of this
_game BERTRAND in.
,
i.
I worms' Captain uwARDS, the Emperor was exceed
ingly fond, knocking the balls about by himself all
day long. The frame-work sent oat for his habita-
tion has been cut up for sentry-boxes, sad he still
continua, to reside at Loagload. •

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