Star.
London, England, 1826-09-13 00:00:00

DOVER, SM. 11.

This town eatatloass to be.veri IWI, and the arrivals of panes-
gars to and from the Caudal* are frequent. By the Irish
which tame in yesterday, we had a strange visitor, an
named Prior, clothed in a sackcloth shirt, girt round the weests
without hat or shoes, or indeed any article of apparel besides his
sackcloth shirt, except a pair of light trousers. This poor felltni left
Dover two or three days ag y after reaching it on font, with a
from the French Consul in London, for the purpose, a
relsaye, of getting the Monks of the Monastery of La Trappe
to dispossess him of a demon with which he says be is troubled. •
()n arriving at Calais he was suffered to pass, but in a few
hours afterwards the gendarmes went in pursuit of him, and over-
took him at about nine miles from Boulogne. They conveyed him to
prison in Boulogne, where he remained until the Britannia was
ready to sail for England, and then be was taken on board forcibly,
to be returned to Dover. When he was arrested by the police, he
was quite naked, with the exception of his shirt, but &person wlio
is confined in prison at Boulogne humanely gave him a pair of trou-
sers. The man appears to be sane enough on all points, except that
of the possession by the demon, and reasons well upon what he calls
the injustice of sending him away from France when provided with
a passport, requiring the Authorities to afford bins aid and protection
in case, of need, merely because he is clothed in sackcloth and goes
barefooted. On his arrival at Dover he was provided with
twenty-five francs in silver, which were given to him by the
pollee, or by some of the religious devotees in Boulogne, with
whom he appeared to be a great favourite. Indeed, the good old
Ladies of Boulogne were quite indignant with the police for send-
ing away this hely pilgrim.
Apartments have been ordered at the York Hotel, for several
days past for the Marchioness of Downshire, who remains at Calais,
waiting for a fair wind and a smooth sea.
It ought to be known by our fair countrywomen who think of
making a trip to Paris for the purpose of laying in a good stock of
French silk gowns, and other apparel, that the oilkers of the cus-
toms now demand duty upon all French articles whether made up
or not; even if they have been worn a little, they are not exempted
from duty.

BRIGHTON, SEPTZMIER 11.
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A circumstance has just occurred here which has
caused a good deal of conversation in the fashionable
and scandal-loving coteries of the town. Mrs. Forbes,
or rather Mrs. Forrest (for that is the name she is now
known by), the female friend and companion of the
late Mr. Fauntleroy, has been living in a house on the
New Stehle. On Saturday last, a Solicitor, who occu-
pies the house adjoining (No. 25), put up in his parlour
window the following placard:—" Beware of the • • •
house, No. 24, New Steine;" and to-day the occupants of
the latter have in their turn displayed one as follows:
" the public are requested to suspend their opinion of
the infamous placard exhibited in the window of N 0.25,
next door, as the writer will have to prove it in a Court
of Justice." The New Steine has, in consequence, been
the resort of numerous gazers to-day, who are at a loss
to discover the reason of the placards.
Braham took his benefit en Saturday, when there was for the
first time out of siz nights, something like a good house. Including
the encores, he sang nearly twenty songs, and condescended to
accompany on the piano three of the Brighton company, wbo sang
a glee. liraham is sadly mortified at not having been more attrac-
tive; probably it is the first instance of his having failed in this
manner.
The infant son of the Duke of Leinster, Lord L. Fitzgerald,
died here yesterday.