Star.
London, England, 1826-10-09 00:00:00

BY AN AMERICAN.

Hark ! attendant Seraphs say,
Patriot Spirits, come away !
Ye, on earth whose work is done,
Yt, whose glorious race is ran—
Ye, among the faithful found,
With your Country's blessings crowned;
Ye, to whom freed millions raise
Hylins of gratitude and praise :
Summoned from this house of clay,
Called in times full hour away,—
Longing for their native skies,
Lo, together they arise!
Grieve not for the hallowed Dead—
Mourn not Worth and Wisdom fled ;
Filled with years, with honours blest,
They alike in glory rest !

PORTSMOUTH, Ocrosza 7.

This morning the Stentor transport, Lieutenant Bur-
ney, agent, arrived at Spithead, in great distress, having
been twenty. three days at sea, bound to Sierra Leone,
and obliged to put back .to repair damages which she
sustained. in heavy gales, in the B•ty of Biscay. The
following narrative, written by an officer, describes
her perilous escape from shipwreck, and the suffer ingsof
those on board:

" The Stencor- sailed from Gravesend on the 14th
September, and on the 19th passed the Land's End.
On the 23d and 24th, we experienced a heavy gale in
lat. 47, 10ng..13. 19. when the ship sprung a leak,
causing the pumps to be at work every half hour. On
the 29th, when in lat. 44. 54. it came on to blow one of
the severest hurricanes that was ever experienced ; the
Captain, who had crossed the Atlantic thirty-six times,
said he never saw the like; the sea ran considerably
higl.er than our mainmast, and resembled a complete
foam; the wind was W.S.W. with the sea rolling from
the Northward. From one A. N. the ship kept shipping
sea after sea—all hands were at the pumps ; the guns
were thi own overboard, as well as everything that could
be got at. Now a scene came on, which beggars de-
scription : at twelve o'clock the man at the helm gave
a signal which was too well understood—the men rushed
to the rigging, clinging to it in all parts—a sea ap-
peared which actually darkened the space between us
and the sun; it came lifting its head, until, with one
horrid rush, it swept our decks, filled the whole of the
after part of the ship with water, carried away the bul-
warks and dashed into the rigging ; our main topsail
was split into ten thousand-atoms, and myself, who was
in the back stays, bruised all over, and Captain Perry,
of the Royal African Corps, the Commanding Officer
on board, so severely injured, as to be obliged to be car-
ried into the round-house. The knees of the ship were
started by the violence of the shock. Every passenger
on board was compelled to win k at the pumps. We then
attempted to put the ship before the wind, as our only
chance of life, which, thank GOD, succeeded ; but at six
P. Y. to add to our misery, one of the pumps choked,
and the gale still continued, nor did it at all abate until
the next night, having lasted forty-two hours. Our pe-
rils were not yet over, as we were all obliged for our
safety to work incessantly at the pumps to keep her
afloat, and for these last nine days we have never had off
our wet clothes, our cabin being inundated with water,
and all our things destroyed. The binnacle was also
washed away, the boats stove in, and, to add to the con-
fusion, an alarm was spread of fire. Yet, amidst all
the dangers, the Captain (Mr. Marshall), and the Agent
(Lieutenant Burney), lost not their presence of mind,
and to them our safety is greatly indebted. We are
quite worn out with fatigues and sufferings."
Letters from Cape Coast Castle state that the Brazen,
26, Captain George Willis, was lying there, all well, on
the 16th of July, having recently captured La Fortuna,
a Portuguese schooner, with 250 slaves, 45 of whom
died on the passage to Sierra Levine; and on the 6th of
July she captured the Brazilianship St. Benedict, fitted
for a cargo of 690 slaves, but with only twenty-five on
board:—Major Bowen, one of the Commissioners, on his
return from the Gambia, comes home in the Brazen,
and was shortly to sail for England. A beautiful brigan-
tine, prize to the ship on a former cruise, will return to
England with her.
The Ann, smuggling lugger, belonging to Flushing,
with a crew of fourteen men, has been sent into New-
castle, captured on the 28th ult. off the Yorkshire coast,
by the Mermaid, Lieutenant Robertson, alter having
thrown a valuable cargo overboard during the chase,
consisting of brandy, geneva, spirits, tobacco, tea, se-
gars, and cards, forty-eight tubs of which were subse-
quently picked up, a gale of wind from the Southward
preventing further looking for the zest. The Ana is a
most beautiful vessel, of about sixty-five tons, nearly
new, and exceedingly well found with every descrip-
tion of stores.
Tuesday arrived the Thetis frigate, Captain Sir John
',hill more, Isom Rio Janeiro, whither she conveyed the
Right. Honourable Lord Ponsonby, Ambassador to the
States of Buenos Ayres, on his way to the River Plate.
His Lordship has been engaged sonic time as a media-
tor, in endeavouring to reconcile the existing differences
between the Brazilian and the Buenos.Ayrean Govern-
ments; but the Emperor of Brazil is so ill-disposed to
abandon his original designs upon part of that territory,
that be opposes every obstacle to the negociatious
opened by the Government for terminating the war.—
lie expenses of the war are very great, exceeding, it is
calculated, the entire revenue of Rio Janeiro. Lord
Ponsonby, it was understood, intended to proceed to his
ulterior dest,nation, in about ten days, in the Doris fri-
g ate. Sir J. G. Sinclair. It is not correct that the Bra-
zillan frigate Netheroy had been taken in the River
Plate (as was reported), by the Buenos Ayrean force,
but the wli le squadron was covered with disgrace, by
its pusiaaninious operations under its lat-! Commander,
Admiral Count Lobo. His squadron, consisted of sixty-
seven ships of all classes, which the Buenos Ayrean
ship,, commanded by Admiral Brown (a bid and in-
trepid man, form.rly a master in the merchant se, vice),
constantly attack,d, in detail, a la totArane, and beat
thenr most sh +=dully. Admiral Lobo was awaiting,
at Rio Janeiro,an ingot( y into his conduct fur cowardice.
It has been discovered, however, that by the Brazilian
lag s, no Court can be at present constituted to meet his
case, as the law declares the members of such must be
e.fficers superior in rank and authority to the accused.
Tire Admiral had, nrireover, found an influential friend
in the person cf the Marchioness of Santos, who is a
favour tie at Ccturt. We regret to learn, that the trade
with the Riser Plate is nearly annihilated by the war

which exists there; the merchants are suffering ins.,
mense losses, by their, goods perishing. The French
and American Commanders at Rio have bad a spiv
rited expostulatory correspondence with the Bra.
zilian Government on the subject of the right of
blockade of the River Plate—a question which the Ame-
rican Commander (Capt. Elliott) particularly disputes,
and Which lie is -strongly disposed to put to the severe
test of a forcible breach. He intended to sail thither
shortly, with the Macedonian and Cyane, having ;ent
on the fllston. The Portuguese line of battle ship, Dort
John VI. remained at Rio, the Deputation from Portu-
gal not having yet succeeded in their object. It is un-
derstood that the Emperor is determined to marry his
daughter to his brother, Don Miguel l—r The Emperor
has not yet imbibed all the taste for English politics
which we could wish; but which we hope he soon will.
The Empress is decidedly partial to the English, and,
on all occasions, extremely agreeable to them. Much,
of her time is passed in the healthful employment of
hunting; she rides (astride, according to the Austrian
custom) from 40 to 50 miles a day. The case of the
slave vessel, captured by the Redwing, and afterwards
taken by a Brazilian ship of war, under pretence of
her being a pirate, was still undecided. The Brazilian
Government had offered to release the Officer (Mr.
Faulkner, Mate of the Redwing), and the crew, upon
Sir George Eyre un 'ertaking to give them up again,
it the vessel should be condemned, in their Courts, as a
pirate. This the Admiral refused to do, and, most-
quently, they remained in confinement. The Wellesley,
74 (flag ship), intended to leave Rio in a few days, on a
cruise to the northward. The surveying ships Adven-
ture, Captain P. P. King, and Beagle, Capt. P. Stokes,
had arrived at Rio from England, and were to sail
shortly to commence their survey of the coasts, begin-
ning in the Straits of Magellan, and the coasts and
islands of Patagonia. The Jasseur, Captain Thomas
Martin, had gone round Cape Horn, to relieve the
Eclair. Orders had gone for the Cambridge, Mersey,
and Eclair, to return round Cape Horn. The Warspite,
74, Commodore Sir James Brisbane, horn India, war
appointed to take the command there. The Thetis ex-
perienced a heavy gale of wind on the 29th ultimo, in
crossing the Bay of Biscay; whilst laying to, a sea
struck one of the guns, and upset it with as muck ap-
parent ease u it would a common spindle; another
washed a boat off the quarter, into which one of the best
seamen in the ship (named Paterson) had just got, to
secure it, and he was drowned; and a third lifted the
fore ports under the fore channels. The Thetis left
Rio de Janeiro on the 14th of August. She sailed this
morning for Plymouth, to be paid off, her period of
service having expired.

LIBERALITY 011 Tlll KING ON Ma-
jesty the King of Bavaria has made a most liberal present towards
the relief of the suffering Greeks. His Maassly thus expresses
himself in a letter to M. Ent* an, which the latter has forwarded
to the Greek Committee at Paris :—" In order to relieve the
misery of the Eastern Christians, I bad subscribed the sum of
20,000 florins (1,5001.), payable In ten consecutive months. As
this aid may possibly come too late, I place this sum at once
at your disposal; I even double it, so that you may be able to
make the succour you send more efficacious. This sum of
40,000 florins (3,6000, which you may have immediately,
are independent of the sum of 90,000 florins which I remitted you
for the redemption of Greck women and children. With what
sweet satisfaction I make this further sacrifice on behalf of these
unfortunate Christians! For am I not a man and a Christian?"—
Besides these contributions, amounting together to upwards of
50001. his Massa?, during his summer residence at Bruclusau,
forbade the fetes and illuminations which the townships wished to
make in honour of him, and told the Magistrates that he should be
better pleased if the sums designed to be expended on these occa-
sions were given, half to the poor of the districts, half to the aid of
the suffering population of Greece. The intimation was obeyed, and
considerable subscriptions from private individuals were added.
The remains of the late Lord RIBBLZSDALE were, on
Saturday, the SOth September, deposited in the family
vault, in the church of Gisburne, Yorkshire.
The importation of horses at Margate from Ostend,
still continues; during the present week have arrived
the Dart packet, Captain Stranack, with twelve; also
the Britannia, Captain Fox, with fifteen; they also
supply us with plenty of butter, eggs, and walnuts,
which are retailed at a reasonable rate. More import-
ations are daily expected.
A little boy, of the name of Joseph Jenkinson, three
years and eight months old, was burnt so dreadfully, in
his father's house at Timble Bridge, Leeds, on Tuesday,
owing to his night-clothes taking fire, in the absence of
his parents, that he expired.
At the late Petty Sessions at Cranbourne, Dorset,
several persons were charged with entering the woods
of Lord SHAPTUBURY and Mr. STURT, and insulting
the persons who were set there to prevent trespassers.—
Mr. STGRT interposed on behalf of the men, who were
dismissed upon paying for the summonses. A summons
costs only Is. an information in some divisions, 9s.
A beautiful new steam-vessel for the Swedish Govern-
ment was launched on Monday, at Dover.
In many of the communes of Alsace, the Protestant
clergymen have appealed to the generosity of the pa-
rishioners, in behalf of the Greeks, and the result has
been a collection of 827 - 40c.

A Gentleman long famous for the aptitude of his
puns, observing a violent fracas in the front area of a
gin shop, termed it 44 the Battle of A-gin-court."
It it a curious fact, that out of the 36 Barons who
signed Magna Charts, only three could write their own
name, the signatures of the remainder (if the term may
be used) being only 04 ) their marks.
Societies are forming in most of the manufacturing
towns al Yorkshire and Lancashire,fcr affording clothing
to the distressed poor during the approaching winter.
At 'Tunbridge Wells last wtek, Mr. EASTWOOD, the
master of the Hand and Sceptre, at the back of the Parade, was in
the act of seating himself to breakfast, when he fell back in his chair,
and instantly expired.
la a French translation of Reynolds' Life and Times,
are the fullowl...g whimsical misnomers :—The Marquis of Cain.
serninitiav is called Le Marquis de Toii-otont-dilly—Lord Norm-
mane, Lord Noting-den-41e Duchess of Bovrox La Dachau de
Tans—arid Sir Floras AMP, Ls Cheadle; lidere Ardent.
Weduesday the Norwich Coach to London, the Pne-
nomenon, was searched at Bury, in consequence of in-
formation being given, for game sent to London by
poach.-rs, from Hepworth and Stanton, when two fiat
baskets, containing 12 pheasants and 55 partridges were
seised, having been received from persons of suspici-
ous character, and a fine of 5/. per head, amounting to
3401. levitd upon the coachman, and other proprietors.
Monday afternoon, about four o'clock, as a female
who had disposed of her cheese at Nottingham fair, was
returning home in her cast, she was induced Kr alight,
and, while in the act of jumping out, her wedding ring
caug;it into a small lino's, and her whole weight coming
soddenly upon it, screwed the linger off her hand.
QUALIFICATION FOR A DEPUTT.—A Lady having
asked M. int blazes...nor, the French Attorney-General, in the
reign of NArouros, why persons of her sex might not be el. ctors? he
replied," Madam, you might be electors, but you could hot be de.
puties."-4 Why not?" said the Lady—" Because no woman would
like to acknowledge that she was forty years of age."— furor.