Star.
London, England, 1829-12-04 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

St ft,—You and your Curi esapndent, 3°11,4 BAIN
IlitltlGl, have been exhiliting the extent of the exportation of Grain
and Flour from Irela d, and front the United States of Noce%
America—whilst our thrte north-eastern counties of Essex, Suf-
folk, and Norfolk, export a great.. r value than either, as the fol-
Wet log account will wort, :
_ _

Expiated in I 1824 1 1525. 1 1828. : 1827.

Wheat 434 067 959.1

Barley
Malt . .
Beans and Pea,.

561,767 177,911
2t4 5::3; 277441.3
19 3111 193 957.

306001! 191,003
399,5J1 494,399
304,474 27r,931
117,963 i 76,731
V-, 141 8.1,417
4,5661 4 :19j

Ojts
nye

9 3'31

Quarters of Gt ain
Cwta. of Flour

17 d 47
7 011'

1.508,9861.251,1.5.511 a:Z.254;1,167,059
958,5911 960,Witi 931,71`_'. 868,84_17

The above quantities, it is true, do rot appear so gre-t as those
from Ireland, bet you omitted to show that out of the r early
3,0(0,000 quarters exported front Ireland in 1828, upwards of
2,000,000 quarters WurC Oats, whilst ours is pr ineipilly Wher ,
Malt, Barley, and Wheat Flour, of the very brat quality.

I am, Sir, yours, &c.
THOS. GOOTCII.

PARISH OF ST. CLEMENT DANES.

Yesterday evening a snug little meeting of about 20
gentlemen was held in the Vestry Ronm—wr presume upon the
general business of the parish.
The most important matter that was brought forward was the
passing several tradesmen's bills for goods supplied, among which
was one of 81.95. ed. which created some discussion.
Mr. Cs.ance, on perusing the hill, said he had a decided objec-
tion to allow it to pass There was one guinea paid to a conk tor
cooking the Annie y Dinner! 10s. to the waiter! and lils. for
the bite of plate! One guinea to a cook for one day's work ! It was
an excess of expenditure that he did not like to see in the parish,
nor would he consent to the parish money being applied so such
purposes.
Sir Flunk Ostsraeav said he could not conceive what erces-
sky there was for hiring plate on the occasion. When be was in
once, they were con'ent to use iron-pronged forks.
Two Gentlemen, whose name we did nut learn, assured Sir
Francis that the dinner in questim was served up in the plainest
style. There was neither turtle nor fowls—only a little fish, some
plain joints, and a little pastry. It wait better. they said, to hire a
cook and have a dinner served up properly, than allow it to be
served up by unskilful persons.
Sir F. Omatanre wished to know who had supplied the plate. be-
cause be should request him to return the amount he received fur
the hire of it, for the benefit of the Charity Schools.
Mr. CLARKS said he did not thi.:k that such an entertainment
should be paid out of the parish funds, es Bich were collected for the
use of the poor.
(Here the discussion was interrupted by Mr. Bannister, the
Churchwarden, objecting to the Reporter remaining in the room,
on the ground that be was Dot a householder in the parish.)
The Cuariamatt said it was quite irregu ar to allow any one to re-
main in the room but householders, and ordered the Reporter to
withdraw.
The mandate was instantly obeyed, and what ehe occurred we
have not the power to state.
o:4{ it true that the

„:VESTION EASILY ANSA% EKED.-15
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, incorporated by Royal Charter, and consisting
entirely of members of the Established Church, have
possessed slaves for more than a century ; that every
negro child born on their estates is still retained in
bondage ; and further, that their system of management
is marked by some of the moat cruel characters of op-
pression ?
Yesterday there was a meeting of the Directors, when
it was decided that the Bank would advance money upon
gold at the price of 775. 9d. an ounce, and at the rate of
two per cent. per annum. It was also decided that ad-
vances should be made upon Exchequer Bills, bills of
Exchange, and Indian Bonds, at the rave of three per
cent. tin the 15th of January. The sums to be ad-
vanced are not to be under £2,000, and not for a lea.'.
period than 10 days. A notice to the above effect was
posted in the Caahier's office. This measure, on the part
of the Bank, will greatly aid the project for running up
the price or the Three per Cent. Stock in order to enable
the Governinant to reduce the Fours. Tim reason, how-
ever alleged for tie proceeding is the obviating the dis-
tress which id this time of the year prevails, on account
of the scarcity of money. The time is limited to the 15th
of January, becacse at that time the dividends will be in
course of payinent. Morning Paper.

CONN—EXCHANGE. MARK—LANE Dec. 4.
The What trade was rather Arm this morning ; samples of.
fine Wheat and Malting Barley were in demand, at Moaday's
currency ; but the inferior and stained sorts were nearly unsalable.
Oats were purchased by some needy buyers at Monday's prices ;
but the great body of consumers are waiting the large arrivals that
are hourly mated.

IMPOSTATIONS LIDO MONDAY.

♦heat, English (qrs.) . 5,100 Barley. Foreign
Irish . . 780 j Oats, English .

. 1,5.50
. 1,150
1,050

Foreign . 4001 Foreign
Maley, English . 4,200 Irish
Irish . . 180 I Flour (sacks)
COAL NIARKET—Tnis Div.
1 here has not been so small a weekly supply of Coals for several _
months past as this week's has been. Sateen new ships were at
market to-day, making a total on the weekly arrival of only SS
ships. The Coal Exchange was thinly attended by merchants, and
but Stir business was done.
Ships arrived during the month
Best Welland Coals .... 511 s. 9d. Sim sd.
Other eons
Rips at Market
•

6,100

LITER,] TIRE.
THE CABINET CYCLOPADIA.
Onducted by the Rey. Dmasius Lmums, LLD. Sic. Sic.

LONGMAN, ADES, MIMS, DRAWN, AND OLDEN. •

'Chi; ..vork—which we shall have frequent occasion to
refer to and quote—is intended to form a popular com-
penditita of whatever is welt!, instructive, and interesting
in the circle of human knowledge. At the same time, it
is. sot intended to be formed of materials merely compiled
from works already published ; but to consist, as far as
possible, of original treatises, from the pens of those who
are most eminent in every branch of knowledge. It is
u...tilless to premise that, under the auspices of Doctor
LA RDNER, nothing can be admitted into the pages of
the " Cabinet Cyclopcedia" which can have the most
rentote tendency to offend public or private morals.
We are authorised, by the specimen before us, to say
this much and more of the new Cyclopedia. In listory,
we find that Sir WALTER SCOTT takes charge of Scot-
land ; Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH of England ; and Mr.
Moon Eof Ireland. The first volume of Sir WA LT ER'S
History has just appeared ; and has fairly implemented
the promise of the Proprietors, of making the Cyclopedia,
not only a useful book, but an elegant one—a book that
claims a place in the drawing-room and the boudoir.
We have attentively perused Sir W. SCOTT'S first vo-
lume, and we are therefore entitled to speak unhesi-
tatingly about it. It is exquisite ; and of that, we shall
• 80011 satisfy our readers. The limits of the work oblige
the several writers to treat their subjects more concisely
than, perhaps, they themselves could wish. The distin-
guished author, whom we are more especially speaking
of, distinctly tells us so ; and that in his Scottish annals,
lie was of course under the necessity of rejecting many
details which engage the attention, and fascinate the
imaginatioq. He endeavours, notwithstanding, to leave
nothing untold which is necessary to trace a clear idea of
the general course of events ; and he has made a history
—not merely as relating to one small kingdom,—but as
forming a chapter in the general history of man.—
Dropping all. other preliminary notice for the present, we
proceed to give an extractefrom the early history of Scot-
-I.ind, which will, no doubt, astonish many. It is on the
subject of MACBETH :
" Malcolm died peaceably in 1033, and was succeeded by " tie
graciessahnscan"—the same who fell by the poignard of Macbeth.
On reading these names every reader must feel as if brought from
darkness into the blaze of noon-day ; so familiar are we with the
personages whom we last named, and so clearly and distinctly we
recall.the events in which they are Interested, in comparison with
any doubtful and misty views which we can form of the twilight
times before and after that fortunate. period. But we must sot be
blinded by our poetic enthusiasm, nor add more than due import-
• •
:awe to legends, because they have been woven into the most strik-
ing tale of ambition and remorse that ever struck awe into a hu-
man bosom. The genius of Shakspeare having found the tale of Mac-
beth in thrscottish chronicles of Holinshed, adorned it with a lustre
aimikir to that with which a level beam of the sun often Invests
some fragment of glass, which, though shining at a distance with
the lustre of a diamond, is, by a near investigation, discovered to
be of no worth or estimation.

" Duncan, by his mother Beatrice, a grandson of Malcolm 11.
succeeded to the throne on his grandfather's death, in 1033; he
reigned only six years:. Macbeth, his near relation, also a grand-
child of Malcolm 11. though by the mother's side, was stirred up
by ambition to contest the throne with the possessor. The lady
of Macbeth, also, whose real name was Greed, had deadly injuries
to avenge an the reigning Prince. Sbe was the grand-daughter of
Kenneth IV. killed in 1003, fighting against Malcolm II; and
other causes for revenge animated the mind of her who has
been since painted ad the sternest of women. The old 'angina
add some instigations of a supernatural kind to the influence of .a
vindicti;re woman, over an ambitious husband. Three women of
more than human, stature and beauty, appeared to Macbeth in a
dream or vision, and hailed him successively by the titles of Thane
of Cromarty, Thane of Moray, which the king afterwards bestowed
on him ;—and bnally gy that of King of Scots; this dream, it is
said, inspired him with the seductive hopes se well expressed in the
drama.

•" Macbeth broke no law of hospitality in his attempt on Duncan's,
life. He attacked,and slew the king at a place called Bathgowan,
or4he•Smitles House,. near Elgin, in 1039; and not, as has been
supposed, in his own Castle, of Inverness. The act was bloody,
as was the comileirloli'df:sikellatea; but in very truth, the claim
of Macbeth to tie throne,
,according to the rule of Scottish suc-
cession, was better than that of Duncan. As a King, the tyrant so
much exclaimed against was, in reality, a firm, just, and equitable
Prince.
Apprehensions of danger from.* party which Malcolm, the
eldest son of the slaughtered Duncan, had set on 'foot in Northum-
berland, and_ still maintained in Scotland, seems, in process•of time,
to have soured the temper of Macbeth, and rendered him for-
midable. to the. Nobility. Against Macduff
,in particulars, the •
powerful Maormor of Fife, he had uttered some threats which oc.
cqoped that Chief to ly from the•Contt of- Scotland. Urged by
this pew counsellor, Sward, the Danish Earl of Northumberland,
invaded Scotland in the year 1054, displaying his banner in behalf
of the banished Malcolm. Macbeth engaged the fu in the neigh-
boutihoositif she celebrated Castle of Dunsinane. He was defeated,
but leaped from tie battle, and was Gain at Lumphananan in 1056..
" Very slight observation will enable uc to recollect *how much
this simple.statement differs from that of, the drama, though the,
plot of the latter is consistent enough with the iiiiccurate historians
from
.whom Shaltspeare drew his materials. it may be added that
early authorities show us no such persona• as Banquo and his son
Fleance; nor have we reason to think that the latter ever fled
further'frinp Macbeth than across the flat 'tithe, according to the.
Stage direction, . Neither were Banquo et his son ancestors of'the
Himse of Stuart. All those things are now known ; but the mind
retainspertinactoualy tbeinspressions made by. the impositions of:
genius. While the works of Shakspeare are read, and the F,ngUsh
lanjuage subsists, /Berm may say what she will ; but the general,
reader will only recollect Macbeth as a sacrilegious usurper, and
Richard as a deformid murderer." •

• A handsome- 'monument' to the late General Sir David,
Baird la &hoof to be erected oti the top of a etnep
hill about two mites on the west of Cried'. A road is at prederlt
making for the purpose of conveying the requisite materials totbe
top of tbe .and the,boilding will, it Is understood, commence
early next spring.—Edanbure4 Evening Courant.
E ATUR A L PHILOSOPHER AG A 1141.•—Will
Martin, the " Natural Philosopher, Poet, and Architec otiPliwn
pi-marmot," with the most praiseworthy perseverance, eanihues to
neglect his own interest, and to devote himself endretyrto the inte-
rests of other people. Not tired with his perpetazimotion nor his
eagle mail, nor his rail-road plans, nor his systeip of dovetail build-
ing, devised expressly for Scotsvraod-bridge,lie has now prckleced
the true theory of earthquake*. This valttitle discovery we shall
give-in the philosopher's own words, *Haulm et lucrative:—" The
Etplaination of an Earth Quack. This proceeds from the dry
Mountains; when a shoke doth take place, it cawses a great deal,
of the roof to fall in, then all a round the bothem of it leaves a
number of hollow chambers; then it wail take a long time to burn
to those small hollow chambers, which is well stored with gas of
the foulest nature. And it may hernaoy years before they do burn
to thosi hollow chambers; then when the &inn burns and those
foul chambers brunt roe, they instantly explode the same as a ma-
gazien of gun ponder or an coal pit, but in a more'tremendents
manner, add clears the vulcano of its foulness, until! leitifti tihie
cumitates it again. That Is the true explaination of the Fity
tains and, Earth Quacks, bye the help of my God: lie • sefil not
slow me to lie like the false phikoopheie as the ware led by the
divel, was sere to He and decive mankind, as, the Diva wat'illier
from the foundatlotrof the world. It will he proved to all the
world I am the only trite philosopher urns the just patticapal of the
perpetual motion 'lnc. the creation hy the will of .God. William
Martin, Nat. Phil. and Poet. Walisend, Nov. 19, 1829."