Star.
London, England, 1829-10-21 00:00:00

MAD AS MARCH HARES.

The important discovery made by Sir AN DREW HAI:
mimic, that the British Nation is going stark mad, at
last clearly explains the most extraordinary conduct of
the people and their governors, which has appeared to us
so incomprehensible and mysterious. The present Minis-
ters are doubtless mad to a man, which accounts for the
bed!amite character of Parliament last session ;—the in-
fliction of Don MIGLTEL upon Portugal to the danger of
our fotore influence sacrificed in favour of Spain—the
connivance of Ministers with Russia to destroy Turkey
and annilliite oar Mediterranean commerce—and the act
of letting loose a military anti-constitutional Police
upon the people, are not only unquestionable proofs of
lunacy, but substantiate the malady to be of the most
inveterate and mi:ehievou description. We therefore
recommend, if Ministers are not inte?dicted, that at least
they may be narrowly watched : or it were advisable that
the poor men, with the chief madman at their head, be
forthwith provided with the usual safety, jackets—their
heads shaved and blistered ; as also that they be duly and
copiously bled. Perhaps it were of the gecatrst benPfit
if the latter operation were performed in the newest
Ministerial way—on the carotid artery. The last
time we beheld the chief bedlaniio, walking with
rapid strides in St. James's Park alone " without a
keeper," we thought he looked very odd ; and from the
rolling of his eyes, and his seeming readiaess to bite,
conceived that all was not right. It is a pity the patient
should he permitted to stray abroad unguarded, and so
near the water too. It would seem that the peculiar vein
of his insanity is an absurd conception that he is a fit
Statesman ; and under the influence of this whimsical
delusion he " plays such high antics in the face of
heaven as make the angels weep."—Upon the people,
the moon appears to produce a folly of a different cha-
racter, resembling idiocy rather than fiercer exaltation of
the brain. Or perhaps their presort stupor is but the
forerunner of some desperate frantic crisis—Gun save us
front their Limes! • • 4 • •

BERKS

TIM CHARITABLE DONATIONS.
So. 11.

We are well pleased to find that our notice of the " Charities
and Charitable Donations" in Bedfordshire has been productive of
some benefit. It brought us—as appears by the SIAS of the 15th'
a most satisfactory account of the Ever: at Charily, from the Rev.
Mt. REED, and two other Gentlemen of high respectability—pesos.
WYSTES and Janis—trustees of the fund. With this account. we
are perfectly satisfied; and, we are inclined to believe, that the
most fastidious stickler in local polities, is also satisfied wi•b it. It
would be well for the public that the trustees of other Charities
would follow the manly and open-breasted exposition of these
Gentlemen. Before leaving Eversholt, however, we are bound, in
justice to ourselves, to point out that the error In estimating the
gross annual income of the Charity-1321. instead of 1501.—is not
a,cribable to us. The error—and a gross one it is—is in the Fa►-
lsaraentary Report. There it stands recorded that the gross annual
income of the Eversholt Charity is 1321. whereas, the fact is, by the
indisputable evidence of our Correepondents, that it amounts to 1501.
So much for the accuracy of the Parliaseeatary Retain I No doubt,
that Return abounds with hundreds of similar errors; and thus,
the Trustees, as well as the *efts, of these charities, are abused
and misrepresented.
We now turn to Betksbire. In this county we have a state-
ment of eighty-three separate charities—the names, statements
of real and personal estate, gross annual income, investment
and objects, names of founders, names of persons in custody
of deeds, and the names of the Trustees, occupying no less
than nineteen pages. From such a mass of matter, it might
have been expected that much useful information could be
gleaned ; but we are afraid, on entering upon the details, that we
shall be all disappointed. In the first place, there are twelve charities
acknowledged to exist, to which Ise sum whoteeer, in the
name of gross annual income, is appended : or, at least,
some of them are given in a manner so unintelligible, that it
is impossible to come to any defined conclusion about them.—
For instance, we have Pococx's charity at Chievely stated
thu :—" Two Grounds, called Anstell's Down, situate at Oars,
in the Parish of Chievely, containing, by egimittion, twenty acres,
in the occupation of CHARLES Hopson, at the yearly rent of—"
What? Guess, reader. Nothing ! But—" the timber was cut
in the year 1808!—and sold for 401. which sum was invested in
five per cent. Navy Annuities, in the names of WILLIAM
HAZISILT and THOMAS POCOCK." Wellitid what then ?
The founder of this charity was Doantue POCOCK ; and she or-
dered that it was " to be distributed to, and among, the poor men
and poor women of Chievely and Oare." Query—Do the patties
benefit by the munificent donation? Let the vicar, churchwar-
den, and overseers of the parish of Chievely answer the question
—for they are the Trustees of this, as well as other charities,
equally in obscurity. We have as good a right to inquire into this,
as have " the poor men and poor women of Chievely and Oare ;"
—and further, into the gross annual income and appropriation of
Lucas's, Houghton's, Co:head's, Smith's, Waytes's, and Martin's
—O/1 in the same parish, and all in the same hands. In many other
cases, the Vicars, Churchwardens, and Overseers of the several

parishes are the Trustees; but, for the present, we forbear to go
into particulars—not from any fear of an er dficio, for Parliament
has published the scandal to the world ; but front want of room
this day, as well as from a feeling that our feiends of Eversholt have
set us in the right, and that the Parliamentary documents before
as are, most probably, all in the wrong.
It would appear by the report of Mr. Bums, Clerk of the Peace
for Berks, that the Charities of his county are very numerous and
munificent. We have pointed nut that no gross annual income is
attached to twnw of them : yet there remains sevenly-one which
produce the annual sum of 1,4341. 511. sd. The appropriation of
nearly half these Charities will be seen at a glance from the follow.
ing abridgment of these voluminous tables :

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I. Hunts at Newbury; income, £94 10; objects : three poor
Widows.
2. Harwell; income. 4'170; for six poor Widows.
3. Bingfield ; income, £7B; for 20 poor Children's Education.
4. Martin's, at Wollcingham ; income, £23 11 ; five male do. do.
5. Bennet's, at Wallingford ; income, £5O; 15 poor and aged men.
6. Archbishop Laud's, at do. income, £49 ISs. 3d. for five Buys
apprenticed every two years, and three maids portioned every
three Teats.
7. Angiers's, at ditto ; income, £9l 10s. for six poor widows or
widowers.
8. Knibbs's, at Appleton ; income £9 101. for the schoolmaster.
9. Allen's, at Reading; Income, £56 Is. sd. three boys apprenticed.
10. Warner's, at Milton; income £62 Is. 9J. fur the schoolmaster,
to buy books for children.
Here we have £655 3s. sd. for the benefit of 68 individuals.

In glancing at this table it will be observed that the six poor wi-
dows, among whom 17W. of the Hanoell Charity is distributed,
must be meet better off than the poor schoolmaster who has the
whole of Kaua's at Appleton to himself. These, however, are
Charities according to the wills of the founders g and it is only by
comparing their relative application and usefulness that we can be
voided as to the necessity of the consolidation of these donations,
and their more gencral,and more extensive appropsiatlon, in aid of

the oppressive pour-laws, which we be:Seve to be the object of :he
present Parliamentary Investigation.
In Berks there are some very singular b?quest.. Sir RraxsKis
FirrrieLacis and &sans FavvirLact, totrided .1 eh etitats!,
donation, among several others, consisting .it .4 J pared l'f 'and in
the Great Green and a Close iis Appleton called Common Close,'
which produces £lO a yt ar ; and which is applicable thus :—'• for
the maintenance and support of a sufficient learned sch Ls-. to teach
and instruct in manners and !caring the children of the parish of
Appleton and Besselsleigh." It will, most likely, occur to the
Churchwardens of this parish—who happen to be the Tru,tee-,
that we might be improved in monners by a little training in Sir
RICHARD'S Academy. 'lbis, we cannot help : we shall proceed In
the even tenor of our way ; and without losing sight of llerks—of
which we are not above half done, we shall, on the next occasion,
look into the statement of Mr• THOMAS TINDAL, Clrk of the
Peace for Bucks,—passing over Bawick•upon-Tweed, is
one of those nentrat places that, by the evidence of Mr. M. Jame-
sos, does not possess a registered charitable institution of Jr y kind.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

The Duke of Bedford, Lord and Lady Wriothesley Russel', last
evening from Mansfield-street, Portland-place. 101 Brighton ; the
Duke of Devonshire front the Earl of Chesterfield's seat in leice—
tershire ; 'he Duke of Manchester, in Park -:ane , from his ,
Kimbolton Castle; the Earl of Dudley, in Arliugton.ureet, fro.ii
Brighton; the Earl of Lisburne, from the Star and Garter, Rich-
mond fur Stevens' lintel ; the Earl and Countess Ferrers. from
Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, for Chartley Castle, Staffordshire;
Earl Jermyn, yesterday, from St. James's-square, on a Continental
two ; Viscount Althorre, from North intronshite, for his seat,
Wiseton Hall. Yorkshire ; Lady Holland and Miss Fox, to join
Lord Holland, at Brighton; Sir L nx.n Gijini, Bart. at .'evens'
Hotel ; Captain Phillips, of the hussars, in Cliffurd-street ; the
lion. Fitzroy Stanhope, at S;evtus' 'rim ltriglron ; t apt.
and frs. Nesbitt, for Paris; Mr. Wi:liarn Gambier, for Laciono,
Park. n:ar Ware, in Herr:ors:shire ; t aptain thigh. fur rar;.;
Colonel and Mrs. Sr. Sebastian, in Sachville.street. from Madrid ;
Mrs. Drake Gsrrare., for lamer Park, in Hertfordshire ; the liou.
Misses Vying, fur Twickenham ; tl.jur and Mrs. Maitland. for
Bath; Mr. Brook» Lambert, for Biyntou House. Devizes ;
Captain Praed. for Chester ; Lieut. Colu..el and Mr-. Pstin.sigtor,
for Bath ; Mr. Alexander from Seven Oak=, tor the
Grange, mar Alresford, in llamrshile; Colonel llullar and Cart.
Ormerini for the lonian , Mr. and Nits. Skrine. and Alit.
Matinde, at their house in Miniragn-;quire, from the. Continent ;
the Rev. J. Brownlow, at his residence at the Albany, front Scot.
land; Colonel Davie, in St. James's erect lions tour; Mr and
Mrs. 1. Sowerhy,in Harley s:reet., front the Gaiter. rut ; Mr. and
Mrs. Gordon, Irons Groseenor.str.et, for their seat in Wel.%
Mr. and Mrs. Burditt, and the iitaditt, at Kirkm L's
Hotel, Lower Brook-street, from Paris; Sir B. Layton, Batt.
and his mother. Lady Layton, Irum dim., fur the C.oitit!rtit ;
Rev. Mr. and Mr.. Johnson, from ditto, fur lucks ; l'apt..:l,
Wyndham and Mr. Roil:iris, front the St George's I Init.% AP-cr-
made Street, for

DISTRESSED IRISH MANUFACTURER s.

Nlgnsion House, Dublin, Oct. 15

The Secretaries for the Relief Committee lissing
cated to the Right Honourable Peel the state of manelactur:hg
distress in the City of Dublin and its Libel ties, togetiitt with a
copy of the Resolutions of the Committee, tor the pu7pose of Ly-
ing the sane before his Majesty, were this day ha:mon:a by the
following reply .

I. Whitehall, oc:. 13, 18'2:9.

" laid before the King your letter of the t I 0!
October, and the inclosed which accompanied it, I have his Ma-
jesty's gracious commands to inform the Committee fur the
Relief of the Distressed Manufacturt rt of the City and Übe t:es
of Dublin, that his Majesty will place the sum of SOO/. at the
disposal of the Committee, for the furtherance of the objects
specified in the Resolutions which you have transmitsed to
me—
The sincere satisfaction which his Majesty feels in contribu ing to
the mitigation of distms is increased in the highest degree by the
assurance which your letter conveys, that the conduct of those tot
whose relief his Majesty's bounty is intended has been uniformly
good, and that they have never been chargeable with any acts
expressions inconsistent with their duty as good and loyal subjects
of the King.
" I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant.

'• 110111.11 T PEEL
" The Secretary to the Committee for the
Nimes in Dublin, 511rubitin Hothe."

Resolved—That the Committee, only deem it necessary t•o IV•
turn their most grateful thanks to his Most Gracious Majesty fin
his bountiful donation. His sentiments of benevolence are bev iiil
their praise.
(Signed) JACOB WEST (Lord Mayor),
Chairman.

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