Star.
London, England, 1819-07-26 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Tuesday his Majesty's 814 Wvr, Captain Itsarmt, arrived in
Ltitk Roads. The Admiral's flag is now hoisted on board the
Wet, the Hvrratou frigate havir.; sailed from the itqads on
Tuesday for Portsmouth.
. The Eleanor, Honour*, front Yarmouth for Liverpool, was
fired into on the 15th instant, off Eddystone, by a cutter, who
sent his boat on board the. Eddystone, and took from him his
Custom-house paper% They could not learn the cutter's name.
no:oven, Juxv 23.—Wind W.—Arrived the Dukc of Kent
packet, with a Mail from Lisbon in 17 days ; Prince Regent,
Wax., from Antwerp for Liverpool; and the Joseph and Jane,
-Fresco, from St. John's, New Brunswick, in :".0 days. Arrived
off his port the Denmark, Lamer' from St. Croix in 35 days,
for Copenhagen; and the Minstrel, Bassrow, from Penang, for
London.

PLYMOUTH, JULY 24.—Arrived the Francoise Rose, ROBERTS,
frost Bourdeauz.

Dees., Amy 25.—Wind E.—Arrived yesterday and sailed for
the River, the Regent, VlTEtaarnt, from .Manilla ; and Spring,
Sentrox, from New Brunswick. Sailed the Zephyr and Crown
transports for Sunderland. Came down from the River and
sailed to-day the Sterling, BAHRETT, for Naples. Passed by at
the back of the Goodwin Sands the Canton, SCHINOCKUTTI,
from Batavia for Ilolland, sailed 20th January. On the 23d of
May, in lat. 7. 41. N. long. 21. 15. spoke the John, l'aaasza,
from Liverpool, for Rio Janeiro.
Doves, Jety 24.—Sailed this day the Lord Duncan packet
Captain Pascoe, fur Ostend, with a mail and passengers, also
the Chichester packet, Captain Rerrsarand Cumberland, Cap-
tab lIAMMOND, for Calais, with passengers.
Jrtv 25.—Arrived last night the Princess Charlotte packet,
Captain llaLtrows, from Ostend, with a mail and passengers,
al.o the King George packet, Capt. Kt.o, and a French packet,
from Calais, with passengers.
JULY 26.—Arrived this afternoon the Lord Duncan packet,
Captain lhatatrox, from Calais, with passengers.
I.avearoot, Jets- 23. Arrived the Indefatigable, SMITH, from
Africa. Sailed from Port-au-Prince 22d May. (In 14th July,
in lat. 48. 45. long. 22. 20. spoke the Cognac packet, from Li-
verpool for llalif ; and on 16th July, in 48. 44. long. 13.
11. spoke the skip John and Thomas, from Liverpool for New-
foundland. The Speedy was last on the Coast of Africa. Cap-
tain MESTARD died on board the Indefatigable. The Barton,
Gra.lasess. from Barbadoes, sailed 14th June ; spoke on 18th
July, in lat. 4P. 36. bog. 11. the Anna Marla, WAITE, from
Liverpool for New-York, out three days. The Suffolk, Fawn.,
from Charleston, sailed 27th June. On 28th June, in the River,
"yoke the ship Isabella, from London for Charleston.

SMITHFIELD MEETING.

MR. HUNTS LETTF.II To THE LORD MAYOR.

" 5. Wych-street, Strand, Saturday noon.
"MY Loan—l was just about to return into the country,
when I took up a Newspaper to read an account of what passed
at the meeting of the City House of Commons, alias the Court of
Common Council, held yesterday at Guildhall. I could not re-
press a smile whilst I was reading the account of your Lordship
communicating to the Court the Prince Ilageett's gracious appro-
bation of your own conduct in the measures you adopted fur the
preservation of the peace on Wednesday last. I could almost
fancy that your Lordship at that moment saw, or believed you
saw, the sure indication of the high reward rising up Sir John.'
I laughed out in good earnest, when I read the account of the
pompous way in which you recited the heroic assistance you had
received from the Bank, the East India House, and other Public
Bodies. I was quite delighted to find that your Lordship had
received' such information as would lead to the detection and
punishment of the miscreant authors of the infamous seditious
placard,' which was posted up with so much care from the
Gamete Office in Whitehall, even to within a few inches of your
Lordship's own nose.
" But my risible muscles became paralyzed, when I found
that you, the. Lord Mayor of Loudon, solemnly declared that
you had received information upon oath, that the disaffected had
formed the horrible design of firing this great city, and murder-
ing all the inhabitants. I involuntarily exclaimed, Parson
Parks! Parson Parks!! ParsoD Parks!!! your discovery was
nothing,to this—your plot was a mere flea-bite to the plot of the
I.ord Mayor. I ordered my horse Bob to be unharnessed, and
to have another holiday, as I was determined to remain In
town to hear the result of your Lordship's examination of these
mad and wicked inceadiaries. I therefore beg your Lordship
to inform me where, and in what dungeon, they are safely
lodged, and at what hour thee are to be interrogated; as I
hereby offer your Lordship the voluntary assistance of myself,
the Coromittee, and the Secretary, who shill all be ready, at
any hour, to give an account, upon oath, before any three
Al-
derman, of every particular that came to our knowledge previ.
ous to and during the Meeting.
" rcannot for a moment doubt that the vigilance of such a
Lord Mayor has already not only secured the murderous in-
cendiaries, but that he has also heisted. and put in some safe
place, all the dreadful instruments of deaih found in their pos-
session, front their roaring miner, dove() oven to their bread
and cheese knives; also that he has safely stowed in some bombe,
proof depot all their horrid combustibles, from Omit powder
and tar-barrels down even to their tinder-boxes and tobacco:
pipes; for we have now your solemn worda-the word of the,
Lord Mayor—that this is a real and no shim plot. We shall
not now be hoaxed with the isuggaboo of a handful of bullets,-
put into the foot of an old stocking by a Government spy. We
shall not now be told of the imaginary composition of Doctor
Watsou, which was to soffocate and stink to death all the sol-'
diers in all the barracks. No, no, this lOU of plot wiil not alarm
John Bull in the year 1819. But we shall have now the proof
upon oath, of a real plot, in a tangible shape—a goodly plot, in
right earliest ; because you, Sir, the Lord Mayor of London,
have waned the Common Council of the City of London it is so.
" But, my Lord, if the whop of this plot should at last turd
lent to have been got up by the sante villains who fabricated and
published the diabolical falsehood of the murder of Lord Fitz-
william by some Reformers in Yorkshire, the very evening be-
fore:tbe Meeting in Smithfield, in order, as the lamb-like PA.
for of an Evening Paper observed, to shew what sort of person*
the Reformers were ;—if it should turn out at last that the very
same villains printed and posted the placards with your Lord.
ship's knowledge ;—if it should turn out that 1,000 hand-bi 11,,,
containing this same inflammatory matter, were distributed in
Smithfield, during the Meeting, in the presence and with tbs.,
connivance of your own officers;--if, I say, it should turn out,
the same sat of villains preenaied upon your Lordship to send
your officers to apprehend the Rev. ale. Harrison, in hopes of
erecting riot and bloodshed; if this should be all proved, what
will bocome.of the thanks of the Prince Regent 1 Why, I fear,
your Lordship will bar to siotaio the mortification-14'ring out
of your Mayoralty Without bean? dubbed a knight. I any Tont
•Lordahlp's most übediiat e ierrant, u. teas."

tytr Coitttn

TO Till RIDITOR OP Tsll STAR.
Ssit.7--The clouded state of the atmosphere of late having In a
great measute disappointed public curiosity, with respect to the
new Comet, permit me, through the medium of your valuable
Paper, to offer a few observations upon the nature of Comets,
and the general theory of these singular phenomena. Happily
the cultivation of science has so far subverted superwition and
Ignorance, that we no longer behold a Comet as an object of
terror, the harbinger of divine vengeance ; but rank it among
the sublime and regular operations of an all-wise and munificent
Cittivroa. It was the opinion of our illustrious countryman, Sir
Isaac Newton (and is now the generally received hypothesis) that
Comets are solid compact bodies, similar to our Earth and the
Planets, but moving in every direction through etherial space,
in orbits extremely eliptical, having the sun in one of their
foci or centres of revolution: that the nucleus or body is mr-
rounded by a luminous atmosphere, and the tail, coma, or beard,
an exceedingly rarified vapour (perhaps an emission of electri-
city), which is always driven ott* in a direction opposin. to Use
Sint. Tbeir period; of tevolution are extremely long, and their
farthest distance from the Sun immensely great. The small pin
of a Comet's course, which is performed within Our sphere of
observation, is to,, limited to determine with much certainty
the precise period of its return: and the'few which have been
observed with tolerable accuracy, form but a small portion of
the whole number which are supposed to belong to our Solar
'system. With respect to the New Comet at pr,•sent seen in
our honaiiphere, it appears to have passed its perihelion, or
situation nearest to the San, about the end of June, at wilick
time it was nearly in a line between es and that luminary, at
the distance of about 64 millions of miles from the Earth and
32 millions of mile; from the Sun, since when it has been rapidly
receding from him in an apparent course directed toward the
should!r of the.constellatlpn Ursa Major (the Great lkar), hav-
ing appeared, as seen front the Earth, to have travelled among
the small stars which constitute the I.yns, and is now some little
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distance -

above the back of that constellation ; the beard is dim!.
ni.hing in length and brilliancy by reason of its increasing dis-
tance from us, and though at present extending thrre or four
depots in a direction a little to the left of the Pole Star, wili
probably very much contract, if not be reduced to a small inde-
finite mist, long before the Comet altogether recedes from our
observation.—lfour's, &c. • W. N.

Chancery-lane.
WILTSHIRE ELECTIOY.

FROM THE SALIsIIVRY AND WILTSHIRE JOIHINAt.

On the second day of this memorable Election,.
(Tuesday), •great exertions were made by the friends
of each Candidate to place him at the head of the
poll. It is impossible to describe the ardour with
which the cause of each was espoused. A severe
contest for the possession of the hustings ground was
again maintained, with sticks, by the partizans on
both sides, who were much more numerous than on
the preceding day. This teriific affray, which began
at the commencement of the polling, continued with
increasing severity for about three hours, neither
party yielding. Showers of stones were then dis-
charged at the numerous respectable persons who
were on the Hustings (many of whom were ladies),
and also at the persons in the polling booths. The
'consequence of this shameful and unexpected attack
was, that the polling ceased, and was adjourned till
next day. Several hundred special Constables had
been sworn in, and the High Sheriff's javelin men
attended, for the purpose of keeping peace, but all
attempts to suppress this disgraceful riot proved of
no avail. Hundreds of heads were broken, and num•
berless contusions received.

The result of the whole was, that Mr. BENNETT'S
party proved victorious, and drove their opponents
off the field. Mr. A *TLEY 'S usual procession of friends
did not of course attend him from the field, they being
dispersed in all directions, and that Gentleman, in his
return to SAli3bury, placed himself under the protec-.
tic to of Mr. BENNErr's friends. The.polling of Ott
day concluded in this abrupt manner at about fillf-
past twelve o'clock.
In the course of the preceding conflict, a Shaftes-.
bury man, named LONDON, was stabbed in the side
with a knife ; twelve other.pei sons were afterwards
brought to the Salisbury Infirmary, suffering from
severe contusions.

There having been a very heavy fall of rain on
Tuesday afternoon, which continued Wednesday
morning, the place of polling was removed, by order
of the High Sheriff, from the election ground, near
Wilton, to a large malt house, the property of S.
WIIITC.HUIICIt, Esq. situated near St. Mai tin's Church,
Salisbury. The polling commenced there onWednes-
day, about three o'clock in the afternoon, and termi-
nated at eight.
011 Thursday the polling was can ied on with great
spirit on both sides, from nine o'clock in the morning
till four in the afternoon, Mr. BENNETT still main-
taining his majority.—Nothing particular occurred
at the poll on Friday and Saturday.
At Warminster some disposition to riot was mani-
fested, during the time Mr. Bennett was canvassing.
At Melksham, Trowbridge, and at several other
places, there have also been serious disturbances, and
many acts of violence have been committed.
Majority for Mr. BENNETT on Saturday 281.

Saturday morning Sir ROBERT GIFFORD, late So.
licitor General, was sworn before the-Cu A NCELLOR
into the office of Attorney-General, vice Sir SANltmt.
SHEPHERD, appointed Lord Chief Baron of his Ma-
jesty's Court of Exchequer in Scotland. JOI/N
OLETON COPLEY, Esq. Serjeant at Law, was at the
same time sworn in as Solicitor-Geaerall

Tuesday Mr. Set jeant CorLey, who had vacated
his seat in Parliament son being apFointed Solicitor-
General, was re elected for Ashburton without op-
104lon.
()A IN I—CARROLL has experienced his mull sac-
ctss. On Thursday last th# Lottery finished, and
No. 1',34.5 was drawn a Prize of £2 ~000, and sold in
Eleven Shares by G. CARROLL. No. 1344, the Num-
ber immediately preceding k, and entitled to £l,OOO,
vtaaalsosold.in Shares by CARROLL, making a larger
amount of .Caiiitale sold by him than by any other
Office keeper. Tickets and Shares for the New Lot-
tery (the last for 'the year), containing Two Grand
Prizes of £36,000 Consols each, &c. and only 6,000
Tickets, are on Sale at Cataoct.'s, the Contractor's,
fortunate Offices, 10, COrnhill, and 26, Oxford street.
CORN-ElctiA NOE, MARK-I.ANE, JULY 2G.—The
weather continuing few, and busting a very large
supply of- Wheat, fyom..Fisserw.K.ent, and Suffolk,
,produced a great dullness in. the VV.heat Trade this
'nsornitl; and 4.. hat sales were Made 'were at a re
duCtion of fall'2siper 'qr. from the prices of this
dayweek:-ilßarler goes off -very slowly, at a decline
pet"qt.-o-Oats are &Om Is. to 2s. per qr. lower,
r.
oitgli.qte arrivals have not been large for sev,!ral
days past.tkglish Beaus support last week's prices,
hitt there is 14" degkand for Yonne, although offered
on lower - • '
sioreestsidadunort, ?tux 9.6.—Beef 4s. 6d. to .Is. 4d. pet
stn of Chet; Mutton, 43 6d. to ss. 2d. Vral, 4s. Od. to ss. ed.;
Pork its-to ss. sd.; Lamb ss. to 6s.—Cattleat Market—Beasts
icy:o ;- Cabers; .160 ; Set ep and Larnbs,'l22oo ; Pigs, 520.—Hay
, r :0,,t, st. to a 6, lovt r, U. to 71. ot. Straw 10s. to V.