Star.
London, England, 1819-01-07 00:00:00

NE 1Y SOUTH WALES.

The flip. Lady Castlereagh, Captain Wttronx,
has :mired from England with convicts, after a
quick passage of Hale mote than four months. Of
tour hundred and fifty convicts, it is stated, that ni t
one had died 'during the passage, a circumstance al-
most unheard of on such occasions. The Castlereagh
is to sail for Madras shortly, with a ch.tachinert
'of two hundred and fifty men. She had proceeded
in June, it appears, to Ilobares-town, to receive these
troops on board.
lener from Port Jackson, received at Plymouth
Dock, says:—" The work here is not hard. • The
hones are from six to three. Rich and poor can do
much better here than in England. The country
abounds in fruit—peaches,ld. per dozen. Meat, 7d.
per pound ; wheat, ss. per bushel; fowls, alive, 21.61
per couple. The fruits are so abundant, that swine
arc fed on them. New South \Vales holds out such
advantage, to persons of industry zharacter, that
I shall never think of returning to England. Plenty
of fish here, but none of them resemble the fish of
England, except the mullet and- bream. The :fiver
ilawkesbary is broader than liamoaze, and some-
times rites forty or fifty ove;flowing a:I its banks.
A late inundation has been productive of comiderable
mischief to the harvest. It. is dreadtul to a contem.
Anise mind to observe the distress of sexes
here, is one of the fine,t spots on the globe, arising
from die abominable practice of drinking rum to ex-
ceis, to obtain which no means arc left untried. No
man's house is safe: you arc sure of having your
premises robbed, unless a person is left in them as a
guard during your absence. Methodist Con-
nexion, of which I am a member, k very small: Mr.
Lan is the Preacher, a very pious good man. Sun-
day Schools are established, as well as a school where
forty girls are clothed and supported. The Governor
of this place and his Lady are bosh from Devonshire.
A party of discovery has been sent across the Blue
Mountains, but no news has anived from them for
these two months. When the news of the death of
the. Pi incess.Cnn RILOTTE arrived here, the gun-bat-
teries at Fort Philip, &c. tired minute-guns, and the
bells tolled an hour at sun-rise and sun-set. The
Gentry attended the Governor to Church, in deep
mourning, &c."

Ma. Momtoa..—James Monroe, the President of
the United States, is a native of Virginia; he was
born in 1759; and in 1776, though so young, be took
part with his countrymen in their resistance.to the
parent State. At the battle of Trenton, December
16. 1776, his shoulder-bone was.byoken by a musUt-
ball, and he was so dangerously wounded that his
life was despaired of. Hts bravery and good con-
duct caused tieneral WNshington to promote him to
a Captaincy ; he was afterwards appointed Aide-de-
Camp to Major-General Lord Sterling, and subse-
quently a Colonel of a Regiment. In 17.1, he was
elected to the Legislature of Virginia; in 1783. we
find him a Member of the old Congress. In 1787,
he was again elected to the Legislature of Virginia.
' In 1, 88, he was a Member of the Virginia Conven-
tion, which ratified the present Constitution of the
United States. In 1790, he was elected a Senator of
the Uiiited States. He Continued in the United States'
Senate until 1794., when he was elected by President
Washington to represent the United States as Minis-
ter to the French Republic. - On his return from
France he was elected Governor of his natiic State ;
and, in 1799, concluded the constitutional term for
holding that office. 10802, Mr. Monroe was sent,
by President Jefferson, to France to negociate the
purchase of Louisiana, which was accomplished en-
. tirely to the satisfaction of the nation. Having suc-
ceeded in his .negociations at Paris, in 1806, he was
appointed Minister to London; and, in 1805, sent on
I a special mission to Madrid. ..,On his return from
Europe he was again elected to the Legislature of
Virginia; and the same year, 1810, elected the Go-
vernor of that State. In 1811; he Was appointed
Secretary of State; and on the capture of Washing-
ton, in 1814., he was made Secretary of War.