Star.
London, England, 1829-12-02 00:00:00

ARRIVALS AT BATH.

Sir R. and Lady Bickerton, Sir R. Hill, Sir J. Perkins, Sir S.
Watben, the Hon. Vesey Knox, Lady Bathurst, General and Mrs.
Cameron, Col. Chatterton, Col. Cassell, Colonel Phinote, Colonel
Havertield, Major and Mrs. Trevor, Major White, Captain and
Mrs. Brown, Capt. Barrett, Capt. Lely, Capt. Orbe, Captain
Young, Capt. Havelock, Capt. Forbes, Capt. Gage, Capt. Potters,
Captain Jennings, Rev. Mr. Barlow, Rev. Mr. Ireland, Rev.
Mr. Wickham, Rev. Mr. Waterhouse, Dr. Simpson, Dr. Wick-
liffe, &c.

The Marquis de PALM ELLA arrived in town on Mon-
day, from the Continent. The Marquis proceeded in the
afternoon to the office of the Secretary of State for Fo-

reign Affairs, and transacted official business.
Despatches were sent off yesterday evening, from the
Colonial Office, for General Sir G. Dow, the Lieutenant

Governor of Gibraltar.
Viscount MEIN ILLS transacted business yesterday, at
the Foreign Office.
Mr. VESEY FITZGERALD left town 011 Monday, to
join the Duke of WELLINGTON, the Earl of ABERDEEN,
and the other Noblemen and Gentlemen staying at Wo-
burn Abbey, Bedfordshire, on a visit to the Duke of
BEDFORD.
Sir GEORGE MURRAY arrived in town on Monday,
from a visit to the Marquis of ANGLESEA, at his seat
Beaudesert, Staffordshire.
The Lords of his Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council
had a meeting at eleven o'clock yesterday morning, in the
Council Chamber, Whitehall. The Lords present were—
Lord WYNFORD, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, and
the Chief Commissioners of the Woods and Forests.
The Marquis ORMOND and family are on a visit at
Clarisford House, with the Lord Bishop of KILLALOE.
The appeal of " White v. Parnther," (from Jamaica,)
was marked for hearing on their Lordships' list. Mr.
BUCHANAN, on the part of the appellants, opened the
appeal, which was, in fact, a case of equity in the Chancery
Court of Jamaica, from which Court reference by appeal
was made to their Lordships. The Court, by a Decree
in 1828, founded on a bill filed by the respondents
in 1822, ordered the sale of an estate in the island, and
which the appellants, as mortgagees, had been in posses-
sion for a number of years, in order that the respondents
might be permitted to establish a claim on the property
prior to that of some of the mortgagees; amongst others the
wife of the deceased proprietor of the estate, claims 3001.
per annum, under her husband's will, bearing date 1775.
The Decree, it was contended, was wrong, inasmuch as
the respondents in their bill,on which it was founded, did
not offer to become liable for the payment of the claim of the
mortgagees, and also for the costa and expenses of the
suit. As to the claims of the wife, the words in the
will making the bequest were—" after all my just and
lawful debts are paid :" and as the appellant stood in the
character of creditor, the claim, even under the words of
the will, could not claim precedence. The Counsel for
the apellants occupied the Court about four hours. The
Counsel for the respondents then commenced his reply.
At half-past three o'clock Lord WYNFORD intimated
their Lordships' wish, that the further hearing of the case
should be postponed.—Their Lordships then adjourned.
LA BOURDONNAYE.—II is well for France that this

man has been expelled from her councils. Haughty and
arrogant, and overbearing and violent—a man who has
shifted opinions to gain pre-eminence--who appears not
to have a spark of feeling in his composition—and who
has, on every occasion, comported himself with outrage,
and violence, and insult, he would have only proved an
inextinguishable firebrand in the councils of the King.
As he is no longer of the Ministry, perhaps his expulsion
will extend to his minion, the Prefect Margin; and then
we shall hear of fewer prosecutions for libel, a frightful
list of which we have perceived in a very recent number
of the Journal des Debats. Where the slightest vestige
of public freedom is discernible, there ought to be tole-
rated the Liberty of the Press.—Foreign Review.
A meeting took place early yesterday morning in a
field near Chalk Farm between two Gentlemen, the one
residing in Montague-square, the other in Regent's
Park. Two shots were exchanged without effect, when
the seconds interfered and caused the parties to with-
draw, but unfortunately without any amicable arrange-
ment. The affair is said to have originated in the one
Gentleman endeavouring to supplant the other in the es-
teem and affection of an amiable young Lady.
We regret to hear that the Hon. Mrs. Heneage Legge
still continues seriously ill at Twickenham.
The remains of the late General Garth were removed,
at an early how on Friday morning, from his mansion in
Grosvenor-place, for interment in a vault under st. Mar-
tin's church. The funeral was strictly private, consisting
of a hearse drawn by six horses, followed by two mourn-
ing coaches, containing the relatives and friends of the
deceased. Captain Garth was chief mourner.
The following inscription has lately been placed in the
parish church of East Grinstead, Sussex, in memory of
the late amiable and highly- gifted Lord COLCHESTER:—
" Sacred to the memory of the Right Hon. CHARLES
Assoc, who, after filling with distinguished firmness and
ability the office of Speaker of the House of Commons
for more than 15 years, was, June 3, 1817, created Baron
Colchester. Not less exemplary in the performances of
the duties of a private than a public station, he devoted a
long and active life to the advancement of religion, the
of his country, and the welfare of his neighbours.
• Oct. 14th, 1757. Died May Bth, 1829."
A General Meeting of the Governors of the Royal
Mr Diseases of the Dar was held a few days since, at
the Dean-atreet, flokosquare. It appeared that since
she Bea of tlgs asvfig Amity, in 1116, upwards of $440
petiaat.,'aLeted with deafness and other diseases of the Ear, have
been admitted-3410 cured, and WO relieved, Melodies several
cases of deaf and dumb. ,It is the intention of the Governors, as
soon as the funds will allow, to extend the present building, so as
m receive patients from the consul into the establishment.

THE TRAVELLING DOCTOR.

FROM TILE FRENCH OF PEPIN DE 1131.7RGEY.

" How happy could I pus my days
In travelling!" quoth Doctor Fume.—
" Oh! could you leave us? Go your ways,
Since 'tis your wish front hence to budge."
—" I've thought again ;—'twould be but queer
To roam unknown through foreign places ,
And never meet, as one does here,

With well-known and familiar faces
And In our rounds, well-pleas'd one Kea
Faces familiaris'd by fee, !''--
-Then, Doctor, be your s:,11, unfurt'd,
And seek them—in another world!

PSTIL SCULS)11111.

THE THEATRES.

THE ADELPHI.— Retirensent of " BILLY TATUM"
Notwithstanding the pompous announcement of the
forthcoming prodigy—" the greatest Performer that has
ever yet trod the Adelphi boards"—it is but an act of
justice to more modest merit to assert, that " BILLY
TAYLOR" maintains all his magnetic influence to the
last ; and though, at the approach of the "prodigious
and unique" candidate for histrionic honours, " that gay
young fellow," " like a little star, hides his diminished
head,"—or rather, with the gallantry becoming such " a
perfect gentleman," he remembers the old adaire, that
When a lady's in the cue
Of course all other things give place."
and bows with deference to the attractions of die docile
debutante,—" he bears his blushing honours thick upon
him" into his temporary seclusion ; and as the Edinburgh
Review once observed of some other young hero prema-
turely removed from the scene of his glory, he leaves our
sight—" extinguished, not decayed." On Tuesday even-
ing that classic Theatre, in which the " gentle BILLY"
has so long been " the bserved of all observers," was
crowded at an early hour, and the boxes displayed a
galaxy of beauty, whose tenderest sympathies were evi-
dently much excited by the coming extinction .of this
" particular star" in the dramatic horizon—fated, it would
seem, but to enjoy what Tom MOORE calls " the chance
of an Heliacal rising before the luminary, in whose
light he was to be lost, should appear !" There are
very few, even amongst the best of our mo-
dern Farces, so humorous as " Love Laughs at
Bailiffs ;" which loses nothing of its effect even
in the frequency of its repetition. Mr. BENSON HILL'S
Lightfoot is one of the mo,t expert, vivacious, and enter-
taining of valets. Mr. HEMMINGS enters very spiritedly
into the serapes, the expedients, and the entanglements
of the Captain. WILKINSON'S Chatter is most
agreeably loquacious. And as a genuine portrait—which it
must be—of some practical member of the legal Catch-
Club, the " Singing Bailiff " of MATTnews is admirably
" uncommon !"—his snatches of songs, and snatchings
of persons—bis chuckling anticipations of successful
manoeuvring, and the dry quiet humour in which he at-
tempts to hide the mortification of defeat, are in his
happiest style. Miss APJOIIN and Miss DALY have
very little to do—but that little they do well.
Miss DALY'S fine figure is by no means displayed to
advantage in the dress which she has chosen for the cha-
racter. If Dr. JOHNSON thought that" a man who could
make a pun would pick a pocket," what notion would he
entertain of the author of " York and Lancaster," in
every second line of which some pun is perpetrated
Out of " the thousand and one," some fifty are partially
good—but not even one has the merit of originality.
Nevertheless, the comicalities of MATTISEWS, YATES,
and Wn.xtmsow, kept the audience in a roar !

THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

&Re... 1 have noticed with considerable interest the
account In your Paper of yesterday, *hewing the prodigious extent
of the export of Grain from Ireland, which I find considerably to
exceed the quantity exported from the United States of North
America to an parts of the world—which annually, on an average
of the ten running years ending the 30th September, 1825, was as
follows, viz. :

974,493 Barrels of Flour, of I 961bs. each,
1,344,437 Bushels of Indian Corn and Meal,
154,432 Bushels of Wheat.

The largest exportation of Grain and Flour from the United
States appears to have been in the year ending 30th September,
1903, in which year the quantity was-
-1,311,853 Barrels of Flour,
9,213,214 Bushels of Indian Can and Meal,
686,415 ditto of Wheat ;
and the exportation of the preceding year was nearly as great, prin-
cipally imported into Great Britain, where, in 1801, the average
price of Wheat was 1154,11 d. per quarter ; in 1802, 87s. 9d. and
in 1803, 575. Id.—so that the Americans seem then to have acted
on the principle of the British manufacturers of the present day
•ia. to make up in quantity what they lose in price.—Yours, &e.
JOHN BAINBRIDGL

The Rev. Wm. CouRTHORPE, at his tithe-audit for
the parish of Westmeston and hamlet of Chiltington, on
the 17th instant, reduced his respective claims on his
parishioners 10 per cent. on account of the distressed
state of agriculture.
Accounts from Colombia, by the Leeward Island
Mail, state that Bolivar is busy in organizing the Pro-
vinces, and commerce begins to revive. The political
news is not of importance.
There are many persons in the City who have great
doubts of the surrender of the Spaniards at Tampico,
owing to the late accounts received, via of France, not
mentioning the circumstance. A Philadelphia paper, re-
ceived this morning, of the 29th Oct. says, " The editor
of the New Orleans Argus, of the 3d Oct. expresses a
strong doubt of the truth given of the capitulation of
Barradas.

Extract of a letter from the Havannah, Oct. 11 :—" I
take the opportunity of informing you that a report is
circulated here, and entitled to credit, that the Intendant
has received from Spain a Royal Decree, disapproving of
the duty of five dollars per barrel on Spanish flour, im-
posed on foreign bottoms, which he had attempted to levy
on the importers. This Decree will have the effect of
inducing Spanish shippers to monopolize the trade.—
Freights to the United• States and Europe are very scarce.
Exchange on London 181 per cent."
The Austrian Observer of November 17, adds the
following particulars to the account already given of the
extraordinary attack made on a young man at Nurem-
burg, by a secret enemy who pursues him :—" We un-
derstand that it is necessary to remove the unfortunate
foundling Gaspar Hauser, of Nnremburg, to another re-
sidence, as the solitary situation of the house in which
he at present lives renders the repetition of the late at-
tempt at assassination probable.. When, on the screams
of the maid, the murderer, led, he said, " You shall not
go alive out of Nuremburgr Unfortunately, Hauser,
after the attack made upon him, hid himself, from fear,
in the cellar of the house, and lost his reason. It was
then necessary to secure him and watch him ; bat he has
since recovered his senses.