Star.
London, England, 1821-10-02 00:00:00

BOSTON, SEPTEMBER 1.

ALARMING FIRES IN THE WOODS OF MAIN AND P
NEW Datmswicsci—A Gentleman who arrived here
on Thursday, in the schooner Active, from Eastport,
informs, that the drought in the neighbourhood of
Saint Croix river, the present season, has been un-
usually severe, and that the fires in the woods have
raged to a more alarming extent than ever before
known. Several buildings have been burnt at the
parish of Saint Stephen's, on the British side of the
river, others were saved with great difficulty. From
Calais to Eastport, about a fortnight since, the vessel
in which our informant took passage was entirely
enveloped in smoke. In various places the fireshave
been burning for six weeks; there had been no rain
for eight weeks to wet the ground.

SAVANNAH, SEPTEMBER I.
TORNADO AND HAIL STORM.—On the evening of
the-22d ult. a tornado, accompanied with hail, thun-
der, and lightning, was experienced at Tybee
which blew down the north• west wing of the United
States barracks, and destroyed many of the panes of
glass in the light house. Some of the hailstones
were an inch in diameter.
CHARLESTON, AUGUST so. _

By the arrival of the Spanish brig of war Almi-
rante, in twenty-two days, from Vera Cruz, we learn
that the Insurgents were before that city, and the
gates were shut ; but on the arrival of the Diamond,
a corvette, and the brig of war Almirante, with about
800 troops from this port, the troops being trained
for two days, they sallied out to give battle to the
enemy, who retreated, and nn engagement took
place; but the Royal troops burnt and destroyed the
quarters of the Insurgents, which were without the
walls. The Royal troops are encamped near the place
that the enemy left.
The Viceroy, O'Donolu, arrived at Vera. Cruz from

Ohl Spain, and was treated very slightly. The res•
sels of war touched at Tampico, where no notice was
taken of diem at all. That place is represented to be
in a state of discontent, and, with Vera Cruz, may
be expected soon to be under the Independent flag.

The subjoined letter, received yesterday by a packet
from the Brazils, confirms the statement which ap-
peared some days ago, of its being the resolution of,
Sir THOMAS HARDY to withhold his recognition of
Lord COCHRANES blockade:
" RIO DE JANEIRO, JULY 23.

" A few days ago, the ivate Secretary of the
English Minister, who lately resided here, arrived
from Lima, which place he left on the Ist of May,
and iluaura, the head-quarters of the Chili= army,
on the 3d. He came by sea from Valparaiso, and
travelled from thence across the Continent to Buenos
Ayres, where he again tonic shipping for this place.
When he left Lima, the American frigate General
Brown was lying at Callao, and was to sail about the
middle of May. The Er-Viceroy, Pezuela, had en-
gaged a passage in her. La Serna, the new Viceroy,
possessed the general confidence ; and, owing to his
vigorous measures, the prospects of the country are
much altered for the better. During the visit of Sir
Thomas Hardy to Callao, he passed four or five days
in Lima, during which be had frequent conferences
with the Viceroy; and it is said that the consequence
was a much higher idea than before of the resources
of that capital, and of the attachment of the people
to Spain.
" When be returned to Valparaiso, he declared to
the merchants there his determination not to recog-
nize Lord Cochrane's blockade.—Di letter received
yesterday at Lloyd's, states, that the British Com-
mander has required the immediate liberation of the
three English vessels detained at Valparaiso, or other-
wise declares that he will take possession of them.l
Lord Cochrane has surprised Arica, where lie landed
with 500 men, and delivered up the place to the pil-
lage of his followers. He found in the port four ves-
sels, which also fell into his hands. Their names are,
the Lord Cathcart, Colunrbia, Joseph, and Roberts.—
The two first, however, had safely landed their car-
goes before he seized them.
" The Independent Army' in Peru was not in a
prosperous state when our informant visited its head-
quarters at Huaura. San Martin had sailed from the
coast with a detachment of 1000 men, but its desti-
nation was then unknown. (This is the expedition
which the accounts lately received by way ofda-
maica state at: 4000 men ; and add, that a total de•
feat was sustained by them at Chorillas). The re-
mainder of his force continued at Huaura, under the
command of Las Heras. They ate described to have
been in a very bad condition, the greater part of the
men sick and in want of necessaries of every kind.
To add to the distress of their situation, their com-
munication with Arenales at Pisco was in danger of
being cut off, by a movement of the Spanish troops
under the commaud of General Valdes and Iticcafort.
" The country lying between Buenos Ayres and'
Chili is infested to such a degree by the Monteneros,
that it is rendered extremely dangerous to travellers,
as in their search for plunder they do not very nicely
discriminate in its objects. The Gentleman above-
mentioned was compelled to travel only by night,
and concealed himself during the day, by which
means he passed through in safety, but very few tra-
vellers venture to make the same experiment."

GEORGE 11. was the last Sovereign who visited his
Hanoverian dominions; his title was only Elector.—
His present MAJESTY will be the first who ever en-
tered it with the rank and title of King. Of his MA-
JESTY'S brothers and sisters, there are now five upon
the Continent, who are expected to meet him in Mt-
nover, viz. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, his Viceroy ; the
Duke of CUMBERLAND; the Queen Dowager of Won-
?IMMO, formerly Princess Royal of England ; the
Princess of HEssz-Homnuito; and Princess AUGUSTA.

Lord and Lady STEWA RT, it is now understood,
do not return to Vienna for some time, but are ex.

pected to arrive at 'Wynyard to-morrow.
Lady A'Coußv will leave town in a few days, to
join Sir WILLIAM A'Coutur, at Naples. Her ady-
ship will be accompanied by Mr. LUSHINGTON, who
intends passing the winter in Italy.
_

A Morning Paper states, that among the Gentle-
men who subscribed along with Sir WILLIAM RA;
the Lord Advocate for Scotland, the Bond of Credit
in favour of the Beacon Newspaper were the Solici-
tor-General, the Law Officer next in authority to the
Lord Advocate. Sir WALTER SCOTT, Bart. Mr. Co-
LIN MACKENZIE, one of the principal Clerks of the
Court of Session ; Dr. Jona hms, one of the Mi.
sisters of Edinburgh, and leader of the Ministerial
party in the Church of Scotland; Mr. HOP; Advo-
cate, son of the Lord President of the Court of Ses-
sion • Mr. FORBES, Advocate, Sheriff of Perthshire ;
Sir WILLIAM Fonts% brother of the preceding; Mr.
MONTPENNY, brother of Lord Pirsrict.sr, one of the
Judges of the Court of Sesiion ; and Mr.Watroutops.
The discovery of this bond is said to have II compro-
mised the safety of the greatest man of his country:"
for, if report be true, Mr. JAMES GIBSON, W. S. one
of how who had been grossly calumniated in the
Beacon, " had thought proper to make such a demand
upon Sir WALTER SCOTT as he could only be pre-
vented from answering in a similar hostile spirit by the
interference of a common friend, Lord LAUDERDALE."
—A Meeting of the Faculty of Advocates will, it is
said, take place, " to consider what steps, they ought
to take to testify their disapprobation" of the conduct
of such of the members of their body as have beretH
parties to the bond. The intetferecce of the Faculty
will be justified by the example set by the present
Loan PRESIDENT of the Court of Session (father ei
the Mr. Bore who is a subscriber to the bond), who,
when LORD Arivocivu, moved either the expulsion
or censure (we forget which) of Mr. JOUN MORTIS.
LAND, Advocate, fof being the conductor of a Paper
commenced at Edinburgh, under the title of l'he
Scots Chronicle; the objection to which was, not
that it was established for the demolition of private
character, but that it disseminated principles favour-
able to the rights of the People, and adverse to the
interests of that Melvillite faction, which for so many
years engrossed the whole functions of government
in the northern part o: the Island.

EAST INDIES.

The letters from India state, that the horrible ail,
lady of the cholera morbus is again making dread/4
ravages. It seems to have become an additiotal
cot plaint in India ; it flies about in all directinei, h
attacks troops on or after a march. A Madras
riak
battalion lost three Officers and 150 Sepoys whet
the march. Out of a deta:hment of 200 gepoysas
Seroor, one-tenth have fallen victims, and they but
lost the same proportion of camp followers., but toOfficersh
a violentaveb attack.affected,n butt .... of their Ladies
died after Otte
singular
that the
cause cannot be discovered. Dr. MARDON, the sur-
geon, says, that in his extensive practice in the diyi.
sion of the army under his care in the Deccan; be is
convinced that it is not infectious, as none of tile sea
geons who have visited patients under the most*
gravated cases, have caught the infection. Cid&
ness, vomiting, purging, and spasms in the strird4
are the tbital symptom. Bleeding and large asio
of calomel are the usual remedies.

Extract from the Bombay Gazette, May 2,1821:`,
On the 2:2d February, accounts arrived from Judk
announcing the success of the Turkish Army in Ahy,
sinia, under his Excellency ISHMAEL PASHA, Whith
stated that they had taken 1-ossession of Sennar, she
capital, after a battle, in which 300 Turks and Sol
Nubians were slain. Salutes were tired at Judda at
the receipt of this intelligence.—A letter from a narile
merchant at Judda states, that Mimeo Pastia, with
an army of Turks and Bedouins of 8000 men, w
advancing to Yemen, to demand from the Imaum
Sennar 18,000 dollars, being an old debt, and de
arrears for the annual tribute of coffee. They Unease'.
to take pos.session of the sea-coast from !Ada as
Mocha, and then advance upon the capital of 'femme,

Tuesday, Captain lkitYncr, of the Royal Erigineen
(son of the late celebrated and scientific General
Nluoort), accompanied by M. MATHIEU, Membetei
the Royal Institut:: at Paris, proceeded to Vaidight
Down, Hastings, and superintended the fixing n'a
vertical reflector, constructed by M. Marin; nn
the same spot selected by General ROY thirty yeah
since, to enable observations to be taken from the
coast of France, near Calais, for the purpose of tti
measuring the distance between the meridian of the
Observatories of Greenwich and Paris. The ligk
from the reflector is visible at the distance t:f ninety
miles. It consists of four circular wicks, the larger
of which is ten inches in circumference. It consumes
two quarts of oil ff► the hour. It is lighted as host
before sun-rise and sun-set, and is kept burning
two hours. Captain Munoe and M. Marmtulek
Fairlight on Wednesday, to proceed to join Maje
COLBY and Captain KATER in France.
Yesterday, the Earl and Countess SrucEs
family, arrived at their house in St. James's PlaA
from Althorp, their seat in Northamptonshire.
expected that they will leave town in a few daysa
a Continental tour, and pass the winter in Italy.
The Earl of litnt.twoTom has given one huntisf
pounds towards erecting an organ in the Churcid
Darlington.
Sunday afternoon, her Highness Princess Enta.
HAZY, arrived at Chandos-house, from the cottage,
Ist Highgate. On Friday next her Highness, with the
younger branches of the family, will leave town io
Ramsgate, where a house is ready for their recepiee

DANIEL SYKES, Esq. M.P. is elected to the oia
of. Recorder of Hull.

The Lambeth Parochial Meeting for
of Overseers for that extensive Parish

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attended at the Vestry-room on Saturda,
Overseer for the out-district, comprehene
Stockwell, and an extensive and populous
was elected by the two Tax-gatherers,
only out-residents present. Now, in point
law, the Overseer was the man who shc

the two Tax-gatherers : and yet, in point
latter elected him. _ _ _

The first Agricultural Meeting, estabi
GWYDYII,, for the encouragement of ,
nantry, took place on Wednesday last,
when the various prizes were adjudged
to the successful candidates.

By the last quotations of the average
it appears, that fbr the week ending
being the last of the six succeeding A.
price of wheat was 635. 10d. the quarter
higher, by soti►e shillings, than the averap
vious week. This, however, will hay

opening the ports to that grain, a cont
is not now considered probable, as, since
tion of the above average, the price
sensibly fallen. A stronger expectation .
with regard to the import of oats and barley, wad
are rising rapidly in the market, and passing the 6•
mks of the prohibition price.
A farmer of Hurstperpoint, near Lewes, in Sono
actually grew last year, on seventy-three acre
land, the extraordinary quantity of eighty-illation/5
and six bushels of wheat !
In consequence of the present depression dell
markets, Lord MACDONALD has allowed a deducing
of IVO per cent. on the rents of his estate in Skye.
with an understanding that this liberal allowanceol
be continued until the times mend.
In consequence of the colliers having left desk
the price of coals has risen 50 per cent. in Glare.
The result of the idleness being protracted will heal
importation from other districts.
Among other projects of the General Postgo6%
it is in contemplation to run a mail coach dies
from Aberdeen to Glasgow, throngh Strathmo
Perth, and Stirling; and another from AbersktO
Fochabers, by Inverury, Huntly, and Keith.
The Mayor of Chester has complied with the*
quest contained in a Requisition signed by 760 Flo
men and Citizens of Chester, to call a Comm:ARA
for the purpose of throwing open to the Citinotat
large, the election of the corporation, accordiagto
the provisions of the Charter of HENRY
FATAL MARRIAGE.—JOHN KINGSTON, acarpeor,
was married, on Monday se'nnight, at Ansford,eor
Castle Cary, to MARY ALDRIDGE, a respectable r-11
woman of the same place, and, on his rising tor!
work early on Thursday morning, he ebservedtt'
wife that she " looked pale ;" Ler reply wad"
she was very well; In half an hour afteetbewr
man called as usual, but could make none.
this was observed by a female neighbour, who on
diately went up stairs, and found the new etatia'
A lifeless corpse.

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COMMERCE wrrs TI.IIBUCTOO AND SADAN.

Letters from Gambia having announced that Omar,
the Sheikh of the Tarassa Arabs, who occupy the I
aesert between Portandik and Timbuctoo (see the
map in Shabeeny's Account of TimbUctoo, Scc. p.l),
had arrived at Bathurst, for the purpose of making
arrangements with the merchants for the supply of
gam ambit at Portandik, and as that Chief has mani-
fested the greatest anxiety to establish this trade with
the
adisi on the firmest basis, we hope our country-
men (influenced by a laudable spirit of enterprise)
Brill not suffer this favourable opportunity to pass,
but that they will now open a communication with
Timbuctoo through his territory !
It is most certain that a negociation formed with
this powerful Arab of the Sahara, might ensure pro-
tection to any Englishman desirous of penetrating to
Timbuctoo; nay, he himself, for a moderate remu-
neration (offered, by. the bye, with secrecy), would
and could protect any traveller, proceeding through
that country, all the way to that emporium of cen-
tral Africa! The prospect of hire for the camels of
the Tarassa Arabs, which would necessarily result
from the establishment of a commercial intercourse,
would alone be sufficient to secure his interest and
vigorous support in promoting such an undertaking;
for although the road through this part of the Tarassa
wary is not so eligible as that suggested by Mr.
.jokson, in his Work annexed to Shabeeny's Account
of Timbuctoo (because it is so near to the French set-
dements on the Senegal), yet, notwithstanding this
ob*tion, we have reason to think it may lead to in-
cakulable advantages, and be the means of opening
markets hitherto sealed from the intercourse of nations
and of European commerce.

The Marquis and Marchione.s of WATERFORD, the
Earl of Truorse, Ladies SusAN and ELIZABETH
BERESFORD, the Dowager Countess BROWSLOW, and
the Misses Cusr, are in the hold ton list of distin-
guished visitants to Buxton Wells.
Harrogate has been uncommonly full this season;
amongst the latest arrivals there are the Earl and
Countess of PORTSMOUTH, Lady PILKINOTON, Sir
ROBERT CRAWFORD POLLOCK, Lady and the two
Misses ANCOTTS,and Sir JAMES SHAH,

A Meeting of the Inhabitants and Visitors of Rams-
gate was held on Friday, at which it as resolved
that some lasting testimonial, to perpetuate the Kr NO'S
gracious condescension in visiting that town, be
erected, and that a subscription be entered into for
that purpose. It was also resolved, that the Com-
mittee for carrying these resolutions into effect. do
consist of the Gentlemen who bad the honour to pre.
sent the Address to his MAJESTY.
HARGATE.—This fa shionablc summer's retreat has,
within these last ten days, been the scene of much
gaiety and amusement, and the residents within its
vicinity, as well as the Nobility and Gentry visiting,
have experienced much gratification in consequence
of an election for a Master of the Ceremonies, which,
at first, promised to have a warm contest, no less th.n I
fourteen Gentlemen having started for the appoint.
meat, thirteen of whom gradually resigned in favour
of Captain FRENCH (late of his %lajesty's 18th Ligh
Dragoons), who, on Tuesday last, was unanimously
chosen, and on Thursday a most splendid hail t• ok
place,, at which the favourite candidate sea. invested
with the insignia of office by Lady HALES.
Thursday 'evening, on the road between Brighton
and Newhaven, whither they were proceeding to em-
bark for France, the carriage of Captain Swam of
the Royal Navy, in which „ere himself, Mrs. Kam
and Mrs. GL %stemma, was unfortunately overturned
while descending the bill called Saltdean. Captain
WART and Mrs. GLAEEBROOK luckily escaped with-,
cet any material injury, but Mrs. Rau received a
riolent contusion on the head, and had one of her
lagers dislocated. Playing no assistance at hand,
the Ladies were immediately removed to the carriage,
io which were Mr. REID and Mr. GLAZEDROO/C, who
were following behind, and conveyed to Newhaven,
there medical assistance was procured; and it is con-
Wendy hoped that Mrs. REID will in a few days be
sufficiently recovered to permit of her removal. The
Master of the packet and coachman were thrown
from the box, and were, from the height of their fall,',
cut and bruised considerably.
Thursday considerable attention was attracted
at Edinburgh, by the circumstance of three boys'
climbing the rocks of the Castle, who, it was alleged,
had gone there for the purpose of concealing stolen
property. Two of them allowed themselves to be'
taken, upon whom nothing of the kind was found,
Teethe other boy contrived to elude the pursuit of
the officers by clambering to the mole inaccessible
parts of the rock, in the fastnesses of which he mails-
tined a secure refuge, until he had an opportunity
cf effecting his escape.
FELONS ESCAPED.—EarIy on Friday morning W.
Dent, aged 40, J. Gossop, 22, and .T. Wilson, 18, pri-
sms:Es confined in the York City jail, effected their
escape in the following manner :—They each slept
in different cells, along with other prisoners. Wilson,
on having made kn aperture thtough the wall, beneath
the bed, got into a dark cell, into which the light was
only admitted through a hole in the door. By putting I
his hand through this hole, he was enabled to force'
the lock, by which means he was admitted into the
Postage. Ile then wrested the locks from the doors!
tithe cells in which Gossop and Dent were. A spike,
at the top of an iron door was next filed off, and one
'of them got over into the darroom, and forced two
more locks so as to open the door. The step which
leadsfrom this room into the day-yard was then taken
wih so that they could get beneath the door into the I
3ard• They then scaled the wall and got into the I
Vacs, where they tore up a flower-stand, a seat, &c.
alb which they made so complete a ladder as to
enable them to get to the top of the outer wall, from
lime they lowered Themselves with a rope made of
ea old bed-tick, and thus effected their escape. The
irons of 'woof them having been filed off, were left
Alike prison. The other had a strong iron on his
leg• They were all seen next morning at Walmgate,
it the direction of Hull, but no farther traces of them'
were discovered. Wilson was under a charge of
Pocket-picking.. Dent is under sentence of trans-
portation, for stealing cloth at Bedale fair, and bias
hen before transported. Gossop was under a charge
of burglary at Walmgate, and when taken at Hull,
'wtd lodged in the prison there, he made a most des-
poste attempt at escape, and had nearly effected it.

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