Star.
London, England, 1804-11-27 00:00:00

Drlßil7l, ?iOr'M3RR i.

The milboderktUding between the 'Chief Commit. 1
Goner of the Revenue here, and the Right Honour-
able Mr. FOSTER, continues fill fo much the fubjea
of general converfation, and is fo vat ioultly defcrib-
ed, that it may not be unacceptable to you to receive
as correa and impartial an account of it as can ar-
rive to any individual through the channel a public

report.
The appointment of Mr. VOWSa to the h!gh and
important fituation which he now fills, was one in
which his Majeliy's difcernment has been acknow-
ledged by every impartial man in Ireland. From
his great talents, the highell expeftaticns were im-
mediately formed of the advantages which would re-
fult to the Fifeal of this country, and hitherto thofe
expeftations hare not been difappointed. From ar-
rangements which he has already made in force pub-
lic offices, and by which great firms of Money (which
enriched the individuals who held. them) are now
obliged to be lodged weekly in the Bank of Ireland,
no left than from yo to 60,0001. a year will be fated
to the public. This, however, is but a fmall portion
of the btnefit that mull follow the general operation
of fuch meafurts. Acting upop this fpirit of reform,
it was abfolutely neceffary tnpotdree upon *bees in
order to detett them, and accordingly Mr. F. of his
coins authority, ordered the furpeulion of fever d ex-
cite riffle:as in the city and neighbourhood of Dublin'
and had country officers Rat in charge of the (Hire.
rent walks and furve)s. This meafure not piiiceeding
direftly and in the old formal way through the Chief
Commiffioner, or Doard of tacit; was confidered
by thole immediately iaterefted, as indecorous, and
has given them offence ; but (in the name of cons.
mon fenfe :) how are mat praitices to be come at
and correfted, if the vigour and prUmptitude
aecef-
Lily to the occafion. is to be palfied and impeded by
a fubmiffiun to the little laws of etiquette afting with
meafuradmovemeut and prefcribed formality ? Should
the world fee an officer of excife, or any other de-
partment, with a Nary, perhaps, lets than iiccL a
year, and with no fees reroynifed either by Government or
by afire, 11•111; at the rate of 10001. or 15001. per
annum, and ceipling in external thew men of the Ertl
fortunes and fituations in the capital. what, i elk you,
mutt be the conclufion ? If the Firft Lord of the
Treafury happens to joule in the ftrects againft a flar
of this magnitude, i, !e to be ftncken blind by the
corrufeations of 14, •toiclour, make his apology with
,green politswefr, ? beak off in humbled confequence?
I think r and as I think fo does the public. Mr.
r • a.m. !setter : thisfailt, inflead of deflroying
vihon, only makes hint rub his eyes and look
again, and peshaps exclaim, ^ Blefi in, foul ! galas
means a.'! th:s • Like a gond forveyor of the public
revenu s, he applies the hydrometer of inquijition
(pardon the change of metaphor, your readers, I am
lure vi:i) to ry if this ardent fpirit above proof.
he laud the affay (to change the metaphor again),
he comes out like pure gold. No imputation mils
upon his charafter, and he is terlCTed with honour,
and probably with additi.mal advantage. The expe-
riment is in trial, but the Tahiti remains tube known.
Yon will, probably, recolleCt a circomftance which
took place here in the Adminiftration of Lord Tau-
;q.t. His Lordfhip having gone to dine with aNo
bleman, now no more, obfermed a long firing of fplen-
did cars iages driving up and difcharging their fplen-
d:l owners at a hoofe in the fame ((reel. It was a na-
tural quellion tfk, " What Gentleman, or Noble
man is it wh s lives in that houfe ?"—" He is a gen-
tl:man lrlcrging to :he ---,my Lord."—" Indeed'
I did not total; that the M—r G—l, the S—r, or the
S---y, vc:•re ne4,hbours of yours."—" Nor are
they, my Lid ; the gentleman who has attracted
your Lorclibii,'s notice is a clerk of a minor defcrip-
tion." Pedlar . there was fume rubbing of eyes and
exclamations un this ocedion too ; but however that
may have hum my Lord Tstarts, as regardlefs of
that mincing, Eliding, complimenting lady, Madame
hiquersc, as Mt. Yuarsa hat been, put his (cal at once
neon every r !lice of the department to which his at-
tention had been drawn, and a (likens and range of
pteul.itiro open, fuch as feldom has been
cgs:Ailed. Siooling ar.d cutting of throats inimedi-
m•fly folio: e!, 'sit itch fimilarity in that cafe and the
pre:'...nt is r:t in:ing, and I fincerely hope will ci it-
tame fo. As I r ferious confequences bctwecn
Lend D. Z,lr. V. I think 1 may a ith confidence
re:icat the aiiimtnci: I srave you in my lad, that no.
tiling occurred in c si.verfation between thole diflin.
Abed ii rrtri s unwolthy of their rank and man•
Loud 1). may have been a little
hart fro the morocio what his parafites or his own
trick feeling, , have reprefentesi as not tisffi-
cisntly attemice to I,is sank and office, his Lordihip
has t.:o fuller the imprefilisn ui
remain li,r in Lis and.too much honour
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PROM- LLOYD% LOT.
OtAVtllttlO, Nov. ad —Pared by. the
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from Labadorc; I'i 6n:re of Wares, Young; mud Asis, Wow,
from Arttaatigel; Ncr ma, Splik=r, from Broom; Harnrsngi
Dingle; and Autumn, limier, from Dallieni Mal;e•
Fifer, from Lear; Jorge Hartru, Tannest sad tlkko!as and
Maria, --, from Amneriam —Sailed the Juno, andiron; and
Blenheim, Miller, for Oren ida ; Oak, gar Artlgan.,
Prince(' of Wales, Ewing; end Roralia. ?reggae", [Or To•sagor
St. Y.nrent'a, Bale, for Vincent's; Grace. Triers Doratikaa
Crasher; and Jonah, Csommisp. for Jamaica.
• , ARRIVED. •
jr Dover, the Margaret and Elir..bctb, Kruk, firm St. MIL
At Cowes, William an .l John,. Woodhonte, from Vlrginln
Torbay, love and Unity, front Nawfdtrodassd—At Peri,
pool. liabley, Crandell; and the Cornelia, from &blimps.
km; Seaman. WillnlignnY. from New Orleans; Charies,Hainfl•
tor, from Lubin ; Profperlty, Uouglas, (roar Riga; Flom. Gera-
), ell ; and tht Henry, Wheatly, from Archingel--•At Clyde, Han-
nah, Diggin, front Oporto...At Arr, Counters Darlington,
from Waterfall, Printers Mary, Hunt, fkom Lot..
don • end the Ann, Ryan, from Newfoundland—At Newfound-
land', Wentworth, Gardner, from i • rtmada...At Grenada, MUM.
nia, Bell, from Clyde—At Trini•lld. Fame, Reld,from Clrito..At
Dominica, Ntptune,Nenry, front Ctyde—At Demaraza,eorprife.
Oar, from Clyde—At Bethke, Barbara, Leigh, from Clyde—.At
Charlefloo, Donning:tato Facket,--; and Sarah, Bowden, from
. Cly&—At Tobago, Trelawney Planter, —, from Lortdon.-At
r Jarmies, F.ndeavour, I 'ohms, front London; Chard, Crook; and
amaica, Martha% trim Briftol; William, Parsat, from White-
r haven ; Richard, Perrin; Henry, Frankland; Brew, Mute; and
the Hannah, Davies, from Livetvol ; Lonna, Vigilante.
- —; and the Robert, Little, from Cork.

WEST INDIES.

KtxcsTon, SePT. 22.—0 n the 30th nit. at flf'een
minutes pati eleven P. M. a fingle, but violent (hock
of an earthquake was felt at St. Ann's Bay. Its
direction appeared to be from North to South ; its
duration about four feconds ; moon waning;
tbtr-
morneter 85 ; no wind, but was preceded by a fo-
lomn (linnets of the atinotpliere. The brute crew '
Minn, immediately previous and (übfequent to the
eoncurlion, were extremely agitated. is was mini-
feted by their cries of alarm. For fen-rat hours be-
fore the flicck the air was elute and almoft irrefpir-
abli ; a Ifelvy fall rain took place the following
day. The ufual tumbling noife and undulatory mo-
tion of the earth, which geneially attends thofe phe-
nomena, were not perceived.
The Thcfeus and l'Hercule men of war, on the
Stet and 6th irritant, encountered a dreadful Hai-
'cane to the Northward of the iflands of St. Domingo
and Porto Rico, in which both veflas carried away
all their malls, and received other material damage.
The former was el:lib-red to threw Come of her guns
overboard, and the latter loft one man, and had ft-
veral others wounded.
La Franchife frigate has come into herbage with a
French privateer, her prize.
The Racoon captured, on the eft inflant. between
Turk's Maud and Great Heneage, the French priva-
teer Samna l'Alliance, of 6 fix-pounders and i 6
mcn. She had been out four days from Purto Rico,
and had taken nothing.
ST. JACO nr. LA VFGA, OCT. 6.—A eorreiponuent
who refides near the Black River, has tranfmitted to
ns the following account of a molt awful and alarm.
ing phenomenon, which made its appearance in Mid-
dle o,,lllarterT, in the parifh of St. Elizabeth, on Mon-
day the Loh of September ult• about four o'clock in
the afternoon. It began with very heavy black clouds,
as if there was a deluge of rain ready to fall. it
was pretend), afterwards acerimpani:d with a dreade
tut roaring noife, as if a violent 'quell of rain with
wind was coming on, but much more loud and hor-
rible. There was loon- the appearance of a large
glebe riling and afcending into the atmofphere, coca-
finning very violent commotions and cntwulfions in
the earth. The fall of trees was diltinetly heard,
' and large branches thereof. together with innumera-
ble birds, were feen carried to an immen e height ia
0' the air, the clouds at the fame time convult:d in the
molt awful manner: There was feen what refembled
a water fpout, but no water fell from it. his conti-
nued its courfe from the N. E. to the Southward,
carrying all before it, tearing up ingwood. C 022011
trees, bee. by the roots. and whirling up in the air the
limbs of numbers of the largeß bees, having at the
fame time the appearance of fire, attended with .n
thick Week fmoke, which arcade/1 from it in Its
courfe, and a report like guns went off. This cond.
nue l nearly an hone, and its coolie was upwards of
a mil:. Fortunately it kept where no darg;lings or
buildings flood, °the: wife they molt have been de-
Rroyed, as the Ilroarteft buildings could not have
with flond the viola.: force of this awful couvulfien
of nature.
FALMOLITOI, OCT. 3.—ln the afternoon of Satur-
day laR, we had here one of the molt awful thunder
form,. uttended wi,h heavy rain and repezted dales
of lightning, that has been known fur wily vears.,
About four P. hi. .the lower pto of the [molding
lately erened At a confiderable et penc:. for the dil-
1-laying of figr. al), under which is a pow*: maga.
' eine, was !truck with lightning, which broke the
ernduiler, fhatt,:ed one of the u and knock-
ed down ore of the foldiers was
muck injured, and lay a confider..l:lc time tpeech-
Tne fl 't %there the lightning Rruck is not
ITI :re thaw ten or twelve fcct from the magazine,
! abet : there c •7.ll,lcr;He rnantil t f gun pow.
Ocr. rc, ott a c!lnttch to have delir,,yad the toys
of ralin.r••r'i iii is ; Whin mutt upon
every t) alarming .1 nature, be under the
rich ft iai ail:ire:ref :lons fur the safety of their lives
rr.•rett•..... is to he hoped, the fubjett wet.
thy of t!icir attention ill lie taken into
confoleratior, and me :us ad tr, cil tor the removal of
tic gnu pJ•edur tira p. :n

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