Star.
London, England, 1818-09-02 00:00:00

COTTON SPINNERS.

•••'ow accounts received this morning from Man-
. Chester, Stockport, and places adjacent, report very
favourably of the disposition of the people'beloning
to the Cotton Manufactories to return to their em-
ployment ; which they did on Monday, to the amount
of three or four Mindred. Many of them were much
distressed in pecuniary matters. The 6th Dragoons
are still in the neighbourhood of Manchester, but
there is very little occasion at present for their ser-
vices—the respectable inhabitants, assisted by the
Police, having hitherto succeeded in preventing the
discontented from disturbing the peace.

We are authorised to contradict the paragrai h
which appeared in. our Paper of Monday last. stating,
" that on Sunday night a dreadful fire broke out on
'44 board a west-country barge, lying in the London
Docks : it was occasioned by the carelessness of one
"" of the boatmen: the devotiring element spread to
a the adjoining warehouses, caught a bottle of phos-
H phorus, and blew up the whole of the adjoining
premises" It appears that we were completely
misinformed—no accident from fire of any kind has
taken place in the London Docks: and the whole re-
port above alluded to is totally void of foundation.
Fsiday afternoon, the tithe barn, situate near the
Church at Beaksbourne, belonging to EDWARD TAY-
Lon, Esq. of Bilro. b:t in the occupation of 31r.
AUSTEN GARDNER, was perceived to be on tire, and
notwithstanding immediate assistance, so rapid were
the flames, that in a very short space it was levelled
with the ground.
The Committee of Physicians of Dublin, appointed
on the 25th of .%larch last, td watch the further pro-
gress of die epidemic, have made their Repott on the
subject, in which a heavy charge of neglect is brougl t
,against the Irish Government. It is dated Dublin,
August 17, 1818, and commences this :.
• "awe tits appointment of your Committee more than fote
11101dr• rte siapsed, and though, In that interval, the progress
Staff the epidemic might have justill,..d your Committee in coo-
Inning the Profession at a ninth earlier period, they were re-
Wiest to adopt that step, until the efficacy of the measuresthen
retied upon by the Constituted Authoritits, and by the Public,
foe the suppression of Fever, bad had a fair trial.
I G. These measures have now been in fall operation during the
last ten mouths, and yet there is nu &dile o: the Epidemit ;
on the contrary, after sustaining a very trivial reduction in the
number of Sufferers during the month, of .vnttrch and April, it
has advanced with rush rapid strides, that in the last month,
more Patients by one-half were admitted I..ate: the. Fever into the
Cork-street and House of Industry liosl na!s, than in February,
when the Fever of the winter season Wl'o at its height The
mortality of the Epidemic has, no doubt, abated; but a mor-
tality, however great, constitutes a very small part of the many
pernicious consequences flowing from the influence of a wide
spread Epidemic upon the lower orders. The following tabular
view, the correctness of which may be relied on, exhibits, in a
distinct manner, the progress of this contsgimi4 Epidemic, from
the date of its probable eiimmeneentent in Dublin, to the pre-
sent period."
Here follows the table, in which the total amount
of admissions into the Fever Hospitals of the House cf
Wintry and Cork-stun, from the 31st of August,
1,8 17, to the Ist Ampast, 1818, is stated at 14,060.
The Report then proceeds to lament the iaafficacy of
the measures pursued, and adds—

" But the Physicians•of Dublin did not condemn one plan as
inefficient without suggesting another as more likely to socim d,
for they did, most strongly, recommend to the attention of the

Govenimeni and of tice.Public, the measures detailed in the
Second Report of the Sub-Committee of Health,' as clone com-
petent to check the further progress of this formidable I".pitit•-
, tole, and as measures which, if perseveringly eseettted, were, in
their judgment, likely to subdue it within a reasrtnable
Unfortunately for this city, and f..tr the wretched suffi rev; from
44ease, the wArniog voice of those, the most competent to judro
On such a subject, was disrerarded, and Dublin has thereby to
dept.!! a great increase of distress and poverty among her inha-
bitants, without any immediate prospect of checking tt.e cell
.consequences Bowing from a pert-et:trance in measures at t,ace
expensive and inefficient."
To-morrow, according to annual custom, the LORD
"MAYOR goes in grand procession from the Mansion-
House to Smithfield. to prochiru Bartholomew Fair.
EiticisAriost TO CANADA.—From the 25th to the
•29th of June 501 settlers arrived at the pnrt of Qne-
.bec from Europe. The whole number that have ar-
Aimd there this season, since the river St. Lawrence
has been free of ice and navigable for shipping.
stated in the Quebec Gazette at 9,378. The same
.paper informs ns, that several thousand Scotch High.
Issndens have formed an association for the purpo,.e
iof emigrating to Canada, and were to have sailed from
Greenock in the month of May.—(\'e l'ork Paper.)
Fifty-eight Africans, beihy; a part of those lately
seized for a violation of the law of the United Stater,
prohibiting the importation of slaves, arrived here a
few days past, and will be exposed to public sale on
the 17th of next month. Most of them arc young and
very likely. The residue, about 90 in number, *tin
the possession of the Collector of the Port nr Darien,
and will be disposed of in the fall. It is probable, ire
learn, that the whole will be claimed by the person who
introduced them into the state.—(Georgia Journal+
CORD-E V. XCHANG. lib.-LAVE, NF.PT. 2.—We had
a fresh supply of Wheat from Suffolk this mornir.g,
the sale of which was very heavy a: Monday's prices,
and all other descriptions were exceedingly dull and
rather lower. Barley continues in demand, parti-
cularly new, of which very few samples have as yet
come to hand. Oats are dull sale, and. Is, per qr.
cheaper. Old lkans are full 2s. lower, and nearly
ousalcablr, the supply being large and in no denittrol