Star.
London, England, 1827-02-14 00:00:00

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A yostb about 14 gears of Age, the
,eOll sirVl, auckhird. tart
mutant Overseer of Vsllinglesm, being out sheedilits few Asp
yor, with three or rout o!',vris 9f about the Mem tie, was AA*
spy th,4 through the Lo y, and died aloes tuleaudy. pie
4,ku p,s Joil the only one tia bad a seeohyped down in
raw op .1 hulk, by ;which meats the gelevreitt ot; and MIS.
ond thr tut catastrophe. ..
A For end& of Alaneititniet. Breeptes, was en Friday burst
to drath. She ran oat of eters with Ire cloths we ke, wbfeh wee'
woo ottiegenhed by utai el the helibbours; but the Wig diel
,at hes motive.

. PARIS, Fniii;iair 10.

We buratto a letter from Buenos Ayres, dated ,the
6d, of Islessembst. It speaks of a proposition made by
the Emperor of Brasil, for putting a period to hostilities,
Indic parrieut of a conSiderable sully by the Republican
6,,,,nment. as the ps ice of cession of the Banda; but the.
news since iece.veJ ofsihu dspas tutu of the Emperor. for
the theatre Of war,"gi vei reason to suppose that the gees.
finis will be decided by arms. General Alvear, the Re:
phlican Commander in the • province of Rio Grande,
has 12.000 men. filled with enthusissmovell disciplined,
and supplied with every necessity, also a welt organised
light artillery. This army is considered the beerthat haa
been formed since the in.disendencetif South Ameiiesie
asikaraeral Alvear it ISO less distinguidied for his mit4N
tary abihties than for his administrative capacity.

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• The follewiog official announcement was made to the
MachAus-oi St. Petersburgh, on the-18th of Jan. last:
•ey en Order in Council. It hes • been determined, that the
merchants of St. Petetsbergh should be kifetnied, that they may'
?muse my grain in the interior, wit! the wieartcreapeet.it,ezeimel
• se& quantities as have been Weetempewate sw Petersburg/If ink
mask, for the consomptitin of tie Capital. Arid all .grata44.
abased u beforernent inned, may be exported, without req
-,preisiperstietio• of the Goveroor.• sheetseirrumstanum, USi%
over arise, which would render thu prohibition of the expertatiest
• °eyrie necessary. In order to pennons a scarcity thin mastropolb,
• the Government will give nedneast sueb-prebibltion i the aRMh
•of October in etch year."

Should a bee importation of Core be litislittedle
• this country, it iv expected that very large•fracss
in the provinces of Cathasint mid 'and Taarida Milt)*
employed in the cultivation of cnrn. The ler tility a( sibs
soil in the Tallies, and the facilities which exist, is ibst
part of the ltussian dominions for the exportation
the produce, mem likely to render such a speculation
very profnahlei.
The lolrowirA is a li eral copy of Mauhreuirs do.
claratiombefOre-the Commissary of Police of St. Denis,
immediately his arrest. This curious dummsent is
as yet tmkridiin. to the. public:
•braraation Drina to tot eorraussair or roma or at. nem.
•.• • " January 21,1827.
Atter• the departure of the Pannes (not witaing to be wanting
ie royeti.to. thito), I, Maria Armand de Celery de Matibreuil, in
gnome of all the Court and the psibile, struck (easijleie) Taller
nod. I did it :or *brie great and pupal motives i. wit:
IL To avenge tile Mapper •amy frothy, witiCh Tanned
aloe* the wield, bad daild to endeavour to csenpromise.
" id. To oblige him to come to a pubile explanation with mo,
and also to give me public sadifatteon and reparation.
" id, and lastly-1 have struck' the numbed Priest (le di t)
—flew the dick* (le se4liiiebeeausetbi Chambers, the
of Justice, the coon—.ad in fear—uumble• before this *pee
4saitse, so &at my camplainti are eisotinualletiladed.
" Peers, Deputies, • hliiiiiterd ../114111. &C..oceing hint Was di.
howeord—acd, it is to be .hog, td,: driven front thetionta!oliall
hare more courage, Slid cease is tremble beim, this Muth elgois•
etaiiro; and that Prince mai ae;. trust It know, Weather be who
ordered the akaaasination ct Stipnte.nand hie eow, even attar Mu'
abdication—or the nuts who:took spowhioutif net to allow this
execution of the most (Osmotic of an violationsof treaty—has
merited of his country. cSigned) •DR MA DIDULIJ IL"
Let era hum the Frencn capital mention that the
attempts to raise a Loan fur the n epublic of Peiu have
been renewed, and that one or two of the Patio
Bankers have pnsitively lent their assistance towards

the contract. It is certain, however, that the moneyed
interest in general ate opposed to it, and that in all,
probability no terms will be accepted, especially as
eruvian Stock may be purchased in London to pay
•an interest of :se ,rly 20 per cent. More business than
heretofore had been transacted at Paris in South Amen-
can Bonds, money being unprecedentedly abundant.
It is stated by a French traveller, recently returned
from Spain, that in the month of September last,
she police of Madrid postedsup an order respecting the
theatres, of a pint of which the following is a literal
,transirtion Every individual who allows himself
either to applaud or to hiss during the performance, er
'to make signs to any body id the boxes (even if it
should he to his %Isere). shall be condemned, for the
fiat offence, to serve six years as a private soldier :
had in case f a renewal of the mime, to be seat .00
the galleys for ten years r
Letters received from Aberdeen state, that most
extensive forgeries have beta committed by a merchant,,
previously in an extensive trade and high credit: • The
accounts state, that about 60 forgeries have been dis-
• covered. Four or five mercantile failures have already
been the consequence. The amount is, itstmate tithe'
loners, stated at lOU 0001. He bas abiemded.
NORWICH Ceara Weavaaa.—Monday the women'
of this City assembled again, carrying placards affixed
to poles, a ith the words..." Pay us for our labour,"-a-
” No Manchester low prices,"—.aud attended by node g
••• but a seasonable fall of snow, soon. dispersed them.*
' their houses, to mint on their folly. They were anxious
that the Mayor should call a meeting to discuss the
question, whether the warts for weaving crape shod&
.. be reduced or not ; but tM Mayer seeing a disposition
anthem to be tumultuous, • thought it most advisable.
that these should not be a public meeting for that 'Pm'
pose.—Anoint/ test, tel. 14..
CHILD MURDIR..—EIHM‘gek Walla. aged 70, and
her daughter, Mary Poikr, aged 30, were fully cennv.
**Matti to Worcester gaol on Thursday, charged, on the
verdict of a Coroner's Jury. with the wilful mortkr.by
poison of a child of the latter, eleven swaths old, which
she had borne to a man named Mantel. •
DEPLOaAaLIt ACCISIXT AT Dattillt.--00 Thurs.
day morning elitist 4 o'clock, a large bean, the chief
supporter of etreamensive corn loft at the grown Ina,
broke, whereby several quarters of corn were precipi.
tated into the stable beneath, by which. thiee viluab
eart•herses were piled, another so.much injured as to
'equine being kißitsl soon after, and two others wens
11,41n1y injured. Two lads were in the stable when
11. e beam tell, and bo•h miraculously escaped.
A certain noble Lord, who, although among the.,
wort hospitable in enterta ning his friends, cannot him.
6,1 f indulge in tire bottle, has recourse to an, expedient
not generrilly known, which would be of service to all
Berne who inclinations, :exceeding their power of
drinking, are not satisfied unless they quail& brimmer.
His Loidship uses a glass which the powers of reflec-
tion make appear quite • full, though a my is
quantil is only pat into it. By these Maas bra
Lordship not only has the credit of being 'a stron*
headed fellow, but very often floors not a few of his
company.

r .. . LITERATURE.
• —. ' ,': .1 7.7•116.. " '
Fear Years la' Preps; or A'arilegoe eels English Fa-
' , "sip it,lieeidenee thew vissi.thiit period. Pieceded by
eon* Acasipst, tithe CoareiVOO .f She Author to the
Catholic Phi* ..colburn. 'Sets Op.
„445. ,
The ournerotts belkY, tietneOS and thin doodecionos,
that. in rich proludoitilie reettared *boot our table, re-
mind us tbat weber* . :Otoeglemed our -notices of
Pew Works. • Wearier; . ,
...Opologiseto our friends
f.or. 4* isrdialli,iff ' *salmis' productions,
4
, and wan ehma 4h4t,esw ,Ojalesimilorther delay,
AO brin ispodll aria** , . •''.. • ..: ...,,f,O f .. .
f The' volatilise 'ire tllitaysfrimited•pilm no for present.
Noma, the tide .of. •• whlikjit4peut. above, is sin.
eal* *oriops and intirfithadt. Alhe Author had
'WA ii' riehrstaut Clergymen.. `• tented from the
cosissolinios of the Church of Ungland to that of
the Church of Rowe.. He takes .great pains to
etideasoor .to convince his readers- ;bat it was a
au tter :*.iik .. , irb ich he bad no lamest: but that of
troth," At advances' his irguineotsja comport of his
motives and reasons fur adopting theltoosaa _Catholic
*faith with great zeaLand hot /leis themeeount of his
conversion not as a polemic,
.botirit:lttmebillilarratiot.
We believe, however,,;44oegMieliort J. to to do
with thejlealiteX,diars romers,p. her ..it will boisho, froM
the accost...4Bo4li. 4 4 sthe ..;10110r a Lnfaraoy, that he had
• verY earitt .filbiliattpisS .w.iat . PoOece,4nd that he
bad been belly by hithrost,aiirtsbireecit it. Bet we
must refer. ant readeriio;too,-004‘s'.owit account of
his' Ap conversion hids' is etiyht a.4rikiesk-ils the (lust
seventy pages OL. theA figibiiitoft used. to ;thd (nitro
interesting, detail— The illefrrettrie *aide/Nein 'Fristice..
The author,. and bietteil.skeritcoplair::to,Southatutitini
tiad.oalAte 114th.ofsAtiril, 1418,1ther .ot sail for Havre
de Prate. Tae following brief extract may be taken as a
' hair sample of the' writer's lively powers of dam iption :
" A *boat conveyed us to the packet : we set salt, it
siting .sail it might tie called, when there was hardly
• -wind to swell the canvass. Thelair ifit sultry, the As
was cloddy ; and when ere hetitTiered•th* Isle of Wight,
:Mid eight was coming on, theeewills every appearance
of an approaching storm. Captain wooa even allowed
that there Might be' a puff.' I idnaired' the' self•pos-
session he 'maintained, notwithstkerdMithe troublesome
..
questions put to him, and expressionl,,nifeht arid anxiety
horn the passengers ; answering eettrtOne with the
greatest corility, he yet never turnei .aside lions the
conduct of the vessel." * " It is silly in us. taptaii, 'tci
disturb yin' thnsi we might trust to you"—" Si, my
son and I ale on board: the vessel cost =Ares thou-
sand pounds." I drew the inference desired, and felt him.
" With every inclination, after the event, to begin my.
book wish a description f a storm at sea, as Virgil
begins his Aneid, I forego this attempt at amusing my
reader, for two reasons i without the machinery of
Juno, Eolos, and Neptune, . the storm even of. Virgil
would hardly be raised in dignity above a common yc•
cut rence ; and next, because n storm was really a very
moderate one, hardly suthcient to excite that degree of
terror in me, and of pity in others, which is neceaAry
to .sublimity. In sober guise. thee. I have to. relate
that it rained, lightened, and •thundered ; but thunder
at sea, I teniarked, is not So loud as thunder heard oft
land,re-echoeil by houses and buildings; and lightntog in
that vast space does not seem so directly aimed et nee,
u when flashed into one's face through • the nairciw.
boundary of a window. The railing of use sea was iat
very violent.; tint the wind drove us out four coarse,
land we 'hued ourselves, in themoruing, to the eastward
of Ficamp. We could with the greatest. ease have
lamed the port of:Dieppe; I proposed to the Captain
to do so; but his affairs and his post papers, which this
little stress of, weather wet not a sufficient excnse- tor
contravening, recalled him to Havre. The other pas.
sengers were also desirous of landing at Dieppe; but
rules and regulations—a phrase which I translated into
English for the benefit of a certain provincial book club,
which had thus entitled its by-laws, roles, and rmiatioos
..et..evei y step vexatiously and uselessly embarrass the
intercourse of mankind. . .

" In the present case we had to employ sixteen hears
in working our way back again towards Havre. The
voyage, however, was.pleasent. We.were, all the while,
almost within a stone's' throw of the French coast ;• we
talked with several fishermen ; we seemed to be all but
landed. The clouds, which haieso thickly covered the
sky, and poured down so much rain the preceding night,
had passed away to the eastward, and, in the afternoon,
a brilliant rainbow was stretched across the Channel,
and seemed to unite, by an aerial arch, the countries of
France and England." •
Oar limits deny us further extracts from this truly
pleasing volume. We have read the work with deep
Interest, and can safely recommend it as highly dc'
sawing an attentive perusal. The illness and death of
the author's eldest son are most pathetically narrated:
near the close of the volume, and almost in the same
page, the parent assures us that he witnessed super-
natural appearances! A Catholic, we presume, must
-be a " miracle-lover."
;Is Secret Correspondence o/ Madanto •de Maiaknen
NO Sia-Princess de. Ursins, from Uri Ursiinot Maki.;
Os hi the Possession of she Duke di cheieed—'
• Translated from the French. Whittaker. S. volts. pi pt,
Prances d'Anbignii was the Maiden name of. they
celebrated Marquise de Maintenon. She was born its
the prison of Niort, in. the year 1685, where her father
was confined for debt; and there she passed four yeari
of her infancy: On her father being.released from prison,
he went to Martinique, and after residing there six
years, then died. - A Calvinistic aunt became the pre-
eeptress of Frances, but her mother being .a rigid
Catholic, compelled her to renounce, her creed, and
embrace that of. Rome. Though her family was ha-
poverishedohe was nobly descended, her graltdf.ther
having been one of the chiefs of the French Protestants,
and a correct historian of the civil wars. His name was,
Theodore Agrippa d'Aubigi.4, and to him the House
of Bourbon was indebted for placing them on the throne
°Mance.

Frances, beautiful and friendless, attracted the notice
of the deformed buffoon, Scanon, and she finally be-
' came his wife. " Her natural disposition being cold
and reserved, she easily assumed the appear ante of au.-
terity, and so retained a blameless reputation. Not-
w•thsanding her coldness and reserve, she was ambi-
Innis, and as she has written, that, her desire to make a.
name was then her passion.'" At the age of twenty.
five, in the hiltless of htr beauty, she became a widow,
and was left without the means of subsistence. At that
period Mademoiselle de Montespan, the reigning fa-
vourite nibisai, XIV. remarked ber talent and discre-
Aim, and tosnoniued ber children to her charge; and the
'King, alter some demur, allowed her to become the'
6overnesa bit offspring, and waded ea her a peasino.

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