Star.
London, England, 1811-09-12 00:00:00

PORT SPAIN, TRINIDAD, JULY 4.

Several Spanish vessels on the coast of Africa have
been condemned at Sierra Leone, for having taken
on board in England part of their outward cargo for
the Slave Trade, although from England they went
directly to Cadiz. The owner of one of these ships
brought upon the coast a small sloop to carry him
and his people to Cuba, and they have put in here in
digress, with a sea letter from C. Columbine, Gover-
nor of Sierra Leone, certifying this.
ARRIVED—At Whitby, the Fidelity, from Mon-
treal. At Swansea, Reward, from Lisbon. At Bel-
fast, Bellisarius; and Africa, SCOTT, from Wiscasset.
Arroiwria ',yrs.—Captain Houghton is appointed to the Al-
fred, 74, at Cadiz, and is gone out iu the Arrow schooner, to
join her; CAptain Joyce to the Manila, in the room of Captain
Seymour; Captain Pechel to the Cleopatra; Lieutenants R. Todd,
to the Freya ; H. Stewart and Fosse, to the Tigre. Mr. Pres-
: con, to be Master of the Zephyr; Mr. Rutheford, to be Master
of the Menelaus; Mr. Cunningham, to be Master of the Argo.
Mr. Henderson, to be Surgeon of the Tigre.

Sir RICHARD STRACHAN, who had been some days
in town, has returned to Deal, to resume the com-
mand of the in-shore squadron off the Scheldt.
Captain BAYNTUN is appointed to command the
ROYAL SOVEREIGN, yacht, at Deptford, in the room
of Capt. GRAHAM MOORE.
The LITTLE BELT sloop of war is arrived at Dept-
ford, at which place she is to undergo a thorough re-
pair. Captain BINGHAM has had several interviews
with the Board of Admiralty and the Secretary of
State, relative to his engagement with the President.
The NAIAD frigate, having on board Admiral and
Lady Lucy FOLEY, returned to Deal on Tuesday
morning, from a cruize off Boulogne : they were fired
upon from the batteries, and one shell went over the
NAIAD, without injury. The PHIPPS schooner, and
Fotss-roNs lugger, wde in company with the NAIAD
on the cruize.
Friday se'nnight, one of the north country boats
that annually resort to different parts of the coast
with dried fish, left Montrose for the Frith of
Forth, and was upset by a sudden squall off the
Red-hcaJ.; the sail prevented the boat from turning
completely over, and in expectation of her aga4l
righting, the mast was struck, which unfortunately
completed what it was intended to avoid. The crew
a father, and his two sons, happily succeeded in
catching hold of the keel, and in this situation they
were soon discovered by a sloop, who took them oi,
board, and they were all safely towed into Montrose,
by a boat belonging to Usan, with the loss of the
whole of their fish, and other property, to the amount
of £5O. The boat belongs to Cullen, for which
place they sailed off, Tuesday lam


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OUr Races began en Tneiday, a day earlier Thai
Was at first intended, owing to the oiletilitg of the
Circuit Court of ittiriciary here to.Mrisiew: The
weather hai proved uncommonly tie, widths tt?gsr
ther with the excellence of the sport, and the .vast
assemblage of beatify and failiiOn; altraeted dtp ite•
mense crowd of speetatcrs front the „Suit:minding
country. During these three last days, dim town and
neighbourhood have exhibited a scene of uninterrupted
gaiety, festivity, and Splendour. Many of the raeel
were well contested, and the most succeisful top
titor was Lord MOsi TOOSt KAI C.

EARTHQUAKE.

EXTRACT OF • LETTER MON A LADY AT CAFE Tow 7e,
DATED JUNE THE 8114 tO HER FAMILY IN
'COUNTY OF DEVON :
" I broke off very abruptly while Writing to yon
yesterday, in consequence of the dreadful alarm oe-
casioned by an Earthquake.!—My little girl was irk
bed when we first felt the shock, which was juit about
noon ; I caught her instantly Up, and ran into the
street, followed 14 my servants: I found thire assem.
bled almost all the inhabitants of tht Cape Town
and a greater scene ot confusion and wrercliesiness, it
is scarcely possible to witness—people wringing their
hands, screaming with agony over the expteted fate
of their houses and property. My husband was at
his efface at this time, writing at a heavy table—he
tried in vain to keep himself steady —the table was
quite moved about the room' 'Happily, although inqsr:
of the houses suffered some degree ot injury, only on.
life was lost, and that was caused by the falling of a
chitnney upon a woman's head.—ln one part of the
town, the ground was cracked upwards of tifiy
We felt another shock in the evening, but by it.) means
so severe, and another next morn:rii; stilt les:, so." ,
It is remarkable, that on the 6th ot June, in the
morning, the sea was so agitated on the coast, at
Plymouth, that it rose and fail very much in a most
rapid succession several times; and It is not by any
means improbable, that it might be 'owing to due
earthquake at the Cape, which was first teat On the
preceding day at noon. The agitation of the sea, in
the same mariner, on the Slat of May, is as yet unac-
counted fur.

A ship pf 50 guns is to be built at Chatham Dock-
yard, to he called the Lis.
A successor to the lurrative situation of Marshal to
the Admiralty, in the roomilt the late Mr. Calcium.,
is not yet-appointed. The duties of that office are to
be performed by the deputy to the late Marshal, until
,a nomination takes pl,:cc.
PARTRI6G2 Sw;oriNo.—Accounts from variou,
parts of the country state great feats of execution
done by sportsmen on this species of the feathered
tribe. But it is submitted to all such, whether it be
not an object of far more con.equence to them to err-
, deavour to feather their nests with the productive
game in our present State Lottery Scheme. To bring
down any one of its increased variety of principal
Prizes, will literally prove a capital shot. There are
only 13,500 rickets, all to be drawn 22d October.

The Foundation Stone of a new Theatre, Ball-
room and Hotel, was laid, at Plymouth, on Tuesday,
by the Worshipful the Mayor. The foundation stone,
in a part which will be always visible, has the follow-
ing inscription :

Theatri et Hospitil
impends
Maioris Communitatis
Burgi " Plymourla,"
Idmundus Lociyer, M.l). Malot
Fundatnenta lucasit, 1811.

Juhanne Fon!stun Areb•teeto.
THE Coster.—The comet now begins to be in ()S.
ject of general observation, and it will every night in-
crease in importance. It has been seen in England
nearly a month ; but due attention was not paid by
astronomers to the first intimation of the stranger being
visible in our atmosphere. Most people are acgisain.
ted with the chief stars in the constellation of the
Great Bear, called vulgarly Charles's Wain, and those
will direct us soon after sunset to the Comet. Soon
after the stars of the second magnitude hare made
their appearance in the skies, and the seven stars are
fully visible in the north-crest, the spectator till fix
his attention on the two bright stars nearest the three
in the tail. By drawing a line through them to the
horison, and firing his eyes near the middle of that
line, he will first perceive a haze, which as the night
grows darker will gradually discover itself to be the
comet. Above it he would on Sunday night ha' a
perceived a star of the third magnitude, which is
nearly in the direct line with the two stars above.
mentioned. This star is called 4, Ursa Majoris, or the
23d of the Great Bear, and a little attention would
have pointed out to him lower down, a star of the
rourth magnitude, called w Una Majoris, or the
twenty-fourth of the Great Bear. By means of these
two stars the observer wijl note the progress of the
comet for some time to come, and he may form to
himself some idea of die extent ai\d breadth of its tail,
and if he, has a celestial globe, he may mark its path
in a tolerably accurate manner. The writer of this
had not the opportunity of making accurate observe.
Lions, but the communications made to him state, that
on Friday night its right ascension was by three ob.
servers placed at one hundred and littynine degrees,
and its declination north at forty-one degrees.—
On Saturday night its tight ascension is placed by
one of them at a hundred and sixty-two degrees and
a half, and its declination north at forty-two degrees
and a half. The length of the tail is conjectured to
be between twenty and thirty millions of miles. Ma
observer, to verify or refute this conjecture, will note
the star nearest to the Cornet, and the star at the ex-
tremity of the tail. It may be of use to inform our
►eadcrs, that for common obseivations, the best in.
stt umeut they can look through at this Comet is an
opera-glass. The Comet is now visible ail night;
but it is too near the horiton at its lowest depression
to permit good observations upon it. It was first
seen in the morning in this country, the brightness of
the night and its small height above the horizen after
sun-set prevented its being noticed earlier in the even.
ing, though it might have been discovered by an at-
tentive astronomer. The absence of the -moon in the
early part of the night, and the increasing distance a
the Comet from the sun, render this object more and
mere interesting every sveaing.

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LINES FOR A BUST
Of Tbit
RIGHT HONOURABLE. CHARLES JAMES FOX.

The sage, the statesman, and the pat-iot's mind,
To matchless eloquence and taste he jotted;
No narrow views far transient fame and sway,
To reign the idol of a fleeting day;
No mean expedients, and no tricks of state, ,
Sunk and debat'd him to the vulgar great.
Alike he scorn'd the demagogue's wild schemes, .
His artful plecis, or Utopian dreams; ,
To court the mob he never would descend, •
Yet proed through life their firm consistent friend.
His gen'rour temper ne'er a toe opprest,
His manly candtair rivals e'er contest;
Its many a storm lie freedom's cause maintaied;
When falling succour 'd, and when weak sustant'd ;
With voice prophetic, miry ill foretold
Of haughty councils, or the thirst of gold,
Which made an empire Albion's sway disown,
And rais'd fierce Gallia to her guilty.tbrone.
Unmov'd he met, in all these toils of state,
His sovereign's anger, or the people's bate;
Undaunted bore e'en Poverty's cold hour,
And spurted the trappings, or the frowns of Pew's.
With knowledge stor'd, his unauumiag mind
Livid but to feel—and felt to serve mankind;
Not check'd lay climate, nor confin'd to place,
He heal'd the wounds of Afric's suff'ring race,
Restor'd those rights their great Creator gave,
And tore from Av'rice her much-injur'd slave.
When far remoe'd from cares of public life,
Its varnish'd tinsel, and its thankless strife,
In the calm shelter of his Sabine farm
('Midst Faction's din, or Folly's false alarm)
• Serene, compos'd, his only wish to please,
With long-lov'd friends, with books, and letter'd ease,
He each soft charm, each milder grace display'd,
That cheers Retirement in her classic shade;
Stills each fierce passion rous'd by love of pow'r.
. And strews with fiow'rs each dear domestic hour.
Hail, matchless Patriot ! the in dust thou lie,
While England lives, thy virtues ne'er can die.
Though many a year to barren toil thou lent,
Though many a year in fruitless labour spent
When our lov'd country, Freedom's last retreat,
Of arts, of arms, alike the favour'd sear,
Sees the black prospect op'ning at her feet;
When all she lost by Bigotry's vile league,
l3y wild Profusion, or by low Intrigue;
When all she suffer'd passes in review,
Thy slighted councils and advice she'll sue ;
Iby upright heart, devoid of guile, record,
Invoke thy shade, hid pay thy just reward.
For came it must (the.time however late)
When fiend-like Envy sleeps with party Hate;
When all the actors of this busy age
Will pass, like phantoms, from life's cheequer'd stage,
Our stern debates, oursrormy conflicts o'er,
Alike forgotten on Oblivion's shore;
Then thou shalt rival, with increasing fares,
Has roues proud wreath, and At ell I o's spotless same;
Then thou shalt live in many a polish'd strain,
hro' many a distant, many a pine-clad plain I
Where wild La Plata rolls her foaming wave,
Aad ev'ry clime Atlantic billows lave.
The young, the gay, the warlike, and the bold,
Shall plant the cypress round thy halluw'd mould;
' Beauty's fair hand shall deck thy trophied bier,
Beauty's bright eye shall drop the silent tar;
Her fairy form, with ev'ry grace array'd,
Herpensive look shall soothe thy honour'. shad
The wise, the good, shall all lament thy doom,
And crowd, like Plgrints, to thy long-moored tomb I

Ez.oetssewr.—A young lady, the d tughter of a
wine-merchant, has eleped, within a few days, from
Margate, for Gretna Green ; and, for fear of not find-
ing a successor tq the old Blacksmith, has taken a Par-
ton with her. In fact, a young Reverend Cantab is the
happy man. The Divine has, however, to pray, for
ten thousand good reasons, that she inny attain the age
-of twenty one, of which she wants but four years and
a half. This dutiful young woman did not forget, on
their arrival at Canterbury, to send a few lines by a
tarrier, informing her friends that she had as much
impatience to see Scotland as four good horses would
all"! her.
Last Monday morning a market gardener, in the
neighbourhood of Poplar, went out to unset a spring
gun, which he was accustomed to set every night, when
accidentally treading upon the spring, the gun went
off, and the contents entering his body, wounded him
in so dreadful manner that his life is despaired of.
A dreadful accid:nt occurred on Thur.day last to
a labouring man, of the name of James Dighy, who
was employed, with many others, in pullit.g sloivn a
}reuse in Foley-street, near the Middlesex Hospital.
The unfortunate man's fellow-workmen, it appeared,
observed the front wall of the house in a tottering
state, and made a timely retreat. Dilly did not per-
ceive his danger, until the wall was alssolutcly falling.
He then thiew himself flat on the ground by the side
of a log of timber, in the hope that it would save
him. A yneat mass of bricks, however, fell on him,
by which his right thigh and four of his ribs were
broken—one of which was forced into his lungs, be-
sides occasioning a variety of other wounds and frac-
tures. He was immediately taken to the lvpital,
where he languished till Sunday last. The Coroner's
Inquest sat on the following day, and returned a ver-
dict of Accidental Death.
A man and a boy, lately emplOyed in fixing
pump on Beesron Hill. near Leeds, on their descent.
into the well met the black damp, as it is called,
• and were precipitated to the bottom in a lifeless slate.
The boy was soon restored to animation ; hut the
man lay at the h utomfor three quarters of an hour,
• and wk-n brought up all s:gns of life had vanished ;
but alter being exposed to the air for nearly an hour,
the vital spat k was rekindled. It may be gratifying to
• the curious to know how de sth in this way attacks
his subjects. According to the man's own acccunt.
he felt the azote operate upon him like a powerful
disposition to sleep, and he sunk into his death-like
state with as much freedom from pain as persons um-
ally sink to rest. While he was at the bottom, all
sensation was of course extinct ;, but he describes his
lieelings when he began to revive as those of a person
tecOvering from a state of extreme intoxication, and
so powerful were the effects of the pernicious air he
had inhaled, that he was several days before he solild I
Ise said to Ist is a collected. state Of mind. .

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AMERICAN NATAL BIOGRAPHY'. I

No. VIII.
Ca;,tain Casirant.c is a native of Rhode island,
and early in life entered into the United States ser-
vice doting the revolutionary war, in which he was
actively employed, and received a wound which de-
prived him of his left heel ; from which time he has
worn a high cork-heeled shoe, which has caused him
to be ever since called Cork<Merl Camitbelf. On the
partial warfare between the United States and France,
he was called into service, and took the command of
the Baltimore sloop of war. His atchievements have
never been great : ho is a well-disposed man, but ex-
tremely warm in his temper ; there is no medium
between his. liking and disliking. 'After the resigna-
tion of Commodore Truxton, he got the command
of the Constellation frigate, and on the war with
Tripoli, the John Adams frigate, in which he made
a cruize up the Mediterranean, and on his return,
again took the command of the Constellation. and
went up the Mediterranean, and in the year 1805
returned ; from which time he has not been employed.
Capt. Campbell is about six feet in height, of a slen-
der wake ; his walk, and manner stiff, but perhaps
icaused by his wishing that his lameness should not
be perceived : he has the named a good and humane
1 officer, and is about 54. years of age.

240.1 X.
Captain SOMERS was a native of Cape May, at the
mouth of the Delaware River, his first pursuit was
the same as the other inhabitants of the place, col-
lecting oysters and bringing them up in small craft
to Philadelphia ; his brother and he owned a boat,
but on the United States frigate being built, he bid
adieu to oysters, and became a midshipman on board
of her, and in a few years was made a Lieutenant.
He went up the Mediterranean as first Lieutenant,
under the command of Capt. Stewart, in the Cyrus
brig, of 16 guns; when she reached her station off
he got the command of the schooner Enter-
prize. Commodore Preble conceiving that he could
destroy the enemy's flotilla of gun-brats by sending
a fire-ship among them, he purchased an old ship at
Malta for the purpose, and Capt. Somers, and Mr.
Dorsey, midshipman, son of a physician in Philadel-
phis, were selected to carry the scheme into effect.
Capt. Somers seemed to have a presentiment of his
' fate, although his courage was never doubted. Oni
quitting the frigate Constitution, he said to Commo-
dore Preble, " I have got a wife and family wholly
dependent on me—is thtre no other Officer who
would answer the purpose that is disencumbered 1"
Commodore Preble answered, " attend your duty—
if I was to send another Officer, your name would
remain for ever sullied." The fire-ship in the night
was towed within half a mile of what is called the
square battery in the harbour of Tripoli ; the boats
then remained stationary, lying on their oars, in ex-
pectation of Capt. Somers coming to them in his
barge. After a painful delay of an hour, they heard
a dreadful explosion, and no Captain Somers in sig.ta ;
they waited in this suspense for another hour, and
were at last obliged to seek safety by gaining their
different vessels, the enemy's gun-boats being alartn.l
ed, and advancing towards them. By some miscon-;
duct, it is supposed that some loose powder was ly-
ing near the fusee, which, on being lighted, com-
municated to it, and the explosion took place berure
Captain Somers and his little crew were able to leave
the ship, by which means they lost their lives without
effecting the object that was contemplated. The
crew consisted of (besides Captain Somers and Mr. j
Dorsey) 10 seamen ; their bodies were washed on
shore the next morning, and the Bey of Tripoli
kindly allowed the crew of the Philadelphia, his pri-
soners, to bury them. We have since learned that
the fire-ship blew up opposite the fort, a mile short
of the place intended, and of course did no execu-
tion. Capt. Somers was much regretted by those
who knew him ; he had a most compassionate heart,
and was an excellent son and husband. As an Offi-
cer, he was strict, but humane; and was 33 years of
age when he lost his life.—He was of middle stature,
and not any thing commanding in his countenance ;
his hair and eye-brows Were light, which gave him
rather an effeminate appearance.

The attention of many persons was on Tues d
excited by a Cat which followed a gentleman through
the Strand with the greatest familiarity. It had a
brass collar round its neck, and pursued its course
with3ut any apparent alarm.
Au application is intended to be made to Parlia-
ment in the ensuing Session, for leave to bring in a
Bill for widening and improving the street leading
from Tower-hill to Upper E .st Smithfield, and also
for widening and improving the street, by taking
down any of the houses and other buildings in Bar-
ley's place, opposite the new Mint, an on the north-
ern side of the street, called Upper East Smithfield.
At Norwich Cattle Market an Saturday there was
a large show of Scotch beasts, which sold from 6s. Gd.
to '7s. 6d. per stone. At the Corn Market there acre
a great many samples of new as well as old Wheat,
the latter selling at .50s. the former from 425. to 475.
The spew ot. sheep and lambs at Horringer Fair,
yesterday se'nnight, was certainly not so great as last
or some preceding years; and those, generally speak-
ing, were of an infcror quality to the stock exhibited
at Ipswich. The sales were, however, tolerably brisk,
particularly for half-breds and Norfolk wether lambs,
which were in great demand, and sold readily at from
17s. 6d. to 225. ;.and those of the flock of Mr. John
Brooks of Westley, at £26 per score. Shearlings and
other ewes, of the same stuck, sold from 335. up to
two guineas.—Crones of all kings obtained a ready
sale at from 15s. to 2515. each.—Mr. A. Breoks's
Southdown ewe lambs were previously sold to the
Duke of Grafton at 31s. 6d. each.
Most of the hop-planters in Sussex have begun pick.
ing, and the hops in general turn out much better than
WAS sometime since expected. The duty is estimated
at WlllO,OOO.
Hop picking has begun generally throughout Kent,
and the produce in many places is most abundant,
particularly at Town Sutton, Headeron, Hawkbursr,
tennenden, Biddenden, and all the lower parts of
Kent, from whence many pockets of the finest qua-
lity have been already sent to market. The planta-
tions in Maidstone, and surrounding parishes, with
some exceptiOns, run try indifferent, owing to the
moult hating made great progress. From East Kent
we are informed, that the hops in g-ntral come down
so remarkably well, that should the tine weather last,
it is cakulated by some; the duty will teach it NOW.

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