Star.
London, England, 1828-08-12 00:00:00

BOULOGNE SUR-NIER, AvG. 5.

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The weather has been very rainy for the last month,
during which time, it may be said, ov e have scarcely had
24 lloiris without rain. Nevertheless, the standing corn
has as yet suffered but little; about one-third of the
harvest has been got under cover, and if the weather
should prove fine for another week, the sop will be all
got in without material damage. The corn to the
south, and about Paris, from being more forward, has
suffered proportiohably more. Apprehensions are al.
ready entertained for the fate of the vineyards. The
last three or four days have been very stormy, and
many passengers have been deterred from crossing the
Channel.

It is calculated that on an fverage for several weeks
past, two English persons have arrived from England
for one who has departed for it. Boulogne is very
crowded. Lodgings in general from 300 to 1,200 f. a
month, that is to say, from 121. to 481. In fact, there
are wealthy English here who cart not how much they
pay; they form a considerable portion of those wealthy
visitors, who come not here from necessity, nor for the'
apparent purposes of economy, but for a change of
scene. Provisions are also dear—
Meat 12 sous a pound; bread 4 sous; eggs 22 sous fee' 26;
chickens, the size of a partridge, 40 sous the pair; young turkey
milts, the site of acommon fowl, 50 sous (two shillings); lump
sugar 28 sous (14d.) the pound of 17} ounces; tea from U. 4d. tu
Bs. the lb. coffee 411 sous - (2. ) the pound; butter (Flesnish) 20'
Wu' a pound; fish at this moment rather scanty, except skate;
vegetables not cheap.
It is calculated that there are, including the British
residents, not less than 22 or 23,000 inhabitants in
Boulogne. There is not a street in town, however
small—there is scarcely a village in the neighbourhood,
near or remote, which does not contain an Englishman,
or an English family. Wine is the only article which
May be called cheap, comparatively with wines in
England; but ,the English new corners think no wine
good unless it be issued to them at a high price. This
hint is not lost upon the hotel-keepers here, and at other
places frequented by the English—who accommodate
their customers by doubling and trebling the prices, by
way of enhancing the virtues and improving the flavour
of the w ine. Hence, at Boulogne, two francs a, bottle
are charged for wine which costs the hotel-keepers only
one-third of that sum, a sic de muds.

The new Chapel now building for the English at
Boulogne will be ready in October next. Thd building
at present occupied as an English Chapel has been long
found too small and incommodious for the crowds who
resort to it, many ef whom cannot gain admittance.—
The present Minister is the Rev. Mr. Simmonds, a man
who is deservgilly. respected : be is generally assisted by
other Clergymen.“
Mademoiselle Sontag assisted at a concert here last
night—admittance eight francs. She was, as may be
expected, much applauded. The main support of the
entertainment, however, was the instrumental perform-
ance, which was very excellent. Mademoiselle Sontag's
beauty has by no means made so strong an impression
here as her enthusiastic admirers would suppose.
There is an encampment of '20,000 men near Saint
Omer, under the command of the General of Division,
Mahony. This General is of Irish extraction, a native
of Boulogne; and a man of great wealth.
The Haute Ville, or up; er town of Boulogne, is on
an elevated spot, surrounded by a high stone wall, and
rasnpirts nearly a mile in circuit, forming a fins pro-
menade. There is also an anticisle citadel, coeval with
the walls, bui't in the thirteenth century. Henry VIII.
of England took the town at the head of 30 000 men,
in the year 1544, after a siege of two mouths; since
which time the f .rtifications appear to be nearly the
same, and to occupy the same site.

Mr. THOM, engineer at Rothsay, has found, by expe-
riments, that 1,666 cubic feet of water on a fall of 20
feet, was equal to a steam-engine of fifty-horse power.
I)mm—A meeting took place yesterday morning on
Clapham Common between Mr. E. and Mr. H. both
Gentlemen residing in South Lambeth. • They met at
half-past five at a short distance from Mount Pond, and
after the preliminaries had been settled by the seconds
the parties took their places. Mr. H. filed .first, and
struck Mr. E.'s hat just above the left ear, cartying
away part of the brim, but without doing Mr. E. any
injury further than stunning him for the moment. Mr.
E. remarked that it was a good shot ; he then fired, and
his ball lodged in the fleshy part of his antagonist's left
aim. The seconds then interfered and endeavoured to
effect a reconciliation, but without success. The Gen-
tlemen were again presented with pistols. Mr. H.'s
ball again struck Mr. E.'s hat crown without doing him
the slightest injury. Mr. E. then levelled his pistol, and
addressing Mr. H. expressed himself perfectly satisfied.
He then raised the muzzle of bis pistol and fired in the
air. Mr. H. immediately came forward and made a
most handsome apology, and acknowledged himself in
the wrong. The Gentlemen then shook hands and se-
parated. The meeting was occasioned by Mr. H. baying
spoken in a manner rather disrespectful. of a young
Lady to whom Mr. E. has been for some time 'past
paying his addresses.. Mr. E. is heir to very extensive
possessions.

LETTER FROM MR. CONBIIIO6ENERAL MAt-
THEWSgo Tut ENGLISH MERCHANTS .ar LISBON.

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. Gammen—l have the hoannr to aekneriviedge the receipt
of your letter, requesting my interference to procure justice
for Sir John Doyle. This reque.t is not more than you are
entitled to make, and I should ill have fulfilled the intentions
of his Majesty's Goveinment, if I had not already claimed
in his; behalf, and in the strongest manner, the benefit of those
Treaties which are violated by the treatment be has received
and is experiencing. lam as much alive as. yourselves tO the
cruelty and injustice of the proceeding, and of the insecurity
which derives from it to all British residents; but I regret to
have to add my conviction that any further effuns of the Bri-
tish authorities bere in this case would be unavailitg. This
being so. there remains but to await the orders of his Majesty's
Government, and I am happy to be able to inform you that the
whole case has now been before it fee so long a period as to allow
a hope that its answer may be shortly received. To that an-
swer you may look with confidence; and in the mean time I.
or, in my absence, his Majesty's Consul, will be ready to listen to a
suggestion of any distinct measures which may appear to you to be
calculited to procure relief to the individual, or to uphold the rights
and privileges of my countrymen ; but I apprehend. that upon ex-
amination, .none will be found worth adopting.—l remain, &c.