Star.
London, England, 1818-12-08 00:00:00

DARTMOUTH, HECr.MBER 6.

Arrived the Dart, SILLY, from Lisbon, bound to
Newfoundland, being obliged to bear up after, being
eight weeks at sea.

COWES, DECEMBER 7.

Arrived last‘nightthe Spanish brig N. S. De Bi-
gona, from Bayonne for London.

PORTSMOUTH, DECEMBER 7.
Wind W.S.W.—Arrived thcVoyager, JAcKs, from
Demerara, last from Falm,,uth. Also arrived and
sailed for London, the John, On nt yr, from Plymouth ;
Waterford, DAVIS, from Cardigan ; and the Trim,
PSARSON, from Plymouth. Sailed the Atlas, GREEN,
and Active, llostoss, for London; and his Majesty's
ship ROSARIO, on a cruize.

DEAL, DECEMBER 7.
Wind S.W. blows fresh.—Came down from the
River last night, the Fortitude, MARTIN, and Echo,
Strums, for Jamaica; Perseverance, PROPHERT, for
Mississippi ; and remain in the Downs with the whole
of the outward-bound as per last, riding with top-1
gallant mast and yards struck. The James, az-
stmo, for Charleston, lost an anchor and cable last
night, and has been supplied with another this morn-
ing.—Five o'clock. Wind S.W. blowing fresh, and
thick weather.—The shipping in the Downs all well.

RAMSGATE, DECEMBER 7.
Wind S.S.W. rainy, with fresh breezes.—Came
a number of ships, yesterday evening, for shelter.

CUSTOM-MOUSE, LONDON, DECEMBER 7.

Stan sarresao lawasas--.The Matilda, 'Whitey, Harmony,
Dedwith, Aida Jansina, K. P. Bruins, the Thee Gebroeders,
H.J. Beukts, Hendrina Johanna, Jonker, Vrow Tantji, De
Vries, and Albion, Hurst, from Antwerp ; Redligheden, Bar.
den, from Grit; Hornung, Doyen, front Grootenziel; the
Thames. Buchanan, from Mau; Syren, Christie, from Ma-
deira ; Concordia, Beng, from Gifon ; Ranger, Remington. from
Demerara; Nautilus, Wi son, from Calcutta; Ascenzione, Gar-
quill°, from Napes; and Lucy, Cullen, from Tobago.
Otawsums—The Matilda, Brightman, for Lisbon ; Moreland,
Hall, for Jamaica; Duchess of York, Mauingkam, for Buenas
Ayres; Jane, Woodthorpe, for Naples; Fanny, Gilkison, for
St. Vincent's ; Saint Mary, Burton, for Jamaica.
C1.16\1141) Oorwsiunt-- rhe Susannah and Grace, NPPhersoo,
for Naples ; Probity, Cooper, for Lisbon ; the Lord Cranatoun,
Aikin, and William Shand, Munro, for Jamaica; Elizabeth,
Ball, for Rio Janeiro ; Louisa, Walker, for Grenada; Prince
Leopold, Draper, kr liamburgh; Drake, Mostin, and Provi•
dance, Fruccis, for Antwerp.

The 'Margaret, —, from Cork to Bristol, was on
shoie in Sandy Haven Bay, Milford, the 3d instant,
cargo much damaged.
Two vessels sailed from the River on Fridar.with'
recruits for South America. The object of the De-
puties from the Independent Governments is to pro-
cute the disciplined troops now discharging from•the
British service, and for the present all others are re-
fused by them.
Thirteen merchantmen perished in the Black Sea
in the first half of last month ; two were Austrian,
one Danish, the others English, Russian, and Trieste
vessels.
Last Thursday, a Court Martial took place on,
board the IMPREGNABLE, at Plymouth, on a car.
pester, formerly belonging to the CYRUS, charged
with drunkenness, when he was dismissed from his
Majesty's service.
At Hamburgh the different projects for opening a
new communication between the Baltic and the
North Seas, occupies much of the public attention.
It is proposed to cut a canal to join the river Stor,
which empties itself into the Elbe.
A Letter from the British Consul at Venice, in-
forms our Government that the plague has actually
appeared in the Lazarette of that port :

(COPY) " Venice, -Nov. 5, 1811. 4
"MY Lora—l am sorry to acquaint your Lordship, that a 1
Circular Lett-r, which I received yesterday from the Venetian ;
Health Ofoce, confirms the fears which have been for some days
past entertained here, of the plague having appeared in the La-
tarette of this port. On the 6th ult. the Austrian t'ieligo St.
Giovanni arrived at Venice, from V2IIOIM, in Albania, and the
passengers having removed to the Lazarette, one of them chewed
symptoms of fever on the 20th, and died two days after.—
'three other passengers also fell rac:2ssively ill on the 83d,
24th, and 26th, and died, the first on the 'Zith, the second on
the 27th. and the third or the 30th Ullti=j; since which, another
has been attacked. and died yesterday morning. The greatest
precautions have been Immediate!), adopted by the Board of
lkalth ; the vessel was instantly removed into a separate canal,
and all communication strictly interdicted between the razieksers
of the St. Giovanni and the other individuals at present is q..a-
rantine; and as this alarming malady has hitherto been entirely
confined to the first, great hopes are entertahted that It will be
kept within the walls of the Lazarette. around which, for greater
security, sentinels have been placed to prevent all approach.
Thert ace no English vessels at preient in this port, and only one
under British colours belonging to Malta.
" I have the honour to rehiain, my Lord,
" Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant,
(Signed) " R. B. Horrstra, Consul-General.
" The Right Hon. Viscount Castlereagh. R. G. &c. Ecc."
RECENT FIRR IN COftNIIILL—G. CARROLL is sorry
to announce, that in the late calamity by fire, at his
House, No. 7, Cornhill, he had the misfortune to lose
several of his official Books, amongst which were the
Register Books, containing the names and residences
of the purchasers. G. Caaaota. is therefore under
the necessity of requesting those perions who wish to
be advised of the fate of their rickets or Shares by
letter, to send the numbers thereof, together with their
names and address, tohis New Office, N 0.19, Cornhill,
before Tursnar, 15th December, when the Drawing
begins, and they shall receive that attention which
has alwayt distinguished G. CARROLL'S Offices. Tice
Book in which the memoranda for particular numbers
were entered, is also burnt. Those friends therefore
who have had these numbers put down for them, will
have the goodness to repeat their Orders, without
which they must unavoidably be disappointed. 7—
Tickets and Shares are on Sale at G. Can/iota.% New
Office, No. 19, Cornhill, also at Ids Old Ohio., 261
Oxiord-st. eet.

toAOlißcui.

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MANCHESTER, DECEMBER 6.
Our letters by this morning's Poit from Liverpool
*state the arrivals of Cott& and othei Colonial pro-
duce, during the past week. to have beeh extremely
limited ; .and there was comparatively very little
business done in the markets. Prices of the different
articles are stated to be nominally the same as the
preceding week. The markets are not expected to
recover their usual tone and activity until after Christ.
mas. At the public sales of Cotton on Friday, there
was very little business done; even the speculators
seem completely satiated, and now keep back to
await a more favourable change in the markets. The
fact is, the crops of the last and the present expiring
year have been so uncommonly fine and abundant,
in comparison with former seasons, that the quantity
brought to market regularly, for many &oaths past,
has been beyond all precedent ; and although the de-
mand has been great, the extreme abundance of the.
commodity has kept the prices invariably low, and'
enabled the manufacturers to keep a more than usu-
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ally extensive stock of the raw material on hand.—
Every description of Cotton being low, and the qua-
lities excellent, it is probable that considerable sums
will be invested in that article, which can hardly fail
to advance in prices in the ensuing spring, as there
will be a considerable falling off in the imports during
the winter months.

Letters, received within these few dayl, from Sa-
•annah, Berbice, Demerara, &c. and likewise one
from the Bahamas, agree in stating that the crbps of
the season just closed have been most abundant, and
excellent ; with the exception of some small districts
in Georgia, which had been affected with the rbt, but
not in so extensive a degree as had been represented
in previous accounts. In all these letters the Planters
are represented as complaining heavily of the lift
prices their produces obtain in the European markets;
and the writers aaticipate.that the culture of this ar-
ticle will in the next season be generally much dimi-
nished, as the Planters will turn their attention to the
increased cultivation of their lands with articles yield-
ing a greater degree of profit. But this must be con-
sidered, in a considerable degree, mere matter of
private opinion, and cannot be founded on any posi-
tive data. •

Accounts front Leipsic state, that the Michaelmas
fair did not turn out so well as was expected, from
the want of buyers and of money ; but that it passed
over without any bankruptcy. About a week after-
wards, however, a bankruptcy took place, which has
made a great noise. Messrs. A— and R— have
absconded, leaving debts to the amount of nearly
300,000 dollars, by which Leipsic loses 100,000 dol-
lars. This bankruptcy has increased the want of con-
fidence, and caused an extraordinary sensation in
trade, which it is supposed will not be removed by
the approaching fair at Naumberg.

• It is reported in the German Papers that an insur-
rection has broken out in Geurgia, which has been
excited by a powerful Tartar. Prince. It is added,
that in consgeence of this event, the necessary mea-
sures have been taken by the Russian troops in and
a' out

The NUR has amicably notified to the Russian
4mbassador the night of the litospbdar of Wallachia,
and represented to him the neceNsity of filling up
again the vacant office. Baron STRO6ONOFF agrees
with the Ponra, but has observed, that till the expi-
ration of the seven years stipulated by Treaty, the
place of the Hospodar can ohly be filled ad interim
by a Caimakan.

Some time before the breaking-up of the British
Head-Quarters at Cambray, an Irish soldier, a private
the 23d Regiment of Foot, was convicted of shoot-
ing at, and r_ ebbing a French peasant, and was in
cpnsequence sentenced to be hanged. On arriving
at the place of execution, he addressed the spectators
in a Stentorian voice, as follows : " Bad luck to the
Mike of Witta.tnozou I he no Irishman's friend My
way. I have kilt many a score of Frenchmen by
his orders, 3fid when I just took it in my head to kill
one upon toy mon account, by the Powers, he has
tucked me up for it!"
The following curious anecdote relating to BONA.
PARTE and Marshal LANNaC has appeared in one of'
die Belgian Journals. It occurred during the me-
morable campaign of Italy :—" One day, at the table
of BONAPARTE, where the greater part of his Gene-
rals were assembled, the conversation fell on oracles
and fortuneQtelling, when the General in Chief pro-
posed to reveal to his companions their future destiny.
He took the hands of each in turn, and gravely exa-
mining the lines, told them any extravagance which
caine into his head, while bunts of laughter succeeded
to' his predictions. When it came to the turn of
LANNES, BONAPARTE took his hand, examined it
without saying a word, and then passed on to another.
LANNES asked the reason of this silence, but, to
avoid giving him an answer, the General in Chief
put an end to the game, as if this trifling had lasted
too long. LANNNS'S curiosity was the more excited
by this conduct, and, after repeated repulses, BONA-
PARTE was prevailed upon to take his hand. Do
you. see this line,' said the General, it predicts that
you will be killed by a cannon-ball.' Indeed r said
Liwizes coolly, if it is too long delayed, there will
be no room for it.' He had then 15 wounds upon his
body, and when he was killed by a cannon-ball at
Wagram he had no less than 32."
A letter from Sierra Leone, states the following
particulars of the number of Europeans and the sick-
ness in the colony, which are somewhat at variance
with the accounts which have appeared in the Lon-
don Journals:—" I have hail the fever this season
above a dozen times. Any person unacquainted with
this climate can form no conception of its miseries.
The number of Europeans here may be estimated at
about6o generally throughout the year, on an ave-
rage ; and although the new comers may be calcu-
lated at from SO to 4.0 yearly, the white population
does not increase, therefore you may fairly reckon
that we lose as many as come. A stranger arrives
here only to die and to be forgotten in a month.
Not one in twenty lives to return, and the chances of
surviving art one hundred to one against him. A
visit here is but a forlorn hope, when every other
hope of doing well has failed."—This is but a melan-
choly statement, and Government will do well, we
think, to transfer the colony to some more promising
aad healthy quarter.

kin** iifolti Mk ikkiiiLfi,

TO THE EDITOR OF THB STAR.
is with Much difidence that I obtrude myielf
hoar notice, but I should ill discharge the duty I owe to the
Public, as well as to my own clings, if I did not attempt •
express my aelinoyledgmehti for the extraordinary degree
L in= which haidici i 6 atrolgly manifested oil &recant .
lately lost to its Parents, and now mon providentlaill
inatired. TiYa Vsp mopation which this linCeinnlee ossissitisSe
has excited, *RI admit of no Teevital--still ism by any language
I can use. But the Public, who have ea generously sympathised
M the afilictiou of its Parents, will alio appeeciatis their .very
grateful feelings, and do them the justice to believe, that, al-
though I cannot adequately express them, they. ere; nevertheless,
. most ardent and reepectful, and, they trast, nGt tmeofthythetr
situation on soak an riecasteri.-4 am, Sir, your r,...05t obedient
humble moan, .. - JOSEPH HORS I.EY.
Caatiobssry-lane, Idington, 7th December, 1818:

We regret so Asti dot Lord Ecutauostouost em-
tinues so very ill thith is recofery is de.paired uf.
' &r SYDNEY SMITH,: Lady ItIVIABOLD and family,
were about to leave Paris, when the last accounts
came away.
A Manuscript; in the hand-writing of TASSO, has
been ptirchased at Paiis for the Grand Dtike of TVZ
CANE? The price is 4000 francs. -An agent of the
French Goierninefit offered, it ii said, 2500 francs.
The manuscript consists of about fifty pages, contain-
ing pieces of poetry addressed to the great. Loris of
his time, eminent writers, cardinals, ladies, and fTiemls
of the illustrious Poet. From the number of erasures,
it if clear that this great Epic Poet Was very familiar
with " the art of blotting.
If " Mope icierred maketh the heart sick," we must
suppose that many are' now labouring under chi
sickness, in consequence of the late postponement
the Drawing of the Lottery. We see, however, that
the first day as now appointed. for the. 15th instant,
when the first-drawn Prize will receive a Stock Prize
of £30,000 more.—Btsft's Offices, which, during the
last fortnight, have shewn little of their usual bustle,
are now daily crowded ; his fame for the sale -
£30,000 Prizes is, we believe, unrivalled.
LADY MORGAN'S Naw WGRIC.—A Second Edition
of Florence Macarthy, an Irish Tale, was this day
published, in Four Volumes, price 28s:---those per-
sons who have hitherto been .disappointed in procu-
ring it, may now therefore be supplied on renewing
their application to their respective Booksellers,—
Conduit.street, Dec. 7th.
FLORENCE MACARTIEY.—Thi Literary Candle de-
tails some curious particulars respecting the origin 61
this Work, not generally known. We allude to the
circumstance of the Author's having personified her-
self in the character of her Heroine ; and under

mask of a most amusing fiction, combined the asser-
tion of political opinion with the drawing of indiv"
dual modem character. It concludes by observing,
that there is a bitter indulgence in private and per-
sonal hostility ; but tltis, if the pique be directed
justly, has, at least, provocation to excuse it, and
miserable critics know what we have to expect when
we wound the vanity or self-love of a female writer.

There is now growing in the church-yard of D
ley, in Derbyshire, a yew. tree, the circumference
which is nearly 36 feet. This extraotdinary tree,
cording to tradition, was planted about eight hurartd
years ago 1
Wednesday evening, R. Walton, the driver of
Prioco of Orange coach from Shrewsbury to Ches-
ter, was killed on Marford H;11 ; one of tie wheele-
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stumbling, he was jerked off his seat, and falling
tween the splinter bar, a spike of iron pierced
side, which caused his death next morning.
A dashing amateur of the science, at the Stock E.
change, touched 5000 guineas yesterday, having
backed the pugilistic hero from the Sister kingJem.
Early on Fridayevening, as a Gentleman was going
through Lambeth-vi ale, a man, appearing to be in
state of intoxication, reeled up against him, and ap
parently with a view to save himself from fallitz,
seized tho Gentleman's watch chain ; fortunate?

suspecting the villain's design, he struck him a v.
lent blow on the chest, which made him stagger
few paces ; he however immediately recovered hi
self, and ran off, leafing on the ground the seals
keys which he had torn off. -
Tursday last (the 3d inst.) the Assize Court of .
Omer, condemned to five yeah toned labour
chains, to branding, and public exposure, Alerandf
Sinclair, (alias Mulgrave), for uttering forged F.
of England Notes in the neighbourhood of St. Omer,
Dunkirk, and Calais. The prisoner represented him-
self to be a British Naval Officer, connected with

Dock-yard of Chatham, and war accompanied by .
Scotch woman; whom he represented to be his wife.•
He arrived at Calais, it was said on the trial, wit'
upwards of 80 ope-pound Bank of England notes
aoag which there was not a single good one. Them
number he distributed was said to be about forty,
and these were in the possession of five or six indivi-
duals, so that no one was defrauded to any great
amount. The person who suffered most was an
English Officer, who exchanged fifteen of the forged
notes, for French money at Dunkirk. ' The cm
of the prisoner, his uttering the forged notes, wii
a guilty knowledge of their being forged, for
purpose mf defrauding those who received them,
was proved by a great number of witnesses
The facts of the forgery of the notes was establish,
not as in this•conntry, hy-the attendance of one of
Inspecting Clerks of the Bank, but by an affidavii
declaration, transmitted from the Bank of Engl:
to the Bank of Calais, attesting the forgery. The
deuce appeared to. the Jury to be irreststible, and
prisoner, thottgh ably defended by an Advocate .
pointed by the Court, was sentenced to the punishment
above-mentioned. He could not speak a word -
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Fierrch ; but wheelie was told that he was condemied,
emphatically exclaimed in English, to the amusement
of the Couit'and audience, for what ?" It is rather
singular, considering the facility with which Batik t
England Notes are received at Calais, Boulogne
Dunkirk, and other places on the coast frequented
by the English, that this 'should be the first
viction for passing forgeries, and that so promising
field should have'heen so long left unoccupied by the
excess of adventurers who crowd the dOck of the'_
Bailey. The Court at St. Omer, aware of the import-
ance of checking a crime which might be so destruc-
tive to the commercial relations of the two countries,
passed the most rigorous sentence on Sinclair
the French law allowslorfiard ; their criminal
viewing the offence of the prisoner in no other light.
The forgery of a note of the Bank of France is punish-
ed with death.