Star.
London, England, 1826-06-02 00:00:00

RUSSIAN ANTIQUITIES.

Some workmen, on diggiitt theough a monad for a
.fiendation, in one of the burying pieces situated. be-
tween the new Lutheran Church of Odessa and the
barracks nearest to that church, having dug to the
depth of an arsh 'en and a half, remarked a place where
the earth, which appeared to have been shaken, exhi-
bited an ancient opening filled up; they continued
digging, and following this indention, at the depth of
an al sheen, they discovered three steps cut out in the
clay, which terminated in a so►t of mine, or hollow
place, in which they found the bones of a human skele-
ton, near the head of which was placed a domestic vase
of potter's earth, in the shape of a mug or milk pot, six
vershocks high ; and by the side of this skeleton a sort
of sword. broken into a quan:ity of pieces, with some
fragments of the handle of it, of tie same metal, the
whole entirely rusted, oxydated, and decomposed. The
bones found in this tomb were mixed with some ruins
of planks of a wood decomposed, cf the colour and
specific lightness of a fungus.
On digging through a second hill, of the same pro-
portions as the first, the result of the discovery was two
sk letons, near to which were gathered together some
little ornaments, in copper or bronze, strongly lazy-
dated : a gr iin of glass, or vitrified paste. 01 a bluish
colour ; with some little ornaments, of a whitish colour,
which might have belonged to a necklace, or to an ear-
ring ; and some fragments of a vitrified substance,
offering divers shades of blue. The total absence of
any sort of masonry in these two tombs prevented the,
, workmen and those who watched these mounds from
distinguishing and gathering together the parcels and
little fragments confounded with the shaken earth, and
falling from these sepultures. In short, although this
discovery furnishes a new proof of an ancient estab-
lishment of the port of OJessa of the pr'esent day,
which was supposed to be the anchorage called by the
Periple of Arrien, as also by that of the anonymous
author of htrianon. Lisnin,* it is very likely that the
creek called by this name, instead of offering to the
mind the appearance of an opulent city, served only to
inform us that it was the place of anchot age for the in-
habitants of the town of 'suns, on the Danobvi-, as they
coasted along the southern shore of the Eusine, and
only inhabited by mariners, without cultivation, living
on the produce of their fishery, and by the herding 01
their cattle. The vase of which mention is made is
depsited in the Museum of Odessa. The blackish
specks upon this vase appear to have been the conse-
quence of the humidity of the soil, where it had been
buried during so many ages. The digging continues.

• Vide Preface to the Notice on Olbia, which accompaniesihe
Catalogue of Medals of Odessa.
t The town of Istria was sacked abogt the middle of the last
century before the Christian era, previous to the irruption of the
Daces, or of the Getes, of which Dion, in his Chris. ()rat. saivi.
speaks.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDH ALL.

By the 17th Geo. 11. cap. 5. persons who are so far disordered in
their senses, that they may be dangerous to be permitted to go
abroad, may be apprehended, and locked up in some secure place,
and the charge of their maintenance, if their estate be not sufficient
for the support of their families, shall be defrayed by the parish to
which they belong. Under this Swine, tl.e Rev. Mr. Hewitson
applied yesterday to have his son.in.law, a young man named Geo.
Leame, wboselather was a merchant; in Broad.street, taken care
of. He had once been in Bethlein Hospital for a year, and latterly
his mind had appeared to be in a state of irritation. About a fort-
night ago he tried to strangle his mother • and on Wednesday night,
•finding he was about to be taken into the country with the test of
the family, he attempted to run away, but was stopped.
Bere,ford, the Clerk, observed, that since the prisoner had
attacked his mother, he had been living quietly with his friends,
and therefore some more recent mischievous intention should have
been adduced.—The Rev. Gentleman said, his Curacy produced
hint but 701. a year, and he could not, out of that, maintain the
prisoner in a Private Asylum.
Sir,Cits Ruts Fumes dismissed him, swing that he could do
nothing with him,-but deliver him to his friends.