Star.
London, England, 1821-04-26 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Nis Majesty's ship B , Captain M , arrived at the
Cape of Good Hope the 10th February, from Portsmouth, Ma-
deira, and Tenerife.
Yesterday a Court of Directors Was held at the East India
I louse, when the fallowing Commanders took leave of the Court
previouvly to departing fur their respective destinations, viz.—
Captain W. 31as:ewe, Thomas Grenville ; Capt. J. BLAIGNAILE,
Marquis of Wellington ; Madras and Bengal.
Fatuourst, Aram 23.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrived the Hope,
Cease, from St. Lucia for London • Morning Star, Roseau,
from Carnarvon for Boulogne • and Three Brothers, Solos, from
Newport for Cherbourg. The Hope left at St. ucia the Re-
becca, Suss; Jane, WY tte ; Brilliant, Ctaax ; St. Lucia, Ar-
vntcx ; and Intrepid, FINLAY, all loading; and the Palermo,
FRAN/ILA/ID ; May, Owns; and Elizabeth, —, discharging.
I'v/sweet+, Ann 24.—Wind N.—Arrived the Levant, Pas-
moat, from Hull for Leghorn.
FORTSEOU7II, Aram 25.—Wind S.S.E.—Sailed the Vigilant,
DAviosox, for Marseilles.
Cowes, Arum 25.—Sailed the Prideess. Charlotte, &ern,
for Ceylnu.
Ha eascti, Aram 25.—Arrived the Princess Charlotte packet,
With Mails from Cuxhaven. Sailed tkA Castlereagh packet for
Honand. and Henry Freding ditto, for Cuxhaven ; each with
a MaiL
DIAL, Ataut 25.—Wind S.E.--Came down from the River
and sailed, the Free Briton, 3lorrarr ; Generous Planter, Woos
WA en; and Wellington, ANotasos, for St. John's ( N. B.); Jason,
CLARK, fur Genoa ; Ceres, Marutwa, for Smyrna ; Hope, Bnoxo,
for Prince Edward's Island; Neptunus, Lento, for Bourdeaux ;
Minerva, FAANELIN, for Miramichi ; Tuscan, Cstaittrou, -for
lachebucto ; Sir George Osborne, STANZAS, fur the South Seas;
and Windsor, Hawaii); for China : the two latter remain.
Coat, Aran. 20.—Sailed the Albury and Importer transports,
for Halifax, with troops.
Cusross-Housz, Aram 25.—Entered Inwards: The Fox,
from (Mead; the Trafalgar, from Gottenburgh ; Louisa, from
Smyrna; and the Luna, from Harlingen.—Cleared Outwards:
The Brixton, fot Van Dieman's Land; Nile, for Hayti; Jonge
Fietrie, for Amsterdam ; Alert, for 11Ialta ; Woodlark, for the
Cape of Good Hope; Sarah, for Elsineur ; Amelia, for Jersey;
Cuecord, fur Elsineur ; and Britannia, for Ilamburgh.

Captain C. MYRICK, late of the brig Cossack, of
Boston, has arrived at New York, via Phil igelphia, to
which place he came in the brig James Coulter, from
Ilavannah. Captain Mrnicx left the city of Mexico
on the 4th of February last, where he, with his crew,
were liberated from prison, after nearly three years
coafinemeut. The Chief Mate of the Cossack, Mr.
I'. GARDNER, is a native of England; Mr. P. PRATT,
the interpreter, and four sailors, principally English-
men, were all massacred by the Spaniards at Matzlan,
50 leagues to the North of Sari Bias, on the Continent.
Extract of a Letter from Carthagena, dated '2oth
February :—" As our communication with the inte-
rior is now open, and which will last until the expira-•
lien of the Armistice, a great number of the Patriots
are continually coming here; but a very heavy duty
is laid on all goods purchased by them and going
into the interior. About 15,000 troops are encamped
near this city, and the Officers are paying us frequent
visits, and Are received with great attention."
The Grand Annual Masonic Dinner, and the Elec-
tion of Officers for the ensuing year, took place yes-
terday, of the Freemasons' Hall, Queen-street, when
his Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSEX was re-
elected Grand Master. The Brethren of the Order
afterwards dined together (his Royal Highness in the
Chair.; in the great hall. The Meeting was nume-
ous, amounting to upwards of 500, amongst whom
we, o a number of distinguished Noblemen. The gal-
lery was full of well-dressed Ladies, who, after din-
ner, were agreeably entertained by the vocal abilities
of several professional Gentlemen. His Royal High-
ness was in excellent spirits, and supported the Chair
much to the satisfaction of all present. The health
of her Majesty the QUEEN was given by his Royal
Righness, and received with thunders of applause.
Among the visitors on Tuesday at Greenwich Fair,
the LORD ADVOCATE of Scotland, MI. WILLIAM
Elise I NE, and some other distinguished Members of
the Scottish Bar, were recognized. Mr. ERSKINE,
Mho is well known to all the lovers of poetry for the
admirable stanzas he has added to " Collins' Ode on
the Superstitions of the llighlands," could not depart
satisfied without having his fortune told by a wan-
dering Gipsey. The LORD ADVOCATE, who has also
a large share of poetry in his disposition, joined in
the whim. We expect an account of their respective
horoscopes to-morrow.
ALL HUNIBUG !--When Mr. Sruritex KERIBLZ
was Manager in Newcastle, and the houses were ra-
ther flat, no less a personage arrived in town than
Prince Annainakoo, who offered his services for a
very moderate consideration. Accordingly the bills
of the day announced, " that between the Acts of
the Play, Prince Annamaboo would give a lively re-
presentation of the scalping operation ; he would
likewise give the Indian war-whoop, in all its various
tones, the tomahawk exercise, and the mode of feast-
ing at an Abyssinian banquet." The evening ar-
rived, and many people attended to witness these
princely imitations. At the end of the third Act
his Highness walked forward with digaifiea step,
flourishing his tomahawk, and cutting the air, ex-
claiming, "Ha ha—ho ho !" Next entered a man
with his face blackened, and apiece of bladder fas-
tened to his head with gum: the Prince, with a large
carving-knife, commenced his scalping operation,
which he performed in a style truly imperial, hold-
ing up the skin in token of triumph. Next came the
war-whoop, which was a combination of dreadful
and discordant sounds: lastly, the Abyssinian ban-
quet, consisting of raw beef-steaks : these he made
into rolls, as large as his mouth would admit, and
devoured them in a princely and dignified manner.
Having completed his cannibal repast, lie flourished
his tomahawk, exclaiming, "Ha ha—ho ho!" and
made his exit. Next.day, the Manager, in the mid-
dle of the market-place, espied the most puissant
Prince of Annaoraboo selling pen-knives, scissors, and
quills, in the character of a Jew pedlar. " What I"
said Kemal.; " my Prince, is that you! Are you not
a Pretty Jewish scoundrel to impose upon us in this
manner?' Moses turned round, and with an arch
look replied, " Prince be d—d, I vash no Prince; I
cash acting like you. You vash Kings, Princes, Em-
tem" thy•—•STEPBEN KIMBLE to-morrow ; I vash
a_arPug—you vash humpug—all vash humpug !"
Yesterday Kendrick, the black pugilist, was brought
to Baamlreet Office on a Bench warrant, a true bill
Laving been found against him at the Sessions, on
the charge of Cribb, the champs°. N. The prisoner en-
deavottred to pass Off the charge by saying they wee e
however,
men, and made light of the matter ;
'vv'ever, Cribb attended, and was determined to
Pursue the charge, stating, that the prisoner had as-
saulteclhim so vidently, and behaved in such an out-
rageous manner in his house, that he was obliged to
take urn by the waist and throw him out of doors.
Pia Prisct. ei was ordered to remain in custody till
De can had good bail.

INVERNESS, APRIL 12.

On the 10th instant, the officers of the law pro-
ceeded, under the protection of -a strong military
force, to eject the tenantry of Strathbrora, which they
effected without opposition; the people having taken
the alarm on the approach of the military, carried
out their furniture, and fled to the neighbouring hillsi
whence they surveyed the demolition of their houses.
Mr. J. MACBEAN, Sheriff's officer, had been sent
from this place with criminal letters, against those
who had been most active in the deforcement of the
civil officers, upon the former occasion ; but though
parties of men and women were seen moving about
among the hills, and were repeatedly pursued by the
soldiers, only two men and a woman were appre-
hended, who were brought to this town in the mail,
by the officer, and lodged in jail, to stand trial on the
28th instant, for the alleged assault and rioting.—
Lieutenant Ash, a very active young officer, while,
with three soldiers, pursuing one of the flying par-
ties, came by an accident in crossing a deep stream,
which was however attended with .no other serious
consequence than a severe ducking. Heaps of stones
were found, concealed with turf, which, it is sup-
posed, had been collected to give a warm reception
to the officers, if they had not been supported by
such an overwhelming force. Decreet summonses of
removal were afterwards issued against the tenantry
of Gruids, who had also fled from their homes; the
military, including the reinforcement which joined
them last week, about 150 strong, are to ba stationed
in Sutherland, until the people of Gruids are ejected
at Whitsunday.

ON THE TIMES.

~
BY A SCOTTISH WEAVER.
TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

SIR—It is nothing uncommon for authors to be-
speak the good humour of their readers by giving
some account of themselves, and, if of respectable
lineage, to say something also of their ancestors.
As to ancestry, I cannot boast greatly. Both my
grandfathers' grauslfathers were weavers, and cove-
nanted Whigs. In their youth they endured consi-
derable persecution under the two last reigns of the
Stuarts, but escaped with their lives, and witnessed
the glorious Revolution of 1688. They were Whigs
of the old stamp, so am I.—They belonged to the
lower orders, and so do I.
I reside in Scotland, within three miles of a great
commercial city, in a village containing about three
hundred inhabitants, mostly weavers :—poor, but in-
dustrious; and, with few exceptions, sober and reli-
gious. As a sure proof of this, we have not one
ale-house in the village, yet it contains two public
schools; one partially supported from the parish
funds, and the other by the majority of the inhabi-
tants, who are dissenters from the old Kirk. Sorry
am I to say, that since times have turned so bad,
fewer scholars attend both than did one seven years
ago ;*and this from no disinclination of either pa-
rents or children, but from sheer poverty alone. This
augurs rather unfavourable to the knowledge, reli-
gion, and morals of the rising generation.
Occupied at an unprofitable sedentary employ-
ment, little time have we to spare, or money to lay
out on Newspapers; yet some of us make shift to ob-
tain them, second-hand, at the cheapest rate pos-
sible. Once or twice a-week we spare an hour or so,
in a shoemaker's shop, our usual place of rendezvous.
We who are old men are generally looked up to, as
in duty bound, by the younger part of the audience,
for the orthodoxy of our political strictures. And
without much order or coherency (as I am but a
sorry amanuensis), some of them are in substance as
follows :
Ist. On the charge of irreligion existing among the
lower orders, and that to an unprecedented degree
within these few years—we are convinced it is a
mere sham, to serve a political end. The truth is,
the most sober, religious, and thinking part of us,
are the most dissatisfied with the management of na-
tional affairs. Such of us, are mostly dissenters of
one kind or another. By staunch old Kirkmen, we
have been long looked on as seditious ; but the
charge of irreligion is new. These hundred years
by-gone we have rather been reckoned troublesome,
by reason of our strictness in religious concerns.
From this we naturally infer, that were it to an-
swer a &ate purpose, a praying Whig would be as
obnoxious to the " Powers that be," as they were in
IScotland from 1660 to 1688. Courtiers are as irre-
ligious, in the true sense of the word, just now, I
dare say, as Buckingham and Rochester, the boon
companions of CHARLES 11. Short work was made
of the Scots Whigs in those days of religion and social
order ! A plain countryman reading his Bible in the
open fields was either shot to death instantly for the
daring crime, by Claverhouse (the gallant DUNDEE,
as Sir WALTER SCOTT would call him), or be sent,
by the merciful Sir George Mackenzie, " to glorify
GOD in the Grass-market," Edinburgh.
2d. As to trading concerns, our knowledge must
be considered as very circumscribed, yet we have
uniformly come to this conclusion—that admitting
a great falling off, by a transition from war to peace,
foreign nations manufacturing for ,themselves, the
Corn Bill, Stc. &c. the leading cause of low wages
and want of employment is—the inability to purchase
manufactured articles fur home consumption. This is
diminished to an incalculable event, of which few
people seem to be aware. We all suppose Great
Britain and Ireland to contain eighteen millions of
inhabitants, six millions of these, we shall suppose,
consist of the necessitous poor. When times were
better, at the lowest computation, one shilling a head
would be spent weekly for manufactured articles, of
which they now stand in absolute want. This amounts
to upwards of fifteen millions of pounds annually.—
Six millions of the middle class may be fairly sup-
posed to circumscribe their expenditure to an equal
amount. What an impetus would thirty millions
worth of manufactured articles give to British in-
dustry ! But I shall pursue the subject no farther,
until I discover whether the above may obtain p
corner in your valuable Paper.—Your's,
AULD ANDREW.

Friday evening, Maidstone and its neighbourhood
were visited by a tremendous tempest from the South
which lasted from about a quarter past six o'clock
till nearly half-past eight. The lightning was vivid
and awful beyond description, and the rain, for a con-
side►ablc time, fell in sheets. An ash was struck by
the electric fluid, at Hadlox,- and shivered to pieces.

RECORDER'S COURT' DUBLIN; APRIL 19.

TItEPANNINC.
Anne Fell was charged with assaulting Elizabeth
Field, and falsely imprisoning her, the said Elizabeth
Field, for six hours. There was another count iii
the indictmentfor a common assault.
Elizabeth Field lives with Mrs. Bennett, in Mer-
iion-street ; remembers passing through Denzil-street,
about one o'clock, on Monday, the 9th instant ; a wo-
man, whom she afterwards knew to be Mrs. Fell,
called to her from the window of a house ; she said
she had been robbed and ill-used by a Roman Catho-
lic servant, because she was a Protestant, and begged
of the witness to come to her assistance; witness went
up to the door, and was admitted by an old woman.
On witness going in, the prisoner told ter she wished
to see a Minister, as she felt the infirmities of old
age, and wished to receive spiritual comfort; wit-
ness replied, that she was a Roman Catholic, hut
that she would go for a Protestant Clergyman for
her, if she wished ; Mrs. Fell then said, that she
knew Mr. Motrin, of York-street, and would write
a note to him, if she (witness) would take it ; they
then went into the parlour ; witness had flowers in
her hand ; on coming into the parlour, Mrs. Fell
asked her to read prayers to her, to which she con-
sented ; on witnesi attempting to go away, Mrs. Fell
asked her to go up stairs to the drawing-room, to
look at some beautiful foreign ornaments ; witness
thanked her, and was about to go; the old woman who
let witness in left the house, and went into the street.
Mrs. Fell then locked, bolted, and chained the hall
door; witness asked her why she fastened the door?
she said it was to keep that robber out, meaning the
old woman who had just gone out; she said it was
she that had robbed her—they were in the hall at
this time. On turning back to the parlour, witness
was surprised to find the shutters close shut, and a
candle lit ; she Olen wanted to go away, and said
she would get blame for staying. Mrs. Fell then
told her to-pitch all her friends to the devil, as she
(Mrs. Fell) had enough left for her (witness) and her-
self. She then began to sing, and said that she ex-
pected two ladies, and wanted her to sit down; wit-
ness began to -cry, and Mrs. Fell kept rattling the
poker against the hall door, and making a noise to
prevent witness from being heard by any persons out-
side. Witness was detained all this time against her
will ; it was then about six o'clock ; it was about one
o'clock Mrs. Fell induced her to go in; towards seven
o'clock a double rap came to the door, and a Gentle-
man's voice asked if " Mother Fell" was at home?
Mrs. Fell went to the door, but did not open it ; she
asked him if he wanted a girl ? He said he did. Wit-
ness was crying all this time. Mrs. Fell then seized
a knife in one hand and a poker in the other, and told
her she had better stop crying and not make a noise,
for if she would not be quiet, she would make her quiet.
Mrs. Fell then told the Gentleman she had a girl for
him, but that she could not let him in then, as there
was a crowd round the door; she told him to come
later and she would let him in. Witness then ran up
to the drawing-room ; found the window closed; she
immediately opened it, and called out for assistance.
Mrs. Fell followed witness up stairs and pulled her
away froni the window. A great crowd had by this
time collected round the house. Witness ran to the
window again, and Mrs. Fell rushed at her and tore her
cloak off in forcing her from it. While at the window,
a Gentleman who had been passing, asked her " if
she was aware what sort of a house she was in?" she
said she was not, but that she wanted to get out.—
The Gentleman asked her if she really wanted to get
out ? she said, all she wished or wanted on earth
was to get out. The Gentleman then demanded the
door to be opened, and those outside commenced a
loud rapping, but Mrs. Fell would not open the
door. The crowd continued loudly rapping and-de-
manding admission for nearly two hours, and it was
not until a sledge had been procured by those per-
sons outside, and the door was nearly forced in, that
Mrs. Fell opened it. Two Peace Officers were among
those who came in, and Mrs. Fell put her arms round
the neck of one of them and kissed him. She then
called her (witness) a robber, and told the Peace Of-
ficer she was after robbing her ; she made them search
her; they did, and found nothing on her ; she said she
had stolen 24 duplicates from her; there was only one
halfpenny found on witness's person—she made
them search her coat, and said there were notes in
the sleeves of it. Mrs. Fell then got her (witness's)
bonnet, and began tearing the lining of it ; witness
could not say from what motive. It was taken from
her by one of the Peace Officers ; she then made
them take her shoes off, but nothing was found. In
a short time afterwards witness went home ; it was
nearly nine—the Gentleman who came to her assist-
ance, and one of the Peace Officers, saw her home.

No witnesses were called for the defence.
The RECORDER then charged the Jury, who, with.-
out leaving the box, consulted for about three mi-
nutes, when they returned a verdict of Guilty on both
counts. His Lordship then sentenced the prisoner
to be imprisoned twelve months.

MORALITY OF THE CHINESE AKIN.—(From the
Pekin Gazette of September, 1818.)—" Tsing-chang,
the General in command of the Tartar district of
E-le, reports to the Emperor the case of Soo-kwo-
tung, who was a Major in the army, and was broken
for misconduct in regard to a certain female, while
on garrison duty, under the command of General
Ma-yu. Soo-kwo-tung was banished to E-le for
three years; and the time bein, now expired, he en-
treats for permission to return. The charge brought
against him, and for which he was punished, was as
follows :—Whilst under the command of General
Ma-yu, who was stationed at the garrison of Tun-
ming, he lodged at an inn, where he beeame inti-
mate with Mrs. Toan, the landlady, with whom he
frequently drank a glass. It appears that afterwards
he agreed with her for a sum of money to become
his concubine, and they lived in illicit intercourse at
the inn. For this very disgraceful conduct he was
taken into custody, and made to wear the cangue for
two months, at the expiration of which he was ba-
nished to E-le. This took place in the fourth month
of the 99th year of Kea-king, and in the' fourth month
of the present year the term of three years had been
completed. The Emperor's pleasure was therefore
solicited in regard to the criminal. The Emperor,
on receiving the report, wrote with his vermilion
pencil, that it was a most degrading and disgraceful
affair, and that the criminal should not be permitted
to return, but continue there three years longer, when
the Empet sat's pleasure would be known.