Star.
London, England, 1816-12-20 00:00:00

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The splendid Opera of Ranush Dm, was repeated
ast night with incre.teed eaect. It has evidently
been got lip' with unsparing expenie, andsthe 'scenery
and costume are altogether at the most magnificent
description. The procession with Elephants is grand
perhaps beyond all precedent; and the battle and'
-blowing up in the last scene surpass any thing et the
kind' that h.ss for many years ber'n witnessed. The
comic parts are admirably sustained by JOHNSTONE
and MERMEN ; and the singing on the whole. parti-
cularly that of i-I,4tw and Comm, is fine and effective.

The ailiday Pantomime at New Drury is, it seems,
founded on the story of Little Jach garner..
It is a envio►ls circumstance, that the person who
represents the B/ine/ /Prue in the new lorthcoming
Pantomime, at Covent-Garden Theatre, was found
by the Managers a ballad-:finger ahr•ut the streets.—
lie was a working goldsmith, who, from the stagna-
tion of trade, wss compelled to hash recourse to his
♦rice fir the support sit his wife and children. His
vote enihr aces three ensile octaves, and is so full,'
rich, at harmonious, that it astonishes all the Musi-
cal Professors.•
KEAN leaves town ou Christmas Day for Bath,
having obtained a furlough to pertorm six nig!us
in
that City. He performed the character of Harald
last night at Brighton.

At the request of the Magistrates of Lanark, a
numerous and resrctable meeting of the inhabitants
was held on the llah instant, when the case of the
industrious tradesmen and others now suffering from
the low rate of wages and the want of employment
was taken into consideration. A general Committee
was mimed, who :ore to sit weekly, and receive reports
from the auxiliary Committees in es.ch district of the
town, and apportion relief as they may decor most
expedient. It was agreed, that wherever such was
practicable, the industrious poor should be employed
upon useful public works ; but when this could not be
accomplieled, meal was to be sold to them at reduced
prices. The thanks of the meeting were then uoani-
niously voted to the Magistrates for caliieg the inha-
bitants together on so. interesting an occasion, and
before the meeting broke up a handsome sum was
subscribed.
Among the plans adopted fer employing the la-
bouring poor in Ayr, Owe is one wlecli merits parti-
cular a 7ention. Yarn ha, been hoeght, put into the
hands or the otherwise uoimployel eea veto, the ctn..
rent Wages allowed for weaving, and the weinufac.
timed arecle disposed of as Mappircoliities occur, the
fond subscribed providing against any loss that may
be sustained.
Saturday se'nnight, while a man in A! ertle.n wits
empineed lit prepainig ingredients for making liquid
blacking, one of his children, a fine boy between two
and three years of age, got hold of a cup containing
vitriol, and betere,he was observed drank great part ot
the contents. Every remedy that his distriased situ-
ation could sanest was reso: std to t% iI111:11t effect, and
the little innocent having endured the most excrucia-
ting suffering, expired in eleten hours after the la.
nuntsble accident.
, Seturday %bile a young girl, about 14,
years of age, was employed in feeding the carding mill
at Holm, in the vicinity of Inverness, her right hand
got toweled with the machinery, and was so much
bruised, that when she was carried to the Infirmary,
it was found necessary to amputate it.
Sunday se'unight, in a house at Aberdeen, occu-
pied by three old women, one of them, tieing very
m, was left in an Arm chair near the fire, while
:r fellow-Indgess went to a remote part of the house;
rat she tell into -the fire, and being quite helpless,
remained until found by some passengers, who broke
pen the door pn smetling the effects of the fire, when
Life was not only extinct, buc the body burnt in a
eanner too shocking for-description.
Wedresday se'nnight a dreadful storm of snow,
accompanied with must tremendous peals of thunder
'.nd lightning, was experienced at Sedgefield, in eo
:aunty of Durham. The snow shower commenced
.bout six in the morning, and the thunder storm
about nine, continuing with the most vivid flashes of
lightnieg, till about ten o'clock; after which it blew
perfect hurricane, quite dispersing the snow ; and
Aim the whnle forming a pheoemenon seldom wit-
tessed in thiscountry.
'lllll DUKE or BRUNSWICK'S WILL—We gave tire
oaturday the more material parts of this decuirient•
The following are some interesting particulars of it,
WO: we give nearly in the Testators own words:
44 My freehold residence, Belmont House, VAux.
All, with the furniture, &c. I leave to my eldest sow
CARL, it be is desirous of taking it, upon his paying
to his brother 5e4500, one-half of the value thereof ;
or if he chooses to assign it over to his brother WIL•
NNW, L give it to him with the same condition.
44 1 have left with Mr. Mews, the President of my
Exchequer at Oels, a list of the pensions I have set-
tled upon all my officers and household; but as it
now seems that the King of PRUSSIA, the legatee et
the will of my late uncle, Duke FREDFRICK of BRUNS.
wfcK, and the creditors, there intended to appropri-
ate that propery to themselves, the provision must
necessarily be annulled.
o I, nevertheless desire that the salary of Major
Vv..; I,lcartaseses of 200 rix-dollars, my page KAN-.
VMS of 100 lix-dollars, and FR.7.11K. &ROEDER of GO
Me-dollars, may Le continued to them out of my pro-
perty, whertver it may be, but this is by no means
to be extended to the others ; as I think it but just
that they who have robbed me of my possessions should
have the burden of paying the officers.
" The King of Fannin has laid an attachment
'Too two of my trunks : they do not, however, con
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tam any thing of present value—chiefly family papers
and laennorandurns, and their return must be insisted
on they are most likely'carried to Koningsburgh
with the King of FaUstotA's own valuables.
‘. I must also auction, that upon the death of my
late father, none of its, three brushers, would take the
Meetuan vase, on accouat of its great value, being,
thee valued at 80,000 rix-dollars; and it was sent to
oar mother in England, to be sold for that sum if au
opportunity.ofiered.
" The well-known distracted state of my native
L 01111%; Germain, makes it necessary that my property
in England, should not be employed in defraying
debts which have. been contracted en my poseeuions
theie against my will, but accumulate4snd managed
with care for the hour of dim's'."