Star.
London, England, 1816-09-05 00:00:00

CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY SS.

The Marquis de •Riviere, the new French Ambas-
sador, had his first solemn audience of the Grand
Seignior on the IGth. The ceremony was very fa-
tiguing to the Ambassador, for it lasted twelve hours
complete. The Grand Sultan dictated the answer
to his Grand Vizier, in which he expressed his satis-
faction at the restoration of the Bourbons.
The Envoy hom Algiets had also his solemn au.
dience of the Grand Vizier on the 221 He is not
of the rank which entitles him to see the Grand Seig.
nior himself. The value of the presents which he
brought is estimatedat 3,000 ptirses( I 5;),000 piastres).'
The escort en rusted with these resents was com-
posed partly of individuals attached to the arsenal,
and partly of the Envoy's servants, babied in fish
gold stuffs, according to the custom of Algiers.—
These presents consisted of a great number of Moor-
ish slaves of both sexes; three beautiful Arabian
,bones, the saddles and bridles of which were richly
decorated with gold and fine stones ; several fire-
[arms, decorated with gold and coral; a solitaire and
brilliants, and a rich snuff-box, which were carried in
a silver platter, with str.teral necklaces, &c.

A Sicilian Paps contains a long anef well written
article upon the two ponies that exist in Sicily—one
of which is for preserving and improving the new Con.
siltation of 1812, framed oaths our auspices; and the
other for restoring the old system of Government--
The latter are said to have sent Missionariec intp the
interior, far the purpose.ot oistaining Petitions in
favour of this restoration. Tlieir enoeavours are said
to have faik.d,ilie peop:e receiving the .r proposalsveith
contempt and intii4na!ino. This Szc:lian Paper is
under the conduct of Baeon ACETO, ante urging the
benefits of a constitutional over a despotic Govern-
ment, he says very justly —•• In absolute governments
the Ministers hive only the character of blind instru-
ments of the will of the Monarch, who is consequently
regarded by the nation as the ultimate author of every
evil, wherefore he often suffers, and is sometimes a
victim for the crimes of his Ministers. On the con-
trary, in a Constitutional Governmert, the Princ ! is
sacred and inviolable, while the Ministers are respon-
sihle for every thing done in the name or on the part
of their Sovereign."
The Olicial Report on the Police rf the Metroftolis is
!vow rept inting, by Atithcrity, (for the seventh time)
ity CLIMENT, N 9. 192. Strand, at the low price of
Seven Shillings, for 420 octavo dewy pages. The
object of printing the genuine Report.so cheap is to
entare its general circulation.
BARTHOLOMEW FAIR.--Yesterday the revels of
Bartholomew Fair continued with undiminished eclat.
At night the Loan MAYOR attended the Fair, still
anxious to see obedience paid to his orders, viz. to
shut up public houses at twelve o'clock, went round
and *SAW the various parties quit their drinking, sing.
lig, and dancing. Having entered one of the cele.
brated ball rooms in the Fair, contrary to the with
of the Master of the Ceretrionis, a stop was instantly
put to the dance. A City.Vestris and his Angicilina,
wl; were. on the point of leading off—" I love my ain
Abu, deary 0I" felt much chi tpvintment in con-
sequence of the visit. The Lady, in particular,
refused to give up th'e dance, but the constables
soon informed her, that the tune was-6, (yr
she sou," and the fair figurante was compelled to
promenade down the stairs, exclaiming to one of the
trusty staff officers, 44 Go.to the devil and shake your..
se/f." The Temple of Terpsichore afterwards be.
came the Field of gars, and, in short, a general row
ensued, but the regular 'forces soon gained a victory.
The insurgents were routed, and peace produced mid-
night silence. The Fair this year is uncommonly
splendid; but the only novelty is a peculiar display of
economy which Richardson has resorted to, in order to
conform to the pressure of the times. It seems he
has discharged his numerous company of full-grown, .
fat, and lazy potentates, clowns, and banditti, to em-
ploy about a dozen lads, not more than 16 years of
age. They are well dressed's-la:hire, and go through
the evolutions of tumbling, grinning, and jumping,
tolerably well. •
Kisumu Housit....Yesterday a number of light-
fingered gentry, who mix in the aboveannualcarpival,
were brought up by different City officers, charged
with attempting to commit depredations upon the
unwary crowd that had assembled to witness the
fair. Nine of these notorious characters, but against
whom no specific charge could be brought home,
were remanded until Saturday next, preventing
thereby their future malpractices during the motley
scene. Two indisiduals, however, named Foy and
Philfite, were fully committed to Newgate for friar,
charged with the oshal offouce of picking poclietzb

alkali

MAILS
Asa. Poe. Atz. Dot.
Dublin • ; • i 0 Lisbon •i • 1
Waterford . . i 0 Mahg .• • 0 ti
Guernsey and Jersey 4 el Harahttrgh • 0 1
France - • . 1 0 Onstewburglt • . 0 1
Holland - o 1 Brazils - 0 0
Flanders . . 0 0 I Leeward Wands 0 0
• EAST-INDIA SHIPPING.
Yesterday k Court or Directors was hell at the
East India Ilouse, when me following ships were
thus tuned. viz.
Bombay a.si Chins.—Bombay. Ger.-ral H hers, Charles Grant,
Marquis Camden. Vausittart, Lowther Castle, Inglis, to be afloat
!Ist October, to tail to Gravesend sth Novemh:ri stay there 40
days, and be in the Downs tied December.
Madras, Prince of Wales's Island, axd China.--Hetefordshire
and Biidgewater, to be afloat 4th December, to sail to Gravesend
18th December, stay there 40 days, and be in the Downs Si Fe-
bruary. 1n1.7.
Bengal and China.--General Kyd and AtLs. to be afloat I
December, to sail to GralC:gend ad January, 1817, stay there so
days. and to in the Downs 1 7th February, 1817.
China di:l;er. —Wirickelsea borivlshilre. Royal George, and
Waterloo, to he al tat If.th February, int; to sail to Gravesci.d
ad March, stay there SO days, and be In the Downs ?tit April.
FALMOUTH, SEP FEWER 9.
Arrived his Majesty's ship Tay, from >i cruize ;
and the Good Intent, Haar, from Waterford.
PORTSMOUTO, PEMIJER 4.
Artived the Chatswarth, from Baltimore, and
passed up Ci;atinel, for tremen ; and the Lord Mel-
ville, front the Downs, bound to New South %Vales.
Put back front sea the Retrieve, Kato, bound to
Bwenns Ayres. Sailed his Majesty's ships' LAnsa
and gllALAttlt, on a ernize.—Win I W. blows hard.
• - . ) LIVERPOOL, SEP rEmata 3.
Arrived yesterday the Aurora, Yost, from Sa-
vannah—out 45 days; she is placed under gnat an-
tine, having last two men on the passage, and one
man is now sick on board.
HARWICH, SEPTEMBER 4.
The RecHing. Leven, Captain J. Amitir, with deal,
from Gelfe, for London, has been brought into this
port by five salvage smacks, with the loss of two
anchors and cables, mizen.mast, fore and main top-
masts, and rudder; she is otherwise damaged and
and very leaky, having been on shore on the Heef:s.
RAMSGATE, SEPTEMBER 4.
Arrived this morning the Eclipse packet, Captain
MlNTita, with passengers from Ostend. She brings
an account of the Britannia, Margate packet, Capt.
STItANACK, having been wrecked upon that coast
' during the late tremendous gales. Happily no lives
were lost. Some of those on board were picked up
by the Eclipse. It blew exceedingly hard early this
morning, with heavy rain. Several vessels have
come in from the Downs for shelter. We regret at
having to add, that t:te Isloy-Alin, Capt. HAwicts:s,
from Portsmouth bound to London, in running
this harbour, bad the misfortune tc lose her Captain,
who was accidentally knocked overboard, and unfor•
tunately drowned.
DEAL, SEPTEMBER 4.
ArrivTd this morning the Lady Hamilzon, Captain
PRITcnAIM, from Halifax ; N.irthampton, Sw.ec,a,
from liaany Bay and China ;.. Qty?ed Citarlotte, Ni-
CHERS, from St. Vircent's, cut rorty-sis days; and
the Canton, from Amsterdam, bp),:!1 to Ditjvia,
Came down front the River the Heat y fictiburn, for
New B:unswitsk ; and the Prince Ite,;ent,.Ricraloatu,
for the West Indies.—The Canton and Prince Re-
gent, mentioned above, bath parted front an anchor
and cable this morning th....y have each been stl2-
plied with others from Bence.—Saazd the Qenrge,
Jolla/soar, for the River, from 13 itavi.t.—Put back by
contrary winds the Amiable, BUCK, from New York.
Wind W. sqoally weather, with rain and bail.
MILFORD, tsEP I'EMBER 0.
Arrived !aft night at the quarantine station kere brig Eliza
ben., from Carbonera, with a clean bill of heath, bound to Bel-
fast, sated thence 2071 s June last ; Ruby, Peterson, from Mfrimi-
chits fur Topsham; Victory, Nicholas, from Rovertiam for LI.
verpool; krancia, Thobias, from London for Liverpool; Mary
Ann, Roger's, from Ostend for Carntarihen ; Maria, Jones, front
Ramsgate for Liverpool ; Merolla' s, Dennis, from Dantric for
orders; and Friendship, Garret, from Ostend for Liverpool.
Sailed his Maj.sty'ssellooliers Whiting and A Man, flit Plymouth;
and Mayfl..wer, Wail inns, from Liverpool for Ostend. The
Ruby, above meationed, sailed on the ash lily, hi company
with the following vebseist—Regent, Mining ; Hope, Davidson
Garbat ; Spence, Esporinwnt of Chepstow ;;
John atilt Charlotte, Robson; and the Ann of Workineton, in
the mouth lit the harbour of Mirimicble ; spoke the William of
Harrington, on the 31st Jt.ly last, the I.3die3 Adventure, from
Chidisc for Newcastle, on the in ult, the Am yhitrite, for ditto,
r on the ed following; the Providence, from Quebec for ditto;
and Ranger, of (;reetinck, Carr; also on the Ow ult. Wellington,
of Chepstow, allot which vessels were well.
GRAVESEND. SEPTEMBER 4.
Arrived the H. wt. Kei.ton, front I'etersbur4h; Providence,
Mills, from Quebec; Art.:nine. Smith, trom ; Vint,
Aberdeen, from Belfast; Verdian, Patient, from Jamaica; and
Hilda, Mater, front St. Lucia.—Sailed the Sylvia, Irwell, for
Gibraltar; Atlantic.Spricb, for CoPenhager. ; Aid, Shipper, for
Hamburs'a ; CatcUtta, Argos, for Dort;. Charles, Knight, for
Riga; and Providence, Jones. for Cork.
CUSTOM HOUSE, Slit' I EMBER 4.
Suits Etcraiteo • QUTWARD4—Eure, Moore, for Bremen;
Wiliiam, Dawson •,Thirrniey, Sheraton; and tlo;•ewell,
so', for Hamburg; ; Essex, Robertson, for Psitirdeaux; Chris.
tivi Louisa, Nordin!), for Stockholm; Nunia, Tornereig, for
Havre; Wmodburne, Marsh, for Parla; Fleetwood,, William
Aiken. for Dominica; London Packet, Anil, for Lisbon;
Gratitude Hodgson, for Eldoeur and Petersburth ; Endeavour,
Elotkuliel:l, for Antwerp ; Fisher, Lelew; for Hamburgli ; Al-
bion, Bishop, for the Cape of Goad Hops ;• Princess of Wales,
Fox, and Thomas and Eleanor, Cowley,. for Ostend; the Lang,
Clark, for St. Vincent's; and Two BrlKbets; Jay, for thirstier
•
and keivrsbarett.

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DAT. '

Yesterday a Jury was summoned by the Sheriff of
Surrey, to assess the compensation to be given by the
Strand Bridge Company to Mr. Curtis, for S roods of
Garden Ground and•five small cottages thereon, part
of certain premises held under lease from the Arch.
bishop of Canterbury. The amount of• Mr. Curtis's
claim was £l2OO, and.the Jury awarded the sum of
R4Bo.—The Company had previously tendered the
sum of £7so, or thereabouts%
A man, named Bishop, who was tempted, with
other landmen,•to go out from Exmouth, last Thurs-
day night, a inackarel catchingrfell over board and
was drowned. He was telling •his friends, but a few
minutes before, of his intention to get married shortly.
Fins.--About three o'clock, on Tuesday morning,
a fire was discovered in one of the large new built
houses in Ilecklenburgh-square. near the Foundling
Hospital, whichiin a few minutes, raged with great
fury? Several engines arrived•in a short time, st high
being well supplied with water, fortunately. prevented
the fire from communicating to the adjoining houses,
but the whole of the house where the fire broke out,
and which was fitted up in the.most superb manner,
fell a prey to the flames. The house was let, and the
tenant was-to have removed in yesterday. How the
fire-originated is unknown.

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ibriiiiNEst; Midi/3T
The terror and agitations. of 'Anus kinds, crei4l
by the Earthquake. are subsiding; its violence wag
unprecedented in this conntty. It is hoWeber admit.
ted, us 'far. as we can learn by the many here wi.B
have resided. long in foreign countries, the tirest
Indies in particular, where these-conitilsinnsur its:
tune are frequent, that they never &fors fe* re mat
a 4,ck, a fact which will convey a kilt's'
violence than any thing we can state. &the intik
were cinch ihjured by the f.sli of chimney tops, but
it was pima ntial, late as the :min of night wars
that in sac) a storm of stoner no lives were
in Stintlinavcr (SnthtrlandshirP), a heavy fall of
snow succeeded the Earthqn Ate ; hut the account
of the arches cf the tket•rnoiind having given way
is incorrect a:;d alr.c.gether untrue. The shock was.
felt at Stahel land at the same instant as at In-
verness, Alwrdeen. &c. and not at three o'clock of
the day, hut i:rorialentially did no injury to the Mound,
or to any thing whatever in the country.
The heautiiul spite of our jail hat, we under.
stand, been pronounced; by an able Architect, safe
in its peseta conditian, and is, we learn, to re-
main as it is. It seems to ourselves to be Conside.
rably shattered, as well as twisted. but the architect
Who has examined it. is competent, and were
-there any risk of an event which, from the numerous
adjoining houses, and their very close c7einity to each
other, would be calamitous in the higher degree, we
are persuaded that the expense (tile principal we
learn) of scaffolding, would be no bar tts the renewal -
of the spire. from the place where it .is shattered,
. which is 'not many feet from the top. The lower
part of it is not in any degree injured.