Star.
London, England, 1821-09-29 00:00:00

JUNI 2.

It was reported in Freetown. in the early part of
the week, that the Foulah Chiefs had been stopped
at Kookoona on their return from this settlement to
their own country, and had been compelled to pur-
chase their passage by surrendering to the Chiefs of
the place a considerable portion of the valuable pre-
sents received-by them here, and of the trade goods
obtained exchange for their cattle. We trust this
is not true in the full extent, for it would then throw
great difficulties in the way of the establishment of a
resttlair intercourse by the new path : it is, however,
mute in the line of African usage, that passengers
should pay tolls in going through the towns of power-
ful Chiefs in proportion to the wealth which they
carry with them.

A table, formerly the property of the gtea' t FRANI.
us, was sold by auction, at Boston, on the Ist inst.
for twenty dollars.
SINGULAR P.lnanxis.--Motrraear., AUGUST, 1
We have learned the following particulars from a
Gentleman lately from the Three Riven A young
man, living on the opposite bank of the river, affi-
anced to a girl of the same place, went down ,to
Quebec; he there became acquainted with another
girl, whom be married. After his return, the disap-
pointed one, meeting her successful rival on the beach,
and deriving strength from jealousy, seised her, flung
her to the earth, and when she opened her mouth, to
scream for assistance, crammed it full of sand. The
unfortunate being, fearful of being stifled, endea-
voured to keep her mouth shut ; but gasping for
breath, was obliged to re-open it, and at each attempt
to respire, received an additional handful, till she at
length fell a victim to the diabolical rage of her
enemy. The murderess ism jail at the Three Rivers.
Foartnta-Tmatio.--Much attention was last week
excited in the town of'Boston, by a remarkable in-
stance of simple credulity and deception. A fortune-
teller, who styled herself a wise woman, was for some
weeks resident in that town, through which she inse-
niously caused the following address, in manuscript,
to be privately circulated on small pieces of paper :
" Ladies, if you wish to know what is past, or what
is to come, any questions asked can be resolved by
Mrs. Tilford, dealer in Ladies wash-balls, lodged
at Mrs. Tomlinson's, Petticoat-lane, Boston." Last
Monday evening, a servant-girl called upon Mrs.
Tilford, who pervaded her to borrow and bring to
her lodgings twenty-four pound notes, on a promise
that thl man she would marry should that night
appear at her bedside, provided she slept with
that sum of money in the inside of her stays.--
The girl, who placed the notes on a chest of drawers,
kept her eyes fixed upon them, but so far became this
dupe of the fortune-teller, that when she unrolled,
at seven o'clock the next morning, the piece of brown
paper into which she imagined she saw them put one
by one, she found nothing in it but another piece of
paper, for the notes had remained in the hands of
Mrs. Tilford,who decamped from her lodgings during
Monday night, and left Boston by the Perseverance
coach on Tuesday morning at four o'clock. As the
girl, in obedience to the injunction of her deceiver,
did not unloose the paper fromphlenertsytanyfstibrenfeoreto
elude
her pursuers,
the
uerl?nuanir frustrate the means which were as
soon as possible taken for her apprehension. She is
a tall middle aged woman, of imposing minuets and
genteel address.

BeTornrrs.—These weapons, which have been so
successfully used by the English troops against the
enemy, were first used in battle by the Irench, in
1693. It is truly said that they invent and we improve,
Foovz.—When Captain AYSCOUGH translated Vol..
Tel RE'S SCrifirtiMit, he teazed Poore to write a Pro-
logue, but the wit either could or would not execute
the desire, and when hardly pressed, produced the
following lines, which he meant as a beginning
Our play is neither old nor very new,
Voltaire* it was, 'tis now Voltaire's csieto I
The last word is, of course, intended as apex upon
the name of his impoituuate frieud.