Star.
London, England, 1826-03-17 00:00:00

-TO SPRING.
rto brie: aex tv4'
t': j M hope of man, enchanting Spring!
Thy throne is mode of budding fluwess--
Thy voice is with the birds that sing
Among the leaves of thy green bowers!

Thy. breath is of that sweet perfume
• • Which comes where violets make their bed—
Thy chlek is of the mellow bloom
That's sprinkled on the daisy's bead!
Thine eye is like the sky's deep blue—
. . Thy robe is of the grassy mound—
:Thy ems are of the morning dew—
Thy footstep makes a fairy ground!

THE GREEKS.

PROM Till ETOILE nP TUISDAy, MARCH 14.
CONSTANTINOPLE, F ss. 10.
A report has been spread here for these three weeks,
that the Greeks had retaken Ttipolizza, but this news
seems to be entirely destitute of foundation. Things are
still in the same state-at Missolonghi, except that the
<Tel ations of the siege on the land side have been inter
rupted by the heavy rains.

CORFU, Fn. G.

It is affirmed that there h is been a naval action in the
Gulf of Patras, and the news is confirmed of the destruc-
tion not only of a Turkish frigate, but of a 'Turkish
- corve,te, which was burnt. The accounts add, that a
brig and several fire-ships were taken by boarding, and
that the garrison of Missolonghi has made a fresh sally,
which is stated to have been very fatal to the army of
Ibrahim Paella. We learn also, that the two persons
who lately arrived from Constantinople at the camp of
the geraskier, and whose arrival made the latter uneasy,
were plenipotentiaries commissiened to negotiate with the
iambi' ants af Missolonghi, who refused to listen to their.
Fifa. 7.—Notwithistanding the advantage which the
. Greek fleet has gained over the Tusks, it seems that the
. action was not general, and that the Greeks did not
succeed in wholly blockading. Missolonghi, which is
very closely invested by four well armed frigates, which
suffer nothing to enter or quit that place. It even seems
that the garrison has not been supplied with provisions,
as was said, by the Greek fleet; but that, on the con-
trey, it is in the greatest distress for subsistence, which
places it i4er the necessity of making a desperate ef-
fort, the fatal consequences or which are apprehended.
The fact is, that the most distingni-hed persons of the
nubility of Ibis country have set on foot a subscription,
to of the most prompt assistance to the inhabitants
of that town. Four bo4ts, laden with biscuit, are gone
thither; two vessels, with similar Cargoes, are waiting
at•Cephalonia for a favourable moment to sail. It is
Armed that Canaria is commissioned to protect them
on their passage by every measure in his power. A
steam-boat, which is expected on the 10th, is to depart
tor Among, to bring hither a 'person of importance.
PA alit, MARCH 13 —The 'Norio di Roma announces,
after st.let!er .confirtning- the news of the advantages
ob a'ricd by the. Greeks before Missolongbi, that the
G vein's:mirk at Napoli di Romania had declared to
• M. Stratford Canning, that no proposal for an accom-
mpdaticin will be accepted from the Porte, unless it has
for Lasib the independence of Greece.
•

Fifteen vessels laden with bones artived at Hull on
Saturday and Sunday last from Holland.
Fifty thousand pounds worth of gold and silver, are
said to be annually employed at Birmingham in gilding
and plating, and of course for ever lost as bullion.
Mary Stviter was convicted at the late Worcester
Assizes for stealing cotton. She offered the commit-
ting Magistrate five shillings to forgive her.
Ilarris, sentenced at the late Worcester Assizes to

tranvortation, for stealing lead, had nearly spared
both Judge and Jury the trouble of "delivering" the
gaol of him, having d; livered himself on Tuesday morn-
ing, .by. escaping trom the front of the caravan in
uhich the pi isoners are conveyed to the Town-hall, at
the ai.aleuc his companions were being let out at the
back; and, mixing with the crowd, he got off. How-
ever, he was re-:aptuked early next morning in a wood
Kerr I.lfoni.gl..ove.
The average importations of tea by the East India
Company for five years prior to 1821, amounted to
26 416,21911 s ;* the prime cost to 1,717,116. The tea
c niumed in Europe and America is estimated at
32,000,0001b5.

The Police at Madrid have seized a new Proclarna.

don, signed by %tam, which distinctly states that
the Inal.ahninistration. of the affairs of the country by
Ih Alma, renders his abdication in favour of the Infant.
Don CARLOS, necessary. old recommends a visit to
Rome for the betsefit of his health.
CALEDONIAN CANAL.—A Parliamentary paper has
been just published respecting the Caledonian Canal.
It is a list of ti.e claims for compensation in conse-
quence of damages sustained by the cutting of the
Canal. We extract two; the first, because such fair

and honow able cenduct ought never to pass unnoticed;
it is 1114 of JOHN HAULM" Esq. M.P. Mr. Baillie's
estimated damage is 851. per annum; he adds, " The
compensation for which, at twenty years purchase.
amounts to 1,7001. but at this property was acquired
by the claimant fora price amounting only to 15 years'
put chase of the annual rent, he cannot cosisci:ntiously
claim a higher rate of compensation, and accordingly
limits his demand to the sum of 1,27'5/." The other is a
claim of Glengarry, for a Highland lake, named Loch
Oich.. We give his own description of it " The Lod
corers a surface of. four miles in length, and varies
fiom a quarter, to the sixteenth part of a mile." For
this, Glengarry requires only 20.00 N. We mi,take:
Ile has already a suit before the Court of Session, for
compensation for all that part of the I o: h, which has
been hitherto occupied for the Canal, and we conclude,
in a like only about three hundred yards broad,
t,:l an average, no small proportion of it has heti% so
We shall therefore, we conceive, make a
petty ample allowance, when 4e calculate the surface
h.t. which Covetnment is to pay twrn! y thousand
r,unds, at four hundred English acres, which, rating
Cie rreposed purchase at twenty years; gives only the
I.:(,erate rent of 11. ss. per acre.- NN c have often
I eaicl Lye Highlands celebrated for the number of its
.key, and we have sometimes heard of the cle.riess of
ea- waters, but we never before had a notion that
t;ey were so valuable to ae proprietor.
•Weduexday evening, a gent'eman, while traveling on
the outside of one of the stages from London to Dept-
ford. lo.t Ins I::tl.ifite, anu tell to the ground. His
k'atl yeas great') moused, it,,d bled coi.aiderably.
Fittscti lit TICS .LOYALTY llcit Li NI 112 VAUX.

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