Star.
London, England, 1821-10-24 00:00:00

ODESSA, SEPTEMBER 22. '

Within these few days there have been again seve-
ral arrivals from Constantinople, by which we have
private letters from that city up to the 16th inst.—
;The tame uncertainty still prevailed respecting the
expected declaration of our Court ; but the Turks,
however, appear to entertain some hopes of peace.
Tlre Hatti Scheriff, 'before-mentioned on the state-
ment of the Captain of a vessel, as having been is-
sued by the Sultan, to command a general arming
of i
the Mussulmen, is reduced, according to letters
received to-day. to some new precautions of a mili-
tary nature, ordered by the Grand Vizier. Our situ-
ation becomes every day more singular. All that we
saw for some time back grave us mason to infer that
a speedy commencement of hostilities was probable ;
we've now more and more convinced every day that
,e were before mistaken. We are in some measure
boaileterms with Tun key, as all commercial inter-
course is suspended, and the hopes of peace become
more confirmed. Everybody joins in the wish that this
unpleasant state of uncertainty may be soon ended.

The return of the woollen manufacture of the West
Riding of Yorkshire, for the Quarter ending the 30th
of se2tember last, has just been made up, and we are
happy to report, that the quantity of goods mann-
fumed within that period exceeds the most flourish-
int Quater in the memory of man.
Eros relates, that in 1756, the Sieur do VAL, Dra-
to the French Ambassador, M. de VERGENNES.
C: announced the double bond of alliance and
ornage which had united his Court with the House
of Nutria, received from the ltcis-Effendi no other
Answer than “ that the Sublime Porte did not trouble
itself about the unian of one hog with another!"—
The comparison was certainly not very complimen-
tary to the Houses of Bourbon and Hapsburg. A si-
milar answer was given by the Vizier KUPERLI to the
French Ambassador, Monsieur de la HAYS, even in
the brilliant xra of Louts XIV. When that Minister
announced the splendid successes of his Sovereign
over the Spaniards, the Vizier replied—" What care
1 whether the dog eat the hog or the hog eat the dog?"
So degrading is any connexion with infidels esteemed,
that the Janissaries employed as guards to a European
have the general appellation of Swineherds !
Dr. CLANNY, of Sunderland, has presented to the
Literary and Philosophical Society of that town a I
say fine collection of insects, made at the Cape of
Good Hope, by C. Cow Lotion, Esq. which is so much
the more interesting to the entomologist as it is un-
derstood to be complete. This forms a valuable ac-
companiment to the beautiful collection from Deme-
rara, preseoted to the Society some time ago, by
Mire ANDERSON, and which has since been scientifi-
cally arranged by Mr. Fox, of Westoe.
Dr. Dutotut, an eminent French physician, died
soddenly at Paris on Thursday last, in the 66th year
o f his age. Himself, and fifty other physicians, had
assembled at a dinner to celebrate the festival of St.
Luke, when, in the middle of the first course, he was
seized with apoplexy, which, in spite of the medical
aid of his brethren promptly administered, terminated
Lis life in five minutes.

The Society of Agriculture, Science, and Arts, at
Chalons-sur-Marne, has offered a Golden Medal,
value 300 francs, for the best Essay upon the fol-
lowing queLt:on:--,, Which, in time of peace, are
de best means of rendering the leisure of the French
soldier most useful to himself, to the Army, and the
Mate, without injury to his national character and
military spirit?"
By means of an invention of Mr. W. Hooray, Mas-
ter Shipwright's Assistant at Woolwich Dock-yard, a
man is enabled to work under water, and the danger-
ces practice of heeling ships hitherto practised is ren-
dered unnecessary. The water-pipe and cock (a con-
iderable distance under water) of his Majesty's ship
fining at Woolwich, was by this contrivance
lifted on Wednesday.
Tuesday se•nnight, his Majesty's steam-packet
Busier, intended for the conveyance of the Mails
horn Dover to Calais, arrived at the former port
from the River. She is about 110 tens•burthen, and
las two engines, each of 24-horse power, and is con-
sidered by connoisseurs to be a fine-looking, well-
built vas& On Wednesday she took the Mail for
Calais, returned the next morning, to be in readineis
so take the one of Friday, which having done, she re-
turned to Dover on Sunday, crossing the Channel,
with the wind peculiarly adverse, in little more than
four hours.
The New Monthly Magazine for November 1, will
contain, among many other interesting articles, the
int part of a Lecture on the History of the Middle
Ages, by the celebrated SISMONDI, communicated
to the Editor by the Author.
THE CAUBRO-BRITON.—The admirers of the an-
cient literature of %Vales, and of the Celtic Nations
rurally, will be pleased to hear that the above po-
pular Work, devoted especially to its cultivation,
will immediately be resumed, under the superintend-
lace of the original Editor. It will appear, as be-
fore, Monthly, and at the former price of ls. 6d.
each Number, but upon an enlarged scale, calculated
to admit of considerable improvements in the plan of
the Work. No. 23 will be published on the Ist of
November, by SIMPKIN and MARSHALL, Stationers
Hall-court, Ludgate-street, to whom Communica-
tions to the Editor, free of postage, are requested to
be addressed.
DREADFUL F1RE...41C corn-mill of Mr. n. REY.
Rotas, at Harvington, near Evesham, and the paper-
mill adjoining, of Messrs. FLINT and Co. were totally
4legtoled by fire on Saterday se'nnight, and we me-
ta add, that corn, flour, &c. to the amount of
Tell a ()ley to the devouring element; the stock
in the paper.mill was by great exertion rescued from
destruction. The fire, which commenced in the corn-
milli broke out about three o'clock, and such was its
devastating progress, that notwithstanding the inde-
fatigable and praiseworthy efforts of the neighbour-
hood to restrain its fury, the premises were reduced
to a heap of ruins, before the engine from Evesham,
Which' was immediately sent for, and promptly dis-
patched, could be brought to the spot. Mr. REYNOLDS
is a severe sufferer by this event, no part of his stock
being insured. The mills were the property of Mr.
MARSHALL., and were insured in the County Fire
Office, but to an amount far beneath the loss sustained
hY their destruction. The cause of this disastrous con.
%ration has not been precisely ;met :ained, but the
nit.g probable conjecture is, that it o:iginatcd in the
tacdua of the machinery.