Star.
London, England, 1819-01-11 00:00:00

ALINCHESTER, JANUARY 9.

A Requisition, numerously signed, having been
presented to the 13oroughreeve, to call a public meet-
ing of the inhabitant( of this town, to petition for the
repeal of the Corn ;1111, of which no notice was taken,
the Requisitionists have themselves advertised a Pub-
1k
Meeting, for that purpose, to be held in the area
of St. Peter's Church, on 'Tuesday next. Several
eminent speakers are announced ; and among others,
Mt.IVILLIAsr Conay.rr, junior, who arrived at Liver-
pool a few days ago in the Pacific. He has come to
England to settle, as is said, some business of impor-
tance for his father.

A respectable Sunday Paper has 'very correctly
reported the
.unexampled sympathy and regret so
universally felt and expressed on 'Change, on Friday,
at the it:docked for intelligence that the Lied: Direc-
tors had dezlined granting assistance to one of the
first Commercial Establishnients iritiee City. " The
upright conduct and high charactes of the parties"
have indeed caused their misfortune to be generally
regretted ; and this is, if it were possible, still height-
ened by the fact, that one of the partners, while the
other was engaged in the office, went and took his
station on the Royal Exchange, where, shortly after,
he received :t message of the unexpected intelligence,
and immediately and very properly withdrew. •We
are also informed, that although they had ample
funds at their Banker's to pay all their engagements
oft that and the following days, besides other exten-
sive resources, and the spontaneous offers of money
without security, which they had received from many
friends in the course of the morning, of all which
they might have availed themselves, but with that
dignified and proper feeling, villa' has ever actuated
them, they sent an order to their Banker to suspend
their payments. It is, however, with pleasure we
state, that the subject is to be reconsidered at the
Bank, and we sincerely hope, for the sake of the
individuals themselves, and the commercial world,
that the assistance will not be withheld, more parti-
cularly as we understand the engagements of the
House do not (1101011 to one fourth of the sum stated
in the Sunday Paper, and that after satisfying all tic-
Mends, a very large surplus remains. Should the
grant, however, be refused, we hear that it will involve
many other respectable houses at home and abroad,
and that the coasequentes will be most disastrous.
C mous A xeceoe E.—Gretna Green has never been
more distinguished than within the last two or three
weeks, having been visited by a very eminent legal
Nehleman, nearly 70 years of age, iu company with
a female who has brought him several children out of
the pale of wedlock, which female, with the assistance
of the established joiner of the place, he married. His
Lordship travelled from London in the garb and head-
dress of a female. The object of tliis vcry.exteaordi-
nary step is to legitimise the children or tbhs connexion,
who, according to Scottish law, cease to be bastards
on the marriage of the parents at any time. His Lord-
ship Ile-many signed certain certificates on the spot, to
F:vc I,:s children the ad vantage of the conduct pursued.
the Noble met Leereed Lord has children by a for-
mer man ieee, me!, of course, this singular proceed-
Lee cea by no means interfere with their English
rights, whatever it may do with their Scottish.—
&amebae," Chronicle, Jan. 7.
Monday evening, e:e Grand Duke Mexiscieree,
of Austria, and suite, arrived at the George Inn, in
Portsmouth. Next morning they visited the Dock-
yard, when the Hon. Commissioner, Sir Geo. GREY,
Bart. conducted them through the vatioes depart-
ments, and pointed out the most interesting objects
therein. Passing through the rope-house, an unfor-
tunate circumstance occurred to General Count
HARDIOG, one of the suite, which was likely to have
had a most serious result. The rope-makers being
employed making a cable, the Count felt his curio-
sity greatly excited by treeing the operation of the,
yarn which designates the cable as being the Kiso's
property ; when, unthinkingly, he put his hand upon
the strands—looked the same moment toward an ob-
ject in another direction, and the strands, as they went
round drew in his fingers and hand. An instant
call out to stop the machinery was as promptly
obeyed, or his bend and arm would probably have
been twisted off. His fingers were crushed, the back
of his hand was torn up, and his shoulder was a little
strained.—The Grand Duke gave £5O to be distri-
buted to the workmen of the Dock-yard, and put
about £l7 into the charity boxes, for the widows of
men who have lost their lives by accidents whilst
employed in. the yard. The Grand Du'l/4: an:!.
suite dined on Tuesday with Lord Howe nn, of
Effingham, at the Lieutenant-Government House.
Wednesday morning the Grand Duke attended Masse
at the Catholic Chapel, Portsca e and afterwards vi-
sited the ships in the Harbour, and the Royal Hospi-
tal at Hadar, end dined with Admiral Sir Cieoaoe
CAMPBELL, K. C. B. at the Admiralty House. Thurs-•
day, accompanied by the Lieutenant-Governor, Ge•
neral Lord HOWARD, of Effingham, and Sir G.
CAMPBELL, Port Admiral, the Officers of the Staff,
ex. he attended the Parade of the Royal North Bri-
tish Fusileers, who were drawn up to receive him in
front of:the Government House, where lie arrived
about eleven o'clock: the fine appearance of this ex-
cellent regiment excited much interest in the illustri-
ous stranger. He afterwards visited the Semaphore
Signal House on the platform, and was highly pleased
by the display of this branch of naval service, and
the intelligence given by Oke, the senior signal-man,
in the theoretical and practical management of such
an improved system of communication. The Prince
again dined with Lord Howenn and a select party.
iris Highness chewed a most inquisitive mind in all
his researches; not appearing satisfied with any de-
scription of the various machinery and systems shewn
hint, short of a knowledge of their principles, uses,
and practical applications. On Friday morning
the
Grand Duke sit off for Arundel to view the magni-
ficent Castle there; and, on Saturday afternoon, his
Higleatni arrived at Brighton, on a mit to his Royal
Bighorns. the Pewee Mover. • ' •