Star.
London, England, 1817-08-07 00:00:00

ST. PETERSBURGH. WIN 11.

In the Imperial Ukase, publiihed on the marriage
of the Grand Duke Nicholas, is the following pas,
sage: _

" ALMIGHTY Gon, who guides the fates of Empires
and People, who so lately showered down upon Russia
'so much favour and goodness, now also casts upon it
his gracious eye. It pleases his holy will that the Rus•
sian Imperial House shall encrease and be confirmed
in its strength and glory by ties of blood and friend-
ship with the most powerlul States on the Earth.—
At the suggestion, and with t: e blessing of Htst in
whose hands are the hearts of Princes, and with the
consent of our most beloved mother, the Empress
Maria Feodorowna,,we took the resolution, in con-
ceit with his Majesty Frederick William the Thi:44,,

king of Prussia, to choose his most august daughter.
the Princess Charlotte, for the consort of our beloved
brother the Grand Duke Nicholas Pawlowitsch, in
conformity with his own wishes. On the 24th of
June she made her confession of faith, according to
the creed of the Greek Russian Church, and was
named, on receiving the holy unction, Alexandra
Feodorowna, &c."

The New York Papers of the 'sth ultimo having
given some details respecting the battle which took
place on the Orinoko, in which the Spanish army
was defeated by the Patriots, and lost 800 killed and
500 wounde", some of our contemporaries have con-
ceived this to be a new event ; but this is the same
battle of which we before had accounts in the Boston
Papers (see the STAR of the Ist inst.)

The authenticity of the Protest of MAIM% Lot-rsA,
(a copy of which was given in the STAR of Tues-
day) is very much doubted in the political circles,
and positively denied by some, who could hardly be
ignorant of Its existence, were it genuine.

Accounts from Halifax, dated June 14, state, that
a distressing file took place at Carbonear, (New.
foundland), on the 18th a May. Seventeen houses
were consumed.
The EMPEROR of RvsstA is about to introduce for
his domestics, liveries similar to those of the PRINCE
RYGENT, with the variation of dark green cloth in-
stead of dark blue, with which our royal liveries are
(Aced and turned lip. Suits are now making for two
English lads, who have been training daily for about
two months past at Carlton House Stables, under the
direction of the PRINCIL REGENT's principal Coachman
and others, to learn to ride and drive properly, and
when they are in every respect thoroughly qualified
to undertake the management of horses, they will
leave England for St. Petersburgli, taking with them
under their care certain choice and valuable horses
which were purchased by the GRAND DUKE during
his stay here.—His Imperial Majesty is having St.
Petersburgh paved in a similar style to the streets
of Landon.

The Glasgow Astronomical Society has lately pro-
cured a Solar Microscope, from a celebrated opician,
the largest that optician has ever ciasstructed- It is
exhibited to most advantage betwixt I I and 2 o'clock,
dining which hours the sun is in the best position for
chewing it. The first trial cl. this instrument dis-
closed some wonderful phenomena—hundreds of in-
sects were discovered devouring the body of a gnat,
and scores had lived luxuriously for several months
on the leg of a moth ! These animalcule were mag-
nified so as to appear nine inches long, their actual
size being somewhat less than the fourteen hundredth
part of an inch. The mineral kingdom afforded
another display of brilliant objects ; their chrystalliza-
aqd the splendour of their cokuring, exceed any
thing the most lively imagination can conceive.
Plossrittanism.—A Gentleman has backed EATON
(the pedestrian), receiving two to one, that he accom-
plishes the task of walking from Colchester, in Essex,
to London, in one day, and returisiog to Colchester the
I next, and so on for twenty successive days. Colches-
ter is 52 miles from London.

Tuesday se'nnight there was a ringing match at
Gwennap, near Redruth :—the Camborne ringers
Rot the first prize, which was six silver-laced hats ;
the Redruth ringers got the second, a gold-laced
hat; and the Glavin ringers the third, six pair of
gloves.
Tuesday sennight being the Anniversary of the
Gloucestershire Pitt Club, a highly respectable cotn-
pany,atnounting in number to seventy-seven, and in.
eluding some of the first characters in the city and
county, assembled together at the Bell Inn, Glouces-
ter. MICHAEL Hicks BEACH, Esq. WAS President of
the day, supported by TnomAs DAVIS, Esq. as Vice.
The American Physicians have announced the
Pyrela Umbellifera, a Virginian plant, to be a specific
in cancer and scrophula.
The fine weather continues to encourage us with
the hope of a rich and bountiful harvest. This con-
fidence spreads beyond the sphere of agriculture, and
seems already to animate the operations of commerce.
Colonial produce rises in price, nhile articles of the
first necessity are rapidly declining.
Last night, between seven and eight o'clock, 22
convicts were put into an open waggon in the Old
Bailey yard, which soon afterwards drove off on their ,
way to Portsmouth for embarkation to Botany Bay.'
The earl" hour attracted a greater crowd than usual
outside;' and a curious incident occurred. Several'
persons climbed up, as usual, on the outside wall, to
take a view of the convicts. One of them was im-
prudent enough openly to claim acquaintance with
one or two of the most hardened ; when, the Officers
in attendance knowing him to be old offender,
rushed out at the gate, and took him into custody.
He was lodged in Newgate, with some difficulty.
The body of a child, supposed to be murdered,
was lately found in a wood. in Neilston parish. Sus-
picion has been att iched to a woman residing in
Gorbals, Glasgow, and she has accordingly beers ap-
prehended.
Monday afternoon, a child about 18 months old,
belonging to a waterman living in Victualling-Office-
alley, Chatham, strayed from its mother, while she
was engaged, and walked into the river, which flows
up a part of 'the alley at high water ; the little help-
less creature soon lost its looting, and was carried
away by the tide. A man, in a vessel, who saw the
body floating, following the undulation of the water,
and with the head immersed in it, got into a boat,
' proceeded to its assistance, pit ked it up, and took it
Ito its terrified parents. Medical assistance was in-
stantly procured, and in a little time the child was
so far recovered as to be out of danger.
At the Manchester General Quatter Sessions, on
Thursday last, N. Lodolsky. Samuel hoar:, and J.
Levy, all Jews, were indicted for conspiring together
to defraud and cheat Messrs. Skikelthorp and Thomp-
son, (considerable manufacturers in Manchester,) of
sundry pieces of goods, their property ; when, alter a
patient investigation, which lasted nine hours, the
Jury in about three minutes returned a verdict of
Guilty against all the prisoners. They were sen-
tenced to be imprisoned is Lancaster Castle—Lo-
dolsky, two years and six months; Isaacs and Levy,
two years; and each to pay a fire of fen, and to be
further imprisoned until such fine be paid.