Star.
London, England, 1829-11-27 00:00:00

LORD LORTON'S MEETING.

A meeting of magistrates and landed proprietors, con-
vened pursuant to hand-bill requisition, took place on
Tuesday last in the village of Elphin. The noble re-
quisionist, doubtlessly to save the trouble, got up the
matter in this way; to save his numerous friends trouble,
convened it in their neighbourhood instead of the county
town; to save the wear and tear of the court-house, and
possibly with the laudable intention of procuring the
bible school pupils a play-hour, hold it in their school-
room ; to save the meeting the trouble of exercising a
choice of a President, spontaneously took the chair ;
to save them the usual trouble of forming a com-
mittee and drawing up resolutions, brought them in his
pocket already manufactured ; to save the lungs of his
friends, delivered almost all the speeches himself ; to save
the tellers on a division trouble, precluded all votes but
those of magistrates and persons who had land in fee ; and,
finally, to promote the free circulation of air, prove his
love of liberty, and give his friends elbow -room, turned
the remainder of the meeting out of doors. The happy
result of these admirable arrangements may be antici-
pated ; a vote, in despite of the most obdurate opposition,
was got in favour of that liberal, constitutional, and truly
merciful measure—the Insurrection Act! Of his Lordship
and his supporters we may say, they bear their blushing
honours so thick upon them, that lest we should add to
the suffusion and inflame their worldly vanity, we merely
give our readers their names, with a hint of their relative
bearing to his Lordship :
1. Lord Lorton
I. Hon. R. King
S. Colonel Tenneson
4. Wm. Caulfield

S. Robert God'

6. Wm. Lloyd
7. Owen Lloyd

S. R. J. Lloyd
9. Robert Devon's!'

10. 0. T. Lloyd
it. J. Robinson
12. Morgan Crofton
15. Henry Fry

.... Chairman.

Hb Lord4hip's son.
.... His Lordship's brother-in-law.
..... His Lordthip's lieut.-Col.
.... His Lordship sLieut.-CoL's son-

in-law.

.... His Lordship's New Captain,
son of his other Liens -Col.
..... His Lordship's New Captain's
. . .

Ratnesake an- d relative.
.... Ditto Ditto

.... Nephew of Mr. Do. Agent to
the Colonel _

• His Lordship's other Capt.
.... His Lordship's Adjt.
• ... His Lordship's Agent.
• Hh Lordship's tenant.

14. Remit Elwood ..'.. His Lordship's tenant.
IS. John Coomy His Lordship's tenant.
16. John Irwin Two Tars, new Magistrates of
f 17. R. R. Amety his Lordship's appointment.
One gentleman of property—two Agents to Absentees,
with one Hogg—the Lord Bishop of Elphin, and his
Dean, formed (we believe) the independent magisterial
majority, who, in the plenitude of their tenderness and
mercy to the poor (as they aver) would subject the
county to the benign influence of the Insurrection Act.
We ask pardon for having placed the Lord Bishop and
his Dean so low on our list; but we could not possibly
bring ourselves to break a single link of the long chain
of his Lordship's independent friends.
We now subjoin a list of the Magistrates who voted in
the minority ; and it is to us a_ matter of astonishment,
that these gentlemen should presume to differ with his
Lordship ; should doubt for a moment the benevolence
and liberality of his views ; should be so parsimonious
as to spare the public money in these prosperous times :
they should be so democratical as to deem the Insurrec-
' tion Act an abridgment of national liberty ; should be
so rash as to undertake the preservation of the peace
in their respective districts, without the power of trans-
porting every poor idiot who (after hours) may wish to
gaze at his prototype the man in the moon, or to disturb by
insurrection the numerical calculations of every ragged
astronomer, who might attempt to reckon the stars.
Why will not these infatuated gentleman take a lesson
from the Raw Head and Bloody Bone stories we hear
daily ; their obduracy is terrific ; their Quixotism, we
fear, will yet lead them to the attack of Windmills or of
Jack the Joint killer, or possibly to pull a poor Editor's
Nose. We shall therefore conclude, and get rid of those
gunpowder gentry by giving their names to our readers
without further commcnt.
List of the Magistrates who voted against the adopdms of the
Insurrection Act in the county :—Arthur French, Esq. M.P. and
Governor, Frenchpark.honse ; William Molloy, Esq. Oakpon ;
Daniel Kelly, Esq. Cargins ; Rev. John French, Frenchpark.
home; O'Conor Don, Bahnagar ; Oliver D. Grace, Rsq. Mantua.
house; Fitzstephen French, Esq. Errot4odge ; Dr. Arthur Ach-
nusty, Kilmore-house: Thomas Phillips, Esq. 'SW0101041; Capt.
Taaffe Capps-1 odp ; Dominick Lodge, Esq. Frencipark-house ;
John Halle, Esq. Lisadurn.
Among the landed Proprietors who voted with the ma-
jority of the magistrates, we perceived another Militia
Captain, a little volunteer, who has, we believe, no pro-
perty in fee in the country ; and among those who voted
with the minority, we find Michael Balf, Edward O'Conor,
James Balf, and Gunning Plunket, &qrs.
A formal protest against the proceedings of the Lor-
tonites, has been signed by the following names :
A. French, Governor, J. P. Daniel Keliy,J. P. O'Conor Don
J. P. Wm' Mulloy, J. P. John French, J. P. 0. D. S. Grace, J. P
Fitzatephen Ffrench, J. P. Arthur Aclunuty, J. P. Thos. Philips
J. P. Dominick Corr. 3, P. John Balfe, J. P. Wm. Tuffs, J. P
Michael RIM, James Balfe, John W. Kelly, John K. C. Kelly.
Gunning Plunket, Edward O'Conor.....Dublin Paper

Extract of a letter from Bourdeanx :—" We have
seen the Vera Cruz Papers to the 18th September, re-
ceived by the packet-boat, No. 1; the following is an
extract:—' The Chambers closed its sittings at Mexico on
the 27th August, after having invested the President,
Guerrero, with full powers to defend the liberty and in-
dependence of the country. General Teran, a man of
great merit, has been appointed second in command, un-
der the orders of General Santa Anna ; and several of
the chiefs are in motion. Orders have been given for
the sequestration of property belonging to persons who
are the enemies of the country, and the half of the re-
venue of Spaniards who shall be absent, during the pre-
sent war, in foreign countries. A convoy left Mexico on
the 11th September, with 600,000 piastres. General
Bravo, with other chiefs, are expected at Mexico."
We are desired to state that there is no truth whatever
in the report which has appeared in the London papers,
and was inadvertently copied last week into our own, of
an approaching marriage between Lady Louisa Beanclerk
and a son of Mr. Heneage.—Brighton Gazette.
The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin has appointed
the Rev. Lawrence Dunne, of North Anne-street Chapel,
to be Rector of the parish of Castledermot, county Kildare,
vacant by the death of its late Pastor, the Rev. Mr. Led-
non.

Mr. Oliver Grace, of Mantua, who will, in all likeli-
hood, fill the office of High Sheriff of Roscommon for
the ensuing year, is the son of the first Catholic called
on the Grand Jury of that county after the passing of
the Relief Bill of 1793.

REPRESENTATION OF KERILY.A new candidate
has been named within the last few days in the person of
the Earl of Kerry, the eldest son of the Marquis of
Lansdowne. This young nobleman is we believe of age,
and has much distinguished himself in College.—The
Noble Marquis has extensive estates in Kerry, and the
prospects of the young Earl are spoken of as by no means
discouraging. We understand that it is not the Noble
Lord's intention to oppose either of the present patriotic
members for the county, and that he will only offer him-
self' to the consideration of the electors in the event of
a yacanCy.—Tralee Mercury.

THE EXORBITANT CHARGE.

FROM TILE FRESCO.

The Arabs! the Jews! 'tis too bat on my lifr!

I'd fain flay the knaves that au shamefully thrive :
What! charge twenty crowns, but to bury my wife!--
I bad rather—a/esest—she was once more alive.
-Prira SCHLIIIIIIII-

- THE THEATRES.

COVENT GARDEN: THE ROYAL FUGITIVE"

The excellence of Miss Kesl r.t.s.'s Juliet requites no
foil to set it off : without the adventitious aid of contrast,
" Her skill shall, likes star i' the darkest night.
Stick fiery off, indeed"
and the undiminished power of her attraction require.;
not the test of an indifferent drama, ill-supported, and
the consequent display of " empty benches" on the inter-
vening nights of performance, to enhance her value in
public estimation, or to attach importance to her services
in the eyes of the Proprietary. We do think, therefore,
that with so many excellent " stock pieces" at their
command, in which the varied talent and strength of the
Covent Garden Company could be so much more eiTec-
tively put forth, and that taste for the drama, which has
been so fortunately re-animated (even when it scented
at the point of extinction) successfully stim::latul
there was something injudicious, to say the least of it,
in trifling with the spirit which it was so difficult to re-
vive, by the production, at such a time, of a Drama with
such questionable pretensions to popular favour aa " The
Royal Fugitive," to which it required all the gmd
nature of a very indulgent audience to extend " The
Rights of Hospitality." As the medium of some well-
arranged Scotch airs—prelnded by an overture in 13:-
stmt.'s best style—and as giving occasion for some
bursts of admirable acting, the piece so far succeeded
as to be announced for repetition with but few
dissentient voices.—This Operatic Drama, is founded
upon one of the many hair-breadth 'scapes of " the
Young Pretender," and though the perilous adventures
of that unfortunate Prince may be supposed to present to
the Dramatist more frequent incidents capable of being
wrought into powerful scenic situations, than those of
almost any other hero of chivalry or romance, yet in this
particular instance, they were either deemed so imprac-
ticable by the author, or so little appreciated by the actors,
that they were suffered to " come tardy off." The piece
excited little interest throughout the two first acts, if in-
ofeed we except the thrilling effect produced by Miss E.
TREE, (as the Duchess of Athol) in the scene where,
whilst the Prince stands disguised as the Duke, her hus-
band, in the presence of one of his pursuers ; intelligence
arrives that the Duke himself has actually been made
prisoner at a neighbouring island. With that exception,
the colloquy of these acts was so unenlivened by heroic
sentiment, energetic appeals to human sympathy,
sprightliness or wit, that nothing but the ever excellent
singing of Miss Cswss, ably supported by Mr. WOOD,
kept the audience sufficiently in good humour to hold
their judgments suspended: till the third act, by the
increasing peril of the Pretender's situation and the se-
vere trial of his self possession at the banquet, compen-
sated for the heaviness of its predecessors, and " took
their reasons, and their judgments captive." With a very
high opinion of Mr. WA RDE'S talents, we must say we
never saw theme° unequally exercised as on this occasion.
Prince Charles is an unfortunate, houseleas, homeless,
and almost friendless, wanderer, it is true ; —but his repre-
sentative does little honour to his general character, by
the lachrymose weakness with which he details his suffer-
ings: and privations. This error—for an error we con-
ceive it to be, very detrimental to the general effect of
the Drama—he retrieved, by the animation and genuine
feeling which he displayed in the few short, but ener-
getic, sentences in which at the Banquet, be reproved
the sanguinary spirit of the adversaries to whom he was
then unknown. Miss E. TREE did more than justice to
the Duchess—and merits the grateful acknowledgments
of the author, for the skill with which she sustained a
character so little worthy of her talents. To her and to
Miss CAWSE the success of the Drama may fairly be
ascribed ; and this we say, without any desire to detract
from Mr. Woon's merits. By the bye, this Gentleman
possesses so many capabilities for combining the advan-
tages of good acting with the attraction of good singing,
that we trust he will sedulously apply himself to the cul-
tivation of so very essential a qualification. RUSSELL
played old Sandy extremely well, and BLANCHARD'S
Colonel Cope was equally good. Mr. DIDDEA R had
little to do as the Duke of Athol, but he did that little
respectably. His dress might be improved with
manifest advantage to the scene. The entrance of
the Duke of CUMBERLAND nearly proved fatal to the
piece :—that character was enacted by a Mr. HORRIBLE,
or HORREBOW, Or HORRIHBORE...-01' some such name
—but we advise the manager, for the sake of the author,
to place his Highness in other hands.

Mr. KEAN arrived in town on Sunday last, for the
sole purpose, we are asssured, of performing the three
nights which he proffered to Covent Garden Theatre, but
the arrangements of that Theatre not allowing the ma-
nager to accept of his services on Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday of the next week, he has volunteered to per-
form on those nights at Drury-lane Theatre, for the
purpose of aiding that establishment in the present de-
pressed state of theatrical affairs. Mr. KEA): declined
engagements at Manchester, Liverpool, and Birmingham,
that he might fulfil his intentions towards Gwent-garden.
A person, on viewing the Siamese Youths at the
Egyp'ian Hall, observed, that they formed a new era in
human nature, for they could not be called either married
or single.
Madame VEsTais is now in town, and not yet engaged
at either theatre, though both have made overtures to
secure her services.

Mrs. W. WEST is now performing at Newcastle-on-
Tyne, on her way from Edinburgh to fulfil engagements
at the Derby and Nottingham theatres.
It is not more strange than true, that whilst theatricals
in London are on the wane, at Edinburgh, Plymouth,
and other provincial towns of note, they were never more
prosperous than they now are. In America, save and
except at the principal theatre in New York, theatricals
were never known to be in so drooping a condition.
It is generally reported that a Brevet promotion will
shortly take place in the Army and Navy, and also a re-
gulation relative to the rank of lieutenant-Colonels and
Post Captains.
A part of the 50th Regiment stationed in Blackburn
were inspected on Saturday, the 14th inst. by Major
General the Hon., Sir H. F.
.Bouverie, Commanding
Officer of that district. The appearance and discipline of
the men were stated by the General to be perfectly
satisfactory to him, and highly creditable to the Officers.
Meckford, the collector of taxes of Eastbourne, has
been released from custody, on satisfactory grounds.
Commissioner Ross and the Storekeeper of the Dock-
yard, left Plymouth yesterday for London, on official
business.

LITERARY NOTICE.

THE ATHENAID, OR MODERN GRECIANS.
MAUD AND MILLAR.

When the mighty genius of " the Ariosto of the
North" exacted tribute from his admiring country, and
from the whale literary world, and established an exclu-
sive property in the noblest and most vigorous deli-
neations of all that was bold, romantic, chivalrous, en-
chanting., or interesting, in the traditional legends and
national characteristics of his native land, he did but
•wlileve, by the gifted labour of many years, and the
fe..tile production of many volumes, that triumph which
with reference to GREECE and her sons, of the olden
time, and of our own days,—the mightier genius of
By so m, accomplished in the fulness of poetic inspiration,
(which, with tha surpassing splendor of the lightning,
all its fatal fleetness,) and in the brief space of some
few, but deathless, stanzas. The glory of that land of
11,A-we.; and of sages, when she stood erect in the sublimely
majesty of freedom—Ler mournful loveliness
as sh?. now appa:s, like a beauteous corpse without a
spirit: the brightner4 of the past, and the desolation of
the pre,,ent ;--the devotion of lin illustrious sons, the
hero:; of ilsmis and Thennopylv —and the prostration
of the deo-en:rate rate Cot have looked tamely on, and
witnes.seti her devastotion without one worthy effort to
avenge her wrongs, or to asszrt their independency as
men ;—" the heart e:ta nothing feel, that feels not
these," as Bya9x hld embodied them, in strains worthy
of recalling

" The Lies of Greece, the Ii es of Great !
Where t•uruing Sarin° loved and sung.
Where grew the arts of w•ar and peace,
Where Delos rose, and Pheebut aprons !
F.ternal Summer gild. then, yet.
But all, except their sun, is set."

Associated AA the nomory of 13 vaoN has become with
every recollection of his beloved Greens, it bospeaks at
least the daring of a poetic slirit to strike the chord,
which had so long vibrated to his magic tench ; and even
though the laurel-wreath be snatched from the grasp of
the aspirant, the of the attempt, which
would have rendemi success glorious, casts over
the discomfiture of defeat the redeeming pro-
mise of faun? excellence. " The Athenaid, or
Modern Grecians," is the production of HENRY
d. BRADFII.:I.D, Esq. a gentleman who has been actively
and honourably engaged in the Greek cause ; and his
sketches of Grecian character and habits have the merit
of being drawn "'rem personal observation. The volume
is dedicated to the most distinguished lyric Poet of the
age-1%0)1ns Moon a;—and as a fair specimen of Mr.
BRADFIELD'S poetical ability, we select the• closing
stanzas of the Poem—which, were it only as an intro-
duction to some excellent Notes, is entitled to the consi-`
deration of all who take an interest in the regeneration
of Greece :

For " Greece Is Freedom's orphan, helpless child!

Breathing where horrors circumvent her rest ;
Tier rants have been with infidels defiled,

The despot's sword hath pierced her bleeding breast :
And At bath beam as foe. half calm, half wild.

With every earthy/ IM, and wrong oppress!
But now her Goa looks nn her, and hsth shed
A holler ray wows(' her hapless head!—

While Greece bath sons to perish in her right,-.-
While Greece bath friends to arm in her defence,—
While Europe's freemen cheer her in the fight,—
No force shall drive her free-born spirit thence !
No power shall crush her, with its giant might !
It is the same to•day, and will be hence :
- Ths iron chain of frowsy may hind.
Bad miter quench, the Orli of the mini I

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Marts Anuresis Taus Day.—Dublin 2—Waterford 2—Guernsey

and Jersey!—Sweden I—Franee I—Holland I.

The Ann, Phi'beck, was driven on shore on the Holderness toast
on Tuesday night.
The Lune, Comfottk, from Quebec, arrived at Sheerness, with
loss of rudder, and two anchors and cables, having been on shore,
bound to Hull.

The Providence, Cripp, from London to Stockton, Is on shore
on Lowestoff Beach.

The Robert and Sarah, Wiseman, was lost off Wells.
The Lucy, Hobart, of Brancaster, was driven on shore near
there on Tuesday night.
.. .

The Helen, Of Eintekilns, for London; Good It rent, from
Portsmouth to Sunderland ; and ..--, Reed, from London to
Sunderland, are on shore at Bridlington.
The Helen, Smith, of London, is totally wrecked near Alwice—
crew saved.

The Tarbolton, from Trona, stranded on Blockhouse Roek the
Ilst inst. and it was feared would be wrecked.

DEAL, Nov. 26.—Wind E.—Arrived the Hector, Dunlop,
from Rio Janeiro. The schooner Maria Is still on shore—cargo
dkcharging, the water not hawing sufficiently sowed to get her off.
PORTILMOUTII Nov. 26 Wind Easterly.—Arrived the Rachel,
Irwin, from Cb;ebeci and Rotterdam, from Batavia. Sailed
his Majesty's ship Rapid, for the Coast of Africa.
Pivasourn, Nov. 25.—Wind N N.E. blowing strong.—Arrived
the Enterprise, Gaaly, from Quebec.
Fautotrru. Nue. 25. Wind N.E. fresh gales, and squally.—
Arrived the Wm. Packer, Ellis, from Trieste!. _ _ _

. .
Coax, Nov. 22.—Arrived the Poi.. Illu, CuHerta), from Quebec.
STANGATZ Can, Not. 26.-LArrived the Vulture, Grill, from
Zonte.

Hassmos, Nov. 26.—Arrived the Anne, from Rio Janeiro.
HoLL, Nov. 24.—Arrived the Standard, Robinson, front Quese.

PLYMOUTH, N••. 26.

The Undaunted. 46, Captain Cliffnrd, C. B. was towed from
Barn Pool to the Sound, by the limeys' steam-vessel, on Sunday
mort.ing ; and sailed to the westward on the evening of the same

_
day. _
The Antilop* cutter, lieutenant Loveless, tender to the Re-
millies,came in on Sunday night, from the Bristol Channel; and the
Sparrow cutter, Lieut. blotFitt, on Monday afternoon, and re-
turned again yestetday.
The Arrow cutter, Lieutenant Thrackston, came in from Porta-
mouth on Tuesday.

In Haunt-me—Sc. Vincent, Kent. Druid, Pylades, Hyacinth,
Leveret, Royalist, Raven, Arrow, Starling, Antelope, Meteor
steam-vessel. In the Sound—Bramble.

Capt. Hamilton, C.B. arrived here on Tuesday, and took the
command of the Druid yesterday.
The Rapid, 10, Capt. Swinburne, will call off this port is a few
days, on her way to the Mediterranean.
The Chichester and Queensberry hired packets, on the Falmouth
station, have been discharged from the service.
_ _

The Pallas frigate, Captain Fits-Clarence. with the feel of
Dalhousie on board, arrived at Rio de Janeiro on the 18th Sept.
and was to proceed to Calcutta in a day or two afterwards.
His Majesty's ships Tyoe, Champion, Columbine, and Manly,
were ordered on the 19th ult. to proceed from Halifax to Bermuda.
The whale squadron were to go, with the exception of the Rose
sloop of war, which ship, with Admiral Sir C. Ogle's Flag, would
remain at that part during the winter.
The Adventure, surveying vessel, was at Valparaiso on the 3d
of August. She was about to survey the coast to the southward of
that port, more particularly the brautifel island and harbour of
Chiloe. The Heron sloop of war would be the neat ship to Rag-
land, with specie from Peru and Chill. The Lightning sloop of
war was at Tenerife on the Sth of October • and the Medina, 20
guns, was at St. Helena on the 21st September. The Athol, U
guns, was at Tenerife on the 11th of September.
Pamorsons.—Lieut. J. G. Dewar of the William and Mary
Yacht, to the rank of Commander; Mr. William Barrow, of the
Madagascar, to the rank of lieutenant ; Mr. J. R. Lilburn to the
rank of Lkat, and appointed to the Welksky.
AT/01.11111111S—Lieut. Henry Preston to the William and Mary
yacht; Ligament B. Norma, to the Triad° ; Lent. Caswell. to
the Victory ; Mr. W. B. M'Dmald is appointed Assistant-Stir
imo of the Pylades, tin Maaro.