Star.
London, England, 1816-07-17 00:00:00

'ARttIVED.

At tareactcr, the Brewl.tilfane, Hardy, from S. An Irew't.
At Liver; mil, 'liana, it obertit, from New Ortemot, all Lanfee,
Aht-t-rm., front the Mediterranean. thr Liverpetl, Alezanicr,
Vickers, from QtiLbec, and PritiikUn, Grr:.Kteo, 1:orn Ba
At lirotnbro' Pool, Shannon, Ja.ckson, front Le,:t orn. e t Wa-
terford, Curlew, Phelan, from Nee.fi::toldian:!, and Mentor, Ot.
borne, from Bouttb-airt. At iltiblitl, iitp;)t, I tail, frost Mewl,
..nd Swan, feuwick, trona Dip. At Newfinindided, Pimette,
Ander:we: ; Prince it mew:, ; Carn!mait, Sherif; Fa-
Fr:trit ; Minerva, Harvey; Penguin, March; Fuocltall,
; Lund, Conner ; Ebenezer, Tucker ; Commerce, I.a:is-
le). ; kinrr,:on, Harrtion; Arrive, Jarrow!) ; Friend", Conner;
V. Whim, Pearce; Friend, Cole; Pithead, Harmey ; George,
i'ucter ; Fair, Cambriag ; Woodbine, Mercbagt; Vcnua, Stabb;
at:d Liza, 'ltrzker, (rout Liverpool.

Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at
lnaltar :—" There have been no accounts received
here respecting the Tunisian corsairs Eince my letter
to you oi the lthlt inst. but it has liven juiged ad-
visable to arm the Walaiiigharn picket, bound with
the Mail up the Mediterrin-ao, to which end she 'l,l.
detained litre unti yesterday."
Yesterday the Duke of CI-Aliens din,al with the
QUEEN and erincesses at the Palace, for the first time-
since his indisposition.
His Royal Highness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE ar•
rived at Dover yesterday morning, iii the King''
Oeorge packet, Captain KING, hroin Calais, and set
off for town soon after, where he arrived last night.
The Princess CHARLOTTE, we are happy to say,
continues to improve in her health ; her Royal Fl4l-
- went out in her carriage yesterday fir the ti st
time since her indisposition, accompanied by her
Royal Cons'trt, Prince LennoLD. They rode to the
Queen's Palace, to pay their respects to her Majesty,'
but the QuerN, Princesses ELIZABRTII and MARY,
had left the Palace at one o'clock, to honour the
Countess Dowager of CARDIGAN with a morning
visit, her Ladyship's house, in Seyntour-place,
where the Royal patty partook of so:upturn's repast,
and returned to the Qaeen's Palace at half-past three.,
Since the Ball at Cheltenham a few years since,
which the Prince of WAl.cs honoured with iris pre.
sence, never was seen such a constelAtion of beauty,
I rank, and fashion, as at the Assembly on IVednesday
se'nnighr, which the Duke and Duchess of WELLusti.
TON had graciously promised to attend. The com-
pany amounted to 600. The Duchess was in the
rooms in the earlier part of the evening. Soon after
ten o'clock the Duke arrived, amidst the enthusiastic
acclamations of hundreds of persons assembled in
°the street, and a 101 l hand immediately struck up,
64 See the tampering Hero comes !" The passagesl
and staircase of the rooms were brilliantly illuminated,
and a beautiful transparency of Britannia held a me.
&Him with a striking likeness of the illustrious hero.
His Grace was dressed in mourning, with the Garter
and Star of the Order of the Garter, and round his
cravat was a superb collar of scarlet enamel, set in
gold and diamonds, being the collar of some foreign
Order of Knighthood. His Grace continues to visit
the Wells at an early hour every morning.
Tan ENGLASH OPARA.-.4lrtaxerxes was performed
last night, for the third time, at this Theatre. Miss
MISUIllrt greatly improved, performed the part of
45faradear with fine and increased effect, and was rap.
turously eacOred 'in several of her airs. Mr. Hoax,
as 4ritateh also performed with great power and effect,
and the.Optra altogethei went off with illfinite eclat.

Br 4 #1 TRIM
41.=.••=••
Si'. Sttivaiti, held so ourittotts of vies tering by
King litnatwuz.on taised to" the See of Winchester,
during the ninth century of our era, Swithin had the
address to prevail on that Monarch to gratit a ehattet
of tithes to the Church, which, says HAAN, " W. 15
alone sufficient to give him a saintship." At hls twin
previous solicitation, he was buried at Winchester,
in the common cemetery, or church yard, instead of
the chancel of the Minster, as was the general usacd
with other Bishops ; but his fame did not soffet bir
such humility. The services he had rendered the
Ecelesiasticks were great, and that body did not
prove uoiz,..tteft!l ; his grave was soon marked as pe-
culiarly eilizicious to the suffering Christians, ared
miracles out of number ware recorded to have bteit
wrought by his holy remains. One man who had
lost Lis eyes, had them restored to him ; and others
receivfd similar benefits ; none, indeed, were refased
relief, who applied for it with an humble heart, and
firm reliance in the Saint's Exert; In I hence he-natn.
rally soon acquired the appellation of Mtr,s;iii„ Sach
an extensive benevolence I):!caine dee theme of um-
vernal praises; au order was obtained to remove t.s.e
holy relives into the choir, as better suiting these
merits ; and a grand ard solemn procession was
pointed to grace the c”temonv. A most violent ran
shower, however, fell on the *destined day, and conti.
nosed tor 39 others, without intermission ; in conse-
quence of which, the idea of a removal Was abandon.
r.l, as displeasing to St. Swithin, and a: such, heretical
and blasnhamous; though it would appear that the
3aint afterward: relented, and permitted his bones to
Le taken fro:n the cemetery, and lodged amPitg the
remains of the other Dishops, in the year 10['3, Tae
votive adage, that we shall have forty days continu•
Mare of wet weather whenever rain falls on Saint
Swithin‘s Tes:ival, no doubt, arose from this presmn.
ed supernatural circumatance. Without disputing
the fact from which the popular fancy sprang, which,
notwithstanding the glaring errors and absurdities of
the Monkish writers, is very probable to have been
the case; there is, nevertheless, not any occasion to
have recourse to a miracle to account fur such a
phenomenon. Esperifnice has amply shewn, that,
whenever a wet season sets in about the end Of June
to the middle of July, when the heat of the sun is
usually the most intense, it generally continues to
tie irly the end of the Summer, when the action of
that orb has considerably abated; the rain affording
m suer for exhalation, always naturally the strongest
at the hottest period or the year, and those exhalations
yielding in return matter for rain.—St. Swithin's is
nut the only day. howorer, on which observations
are made concerninz the weather ; since St. Paul's,
Candlemas, and Valentine's, have .!.ich been supposed
to be equally ominous. Sc. :;witleia is nevertheless
consist/red as the rainy Saint.