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

EFFECTS OF THE LATE GALE.

MAL. Nov. 2g.—The brig Mountaineer was totally lost during
the tempestuous eight ; tie pilot. one Deal man, and three of the
crew were drowned. The Captain and the remainder of the crew
were saved by the huntsre exertions of the Deal and Walmer
boatmen, and corms yed to the South Barrack, occupied by the Offi-
cers and men of the Coast Bloc, ade Servic where they received
every kind attention. The cargo, consisting of wine, &c. a consi-
derable part has been saved and lodged in the agent's store. The
vessel was ne..rly dashed to piece.; the part which held together
was sold by auction this ..fternoon. The Maria, Crookall, front
Sligo to London, laden with oats, also drove on shore last night.,
near die Mountaiiver ; crew saved. Cargo discharging.
HASTINGS. Nov. 25. —Wind S.S.E. blowing hard.— A large
ship, supposed to he an Indiaman, is now In the ()MI. A quantity
of wreck was seen floating off this port this morning, and the papers
of the Indus, Kock. from Liverpool to Be. men, were picked ur,
together with the sails. yards, pump, one cask of oil. &c. It is
supposed she struck on Newcomb Sand last night, and that the
crew are drowned.

HULL, Nov. 25.—1 t blew very heavily all last right from E. to
H.E. About ZOO sail of vessels, chiefly light collier., are in the
Humber. The Thetford, Patrick, bound to Rotterd:.lll, has put
back with loss of an anchor and cable. Half-past flint, •.st.—
It blows still hat d.

Lowitsvorrs, Nov. 25.—Yesterday and this morning, during
one of the most tremendous gales from K. to ES. F.. the following
vessels were driven on shore :—Thomas and Mary, of Newcastle ;
Ann, Taylor, of London , Winger, Barnard. of Whitby ; crews
saved. Hudson, I loughton, of Boston ; ve.sel and cargo expected
to be saved; Liverpool Packet, of Whitehaven, and vPI be
wrecked ; one of the crew drowned ; Margaretta, Jennanv , of
Yarmouth, wrecked ; Neptune, Fletcher, of London, ewected to
be got off : Sunderland, Gray, wrecked. The mast, fur ;iies, is
covered with wreck.

Ramsaava, Nov. vs.—The Russian brig George, itekonuff,
master, of and from Art:haul:4, hound for London, struck on the
Goodwin Sird tree anu beat uff her rudder. She receleed
assistance of hots fr hence, and was carried to Broads/ sits.
with nearly *ix feet water in her hold. Her rudder has since ht en
brought in here.
YARMOUTH, N.:v. '25 —The gale of yesterday did not ala te till
four this morniog The Britannia, Bully, the Flora, Hunt-r. the
John and Mizabeth, Hutton, ail of this port, coal laden, and the
Wharfing.r, Clenugh. from Archangel to Yarmouth, are nit
on the heath. Crews saved.—The Hammond broke op ...eOl. 5
p.m. and only two of the crew saved The Ranger, Brritrrt, of
Whitby, and a brig, are on the Pakefield beach ; and three vesissls,
names unknown, are on Lowe•toffe beach. The Pegry. Herter,
of North Shields, was off hem tl.it morning, apparently with
of anchor, and I aky.
Casuraaausr, Nov. 25.—Yesterday morning a smart bre. se
sprung op from N. H. and soon increased to a frightful storm aw-
fully agitating the S:3. The shipping in the Downs, for Iht mu t
part. released :heir cables, and r.n to sea, utile others, le s
fortunate. h *ye been engulphed and totally lost, wi h their
crews. At an early hour in the murnitig, the General Painter,
600 tons, from Mad' at. arrived off Deal, having encountet, d
severe weather trio d.ys. I was soon perceived by the tio, s -
men that their asst.tance was required. and which ti:at ala:t.ty
which usuasly character sea those brave men when th• itvLs et
their fellow-creatures are in jeopardy, no time was lust be-
fore a launch was effected. Latanch succeeded launch, unt.l
the whole of the boats belonging to the town were tocsin;
about and contending with the rough sea, like so many vessels en-
gaged in a contest. The ship having been wrecked, it was found
that three cables had been paned with, and that the pannier' s
were in a dreadful state of alarm, but it was deemed prudent not
to remove them but to get the vessel's bead before the wind, in tartlet
to escape the Goodwin Sands. Fortunately their endeavours wet e
successful. and in a short time she code well until she made the
Margate Roads. Here another difficulty presented itself, or
rather a seilea of difficulties • the wind blew with terrific force,
anchortess, and the crew exhausted with fatigue, the Captain,
is whose praise the passengers all concur, spoke to several
Margate boats, and she was taken in tow. Dy this tinie the
valuable cargo was at the mercy of the waves unless immediate
steps were taken ; the Captain and Pilot therefore determined
upon running her a-ground, which was accomplished in a very
skilful manner, after many hazardous efforts, at Whitstable,
where she now lies safe from harm. The boats of the town
were in immediate requisition ; and without a single loss of life,
the Captain and passengers were landed about five o'clock in
the aftetnoon, and at six o'clock the whole reached C. n:erbury
and took up a temporary abode at the Lion Inn, where every
attention was bestowed by Mr. Minter, the proprietor, and
about eight o'clock they departed for the Metropolis. The pea-
'ewes speak in terms of affection of the Captain, who behaved
with the greatest courage and coolness, and evinzed every disposi-
tion to alleviate their fears, and render every conger. consistent
with his own trying situation.
The same evening, a vsostl, supposed to be laden with bulf.du
hides from the Cape of Good Hope, was off Drill. in the greatest
distress, and within half a mile from the town, the crew being
lashed to the rigging. Grievous as this may seem, the mighty waves
presented an insurmountable barrier to assistance, aid the ill-fated
crew, with the vessel, were eugulphed, with, we understand, a
pilot she bad takeu in from some port. It is proba'de by to mor-
row her name may be traced.

It is, indeed, clearly impossible that Turkey can ever,
under any circumstances, discharge the sum of money
imposed upon her by Russia to reimburse to the latter power
the expenses of the war; and it is equally certain that the
other powers cannot, consistently with their own dignity
and safety, allow Russia to acquire that accession of ter-
ritory to which she would be entitled in case the existing
stipulations were not fulfilled. A war, therefore, appears
inevitable, unless the demands of the Autocrat are very
materially modified.—Morning Journal,
The Lancashire and Cheshire papers abound in notices
made " in terms of the standing orders of the House of
Commons," for applications to be made to Parliament
for its sanction to new Rail Roads. Even Canals, it
scams, are to be filled up and turned into them ; and
such is the rage for subscribing funds towards their com-
pletion, that it almost equals the joint-stock mania of
1824 and 1825---individuals actually fighting and crawl-
ing upon their knees to reach the " bond" for signa-
ture. This is rashness and folly ; and friends as we
are to improvement, and to the almost unlimited im-
provement that roads and all other means of internal
connntinication are still capable of teceiving, we would
warn the sanguine against too hastily embarking capital
in these upon the mere faith of experiments, which, bril-
liant as they were, are as yet too limited and too much
merely experiments, to set every doubt as to being
transported 30 miles an hour in a twelvemonth at rest.—
Glasgow Free Press.

NEW FARRING DON (LATE FLEET) MARKET, Nov. 26
There was a good supply of fine Beef and Mutton at this
market to.day. V. al and Perk were not so plentiful. The fol-
lowing is an account of the prices at per lb. to the consumer :
Beef, choicest parts fur roasting, 60. Inferior dn. Sid. Finest
parts for boiling, Sid. Inferior do. Sid. An equal quantity of each,
50. Rump Steaks, 10d Mutton, a hind quarter finest wetter,
6d. per lb. Shoulder, .50. Neck, Sid. Breast, 41. Veal Sid and
6d. Pork, sd. to 6)(1.

CORN-EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE. Nov. C 7.

The Wheat trade continues nearly nominal ; the few tale+, how.
mer, that have been effccted is line Wheat were at Monday'.
prices. Btrley was greatly depressed, particularly the middling
qualities, which found no purchasers; hut the making marries
sold at Monday's prices. Oats arapporred their price.

• naronmesons atPCR IIIOYDAT.
Wheat, English (qrs.) . 1,600 . Barley, Foreign
Irish . . thits, English .
Foreign . 1,650 I, Foreign •
Barley, English . 3,260 I Irish .
Irish . • (sacks) .
SMITHFIELD MARKET, Nov. 27.
CATTLE AT NARKS?.

9C11)
• 1.850
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Beasts.. 6Bs Calves
Sheep sod Lambs 4,150 ..... ...........—... 130
Beef ls 44 t• 45 Od j Veal. ...... —Ss 4J to 4s 04
Mottos ... $J 4. &I I Purl 3s Sd 4s 114.
Lamb ..... ..0s 03 05 0.1
Hay pyr load, £2 13% to E 4 101. Clover £3 IS.. to AS 10s.
Straw altl 12s. to /I Ills.

COAL NIARKET—Tins DAY.

There was a good supply of Neweastk Coalat.niarket takdirp-.
Sunderland was not so plentiful. Tkierrotwo sew skips were at
market, ;waking on the week's snivel a total of 149 skips. The
Coal Exchange was not numerously attended by balms, and only a
moderate badness was done.

Ships arrived daring the mods
Sat Maenad Cada .... 375. ed. 3sl. 04.
Other Mini
Ships at Market

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No. V.
From the Cheltenham Journal.

;rl32:4:TAirtotrcus.—How now, rustics, whither bound?
Smirtizass.—To the Palace, an% like your Worshi?.
SHAIStaAlta. Maar a Tale.

" There also were two wits by acclamation,—

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Both wits—one born ao, and the other bred,
This by his heart—the other by his bead."

Dmlel-4, Paoegyekkto the Ring's 'Majesty."

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THE MAN OF LEISURE, IN CHELTENHAM.'

—lf all these seem an heterogeneous mass
To be assembled at a country seat,
Yet think, a specimen of every class
Is better than a hum-drum tete-a-tete.
Bows. Dos Juan, c.
From the first morning after the arrival of the King, to the
day of his departure,—with the exception only of his absence at
km Worcester Music Meeting—his Majesty was amongst the earliest
frequenters of The Spa,"—accompanied generally by the Queen
on.l the Princesses, but always by the Princess Royal: the
courteousness—the affable, the bland demeanour of the English

gentleman which—laying aside the hauteur of Royalty—be was
always pleased to Indulge in such seasons of intercourse with his
subjects, were such as to endear him to the humblest who beheld,
as well as to the proudest who shared, his kindness : so that it
might indeed be said of him,

Gon makes thee King of our estates; but we
Do make thee King of our affection,
King of our love—a passion born most free,
And most unsubject to dominion." •
—lt was impossible to look at the good King without feeling the
pleasure which he took in such unreserved communion, such affable
and social converse.

The Promenade was ever and anon enlivened by some happy
saying or jocular remark of the good-natured Monarch, who
seemed pleased in raising an innocent laugh at the expense of
some titled courtier, who was proud to " bear bitch blushing
honours thick upon him;' and one morning, I recollect, Lord
Bewdley was the envied object of Royal merriment. The
Queen, too, and her blooming daughters, enjoyed this harmless
raillery, and were delighted with the witty and poignant humour
of two of the most beautiful and fascinating women in England,
who then nourished here the gayest of the gay"—whilst the
strict decorum which her Majesty never for a moment suffered
those who were admitted into her society to lose sight of, pro-
tected Lady Leeson and Mrs. Milbanke even from the suspicion
of levity, though her Ladyship was all that loveliness and
fascination could be, and Mrs. Milbanke, not less charming,
nor pOssessed of less attractive graces, or less sparkling wit—
was celebrated as an equestrian, for the intrepidity and skill
with which she could clear a five•barred gate. George Soiwyn,
the facetious Selwin—the Brummel of his day, who resided at
Matson House.near Gloucester, did not ►ask heedlessly in the sun•
shine of Royal favour, but shone in its pore rays, a brilliant of the
first water. When he first met the King's eye, as he sauntered
along the walk, he was familiarly accosted with—" Ha, ha, Sel-
wyn,glad to see you—glad to see yon—what wind blew you here ?"
" In the words of merry Mister Heywood," said the wag. ". do I
reply—two winds especially—the one to see your Majesty and the
other that your Majesty might see me."—" Good, very good, ex-
cellent good," said the King, " good, very good, Selwyn,—only
better,—much better if original,—much better if original Selwyn."
—I have already recorded one of Mr. Whitefoord's habitual jokes
—and he, too, was permitted to excite the hilarity of the morning
promenade, so that here, as in the villeggiatura of Juan,

And if, in the " heterogeneous mass," we had neither " Pa-
miles, the legal bully," nor " the pretm Chevalier de la Rune,"—
neither

—Jack Jargon, the gigantic guardsman,
Nor General Wireface, famous in the field—
we yet had the redoubted Gunpowder Stuart, whose very name
was so terrible, that the very doors of our lodging-houses were

abut against so combustible an inmate. In enumerating the elite
of our society, I forgot to mention, that the Duke of Queensberry
drove down from London in so splendid an equipage that it was at

first imagined his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales (our present
most Gracious Monarch,) had arrived amongst us; and so far was
the delusion carried, that the inhabitants were about to Illuminate,
and the bell of Prestbury steeple rung out a joyous peal in honour
or the event. By the bye, so perfectly crowded were all our
dwellings, hotels, and lodgings, that Prestbury and Chariton Kings
were actually overflowed by the overfiowings of our " tide of
fashion," and several families were obliged to take up their quar-
ters at Tewkesbury, where Lord Harrington and his amiable
Countess bad apartments, though they repaired daily to Chelten-
ham. Lord and Lady Harcourt were so fortunate as to obtain a
suitable reddence.at Manager Watson's, and Manager Watson was
in his turn so fortunate as to obtain the Royal patronage, through
that mutually fortunate circumstance ; for the King, who person-
ally visited every Member of his Court, when Lord Harcourt in-
formed him where he lived, expressed his intention to honour him
with a visit. Upon this occasion, Watson, who was liked by every
body," got a place at the Review," and a Royal command was
the immediate consequence. But I must not anticipate. Before I
lose sight of the arrangements made for quartering the beau monde,
It may be as well to appease the unjust wrath of those who now-a-
days exclaim against the high rents of the town, by stating that
then, forty years ago, the price of lodgings was raised from three
guineas to twenty and twenty-two guineas per week! and I
need seemly say bow Inferior in every respect was the style of
accommodation which even that exorbitant charge could secure,
when compared with the elegance, the neatness, and the comforts
of our present dviellings4— Then, as at Tonbridge. in Charks the
Second's merry days, " the company were accommodated with
Lodgings in little, clean, convenient, habitations, that lay straggling
and separated from each other, (I may as well transcribe the whole
sketch for the resemblance it beers to Cheltenham as it was,) " half
a mile round the Wells, where the company meet in the morning :
this place consists of a long walk shaded by spreading trees, under
whkh they walk while they are drinking the waters." Now,
0 The company are accommodated with lodgings," in magnificent
mansions, detached villas, and substantial houses adapted for the
reception of " high wealth and title ;" where there was formerly
but the limited supply of one well, three pump rooms have for some

years shared the patronage of the beau monde; and where we had
but one grand walk, we have now a diversity of walks, indepen-
dent of the principal prOmenade of each establishment) so hien-
riously planted that the delicious shade of the foliage, even in the
hottest day of summer, protects the assembled votaries of heahh
.and pleasure from the beams of the sun.—" Three pump rooms,"
did I uy—then sinxe a fourth is now rising into note and import-
. ance, add, in the, words of Macbeth—" the greatest is behind."
Well, the Motopellier, and the Imperial Spas, have
favour of the faculty, and the liberal support of
~it they are destined, at no very distant period, to ex-
famidable competition in the magnificent temple, the sa-
and the eztendve and well arranged walks, width
render Pittville a source of unprecedented attraction.
digression. Let as return to the proud days of
King was so delighted with the rend charms of
he determined upon repeating his visit annually,
in contemplation to render Cheltenham a Royal
the erection of a Palace ! the site of which was
:the meth side of Faueonberg House, and aburedly
situidests la the vicinity commanding such extensive
e prospects of the gretord that was then selected.—
lltiuse (or Bay's Hill Lodge) which had been built by
skuneocne„end purchased by Lord Fancoriberg, was not
- !Ode" lbe the manbers ads, Rotal Family, without
calculettniii atleft4lirtl9,2l.ld !bit lUIS, aft hie

sojourn, caused seventeen additional apartments to be built, at his
own expense, for his retinue. The Lodge itself, from its admi-
rable situation, commands many of the finest views in the county'
whilst the grounds which immediately surround it, are laid out in a
bold style of Park scenery :—but hear, " Sir Oracie."—" The
ground had fine swells, spotted with these majestic trees, and the
surface was fresh and verdant. One or two fields, like a few limbs
of a glorious statue, stiU exhibit the original characters ; but the
Sun ensemble which the house and grounds.possessed, is lost for
ever. The fine animal has been butchered and cut in pieces." Out
upon it ! the antiquarian has " been at a great feast of languages,
and stolen the scraps." No man was so well qualified to give a
fine and majestic pictere of Cheltenham as the historical Fosbroke
—" This was looked for at your hand, and this was baulked."
—I have said that the Lodge itself was inadequate to the accom-
modation of the Court; and the King. who loved nothing so
much as having his family about him, observed one day in the
town, a wooden house. two stories in height, which had been built
by a London mechanic, examined it minutely, and finding that it
contained eight apartments. besides attics, it immediately occurred
to him that it would be a very desirable and convenient appendage
to the Lodge. Notwithstanding its size and weight (it weighed
nine tons) the artist declared he could easily take it to pieces, and
remove it to the top of Bay's Hill, without any delay ; and upon
this representation his Majesty purchased the moveable dwelling.—
It was precisely similar in its construction to the wooden house
which was sent out to St. Helena, for the occupation of Napoleon
Thionaparte, and seemed to afford as little satisfaction to its new
proprietor or inhabitant as the house at Longwood. The windows
were taken out, the screws and bolts withdrawn, and it was taken
to pieces ; but by the following Thursday, although placed upon a
machine moved with rollers, it had been conveyed little more than
half way to its destination. So slow was the process, that the
wooden house became the laughing-stock of the town, and wagers
were laid—one of no less a sum that one hundred guineas to ten.
that it would not reach Fauconberg House in less than a week.

—The King was excessively annoyed by the tediousness with
which his project was carried into execution, and almost deter-
mined to relinquish it altogether. But his displeasure was not of
long continuance, and he persevered in urging the speed of the
workmen —though they scarcely succeeded in moving the pile more
than three yards in an hour ! In that season of universal gaiety, it
was impossible to suppress a joke at the expense of the novel un-
dertaking, and it was often asked, " Why is the King like a zeal-
ous Member of Parliament r to which the anticipated reply was,
" Because he so often moves the House." At length, on Satur-
day evening, the Herculean task was completed, and the wooden
house was erected on the south-east side of the Lodge ; for the
King, who bad regard even to the rational recreation of his do-
mestics, would not suffer it to be placed on the bowling green,
lest it should interfere with their diversion of cricket—their

considerate Master having sent to London for bats and balls, that
they might amuse themselves when they were not engaged in
attendance upon the Court. The Bowling Green, and, indeed,
all the precincts of the Lodge, were the favourite resort of
the country people, who were to be seen loitering about,
viewing the game, or peeping through the hedge-rows, watch-
ing the movements of the Royal Family ; and when the
awfulness of the kingly presence was lost to their minds in the
gracious and good-natured condescension of t►e Monarch, they
ventured to approach close to the parterre in front of the Lodge,
and at length ranged themselves in full view of the windows.—
No sooner had the King perceived how far the ardor of their at-
tachment to his person surmounted the natural modesty of their
natures, than he determined to afford them all the gratification
they desired, and every morning as soon as the dispatches and let-
ters reached him, his Majesty took his seat at an open window,
and there he read whilst his poor subjects gazed with mingled de-
light, wonder and reverence, upon their King! Even thus, at
0 the Spa," the happy Family—King, Queen, and Princesses,—
whenever they rested on the benches, were gradually surrounded
by the gazing and enraptured peasants. who seemed, in the words
of Taylor, "to nayle their eyes with greedy desire" upon the
objects of their respect and love and duty.—How well do I now
remember the second Sabbath-day upon which their Majesties and
the Princesses walked from the Lodge to St. Mary's Church, at•
tended by an immense concourse, who seemed individually to
regard the good King, just. as the Spectator tells us, Sir Roger
de Coverley was regarded by his tenants. At the Church door
the Bishop of Worcester—the venerable—the learned—the mo-
dest Bishop Hurd,—and the Incumbent the Rev. Mr. Freeman
received the Royal Family, and conducted them to the large pew
in the gallery, fronting the Pulpit. To give additional effect to
the choral parts of the service, a party of select singers had been
employed, and were for some time occupied in rehearsing the ap-
pointed Psalms and Anthems ; but on the preceding Sunday they
were an much " daunted" by the importance of the task they had
undertaken—so perfectly bewildered by the mere notion of singing
in the presence and in the hearing of Royalty, that they made but
sorry work of it. On this second occasion, however, they mus-
tered courage, and acquitted themselves " indifferent well," nay,
with the help of a bassoon, they performed " in a style," as the

Courtnewsman of that day might have reported, "superior to any
thing that could be ezpected."—l was amazingly tickled by the
selection of one of the Psaltns—it was the tAtb," How pleasant is

thy dwelling place !"—in which I fancied I discovered the appli•
cation of scriptural thoughts to temporal circumstances, and a
greeting to the Sovereign artfully blended with a complimentary
allusion to the town itself. I hope there was nothing profane in
that fancy of
Cheltenham, Nov. 21, 1829.

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• The Royal Well,
long enjoyed.the.
tht public ; but t
yerlence a fairald
111 lubrions springs,
". cannot fall to Ten
" Mit a truce to
1788, when the .
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1 and It was even i
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" • marked out up. tl
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2114 picturesque
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