Star.
London, England, 1817-07-15 00:00:00

EXIRAORDINARY FIRM NESS.

PROM A NEW TORK PAPER—DATED 2ATAVIAt (NEW
Tontz.) MAY 21.
One of the most riogulu circumstances recorded
in the history of accidents occurred in Middlebury,
in this county, .on the 16th haunt, and exhibits in the

hero of misfortune a mind melting in the cool, de-
liberate, and determined virtues. The subject is as
• follows :—Artemas Shattuck, on that day, in a piece
of chopping that he was clearing, felled a tree
across a stump, in which situation it remained nearly
balanced, the top, however,• buoyed up by the butt;
while thus suspended, he undertook to cut the tree
ir. two near the stu•lip upon which it was lodged, and
v./;ile standing upon it for that purpose, he cut so
much more upon the upper than the under part of
the tree, that the weight of the butt caused it to
split, and .at the instant of the greatest vibration or
separation of several parts, his toot slipped into the
cavity of the opening timber, and remained as
firtt►ly fixed as in a vice ; he fell immediately back-
wards, in which fall he lost his axe, but soon reco-
vered a position that enabled him to hold upon the
tree...bi on; hand, with the other lie drew oat his
pocket-knife and cut a limb with a hook attached to
it wittrtheintention of drawing the axe and cutting
the ;iree. to liberate his foot, but soon fifund his
efforts He then . tried to break his leg, as
that'.Would have enabled him to turn his body in a
positron to sit upon the tree and wait the lingering
hour of assistance ; but his position prevented even
the gratification of this harsh relief Finding his
strength failing fast, and no prospect of timely relief
(as nq human assistance was within three quavers of
a mile), he adopted the only alternative that remained
of saving himself from the hard and horrible death
of expiring while suspended in the air, with his head
down and feet up. With his penknife he deliberately
severed his foot from his leg at the ancle joint, and
on his hands and knees bent his course for home. In
this posture he crawled a full halt-mile before calls
for assistance were heard, and twice had to deviate
several rods from a direct line to a rivulet to quench
his raging thirst.—He is likely to do well.

GERMAN PAPERS.

•AUGSIURGH, JULY 4.

The illgenseiffe Zeitung has the two following articles
from _ltaly (marked thus*, as original) :
Si Rome, Aiwa:lL—Father Hayes, who some time
ago•presqmed to publish in the English Papers some
very indecorous letters against his Holiness himself ;
and still more •particularly against the Cardinal Se-
cretary of State, has shewn for about a month past,
such ardent symptoms of derangement, and, indeed,
of absolute madness, that several physicians have ad-
vised that he should be conveyed to the Lunatic
Hospital in the Lungara ; particularly as his conduct
was. of, such a nature as to exciie public scandal.—
For the present he is guarded by an officer of health
iu his own apartments."
" FLORENCE, Amy 23.—The Marquis of Matialva,
who has been at Florence for some days, has received
dispatches horn Lisbon, according to which the squa-
dron v hich is destined to fetch the Princess of Brazil
horn Leghorn, will not be able to sail before the end
a the month ; because a great part of the crew had
been taken to man the ships which had been sent to
blockade Pernambuco. The Princess has, iu the
mean time, taken up her abode, with her suite, at
the villa called Poggio Imperiale, half a league from
F:orence.

" The Police has not yet succeeded in discovering
the murderer •of a Florentine Nobleman, Don Ft-

lippn Nan, who was some time since murdered in
the street, at night, by being stabbed in many places;
he was not, however, robbed. This assassination
• excites the more attention here, as, thanks to the mild
character of the peol.le of this city, such crimes are
extremely rare at Flotence.
,• We learn from Rome, that his• Holiness is grow-
ing a little better, after having kept his bed several
days in consequence of a fall. Besides his body
physician, Mendiluer Preis, ise is at present attended
by Dr. Bemba."