Star.
London, England, 1826-11-09 00:00:00

ANOTHER LETTER.

The following letter from the agent to Lloyd's, dated
Hull, Nov. 7, has been received this morning :—" Ar-
rived the United Kingdom, Oman, steam ship, from
London to Leith; left Southend on Saturday the 4th, at
four rm. and was obliged to put into the Humber on
Sunday, and brought up in Grimsby Roads at five P.M.
She weighed again yesterday morning at eleven,but after
proceeding about eight leagues to the northward, again
hove up, and brought up in Grimsby Roads, at two P.M.
Several of the passengers being desirous of coming up
here in order to proceed by land, the Graham, Grimsby
steam packet, this morning went alongside the United
Kingdom, to receive them. About twenty got on board,
and, when nearly ready for leaving the ship, the
Graham's boiler burst, and I am truly concerned to
add, that five persons are killed or drowned, and about
twenty others very seriously scalded, or otherwise hurt,
most of whom belong to Grimsby or Hull. I believe
none of the passengers belonging to theEnited King-
dom are hurts The Graham was subsequently towed
up by the United Kingdom, at 4. SO P.m."

NAVAL IN fELLIGENCE.

Yesterday st Court of Directors was held at the East India
House, when the following ships were taken up and thus stationed,
viz.—Warren Hastings, Captain Gamma Mason; Princess Char-
lotte of Wales, Captain Cnaurrovnza 13.0114 ; and Minerva, Capt.
Gomez Paoave, Madras and Bengal; Marquis Wellington Capt.
and Thomas Glenville, Captain Comas. Sera, Bengal direct.
The Maid of the 41ill, bound to Dundalk, was dismasted off
Lambay on the 51st filtlmo. The crew abandoned her, and were
taken on bokrd the Arran, of Irvine.

The Tamerlane, from Quebec for Liverpool, is off Kinsale.
Pitt man's, Nov. 7.—Wind N. to N.L—Sailed the fly.
Sirrsow, for St. Michael's.

PLYMOUTH, Nov. T. —Wind N. Arrived the Alexander,
Mika:Nu; from St. Petersburgh; and the Sappho transport, from
Milford, and sailed for Gibraltar.
DeLL, Nov. 8. —Wind N.W.—Passed by from London, the
Indemnity,WoonaLt, for Demerara • Shepherd,TßAlNJor St.Kitt's;
Ann, PINTRIATII; and Elisabeth, LONeuooa, for the Mediterra.
nean; Ann, Foatisatt, for Jamaica; and the Betsey and Sophia,
GARDOWAY; for Dominica. The Sir W. Wallace, WILSON; for
Virginia, remains, with several of the outward bound.
Gaavunw, Nov. B.—Arrived the Heroine, SADLIDI; from St.
Petersburgh ; Phudo, RAM, from Archangel ; Lively, %ULU;
Badajoz, Davuox ; Duchess, STILDATON ; Active, LUNDY; and
Halcyon, VALINTINI; from Dintzlc. Sailed the Ann, FOREMAN
Duke of Bronte, Hams; and Breadalbane, for Jamaica;
Bramley, Dawes, for Malta ; Concord, Salim, for Lisbon ; Mon-
trose, RozsuaoH, for Trinidad; and the Governor Halkett, CAM,
for Sierra Leone.

Lwaaroor., Nov. 7.—Wind N. N. R—Arrived the Vine.
&town, from Archangel; and the Meridian, from Virginia.
The Horatio, &arms, from Liverpool; and the Rebecca, from the
Clyde, have arrived at the River St. Lawrence. The Briton,
Wu.soo •' and the Lelia Rooth, Joins, front Liverpool, have ar-
rived at Quebec. The Ardent, P • , which sailed for Sierra
Leone on the sth lost. has put back, with windlass broken. The
Cynthia, LINILLATRIL, for Barcelona, is on shore on Hoyle Bank.
YARMOUTH, Nov. 7.—The Jonge Fraw Maria, from Fahr to
Hull, has come in with damage, and will deliver her cargo.. The
cargo of the Albion, of Leith, is being landed by the Admiralty
Court, and, it is feared, is much damaged.

The Tales of a Voyager, announced for public/ viols.
consist, we understand, of about Twelve Stories, told at Sea,
during a Voyage to the Polar Ocean, and connected with a loldrra..
tire of the actual Progress of the Vessel, as lately made from
England to that dreary region. This is certainly an original idea.
and, if well executed, cannot fail to be very attractive. 'fiat
sufficient comfort to admit of a resort to the pastime of Tale-telling.
should be obtained in exploring the desolation of the " icy North,"
is a great triumph of the skill and enterprise of civilized man. It
affords, at all events, a striking contrast to the diversion of
eaccio's Florentine Dames and Cavaliers, who related their 'torte*
in the luxurious gardens and sunny fields of Italy.—Morw. Chibta.
Tuesday Sir RICHARD liiltNlst, Chief Magistr..te of
the Public Office, Bow.street, accompanied by the principal Magis-
trates of the other Police Offices, made a Report at the Office of
the Secretary of State for the Home Department, of the state of the
Police in the metropolis.
QUICK WORK.—Yesterday, during the sitting of the
Court at the Southwark Sessions, Mary Keefe was re-
cognized, while visiting one of the prisoners in.tbe cage.
as the perpetrator of a robbery, a week since, tie the
person of a mason, employed on the new Condon
Bridge works, of 19 sovereigns and 10s. The man' was
immediately sent for, and identified the prisoner. A
'bill of indictment was preferred before the Grand Jury,
and found, when she was put forthwith upon her trial,
found Guilty, and sentenced to transportation for 14
years, all within the space of two hour..
From the prevailing red colours which appear in the
lifferent shop windows, as specimens of female dress
for the winter season, one would suppose that the whole
ex were about to transform themselves into- fin.at my
it Amazons.

CATHOLIC MEETING.

Yesterday, an Anniversary Meeting of the British
Catholic Associat;on, was held at the Crown and Anchor
Tavern, in the Strand.

The Hon. Mr. Curroza in the Chair.

Tl•e CHAIRMAN having .read the advertisement by
which the.present Meeting was convened, stated, that
the principal business of the day-was, the agreeing to
a Peition m Part-fitment, praying for Catholic Emanci-
pation, which had already been submitted to, and ap-
proved by, the Catholic Committee. The Hon. Gen-
tleman then proceeded to advocate the interests of the
cause which had summoned them together, as one, and
a very extensive, branch fof the great question of civil
and religions liberty. In the year 1805, this question
was for the first time fairly brought before the Public,
because it was then first submitted to the Parlia
ment through the instrumentality of Lord Grenville.
It was most extraordinary, that the wish of the Ca-
tholics of England to enjoy what all English sub-
jects ought to enjoy, a full and free participation
in the immunities of the Constitution, should be con-
strued into a desire for Catholic ascendancy. Yet this
miscon,truction was still affixed to it b,y many of their
fellow subjects, although he believed this feeling was
now much subsiding, through the influence of.the ap-
peals made to public -opinion through the medium of
the Public Press. The Hon. Gentleman then went into
a history of the progress of their cause down to the
present moment, and pointed out the distinction be-
tween the terms " religious liberty," and its general
signification, which seemed t.) invest the phrase with
the meaning of almost a licentiousness of opinion,
and its true sense, . which signified the leaving to
every man that exercise of free-mill which is abso-
lutely' necessary to entitle him to any merit in taking
the right course, and which alone can make his good
works acceptable. before GOD. He concluded by ex-
pressing a hope :hat the encomiums which Tullius
Cicero bestowed on Caesar, might yet be applicable to
England—" You have conquered nations innumerable,
and terrible from their ferocity ; but you have now.
gained a more honourable victory in triumphing over
your own prejudices."
Mr. Blount, die Secretary, having read apologie, for non-attend-
ance from the Duke of Norfolk, Lords Stafford, Clifford, &c.

The Hon. Mr. Prrina addressed the Meeting pre-
vious to proposing the Petition which had already been
submitted to the Committee. He began by congratu-
lating them OR .the failure of the " No Popery" cry at
the last Election, and read a passage from the Declara-
tien of the Catholic Bishops, refuting the charge which
was brought against them of seeking to acquire any
right to Church
.property. He concluded by recom-
mending to the 'Catholics the ibstaihing from all hostile
invective against their opponents, and reading the Pe-
tition to the new Parliament, praying for emancipation.
The Petition contained little more than had been already
urged on•previous occasions, with the exception of the
Prayer that the House would look
_on the latelY pub-
lished Declaration of the catholic Bishops, as a full
exposition of the religious principles of the body at large
—and an allusion to the sense of the Protestant people,
manifested in the failure of the " No Popery" cry at
the late Election...

On the motion that this Petition be presented, which was se.
conded by Mr. Cna 'cos Burcza, of Lincoln's Inn,
Mr. GRADY offered some objection to passages in the Petition, and
moved, as an •amendment, that (elm referred to a Sub-Committee.

Mr. Wkintist.s wished the Hon. Gentleman would,, (in the man-
ner of Mr, Coblpetr) number his objectirs, so as that they might
be put. in order.
!slr. Gaaar replied, that if it would be any convenience, he had
no objection•to follow the exltnple of. Mr. Cobbett, or a man of less
talent--(l.aughterand cheers).. .
The motion was seconded by Mr. §utwar.
The Rev. Mr. DONALD opposed the amendment.,—
With respect to the objection of the Hon. Gentleman to
a passagein.the Petition, which spoke of the claims
laid by England to the character of being the leader of
the nations in all liberal measures, he was certain th4t
would not be found to be the fact. In all Catholic
countries, where there were Protestants to tolerate, they
were always admitted to the rights of subjects.—tit
voice in the crowd cried " Spain I"J—He was certain
that there was nothing in the Spanish Constitution to
exclude Protestants from equal rights with Catholics.
The Amendment being put from the Chair was negatived.

Mr. CANNING, of Fuscourt, wished that the ground
taken by the Petition had been that of general right ;
and argued at much length in favour of the general cause.
After some observations from the Itev.Mr.Cou.iNs,the
motion that the Petition be adopted was put and carried,
some verbal alterations being proposed and acceded to.

Several other minor resolutions were then agreed to ; and thanks
being voted to the lion. Chairman, 'which *ere mutually acknow-
ledged by him, the Meeting was dissolved.

LIVERPOOL, Nov. 7.—Late yesterday evening a re-
spectable looking man went to the coach-office at the
Golden Lion, in Dale-street, with a box, addressed to a
Captain of a Royal Marine Regiment; Edinburgh. The
bookkeeper suspecting it was•the same direction as was
left at the White Horse coach office a day or two ago,
sent the boy over to enquire, when the person instantly
ran out of the office, and attempted to get away, but
was taken, and is now in custody. The box contained '
a human body. It has since been discovered, that a
body from the workhouse was buried yesterday after-
noon, which is missing from the place of deposit.
At the Salford Sessions, on the 4th ins►. Jahn Bridg-
ford; IVm. Thwers, Benjamin Horrobin, Thomas Towers,
Samuel Mawley, John Reddish, and Thomas Hardman,'
were indicted for -conspiring together, to issue out a
fraudulent execution, in the County Court of Lancashire,
and cart ying the same into effect on the goods of Han-
nah Sandford and Frances Bridgford. The prosecu-
•rices were the daughters of a man well known and
highly respected by a very large proportion of the in-
habitants of slanchester. Alter his death, his daughters
carried on his business of a seaman, for the purpose
of supporting themselves and the rest of his family. The
tirst of the defendants was the brother of the Ladies
against whom he was charged with conspiring. He was
by business a publican. The second defendant was an
attoinev, and had an office in the tavern kept by Br idg-
-I.ld. The other defendants, Horrobin, Mawiey,,Red-
dish, and Hardman, were bailiffs, frequently employed
in the execution of the processes issuing from the r. ffice
of Mr. Towers. The evidence having been concluded,
the defendants were found Guilty, and Bridgford, Hur-
robio, and Towers, were sentenced to be imprisoned for
12 caleudar months Mawley's sentence was respired,
wan the nestSessions.(M awley is under sentence of trans•
portation fire another off •nce); and Reddish and Hard
man were sentenced to be sever ally imprisoned in the
House of Corte, tion f.,r one calendar month.
Severs persons were last week committed to the De-
vizes arid Marlbotough Bridewells, for offence; under
the Game laws.