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, - TO TH4 EDI FOR OF THE .STAR. late, which appearedia some of the 'peperstot Tuesday,
SIR—NAV Aig continued to observe the Comet with as ail extract from l-eland, we have now the melen-
oarieus instruments on every favourable occasion since 1 chitty task of confirm:og.. Dr. NKr, the late Bishop
the first (la.' ot September, I selected ham upwards of of Dmmore, who was a descendaut of the illustrious !
thirty observations, five which ct'uld be ceinfided in house of „Percy so dettinguisned in the annals of Eng-
as very nee, ly accurate. The days ot the observations lend, was a Doctor in "Civil Law, and the , oldest
were, the Ist. Pith, 15:h, 23d, and 30th September, . Bishop on the Irish 13ench, having been consecrated
Front these five, reduced to longitudes and latitudes, in 1752. He was not less eminent for profound eru. •
it was c-nceived that the elements id the orbit might clition, classic attgloments, tad extensive patronage
be pretty c•erectly detet mined according to the celee of literature, than for murficence csf disposition,
orated formula in the Ay/ix:ire Celaie of La Pace. winstentatieus charity, fervent piety, inflexible hoe-
The task ef observing continued frequently, through m grity, and mild and unaffected manners : and his de-
the greeter part of the night, as well as the labour of ;wore from the mortal state, though a removal from
reducing and cemparme the observations, made me scenes of continued anxiety and care, is universally,
gladly es Del myself of the co.;peretion of Mr. Cross, and we need not add sincerely, mourned, not only by
my Mathematical Associate in the A ndersonien Insti- I those in his own dincese, but by every individual who
union. It is to this gentleman's familiarity with the possessed the slightest knowledge of him, for, of him
transcendental calculus, and eminent facility of cent, 1 the slightest knowledge was sufficient not rally to
potation, that .I :am enabled at the interval of above 1 extract, but permanently to fix the admiratiop and
a month after our first view of the Comet, te an - lesteem4 every one. In the higher circles of Dohlin,l
flounce the elements of its orbit. being ascertained.—' it is reported that the Rev. PEI Elt I.laowNE, of Gal-1
Alt that the first five observations, howeveresceetrfite;l way, Dean of Ferns in Ireland, is the expected suc-
can possibly give, is the approximated values of the i cessee to the vacant See, a man whose pinky and,
quantities. learning,. whose extensive influence, noble descent,
I believe;however,- that the Illnwing numbers will ; and known political tenets, render at once a proper
be found little removed trent the trotle and whatever l•r: tson to discharge so important, an office, and 4
Ineecuracy May exist will be corrected by-subsequent ; worthy successor of so venerated a character as the
observations : .• , . ' l late Bishop.
Perihelion dismnre, or nearest apernaching o$ the ~
Comet to the Suit, 91 million! -7e4: xhouland 26a On Saturday se'nnight a most melancholy and tra-
miles ;. time o its pe,rilielinn passage, Sept: 9: ' - gical ctrenmstance rice:tared in the neighbourhood of
Cemet's sl:stance from the earth, Sept. 15, 142 mi- : Wexford, at the fatal pass of the Scar, of barntosen,
lions 500,000 Miles. r I whirls has so -often. and especially of late years,
C' stet's distance from the Suh, on the 15th, 95 mil! proved so very destructive to the liver of cur fellow-
lions 3.58,840 miles. creatures, and ceased the misery and ruin of their urn;
' ' Distarce of rime earth from the sun at that time, 95 happy families. At the very hour of noon day, in
*Xylillions 505,932 miles. the sight of numbers assembled for the purpose of
• Leng,,th of the tail 53 millions of miles. • passing over with their cars, &c. for turf ; (the fuel
• M.ahe ot the comet retrograde, or its real motion of all this neighbourhood, and of nearly the whole
'from east to ye, being the reverse of what itappears I of the Barony of ; Bergy, being supplied from the
to he a: pr; sent to a spectator on the earth. I other side) ; one poor man, of the name of Englishi
Tae teal size of the Comet, as deduced from its 1 residing in the village of Duncomuck, accompanied
ippearance on the grand Hersclalien telescope, is I by his still more. unfortunate wife, unhappily deter-
-3t nut that of our moon. The brilliant central nucleus I mined on venturing across, a few minutes b fore the
Is invisleile even in the ten feet lierechelien, and in I tide had '144 iently ebbed to learea safe passage ;
every smatter instrument. land having two cars, kindly permitted a man of the I
The three otter elements, besides the PeriheliOn dis- , name etf Dunn, who lived in the neighbourhood 41
twice and time of the liassage throng!) this point, ate' Tintern, and was anxious to retorts homeeto I
accom-
neither interesting nor intelligible to the general sea- petty him in t'oe sec,nd car, when, melancholy to re-
'der We shall take an early opportunity' of laying late, they Msmedettely got beyond the horses depth,
thememefore he woad. accompanied by the whole who could no longer keep their Noting ; the car and
se: ies alt observations made on the comet at this estab- the emus were overturned, and all were swept away
lislerent. and hurried down by the-rapierdeveuring flood, out
1111 in a popular manner, the real re.tel of the sight of the az,tonished spectators, who, in their
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Fur . I ustrating
tion of the 'Comet, /4;. Cross is preparing a- solid
figure, by which its actual path,. together with that
of the earth, will be accurately represented: The
orbit cif this comet differs-entirely fru.m thavof 1661;
not does there seem, in any one of the 98 cornets
ic.hose vitt:l4s are calculated and recorded; sidfieient
resemblance establ.sh identity between them.
I sir, .!1;r, your obcdie.nt servant,
Glasgow Obstayatory. Uct 3. Amer. Uss.

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dismay and confusion, were rendered incapable of
affording any other assistance than that cf saving the
poor. woman and one horse, that had happily drifted
near the shore. The poor rn ms' bodies were disco-
vered in aho:it three hours atter, when their sad ap-
pearance, jnined to thy piercing shrieks of the
w;etched survivor, rendered the whole Midi an ago-
heart-rending scene, that we trust the huma-
nity acid ju:aice of a Grand Jury may speedily 'ne-
vem such another, by having a bridge erected over

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Boxreo.—The seortit.g world have bern much dis.
app',inted in eenseq.i. nce of -takes not .having been
revile.gond ban ern 11,aing Belcher and Powers.—...,
Yesterday was the diy appointed; -but the friends rf
Povers had nut arrived at the appointed hour, and
:roserptently a forfeieof LW was delivered to Bel-
. 'ther, although Powers's friends arrived with their
money shortly after the forfeit. This is a-great dis-
'appointment to the amateurs ; inasmuch, a& no twol
•on the boxing list could be more eqtially matched.
'Belcher is the first pattern of science, of ten stone
'four pounds, and Powers is not far beneath -hint, at
'nearly twelve stone. Belcher has fought twelve well
:.ecmtested battles, and had declined fighting egain
till he received this challenge.
THE LATE BATTLE.—A bet of rather a sineular
kind was made between two Gentlemen of l'erts-
' mouth, d: pending
.upon the battle between Crib end I
' Molineux. Thew inner (..vho betted upon Crib) sari
a complete suit if clothes, including eVery article that
can be understoed as coming within the eheailing or
the bit ; with the useful appendages of waiking.sock!
nand gloves, and a guinea in his pocket. Tile bet has',
been paid.
One day last week, as Mr._ W. a Gentreman in the
neighbourhood. of Lewes, was out shot tingvartridges
-with a double-barrelled gun, and a brace of excellent
pointers, his d. FS stood, the covey. t'se, and he des.
charged, both barrels, bringing down, in a very sPorts.l
"'man like style, his birds both with the right and lett ;!
this done, and finding his dngss inill'outinnary in the.;
stuff from which the birdlload risen, he re-load.l
ed, and on ant-.aching the pointers, found, to his'
c.v.; regret, that by his first fire be had not only shot
his partridge quite dead, bat his two faithful dogs I
slso I' This sporting casualty, we understand, w s
•occasioned by the pointers standing ow a little emi.i
• elence, and the birth going off nearly close to the
'lower ground, immediately in a line them.
A few days since, as two men were shootirg moor-
-hens, in a place called the Pool, near Southover, one
• 'of them rosrook the- head of a :slack spanielyavith
which they were hunting :imong the reeds, for their,
game, and shot the poor animal so badly in the face,
• that one of his eyes came out of its socket, and he
tai .own as in the agenies al death ; but while the
shooters were debating, whether it would not be beet
,to put the dog out et his misery by another shot, a
bird made its at pearance, was killed by one bi them,'
and fell Into the water, when the well-bred "drig,,
seeyningly aroused by the report of the gun, got on
.his legs, staggered iota the pool, and actually breught
. out toe game, and laid it at the feet of his master.!
The spaniel was immediately taken hone, and is now
in a fair way of recovery. ,
On Friday; the Shrewsbury coach, tat its way to'
Chester, teas unfortunately overturned, in the turn;
leading from ti.e bridge at the Roseett. The coach
.srat full, both inside and out.; and we are eatremelyl
sorry to say, that several of the passtngefs mere very'
, -much injuied some having their limbs bioken, and.
few, if any of them, esca; ing without bruises or con-
eustons. We are. sorry to MAC, in addition to the
. • above, that the Holyhead mail
Abe above city, wa. overturned .
thence. The coachman had both
was otherwise much bruised ;
evaapad. without any .1

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;hi* most dangerous ford. - •
Angus MiLeotl, suspected of being-one of the per-
sons concerned in •the theft of Bank-notes to the
,mount of _ono, committed in Leith, on the Sattir-
iLly of the ltace.week, was apprehended on Tetirsday,
in the GI ass-market, Edinburgh, by Archibald Camp-
city-otlicer. After an examination before the
Sitting Magistrate, he was committed to gaol.
A NEW Munn or Swientaso.—A fellow in the
habit and garb of to geteltnian, has, within the last
few weeks, swindled .several 'families in the 'neigh-
beurlin:ll of Otford.street. He takes lodgings in the
houses of the objects of his plunder, and in a few illy s,
by des suavity of his manners, obtains confidence and
respect. Having accomplished this, on some con
vement ecc..sion he w itches the master of the house
out, and follows him so as to ascertain that his return
is not to interrupt his design. He then shortly
returns, and calling for the lady of the noose, informs
her, in the most feeling and tarafe terms, that her hes-
band has been :wrested and conveyed to a spungUsg.
lirse, a circumstance which he learnt from accideii-
tally passwg at the moment the caption was made.
H•tvieg thas excited all the sympathy of the lady, he
follows uii his disagreeable intelligence by a messen-
ger from the imp:isoned liiis!laird, desiring his n ife
to send all the money she tins in the hieise by the;
Captain. to him immediately. With this command.,
the :distressed wise instantly complies, and exhorts
ber humane lodger to fly to the reliel of her husband.
In obedience to her wishes he forth-with/it:, with no
Surat satisfaction, but merely 'to enjoy the I ruits of
his deception. The return or the landlord to his ago-
nised wife, at once relieves her from her trouble, and
exposes the finesse of which she had been the dupe.
In one ireltance this fellow •ebtaineti a complete new
suit et clot: es,, in a house in Poland street, by going
to his landlady, and telling ler her husband had ac-
cidentally fallen in the mud, and begged him to run
home fur fresh clothes.
Beautiful White teeth may be rearded as ene.of
thesgreatest blessings Providence can bestow, without
which the finest formed face is imperfect; inattention
to the teeth and glans is the principal cause of an
offensive. breath. BuTtedi's Vet:meanly. itesTotta-
'rive Porrnmt is a most elegant and certain
remedy for all diseases of the teeth and gums; its
particular qualities are not simply confined to clean-
sing the teeth, but will preserve them in the highest
state of perfection; it will render them beautifully
white, fasten sash as may be loose, and restore them I
to their ariginal•pority, entirely eradicate the scurvy
in the gifts, cause them to adhere close nod firm to
the teeth, render them of a healthful red, and the
breath delicately sweet, relieve and cure the most
excrticiati-rig tooth-nth, guerebiles, and swelled face.
—Sohl whi,desale and retail at Mr. Butler's, 4, Cheap-
side, corner of Paternoster-row; and retail' by Belam
and Sharp, Portsmouth; Hai) and Johnson, Gosport;
Alinutt, Weston, Mall,ly and Jones, Parma ; TreW,
man, Exeter ; o.onitse. Tilly, Glenville. Gilbert and
Nlymiuth ; Neu bury, Dublin; Baxter and
M'Donald, Glasgow ; Smith, Manderston, Scott and
; Clan 11, Bath ; Ross and Peck,