Star.
London, England, 1826-12-05 00:00:00

PARTRIDGE SHOOTING.

A match on which heavy bets were pending, took place on
Saturday, between Mr. Moseky of Hertfordshire, and Mr.Knlvett
of Suffolk. The match was who should bag the most game, Mr.
Moseley to shoot in Suffolk, and his adversary in Hertfordshire.
As first.rate shots a great interest was excited on both sides, and each
was accompanied by the friend of his adversary. The parties met
at Both, on the borders of the county, at nine, on Saturday morning.
Mr. Moseley bagged fourteen brace, and Mr. Knivett seventeen.
The former shot from the neighbourhood of St. Edmunds, towards
Yeldkans, and the latter at Wades's Mill, keeping the road on the
right towards Beheld. Both of the sportsmen found plenty of birds,
but they were shy. The match was for fifty sovecsigns aside, and
the articles ware to shoot seven bouts.
THE RING. •

&AMON awn (YNera. —The whole of the stakes (200 i. a side)for
this affair were made goad last night. Betting even, each man for
choice with his friends. The fight will take place this day weak,
on the Birmingham Road.
Ammer AMLOII and Dior Calms fight on Tuesday, the 27th of
February,lsp, within 100 miles of London.

The undermentioned East India Company's ships
arrived at and left Anjeer fir China, as follows, via.—London, ar.
rive(' July 23, sailed July 24 ; General Harris, arrived July 2S,
sailed July 27; Canning and William Fairlie, arrived August 1,
sailed August S. The OnveU also arrived at Anjeer on the Bth of
August, and was expected to proceed again on her voyage a China
the 13th of August.
The .Etoile states, in a communication, dated Con-
' stantiaople, the 18th ult. that an arrangement wilt
speedily expected to take place between the great Power
of Europe and the GovernmeM of Turkey, by which the
disastrous war in Greece may be terminated.

Letters from Spa state) dist Commodore HAMILTON
had appeared before Hydra with three vessels of war,
and made the following demands :-Ist, The restitution
,of the cargoes of eighteen English ships, taken since
the commencement of the war. Rdly, That no vessels
or boats be allowed•to cruise without passports. idly,
That the vessels cruising without should pay a fine of
100 talaris to the Greek Government. 4thly,That every
ship going out to cruise, leave a guarantee in the hands
of the Greek Authorities ; and sthly, That if the Go.
vernment could not immediately pay an indemnity for
the eighteen British vessels, it should 6x a period for
doing ko, and give proper securities. These demands,
it was thought, had all been complied with.
The Basilogia, a book of rare portraits, by Pats, &c.
was sold about twenty years ago at an auction neat,
Canterbury, for half-a• crown, and was resold in London
for about $OOl. Since that period, one was purchased at
Birmingham for 501. which was broken up, and sold in
lots for near 5001. Some weeks since a copy was sold aka
sale at Bromley for 555. It was called A Book of Kings ;
and a royal prize it proved to the booksellers into a n;Se
hands it fell. It is remarkable that these three copies
differ in the number of the prints: the lest•mentioneJ
Contains the rare portrait of k, Mulfd SA," which,
since Grainger, has ben considered unique.

FROC.II7PAPER&

RIO JARMO, Scrtnists IS.

The iniilative Session of the General Assembly closed on the
eth. The following is a copy of the Illinperor's Speech at the closing:
"AUGUST AND WORTHY RRPRESSNTA TITS* of MIS
BRASILIAN NATION I—The fulfilment of the laws is,
the first duty of all Citizens.—it fixes the duration of
these Sessions to four months, which have now expired.
The period of your dissolution is arrived, and on that
account I stand in the midst of you. The labours of
the A.seinhly, althi ugh limited in respect of time, have
already produced some laws, and leave os hopes, that
at your next meeting you will be able to give the coun-
try—l say not all the laws necessary for the strict exe-
cution of the Constitution—but, at least, the greater
part of such as are. The harmony which has pre-
vailed between the two Chambers, and all that they
have dune for the happiness and grandeur of the nation,
shews what the spirit of patriotism consists of, by which
the Assembly i. animated. It issuitable, however, that
the illustrious S nators and Deputies, who are about to
retire to different provinces of the Empite, should em-
ploy the interval which will elapse between this time
and the commencement of the Session of next year, in
meditating on the means of giving prosperity to the
Empire, and that they do on their part whatever lies in
their power,to teach the people that obedience which they
owe to the Government, by :hewing them, that he who
obeys the Government obeys the laws, and he who obeys
the laws has every guarantee which is sufficient for his
honour, his life, and his prosperity.
" TIM CONIIIITIPTIONAL EN71.1110111 a,. Narrivsz Drowse'
of

FROIL rill JOURNAL DNS HILIATIL
LISBON, Nov. 15.

Lot d Beresford, Marquis of Campo.Mayor, conti-
nues to make frequent visits to the Infanta Regent, and
to the Queen Mother, at the Palace of Queluz ; on his
side he receives the homage of the Officers and Autho-
rities; and persons of distinction, of all classes.

MADRID, Novsaassa 21.
We are informed, that the last dispatches, which left
Madrid, declaring that we should maintain our system
of neutrality towards Portugal, were wholly written in
the litng's own hand ; that M. Calomarde, who is the
only Minizter who does business with his Majesty, was
not called on even to countersign them ; that the ging
summoned M. Melgar, Postmaster-general, and him-
self committed the dispatches to his hands, to forward
then) to their destination.

Three ot the Ambassadors' Ladies, the Countess Brit.
netti, Lady of the Austrian Ambassador; I%ladame
D*Oubril,.Lady of the Russian Ambassador ; and the
Countess Solor de la Marguerite, Lady of the Ambas•
sador 01 Sardinia, have all been delivered of daughters;
it nearly same time.

PARIS, Dicsmsza 1.
Nine Leopold of &tee Coburg, after remaining
fifteen days at Florer.ce, set out on the 18th of November,
to go to Rome.. The Grand Duke of Tuscany paid him
a visit previoth to his departure. The Prince travels
under the tide of Count de Cennebtry.

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The Duke of Motaranau.o was in the pit at the Opera
House Gs Saturday night.
Acc 'urns from Gibraltar, of the 13:h ult. state that
the Algeriue squadron again appeal ed off the flock,
with six Sp:l.)W' vessels in tow ; it consisted of one large
frigate and four small vessels.
DREADFUL ACCJDENT.—Sonday night, about ten
o'clock, a dreadful and fatal accident occurred to the
son of Mr. Muzzio Clementi, the musical composer, at
his lather's house in Brompton Grove. This young
Gentleman, about twenty ;ears of age, was, with
companion, making some trial of pistols and other fire.
artns, when by some accident, we are informed, a deto-
nating cap put upon a pistol exploded, and the unfortu.
mate youth was shot through the bean. Medical
assistance was immediately catled in, but beftixe Kean,
Andersrsn and Glen (who reside almost iintnedintelr
opposite, and iostantly hastened to the spot,) could
reach it, he was a corpse. The distress of the
occasi ned by this sad example, added to the many, of
tbp danger and imprudence of playing with firm-arms,
or handling than carelessly, is not diminished by the
bet of the Ode, Mr. Clementi being at the time in Italy.
Mr. Gully, the famous ci deyant pugilist, now the
Gimeral Stott of Newmarket and Doncaster, was the
highest bidder for the Ware Park Estate, in Hertford.
shire, the seat of Mr. Byde. When this celebrated
warrior was fighting Gregson in Sir John Sebri,ght's
park, in that county, some sixteen years ago, he did
Act ewer to soon to be in a condition to take his sta.l
lion among the aristocracy of Hertfordshire.- It is said
drat the price of the Ware Park property, for which he
cifered about 441,00 i 1. is a trifle compared with the'
value of such an estate as Mr. Gully has front his great 1
wealth now in his power to put chase.
Yesterd iy morning about seven o'clock, a fellow was
observed lurking about the house of Mr. Brown,, a
builder 'in Charles-street, Westminster. He at hat
o?ened the parlour window, and in a few minutes vias
seen coming out with a clock and a, great coat, lie
was immediately pursued, overtaken in Bennet-street,
wi:b the property in his possession, ant taken to the
watchhouse.

By an Act of the sth Geo. 11T. cap. 20. sec. /0, with
the object, among other thingi, of punishing Persons
embezzling printed Proceedings in Parliament, or
Newspapers, it is enacted: 4, That from and after the
passing of this Act,if any Deputy, Clerk, Agent, Letter
Carrier, Letter Sorter, Post Boy, or Rider,or any other
Officer, or Person whatsoever, employed, or hereafter to
be employed, in receiving, stamping, sorting, charging,
conveying, or delivering Letters or Packets, or in aoy
other Business relating to the Post Office in the said
United Kingdom, shall wilfully purloin, embezzle, se-
crete, or destroy, or shall willfully permit, or suffer any
other Person or Persons to purloin, embeizle, secrete,
or destroy, any printed Votes or Proceedings in Parlia-
ment, or printed -Newspapers, or any other printed
Paper whatsoever, sent, or to be sent, by the Post with-
out Covers, or in Covers open at the sides, each and
every such Person or Persons so offending, shall be
deemed and taken to be guilty of a Misdemeanour, and
be punished by Fine or Imprisonment, and such offences
shall and may be inquired of, tried, and determined,
either in the cfrunty where the offence shall be commit-
ted, or. where the patty shall or may be apprehended."
Sunday, the funeral of Hayes, who was executed on
Wednesday last, for robbing the house of Capt. Pascall,
of Poplar, took place, in the burial ground attached to
the Catholic Chapel at that place, when about .5000 of
his cnentrymen assembled. Ooe of the followers, ob•
servinit a quantity of water in the grave, exclaimed,
Si By —s they want to drown the bby, as well as hang
him."

PARISH OF ST. GEORGE, II A NOV R•SQUA RE,
Yesterday a numerous Meeting of the Inhabitant
Householders of the Parish of St. George, Hanover-
square, was held at the Gun Tavern, in Pimlico, los
the purpose of petitioninvrarliament against an Act
passed during the last Seton of Parliament, entitled
a An Act for Paving, Lighting, Watching, and Re.
pairing Grosvenor-place. Mr. Hositovse, MP. in
the Chair.

The Petition submitted and agreed to by the Meeting
was founded on a series of Resolutions proposed by a
Meeting held in October list. It was also complained
that the Act was onerous, oppressive, and unequal, for
that the powers given by it to the trustees were arbi-
trary and unlimited ; that excessive sums might be
levied on the parish under it ; and that by its provisions
the inhabitants of the Out-ward, where the greatest pro-
portion of the poor resided, were called upon to defray.
expenses which ought to be paid by the whole parish.
In addition to these grielances, it was alleged that this
Act was the first step towards dividing the parish, which
would be ruinously oppressive to the inhabitants of the
Out-ward.

The Petition having been read and unanimously agreed te a
Resolution was passed to the effect that application should be !snide
is Lord Grosvenor, and if possible an amicable arrangement entcred
late.... With this understanding the Meeting separated.

CAPTAIN PARRY'S EXPEDITION.

The Public have been already Informed,.through the
medium of the STAR, of the preparations making for
, Captain PARRY'S Expedition to the North Pole. It is
proposed to place b )ats upon sledges at Spitsbergen,
and that they should be drawn by Shetland ponies, or
by the crews. I fear either of these will foil in their
object. In the North of Europe I have travelled much
in sledges. I know, from experience, that horses em-
ployed in drawing them, must be accustomed to the
work, and must be very frequently lough-shod, and
that in peculiar manner, without which they cannot
keep their footing.. If the drawing of sledges ppon
well prepared roads, which are previously flattened and
smoothed, can bafll4 the exertions of powerful horses, as
iroften the case, how can it be supposed that men can
overcome the difficulty, and be equal to the fatigue of
drawing such ponderous machines as ship's boats, upon
sledges, on a surface which can afford them no footing?
In my humble opinion, a very simple contrivance might
be resorted to, which would overcome the difficultie; of
both these methods—it is.this; Boats have often been
seen upon the Thames propelled with fly-wings (similar
to those of steam-vessels) bj hand; two nun will work
a boat, capable of containing twenty persons, at the
rate of sever miles an hour. It would be a very easy
matter to use the same meriod upon ice or snow, by
substituting pointed iron rods ro the axle instead of the
wings, or studding a wheel with long irun points, wow-
what after the fashion of a Catherine wheel, with the
difference, that the points should be straight. I am
confident this contrivance would be found to surmount
every difficulty, and as the rods, or ,_tudded wheel, might
be made to remove at pleasure, fly-Wings could be at
any time substituted, to work the boats thtough narrow
channels, where oars could not be employed. This hint,
which experience persuades me is useful, may, perhaps,
induce the mAlciag of a trial; anal I have no doubt, but.
that it will prove infinitely. more effectual than eithey,
ponlei or men, where 'speed Is of material Imphrtance,
and where the chances of Oh cliolite are lo unfavour-
Ale to anima life.

Ain,gapore Chronicles to the 6th of July have reached
tow's. Tue trade with Cochin-China was increasing,
and the ships of the season, which had just terminated,
hid carried off a considerable quantity of the staple
manufaCtures of this country to the dominions of his
Cochin-Chinese Majesty. The principal articles con.
sumed were—fine and coarse woollens, eamlets, glass,
and earthenware. Mitive Vissels from Borneo and the
surrounding Islands ate constantly arriving with car-
goes for sale. Some Gentlemen of the settlement,
members of the Singapore Yacht Club, had recently
made an ezcursisn, to Johore, in the course of which
thee visited the site of the ancient town, and were shewn
the ton.bs of the Malayan It jails, which are still to be
traced in the jungle that has grown up amongst the
ruins. The party penetrated about 40 mile; up the
river, and lanJed at a small village inhabited by Chi-
nese mioers,where they had at opportunity of examining
the tin Mines, which they reported to be more extensive
than was geoeraUy supposed.
A few mornings since, as a Gentleman was passing
Vauxhall Chapel, Vauxhall Road, his attention was
attracted by seeing, a ladder against the wall of the
burying. ground, and two men lifting something over.
He immediately informed the watchman, who w as sta-
tioned almost close to the spot, when old Cerberus very
reluctantly attended, but not tin he had given the de-
predators time to escape, of which they did not fail to
take.advantage, leaving behind them the corpse of a
young female which had been recently interred.
Lynn' who' was acquitted of the murder of Hogg, on
the ground of insanity, continues in Aylesbury gaol,
where he will in all probability pass the remainder of
his life. The expense of his maintenance is, however, de-
frayed .by the Secretarr of State.
Friday a person, hating the appearance of a Gentle-
men, went into the King's Arms Tavern, Woolwich,
about two o'clock in the afternoon, with a carpet bag,
bundle, and umbrella, which he left at the bar. He
returned about five o'clock, and ordered dinner. After
he had finished his repast, he requested to be shewn a
room where ht could wash his hands—he was accord.
ingly accommodated with one. During the time 'he
remained up stairs be broke into an adjoining room, and
stele near three dozen of silver table-spoons, a valuable
gold and silver watch, with gold chains and seals, a 1
:quantity of ancient gold and silver coins, and numerous
.other portable articles, with which he contrived to
escape, and has nut since been heard of.
Noma SmartsszaTs.—The magnanimity and devo-
,tion of Henry 111. King of Castile, to the welfare of his
'subjects, cannot be sufficiently extolled. Being pressed
'by his Ministers to impose a duty upon property, in
order to redeem his. revenue, which had been pledged
for four millions of maravedis, he replied that " he could
not listen to such counsel, because he dreaded infinitely
more the tears and maledictions of his people than the
arms of his enemies."*—Mirror.

The annual extent of the sales of real property in
'England and Wales, may be ascertained, with tolerable
accuracy, by reference to the ad valorem duty paid on
conveyances. This for the year 1825 amounted to about
440,0001.; which, at the average rate of 1i per cent.
would give for the aggregate purchase money upwards
oaf 35,000,000 L and— ler the yearly value (taking the
wholg at the high raw of 30 years' purchase), about
.1,200,0011.

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