Star.
London, England, 1827-02-05 00:00:00

BIOTA L AMUINDIXIITS.

Wenceslaus, King ofßolt eMia,shesZcias pretty a disposition to
rascality as ever adorned the accomplished tyrants of Home or Hin-
dman. His cook having, upon we occasion, spoiled his dinner, be
had him impaled upon the spit, and roasted before his kitchen fire.
Another time, he commanded the executioner of the metropolis to
come to him, and told him he wished to know how men felt who
were going is be beheaded. He, therefore, bared his neck, blinded
his eyes, knelt down, and commanded his " father," as he used to
call the executioner, to strike off his head. The poor man resisted
for a long time, and at length urged by reiterated menaces, gently
touched the Monarch's neck with the axe. The King immediately
rose, made the executioner kneel in his turn, and with one blow
severed his head from his body.
Hunting is a forest, he met a Monk, whom he immediately
pierced with his bunting spear, and shouted out to his attendants
that he had slain a wild beast. The astonished guards replied, that
it was not a wild beast, but a Monk, whom he bad slain " You
are wrong," replied the King, "for Monks belong to the cloisters,
and not to the woods."
An indignant citizen wrote opposite his Palace wall—
" Wenceslaus alter Nero."
• "In Wenceslaus another Nero sem" ,
To whkb Wenceslaus added with his own Imid—;
" Si non sum adhuc ero."
Ifpot a Nero yet, I soon will be."
The Inspector, Litaary Moigazine.

It is said, that a new singer of great talent, Madame
Beim, is engaged for the King's Theatre.
WONDgRIUL Escape.—Saturday last, Robt. Hunter,
nailer in this town, set out at four o'clock, on his re-
turn home from Yetholm. nine miles from hence.—
About midway, or near Blakeway-edge, the storm and
snow was so dreadful as completely to overpower him,
and he sunk down on the road side, and was speedily
buried in the snow : this must have been within an hour
after he left Yetholm. On the following day (Sunday)
a thaw took place; and about five o'clock in the after-
noon, a woman, on passing the spot, thought she heard
a feeble moaning. Fortunately for the poor man, a
search was made, and he was found in an almost lifeless
state. He was conveyed to the nearest house, and has
since been brought home, and is likely to recover, not-
withstanding he was so many hours buried in the
snow. All that he remembers after the first sensation of
the horror on yielding to the blast is, that he felt without
the power of motion, as if tied strongly down ; and on
his revival, it seemed as if hb had had a most hideous
dream.—Kelre Journal, Feb. 3.
Po lITUGAL—The chief seat of war—such as it is—lies
now in one of the most romantic tracts of country in the
whole Spanish Continent, and a countty strong in its
natural capabilities for defence—the country between
Coimbra and Vize, the high road through which lies
over the Sierra of Busaco. Cea, which the Royalists
were holding, I perceive, the other day, is one of the
most beautifully situated spots in the country. It lies
on the side, and nearly at the base, of a mountain, just
under the great Sierra do Estrella. on the top of which
the snow lies during three-fourths of the year, whi'e
the people are scorching in the valley below; and looks
over a plain, the very richest and most extensive in the 1
Province of Beita. 'rely fertile and highly cultivated
the prospect. wants nothing but a bold river to make it
one of the most delicious in the world. Cea consists',
only of a few houses ; but all these are handsome it
amounts rather to an assemblage of country seats than
to what we should call a village. Goveia, situated in
the sameline, is a more populous p!ace, and looks, at a ,
distance, one of the most picturesque towns in Portugal.
It lies, like Cea, upon the side of a mountain, but is so
formed, as to be seen all at one view, and like one
building, as a stranger approaches it ; and the view lies
acioss.a - richly cultivated flat, which separates it, by
about the width of a mile, from the high road. Going
still further north, the scene changes, and we get into a
batten, and, in many parts, into a frightful country.—
' Celia ico and Guarda are dreary residences both; the
first as a poor straggling town, scarcely worthy of the
title, standing about a mile from the banks of the Mon-
dego, and in the centre of a country where, looking as,
far as the eye can reach. in many directions, you find
nothing but masses upon masses--piled almost to the
sky—ol black granite, and a soil of the same inhospi
table' material, or of sand. Guarda stands higher in
•sitiiation, 1 believe, than any town in Portugal, and, is
subject to almost incessant rains. It was said in. the
last war, that the French occupied Guarda in their first
campaign for three months. and that it rained, withecit
exception, every day. whilp they were there. In the next
campaign they entered it adifin; and the int exclarna.
Non .ot the advanced guard that marched into it was
Par blest ! it is raining heft still r'

EDINBURGH., FearTa rtY S.
A YOUNG LADY ?matter) IN Tile SNOW.—BREcitiN,
N.B. F6ll. .—Ori the night brSaturday last, this city
and district to the poithwaid were visited Kith a severe
storm. The snow fell very thick, arid was in Many
places drilted to a great depth. Miss D ogles, a young
Lady who had been residing for some time in the hou e
of the Reverend Peter Jolly, at Tarffide, parish of
Lochlee, perished in the storm; and Nlr. Jolly himself
WAS nearly sharing the same fate. The Lady had ac-
companied Mr. Jolly to blackcraig, a distance of about
three miles fromTarlfside, on occasion of a marriage cere-
mony at which he had to officiate ; and they set nut toge-
ther on their return home, about five o'clock in the even-
ing. In consequence of the thickness cf the drift and the
darkness of the night,they had gone out of the road ; and,
after wandering upon the Moidlach Hill till about six
o'clock on Sunday morning, Miss Douglas suddenly
sunk down and expired from exhaustion. Mr. Jolly
sustained his terrible situ ition till day-light shewed his
position, and enabled him to obtain assistance. He then
found that Miss Douglas had perished within 300 yards
of the house of Auchintoul,—althnugti, in their wander-
ings round the trackless nrount.in, they had utiortu-
nately missed the house, which they must have passed
probably oftener than on:e. • Mr. Jolly's servant and
another man had been dispatched by the family at home
in search of the wanderers; but they had deviated so
far from tie road that the search proved fruitless. These
imiiiiduals bad also their share of mi.fortunes s they
Lien over a precipice and were moth hurt.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

1110.

His Majesty's Buck HoUnTlft will.mett on Friday; at Langley
Broom; if prevented by the weather, they will lower at the same
piece the following day.
Sir John Cope's Houmis,to.morrow, at Mr. Hanley's, at Buckle-
bury; on Thursday, at Uphill; and on Saturday, at Highbeld,

The Berkeley Bounds on Friday, At the Seven Mile Stone,front
Cricklade, on the Malenesbury road ; and on Saturday, at &bury
Grove.

The Bart of Derby's Stag Hounds, to-morrow, at Sanderstead ;
and on .Friday, near home.
H..7olliffe, Fox Hounds, on Wednesday, at Broekham;
and Saturday, at IVindmill Walton.
-'!fie Surrey Fox-Hounds on Thursday, at Leaves Green; and
on Saturday, at Godatone:
COURSING.

Friday an excellent day's coursing, with permission of T. This.
tlethwayte, Raq. took place (numerously attenlied by his Tenants
and other Gentlemen) on the South side of Portsdown Hill, neat'
Wymering. The dugs ran in fine style, and ten brace and a half of
barn were killed.—ln the evening the company adjourned to the
Waterloo Inn, near Pulbrouk, where a amid dinner was provided,
and the evening was spent with harmony and'conviviality.