Star.
London, England, 1829-11-24 00:00:00

ANOTHER LETTERSAIIi DA?I.

This day, at eleven A. M. his Royal Highness Prince
LEOPOLD of SAN E-COBURG, accompanied by Sir Ro BT.
GARDINER and Baron STOCK MAR, arrived from Calais,
in his Majesty's Post-office packet —, Capt. HAMIL-
TON. On the packet's entrance into the harbour with
.the royal standard displayed at the mast-head, a salute
of 21 guns from the garrison heights commenced firing;
and on disembarking his Royal Highness was received
by Lieutenant-Colonel GOSSETT, of the Royal Enr„i7
veers, and a guard of honour of the Rifle Brigade, com-
manded by Major LOGAN. The Prince and his suite,
after taking dejeun; at WRIG lIT'S Hotel, left Dover,
at half-past one, for Marlborough-house.
The Marquis of PA LMELLA, whose return to Eng-
land has been expected these ten days, is still in Paris,
where, it is said, his Excellency's diplomatic presence at
this moment is most material. The report, however, was
given in one of the French journals of last week that the
Government of France had acknowledged Don Mtov EL
as the rightful owner of Portugal. We hear from autho-
rity it is not true.

The Duchess of KENT, accompanied by the Princess
VICTORIA , and attended by Lady CHARLOTTE ST. MAUR
and Baroness LEUZEN, left her residence in the King's
Palace at Kensington yesterday morning, and proceeded
to Kew, where her Royal Highness visited the Duchess

of CUmBEALJND. After the Duchess had returned to
Kensington, the Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND
came to town in their carriage and four. Their Royal
Highnesses remained at their residence in the King's
Palace, St. James's, till six o'clock, when they returned
to Kew.
The Duchess of GLOUCESTF.R left her residence in
Bagsbot Park yesterday morning, on a visit to the Duke
and Duchess of CLARENCE at Bushy Park.
Despatches from his MAJESTY, at the Royal Lodge in
Windsor Park, for the Duke of 'WELLINGTON, were
received in town yesterday morning. They were imme-
diately forwarded by a messenger to his Grace, at the
residence of Mr. PEEL, in Norfolk.

The French Ambassador and the Hanoverian Minister
had interviews with the Earl of ABERDEEN yesterday, at
the Foreign Office.
Sir GEORGE MURRAY transacted business with Lord
HILL yesterday, at the office of the Commander of the
Forces in the Horse-Guards.

The RUSSIAN A m EASSADOR entertained the PRUS-
SIAN MINISTER, the Duke of DEVONSHIRE, the Earl
of ABERDEEN, end a select party, to dinner on Sunday,
at Aahburnham House.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER left town yes-
terday, to join the party at Mr. Secretary PEEL'S resi-
dence, Stowe Hall, Norfolk.

TILE LORD CIIIEF JUSTICE...44A Tr.NTERDEN,
who has been indisposed several days in consequence of
a severe cold, found himself unable yesterday to occupy
his important station on the Bench. At the rising of the
Court Mr. Justice LITTLEDA LE said, " It may be right
to mention to Gentlemen at the Bar, that Lord TENTER-
DEN will not be here to-morrow ; he proposes to be in
Court on Wednesday morning."
The Earl of Kw )1 °ex.'. arrived at Dupplin Castle on
Thursday.
It is said to be in the contemplation of the Jockey
Club to do away altogether with false starts, by which
an ill-tempered or unmanageable horse often deprives a
whole field of a fair exercise of their powers.
In early life Sir HumPIIRY DA VY was a poet of no
mean celerity • and, we understand, in conjunction with
his friend COLERIDGE, published several effusions
which were then highly appreciated.
A plan is said to be in agitation for entirely new model-
ling the business of the Navy Pay-office, the main object
of which is to assimilate its transactions to those of a
banking-house.

NAVAL 12VTELLIGENCE.

Man.' Aamvais THIS Dar.—Dublin I—Waterford I—France 1.
The Maria Louise. Bailhache, of Quebec, was wrecked on the
COl 4t of Labrador. Crew and materials sluej.

The Wellington packet, front Falmouth, arrived at Vera Crus
7.h September.
Dim., Nov. 25 —Kind R by S.—Arrived the Carlisle, Hun-
tingdon, from Memel; and De Static Rotterdam, from
Batavia. Arrived from London, the Para Packet, Potter, (or
Para, and Harbury, Cock, for Trieste.
Totimatouvu. Nov. 25 —Wind N N.B.—Arrived his Majesty's
sltip Nerdy, from Plymouth.
I 'A
LMOOTH. Nov. 2.2..... Wind W. to N.N.W.
('Lv Di. Nov. 21. Arrived the. DavitLlPLintosit, from Antigua;
Oxford, Davidson, from Liebau ; Eldon, M'Alpin, from Bay Char-
ieur ; Forth, Hunter, and Lord Byron, --, from St. John's, N.B.
Flora, Raab, from St Andrew's; Flavis, Perillo, and Alexander,
Miller. from Sicily.
lummox, Nov. St.—Arrived the Defrania, M‘Linto‘it. from
Antigua.
Daunt Nov. 21.—Arrived the Mary Digby, Simpson, front
Quebec; Columbine, Miller, from Smyrna ; Richmond, Hill, from
Gibraltar ; and Albatross, Brown, from Memel.
BiLTAST, Nov. 21.—Arrived the Agnes, Salter, from Trinidad ;
Prince Regent, James, and Sir Within, Sanderaun, front Quebec ;
Brilliant, Porter. from St. Andrew's, N.B. and Elisabeth, Judd,
front Halifax _ _ _

DARTMOUTH, Nev. 22.—Arrived the Alliance, from Labrador.
Warmest Your;, Nov. 22.—Arrived the Regalia, Lotherington,
from Quebec.
ABERDIMI, Nov. el.—Arrived the Highlander, Elliott, from
Bay asaleur ; Magnet, Anderson, and Venus, Nicol, from Quebec,
and Aberdeenshire, °rune, from Miramichi.

The Countess of Harcourt transport, with the second
division of the 68th Light Infantry, from Quebec, has
arrived et Cork, and di:Mnliarked on 'Wednesday.
Mr. HI:Will NSON th Member for Cork, hat: arrived
in that C:tv, whee he propoaes to remain until the the
ing of Parlisnimit.
.Sir Cti.tut.F.% Pima' rit, 13.11. the reeptly declared
e.mtractor fur the surcly of lal:ef and pork for tLe Nav7;
has arrived in Cork.

The furniture Lelonging to the Duke of W E 1.1.1 G Ttl M .
is remming from Lis Grace's official re:•idence in Motu-,
ing-street to Alisky House. We believe it is arrange.l
for Ett I BAT U RST to occupy the home in
Areet, the Pri-ini.r reserving only some privAte otie: •A
it.

The Stewards ni po;oted for Worcester Music Mezting,
1830, are, the It i. .t Rev. the I.°. d Bishop of Rochester,
Dean of Woice,t4r ; Rev. Anthony Berwick Lechniere,
Vicar of Wellanil and Eldersfield ; Rev. Henry Soiner.,.
Cocks, Rector of Leigh ; J. E. Dowdeswel!, Esq, M.P.
Pall Court, near lewk,,,,bary; ArthurSkey, Esq. Spring
Grov;:; and Edwyrd Johason, jun. Esq. of Edgbabton-
flail. _ _

R to J ex nt no, Szs r. 4. The n riartments of the Casth,
of Bonavista have just i eon repaired and fitted up for the
marriage of his M rjesty,wlso itA ens to expect his arp:s!.
spouse with great impitie.nce.
Prince LIEV EN entertained a distinguished party at
dinner on Sunday, at Ashburnham House, Dover-street;
among whom were the Duke of Devonshire, the Earl awl
Ccuntess Cowper, Lord Palniers:on, the Earl of Aber-
deen, Lord Ashiey, Mr. Lntterell, Mr. Temple, ere.
Lord and Lady Gonna' en arrived at Putney on Sa-
turday, and attended Divine Service (in Lord Bristol's
pew) in Putney Church, on Sunday afternoon.
Saturday last Lieut. Wray, with the Maryborough
Police, accompanied by Lieut. Ormsby and a party of the
92d Highlanders, scoured the country about that town,
and brought in a number of prisoners, and lodged them
in Maryborough gaol. Same night, Captain Perceval;
J.P. with Lieut. Rollo and a party of the 92d, traversed
the country, and brought in several prisoners, who were
committed to the above gaol, against whom warrants had
been issued; the prisoners are charged with the recent
outrages in that part of the country.
So demo was the fog on Thursday night, that the
Norwich mail did not arrive in Ipswich, from London,
till a quarter before ten o'clock on Friday morning, nearly
six hours later than usual.

The weather has set in very seve.e at Hamburgh, and
there has been a great fel of snow, which lasted for three
days. Notice has, ccnsequently, been put up at the Ge-
neral Poet-office, that the steam-vessels will discontinue
running for this season.
One of the Paria Papers cf Friday mentions that M.
de.Peronnet, the ex-Keeper of the Seals, was insulted
on his retiring from theElectoralColleg►e, at the late elec-
tion at Bourdeaux. He was surrot.nded by about 300
persons, who followed him with hisses and other marks
of insult along several streets. No assault was, how-
ever, made on his person.
Sir James Anderson's new Steam Coach will run
between Limerick and Dublin early in the ensuing year,
conveying both Mail and Passengers, and travelling at
the rate of twelve miles an hour. The concern will be
in the joint name of Mr. Bourne, the present contractor,
and Sir James Anderson, who enjoyed a share in the old
establishment. By this rapid route, passengeri may
breakfast in Limerick and dine in Di.blin the same day,
at the usual hours.

In the County Meath, it appears, there are not 80 ten
pound freeholders qualified to vote at the ensuing election,
whilst the number of fifty pound freeholders amounts at
least to 500 or GOO.

A grazier in the neighbourhood of Comrie, had a kw
days ago no less than 20 sheep worried by dogs in one niebt !
Saturday se'nnight, three labourere, named Roderick
Young, James MacDougald, and John Cameron. employed in
deepening the (lyde. were drowned in the Stobcross Slip Dock,
Fmniestots, near Glasgow.
THE Si A M ESE YouTHl—were bought of their mother,
by Captain Coffin and Mr. Hunter (the owners) in a village of Siam.
Here they had subsisted in a state of poverty from their birth--
They were confined within certain limits, by order of government,
and supported themselves principally by taking 11.11. The boys are
supposed to be about eighteen years old—they are of modern sta-
ture, though not as tall as boys of that age in this country. They
have the Chinese complexion and physiognomy. The forehead is
more elevated and less broad than that of the Chinese, owing to
malformation. They much resemble each% other, yet not so much
but that, on a little observation, 11.100111 points of slisainularity
be noticed. The slightest impulse of one to move in any direvidt:
la immediately followed by the other; so th..t they would appear
to be influenced by the same wish. This harmony in their move-
ments is not the result of a volition elicited at the same momeor.—

It is a habit formed by necessity. They hold a con.ultation
as to their movements. In truth I have rarely seen them speak ta
each other, although they converse constantly with a Siamese lad,
who is their companion. They always face in one direction, stem!.
ing nearly side by side. and are tint able. without inconvenience, to
face in the opposite direction ; so that one is always at the right and
the other at the left; although not placed exactly in a parallel line,
they are able to run and leap with surprising activity. They are
quite cheerful, appear intelligent.attending to whatever is presented
to them. and readily acknowledging any civility. As a proof of
-their intelligence, it Is stated, that in a few days they learned to
play at draughts well enough to become antagonirs of those nips
had long been versed in the game. They sometimes play with
each other, and it hasteen noticed. that when one I a I made a bad
move. the other would sometimes correct it, and propote it should
be taken back. They differ in intellectual vigour, The percep-
tions of one are more acute than those of the other; and there is a
corresponding coincide: ce in moral qualities. lie who appears
most intelligent is somewhat irritable in temper. while the diTero-
don of the other is extremely mild. What diatinguishes the case of
the Siamese boys from most others of the kind is, the age they have
attained, and the perfect health they enjoy. Human monsters are
generally very short lived and sickly ; but these youths have at.
tamped nearly to the age of manhood, and are active and vigorous.
Mazy singular reflections naturally occur on the contemplation of
those youths, who can hardly be regarded either morally or in the
eye of the law responsible beings. They can act independently
but any punishment inflicted upon the one who should tramways
must necessarily be inflicted es both, sad thus the isitecese would •
suffer for the guilty. •

HEALTH WITHOUT PHYSIC.

RIPIIIVORAIR Immo, ROYAL RICH/IWO&
This is a little production much like a book we lately
noticed-- The Simplicity of Health—professing to ad-
minister cordials for youth, manhood, and old age, (in-
cluding maxims, moral and facetious,) for the prevention
of dis-ase, and the attainment of a long and vigorous
fife. The author unfolds the secret of these blessings in
a very few words : " to live long people must live well."
This is one of the most agreeable specifics that ever was
offered to a patient; but let not the " OLD PH vsici x"
be misconstrued or misunderstood. Follow, says he, the
dictates of reason and nature—that never-erring guide.
" Throw physic to the dogs," unless you be actually ill;
benefit by the experience of others, and learn to live, and
supply nature's wants, without pampering the appetite
to the injury of the constitution. "To live long
people must live well"—that is, not upon the fat of the
land, but rather upon the wholesome products, animal
and vegetable, which the land affords, properly prepared
and cooked. Temperance, the mother of virtues, and
so essential to happiness, among the panacea to which
we allude, ought to be cherished—not only for the sake
of the good it does the mind—but it 'should equally be
practised with care, for the advantages which it procures
to the body ; it being that alone which preserves the
latter in health, and cures it of the diseases with which
its opposite—intemperance—afflicts it.
In the author's chapter on different constitutions,
wherein he gives us a definition of the four principal
temperaments set down by the " father of physic,"
PPOCRATES,IIIIIIIeIy, " The. Choleric, Melancholic,
Phlegmatic, and Sanguine".--We have the , following
verdict:— " There can be no such thing invented by
man as an universal remedy to prevent or cure all kinds
of diseases : because that which would agree with the
hot, must disagree with the cold. Besides, all such
boasted specifics have been, by experience, found to be
ineffectual : and every pretender to them has been con-
victed either of gross ignorance or dishonesty."
This book is written in a light pleasing style, abound-
ing in anecdote, and diversified with amusing and useful
quotations from a variety of writers on physics, health,
• 'and longevity. We could be tempted to make several
extracts ; but for this day, we must confine ourselves to
the following Chapter on early rising, and the beauties
of the morning, as conducive to health and pleasure :
Rise, light thy candle, see thy task begun, •
Ere redd'aing streaks proclaim the distant sun.
He who does not experience the bracing air, or inhale the balmy
breath of the morning, but half enjoys his existence. " Early
rising," says a writer distinguished for his erudition, " has been the
constant object of my attention : and it is, indeed, a powerful pre.
servative from vice, a spur to industry and order, and constitutes the
most valuable recommendation that literature can boast. 1 wish
my advice and imperfect experience of its benefits, could persuade
every youth to engrave it in impressions not to be effaced on the
tablet of his heart, and exemplify it in his daily practice !"
Dr. Doddridge, author of many excelleit writings, in which his
pious, benevolent, and indefatigable zeal to make mankind wise,
good, and happy, is conspicuously manifested, ascribes their pro-
duction principally, if not entirely, to the habit of rising early.
The late Jolts Wellesley, so well known from his unprecedented
labours in travelling, writing, and preaching, rose constantly at four
o'clock in the morning. In a word, there is scarcely a person emi-
nent for learning or piety. either in ancient or modern times, of
whom it is not recorded that he was an early riser.
Persons not accustomed to accuracy and minuteness of calcu-
lation, will learn_, with surpriie, the vast space of time gained by
moderation in ship, or. In other woids, how considerably early
rising will extend life in a given number of years. The advantages
of this habit must, indeed, be very numerous ; since divine and
. human wisdom, the scriptures, and the classics, are found to concur
in frequent recommendation of it. Not to advert to solitary pas-
sages to this effect in other books of holy writ, several of Solomon's
proverbs, while inveighing against sloth, or extolling diligence, make
the time spent in the repose of sleep, the principal evidence of the
former vice, or test of the latter excellence.
Our own poets have also been glowing and energetic on this
• must interesting topic. See particularly Milton, in his Paradise

LOU.
The following exquisite lines are from the author of the
Seaslons:--

Falsely luxurious, will not man awake,
And springing from the bed of sloth, enjoy
The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour,
To meditation due and sacred song?
For is there ought in sleep can charm the wise ?
To lie in dead oblivion; losing half
The fleeting moments of too short a life ;
Total extinction of th' enlighten'd soul !
Or else to feverigh vans y alive ;
Wilder'd, and tossing through &tempted dreams?
Who would in such a gloomy state remain
Logger than nature craves, when every muse,
And every blooming pleasure wait without,
To bless the wildly devious morning walk?
The following monitory. lines " On the !Ark's Sweet Matin
Song," may not, perhaps, be useless to our readers, as reminding
them of their Matra, and pointing out to them the blessings of
health and peace, through the medium of piety and a proper ado-
ration of the Draturr.
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Those little songsters mounted high,
Harmonious carol to the sky :
To Heaven their tuneful offering pay,
And seem to hail the newborn day !
Sweet bird ! instructed by thy lays,
Can man forget his blouses praise ?
Reviving from the shades of night,
Can he behold the alf-quick'ning light,
Can be enclose his sluggish eyes,
Nor send one rapture to the skies?

Milton, in bis Allegro, most excluisitely expresses himself on these
circtimstances ,• and Bishop Newton observes, that the beautiful
scene which Milton exhibits of rural cheerfuluess, at the same time
gives us a fine picture of the regularity of his life, and the inno-
cency of his own mind : thus he describes himself as in a situ-
ation—
To hear the lark begin his flight,
Andy singing, startle the dun night,
• From his watch-taw'r in the skies,
'Till the dappled dawn doth rise.

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The morning. in fine, independent of its salutiferous exhalations,
displays to the world a new and magnificent and most inviting cre-
atlun: The shades of night had concealed the view and enjoy-
ment of earth and skies. But now the light returns, and we be-
• hold all nature renewed in youth and beauty. We are reminded
of Milton's fine description of the creation, when Gon first com-
manded the earth to put forth the verdant grass.

He 'cte bad said, when the bare earth, till then
Disc sn,d'hare, unsightly, unadorn'd;
Brous t north her tender gnu, whose verdure clad
Then
uniiinal face with pleasant green •
Then herbs of eves y leaf, that sudden teamed,
Opening their various colours, and made gay
Her bosom smelling
high woods the hills were crown'd,
, and each fountain side,
rivers : that earth now
seat where gods might dwell,
and love to haunt

. the morning landscape la Indeed ex-
Aature rejoices Ina delightful renovation
feathered tribes salute the bright source of
owes. In a word, e'er), living creature
new zeturni of health, pleasure, and

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, With tufts the sallies, and c
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'd brke tos erTieween ngthe e
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l v
.*, ' °mender with delight, an(
1 , • • Her sacred Aides.
il
1. Nor is this posaile fiction : the
,
quisitely beautiful. . AU Nature
of life sod vigour. The feather*
day with their melodious notes.
is inaction, and is sensible to ne
DOW capacities of enjoyment.