Star.
London, England, 1816-09-19 00:00:00

SOUTH Atitg.itA.

13t a tritish Merchre.t whd left the Mier fiat/ it
the end of June we learn, that there is no truth what-
ever in the report that the Portuguese had a arcing
party in Buenos Ayres. On the contrary, a strong
feeling exists there against the Portuguese. If the
inhabitants detest the Spaniards, they equally despise
the Portuguese.
It is the general opinion in the River Plate, that
the Expedition lately fitted out in the Brazils was in-
tended to reduce the province of Monte-Video only,
and this with the consent of Spain, but whether or
not with a view of restoring it, there was no data to
form an opinion. On the other hand, General An•
mils, who governs without controul in the province
of Monte• Video, has been found to he a troublesome
neighbour to the Portuguese, whence some were in-
clined to think that the armament was solely intend-
ed to afford better protection to the frontiers of the
Brazilian dominions.

At all events, it is fortunate for all parties that the
expedition is suspended, since at a future period k
might have produced serious consequences to' the ter-
ritories of the Portuguese Crown. Both fallen fac-
tions and intriguing agents, there and here, have
been busily employed in selling their country to fo-
reigners; but notwithstanding the intestine divisions
with which Buenos Ayres is agitated, we hope the
people will see they have only one course to steer
consistent with their interests and their honour.

At the last Cumberland Assiv,s, in an action
against the Sheriff for an ebc,ipe, the defence set up
was, th..t the only day or which there hid been an
opportunity of arresting the fugitive WU' Good Fri.
chy, and that, in the apprehenbion of the bailiff, an
Arrest tin such a da.y was illegal. The Judge would
not undertake to decide whether such an arrest was

legal or not ?. but he had so strong an opinion of the
indecency of such a proceeding, that he directed a
nunsuit, because it appeared that the alleged neglect
'occurred dui ing Di v:ne Service, when, said the Judge,
it. was a civil officer's duty to be at church, and not
to be executing a warrant.
Yesterday afternoon, as a woman named Beale,
who lives at Old Bethlem, Mnorfields, was crossing

from Skinner-street to Holborn-hill with her daugh-
ter, a Wackney chariot, which was driving very fu-
riously from Snow-hill (in consequence of the inebria-
ted state of the driver), passed over the thighs of Mrs.
Beale, and the daughter narrowly escaped. She was
immediate:y carried to a surgeon opposite Fleet-mar-
ket, and from thence taken home in a coach. The
mob which was collected were so much irritated at
the condun of the coachman, that it was with some
difficulty he escaped chastisement.
A garden, in the Vale of Lorton, which gave pro.
mise of an abundant crop of fii-,e gooseberries, as the
fruit approached towards maturity, was observed
from day to day to be stripped by some nocturnal de-
predator. As the fruit ripened, the bushes were found
every succeeding morning to have list a part of their
tempting and delicious burden. A watch was set.—
Not a single biped was seen to invade the pren:ises,
yet every morning shewed the ravages of the former
night, and the ci:cirmstance appeared really myste-
rious, until one morning an inrhate ct the fai:oiy,
having occasinn to rise a: a very early hoer, dztnttd
the thief in the semblance of .4 large cur dog, Vera.
cloudy feasting upon the berries.
GRAND PEW:SUMAS MATCH OF 1500 MILES IN' 32
DAvs, 'AT LOWCO. TOuTINO, SURREifo-•-Fiftii Day.—
BARNET last night accomplished, at twenty *minutes
after ten o'clock, forty.eight miles: he started again
this morning At five o'clock, and completed fourteen,
miles at nine, when he WAS travelling on quite fresh.
BoXING.—A strong m:cting of the pugilists, with
a miscellaneous assembisge of amateurs, took glace
yesterday at Wiisdon !;Teen, to witness a fight he.'l
twee:. William Ros-, elegnntly tertn.al the Young Co-1
vey, and Gc7rge SP,krt, bcgh bakers, for a stake of
forty gnineas ; and the men had heft:re signalized',
thern,cives as fair second utters. The ring, on this
occasoo, presnited as motley an assemblage as we
have scarcely ever witnessed : and had it been near
an assize town, an oborvcr would have supposed a
general gaol delivery had taken place. Shelton and
Cropley seconded Rose, and Paddington Jones and
Croxey officiated for Stokes. Betting bye to four on
Rose. The combat was smartly maintained, but as
for science we observed but little. Rose, from su.,
perior length,' in nearly every round robbed his man
with the left hand coming in, and when he failed to,
do that, Siukes had a reciprocity of advantages in
when fighting at half arm. Strength and length,;
however, counterbalanced his exertions, and be was
well beat in 35 minutes, never having once turned the
odds, which gradually increased aviiist him.
At the Doncaster Races, next week, Robinson and
Seaton (blacks) will fight Oliver and Carter also
fight, in the same week, at Carlisle.
CURDS/WS lectetsr.—Yesterday en inquest was
held at the White Swan, in Upper Clapton, Hack-
ney, on the body of Thomas Trentham, aged 27,
who was drowned in bathing in the river Lea, on
Sunday last. Thomas Wediagham deposed, that
he and the deceased went to bathe in the Lea, on
Sunday morning; Trentham got ent of his depth,
and called for his assistance ; witness get into the
same situation, and was himself rescued from great
peril by a young man named Faulkner, in a senheless I
state; Trentham was drowned. Francis Faulkner de-
posed, that heating that two men were drowned in the
Lea, he ran across a field, stript off his clothes, andil,
plunged into the water ; he dived about seventeen
feet, and caught Wedimigham by the hair, and brought'
him to the bank, where he was, with great exertion.,
restored to life. He then dived for the other, but he
being under a ledge of clay, whereethe gravel was
washed away bellow, he could not get at him without
assistance. He was in the water half ,an hour, and'
was dead when brought out. Verdict—Accidentally ]
drowned.
Monday morning as a man, named Richard DaF,
who lived at Acton, in Middlesex, was standing in a
neighbour's brewhouse talking to him, be acciden-
tally fell into a rub of won • he wail taken to the
George Tavern, where he died immediately. He has
lett a wife and Irma children.