Star.
London, England, 1826-08-08 00:00:00

EVILS OF FOREIGN RESIDENCE.

MR. EDITOR—Much has been justly said of late in
many of the public journals on the greatly increased
expenses of a C ,ntinental residence, • and their natural
• consequence in the general diminution of our English
families living abroad; but are such of our country-
men aware of one evil which this foreign residence is,
to themselves, perhaps imperceptibly, producing on
. the minds and hearts of those very children whom they
are wthinkingly training up amidst the demoralizing
influence of the habits and prejudices of a people, with
whom:the sacred and solemn dedication of the Sab-
bath is utterly neglected and unheeded.
• Such, it is well known at home, has been the influ-
ence and impression created upon numbers on their
return from any lengthened continental residence as to
this point—that they have felt, and often express, how
• much they feel ennui and irksome restraint from the
decorous solemnity in the observance of the Loan's
day in their native land, from having been so long ac-
customed to the frivolous and dissipating employment of
this sacred day in every kind of diversion and relaxation
of pleasure throughout the Continental States usually
resorted to by British re,idents.
Much has been very forcibly argued upon this me-
lancholy influence of the continental intercourse upon
our countrymen in a recent publication of one of our
most in'eresting modern travellers, Mr. Raz WiLaon, in
his " Travels in Denmark and Sweden," countries the
la't one would have expected to have found contami-
• noted by such an anti-christian spirit. And it is with
high gratification we may hail its more formal notice
in a late public address at one of our Universities--at
the Cambridge commencement—in the following em-
phatic reprobation of this evil :—" Our renewed inter-
' course with foreign countries has especially conttibuted
to this visible laxity of moral conduct, and there is
•-:
every reason to fear that an increasing familiarity with
the infidelity, profaneness, and vices therein prevailing,
will endanger the entire loss of that high character for
piety, purity, and virtue, which has distinguished in
pat days, and ought to continue to distinguish, the
sons and daughters of Protestant reformed Britain. To
this cause" (this extended intercourse with the anti-
religious states of the long revolutionized Continent)
" may be mainly attributed the lamentable desecra-
tion of the Sabbath-day now so often witnessed, the en-
tire contempt of its sacredness, and the abuse of its rest."
PHILOPATRIS.
• Such is the case in the instance lately noticed in the STA&

Mrs. Jenson Hotpot, of Ronne, in Bornholm, has been
eondemnej to death by the Supreme Tribunal, for the
murder ct her husband.

The Lisbon mail brought dispatches from his Excel.
lency Sir CHARLES STIIART to Mr. Secretary CANNING,
and from Vice Admiral Lord Astatatis BEACCLERIt to
Mr. Cnorczn. Every thing had been quiet, except eel
Chaves, where a slight disturbance had taken place, hip,
of no consequence, ancle.hich was soon quelled. The
letters do not mention the change of Ministry spoken
of in the F'ench Papers. His Majesty's ship GLASGOW
arrived in the Tagus on the 26th ult. but sailed again
on the 29th. The OCEAN, GENOA, ALSION, and DIA-
MOND, remained in the Tagus.
Private letters from Lisbon to the 80th ult. convey a
lively idea of the enthusiasm on the promulgation of
the Constitution, and also the preparations for general
rejoicing on the day the Constitution is to be sworn to
by the Portuguese Ministers and other public Func-
tionaries. It is hinted, however, that there are cabals
against the new order of things in Lisbon, though the
enthusiasm of the inhabitants is so great, that the
Queen's party will be probably deterred from making
any movements. In one of the mobs, a madman, pro-

climing the Quaru, was shot by the soldiers, who have,
in several instances, been called out, on account of the
great excitement in the public m;nd. •
Three soldiers belonging to the 83d Regiment, now
lying at Tynemouth, were drowned on Thursday morn-
ing last, at a place called the Short Sands, near Tyne-
month. The lamentable catastrophe was occasioned by
the individuals going beyond the breakers. " •
Tuesday, a disobedient young girl, in consequence of
some disagreement with her mother, threw herself into
the canal, at Ashton under Linerfrom whence, however,
•she was very soon extricated. Upon her return home, her
mother liberally applied to her back what is sometimes
termed " stirrup ad."
A Correspondent remarks, that this year there have
been ftvrer instances known of mad dogs in the neigh-
bourhood of London, than, probably, for the last cen-
tury. This he attributes to the people of London and
its neigbourhood having this year taken his hints, con-
♦eyed at different times through the Newspapers, of
regularly supplying dogs with water in hot weather.
Sunday, an old man, about eighty years of age. re.
aiding at Yard Heads, Leith, died, it is said, from the
effects of a violent assault from his daughter; while is
a state of intoxication.
Saturday, a fashionably dressed man, in s handsome
stanhope, drove up to the shop of Mr. D. Ellis, jeweller
and goldsmith, No. t, John-street, Oxford-street. After
telling him that he wanted some plate for his chambers,
as he was unwilling to send and disturb his regular sets
in the country, he selected some of the most valuable,
which he desired might be packed up and sent to his
lodgings. Affecting however, to recollect himself, he
stated that he was then going to drive home, and Mr.
Ellis might seed the plate and a person to receive the
money, with him in the gig: This Mr. E. consented to;
the purchaser exhibited such gentility in dress and
manner, that he felt convinced of his respectability..—
The gentleman drove to the Temple, where he desired
the jeweller to remain and take care of the gig, while
he took the plate into his chambers, and he would send
his servant with the money, who would relieve him
of the gig. The jeweller remained for several hours,
but he never saw minter, servant, or money afterwards ;
and returned only with a handsome horse and gig, which
had doubtless been hired for the above purpose.
Three of the watchmen of Dover have been suspended
in consequence of being unable to answer questions re-
lative to the affair with the smugglers in which Mor-
gan was killed; their beats being so contiguous to the
Sc ene as to afford presunoptioa of negligence, or wilful
pcealment.