Star.
London, England, 1817-08-12 00:00:00

QUEENSBERRY ESTATE.

Sir ARTHUR PICKOTT, this day moved, in the
Court of Chancery, the consideration of a Petition
pet tented to the Court by the Legatees of the late
Duke of QUEENSBERRY, praying that an interim order
might he granted for payment of one-fourtb part of
the Legacies and Interest, and Arrears of Annuities;
when the Loan CHANCELLOR was pleas..d to defer the
dibeussion till to-mr rrow, in order that he might take
home the Petition and relative papers, which he had
not as yet had an opportunity of reading.

Advices from Baltimore of the 10th July mention,
that a number of Gentlemen had met there, mho had
been in correspondence with Mr. WILBERFORCE, Mr.
CfAIIKS.)Nt and others, for the single purpose of as.
certaining the best situation on the Coast 4 Africa for
the establishment of a colony. The province of
Sherbro was proposed, as containing many advan-
tages : it was surrounded by petty sovereigns of dis-
positions mild and pacific, it was free from the claims
of any European power, and it might be purchased
of the natives at a fair valuation. The project was
to be submitted to Congress at the near Session, and
it appears, that the Paestneer and all the heads of
&partments have pledged themselves to render all
the assistance in their power, both personal and official.
Extract of a letter from the island of Cape Breton,
North America, dated Sydney, Cape Breton, June 1:
" We have bad a winter, and it has not yet lek us,
of most tremendous severity ; while I am writing,
the snow is falling in flakes as large as my hand ;
our river, more than a mile wide, was passed on the
12th of May, on ice two feet thick. This natural
severity has not atoned for our personal andsprivate
sufferings, which have exceeded all that has hitherto
been experienced in this country, I mean in the article
of provisions; the frost has every where penetrated
the strongest proof cellars, and destroyed all the po-
tatoes ; many families have been left quite destitute,
and have alone subsisted on the charity of others;
many have perished, and I was last evening informed,
that a family of thirteen in Nova Scotia had fallen a
sacrifice to hunger ; and we look forward with much
apprehension that this dreadful visitation of Parfet-
DZIVCIt cannot be easily evened for the next winter ;
and as not a potatoe for seed is left in the country,
nor any expectation of obtaining them until the plant.
ing season is entirely over, our prospect is more than
alarming, particular as flour is now se6 per barrel."
The 8211171/ Patriot of July 14, says:—" The In-
dian tribes on our southern borders have of late
shewn a disposition extremely hostile. It is conjec-
tured by many, that these war propensities have been
excited by the machinations of Spanish emissaries.
A Georgia Paper remarks, that the frequent irrup-
tions of these savages into our territory, for some
months back, have excited very great alarm among
the defenceless inhabitants of our southern frontiers,
many of whom have abandoned their homes, and fled
to the interior foe safety. The Executive of Georgia
has issued orders to General novo, requiring him to
call into service a sufficient force to ensure the protec-
tion of the frontier settlements exposed to danger, and
the chastisement of all future marauding parties.,
From tl:e late insidious attempts of the Spanish Go-
vernment to stir up the Western Savages against us,
we have a right to ittribute.the persevering hostility
of the Florida Indians to such improper interference.
The artillery company from Charleston, which wasl
stated to have been stopped at the Creek Agency,
has, we learn, descended Fleet River, and arrived at
Fort Scott. A dispatch has been received from one
of our Agents for Indian Affairs, by the Executive
of Georgia, wherein he states, that a party of five
Indians belonging to a tribe who had always been
friendly to the United States, had been attacked in
the night by a body of white men, but whether Ame-
ricans or Spaniards, was unknown, and one of them
killed, and the remaining four very badly wounded.
Exertions would be made to discover, if possible, the
perpetrators.
About 900 persons, of both sexes, have been em-
ployed for several months, •at the depot, Perth, in
cleaning and re-packing the military stores which it
contains. A seasonable employment has thus been
afforded to a large proportion of the labouring antics
in that vicinity.
Friday 4enniglit, a fine young boy, about IS years
of age, son of Mr. ALIMMIDZII UavresoN, Kirkgate,
Perth...while bathing in the Tay, a little above the
Fisher's Lodge, in, the North Inch, went beyond bis
depth and was drowned.