Star.
London, England, 1828-01-12 00:00:00

VEANO ERBROOK- AND THE LATE
WAR WITH 1141 RICA.
In the beginning of the last war between this country
and the United States of North America, the Governor
°tillage Scotia (liiherbrook) issued a proclamation, re-
coinmending to the people under his care to abstain
entirely from hostilities against the Americans whose
territory borders. upon theirs. He represented to the
inhabitants of Nova Scotia that the main events of
the war could be little affected by their feeble efforts.
in a teener of the world remote from the principal scenes
oractien, and that to make Inroads into the country
of their neighbours, merely-for the sake of plunder or
twinge, would 'be wicked and inheman in the extreme.
* this humane and conciliatory proclamation, he not
Only gained die esteem and affection of his own
people, but excited also the admiration and respect of
the Americans. During the whole war, not one act of
hostility was committed on the borders of those coun-
tries, by either party; and, shortly after the proclama-
tion was isitied, the following lines, ommendatory of
this conduct of the firitish Governor, appeared in a
New York paper:
When war breiks forth for vengeance or for gain,
And stains with blood the land and spacious main;
While hostile weapons gleam in ev'ry shade,
And Fraud and Force pursue their horrid trade;
Where shall we seek, amid such gloom of night,
For one bright ray to ease our weary sight?-
-- Where Nova Scotia loins Columbia's coast,
Where half the year in frost and snow is lost;
Where the rude soil the hand of culture spurns;
And the bright sus nine months is hid by storms,
Its hardy sons pursue the fisher's art
Bait the long line, or burl the barbed dart;
Its cheerful daughters Neptune's gifts prepare,
For various markets, with laborious care:
Thus Love awl Labour hand in hand appear,
&soothe the rude climate and its seams cheers
Britain extends her sceptre to the show,
And Sberbrook holds her delegated pow'r t
Sherbrooke whose name posterity shall bless,
Binds round the brow of war the snow-white wreath of Peace
" Aim not," he cries, "by acts of hostile strife,
' To take your neighbour's property or life ;
" But spread your sails in friendship as before,
" And bless with mutual aid each other's shore ;
Sespesser'd from the were in poses remain,
" Net let one hostile act our frontier stain!"
P ASSAM AQUODDI.
OXFORD, JANUARY 11.
Yesterday, a fellow who calls himself John Stockdale,
and a native of a place four miles from Huddersfield,
was brought before the Mayor of this City, in conse-
quence of its being discovered that he was an impostor.
His practice is to fall in the streets, apparently in a fi',
when hi s face becomes bloody, as if cut by the fall. By his
own confession he never had a fit ; the blood oti his face
was caused by his pricking it whit a sharp bit of
tin, kept by him for that purpose—which was produced
in Court. He is about five feet eight inches in height.
stout made, very shabbily dressed, wears a blue spotted
handkerchief round hit neck, has a snub, or rather a
broken nose, and speaks the broad Yorkshire brogue
It has been his constant practice, he acknowledges, to
impose on the public in this manner. Many persons in
this city who saw him in his pretended fits relieved him,
and he here picked up a considerable sum by his
knavery. He stated that it was his intention to proceed
from this city to Bath.