Star.
London, England, 1826-05-22 00:00:00

NAVAL IN I'ELLIGENCE.

NORTH ARO SOUTH AHRIMAN COTTER HOVER, MET 21.—We
have received Jamaica and Plarbadoes Papers to the 114 pf April.
The following is an extract from the rirtitsten Ckrisniele—" We
have received a file of Los Mercatriss from Vera Cruz, in which we
observe some discussions on the policy of sending as expedition out
against the island of Cuba, as the occupation of that important point
would stir*. as the defensive guardian of the Colonial Govern-
' menu ; for, In the handl of its present possessors, it may be tented
into a depot. fur armies who aim at the annihilation of the mighty
fabric of South American independence which it has cost so much
time and blOodshed to establish. If nothing of more interest pre.
sent. itself, we shall lay some of those documents before our readers
in a future Paper."—Also, received Charleston Papers to the 15th
of April. The Finchett had arrived at New .York previous to the
234 of April.
Arrived off Darmouth, the Rotterdam' Waver's, from China ;
Renewal, CSOUASTII4 from Barbadoer • Clio, from St.
Vincent's; Portland, from Baltimore;: and Flora, Cultism,
hem Terceira.

Off the Wight, the Antoinette, —, from Rio de Janeiro.
The 'Children, PROMS, has returned from Monte Video to
Liverpool, with her outward bound cargo, in consequence of the
blockade at Buenos Ayres.
Fautomt, • MAY *o.—Wind South.—Arrived the Duke of
Marlborough packet, from Lisbon; Francis Freeling do. from
Amerita; Mary, LAIRD, from Lima.—sailed the 96th of January;
and Amu% Miaow, from Antigua. Off the port, the Julius,
Janson, from St. Kitt's. The Stunner packet, from Lisbon, is
coming into the Bay.
haratousir, MAT eo.—Wind SW.—Off the port, the Norden,
Sennznucits, from Calcutta for Copenhagen. Sailed the William
and Mary, for Newfoundland ; and Union, for Jersey.
Pommoirtat, MAT 21.—Wind N. to E.N.L—Arrived the
Maria transport, from Gibraltar; and Recovery, CHAPMAN, from
London for Bombay. Passed by, the Diadem transport, Wm%
London, for Cork and the Isle of France. Sailed the Hawksbury,
Si.,, for Quebec.
Dna, blar 20 -.-Wind E.N.E.—Arrived and sailed for the
River, the Nepos, TRADE% from the Mauritius; Frederick, Haw-
tuns, from St. Michael's; Ann, of Whitby, BA arunuiut, from the
River Gambia ; Bride, —, from Trieste ; Manly, Sanas, from
St Vincent's • Janet, LovaLL, from Jamaica ; and Alert, CNA?.
wan, from Stnyrna. Came down from the River, and sailed, the
Valley Field, Jonisom, for the Mauritius; Duke of Norfolk, Ma-
xims, for St. Kitt's ; Garland• blaxwonn for Gibraltar; Tra-
veller, CARA, for Quebec.; and Virginia, laistrr, for New York.
Mar 41.—Wind N.E.-Arrived and sailed for the River, the
Woodstock, Homer, from Sineapore; Brilliant, Thurn from
Charente; and the Kitty, MAIIWTLL, from St. Michael's. Passed
through from the River, the Levant, G4111013[011; for Jamaica;
and Hind, 114' FA LAUB, for Trinidad.
Tasseouva, Mar 110.—His Majesty's revenue cutter D 21113104
Lien. Nuns, captured on the 18th inst. about lye leagues N.B. by
N. of Cromer, the sloop Good Intent, of Flushing, with vs half
ankers of Geneva, and three do. of tobacco, with a crew of four
Englishmen and one foreigner, and brought her into this port.

BRIGHTON, MAT 19.—Mr. Secretary CANNING was
here on Tuesday, to attend the funeral of his aunt, Mrs. Lamm,
who had expired at her residence on Pavilion Parade some days
previously, and be did so on the following morning. lie set of to
return to London in the afternoon of the same day. The demise of
Mm Ulan is deeply regretted with us, and in particular by our
circle of fashion, is which she was a truly admired and respected
ornament.
One of the men who was wounded in the attack on
the Factory at Grimshaw Park, was shot through the neck; having
recovered, he has been apprehended, and bound, with two sureties,
to appear at the next Assizes, to answer an indictment.
Thursday, the General Assembly of the Church of
Scotland met at Edinburgh, when, after an eloquent and impressive
sermon by the Rev. Dr. Coos, of Laurenceliirk, the Moderator,
the Rev. Dr. Mosta' Tarim% Minister of Tibbermuir, was unani-
mously elected to succeed him in the Chair.
This being Trinity Monday, the Worshipful the
Master, and eleven Brethren of the Trinity House, with several
persons of distinction, breakfasted at their house on Tower-hill ;
after which they proceeded, with a band of music, to the Tower,
where they embarked on board the Trinity Yacht, decorated with
colours, &c. They were accompanied by the admiralty and navy
barges down the river to Deptford, to visit their house there;
' previous to which they attend Divine Service, at St. Paul's Church,
Deptford. On their return, the Brethren, with divers of the
Nobility and some Members of Administration, will partake of a
grand' dinner st the London Tavern.
The York Herold states, that it is highly probable
Mr. MARSIIALL (a most respectable merchant of Leeds) will be
induced to offer himself as a candidate for the county of York, at
the general election.
The brig Hunter, from fiourdeaux, fell in with a
wreck of an English ship, loaded with timber, in lat. 45.
58. tong. 22. SO. Part of three human skeletons were
found on board, which, from appearances, the crew had
• subsisted upon for some time. Pieces of &sir, with long
hair, and sett:era' articles of female dress were found, the
whole presenting a scene of distress not to be described.

MR. WAKEFIELD AND MISS TURNER;

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A STATEMINT OF FACTS RIGARDING THZ MARRIAGE OF
=WARD G. WAZEFILLD, ESQ. WITH MISS TURNER.
In the end of February, I went to Macclesfield, fot
the purpose of paying a long-promised visit to my
friend, the Rev. Dr. Davies. At that time I had heard
Mr. Turner's name mentioned, but merely in casual con-
versation about Cheshire people; and I had no more
knowledge or thought of his daughter, or any of her fa-
mily, than I have of people in the moon. I will nose
state how I came to think of her, and to• do what I
have done.
Mr. Turner has lately purchased an estate near
Macclesfield. Upon this property he has built a house,
into whist), when I was in Cheshire, he was about to
remove. He is Sheriff for the county this year. Mri
Turner having, till the late purchase, been a stranger tel
the county, and having, as is said, made a very large
fortune by trade, which he has dilcOatinned, to become
all at once a "Coutitry Gentleman," it is not surprising
that he should be an object of jealousy to the old este,
Gentry, and of envy to the numerous manufac-
turers in the veighbour hood where he has settled. But,
unless I had witneste3 it, I never would have believed
that those passions could exist ro the extent in which I
found them preying upon the peace of Mr. Turner's
neighbours.
A wish to obtain information respecting the silk trade
(of which " the distress" has of late been a subject of
deep interest at Macclesfield) led me into the company
of these people, and particularly amongst some, wlioset
hatred of the " new squire" seemed, like the odium theo-
logicum, to be great, in proportion to the little difference
that exists between his station and theirs.
This display (which, probably, I never should have
witnessed, unless the envy and jealousy of Mr. Turner's
" friends and acquaintances" had been just then parti-
cularly excited by his preparations to 46 do honour," as
they said, 14 to the office of Sheriff,") was so new, and
therefore so amusing to me, that I was led by a mere
flow of spirits, and the want of some better occupation,
to take pleasure in observing it; and afterwards,
in exciting such pitiful spite, by finding provoking an-
swers to the many ill-natured stories against Mr. Tor-
' ner, of which such spite appeared to be the principal
foundation: Of course, amidst-all this backbiting, Mr.
Turner's only daughter was not forgotten. She was
described as ugly, ignorant, awkward, and vulgar.
I was truly informed, however, that Miss Turner was
a pretty, clever, unusually well educated, high spirited,
land most amiable girl ; and I was thus enabled to seize
every opportunity of describing her in all the colours
of the rainbow. A good listener must often contradict.
The Macclesfield School for Scandal, and one Sir B.
Backbite in particular, found me an inappreciable
audience for their stale sneers, till at last my ears song
with Miss Turner's name, and 1 became her champion,
as well as her father's.
Still I had no thought of marrying her. I had sought
and enjoyed the fun of talking ab'rut her and her father,
because the people at Macclesfield would, with the ex-
ception of the silk trade, talk about nothing else; and,
as I have said before, because my high spirits had no
better employment; but if I had left Macclesfield two
days sooner than 1 did, I should in a week have for-
gotten Miss Turner's name and all that concerns her, as
completely as I now forget how and when it was that I
learned the alphabet.
But on one of the last days of •my stay in Maccles-
field, I heard a discussion as to whether any g 4 country
Gentleman" would accompany the High Sheriff on his
way to the Chester Assizes. This discussion ended in
the expression of a general opinion in the negative. My
friend, Dr. Davies, who is one of the most noble-minded
persons I know, was near me at the time. I asked him,
with a look and manner that begged him to say " Yes,"
whether he would join Mr. Turners procession ? He
answered, " Yes, that I will, if it is only to shew that I
do not share these people's pitiful jealousy." Goo knows
why I—l cannot tell—but I exclaimed, "So will II" A
thought, a wish, a determination just then entered my
head. It Was, that I would marry Miss Turner myself
before the Chester Assizes, and get up such an escort
for het:father as must have driven the most bilious of
his detractors mad.
Nothing could appear so preposterously extravagant.
All I knew of Miss Turner was, that she was at school
at Liverpool. I had no chance of meeting her. Meet-
ing her, I had no chance of persuading her to marry me
without her father's consent; and his consent was out
of the question, for I bad made an appointment at Ca-
lais within six days from that time, and I would not al-
low any thing to interfere with that engagement.—
" What folly! what madness I" I.exclaimed ; and yet I
could not drive the crazy wish from my head. I fore-
saw, that even though I should persuade Miss Tamer
to marry me, I should obtain no rich heiress, but a beg-
gar ; for I knew she had no property in her own right,
and I had heard enough of the vindictiveness of her
father's temper to be almost certain that he would never
forgive us. I thought of the passion of hatred towards
myself that would probably take possession of him, of
the apparent impossibility of success, of the great dan-
ger of the attempt, of the world's reproaches, and of
every thing that would have deterred me, had I been in
my senses, from committing the act of a madman.
Still, I had not entirely lost my senses; for my de-
termination to marry Miss Turner was clogged with
three very reasonable conditions. They were, first, that
I should find her to be a sort of person whom I could
love and cherish for her own sake; secondly, Alm I
should bring her to believe that she would be happy in
marrying me; and thirdly, that I would not use force,
or the shadow of force, nor even put the slightest re-
straint upon her inclinations,in any part of the adventure.
Here was a task ! To marry within three days a
person of whom I knew so little, and whose knowledge
of me must have been equally limited, and (for this
made the difficulties almost insurmountable), to become
pleased with her, and make her pleased with me, even
before proposing marriage to her 1
The apparent impossibility of the thing urged me on ;
and I pursued its execution with reckless activity. I
formed and rejected plan after plan, till, at last, I de-
cided on that which induced the school-mistress to give
me the opportunity I desired, of conversing with Miss
Turner.
My servant, who was not above half in the secret,
was so frightened at the success of hii own grave and
unsuspicious deportment, that he made a capital blunder
by leaving me at Liverpool, and proceeding with Mitt
Turner towards Shrigley. She was thirty miles before
me on her way towards borne, beftire I discovered that
she had left Lis erpool. I followed, of course, intending.
had they reached Shrigley, to drive there at once, and
get my servant out of the scrape at any rate. But fate
had decreed that Miss Turner should wait at an hotel
,Ant Manchester, close to the house of one other favourite