Star.
London, England, 1820-07-28 00:00:00

f7IE ARMY.

Wednesday se'nnight, the third Troop of lenfrew-
shire Yeomanry Cavalry, belonging to the Parishes
et. Mearns and Eaglesham, and under the comman4-
0* HOUSTON STEWART, Esq. second son of Sir Mt-
CIAEL SHAW STEWART, of Greenock and Blackhall,
13.tionet, had a muster and drill, ou Bonnytown
mid. way between Mearns and Eaglesham,
preparatory to their entering on permanent duty in
Greetinck. The troop Were all present, excepting two,
who were unwell. They appeared in excellent order,
were well mounted and equipped, and went through
their different manoeuvres in a most masterly style.
Though only raised a short time ago, they made a very
re' ectable appearance, and are a valuable addition
to the Yeomanry force of that part of the country.

KINGSTON, JUNK It—Several of the troops of the
Rio de la Hache Expedition have come on shore
the greatest distress, without the smallest means to
t!ieir wants. Some, we learn, have entered
cr. beard different vessels, as seamen, and others are
willing to become soldiers.
A Letter from Naples states, that M. PIGNATELLI,
formerly Secretary of State under MURA r, has been
appointed Ambassador to Paris.
• Extract of a letter from Alexandria, dated May 2,
1620:—" The Pacha sent an expedition, a little while
ago, to Siwah, under Hassan Bey, of Demanhour, of
which Mr. Drouetti, Mr. Ricci, and Mr. Linont,
availed themselves, in the hope of being able to visit
the site of the temple of Jupiter Ammon. I hear they
are returned to Cairo, without having seen any re-
markable remains; and that the Arabs; after some
resistance, submitted, paid 10,000 Spanish dollars,
and are to give a yearly tribute of 300 camel-loads
of dates."

Letters from Epirus are said to state, that Ali
Pacha, on receiving orders from the Porte to eva-
cuate some Provinces, had a conference with Sir T.
Maitland, but was not encouraged to hope for any
assistance from the B,itish Government. He then
returned to Jannina, and summoned a Council of the
most distinguished Turks of the country. The
'l'urks advised submission to the Porte, but this ad-
v;ce he did not choose to follow. He then called
together the Greek Clergy and Notables, and ad-
dressed them in a long speech, in which he apo-
logized for the aggressions be had committed on
that people, by stating that he had been driven
to those severities by the necessity of his situation.
A copy of the speech attributed to the Paella is given
in the French Papers, but with some doubt as to its
authenticity. It is said, however, that he appeared
nest day in public, Kith the Archbishop of Jannina
by his side. and that they both proceeded to set an
example of working or. the fortifications. On the
same day he disarmed the Turks, and made them
deliver hostages to him. Ile also took hostages from
the Albanians, though they adhere to him, notwith-
standing that they profess the Mussulman
Ile has caused a Proclamation to be read in the
Greek Churches, inviting the people to take up arms
for the defence of their religion. He offers every one
who enlists, a bounty of 100 piastres, and 40 piastres
a month of pay. These terms have procured for him
a great number of recruits. He is said to have an
army of 50,000 men, more than three-tifills of whom
z e Greeks. • •

Extract of a letter from Chili, dated Valparaiso,
April 11:-4' By the next ship I will send you a de-
tailed account of Lord Cochrane's capture of Valdi-
via, which, in my opinion, equals, if it does not ex—
teed, any exploit of the kind ever before performed.
At present I have only time to say, that in the bands
of our people it is impregnakle.
" Valdivia is defended by no less than fifteen forts,
so placed in respect to one another, that no ship could
remain half an hour in the Bay, much less could any
one lie at anchor there. These forts mount upwards
of 100 pieces of canny, most of them 21-pounders,
and many of them having furnaces to heat shot.—
The communication of one fort with another is in
many places only a very narrow defile, composed
of rough stone, and tortuous paths of great declivity.
" A couple of pieces of cannon would render any
one of them utterly impracticable to any number of
men. A handful of men might prevent the landing
of any number of men, even if boats were allowed to
approach the shore; but no boat could advance
vitliin cannon-shot without being subjected to a cross
fire, and in-tantly sunk. The beach is beset to the
very water's edge with bushes and shrubbery, by
means of which, even when a landing was effected,
a small number of men might securely remain, and
cut off the invaders on the beach.

" Spite of all these obstacles, Lord Cochrane boldly
entered the harbour with a brig and a schooner, on
beard of which he had crammed 320 men. With
this force, at night-fall, he attacked one of the forts,
landed his men, beating the Spaniards before him,
pad carried the small fort, the enemy in the other
forts treating the attack with contempt on account
of Lis Lordship's small force. But such was the im-
FLzuesity of the Chilinos, and the very few English-
7ne:a who were with them, that they drove the Spa-
Lia:ds through the fort, mixed with them, carried
another fort, and struck such terror into the Spa-
niards, who had but the moment before despised
them, that in a panic they abandoned their post, and
fort after fort fell into the hands of Lord Cochrane.

" In the morning the Spaniards were lost in asto-
nishment at what had happened ; but it was then too
late, the whole of the forts as well as the town were
in the possession of Lord Cochrane, and nothing re-
mained but quiet submission. The Governor, with
about 500 men, had Bed into the interior, leaving
behind him the military standards, the military chest
cf the Spanish Army of the South, and the whole of
the stores and ammunition.

" About 100 men, with their Colonel, were taken
r isoners; and in the bay a fine large ship, deeply
1. den, called the Dolores, was captured.
" Lord Cochrane, having planted the Chilian
flag in the great square, summoned the people to
meet and choose their own Governor. All private
property was strictly respected, and the inhabitants,
delighted as well with the sudden and unexpected
cletnge, as with the unexpected forbearance of their
conquerors, expressed their attachment to the new
i:overnment by every demonstration in their power.
"Thus has the only place which the Spaniards
pnssessed North of Chili, been emancipated, and the
few me: they have in this provicce must very spee-
dily subtuit."

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.•

Purmourn, JUL- 26.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Scipiq
Cum; from Quebec. -Wised up Channel, the Lady sherbrook,
LatoLva, from Pictou for Newcink ; and Providence, CLARE,
from Quebec for LondOn.

PorrsmouTil. .rucy W.—Atrived his Majesty's
Systu.s, fro Jamaica; Lord Sidmontb„ MUDDLL, from
London for New South Wales; and Lively, Rircnta, from ditto
for Smyrna, Sailed the Sucrawavat, for St. lielena.
Dear., JULY 27.—Wind S. W.Arrived yesterday, and sailed
for the River, the Fides, 'tura., from Quebec. Arrived today
and sailed again, the Nelly, Axone, from Quebec for Yarmouth ;
and Enterprise, Morris, from Shields for 13otirdeaux.

Livzaroor JULY 26.—Arrived the Speedy, Paowsx, from
Rio Janeiro; Jane, BLACK, from Buenos Ayres; Jean, Mos-
MY, from St. Domingo; Behnont, FRILGUION, from Demerara ;
Missouri, ELoszn, front Baltimore; Maryford, Basvolf, from
St. Andrew's (N. B.) ; Dykes, GRAVES, from Miramichi ; and
Douro, Hs gun, front Oporto.
Aszrezn--At liarb.sdoes, the Montague packet, —, from
Falmouth; John Heys, Watson, from Liverpool; and Garland,
Blown, from the Cape of Good Hope. At Miramichi, Thomp-
son, Bcam, from Workington ; Albion, Robinson, and Lady ere-
morne, —, from LiverpooL At Quebec, Haywood, Purnell,
front Liverpool. At St. John's (N. B.), Hope, Stall, from Li-
verpool. At Newfoundland, Agnes, Johnson, from Liverpool..
At Constantinople, Henry William, Worts; and Sylph, Milne,
from London ; Ruby, Baker, from Cardiff; and Leander,
Hodgson, from Liverpool. At Smyrna, Three Friends, Walker,
front Cardiff. At Trieste, John )Echlin, from Liverpool. At
Gibraltar, William,—, from the Clyde; and Forsoka, Beck-
man, from Westerwick. At St. John's (N. B.), the Elizabeth,
Thompson ; and Susponse, Baxter, front London ; Granite,
&rope, and Nestor, Thorn, from Aberdeen ; Economy, Caith-
ne,s, from Dundee ; Eliza, Smith, from Thurso; Trafalgar,
—; Ulysses, Todd; and Mary Jane; Hall, front Maryport ;
Moriston, Dunbar, front Kinsale ; Hannah, Smith ' • babella,
Stanton; Emerald Isle, ---; Alert, Clements ; and Jessy and
Flora, from Londonderry ; also the Shaw, Dell, from
Workington. At Trieste, ltisbro', from London. At
Quebec, John and Robert, Swinton, from London.

The First Lord of the Admiralty left t3WII yester-
day morning, accompanied by Sir WILLIAM HOPE,
for Portsmouth. They were to embark this day in
the SPARTAX crigate, for Plymouth, for the purpose
of inspecting the Breakwater, and other works going
on at that port, and then return to Portsmoutb.

Accounts have been received, of a very unpleasant
kind, of the issue of the Expedition under Sir Wzu
KEIR to the Persian Gulph. Report says, that the
Pirates, who in the first place abandoned ele fort,
which some time ago the Public were informed had
been quietly taken po'ssession of bx the troops under
Sir WILLIAM'S command, returned and made a for-
midable attack on the fort, in which the 47th and
64th Regiments suffered severely. We have not
heard all the particulars.

A letter from Cadit, dated July 7, says:—" Vales
Reales go on daily increasing in value, they being
current at 186 hard dollars, and the premium 20 per-
cent. in great demand, as the Committee of I'ublic
Credit have begun to pay the consolidated ones.—
Great confidence is excited by the statements pub-
lished every month, by the Provinces, of the receipt
and expenditure of funds, and in them the greatest
order is preserved. Surplus accounts, after all ex-
penses being paid, are left applicable to the general
Treasury. The Merchants of this •place have ad-
vanced one hundred thousand dollars towards the
outfit of the vessels of war going to the Spanish
Main, and the Asia and San Julian, bound to Lima,
which will leave this port in the course of next month.
—To the several points of America now in a state
of insurrection, Commissioners are to be sent, with
proposals of peace, friendship, and concord ; and,
from all appearances, it is thought they will be well
received. The accounts just received from the Spa-
nish Main, leave no-doubt on the subject. Three of
the Commissioners are very soon to leave this for
Buenos Ayres, in the Achilles brig of war, and it is
confidently expected the people of that country will
not be deaf to the advantageous terms offered to
them by the Constitution, as, by their acceptance, an
eid will be put to the anarchy in which they are at'
present plunged."
Monday se'nnight, a party, consisting of four or
five iemales, in the employ of Mrs. Ealand, straw.
hat-manufacturer, in Boston, were amusing them-
selves in a garden contiguous to the house, in which
is a large sycamore tree, when Miss said to ber
companions, I should like very much to hang on that
tree, in order to know what sort of a sensation hang-
ing is. A rope was instantly procured, and. affixed
round her neck, and the girl being lifted up on the
shoulders of one of her companions, the rope was
fastened to a bough of the tree, from which she was
actually left suspended for several minutes, whilst
her companions retired into the house. On one of
the girls going into the garden again, she discovered,
Miss in the situation above described, her face
being quite black, and on communicating the cir-
cumstance to the rest of the party, they were all
thrown into such a state of alarm that the vital
spark was nearly extinct before any of them could',
summon sufficient fortitude to extricate Miss
from her perilous situation.
Mr. CHAPMAN, of Manchester, is now in Lancas-
ter Castle. He ought to have appeared in the Court
of King's Bench last Term, to receive judgment
in the case of libel on which lie had been convicted.
He failed to do so, whereupon a warrant from the
CHIEF Jusricn was issued for his apprehension, and
he mibt now remain in the jail till Michaelmas Term
(November next), and then receive sentence.
ARTFUL IMPOSTOR.—Monday last, a well-dressed
man called at the shop of Mr. BROOKS, Poultry, and,
after looking at several watches, agreed to purchase
a gold one at the price of £32, and gave a good note
of £1 as earnest, saying, that as he was going out
of town for a few days, he would call on his return,
and pay the remainder. On Wednesday he did call,
received the watch, paid the difference with two £lOl
notes and eleven El notes. Both the £lO notes are
forged; the rest are all good.
,Strict search is making
after the offender.

At the York Assizes, Mr. Justice PARK took occa-
sion, as the names of the Coroners were calling over,
to caution then), as well as Justices of the Peace,
from examining prisoners on oath, as that precluded
their statements from being received in evidence, and
might thus frustrate, in many cases, the purposes of
justice.
YORK, JULY 23.—(A Radical Magazine).—The
Mayor of York received this morning a letter from
lard &Dolour'', enclosing a letter from this City,
which informed the Noble Lord that two hundred
stand of arms were concealed in a certain house in
York. The Mayor instantly issued a warrant to seize
them, when the officers found two hundred toil-guns,
bought two years since, price eleven-pence CAL !

THE PRESENT' CHARGES AGAINST
, QUEEN.
The 4ormiti of the present against the

Quest; has made many coneerts to the opinion J
her guilt.::-to such we beg to say, that the iirecision,
time, plate; and respectability of the parties bring.-
ing forward he charges against her fourteen years
ago were much more appalling r and, to convince
them we are right in onr assertion, we extract the
following from a biographkal sketch of her, which
Appeared in the last Number of The London Maga-
premising that all the routine of anonymous
letters, and every other infamous practice, had been
first resorted to to injure this widowed wife:

" These having entirely failed in producing any Unpleasant
consequences to the Princess, Sir John made a formal decla-
ration on the 3d of the ensuing December against her, on mat-
ters. of still greater import, and which was materially connected
with her honnite and life. This was submitted by the Prince
to the late Lord Tharlow, who said, that as the Royal succes-
sion might be affect.xl by the alleged facts, if true, it was the
duty of his Royal Highness to lay the whole case befcre the
King. This was done accordingly, after some fresh depbsitions
were obtained ; and, on the 29:h of May, 1806, the Whigs and
Grenvilles being then in administration, his late Majesty issued
a Commission, directing Lord Erskine (the then Chancellor),
Earl Spencer (one of the Secretaries of State), Lord Grenville
(the first Commissioner of the Treasury), and the Lord Chief
Justice Ellenborough, to inquire into the truth of all the writ-
ten declarations touching the conduct of the Princess of Wales.
These Noblemen proceeded immediately to execute their com-
mission. The deposition of Charlotte, Lady Douglas, was
taken by them on the Ist of June, the third day after their
appointment. The substance of her statement `was—that,
while residing on Blackheath, she first became acquainted with
the Princess in November, 1101, her Royal Highness, at-
tended by a Lady, having walked through the snow, and parsed
by her window several times, for the purpose of being asked
in; that, after this, she and Sir John were frequently invited
to dine at Montague House; that in May or June, 1802,
the Princess first told the deponent she was pregnant, and would
give the Prince of Wales the credit of being the father of the
child, as she had slept two nights at Catkin' House within the
year. That the pregnancy of the Princesaappeared to deponent
to be very visible; but that her dress was contrived to conceal
' it; this was in the eed of October, 1802: that in December fol-
lowing, deponent went to Gloucestershire, and staid there a
month ; that when she returned, in January, 1803, and called at
Montague-house, she saw a child with the Princess, which her
Royal Highness described, as deponent understood, to be the
child of which she herself had been delivered. The deponent
positively swore the l'rincess was pregnant in 1802; and that
her Royal Highness had frequently made gross and indelicate
declarations to her.

The 'deposition of Sir John Douglas was very
short. ' The only material allegation in it was, that
he swore the Princess appeared to him to be pregnant
in 1802.

" The evidence of these two parties was attempted to be sus-
tained by that of several persons who had lived as servants with
the Princess, from the time she had resided at Carlton llouse;
most of their statements, however, were hostile to those of Sir
John and Lady Douglas. Charlotte Sander, a German female,
who attended on the Princess as her dresser, swore that the child
alluded to by Lady Douglas, was brought to the Princess by a
woman named Austin, whose husband worked in the Dock-yard
at Deptford.—' The Princess; said she, was not ill or indis-
posed in the Autumn of 1802. She could not have been ill cr
indisposed without my knowing it. lam sure she was not con-
fined to her room, or to her bed, in that Autumn ; there was
not to my knowledge any other child in the house; it was hardly
passible there could have been any other child there without my
knowing it. I have no recollection that the Princess had grown
bigger in 1802, than usual. lam sure that the Princess was net
pregnant; being her dresser, I must have seen it if she was. I
solemnly and positively swear, I have no reason to know or be-
lieve that the Princess of Wales has beeti at any time pregnant
during the time that I have lived with her at Montague-houie.
I never heard anybody say anything about the Princess being
pregnant till I came here to-day. I never had any reason to sup-
pose that the Princess received the visits of any Gentleman at
improper hours.'
" Frances Lloyd, another servant, bore testimony to the child
having been brought to Montague_house by its mother, whose
name was Austin, and who cried at parting with it, and said she
could not afford to keep it. A similar evidence was given by
Mary Ann Wilson, who declared she never noticed the shape
of the Princess in 1802 to be different from what it had been be-
fore. Thos. Stikeman a page to the l'rincess, gave an account
of the child having been brought by its mother, Mrs. Austin,
and of the Princess never having the appearance of pregnancy.
The same thing was stated by Mr. Sicard, her Steward, and
other witnesses; and, in short, a mass of evidence went clearly
to prove that all the statements of Lady Douglas were gross
falsehoods. The delivery of Sophia Austin of her male child
William, in Brownlow-street Hospital, was proved by hsr own
and other evidence, as well as the registry of its baptism; and
also its being taken under the protection of the Princess of
Water. There remained nothing, then, to be disproved, except
the statements made by some of the witnesses, of the Princess
having been seen taking improper familiarities with Captain
Manby and Sir Sidney Smith. Mrs. Fitzgerald, a companion
of the Princess, positively contradicted one assertion made by
Lady Douglas, and declared
_on oath, that Captain Manby had
never been in company with the Princess at improper hours.—
Various exculpatory statements were also made by the medical
Gentlemen who attended the Princess. A most able and satis-
factory defence was written for the Princess; and the Commis-
sioners, in making their report to the King, declared their de-
cided conviction that her Royal Highness was innocent of all
ithe charges preferred against her.
" There was no longer any obstacle to receiving the Princess
at Court; and accordingly, on the 21st of April, 1807, minutes
were laid before the King, as a prelude to that step, in which
the Council declared as follows :
• After the most deliberate :consideration of the evidence
which has been brought before the Commissioners, and of the
previous examinations, as well as the answer and observations
which have been submitted to your Majesty upon them, they
'(the Cabinet) feel it necessary to idedare their decided concur-
rence in the clear and unanimous opinion of the Commissioners, I
confirmed by that of all your Majesty's late confidential ser-
vants, that the two main charges alleged against her Royal High-
ness, of pregnancy and delivery, are completely disproved; and
they further submit to your Majesty, their unanimous opinion,
that all the other particulars of conduct brought in accusation
against her Royal Highness, to which the character of crimi-
nality can be ascribed, are, either satisfactorily contradicted, or
rested upon evidence of such a nature, and which was given,
under such circumstances, as render it, in the judgment of your
Majesty's confidential servants, undeserving of credit. Your
Majesty's confidential servants, therefore, concurring in that
put of the opinion of your late servants, as stated in. their Mi-
nute of the 25th of January, that there is no longer any neces-
sity for your Majesty being advised to decline receiving the
Princess into your Royal presence, humbly submit to your Ma-
jesty, that it is essentially necessary, in justice to her Royal
Highness, and For the honour and Interest of your Majesty's 'll-
lustrious Family, that her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales
should be- admitted, with as little delay as possible, into your
Majesty's Royal presence; and that she should be received in a
manner due to her rank and station in your Majesty's Court
and Family.
(Signed) ' anow, 6 CASTLIMIA
CA MOEN, MULG RAVI,
' WitSIIIIOIIMAND. 6 G. CA 1114/M4.
• BA THU RST

To this Declaration, it will be seen, are appended
the signatures. of six Members of the then Cabinet,
and those six, by a fortunate association of circum-
stances for the QUEEN, are still of the Administra-
tion. In that instance, the accusers were English,
.ind of a rank of life that might have shielded them
from suspicion: in the present instance they are &-
liana, and of that rank of life that is most Opetl to
su6ornation, and therefore most liable to suspicion.

THE TRAFALGAR:.

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• • • . inarirai
The TRAPALI3A R, which was launched on Wednes-;
day at Chatham, is co.nsideied to be the best ,built
ship in his Majesty's service. EVerything which im-
proved art could devise has been done to give her a
degree of strength and durability superior to that of
any other man of war ; and with that eiguw the bUilder
has adopted the plan of Sir ROBERT Sri-mos, which
has been but lately introduced, bait which promises to
be attended by-the most beneficial effects. To the
spectator who has walked round this magnificent pile
of naval architecture, while rest: on the stooks pre.
vious to being launched, the view was imposing and
grand beyond all description. 'This enormous bulk,
and the fine symmetry and prOpoi tion observabte in
all its parts, were calculated to fill the mind with
ideas of greatness and beauty. But it was riot until
one examined the interior, that a correct notion could
be formed of its superior structute. There is not, per:
haps, a ship of the same size in the service, in which
the space between the decks is so narrow as in this.
In the Nelson, and most other.fir.st-rates, the Cap-
rain's and Admiral's cabini, and the ward4ooms are
above a foot higher than those of the Trafalgar,
where a tall Officer cannot walk without taking his
hat off and stooping: This, however, is considered
as a great advantage tit a fighting ship, because, as the
guns will not be so elevated as in other first-rates, she
will be more steady in the water during the time of
action, The new, and the chief improvement intro;
duced by Sir ROBERT SEPPI NOS, consists in the posi-
tioa of the inside planks, and the substitution of iron
instead of wooden knees. Here the planks, instead of
being horizontal or perpendicular, are placed diago-
nally, forming, with the desk, an angle of 45 degrees:
The object a this improvement is, to keep the ship
from (what the builders or sailors call) hogging; that
is, sinking down towards the stern end, by which
the sailing is greatly impeded. The idea was taken
from those gates which never can preserve their forth
or position unless they are supported by diagonal
bars. These diagonal planks are not all similarly
posited; for in one half of the ship, the tops of them
incline towards the head, and in the other half, to.;
wards the stern; so that by thus acting as checks
against each other, they prevent any alteration front
ever taking place in the form or shape of the vessel:
Between these diagonal planks are strong trusses
of wood to keep them as firm as possible: The plank'
lof the decks are also laid down dia.gonally on the same •
principle with these of the sides. The next improsre-
ment is that of the new forked iron-knees. This hat
obviated an inconvenience which has for many years
been felt in all the dock-yards; hitherto the building
of ships has been attended with a peculiar difficulty;
from the want of those pieces of timber, consisting of
a part of the trunk and the branch of a tree, pro;
jetting from it, neatly at a right angle, which has al-
ways been the great fastening between the deck and
the side of the ship. This fastening has been called the
knee. To obviate the difficulty of finding pieces of
timber of this description, which difficulty has every
day become greater front the decreasing growth of
timber in England, iron is now used with much better
effect. The fastening is now made of iron, and is
called a forked iron-knee. This is strengthened by a
beam, fastened under that part of the deck 'which
joins the side of the ship, and which is called the
shelf; over the deck; at the same corner, there is
another beam 'called the water-way, and these two
beams are fastened together, :and also fastened to the
sides of the ship by means of iron bolts ; and the iron-
knees are also strongly connected with them. By
means of this new machinery, a ship may now be
made so strong, that no tempest, however violers;
can make any breach or opening in its sides.
Besides the circumstances' of strength thus
scribed, this ship is distinguished for the simplicity
and plainness of its elterior appearance. The sides
and stern galleries are painted a plain pale yellow,
and the only ornament is a plain full-length figure of
Lord NELSON, the whole painted white.
The following is a description of her dimensions
and size, copied from the official drawing in the •
builders' room, at Chatham Dock :—Length of the
gun-deck, 196 feet ; ditto of the keel for tonnage, 162
feet 9 inches ; extreme breadth, 52 feet 6 inches ;
depth of the hold, l 2 feet 8 inches ; burthen; 2386
tons, and five ninety-fourths of a ton.—Guns, 96, and
ten 32-pound carronades ; making in all 106 grins.
The mainmast is 123 feet in length, and forty inches
in diameter.

.Soon after the launch, a number of boats were, as
usual upon such occasions, in waiting to pick up the
poppins (pieces of timber, about three feet long;
which float away from the cradle on which the ship
w'as built). One young man, belonging to Graves=
end, in his zeal to collect some of these pieces, fell
overboard, and was unfortunately drowned.

iERONAUTICS.—A person uamed ROBERTScni, who
has resided for two years in Portugal, went up in a
balloon from the Prado of Oporto, in honour of the
accession of the King of PORTUGAL. This had all
the effect of a new discovery ; inasmuch as an *ro-
nautic exhibition had never been a:tempted in that
city before. He took the direction of the sea, from
which.Oporto is but a quarter of a league distant;
and in half an hOur he landed safely at Ferreiro,
about six leagues from Oporto. This experiMeni
was the more remarkable yy the courage which Mr.
ROBRRTSON'S niece dis,)layeJ, who obtained leave to
go up in a balloon, attached by a cord to the prin—
cipal one. When she had risen to a certain .height
she attempted to cut the cord with a knife, which she
had concealed in her handkerchief. When Mr. Ho-
ISERTSON perceived that she wanted to release her
balloon, he- quickly seized the attaching cord, and
drew the balloon, in which she was, up into his OWO.
Twenty-five thousand persons were assembled in the
Prado to witness this experiment.
Coax-ExcaANGE, MARY-L*lM IIfLY 28.—Although the supply
of Wheat since Monday has been but small, yet the demand, bons
on Wednesday and this morning having been bet trifling, the
trade has been execeslingly heavy, even for the finest sampler,
for which Monday's pikes were with difficulty obtained, and ail
other descriptions may he quoted t.s. per quarter cheaper. Oats
are f;;11 Is. per quarter lower, and very dull sal: at that declina.,
in consequence of large arrivals this week. Barley is from is.
to gs. per quarter cheapen lu Beans and Peas no variation.
SMITIMILLD M 'T, JVLT 41. 6d. tis ss. 4d. p,
stone of albs. ; .31uttraie4s 041. to ss. sad. Foot. 514 04. to 6s. 6d.
Perk, ss.Od. to 6s.od. Lamb, ss4od• to 844 811.--Cattle at Market
Beasts, 4go ; Calves, 26u; Sheep and Lambs, 7,800 ; Pigs, 200.—.
Ilay, 31.105. toff. Clover, 61. Os. to 71. Oa. Straw, IL 12s.
to W. 0..