Star.
London, England, 1827-10-25 00:00:00

MADEMOISELLE MARS'S JEWELS.

The French Papers make the loss which this Lady
has sustained a prominent topic. The following are
some of the further details which they give on the sub-
ject of the robbery. Between eight and nine o'clock
' on Friday evening, M. Valville returned from Sceaux,
where he had been on a visit to the mother of Made-
moiselle Mars. On entering the Lady's house, which
was then nearly deserted, Mademoiselle Mars was
dining with M. Armand, of the Theatre Francais.
Her footman had gone with her, and the coachman
Was at home with the maid named Constance. On
going to enter an apartment with the maid, who
shewed him the way, M. Valville perceived that the
door was locked inside, and Constance went round by
another room to open it. She passed rapidly through
her mistress's chamber, which was open, and called to
M. Valville, mon Dieu, Monsieur! look there r.
The chamber appeared to have been completely ran-
sacked. The commode and all the drawers were open, as
was. also another article of furniture called bearieu►du
jour. All the jewels had disappeared. Old M. Valville
was quite thunderstruck. He hastened to M. Armand's,
and there Mademoiselle Mars was informed of what
had happened. The officers of the police soon repaired
to the spot where the robbery was committed, and nearly
the whole night was spent in examinations, without any
successful rerult. Nothing wietin the house showed
any trace of the way in which a robber could have en•
tered. A man had been seen hovering about the front
of the house in the course of the evening, and under ti.e
window of the room occupied by Constance a bruised
pearl was found. A false key had been used in opening
the locks, and there was not any where the least appear-
ance of violence. The key of the commode and the
key of the bonheur du jour were put by Mademoiselle
Mars in an escritoire which locked, and the key of
which she carried with her. Thus, by getting a key to
open the escritoire, it was easy to find the other two
keys; but the escritoire was locked, and the two keys
precisely as Mademoiselle Mars had left them. The
value of the jewels is 150,000 francs. On Saturday
Mademoiselle Mars performed the part of Hortense, in
;he Ecuk des rieiliaria, in which she used to wear a
great number of brilliant jewels, which indeed the
character requires. On this occasion, there was a
marked deficiency of these splendid ornaments. The
robbers have also carried al some money, and two bank
notes of 1,000 francs each. They, however, left Nea-
politan paper to the amount of 38,000 francs, of the
value of which they were not aware. The maid, Con-
stance, against whom some grounds of suspicion exist,
remains in custody.

A few nights ago, a fair trader had commenced tin.
loading her cargo, consisting of light goods, in the Pent,
but in the midst of the operation was discovered by the
Philistines; and obliged to beat a hasty retreat across
the rope wilt us the sea, and put off; the crew being
fatigued by their exertions, and in want of water, made
the best of their way to what they supposed a Gentle.
man's yacht, lying in the roads, when it turned out to
the 'Vigilant Custom House cutter, who ,made ptize
of the smugglers, and marched them off in triumph to
Chatham—Kentish Gazette.
It appears by st letter from Lisbon, that owing to the
occupation by. the British Army, and other circum-
stances, the prices of provisions in that city have risen
considerably. The persons who undertook the last
contrast have refused to fulfil its conditions; urging,
that to do so would be to ruin themselves entirely; and
a new contract has been made at increased prices of 50
to 70 per cent. " And yet," says the letter, " notwith-
standing this enormous increase, our troops are supported
here at less expense than they would be in England or
the Colonies."

In Spanish Estramadura, a person who has 1001. per
annum may support a family of four or five in number
with great comfort, and enjoy the luxury of a carriage.
The finest bread is at little more than one half penny
per pound ; good wine at one penny per bottle ; small
lambs and kids about eighteen pence each ; and vege-
tables cheap and in abundance. Labourers in husbandry
are to be hired at less than 7d. per day ; and a female
servant ler about 21. sterling per annum, and occasion-
ally a few cast off articles of clothing. There is gond
pasture for cattle almost for nothing; and the sweet
acorns, which make she pork so delicious in parts of
Spain and Portugal, grow wild, and are to be had for the
gathering. Such is Spanish Estramadura, and yrt
nobody thinks of salivating thither. The chilling band
of despotisea arrests improvement, and the horrors of
bigotry keep away all approach to improvement.

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DESTRUCTIVE 0118 Adt- --BilittiiP'S tii.BEte:
On Saturday eveaing lnhabitants yed Of this to l
were alarmed by a cry, ofe
It was OVA discovered
that a very extensive finished raging in Bishop's Cleeve,
and it was ascertained thatibe scene of devastation wa!
on the premises of the get. Dr. Tow:nano, whkh was
occupied by Mr. Halite. The engines of the t3low
cestershire and those of Berkshire offices were inland':
ately got ready; on their icrivel, fortunately thee was
a plentiful supply of water on the premises; licit not+
withitanding the exertions of the firemen- were minas:
ing, and assisted by the inhablulnts, every attempt
proved unavailing to subdue the impetuosity of thd
flames until a very extensive bans, nearly filled with
corn, together with some stables, were totally consumed.
The conflAgration, which broke out about eix o'clocki
raged with the greatest violence until ted cfclock, wbas
it was subdued. The biro contained upwards of 00
loads of barley, and the produce of more than seven
acres of peas. The fire is said to have originated from
a boy having ventured into a loft over the stable with
a lighted candle. —CheileAarte Chronicle, vie. 24.

DREADFUL FIRE AT bALCUTTA.
The following is an extract of a private letter dated
Calcutta, April 26:—" On the 24th instant, a dreadful
Calamity betel this place. We had no less than five
'flies, and one I witnessed ; it took place in a native
quarter called Jaun Bazaar, where all the habitations
are bamboo and mat huts; in less than a quarter of an
hour .a space at three quarters of a mile was in a moil
the situation is'oiskily the eentre of Calcutta. About
the same tient with the fire, there sprung up a violent
sortb-westernly gale, such as are usually -prevalent here
at this season (the changing of the monsoon). Tod
gale blew with unusual violence, ivhiVi afforded awful
assistance to the fl unes, spreading with resistless
violence, opposed or rather met by nothing but
bamboo and mat huts; these were consumed wi h
the utmost rapidity, and quickly the flames caught
a range of bamboo stabling belonging to the princia
pal stable keeper here. The vivid blue lightning
flashed without a moment's intermission, accompaa
vied by surprisingly loud and violent peals of tfitns-
der, tie poor miserable 'inhabitants removing, •in
their fright and haste, their beds and boles, their pot*
'lightened goats and cattle following instinctively their
masters Item their sheds, and lowing mournfully. The
horses from the livery stables had been removed to wind-
ward of the fire in the early commencement of it, beer
came frightened at the flames Sind lighti.ing, and were
dreadfully restive, many breaking loose and running iii
a state of infuriated tear inro immense maises'ol peoples
kicking and. killing, and ultimately running back to the
stables from which they had been disturbe.!, anf in
spite of all exertions, numbers there. perishing in the
flames, their cries, and the screaming of birds I ailinglas
birds usually do) into the flamesthe csies of elm ildren-
cracking of the flames, and loud thunder, formed a most
terrific combination of sounds. In about an hour the
whole Jaun Bazaar, after presentiog si vast surface in
mass of flames, was a scene of awful grandeur; the'fire
was arrested by the interposition of some mud huts: The
pieces of burning wood, and other combtistab!es, had
been carried to a considerable distance; and no sooner
was this fire extinguished, than four others, two of great
niagnitude, were observed bursting forth. That on the
Mute Bazaar was awfully destructive, 'and burnt a cons
siderable time. Bdt the sequel is perhaps as bad as thd
fue itself; for, at about ten o'clock, the storm came on
with increased violence; and the main, which would have
assisted in quenching the flames,had it fallen daring the
fire, now fell in torrents, and ten or twelve thousand
poor creatures, who had lost their houses, and who could
have slept is the fields in this climate, had the night been
dry, were now for the second time compelled by the
Rain to seek shelter. The flames raged with luty di/
next morning at day-break.—the number of huts dra
stroyed is 1840, and the worst circumstance is. it Unit a
posed to be the work of some incendiaries.‘

Lord AMHERST :ilia limlly, accerding to the las
accounts, were still on their tour in UpFer India. The
I patty were almost on the confines of the Ghoorkna
country. His Lordship continued to enj '7 excellent
health.

The Bombay Gowned the 18th of April notices the
return of his Majesty's ships Tamar and Pandora from
the Red Sea, where they had formed part of an expe+
dition sent there in December. The expedition, it seems'
had succeeded its most of the objects for which it had
been undertaken—one of which was, to demand 'alio.

faction for an outrage committed by the people of Bar.
bara, a sea-port town situated on the African coast,
outside the Straits of Babelmandel.—lndia Gas. May 7.
The following account respecting the late defeat of
the Taliens, before Rangoon, appears in the Calcutta
Prefers, received by the Africa. It exhibits a frightful
picture of Burman conquest:—" We had hoped that
the miseries more immediately attendant on the late
war with Ava would prove ultimately conducive or the
happiness and improvement of that part of the Eastern
World, by bringing it into more close contact with
Xuropeao civilization; but we regret to say; that since
oar troops were withdrawn from Rangoon, cruelties
of the most enormous nature have been perpetrated
by the Burmese on the Privets. Encouraged by the
success of the British arms, and perhaps misconceiving
some acts or professions of the British Authorities, the
Peguers were led to attempt throwing off the Burman
yoke. In this attempt they have failed ; awl at the date
of our last advices, were paying the penalty of their
revolt. It is not easy to imagine the extent of thecruelty
to which they have been exposed. The lower classes
are colleited together, at a little distance from Rao-
goon, drawn up in lines, amounting sometimes to a
hundred, with their arms pinioned behind them, and in
this situation they are literally hacked and hewed to
pieces by the Burmesel Such of them as ate of more
consequence, or have become chief., in these days of
tirar and invasion, are brought to Rangoon, and exc.
cuted. Their heads are taken of, and a piece of wood
driven throogh the mouth fixes them to the ground.
Ten or twelve wretched Peguers were to be seen almost
every ether evening in this horrible state, beyond the
stockade at Rangoon. Some thousands had attempted
an escape across an atm of the sea, to Amite' st Town,
and hundreds had perished?
The public library of Studgardt contains about 180,000
volumes. Of these there are not lesser than 8,200 vols.
relating to thg`Brcred Text, exclusively of duplicatel.
The late KiOirlOf WURTIMIRRO, but more particularly
his father, was chiefly instrumental to this extraordinary
et biblical coil • .
YORK, SE .-...0n Monday last, a soldier of the
70th Regime' awed Leslie M'Call, was executed in
the village of 'agora, for the murder
principal witness against him was -
step-daughter, about ten years of
her testimony, consisting of a clear hs
deed, in a manner that astonished

heard her, and would have done honour
On the morning of his rikution, we
his guilts in private, and ackpowledi
testimony was perfectly correct.—'

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