Star.
London, England, 1816-09-28 00:00:00

NEW YORK, AUGUST 27.

A letter received in this city, dated New Orleans,
July 23, states, that a fleet of seventeen sail of armed
vessels, belonging to the Spanish Itevolntionists, were
off the Balite, destined, as was supposed, against
PeflaitiC ()la .

A letter from Near York, dated Auguit 27, says :
" There has been a misunderstanding between the
British Consul and the American ooternment•

tive -to Pilotage Duty, which M. DALLAS has ex-
plained by letter, attributing the same to mistake,
and that in future the matter shall be regulated ac-
cording to the Convention."

Great preparations have been making fir these few
days past. at the Villa of Viscount Bummer, at
Englefield Green. Her Worm and the Painces.sea,
like and Duchess of GLoocESTER, Dukes of Yong,
CLARENCE, and CAmmuOGE, honoured the NOble
host with iheir presence to dinner yesterdiy. Lord
and Lady HARCoURT, Mr. and Mrs. FREEMANTLE,
Lord and -Lady LANGFORD, were among the Nobi-
lity,
&c. invited to meet her M aisrsvY. Covers were
laid for twenty in the dining room,, and cards of in.
-iodation were kind for one hundred of the Nobility
*al a dress ball in the evening.
Yesterday the Panics REGENT give audiences to
the Dukes of CUMBERLAND and CAMBRIDGE.
The following paragraph appears in a Morning
Paper of this day We hear, that a State Pro-
cess, which has been for some time under considera-
tion, is suspended. at least, if not relinquished, in
consequence of the affectionate and strohg remon-
:trances of an amiable young Relative.; but it is
landerstood, that•the obnoxious party is to abstain
from any node of conduct which might seem to defy
the other, especially from neat' residence."
The Earl and Countess of Minnow) intend
leaving town next week, fdr the Continent.
CLEMENT% correct official Edition of that truly
interesting Work "The Agricultural State of the King-
dom," is now in course of publication, in one large
volume dtmy Bvo. including the County Tables.—
Tills iiert important publication is reprinted verbatim
et literatini; from the suppressA volume that was
printed fbr the use (if the Members of the liJard of
Agriculture.=-No, IfY2, Strand.
Slituwoon, Nethi„ and JONES, Booksellers to the
Board of Agriculture; have just published (price
only 95.) " The Report of the Board of..ttriculture on
the State of the Kingdom," as communicated to the
Board in February. March, and April last, by 326
of. the most aperieneed and best-informed persona
in the kinidom.4.-This is one of tSe most TOterestin&
and-valeable DoCuinents that has tippearect before
the Public for many years. It scot i:nly points out
the numerous evils that °inlets the Cvntry at this.
period, but refers likewise to the calm: of them, and
suggests ',toper remedies—and. at the Milt' time, is
I published at so low a price, as to tdine within the
purchase of mist individuals.
Sir Wiwara Scorr calls the Agricultural Report
the 6, Bazaar If Misery."
From the accounts of the contingent expenses in
the Stamp Office, it appears, that in September last,
*hen the additional duties took place, seven additional
Stamper: were found necessary to be added to the
establishments! •
Such is the great increase of the Stamp-Duties, that
a distributor of scamps in die commercial.counties, and
towns, is now an office of considerable emolument, and
of course an Object of ambition to the swarm of the
late Property Tax Colleciers, many of whom are still
retainers of Government, in the hope of being
speedily reinstated in, their old employments.
Saturday a fine boy. about 9 years, of age, amusing
himielf in walking on some logs of wood floating in
a timber-yard in Cartsdyke, near Greens
ick, fell in
and was drowned.
LATE MELANCHOLY CATASTROPHE AT ROCHESTER.
Ori Wednesday noon the body *of Mrs. Mills- was
dragged up near Blue Boar Hard. -It was intended
to have buried Mr. Mills at one o'clock on that day,'
but the burial was delayed on this distressing occa-
sion,* that the unfortunate couple might be committed
to their parent dust at the same itime. • About sit
o'clock in the eveti;ng two hearses conveyed the bodice.
of Mr. and Mrs. Mills, their -daughter, and Mal
Obery, to the burial ground, followed by two await
ing coachee, filled, with the most, intimate friends of
the deceased, and betweenfortr and fifty of the mcsei
reapectable inhabitants eif Chatham on foot. • Thit'
effect of - this procession. •al it -passed &Wry.
through the streets, was truly impressive. An assem-
blage of several thousand persons were collected in
the churchyard to witness tie last ceremony
which fixed and closed the fluctuating scenes of
life, and consigned the remnants of mortality to
their everlasting habitation t to which they at-
tended with evident feelings, of sensibility, and with
becoming . decorum. On Thursday morning the ,
body of Mies Des Bois was found near the place
*here the body of Mrs. Mills was picked up, 'and it:
is not a little extraordinary that it was found- at a•
very earlylour•itt the morning, by -a man •who had
risen to search for it in consequence of dreaming that
be should find it. On Friday morning the body of
Miss Matthews, the last of the unfortunates that Wss
picked op, was found nearly es far up the river as
the village of Borstal; •It is conjectured that the.
body had risen during the preceding night, and had
passed through the bridge with the flood' tide, by
which it had been carried a great distance up the
river ; on the turning of the tide, the body was left
on shore nearly twd miles frcre the bridge.. 'Since
this accident, occasioned by the scandalous neglect
of the periods who directed the spar to be laid stress-
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