Star. — 1802-07-21 (London, England)

IGCC UEFA., and other ItTigiftrates, laudably active in difcharge of their duty, but hitherto in yin. Tuefday night 1111, about midnight, lir well. dreffed armed ruffians entered the hour: of Mf. .Bur Las, at Ballinarcorney, near Rathfarnhatr, and after tying him, his wife, mother, and chil dren, robbed the place of every portable article, carrying away the whole of the wearing apparel of the family. On Sunday night laft, a Mr. Notes: was flopped a little after ten o'clock, on the road leading from Terenure to Rathmines, near Rathgar Caftle, by four footpads, each armed with pifiols, who, after blindfolding him, robbed him of his purfe, a gold watch, chain, &c.  We have authority to contradid a paragraph, which firft appeared in an Edinburgh paper, and was afterwards copied into the London papers, slating that Lord BEI L ENDEN had fold his Heritable Office of Ulher of Exchequer in Scotland, it not being true.  At New York the molt vigorous meafures are purfued by the Board of Health to prevent the introduCtion of penitential difeafes. At Glouceth.r Fair, on Monday week, there was a good (hew of cattle, and an extraordinary number of fat (beep ; but flock of every defcriptien maintained their former prices. Good horf,:s fold high.  At Brecon Fair, on Monday and Tnefday fe'nnight, there was but an indifferent (hew of cattle and horfas, which were fold cheap; and pigs, of which there was an unufnal number, alio felt a confiderable depreMon in price. The demand for leather WAS very bra, and the whole was fold at an advanced rate of about sd. per lb.  Letters from Leipfic, dated June 27, Rates : •••• "The Eager fair of this year was very at : not only the Englifli and Scotch tent us a great quantity of merchandi2e, but the French took advantage of the peace of the North and the re-eflablilhmerit of their commercial relations with Ruffla, to fend hither objeas of luxury of every kind mannfadured on purpofe for the moment. The roads were covered with carriages, loaded with filk fluffs, porcelain, jewellery, lace, &c. The Merchants of Macedonia brought us alfo as ufual the natural and manufadured produaions of Turkey. Italy alone was behind, and does not teem to have recovered its former commercial aaivity. Among the many aas of human degeneracy, of which we daily hear, we know of none fo aggravating in its circumftances as the following, which is the fuhftance of the evidence of Captain Walker, of the Royal Geerge merchantman, taken on Wednefday lag, before the Mayor of Portfmouth, on the examination of Archibald M.Mullen, the late boatfwain of the faid fhip, for the murder of a Negro !lave in the month of Auguß, 1799, when on a voyage from the coati of Africa to Greneda. It appeared that *Mullen had been ferving the flares their provifions, when he was rather intoxicated, and obferving that one of them did not eat his allowance, beat him nioll cruelly on the head with the handle of his cat, a Rick about an inch in diameter, and alf,) with his • fill, when the poor African fell againti one of the guns ; that he then run has Rick againit his flumach, and with it thrufl the meat down his throat; he afterwards gagged him, put a collar on his neck, another on his thigh, and irons on his legs. In this Rate the decearcd remained until the next morning, when he was brought upon deck, and immediately fell down and expired. During the whole of this inhuman brutality, the Negro made not the leaß refinance. M4Mullen was committed to take his tt ial at the next Admiralty &Mans for the offence, and Mr. Walker is bound over in i aool. to profecute and give evidence againa him.