Star. — 1815-12-12 (London, England)

ATTEMPT AT ROBCERY AND MURDER. -A man, dressed in a blue coat, light waistcoat, white neck handkerchief, high shirt collar, linen pantaloons, and white stockings, with light features, and carotty whiskers, about five lcet ten inches in height, called at the Office of Messrs. Bigg and Son, in Stephenstreet, Bristol, about seven o'clock on Wednesday night last, and enquired of a clef k, whether Mr. Bigg was within ? on being told that he was not, he then enquired, and fund from the clef k, flat he was the only person then in the Office. The villain left the Office, and in half an hour after he opened the outer Office door and stole quietly up stn rs ; the clerk hearing a noise, immediately went to the upetr Office, and found the man concealed behind the door, who immediately kneeked him down with a large stick, held him to the floor, Ana drew a claspknife upon him, thre.:tening instantly to murder him if he did not tell him where the money was. The clerk having relescd, he cruelly beat him, and stabbed him with the knee in the arm : a violent scuffle  ensued, when the clerk, having disengaged himself, got hold of a poker, and with it broke, as he supposed, die villain's right arm, as he immediately dropped it, and cried out that it was broken ; the villain then stabbed him in the breast with his lett hand ;—the clerk, however, drove him off with the poker ; but, on running away, the villain threw the knife at him, which is now in Messrs. Bigg's possession, The JULIA sloop of war, Captain WATuwo, sailed on Friday from Portsmouth for St. Helena, and the Cape of Good Hope. She took ont dispatches for Sir GEM:EC:I:MS[IILN, and Mails for both places. Letters by the last maul front Copenhagen announce the death of the Chevalier I.IZAKEWITE, Mi. nister there from the Court of Russia, and well known in the higher circles in London, aged upwards of 70 years. His death is sincerely regretted by a numerous circle, amidst wham i.e had lung resided esteemed and respected. He was many years Secretary to Count Wonoszow, and was partial to English customs, which a long residence here had made habitual. Cheerfulness and hospitality reigned at his table ; but this conviviality was interrupted When the Emperor ALEZANDER IlltaSet it needful to oppose Bonaparte, at the time he took the desperate resolution ot marching to Msscow. The Chevalier, during that period, lived in the greatest retirement at Malmo, in Sweden. ,At his return to Copenhagen, he was welcomed with the warmest enthusiasm. Wi,en ti.is noble-hearted Russian is thiught ef, we must ever recall to tu:nd his benevolent and amiable dispilitien. So instantaneous has been the ttE:ct of an External' Application of the CAJLI'LII Qii., and so peculiar ale its Chemical qualities, that many Physicians suppnse that it has a Galvanic influence on the Nerves. The uniform, and, in many instances, the wonderful success , that has attended the use gf this Remedy in Rheu-1 matismm, Gout,Tic Doloreux, Chilblains, Palsy, &c. in the East Indies, Germany, and this Country, has induced an Eminent Physician, of the Metropolis, to publish particular directions for employment of it. entitled-0 Medical lostructions for the Afflicted with Rheumatism," 4cc. Etc.