Star. — 1824-08-17 (London, England)

PLYMOUTH, AUG. 15.—. Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Lord Exmouth, Banterer, front St. John's, New Brunswick; Jane, $l4, MOND, front I'rince Edward's Island ; and Elixabe.h, m0x.....,, from St. John's, New Brunswick. Off the prat, the Pacific„ from Boston. . , Porerswoirrtr, Auo. 16. Wind W.— Arrived the Duchess of York tranaport. front Demerara ; and George, HODGSON, from •London for Demerara.  DIAL, Auc. 16.—Wind W.S. W. Arrived the Patton, from India; and Hope, Dian, from Africa. A deep ye:low.Ned passed through at four, r. sr. making the signal from St. Vin,inie,.; supposed to he the Chieftain. Came down from the River and sailed, the Thomas; Worsresst, for the Cape. Put back, the Jaliana, FOTHIRINGUAM, for China. Naivetes', At:G.l6.—Arrived the Carl, ascwsaus, from Pills; with deals, for London, with loss of anchors and cables, near the West Rock—reports several vessels having received Linage by riding too close together. It has blown very hard all day froOl West by North. ',neurotic, Auc. 15.—Arrived the Mars, Torso, from Jamaica; Mariner, MENDELSON, from Buenos Ayres; Alinbtrel, lioness, fr9al Bahia; Marmion, Petits, front Charleston; Chatham, Diaz, from Savannah; Ajax, AltliygTßONG* Comet, Sias; and Isabella, &mi. TON, from Q,uebee ; and Vigilant, CUILLSTIK, from. Archangel. Poona, Aura. 11.—Arrived at this port on Thursday; from New. foundiand, the brig Hope, Captain Wri.t.u,ss 80u.,, who was taker. ill two days previous to his arrival, and died on Sunday last, aged ANTWERP, Aura. 15.—The Stiff Elizibeth, ILtxurtxxs, from LA. tavia, deliters some goods, damaged.  A letter from Curacoa, dated June 24., states, that considerable qttantities of pure gold have been round io a ravine near Aruba, and large lumps have been dug from the cliffs on each side.  Baltimore and Philadelphia Papers to the 20th ult. have been received. The Government of the United States appears still to have a wish to round their territory, as it is termed in Arkriga, by extending their claims to the westward of their present boundary. Mr. Bactrr, of Louisiana, in. an address to the electors for Members to Congress, triely uses the name of the Pre. sident in mentioning the intention of the United States to extend their territory towards Mexico. A Dunkirk Journal, anxious to prose that France possesses animals of rare merit, gives us the following example :--41 Mr. Jolly, a cloth-merchant of Abbeville is in possession of a beautiful drake, whith he has, by perseverance for two years with a bird organ, mishit° sing several different airs. He intends trying the same experiment on a turkey !! r Should this friend of- the feathered race succeed, we shall, in a few► years Tend ducks, geese, and turkies, singing in cages, instead of smoking on our tables.  A very singtilar discovery was recently made 'in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, details of which are occasionally extracted from the German Journals: the affair was simply this—lt may be recollected, that some months since, it was announced that a plot had been formed--,in truth, many Plots--to assassinate the Grand Duke. The consequence was, that the Prince dreaded leaving his apartments ; .never went. abroad without guard,, and could not be approached but by his nister of Police. Several persons were thrOwn into solitary dungeons, and many, despairing of obtaining justice, hemmed in as the Prince was, released themselves by suicide. The whole Duchy was in a state of suspicion and terror, the more alarming, that no motive was assigned fur the supposed designs of the assassias. At length the truth came out in a most revolting discovery. The Director of Police himself (a Baron Mange') was the contriver of all the plots, the accusations, imprisonments, and deaths, as the means of obtaining money for " secret service," which, in fact, he wasted in the prodigality of his private expenses. Justice has at length reached him : he has' been tried, condemned, publicly exposed on the pillory, and sent, in the dress of a common convict, to the Nitres* of Spangenberg. there to be incarcerated. it was with difficultyttntt an. escort of gens d'armes, formerly the instruments of his execrable tyranny, could protect him on his way from the vengeance of the peasants and villagers, so general was hatred and terror excited by his acts as Minister of Police. The Prince once more sleeps sound, and walks abroad fearlessly among his subjects. The iron manufacture was never in a more flobrishing state than at present. A correspondent, Who has been making a tour through Warwickshire, Staffordshire, and Derbyshire, examining the irnit and cotton works, states that the utmost activity prevails in the lot mer, and that he was repeatedly assured means were wanting to execute the orders for machinery, ace A tremendous thunder-shower, of a partial nature,. fell in Carlisle and neighbourhood on Wednesday forenoon. The water poured down the streets with a velo-' city and force almost incredible. At the bottom of Finkle-street, a new stone wail, two feet thick, and about twenty feet in length, was upset by the weight of Wafer which accumulated behind. ii, and the scones wcre thrown to a considerable distance. Forty-three years ago, i landlady in reniith received an order to provide a wedding dinner for ten persons. . The happy party passed the day in sacrificing to Bicchub, and retired in the evening, leaving the bill Iv:se-tied. Their hostess neither saw nor heard of any of ti.e patty from the day in which she served the dinner (ia 1781), until last Wednesday, when the bridegroom called, acknowledged the debt, and discharged it. • ABSENCE o