Star. — London, England, 1803-09-02 00:00:00

ITAVTICAL INTELLIGENCE. MARS THIS DAY.--WIND S. S. W.. • All. DUE. All. 'MU Dublin z I I Hamburgb • Watatford NAVAL APPOINTMENTS. Lleuteneet jets s BIOOICaIaW to she Terre's. 1 B. YOC/X6 WINDIOt CASTLIt. E. DIE PRINCESS ROTAS,. J. MACE Rom/cc. Wet. Beam CE CURLEW. R. ScALLOX Mr. WTDON is appointed puler of the SOLEIBAT, of 31 tons, at Deptford. Pr.vMourtz, Auc. 3t.—Cate in the . Porfgroond, H. M. HALS 3 mailer, from Porfground for the Dock Yarch with naval fibres. Sailed to join the Channel fleet, and on a cruize, the ARDENT, of 64 guns, HYDRA, of 38 guns, Tensirsyss. of 18 guns, and PLrEast.z., of t 8 guns.—This afternoon arrived the ATALANTA. of 143 guns, Captain Mastrissz, from Oporto the Went into Hamoaze immediately. SHEERNESS, Avourr 31.—Arrived his Majefty's TourrsesrAt, at the Nore t and Mir eat uss, with the Locus'. gun brig, has failed. The Srscu- LATOR Lugger has arrived, and failed again. Dean, &wrest's& I.—Arrived the AMARANTH& frigate, and tailed again on a cruize.-,.Came down Plwrsatsusa frigate, TARTARUS, and Locus+, sub leads, and remain.—Wind N. by W. cm..+Nia, Sa>t..t...-Sailed the Thief:titres gate. Capt. Hoinin, for the Nom..-.The Laoriai, of so guns, was this day undockert.—The Smaamozz. fine new frigate, of 36 guns, will be launche d to morrow from the yard of Metre. Brindleys at Frindl burp She is ordered to be fitted immediately. Gaztazzoca, Atm. 30... -Arrived here lift hight. aro Canada, Hazels, from Montreal. after a pair ** of 3t days, 20 from land to land ; on the isti: i=the Union, Ss:ivies. On the Brinks of Neer f• from this port for New York, out 3o days; all well,:lts Bette'', Toosersom, and the Ocean, Bao*e, truth goebec, arrived at Fairlie off Sunday. where they are to wait orders.—Two other veffels are Paid to be belowA-The Jane. *Licosa'', froth Archangel, which arrliied on Monday left, wet' boarded lift week, off the Letts, by a boat from Stornoway, which inforined him, that two valuable Dutch ihips had been taken and carried into that port by a cutter brig.—The Hero, S s, which _ *mired here on Friday, in 4 days from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, (poke on 14th Auguli the ' Albion, BAIRD, on her p•frage from Pith:us to Clyde. • —The Hero is put under quarantine here, for hay ing on board foal fkins and ox hides without a cer tificate. Arrived.--At Portfmouth, Charlotte, —, from Jamaica; and no the sad init. the Fame, Kaki& , from hen ee...--The Unity, Mor- WOO, tt Nooduras from hence, otblL—The Hope, Mums, of this pen; at Plymouth from hence,nwith rum for the nary . FROM LLOYD'S LIST. Caroming 811 , T. t.—Paged by the Caw, h tvelo, from Go. nos.—Sailed tic Flera, Wigan. ior Gibealtai ; Annan, Stein, for Oottenburs; Carl, Barr, and Hambro' Borg, Hoevredge, for Tos sing= Aa areco.—.At Portfmooth, thu WlMani. Hakim. from Wa terford. At Liverpool, Chatham, Chew, from Nei Yell ; Bade, Wolff:II. and Minerva, Traney, from Bremen. At WIWI, Cato. from Sotttio. At Pommy. Ann, Fran/Bin, from Pmeriburgh. At Liverpool, Ann. Kamm, from Giorgio, Mad Columbus, -.a—, from Bourdestm, detained . At Belesft. Draper. McDonald, from Logsdon. At Dolan, Mary,Thontas. from London, and litseh.—, Irak P •Ao At Newfoundland, Saßy, —, from At Choxisdbm, timosk, WNW, from LivespeoL At Hot Bea trix,lAwlie.freon noble. At arde,SirEdward Peliow,Husbas, from New ilmmMwide, and tie Hebe, biocide. from Now Prod dense. At Whitebaves, North Star, Thampfoo, Mow At Cork, 'Mew % Jenkins. from Loam. At Watalord.VZ pies, Webb, from New York. Sunday, in eoakquenee of a lignal froth the Cal ton Hill. the AMITHYST frigate failed from Leith- Roads- In confequesce of an application for a con for the Baltic, to fail the 6th September, the Lords miffioners of the Admiralty have direecd the Cos voy wich is to fail about that tine Rota the Humber. to call off Leith for the (hips there. The Ruffian hip, which, by order of the &autos, is proceeding on a voyage of difeovery, and which is commanded by Captain Be unser see, arrived at Copenhagen Roads on the r 7th ult. The Turki(h fleet, confining of one (hip of is° guns, fix 74's, and eight frigates, having a confider able number of troops on board, failed in the end of June for Egypt. It conveys alto the new Ftscha of Cairo, who is to be invelled with the foprane command of that country. A letter from an officer on board the Likewise frigate, dated Atlantic Ocean, zoo miles from the Land's End, Cornwall, Aug. 5. to his friend in Edin. burgh, fays, u We have been in chafe theft ten hours; we are not yet within gun (hot, but I believe the is an Engliffi Ean Indiaman, and therefore take this oppor tunity of writing to you. Since my lan letter we have been pretty fortunate. Two weeks ago we fell in with Admiral Gamma, near the Banks of New foundland ; he took charge of the convoy &only af ter, allowed us to cruise alone for twenty days, fix of which have now expired; previous to his joining us, we captured the Caroline, French Welt India. man, from Martinique to Boardeaux, worth 30.0001. laden with fugar, coffee, cotton, and rum; alto the Catherine, French brig, from St. Pierre's to Hour. dean:, ballet. After parting company, we took le Mercure de St. Maloes, from Cape Francois bound to Havre de Grace, worth r a.oool. laden with foga:, coffee, and cotton. We (ball be out yet fourteen days, at the expiration of which we make the ben of our way to St. John's, Newfoundland; we doe't ea rth to remain there long, but to return to England in a fhort time, calling at Lilbon, and taking the con voy from thence fir England. The Admiral, in the 50 gun (hip, had recaptured, and taken with him. the Maria and Union, both of London, Wen- Tndiamen, betides one French brig, and a Dutch Indianian, from the Weft ladies. isttstv 2mOlimmirets. . . this monalig between two and three o'clock this beautiful and fuperb edifice, fituated on the Surrey fide of Weßminfier Bridge, was difeovered to be on fire. The flames, which mutt havf been long col. teeing in the interior, born from the roof of the building like a volcano % illuminating for a while the whole horizon, and threatening with deftritiftion a confiderable part of a, Very crowded and populous neighbourhood: How or in what part of the Thea tre this calamity began, has no t y et b een afcertained. It is the fecond vifitation of the kind which has be fallen the always loyal and patriotic, but now unfor tunateArrczys—the old Gentleman at prefent in cap tivity in Prance; an affeetionate wife, a prey to death in his abfence, but two days buried ; and this morn ing the whole of his property, and with it the means of his family's fubfifkence, a facrifice to an all devouring 'conflagration, which, raging with un controulable fury for upwards of three hours, has defolated not lets than eleven honfes in the rear of the Amphitheatre 1 Tbefe were inhabited by per tons in ordinary circumftances, who, fbivering and naked in the greets, were glad to efcape with their livei. Tb add to the calaniity, Mrs. Woodman, mother-in-law to young Mr. Asriar, perifbed in the flames. She was far advinced in life, but was teen r uniting from window to window, imploring that help which two neighbours, Mr. Burton and Mr. Moor, were battening with a ladder to afford her, when the floor fell in Ind put a period,for ever,to her fufferings. Her headlefs trunk has fince been dug out of the ruins. Two childien belOoging to a poor man whO inhabited one of the houfes that has been defiroyed; had nearly pet:Allied alfo, but were molt providentially laved. Young Artker • and his wife were fortunately in the country—whither they had gone, when the entertainments of lag night cicifed, we are Corry to add, for a long and dreary — 'period to them. Great pralfe Is doe to the 8;. James's Affoeiation for their exertions in keeping the plate frce from the concomfe of people who allembled. The engines at tended, and, as ufoal on fimilar occifions; were worked with great fpirit and energy. From alma every place within the eztenfore t iv cuit of our Paper, accounts have been tranfmitted of the laudable zeal with which the meafures of Go. vernment for arming the nation are feconded ; and in mofk of the places liberal fubfcriptions have been fet on foot to clothe thole ptrfons to whom that ez pence would be inconvenient. To particularize thcfe numerous inikances of patricitlim, all the columns of our Paper would be infufficient. .The Committee of the Inhabitants of the Rolls Liberty, in anfwer to their patriotic offer to form themfelves into a Volunteer. Corps, have been in formed by a letter from the Marquis of Tilt V sato, Lord Lieutenant of the County, that at the Volun teers for Middlefex already amount to the number to which Government have limited them, it is do longer in his power to communicate any prefpolnl or tlif kind to the Secretary of Stati.- . --The money railed by voluntary contributions from the inhabitants of the parifh, for defraying the espences of the corps, has, an confeqsenct, been returned without any de duaion whatever. We have been for tome time highly gratified by the perufal of the OILY Detzr Pkortsciaz Nil/CPA ea publithtd in the kingdom; and though we have often wondered at the fpirited enterprise of the town of Liverpool, we were far from imagining that an oeteitnaz quotidian Print could be conduced in a Ay% equal to thole of London, and containing earlier and more accurate information than can be procured tom the% of the Metropoliu which arrive at the hoar of pablifhing " The Mercantile Gezette and Li verpool and Mane - hence Daily Atlvertifer,"and which from the fpirited manner it is condedied, meets with liberhl pattomge from the whole kingdom. According to a nate:pent pnblifhed abroad, Pro& bas folk in ceded territory 46 fquare miles (German) t ao,ono Autins revenue : the has gained by the new arrangements sit (quart sisflee, 577,ip00 %habitants, and I,Tactooo florins revenue, hlr clear gain there fore is 185 fquare mules, ass,ooo inhabitants, and a revenue of s,spo,ooo Baiins. • By a letter from an Englifh Gent/Minn at Fontein. Wan we learn, that he and his fellow prifoners are tilde the ariaelt fnperintendance of the Police. They I are obliged to be is their lodgings every night by ten o'clock, excepting two nights a week upon which the Meaux is open, and on thofe evenings they are per mitted to be abroad until t a o'clock. 'This indulgence Is granted, no doubt, for the benefit of the Theatre. The Police Officers.vifit the lodgings of our country men every night, and Comedian more than once a night. CSICSIT.—On Wednettlay was played a grand Match of Cricket, in Aram's New Ground, at Mont pellier. Walworth. between eleven Gentlemen of the Homerton Club. and eleven Gentlemen of the Mont pellier Chils, for soo Guineas, which was won by the former, by so nuts. A gtand match of Cricket, between the Right Hon. his Earl of D Gen- WYSTARD, LANSSIT, with (amend Officers of the Guards, and Gentlemen of the neighbourhood, commenced on Saturday lag on Chatham Lines, when one inning each was played.and yelberda the match was finiihni in Earl D 's Park at A waggon, filled with all the paraphernalia of a Bertha/maw Fair Drat, broke down on Tuefday in Cheapfide, and for fame time blocked up the paltage. Poach and his irsfi-lay (mewling in the mud, ray and Ryseas were trampled under the borfes feet, and Palms and jekwa l evia were laid law. A whimfical Correfpoodent propofes that the Law Afociation, in addition to their military uniform, Ihould retain their wits. He adds that Qlteen Anna's Generals and Admirals proved that odour as well as wi/deas may be contained in a wig. while little of ei ther caa appear frogs a/awci I)lFRArei 0.f1718 COUNTArd TRANSPQ=NO TROOPS. We feel infinite fatisfaaion in being able to (fat.: to the public the refuk of an experiment, which vas foggelled and made by the commanding Officer of one of the Volunteer Corps of the City of Edinburgh (Lieutenant Colonel CRICHTON) for the traufporting troops in an leafy and moo expeditious manner, from one part of the country to another. The method has been highly proved by the Commander in Chief for Scotland•,(Ceneral Vrsa) by the Quarter Mailer General, Chief Engineer, Commandant of Artillery, and the General Officers on the Staff in Scotlanci,and has been recommended by the Affociation for the de fence of the Firth 4 Forth. Col. C. has communicated the plan of the machine, which is extremely fimple in its contrivance, and may he completed at the expence of about sos. to Mr. HATCH ITT, of Long Acre, who has already confirn 61- ed tome, to be ready in cafe of aeceffity. Before communicating the plan to the public, it was deemed expedient to make trial of it. Accordingly, nine of a ferjeant. and two privates, fet off from Edin burgh at five• o'clock in the morning, proceeded to Greenock in the carriage, marched three miles farther and fired is rounds of ball; marched back to Green ock, horn whence the party returned in the carriage to Glafgow, which they reached before 8 o'clock in the evening. having performed a journey of uni.r . y. two rails., and fired fifteen round., in lefs than Jima bosom . • , The Woe of this experiment cannot fail to create much confidence among the inhabitants of the d ifferent pans of the coa ft of this 'country, fince it demon itrates the certainty of concentrating in a • few hours the col lative force of the adjacent country for ito or go miles. The affciciation for the Defence of the Forth have ordered too of the frames for their fervice. Lord KEITH gave a grand farewel Dinner on Wednefday on board the MONARCH at Margate. About fire o'clock, the Duke and Duchefs ot• Sr. ALBAN's, Lady HEATHCOTE,Countefs of rEMBILOIit, Duchefs of MONTROSE, and a large party, went on board the Admiral's boat, and failed with a fair wind to the fhip. On the party's getting on board, Lord KEITH'S private band began playing. In corifequence of a notice from the Lord Lieute. nant and the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, a very numerous Meeting was held on Monday, at the George Inn, Sittingbourne ; when the Lnrd Lieute. nant, in a prefatory difcourfe, introduced the• fob jeet cf the Meeting, in which he was fupported by the Lord Warden with that force and energy of 1211- guge fo peculiarly his own; and a long lift of Refo lutions were unanimoufly adopted ; the principal of which were, that the Volunteers for the county of Kent, and city and county of Canterbury, Ihould be encreafed to ,is,ooo, and for the Cinque Ports and their Members to woo, in order to exempt the corn. try from the further operation of the Derence AR ; and that a fubfcription be entered into for the put pole of defraying the expence of clothing at sot. a man, over and above the allowance from Government. Yellerday afternoon, at four o'clock, the. St. James's Volunteers affembled is full.uniforrn. at Bur lington Houfe, Piccadilly, from whence they march ed to Hyde Park, under the command of their. C olonel, Lord AIEUIIRST. The corps muflered to the amount of yoo, and went through their different evolutions, firings, &c. though not with minute cop. rednefs, in a manner which, conlidering the fbort practice of the corps, argues much for its future pre. eon, and military exadnefs. Having continued on the ground till nearly eight o'clock, they then march ed to their Parade, Dufour's Place. Here Lord AMHERST addreffed the Corps, and communicated the Thanks of the Houfe of Commons moved by Mr. SIIIRIDAN, as contained in the SPIAIMI'S Let ter, t printed copy of which, he informed them, Ihould be potted up in their quarters, for the infor vitiation of thofe who might not have perufed it. His Lordfhip then acquainted them ' that be felt pleafure in being enabled to Rate, that the appeehen. fions which be had expreffed on a former day of their number being reduced, were now removed, in con fequeoce of a &Rem which was in agitation, though not yet brought to maturity. He could, however, inforni them, that all thole enrolled previous to the sad of June would be retained, and that all who bad offered themfelves fince that period; would alto be received, fubjed, however, to providing their own arms, and liable to the Militia, Army of Referee, ate.. There duties, be hoped, would not operate as fulficient difcouragenstats to prevent the Corps fro.' continuing together, but that they would remain,' as at prefent, npwards of woo men, completely armed and equipped. He had alfo to inform them,, in confequence of a communication which he had from Lord HARRINGTON, that the Corp. was to be infpoded, be believed, on that day fortnight. He hoped they would then acquit themfelvesas he could walk p—and, with this view, he mutt entreat, that woe would be defirous of joining on that day, whodid not attend next field day; and, Rill farther, that thole who could not obtain fatisfae•lry certificates of their fitnefs to join at the infpeilion, would not take it atJits mould they be fent into the picqoet By complying with this requeß the trifling insects reties would be avoided, which, through the zeal of Gentlemen to join the ranks without fufficient ex perience, they had that night fallen into. The Acid:ids was received with repeated acclama tions. • COPT Or a LITTER FROM TER LORD Litt/TEEM OP TN! COUNTY OF tIIbOLisIX TO TN! Celli/AAR. Dili OF TN! YOLUNTIIR CORPS. Iea,(CIRCULAR) Leaden. Aug. a 6. As I ime found that many Volunteer Corps harmed .o this Save proceeded upon the hies that their numbers were net by the Rings approval of their propel:os, 1 take the liberty trusking you wish Ms letter, to retina that yen will fern* nett, with m lade after as potable, with an Presume mum at the eltablilhasset af tbe Cmps wider your eamesand, diftimpilliping the Mill sad Stall dicers, Warty, and fperitylag the numbrrof trams 7=2 wet h the eflabilltal proportion of Deters, Nan- Olken, Drummers. and Privates in each. together wish the as of uperuumeraries at prefeut enrolled in or at 'tubed to yam Cam in • feparste Column. I ebbs!' k smeary is moray you that without the Kin's ap probation previously obtained, the Carr moil one he extended beyond the wassber fee which the Kkii a pennilbon has been al ready granesiort the lams time I have resfen to bops that ne oh will be mulle ha the addition at fupernumeraries (when ap plied ler) te eltablilbed corps, resided it is perfolly notleritood, that they be wedded es so =empties% and will put °warn mot IP PO Ittplice et sag Mg& 1 use, ace. (OP* Kat T TITCUSII" CORN-, ARKET, MARK-LINE, SEPT. a. I Having a pretty large quantity of Wheat at Mar ket, with rery few buyers, Gies of this rain li,vc been exceedingly flow ; and every quality, fi. ce Monday f , lll Is. ehea;•:er. Barley has rather aln ih•t. • demand.--Nfalt continues unvaried The fuopie, t ; yl Oats are nearly taken off; bet defcrii4i..ns Are t, dearer—Hng Peas inciine upwards—New Rye, a:. ' Winter Tares, are in requeft for feed—Z.ilin i P. • and Beans have no variation—firm is the fare. • Eng. Wheat .36/.590. psrqr. Ti k Beers. 3...335. Fine ditto, 63.. 64.. Hog Peas, 39s 4os. FineDantzic ditto. 54 1 .59 5 . Boilers, 3oe. kye,3ll 341. Care.waySsed 5 as. $51.; Barley, 223. 2 4c. Corleneer, 3 • Os. soporfine diten,tin 64. Canary, 71. 76.. Mak. 3.0 eta. White Mullar. Seed, ij• tifr Oats, ass. 255.28.. Brown ditto, 22. Heel. Beans, 3.ss. R. pe Seed. 401. per ha. Flour, per rack , Sol. SS , . A m erican 37e.per band. INSPECTORS RETURN FROM VZSRSOO , SEPT. I. Wheat, per Load, fr0m .. 131. pa : to i6l. ss: i .1 New Ditto, per Load, from 131 cr. to i6l. 01. Barley, pct. (ZLiarter, from 11. 6s. to tl. Si. Or -oats, per Qharter, from IL 6s. to 11. los. Beans, per darter, from tl. i6s. to 21. os. Peak, per Quarter, frcms 21. os. to 21. 2S. MEITING •T HAVAWT.—.A. Meeting was held n the Bear Inn, in Havant, on Friday lad, to take into confide, ation the propriety of extending the Surrcy Iron Railway, to Portfmouth and London. Anu 7n- .1 ber of Gentlemen rcfident in the three counties e • Hants, Suffer, and Surrey, were prefect; and ti,. comparative advantages, together with the compara, tive prafticability of the two plans of faciliating the I ' p t tranfport of goods, viz. by a canal, or a railway, were maturely examined. It was the general opi. nion of the Meeting. that however advantageou• a s canal may be in dill'iCts to which an inland navi tion is applicable; yet in this line of country it wou be obviously attended with fuch incalculable ' ties and ezpence in the making, and with fach hazards in the maintaining, that it would wit be a fafe (pecu lation to attempt its execution. Whereas an Lon Railway may to a certainty be completed, upon an expence previoully afcertained to a (billing, and the maintenance of which would be fubjeCt to no impedi ment from the variation of feafons. They were mfr. e confirmed in this opinion, from the very report which bad been made in favour of the Canal, in which tLe able, Engineer bad candidly acknowledged the enor mous ezpence, and the many obftacles that occurred by :he high hills, the deep rallies, the porous foil, and the want of water in the line through which a Cartel mull pars. The very forvey of the country, &e. had colt 47001. and the rough (ketch of the expence amounted to Roo,coool.' It was queftionable whether the commerce of this part of the kingcbm would be futficient to juflify the expenditure of fo large a capital as mull be funk in making a Canal, though it would amply warrant half of the expenditure in making a Railway. The comparative expedition of conveyance was a • material confideration—the diftance by a Railway from Loildon to Portfmouth would be only 95 miles; and as carriages would travel at the rateof four miles in an hour, they might pats from London to Portf mouth. or vice vertu, its z+ hours. The length by a Canal would be tt z miles. Boats. including the time of puffing the Locks, would not move at a greater rate than two miles in an hour, and adding the delay in puffing through a tunnel of four miles in length, and the average time 101 l in • waiting at the ends of a Tunnel until Boats gone be. fore and others coming back again,'isealcralloVr a fecood fet to enter, the whole time between Lewd= and Portfmonth, by it Canal, would not be bei 65 boon. • : • • A Railway hal the very great advantage ems being dapped by drawee or fro*. .' leltad she advantage of r lLrii any part of the Cautery without. ilia., triesprir might be the level of the graved. And laftly, the work might be emoted in issifthe time of a Canal. They theeefaro unaniemosly rage. ed to adopt a Railway, as appears by the Advetellit• mut of their proceedings in thelleaa of 'doubly Wt. MONTHLY AORICI7III7IIIAL Raveay.----Front the continued heat, and funny Rate of the wombat, ear. ing the whole of the lea month, the befineh of reaping and (scoring all forts of crops has bees`tar. rid or' with unufual eeleritr and difpateh. The Wheat and Barley crops are, In molt tithe limbers dillrifts of the kingdoms dre ohlkoß wbolly *- cured, and a large proportion tithe Oats alb have ban eat and conveyed to the Back& is the northern parts of the Wand the barrel! is Kbewik in a eery ad vanced late. In the midland counties. a asonth's uninterrupted ilia weather has enabled the farmers to get is warty all the white Grain ; and in fame places the Beans and milted Grain are begun to be cut. The Wheat in thole diaries has, in (owe infeaces, feffrred mach from the mildew, efpecially when the crop was large; fo much fo, that form pieces have been mowed men• ly for litter. Indeed, few crops have efeaped without (offering more or lefs front this caufe, i'Lld it bees otherwile, the wheat is /metal woldd lave bees abundant in quantky, and of a very &prior quality. The Barley and Oats are a fall crop, and remarks. bly good ; the forayer being carried Co very dry. will be much in favour of the =alder. Beans. though • great crop as to Brew, will not yield welL Turnips want rain, and have alto in many places (offered much from the grub. Store Stock of all kinds, ex cept Hogs for the Rubbles, are lower. owing to the lhortnefs of keep and water. Clover for feed wants a few Mowers. All the different kinds of crops have bees &cured in the aloft perfect condition, to far as the harveft has yet advanced. But die pr oduce. though abundant in many diaries, is not. in general. Cu fall or fo good in quality as was expelled. This is probably is con (squaw* of the long continued *pets of thefenfoa. —But though the s feafon has been anufually favour able for the operations of the field. the Pallursa and Graii•lands have fuffered confiderably, the Grafi in many ditirias being *lama whoa= up ; and it is but in few &UAW= that any has bees in a date to be cut. The Turnip crop have been greatly injured by the dryncfs of the weather in many plamei sad the Po• tatoes on the dried foils are not rut promifing. The fellows for Wheat have in general Ns prepared is rbe led pakEt alma. e ' . ; e it it nds,i intim nha• the :-Ge• and inch )I. the r chett I t are n, St. tle of r gr. i Mr. t alk* under op 0 1 ached temen g il b 7