Star.
London, England, 1808-04-20 00:00:00

ceived ; to ascertain whether 4ey correspond with
the invoice forwarded by the Surgeon General ; to
notice any oinission or deficiencies in their quantities,
or defects in quality ; and, if any damage had been
sustained, to discover, if possible, to what cittse it
was owing. . -
The Comptrollers of Army Accounts, from whom
we received this communication, state, that since the
issuing of these directions, the Surgeon General had
transmitted to their Office several receipts of medical
stores sent out in the year 1801, which, except some
small deficiencies which had been notified to the
Apothecary General, were found to correspond with
the articles in his bills for that year: We learn fur-
ther from th.! Comptrollers, that the Surgeon General
having stated to them that certificates of the receipt
of medical stores in the hospitals at home, were now
regularly included in the monthly returil,. they have
obtained an inspection of these returns at thcir•ofce ;
and that, strict injunctions having been sent by the
Surgeon General to every department, to acknow-
ledge the receipt, and to certify the quality and con-
dition of all stores immediately on their arrival. the
consequence had been that the .bill for 1805, which
was the last reported on, had been supported by sun-
dry documents proving the receipt of many of the
articles. The Comptrollers, therefore, flatter them-
selves that the subsequent accounts of the Apothecary
General will be supported in a more complete and
perfect manner.—(Te be continued.)

Conostoes Imeirxr.—A shocking accident betel the
Lady of W. G. Althorpe, Esq. of Clewer, Surrey, on
Monday night —Mrs. Althorp, her son, and two
daughters, had returned home from a visit at half past
eleven o'clock, when the former went into her bed-
room, leaving her fiimily in the drawing-room under-
' neath. The shrieks of the mother alarmed her children,
and on their hastening up stairs, Mrs. Althorpe was
lying on the floor, with her garments literally reduced
to tinder. Surgical aid was quickly administered to
the unfortunate Lady, who died in about three hours
after the accident. She had, it appeared, stood too
close to the fire, which caught her light garments, and
which were ccnsumed in a very few seconds. The
verdict was Accidental Death. The deceased has left
eight children to bewail her loss.
Last week at Coaxey, near Wells, a young man of
the name of Pridden, having occasion to go to a black-
smith's shop on business, some irritating langultge
took place between him and the blacksmith's appren-
tice, and the carpenter struck him, when the lad im-
mediately thrust a piece of red hot iron into the car-
penter's side, and killed him on the spot.—Verdict—
Manslaughter.
A robbery, attended with such vjolence as occa-
sioned the death of the attacked, was committed on
Tuesday se'nnight, between Bream Common, Wilts,
and Romney. A Mr. Satchell, traveller to a whole-
sale house in Oxford-street, h:ul dined at Salisbury on
Tuesday, in company with two other persons, and to
whom it was known he had cash and notes about
him. lie was attacked at dusk in the evening by
two men, supposed to have been those lie was in
company with, who demanded his money. Mr. S.
resisted the -attack which caused his death on Thurs-
day morning, from the brukes he had received about
the head with a bludgeon. The villains escaped with
a booty of ;501.