Star.
London, England, 1808-07-29 00:00:00

LOSS AND GAIN.

The private letters from Holland state, that all
the gun-boats in the Dutch ports had been armed and
manned, and sent on towards Dusseldorff, for the
purpose of enforcing the immediate march of the va-
rious conscripts in that neighbourhood, they having
peremptorily refused to obey the orders of their offs-I
cers. The greatest confusion prevailed, and much
blood it was thought would be spilt, before the object
for which the gun-boats were dispatched could be
obtained. • •
A Gentleman who left Flushing only three days
ago, assures us, that no French or other troops had
been marched from that quarter towards Spain.
Yesteriay a Cabinet Council assembled at the Fo-
reign Offize at two, and continued their deliberations
until it was past five o'clock. The greater part of
the Members were present. Mr. DUFF had an au-
dience of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
after the breaking up of the Council.
A Spanish Messenger left Own yesterday, with dis-
patches from his Excellency the Visconte de MAT..
TEROSA, to his Court at Seville.
Lord MuLGRAVE gave a grand dinner yesterday,
at his residence at the Admiralty, to
Don Francisco Sangro, Genera Jacomie, Admiral Alpodacar
Viscount Matarosa, Don Andero Angel de b.Viga, Don Andrbri
lacomie, Den Lorenzo Norrega, his Grace the Duke of Portland,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earls of
and Camden and West-
morland ; Lords Hawkesbury, Castlereagh, Palmerston ;Sin
Richard Bickerton and Geo. Smith ; Messrs. Canning and Erere.
The Duke of NORFOLK is expected to return to town
in a few days, from Arundel Castle.
The bead quarters of the 2d battalion of the 45th
regiment are at Nottingham.
That excellent regment, the 18th Light Dragoons,
known in Ireland by the name of Lord DROGHEDA s
Light Horse, embarked at Northileet, on Wednesday,
for foreign service.
Last week a party of the 2d battalion of the 45th
Regiment, consisting of 10 Officers and 160 privates,
marched into Derby from Macclesfield, on their way
to Nottingham ; tho remainder of this regiment is
with Sir A. WELLESLEY'S Expedition.
The North Cork Regiment of Militia, commanded
by Colonel HODDER, has to a man demanded to be
sent upon service, and especially to Spain, and have
addressed,his MAJESTY to that effect.
During the review of the Oxford Blues on Wink-
field Plain, on Wednesday, the beautiful charger on
which his Grace the Duke .of NORTHUMBERLAND,
(Colonel of the said Regiment) rode, was so much
tigued and exhausted by the different evolutions,
that he was left for dead ors the field.
On Monday last, the Gth Regiment of Loyal Lon-
don Volunteers, with their Rifle Company, being
mustered in Devons!tire-square, under the command
of Lieut. Colonel Amos, were marched to Canenbury,
for practice in ball-firing, under the inspection of
Colonel Maarrg, when a medal was presented to
the best shot in each company, by their Colonel, Sir
RO BERT WIGRAM, Bart. M.P. Notwithstanding the
unfavourable state of the weather, the regiment, on
the whole, levelled with considerable precision and

effect.
Thirteen Capital Prizes to be Drawn of 820,010,
810,000, 45,000, 82,000, and a full proport
of other Prizes. Nrct Tuesday, August '2, is the
day. Tickets and &lams, warranted undrawn, are
selling at all the Lottery Offices.

Mr. GaansoN, don't grieve at this cooing and billing:
You have iosr a Bad Wife, and have GAIN.D a Good
Shilling I COCXLi.

Sir Join; Letcarrza Mr. and Mrs. Fowites, Mr.
Roscoe, Mr. HALE, Mr. TURNER, R.A. Mr. BUCK-
LER, &c. are athong the fashionable visitors at present
at Browsehblme Hall, Lancashire, the elegant seat of
T. L. PARKIR, Esq.
The Duchess of GoanoN's beautiful rural cottage
at Kinrana, in Badcnoch, on the banks of the winding
and rapid Spey, is at present undergoing a complete
and thorough repair for the reception of her Grace.
It is to be considerably enlarged, and several more
rooms arc to be added, with a view the more easily •
to accommodate the Duchesses of BEDFORD and MAN- •
camerae, on their *turn from Ireland, who, it is ex-
pected, accompanied by 'their brother, the Marquis
of HtnrrLey, will visit this rural spot fora short time
early in Septembei.
ARRIVAL, AT RATH*
Earl Digby, Countess of Roches, Lord Boston, Lady Liddell,
Lady Portarlington and family, Sir Wm. Mord Rear-Admiral
Buller Majors Goldsworthy, WUlLuns, and Wattman • Dean
Crosby, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Glasse, Rev. Mr. Bowles, diptains
Mackenzie and Johnson, Lima. Kington, Mr. and Mrs Sp y,
Mr. and Mrs. J. H Edwards, Mr. sod Mrs. Gordon, Mr. d
Mrs. Coles, .Mr. and Mrs. Brandith, Mr. and Mrs. Kenyon, &c.
ARRIVAL, AT trItISTOL 110TWILIt.
Lord and Lady POWII, Lady Portarlington, Lady C. Morrison,
Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Watkins, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Hume, N
and Mrs. bore andfatuily, Mrs. and three MissesWhitt.ngtons,
Captain Otto, &c. &c.
ROBERT Bauce.—A pic-nie meeting, to celebrate
the anniversary of the birth-day of R. BRUCE, the
hero of Bannockburn, took place at the Castle of
'Lochmaben on Monday se'nnight. The company
consisted of upwards of fifty persons of great respec-
tability, Wu. STEWART, Esq. of HillTlead, in the
chair. That every thing might accord as much as
possible with rural simplicity, tables were placed on
the green, in front of the royal residence, and, accor-
ding to agreement, each Gentleman brought his con-
tribution of fare to the entertainment. The Locluna-
ben Company of Volunteers attended in honour of the
occasion, and the day, which was uncommonly fine,
gave a high effect to the.native music of Scotland
(the bagpipe), which played during the whole of the
evening. The company was so highly delighted, that I
it was agreed a similar meeting should hereafter be
held annually. •
Exclusive of the numerous interesting articles on
sporting and other subjects, the new feature of 6 Dis-
putes among Gentlemefi on Points of Honour, &c."
is continued in the Sporting Magazine, 31 Volumes,
with near 400 Copper-plates, are published, and the
Work going on.—Sroes's 2 Plates of Horse and
Lion, &c. form part of the recent embellishments.
For Ceaes.—On the 6th ult. near Dunkeld, Perthshire, there
were seen on the high road, a for and a hound proceeding at a slow
trotting pace. The dog was about the distance of fifty yards be •
hind the fox ; each was so fatigued and spent,that the latter could
not outrun the former, nor the former overtake the fatter. A coun-
tryman, who ob.erveclthem in this state, very easily caught the lox
by running. Both the for and the do;were taken to a Gentle-
man's house in the seighbourbood, where the dog received every
mark of hospitality to which histinceashig pursuit entitled him, and
Reynard seas placed in a garden as a prisoner of war; bu vhet bee
from over-fatigue, or from a determination not to outlive the loss
of his liberty, he refused to take any sustenance, and the conse-
quence was, that he died the day following. After the lapse of a
week, the dog seemed quite recovered from the fatigues of tbe chase,
on which it was determined by the gentleman whose kindness be so
much experienced, to tie a letter to hisneck,andlet him go,inwhkh
all the circumstances that passed in that place were stated: it con-
eluded with requesting the owner of the dog. if ever he found
his way home, to acyaint Mr. S—t, by post, where the I. was
started, in order that the length of the chase, and tbe time em-
ployed in it, might be ascertained. in tan days after, Mr. S.--t
received a letter, acquainting him, that the dog had arrived safe
at his master's house in Badenoeli ; that be was one of the hounds
of the Duke of Gordon's Fox-banters i C
n that entry; nd a that
the fox was started in the morning of the King's birtb-day, on the
top of those hills, called the Mona-liadb.wlAch separate Badenoch
from Fort Augustus.—From hence' it appears that the chace
lasted four days, and that the distance travelled from the place
where the game was sprung, to the place where it was caught,
wi• 'tout making any allowances for doubles, crosses, 3r.e. exceeded
70 miles.
In the year 1633, a stag was ran by a single greyhound out of
Whinfield Park, in the parish of Broughton, Westin.: eland, to
Redkirk, in Scotland, and ha* again, a dis•anee of nearly 100
miles, when being t oth exhausted, the stag heaped over tk pale*
and died ; the greyhound, in attempting to follow it, fell bat awl
died on the opposite ride : in the memory of which (act the saes
horns were nailed upon a tree just by, which to this (1.1 bead
the name of Hart's-horn Tree.
Thursday a fire broke out in the parsonage at
Sandi ,rd, Devon, the residence of the Rev. Mums
BENT, which was in a short time end' ely destrOlede
together with seven other houses in the vilidge.