Star.
London, England, 1822-03-18 00:00:00

ST. PETERSBURGH. FEBRUARY so.

0.1 the 16th, in the morning, a fire broke out In
eic Academy of Arts, which consumed a part of that
fil.e building. The fire is supposed to have been
caused by the bursting of a pipe of one of the stoves.
No work, of art have been lost on this occasion.

We have the mildest suring weather. The ice
mountains, the favourite amusement of the Russians
ill Lent, could not be erected as usual on the Neva.
because the ice was not strong enough to bear the
; they have, therefore, been erected on the
Grand Parade.

A Jamaica Mail ariived this morning, bringing
rapers zo the 9th February.
'11;e Jewerica Cottrcut, of the 21 February, contained
a letter from Ilaranquilla, representing that the Spa-
Liards had collec:ed 3:000 men, and were within 15
/cal-pies of Santa Fe, and adding that Bolivar was like
a madman, having only 500 men to defend the place
On the following, day the same Paper contradicted
the report, and stated, on the authority of a letter
from Santa Fe, of the 7th Jrnuary, that perfect tran-
‘;uiliity pervaded there, and that Bolivar had an army
of 8,000 men operating on Quito.
Extract of a letter from an Aide-de-Camp of Boli-
var, dated 22d December, from Bogota.—" Colum-
bia will shortly be without an enemy ; in less than
two months Quito will be free."

EXTRACT OF A LETTER PROM HAVANNA/I JAN. 16.

News fT cm Vera Cruz has been received, dated the
2.1 inst. 'fle Freatest confusion prevails in that ca-!
vital? . :-..nai;nf7 to the last accounts a conspiracy was •
formed against the actual Government, at the head
of which 14-2 S GUadellOilpe Victoria, one of the Chiefs
of the Revolution in 1810, besides twenty others of the
same .art? : their intentions were to establish a Re-
publican Government, ar.d to imprison all the Mem-
bers of the actual Regency, but they have all been
eau*, and their tri .11s have begun .
The French brig Peace, from Marseilles and Mar-
tinique, bound to St. Jago de Cuba, was spoken by
his Majesty's brig Bustard (is arrived): she reports
that ten sail of French men of war had arrived at
Ma:tinique for the purpose of cr. izing in the Vest
Indies arzain,t piratical vessels, five of whom were
destined for the coast of Cuba.

• 'T!e Irish Papers received this morning detail seve-
r.ii outrages inthe Counties of York, Limerick, Kerry,
and Waterford. In Kerry, Captain Rock has ordered
=lnlets to be held in two villages, not hitherto mar-
ket towns; and such is the terror his name inspires,
that he has been obeyed.
The ball usually held at Dublin Castle on St. Pa-
trick's Day, was not expected to be held this year on
account of the disturbed state of the country.

Saturday afternoon, at two o'clock, a Cabinet
C(Aecil was held at the Foreign Office, in Downing.
street, which sat till nearly half-past three.
Yesterday the Duke of YORK attended Divine Ser-
vice, at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace.
Yesterday Divine Service was perfne need to the
King's Household, at his Palace, in Pall-mall, by
the Rev. F. %V. BLOMBERG.
The tarl and Countess of ALREMARGE,Lady MAny
and the Hon. Mr. KEPPEL, left town yesterday on a
visit to the Earl and Countess of DARNLEY, at their
se:et, Cubham Hall, Kent.
Yesterday, Mr. and llA►dy ANNIE CONIC attendee!
Di vine Service at Paddingtonehnrch,and this morning
set oat from Dudleyitore, in that neighboulhood,
where they have been spending their honeymoon, to
.;:1 their Mends at Lord DAWILEA in Lent.

13itiontoN, MAR it
but beloved Sovereign took aiiitigs, in an open
Carriage, on Tuesday and Wednesday. His Maseart
looked extremely well.
It has been finally determined, that his MAJESTY'S
Statue shall he placed in the North inclosure on the
Old Steyne, opposite the Pavilion, Brighton. It is
to be pedestrian, of bronze, not liss than eight feet
high, and to he fixed en a granite pedestal. The ce-
lebrated CHAvrray is to be the artist. The subscrip- 1
Lions are completed.
Mr. ALLAN, to whose unremitted exertions we are
indebted for the establishment of the steam-yachts,
and the intended erection of the chain pier at Brighton
has returned from the North, after making arrange-
ments for bringing up the Tourist, and contracting
for another large and beautiful steam-vessel, similar
to the Tourist, for that station.

In deference to the vote of the House of Commons, I
it will be seen by our extracts from the Gazette of Sa•',
ttwday, that his MAJESTY has newly constituted the
Board of Admiralty, so as to reduce the number of
Junior Lords from six to four. The Board, therefore,
now consists only of the Chief Commissioner Lard
MErAnta.z, Sir W. J. HOPE. Sir J. OSBORN. Sir G.
CocKauna, and Sir G. CLERK ; making two Com-
missioners less. Sir H. HOTHAM and Mr. KEITM
DOUGLAS are the Gentlemen whose services are thus
dispensed with at this Beard, for the present.
Letters were received this morning from Constan-
tinople, dated the 12th Feb' nary. They state that
the suggestion of the European Powers, respecting
changing the military force of Tut key, is at length
attended to. The Janissaries were to be dismissed,'
and a new army organized. Peace with Persia had
been proclaimed.
Madrid Papers to the 4th instant state, that the
greatest order prevailed in the districts lately dis-
curbed, and that some partial movements of the fana-
tics of antiquated institutions had been easily and in-
stantly suppressed.
Much interest is at present excited in the City on
the subject of the trade in Tallow, and other articles
of Russian produce. The tendency of the new Tariff
is understood to be so decidedly inimical to English
commerce, that an attempt is making to impress on
the Board of Trade the propriety of recommending
to Parliament the imposition of a heavy duty on ar-
tides imported from Russia, particularly tallow, and
the abolition of the excise on soap and candles.
Three houses in the iron trade, in Staffordshire,
have stopped payment ; one of them has turned adrift
700 workmen.
Tuesday night, about eight o'clock, a very large
haulm and wheat straw stack was set on fire, in a field
belonging to a farm in the occupation of Mr. Ed-
ward Plant, of Earl Soham, which occasioned an
awful blaze, the stack was entirely consumed.
The Ipswich Journal states, that the account of the
Meeting of the labourers at Hon Green, which ap-
i.eared in the London Papers, has been by far too
highly coloured ; that the numbers assembled never
amounted to an hundred, and that on a subsequent
day, when the 'greater part 01 those who composed-
the Meeting were met by two Magistrates, they agreed
to abandon their intention of using any kind of force,
and to ask, and thankfully to accept, as a favour from
the farmers, the promise of discontinuing the use of
the threshing machines on this side-of harvest.
Friday evening the Duchess of KENT honoured
Covent-Garden Theatre with her presence.
There is a report of an approaching marriage be-
tween the Duke of Botrasota and her Royal Highness
the Princes CHEISTINR of Naples, sister to the
Duchess of BERRY. The Princess was born in 1806.

The remains of Mrs. DONA TTY, so barbarously
murdered, were removed this forenoon, at eleven
o'clock, from Robert•street, in a hearse and pair, ac-
companied by one mourning coach, and interred in a
vault under the Church of St. Andrew's, Holborn.—
An immense number of persons were assembled.
Sir W. CURTIS was once present at a public din-
ner, where the Dukes of YORK and CLARINCE formed
part of the company. The President gave as a toast,
" The Adelphi," (the Greek word for " The Brothers").
When it came to the worthy Baronet's turn to give
a toast, he said, Mr. President, as you seem in-
clined to give public buildings, I beg leave to propose
Somerset-House I" A general laugh of course ensued.
LUDICROUS CIRCUMSTANCIA Gentleman en-
tering a Stationer's shop a few days since to procure
the play of the Cnre for the Heart Ache, the young
apprentice began rumaging in a large drawer—the
master making his appearance, and inquiring what he
was searching for ? was answered, " The Cure for the
Heart Ache,"—" Anil pray where did you expect to
find it ?" "In the Patent Medicine Drawer, Sir !!!"

SNIUGGLI No.—General A NSTRUTHER, having made
himself unpopular, had been obliged, on his return
into Scotland, to pass in disguise to his own estate :
and crossing a firth, he said to the waterman, " This
is a pretty boat ; I fancy you sometimes smuggle with
it ?" The fellow replied, " I never smuggled a Bri-
gadier before !"
1 KING'S THEATRE.—The performances on Satur-
day were the Opera of Barone di Do:skeins, the Di-
vertisement Villageors, and the Ballet of Les Pages
du Duc de Vendome; the whale went off with great
applause. In the brilliant circle were—
The Prince Esterhazy, the Princess Fodor, daughter to the
Duchess of Kent, attended by General Wetherall and her Go-
verness; Duke of Argyll; Duchess of Argyll ; Marquisses--
Anglesea, Lothian, Aylesbury. Waterford; Marchionesses—Sa-
lisbury, Aylesbury, Londonderry, Lansdown, and Waterford;
Lords—Grey, Sefton, Bulkeley, Whitworth, Verulam, Mel-
bourne, Lake, Cavendish, Graves, Granville, Cawdor, Osninon,
Morley, Westmorland, Cranbourne, Chichester, Yarmouth,
Binning, Alvanley, Fitzroy, W. Fitzgerald, Burghersh, and
Keneth; Ladies—Sefton, Molyneux, L Lambton, C. Greville,
Stuart, C. Wortley, Mildmay, Vernon, Dudley and Ward,
W. W. Wynn, E. Verulam Uxbridge, Aboyae, Cavendish,
Granville, Cawdor, Ridley, Ossulston, Grantham, H. Parker
Harrowby, Morley, Cowper, A. Bathurst, Cormack, Fitz-so:
tnetset, C. Polbull ; Sirs—G. Warrendcr, J. Shelly, H. Ha-
milton, W. W. Wilson, D. Garden, W. W. Wynn, C. Flint;
Mr. Mrs. and Misses—B. Paget, H. Stanhope, Beaumont.
DISTORIANCE AT THE OLYMlC.—.Saturday t vening, John Hard..
cull, Isaac Stewart, alias Stank and George Suett, alias Sweet, were
brought to the Office, in Bow-street, and underwent an examina-
tion before G. R. MlNsuusi, charged with making a most
outrageous disturbance; also with violently assaulting several
persons, breaking musical instruments' &c. at the Olympic
Theatre. They designated each other by the names of Tbm,
Jerry, and Logic, exclaiming while they were committing the out-
rage—" Go it Too, go it .krry, go it Logic," Bcc. After much
resistance they were at length secured. Isaac Stewart, who
said he resided at Plymouth, and stewed much contrition for
his conduct, Mr. Coveney, the Lessee, permitted to be held
to bail on his own rvcognisance. The other two were hest to
s watch-bouts.

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• • •• • • . . WHITIHA IX, MARCH IC, int
The taw beef pleised to Menhiate And appoint the 6-
deratentioned 011 km to be, Cesniisoioni iK the Moat Honoisk-
able Military Order of the Bath, If*
Lieutenant-Colonel Fasostiici chusaaa Hemet, on the haltpay
of %e Mee Canadian Voidgeurs.
Lieutenant-Colonel Ozoamt Jiasichlion, of the Royal Artillery.
Lieutenant-Colonel Cowmen GaAs,, et the 114th Regiment,
late Assistant Qoartermaiter.Genetl to the troops in Fiance.
Lieutenant-Colonel &NUL HALL, of the 65th Regiment (inin
of the 10th Regiment). •
Lleotenant-Colonel NAIMAIIML WAARAN, of the 65th Regiment.
The Knso has also been pleased to appoint the following OE-
errs to be Honorary Companions of the said Most Honourable
Military Order, viz.

Lieutenant-General Baron de COWSTANT REIMCQI72, in the ser-
vice of his Majesty the King of the Netheriauds.
Major Baustaacn, is the service of his Majesty the King of
Wurtemberg.
Major Rawaxxo, in the service of his Imperial Majesty the Em-
peror of Austria.
MILITARY PROMOTION&
WAR•OFFICI. MARCH 15. 1822.
tat Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Cornet William Corbett
Smith. from half.pay of the 9th Light Dragoons, to be Cor-
net, vice Frederick Angelo Bradburne, who exchanges, re-
ceiving the difference.
sth Ditto—lieutenant John Gardiner' from half-pay of the
Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Arthur Bakcr, who en-
changes, receiving the difference.
7th Ditto—Cornet Thomas Utica. from half-ply of the 2d
Dragoon Guards, to be Cornet, vice- Peter Wright, who ex-
changes, receiving the difference.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Stephen Blake from half:
pay of the 37th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Daniel,
the service. drz.
4th Ditto—Hospital-Assistant William Parry to be A
Surgeon, vice Mortals, deceased.
10th Ditto—Richard Kelly, Gent. to be. Ensign, by purchase,
vice Le Marchant, promoted.
28th Ditto—Captain David Stuart Barday to ;be Major, by
purchase, vice Ross, who retires; Lieutenant Edward Ent-
bury [fill to be Captain, by purchase, vice Barclay; Ensign
John Caulfield Browne to be lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Hill; Robert Gibson, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Browne.
34th

and Sub-Lieutenant William Locke, from

the Ist Life Guards, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hud-
dieston, promoted.
36th Ditto—Thomas Alcock, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Graham, promoted.
38th Ditto—Assistant-Surgeon James Thomson, from half-pay
of the 60th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Shanks, ap-
pointed to the 82d Foot.
41st Ditto—Captain George Francis Boulton, front half-pay or
the 21st Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice William Wat-1
son, who exchanges, receiving the difference.
52d Ditto--Ensign William Vivian, from half-pay of the Regi-
ment, to be Ensign, vice H. Sunderland, who exchanges.
59th Ditto—Lieutenant John Pine Penefatber to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Ilalfurd, promoted ; Ensign George
Chichester to be Lieutenant, vice Penefather ; John Murray
Drummond, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Chichester.
60t1 -

ith Dtn.. Kant-Major Josephznader, Wolff to be Ad-
jutant (with the rank of Ensign). Adams, deceased.
75th Ditto—Quartermaster-Serjesurt John Dandy to be Quar-
termaster, vice M. Phan, deceased.
79th Ditto—Ensign Alexander Cameron to he Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Ewen Cameron, deceased; Ensign
William Boates, from half-pay of the Regiment, to be Ensign,
vice Cameron.
81st Ditto—Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Creagh, from the 93d
Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Milling, who exchanges.
82d Ditto—Assistant-Surgeon Archibald Shanks, M.D. from
the 38th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice William Milligin,
who retires upon half-pay of the 60th Foot.
83d Ditto—Lieutenant William Henry Law, from half-pay of
the 62d Foot. to be Lieutenant, vice Henry Vereker, who
exchanges, receiving the difference.
93d Ditto—Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Milling, from the 81st
Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Creagh, who exchanges.
Ist West India Regiment—Captain George Ford, from the Co-
lonial Company at the 'Mauritius, to be Captain, without pur-
chase, vice Gordon, cashiered.
Royal Veteran Battalions--Paymaster Thomas Small, from
balf-pay of the st/i Royal Veteran Battalion, to he Paymaster
of a Veteran Battalion.
3d Royal Veteran Battalion—Ensign Arthur Greenham, from
the late 10th Royal Veteran Battalion, to be Ensign, vice
Ewen Cameron, whose appointment has not taken place ; En-
sign Carroll Latchell to be Quartermaster, vice Yelion, ap-
pointed Adjutant.
aalvlT.

Captain Thomas Otho Travers, of the Honourable the Past In-
dia Company's Service, and employed on the Recruiting Ser- ,
vice of the Company, to have the Temporary Rank of Cap-
tain while so employtal.
Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of
Huntingdon.
Benjamin Welstead, Esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant.
Commission in the Royal North Gloucester Militia, signed by
the Lord Lieutenant of the County and County and City of
Gloucester, and of the County and City of Bristol.
Henry Howard, Gent. to be Ensign.
The Ist Veteran Battalion, quartered in Cork, are to be de-
tached in a few days.
The remainder of the tlth Regiment have arrived at Fermoy.
hlonday a quantity of new barrack furniture was dispatched
from Dublin to Ennis.