Star.
London, England, 1822-09-19 00:00:00

" #ok ?If! SUPORIPSION or
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or TIS mum&

THE ARMY.

APPOINTMENT A N/1 REMOVAL, (Mitre= sr Or.rvt)
OF STAFF OFFICERS.

An Officer •hall not be alla.t•ed to fill any Staff appointment
(that of Aide-de-Camp excepted), until he has been four years
in the service.

A SubAhern Officer shall not he considered efigible to hail the
appvirtment of Aide-de-Comp, until he has been present with
his Regiment at least one year.
Aides-de-Camp (excepting those attending. his MADE TT 3nd
the COMMANDZIFIN-CISIEO must not be elf, ctive Field Mean' of
Regiments.

The appointments of Assistants Adjutant-General, and As-
sistants Qnartermaster•Gineral, shall he held exclu•ivcly by Of-
ficers having the rank of Field Officer; the appointments of De-
puty Assistants Adjutant-General, and Deputy Assistants Quir-
termaster-General, shall he held by ()dicers having the tank of
Captain ; or by Subaltern Officers, who havii,g been four years
iu the Army, 'and having a perfect knowledge of their Regimen-
tal Duties, may be specially recommended for such appointments..

An Officer under the rank of Captai is not eligi!)lr to hold
the situation of Major of Brigade; nor must effiTtiv- Of-
ficers of Regiments be employed as Majors of lhigade, or as
Fort or Town Majors.
Officers for the Staff of the Army are to be selzcted mom.
sively from the Regular Foi-ct.=, ;Intl no Regioodat or iiiitak„,l
shall be required to furnish more tl.an two Captains and two
Subalterns fur Staff situations.

An appointments of A itlefi.de- Camp, BrigAe-M tjors, anti
other Staff Officers, are to be notified in Orders.

General Officers in command are expected to he extrenielr
circumspect in their recommendation of Of for Staff ap-
pointments of any kind ; and are respon.ilile that th-: Offs s,
in whose behalf they intereA thenttelves, are, by their previous
personal services, as well at by their acquirement,' and cha-
racter, qualified to discharge, with advantage to the S. rvi..te, the
duties attached to the st-tion for which they are recommended.
Officers in the command 4:f Regiment.; or Battalions are re-
sponsible that no Offi:er Is permitted to he absent from his
gimental duty for the purpose of holding a titu.;Sil upon the
Staff of the Army. until he shall have attaii.ed a complete kaow-
ledge of bis duty as a Regimental Officer.
Officers holding taff situations in Great Britai...a !reknit

(those only excepted who are appninted by his NlArrsie s spe-
cial authority) shall, on their regiments being isedk;ed in, foreign
service, relinquish their situations on the Staff, in ortler to em-
bark with their regiments._

Officers holding Staff situations in foreign gar sons (there
only excepted who are appointed by hi, Alsa.:s•n•'s special
authority) shall, on their regimcnis.qiiitting tlie station, relin-
quish their situations on the Staff, in order to accompany their
regimens.
Officers serving unrin the Staff of the Army at home are not
to be removed without the authority of the Comminder-in-
Chief. Those serving upon the Staff of foreign stitions are not
to be removed without the previous 4utholity of the General
Officers conurianding.

The latest intelligence from the Arctic. °dean,
which is to the 15th of August, states, that a firth
and impenetrable barrier of ice prevented the Davis's
Straits fishing-ships from going t ) the westward,
which is perhaps the cane why we have heard no-
thing of the Discovery Ships. Flom the accumula-
tion of ice,. however, in the mouth of the Straits,
there is a greater probability, nay, almost the cer-
tainty, of the sea being open towards Lancaster
S bond, and to the westward. It is pro;iab!e that by
t ;is time the barrier k broken up, and tliT ice floated
into the Atlantk. The appearance of such a Tian-
tity augurs a severe winter last season in these part,,
but an open spring and summer, which had broken up
the ice to the westward and in the bottom of the bee.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of KENT, who
has for some time enjoyed the salubrious air of Rams-
gate, is daily endearing herself to the inhabitants by
her condescension and kindness. Her Royal High-
ness was graciously pleased, last week, to permit Mr.
PERRY, the proprietor of the elegant new Hot and
Cold Baths, to place the arms of her Royal Highness
upon, and to designate his Establishment the Royal
Kent Baths.

Mrs. Courrs, with her usual benevolence, has, it
seems, settled a comfortable annuity on the veteran
WEWITZER, seho had but a very small income from
the Theatrical Fund, the claims upon which are ex-
tensive. WEWITZER was au excellent actor in suitable
characters, and always respected by the theatrical
community ; who, of course, will rejoice to hear that
he has obtained such a liberal provision, to cheer his
advanced period of life.

RICHMOND THRATRE.—Wednesday evening, Mr.
KL A NERT and Miss SYDNEY appeared in the charac-
ters of Lord and Lady Townley, in the favourite Co-
medy of the Provoked Husband, and sustained the
characters with the most excellent effect. The enter-
tainments of theevening concluded with the humorous
Farce of Monsieur Tonson, which afforded infinite
entertainment. This Piece, our Readers know, is
founded on a famous tale, often recited, some years
since, by Mr. FAWCETT, of Covent-Garden Theatre,
and was written by Jo►l ).1 TAYLOR, Esq. Propi ietor of
the Sun Newspaper. The House was crowded.
The Duke of PORTLAND has arrived at his scat,
Welbeck, Notts, from Scotland.
Earl Wu firwonni and the Duchess of DORSET have
left Knowle, Kent, for their seat, Backhurst, Susses.
The Marquis and Marchioness of CORNwALLIS have
left Swindle-i Lodge, Berks, for Broom Hall, Suffolk.
Yesterday, a little girl, three years of age, the
danghter of Mr. GUY, Pond-court, Commercial-road,
dui ing the temporary absence of her mother, drank
some boiling water out of a tea-kettle, which scalded
it in the throat -in a most dreadful manner. The
pew child lingered till this Wining, and expired is
great agony.

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I►ATAL IXTELLIGESCE.

Extract of a letter from the Agent to LLoyo's,
clated Zante, Atipt.t 7:

The combined Turkish fleet, consisting of line-of-battle
ship•, frigates, sloops, and brigs, in all about 30 sail, passed by
this place an the skl instant. and are at present at Patras."

£t: act of :4 letter from the Agent to LLetp's,
dated G j-m, August 31 :
" Av. insurgent privateer, order Buenos Arrean colours,lhted
out at Ilourdeaux, with 24...pounderl, four small guns, and part
cf her crew Frenchmen, has been cruizing off the poet for sgTe-
ral days, aid eAptured and plundered some Spanish soasels, and
ransomed others, at the entrance of hisadts."

Pistaoamt, Sam 'T.—Wind LS. F..—Arrivid et the port,
the Shannon, I/mai-rms. trim Dominica io wren weeks.
Poamasocro, Sirs. 18.—Wind \.E—Arrived his 31apisty's
ship ALLIC•1011, from the Dawns ; and the Brothers, from is-
maica for London. Sailed the Gillstand, VintrottaNt, for Pool.
Demme, Sam 111.—Sailed, the filedum mtaro..vessel, with two
carriages. and about 50 pawners, fur lioulogue.—Arrived,
the Da..ber, Government steam-picket,. with three carriages,
and-10 Tus.engers; as alsu the Henri IV. French steam-packet,
with the both from Calais. Arrived also, the Union,
ream-vessel, from Basiogne.
MAL, sirs. ist.—Wind N.s—Arrived this morning, the
Perseverance, Parmasols, from Hull for Jamaica, and sailed ;
also tbr _lemma, from Whoa to Leedom Came claim from
the River and sailed, the Lively, Reset, for the Cape of Good
Fr.incis, Asa, for Gibralat r ; and Oak, Wilms.; for
Gt•tvoz.

WielIST, Seer. 17.--Arrived the Volunteer, Como, from
Crett.i.iuti, with stern fish and 105 toss of oil---tte last ship
from ther..7r this. selson.

Ti". • 0r.,1k, Worm, arrived on the Ttb inst. from Green-
la:.d, a: Berwick. with one ton of oil.
Ct I:arazzs Cs vet Oca.se.—Ott the 7th instant a battle was
thrown on shore in die Commune of Zandvoort, in HoUand.—
It contained the following notice :—" The ship Elizabeth Cor-
nelia, -cconstaaaded by Captain lios, off teachy Head. in a goad
condition; all the passengers well. August 25, 182.2."
att Egmond-aan-Zee another bottle was thrown ashore, con-
taining a paper with the following words Please to take no-
tice- that this erapo bottle, vit4 the vitae:urge ix it, was put in the
sea off the Oki Head of Kiras,le, on the 21tat of June, 1823,
and whosoever finds it is particularly requested to publish where
is was picked up, in the Newspapers. " J. Ottarisoa.
Tice Later letter proves itself to be Irish.

.-.LLANCHOLY 1.0 S!; OF LIVES ON THE
COAST OF CAITHSESs.

LTBSTEIL VILLAGE, SEPTEMBER 11.

Lis morning a most unexampled scene of distress
tonk place on our coast. Tire early part of the night
of Tuesday (yesterday) being uncommonly calm and
serene, almost all the herring boats from the Ord to
Wick put out to sea. About midnight, the wind
veer ing to the south, blew a tremendous gale; hardly
an) ot the boats had been able to find shelter during
the night, and but iew of them, even so late as seven
ecinck this morning, had succeeded in gaining the
/:,i; boor I,f Wick, or any of the creeks to the south
of u. Soon after this hour, a boat from Forse, with
Lim men on board, swamped within about 200 yards
of the mouth of this creek, situated nearly three miles
to 1.-t north of Clythness. In an hour after, the-sink-
ing boat was dashed on the face of a rock, ard the
ui.vrtunate wretches were for an instant seen faintly
struggling for their lives in the waves, within twenty
yards of numerous seafaring men_ looking on with
:.:-.e coldest apathy and indifference.
A boat from Clyth perished near Ulbster, with all
ca beard, including a father and two sons.
At this very moment, Tour o'clock, the wind blows
mast tremendously from the S.W. and some boats
have been seen out at sea holding on by their nets,
wbith i: is to be feared may be overwhelmed by the
continuance and increa,ing severity of the gale.