Star.
London, England, 1805-04-22 00:00:00

WEST INDIES. &c.

His %jelly's chip. Acafta, arrived at Portfmnuth
from Jamaica, failed the 111 of March. His Majef-
ty's fchooner Pickle is appointed to fail from Jamaica
for England, on Monday, the l tth of March ; fhe
arrived at Jamaica on the ssth of February, in 35
days from Plymouth, with difpatches, announcing a
war with Spain. The Chefterfield packet arrived at
Jamaica on 25th February.
The William, M'lvcr, is lost at Plantain Garden River, Ja-
msics.

The George and Mary, lambert, from Liverpool for New
York, has put into St. Kitt's, in diftrefs,after king out syS days.
The Zephyr, Pace, from Virginia for Jamaica, is loft on the
Grand Cairns.

The WillLunfon, Rawfon, from Jamaica for London, was cap-
tured on the 39th of December, and loft two days after, on the
Col!trades.

Jamaica papers to the 111 of March are received,
at which period the arrival of the French in the
Welt Indies does not appear to have been known at
Kingllon.
The official advice, of the declaration of war
againft Spain did not reach Jamaica till the night of
the asth of Feb►uary. The official difpatches, con-
taining the Spanilh declaration, were received at the
Havanna on the toth of the fame month. An em-
bargo was immediately ordered on all Britifh vet
Fels in the ports of Cuba ; but from the previous in
formation which led to an expatation of this event,
oor lots is Rated to have been very trivial.

L'Heacuta, of 74 guns, was in Port Royal on
the lit ult.: the VANGUARD, of like force, PRIN•
CM CHARLOTTE, FORTUHIIII, and DISHIER fri
gates, ECHO and RSINDRSR, failed tome days before
on cruizes. .

The outward•bound Jamaica fleet had, according
to feveral coincident accounts, reached their refpec-
tive definition: in perfea fafety. It appears, by us- I
doubted communications tranfmitted to Jamaica
from Martinique, that the Captain General of that
illand is determined to ufe his utmoft efforts in. m-
ilitias any attack on the part of our troops, which he
daily expeaed, and for that purpofe he is in.defati.
gable in profecuting the works on the fortiF,eations.
Eight hundred negroes have been employed, on them
for nearly a twelvemonth. The hill and Come other
eminences which commanded Fort Borsrbon, have
been levelled. The greateft mortality prevails among
the European troops of the garrifon, which are con.
fiderably reduced. The Captain General has made
two attempts to regain the Diamond, but the cur-
rents were fo ftrong, that his troops were not able to
reach the rock.

The grand! dikontent Pervaded the Mad. in con-
Cequence of the decrees of tha Goveranteot oat

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the inhabitadts indifcriminately to ferve
with the army, the other calling upon every proprie-
tor to furnifh (laves and beans of burthen, in the pro-
portion to his Rock of pne to three, or to pay four
livres ten foul, in lieu of each of either that May be
deficient.
When the Acaßa failed, which was on the la' of
March, nothing had tranfpired of the attack made by
the French on the ifand of Dominica. She has on
board half a million of dollars for the merchants in
the Weft India trade.

By the Acafta accounts have been received, that
the Emperor MUSLIMSs was, at the time of this
(hip's failing, upon his march again( the town of St.
Domingo, with 20,000 men, under four divifions,
each commanded by a Black General.
A letter from Trinidad, of the gth of March has
been received, but it does not contain any public
news 3 the amid bas been fubjedt to much rain, with-
out, however, injuring the crops, which were of good
appearance. The markets were well fupplied, and
affording good prices.
Jamaica, Fie. 18.—The Carysfort frigate has re-
captured and brought in with her the brig teen
Charlotte, of Briflol, a brig belonging to London,
which had been taken by the enemy from the late
convoy of the Hyena, and the American (hip Bet-
fey, of Bolton, from Amfterdam, which (he fell in
with off Martinique.
Fsa. 23.—The Reindeer brig, of 18 guns, Capt.
Fyffe, arrived on Sunday, having convoyed the vef-
fels of the Cork fleet to their refpedive ports of def-
tination on the north fide of the

Intelligence has reached ns, that a confiderable
body of Charibs, French negroes, and others, have
efferied a fettlement on the heights of Wathitabou.
The fettlers confilt of about boo, and the men were
well armed. This circumitance has caufsd Come un
ealinefs to this Government.

Captain Cll.?e sw is appointed to the command of
the ASTRh A frigate, at Woolwich.
Letters f,om Holland mention that the naval pre-
parations at Flufhing, Antwerp, and Dunkirk, are
carried on with unremitting aflivity, and add, that
at Rochelle, Rochefort, and L'Orient, as well as in
the Mediterranean ports, feveral new (hips of war
are building, under pofitive injunctions to be com-
pleted at giv►n periods.
A Spanilh fquadron of twelve fail of the line is
(hied to have been ready for fea, at Cadiz, on the
uth ult.

Boa APARTI, after his coronation at Milan, makes
a tour to the folithern provinces of France.
The French have impnfed a frefh requifition on
the unfortunate Hanoverians, namely, tents for the
intended encampments. The French General has
ordered all the gun powder fiores to be removed out
of the electorate.
Some Toulon fifhermen have been hanged, on fuf
picion of giving information refpeding the French
fleet to the Bruins ; and notice has been given to
the reft of this body, that any future communication
with the Englifh upon any occafion, will fubjea them
to like puniament.
Mr. GAWKS arrived at Berlin from St. Fete&
burgh on the 9th infiant ; he was the bearer of fome
difpatches of importance from Lord L. Guwaa to
Mr. JACKSON. The Fruition General Zasranw was
at that date on the eve of his departure on his ex
traordinary miffion to Peteriburgh.
A letter from Madrid of the Bth ult. lays—" A
difpatch from the Intendant of the troops at the Ha-
vannah, dated the 16th of February, to the Military
Commandant of the Province of Corogne, announces
that the Negroes at St. Domingo have no refs than
fifty gun-beats, a fchooner, and a brig of 14 guns,
which cruize from fifteen to twenty leagues from the
Ifland, and have committed the moil chocking out-
rages on the crews of the Spanifh chips. The brig
la Bonne-Foi, from St. Andero, was taken by the
Brigands, and every foul of the crew maffocred.—
The Intendant advifes the Spanifh matters of veffel,
to keep as diftant from St. Domingo as poflible, and
to make tire of the Englith flag, which is very much
refpeded by DISSALINES."
Saturday we received the Bolton papers to the 7th
nit.and they are exciufively occupied with local mat-
ter of no general intereft : one of them announces
the arrival of a veffel in 32 days from the city of St.
Domingo, with accounts that every thing was per-
fedly tranquil there, and no apprehenfion entertained
of an attack from the Blacks. Molt articles of fo-
reign produce were very low : Flour, however, fold
at 18 dollars per barrel.
EAST INcoss.—By the late overland difpatch, we
have advice of fome diaurbance in the newly con
quered country between the Jumma and the Cane. A
large body of infurgents inverted one of our fort!, and
before Colonel Powit.t. could detach a fufficient force
for its defence; the garrifon abandoned it and their
baggage, &c. and were for the greater part cut to
pieces in their retreat.
Holkar loft a large portion of his artillery in crof-
fing the rivers, during his late movement towards
Delhi. Many of the guns, on the waters fubfiding,
were recovered by the English.
The merchants of Poonah have opened another
fubfeription for the profecution of the war againft
Holkar.
At the date of the raft accounts from Delhi, Na-
wab Allee was encamped in the neighbourhood of
Kalingur, having had leveret revere fleirmithes with
the enemy, who had dellroyed numerous villages,
and razed fome forts, in the expedition of finding
treafttre.

The remains of Tantia's army, which had retired
to the jungles. have been ant to pieces by the Hill
Chieftains ; and a firong corps which Holkar fent to
at with them, (hared the fame fate, having been fur•
prifed in a defile.
The banditti of Rajah Rom Sing have realfembled
in conliderable force in the neighbourhood of Bun.
dlecuod : troops were advancing from different points
againfi
The jeypoor Rajah has delivered to Captain GAR
DEM, the Bridal Refident, fomc ies fern by
Holkar, to engage him and his people in holtilities
againft the Englilh.
The didurbances in the Pollams have not ♦et fob.
fided : the infurgents occupy fume polls in the atom-
-taloa iaacceffible to a regular force.

THE Cl/EVA/ER BOISGELEN's ACCCII7'
OF ANCIEN if; D OA R% MALT:I.

Malta, fiat Meirtioned in the ea: Hell poem in ex-.
inence, and fince noticed incidentat!y in many ii on-
dred volumes, has at left found a !bitable hittu.
rian in the perfon of rne its own Knights. '1'1).7
foldier may now read ar interetiog account to an
Order that united religion with the iword ; the CIA"-
fical reader, acquainted with all the beauties of the
Odyffey, will long to recogniii the grotto of Ca-
info, who protrafted the Itay of 'he 17!vile;
while thofe converfant with, and attached to the du-
ties of our religion, will not be (141e:tied to been=
better acquainted with a fpot where the ekquent St.
Paul, after effecting a landing in a bay which to this'
day bears his name,. rendered his perfon Lured its•
the eyes of the barbarians, by difarming the deadly
viper of its poifon.
In our own times, Delille, alluding to the exploits'
performed there, confiders its very rocks as fertile in
laurels, while the Prefident Henault compliments the
Order of St. John, as the only on originating out of
the Holy Wars, that fill continued to preferve the
original fpirit of its primitive irdlitution.
But it is not the hiflorian, or the poet alone, that
has affixed a high value to an ifland admirably fitu-
ated both for war and commerce 3 ltatefmen, too,
have viewed it with a jealous eye, and the peace of
Europe appears to have been interrupted on purpofe
to decide the important queßion, to what nation it
fhould appertain ? On a reference to the difpatcher
of Lord Whitworth, while Ambaffador in France,.
we find the then Fir tt Cunful, now Emperor, übferv-
ing in tBo3, " that on Malta mull depend peace or
war;" and even aliening, in perfon, " that he would
rather fee us in polieffinn of the Fanxbourg St. An-
toine, than of this ifland."

Three fplendid quarto volumes, embellilhed with
one of the largeft book charts ever publithed, and
variety of intercding engravings, ferve to convey a
fishable idea of fo important a lc:dement. The work
is very appotitely dedicated to the " Btitifh Navy,
which has produced fo many celebrated heroes, and
whofe brilliant exploits may be faid to rival even
tbofe of ancient chivalry." The fird part contains a
geographical defcription of the Wand, together with
an account of its antiqnities, government, admini-
thation, trade, and finances ; the remainder is dedi-
cated to its hiltory. The author accordingly begins
with that period when it was known to the Greeksi
and mentioned by Homer under the well known
name of Hyperia. He then traces out its revolu-
dons under the Phomicians, the Carthaginians, the
Romans, the Vandals, the Arabs, the Normans, the
Germans, the French, and the Spaniards, &c. &c.
The events recorded are elucidated by means of an-
cient fepulchral lamps, altars, medals, marbles vafes,
candelabra, &c. Here alto the antiquary will find
balk relievos, a head c,f Augutins, a Ratue of Her-
cules, and the bons of Penthefilea, Zenobia, and An-

tinous ; nor are certain ancient tombs exifting
in the engemma mountains forgotten; there being
two plates, exhibiting views, or rather fedl•ns, of
the interior of them. It appears from the ichnogra,-
phy, or ground plan of the 7 adat A aur ifiira, that a
portion of it was built fomewhat after the manner of
the magical circles of our ancient Druids, while lioness,
eighteen feet in height, prefent an idea of the Giant's
Caufeway. At the Cafal Zurich, on the other hand,
we find a hoofe, an elevation of which is annexed in
a plate, entirely in the (Lyle of Grecian architedure.
Nor will the lover of Natural Hillory be difpleaf-
ed with the perfpeoftive view of the molltroom theft;
or the very accurate reprefentation of the Maltefe
mufhroom itfeif, termed the fungus ryphoide,, corcineur
Meliten.fis, by Bocconi, and the gnomorien, by Michell,
who has written a treatife exprefsly for the purpofe
of defcrihing it.
The cofiame of the inhabitants, their manners, tra-
ditions, and fingularities, are fully defcribed and
enumerated. The fertility, as well as the produc•
tions of the foil, too, are all mentioned in regular or-
der ; and while our farmers may be defirous to natu‘
ralife the amino, the lalitnagnum, and particularly the
filo, fo well adapted for fodder, the manufacturer will
not be difpleafed to learn that there are no lefs than
three diftind species of cotton here : one indigenous,
another brought from Siam ; and a third of a cinna-
mon, or nankeen colour. Nor will fame of the ladies
be furry to learn, that what Linnzus cl:fignates as
the rani: famdiaris Matfilinu, admired by both ancient
Greeks and Romans,makcs the prettieft modern lap-
dog ever beheld, although the late Grand Matter was
unable to avert his own fate, and that of his domi-
nions, by the prefent of one of them to the wife of
the French Admiral. An accurate reprefentatior, of
this favourite, commonly called the &Ann, is annexed.
In the hillorical part will be found a corral ac.
count of the means by which Malta for a time be-
came annexed to France ; and when we confider the
imnienfe sums expended in, and for this ifland, we
cannot but exprefs a hope that it will hereafter con-
flitute an itufrvißk portion of the Britilh empire.

DREADFUL. FIRE.—Lail night, about nine o'clock,
one of the extenfive flour mills of Meffrs. John and
Charles Millwood, at Bromley, near Bow, in Mid-
dicier, was difcovered to he on fire (but from what
caufe has not yet been afeerrained), and every poi:
fible exertion was ufed by the inhabitants of Bow,
Bromley, Stratford, and the surrounding neighbour-
hood, to get it under, but without effed, as it loon
communicated to the fecond mill. About eleven
o'clock the firs fire engine arrived from London, and
was Coon followed by feveral others, which intmedi.
ately commenced playing on diErent parts of the
premifes. By this time the fire had got fo much
a-head, that every exertion to flop it proved ineffec-
tual, and the flames communicated to two other
large Beta mills belongi,rg to Mr. Hatchard, which
were all., coolumed, together with leveral out hauler
and cottages. At halt pail one o'clttck this morn-
ing.the four mill- wel, entirely confunfrd. The whole
exhibited a mint terrific appearance. In addition to
the Bow, Bromley, and Stratford Volunteers, we no-
ticed a detachment of the Fitt, L titian Regiment,
and of the Southwark Voluweers, who effectually
kept off the populace from impeding the wcrking of
the engines. The n,;;ls ere extremely full of conr
and flout, which burnt with altorrilhing fury.
Sunday morning a fire broke out in an onthoufe,
fituated in the tan•yard of Meirs. Ridley and h•tof
in Eangate-Ilreet, Bury, but by timely riffifiance, it
was prevented communicating to any other part of
the premifes.

INSCRIPTION

BO It PLACED IN MR. !DILLY'S 'S DINING PARLOUR, lIIIDIRTSB

PORTRA cr OF tits 000.

Wi•hin this frame behold a i`ox difplay'd,
By Morland's faithful pencil well portray'd,
bred of the race, Newfoundland's forefts lend,
Tyger he firft was eall'd, but after, Friend!
A name not giv'n, like molt, by idle guefs,
But meant his actual fervire to exprefs.
Nor let fufpicion here o'er truth prevail,
Or think poetic &lion feigns a tale ;
For firft the Mafter of you friendly board,
Fran, inftant rife of drowning he reftor'd ;
When bathing once within the ebbing tide,
Where Portfmouth's banks tts' unequal moue divide,
The waves refiftlefs bore him off his fret,
And mock'd his utmoft efforts to retreat ;
Worn out at hit, unknowing how to fwins,
Bercft of (cafe, and palfied every limb,
This Dog, till then aftranger, law, and Ilew,
To fave from finking one he never knew ;
Forth by the hair be draged him breathbis o'er,
And laid the half dead body on the mere.
At length by arts, the boaft of modern days,
Life's latent (park rekindles to a blaze!
With vital warmth again his bofom glows,
And through each vein the purple current flows.
To HLAV.III then firft his grateful vows afeend,
The Dog he purchas'd next, and eall'd him ?anion:
His foodnefs fence. and conftant fervlee too,
Have prov'd the faithful title was his due.
—Nor He alone ihaU bias the happy hour,
That Laid him from the Sea's o'erwhelming poser
Children and relatives of every name,
With gratitude unfelgn'd will do the fame.
For had be perlat'd in Life's early bloom,
And gone a prey untimely to the tomb,
His cootie of deft:lnes but jolt begun ;
How many lives had then been loft in one;

We have.aothority to contradiß the report that
has appeared in troll of the daily Papers, refpeßing
the ill treatment of a female fervent of Lord KEITH'S
family.—lt is utterly deflitute of foundation.
A thou time (ince Mr. Bromley, wafter of the
Britannia tender, while getting under weigh in
euernfey-roads, was accidentally knocked overboard,
and drowned.

Mr. j. Keep, jun. of Kettering, lately met with a
premature death, by lifting a lack of turnip-feed,
weighing three cwt. and carrying it a certain dif.
tance, for a trifling wager.
A fellow who goes aGout the greets of the metro-
polis balancing a large pole, was on Wednefday en
tertaining the multitude in St. George's Fields, when,
haring on the balance, while conveying the huge
piece of wood from his forehead to his chin, it flipped
off his hand into his mouth, and drove in feveral of his
front teeth; at the fame time falling among the crowd,
laid a number of his admirers fprawling.—Others
thinking he had let the pole fall by defign, attacked
him in a body, and beat him moll unmercifully.

A few days fince as Come workmen, employed in
the inclofure of Kettering Field, Lincolnfhire, were
digging a trench, a box, fuppoited on each fide by
Rakes, was difeovered at a (mall (finance from the
furface of the earth, in which were the bones of a
human form. It is fuppofed, from the Rate in which
they were found, that they could not have been bu-
ried there more than ix or 14 years: it is Paid, that
a young man, an apprentice to a hair-drefTer, at
Kettering, was fuddenly miffed about that period,
and hak never fince been heard of.
The Amateurs of Mufic will with pleafure read
the following account of a newly-invented GRAND
Pim.° FORTE, of a (mall fize and convenient form,
and which no change of weather or temperature can
ever put out of tune.—ln the Pianos of the common
conftruftion, the firings being ftretched on a wooden
frame, and tuned by means of iron pins driven into
the wood, are liable to perpetual variation. When
the weather is twin, the wood (wells; when dry, it
(brinks : the pins are thus loofened, and the nrings
give way. The fucceffive changes of temperature
alto affeet the wood and the firings in different and
olivine degrees; and are apt to aft more powerfully
on one part of the frame than another. To the firft
caufe may he afcribed the failure of tome individual
firings ; and to the other the common imperfedion
of a gradual elevation or depreffion of the pitch, ex-
tending through a fucceffion of notes, which is ex-
tremely painful to a delicate ear.
In this new grand piano the firings are all ftreteb:
ed on a frame of metal, and being fattened to pieces of
brafq, which are each moved by an endlefs (crew,
they are brought to the proper tenfion by the niceß
gradations, and cannot afterwards give way. They
are therefore not fubjea to any variation from the
moifiure or drynefs of the atmofphere ; and although
heat expands, and cold contrails them, yet as the
metal frame is affelted in the fame degree, they al-
ways remain of an uniform tenfion.
The (mall fize of this inftrument is principally ow-
ing to the bats notesbeing produced from/tiro/Pings,
refembling a common corkfcrew it being found that
a fpiral Ruing of only three feet long produces the
fame tone which, in the common grand piano, re-
quires a Itraight firing of fix or (even feet in length.
The whole firings are thus comprifed within a frame
of three feet fquare, which is placed in an upright
pofitiun in a cafe refembling a cabinet. And the fin-
ger key frame being made to turn on an axis, fo as
to fhut up when not in rife, the Inftrument is only 44
inches in height, 4o in breadth, and in inches deep.
Another peculiarity in this new Piano is a pedal,
by which the performer can at pleafure interpofe a
piece of loft leather between each hammer and the
ttrings, producing a tone, varying from piano to
piardfirno, and, vice verfa, of the molt eaquifite Tweet-
nets. There is alto an additional pedal, for pro-
ducing-a full (well, by opening the whole front and
top of the inftrument, in the manner of Venetian
blinds. Being, therefore, capable of a great variety
of mufic, this inftrument gives the performer a power
to much the heart and command the feelings, far fu-
perior to what can be derived from any other piano
whatever.
We underfiand Mr. }lmams, the inventor, has
obtained a Patent for thefe improvements, and that
the Inftrument may be teen at No. 4, Dalby Terrace,
City Road, Magma, near the New River.

WISMIWSTER SESSIO,Y4 APRIL zo.

Saturday night thefe Seffions terminated with a
gaol delivery, when a great number of perfons were
difcharged, who had been apprehended, and sytainft
whom no Bills of Indidtment had been preferred.—
Upwards of flay females were difcharged, chiefly un-
fortunate women of the town ; many were under the
age of fizteen, tome of whom had come from difiant.
parts of the kingdom.
Mr. BALDWIN, one of the prefiding Magiarates,
obferved, with great feeling, how truly lamentable it
was that the Legillature had made no provifion for
perfons of this latter defcription, and the only thing
the Magifirate could do, was to confine them for a
certain period, and then Coffer them to be thrown
again upon the public fireets, to refume their infa-
mous occupation. He faid it was (hocking to hu-
manity, and a difgrace to a civilized hate, that fo
many young creatures (hould be call into the gulph
of ruin. He intimated his intention of bringing this
fubCt before Parliament.
SeSveral vagrants were fentenced to imprifonment
for various periods ; amongft whom was Sammel
Welsh, the g• King of the Beggars." a curious charac-
ter, and well known about the neighbourhood of St.
James's. This fellow had a regular tyftem, by which
he ufed to levy contributions upon the public :—his
eunom was to accoft Gentlemen in the greet with
i‘ Goa bids your Honour, give me half a crown,
and I won't torment you again this year." By this
means he frequently obtained his demand, and the
donor was relieved from further perfecution for Come
time ; and in truth the Gentleman and Beggar al-
ways recognifed each other. It is faid, he has, in
this way, amaffed a confiderable property, but has
always been fo troublefome that the greater part of
his life has been fpent in the Houfe of Correetion.—
By his own account, he latterly went about with a
jackass and cart, but having a hankering for the old
trade, he again returned it. The Magiltrate thought
him Co incorrigible a vagabond, they remanded him,
in order to confider of the nature and duration of his
punifhment.
gofipb yofithl, Harry Hyams, and Moira Mph:,
three notorious pick pockets, were fentenced to one
month's imprifonment, as vagrants. They were all
well dreffed : the fidt had much the appearance of
a groom, with a (hong call in one of his eyes—
Hyams was a boy about feventeen years old, and
the latter was very (port in fiature. The manner in
which theft: gentry praltifed their art, as defcribed
by a police officer, was nearly as follows : Thefe
three would walk together, cis& after a Gentleman,
while a fourth, generally a little boy, rifled the poc-
kets, and conveyed the contents to one of them, who
then retired behind his companions, who, being all
abreall, prevented the paffenger from teeing the
tranfaltion. This was obferved to have been prac-
tiled frequently about Bond-fireet, Piccadilly, and
Oxford-greet. The boy, the inftrument of their
depredations, had efcaped the vigilance of the officers.
fletheriegtort and Pietas, two liable keepers, were in-
dieted for affaulting a black man of the name of
King, who was a fhoeblack by- profeffion, refiding in
Swallow-ftreet. This profecutor was an Cal nefi par-
titan of Mr. Mainwaring, during the elation, in con-
fequence of which, the Defendants, by his statement,
infligated poll boys, &c. to falute him in his cattle
(a cellar), with dead cats, dogs, &c. and at one time
to affault him perfonally. In one instance, he aCtu-
ally challenged another black, a brother broth. to
fight a duel, and the pillols were loaded by the fe-
conds, with gun powder and blood. However, it
appeared on the other hand, that the profecutor was
frequently himfelf the tingleader of the mob, and
decked out, fantaflically with Mainwaring ribbons,
was fo troublctome, that he ufed to intuit perfons of
all defcriptions, who happened to pats that way.
The'. Jury accordingly acquitted the Defendants.
The Bill of Indiftment has been found againft
James Stewart, the perfon who threw the glafs bottle
from the gallery at Drury-lane Theatre, tome (bort
time ago. He will take his trial at the Adjourned
Seflions.