Star.
London, England, 1802-02-16 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Dustt re, Frs. t I.—On Sunday laft, a funeral
gyration or fermon was preached in the College
Chapel, by the Rev. Mr. Magee, in honour of the
late Earl of Clare, who was Vice Chancellor of
the Univertity. The difcourfe, although, as we
underhand, a hurried compofition, was eminently
beautiful, folemn, and affecting. The preacher,
alter lonic general and introduCtory obfervations
on death, adverted to the recent Infs of eminent
merit fuflained by the Univerfit7 t the late Pro- I
volt, and Dr. Young celebrated alike for his learn-1
ing and piety. To Dr. Elrington, the able and
appropriate academical fuccelTor of Dr. Young,'
Mr. Magee paid a handfome and deferved tribute
•If refpea, and then proceeded to the main objeCt
of his difcourie, an honorary delineation of the late
Vice-Chancellor's char:seer. The Chapel was
hung in black on the occafion • the congregation
wan numerous and fplendid; the mu fic remarkably
fine ; and the whole had an effea uncommonly
fotcmn and imprellive.
Accounts Iran Limtrick !late, that on the night
of Wednelday, and the morning of Thurfday haft,
they were vifited by'a moll violent Ram, which
happening at the flowing of a fpring tide, the
conlequences have been very calamitous, the lower
grounds on both fides of the river being inundated
to a confiderable extent. The lots of (beep and
cattle has been very great; and a family, who
Eyed in a cabin clofe to the river, near Ballincurra,
were for foam hours in the moll imminent peril ;
they were forced to afeend the roof for feet'', in
which fituation they were obferved by J. M. Har-
vey, Efq. who immediately rode into town, and
procured a Prong boat, which he had drawn out
on cars. and launched over fields which but the
evening before were dry ground, lust which now
appeared as the lea. By -his encouragement and
folicitations, four flout boatmen ventured into her,
and after feveral ineffeaual efforts to make way
againft the form, they happily fucceeded in bring-
ing off the terrified family, eleven in number, at
a molt critical moment, for almoft immediately
after, the walls (no longer able to refill the face
of the water) gave way, and the bottle was over-
whelmed in the waves.

Several military waggons, under ercort, arrived
from different parts of the country this week, and
lodged their contents, confitling of camp appara-
tus and other matters belonging to the army, in
the flores adjacent to the Grand Canal.

The following Gentlemen have been appointed
High Sheriffs for the enfuing year :
Aotrim..-Lansford Heyland, of Glenoak,Efq.
Mayo—.H co y Browne, Efq.
Clara—James Molony, of Kilktinon,Efq.
Fermanagh—James King, of Corrado, Efq.
Kerry—George Twit's, Efq.
K9dare--1 hams Tickell, of Lagoons, Efq.
Longford—Robert Holmes, Efq.
Qt,lecn's Couity—lfaae Humphrya, of Cartnwn , Erg.
Tipperary—R. B. Lowe, jun. Efq. of Lowe's.town.

Bzt.ras-r Fes. 9.--Saturday laft, the Hon. Ba-
ron Mamas arrived at Donaghadee, from Port-
patrick.
Saturday evening laft, the port-boy from Ban-
bridge, with the mail from Dublin, was (topped
near Lurgent by three men with blackened faces,
and robbed of the mail, in orb ich were all the bags
from Bainbridge to Ballycaftle, &c. &c. In malt-
ing the necerfary ftarch after the perpetrators of
this crime, the mail was fortunately found on Sun-
day afternoon, under the arch of a bridge called
the Huth, where it appeared to have lain in the
water all night. The leals acre unbroken, and
the bags teemed to have fuil./ined no other injury
khan what arofe from their being wet.
Sunday ha, while the Londonderry militia
were on parade, Captain Burroughs, of that
regiment, who has been tried here by a General
Court-Martial, was publicly releafed from his ar-
reit, after the fentence of the Court had been read
by the Town Major, acquitting him of all the
charrs exhibited againft him by Major Stark and
Captain Shepherd.
Sunday, the fecond divifion of the -Rocs and
Cromarty regiment embarked at this port for
Scotland.

Yefterday the &II divilion of the Glengary re-
giment, under the command of Colonel M'Donald,
arrived in town from Athy, county Kildare, on
their route to Scotland.

Wednefday night, ab'out z a o'clock, an alarm
ing fire broke out in a houfe in llarrack•llreet, oc-
calioned, it is Paid, by fume fparks, proceeding
from a bakery in the neighbourhood, fetting fire
to a finall quantity of hay which lay contiguous
to the haute- Immediately on the alarm being
given a party of the military attended on the fpot,
and, with a number of the inhabitants, ufed every
esertion to ttcp the progrefeof the flames; but
owing to the very high wind all their endeavours
lirovcd inefFeatu I to prevent the houfe in which
the fire tt,gati, with three others adjacent, from
being entirely continued. ,
On Tnefilay night, between ten and eleven
o'clock,. an accident of an affeding nature oc
curred 'at an old houfe in Eritain•lane, Britain-
fireet. A wake having attrataed, as is ufual
among the lower ranks, a confiderable number of
perfons in a back apartment of the upper rooms,
the knits were unable to futtain theweight, in con-
, fequence of which the fluor fuddenly gave way,
forcing alto) the flour beneath, and precipttating the
whole atlemhly, with the contents of the apart-
ments, to the ground. Nine perfons were taken
itelefs from the ruins, and about eleven others
feverely cut and contufed. Of one family, a man,
his fon (a fine boy nine years old), and the father's
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