Star.
London, England, 1807-04-02 00:00:00

BARRACK BOARD.

In the military circles, the new appointment of a
Board of Commiainners fc.r marl:tging the Barrack
Department has excited a good deal of converfation.
Some perfons are of opinion that the bufincfs of this
Department might, as formerly, be pieced under the
Board of Ordnance ; while other,. think that, under
a military man of bufinefs, the duty of the Depart-
ment might be managed with more energy and deci-
fion than under a board, where experience (hews that
unanimity of opinion does not always exift : but,
however the quellion may be decided, three men of
greater integrity, and of higher charaeler, could not
have been feleeled than the Commiffioners jolt ap-
pointed. Jut Lice requires it to be mentioned likewife,
that we have never heard a complaint againa the
worthy charater who laft filled the office of Barrack
Mailer General.

A fubjed of very general complaint we hope will
attrad the early notice of the new Barrack Board.
We repeat that the complaint is very general ; and
we incline to think it is well founded, that, though
of late the country has expended millions annually
for the conftruCtion of Barracks and Hofpitals in every
pert of the kingdom, the material confideration of
health has not been attended to, either in fcite or
conftruEtion. Several of them, after having been
built at a great expenfe, have abfolutely been pro-
nounced unhealthy. Ought not the Medical Board,
an expenfive efiablifhment, to be diretted to report
on the fituation and the plans of Barracks, and par-
ticularly Hofpitals, before the building is entered cn ?

Yefterday, at twelve o'clock, his MAJESTY came to
town from Windfor to the Qiteen's Palace. About
half pail one o'clock, his MAJESTY gave an audience
to the Lord Chancellor ERSKINE, when his Lordlhip
delivered to his MAJESTY the Great Seal of England,
and other Peals of office. At two o'clock his Maiss-
TY held a private Levee, which was attended by—
The Archbifhop of Canterbury, the Lord Prefideot of the Coun-
cil, the Firft Lord of the Treafury. the Secretaries of State for the
House and Foreign Departments, the Firth Lord of the Admiralty,
the Manes. General of the Ordnance, the Judge Advocate, the
Dukes of Richmond and Montrore, Earl of Aylesford, Lords El-
don, Heathfield, St. Helen's, Stopford, Sidney, and St. John ; Sirs
S Cotterell and G. Ofborn ; Admiral Gambier, General Aber-
crombie, Meirrs. Fawkentr, Bourne, and Ward.

The following ha&.the honour of having audiences,
being prefented, and killing his MAJESTY'S hand upon
their feveral appointments:—

Lord ELDON, upon his being appointed Lord Chancellor, and
his Majelly delivered to bins the Seals.
Mr. RODDLT WARD, upon his being appointed a Lord of the
Admiralty.
Mr. S. BOURN', upon his being appointed a Lord of the Trea.
fury.
The Duke of RICHMOND, upon his being appointed Lord Lieu-
tenant of Ireland.

Lord SIONET.upon his being appointed a Ranger of Hyde and
St. jamea's Parks, in the room of the Earl of Eußon,reGgned.
Admiral °AMISH:It, upon his being appointed a Lord of the
Admiralty.

Major-General the Honourable joust As sac eosin', upon his
being appointed to the command of the 53d Regiment.
Lard Sr. jous rdigned to his Majesty his Staff of Office, as
Captain of the Honourable Eand of Gentlemen Penfioners.

His MAJESTY held a Privy Council, when Lord
ELDON was introduced and (worn in Lord High
Chancellor of Great Britain.

The Marquis of STAFIAD has announced to Lord
Hawaasauey his intention of deferring hit. Motion
on the late change until Friday the loth Wt. upon
which day it will certainly come on.

Yetlerday dlfpatches were fent off from the Admi
ralty to Admiral DACRBS, at Jamaica.

Admiral GAMBIER has arrived in town from Buck
inghamfhire, and attends as one of the new Lords of
the Admiralty Board.
General DUMOURIER has juft favoured the Public
with a well timed and interefting Publication on the
Means of Defending PORTUGAL.
General MERCK who was employed by Govern-
ment to raife men ior a foreign Regiment, has railed
near 700 men, principally Germans, at the fmall
bounty of three guineas per man.

On Monday evening, as his MAJESTY was leaving
the Qpeen's Palace for Windfor, the carriage, as
ufual, went very flow till it got upon Con(iitution
Hill. As the carriage was palling near the entrance
to the kitchen of the Palace, a young man, genteely
dreffed, attempted to force open one of the blinds of
his MAJESTY'S carriage, to put in a paper. SAYERS,
the Police officer, was in attendance near the fpot,
and immediately feized the young man ; and on exa-
mining him, be difcnvered that be was a foreigner ;
that he was not confcious that be was doing wrong;
and was unacquainted with the proper courfe to take
to prefent a petition to his MAJESTY. SAYERS, in
conttquence, did not keep him in cueody ; but took
his Petiti,,n, and told him he would deliver it to the
King, and appointed him to attend yefterday, be-
tween twelve and one o'clock, at the Queen's Palace,
for an antwer.

SAYERS took the Petition to the Secretary of State's
Office, And he was direded by Mr. READ to bring
the young tnan to the Office, when he came for an
anfwer. YeAerday the young man attended at the
Palace, agreeable ti the appointment of SAYERS/ for
an anfwer to the petition, and SAYERS took him be-
fore Mr. Ryan, who fent him to the Alien Office,
where, we underhand, he was ordered to find tac-
tics, not to be guilty of fimilar conduEt, or he fhould
be fent out of the country. He is a native of Ger-
many, and the petition was written in the German
language.
On Monday morning, Lis MAJESTY'S flag-hounds,
with upwards of 3co horfemen, affembled on Afcot
Heath. Soon after ten o'clock, a famous deer was
turned out for the day's divertion. At firff felting
off, be feemed inclined to (hew but little fport ; but,
after a (hart run, he fet off with great (peed towards
Shrubs Hill and Virginia Water, taking to the right
acrofs the heath towards Cobham, through the inclo-
tures by Oaking, within about four miles of Guild-
ford, where he was taken, after a run of upwards of
three hours. In the courfe of the hunt, a number of
horfes were completely knocked up; foam broke their
legs, and tome were begged. Out of the 300 horfe.
men who flailed, only about 3o were in at the taking
of the flag.