Star.
London, England, 1807-04-08 00:00:00

A VALENTINE,

WRITTIN IT CHARLOTTE RICHARDSON, A POOR WOMAN AT
TORII, AND NOW COPIED FROM A SMALL VOLUME OP IN.
TRUSTING POLMS LATILY PUILISHID BY HER.
No talcs of love to you I fend,
No hidden flame difeover,
I glory in the name of Friend,
Difclaiming that of Lover.
And now, while each fond fighing youth
Repeats his vows of love and truth,
Attend to this advice of mine—
With caution choofe a VALINTINI.
Heed not the fop, who loves himfelf,
Nor let the rake your love obtain, •
Choofe not the miter for his pelf,
The drunkard treat with cold difdain;
The profligate with caution &RN
His race of ruin loon is run :
To none of there your heart incline,
Nor choofe from them a VALENTINE.
But fhould Come generous youth appear,
Whore honeft mind is void of art,
Who (ball his MAstaa's laws revere,
And ferve him with a willing heact ;
Who owns fair Virtue for his guide,
Nor from her precepts turns afide ;
To him at once your heart refign,
And blefs you/. faithful VALINTINI.
Though in this 'Werner' below
Yon Rill impeded MI6 full find,
Yet fuel) a friend will Rare each woe,
And bid you be to HCAVIN refign'd:
While Faith unfolds the radiant prize,
And Hope fill pointsbeyond the Ries;
At life's dark forms you'll not repine,
But biers the day of VAteitrius !

The lift of Officers of the Royal Navy for the lin
half year, enumerates,
. . .

_
Admiral of the Fleet i Rear Admirals of the Red a t
Admirals of the Rcd 20 Rear Admirals of the White x 9
Admirals of the White 14 Rear Admirals of the Blue 20
Admirals of the Blue 17 Poft Captains 693
Vice Admirals of the Red z 7 Commander, sot
Vice Admirals of the White Is Lieutenants 1712
Vice Admirals of the Blue as

By a veffel (the Fame, Reid) arrived in the Clyde
from Trinidad, in 53 days, papers to the Bth of Fe-
bruary have been received. The following are the
only articles worthy extra Bing from them. The
Trinidad Courant of the 17th lays
" A letter from Barbadoes, dated on Thurfday
evening, fays—" His Majefty's fhip GALATEA, Cap.
tain SAYIRS, was fpoken laft Saturday, by the Ad.
miral, going to Antigua ; the had the national brig
Lynx, mounting eighteen 32 pound carronades, and
i 69 men, having been captured by five of her boats
manned with 75 men ; Lieutenant WALKER and nine
men were killed, and feveral wounded ; the Lynx
had fixteen killed and thirty wounded. On the part
of the GaLtras the attempt was defperate, brilliant,
and fuccefsful. She is taken into •he fervice, and is
called the HEURRUX. Our gallant fcamen made
three unfoccefsful attempts to board the Lynx ; but
on the fourth the national colours were !truck, and
the Britifh jack hoiiled."
44 A letter from Barbadoes, dated on Thurfday
evening. Pays—" The Favourite (late one of his Ma.
jelly's !loops of war) captured by his Majefly's fhips
JASON and WoLvaatas, was brought in this morn-
ing ; fhe mounts 23 guns and 128 men ; a brig in
company efcaped by running in shoal water."
An officer, with difpatches from General MIRANDA
to ou: Government, arrived in this veffel.

. Letters from India by the Sarah Chrilliana, dated
in September, (peak of the very bad markets which
European articles had met with. Scarce a fhip that
went nut under convoy of the ADAMANT would be
able to lave herfelf from loft. The ADAMANT cap-
tured on her pafTage outward, a large Spanifh priva•
teer ; nothing elle happened remarkable during the
voyage. The markets at Madras were very much
glutted: the China (hips were left there to make the
moll of them. The other {hips proceeded to Diamond
harbour. A firer of (hips were expeeted to rendez.
vous at Madras, and fail for England about the toth
of Odober.

The Lady Jane, Bengal, Cafllereagh, and Hugh
Ingle*, were ordered to proceed to Penang for troops,
which were expelled by the China fleet.
The Varunna, a country fhip, which failed with the
expedition to the Cape, was miffing. It was feared
the had fallen into the hands of the enemy.
The fhip which carried the Chinefe fettlers to Tri.
nidA, had on board a large quantity of piece goods,
by, it is raid, the private l ermiffion of Government:
but the naval officers commanding there, not being
fatisfied with the kind of evidence produced by the
Proprietors to this effee, feized the fhip and cargo,
which were condemned, and fold very much under
value, notwithftanding ftrong reprefeittations by the
Advocate General. In a few days after, an Order in
Council arrived from Britain, allowing the importa-
tion, fo that the lots mull be made up by the country.
The floop Star, FINDLAY, of and from Newburgh
to London with grain, has not been heard of fince
the r7th February, when the was in Holeley Bay, and
is feared to have fluffed the melancholy fate of the
many veffels, which were loft in the dreadful form
of the following day—exceeding in number, it is be-
lieved, any thing known in the naval annals of this
country.