Star.
London, England, 1801-03-12 00:00:00

TO MARiNFRS.

Charteflon, pminry tRoT
The fuperintcndant of the Light-11mile caablitil
ment at Charkfton, South-Carolina, notifies, that
there is a Light-houfe creed on North Itland, at
the entrance of Genrgetown harbour, in that (late,
to be known by the name of the Georgetown Light-
honfe, wherein is (hewn a full and brilliant light.
As loon as the diaances and bearings of the bar
and (hoals with the Light-houfe, are fully afcer-
tained, they will be publifbcd, for the information
of thole concerned.

Order! ire gone down for all armed prizes,
which may be thoOght fit to be examined previous
to being taken into his Majefty's fcrvice, to be fur-
veyed, with their malt and rigging, and not (trip-
ped, as heretofore, till reported.
A requifition has been made to the Trinity Houle
at Hull, for twelve Pilots to ferve on board the
Fleet deflined for the Baltic.

The Montelambert, THOMAS, from Surinam, is
on (bore on Hoyle Bank, near Livorpool.
The Hebe, BRINN, from Lynn to Liverpool,
is taken and carried into Brea.

•
Monday the Profperity failed from Dublin for
Philadelphia, with feveral patfengers and mer-
chandi ze.

Mr. JOHN PONSONEY fucceeds ST. GEORGE
DALY, Efq. as Member for Galway, the latter
having accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.
A Committee of Trade was held yeflerday
morning at Lord LIVERPOOL'S Office, Whitehall,
confifting of thefullowingMembers:—Earls SeEN-
C,:t and CLARE; Lords HAWKFSBURY, AUCK-
LAND, and CASTLEREAGH; Mr. PITT, Sir W.
SCOTT, Mr. RYDER, &C. &C.
Yefterday a Court of Directors of the Eaft India
Company was held at the India Houfe, which ad-
journed till to-morrow. The Rev. HENRY PETER
STACEY is appointed a Chaplain at the Prefidency
of Bengal.
Mr. and Mrs. WHITE, late of Salifbury, were
among the palrengers in the Q.IEEN tall-India-
man, who proceeded for 13eng.il by the KENT.,
Letters have been received from Mr. WHITE,
hating their fife arrival and molt hofpitable re-'
ception at Calcutta, where they continued in good i
health and fpirits on the 19th of October.
Among the pafrengers on board the KENT Eaft-1
Indiaman, taken by a French privateer in the Bay
of Bengal, was Mifs Lucy Raab, daughter of Mr.l
RAND, of Lewes. Mifs RAND failed irom Europe I
in May laft, on board the Q.t..: EEN, which was burnt
off St. halvador, and prosidentially raved from
that danger by going on (Fiore a few hours before•
the accident. The above young lady was landed
fife, with the other palfengers, at Calcutta, where
the remained in good health when the overland
difpatch left Bengal.
A letter from a young Man in the Britifh artil-
lery, who went out with Sir SIDNEY SMITH in
Auguft 1799, on the Expedition to the liege of
Acre, dated Bethlehem, Judea, Feb. tBOO, to his
friends hi Shropflfire, gives the following account
of that country :
" After the liege of Acre, we marched to the
city of Samaria, in Galilex, where we lay fix weeks,
when we got orders to proceed to Jerufalem ; we
paffed by the land of Sodom the loth of January,
and encamped the 26th on the Mount of Olives,
near Jerufalem, and upon the 2d of February
marched into that city. The religion here
that of Mahomet, and there arc a great num-
ber of pilgrirps. The city, which is about
as large as Dundee in Scotland, is 45 miles
from the fea ; the fineft building in it is a Temple,
(formerly dedicated to the Sun, but now belong- I
ing to the Turks) ; there is another Temple built I
ever the place where our SAVIOUR was buried, and
an image of the VIRGIN MARY of gold, to which
the pilgrims pay their devotions; there is to be
feen, likewife, the cleft of the rock which rent when
our SAVIOUR gave up the ghoft. We lay there
three weeks, and then came to this town, namely
Bethlehem, ten miles from Jerufalem. This town
is about as large as Perth, with fome fine ftrects
in it; the place where our SAVIOUR was born is
now covered with a chapel, (aboutas large as the
fteeple of the church in Dundee), where the Chrif-
tian worship is performed.
" The moll remarkable thing in this country is
thelcheapnefs of provifions, dtc. Wine is to be
had at two-pence per bottle; lemons, one penny
per dozen : oranges, the fame ; figs, three half-
pence per pound; butter, milk, and elieefe, silo
very plenty. It may with great propriety be hill
ailed the Land of Promife, a land flowing with
milk and honey; for there is every thing in great
abundance : in fhort, this country alma wants
for nothing, money being very little ufed. I got
a theft made at Jerufalem of the wood of Lebanon,
for two fhillings, which would have colt me two
guineas in Britain."
Mode of determinist: the Ceurfrof the (Vern! Cur.
rent: ,a Ocean.—Sr. Pa Elia, in a paper read be-
fore the French inflitute, (hews the ale which
might be made of bottles or other fubftanees made
water-tight, fo as to float upon the lea, and thrown
overboard in certain latitudes, in order to deter-
mine the courfe of the different currents in the
ocean. He mentions the fate of three experiments
thus tried. The firft was a bottle thrown over-
board in the Bay of Bifcay, Aug. 17, 1786, from
an Englifh fbip going to the Eall Indies. It was
taken up by fome Mimi-men on the coaft of Nor-
mandy, May 9, 1787. two leagues off &ore from
Aromanches. C. PHILIP Distinct, then Judge
of the Admiralty at that place, fent to Lon-
don the letter which the bottle contained. A
(mond bottle was thrown into the fa, June r 5,
1797, north bit. 44. 23.; long. Tenerife, 4 52.
by C. Basin, Painter of the Mecum of Natural
Hiftory, going from Harnburgh to Surinam,whom
Sr. PIARRA Pays he requefted to fend him fome let-
ten by this marine poft. It was taken up on July 6,
the fame year, among the rocks of Cape Prieur, by
a foldier o.T the garrifou of Ferrol, and the letter
came fafe to hand. The third was rown into
'sof F and th
was picked