Star.
London, England, 1805-08-29 00:00:00

ROYAL FAMIL2I.

R EYMOUTH, Auo. z7.—ln a fhort time 'after his
MAJESTY was informed of the death of his Royal
Brother, he fent for Lord Hawassboar, and com-
municated his commands refpeeting the funeral; and
a Hobby Groom was difpatched to London. At
tour o'clock yellerday afternoon, the windows of the
King's Lodge were (but. None of the Royal Fa-
mily have come nut of the houfe !nice the arrival of
th.. expects announcing the death of the Duke of
CLOUCESTiIt. nor have they even appeared at the
v.iodows. We had nn play tail night in confequence.
All the King's (hips and Royal yachts have lowered
their colours upon the occallon, as are thofe upon
the batteries. We are happy to fay his MAJESTY is
better, and we underftand he would have rode out
this morniag but. for the death of his brother.
Yelterday one of his Majelly's brigs brought in
two fmugglers' boats. loaded with liquor, fuppofed
!et he Hollands, which was lately lodged in the Cull-
tom linufe. The crews, amounting to fourteen,
were fent on board the King's Mips.

The acconnts which have appeared of the Dnehefs
and Princcfs SOMA May moa of Glmicetter, having
left Gloueerler Houfe for the Duchefs's villa at
Brampton, are erroneous. Neither of them have
• left their rooms fince the death of the Dike.
One of the Duke's Pages has attended confiantly
is the room where the corpfe of his Royal Highnefs
has laid fince his death. Likewife two attendants is

an adjoining room.
On Toe (lay night, between eleven and twelve
o'clock, when the undertakers weqp about to put
the body of the Doke of GLOUCESTER into the cof-
fins, and to folder it tip, they fent, as is cultomary,
to know if any of the Family wifhed to fee it. The
Duchefs and Ptincefs, fearing they fhnuld not be
able to fiipport themfelves in loch a trying moment,
de'clined it. The Prince, for the firß time, left his
room, and went to fee that every attention was paid
to the remains of his beloved father. His Royal
Highnefs appeared extremely affected at the arduous
talk he had nndertaken, but fupported liimfelf with
a deal of fortitude. The body was laid in an oak
coffin, which was put into a lead one. The men
had not fiaifhed foldering till yefferday noon. A
number of applications were made by gentlemen, as
well as the domeftics of the Duke, to fee the corpfe :
but Prince WitAtAst refnfed all applications. The
outfide csaFn, which is to be covered with etimfon
velvet, and is to have gold ornaments, was not finifhed
let night.
Early yefterday morning a will of the Duke of
OcoticssrEt was found, in which he expreffes a de-
fire to be but ied at Windfor, of which notice was
given at the Lord Chamberlain's Office, and in eon-
fequence, an exprefs was fent off to Weymouth to
inform his MAJESTY. All preparations for the fu-
neral, which were to have commenced yelleeday,
were fulpended till his MAJarry's ennonands are
known, which are expected to arrive this day.
It was Rated lag night that the late Duke of Gtou-
eysTEß's Secretary attended yesterday at Mr. PITT'S
in Downing-Rreet ; but the Minifler not being in town
he fct off for his feat in Putney Heath, to inform him
of the arrangements being altered for the Duke to
be interred at Windfnr.
Eight of the Duke's Pages and principal domet
ties in black, and eight footmen in their Rate liveries,
will follow the Duke to the grave.
ACCIDENT AT LORD CASTLIRIACIII.-..ME. PITT,
accompanied by Lord Carnet sac H. Lord Mot.-
GRAVE, and Mr. Lotto, went down the River as far
as Woolwich, on Tuefday, in Sir' Stoner SMITH'S
'double boat, when a complete experiment was made
of her powers. She is Paid to be intended for land-
ing troops and artillery, and that no boat has yet
been conhruded, capable at the fame time of fuch
rapidity of movement, and of carrying fo many
men. Another object of this excurfion to Woolwich
was, we underhand, to fee an experiment of fome
newly invented fire rockets, onnftruited by Mr. Coli-
c RRVE, a Jon of General CONGRATS ; feveral large
vollies of which, difcharging an immenfe body of
fire, and ranging a prodigious height and diflance,
were fired from a boat in Galleons Reach. It is Paid
that this new weapon has proved itfelf capable of loch
deftruCtion, that it is to be applied againk the enemy
in fome way or other, without delay. At eleven
o'clock at night an accident happened to Lord CAS.
TLRREACH, which had likely to have prayed fatal.—
The prow is conftruaed by the juntlion of two boats
by means of a platform. Lord CASTLIMRACH, in
croffing the platform from the one boat to the other,
fell into the River below Woolwich, and in a deep
and moll rapid part of the flream. It was quite
dark. The Noble Lord is, fortunately, a dextrous
Swimmer, and he kept himfelf for Come minutes afloat
until he feized on one of the crofs beams of the plat-
form, and was dragged into the boat. He was con-
veyed to the inn at Woolwich, where lie procured a
change of cloaths, filch as they were, and having
only a curricle in waiting, was taken home in a gen-
tleman's carriage to Eaft Sheen.
Yellerday, as Sir Jona STANLIIT'S carriage was
paffing through Bond greet, the coachman was Block
off the box by driving over fome large hones, left
by labourers in the carriage way, and his leg was
broke. After receiving affißanee at a fisrgeon's near
the Spot, the poor fellow was conveyed home.
On the 15th inh. a boy in Dundee, of the name of
Seorr, who had mixed among the crowd at the har.
boor, to fee the arrival of the two whale fhips, dropt
into the water, and was carried to fome diftance, by
the rapidity of the current. A There-maker, named
KiaiLi.arro, throwing off his jacket and fhnes only,
immediately plunged after him, and faved him. until
a boat came to their mutual relief. This is the fecond
inhance of this young man having preferred the life
of a fellow creature.
An unfortunate accident happend at Forfar on
Saturday lag. Two boys in bringing home a rellive
boric from grafs, were thrown from him. The latter
had, unluckily, been made fait round the writ of the
format boy, CHARLES EDWARD. about eight years
of age, by which means he was dragged, and fo
broiled in the head, that he eapired in a few minutes.
On Monday afternoon, as a young lad, the fon of
Mr. Daniel., of the Borough, was exercifing a fpiri.
ted bode, the animal made a plunge, and the fuddle
as that moment turning, he fell, and his (kith was fn
dreadfnlly fraltuted, that he expired in excruciating
torture in the courfe of the evening.

Dmisistlox toms COAST.

The follong further infnnnation on this fubjett,
is given in awletter dated Fnlkilcone, Auguft 26 :
When the infpeetion at Dover, by the Duke of
You, finifhed op Saturday; his Royal Highnefs pro.
seeded to the Follatone Heights. when the t lth
Light Dragoons, commanded by Colonel T 11014.11%
were drawn up to receive him. The difcipline. alert-
nefs, and proficiency of this regiment drew from the
Commander in Chief very warns and merited coin-
mendation. The Martello Towers' crating on and
near Cob Point, and which command the adjacent
Bay, next occupied the attention of the Royal Party
who reached Sandgate at eight o'clock, where they
dined with Major-General Moose.
The Brigade at Shorneliffe were ordered to be
ready to ree&ve his Royal Highnefs the next morn-
ing at eight o'clock ; but a very thick fog prevented
thefe orders from being carried into execution before
twelve, when the atmofphere became perfeety clear.
The regiments of which this brigade is compofed,
are the ill and 2d battalions of the 43d, the IR and
2d battalions of the s:d, the 2tl battalion of the 78th,
and a Highland regiment lately railed; to thefe are
attached teveral pieces of artillery.
The ground was kept by a detachment from the
it th Light Dragoons. The 43d were on the right ;
the Sad on the left; the 78th in the centre. and the
artillery on each flank. The batteries and Sandgate
Cattle were manned by the Sea Fencibles, and the
battery on Shorneliffe by a party from the Flintlhire
militia. His Royal Highnefs was received with a
"Royal Salute : he then rode in front and rear of the
brigade, and afterwards took his Ration oppofite the
centre.
The troops paired his Royal Highnefs both in flow
and quick time, and "chilli they were engaged in per.
forming fome evolutions the Artillery deft:ended the
hill in different directions, taking various pofitinns,
which had been allotted them. After a fhort in-.
terval, feveral columns of infantry followed, and
took their (Winn& The plan adopted was defentive,
loch as would be reforted to flould the enemy have
the temerity to attempt to land. The tit battalion of
the 43d and a pan of the lift of the pd were drawn
up in a line upon the lower parts of the hill, facing
the lea, and were fuppnrted by the 78th, who were
placed on a part more elevated. On a (mall eminence
to the left of this line. and nearer the village of Sand-
gate. the remaining part of the IR battalion of the
szd was Rationed in the rear of four pieces of can-
non. Above the village the ad battalion of the 52d
took their ground ; the fummit of the hill was lined
by two divifions of the ad battalion of the 43d;
Shnrneliffe Battery was on the right. and Sandgate
Cattle on the left of the brigade.
The variety of the groand exhibited the troops to
the greateß advantage, and Cot a few moments a fo-
lemn filenee prevailed, which allowed the fpettators
time to contemplate the beauty and grandeur of the
fpeeacle. The Shorneliffe Battery begun the engage-
ment; the guns at the Cattle immediately followed,
and silo the artillery on the different points a the
hills, and in an inttant afterwards the whole line fac-
ing the lea was in a continual blaze, which lafted fe-
veral minutes, when the whole was concluded. His
Royal Highnefs in the afternoon reviewed the troops
at Brabourne Lees. Some unexpected orders. having
been Hilted by the General, Sir D. DUNDAS, occa-
fioned a momentary delay ; but the 9Sth. a Rifle
Corps, difplayed great rerfetion, as well as two
battalions of the York, which had marched from
Milford. This morning, at the reeptell of his Royal
Highnefs. the firß battalioni of the 43d and 52/I re-
giments were again drawn out, and went through
leveral evolutions with wonderful precifion, in dou-
ble quick time.
Monday morning, coon after eight o'clock. the
troops from Brighton and from Lewes, confining of
the Ennilkillens, and the Queen's Dragoons, the
Royal Artillery, the South Glunceller, the Dorfet, tbn
South Hams. and the Monmouth and Brecon Mili-
tias, affembled on Newmarket-hill. Some very We-
refting practice, in the end, tank place; though. ex-
cepting by the dragoon fkirmifhing parties, no powder
was walled. Soon after one o'clock the whole of the
troops had reached the fummit of the fir R /two from
Brighton' where they had fcarcely formed in line. the
Horfe and the Artillery being to the right and left of
the Infantry, when the Patrice made his appearance.
As his Royal Highnefs advanced, mounted on his fine
fpirited grey charger, and accompanied by his Aid-
0-Camp, Major 131M014ruLD, and Colonel Let ca,
the colours were dropped, the Officers fainted, and
the Bands of the Infantry, together with the trumpets
of the horfe, played God frme she King. Generals Earl
CravenandHugonincondußed the bufinelsof the day.

Monday morning the ad Regiment of Royal Raft
India Volunteers, commanded by Major THszt.vs-
sow, on permanent duty at Maidftone, afembled on
the parade in the Barrack-yard, at (even o'clock,
with fix field•pieces, in order to be reviewed by Bri-
gadier General Hay. They marched from the depot
at eight o'clt.ck, arrived at Coxheath, and the line
was formed by nine, when the General arrived, and
the operations of the day commenced, with four of
their field-pieces on the right, and two on the left,
fupporting the regiment in its different manoeuvring
lituattons, which were very extenfive. The Brigadier
General ezpreffed his higheft approbation of the mi-
litary conduU difplayed on the occafion. There were
prefent their Colonel Sir HUGH locus, their Lieu-
tenant Colonel Sir Wit.t.taat BINSLIT, and Cetera'
other cfficers, and many neighbouring gentry. It is
but juilice to fay, this fine regiment does the greateft
credit to the Volunteer Efiablithment ; the conduit
and appearance of both officers and men being pet-
tedly folgierlike, and their difcipline is highly fpnken
of. Yellerday morning, on conclufion of perma-
nent duty, the regiment left that town on its return,
to make zoom for another battalion of the fame bri-
gade, expeded there this day.
Votutirsses.—ln addition us the lilt of necef-
laries which our gallant defenders have been requir-
ed to provide themfelves with to complete their
marching order, there is one article which is extreme-
ly requifite every Volunteer fhould be poffeffed of, as
it may materially contribute to his cafe and comfort.
It will readily he underitond that we allude to a Tic-
ket or Share in the tich Lottery which begins draw-
ing nest month, and no where, in our opinion, could
the numerous Capital Prizes it contains be more hap-
pily beßewed, than in rewarding thole who have fo
nobly ftepped forward in defence of their country.