Star.
London, England, 1801-09-11 00:00:00

WAR-orricit, DVELIN-CASTLI, AVGVIT 31.

His Majelty has been pleated to make the follow-
ing promotions in the army on this eflabliihment :
Elanalpire Fendble Infantry—Enfign lames M'Kenzfe, and
Mr. William limes lAentenanis on the augmentation; Mr.
John Nl•Gregor, Lieutenant; Enfign Malcolm M-Gregor,
Lieutenant, vice Gordon, removed to the line; Enfign
Peter D. Macgregor, Lieutenant, vice MKtierrie, refigned ;
Enfign John Wills, Lieutenant, vice inichalinan, refigned ;
Mr. Alexander M‘Kensie Enfign, vice Chapman, refigned ;
Adjutant Win. Duff, Enfign, vice D. M'Gregor, removed
to the line; Mr. Francis M•Nabb, Enfign, vice P. M.Gregor,
removed to the line; Quarter-Mafter-Serjeant John M'Gre-
gor, Enfign, vice M-Kenxie, promoted; Mr. Galas M‘Pher-
foil, Enfign, vice M. Macgregor, promoted; Mr. John
Campbell, Enfign, '.ice P. D. Macgregor, promoted; Mr.
James S. Chapman, Enfign, vice Wills, promoted.
WAR-OFFICE, DUBLIN-CASTLE, SEPTEMBER /.
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His Majet4, has been pleafed to make the follow-
ing Promotions is the ArMy on this Eftablifit-
ment:—

6th Dragoon Guards—Captain Lord George Beresford, from
89th Fuot, Major, vice Keir, promoted in sad Dragoons
Bad Dragoons—Major Wm. Keir, from 6th Dragoon Guards,
Lieutenant-Coloncl, vice Wollaiton, reigned.
SiPTEMBER 3.
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant has been
pleafed to fign Commiffions for the fallowing
Gentlemen to be Officers in the undermentioned
Dillria Corps :

„Baßynum% Infantry—Fro ft Lieutenant F. R. Smyth, from the
Broomhedge Infantry, Second Captain—Third Lieutenant
Richard Barnfley, Firft Lieutenant, vice Clarke, resigned,
Cloydagh Cavalry—Heft Lieutenant Hannan Fitsmaurice,Se-
cond Captain.
Celtic Saunderfon Infantry—Third Lieutenant Janses
Fire Lieutenant, vice Saundcfon, promoted.
Rotunda Cavalry—Second Lieutenant John Holmes, Flrft
Licutenart, vice Irwin, reflgned; Wafter Weldon Whim
Efq. Second Lieutenant, vice Holmes, promoted; John
Alley, Efq. Third Lieutenant.
Revenue Infantry, tft Company—T. D. Smith, Efq. Third
Lieutenant, vice Edwards, promoted in 3d Company.
ad Company—John hi'Lean, Efq. Third Lieutenant,. vice
Heany, retigned.
3d Company—Second Lieutenant James Underwood, from
4th Company, Firft Lieutenant, vice Hewitt, refilined •
Third Lieutenant John Edwards, from tft Company, Se-
cond Lieutenant, vice lenwick, refigned ; W. H. Lee, Efq.
Third Lieutenant.
4th Company—Third Lieutenant H. B. Hautenville, from rft
Company, Second Lieutenant, vice Underwood, promoted
in 4th Conipany ; Richard Rogers, Efq. Third Lieutenant.
Tarbeit Infantry--Tbomas Wren, Efq. Second Lieutenant,
vice Lellic Wren, promoted in the Torbert Fencibles. '
A thboy Infantry—Thomas Hopkins, Efq. Third Lieutenant.
NUJ& third Cavalry—Fir ft Lieutenant Henry Serjeant, Cap-
tain, vice Chi Ulnas, retuned ; Merle Langley, Efq. Firit
Licutenart, vice Serjeant, protnoted.
Loyal Waterford infantry—George Beate, Jun. Efq. Fourth
Liew.cnant, vice Henderfess, refignaL
Mouotnerris Rangers. Second Lieutenant John Gough, 'Firit
Lieutenant, vice Brownrigg, promoted; Chrift. Harrifon,
Second-Lieutenant, vice Cough. promoted.
Ogle's Loyal Bluei—Johti Towtt, Efq.Sceond-Lieutenant, vice

Newton, promoted-in the 85th foot.
N. T. Ards and Combar Infantry—Seeend Lieutenant James
Pollock, Fitt. Lieutenant, vice Cleland, religned ; John
Ink, Efq. Second Lieutenant, viee James Pollock, promoted;
James Pollock, jun. Efq. ThErd .Lieutenant, vice Taggart,
refired
Ratbdowo Cavalry—Second Lieutenant R. Alexander, FIN!
Lieutenant, v.ce Swan, promoted; John Cathcart Lees, F.fq.
Second Lieutenant, vice Alesmder, promoted; Jane's
Efq. Third Lieutenant, vice Harcourt Lets, religned; Alex.
Boyle, Efq. Fourth Licuterant.
Monafterevan Cavdry—Second Lieutenant Edw. Dalton, Brit
Lieutenant, vice Bagot, refigr.od ; Wm. Macartn, y, Efq. Se-
cond Lieutenant, vice Dalton, promoted; Jahn ivie, Erg.
Third Lieutenant.
Mountain Rangers—Hi* Llmtenant Thomas Bernard, jun.
Second Captain ; John Connally, Efq. Fit* Lieutenant, vice
Bernard, promoted.
Cappoquin Infantry—Fwit Lieutenant Beverly Kant, Cape in,
vice Digital, reigned ; Second Licutenar.t Rodolphus Ore.
Firft Lieut./Lint, vice Hearn, promoted

the min who fome years fince rr.•:l :
In muc!l noife about town under the title of
21foniler, is faid to be now nzarried, and :
fluent circumflances in America.

Wednefday morning early a fire I>r, ',<• (.11,
premifes of a Soap manufatiory, nc::: • .
confumed the whole of the prcmifes, t r
the flock in trade to a very confiderai,_ ,;nt ;
by the timely affifiance of the hrcmcn aI. el,-
the flames were extinguincd without fpr_io,:iz
any further; fortunately no lives were init.
Yefterilay morning, between three and fr.':
o'clock,. the houfe of Mr. Bull, furveyor, in no
bury.flreet, was broke open, and a great quantity
of goods flolen, which were conveyed out by the
place where the thieves made an entry. No ac-
count is yet obtained of them.
Yefierday t t t prift,ners were removed from the
different prifons to Newgate, in order to take their
trials at the enfuing Seflions at the Old Bailey,
which commences on Wednefday next.

The Rev. Dr. TROTT, z,of Knightlbridge, Lou-
don, bas addreffed for publication the following
obfervations on the Metallic Praetice, to Mr. F. It
II INS, of Leiceiler-fquare, London, the Patentee :

Dear Sir—Since my letter to you, asith of March lrfl, I
have operated with the dared effeet in eighty different Cafes,
among my friends and acquaintance, with the Metallic Trac.
tors. lam more and more convinced of the importance adds
dlicovery to mankind; and cannot help pitying thofe who,
thee through ignorance or prejudice, attempt to depreciate its
merits. Here are one or two Calm:

ERYSIPELAS.--P A Lady was aided will. an Eryfipvlas
In her face. The inflammation and (welling were fo gr..at, that
one of her eyes was doled, and the complained of great pain.
Atter being operated on, the (welling and inflammation were
abated, and the face came to its natural colour, and which was
fo evident as to be voluntarily remarked by one of the family
pre:ast. In a (bort time flu was quite well.

GOUT.--" A Man, aged 3-, had for fcveral years been fub-
lea to the Gout. I found him in bed, and very much dared', d
with the &teak in one of his feet. After I had operated upon
it with the "'mama, be Laid his pain was entirely gone ;
at the fame time, I oisferved the inflammation and (welling kb-
fide. lie has Lad no return of Ms complaint there five month,.
" I believe your Metallic Tractors to be molt ufeful
inftrs-
ments,'and which no family Mould be wi•bout, cfpecially aa
they are In no danger of doing any harm by the remedy."
The Tradon, to nceellary in every Family, and among
Horks, may be had, genuine, with new and improved direc-
tions for ofing them, for Five liointas the Set, of B. D. Pia-
ci us, A. M. the Patentee, in the book of t►e late John Hun-
ter. Surgeon, Leicciteanfquare ; and of Frederic Smith, (le-
ad* and Druggift, to the Haymarket, London
nature of the Traitors !waders their conveyance

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(erect Books. whkb conceits, as communicated

terary charatiars, about time thnsfard Cares of
enatifiL Saadi, Hemi-aels. Tentli-ach f.pralms,
Ike. atc sad all analargew Madge 1 Hada.

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COUNTR r NEU'S:

A HEAVY STORM.

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A letter from Kinfale, dated Aura toth,Tayl,
that on that day a 'tremendous gale fromW. S.W.
blew off the Old Head.

There was. on Sunday a heavy tempefl at Yar-
mouth, accompanied with a great deal of rain.
Sunday a barn, at Bluhderton, about fix miles
from Yarmouth, was fet on fire by lightning, and
with the corn which was in it, entirely confurned.

Sunday morning, about eight o'clock, the in-
habitants of Woodbridge, Suffolk, were greatly
alarmed by a violent florm of thunder and light-
ning.—A luminous body
,of fire was feen in its
progtefs frhm the S. E. to N. W. which (truck a
chimney, neatly in the centre of the town, and
defcended into the attic Rory, where it was at-
trafted by a bell-wire and condufted to a chamber,
parlour, hall, and keeping-rooms here it termi-
nated with a moll tremendous percuffion.—A fe-
Male fervant, who was in the keeping.room, hap.
pity efcaped without fufiaining the flightettanjury.
The chimney-piece and fire-irons in the parlour,
were removed feveral feet into the room i and
other parts of the premifes alforeeeived contidera-
big damage, but no lives were
Sunday night there was the moll dreadful flortn
of thunder, lightning, and hail, at Brighton, ever
'remembered. A lad of the name of Wallis, be-
longing to the South Gloucefter, was fo firuck with
a LA of lightning, in going from this place to the
Barracks, that it is thought by the forgeon who
attend, him, that he will never fufficiently recover
his light.

A dreadful thunder fihrm was experienced at
Huntley, in Aberdeenibire, on the ,9th ult. The
particulars, is communicated in a letter from that
,place, are as follow :
Wednefday left, the t9th, till eleven o'clock
forenoon, we bad one of the fineft days that could
be wilhed. About eleven a thunder cloud appeared
in the well, and it began to thunder pretty loud,
the fon Mining bright here. In a ikon ttme the
attach thickened, and a few great drops of rainfell,
the thunder continuing for a little while with vio-
lence. It then cleared up for about fifteen minutes,
when we thought the Roan was over. It then be-
tame cloudy, and the th'under began and continued
in a moll tremendous manner for fotne hours, at-
tended with vivid Wiles of lightning, and an an-
taxman fall of hail and rain. The bail was very
big. like large drops orfrozen water, eiradar and
flat, northers as circular as a farthing, and pretty
think, few or none in tl:r common form of hail,
rather like ice. The rain fell in torrents; in a few
tninates the (trots in many places were impafable,
bdngfeveral feet deep of water. About one o'clock
in the afternoon it became fair, at three the thunder
began again, and continued till five, exceedingly-
load; but with little rain,'whenit entirely toad.

" The olden perfon id this place never remem-
bered to have witneited filch p dreadful form of
hail and rain, nor to have heard fuch awful loud
thunder in this place. The very heavens (carted to
be rending; the lightning appeared forked. But
what is regularly remarkable, the hail did not
reach above one mile, •or at grthen two miles in
any direitionfrom this town, and although tome
fields of oats and beer were much beat down with
the hail, ruin, and torrents of water, yet the
damage is but trifling, and in many places fcarcely,
difcernable. Turnips, cabbage, omons, &c. fuf-
feted a good deal, and had a poor appearance, but
(ante of them are beginning to look better. The
lightning (truck one honfe in theparint of Forgue,
threw down part of a chimney, broke a weather
gles, looking-glafs, and fplintered the chfinney-
piece and fome other pieces of wood in a room.-1
Providentially no perfon was in the mom. This is
the only infante of any damage done, except the
roof of an old houfe in Huntley, which fell in, fup-
pofed to be with'the weight of rain that had fallen.
NO other accident worth notice is known."

According to the calculation of the Academician
Kaarrro St. Peteriburgh, on an average of ten
years, has annually 97 briht days, to 4 of rain, 72
of fnow, and 93 unfettled. There are every year
from twelve to fixty.fevenfionnt, which fometimes,
when they proceed from the Wen, occafion inunda-
tions. From an experience of more than fixty
years, the ice of the Neva (the Thames of Petal.
Isnrgh,) never breaks up before the 25th of March,
and never later than the 27th of April, the earlieft
time of its freezing is the zoth of Odober, and the
laieft the to of December. What (hall we think
of the wildcat of NM the Great, who founded
to magnificent a city under inch a climate?

A C•VTIn' to SPORTSMAIII.—As Mr. ADAM
KING, of Welt Merfea, was going to Colcheiler on
Thurfday Taft, when he had got near the town, a
Gentleman !hot at a bird croffing the road, and
accidentally lodged part of the charge in Mr.
Kt acts right fide. He happened luckily to have
an a thick great coat, which prevented him frotu
being much injured.
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Lal week the Mayor of thc city of Glofleeter
appointed a Jury for thc examination of weights
and meaftires, who, on Saturday laft, in the but-
cher's market, feed the lizelyards of nine hut-
tillers ; in the butter-market, 13.01 b. of butter were
likewife feizea, am] di(ributcd aiiiongit the poor,
tkt:eient in weight.

11:: body rf Mr. EVAN?, late Surgeon in the
Von..,ornery M;;;,:a, (who was ar:;•,tanat
eltraamed IA March, on his pafrage from IVhite-
haven to Liverpool) was caul up 1.,a %sect, neat-
.tlackpool, Lancalhire, and deccntit interred in
Lytham C,urch-yard.—Thcre wo:ic 1.-t—id upon
ti.c body fir !:.ttincas and a half, and a gull teach.
with :sr° gold
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On Sunday morning a your, lady cfPlymon:N
1-)nck ttas brrnt fr dreadfully that lin..
t. v.• hourc, in ct.nrcquence of a rsairk ca.. :icr
foe war, taking a ;tic.
A few days Mnrn ll's% a yrtini• ‘i i•n;ar
was flint thrrinOi the head h:
prefentcd a p'.f‘,l to 1... r in ;cit. Titc
licen u;tn i.. 11 frnic firm, J'l2 tile V ••fl'•
W 4 taksu aNay ;'out ii I.i.lupitvlc,i fstc 12 • tiNea

powder had 'ailed into the Imo through the touch-
hole, and, on the trigger being pulled, the ball was'
difcharged. The unfortunate victim died, after'
lingering four days.
Jscon PRESTON, Efq. was on Sunday feitnight
elefted Mayor of Yarmouth. The ceremony of
choofing the Mayor is curious. Six Members of '
the Common Council and fix Freemen of the 80.
rough, are locked up in the Great Hall, near the
Church, until nine are unanimous in the choice of
one perfon. The EleCtors were this year thirty
three hours in coming to their determination.—
They have, however, been known to fit nine days.
Neither food nor light fhould be admitted into the
room during the eleCtion, but the parties left to
watch and ftarve each other out.

FARMING SPFCULATION.—A farmer in Ramp-
thire, who is a candidate for the prize of 3cc,l. of-
fered by the Board of Agriculture for the hell crop
of potatoes on new-broke ground, has planted 3o
acres, for the fec fimple of which (being wage
land) he paid only 41. per acre. He has railedas
many potatoes as will prttcluce tool. and which,
exclufive of the p►emium he hopes to obtain, will
be 891. more than the colt of the foil.
There is an oak-tree of very extraordinary di-
menfions now growing near the road betwixt
Knarelborugh andHarrogate, meafuring 18 feet in
circumference at two feet from the ground, and
the curiofity it affords is much increafed by a large
flack of corn being at prefent built up6n it, which
is fupported by the trunk and the branches alone.
On Wednelday latt the infant daughter of Mr.
Stephens, farmer, at Heathfleld, fell backwards
into a cauldron of boiling milk, under preparation
for making cheefe, and was thereby fo miferably
fcalded, that the languilhed a few hours, and then
expired M great agony.
Wednefday between five and fix o'clock in the
evening tome boys being at play about Hampflead•
Heath ponds, they perceived an old Woman afloat
in one of them; it appeared that the was a pauper
in Hampilead Workhotife, which the quitted on the
preceding Friday, on leave, to fee Tome friends in
the country.
In the nig:tt of Saturday Jail, limit brute in hu.
man fhape cut and mangled a valuable mare, the
property of Mr. Samuel Garrett, of Kelvedon, fup-
pofed to have been worth 301. The villanous per-
petiators of fuck ads as the above are rarely dif-
covered. but when the injured party has the good
fortune to bring fuch moniters to juitice, the laws
of the countryAould be enforced to their utmoli
extent.

On Tuefday fe'nnight, at the Rotation Office,
in Leeds, a publican from Holbeck, was con•
viEled and paid the penalty of 4os. and cogs for
refilling to take a billet from a militia man.—A
butcher was likewife comieed in the penalty of 41.
and colts, for not having his ilcias Ramped accord.
ing to AR of Parliament.

At Ruthin Affize, yobs Morris, for robbing a
farmer on the highway near Wrexham,, of two
one-pound notes and a fhilling, received fentence
of death ; and Cohesive °emu, for houfe-breaking,
was fentenced to be tranfported for feven years.
The three Orifoners condemned at the Spring Af-
fize were reprieved on condition of tranfc•orta-
don. At this Affize a caufe was tried refpeaing
a right of paßtirage, which, from the anfwers
given by one of the %muffles, kept the Court in a
continued roar of laughter. Among the queltions
he was defired to Rate, what quantity of
was growing on the dig:Pitted part ?—To whit he
drily replied, a I think abort as much as would
graze fixpewets."—Upon your oath, now," rays the
Counfel, " was there not, as much as would graze
a goofc r' a No : I would na' (wear that, neither,"
fay, the fellow, " a goofe is a big eater, Maifier."
On Tuefday lag, a footpad calling himfelf Law-
rence Kaid, was taken up at Edge-hill; near Liver-
pool, about nine o'clock in the evening, by a party
of Captain Fai.xasa's troop of Light Honk, who
with himfelf, had volunteered the fervice of thing
as a patrole in the environs of that place, fince the
robbery on Prefcot road, as lately mentioned; and
too much credit cannot be given to Capt. FALL t
and his troop, not only for their zeal, but their
caution and perfeverance in going with this man
from one place to another, through the town, where
be pretended to have fome acquaintance, &c. for
feveral hours, till they at laR difcovere his real
lodgings, and found the watch which had been
Role as above, and then delivered him over to the
police officers, fence which he has undergone (eve.
ral examinations, and now ?lands fully committed
to take his trial at the next Lancaßer Affixes.

Lan week were committed to the Cagle of York,
Hannah Naylor, of Sheffield, charged with having
uttered and paid a one guinea forged promiffory
note, knowing the fame to be forged; alfo Jofeph
Stoddart, of Arkengarthdale, charged with deal.
ing to pieces of lead, value aol. and William Ri-
ley, of Doncafler, charged by the Coroner's In-
quell, with wilfully and furinufly driving a tingle
horfe chaife at full fpeed through the !freers in
Wakefield, by which means Abraham Lockwood,
a fine boy of the age of eleven years, was drove
over and inftantly killed. It is hoped this will
operate as a caution, and prevent others driving
carriages in the public Streets in fo dangerous a
manner.

I,Vednefday fc'nnight were executed, in front of
tlic county gaol at lleheaer, Aram Ph/rawer and
j Gr,r. ; the former Inc breaking open and
rol,lling the flinp °fame les Britten, tailor, at Hob.
con.h ; the latter, tiir breaking open the mill:1;0,1re
of Philip :stock, at Dnwnfide, and healing twelve
clr I..fes. Plummer has been a notorious offender
f:, rn hi, cool he «infeifed that be had been
cr,.::•v 4 many gutty thefts, filch as rolling milk-
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An I lilii ponds, tlealing potatoes, &c. and
h: was contintd in Shepton•Mallet gaol for
ri•acsninir. lie namrd lour perfons in particular
..;:r. CMICC:i.c4 with him in the rubbery for
Buffered.

yeira can, v,7r.,en nuts were Icrs
ti in ;,• time, feveril foldiers at :_iilvcr-
-1;;:i : in confcquence of having ate of
OIL ni ;111 This we mention as a caution
t., slet,r tho v.i:uc tlatir health and livcir
flom fiaailar iskfarstions.

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'Emmet/arm, Strr. 7.--"Afterda, in the after--
noon a fire broke out in a hook in the middle of 1
the Welt Bsw, but by the &Cavity of the neigh.i
hours, and the affiftance Come of the fire-en
pines, and city guard, it was prevented from
fpreading. The furniture of the apartment where
it broke out was entirely confumed.
We had a confiderable fall of rain yefterday
afternoon, which continued through the greater
part of laft night.
A young woman expired on Thurfday fen-
night, in a harveft-field at Lonton, Cumberland,
through exceffive heat and violent exertion.
On the 17th ult. Come men reaping a field \of
corn near °lves-11one, were fo overcome with
thirft, occafloaed by the extreme heat, that they
drank fo very immoderately as to occafion the
death of one of them in a few hours, and two other.s
of them are not likely to recover.
INVERARY, SEPTEMBER 4.—The Circuit 'Court
ofJulticiary was opened here upot:i. Weduerd.ty the
ad inft. by the Right Hon. the Lord Mira YEN.
Yefterday the Court proceeded to the trial of
Duncan Seam:, weaver in Campbelhwn, yoLn
Bri/b, carter in Campbelltown, Hugh Lantant, at
Afkomellmore, near Campbelltown, and Mary
Darroch, refiding in Campbelltown, who were at.-
cured of being concerned in a mob and riot in the
town of Campbelltown, in theanonth of February
laft, for the purpofe olo'oftruEting the (hipping of
grain. Duncan Sellars was outlawed for not ap-
pearing ; and the Jury having found that the other
three perfons were aiding And abetting in the mob
and riot libelled, under particular qualifications
fpecified in their vcrdid, the Court having met
this day, fentinced
.7ohn /Irish to two months im-
prifonment in the tolbooth of Invcrarv, Huzi, La-
moor to fir weeks imprifonment in laid tolbooth,
and Ma, Defrock to one month's imprifonment.
There being no other buliners to come before
the Court at this place, they proceed to morrow
for Glafgow.