Star.
London, England, 1813-02-17 00:00:00

CORN-MAKKhT, MARK-LANE, H.B. /•._

Not having an arrival of any Grain whatever to-day, a. d hewers t
continuing to hold off till fresh supplies come in, there is scat si
any business doing at this day's market—what tew sales aie tit
fected are almost without variation from Monday's prices. A f w
samples of good Oats have been sold a trifle higher. L'ustu,.,
which has been lately nearly nominal, bezins to sell at an ads-
stance in price.
English Wheat 784. ICOs. 112 s. Potatoe ditto, 41111 525.
Fine ditto, 120 s. 190 s Rape seed Arno, £43 per last.
Foreign do. (Russian) 861.1141. Linseed, 100 s. 1101.
Rye 741. 80$. Coriander do. per cwt. Bic 465.
Barley 545. 70s. Caraway, ditto, 84s. Stn.
Malt,loos. 109 s. Canary do. 100 s. Wes
Dim.: tine Ware. 115 s. White Mustard Sued, 16e. its.
White Peas (boilers) 985. liCs. per bushel. t.
Grey, ditto, 861. 945. Brown do. 225. 341
Beans, 745. B4s. Clover Seed, white, per cwt
'Vick auto 72s 805. 850.140 e.
Oats (feed) iiBa. 34.. 30s. Ditto, red, ess. 15055.
Perini! ditto, 401. 455. "bill es, per bushel, 14* tes.
Fine Hour 11171. t• 110 s. Seosads ivy.. to ilia per aft

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THE ARMY.
mummiOrriliabe .

CIRCULAR. • ' -
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War-Ofice, lOilirebruasT, '40113.
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.101.....lisoolthe.herropt to acquaint you. thatlisßoyal.fligb-
less the PRINCE REGENT has been pleased, in the name and on

;the !natal of his MAJESTY, to order, that soldiers of the Foot
Guards and Infantry of the Line desirous of re-enlisting,. after
.completing the pvrlod of limited service for which they may brie

been engaged, in conformity to the provisions of the Mutiny
Act, shall, if found fit to continue in the army. be allowed to
teceive the same amount of bOunty as is granted at the time to
F= entering.into the service; which sum is to be Wilted to
them upon being re-attested.
The rates at present allowed are Sit. lls. for the hefribei
smitrd period of seven years, and £l6s. 181. far as unlimited
period; and are of course to cover every charge attending the
nt eat. •
,I ant Jo add, that men of 35 years of age, or upwards, ore not
to be permitted to re-engage for a longer period than seven year.
(Signed) PALMZRIITON.
• Colonel of the— Regiment of Foot.
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'.. Yesterday the Duke of Yonx transacted military
business with the PRINCE RECENT, and afterwards held
Military Levee at,his office,in the Horse Guards.

A detachment from the 86th Regiment. at Dum-
fries, and 150 men of the 27th, at present lying in
the Castle of Edinburgh, embarked on Friday, at
Leith, for foreign service.
A draft from the 2d battalion of the 79th has also
lift Glaigotv„ to join its first battalion in Portugal.
The 29th regiment, 900 strong, embarked hom
Portsmouth for Cadiz on the 9th, 10th, and I Ith inst.
Thursday, a detachment of about 150 of the 2.1
battalion of the 26th, and on Friday about 200 of the
27th regiment of foot. marched to Leith, to embark
to join the other battalions ir. Spain.
Monday, 100 of the 91st regiment arrived at Leith
from Ayr, and about 50 of the 92d from Glasgow—
all of whom embarked on Tuesday for Gravesend.
They are ultimately to join the first battalions, in,
Spain.
Captain W. T. S. MATTHEWS, of the Royal Ma.
rines, is appointed Adjutant to the first Brigade of
Royal Marines in the Mediterranean, commanded by
Captain A. BALL. of the CALEDONIA.
- A considerable affray took place on Monday, in a

brick-field in the neightmirliood of Newington, be-
twixt some labourers, and a party of soldiers who

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had gone there to secure a deses ter from a regiment
of horse. The military at first succeeded in their
object ; but the deserter was afterwards rescued in a
battle• with sticks, bricks, &c. Two of the assailants

were so much hurt, as to be taken to an hospital.
At a monthly Court of Justices of the Peace for
the county of Berwick, held at Ayton, on Friday the
Sth instant, William Fair, tenant in Blackburn-rigg,
*as prosecuted, at the instance of Lieutenant-Colonel
Scorr; of the 2d battalion 25th regiment, for bar-
booking and concealing a deserter from said battalion,
knowing him to be such. The fact being clearly
proved, the Magistrates found Fair liable an the pe-
nalt? of IE2O, the fine directed by the Mutiny Act for
that offence.

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*XTRACT OF A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER ON BOARD
THE BERWICK, 74 GUNS, D4TED FORT MAHON, DE•
CEMBER 8, 1812. _ _ _

. ii The.ZrnSIIIMMI is expectesll6 sail immediately
!; Pk Palermo, to relieve the AJAX, which ship will
:from
down Lord BRNTINCK. • Six thousand troops
F..ftom Sicily arrived here on the 25th uli..under con-
, 4oy of the Tit AMES, and sailed again for Alicant on
the 27th : more troops are expected from Sicily with
tordtEsmsx. It is thought the fleet will accom.
, pally his Lordship to Alicant. The Ist_Brigade of
Royal,Marines,.in the Mediterranean fleet, were this
' 'day reviewed by the Commander in thief Sir En*
. witun PELLEW, who was pleased to express'his high
satisfaction. of their military appearance, and the
steady manner in which they performed the eighteen
Manceuvies ; much praise is due to Captain B:ii.r.,
their Commandant, for his indefatigable exertions to
'render them fit for any service, and they premise to
'do jthtice to his zeal. The Ist Brigade consists of
twelve complete companies, of 72 nunic and file, and
'including officers, non.eommissioned officers, and
'.,:drummers, amount in all to about 950. The second
,Brigade is commanded by Brevet MaJor ARNETT,
(Second Lieutenant RIVERS their Adjutant) and
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L
s'-wheit complete, amounts to nearly the same number
of men : each Brigade go on shore alternately, for
the purpose of exercise, in the great square at Ma-
/en, every morning at eight o'clock, and return to
:their 'respective ships by dinner time ; a band of
music always accompanies 11 them, those ships wh:,.
h ,ve one, taking it in turns to attend.

4, It is astonishing what good effect this method of
exercise has on the men ; it keeps them in health,
and renders them fit to act with the line whenever
occasion may require it. This Fleet can at any time
furnish 2000 mai Ines, completely appointed and dis-
ciplined, which is equal to two regular regiments of
the line ; nor do 1 despair of seeing them in posses-
sion of the Batteries of Toulon, while the British sea-
men bring out their idle Fleet."

Orders have been issued from the Admiralty for
the RCYAI. Cimatt.orrE yaLzb to be got in readiness
with all possible dispatch. His Royal Highness the
1)4.! of CLAneNcE, as Admiral of the fleet, has it
• • in contemplation, during the ensuing week, to make
a visit of ceremony to the Russian fleet at Sheerness.
Nothing will be neglected to give all possible rclat to
the excursion. Besides his own suite, his Royal High-
ness
the Admiralty, and the other Heads of Departments.

Wet lately mentioned that a Ceurt-martial, held in
Hamoaze, had sentenced the Pilot (Mr. BERNIER) of
• the A rotinE to be mulcted of all his pay, and to be
. impr.so! ed two nionihs in the Nlarshalsea. We also
suggested at the same time,.that though the Pilot
was reprehensible in neglecting to " nit, the lead," h!
t rtainly was the means of completely deceiving the
r enemy during chenille hours -.vhich the A KNI tom lay on
Aitc rocks under the batteries. We have now the
pleasure to find, that the serttence of this meritorious
()dicer his been remitted by the Lords of the Admi.
irilti, iholiari .directed him again to go on board
the_Aastroa. Mr. likitN I ER, we understand, is one of
the•bast pilots in the may ; and so esteemed was he
on board the ARSODE4 that the crew had determined
an presenting him with the amount of his mulct.

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ManteoitorMt-sraeirr.—FßAun—Yesterday hear
Lees, and S. Afitddl were charged with defrauding
Mr. Harrison, a butcher, of Ray-street, Clerkenwell,
of At 6s. Levy, habited in sailor's attire, with all
'die assumed manners of a Tar, called at the shop of
the prosecutor, dui ing his accidental stroll, and pro-
duced a shawl, which he described to be of Bengal
npanufacture ; and, not having a shot in his locker,
hk recommended it as a bargain for misrtren. Whilst
describing the value of the article, the other prisoner,
Mitiebell, who hammed to be passing by, was attrac-
ted* the elegance of the shawl, and he offered five
guineas for it, and then six ; but Levy affected much
generosity, and said he had offered the shawl for that
money, that he would give the prosecutor the first
:refusal, and the article was purchased, which was af-
terwards discovered not to be worth ; and the
prisoners were taken into custody on a subsequent
day. Levy told the Magistrate, with much sangfivid,
he wks a tradesman, and had a licence to sell, +slid as
such he had a right to make the most of his goods.—
The Magistrate, however, did not look on the prisoners
as fair tradesmen, and committed them both for trial.

The Captain of the Amelican brig Saunders, lately
captured by the Monarch, BOAG, of Greenock, is itu-
plit.med in the Debtors' division of Glasgow jail.
Last week, between Monday and Wednesday,
Dovehill printfield, iu the neighbourhood of Pollock-
shaws, was broken into, and twelve pieces 1-44.1 ts 1200
cambric black and purple printed shawls carried off.
Friday, the 29th ult. Mr. George Aide, ship-mas-
ter, Limekilns, returning from South Quecuslerry in
his boat, was upset and drowned.

On the 304 t ult. Janet Nicol, of the parish of Aber-
dour, was sint to the prison of Banff, for wilfully
setting fire to a farmer's corn-yard in her neighbour.
hood.

Saturday se'imight, Mr. John King, merchant, of,
Kingussie, was, fired at through his shop-window,
while sitting at his desk. Fortunately the ball merely
graied his neck, and lodged in the back part of the
shop:

Monday sc'nnight, a linen-printer, belonging to
Ittithvehfield, who went from Perth the preceding
evening, to go home, was found dead on the Muir-
town lands.

Last week a mariner of the name of Drysdale, be-
longing to Invetkeithing, just on stepping into his
boat, dropped down dead.

A young lad of twelve years of age was drowned
in the Donfestnline town loch, about three weeks ago,
by the breaking of the ice.

On the evening of Sunday se'nnight, as William
Stewart, Esq. writer, and joint town-clerk of Perth,
was returning home from the country, his horse being
but imperfectly frost-shod, slipped and fell, when Mr.
Stewart's leg was severely fractured. Next day am-
putation became indispensable ; and though the pa.
tient stood the operation well, yet he survived it only
about thirty hours.
An occurrence of the most frightful nature, and
uncommon in the Highlands, took plaCe in the yd.
• lage of Oban, on Saturday se'nnight.—The mildness
of the winter has been unequalled in the memory of
the oldest persons ; but, fur some days back, The sky
was dusky, and the lowering clouds portended a
change. The barometer for nearly three weeks kept
high, but on Thursday it sunk, and the wind, from
being easterly, veered towards the west—a direction
invariably pi oducing wet and stormy weather on that
coast. For the last three days the weather had been
rainy, and rather boisterous, though there were seve-
ral intermissions. On Saturday, heavy showers of
hail came on, and about two o'clock, P. M. some faint
flashes of lightning appeared, with the noise of. dis-
tant thunder.. But a dense cloud, which darkened
the heavens, passed over that place at half past two,
which emitted a dreadful volume of electrical fire.—
The wind, at this moment, blew furiously from the
south-west, and the thunder-bolt broke over a range
of houses running south and north. The lightning
appears to have been attracted by a conical stair-case,
down which a portion of it flashed. From that it
proceeded along the lead on the roof of the houses,
passed through four stacks of chininies, and, coming
to the end of the range, knocked down the chimney
top. From this it started towatds the ground ; but 1
in its descent carried away a large portion et the
roof, shattered to pieces three windows, with all the
inner finishing of wood, and passed into the earth
.with a tremendous and awful explosion, which shook
the whole village, and all the houses in its vicinity.
But in the course of this destructive body of fire, the
interposition of a divine and omnipotent PROYIDENcT..
was singularly manifested, in the preservation of so
many lives as were exposed to its fury. The lady of
the house and a maid-servant were in the attic story,
and their heads nearly touched the roof at the instant
was eau red off, but were not hurt. In the room
below, a little boy stood close to a table, placed in
the window, which was torn to shivers. The table
was knocked to pieces, and thrown to the opposite
side, but the child escaped unhurt. A little girl in
the room on the ground storey, was knocked down,
yet received no injury. The whole end of the house
seemed enveloped in times ; and though there wei e
eleven persons surroundell, by the destructive element,
not one of them was touched.
GALWAY, FEB. 4.—Tuesday evening last, a most
melancholy accident occurred at Lougligeorge,within
a few miles of this town. •It appears that the owner
of a cabin, where three of the family were lying in a
fever, went to a neighbour's house, for the purpose of
lighting a candle, and on his return, incautiously stuck
it to the wall of the house—when, as is supposed, he
fell asleep, and the candle falling into some combusti-
bles, quickly consumed the miserable dwelling, with
its inmates, before any assistance could be afforded,
no trace remaining but the almost burned skeletons
of the unfortunite persons.—Connaught Jou. ruat
Six kegs, containing papers in French, were picked
up by die Brighton trawl-boats on Thursday night.
They are copies of the Russian Bulletins published in
Our Gazettes, translated, probably by order of the
higher powers,*and forwarded to France, which it apt
pears the French Government have thought proper
to return. It is supposed they were dropped by a
French lugger privateer, which appeared off that
town on Wednesday afternoon, and was distinctly
' seen to capture a brig.

r*StlVAiti

alk, Most melanchelly accident has taken place
near this harbour; the schooner. Suit, of the port
of Dartmouth, Jatnes Lyons Master, bound from
Waterford for Newfoundland) with a cargo of filur,
sailed from Cork with the %Vest India convv, from
which she parted in a gale, and run for Waterford
harbour, bin could not fetch it ; they then attemp.
ted to make this harbour, and about one o'clock on
Tuesday afternoon, when about half a mile outside
.Saint Ann's Head, a heavy sea struck her, wh;elt
knocked away the main-mast, cleared the decks, up-
set the vessel, and washed all hands ow:rho:lrd ; the
crew, however, with great ddliculty, g, ,t on the
wreck, except the Mate, James Mede, a native of
Waterfot d, who was never seen afterwards ; the re-
mainder of the Crew immediately cut away the land-
yards, when the fore-mast fell overboard, and the ves-
sel righted ; they then lashed themselves to the.pumps
of the vessel, where they remained till four o'clock in
the evening ; they being previously observed by the
officer at the signal station on St. Ann's Point, who
communicated it to the commanders of the Auck-
land and Sandwich packets, then lying in Dale Road,
who immediately put to sea in their boats. and for-
tunately succeeded in taking them from their perilous
situation, except a boy (John Crispin) who had ex-
pired through fatigue whilst lashed to the pump. It
was impossible to do any thing with the vessel, as it
blew a gale and heavy sea ; and 1 find that next
morning she went to pieces in Fresh.Watee West
Bay, near the entrance of this h.trbour ; a small part
of the carp has been saved. On Saturday se'nnight,
the Hare Trunk, of Plymouth, Thomas Rowall mas-
ter, from the island of Tercera, with a cargo ()limit,
Was driven into. Pembray Sands, near Kidwelly ; it
is expected the cargo will be saved, but that the ves-
sel.will become a total wreck. This day arrived the
Fox Customs cutter, Captain CUFF, from a cruize,
who states, that on the 9th inst. he fell in with a
small French vessel, exiled Luhion, laden with wine,
having lose her main-mast and bowsprit ; prize to
his Majesty's schooner Aanow, and which vessel he
towed into Trilby Road.

The child of Mr. Slade, of Angel-lane, Hammer-
smith, two years and a half old, vas lately burnt to
death during the absence of her mother.
A son of L. Parkin, cutler in Hatter-lane, Boston,
was lately burnt to death by his clothes catching fire
in the absence of his mother ; another boy, six yea! s
old, son of W. Hall, cottager, at Northholm, near
Wainfleet, in the absence of his mother, in reaching
over the chimney-piece for something he wanted, set
his clothes on fire, and was so shockingly birnt that
after lingering two days he expired ; and -a third, the
son of P. Salter, bricklayer, in Lincoln, suffered
lately fiont a similar cause.

Lord MOLESWORTII, who is just dead, was the son
of the Lady Motystrottrit, who with her dau3hters
and nine or ten othet persons perished, when tl.oir
house was burnt in Grosvenor-street.

There are now living, under one roof, in Bridge-
gate, Derby, 14 old people, whose united ages make
1012 years; and who are all in possession of their bo-
dily faculties, except one, who, from a fall which hap-
pened last winter, is unable to walk without help.
A few days since, during service at Chichester Ca-
thedral, one of the monuments fell' down, much
alarming the congregation by the noise ; fortunately
no person was near at the time, and nu other mischief
ensued.