Star.
London, England, 1812-03-13 00:00:00

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH It

Arrived his Majesty's Jfips Tumor, from a
cruise; and the BEAGLE, from the Downs. Sailed
his Majesty's ships TURACIAN, Note, and ROYAL
OAK, with a convoy, for the Downs; and the
SPRIGHTLY, on a cruise.—Wind W.

DEAL,, MARCH 12.
Sailed his Majesty'.; ship 81:41RUE, for Yarmouth.
Wind N. E.
YARMOUTH, MARCH 12.

Arrived the King Georg* cutter, with the Ame-
tican brig John, of Bostob, detained going into the
Tete' by the' AQUILLON ; she is laden with indigo,
logwood, and sugar. Sailed the DWARF, with stores
for the ships in the Downs.—Wind N. N. E.

On account of there being a shew in the Scheldt
of re-equipping the Scheldt fleet, Lord A. BEAUCLERK
has been ordered to proceed from Portsmouth pith
five sail of the line.

A schooner, almost new, from Terceira to Liver-
pool, laden with fruit, was lately captured by the
Jean Bart, French privateer.
Tuesday the traul.boats were chased into Ply-
mouth, and also a brig, bound to Lisbon, by a French
cutter privateer, of 14 guns, which hats infested that
coast for some days.
Fifty vacancies are reserved in the Royal Naval
'Asylum, Greenwich, for the orphan sons of seamen
who perished in the ships loit in the North Sea, and
in the Saldanha, which was recently wrecked on the
coast of Ireland. •

The Gamekeeper at Glynn, Cornwall, observed
two birds, on the wing, on Sunday se'nnight, engaged
in desperate combat. They fell to the ground so,
and had all their faculties so completely absorbed in
the affair, as to suffer him to catch both of them.
They proved to be a hawk and a jay.
Smug BARKER a pauper of Bury, and well known
in the market of that town by the name of Old Sue,
who died a few days since, has left property to the
amount of nearly £lOO, and mostly in specie, viz. in
gold about 24 guineas, about as much more in shil-
lings and sixpences, a great number of dollars and
halt-crown pieces, and in halfpenny and penny
pieces. She had received collection of the parish for
a considerable time.

A person of genteel appearance and address, has
lately imposed upon several tradesmen in Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, wherehehas been staying for three weeks,
under the pretext of waiting for the convoy to sail
for Gottenburgh, to make a tour on the Continent,
with a Gentleman of great respectability. About
-two hours before he disappeared, he got from a tailor
a blue coat, buff waistcoat, and blue pantaloons.

• THE ARMY.
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. INXTRUCTION OP SOLDIERS' CHILDREN.
(CI Ea:LA It.) , -
" Adjutant Generals Offioe, Hur.e.fluards. Feb. ISM
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SIR--i
have received the Commander.m-C4ilers. directions to
acquaint you, that the person whom you may have selected to
fill ihe ablution of Sebeolmaster-Serjeant to the under
your command, (if such selection has been nu.de, is vibe directed
! to rep Ito the Mitltary Asylum at Chelsea, to receive informa•
tine esplanatory of The mode adopted at that Institi., ion, of in-
structing children according to Dr. Bata's ..iy earn.
" You will be pleased tvotify the Lame of the detrain to this
Office, and state the prolsabk date of Ws arrival at Chelsea,.
where he will report himself to Lieutenant-Colonel Wit.i.tass.
so 24, the Commandant of she Asylum. You will also gee arch
further intelligence respecting the Stijeant as you may dipmare-
quisi:e. I have the hono,ir to be, Sir,
"•Your most obedient bumble Servant,
" H. CA LV ER r, Adj.- GOltrai." .
P. S. The Receipt of this Letter to be acknowledged.
To the Officer commanding Rt g nitut.
Captain
... JAMES- WILLIAMSON of the 94th regiment,
who was killed at Ciudad Rodrigo, was the second
son of Lieutenant-Colonel WiLuastsox, Inspecting
Field Officer of Volunteers in the Inverness District.
He fell in the assault of that fortress on the 19th of i
January last, at the head of the grenadiers which he
commanded. Lieut.-Colonel CAMPBELL, his Com-
manding Officer, in a letter to his father communi-
eating his death, thus speaks of him :•—" It is with "
the utmost sorrow and grief I take upon myself the
pailful task of making known to you the sad and i
distressing story of my much-esteemed brother officer
Lid friend, your son, Captain NVILLiAMSOY; who
departed this life upon the memorable evening of the
19th instant, having been killed by a musket-shot
through the heart, and fell close at my side, at the
moment of victory, while valiantly cheering with his
hat in his hand, at the head of the grenadiers of the
94th regiment, whom he nobly and bravely led (with
that manly courage and magnanimity 1 have fre-
quently seen him display) to the assault of Ciudad
Rodrigo. Brave fellow! He was the first that leap-
ed Into the ditch, and, with Captain LAING and my-
self, ascended the breach. A serjeant was left with
I" the body to' preserve it from insult, till the awful tn.
i gedy was at an end, when it was carefully conveyed
to our tivouar, and there interred with till the respect
we had it in our power to pay to the remains of one
so dear to his comraJes and to valou-."