Star.
London, England, 1802-12-28 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

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Sr. PETEREETIRCHt' Nov. 29.—The day before
jefterday, the anniverfary of the day in which,
eight years aFo, the EMPRESS DOWAPER toast
'upon her the tape :lion .of the Lidies'.. Inftitute,
and other benevolent ellablifhthents, was celebrat-
ed, at the laid inftitute by a William ball and fop.
per,' at which the E* ears and her two brothers,
'the Parke% and 414zA soak Worttm-
. ;with, twiny perfons of high rank, were pre-
Geld •It was an affeCting fight to obferve on the
'plitlitenattee of every one of the young ladies, who
'enjoy in this intlitutionefuch an adMirable educa-
tion,. the moft marked expreffion of,gfatitude and.
the link of the benefits for which thtrate indebt-
'ed to the wife regulations, and to thitisidefatiga-
ble attention and activity of their gracious Pro.
tettrecs. Not leis touching,mas the dgability with
which the EsirstfistreoMercended to converk with
the children, whefegood lies fo near her heart. A
good motlvr, id the bofom of a grateful and well-
'educated family, is the trueft image of this (cent.
• Nov. 3o.—His IMPERIAL MAJPSTY has named
Lient,Ceneral Count TOLSTOI, Military Governor
ofSt. Peterlburgh, in the room of Field-Marital
Count Vat'

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. .r, imixszi.
:411b• repairing and alteration of the great Stone
theatre is now complete. The dimenfions are
every way increafed: it has a beautiful new front,
ay. The Architea, a Frenchman, of the name
qf d'A ustow T, has received very cnnfiderable pre-
'
ears from the En mos anni Ennuis. Ye&crday
'evening the ESIPRISO 0111Walsa Went to tee it.—
as
It h not yeebeen lifted in. ': '
The Gifejta of to day contains again a notice.;
5 the public GalioraAnantity of prohibited gocaher.
hich have been brought into Ruffia, and kited
' y the Cullom houfe Officers. . -
Dac. 3.—The School Committee, under the
direaina of Count SAVADOVSKI, tilinifter of Popu-
lar Inaruaion, is employed at prefent on the plan
bf i new Univerfity, .to be ea4blifkied* in St. Pc
teriburgh, in tinmeaion with the Academy of sci..
/lc r - regulation. of ' tilablifliment
‘cadem, -tie Com-
MA:.
new
thin

PARLIAMENTARr PROCEEDINGS.

HOTISE OF LORDS,TUESDAY, DEC. sB.

The Intaloetuor amended in the Appeal Lord Kinnaird v.
Matbewfon, remitting the decree, and reverting parts of it,
with diredtions to the Sheriff, kc.Ece. read the preceding day
by the Lord Chaneellor,was corredted, and after its being read
by Mr. Cowper, the Clerk AiMane, diftindly, was agreed to
ntid ordered to be entered as the judgment of the Houfe on the
Appeal.
Captain MAILEANI brought up the Navy Cammiftioners'
Bill from the Commons, with a Meffsge' importing that the
Commons bad agreed to their Lordships' Amendments in the

•1•••1•MIIIMINO

HOUSE Oft COMMONS.
At tour o'clock the Speaker took the Chair,
,and ►ere nct
being forty Members prefent, the Houfe of courfe adjourned
till to-morrow.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK:

3 per Cent. Red. 7i} 4 per Cent. Confab Bs}}—
New s per Cent. zotif.Onuliutn 3} ei diL

- 3 per Cant. COOL for opt• 731 f. •

No aceounti of any tied haw arrived from the
Continent tbirdayeWellive, hoviever, prefented
otte,;Readers with &Viral-articles which tame to
hand yegerday, and- wad not theti be inferted
ror want of room.
At Stockhohnow-tholitb inftarrt, a Herald, ai-
companied by a 44114114i1t of ,the King's Light
Dragoons, proclaimed, that the new-bons Prince
warto:bi baptised next day. for this' the
Du CtoWn was brought (tom* TillegnXi to
the Royal Palace.
Nast niOttiiiig, 'n the catiiiiini was
pertained with the wait fplaidid Calamity. The
Kii!* by the Regiments of
Goardsr' and attended by a procernon of the No-
Witt, of the 'Knights. .the Order of the Sera.
Ohne, of the Commanders of all the Royal Or.
of the Citil9l4cers, of the foreign
Miaillers,dce. to the:Chapel of the Palace, whete
the ceremony of- baptifm . was performed by
the Arebbifhop of UasAL. The Prince was.
chrillened emelt Las Gos -ray us, and was proclaim-
ed by the Herald .amid ,the difcharge of cannon,
and, four vain of inuthetry, Guar" tkyita of
FIKELAND. His MAJZSTY has alfo named him
Knight of the 'Seraphims.
On the loth, the KING of SWSDIII was pleafed
to receive the compliments of the Nobility on the
birth of the GREAT Dual of Fitiimann, on which
occafion various promotions were, made, and
.a
general Chapter held of all the Swedifh Ordersof
Knighthood, namelyoliai6Word, :the Seraphitos,
the North Star, int/Ararat hi which, ga perfons
were knighted or advanced to higher degrees.
The health of irreata ituptcolied
the young Panics wee quite wen, at se date of
thefe accounts.

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COLBOROINSTIIIIINA is gone to quilingburgh,
and M. de STOIRINSTIAND to Carlfruhe, to an-
nounce the birth the youngPri‘ixo. the Prin.
Cat SOPHIA ALIERTIII4.Iuid to thli-Hereditai7
Prince of flantar and culling them,lette.rs as
the. fponfors. M. de itiare, Ambafaclot Extra-
"ordinary at 11'011)05.1w fimilar communications

to make to the Court of Munich I and Baron de
BONDE, who departs in a ,few days, at St. Pe-
teriburgh.
Prince WlLltam of GLOUCESTIL was pre-
fent at the chriflening, at which all the Officers of
State appeared in habits of ceremony,
On the 4th intl. PrinceWtLXSAM OrGLOVCIsin
paid a iifit to the Lodge of Freemafons at Stock-

The Hon. ALEXANDER HOPE, the Brother to
the• Earl of HOPETOWN, whom Hatfield perfona.
ted, arrived in London on Monday fait from the
Continent. He is now at Lord ME.LVILLEPS houfe
in Charles-fireet, Berkeley-fquare, where his Lord-
fhip is not expelled till about the middle of Fe-
bruary.

On Friday, the t 7th init. JOHN SARGENT, Efq.
Joint Secretary to the Treafury, was unanimoufly
elated M. P. for Bodmin, in Cornwall, in the
TOM of CHARLES SHAW LEFEVRED Efq. who made
his elation for Reading.
The Marquis and Marchionefs of Ass Rcosm
have diftributed their accuftomed Chriamas dons.
tions to the poor inhabitants of the neighbourhood
of the Priory at Stanmore.

Lord RoLLE, finding at the ballot for the mili-
tia in the diftrid where he afted, the examining
Surgeon had charged as. 6d. for each fubflitute
for infpeetion, and underftanding it had been done
in other diffriets, under the authority of the "Iry
regulations, which Lord Roi.i.E confidered did not
apply to the MilitiO, he therefore (fated the cafe to
the SECRETARY at WAR. His anfwer Lord Rotas
has publi(hed, in Mice to thofe men who have
paid, that they may have.their money returned :
War Vie, Dee. tB, dot.
"My Lord—l have been honoured with your 1 ordfhip's
letter of the tsth in& and halm no hefitatiou in stating, in an.
Ewer thereto, my opinion, that the Surgeons attending the bal-
lot of the Militia can only be• entitled to ten shillings a day,
whatever number of ballotted men, or fubflitutes they may
examine. I have to add, that the allowances to the line cannot
be made applicable to the Militia forces during their difembo-
died *ate. I have the honour to be, Ste. (Signed) c. roan.
L Load Ralle,tro. Bina", Dow.'
' A meeting took place on the 17th infant near
Waterford, between Captain COLLINS, late of the
Ancient lri(h Fencible Regiment, and JAMES Sant.
issuip the younger, Efq. of that City. On the
figiutl being given, Captain Cowiss fired, but
happily without effeet. Mr. S. refereed his fire,
and addrefling himfelf to Captain C. declared he
felt confcious of being the original aggreffor, and
could not think of making ufe of his piflol again(}
him, and immediately difcharged it in the air;
upon which the Seconds came up, and the matter,
to the fatisfattion of all, was amicably terminated.
By a new regulation of the Police in Weflmin.
fler, a party of foldiers, headed by a Confiable,
go through the flreets, every night, and compel
the foldiers in the public-houfes to retire to quar-
tets, or be conveyed to the Guard room.

A new regulation of Watermen's fares has long
been wanting. Lord ELLENWROUGH has inteteft.-
ed himfelf much in the bufinefs, and has at length
fucceeded in forming a ftandard which is likely to
fatisfy all parties. in a few days a table of thole
fares will be laid before the public.
The Commiffioners for regulating the lighting,
&c. of the City of Bath, have fined the Contrac-
tor for the Lamps no lefs than 401. for neglef of
duty, notwithftanding he bad received repeated
admonitions,

A private letter from Paris fays, that a new ex.
pedition of not lefs than 206000 men, is about to
be tent from France to St. Domingo. LECLERC'S
NrMyt it is added, has been obliged to abandon to
the Blacks the whole plain of the North, and that
a part of the Weft is a prey to frefh maffacres and
conBagrations. The inhabitants are obliged to
perform military duty, and a nevicontributiou has
been levied in that colony.

The inhabitants of Barcelona are ere ling on
the Grand Place de la Rambla, a fuperb monument
.in honour of the vifit of their Catholic Majesties
to that city. The Prince of Peace laid the firit
(tone in the name of his Sovereign: It is to con-
_fill of a marble column, fupported by four lines
of bronze, ornamented with the portraits of the
King and Queen, and the Prince and Princefs of
Affurias, with appropriate infcriptions, and fur-
mounted by two crowns of laurel,
The town of Odefra, on the Black Sea, has be-
come a place of very confiderable trade: merchants
of good credit from every nation are ellablithed
there, who carry on an extenlive trade in all the
commodities of the Levant. There is at prefent
alfo a great trade in corn, which is fent to Italy
and the ports of France.
A plan of Public Education has been propnfed
by Citizen MeLzt, for the Italian Republic, which
is to comprehend Univerfities, Academies, Agri-
cultural and Scientific Societies, Elementary
Schools, itc. There is to be an Univerfity at
Bologna, and another at Pavia ; each of there is
,to have 30 Proferoret with a falary of sal.
and silence. NMI

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46 wan* 4 teyiourgq, in connection with the Academy of Sci•
Commirsons in the Ayrfhire Regiment of North awes. 11*.ncw regulation of the efiablifiment
Brit& Militia, ligned by the Lord Lieutenant, of the Academy of Arts, propofed -tbe:Cosn-
end a red of by his,S:Llefty. mittee, has been approved by his Istetarias Ma.
Tao` glee Melt H°ll
ItioS . Arcildbaa Lced Minaggia.' Iswri. The Academy, %mottling to thfit new
Odober es; .
Plano _recsi.T9 .4%990 NOlCCaPaufifili more thin

1171147RE5.
DRURY-LAM—The new Pantomime of Love ,
aid Magic; or, Ifark it, ?Illquin's Holiday, was laft night
attended by an overflowing audience.
The performance went off with iclat in its fevcral
parts, and the tricks and changes proved more
pleating than on the firft reprefentation. The City
white,
Barge, on a Swan-hopping voyage, changed into . On out
the Car exhibited at Vauxhall, and the metamor- It
phofis of KELLY'S Mufical Saloon into the Bank- pad
In Fa°
ingh RI
oufe of Meffrs. HAMIRSLEY, were more ra- T,
hou
pill and fuccefsfully executed. ,
Prozn I
mufical powers of Mr. &mimics, Mrs,
&mirk, and Mils TYRER, are cenfiderable addi. Nor, s'
dont to the attradionsoftlusmotley entertainment. patron
• 034 m Betray
.GARDRei.—At this Theatre the Panto.
wime of Itarkgstis's Habeas, or The Hall of Steam
, But all
attrated a Houk which was crowed in every part. The GAs the
It is unqueftionably, in point of beautiful fcenery,
rich dreffes, fuperb decorations, appropriate mufic,-
And al
and fkilful machinery, one of the molt falcinating NExten
exhibitions of this nature which the liberality Of Deign
the Manager has been accuftomed to prefent to the On the
public. The expence mutt have been uncommonly who,
great, but the popularity of the Piece promifes to Hag m
reward, in a mot} ample manner, the fpirited ex. But fel
ertions of the Proprietors.
Too pi
Several judicious alterations and improvements For wi
have been made in the progrefs of the Wines and And b
the conneaion of the incidents, and the whole is whale
now carried on without thofe interruptions, which
zsehg
but too frequently attend exhibitions of this corn. M
plicated kind upon a firft night's performance. The
at "lir