Star.
London, England, 1809-02-27 00:00:00

BREVET.

Major-General William Carr Beresford to have the rank of
Lieutenant-General during the period of his service in Por-
tugal.
lonel Thomas Graham, of the 90th Foot,to be a Major-Gene-
ral in the Army.
Tao undermentioned Officers to have a permanent
step of promotion in the Army, upon being ap-
pointed to accompany Lieutenant-General Beres-
ford upon a particular service in Portugal.
TJ be Lieutenant-Colonels—Major. Archibald Campbell, from
the 7lst Foot ; Major Wm. Cox, from the 61st Foot.
T be Majors—Captains John Brown, from the 27th Foot; Ro-
bert Wm. Patrick, from the 57th Foot; James Douglas, from
the 45th Foot; Richard Bushe, from the 7th Foot; J. M.
Doyle, from the 87th Foot; John Waters, from the Royals;
William Milieu', from the 6th Foot ; Charles Talbot, from
the sth Foot ; Thomas Noel Hill, from the 53d Foot; and John
Campbell, from the 10th Foot.

STAFF.
Captain Robert Colon!, of the Commissariat Corps of Waggoners,
to be Assistant-Commissary to the Forces serving in Ireland,
vice Ormsby, deceased. Mr. ACKERMANN has authorized us to inform our
The King's German Legion. I Readers, that his next number of the Refiository of
1 Arts and Fashions, to be published on the Ist March,
31 Light Dragoons—Major Ulrich de Tobing, from the Ist Dm- !
goons, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, with temporary rank, vice will contain, in addition to many interesting subjects,
Crusius, who retires on an allowance. 1 a Fac-Simile of a line of a Latin Poem, found and
Ist Dragoons—Captain Christian Fischer, from the ed Dragoons, I unrolled by Mr. HAYTER from the Pompeian Papyri,
to be Major, with temporary rank, vice Tobing, promoted in 1
and also an authentic communication respecting the
the 34 Light Dragoons.
9d Ditto—Lieutenant George de Weyhe to be Captain, with I Merino Sheep, which has been made to him by a Gen-
temporary rank, vice Fischer, promoted in the Ist Dragoons; `.tleman lately arrived from Spain, and who has passed
Cornet !William Seger to be Lieutenant, vice de Weyhe. I a great part of his life in that kingdom. This corn-
-Ist Battalion of the Line—Lieutenant Charles Dettmering to be I
Captain, with temporary rank, vice Wurmb, promoted in the I mumcation embraces every kind of information thattnk,
can be desired on this very important subject.
sd Battalion of the Line; Ensign George Henry Baron Ho- I
denberg, to be Lieutenant, vice Dettmering ; and Serjeantf 1 Mrs. MATTHEW, No. 17, Charles-street, Covent-
Major --- Meyer, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Hodenberg. garden, has experienced the good effect of the Asi E•
3d Ditto--Captain _,VIoI. Baron Wurmb, from the Ist Battalion
of the Line, to be Major, with temporary rank, vice Behr, . RICAN SOOTHING SYRUP : her infant was reduced to
who retires on an allowance. a mere skeleton, through the extreme torture and dif-
CO Ditto—Captain Ferdinand Baron Ompteda to be Major, with fieulty it laboured under in Cutting its Teeth, and
temporary rank, vice I.asperg, promoted in the Bth Battalion '%
of the Line ; Lieutenant George Wolkenhaar to be Captain of ; to all appearance it must have died, without speedy
a Company, with temporary rank, vice Ompteda ; and Endo, • relief—but fortunately she heard the great benefit
John Anton Schaedher to be Lieutenant, vice Wolkenhaar, Children had received from this Medicine ; after ex-
promoted. I periencing many restless nights with her Child, sent
sib Ditto--Major George Baron Lasperg, from the 6th Battalion for a Bottle, and rubbed its gums ; after rubbing the
of the Line, to be Lieutenant Colonel, with temporary rank,
gums three times the child got better, and in
vice Muller, who retires on an allowance. child's
Troop of Manx Yeomanry Cavalry—William Corlett, Gent. to two days had several Teeth through.—To be had of
be filar, vice Brew, who resigns. 1 the proprietor, J. Johnson, No. 94, Newman-street,
Commission in the Royal Cheshire Militia, signed by . Oxford-road ; and retail of Golding, 42, Cornhill,
the Lord Lieutenant. . land all the principal Medicine Venders in town and
Francis Tag?" Gent. robe Lieutenant. Dated Feb. 11, 111011. country, at 2s. 9d. a bottle.
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UNIVERSITY' INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, FEB. 20.—The scholarship founded by William
Battie, M.D. for the best proficient in classical learning, is decided
in favour of Mr. Loosdale, scholar of King's College. The con-
test has been the severest ever known. To the credit of the junior
members of the university, there were 24 candidates, which on
former occasions seldom exceeded 6 or 8.
The late Rev. lames Devie, vicar of Standground, Hunts, has
bequeathed to Emmanuel College, (of which society he was for-
merly a fellow,`. X2OOO, stock in the 4 per cent. consols, the inte-
rest of which he has directed shall be applied as an augmentation
to the mastership. He has also bequeathed to the Governors of
Addenbrooke's hospital in this town, X2OO, which he had placed
oat upon some turnpike securities.
Oxsoun, Fr is. 25.—Friday the 10th instant, the Rev. William
Buckland, of Corpus Christi College, M.A. was admitted fellow
of that society.
Tuesday the 21st instant, the following Gentlemen were ad-.
mined to degrees :
Master of Arts—Rev. Wm. Jopson Haswell, B. A. of Corpus
Christi College
Bachelors of Arts—Messrs. Edward Vincent and lyhn lope, of
Exeter College.
• The Rev. R. Gatehouse, ram* of Corpus Christi tollege, in
this university, is instituted to the rectory of North Chariton, void
1 by the death of the Rev. S. Gatehouse.

Bow-STREET.—Saturday two women, mother and
daughter, in whose house, in Wych-street, the body
of an ingnt,in an high state of putrescence, was dis-
covered in a band-box, by some officers in executing a
warrant of distress, were brought up for examination,
when the elder prisoner stated that a-woman who re-
sides at Islington was the mother of the clad ; that
she had ealled on a visit, and was suddenly taken in
travail. A surgeon attended, who deposed, that from
the putrid state of the body, it having lain three weeks
in the box, it was impossible to ascertain whether it
had been born alive.—The prisoners were committed
for re-examination. •
Or. Friday night, as Mr. Powell, the Performer, of
Drury-lane theatre, was standing in Covent-Garden
to view the conflagration, a woman solicited him to
give her some money ; when he gave her a shilling,
and immediately after missed his gold watch and
seals; suspecting she had picked his pocket he punned
her, and his watch was found in her hand. blie was,
on Saturday, committed for trial.
WIIITECHAPEL.—Saturday Sarah Lad' e, a pauper,
was fully committed, charged with stealing six sheets,
the property of the parish officers of St. George's in
the East.
Graham, of Elemere, in Yorkshire, was last
week shot by a man whom he observed lurking about
his grounds. The ball passed through his arm, and
lodged in his body.
Thursday as a fine boy, son of Mr. Croel:, brewer,
at Guildford, was playing on the bank of the river,
at that place, he unfortunately fell in ; and although
he struggled upon the surfiice f. r a considerable
time, in the presence of several spectators, yet as
none of them could swim, he at length sunk to rise
no more.
Friday Stems, shopman to a draper, in Pic-
' cadilly, was killed, in crossing that street, near the top
of the Haymarket, by a chariot wheel going over his
neck. He was attempting to cross between some
carriages, having a weighty packet under his arm,
when he was knocked down by a horseman, at the
very"mament the carriage was approaching him.
Early in the morning of Wednesday last a fire
broke out in the counting-house, adjoining the dwell-
ing-house of Mr. Stephen Simmonds, in Northgate-
street, Canterbury, occasioned, it is conjectured, by
the :Mao( a candle having fallen among some papers,
and communicating with some gunpowder, by which
an explosion was oceastotted; which fortunately alarmed
the family in time to prevent any other mischief than
that of blowing out the tide of the building, and de•
stroying a few account-books and papers.
A fire broke out on Thursday night, at the house
of Captain Younger, at Bradbury, Herts, which con-
sumed the same ; and upwards of .50 head of cattle
in the.oitt-houses fell sacrifices to the flames.