Star.
London, England, 1812-03-19 00:00:00

JOHN HORNE TOOKE, E. g.

This celebrated philosophical and political writer
died at Wimbledon, at an early hour this morning.
An express with the intelligence arrived in town this
afternoon.

The Meeting of the Common-Hall, for address;cg
the PRINCE REGENT on the subject of an extend d
Administration, which was to have taken pla:e this
day, has been postponed by request of the Lop)
MAYOR.

Mr. and Mrs. TYLNEY POLE WELLESLEY are still at
Blackheath, which they leave to-morrow for Wan-
stead-House, in Essex. It is inconceivable the num-
ber of letters (anonymous ones) the Lady received
prior to her marriage ; they entirely filled a Urge
travelling•case, and each betrayed the writer's mo-
tives. A singular circumstance attended the wedding s
on the arrival of the happy pair at the Hymeneal
altar, the bridegroom was applied to by Doctor
GLASSE for the ring ; he had forgotton to procure this
necessary testimonial. Some confusion at ose in con-
sequence, but on recovering from it, a messenger
was dispatched to a jeweller in Piccadilly, who im-
mediately attended with an assortment, and then the
ceremony proceeded without further interruption.
Letters were yesterday received from Holland,
which state, that the whole of the conscription for
the present year has been compelled to join different
French corps. Heretofore it was thought sufficient
to• call two-thirds of the conscripts into active service,
but now no deduction is allowed. Large sums have
consequently been offered for substitutes, but two
thousand florins have been rejected, and the sons of
the most respectable inhabitants are compelled to
march. The number of young men between the age
of twenty-one and twenty-two, raised in two districts
only, amounts to two thousand.

Two Petitions were sent up last week from Ber-
wick—one to the House of Peers, and the other to
the Commons, for the repeal of the Religious Penal
Laws. Each of these Petitions extended in length
upwards of 12 yards, of double columns of names,
closely written.

EAST INDIA MONOTOLY.—Wednesday se'nnight
there was the most numerous and respectable meet-
ing ever held Birmingham, of the merchants, ma-
anfacturers, and other inhabitants, convened by the
High Bailiff, to take into consideration the propriety
of petitioning Parliament against the renewal of the
East India Company's charter, so far as it excludes
British merchants from trading to the East ; when
it was unanimously resolved, "that the commercial
monopoly of the East India Company ought to be to-
tally discontinued, at the termination of their present
charter." The business was opened by the High
Bailiff, who concluded a long and spirited address in
' tbe following words The East India Company
have a monopoly of all the shores and 'continent of
the vast Pacific Ocean. Why not give them the lit-
tle. brooks and currents of the Atlantic ? .They will
then have the whole globe. Of what use is to us the
dominion of the sea, if the sea is to be shut up to our
merchants ? But the sca will be shut no longer.—
The necessities of the people have awakened them to
a sense of their interests and their rights ; and from
one extremity of the Empire to the other, the pub-
lic voice will be heard in a way that will never be
resisted."

LtvestrooL, MARCH 17.—Pursuant to notice a
Meeting of the inhabitants of Liverpool was, this
day, held in the Town Hall, for the purpose of taking
into consideration the propriety of petitioning Parlia-
ment for a participation in the trade to the East
Indies, on the expiry of the Company' Charter—the
MAYOR of the town in the Chair. After a neat speech
from Mr. Roscoe, pointing out the propriety and jus-
tice of that trade being laid open, and chewing the
beneficial effects that would accrue to the public in
general, and this town in particular, from such a
measure, both in a mercantile and political point of
view ; it was unanimously resolved, 'that a petition
Ito that effect be presented to Parliament, and a Com-
mittee of 41 was appointed to carry the Resolution
into effect. More unanimity was never manifested.
lon any occasion. There was not a single dissenting
I voice. The Meeting was attended by the most re-
spectable inhabitants of the town ; indeed the num-
ber was so great, that not one-fourth could gain ad-
mittance to the Halt

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TIIE ARMY.
A detachment of Officers and privates is oiler
orders to join the 49th regiment of taw. stationed in
Canada, and which *ill prattled to Quebec by tisk.
present Spring ffeet.
Lieutenant-General Sir Grottos Paavorr, Com-
mander of the forces in Canada, has been swank.
Itingly occupied in taking every measure of military
precaution in the event of a rupture with America.
The Radnor Militia &arched oa Thursday last
from Athlone, into barracks, in the Phcenix Park, near
Dublin, where they are to be quartered.
Captain %MLA of the 19th Light Dragoons, last
week left Clonmel, for England, to offer himself a
Candidate for Berkshire.
The Carlow Regiment of Militia (Irish) which has
been stationed at Embalms Barracks for the lan
three months, has march d in two divisions for
Hastings Barracks.

Captain Dumas,, of the Sd Dragoon (lairds, is
sufficiently recevered from his long indisposition to
be able to proceed to Lisbon to resume his command
of the Cavalry Depot there.

!NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

FALMOUTH, MARCH is.
Arrived the Drake, Maria, and Resolution coasters.
from Guernsey. Sailed the Pursuit for Madeira, and
the Fife for Barbadoes.—Wind N. E.
' PLYMOUTH, MARCH 11.
Arrived the Alert, SHAND, from Nova Scotia,
bound to Dover; the SPARROW sloop of war from a
cruize, and is appointed convoy for Corunna. Put
back the Spanish brig Union, bound to London ;
sailed under convoy of the ELEcra.i gun-brig.

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH IS.
His Majesty's ship Prtonus with the ships for the
Mediterranean sailed from Spithead this day, but are
brought up at St. Helen's. Arrived the Amiable,
COWING, from Charleston.--Wind S. S.W.

DEAL, MARCH to.
Sailed the DESIREE and Cvcsn to the Northward.
Remain hts M..jesty's ships as per last._•Wiad

SHIPS ARdIVED.
Ar Dublin—the Polly, Reiman, from Cadlt, and the Shwa,
Hughes, from London.
11 At Cott —"lnv Orion, &evens, from Boston.
At Belfast—The Phoebe, Cavan, from St. Michael's, and the
Friends, Conway, from Tenerife.
Off Margate—The Juno, Redttrtn, from Charlestown, with
loss of anchor and cable.
At Newry--The Harriet, Garland, from Leedom
In the hives—The Oporto, Cenral, from Limerick with low
of anchor and cable.
At Barba-dock-11e Alice, Frost; John, Spencer; Lady John.
'stop-, Foubrster ; Lucy,Young ; Adeona. Ford; Doredrg Forster.
Sowden; and Unity, Edgar, from London • Tipr,
Liverpool; Man, Falconer; Caroline, liodg;cia; and Wiry
Brom from London.
At Dundalk7—The John, Laurie, ditto.

DISTRIBUTION OF PRI*E-111IONBY.
Ardent, Dreadnought, Russel, and Venerable, far the INIktiVI
Betide Kam, Eendraght; Morgesorin, Gods Verwegting, end
De Vriede; abd Albion, fur the stone, except the last, et the
Once ol Mr. E. Lochrer, at Plymouth, on Fraley. and there re-
Drlcapert,far tie Lynboinn. en Friday nett, 4f then In part I.
tantnad at ih Great George.street, Weamiustar.
.Dryad, for the St. Jean, la Louisa, and It. Fru:wok, on bee at.
rival at Plymouth; recalled at I, 3&k-cost, Temple.
Belvidere, for the Balder, Thor, and Portant Arbon, for the
Catherine Augusta • Brunawkk, for FUnion ; sod Prantos, for
the Vrow Elisabedr,Nortk Mad, and Fame • and Ceed!ltan. for •
Is Bragg/mkt, will be paid, and rotelled at Aresdel.strget.
NAVAL. APPOINTMENTS,
Captain John Simpson to the Chatham, pro trwspefe, to ref.'s*
Captain Graham Moore.
The Rev Archdema Owen, Chaplarg.Generel to the Army,
to be Chaplain-Goma to the Fleet.
Lieutenant Jobs Taylor to the HaranraL
Lieutenant J. T. Jeans to the Bristol.
Lieutenant T. Leigh to the Ceres skip-vessel, at Cbseass. ie
the room of Ligament Leaver, to the Martial gun-wand, is the
Downs.

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Lieutenant Edward Stuart to the Royal Oak, at Portsmoethe
Captain Lake to the Magnificent at Plymouth.
Captain George Price to command the Hot,pur.
Honourable Captain Percy.
Lieutenant Prosper Ambrose to the Egmont, in the Down%
Lieutenant P. H. Douglas to the Royal Oak, at Purtamo.ch.
Lieutenant O. E. Wright to the Chatham,
Lieutenant John Eveleigh to the Chatham, at Woolwich.
Captain Charles Bateman to command ti.e Revenge, at Cad=.
Lieutenant George Goose to the She!drake sloop, at Sheerness.
Lieutenant John Wilkinson to the Tonnant, at Plymouth.
Captain W. King, late Captain of theHannlbal, to the Coma&
Lieutenrnt G. C. Johr.son to the Bristol, at Portsmouth.
Lieutenants Alex. M'Leod, Matthew Conolly, and Charles
Hobart, to the Pozbone frigate, commanded by Captain Fine.
Li, utenant R. Davies to the Tonnant, at Plymouth.
Mr. J. Dupree, the Purser of the Stag, to be Purser of the
Ills, a new 60-gun ship. •
Lieutenant Edward Purcell to the Marlborough, lo the Dowfteet
Captain & Pyni to command the Hannibal, until relievea.bir
Captain Sir M. Seymour, by an eat:bongo for the Niemen Mem,
Mr. F. F. Beale to be Parser of the Temeraire, at Plymenctl.
The Ann, a large American ship, was loading at'
Smyrna. in December, bound to Liverpool, and is
supposed to he the ship which was carried into Cher.
burg on the llth instant.
The Lodisa; EVAliti; the Alert, ltistwr ; and the
Chester, alt Al.; from London to Dublin ; and the
Levant, 4E18361, from London to Belfast, put into
Milford the 13th instant.
The Union, HAM ; and the Agenoria, Human;
from Waterford to London ; and the Adventure,.
Siuoss, from Dublin to Chichester, put into Pen-
zance the 15th Instant.
The Rschael and Ann, —, from Liverpool to
Malta, sailed on Saturday last, and got on shore on
Norththe Bank, but floated off the next Rood, and
proceeded to sea.

-, to relieve do

Aucorr.--This town, which Suchet is now b.:N.
sieging, is a place of considerable strength. It ist
however, very ill built, and few of its edifice's are dis.
tingui.shed by their architecture ; its streets are for the
must part narrow. The port of Alicant is situated upon
a tongue of narrow land, which 'advances consider;
ably into the sea, and which is nearly of a semicir.
culir figure, in the centre of which vessels anchor,
with the greatest security. A mountain rises behind
the town; the castle, situated upon its summit, is foe.
Lifted frith care, and extends considerably beyond tht
limits of this ancient fortrest.
Saturday last. Morrison Kitorr and ,Tolns s;vii 464
tied before the Court ofJustioarYs aiSdiebollAsl6r
the milder of Ann Halliday, ip nbcin.se of it fame
• .
The -prisoneri *ea 'actinitted, • thi'llerdict "being
ploven."