Star.
London, England, 1801-01-03 00:00:00

FAST INDIA SHIPPING.

Yefterdav a Court of Dire&ors was held at the
Eaft India Houfe, when the following officers were
fworn into the command of their reipeCtive !hips :
—Captain GEORGE GOOCH, of the SIR STEPHEN
Los HINGTON ; Captain JAMES SANDMAN°, of the
WALPCILE ; and Captain JAMES FARQNHARSON, of
the ALFRED, for Madras; Captain HENRY WIL- I
SON, of the WARLEY ; and Captain J. P. FEARON,
of the BELVIDERE, for China.—The Court adjourn-
ed, at a late hour, till Tnefday next.
The following is a lift of Eaft India (hips, of
the feafon 1799, expeCted to arrive in the prefent
year, viz.

From Bengal—The Lady Jane Dundaa, Captain the Hon.
Hugh Lindfay; the Bengal, Captain Adam Cumlne ; Lord
Waliingham, Captain Thomas Smales ; Earl Spencer, Captain
Charles Raitt ; Rockingham, Captain' Thomas Butler; Mel.
vine Cagle, Captain John Lambe; Telliehcrry,Capt%in Samp.
lon Baker; Traverfe,Captain T. Sanders; Skelton Caltle, Cap-
tain Matthew Backe; and Herculean, Captain John R. Frank-
lin.

From Bengal and Bombas=The Phernix, Captain William
Moffat ; Cattle Eden, Captain Alexander Cuming ; and City
of I.oni:on, Captain Abrabam Green.
• From Bombay and China—The Cirenceiter, Captain Tho-
mas Robertfon ; Earl Talbot, Captain J. H. Dempfter ; Gan-
ges, Captain Alexander Gray ; and Canton, Captain Thomas
L.Whington.
From St. Helena, Bencoolen, and China—The
Captain Campbell Marjoribanks.
From St. Helms and China—The Hugh Inglis, Captain
William Fairfax.

From Bencoolen—The Kent, Captain Robert Rivington.
From Coaft and Cbina—The Ceres, Captain George Stevens;
Walthamftow, Captain William Taylor Money ; Lady Burge.,
Captain A. F. W. Swinton ; Marquis Wellefley, Captain Bruce
Mitchell; Lord Nelfon, Captain Robert Spottifwood ; Earl of
St. Vincent, Captain John Brooke Sampfon; and Brunfwick,
Captain Jame. L. Grant.

From China—The Bombay Cackle, Captain John Hamihon
Neptune, Captain Nathaniel Spa,,; Exeter, Captain Henry
Menton ; Coutts, Captain Robert Twin; and Dorfetfhire,
Captain John Rarnfden.
The Company's (hips the Lord Thurlow, Captain William
Thomfon ; Walpole, Captain Corbyn Morris Venner ; and
Alia, Captain Robert Wardlaw, for Coaft and Bay; thc Wind-
ham, for St. Helena, Bengal, and Bencoolen ; and the Fort
William, Captain Jofeph Boulderfon, and Worcefter, for Bom-
bay,are feverally appointed to fail to Gravelend on the rsth

The Ihips CALCUTTA, ANNA OF BOMBAY, and
ANNA OF BENGAL, have arrived at Bombay from
England. They came to this country in July 1799,
ana were difpatched for India in November fol-
lowing.

We learn from Bombay that his Majefly's chip
the VICTORIOUS failed from Point de Galle on the
7th of April. The SUTFOLK and CENTURION were
at Mangalore on the 17th ditto waiting for the Im-
re E Pia, at which place the Vic roaious was fhort-
ly exptacd.
A French brig privateer, which has for Tome
time pail been cruizing off dafulipatam, has been
captured by a vefrel belonging to the Bombay Ma.
rine. This privateer has been very fuccefsful in
her cruizcs, and had captured three veffels and
font them to the Mauritius, one of which was an
Arab, and reported to be richly laden, configned
to Mufcat.

AL:vice has been received of the capture of two
French privateers, of 24 guns each, in the Ea(
named l'Uni, and Clariffe : the former by
the ARP oo A wr, 0174 guns, Captain OSBORN ; and
the latter by the LEOPARD, of so guns, Rear-Ad-
miral BLANKET. L'Uni had previous to her be-
ing taken captured the Helen, SyswAav, from
Madras to China.
Th! Caledonia, CtriteY, from Jamaicato Lon-
don, is taken and carried into Calais.

It is thought that there is no truth in the report
of the THUNDIR bomb having been carried into
an enemy's port by her crew. A naval officer,
who has lately returned from Gibraltar, Rates, that
at the time of his leaving that place, the Tx u NDE
was lying there in a !late totally unfit for fea.
Wednefday morning, about two o'clock,a heavy
gale of wind fprung from the North-call, with vivid
flalles of lightning. Several veils in the Pool
ftalted from their moorings; after which fucceeded
raia and fleet, which ended in a heavy fall of fnow.
Ditnifh Government is ufing every exertion
to have a refpedahle naval force fiady for fea by
the neat fpring. Eight fail of the line, a frigate,
and two cutters, are already equipped ; and it is
rcportrd that t 4 more fhips of war of different
rates %. ill be fpredily put in commiffion.
E‘t rad of a letter from Lieutenant HEALY, of
the NIGER frigate, to an eminent banktr in Cork :
The Barcelona tranfadion you have perceived,
is a good deal abufcd by the manifefto of his Ca-
tholic Majeßy's Minifter. The whole declaration,
I can affure You, upon my word, is, for the moll
part, vilely talfe • a malicious mifreprefentation to
palliate the moil barefaced cowardice and unparal-
leled neglect of duty that ever difgraced a country
or a people. The Swedifh veffel was of no aifift-
ance to us whatfoever,we examined her papersootd
that was all the intercourfc we had with her.—
There is one comfort, however, I troll, in referve,
and that is, whenever the Spanifh Captain is
brought to trial, his difgrace will be inevitable—it
is pretty clear he muff be fhot, as he threw him-
felt, with two or three officer;, while the crew Rill
deEnded the veffel, from the cabin windows into
a boat which lay under the Rern ; and to avoid the
guillotine, has given rife to the above report."
Saturday a Court-Martial was held on board
the GLADIATOR, in Portfmouth harbour, on Afrx-
andcr Moody and Job* feamen, belonging
to the RAMILIe. floop for defertion.—The charge
being proved, they Were feotenced to reteivo too
lathes ea* and forfcit all their pap

TliE *ROE OF WALT ACE.

BY THOMAS CAMPBELL, Z.SQ.:.

•
AI:11110a OF " Tilt F1.r.15131.:.$ OF HOPE."

They lighted a taper at the dead .., pigl.t,
And charmed" their hull, fl H!, ;
But her Brow and her Bofoni were damp v.:,11
alfright—
kl Eye was all &eiders and dim !
And the Lady of Eloaasr.te wept for her Lord,
When a Death-watch beat in her lonely room,
When her Curtain had Ihuok of its own accord,
And the Raven had flapp'd at her Window-board—
To tell of her Warrior's doom!
" Now, fing ye the Death-tong, and loudly rimy
" For the Soul of my Knight fo dear;
" And call me a Widow this wretched day,
" Since the warning of GOD is here!
• For a Night-mare rides on my Rrangled Beep:--
" The I.ord of my Bofom is doom'd to die ;
" His valorous Heart they have wounded deep;
" And the blood-red tears Shall his Country weep
" For WALLACE of Elderffie !"
Yet knew not his Country that ominous hour,
Ere the loud Matin Bell was rung,
That a Trumpet of Death on an Englilb tower
Had the Dirge cf her Champion rung!
When his dungeon-light look's' dim and red.
On the high-born blood of a Martyr fiain,
No Anthem was lung at his holy death-bed;
No weeping there was when his Bofom bkd—
And his Heart was rent in twain !

Ob, it was not thus when his Oaken Spear
Was true to that Knight forlorn,
And bolls of a thoufand were leatter'd, like Deer
At the Matt of the Hunter's Horn;
When he tirade on the wreck of each well-fought field
Wt.!' the yellow-haied Chiefs of his native Land;
For kit Lance was not illiver'd on helmet or Mild—
And the Sword that firma fit for Archangel to wild
Was light in his terrible hand!
Yet bleeding and bound, thi7 the WALLAC X Wight
For his long Wed Country die,
The Bugle ne'er rung to a braver Knight
Than WILLIAM of Elderllie!
But the day of his glory than never depart ;
His head unentomb'd mail with glory be pained;
From its bloodArearning altar his Spirit thall Ran ;
The the Raven has fed on his mouldering Hmt,
• nobler was never cmlsalm%l !

Late 'aft night Mr. Ross, one of his Majefty's
Meffengers, left town, charged with Government
difpatches to Lord MI NTO, Amhafrader at the
Court of Vienna ; they arc, it is faid, of great im-
portance, as the courier was to take his palrage
from Yarmouth in a fall failing frigate.
The Imperial Parliament pofitively meets, for
the difpatch cf butinefs, on the sad infiant.—See
the Proclamation.
A Proclamation for a General Fait, on the r ath
of nest month in Scotland, and the 13th in Eng-
land and Ireland, is about to be immediately ilrued.
Colonel ERSKINE, of the 15th dragoons, is ap•
pointed Aid-de-Camp to the KING, and he is
shortly to be married to Lady LOUISA PAGET,
dayAhter of the Earl of Us IDG r.
WALTPR SPENCER STANHOPE, Efq. has been
ananimoully elefted Member of Parliament for
the borough of Cockermouth, in the room of the
late EDWARD BURROW, Efq.
Preparations are making at Chatfwortb, in Der-
byfbire, for the marriage of Lord MORPETH with
Lady GEORGIAN A CAVENDISH. The ceremony,
it is reported, will take place on the 15th inflant.
The Earl and Countefs of BEssoßouGH are at
prefent at Chatfworth. Lord and Lady HOL-
LAND, fince the death of their child, refide in Lord
BESSOROUG H'S honfe in Cavendifil-fquare. . .

An impprtant dircovery has juil i;zen made by
our almanac calculators, though too late for their
publithed works. The fourth of jaw, which has
fo long been dear to the loyalty of our country-
men, Is a feflival no more. His MAJESTY was
born on the 24th of May, 1738, and completes
his fixty-third year on the JO of June, 18oi.
Whether the Court will think proper to notice this
alteration, we know not, but it is required by con-
fifiency and accuracy.
A queftion new arifes, whether the Dukes of
GRAFTON, RUTLAND, BE•UPORT, RICHMOND, Sr.
ALBAN'3, and Lord SOUTHAMPTON, are to pre-
ferve the armorial flew-de•&, now they arc ex-
punged from the royal fhield ?
A new Striae is to be built at Brighton. The
Duke of MARLBOROUGH, and others, patronife
the undertaking.
THE THEATRES.--The g.t. of SHAKESPEARE
and of CuMBERLAND were laft night prefented, the
former at Covent-Garden, and the latter at Drury-
lane. Both had their attradtion and their merits;
and BANHISTAR, in Sbeva, at one houfe gained no
lets applaufe than did Coors, in *loci, at the
other. _ - -

The remains of the late Mrs. Ronson were
interred in a private manner, on Wednefday, at
Old Windfor.
Lord DERBY has given over hunting for the
prefent feafon, with a view of inducing the num-
bet* of Gentlemen who hunt with his hounds to
decreafe the confumption of oats which is ufually
given to their horfes during the feafon. It is cal-
culated that two hundred hunters are conftantly
kept through the winter, at Croydon and the
neighbourhood.
By an account lately tranfmitted to the Board
of Admiralty from Dr. TROTTILR, 4 phyfician of
emience' in his Majefty's Navy, and (ince publithed
by that Gentleman in the London Medical and
Phytical Journal, it appears from repeated trials
made under the Doetor s immediate dircaion, that
the Sea Scurry is now found to yield complocly
and readily to the effects of the Concrete or Cryf-
talifed Lemon Juiec, as prepared by Mr. Cox w s L L,
of.Temple-Bar. In addition to this, a further
account of its good effects has jolt been forwarded
to the Board of Admiralty, from a report of the
Surgeon of one of the !hips in the fquadion of
Rcar•Admiral the Hon. GIORGS Briteatty, at
whole esintfunqueß the Commie Jaice was tried.

BRITISH 41R.111:

aate...611 diftribution of the Di it:111 Army, kin. 1..
Regular,. F.v AM. Md. Tot. A%
11.11.6°m"
G.tv. rfirnPry.
P 44.
nigland and 24 1 4 74 120 31
North tirltd:is r 1 12 14

7 11 ;2 sc 6
Tcrf •j, Gmernky, 11 20
In the ftarritouJ tit Gib-1 9
rdhar, Minorca, and
N!alta, and on &Tett SI 44 4
Service in the Medic.
Portl,t;:d
North .Amer'-1 -
Welt Indic.
Cape of Good Hop:
I alt Indict
On nal.. 'runt Abroad
t 144 45 86 3t6' 61
(a) Including the 6i!th Fo,o, two Battalion;.
(a) the to:tipany.!: Troup; txclutivc.
Exelulte of A r;il!ery and i:pgint,m at home and abroad,
!nderntient Ai: it Companic, of Rzimecas
on Foreign Stdtliwi,Rert.i!ing Corrs, 3tc.

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The CHANCELLOR Of tae Ex,: :4 7..,J'7R. CI n d yer-
tcrilay with Mr. Secretary DUN DA S al Wimbledon
Archduchefs NInalAUNt, fi.:111eIly Abl•ccs
of Prasite, has anived at Vienna, on I:er way tram
Triette to Italy, where to fun.! a convent.

A private letter from St. J.,hn d'Acrit, flatss,
that 6, if the Europe in troops expeet.d in t-;) ria
di not brintr proviiiitos with them they will be
ltarveci in that part of the Les ant, which i, cn•
tirely ruined by the war.—The itland of Cyprus
no longer affords any refources."
In the Monikar of the 2ctli December. there is
a letter from a French merchant who bad been
f nt by General Ii.LERTR frcm Eyyri , hi trier !o
procure intelligene.: of w!lat was n.itin!, in Franco.
This merchant paired for a Proffian,..u.d aft,' i;•-
veral peregrinations, lie arrived at Coini,:ntii.t,ple,
where he fasts he gct himfelf ; .ntro(litccd anion-;
the corps diploniatique. One paffage of the letter
is curious : I loon difeoveteil, i;ivs he, the ani.
many which exitts between Lord Eecra and the
former Charge d'Affaires, SPENCER SMITH. I
cultivated the acquaintance of the latter as much
as potlible, the former being a man of no talent..
—On the contrary, SMITH is a perfon of pene-
tration, addrefs, and of great ambition. I pre-
tended to be indebted for my efcape from Egypt
to his brother, the Commodore, whofe exploits I
extolled fo highly that SPENCER thought he could
not do lets than give me a friendly reception.
—The means I employed to gain his confidence
arc too long to he explained ; but in a few days,
enraged to fee the Convention concluded by his
brother, broken, be at lafi, to relieve his choler,
told me that the opportunity of a grand firoke of
policy had been 101 l ; that as foon as the evacua-
tion of Egypt fhould have taken place, the Englifh
troops were to have taken poffellion of Alexandria,
Rofetta, Damietta, and Suez, and formed great
commercial ellablifhments." The merchant then
Pays that he had .''ant intelligence of this to Egypt,
to thew the neceffity keeping poffetlion of that
colony.
On Saturday er,nl.7, a molt fcrious difturbance
took place in Hull market, or: mating in a very
trig ial caufe. An old woman having purchafed
tome potawes,liaving occafion for change, the ven-
der gave her a bad alining, which (he &el not at
ficti obferve. She had not left the Itall long be-
ft,re the difeoversd the impofition, when fit: return-
ed to die man, who refuted to eNclialige the flai-
ling. The confufion caufed by the altercation prc-
duced an immenfe crowd, who immediately &at-
&red. the fellow's potatoes, and demoliffied his
cart. This occatictiled a general alarm amohg
the butchers, &c. who (hut up their (hops; and
thofe who had nails departed with their meat.—
The mob, enraged at this, tore up fume of the
Halls, and then proceeded to a flour mill on the
Holdernels Turnpike, which they gutted in a very
Ilion time, and entirely wafted a quantity of flour.
The aaivity of the Magiftratcs was very great :
they called out the Eaft Yotk militia, and read
the riot aft ; when, by their prompt exertions,
peace was rettored, and a few of the molt attive
rioters taken.

The Caithnefs Highlanders are ordered to march
from WateriOrd for Ferrnoy, &c.—The Ent&
troops marched ince Waterford from Cork, to re-
main there till further orders.—The &it divifcn
of the Kilkenny militia has marched for Dungar, ,
van; the remainder of that regiment is to be qual.
tered in other places in the County of Waterfor.'.
On the 22d ult. Lieutenant Twat! som and
eight of the Rathdrum cavalry, difcovered at Call
tlekevan, near Rathdrum, three of Dwyer's afre-
dates concealed in a cavity under a clump of
turf, in an out-honfe, from whence they rufhed on
the Lieutenant andone of the troop; (the rest being
difperfed into other parts adja(ent on the fearch)
on the inftant they fired on Mr.Tord LIN SON and his
companion, but without effe&, and then with pre-
cipitancy ran for the open country, which they
reached, by reafon of the leattered Rate of the troop.
The difchargc of mulketry, however, having col-
leted them, a purfuit began, during which the
' purfued kept up a !harp fire, being well armed
and provided with ammunition, and priming and
loading with furprifing alacrity ; their knowledge
of the country too gave them an advantage, as
they kept the hogs and heights, which the yeomen
perceiving, Come difmounting,diCudged them from
their flrong holds, and after a time, 'Ancircw 'lliu-
mas was killed, and John Byrne houfed and taLn.
John Harman ended a moll mitaculotis eiCape :
being now left alone, he betook liimfclf to a
conflant flight, dirc.ling his courfe towards the
Seven Churches. After a Chace of upwards of
five miles through the country, during which he
was fo fleet, that he heat two the bell heft, of

the troop, till th.Tpurfuers having loft fiLlst of him
in ,a thick milt on the top of the mountain (Are:-
St. Cavan's bed, and night coming on, they
thought it advifeable to return to their party.—
Harman in his flight threw off All hi; cloaths.—
The houfe where they *etc dircovered was con.
fumed, and during the conflagration upwards of
too rounds of cartidge exploded from the thatch.
There were alto 46 rounds found on the proclaimed
perfogs.