Star.
London, England, 1814-12-17 00:00:00

THE AR mr.

Tuesdaylast the Staffof the Bedford Militia marched
into Woodbridge Barracks.
The 2d R0y,41 Veteran Battalion marched on Mon-
day from Canterbury, on their route to Chelsea, where
it is expected they will be disbanded.
The 2d Battalion of the 47th and 65th Regiments
of Foot arrived at Chatham on the 7th instant, from
Liverpool, and will assist in doing garrison duty till
they embark for India.
Thursday the Brunswick Hussars returned to
Isl(.rwich.
A party of the Bedford Militia having been lately
ordered from Colchester to Lynn, to assist the civil
power, the inhabitants of Bury St. Edmund's, with
that humanity and loyalty for which they are so emi-
nently distinguished, supplied the party at their sole
expense with waggons to The t ford. The soldiers had
marched 1(3 miles to Bury.
(ctßceLait.) wdita-orrice, Mc. 10.
His Royal Highness the Panic! ReCaNT having been gra-
ciously pleased to to►e into consideration the situation of the
Officers of the British Army, who, having been prisoners of war
in France, have incurred a loss by an unfavourable Exchange
in the Receipt of their Pay, white in confinement, acid• having
directed, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, that
the loss so incurred shall be made Food to such' Off errs; I
have therefore to desire that you will call upon the Officers
belonging to Corps in your Agency, for a statement of their
respective Lasses on this bead, which you will transmit to
this office, accompanied by the Bills drawn by them fur their
pay, while in captivity.

Yesterday, at two o'clock; his Royal Highness
the PRINCE REGENT held a Court at Carlton House,
which was attended by—
His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador, the President of
the Council, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Privy Seal, the
First Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Mahter-General of the
Ordnance, the Secretaries of State for the H sole and War De-
partments, the President of the Board of Control, the Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Master of the Mint, the Lord
Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, the Lord Cham-
berlain, the Lord Steward, the Vice-Charnherlaiti, the Comp-
Inner of the Household, the Recoreer of London, Ste.
His Royal Highness held a Privy Council, which
was attended by all those of the above who have the
honour of being Privy Councillors, at which Viscount
CHETWYND presided as Clerk.
Yesterday the Mate of a packet arrived at the
Foreign Office, Downing-street, with dispatches from
Ghent. He eatne with all speed from Aldborough,
not being able to put in at Dover, owing to the bois-
terous state of the weather. Mr. MINTER, the King's
Messenger, was afterwards sent off with dispatches
from the Foreign Office.
Last night between seven and eight o'clock, a fire
broke out at a pastry.cook's shop, adjoining the
White Horse and Halt Moon public-house, in High-
street, Borough : by the speedy arrival of several
engines its ravages were entirely confined to the pre-
mises on which it began, which were entirely con-
sumed, with the whole of the property therein. Hap-
pily no lives were lost.
HVNTING.—The Hatfield hounds meet Monday, at Knoebs-
worth ; Thursday, at Bower Heath ; Saturday, the 24th, at
Dowdells, at half-past ten o'clock. The burrey lox hoends meet
Monday, at Crown Ash Hill; Thursday, at Shirley House; Sa-
turday, at Fox Kestun. H. Julliffe, Esq.'s fox hounds meet
Monday, at Windmill, Walton; hursday, at Redston House;
Saturday, at Platt's Green. The Essex Hunt met this day, at
Cooks Mill Green; Monday, at Matching Green ; Wednerday,
at Roydon Park; Saturday, the 24th, at High Roothing Street.
The East Essex fox hounds meet Monday, at Burch Hall ; and
Saturday, at Boated Hall.
Extract of a letter from Pensacola, Sept. 21, 1814.:
I am sorry to say that my sanguine expectations
as to the taking of the fort at Mobile Point have been
cruelly disappointed. It was attacked with every pro-
bAiity of success, and would no doubt have been car-
ried could all the ships have reached their stations'.
The wind died away before two of them could get
within the range of the guns, so that the whole fire of
the fort was directed against the HEimics and SornnE.
They silenced the fire of the fort twice, And tNice
shot away their flagstaff, when iy the
HERMES grounded, which rendered all hi r .;u4s use-
less. In this situation she was long exposed to a most
galling fire from the enemy, until the greater part of
her crew were either killed or wounded, and herself

a mere wreck, when it was determined to burn her to
prevent her falling into the enemy's hands ; she blew
up about ten o'clock with a dreadful explosion. She
had fifty men killed and wounded, and the SOPHII
20 : most of the wounded have lost either legs or
arms • they are all landed and doing well ; they
fought like lions, and were with difficulty retrained
from storming the. fort. The Americans will no
doubt give a brilliant account of this action ; to do
them justice they fought well ; and from what I can
learn guns were never better served. I am, however,
proud to fay, that the %Mae flag was flying to the
moment she blew up, and, what is most singular, was
found next morainic by che boats.

N.IV4L INTELLIGENCE.

FALMOUTH, DECEMBER 14.
The West India fleet appear to ride out the gale
well—have not heard of a single accident all day.

PORTSMOUTH, DECEMBER 16.
Arrived the Catharine, from Amelia Island, with
cotton, in a leaky state. Convoys—His Majesty's
ships NIGER for the Cape and East Indies; acid
MoNTA4UE for Bermuda, Bcc. The gale has conti-
nued the whole day, towards sun-set it became more

moderate ; have not heard of any damage to the ship.
ping.—Wind W.

DEAL, DECEMBER 16.
During the whole of this day k has blown a gale
from the South-west, which occasioned the shipping
to ride very hard, and I am doubtful some of th.
must have suffered. At twelve o'clock, three b, it,.
and a galliot parted from their anchors and ran iu
leeward ; the Spanish ship San Josef, has cut ir,,ra
three anchors and gone for Ramsgate Pier ;'sevcral
more have been obliged to cut. and run for the same
port, particulars not known. The John, fee Jamaica ;
Etheldred, for St. Domingo ; Lord Wellington, 1( r
the West Indies; with the Ctlumbus, Dtedalus, Du-
chess of Richmond, and British Army tran.pom,
all ride out the gale ; we cannot learn any particul irs
from any other ship.—Five o'clock, more moderate.