Star.
London, England, 1815-06-24 00:00:00

DOVER JUN.: el

The B:tscy, Oitill,fcrildta,Chat went ($n shine
yesterday, near Romney, is now NA of wazer —ths
cargo is landing. The Eatt India Fltet passed by
'this morning.
IDEAL, JUNE g 1 •

Arrived his Majesty's ship CUSIBCRLAND, with the
East India fleet under convoy, part of them remain
in the Downs. This d3y at one o'clock, the men of
war in the Downs fired a salute in consequence of the
great victory obtained by our brave WEl.Ltucrot4 and
his army. The whole of the • ships in the lii ,was
displayed their colours on tihe occasion,—Wiod. W., •

HARWICH, JUNE 22.
Arrived the Beautoy • picket with a Mail from
Holland.—..Wiod N.

SHIP LAUNCII.—Yes ter_ay several thrusands of
spectators assembled at his Majesty's Dock-yard, at.
Deptford, to witness the launch of the CAMBRIDGE,
an 80-gun line of-battiv ship. About half-past two
o'clock the Commissioners of the Admiralty, Navy,
I and Ordnance, arrived in their resrective har7es ; rte
Mond of the Tower tiamltts Militia was in f'.mt of
the Admiralty booth, and a marine baud stationed
on the quarter-deck of the CAMBRIDGE. Precisely at
three o'clock she went off the slips in a most majestic
manner ; the two bands struck up Rule Britannia,"
'and the Accl anations of the multitude rent the air.
Not the smallest accident happened • She remained
, in the midst of the river some time, under jury-masts,
and decorated with diff4tnt colours, and aftcrlvards
dripped down with the tide to Woolwich, where she
is to be coppered.

HANK Pipers to the ‘2.sth, nnstnn to 'h. 17els. ani
New York to the 19th of Md 7, ttpve been teeriv,-.1
'• Neer You, N4AT

14 SIANISU FLtIT.•-.-We learn from Capt etwliagr, of t, he
from Curacoa, that a large Spanish rce, in slI 64 sail,
supposed to contain nine or 10,000 troops, under convoy of a. 74
and lave frigates, had arr;ved at M.ngaretta, orbvre tt.e Patnots
capitulated. '1 he kirce procnded thence to Laguira, where a
part of them had ardestl.

" N►w•You, MAV 16. •

a The Constitution frigate, in company wvls the dot" of war
Erie, crossed the bar this day at one o'clock, and is now coming
up with a favourable br:ese. The Coustnutiou toueted at S?..
'Loads de Marrinhani' riorth-west coast of t!.e Bruns, on the
19th of April, where Captain Srawn sr landed his prisoner,. On
the 5161 b, to windward itl the West-Indies, fell in with a 71, and
was induced to believe from her manoeuvres' that a Peace had
be concluded between England and the United Statrb."
" MAT 17.—The squadron under the command of Commois
dose DECATUR are now under sailing orders, and will proceed
the Erin fair wind for the Mediterranean."

Charleroi, one of the principal scenes of the late
desperate struggles, although a place of no antiquity,
is nevertheless as much celebrated in modern milit.izy
annals as almost any other on the Continent. It was
first built in 1666. by CHARLES 11. of Spain, frOns
whom it took its name : it wis always considered as
the key of Namur. In 1693 it WAS taken by the
French, but restored at the Peace of Ryswick, in
1697. By the Treaty of Utruht it was given to the
States-General, by whom it was subsequently ceded
to Austria. In 1746 it was taken again by the
French, and nearly demolished. In 170 it was re-
stored to Austria. In the revolutionary war of 1792,
it was taken by the French, but regained after two
desperate actions, in which they lost 11,000 men.—
In 1791 it again surrendered to the French. It is 1.5.
miles from Namur.
Binch, where the Duke of Wera.moroe's 11, ad.
lquarters were on the 20th, is precisely twenty-eight
miles direct south from Brussels. It is a small frrti.
fled town, and might have kept the Allied Armies
at bay . for a short time, if their victory had .6.at
beta so complete as to preclude all efforts of this kind
being made. Beaumont, where BLucitta was on the
same days is 1.5 miles farther south, and is within
the French territory : it is also tortifiel.
Some persons seem to express surprise at the small
number of Eagles which have fallen into our hands,
as if such a circumstance derogated from the spiels.
dour of. this decisive 'victory. This matter requires
explanation. In the British service each battalion has
its own colours. In France there was never mote
than one eagle to each regiment, consisting of five bat-
talions, four of which were generally in the field, so
that in fact the capture of one eagle was at all times
equivalent to the cgptere of four pair of English co-
iner:: the Ist battalion of every, French regiment of
the line having the custody of that military symbol,
like the Ist cohort of each Roman legion. • But tits
proportion of eagles in the army of BoNANIIITI niece
his return to France is, we have !vas n to beliefe,
much smaller than ever, as half the regiments in his
service, which were premised their colours at the
Champ de Mai, have not yet received them. liistead
of a Ingle eagle, therefore, being the representative,
as hitherto, of t:raii battalionii, its seizure by the Bd.
dsh indicates more probably the destruction of 8 .or
10 battalions, if not of a IAT),

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