Star.
London, England, 1830-12-25 00:00:00

PLYIIOUTI', Dee. •.

A report has prevailed this week, that the Falcon of 10 pins, Com-
mander Colpoys, in cootpusy wide basher ship. has captured a pirate
vessel mounting 50 guns, off the I►land of Ascension, and that they
hung several of the pirates, Immediately after, at the yard arms of their
own vessel. It is aloe reported, that Captain Colpoys lest his arm In
the action.

PILODOTIANS LID APPOINTNENTII.—Captain UAlway is sp.
pointed to the William and Mary yacht Lieutenants J. Pit-
field, and W. Mitchell, late of the Rifleman, are appointed to the
Preventive Savioe.—Liesit. H. L. Parry is appointed to the K •nt
Blozkade..-----The Hon. B. C. P. B. Carey, of the !triton, is pro.
moted to the rank of Lieutenant.—Lieut. J. N. Ohuisione, of the
Warspite, is appointed to the Druid.—Lieut. S. Mercer, of the
Eden, is appointed to the Warspite, vice Gladstone.--Me. H. N.
Lawrence is appointed Acting Lieutenant of the Eden, vice Mercer.
J. I'. Starke, of the Seringapatam, is appointed Acting
Lieutenant of the Warapite. vice Kerby. ...—...Mt. Duncan al.cr, ight
is appointed Master of the Britomsrs.-111r. .1. G. Lean, Purser, .o
the Gannet, v Cole.
Mr. George Augustus Bedford, Midshipmen of the surveying vessel
Protector, was examined in navigation (by special order), on Tuesday,
at the Royal Naval College, and paastd.
The following Lieutenants have aces pied the rank and title of u tired
Commander, according to his Majesty's late order io council, viz. on
the half-pay of Bs. a day :—W. Grp; on the half:pay of 7s. a day,
R. Roberts (a), G. Thomas, H. T. Lam wedge, J. Marshall, It. Heinle,
W. Hutchinson, G. Reynolds, T. Swill, (a). J. Rains, G. N. I arm-
, lett, J. Simpson, A. Keeler, 1). Atkn•soti, T. Fuulszton. J. 31'Dou-
' gall, J. H. Holmes, W. Parsons (a), A. Chapman, A. Gilmour, D. L.
Couch, W. Barnwell, G. Plowman. J. Brumhall, H. Ambrose, D.
Wright, A. Linsey, and J. Paine. Lien's. Bruce and Ititaye (1701),
Powell and Lawrence (1786), Jameson (1796), and Deseret, 17119.
Rotas. Maarxte.—Capt. J. Wilsen has been ordered to relieve
Capt. D. Ballinghall on the recruiting service at Oxford.—Major J. M.
Bevians of the Chatham division, is ripp..it.ted to the Plymouth divi-
sion, vice English, whose promotion we noticed last week. Major H.
Hore, of the Plymouth division, Is appointed to the Chatham division,
vice Bevians.— Capt. G. Wright, of the Chatham division, is appointed
to the Plymouth division, vice D. Nl`Ailsni, appointed to Chatham.
Mr. B. R. Noble, son of Capt. J. Ncblc, has been appointed a
Second Lieutenant of Royal Marine..
Mr. Edward Stewart, first cousin of Sir James Graham, and nephew
of Lord Galloway, has been appointed private secretary to Sir James,
in the room of Briggs, who resumes his duty at the Victualling Office.
His Majesty's brig Pigeon arrived at Buenos Ayres from Falmouth
26th Sept. The Crocodile sailed fer Sydney, N.S.W. for India, 3d
July. The Lapwing arrived at Pernambuco (tom Falmouth 28th Oct.
and Druid sailed thence same day for Bahia. The Manly sailed from
Newfoundland fur Bermuda 1 ith Nov. The Pigeon arrived at Ai*
Janeiro from Buenos Ayres. ;.t7tis Oct; Volage sailed thence for Monte
Video 20th ditto. The Winchester, Vice.Admital Colpoys, North
Star, Columbine, Champion, and Hyacinth, • arrived at Bermuda 27th
Oct. The Reindeer strived at Honduras from Falmouth and Jamaica,
6th October, and sailed Bth ditto for Vera Cruz, &c

A sample musket and bayonet have been landed here from
France, in order to have 100,000 made of a similar pattern.
It has been officially announced that the title of the Right
Hon. Standish O'Grady is to be Viscount Guillamore, of
Caherguillamore, and Baron O'Grady of Rockbarton. Con-
ferring two degrees in the Peerage at the first creation—a
Viscounty and a Barony—is esteemed a very extraordiaary
mark of favour from the Crown; and we understand it has
been communicated, by order of his Nlajesty to the Chief
Baron, that the distinction has been extendedin this instance
because of his long, faithful, and valuable services in a high
judicial capacity.—Limerick Chronicle.
Miss IN V ERA RlTY.—Observing that the metropolitan
prints are making a number of random and blundering
statements regarding this young vocalist, we think it may
be well to give the following, to the accurate" of which we
can confidently pledge ourselves. Miss Inverarity is the
eldest daughter of a citizen of Edinburgh, and stands in the
relation of grand-niece to a very ingenious person, whose
name is much endeared in Scotland, namely Robert Fergus-
son, the bard, par excellence, of the City of Edinburgh,
and partly the prototype of Robert Burns. She is between
17 and 18 years of age, but remarkably fill grown for her
years. She displayed her extraordinary powers of song at
a very early age, but received no lessons from any master
till about three years ago, whe.n she went under the imme-
diate care of Mr. Thorne, an excellent bus singer, in the
Ed in' urgh Theatre. At a later period she took lessons
undo Qr. Alexander Murray,an eminent violin:et and teacher
of singing, settled at Edinburgh. Her first public appear-
ance was at a concert given by this gentleman in the Assem-
bly-rooms, in April, 1829, when she was ju-t entering her
17th year; after which she nv:do no other appearance till
she came forward at the Profession 11 Society and other con-
certs during the last winter. We can state, with perfect
certainty, that, excepting the above public appearances,
which might amount altogether to ten or twelve in number,
Miss I nverarity has had no experience in her profession. She
was received by the Edinburgh audience with great applause ;
but we should suppose that sha must have made a great ad-
vance since then, under Crevelii and Sir George Smart, in
order to have prepared herself for an exertion so much more
arduous and trying than anything she encountered here.—
Edinburgh Advertiser.
The estate and manor of Burgham, corrupted to Brougham,
belong to Lord Brougham and Vaux, whose ancestors were
Saxon, and held their burgh or castle of Burgham, at tba
Roman station, called by Antoninus in his hisserary, Breve-
cum, or Brovoniacum, and which lies on the great Roman
way leading from Appleby (Aballaba) to Penrith (Petriana,)
and at the north-western extremity of the parish of
Brougham. In the reign of King John, Gilbert de Burgham,
Lord of Burghant, alienated the Castle, and one-third part
cf his patrimonial estate, together with the advowson
of the church of Burgham, to Robert de Veteripont, the .
first hereditary high sheriff of Westmoreland, on condition
that lie and his heirs might hold the remainder of his estate
free from drengage, a service imposed by William the Nor-
man upon all the Saxons who were powerful enough to
make terms with him, and who consented to make this ser-
vice as the price at which they retained their estates.
Brougham-castle afterwards came by marriage into the
powerful family of Clifford, one of whom, Roger de Clifford,
greatly added to the building; and from the Clifforde it
descended, through the celebrated Countess of Pembroke,
to the present Earl of Thanet. Thomas Brougham, of
Brougham, temp. James 1. dying without issue male, the
manor and estate were sold to one Bird, an alto. ney, steward
to the Thanet family, and towards the end of the -reign of
Charles 11. were purchased back again by Joln Brougham,
of Scales-hall, heir male ofThomos, who, entailing the estates
of Brougham and Scales upon his issue male, they descended
to Henry, the present Baron Brougham and Vaux, Lord
High Chancellor, concerning whose birth and parentage the
following particulars may, we believe, be relied re.on
as tolerably authentic. Mr. Brougham, father to the
Lord Chancellor, was educated at Eton, and distinguished
himself there as a classical scholar, if we may judge from
his verses which are published in the Muse Etontnus.
H. was entered at Gray's-inn, and appears to have kept
some terms, but was never called to the bar. In early life be
became attached to his cousin, Miss Whelpdale,whose farm?y
lived in the neighbourhood of Brougham. On the eve of their
marriage the lady died, and Mr. Brougham, to beguile
his grief, travelled to Edinburgh, at that period peculiarly
distinguished as the abode of the illustrious in litera-
ture. It was there that Mr. Brougham became acquainted
with Eleanor, only child of Dr. Syme, and niece to Dr.
Robertson, the historian, and having married this ludy, he
continued to reside chiefly in Edinburgh, even after the
death of his father, which took place at Brougham in the
year 1780. Shortly after his marriage, Mr. Brougham took
up his abode in the house of his intimate frieud the jets
Berl of Buchan, eldest brother of Lord Chancellor Erskine,
and in that house (which is now 19, St. Audvew's-squari)
the present Lord Changan was born,

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ROTA SOCIETY.

. Tuesday eveytng the tuembera of this Society held their weekly
meetin, at Somerset House. To consequence of the absence of the
Dyke of Stois.,x, who is on a visit to his 31ajesty at Brighton, his Royal
Ifighnt ss did lot fill the Presititin's Chair.
A most interesting. though somewhat lengthy, paper was read, from
ti,e pen of Mr. Kater. u the mode adopted by the ancients to calculate
the time. The ancients, according to the writer's statement, and the
records Willed down to rsterity, were enabled, by most simple means,
accurately to c.lcul.tte time. This the. author of the paper, at some
Itingta, proved.
After the paper had beet read, the Society adjourned.
At the next niteti:l a very full attendance is expected, and
among the visitors, it is understood, will be many foreigners of dis-
tinction.