Star.
London, England, 1825-02-09 00:00:00

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

MIMS RITMO= TO STRIFE IN TNIS 141111:117 PARLIAMENT.
Borough of Cambridge—Tht Right Honourable James Graham,
commonly called the Marquis of Graham, in the room of Charles
Madryll Cheere, Esq. deceased.
BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.
John Ferris Bennaßack, Truro icrivener, from February HI to
April s, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners of Bankrupts, Ba-
singhall.street.

BANKRUPTS.
Samuel Phillips Eady, Dean-street, Soho-square, dealer, to surren-
der February 12, 19, and March 22, at eleven, at the Court of
Commissioners of Bankrupts, Basinghall-street. Attorney, Mr.
Sherrill. Salisbury-street. Strand.
William Bartholomew Williams, Upper Brook-street, Grosvenor-
square, tailor, February 19, at twelve, 26, at one, and March
tl2, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners of Bankrupts, Basing-i
hall-street. Attorney, Mr. Dignam, Newman-street, Orford-st.
James Wood, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, silversmith, Fe-
bruary 15. 22, and March 22, at.ten, at the Court of Commis-
sioners of Bankrupts, Basingball-street. Attornies, Messrs. Ha-
milton and Ullithorns, Taviatock-rtsw, Covent-garden.
William Savage, Fetter-lane, victualler, February 12, 19, and
March 211, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners of Bank-
rupts, Basinghall-street. Attornies, Messrs. Freeman and Heath-
cote, Coleman-street.

DIVIDENDS to be made in BASINGHALL-STREET.
March 8, C. S. Dudley, late of Graceckurch-street, merchant,
at ten. Feb. 15,.G Tatner, Horton-Kirby, Kent, farmer, at ten.
March 1, R. Watson, late of Britannia Terrace, City-road, coal-
merchant, at eleven. March 5, G. Moore,jun. ower-roail, Dept-
ford, timber-merchant, at Twelve. March 5, J. Pigram, Maid-
stone, grocer, at twelve. March 5, T. Whiting, Oxford, mercer,
at ten. March 5, C. Brown, late of Dundee, ship-owner, at ten.
March 5, H. Golding, Lower Thames-street, wine-merchant, at
twelve. March 5, F. Holmes, Vere-street, Oxford-road, mer-
chant, at twelve. Feb. 15, C. C. Becher, Lotbbury, merchant,
at eleven.
DIVIDENDS to be made in the COUNTRY.
March 2, W. Coupland and W. B. Colton, late of Liverpool,
merchants, at one at the George inn, Dale-street, Liverpool.—
March It, J. Fielding, late of klottram-in.Congdeneale, Cheshire,
corn-dealer, at eleven, at the White Lion Inn, Stockport. March
1, R. Saunders, Birmingham, edge-tool-maker, at twelve, at the
Royal I lotel, Birmingham. March 3, M. Thorpe, late of Work-
- sap, Nottinghamshire, tnaltster, at eleven, at the Red Lion Inn,
Worksop.

CERTIFICATES—M•sca 1.

J. Metcalfe, Thirsk, Yorkshire, linen-draper. T. Smith and J.
Yates, New Mills, Derbyshire, brass-founders. I. Welch, Princes-
street, Lambeth, japanner. T. Norris, Bartholomew-close, coach-
master. G. Thompson, Turnbans-green, brewer. J. Gartun, My-
ron, Hull, dealer.

DISSOLUTIONS OF PARTNERSHIPS.
Harrold and Gee, Olney, Bucks, millers. Bath and Shortridge,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, shoemakers. Leigh and Harcourt, Xid-
derminster, builders. Tipper and Fry, Tudor-street, wholesale-
stationers. J. and J. Plillipson, Croydon, corn-dealers. Austen
and Davis, York-street, Covent-garden, hatters. F. and C. Cook,
Luton, Bedfordshire, woolstaplers. Kirkus and Clarkson, Hull,
insurance-brokers. P. and It. Serjeant, Cal'instals, surgeons.—
Palmer and Enock, Bow, wheelwrights. Stralian and Wells, Fore-
street, woollen-drapers. T. and E. Griffin Wolverhampton, rope-
makers. Gowdie and Weir, Glasgow. Griffin,
and Co. King's
Lynn, Norfolk, merchants. Hassan and Stiff, Bristol, starch-ma-
nufacturers. Griffith and Wikey, Catherine-street, Strand, artists'
colourmen. Wilelie and Earwaker, High Holborn. Sommerville
and Cotter, Liverpool, lacemen. G. and W. Kendall, Basinghall-
street, Blackwell-ball-factors. Ramsden and Co. Huddersfield,
stone-masons. Fuller and Co. Radcliffe-bridge, Lancashire, grocers.
Smith and Bell, Liverpool, timber-merchants. Jarvis and Fer-
raby, Dunstable, straw-bat-manufacturers.

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, FEE. 7, 182,5.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Major and Brevet Lieuttnant•Co-
lonel James Power to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Dixon, de-
ceased ; Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel James Webber
Smith to be Majot, vice Power; Second Captain and Brevet
•Mvjor William Greene to be Captain, vice Smith ; Second Cap •
tale Henry Lewis Sweeting, from half-pay, to be Second Cap-
tain, vice Greene; First. Lieutenant Henry Forster, to be Se-
cond Captain ; First Lieutenant George Alark Glasgow, from
half-pay, to. be First Lieutenant, vice Forster ; Second Lieute-
nant William Mayne to be First Lieutenant ; Gentleman Cadet
George 13inglism to be Second Lieutenant, vice Mayne ; Second
Captain George Colts, from half-pay, to be Second Captain, vice
Johnston, retired on half-pay.
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex.
Ruben Dc Burgh, Esq cobs Deputy Lieutenant.
Royal Western Regiment of Middlesex blilitia—William Byrne,
Esq. to be Major; John Moser Graham, Eq. to be Captain.
Royal Westminster Regiment of Middlesex Militia—James Blau,
Esq. to be Captain by Brevet; John Richard 'Arnie, Esq. to
ditto ; James Mahon, Gent. to be Ensign.
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the Nast Riding .1
the County of York, and Town and County of the Town of
Kinptonomon-Hull
Regular Militia—Richard Sykes, the younger, F.sq. to be Major,'
vice Bell, resigned ; Henry Raines, Gent. to be Ensign.
4th Battalion Local Militia—John Broadley, F.sq. to be Lieute-
nant-Colonel-Commandant, vice Wray, deceased.
Commissions in the Fifeshire Militia, signed by the Lord Lieute-

nant of the County of Fife.
The Earl of Kellie to be Colonel, vice the Earl of Morton, resigned;
Robert Gillespie Smyth, Esq. to be Major, vice Rutherford, de-
ceased; William Grahame, Esq. to be Captain, vice Meldrunt,
deceased ; Robert Lindsay, Esq. to be ditto, vice Maxwell, de-
ceased ; James Dalton Fyffe, Gent. to be nsign, vice Cheape,
resigned.
Commission in the Town and County of Warwick Troop of Vo-
lunteer Yeomanry Cavalry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the
County of Warwick.
Joseph Williamson, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Holyoake, who retires.

RAILWAYS.—About a fortnight since • a number of
experiments with the locomotive engines were per-
formed at Killingworth, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
by order of the Committee of the Liverpool and Man-
chester Railway. In the first instance, namely, on
the 18th ult.—the trials were made with an old and I
imperfect engine, the results of which gave a. speed of
not more than four miles an hour, with a moderate load.
On the 22,1 ult. however, a superior engine, of eight-
horse power, being employed, the ili.imeter of the
wheels being lour feet, five different trialsof its power
and speed were made. The weight moved, exclusive
of the engine, was 48 tons, 15 cwt. The inclination of
the road was 1 in 840; the greatest rise in any part 11
inches in 100 yards, or one in 327. The engine and
load being moved in both directions along this inclined
plane, the total result may be considered as upon a
horizontal plane. The average velocity was very nearly
seven miles an hour, and the greatest speed nine miles
and a half an hour. As a good deal of misrepresenta-
tion has gone abroad upon the subject of these experi-
ments, we think it well to state that the above report is
upon the authority of Mr. J. WALKaR, of Limehouse,
one of seven engineers who were present : and in addi-
tion to the above, we will mention that Mr. WALKER
distinctly states, that had the railway been good and
well-fixed," the result would have been higher?' As
these engines were not of the best construction Or
speed, no doubt can be entertained that with proper
engines, goods and merchandise may be conveyed with
a very considerable increased velocity. •
From the sth April next, the Customs Officers in
our ports in the Clyde, will take the sole charge of
Ming the whole duties chargeable on articles taken
nd fur home consumption. This wise mea-
a great relief both to the Merchants and to
.s of both branches of the Revenue, and
y to accelerate the dispatch of business in
articles and in the payment of the respective
greatly lessen the trouble and expense at-
exportation of every article of commerce.

•

BOULOGNE-SUR-HER, FEB. 5.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

Sta—l take the liberty of sending you the translation
of an article which appeared in one of our Weekly Pa:
pens of Boulogne (L'Annotateur Boulonnais), in answer
to a paragraph inserted in the STAR of January 20,
concerning this town, which you would greatly oblige
a constant reader by inserting in your estimable Journal.
Though the article contains some mistakes, it is on'
the whole pretty correct, except in one instance, that of
King John signing the abdication of England, when it
is well known (as was stated in the STAR), that King
James committed this notorious deed ; but that King
James the Second signed it in that house, is certainly a
report without any foundation : in this your correspon-
dent was certainly misinformed.
In another instance also,te says, Boulogne, is almost
'an English town—now, at no time since the return of
Louis XVIII. has Boulogne numbered two thousand
English inhabitants, at present it contains from 800 to
1000. Masked balls, and private theatricals, are the
fashion at present. The latter amusement is much in
vogue—the Honey Moon, the Rivals, and the Merchant
of Venice, have all been lately performed by young
men of the place, with the greatest applause.
This town has been much calumniated, on account
of two or three English families (a disgrace to their
country), who with their gambling and other vices,
which lose nothing in report, throw a blot on the,repu-
tation of the English residents. The English chapel,
conducted by four resident Clergymen, is generally
filled as full as it can hold.
The report of a duel fought in this neighbourhood
is generally supposed to be incorrect.
To-day is by far the coldest we have had. Indeed,
it is the first real frost, and we hope much it may con-
tinue. The following is the article from the Boulogne
Paper to which I have alluded :
" It was on the event of one of the French Sriciety balls,
where the two nations were united with the most frank
cordiality, that the Correspondent of an English Paper
(the STAR) observes—' To see so many of the French
and English cordially meeting, or embracing each
4 other during the waltzes, and promoting each other's
amusement, could not fail to be the subject of some
reflection, when one considers the prodigious army
once assembled here by Bonaparte, and his boasted
flotilla for the invasion of happy Albion.'
• The vessels of this great fleet,' says the author of
this letter, ' were destroyed in 1813 by the French
themselves, tired of the despotism of Bonaparte, as
well as the expense and labour a like undertaking
must occasion. There only remains one boat, which
is shewn as a curiosity to strangers, and snuff-boxes
have been made of the others, which are much used
by the English.
" We must here remark to the Correspondent of the
English Journal, that if the vessels of the flotilla were
cut up and broken to pieces in 1813, it was because the
return of our King, in restoring us a lasting peace, ren-
dered-them useless; it was the nature of their construc-
tion which prevented their being used fur any other
purpose than that for which they were originally des-
tined, aad because the dry rot had made them unfit for
sea. And, undoubtedly, had the Government of his
Majesty found it possible to convert them into a dozen
good frigates, they would not have ordered their wood
to be sold for fuel, or converted into snuff-boxes, which
latter article we are of opinion could not be made out
of the wood.
" As for the labour, and the great expense which was
unavoidable fur such an enterprize -(which the author
of this letter calls desperate, but which, neverthelesil
might have cost him many a sleepless night if he
chanced at that time to reside on the oppo%ite slicre),
we are well assured that the inhabitants of Boulogne
are far from complaining of what was the cause of their
piesent and actual prosperity. Bonaparte resembled
on this occasion one of those sons of a family who
squander away their patrimony, and of whom people
make no scruple of profiting, whilst at the same
'.time they censure their prodigality.
" Amongst the other details of Boulogne,that this letter
contains, the writer assigns the house at present occu-
pied by the Rev. H. Maxwell, as the habitation of
Marshal Ney ; on the contrary, it was Marshal Slab
that resided there. Ne) lived at the ancient bishop' ic.

••• ••• •• ••• •• ••• ••• ••• ••
" We join with the Correspondent in wishing that the
excavations in search of antiquities, may be continued
in the spring. It is true that they have been.the cause
of great interest, both to the French and English here;
and, as he says, he has himself seem several of the
medals which have been found, he can corroborate the
statement of the antiquity and high preservation oh
these coins. Speaking of antiquities, we beg him not
Ito affirm that the walls surrounding the high town were
built by the Romans, since every one knows they were
constructed by Count Philippe in 1231.
44 The Correspondent concludes his letter by relating
a curious circumstance, and which v,e must say, was en-
tirely unknown to us, it is that King John (nicknamed
Lackland), signed the shameful act of the abdication
of his throne, in a house a mile from Boulogne, the
room in which this was done now serves the English
• family who inhabit it (Lieut. Col. Spicer), as a stable.'
44 We shall be delighted to verify this statement, as it
will be an historical memoir worth preserving, and
shall feel greatly obliged if any one would give some
more particulars on this heretofore unknown event."—
L'An not/deur Boulonnais.

At the Petty Sessions held in Fermoy on the 29th
ult. the Bench of Magistrates sentenced a young lad to
a month's hard labour at the Tread-mill„for having
left his master's service without giving him notice, and
expressed their determination to punish with the utmost
severity every delinquency of the same kind.
An account has been laid before the House of Com-
mons, dated Treasury Chambers, Ist February, 1825,
which contains the first general statement of the pro-
duce of the Revenue of the United Kingdom for the
past year, the abstracts already published in the news-
papers having reference to Great Britain alone.
The total ordinary Revenue, in the year ended Jan.

collecting 111
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of bondb
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tend greatly
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tending the