Star.
London, England, 1804-08-24 00:00:00

rues Er. AUGUST so.

Mid/Berm. City of London, and the Tower Ham
lets furnithed man, under the Refcrve we, for the
t R Battalion of Referee, to (apply the Buts. Under
the prefect regulation they are to braids men each
the a different regiment. London, as ttfnal is to
hien the 34 koithilloot of loot, or Bois. attached
to it, and is torepply them with men. The Tower
Hamlets art-to have the tad Regiment. and Mid-
&fee the lisd. 'Ms latter mialent is to have a
Second Battalion. and ass latter_
011earg three Cap-
tains, eight Subalterns, and I proportionate number
of fierjevads, Ike. There belonging to the 83d have
✓eceived orders to premed frees howl rely
to Weisialbc, wain they are to receive tits ma
for their pd Beetehms, which they raped wOl be
completed direilly. The sift, quartered at et. lie-
lite% feat alleeres and DosmosonsiGoned officers
laii week to merits man at Cbeder. Great es-
pedadoes are erfferntined that the men tinder the
prefent AR wit be riled immediately. Similar
ones one entertained when the Referee were firft
called into being. his of little confequence whe-
ther the fecond lestalions are railed or not, ankh
the men amid spin alum( infiandy enliti for
general fervice. The fitft battalions mull remain
in the fame incomplete Rate that they are at pre-
test, and the principal objea of the Bill be loft ; for
as to new troops jult railed, they will be of lefs
of. for the home defence of the country for many
months, than any militia or volunteers that are at
prefent embodied or armed.
A French guiwbrig was loft on Thurfday Lail off
Bosley Bay i it was a matter of furprize how the
could, in loch a high wind, and that blowing on the
emit of France, have been fo driven on this Coaft ;
the crew efcaped in their boats to Grouville. The
Prince de Boomi.om intended to have attempted
weighing her up. The Charwell gun-brig was ap-
pointed for this fervice, bat was thought too light.

Cfre colour wee lately a favourite colour at Paris,
but, in compliment to Rear Admiral Ltocus, it is
now facceeded by sea rem
By the annual account difplayed in the circular
yeasty 'pane of the Society of Qpkers, it appears
that the amount of/ferese s paid by.tbem dun
the pfteeding year Via 12,6304 of whitb 93701. has
been paid for " tytbes, Prießs' demands, and thofe
calla ebarcb.rates," and 32601. for demands of
military nature. Oar readers may not be aware that
this Safety hp a general fund for the payment of she
above recited taxes, which their tenets forbid them
to pay, othertrife than upon compulfton. They fan
then explain in their Fisted (lambent that tithes are
not Co refunded.
A knowledge of one of the moll fertile countries of
Europe. has Fong been prevented by the inaccuracy
of the charts and topographical defcriptions. A fo-
piety of Engineers, at the bead of which is Don Sas-
vase& na Leases, is about to remove this defect.
They are now employed, under the aufpices of the
Government, to draw plans of the principal towns
of Spain, and to prepare a general chat tof the whole
kingdom.
The learned will recoiled! the notice taken of the
g.,s, Gram, in a ktser from Friar BACON. to the
celebrated Marrero of Paris. M. le Belson d'Aa.
costa, the librarian of the Eteltur of Revalues hat
difeosered an old Latin manufeript of the t 3th cen-
tury, which not only imparts the ferret, which was
fuppofed to have been 101 l for over, but (peaks of a
compofitioo limiter to the gunpowder now prepared.
An account of it will be Coon publifhed ; hut it we
might hazard a conjecture on the fobjeft, it would be,
that this manuleript was a part of the correlponuente
between the two extraordinary ecclefialtics we hate
named. of Oxford and Paris.
A pelf= at Peterfburgh is in peel:Gen of a manu•
fcript in the Ruffian lailnage, usitten as early 31
A. D. t 066. It is ad. mess with fume beautiful mi-
niatures, executed by Grecian et-tiffs. The props ietor
has refold 30.000 rubles for this valuable relict and
it will be a curious fats, if. bons Inch a Coerce of in-
formation, it amid be dilcovered, that Maws the
biflory of which feems to have been involve,i in im-
penetrable darks:it's, Woks, at the period adverted
to, have been the moll accomplifbed and a-alight-
encd nation of Europe. Some additional light on
that country is /vetted to be derived from the calm-
net of ht. Bausse. at the Ustivetfity of lidoCcow.—
The Sra divifion of that colledioa confills of medals
Snack in honour of the Crays, with the 'Aetna' c"l'r
in the Ruffian or Tartarian tonnes. Wit 01 "II
are la Giver, and of an oval taro.

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