Star.
London, England, 1824-05-31 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

A grand Review of Cavalry is appointed to take place on Houns-
low Heath, on Wednesday. the 23d of June; previous to which
the Foot Guards will be reviewed in Hyde nes.
Two troops of the Ist Dragoons will a►rive to-'
hill Barracks, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Two squadrons of the Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards will ar-
rive at Newcastle-upon-Tyne to-morrow.
The Success transport will take on hoard detachments at Ports-
mouth, and sail, in about six days, for Malta. •
The Vibejia will proceed from Portsmouth to Liverpool, to em-
bark detachments for Halifax and Nova Scotia, and will return to
England, calling at Barbados;.
Two newly-employed transports are daily txpected at Portsmouth,
to take on hoard the 24th Regiment, for Plymouth, and to convey
the 3d Guards, now at Plymouth, to that garrison, who, 00 their
arriv;.l, will proceed for Windsor and Brighton.
The remainder of the 2d, or Queen's Regintent, is hourly expected
at Portsmouth. This Regiment is intended to do the duty now
performed by the 24th Regiment, which is on the eve of embarking
for Plymouth, to relieve thy battalion of Guards at present doing
duty there. The Guards will land at Portsmouth, and march
for Gordon.

at Piers-

The necer;a•y prep trationt are actively going on at Portsmouth
to receive the Royal Marine Artillery, under the command of Sir
Htcu.san Wit.l.lAus, K.C.lt. The battalion': quitter: wi'l in
the Victualling Store, in the New (lint Wharf. Th. (.`ilir7s-
quarters Will he at the house recently purchased front I.l.r.Tuio:Nß,
next to the Admiral's Oiii.r. The Cornin.-rcial Room (late Clarence
Hotel) k fitting up as a n:c•ss-room for the Officers. Tit:). are ex-
petted to march in on the 9th and 10th of ,Yon;. The heaiy baggage
Is corning in the Lightning st,.am-boat.
The military store in Pecry•street, Portsmouth, it in an active
state of forwardness to receive troops. It is supposed that the Bth
Regiment, coming lann: trout the 31editerraileaa, will occupy
these qQatters.

MI LIT. Y PROMOTIONS.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE. MAY 27, 1524..
ERRATA in the Gazette of the ilth
Royal Sappers and Miners—For Second Captain limy P. Jones
to he Adjutant, vice Reid, retired, read vice Reid, sshu re.istis
the Adjutancy only.
In the Gazette of the 421 instant.
Corps of Royal Engineers--For Captain John Hentyson, from
the halt-pay, to be Captain, vice Nlaciauchlan, retired on half-pay,
read vice Maclauchlan, who retires.
Commissions in the Wigtownshire Yeomanry, signed by the Lord
Lieutenant of the County of Wigtown.
Stair Stewart, Esq. to be Caputo. vice Sir James Dalrymple Hay,
13 irt. resigned ; Mark Stewart, Gent. ro be Lieutenant, vice
Stair Stewart. promoted ; Jaynes M6Dutiall, Gent. to be Corner,.
vice Patrick Maitland, retir:J.
(Ciscutait.) WAR-orrice, ‘.2.511t Mar, 1524.
Sin—l have the honour to signify to you the King's pleasure,
that the arrangement by which certain allowances are at present
paid through the Army Medical Department to Acting Regimental
Hospital Serjeants, shall be discontinued it. Corps of Infantry at
home, from the 25th June next, and in Corps of Infantry abroad,
frora the' sth December following ; and that from those dates re-
spectively, an additional Serjeant, to be called Hospital Serjeant,
shall be borne on the Establishment iif the Regiment under your
command, with the Pay of One Shilling and Teu Pence a Day, in
lieu of on: Private, wbo will be re.luced.—l have, &c.
(Signed) PA L M ERS TO N.
To Colonels and Commanding Officers of Regiments
of Infantry, excepting those in India.

NAVAL. L\TELLIGENCE.

The Gazeite of Saturday contains the following Proclamation :

44 Whereas by an Act passed in the 4th year of his present Ma-
jesty's reign, intituled A❑ Act to authorise his Majesty, under cer-
tain circumstances, to regulate the Duties and Drawbacks on Goods
imported or exported in For eign \resit ls, and to exempt certain Fo-
reign Vessels front Pilotage.' his Majesty is authorised, by and
with the advice of his Privy Council, or by any Order or Orders
in Council, in all cases in which British vessels, of less burthen than
60 tons, are not required by law to take Pilots, to exempt foreign
vessels, being of less burthen than 60 tons, from taking on hoard a
Pilot to conduct them into, or from any of the ports of the United
Kingdom, any law, custom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding;
his Majesty, by virtue of the power vested in hint by the said Act,
and by and with the advice of his Privy Council, is pleased to order,
and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the date of eisis Order,
all vessels belonging to the inhabitants of Lubeck, and b. ing of less'
burthen than 60 tons, which shall enter in, and clear out from, any
of the ports of the United Kingdom, shall be, and they are hereby
exempted from taking on hoard a Pilot to conduct them into, ur
from, any such port, in all cases where British vessels, being of less
burthen than 60 tons, are not required by law to take Pilots, airy
law, custom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding : and the
Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury
are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly."

Extract of a letter from the Agents to Lloyd's at Smyrna, dated
17th April :—" His Majesty's ships EURVALUS, MARTIN, and ROSE
are in port, the first leaves to-morrow for Malta; the second in six
or eight days, and gives escort to any merchant-vessels that may
be ready to proceed to the Westward."
The Colombia, CHAPMAN, from Bombay, has arrived in Sr.
George's Channel.
The Tartar, from Lisbon to Falmouth, was spoken with on the
10th inst. in lat. 4ti. long. 8. by the Marshal Wellington, arrived off
Plymouth.
The Marchioness of Ely East Indiaman passed down Channel on
Friday night.
The Cornwall (extra-ship), Irons Calcutta, sailed from the Mo-
therbank on Saturday, having embarked about forty passengers.
The Warren Hastings was at St. Helena the :Nth March, and it
was expected she would sail for England on the following day.
Saturday, the _ETNA bomb, Captain SANDOM, arrived at Ports-
mouth from Chatham, fitted for service in the Mediterranean. She
is to proceed to Algiera forthwith. Such has been the expedition
in etptipping the -EWA, that she has been only fourteen days off the
stocks. The INFERNAL and MIMEO& bombs are fitting with all
haste for the same service.
His Majesty's mortar-vessel FALMOUTH was taken nut of dock, at
Deptford, on the 17th instant, with 120 artificers working on hoard
her. On the 2Ld, she was immied, masted, and otherwise equipped
for foreign service. On the 26th she was towed to Northfleet by
the Comet steam-vessel, and placed tinder the orders of the lion.
Captain MONTAGU STOPFORD, of the A LGERIN t, which ship is to ac-•
company the mortar-vessel, to join Sir 11. NEALE, in Algiers Ray.
The SPARROW HAWK, IS, Captain the llonourahle It. S. Dermas,
is ordered to he fitted for a foreign station.
Tor Howe, 190-gun ship, which was the first that was docked in
the New Docks at Sheerness, which were opened in September last
has undergone a thorough repair, and was put out of dock on the
15th instant; the GIOV:AiSTER, 64, guard-ship, was Stumetliately
got into the same dock. The Howe remains in the basin.
Captain CHARLES SoTH EST commissioned the SPRING AAAAA m, on
Monday last, far foreign service—it is suprosed the Mediterranean.
Lieutenants . 11. 11UNEVNIAN and W. WORSVOI.D, and Mr. ROST.
SCOIr, Parser, are ;appointed to that ship. Licureitmts G. S. Oven,
and .1. M`Csust AND are appointed to command mortar-veels, for
service at Algiers. Lieutenant Honourable H. J. C. Ta I.SOT is ap-
pointed to the BLONDE.
•Lieutenant 11. J. foot:, of the Vurroa, has been invalided, and
Mr. Symms, Midshipman. is appointed to that stoop in his pl !et..
FALMOUTH, MA It :-'`r.—Wind K— Arrived his Majesty's ship
PARTRIDGE, Irons Plymouth, to take the Lisbon Mail ; and Fame,
ilerrasce, from► London. Sailed the Commerce, Hocken, fur
London.
Pt.eNtOVTH, MA r 29.—Arrived off the port the blarsh.tlWelling.
ton, CLARE, front Jamaica—sailed 27th March; Minerva, JANSEN,
Irons Lisbon in eighteen days; Haman), from New lied.
ford in thirty-seven days. Sailed the Wanderer, WA YtiOOD, for
Nliramichi.
Puimmourii, MAY :.o.—Wind S.W.—Sailed the Vibelia, Hem-
sox, fur Liverpool ; and Prince of Denniark,Wswasts,lor London.
p„,.. may w,S,'„W.—Several vessels are pas•ing at
the back of the Goodwin Sind:: for the Eastward. Passed through,
the Honourable Companl's ship Ilythe, from Cbina.
PAKwino, :MA% l'ile:CaNderc.sigh packet came in yesterday,
with Mail, front llelvoetsluys. The new stvam.boar, built for the
King of Di NMA TM, which lately came in here trom the Thames,
latter remaining two days, sailed for Hullind.
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Their :11;tjesties the Emperor and Emptess of AUS-
TRIA arrived ou the 15th at Plague, where they were received with
the greatest enthusiasm by the inhabitant:.
THE ASIIANTEES.—We understand that Mr. Dupuis,
late his Beitatmic Nlaicsty's Envoy and Consul at Ashanter, is about
to Publish a Journal of hi: Residence in that Kingdom, which is
expected to throw con:iieraisle light un the utig►u and causes of
the present War. It will comprise also, his Notes and Researches
relative to. the Gold Cua.t, and thz Interior of Western Africa,
chiefly collected fioni .4%s alsk MSS. and lair:nation communi-
cated by the Alualeius of tjainea.

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