Star.
London, England, 1806-01-20 00:00:00

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Let us banifh effeminacy far way. The Heavy
Dragoons and lnfa)try are net Cs dreadfully extra-
vagant, though lane of the former molt ridiculonfly
mix Light and Heavy together, and the only fault
in the latter is, that lane tew Regiments Rill keep up
laced and embroidered clotths. Bat the Light Dra-
goons are in aerobic, and a reform is abnotely ne
ceffary to enable an Officer to exit in any one of the
Regiments, and to make the army his profeffion. It
is to be hoped that this will meet the ready, difcern-
ing, and well jndging eye of our beloved Commander
in Chief, and that through his wonted folicitude for
the comfort and welfare-of the Officers of the army,
he will inftantly put a flop to the ptefent abfurd,
effeminate, and eXpenfive mode of drefs. Then we
(hall not be ruined in our fortunes and our charafter.
We (hall be enabled to be well mounted, and wcM
appointed for fervice, and we (hall cart away all our
fuperfluous articles, or make a prelim of them to the
Theatres. What elk are they, fi; for ? Hoping, Sir,
that I than not intrude upon the' emits of your paper,
and that you will have the goodnefs to infers this,
letter for the real benefit of the army in general, I
have die honour to he your obedient fervant,
AN Omega, zealous for the good of
the fervice, and a decided Enemy to
Extravagance.
London, Jea. s 6, 046.

The firfl-drawn Soon Tickets are flare to be Prizes.
Hotelier and Co. beg leave to nate to their Friends
and the Public, that in confequence of the arrange-
ment of the above benefits; it is mait:feß to every
adventurer, that by pnrchafing before the Lottery
c,ommences Drawing, an important advantage is
obtained I for intimate, the firn-drawn Ticket will be
entitled to 10,0221. ; the fortunate holder May renew
the purchate of an I:indrawn Ticket with the all, and
on the feeond day obtain 20,0221. ; and continue to
do fo until the &ft 5000 221. Tickets are drawn out
of the Wheel.—Tickets and Shares are felling in
great variety of numbers, and at the lowed prices.
, Prizes paid on demand by Floamsse and Co. the old
eflablithed State Lottery Offices, 26, Cornhill, 52,
Charing Croft, and St. Margaret's Hill, Borough.—
Orders by letter or carrier, executed exadly nn the
fame terms as if precept. The Lottery begins Draw.
ing next Monday Week.
Tatar. to Slime rioa.—A Writ of Enquiry was
executed before the Sheriff of Suffolk, on Thurfday
Tall, in an alinn brought by a perfon name Garrett,
father of a young woman, againn a farmer, named
Gent, at Shaddenfield, for the fedudion of his
daughter nnder a promife of marriage. The conduit
of the defendant appeared to be of a bate and aggra-
vated nature,and the Jury found a verdid againti him
—damages 4001.
On the fame day, before the lathe Sheriff, Mr.
Thornton, a Serjeant of the Woodbridge Volunteers,
obtained a verdld of soot. damages in an scion of
defamation, the defendant having charged him with
unnatural praflices.
In addition to the ravages of the floral, near Lon-
don, we have to. add, that the warehoufes, number 4,
5, and 7, at the Welt India Docks, Blackwall, bad
the copper covering carried away a confiderable
dif-
rance ; the damage is calculated at tomool.: and on
Thurfday t'e, night feversl tranfportsand craft were
by the norm blown from their moorings near the
VIA nailing Office, Deptford, to the oppofite more at
Mill Wall, Limehnufe, and fußained much damage.
A omit tremendous and awful tempeß was experi-
enced at Bradwell, in Ellie, on the morning of Friday
fe'nnight,abnut five Veloric. It appears tohave confined
its devafiation to the width of about a quarter of a
mile ; in which (pace an immenle number of trees were
torn up by the roots, or broken down. Three granaries
near the dock, are completely dilapidated. A wag.
gon, belonging to R. Wm.'s, Efq. was carried over
the dock, and pitched endwile, a conliderable depth
into the earth. A veld lying in the dock was
driven with great violence completely nut of it; and
another edict lying in the river was driven into the
dock, their malls, rigging, &c. torn to pieces. The
gun boat Rationed in the creek was difmaßed. A
very large barn, on Mr. SANGSTRei farm, was blown
down. A flack of peate, another of tares, and five
other Racks,' were torn into fragments, and (tattered
to a eonfiderable diltance. The dwelling houfe was
unroofed. Other damage to a great amount has
been done to property upon that farm. Pi operty alto
upon Mr. Bale's farm was damaged to the amount
of three or four hundred pounds ; but we do not hear
that any peril:mai injury has been ft:Rained.
HIGH TIGES.—On account of the peculiar pofition
of the fun and moon, very confiderable fpring tides
took place on the Gth of January, and may alto be
impeded on the sth of February, 'BO6. In the great
tide which occurred on the 23d of March, 1803, the
waters of the ocean were in tome places prevented,
by oppnfing winds, from yielding to the united ac-
tion of the fun and moon. In the harbour of Bred,
however, where the tea was neither elevated nor de-
preffed by violent gales, the tide of the 23d March
was the largeft ever obferved on the French coati,
and furnilhed the fubjeft of a memoir by the celebrat-
ed La Place. The height of the tide was then 23
feet four inches ; whereas the greaten tide on record
was that of the 23d September, a7t4, when the fea
rote to the height of 22 feet t t inches. In the cons-
pardon of tides, therefore, that of the 23d March,
1803, may be tried as a flandard ; and though the
fpsing tides in the beginning of this month did not
equal it in file, on account of their diltance from the
equinoxes, yet, in other refpeds, the pofition of the
tot- luminaries is much more favourable fur produc-
ing a twell in the lea. In March, :Sol, when the
moon was in her per igee, her diltance from the earth's
centre was 221,591 Mika; but in January 1806, the
moon's penge.,l dinanee from the earth is 221,371
miles. In Match, :803, the fish's diflance from the
earth was t 94,5 2,50 c miles, but in January, tBo6,
hi. diltance a , 91,733,750 miles; fn that on the 6th
of this mor.th, the moots was zoo miles, and the fun
2,7711,750 miles nearer the centre of the earth than
in March, tSO3. It is a very tematkahle circum-
Hance, too, that in January, 1806, the moon arrived
at the point of her orbit neareß the earth almnft at
the very inflance of a full moon; whereas, in March,
1803, her arrival in her perigee preceded her °ppd.*.
tion by about (even hours. On the sth of Febtuary
next, the fun and moon are farther from the earth
than in January; yet the proximity of the tides to the
equinoxes will counterbalance this incicate of diltance, I
and render the foci of the war.ers greater than ufual.