Star.
London, England, 1822-01-16 00:00:00

BOSTON, DECEMBER 2e.

Caraccas Papers to the 2'2d November hare bo.:1
received at Baltimore. The Columbian cruiser,. c
tinue to be successful in capturing Spanish proi;e.r.
They have also passed a new Tariff of duties. G.:
ral Devereux had challenged the Vice-Pre,,i,ent
Narina, and had been tried and honourably acquire..;;
Narina had since been dismissed.
The Comet arrived at New York on the 21 A,
being 40 days on her passage, with Mr. and
Twedie, the Treasury defaulter, under the a.51111.t.'d
name of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor.

Yesterday, at three o'clock, Mr. WILsoNI M.il.!-cr
the City of London, accompanied by a Deputatio::
Merchants, waited upon the CHANCELLOR of ti,e Ls-
CHEQUER, at his house In Downing-street.
Preparations are making at Carlton Palace for el
reception of his MAJusrY, who is expected to ari:ve
to-morrow, or Friday, from the Royal Pavilion.
Yesterday being the Birth-day of his Royal High-
ness the Duke of GLOUCESTILR, his Royal 11.g,11:..65's
trades-people, illuminated their houses on the o.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Priocesi Of
DENMARK are now in Pali-. They paid a visit to the
KING on Thursday.

The Duke of NioNTaose gave a sumptuous dinner
yesterday, to a large party, at his house in Giuisc-
nor-square.

Yesterday, the Marquis of LONDONDERRY transactd
business with the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEtter

Yesterday Count and Countess LIEVEN entert.n.hd
a large party of distinguished foreigners with a ci..-
ner, at their house in Harley-street. In the even::;
the Countess had a music party.
Yesterday Baron de WERTIIER, the new Prussal
Minister, took possession of his new house in Mans-
tield-street.

Preparations are now making for the matrimor6l
alliance between the Hon. AGAR ELLIS, the son of
Lord CLIFFIMN, and the Hon. Miss HOWARD, SC:Otii
daughter of Lord and Lady MonPETII.
This day Count and Countess Sr. ANTONIO gate
a grand entertainment at their house iu Hanort.:-
square, in honour of Captain JOHNSON, of the (ista:..,
the Countess's nephew, coming of age.
Gorhambury, the seat of the Earl and Countess ,4
VERULAII, near St. Alban's, will, in the course oft!.e.
ensuing week, become a scene of great festivity, sue.
ral distinguished personages being invited to meet big
Royal Highness the Duke of YORK, who has signified
his intention of honouring the Noble Earl and Cod:.
tess with his company.
The Irish Papers contain an account of a ditillg
attempt made on the 4th inst. to set fire to the clistrcX
of Templemore, in the county of Kerry. The
diaries had collected the Bibles and Prayer-books to-
gether in a pew, and set fire- to them ; but the tianics
did not communicate to the wainscoting; and th.:s
the building escaped conflagration. A house in u'e
neighbourhood of Chute-ball had been burnt to the
ground; and a man of the name cf 'CRUDER, E
Beaufort, had his house attacked by some rutlixoi
who seized him, and cut off one of his ears.
A letter f: om Demerara, of the .24th of OctoNt,
mentions an extraordinary instance of the riole"''
with which lightning acts, .on the sudden e 51,10,101
of electrical clouds. It occurred on board a ves::.l
called the Susan, on the voyage from New Briinswi,;%:
to Demerara. On the Itith, all hands being on toe
fore-topsail-yard, the dangerous fluid struck the ye,-
sel with terrible force, coming down by the wed
of the foremast, which it can ied away in a monsco:,
about eight feet above the deck, along with every
person aloft, and shattered the main-topmast and jity-
mom into splinters. It also burst the ship on the
starboard bow, two planks from the deck. One vi
the crew was, in a manner, annihilated by the thun-
derbolt ;. no mat k remaining of hint but spots of his
blood on the sails and rigging. The rest were more.
or less hurt by the fail, when the masts and rigging
Came down.

OFFICL4L CIRCULAR!

TREASURY CHAMBERS,

JAIMA wr S. 1822.

My Lords advert to their Minutes of the 10th
August last, respecting the revision of the Establish-
ment of the ,eve,al Public Offices, and also in regard
w the formation of a Superannuation Fund, by a
per centage deduction to be made from the Salaries
of certain Public Officers. Their Lordships having
before them Abe Returns made in pursuance of the
said Minutes, will hereafter communicate their de-
termination or orinion thereon to each Office, so far
as the Establishment of such Office may be con-
cerned. But several Rules of general application
having arisen out of a review of the Minutes re-
fetred to, and upon a consideration of the several
Returns, my Lords are pleased to direct a copy of
the following Rules and Regulations to be. trans-
frti
ted to the several Public Offices, for their in-
formation and guidance, so far as they may be re-
spectively concerned :

Ist. The increase of salary for length of service according to
• the existing •tales having been suspended by their Lordships'
:Minute of the --- April last, they are now pleased to direct
that all the individuals who, according to those scales, became
entitled to increased salary for length of service previously to the
termination of the Christmas quarter of 1821, should be permit-
ted to receive such increase from the period from which, under
the former establishment of the office, they became entitled
thereto, and that from the commencement of the year 1822 the
new establishment should take place. But every person will re-
tain the salary to which he may have been entitled at the termi-
oz:ian of the year 1821, until he may under the new establish-
ment. hczorle entitled to a larger salary.
2d. That those persons who are in the progress of a period at
the close of which they would, under the former establishment,
be entitlA to increase of allowance for length of service, shall not
lose the benefit of that part of the period which has actually ex-
pired; but at the expiration of the period which would have
entitled them according to the former establishment to increased
ralary, they shall receive in addition to their present salary and
allowances such proportion of the increase of salary as will cor-
respond wish that part of the petiorl which had expired up to the
end of the Christmas quarter of 1821.

3d. That the application of any new scale for the payment of
salaries in any office according to classes, shall in no case give to
:sly person whil' he remains in the class to which be now be-
I 7g;, any increase of salary at an earlier period than he would
h_re obtained it according to the scale which existed immediately
Frevious to the termination of the Christmas quarter of 1821.
4. That if by any new classification or arrangement of clerks,
or if by any succession to vacancies within a period of three years
font the commencement of 18'22, any clerk shall be placed in a
class above that in which he is now serving, and to which he
would not have attained but for the new classification of the
office, or for the vacancies occasioned by the reductions now
made, and if the minimum salary of the class to which such
clerk may be pronioted should exceed the salary of which he
may at the time of the promotion be in the actual receipt, such
clerk shall not at once be entitled to the minimum rate of sa-
lary of the class to which he may be advanced, but shall receive
an annual increase to the amount of his present salary equal to
the annual increase applicable to the class to which he is ad-
vanced, until the termination of three years from the time of
his promotion, when he shall be placed upon the minimum sa-
lary of the cl•tss, unless he shall have attained a higher salary by
the progressive annual increases, and from henceforth he shall
receive the annual increase of salary applicable to the class to
which he may be promoted, until be reaches its maximum.

sth. That upon vacancies occurring in any of the superior
classes in any office, the bituations shall not be supplied by se-
niority only, but the fittest individuals shall be selected to succeed,
by the heads of the department in which the vacancy may occur.

6th. In the cases in which clerks upon the establishment of
any office are discontinued in consequence of the present reduc-
tions, their Lordships would be disposed to grant to them the.
following allowances:

If they have served less than three years, a gratuity of one
year's pay.
If three years and under five, a gratuity 9f two, years' pay.

If they havo4erved five years, and under ton years, an annual
allowance not exceeding one-third of their salaries, until other-
wise provided for in the public service.
If ten years and under twenty years, an allowance lot exceed-1
ing or.e.half of their salaries.
If twenty years and upwards, an allowance not exceeding that
to which they would be entitled under the proposed new scale
fur superannuation; and if any of the clerks have previously to
their appointment upon the establishment of any office served as
extra clerks therein, and shall have been not less than three year;
upon the establishment, they shall, in computing the allowances
to which they may be entitled, have the benefit of such period of
service. Their Lordships, however, desire that the cases of al'
those persons who may be entitled to such gratuities or allow_
ances, may be specially reported to them, in order that they may
sanction the payments in conformity to the Act of .50 George
111. c. 117.

7th. That in lieu of the respective deductions of 15/. 10s. 70.
and five per cent. directed by the Minute of this Board of the
10th August last, to be made towards the formation of a Super"
annuation Fund from the salaries of aU pet sons holding offices
which would give them claims to be superannuated ender the
Act of the .50th Geo. 111. c. 117, the following deduction shall
be made, from the commencement of the year 1822, by the per-

son paying the salaries, from all salaries amounting to tool. per
annum and upwards.
From so much of the salary of every individual as he would
be entitled to, according to any new scale about to be authorized
for any Department, or according to any regulations already
sanctioned by authority of Parliament or otherwise, a deduction
of live per cent. and a further deduction of 10 per cent. from the
excess only (if any) of salary, of which he may be in the receipt
beyond the salary to which he would be entitled according to
writ new sc.& or regulation. _ _

That a deduction of 2i per cent. be made from all persons
holding offices entitled to superannuation under the Act of .50
Crorge 111. c. 117, the salaries of which shall eaccod ..C.50, and
be less than £lOO per annum.

Bth. In the event of any person at present upon the establish-
ment of any office, from whom a deduction may be made to-
wards the formation of a Superannuation Fund dying in office,
:tld consequently without having had any superannuation allow-
ante granted to him, the representative of the person so dying
shall be entitled to receive the total amount of the several de-
,iuctions made from his s.slary, but without interest. ft is not
intinded that this regulation should apply to any persons who
May be hereafter appointed to the public service.
9th. That every Department shall, as soon as possible, trans-
mit to this Board,
An account of the total numbt:r of each class of &freers,
%hilt., and servants, the rate of salary, and the scale of increase
apt .c:7) for length of service, according to the establishment cl-
ammy i,tir,r an the end of the Christmas gust-tel. of 1821.
Alm) an gecouut of the total number of each dais of officers,

clerks:and serve* the ride al sabtry. and sell of Inmate WI
any) roe length of service, saccording to the establitilment sane-
dotted from the commencement of the year 184 It.
Also an account, in columns, containing the following infer-
mation

Ist. Name of every olke where the salary is 450 per annum,
or upwards.

2d. Name of every individual
3d. Amount of salary, according to the establishment sanc-
tioned from the eototneocernent of 1 en.

4th. Amount of salary actually payable to each person, ac-
cording to the establishment existing at the termination of the
Christmas quarter of 11121.

sth. Amount of contribution payable by each individual to
the Superannuation Fund.

And that a similar account should be transmitted yearly in
future, immediately after sth January in each year, except that
the sth column should contain the account actually contributed
by each individual in the year preceding.
That if any clerk or other person in the receipt of any fees
or other emoluments upon which he may upon retirement be
superannuated, the total amount of such fees or other emolu-
ment is to be stated separately fromthe salary, and the per
centage will attach thereon in the same manner as upon the u-
lary ; and no person will hereafter be superannuated upon a
proportion of a greater income than that upon which he may
contribLte to the Superannuation Fund.

That an account should also be transmitted of all persons re-
ceiving superannuation or retired allowances in every depart-
ment at the termination of the Christmas quarter of 1821$ spe-
cifying whether the allowances were granted by way of super-
annuation or upon the abolition of office, distinguished in columns.
Ist. Name of office formerly held by the individual.
2d. Name of individuaL
3d. Amount of salary or emolument of the office upon which
the superannuation allowance was calculated.

4th. Amount of allowance by way of superannuation.
sth. Amount of allowance upon the abolition of office.
My Lords will cause forms of these Returns to be
communicated to the •everalOffices and Departments,
lien the have received those Returns from the
',event' Departments, they will give directions in re-
gard to the manner in which the sums deducted to-.
u ards the formation f a superannuation fund are to be
accounted for; and in case the sums deducted amount
to more than one-halt of the superannuation allow.
antes payable in each Department (exclusive of the
allowance payable upon the abolition of office); in
what mode the surplus is to be remitted to the Com-
missioners for the Reduction of the National Debt ;
and also as to the manner in which sums are to be
drawn from the Commissioners for the Reduction of
the National Debt, in the event of the superannosation
allowances, payable in any office or department, being
more than double the amount of the annual coml.
bution to the Superannuation Fund.

Transmit, with a copy of the foregoing Minute,
the forms of the accounts to the several Public Offices
and Departments in Great Britain and Ireland, for
their information and guidance.