Star.
London, England, 1805-09-11 00:00:00

PROMOTION ROYAL MARINE ARTILLERY,

Ft'?t Lieut. Thomas Adams Parker, to be Captain. Second
Lietitenanti, David Anderfon, Davld James Ballinghall, Philip
Joihua Perceval, Robert John Little, Ambrote Andrew Rhodes
Waltridge, William Rhodes Vinicontbe, John Lawrence, and
Robert Prcfton Campbell—To be Firft Lieutenants.

We have received Madras Gazettes, but they are
deflitiite of all interefUng intelligence. That of the
gth March, the latelt date, is filled with accounts of
a grand entertainment given by the Officers of the
army to Major General Wit-Last-sr, and of the pub.
licdifputations in the oriental languages held at the
College of Fort William.

A Gentleman who has lately advertifed in the pnb•
lie prints for a partner for, life, Rates, as a/ne pa
not, that " She muft be pofieffed of wool. otherwife
the will not be regarded." If the favours of Fortune
are fo necetfary to dotheflic happinefs, it is no longer
a matter of furprize, that the married as well as the
tingle thould be fo eager in courting her adventitious
aflame in the rich Lottery to begin drawing this
month, which affords ample means of advancing the
focial intercoutfe wherever money forms the hafts of
affeeion.

A young woman named Porter, in an advanced
Rate of pregnancy, was charged yefterday at Union-
hall with committing an aftiult on a neighbour, and
was ordered to be committed, which had fuch an
effell on her, that the fell into a fit, which was ex.
peeled to bring on a premature delivery. She was
with great difficulty recovered, and fent home in
place of going to prifon.
A man of the name of Bentley Skil was fully com-
mitted for trial from Worlhip-ttreet Office, yefterday,
being charged with entering fome new buildings in
Bethnal-green, by means of a ladder, and [leafing
a large quantity of carpenters' tools, which were
found in his point:Gott.
On Sunday evening a poor old woman, in at•
tempting to crofs the end of Kent- flreet, was thrown
down by the leaders of a Greenwich coach, and the
wheels going over her body the was killed on the
fpot. She was taken to a neighbouring-public houfe
until the Coroner's Jury fits on the body.

Sunday a barge belonging to the Mines Royal
Capper Company (truck on one of the Ibtrlings of'
London bridge, and funk with near forty tons of
manufaaored copper on board, a great quautity of
which, it is feared, will be bolt. •

7* •' • :1144: •:'•
TO MR iIDffOR.OF THE STAR.

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.Portfatooth Sept. 7, 'So:.

A Corps, one of the most valuable under his Ma.
jelly, has fora reties of years laboured under a hardy
fhip which it has often, and I am lorry to fay, itt
vain eapeded would be removed. I mean, Mr,
Editor, the Royal Marines, and the bardfhip of which
they complain, is the appointing of Captains in the
Navy to be the Colonels of the different divifions of
that truly, excellent, and meritorious body; it is hi
their fervice a fundamental principle that al I promo.
skis (hall go by fraiority only, and yet when an officer
has (erred histuhole life in the core,, he finds him-
fell at laft excluded from the higheft honours by the
appointments of men as his General, Major-General,
Sec. who never [creed in the Corps one tingle moment—
what would be the fentiments of if offices;
were feleaed from the line to take the fupreme com-
mand of our fleets? Jealnufy and difcontent, and is
it poffible that the Marines, under their prefent
cumaances, can avoid feelirgliurt ? It may be replied
that thefe are merely nominal and finecute fituations:
of that, Sir, I am convinced, but why if the nation is
to be put to the expence, are they not given to offi..
cers who have gone regularly through the fervice
from Second Lieutenant upwards. Surely means
might be fallen upon, to reward meritorious Naval
Officers, leis CalculatFd to awaken the regrets of fo
valuablesa. body as the Marines, and I finceret., hope,
Mr. Editor, to tee the day when that ralitalAr corps,
like all other public bodies, will enjoy the fruits of
their long labours, by the poffelfion of the appoint.
menu of the higheft offices in their profeffioo.
four's truly, SPECTATOR.