Star.
London, England, 1822-04-13 00:00:00

THE AltailY.

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'Monday, Colonel Sir I:lvan Dr Emma, M.P. of the Greni-
-41E4. Guards, and Surveyor-General of the. Ordnance, arrived at
Chatham, and inspected the Ordnance Barracks, at Brompton,
it is said prior to their being occupied by troops of the line, or
by troops belonging to the Fast India Company.
Wednesday a detachment of troops was sent from Albany
Barracks, Isle of Wight, to Southampton; and in the evening a
vessel brought recruits fur different Regiments, who marched
to Albany Barracks. Thursday a detachment of invalids was
sent to Chatham.
Two companies and the head-quarters of the 10th Regiment
of root, disembarked on the 9th instant at Deptford from Ply-
mouth, and marched into the barracks at that place.
The 44th Regiment, lately landed at Liverpool from Dublin,
i 3 row on its passage to Paddington by the canal boats ; and is to
be quartered at Chatham, previously to embarking fur Indic.

PAY OF THE lAJOR-GENERAIS. •
TO ALL lIAJOR-GANERALS TRZTIOCSLY TO 1819.

Promoted from the Guards

£5OO per annum.

D:tto from the Line, .CI. ss. per day - 450 ditto.
A(!. >I ASOR-CENERALS ertostoren summer:sr TO 1819.

Porn the Guzrds - - full-pay, each £5OO per annum.
rr.,m the Line, Lieut.-Cols. Do. Do. each 3'25 ditto.

Vitt() Ditto - - l laif pay, each 180 ditto.
aXtto Ditto, Majors,. - Do. Do. each 135 ditto.
l; will be wen by the above, that since withholding the pay
c: ;I. Ss. per day, there are iinw fir: dijetent rates, paid to
t'.-'.;tl Officers, on whom his 7.lsazsly has couferrt.4 the same
aLJ the same commission.
la what manner the Half-pay Officer is to support this rank,
0,-.v:l to procure decent clothing, with the common necessaries
life, it is very difficult to determine ; hut it is painful to con-
tinplate his distress, struggling with a family—his rank precludes
einire obscurity, and his wretchedness canaot be concealed.
'1 he Kisn's commission, the most honourable acknowledge.
rne.lt of his services, becomes to him a source of painful re.
fit,.:ions (from the distinetLn of remuneration) and of mortihed
and degraded feelings.

NAVAL I.VIELLIGEACE.

Yesterday the dispatches far Bianco()len by the ship Layton,
were dosed at the East India House, and delivered to the Master
of that ship.
Captain C. IL Moosson, Lieutenant C. Gontiti.v, and Mr.
W. A. Bares, are appointee{ to the A nt.toiat, 26, fitting out at
at Plymvuth for the Cape station.
The Favourite, Gaeta:Ls. ; and the Edward, Wittiams, from
Newport to Bridgewater, foundered on the Gore Sand, in
Mridgewater Bay, the 51 inst.—crew saved.
.The Constance, I)ouaaT, from Batavia and Cochin China, is
lest on the Island of Rodrigues., near the Mauritius.
The Heroine, Buenos Ayrean corvette, sailed from Gibraltar
the 19th ult. supposed bound to the westward, followed by the
Perola Portuguese frigate.
The Ann Elizabeth, Seorr,arrived at Liverpool from Buenos
Ayres, sailed 10th January, and reports that the Hope, of Liver-
pool, was sunk at Bueuos Ayres.
listen. Waste, Aram I.—lt blew yesterday a gale film the
northward, exceeding in violence any experienced here for the
last ten years. It began about five o'clock in the morning, and
increased to a perfect hurricane at sever.. Several large ships
drove from their moorings, and running foul of each other,
sustained very considerable damage. The Wilbelmina, TRLYI-
NA ACES, front St. Thomas, lost two anchors and cables and her
jili-boom, and had her bulwarks torn away, and her stern-frame
inuch injured. The British ships rode out the late in safety,
except the Myrtle, Mac Lean:, which drove from her moorings,
aiat was forced into a garden ; she will, however, probably get
of the next spring tides. Several other vessels received more
or less damage. Its the afternoon the weather became more
anoderate.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 11.—The Bt.:lmam 74, Captain T. Der-
axs; and the Pitarrosi frigate, Captain alor.raeu, arrived es-
teriluy from Chatham.
Fatstotrrn, Aran 11.—Wind N.E.—Arrived the Dutch gal-
lint Eliza Brown, from Amsterdam, to take on board the stores
of the Dutch ship De Voyhetd, condemned at this port.
PENZANCE, Aram 11.—Wind E.N.E.—Some passengers, who
landed here from the Boyne, Captain Binwrs.z., from Calcutta,
spoke, on the 23c1 of March, the brig Lady Popham, Jrataugs,
4t days f,om Jamaica.
Drat, Ara:Ll:l.—Wind F.S.E.—Remain the Sevrav frigate,
and three coasters.—Seven o'Clock.—Wind S. by E. nearly calm.
Lvsasevox, Aram If. —The Maria, Re ESON. from Liverpool
fir Stettin, loaded with Oh, copper, &c. ran ashore last evening,
to the westward of Christchurch-head, having sprung a leak the
evening before. The vessel is full of water, and expected to go
to pieces.
CusTast-Housz, APRIL 12.—Ships Entered Inwards : The
Christiana, from Rotterdam ; Providentia, front Schien; Com-
merce, front Frederickstadt ; Saxony, and Sarah and Margaret,
front Hamburgh ; Flying Fish, from Ostend ; and London, from
Ilamburgh.—Entered Outwards: The Isis, fur 'Marseilles; Ro-
bert and Ann, for Bermuda; Staines, for Bremen ; Martin, for
Flsineur ; Jean, for Venice; Integrity, fot Elsineur ; City of
Edinburgh, for Ceylon; and Zealous, for Lima.—Cleared Out-
wards : The Belle Alliance,for Rotterdam ; Catherine, for Bom-
bay ; Vim Margreta, for Dantzic ; Five Friends, for Teneriffe ;
bones, for Quebec • and William and Mat y, for Ilamburgh.
Aaniven—At Monte Video, the British Tar, —, front Li-
verpool. At Leghorn, Leander, Raye, from Salem and Smyroa.
At Savannah, Arielßitchie, from the Clyde. At Demerara,
Paragon, Pollock, from the Clyde. In the Clyde, Eliza, Knightly,
Smith, from Cadiz. At Buenos Apes, Sarah, Lowe, from
Ilamburgh.
CURRENTS OF Tilt OCCAN...4IHUTday last, Mr. HALL, farmer,
of Saudton, on the south side of Milford Haven, picked up a
bottle on the shore, containing the following paper :
0 No. 510a—The bottle which contains this was thrown into
the sea in lat. 49. 54. N. long. 12. 211. W. at noon, on the lit of
March, 1522, front the ship Ospray, of Glasgow, which sailed
from Greenock on the 20th day of February, 1620, on a trading
voyage round the world. Whoever finds this is requested to in-
gest a notice of the time and place in some literary or political
publication, with the view of establishing facts relative to the cur-
rents of the ocean: 130 days from Calcutta,.. returning towards
Crtestsck—' AU well.' ALSIANDZIt APCULL, Master."

Yesterday died, at his house in Portland-place,
aged 76, Sir NATIIANIkL CoNANT.
Friday se'unight, as Sir WILLIAM ELFORD, Bart.
tff llickham, alter attending Divine Service, was
Mounting his horse, a stone on which he had stepped
Slid away, which caused him to fall, mid pitching on
is elbow, he broke his arm.
Tuesday, the Marchioness of ELY was delivered of
a son, at Bifi ons, near Canterbury.