Star.
London, England, 1801-01-08 00:00:00

LEITH, JANUARY 3;

Arrived—The Ceres, Nuccis, from Greenock ;
Marys, HARLEY, from Eyemouth ; Leith Packet,
Cue( mew Gs, and Commercial Packet, HALL, from
London.

Cleared out—The Trial Packet, GOWANS, for
London ; and Edinburgh Packet, WILSON, for
Hull.

Glafgow Tontine Lill—Brandywine-Miller,
FRAM, is arrived in the Clyde from New-York ;
Mary, in ditto, from Lilbon ; Princefs of
Wales, CAMMLL, in ditto, from Jamaica; Mar.
garet and Eliza, &ray/Ns, at Newfoundland, from
the Clyde; Juno, Douczes, in the Clyde, from
St. John's ; and Brothers, —, in ditto, from
Newfoundland.

Extra& of a Letter front an Officer belonging
to the HYMN frigate, commanded by• Sir J. La-
scaux, arrived from the Weft Indies :—" We
failed from Port-Royal bay the 28th of Oftober,
and on the gth of. November took our departure
for the ifland of Tortola, with 130 fall of tiluk.l,,ust.
veirels under convoy, fince which time we have
experienced molt dreadful weather, it blowing
hard, with thunder, lightning,, and heavy rain,
which feparated the convoy, molt of them having
materially fuffered ; five are Rated to have funk,
but their crews are fortunately faved;among whom
are the people on board the Traveller, of London,
which fhip had &great number of paffengers and
French prifoners."
The Simon Tayler Weft Indiaman, which was
to have failed with the laft convoy for Jamaica,
has been for fome weeks weather-bound in the
River. On her arrival at Spithead fhe is to take
on board Lieut. Colonel MACLEAN, with the Staff
Officer; and two companies of the 6th battalion
of the 6cth regiment ; the remainder of which
failed in the LA fleet.
Captain STEPHENSON is now the Captain of
Lord KEITH'S gag (hip, the FOUDROYANT, of 8o
guns, and Captain BENNER. ads as Adjutant Ge-
neral of the Fleet.

No lets than 16 line of battle Ibips are vacant
by the new promotion of Flag Officers.
One of the homeward-bound Windward Ifland
fleet is arrived at Liverpool. She failed from Tor-
tola on the gth of November. On the 16d1 fhe
loft the convoy.
Conuniffioner Hors is appointed the Commit-
Goner at Chatham, in the room of Conuniffioner
HARTWELL, who comes to the Navy Board.
The Active, TURNIULL, from Bahama; Ceres,
CARMONT, from Naples; and Fletcher, NICHOL.
sow, frem Martinique, are on there at Liverpool.
Yefterday a Court of DireCtors was held at the
Eaft India Houfe, when the following Captains
were fworn into the Command of their refpeCtive
fhips, viz. ANDREW TIRIBRILL, of the Amu()); ;
JAMES MARTIN, Of the WOODFORD; JOHN WORDS.
WORTN, Of the East or ASEROATINNY, for China;
and RICHARDSON, of the PRINCESS CHAR.
LOTTR, for Madras and the Molucca Inands.—
The Court adjourned at five a'cisnk till Wedoef•
day next.

The performance of hilt awd r.rk. on Tuefday
at Dewy-Lane, gave univerfal fatifiteion. Mrs.
Caouce and Mrs. Mouuraut, in Tarim and
iroogii, afforded every gratification which could
be expeeed from the exercife of their attractive
powers; and fome additional mufic by ICaxxv had
a very admirable effca.
One of the Gentlemen in the laft promotion of
Iriih Peerages is the perfon celebrated for having
changed his mind five different times, andforbov-
ing abfilmtelyhoien twice on oppoitsida, in thetas, der
bate, on the Union.
A General Court Martial fat laD week at Dub-
lin Barracks, on the trial of Captain GITFARD, of
the City of Dublin Militia, who is alfo Editor of
The Dias, yournal, for difeharging a loaded mu(
bet at his Lieutenant-Colonel (Mr. Some ).
The evidence for the profecntion doled on Thurc-
day, when the Court adjourned till Monday. •
Among the lingulariues of the prefent day are
the combats between American and French fri-
gates, while the two Governments are figning
treaties of friendfhip and amity, and giving ar.b
other the fraternal embrace I
A Pimple fellow who took Lord Hower satires
affertion in the Houfe of Commons in a literal
fenfe, " that herrings was an excellent fubffitute
for bread." obfervettlat he had eat them as fuch
with a buttock of beef, and in his opinion 'hey
did not aafwer as 4111
It appears by the left Paris Journals, that Dots
Uectyiyo, the late Pritie Minifter of Spain is sot
only (Untitled, but difgraced. He has been d 6,
relied to retire to a houfe two leagues from Madrid,
Minot to remove from thence without permit:Goa.
In a houfe in Paris the Sell floor is devoted to a
Gan* Chsh J on the ground flour is a Pawaraiset
sblip,*and on the fecond Moor a Maier of PAZ:.
The coincidence is curioa.
In this agi•of difcovery It -has been found out
that the vulgar and indigenous expreflion gone to
, is not our own, but imported from the exue•
mity of the globe. "In Samarcand, the metro•
polis of Tartar'', there was formerly a taylor,"---
pays Mon litsos DU GoLs.ann, in his Maxims of
Eariern Nations, " who lived near the gate which
led to the burial ground ' • whenever a corpfe was
carried by, he threw a little Done into an earthen
pot fixed in his cupboard. to calculate the number
Of deaths in the cootie ordie .At leoph the
.1, died ; astir obierneg his
glut eaf a seighbour after
del tees an seat Taylor is sow to
tette yen *Vac niye.