Star.
London, England, 1801-01-05 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JANUARY i. •
The Ad of Legiflative Union becoming thi-
day an operative Law, the Imperial United Stand.
ard was !mined at twelve o'clock, on Bedford
Tower, Dublin Cattle, and at the fame time a
Royal falute was commenced at the battery, Plice.
nix Park. The Union Flag was alfo difplayed
the morning by the Royal Tyrone regiment, then
on duty at the Cattle, and by the regiment which
relieved them.

A fimilar adoption of the Imperial Arms took
place in all the Forts, Garrifons, &c. in the United
Kingdoms, and was alto difplayed by the feveral
fquaclrr,,,s of his tlajefty's Navy.
Tuefday laft, his EXCELLENCY gave audience,
and held a Privy Council at the Callle._

A proclamation was direited to be iifued by the
Council, entirely prohibiting, until the 25th of
March next, the making malt of any corn or grain
whatfoerer.

Another proclamation was alto ordered to be
publiffied, taking off quarantine fromveflels coming
from the ports of Virginia, or Maryland, it appear.
ing that the epidemic lickncfs which had prevailed
in thole places, was now fubfided.
Thurfday night, Mr. F.'s MIER, an Englifh melien•
ger, arrived with difpatches to his Excellency Mar
quis CORNWALLIS.
A Court-martial has fat for tome days at the
Barrack, upon an officer of the City of Dublin
Militia. Colonel Coors is the prefident.
A number of recruits for the Weft York Fen•
cibles arrived on Sunday from England.

Enfign M—, of the 32d regiment, quartered
at Bridgwater, lately eloped to Gretna-green with
the daughter of his Colonel; on Monday Jail they
returned, when the bridegroom was put under an
arreft, for leaving his corps without leave, for
which he is to be tried by a Court Martial.
The India Company by the Monthly Overland
difpatch of Tuefday, received the molt gratifying
accounts of their tobacco farms in the Northern
Circars ; the produce is of the bell quality, and the
plantations are competent to the growth of any re.
quired quantity.
We have repeatedly mentioned the fuccefsful
culture of Hemp in India, from whence it is highly
probable we (hall derive a fupply adequate to our
confumption, and at infinitely lets expence than at.
prefent. Several experiments were lately made,
by order of the Supreme Government, with hemp,
the growth and inanufaCture of Chittagong, on
board tome (mall veffels trading to the Wands in
thofe teas, and otherwife, and the refult has been
fuel as to confirm the Company in the projed of
greatly extending the culture of this article.
The cattle and effals of feveral of the adherents
of Vizisa ALLY have been confifcated, and the
amount diftributed amongft thofe perfons who have
fuffered by their depredations in the neighbour-
hood of Benares--the RAJAH of JUANPORE iE
amongft the number.
The RAJAH of REELING has iffued a confidera-
ble coinage of filver rupees. The fovereignty of
Rekling is neither hereditary nor eledive, but pot:
felled by whoever is able and willing to take it—
the prefent RAJAH inherits all the tyranny of his
predeceffors, but his policy leads him to cultivate
a good underftanding with the Englifh.
Our late accounts from Aleppo 'late, the Arab
tribe of Whabee has created in that neighbourhood,
and at Bufforah, confiderable alarm, by tome hof-
tile movements on the borders of the Defart. There
diftriets continued to be infefted by a numerous
and daring banditti, and all• commercial inter-
courfe, excepting by powerful caravans, was in
confequence fufpended.
The Chinefe Tallow-tree has been carried to
Bengal, where it is cultivating with every profpeCt
of fuccefs.

The vaR houfe nearly completed by Ardafeer
Dady, on the touch front of Malabar Hill, at Bom-
bay, fuddenly fell in, by which 25 perfons loft their
lives, and a much greater number badly wounded.
We underftand, that with the concurrence of
the Eaft India Company, Marquis W1LL231.62
has ellabliflied a Univerfity at Calcutta, upon an
extenfive fcale, and regulated upon the moft ufe-
ful principles. It will contain profefors for the
ancient languages, with the Perfian, Hindoo, &c.
and for every branch of fcience and literature.—
The profefors are to be obliged to read leCtures •
in their refpeEtive departments. As the Univer-
fity will comprehend the different objets of civil
and military education, the young men tent out
from this country in both departments will be
bound to attend. There are to be public exami-
nations yearly, and a diaribution of prizes to the
pupils who excel.
FICLD Aariccsay.—ln the year 1776, Lord
Vifcount Townsme', the Matter General of the
Ordnance, completed fome of the Britifli Battalion
Guns with Limbers and Ammunition Boxes, upon
the principle of the Hanoverian Field Artillery,
by which means thole Pieces could accompany in-
fantry with so rounds of ammunition when drawn
by three horfes : and when five horfes were em-
ployed, rapid movements could be made with four
artillery men, 74 rounds of ammunition, and an
apparatus to draw the gun through rivers, to dif-
embark it upon an enemy's coall in a rough lea,
and to get it up the ileepeft cliffs that an infantry
Soldier can climb.

In the year 1777, the KING was pleafed to fee
a light Six-Pounder difembarked from a flat boat,
and drawn up a perpendicular bank upwards of 65
feet high ; the Gun was taken out of the boat and
got up ready for anion, with 74 rounds of ammu-
nition, in 25 minutes, without any other aflillance
than the detachments belonging to two Guns.
On the gth January, 1782, a light Six-Pounder
Battalion Gun, drawn by five common ccmtraft
bodes, and attended by a fpare Limber drawn by
three of the fame kind of honks, carried eight ar,
tiller y men, and too rounds of ammunition, from
ICharlton, in Kent, to Croydon, in Surry, at the
Irate of feven miles an hour, although there was a
heavy rain and a high wind blowing direly in the
face of bodes aad drivers.