Star.
London, England, 1801-08-27 00:00:00

itEr MOUTH, AUGUST 45.

The ROYAL FAMILY returned from their aquatic
ercurfion yeller day evening at fix o'clock, after
(pending a very cheerful day. While their MA-
JESTIES were on the water, a tranfport hound to
Egypt, with troops, was (poke to by the Princefs
Augufta yacht.
1 he theatre was honoured with the pretence of
the ROYAL FAMILY, to fee The School for Scandal,
and the entertainment of My Grandmother.
After breakfall, their MAJESTIFs and the Prin.
CeffeS AUGUSTA, ELIZABETH, MARY, and SOPHIA,
went to tea with a fine breeze, the wind blowing
South Eaa. •
Prince ADOLP H U s, attended by his Equerries in
waiting, rode out on horfeback.
Princefs AMELIA, accompanied by Lady NEALE,
took an airing in a phaeton on the lands.
A very fine brig was attempted to be launched
here WI night, but failed. She went off exceeding
well this morning.
The Guard belonging to the Mail Coach fell
from the box between Over tun and Blandford, by
which accident he unfortunately broke his thigh in
two places; he was left dangeroufly ill on the road.

Among the new appointments of Prefident JEF-
FERSON, is that of a Conful General, at London.
Mr. WILLIAMS, who was promoted to that office
by Mr. ADAMS, and who has filled it for two years
pall, is to be fuccerded by Mr. J. ERVING, fon of
GFONGt ERVING, Efq. of George•(lrect, Hanover-
fquare. Mr. J. ERVING, whore father was an
American Royalill, has refidcd much in America,
and is a young gentleman of great talents and re-
fpe&ability.
The Margravine of Aw sr/to+ has juil arrived at
Dover, from Calais. As a fpecial At of Grace,
the French allowed a palfage velfel to come over
with her Serene Highnefs.
Sir Jo HN GALLINI is arrived at Dover from the
Continent.

Mr. Mstrrts gave a grand dinner the firft day
of the Races at York. Sir HARRY V. TEMPRST,
and a long lift of fathion were prefent.

Afieep was roalled whole for the /upper given
on Tuefday night laf at Shrewfbury, in honour of
the delivery ot Lady CATHERINS FOLMAR of a
fon and heir.

Scotland has attracted a large proportion of the
fafhionable world this feafon. Mr. Hums, of
Hume-wood, Member for the county of Wicklow,
arrived at Glafgow on the 2I ft ; as did alfo the
following Britifh Nobility and Gentry :—Lord and
Lady DOUGLAS, Lord AVDLEY and Lady, Lord
WALPOLE and Lady, General HAMILTON, the
Hon. WILLIAM HILL, M. P. WILLIAM LLOYD,
Efq. of Afton, CILITCHETT, Ll+ J.
LOINS, Efq. &c. &c.
Sir BENJAMIN and Lady DUNIAR have contri-
buted much to reftore the pleafure and agreeable
fociety for which Newtonberry, in the county of
Wexford, was fo diftingnifhed before the Rebel
lion. Her Ladyfhip, (ince her arrival, has put all
the neighbourhood in requifition, for Balls, Sup-
pers, and rural Fetes.

The famous and admired Weeping Willow, planted
by Por a, which has lately been felled to the ground,
came from Spain, inclofing a prefent to the late
Lady Su FFOLK, who came over with GEORGE IL
and Queen CAILOLIFIRi and was a favourite of
both, particularly fo of the KING. Mr. Poet was
in company whin the covering was taken off the
prefent : he obferved the pieces of Ricks appeared
as if there was fome vegetation, and added, " Per-
haps they may produce fomething we have not in
England." Under this idea he planted it in his
garden, and it produced the Willow Tree that has
given birth to.fo many others.
An appropriate dfneedote.—ln May, 1745, the fmall
ifland of Anguilla, in the Well Indies, was bravely
defended by a handful of men againft 600 French ;
on whole approach Governor Honos is Paid to have
made the following laconic fpeech to his men :
" Gentlemen, I'am an utter Rranger to all arid'
military difcipline, fo have nothing to recommend
to you but to load and fire as fall as you can, and
Rind by one another in the defence of your Coun-
try ! So GOD blefs you!"
111 in-ration among the Tailors!—Two hundred and
fifty in Berlin, who refufed to work without an in-
creafe of wages, have been feized and fent to prifon.
We learn (lays the Leeds Intelligencer) that on Sa-
turday fenni&ht in the evening, in confequence of
a requifition from Mr. BEAUMONT, one of his Ma•
jelly's Juftices of the Peace, the Huddersfield Vo-
lunteers were under arms, and marched fome dif-
tance from the town, there being reafon to ap-
prehend that a meeting of the difaffeded was
about to be held ; reports to that etLd having
been circulated, probably for the purpofe of afcer-
taining the effete; we are happy to find there was
no occafion for the lei vices of the Volunteers,
whole alertnefs and promptitude on the occafion
were highly laudable, there being fcarcely one of
the corps, within the found of the drum, that did
not inftantly obey its fummons.
The following is the fentence on Lieutenant-Co-
lonel Win-rat, on a charge exhibited againfl him
by Capt. BERTIfi, of his Majelly's flip MALTA, for
having made ufe of expreffions publicly on-the Ma-
rine Parade, tending to create difcnntent in the
minds of a party of marines then going to embark
on board the MALTA, with the fervice upon which
they were intended to be employed, and to the
prejudice of good order and military difcipline
Tie Court is of opinion, • 'Narver tendency the conver-
fation might have which palled between Litutenant-Coloi,el
, ROBERT WINTER and Captain BERM, which by DO means
h proved to the extent of the warrant, and which, neverthe-
H's, might be good or bad, according to the fiyle or manner of
Its delivery, u, by evidence adduced, it reached not the cars of
the men, and was, confrquently , a cunverfation confined wholly
to themf, Ives ; that LIEUICIIIIII-COIUDeI WINTER could !UTE
no other (shied in view than the good of his Mauls-re. kr-
vi. r ; a fcntiment the Court more readily adopt, from the very
hi,;h and Battering tefilmooy which the witnefies have brought
towards the citabbilunent of this principle in the Lieutenant.

" J.kllo=llllt-COior.Ci Roaccr WINTER it therefore fully
acquitted of thr charge brought agatn4 him; the Court do
therefore give him the mat honourable acquittal"

The following Qt!eilions are propofed for difcuf•
lion by the ROYAL SOCIETY Of COPENHAGEN;

t. " Is oxygen, or any gas containing it, abfolutely neeeffaty
to the growth and eapantion of the chick in the egg of the cm-
mon domeßic hen, or of any other fowl ?—Or, is it poffible for
that growth and expanfion to take place in any gas unfit for
refpiration ? and what is that gas ?
z. " what influence has Eketrieity, pofitive or negative, on
the Rate of the air: and on the capacity of the atm:l:here 11
take up water in the Rate of gas or vapour ?
" For the beft anfwer to each of there queaions
will be given a prize of a gold medal, worth on.:
hundred Danifh Crowns. The memoirs mull he
fent in before the end of September, 180 z.

" T. ➢UGCI."

It is faid that the Emperor ALEXANDER has
given a fpccial invitation to all the Ambaffadois
now a: the Court of Peteriburgh, to aflift at the
approaching coronation, at Moicow. That ea
is at prefent filled with illuftrious foreigners from
all parts of Europe, who expefl to find is the
grand folemnity a fcerteoffpiendour to which there
has been nothilig parallel fince the grand corona.
tion of CATHARINE, which united whatever re.
fined luxury or barbarian magnificence could
play to captivate and pltafe the admiring fpx-
tators.

The ELECTOR or BAVARIA lately publiflicd
decree, which does equal honour to the policy aml
the liberality of his government. He intimated
that diverfity of religious principles fhouid form no
obitacle to the enjoyment of all the rights of 66-
zenthip throughout his dominions. Some bigotted
magiftrates, whofe narrow fouls could not enter
into the beneficent views of their fovereign, pro.
tefted againfi this me:afore as contrary to the treaty
of Wellphalia. The ELECTOR, however, treated
their remonftrances with the contempt which they
deferved, and in feveral inftances the edict has been
catried into full effeet.

The EMPEROR of GERMANY has granted liberty
to all the Belgic Refugees now in his fervice to ab.
fent themfelves for the fpace of twelve months, and
has allowed them a penfion of fa months of that
period. This interval- they are to employ in en-
deavours to procure leave to return to their coun-
try, and in the event of their being unfuccefsful, he
has promifed to give them a fettlement in his here-
ditary domionions,and continue them in his fervice.
lk letter lately received from Bengal rays, " The
Rajah of GomUD has acknowledged himfelf tribu-
tary to the Poonah Mahratta. The Rajah, in
confequence of the late proceedings in Delhi, has
fortified, very Itrongly, the fortrefs of Gualior,
which (lands on a 'tall rock, about four miles in
length."

We hear from Bengal, that an Englifhman,
named MARTIN KELLY, who had deferted from a
merchant (hip, and tied to the Andamans, where he
has refided for eight or nine years, has at length
come down to the fort, and is once more familiar
with our people. Ho has lived with the natives
ever fence, of whom little is known at prefent, and
dreffes in all refpeas like them. He has fubmitted
to the operation of being tattooed, and is (cored
all over his face : in lift, it appears he has re-
nounced his country, and means (till to refide with
thefe wandering people.
The nand of Onrooft, near Batavia, which is
Rated in letters received from the Eaft Indies to
be taken by fome of our !hips, will prove a great
lois to the Dutch in that quarter of the world, as it
is at this place they careen their (hips. Theie is a
dock for repairing veffels, with an arfenal, con-
taining a great quantity of naval ftores.

A number of plants, called the Pimento, or the
Allfpice of the Well Indies, are to be fent to Ben-
gal by one of the Eaft India Company's extra
(hips now about to be difpatched. Tfiey are con-
figned to the care of Dr. Roxsuaaw, the Com-
pany's Botanical Superintendant in Bengal, at tile
recommendation of Sir JOSEPH BANKS, in order
to afcertain whether the climate of that part of
the world is favourable to the growth of the plants,
as has been flat:cf.

The prefent Sovereign oPPerfia is devoting him-
felf with fuccefs to revive the trade of his empire,
and has caufed feveral large.veffels to be built on
the Cafpian and Perfian Seas: The alarm excited
by the movements of the Rumens having ruhfided,
the cities of Gangi and Tiflig, which had been
nearly deferted, are again •in a flourifhing Rate ;
and AGCAI MAHOMMED KHAN having retreated
from Mafshad, the capital of Kohraffan, to Tab-
ran, tranquility is generally reftored. The EM-
PEROR, in compliment to the Englifh, has prohi-
bited the (ale of horfes throughout the Perfian do-
minions, for exportation, to any others than the
Agents of the India Company.
NEWSPAPERS.—The following account of the
' various publications in the world, is given in a
German Paper: "There is hut one Paper puhlifh-
ed in Portugal, and that only appears three times
a week ; it is concluded by a German, who takes
care to exclude only the French news, while he ad-
mits thole of Madrid, Hamburgh, and London.
In China there is only one Gazette a week, but it
is a folio volume : it contains no foreign news, but
merely the hihory of the events in the country.
There is no joking in it about truth, for in 1726,
one of the writers having thought proper to infert
fume falfe intelligence, &c. &c. was condemned to
lofe his head; the Emperor himrer fometimes con-
tributes to this Paper. In 1798, the prefent Em-
p:ror inferted a Funeral Oration, which he corn-
puled upon his Rredeceffor. It is a (ingular
cumftance that Tome accounts once appeared in
it, which it was thought improper to make known.
That particular number was immediately cup-
prefer', and the people were forbid ever to (peak
of it in future. There is a Paper publifhed in the
Perfian language at Delhi, the capital of the Great
Mogul. Some curious perfons have preferved co-
pies of the paper of the 18th February, 1798.,
which is five French ells in length. The intelli-
gence contained in it is of the moll abfurd nature,
filch as that " the men who had the care of the
oxen and honks have taken leave of his Highnefs
the Great Mogul, for want of payment, and have
fent their cattle to pafture, &c." The Englifh,
who ought to love a paper fo many yards in 'corks
have, however, iaftituted another paper in the Ea
Indies."