Star.
London, England, 1805-04-22 00:00:00

'lO 7112 EDITOR OF 711 E STAR.

SIR—As there is a gcod looking boy, a native
Otaheite, reeding jun r.,AV as a fer:•ant in Lor.dcn,
would it not, in the l`ilitlionary Society, he doing a
good anion to try to (lure his mind with uflol know.
ledge, and put it in his power, when he !hall be grown
up, to return and fcatter the f.:eds of knowledge aad
virtue among his countrymen ?
The moment he was informed I was a clergyman,
or, as they term it in Otaheite, a Man (f GOD, the
boy came up tome very modettly, gave rue his hand,
and ezpreffed a flrong defirc to learn to read anu
write, and to become a Chritiian ; or, as he expreEd
it, to be able to underfland what the awn with the
white and black gowns are always laying to the
people from the pulpits on Sunday. He has been
above eight months in Ilondln, and is, I believe,
the only Otaheitian in England. He is about thirteen
years ofage, is named llorzsa ; though not bap-
tized, and teems to pads an amiable difpofition, and
to be capable of high mental improvement. Hcping
he may one day be highly ufeful to his countrymen,
I remain, Mr. Editor, yours, &c.

JAMIS x•i.L.

LONDON.

MONDAY, APRIL 22.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK :
Confols, for money, sI —for May 3 81 —Omnium 311.
Excheq. B.IIe, s. Fem.
PRICE OF STOCKS ON SATURDAY :
3 per Cent. Red. 37137 Short Ann. 21
3 per Cent. Conf. 381 571
.58i India Bonds, is as. dif.
4 per Cent. 741 i Exeheq. Bills, 1a dif. par as
S per Cent, Nary, 89 nil Omnium, 3ii prem.
per Cent. 1797, 961 97 Englia Tickets ill. 18s.
Lting Ann. 168 7 16 Conf. for ace. 584:1
Du RUN APRIL 17.-3 per C. Gov. Deb. 891.
EaChailc—sDublin on London

By the Gottenburgh Mail, which arrived this day,
we learn, that nearly two hundred fail of Slips,
poled to be two convoys, had, is the courfe of the
tuth and 12th inftant, pafled C;ottenburgh for the
Sound.

The following Letter, received this morning at
Lloyd's, will put the public in poireflivn of all that
is yet known refpaiing the reported evacuation of

Dominica :

" GENTLEMEN,

" LIVER Pnnt., APR': 20.

66 For the information of the public at large, I
take the opportunity to inform you, that I failed
from Demerara, in the (hip Demerara, on the sth of
March, and patted Batb:midis on the Bth late in the
evening : in palfing Carlifle Bay, a boat cone off
with Mr. HUTTON and Mr. DARE on board, who
remained with me about half an hour; they are
both Gentlemen of refpeElability, and well known
to the merchants of Liverpool—they informed me,
that the laft account they had of the French force
was, that they had left Dominica after having cap-
tured and burnt all the (hips at Roffeau, and ex-
ailed from the inhabitants of that place and the
country adjacent, a large fum. As we ran down
along the Ifland about nine or ten at night, we
beard many guns firing, which we fuppofed was an
alarm for a flrange fleet. My reafon for addreffing you
this is, that I have teen my name in the London and
Provincial Papers, to reports which were not carrel.
The only further accounts I had, was the capture
of an African veffel, called the Minerva, which had
been taken off Surinam, and part of the flaves taken
out by the privateer: the Minerva was after w4ras
recaptured, and is arrived at Barbadoes.
'6 I am, Gentlemen, your moll obedient fervant,
" PETER ENGLIStI,
66 Matter of the thip Demarara."

On Saturday the Ruffian Ambaffador tranfaded
bufinefs with Mr. PITT from one o'clock till four.

On Saturday the Billion of Dolmas had a felea
party to dinner at his hook in Hanover-fqoare.

On Saturday the Duke of Mowyams gave a din-
ner to feveral of the Nobility, at his boufe in Grofve-
nor-fguare,
On Tuefday lait his Excellency the Earl of HARD-
WICK! received at the Callle, in Dublin, the enfigns
of the Order of the Garter, from the hands of Lord
CArucAar, who was direel.:4 to deliver them by a
warrant under the King's fi;gn Manual. ' The cere-
mony took place in the Pmfence Chamb:r, whcre his
Excellency was attended by the CificerS of State and
lote: al Members of the Privy Council. We under
Hand it was necetrary the Enfigns of the Order fhould
be received by his Excellency before the inflallrion
on St. George's day ; on which day ha Excellency
will give 4 fplendid entertainment in St. Patrick's Hail.

A Court of Common Council will he held at Guild-
hall, at eleven o'clock on Thud flay next, to take into
confideration the abufes lately brought to light by the
Commiffiooers of Naval Enquiry, and to confider of
adopting a Congratulatory Addrefs to his MAJESTY
thereon, Etc. and other bufinefs.
At (Mar, in the pariflo of Montague, Som:rfetfhire,
there are living, in one family, a farmer and his
sv:fe, of the name of Edlin, whole united ages is 186,
a fins And a daughter 140, "high in all amounts to
p 6 years, in domettic animal:, they haves blind dog
23 years of age, a raven Go years, turned grey, arid
a boric 35 years the agg:czeitt of the whole is
4.;15 years.