Star.
London, England, 1804-08-31 00:00:00

ANTWERP, ANGIT‘T as

The faint at Boulogne Was celebrated lag Thurf-
day in a =ft magnificent manner. The Emperor
was feated on an elevated throne, in the middle of a
temicircle, around which the columns of troops were'
placed, fo that they appeared to be the rays of a
gar, of which the throne f rmed the centre. On the
geps of the throne were placed the dignified officers
of the Empire, the Princes, Marfhals, &c. and on
each fide, in ftraight line., all the drummers and mu-
ficians of the camp. His Mt jelly then, amidil the
moll profound filetre, adrninigered the oath to all
Cie Members of the Legion of Honour ; and as loon
as tlity had repeated the words, " this we (wear," a
rneral diftharge of artillery took place from all
ti.e batteries on the coal(, the forts. and (hip% while
A'.; the drurarn.rs and mnficians Muck up a piece
warlike niufic. and the Members of the Legion
I 11,nuur received from the hands of his Ma-

lv the infignia of the Older. The cilunot then
03; paled hu it}, and pr,ccLded to do*

'smatters. The day was (pent amiclik the veaten
joy, and the people ensured tbemfelves with different
paftimes, (itch as running races, dancing, Ike. Each
man received a double ration of bread and meat, to•
gether with a flail of wine, and the fuperior officers
were entertained with an elegant collation by Prince Jo-
se eH. In the evening Tome elegant fireworks were eabi-
bited, accompanied with a general difchargeof muf-
ketry by a body of t spot, men, having on their arms
luminous ftars, or balls, which emitted a bright
light, the whole forming a molt brilliant fpeitacle,
becaufe an agonifbing number of Ikproclkete were
let off at the fame time. The fame day M. Ma.
Lover, Commiffary General of the Marine, opened
in ceremony the new wharf and the magazines, on
which occaflon he delivered a fpeecb, in which be
Rated, that the Emperor had refolved to firengthen
Antwerp s that ere long, the Rhine, the Maefe, the
Scheldt, aad the Rhone, would run into each other.

UTRECHT. AUGUST st.

Laft •Sunday the birth-day of the Emperor of the
flench was celebrated in the camp of Zeit, on which'
:ccafion various grand mancanvres were executed by
the troops with firing great guns and (snail arms.—
The infantry, cavalry, and utilkry, were under
arms from about eleven is the morning till about fix
in Ow evening, and went through their evolutions
with wonderful readinefs and precifion. The crowd
of fpeeators was immenfe. In the evening a grand
fire-work was to have been difplayed, but in conic-
quente of the inceffant rain, it was put off till the
day following.

Yekaday difpatches were received from Admiral
Coe uaam t. oil Ferrol, dated on board the Northam.
berland, of 74 guns, the 26th MR. which were for•
warded by a meffenger to Lord Ida LVI I. a at.Wim-
bleden.

Laft night difpatches were fent from the Secretary
of State's Office. to Plymouth, for Sir ALIZAP(DIA
Bait., at Malta, to be forwarded by the CONQyttos,
of 74 guns, bound to the Mediterranean.
_ _

Sir imeav SMITH is greatly recovered from his
fevere indifpofitinn, and had yefierday forenoon a
long interview with Mr. Prrr, at his hoofs in I)own-
ing.Areet.
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A Patent is Paid to have been prepared undetW
Royal Warrant for confirming to Generals STUART
and Bales. as Knights of the Superior Order °Me
Ottoman Crefeent, the title and armorial dillinaions
of Knights as borne by the Btitilh Orders, with per-
mit:Son to wear the Star of the Order.

His Mejarry is alto raid to have esprefred his own
gracious intention. to inNitute a National Bade, com-
memorative of the Triumphs of the Britilh Army in
Egypt—a Crofs or Medallion have been mentioned
as the infignia, to be worn* with degrees and limita-
tions to ranks.

His Royal Highnefs the Duke of Yoaa palled an
hour with Mr. PITT yellerday, at his houfe, in Down-
ingßreet ; after which his Royal Highnefs entertain-
ed a tiled party at his houfe in Portman-frit:are,
mon!), General Officers. He this day left town fur
Brighton.

The Duke of Vas K arrived at five o'clock on Wed-
nefday at Woolwich, to infpat the new praltice upon
gun carriages, which was executed in a manner
highly to the fatisfaßion of his Royal Highnefs.—
After having infpeeted the feveral works carrying on•
there, he dined with General MACLEOD upon the
Common.

On Toefday left, General Pam, reviewed the
Sorry Yeomen Cavalry, under the command of Lord
Lama, on Eplont Downs. He expreffed himfelf
highly fatisfied with their difciplinet and the rapidity
of their movements.

The Ballot Volunteers, together with the united
Clifton andWeabury,have received orders to provider
themfeves with every thing neceffary for aeual (e-
-vict • and in cafe of alarm, they will immediately
march to Marlborough. In confequence, a general
infpeltion of the corps took place on Monday, when
every member appeared with his canteen, haverfack,
land knapfack.
On Monday the two companies of Cockermouth
Volunteers, commanded by Captains 'hasn't and
Seas:, when upon parade, unanimoufly folicited to
be carried for a time to be fixed, upon permanent
tity,—with a view of becoming more expert in their
duty as foldiers, at a time when they confider their
fervices may In thottly be called forth.
Tuefday fc'nnight the Kendal and Lonfdale Vo
lunteers were infoefted by Lieutenant-Colonel HAI-
M', in the pretence of Lori Vifcount LOWTHIR,
when they went thrinigh their exercife and manceu-
vies with fuch Ile:1,1610's as to call futth the unqua-
lified approbation of all prefent.
The Harpy brig, which Coffered in the engagement
off Boulogne, in which the Contlitution cutter was
funk, it is laid, had three men wounded, but only one
killed, being cut in two by a (bell. What is very
extraordinary, the mutilated remains of the unfor-
nate man fell on the juje of the (hell, in loch a man-
ner, that the blood fhwing from the wound min-
gnithed it, and prevented its burfling, which doubt-
leis laved the lives of many of the crew.
Yefierday morning, about (even o'clock, Mr.
Niittir, Kt:err of New,tate, was taken fuddenly ill
if an inflammation in his bowels ; and though the
&ft medical alliance was immediately obtained, this
much relpeeed character died between five and fix
o'cl nk in the evening. Mr. Kim was near eighty
years of age, and had been keeper of Newgate up-
wards of thirteen. No man ever acquitted himklf
in fueh a fituation with more credit : he left no part
of his duty unfulfilled, and his kindnefs to the unfor-
innate potions under his care was fuch as greatly to
alleviate their unhappy futiAtion. la Chart, by his
whole caudal, he pto•ed, in the language of Sll4lll*
, that

.71sIteelcd Jailer may Lc die Frlend 1 Mn.-

He boil (pent the ireccJing evening with his frasi3y,
with his dual Omit, and chterlit!nefs. Aircad)
kraal candidate. have :tatted fur Li. pLes.

NAUTICAL mr;LteicEKCE.

MAILS THIS OAT..-AVM %LAVA

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PLTDOOTN, AUGUST Ig.—Came in his Maje(y'►
(hip 13 LOU., of 38 guns, Captain MAITLAND, from
a cruize, and brought in with her the French (hip
privateer Blonde, of Boardeaux, mounting 34 guns,
and having on board 260 men, which the captured
after a chace of 36 hours : the appears to be quite
clean, is very deep, and teems to have been but a
few days at fea on her prefent cruize : the is laa from
Vigo, and has not made any captures: during the
chace and running fight, five of the Loma's crew
were wounded, two of them defperately. Came in
the Humbert, of 16 guns, Captain litzz, from a
cruize. A (hip is going into Cawfand Bay, Paid to be
the Ajar, of 8o guns, from Portfmonth.
PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 3o.—PatFcd by (r Lon
don the Nonpareil. Cuarsias, from the Mediter.
ranear,. Put back the Ratler, Bizsrown. for Jamaica.
Arrived the Fazems floop of war from off Havre

and the HILDIR armed (hip, with feveral outaiard-
bound veffels under convoy. Wind S. W.
SH MY ass, Atm 3o.—Arrived his Majeity's (hip
hiaramaassrt. and has come into the harbour to re-
fit. The MIDIATOII., of 44 guns, came down the
'River on the 28th, and failed tor the Downs imme-
diately; the Darr and R (loops have alto failed
(or the Downs, and the LION armed (hip, with a fleet
of about Usty fail for the Baltic. Fine breese N.W.
The Stmts.' is paid off, and laid up in ordinary at
this port.
DIAL, AUG. 3o.—Sailed the TRITON armed de-
fence (hip, for Shields; and the Atte armed (hip, for
Woolwich.--Carne down from Sbeensefs yeflerday

afternoon the Rol. Loa (loop of war, and failed again
with the ADAMANT man of war; Door Hoop of war,
and BAIIII.IfIL gun-brig, on a truize off the French
coall.--Arrived the Allocution armed defence Sip,'

from Leith, and remains id the Downs wall rl
of the hips as per lan. sb,
P. S. Arrived the Krim Geoaos cutter, Lieut.
PLOUGHMAN, from off Mend, who brings no ac-
count of the heavy firing heard yefterday; the &id&
lquadron were all well off Oflend, and the enemy's
flotilla in harbour. Wield S. W.

rikaroprw, AuotosT 3o.—Yellerday fsiled thed

. .
Demme armed 'hip for Shields, and the Asacesow
ditto for the Downs; and, on a cruize, the }facials,
Clasen, and F gun brigs. Arrived the
LONDON aimed fhip, and RIP VLSI cutter. This day
faded the Loam's armed fhip, the Ra►utsa, and
CHAM►tow cutters. Arrived the CLTISI frigate,
Panic's& AUGUSTA and Attar cutters. Pallid to
the Southward, with the lots of her anchors and ea•
bles on the Dutch coal}, his Majedy's !hip Patucsas
of ORANGS.—Wind S.E.
GASINOCIC, AUG. 28. The Jean, WILSON, ST
rived here yenerdAy from Q2ebcc ;—fpoke the fol-
lowing (hips, viz. ttith ultimo. Montreal, SALmou ;
Ariadne, Fs TT ; Otnebec, Baum, from Lon.
don—silt ult. Aurora, ovo, from hence, and a
brig from Peterhead, out 24days, as it was blowing
hard, could not learn her name-23d intl. Faeffor,
CALDWELL. Out wo days from hence, for New York.
The Ewretta, ---, of Lond2n, arrived about
two hours before the Jean left Quebec, and the Re-
covery, Boa, from hence, was 6leagues below.
Aativria....-The Carleton, MWhirmie, at Madeira for Ts.'
mates; Mazdete, Hunter, at ditto for Surinam; Union, M`Mil-
lan, at ditto for Barbadoes; Harmony, Reid, at Curt, from
rent, isttb Anguit ; Cato, Taylor, it ditto far Denteram, and
Countelo of Stitt. MPKellar, at Lillian, from (Lubec