Star.
London, England, 1824-03-29 00:00:00

TIE ArooN-COMMUNICATION COMPANY.

At an epoch when the .moniedi interest find so much'
difficulty to obtain interest, a discoiery of the greatest
importance has been made, and which promises to open
up new and unexplored methnds for the investment of
capital. We have heard, fraritour own peculiar sources
of information, that the particulars of those satisfactory
a discoveries which German. • Astoonomer has lately
made in the moon, have been communicated to a highly
respectable member of the Stock Exchange, and that he
has digested an able and ingenious plan for rendering
them available to the piesent exigencies of the money
market. We are not yet at liberty to communicate all
we ,know on the subject; but. this much we believe,
without- any breach of the, confidence reposed in our
honour, we may venture to state, as the outline of the
project in contemplation.
It having been ascertained, in the most scientific man-
ner th'at the MOON, is not only a habitable but an inha-
bited orb, the inhabitants of which are-in a most envi-
able state of refinement—that they have not only splen-
did mosques with domes, which prove them to be of
some oriental faith, Hindoo or Mahomedan—but high-
ways lighted by gas lamps, carriages driven by steam,
wcods, bridges, and canals—Lord Mayors,. Aldermen,
Kings. and Common Councillors; that they possess large
and flourishing revenues, and articles of the most singu--
lar beauty in raw materials, fit for our manufacturers,'
that they are actuated by the most amiable sentiments
of liberty—are greatly dismayed by the machinations
of a Holy Allaince, and have every feeling congenial to
the natures of Englishmen—in a word, that they as far
excgl in every amiable quality the sordid citizens of
Christendom, as the Moon is above the Earth.
To open a correspondence and commercial inter-
com se s% ith the Moon is therefore an object of the highest
i wpm tance, both*to our national prosper ity and the cause
of liberty all over the world. It must indeed be mani-
feat to every liberal and enlightened Gentleman who
has got any money to lay out, that he cannot dodo
with more effect than. in promoting the establishment
in an Association to be called the Moon-Communica-
tion Company. .• _ _

To shew the practicability of the objects of the com-
pany, it is only necessary to observe, that the high state
'of refinement and the adaptation of the scientific arts to
cammon pm poes among the inhabitants of the moon,
justifies the friends of the proposed undertaking in be-
lieving that were a method once devised of opening a
communication with them, there is no doubt that such
is their desire to procere articles of British manufacture,
that an immense trade woald be speedily established..
Various schemes have been suggested with regard to
the means of attempting this ; the most approved is. a
balloon filled with a highly aerial gas, to be prepared
by the President of the Royal Society. On this ballcion
is to be inscribed, in large and luminous characters, "The
Capitalists of London to the Inhabitants of the Moon."

It is supposed that when the balloon is once inflated,
that it will rise to within such a distance of the moon as
will enable the inhabitants with their ordinary opera
glasses to read the inscription, and that then some among
them will send out another similar balloon, in such a
manner that, the two balloons will meet, and as each
will of coutse have a string appended to it, the proba-
bility is, that atter a few trials of We same sort, the
strings become entangjed; when this has once taken
place, the communication for correspondence by letter
will then be established, for either the Gentlemeu of the
Stock Exchange will draw back their balloon and with
it'that of the Moon, or vice versa.

A communication by string, thus connecting the
eanh and the moon, being once completely established,
it is then, proposed to construct small traversing bal-
oons, which, being threaded as it were by rings upon
the strings, and filled with a still-bighex aerial gas, the
result of the progress of chemistry in the meantime,
these balloons, with letters appended to them, will then
ascend, traversing thirst' ing one
.after the other with
the greatest certainty of arrival. By this means the,
terms of future intercourse will soon be adjusted, and,
the inhabitants of the ►noon, whose-liberal opinions on
all matters of trade and commerce cannot be questioned,
will readily assent to a more effective species of com-
munication; accordingly, balloon after balloon, each tra-
, versing the suing, and each carrying with it another
string, will be sent off, until the number of strings are
of a sufficiency to sustain a balloon capable of carrying
up an agent, who shall be intrusted with full powers to
negociate the offer of a loan, or the establishment of a
splendid Company for the purpose of expending exces-
sive capital.
But, in case of accidents befalling the first agent, a
series ale intended to be dispatched daily, until such a
number of ropes and strings shall be carried thither by
therri, as will unite the two orbs so effectually, that a
ladder for any purposes of commerce may be con-
structed upon them.

But further upon this subject for the present we shall
say nothing. We have stated enough of its leading fea-
tuiei to demonstrate the practicability of the proposed
undertaking; and we earnestly request all our Readers
who know not what to do with their money, to get upon
the lists of the contractors without delay ; assuring them
that the profits will be such as fully to justify their most
sanguine 'expectations. They may rely upon it that the
shares will come out witlr a proper moonshine premium.

Accounts from Hanover say, that the people hope to
see his MAJESTY there this year.
MEETING OF THE SILK WEAYER34.—.LaSt Saturday
night, pursuant to adjournment, a General Meeting of
the Engine Silk Weavers was held at the Red Lion,
Plicenix.stt eet, Spitalfields, when it was resolved, " that
James Lewis, William Charlton, Thomas Saurie, Robert
Sellers, John Hart, Thomas Wilson, and William Baker,
do on our part attend the respective Magistrates, in
Sessions to be held for the City of London and 'county
of Middlesex on the sth day of April nest; and also to
attend the Magistrates of the Liberty of the Tower on
the Bth of April, for the purpose of having the list of
prices between us and our employers duly ratified."—
Thanks were afterwards given to the Chairman, Mr.
Rawlings, and the Meeting separated.
The Petition in behalf of Mr. Connolly, which was
delivered at the Hume Department on Thursday even.
ing, was laid before the KING, at Windsor, on Friday.
His MAJESTY has declined complying with its prayer
—Au en oneous notion has prevailed that the sentence
of Mr. Conolly, to transportation for life on account of
snail:laughter, is the first so severe. The Act autho-
rising such sentence was passed in June, 1822, and not
.many weeks afterwards one Thowas Mills, who was
convicted of that Offence at the Summer Great Sessions
(or Assiies) at Chester, received the same Sentence.—
Last year too, at the Lent Assiies,(lB23) at Durham,
John Stanwick Newton, for manslaughter, was sentenced
to be transported for life; and both were sent off.

THE ARMY.
The
•payment of three mooths' half-pay to the reduced Officers of
his Majesty's land fortes, to the 24th instant, including those here-
tofore borne on the Irish establishment, will commence on Tues.
dayi the 13th Of April nett.
The undermentioned services, due the 24th instant, will be in
course of payment on Tuesday, tlfe 13th of April next, viz. Gene-
ral Officers' Unattached Pay, Royal Bounty Allowances.
The undermentioned services, due the 24th instant, will be in
course of payment, on Tuesday, the 13th of April next, vie. Re--
tired Full and Ilalf-pay ; Pay of Adjutants of laical Militia ; Al-
lowances to reduced Adjutants and Serjeant- Majors of Militia;
Foreign Half-pay.
. The 7th Regiment of Light Dragoons (Ilussars)*has received or-
ders to march from Brighton to Hampton Court, where it will ar-
rive on the 31st inst. •
A troop of the 15th Hussats, under the command of' Captain
C. It. O'Domm.r., marched into Maidstone rill t'riday, on th,it route
from Canterbury to (7hichester, to relieve a trooa of the 7th Hussars.
Thursday, the third Regiment of Dragoon Gu-irds rtctived a
route at Manchester for Liverpool, fer which place they imme-
diately marched. •
Two detachments of the Scots Greys left Carlisle, where-they
have been stationed for some time, fin- Newcastle, and are to be re-
placed by two other detachments belonging to the same Regiment.
Colonel Sir JAWS C. SMYTH (King's Aide-de-Camp).. Sir Joins
Ouseter.o, arid Major FASSIIAWE, who left thil couLtq in o:caber
last, on a special mission to the different West India Island-;, to in-
spect barracks and fortifications,as a Check on she late annual esti-
mates for money required for buildings, repairs, &c. hive termi-
nated their labours and arrived in London—lastlrom Jamaica by
,the packet. Their Repoit is now before the Master-OenerAl of
the Ordnance.

MILITARY PROMOTIONS. , I
WAR-OFFICN., 11A11011 2a, 182*.
10th Regiment of Light Drag sona--Liqutenant-Colonel henry
Wyndham, from halt-pay of the 19th Light Dravons, to be
Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Sir (; orze Augustus Quentin, who ex-
changes, receiving the dgerence between full pay of Cavalry and
Infantry coif.
4th Regiment of Foot-.-Lieutenant William la-misdate to be Adju-
' taut, vice Gregg, who resigns the Adjutancy only.
10th Ditto—Ensign William Ilenry Adams to be Lieutenant, by
. purchase, vice Lane, who retires; George Julio Crosby, Gent.
tope Ensign, by pureha-e,v.iee Adams.
14th Ditto—Major. Charles Gudiner, from hali-pay of the 60th
Foot, to be Major, vice Peter Johnstone, who exchanges.
17th Ditto— Assis:ant-Surgeon James Ward Martindale, from half-
pay of the 67th Foot, to be Assistant-Surzeon, vice William
Ileory Fo.ee, who exchanges.
23,1 H.tto—Surgeon Edmond Weld, from half-pay of the 67th
Foot, to be Surgeon, vice John Dunn; who retires upon half-pay.
24:11 Ditto—Captain lion. Carlton Thofisas Monckton, from the
Cape Corps, to be Captain, view William Gill, who retires upon
ball-pay of the 27th Foot.
34th Ditto—To be Lieutenants,Ensign John Montgomerie, with-
out purchase, vice Shaw, deceased ; Ensign Thomas I ladwin, by
purchase, vice Crawford, who retires.
To be Ensign—Edward BrUdtieir, Gent. withopt ptirchase, vice
Montgotnerie.
36th Ditto--Hospital-Assistant Daniel °Scott to be Assistant-Sur.
geon, vice Lindsay, promoted.
40th Ditto—Major Tobias Kirkssioixi, from half-pay of the New
Brunswick Fencibles, to be Major, vice Michael Chamberlain,
whose appointment has not taken place.
43d Ditto—Matthew Lushington, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase,.
vice Capel, appointed to the Ist Regiment of Life Guards.
5:;(.1 Ditto—Brevet biajor John APCaskill to he Major, by pur-
chase, vice Ingleby, who retires; Lieutenant Jacob Silver to be
Captain, by purchase, vice APCaskill; Ensign John Little to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Silver ; Yhilip 11111, Gent. to be
Fr sign, by purchase, rice Little.
63d Dltto—Captait, Henry Knight, from the half-pay, to be Cap-
tain, vice John Marshall, who exchanges,
65th Ditto—Brevet Colonel George Viscount Forbes, from half-
pay of Neuron's Regiment, to be Captain, vice William ,Hinde,
• who exchanges.
75th Ditto—Lieutenant Simon M'Queen, from half pay of the 60th
Foot, to be Lieutenant) vice William Moncrief Taylor, who ex-
changes, receiving the difference.
83d Ditto—Serjeant-Major John Stubbs to be Quartermaster, vice
hail, deteased.
84th Ditto-s--Captain William LeadCr Maberly, from half-pay of
' the leOth Foot, to be Captain, vice brancis Blosse Lynch, who
exchanges, receiving the difference.
98th Ditto—Serjeant- Major Luke Cartray, from the Royal Stag
Corps, to be Quartermaster.
99th Ditto—Lieutenant James Burke, from half-pay of the 44th
Foot, to be Adjutant and Lieutenant; Alexander Forbes, late
Colour.Serjeant in the Ist Battalion of' Royal Artillery, to be
Quartermaster.
Cape Corps (Infantry)-"-Captain John Espine Batty, from half-pay
of the 27th Foot, to be Captain, vice Munckton, appointed to the
24th Foot.

HOSPITAL STAFF.
Hospital- Assistant James Brydon to be Assistant-Surgeon to the
Forces, vice Johnson, deceased.
To be Hospital-Assistants to the Forces—Alexander Eison, Gent.
'vice Brydon ; John Hennon, M.D. vice Henry James, deceased.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, MARCH 22, 1824.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Brevet Major William Reid, from the
half-pay, to be Second Captain; First Lieutenant Vincent Joseph
Biscoe, from the half-pay, to be First lieutenant; Second Lieu-
tenant Richard John Stotherd to be First Lieutenant.
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Berks.
William Mount, Thomas Garth, and Philip Browne, Esqrs. to be
Deputy Lieutenants.
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Ayr.
Ist Corps Yeomanry Cavalry—Alexander Cunningham, Gent. to
be Cornet, vice H. Cowan, resigned.
2d or Cuningham and Cumnock Corps of Yeomanry Cavalry—John
Richmond, Cent. to be Surgeon, vice William Donaldson,
ap-
pointed to the Royal Ayrshire Regiihent of Militia.

DUEL. —A Gentleman of the name of NIEADows re-
ceived a shot in the hip, on Saturday, in a meeting with
a Captain B—s, on Twickenhani Common. The dis-
ptite originated at the Heston Coursing Match, on Fri-
day, respecting a dog. The ball was extracted at Rich-
mond, and Mr. M. is nut of danger.
MEETING or THE WOOL AND WOOLLEN TRADES —A
Meeting of the above trades was on Saturday held at
the Guildhall Coffee-house, for the purpose of receiving
the Report of the Committee appointed at a former
Neeting.—Mr. BISCHOFF was called to the Chair, and
observed to the Meeting, that, as he had filled a similar
honourable station on their Committee, he should pro-
ceed at once to the reading of the Report prepared by
the Committee. The Report was then read, from which
it appeared that the Committee had had an interview
with the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, at which
they pressed on his notice the granting of a drawback
on all foreign wool remaining unopened in its original
packages, but that the CHANCELLOR had assigned as a
reason for refusing their request, that he had found lie
could not allow a drawback on manufactured and ma-
nufacturing goods, and was therefore determined not
to grant any advantage that would reach to only one
part of the trade. He Should propose reducing the duty
as under:—The duty of sixpence to be lowered to
threepence on the 10th of September, and a fin titer re-1
duction to one penny on the 10th of December ensuing.
The Report was moved to be received and printed;
after which the usual ictitine of motions were made and
agreed to, and the Meeting dissolved.
ltlNG*ooD, MARCH 25.—Thursday last, ut Gordy,
a child named James Shutlen about a. year and a hall
old,. whilst left amusing itself at the door, was bitten by
an aiJdOr ; the rcreams of the child alit:tete,: the mother,
'si, found its finger bleeding, And at the same limeots-
seried an adder clan-ling on the ground, which she im-
mediately killed. In a leiv minutes the child was seited
.with a vinleix %ft:nriting, and medical assistance are.
sorted to, but proved ineffectual in counteracting the
effects of ' the deadly poison, as the child died the -fol-
lowing day. The body was swollen to an immense
size, and very much resembled in colour that of the ve-
nomous reptiles •

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KING'S TIIEAT,RE.
Il Fellation per la Muskca was repeated on at'irday
night, and Madame CATACANI gave .some further in-
troductions. They consisted of the Cavotpite Piece from
ZINGARELLI, which she has been singing with so much
effect at the Conceits, and a Cavatina of Ross:Nes.—
Tpe air of the latter has art sufbeient variety or force
to render it striking; but it is capable of much fine
pression, and in that respect CA rALANt made it highly
effective. We regret to state that CA !LABOR! was ill, and
un;isle to sing her, songs. In lieu of ker delightful song
in the Ltst acr, KIESEWCTTER played a concerto..

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