Star.
London, England, 1822-10-28 00:00:00

THE KING AND A MUSEUM OF ART.

It is well known that England, with all its vaunt-
ing about Art and its love for it, is the only State in
Europe which does not possess a national Collection
of Pictures. His MAJESTY, with a view to remove
this national disgrace,. is said to have expressed a
wish that a Museum should be erected to contain
Works of Art, and to which the Public shall have
free and reasonable access. The SovgnEtcrr has been
an ardent collector of Pictures for many years, and
the chambers of Carlton Palace exhibit some splendid
specimens of all the Flemish and Dutch Masters, and
the most choice and admirable pictures painted du: ing
the bright era of the Italian school. These, nume-
rous as they are, the KING will freely contribute, to-
gether with the matchless Cartoons, by Raphael,
now at Hampton Court, the Two Misers, in Windsor
Castle, and a good selection from the Palaces at
Kensington, Hampton Court, and Windsor, in addi-
tion to'his own. The plan is to be carried into effect
under the direction of a Committee of Taste, and a
power given to that Committee; by Parliament, u ith
a grant of certain funds, in order that no oppor-
tunity of enriching the Collection by purchases (either
abroad or at home) may be lost. Chambers are to be
erected to -,ontain the Elgin and Phygalian Marbles,
and all the rare Works of Art now in the British Mu-
' seam, •so that the whole of our national treasures
• may be seen at once.

Saturday, at half-past three o'clock, his MAJESTY
left town, in his travelling carriage and four, for
Brighton.
Count MUNSTER had an audience of the KING on
Saturday.
The Duke of YORK is on a shooting excursion at
Euston Hall, the seat of of the Duke of GRAFTON) for
a few days.
Lord ARTHUR HILL, M.P. has left Edinburgh for
Lord R A VENSWOHTH'S seat, ltavensworth Castle,
Durham.
The Right Hon. Sir JOHN SINCLAIR, Bart. and
Lady SINCLAIR, have left Edinburgh for the Duke of
ROXBURGH'S seat, Fleurs, Kelso.
J. 11. MAcrcmterr., Esq. Advocate, is appointed
one of the Judges of the Court of Session in Scotland,
in the room of the late Lord KINEDDER.
The Earl of CT. A NCA RT V, with his family and suite,
embarked yesterday-morning, at the Tower Stairs, on
board a steam-vessel, for Rotterdam.
DRURY-LAN E THEATRE.—Saturday night the Sus-
picious Husband was represented at this House. Mr.
ELI.ISTON'S Ranger was given in his first style of ex-
.cellence. A Mr. Mance% from the Theatre at Li-
verpool, represented the character of Bellamy in. a
most respectable manner, and was very favourably
received. Mrs. DAVISON, returned to these boards,
and sustained the character of Clarinda. Her merits,
and especially her lady-like demeanour, are well
known ; and though Time may have given her some
trifling hints that none escapes his power, Mrs. Da-
vison acted with all her wonted ease and superiority.
The audience greeted her in a manner that must have
been flattering to her feelings.
Cov EN T-G A RDEN.—The Tragedy of Douglas was
repeated on Saturday, the hero being represented, for
the second time, by Mr. MASON. The most merito•
rious part of Mr. MASON'S performance was in the
latter part of the quarrel scene with Glenalvon. lae
there displayed a good deal of fire—but still his voice
was inadequate to the expression of the powerful
emotions which agitate the bosom of Douglas, whose
natural warmth oftemper is increased by the consci-
ousness of noble birth. Considerable applause was
bestowed on this portion of the Tragedy, but the ap-
probation was not, in any other instance, of a very
energetic character. Mrs. W. CLIFFORD again re-
presented Lady Randolph. She *ads the part with
due emphasis, but she does not identify herself with
the character.. Mr. BARTLEY played Old Norval
equally well as at the previous representation of the
Tragedy.—The Poor Soldier and Ali Pacha concluded
the evening's entertainments.
Mr. BOWRlNG.—Extract of a letter from Boulogne,
dated Wednesday, two o'clock :••44 The packet being
on the point of sailing, I have only time to say, that,
after a long interrogatory before the Procureur du
Roi and Age Instruction, the mist au secret has been
taken off Mr. Bowring, who is now enabled to see his
friends, and breathe a somewhat better atmosphere.
The examination related exclusively to the four young
men recently executed in Paris, and had no reference
Whatever to the letters and official dispatch seized on
his person. It is now very generally supposed that
the prisoner will be set at liberty in the course of a
few days. I perceive the French Papers have been as
full of this singular affair as those of London."
ARCHBISHOP Trixoxsox.—Archdeacon Reeves
once paying a visit to Archbishop Tillotson, observed
in his library one shelf of books of various forms
and sizes, the whole richly bound and finely gilt and
lettered ; so he asked what extraordinary authors
they wtre who were so remarkably distinguished by
his Grace? 14 Those," said the Archbishop, " are
my own personal friends ; and what is more, whom
I have myself made such—for they meant to be my
enemies—by the use I have made of those hints which
their malice had suggested to me, and from which
I have derived more profit than from the advice of
my most loved and cordial friends.
.1 have, there-
tote, as you Dm rewarded them accordingly."

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THE ARMY.

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The Echo transport, of 157 tons, is shortly Medea to pet.
teed from the Thames to Cowes, in the Isle of Wight, to ra-
ce* on board about 13 Officers and 155 met, belonging to the
following Regiments, viz. the 35d (or lit York West Riding,
jittgintent of Foot. Lieutenant-General Sir J. C. Snaasnoole,
,D.C.13. Colonel, having on its colours and appointments, the
.amdermentioned honorary distinctions, in commemoration of its .
sorvices--" Seringapatans" and " Waterloo."—The 50th (or
West Kent) Regiment of Foot, General Sir J. liver, Knt. CO.
lonel, bearing on its colours and appointments the following ho-
norary distinctions" Egypt," " Vintiera," " Coronns," " A.
mares, " VittOda," PYrenneei," " hive," " Oithes," " pe.,
ninsula."—The 91st (or Argyllshire) Regiment of Foot, Odle-
ral 1). Courant, Colonel, having on its colones and appoint-
ments the undermentioned honorary distinctions—" ryrenntoso
" Nivelle," " Nitre," " Orthes," " Toulouse," " Penir.sula ;"
and the 92d (Highland) Regiment of Foot, Lieutenant-General
Sir Joan flora, Colonel, bearing on its colours and appointment's
the following honorary distinction% in commemoration of itt
services—: Egmont-op-Zee," " Mandora," " Egypt," " Penin:
sula," " Waterloo."
The above detachments are subsequently to be conveyed fd
Jamaica, for the purpose of joining their respective Corps, whic►
are stationed in that island.
Detachments of the 31 Light Dragoons marched to-day from
Chichester Barracks, for the purpose of resumi.'g the statloi a
which they •occupied on the coast of Sussex, for the suppression
of smuggling, anterior to the half-yearly inspection of their
Corps on Saturday last, by Lord IL E. H. Sortaasse.
Thursday, the 59d Foot were it.spected at Cionmel by Colo-.
nel THORNTON, Deputy Adjutant-General.
Monday, Major-General Sir l'iloues Baanromi, K.C.B. in-
spected the 7th Dragoon Guards, commanded by Colonel
Dome, on the Green, at Glasgow. Ile expressed his high ap-
probation of the appearance, steadiness, and discipline, of that
Regiment.
Tuesday, the Glasgow Volunteer Cavalry gave an elegant en-
tertainment to Captain Oswat.o, of Shieldhall, their Command-
ing Officer, at the Buck's Head Ind, Glafgow, Lieutenant R. A.
MACKAY, in the Chair—Serjeant Wisson, crsupier. The dinnet
and wines were excellent. Many loyal and constitutional toasts
Were given, and the evening was spent in the utmost harmony.
The comr-ny separated at a,late hour.

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MILITARY PROMOTIONS.
WAR-OFFICE, OCT. 25, 1822.
2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Charles Crauitird, Gent. to
be Cornet, by purchase, vice Robert Craufnrd, who retires.
sth Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant William Carruthers, front
half-pay of the 43d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Wal-
degrave Pelham Clay, who exchanges.
11th Ditto—Lieutenant John MiCruturnen to he Captain, by
purchase, vice Danger, who retires; Resign Harvey Garnett
Phipps Tuckett to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice hl Crum-
men ; Walker, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
'Puckett.
15th Ditto—Lieutenant Thomas A. Drought to be Captain, by
purchase, vice I tarter, who retires; Ensign Thomas Bannis-
ter to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Drought ;.John Law-
son, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bannister.
20th Ditto--Lieutenant Robert Barker, from half-pay 58th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Alexander Maclean, who ex-
changes.
21st Ditto--Lieutenant Edward Rowley Hill, from half-pay of
the 68th Foot, to be First Lieutenant, vice James Wemyss,
who exchanges.
2dth Ditto—To be Ensigns—Ensign Frederick George Howard,
from the 59th Foot, vice Edmund Sebastian Locke, who
retires upon half-pay of the Ist Ceylon Regiment, receiving
the difference ; Ensign George J. Smart, from the 44th Foot,
vice Gilbert, who exchanges.
52d Ditto—Lieutenant Henry Stephen Olivier to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Arden, promoted in the 84th Foot ; Ensign
John Palk to be lieutenant, by purchase, vice Olivier; E. G.
Eliot, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Palk; Surgeon
John Harding Walker, M.D. from half-pay of the 4th West
India Regiment, to be Surgeon, vice Thomas Bulkeley, who
exchanges.
44th Ditto—Ensign Edward Gilbert, from the 25th Foot, to be
Ensign, vice Smart, who exchanges.
56th Ditto—Ensign James Butt to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Drummond, deceased ; Alexander Daniel Cuddy,
Gent. to be Ensign, vice Butt.
59th Ditto--Second JAeurtnant George Johnson, from half-pay
of the Ist Ceylon Regiment, to be Ensign (paying the slit-
ference), vice Howard, appointed to the 25th loot.
61st Ditto—Lieutenant William Mackenzie, from half-pay of
the 72d Feet, to be Lieutenant, vice J..ines Gamniell, who
exchanges.
64th Ditto—Lieutenant William Jull to be Adjutant, vice Wil-
ford, who resigns the Adjutantcy only.
67th Ditto—Captain William Hay, from half-pay of the 81st
Foot, to be Captain, vice Arthur Bowen, who exchanges.
80th Ditto—Captain Thomas Bunbury, from the half-pay, to be
Captain, vice Robert Manners Lockwood, who exchanges.
lit Royal Veteran Battalion—Lieutenant Joseph Piggott, from
the late 7th Royal Veteran Battalion, to be Lieuteuant, vice.
Dreghoru, placed on the Retired List.
uoserrat STAFF'.

Assistant-Surgeon Matthew Farn:in, from half•pay of the 25th
Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Laidlaw,
whose appointment has not taken place.
To be Hospital- Assist anti-- I ospital- A bsi stant Alexander Bruce,
from half-pay, vice Coghlan, promoted ; llo.pital-Assistant
Jas. Finlayson Nivison, from half-pay, vice Sibbald, promoted.
alE,,toaesous'.

The Commission held by Mr. Michael Sutton, as Assistant
Commissary, dated Ist Septentiv.r, 1795, has been cancelled.
LAW OF ENIASTNIENT.

A curious case was heard on Saturday, before Mr. Cexayr,
the Sitting Magistrate, at alarlborough-strter, on the n
of Serjeant-Major Jones, in the military service of the East Inas
Company, who brought before the Magistrate, in the custody of a
police officer, George Buckloud, a young man of genteel appear-
ance. whom he charged as a deserter, and required his tranter to
the East India Company's military depot.—The father of the
prisoner appeared in the Office, and said that he was a publican,
in a good line of business, in Bryan.tone-street ; and that, in
the month of May, 1521, having had some angry words with
his son (the prisoner), the fitter went to the East India ren-
dezvous in Soho, and enrolled himself there (but by giving a
wrong address) as a private soldier, and received, according to
custom, the advance of one shilling, which was in part of the
enlistment money. The father submitted, that as no more
than the shilling had been paid, and as his son had never been
formally admitted into the service, which he could not be until
after he had passed the surgeon's examination, and likewise as
he had never been attested before a Magistrate, nor received
any uniform whatever, they had no right to consider him as a
duly enlisted soldier, and consequently as a deserter.
Mr. CONANT, from the nature of the case, appeared at first
to think lightly of it, and not to be a case requiring any harsh
step towards the party; but the Serjeant-Major stated that be
was required to make the application under the 16th clause of
the Mutiny Act. Upon reference to that Act, It appeared that
a party enlisting, and taking the shilling, does not thereby be-
come absolutely enlisted, but has by the clause four days allowed
him to consider of the step he has taken, and that he can, within
that time, and previous to his attestation before a Magistrate,
divest himself before any Justice of the Peace of the responsi-
bility he has incurred, upon the payment of 20s. in the shape of
a fine, besides the ls. advanced to him. But that after the four
days, this reservation to the party lapses, and he is, in failure of
dissent within that time, considered to be a regularly enlisted
soldier, and liable to all the provisions of the Mutiny Bill.
The father renewed his appeal to the Magistrate, and offered to
pay the fine and the expenses; but Mr. CONANT said, that the
particular clause of the Act was imperative, and left hint no
power but to consign the party to a military tribunal, his offence
being purely military.—The man was remanded accordingly.
Gorge Morley, another young man who had enlisted, but who
had gone through all the regular forms of attestation, and had
been stationed at the Depot at Chatham, was also charged as a
deserter. He at Once admitted the fact, and was handed over
to his corps.

The Caledonian Canal was opened from sea to sea
ou Wednesday last.
Sunday sennight, Campbeltown was visited by the
Catholic Bishop of Lismore, who is now on a tour of
confirmation in the West Highlands ; a number of
persons received the Sacrament of Confirmation. It
ss upyrards of 200 years since a Catholic Bishop was
there for the same purpose. •

NAVAL INTELLiCENCI.

The Jennies. from Newry to Liverpool, with a general cargo,
.rt on shore at the entrance ,f Port La Murray (Isle of Man), '
rod was full of water; part of her cargo (linens), in a damaged
:ate, had been landed.
The Timandra, hia,aanait., from Archangel to London, foun-
ered near Drontheim the 6th tat. crew saved.
Foamier's,
.ocv. 26.—Wind W.—Arrived the Ebenezer,
.4.soxots, from Gibraltar, in 18 days, for Jersey; William
'arker, BROWN, from London to Trieste. Sailed the Friend-
hip, M‘lvsa ; and Economy, Hanel-sine, for London.
PLYMOUTH, Ocr. 9.6.—Wind W.—Arrived the Kerswell,
&METROS°, from London for the Cape of Good Hope, and re-
lain. wind-bound with the following vessels :—Richard, for
/emerara; Martha, for Jamaica; Maurice, for Gibraltar;
ockhohn, for Cadiz ; and Odet meting, for Surinam.
POZTEMOUTR, Ocr. 26.—Wind S.E.—Sailtd the Levant, DUN-
G?, for London.
OCTOBER 27.—Wind W.—Sarni). Sir George Prevost, fur
On.
ORAL, OCT. 96.—Wind S.W.—Came down from the River
.tat night and this morning, the Hope, Mama, for the South
Seas ; Palmyra, REYNOLDS, and Wallace Eskin, Esant, 'both for
hort-au-Prince.—Arrived this morning and sailnd fur the River,
`is Majesty's ship IPHIGENIA, Commodore Sir It. MMus, from
.kfricA, last from Portsmouth.
°close* 27.—Wind S.W.—Came down from the River and
retrain, the Stately, EDGAR; for Jamaica; Glaphyra, BILLII`O'
ti :IlS; far Antigua; Friends, FORSTER, fur Sierra Leone; Jo-
,, rh, MILNE, for Oporto; Cosmopolite, HOLLAND, for Genoa;
Ihitatinia, BancLav, for Cape Coast Castle; Mary, Casswat.i,
fia. Naples ; his Majesty's ship Thaamatt, for Portsmouth and
.fianaica ; and sailed this evening, with the Enterprise, COOK,
fix Jamaica; Ocean, STEW:TRIMS, for the Cape of Good !lope;
rd John Cater, DUNNING, for Aruba.—Arrived and sailed for
i:,e River, the George, Basra, from Bourdeaux; and Marquis
::: Anglesea, WIILIAMS, from Virginia.
WEXFORD, Ocr. 24.—0 n Sunday morning a brig was seen in
the Bay of liallyteigue„ with the head of her fore-mast and her
lore-ropmast gone. Ahout eight o'clock the gale increa'ed, and
notwithstanding every exertion made by the Capain and crew,
the vessel was driven on shore on the reef of rocks called the
Forlorn Point, at Crosscarnogue, adjoining the borou6h of Bally-
teigue. She is called the Hero, of Banff, JAMES I lIIDS(D4 Mas-
La., from New Orleans to Liverpool, with a cargo of cotton
-v..01. We are happy to State that the hands are all safe.' The
greater part of the cargo has been landed, and there is every hope
u: the remainder being saved, should the weather be favourable.
Cesvent-liouse, OCT. 26.—Ships Entered Inwards :--The
Runbler,trom the South Seas; Bull Dog, from New Otleans ;
vvrs,from Calcutta ; Better-luck-still, from Stangate Creek ;
Ilizaheth, from Memel; Union, from Calais; I.oyal Briton,
:ram St. John's; and Canadien Packet, from Jamaica. Cleared
Outwards:-The Killingbeck, for Antigua; Simpson, for
alma ; Sarah, for St. Mary's; Prince of Saxe Coburg,
Prince of Orange, and King of the Netherlands, for Rotten:am ;
6 imw:ll, far Hamburg's;' Gaindlorough, for Bremen; Prince
o.' Waterloo, for Ostend; Dublin Packet, for Dublin; Perse-
vgance, and Trafalgar, for Calais ; &non, for Trieste ; Liberty,
zrel Caledonia, for Oporto ; and St. Johannes, for Copenhagen.