Star.
London, England, 1825-11-10 00:00:00

INDIAN ARMY.

MILITARY APPOINTMENTS, PROMOTIONS, &c.
FORT WILLIAM ATM 5.
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Appointment of Lieut. Woodburn to act as Interpreter and
Quartermaster to 4741 N.I. In room of Lieutenant Eisele per-
mitted to join his corps, confirmed.
April 9.—Appointment of Lieutenant Douglas to officiate as
Interpreter and Quartermaster to 49th N. I. confirmed.
Ensigns G. F. Tytler, 45th, and W. 11. C. Bloat, IGth N.I.
permitted to exchange corps.
FORT WILLIAM, APRIL 11.
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Messrs. H. T. Tucker, A. Lee, J. Ferris. R. Boyd, H. May-
nard, W. Elliott, and J. Ewan, admitted Cadets of Infantry, and
promoted to F.nsign.
Mr. It. Buchan admitted an Assistant Surgeon.
April IS—Assistant Surgeon J. Grant t• officiate as Senior As..
aistant to Presidency General Hospital, and in Medical charge of
prisoners in gaol during the absence of Assistant Surgeon Wood,
ptoceeding to Europe on duty.
Assistant Surgeon A. R. Jackson to be Second Assistant to Pre-
sidency General Hospital, •ice Grant.
Assistant Surgeon H. Cavell to bo Deputy Apothecary to the
Ilonotarablo Company, vice Jackson.
Mr. J. Hardie, Surgeon, to do duty (temporarily) as an Assist-
ant Surgeon to the

Haas Quantum', Aram 11.
Appointment of Lieutenant Thompson 56th N.I. to have charge
of the Ist company of pioneers, confirmed.
Appointment of Lieutenant It. W. Beatson, 13th N.I. to act as
Major of Brigade, in Cuttack, during the absence of Captain
Faithful, confirmed.
Ensign J. if. Phillips, 69th N.I. to do duty with Ist Grenadier
Battalion, at Chittagong.
Appointment of Lieutenant Liptrap to act as Adjutant to 42d
N.I. during the absence of Lieutenant and Adj. Gibbs, confirmed.
April 12—Ensigns Farmer and Michell to do duty with 28th
N.I. at Berhawpore.
Ensigns J. Remington, W. H. Dyke, D. T. Caddy, 11. T.
Tucker, A. Lee, Joseph Ferris, and H. Maynard, to do duty with
the 28th N.I. at lierbampore. Envign R. Boyd to do duty with
65th Regiment. Ensign W. Elliott to do duty with 49th Rest.
Ensign J. Ewan to do duty with 68th Regiment.
Appointment of Assistant Surgeon Mackinnon to have Medical
charge of 6th Light Company. confirmed.
Captain Chapman to act as Detachment Staff to troops at Rung.
pore, in Assam during absence on duty of the Brigade Major.
Lieutenant Patch to tifaciate as Adjutant to left wing of the 10th
Regiment during its separation from Head Quarters of Regiment.
I.ieut. Wintour, to act as Adjutant to both wings of 534 N. I.
during their separation from head-quarter.
Lieut. Bellow, to act as Staff to detachments under Lieutenant
Colonel Com. Thomas, consisting of loth and 56th Refits. N. I.
Regiment of A:Alloy—Lieutenant Adjutant and Quartermas.
ter T. A. Vanrenen, appointed to 3d Batt. and Lieutenant Adjut.
and Quartermaster lYOyky, to 2d ditto.
Lieutenant S. W. Bennett, removed from 21 comp. 3a. batt. to
Bth comp. 4th Batt. of Artil. v. Rotton.
FURLOUGHS.

To Europe—April 2, Lieut. Humphreys, Ara for health.
April 15, Mao G. I'. Parker, 35th N. Lau private affairs.
Tb New Saute Brevet Captain W. 11.3leenian,
lst N.I. for 111 months, for health.

1C TO or TUI KING'S COLOWL TO TIM 21iTII IL/WIWSNT or
IkATIVE OrASTAT.

1-lead.quarters, Calcutta, April _2,1825.
The Commander-in-Chief having received the official Report of
the reduction of the enemy's fortified positions, and capture of the
city of Arracan, in all its details, has derived, from the perusal of
these documents, the most unqualified satisfaction.
The conduct of the European portion of the force under Brig.-
General MOIRISON. C.B. has been worthy of the reputation of the
British Arms, and his Excellency is particularly gratified to find,
that the courage and discipline of the Native troops have been such
as to le the nn to a full participation in the sentiments of applause
which the late successes in Arracan have so deservedly called forth
Mans the Supreme Goveniment.
Exemplary as has been the conduct of the whole of the Native
troops employed on the foregoing occasion, as well as those whose
exertions have achieved the entire expulsion of the Burmese from
the province of A,sam, the services of the 46th Bengal Native In-
fantry have been particularly noticed by his Excellency.
'lltis Regiment had the misfortune to have within its ranks a few
misguided individuals. who participated in the disgraceful acts that
txcu at Birrackpore on the lst of November last, during which
moment of anarchy and confusion the King's colour of the Itegi-
snrrit was forcibly taken from the Regimental Quarter Guard by,

surprise, and carried over to the atutisceers.
Although it Was subsequently itscessainted that, of the whole Re.
emelt!, only about twenty men were contented in those proceed-
ings; yet the loss of this Sacred Emblem. under such circum-
stances, could not but be deeply felt by the Regiment at large, and
impress upon every individual of it the solemn obligation they owed
to the State, and to themselves, to endeavour to wipe off the stain
thus fixed on their reputation on the very first opportunity that
should offer.

This has been amply effected by their services before Arracan,
under the imme..iate eye of th:ir Commandant, Brigadier Richards,
whose report of their gallant conduct has been laid before Govern-
ment, and the Commander-in-Chief; and hi. Excellency derives
the most sincere gratification in announcing to the Army at large
that, v:ith the sanction of the Right lion, the Governor-General in
Council, the 26th Regiment of Native Infantry has been deemed
desi tying of a Colour to replace that which was lost and destroyed
on the occasion above adverted to.

137 order of hi, Excellency the Commander-in-Chief.
JAS. NICOL, Adj. Gen. of the Army.

The Rose, Martin, one of the Dundee and Perth

Shirping Company's lighten. unfortunately took fire,
on Wednesday, or, going up the River Tay. at Willen
GAtes, about two or three miles below 'kith. She
had on beard a valuable tun cargo of sugar, tea, hops,
&c. she was scuttled at the aboveplace, in t'n leet water.
-Between twelve and one o'click on Tuesday morn-
ing, two ballets, :opposed to have been discharged
from an air-gun, meted the stit.Ly of JAMES Film.,
•Esq. in King•square, Bristol, whilst that Gentleman
was sating in the room. Whether tlic act was done
maliciously or wantonly, is not known.'
• A Charter of Incorporation has been obtained by the
Royal Society of Literature, by which the Members
are now enabled to add the initials M.R.S L. The M.
has been substituted for F. that it might not clash
with F.R.S. u hich, in fact, ought to be, by their char-
ter F.R.S L. Fellow of the Royal Society of London.'

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,COMPOUNR EPITHETS —Alm custom of using hard
compounds furnished Ben Jontion with an opportunity
of chewing his satire and his learning together. These
are the words of which he speaks sometimes as ”
one-breAth-utterable." Redi mentions an epigram
against the sophists which is preserved in Athenaus,
and is made up i f compounds " a mile long." He
presents us with a Latin translation by Joseph Scaliger,
which may be thus tendered into English :
Loftybrowflourisbers
Nostlobreadwallowert.
flapadbresdniourisbers.
odallswallowers;
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Bart footiook fashioners,
Nightprivatefeasteaters,
Crafthieubrationers ;
Youtheheaters, wordeatchen, vaingloeysophers,
Bach ore yourseekersolvirtuePhilosophers.
The lick kik a potty, remarkable for its diminutive size and
crowspiratively great age, died in the possession of Conte Dryden,
Zs} of Lazenby, near Stockton. It was only Elloches in height,
mid livid to the age of 36 years.

LAUNCH OF THE EDINBURGH EAST
INDIAMAN.

Yesterday beinglhe day fixed for the launch of the
Above vessel, the whole of the inhabitants resident in the
qu trier of Blackwall were in lull motion, and at an
e lay hour in the morning every 'avenue leading to the
scene was thronged with spectators. The Light was a
very animated ',ire, and at the hour appointed the River,
where the launch was to take place, was covered with
vessels of every description. This vessel appears to be
one of the finest in the se:vice, and of the largest class,
being 1,315 tons burthen, and measuring in extreme
length from head to stern, one hundred and seventy-
nine feet eight inches ; breadth 42 feet 4 inches ; depth
between decks 6 feet 6 inches; r.n each side the gun-
deck are 14 ports, and on the upper 13. She is painted
man of war fashion, with an exquisitely well carved
bust-head, and her stern handsomely carved and em-
bellished, with every accommodation. About twelve
o'clock the blocks were knocked from the vessel, and
she proceeded in the most majestic manner into till
watery element, amid the acclamations of thousands
of spectators.

It appears, by advices from Sincapore of the 14th
of April that Malacca, in conformity with the treaty
with the Dotch for th it purpose, was made over to the
English on the 9th, when W. S. Cftacitorr, E q. took
charge as Acting Resident.
Bonneau, a serjeant of Voltigeurs, has been sentenced
to capital punishment, in Paris, for the murder of De-
clemy, the leader of the music band of his rejment,
in his bed, on the 21st of October. The assassin was
immediately pui sued, and having bar. icaded himself,
refused to surrender, saying, is I have killed Declemy—
I have committed a crime, but I have defended my ho-
nour." He allowed that the quarrel had ezi.ted for a
month, and that it arose from a dispute about a female.
In June last, a native in the Bazaar, at Bombay, en-
raged at having lost a law suits murdered his uncle, who
had been the successful suitor, and immediately com-
menced running a muck. His murderous career was,
however, soon stopped, by a patty from the picket of
the European Regiment stationed on the verge of the
Esplanade, by one of whom he was bayonettel.
Not many months since, D. Guild, coachman to .1.
Mudie, Esq. of Etmillies, fell from the carriage on the
road to Yorfar, four miles distant from Arbroath, and
was killed on the spot. Shortly after that accident,
one of his children was burnt to death; and on Thurs-
day, the 27th ult. a fine boy, another of his children,
was drowned in the water that runs past the Castle of
Guthrie, where he had gone to amuse himself fishing
for minnows.

Flaa.—About five o'clock on Tuesday se'nnight,
as two men, in the employ of Messrs. Daniel Burton
and Son, calico-printers, at Middleton, were employed
in hanging up in a drying-room, a quantity of pieces,
just taken from the drying machines, one of them over-
turned a lamp, which set fire to a piece of print, and in
a few minutes the whole room was enveloped in flames,
and the entire building, with nearly the whole of the
property it contained, was destroyed; but fortunately
the fire was prevented from spreading further.
Sunday morning last, a fire broke out in some
premises at the foot of Gallowgate, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, occupied by Mr. Charlton, tallow-chandler, and
others. The tallow-house, tenanted by Mr. Charlton,
containing a large stock of tallow and cotton, and the
adjoin;ng dwelling-house, occupied by a poor man of
the name of Simpson; and a stable, with a quantity of
hay, were entirely consumed.—The hay belooged to
two poor cartmen, of the names of Richley and John-
son, who, besides suffering the loss of it, had two horses
'in the stable burnt to death.

Tuesday sennight, a poor woman was shot by a
spring-gun, whilst getting acorns in the Link NVood,
Bradfield, Suffolk, belonging to John Moseley, E,q.
The woman was conveyed home much wounded, and
has been confined ever since the accident.—On the same
day, a fine sow, upwards of M. value, the property of
Mr. George Biddell, was shot dead by one of the same
engines, whilst in search of ACOt ns in the above wood.
Thursday, J imes Green, a fine boy about eleven
years of age, an assistant to the plasterers at some
buildings on Maida-hill, Paddington, was, in conse-
quence of a sudden and violent gust of wind, which
caused the scaffold to separate from the building, pre-
cipitated, together with a large portion of the upper
scaffolding of two houses, to the ground, being a dis-
tance of 36 feet : he was taken up quite insensible and
I died the following evening.
Saturday evening, a youth named Muggeridge, let-
Ling off squibs and crackers un Bethnal-green, one of
thim accidentally set fire to a considerable quantity ofd
fire-works in his pockr, by which his left side was
dreadfully binned.

ACCIDENT AND ESCAPIL—Last evening, about five
o'clock, as one of the Bath and Bristol travelling vans,
belonging to Mr. Dallimore, of Doctors' Commons, was
proceeding down Ludgate-hill, being loaded very high,
and moving slowly on the proper side of the stieet,
when nearly opposite the h•iuse of Mr. Blades, it is
thought the i ressuie became too heavy on the front
axlerree, and caused it to snap in two, by which the van,
with its load, fell acros the footway, and close to the
windows of the shops. One passenger, hearing the re-
pott of the axletree, had the good fortune to get into a
shop, as did also the driver.
Tuesday, at Union Hall, a young man habited as a
Quaker, was charged with disturbing a congregation of
the Society of Friends, in Red Cross-street, Southwark.
Several of the Elders attended, but declined making
oath to the facts, and the case was necessarily c,:nfined
to some questions, as to who or what the defen-
dant was? to which he replied that he was a native of
Dover, had been to South America to preach 4, the
light" to the Peruvians, but they would not have it ;
and had returned to confer a similar favour on com-
plainants. The Magistrates said, precaution would be
taken to prove a second offence, when he might be sure
of being dealt with according to law.
Pope Gilmore VIII. put forth a Bull against the
Emperor HINNY IV. in which he says—,, On the part
of tie Omnipotent GOD, I forbid HENRY IV. to govern
the kingdoms of Italy and Germany; I absolve his sub-
jects from all oaths which they have taken, or may
take to him ; and I excommunicate every person who
shall serve him as King I" (Greg. lib. 5. epist. 24.)
Tuesday se'nnight, as Sir John Cope was. mounted on his fa-
vourite hunter Tortoise, and about to start with the bounds at
fence, the animal gave a leap forward, and dropt down dead ; he was
in his 19th year. Ills present Majesty offered 600 guineas for him.
The best of the three American trotters, lately named Jonathan,
started on Saturday. to trot three miles in ten minutes, on the
ground between Salt Bill slid Maidenhead, for 100 soy. The
I horse went off well, and performed the first mile in a few seconds
otter three minutes • but he broke from the trot, and became fret-
ful at the end of the second mile and time being within a minute,
aad tho horse having, nearly halls mile further to go, be was
pulled up as a loser.

CONSISTORY COURT, NovEmsza 9.