Star.
London, England, 1818-05-25 00:00:00

THE QUEEN.

The Doctors visited the Quenw at a quarter past
ten o'clock on Saturday night, and remained in at-
tendance till eleven.

Her MAJESTY had some sound sleep till four o'clock,
and after that, in the course of the morning, she had
some refreshing sleep, from which her MAJESTY found
herself much better; and the private accounts were—
" That the QUEEN was going on extremely well."
Her MAJESTY has been considered to be mending
since Friday evening. The different branches of the
Royal Family have been constant in their attendance
and inquiries daring Saturday and yesterday. The
PRINCE REGENT was at the Palace on Saturday
evening between five and six o'olock. The following
Bulletin was issued yesterday :

" Queen's Palace, May 24, half-past Seven, A.M.
" The QUEEN continues better. Her MAJESTY has
passed another good night. (Signed)

" FRANCIS MILMAN.

" HENRY HALFORD."
The following favourable Bulletin was issued this day :
" Queen's Palace, May 25, 1818.
" Half past it o'clock, A.M.

" The QUEEN has felt herself uniformly better
since the last report—Her MAJEsTx has slept well.
(Signed) " FRANCIS HUMAN,
" HENRY SALFORD."

THE Patwczas or WALs.s.—A letter from Brussels,
dated May 22, says—
" Her Royal Highness the PRINCESS of WALES lies
dangerously ill at her country seat near Pesaro. Her
affliction at the loss of her beloved Daughter had
greatly impaired her health, which has been anew
severely shaken by the late vexations, in respect to the
bills of exchange payable out of the property of the
late Duke of BRUNSWICK."

Divine 'service was yesterday performed at Carlton
House by the Rev. F. W. BLOMBERG and the Rev.
Dr. STANIER CLAIM&

The Dowager Countess of ESSEX had a select cir-
cle of fashionables yesterday evening at their resi-
dence in Harley-street.
The Earl and Countess of lIARROWBY gave a
grand entertainment on Saturday, at their house in
Grosvenor-square, to a party of distinction.

Baron HUMBOLDT entertained, on Saturday, most
of the Foreign Ambassadors, and a large party of
distinguished personages, at his residence in Port-'
land• place.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE entertained a large
party of distinction yesterday at Lansdowne House.

The Marchioness of Sausaulty's converzatione
yesterday evening, in Arlington-street, was very nu-
merously and fashionably attended,
The Marquitand Marchioness ofWurcussrEa gave
a magnificent entertainment on Saturday, at their
mansion in Grosvenor-square, to his Royal: High-
ness-the PRINCE REGENT, his Royal Highness the
Duke of CLARENCE, PTIOCe ESTERHAZY, the Marquis
and Marchioness of CIIOLMONDELEY, the Marquis
and Marchioness of HERTFORD, &c. &c. &c.

The Countess of Mr NTO and family arrived in tcwn
yesterday evening from Paris.
It is expected that Lewes v‘ ill be smattly contested
at the ensuing general election. The candidates at
present named are, Sir JOHN SHELLEY, Capt. SHIFF-
NEE, the VICE-CHANCELLOR, and a fourth is expected.
There are now four Candidates for the represen-
tation of the Borough of Stafford, viz. Mr. BENSON,
the present Member, Mr. BENYON, Mr. HOMFRAY,
and General MACAULA.Y. The latter gentleman ar-
rived in that town on Monday evening.

At Blakeney Fair, a man named Coopey, a pig-
dealer, drank three pints of gin, with little or no inter-
m i ssi on, and almost instantly expired.
. .

The Gentlemen of the Co.unty. of Stirling, at their
Annual General Meeting, held on the 30th of April,
resolved to erect a National Monument at the " Bore
Stone," where the Royal Standard was fixed at the
memorable Battle of Bannockburn.

Thursday two young men were drowned at Govan,,
near Glasgow. They were on board a boat belonging
to Du.►ald Lamond, Greenock, at the time, and,
struggling with each other, under the influence of
liquor, they fell overboard. Their names are Angus
Nl‘Gilvray and John Smith.
The IVashington Recorder says—" Some time past
a merchant in an adjoining county went down to
Orcacock, and at an auction bought a puncheon of
rum, took it home and sold it to his neighbours, who
drank the greater part without having any fault found
with it ; but as the cask ebbed the rum altered so
materially for the worse, that those who first drank
it with avidity, were compelled to desist, in conse-
quence of its very offensive smell and putrid ap-
pearance. The merchant was requested to have the
cask unheaded—he did so—when, lo ! therein was
found a small grey-headed old man. There was no-
thing about him whereby it was possible for him to
be known, either as to name, character, or country."
The trading insurances have lately been very high
between the Brazils and Chili, in consequence of the
deficiency of the intelligence as to the safety of the
communication between the eastern and western
shores of the Peninsula of South America. We are
now enabled to state, that protection is at present
afforded in that quarter by three ships of force,
which have been armed in the interest of the Inde-
pendents, and in addition we may mention the Hor-
net, an American sloop of the first order, on board
which certain Republican Commissioners have been
embarked in order to enable the Government at Wash-
ington to determine as to the future relations that are
to subsist between the United States and the Insur-
gent Spanish Colonies on the coast of the South Pacific.
Almost every town throughout the United King-
dom has felt the genial influence of Fortune's smiles
in the last Lottery. In an advertisement of Film's,
we perceive that his Capitals have travelled in all
directions, not only from the Land's End to John
o'Groat's house, but much further north. As there
is an increased number of Capitals in the present
Lottery, and as the demand at his Offices is already
great, we may, of course, look to his selling the prin-
cipal part of them ; indeed such is the great luck at-
tending his Offices, that his NOT doing so would be
!extraordinary indeed.