Star.
London, England, 1803-03-11 00:00:00

EAST INDIA GENERAL REPORT.

WednefdayaGeneral Cann was held at the Ea?
India Houle on fpecial affairs. After the uluai
forms, and the accomas laid befoie Parliament ha•l
be-2n read,

The Chairman (Mr. ROBERTS) Dated, that th,'
nbjeft of convening the Proprietors was, to lay be
fore them a plan approved by his MajAy's Mini
tiers, for the recluflion of the Indian Debt, b)
appropriating, for two years, four millions ilet.
ling for the difcharge of two r.:illions per an
num of debt, in India. 'Phis wzs to be el led iu
the following manner; and for which it would be
necellary to apply to Parliament for their
to the Bill, to which the Minilters had promil_J
their moll cordial co-operation (here the COTTef
pondence between the Court of Direaors and Lur,l
CASTLEREAGH WaS read), viz.
To furnifh an inveßment in India and China to
the extent of Sour millions in each year, as thus :
Goods and Stores, - £.1,800,0w
- - 1,03D.003
India and China, - - - r,200 cco
£.4 003,000
Two millions of debt to be liquida:ed atter the
firll year, by Bills on the Court.
Mr. CHAPMAN made a motion to this effeel, viz
" That this Court approve the pi m, and recommend it t.
the Director* to carry it into immediate cfr:et,"
Which was feconded by. Mr. Bitictewooo, an
fupported by the Deputy Chairman (Mr. Bus...N-
-o.1,1r), MeirrS. HUDDLESTONE, MOORE, PRINSI,P,
Sir F. BAKING, and Mr. ATKINS.
Mr. HENCHMAN moved an amendment—.." That
the Court aejourn to the 2.3 d infant, and that the
paper. be printed," which was feconded by Mr.
ROCK.

The amendment, after receiving powerful fup
port from Meas. Joints Toots and BABLR,
withdrawn by Mr. HENCHMAN, and the milli qua
tion was carried by a decided majotity, only foul
hands being held up againft it.
A filbfequent motion for printing thofe papers
laid before Parliament, was negatived without a
divifion.

A Bill to enable the Company to keep up the
Brigade of Royal Eati India Vclunteerb, on a re-
duced fcale, was read and approved.
The Corm adjourned at a quarter pail two
o'clock, fine die.

We have the pleafure to Rate the fafe arrival at
Calcutta, on the t6th of July, of the Hon. Eafl
India Company's !hips the Lady Butes, Capt.
ARCHIB•LD SWINTON, and the Iltring, Captain
Dizoti MEADOWS. Theft (hip,. left England in the
fining. They touched at Madeira for wine, and
have been to Madras. All the paffengers, which
were numerous, landed in good health.
When Lord 11101 RA (poke in fo infpiriting a
(train of the capability of England fitceefsfully
meeting Francefingfe &add, his Lordfhip was pe-
culiarly happy in his allufion to the gallant Lord
NELsos, who, 14(.1-ally/We handed, defeat .d and
captured the whole of Bo TR'S 171,011u-41e Ar-
mada.

The Court of Aldermen, on Tnefday lafl, Voted
a Hundred Pounds a year to the Widow of the
late Alderman Macaw-sr, to be paid out of the
City funds.
One of the upper fervants in Lord Ms 'Ammer 'b
family died yellerday of the influenza. The whole
of the family continues indifpofed.
New Musical. FUN/P.—LA night this Mnfical
Society, patronized by the Prince of Waxes and
Duke of Yos e, had their grand Benefit Concert
at the Opera Houk. A temporary Oreheßra wa,
ereaed on the Stage, brilliantly illuminated. Up
wards of ;co performers affembled on the occa
lion, and the Band was very ably led by Mr.
CRAM ta.—Mifs Coevalt fung, fur the firlt time in
public, a fong of Button's, and was extremely
well. received.- Mrs. Asa e, from Bath, fling—
" Severe Bird," in a very pleating (Lyle. accompa-
nied on the flute by Mr. Asa, t and BRAMAN and
STORICI exerted their powers with contiderable
effee.

Tira Tn lATIt /1.-At Drury lane 'aft night, the
Hero of elm ',web attraaed a crowded audience.—
Mrs. MOUNTAIN and Mrs. BLAND, refumed their
refpedive parts, and the whole ,performance went
off with great applaufe.—At Covent•garden, John
BO proved as happy as ufual, and was attended
by an overflowing and brilliant company.
Mr. Limit, Author rf the Cajle Spare, has a
one aft piece forthcoming at Covent-garden, which
he calls a Mono Drama. Mr. Mutt* v and Mrs.
LITC/171 lILD have the principal
- - - -

Aawr ov Ecrrr.—On Tnefdai, the Bth intl.
Colonel DALRYMPLII, of York Place, gave his an•
niverfary grand dinner to the Officers of the Firff
Battalion of the Third Regiment of Guards, whom
he commanded in Egypt. Sir ETRIt Coort, M.
Gen. MiLatit, the Hon. Capt. COCURANI, and
other Naval Officers attached to the expedition.
stale alto prefent. About (even the company fat
down to a very elegant and hofpitable repaff ;
' after dinner many loyal mails were given, among
vrhich," The Bth of M itch, The Memory of their
Commander in Chief, and the other Heroes whom
the chance of war had left on the field of battle,"
were not forgotten. The converfation of a pillant
corps, expreisly affembled to commemorate the
fucceffes of a day, on which the intrepid bravery
of our army diffufed a brighter hiftre on the Bri-
till] name, and covered with the moll honourable
dillinttions the ftandards of their Regiment, mull
naturally have turned much on the rations inci-
dents of that long and gloricus campaign. None,
perhaps. are more fenfibly alive to the p!eafure of
recording the perils of the pail, than foldiers when
thepmeet ; and it is with infinite fatisfa6tion that
we remark on the prefent occafion that Vfirit du
cols which has arifen from the tried and well-
experienced fence of each other's conduit and cha-
racier on fervice, and that mutual efteem, which
ever unites thole who have together (Whined pri-
vations with patience, and faced danger with re-
volution. The conviviality and fellow-foldierfoip
of the company were uninterrupted during the
evening, and they did not leave the fare board
till an early hour the nests morning.

CORN AMR KE7 S.

BORN IN3Pcc-rnßs te.Tv,ti FROM uximtnnr.

MARCH IC.
V% heat, per Load, from t 21. tos. to t 61. tcs.
Mirky, per Q.Ltatter, from 11. 3s. to 11. 6i.

Oats, per Q..t2ester, II nm 11. ts. to i 6c

p.r (122arter, from 11. tcs. to 11. 175.
Peale, per (wrier, from tl. 18s. to 21. 05.

MARK-L/57, NI ',ICU 11.

There being now a brill( demand for fertrai ar •
_les in our Market, in confelticnce of the general
yinion of a rr•commencement of hiti.litles ; the
rriccs have advanced—Of Oats full is. 6d. per
q iarsz•—Scans 6d.-I)arley near s.—and heft
heat ts. with It livelinr•fs in the fale recond qua.
—M rb feiehes a better price.—Rye is utiva-
i A.—B“iling Peas and White Peas, even that rln

of break, ate rapidly increaling.-Crafs Seeds
-i,e unvaried, eacept it be Red Clover, which t
he.? per.
Englilb Wheat, per qr. 565. 565. Fine 575.
Superfine 6os. 61s.
tine Danteic Wheat, pos. 565. 58s.
Rye, 3+, 36..
Barley, 245. 265. (Very Tine) 275. 6d.
Malt, 425. 465. 475. '
Oats, 155. 205. 225.
Horfe Beans, New, 3os. 325. Old 345 361
Tick Beans, New, 275. 291. Old 32s 34$
Hog Peale, 325. 335. 6d.
Boilers, 4os. 445.
Carraway Seed, 365. to 41$. per cwt.
Coriander, 28s. to 3os. per cwt.
Red Clover, 7os. 945. ;op. per cwt.
White ditto, gos. 115 s. 1265. per cwt.
Trefoil, 36s 56s 68s per cwt.
Canary, 725. to 745. per qr.
Rap: Seed, 341. to 161. per laft.
Flour, 455. 483 per fact.

Admiral Sir RICHARD 111/10 it confined by ill.
nefb to his houfe in Devonfhire•place.

The Duchcfs of Divossnitt continues indif.

poled.

We underfland that the Duke ofQ2 MISBERRT
is not dead, as was reported on Tucklay ; but he
is very dangerouGy iil. One of the Morning Pa-
pers yellerday not only announced his death, but
gave alt elaborate charauler of him, at which the
Oul.e laughed very heartily. •
Ter Dues of Batonswatfa.—The late Duke
of BR= t "'Aril's will was opened at four o'clock
oa Tuefday. He has left moil of his houfe, his
p'ate, his pictures, valued at iso,oool. and his
:,late lately purchafed at Woolmers, in Hertford-
'hire, to Earl Gowse, together with his canal
property.in Lancallsire, which brings in from fifty
R, eighty thoufand per annum. All this property
1s entailed on Earl Gowast's fecond fon, Lord
Ptamcis LEVIN:SU Gown. His fira fon will in-
herit the Marquis of STAFFORD'S eflares. To Gem
neral Entorom, now Earl of BRIDGEWATER, be
bequeaths the elate of Alhbridge, in Hertford-
!hire, and other elates in Shropfhire and York.
(hire, to the amount of 30,0001. per annum.—.
About 600,0001. in the Funds, he has left chiell
to General &sorrow, and partly among the Coon-
tea of Cattisr.f, Lady Aww VERNON, and Lady
LOUISA MACDON•LIS, the Chief Baron's Lady.—
The Duke never was married. Thefe perfons were
his relations.

The Veftrymen of the with of St. James held
a meeting on Monday laft, when Andrew Pollock,•
the Watchman who behaved with fo much inhu-
m inky towards George Mango, who was found
deal one morning lalt week, at the corsj of Noel-
fireet, was difmilred from his employment ; and
the Veßrymen ordered their Clerk to inveftigate
the matter further, with a view to profecining
Poll )ck, and any other perfans concerned in the
(id inhuman tranfaaion.

About nine o'clock 101 l night, a fire broke oat
at Mr. Miles's Cooperage, Rofemary-branch, ad.
joining Rofemary-lane, which for a length of tints
threatened deftruiftlontothe whole neighbourhood.
The houfes in that quarter being all chiefly built
of wo,af, it was not to be wondered at that the in.
habitants were alarmed for their fafety and pro-
perty. As the fire penetrated towards Rofemary.
lane, feveral families were busied in (tripping their
premifes of the furniture, and were flying with it
in all dire lions, to a place of fecurity. About
eleven o'clock, feveral (mall houfes, attached to
The cooperage, were entirely dellroyed, and it was
thought by the affitlance of the firemen and en.
gines that the fire would be prevented from ex.
tending further ; but that was not the cafe ; for
about twelve o'clock it communicated itfelf to
fome buildings in Chamber-areet, and began to
rage again with greater violence, and in the cootie
of an hour did material damage. A party of the
Guards from the Tower were called out to difperfe
the mob, and prevent plunder.—During the pro-
grecs of the fire, a confiderable quantity of mufqiiet-
flocks was carried off to various places of fafety,
and, from the appearance of the ruins oa fire, a
Rill greater number wit probably deßroy ed in the
conflagration. The difficulty of approach pre.
vented the engines from producing that effc..rt they
otherwife would have done—and, from feveral of
them being obliged to work from the Lime tire.
plug, a great fcarcity of water at times prevailed.
'The conconrfe of people of the lower rrder allem-
bled near the conflagration was immenfe ; and, to
add to the confulion and horror of the fcene, a
numerous and well-armed prefsgang attended on
the fpot, and dragged away a number of feamen
from among the moh.—Mr. Miles's cooperage is
entirely d:ttroyed, and twelve houfes adjoining.
The fire-men were unable to procure wat-r for
above an hour and a half after the tire broke out ;
and it was not got under till neat two o'clock this
morning.

Fig

0! the Fat Bede of Old Seetlat.d !
And 0! the Old Seottith Fat Brofe!

0! the Fat Brofe, &c.
How dwindled, alas ! is this (ample we view;
A poor (fleshing rate, who are aye on the boo,"
And inftead of true glory, who riches purfue.

0! the Fat Brofe, &e.
But ftop—l muff mention, before I can dole,
That a brave Band of Heroes have lately arofe,
To revive the loft honour of Country and Brofe.
0! the Fat Brofe, ke.

Then who can the virtue of &oft pray deny
When the Hero we lately law conquer and die
Ida& Frogs, Ikef and Pudding in harmony cry—.

POLICE, &c.

THE BROSE OF SCOTLAND.-A

Tc ri c O : the Roall Bcci of Old England!"

I. ince the Englith on gutting fuck praiks beftow,
Its to boat 211 their courage to Roaft Beef they cum,
01 a Brofe let a Seotfnun the excellence thew !

Of char Beef and their Pudding they need not much boat,
How the vaunting Armada they drive from the malt;
When 'di very well known that Vac winds rul'd the roalt.
O: the Fat Brofe, &c &c.

Bades, let me alt, eer I give them belief,
When thLy fent to the Saxons to kr for relief,
Pray what had become of their Pudding and Beef
0! the poor Beef of Old England!
And 0! the Old English poor Beef !
But how great the exploits that by Brofe have been done!
It first taught the Romans to fight was no fun,
And has oft made the Beef-eating Englifiamen ran.

O! the Fat Brofc, &c.
When our gallant Forefathers, as hiftory mews,
Were a fhield to their Friends, and a terror to Foes,
They were fed upon nothing but Bannocks and Brofe.
0! the Frt Brofe, &c.

0! then we were happy! if happy could be ;
For our Country was brave, ipdependent, and free ;
What we are—you may go to St. James's and fee.

O! die Fat Brofe, &c.
Then let us, in chorus, our wines proclaim,
That the (pint re-kindling may rife to a flame,
And that no konelt Scetfmsn may ever think Blame
To frog 0! the Fat Bre& of Old Scotland!
And 0! the Old Scott& Fat Brofc !
AN tNGLISIIMAN.
Who having fometlmes laughed at Sawney, and his
&ore, thinks the above Lines due to the Cap-
ton of the .favisedh Stiadrd.

MANSION Houss.—Yefterday upwards of 7o
men, who were imprefred in the City by the eon-
ftables, were taken before the Loan Mayo, when
upwards of fixty of them were paged as able fea-
men, to ferve in the royal navy, when they chear.
fully entered.
Two men were, the fame day, charged on full
pieion of plundering fugar from the quays, in
Lower Thames-ftreet ; being able bodied men,
they were feat on board the Tender lying off the
Tower.

SHADWIt.i. —Yefierday Wltara Fitzgerald, a
young lad, was examined on a charge of going in-
to a linen-draper's (hop in Rateliff.lnighway, and
Stealing a piece of India Mk handkerchiefs. He
was committed for re.examination, as was a per-
fon for unlawfully pawning.
Toasts OFFlCl.—Yefterday 'ohn efullin and
lasahrth his wife, were held to ball, for receiving
a large quantity of pulicat handkerchiefs, being
part of a bale itolen from the Union, Captain
Hunter, lying at Militairs, Bermondfey, fome
time ago. About a dozen of refpeelable houfe-
keepers attended, who had purchafed Come of the
property from three women, of the names of liar-'
wood, Green, and another, under an idea of their
being fmuggled goods; the parties were bound
over to profecute, at the enfuing Surrey SelTions,
theprifoners for a mifdemeanor. Harwood,Green,
and the other, the agents of Aullin, for the fate of
the fame, were bound to give evidence.
One day laft week two brave fellows, James
Langley, who had formerly been a tailor, and Jo-
feph Wilkinfon, a wheelwright, fet out from a
public-houfe on Galleywood Common, near
Chelmsford, for the heroic pin price of trying their
firength with the robbers who mien that neigh-
bourhood, when, after a fevere confliel with two
parties of three each, who attacked them in fup.
port of each other, they remained mailers of the
field, having brought off an old bayonet as fpoil.
The banditti were all dreffed in foldicrs'great coats.
An inflance of Shore Piracybas lately occurred
on the Eike coaft, which all foreigners will na-
vil ally impute to us, as a national ditgrace :
The Duch !hip Vrowe Johanna, Capt. HiXDRICI
de VRIES, laden with corn, and on her vryage
from Embden to London, being in great danger
of foundering, in a heavy gale of wind, off the
Gunflcet Sand, the Captain, Mate, and men rook
to their boat, to lave their lives, and left her, with
all their property, behind ; hut could not prevail
upon the arm boy to accompany them, who was
in bed, neatly frozen to death. The wind (hilt-
ing,the veflel drove afhore near Bradwell Marches,
without luflaining any material damage. On
the inflant, however, the was boarded by more
than thirty of the Marfb-men, who drank out all
the liquor, and then rifled her of every artick
t:i:y could find, not leaving a morfel of food on
hoard ; and one of them was brutal enough to
threaten to beat the poor cabin boy's brains out
v. ith ts bludgeon, Leasure he wr.uld not get up to
let him take the flints from under him. The pro-
perty of which the mariners were robbed amount-
ed to near 300 guilders. Ore of the ringleaders,
John Lifler, was on Saturday Lift apprehended
and comr..itted to Chelmsford gaol, by the Rev.
H. 11. Duost v ; aid from the vi7,ilint purfl.:t
that is making after the ailed i. great lea-
fun to Lope that the p-:nrip ,1 I f thcir- auhuman
Jefptralues will toot. Lc lat,ug'..t to