Star.
London, England, 1818-09-30 00:00:00

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

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WAR-OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 29, 1818.
69th Regiment of Foot—General Sir George Beckwith, G.C.B.
from the 9.el West India Regiment, to be Colonel, vice the
Earl of Lindsey,.deceased.
Ed West Indi Regiment—Major-General Sir Henry Tomos,
K C.B. from the Royal African Corps, to be Colonel, vice
General Sir George Beckwith, appointed to the command of
the ll9th Foot.
Royal African Corpe—Major-General Sir Edward Stopford,
K.C.B. to be Colonel, vice Major-General Sir Henry Torltns,
appointed to the command of the Ed West India Regiment.
oklatsotia.
Lieutenant-General Sir John Doyle, Bart. and G.C.B. to be
Govenior of Chariemont, vice the Earl of Lindsey, deceased.
Commission in the North Hants Regiment of Militia, signed
by the Vice-Liriatenant of the County of Southampton.
Francis Thornhill Baring, En k. to be Captain, vice Thorpe, re-

signed.
Commissions in the Warwickshire Regiment of Yeomanry
Cavalry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of
Warwkk.
Captain Francis Lawley to be Major, vice Gresley, resigned.
Lieutenant James Beck to be Captain, vice Adams, resigned.
James Spooner, Gent. to be Lieutenant.
William Dilke, Gent. to be 'Lieutenant, vice Willes, resigned.
Town and County of Warwick Troop of Volunteer Yeomanry
Cavalry.
Francis Holyoake, jun. Gent. to be Comet.
BANKRUPTS.
John Edward Johnson, of Hyde-street, Bloomsbury, master-
mariner and merchant, dealer and Chapman, to surrender
October 6, 24, and Nov.lo, at twelve, at Guildhall. Attornies
Messrs. Alliston and Hundleby, Freeman's-court, Cot-shill.
Moses Dafter, late of Whitminster, Gloucestershire, linen-dra-
per, hawker, dealer and Chapman, October 14, 15, and Nov,
30, at twelve at tic Uppfft George Coffee-house, Gloucester.
hir. A'Deckett, 20, Broad-street, Golden-square,
London; or Mr. Wm. Matthews' Gloucester.
Jonathan Hopkins, of die flop-Market, Worcester, and Bed-
flop-Market,wardine, hop and seed-merchant, October 16, 17, at two, and
Nov. 30, at eleven, at the Star and Garter Inn, Worcter.—
Attornks, Mr. &eke, Devonshire-street, Queeteequarees, Lon-
don ; or Mr. Hill, Worcester.
James Durrant, of East Dereham, Norfolk, innkeeper, October
23, 24, and Nov. 10, at four, at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich.
Anomie+, Mr. Palmer, East Dereham l or Messrs. Adlington,
and Gregory, Bedford-row, London.
William Fowler and John owler, now or late of Alder-Mills,
Tamworth, Staffordshire, corn-millers, paper-makers, and cot-
ton-spinners, October 13, 14, and Nov. 10, at eleven, at the
Castle Inn, Tamworth. Attorney, Mr. Willington,Tantworth.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1818.
THE FUNDS.
FEICZ OF STOOES TIIIS DAY AT TWELVE o'cii.orx
Bank Stock shut-3 per Ccnt. Reduced shut-
-3 per Cent. Consols 75 75i—for Mc.
31 per Cent. shnt-4 per Cent. shut
5 per Ct. Navy 105 10514—India Bonds 73 76 pre.
Onanisun 3; 1 dis.—Exchequer Bills 15 17 prem.

AWFUL EVENT.
The Mail of this morning has brought us son

details of a most calamiti:us occurrence that took
place at Nottingham on Monday afternoon, and
which, it is to be hoped, will operate as a powerful
warning to those entrusted with the care of removing
gun-powder from one place to another. We shall
not detain our Readers, but at once lay before them
sech particulars as could be ascertained in the confu-
fusion and dismay occasioned by this event :

NOTTINGHAM, SEPTEMBER 38,
Eight o'Clock, P.M.

" 1 take up the pen, in a state of anxious distress
not to be conceived, to give you by this post some
account of a most disastrous explosion which has this
afternoon thrown the whole place into a state of in-
describable confusion.

" The shock, which at first was conceived to be
an earthquake, in a few minutes filled the streets with
a terrified multitude running in every direction. A
thick smoke and strong smell of gunpowder, with
fragments of paper flying about in the air, quickly
spread fresh alarm. Some ran towards the Barracks,
others to the Military Guard-house, and many, as if
bereaved of reason,- ran about in wild dismay witfiout
knowing whithet or for what object. At length a
cry became general that an explosion of gunpowder
had completely destroyed the Canal Company's
Warehouses, in our neighbourhood, and that another
explosion might be momentarily expected. The dis-
tress now became agonizing: however, our fears in this
respect were hut verified, and I ventured to direct my
steps towards the scene of destruction. All the adjoin-
ing streets were strewed with glass, and the roofs of the
houses dreadfully shattered. The greater part of the
inhabitants had fled into the adjoining meadows, but
even here the destructive effects of the explosion were
most distressing; for, with numerous fragments of
the ruined edifices, several mangled bodies were,
found there, which had been carried across the canal
by the violence of the concussion.
" How this melancholy affair happened is at pre-
sent not well known. Various reports are in circu-
lation, but from all that I have been able to learn, I
believe the following statement will be found pretty
correct :—A canal boat, with other merchandize, had
twenty-one barrels of gunpowder, weighing about
tcwt. each on board. The powder had been just de-
livered at the warehouse, and the boat was still lying
under the arch-way over which the warehouse is built.
Some of the gunpowder had escaped through a cre-
vice of one of the barrels, in carrying. A man in the
boat, who was heard to say he would have a flash of
Cis own, took a hot coal and sot fire to the train,
which quickly communicated with the barrels, and
in a moment this immense pile of buildings, four
stories high, built in the most massive manner, full,
of corn and other merchandize, became a mass oe
ruins. The adjoining wharfs and buildings have suf-
fered dreadfully, and the destruction in glass has
been great at a vary considerable distance from the
focus of explusion. Twelve bodies have already been

' found ; the wharf itself they dare not yet search into ;
all they venture at present it, putting into sacks some
of the corn which lies in great quantities upon the
wharf. Above one hundred soldiers are employed
upon this work, while others are keeping guard. The
engines are all drawn up in readiness for fear of fire,
• in short the whole town is in a state of uneasy and
• anxious suspense not easily to be conceived, and im-
Ipossible to be described."

We have received to-day some more American
Papers, but not of a later date than those already
announced. We are happy to see, in the Philadelphia
Aurora of the 26th August, the following contradic-
tion of the report contained in our last extracts of a
cruel fate having befallen Colonel M'DoNALD, and
eleven companions, on the Banks of the Orinoko, in
May last.—" The object of stories of this kind cannot
be mistaken—one fact, however, may serve to thew

the value of the whole—Colonel M‘DoNatn is at
this moment in the United States, and his compa-
nions were, in July, at St. Fernando de Apure."

The Paris Papers of Sunday arrived this forenoon,
but are even more barren than usual of interesting
matter. The Alexi/ear contains a Royal Ordinance,
directing the measures to be taken for the renewal,

conformably to the Charter, of the Deputies for the
second series of Departments.

The 5 per Cents: 74 fr. 90 c.

A itamburgh Mail arrived this forenoon, with
Papers to the .27th instant. Among the extracts
'which we subjoin will be found an interesting ac-
count of the coronation of the new King of Sweden
as King of Norway, at Drontheim, on the 7th inst.

SEPTEMBER s:
Yesterday the coronation of his Majesty took place
in the most sokinn manner, in the principal church
of this town. The weather being uncommonly fine
for this climate, at so advanced a season, heightened
the splendour of this day, which dear both to the
Norwegians and Swedes, on which their Monarch
put on the royal diadem, in a temple within whose
ancient walls no coronation had been celebrated for
three centuries.

The act of the Coronation was performed with
pomp and dignity ; when the Crown was placed on
the King's head, the air resounded with the acclama-
tions of all those who were present, as well as of the

numerous crowd outside of the church, and in the

neighbouring streets. A great part of the inhabi-
tants of the neighbourhood collected to see a cere-
mony, so new in Drontheim, and which might recal
to every Norwegian the fairest historical remetn-
brance of his .country, 2nd being renewed under such
happy auspices, promises to the two United Nations
a long series of happiness, founded upon their union
and their love to their Sovereign.
Yesterday his Majesty dined alone with the Crown
Prince. To-day his Excellency, the Norwegian Mi-
nister of State, Mr. Antler, gave a great entertain-
ment to above 150 persons, at which were present the
Deputies of the Swedish Diet, and of the Norwegian
Storthing, the Members of the Council of State, and
a great number of Civil and Military Officers of
both nations.

In the evening the town was illuminated. Ills
Majesty at first declined this illumination, for fear of
fire ; but the Magistrates having represented that all
possible precautions were taken to prevent danger, his
Majesty yielded to the wishes of the inhabitants. The
King and the Crown Prince went on foot through se.
veral streets to see the illumination, and were every
where received with acclamations by the people. On
the 12th of this month his Majesty and the Crown
Prince will depart, to return to Stockholm.
CHRISTIANIA, SEPTPMBER 9.

The day of his IklAiesty's coronation was celebra,

ted here by various entertainments.

Ills Majesty has ordered that oh the day of the
pnblication of his coronation, twenty-seven condemned
criminals shall be restored to liberty, two be reinstated
in their honour, and one banished the country for the
remaining term of his imprisonment. None of these
pardoned criminals is, however, to be set at liberty,
till he has proved that he is able to support himself
in a legal manner ; they are also to be under the spe-
cial surveillance of the police.

COPENIIAGEK, SEPTF.3IBER 19.

On the 16th his Majesty gave a private audience
at the Palace of Fredericksburgh to the Spanish Am-
bassador, Chevalier Yznardjey-Uzquierdo, who de-
livered to his Majesty the insignia of the Golden
Fleece, which his Catholic Majesty has sent to the
King as a token of his friendship, and of the good
understanding between the two nations. The insignia
of the Order of the Elephant are sent to Madrid to
be presented by the Danish Minister to his Catholic
Majesty.
Large purchases are making here of oats, barley,
and peas, for exportation to England.
A Russian squadron of one ship of the line and
'three frigates has arrived in the roads from the North
Sea.