Star.
London, England, 1821-12-18 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

"Irbursday awl Peltlay last, the Commisslonen of the Royal Mi-
litary College assembled at Sandhurst, for the purpose of gairritg
the examinatias of the Students in the Senior and Junior
meats of that Instigation The following are the names of the
!Been constituting the Board, &e. on this occasion:
General Bari CATS/CA lIT, K.T.
General Sir Roamer lisowilasso, Bart. K.G.C.

Lieutenant-General MAITLAND.
Major-General Sir GlOlteg MORIIAT, X.G.C. Governor.
Major-General Sir J. W. Witt enensv Gestalt, Bart. K.C.B.
Obiarter- laster- General.
Major-General Sir Hatsr Tolman', K.C.B. Adjt.-GeneraL
Colonel J. Bunny Lieutenant-Governor.
Lieutenant-Colonel Macnsaatorr, Royal Military College.
:Me undermentioned Deicers of the Senior Department under-

went the various and regulate examinations in the higher branches
of fortification,y t mathematical science—spherical trigonometry
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Ste. &c. in order to prove their competency to SW situations on
the Staff of the Army; and we are happy to say, that thee
severally passed the examinations with great credit to themselves,
load to the entire satisfaction of the Commissioners present, viz.
Lieutenant TIMM, Grenadier Guards.
/taiga L Ganistr, 79th Foot.
Lieutenant T. Rasa, 12th Royal Lancers.
isisigo Tuostas, 54th Foot.
Captain \Vaduz, 19th Lancers.
Lieutenant Camortaus 90th Foot.
The detachment of the 14th Light Dragoons has marched
from Sandhurst, to join the Corps at Hounslow.
The detachment of Guards, from the same place, has pro-
ceeded to join their Regiment, on itz way to Ireland.
The 4th Dragoon Guards are expected to embark next month
for the East Indies.

The Officers belonging to the 6th Dragoon Guards, on leave
of absence, are ordered to leave town to join their Regiment, at
Cork, forthwith.

The new Union Club will he a magnifiCent Esta-
blishment. The Members are not to exceed 1500.

The frontage of the house is complete. It has a
southern aspect, and forms the commencement of the
new street which is to run to St. Martin's Church. .

The Students of the Royal Academy have presented
an elegant large silver snuff-box, richly gilt inside, to
Mr. SAMUEL STR"NGER, the. old and faithful mes-
senger to the Institution. In the centre of the lid is
a handsome oval shield, on which is engraved an ap-
propriate inscription, surrounded by a handsomely-
chased bordering of flowers, &c. The other parts of
the box are neatly ornamented with mosaic work.
It appears from the population return, that there
is now living iifr the parish of Cloncurry, and Barony
of Eastern Ophaley, in the county of Kildare, a man
named Thady Dooney, at the advanced age of one
hundred and twentffour years!
In consequence of a serious misunderstanding with
some of the leading Members of the Stock Exchange,
on the subject of abolishing time-bargains, a project
for the erection of a new Stock Exchange has been
started by the dissentients. Yesterday a Meeting took
place, and names to a very considerable amount have
been entered in favour of the measure. The Jew party
are strongly against the abolition of options.
A few days since, a person in Birmingham, whilst
enjoying the company of a party of friends,where the
case of the unfortunate Cadman was the subject of
conversation, made a wager that he would, in the pre-
sence of one of the company, make a note and pass it in
two hours. This was actually done. The note was again
procured, and, at the request of his friends, destroyed.
A Mandamus was granted by the Court of King's
Bench, last week, on application of the Corporation
of York, commanding them to elect a Sheriff, of that
city, in the room of Mr. OSWALD Awns, who is ex-
empt as a Dissenter, and the election took place ac-
cordingly an Thursday, When MARTIN STAPYLTON,
Esq. was nominated City Sheriff.
The King's pardon was received on Monday, by the
Keeper of the Devon County Jail, for Thomas Watts,
convicted of forgery at the last Assizes ; but a de-
tainer was lodged against him at the same time for a
misdemeanour. Watts's irons were removed; and he
was told he was now bailable, himself in £5OO, and two
sureties in £250 each, to answer the said indictment.

The brig Stranger, Captain ISAAC ADAMS, of New
Orleant, sailed from Valparaiso with a Governor, &c.
and ordnance stores, to form a settlement at Juan
Fernindez ; but while employed in hoisting cannon
into the fort. Capt. ADAMS was unfortunately killed.
Extract of a letter from Boston, dated November
18:—" There has been large quantities of Ame-
rican. cloths sold here within one month ; and those
of approved qualities and colour are much sought
after. Wool finds a rea iy mArket here; our merchants
have imported from 100,000 to 300,000 lbs. from Eu-
rope, as much as 100,000 fine sheep would produce."
A private letter from Constantinople, printed in the
Journal des Debats, and dated November 10, con-
tains the following intelligence :
" The dismissal of the Reis Effendi, Hamed Bey,
was very sudden. On the night of ie Bth, he was
conducted on board a vessel, which was to remove
him to Asia. Some persons see in this a political
event. They pretend that it was this Minister who
caused the rejection of the Russian ultimahint, and
that his fall may be considered as the signal of a total
change in the Ottoman policy. This change is sup-
posed to have been promoted by Lord Strangford,
who is said to have made the Porte sensible of the
perilous Situation in which, according to the opinion
of some, she stood.
" The Porte does not seem to attach much import-
ance to the difference with Persia. The Divan dis-
plays, at least, great coolness on the subject.
" Every day there are reports of the taking of Bag-
dad, Erzerum, and even of Trebisond, but these
rumours obtain no confirmation. Constantinople is,
tranquil. Preparations which are making render it
probable, that the fleet which is now in the Bosphorus
will soon repass the Dardanelles, reinforced by se-
veral large ships, which have been fitted for sea. The
fleet has had no action with the Greek fleet. All that
the European Journals have reported relative to re-
gular
battles is completely false. The Greeks residing
at Constantinople have ao trace of any such affairs s 0
their direct correspondence."
The Gibraltar Chronicle of the 26th ult. states, that
the inhabitants of Melilla, One o the settlements on
the coast of Africa, have sent to the Spanish Cortes
a most melancholy account of their situation, and of
that of the garrison, requesting either that they might
be succoured, or that the settlement might be aban-
doned, end themselves brought over to the Peninsula.
HALIFAX, Nov.l2.—Extract of a letter from Fre-
derickston :—" A vt:y afflicting event has taken place
in this town:—Mr. Giesaoz Warrmoar, son of the
Attorney-General, has been mortally wounded ih a
duel with Mr. GRORGZ F. STRZETZ they were both
attornies, and have young families. Mrs. WHlT-
monk on receiving the dreadful accoUnt, became al-
most senseless.

NAVAL INTSLLIGENok

Pottentorru, Doc. 17.—Arrived the enItONANDIL lame atiP,
from the East Indies. The Elizabeth, Poasmaw, from Cape
Coast Castle, went out of the harbour this day.— Wind S.W. by S.

Dzaestouvu, Dec. 15.—A cask of fish oil, about inn gallons,
marked It Von one side of the bang, and It Run the other,
was taken up yesterday, about two leagues off the &art Point,
and delivered to the Officers of the Customs.
DIAL, Dec. Vt.—Wind S.S. W.—Arrived and sailed for the
*ter, he Giad Czar, Malmo; from the Cape of Good Hope,
with part of the Royal African Corps on board : left the Cape
on the 18th of October ; St. Helena on the 3d of November ;
and the island of Ascension the 9th of the same month, and

brings Mills;—left at the Cape, his Majesty's ships Vtoo and
Smaaawavaa, from whence they were to sail on the Ist ultimo,
for St. Helena and England; also left at the Cape, the
Ruphemla, and Mary Jane, loading for England, and would be
ready to sail in a few days: left at St. Helena, the Prinsess of
Wales, delivering stares front England : spoke on the gd Nov.
the Juliana, Houma, from Calcutta, all well.—The Sir David
Scott and William Fairlie, East Ittdiamen, with the test of the
outward-bound, remain all well.
Dovaa, Dge. 17.—The Iris packet, with a Mail from France,
landed the bag in the Roads and returned. Several passage-ves-
sels bore up for the Downs.

Comm-How% Dec. 11.—Ships Entered Inwards:—The
Prince of Orange, from Rotterdam ; Atalanta, from Harlingen ;
Prince of Waterloo, from Ostend; Betsey, from St. Übe's;
Belleuncle, from Stangate Creek ; Joseph and Ann, from Ant-
werp; :Snowdon, from Palermo; Robert, from Virginia;
Otto, from Caen • Jemima, from Antwerp; and Harmony,
from Petenburgli---Entered Outwards s—Tke Dukeof Kent,
fur Rotterdam; St. Felix, for Elsinore ; Emilie, fop Modal:;
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Flying Fut+, for Ostend ;. and Apollo, for ;Uatie►ra.—Cleared
Outwards :—The Fame, for Lisbon ; Edward, for Bremen ;
Bonne Aims, for Havre; Mellish, for Bengal; and Charlotte,

for New Yoa.
The ship Brailaford. on her passage from Bombay to Ragland,
in lat. 29. 96. S. long. 40. 2. fi. caught a large blue female shark,
12 feet long ; on opening which there were found no less than
seventy-seven young ones alive, each about a foot long, and
weighing from one half to three quarters of a pound.
A cask of gold, in American, British, and Portuguese coin,
worth between £ll,OOO and £12,000, was saved from the wreck
of the American brig Elisibeth, and placed in the custody of the
Rector of Wallasea. by whom it has been given up to Mr.
Manus, of Liverpool, agent to Messrs. TuousaWu.sou and Co.
of London, the owners thereoL

SYDNEY, (New SOUTH WALES), JUNE 9.—Just as Capt. Leant
was on the eve of leaving Valparaiso for this part of the world
once more, he was informed of a most marvellous affair relating
to an American whaler, that had bred attacked by a whale at
sea in so violent and dreadful a manner is to occasion the vessel
to founder, and most of the crew eventually to perish; some-
thing of whose disastrous history' we have been favoured with,
and shall present the same to our Readers. Captain Rates re-
ceived information that there were three men on Dude's bland,
who had preferred remaining there rather than venture across,
the ocean_ in a boat, to which the crew had been to
fly from the ship. The boat to which these three men I
had been picked up by an American whaler, about 60 days after
the melancholy occurrence. Another boat, in which was the
Captain and the remainder of the crew, soon parted com-
pany, and were also fallen in with by an whaler of Ame-
rica, which vessel was the bearer of the intelligence to Valpa-1
raise; and the horrible account given by the two survivors in
this boat was truly deplorable and shuddering. They had bean
90 days at sea before they were fallen in with, and had esp.
deuced the most dreadful of all human vicisaiiudes. Front she
extremity of hunger, they bad been reduced to the painful se-
ceuity of killing and devouring each other, in order to sustain'
a wretched life, that was hourly expected to be terminated.
Eight times lots had been drawn, and eight human beings
had been sacrificed, to afford sustenance to those that remained;
and, on the day the ship encountered them, the Captain and
the boy had also drawn lots, and It had been thus determined
that the poor boy should die. But, providentially, a ship hove
in sight and took them in, and they were restored to existence.
Doleful in the extreme as it is to bear such things, and painful
as it is to relate them, it is nevertheless asserted as a fact by Cap-
tain Ranee, that the fingers and other fragments of their deceased
compapions were in the pockets of the Captain and boy when
taken on board the whaler. The Commander of the Surrey be-
coming opportunely acquainted with those painful and distress-
ing circumstances, humanely determined on calling at Dude's
Island, and be instrumental in restoring three unfortunate fel-
low-creatures to society, and very possibly rescue them from a
miserable end, particularly as this island was no great distance
out of his track front Valparaiso to New Holland. On Thurs-
day, the sth of April, Captain Rams, considering himself within
a very short distance of Dude's Island, which is laid down in
Node's Epitome to be in lat. 24 deg. 40 min. S. and long. 124
deg. 37 min. W. kept a good look-out. At about two se st. land
was perceived, which turned out to be an island, in lat 24 .
26 min. As the vessel neared the land, a gun was
and shortly after the three poor men were seen to issue forth from
the woods. The boats were presently lowered, Captain Rama'
taking one himself. On approaching the shore, it was found
not only dangerous, but utterly impracticable to land, of which
circumstance they were informed, in weak and tremulous voices, I
by the almost starved and nearly worn-out creatures themselves,
who could scarcely, from the miserable plight they were in, arti-
culate a syllable. One poor fellow summed up courage to plunge
into the waves, and with great difficulty reached the boat : he
said one of the others only could swim. After warily backing
in the boat as- near the rocks as possible, amidst a heavy surf,
they both succeeded in getting on board, much bruised and
Weeded by repeated falls; which object was no sooner ef-
fected, than each devoutly expressed his gratitude to that benign
Beisc,who bad so wonderfully preserved them from sharing in the
destruction to which their unhappy shipmates had fallen victims.
These men are BOW with Capt. Kant; and declare their names to
be THOMAS CHATTEL, WILLIAM WEIGHT, and Sean WEEKS ; and
the following Is the account they gave of the distressing circum-
stance, which we feel no hesitation in declaring may be numbered
with one of those events that are without a parallel in the history
of :-They sailed from Nantucket in the American ship Essex,
st 220 tons, G. Pnu.ean Master, on the 19th August, 1819, on a
whaling voyage ; they arrived in the South Seas,where they were
pretty fortunate, having succeeded in procuring 750 barrels of oil,
and were in lat. 47. south, and long. 118. west, when the acci-
dent happened,which was on the 13th November,lB2o. On that
day they were among whales, and three boats were lowered down:
file mates boat got stove, and had returned to the ship to be re-
paired. Shortly after a whale of the largest class muck the ship,
and k necked part of the false keel of, just abreast of the main chan-
stels.The animal then remained for some timealongside,endeavour-
leg to clasp the shipwith her jaws, but could not accomplish it; she
then turned,went round the stern, and came up on the other side,
land went away a-head about a quarter of a mile, and, smile*
I turning, came at the ship with tremendous velocity, head on. The
vessel was going at the rate of five knots, but such was the fame
when she struck the ship, which was under the cat-head, that the
vessel had stern-way, at the rate of three or four knots; the atm.
spruce was, the sea rushed into the cabin-windows,every mats on
deck was knocked down, and, worse than all,•the bows stove in,
and In a few minutes the ship filled, and went on her beam-ends.
At this unhappy juncture, the Captain and Second Mate were
lam to a whale each; but on beholding the awful catastrophe
that had taken place, immediately cut from the fish, and Nadi
liar the ship. By cutting away the masts, the vessel righted ; the
upper deck was then scuttled : and some water and bread were
pemered for the two beats, in which they were compelled to re-
mise as all thoughts of saving the ship were given up. In ex-
peftstion of falling in with somp vessel, they remained three days
by the wreck, making sails, &c. but were compelled at length
to abandon it, and stool away to the southward, in hopes of
getting the variable winds and experiencing tine weather ; but ,
, the wind being constantly from the east and east-south-east, they
I made much lee-way, and were prevented from keeping to the
southward; In consequence of which, on the 20th of December,
they made the island from which Captain Rama took them, owl
which was taken for Duck's Island, at which plane the lows
remained one week ; but the island affording hardly any nourlds.l
went, in fact, exhibiting nothing but sterility, they resolved on
venturing for the coast, leaving behind them the three men now
on board the Surrey, with whose sufferings, and those of their
shipmates, we are by this opportunity favoured with an
count; and certainly they are poignant in the extreme.

This morning, soon after three o'clock, there was
a tremendous gale at S.S.W. accompanied with hail
and torrents of rain. The gale abated in one dread-
fol eaplosion about four o'clock.

SPOI2TI2VG INIELLIG&Ci

BETTING AT TATTERSATIS.tiReIIifBRft

ODDS OX RACES TO COME.
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DERRY:
9to 1 agst 'farcellus . 16 tot agst Bess colt
11 to 1 agst landscape colt 18 to 1 agst Frolic.
14 to 1 agst Sycorax colt
oaci.
Sto 1 test Parasol 16 to t gat Meteoral
RIDDLERWOITIL—: to 1 SZSt. Frolic.
THE LATE FIGHT.
The. Fancy of Bristol have entered into a Subicriptien
present N.,or with a Silver Tankard; value £25.
HUNTING.
His Ithatrerr's Stag founds will Meet on Fri.'..y; at Gold ti
Farmer Hill.
Eni Fit twitztitt's FOX Hounds meet on Thursday, at Tisk:
marsh.
The rani of Daum:motes Fox Hounds meet to-morrow, at
Langton; Saturday, at Lower Banks.
The Earl of Hisswoott's Fox Hounds meet to-morrow, at
Boot and Shoe; Friday, at Stetter.
Lord SCADDOROUGU'S Fox Hounds Meet to-morroir, at Vaal
Hill; Friday, at Sandbeck Park.
The Lambton Fox Hounds meet on Friday, at HairthOrn
Saturday, at TwizelL
H. Juct.trrz, Esq.'s FA Hound* meet on Friday, at Owls
Wood.
The Surrtl rot Hounds meet on Thuriday; at Gastone ;
Saturday, at Crown Ash Hill.
The Sanderstead harriers meet every day at Kennel.
The Cbipperfield Harden (Hurts) meet on Friday, on Lay
ULU Common.
The East Sussex Fox lleunds meet on Thursday; at Ails-
combe ; Monday, at Fine Hill; Thursday, Dec. 27, at Sootiness.
Mr. Cuarroant's Hounds meet to-morrow, at Kennel, Brix-
Worth ; Thursday, at Billing; Saturday, at Great Hariondea.
The Duke of Gaarroz's liodndi meet to-morrow, at Titheld;
Friday, at Wappenbam.
The Oakley Hounds meet on Thursday, at Pixhill ; Satan
day, at Galsey. •
'the Buckinghamshire Harriers meet on Friday, at Steeple
Claydon.
Lord ANSON'S Hounds meet to-morrow; at Thorpe; Satyr*
day, at Sisbon.
The Quorndon Hounds meet to-morrow, at KettlebY; Thurs-
day, at Uaddesby ; Saturday, at lltrumpton.
Casuist, Dec. 1 s.—The Newtown Annual Hunt took place
on Wednesday last, when the ekace afforded most excellene
sport to a numerous party. In the evening a respectable num-
ber of Gentlemen sat down to an excellent dinner provided by
Mr. UNDERWOOD, at the Green Dragon, when nothing but mirth
and good cheer prevailed till a late hour.
Scale Hill Hunt took place on Thursday, the 6th instant; the
Keswick and Lorton Harriers cast off about half-past eight
o'clock, and afforded excellent sport to a numerous field of well-
mounted horsemen. About five o'clock between twenuts.oS
thirty Gentlemen sat down to an excellent dinner at Mr.
son's; Alr. Room, of Keswick, in the Chair. The attendance
was greater than on any former occasion; upwards of a !Modred
having dined.

The shew of cattle for sale in Smithfield market
yesterday, was greater than ever was before known
by the oldest salesman. Every avenue leading to it
was literally crowded, and upwards of 500 head of
beasts did not reach nearer than Islington. Of those
in the market more than one-half were unsold.
At East Grinstead Fair, on Tuesday, there were up-
wards of 6000 beasts,' the greater part of which was
driven away unsold ; it was the largest fair ever
known there. •
AGRICULTURAL PUN.—A farmer in the neighbour,
hood of Doncaster was lately met by his landlorsl,
who accosted him thus :—" John, I intend to raise
your rent r to which John replied—" Sir, lam very
much obliged to you, for I cannot raise it myself."
Such is the unexampled mildness of the season, that
primroses and violets, in full bloom, are now selling
about the streets of London.
A short time since a box, containing wearing ap-
parel and books, was received at Waterbeck, near Ec-
clefechan, in Annandale, from Philadelphia. The box
bad been upwards of three months on its passage ;
when opened, the bye-standers were surprised to find
the contents very much mutilated :—however, on re-
moving apart of which, a mouse made its appearance,
and finally escaped. This diminutive quadruped had
subsisted for more than three months on woollen,
linen, and cotton, with Astronomy, Trigonometry,
Euclid, and other scientific works, but without the
smallest quantity of liquid—for on examining the box,
not the least aperture appeared whereby it could ob-
tain egress or regress,
The house of Mr. GRANT, No. 7, Cornhill, soda
water warehouse, was broke open last night or early
this morning, and bills, fce. to the amount of one
thousand pounds stolen.
A Mr. SMITH was attacked at night, about a fort-
night ago, in the neighbourhood of Ilexham, by three
men, who dragged him from his horse and threw him
on the ground, his face downwards. They made no
attempt to rob him, nor did they utter a syllable.
Mr. SMITH also held his tongue until feeling the
teeth of a saw entering into his flesh at the back part
of his neck, he exclaimed .4 What are you doing
with me r On hearing his voice, one of the men ob-
served with an oath, " It is not him I" and they all
three immediately departed. These barbarians had
evidently been upon the look-out for some object of
their revenge, whom they had intended to destroy by
means of the instrument abovementioned.
Sunday afternoon a distressing circumstance oc-
curred at the house of Mr. JAMES RAY, Regent-
street, Poplar. Mrs. RAY, accompanied by her two
children, was sitting in the kitchen, when it appears,
one of them went, unperceived by her, to a jar of
gunpowder standing close by, and by some means
which cannot be accounted for, caused it to eaplode.
The shock was so great as to shatter all the..,srs
and windows in the house. On some of the neigh-
bours going into the house, Mrs. RAY and her twis
children were found on.tabe floor speechless, insensi-
ble, and dreadfully injured.; they were conveyed in
a coach to the London Hospital, where little hopes
are entertained of their recovery.
Wednesday evening a fire broke out in the stable
of Mr. BRUNHWOOD, farmer, at Longparish, Win-
chester. The thatched roof of the stable commas*.
cated with that of the dwelling-house, so that the
latter was soon in flames. The fire raged with great
fury, and there being some wind at the time, a large
barn, close to the stable, caught fire; and between
thirty and forty quarters of barley, which it con.
tamed, were destroyed. Four horses were burnt to
death, three of which were good cart-horses, and one
a yearling. There were also consumed a middling-
sized peas rick, an oat rick, and half a hay rick. A
very large wheat rick was saved by the firemen who
worked the Andover engines; these, as well as an
engine from. Whitchurch, were brought with great
quickness to the spot. The flakes of fire were driven
by the wind towards the adjoining farm-home of
Mr. COTTON : this also took fire; and tortilla' wills
louses was totally soittemed.

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