Star.
London, England, 1803-12-15 00:00:00

CADIZ, NOVEMBER 6.

" Yellerday two fail of the line arrived here from
Carthagena, and feveral more are shortly expeeed)
which has put an end to all hopes of our preferving
our neutrality. Don Moata, the Captain-General
of Andalufia, and Governor of this place, has been
ordered to Madrid immediately, as Prefident of the
general Council of War.
" The accounts from Malaga are very melancholy,
upwards of one hundred die daily of the yellow
fever, which has fpread to every quarter of the city.
The Faculty there report, that out of every hundred
who are attacked with the difeafe, fixty-two recover,
and thirty-eight die on an average."

On account of the bad weather yefterday, none of
of the Royal. FAMILY left the Q2een's Lodge,
Windfor.

His Mal Ivry has been gracioufly pleafed to accede
to the application of the Marquis of BLANDFURD, to
raife-a Company of Infantry, to be attached to the
firik battalion of Reading Volunteers, of which the
Marquis is appointed Major.
Captain BASE of the GANNET Hoop, arrived in
town yeflerday with difpatches from Lifbon.
Government are about to appoint a Conful to re.
fide in Egypt.
Lieutenant-Col. DOYLE, Deputy Adjutant Gene-
ral at Canada, is arrived paffenger in the fleet from
Quebec.
n the Bth inflant died at Edinburgh, Tnomas
Pasant-a, Efq. Vice Admiral of the Red.
Yefterday afternoon the Admiralty fent orders to
Portfmouth by the Telegraph for the immediate fail-
ing of the COURAGEUX, Admiral Daces:, with the
Weft India Convoy. To the reports that Admiral
CoartwaxLis had been driven from his Ration off
the French Coati, and that of the Breit Fleet being
at lea, the Telegraphic Difpatch of yefterday after-
noon gives the tnoft dire& contradiltion.
On Monday next' the inth inilant, the different
beacons in the Welt Riding of Yorkfhire will be light-
ed up, in purfuance of an order of the Lieutenancy,
in order that it may be exaCtly afcertained whether
all the beacons in the Riding can be leen from, or
have communication with each other. The beacons
will be lighted precifely at nine o'clock.
Yefterday morning, eighty Hanoverian recruits
(all good looking flout young men) palled through
town on their way from Harwich to Portfmouth, to
join the Qrieen's German Legion now there, confin-
ing of four thoufand men.
A letter from Crondadt to a Gentleman in Edin-
burgh, Rates, that " Rolffi is rigoroufly preparing
for war, and that both Sweden and Denmark will
join againft France, as it is the intention of Boma.
?Astra to take poffeCfion of the entrance of the Sound,
to prevent Great Britain from trading to the Baltic."
Yefterday a Court of DireCtors was held at the
Eaft India Houfe, when Captain W. DomiLDSON
was (worn into the command of the NEPTUNE, def-
tined to China. The Court adjourned at fix o'clock
till Wednefday next.
Du tu.rw u—Yefterday Captain W. of the Navy,
and Capt. C.of the cavalry, met in a field near Hamp-
Read, for the purpofe of fettling an affair of honour.
A nsifunderflanding having taken place, in confe-
gamut of Come altercation that pallid at Drury.lane
Theatre, on the evening of the firft reprefentation of
the Comedy of Hearts of Oak. By the interference
of their friends the quarrel was amicably adjußed.
On Thurfday lag, the Right Hon. the Earl of
CLONMELL. of Trinity College, Cambridge, was ad-
mitted to the honorary degree of Mailer of Arts.
The Cap of Liberty which was placed upon the
top of Pompey's Pillar by the French, as a memorial
of their conqueßs in Egypt, and brought from thence
by the Englifh, has been fufpended, with much In-
!enmity, from the ceiling of the Great Hall in the
Bruins Mnfeum, to be preferred with other monu-
ments of Britint triumph. It is a common red cap,
in the fugar loaf form, and very fimilar to that worn
by the feel in Isswissiwer 1
Yeller day the Duke of Yoaa reviewed the Chelfea
and Pimlico Volunteers, commanded by Lord Ho-
Liar, in the Park.
The night guards of fevers! Volunteer Corps have
been put a Rap to for the prefent s the Royal Weft-
minflcr and the Prince of Wales's Volunteers have
already fufpended the performance of that duty, and
fevetal others are daily expelled to follow that exam-
ple. Field-days have alto been generally agreed to be
difpenfed with until the weather is in a more favour-
able Rate for fueh exercife. There will, however, be
a grand dram fight between fever4l Corps in the
county of Surrey, this day.
Monday being the anniverfary of the feflival in ho-
nour of the founder of the Charter Houle, a fermon
was preached on the occafion by the refident Clergy-
man. After the difcourfe from the pulpit, according
to annual cottons, an Oration was delivered by the
Senior Scholar on the foundation (Mr. lasers), at
which the Lord Chief jullice ELLIN soarroon Mr.
Junice La }have, the Stewards, and the Nobility
and Gentry educated at that feminary, were auditors.
The Aduirefs was diftinguifhed by that corral taße
and pure latinity which has ufually been difplayed on
there oecafions.

Trsaraa ROll4lll Corsttr•Gaansu.—Lah night
the Sew Opera of The Eltryb mid in 1342 was re-
peated to a crowded and genteel audience. There
were fermi mores, and the mufical excellence, Ga-
reth drafts aud decorations, and pitturefquefcenery,
promifc to the author a popularity equal to that en-
joyed by the moR ateraftive of his produaions.
Monday a match againft time took place on th e
Greenwich Road, for too guineas, befides conGderable
bets. Mr. Mitchell, an attorney's clerk, undertook
to walk four miles in 35 minutes. The Gra he eafily
performed within the gi►sn time ;—the fecond with
Tome difficulty t thefe two miles he walked in syl
minutes; the third in sof ; and the fourth in RC—
The time allowed being 35 minutes, he of count 101 l
by half a one. Mr. Mitchell is about the middle
Gse ;he loft about 300 guineas. After the match
a gentleman prefent offeied to bet too guineas to so
that he would wok the fame (Mean is se Islam&