Star.
London, England, 1820-05-08 00:00:00

DI VIDF.NDS to he made in the COUNTRY.

June 1,, M. Burro-agh, New Sarum, banker, at eleven, at
the White Hart. New Sarum. June 1, W. tobinson, jun.
Spotland, Lancashire,. dealer in coals, at eleven, at the New
Inn, Blackburn. June 1, W. Robinson, sen. late of Craggs,
Lancashire, deale.. in malt, at eleven, at the Ntw Inn, Black-
hurn. May 31, W. Nicholls, Huntingdon, sack and rope-
maker, at eleven, at the Fountain Inn, 1-funtingdon. May 30,
G. Ridge, Reading, millwright, at eleven, at the George Inn,
Reading.

Account of Bank Notes and Bank Post Bills in
circulation in the first week of May :
Bank Notes of £5 and upwards - - 16,344,710
Bank Post Bills - - - - - 1,549,810
Bank Notes under £5 - - - 6,71701140

Total - - XE4,612,1%1

At the last annual spew of auriculas, at Canter..
bury, the first prize was won by Mr. WINCH, for the
Lancashire Hero; the second by Mr. BURCH, of
Faversham, for Hedges's Britannia; the third by Mr.
AUSTIN, for the Duchess of Oldenburgh ; and Page's
Britannia bore away the fourth.

AFRMA.—The account of the Travels of M. Mot.-
LIEN in the interior of Africa, just published by Mr.
Bowmen, will be perused with considerable satis-
faction. This is, we believe, the first attempt au-
thorised by the Government of France, for enlarging
the bounds of geographical science in this interest-
ing country. Combining much positive information
respecting the Countries and Nations which he visited,
with much perst.snal adventure, he has produced 2
work more pleasing than if it had consisted entirely
of the former, and more valuable than if the
had exclusively confined himself to the latter.

Advices from Batavia to the middle of December
last have been received. The Dutch had made two
very desperate attempts, but without success, to
retake a place of considerable importance on the
Island of Sumatra, which had fallen into the hands
of the natives, by whom the European residents had
been most inhumanly massacred. In the last attack
some ships of war succeeded in getting within fire
of the fort ; the natives poured in a heavy discharge
of musketry and great guns, and set fire to nearly
100 bamboo houses, which, floating down the cur-1
rent, carried destruction among the vessels.
A letter from an Officer of his Majesty's ship Bit
Lorre, dated Bermuda, March 17, 1820, says—
" We have just arrived from our cruize In search of the Ve-
nezuelan squadron, who have plundered the English vessels
Amicus and Flying Fish. We learned from the brig of war El
Congress() de Venezuela, that the attack on Cumana was to
take place immediately, and that they would not even wait the
arrival of General D'livzszvx, so sanguine were they as to their
ultimate success, as Meaux° would be obliged to retreat into
the fortress of Porto Cabello. The Non-Intercourse Act, im-
Pc'seck by the United States between Bermuda and Halifax, will
ruin those places for a while—and we consider it as, a measure
equal to a declaration of war."
On the 17th ult. the CASTLE Coors cutter, Lieu-
tenant JOHN EtwiN, captured, in the Sound of Inish-'
tubol, the very fine copper-bottouied American
schooner Sweep, laden with tobacco, of about nine
thousand pounds value, together with her crew of
I ten men : the capture was made by the boats, under
the command of the first Mate, Mr. THOMAS HARDY,
at about twelve miles distance from the cutter. This
is the second schooner the CASTLE Coon has taken
I within these five months. •