Star.
London, England, 1816-06-27 00:00:00

CRAVr.SEND, JUNE 28.

Arrived the Nancy, Brookes. from Petershurgh ; Mary-Ann,
Paterson, from Harliug ; Augusta Frederica, Wear, from Wis-
' mar; William, Dilinan, from Milan; Son of Lerwkk, Bigland,
from Bergen; Velocity, Stanton, from Bourdeaux. Sailed the
lunge Elizabeth, Blom, fir Antwerp ; Jutia, Kenzie, for
burghs Vrow Jottma, Mulder, for Rotterdam.

CUSTOM-HOUSE, JUNE 45, 46
Snips risrszcn OUTWA RD —The Con, Gamaliel M'Nuft,
.'s for St. Thoma and Cur-ova; Cullom, aftwell. for Boston;
Nee.sta, Alex. Mackenzie. for flamburgla; Merle, Jos Tetti,
for Dunkirk; Charles, Guillaume mont, for Roues': Enter.
prize, Wm. Hutton, for Heligoland; Jane-, William Watson, foe
I.i.bon; Wiilians, Avelrew Hatfield, for riamhurgh ; Midas,
Wm Atkinson lhighaits. for Calcutta ; Vrow Frederica, Own.
Paatevliet, for Rotterdam-24th instant, Klass Partavlift ; the
Phoebe, Thomas Bmsuley, for Bremen; Mary Ann. David Car-
gill, Aurora, Jos. Wilson, Perseverance, W. K. Maughuu, for
Hamburgh; Vrow Alicia. P. H. Zybtra, for Ostend, Bruges,
and Ghent ; Enterprize, Jas. Pryhorough, for Oporto ; Ann and
Eliza, John E. Cowing, for Vigo and ditto—the 25th May for
Oporto only.

A further reduction of clerks in the Navy Office
has taken place within these few days : some of the
individuals thus discharged have been many years in
their respective situations.

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The improved semaphore has been erected nn the
'top of the Admiralty. It consists of ti hollow mast
of SO feet, in which two arms are sus2ended when
not making signals. There is also one erected in
West-square, Lambeth, and in a few days the expe-
riment of communicating to Sheerness will be made.
The following melancholy accidentoccurred lately
at Thurso. As a boat with six men- was pulling
ashore from the brig Vine, DAVIDSON, of Peterhead,
then in Thurso Roads, from Cromarty and Thurso,
wit/ypassengers for Pictou, it was unfortunately up-
when Captain DAVIDSON, a passenger, and a
seaman, were drowned; the remaining dire. men
being with difficulty saved, by a boat from the shore.
PROTECTION AFFORDED AGAINST THE PIRATES..—
Copy of a letter from Mr. BARROW to Mr. BENNETT
at LLOYD'S ,
" Admiralty-018m, June 22.
46 Sot—ln return to your letter of yesterday's dace, transmit.
dog, by desire of the Committee for managing the grain of
Lloyd's, the extract of a letter from their Agent at Malta, rela-
tive to Pirate. in the Morea, I ant commanded by my Lards
Commissioners of the Aluiralty to acquaint you, For the infor-
mation of the Committee, that they have transmitted copies of
the above pipers to Rear-Admlral Sir C. Petticoat, who, they
have no doubt, has already taken measures for the protection of
the trade in that quarter.—l am, Sir, your ,very humble servant,
" Mr. J. Sennett, jun. JOHN BARROW."
REFUTATION op THE PLAGUE ix Noawar.—Copy
of a Letter from the Swedish Consul to Mr. BENNETT,
at Lloyd's: •
4, threat* sa4 Norwegian Consulate Ofiico,
I • Chem St. Helen's June 21, lets. 44 Sot—it having been Ofwmared that tite plague Ims mad, its.
appearance in the WM& of Soodfeord, in Norway, I beg
leave to state, that it is with Infinite satistactiotil ant able, from
°Beim laioesemion, to declare the said tvpert, tp be utterly ass.
founded. 111 ave the boom a be, Sir, your meet obedient
kinibleservant, CUAiLii Verso
is Swedish tuid Norwegian Commit:Font*
" To Mr. Joust Binairr, jun. Utiyd's.
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tali' night avert', *Wining ire title
Lstry s; No. 22; 13uakinghint-Plaie; •#itirOy4
tidal* which entirely Consumed the whole of its va-
Idable contents before the arrival of the engines, whed
.not fortunately its' rairiges were then solely Con;
fined td *here it began. We are htpnY to state that
no lives were lost. The Premises of. Sire
liVery stable-keeper; which art adjOinirig, Mr. Levi's;
and in •which were a number of valtiable horses as
well at a large qnantity of hay and Straw, Most rtsira
culotisly escaped by the activity of the Erenien frOrn
reCeiiin4 the least injury, as did also the other pro:
petty attached V) Mr. LeVet.

ROBBERY .I.2VD
This Morning, between one and two n"cioek, *
desperate gang of Irishmen broke open the house of
Mr. Duscas,. tallow-chandler, Alders-rate.str&t.:—
After phindering the lower part of the°lvrise, they
went up stairs, broke open Mr. Dusc ts's hed-reom
door, pulled hire out of his bed, and rob:ted him of
all the property he had there: they then tied his
hands behind him and dragged him to the staircase,
fastened him to the bannisters, and there left him :
afterwards they went down stairs and set the house
on fire. Mr. DuscAN's cries alarmed the famil:,-, -
who soon relieved him from his perilous
No lives were lost. The house, with all the property,
Is completely destroyed. The anjo;nirig houses out
each side are damaged. We are happy to hear that
two of the Irishmen are taken.

41•0•1•10.11.1.•••••••••••=mg. •
The Doke of YORK is completely. rennoleed. llig
Royal Highness took an airing yesterday for the first
time since his indisposition, and viiited the QUEER
and PRlNeesses.

Yesterday, a little before flee o'clock, Prince
Leoent.n. attended by Sir ROPERT GAttn:Nets,
spected Cumberland House, Pall•.1Qa11, the residence
of the KING'S late brother, the Duke of CI.I4IEIII.AND,
and now used by the Board of Ordn'ance. His Se-
rene Highness was received there by the Earl of
Mutoaliva, the Master. General, and was conducted
over every part of that spacious mansion.
This day, at one o'clock, the Gentlemen Contrac-
tors fora New Lottery waited upon the Clineeet.t.ort
of the EXCHEQUER, by appointment, to bid for the
ensuing Lottery. The following terms.were offered:
and Co. - £l4 1 0
SHEWILL and Co. 14 16 9
CA ULM. aril Cu. a 15 aII
CARRoI. and Co. of course have the LottelT.
The bay season has commenced generally tbiought.
out the kingdom. The late showers have greatly
improved the pouting corn; and the promise or
plentiful crops has seldom been fairer.

Saturday and Sunday there were continued heavy
showers of rain in and about Edinburgh; to the east-
ward, as far as Dunbar, the storm was particularly
severe. The lig!itning struck a house in Prestonpaus,
which it partially damaged, and for a moment stunned
several people who were at work in it, but without
doing Oleos any material injury.
El. ACK/MATH Pcousrntax, (200 DAv)...--EATON
:,as now succeeded i,l zcconsrlisliing, within a few
hours, one-half of his heicedean lni,cur. T,:is morn-
iug, on performinl his 51.15 t mile, he .-11):crved, that
ire felt himself as well as when he fret started, ant
hid no doubt bit that he would, with as much ease,
complete the remainder of his undertaking, which
will not be till the 20th July.
EstiottArzoK.L.There is not a week, scarcely a day,
but a ship leaves some of the many harbours of Ire-
land with a cargo of men, women, and children. The
fcllowing fact spTaks more than Volumes :—Yester.
day se'smight, the Report laid before the Privy
Councirheld in Dublin Castle, of the number ready
to sail tor the Atlantic, amounted to Sixteen Hundred!
Of these 500 sail from Dublin—upwards of 200 in
one vessel from Newry—.s or 600 from Deny and
Belfast, the exporting ports in this trade.
COTTON TRAM—In 176.5, cotton, as an article of
commerce was scarcely known in this country; CART.
WRIGUT obtained his patent a tew years after, la
17g2, the whole proluce of the cotton trade did not
exceed two millions stilling. In 1801, the import of
cotton to Great Britain was 42 millions of lbs. and
the value of that manufactured was £15,000,000.
In 1802, the import was 54 millions of lbs. the raw
material cost 41,000,000. It employs 30,000 tons of
shipping and 2000 seamen. The capital vested in the
mantifacture is .40,01)0,000, and employ is gives to
800 thousand individuals, to whom is paid for wages
£13,000,000.

MoNMorill WOOL FAIR.—The Wool Fair of this
town, which, as it is the first in the surrounding neigh.
bouthuod, has generally been looked up to :is fixing
the price of that ;article for those that succeed it, was
held on Wednesday last. There was a great citiaittity
brought to market, but the fall in price was most
unexpected by the growers ; as the very prime sorts
did not bring more than 225. and inferior only lass
per stone. There were not many buyers from our.
doodling districts; none from Kidderminster; and
few from the mine northern parts of England. In
short, it was a considerable shock to the Agricola'.
rigs, as some of them had refused 275.6 d. per stone,
by private contract, bat a few weeks ago. At Cob.
fort, in this county, the next day, it felt a further de.
pression of Is. per scone. Indeed; though much was
brought there, little was sold, and there were few or,
no buyers.
EDUC4TiON or THE Poon.=-The Committee on
Education has strongly recommended to Parliament
the encouragement ofplans for instructing the poor s 4 of
rlercriptioru," and also the speedy. appointment of a
Parliamentary Commission, for inquiry into the
abuses of chat ;table funds intended for education.—
It is said that the great glaring instances of these
abuses, have incidentally come to light during their
sittings—chiefly from distant parts of the comity—
and it is to be hoped that the returns under Mr.
Witortaster's Bill for Registering Charitable Dona-
tions, will facilitate, during the recess, the labouri of
the Commission; which the Minister. and the House
on Thursday last concurred in thinking, should be
forthwith appointed. The labours of the Committee
have produced a great body of evidet.ce, highly cu-
rious as well as instructive. The Gentlemen who prin-
cipally attended its sittings were Messrs. I3nouona se,
M. A. TAW*, SABBINGTOtfo J. SMITH, J. H.
Sumr,- (Cambridge), GeneraiThoussos, R. War.-
LleiLtY, J. BUTTERWOhTIi, Sir J. JAcKsow, Marquis
of TAVISTOCK, Sir.J. MACKINTOstiI and Mr. WROT-
TESJAY. •