Star.
London, England, 1816-01-23 00:00:00

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The 64th Regiment, commanded by Major PEARS,
passed through Petenfield on the 22d Instant, on the
way to Plymouth. This regiment eimbarked for fo-
reign service the 14th January.lBol, and disembarked
from IFra'nce at Dover die 14th January, 1816, thus
ertatlY compleating a period of 15 years out of
Englaal
WINDSOR, JANUARY 22.

This mining a grand Military spectacle Was exhi-
bited In this town. It being known that a part of the
victors from the battle-of Waterloo were expected at
the 'riot barracks, great numbers of the inhabitants
left the town to meet them on the road ; on foot, on
horseback, and in carriages; the Guards, amounting
to upwards of 6ve hundred, with laurels in their caps,
and with theii hand, were then headed by his Royal
Highness the Duke of YORK, OH horseback, as Colo-
nel of the Ist Regiment of Foot Guards. The QUEEN,
and Princesses AUGUSTA, ELIZABETH and MARY, took
their stations at the windows of her Majesty's house
in Park-street. The military halted when they came
opposite the house and gave three cheers.. The
Duke of Yonk concluded the military to the barracks,
and went afterwards on foot to the Castle; they left
Paris six weeks yesterday.
RAM:if:TATE, JANUARY 110.
Sailed fbr Calais, eleven freight-vessels and four
transports, to bring home troops and horses. Arrived
the Samuel, Juno, and Fomax transports, Mary An-
Itabella, and Charming Molly freight-vessels, from
Calais, with 160 men and horses of the Royal Artil-
lery, with their field-pieces-.—horses, we are happy to
say, all landed it) line condition. The Lord Hill
packet-vessel is said to be put into Dunkirk with the
loss of many hoises. The King George is reported
to be lost, but it is not believed. We learn that several
dead horses have been washed on shore in the neigh-
bourhood of Dunkit k, from which it is feared some
of the freight-vessels or transports have been lost
:altogether.
bos/Inv 21.—Arrived from Ostend the Lord Li
verpool Packet, and Good Statesman troop ship-1
the former with passengers, and the latter with a
number of soldiers of diti;:rmt regiments in charge
ut baggage.
JaxuAny V..—Arrived from Calais the Blucher,
Lively, Ann, and Resolution freight vessels, with
• 1120 fat:a and horses of the Royal Artillery; the
holies are now coming on shore, and appear in a
good state. Sailed last night for Ostend the Prince
of Waterloo Packet, with passengers and goods.—
Arrived three large transports, the Lord -Melville,
Lord Dunconthe, and William Pitt, to be employed
in the conveyance of troops to Ireland.

The pretended confidential cofiemunicalioa from Lord
CASTLI.REAGH to his friends, upon the measures in-
tended to he proposed in Parliament, and copied by
us from a Morning Paper, proves to be a forgery.
Diwtches were received on Sunday at the Fo-
reign Office. from Paris, which were forwarded to
Lord CASTLEREAGH, who sent them to the Earl of
LlvEatrooL.

Mr. CANNING, we understand, is expected to ar-
rive from Lisbon in the month of March. We are
happy to learn that the health of Mr. CANNING'S son
is considerably improved;

FIRES.—This morning, between two and three
o'clock, a dreadful fire broke out in the stables be-
longing to Mr. WILSON'S coal wharf, Duwgate, which
soon communicated to the adjoining warehouses,
which were burnt to the ground, together with several
barges, waggons, and carts. The horses were all got
out safe, and we do not learn that any human livis
were lost.

Tuesday night, an alarming fire broke out in the
farm steading of Mr. TURNBULL, Crichton, near
Edinburgh, which raged with unabating fury, from
nine to twelve at night ; and we regret to say, that
one side of the square was burnt down, and sixteen
cattle lost.

Wednesday morning, about one o'clock, a dread-
ful fire broke out in the extensive cabinet and carpen-
ter's shops of Messrs. ROIEBT WADDILL and Son,
Stockwell street, Glasgow. The flames, aided by a
strong gale from the south-west, communicated from
the work-shops; which stand on the south side of a
court of thirty feet wide, to an extensive range of
buildings, belonging to the same Company, on the
north side, and occupied as a dwelliag house and
warehouses, whereby the whole premises, nearly all
the made work, a great quantity of wood, and all the
workmen's tools, were destroyed ; one of the pro-
prietors and his family narrowly escaped with their ,
lives, leaving every thing behind except the night-
clothes they wore at the time.
The African Expedition, now fitting out to explore
the source of the River Comm, reminds us of a pas-
sage in Swift': Gulliver, where the whole body of
learned men in a kingdom were employed in plans
to ascertain the imaginary wealth of other climate:,
while•foteigners were running away with the sterling
riches 11 their own country ; and so it may happen
now, for while many are indulging in the fancied
'possession of African ore, the foreign orders, to secure
a share in the mine of standard gold, ready coined
into English guineas, now in the wheel of Forbore,
are immense, and without an immediate purchast,
they may run away with the Two Prizes of 25,000
Guineas. the Two Prizes of £20,000, &c. with
which the present Lottery abounds, as it begins
Drawing 14th February, being Valentine's Day, and
there are not Two Blanks to a Prize I

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

MAIL'S.

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•11. DUE. AIR. nut.
Dublin - . . 0 1 Litbon - 0 u
Waterford . hz -
0 0

Gursmey and Jersey 0 0 i MAIL' - 0 •
.io►hnd 0 0 Elimbargh 0 1
'`ice - - 0 1 I Flanders - - 0 0

FALMOUTH, JANUARY 20.
Arrived the American ship Howland, Captain
ilowLaND, from Chrrlesto Nn order,; Jane, Cap.
rain Sniverri, from London ; Shat:n.o, Captain
M'lwrostt, from Cower for the Medit:erranezn, with
fish.--Put back the George packer, with the Mails
for Surinam.—Wind S.
PORTSMOU CH, JANUARY 22.

Arrived the Mary, Fox, fr:)m
sailrd his Majesty's ships BRAZE, 4.1 Barb does;
and SaLisn: rtv, for the West 1 ..iies ; and Alert)
Me.vEtts, tur Londnn.—Wind S E.

DEAL, *JANU ARY 21.

Sailed this molting the Butcn, Dace,!, f-r a I
Kiddington, Swisxy, tor J anaic4 ; and mist of the
outward-bound, except the Hon. Company's Sbi;.s,
they all remain.—Five o'clock, the wind has teLaed
back again to die S. W. and the outward bound are
coming back.—Wind S. E.

MARGATE, JANUARY 22.
The brig Lyra, of North Shields, SYMONDS master,
from Ostend, got on shore yesterday oa raa:ness
dock, bi assistance from hence was got off with.
out Mucremage.

HARWICH, JANUARY 22.
' Arrived the Earl of Leicester packet, with a Mail
from Cuxhaven. The Elbe having become free from
ice, 53 vessels proceeded bp from Cuxhaven fir
Hamburgh on Friday last, the day the pachA

EXMOUTH, JANUARY 2t.
The William and Mary, Baamarr, from Sunder-
land, struck on the Rocks in coming ever the Bar
this morning. She has been hove off, hut makes a
great deal of water. She had previously cut from
her anchors.

Sunday morning, about seven o'clock, seven Cus-
tom-house officers, at Worthing, proceeded to sea in
a boat, on the look out for a smuggling vessel. The
violence of the breakers unfortunately upset the boat,
and five of the party met with a watery grave. Tveo
of them were saved with great difficulty by clinging
to the boat. Three of the bodies have been picked up.
Monday se'nuight the jelly.boat of the INCONSTANT
was pulling off to that ship at Si:ithead, against a
heavy swell of the tide (the effect of a subsided
southerly gale, which had blown all day), when her
broadside fell towards the tide, and she instantly
filled and went down. Mr. Watts, a very proseisieg
young Gentleman (son of Culonel Watts, (..f Ro-
chester), and four seamen, wi ra unfortunately
drowned. Two wherries instantly put off front t! e
Sally Port, not tar from which the accident hap-
pened, but they were nor successful in rendering any
assistance. The body of ene of the seamen has been
since picked up.
On the I 1 di tilt. Mr. Macdonald, younger, of
Rhue, and three set rants, having se. out from Ari-
seig, ter Knoydett, by sea, their bon suddenly struck
on a hidden rock, in a herd gale, ueJ was placed on
her beam mire In veil perilous situatien, Mr. Met-
donald and his men clung to the guiowele, but pet-
ceiving that they could not all, without
danger, remain in this situation, he left the wreck,
and getting hold of the !suet's oars, by which he sup-
ported himself, he swam ashore, after being two
hours in the water. Scarcely bad ne left it, when the
boat was seen by persons on oi:re to sink, and the
three servants were unfortunately lost.
EXPEDITION TO AFRICA.—In our next pege will
be fund some information on this subject, to w: ich
the following may be considered as a sequel :
A trial of the Cone) was made on Friday, which
did not answer expectation, and yesterday was fixed
for another trial. The morning proved levoureble,
and by eleven o'clock the Port Admiral, Sir Home
Poenau, Sir EDWARD TUCKER, Captain Teceee,
and several other Naval Officers., assembled on board
the CONGO to witness the experiment. The steam-
boat, lightened of her lockers, masts, and riggieg,
made her way much better on this than on the first
day. She drew from four feet three to four feet six
inches of water, and went for the most part at the
rate of five miles and a half in the hour. She
started from off Deptford Lock-yard, at a few
minutes after twelve o'clock, against tide, and pro-
ceeded at the rate above-mentioned, up to Lime-
house Reach, when she turned, and came down with
the stream. She again ascended, and Sir Hoots now
proposed, that they og should carry her up to the
Admiralty at once," as it was supposed at low-water
means might be found to get her through the bridgc.
The funnel, however, which conveys the smoke from
the fuel consumed to work the steam-engine, pre-
sented an obstacle to this, and the design was aban-
doned. The vessel continued to manmuvre beau et.
Greenwich and Limehouse, till bet Been three and
four o'clock in the afternoon. During this time, the
paddles of the wheels by which it is worked Were
moved repeatedly, but, the progress of vessel lees
never more rapid than above described. Though
the CONGO went much better yesterday than on
day, the experiment served but to confirm the appree
pensions previously entertained. Since it is proved
that her masts, rigging, &c. removed, she will not
draw less than four feet three inches of water, nit go
more than five miles'and a half in an hour, it follows,
that carrying what she must carry, when transported
to Africa (tor it is not to be supposed she can pro-
ceed empty, to accomplish the ultimate objects of the
expedition), her draught cannot be sufficiently small,
nor her velotity sufficiently great, to answer the pi,.
pose fur which she was constructed.—ln our optilen,
this experiment only proves that the vessel intended t r
the object in view is nit wide enough—perhaps, also,
she is ton short. We hesitate not to say, that her bulk,
her thickness, and her capacity being known, her
draught of water might have been ascertained within
two inches, by mere calculation. It requires no
witchcraft to ascertain that every floating vessel
must displace a volume of water equal to her own
weight : therefore, to gain the object in view, cepa-
city should be given to the vessel in breadth, riot in
depth. Nothing can be more certain, than that a
vessel of the required tonnage and draught of water
may be constructed, if the requisites of science be
only attended to.