Star.
London, England, 1817-08-21 00:00:00

THE ARMT.

Monday. a part of the 6th Dragoon Curds left
Piershill rr.cks. •4r Edinburgh. on their route to
Englan•' ; ant A p•rt of the Scots Greys arrived to
replace them.
The Saadi Harbour Gazette of June 24411 says
1111).. It Cl b. d Ir"m several Gentlemen.
.ire lii. gston, Upper Canada, we learn
that ti r ilitary an.' .iv I torc., with the exception
of one comoany and a few marines, have orders to
repit to 4ontre.4l. where, it is believed, they have
orders to embark I r Europe."

DAVID WALK KR. Esq. has betn nominated by tht•
Corpor.tion of Gloucester, Mayor of that City for
the en alit.? year.
HosHou•a, Esq having succeeded Josh..
BECKETT, Esq. al the Home Department, is quitting
his use in Minter street for that in Grosvenor-

place. inhabited by the M irchhnecs of BUCKING-
HANVIIIRIE G MAULE, Esq. w' o has succeeded
Mr H .11W.CSE of Solicitor to the Treasury, is quit-
ting his house at Earl's court, for one nearer to
Whiteh 11

Mr. !AMMAN /...s mile purchased a part of
the lir ellesley estate, in the count v of Meath : that
Gentleman has bought the Moyare estate; the Dan-
? -a other valuable estates in Meath have not
been sold.

T.
Anniversary of the Wellingborough Branch
BPsle S ci-ty was very fully and respectably attended
on Tcesday last, and a larger collection made in aid
of the- f: tads than the preceding year : a Report was
read o, t' e Committee's proceedings, whereby it ap-
peared tNat the town had been re-surveyed for the
purpose of affordi g a still further supply of Bibles,
&c. and that some considerable villages, as Wallas.
ton, Boa-..t, and others, had been aided with boriks
from the Society.
• On the lYth instant, the Annual Meeting of the
Wilts British and Foreign Bible Society was held at
the Town Hall, Devizes; T. G. EsTcouftr, Esq.
M. P. filled the Chair, and the friends of this belie.
vol E.. l•istitution attended in great numbers. Among
the sl.eake►s were the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, the
Rev. Dr. STEINKOFP, bind the Rev. Jo,EPli HVGIIES.
MUcl, good has, it appears, already resulted from the
efforts ol this auxiliary Society, and increasing utility
is expected from the continued zeal of its active
agents, and from the respectably patronage by which
it is suppot ted.
On the sailing .•f the French Expedition for Egypt
from Malta, under BONAPARTE, the fleet was inten-

tionally dispersed, in order to arrive without being
noticed. They had no sooner left hlalta titan they
learned that NsLsom had penetrated their design, and
was in pursuit of them. Lapecting every hour to be
cum up with. and Wing too weak to risk a combat.
it was the resolution. of BONAPARTS and the rest of
the persons on board the L'Orient, to blow her up
rather than be taken prisi•ners; but that the memory
of those who perished might he preserved, and their
features kn..wn to posterity., BONAPARTE caused the
portrots.of eighteen 'o be taken on two sheets of
paper, and to be rolled up, put in b.ittles, and corn.
wiped to the wavts The names of the pers ns are:
Firs Wowing —Mods dead; Bonaparte; Bgrthi, r,. dead ;
'kW*. dead ; Drury*, dead; Dahmer, dead; ?stooge; and
Bertboltet.

neared Drawing —ttatnpon; Murat, dead ; hng, dead;
Lone., End; Rapier, dead; Belliard; Deftest:us; sundials-
atal, dead; Catoctin, dead; Larry.
'Thus ut ;he eighteen, elertm are now nu mere. The
portraits are executed in mei:l.'ll;ons, in India ink. and
sow ornament the study ol Barnn LANEY, at Paris.

At the marriage of Monsieur, the C unt d'Awr•
the city i.l Paris, by his 14.1)a1 Highness's d, sire.
agreed to distribute, as marriage portions, to a cer-
tain number of young women, the money usually ex-
tended on fire-A inks and other transient demosistra-
tions of festivity. A smart little girl, of 16. named
Lise Noirin, having presented herself to inscribe her
name oil 'he list, was asked who was her Leer ?
•• 0 1" .4 d she, with great " I have no
lover; I thought the city furnioied every thing "
This answer created much mirth I and in the event
a husband was found for her.

A poor French tailor, who was extremely jealous
of his rib, I itely received into his hands, by mistake
as he supposed, a love letter addressed to his wife.
He mein up to his workshop with the treasure, but
scam ly had he opened it when a detonati n took
place, which deprived him of the use of his right
hand. The Police of Paris are in search in the wan-
ton perpetrator of this serious crime. It was effected
by means of detonating silver.
Monday se'nnight the Bath Anti CI toting Society
furnished each master chimney sweeper in that city
with A machine for sweeping chimities for the use of
the public. The next day the Sooty Gentry went round
the town in a body, displaying their new insignia,
ornamented with eibands, and accompanied with
Mutt, to the gratification of numerous spectators, who
liberally rewarded the poor boys. We should be
glad to hear of such exhibitions becoming general.
Mime-Lanz Tintams.--The preparations for
. die sc-opening of this l'heatre have been material,
extensive,_and rapid. The whole space before the
curtain has been embellished and improved. The,
seats throughout the boxes have been new covered.
The colouring and ornaments of the several circles
have been changed : instead of the surrounding green
Which cast its sickly nod jealous hue on the cheeks
and countenances of the fair spectators, A lighter and
gay. r complexion is given. The ground is French
gray, variously and tasttfuily ornamented, while the
general and predominating colour is a delicate and
beautiful pink : but the most remarkable, perhaps,
and certainly the most valuable alteration, has been
effected in a new and liberal accommodation for the
half.pi ice visitors. Instead •.f being kept on the cold
paved floor, where they used to wait otten in tedious
expectation of the time of admittance, they will at
once be introduced by an easy and elegant ascent of
new stairs on each side of the principal box entrance
to the grand saloon, where they may remain until the
time of half-price. It then becomes open to all the
box company The saloon itself will exhibit a strik-
1g improvement in its parts, disposition, and general
appearance. Instead of the large sofas and couches
doti Muted generally on the floor, seals are placed
much mote commodiously at the sides, while the new
ttaircate at etch end is elegantly canopied by a
Chinese cupola, another of larger dimensions being
elevated in the centre, and the whole is to be bail-
It., ,thy illuminated. The alterations and improve.
h•,-us are to be completed by the sth of neat math,
w:..4.11 is itN d t v ;he opening of the neat,.

NAVAL

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MAlLS—ata. DUI. an. OM
Dublin . . . 1 0 Franco •. • 1 0
Waterford . . 1 0, Hatso,stals •• 0 2
Guernsey and Jersey 0 1 Owenburgb •• 0 2
Lisbon . - . 0 0 Fkn lers . • . 0 0
Holland . . . o 1 Malta ... . 0 0
&n:& • • - 0 0 • Jamaica . • • 0 0
FALMOUTH. AUGUST IS.
Arrived the Princess Charlotte packet with a mail
from the Leeward Islands, %days from St.Thomas's,
,nd the Providence, Coastal, from Gibraltar. The
Packet fell in with several vessels on the borders of
the Channel, endeavouring to beat to the Westward.
the 1:)IIowing packets are detained here by contrary
winds—Marquis Salisbury, for Jamaica ; Saittsure,
for New York and Halifax; and the Manchester, for
the Brazils.—Wind S.W.
PaRTSMOUTH, AUGUST 00.
S iiled the Good Statesman, Benevolent, and Quest
lansports, for Chatham; Cesar, TAYLOR, for Lon-
don ; and his Majesty's ship Tim on a crutze. The
latter has brought up again.—Wind S.W.