Star.
London, England, 1818-03-04 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

'The Paris PApers of tiandayarrived this morning;
but contain scarcely any thing worthy of notice.
The Chamber of Peers are still occupied with the
discussion of the Project of Law on Recruitment,
The Tribunal of Correctional Police has sentenced
one ESNEUX, the author of a pamphlet, entitled—
" Reflections on the Process of M. Gamma," to
three months of imprisonment, and a fine of fifty
francs. A second edition of the Answer to the Speech
of Lord STANHOPE, on the Occupation of France by
a loreign Army, has been seized by the Police. In
an article from Cassel, the rumoured alliance between
the Duke of CLARENCE and a Princess of Denmark
is discredited ; since a negotiation is actually affirmed
Ito be on fOot for the marriage of his ROYAL HIGH-
' NESS to•, the third and youngest of the Princesses of
Hesse-Cassel, the daughter of the LandgraVe Fnnos•
RICK, second brother of the ELECTOR.—French Five
per Cents. Saturday, 67 f. 25 c.

Yesterday the Duke of CLARENCE visited the
PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton House.
Yesterday the Dukes of CLARENCE and Sussex,
and the Prince Of Hesse ROMBERG, visited her MA-
JESTY, Princesses AUGUSTA, ELIZABETH, and the
Duchess of GLOUCESTER. In the evening her MAJESTY
had a select party.
Yesterday his Serene Highness the Prince of Hessit
Home Efto received visi ts from the Marquis ANGLESEA,
Sir H. Toenems, Colonel GRAHAM, Captain JONES,'
Aid-de-Camp to the Duke of CUMBER I AND, Lord
BURGHERSII, Sir GEORGEWARRENDER, Earl Mourn.-
EDGCUSHIE, the Marquis of HERTFORD, &c.
The Duchess of Yoeic entertained a fashionable cir-
cle yesterday evening, at Godolphin-house, St.J ames's.
The dinner given. on Monday, on the occasion of
the Duchess of CUMBERLAND'S birth-day, was of the
most sumptuous description. Gold and silver plate
was in immense profusion, and the dining-room was
most brilliantly illuminated. The Primus REGENT,
the Prince of Hesse ROMBERG, all the Ministers of
State, and most of the Foreign Ambassadors, were
present.

A very elegant Waltz and Quadrille Ball was given
on Monday evening by the Countess of Caernarvon,
at her residence in Lower Grosvenor-street.

Ktro's TlLT:stns.—The whole of the perform.
antes went off last night with infinite eclat. Among
the distinguished fathionables present were noticed:
Dukes, Gloucester, Argyle; Duchesses, Marlborough: Ar-
gyle; Marquis Winchester; Marchionesses, Winchester, An..
giesey, Lansdown and daughters; Lords, De la Zouch, Graves,
Ashburnharn, t lonmell, Hardwicke, .eui.sgton; Normanton,
Bentinck, Templeton, Lowther, Amherst,H Yarmouth; Ladies,
Leicester, Dalrymple, Vernon. Ashburnharn, Stewart, Liddle,
E. Palk and &nesters, Hardwicke, Murray, C. Lamb, Pratt,
Asgill, Abdy, Ellenborough and daughters, Aboyne and
daughter, El sington, Paget, Bloomfield, F. W. Wilson,
Spencer; Sir, J. Leycester, T. riddle, J. Murray, W. Abdy,
R. Bolton, C. Asgill, Bamfylde, A. Clifton, J. Leach;
Messrs. Byng, Orby Hunter; Mrs. Byng, Mrs. Orby Hunter.
Wednesday se'nnight, as Mr. SIMPSON, Steward to
Major HART, of Castlemilk, was returning from
Dumfries, in company with a Mr. Jonnston, he wis
unfortunately drowned in attempting to cross the ri-
ver Annan, at a point called the Williarnwath Ford.

LAMENTABLE CATASTROPHE—The following mot
distressing accident happened at Tewkesbury, on Si.l
turday :—As Lieutenant RICHARD BRYDOES, Royal
Navy, with his Brother THOMAS, a Midshipman, and
his youngest brother CHARLIS
,(all sons of Mr.
Bftvoozs, of that borough) accompanied by Lieute-
nant BUTCHER, Royal Wavy, were sailing in a plea-
sure boat upon the river Severn. about midway be-
tween the Upper and Lower Lodge !a sudden gust
upset the boat ; and, melancholy to relate, the whole
of them were drowned, with the exception of Mr.
Turmas Bayuozs, who, with very great difficulty,
(owing to the strength of the current, occasioned by
the flood) got to the shore in a most exhausted state.
Mr. BRYDGES had sailed down the river, from
Tewkesbury, with a party, but had gone on shore at
the Upper Lodge, to await their return, and got re-
freshments provided for them ; and thus probably he
escaped the dreadful fate which, in a few minutes,
overtook his unfortunate children and their friend !
Lieutenant BRYDGES was in his 26th year, was a
most enterprising and excellent Officer, and gave fair
promise of proving an ornament to that service in
which he had been attentively and constantly em-
ployed fur fifteen years. He and his brother had just
returned from long voyages, and neither of them had
arrived from Plymouth many days. Every effort to
find the bodies of Lieutenant BRYDGES and his bro-
ther proved unavailing ; but that of Lieut. BUTCHER
was picked up on Sunday morning.
CALAMITOUS FIRE IN THE STRAND.—Yesterday
evening an Inquisition was taken at the Cannon public-house, in
Hungerford-street, Strand, on view of the bodies of Mrs. Basta
Wszaaaeg, the wife of Mr. WIIZATER, grocer, corner of Henries-
court, Strand; Janus TASKER, the shopman; and Journ Brom
cis, the apprentice, who lost their lives in the melancholy fire
on Sunday morning. The Jury being sworn, went to take a
view of the bodies, which lay at St. Martin's Workhouse; the
shopman was in a shell by himself; be was nearly covered with
blood; the bodies of Mrs. Wheater and the apprentice were in
another shell, but they were so dreadfully burned that their bo-
dies could not be distinguished with any accuracy.--A long inves-
tigation took place, but no new fact transpired in addition to the
account we gave on Monday.—A Gentleman stated, that it was
Mr. Wheatley's earnest request, founded on the advice of his
Physician, that he might not be called on to give evidence, as
such a proceeding would, in all probability, prove fatal to hint.
The Coroner, in summing up, regretted that they could not
ascertain the cause of the fire, and expressed a hope that in fu-
ture the watch would be better regulated, as he thought there
had been some inattention of the men on that duty.—The Jury
then returned a verdict of Accidental Death by a fall for J.
Teske, ; and Accidentally Burnt to Death for Mrs. Wheater
and Josepb Sturgeon.
In the course of the investigation, William Perry, a fireman,
said, he was at the fire by ten minutes past six o'clock ; he saw
no ladder when he arrived, nor for some time after; there was
no water for nearly an hour ; it was nearly half an hour before
the key of the engine.house was got, and one of the parish en-
gines was incapable of being used, being out of repair.
A great number of respectable females in the vicinity of the
Strand remain ill in consequence of the fright occasioned by the
above calamity. In the case of the wife of Mr. Jacescor, of VB.
lier's-street, it has proved fatal : that lady was among the first
persons attracted to the spot, and arrived just in time to see the
unfortunate Mrs. WHEAT= traversing ber room in a state of dis-
traction, with her child in her arms, the moment before she threw'
it from the window, and was herself shortly after enveloped in
the flames. Mrs. Jackson returned home in a state of great agi-
tation and distress, in which she continued during the remainder
of the day, and at three o'clock on Monday morning she expired
in a fit of epilepsy—she was previously in good health.