Star.
London, England, 1817-05-03 00:00:00

AMERICAN PAPERS.

New York and Philadelphia Papers to the 246,
136ston to the Aida, and Halifax td the 27th March,
have reached us.

The ➢aton Papers of the 25th mention the arrival
of a vessel, in 19 days from St. Croix, with intelli-
lence that a French frigate, with a tender, arrived
at St. Thortias's on the 18th February. and sailed
the 22.1, on a cruise for Carthagenian privateers, on
account of some depredations committed on the
French flag.
On the 20th March, the Spanish Consul at New.
York published a Notice, that 44 In pursuance of a
Royal Proclamation of his Catholic Majesty, hearing
date the 27th October, 1816, the introduction into
the kingdom of Spain of all and every description of
foreign manufactures composed wholly or in part of
cotton, is totally and strictly prohibited."

of The Russian Minister, M. Daslikoff (says the.
Baltimore. Patriot) has been recalled by his Govern-
ment, with marks of the Emperor's displeasure, fur
the. agency he assumed in favour of the Consul
Kosloff, who was arrested in obedience to our laws,
for a violation of the same."

The British brig Mary has. arrived at Charlston
from Kingston, with 160,000 dollars in specie.
Petion's squadron, consisting of a ship of 24 guns,
a brig of 14, a schooner and a tender, left Aux
Cayes on a cruise the 13tb January, and gave out they
expected and desired a meeting with Christophe's fri•
gate and brig which was said to have put to sea in
pursuit of them.
Eleven transperts from Cadiz, with troops, under
convoy of the Spanish frigate Sabina, arrived at Ha-
vanna the Sd March.
The Bogie ammertial Casette of the 24th of March
contains the provisions of a most important law, which
may be termed the •' Navigation Act". of America.
'nit avowed object of this measure is to protect the
shipping interest of the UaiteJ States, by excluding
all other nations trom a competition in the carrying
trade with American vessels and seamen. The fol-
lowing are briefly the provisions of the Act

t. No goods :o be Insponed into the UnttrdSistes,eicept In sew
eels the property of elk Cidsros °Mose States or of the meanie-
of which those goads are the grow*, redoes, or manntanare.
t. lo all saws of costaireation of the preceding ankle, the Air
sad carp tis be emanated. . . •
S. bounties and allowances POW granted to Sehing-boata to be
refired to all but those of plkb the oincers and thrad-foorths of

the erew are eaisraa et die United Seams. •

4. The cresting trade Is confined to nathe vessekand mans%
A tower duty Is imposed upon Vessels, anises belong*
to the Unita States, which "ball eater a pen Inane distrkt from
a poet in another district. (This is subject to excepdone.) . .
6. A toonage•duty is levied co Awning vessels erriving from
harks ports, unless two-tblrds of the crew be citizens of the
United States.

ma principle of the British -Navigation Laws has
thus been attempted to be adopted in America t' but
there is one sulking contrast between the countries,
which must produce a great difference in the opera-
tion of clauses, however similarly framed end ex-
pressed. When the English Parliament passed the
Navigation Act, the Dutch were the general carriers
of Europe; and the immediate consequence of the
new measure was to substitute for the vessels of the
United Provinces, English vessels as carrier. of Eng-
lish commerce. We I-now not what catrying trade.
the American Congress has aimed at overturning I
certainly not that of Great Britain and Ireland, lot
since the peace they have canied none but native
manufactures or commodities; and the merchantmen 1
:)fall nations are still permitted, by this recent Act of
Congress, to eater the American ports with goods
the growth, produce, or nutnefacture of the Bute
which the yowls belongs

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tridiy seinn;ght npwardi of on men halm diffellmt
iegitiients serving in France, arrived at
Deput, Fort Pit,Chatitam. • ' •'

Monday, the Depot bf the 88th regiment Marched
from Chatham Barracks, to Dover, where it is mt-
pected the regiment will shortly arrive Won India.
The 18th regiment (Royal Irish) lately arrived at
Rochester. and for the present quartered in that city,
is to do duty at Chatham Barracks.

Saturday Jonathan Mhz belonging to the West
Norfolk Militia, was committed to the House of,
Correction at Stecles, for offei-ing to serve as a sub-
stitate in the East Suffolk Militia, and for that par-
pose receiting a shilling earnest and going to a Stirl
peon to be examined. in the count of the enquiry
it appeared that he had done so befofc at Ipswich,
and had then been cdminitted for two months IMpri-
sonment ; on this account the Magistrates sentenced
him to the full penalty of the law—six months.

Yesterday his Royal Highness the NMI RIGiNT
honoured the EArl and Countess. of Maxanunuon.
by dining At Mrzbnrough House. Piccadilly, when a
elect party of the first diltinction were invited on
the occasion.

Yesterday being the Anniversary of the Marriage
of the Princess Cuattcorra with Prince Lanka()Lu,
the day was festively observed at Clermont, and a
number of the' Nobility and Gentry vi*e invited,
among whom were—
The Duke and Duchess of York, the Austrian Ambartador,
the Bavarian Minister, Lord and I.ady Cattlereagh, Msrquis of
Meese*, Earl of Lauderdale, Lord Ashbronk, the Couac and
Duns-fess ad Limn, Lady Harrowby, Lord burthersh, Lady
Susan Ryder, Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner, Baron de lust,
Madame de Lochar, Miss Mercer, Dr. Short, Ate.

The DOCIIKA OF GLOCCESTER....-We are extremely,
happy to say that the Bulletin issued yesterday by
Dr. &aux, respecting the state of the Duchess or
Gam:cams, was of a very favourable nature, viz.

41 Monomer Horse. May 2.
• *" Her Royal Highness the Dithers of (Moue••uer ha4l several
boors steep last night. and Is better this tanning."
Her Royal Highness was more Ire! irum pain yes.
terday than she has been since her attack. The Duke
of Yoax, the Princess ELlZAertu, and the Princess
SoebtA of GLoucarrtit, visited their Royal relative.
The Qum and the PIIINCit REGKNT sent early in the
morning• to make inquiries, and teceive reports from
the Doctor. The inquirers at Gloucester House were,
as usual, numerous.

Yesterday Vitcount Camrnimon had a long au-
dience of the Puma Ritoser at Carlton House.

On Thursday the Duke of WeLtisovna had a
inng interview with. the EAT! of LivsnrooLeind Lord
CASTLEREACIIIt at Tile House.

Lady Coontsotoor's root, on Wednesday last, in
Charles.itreet, lierkeley-squsre, was attended by a
host of fashion and elegAtice.
The Countess of Pottrsmouvu'sball in Harley-street,
on the same evening, was given to a juvenile circle.

The Duchess of BigDFORD arrived in 1-14milton•
place yeaerday, preparAtury t.; her Grace's accoacht-
matt. which is shortly expected.

The Duke of Newslasti.s and family, we are
happy to say, are consiclerably recovered.
Tl•e Earl and Countess Mmrr.;y left town yester-
day morning, from- Kent-house, en the Klusington-
road, in order to pruceeddievel to Pais, where they
have taken a house for six months, and thence they
go to the South.
LADY W A RRENDEReS PARTT.- Her Ladyship gave
her first entertainment at her residence in the Admi-
ralty; on Thursday evening. The three drawing-
rooms were brilliantly lighted up, and ornamented
in a suitable manner. The company began to arrive
at ten o'clock. It wai a very select circle, in which
were the following :
Several Foreign Wasters, Duchess of Richmond and the La-
dies Lennox, Duchess et Lomas mid Laq Osborne, Marchioness
of Salisbury and the Countess of %Vesttusath, Earl and Countess
of Class, kart of Westmorland, Lord mid Lady Burghersh,
Lord and Lady I. Thruse Countess of Harrowny sod Lady
Susan Ryder, Counties of Bathurst and Lady Georgian 1 auburn,
Lord Cranburue, Mr. and Mrs. Arbuthnot, Lady Keith, anJ
Miss Eleibinstoue Mercer.

LADY Sbi&TIN Asserasur.—On Thursday night
her Ladyship opened her magnificent house on the
'retrace, in Piccadilly. l'he Whole of the superb
apartments (fitted up in all the costly variety of the
Grecianicostume, and enriched with Ottoman coaches,
and ewer tables ut burnished guld) were illuminated
by a prolusion of chandeliers and lamps. The match-
less mirrors, occupying the partitions, had a magni-
ficent effect ; they extruded from the ceiling to the
ground. The company arrived betvieen tea and
eleven o'clock, and departed at two in the morning.
'There were prkser.t abcut SOO persons, comprising
assay first-rate fashionable*, and among them were—
Lord Sklrawth and the Mies Addington, Earl and Countess
of Pallet, Lady Mary Yowler, Countess of klurniantas, Sir
and Lady Eraser, Marchioness Curuwalhs and tie Ilb-
aa•Cornwallis, Lady rind Miss Belford; Earl and Countess of
Bridgewater, Mr. and Mn.: Orby Hooter, Marchioness ut Lass.
down and the Misses Oi!laid, Mr. and Mrs. Siainope, Lord
end Lady Henniker, Countess of Aihhurnhani, t:ord and Lady
Enninnore, Sad of Orford, and the ladles Walpive, Lord Al.
tAurps, Mr: and Ike P. Smith, Lady Amherst, asd Lady H.
W-nalsor, Lady and Miu Pat.%

: • Duet..-+A deal took place• yesterday thorning, at
-Chalk Fusin, between a Lltutenant Bu—Ku and
Lieutenant Sua-.uo—u, en halt-paY, in. continerice
of A dispute a the'Cavendish 'Looms, Mary-la.bunne,
the night before, Atter an exchange of shuts, without
egret, the seconds endeavoured to effect a tecol.tifiaz
Lion, and we understand an apology was offcred to
Lieutenant B. which be, however, did not consider
satisfactory. They again fired, when Lieutenant B.
bras severely, it is thought mortally, wounded in the
body. The bill had not beets extracted yesterday.

TSAR LITSRARY GARNTTS AND JOURNAL 01 THE
Dat.Las LWTTNIS, dec.—The Fifteenth Number 01
this new Weekly Paper, contains, among other in-
.teresting articles—
Portraits in I4lgk Life—Lard Armenia; Curious Roman t.rt-
•ars—Valeria Messalsna to Xmases Lepolus! Modem Ports—
f ereoce of Southey and Cobs:ridge; Remarks on "The Round
Califs.," by a mew /tumbler; tint Mole I Londrei; Sketches of
'sickly; '1 he lblavecoveriag Faintly ; Mauro Fraucdises ; Ro-
man Antiquities lately discovered in Switscriand ; New Scheme
A Perpetual Motion; Intruded National Monuments; Remarks
.0 t►e Exhili.von of Oil and Water Co'ours at blast% Gardens;
eroceedings of Learned Societies, Ate. Itc.
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