Star.
London, England, 1818-12-09 00:00:00

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

, LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, DEC.
Orders for the Courts change of Mourning, on Sunday, the
3d day of January next, for her late Majesty, of blessed me.
voluv, viz. •
The Ladles to wear black silk, fringed or plain linen or mu-
le: Wake gloves, Mack aot white shoes, fans and tippets, white
oeckleoes and ear-rings, no diamonds.
tledi,me.inhe or gtey lustrings, tabbies, or damasks.
The Gentlemen to wear black, full trimmed, plain or fringed
Seen, black swords and buckles.
UoilroM—Grey frocks.-
The court to change the Mourning further, on Sunday, Ake
Itlelt of lasnorT next, viz. The Ladies to wear black silk or
velvet, coloured ribands, fans, and tippets.
The Gentlemen to continue In black, to wear coloured swords
sod buckles.
And on Sunday, the 14th of February next, the Court to go
out of Mourning.
Josiam De Paz Founts, Emits appointed Ow of the Gen-
tlemen of his Manstr's Privy Chamber in Ordinary.

WHITEHALL, DECEMBER 7.
His Royal Highness the wits Rams has been pleased, in
the name end On the behalf of his amaze, to direct Letters
Patent to be puled under the Great Seal of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, for granting the dignity of
eaßeconet of the said United Kingdom, to the following Gen-
asirsen respectively, and to the heirs male of their bodies law-
fully begotten, viz.
• lie EDWARD HAMILTON, of Trebinshun House, In the County
of Brecon, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Mili-
j.Order of the Buda, and Captain in the Royal Navy.
osa Manus, of Catlegar, in the Gonnty of-Galway, Esq.
Henn Ism, of Locbalah, in the County of Ross, and of
'Girton in the County of Moray, Esq.
Commission in the Royal Pembroke Mlle Corps of Militia, r
signed by the Lord Liestenane. .
Edward Davenport, Gent. to be Second Lisstarant.
NictiePTCy •
Robert Billiard, %Vest Markham, Nottinghamshire, farmer.
BANKItUrI'S.
Willem Grover and John Dukes, Bath, grocer., to surrender
Zee. 17, itt, end Jan. 19, at eleven, as the Full Moon lan,'
ow Bridge, B tb. Ateoroles, Mr. Highmoor, Scotts-yards
London • or .h. Hodgson, Bath.
John Kirk;nan, Wellington Brewery, City-read, brewer. Dec.
26, and Jan. 19, at twelve, at Guildhall. Attornies,
Messrs. Rowland and Young, Lincoln's Inn-deals.
amlellackson, Castle-court, liirchin-lane. merchant, Dec. IS,

29. and Jan. 19, at eleven at GuildialL Attorney, Mr.
Parma, Thrtadneedle-street.
Water Holman, Tonics, Devonshire, ironmonger, Dec. 17,
'IS, and Ln. 19, at eleven, at the Oxford Anus Inn, Tat-
ars. Attu, Messrs. Prideaux and Emelt, Totnes; or
Mr. Alexander, Care-street, London.
James Jones and John Jones, Leominster, linen-drapers, Dec.
15, 19, and Jan. 19, at twelve, at Guildhall, Landon. At-

torney, Mr. hleddowcroft, Gray's Inn.
Samuel Burrows Miles's-lane, Cannon-street, wine-merchant,
Dec. 15, 26, and Jan. 19, at ten, at GuildhalL Anomie.,
Messrs.•Pritchard and Bird, Exchange-buildings' Bank.
Robert Godfrey, late of the Kent-road, merchant, Dec. 12, 15,
and Jan. 19, at eleven, at Guildhall. Attorney, )Ir. Wright,
Fenchurch-street.
George Korth, Sheffield, butcher, Dec. 22, 23, and Jan. IN at
twelve, at the Hotel, Sheffield. Attornies, Mr. Brookfield,
Sheffield; or Messrs. Dixon and Preston, Coleman-street,
London.

John Moore, Manchester, Sotir.dealer and baker, Dec. 21, 21,
and Jan. 19, at tyre, at the Dog Tavern, Manchester. At-
tornies, Mews. Adlington.and Gregory, Bedford-row, •Lnn.
don ; or Messrs. Clay and Thompson, &. Mary's Gate, Mats.
cheater.
William Chamballyne and George Rawlinson, Leicester, ho.
'sera. Dec 14, 15, and Jan. 19, at eleven. at the Saracen's
Head Inn, Leicester. Attorney, Mr. Ayes, Chancery4ane,
London.
DIVIDENDS to be made at GUILDHALL.

Jan. 12. A. Hendy. Gower-street, builder, at eleven. Dec. 19.
C. Bishop, Borough, draper, •at ten. Dec. 39. J. Howlatt,
Ckarter-h•mmequare, merchant, at twelve. Dec. 49. J. Paul,
'Miry-la- Bonne-street, pawnbroker, at ten. Dec. 29. J. Willis
Bads, draper, at ten. Jan. 2. Hudson, High Wycornb.4
draper, at one. Jan. 2. W. Lowe, Macclesfield, druggist, at
ten. ec. IS. W. Woolsey, Great blary-le-Bennoatreet, ha.
berdeaker, at twelve.
DWIDENDS to be made in the costrrrair.

Dec. 30. W. Cook, Earitk, victualler, at slgwe, at the Eagle,
carammee, Dec. 09. W. and J. J. Bishop, Y Conyers,
&c. merchants, at twelve, at the Royal Oak, Limas/ter. Dee. 29,
T. Law, Lanmiter, merchant, at twelve, at the Royal Oak,
Lunacy. Dec. 30. W. .ac Michael, Bristol, merchant, at
twelve. at eke Commercial Rooms, Bristol. Dec. 31 It. Wright,
dealer, at eleven, at the George, Penrith. Dec. 30. 5.
Liverpool, upholsterer, at one, at the Office of Mr.
, Slater's-court, Castle-str.set, Liverpool. Dec. 29.
V. and T. Jones, jun. Bishop Wearmouth, coal-fitters,
at 'wen, at the Bridge Ina, Bishop Wearmouth. Dec. 31, J.
War" Tothruabs. Westmoreland, dealer, at eleven, at the
Gasp, Penrith.
CERTIFICATES--thermui 29.
W. Rhodes, East Smithfield, baker. W. Morton, Worksop,
porter-merchant. J. Donald, Clifton, cattle-dealer. R. Haw-
kir.s, Bath, eoachanaster. W. Davidson, Little St. Thomasi
Apostle, wholesale stationer. -
DISSOLUTIONS OF PARTNERSHIPS.

J. and J. Lyon, Manchester, cotton-merco..... _
Dison, Harrow.m.the-Hill, farmers. Cooper and Co. Stock.
too, mercers. Nicholson and Nicebon, Botchergate, near Car-
lisle'
s iron-founden. Burch and Gell, Margate linen-drapers.
J. and R. Hordall, Leeds, wool-dealers. and llopkina,
upplogharn, drapers.

IL and I.

EXTRACT FROM THC PREFACE TO LADY MORGAN'S

.SEW WORK.-" The Irish have been accused of
making an ostentatious display of their injuries, and
of clanking their chains to excite compassion. But
hawever humiliating it may be deemed to reiterate
complaint where there is no commiseration, and to
urge claims where there is no redress, the alternative
less intolerable than that silent acquiescence, which
malice or self-interest is but too ready to cor.strue
into tacit approbation. The appeal to public opinion
belongs to the age in which we live; and it is the
certainty of its ultimate success, not the abject hope-
lessness of its repetition, which has excited this affec-
tation of disgust. The national tale: with which
thelteader is here presented, is no pathetic appeal
to public compassion. It is indeed impossible to speak
of Ireland, still less to take it as the scene of a nar-
rative, without frequent allusion to its starving po-
pulation. The people form too prominent an object
in the landscape to be wholly:passed over by the most
indifferent observer. But it is chiefly from among the
,*aster cast that she Author of FLORENCE MACARTHY
has drawn her characters and her incidents ; and it
is in the reaction of the execrable system of divide
Lail govern,' in the demoralization and insecurity
which that system inflicts upon the agents, no less
than on the •ictims of oppression, that she has found
materials for another Irish story. For the fidelity of
her delineations whoever has resided in Ireland will
readily vouch ; and if the features are sometimes
deeply tragical, and sometimes broadly ludicrous, the
fault lies in the originals, and not with their illustrar
tor. The manners she has described, and the society
she has represented, belong to a peculiar epoch ; they
arose under a particular political combination, and
they will cease with, its dissolution. But wherever a
possibility exists for'bringing that combination again
into action, the tale will hive an interest ; and asridi-
cule will reach those who are impregnable to reason,
this picture of the aristocracy of the bureau, may not
lie without:a contingent utility to other couritries,taeside
that for who:c service it wax eaptessly undertaken."