Star.
London, England, 1816-01-03 00:00:00

DEAL, JANUARY so

Quite calm, and very fine. The wind this morn-
ing shifted to the South-east, and the whole of the
outward-bound got under weigh. It soon fell calm,
and the flood-tide making, they drove back again to
their anchorage in the Downs.—Came down from the
River, and remains, the Sarah, PHILLIPS, for Marti-
nique.—The Inch Regiment of Foot embarked from
hence this morning on board of the Eliza and Serin-
gapatam transports, for Ireland.
HARWICH, JANUARY 2.
Arrived the Lark packet, with a mail and passen-
q;ers, from Cuzhaven.—Wind W.

GRAYESENU, JANUARY 2.
Arrived the Gipsey. SINCLAIR. from Tarragona ;
the Stanislaus, CORDILIA, from Dieppe; the Moi►a,
KEMP. from Calcutta ; the Weldertnada.
from Seville; and Kirketta, Voixart, from Buenos
Ayres.—No sailing:.

Friday, the tild ult. the Marquis of Hunrut was
installed as Chancellor of Marischal College in the
public hall of the University of Aberdeen. His
Lordship was elected to this of on the death of
Lord AUCKLAND; and from the circumstance of its
being the first public installation in the records of
Marischal College, the ceremony excited an unusual
degree of interest.
Yesterday se'nnight, the remains of the late Gene.
ral Robert Prescott, were removed from his seat at
Rose•green, Battle, to Winchelsea, and their interred
in the family vault. The hearse, drawn by four horses,
was followed by a mourning coach and several family
carriages. The General was in his 88th year, and
during the American war was in very active service.
His coffin was made of cedar, brought by his own
' order from Quebec. of which place he was some con-
, siderable time the Governor.

A letter from Vera Cruz to a mercantile house in
Cadiz, and dated 17th Sept. ult. menti,itib, that the
Spanish frigate VenganiA had just Arrived there iron,
Tampico. It further adds, that since the 30th of
June preceding they had received no accounts from
Mexico, or any of the interior provinces ; and that,
by orders of the Viceroy, the Constitution lately
formed in the General Congress of the Mexican
Independents, had been burnt in the public square cf
the capital.
. _ _

A Gentleman who arrived passenger by the last
ship from St. Helena, states, that new arrangements
have been made at the Island with the view of pre.
ven:ing the possibility of BONAPARTE'S escape. The
military regulations are so strict, that the inhabitants
ire not suffered to be out of their houses alter dark.
l'he gates of the garrison are shut, and the draw-
bridge hoisted up at sun:set. No private merchant-
men are allowed to anchor ; regular lndiamen are
only allowed this privilege. It water is required, it
is only to be had of the Admiral. BONAPARTR is
still in his retreat, and takes his evening walk with
his Secretary LASCASSES. Sir Gowen' Cootanam re.
bides at Mr. SALOMON'S, and BERTRAND, MONTELON,
and Goacsouo, spend their Napoleons freely at the
Stares. They are all affable, but none speak Eng-
lish well except the wife of BiIITRAMIX
Extract of a letter from Newcastle, dated Decerwis
ber SO :-94 During last night it blew a hurricane, the
Carlisle and many other vessels went adrift; she has
not, however, sustained any serious damage. All the
• ships at Shields, it is said, except 10, have driven to
I sea, many without ballast and only one or two people
on board ; in short, since the great flood, the like has
not been known."

On the 16th ult. as a young Man, of the name of
W. Wirran, was proceeding from Alston to his
father's farm at Harewoo4l.bead (with a horse laden
with provisions for the use of the family), be perished
in a storm of snow on a height called Yadmoss.
On the night of Friday sennight, the mansion of
Sir WILLIAM ASIIVANHAW, Ban. at Broomham, in
the parish of Guestling, in Sussex, was burglarionsly
entered by some villains, who gained admission into
every mom of the house, and forced and pillaged
every chest they found. The extent of the robbery
has not yet been ascertained. To render three punch
ladles more portable, the thieves broke off their silver
bowls, and left the handles behind them. ,

A curious circumstance occurred last week at a
Subscription-house in St. James's-street : Lord D.
having been very unfortunate at Hazard, threw down
his purse, saying, is Who'll set me the contents,
whatever it may prove I will," replied Sir
Joon B. when his Lordship having won by nicking
seven, produced two Lottery Tickets from the purse,
exclaiming, " Noir, sir JOHN, 1 will bet you 500
guineas that one of these tickets will be drawn a
prize, and a thousand guineas a-piece to every Gen-
tleman present, that the chances are is my favour."
The bets were eagerly taken, and the question was
sent next morning to a calculator,,who returned the
following answer 41 In the present State Lottery
Scheme, containing 2 Prizes of 25,000 Guineas in
Gold, 2 of 62.0,000 Pounds, and 6,667 other Pri,zes of
£5,000, £l,OOO, &c. &c. with 20,000 Tickets, if any
person buys two tickets or two shares, the odds are
five to four that one of the two numbers will be
drawn either a capital or one of the other prizes in
this Lottery, to begin drawing 14th February."--By
this decision, his Lordship pockets ten thousand gui-
neas, besides what the Lottery Tickets may produce.
CORN EXCH ANON, • MARK.LANR, JANUARY S.—We
have had no fresh arriftls of any grain since Monday,
yet the Wheat Trade is exceedingly heavy, and very
little business has been done, but the sales which have
been effected were at that day's prices.—Barley,
Beans, Peas, and other grain, are nominally as on
IMOnday—little or nothing doing.

FIRES.
The honk of Nwis, near Stirling, the property of
EDWARD ALEXANDER, Esq. WAS, burnt to the ground
on Wednesday last.
Tuesday sennight, Pinkie House, famnus in song,
and the seat of Sir Joist. Hope, in the neighbourhood
of Edinburgh' was nearly destroyed by fire. Some
of the rafters communicating with the chimney, took
fire, about five in the evening ; it was soon discove.
red, and happily got under without much damage.
ALARMING FlRE.—Last Sunday morning the in-
habitants of Finsbury-square were thrown into the
utmost consternation, in consequence of a fire which
broke out at the house of Mr. MITCHEL, broker and
appraiser, in Crown-street, corner of the square, acrd
which burned with such rapidi,y, that the family ex-
perienced the utmost difficulty to escape with their
lives. It was at first discovered by one of tie vivan•.-
maids, who got up at seven o'clock, and finding the
lower part of the house full of smoke, she.informed
her fellow-servant, who instantly alarsred her master
and mistress, and then took two of the children down
stairs with her; but when she came into ti .e pAssPec.
a flame came right against her, and, very pr.h..hly,
she could not proceed any farther, only one of the chtl-
dren, most providentially, pointed out the street do,r
to her, when they escaped. Mr. MITCHEL Wus also
coming down stairs with two more of air chtldren
under his arm, but was prevented by the if mes,
which were ascending up to the first floor : he re.
corned up again, awl happily succeeded in getting
out at the garret window. After he lett the children
at a neighbouring house, he returned, and sncrecded
in getting Mrs. Mtram. and the rest of the f.mily
out at the same place ; they had scarcely quitted-the
room, when the Eve fell in with a dre Kiwi crash,
and the flames then burst out at every aper we ; af,d
in about half an boor the whole of the premises, con-
sisting of a shop and dwelling-house, with a large
warehouse behind full of goods, were consumed : the
adjoining house also sustained .great injury, and
would have met the same fate, but tor the laudable
exertions of the firemen. It is supposed that this
ca-
lamity was wilfully occasioned : one pereon is in
custody-on suspicion.

DREADFUL FIRE AT CANTERBURY.
About a quarter past two, in the morning of Sun-
day last, a fire was discovered is the house of Mr.
John Goddard, shoemaker, opposite the Butter Mar.
ket, Burgate.itreet, Canterbury, which in a very short
space afterwards was completely enveloped in tl•.hrnes ;
and by five o'clock, such was the fury of the devour-
ing element, that the internal part was wholly con-
sumed, with every article of the furniture and stock
in tr.ide ; and, agonizing to add, with the loss of the
lives of Mr. Goddard and his eldest son (William), a
id thirteen years of age, whose bodies, in a muti-
lated state, were, about nine in the morning, dug nut
of the ruins. From the concurring testimony of the
neighbours, it appears, that about the time above.
mentioned they were alarmed by Mr. Gtreidard's
voice 'and the cry of " fire," and on proceeding to the
house, perceived him with his son at the window of
the first floor, imploring and calling for a ladder,. or
" else they should be suffocated ;" but, before that
or any other assistance could be afforded to them,
they had disappeared, and were •een no more !
The shop door was then forced and the internal
part, with the stair case, appeared a body of fire, the
flames of which shortly atter burst our through the
door way. Previous to this, Mrs. Goddard, r.•itfi
four younger children (one an int.int), and the maid-
, servant effected their escape through a trap do•,r i.:l
the top of the house, into the adjoining one of Dr) r.
Powell, having been directed •so to do by ht.r
husband, who with lit's son had lelt her for the pur-
pose of obtaining his books. but it is curjectured
they were prevented horn following her by the rapi-
dity of the flames, or the effect of the smoke.
The dead hour at which this dis.tstruu: event oc-
curred prevented .to prompt an assistance as could
have been wished, but as soon as the alarm was
spread the engines were brought to the spot, and but
for most extraordinary judgment and almost surer-
, human exertions, the house of Mr. SAnntel Powell,
hosier, which adjoined on the one side, and that of
Mr. Stephen Couchman, grocer, on the other, with
other buildings constructed of wood and filled with
combustible articles in the rear, would have been in-
volved in a general conflagration, the extent of which.
from the confined situation of other adjacent build-
ings, it is dreadful to contemplate.
To enumerate every individual act of intrepidity
and judgment where so many were Conspicuous
would be impossible. but if the meed of praise is due
more pre-eminently to one than to inother, the Con-
duct of Mr. Jesse White, with that of his son (Mr.
William White) entitle them to the thahks of their
fellow-citizens and the reward of a civic crown.

in bestowing this just tribute of applause, let ns
not forget the conduct of the military, whose exer-
tions, aided by their officers (Colonel Mein, of the
52d Foot, in paiticular) secbnded every effective en-
deavour to suppress the flames—attending with their
engine from the barracks, protecting the property of
the sufferers, and lining the streets to the river side
at the bottom of Orange-street, in order to fqrnish
a supply of water.
A Coronet's Inquest was yesterday. afternoon
taken on the remains of the unfortunate victims, and
a verdict returned of—Death by suffocation, occa-
sioned by fire.—The houses and property, both of
Mr. Powell and Mr. Couchman, it is satisfactory to
learn, are fully insured ; the stock and furniture of
Mr. Goddard were also insured, but it is feared not
sufficiently ample to cover the loss, much less to af-
ford the means of present support for his afilicted
widow and children.

The Jury, contemplating her misfortune, unani.
mously gave up for her benefit the pecuniary compen.
sation due to them for their attendance, with an bore
that it would he but the commencement of a more mu.
nificent aid, which we doubt not will be gratefully
accepted at the Banks and Libraries.
Nothing certain is known as to the -cause of this
distressful calamity ; but it is conjectured, and the
conjecture is most probable, that, it arose from a
large fire which had been made on the pr• ceding
evening, in a small room adjoining the shop, the
chimney of which, the smallness of its aperture would
not admit of being swept. -
The hapless youth who has thus fallen an early sa.
crifice, was to depart for France on the following day,
having previously been at Dover, with that intention,
but had returned the wind and weather Wing adverse.