Star.
London, England, 1811-10-17 00:00:00

THE KING.

WINDSOR, OCTOBER I6.—His MAJESTY is batter to-
day in bodily health than he has been for several days
past, and was able to take the exercise of walking
through his suite of rooms, and the passage attached
to them.

It is said to be finally settled, that the Parliament
shall be assembled for the dispatch of business in the
first week of January. Our Readers are aware, that
the restrictions on the Regency are to cease and ter-
minate six weeks after the meeting of Parliament. So
that by meeting in the first week in January, they
will cease about the middle of February.

Yesterday a Court of ,Directors was held at the
East India House, when Captain T. H. HARRIS was
swoin into the command of the new ship Bengal,
building in the room of the Calcutta. The Cuffnells,
CaptainWELDANK, was stationed for Madras and
China. The following ships were taken up for one
voyage in the Company's service, viz. Lady Carring-
ton, of 570 tons ; Sovereign, 634 ; Chapman, 558;
Sir Godfrey Webster, 541 ; and Larkins, 637.
We are sorry to learn by a vessel just arrived from
Teneriffe, that the fever raged there with great vio-
lence ; so much so, that the Captain was not permit-
ted to land the whole of his cargo.
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Wednesday se'nnight, about eleven o'clock at night,
a large meteor, or ball of fire, was seen from Stafford.
It rose in the west, and was observed to have a train
er tail of flame, till it came more immediately over
the town. It was of the size of a cannon ball, and
moved with considerable velocity at first; but pass-
ing directly east, its progress gradually diminished
till it disappeared.
Extract of a letter from Cambridge, dated Tuesday
morning, eight o'clock :—" At three o'clock this
morning, a fire broke out at Emanuel College, in this
University, which has consumed one entire side of
the guadrangle, called the Founder's Range, in which
were situated the Fellows' rooms. It is at this mo-
ment so far got under, as to afford a reasonable hope
that it will net be communicated to the other parts
of the College."
Lieutenant PRATER and Mr. KENSINGTON, who had
been prisoners in France, the one nine, the other
er;;I:t years, an ived in town on Saturday. The hard-
ships they endured before they reached the coast
were of the most extraordinary nature. They were
last confined in Thion Ville prison, the high ramparts
of which, assisted by a Dutch Gens d'Armes, they
scaled. The account they give of the despotism and
misery prevailing in every place under Gallic domi-
snition through which they passed is dreadful in the
extreme, and the rapture with which they set foot on
Ln_glisil ground again is not to be described.
DREADFUL PEOPHECT.—Nimrod- Heels, d
Vir-
ginia, has declared that HEAVEN has revealed to him
by signs, that on the 4th day of June, 1812, the de-
struction of etre-third of mankind is to be accom-
plished.—New Tork, Zugust
Every arrival from the coast of Africa brings an
accession of intelligence respecting the unextinguished
existence of the Slave-trade. We are happy however
7:o find, that the far greater part of the recent captures
:appear to have been, bona Pe, American property,
and that there have been but few which lay under the
suspicion of being of British origin. The practical
effects of Mr. BROUGHAM'S Act are already discerni-
ble in the check which has been given to the employ-
ment of British capital in this criminal and illegal
traffic. It might not be difficult to induce the Arne-
aican Government to favour the adoption of some
legislative measure, formed upon the same principle.
We are glad however to find, that the measures lately
re,:orted to by our own Government, have been cal-
etilated to promote the true interests of the settle.
merits on the coast of Africa, as well as to extermi-
nate, as far as the law of nations till admit, the
swarm of illicit dealers in human life and flesh, who
still hover amphibiously near its shores. We trust
that further salutary proceedings %%ill be adopted, by
attending to the suggestions of the intelligent and re-
spectable persons who have at present the direction in
the colony of Sierra Lcbnc.