Star.
London, England, 1819-05-24 00:00:00

CHRISTIAN lA, MAY 8.

utrlay afternoon, between twelve and one o'clock,
dreadful fire broke out in the timber yards between
>wn of Christiana and the suburb of Waterland,
:hich the immense stock of baulks and timber,
also a rope-work, with all the cordage and mate-
were a prey to the flames. The fire threatened also
ragazines of timber on the other side of the Aggers
Several houses in the suburbs of Waterland caught
others were pulled down to prevent the farther
Lding of the flames, and the town of Cluistiania
was threatened on many sides ; happily there
no wind, and the vessels lying in the river were
out that they might not serve to propagate the
is. The damage done is prodigious, far greater
was caused by the fires at Drammon, Frede-
aall, and Drontheim, because so vast a quantity
imber has been destroyed.

.tedamage done is estimated in private accounts,
ced another part to have been received at Co-
lagen, at upwards of a million of specie dollars
sterling. 3
COPENHAGEN, MA,y t 5.
is Majesty has been pleased to allow that Sigic-
on the North-East of Iceland, shall be considered
authorized place of trade; and that Rauclar-
I may be visited by ships for two years, but with-
being considered as a place of trade.
hen, in the year 1317, some Barbary pirates ap-
led in the Northern Seas, it was prescribed by an
'finance of the 4.th June, that all ships belonging
;tnisit merchants, intended for a voya7e beyond
and Calais., should be provided with Algerine
;ports. The cause which gave rise to that Ordi-
te having ceased, it.has been revoked lately.
.nother Courier has arrived here from Stockholm.
.'ithout taking into consideration our great peen,
;Ty claims, his Majesty has paid in ready money
skte, fixed by convention at ',ISO° specie dol-
, far the keeping up the light-hoascs on the Swe-
coast.

the loan made in Hamburgh, the Kiag has set
in one million of specie, at five per cent. interest,
the relief of land-owners distressed in their cir-
'stance,. We hear that Zealand is to have 25,000,
'nen 100,000, and Jutland 350,000.
FRANKFORT, MAYIS.
Mme German Papers, speaking of the domiciliary
. lately made in the lodging of some Students of
Ualversity of Grissen say, that it has been disco-
that that town is the chief scat of a certain fra-
ity, which is called tile Black Alliance (Schwar-

;11,,.4 In the 16th sitting of the Diet, held on the
this month, the President proposed to name a
in.a..4ies to draw up a Report, preparatory to the
of the Diet on the overture of their
;hne,;ser, t; rand Duke of Weimar, and the Duke
'are Gotha, relating to the actual state of the Uni-
:ities of Germany, and on the •measures to be
.Iti in consequence. Tile Assembly accordingly
poi,teil a Committee of Eve Members, which is
',47led with the steps necci,.:,ary to lead, as soon as

possible, to a general agreement on the above over-
ture Of the Legation of Weiner.

LEGHORN, APRIL is.
It is well knoWn with whit diligence the Vicerot
of Egypt endeavours to promote all•the arts, espe.
daily those that relate to war. M. Giovanni Bassi,
of Ancona, who has been enticed by the Pacha to
Cairo, was employed in the manufacture cif gunpow-
der, all the materials for which *are found ia abun-
dance in Egypt ; the principal difficulty was to find
fuel": this led him to the idea of profiting by the heat
of the climate to effect a slower process of evapora-
tion, and he has already offered the Pacha 30,000 lbs.
of saltpetre prepared in this manner, from which
gunpowder has been manufactured that is said to be
superior to that made in the usual manner.