Star.
London, England, 1816-01-09 00:00:00

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• .IRIGI4IIO. JANU.Or S.
Yesterday Divine Worsh, ip was ',affirmed at the
Pavilion. The whole of the Royal Family. were
present, and most of the Household. The Bishop of
Exeter officiated.
Yesterday her Royal Highness the Princess Char-
lotte of Wales completed her 20th year. On this
happy occasion the Nobility and Gentry paid their
congratulatory respects to her Royal Highness, and
her Majesty. In the course of the afternoon more
than 150 persons were at the Pavilion.
The evening birth-day society was select. Lord
and Jody Ellenborough, with Miss Law, Lord and
ILadv and Miss Lake, Lord and Lady Louvaine, Sir
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G. and Lady Webster, Mr. Webster, Sir James
Graham, Sir William and Lady Houston, General
Sir H. lane, Lady and Miss Jones, Captain and
Mr. Percy, Mr. and Mrs. Ramsden,_ formed part of
the company invited, with the Nobility, at the
Pavilion.
The Steine promenade yesterday was thronged
with all the fashion and rank from the Pavilion, and
other resident visitors : the day was propitious for
pedestrian exercise. The Duke of Clarence must be
honoured with the lead on this parade, because of his
regular devotion to the spot, and affability among
the promenaders. Lord and Lady Castlereagh, with
the Ladies Stanhope, Lord Liverpool, Sir-Thomas,
Lyddell,' General Taylor, Colonel Desbrowe, &c. &c.
were among the company.
The Royal Family being engaged after Divine
Service in receiving the Nobility, could not partake
the pleasure of a carriage drive in the afternoon.—
This morning is unfavourable, from the state of the
weather.—Lord George Murray salved yesterday
at the Pavilion.

Yesterday, her Royal Highness the Princess CIJAE•
Lorre of WALLS'S Birth-day, was celebrated in Lon
don, by her Royal Highness's tradesmen dining to.
gether at the Thatched House Tavern, according to
annual custom. Their houses were illuminates upon
the occasion. The QUEEN and PIUNCESSES visited
her Royal Highness last Thursday at Cranbourn
Lodge, .upon her arrival there, when she received
them must affectionately, and conducted them over
the Lodge to view the repairs, alterations, and im-
provements, which has taken place since her absence
at Weymouth. Her Royal Highness has recovered
from her indisposition, but has become very thin.
The .report of an intended marriage between the
Princess CriatuLorrig of WALES and an Austrian or
Russian Prince, are contradicted. [t •is rumoured
that a young German Protestant Prince, now in this
country, is more likely to have the honour of her
Royal Highness's hand.
Mrs. Auer, the daughter of Mrs. Joanax, who
played two or three characters this season at Covent
Garden Theatre, is engaged for six nights at Bath.
Mrs. H. Swam: made her first appearance at the
Edinburgh Theatre, since the death of her husband,
on Saturday last, in the character of Viola, in the
Twelfth Night,
Monday se'nnight Mr. Thomas Beale, of Bar-
combe, near Lewes, was found drowned in Longford
situated between the former place and Chailey.
Saturday se'nnight, at Norwich, as the wife of
Mr. James Draper, of St. Clement's, was endeavour-
ing to procure some water from the river, she lost her
balance, 01 in, and was drowned.

Much damage has been done by floods over tl,e'
whole of the North of England and South of Scot-
land. ' The rivers Caldew, Eden, Peterill, Line,
Irthing, &c. have overflown or burst their banks.
Two or three benighted travellers have lost .their
lives, some cattle have been swept away and drowned,
whole dint icts inundated, and in many places the in-'
habitants of houses near the waters compelled to save
themselves by taking refuge in the upper apartments,
while those below were completely flooded.
VOLCANIC Ettuezzon.—At Gressey, near Sooro-
baya, towards the end of June last, a noise was heard
for three days, resembling a tremendous cannonade.
On the afternoon of the third day the sky became
completely overcast, with a cloud of fine dust, or
ashes, so thick as to cause an obscuriti equal to that
of the dat ke'st night, and to render respiration imprac-
ticable, without a cloth, or some sort of veil to cover
the face. The fail of ashes continued very dense for
three days, and did not wholly abate for a week, when
it was succeeded by a very heavy and most welcome
fall of rain. A similar phenomenon occurred at the
same time at Tagal, which is 206 miles from
Gressey. Here several sudden deaths happened du-
ring the days of terror, for which the superstitious in-
habitants assigned various causes. At Gressey the
visitation proved fatal only to birds, of which many
were, on the return of light, seen dead in all direc-
tions, having been suffocated by the floating ashes.—
The source of this volcanic eruption hasnot been ascer-
tained at the date of the last advices from India.
BLACKING—We are requested to state, for the infor-
mation of the London, Bistol, Hull, and Liverpool
merchants and shippers,who maybe disposed to export
to America, France, Holland, &c. RICHARD TURN ERN
Real Japan Wackieg, now become the most popular
and inestimable composition, for boots, shoes, har-
ness, &c. sold in the Metropolis, and by shop-keepers
in all the great towns in the United Kingdom, from
sixpence to eighteen pence each, may have packed
up in casks, tierces, and hogsheads, from one gross
to one hundred thousand bottles, without leakage or
the least fault, by addressing their commands to his
Exportation Warehouse, 114, London-road, South-
wark.

THE YEAR ISIS.
While revolving years go round,
Say, where can Happintss be found?
"I•is in Health, in Peace, and Ease,
And what can tend the most to please.
The Nymphs how charming they appear,
To grace the opening of the year!
Say, what does most adorn the fair ?
A copious charming Head of Hair;
Ringlets ferm'd with taste and grace,
Which spread a lustre o'er the face,
Produc'd without much care or toil,
Use Rowland's fain'd Macassar Oil,
Which as revolving years go round,
More excellent and good is found.
Illustrious Sussex—koyal Caroline,*
As Patrons to this OIL combine,
And with Imperial Russia's Mighty Lord,
'their splendid gracious Patronage afford;
And when the Hair is Red or Grey,
Which all approves not to display,
Rowland's Essence of Tyre's efficient power
Will change the colour in an Hi.ur.
• His Royal Highness the Duke of flumes-I-Her Royal Higloess
the ?Amend Wales.