Star.
London, England, 1816-07-06 00:00:00

ST. PEI rRSBURCIi.

The Russian Gazette of the Senate, of 23d May,
announces, that the widow of Lieutenant Bankowsity,'
for having harboured a sailor, convicted of theft, was,
in the year 1808, deprived of her nobility, and sent
into exile : but his Majesty the Emperor has now
given an• Ukase, declaring that the son of this woman,
Lieutenant in the 12th regimert of Yarn, had, by
his bravery in the late campaigns, and the blood of
his wounds, atoned for the fault of his mother, she
is therefore pardoned, and her nobility restored.

The lawless and outrageous conduct of the Alge-
rives seems to threaten them with an host of enemies.
The Expedikion fining out at Constan:inople it is
no,/ said i des,int:d against these robbers, who have
lately paid no attention to the /mast of the GRAND
Stiostoa. The Neapolitan Government is also
arming against the Barbary POwers ; and what will
all better in the settlement of accounts between Civi-
lization and Barbarism, an armament of some force
is now fitting out in our own ports, destined for the
same service. It is certainly high time that these
nests of pirates should be rooted out. The following
Notice has been just posted at LLOYD'S

" By a vessel which arrived at Malta, the 17t1r of May, from
Coro», it appear• that the piratical squadron from Tunis had
sunk an ktiglish merchant brig, near Navarina, and murdered
the crew ; and that a British and a Russian vessel, loaded with
wheat, Lad been found off Milo, deserted, and ►upposed to have
bee; taken by the pirates, as theirilecks were ►trewed with arms
and ammunition."

On the subject of Lwrd Exstourn's Expedition
against the Pirates, our Portsmouth Letter, received
this n-,orning, contains the following information:
4• Toe Comus, it is supposed, will be ordered to
Algiers, as all the ships here that are manned are
ordered, even those destined for the List Indies. The
Qt:CLU CHARLOTTE, the Port Admir.d's ship, is going
with Lord EXSIOUTIL" •

2111: 4101 F.
COLONIAL.

LTentenunt-Colonelown', of the Royal Engi-
ne's, has been appointed to act as Deputy-Qoarter.
Master-General to the Forces serving in Novi Scotia
and New Brunswick.

The 2..1 Battalion of the 60th Regiment, or Royal
American, has been ordered from the %Vest Indies to
Canada.

The 15th Regiment has been ordereTfrom the
Leeward Islands to Halifax, Nova Scotia ; and the
3d Battalion of the 60th Regiment has arrived at the
lattfer place from the West Indies.
The garrison of Halifax and Nova Scotia now
consibts of detachments of Royal Artillery, Royal
Engineers, and Royal Sappers and Miners, six com-
panies of the 7th Battalion of the 60th Regiment, 3d
Battalion 60th Regiment, five companies 62d Regi-
ment, five companies 98th (Lite 99th) Regiment,
detachments of the Nova Scotia Fencibles, which are
waiting the arrival of the remainder of the regiment
from Canada, in order to be disbanded; and the
Newfonrdland Fcncibles are daily expected from the
latter place for the same pu►pose. Major-General
GOSSELIN at present commands the garrison, but pro.
ere& shortly to England, on being removed from the
Staff of the Army; and Major-General SMYTH is
shortly expected from New Brunswick to assume the
command (4' the troops on the departure of Sir JOHN
SuennnooKa for Quebec.
Four companies of the 98th, late 99th, or Prince's
Tipperary Regiment, are quartered at Newfoundland.
Five companies of the 62d Regiment are statiiined
at Bermuda, wider the command of Lieutenant-
Colonel tistxxL3.

The 4th (late 10th) Royal Veteran Battalion are
about leaving Canada for f.ngland, to be reduced.
The 70th Regiment are quartered at Kingston,
Upper Canada 19th Light Dragoons at Cliambly
lt)3d and 104th Regiments at Quebec; 37th Regi-
ment in the neighbourhood of Like Etie.
Lieutenant-Colonel RIMY, Inspecting Field Officer
of blilitia in Nova Scotia, has been appointed Com-
mandant at Moose Island, in the Bty of Passama-
quody.
Tke 102 d Regiment is quartered at St. John's,
Now Brunswick, St. Andrews, and Moose Island.

-Our letters from Buenos Ayres, dated the 20th of
April, state the arrival of two vessels in the River
Plate, from England, laden with merchandize: in
return they were to take in freights,of hides and tal-
low.; but the merchants there had advanced those ar-
ticks 50 per cent. ; the consequence was, that they
could procure no cargoes, and there was every pro-
bability of their remaining for several months in this
distressing situation.
, Estract of a letter from an Officer on board his
Majesty's ship Bavv, dated Spithead, Thursday
evening, July The last time 1 wrote to you
was from Slel ra Leone, on the 26th of April, where
we bad just arrived with two valuable prizes (Puttu-
ibuese slave ships). We sailed the following day on
receiving informat;.on of two Spanish vessels slaving
at the Galinas, a favourite trading place of die Spa-
niards, about 100 miles to leeward of Sierra Leone :
having light baill•ng winds, we found, on cur arrival
there, that they had sailed three days bekre, and
carried away 900 slaves. However, we were .not
altogether disappointed, for the following morning
'we tell In with and captured, after a chace of seven
hours, a large armed felucca, under Spanish colours,
called the Signora del Carmen, belonging to Cadiz,
and bound, when he had completed his cargo of
slaves, to the Havannah. ' Having only one month's
provisions remaining, after dispatching :he prize to
Sierra Leone, made sail for the West Indies ; we
• were not quite four months on the coast of Africa,
in which time we were fortunate enough to rescue
from slat. ry nearly 1000 it:Anton:ate beings, and
capture lour valuable pi izek,"