Star.
London, England, 1828-04-21 00:00:00

FROM TIIE HANIPSHIng TELEGRAPH.

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 19.—The Melville, 74, disem-
barked the 63d Regiment at Dlver, on Monday, and is
expected hourly at Spithead. The Gloucester, 74, Cap-
lain J. S. Horton, and Windsor Castle, 74, Captain E.
D. King, havinv, disembarked the two battalions of
Guards, from Lisbon, have proceeded, the former to
Sheerness, and. the latter to Plymouth, to resume their
station a, guardships at those respective ports. •
The Onyx, 10 guns, Lieutenant Cole, are ived at Sierra
Leone on the 21st F.bruary, and WAS to proceed to
Cape Coast, and from thence to England.
The Asia, 84, Captain Curzon, C.B. and Blonde, 46,
Captain E. Lyons, will go out of harbour on Monday.
and wilt sail to the Mediterranean the latter end of the
ensuing week.
The Chanticleer, surveying vessel, Commander H.
Foster, will proceed to her de,tination in afe a days. She
is fitted for a scientific voyage. She will touch at Fal-
mouth, Madeira, Tene: de, and Cape de Verd, to meet.-
tain their respective longitudes, then proceed to Rio Ja-
neiro and Rio de la Plata, to complete her stores and
provisions, and afterwards sail south. She will remain
some time at Staten Island and Cape Horn,to make obser-
vations on the vibration of the pendulum,and finally pro-
ceed to New South Shetland, for the purpose of correctly
ascertaining its extent arid position, as well as to make
observations on the pendulum in that latitude. She will
return to the Cape of Good Hope for a re-supply of
provisions. She is well found and equipped, and the
comfort of the officers and men has been as much con-
sulted as tire size and construction of the vessel (a 19
gun brig), will admit of. Her complement. including
officers and men, is 65, and she is victualled for seven
months.
The. Badger, 10, Commander Crowdy, sailed on
Thursday for Oporto, and the At row cutter, Lieutenant
Brooking, on a curiae. The Vigilant ketch, Lieutenant
Nleredith, arrived this morning, with supernumerary
seamen from Plymouth, and returned to that port this
evening. At Spithead—Flecla. In the Harbour—
Victory, Asia, Blonde, Chanticleer, Icarus.
Lieutenant Brunswick Popham, Fag Lieutenant .to
Sir E. Codrington, is promoted vs the rank of Com-
mander, and appointed to the Z bra, vice Commander
Cotton, deceased. Mr. Henry W. Crawford to be Lieu-
te:rant, and act as Flag. Mr. C. 0. Davies to be Purser
of the Pearl.

The Circassian, Douthwaite, from London, was driven

out of Madras Roads on t e 10th December, and had
put into Trincomalee, with loss of masts and anchors.

The Pembroke, 74, and Naiad, 46, are ordered to be
brought forward for commission.

Extract of a letter, dated his Majesty's ship Aurora,
Barbadoes, M irch 7 : " We have just arrived from a
ctuise round the Island, with the Bishop and his Lady,
who have been on board about five weeks. His Lord-
ship has now visited all part; of his diocese. All the
Islands to windward are very healthy. We expect to
be in England in about four months."

There was stolen from Madame A. scouTz, or the
King's Theatre, London, on Saturthy last, the 19th of
April, between eight and nine o'clock in the evening,
from her lodging, Pall-mall, whilst she performing in
the Opera ut Sentiratitide, a suns of About 5001. ;
the amount consisted partly of gold, but principally of
bank notes it,r five, ten, and one of fifty pounds, none of
which she ever calculated. Suspicion falls most strongly
on a boy of about sixteea yeah age, whom Mr. Shuts
took Moto his service iaunediaiely mrakiaiaaarisal iiq
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