Star.
London, England, 1803-10-22 00:00:00

MARGATE, OCTOBER 20.

Lord kerns told Sir Hottace Mama, yelterday
evening, that he *tad received official difpatches frottt
Lord Nowt and Captain Maori, that the Fs enchfiad
tried time of the flat bottomed boats,ttt Boulogne a‘icl
Dunk irk how they would bear firing, and that fuch
was the conftrullion of thole boats, the moment the
guns were difcharged, they went to pieces, and the
men on board were with difficulty raved. Another
difpatch to the fame etc& is raid to have been receiv.
ed this morning by Lord KEITH, from the Com-
mandant of our cruizcrs off Mend. trot% thole
eircumßances it is inferred by many, that the boat
fcheme will be relinquilbed, and that of courfe the
attempt at invallon mutt be poßponed for a ecia-
fiderable time : But I have had room eonverfatioh
with an inteliigent naval officer upon the fubjeft, and
his opinion is, that thole unfuccefsfol experiments mull
refer merely to the bouts made of green wood, which
may have been recently and in a -hurry contlrufted.
Indeed, it teems very unlikely, if nut abfurd, to Pup.
pore that the French Government would have gone
on at an iTIMICSfe 1141.15Ct4 in the preparation of fuch
a Valk number of this% boats, and defer till now any
eailerimat to &main how far they were likely to
anfwer the pope& for which they were intended.
there can be so doubt of the raft ..s Rated upon the
authority of Lord Kattn, but it is ridiculous to cal.
cuhtte upon rock esteem confegnences from it to the
!theme of Invafion, as Come are fanguine enough to
look to. The guns with which the experiments allud-
ed to have been made, may have been of too large a
calibre for the flue of the boats—and various other
amfons might be Aligned to (hew, that it is filly to
think the. projed of invalion can be very materially
impeded by the incidents I have deferibed.

One day LIR week Mr. !Como, of George-flreet,
Manehefter-fquare, fent down to Salsbury a pigeon
from his dove-cot, to be difpatched, with a billet
round its neck, the next day at twelve o'clock pre-
tifely, in order to afeertain what dependence could he
laced
on pigeons in cafe of extraodinary expedition
ingnecelfary. The bird arrived with the billet round
neck. &wen minutes pan three in the afternoon,
a dikamee of 83 miles. in three hours and (even mi.
antes.

rbe revival of the Deferrer lag night at Covent.
Garden Theatre. afforded much gratification. Mrs.
edaarra and Stetnows. in jenny and Sindirs, were
eery agreeable, and nothing could txcel the exertions
of Muat+s■ in Skirraifie—erery limb appeared intoxi-
cated. and his exclamation—" the King at the camp
and I not there !" was given with an inconceivable
degree of di/Appointed cnnfequenee.—The houfe was
crowded in every part. and as much mirth was ex-
cited by the perambulators of the Lobbies. as by the
performances on the Rage.

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In confecluence of information received at the Pub-
lic Office, Great Marlborough.areet, that Mr.
of Albemarle.fireet, and Mr. B--, a L•Lutenant
in the Pentoovills Voltameters, were to meet yeaer-
day morning at day break. at the bafon in Hyde
Park; to destds as lair of honour ; Mr. Hamilton,
one °fel* Maribernugh.lircet officers, attended, took
Mr. N— nto entlody, and brought him before
the fitting Magifirate, where he was bound to keep
the peace, and a warrant iffued for apprehending
Liestenant

The following very fimple application has been
farad to prevent iron and del from rutting—To any
given quantity of fat oil-varnalt, ad.l four fifths of
well ratified fpirits of turpentine : apply this varnifh
ifigbtly and equally with a fponge, and put the arti-
cle to e-y in a place fluttered from dull. It preferves
and brighten the colour of copper ; and, it is (aid,
that all metallic articles varnithel with it, will retain
theft brilliancy, and never contraa any (pots of ruil.
A tragl.eonsical incident happened on the evening
of Wednefday lel, in a corner of the parifh of Blatt.
tyre, near Glafgow. The wife of a wood-turner had
Meta faddeniy taken Mired during the paro of the
difeafe. a Irst-of the neighbonting good women had
itainad:ately awl &secluding the unfortu-
nate to he meg dead. had sittrally drefitcl the
enrpfe in her grave ei nha&t. but altar having been
locked up for about half an hose, spettiteikawar bad
taken place, and the fit pooled dead woman, wondering
at her fituation. burg open the door, and ruching
furiously into the boufe of her neat neighbour. cried
and roared aloud for her !Hatband (who it teems had
been merry making) the ationillsed neighbo•ir in a
ptirenfy like abfolute mellsefi. vociferated to let him
alone, and he would new and bring home the drunken
hutband. the affair was %on after cleared up, and
the panic-ftrua neighbour loon produced the hufband
to his motl difccutfolsee wife. ' ,

A Brighton filling-boat. which had been miffing
nearly a week, containing three men anri a boy. it is
fuppofed has been run down by Tome vegel in the
night. and all on board milled. A letter from
Portfmouth Rates. that a boat had been picked up,
keel upwards. with the infcription on her Rem, " The
Tulip of Brighton, TNOI4III CORDING, Owner," and
taken into that place t therefore little doubt remains
of the unfortunate cataffrophe. The three men have
each left a numerous family, one of them a stile and
(even children.
MANES FIRIORRY.--The accounts from the If a of
Man, refpeding the herring fifbery, are of the moll
favourable nature. It had been fuccefeful in a eon-
referable degree. for Come nights previous to Wed-
nesday remit& ; but the take of fills on that night
was the molt abundant ever known in the memory of
the oldea perfon living. There were livens' boats
which caught Dom eighty to a hundred maze each.
The whole number taken is fuppefed to be not lefs
thanifer same end a hdit and the weight upwards
of egk bradreel tau !--The effienate of IA fold at
Douglas, on Thitrfdalstiorufirt:a. et as. 41 top. d.
pa hundred) is aim