Star.
London, England, 1828-09-16 00:00:00

TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1828.

Vaughan, Fort and Town Major, Fort William ; Major Malin'
69th Native Infantry.
HOMISMIT A 111.121 CAMPoliblitlf C. Fitsgerald, 6th Cavalry.
CIVIL APPOIOII3IIUITI. Mr. Henry Shakespear, to Glaciate as
Chief Secretary to Government ; Mr. Andrew Sdrinp, to dictate
u Secretary to" Government in the Secret and Political Depart-
ment ; Mr. Simon Fraser, to officiate as Persian Secretary to Go•
vetnnient.

In Nos. S and 6 of the Canton Register. two extra.
ordiaary events are noticed; lst, the degredation of the
Emperor's brother, for some intrigues in which he had
been detected. He had bees dismissed flora all his
offices and publicly denounced by the Emperor as her•
jug been all his life Nan idle, dissipated, and vicious
profligate, associating with flatterers and sycophants."
2dly, Vorty Budhi,t Priests are condemned to death
for having literally turned their house of GOD (one of
their temples), into a den of thieves, whence robbers
sallied out and plundered, and sometimes murdered
defenceless passengers. They will all be decapitated
without benefit of Clergy, and their temples thrown
down.

The Caxton Register of the 15th January announcer
the sudden death of Sir William Fearer, Bart. Chief of
the British Factory in China. He died, after about a
month's illness, on the morning of Sunday, the 22d of
December, and was interred in the Hon. Company's
burying•ground, at Macao, on Christmas Day, at noon.,
The funeral service was read by the Rev. Dr. Morrison..,
The ship which was to have conveyed him to England
fired minute guns in the roads at the lin& of the funeral,
wh'clf was attended by the Judge cf Macao, the Euro.-
pean residents, and the Gentlemen of the Factory then
there. Sir William was about forty years of age, and
possessed of an ample fortune. But so a man's life con-
! sisteth not in the abundance of the things which he
possesseth." "In the midst of life we are in death.".
This event proclaims to all the SAVIOUR'S admonition—
" Be ye also ready."
Sir Archibald Campbell returned from Calcutta to
Amherst, on the 10th of January, and visited Rangoon
lon the 13th, when arrangements were made for Liente-
.nants Rawlinsern and Montmorency being sent up inl
Burmese boati to Ava ; the former for the purpose oil
receiving charger f certain prisoners said to be detained
at Ava, taken during the war from our allies, the infi
habitants of Assam, Cacho, and Munipore ; the latter
to try to cross over from Ave to our surveyors in Mu-
nipore. The payment of the third instalment, or ba-
lance of the Burmese indemnity, about eight hes, was
to be made in all February.
• Another event which our friend reports to us, though
not of such general interest as the abdication of a
crowned head, is nevertheless of much more iniport-
anie to many Englishmen in this quarter .of iheWorld
—being no less than the failure of Manhoff, the great
Hong urserobant of Canto°, for the trifling sum of
twelve hundred thousand Oilers! The cause of this
Most unexpected rnisfostune is said to be of a similar
nature to that which occasioned the ruin of a once-very
great distillery concern, and one or more banking-
houses in London, in the year 1810, the Government
that instance having compelled,e settlement of
their excise accounts which ezhibited- .debt of
800,0001. and in the rresent instance the failure maks,
it is said, from the Chinese Government claiming long
arrears of export and import duties. It hist:rite
hie to airy. selto gill be afFectedby this break up; at the
time of writh* it was known that several opulent
chants, both European and foreign, had exceedingly'
large sums in Manhoif's hands, and that he was the
banker of the principal civil servants residing at Can-
ton. One merchant was fortunate enough to create his
displeasure by his manner of sending hi 5.16,000 dol-
lars a few days prior to the smash, so much so that be
returned them to him again in dudgeon.—Reg. and
Misc. itiarch 5.

MADRAS, War 17.
The horneward•hound ship Prince Regent, Caps is
H. Murphy, is still in the Roads; and, we learns will
not sail before tr-morrow morning. The following ars
the passengers proceeding in her to England :
Faox Manaus—Mrs. Matteotti; Mrs. Fitzgerald and daughter;
Mrs. Smith and daughter ; Colonel G. Maunsell, 10th Regt.N.l.
Captain Buys,. his Majesty's 4Sth Regt. Captain Thompson, his
Majesty's 48th Regt. Captain Hawkins, his Majesty's 811th Rest.
Dr. Fitzgerald, his Majesty's 48th Regt. Lieut. Henderson, 41141
M. N.I. Captain M'CuUum, late ship Lalla Rookh; two Malta's
. . •
Bore; and a Sergeant Whitton, wife and child.
Fame CaLcusra—Mira. 51'Gregor and two children; Mrs; CO
bane and child ; Captain M' Gregor. and Mr. James Cob u, . ' • •
Fos Sr. Hum—The Hon. J. Elphinstone and urvant.'
.

Service, was upset in his sailing boat, immediately op-
posite the fort, by a squall of wind which occurred
during the north-wester, and, unfortunately, drowned.
The European who had charge of the boat is said to
have sunk at the same time, and also the Serang and
a Chaprassoe, but the Dandees succeeded in swimming
nn shore. None of the .bodies had been found this
morning.—Calcutta Government Gazette.
The following is an extract of a letter, dated Moor-
shedabad; the 29th of April, 1828:
44 That dreadful disease, the cholera, has carried its
destructive influence to a greater extent here than has
been known-for some years past—indeed, to such a
degree, that many villages have nearly become depo-
pulated. The thermometer ranges in the shade, under
Tatties, 90 ; and out of doors, at mid-day, 131.
" The Honourable Company's surveying ship Re-
search, Captain Dillon, has just arrived from La Pe.
rouse's Island. The following Bankshalr circular con-
tains all the information ass Nave yet received on the
interesting object of Captain Dillon's voyage:
fineeesafal is aseettaining the tweet the Poen& frigates La
Besesole and L'Astrolabe, under the command of the late Count
de h Poona.
" Has on board, from the diips' wrecks, plate, brass cannon, one
brass mortar, two ships' bells, with a variety of etceteras."