Star.
London, England, 1817-08-04 00:00:00

INTMISTINO !ROM ReCTH AMERICA.

•I We liave been politely furnished, by a Gentle-
man who arrived in the Bay in the Buenos Ayreaa
brig Patriot, with the following interesting infoima-
dim relative to affairs in South America.

" On the• lst of June a Spanish squadron passed
the island.pf Margaritta, consisting of 20 sail end
2500 meet, under the Bourbon flag, and •anchored
Curnaiia, 'after plundering several fishing-boats, and
pressing • number of fishermen, and conimitting
numerous depredations against the Citizens.
" By the last accounts, they did not disembark, as
they were in an healthy state, and found that Gene-
ral Arismendi was determined to dispute the ground
with them. A few days previous to the s tiling of
Admiral Brion from Panipator, he received dis-
patches from General Bolivar, requesting two men
of war and four gun-boats to enter the Orono's°, in
order to intercept the Royal Tyrants of Spain,
who embarked in some merchant vessels front the
Guayastes previous to its capture, and are now lying at
Augustura. with all their articles, supposed to amount
to four millions of dollars.

" General Bolivar •'nly awaits the answer of Ad-
miral Brion, to advance toA.ugustura, the only place
11141 remains in the hands of the tyrants in that quar-
ter, where there remains no doubt of his success."

LIST AND SITUATION OW THE REPUBLICAN ARMIES Of
SOUTH AMERICA, IN THE PROVINCES OP
VENEZUELA AND GUATANA•

" General Simon Bolivar, at the head of the main
army, his head quarters at the Mesa before Augus-
tura, besieging Old and New Guayana, with the
divisions antler Generals Piar, Arismendi, Cedeno,
Bermudez, Valdez—strength about 7000 men, in.
ftntry snd cavalry. _ _

General PaeC, with the armies of Lower Apure,
about 601 X) strnng, mostly cavalry.
" General Serasa, at Chapana, in the province of
Barcelona, rear of Caraccas. with IWO-cavalry and
about 600 infantry.

" Genet .I'll.4nriag4s, in the rear of IlticelOsta, with
700 cavalry tend 300 infantry.
44 Genyta Karin°, in the Province 'of Cumana,
with 2500 infantry and 200 cavalry.
SI General Rau:, at Maturin, with 700 cavalry
and 200 infantry. _

" A squadr ,n of vessels, conshting of one sloop
of war, seven brigs, one hermaphrodite, 12 schooners,
one sl •op, and twelve gun•bo+ats, with 900 men on
hoard, under command of Admiral Brion, and des•
tined for the Otinoko, sailed from Carapono on the
6th June."

Yesterday the following Bulletin was exhibited at
St. James's-Palace, of the state of the Knots health :

" WINDSOR-CASTLE, AUGUST 2.

" His MAIM :AT has been generally in good health
and tranquil spirits during this last month, though
perhaps less uniformly than for some months pre•
ceding. His MAJesTY's disorder has suffered no
alteration."

The Princess of WALLS gave a grand concert of
•ocal and instrumental music, on the evening of the
I Ith of July, at her, magnificent country-house at
Scultheis. near Rome. The entire road leading to
the place was lighted. and many great personages
from Rome were present.
The Earl of Rossa,Vsi, accompanied by Sir HENRY
Botratam, Bart. and the Hon. Groace PONSONEY,
left town yesterday morning, for his Lordship's seat
in Scotland.

lEstro's THeante.—The matchless power of com-
position in 11 Don Giovanni sustains it notwithstanding
the fatigue of continual repetition. It was performed
on Saturday, and with as much Apparent admiration
as in its first glow. AIIBIinGIETTI sang DA vitai ants
fenestra, with more than his tuna, feeling. The ac
companimeer, by WEICHSELL, was admirable, The
Swett which. inflows the discovery of Lowell', was
sustained with superb effect. The ghove,scenes were
pertermecl,with full justice to theist,stomposiunn.
Music has_ fear; efforts of higher grandeur Oen. those
scenes, and none so wild, solemn, and unearthly.

. _
stars.—About five o'clock yesterday afternoon the
Workhouse of the parish of St. Saviour's, South-
wark, which was situated at the entrance of the Kent.
road, on the left hand, very near to the Elephant and
Castle, and formerly occupied by Mr. RICIIARD..ON,
a coach-maker, were set on fire by the flue of a gin-
gerbread-baker's over that adjoining them. The
whole building, which was of consider:dile extent,
has for the last three years been occupied by the pour
of St. Saviour's ; and as it was constructed entirely
of wood, the flames raged with great fury ; and
though the fire broke out during day-light, there was
considerable difficulty in saving the lives of several of
the poor inmates, particularly the sick and the lame.
The greatest exertion was burely sufficient for this
purpose : some were brought out on the hacks of
men; and others who could not submit even to this
exertion, were brought out on their beds laid on win-
dow-shutters. It gives us pleasure to say, that all
were ultimately saved, and carried to the school for-
merly occupied by Joseph Lancaster, in the Borough
Road. Some accidents occurred ; one boy is re-
ported to have been killed, and another to have had
his arm broken, and a woman has lost her thumb.—
Those accidents were occasioned by the falling of a
chimney of the building, of which scarcely a vestige
remains. We do not remember to have seen a fire so
competely destroy the premises in which it corn.
menced es the one above. The premises were very
extensiye, And their remains appear no& opnre,4han
would fili m corn mon waggon. 7 •
Sumisty si!noight about two o'clock illy& ;naming,
a 'fire.hrolte,Ant iu the house of a man aimed Rio:t-
wits, wholxeirt a carman's stage, at the lower end of
Blackpool; near Cork, by which that and the two
adjoining houses were in a very short time entirely
destroyed.. The houses being thatched, it was ins-
possible to arrest the progress of the fire. The poor
imams could save nothing—and to heighten the
calamity of this distressing circumstance, two men
(father and ion) named MiCarthy, -era a child be-
longing to Riordan.•were so dreadfully scorched as
to survive buvs.