Star.
London, England, 1804-11-29 00:00:00

iUBLIN, NOP EMBER 13.

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The fecond battalion of the 27th foot. is to be em-
bodied at Glefgow. Tuefday fe'nnight, above an
hundred vet y fine recruits for the regiment. volun-
teendrs from e2d regiment of referve, marched into
that city.
Yeflerday the ad and the 4th Companies of the
Prince William Frederic's, or St. Clement: Volun-
teers, went to Canonbury-houfe, Iflington, whereeach
Company fired feparately for a medal, the one given
by Captain Pows tr., and the other by Capt.
he
CULLUM.
There was Come excellent dole firing, and, afier t
views were invefled with each his refpcnive prize,
the two Companies were fomptuoutTy entertained
with a dinner, &c. at the eapence of the Captains.—
After dinner they fkirmiflied actors the fields, in the
'dual manner of light troops, this Corps having Come
time been formed into a light infantry battalion.
An opinion has been very ridiculoufly circulated,
that the Bank Dollars, which have not a (mall dot.
Or full flop at tke end of the word Res" are forged.
This opinion, which daily occafioned much difficulty
and demur in the way of billings, is truly abfurd,
dnce he Bank of England arevery da y iffoin
redst of this defeription. The omitfion ot the dot is,
no doubt, occafioned by a fault in one of Mr. Ben.-
row's dins.
Soon after his Mai s sres arrival at Weymouth, he
rode out one morning a few miles from the town.—
His only attendants were General --, and a groom;
having left them at Come Newt diftance behind, his
MA] I iTi entered a large field, in which he perceived
but one fnlitary poor woman at work. With that
condefeenfis n and benevolence which are thc ch.irac
teriftics of •trne greatnef, he enquired of her .. How
it came that the was the only perfon employed, where
these appeared fo much bufinefs to be done r' The
good woman frankly anfwered--... That the had forty
companions, but that they were gone to Weymouth,
to
me the King ; but the knew her mailer would flop
Co uch of der day's pay us the time the Mould be
sbfent would amount to, therefore the did not auk
wheng." The King, with accullemed good hu-
nur, raid, " As you did not go to fee the King.
has kmates retrirn. you may tell them the
King has been (e yon ;" and putting five guineas
into her hand. rode off, leaving the fionell country
woman equally aflonillied as &wolfed with her illuf-
tsious but unopened vsfitor.

The utility of Mr. Forrea's meafures are dailT de-
veloping themfelves. He has caufed, this day. a no-
tification to be made at the Royal Eichange, that,
after the 3d dam month, the Lords of the Treafury
will, for the public accommodatiou, draw on Lon-
don for any furn above ten pounds :—formerly the
Treafury did not draw for lefs than Soot and the bill
trade was made fuch a monopoly of, and exchange
confequently Co high, that all imported articles were
becoming molt intolerably dear to the tonfumers.

YOUNG Roams is at lall announced to appear at
Covent Garden Theatre on Saturday next, in the
charafter of dfcbtesi, in Earbargio. Report Rater,
that his firfl appearance at Drury lane Theatre, in the
fecond week of December, will be in the character of
Hamlet. The two Houfes are feemingly refolved to
emulate each other in their attentions to this lumi-
nary of the Theatrical World.
W&LLIAM ADAM JAcesott, Efq. died yeßerday
morning. His death occafious a vacancy in the EAR
India diralion.
We have been favoured with tl copy of a letter,
from an officer in the Bikini army in Guzzerat, dated
July to, giving an account of the occurrence which
rumour had magnified into a defeat of one of our de-
tachments. The fad was amply this colun
of the army, under the orders of Colonel Monson,
was led into an ambuth in the mountains by his guides;
the pals afforded great advantage to the affAilants,and
their attack was in the highell degree ardent and re-
fulute ; but fuch was the Steady valour of our people,
that the enemy were compelled to fly, leaving a great
number of killed and wounded behind.
The Alit:ling intellince of the death of General
Dos LOP, in Antigua,-has been communicated by an
officer of rank, who Rates, that till within a few days
of that event, his attentions and counfels had cheered,
(Dd, and, as to the furvivots, eminently coma.
butt five, all the (offerers by the difeafe to which
be fell a viaim, and that its progrefs in himfelf, after
the cruel lots of his nephew, had been probablyacce-
lerated by efforts not more painful than honourable
to his affections and magnanimity.
On Sunday let, as Mr. Biwa*, the allay Valet
of the Duke of DIVONSIIIII, was on bareback, at-
tending his Grace to town, he fell fenfelefs from his
bode. The Duke had him taken to the neareß public
houfe, and the hell medical *Glance called in ; be
remains dangeroully
On Thurfday lag, the remains oldie late Earl of
BUCKINONANSNIII, were depofited with great fu-
neral folemnity, in the family vault, at Naeton, near
Lincoln. His Lordthip's numerous tenantry affem-
bled on this melancholy =start% to pay the Lab tri-
bute of gratitude and affeelion due to a Nobleman,
who, poreffing many virtues, had never, in the whole
courts of his. life, or the exigency of the times, railed
their rents, but who held out to the lab the excellent
maxim, Let the poor man Rae."
LaR week a foot-race took place on the Burrows,
near Swanfea, between Lieut. Youso, of the Navy,
end Mr. Czayss, who left his opponent confiderably
Two large barns, the property of a wealthy far.
met, near Hatfield, were, a few days ago, totally de.
firoyed by fire. They contained the produce of So
acres.
Monday night laR a dreadful fire broke not at Mr:
Ovaitrou's japan warehoute in Finfbury-fireet, near
Finlbury-fquare, which entirely confound the wrtt k-
(hops and premifes, and materially injured the back
part of the lioufeand atop of Mt. Owes, iinman, in
Chifwell-ftreet, and feveral other brutes adjoining.—
The fite proceeded from the varnith taking fii
A dangerous fire broke out on Monday night, in
Norby's.lane, Plymouth, which for a confiderable
time threatened much deilruflion ; it was (tee:dinned
by charcoal being lodged in a cupboard near the
fire-place, in a houfe chafe to Charles's Church, and
was difcovered about t t o'clock, after the family
were in bed, and who had but juft time to eleape
with their lives. The flames continued until that,
and the two adjoining houfes, were burned to the
ground, with nearly all their furniture ; and it was
with great difficulty that the engines could prevent
the fire from commonicating with the church, the
roof of which was very much ezpofed to the flames
from the houfes that were on fire immediately op-
polite, and parted only by a very narrow lane. Two
of the families arc reduced to the greateß dißrefai
having 101 l their all, and having 7 children each.
CHILD Sr saziso.—On Monday evening a young
woman of a very genteel appearance enquired of fe.
vend of the inhabitants of Blackfriars for a woman
who had lately lain in, but could not mention any
name : Oa
orwas at lenh dirAtted to the honk clone
Martin, a pter, in Cugtrrier's-row, Blaekfriars, whole
wife was delivered of a boy about five weeks Ana
She introduced herfelf to the mother, as having come
from Portfmouth, and being greatly fatigued, gave
her a lever Wiling piece to buy tome tea and fugar,
and laid the would nurhe the child during her ab-
fence. After being retreated, the requeßed of Mrs.
Martin to accompany her along Blackfriars Bridge,
to a Gentleman's hook, who would reward her for
her trouble, and the would carry the child for her
—when they clime to the foot of the bridge, the
ftrange lady decamped with the child, And has not
linen been heard of, although every polLble fearch
has been made.
Mum., who in their younger years are delighted
with the dory of Fortune's Ifrybing Cap, are apt, when
trey grow up, to amufe their minds with fimple
willies
only for riches and In
a T
his,b to
The he fiAd-
re,
is very natural, and ye
venturer, t it is veryd.
ith even but the finallea Share in a I.e t•
tery, has infinitely a better claim to the (miles of Fr r.
tune, than all 'bole who are eternally peßering her
with mere w ilhes for her Bounty. This laudable
zeal to acquire wealth, by (having to obtain it, to
now a molt favourable and inviting opportunity For
its difplay ; as the approaching Grand Lottery contans
an intmeafe fund of ticks, for didribution among a
coufiderable number of individuals, who realer
thensfelves wrathy of Fortune's favours. not by ille
wakes, but by an aftual and fpirited scivessins is
ha prekst inult opsicat