Star.
London, England, 1818-12-28 00:00:00

„g• it h szpposed• the trials Will tOrnmence. to,
wards the close of the week. A deep an i solemn
Interest is felt in Baltimore on account of the persons
implicated. The issue is portentous. We say, fat
Jastaia ruat Ccdam
The Treasury Report occupies two columns of the
Itmerican Papers. • The Revenue of 1816 was 37
millions of dollars, and that of 181 7, with what re-
mained in the Treasury, 28 millions; the Revenue of
Isis is estimated at 28 millions; the Expenditure at
%millions, leaving the estimated balance in Treasury
is; January, 1819, nearly two millions. The Public
Debt unredeemed in America, nearly a hundred mil-
Erns of dollsrs. The estimate of 1819, is stated nearly
tilt. same as 1818. If they are correctly given, she
tes:Jue in the Treasury at the close of 1819 will be
nearly the same as in the preceding year, say two
millions of dollars.

• •
Saturday morning, soap after eleven o'clock, the
pate of YORK Ica York house, St. James's Palace;
fir Windsor, and fl-om thence proceeded to Oat
pros, where his Royal Highness had a party to
dinner.
The Duke and Duchess of CLARUNCII are expected
England in the month of February next.
Letters have been received from the Duke and
rachcss of CAM3RIDGE at Hanover t their. Royal
11:ghnesscs were in the enjoyment of good health orl
the t9th instant. The Royal Duke and • Ducheao
were to spend their Ch.•-tinas with the Laudgrave
11,1 st CASSEL, the father of the Duchess.
Saturday, Mrs. BECKENDO nrr, the principal dresser
to the late QUEEN, and constant attendant upon het'
afflicted Royal Mistress, (luring her long and painfult
i!!ness, arrived at the QUEEN'S Palace, in one of thi;
lce cI*.;EEN'S carriages, to remain there a short timo.;
The Royal carriage and horses allowed and used;
lathe Earl of II N moon r, as Master of the Home to'
I^.e late QUEEN, arc to he sold by auction with those
QUEEN. The coach-horses of her. late
Ystrstv amount to sixty. Some of the royal car-
Pages, appropriated to the use of the Royal attend-
arts, arc uf remarkably large sizo, calculated to hold
f'Y persons.
Lord CASTLEREIRtI, we arc sorry to state, is in-
Cinosed at his house in St..lames's-square.
Lady • CASTLLIMAGif arrived yesterday evening
boat North Cray; tirnit.
ilw Earl of LA u DE:RDA LE arrived on Friday even:,
isg, at WARREN'S New Hotel, New-street, from the
Continent. Yesterday his Lordship left town for
(Wands, on a visit to the Duke Of YORK.
The Earl of BRIDGEWATER keeps open house this
sewn at Ashrllge-castlc* near Ifcmel.ficmpstcad,
is Hertfordshire. The Noble Lord and his Lady
warped on Saturday (toot Hatfield, to meet their
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Thi Earl ofTratutaitt, at Gorhatr.bm, entertains
the VICE.(DANCELLOR and a largeparty... • • - •
The F.arl of ,Esana receives the leaders in political
1 at tho veaerable chateau in Cishiobury Park, .
Lard GaosvEtcortra fesLival on 'Cliriatmas-day al
Bradlty-ball, was an exact specimen of Englistinig.
tificeaeff aintancient besakality.•
Sir Joey and Lady Iletinv WOOD distributed, on
Nand ty last, fifty scompaunds of tinebcef, and fire
pintas' worth a bread, to the surrounding poor of
eteir estate in K,.:tit ••
On Christmas Day the Chapel of the Rol al Hospi-
nlat Chelsea was opened ferDirine Service, haringi
tidergono a variety of alterations and improve-:
mats during the summer. The pulpit and mai:ling-
o:ink have been removed from the centre, and
• placed en each side, so that the Altar is seen
' from between them, and the seats for the gallant old
Veterans from the Coparmtnion Table. A handsome
ser,Organ has also been erected, and twelve stand
of French colours, taken in the early. part of the Re-
volution, have been salt from the Secretary at War's
Office, and put up appropriately to decorate the
lading. The Lady of the Chapel was very full, and
tle galleries crowded with Ladies and Gentlemen.
• The Tagus, 36, Captain J. W. D. Donnas, which
-rived at Portsmouth on Tuesday from the Mod -
terranean station, left Malta pn the 13th of Novena-
ler, Gibraltar on the 29th, and Cadiz an the 7th of
December.—Left at Malta the Albion guard-ship
' Ilk CHAELZS Penaosx),_ and the Scout, refitting,
Tie Glasgow, Hon. Captain MAITLAND, was at
Curia attending his Excellency Sir THOMAS 14tIT•
LAID, bat expected at -Malta in a short time. The
Ganymede, Hon. Captain Seascaft, left Malta on
the same day the Tagus did, for Smyrna, with Mails,
*mace she would proceed to Naples. The Spey,
Captain WHITE, was on the coast of Italy, and the
Racehorse, Hon. Captain CAINPEELL, off Smyrna.
Malta and Gibraltar were perfectly free from con-
tagion. The American squadron was at Pa-
brat° ; the Dutch squadron at Mahon ; and the
Portsguese squadron at Gibraltar, blockading two
T47,isians. At Cadiz, troops were assembling to
lux. the Expedition to South America, under General
Ccnnt O'DONNELL ; but there was no prospect of
a,: departure of the fieet for several weeks—tran-
n,,,rts could not be procured. The Insurgent priva-
teers were very numerous off Cadiz ; they lately
captured a very rich ship, wiilt treasure, from Lima.
Information had been received at Gibraltar that the
Elglish schooner Sir Thomas Hardy, put into
Madeira, about the 20th November, having been
boarded and plandeted on the Bth of that month in
ht. 33. long. S. %V. by a pirate. The Sir Thomas
i
hardy was from Gibraltar, bound to Trinidad, with a
valuable cargo, one-third of which the pirate took
cat and destroyed, and threw the ship's stores over-
beard. They used the crew and passengers most
erat'dy r they were confined on board the pirate for
yr era' hours, and at one time were nearly suffocated ;
ther took from the' passengers every thing valuable
is their pessesiien. She is ship rigged, of about SOO
tr.. 1., sixteen 12-pounders, all,lloo men, composed 1
art nations ; her Commander did not pretend to be an
I-.woyent privateer„but declared himself at war with
a., nations. The Tagus sailed from Portsmouth yes-
ter,ltr: for Deptford to be paid off
'fhe three ancient tumuli, called the Chronicle
Mills, on Got Moor, in Cambridgeshire, have re-
cently betnirtellech The centre one was eight feet
"I height, and above ninety •in diameter, the others
were considerably lower, and all of them were con-
t?`ted ;"y a wall built lints and pebbles, strongly
amen tic:.