Star.
London, England, 1818-03-24 00:00:00

CUSTOM-HOUSE, MARCH 23.

Sines ENIZRED Ism-aim—The Pacific, from Waterford;
Chance, from St. Domingo ; Union, Prince of Waterloo, and
Commercial Packet, from Ostend ; Mercurius and Robert and
Janet, from Rotterdam ; Flora, from Hamburgh ; Rliza, from
Belfast ; Active, from Cork ; Singleton, from Stangate Creek ;
Liberty, from St. Michael's ; Enterprize, from Falmouth ; John,
from Hull; Harry Morris, from Gottenburgh ; Waterloo, Ca-
nada, Naiad, and North Ash, from Lisbon Diana, from Ross ;
Bideford and John and Richard, from Rouen; Sophia, from
Amsterdam ; Rockingham, from Savannah ; and Pultenvy, from
Guemsey.—Outwatm.—The St. Heleua, for Ilamburgh ;
Tiber and William, for Rio Janeiro; Ccres, for Baltimore;
Deanor, for Ostend; Northampton, fur ; Ihviiia, fur
3:it-a:M.:Si; Joseph and Mary, for Halifax; Charming Molly,
fur Calais; and Zorgvuldigheid, for Bourtleaux.

A dish of new potatoes, raised in an open garden
at Carlisle, each of them about the size of a walnut,
was served up, last week, at the table of a Lady of
that city.
The herring fishery at Portsmouth, this season pro-
duced upwards of twenty thousand pounds. Upwards
of five thousand barrels were cured, and generally
found a good market.
TILE LATE CARDINAL YORK.—The monument to
the memory of the Cardinal YORK, the last of the un-
fortunate race of the House of STUART, is now in
progress, under the direction of the celebrated CA-
NOVA. It will he recollected, that by the munificence
of the Parser Itromsr, in the year 1815, the suns of
'250.000 francs were placed by Lord CASTLEREAGH
at the Disposal of CANOVA, who was then at Paris, to
be applied to defray the expense of carrying to Rome
the works of art restored by Dance, of which suns
50,000 francs were directed to he appropriated to-
wards the monument of the Cardinal YORK. It is
now erecting in St. Peter's, where the monument of
his father is placed, under the title of Kin:: of Great
Britain, France awl Peland. Ik/hailer y* the Faith,
&c. It is said, that the Cardinal, by his will, di-
rected, that his name should be recorded on his tomb
as Henry the Ninth. CAsov.► has undertaken to ex-
ecute a marble group to adorn and illustrate the mo-
nument, which, when completed, will form a distin-
guished ornament of the magnificent Cathedral of
Rome. It is expected to be finished in the course of
the present year.
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IIArm!: 6Aptorr.—c.4:7 w7d Y r-lersfr n were yesterday
charged with stealing a qu trtity of paper, the property of Mr.
Vdarr, printer, of T, ok is-court, Cersito:-street, Chancery-
lane. Barker said be was innocent of the ollence, but stated
that he saw Ernerston steal the property, and carry it away
under his coat. The prisoncrs were both rcn.andtd for a further
examination.

THE Aii4V.

IsntA.—The Western Division of the Army of the
Dukhin, has been brigaded as follows :

Lic HT A RTILLER V Bittceoe, to consist of—The tip of Horse
Attillery, Galloper% incorporated with it, and the /ticket troop.

CAVALRY BRIC: tnr, to comist of-4th Regiment Light Ca-
valry, Ektaehinent of his IVlajecty's t. 211 Regiment Light Dm.
goons, and 9th Regiment Light Cavalry:

LIG2IT BILICADC, to consist ef—lhe Rifle Corps,lst-Battalion
6th Regimert, or Trichinopoly I.ltiht Infantry, Sd n
,7th, or Chicacole, and t st Battalion 3‘l, or Rilsmcottah.

FIRST Barnanr, to consist of—Flank Companies of his Ms'
jedty's Regiment Royal SC:44, set Battalion 7th Native Reg:-
ment, and Madras European Regiment.

Scastrn Barianz, to consist of 14th Battalion 14th ReriMert
Native Infantry, ttd Battalion 6th Regiment Native Infantry.
The Infantry guns are to h. formed in battery, to which the
Company of Foot Artillery and Gun Lascars will be attached.
Major Liishitror, of the 4th Light Cavalry, to command the
Cavalry Brigade ; Lieut. l.yon, of the Bth Regiment Light Ca-
valry, to be Major of Brigade to the Cavalry Brigade ; Lieut.-
Colonel Deacon to command the Light Brigade; Lieutenant
W. Low, to he Brigade Major to the Light Brigade; Lieut -
Colonel Thompson to command the Ist Brigade of Infantry ;
Captain IltintPr to be Brigade Major to the tat Brigade of In
; li•notenant-rolonel It. Sr.ot. to command the id Bro-
pat of lii:nitty; Captain Napier, of the. Rifle Corps, to be
Brigade Vaior to the 2d Infantry llri. ade ; Major Noble,
C. B. to command the Artillery of the lat thvialon, in conformity
, to his appointment, G. O. 224 Octobi r; Lieut. Bonner, oft!

I furse Artillery, to be :Ilajor of Brigade to the Artillery: Lieut.
Poggonpohl, to act as Adjutant of the Horse Artillery; Captain
Wulyerd, senior (officer in charge of the Artillery and !locket
command the Light Artillery Ilripade; Lieutenant
Dafica, Field Engineer, with the Ist, nd, and 3d Ilivisin»a.

A lettar from Paris says—" The efforts of the Polk! hive
been crowned with success; the assassin of the Duke of Vs,:
LINGTON is in custody, yet the Police is still silent, because it is
believed that he has accomplices not yet in custody. The fol-
lowing are the facts which may be implicitly relied on :—The
execrable wretch is one Caniithrt, or Cann/lon, formerly a
soldier, who had taken refuge in B:lgium. This miserable out-
cast, seduced by the hope of a reward, came secretly to Paris,
to commit the crime in question; he immediately got his mus-
tachios shaved, and set off without a passport for the Low
Countries, but the Gendarmerie would not suffer him to pass
the frontiers. rangllon knowing well that the Police was after
him, fancied that he would be more safe at Paris than any
where else ; he therefore returned, and was arrested in the day-
time on Monday last. Nothing has yet transpired as to any
confessions that he may have made, but it appears certain that
he has several accomplices or instigators, some of whom are
already in custody. It may safely be affirmed, that this exe-
crable plot was formed in Belgium, by a set of miserable
wretches, who cannot be said specially to belong to any party,
who have no country, but are always anxious to seize the oppor-
tunity of creating or profiting by troubles, because they have no
means of existence except what tumult or disorder affords."

A letter has been recently received from a young
British Officer, who had arrived at Trinidad, in the
middle of December, after a narrow escape from fall-
ing into the bands of the Spaniards, in an attempt to
juin the Independents on the Oronoko. We select
the following passages from this communication:
"We sailed from Spithead on the 6th of October. On the
30th, we arrived at the Island of Barbadoen having put in there
with the intention of getting some information respecting the
Island of Margarita, as it was thought advisable, if that Island
was in possession of the Patriots, to make it the place of our de-
stination. There we were told that the Patriots had lately taken
it. On the 4th of November, we sailed from Brides Town,
Barbadoes. On the 6th, we arrived in the Bay of I'ampatnr,in
the bland of Margarita. The vessel did :tot come to anchor
until we had dispatched two naval officer in a boat, to know
the truth of the news we received at Barbadoce. Some hours
elapsed before we received any tidings of the two gentlemen,
which, you may conceive, made all on board very uneasy for
their safety. ln the course of the day, we observed, with the
help of a spy-glass, one of them mounted on a mule, with a guide,
and the other with an officer in uniform, corning diseen to tee
shore towards our boat. Into that they got, and came off to the
ship, which w sat the time sailing up and down in the Bay, On
their coming n hoard, we were told, that the military oili-Ir was
come to rem sin is hostage until the arrival of Lientecch,
who was dispatched for orders to the General of the Island, to
the distance o: eighteen miles. Lieutenant did not artier
till late the next day, which caused a great deal of alarm. The
news he gave us was, that General A. would be down to visit
the ship in the course of two days. Ile WAS true to his wore!,
and brought with him his Staff. ale, with his friends, dined on
board, and I It us at a Itte hour in the evening.
We were that day informed, that there were on the Island
twenty-nit e
.:entlemen, passengers, that came out in the Two
Fricuds; th. greatest number of them in the greatest ss,
the General refusing to take them into his servi:e, and they
without an: money of their own. They were literally starvieg,
being allowed only a dollar between four persons. There was
no bread, nor any kind of butcher's meat, to be got on the island.
Fish and fruit they could get, but not in great abundance. Ge-
neral .Irimeendi told us all on board, that he was sorry we hail
come out, for our services were not required, as he had plenty
of men, and officers sufficient to take the charge of them.
" I must give you some idea of the caese of the scarcity nn
that Island. Some time before we are:yeti the Spaniards rneile
an attack on the place with 4000 men, di:moll:heel most of the
forts,miked and threw the guns over the walls into the sea, un-
roofed-every house in the Island, putting every person to death
or to torture th. t fell into their hands. There were seen teen
and women, o!d and young, with their ears cut off ; some heed
their eyes plucked out; sonic were skinned alive; mann. was ovi a
attacked in its most innocent form, and infants were destroyed in
the swaps of their mothers by blows and stabs of the le y met.
" General Arirt until made proposals to the Cep:ein it o
ear
brig for the conveying out of the Wand those passengers that
were left by the Tvi o Friends, and, by what we could learn, he
agreed to pay their passage, and to send on board as much turtle
as would keep them for about 10 days, and also fresh water and
sugar. But in consequeuee .4' the inconvenience to which they
would have put the pa esengers on board of our brig, they strenu-
ously opposed takieji the whole. The gentlemen put it to the
vote what slumber should be allowed, and the majority w. re
favour of ltf coming on board. ilia mode of proceeding gave
offence to the Commandant, and we who were on shore at the
time, were, in a most barbarous manner, forced ieto a prison, in
erhich we were kept in a dungeon, without a morsel to eat or
drink, or even any thing to sit or lie down upon, save the cold
floor; and it was their intention to have kept us all, and put us
to the torture, until our consent could he got to take those other
gentlemen from the island. The gentlemen put into prison were
---(here the writer states the nemes of seven persons be-
side-3 hiniself.l—We took in the IS geutleme n the following day,
and set sail for the Spanish 3lain, first touching at the Weed of
'lritidad, where we obtabitel a small craft to convey us to the Ore:-
mike., but its our passage thither,we were Attack...ll.v a far supe-
rior force of the Spaniards, who were blockading the mouth of
the river. We were obliged to take to the boats and endeavour
to escape to the shore, and secrete ourselves in the woods, which
in the most miraculous manner possible, VP: succeeded in (Mee-l-
ing with our boat ; but one boat load of Geotlemen tell into their
hew's, and sorry am I to say, the whole of them were Mater-
diately pat to death. When eieht came inn we made again for
the shore, Invitee, by this time, got up a good distance hem
where we landed, and near to a sea-port town opposite to tLe
island ref Tiiiiid ul, where we stole a Loat, and :owed acne,'
the gall of Perlin tool got safe landed. The ev:mle Met
boat'. crew which escaped those liter- iless videies did not ctme
Of with us, as they did not arrive in time to take the boat."
Buaneenr.—'Fhree ruffians in disguise effected an entrarce
into the house of Mrs. bowl, Pratt-place, harrow-road, ca
Sunday night, by scaling a wall of eight feet et the back of he
house soon after dark. Mrs. frames, her nreid servant, and
daughter, were in the parlour, when one of the thieves entered,
and after securing them in the room, they proceeded to ranttc
the house of portable articles, but they were disappointed es'
much booty, Mrs. limes having paid away 40/. on Friday hen
They got a 10s. in money from the Lady, her watch from :he
mantle shelf, and some silver spoons, a silver waiter, tea caddy,
and other articles, value 41.1. with winds they decaanfecL No
teonal ye:knee was committed.