Star.
London, England, 1816-06-05 00:00:00

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Tile Governor ot the Island of St. 13 irtholomew's
11.. s iss•i..ki his Proclamation, bearing da.e the 2:)C1 of
April 1 isc, ordaining that licreaftcr vessels may lie off
and on the harbour of St. B 4! thokanew's from son.
ke to can-iet ; proviled th it the Captain of the ves-
sel, imov_diately cn his arrival (l shore, repairs to the
Fort Gaitaviis I'LL and takes out a permit from the
cot:mauling officer, for v.hich is to bz paid a fee of
ttv,) dollars for a ship, one and a half dollar for a brig,
and one dollar tor a topsail schooner or topsail sloop,
and six rials for .1 smaller'vessel.

'6l:. tax formerly paid, under the name of ton-
nage niuley. is reduced one half ; and the following
atticles ale permitted to be imported free of duty :
ruin and molasses, peas, beans, potatoes, onions,

anzl ail other ground provisions, or garden fruits;
14;it w:tt•;tt, rye, and all other kinds of meal, pork,
hams, lard, butts r, cheese, timber, spars, masts,
pugs, deals, planks, staves, shooks, shingles, iron and
wood hoop;, and every kid of wood, coming from
wh.'t place, or in what bottom soever, are to pay one
per cent. of their value.

We have received the Paris Papers of Sunday,
from whic' we sullnin some estri.cts. FEnDINAND,
Kilig of Spain, has issued a long 11.cree, with a view
to euconrage the progress of agriculture in Spain..
le purposes to dispense With all Taxes on such lands
as shall be brunght into a state of cultivation from a
state of waste, and promises to intercede with the
Roman Pontil to du the same, so far as the tights of
the Church are coiner:lel! :

PARIS, JUNE ft.
His Majesty will set out for Fontainebleau on the
12th, and return on the 16th.•
Recent accounts hom Grenoble state, that Didier
affects, while under examination, a confidence which
he is far from possessing in reality.
The Duke of Wellington is expected every instant
at Paris.
The Police has just seized a parcel of 240 copies
of Nala Smote, which were addressed to an indi-
vidual in the Faubourg St. Dellis : 150 of these very
libels had been seized the week before, and prosecu-
tions will be directed against the authors of those
criminal distributions.
Letters from Antwerp announce the embarkation
of M. Real, the Prefect of French Police, during the
interregnom—he goes with his family to the United
States, where he is said to have porchaled s large
estate on the Banks of the Ohio. •
Czerni Georges, who has performed :with an int-
portent part in the wars of Servia and Walachia, ar-
rived on the 2d of May at St. Putersburgh. H 8 has
been presented to the Emperor .4 Russia.
The Court of Assizes will try, off the 10th inst. the
Prititers and Itters of the I#l tit Trikka.

THE KING'S aratiz.giy.
It being the datetirination of the Royo Family
to obserie this day, as one of nkoMfoliation end 011ie-
they went to KawPalace, :Is the most retire d
spot. Her .MAJEwri left her Palace, eccoto&mied
by the Partmessat- mon after nine o'clock, for Kew.'
The pa:pea Rimer. followed his Royal Mother from
Carlini+ Mouse* twelve o'clock ; the Duke of CLA-
RENCK left Clarence House at MAll:past Nit ; the
Pete of Yoax did trit leave York House till near five.
.--Mr.'VroLcit, the Manufacturer of Mail Coaches,
gave his annual entertainment at his Hanufactory,in
Millbank-row, to the Pcist-masters of the mail coaches,
who resorted there from Considerable distances, Some
as far off as York, Sheffield, &c. this being au occa-
sion. of wiring with each other as to who shall prn•.
duce the best, Sets of horses. At about five o'clock'
o'clock, the numerous assembhtge of drivers, guards,
&c. in their, new uniforms, were assembled at Hill-
bank, and being uncovered, drank the King's health
in bumpers of port wine, with three cheers. They
then proceeded from Millbanh-row to Pall Mall, by
Arlington street, to be inspected by the Marquis of
SALISBURY, one of the Post Masters' from there to
the end of Stratton-street, for the like purpo.c, by
the Earl of CIIICHLiTiIIt ; proceeded from thence
through Piccadilly, down Constitutiin-hill„stopped
opposite the Queen's Palace, aed then proceeded
damsels the Pant, out at the Horse Guards, and by
the Strand, to the General Post-Office. The ntlier
public demonstrations of rejoicing were at the Opera
House, Drury-Lane, Covent. Garden, and the Hay-
market Theatres ; some of the Public Offices ,end

the Royal tradesmen's houses were illuminated. Tne
annual distribution of barrels of ale at St. James's
Palace and in the front bf the Admiralty, took place.
The bells rung during the whole of the day..

The Princess Curstmovre and Prince LEOPOLD
honoured Covent•Gard,:ti Theatte with their presence
on Monday evening. They went in private,-and at
in a private box, unobserved by the audience.
It is believed that the loyal nuptials between- the
Duke of GLOUCIZSTER and the Princess MARY will
take place on the S:h insiant at Carlton-11Ju;e• The
KING, it is said, often expressed a wish to the QuEeN
on the ra.vject. Every thing is nosy arranging for the
nuptials. The royal couple will retire to the Duke's
house at Bagshot, wuich is ne.rly in readiness to re-
ceive them. The Duke will toonorrow entertain the
PRINCE REGENT, the (..i.uscm, Prncesses lf,s.tartarrit
and MARY, the Princess CHARLOTTE, Prince I.Loraci,
his Royal Sister, and other branches ot. the Royal
Family, with a grand dinner at Gloucester-liouse.
A third ouirriage is said to he now upon Cie car-
pet—namely, the Duke of CAMBRII)GI with the prin-
cess Stviria•of GLoVeit-.TER.

Ott Mon..hre morning last died, Mrs. VALPY, wife
of the Rev. 1)r. V.tLev, ot !fettling.
Saturday, three bells west. hung in the steeple of
the beautiful church building for the parish of Mary-
la-bonne. The belfry is capable, of c:arse, of con-
taining a full set, eiitch will soon 13:.• co.opleted.
The Bill to ertl,:r:.e the Powers of the Chartered
Gas Li;tht and ;:oke Company, now belote Pat L-
ament, deserves partiviltir attention on the part of the
MeMisers, as 'it gives to the Company new powers
watch, in their operation would effectually deprive
the Public (ti all benefit of c,mpetition from other
Gas L:eht CompaMes, and confer on the first men
tioned Company a complete monopoly. The Com-
missitmets of Pavements will, we doubt not, take
Coe of the trust, committed to them, by insist tivz on
the exclusion of every clause from the 1141
would confer on the Company the power if b:tak.
Mg, up the pavements whenever they may olcase,
without le:ing subject to any controtil t but tithe!
and important considerations present themselves.—
According to the existing Act, the Gas Light
' Corporation are nit hound to light the Whuee of Pa
•
runes or Ditiriett, that is, they may, according to the
Act, plead that their capital is not sufficient to enable
them to light the Whole of the Parish. This legal
loop bele enables the. Company to pick out chow
streets in various itari.her in-st abohneling with good
shops, tind such as ate most likely to be lighted with
while the bystieets, lanes, and all'es, which, in
the judgment ot every 'person connected with th:e
Police, ought to be ligitte.l to the highest degree as
The best security agaiust robbery and murder, are left
in tlarkneYt, and rendered still more so from the blaze
of light which pervades the high streets : supposing
then, that the Commissioners and Trustees should be
anxious, from motives of safety as well as comfort, to
have the if-hol; of a Parish' or Diatriet lighted, as the
law now stands they can give the preference to that
Company which will undertake to do so; but from
the hour that this Bill shall have become law, the
public will be at the mercy of the Corporate Gas
Company, who Will of course iinmediatily run their
mains and pipes along all the high streets; it is idle
to imagine that any rival company will be at the
expense .of laying down their mains and pipes,
in the lanes and alleys, when the best streets are
taken possession of ; indeed, the GAS Company
admit this cannot answer the end of any one, and
it is in evidence, that after the Gas Company shall
have laid down their mains and pirs, under the
authority of the intended Act, no private Corn.
pany, without risk ot ruin, could • lay down A se,
rood course, or attempt to compete with a corporate.
Company having at command a capital of £8400,000,
and only, responsible to the extent of 450, the amount
of each original Share. It has also been proved, that
with the intended increase of Capital, and the pro.
posed independence of the Commissioners and Trus-
tees. the Gas Company might, in the course of a few
months, extend their mains and pipes from one end
of the Metropolis to the other, by keeping only.to
the high streets; after which,' as has been sbewn,
they may make their own terms with the Public, when
thus strengthened, and set above all rivaiship.—
Perhaps among all the clauses of the new Bill none
will more surprise our Readers than• one authorizing
the Company to send persons into any private house,
supplied by them with &as, at arty time in the day,
and without. any previous notice, to inspect the ma-
.chinery, and ascertain the quantity of gas consothed.
44 or foe egg other poytors, &sips. or haeotlP and.- if re-
' fused admittance, they may, on application to a Jas.
tic* ot Peace obtain a distress warrant to levy .the
"'enmity on the goods of the owner. -This eztravigant,
assumption of power, by a trading Company over
their customers' is, we .believeof u, now io the legit,.
lation of every othir country, as it cortaietris ht that
Zugland. . .

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t7IE ARMY:

This owning the 2d Regiment of Royal Horse-
Geards,,ssembled in the Regent's Park, whetice they
proceeded -in t':amwood Scrubs, *here they. had a
sham fight.. . • . .
Monday *the I Sth.Littht Dragoons were inspected
by his Royal Highness the COMMANDILR•N•COIEFI at
Rumford, on their return from. France. .The
ance of this fine Regiment was admirable, and 01.-
tained from his Royal Highness the trost R atering
and gracious expressions of approbation, H. parti-
cularly noticed the beauty and comtition of the
horses, all cf v hich he minutely inspected,attended by
the Inspector general (Major General BOLT s), to
whom lie repeatedly expressed his satisfacti,n. ititer
the inspection the Duke and his numerous s:•ite par.
took of an (elegant eiestni h la fourckette, prepared by
the Officers of the 1:301 Light Dragoons, al.ete t`'e
choicest wines, mid every delicacy the rn.ftrep..l;l
could furnish, were assembled. His Royal iltit
appeated in the best health and s;;lrit.i, and comph.
mented di:, Regiment on their serv:ces at WA; lin",
and in the Peninsula, where this distiiiruishd c
served so nroly campaigns I.a.der his Grmce tl4. Dune
Of WELLINGToN.