Star.
London, England, 1803-05-06 00:00:00

EDINBIIRGIL

Saturday the Lotto PROVOST of Edinburgh re
ceived a Letter from Lord Hoaarr, announcing I
his MAjerrv's gracioks acceptance of his Lord-
fhip's offer to raife a regiment of coo plivatts '
the city of Edinburgh, on the footing of the late
Firft Regiment of Royal Edinburgh Volunteers :
the clothing of the Volunteers, as well as the re•
gular Infantry, fhoold be Icarkt.
His Malssry has alto been pleafed to accept
the renewed offer of fri vice of the late Corps of
Royal Edinburgh Artillery Voluateers,tranfruitted
by the Loan PROVOST.
The following letter and extra& were received
by the Right Hon. the LORD Pativosr of Edin-
burgh fome time ago :
To the Right Honourable the Loan Paovosr, Chief
Magiftrate of Edinburgh.
My Lord-1 beg have to tranfntit to yore Lordlitip an et-
tradt from a French journal, which has been lately pabliihcil in
this town. The antient name of Ramfay is fo well, known in
Scotland, that it may likely be in your power to obtain fome
infarmation about the family of Thomi Sangfter Ramfay, a
young man of about 18 years of age, who is Paid to be born In
Bengal, and fon to Mr. Nifbet Ranifay, a Scotch Gentkman,l
' and loperior Officer in the nigh& army about 1793. This
unhappy youth, after having been turned away, and wilfully
forfaken by the inhuman tutor at Bayonne, to whore care be had
been committed by his father, has been a moll wretched wan-
derer Ode nine years, both by lea and land. No doubt but his
I relations have been very uneafy about his fat:. and very likely
have mourned for him as for a dead child. How glad would
they be to hear he is well, and longs to take flicker in their
arms! _ _ .

mould think myfelf happy to be allured that this my appli-
cation to your humanity, in favour of your young countryman,
has not been difpleafing to your Lordihig, and that it may be
any way fel riceable to him.
I am, very refpedifully, your Lordetip's molt humble fermis,
FA UT /N. Secretaire de la Mairie, a Grenoble.
_ _

Grenoble, the tBth Ventofe, March 9, 1803.
Extra& from the Journal de Grenoble, ou Annales du Depart-
mein de Flier., Mereredi, Is. Venter-
Ninon Ramfay, burn in Scotland, and of confiderable rank
in t'.e BMA fervice, was taken prifoner by the French the be-
ginning of the raft war, and carried into Touloufe, about the
I year t y 93. At the fall of Robcfpkrre he quitted that city, and
repaired to Bayonne, a prifoner on his parole.' He had with
him his fon, Thomas Sangftar Ramfay, born in Bengal, whole
mother died in child-birth. Nilbet Ramfay boarded his fon
with M. Amile Neale Munn Berger, &ardor of the or-
' cheftra at the theatre of Bayoruseg but being obliged to depart
fuddenly, to return to his native country, be committed the
rare of his fon to a private perfon, for whom he bad letters of
I recommendation, and to whom he gave money for the charge
of his fon till be could fend for him. Bat this Friel, dead
to every feeling of honour and humanity, received the money
di:dined as the board of young Ramfay, without fulfilling the
engagements be had contraßed in receiving under his roof this
faced depofit. He turned this unfortunatechild oat of his honk
at the age of nine, and obliged him to engage hinifelf as a cabin.'
boy. Young Ramfay reeved in that capacieT four years. rte-
turning to France, he landed at Ham, Rill ignorant where his
parents might be. Since that period he has led a wandering'
life, and fo unfortunate, that often fie has been obliged to
his bread. At laft chance concluded him into the department
of Ifere, where he tilled the ground and kept cattle, near four
years at St. jean de Voux, a village fituate in the met moun-
tainous part of the country, and four leagues from Grenoble.—
Fatigued with this fate of fervitude, and urged by the ardent
defile of finding his father again, of whole fate he was Rill ig-
norant, he went to Grenoble, where he least by accident that
Mr. Berger, his asulle-mater at Bayonne, elided at Grenoble.
—He went to his honk ; Mr. Belzer recoUe&ed bins ; and
young Ramfay has found in his old meter a reeved father.—
The family of Randal, mutt be in the great& anxiety for the
fate of this unfortunate youth. Mr. Berger, yielding to the
imputre of geoerofity, and hauling only to the voice of huma-
nity, will take charge of the young man, tin his family, inform.
ed of the place of his refidence, will claim him. Young Ram-
fay is tall, has a fine figure, and a pleafant countenance. Poverty
and the wild itate he was in have not altered his features, nor
limited his undatanding ; fie has not altogether forgot the
k Engin!' language, and Rill retains fame knowledge of mufic.
Mr. Berger thinks the quicken method of making the erg-
tepee of Thomas Ramfay known to his family, will be to infert
in our Paper the Matey of his misfortune, in hopes that the
mot creditable joumalitts of Paris, eager to contribute to the
tenpin& of Ramfay, will infest this account in theirs. Thcfe
papas, circulating in England, will inform tie family of RAM
fay, where they will find their loft child. M. Amile Weals.
untz-Berger, Precffor of Marie, lives in Rue-Broelta ie, No.
it itt, Grenoble.—To this addrefs, particularly, the family of
Ramfap will have recede to find young Thomas.

Monday night a fire broke out in Albemarle-
(beet, Clerkenwell, which burnt with confiders•
ble fury for Tome time, and three or four houfes
were deftroyed before any flop could be put to
its ravages.
Friday morning, about three o'clock, a fire
broke out in a bake•houfe in Chaffee's-alley, With-
am, near Hull, which burnt it and the dwelling.
honk adjoining to the ground. By prompt affif-
ranee die flames were prevented from communi-
cating to the neighbouring houfes, which at one
time were in great danger.'
On the t 7th of April a fire broke out in a cot-
tage at Pigheldean, from whence fix other cot-
tages-caught fire, and burnt fo furioufly, that they
were all entirely deftroyed.
Some attempts were lately made to deltroy the
town of Norfolk, in America, by fire. A man
named Higgins, and feveral others. had taken
ground on building leafes at fo high a rent, that
after the houfes were finilbed they would not let
for fo much money as was paid for ground rent ;
and the molt effeftual way to get rid of the con•
cern was by infuring the bodes and Petting them
on fire, but the plan was difcovered, and the par-
ties are in cuftody.

BIRTHS.
Tefterday morning, the Counters of Suntterlaati, of a folk
Same morning, the Countefs of Sefton, of a daughter.
Sunday fennight, the Lady of Colonel Hay, of Maidttone, of
a daughter.
On the 19th ult. at the book of Lord Dundalk, at Upteathant,
In YorkAirc, tee Hon. Mn. Spein, of Edo 01c, of a fen and
heir.

MARRIED. .
Monday fennight, yvlrr. John Muir, merchant, Obfgrow, to
Mile Elisabeth Sibbsid, daughter of Mr. Andrew 6lbhaW, Ma'
chant.