Star. — 1807-06-08 (London, England)

AUSTIN. By this 'fleet many of the KING'S and Company's Officers go out to join their regiments at the different Prefidencies, as well as at the Cape of Good Hope : a large body of tronps likewife goes out.  We hive Peen letters which came by the Experiment, and which defctibe the _terrible fituation in which the Mind of Sr. Helena is, from the ravages of the mealles. This diforder had been introduced by a neutral velrel ; but in a few days no lets than one hundred of the inha!itants died in the valley. Governor PATON had ellablifhed a board• of health, and placed the valley under quarantine, forbidding all intereourfe with it from any p iris of the Wand.  Not only Generals Sir JoHN Casnnocic and IshCOLLS, but likewife JONATHAN DUNCAN, Efq. Governor of Bombay, is expeeted home in the Brit fleet from India. Lord LAKE will likewife take his depal cure, as Coon as the arrival of general Hawsrr is announced.  ' Accounts have been received in town from Ja• maica, that the packet WAS to fail from thence tor Great Britain, on the 17th of April.  Sir G. BARLOW, on his fettlement in the Madras Government, is to make a voyage to the Southward. He is to go by Arcot, through the Baramahl coun. try, Namgul, Coimbatoor, Darapooram, Amponram and Dindegul, and to return by .the fiontiers of Madura, the Polygar country, and Tt inchinopoly. Some preparations have been ordered at the different lieges for his reception. The objea of this journey is fimilar to that undertaken by Lord Coati WALLIS to the Upper Provinces. A letter from Arcot mentions a fire having broken out in the vicinity of that place, which dettroyed a fmall village and a quantity of grain. One of the Zenanas having caught the Limes, the women fled from it to the neighbouring houfes: One of thefewo• men, who had been extricated from a fituation of great peril by a native, was met in her flight by bet hatband, who, iottead of thanking her preferver, at• tempted to murder him, and the man elcaping, the brutal hatband turned round and (tabbed the unfor• tunate lady to the heart. Scindia, on the remonftrances of the Britifit Go. vernment, has withdrawn the army with which b: menaced the Jeypuor Rajah. It is in the contemplation of the Calcutta Government to reader the Jumna navigable for large lip as far as Allahabad.  A letter by an American veffel from Bombay mentions, that preparations had been made there fat an expedition, which was generally underftood to be deftined againft the Mauritius. By letters from Cuteva we learn, that in the 1* ginning of March the devotees from all the adjacent provinces were affembling to proceed to the holy bathing place, on Sanger Ifland. It is Rated, that 20' 000 perfons palled through the country, in the courfe of a week, on their way to the Ganges. The 1 India Government has taken effeBual meafures to prevent the facrifices of children, which were ulna on this eccation. Some Miffionaries from Seranspote and other parts, attended, and preached to the ns• lives, and were heard with attention. A Polygar Chief has been arreaed at Dindigalt and fent to Madras, charged with being alive le ex' citing the late mutiny at Vellore. A mutiny lately took place in the army 4'6 Scindia had Rationed in the neighbourhood of id' poor, and fume hundred lives were loft before it roe fuppreffed. From this circumflance arofe the report which fpread throughout Hindoltan, that a Malaga war had IN oken out.