Star. — London, England, 1807-01-24 00:00:00

I. . g :"..., . - S•< , :... i ~.. ~ , . • H.:, , were:to beromsd in the Efiimates 'upon the table above thpfe Of the Preceding year. Mr. THORNTON approved highly of the general nature of the new Military Sy Hem, which appeared to him to he well calculatee for improving the difeipline and value of the art +, by introducing men of a better defcription. He thought, however, that force thing ail' remained to be done. H e wi(hed that the Training Bill thould be carried into effeEl, and that expeditious means timid be taken to place the country in a proper (late, either for defence or for annoyance to its enemies. Mr. JACOBS, at Come length, defended the meafures of Miniflers, in not fending nut reinforce ments to Buenos Ayres, until the fuccefs of the enterprize Ihould be afcertained. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in a fprech of confiderable length, force, and not only defended the military fyflem of his Right Honourable Friend (Mr. Windham) againft the attacks of its opponents, as well as on the wound of its fuperior produaivenefs, both in the number and defeription of men railed under it,' compared with the fyilem of the lall AdminiQra•ion, but yin dicated the eflimates for the fervice of the yei, on the ground of ',economy, againft the charges of Mr. Johnflone and Mr. Role. Thcfe Hon. Gentlemen had feized upon fome part of the fyflem of high bounties, and encouraging allowances to the trovs in fupport of their allegations; but he was convinced, that when the counry, reflefted upon the fuperior and permanent advantages that muf} obviltifly ac crue to the military fyflem, they would by no mears confider the increafe of expenditure for this porpofe in the light of profufion, or unwarrantable excels.— The Hon. Members, however, in arraigning a pre tended profufion in the exceedings under fovue heads, carefully avoided to notice the contiderable favings on others. They teemed totally to forger, that under the head of Commiffariat, in which a laving of 500,0001. was effeeed laft year, there was a fur ther laying of 50,0001. upon the eflimate for this. —They forgot to notice that upon the Staff alone, there was a laving from the laft year of 47,0001. But from thefe circurnflances the country would fee that if, for a more produflive and permanent fyflem of increafe to the army, by a fuperior de fcription of troops, and of encouragement to the hopes and provifion for the old age and retreat of thole foldiers who devote their lives to the fervice of their country—an exceeding of ex pence was created; that exceeding was counterbalanced by a faring in the fuppreffion of erlabliffiments really ufelefs and inefficient to the public fervice : he added, that not withflanding the boatted economy of the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Rafe) which he would have prat. tired, and the aflonithing reforms in public expence, and wonderful increafe in the army he would have effeaed, had nut his country been unfortunately de prived of the advantages of his fervices by the change of Adminiftration, yet there was found in the office, immediately after his departure, a military eltimate fo r the fervices of the eafuing year, which, though not figned with his name, had, without doubt,his fanaion, amounting to no let's a fum than 14,000,0001. which was 648,0001. more than the eltimate which he this night charged with walte and pruft:fion. Mr. ROSE replied in fupport of his former argu ments, and laid, that although the Eltimate alluded to by the Noble Lord might have been found en a fhelf in the office, it was one prepared in the War Office for the infpeetion of his Majetty's Government, but never approved by them, nor rne.lnt to have been ailed upon ; on the contrary, the eflimate which they really meant to have adopted was above 5cc,0001. below that adapted by his Majcfty's prefent Minitters. The SECRETARY at WAR fpnke in fupport of the prefent eflimate and military fyitem. Lord CASTLEREAGH against both ; and con tended they were utterly fallacious. Sir JOHN NEWPORT role to make one nbfer. 'anion, in anfwer to Mr. Johnftone, relneaing the exiftence of two Mutter Matitrs General in Ireland, as another intlance of profufion ; he begged, how ever, to inform the Hon. Member, that whether there were two or only one, the expence to the country was not thereby innreafed, as their emolu• meet arofe entirely from fees, and not from Glary. There was one document l)ing on the table, of %hich no Gentleman thought proper to take any notice, namely, a Bill to abolifh no let ; than thirty-eight fintcute places. with high Walks, and to abolith, or render more efficient, tweoty-fix more, all of them not only created by the unpardonable profufion of the former Adminitiration, but promifeJ three deep, in reverfion, to nt.w occupants ! and though, in fome of them, two of thole had fallen off within the last two years, yet the places were Rill in exitlence, and likely In t- continue for lime time. From the ab-liti in of thate places, the Houle would lee to which let of men the liticerity of profellion belonged ; for it was now evident that his Majetty's prefent Miniliers were carrying into circa the principles they pi ofeffed when out of office. Mr. PERCEVAL replied to the Hon. Baronet, and argued, that the al),.lition i f thofr places was in conrequence of the reconimendati , ‘n of Commillioners appointed under the late Adminillration, and that the credit of the meafure did not hrlong to the pre- Colt Government. Ile then adverted to the preterit milita y fyltem, avaiall which he repeated many of the arguments all eady °pooled to it, deifying that it h .J or could have the effats which weie attributed to it. • Mr. WINDHAM replied to Mr. Percival, and (Aid the fpeech he had uttered conliited nnlj of the line arguments, affertions, mil - conceptions, and mit - . reprefentations which had over alid over again been knfwered, difprayed, or refuted. . The dilcuffion was kept up without any thing novel, between the Secretary .at War, Mr. Perctval, Lord Caftlereagh, Mr. Bragge Bathurtl, and Lard Ho% ick, 1 1 the comparative merits of the late and prefent mi. Wary fytlems, and at three in the. morning the grief t.on was put, that the refolutions be now read t which vas agreed to. They were then read, atter which d.e Secretary at war obtained leave to bring itc.the Annual Mutiny Bill. Sir JaHN NEWPORT gave notice, that on Mon day, in the Committee of Ways and Means, he thould in,.ve for Exchequer Bilk to the amount of one mil lien, for the ferrite of 7 nd.—At, a quarter pat three o'clock this m ' the Hawk adjourned to Zrlorday. LONDON SATURDAY, JANUARY 24. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Con Ala, inoney,s9f--for Feb. boi—Omnimn 3 prem. Exchequer Bill% par is. prem. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. Bank Stock 213 f ais India Stoi k 179 3 per C. Red An. 591.60 39i India Bonds, as a 35 prem. 3 per Cent. ConL Ann. 59{11/ imp. 3 per Cent. 58} 4 per Cent. 78/ I Exch. bills par as. prem. s per Cent Nagy 94} Vs 94 ii l'Onmium, 2} prem. s per Cent. 1797, loci t I Englifb Tickets, 29L Long. Au. 17 1-16 i Yellerday afternoon the Stocks rofe abiut t per Cent. in conlequence of a report currently circulated that Autlria had declared war againit France. This was afferted to be the fubftance of the difpatches re ceived in the sunning by Government; but, we fear, the report has arifen more from the known dillreffes of the Etench army, and the ruin in which there is every reafon to think it would be involved, thould the Auflrians inter/opt its convoy; cf provifions, than from any real authority. BUENOS AYRES. The news brought by the American fbip Alex. l ander is now known to be unworthy of any credit.— Another vciTel arrived at Liverpool on Wednefday, which left Charleflon fubfequent to the departure of the Alexander, from Savannah ; the Mader of which Rates, that the only report circulating there, was that raid to have been received from Panama, on the Stanyb Main, and which we know by the lilt Papers from New York, was difbeliev:d in America.' We are happy in being able to Hate, that accounts have been received which completely refuse all the rumours hitherto circulated, of the place having been recaptured in Auguft. The William tratifport, from the Cape of Good Hope, from whence (he failed on the 6th of Novem-, ber, arrived late on Thurfday evening at Portfmouth. Prior to her leaving the Cape, a tranfpurt from Bu• enns Ayres, which had left that place early in Sep tember, had arrived there. Intelligence was received by her, that the fettlement not only remained in our poffefliun, but that no apprehenfions whatever of an attack upon is were entertained. The Spaniards (hewed no difpofition to make any attempt to recover it. The reinforcements which failed from the Cape would probably reach Buenos Ayres by the latter end of September, or eatly in (Minter ; and if it did not fall in the intet val between that time and the failing , of the tranfport, there is little doubt that we are now in polidlion of it. Indeed what energy or enterprize could be expc&d from the Spanifh troops, u frith two days after the furrender of Buenos Ayres, fuffered an Englifh Officer, at the head of five or fix dragoons, and a couple of dozen of mounted infantry, to make an incur flon of above fifty miles from that city, and bring back a confiderable treafure which was on its way into the interior ? Whatever fears we have en. tertained fcr the fafery of that conqueft, arofe from the confederation that the Britift gar rifon wits (mall, and the population of Buenos Ayres confiderable.— The former might either have been difarmecl,ot (hut up in the fort by a fudden tiling of the inhabitants. FOREIGN MAILS. A Gottenburgh Mail arrived this morning, and has brougla (is Hamburgh Papers to the loth intiant.— Some Hufum Mails alfo arrived this day, and have brought letters and journals of recent dates. They contain accounts, which we hope will prove incorteft, that the Ruffians have been defeated by the French, and have loft all their baggage and artillery. In fpue of the accounts which announce fuck an event, other ac outs affert cruftly the reverfe. A private lczter from Tonuingen, dated the t 7th infiant, flares as f , llows :- ‘4 An ellafette has arrived at Lubeck from Kt)- " ningfberg, by fea, with advice, that that city had " been illuminated, and 7e Drum lung in all the " churches, in confequence of a decifiv e viefory hay., " ing been obtained by the Ruffians oyez the French ' 6 on the Narew. They arc repotted to have 101 l up " wards of 90,c00 men. " The head quarters of the French, it is aliened, " have been removed frim Warfaw to Pofen." The intelligence icfpetting Buenos Ayres, brought by thefe Mails, is only the old news that has already been 16 often contradifted. Entn the Madrid Ga zette w•e confider as of 1,0 authority. It gives no dates, nor any of thole circurnftances which a l wa y s accompany anthenticdetails. The following are the only extraes which our mite allow us to lay before our Readers this day-- indeed they are the only as titles that appear to de• fuse particular notice : MADRID, DEC. 25. FXrRAcnunNARY GAZETIT, DEC. 24. By an'extraterdittary Courier from Lifbon; intelli gence, has been received of the arrival of tic Portu guefe (hip Scipio, in that port, on the 19th innatit, from Pernauw:ico, which brings aro account that in the port of Pernambuco, a Spanial cutter had ar rived in a leaky condition, having difpatchts on board for the •Spanifh Government, the crew of which date that, after a fevers battle between the Englith and Spanifh troops, Buenos Ayres had been rellored to his Spanifir Majelly's arms. A great number of the enemy were killed, and the ref made rifoners. Tire above-mentioned ottefremaitted in . C.. . . Pernambuco with prifoners on board, to refit, atd afterwards to continue her voyage. This news is communicated to The public, for the hon )ur of his Majefly's arms, and, the benefit of his fubjeBs. LISBON, DECEMBER 13. A (hip has juti arrived from the Brazils, which brings an account that Buenos Ayres has been re. taken from the Englilh, who were driven out by a Spanith kw, es walk from Monte Video. The Englith expedition fresh] the Cape had arrived, but not made a landing, and afterwards put into Bahia, in the Brazils; the Eugli(h were obliged to leave behind them all their baggage. The number of Spaniards by whom the Englith were driven nut is fail to have been !Woo. DEC. r&—After the anion, by which Buenos Ayres was rei.ricen, 113,000 Militia marched from Paraguay for Buenos Ayres. BERLIN, JANUARY 6. The paper called 2 be Telegraph contains the follow ing : " Official letters from the Grand Army, dated S(Ainim, the 19th December, bring the following advice : " We have, during the laft four days, defeated the Ruffian army; which has been purfued to Ofirolenka, and obliged to abandon its artillery and baggage. The badnefs of the roads and the feverity of the feafoo have determined his Majefty the Emperor to go into winter quarters. The campaign may, in fad, be confidered at, ended. We have taken more than ten d-inland prifoners and eighty pieces of cannon. The Emperor attacked the enemy in their cantonments, without its being poffible for them to collect together. The army of the enemy is indebted fur its prefervation to the badnefs of the roads, rendered impaffable by the inceffant rains, and alfo to the facrifice of the whole of its artillery and baggage." The following interefling information refpeaing the military operations in Poland, has been received from Warfaw. The retreat of the enemy'b army, and the difficulty to overtake it in macs, prevented a general battle from taking place, but brilliant unions have been fought by the different corps under the orders of Mai (halt Davoufl, Augerean, and Lannes, in which the Ruffians loft 6000 men , in killed and wounded', zoo baggage waggons, &c. Marfbal Nry diflgdged from Soldau a Pruflian corps of (.co men, and took from them a confiderable number cf pr;- foncrs, cannon, colours, &c. Jas. to.—We daily expel the arrival here cf the Emperor of the French, who, according to Tome accounts, propofes to pats the winter in this city, and according to others, will only Ray a few days, and then proceed to Drefden. PULTUSK, DEC. 3r. The Ruffian army has been defeated in feveral battles near Czaurown, Nafilflc,Veuzfomb, Lopaczin, Golymin, and Puhulk, with the !of* of $o pieces of cannon, 1 zoo baggage waggons, and 1 zoo men killed, wounded, and taken prifoners. The French are in Ofirolenka, Neidenburg, and Willenberg. WARSAW, DEC. a 7. Dirpatches dated from Socockzin, the 26th of De. cembcr, at (even in the morning, bring advice that the enemy have been cut off and defeated on all fides. Every moment prifoners are brought in. We have taken all their baggage and artillery. It is impoffible that they thould again form in line. Our army is purfuing them without allowing them a moment's time to breath. Private letters fay, that the Grand Duke of Berg, with the cavalry under his command, has thrown himfelf between the Ruf. Ilan advanced guard and their main body. BANKS OF THE NIAINE, JAN. 3. The ProSian garrifon of - Colberg berates con. titotally that country, as far as Stettin. On the 12th of December a corps of thost gariifon fell in with a detachment which had lefi Stettin, and Made ptifo ners a Lieutenant and as men. An Aultrian Gazette, in an article dated Lem berg, December 2, Rates, that the French Minifter had arrived them that day from Jaffy : on the 26th November, the Ruffians, to the number of 75,000 men, entered Moldavia; t6,0c0 men, commanded by General Michelfon, have advanced to Jaffy ; their plan appears to be to crofs the Turkifh territory, and to enter Dalmatia, for the purpufe of carrying on their operations in Italy. JANUARY tor—According to the tot accounts from Vienna, Aultria intends to fbut her ports on the againfi the Engli(h, and leave Aultrian Poland to the difpofal of the Emperor Napoleon.-- orwrii>ora.- atm, gas. 17. HAMBURGH, JAN. 8. A letter from Warfaw, dated the 25th December, Rates, that there are, between the Bug and the Vif tula, 7o or Rascoo French troops, and 12,000 Poles, but that within a fortnight that number would be increared to 15 . 0,000. A full baking has bevo eilab lilhed, and the tiat.fport of provilions from Außria is alio contiderable. The Ruffians have left the Bug win fence the gth, and taken a pofitinn behind the Nareiv. The villages between there two rivers have fuffered much. The head (luters oftheßulEan Wand army were at Grodno; it had received eon liderable reinfor cements and a refer.° had arrived at Wilna. The Bug and the lkl.irew are entirely covered with ice, which has enabled the heavy artillery to pats over, and all the (swim tuft beca put is requilitiou at WallaW l to rough (hoe the hottes of the French cavalry. r, oul the 3d to the tsth of December 45o:Ruffian prifon en were brought to Warfaw, 80 of whom are fever* wounded. Private letters from Berlin (late that Bretlau had not furrendered, and that this is the caufe which hip prevented the re-aabliflsment of the polL betweci Berlin and this City. ALTONA, JAN. 9. .... They write from Vienna, under date of the lath of December, that M. Monteicirrieu, Chamberlainto his Majeay the Emperor Napoleon, had arrived there as Courier, and that bib ruiffion was of the great& importance. CONSTANTINOPLE, p.m. q. The expedled Eng hill fleet, under the orders of Admiral Louis, conliding of 7 (hips of the line, al.. rived in the Dardanelles at the end of November, and the Admiral himfelf entered our port on the slit of November, on , board the Canopus. A frigate, ands brig are alfo lying here 3 he was received by check. toman Miniflers with the utmoa diftindtion. OFFICIAL INTEJ.LIGENCE. We have the pleafure to announce, that this after• n o on Aerostats were received at the ADMIRALTY. flaring that TWO DUTCH INDIAMEN AND A DUTCH FRIGATE HAVE BEEN CAPTURED AS THEY WERE COMING FROM BATAVIA, RICHLY LADEN I NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, JAW. 23.—Arrived yefterclay the from the Cape of Good Hope, in nine weeks, at which time they had heard nothing of the capture of Buenos Ayres by the Spaniards._ Arrived this day the BARBARA cutter from Plymouth, and the Caledonia, Boor:, from New Brunfwick..... Sailed the Ain. fcbooner, on acruize.—Put back the Sr. GEORGIE man of war, from the Weftward. A frigate hove to at St. Helen's for about an hour, and failed again to the Weflward,—Wind N.W. C o w ki , J A N. 23.—Arrived yellerday the Laconia, ickpante HASTINGS, from Charleftoa, American ihipt, laden with ~:liar :did cotton, 4 on getting their orders, failed immethat :v (erdam. Both the Millers of thefe (hips, after the* ing their clearances at the Cullom Houfe, and eh, taming difparches, feemed pettedly thunder on being told folne American (hips, tirnilarly tinned as to cargo and voyag e, , had been carried hollilely, by privateers, into a Smith port. Sailed** Liberty, of Philadelphia, RiLaY matter, for Poole,to load fit') for the Streights. DEAL, JAN. 23. —Arrived the Thansii.us frigate, from the Note, with a Clore (hip, and failed througk for Portfmouth : arrived alfo the Misr gun brig, .from a crtrize off °fiend ; FEARLESS and 1 4 GRIIL(LRIT. from riff Boulogne. Sailed the itarrs Loa* of so gunk, SEANORSti and DaulD frigates, and.Abasnim Armes, (hip, for Pot tfmouth ; Tan st rt , usa Hoop, on a cruise off Boulogne; &trivets': and PE vrEit gun brigs, foe Ireland ; and la SEINE frigate, for the Note : failed alfo through the Downs, the George, Punorcona, for St. Domingo. Wind N. N. W. ORKNEY. MILSFTTER, ISLAND Or %VALES, J AM. 4 , 11307.-. , The feverell gale of uind ever remembered occurre4 here on the 25111 December, from the weaward. It commenced with a heavy !bower of rain, about ten A. M. arid increafed until three o'clock P M. what two Chips in the harbour (Longhope) parted from their anchor% ; the one (name unknown; drove cit Chore on Flotta ; the other (Coorsa matter, of Li. verpool), on Bath Head, in South Roonlitifhay, onl► three mcn faved. In the &It t,f tbe gale, a . Leith !dimmer attempted to work in, but after fplitting au her fails, let go het anchors; the parted from them, and went on (hare on Flotta ; of thirtden people on board, only one boy Caved. A Thurfo Hoop, by cutting away her malt, rode it out. • Much expedation is formed in the Theatrical Cit. des of the coming Summer at Cheltenhani.-.-Tbe new houfe, we underhand, is to be opened under a new firm, in which the original Proprietor, Mr. War. sow, is induced once more to take a part ;'his Son an 4 Mr. BUCKLE are to be the attire managers, and are now bufy catering for the public.—Among many very' tefpatable Performers, a young Gentleman of cos fiderzble talent in the vocal line, as well as the/frit/1 and lively Comedy, is engaged to take the lead. An antique coin reprefents Come tardy votaries. who lagged in the rear of a crowd battening to the Temple of Fortune, as goaded on by chae of her offi ciating ;nicht.. There would have been no neeeffity for this stimulus, had the Wealth-giving Dame deck: ed her Wheel with fuch gifts as our prefect Lottery Wheels contain : gifts, in forthcoming Capital Prizes only, to the amount, in the all fafcinatiog modern coin, of above a Hundred Thoufand Britith Guineas! According to the old Englifh adage, this may be truly it yled- 4 4 The spur of the occafion !" The Ticket No. 846, drawn on Thadday Jail a Prize of Five Thoufand Pounds, was fold at Marts Host°, Urine, and Co.'s Office, Royal Exchange. in One Half, One Fourth, and Four Sixteenth Shares, where No. 24,490, the fit it drawn in the prefect Lot , tery entitled to ao,ozol. was alfo fold in Shares. • MARRIED. On WednefdaT.the lath infant, at the Society's Hall, Pouf ' Solomon Arnold, Efq. of Jamaica, to Mifi IL Pathan. awra daughter of Mr Philip Nathan, Merchant, at Portfalooth. ,•& Lately, Mr. Philips, of Portfea, to Mifs A. Nathan. fixoti daughter of Mr. P. Nathan. 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