Star. — London, England, 1809-09-13 00:00:00

. ADMIRALTT OFFICE, Sepsenrier 11, 180 e. 1 NIPTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That His Ma jesty's gun-brig Mixx, which had been stationed off the flow Reef, for the purpose of exhibiting a Light, is reported (by a letter received this day from Captain THICKNESS', of His Mateety's sloop SaELDRAIiZ), to have been captured by a dilb. gas of the enemy's gun-beats, on the evening of the 241 instant. W.FV. P OLE. ThE EVENING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER IS. PRICY OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. S per Cent. Cons. for money 6N} —account 6811. Ontniurn 1 prern.—Excheq. Bills, 6s. 145. prem. Yest•zrday afternoon, private accounts were receiv ed from the Scheldt to the 10th inst. South Beve , land had been completely evacuated by our troops two days before, and was instantly taken possession of by a body of French troops from Bergen-op-Zoom. One of our men of war's boats having gone thither, not knowing that it was abandoned, was captured by the enemy. The 1.5,000 British left for the retention of Wal chern are reported to be so very sickly, that the real] efficient force cannot be estimated so high as 10,000' men. The sth Regiment has 22 Officers sick; the 159th, 17 ; and the 32d, 13—and all the regiments suffer more or less from the endemic complaints of the country, and which, according to the statement of the natives, may be expected to prevail still more generally in the month of October. Sush facts as these will certainly occasion some in cuiries to be made, how fAr it may be prudent to per were in the original intention of retaining \Val cheren,—That the enemy can bring an immense force against the island, is a self-evident preposition, but ti.c in - pediments to their gaining a footing upon it, ntig certainly be rendered so f:rruidable, that had our loops no other evils to contend with, hopesmight he 41 tertained that NArotroN would never succeed in regaining possession of the island. But the troops and Generals of the most powerful enemy cease to be formidable when compared with the. ravages oft disease ; and what it might be deemed cowardly col abandon to an enemy on other motives, it may be, politic and humane to sacrifice to considerations which affect the health, the strength, and the efficiency of Our army. Some of the private accounts from the army under Lord WaJziNcroN state the want of carriages to have been such as to induce his Lordship to destroy, in his retreat, nearly the whole of the ammunition, in order to convert the waggons into carriages for his sick and wounded, who were very numerous. • Badajos Diaries of the 27th ulc. being two days later than thole previously received, have jnst arrived, the only article of interest in them is the following : TAI ABAN, AUGUST 10, An Officer of the Plasentia Volunteers, who has ar rived here, and who left Puerto de Banos the 11th inst. states that be saw at the said place, the division of Sir Robert Wilson engaged with the French from the 10th to the 11th, and that it became necessary for him to retire towards the Sierra de Francia, by the town of Monteinayar, in the road of Ciudad Rod rigo; that in the attack the regiments of Seville and Merida distinguished themselves, particularly the Ist, sd, and sth companies of the latter, repulsing the rrenc h cavalry, and causing considerable loss to the enemy, whq ifterwards proceeded to Salamanea, in number 15,ec0 men, with corresponding artillery, leaving in Placentia 3000 infantry, and about 2000 cavalry in Palistio. He adds, that Sir Robert Wilson killed two French, men with his own hand-That the Marquis de la Ro. mane was at Benerente on the Ist of this month, pushing his advane. d posts, composed of the chits. seurs of Castile, and the Queen's cwrilry, within a few leagues of Saliumanca. The said passport from Sir Robert Wilson, and proceeds for our head-quarters. From Buenos Ayres we have received acconats to the 21st of June. The intercourse with Rio ire 14 Plata had been much impeded from an unexpected, cause. The Custom-house Officers had disputed among themselves, as to the reward they should exact from the merchants for the privilege of /ending their commodities, and until these gnethave should adjust their discordant interests trade was suspended. It has long been a desideratum with the possessors of the Cape of Good Hope, to promote an extensive intercourse with the numerous tribes which inhabit the Southern Districts of the vast Peninsula of Africa. On this subject we have been favoured with a letter, of which the following is an extract " Cape pf Good !Tope, *kb May, 180 n. " I entertain collie expectation of falling in on the coast with the pLrt 7 seat by his Lordship (I.nrd edit snots) into the iptc:rior., They had penetrated in Dect.mber so far WI lat. 115. and long. •23. so that there is every hope of their having by this time reached acme of the Portujuthe Settlements The information which they have already ser.t down is interesting. The country which they have passed through, is rich and fertile, with numerous ri. Teri, all of which invariably head their count( s to the West. The trues which they have met with are peaceably and it appears not unlikely that they may in time be brought to some a,..d of intercourse or 'nide with this setilsment s s S'ircuntstane which conceive would he stoat twateacial to them, in spite of all that VAltAter has \alit:co, whose Fiquentot Angels in a wild sate, were certainly fictions of Isis own traits The camel has been seen, bet it is rot mentioned whether wild, nr bearing mer- Allsoiline titan some distant quarter. 411 this yon will no i c .oabt In a abort time hear tbs partOlary of, as any infoemition corn. ananicated by Lord Cfratotty es this eel Get, Win Mon be spread over ',soden. Some shins of efiffc.sent actmals have bete t e m, !lon !lout very curioits." I , 0 . - _s jIL? . , . _ - - • - - - 'THE ARMY. *ma. INTELLIGENCE. • Colo-Aci Co Itn ANla'sbattalion Atid itte Inverness • FALMOUTH, SEPTEMBER le. .^ : Militia :,re ter torn) a part of the garrison at Ports, Sailed the Eliza packet for Gibraltar Otul.Mottllt, mrutls, where the dety is very severe, on account of and the Princess Amelia packet for the the great number of French prisoners. Wind N.N.W. It was expected that after several of the regiments et-Tmotreli AND PorMouTHoPeCK, SEPT. 11. from Zealand have been refreshed at Portsmouth, Came in the Otterms, of 18 guns, from a cruize ; they would be re-embarked on a ;second Expedition, and the Spaoish brig St, Joseph, from Benecarlo, but this caenot take place for some time. ;The Sur- with wine for. Dublin—she is last from Cowes. geon-General has been at Portsmouth making every Three large sloops and four brigs arrived here yes preparation for the comfortable reception of sick and terday evening, . laden with timber, lumber, and wounded soldiers—a number of whom arrived there I stores ; the feritter from Gottenburgh, the latter Igeoerday afternoon in the Queen Charlotte transport, I from America.—Sailed the lieneeeuto hired armed from Portugal. Arrangements arc making for the I ship, with a. convoy, consisting of merchantmen and comfortable reception of 2000, if the fortune of war the transports that brought in the French prisoners, shell render it necessary. all bound to the Eastward. It v.•rnalti appear that Government have, not yet pORISMOUTH,-SEPTEII4I3ER 1 2 . relinquished the idea of emancipating Span and I v or- Arrived the Samuel Barnard, Sea let ntc, from Ja. weal. Considerable reinforcements are going out to maica ; sailed 20th Jdl y, and parted convoy on the all the British regiments there--embarkations of men ! 28th August in a gale—most of the fleet received da. ,and stores haVe been going on at Portsmouth for map in topmasts, &c. ; his. Majesty's ship HAMA. these two days. The drafts are principally for the i (rum, with transports, from Plymouth,--Sailed the . Guards, the Royal Flizileers, 45th, 48th, 87the and HARDY gun-brig with a fleet for the Downs, and 88th regiments. A great number of Officers, among WABSPITE for Cherbourg. the rest, Colonel DARROCH, are going out. DOVER, SEPTEMBER 12. • The 2.1 battalion of the 11th Foot, 2d battalion 63d Some of our boatmen being on the look out this Foot, and 51st Foot, are now lying in the Downs, morning on the hills, observed three brigs and a waiting a fair wind for Portsmouth. ship working in from the eastward, with a fresh wind The 28th, (2d battalion) also in the Downs, is or, from the north west, and about seven o'clock the dered to disembark at Harwich. headmost brig was captured by a small French lug. A part of Colonel Cocunnee's detachment is also ger ; an hour afterwards the other two brigs were in the Downs, waiting a wind for the Isle of Wight. taken by another lugger, end sent away for Calais : The Ist battalions of the 9th and 49d regiments tho ship was taken about half past nine, and sent disembarked at Deal, and marched for Canterbury away for Boulogae : at the time these captures were on Sunday last. I made by the enemy, in sight of our own :bores, there There have also been a number of sick from the were twocruizers in our Roads (I believe the PERU different regiments in Zealand, landed every day for view and ROLLA brig sloops) which did not know of the last week—the number now ev.ceeds 2000 et ; what was going on, although the signals for an Deal, about ten of whom are buried daily. The ; enemy were flying on the Signal-house on the East nature of their disorders has proved very fatal ; and, . Foreland, till our boatmen went off and informed the contrary to expectation, now takes a serious turtl e ; Commanders. The brigs then got quickly out, but being contagious, and producing a speedy delirium. trig in time to prevent our unfortunate countrymen. which shortly terminates the existence- of the patient. 'limn going to a French prison. Two of the English The Anglesea and Cardigan Militias have in can- brigs were seen to enter Calais harbour at noon, and sequence been ordered to - encamp, and pitched their the ship, most likely, wascarriedintu Betilogneharbour tents on Monday afternoon; An encampment of the some time in the afternoon. What a pity it is that our ! convalescent troops is also to take place, by way of trade suffers so much by those little French priva. !precaution ; and, it is' rienuuted that 6000 of that i tcers, when we have such a number of cruizers sta. description will be landed at D2ll. 1 tioned in the Channel ; were one or two brigs to be It is nest to impossible, that ::cry of the regiments stationed off each of the French ports opposite, and returning from the North can, for a time, undertake nut to come away for a little breeze of wind, the French any further active service, many of the regiments I loggers could not certainly come out and go in, as having more than one-third, and sone: oee-half their : they do now ; and if by chance they should steal out numbers ineffective. in a dark night, what captures they might make The baggage belonging to the 9th Regimeni was ! would stand but a bad chance to get in unobserved tended yesterday at Deal, and forwarded td Canter- !by our-blockading vessels. it is full time that some bury. lthing was done to rernisdy the evil that the mercantile Saturday, the PURLI.N frigate arrived in Margate iinterest suffers, fOr the French will be so flushed with Roads, from Walcheren, having left that coast about i their success in privateerins (seeing so little hazard nowt on the day preceding. She landed the Lords :of being taken by our cruisers), that they will in- FREDERICX and Wieetest BLNTINtK, Colonel DISNEY crease the number If their privittears, as the nights of the Guerds, Captain Evnes of the Artillery, the' now get longer. The brigs that were captured are Hon. Finnan- • Huactsuceoe (the brother' of Lord H.), I supposed to be transports ft-ode:Flushing, and the Hon. Captain Woeneenee, and I'l other military ship had the appearance of an American. Wind and naval officers ; many of them being sick, were N. W. and moderate. carried ashore in their hammocks. DEAL, SEPTEMBER le. In order to afford accommodation for the troops t Arrived the STAI:IRA frigate and Ives hired. tinter from the Scheldt, the 10th regiment of the line, and ! from Flushing.—Sailed the R CAN FE SIOOS with the Royal Denbigh Militia, moved on Sunday mor e , £15,000 in dollars on hoard, for Flushing; c-All. ANT uing to Ospringe ; the 2d West York Militia, for i gun-brig, with a convoy of transports, having on board • Reading-street barracks ; and the East Suffolk Mili- I water, for Flushing ; and BELLEISLE, of 74 guns, for tia for Ashford, from Chatham. The f3d battalion Portsmouth. of. the 95th has also proceeded from Shorncliffe to Remain In the Downs—Lively, Nassau, Princess of Orange, Hythe. I Espiegle, Statira, Trempeuse, Coquette, Helicon, Gluckstadt, and Lieutenant-General Sir JOHN HOPE, passed through . rleasant Hill kired stoop. Canterbury on Sunday evening, on ins route. from YARMOUTH, SENT. 12. Deal for London. Sailed in quest of a privateer in the North Sea, the Friday the 91th regiment, under command of Co-ICatareso sloop of war.—Arrived the RICHMOND gun lonel C smeiier.e, embarked at Aberdeen for Jersey. I brig from a cruize.—Remain the Roebuck, Camilla, Redbreast, Havoc, Blazer, Acute, and Richmond. Major-General MACDONALD accompanied the regi ment to the transports, and the whole was embarked i LEITH, SEPTEMBER a. in the greatest order, under the direction of the lion. Came in two Danish sloops, prizes to the ALBION Major Remeee: The transports, with their convoy, cutter, taken off the coast or Norway, laden with were expected to sail next day. i tar, iron, and deals. IVhenelley parted, the Atm*: A detachment of the 75th regiment marched into was in Chace of another. Aberdeen on Thursday. This regiment is now on its MARGATE, SEPTEMBER. march from Perth to replace the 94th. j • • The Princess of. Wales packet, on the bight of On Monday the Queen's Volunteers, nor nmanded Friday, ran neon a sand-bank, at the entrance into .by Lientenant-Colenel Wit_so:4. and the Loyal West- ! the Note, from the Thames, where 'she stuck fast ; minster, by Major Peewit, maneuvered in the fields ! here she acted as a decoy to many other vessels, for and roads leading from Mary-la-bonne to Hampstead ! the night was very dark, with a brisk gale from the Heath. The Wertminster, acting upon the defensive, S.W. The Princess Charlotte, a coasting-brig, and contested every strong position leading to Pfimroses the Duke of Kent, were each severaliy cast upon the Hill upon Hampstead Heath. After a very .harp same. shoal. The passengers being literally rammed, and close filing, both regiments advanced to the ~crammed, and jammed together, both above and charge, clashing the bayonets, when the Westminster • below deck, their situation from sickness and fright being outflanked, and surrounded by superiority in was not the most conducive to their happiness. The numbers, surrendered. :In returning by the way of i Kent was so closely elongside the Princess of \Vales Hampstead Church and Kilburn Wells, the Queen's as would have enabled persons a-boerd the one vessel took up the defensive ; their numbers enabled there to ;to step into, the other with ease and safety. Fortu crrate 'di fficulties to their opponents in every direr-1 :lately at the flood-tide all got clf ; busthe Kent met tion ; the firing was long, andinlmost incessant. Bath 1 with a serious shock, by the carrying away of her regiments disrlayed much skill 'in -the advance and boom and main-sail, supposed to have originated by retreat, the clashing the bayonets was not intended • the gibing •Olthe tail, when at a time the rudder had no accident, however, happened. Hampstead - Heat h; been momentarily neglected ; but from the shrieks wzs„ during the sceneisfilled with spectators, and some ! Ultich were uttered by the females on board, anti of the Fair honoured the ,cgiments by joining in the I he•aistbf the passengers in the other boats, it is con danee to the martial Music. ljectured thit . ; their situation was Fri/oils in the ex- Monday the Gray's Inn,. and several other volun• Creme. teer corps, appeared at an early hour in the morning LLOYD'S Lin'. on their respective parades, and from thence marched Ottanst4, elm I°.,—Arrived the Rion, Brirok, and Ro towardi Highgate and Hampstead. • 'On their way, , Ray, from Gibrabar ; Essex, Nesbit, front Canton ; they conned iTi• adverse parties, and continued the e 'Ga a l l lant lt, a /t h orn Gottenburgh ; Monad, f rom mishing in shalu fi ghts over all the adjoining hills, salted'r sc e bo te r eas, rt , _ van, I).m . Lad= , ang umi /tope, and through the neighbouring vallies, alternately ad- V._liains, for Oporto. vanclng and retreatinct with much skill, order, and ' elertnese., and went through all the various evolutions The Nnhey, Prince, from Malta, is arrived, after beating ai l a French privateer or the of advance, retreat, attick, anti charge, with asto.Edystone , en the 4541 inst. :1 1 1 h iar o e pa e lateen c p o r l i l vat ier ee s r were whi c ah opt c u isou red ro of, the Sewn ot r ) , : p c j d4ry • , . ;1 , 'tun - • taken by eke 'Snake, and tarried into I nth. ••1 , • . 411.1RGATE, SEPT. 11, At a late Musical Meeting we had amateurs of all . sorts. The light-fingered gentry on the piaeolorte, as well as the light-trngered gentry on the poet.:. Th e latter found moreptr than dwris, no barz. Serena gentlemen lost their sofa! From the above occurrence the harrinny was inter. tupted. EttppilA confidence is again restored, by the following denouement : elonte de.peradoes, a f e.w nights since, made an, attempt to plunder the Cecl. square Bank. By means of picklocks, they found. easy access through three doors, but in attempting the iron chest (wherein property exceeding .0.11,40, in value was deposited), they failed in the4r . pe& 7 . mantes by a trifling accident, via'. ;1, 4 false key in the lock ; they however yarned cif t b t clerk's pocket-book containing, in notes, about ek.x, Posting-bills have this day been placarded around I: }e town, • offering a. reward of 8500. At:nice:l-, and another Officer, from Bow-street, are arrived tc - conuoitre all suspicious characters. We tear t:t: ! endeavours will fail of success, from the circumstarc i , of a gang of thieves having left us for Canterbury the very morning after the robbery ; they came d o w „ about a fortnight since by one of the packets, to attend the pugilistic encounter, which WAS lately decided the vicinity. These repectable persona es, durine their reOdence here, subscribed to the librarie s bathing-room - They were finished Mar k l e in their morning attire ; each sporting his white hat, linen gown, nnci yellow slippers. For the lat ter r ow interesting particulars, we are indebted to a gentleman of the learnd pmfessic.n, i. e. an attar to the Shenk of Middh:seN, who km w their persons; but as he says, and scry truly, it was none of 11:N h ..4siersi to t an: dap Extract from a letter from Captain ANDtnews, c: his Majesty's ship IsTft ro, •dated rlymouth, gust 10, to the Hon. W. W, POLE ; " We s:tilod from St. Thomas's, Jely :It, in company with the Express gun-brig, and 44 s,id under convoy; kept company di; 17th .Augost, when the Captain tclegrapheti to afsist a ship distress, then bowing a gale. 1 made known that we !abound excessively. Next morning, at day-light, saw only two sail ; bore tip to join then.; they proved the Mounts !Say, and the Thomp. ton, bound to London : afterwards saw lout sail astern, tavern.: different courses ; kept, company till the 27i11, when *clog: tLeta in a hurricane. During a periuil of near 1u) years service,lreva experienced such a wind; the height of it fortunately lasted 4waly three hours. On the 51st, had another gale, and the ship labour:A so excessively, that on the ereuiug of the Ist September, seting no likelihood of the gale ending, ordered die quarter-dick tens to be thrown overboard..' A letter from Cadiz of the 28th ult. contains tl following particulars, which will be interesting to cu: mercantile readers t‘ several altenitions have taken place in the Spanish CUS`err, Roue Department, favourably to British Commerce. Besides tbr admisiion of all mama manufactured good* (hitherto r Tomos:, prohibited), a great deduction has taken place in the curies on woollen and other goods. Neveloundland fish only pays 27 teals of ve!lon, Instead of 45 American ; and Norway fish are es:lac.ed irom those indulger:clef, " '1 hese cessio3s, so highly 'favourable to British trade, it is presumed tvill induce the gnvernmerit to pot the products of Simla on an equal footing with the most favoured nations, particularly in the article of Spanish red wines, which pay the enotamottsdaq of in per ton, more than wine Isom Portugal. " With repect to Foreigners trashily ! , to aouth Arruri.a, no re. lazatio4 has taken place, or alteration made in the hunter regit lations. ----- . The arsenal of Ferrol is„ as far 'as beauty and con, venience can make it, most complete, -and defended by a single-tier battery of 12J pieces of cannon, of S 2, pounders. The storehouses ;ire capacious and well fitted; the basin is extensive and land-locked, with slips for thirteen sail of the 1: ne, but there are two only now on the stocks, where they laa,ve been seasoning for nearly ten years. A magnificent Commercial Ccifee-room, on the plan of the Atheneum at Liverpool, is about to be immediately erected at Bristol, by the mi:rcharts of that city. The demand for sugars these last two months, :-a Liverpool and Bristol, has been unprecedented, and 1 the sale prices far higher than the most sangiare West India proprietors could expect, A great 1. portion of the new sugars is already cleared from the bonded warehouses, and many merchants at inipui union paid immediate duties on their consignmui:s. The market has been somewhat influenced by ex portations to our depots on the coasts of Holland and Germany ; but the greet cause of the rapid rise in the price of sugar, must incontrovertibly be attributed to that very politic and seasonable law, which now inter dicts the distiiiatwon from corn, and which, at such a juncture as the present, when all the European world wlthlwids her produce, every firm friend to his coun try cannot vish to see extended. With those who are unacquainted with the enter prise of the merchants at ~LiVerpool, and the corn• merce of that port, the following information may excite wonder : -Since the raising the embargo is AmeriCa, 300 ships laden with produce have arrivel Three thousand - ships are at this moment in the Docks, besides sloops and small craft, and prepc:lT to an immense amount is new afloat, on demurrvi the number of revenue officers being insufficient lot its discharge. COHN-EXCHANGE, MA It K-LANE, SEPT. 13.-The supply of Wheat this day is again short, and sales fully at last prices-Barley likewise, and in short supply-Malt maintains its price-Peas and 13e.u.st of the two kinds, nearly at our last c i itotation-e Oats there are some further arrivals, ant! tulerabl. remaining supplies, and prime samples :lie quoted dearer--Flour at rather higher prices, and tine Ante rican at our last currency. GENERAL CURRENCY AS UNDER I Wheat, 731. Silk 98s. Beans, 58s. tits. Fine ditto, ICOs. 112 s. Tick - ditto, 455. Ms. P.ye, 50s. 565. Oats, 284. 395. 355. Barley, 4V.s. 431. 03. Poland ditto, 38s. 405.01, Malt, 784. 84s, . . rotatoe ditto, 41s. White Peas (boilers) 841.901. Raise Seed, COI. to 55L Grey ditto, 46s 515. Fine Floor, 90k M.-Seconds 851. 90s. CANTRIIIIURY, SEPT. 9. Br. Wheat 70s Od to 1045 Od I Brown Malt 93s GI to 9s ool New ditto u6s Od cola* Od I Amber Malt 97s' 04 to 0 White ditto 801 od to 10.5 s oti Pale ditto 94s Od to 0 Vint ditto 03 od to 1 ltbs O M d Flue Flour sCd to n New 90s to 10.55-fine 103 s Od Second ditto 7es 0.1 to 0 1 vl Ryc .564 od to Cgs Od Third ditto es Cd to 711 , 13:11 - 1,7 4Cs Od to 47. Od Rough Meal 521 Od 03 °I . Oat* 1101 Od to 40s 041 HP2S (hags) 21 121 to 41 0 Bean"; 49.5 Od to ias Od Do. (pockets) 41 0,1 to *' l 1 . Tick btis .04 to 5.141 Od Hay (t/^s.) 41 5* to Hog Peas 50* od to stts od Sainfika 41 1:c to 5 1 Boiling ditto las od to bo. Od SLOW 41 3. to di 11 l e 'rrtl'budi.) 101 - 041 to 13s Od Strsw 111 10* z• C 4 ' ... ' . .