Star. — London, England, 1807-05-12 00:00:00

FP NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. TORBAY, MAY 'a. This day the wind getting about N.E. his Majelly's !hips Prince of Wales, Monarch, Dreadnought, Saint George, London, Hibernia, and Rofe Hoop of war, failed from hence to refnme their Ration off Brea. ng the ng HP. , eat I's ;RY AM' r val e a. liiS N PORTSMOUTH, MAY it. Arrived his Majefty's !hips /Emma, from Cork ; and the STRENUOUS, from a cruize. The Nemesis frigate weighed for Newfoundland, hit brought to again. Nevis t. A reortermarcrs.—The Honourable Captain A. Gard em is appointed Captain of the Channel flees ; and Captain Bed ford is appoiatal Us command the Hibernia. Captain J. Railhead (of Gofport) is appointed Agcnt for Tranfports ; which are fitting for the intended expedition. Lieutenant G. F. Somerville, (fon af Captain Somerville, of the )'ernefis) is appointed to the Huirar. DEAL, MAT it. Sailed the MOSVITOfIoop, BLAZ IR & DaStatATl, and WRANGLER gun brigs on a ernize ; &mud?* 'loop for the Nore. Arrived the ALFRED, cf 74. guns, from Plymouth ; Diligent (Lore fhip from the Nore ; TROMPIUSI and Moscurrro Hoops from a maize. 'IMAM IN Till DOWNS. The Edgar, Primers of Orange,' Alfred, Trinity, Clyde, Diligent Rare Chip, Trompeofe, Marquis°, and Kangaroo coops. Zebra, and Explollon bombs, Fearlers, Exertion, Tigrefs, and Turbulent gun brigs. DOVER, MAY rr. Arrived the brigs Ann, Gmas ; and Experiment, Partin, of and for this port, with cargoes of timber, from Chriaiana. Wind S. W. and moderate. BARBADOES. MARCH sr. Sir MARAUDER COCHRANE'S fquadron of the line, atter taking in wood and water at Dominica, have gone to windward of Martinique, and were cruizing off there on the 16th inftant. General Bovevsa and fuite were to leave Dominica, on the 14th inftant, in the ETHALION frigate, for Antigua, from thence to St. Kitt's, and would make a tour as far as Tortola. Neither of the Commanders are expeCted to return here before the beginning of next month. The Vaxus frigate, from off Martinique, where the left the Ad brim!, arrived here on Tuefday afternoon. FROM LLOYD'S LIST._ dIAIIISIND, MAT r I.—Paffed by the Alexander, Brookes ; Coercion, Antony ; and the Cambridge. auntie, from the South Seas; Apollo, Henry, from Jamaica • Silenus. Smith, from Sane. ; Thomas. Betilh ; George, Simplon ; Indian. packet, hinge ; %nor. Moore; and the Indian, Dutton, front Virginia ; Char lane, Rogers. from Dublin ; Valiant, Owen, front Waterford ;-- Dolphin,Churelt ; Minerva, Willoek ; Thomas, Tonalinfon ; and the Little Ben, Barnes, from St. Michael's ; Anna Maria, Rolfe, from Dim ; Enterprise, Kemp, from New York ; Libe, Agar ; and the Young Hendric, from Tonningen. Sailed the Fame, Thomao,for Gibraltar. - . . ..' ' ARRIVALS. Off'Dover. the Fnterprize, Falney, from New York; and the Indians. Dallen, from Virginia.—At Margate. Swallow, Allen, from Lifbon —At Liverpool, Othello, Glover, from Clinic-flown ; racket, Suet, from Bofton; Maxwell, Edwards, from Demerara ; America, Nichols ; and the Tartar, Reynold*, from Savannah.— At ithifale, Little Ben, Gray, from St. Michael's.—At Cork. Ann, ton, to from London.—At Londonderry, Logan. Won frpm London.—At Dublin, the Mary, Heath, frornCharlefton; the Oteabou, Nielfoo, from Meifina.—At Newry, the Newry, • 2 f/vm London.--At Demerara, the Flora, Rowley, from Diferlxiql- * *Lakt Halifax, Paragon, Miller, from the Clyde; and the Triton,Preiks, from Liverpool —At Bolton, Sally, Lines; and Prefident, —, from Liverpool Hancock'. Penning; and the New Galen. Hinekky, from London.—At Berhice, Mary, Todd; and Ruby, Wiles, front London.—At Barbadoes, Rebecca, Cleife, from London.—At Philadelphia, London Packet, M‘Dougal, froTt Lonton.—M Virginia, Henry, Wats ; Minerva, Gardner; and the Huron, Clark, from Liverpool.—At the Bahamas. Arid Bor rovrdale, from Liverpool—At Chariefton, Alice. Scott; and the Ann, Cummings, from Africa—At Trinidad. Mary, —, from Attie*: - - The Britannia. Goodfpeed, is loft on the coaft of frew Holland. the Hoffnung, Weirgen, from Stettin for London, was taltta on the 15th of March, and carried into Mend. The Lord Keith, from London, bound to Moga dare, is captured, and feat for the Canaries. This Rhoda and Betfey, Terry, from Liverpool. is loft DRAT Sanity Hook, in a gale of wind. The fhip Maxwell, &means, from Barbadoes, arrived at Liverpool the Bth infant, failed thence a Ingle Osip the 38th March. On the :9th April, in la titude 49, 3. N. lOngitude 19, 30. W..ihe was chaced by a French privateer, which about four o'clock Ilk. tetded in getting alonglide the Maxwell, whin a Very . WarM anion took place, and continued until half part Eie, when the enemy, after an ineffeaual attempt to board, Altered off. She was pierced for 1 4 Pus had i a mounted, and iv The was full of men her lots muft have been confiderabie. The Maxwell had one man killed, and the chief 'Mate wounded.-1 Ciptain EDWARDS (peaks in the higheft terms of the , animated Mance he received from Capt. Howse!), of the loth regiment, and Mr. ToostY, merchant, of Barbadon, An were paffengcrs. The Maxwell mounts 8 guns, and had, including every perfon, 3o men and boys. From the alive and zealous exertions that are making in the County of Durham to procure again the parliamentary fervices of Mr. BURDOH) no doubt can be entertained of his Elation. It is expated that Sir RALPH MILDANRE will be next upon the Poll, if Sir THOMAS LIDDELL, the other Candidate, /ould continue the conte a. Mr. Deputy Bute); was yeflerday chore Alderman of Candlewick Ward, in the room of the late Mr. Basset. The Left Kent Militia marched into Portfmouth . on Monday and Tuefday lan, from Chelmsford. The greateft tranfition from cold to heat ever re membered had been obrerved in the 'aft week in A pt and :be inundation at Silkflone, mentioned in our Paper of yefierday, was otcalloned by a mars of clouds, dt:ting the thunder-Rorm that evening, burl enz in a o.tld in the townfhip of Bradfield, taking thew met clftwn the Rivelin and Loxlcy, thence into du Dun, which became fuddenly fwollen. Ncar Doneafter it is faid to have rifen nine feet in the !pace of an hour and a half. A tail belonging to Mr. Tootle, of that town, laden with coals, was driven from her mooring, and much damaged. Hay, tim. her, Cheep, pigs, &c. were alto violently precipitated down the etutent. A few days once a fire-ball fell within twenty yards of Kehningham Hall, and another near the Rev. Mr. Bellams, at Wetheringfet ; no othcr damage *AS done 'han Miming (butt trees. FOREIGN MTILLIGINCR. OFFICIAL ACCOIIIIT OF Till 5A171.11 01111711111+AIDT. • OH TUB 14TH OF 0CT031114 18°6. 66 The, unfortunate confequences of the battle of the 14th of Taft Odober have hitherto prevented any official account froth being laid before the Ott;lie. " The Pruffian army, under the Duke of Bronf wick, was rnoftly collated on the sth of Oftober, in the neighbourhood of Naumburg ; the corps of the Prince of Hohenlohe was in the vicinity of Altenburg and Pennig, General Ruchel's Corps was between Mulhaufen and Gottengen. 66 As the enemy's principal farce was expected in the neighbourhood of Wurtzburg, it was thought proper to fend about 8000 men through Smallkalten and Eifenach ; while a fmall corps under Count Tanen zien was to ad as a corps of obfervation on the road to Hoff, follow the referee, or ad again ft an enemy's corps on the fi de towards Saxony. " On the 7th both armies were between Eifenach and Rudelfiadt: then we learned that the enemy had turned the greateit part of his force towards Bay reuth, and was in greater force than we bad reafon to expect. " " Since the theatre of war in Pruffia afforded no natural means of defence, on the Bth we marched to Lae left, in order to pats the Saal. The army of Prince Hohenlohe moved towards _Jena and Kahle, and the Duke of Brunfwick to Blankenhayn. The Prince of Hohenlohe had already paled this river on the gth, with a part of his army; but the Duke did not w d h him to have paled till he had arrived upon the banks with the troops under his command, as he did not want to combat the enemy tingly. He there fore ordered the Prince to fall back. This circum fiance gave nccafion to the unfortunate affair of pops near Saalfeld on the soth, in which the gallant and heroic Prince Ferdinand of Pruffia did not engage reiLly, as has been fuppofed. 4 4 The Duke's army arrived on the fame day at Blankenhayn. He now learned that the enemy was advancing through Hcff, and that another column was proceeding along the Saal by Saalfeld. He found the ;mirage over the Saal 'would be attended w;th difficulties to him. To prevent being cut off from the Elbe, he marched on the t rth to Weimar. Here the Duke's army encamped on the right bank of the lime, and the Prince of Hohenlohe at Kapel• lendorf, not far from Jena. General Kuchel's corps took a ;Aldan near Erfurt ; and the advanced guard under the Duke of Weimar, which had previoufly advanced through the foreit of Thuringia, in order to alarm the enemy in his flank and rear, had orders to return and approach the grand army by the road through Arnaadt. " On the 12th, the Duke of Brnnfwick had a eon fereoce near Jena with Prince Hohenlohe; the Duke's plan was then to pats the Saal higher up, in cafe the enemy fhould attempt to turn the left of the Pruffian army. " This took place on the nth, isth, and 13th, without our obtaining any certain knowledge of it ; and through a miftake the detachments belonging to Prince Hohenlohe, who were ordered to obferve the enemy, did not march at the proper time. " On the t 2th, we learned that the enemy was in poffeffion of Naumburg; hill this intelligence was in Come meafure uncertain ; however, late in the even ing, it was confirmed beyond a doubt. " On the 13th at noon, the Duke's army marched to Auerftadt, to make head againft the enemy, who was endeavouring to turn the Po uffians. Towards ievening the Duke arrived near Auerftadt, within two _miles and a half of Naumburg. We learned upon the march, and in Auerftadt, that the enemy was Hill in poffeflion of Naumburg, and that fome regiments of French chaffeurs were potted on this fide of the Saal, on the road to Ane;fladt. It was determined to drive thefe regiments back again over the Saal, and then to proceed through Unttrutt, near Frichurg and Leucite and to attack the enemy's corps en the other fide of the river. The Duke of Brunfwick wrote to Prince Hohentohe, late in the evening of the -13th, to inform him that he occupied the pafTage over the Saal, in great ftrength between the armies, and that the Prince fhould by no means fuffer bimfelf to be cut off from the Duke's army. 66 The army of the Duke commenced its march' early in the morning of the 14th, and fell in with the French corps under Martha' Davoufi. Notwithftand ing this meeting was not expected, and that a very heavy rain had occafioned great inconveniences, the advanced guard under General Blucher made a vigorous attack upon the enemy's chaffeurs, which formed Martha! Davoull's advanced guard, and drove them back upon the main body. The three other divitions of the army under the Duke of Brunf wick marched in order againft the enemy, and enga ged him from one wing to the other. The infantry of thefe three divifions formed a column, and main tained their fire from nine in the morning till three in the afternoon. About noon our right wing began to gain ground. The enemy, however, obtained to inforcements from his referee, and now commenced An attack upon the defile of Kofen. Our left wing had driven the enemy out of his firll pofition, jut as our right wing began to give way. The left was the firft to follow, as loon as the enemy was in motion in their rear. The remainder of the two divifions, the flower of the army, or the referee, was, for the molt part, about 3000 paces in the rear, upon the heights of Auerftadt, and only a few regiments of theM took part in the action. • " The army of Prince Hohenlohe was attacked at break of day by the corps with which the Emperor was prefent, from the fide of Jena, whilft the corps of Bernadotte paled the river Saal, advancing from Dornburg and KaMborg, and took the Prince in the rear ; the corps of General Ruchel battened to the Prince's Alliance paled through a dangerous de file, and attacked the enemy. The army of the Prince; as well as the corps of General Ruchel, fought with great bravery; but were at fail obliged to fubmit to the fuperiority of the enemy, whole num bers were three times as great as theirs. A; he Prince's corps retreated to Weimar, which town was occupied by the enemy the fame evening. The (mall corps of Lieutenant General Ruchel (who bad already received a wound) which was not quite ten thaufand ftrong, retreated only through the defile as far as Capeldorff, where the General again formed in line, and advanced in a Ilium column to wards the defile. A brilk cannonade now commenced on both fides ; but the enemy did nut pals the de file, and the firing ceded. Hereupon General Ru. the! transferred the command to Lieutenant General ordiring him at firft to retreat en echequier,l to cover the retreat with a batalflon quarri, and to con tinue drawing back on one fide of Buttelliadt, to reach the King's army, upon which the left wing as alfo inclining, whilft the right had joined Field Martha' Mollendorf. The greateft misfortune to both thefe corps was, that the paffage of the Saal at ' Darnburg and Kamburg was not properly guarded and defender!. It wal owihg to this circumftancee that the army of the Prince was taken in the rear, and its communication with the Duke's army cut off. When the King ordered the army of the Duke to mareh forward upon the heights of AuerQadt in the evening, after the retreat of the *three fit II divifions, I thereby preventing the enemy from advancing, he did nor know that the army of Prince Hohenlohe, and the corps of General Ruche!, had been unfortu. nate in the engagement. Had he "been informed thereof, he would have renewed the atlion, and cleared the way to the Unftrutt. " On the fuppbfition that the army of Prince Ho henlohe was Aill at Kapcllendorf, and that the corps of General Ruehel was at Weimar, the King order ed the Duke's army to go and join that corps, and to tette* the engagement the next day. General Count Kalkreuth was ordered to form the rear guard with the referve (which had not then been engaged), and Meld Martha' Mollendorf took the command of the other troops. The King intended (as the aftion was ended, and the enemy purfued no further) to go to Weimar in perfon, to fettle with Prince Hohenlohe and General Ruche' the proper difpofitions for exe cuting the Paid plan. But, on the road from Auer. lladt to Weimar, he met with the enemy, and was therefore obliged to return to the army. The King placed himfelf in front of the army, and marched from Wickerflacit to Sommerda, leaving Weimar on his left hand. In the night, when the King was fucceffively informed by the fugitives of the cnndi don of the army of Hehenlobe, and of General Ru chel's corps. he determined that all the troops fhould retreat by Nordhaufen, and took his way for the Paid place through Sommerda. As the retreat for Wei mar had originally been refolved upon, a divifion of the troops marched thither; but, on finding the ene my there, they returned towards Erfurt, anl made a long detour. On this occafion General Molten dof, with about 5000 men, were taken prifoners at Erfurt. 44 On the 17th the army marched in three co. lumns from Nordhaufen to Magdeburg, through the Hatz. 6 6 On the fame day the Wurtemburgh corps was attacked near Halle, by the corps of Marthal Berna. dotte, and defeated. It trotted the Elbe tat Deffau, burned the bridge, fent a detachment of thirty men to Wittenburg, to dettroy the bridge at that place, which, however, was .prevented by the inhabitants, and then proceeded to Magdeburg. The enemy re noted the bridges, paffed the river at Dellitu and Wittenberg, and thus reached the Oder before the Prulllan army under Prince Hohenluhe, Which was retreating by the way of Magdeburg. This General, who had always diftinguithed himfelf by his bravery and refolution, was obliged to fign an unfortunate capitulation for !lateen thoufand men at Prentzlow, on the 28th Otiober. The fame day a corps of ten thnufand men, under General Blucher, which had followed him, got as far as Boitzenburg, where it efcaped the purfuit nf the enemy (who was coming from every fide), by bending towards Strelitz, and a few days after joined another corps under the Duke of Weimar. " Both there corps, under the enterprifing and brave General Blucher, after four engagements, did at laft, on the 7th of November, fubmit to the lupe rior numbers of the enemy,when they had only 9,400 men lett, of whom there were only about 7,500 able to bear arms ; though they kept three corps of the enemy (thole of Prince Murat, and of the Martha's. Soult and Bernadotte) for three weeks at a difiance from the Oder and Vittula ; for the latter were ten days in marching back to Frankfort. 6' It will now be proper to nate the force of the army which fought againft France on the 14th. — According to a ftatement delivered to the King by the Duke of Brunfwick, the Pru(lian army, which ' was put in motion to oppnfe the enemy, could not be computed to exceed the following numbers : Effective. Batteries. The Corps of Blucher in Weaphalia 11,532 3 The Hanoverian Corps 33,688 4 The Magdeburgh troops 9. 820 3 The troops from Potfdam, Berlin and the Mark ItJ2O The Corps of General Kslkreutb 13,980 4 The troops from Melia and South Prullia 23,940 I t Thole from Welt Prutha 11,720 Saxon troops 96,840 35 10,000 Total r 16,840 - 41 In this Ratement each battalion is reckoned al 600 rank and file. Probably no regiment was flronger, and many of them confifted of fewer effedive men. " The Saxon forces are but fuperficially Rated, and a coffee lift would thew, that the effedive num bers of this corps, both of the infantry and cavalry, are rated rather too high than too low. " On the 14th Odober the following deduEtion ap peared from the above, viz.:-- g. The troops from Weft Pruffia,beeaufe they reached *e Elbe later, and only arrived at Halle on the 15th 2. A fmall corps in Weftphalia,in two detachments 3. At Hameln and Nkoburg 4. At Hanover S. Under the Duke of Weimar and General Win. ning, a Corps of Obfervation to watch the enemy's corps in Franeonis, and on the Lower Maine IsAto 31,660 1 whiclaeing deduded from t 16,840, leaves the total effedive force of the Pruffians, which fought on the 14th °dotter, 85,180 men, inclufive of the Saxons from which the fmall corps of Prince Louis Ferdinand is Rill to be deduited, which was routed at Saalfeld. " We are not accurately acquainted with the force of the French army. Some time previous to the battle, the different French corps which were engaged were Rated as fellows : The Corps of Marthal Bernadotte -- 16,8c0 Davouft 3 6 . E Souk 311,0: o Larne' ••••• 40,000 Augerela 14,4 00 Nay 18,200 The Refcrves of Cavalry zooloo --‘ Total 193 Soo 22,720 4,620 2,800 ijoo 41 It is probable that the corps of Martha) Lafnes was the weakell of any in the action; however, sect know for a certainty, that thole of Bernadotte and Augereau were the ttronged. The enemy was at leatt 200,000 llrong. "The Pruffian armies fit flained a great lots in killed and wounded. The Royal Houle has fuisported, by its perfonal bravery, the heroic charadier of its an cellors. The King had a horfe thgt under him with a mufket ball, at the moment when he was leading at regiment of cavalry sigaina the enemy. General Zaftrow immediately g ave his Majeity the horfe he had rode, to facilitate Iris Majetty's efcape, and pre vent him from being made partner. In chi night between the 14th and ;Stn, his . Mrjelly likewife put himfelf at the head of a regiment of cavalry, and rode through the enemy fword in hand. Prince Louis died the death of a hero, when he found he could not b.: a conqueror. Both his Majeay's brotheri • were wounded : Prince Henry was with the latt of the troops which remained upon the field of battle; and being hurt in confequence of the fall of his horfe, which seas thot, he was only fived by receiving that of Colonel Scharnhorfi. Prince Aurift us Ferdinand is wounded, having continually fought at the head of his grenadiers with great bravery. The enemy's Princes may have the advantage of the ?ruffians in military experience, but certainly they are not fuperior in valour; otherwife wounds and death are no longer certain proofs of the (hare they took in a dote and continual engagement, " Not one of the three commanders of the Prnlnati army has efcaped unhurt ; the heroic Doke of Brunf , wick was mortally wounded, .and has died of hii wounds; the brave and n , ble Prince Hohenlohe re• ' ceived a violent contution upon his arm ; the valiant and determined General Ruchel is badly wounded ; and there are, betides, eleven Prullian Generals partly wounded and partly dead. " The Pruflian army may OM be fubjea to f-ut.r. failures, when oppofid to an enemy formed for war, and matured by 14 years experience. Our c:•tcrn poraries may flill bring forward their obje6.ions in many relpetts, but the blood the Prullians have al ready flied, and molt probably their future conduer, will juflify them to polltrity." AMERICA. PROCLAMATION. 4 Whereas by an Adt intituled," An Adt to fufpend theopera. tion of an Adt, intituled, An Mt to prohibit the import. t'on of certain goods, wares, and merchandize, and to remit the penalties incurred under the fame," the PreSdent s of the United States is authorized further to fufpend the operation of the faid Prohibitory Adt, if in his judgment the public intere s t &mild require it ; pro vided, that Inch fapenfion gull not extend beyond the fecund Monday in December next. And whereas, it is judged for the public intercit that fuels fapenfion thould take place : now there fore Ise it known, that I Thomas Jefferfon, Prefident of the United States, by virtue of the auhtority aforefaid, do hereby fufpend the operation of the Art kidded " An Mt to prohibit the Importatfon of certain good., wares, and merchandize," pare.' on the 18th day of April, z Sob, until the fecund Monday of December next. " In testimony whereof, I have caufed the feal of the United States to be affixed to there prefents, and figned the fame with, my hind. Done at the city of Wallington the 24th day of March, in the year 1807, and of the Sovereignty and Indepen• dence of the United States of America the 31f. " TKOS. JETTFASON. " JAKIS searnsoir, " Secretary of State." (IF; the Piefidetit) NL•W YORK, APRIL 4. Aarnn Burr, Zx Vice Prefident of the United States, is now in this city, guarded as a Rate pcifoner. RICHMOND (VIRGINIA) MARCH :7. Colonel Burr was apprehended in the Tombigttee country, in the fiat days of March, perhaps the 33, in the following manner : A Gentleman, whore name is reprefented to us td be Perkins, was at a pnhlic houfe in a village in chit country, a few miles (perhaps t 8 or so) from the Spanifh line. He was in company with the Sheriff of the county. About eleven o'clock at night,' a gentlemen rode up to the door; and enquired for the houfe of a Major, who lived in the neighbourhood. He was followed by another, who turned out to be his com panion. The grangers were told, that the bottle of the Major they enquired far, was at Come dittance from the tavern ; and that they would have to crofa a water entitle which had been (welled by the waters, and might be dangerous of acccfs. The arangers, however, perfevered i n their intention ; and left the door of the tavern. _ -- Mr. Perkins was furprized by there fingular move ments. It naturally led to Come (peculation upon the charaiters of the (bangers, and he could not Bart any rational explanation of their myflerious tondua . , but that, they were robbers, who intended to pilfer the Major's houfe. He determined, if poffible, to prevent their drfign ; and prevailed upon his com panion (the Sheriff) to accompany him to the fcene of meditated tobbery. When they arrived, the Major was from home. One of the Gentlemen was in the houfe ; the other had retired to the kitchen, to warm his flittering limbs: The firil glance which Mr. Perkins caught of this vifitant of the kitchen, convinced him that the myf terious granger was no other than Col. Burr. Mr. Perkins determined to arrcft him. He re paired to Fort Stoddart on the Mobile, and prevailed upon Lieutenant Gaines (the Commandant of that fort) to accompany-him with a finall file of foldiers. In the mean while, Colonel Burr had fent back his companion (named Afhley) for fome purpofe un known ; and requefted his new companion, the Sheriff * to thew him on the way to the Spanifh line. On the road, they met the file of foldiers, accom panied by Mr. Perkins and Lieutenant Gaines.— " What (fays Colonel Burr, or in words to this effeet) do foldiers travel here in this Ryle, on horfeback ?" " No," anfwered his companion. Colonel Burr is Paid to hare immediately dropt his bridle, and clafping his hands together to have uttered forte ejaculation of vehement emotion. Lieutenant Gaines advanced up to him, and interrogated him, whether he was not Colonel Burr ? The fcene doled by Lieutenant Gaines' ominous words : 44 You arc my prifoner, Sir."