Star. — London, England, 1809-03-13 00:00:00

THE FATEM KC:STAR. LONDON. MONDAY, MARCH 13. rRI-sOF STOCKS THIS DAY ATONE O'CLOCK. consols, for money, 614-4 for ace. 671----` Otonium I j pre. Exchequer Bills, lUs. prem. PRICE OF STOCKS ON SATURDAY. s per Cent. Cons. 67i Ex. Bills los. i ls. pre. Ditto (Fundable) 14Y. 115. pre. 5 per Cent. Nav y 98 Vila Bonds, Ils. 12s. pre. Lottery Tickets 211. 19s. Imp 3 pc:- Cent.— Cons. for acc. 68 67i . We have received Dutch papers to the 7th instant, f rom which we have given some interesting extracts. All the Continent is in a state of bustle, and the most ac tive p r eparations for war are every where going on. In addition to Austria, it is said that Russia will a lso take the field against NAPOLEON. Intelligence has been received from St. Petersburgh, which be speaks a change of sentiment in that Cabinet, Most caspicious to the interests of Great-Britain. M. Tot.- li on , has been re-appointed to the office of Minis ter for Foreign affairs, and his friendly disposition to England is well known. Th e following interesting extracts are chiefly from t h e Dutch and German papers : The French army of the Rhine, under the corn. Thud of the Duke of AUERSTADT (DAvovvr) has broken up from its cantonments in the countries of Gotha, Hanau, itc. and is now on its march to the Danube. The Staff of the army was on the 17th u i t , re moved from Erfurth, for the purpose of being established at Ulm. The army under General Out'. sor, , which on the 20th had head quarrers at Augs burgh, at that date, comprised nearly 30,000 men. ~ Some Dutch regiments have passed the Mein, on their march to Franconia. Several divisions of French troops from the Duchy of Berg, &c. have taken the same route, and all the carriages and horses in the countries through which they passed, were put in re ccisition for their conveyance. ~ A French army is to be formed in Saxony, with which the forces of the Confederation of the Rhine are to act—several Westphalian regiments were on the 20th ult. under orders to proceed thither. ~ The French have already established an army of between 40 and 50,000 men in Italy, within a few miles of the Austrian frontiers.—The Dalmatian army under Maamosr has been broken up, for the purpose of forming this new corps, but at present it consists chiefly of Italians. A reserve is forming near Brescia, and is to be joined by a body of Swiss troops. It is understood that MassENA is again to have the command of the Italian army. 4 , Count MIER arrived at Vienna on the 12th Fe bruary, with dispatches from Count METTERNICH, the Austrian Ambassador at Paris, communicating, it is stated, the final decision of BONAPARTE on the subject of his differences with the Emperor FRANCIS. Messengers were immediately dispatched to Peters burgh, Berlin, and Copenhagen, as also to the several Austrian Governments, and orders were given for the necessary arrangements preparatory to placing the militia on permanent duty. The Messenger, NAPPER arrived from Paris on - the 14th, and stated, that pre vious to his departure, the tradesmen belonging to the Austrian Embassy had been directed to furnish their several accounts, in order to their being dis charged. The French Ambassador at Vienna, the same day, received dispatches from- Paris, by the Courier, Mk:SSC/MIR, which, h was understood, con tained 'orders of recal. " A cordon a troops has been formed along the whole extent of the Austrian frontiers, and no person is permitted to pass without a passport from the Im perial Aulic Chamber at Vienna. One hundred and fifty bakers at Vienna, had been put in requisition' or the service of the army. The Austrians are making great exertions to fortify the city of Ems, in Upper Austria, and have appointed six thousand soldiers, and a like number of peasants, to that service. " The Cabinet of Vienna, with a view to the far ther augmentation of their army, has ordered the first and second battalions of reserve to be gradually in rorporated with the regiments of the line, and has chiected, that third battalions of reserve be immedi ately formed. The militia too, which had only been exercised on Sundays, was ordered to assemble two evenings in every week, and to provide themselves with certain articles, in the event of being called into service. " The Strasburgh Gazette, in alluding to the mili tary movements in Germany, observes, that should Austria have the madness to provoke another war, the French Eagles will be again flying at Vienna be fore the Ist of May. The same Paper observes, that the French Life-Guards were on their return to Frxnce from Spain, adding, that the state of affairs in that cluntry no longer required the large force which had been poured into it. " The Duke of faun; tpunoc) accompanied by one of BoNAPARTeS Aida4e-Camp, on the night of the 2d ult. passedthrougli Frankfort, charged with Inimponant thisslon totheCourt of St. Petersburgh. " JEROME tinif r of Westphalia, in obedience to orders from Pads, on. die:Oth ult. issued a decree calling out 5500 conscripts Of the year 1808, to be put on active service ; and 2600 more, who are , t 3 form a reserie, to be takes from the young men ban in 1788. • " The reports of an:early .adiustrie9t of ttle dif sereaces which subhist.:ketween PA-, nglancl, :id induced a considerable:meduetion in the price of procluei iif tbeirsffifiercbunti - y, • Suggr, iri particular, had fallen near SO per•teiat o Aamely, fiom 78 to 56, and 58 rubles per pud of 401 b. It is stated, in the German papers, that the Ern perorALExANnr.tt had appointed Prince PaosonowsKr who commands the Russian armies in Moldavia and Wallachia, his Plenipotentiary at the Congress of peace with the Porte. " LOUIS BONAPARTE was at Utrecht, taking mea sures to relieve the country suffering under the inun dations, when he received dispatches from NAPOLEON, requiring the immediate march of 15,000 Dutch troops into Bavaria, to act with the French army un der the Duke of AUERSTADT, and expressing an ex pectation that another corps of like force would be in readiness to take the same route by the middle of March.—Louts sent off Couriers to Amsterdam, &c. calling his Ministers and Councillors of State to Utrecht, where, after much deliberation, his Cour.cil declared to him the incompetence of the nation to sustain the burthens of a new war, and protested against the employment of so large a force in a ser vice unconnected with the interests of the country. Several Regiments were, however, immediately put in motion, and had, at the date of the last accounts, arrived on the Mein." We this morning received two Gottenburgh mails. The intelligence they bring is not of much interest, and furnishes no fresh grounds for conjecture respect ing the future line of politics to be adopted by the Northern powers. The Sound is now completely free from ice. Oviedo Gazettes to the 15th ult. have been re ceived, but their contents are unimportant. The As turians have not yet acknowledged the authority of JOSEPH BONAPARTE, from their not having been as yet visited by the French troops; indeed the Asturians seem to be profoundly ignorant of what is passing in other parts of Spain. The Oviedo Gazettes contain no in telligence respecting Saragossa, but a Hague Cou ran t of the 3d inst. contains the following article on the subject : 4g Though the Moniteur of the 28th of February con tains no particular intelligence, yet in other Parisian papers we learn, that the following important tidings had been received in the capital :—" Saragossa is vanquished ; the French entered it on the 21st of Fe bruary. Marshal LANNES, who refused a capitulation to the Arragonese who defended it, granted a gene rous pardon to all, in the name of his Majesty. Ge neral PALAFOX is to be prisoner of war, if he refuse to take the oath of allegiance to the King." We have received New York and other American Papers to the Bth ult. brought by two vessels which have arrived at Liverpool, with cotton, from Savanna in Georgia. The non-intercourse Bill, after a warm discussion of 18 days, was carried by a considerable majority. The greatest ferment on the subject of the Embargo' still continues to prevail throughout America. Peti tions from starving mariners are daily pouring into Congress, and numbers of vessels are continually put ting to sea in defiance of the Embargo laws. A Bill has been brought in for arming 50,000 volunteers. A report was circulated in the City on Saturday, that an insurrection had broken out in Holland, in consequence of the preparations ordered by NAPOLEON for putting the Dutch troops in motion against Aus. trig. Letters from Holland, of the Bth inst. are en- tirely silent on this subject. It was reported on Saturday that the Expedition of the Portuguese against Cayenne had terminated successfully. Information has reached us from Rio Janeiro, dated as late as the Ist January, and no mention is made of this success. A Messenger has arrived in Leadenhall-street, with dispatches from the East India Company's agent at Constantinople, stating that the Communication over. land with India was open, and that proper arrange ments had been made at the different stations for ex pediting the couriers. Letters have been received from Captain CARROL at Gijon. They are dated 20th February, and at that time the French were not in the province of Asturias. A letter from Captain CLEAVELAND, of the General Dodswell, arrived at Rio Janeiro, dated Dec. 26, 1808, states, that it was strongly reported that the Vulture and the Scorpion, from London for the South Seas, were captured by the Spaniards round Cape Horn, and that the Captain of the latter was killed, and several of the crew. A letter from an Officer on board a transport in Cadiz harbour, says— ; “ We got to Cadiz in three days from Lisbon, from whence we sailed on the Ist with four regiments, and were in full expectation of landing immediately; but the jealousy of our allies, or the intrigues of our enemies, keep us still on board." MISS GAYTON, of Operatical celebrity, married 'yesterday to a Clergyman with a fortune and prefer ment, and estate of 20001. per annum, is the daughter of a hair-dresser at Islington. FASHIONABLE PetomeNanc—Yesterday produced [ the usual display of dress in Hyde Park and Ken sington Gardens. The weather was fine, and the ripening beauties of nature gratified the eye. The bursting buds of lilac, the golden crocus, and the ptimrose, now cheer the scene, and we hail with plea. sure the approach of that season whifh dresses our fields with verdure, and the countenance with joy. The evergreens and shrubbery surrounding the Palace of Kensington present a pleasant appearance, and tb spectator may be delighted by a peep into the oran-, sery or green house. Since the fashionables relin quished their favourite walks for winter quarters, .Kensington Palace has been much improved. The apartments prepared for the reception of the Princess ()Males, have been &tied up with exquisite taste and konakniSoonce. I- . 'J THE ARMY. Saturday, the Samaritan, and another transport, arrived - in the Downs, with the 2d Battalion of the 78th (Highland) Regiment, about 100, on board, bound to Fort George, to recruit; they came from the Isle of Wight, having turned the remainder of the men over to the Ist Battalion. The public anxiety is very considerable for the fate of our Expedition in the West-Indies. The army there is the largest and best appointed that has acted in that quarter for many years ; it is larger than that of either Sir CHARLES GREY, or of the 1111MOtta! ABERCROMBIE in the same quarter. Well prepared, and amply provided, as the French have been for some time at Martinique, expecting an attack, much loss is looked for. General &clown!, the Conttnan der in Chief, is a very old Officer. Sir GEORGE PaEvosT is a very able officer, and his defence of Dominica, and retreat across the island, is thought by military men one of the most brilliant set._ vices in our annals. General MAITLAND is a spirited and able Officer, and has served some time in the West Indies; General DANIEL HOUGHTON is likewise a gallant Officer, and distinguished himself in St. Domingo last war. Generals Mortal) and Oxus did great service in Ireland during the Rebellion. With the fine Army now in the West Indies, com manded by such able Officers, the Country may with confidence look for brilliant service at Martinique. We are glad to hear that the great bodies of sick and wounded from the Army in Spain, left at Ports mouth, and Plymouth, are nearly all recovered. We are however sorry to hear, that the troops returned are very sickly in their quarters over the kingdom. They are particularly so at Colchester, Brighton, and Lewes. The 73d Highlanders, commanded by Colonel M'QUARRIE, will very soon sail for Botany Bay. It is but a few months since the skeleton of this fine and spirited corps returned from India, after a residence. of upwards of twenty years there. The corps has since been recruited in the Highlands of Scotland. The 73d goes out in two 50-gun ships, the Drome dary and Hindostan. Major-General NIGHTINGALE, the Governor of New South Wales, with his suite, is preparing to leave town for Portsmouth. He goes out in the DROMEDARY, which is fitted up for him. Mrs. NIGHTINGALE and his family accompany him. The General's salary is £5OOO per annum, to retire on three-fourths of this salary after having been five years out. It is said, that on account of the bad fever which is so prevalent throughout the Army, the volunteer ing from the Militia is postponed for a month. This is very much against the will of the Militiamen, who are more ardent than ever to enter the line. We are sorry to hear that the 54th Regiment has lost several Officers and many men, lately, in Ja maica, by the yellow fever. The following circumstance which is so highly creditable to the Regiment, and to the town of which it makes mention, that we think it cannot be too ge nerally known :—On the march of the Ist Battalion, 43d Regiment Light Infantry, from the place of de barkation to Colchester, they were met on their ap proach to Maldon, in Essex, (in which town they had been quartered some time previous to their departure for Spain), by a numerous body of the inhabitants, headed by some of the most respectable, to greet their return to Old England—and that at a distance of three miles from the town ; when the Officers were invited to a sumptous dinner, provided for them at the principal inn, where each gentleman vied with the other in their hospitable attentions ; and the privates were almost generally entertained by the publicans with free billetts. We are happy to find that Miss Beffin, the young lady who now exhibits her wonderful powers at No. 17, New Bond-street, is so liberally encouraged, as she most assuredly merits every attention that can possibly be given, especially by those who are admi rers of the Fine Arts, for the great perseverance she must have possessed, to surmount the numerous dif ficulties she has had to encounter with, having had the misfortune to be born deficient of arms and legs. Her .figure is extremely pleasing, her manners and conversition are quite interesting, and her perform ance stifpasses every imagination. During a sessions of Parliament, from the town being so much more full of company than at other periods of the year, it has generally been usual, when a Lottery occurred, to make its Scheme consist of 25 or 30,000 Tickets.—But it now so happens, not withstanding this obviously great increase of adven turers in the metropolis, that the present Scheme (the most interesting, indisputably, ever offered to the public contained, at first starting, but I 8,500 Tickets for sale ; consequently, almost a moral certainty, that neither Ticket or Share will, by the Day of Drawing, (12th of April) be left for sale in the Lot tery market. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK•LANR, MARCH 13.—There is a middling supply of Wheat arrived to-day, mostly second and ordinary, sales thereof are heavy at lower prices, bu..: fine at-our last quotation—Barley in large supply, and lower—Malt and White Peas at rather less prices—Beans of each description support last currency—There are large fresh arrivals or Oats, and this trade is quoted Is, and 2s. per quarter lower— Flour at our last prices. • • GENERAL CURD INCE AS UNDER : Wheat, 635. 76%. 90%. Beans (new) 565. 625.04. Fine ditto, 925. 955. Tick ditto (new) 50s. 15s. ed. Rye, 625. 68s. Oats, 30.1. 345. 38s. Sarley, 40s. 465. Poland ditto, 390. 465. Od. Malt 725. 795. Putatoe ditto to 41; 04. White/ w% (boilers), 134,144. Rape Seed, G4l. to 681. .firey.41t04944 Seas. Fuze 'Flour 80s. to 85t: Seconds 7.55. to 80,. R4I I IIL INTELLIGEZIS• FALMOUTH, MARCH If). - - Sailed the Carteret packet, Captain Patterfict, with mails for America, and Duke of Montrose pi,cle_s, Captain Blewitt, with mails for Jamaica...—Wind N. E. TRURO, MARCH ii. A cutter from America arrived in the Mount's-b:y on Saturday last, and landed a Messe:lger said to be charged with dispatches of great commercial impor tance, but the particulars have not transpired. No communication was permitted with the shore ; the centinel on board repeatedly threatening to fire into the Custom-hOuse boat. Two coasting vessels Isere, on the ith instant, taken off the Deadman, by a French lugger. The crew of one of the captured vessels escaped on shore at the Deadman siLnal sta tion. 'Ole Good Intent, LEFEVRE I from Waterford •for Lisbon, struck on the Woolpack rock, Scilly, and filled. Part of the cargo is lost, but the vessel. has been towed into St. Mary's. PLYMOUTH-DOCK, MARCH 11. Arrived yesterday the REsotArrtos hired cutter, from off Ushant. On her passage to this port, she spoke a prize t , ) the Lion privateer, the master of which informed the Commander of the RzsoLuTuns that they had fallen in with Sir J. T. DUCKWORTH'S squadron, and that the Admiral was shaping his course for Rochefort. Also arrived the HOPE sloop of war, Captain PEARCE, from Lisbon, with dis patches : sailed from thence the 14th of February.— She brings intelligence that 3000 British troops, lately under the command of the lamented Sir Joun MooRE, had arrived at Lisbon from Cornnna. The HOPE informs, that the BONNE CZTOYENNE sloop of war, has on board 150 of the Guards, which were em barked on board that ship from some port in Portu gal, and are now on their way in her for this country. On the 6th instant the HOPE spoke his Majesty's ship SCE:WEILL ANTE, Captain Sir S. R. COLLIER, with a large convoy under her charge from the Brazil.— Captain COLLIER informed Captain PEARCE, that, on the 6th instant, they descried six sail of French line of battle shipi steering to the S. W. Arrived the Cecilia tender, with impressed men from Cork ; the Neptune ditto, with ditto, from Dublin ; the brigan tine Rosa, of London, WARE master, from St. Kitt's, 35 days passage ; came as a running ship, and put in here by contrary winds : she sailed in company with the Favourite and two other armed merchant men. Also, the brig Tor Abbey, from Cork, laden with provisions ; and the John, LEWIS, froin Drog heda, laden with oatmeal, both for this port. Sailed the SATURN, of 74 guns, Captain Lord A. BEAU. CLERC 4 DEFENCE, of 74, Captain EKINS; and BLAKE, Of 74, Captain CODRINGTON, for Portsmouth ; the DOTEREL brig of war, Captain ASHY, for the coast of France, having a Captain belonging to the French army on board, with his wife and family, who had escaped from France, in consequence of having killed his commanding officer (a General) in a duel. Government refund him permission to land, and ordered him to be conveyed back to France, to abide the decision of the laws of his country. He appeared very much dejected. Sailed also the WEAZLE brig of war, with dispatches for Cadiz and the Mediterranean ; the MINERVA fri gate on a cruize ; the Neptune tender for Dublin : Joseph hired cutter to the westward ; the ENTREPRE. NANTE cutter on a cruize in the Channel; IMPLACABLE, 74, to join the Channel fleet ; the Caput's, Captain WYN TER ; the PHEASANT brig of war, of 18 guns, and the PILCHARD schooner, and the NIMROD cutter, for the Channel fleet : 'the Spanish ship Ferdinand VII. for Cadiz—she was from La Guira, bound to the former port, laden with a valuable cargo of cotton, coffee, &c. detained and sent in here by the ST. Flo- RENZO frigate. DOVER, MARCH 12. Came in the Ocean transport, with stores, from Vigo, last from Portsmouth, bound to Woolwich, and a number of coasters, bound to the Eastward, wind bound. His Majesty's ship CHEROKEE has sent in here the schooner la Jeune Emma, belonging to Dun kirk, which she cut out from under the batteries near there : the schooner was formerly an English one— is laden with coals, bound to the Westward ; she un fortunately, in coming for the harbour last night, got on shore on the bar, and the wind blowing hard from the Eastward this morning, with a heavy sea, forced her against the Pier Head, and drove her larboard quarter in and did her other damage.—Wind E. DEAL,MARCH 11. Arrived the Humber armed ship, with convoy from Falmouth. Sailed the Plymouth naval trans. port ter the River. The Court-martial on the Ho. nourable Captain DUNDAS, of the Euryalus, is not yet closed. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. The Stately, tor the Zeidrenntst, captured August 3, 180", will be recslledson Tuesdays and Fridays, at No. 23, Norfolk. street, Strand. The Constant, for seven vessel; taken between May 4,1804, and August 8, 1803, will be paid on board on Saturday, and re called at No. 18, Cletnert's Inn, on Mondays and Thursdays. The Princess, for the Prochuls, captured April 13, 1806, and the Racehorse, for l'Amiral Gantheaume, March 2, 1808, will be paid can Saturday, at No. 11, Cecil-street, avid there recalled. The Nassau_, for the Christian Frederick, captured March 22, 1808; Jonge Bertels, April 8,1806; Industrie, April 29, 1808; Vissery, Aprill".3, 1806, and Haabet Anker, April 29,1808. The Lion, for 14 Pcciprocite, Dec. 27,1807; and the Jackall, for the Print: Henrick, April 12, 4806, will be paid an the 22d instant, at No. 9, New Broad-street, and there recalled on Wednesdays and Thursdays': The Bruin.; for the Afien and Pliaabeth, captured Feb. 25, 1808 ; and the BaStlitk and Urgent, for the Mercurius, April 8, 1806. will be paid on board, on their iwrival, and recalled at Ni. 9, New Bread-street. '1 he Narcissus, Int the Del Rdsario, Nuv. 7, 1801; the Hen. rea, and Seri Rcs trna, April ;3, 1 ey4, w:11 Le p tid at No. 6, Stsnbore•strett;Strard, on Monday mitt, and there r. callad • M