Star. — London, England, 1809-02-09 00:00:00

_ . THE ARMY. VEItBES, ----- ' WIUTTEte . tee THE. CouleTßY, LANUAItY IBM eVhile the public anxiety is so feelingly alive to the pr esent state of the g allant Sir Davin BAIRD; who!) The pride of conquest and of power suffered a most formidable surgical operation at Co. I tranquil leave to fairer tnaidS; r.:1111a, it should not be forgotten, that it is to the skil- Content to pus the sileut hour , Alone amid these peateful shades ful exertien of an individual that the public isindebt- To me, these peaceful shades can yield e l for the r eturn of this distinguished Officer to his• A joy unknown in courtly balls; sensary and to his friends. Mr. MULBERRY, surgeolt De han crow arer to m e, this modest field, balls ! of the VILLE DE I' AM.% had the honour of rescuing a Tdd routes or splendid es'. ua ble life, which we earnestl y hope will be pro- What, tho' the lavislttitand of art , i ee ged for th e benefit of this ccuntry. He removed Pro It strikes the eye, but notfuse, the brilliant wand heart— s adorn ; heart— . e s hattered arm of the General from the socket of And feverish languor waits the morn! o s e shoulder, an operation extremely hazardous, and , While Nature's beauties, ever new, w hich requires great skill in the performance. •We I In sweet succession, constant spring— sincerely trust that this gentleman's exertions will I eau to their stated order true, . eventually prove succe: sful in the recovery of this i Their varying charms the seasons tiring! Rood O ffi cer, and that the country will be sufficiently Thy verdure, Spring, thy gentle showers, grateful to the man who has been so in. Soon yi e ld to Su u mental Thy flow'rets fair that deck the tale,it. Mr. MULBERRY is aft old and meritorious mmer's sultry hairs, J Fir wither in the scorching gale ! Offi cer , and we hoe will be as amply re warded as Yet much I tote each gay delis& fl-x surgeon of the VICTORY, who attended the Hero That comes in laughing Surnmer's train; 0 Trafalgar in his few last moment!, and who, in Or pensive hear the bird of night, consequence, was shortly after promoted to the highest While new-mown hay perfumes the plain ! r ank of his profession. The busy Harvest quick succeeds — No part of our army more eminently distinguished The Reaper courts the gentle breeze; i ;se lf in Spain than our artillery. It became tre- • Gaily the rhstic labour speeds mendous to the enemy after a short experience of its When yellow Autumn strips the trees ! Stern Wi n ter, then, with rugged brow effects, f o r at the distance o f a mile and a half, its • And cloudy aspect, march es forth— aim was invariably certain. An English gun brough The distant hills are tipp'd wi th snow— y) be a r against a French g un at that distance, was The Muttering winds forsake th e N o rth ! sure to destroy it in two minutes. Ye.t, e'en this season h as its charms, The two light battalions of the German Legion, 'lle lee-drop glitering in the sun; 'Oast returned from Spain, having disembarked at The sport that cheers us while it warms-- Portsmoeth, have marched to Chichester, where they The frolic leap, or playful run ! are at present quartered. ' And sweet the joys its evenings bring, When dust( r'd round the cheerful fire... Monday ee'nnight the Middlesex Millitia marched Of chosen friends a circling ring, into Winchester from Portsmouth ; and the 35th Re- Speak all that sense and wit inspire I _ girnent are gone to Andover. Thus let me, far from crowds away , The 42d RPginient lost about 150 men, killed and In p eacefuldear mansion purest joy! I M. and two Lieut e n ants were wounded,, but they are my . M. . re covering. --- Saturday afternoon a waggon, crowded with wo. HAYMARKET T HEA TRE.. —Tuesday 4 .27 night m ot and soldiers , wh o had been wrecked off Christ- church,JrPrint in a transport from Spain, arrived at South- produced at this Theatre, and throughout epton, and were immed iatel y billeted. The sight veura bly received by a crowd e d audience. re i ntr oduced to the Stage , hke the Portrait of C by Mr. was truly distressing, the men all in p att y -colours, Telessoes, and %kat:, we believe , wri and the women scar cel y covered with clothing. rather translated, by the same Gentleman . T Sunday se'nnight the 3d Royal Lancashire Militia voured the town with that popular piece marched into Southampton from Gosport, to make is sim ply that of a you posed byng Gerrnan Officer I. ro om there for part of our brave army arrived from himself, oe being im the folly of oda \salt whose daughter he i: Spain. On Monday, a party of them marched for a sporting Baron, as the Dula of ll•:iaault, to the expulsion of Romsey. coxc omb of a Count , to whom she was betr Thursday a party of the 1 0 th , or P rince of Wales's, The plot is really extremely slight, but the r Light Dragoons, came into Southampton on their are •nade to follow with rapidity. and the di retie to Brighton, to join their regiment. They had very s prightly, though the English wit here grafted upon the Getman is rather comm e no less than 19 baggage waggons in their train. The piece ends in the bursting of the bubb The same day a division of the 28th regiment had amused the Baron's family, to the satin I, marched through Winchester on their route to Col- all parties. The acting is, throughout, adn &ester. may be conceived from Mum:noes Biii-G7l D d Among the domestic as well as national ealam i - %, Count • and JONES'S Mock Duke. FAWCETTJ Vas. ISAYENPOILT, and bliss NORTON, aisle ‘• tits which have resulted iStm the misfortunes of our 11 to great advantage, as auxiliaries of the se< brave armies in Spain, is to be recorded the loss of An edition of Madame COTTIN'S "Anent. Captain Door:sem% of the 7th Light Dragoons, e we understand will appear in a few days. d the eldest son of a most respectable and now deeply sidered ite Paris to be the most finished prod y afflicted Baronet's family, in Berks, who after having has issued from the pen of this elegant tv, :: surmounted, with an ardour, resolution, and patience, have also the pleasure to announce the pul r a a Novel, by the celebrated KOTZEBUE, entitle which acquired him the highest approbation of his e, We are sorry to mentions the loss of two al superior officers, and the affection of the troops, the longing to Dundee,the Generous M 0 . fatigues and dangers of a most disastrous campaign, master, with a cargo of grain fro'm Dund T. was lost, with others of his companions in arms, by which was wrecked on the night of the the wreck of the Dispatch transport, when they had Scares • the whole crew drowned. A the - , a:1- tare, MARTIN master, whichovas run dov nearly regained their native shore — Ls bap, on ' th e 17th ult , by the Robert and Szap'd from the direst ministers of Death, ee Len, of Shields ; the crew and six artiller Famine's dread tooth, and War's ensangtibi'd mark, :vs saved. The latter vessel was in the It by The youthful Hero with reccrver'd breath, v i ce . I'd Joyful ascends the home returning bark : ile His fancy hails the near approaching land, •On Abe 19th ult. a sloop with coals, 1 , haven, for Whithora, after losing its ns 3t. And pictures ev'ry dear, delighted face, the Bay of Veigtown. The crew, two i nit Presses the kind, congratulating hand, took to their Boat ; and, after suffering And feel: tb' exulting parent's fond embtace. ships, owing to the ice, were rescued fro 5.. it But ah ! more fell than famine or than war, gerous situation, by the great exertions his Insatiate ocean yawns a fatal tomb ; young tnen belonging to Wigtown, wh And blooinim; hopes, that five arid steel mild spare, peril, aided by the people of the town, eel Ingulphs ran orsekss in its rav'ning womb ! I. A. on shore, where they are recovering. : tee was raised to reward these fine young f The body of the Honourable Captain HERBERT, of e o n they reluctantly accepted. for- the Royal Navy, who was unfortunately drovnned in The Robert transport, T. Tecoto ma ;In ; going on shore at Gijon, in Spain, and which was arrived in the Downs a few days ago' one interred at that place, has, by permission of the Bishop the Master reports that he sai.ledfrem I loss of °view, been taken up and brought to the family ! cernber, 1808, with twenty sail of tran leer his Maj esty's vault at Burghclere, in Hampshire. Captain HER-1 pany, under convoy of ~ 7 re-with the troops composing Junot s arm w e eLitT was second son of the Earl of CARNARVo)i. Quiberon Ist January, 1809, 21 sa we The 2d, or Oueen's Royals, and 20th and 76th 1 ON French troops, and while in the act of t' egiments, are on their march for Ipswich. The Ist 1 ten sad of transports drove on shore, bt I Division of the Queen's will arrive there on Friday ' best part will be saved. He sailed alto nest. Captain SCOTT and Lieutenant BORLASE are on the 12th January, with nine sail parted company a t sea, p ut into the ;the but some already arrived. There is scar cel y a day 1 ' t his lets few men or officers arriv e, belon g in g to the above lath January , s ailed a g ain on the 20t gales from S. and S. W. and was tale ss ot regiments, who have been landed on different parts of lugger privateer off Beachy Head, o that the coast from Spain. None of them have suffered 60 men, on the 26th January, 1809 s Dull w as carried into Cala is on the 27th Fitt. lost an , much : the 9cl have not although en- He was thrown into p rison at Calai gaged all the time in the ac tion at Cortimt. I lying plundered by the p rivateer's men ; t ;lingrine and Police , whom he was brut The Ist battalion of the sth Regiment i s quartered made a formal prot est to the Comm too at Steyn i ng barracks. e our The 2d battalion of the 60th Regiment is at New- examined with his log book and ship t. l port, in the Isle of Wight. walling, &c. a great number of eel ter to by the Major commanding the Is The 2d battalion of the 10th Regiment has marched do or board that • transport. He was next vet t° from Weelcy barracks to Lincoln. Prefect of Boulogne,'who ordered hi; Friday four companies of the 74th Highland Re. crew. He then stated his having 1 god giment, the grand division commanded by Colonel on board ; for which the owners eft 01 4 /.lAcpuur soN •. . , marched into Aberdeen from Fort oblig ed to make him the most anvil the 'Second Captain a . the privateer George, on their route southward. prison, to be tried for plundering th • - 11',1VAL lATELLIqE,JVC.E. the wharf of the deck-yard, .bat vrithont doing het • any material injury: An office is finis* up in the FALMOUTH, PFM 6;• - • dock-yard, for the Ports Admiral of Sistgerness, f•- Put back the Princess Augustiisicket, • CapteST. his . on2p . • badness 1 with toot Captains t i .A.UPIN, with Mails for Jamaica, With her sailt, torn, i "tau '' doing t the men of war fitting ott at this port. after being Out a fortnight.—Wind N.W. DIAL, FEBRUARY 7. PLYMUTII, I , F.P. S. • Arrived the Royal Eseape lighter, from Deptford, Arrived the Brothers, W ALK ER, from Pedstow , With stores for the supply of, the dock-yard here ; with barley, and Dart, CREGoRY, from Dartmouth., Lord Duncan, Lady Castlereagh, s and Baring T t astr '. ith sundries. Cleared outwards, the Hawk, Ete India ships, from . the River, and sailed under convoy mar, fur Cork, with oak and bark, and Active, of ." the a - I LSIIIHR armed ship, Sem - Teleran lugger, Twine, for Bristol, with barilla. Saturday, arrived t 1 Nottingham, Carnatic, and Pr-severance East India the French brig Courieredes hides, laden With coffee,' ships, and a large fleet of transports, merchant Yes indign, sugar, pepper, ice, from the she of Feapte, sels, Sec. for Portstbouthi Sailed the FOR/013 gun bound to France, captured by the ALCMENE frigate, brig, for the Non; CASTOR and DOLPHIN* for Pip Captain Titeteeeer ;this vessel was formerly , the ! 1 mouth ; Fix, TROMPEUSE, cHALLniGSR, , BEAGLE* Americae brig Caroline, belonging to Boston, hay- 1 and • StottARIC sloops ; BLAZER and YEARLiSS guss in g been sold by the American Ceptain to the French i • .brigs, on a.cruite off Ilnulogne. in the fsle of France, in conseque nce of their toil in g I FEB. tie-eWiad N. E.e—Blows hard. Remain ks him that a war had commenced between England I i the Downs His Majesty's shipeets per last. and America. A large English Soutliseeman, was ' HARWICH, FEBRUARY 8. • about to 'ail for France, at the time the French brig Arrived thiS day the Prince bf Wales, Capten left it, having been captured and sent in there by a T. C. Masai, with Mails and Passengers, from He " Preach ptivateer. A large French frigete was also : • ligoland. The Auckland Packet, Captain G. Drew, about to sail at the same time, for Feauce, laden has returned from sea, owing to contrary winds. With a very valuable cargo, plundered from several : ; Arrived also a gun.brig, with a prize in company, English vessels that had been captured and sent in ' • supposed to be the Onyx and prise , ( la t e Manl y g un. there. Arrived the Spanish brig Saint Joseph, front . - - brig). No boats have yet come on shore—cannot, the Havannah, last from Corunna—put into the lat. therefore, inform you accurately.—. The brig Britan: ter place, supposing that the Spaniards had still got nit, of Shields, Dowel master, with coals, for Lon possession of its but, finding that the town had • don, has been brought in by a salvage boat, very been captured by the French, she was obliged to cut leaky.•:—Wind E S. E. blows strong. her cable and stand out to sea. Arrived the Portu- I YARMOUTH, FEB. 7. gueze schooner st. Anna, Amexzeleses master, ! . e . Arriven th is morning a French corvette, mounting laden with gun -powder and small anns, lion) Lis- I 0.2 - guns, prize to the Aenenta frigate, Capt. Lord I ~., bon, bound to Oporto ; was cap tured on the 30th esisoitoe Serwen - a• ; the was front the Texel, bound tn Denney. flour, and ult. by the Hebe French c orvette, of e 0 g uns, and to Maet . ique, and is laden with 150 men, which vessel was from Bourdeaux, bound ! provisions. She received and gave one broackddes to St. Lomittit s o with dispatches : • tlie Hebe also ' e in thesr rigging--the prize has l o s t , her for Waßeex master , from Liverpool, bound to I - after which she struck : they both have r e ceived da captared on the 6 th ult. th e bri g E xp erience, of Ex- • 'g 1 topmast ; and her rigging, sails, Ste. are very much Cadiz, laden with coals ; and on the 15th ult. cap- I damaged : the AbiIABLE Ott the prize underthe et.; Lured the transport (light) Lord Mulgrave, from; i con of the CALYPSO sloop of war. Sailed:the ONYX Coeunna, hound to Vigo. The Portuguete schooner I , • ,_ , e wttu oer prite, and the AliteeNr e ßOTALlsie RINI RAY * s i on a cruizce Arrived the HAVOC gore-brig, Lieute was air en up on the 30tleult. to the crews of the three before mentioned vessels. Cleered outward, the I ..t weet. BAsOSFR. In the Roads; the Roebuck , Princ ess H a nnah, GUNIAN, for Falm outh, with sundries, and , Caroline, Bellerophon, Aboukir, Stately, Egeria, Earl St. Vincent, Coce, for Padstow, with empzy ! i Hearts-, Indignant, and Calypso.—Wind N.A. cash. ' Came in the Esersiches, of 18•gona frem a • I Fa t . B.—Sailed the HEARTY guttbrig. Arrived cruize, with the Les of her topmast and bowsprit ; ; i two gunbrigs, but the wind and surf has prevented and ENIi.RALO, of 3r3, crie T z u rbay ; Cre lendon, ; llnees, from New Brunswick, with naval I a ll communication with the ships in the Roads. The Captain i only particulars of the frigate mentioned yesterday, stores for this port ;she i s last from Scilly, where sh - i e are reports, which state, that she sailed from Dunkirk met 'vith much damage. Sailed the ImPLAcABLE, I I a few days ago, and was going north about, when and ETA I ABETII, of 74 guns each, far Torbay ; His - I l'Aiseneee fell in with her, and, after a chace of SO nosree, of s') guns, with about sixty 511 of tran s - , I hours and upwards , she captured her on the Dogger ports for Portsmouth , ha vin g troo e s on board, last I Bank, tiler exchanging broadsides, in which both from Coruena : several of the transports put back suffered in mast and rigg in g , but- none either killed y e sterday ev ening, the wind being far to the sout h- or wounded ; her cargo consists of 900 barrels gun ward. A cutter is ashore on the back of St. Ni- . i powder, 700 sacks flour, several chests of dollars, a cholas's island, hut we cannot•get her mime. I great quantity of ship-stores and clothing; she is Fi.u.7.-•=-Cameir, the Conde do Penicke,Fertuguese t mounted for 32 guns of very.large calibre, and is a ship, Captain G. J. FREEIRE, from London, bound ; - I remarkably fast sailer. A brig sailed from Dunkirk :enc. jto Ccrunna, laden with cocoa, linens, and sail cloth, ; ; for the sante destination, two days beforethe frigate, 'Mansfield" , having been warned off by-one of his Majesty's fri. ; ' laden with stores of various description.—Wind S.E. It is con iduction that I gates. The cutter dr iven ashore y esterday on St. I I ~ Nicholas's Island , is called the . Mars, and belongs to I t writer. We strong breeze. t . c owcy ; slie wasfrorn Falmouth, and coming to this iblication of ; :led Leontitta• port to be surveyed for the service of the Admiralty ; to vessels be- !she is now completely wrecked, and the crew are say- Mind, Youeo j ins the stores. Sailed the NORGE, of 71. gulls, to the 'lee to Hull, 1 eastward, said with sealed orders ; Oftesees, cf 18 . '22d ult. on 1 guns, on a cruize ; Foxitousn, of 18 guns, to the And the Veil- ; ,wn off Tor. t wee,ward. - The RAVEN> of IS guns, is prepaying to id Ann, Mir.- i sail to the eastward, with the remainder of the Co tery men were I rum a transports and the trade, under convoy. Came transport, ser - in the Black Yoke lugger, Lieutenant CAN seem, from , I Lisbon in fourteen days. Sailed the SIiASNOS and from White- N mast, sung in A r ri lI ST frigates to the westward. i persons mile, 1 PoiereMotseit, VET.% 7. ig great liar:l- ' Arrived a ficet of transports from Vige, last from -om their dee.. . • T or bay.—Sailed his Majesty's ship la VI:MINiF to cof six bras:: the Westward.-11is Majesty's ship Thule.: /see a ill , ,o, with r great i brought e'tahaa sa il to-mono with the fleet for tit , : n-a7.ils, Scs..— A su'escriethel Wind E. . . fellows, wine* it.. B.—Arrived his Ma:Teey's shies Ceerott and • Doerine with the Perseverance, Logy Castlereagh,. aster, 173 tons, Lord Duncan, Nottingham, Carnatic, and Bariegsl 'from Calais : East lediailien, and a fits.: of other outward bound Lisbon 9th De- , trisports in com- vessels from the Doware His Majesty's ship Huile shia/MeRTLE, HER has passed by ' with a convoy for Falmouth.— ; army ; arrived at Sailed his. Majesty's brigs IJ:wen:Tee and I:mot:SI ' sail ; landed the on a cruite. His Maj es ty' s shi p SconeioN is appoint f disembarkin t g , . ed convoy to the We s tward.—Wind E. S. E. blows iut he thinks e bard. CILIATHAM, FTB. r;. from Quiberon of transports, 1 Scilly Islaeds Friday evening, aboet seven o'c l ock, a fire broke ith, with heavy out in one of the offices of the dock-yard ;an alarm iken by a French : was gi4en by ringing the bells, and firing the guns of 16 guns and from the ships , w hich soon drew to the spot a great at eleven P. M. concourse of the workmen of the yari, together with the military of every d e scri p tion ; from the veil Lis a , t an eit h t i " s r. sh h i l p . , the next day lie prompt and vigorous exertions the fire was soon got tinder, and before n ine o ' clock the whole was torn immmigssahtrita)et fo of re Martad- pletely extinguished. It was at first thought the t i s c sign et whole range of of fi ces *odd be consumed , of course f i - reil l c i c a w P e e r rs e trooisson the books, records of office, the cath, and accounts at examined by the in the Checks-office, were all removed. his xelease , with his The Sraletwato and AnucA both repairing under v lost his. property pendants, are in good forwardness ; the former will the privateer were A be put out of dock next week, and the other the next de rettittetia 1 alms , ateer w a s * T om inta Spring-tides after. The late high winds drove 'the that transport. i Sheerhulk from her moorings, and forced her sw " jt.l 1 A new race ? was very fa- It was Cervantes. itten, or who fa- The story imposing lers, upon is in love, a foolish trotlied.— inCidents tialogue is and there rricn-place. Ible, which iFlaction of niirable, as LISTON ' S FARLEY, 'eared also ORKNEY, JANUARY 5. We are again seriously alarmed by the appearance of the enemy's privateers on our coast. Two have taken their station on the cast, and one r.n the west side Of Our islands, where they have continued to cruise undisturbed upwards of a fortnight past. There is not a single armed ship in any of our harbours ; the ship owners and merchants are consequently unde great alarm for their property. DISTRIBUtION . 01 1 PRIZE-MONEY. The Roby, for the Nia Sra de Los Dolores, captured Nov. co. I/304, will be paid on her arrival, and recalled on WedLesdays and Thursday). The Charles, for the Peter and Hercules, Captured Jure ?, 1808, was paid on board, yesterday, and wine mailed at Nu. Esses-street, Strand. The Tartar, far la Duquesne, taPtisted July SS, HMS, wit Ow on Saturday, at No. 13, 'Clement's Inn, aria there recalled cz I' Mondays and ThureclaVs. The Nuttier, for the Wow Algunda and Ben:gheit, capture , . Dec. , 22-, 1807, will be paid on I?oard, an the. ISM last. and rt-• called at No. 9, James-street, Adelphl. FRAM LLOYD'S LIST. rEtRUAItY 7'—Pasted by, the Harriet, Lister from New 11runswick ; Sisters, Porter, from. Newfoundland' Lord tfutilin, Lowe; and the Eliza, Leach, from Lisbon.— Sailed, the Mad. Darby, for Hayti ; Avert, Morris, for Curs coo; and the Wellesley, Clarke, for Jamie'. FZERUAry s.--Sailed the Susan, Pears, fcr Gibraltar ; and tb Ariel, Lines, for Hayti. ARRIVF.D—Off St. Nee, the Vatiguarsil,ltisings, from Sr. low At Bristol, the Ann, Ikarret, from Malta. At Liverpool, the Ili toria,Best, from the West Indies. At Belfreit, the Princess Royi Heath, from Alicnt. At IVlogadare, the Matigiret, • Key, fro, London'. At the Havannah, the Barhadoes, Tucker, from L verpool. Ann and Francis, ; Union, PAMPA, and tt Neptune, rOIISTRII, froth New York, are arrived ; Liverpool, having broken the embargo: These ve sels are principally laden with cotton, ahatheCaptaii state, that other vessels may be shortly expected, they were waiting only a favourable opportunity I escape. The Active, Tiuktp, frOth Jamaica far London, h: put into Milford, leaky, having last an anchor ar cable, and been obliged to throw part of' her cars overboard. The St. Pitrick, loPittason . ) front Belhat for Lo don, put into Portferry, oa the Ist inst. all *ell. It is reported that the Margaret, Boor p., Won, Oh gow, is captured by net) privateers and carried in Guaialoupe. His Majosty's sloop of fur Arzsuts, Car %staked - tor* thah a mot 'N I ~. 1 41 , 1 i t I j j ll . .1.., ....';,; Ii r Vrill OuvEtt, which was wrecked more than a nieT e next. since near the Sea Bathing Infirmary, Margate, v re the on Monday Se's:might, after much labdur, of 11 gainst launched, and towed to Sheerness,