Star. — London, England, 1809-01-02 00:00:00

THE EVENING. STAR. LONDON. MONDAY, SANITARY S. TRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Consols for January 641—Reducod ISt —Omaha= dia. Exchequer Bina. 1.. sa. pron. PRICE OF STOOKS ON SATURDAY. $ per Cast. Rod. Mn. Sfif Loog Ann. IS i-tstk is 3 pee Cot. Coo. abut India Bonds, Ss. 41. a per Cot. $1144+ Cons. for ace. 164 s pa Cant. Navy, dolt Ex. Dills. Si. a Ss. pre. In our last we announced that the armies under Generals Moose and Baum might be considnied as hi v ing joined, being within twenty-four miles of each ot her when the dispatches received by Government from Sir DAVID BAIRD were sent off. In fact these two armies were in circumstances which enabled them to act in concert, and also to co-operate with that of the Marquis de Roma's*. The particulars which we stated were amply confirmed on Saturday afternoon by the following BULLETINS. H Accounts were resolved this tnorning froth sir Jo l ty Moons, slateiToro, on the 16th instant. Sir Davin BasaD WIM then at Villafasila, Lod PA ost, with his brigade of cavalry, joined the Commander in Chief on the preceding day. The Callirian army, m oving in concert with the British columns, had advanced to Bodine% and occupied the strong pass in the mountains. It was; supposed the British Commander intended to avance along the Deutz, towards Valladolid, while Sir D. Bann took the same direction by La Riots, and the Marquis ROMANA by Medina del Rio Seco. , 4 The French corps of twenty thousand men, under Marshal Soot:, had been collected at Saldana, with a view, as appears by iettn from BONAPARTI to the Marshal (intercepted in conse. quart of the bearer having been killed by a peasant) of attacking the Marlais ROMANA, at Leon., and carrying the war into Gal • _ _ —" The Supreme Junta had established their sittings at Seville. " General Mosta, at the bead of thirteen thousand men, had taken the road for Valverde, to form a junction with the army of Andalusia." Besides the above another Demi-official Bulletin, if which the following is a copy, was also exhibited is several of the Government offices : • The British Mmy was advancing towards the Caritton, in the hope of being able to cut off a column of the enemy which 1g eroued that river, under General Bonnet, to attack the Marquis de la Romans in his position at Leon. The enemy had corps of 9000 men at Palencia. The entire force under Marshal did not emceed 30,000 men, and they were extended over the cocntry from the Douro to the sea." The following letter front Falmouth relates to the saute events : " FAI SOUTH. DEC. so. Arrived late last nightthe Dispatch packet,' Cap tain HARES, with mails from Corunna, in three days passage ; she brings an aitcount of the junction of the =ties under Sir I) A,%4D BAIRD and Sir kw; MOltaZo which took. place at Valladolid', on the 17th instant; immediately after which, the armies commenced their lush towards Madrid. The army under the Mar 'de Ia -ROMARA was about to follow, being ,000 strong, and numbers joining every day. By tters from Corunna of the date of the 26th instant, Jilts were received that the'French had entered idrid, after several sanguinary conflicts, in which are said to have lost at least 50,000 men. The Spanish General %WM DE Sr. Jon, ha: been lged at Tivoli, being Convicted of treasonable lactices with the enemy : previous to his execution confessed that several other Officers of rank in the. fish army were his accomplices." Mail from Corunna arrived yesterday, but it stains little news. From the paucity of intelligence these papers it may be inferred that the occupation Madrid by the French has interupted the regular Imunication between the provinces. In fact, they aits hardly any thing excepting Proclamations. of them by the Marquis de ROMANA is extremely :resting. That Commander has been invested 'h powers suited to the crisis, and he seems deter- led to employ them for the good of his country. . was high time that a vigour of this kind should be resorted to, for it appears that some of the Spaniards le forfeited all claim to the high".character that !longs to the nation. To the great astonishment of British, some of them have been base enough to :sett to the enemy. It appears from these papers, that the British troops have at last come into contact with the French. as event occurred at Rueda, when a party of Eng- . light horse surprised some of the enemy's ca 'miry, and took or destroyed the whole. The date this affair is not mentioned ; but we should sup )se the troops engaged to have been some of those \t originally composed General HOPE'S brigade. PALAFOX has once more resumed the command of Itagessa. This illustrious leader, who is described one of BONAPARTE'S Bulletins as a coward and a 'rive, repaired, it seems, to his native city, as loon as he found that the fortune of the battle of Tu , in which he bore a distinguished part, was ;ainst the Spaniards. The Proclamation issued by im the day after that unfortunate affair, affords suf s assurances that this important town will ,be .!d to the last extremity. Reinforcements to the amount of 60,000 men, for 'tench army, are said to have entered Spain du the month of November. General Amor, with the army that evacuated Portugal, was at Sebastian so long ago as the 10th of that month. to act in con the Marquis stated were by the follott H Accept:tits slated Toro, on Commander in no villg in con Bodine% and supposed the B Dom, towel direction by del Rio Seco. " The ?rent Soot:, had be letter from B pence ottke the Marleis I " The Supt " General I taken the road Andalusia." Besides tl of which th in several o • The MI de hope of bo 1g trotted Marquis de is corps of 900 Sot did not the country fi The foil same event '4 Arriv Lsin HARM passage ; armies unc which tool immediate: - marsh tow eitis 'de Ia ' • MOO gr . letters fror 2 accounts 1 Madrid, a they are s: Spanish - I d hanged at is Tractices 1• be confess a e Spanish a' P . e. 7 A Mail : contains 1 in these p of Nladric communi contain One of th his interestin, ist u:.th pow be " ' :red to sig It was hi resorted I have forf r, 'five belongs t the Brits; t be it an desert to fully atter it api robes troops h; n tbe This ere : pow fish ugh remt 'airy, at rill. i of this x ,f the and Pose tke lentil that oriE ~jeete; Mated PALA :eat in oZtagOt t ornt n One 0 r rues fcgitive, in has naccrva loon at 1 ify, the dela, i n end ; den cd against him the ,r, et will Scient a yeraity fmdet Reinf itrt he Frer non ines ;wv . 1 1 the st-19 ,03 art of cc ; o ' - w o f the Sib; t arget ,di • M.. LATMACCOUNTS. norstovrp DOCK, ppc.11. 17 1 " The Camilla gun-brig, Lieut. Ctioseauthitir, rived this morning, and brought the following Estcu t • lar, which has been transmitted from ofd Bilboa, Captain HAADYMAW, of his Yiajesty's .ship thastliti; with a request that it mightbe generally made known, to the Commanders of all bis Majesty's ships and ves sels bound to Spanish ports : - " Unions, off EL!boa, Dee: 44. " MototANDrst.—The French entered St. Ander° on the 16th ult. at twelve o'clock. " French entered St. Antonio, November 24, with a force of 1200 men : 1.1 ' " French in possession of Vincente, with a fitirce of 1500 men : " French at Burgos, from latest accounts. " British under Sir DAVID BAIRD at Astorga, and advancing. " Marquis of Rommiat, with General 1.7.1711, at Leon. " Spanish General AsircasfAllog-with a strong- 1 force, at Columbris, situate betsteen the river de - Sellas and Vincente. lb•• • These Memorandums are to be made known to any of his Majesty's ships you may meet, and all vessels bound to either of the above-mentioned ports, are to be acquainted of their being in possession of the enemy. 4t Gijon to be approached with caution. (Signed) " D. HARDMAN." " In addition to the above, the Geowtan has brought dispatches from Comma, which have been forwarded to town. Lieutenant CROSSMAN said he did not feel himself at liberty to state particulars ; but that the news he brought was good—very good, an glorious for the Spaniards! PALArox, he said, hal had a severe brush with the French, and defeated them with great slaughter. " Lieutenant CaossmAx states, that the enemy are not in postruion of Madrid; and letters have been re ceived here, which state their having been driven from it soon after taking possession. Captain CARDEN, of the Vista DE PARIS, has transmitted a letter from Vigo, to his Lady in this town ; in which he states that there have been three obstinately contested engagements, between the com bined British and Spanish army and the French, near Madrid, in which, after the most sanguinary contests, the French were totally routed and defeated, with the loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners, of 35,000 men. Would to HEAvEN this may proie correct ; but I am compelled to add, that it does not receive much: credit here. Captain C.'s letter is dated the 24th December. " I cannot learn any further particulars ; bukif an . further transpires will write you nett post. •, P. S. A Zamora paper has been received by a high naval character in this town, which contains a statement nearly coinciding with the above, as w the defeat of the enemy, and their consequent loss, though not to so great an extent." The following Bulletin, containing an account of . the intelligence received by Government this day, has just been circulated : ' 4 , Letters of the 16th December, dated Toro, have been received ; General Sir Join; Moolt!, who was then forming his junction with General Sir DA VID BAIRD, and was marching with the hope of falling in with Marshal SOULT, who had been ordered to make himself master of Leon and Zamora.•— Brigadier General CHARLES STEWART, with part of the 18th Light Dragoons had surprised and taken a detachment of cavalry and infantry at Rueda, with about Je20,000 in value of cotton, which the French had collected. They had also taken a patrok of an officer and 22 dragoons." AMERICA. The following are extracts from letters from New York, received by Mercantile Houses in Glasgow, on Tuesduy : NFW-YORK, NOVEMBER Is. " I shall do myself the pleasure of .writing you by the Ches terfield Packet, should she be allowed to proceed, whisk at pre sent is doubtful, for it is the general opinion here, that a Non intercOurse Pill will be passed between this country and Great- Britain, and that the embargo will continue in force towards France." • NtW.YORK, Nov. 14," The President's Speech amounts to nothing. Jsffersou's party in Congress, will, no doubt, be In favour of continuing the embargo. There will be also a party in Congress in favour of a war with Britain ; but whatever you may hear, rely upon it, there will be none—a majority of the people are against it. Tice will also be a party for raising the embargo and risking a forced trade—they will not succeed at first, and it is impossible to say at what time they will; but be assured, Con gress dare not rise without taking off the embargo ; &they did, there would be in insurrection in the Eastern States. Indeed, I doubt whether they will be restrained from sending their vessels to sea, longer than till December. Although the Federalists have gained much, Maddison will be the next President of the 'United States—he is of Jefferson's kidney, and will aid his views." " Nov. 17, 1808.—We annex an extract of a letter received this morning from Washington, which notices a motion made by Mr. Mumford (a violent democrat from this city), relative to a partial removal of the embargo. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, NOV. 14. " Mr. Mamford offered the following Resolution, which was referred to a ConurtWet of the whole, to whom fanner* were referred sever.' Resolutions, presented last wick, relative to the ensbargo. U Resolved, that the Act laying an embargo, and the severs supplements thereto, ought to be repealed, so fat as to allow American vessels, with their cargoes, to depart for clantfies not salsj!ct to the /.4encls Decrees, or Orders is Covn,cl/." , ARMY:. •:• - . 1 ," • • • • - BOARD OP INQVIRY. • • ; The Report and Opinion of " the Board of Inquiry were sentorr Saturday to the parties eqncersed. The Report containsin.aiisiraCt of the evidence, and. is of great lenktb, but the opinion is stated to be as fol lov?s . " On aconsideration of' all the circumstances, as set forth in this Report, we most hitt:ll)ly -submit oar opinion, that no further military proceeding is necessary on the subject: Because, how ever some , of us may differ is our sentiments respecting the fitness. of the Convention,in the Maar* situation of the two armies, .it ie our-unanimous declaration, that unquestionable zeal and firma feu appeared' throughout to have been exhibited by Lieutenant- Generale Sir iltw DALRYMPLZ, Sir }Taimyr EURRARD, and Sir Mritua WILL/SLIT, as 5v. , 11 as that the order and gallantry of thexest of the Oficers and Soldiers, on every occasion during this etpedition, have done honour to the troops, and reflected lustre on your Majesty's arms." Upon this opinion being delivered to the Comman der in Chief, his Royal Highness found it was not so explicit, upon the Armistice and Convention, as the ,words of his Majesty's Warrant appeared to enjoin ; 'andthe Court was therefore ordered to re-assemble,. and subjoin their opinion—" Whether, under the rela " live situation of the two armies on the 22d ifugsut, an " Astmtsrtcs was advisable; and if so, whether the 1 4 4 terms were such as ought to be agreed upon ?"—And, in like manner, their opinion—" Whether, under the " relative situation of the two armies subsequent to the dlr. 14 1 , misfits', and after the whole of the British force had " been landed, a Come-seer:or, was advisable a and, if so, 44 whether Me terms weft such as ought to be agreed upon s" Upon these two questions being separately put to each Member of the Court— Geueral Sir D. DIINDA General Lord KRATISFIZLD General Cam° • Were for the Armistice. Lieut. Gen. Earl PIMIROXE Lieut. Gen. Sir G. NUGIENT Lie &t. Gen. Nicmocs Earl MOMILA against the Armistice. And upon the second question— General Sir D. Dunn*, General Lord HEATE FIE LD Were for the Conventim General CaWits Lieut. Gen. Sir G. NUGENT Earl MOIIiA Earl PEMBROKE Against the Convention. Lieut. Gen. NicaoLs Each of the latter Officers has given his reasons for dissenting from the majority. The embarkation of troops at Ramsgate proceeds with activity. A division of the Gu'ards, amounting to 800, embarked on Friday. Another division of abOut 909 was expected on Saturday. It is reported at Ramsgate, that the troops embarked will remain in the Downs until the return of Sir ARTHUR \ VEL LUM from Irelan4 atches arrived yesterday at the Admiralty frOm Admiral ROWLZY on the Jamaica station, but we believe they contain nothing of importance. . Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, Princesses Au- GusTA and AMILTA, accompanied by Ladies CaAN- Lex, CAROLINA WALDIGRAvt, and Submit, General FITMOT and Major PRICE, rode to St. George's Cha pel, and heard a, Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Rzume, from St. Paul's-Epistle to the Corinthians, 4th chap ter and sth verse r " The Lord comes, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will snake manifest the counsels of the heart, and then shall every man have praise of Gott." They afterwards , returned to the Palace. His Mansrr was not out ofthe Palace from Christ ma:day till yesterday morning, through the badness of the weather. ' The Duke of Gtotmasiaa stood sponsor to the in fant son of Lord ANDOVER. The christening took place about a fortuipt since ; the engagements of his Highness preventing him from being present, he stood by proxy. Saturday morning the Earl of CHATHAM had an interview with the Prince of WAas, at Carlton house. Lord AMHERST being a Lord of his MAJESTIC'S Bedchamber, has obtained his M OEM'S special per mission of leave of absence to go upon his Diplomatic Mission to Sicily, to which his Lordship has lately been appointed. A boat's crew of an English gun-brig, consisting of 14 men, including a warrant officer, lately landed on the French coast, for the purpose of distributing papers, &c. and having drawn their boat on shore, proceeded into the country, where, at a public-house, they imprudently got intoxicated, and were made pri soners by a party of horse patroling the coast. The French Givernment on being informed of the affair, ordered them to be executed as spies, and their bodies exposed on.gibbets, at intervals of a mile apart, along the French coast, from Grisnez to Boulogne. A mail has arrived from Malta, which had been transferred from the Auckland packet, lost near Ca diz. It was brought by the EAGLE, *Ot 74 guns.-- The letters by this opportunity are of an earlier date (October 6th) than those received by the preceding mail ; they contain, however, an *count of a gal lant action of one of our frigates in the Adriatic. It took place on the coast of Istria. The name of the frigate is not mentioned. Two French brigs, and two Italian gun-boats, all full of troops, came out to attack her ; after an action of about 20 minutes, the enemy fled under the protection of the fort of Limago. The English Commander sent a flag of truce towards . the shore, for the purpose of expressing his unwil lingness to injure the town, which would be the ne. cessary consequence of his renewing the action with the enemy's vessels, situated as they were, and there fore requiring their surrender. The inhabitants, how ever, brought some cannon to the beach, and fired on the boat. The frigate in consequence stood into the' Bay and attacked the fort, which she soon silenced she Olen fuge under marines, wrecks thi fo;t but the I NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE.. ... FALMOUTH, DECEMBER 90. The Lady Fellow packet left Corunna, with and dispatches, on die 24th instant, and is nut arr, His Majesty's ship Sit.sitRAPCS, 36 guns, Capt. CA GER, with the light transports under convoy, arri% at Vigo on the 19th instant, being only a day fro Falmouth : the troop ships parted from thence d day before for Lisbon, where therl4atted to arriv, two days after. Arrived the shlilarrett, Captain LUND, with a cargo of sundries, frotir Bristol for Bal. itimore, carried away her fore and maintop mists ; and the sloop Boston, Capt. DUNCAII, from Seville, in 25 days, with fruit.—Wind S.S.E. 4 . PLYMOUTH, DEC. sr. Sailed the EAGLE, of 74 guns, from the S bound to Patsmouth.—Carne in the Active trans port, Capt. BALLARD, from Cadiz, one of the EAGLR's convoy ; and the Hambro' brig Europa, Capt. 11.112.. Boom, from Lisbon, with salt and fruit. PORTSMOUTH, JANUARY 1. 1 Arrived his Majesty's ships LavnitA, (10111 1,.. CLAVDIA, from Plymouth ; and the PoanAatrus, iaZ il a convoy, from . the Downs—Wind E. - DIAL, DEC. 31. Arrived the PAZ schooner, from a cruise off flush ing ; STARLING gun-brig, titan Yarmouth. Sailed the PODARGUS and Owurr.sloop, on a cruise off Boulogne. Arrived the Hope and Henry, two ship transports, from Ramsgate, having on board part of the Coldstream Regiment of Guards. JANUARY I.—Arrived the PERUVIAN sloop, from Margate Roads ; Deptford naval transport, from Deptford. Sailed the CHALLENGER sloop, having under convoy the Deptford naval transport, and the transports having on board the troops which embarked at Ramsgate. • In the Downs—Princess of Orange, Venerable, Bombay, Christian Vilth, Hero, Invincible, Illustrious, Leviathan, War spite, Defence, Agincourt, Trusty, Clyde, Pandora, Bastard, Ginmen,Zenobia, Crocus, Rolla, Peruvian, Furious, Erotica, . Starling, and I'sz. 1 , I r , , , : 4 4 , 1 , , , , , E , I; FROM LLOYD'S LIST. RAVZSVND, JANUARY l.—Passed by the Ann, Barrett, from Malta ; and Three Friends, WILLIS', from Cottenlwrgh.—SalleS the Aurora, Fitzimmons, for Belfast ; Perse;;eranee, Bond, for Oporto; and the Anna Maria, Bloomfield, for Lisbon. The Drey Fremden, Poulson, from Portsmouth, is captured and carried into Jutland. The Anna Philippa, Moore, from Hayti, for Li. verpool ; the Lady Emily, Berkley; and the Lamprey, Carr, frornHaiti . for Halifax, have been taken, re taken, and carried into Jamaica. BRITISH NAVAL FORCE.—The repert up to the Ist of January, is, ships of the line in• commission, 149, fiftiei, forty-fours, &e. 21, frigates, 184, sloops, 186, gun-brigs, 294 ; total, 1354, including those building, repairing, &c. 11'20. The ltavEs sloop of war, arrived at Plymouth on Thursday from Jamaica, on board of which ship Capt. GCNMALL, of the Lord Mulgrave, is come home, as we hear, • a prisoner or state. The Lord Mulgrave had been seized by his Majesty's 'ships MEDALUS, Br.RPVT, and SAPPHO, when in search o the Commodore of his Majesty's ships on that station, having a dispatch foam the Commander of his Ma jesty's ship k vireo-rim, with General CBRZSTOPHIeS offer of placing his little squadron under the orders of any of his Majesty's Officers, together with 800 troops, to assist at a projected attack of Santana, which had received additional fortifications, and which had become the only depot for French privateers and their prizes to leeward of Guadaloupe- This offer was accompanied by intelligence received by the President, that forty-two vessels, chiefly Spaniards, had been taken and carried in their by two large schooners. The Lord Mulgrave was carried i n t o Jamaica, but liberated and sent to Cape Francois, under convoy of the SAPPHO, and arrived there safe. The Ravzs spoke; on the 6th November, off Jeremie, a schooner belonging to Piriow, and learnt that great rejoicings had taken place at Port-au-Prince, in consequence of the capture of the Lord Mulgrave, and the Admiral of their adversary, CHRISTOPLIZ. A letter from New York has arrived, by which it seems, that the debate on the embargo was not entered into in the manner expected, on the 14th of Novem. ber. The letter is dated the 17th, and it mentions that a Resolution on the subject was proposed, but nothing definitive concluded ; the Motion was— " Resolved, That the Act laying an embargo on all sl fps and vessels in the ports and harbours of the United States, and the. several Acts supplementary thereto, be repealed. so far as to per. mit the vessels of the United States to clear out for countries aft subject to the French Decrees or British Orders la Council" —The probability is, that this arrangement would be tantamount to an unqualified repeal or the Embargo le Laws, for a pretence being afforded for quitting t shores of the Republic ; nothing afterwards could re strain the direction the ships should take for the pur poses of mercantile adventure. We have no doubt, that the result of this determination would be, that the whole commercial navy of the United States would withdraw from her harbours. No. 18,544 drawn a Prize of Twenty Thousand Pounds on Saturday, the last day of drawing, and I\l6. lti3, drawn a Prize of Ten Thousand Pounds on th second day of drawing, were both sold and shared bIHORAbY and Co. of Cornhill, and St. Margaret's. hill, Borough. CORN MARKET, MARK-LANE, JANUARY - 12.—The fresh arrivals of Wheat, to-day make a large supply ; sales, in General, are made at a declension in price of about ss. and 4s. per quarter from Friday—Barley and Malt fluctuate but little—White and Grey Peas rather lower—Beans, of each description, likevrige-- there are tolerable supplies of Oats ; sales are dull. and nearly at last quotation—Flour lowerss. pet sack. sy WICI attaceea tne tort, wint.ti atm want sysnccu OtNERAL CURRENCY RS UNDIR I • e hent destroyed the vessels which had taken re- Wheat, 60s. 74a. ins. Be.,ns (Old) 71s. 775. ge under its, and landing a party of seamen and Mae ditto, ez.. Sas. Tick ditto, 64a. 74a atines, demolished the battery, and set fire to the' Rye, SS.. VA. Oats 355. Seta. 425. Becks of the gun-boats, &c.— S evera l houses n e a t 8 _ arley, 418.475, 04 , Pola;td ditto, 44a. 45R. Potatoe ditto.—a. 461. ort e fort Were destroyed by the fire directed again st it, Matt, 761. Us ' t the town otherwise experieraced a degree of for- wad Peas (bailees) Grey Mkt., SSo. 60.. 14Ss. 1555. Rape Seed, SOL to 541. stance to which it was by ao meant cititied. Fine ?lour ?Se. •S•.--6eeonds 7g. 7h.