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THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. MONDAY, AUGUST 7. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : per Cent. Cons. &Ili—Reduced 681---4 per Cent. 84a. Omn. 1 pre.—Exchequer Bills, Bs. 14s. prem. PRICE OF STOCKS ON SATURDAY. 3 per Cent. Red. sai India Stock 1853 3 per Cent. Cons. 6S India Bends 20s. 21.;. pr. 4 per Cent. 84H Escheq. Bills, 2%. 13s. pre'. 5 per Cent. Navy 991 99 Sate Lottery Ticket* 11$. Omnium 1 4 prem. Cons. for acc. 63if THE GRAND EXPEDITION. 1 r Yesterday afternoon, the following Telegraphic Notice from Deal was transmitted by Lcrd Mt:L GRAVE:- " TO THE LORD MAYOR, • " Admiralty Office, Four t: (luck, P.M. " FLUSHING CLOSELY INVESTEra! " REST Or THE ISLAND TAkEN " With Lord Wu:Raves compliments to the LORD MAYOR." The InAs cutter, which bought the news, had ar rived in the morning - , but the weather was unfavour able to the transmission of signals. About five o'clock Lieutenant DUNCAN, Of the Navy, arrived with the dispatches from Sir R. STRACHAN, and a military Officer with dispatches from Lord CHATHAM. This morning the same intelligence was transmit ted from Lord CASTLEREAGH in the following Note " TO THE LORD MAYOR (COPY.) • -" DOWNING-STREET, AUGUST 6. • " My Loan—l have the honour to acquaint your " Lordship, that dispatches have been received from " the Earl of CHATnAm, dated the 2d and 3d instant, •" from Middlcburgh, by which it appears the Island of Walcheren has been occupied by his Majesty's troops ; " and Flushing invested after some resistance, in which " a considerable number of prisoners were taken from " the enemy. " The Island of South Bevel:end has also been " taken possession of by the envision under the orders " of Sir JOHN HOPE. (Signed) 66 CASTLEREAGH." " Ts the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor." We subjoin some particulars not detailed in the above Bulletins : On the the arrival of the armament in the Scheldt, the wind and weather were such as to render it neces sary, instead of sending the troops from the West- Put, as was originally intended, to proceed to the Veer Gat, on the North-East side of Walcheren. —On Sunday morning the troops were put on board the boats apl•ointed fur their conveyance to the shore, and moved hi excellent order to the Sands. Our brave troops speedily overcame every obstacle. Campveer, Rammakins, and Middleburgh, the capital of the Island, successively fell into our hands. They all surrendered by capitulation, after the enemy had matt as much resistance as they could. About 1000 pri sorers were taken; and at the date of the dispatches, the whole of the island was in the possession of our troops, except flushing, to which the remainder of the enemy retreated, and which was left so closely in vested, that it could not long hold out. Whilst these important and successful operations were going for ward against Walcheren, by the Ports mouth division of the Expedition, the Brigade under the command of General HOPE was employed in the capture of Schoven and North and South Beveland, which services it•completely effected—amd, we are happy to say, that notwithqanding the disadvantages under which an army acts on landing upon an hostile coast, the loss on our part up to the evening of; Thursday last (the date of the dispatches) did not exceed 300 killed, wounded, and missing. No Odicer of rank was killed. Brigadier.Ceneral Baov. - Ne is wounded, but we are happy to find the wound is very slight.—Nothing could exceed the of der preset ved, and the bravery evinced by the whole of the troops engaged in this important enterprize, attended with as much substantial benefit to the country, as credit and glory to the British arms Upon the already brilliant achievements, and the bright prospect of the ulterior operations, we most heartily congratulate the public, to whom iq a few days we have no doubt of being able to make a still more imortant and glorious communication. The divisions of the Marquis of HUNTLEY, Lord Rosstvx, and General Gitostisxon, had not landed, the whole of these fine brigades being intended for ulterior and most important operations. Such is the substance of the dispatches received yesterday by Government. The following Letters reached us this morning MARGATE, AUGUS E 6. " Arrived his .Majesty's cutter Trts, Lieutenant DuNcitr , :, from off Flushing. Lieutenant DUNCAN has landed, and gime off to Town with dispatches." " DEAL., AUGUST 6, Four P. M. I 44 Arrived the Tots (1) hired cutter, and a Re ve:l;:e cutter, from the fleet off the Scheldt, whose tiffirtrs landed this morning. at Margate with dis isarcla-i, the crews of which report that our troops were ail s.tftly landed on Sunday last, alid had got Of the Nand of W.dcheren, except the town ci flushing., 1 1 :bichour ships began to liornbard at twilVe yeter.!.ty noon, aatl when these vessclsleft a t scv:‘,) o'clock is the evening, it had net surren dered, bat was thofight could not hold cut 10 - og. Tile trarispurL, ships of war, and small (raft, were left all well. A frigate had got on shore tat the fall ing of the tide, but got off again on the tide f!owing." " DOVER, SUNDAY, AUGUST 6. " Six P. M.—We have just heard from Deal, that the Inas cutter arrived this afternoon, in the Downs, from our Fleet, and brings an account that Flushing was taken possession of by our troops last night." " KARWICH, AUGUST 6. " Since I last wrote you, I find a Dutch vessels r rived from the coast this afternoon, which she left on Thursday ; on that day a fishing vessel came out to her, and informed the Captain that the English were in possession of Walcheren and Zuyder Zee." We mentioned on Saturday than an Austrian Mes senger had arrived at Yarmouth in the Phcenix bye boat. As usual, various unfounded rumours were industriciusly circulated.—The dispatches to Prince STAIIREMBERG, it was said, annotthced the renewal of hostilities, &c. &c. The fact is :—these dispatches announce that his IMPERIAL MAJESTY is reduced to the deplorable necessity of accepting whatever peace NAPOLEON may be disposed to grant him !" Before this time the . t.E.ltris have probably been settled, and we may soon expect to hear that the French army, set loose by the weakuess of our allies, is on its march to the peninsula ! German papers and private letters to the 29th ult. reached us this morning. We subjoin a few extracts—not as closervin,l; of attention, but as speci mens of the tittle tattle with which the world is wil ling to he amused. ••• BANKS OF THE ELBE, JULY 28. The heads of the armistice have now been made public : The weakness of the Emperor Francis has I accelerated this event, and the heroic Archduke Charles was at first wholly against it, but all his re• • presentations were fruitless. The threats of Russia, and the advance of her troops, and those of Poland to the confines of Mo ravia, are likewise stated to have precipitated that eventful measure. In a note addressed by the Em peror Francis himself to the Governor of Brunn, in serted in the Berlin Gazette, this weak Monarch owns, that the centre and right wing of the Archduke Charles's army had been unconquered, and preserved an unconquerable position at the foot of the Bisam mountains in Moravia. In the battle of the 7th, the Archduke Charles is said to have taken 10 pieces of cannon, 12 eagles, and many prisoners from the enemy. Francis thus concludes : 4 , Our loss is much less considerable than in the battle of Aspern, and that the French sustained a much greater than at Aspern." At the same time the Austrians were again ad vancing into Saiony, and had driven the Duke of Abrantes, with great loss, from Bareuth. The Tyro lians and Voralbergers both made a successful attack upon the enemy, and Count Giulay had reoccupied Gratz ; and in an action on the 6th the Austrians made 600 prisoners, yet all these advantages have proved of no avail, and the brave Tyrolians and Voralbergers are abandoned to their fate. The consequences of the armistice of Znaim ought to make the infatuated - Emperor of Russia tremble for the safety of his dominions, since Napoleon has already made himself his neighbour, by putting up his eagles in the newly conquered Austrian kingdom of Gallicia, in spite of the co-operation and occupa tion of that kingdom by the Russian army. This ought to open the eyes of the deluded, insulted Alex ander. The Dutch troops, lately co-operat%ng with the Saxons and Westphalians, are now on their march to Bremen and the coasts of the north sea. The King of Westphalia, with his army, is also expected in Hanover, and Hamburgh is also to have a garrison of some thousands of Dutch and Westpha lian troops, and the Duke of Abrantes is expected to fix his head-quarters there. The great number of Americans lately arrived at Tonningen, has occa sioned a great fall in all colonial produce in the Ham burgh market, but they have risen since the armistice. VIENNA, JULY 15. Yesterday afternoon Prince John. of Lichtenstein, V 6 116 has been very graciously received in his audience by Napoleon, arrived here, to negociate the peace with the French Minister of State Count Champagny. The Emperor Francis, as is generally asserted bere t is much in favour of peace, and charged the Arch ! . duke in writing to open negoc i at i ons f or i t , even wit* considerable sacrifices, in order to put an end to the dreadful effusion of blood. Previous to the signing of the armistice, some chief points had been agreed upon, which are to form the basis of the peace about to be made. An immediate peace was expected, nay betts were laid that the Emperor Napoleon will be at Paris by his birth-day, the 15th of August. LANDSBLRG, JULY 19. On the 17th, 4000 Tyrolian insurgents attacked the Bavarian Cordon near Murnau, at most 400 strong, and repulsed them. Yesterday morning they occupied Murnau—Major Zeimer immediately put in requisition 50 head of cattle, 1000 ells of linen, 30 bales of cloth, 500 pair of shoes, 25 saddle horses, and 6000 florins of money. A great quantity of corn was seized in the barns, and Murnau, as well as the neighbouring villages plundered. In the evening, at seven o'clock, Colonel Arco came with a corps of troops from Benedict Bayern, and by a violent fire of grape shot, put the insurgents to flight, with the loss of several hundreds killed and wounded, 90 prisoners, and two pieces of cannon, and punned them as far as the pass Scharnitt ; they I saved little of the requisitions, and the Bavarian moor. who engaged them were mostly recruits. • MUNICH, JULY 19. Though the Bavarians apprised the Austrians in the valley of the Inn of the Armistice, still reinforoed by great numbers of insurgents, they attacked, on the 17th, .Brigadier Count Arco with great . violence, near Rochel and Murnau, but were repulsed with great , loss, after an obstinate contest. . Letters were yesterday received from Jamaica, brought by the ECLIPSE schooner, letter of marque, in 28 days. At the departure of this vessel, no tidings had been received of the capture of St. Do- mingo • but the last accounts left our Expedition I before ;hat city. On the land-side, there were nearly 10,000 Spaniards to co-operate with the Btitish, pro vided.it should be necessary to attack by storm. The prevalent opinion, however, was, that the place would surrender without any resistance ; the French having declared their intention to do so, in case the British force that came against them was respectable in point of numbers ; but they would not submit to any Spa nish force, however large. The inhabitants of Ja maica are extremely dissatisfied at so many troops having been detached, as they are under great appre hensions of the negroes. This morning dispatches were received from Ma deira, brought to Plymouth by the Seaflower. • The PINCHER gun-brig, arrived at Yarmouth friths Cuxhaven, with the details of the gallant achieve ' ments of our brave tars on the shores of the Elbe, has brought over two fine Arabian chargers, being part of the booty found in Gessendorf. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the Foreign Office. This day the Princess AMELIA completed her 26th year. The suggestion of a jubilee, on the 25th day of October next, in celebration of the 50th year cf his Majesty's reign, is likely to be carried into effect in Dublin, where it has been proposed by the Cor poration, that there shall be a grand procession to Christ Church, and afterwards a dinner at the Rotunda, and a ball in the evening ; the troops and yeomanry are to be called out, and a grand display of fire-works to be exhibited on Stephen's Green. It is also proposed to erect an equestrian statue to his Majesty, in the new place, opposite the Courts of Justice. The Prince of WALES has, with a kind attention to the morals as well as the fortunes of the young men of rank in his fine regiment s the 10th Light Dragoons, expressed his pleasure that they will in future abstain from all racing matches against time ; and he has strictly prohibited all gaming. The following anecdote is in circulation the commencement of hostilities berweini France and Austria, the son of Sir JOHN SINCLAIR, happening to be in the neighbourhood of the French armies, in pur suit of agricultural knowledge, was made prisoner, and some suspicion being entertained of his being an English spy, he was taken before the Emperor him self; who interrogated him. Mr. SINCLAIR stated who he was, and that his only object on the Continent was the improvement of the agriculture of his country. BONAPARTE observed— , 4 The name of your father is Well known in France ; and as I am an encourager of the arts in all countries, if you can make out your story I shall furnish you with a safe escort ; for in the present state of affairs, I can assure you, the Conti nent does hot require British cultivation ; and my ad vice to you, young man, is, that with such facilities as I shall give you, you make the best of your way home to England." Mr. SINCLAIR produced letters from his father, which substantiated his statement ; he was then immediately furnished with letters to JE ROME BONAPARTE. in Westphalia, and Louts LONA PARTE, in Holland, the latter of whom was required to furnish a vessel to convey Mr. SINCLAIR to Eng land. Wednesday morning last, a duel took place at Stilton, between Mr. N—, • a Lieutenant, and Mr. R—, a Collegian, after three incffectual previous meetings to adjust a difference which. subsisted be tween. them relative to a debt of honour. The latter Gentleman was slightly wounded in the side by the second fire of his antagonist. The seconds then in terfered, and a reconciliation took place. Considerable inconvenience has within these few days been felt by the labouring part of the commu nity, in consequence of several shopkeepers having indiscriminately refused all old halfpence. This has probably arisen from a misapprehension of a para graph which appeared in the public papers, stating, that the old halfpence were to be exchanged for a new coinage, but which has since been contradicted. BRENTFORD. —Last week a case came on to be heard . before a Bench of Magistrates, at the 'Three Pigeons, 4,111,e instance of the parish-qAcers of Heston, againA a gentleman, for extreme cruelty to a child, five years , of age, whom, it was stated; he had bought from some, wandering gipsies, clothed it and gave it the run his house. Being accustomed to a wandering life, he, put, some straw in a closet, an d set fi re t o i t , w hi c h' being perceived by the accused, he dragged him from his hole, and compelled him to take a piece of hot iron out of the fire with his bare hands, and beat him besides. In justification of his conduct, he said, he did it merely in terrorem, but would use him tenderly in future. He was held to bail. • CHILD STEALING.—OH Friday, the servant maid of Mq. Pedrick, of Baker -street, walking along the New Road with three children, was accosted by an elderly woman, who stated herself to have been the early nurse of one of the children, about three years old, and for whom she affected a particular attach., ment. Under this impression the servant impru dently consented to let the child go into an adjoining street with her, who was not seen again, but the child, after having been stripped of her cloaths, was found in Baker-street, at ten o'clock, clad in a piece of filthy rug. Yesterday morning while the family of Mrs. Nor man, in South Lambeth, were at breakfast, the servant let fall the urn filled with boiling water, by which ac cident a young lady, who was en a visit to the family, was scalded in so dreadful a manner on the neck and stomach, that small hopes are entertained of her le : covery. • . • Cs' ;z• I SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. . The ARETHUSA frigate arrived from Coruna e ll Saturday, after the short voyage of four days. By this opportunity Government received dispatches; and a Spanish Officer of the rank of Captain of In. fantry, arrived with intelligence for leis Excellency Admiral APODACA. Wi are h ippy to announce that the information through this channel is very satisfac. tory. General ROMANA had entered the province of • Leon, and had his head-quarters at Astorga, at the close of the last month. His force consisted 0f24,000 ;nen, completely armed and equipped, and he had recruits to augment it to 40,000, if the deficiency of muskets did not prevent the accession to his army.` He had actively, but ineffectually pursued Marshal Sottyr from Orense to•Monforte, and from the Minh& to fonferrada, from whence the French took the di. rection to the shores•of the Douro, and were suppe; e 3 to be in the neighbourhood of Zamora, with the cit. sign of proceeding to reinforce the garrif:dn of-Madrid. It was understood, that the troops in the capital had been greatly reduced, in order to supply the ranks c: the armies of ViOroa and SLBASTIANt. The acqu.. sition by the arrival of Sotrcr would not be very con. sider Able, as the remains of his Corp'g- consisted °nit of about 5000 men, of which, Loivever;-a large pro. portion was cavalry. • - . Res s pecting the situation of the Allies West and ..• South of Madrid, nothing further was known than what •we before stated ; one additional fact only 7 - e have learnt, namely, that in order to concert op2ratiuns against the enemy, the two Commanders, Sir AETIII:it WELLESLEY and General Cups - ra, had an iatervie , x, and had dined together on the shores of the• Tagus. 1 The I:Bowing are extracts of L etters f rom a B : i . ti.li Officer in the army under Si: Aram - F. WEtus , LEY :,--- " Eritiih Camp, near Plneentia, July lc. 4 S ir ARTHUR WELLE":LEY is collecting the grit:•. - 1 army in and near this place ; and is in daily eipecta tion of a light brigade of three regiments of infantry arriving from Lisbon, when we shall march direct fur Madrid. My next, should I escape th:2 chances of war, will doubtless communicate the result of a battle. The enemy, we hear, are concentrating all emir forces to oppose us. If the Spaniards and Portuguese troops remain true to us and themselves, we have no fears of the result; if not, I fear all is lost.—Adieu, &c." " Pl,7centia, July 13. " You will know in England much better than re do, what we are about—they say here that Vti.Ton's. advanced guard commenced skirmishing yesterday with the loyal Lusitanian Legion :---two of our bri gades have been sent forward, and one brigade will follow. We expect to march to-morrow—Ahe enemy is but four leagues from us. ,‘ Sir ARTHUR went the day before yesterday to CUESTA, and I hear will return to-day ;—a circum stance occurred last night which may interest you:-- a man in the dress of a Spaniard met a Serjeant ct the 29th, in the street, he told him that a soldier was lying outside the gate dead drunk, and wished the Serjeant to go and see him—he went—saw no man; the other desired him to prcceed a little fTrtlier, as pos sibly the private had crept on, he enticed him at last to a considerable distance, when he and four more scincl the Serjeant, and questioned him about the army, and was very anxious to knew where Sir ARTIICIt lodged, and where he was. The ;ierjeant of course could give no information, and at two o'clock tll,l told him they would wait no longer, as the day began to appear; on which one of them fired at and wounded him in the arm. They have not been heard of since. " It is fortunate that Sir ARTHUR is accompanied by a squadron of Dragoons, otherwise these des peradoes might perhaps have seized him. . "The Spanish soldiers appear strong, good-looking men, much better than the Portuguese; but they cer tainly do not fight well. 4 , If Vicroa puts his threat in execution of ,t7,!::ing us with 27,000 men, he will be finely beaten." • The officers of a parish in the county of Oxford werg fined £5OO at the late general Qilarter Sessioas, 'for heglecting to keep the Toads wilt:fin their jurisdie itio~ to rePair. i itonnsiow ;Wool Fair was held accOrdingt . o annual Custom, on Tuesday fast; and was' bettert'aettender Chan last year, both by buyers and graziers. "Phi; quan• tity..!dif wool brought for sale was very considerable, anci the whole of it was sold at the following prices I Dorset and Wilts, 21. ss. per Tod of 281 b. South Down and Wilts cross, 21. lOs. to 21.125. 6d. South Down, sl. 3s. to 31.155. CORN MARKET, MARK-LANE.—The arrivals of Wheat to-day make the supply rather considerable, and sales early in the forenoon were at an advance of about 2s. per quarter, but dull afterwards—very little Barley—Malt heavy sale—White Peas cheaper-- Beans of the two kinds continue at little difference — there are considerable supplies of Oats, and sales are named at little fluctuation—Flour as last week, fin , American, .50s. to 545. per barrel. att./VIAL CURRENCY AS UMBERS Wheat, 775. 83s. 98s. Beans, 56a. 62.4. Fine ditto, 10Cs. 106 s. Tick ditto, 455. 511. Rye, 4fs. 525. Oats, 251. 28s. 335. Barley, 945. 425. Pd. Poland ditto, 35i. 385.60. Malt, 70s. '7Bs. Fotatoe ditto, 401. White Peas (boilers) 945. 104 s. Rape Seed, 481. to 521. Grey ditto, 46s 525. Fine Flour, 80s. to 85s.—Seconds, 755. 80s. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, August Average Price of Corn in England and Wales, from the returns ending the 29th of July, leo9. Wheat. Rye. Barley. Oats. Beans. Poas‘:, s. d. I I I s. d. s. el. s, 41. s. d. I •• 89 9 58 8 45 0 31 10 5B Ij 3 The average Price of Sugar, computed from the w the week endiut the Ciday of August, to 415.100. per cv% t ~~": ~.