Star. — London, England, 1811-03-04 00:00:00

MI itk * ..,, : .:. . , . .••. • . HOILOWA r WATER—WORKS. . NV E HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that a Special 1 GENERAL MELTING of the PROPRIETORS will beheld .t HIGIIDUILT-14.1t N, Islington, on Monday, the Ibtit day of March instant, at Three o'Clact in the Afternoon pre- ?. ciwaly, to take into consideration the propriety of declaring such ! Shares, on which the several installments shall not then have been. paid, in conformity to the Act of Parliamertt for carrying on the } „odd Weeks, to be forfeited, and to declare the same forfeited ac- • cord:ngly ; and to elect a Dieector in the name of one who has resigned. DENTON and BARKER, Solicitors, March 4, tell. N0..13, Gray',Atin-square. FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, FEBRUARY 21. Majesty presided on Tuesday at the Council of State, and at a Council of the Ministers yesterday. Frs. 2g.—His Majesty; accompanied by the Em press, took tht: diversion of hunting yesterday in the wood of Boulogne. The, American galliot Susan and Emmeline, 160 tons burden, laden with cotton and staves from Phi ladelphia,' arrived iu the basin of Arracton, in the harbour of La "l'este ' nn the 11th of February. We hear from St. Melo, that on the 11th inst. the Juno' privateer brought into that port an English three-masted vessel irorn Jamaica, of 390 tons bur den. This vessel, which is coppered, and carries 12 guns, was captured at noon on the 9th inst. The Military Commission at Dijon has passed sentence nf death on two Spanish prisoners, convic ted of having stabbed a French soldier, who was going borne. A. fellow who had been condemned .to eight years imprisonment in irons, but who contrived to escape, was arrested yesterday in the street La Mortelliere, at 'the very instant he was committing a burglary. — He was decorated with the star of the Legion of Ho ubur, which he had no right to wear. • RENNES, FEBRUARY 16. There is hardly a day in which 50 or 60 prisoners, coming from England, and who have been landed at Morlaix, do nut pass through this town. The in habitants emulate each other in giving them succour, and enabling them to forget the hardships they have endured. NAPLES, FEBRUARY 6. The Electoral Colleges have been convoked to &time the Members of the National Parliament, in conlormity with the constitution of the kingdom. The Session will commence on the 10th of next month. CONSTANTINOPLE, JANUARY 19. : The Grand Seignior has lately given permission for the exportation of g rain to the lonian Islands. The Grand Vizier has been indisposed for some time ; his health has been injured by the continual fa tigues of the campaign. He is, however, - getting bet ter. He would have come to Constantinople, if his presence was not indispensible at the camp. The greatest activity prevails in our arsenal and docks. It is supposed that the Black Sea fleet will be increased by one-third against the beginning of spring. A prohibition was issued against speaking of peace in the coffee-houses, the walks, or other pub lic places We are all for war here. HERMANSTADT. JANUARY 22. Nothing certain is known respecting the negocia tions for peace between the Russians and Turks. All the reports are contradictory ; the news of one day is belied by that of the rest. The fate of Servia - will be soon decided. Several Russian corps from Wallachia are on their march thither. It is reported that Georges Petrowitz has declared that he had no occasion for troops at Bel. grade ; that the enemy was not there, but at Nissa, and on the banks of the Drina. It is said that the Russians have nurnitons parti sans in Servia, who are desirous that that province should put itself under the protection of the Emperor Alexander. 1m ': VIENNA, - PERbARY 9. Except some affairs at the out-posts, nothing of cor.sequence, has taken place between the Russian and Turk armies. Notwithstanding the rumours of "owlets which prevail, the Porte has given the strictest owlets 'wall the Pachas to be ready with their con tingent it, commence the campaign in the spring, so Wiicw as . ctie season would allopr. • T THE LVENING STAR. LONDON. is ~Risk sad File Min" is Informed that we cannot insert ae giunts el c'etu us Martial on anonymous authority. MONDAY, MARCH 4. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAV AT ONE OCIC * s per Cent. Coax. Monti; tisfe—fitr account. 651 66. Reduces& 651 66- -4 per Cont. shut 5 per Cent. Navy 971{, MI. I it. to t's. prern.—Bondt, 255.4 • wiNDsoR CASTLE, MARCH 2.• " His MAJESTY goes on well." (Signed by the five Physicians:) WINDSOR.CASTLE, MARCH S. " His MAJESTY remains in the same state in which be has been during the last few diys." (Signed) "H. HALF ultD, W. illtlittlDEN, R. WILLIS." • WiNDIOR.CASTLE, mancn 4. " His MAJESTY is going on well. (Signed) "H. HALI)RD, W. HEBERDEN, R. WILLIS." The accounts from Lisbon, to which we alluded on Saturday, hive since given rise to a report- that intelligence has actually been received of the retreat of MassaNa. No such intelligence, however, has reached this country. There are accounts in town from Lisbon, received through Guernsec to the nth,' end direct, by the Charlotte, of the 18th' ult. and by the ROYAL GLO3G4 which reached the Downs on Friday night, of the 19th, but none of them spec'.: of the enemy having commenced his retrcat. The ge• nerd complexion of all the accounts chews that the French are exposed to great dirliculties, the natural consequence of his protracted occupation of the same groulid, and the sick in the hospitals of Santarem, where the magnificent convents are converted into receptacles for the infirm, is stated higher than ten thousand. Up to the I9th there had been no move. mane of any consequence on either side. Frequent skirmishing had taken place, and a general battle was very shorty expected. It was deiwied rrobable that the state of privaticn to which Itissx:ra had• found himself reduced on all sides would induce him imin2- diately to give battle; but if he did not, Lord WEL WIGTON was determined to make such movements as would bring on a general engagement, as soon as he received the reinforcements which sailed from Eng. land a few weeks since under convoy of the squadron of Admiral YonKa. The most important intelligence from that quarter may therefore very shortly be ex pected. The following is an extract of a private letter : " LISBON, FEBRUARY 15. 4 4 We have almost daily skirmishes with the enemy, which usually terminate in our taking some prisoners, who, together a ith the deserters of all nations, declare to a mm, that the enemy have nearly consumed their last bullock, and as for bread it was a stranger to the palate of the soldiers ; however cautious we ought to be in trusting to the word of a French prisoner, where the honour or interest of his country is concerned, it is impossible (writes my friend from the army) to doubt the living evidence before us ; the appearances the poor wretches exitibit, are such strong proofs in favour of their testimony that we cannot withhold our belief. Not one in twenty of them brought in have a shoe to their feet, and what remains of their loathing can scarcely be called uniform. The army is also totally destitute of medicine. Sickness prevails throughout the army of the enemy, and whichever way MASSENA turns, he has an awful precipice before Paris Papers to the 23d ult. have arrived since our last. They furnish no' intelligence from the Penin sula, and nothing that is of moment from any other quarter. The rumours of peace between Russia and the Porte have died away ; and the only note that is heard at Constantinople is that of vigorous prepara 'tion for the recommencement of hostilities. The whole strength of the Ottoman Empire will, it seems, be called into action in the course of the next cam paign. In the Manikin- is given, besides, a garbled trans lation of Admiral BERTIE's letter relating to the sur render of the Isle of France, without any comment whatever. That article of the capitulation concern ing the French ships of war is given in a manner to make the French people suppose that the vessels were to return to France, and not be considered as prises. American Papers to the 3d ult. have also come to hand. We have extracted from them some official particulars relative to the American Bank. Ac counts had reached New York from Washington, that it had been finally agreed that all vessels which had left England before the 2d of February, should with their cargoes be admitted to an entry. Notwith standing the declaration of the PAYSLDICNT. " That France had ceased to violate the neutral commerce of the United States," the Charleston Paper states, ds That en the 16th, the fine American ship Canton, Captain WICKHAM, 14 days out from New Orleans, with a very valuable cargo of cotton, &c. was cap tured by a French privateer brig, of 14 guns, in the lat. of 29. and long. 81. and ordered fur France." Yesterday morning Doctors REYNOLDS, Sir H. HAL. I FORD, HEBERDES, BAILLIE, and WILLIS, assembled at Windsor, and held a consultation on the state of his MAJESTY'S health; the result of which was highly satisfactory. Friday, about half-past twelve o'clock, his MAJESTY came out ofWindsorCastle, and walked on the Terrace till past one, when he returned to the Castle to dinner. His MAJESTY returned to the Terrace about three o'clock, and walked till four, accompanied by Doc. tors HEBERDEN and WILLIS. Saturday also his MAJESTY walked on the Terrace, accompanied by the Dukes of YORK and CUMBER. LAND. Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, his MAJESTY took his usual morning walk on Windsor Terrace till after one, accompanied by the Dukes of YORK, KENT, and CUM BERLAND. Doctors WILLIS and HEBERDEN walked, also on the Terrace, at a distance. On Saturday a Council, under the Regency Act,. was summoned to Meet her MAJESTY at Windsor.— The Members vho attended were—the Archbishops of CANTERBURY and Yong, the Duke of Mosreosc, Earls of WINCHELSEA and AYLESFORD ; a sumptucius refreshment was provided for them at the' Queen's Lodge by command of her MAJESTY ; they were af.. tarwards conveyed to the Castle, in their Mantsrlea' carriages, where they were introduced into the pre. sence of her ?Unary, by the Earl of MORTON and Colonel Drsettow, and proceeded to bold a Council, which sat till near four o'clock. Yesterday the Royal Family heard Divine Service in Windsor Castle. . His Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT arrived at Windsor yesterday, on a visit to her MaJury. Lord CHARLES SPENCER and Sir PHILIP HAUS came into waiting yesterday, at St. James's Palace, as Lord and Groom for the week ensuing. Tuesday Lady CHARLOTTE FINCH completed her 86th year, when her Ladyship, according to annual custom, received presents from all the branches of the Royal Family. The Earl of ORMOND' has arrived in Town from Kilkenny in Ireland, to which place he went with his brother, three weeks ago, to attend, as Governor of the County, a Special Commission then sitting there. We are happy to find that the presence and personal influence of this Nobleman, in that part of the coun try, have been attended with the most beneficial con sequences ; and that,. by his firm and temperate con duct, tranquillity has been in a great measure restored —a great quantity of arms having been uncondi tionally surrendered to him by the deluded persons who had forcibly taken them away, and others pro mised to be given up on an ammesty from meat for this offence, but not eassdlj .lang: dens or robberies conunitted. vet. She it after-Nerds to proceed on a cruise to the . • -- —... coast of Norway. The STRENUOUS gun brig is t•efil. . . DOVER, MARCH a. tins, and will be ready immediately to p-oceett to it(;r .Three - Privateers were seen close in with the land station. Remain in the Roads the Adamant (fi ti , last night. and one of item cliaced a vessel from ship), Ardent, Dictator, and Gorgon. Ti.e two latter Lisbon into this harbour. A lugger privateer having arrived on Wednesday with prisoners. a signal flying as a pilot boat, decoyed a Papingburgh We are sorry - to state the total loss of the Brigantine i Lovely Ann of Aberdeen, Captain Brodie. She sailed vessel, a bark, about' three miles from the land, and ' from thence on Friday- the 1 - Sth instant, laden wi t h then . fired into her, and obliged her to steer for the ;stones for London, and went ashore near Dunbar, and Frcnch coast, but a convoy coming up under a frigate , not fat:from the place where the Nvistnt and Pallas she was soon obliged to abandon her prize, and hopes are entertained that the frigate will come •up with frigates were lately wrecked. The vessel went to piece; and capture her. The above privateers made several soon after striking; but we are happy to add the crew attempts to capture coasters, but did not . succeed. I were saved. We apprehend that several will be out dtiring the ; Agreeably to the predictions of the French philoso. moon light nights. i phers, the tide rose at Leith to an unusual height oa. • DEAL, MARCH a. i Sunday se'nnight ; the depth of water on the bar wr.s Remain all as per last.—Arrived the TARTAR wall ' 16 feet 5 inches, to which may be added two feet anti cpiivoy from Plymouth. a half of dead water in the harbour, mating the tot-al . . .. - - PALMOUTH, MARCH I. rise of the tide 18 feet 11 inches; had the wind hr_si . On Tuesday night a vessel was lost on. the Ma- in the north-west, it would have probably risen two nacle Rocks and all her crew ; her mast-heads can be feet more. A vast crowd of apectatOrs were on the seen at low.viater, and, from the circumstance of her pier, among whom were several eminent literary chi-' sails being made of cotton, it is supposed she is ifs.- ratters. The depth of water on Monday was 15 f..rt reigner. . and a halt. . . TRURO, MARCH 1. _ . t The Dispatch packet, Captain RUMNESS, wills mails. • THE kik!' from Surinam, &c. arrived on. Wednesday in 26 days . . . from M.srtinique ; left at Barbstdoes his Majesty's The German Legion, &c. bound to P.ortngal, were ship DRAGos, of 74.•guRS ; ORPUEUS and NAysnis7 still wind-bound at Torbay on Satnrday last. Two frigates ; SCORPION, JULIA, Arum-Hsi, and SURINAM l of the missing transports had come in, and hopes are , brigs, and SKIPJACK schooner. The French priva - ' entertained that the remainder have found ttleir way of Dantzig and I, into --of 18 ' each, 1 some other British port. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. • The Ist battalion Of the 80th reement, at presort lying at Jersey, is ordered to be removed to the Isle of Wight to be in readiness for immediate embarka tion for the Cape of Good Hope, to replace the loops gone from that station to the Isle of Francs., The following Company's ships will take out the 60th Regiment, viz. Lovrrnan, Peaszvzstanca, Watteau. HASTINGS, WARLIIIp . CSIIVIHIS GRANT, MARQUIS OT' ELY, and Crass. i Monday the Kirkcudbright and Wigtonshire Re. 1 giment of Militia, marched from Dalkeith to Penny. t cuick, after having been quartered at Dalkeith nearly two years. Four hundred and forty French prisoners were landed at Leith on Monday in three division, from the ARDENT, and marched up to Edinburgh Castle, under lescorts ; about forty more were landed on Tuesday lafternoon ; and on Thursday they were alLmarched i to the depot at Eskmills. Notwithstanding every attempt hitherto made in the British dominions to procure a successor to the late Monsieur Jinstv, competent to direct the Studios of the Royal Military College, at Marlowe, we are truly , concerned to find that thesittiliiisit still continufs vacant. •The Institution has met with no better suc. cess in its enquiries foe a Military Tactician on t:::. Continent; having been disappointed in the areal. tion of another foreigner of experienced talent, \.'„o, i is said, bad been educated in thi Practical Scheni of IFrederick the Great. The appointment is torrpotei to be worth not less than £lOOO a year ; and ti:e i 1 number of Students at the senior Department has, we 'ieve, never exceeded thirty. teers Duke _ig , Intrepid, -. _ _ guns are cruizing in the West Indies, and have taken the l ships Bonetta, Ceres, and Rose, laden with sugar, Stc. i and destroyed some others. It is asserted that there are many other French privateers fitting out ix the American ports. On the 17th, the Dispatch spoke the American ship Reserve, from Savannah for Li verpool, ia lat. 40. 24. long. 35. 54. out 58 days. The Portuguese brig Santa Maria, from London for Lisbon, put back to Falmouth on Wednesday. Pass e : ing the Manacle rocks, she saw the mast-heads of a vessel above the water, which had lately foundered; baying a convoy-vane at the main-topmast head, blue with a white flag. Our Helston letter confirms this; and adds, that a boat from one of the St. Keverno : roves went off yesterday morning and saved her mails. topmast. She is supposed to be a transport ; but only a dog had escaped from her.—The Margaret, HILSON, arrived at Falmouth on Wednesday from Curacoa, saw a chaise, or chariot, floating off the Lizard. —His Majesty's ship Maattaottouott, on Wednesday !off the Edystone, passed two vessels, bottoms up.— Three or four hundred casks of wine, have been seen floating near the Edystone, of which several have been picked up by the Plymouth and Brizharn fishing smacks. PLYMOUTH, MARCH I. Yesterday sailed the TARTAR frigate, the MARINER gun-brig, and Muu.sr schOoner, with about 40 sail of merchantmen, coasters, and light transports, under convoy for Portsmouth and the Downs. There were no arrivals this day. The AMAZON frigate sailed on a cruise. Several transports have arrived here, which left Lisbonl4 days ago,under convoy of the POICTIERS, 74, which ship stood on to Portsmouth, with the rest of the convoy. The DISPATCH packet, which arrived at Falmouth on Wednesday from Surinam, brings intelligence that several stout French privateers were still cruising against our commerce in the West Indies . The Union cartel, sailed from this port yesterday far Morlaix, with Messrs. ..hiss, UPSON, and BAYARD, three American Gentlemen, charged with dispatches from Mr. PINCKNEY. Peremptory orders were re ceived here yesterday, for the Emu frigate to prepare to return to America, with Mr. PINCKNEY, who with his suite and domestics is expected here early in the en suing week. Arrived the American ship Canton, from New Brunswick for Liverpool, after having been taken by a French privateer, and retaken by the Potions man of war. A young girl, about 16, belonging to respectable parents at MiUbrook, near this place, hav ing clothed herself in boy's attire, went on Wednes. nesday last on board the,tamorr, 74, and offered to: enter; but her sex and residence being discovered, she . I.was treated with great tenderness, and her brother sent for, who conducted her home to her friends. . A paragraph having appeared in most ofthe Papers, stating, that the ship Mercury, .Wirssos master, had, on the night of thelth ultimo, beat off three French privateers, near Dungeness ; Captain BELL, of his Majesty's schooner Palen, has published a letter, in which.he satisfactorily proves, that the three vessels alluded to in Captain WiLson's statement, were Ki ng's ' ships, which were fired into by the Mercury ender a mistaken notion that they were French privateers. One of the cases, relative to the seizure of ships in the PrAltIC, came on, on Saturday, before Sir JA mt. MiNseizz.n, in the Court of Common Pleas. The action was brought by the assured against the under writer. The vessel was bound to Wismar, and within seven miles of her port of discharge, she was taken possession of by an enemy's gun-boat, carried in, and condemned. —The assured claimed the amount of his loss from the underwriter, who refused to pay, because the policy contained a warranty freeing the vessel from capture in furl. Many witnesses were examined, and the Judge in his charge expressed his opinion in favour of the underwriter ; but the Jury found for the plaintiff. A new trial is applied for ; but before that eats take place, we understand that the decision of ths :witch on the question generally, will pot many of the causes in clispute.—Several hundred ac tions are pending on this momentous subject. . His Royal Highness the PRINCE RzozNr has been graciously pleased to grant a pardon to Charles Cryer, who was capitally convicted at Peterborough3lichael . mas Sessions of a highway robbery, on condition of his being transported for 14 years. LORD SOMERVILLE'S SPRING SIiEW OF CATTLE.... Yesterday evening about dusk, the cattle, sheep, pig* and impl ements , _ intended to be shewn, began to ar rive at Mr. SADDLER'S yard, in Goswell-street. Lord SOMERVILLE sent in six oxen, twotoivs, ten sheep, and one pig ; the Duke of BEDFORD, two oxen, a cow and ten sheep ; the Eiarl of Brunozwarint, ten sheep; Lord GAO; five sheep, arc. A very full show, particularly of sheep, is expected. MARS-LANs.—The airivals of Wheat this day make bUt an inconsidzrable supply, not much fine, other qualities heavy sale at somewhat less —Barley in middling supply, and with Milt at little variation —Peas and Beans of each sort continue neatly at late • prices—The supplies of Oats are-very short, but few fresh arrivals, and sales quoted rather dearer—Flour in full plenty, and mostly named at a reduction of 53. per sack. GENtRAL CIIIIIIIICY Al VWDZIt• Wheat, 65i. 60s. D2s. Beans (obi), 4M. 14e. Ens ditto, 955. 1001. lick ditto k old), 445. 301. Rye (sew), 355. 404. Data, 254. 265. 284. Earley, 26‘.365. row ditto, sot. 345. lad. Malt, 628. 70s. Potatoe ditto, Os. S3s. 6d. Poessilioilors), M. 344 Rape Seed, fee s £.30. Files Ow, 738. to a —laaoads. 7es. to tis. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 3. Arrived his Majesty's ship FAWN, from a cruise. The Spence transport, arrived this morning from -Halifax, in 2! days. She has brought invalids from . lifa army and navy, and a few French Prisoners.—No "sews by her. . . „ . TARMOtTII i, MARCH 3. Arrived the TWEED sloop of war, from a et uize off the Naze of Norway ; on the 15th ultimo she fell in . with a Beet, 24 sail, of Danish Merchantmen, but'the weather being boisterous she made only five captures, two of which are arrived here ; also arrived the RA- Ili*, BRITOMART, and PROSPERO gun-brigs. Sailed the MAGNET, CALLIOPE, and GALLANT gun-brigs, on a cruize ; and the Inas cutter and PAZ schooner, for k r Plymouth, with a fleet bound to Lisbou. LEITH, MARCH I. Sailed from the Roads yesterday the following ships for the Davis' Straits fishery, viz. Thomas and Ann, William and Ann, Royal Bounty, and Raith ; likewise passed down from Bo'ness, - for the same des tination, the Soap* and Rattler.. Sailed this morn ing the HOPesql,lerestil Brilliant, for Lisbon with *heat. Thelalikop . . f lirig sailed yesterday for Heligoialid, ilia ineelMiddißeeal Idea, tinder con. . -- , i~~ k Si