Star. — London, England, 1809-08-30 00:00:00

LIE EVENING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST SO. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cont. Cons. for money 68—Reduced 681. Omnium prens.—Produces, 34 to 36-4 per Cents. 5441 PRICE dr STOCKS YESTERDAY. Dank Stock 2624 253 India Bonds 235. 245. pre. 3 per Cent. Red. 6814} Imp. Ann. I 7-16thsk 3 per C. Cons. 654 Exch. Bills, 9s. 15s. pre. 4 per Cent. 8444 English Lottery Tick. SUL 176. S per Cent. Navy 914 N I City ditto, 81. 12s. Long Ann. Isj 13-16ths Cons. for ace. 683 The Ida and Alert hired cutters anived in the Downs yesterday morning from Flushing. _ Sir EYRE Coora has returned with his Staff from' , Beveland to the Island of Walcheien, of which he has been appointed to the command in place of General KENZIg FRAZER, who is come home in bad health. Lord Rosstvw, also and a number of Officers, have been seized with the ague and fever. The French are reported to be so strong in Cad sand, that it will require a considerable force to be kept in Walcheren for its security. Their number is stated to be 13,000, under the command of BERNA DOTTE, and they are daily receiving reinfoa cements from the interior. We are informed that all the ships of war of the enemy have had their guns removed, in order to ena ble them to pass the shallow water, and that, in con sequence of being tightened, they have approached the vicinity of Antwerp. With the arillery taken from the shipping, batteries have been formed through the extent of many miles between Beveland and Antwerp, which it is to apprehended will render it impossible for our ships of war to go up the river.— Nay more—fears are entertained that the return of some of our ships will be prevented, if they proceed too far, by the impediments with which the enemy is obstructing the navigation. " MIDDLEBURGH, AUGUST 24. " At last I have had an opportunity of seeing the effects of our bombardment on Flushing, into which it had been, for some days, rather difficult to find admission, and a more melancholy spectacle it is scarcely possible to imagine. The mangled bodies of men, women, and children, are daily extracting from the wreck of their former habitations ; nearly one-third of the town is in ruins. Of the Stadt House, which has been long the admiration of travellers, which, in fact, was one of the most splendid buildings in the Dutch territories, the outer walls alone remain ; two churches have been burnt to the ground, one of which was in the vicinity of the arsenal ; the latter had a most miraculous escape, it received between forty and fifty shots, and was on fire three different times, but owing to the extraordinary precautions taken by the enemy it was got under. In one instance the fire appears to have reached within a yard of the ma. gazine, which contained nearly six hundred barrels cif powder. Hid this caught fire, what a tremendous effect, most probably not a vestige of the town would have been left standing. But mischief enough has beo.i dcne to this unfortunate town. Not a house have I seen which has not been perforated in various Fl.,ces. Although this assemblage of calamity must naturally excite compassion in favour of the sufferers, :Al it must dispose one to acknowledge the skill of cur artillery, of which it presents an undeniable tes timony. Indeed the ability displayed by this corps tras most conspicuous. The batteries were disposed with great judgment. The principal force was on the right of the lines, and in the centre. There were thirteen 24-pounders, and six 10-inch mortars at the former, ten 24-pounders, and two mortar batteries, the one of six 10-inch, and the other of four 10-inch at the Lttcr. The guns on the right bore directly on -ti:e enemy's left, and enfiladed the sea-defences to the west , ..:ard of the town; the guns in the centre enfi laded those of the enemy's left, and took their sea-de fences in reverse ; between the right and centre there w as a battery of six 24-pounders, manned by the sea men, and also some 10-inch howitzers which enfiladed part of the enemy's defences. On the left was a hit try of three 24-pounders, and four 10-inch mortars, which bore on the right of the town. Such was the destructive operation of these batteries and the ship- .ping, that it is supposed if their fire had not been sus radcd on Sunday evening, during the interval pro. duced by the summons sent to the garrison, the whole town would have been in flames on Sunday night.— An immense column of fire and smoke enveloped the town about one o'clock on Monday. It would be difficult to say which of the batteries did most execu: tion. I have heard it stated that the mortar-batteries in the centre were peculiarly effective ; to a shell from one of these mortars the firing of the Stadalonse attributed. These mortars were commanded by Cap tains Adye, Macartney, and Fyers. The ten-gun battery in the centre, under Captains Munro and Scott, is also the subject of much panegyric. The five hAtteries on the right, under the command of Capti,in Smyth, was must judiciously directed. For tn...*tciy the shipping, a shot from one of these battui ics completely demolished the furnace for heat o•ut, at the very outset of the bombardment, be fore indeed the shipping had come entirely within the r.:ng:• of the town. 'fb : fame of Congreve's Rockets has not been rni _srnved by their effect in this bombardment. They Are s:Ated to have all fallen short a the town. Colo- Fel Cang reve rilt ertair ' s An olliako that his rockets are capable of a much larger nage than shot or shells, and therefore he does not think it no_ cessary to take an equally-advanced p•sition for throwing them ; bat this opinion is, by the Artillery Officers, almost unanimously pronounced erroneous, and certainly the experience of the late bombardment does seem to justify their idea of the subject. " It is but candid towards the Engineers to state the reasons alledged, to save them from the censure so generally attached to the delay that took place in the construction of the works. It is stated, that in con sequence of the resistance made by Terveer, which prevented the ordnance transports from landing their stores, &c. until Wednesday evening, the entrenching tools, &c. necessary for the construction of the works would not be received until they were brought to the lines by the roads through Middleburgh. When these necessaries arrived it is asserted that the Engineers immediately commenced their operations. It is not pretended that any delay whatever took place in the conveyance of these necessaries. Such a pretence, in deed, could not be alledged, for no department of the service has been conducted with more judgment. or exe cuted with more dispatch, than that committed to the Marine brig Ade, under the direction of Lord A. Beau. clerk, whose activity and attention has been most ex emplary ever since our army landed. The progress of the works was also retarded by the inundation, and the galling fire of the garrison. This fire was such that each of our working parties had two men perpe tually on the watch for its protection. The business of these men was to keep their eyes on the enemy's guns directed towards them, and, whenever they ob served a flash, to cry out " Shell !" upon which cry the party were immediately prostrate, and so remained until. the shell burst, they then rose again and resumed their labour. It is not to be expected that men working under such circumstances, could make much progress. and I have myself seen a party so proceeding. " The instances of persaital courage, and endurance of toil, which this siege has presented, are highly ho nourable to the character of our force; but every day some extraordinary anecdote was to be heard relative to our seamen composing the Marine Brigade. These men, in fact, submitted to every description of labour with alacrity, and seemed to seek danger with eager ness. I am endeavouring to collect the names of those soldiers and seamen who distinguished themselves.— Though the Gazette never condescends to notice such persons, their examples would tend, perhaps, more to diffuse a martial spirit in the country if made known, than that of officers of rank. " The army are inactive in South Beveland. The troops which have gone from hence have not disem barked. The whole are supposed to wait for fresh advices from England. It is alledged that a large army is collected at Antwerp. " A report prevails that a peace has been concluded between Austria and France. 0 , A large diet of public property of the value of one million, has been found at Middleburgh." A report was circulated this morning in the city, that Lord ST. HELEN'S was about to leave this coun try to attend a Congress for a general Negociation for Peace. The report was probably raised for Stock jobbing purposes, as it has no foundation in fact. By a merchantman from Lisbon, and which left that port two days later than dispatches which it is dared have been lost, with the vessel that bore them, accounts have been received of several Officers under Lord WELLINGTON (two of them c•f high rank) having been superseded. It would be improper to mention any of the names that have been stated to us ; for in these there may be mistakes—nay it is possible the whole statement may be founded in error. A lean for the public service has been opened at Lisbon. It is intended by this means to raise about four millions of Crusadoes, one half of which is ex pected from the merchants of the capital, the rest from the provinces. In spite of the Interdicts issued by our enemies, against the commerce of this country, it is carried on to a great extent at the present moment. The oldest waterman on the Thames cannot recollect a period at which there were so many foreign ships in the River as there are at this tirne.—They are arriving or sailing almost every tide. The CHANTICLEER sloop of war has arrived at Yar mouth, from the Baltic, with dispatches from Sir JAMES SAUMAREZ. Letters have been received from Petersburgh to the 31st ult. and from Riga to the 11th inst. By these we learn that the report of a general embargo in the harbours of Russia and the Baltic is erroneous. It is true that an embargo has been imposed, but, instead of being general, it is confined to native ships only, and its sole object is to prevent their falling into the hands of the powerful British force cruizing in that sea. With a licence from this country it is under stood that any Russian ship would be permitted to take their departure. All the difficulties respecting the American vessels in the port of Riga have been removed by the good understanding which subsists between the consignees and the oXcial agents of the Russian Government. The Duke of CLARENcE gave a splendid dinner on Sunday, at his house in Bushy Park, to the Prince of WALLS, the Dukes of YORK, KENT, CUMBERLAND, BRUMSWICE, Lords GLIMINISVIii, GItAtITIAY, Couat MUNSTSR, Admiral BOWATER, &t. PrV IF7 i THE ARMY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Marine Cottage, Porteheater, August D. • SlR—Observing - a paragraph in the STAR of yester day, describing the heads of charges preferred against me at a general Court-Martial lately held at Ports mouth, and as this paragraph must tend not only to hurt the feelings of my relatives and friends, but to lessen me in public estimation, as the charges (if true) would at any time have been considered as dis graceful, and at the present crisis marked with the greatest stamp of enormity ; in justice, therefore, to myself, I beg leave to assure the public, through the same channel, that I am not guilty of the said charges ; and therefore intreat a suspension of their opinions until the whole of the evidence brought for ward in support of the charges, as well as those who appeared in my behalf, and my defence, can be laid before them, which I intend publishing in full as soon as possible after the sentence of the Court-Mar tial is notified to me—when, I have no doubt, both ; my friends and the public will be satiAfied that I have not only proved myself an indefatigable, zealous, and faithful servant in the execution of the important duties allotted me, but that I um an injured indivi dual, against whom the emissaries of malice and re venge have been let loose. I am, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, THOMAS MoitToN, Apothecary to the "Forges. The 94th Regiment, now in garrison at Aberdeen, have received orders to hold themselves in readiness to embark for the island of Jersey. Reinforcements, consisting principally of drafts from the Guards, are on tit* march for Portsmouth and Plymouth, to join Lord WaLtaxaros. Others will proceed from Ireland, for the same destination. Monday sennight, at 12 o'clock,ft. m. General Emu, Commander of Cork, received an express from the Castle of Dublin, with an order for the immediate embarkation for Spain of the Ist Regiment of Dra goons, or Royals, at present quartered in that district. This fine regiment, which is commanded by the Hon. Colonel DE GREY, is nearly SOO strong. _ . .. Sunday last, a great quantity of stores, amunition, rockets,fcc. were shipped at Woolwich for the Scheldt. Directions have been received at Chatham, for the immediate equipment of all the men of war in ordi nary in the river Medway, to be prepared for the reception of the prisoners of war taken at Flushing, and the other places in the Scheldt. Two French Officers, from Flushing, arrived, on Saturday, at Chesterfield, as prisoners of war; one of whom, M. Sebastien Laurent Laplace, is Captain in the Bth Company of Canoaiers, and was Comman dant of the Artillery in Fort Rammek ins. He is an old officer, and has seen a great deal of service. His companion is Simeon Francois Louis Chevalier, En sign de Vaisseau, of the ship Albanie, taken prisoner at flushing. A contract for shoes was made in Madrid last June, for the supply of the French infantry, to the extent of 37,000 pair, at the enormous rate, in British currency, of I Is. per pair. A Dutch paper states, that the Jews have raised corps of men in the principal towns of Holland, at their owtr ezpence, and that this measure has been re commended by the Priests in the Synagogues. Between 2 and 3000 wounded Austrians, who re snained in a field of rye after the battle of the 6th ult. were burnt to death, in consequence of the rye accidentally taking fire. In the Austrian districts, where the late battles took place, 27 large villages remain deserted. Se. venteen of them are wholly ravaged, and the re mainder partially so. Many of the inhabitants have taken up their abode in the woods, forests, &c. The present Commander in Chief has ever been a favourite of fortune and power. At his outset, in life, and at a very early age, he entered the service in the humble capacity of a Surgeon's -mate, but soon after gave up the profession of the lancet for that of the sword. When he had reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, we are told that by a singular instance of individual favour, he was permitted to sell his corn. mission, (the Lieutenant Colonelcy of a Regiment of Dragoons) and nevertheless to retain his rank in the service, which continued to go on until the present period. But the military fame of Sir DAVID may be dated from the commencement of the war succeeding the French revolution, when he favoured the world with a system of military tactics, being principally an English digest of the military system of FRaDERICK the Great, King of Prussia ; which system was spee. dily ordered to be adopted throughout the-British' array. And although we seem, in this instance, to stand indebted to a foreign power, for an entire change of our field tactics, it is confidently said that the system, which thur late King of Prussia brought into general notice, was the same that was practised by the Duke of Mmthacatouou's armies on the Con tinent, and that our German allies borrowed most of their manauvres from us. Be that as it may, Sir DAVID Dyunes has the credit of establishing an uni formity in our military system, which never before existed, by which means Regiments that never saw each' other may be brigaded, and act together in every variety of service, with the greatest order and regularity. Letters have been received from Bourdeaux, of a date subsequent to the receipt of intelligence of the battle of Talavera, at that place. It was for some time matter of deliberation, whether the guns should be fired, and the great bell rung, as for a victory ; but, on consideration, it was thought best to omit these ceremonies. A person lately escaped from Rochefort in a neu tral reports that the greatest exertions are making for strengthening the fleet in that and all the other naval depots. Thursday the remains of Lord HENRY STUART, NOY) died lately at Waldershare House, were con veyed through Canterbury with great funeral pomp, for interment at Cardiff Castle, in Glamorganshire. The family chapel and Mausoleum, lately erected at Costessey, having been solemnly consecrated on Monday se'nnight, by the Right Rev. Dr. MILNER, V. A. of the Midland district, were, on the following day, opened to rec dive the remains of the lamented founds, Sir Wit.k.l i tm jtvix2o.l. IVAVAL lAVELLIVENCL FALMOUTH, AUGUST ft. Arrived his Majesty's ship MERMAID, With tilt outward-bound Quebec convoy.—Sailed his Majesty', ship Minium, with a convoy to the Downs. PLYMOUTH AND PLYIVIOUTKDOCK, AUGUST Sailed the American brig Catherine Ray, of N t York, CHARLES JAYNE master, for Guernsey, laden with sundries. Arrived the sloop Mary, of this port, THIN, SFILLDRICK mastet, from Waterford, laden with pi visions, bound to London. Arrived the SWALLOW sloop of war, Capt.Mitxl from a cruize. Ships in commission, remaining in port t—La Sc, PtoN and Milford, 74 ; Wool-Nylon and PREVOYAN 44 ; la RHIN, 36 ; DRUM, 9Q ; COSS %CR, LOUSE, ACTEON, *Rd SWALLOW, 18 ; CONFLICT, SANDWICH and LYRA, 10, DORSET yacht, Ar cutter, and WHITT/NO schooner. Sailed the . Brothers, Captain CAANTLER, for F, mouth, to join convoy for Quebec and the River Lawrence. Two French privateers, a lugger, and a schoon were seen this morning by some Cawsand fishi boats cruising in the Channel, at a short distance Cr the Edystone. PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST Cf. Arrived his Majesty's ships NIONARCH, HERC), 3OLUTION, AJAX, and REVENG, with prisoners board, from Flushing. Sailed the DEFENDER brig on a cruize.—Wind E.S.E. CHATHAM, AUGUST 27. Yesterday the DIAMOND fii;j,ate, still in cart sion, was taken into dock in the mt.= ctf t!:e Ti CLAN and CRANE, two new brigs, which were pat the day before. The GLoay, of 90 gars, PRINCE, and FR RYA, Danit 7Vs, are getting rei with all speed, as prison ships. The FgETA was into commission on Friday. DEAL, AUGUST ist Arrived the Royal Sovereign yacht from the ti and.PonAnous sloop from a cruize. Sailed the L trious, Orion, Alfred, Achille, and Be !lona, of guns, with the prisoners on board from Flushing Portsmouth. Remain—Namur, Acute, Linty, Weymouth, CorrrDtv Scrap's, Dolphin, Trsnsit, Podargus, Wrangler, Royal Suvett; and Prince William armed ship. YARMOUTH, AUGUST 29. Arrived the CHANTICLEER sloop of war, with patches and letters from the Baltic ; and frcm southward transports marked TE. KX, Lea. main in the Roads Roebuck, Monmouth, and C: ticleer.—Sailed the Lord Nelson, STIIWART, Hinvich. ABERDEEN, AUGUST 26. Tuesday n; h.g..t last, the sloop Fancy, LIvIE, 01 for this place, from Sunderland, owing, it is said, the jib tye, &c. giving way, fell to leeward of harbour ; and, after dropping one anchor, was dri ashore to the northward of the Broad-hill, where now lies, very considerably damaged. Sunday night last, the sloop Margaret, LESLIE, Leith, from Bangor to Stockton with slates, is ti ing up from the northward, got ashore, on an a bank, at the mouth of Don ; and owing to the la swell, occasioned by a strong southerly wind for st days, is so much damaged as to be nearly a total wn:, FROM LLOYD'S LIST. GRAVESEND, AUGUST 29.—Arrived the Hawke, Reay, Mahe; Friends, Batris, from Smyrna; Beliveder, Hardm , from Virginia, and Fame, Allen, from Lisbon.--Sailed the data', Brade, for Martinique ; Maria Theresa, Dickinson, New York; Little Arthur, Dawson, for Gibraltar; Lady doves, Dye, for Oporto; ar.d Helena, Metcalf, for Yucata ♦aaivan—At Bristul, the Commerce, —, from Seville. At Cork, the Edward, Linnery; and Pilgrim, Hodges, Virginia; Adventure, Leper, from Oporto; and Galgo, from St. Übe s. At Dublin, the Industry, Craig, from Trini , Venus, Croker, from New York At West Port, the Frazer, front Halifax. At Belfast, the Canada, Pindy, Demerara; Good Argument, —, from Picton; and T Carr, from Alicant. DL,TRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONET. The Sharpihoeter, for the Honestua, capture/ October . 1807, will be paid on board, and recalled at 42, Arundel-street, for three months. The Ranger and Courier, for the Vreed e , taken May 9, 1 will be paid and recalled as above, for three years. The Surveillante and Monte Fot t ut!ke, for the Cleopatra, tured December 7, 1805, was paid yesterday, at 3, Philpot-lan , and at the same time will lit paid to the Surveillante, the resp dye proportions of specie ez Serpssiton ; and will be recalled Tuesdays and Fridays. I ThoVirangler, for the Hellflynderen, Laurentlus, Caro' and Engel Elizabeth, captured Decembet 13, 1808; and also.. - the harrow Fyka, recaptured May 4, 1805, will be piid on bo and recalled on Tuesdays and Fridays, for three months, at ' 93 Norfolk-street. • The Cheerly, for the Union, recaptured July 43, 1 BOG,'xi paid oa Saturday next, and recalled, at No. 11, Cecil-strte:. A very fine vessel upset on Friday week in ont the Liverpool dock-bacons, with a cargo of sugar coffee, of upwards of ii 50,000 value, the properi a house in Lancaster. A homeward-bound West Tndiaman was wreci a few days since at Selsea. Her cargo of rum I nearly all got out without damage ; some putiche , drifted, and have not since been recovered. The minder of her cargo of sugar is nearly all spoiled• She is gone to pieces. The SNAKE sloop of war, Capt. THOMAS YOUNG. company with the FANCY gun-brig, Lieut. SINCI./ has had a gallant action in the port of Hamcerfest Finmark. The Snake and Fancy entered the port half-past seven in the morning en the 23d July, anchored between two forts, which, with the as ance of large divisions of riflemen, continued a steak and well directed-fire on the Snake and Fancy for m( than two hours. The town fort first struck to British flag, and a detachment of men being 14n4 to storm the point fort, its defenders fled, and Capt. YOUNG in possession of both the torts, wh were immediately blown up, h the jetty's 'ST 2R. f Ne , 4 laden itemnr, pr o . ILNLI', ia Sa. k•Avr. ; r, roft or Fal. ver S , . loner, fishing :e cram t;1,'... tern OrM:S pat O'Ut 1:;r was i. -• e - of 71. Ling )rtrwrt, ;uveri; c , rich .cm the t. Re. d itT, :, of aa.! sad, of s driver, here SUE, of a tiuln. in outer e heavf or wreck. frJr. lardmt the nsc,a, L: .ady Ar.• ucatai. e , a, from go, lult, l'rinida?; he Sally, dr, from ift tuber 11, lel-suet% 9, 179, ktra, pot-1a1: ; [e respc• :ailed oa i alscpi, , r an boar J, I, at 1, b: rte:. one yar ind ierty of rrecked im WAS icheons the re. u N o. :CI. fest, in port at y, and assist. stea , !F I. more to the id left • which