Star. — London, England, 1811-05-23 00:00:00

PP"' THE EVENING STAR. LONDON: TIAURSDAY, MAY 23. !PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCIL Cons. money 6444—f0r account, 4 per Cent. 80-5 per Cent. Navy 974 tic heq. par to ea. prem.—Bonds SIM pre. Onts ium I pre. PORTSMOUT4, MAY SI. Arrived the RAPID sloop of war from Plymouth. Sailed the following East Indiamen, under convoy of the THEBAN frigate, viz. the Charles Mills, Wal thamstow, Surrey, Dover Castle, Lady Castlereagh, Lord Castlereagh, Moffat, Marquis Wellesley , Upton 'The important event of the defeat of Mass Efra, on Castle, David Scott, and the Warren Hastings. Also t h e sth instant, still rests on the authority of die news sailed the ANT schooner for Guernsey. Wind S. from Oporto. No doubts as to its authenticity, how- DEAL, MAY 2?.. ever, are entertained. The following is the copy of a Sailed the PODARGUS sloop of war on a cruize ; letter transmitted by the Clerk of a most respectable and the ECHO slovecipd the of wa MARY cutter.—r, with several vessels Wind N. to the H o use at Oporto, to his Principal in London, which westward. Arri E. w as put on board the Sarah , Ca p t. HEATLY I HARWICH, MAY 22. a OFFICIAL COMMUNICATION PROM GOVERNOR TRANI' To Sailed the DWARF cutter with convoy for Haig°. THE ACTING GOVERNOR OF OPORTO, DATED MAY 11. land ; and the Lady Nepean packet with the Anholt i "On the sth instant , betwee n Almelda and Ciudad Rodrigo, mail of Saturday last. 'tremendous action took place, the result of which was, that YARMOUTH, MAY 22. 400 of the enemy killed and wounded remained on the field, anti ; Sailed yesterday afternoon for Heligoland, thc wen hundred prisoners taken. 1 FAWN sloop of war, and CHANTICLEER brig, Captain " The regiments that most distinguished themselves on this SPEARS.—Remain the Roebuck, Vice-Admiral Mutt glorious day were, the 71st British, though they lost 169, includ- RAY ; Briseis, Calypso, and Acute gun.brigs. i x g is officers: the Portuguese regiments were, Nos. 7,19, 9, - biIIPIVRECIC.—The following melancholy detail was ad 21, and Cacadorts 1, 2,5, and E; in short, all the troops that cast ashore, inclosed in a box, near Rosehearty, Scot vies i n t his glorious action have covered themselves with glory. land, and directed "To the Finder." We fear there "We are anxiously expecting further ?entailers of this peat • is no hope of the vessel having escaped : B rent, and which you will probably get before we do. " North Sea, April Is, 11111. " This has beeta a day of great rejoicing, Jtc." '6 On board the Gobiten, from Geer. -- '' In distress, being near to sink, as the brig has A transport has arrived at Plymouth with a num- ' sprung a leak two says ago, and the water always in creasin, notwithstanding all our attempts to prevent it, ter of British invalids, (sick and wounded) from Ca w.. we hav e . now come very near the last moments of our d:z. This vessel was only ten days on her passage ; lives, w herefore we beg him or her, who may find this consequently the accounts she brings are of a more re- letter, to inform the public of our misfortune. The brig c ent date than any that h av e been made p ublic: they Gubiten, apt. Aerg, went fro Hull e 14th inst. in order to C seek fo b r Gottenburg, m but having come at ye not, however, of much importance, any further the middle of Dogger, the wind, which previously was than they contradict the statements in circulation of fair, went easterly, when the brig sot the leak,not with. the enemy having raised the siege of Cadiz. No standing the sails were shortened in a proper manner. movement indicative of any such design had taken We have been obliged to cut the masts, but Ali seems place. The enemy continued to strengthen their works, in vain. Except Charles John Sehlberg, a passen fer, the crew consists of the following, viz. Lindquist, and evinced no disposition to q uit their g round. The rom Gefle ; Schlee, Sjosburg, Holtz, all three from Spaniards are said to be extremely dissatisfied with the Swedish Pomeranias ; Asolund, from Sundswall ; the acts and conduct of both the Cortes and Regency. Heiberg, from Calmar." Much jealousy and dissension still continues to prevail FROM LLOYD'S LIST. among the Members of Government. I The Ex, Wheeler, from Exeter to London, was driven on shore d pe S et ands fle o e n c Mon e day morning, but will be get off after We are sorry to learn that the French party in Ca- on taking out diz consists wholly of the upper ranks. The middle , he Prussian Conption, Vancele, fron London to Alicant, . w as lost early this mo oth, near Corunna, and only a few bales of and lower classes adore t he En g lish, and want nothing the cargo saved. The Master and part of the crew drowned. but spirited leaders. . The klusa, Harris, front Allman' to Gibraltar, is taken by two .............. French gun boats, and carried into Almeria. 'the Harriut, —, from London to Jamaica, having lost her By accounts received yesterday from Malta to the ' adder, is abanoned at sea by crew. soul:est:alp—At Surinam, the th H e r hea ld le m s and Fl E e liu, Coffi .fe n o , ea fr ß om elfes th t e Rd instant, it appears; that on the Ist the REDWING sloop of war, Captain DANN, appeared off that port, At Oporto, the Brothers,'Dunley, trent Dartmouth. At Gibral- Git , ven 'rb . y . ; Nottl e t g ag e ha A tu n ,T de ong i a l e . and made signal of an enemy's squadron, consisting and the GEildearbedalthe; t N ar e'p th tu e ne M , of four frigates, which were at the time standing to Brown, front Portsmouth. Al Lisbon the Bell, Collins, from the eastward . ; upon which the \Timmons, of 74 guns, Cadiz. At Oporto, the Unien, Hunter, from London. At Dublin, the Betsy,Richle, from London. At Belfast, the Caroline, Ross, the POSIONE frigate, and another vessel, slipped their f rom Charleston; and the Howard, Pierce, from st. Übe's. cables, joined the REDWING, and went in quest of , -- them. The REDWING, which had been out on a cruize. farther communicated, that she had perceived the enemy four days before, and had continued to watch him up to the period of her making the signal for as sistance. WAPA►L INIII.I.IO.EVCP. rAtmoiriv4 MAY 16. Sailed the Carteret packet for Surinam, and the Marlborough packet for Cadiz. PLYMOUTH, MAY 21. Arrived the transport Robert and Sarah front Gi braltar and Cadiz. Sailed the GROWLER gun brig for the coast of Spain, and the Ittis frigate for the coast of France. We have received Paris Papers to the 13th instant. They state the arrival of Marshal NEY in that city, but do lOC assign any motive for his return. The 2al battalion of the 71st Highland Light In , fantry Regiment, now on its voyage Irom Leith, is daily expected in Ramsgate Harbour, from whence it is ordered to Deal, where the Depot of the Ist bat talion is established. The North York Militia are ordered from Chatham to Hastings, for which place they will commence their I march on Friday next. Yesterday, at half-past twelve o'clock, his MAJZSTY Three Companies of the Royal Staff Corps have Princesses AUGUSTA and SOPHIA, took an akin! on marched from Hythe for embarkatio n ; two Corn horseback in Windsor Great Park till near two o'c ock. patties, it is said, for Portugal, and the th ird f or Sicil y . The Royal Party were accomp anied b y Generals GWYNNE, GARTH, and Co lonel TAYLOR. 1 The Chatham and Dartford regiment o f Local 1 Militia, commanded by the Earl of Darnley, had a The Duke of YORK arrived at Windsor yesterday, field day on Saturday on Chatham Lines, and went It being the Princess Euzasarn's birth-day, which through their manoeuvres with much exactness, and was kept at Frogmore.Lodge. Her Royal Highness to the admiration of a great number of spectator s, completed her 41st year. The Quara, Duke of Yoax, preparatory to an inspection of the corps by Lieut.- Princesses ELIZABETH and MARY, went to Frogmore Gen. Nicolls, which took place on Monday, at which at one o'clock in her nun-Ws carriage. ' time Lord Darnley's troop of Yeomanry Cavalry was The Marquis of HARTINGTON, only son of the Duke also seen by the General. of DEVONSHIRE, entered his 21st year on Tuesday.. The volunteering from the Militia into the Line This event was celebrated with every demonstration goes on briskly. The Fifeshire Regiment, in bar. of joy, by open house being kept at every Mansion racks at Aberdeen, turned out 46 the first day, 20 the family possesses in the Unitcd Kingdom. the second ; and their quota is now nearly completed. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the • Immediately on the order for volunteering from East.lndia House, when the undermentionedComman- the Militia to the Line being made known to the East ders took leave of the Court previous to departing for Suffolk Militia, quartered at Gosport, more than half their respective destinations, viz.—Captain C. W. that regiment offered their services; but as only 70 BUTLER, William Pitt ; JonN ANDERSON, Minerva, men were allowed to be attested, Lieut.-Col. Wuira Bengal direct. The Court adjourned at six o'clock , (who has ever the good of s er e ervice at heart) se till Wednesday next. lected those men most fit for ice, who were eXel. Private letters fromahe coast of France state, as a l , mined, attested , and ma rched Off to Winchester.' matter of positive fact, that all the French troops had That regiment, being anxious to chew their loyalty,d been withdrawn not only from the c o asts, Jim even have since offered their services for Ireland, in hoped • fromahe internal towns of the quondam state Holland, i di!? may be one of the first Militia Regiments that and had been marched toward s Poland. , • will embark for that Country. • Monday the first Division of the Plymouth Dock Letters from Vienna announce the deposition, or rather removal from command , of the Grand Vizier, Local Militia, commanded by JONA THAN ELFORD, Esq. consisting of recruits and those men w h o were whose advanced age was unequ al to the hardshi p s not embodied last year, assembled at Plymouth Dock, • and duties of the important military situation he filled. for twenty-one days training. The remainder of the His successor is spoken of as a man of talents and regiment will assemble on Monday ne xt, for fourteen courage. . Extract of a letter, dated Cair o, March B.—" A days training dreadful rtsassacie of the Mamelukes took place yes- COURT MARTIAL....-Tilt General Court Martial which assembled at Hythe on the 9th inst. for the terday at nine o'clock in the morning, in the Citadel. trial of Lieut. JOHN MBRCIER, of the Royal Artillery, All the troops of Cairo were at Gidda, to be present on certain charges of irregular and disrespectful con at theelection of TosstizasPACHA, which was held in duct, preferred against him by Captain TRUSCOTT of the square of the Treasury. During this ceremony, the same Cors, only concluded their examination of the troops of the army of Mutest PACHA, and SAL/KB ,OA, attacked Tossuarts,Netio, who, ,with his troops, witnesses for the prosecution on Thursday last, and took refuge in the citadel, the prisoner entered upon his defence on Saturday . w here they wqre all mur dered without exception. The aftineards pil- Yesterday, as a Clergyman, who had just arrived laged the town, am/ penetrated the Haram, killing from use country, was crossing Whitechapel, he was every p ers on they , met. -A:proclamation was also knocked down by the pole of a carriage, when one issued, denouncing*, lent of death, and con - of t he horses tram p led on his temple, and killed him fistation of propert*esi.2l) persons harbouring Ma. on the spot. analukes i and the oniNfierir killed amounted to 822. Yesterday, Mr. MALONE met with a serious acci- Nothing bad been beard of AMEND BEY, the Chief dent while driving his tandem through Queen•square, of the fdamelulaeOiyiee he bad quitted the town two Westminster, being thrown our hy the suddep break. menths ago: bejestAried to) aw been killed. The log of the slilfts ;by the fall he had osetefinleke legs whole family aMiliW=r have beerrihergojed." , broken. .1 -A crrr BUSINESS. • Yesterday the t.mii) MAYOIt held a Court of dont:. mon Council, which was very numereuslr attended. Palxot REGENT. The Committee appointed to provide the Box for the Freedom to be presented to his Royal Highness the PatNce REGENT, delivered a Report of their pro ceedings thereon, together with the communication from the Secretary of State upon the subject, as also his Royal Highness's. Answer, which was read, and ordered to be entered on the Journals, as follows : " I must desire you to communicate my best thanks to the Gentlemen of the Common Council, fbr their unanimous resolu. l tions which you have been deputed to present to me, and to assure you, that I derive sincere gratification from these proofs of their attachment. " It would hgv given me real pleasure to have complied with their wish that I lihould become a Freeman of the City of Lon don, but the Obligations which the acceptance of this offer might be considered as imposing upon me, are inconsistent with the station in which I am placed. " It is this consideration alone which renders it unavoidably necessary fur me to decline accepting the Freedom of the City of London, and I shall ever retain a just sense of the motives which have dictated the offer, and an earnest desire, at all times, to pronitue the interests and welfare of your most ancient and most respectable Corporation." A Resolution was then agreed to thereon, which was directed to be transmitted to the Secretary of State, to be laid before his Royal Highness the PRINCE RMENT. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. Sir JOHN THROCKMORTON and the other Advocates for a Reform in the Representation of the People pre sented a Petition to the Court, praying for the use of the Common Hall to consider of the same, which, after a great deal of debate, was on a division carried, there being for it $O, and against it 45, Majority 35. A LIST OF THIL DIVISION ON DNB PITITION Of 811 JOHN TusoeXmoa•rost AND CITRUS, fOR TNt Ha Of GUILDHALL, 101 THL FUItrOSI Or NOLDINO A FIFE 11110 OF TICE fIIENDS OF rAILLIANIRIITAILY astoast. fOlt Tilt setatosiaix. Adams Cheesetight Wright Crocket Young Wright Rolls Roberts Carter Rd. Brewer Hureombe Judkins Abberton* Pullen Kirby Walker Gale Cooks Roberts Clode Pearsall Davies Betts Loxley Elliot • Bedford Donnell Pownall Daw Wigan Wilson Howell Rankin Di-Inked Brown 'faddy Blundell Penton Wiltshire Dixon (Cit.) Margery Waterko .se Smith Schroder Wadd Ashley Smith (Cheap) 1•. Dav e Phillips Car wright Griffith Ns* i Heygate Rawlinp Aismasime. Comb. Wood Domvllle Goodbehere Plower CoMaioNtilta. Winter Winbult Griffiths DAV* soli W heblo Reeves Pontifox Coiebach Rreve White Dornford Fasill (Teller) Waithman Slide Quin (Teller) Miller Crouch Fisher Paxton King Briscoe AGAINST THS 11/1102.1AL. ALD/RUZN. Beak Barnet Birch Harpur Paterson Curtis Pearson Spencer Price Atkinson Chapman C. Smith Bickerstaf Angell I.eightou Bartrum . Vandercomb Shaw Hammond Ross Adkins Garrett Clarke Hunter Stokes Jacks Commutes. Langton Hughes Bo: Birch Hale Farr Bate Ryder R. Elliott Rea TaLLIRS. Bin Diceter S. Mon I.aing Kid Lucas. Hardy Johnston A Requisition has been presented to the LORD MAYOR, to hold a Court of Aldermen, to consider the propriety of allowing the use of the Hall for the as sembly of persons not connected with the City. The Loan MAYOR has appointed next Tuesday for that purpose. Yesterday a meeting of upwards of 500 of the Live , ry of London took place at the Old London Tavern ' Alderman Christopher Smith, in the Chair. Ab o ut five o'clock an excellent dinner was served up. After the cloth was removed—Non Nobit Doming was given in the first style, by Messrs. Incledon, Dignum, Gib bon, &c. The first toast given from the Chair was— " The King ; and may he long reign over a free, happy, and united people," with three times three; "GOD save the King" was then sung by Messrs. Incledon, &c. with the following additional verse : Let us our voices raise in songs of grateful praise, For George our King. May be, by GOD'S command, Still hien his native land, 'Gainst France to make a stand, GOD save the King ! The next toast given from the Chair was—" The Prince Regent, and may his conduct be ever regulated by the principles of the British Constitution, through: which this nation has risen to prosperity and happi ness." Tune—" The Prince of Wales's March."— Song, Mr. Dignum" The Prince and Old England Qr ever."---This Song was received with enthusiastic applause. The Chairman then gave, " The health of the Lord Mayor," which was drank with three.--:•The next toast was, " Lord Wellington, and our brave army in Portugal, and may they continue to gather fresh laurels, which they are so worthy to wear." This toast was drank with enthusiastic applause.— ' Sang, " Come if ye dare," Mr. Incledon.—Toast, " May success attend his Majesty's Forces, both by sea and land."—Tune, " Britons, strike home."— The next toast was, " Marshal Beresford and his brave pu pi Is, not . one of whom have been found truants." The Marquis of WATERFORD rose to return thanks for his relative, Marshal Beresford. He had already received the thanks of the Livery of London, which he valued more than any other circumstance of his life. The Noble Lord observed, his Hon. relative had since that time been engaged with the French in the neighbourhood of Badajoz, and he trusted his conduct, and the conduct of the troops unch!r him, had been such as would net disgrace even the army under Lord Wellington's command. The next toast given by the Chairman was, " May the efforts of the Spaniards be attended with the same success as those of the Portuguese."—Song, Incle don, " On board the Arethusa. ' The Chairman then gave, " Lord G. Beresford, and the Friends of the Constitution in Ireland." Lord G. Banastopro then rose to return thanks for the honor wtich had haft done hint ; It Was tfikli eerier for him to return thanks fir himself; than it had been for him td tenni) them for one absent. He had al*iys been one of thbse who had staid-1 . 0/ . ll*d in support of King, Lords, and Co&thefts Ore was not one of those patriots who held fOrth for the pur pose of promoting dissension, his object %ea unitiiinity: The Noble Lord here took an opportunity of advert ing to the measure now pending, for the interchange of the Militia of England and Ireland, which, he 'aide would have the effect of proving to the It ish that the English did not despise them, and asattring them that they might have confidence in the nat:Pri. The Noble Lord concluded with w iving, " The bide= pendent Livery of London, who signed the Decidro tion of the 4th of M , 1810." Glee—" Glorious Apollo." The next toast given was," General Graltarn, and our brave army in Spain."--Song, Dignum, " The Great Nation." The next toast Was,lg Sir W. Curtis, Sir ',Shaw; and Sir C. Price, and thanks to them for their con duct in Parliament on all occasions." Sir W. CURTIS rose to return thanks for the honour the Meeting had done him; this was a great day; day on which the Cityhad asserted their independence against those who had asserted what they pleased, and said they were the sentiments of the City of Lon don. What had been the assertions of those per sons? They had said the House of Commons had not the right of Committing their own Members for contempt. What had been the opinion of the great Judges of the land on this occasion ? Those Judges were above suspicion—they had decided that the House had the power of committing. He trusted, however, _notwithstanding these cries, we should con tinue to do our dutyvand prove we were Britons. Sir Commas PRICE agreed in opinion with his worthy Colleague; he had for upwards of 40 years witnessed the efforts of the Livery of London in the cause of constitutional freedom • and he trusted those efforts would still continue. T he Hon. Baronet ad verted to the conduct of the Prince, which, he said, augured well as to what it would be when he was , called to the Throne. • Sir JAMES SHAW congratulated the Meeting on the effects of their assembling this day, especially when he considered that a Meeting, for purposes so very different, had taken place a few days since.— He thought, however, instead of meeting for com plaints, as had been the object of that Meeting, they had cause to meet to congratulate each other on the success which we had met with. The health of the Chairman was then drank, who returned thanks in a neat speech. Several other toasts were drank, and the evening concluded with perfect conviviality and good huhictur. 1...4W INIELLIGANCE. COOLY OF Kt No's BENCH, MAY ts. JUNJNINT. James Lunn, Wm;. Lunn, John Lunn, and John Lunn, jun. were brought up fur judgment, having been convicted before Mr. Justice Grose, at Hunting. don, of a conspiracy to persuade the Non-commis sioned Officers and privates of the garrison to permit a quantity of straw to be conveyed into the garrison. for the purpose of being manulaciured into plat hats, by the French prisoners confined there John Lunn, sea. and John Lunn, jun. together with Wm. Lunn, were tried and found guilty, but James Lunn was not at that time in custody ; he, however, since the pe. riod of the trial surrendered, and pleaded guilty to two indictments which were pending against him. The Court, in pronouncing judgment, adverted to this circumstance, and from the evidence adduced at the trial, it appeared that William Lunn had bet n the most active in his endeavours to bribe and sed..ce the soldiers. The Court, therefore, sentenced him to be imprisoned twelve months ; John Lunn, the father, and John Lunn, the son, six months each ; and James Lunn three months for each separate offence, in Huntingdon gaol. An unfortunate accident occurred on Wednesday se'nnight, at Barntick, in Ireland, the seat of Sir J. Peacocke, Bart. Miss G. Peacocke was about to take an airing on horseback, when, in the moment of adjus. ting herself on the saddle, the horse sprung forward, and ran off with ungovernable speed. The unfortu nate rider, unable to restrain the animal by the power of the reins, which she had not, in the agitation of the moment, taken up properly, and, unable to pre serve her seat, was thrown with considerable violence, by which she was so seriously injured as• to cause e concussion of the brain. She expired on the follow ing_day. DREADFUL ACCIDENT—Further acconnts—Yester day morning, about half past two o'clock, as the watchmen belonging to the parish of St. Giles's in the Fields, were going their rounds, in the vicinity of the Seven Dials, they were suddenly alarmed at a tremendous noise, and in- a few minutia discovered that the house belonging to Mr. Hittings, the sign of King Henry the Eighth, corner of Whitt Lion and Great St. Andrew's-Street, Seven Dials, was fall ing down. The screams and cries of the inhabitants • were dreadful,•as most of them were buried under the ruins. The watchmen alarmed the neighbourhood, and in a short time about 500 persons surrounded the spot, many of whom set about digging, tie unfortu nate persons from their perilous situation. An old man with an infant in his arms, dead, was the first shocking spectacle that presented itself. The infant had been brought to' the house only a few days be fore, to be weaned. - The bodies were immediately conveyed to a public-house near the spot. The most horrid groans were heard in the ruins, , but in cense cpence of some timber stopping up the way, the bo dies could not be got out for some time after. A young man unfortunately received a spade on his skull, and it is feared he will not survive; he, along with four others in a dreadful mangled state, were taken to the hospital, some of them with arms and legs broken. An old woman, named Toogood, who lodged in the second floor, being apprised of her data. ger, threw herself out of the window, by which she was so much hurt as to be taken to the hospital with out hopes of recovery. Mr. and Mrs. Hastings, who kept the house, escaped with some slight bruises, as the front of the house fell first, and their bed-room being backwards, they had lust time enough to get away. The workmen were employed the whole of yesterday is digging the ruins, as it was not asset tained how many WWII* were slitting. lib I Lii.