Star. — London, England, 1807-08-13 00:00:00

BRIGHTOM AUGUST iz. ?Isis being the Palaces birth day, there were I r!joicings here. Three gun boats had a iham u;-1;t in the morning ; one of them (the enemy) was • takatt after an obttinate battle and a good deal of fe.:manfhip. At noon, die fea fencibles fired their great guns on the battery in honour of the day ; and at one o'clock, three gun brigs lying off this place, all dr effed in their colours, fired a royal Crime. For two or three days pall troops 'had been col lating from all the neighbouring towns on the coati. The whole were this day alfembled on the high g rounds, in the neighbourhood of Rottendean, near this place, when a grand review took place ; which was attended by their Royal Highneffes the Prince of WALES and Duke of YORK, and a fplendid affem blage of nobility and fafhionables. The day was uncommonly fine, and the effeEt was proportionably pleating. The troops collated on this occafion, con lifted of five regiments of infantry, four of cavalry, and a detachment of honk artillery. The Prineefs CHARLOTTE of WALES arrived this morning, to pay her congratulatory refpats to her lather. Her Royal Highnefs afterwards attended the review. The following official notice was publifhed at Amlierdam on the Ili infl." Notice is hereby given, on the part of the Danifh Confulate, to all peifons engaged in commerce and navigation, that official advices have been received, which contain the fatisfadory affurance, that notwithitanding what has palled at Tonaingen, and riotwithtlanding the detaining and carrying in of feveral Danifh (hips, nor the fmalleft difuninn exills between the Courts of Great Britain and Denmark ; and nothing has happened which can give any well•foundedicaufe for alarm." The laft letters from St. Peter burgh have con& derably i removed the apprehenrions which prevailed refpeeting the interruption of the commercial inter courfe between country and Ruflia. Some of Oleic hcid nut hop-s " that the Commercial Treaty pith England will be fpecdily revived, and affairs placed upon their former footing." - - The article communicated in the Gotteuburgh Mail of yetterday, refpeCting the interview between the Prince of. DENNI•RR and BEKNADOTTE, does not feem to he corral. It does not arpear from the German. Papers, that the latter has any army ready to cooperate with Denmark ; and we know, from the fame fource, that Martha' BERNADOTTE, after palling fome days at Hamburgh, went to Bremen, and thence to Hanover, where he was fo la:e as the 3d. A Prufrian Officer has publifhed a letter, in a Ger man Paper, in which he Rates, that the (word which ths French carried away from the palace of Poll - dam, was not the (word of FREDERICK the Great, but be. longed to a Pruflian Officer, who poffefred himfelf of the fwerd of Fa EDERICK upon the death of that ma 'parch, and fubilituted his own. The copy of Mr. SHERIDAN'S intended motion upon the Rate of Ireland, inferted on Tuefday, wits incorrat in the word voluntar4, which thouldAmte been " reluar.ntly." Mr. You .G, of the Haymarket Theatre, and" Mrs. WHITLOCK, from America, are engaged for the en fuing feafon at Drury lane Theatre. Mrs.WHITLOCK , is filter of Mrs. SIDDINS. RETIM AT &Lout earts.--Yellerday, a very grand review and (ham fight took place, firfl, on the River, and then throuth Greenwich, up the Maize. hill, to Blackheath. Two brigades were then form ed ; the fit it brigade was tinder the command of Sir William Curtis, and confified of the honourable the artillery company, with their gagers, rifle corps, and field pieces attached. The Lambeth and Chrittchurch corps were next, and the firft Surrey regiment, with their rifle corps, a field piece being on either flank.— The Second, or oppofing Brigade, was compofed of the Loyal Deptford, Lewilham and Greenwich corps ; the Loyal Greenwich Water Fencibles were on each flank with their pikes, and their field pieces vith them, which they managed very well.—One accident only, out of ro,ooo perfons prefent, happen ed—A lady, who was in a chaife, with a Captain of Artillery, being alarmed, jumped out of the chaife, and broke her leg. A regimental furgeon was called in, who bound it up as well as circumilances would allow, and the was fent home in prvper care to her relidence at Woolwich. Yetterday his Royal Highnefs the Prince of WALES completed the 45th year of his age, on which occafion the morning was uthered in with the ring ing of bells ; and the it oyal Standard was hoifted nu St. Martin's, St. Giles's, and other parifh churches. The Prince of Wales's Vounteert, and feveral other corps, filed a feu de . jre. The illuminations at night were numerous and brilliant. The Subfcription bottles and Theatres (hone with great fplendour, and all his Royal Highnels's Tradefmen were uncom monly folicitbus to evince their attachment and gra• wade. The Warehnufe at Charing-Crofs, for the Sale of the invaluable Yellow-Fever Remedy, exhibited the fame appropriate devices as upon fimilar occafions. Several hundred beautifully variegated lamps were taftefully prefented to view with much brilliancy and good effect ; and on the other Warehonfe in Town for the Sale of the Yellow-Fever Powders (which has jult been opened near the Weß•lndia Decks, for the particular accommodation, as we un dergand, of Mariners) an anchor was difplayed, richly ornamented with a great variety of variegated lamps, to denote that the Yellow-Fever Remedy is the S. AMAN'S SHEET ANCHOR. This drew toge ther an immenfe concourfe of fpeetators, being the firft thing of the kind ever fern in that part of the Town. The Friends of Vaccinaiiml are informed, that the late report of the College of Phyficians is printed in a cheap form, for general circulation, and may be had at three-pence each, or twenty-five for four Ihillings and fix pence, being the colt price of MetTrs. Limgmati, Hurit, Rees, and Orme, Paternoller-row ; and all other Bookfellers. If Gentlemen of the Fa- leulty were to carry this little trait with them, in their profeffional vifitF, to diiiribute them among fuch perfons as are yet unconvinced of the efficacy of Vaccination, much gwd would no doubt be done to the caufe. EGYPT. Although we are aware that we (hall not contribute to the gratifi cation of the generality of our teaders, by dwelling on the late proceedings in Egypt; yes, the following letter, which we have lately received, will place fome &es in a new light, and be fa. tisfadtory to the panics ccnneeted with that expedition. " May 4, z 807, off Alexandria. g g After the capture of Alexaadria, it was deemed neceffary to poffefs Rofetta, Rhamanie, and Damietta. An expedition was accordingly prepared, under the Generals Wauchop and Meade, confill ing of the 3IR Regiment ;too !Prong, Claaffeurs Britanniques Soo, to Dragoons, 10 Artillery, too feamen, and ionic Arabic Guides. This f o r ce wen t againft Rofetta, and attacked it by form ; but were driven back with the lofs of 500 men killed, wounded, and' pri foners. Among the killed was General Wauchop; General Meade was badly wounded; the latter or. dered a retreat, which was done 'irregularly, and therefore gave an eafy opportunity to the enemy's horfc. The Turks cut off the heads of all the killed, and of the wounded who could not welk. The pri foners and wounded, that could walk, were obliged to carry the heads to Cairo. " The troops • were teen from the fqoadron, re treating to an old caravanfera. Thither Captain Nicolls of the marines was fent, with a carronade and r marines to cover the retreat, and to keep the poll until another expedition could be got ready.— The troops that compofed it were, the to battalion of the 3111 regiment, the 2d battalion of the 78th, De Rolle's regiment, 5o of the artillery, 30 dragoons, 200 tailors, and fome Arabic guides; in all about 3000 men, under the command of l3:igadier•General Stewart. Captain Nicolls's poft was reinforced to 4o men, and appcioted firft depot. " The expedition fat dowdbefore Rofetta on the zd of April, and continued to batter the town ; not withftanding feveralloities from the garrifon, which were always repulfed with lofs. " On the tgth, a reinforcement of raw men, came down the Nile, and ,polled.themfelves oppofite El Hamet, a poft occupied by Major Vortigen and 300 of De Rolle's tegimcnt, for the purpofe of covering . our convoys and (upplies, from the interior and lake Eckoe. They made an attack cn his left the fame night. but were repulfed With lofs. .• On the matting of the Zoth, they attacked and turned his right ; and in conlequence of De Rolle's light company *giving way, 70 of them were cut to pieces. Seeing the pott could not be kept without a reinforcement, Captain Nicolli rode to the General and informed him of the fituation of things. The latter fent Colonel M'Leod rf the 78th, with 400 men. On the approach of this force the Turks un covered our right, and retired to a spoil in front of our left. " On the morning of the 2IR, CVLII . eI M‘Leod fent word, that the enemy had landed an immenfe reinforcement out of a large veffels, and 6o Dgerms, to the amount of ro,ooo, and that he Mutt retire, as he was in want of ammunition ; and advifed the General to break up his camp at Rofetta, and meet him at a certain point. A few camels with ammu nition were fent to the Colonel, with orders to retire. The enemy, having all the country under their eye, cut them off; and before the General could make a dernondratiem in his favour, the Colonel was fur. rounded and cut to pieces, excepting too men on the right, who furrendered on terms. The General fee ing this gallant officer had fallen with 600 men, formed a hollow fquare with a gbn in each angle, the baggage and wounded in the centre ; and al though furrounded on all fides by Ave times his num ber, made an orderly retreat to Captain Nicolls's rift, where the dgerms were to receive his gallant troops. He faced about (nee during his retreat and charged the Turks, who did not dare to clofe, but gave way on all fides, keeping up a cowardly difiant fire. During the retreat, the garrifon of Rofetta, to the amount of 2500, joined the purfuers. All cur lots, in a retreat of 18 miles of loofe land, was about 25 wounded. " Had the Mamelukes, according to their romife,. joined us, the event would have been different. Our only want was cavalry. It was miferably provoking to fee the enemy's horfe galloping round us, and firing their long thot at us. Yet the brave remains of the gallant 78th, brought many of them down, and before Colonel M'Leod's corps fell, they killed upwards of loco Turks. " Our force is now concentrated at Alexandria, asl Mohammed Ali has threatened to befiege us with 14,000 men. We have nominally 4000 troops; but three regiments are foreigners, one of the three a Sicilian corps, that cannot bear the fight of a flint ; we have fent for a reinforcement. If to,ooo could have been fent, inflead of 5000 men, half of them would have been ready for other fervices. The Arabs laugh at the idea of conquering with soco men a kingdom, which Bonaparte found 40,000 barely fuf. ficient to fubdue. They cannot conceive why Sir Sidney Smith was not left with us, as his name is a holt; They fay he always behaved to them with good faith, and would ever command their zealous fervices ; a jealoufy of his well earned fame cer tainly exills in fome parts of this fea. A certain officer, hearing that Sir Sidney Smith advifed the ufe of the pike and bayonet, inflead of the fabre, in the attack of Turkifh gun=boats, was guilty of a coarfe exclamation againti that gailant hero." It appears now by the filling up of the eommiffions of fome of the officers who fell at El Hamet, on the a ill of April, and who fir( were returned as only wounded and milling, and not among the prifoners, that Government has received authentic accounts of their death ; and it is underdood alfn, of the parti culars of that unfortunate battle, in which a whole detachment of a Britifh army was cut off; not one man efcaping. Lieutenant• Colonel *Leon, who fell at El Hamet, was univerfally beloved and elleemed in the army, as an officer of 'great fpirit and talefits. From his earließ youth he had diainguifhed himfelf, in aftive fervice, in the Low Countries ; at the Cape of Good Hope, in 1796, where he artained the appointment of Fort Maj .r, though then fearce of age ; in the Eaff Indies, where he ferved for ftveral years, and wai known as 3 great oriental feholar, at well as an excellent officer ; and 1111 year, at the battle of Maida, `where he was wounded at the head of tits regiment. LAW INTELLIGENCE►. l COURT OF CHANCERY, AUGUST is. ' STI)CIC JOBBING TRANSACTIONS . —EX- e PARTE DENIeLE. ( This was a petition "from Mr. Daniels, of flock jobbing notoriety, to get the debt of Mr. Moritefiore, which had been proved under the commiffion of bankruptcy Wiled agafrift him, expunged. 'The debt amounted to 11,opol. and upwards, and 116 ground i of application was, that the debt had arisen out of flockjobbing tranfaftions, piohihited by the 7th cf Geo. 11. and mild not he legally fuaaiaed. Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY fupported the piayer of the petition, and obferved, that Mr. Daniels had no other 'dealings with Mr. Montefiore, othei i .th4n employing him to buy and fell'Ornnitim for account,. and that the '17,0001. owing to . Mr. Montzfiors, was the amount of differences for time, and not for bonajde I contracts. He added, that Mr. Daniels.bad no ob jection to Alva over the refidue of his efkte, after all his leg-tl debts were paid, in difcharg of Mr. Montefiore's demand. ' Mr. BELL followed on the fame fide, lad after fome little fquabbling with the Coopfel on the other fide, and enforcing the offer of Mr.. Daniels to give up his all to Mr. Montefiore, after the demands of let*a} creditors•were fatisfied, he obferved, that Mr. Montefiore's irritability againa Mr. Daniels reminded him of tAe old woman, who was angry with the eels becaufe they would not lie (kill while the Was fkinning them. Mr. HART, on the fi de of Mr. litontefiore, .de fended his client's cantina, which he Paid was free from imputation pr blemifh, and contended fieneral ly, that Mr. M. having acted merely as the agent of Mr. Daniels, whom at that time he believed. to be an honourable man, and confidering the tranfiatiens to be E ona Pe, and not gambling fpeculations, he had a right to fuflain his debt, inafmuch as he had not fubjefted li'mfelf to the operations of the Ratute in cpieftion. Mr. Haar added, that the application Would not have . been made to the Court, had Mr. : Montefiore not refufed to fign Mr. Daniel's Certifi ' tate, and the great object of expunging the debt ' was, that Mr. Daniels .might again return to the Stock *Exchange, and for any thing he was aware of, renew his former practices upon the credulous and unwary; but if the debt was expunged, the Com : miffion mug fall to the ground, as thefiying from Mr. Montefiere's demand conftituted the aft of bank. rttptcy upon which the commiffion had iffued. The CHANCELLOR Paid, he would hear the parties out to Morrow, and decide as to whether the_prayer of the. Petition ought, or ought slot to he complied with?'' . ,sl•'''. .t . • On the 25th ult. a numerous and refpe&able party of the friends and admirers of the much-lamented vet BURNS, dined together, at the cottage, in Ayrlhire, where he was born. An ode, written for the occalion, was recited by one of the company, and the. utmoit harmony and conviviality prevailed daring the even ing It. ror.—Yellerday afternoon as Mr. Kimber, Rreet keeper of St. Martin's, Ludgate, was attempting to take into cußody a drunken man, who was Breeched on the pavement, he was violently attacked by ano- ther, whom he called upon, in the King's name, to afford .him affiflance. This circumaance created confiderable confutioa, and .foon collet:led together a great number of people. At length by the affittance of tome ,conftables, the man who affaulted Mr. K. was fecured, and his arms pinioned with a rope. This unufual mode of proceeding was not relifhed by the mobility, who began ,to be very clamorous, and fol lowed,the officers up Ludgate Hill, attacking them at intervals, and when they had reached St. Paul's Church Yard, a general engagement took place, in which Mr. K. and.hia affiftants got fo feverely hand. led, that the former was obliged to Peek refuge in a paltry cook's fhop, alma ezhaufled with the blows he had received, and the conftables made a preci• pirate retreat, leaving their prifoner in the hands of their enemies, who, after freeing him from his dd . : graceful ornament, fuffered him to efcape atnidf hur an. The mob then quietly difperfed. . . CORN EXCHANGE ' MARK•LANIC, AUGUST r3.—To day's fupply of Wheat is rather largeiprefuming on more redudion of price, few purchafes are made, and tbofe at lets—Barley and Malt are rather lower —The few White Peas at further advance—Beans of both forts are rather cheaper—Oats are in extreme plenty. with more arrivals, foreign and coaftways ; and this trade is lower likewife—Flour is near ss. per rack cheaper. DUEL.—Two tradefmen, refiding in Chelfea, had a difpute on Sunday evening !aft. at a neighbouring public houfe, and being both Volunteers, agreed to decide their quarrel with piltols. They met accor- H dingly on Tuefday, at an early hour, in Tothill fields, when the feconds had the good fenfe to put the bul lets in their pockets inftead of the piftols. One of the combatants, who had been let into the fccret, drop ped on the firft fire, in confequence of which his opponent fled on the wings of fear, and about three hours after was proceeding in a poll chaife to leave London, when peeping through the chaife window, he law his deceafed antagoaift very compofedly ferv ing a cuftomer with a pound of bacon, behind his proper counter. Bow•rritm.—Yefierday, Edward Gil/on, who is charged on fapicion of wilfully Petting fire to his houfe in Old Bofwell•court, on the morning of the sth inilant, was brought up for reexamination before Mr. NAR es. The Churchwardens being bound over to profecute, and the others to give evidence, the pi ironer was fully committed for trial. The Ticket, No. 184, drawn yefterday a Prize of TEN THOUSAND Poutans, was fold in two Eighth and twelve Sixteenth Shares by Swtrr and Co. at their Offices, No. i is, Poultry, and No. t 2, Charing Crofs. No. 8,940, a Piize of 5001. the fourth day— No. 17,637, a Prize of soot. the fifth day—and No. 17,624, a Prize of moot. the firth day, were alfo (hared and fold at Swirl' and Co's Offices. The Ticket 17,502, drawn yefterday a Prize of pool. was fold.at Bisn's Officer, 4, Cornhill, and 9, Charing Crofs, in fixteen Sixteeenth Shares ; and the Ticket 6,457, a Prize of 30,0001. the Ticket 14,167, a Prize of 20,0001. ; the Ticket 3411, a Pt ize of 5,0001. ; and the Ticket 3,412, a Prize of .0001. ; werc all (hared and fold at Bith's Offices this Lottery, making 32 Capital Prizes in the year. The fortunate Holders may have their money on demand. Undrawn 'rickets and Shares ate felling ; and the Lottery finifhes on Saturday. Iti f t). l 2- s t it ...f,•f^' FINANCE REPORT. 41 - f^ , • lamr-FROM THE COMMITTEE ON THE PUBLIC ), • r • • EXPENDITURE. PAY OMCr. i. , E,3 * . fs' .The Commhtec appointed tdevantine and confider what Rego's. ilens intt Checks have been eitablitlied, in order o controul the feierat Branches of the PuHie Expenditure. in Great Britain ' Ind Iretani ; and hew far the fame have her!, efreetual; and what further mrafures can be adopted for reducing any part of the faid Expenditure, or eliminithing the Amount of galarles and Em.Aumetits, with tut Detriment to the Public Service : Having had referred to their confiieration the Proceedings of the committee which was in/timed for the fame pirrpofes in the laft Parliament, began their Inquiries, by profecuting the examination of a ful,jea ; in which confiderable progrefs had been made, but upon .which they have delayed making an earlier • Rep.-,rt, judging it proper to fufpend any flatement of fads, mail they could at the lame time recommend the heft mode, according to their judg ment„ •of preventing timilar abnfes in future. ThgEvidence received during the lall Seflion, con tainkan account of two tranfadions in the Pay Of fice, of,;; molt irregular, and improper kind, which were difclofed on the examination of Mr. Thomas, Accountant in that Office ; by whom it was hated, that a draft fur 7,00c1. payable to the Right Hann. rable. Thomas Steele, (at that time one of the Joint Paymafters.).or Bearer, had been drawn by the Ca. lie! .09 , t he t nth May 1799, under the head of Ex. trartsdinaties of the Army, and entered in the C k fh ACtiount of the Office, with Mr. Steele's Receipt as a voucher ; and that another fum of t 2,8001. was drawn, for, precifely in the fame mariner, and a receiptgiven in the fame terms, on the third of July 1800. Of theft: two fume, the firlt was not repaid until the 3d of Pebruary 1807 ; nor the latter until t r ite Bth of April, with intereft upon both firms, from the date of their iffue to that of their repayment, amounting to 7,3901. 13$. The correfpoadence between Mr. Steele and Mr. Thomas; letters of Earl Temple, (one of the Joint Paymalters in 18o7) addreffed to Lord Grenville, Mr. Steele, Mr. Role, and Lord Harrowby ; three minutes of the Lords of the Treafury, direding what Reps fhould be taken for fecuring the fum remaining due (for the firft (urn had been repaid previous to any proceedings of tile Board of Treafury) ; minutes of the Paymafter General entered in the Book of the Office; and feveral other Papers, are inferted at length in the Appendix, though not perhaps abfo lutely neceffary for underfianding the fubjed, that no ctrcumflance which has reference to this bufinefs, may be withheld from obfervation But the part to which the Committee think it molt material to direct the attention of the Houle, is the account given by Mr. Steele himfelf, when he defired to attend the former Committee on the 26th of March 0107, and made his own ftatement of the circumtlances relating to — ttiefe . tranfadions. He Paid, 44 The two fums mentioned by Mr. Thomas were ;trued by my di- . and I have no hefitation in hating that they were not iffued for Public Service ; I thought, as others did at the time, that I had full autho rity to dired thole iffues. I was urged to do fo by private confiderations of a very peculiar nature, which operated at that time upon my mind; and 1 thought that by direding them to be iffued to myfelf, and making myfelf refponfible fur them, I could not by poffibility incur the fufpicion of con cealment, or fraud. It was my intention that they fhould have been replaced in a very fhort time, but it was not in my power to accomplith it ; they re mained charged againft me in the Pay Office Book till the beginning of the prefent year, when the former of the two fums was repaid; and the whole fubjed having been brought lately under the confideration of the Board of Treafury, they have direded me to repay the remaining fum, with the intereft due upon both fums, by infialments at Rated periods, which I have engaged to do. I cannot take upon myfelf to defend my condua in this inftance, which I tuna admit to have been incorred, but I confole myfelf with think ing that the public will have fuffered no lofs." And being afked, whether he knew of any other tranfadion of the fame kind, during the time he was in the Pay Office ?he Paid, "I do not," And being afked, Whether he knew of any arrear of the bite nature arifing from the tranfadion of any former Paymaf ter ? he laid, " I certainly do not." And being afked, whether any notice was taken of this tranfaCtion by the Treafury, previous to the beginning of this year ? he Paid, " I apprehend it was not ever known to the Treafury, previous to this year." And being afked, whether any notice was taken by any other Public Office ? he Paid, " Not to my knowledge." On the loth April, Mr. Steele again attended the Committee ; and a part of Lord Temple's letteribe irg read to him (Appendix, No. 3) ; and he being afked, whether he had any explanation to give in re ference to this letter ? he laid, 44 This being a Rate ment of what paffed indifferent converfations at dale rent times, of which I made no memorandum ml (clf, I certainly am not difpofed to difpute the accuracy with which it is reported. I beg the Committee at the fame time to underhand that I never have at tempted tojutlify the iffue of the two films in queltion, upon the ground that they were applied &redly or indiredly to public fervice ; but that in my hamper evidence I acknowledged that they were not iffue4 with any reference to public fervice, but I alone was refponfible and accountable for them ; and that I have, is fad, repaid them both, principal and intereft."--a. And a part of Mr. Steele's former examination, and an tetrad front his letter to Mr. Thomas, being !hewn to hint, he further Paid, " The perf'ns to whom I alluded in that letter, and in my examina- film, were the Principal Officers of the Pay Office, who had been long ettablithed there, and who uni formly contended that the power of the Etymatier General to direct the Wires of money from the Bank remained unlimited by any of the plovilions of the Aft for regulating the office of Paytnafter General." And being anted, 1‘ Did you confult any other per fon as to the operation of that Ad, upon the Woe of money to the Payrnafter ?" he Paid, " I did n0t."... And being salted. whether in point of (aft, Many part of this tranfaelwo, he ailed upon the opinions of any other perfons, conjointly with his own, or coofulted any other perfon on the fubjett ? he feid, " No." The condo& of Mr. Rofe. who fucceeded Mr. Steele in the Pay Office. being obfetved upon, in a minute of the Pap:milers dated 27.11 February, 1807. (a) Mr. Role attended the Committee, for the rpu of explaining the knowledge he had of this (a) Appendix. Nw 11 P