Star. — London, England, 1807-10-09 00:00:00

THE ARNIY. We Lave fcen two letters from 016eers in Ireland : the r , cruiting from the Militia there commenced on the 2d infl. and it was entered into with the generous ardour natural to the country. In fume regiments, the contell was who fhould go. Some of the national and popular corps, particularly the Inniflullings, were like to get three times the number allotted to them. The sd Battalion of the 89th, General WHlTl socas's regiment, has jolt larded at Ponforouth, but we regret to hear that they are dreadfully af flieed with the Egyptian ophthalmia. The zd Battalion of the Both, or Perthfhire regi ment, which has got about 600 fine fellows from the flank companies of the Militia, is Rationed at Bex hill, and commanded by Lieut. Col. MatINWARIMG. The regiment is in the neighbourhood of the Perth. !hire and of the Renfrew Militias, from whom they ripe& as many men as will complete them to t 000. The ad battalion of the ,4th, the Adjutant Gene. r al% regiment, by volunteers irom the Militia, is now nearly boo Rrong ; when they are rzoo flrong, Lis fine battalion is to be fent out to India where the Ili battalion now is. Lieutenant Cenral Sir pH's Cssonocx does not come home ; but is to retain the chief command on the Madras fide of India. 4 is-likewife determined that Major General FRA. na, M. P. continue in the command of Egypt. It is underflood that Lord HUNTLY does not now go out. Lieutenant General WHITE user, with the major part of the South American army, is erpeaed about the 20th of this month. The garrifon of the important ;nand of Heligoland is to be compofed of a Detachment of Artillery and Engineers 3d Royal Veteran Battalion Bth Under the command of that excellent Officer, Lieu tenant Colonel HAMILTON, Bth Royal Veteran Dm , talion, who has jull failzd with the troops. The ad Dragoon Guards, or Bays, are quartered in Seel; they were yeßerday reviewed at Chichefier by Major Genet al Bucowta, and made that fine ap pearance which this diftinguilhed corps always has made. The feeond battalions of the Old Buffs, and of the 39th Regiment, hive been vety fuccesful in recruit lug; they have juR marched into gartifon at Ply. mouth, where the t tth Foot and Worceßerfhise Milt. tia are likewife in garrifon. To the great regret of the Lieutenant Governor and oldie inhabitants of Portfmouth and its vicinity, that fine regiment, the North Devon, is about to march to Brittol. Some exhaulled regiments are coming hnme from the Weft Indies, and others are going out to replace them. Lieutenant Colonel Domani arrived yenerday in Canterbury, from Copenhagen, to refurne his official duties as Quarter Mailer General of the Southern Dihie. The Colonel came hone in the BoNITTA loop of war, which landed him at Sheernefs. The Well Suffolk Militia are on their march from the Eaflern Diftrilt, in two divifions, for Chatham Barrack', where they are to arrive on the '7th and rgth of the prefent month. One hundred and eighty-four men volunteered in a very handfome manner, hom the t ft Royal Surrey Militia now lying at Dover, into the 56th Regiment, within the 3o days allowed by the Aft of Parliament. One hundred and fifty was the gota required within the 3o days, but their Colonel, Lord Gass:-Ly, ar. riving at head quarters, and having power veiled ii him, as Colonel, chearfully allowed the other thirty :cm to volunteer. Viednefday the firii diviron of the Royal North Clonedler Regiment, arrived at Exeter from Ply. annuli, on their route for Arundel, in Suffer. The battalion of the 26th Regiment has marched horn Charleville to Limerick. On Monday there was a Grand Review of 2500 men, at Rufhmere Heath, near Ipfwich. Their Royal Highncifes the Dukes of YORK, KANT, and tomssaxaan were prefent. The Commander in Chief expreffed his high approbation of the difcipline of the troops. The Heath was crowded beyond all trpeaation with perfons of the firft rank and fafhion. unfortunately one cf the horfemen was thrown from his horfe, and broke his collar bone. Monday afternoon marched into Plymouth, from Modbury, Brixham, Ermington, and Plymten St. Muy, that fine body of men the Ermington battalion of the South Devon regiment of Volunteer Infan• ?TY, Lieutenant Colonel Woos.r.cotaan. Their ratifier was fo !bong, that only t 2 rank and file were !Mint, and they marched into Frankfort barracks, Soo rank and file, and are to perform permanent duty for tcn days in tlrat gat rifon. Enfign Divt, of the 82d Regiment, whit fell before Copenhagen, rote from the ranks by his merit. be was the nephew of Adjutant Duna, of die New. erQle air ciated volunteer infantry, and was a native bf Edinburgh. Wednefday two Laneathire men, one belonging to the Oxford Blues, and the other to the Safford Militia, having quarrelled, at the Sun public houfe, in Pearcod fireer, IVindfor, agreed to fight in theit country manner, that is when one is down for the other to kick him, and ufe other methods not gene- - A ll . y allowed i n b ox i ng matches, in confequence of i htch the Mili t i aman was fo feverely thr le d ie.' in two hours. The Coroner was_ht lding at. lognati on hisb3dy when our account wass difpatched. NAUTICAL &TELL !GRA CIL MAILS—Wind S. W. AU. DUt AMC DU! 1 i I Goomburgh o I 1 I Li&on 0 Dublin iiVatcrford COVE OF CORK, OCTOBER 4. The fhip Mary, JOHN OJWALD mailer, failed from Jamaica on the 26th July, under convoy of his Ma jelly's (hips FISGUARD and MEDIATOR, in company with about 6o fail; parted convoy the latter part of Anvil on the Banks of Newfoundland, and (leered a courfe to go through the North Channel: was captured by a Spanifh lugger privateer, of 1.4. guns, and Iso men, the 2111 of (Maher, in lat. 5;. O. long. to.—and on the 25th was recaptured by his Majefly's (hip la VIRGINIE, Captain BRACR, and fent for Loughfwilly, where the arrived on the 27th infl. Captain &ace having been informed, by the Mary, that the privateer had fleeted to the north well, in order to intercept any other (hips of the fleet that may be coming through the North Channel, immediately made fail in quell of her, and on the 28th got fight of her with two other fail. After a (bort chace and tome firing, in which the Captain of the privateer was killed, (he flruck, and proved to be the Jefu Maria and Jofeph, a large lugger, mounting 14 twelve-pounders, and carrying 120 men, fitted out at Bayonne, and commanded by a Frenchman. Cap tain BRACE immediately manned the lugger, and dill patched her in Chace of one of the v•Als then in fight, which the came up with and recaptured, the brig Mary, of Dartmouth, from Liverpool, bound to Newfoundland, which veffel arrived here on Satin day. This privateer had made five captures, two of which are retaken by la Vaitoixia, and one by the /tacos; one carried tome time fince into the Shan non, the other a thy from Jamaica to Greenock—it is probable Captain BRACE may fall in with, as he went io quell of her, when he fent the privateer to ' retake the Commerce. From the very great attention fbewn by Admiral WH rrsHED to the trading interelis, and the judicious arrangement of this fquadron, the trade muff receive every protedion that the nature of the force under his orders will admit of, as it is moll aftively employ. ed for that purpofe. PLYMOUTH. OCTOBER 7. Came in the Pleniz, a Danifh !hip, Cat. Bucxttlt, from Santa Cruz, with rum, coffee, aad indigo. de. tained by the Betfey privateer ; Neptune, Captain Husain it, from Charlam, with rice, fugar, and lngwood, detained by the Satellite privateer; HOUND bomb, from the ealtward. Sailed the Nov sa, of 18 guns, on a cruize ; FOXHOUND, of 18 guns, to the weßward. PORTSMOUTH. OCTOBER I. Arrived his Majelly's fhips SIRA pis, from the Me diterranean, and is put under quarantine ; HSARTY and Aar. from a eruize.—Wind S.W. DEAL, OCTOBER 8. Ar.ived and failed for the River, the Mary Ann, Capt. Iticaaast, from New Providence, in 32 days. Arrived the William and Eliza, —, from Newbury Port, with coffee and fugar, for Amtlerdam, de tained by the BOLD gun brig, and remain in the Downs with the (Lips as per lall.—Wind S.W. SHEERNESS, OCTOBER 8. Art ived 1411 evening from the Downs the RINARD (bop of war, Captain GIORGI MORRIS ; the Bo- NITTA, captain PHILLIPS, from Copenhagen ; and the Cerma et. gun brig, Lieutenant KING, from the North Sea. The Clarta sr. carried away her malls, and 101 l a boat') crew in the late gale of wind. Ar rived the Kniphaufen galliot Fortuna, Captain ANCXER, from Riga with malls and timber, for Chatham Yard. Wind S. W. Prong breeze. The fignal for another convoy for the Baltic is now flying, and it is fuppofed it w:11 :141 on Tuefday next. The brig Ocean, Captain %own, of North Shields, and the American (hip Averick, Captain Dtcosr, that were wrecked on the Nore Sand, in the laf gale of wind, are abandoned by their crews as untenable ; and the hulls are to be fold, as they lie, for the benefit of the underwriters. GRAVESEND. OCT. B—Paired by the Mary, Wilton, from Youghall; Dalrymple, Graham, frvm Demerara ; Fanny, Taylor, and the Union, Burghefs, from Peterfburgh. Sailed the Draper, Kay, fur Dublin ; anal the Sophia, Savery, for Guernfey. ARRIVP.D. Off Dover, the Penury(rank, --, from New York--In Yarmouth Roads, the Ageonoria, Cooper, from Peterfburgh—At Topiham, the Economy, Manfhip, from Peteribiirgh—ln the Clyde, rhe A leak, Lfringßon, from Wilmington : and the Vancou ver, Crandon, from Virginia—Off the Ilk of 'Right, the Mary, Irwin. from Honduras—At Kinfale, the Hawker, Ewing, from Ilondura.—At Cork, the Harmony, Baird, front Qu ebec—At Newfoundland, the Martha, Elleye r .fr om Waterford; Mayflower, --, front Boßon ; Union, Sumpfon, and the Alfrvd, Pack, from Liverpool—At Portfmnuth, the Urania, French, from Hon. duns—At Dover, Henry, Rogers, from Charleßon —At Liver. pont, Favourite, Ja-kfon, from Onega—At Maryport, Sures, Hall, from Jamaica—At Londonderry, Lady Hill, Balfour, from Oporto —At New York, Ohio, Sterling, and the Neptune, Tucker. The William, Caithnefs, tom Petetfburgh for Dundee, is 101 l in the Gulph. DlSTalattTiott of Pant MONIT.—The Favourite, fork Cc. neral Blanchard, captured Dee 30, tilos, will be paid on the isth init. and recalled at No. 22, Arundel ffrect. Saturday morning ft, was Isu;ched into the river Torridge, from Mr. TA 11 , Loa's yard, oppolite the town of Bideford, the Carnation (loop of war, pierced for 18 guns. In the Siva of Wednefday we mentioned the ap prehending and confinement of two Frenchmen. who had landed near Whitttable. from a (mall boat, and that they had Hated themfelves to have been pri loners of war on board the Prothee, at Portfmouth. We have this morning received a letter from an Officer belonging to the Prothee, Rating, that no prifoners whatever had efcaped horn th a t fhip—rf condi, that pact of the Frenchmen's fitly is a falfehood. MARK-LANE. • CORN EXCHANGE, OCTOBER 9. Tiler! art to-day feveral ftefh arrivals of Wheat, which is in tolerable fupply, and fates of fecund and infetirr qualities, are very dull fade, at rather lower prices —Batley and Malt continue at (mall fluattation. White Peas nearly at 101 l price —Beans of the two kinds are fomewhat cheaper—The fupplies of Oats are confiderable, and this trade hardly fuppurts laft prices —In Flour no alteration. 0 CUIRISNOT AS tittlna 1 Wheat. 41S Sal 6 .1s per. qr. Grey Peak ifios 66s Fine Ditto, 66s los Beans. 3ss Os od (old) Rye, isos 46s (new) Tick Ditto. 42$ 48$ od Barley, 37s 43s od Oats, 23$ 280 321 Malt.66s 74s od Poland ditto 34s .33s od White Ptas, (boilers) 16os t 7cs Potatoe ditto —I 36$ ted Rape Seed sal to stl oos. Fine Flour 3 re Os—Seconds scs to 335. His Royal Highnefs the PRINCE of WALES, ac• companied by the Duke of Sussex, honoured Brian] with his pretence an Tneflay 1411, and in the after. noon dined, by invitation, with the Corporation, at Merchants' Hall. The Prince was received with every mark of loyalty and affeelion, and expreffed Iromf:lf highly grathied at the attention (hewn him. Their Royal Highneffes were efcnrted into the city by the Britiol Light Horfe Volunteers, and the Vo. lunteer Infant, y lined the flreets through which they palled. In the mufic room, a filed hand, under the diredion of Mr. Mu -rims', of Glouceller, :Ailed by Mr. MAGRATH, Mr. ASHLEY, and Mr. COOKE, from Bath, and other vocal performers, gave admirable glees, &c. Nothing can exceed the polite attention of Lord BiItKELLY to his guells ; and his amiable Counsels, by her affability and unwearied folicitude, anticipates even the willies of her numerous visitors. Yeflerday Mr. Miramar and a fried carry dined with Mr. H. Hort, at his feat at Eaft Sheen. Mr. E. HUGHES. MEM'', has been chorea Mayo of Warwick, for the enfuing year. The Bilhop of London has transferred Rork to tht amount of t=ool. to Chrill's College, Can bridge, the interelt of which is to be expended in the purchale of three gold medal., to be contended for by the Students of that College, in the following order : One medal of 15 guineas for the bell L at i n Di ff erta tion nn Tome evidence of Chriltianity. Another of 15 guineas for the bell Englilh Compofirion on Tome Moral Precept of the Gnfpel ; and one of so guinea, to the moll diftind and graceful Reader in, and re• gular Attendant, at Chapel. Yellerday evening the Weflminfler Royal Volim leers, Col. Roarmaon, were infpeded by Col. Iss• ximsore in Hyde Palk. After the inipedion the corps went through the evolutions 'slimily performed at a review or on a field day. A duel was fought on Wednefdas nrrning, at Warfield Common, near Windfor, betwen Lieut. Y-r, belonging to a neighbourino volunteercnrps, and Mr. S—y, a gentleman of ' fortune in Wig. more-fireet, in confequence of a difpute which origi nated at an inn at Maidenhead. The parties ex changed a (hot without effed, when Mr. S. fired a fecond, which miffed the Lieutenant, who difcharged his piflol in the air, and the parties retired amicably from the field. THZ THEATIt EL—N.l64lg can fl ark more favour ably of the mile and judgment of the town, than the confluence of company with which thefe retorts • f elegant and rational entertainment are now fre quented. Without any of the ordinary attraeli.ins of what is called novelty, either in the perfumers, or the dramas performed, both houfes lad night over flowed to a pitch which we never before witneffal at this leaf mof the year. The contemplation of per fellinn can never cloy: it foothes the pride of our nature, while it feeds the love, and flimulates, the faculties that are ambitious of excellence. We Call no more ceafe to admire the tragic grandeur of Mrs. SIDDONS in / atly Macbeth, than to be charmed with the comic vivacity of Mrs. JORDAN in the Widow 6betrly. Each had her triumph IA night ;in which, however, the other per formers had their proportionate (hare, conformably to the meafure of their refpedive talents. At a Special Seffions of the Magi(hates for the Eaftern Diftriets of the County of Middlefex, in WeHeinle fquare, the licence for continuine, as a place of public amufement, the Royalty Theatre, was renewed to Mr. Miley, without any cppofition. A few days fince, about nine o'clrck in the evening, fifteen French pi ;loners made an attempt to efcape from Stapleton Pam). Six of them got clear off, and have not fince been heard of. THI SATIRIST, OR MONTHLY MITIOR...—The Public are refpeellay informed, that in confequence of the unprecedented demand for the Firll Number of this new and unique Publication, which only ap peared in the beginning of the prefent Month, a large REPRINT has taken-place, and they may now be fup plied by S. TIPPER, No. 37, Leadenhall Ilreer, to whom all communications for the Editor are to he addrefted, poll paid.—No. 11. will be publifbed on the ta of November. Tuefday morning, as a girl about four years of age, was walking on the Beacon, at Exmouth, the unfrrtunarely fell over the precipice of the din. about 40 feet high, by which the was fo dreadfully bruited that her life is defpaired of. Lan Monday the bleaching ground of Meas. Howard and Co. at Mitcham, was robbed of a large quantity of dowlas and Irith linen . On the 3oth ult. was Bolen from the George Inn. Borough, a black trope gelding, and a reward of twenty guineas was offered by public notice at Union Hall, to any perfon who would be the means of dif covering the Paid gelding, payable upon application to Mr. Green, at the George Inn, Borough. A per fon who had previoufly read this notification dreamed on Saturday night that the raid gelding was to be found at large, near the Nag's Head, Whitechapel. Firmly relying on the froth of his nightly vifion, he accordingly repaired early next morning to the Nag'; Head. and aCtually found the flolen honk, which he hvnught to Mr. Green, and in terms of the hand bill demanded the twenty guineas reward. Mr. G. naturally fufpeCting tome flick in the mode by which the horfe was recovered. refuted to pay, and carried the man before the Magiftrate at Union Hall in the Borough. The mar. frill perfining in his Gory, and As there was no other proobrought forward to con t radirrt it, he was therefore difcharged, and, of murk, Mr. Green will be obliged to pay him tie reward. ' TO 711 E EDITOR OF THE STAR. Tuubridge, 02.)ber 6, :807. Ste—l hope you will net ceafe to rec .mmend, throirgh the channel of your Paper, A Public Sub fctiption, trr the Reled of the private individual fu& ferers at Copenhagen ; for, however politica' circnni• (lances might render necellary. :n froli , ic what has taken place,thers is not a humane perfon but mull fym• ;whiz: with the lufferers ; and 1 am confident a Pnb• lie Sublet iption, properly brought f watd f r their relief, would be lucceftltil beyond all fnmer ex t mple. Let a Committee be formed at Lt. .vn' , an.l the Subfcriptirm begun there, and let the faid C ,mmit tee recommend, by public A(lvertifement, a general fubfcriptior. at every Church and Chapel throughout the United Kingdom ; and let them arr.i , ot, by fur.h advertikment, a fet day when, it fh , arid ,ke place throughout the Ki ng d om , an d there i• not a doubt but a very large fum would be c , 0.1.:41cd by this ratans. Your's, &c. j. w. MARQUIS WELLESLEY. (No. IX.) Si R —The worth Oude and Nabob are, I d , übt nor, familiar to the generality of your Itesderc, in CI far as refpeets the accounts t f horrid cruelties Hoed to have been committed formerly by IVrtteasv HASTINGS, and more recently by the late Governor General of Britilh India. After the acquittal of the pet fecutel H tiling'', and the cnnfedion of even better info me • people, that they had been grolaly deceived by the ve. bilge of Burke and Shtridan on the filbjefts of IlAia lairs—it is certainly fomewhat furptKog, that a 13ti tifh Senate ihould again be compelled to li len to the fiSitious c'targes brought forward aga;nlt Inch a per fon as Marquis IVELLASLEY, of whole well known excellent chataiter and traidcendent abilities, as acknowledged by bt.th Houlea of Parliament, this nation Itands in fuch great need at the prefent cti• tical period. This too great willingnefs of try countrymen to pay attention to fabulous, and not to give credit to events which anually have occurred, plus me in mind of the following ttory A Midthipm4n, on his returs to England from the Red Sea, was alked by his Giaridmother wl.at be had teen there? when the younker, with gravity ob. ferved—that in taking up the anchor one 'rooming, they brought with it one of Pharaoh's chariot wheels, and fhottly afterwards an immenfe number of fish fl e w up on deck—when the o/d Lady, taking off her fpeetacles, nbfersed, young man I give you credit for the wheel coming up with the anchor, as we are in formed in the Bible that Pharaoh'. chariots were all 101 l in the Red Sea; but, as to fith flying, I defile you will never tell the fuch a ridicul• us dory again. In nearly a funilar way have many perions been gulled, by the fabulous glories amalgamated in the textile imagination of a Folkfinne, a Tut trm, and anonymous writers in newspapers, without refl:dting, or referring to extant records, whereby they would be convinced that a bale anion, in either public or private life, has never proceeded from a break fo generally acknowledged to be the feat of every manly virtue, by all, who at any period have been honoured by the friendfhip, or even the political acquaintance of the Mai qiiis Wellefley. The prefent Nabob of Oude is the perfnn defcribeti in Franklin',. Life of Shaw Aain, as being com pelled to leek protenion for many years in the Cum. pany's provinces, from the afccrtained fait bf his confpiring with others to poilon his own brother tl en on the throne ; unlike the generality of his count:). men, the ruling paffion of Saadut Ally is the melt fordid avarice, carried even to the extent of a&ing to participate with his own fervants in any little pre fent they had or might eventually obtain in flicking for another aft appointment in his own gift ; and, next to the pleafure or policy cf . accumulating riches, may be added, the mull cowardly apprelienlion f. r his own perfonal fafety. A cooliderable number of our troops have been fuhlidized ins Oude for the lag forty years, but, G. m the difficulty of crillening the revenue in the country adjacent to the Mahraua frontiers, the fublidy was generally in arrears, not naii.g to any fault of the prefent Nabob, or his predeceflors, but to the feudal Ipirit of independance of the principal land) olders, and their contempt of the ruling Poster at Lucknow. /Ns fyflematic nppofition was Itrengtloened by the intriguing fpirit of the French General Perrin, in the adjacent difiriet, who embraced every p ffible opportunity of augmeting the French Indian army in the upper part of Hindallan, by receiving every loldier who had either Wetted, or been ditcharged from the Britith army. To relieve the Nabob from the difficulty in reali. zing thie portion of his revenue, and at the fame time to keep in check the increafing influence r f French politics in this part of India, the Governor General fuggefled to the Nabob the proptilry of ceding to the Company the country adjacent to the Marhatta frontiers, the revenues whereat, agreeable to the fchedttle produced by the Nabob's Ministers, were barely equal to the amount of the fubfidy he had agreed by former treaties to pay. That the Nabob was anually benefited by the transfer is beyond any doubt, for although his pre deceffors were invariably poverty thicken, yet it is a well known authenticated fan, that within lour years after this ceffinn had taken place, the Nab 'b had anually in his treafury above five millions (telling of gold and filver btrllim, exclufive of jewels, &c. prin• cipally acquit ed fince this event, for which the Noble Sublen 01 thefe letters has been fo unjullly cenfured. From a variety of concurrent circumllat ces, fuch as the Nabob lending, in one Cum, 375,c001. Ilei ling, and fupplying, from his own liable, a fufficient r um ber of lonics to mount the Bth Regiment of Dragoons, it is reafonable to conclude, that the Nab. b did not confider hinsfelf inlined by the political meafures rf the government o Marquis WELLPILF Y, and his perfonal friendlhip was extended even to the delicate point of introducing the Noble Marquis into his own Zenana, or Seraglio. an honour never before (hewn by a native cf his exalted rank to any European whatfoever. PLAIN FACTS. A conliderable number t f workmen are again em ployed in cleating Fleet Ditch of the which has acc4mulated in it. They have made an opening to Mutton hill, and proceed by Saffron hill, Chick lane, Sec. to Fleet Matzke. PP • •1