Star. — London, England, 1809-01-10 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, JANUARY 10. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Consols for money 86,-11—for acck 66-1 67. k ,Otnnium 1/ dis.—Ezelieq. Bills Bs. pre. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. S per Cent. Red. 661 66 Imperial Annuities 71 3 per Cent. Cons. 641. ex. div. Omnium 1/ dis. 4 per Cent. 814 India Bonds, 75. 85. prem. 5 per Cent. Navy 9714 23. div. Ex. Bills, 6s. aB5 pre. Long Ann. 18 1-16th{ Cons. for open. 67 To the particulars which we yesterday laid before our Readers, respecting the retreat of the British Troops in Spain, we can add but little. But we have inserted in another column extracts from various let ter.;, received from Officers belonging to the army under the command of Sir JOUST Moosr, which am plify, a little, some of the particulars already stated re specting the various skirmishes which our cavalry have had with the enemy. Ihe infantry had not had any opportunity of trying their strength with the enemy, at the time the retreat commenced. Our Readers may form some opinion respecting the circumstances under which the retreat was to be effected, from a short descrißtion of the situation of the army. There are two passes, by one or other of which they will probably retreat : the one within a fecal eagues of Astorga, between Ponferrada•and Villa Franca on the Leonese frontier ; the other at Mon forte, in the interior of Gallicia, seated on the Minho. ' Both these defiles make a conspicuous figure in the history of Spain during the occupation of that country by the Saracens. While the Moorish horse, invincible in battle, stretched their squadrons over the immense plains of Leon, these passes presented an insur mountable barrier which protected the coast from the borders of Portugal to the northern extremity of the Peninsula. To these situations we can entertain no doubt our countrymen will be eagerly followed by the enemy, but here a few thou , ands will be competent to resist very superior numbers ; and if the French should persist in endeavouring to force them, they are not likely to effect their purpose without great loss. From the acknowledged skill of the Commander in Chief, and the tried valour of the troops, there is every reason to hope that the army will be able to ex tricate itself from its present difficult and perilous situ. ation ; and though it may not be in our power to carry from the field many trophies of victory, it will at least be matter of no small consolation, if, in the face of an enemy so superior in numbers, it can at once maintain its honour and ensure its safety. The former retreat of our troops caused much com plaint on the part of the Spaniards ; and, if we may creditietters that have been received from Corunna, they are equally indignant at the present one. One letter which we have seen states, that they had strongly remonstrated against the movement, and absolutely refused to afford to our troops any facilities for ac complishing it. The same letter states that this was the principal reason for Captain WYNDHAM coming home with the dispatches, that he might inform Mi nisters, verbally, of all the particuiars necessary to be communicated. - From letters which we have this day receried - Gibraltar, we are inclined to believe, that in the southern Provinces of Spain, the spirit of patriotism is much higher, and of a more decided character than it has shewn itself in the North. A letter of the 25th ult. from that Garrison, states, " That the part of Spain where our army is, has never from the beginning of the struggle, shewn 4 , any enthusiasm in the cause. The inhabitantiof the " North always have been reckoned the most unfit for " soldiers of any part of Spain. The most warlike and 4 , populous provinces are those of Andalusia, Valencia, a Catalonia, and Arrawm ; and to these our supplies 4S rif men, money and warlike stores, should have been ~ directed. Andalusia has received some supplies, but the other three just named appear to have been en -44 tirely neglected, excepting the scanty supplies which " could be spared from Gibraltar, and a vessel with ten ~ thousand stand of arms on board, which arrived on 44 the 23d December, bound for Valencia and Cata 4, lonia. If, instead of ten thousand there had been 44 sent one hundred thousand muskets, much might 4 , have been done ; as the spirit, or rather the fury, 4 , which prevails in these provinces against the French, 4 , exceeds all description Before they are conquered, if liey are to be conquered, the world will hear of 4 ‘ many defences as brave as that of Saragossa, and 44 of deeds of valour equal to any that have ever been 46 recorded in the annals of Spain." Sl'ould the above prove correct (and we can assure our Readers that we have the first authority for al the accounts from Gibraltar which first appear in the STAR), we may yet hope great things from ete bravery of the Spaniards in the Southern Pro vinces. Let them experience no want of necessa ries for the conflict—and, if British troops are to be employed in the conflict, let them be carried to a quarter where they may expect the co-operation of the people whose cause they are to vindicate. By way of Gibraltar we have also received letter. from Cadiz, of the 21st ult. They state that on the preceding evening, the post from Seville had come in, and had brought intelligence that Mr. FRERE and , k had arrived there. This news, we believe, will prove correct ; but the other particulars stated in the letters that have reached us are as absurd and unfound- I ed as the accounts that seem to have circulated throughout the peninsula. that Madrid continued to defend itsel but that all the troops had been sent the armies ; that the Marquis de la R bead of 60,000 men and accompanied army under Sir JOHN Moon, was on his march to the capital, &c. &c. What ought we to think of the circulation of such nonsense ? Is this the way to prepare the people for the defence of their towns and possessions?—Keeping them in ignorance of the accumulating dangers which are pressing upon them ! This fault does not lay with the public press, but must be imputed to a high sanction—or to the most culpable ignorance and stupidity ; for the press, one of the noblest auxiliaries of liberty, has been put under a most blameable restraint by the enlightened directors of the affairs of the Patriots ! Quem Deus vult perdere, prius dementat. IMHOF OF Mir* find that, in reporting what puled Court of King's Bench, for setting on the ground that the ceremony / a Popish Priest, and is stating the Lord ELLIDI3OIIIOCGII, that this in it affect the marriage, as the validity of Popish orders was admitted in our church, and as there was at this time a Protestant Bishop in Ireland., who never hid any orders but those of a Popish Priest; we were under an error when we mentioned the pre. sent BISHOP of MEATH as the Prelate whom we sup posed his Lordship to have in view. We now have authority to say, that Doctor O'BEIRNE never did receive orders in the Church of Rome ; that, as soon as he was of the canonical age to be ordained, he re ceived, first Deacon's and then Priest's orders, from Dr. HINCHLIFFE, Bishop of Peterborough, in the Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge, the proofs of which are in the registry of that diocese ; as the proofs of his matrici_ Ltion and being a graduate in the University of Cambridge, and of his claiming his standing of B. D. there, in order to be admitted to the degree of D. D. which he holds in Trinity Col lege, Dublin, are to be found in the records of those Universities. We further have authority to say, that, very shortly after receiving Priest's orders, he was presented to the vicarage of Grendon, in the diocese of Peterbo rough, belonging to Trinity College, Cambridge, which vicarage he held until he was presented by Lord Chancellor THUIRLOW to the living of West ) Deeping, in the diocese of Lincoln, and that after wards, and while Chaplain to the King, he held in succession the livings of Whittingham and Stamford ' ham, in the diocese of Durham, and of Temple-Mi chael and Mohill, in Ireland; having thus received the same professional eLl7.eation, been admitted to the same professional_ tiegreeg in our Universities, and risen through the same gradations with every Bishop in the United Church to his seat on the Bench. We have ever been most careful to exclude from the STAR whatever might hurt the feelings, or reflect on the character of art individual: but we wish to be particularly cautious to preserve this purity of our Paper, where the individual could not be misrepre sented without involving a consideration affecting the public, which, in the present circumstances of Ireland, we are assured is to be apprehended from an imputa.' tion on a Prelate of the Established Church, that must lessen his influence and counteract his exertions in the discharge of his important duties, by prejudicing the Protestants of that country against him, and lessening bim in the estimation of his own Clergy, while at the same time it renders him odious to the Catholics. We are therefore happy in saying, on the best au thority, that the imputation of having received orders in the Church of Rome, cannot apply to the present Bishop of MEATH. We seize with pleasure the op portunity of cluing justice to a learned, amiable, and exemplary character. The 4th Heavy Dragoons are assemblirg at Arun del, preparatory to their embarkation for Spain. The first division of the 84th regiment of foot, lately stationed at Hull, went across the Humber on Wednesday, on their route for Colchester Barracks. The second division was to have followed early next day, and the baggag e belonging to it was sent on board the horse boat, in the Ferry Dock, on the after noon of Wednesday ; but, owing to the violence of the storm, the boat sunk in the night. A great part of the baggage had previously been taken out, but a considerable quantity went down in her. The Wahingham packet, .the first that sailed for the Brazils, is returned to Falmouth. The news she brings is, that the glut of British goods is so great in that quarter, that they may be bought there cheaper than at the English manufactories. UtPANDWICH hired lugger has had a very despe rate action — were French coast, with a French lugger of superior force ; which, at the end of a two-hours conflict, sheered off, with her decks covered with dead bodies : and the Sandwich being a dull sailer, was unable to overtake her. The Lieutenant com manding the Sandwich, and Mr. PHILLIPS the Master, were severely wounded ; Mr. Robert Jago, a pas senger on board, was killed ; Matthew Clark, wounded in the shoulder; Mr. Tool, a musket-ball through his leg ; John Moffatt, a ball in his arm and one fin ger shot off ; and ten others badly wounded. Upwards of 3000 poor persons, in the neighbour hood of Blenheim, partook last week of the annual bounty of the Duke of MARLDOROUGH. Her Grace, at the same time, distributed her customary donation among the poor widows and married women at Woodstock. _ _ Another Tax Collector, at the West-end of the town, is said to have been discovered to be minus several thousand pounds. The Bank notes of which ALEXANDER COWIE was robbed between Banff and Aberdeen, as formerly mentioned, have been recovered. Thursday week in the evening, at Thornaby, near Stockton, as GEORGE Ht7rroN, Esq. of turf celebrity, was returning home, in crossing a small bridge over flowed with water, he unfortunately fell from his horse aid was drowned. A woman corning to Hull last week, in order to have a tooth pulled out, brought along with her an iufant child, about three months old, which she had wrapped closely up and laid upon her bosom to pre serve it from the intense cold. On reaching the sur geon's house, he uncovered the child, when, lament able to relate ! it was found to be lifeless ; having, we understand, unfortunately, been smothered, in consequence of the too great caution she had used to ,pr event its suffering by the inclemency of the weather. Thursday last, as 14 men were at work at Dow ,gate chalk-pit, near Welling, Bucks, which is 100 'feet deep, an impending cliff gave way, and buried seven of them, with two carts and four horses. Three of them were dug out the same day, two of whom were unhurt, and the third dead ; as three others were, in the course of the night, one of whom died ' afterwards. ;he seventh protected by a cart, was unhurt.—The horses were rendered useless. A singular funeral procession took place on Fri °.day last, from Brick -street, May-fair, to South Aud. ley-street Burying-ground, of a lamplighter, follcWed by 60 of his fraternity, in white woollen jackets, one leaclirl on the proseuien with a lamp before him re- Yrne been rurally AISJ They state If on the 18th, We are sorry to from it-to in join an a trial the C aside a marriage, LOMANA, at the was performed by by the British opinion given by I n his march to self could not afi AMERICAN PApERS. _ By the Chesterfield packet, arrived at Falmouth, from New York, we have received New York and other American papers to the 14th December. These papers are mostly filled with debates in the American Congress on the subject of the embargo the subject seems to have been entered into at great length by the American Legislature, and k was finally ,alecided, by a great majority, that the embargo should be continued. Among the Official Documents contained in the American Papers are Memorials ar Remonstrances from several of the Unitzd States, praying a repeal of the Embargo ; but the most important article they contain is a voluminous report from Mr. CAMPBELL, the. Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, on the subject of the foreign relations of America, in which he distinctly recommends not only the con tinuation of the Embargo, but the passing of a Non intercourse Bill against Great Britain and France. Private letters and passengers from America by the Chesterfield state, that no prospect whatever is entertained of a relaxation of the prohibitory measures igainst British Commerce ; that Mr. MADDISON'S fr ends were sure of his being elected President, and that a non-intercourse Bill would be one of the first measures of his Administration. The popular feeling seems to be still hostile to this line of policy, but it seems to have been moderated since the publication of the Debates in Congress. A report is given in the American Papers as having been brought by a vessel from the Harannah, which states that the Governor of Mexico had been seized by the people, in consequence of his refusing to declare for FERDINAND the Vllth. We are sorry to state that the yellow fever has broken out in Barbadoes, Martinique, and others of the West India islands ; and the American papers describe it as having proved particularly fatal to Americans and Europeans. Our Readers will find, in another part of this Paper, such further extracts from these papers, as our Lime and limits would allow us to give. terday a Cabinet Council was held at the To ..eign Office,. which was attended by the Duke of Po*-Ti..1443, Earl CAMDEN, Mr. CANNING, Lord CASTLE- REA(fI, Mr. sat from three till after five o'clock. On Saturday her Royal Highness the Princess Ch+trlotte of WArbs entered into her 14th year. The LORD C NCELLOR, Mr.Seeretary.CANNlNG, Lord and Lad y C AST LER F IGlf, Mr:and Mrs.PeitozvAL, &c. went down to Blackheath, and congratulated her Royal Highness the Princess of WALEs upon the event.— They were there met by the Duchess of BRUNS WICK and a few friends, whom the Princess of WALES had invited to dinner for the purpose of celebrating the day. Tea, cards, and supper followed, and the whole of the entertainment was not concluded till a late hour. The houses of the Royal tradesmen were illuminated as usual upon the occasion. Yesterday the CITANCELLOR of the EXCIIEQUER gave a splendid dinner at his house in Downing -street, to Sir JOHN and Lady Isltcnou, General RosE, Mr. HUSKI%ON, Mr. S MIMES BOURNE, Mr. STEVhN, Dr. limits, Mr. WILSON, and Mr. ettEwE. Lord MELVILLE arrived at Wimbledon from Scot land on Saturday morning. Lord AMHERST is not expected to leave England, upon his Embassy to Sicily, till the latter end of this month, or beginning of next. Captain StltainGE is appointed Comptroller of Pay ments afloat at Portsmouth, in the room of Captain GARRETT, who is appointed Superintendant of the Victualling Department at Deptford. HAYMARKET THEATRZ.—Last night the Tragedy of The Revenge was performed, in which Mr. YOUNG appeared in the character of Zanga. He supported the part throughout with great energy and effect, and received deserved applause. Mr. C. KEMBLE t as Alonzo, and Miss NouToN, as Leonora, were very re spectable. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.--The new Play of Man and Wife, repeated last night to a well-filled and fashionable house. A monstrous row in the gallery prevented the fourth Act from being heard. We en vied those who sat in the front of the pit. The inter nal police of a Theatre is in the hands of the audience, and should be resolutely maintained.—RobiluonCrusoe, we think, is not so well performed as it was some years ago, although the pantomimic branch of the Theatre is naturally much improved, since plays are more attended by spectators than by hearers. The last scene of the Pantomime is one of the best we ever saw ; butlast night one of the wings did not readily, 1y into its pace. BREAM—There being no Court of Aldeqnen held to-day, the Lord MAYOR, after inspecfng the returns, ordet ed it to fall 3d. per peck loaf. NAUTICAL INTELLIGENIII. F A OLMOUTH, JANUARY 7. Arrived the j'ILCHARD schooner, from a mite ; and Ile' Chesterfield packet, with mail* *flu New York, in 2S days.—Wind S. S.W. PORTSMOUTH, JANUARY a., ._ 1 ~i s Anved the HisnastA, Sir CHARLES COTTON, frost Lisle**, lad the MLLPOMIHr i from the West-Indi et; •,. Mtkourroar, from Halifax ; and the Rosina, Nana, from New Brunswick, with timber. Sailed his-Mkjesty's ships Autantz and CHALLENGER ) with a convoy for the Downs. His Majesty's ship bus sailed this morning for Lisbon, but has brought up at St. Helen's.—Wind N.W. PLYMOUTH DOCK, JANUARY 7. ' It last m ht blew a most tremendous hurri cane , which' ton' 14 Mthout intermissidn ' till' dayligh t this ulOrniti ; tcrlnipanied with a heavy relit.. Se ve . t ral gunrof isirtis were repeatedly fired during th e nighilkoreseveril vessels in the Sound, and between the Island - and - the Main : the most prompt assistance was afforded them, and I am hippy to state, they rode out the gale without dtiving on shore, although several have sustaiited material damagein the loss of .. anchors, cables, 'Lk& ' . ' - The Di,aira, whose siirival, I .noticed in my last, states that Sir SAMUEL Hoop - had arrived at Vigo, in , the ZSALOUS,' 74, and shifted' his flag to the BAR. FLEUR, 98.—The DIANA left the following ships, vi; :—BAarLzua, 98, Admiral Sir S. HOOD; VILLE DE PARIS, 110, Captain CARDEN ; VICTORY, 100 ; Captain Ultima. ; • IMPLAGAILLE > 74; Captain MAR. TIN ; ALFRED, 74, Captain BLIGN ELIZARETIf > 74, Honourable Captain CURZON ; Enniatron, 40, Ho. nourable Captain CAPEL ; PALLAS, 32, Honourable Captain SEYMOUR ; MINERVA, 32, Captain HawaiNs; MEDIATOR. 36, Captain BLAMEY ; HINDOSTAN store• ship, 50, Captain PASCOE ; two sloops of war, and about 200 sail of transports; which were waiting there in order to be employed as einturnstanceb might require. Captain BAKER, his officers, and about /50 of the crew of theJUPITEN which struck on a sunken rock while working into Vigo, and was wrecked, have arrived in the DIANA. JANUARY B.—The PEACOCK, Captain PEAKE, which arrived here yesterday, came from Lisbon, and was ten days on her passage ; consequently brings no news of a later date than what has been already re. ceived. It has blown a tremendous gale ever since four o'clock this morning ; it is now (five P. M.) rather abated, but there is a very heavy swell and surf in the Sound. About two this afternoon, the DIANA frigate, Cap tain GRANT, broke from her moorings in frig ate, and drifted close on the rocks at Devil's' Point ; guns were immediately fired by the DIANA, and signals for a 'hin in distress were hoisted on board the SALVADOR DEL MUSD° ; and notwithstanding the heavy sea, a number of boats put off to her assistance, and by their exertions she was happily brought up without receiving any material damage, and anchored near half a mile from the shore. Two brigs also drifted close to a ledge of rocks off Drake's Island, but were fortunately brought to before they struck. An ordnance transport sailed this afternoon,during the gale, with st,ores, for Torbay. DEAL, JANUARY 9. Arrived the GALLANT gun-brig, from the Nore ; Foams gun-brig, from a cruize, off Ostelel ; Royal Escape lighter and Findon hired sloop, from Dept ford. Arrived also the Union homeward-bound East India ship, from Portsmouth, (where she was blown in the late northerly ales) and sailed through for the River. Sailed the ThItASITLIt and INDIGNANT gun brigs on a cruize off Boulogne. Arrived from the River the Honourable East India Company's ships, Lord Melville, True Briton, Scalesby Castle, Cuff nells and Cumberland.—Sailed the COADY-14A sloop, on a cruize off Havre. • In the Downs—Princess of Orange, Venerable, Bombay, Christian VII. Hero, Invincible, Illustrieue, Leviathan, Warspiß, Defence, Agincourt, Blake, Trusty, Clyde, Fisgard, Iphigenia, Pandora, Bella, Calligx, Britomart, Hy, Crocus, Kangaroo, Trompeter, Bustard, Peruvian, Fearlen, Gallant, Furious, Exer tion, kindon hired sloop, Royal Escape lighter, Lord hlelville, True Briton, Scalesby Castle, Cu!rattle, and Cumberland ; with a number of Otrreard-bound vessels. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. The Wolf, for the Ann, recaptured, and the Venprra, cap tured May 1, 1808, Will be paid en Saturday next, at No. 11, Cecil-stree, and there recalled. The Roebuck, for the Anna Sophia, captured April IS, 1806, will be paid on board on Friday next, and recalled at No. 12, Leadenhall-street, on Thursdays and Fridays. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. GRAVES TN,. lAN. IV—Sailed the Comet, Hutto., for the Bra. zils ; Dart, Patterson, foe Madeira ; Ann, Bolton, and the Diaca, Wylie, for Sligo. A fleet from the Baltic is arrived off the Humber. The Thais, with a fleet under convoy, from Portsmouth, ar rived at Rio Janeiro, on the 17th of October. The General Wentworth, Swan, of Liverpool, bound to Gre nada, has been on shore near Dublin, but got off. The Diligent transport has grou nded in Margate Roads, 2:d received damage. The Horatio, Clark, from London for Ltescpool, is lost on Savle Sand. The Magdalene, WAllister, from St. U 1 Nei IMt Gottenburgh, is lost at the mcerh of the Tees. The Hannah and John, Baker, froni Shoreham for Cork, is on shore near Penzance. The Ant, Sangster, from London for Cadiz, has put intoYigO, dismasted. The Crawford, Harrison, from Liverpool for Gibraltar and Allan; was captured on the 29th ult. by a Freud, privateer — since recaptured by the mate, and brought into Penzance., The Lightning, Captain oyle carried into the Cape of Good Hope, on the 20th of October, tl2O Dutch armed ship Hoop, of guns and 74 men, Captain Meyer, laden with naval and military stores, from the Tezel, bound to Batavia. The George, Miles, is arrived in the Downs, from St. Tho mas's ; parted from the fleet 27th November, in lat. 30. 50. 1 0ng. 61. 12. 1 in a gale at N.W. On the 12th Decem ber she experienced a dreadful gale at N.W. When the gale was over, Calk Miles saw a ship tllsnsasted: spoke the btig George, from Quebec ; she itsd lost her maintopatast and sails, and one of bar anchors was washed overboard: fell in with the Bellona man of war in soun dlogs, with two ships from Halifax in company. On the 6th, spoke the Royal Edward, from Demerara, very leaky; she had parted from the fleet the 30th November. The Master of the Royal Edward informed,' that several of the fleet bad sustained much damage. The Commodore was very leaky, and a brig had foundered., The Monticelle, which arrived yesterday from Lima, about a fortnight ago, fell in with the wreck of a ship. which, being laden with timber, was prevented from sinking. There was only one man alive on board, out of eleven that composed her crew, and , shocking to relate, this wretched beipg had preserved his existence by feeding on the bodies of his comrades. He had beer upwards of forty days upon the wreck.