Star. — London, England, 1811-09-17 00:00:00

. Covernor of COrdova, commanding a column of two thousand French, has been defeated by Brigadier bon P. Morillo v in Vallaneuva de Cardenes. • • From Cordoba they write, under date Of the /sth, that the whole of the Frencti force in that city, inclu ding the sick,,clid not exceed 7000 men ; but the/ say 10,000 more are expected. From Seville they write, that Qn the Skil the re maint of the 9th Corps of the French Army, under the 'command of Dronet, which anteriorly occupied EstreMadura, entered that city. AucysT 3.—Yesterday, at half-Past eleven in the :norning, Soult entered this city, accompanied by Montareo, Matte, and many other French offiFars, with 900 infantry and 500 horse. In the evening, troops of every 'description, with artillery, arrived from the Senaria de Ronda ; and with them came many families, from Malaga, who did not consider themselves.safe in their houses. It is said the garri son of Malaga is expected; id fact, some of the. excl.% with their equipages, enteied here. This morning Soult inspected tbe fortifications, and in consequence inereased.the garrison of Alhambra ; 62,000 reals are daily collected for Soult's expences, who intends levying a contribution in the same style as in Cordoba, where, in al few hours he collected 3,000,000. SiMilar exactions have taken place in all the towns through which the enemy passed. MADRID, The intelligence .from the frontiers respecting the entrance of troop; are much at varianee, although those the most to be relied upon assm, that if any detachments have entered, it was only those which some time back escorted Generals and mutilated sol diers to France. JULY 30.—These has been a contribution of 9+30,000 bushels of wheat, and 750,000 of barley, imposed upon the Provinces of Madri4. Toledo, Cuenca, Mancha, Avila, and Segovia. The entry and going out of troops from this city, in which there ire from four to 5000 men, still continues. CADIZ, AUGUST so. The day before yesterday anchored in this port the Spanish frigate El Comercio de Lima, from Callas, after a passage of II I days ; among other thing's she brings 332,902 dollars, and 1000 quintals of powder. This , iutelligence received by her respecting the public tranquillity and good dispositions of.the inhabitants of the new Royalty of Peru, are most satisfactory. We are assured that Soult has returned to Seville, and that He will proceed to France. On the 12th instant, was introduced to the Council of Regency, his Serene Highness the Prince of ')range, grandson of the Late Stadtholder of Holland, :nd nephew of the King of Prussia.—His Royal Higlene:ss was received with all the honours due to elevated sitnation. the object of the voyage of This young Prince, was to see Cadiz, the position of tie font Wand of Leon, and the works of our liness On the 11th, his Excellency the English Minister, vntertitned him with a ball and supper : and en the following day, his Serene Highness sailed for Portu gal, in the English corrtAte the Sabrina, the same in which he came here. ASTORGA, AUGUST 1. STAFF OF THE SIXTH ARMY, Our troops maintain their positions : they occupy • Astorga, Puente, Orbign, and Beneza. The enemy are in tw•o corps ; the one at Leon, the other at Va. larnanon : the latter has made a movement with a battalion upon Toral de los GuzmAns. .At the bridge of Castro Gonzala, they maintain another small The troops which occupied the line of Orbigo have advanced to Leon and Villamanan. The enemy, altrmed at this movement, have retiredfrom the Vir gen del Camino to rule city. CeST coops hale retired to their for mer position. The Lisbon Gazette of August 23, has given a translation of the Note addressed by the Hon. H. Wellesley to Don Eusebio Bardaxi y Azara, with The answer of the latter, and subjoined to them the fol lowing observations : . . ~. ••' • • • • awed and sontetinati.given law even to those who now would erase her from the list of pOwers: • - ' 4 But as these evil.disposed persons retain no sen timents of honour or virtue, no pity ought to be ex.. tended to• theme Men so corrupted can never be amended, and can only be corrected by the authority of j tistice. Nor . ought they by any means to be spared,. from the consideration that the number of these ma lignants rely small in comparison with that of good Spaniards; because a little leaven, if time be'allowed it, will soon leaven a large mass." • A malignant fever is stated to have broken out at Carthagernt, similar to that which proved such a scourge to that city last year. The accounts do not enter into details of its fatal consequences ; but; as a measure of precaution, the Governor had issued a proclamation, requiring all good citizens to remain quiet at their homes, until the state of the town, re• carding the fever, had been investigated ; and should , its contagion be established, the gates of the city would be shut, and every means taken to prevent its further progress. At Cadiz, as well as at Gibraltar, great alarm had been excited by this malady, and• measures of precaution were resorted to at both places. It having been reported to the Spanish Cortes that a number of British ships were under orders to pro ceed direct from the ports of that country to the Spa nish colonies of South America, the subject was lately brought into discussion, on a motion being made that such commerce should be legaVied under the sanction of a Decree of the Government. The de bate on this proposition was conducted with great ani -rnation by the disputants on both sides of the ques tion, during a very long sitting, in which all the de mands andpretensionsof England were asserted on the most liberal principles in support of the motion ; but at length the narrow policy of the Spaniards prevailed, and the measure was negatived by a great majority. —The party friendly to the best interests of the co lonies being thus disappointed, several resolutions were ' proposed, under which it was determined, that the duties on English goods which had been hitherto un reasonable and excessive on the transport to the colo. nits, should be considerably reduced, and that some articles which had been prohibited, should in future be allowed. In the course of the examination of the commercial relations of the two countries it was shewn, that the English, instead of being treated as allies, and 'as the most favoured nation, had in some respects, been discouraged mote than others, which had very inferior claims to indulgence from Spain. The re solutions were agreed to, but the proportion of the duties was reserved for consideration on a future day. The quantity of ordnance stores shipped within the last six months, and now shipping, by the Board of Ordnance, for Sicily aqd Malta, amounts to about five thousand tons. The arrival of SEBASTIAN( at Paris, is confirmed, but for what purpose, is held in mysterious silence.— ' Letters from Spain assert Besstear.s to have been re ' called, in consequence of his having evacuated the As tunas, contrary to the opinions of the other French Commanders. The Duke DEL Isms TARO has taken the Earl of liklatatessoar's house in Spring Gardens, for which • 'he is to pay 1400 guineas per annum rent. He hits also taken the adjoining house, late Lord riTZUER- Buis's, for his mother. The NYADEN frigate, Captain EPWORTII, Will sail ' shortly for Sicily. She takes out 210,000 dollars, and seven transports under convoy, with a reinforcement of troops on board, Merchant-ships bound to Cadiz and Gibraltar go under her prptection. The dis patches are expected to be ready on Friday next. Coy ENT-GARDEN.—Richard the Third was last night 'performed to a numerous and elegant audience. Mr. KEMBLE was the representative of the crooked-back tyrant, and his performance was of the most masterly description. All the other parts were well sup. ported, and the piece received great applause.— The PRINCE REGENT and the Duke of CUMBERLAND were present during the greater part of the perfor mance, in the private boxes. The House was quite crowded.. HAY-MARKET....-1/ Curefor the Heart-aclie,Ths Rival Soldier:, and A Day after the Wedding, were performed here last night. Mr. MuNDEN, and Mr.•.loats (an apo logy having been made for the absence of Mr. Eottsrox, , on account of a domestic misfortune) were exceedingly happy in Old and roung Ralsid, and the piece was alto gether well performed. Nothing could be imagined i more truly ludicrous and laughable than MUNDEN, in Nipper4in, in the interlude; the /louse was convulsed with laughter at . hia' peculiar drollery and truly comic humour ; and PArtit sung his airs with much taste and sweetness,,,, The Music •Meeting at Gloucester concluded on ' Thursday last. It was most numerously attended, and the performances of Sacred Music at the Cathedral, with the Concerts it; the eveninj proved most successful _ ir) - ~ We have to-day published two very important t-o — the Charity of Widows and Orphans of the poor 1 documents under the head Cadiz. By them our ! Clergy. The amount of contributions on the first day Readers will see the intimate friendship which subsists was aBl7B. 13s. 4.d. ; second day, £209. 13s. ; third ' between England and Spain, notwithstanding the en-' day, £363. 14s. 6d. making the total £752. Os. 10d. . deavours of a handful of rualignants sold to our creel being £142 more than was collected at the triennial Meeting of 1808. . oppressor : by them is established that fundamental i ' On Sunday night, the Bth instant, an alarming and political tryth with respect to both the nations of the • destructive fire was discovered in the house of Captain' Peninsula and England—that the Peninsula alone 1 JAMES BIM r, of Stebbon Heath Terrace, Salmon's ' cannot resist the invasion of the French Usurper, and Fields. The cause of the calamity has not been as. certained, and so sudden and rapid was the eonflagra. apt Entrland could not commit herself on the Conti- ; tion, ts it •,: as with much difficulty. the family escaped -nt without the great and cordial support of the wit r their li ves : Captain B. with the help of the bed- I ' 1 her nations engaged in, this struggle. : clothes, tied with a slip knot, lowered his wife, sister, " The three Powers compose a whole body, which ' and servant, two stories from the basement floor. , ar ; i cannot be disunited and separated without danger of DUSPF.RATE ATTACK OF FOUR . ICARS.—Satura ni i ght, about eleven o'clock, as Mr, Kilmarthen, of losing that concentration and amity of council and Piccadilly, was walking along the lower road, Dept- force which alone can conduct to a final triumph ; ford; near the Five Bells, be was attacked by four ' and is it possible that, in the midst of the blood of so foreigners (Lascar4 one of whom made a desperate many martyrs—in the midst of so many acts of he - slow at his breast with a sharp instrument, but fortu nately missed his mark; The other three then began i rokm which have enriched the annals of Spain from to maltreat him, by hitting him on the „bead with shelled of May, 1308, to the present time, there should bludgeons, at the same time uttering the most blas-'! !ie found persona so infamously base, as to think of phemous words. They then threw him down, and ' ' , :ellirtg at any price the fruit of so many sacrifices— two of them held him down, while the other two were '?re independence and honouratde name of their coon- employed in pilfering his breeches pockets, from, whence they took a black pocket-book, containing try ? And of what country ?—Of great and gene , cash and notes to the amount of £lO 17s. 6d. Some tmas Spaini which possesses in Europe a territory ' passengers com i ng by at the time, hearing Mr. K. Uncle less than that of Old France, besides the fin- crying out for help went to his assistance, bin in the mecca eOnntries of America, anal which has OF.r. mean time the villains made off. - ' • r_ . .~ . '', ,T . • , . , TIM COAILT, • THI4 11140. . . 66 WIND‘Ott tASTLV., Marro 11. $ The litkG contiottes in the Lime state. (Signed) 66 11. ILALFOXD. " IV+ lIRStRDEN. " R. WILLIS." ••••• tom. THE ARMY. • Friday, the 4th Reflation of the firct, or Royal Re giment of Foot, upwards of 1800 strong, commenced their march from Stirling, on their route to Mussel burgh, The Rnyal Lanarkshire Militia, upwards of 1000 men, landed it Belfast on Saturday se'nnight, from Scotland. first division of this regiment marched next day for Londonderry. The vote of a sum passed in Parliament, for the payment of Officers Widows' Pensions, last Session, was £51,530, which, at a drawback of oat shilling in the pound, which is the sum allowed to the Pay:nes . ter, by the warrant, makes the produce two Awned jive hundred and seventydevo itoun&, for the present year. ammaii•lbwialas OBaRVAINOXS ON TOR INOBANT APPEARANCE Op"rtiti engirt, saw. 'tease, ESQ. OP aorrits, tficnoisietitk. The brilliant appearance which the Cornet now makes ill 60 north, having etched the attention not only et the studtnts in Astronomy, but also that *of the public kt large, I h o pe it will direct many to the pursuit of that beautiful and interesting science ) 'for in this country, it mast be observed with regret, that it has not been of late cultivated with the ardour its imp , :rtance demands. The following observations on the Comet have been taken, at eight o'clock in the evening, according to the dates below : From the circumstance of my tieing, at present, irt. . a town where I cannot heed access to astronomical instruments, I arts under the necessity Of using a qua' drant of my awn construction I it is made of well-dried mahogany, and its radius is 14,1 inches, which gives nearly 3-10ths of an inch for a degree, I therefore flatter myself they are not very erroneous. Its situa• tion respecting the Right Ascention and{ Declination, being taken from Senex's 18-inch Celestial Globe, canonlytle regarded as an approximation) but at thew have been done with great care, they will s it is hoped, be found sutfic:cntly Correct to delineate tts apparent path in the heavens. SEPT. 7, 1811, eight o'clock In the everting, Boston, - 1 Lincolnshire, lat. 53° 1' N. long. 0° 5' E. ' Frans' the star oin Ursa Major • 14° o`. Ditto star y 15'15'. Right ascension 160°2(f. Declination 42° 30'. SEPT. 8.--. From the star 8 13° 30'. Ditto star y 15' 0. Right ascension 161° 3(e. Declination 4'2°45'. Sept. 9.—From the star gl 13° 15', Ditto s 14° 30%* Right ascension 162° o'. Declination 42°V. On the Bth and 9ththestar vo was seen through thetaiL SEPT. 10.—From the star p 13° o'. Ditto star y• • 13°15'. Right ascension 163°3(Y. Declination 45 . 15'.. . SEPT. 11.— From the star 7 lt).° 45'. Ditto star in the same constellation 8° (7. Right ascension 164 ° 50'. Declination 43°40% •. A line drawn from Cor Caroli to the star A in the foot of Ursa Major passed through the Cornet ; also one drawn from the star x, in the same constellation, to the star A in Draco, very nearly. SEPTEMBER l 2.—A cloudy night.• SEPTEMBER 13.—From the star y 12° 0. Ditto star x6° o'. Right Ascension 166° 40'. Declina. tion 43° 60'. A line drawn from.Cor Caroli to w in Una Major, 'and one drawn from through 40, in the same con. istellation, passed through the Comet. From the above it appears that the Comet sill pass through the neck of Asterion, about 5 ° below the star 7 in Ursa Major, which I have endeavoured to• spew in the diagram : that it also passed the ecliptic about the 25° of. Cancer. In a small table of Comets which have been observed, I find this account of those which pas . sed through Cancer in their perhelion. NAVAL INTELLICENCS. rAt.motrni, SEPTEMBER. 14i Arrived the Chichester packet with anotl'er Mail from Cadiz, in 11 days. The packet is pitt under quarantine for having boarded, about seven days since,. the Express packet, from the Mediterranean. The latter vessel has not yet arrived. A man of war brig is making for the hat hour, supposed to be the SHOOTER. TORBAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Put back the Lord Cochrane hired cutter, with the Sir Joseph Bauks transport, and remain with his Ma. jesty's ship Leopard.—Wind E.S.E. • PLYMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 15. • Arrived, the BtoomsouND gun.brig, from Fal. mouth ; and the DIANA frigate, from the coast of France. The KANGAROO, 18 guns, is in the Offing, from the westward ; but appears to be standing up Channel. PORTSMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 38. Arrived the ZEPHYR from Guernsey, and the PAR TRIDGE, with a convoy, from Plymouth.—Sailed the VAiscuarto for off Cherbourg, and the PYRAIIVS for the S.E. ORAL, SEPTEMBER 16. ' Arrived thelizaor.z sloop of war from off Bou logne, and the Inas cutter with dispatches from off Flushing. Arrived an American frigate ; particulars not known.—Wind E. YARMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 16. Arrived, the Braila sloop of war, Capt. TIIOII/1- gm, from a cruixe, and remains in the Roads with the BLAZER gun-brig. Yesterday, the MARS, TENtE RAIRE, and three other sail of the line, from the Bal tic, passed this port for the Downs.—Wind W. The Anne and Elizabeth, from Swansea to Dub lin, foundered at sea on the 2d inst.—Crew saved. NAVAL APPOINTAit NTS:Captain Bayntun, to the Royal So • vereign yarch; Captain Larcom to be Commissioner of the Navy at Malta; Captain Littlebales, to be Pay Comptroller at Ply mouth; Captain T. Well(, to the Phipps; LieutenantW. S. Key, to command the Alban cutter; I.ieutenant M•Donald, to com mand the British Fair cutter ; Lieutenants A. Houirain, to the San Josef; J. Sandys, Vo'age; M. Quarry, Berwick ; G. Beas ley, Abercrombie; W. Minton and hates Naven, Magnet ; M. Forster, Mermaid; B. Msunsell, Helder; R. 'Tyte, Glory; Colin Campbell, Leyden ; T. Packernall, Strombolo. Extract of the Journal of the Francis Freeling packet, BALL, arrived at Falmouth from Cadiz, in 2d'ilays Sailed from Cadiz, Sept. 4 —ln lat. 45. 32. long. et. 45. spoke the St. Fiorenzo frigate, from Lisbon, out 13 days, with wounded soldiers on board; the Mercury arrived the day previous to her sailing On the 7th, in lat. 49. 27. long. 3.2. spoke the Kan garoo : there were eight line of battle-ships, and one frigate in company. The Friends, timber-ship, arrived on Saturday at Plymouth from Quebec, In six weeks. She sailed in company with seven sail, the sth ult. but parted from them in a gale of wind. Another fleet was expected for England, which would sail as soon as any frigate I arrived to protect them. The Louts, of 36 guns. had sailed for Halifax, with the 41st regiment on board for that garrison. The PLUMPER gun-brig pass ed by the Ft lends, on her passage for Halifax. Ott Friday, a Court. Martial was held at Ports mouth on William Lashbrook, carpenter of his Ma jesty's ship Primrose, for repeated drunkenness, and for having burnt, or otherwise destroyed his working abstract, thereby delaying the equipment of the.sloop. He was sentenced to be dismissed his office, and to serve in such other situation as the Contmatider 7 in- Chief shall direct.—On the same day, .14An Aldus, a marine of the Venerable, for running away from the , boat, for making use of seditious and contemptuons words, and striking a midshipman, was sentenced to receive 200 lashes. Two shipwrights belonging to the dock-yard at Plymouth, being at work on board an old Spinish sloop of war, which is fitting for a receiving hulk, itt cutting away a piece of cieling plank, they found a bag of doubloons concealed, to the value of upwards of £5OO. 15511 Canc r. 20' ce . . The Henry transport, with 250 French deserters or. board, accompanied the RHIN frigate, which lately Arrived from Corunna, and was in so bad a state that she was towed nearly all the way by the frigate. ' ,Tuesday the French prisoners con fi ned in Portches ter Castle, were surprised in an attempt to escape from their confinement : it appears they had, on a former occasion, picked the lock of.an ancient dungeon, into which they had daily gone. and dug to a great depth ; upon detection, the dungeon was securely locked;, they had, however, contrived to dig out the outside of it, till they were enabled to get upder the foundation, and again commenced on the former bolo, and had proceeded so far, that but for the timely detection,' they would, in great numbers, have been enabled to • make their escape. Tuesday everting last, four of the French prisoners. on boiald his Majesty's prison ship Vigilante. made an unsuccessful attempt to escape, .Three of them were found in the wash-house of the ship, and the fourth in the-chains just as he was getting. intO the water to swim away. BREAD.—This day the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, after inspecting the Returns, ordered it tease 2d. per Peck Loaf. • - 1 5160 19 5 . 50 1061 - - 25 SS 40 1739 - 12 38 40 1744 9 41 45 1749 • 9 .9 24 1769 . IS 14 0 Is this the same cumet as appeared in 1661 I.:llS.st 111 A.lOll. Cl' v. i O . C O . 1..-.._ is i* R• , .~.. 7 . , 0* •06 •ttik,:. A. . • A • s;\ •.* • • W* II • . . . fo• r u.* Y.. "' , A* • .. ; - • The** are taken by supposirg a Pne to be dtawo tlrom the Comet to a poict diree•ty under the Ear. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Sin—ln your Paper of Friday last, it is said, that Mr. Nos of Congleton has pronounced, (from com putation, we must suppose,) that the comet now visi ble is the same as that which appeared in 1661. Now, the lovers of astronomy will be much obliged to Mr. PAGE for any information respecting the data upon which his calculations aile founded. There seems, however, a. great probability that it is the same as that which was seen in the years 1747, 1683, 1618, 1 1556, and 1299, answering to a period of revolution of 64. years nearly ; but it should have been visible about the years 1492, 1428, 1364., the three period between 1299 and 15:56 ; it. would therefore be dew able to ascertain whether any comets were noticed about these times, for which purpose, Pingre's large Work on Comets perhaps, or Lubienietski Theatruna Conieticum, are the best books to be consulted. Yours, &c. 2. L I Bow-terneer.—Andrecus and Hall, mentitinecl ;n ottr last, were yesterday brought up for examination:. Among the persons who preferred charges against them were :—Mr. Inman. a jeweller, nf the Strand Thomas Betteridge, the waiter at the Feathers pub:. 1 lic house, in Hand-court, Holborn ; Mr. Stephens, I a coffee-house keeper, in St: James's-street ; Mr. Brendell, of the 'Artichoke public house, at Black. wall ;an .1 Mr. Simpson, of Le.idenhall-creet. The Magistrates ailvi.ed all the parties to go to the Seth• sions holding, at Clerkenwell-green, and indict the priioners for conspiracies, Andrews st,:knowledged the drafts to be his hand-wt.:6'lg. He addressed the Mkgistrates at cdrsiderable length, and hoped that - blic prejud ed would not operate agaisiq him on 1 trial. Hall did not say any thing. They were ti n c . mitted to take their trial at the ; resent Session, aPini the' iitcfictrnent fouud against them 'last Febru. ary; by'Mr. Kende), ofthe St. Oleinent's 04de-house. Daniel Davit, a letter-carrier belonging to the Gene ral PostOffiie, in the neighboorho4d of Sgho, under. went an examination, charged with feloniously steal. lug a MO !Lank of t ngland note, front a letter sent • by Mr. Ji;lin Seholfield, of Liverpool, directed by him to Mr: Thompson Raine, a perfumer of King. street, thiiiiit.garden, :which did not come td hand, and it leis traced to the prisoner. He was fully committed for triat. . „ . . —-. '' - • t 1e440 1 ,: i .u. . F