Star. — London, England, 1811-10-28 00:00:00

i "1z • • • • RP.GENCY THEATRE, .. • ' TotemtWArti.STS En, WITT Ft; Ii A M-Cn ti ItT-lta AD. rreITHIS EVENG and TO-MORROW, will be DI presented; the lavouthe Burkett, fr,.m the celebrated' THE BEGGARS' OPERA. Captain Mecbeath, Mr. Mardess ; Peackum, Mr. I.ewb ; Lockir, Mr. Perseus ; Pilch, Mr. Her ring. Pr.ity, Mrs. 3arratt ; lirg. Per.ehum, Mrs Parkinson; Lucy, ]Mire. Green. In Act 3, a Double Hornpipe in Ferrer% by Mr. Weit. end Miss Green, from the Theatre Royal, Dublin, her first appear ance on this stage. Ta which will be added, a new pullets, Crain the admired Entertainment of TWO STRINGS'TO YOUR BOW. Don ?earn, Mr. Merry; Don Sancho, Mr. Gibbs; Ferdinaod. Mr. Haugh4on ; Octavio, Mr. Green ; Boracbio, Mr. Porteua ; Lazaritto, Mr. erring,. Clara, Mrs.Greea ; Leonora, Mrs, Pryce. 13eor.r, to be open at half-'past fie, and begin at half-past six. r. se - _ l ST — Cii. T. . On Lord IV. Benthick's arrival, the Merchants prepared a l'etition to his Lordship, enumerating the grievances under which they laboured, and nearly the same in substance as that presented to the Board of Trade, but concluding as follows : " We arc paying unequal and exorbitant duties— we are every, day under apprehensions that fresh re quisitions and contributions Will be imposed on our persons and property ; even our property landed for reshipment, under assurances that no tax should be enacted oesit—neutral vessels carrying British Been= ces are pirated and condemned to the Crown—our , flag is insulted by a Police Officer, and by the Di. recur of the Customs ; our Consul is treated with outrage and indignity ; our legal claims on Sicilian debtor . , nay, on this Sicilian Government, are wasted year after year thi otigh corrupt practices, in the of, ices of the Government ; even in questions between s British subjects sse arc interdicted ; a reference to our Consul and his award is invalidated. The British Consular authority is at all tittles regarded with con. tempt, and at all times treated with indignity." In another Petition to Lord W. Bentinck, they so licit the " restoration of Mr. Fagan to the full and ample exercise of his Consular functions, and if in his Lordship's wisdom it shall seem just to direct the Government of his Sicilian Majesty, immediately to accredit dins as his Britannic Majesty's Consul for Sicily." From our private correspondence we learn that an offer was made by the Court of Palermo, to reinstate Mr. Fagan in his Consular powers ; but that Gentle. Man reined to accede to a simple recognition, alledg. in that as the affront was most public, so also should be the reparation ; and that attended by the punish ment of dismissal of certain agents, who were active in, the affair and are notorious for their enmity to the. British interests. We have annexed, from our private correspon dents, such extracts as appeared of most interest : • ]![TRACT or A LETTER, DATED PALERMO, sue. 24. " The Court has decidedly rejected the demands of Lord W. Bentinck, who has given it .t specified time to determine on a final answer. These demands ? Which are said to have been consequent on the,clecla 7 ration by the Queen, referred to the removal of ten thousaniLpf the Sicilian troops to Spain, and the gar 7 tf :1• 01 1of Palermo by British troops. The manner in which his excellency, Lord W. Bentinck, received the petition of the Merchants, gives hopes of obtaining cdnaplete redraw. • His Lordship, however, cantinas/4 • them to avoid in discourse a certain freedom of speech that it nglishmen indulge.wherever they buy be, and - which is immediately communicated to the ----•- by lwr , numetous spies. - f. 4 Its excellency's fi rmness appears to embarrass end frighten this Court : the —#- 7 . has been heard to declare that the English bad sent to her a'44 hard - . hOaded German Corporal, who would- not listen' . to reason I" This declaration gives us reason to hope s that at length we shall obtain redress. In order to be well is public estimation here, it is abSolutely neces sary to be at enmity with this Court, so universally 1 is it detested ; and you may rest assured, that had not Sir John Stuart been considered as its-principal opponent, he would have lacked that cordial co-ope ration of the Sicilian peasantry in the neighbourhood of Messina that was manifested on the invasion of the m French. Our Sovereign's speech to Parliament en - of his Sicilian Majesty's ioices ; _ how can they convey any tre: their contests in the Faro. The uncomplimentary fact is, that the defend the passage of the Fare by 1 the miserable pay of the equi , not to speak of her having ilian troops from that part of i to the British Commander the i of a regiment of cavalry ! The ving represented their destitute Stuart, they were taken into Bri - our comnrand, for downright LETTER Or THE 26 . ru axons. between the British Minister iderstood to be of the last impor. crests and claims, whether regard- i political, or commercial point of 4 that every demand has hitherto the French party here is so ..he can be expected. Unless provided with powers to act in ultimate refusal, our.situation in the '; critical. Izette of the 31st of July contains shape of a contradiction of a ish agents here were instrumen of the five Nobles ; the lan c4ph has given the highest offence Was riot allowed to be exposed in the Releemo Gazette of the • The 4risation caused by this puhlication, which is here Asideroi o'iScial, is more than I Can express to you ; swy of the gronget partisans 0f titre French save in consequence chalked 'idea,. and.' as warmly -"used tke (Muse of the Otitis!). I havp of vii;ooss44 l it effects among the 'no. as stire "oil s drat oothing but the s by'cairiScipereigrt con4l 4/hig ~...----- • and • • ion a lagre' e tioned the assistance of I this is in fact trite—but 1 dit to this Court by 010 plain, unadorned, uncor Ousert'prepared to defen *reduction of 1.3 d of 111 page of her gunboats, I ►, 'withdrawn all the Sicilia 1t . 4 . 15'` . 1 k. the island, and refused t assistance he required of Z . id the bitat Navin! 4. • 1 1 ft to Sir John Stu ti pa T . , and under or charity," !rr ? x,.treacr pF ANOTHER 1,11 • i"che negociations t pie -this Court are under v : 4 14 . ,; . t ' ce to (=lust tittcrest! . . .',. . ed in a mi . ..-ary, puliti view. It is' believed tha been resisted: indeed 11 , strong that nothing els . , t•.. 4 . , Lord W. Bentinck be pi 1 —II the event of an ultimate' ielead will he extremely • 4 4 The Messina Gazeti i . i cilKieus article n the s Itpoyt, that the English tal to the banishment i '• guage of this paragraph 1 i ro the ,Court ; and it w 1 . kit public, till replied to 1 .sth inseant. • 6 , Thasknsation cans is here cAtictert4 otcn to you; trukuy of the sir have in consequence ch 'd . ......•••.•••••m••••••••••••••• - . . . . • . • 4' • \' dlltifr `o Aecontit of the-action mat Don Jose Rondtau. . • . • , 11eia4 MOOT EXCIILLIINT '... enemy for so many They never made their but in small parties, ~ paces from their retreat, tion, on seeing a tew pat advance. Such is their in consequence of the nt have received, that I had persuaded myself they were about to submit in their prison toalie conditions which this brave army, capable of any enterprise, might choose to impose upon thern ; when, on the 22d, their chiefs persecuted with the clamours of the inhabitants, in consequence of the damage which they sustained from the battery placed on the sand bank close 40 the shore, collected all their feeble resources, and made a last effort to destroy the battery. About seven in the morning more than 350 men sallied out of the fortress, while one gun boat, and nine launches, mounted with some 8, 12, and 18- pounders, approached our battery by the buoy. The greater part of the enemy's troops took a post a little in advance of Londigo, on the road of the Cordon, some hundred pacts from the walls, while about 100 men marched by the beach, in the direction of the chapel of Carmen en lay Aguada, sheaving their be-1 lief, that the fire of their launches, which they thought irresistible, would oblige us to abandon the batteryo when those posted at the said chapel 'night throw n , themselves upon it, and at least spike our two cannon. much at their ease, under cover of the fire of theist boats. While these contemptible mercenaries were taking the first steps in execution of their plan, I: moved the brave native infantry to the positions which I had fixed upon, as well for protecting the battery, as to put to rout, as usual, the enemy who was so much in our vicinity. D. Jose Artigas, Ge neral of Cavalry, took similar dispositions with his brave patriots. As soon as the ten boats above-mentioned had for med themselves in line, within half cannon-shot, they opened a horrible fire, assisted by two 21-pounders, which they had placed on a height on the north side of the battery, with the whole of their guns in the ci tadel, and two howitzers which they placed without the gate of St. Pedro ; and upon the whole they opened a fire of 23 pieces upon the battery alone ; but our battery withjits two pieces of artillery made a gallant resistance, and warm reply with balls and chain-shot, for two hours and a half, during which the attack lasted, in spite of the cloud of balls which, I enveloped our brave artillerymen. The authorities of the fortress, seeing the inutility of their attempt, and the damage sustained by their boats—for they, as well as the hulk of the pre I . 'cliced and obstinate inhabitants, viewed the whole from the heights, and knowing, besides, the irresistible power of the battery, from the advantageous position, as well as from the valour of those who served it, which was also supported by two 4-pounders, which I or dered to be placed on its right and left lank—gave I the signal for a retreat, which was that of hoisting the royal lag upon the church steeple, which both) the sea and land forces promptly obeyed, and is a mo ment they disappeared. Upon this I ordered the infantry to retire to.thair centenarians, which they did with regret at their dot . having fired a single musket, for the enemy gave them no opportunity : the patriotic cavalry did the same after a slight skirmish with those who had ad vanced towards the Cordon ; in which, however, no other accident occurred but the wounding of a single horse. Upon the whole r it is a very singular and almost miraculous truth, bf which I have to inform your Ex cellency, namely, that of the corps of artillery, with whom the chief glory of this day rested--there was not one man wounded : the whole army, and the multitude of people who witnessed the action, can • bear testimony to this truth. [Here follow a variety of encomiums, which the General bestows upon seve ral of his officers ; and among others, upon the Eng lish merchant Don Roberto Billinghurst, First Adju tant, who was appointed to command the train of flying artillery of the van guard, in the room of Dor Santiago Walcaide, confined by sickness.] Such has been the result of the glorious action of the 12d, which, with the greatest satisfaction, I have the honour to communicate to your Excellency. May Gon preserve your Excellency many years. (Signed) Jean EMMA. To the Junta of Government of the Provinces ef the River Plata Extract of a letter from Monte Video, dated Au , gust 2, 1811.- 4 , I am still detained here, much against my will. 'My heart is at Buenos Ayres, where I most anxious ly wish to be. There* man may enjoya little fiber ty of thought, speech, and action ; here it is the re. iverse, which feels very strange to Englishmen,acens tomed to the freedom of their own country. " In the List two months, the Buenos Ayres army have besieged this place, consisting of from 3 to 5000 men; about 15(X) of them, detachments from the Pa. trkios, Ansibenes, Ste. corps; and the rest country people, armed with swords, knives, and pikes. Their head-quarters are about five miles from the town, and visible from the walls. They frequently march in irregular bodies of cavalry and infantry, within range of the guns, and attack small parties sent out to forage. No great number of lives has been lost by either party. 4 4 A few day, ago they mooted is battery of 2 guns about a mile . and * bttlf from the town, and coat. menced a very smart firing on the shipping rebel bay with. red hot shot, Several fell on shork *Dili made some ugly holes in the houses and sireetrowite damage was also done to some vessels MINI heehaws and it is suppeaed their intention was p set on fete a largo-frigate, the FlOfil . 3 mere hulk `;but havhsg on board about 30 tons Of gunpowder. kvery halal irately escaped, although frequendrio thinger,na the hot shot were flying abkint ip all thinetiens, viit,* ,thii were tr4nsrsbiPßiBkAhe i)l4et_ t __.o a. anal be.- landra, to remove it farther out otthe nustr . . . 4 W -The ea ry woe very pwagsk answeatit . /*the batteries, and even in that case not si;ithout very consi derable Vs% of men. So long as they possess the ma ' ritime force now in their power, it cannot be reduced by famine, provided they avail themselves of the fa. ,cilities that power affords them. True it is, that the 'Buenos Ayres army have so closely invested this place, that they have cut off all supplies from the in. tenor of every desctiption of fresh provision ; and du ring my residence here, salt and jerk beef, salt aint fresh fish and biscuit, have been our only allowances , no fresh meat, vegetables, eggs, butter, milk, or flows, very little new bread, or fresh water ; you may, therefore, very easily calculate our comforts. All • these privations the inhabitants, Alm are principally European Spaniards, have hitherto borne without murmuring. The most active measures have been adopted to procure supplies; several vessels have been dispatched to the Arazils in quest of them, and the most sanguine hopes are entertained of a speedy and . ffeetual relief. In the mean time, and for their immediate consumption, they have about sixty thou sand quintals of jerk-beef, fifteen thousand fanegas of wheat, as much fresh fish as they can catch, and a considerable portion of bacallao: The population consists of 14,7Q0 or 15,000 souls, at present within the walls. The Cordon or suburbs contain upwards of 10,000 more. Of then; scarce any remain, as they have either entered the city or retired into the interior the houses are abandoned, not a soul to be seen in them; a great many have been burnt by the Buenos Ayres army wantonly—others on the ground that they afforded shelter and impeded the range of their shot. From the observations I have been ena bled to make during my residence in the town, I do not see any probability of its being reduced by fa nfine, much less by arms. It requires more talents and skill than the new tangled genera possess to take a place so well . fortified ,a 4 filliphoely de. feuded." EAST' DEPOSITION OF THE RAJAH OF TRAVANCORE. A letter from an Officer in his Majesty's service, states, that an important revolution had taken place in the Government of Travancore, since the death of the old Rajah, and the assumption of that Musnud by his successor, who went by the appellation of the Elliah, or Second Rajah. It appears that the miscon. I duct of this young man, and his ill treatment of some of the branches of the deceased Rajah's family,' at tracted the notice of Colonel Munro, the Resident at that Court ; and - on an investigation of his claims, it was manifeit that his title was invalid, according to the laws of the State ; and that the Rajah of Letchma Amah, who is in her 18th year, was the rightful suc cessor. On the result of this investigation bein' ...known, it appeared 13 be the will of the friends of British Government, that the Rajah should bee' deds and in April lait the resolution was coy cated to him; but, in cOnsequencinf some r be was placed under an` escort plthe 1741 temp.,. commanded by Captain Ogilvie, and Marched, on the .18th of March, from Trivauderem to Tellieherry...:i The next day the Princess Letchma Amah was pro.' claimed, and invested with the khalut, jewels, and sword of state. She was crowned at an adjaceat pa beda, by the principal Brahmins, the Britt* troops ing drawn up on the occasion, and a royal salute fired from the fort. She presented each corps with iOO rupees. On her return to the pal .ce, she receiv ed the congratulations of Colonel Munro, the Officers of Government, &c. and was presented with some valuable jewels and other articles, in the name of the British Government. An attempt to murder the young Rajah. by the adherents of the Ex-rajah, has been frustrated. The above revolution, which ap pears to have been advised by tLe Government of In dia, and rendered necessary by certain political con siderations, was effected without bloodshed. • WEST INDIES. A Leeward Island Mail arrived on Saturday, brought to Falmouth by the Darlington packet, in' 33 days. We subjoin the principal articles of intel ' ligence by it. A Meeting of the Planters and Merchants in the Sugar Trade was held at Barbadoes t on the 20th of August, to take into consideration their distresses. mehen it was resolved to petition the British Legisla. titre to permit the use of sugar in the distilleries; to take off the restriction which now impedes the export , of corn from Great Britain to the Coloniei, for the supply of which the latter are obliged to Fay the Americans in money, or to reduce the duties, ahen sager was below the average of 50s. per cwt. At Trinidad. much indignation was excited try the rejection of Mr. Marriott's motion during the last. (Session of Parliament, for the extension of the British Constitution to the inhabitants of that island. Dis appointment was aot calculated upon ; and penult mace is recommended as likely to attain ultimately shat blessing. In the Trinidad Gateau we find the following letter fipm Lord Liverpool, relative to Clbvernor Hislop's riPpension of Mr. Judge Saiith, whose conduct lit , 'protecting the slaves, by enforcing the Spanish law*, vcarallodid to in the discussion of Mn Martian's imam, and' met the warmest approbatitut of the mr' enlightened of the British fpeaatars " Beckwith, . ~ • etplanation of the extraordinary step which he has taken ; and am the more at a loss to account for it, the around upon which he has undertaken to sus• peed Mr. Smith is not the abuse of the power with which he was entrusted, but the nature of that power ' itself. As these proceedings are entirely unauth•riz• by any instructions that Governor Hiblop bad re ,eived from this country, the purport of that Procla mation, as well as the form in which it was drew* up, signifying the royal pleasure in a manner ex tremely irregular and objectionable, has slat failed se excite much surprise and dissatisfaction. , g Although it appears, froin Mr.' Smith's Protest, that he has required permission immediately to retina to this country ; yet, should any circumstance have prevented his departure from the island, I am to sig nify to you Car commands of his Royal Highaess the Prince Regent, that you should immediately rein►tate Mr. Smith in the full possession of that authority which he received from the King's Commission, uni which it is alone in the power of the King to revoke; and that you cause thee commands. of his Royal Highness to be carried into effect in the most public " manner ... 4 have the honour to be, Sir, your *be- Iblient humble servant, ( Signed) 14 wow.. Major-Geueral Moors, /cc. 'THE LVENING STAR, LONDON. MONDAY. OCTOBER 28. Sr. SIMON Aire Sr. )sea.--Hollasy at tbe Itcheiser, Beak. sod SendWiest Haw. There is every reason to believe that Ministers have received certain information that an attempt at inva sion will be made on some part of our shuns during the ensuing winter. All the stout brigs sad sloops, now lying in Plymouth and Portsmouth harbours, which have been taken from the enemy, as well as the Oamres, and several other Britishbuilt vessels, are to be immediately fitted as blmbs, to carry mortars on their decks. The Local Militia, it is said, will also be forthwith embodied, and their quota doubled. Nothing official has transpired on the subject of the dispatches brought by Mr. PItOLTIMAN from Ame. rice. It is confidently stated, however, that Mr. , Ferree requires further instructions to empower him to take some decisive steps, should they be deemed necessary, in case of the imposition of an embargo its the ports of the United States. Under these circuits., stances, it is added, that Mr. Pam:mime will soon re turn to America with thd instructions solicited. It is said to be in the contempration of the Ame. rican Government to force an arrangement, by which they hope to get rid of most of their produce. They mean to take China for their model of trade ; to en courage all nations to come to the United States to take away their commodities, but to carry them to none ; so that they may have nothing to apprehend from the British Orders in Council, on the one band, or the Milan and Berlin Decrees en the other. , Since the arrival of the Gleaner a vessel has reach 6.ed Bristol, which left Secoa as the Sd instant, and haring on board letters from Boston of the let inst. One of this date which we have seen, assorts us that there was nothiqg new in the political world. The yellow fever, it seems, has again broke out at Philadelphia and New York; in consequence of which, the dispatches brought by Mr. Pamemsaw from Mr. FOSTIR, the British Plenipotentiary to the Uvieed lutes, were fumigated, and an order has been issued far the ship in which they were brought to perform quarantine, u well as all vessels arrivals from these ports• Private letters state that it is not the yellow fever but a Cholera Morhwi which is prevalent at Philadelphia. It is ascribed by the Physicians to the extreme heat of the weather, and had been assist fatal among children. Letters from Baltimore to the 224..u1t. state, that no news of importance had arrived,and that the packet for England was to sail on the day sobsequent. The harvest thronghout the Republic, especially in the Southern States, has been unusually pleotiful this sea son ; and as the principal report, in ease an embargo should not be imposed, would cons* of wheat, we should not be surprised if Mr. Maistsor should find that he has more difpculties to encounter than he is aware of in the adoption of this measure. which would be strongly ogirved by tleilauded merest. By the Li:serail/ Island Mail which arrived on Sa turday, intelligence has been received from Caraccas to the date of the 17th August. General Idiariaot had not succeeded in taking tbe City of Valencia. against which he bad been sent with the army of V e n ez uela. It was thought that the place was in a simation to endure a siege of nes mouths. The doubts entertained as so the fidelity et the Coassnan. der in Chief to the camp of the independents, bwre certainly tint diminished. As the Pruritus of Lapin and its dependeneiis were threatened by orbs army of Coro, an additional force has been raised se Caraccas for tu prot , xtion, antOunting to 4000 men. They are called volunteers, but are . , id aid paid ty die Junta of Ceraccas. A rot . of woks. icexplained of. The latest adiricesfrom • ems very favourable to the L 7: of the °Rine/Mew amoral aeons of money 11 forwarded - also Government (441 RtVllll A. rang. . seems, with bis . . .•.. ' • . • .:".• • • .. - -• -, • - Ur MONT EFIDEO.., day, passibithout a shot. I look upon it e Bring tiara ...--- . is inteniletf more for the-aspoyance of-the isitants take :rim of the Std of Julf,-lay Cs- I thgri atetvhope of reaocih s On town by such mea- as ti deau. sores. I have been recently infused that their ar- pea lead gilsrrers, Arroyo Seco, July s 4. ' . tillery consists of twenty pieces of 0, 18, 12, and whi StNon—The inactivity of Lb° ' 9-pounders, and that they have abundance of ammu. Ilse) days• was extremely singular.— radon of every description . ; some few shells and gre. ad L ,eir appearance without the walls, Redoes have been exchanged, but these are managed ceiv which, advancing a few hundred with so very little dexterity, that nothing material, tnai reat, snit retired with precipit4- either advant;tgeous or disadvantageous, need be ex. up, 7 patriots assembicd and ready to pected from that operation. This town is defended trer their terror, and so well founded Ib y upwards of 200 pieces of cannon of various calf- exci le numberless defeats which they l nes , and can only be , taken by regular advances of mot "' • I of the Drattal tiellateell 1 • ,fonrattled to Venezuela. harbeoo ' , ~' Dawalastirest. Upit 14, 1011. • • / h ave rece i ve d a ka tir fr au si r G e o rge Tbern'arst also some dispatches so,tba Goesenn dated the 4ds of &veil,• incising a Pro. of Bundlibillytes.received fronsFamccuco del Jim issued by Gornior Ukiah previous iid who is appointed to a new command in a district ra Ire from Trinidad. sny -111d1r in g round a place Lined ;eons de Mitcham It see Maim, frau the suepini.if . . a piiit o fd 'thit 11 Om airs in which lae fly; s i gne d w i t h ned_ jnris . dictione'lliinit nes. a ttanblii as, guerilla rut*, ha was vino/it:llM Nor Erafrana 1 clamatien, his dep,ytnre. the asief Oider•