Star. — London, England, 1811-07-24 00:00:00

peel, from what I hear, that they are only reeonnot. mop.: parties. The 1I th Dragoons met with a very severe lass a short time ago—a Captain and his troop t.,kei, prisoners ; Captain Lutyens, I believe, it was. was Private Secretary to Sir David Dundas, any. w•i been at this country more than a month or six weeks. Severity Enylish horses, not a sinall prize I6r the enemy. No action of consequence has taken pliCe since those of A lbviera and Badajoz ; daily skir. mishes take place. in which the British, as usual, have the Jvaira , te. though , s , unctimes not without loss. The Drayorns have all been very much lagged ; their b-rses beyin to Lok rather thin, yet still ten times su p er ior to those of the enemy." 'llli, I.:kt EN NO STAR. LONDON. IVEDNEDS.A.Y, JULY 24. lixtrt•H PRIVINEKS IN raaNce.—The night appropriated by the liberality of Mr. HARRIS, of Covent-Garden Theatre, for the litnefit ut the BRITISH PRISONERS in France, is fixed for To-morrow ; when, in addition to the valuable services of the regular Performersof that •1 heatre, Mr. BRABAldand Madame CATALAN] Lase kindly offered their aninstance.-1t is to be Loped, that on so patriotic and benevolent an occasion, there will be iut oveilluw mg House. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. S per Ct. Cons. for money 6'2l4—Ditto for account 62.3 3 per Ct. R. duce # al 43—Navy 5 per Cent. 933 por Cent. 7,:i—Bot.ds 2s. pi ent—Omnium Ixcheq. (3d.) par to 2s. lis.—Ditto (3;d.) Ss. 6s.prem. THE KING. His MAJESTY enjoyed several hours of sleep on Monday night, but without obtaining the benefit of rest. The Physicians in attendance still entertain expectations that the paroxysm, notwithstanding its severity, will not produce any very material change with respect to his physical strength ; but their senti ments are said to be much changed as to the permanent impression that may now be made on the mental fa cultics of his MAJESTY.—Bulletin of this day: " WINDSOR CASTLE, JULY 24.. His MAJESTY is to-day very much as he was yesterday. (Signed) " DI. umt.r.te, " W. IiEEk.ItDF.N, " R. WILLIC." SECOND EDITION. PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. This day, at three o'clock) both notices of Par. liament were pror9gued to the 24th d iy of August next, by COMMISS 011. The Speech delivered on the nccasion, is the name of his Royal Highness the F ti NCE REGENT, was in substance as follows : Hi: , Royal Highness express's his satisfaction at being enabled length to relieve both Houses of Par. Lament from the lone; and laborious duties of the present Liussion. His lt , :yal azhness returns thanks for the firm -11•Sb peisvvertyce which Parliament has dis played in their determination to co-operate with the Allies in the Peninsula during the continuance of their long protracted struggle. He thanks them also for their liberal and humane attention to the miseries of the afflicted Portuguese, in enabling his Royal Highness to relieve them in some measure from the barb anus effects of the cruel. tieg of their invaders, by means of pecuniary assist. since, a munificenet, which cannot fail to increase and s•rengthen that spirit of resistance to the encroach. means of France which was still unabated throughout the Peninsula. Hi► Royal Highness next thanks both Rouses for their attention to the internal security of the Empire, by providing for an annual inc tease to the Wrgular arm y. He expresses his particular satisfaction at the mea sures adopted for the interchange of the Militias of Great Britain and Ireland, and assures Parliament th tt the numerous voluntary offers of service which had been made on that occasion, had enabled his Royal Highness to give effect in a satisfactory man ner to the leading principles of the Union between the two countries. In the Speech to the House of Commons, His Royal Highness thanks them fur the ample Supplies 'which they had voted, in order to enable him to carry on the war with that vigour which the true interests of the country still continued to demand. His Royal Highness then alludes to the financial measures which had been adopted during the Session, for the improvement of the Irish Revenue ; and con gratulates the House, that these measures had been carried into effect without any fresh burthens being laid upon that country. His Royal Highness concludes his Speech by con gratulating both Houses on the capture of the Mauri tus, and on the immense acquisition of wealth and commerce thereby obtained, while the resources of the enemy have been at the same time greatly weal. ened. His Royal Highness speaks in g:owing language of the great military achievements of Lord WELLING. TON and the armies in Portugal, and assures both Huuses of his hearty concurrence in their votes of ap2robation of the col duct of his Lordship, and or every officer and soldier under his command. His Royal Highness describes Lord WELLINGTON'S seal, prudence, and intrepidity, as being unequalled in the annals of modern warfare. His Royal Highntss expresses the high satisfaction tillich Nevin feel, when it shall please the ALMIGHTY $ MAW* his Roy•al Parent to the prayers of his faith ful peopie, at being enabled to call his rvharsii's at tention to the gratifying history of his Empire during the period of his illness. LORD WELLItkIth 4 ON's batkikitHES, The Gazetie of last night contains an hiterestitig extract from Lord WELLINGTON's d;spatthes of the .Ith instant, which, as our Readers will observe, afford but slight hopes of the truth of the report of BLAKE'S success against Seville. In the mean time the French are suffering so much from want of previsions; that they have been forced to abandon the neighbourhood of Badajoz and concentrate their forces more to the I Southward. In addition to the above, we have to announce the arrival of the Chichester packet in six days front Lis bon, bringing papers to the 15th instant, from which we have given extracts in another part of our Paper. The Dispatches from Lord WELLINGTON, brought by the Chichester, are dated on the I lth instant. At that time no battle had taken place, nor had there been any movement of coxsequence. The British troops were going into cantonments. General GRAIIANI, the Hero of &myna, had arrived at Lis bon front C.tdiz in the LATONA, to take a command in the allied armies. He was accompanied by three hundred riflemen and some cavalry. The enemy had sheaved themselves in force on the Bth, but soon re tired. MARNIONT was collecting his forces for some purpose; and our troops were in high spirits, anxious to meet in combat the enemies of their country. It is probable, therefore, that a general battle will shortly take !thee. The telegraphic communication of BLAKE'S success against Seville proves to have been erroneous. SOULT is returned to Llerena, after having been to that city. The Duke of Kent, Captain COTESWORTIf t has ar rived at Falmouth, from Cadiz, after a passage of 19 days. She left there five sail of the line, two frigates, and two sloops of war, with his Majesty's ship CALE DONIA, Sir EDWARD PELLEW. The Siege of Cadiz was not raised when the Duke of Kent came away. —lt was rumoured that some dispute had arisen in BLAKE'S army, in consequence of which, the enter prize concerted with Lord WELLINGTON against Se ville had been abandoned. Under these circumstances it is supposed that this Commander re-embarked on board his own transports at Ayamonte on a Secret Expedition. Four hundred large boats had gone up the river Guadalqui;er, with provisions and ammu nition for this set vice, and also to bring off BLAKE'S army in the event of a reverse of fortune. The Ann, Captain BRITTON, has arrived at Fal mouth, from Halifax, in 21 days. She has brought over, by order of Admiral SAWYER, a British seaman, who acted in the capacity of a Quarter-gunner, on board the American frigate, the President, during the action with the LITTLE BELT. The evidence of this man fully confirms, in every respect, the statement of Captain BINGHAbi t ( which is already befoie the public) with the important addition that the crew of the President were apprised, the day after she left New-York, that it was - the intention of Commodore ROGERS to attack the GUERRIERE, in the event of a refusal on the part of the British, to deliver up an impressed man. The seaman who brings the above intelligence leapt overboard from the President, after her return to New-Yolk, and swam on board the Ann. Another British seaman who accompanied him was unfortunately drowned in the attempt. The sea man who has arrived at Falmouth, further reports, that the crew of the President consisted of 560 men, out of whom upwards of SOO were English, Scotch, and Irishmen; all of whom are ready to attest that the American frigate fired the first gun. The Ann also brings intelligence, that the slight rencontre be tween the EURYDICE and another American frigate, has been apologized for by the American Captain's passing his word of honour, that there were no orders given for the firing of the gun. By the Anholt Mail of yesterday we have intelli. Bence Irom Dantzic to the 223, and from St. Peters. burgh to the 29th ult. and from Gottenburgh to the 12th inst. An action off the coast of Zealand is men tioned between some English transports and Danish gun boats, in which the latter were beaten off with some loss. The following is an extract from one of our letters : 44 GOTTENBURGH, JULY 11. " We are now In no txpcctation of any change M polvics as to Russia and francs. The intercourse with respect to you COiltiClleb much on the same looting as before." In one of our letters from an out-port of Russia, it is mentioned that ALEXANDER had agreed with lin- NAPARTE to reduce his military forces to a particular standard, but we do not find that the letters from the capital countenance any such arrangement. The ex change had fallen to 13d. At Dantzick the garrison, which was before very strong, had been considerably augmented, and the fortifications had undergone further improvements. A Heligoland Mail arrived this mottling; by which we received the following letter : HELIGOLAND, JULY 19. " All communication with the neighbouring coasts I continues to be as closely guarded as ever, and we are consequently kept in the dark as to any events that may be passing in the north of Germany. j " In consequence of the complete failure of trade ! here, all the merchants are preparing to break up their establishment, and shipping off their goods— several of them have already left the island. 44 The price of fresh provisions, from the want of alftsupplies from the coast, has this season been ex tremely high. Fresh meat has seldom been lower than Is. 6d. per lb. and last week mutton was sold as high as Ss. per lb. • " As the island depends almost entirely for its sup. fply of *water on the rain collected in tanks, this ne. cessary has been at times very scarce, and in some instances has been sold at the rate of Is. per gallon.' .. \ . . - • 'HE ARMY: • "Yesttrafy the Duke of YORK held a pnblic day at ' E by in the Horse Guards, which was attended by the Dukes of CUMBER LANTr, CAMBRTOCR, and GLOUCESTER, and a numetous asserriblage of Military Officers. Sir JOHN .DOYLE; has returned to his Government of G nernsey, to the great satisfaction of the inhabitants. Government does not relax in its exertions fur re kruitlng the British army in Portugal. At this mo ' men( there are about 40(X) men, consisting of vari ous detachments, ready to embark at Portsmouth ; and at Plymouth ::bout 600 Dragoons, and the Buffs, • all destined for Portugal. A demchment of the First Royals, and part of the 4th, or Royal Irish Dragoons, embarked at Plymouth ion Monday from the Dock-yard, on board transports ifor Portugal. The remainder of the 4th Dragoons, Iwith the exception of three troops that are to remain , at home, were to embark yesterday and this day.— !These will he followed by other detachments in the course of the week ; among which are 590 of the '2d Battal'on of the Sd or Old Buffs, and a detachment H of the 7th Royal Fusileers. _ _ Extract of a letter from an Officer in Portugal, dated Tone de Mauro, July 3 : " The enemy have thrown a force of 7000 men into Badajoz, and provisions for them ior 3 months; the main body have taken a route towards Seville. There are no French on this side of tie Guadiana. Our camp will soon break up, and the difrerent Bri gades are going into cantonments baween the towns of Portalegre, and Estramoz." The Duchess of llat:NswicK is so ill that she was not expected to have survived the last night. All the Royal Dukes were with her till a very late hour. Yesterday the PRINCE REGENT held a Court at Carl ton-house. About two o'clock his Royal Highness left his private apartments, attended by Colonel WMAHON, Generals TURNER and HAMMOND, pro ceeded to the State-rooms, and gave audiences to Earl CAMDEN, Mr. RYDER, and Mr. PEactvat... His Royal Highness then held a Council. COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.—Last night this Thea tre closed the regular Campaign for the season, with the performance of Pizarro, and the Melo drama of imour the Tartar. At the close of the former Piece, Mr. YOUNG delivered the following Address : LADIES AND GENTLEMAN—I am directed by the Proprie tors of this 'chi atre, to otter you their most grateful and heartfelt acknowledgements for the very liberal patronage and support you have afforded them this season. Your kindness has been the more sensibly felt, as it has relieved them from considerable ent barrassment, by enabling them to pay off a portion of their heavy F incumbranees; and though much still remains to be liquidated,' yet they row can look forward with a confident hope, that in a few years they will be extricated front the difficulties which had so nearly overwhelmed them. They hope they ma) he allowed to ,ay, that their exertions for your Thearrical amusements have been, this season, strenuous and unremitted. The works of Shakespeare, and of our admired Classic Authors, have been re vived with the strictest care and attention—and bath Tragedy and Comedy have received the most powerful support front the ' talents of their respective favoured votarivi. Our modern Dra matists have met with every encaurarment, and their Pieces has been honoured with your approbation, the sure incitement to future exertion. Pantom;me and Spectacle have been em ployed as auxiliaries, and the highest ambition of the Proprietors has been (regardless of exptine,..) to gratify the different tastes •ifo• • various classes eempodwg a British au•li. nee. Sur:. -s (yawned their efforts, ariellivir hearts are 'rt plete with gratitude fur such signal marks of public favour. " The Performers, Ladies and Gentlemen, beg leave to unite in their tribute of thanks, for y::ut uniform indulgence, and we mots respectfully take our love till the 9:h of Sep'emher, the rime filed for the re-opening of this Theatre, when we hope successfully to renew our proesfional exertions for your enter tainment."—This Address was received with applauses. BIRTD-DAY of ROBERT DE BRUS. —A respectable Meeting was held on the 11th of this month, at the Castle of the Lords of Annandale, beside the ancient Burgh of Lochmaben, to commemorate the birth of the patriot and saviour of Scotland, King Rozctr DR BRUS. A dinner was served up, faithfully pre pared according to the feudal law of a Scottish feast ; and the drink in which they toasted the de scendants of Brutes, the Wallaces, and the Dongl.ases, was the best beverage of Highland distillation.— The Castle, though in ruins, was the paternal seat of the BausEs, and the tenant! y hold their lands from an immediate grant given by their beloved Lord. It was here that BRUS, when he first unsheathed his sword for the redehiption of Scotland, met with the Eallant JAMES, Lord Dot-mats, and his own brother DWARD, with Sir ROGEIIKIRKPATRICK, of Closeburn. The banner of Scottish independence was first reared at Lochmaben, and its inhabitants led the van of bat tle at the memorable field of Bannockburn. No won der then, that the descendants of those illustrious war riors should, seated in the feudal Hall, commemorate the birth of the BRUSES and rejoice in the strength of other years. The day was opened and closed by the whole party standing and singing the heroic welcome of the BRUM of Bannockburn, written by the Scot tish poet ROBERT BURNS. As this sublime and ener getic war ode has been weakened by the impertinence of some and the ignorance of others, we present it to our Readers unchanged as it issued from the mind of the poet, and whose original first draught has been adopted as the best by the natural critical sagacity of the peasantry of Scotland : BRUO'S ADDRESS TO HIS TROOPS, AT DANNOCKBURN. SEWS, wha hac wi' WALLACE bled, Scots, wham Boob has often led— Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victorie! Now's the day, and now's the hour, See the front of battle lour; • See approach proud EDWARD'S power— Ciains and Slavcrie! Wha will be a traitor knave? , Wha will fill a coward's grave ? Wha sae base as be a slave ? Let him turn and flee! Wha for Scotland's King and Law Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand, or freeman ta'— Let him tollow me ! By Oppression's woes and pains t By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our deare.t veins, But they shall be free! Lay the proud Usurper low! Tyrants fall in every foe ! LIBERTE'S in every blow! Let us DO or DIE! • While the people of a country continue to love it, to esteem, and to commemorate the struggles of pa triotism, and the warlike achievements of ancestorial virtue, cherishing them, like the people of Lochma ben, in their Minds, and lessoning them to their did- ' dren, that ountry may be overrun but will never be conqu ' . ATITA By the letters of yesterday, his Majesty's ship SAFE: GUARD is reported to have been taken by some of the enemy's cruizer's in the B iltic. FALMOUI'H, JULY 21. Arrived this day the Duke of Kent packet, Capt. CoTessvoirrn, wi-h mails from Cadiz, 19 days pas. sages—leit there .5 s nil of .he line, 2 frigates, and 2 stains of w ar, with his Majesty's ship Cat.r.nosisa, Sir EnwAnu PELLEyr, Bart ; the siege of Cadiz was not raised. About 400 large boats were gone up the river Guadalquiver, with provisions and ammunition for General BLAKL'S army, and also to Lting off the troops in case of necessity. The Chichester packet, Captain Rooms, arrived this evening, in 7 days from Lisbon, A fleet of transports, with about 4000 sick and wounded, were to leave L:sbon nn the 15th inst. His Majesty's ship A IiMIDE, with a fleet of tran.parts, 10 days from_Plyinouth, were entering the Tagus as the fleet came out. The Ann, Captain BRITTON, is this dry arrived, in 21 days finm Halifax. The PAZ schooner had :mired at Halifax. The affair of the EURYDICE and the American frigate was amicably settled ; the American Captain giving, on his honour, that there were no orders for the firing of the gun.—. Atransport has just pat in with 160 French primers TORBAY, JULY se. Arrived the ship Mentor, Captain JAMES QUELCH, .from the Downs, bound to Cork and Martinico ; also the ship Britannia, Captain CiturcirELL, from Pool, bound to Newfoundland ; Miry Ann, Capt. CURRY, from London, bound to Falrttotrh ; Vestal, Captain H. LOGGAN, from the Downs, ballad to Gibraltar. PLYMOUTH, JUI It 22. The LANDRAIL schooner is lilting for sea in this harbour, and, in the event of an Ansel-tom w:tr, will cruize between the Channel and Atlantic, to intercept the A merican merchantmen. Admiral Sir IL CAL DER, Commander in Chief at this port, has struck his flag and gone on six weeks' leave of absence to his seat in Warwickshire. 4t ear Admiral Sir EDWARD BULLER commands ad-interim. The Master of a pro vision ship, which arrived this day from Cork, states, that on Saturday last, in the Channel, he passed a French lugger privateer of 16 gaits, but was not near enough to hail her. She had no doubt been taken by one of ourcruizers, as the English cnlonrs were flying over those of the enemy.—Wind W.N.W. PORTSMOUTH, JULY es. Arrived the ALBICORE, irom Newfoundland. DEAL, JULY £3. Arrived the PARTRIDGE, with three sail Of mer chantmen, from Oporto, last from Portsmouth.— Sailed the THESEUS, for off Flushing, and the SPE. CULATOR lugger, with convoy, to the Northward. GUERNSEY, JULY 21.. His Majesty's lugger VIOLET, Lieutenant SEDLEY, drove a privateer lugger mounting 10 swivels, and having 4-0 men, on shornear 'Freguier, on the 18th inst. Mr. SIDNEY, the Master, and Mr. YATES, Mid shipman, with 13 men, took possession of her in the boat, after a severe contest of an hour, and succeeded in bilging her; but the tike retreating, they were obliged to abandan her. She was accompanied by a br ig, which, after escaping in shore, hoisted Ame rican colours. LIVERPOOL, JULY 22. Arrived the Orbit, Boer, from New-York. She sailed from thence the 27th June, at which time nei ther Mr. FosrEa nor Mr. PINKNEY had arrived. WHITBY, JULY 22. Arrived the Henrietta, KEARSLEY, from Green. land, with. 36 fish, a full ship. She left the ice about the Sd June. The fishing in general was very go 4 —not a single loss among the shipping! The Ocean, of London, had received damage, but was well filled with fish*. The Whitby •ships had as follows : Resolution, 27 fish ; Aimwell, 26 ; William and Ann, IS ; Volunteer, 17 ; and the Lively, 15. The Anna, Harman, from America to Portsmouth, was on shore, near Carston, the '27tb of May, but %vas expected to be got ~fl. . 'l•he T:o3vera,, Hart; from Amelia Islands to Deptford, pat into Carleton the ':9:D May, in distress. 'l•he Success homb,ni Oporto to Rio Janeiro, was wrecked the dist off Fels:nary, sof Bona Vista. DISTRIBUVON OF PRIZE MONEY. Richmond, for the l' Sisters; and Surveil:ante, for rEclair and Margaretta, on !marl * this day ; recalled at :3, ague'.-coart, Temple. Vulture, for the Martha, on her arrival; recalil a: 9, Cilf ford's Inn, on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Nyaden, fur the Peter Metropolite; Beier, for the Twe.? Jul frow Ettjece ; and Mosquito, for the Juliana Sophia and toe Foglen, at i.. 2, Arundel -street, and there recalled. The Express which brought the dispatches from Pans for the John Adams frigate, arrived from that Capital in 30 hours, when the American ship of war immediately set sail for the English c , ..sst, and with. out touching at the port, as we have already stated, sent a boat on shore, with dispatches trim Mr. Rus suf. to Mr. SMITH, Charge d'Affaires of the United States, resident here. They contain an account that the Two Brothers, the Good Intent, and the Star, captured since the Ist November, have been released, on satisfactory proof being produced that the pro perty was American. It is asserted that the nume rous others detained under tie like circumstances, will be immediately surrendered to the claimants by the French Government. It is stated on the same authority, that the proceed ings in these gases, on the part of the captors, in t!:e French Courts of Admiralty, are not at ail founded on the Berlin and Milan'Decrees, which are held by the Judges of these Courts to have been abrogated,: an .l rendered null and void since the Ist of-November last. This morning ROBERT ARMITAGE and Cirairtrs" THOMAS, the two Bank Clinks, convicted .'ef f;rgi”g dividend warrants, were executed opposite to the Debtors' door of Newgate. They behaved in a man-- 1 nor becoming their awful situation. ARMITAGE was assisted in his devotions by a Roman Catholic Cler gyman. Early this morning a gang of thieve's broke into the George public-house, in Middle-row, Holh'rn, and stole about five pounds in copper, with a quan tity of silver spoons. They got access by the caar window, and proceeded up stairs to the Liar, where the property was deposited. Coax MARKET, JCLY '24 —We have some few far ther as rivals of Wheat to-slay, and the remaining sap ply not very considerable ; the trade extreme heavy sale, and last prices hardly maintained.--Rye some what dearer—Barley and Malt dull sale—White Pr at little variation—Beans of each kind rather lower. There are some few fresh arrivals of Oats; this tr .%. likewise heavy, at little fluctuation, and sales of Flout at Monday's advance. z . _. ~.