Star. — London, England, 1811-08-29 00:00:00

- WE PRESS UPON THE CONTINPNT. ALTONA, Avousr s.—The Editor of this Gazette )I:iving been desired to make known the source from which he had an article, inserted the 24th May last, in ). 42. Vol. 34. bearing the tide—" Reply of the Em vror Napoleon to the Deputies of the Chambers of the Departments," is penetrated with the most pro iniind grief at having merited the reproach of having i.l-erced unthinkingly an article to which ke could affix no authenticity, because it is not to be found in the public prints under French authority !—The duty of this retraction i,:13 been imp-sed upon him, as well as the necessity of conforming for the future with the greatest exactitude to the ordinances of his Govern ment, who orders him to ins_ert nothing in his Journal which can give occasion to just complaints on the part of Governments on friendly terms with Den Mark— . du Nord." —l:Pis is what some English lawyers would call a well conducted press. TUE EVENING SuA R. LONDON. THURSDAY, AUGUST 29. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. S per Ct. Coot. for money 63} 64—Ditto for account 64/ 3 per Cent. Reduced 64ift —Navy 5 per Cent 95/ 4 per Cent. 801—Bonds 18s. pre.—Omnlum f prem. Each. Bills (3d.) par to 2s. pre.—Ditto (W.) ss. 6s. prem. The Oronium, after a slow and difficult rise from 2 per cent. discount, to about I, has at length gained the favourable side, ind after much vacillation and struggle for two days past about par, was yesterday and this day at a premium. Sir JOSEPH Yonitz has returned to Portsmouth with his squadron. His original destination still remains a secret, but it is generally supposed that it was his pr'ncipal object to see the East.lndia fleet safe home. The Lord Hobart packet has arrived at Falmouth, from CaJia, after a passage of 18 days.. By this con- veyance we have received Cadiz LettersaadPapers to the sth instant, which convey a mass of intelligence of variols kinds. The Spanish General LACY has addressed a Proclamation to the deserters from the Spanish army, in which he assures them that the loss of Tarragona is not irreparable, and intreats them to return to their duty. These Papers confirm the ac. count of the defeat of the French by the Spaniards at the bAclge of °brig°, which was alluded to in Lord WELLINGTONS dispatches. The following are extracts from the Spanish Papers: MADRID, JUNE 29. Ta the evening of the 27th entered this city about 200 prisoners, including 21 officers, 20 of whom were Spaniards, and four English, including the Colonels of the regiments of Toledo, and the second,df Cata- lonia, who were taken in the action of Gevora, on the 19th of February. An Aid-de-Camp of General Ballesteros, who was likewise taken prisoner, made his escape in Seville. Juxk SO. —ln the night of the '2sth arrived 300 carts bf sick and wounded, who were lodged in the Convent of St. Francisco, and are said to be from Andalusia and La Mancha. The Marquis de Mon tehermoso died a short time after his arrival. Sick and wounded are continually bringing in, and to-day it is reported that 150 of the latter have arrived at Talavera. The total evacuation of the Asturias is confirmed. Brigadier General Porlier is in Pates with 4000 men. JULY s.—The parties of the patriots continue to alarm and harrass the French. One of them, in the Eight of the 29th, advanced to the gate de la Viga, the guard, which consisted of juramentadas, joined them, and they marched away together, at the pass of Getafe : they carried away ten horses belonging to the Post-house. On the 30th, the party of the Phy sician entered Yncas and Villavicosa, making priso ners the dragoons and juramentadas who were there, and carried off six h. rses. On the 2d of this month a convoy of prisoners was ready to be sent off, but received counter orders, the escort intended to accompany it having been employ ed to reinforce the convoy of ammnnition, which went out this morning for Estremadura. On the same day arrived two OCicers, one from Castile and the other from Almaraz, they alighted at the house of Belliard, with whom they had a conference for a considerable time, without afterwards speaking to any person, from which, and the ill-humour of Belliard, it was inferred that the news was disagreeable: what it was is not cer tainly known, but there is reason to believe that the Officer from Castile brought accounts relative to the movements of the Gallician army, and the English troops which are upon Ciudad Rodrigo. This con jecture appears to be confirmed by the arrival of Offi cers, Surgeons, &c. from Avila, and the haste with whicH dispatches were sent off to Joseph. The sod den and little expected return of Joseph has certainly diminished, in some degree, the impression which his journey had produced in France and all Europe.— Letters from Trun of the 25th say, that orders have be given to prepare for his reception, and that he was expected to arrive on the 26th. It is also said that he brings with him 10,000 men; but, according to others, 6000, which is the number of troops that have passed through that place since the Gth of June in various escorts, of which the greatest was that which accompanied Junot in the beginning of last month. The army of Marmont is in the most miserable condition, and cannot enable Soult to wait for Victor and Sebastiani, and cover the Kingdoms of Seville and Cordoba. At midnight, between the 2d and Sd, the French guards were relieved by juramentadas, and marched out that morniag with fvrotantions and tits 'horses of the 26th, and about 200 infantry of the 25th, the greatest part in the direction of Guadalazara. VALENCIA DE ALCANTAILA, JULY 27. The array of Marmont has put itself in march for the right bank of the Tagus, and on the 20th began to enter Placentia. His artillery has marched by Talavera. On the 20th there wat in Comes a squadron of our light troops commanded by Don Jose Espino. Soult has marched in the direction of Andalusia, leaving on a military road large detachments. In Badajoi a gar rison remains of 2000 infantry, and 300 horse. The head-quarters of Lord Wellington were at Portale gre, and it is said, that some English troops are about to pass to the rtght of the Tagus. PUEBLA DE SANABRIA. JULY D. On the 2d of this month the army of Gallicia and the division of Brigadier Don F. Cabrera made a move mentto attack the bridge of Obrigo ; the French who occupied it were bc.ttcn and driven back a league and a half, but General Bonnet arrived with a reinforcement and charged with 6000 meet our forces, who t etired in good order to Bremedos and Magaz. We had some killed, and carried off 16 waggons loaded with wound ed. The loss of the enemy was greater : on the night of the 3d 20 waggons with their wounded entered Be nevente. The artillery which had retired to Roquijo, has returned and marched to the neighbourhood of Astorga, to join the division of Cabrera. We have this morning received New• York Papers to the 26th, and Boston to the 30th ult. but they do not enable us to form any opinion as to the state of the Negotiations now going un at Washington. The ATALANTE, of 18 guns, the TARTARUS, 01 18 guns, and the JUNIPER, of 8 guns, were all in waiting at Halifax to carry Mr. FOSTER'S dispatches to Eng• land. The ATALANTE'S prize, the Entreprenante, had 1 not arrived at Halifax when the packet came away : 1 I it was supposed that she had been sent to Bermuda. The Americans still continne to harbour and fit out 1 French privateers. A French armed schooner la j Franchise, had been permitted to refit at New Orleans, and h.td sailed again in quest of captures. l i The Captain of the French privateer Diligente had I not been released when the last accounts left Phila- I delphia.—Warlike preparations were going on at New Orleans, by fitting out gun-boats, &c. destined, as was generally supposed, against the Floridas. MaDisos's popularity, in consequence of his at tachment to French politics, stems to be on the wane. He is represented as being inflexible in his hostility to this country. One of the American Journalists, in opr4ition to his party, declares, upon what he calls good authority, that the differences with Great Bri. min would have been long ago settled,notwithstanding Mr. Eaxisses departure from his instructions, it Mr. MADISON would have apologized for some personal reflections against our Sovereign, which were intro duced into one of his official notes. A letter from the Isle of Leon, dated the 25th ult. gives a melancholy account of the state of affairs at Cadiz, owing to the total want of energy on the part of the Regency and the Cortes, and the jealousy too plainly shewn by those in authoritf, of our Officers and troops. The Government, too, was overwhelmed with debt, and the treasury exhausted. The letter says, " The marine is eighteen months in arrear of pay, and the army five; pitiful as their ration is, the troops often pass four or five days without any."—" Mr. Wet, L len EY is said to he anxious for his recall, worn out with fruitless labour."—" General GRAHAM was dri ven from his command by the resistance that was made to every point of moment ; disgusted with the ground. less jealousy so generally shewn, he begged to be re lieved:" The letter estimates the whole of the French force before Cadiz at 18,000 men, but which is not conceived to be adequate to execute any thing serious. The letter observes—" Our great security is in the strength of our locality, from the great extent of marsh, intersected with ditches at every 20 yards, of great depth and of equal breadth ; we have forts every where placed to command all the roads and approaches, so that we should mow down the heads of columns,which nowherescouid advance but insections. Numbers, with determined bravery,will always at last carry forts ; but I think the sacrifice of 10,000 men would at least be called for, and as yet, to authorise so great a one, they cannot collect a sufficient army. Every day we add to our strength. At last, where I they had no enclosed fort, but only an open one which was enfiladed, have the Regency consented that two should be constructed under our direction, and at our cost, employing their men. The English force here is far too small, reinforcements ought to be sent out, otherwise come odd day we shall find ourselves in a scrape. The Spaniards may have here about 8000 men, they are commanded by General COPaNAS, who [ ;s said to possess some ability. In Cadie the duty is I'done by the Volunteers, who may amount to 6000, land who are principally attached to us."—" Not a ' pound of powder have the Spaniards, but what we supply them with, yet when we ask to lodge ours in their magazines, they make great difficulty, and barely accede to it."—" Our men are generally sm. Itioned mixed with the Spaniards—wherever we have a centinel, they, without any motive but suspicion, place one likewise."—" To secure our retreat to Ca- 1 diz, if necessary, we are constructing a strong work at Torre Gordo, this commands the road, and would enable us to make wood our retreat should the French '1 carry the St. Peter Feint. Two miles from Cadiz also, we are getting the Dons to finish a strong work, called the Forta Duca, and where we have always a picket of 150 men ; this work commands the cause 'Way from the Torre Gordo. At first the Government were averse to our conjointly occupying this, and only yielded upon General GRAHAM'S insisting, if they refused it, to withdraw all his force from the Isla into the town." TIIE KIhIG. 41 WINDSOR CASTLE, AUCeST 29. " There is no alteration in his MAJUTY'S symp toms to-day. •( ( Signed) " 11. IiALFORD. gg M. ➢AILI.tE. " R. WILLIS." Doctors HEBERDEN, BAILLIE, and WILLIS, visited the lirsa yesterday morning, about nine o'clock, and aftef a consultation, Dr. BAILLIE waited upon the QuEL% with their Report upon the state of his MA JESTY. His personal health has happily improved; but in other respects there is no perceptible difference in his indisposition. The answer to inquiries yesterday, at Kensington Palace, after the Duke of SussEx, was as follows : " His Royal Highness is better than he was yesterday." Tor -House, St. James's Palace, now occupied by the PRINCE REGENT, was erected by QUEEN ANNE for the residence of her favourite Lord High Treasurer, Lord GODOLPHIN. Yesterday, Earl BATHURST transacted business at the Board of Trade. Mr. PERCLVAL came to town yesterday fromEaling, and transacted business at tne 'Treasury. The young Marquis of DowNstinte is speedily about to lead to the altar the beautiful sister of the Earl of PLYMOUTH. Mr. MUNDAY iS also to be married to Mrs. BAR* Mr. fiEantEs, jun. a Gentleman who has filled the office of Private Secretary to Mr. PERCEVAL ever since he has been Chancellor of the Exchequer, is appoin ted Commissary in Chief, a situati.in for which no man in the country, perhaps, is better qualifiel It is said to be the intention of Ministers thit Par liament shall assemble in October, for A short Session, the chief business of which will be the removal of the ----- restrictions imposed upon the present exercise of the Royal Authority. - Yesterday Mons. CLERMONT, the French Banker. left town, on his return to Paris. It was at first c,,n jectured that he was the privy bearer of a preliminary ' overture for peace ; but there is better grounds for supposing that he came over to arrange the pecuniary concerns 'of an English Lady resident in France, who is a considerable legatee in the t. ill of the late Duke of QUEENSBERRY. General CAMPBELL, who distinguished himself so much at the battle of Talavera, is placed on the Staff in India. Monday morning, the Nottingham regiment of Militia, Colonel GOULD, marched from Frankfort barracks, Plymouth, for Catdown, to embark, with their wives/and baggage, fur Ireland. They are des tined for the Dublin duty. Their excellent band and drums continued on the beach 611 the last boat went off, beating and phiying God save the King, Britons Strike Horn., O'er the Hills and far awa, Farewell to Lochaher, &c. The ROyal Cornwall Fuzileers, or Prince of Wales's Light Infantry, embarked for Ireland the same day. Both regiments will muster 1750 rank and file, in high health and spirits, and in excellent order. The transports, having on board the West Middle. sex Militia, sailed from Falmouth, on Tuesday, for Ireland. Friday last, the Royal Merioneth Light Infantry, commanded by Colonel VONE ; the Carnarvon Royal Light Infantry, commanded by Colonel EDWARDS and the Northumberland Militia, under the Right Hon. Lord Loormais, son of the Earl of Bsvcituit, arrived in Cork City from Cove. The latter regi ment is to he stationed in that garrison ; and the Waterford, Westmeath, and City of Dublin regi. ments are to embark for England in the transports which carried over our Militias to Cork. A Mail from Halifax arrived yesterday, and brought dispatches from Admiral SAWYER, but no thing of an important nature.. By the FYLLA, the arrival of which at Portsmouth we noticed yesterday, we have received several im portant communications from the army in Portugal. Several Officers had arrived in the Portuguese Capi tal from the British Army, with a view to hasten the supplies, and facilitate the junction of the reinforce ments. They stated, that when they q'. tied the head-quarters of the Allies, it was believed, from pri vate information, that; MASSENA had again returned to the French army from Paris, and that he brought with him troops, which, when united with others on the road, would form a reinforcement of no less than 50,000 men. Such is their statement ; what credit is due to it we cannot determine, but we should consi der it to be a great exaggeration. When the packet quitted the Tagus, the convoy i from Portsmouth was entering the River. Several transports had previously arrived with troops on board, and at Lisbon preparations had been for some time made for the reception of three regiments of cavalry, hourly expected. As they came in, the troops were progressively sent off to the army. The letters from Oporto by these channels mention that two companies of artillery and engineers had been sent thither by LordWewaceroN, for the pur pose, with the assistance of the militia, of fortifying Oporto and its neighbourhood. Seieral strong bat-, teries had already been erected on the banks of the Douro. Lisbon Papers also enable us to add something to the last dispatches communicated in the du?licate sent by Lord WELLINGTON to M. FORJAS:—" I was (says his Lordship) incorrectly informed as to the move merit of the sth corps of the enemy when I made my last communication from Portalegre. That army had not then quitted Estremadura, but I now learn. that it is marching in the direction of Andalusia.— It is said that Marshal Souls is gone to Grenada." One fact is mentioned, which would indicate that Lord WLLLINOTON meditates an immediate attack upon Ciudad Rodrigo before MARMONT can approach to relieve it. A division of the light troops, probably those under General ERSKINE, had already arrived within a short distance cf that fortress. The project of the French Marshal to occupy the shores of the Tagus, and from that situation to communicate in all directi sus avith his brother Commanders, will be now completely disconcerted. The herring fishery has commenced with every prospect of success at Wick and Frauxburgh, on the Fait Coast of Scotland. ..... , , • , . 1111V4L INIRLLIG!~:VCE: . , T H . FALMOU. AUGUST Anived, this day, the Prince Ernest PEntz, with Mails And hont Mew Yob* and Halifax---`2.0 drys from t h e latter ; the 1:Y1A tld. hart packet, from Cadiz, I'S d'iyi pass F r , ling packet had arr i ved there ; Packet, Capt. Rounrs, front Lis:on, in 1 t days—a eret of transports, With Troops, from Portsnirrith, tived there, and the Princess Elizabeth P c.et, Kinn; was entering the Tagus as the Walsi:lghani calite (nit, and was expected to sail again on the 18th instant. The Packets for Lisbon, Cadiz. Mediterratran, ana Brazils, have received their sailing ordat this even ing, and will proceed the first favourable His Majesty's shipWooLvEntNE and convoy, hound for Lisbon, that bore up !or this part yesterday, did not come in ; owing to- the wind shifting they pm ceeded on their voyage.—Arrived the Joseph and Mary, MITCHELL, from Plymouth ; last nig:" parted with the convoy, undar his Majesty's ship la SEINE, between the Landsend- and the Liz:lrd.Wlnd W. PLYMOUTH, AOCUT 17. Arrived, the HELICON brig of war; from a cruise; RECRUIT brig of war, from Newfoundland ; Escrmv gun-brig, from Guernsey station ; Favoairm sloop; and 'WHITING schooner, from a cruise off the French coast; and the APELLRS, 10 guns, came up harbour. Sailed, the NEPTUNE (2) tender, for Dublin. PORTSMOU CH, AUGUST shi. Arrived the VENGZUR, Sir JOSEPH You: PYRA. stus frigate, EDINBURGH and DENNI trtlC men of W M , and the Rovert sloop of war, from the Westward; supposed to have been to meet the East India fleet. Arrived the SPITFIRE man of war, supposed trom Lisbon. DEAL, AUGUST es. Arrived the DRAKE from off Flnshing, and the Yorick from New Providence in 88 days. SHEERNESS, AUGUST 28. Arrived the CoMus and SARACEN, from the West ward.-The AGGRESSOR went out of harbour, and will take the Heligoland convoy, comprising three transports, to-morrow. The STARLING, when ready, is to take the Galloper lights vessel under her protec tion' to her moorings off the Galloper Sand. Three P. M.—Arrived the LITTLE BELL from the Westward, and sailed immediately up the Tharnev. LEITH, AUGUST 26. This morning 14 men and four women, prisoners. were landed from L one of the ships in the Roads, and marched up to Euinburgh Castle. The ALARM lug ger sailed this morning, with a convoy of six sail for the Nore. Arrived on Saturday the SAIMEDON sloop of war from a cruize; and, yesterday the VaNus fri gate, from a cruize off the •N.-rtli Cape. The Saa: PEDON and VENUS saluted die Admiral's flag as they came into the Roads. Remain the Nightingale sloop of war (dig ship), Venus frigate, Sarpedon and Egvria sloops of war, and Streintous, Fancy, add Gallant pan-brigs. GREENOCK, AUGUST 26. Arrived here on Thursday night the Hazard, An: DERSON, from Rio de Janeiro, in 72 days. A small fleet was to sail thence on the 19th June,under convoy of the TORTOISE store ship. The Jean, MorvaT, of this port, sailed on the 3d June for the River Plate : spoke the following vessels en the passage : sih in lat. 11. 33. long. 27. 24. the American schooner General Green, from Batavia for Philadelphia, out 80 days, and gave intOrmation, that five sail of British ships of war were lying off Batavia Roads when she sailed ; and also had fallen in with five homeward bound English East ludiamt•n, a few d tys before Captain ANDERSON spoke her ; on the VI inst. lat. 38. 44. long. 35. the American schooner Union, from Lisbon, bound to Fairfield, Connecticut, out 20 days, all well. Arrived 'on Saturday, the American ship Charlotte; CLARK ) from Charleston, in 21 days, with the loss of her masts in a heavy gale on Tuesday last; having got embayed and obliged to come to anchor near Girvan, was forced to cut them away. By accounts from Barbadoes, of the 10th ult. the Nile; Anita* son, front Gaboon, which had put in leaky, would b.: 'cid. 'The Leyden man of war sailed from Lisbon the 6th instant, with a fleet, for England. The Charles, —, from Guernsey to Gibraltar, sailed the 17th of May, and had not arrived on the itch of Lily. The Pike • Lce, of London, from Surinam and Barhadots to St. Vincent's, was los: ILE. St. Vincent's. Arrived—At /111131 Ca, the lien7y,Curf, from London ; Ceres, ----, front Halifax ; and Banco, --, front Hull At Su rinam, William, —, front London. At Quebec, toe Margaret, , from London. At lie.. /pool, kum ritildul. In the Clysie;Nepteste, fr/An Qiieliec. At Cork, Three Friends, front Bosom. At Pernambocco, Favourite, from Liverpool. At Dublin, Columbine, front 1 rinidail ; and Hampton, front Ltsbon. The Prince Ernest packet, Captain PETRE, has ..;- rived at Falmouth, from New-York and Halifax, with mails and dispatches, in 20 days from the latter place. The Prince Ernest brings an official account of the action between the Engl;sh sloop of war ATALANTA, and the French frigate Entreprenante, in which the latter was taken. Advises front off Flushing state, that the French fleet lately moved out, apparently %Dial intent to put to sea, but that they have returned again into the harbour. It consists of seventeen sail of the line, and a large proportion of frigates Besides these, there are three ships of the line at GOree, and five in !he Texel. The ship.timber, naval stores of ever• description, , es also the ordnance, &c. which were in the ltoyal ' Arsenal at Carthagena, have been con.vleteiy re. moved from thence to the dock-yard at P rr Milton. They were accompanied by the elipwrights, and ar tificers of every class, who had been employed at that place, and who, it is represented, have been much plea►ed with the altetato n. It has been asserted, that Government had deter nined to employ force to Freveat the piratical depre latiens of the ships of CnatsTorur. A ship has ar ved from St. Domingo, which left the Islatoi on the 13th July, transmitting by far the latest advises Vous Aenco. Nothrng had at that time been attempted t gilinst the flotilla of Cuarsriatuz, and the vessel w rave alluded to was pursued, and greatly •udaugo. • !, by oue of hi► cruisers. i