Star. — London, England, 1807-04-20 00:00:00

&sold bt taty, and a tonateipart is t t rout Spa , bilk frigates. 46 All there things, (h is llated), raifed great in dignation in 'C ontlanthtcple : men, women, and chil dren worked at the batteries, diretted by ten French Engineers front Dalmatia, and in five days soo can non and zoo mortars were placed nn thirty batteries. The Etiglitb Ambatrador had the infolence to de6re a conference, and the Kiaga Bcy repaired on board the Admiral to hear the propofals. There were:..., s. The Dardanelles to be given to the Enyfillt. I . Fift e en imps of war, fullrequipped, to be taken to Malta. 3. The Porte to declare war agand France. and [efts sway the A mbarader. 4. Raba to keep Moldavia and Wallachia; Icatall, and the ether Inverts on eke Danube, to be delivered up to the Ito tuba. "Such propofals deferred no anfwer. The next day the Dragoman of the Porte was difpatched, but in vain. Either the acceptance of the conditions, or bombardment, was the language of the Englifh Ad miral- He did not think that mortars were in readi nefs, and that bombs would anfwer bombs. There was fomething fublime inthe behaviour ofthe people. Now the Englifh law that the Porte was not to be frightened, and that their plan had failed, they de. fined from the firft propofed conditions, but the Sultan replied he would not negotiate as long as the Englifh fleet was on this fide of the Dardanelles ; a fublime anfwer—to be compared to that of the Roman Senate to Pyrrhus. The Englifii now proceeded to nfe intrigue, corruption and legumes, the nfual arms of iniultice and prefumption. " On the 26th Febroary,•:Admiral:Duckworth fent a nate to the Reis Effendi, together with his infirm dons for the negotiation. It will appear that here is no mention of Is fhips to be carried away, nor of giving Op the DardaneUes ; this is a ftrangeaffertion. Admiral Duckworth rays, that it was not poffible to change the conditions in any refpeft ; the inftruttions to 4dmiral Louis Pays the fame. . 44 Selim, it is added, tho' educated in the Seraglio, behaves like a man who had been always in a camp. Every thing being now in a Rate of defence, the Englifh found it advifable to rein(' the Dardanelles before they were too ftrongly fortified, and on the 3d of March can anchor three leagues beyond the emits, on the erten of Afia. The Turkifh fleet, of so fail of the line, inftantly purfued to the Darda nelles. The mon prudent people were againft this fleth but the officers, janizaries, tailors, all Contended for the honour of going on board, and it was impof. Gible to reftrain them. The Emperor Napoleon, at the fiat declaration of war, offered the Sultan an army to cover the Dardanelles and the Danube.... The Porte would at firft accept only Engineers and Artillery Officers ; it has now required other aid, which is advancing with all fpeed." The Berfin Telegraph and Wallow Gat" are like wife-full of fimilar boaftings, and of the atoll inde cent expreffions refpeeing both England and the Ens pew of Ruffia ; who, it is Paid, " by having made peace with England, while the fleet of Nelfon was is the Baltic, (after the murder of Paul had con verted the defeat of the Englifh at Copenhagen into a triumph) facriticed all refpeit for the memory of his Grandmother and his Father, and at the fame time the rights of all Sovereigns. "The fublime courage of Selim has forced the Eng lifh to repels the Dardanelles, which ;no cannon now ant againft them. Firmans are fent to all puts of the Turkifh Empire, to kin all Englifh fubjeas and diens. The fame meafure is ordered in Peru. From Mulcott to the Pillars of Hercules the Englifh have nothing but enemies. The brave Ara bians will awake when they hear of the crimes of their opprefrors. Morocco. Tripoli and Tunis, have given orders to treat thefe enemies of the Prophet in a hot tile manner. The Pschas of Janina and Scutari are marching againft the Montenegrins. The immenfe Empire of the Ottomans Teems to rife from the grave; the contentions, envy and internal wars, which weakened and convulfed it, vanilh, and are fueceeded by general hatred to the Mulcovites and the enemies of the liberty of the leas. Who will proteft the Matters of India from the triple alliance between France, Perfia, and Turkey ? Monied men of the Continent, look at the map of the world, and fee to what a ftormy lea yon confide your money ! " The coloffus of the Englifh greatnefs was railed by wildom, economy, and indullry : prodigality, luxury, and folly have dug the pit into which it will foon be plunged. How ! a manufatturing and mer cantile nation, that requires its whole induftry to pro. care the tBOO millions necefiary for its defence, and whith has now clofed againft itfelf the Elbe, the Oder, the Ems, the Viltula, all the ports of France, Spain, and Italy, now clofes againft itfelf the ports of Turkey, out of a blind and fanatic hatred againn France. Thus England has attained the fummit of of folly—has not only cut off all communication w;th Europe, but now (huts up againft itfelf the Perfian Gulph, and the States of that powerful Prince, whole predeceflors, even in our times, fubdued the Mogul Empire, which is the molt ptoduitivc tout= of Eng. land's greatnefs, and the only fure pledge it has for its creditors. In the prefent nate of the Englifh Go. vernrnent, to venture money on this pledge, on its power in India, would be the fyftent of Law, a Mil. fiffipi fchemer." Various letters are alto publi(hed from the French Vice Conful and Agents at Warm. Nulfchuk, and Widdin, flaring that the Ruffians have been connandy defeated in many actions by the Turks, that their force ht *Achill is reduced td tan tholifand Web ; that they are at variance wall the natives, and ft is thought will loon retire to the Dneißer. The official report of the operations of the Limn army, from the battle of Putty& down to the arth ult. will he read with Much interefi. The events of mirk are not new ttiut General Bator missies details are given with a 'candour and unateded which render them highly valuable as hiaorical docu. ments. At the date of the larelt sitrounts from Poland nothing new had occurred, Virt it is probable that an important, perhaps a decifive battle, has been fought before this time, as the Ruffians *ere deter mined on bringing on !it There Malls bring farther particulars refpe6ing the railing of the liege of Stralfund. The French frein to have filtered feverely in their retreat, andPoß about isooprifoners. The.wortt circurnlttllce that attends the event is, the reinforcement that the French army in Poland will thus receive. The news from bantrie is tatisfaitory. That gar rifon having received a reinfeicement of 4coo men, has made a futeefsful for tie on the befieging army, taken many prifoners‘ and killed a eonfiderable ‘ number of the ertemj►. dmm. 1..g1e.,;•• EXPEDITION OV GENERAL CRAUFORD. An American yoga. the Brothers, has arrived in the River, immediately from the Plata, with a cargo of hides, which . the took in the Immediate neighbour hood of Monte Vick*, under the protation end en couragement of the Bridal filuadron. She reports, that within two days after her leaving the Plata, the was overtaken by a veld difpatehed exprefs for the Spanifh Government ; from the Captain of which the learned, that another Britiflt fquadron, fuppofed to be the Expedition of General CRAUTORD, had en tered the Plata the preceding day ; that one of the velrels had given chace to the Spaniard, but that the latter effeeted his efcape by his fuptrior knowledge of the (hallow: at the mouth of La Plata. The Mat- ter of the Brothers could learn nothing further of the fubilance of the Spanifh difpatches, but that they were fent by the Governor of Buenos Ayres, and that they referred to the danger in which that fetdement was now placed. It was the general belief at Monte Video, that the Britilh Government would proclaim the independence of the country. The Spaniards would doubtlefs concur to their own deliverance.— We are perfuaded, indeed, that there are the only means by which we can reap any effettual benefit from our late conquefl. Let us render Spanith America, or any confiderable part of it, independent, and it becomes open to our commerce, and we derive from it all the fruits Which we can reafonably expel► It was reported lall night that the Duke of Porr- LAND had vefigned, and that Lord &bosom was placed at the head of the Trcafery. This event has not, however, taken place, but that Come change in the Cabinet is on the tapis we can hardly doubt, having had it Rated to us from many quarters. There are difficulties in the way which will not be eafily (urmounted. Mr. CAIIIIIIIO, it is Paid, refills the admiffion of Lord &bosom, as does alfo Lord Mst.vit.cs ; while others of the Cabinet maintain the meafure to be indifpenfably neeefary. We hope to be able to (peak more decifively in a day or two. Parliament, we are allured, will be dirolved after the clofe of the prefent Sefton. A dreadful accident happened at Harwich on Sa- turday 1011. A (mall veiTel bringing part of the 79th regiment from the garrifon, by a (ridden (quail, uplet, and out of near one hundred on board, only fifteen were raved ! The greaten part of the bodies were yenerday picked up, namely 6; Soldiers and officers, together with t a women, 8 children, and a tailor boys. A Court Martial affembled on board the Gt.:Dta• Toe s in Portfmouth harbour, on the 16th and 17th intlant. Prefint—Admiral Montagu, Prefident ; Rear Admiral Sir Ifaae Coffin, Bait. Captains Law. ford, S. H. Linzee, Graves, Irwin, Hon. C. Boyle, J. Briffiane, H. E. R. Baker,' Somerville, Netbam, Bettertworth. and D. M'Leod, to enquire - into the condo& of Captain Henry Whitby, late of his Ma- Ship Leander, who, by order of Captain John Poo Beresford, of his Majelly's (hip Cambrian, (about April lan.) then Commander in Chief of his &Nene. (hips and veffels on the Halifax Ration, was direeed to ernize off New York, for the purpute I 4 gaining information ; and who, by a letter dared the 6th of May lalt to Captain Beresford, reprefented that on the 25th of the preceding month, feveral Tet te!: were coming down from the Light Houle, near New York, and, as they obßinately pet-filled in not at ending to the fiat (hot fired from the Leander, alien clofely purfued, Several of the Said veffils were boarded, and among the number that did not bring to, wits a coafting Sloop, on board of which it ap peared, by various letters and papers tranfmitted by Captain Beresford to the Admiralty, an Ametian Seaman was unfortunrely killed by a Shot fired from the Leander, or from Come other of his Majefler (hips and veffels, then under the orders of Captain Whitby ; the Court having engulfed into the conduit of Capt. Whitby, on a charge of violating the neutrality of a Ration in amity with his Majelty, and having on the 25th of April lall, within the waters and jutirdiftions of the United States of America, unlawfully, wit ' fully, and of hir malice aforethought, canted a (hot to be fired from his Majelly's flap Leander, whereby one John Pearce, a Citizen of America, was felonioufly killed and murdered; and having beard the evidence in Support of the charge, and by Cap tain Whitby- in his defence ; and having maturely confidered the whole, were of opinion that the charge had not been proud, and did adjudge Capt. Whitby —se &e wfuittd. SktOND tDITiON. We top the prefs to infert the following private tette% 'which comb% rouse interelling particulate not to be found in any of the"foreign burnsle s 14 LOWER MAIL APRIL h Letten received here from Venice and Theft e b 41f a very late date) etprefsly affirm that peace is edhcluded between Turkey and England. It is here getterally believed that the retreat of the Englith fleet is in confectutate either of peace, or if that is not yet concluded, of att ideation to take poffeffion or the Dardanelles, and probably garrifon them with Rut flan troops from the fleet of Admiral Siniavik adl4l' is failed with ten fall of the line and eight frigates. to the Archipelago, and to fecure that important par rage before any attempt is made rigida Conftantino. ple, and perhaps in the hope to fucceed with lot pto• ceeding to fuch an extremity as to bombard that city. h 'Mere is no farther news fkoth Poland that can be depitidid on. Dantzick, howeVer, is not yet bons= bardedi and many thoufand Ruffian, hirVe who hive driven away the French that ftopped the conshitinieation by land with Pillars. It is ftiongly reported here. that there has been • great battle before that city ; that the French being attacked at • the Paine time by linoo Radians from Koningfberg; and by the garrifon. were totally defeated, and the liege tailed, and 6000 Saxons joined the Ruffians. A report that Stettin was already taken by the Swedes is unfotinded. •4 The letters from Sttalfund only Rate that twelve thonfand Stvedet are on their march to that city, where it is laid, only two regiments of troops of Baden are in prrifon. Lieutenant Schill, with his eying corps, has joined the Swedes. They have taken TAR quart Cities of all kinds of provifions, the military chill, with t to:woo dollars, ts,ooo great coats. Pomerania is now quite clear of the French, except axon horfe, who are (aid to be blocked op taUfedom, where they muR titrtendet. " The Swede. have retired from Roftock, after making the garrifon prifoners. and taking off the fe. queftration from the Swedith (hips which were to be fold next day. and from the Englifts goods. It does not appear that any but ftraggling parties have come farther than Schwerin. The molt important confequences, however, may be expefted from the advantages of the Swedes. The panic (truck into the Dutch troops is not to be defcribed. At the fight of a few Swedes hundreds have thrown down their arms and run away. Great numbers have deferted ; alMolt all the Officers have been killed. In Ihort the whole corps that Mercier bad left behind Teems to be totally tlifpetfed or damped. Yenerday morning, 800 mea marched from Hamburgh, as it was Paid, for Lubeck. Before go, log away, they alma mutinied, ftvore at Bonaparte and their own King, declaring they would not fight, and one of them blocked down his Lieutenant with the butt end of hit mu&et. He was of eourfe arraa. ed; eighteen others were alfo lent to.the guard houfe. 44 There is no doubt they would eagerly take the fir& opportunity of joining the Swedes or the Eng. lifh. If the latter could land, before it is too late, so or 30.000 men in Pomerania, there is no doubt but they might in a very thort time colic& an army fufficient to take Berlin and occupy the Oder, fo as to cut off all commuicatlon with the army. In Berlin there are not soo men. All the troops are gone in carriages to the army. “ Among the Dutch troops here are many Pruffians, who fay they have been compelled to enter the let. vice, by being harvest, and even beaten in prifon, where many dicd of hunger. They vow revenge openly.” " DOVER, APRIL tst " A Gentleman who left Fluffing three days ago. and has arrived here, Rates, .that it was confidently rumoured there in the private circles, that upwards of to,ooo men of the French army in Poland were known to have died through fatigue and want of provifions. It was alto reported that the French had fuffered another fevere defeat about 54 days ago.— There is a fine new frigate, 0f44 guns. lying at that port ready for fea : three new !hips of 74 guns each, and three frigates are expeeted there from Antwerp in a Mort time to be fitted, but manned they cannot be from that part of the coat. as every foldier and 'Allot. are gone to the army, and the inhabitants are called out twice a day to praflice (mall arms. A great part of the Boulogne flotilla is likewife expeaed at Plating this month or the next." Letters from Goree. dated the 26th of February s mention that all wu tranquil there, and the loyal African corps quite healthy. There were no (hips of war on the coati. The ARAI has been difpatched to the WeA-Indies, on the arrival of the Aaao and the ADAMANT ; and the Aaao has fine failed for the fame place. Sierra Leone is now a Government Colony. and General FIIAZ am was daily expelled with more officers and men for the African Corps. The William Pitt, from London, had arrived with the crew of the Jen• ney from the Cane place. They failed from England in January lan, in company with the Wee India fleet ; and the Jamey was unfortunately run down by a Welt Indiaman ; but all the officers and men *ere raved. His Royal Highnefs the Duke of COliallitaND bas refigned the command of the St,ttth Weft Dittriet. Aber. 1 Cabinets itotiontos and tot.vrstet, are 21/10fig the officers *hole regimata are intended for tte ' Continent. , .t• The loth Veteran batthlion, commanded by Co. .. !noel Zonell, hate marched into Portfinotith to em bark for North America. The toissmiffiosets of the New Barrack toard hate been dune away. Tht duty is in suture to be done by one Officer, a Barrack-Mager-General. The large Ertit and Well-India fleets are Rill de taineil at Porifmouth, nor is it probable that they can fail for fume days. The aril battalion of the 6th Foot, and the sth battalion of the froth Regiment, received orders la* week to be ready to embark. There are now embarked at Portfmtioth-t•• The tit Foot, or Scots Rilysle,eomatantied by LL CoLSTiniraiti. 3d battalion of ditni - Colonel Btrt.sen. Atb banana, of ditto Major Hu mina Bildt Foot, a ItOallrlib, sd battalion Major Rots 34th, ad battalion - LLVOL PAILIMILL Lob, . two companies lath Regiment, ad battalion • Lt. Cat narrow told Ilegiment - . Lt. Col. Poitatta The s6th, or Pompadours, hate been diferrharked at the I& of Wight till the Indiamen come round foe them. Recruits and detachments go out to all the tape Regiments, particularly the 4th battalion of the both, and to the Cape Regiment, each of which _get. 200 men. The following . among many other Officers, gO udt to the tape : Bripdiere Genera) Cams and WitaTnsitas. Major Lyeria of the Cape teglrna.L _ Dr Hoar, I°4:camel Hofpitala General MURRAY is fpuken of as Commander is Chief there. The sd battalion of the 83d Itegiment, commanded by Colonel GORDON, and the id battalion of the fipth, commanded by Colonel Egerton have PAR been embatked for Guernf e y t from wh ence, with the 3111, sd battalion, they will fpeedily be C ent t• join their 111 battalions. The 3d battalion of the Scots Royals, and the ad battalion of the poth, or Perthibire Highlanders, are embarked for leder. The Bays have jolt received orders, and will be one of the fiat Regiments Fent to the Continent. Betides the Officers already mentioned in the STAR, we learn that gir DAVID SAiRD, Sir ARTHUR WILLISLIT, Generals WARD PORT . , SPRICIIII, and Mualar, and the gallant Marquis of HosTLet, will be immediately employed. The latter is not yet cured of his wounds. NAUTICAL INTBLLIWINCI. PALMOUTH, APRIL Ty. Yeßerday failed the Prince of Wales packet, Cap tain Tobb, with mails for Linton ; Carteret packet, PATTIRSOII, with mails for Gibraltar and Malta; Atnelia packet, &ravens, with mails for Jamaica; Endeavour armed•brig, with convoy to the Wee *a rd.—W ind N. YARMOUTH, APRIL zn. Yeflerday arrived the FLoaa and Maclaine fri gates, the former is expelled to carry over Lord Gowaa to the Court of St. Peteriburgh...4ailed the Cautzta (loop of war on a cruise.—The Chrillian and Margarett, of and from Grangemouth, bound to London, with bottles. nee. got nn the Scroby Sand, where the crew left ber 1 the has fine floated off and is now on this beach.—Wind N. PORTSMOUTH. APRIL zss. Arrived the Proton fchooner from a cruize ; and the Feet bomb, with a convoy from the Downs. COWES, APRIL 19. LaR evening. at (even o'clock, the EaR Qt2ebec, and Halifax fleets, under convoy of the Jo 'trait, which weighed from their moorings at Spit head and the Motherbank. at s t A. M. had fuch an offing. as to be fcarcely viable. The Wind blowing very arong from N. 14. E. all this day, a continu ance of the gale for a few bows more cannot fail to give thefe fleets a rapid palrage down Channel. DEAL, APRIL 10. Sailed from the Downs lag night the FURY bomb, with the outward bound, under convoy for Pouo nsouth.—Arrived and failed for the river, the Malta, ELLIOTT, from Malta.—Arrived his Majeßy's fhips Leda and Childers. with a fleet of tranfports, under convoy from Portfrnouth.—Wind N.E. blows hard. DOVER, APRIL it. A fleet of tranfports and coaflers patted by this morning from the weftward, bound to the Riv ... Arrived off here this day, the brig Recovery, Captain Fastwict, of Qsebec, from the Bay of Hon. duns, with mahogany, bound to London, loft as anchor and cable; the Mint and Jackal gun-brigs have detained and fent in here the Pappenburg brig, Two Gefufters, Captain Moit.sa, from Nonnante, with a cargo of fah, bound to Norway.—Arrived in the Roads the Trompeufe !loop and Ruttier gun.brig from a anise. Aram t9.—A great many colliers have taken re. fuge in our harbour this day, the wind blowing very hard from the N. E. with heavy (quails of fnow and hail FROM LLOYD'S LIST. Gaoirseann, Apart. p.—Paffed by the Formes, Angell; St. Anna, Petafon ; Anna Elizabeth, Bea; Sophia Katharine, Baker; Vidtory, Matter; and the Riling Sun, Brualtoo, from Norway ; Mends, Goring ; from Medina; crows, Orayt ; Henrietta, Hindman ; and the Anna Margaretta, from Tonningen. Sailed the Argo, Ikikholla, for Oporto ; Leman poeket,Ceeneley. for Laken ; Induftry, Frampton, for Newfoundland; Anna, Quin. too. for Cork ; Bowdon. for Ouallky ; Tom, Parkes ;•••• • and the &week Lange, for Elbow. " There is no certainty," cried a moralizing As• rafter the other evening, 4. in any unarromplithtd purfuit of adventure. That I peremptorily deny," replied a gentleman in company, fince it is alfolutely certain that all the numbers drawn an Thurfday rest, in the Lottery, *ill prove Prizes ; and no lets a Prize, in the very fira-drawn samba, than that of ao,coo. Coan•Maaact, MUM LAU, Ann. so.—The frefh arrivals of Wheat to day coallwife, are lot very numerous, but there are about 5,000 quarters im ported in Neutral veld' from France.—ln the early part of the day this trade was at a (mall advance, but heavy afterwards—Barley in tolerable fupply, and fine (amples are dearer—White PISS further advance in price—Tick Beans are alto dearer—Oats are in large tupply at (mall variation—Flour as our lel, and upwards of is t oco barrels are arrived from America.