Star. — London, England, 1811-08-16 00:00:00

atitait thetn,. u Counsellor O'Connell and ite Catho lic Conirnittee." Mr. O'Connell returned thanks in an able and eloquent speech. " The Chairman then proposed the health of— "Counsellor O'Gorman and the Catholic Bar of Ire- land," which drew from .he company iota and-con tinued applauses. Counsellor O'Gorman returned thanks in an impressive and interesting address, in which he took a succinct review of the Catholic cause, from the perfidious ♦iolation of the Articles of Lime tick, down to the present time. Mr. Howley, Mr. Arthur, and several other Gentlemen, delivered their sentiments with much elo quence and in a tone of independence, worthy the great cause in which they are embarked, and upon the speedy success of which rests the happiness of Ito land, and the security of the Empire. We contem plat with infinite satisfaction the manly yet tempe rate and truly constitutional conduct •of our Ca- LONDON. IRIDAY, AUGUST 16. PRICE Oft STOCKS THIS DAY AT Ot4E CYCI.Oeb. • 5 per Ct. Coos : for mow 6ile y litm for steam 62 1 1 f 3 per Cent. Reduced 66 1 63. 1 per Cent 941; 4 per Cent. 711 —Bonds tea. prern.—Omnium 1 f &B.- EscL. Bill.) (3+ Is. tEs. to Is. pro..—Ditto (36d.) ss. prem. thelic countrymen, at this arduous period of their Last night we received a regular series of Paris persecution, and certain are we, th .t they will pro- Papers to the 10th inst. from which we have given teed without bending to Mr. Pole, or .compromis some French official details respecting military opera- ing with the faction." Cons in the Peninsula.. They are in the usual born- " ARREST uNnea THE PROCLAMATION.—Yesterday bastic stile of the communications suffered to be made Doctor Sheridan,, who, it is alledged, had been to the Parisians. ! chosen a Delegate for the pu/pose of preparing a Under the head of the Army of Portugal, it is sta- Petition to Parliament from the Catholics of Ire ted, that Badajoz being in a formidable state of de. land, was brought before the Lord Chief Justice, fence, and provisioned fqr eight'montbs, tho Duke of and entered into bail to stand his trial for the al- RaGusa was about to place his army in quarters in the , lodged effcnce." Valley of the Tagus, with an advanced guard on the Guadiana, the little corps - keeping up the communica tionbetweentlearmy of Portugal and that of the South. THE KING. We have scarce any thing to add to what we have lately mentioned upon the subject of his MADE. TY'S state. Dr. SIMMONS was called into consultation a' few days ago, and the result was, what we have al ready stated, a declaration, that though no improve ment has taken place in the symptoms of his MA JEsvi's mental malady, no immediate apprehensions of danger were to be entertained. The following is the Bulletin of this day : " WINDSOR-CA ST LL, AUOIIST 16. " His NTAS s%l* V: , symptoms remain the K4tie to-day. (6iineS) " UALIOSD, W. lIIBERDEN, R.WILLIS." From the statement under the head of the army of the 14orth, it appears chat the General of Division, Du- NiosTlEp, WitS sent from Valladolid with 10,000 in tanti)., and 1,500 cavalry, to take a position on the Coa, in front of Ciudad Rodrigo. Figneras is stated to be so straitened for provisions, that it must shortly surrender at discretion. JOSEPH arrived at Madrid on the 15th ult. Some particulars are given, under the head of the Army of the Centre, of the victory obtained over the Spanish General Swxws•or ZAYAS, and in the South, of the defeat of the attempt made by the Spaniards upon Ronda. Wednesday, at half-past two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office, in Downing sti eet, which was attended by most of the Cabinet We have received Dublin Papers of Tuesday last, ; Ministers. The Council sat till five o'clock, when a from which, we are sorry to observe , that party spirit ytheydjourned to meet again yesterday at half-past two o 'clock. It was then attended by Earl CAstra:N, !Urn high among the Catholics. Another Delegate i M r, PERCEVAL, K Mr. .YORE, Mr. RYDER, Marquis (Dr. SHEEIDAN) has been arrested and held to bail, WCL.LESLEY, Earl of LivEttrooL, Viscount MELVILLi' ~ Wltcl meetings still continue to beheld throughout the &c. The Council sat till about half-pest four. It country, in defiance of the Proclamation, at will be was formally summoned by the Marquis Wur,ESLEV, and the business .vas supposed to be the affairs of seen by the following Extracts . Russia. The Members of the Council came from . FROSI THE DUBLIN EVENING POST OF AUGUST 13 : their several' country seats to attend. At the break .' The Proclamation has been issued only to be Zing up ofthe Council, Earl CAMDEN returned to the laughed at, and the arrests have taken place, to in. ldcrtiess, in Kent, and most of the other Ministers crease, it should seem, the honest, manly, constitu- i to their country houses, so that the business they met 1 upon was supposed to be decided. tional spirit of the Irish people. The Catholics con- i Yesterday New-York papers to the Ilth July, were time to meet —r they appoint their Delegates to the I received, from which we copy the following important General Committee—and in this they are supported I article : hyehe Protestant rant, by the Magistrates and Gentry Mit Act. OF A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN IN %YAW of the country. lit the county of Tipperary the Pro. INCTON, GEORGIA, TO 1115 BIIOTIIER IN LEXINGTON. elamation is a subject. of general ridienle, particu- " The Militia, composing the Eastern division of larly with the Magistracy, several of whom ',attended t this State, Are ordered to bold themselves in readiness to m arch at a minute's warning. The cause of this or the Catholic Meeting. The Hon. Francis Pritt i e , Re - d e r i s not known. There are various conjectures of presentative of the County and Custos Rotulorum, the subject : some think the Government have it in was present; Thomas Lidwell, Esq. was also pre- contemplation to take possession of East Floridan others suppose that the British intend taking rt. If sent ; and many Protestant Magistrates signified their so, our Covet iiment will dispute the point with them. determination to protect their Catholic friends from The Gcvernor of that province (White) is dead, and any such proceeding attempted to be founded on the kis said t hat St. lac Augustine is in a weak and defence- Proclamation. However, the most cordial unatai' less situation." mity between Protestant and Catholic prevailed-pa Mrr. JOHN HARE Powees, the American Secretary 'the occasion." of Legation, left town last night to embark for Ame- Clhe Resolutions entered Into at the Meeting were merely as rice, with dispatches, echo of those which have been pas,ed at similar Meeting ito caber Monday-last, his OrrICE the Duke of NORTIIUNII3EII - They declare the deerroluation of tke Catholics to Pea. ; LAND, endowed and opened, at Alnwick, a Seminary Sion, and vote Thanks to those Individuals who have Supported for Two Hundred Boys, the children of the neigbaur is:. Catholic Cause, both in and oat of Parliament.] ing poor, to be clothed, fed, and. educated at his " QCKLN'S Cousrr Mrsnlyci.—We have now to Grace's sole expense and bounty, enacting, as an ex ress clause in this permanent institution, that the notice thetatholic Meeting eft e Queen's County— . NATAL DAT of the Receer should be observed for that coentyof irhicliWsu. W. pole, is a representat ive I ever as a holiday. in order that the boys, as they grow --in which his landed property is Situated, .and where I up, may learn to reverence and bless that PRINCE, to , it may be supposed *he enjoys some personal influMce I whose honour this munificent establishment has been —that county where every threat and artifice had been. consecrated. restated to,-itterder to intimidate and subdue the C. ; In consequence of a terrible thu;der storm, 1 accom panied with eadful litning, rai, tholics. The Meeting of this coJaty, on Thursday and ail, wch i lately raged in dr different g p h arts of the n county h of I.eit hi rim, last, was More numerous and respectable than any and tctally destroyed the different crops of the tenan rememisevedarsintilar,occasion." ~ - I try of Luke White, Esq. and other head landlords, ,Walks -Resolution to those honied at Tipperary were en' the poor sufferers, at the General Assizes, holden at terail betel . 1 Carrick on Shannon, petitioned both Mr. White and " ',initial CATSIOLIGMerrnen.- - -On Faiday last, , the Grand Jury for compensat;on for their losses, . amounting to X-1•000 at, least, hut Mr:White generoust a numerous and highly reepeetable Ca th olic Meeting allowed his tetiantrythe whole amount of their losses, was held at theCominercial Buildings, Limerick, Joins • and gave orders to hiss gents and receivers to act ac- Howley, ,inn. Esti. in th e Chair. Several Resolutions ! cardm , g.y. to petition Parliament for the redress of grievances, i S atur d ay l ast, . the coach and horses belonging to were agreed to. Counsellor parry, Michael Arthur, she stage, which-goes from Ile stings to Brighton, and John Flotaßysiun• EMT. were appointed to pre- were seized by a Custom-house officer, at South Bourn. 1 . are the same, and so co-operate with the. General It appeared that the coachman had taken a parcel at Bexhill, on his way, directed to a person at a trades man's, at South Bourn, which contained foreign of LOrd I iogall, and the other Members, on the 3lst • gloves and handkerchiefs. As the coach was detained, Aar, was approved of, as also the sentiments express. the pse:engers were obliged to have post-chaises to ed by George Lidwell, Esq. Thank s were returned take them to the end of their journey. • ea Counsellors O'Gorman and Connell, as the steady 1 Monday, at Exeter, Jane Cox was executed at the advocates of Catholic Emancipation. . New Drot> for the murder of an illegitimate child, to her sentence. She addressed the specta tors " After tile Meeting, CounsellersO'Cc nnell, O'Gor- pursua nt _ at some length, and i n a very audible manner; • man, and several othee distinguish ed Catholic Gentle. . she repeated her former confession. with some fur men, were entertained at dinner by the Roman Catho- thee particulars respecting the means used by Tucker lizs of the city. Dinner was announced, and the ,to prevail on her to commit the horrid deed, for which she acknowledged she ought to die ; but la .. TrerlSS thrown open at seven o'clock. • " JOUN HOWLEY, jun. Esq. was called to the cow... . • 1 mooted that the person who had instigated her to the , I commission of it was not also to su ff er with her.— '"" • " After the healths of "The King," and " :r" . The other prisoners,who received sentence of death i t : - r , ince Regent," several Wise Magi irate gives ; were reprieved before the Judges left town. I .a • it p , % .kr 2 time SOW tif fnpplteei Land commonlcatton viih the :heat. 4 1`Itings remained in this satiation when the last advice: were. received :rom Palerrao, " Were I to enter into detail, I could enumerate very thany Instances of oppression and disregard of th- rights and privileges of the English nation, an d of its commerce. lately practiked hert., the particulars o r whieh go home by this packet, in a petition to the Right Honourable the,COmmissioncrs of the 11,mrd of Trade, from all the merchants resident in Sicily, which we trust !thy be the means of obtaining for us the advantage of a commercial treaty." . ' _ _ THE EVENING STAR. * • THE ARMY, A . 2 ':11 • „ The 7th Dragoons began to 'embark yesterday ‘f from Portsmouth f they are deatined.for. Lisbon. The sth Dragoon Guards, who embarked on Mon day and Tuesday, are quite ready, and waiting a wind. They will be convoyed by the WoLvenme. Yesterday upwards of forty of our wounded eoun trymos, bravely returned from Portugal, sailed from Millers Wharf in the smack tliza for Leith, as also 16 volunteers from the Inverness-shire Militia, to join the 424 Regiment. Captain ADANIS'S Company of Artillery have marched into Portsmouth to do duty in the room of the Company embarked for North America. A transport has arrived at Plymouth, with some sick and wounded British troops from Lisbon. She sailed in company with four others, and left the Tagus on the Ist inst. but brings no news from the army. The typhus fever still continues its ravages, both at Lisbon and other places, and the Portuguese are still labouring under the extremes of wretchedness. Sunday 50 Volimieers for different Regiments are to embark on board the Prompt smack, Captain DA- VIDSON, from Tilbury Fort, for Leith. . The East Norfolk Militia, commanded by the lion. Colonel Vvronenouse, is under orders to embark for Ireland. Wednesday se'nnight the first regiment of Inver. nets-shire Local Militia, the Hon. Colonel A. tit/ilea of Lovat, Commandant, and which has been at In verness on permanent duty for the last fourteen clays, was reviewed by the Hon. Major General Lesur, who was highly satisfied with . their military appear ance, marching, steadiness under arms, and the pre cision with which they executed their various manceu, vres and firings. After the inspection, the officers of the corps gave an elegant entertainment to the Gene ral and a se lect party of the inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. TORBAY, AUGUST 14; Sailed the DAPPER gun-brig, with the transports having on board militiamen for Ireland.—Wind E. PLYMOUTH, AUGUST 14. The wind having again shifted to the Northward, the MELPOSIENE frigate and the convoy mentioned in my last, got under way this morning, and have sailed for Lisbon.—Passed down Channel, from the Eastward, the Rartn brig of war.—Sailed the HA VANNA!' frigata, to crnize off L'Orient ; and the VESTA sloop fur the Mediterranean. PORTSMOUTH, AUGU6T 15. Arrived his Majesti's ships TYRIAN and DEXTER °us, from a cruize ; Zaruvu, from Cork ; Ptosez cut ter, with convoy from the Down...—Sailed the Gos- HAWK on a cruize.—Wind S.S.W. DEAL, AUGUST IS. Put back several of the outward-bound.—Sailed the PARTIIIAN sloop of war on a cruise off Flushing. YARMOUTH. AUGUST 15. •-. . - Vice-Admiral Amami has this morning shifted his Fla , * from the CHAN'TICLEER to the Artre. Arrived, the ELIZA armed ship, and the ERITISII Famentter, with the Hope trAnspott, No. 219, with a Company of Artillery, hound for Leith ; DESIREK frigate; and HEARTY gun-brig. Sailed, the CHANTICLEER, for Hull; the EGERIA sloop of war, and HAsq.:,: gua.brig, for the Downs.—Wind S.W. A new-built ship of war, call'," the MINDEN, has been recently built . at flombay, and on the Bth of February last left that port upon her first cruize. She was manned by the crew of the Russell.. Wednesday sennight a boat going from Newburgh to Peterhead, being deeply laden with muscles, was, by the strength of the tide and swell of the sea sunk near Boddom-head, when ull on boatd, consisting of two men ands young wo:a in, the daughter of one of them, were Unfortunately drowned. Yesterday a Ballot was t: mittec to manage the afrai dose of which, the number :aken at Lloyd's for a Corn irs of that House; at the s were as follows 3 Inurs Swaney, E.q. W. Parry, jun. Esq. L. Burnard, Esq. Boyce Comb% E•q. J. Lindsay, jun. Esq. Robert Crew, Esq. Heury Hum, Esq. John Atkins, Esq. A. Atulerson, Esq. E. T. Waters, Esq. H. Claggett, Esq. 4 ;4 J. Marryat, E.sq. M. P. 43 Robert tahedden, Eq. 450 Joshua Re-v#, Esq. - 438 1 Benjamin Shaw, Esq. 394 Thus it °wet-oft, Esq. 3814 James trines, Esq. 340 W. Parish, Esq. 310 George Munro, Esq. 995 W. S. Hathaway, Esq. 96$ 3. 11. Noble, Esq. 243 The first twelve Gentli elected. • 91 .men were declared duly DiscovEnv is ITAt.v.—The ancient city of which underwent the ever-memorable siege by the Rcmans in the year of Rome ;GO, and which was again erected and embeßished by the Emperors, be ing ruined in a furious eioption..of the barbarians, it was permitted on the decline of the Empire to remain in a state cit desolation, arid its reliques, covered with rubbish tad roil, ar^ trr.v yielding plzatiful crops.— M. Georgi, iin eminent agricultulk, and owner of the land, had the curiosity to (li t ; into, the bosom of the old scite, and on discovering par: of a range of coltimrs at twelve feet below the stirlace, he employ ed thirty men to follow out his discovery. The re search still continues; they found a most huutiful statt4 of Tiberius 3 it is of the heroic size, and in a sitting attitude. The head bears a striking resem blance to the Emperor's medals, and is sublime both in execution and expre:sion ; the arms, the knees, the hair, and tlie drapery, are excellent. It is of Greek marble, and the evident work of a Grecian artist : along with the statue they found a fine bust, suppos ed to be the had rlf Lepidits, the Consul, a Phrygian slave, a Caryatides,. a beautiful head of Flora,-the i lower part of the figure of a priestess, with drapery, in the style of the first masters, a Dolium of an im mense size, with many capitals of various orders in a 1 , good state of preservation. Many greater discoveties are expected to be made by M. Georgi in this inte resting braech of antiquarianism. Saturday evening Wakeman, and a soldier of the Staffordshire Militia, quarrelled at the Inn public house, in Windsor, when the soldier struck Wakema a blow on the temple, of which he died next morning. - ~~.: I ,- • • Letd• IfftWORTIt eta ifr. r. POLL Ta the VDITOK of the STAR. SIR —1 request you to insert the enclosed note frotTl • Mr. POLE, togttlirt with the statement to which it refers. - Captain l(oalNsoN, who is in the country, transmitted that statement to me this mornin4 foe publication, will our signatures.—Your most' olir client servant, (Signed) m. 811AWIt. 32, halt-moon-street, August t 4, Ist l. • " t 9, Conduit-street, 14th August. a My dear Shavre—Perceieltig, with the ettreme sops prise, a statement, bearinz the signature of my Lord Kitwonb, is which it is averted, that by received on the ground a' Wimble don Common, a satisfactory 'polar! from Lie, I mast request that you wilt not lose a moment in making public (de ratentent, of which the paragraph signed Kitworth Lei glean so false ate Isccotua. " Your 's, sinceray, " W. WILLIt4I.I.I . (Signed) rocs Several erronepus reports having gone forth rela tive to a meeti,ng which recently took place between, ' Lord Kftwourit And Mr. W. W. Pot.e, the seconds , deem it proper to publish the following statement: In consequence of a misunderstanding which occurred at art Assembly, en Tuesday evening, a meeting wok place betweelk Lord Kilworth and Mr. W. W. Pole. , Lord Kilworth was attended by Captain Robinson, of tb Quards, and Mr.. Pole, by Lieu erant-Colontl Shawe. The 'seconds on both sides were called on so short a time before • the htWir *whited foe the meet.ng, that no communication could take plate billireen them before they reached thu ground. 1 1 Alma atoll C.ollVirfAttinls btravrep the seconds, it appeared to them, that the atiair bad oritin.ded er irrly iu n: , conattio7, *ben lexpfaibatiats to the satisfaction of both parties took place, and retry thing was anda.hly adjusted in the most hotooiable manner. • llt did not appear to the seconds that any apology was nacre. atary, nor was any made. R. ItoLl MSO9, . .14th August, 1811. . M. *RAWL. Mr. BLACRIE, the pedestrian, performed his teenth day's task oldie BARCLAY inAtch tolerably well on Tuesday, although *be had fallen off 4om;deiably, by swollen feet, &c. in the last three days. He is yet backed to win. DUUFRIICS PorcLATloN.—The population of Dam fries presents us with the melancholy list of 926 dam sels unprovided with ma•es. The town has increaled in inhabitants within the last ten years I 192, being more than a seventh of the whole population. Tuesday morning a pitched battle was fought. for two guineas a side, between two labouring young m•ti of the names of Saunders and Thomas, of Ilford, Es- sex, in a field ne.ir that place; where they met attended by their seconds and a vast number of spectators, and set to with great courage and resolution, but very little science. After fighting fifty minutes, add a great number of knockkiown-blows having been given on both sides, the latter, who was exhausted and nearly beat blind, gave up the contest. 'l'l. quarrel origi mated conccraing a female whom they both courted. Tuesday se'inlight, as three men were employed on *ladder, in raising another ladder to the top of the house of Drum, near Aberdeen, they were ell preci. I.ritate.l to the ground with one of die ladders,. when One man, was killed on the spot, and another so much. bruised, that his recovery is rather doubtful. Last week a servant belong , ing to Mr. Dewdney parer malter.of Bradninch, returning from Torsluni with a load of tagi And old rope, fell from the shafts of the waggon on which he was riding, when the wheel I passing over his body, killed him on the spot. • ~Susratisx Amoral.. —On Wednesday after:teem as seven Pensioners, coming in a boat from Chelsea Hospital, where they had received their Pension. money, were passing through London Bridge, the boat, by some accident, upset, by which they were immersed in the stream; four of them were picked up by some Waterrnen who went to their as,istanc. . and conveyed them to a house at Eiiling2ate: but the I other three unfortunately sink, and were dr owned. Daniel Dauton, who is in custody on an indiCtment, charging him with poisoning horses, was yesterday brought to Marlborough-street office ) and ide, - ,tified ,by virtue of the Judge's warrant. The prisoner, it appears t is charged wi th having poisoned some va... 'cable horses at Newmarket, the last Spring Meeting, with which particulars the public are acquainted. Ho protested his innocence of use charge against him, and was taken off for Cambridge Prison for trial at due March Assizes. There were present a numerous as semblage of the Turf Nobility and Guar], with multitude of amateurs, low in the fancy. A woman of the name of Margaret Beam was de tected, stealing a child, four years old, from Mary-lae bonnelane, on Tuesday eveiung. The miscreant, a. usual in such cases, had enticed the child away, un. der, pretence of buying bin a toy, but she was de tected carrying him off in her arms, SOO yards from the house of Ftis parents, an artist of the name of Scovin. She wits taken to Marlborough-street Office, and committed for trial. Wednesday evening, about six o'clock, as Mr. Bur.. hitt, chemist, in Fleet-street, accompanied by a, 1 friend, were travelling in a gig, they were stopped by three footpads, armed with pistols, at Great Book. ham, near Leatherhead, on their way to Guildford, who robbed thorn of their cash and watches, also of ..their chains and seals, but, sing tilar to relate, they re. turned Clem. They were pursued, and come up with o ar HeaLi 7 ey Heath, near Bei:full, hut they made their eseape into a thick cover and wood, and it having be .come dark, they could not be found. At Lanark fair, on Wednesday se'nnight, there were a great number of lambs, more than were e ver witnessed on any former occasion. Besides those from th, extensive moors and hills of Clydesdale, many were collected born tie counties of Peebles, Selkirk, Dum fries, and Ayr, all of. which seemed in the best pos tihle condition. • Although there were many mer chants from the .north country, and the sales eaten. 'live, itt frlwn Li to £lO a score, yet some remained unsold. The sale among the horses seemed rather confined.' Toe cloth in the market met with a sale, but the prices were somethingreduced. ManK.ltne.—This day the market again has very few further arrivals of Wrieat, not milch on hand, and last prices in this trade fully maintained. Barley and Malt at little fluctuation in price. Few White Peas, , and rather dearer. Grey, and Beans of each descrie. ' don, nearly at the last currency. There are very few arrivals of o.rs, and alit article, for fine samples, named x triae.dearer. Flour without variation. oar ta AL comasSICT As swats. Wheat 706.' Mt-31M. Beans, 435. loVs. Fine ditto, 10.46:1035. Tier ditto. 34e. JOG. Rye, 3Ss, 42x. Oats 21s. 2Ss. ths. Barley, , SS.. Sas, Od. Poland ditto, SO& Sls. ad. Matt. 66i. 735. Potato, sllttn, 325. Sas. White Pees (Boilers) Us. SS'. Rape Seed £33 £42 Fsoe Flour, 113 s. to 901.-.-Secoods, 501, to Us. 9 4 l 210 165 1411 141 • _J