Star. — London, England, 1807-01-26 00:00:00

DEFEAT OF THE FRENCH, IN 'CONTINUATION /ROM TNt PRIMING PAGN. , MMIOM , ' In the afternoon of Saturday, the following Note Was fent from Lord Howices Office,to the different departments of Government, "BULLETIN, JAN. 24, Igo?. “ Lord Notelet has juft received intelligence, of the truth of which he has not the leait doubt. that an anion was fought between the Ruffians and French, on the e7th of December laR, which continued dace fucceffive days, and on the lait of which the French retreated, with the lots of 43,000 flain, and 83 pieces of cannon. The fcene et adtion was at Oftrolenika, fiaty or feventy miles from Warier. The enemy made their retreat to within eight land of that place, and were alto entrenching tbcmfelves at Niarienburgh.” _ In the accounts which we poblifhed on Saturday, our Readers would obferve, that the French were boating of having obtained confiderable advantages over the Ruffians. The fad appears to be this. In the beginning of the conteft on the 27th December, the left wing of the French army made Come impref fion on the right wing of the Ruffians, but on the two following days the left wing of the Ruffians fully fuc ceeded in repairing the lofs their right had fuftained, and gained a complete vidory, the French having ioa 40,000 men in killed and prifoners, befides 8o pieces of cannon, almoft all they had been able to drag along. NAPOLEON, it may be expelled, will endeavour to glofs over their defeat, and to hide it from the people under his rule ; but this he will find to be impoffible. Indeed, we are able to announce, that already it is very generally known in Holland. A fmall veffel from Rotterdam arrrived off Dover on Saturday, which left the former place on Thurfday. She brings intelligence, that it was very generally circulated that a dreadful battle had bnen fought between the i Ruffians and French, in which the latter had expe rienced fo fevere a defeat, that Navot.som was re treating from Poland, with the remains of his army, as fall as he poffibly could. The very circumftance of the Ruffians having foiled Boum-re, far more than beating him, will give new energy to the Prnffians. The refources of the Allies will multiply, and the difficulties of Bo- NAPARTII will increafe. The inhabitants of Germany would rife as one man the moment they got any rap port. The Heffians already had rifen before thefe events, and the infurreftion would be general after they were known. It will be impoffible, therefore, for Bowarra to remain in the conquered provinces, outlets he can defeat the Ruffians. In thefe circumftances if the Aultrians would come into aEtion, BONAPAITB could hardly efcape. No preconcerted plan could ever enable the Auftrians and Ruffians to ad at one moment, as Bomerairra could always have anticipated their junEtion ; but now events have given the Auftrians all the benefit of the Ruffians, and at a time when BONAPARTS is at' , a diflance from France ; and, if they negled this op portunity, they can never expel another fo favour. able. Holland is at this moment deffitute of troops, every French and Dutch foldier having been fent away to reinforce the grand army. Murmurs are very general ; and fince the foldiers were taken away, there murmurs are more loud in Holland than they have been for years. The taxes laid on by King Lou is are fo exceffive, that they can hardly be colleCted by any means. _ _ The embargo which had for Come time been laid on all veffels in the Dutch ports was taken off on Sunday fe'nnight. We may therefore now expel to receive intelligence from Holland more frequently than we have been able to do for force time pall. FOREIGN JOURNALS To the sift infant came to hand yeßerday, from which we have given ample extrafts. The Bulletins cf the French army, it will be teen, do not bring down the details fo late as the 29th ult. and herefore their contents' may be confidered as no way invalidating the preceding accounts. We are concerned, however, to Rate, that jut as our paper was going to prefs a rumour reached us of later accounts than any of there, which Rate, that ANOTHER BATTLE Hat been fought, in which the French are reported to have been victorious. We wifh we could entirely difcrcdit the &dement, but it comes to us through Inch a channel, that we fhould not perform our duty to the public, if we were entirely to withhold the in• telligence. We are hopeful, however, that when the real particulars &all be known, they will prove lefs difAttous than the account that has reached us, which Rates in fubltance tI , That the French army had N rallied again, broken through the Ruflan line, and 66 obtained a viEtory fimilar to that at Aufterlitz, 66 nearly fourteen months ago." We have not the means of arcertaining the degree of credit due to this report. It would give us much fastisfaEtion to be able, in our next, to Rate, that it is not credited in the higher political circles. RECAPTURE OF BUENOS AYRES. Saturday morning the Wellington tranfport, Capt. HARRI3OII, arrived at Portfmouth, with Captain Eust trims, .late of his Majelly's (hip DrnMlDr, charged with difpatches from Sir 11014 A Por ma, relating to the recapture (or rathei evacuation) of this important fettlement. We have taken confider able pains to cbtAin fuch information of this cut cult. ly inteteiting event. -as siaild fully relied opest4J The reports fince the arrival of the Wellington being falfe and contradiftory ; the following we have from. 4 •s••• thefili authority : " The military and inhabitants of Buenos Ayres, ' , amounting to about sz,oco men, having organifed and armed themfelves into a military body, attacked the force under Majnr General BERISFORD, COII• filling of about 1450 men, on the loth, ttth, and 12th days of Antra. The aftions fought on there days were bravely and obflinately contended ; the Spaniards fought approaching to a flare of fury ; many of our brave men were killed and beat down by fuperiar numbers at the muzzle of their guns. glorious defence was attended with the lofs on our part of taa men and officers killed and wounded, and of 1300 men taken prifoners, contrary to the m ind*s articles of capitulation. The troops detained are, 700 of the 71 ft (Highland) regiment, 150 of the St. Helena corps, aad the remainder, the marines and the brigade of feamen ; part of which previorfly reached their (hips. General BEILISFORD was de tained. Captain KINNIT, of the Engineers ; and Lieutenants Mt roost'. and LUCAS, of the 7111 re giment, were killed.—The Spaniards loft about boo men. The inhabitants of Buenos Ares are com puted at 70,000 perfons; many of thefe fired fiom the tops of their houfes upon our troops as they were marching out of the town. 44 On the 2d of Oflober a reinforcement, of be tween z and 3coo men, arrived from the Cape of Good Hope, confining of the 38th and 47th Regis ments, and 350 of the 2 tft Dragoons. On the 28th of that month an attack was made on Monte Video. It, however, foon appeared that the men of war could not enter near enough to bombard the town, with fufficient circa to cover the landing of the troops, although they fucceeded in filencing the batteries; and the attack was given up. The troops were taken to Maldonado, a ftrong port, near the mouth of the River Plate, rendered impregnable by nature ; the Ifland of Gotiti, which is ftrongly fortified by art, protects it. On this peninfula our troops are fecurely and comfortably fituated ; the men of war flask them on each fide. The Spaniards, foon atter they landed there, meditated an attack on them ; but they were fo convinced of their hermetical fituation, that the Spanilh troops refnfed to march agoinft them. The enemy fuffered a lofs of about 66 perfons killed and wound ed, at the bombardment of Monte Video ; we had none killed or wounded. Our troops are anzioufly and ardently waiting there for reinforcements from England : when thefe arrive, no doubt can be enter tained (we are told) of their permanent fuccefs, both againit Buenos Ayres and Monte Video :—lndeed, confidering the great difparity of force, it is furprifing that our troops were not all deftroyed. We 1 ament to bear, that many of our brave fellows loft their lives by affaffination. The difhonourable condo& of the Governor of BuenosAyres, in detaining our troops, and marching them into the interior of the country, after he had figned the articles of capitulation, by which they were to embark on board of tranfports for Europe or the Cape, is a new difgrace to their nation. No merchantmen had arrived at Buenos Ayres from England, when the Wellington failed ; the Juftiard, which was going on an adventure to Botany Bay, and followed Sir Home from St. Helena to Buenos Ayres, was anchored fo high up the river that the was taken. " The Wellington failed from Buenos Ayres on the 4th of November, when the Diadem, Raifonable, Lancafter, Diomede, Leda, Medufa, Howe, Pto teaor, Encounter, and Rollo, were lying there." ARTICLES OF CAPITULATION, ace. Fort Buenos Ayres, lath Anguft, tBo6. The Bridal General having no forthCgobjea for remaining in Buenos Ayres, and to avoid an unneceffary effulon of blood, as alfo the deftrudion of the property of the inhabitants of this city, contents to deliver np the fort of Buenos Ayres to the Commander of his Catholic Majefty's Forces,on the following conditions aft, the Brides troops to march out with all the honours of war, to he eonfidered as prifoners of war, but to be embarked as loon as Poflible on board the Britifh tranfports now in the river, to be conveyed to England, or the Ration whence they came. 2(1, the Bridal on their entrance into this place made many Spanifh prifoners of war, which remained on their parole. and as the number of officers is much greater on one fide and of men of the other; it is agreed that the whole (hall be c. , :hanged for the whole, the Englifli tranfports returning to the place of their defli nation at cartels, and to be guaranteed as fuel by the Spanlfh Go vernment from capture on the voyage. 3d, Provibons,Scc. will be furnifhed for thr pelage of the Eng lifh troops, according to the ufual cuftom in like cafes. 4th, Such *wounded of the Britifh troops as cannot be removed on board of Blips &all remain in the Hofpitals at Buenos Ayres , either under charge of Spanifh er Britifh Surgeons, at the option of the Britith General, and (hall be furnifhed with every thing ne eeft:try, and on their recovery fent to Great Britain. sth, The property of all Englith fuhjetts in Buenos Ayres, to be refpedtcd. (Signed) w. C NAGESFORD. SANTIAGO CONIIDIDO Return of the killed, wounded, and miffing, of the troops under the command of Major General BE a c sro ao, from the loth tts the iath of Auguft, at Buenos Ayres; Ruy.'l Engineers—i Captain killed. Royal Artillery—s Captain, s Lieutenant wounded ; 3 rank and file killed, a wounded. St. Helena Serjeaut wounded, 9 rank and file killed, a 3 wounded. Driver— t rank and file wounded. Seventy-firft Regiment—t Lieutenant killed, z Colonel,' Lieu tenant, 1 Enfigns, wounded, a Sirjeant killed, 5 wounded, a mif fing, t drummer killed, 24 rank and file killed, 67 wounded. Royal Marinea—z Captain and a ferjeant wounded; 6 rank and file killed, 5 wounded, 8 miffing. St. Helena Regiment —z Lieutenant wounded, ferjeant killed, i rank and We killed, 4 wounded, 1 tnitsvg. Geucral 44. • • N. B. 5 itiat - e;t th . e . sofAllifilliarltoYal Marines St. Helena Regiment—toind-fisse - viag es the hofphal. Officers killed--Capt sin Kassa. isysi Ringineers, Lienkennatt W. Mitchell, ytft Regiment. Officers wounded...-Captain Macltensie, RM. Lieutenant Sampfon, St. Helm Regiment. Captain Ogilvie, Royal Artillery. Lieutenant Mc Donald, ditto. Lieutenant Colonel Pack, 7sit Regiment. Lieutenant Murray ditto. Fringe Carrel, ditto- BuGgo times, ditto (finee dead.) (Signed) Ate'. Fosses, B. Major. Statement of Property captured at Buenos Ayres, but not re moved ; and was re-captured OD the zach of Auguft. - DOLLARS. Goods of the Phillipine Company - . toz.ooo Debts due to ditto - - - 3,011447 40co Arob. 11. Tobacco, at 6 dollars, fold for is, 24,c00 200 ditto Parly ditto - • - ss,coo „to.coc Reams Faper 'is dollars) . 10OX00 Playing Cards - - . so,coet roo Quintals of Quiekfilver (40 dollars) 200,000 40,00011 m Spanilh Snuff (a dollars) - go,oco so,oo - -lbs. Havannab ditto (a dollars) • 40,000 57,5001b5. Dark (It dollar) • 56,550 3.673,797 Vacls and Floating Property - 1,500,0c0 3, 1 73,797 NoTr —No valuation is made in this itatement of the Timbers Treafure in Treafury, Powder in the Magazine s and of Armoury and Ordnance Stores. In the courfe of Saturday night the following Bul- letin was circulated among the Cabinet Minillers: " ADMIRALTY.° FFIC E, Jao. LI, t t o'clock P.M' " Captain Enswsna, late of his Majelly's thiplaro. MEDE, arrived this night with difpatches from Com. modore Sir Home Populist, dated in the Rio de la Plata, the al November, from which it appears, that Buenos Ayres was attacked on the gth Augufl, by a detachment of troops from Monte Video, affilled by the town's people, and militia of the country, and' obliged to furrender on the 1 sth, under a capitulatlcn the terms of which were not afterwards obferved.— General Bras:roan, the officers, troops, marines of the fquadron, and a few feamen, remained prifoners of war. " Upon the art ival of the reinforcements from the Cape of Good Hope, an attack wits made upon Monte Video, but without fuccefs. PolTeffion was then taken of Maldonado, at the mouth of the River, upon the 29th of Odober, where the troops were Rationed when Captain EDMONDS failed. His Majelly's Chips were at anchor in the road of that place, and their crews in perfed health." The following was alto fent to the LORD MAYOR ; * Admiralty-Office, Jan. as, a o'clock, A. M. _ _ _ "Mr Loan—l have the honour to inform your Lordatip, that Difpatelics are received from Sir Home Po PIA 11, dated Rio de la Plata, the 3cth of ()darer, by which it appears, that the town of Buenos Ayres, had been recaptured en the rub of Aesuit. It further appears that on the arrival of the reinforcements from the Cape, his Majefty's troops had taken poffeffion of the town and batteries of Maldonado. “ I have the honour to be, &c. ” TMOMAS oaanytt.r.z. " To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor. (A true Copy.) (Signed) 4 ‘ wag. taiouTor•" Captain F. FALLER, of the Navy ; and Captain Ls BLANC, of the 7ta Rugiment, who 101 l his leg at the Capture of Buenos 4yres, came home paf fingers in the Wellington. The troops which will firft arrives in the River Plate, to affia our brave little army there, failed from Falmouth on the loth of °Sober, under the command of Brigadier General Silt Sam UEL AC H MUTT. and coat(' of 8 troops of the 17th Regiment of Dragoons, three companies of the 95th Regiment (ad battalion,) 4oth and 87th Regiments, making together about 2700 men. The Ardent 64, Captain Dour; st.t.v, Refifiance and Unicorn frigates, and the Charwell !loop failed with them. THE CAPE AND INDIA. The Mons srs frigate, the Hon. Captain Ett.tos, will fail in a very few days with the new Governor- General of India; Lord CAL/DON, the new Gover nor of the Cape, likewife fails from , Portfmouth in a frigate, about the fame time, for his government. The Hon. General Gas r, brother of Lord Howice, is Ailing Governor as well as Commander in Chief at the Cape till Lord CALEDON arrives. A large fleet of Indiamen is now collating at Portf month, and will fail for the different prefidencics in a few days. THE ARMY. We bare of late given an interefting detail of the Report of the Military Commit oners on the Bar rack Department. We mean to prefent to our Read ers Abftraels of the Reports on the other Depart ments as they come in review 'before the Board of t Military Commiffioners. Ir is, we believe, now de termined, ta place the whole of the Barrack Depart. menu, along with the Ordnance, under the Earl of Moue. From the well known charaeter of bis Lordfhip, much clear arrangement, and a great Paving of the Public Money it this very estenfive Department, may now be looked for. Among the 2d battalions that have been molt fun cefsful in recruiting, is the 7 tft Highlanders, now at Glafgow. From the popularity of Lord Gamins BE' I map, and Major ARCHSBALD CAMPBELL, this battalion is now nearly complete. The tft battalion of this fine regiment is at Buenos Ayres,with General Bilasvozn. The zd battallnns Ertl completed, were thole of the dillinguifhed regiments, the 27th, or lonifkillen ; the 4zd, ox Royal. Highlanders the 78th, or Refs &Ire Highlanders ; 792 h, ar Cameron Highland ers and 91d; or Gorden, Highlanders. The ad batt a li on , of the 78th and 92d, have long fince been on fervice. The * 24 of the 78th is the regiment which fo ditlin. goifited itlelf under Coloned M , Lson in the battle of Maida. Another expedition, for a diaant quarter, is talked of, and to be commanded by a gallant Officer, wh e diainguilhed hintfelf in the Eaff, and who is e ir _ tremely popular in the Army. Bt igadier-Generals BRODERICK and ACK LEND, a n d Colonel DREW RY have returned from the army in the Mediterranean. Our military readers, and the cons. try in General, will rejoice to hear that Sir Joins STEWART, Sir JOHN MOORE, and Sir Sinner SMITH remain for the prefent with the Army—fuch heroes we would regret to fee unemployed at the prefen t moment. It is Paid that General Fox will return to England at no very diflant period ; we have even heard the names of two dillinguifhed Officers as hi s fuccelfor in the chief command in the Mediterran ean . Large detachments of recruits are now going out for the Goth and Eta Dragoons, 12th, Etath, and mot of the other regiments at the Cape and India, by the fleet now about to fail frcm Portfmonth. such has been the fuccefs of recruiting, uttr th e Septennial Synem, that the Depot in the Ifle of Wight, to which all recruits are fent, is fo thronged that great numbers are quartered on the victuallers at Newport, Cowes, and different villages in the ifland. The two Dutch Indiamen and a Dutch frigate, the capture of which we announced on Saturday, were all richly laden with the treafures of Batavia, accumulated fince the commencement of the prefent war. The lots of thefe valuable prizes, which have doubtlefs a confiderable quantity of fpecie or bullion on board, the hard earnings of Dutch induftry and trade in the Eall, mull have a powerful effelt on the tottering government of Kis: Louis, who fo recently boafted of the wealth of Batavia, and of the fuccours it would afford his government and good fubjeas of Holland. To the brave captors the veffels will be more produCtive than any other prizes taken fines the capture of the Spani(h treafure 'hips. FALMOUTH, JAN. 23.—Saded the Patscsss Au and the curra Jul acker, with a mail for Gibraltar and Malta ; iana, COLLINS, for Leghorn. Wind N. W. TORBAY, JAM. 24:..Yenerday failed his Majefty's 'hips Lost:sox and NARCISSUS, for Plymouth. This day failed his Majefty's (hips the SAN kw., MARS, BELLEROPHON, BAAFLEUR, PRINCI OF WALES, Pass- CESS ROYAL, MONARCH, GIBRALTAR, COHQSEIROR, and Ross, on a cruize. Wind North. Pet. mourn, JAN. 24..—Arrived the MARS, of 74 guns, from Torbay ; and the BRISK floop of war, from the Downs. Sailed the Greyhound revenue cutter, with the Commerce, Foot' matter, for London, laden with feiaed limits. Came down the ha►bour, and anchored in Cawfand Bay, the ROYAL Son a EIGN, of tto gunr. PORORIMOUTH, JAN. Arrived his Maleay's fhip Alec us, frorn the Downs.—Sailed the Ptarro, Ibop of war, from a cruize.—Wind N.W. DOVER, JAN. 24.—Arrived off here a (mall veffel, from Rotterdam, &band to London ; the had been detained upwards of a month by the embargo, which was taken off laa Sucday. Sailed this morning the (tip Zeenymph, Captain Jtws, of and from Hams burgh, bound to Oporto ; alto the fcbocner Union, of Warrin, in Rhode Iffand, Captain BAKER, from Rotterdam, bound to Madeira ; the has been detained here upwards of two months by the Blazer gun brig. Wind N. E. and moderate. DEAL, jArr. 25.—Arrived yefterday afternoon the Benettle sloop of war from a cruise, and failed again this morning ; alfo the Phoebe frigate for Ply mouth. The fignal for a convoy to the Weftward is flared from the Valorous praam to the Devattation bond,. Wind S. W. fine weather. YARMOUTH, JAI. 25. —Friday P. M. arrived the AMIABLE frigate, from Cuxhaven, with the baggage of the Vice C:onfu I, BROUGH TON, Efq. ; the frigate has 101 l during her cruize two anchors, and is otherwife damaged. Yeflerday morning arrived the Auckland packet, Capt. T. BRIDGE, and the Ad venture bye boat, WRIGHT mailer, with mails and paffengers from Gottenburgh ; alfo the Havocx gun brig. This day failed on a cruize the OBERON (loop of war; VIXEN, Swipe, and HAVOCK gun brigs ; and the packet for Harwich. Remain in the Roads, the Majellic, Agincourt, Didator, Naffau, Stately, Rce buck, Ruby, Crefcent, I'Amiable and Ariadne fri• gates; Alert Hoop of war, and two cutters. One P. M. two large (hips are now in the Offing, fup pofed to be men of war to join the North Sea fleet. SHOCKING MURDER.—On Saturday Mr. CHIVEREp of Clapham common, was molt barbareufly mur. dered by his own fervant. The fatal blow was given, by a fpade, and the quarrel, it is fuppofed, was oc cafinned by fome difpute refpeding the management of a tree.=-The culprit bas been committed to prifon. Tuef.lay evening a riot took place at a public boufe. in Mallow-lane, Cork, when one of the party receiv ed fo defperate a wound that he expired in a fhort time after. CORN MARKET, MARX LAN!, Jas. i6.—The fup plies of Wheat here today are large, and the late dulnefs of fates continues, which camas a further re dation in price of 3s. and 4s. per quarter on fecond and ordinary qualities—there are large arrivals of Barley, which further declines in price, excepting prime famples—Malt alfo—White Peis are dearer —Grey at lefs—Oats and Beans are in confiderable quantities, at but li tle variation—Red and White Clover Seed advance rapidly, in confequence of no foreign arrivals—Flour is ss. per fack lower than the late general prices quoted. OiNtAAL CIPILAINCT At awns.. Wisest, sos 63$ 74 pek qr. Grey Peak 41s 46$ od Flal Ditto, ;oil 84$ Beans. (old) 42$ 48$ od Rye, vs 45 1 1 Tick Ditto, 34$ aos od Barley, Ass 4ts od Oats, 2111 Om 38$ Malt, 66, 745 od Poland ditto 31$ ass 6d Wkite Peas, (boilers) 84. 92$ Rape Seed 241 sBL Fine Flour 63. to 7os Seconds bos to 63s per lack. 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