Star. — London, England, 1811-09-12 00:00:00

'7 • :," an Prineo foreigners there are even worse at A lons - of, 15,C00 d • burn demanded of them by Pa no it, for which our howl need at 1500. N w, owing tc• P trio attacked there we iatrep• ' ly a very serious disturbance in these parts, one of General It; OA UD'S regiments, which d ((mud means to seduce. The revolters the night of the 27th of laic month, when .tilitia of the place to resist them; yet the was such, that the assailant. were obliged tO rPt, 4t eq .igious slaughter. beginning of this month, iupposing that an ,:vailed among RIGAIPD'S remaining troops, .:siderable force Into his territories, but he _re not to be shaken in their attachment to their fa ef ; and lie therefore returned a few days since to Port , mortified and confounded by his (allure. e general opinion among well-informed men here le, that will in the end become the victim of RIOA Ines superior 4t intrigue, and of his own want of firmness and want of ..manity, withost which his subjects, the blacks, are not to be governed in the present turbulent state of affairs. PETION is fully competent to fight bis enemy in the field, but he is (neom petent to meet his adversary in the ta,...cs of the cabinet." Bq the Baltic ships which have arrived, some cor rect information is transmitted respecting the present situation of Sweden, and the policy adopted by BER NADOTTE. Not a single Frenchman is admitted into the Council of State, buethe Crown Prince freely exer cises his plenary authority, by dismissing from his service the powerful among the natives. While in the employment of his functions, he excites, without re- Inctance or hesitation, the disgust of the Nobles ; he avails himself of every art to conciliate the affections of the people, and rebellion itself has, on some occa sions, been allowed to go unpunished. THE KING, IVININSOR CASTL!, MT. 12. Is His NL►JESry's symptoms remain the same as yesterday. (Signed) 41 M lIALFORD. M. BAILLIE. R. MUM" Worison, SEPTEMBER 1 I.—The Resident Chaplain tends to the Biro occasionally in his composed mo. Inents.—Last evening the QUEEN, and the Princesses AUGUSTA, Et IZASETH, and MARY, went to Frogmore, as usual, to tea, and took an airing this morning to the same place.—The Princess Sopmra' indisposition, we are concerned ro learn, is more than a cold : her koyal Highness is severely afflicted with spasms in bet stomach, so as to occasion the most excruciating pain ; she was confined to her bed the principal part of Sunday and Monday. THE PRINCE REGENT'S TOUR. Monday evening, h% Royal Highness the PRINct RECENT passed thr iciwicli t on his journey to the Marquis of HERTFORD'S, at Sudbourne The inhabitants were apprized of the route of the Royal Party, and a great concourse assembled to welcrme their arrival, with demonstrations of joy ; the populace attempted to take the horses from the carriage, nor would they desist until his ROYAL litoNNEss addressed them, kindly intreating they would permit him to proceed without delay. The PRINCE REGENT, and the Dukes of CUMBER. ERBO and CAMBRIDGE, are expected to return to town tams:row. The Duke of SUSSEX was yesterday so far recovered from his indisposition as to be advised by his Physi cians to ride out: Mr. PERCEVAL left town yesterday for about a week. YesterdaY, Earl BATHURST transacted business at the I3oard of Trade Office. Mr. LEAXE, Comptroller of Army Accounts, has been permitted to retire with his full salary of Je2(x)o a-year, and Colonel DRINKWATBR is appointed in his tuom. • • A person advertising for a wife. gives an intima tion; that no one but a lady of musical talents need apply: This is one way of inviting harmony in the slim! iage state. Though 4 , birds of a feather will flock together," at is eareinphfied by the marriage of Mr. Crew and 11i0 Ito , :k, their association is not more natural than another matrimonial union which recently took pi ice, and by which Mks Pea: WAS, with all due solemnity, conjoitted to Mr Bacon. 1 - oats:oat C.‘NSIBALS.—AiI advertisement ap peia ed in a paper lately , from Harrowgate, informing the public, that ‘, the Proprietors (of two inns at that place) would charge for eating each person, visiting their:houses, Only 7ss 6d. per day !" ThE partridges were dreadfully slaughtered on Mon day se'nnight, there being no standing corn in which they could seek refuge. The great drought of the 'Weather was rather unfavourable for hunting of the dogs, in the middle of the day, as it has been ever since : but the coluttry is generally so open, that there will be no great eiecution among the partridges, in Sussex, after the first fortnight. The pheasants are very numerous, and particularly strong on the wing. On the 2d inst. Sir THOMAS Goocn killed 27 brace of partridges, and the Hon. C. BAGOT 32 brace ; the latter missed only one shot. THEATRE, COVXNT-GARDIOLThe Wheel of Fortune was last "night performed. Mr. KEMBLE made his appearance In Penruddoci, and was greeted on his en trance with loud and reiterated peals of applause. He sustained the character with all his wonted excellence, and in some parts he even seemed to outdo himself. Mr. C. KEMBLE, in Toung Woodville, gave uniform , satisfaction. In the scene where he meets with Pen raddock, unconscious who he is, he was uncommonly animated ; and the contrition of an ingenuous heart was ably depicted in that in which he discovered that he had wronged the supposed gloomy misanthrope." Mrs. POWELL (formerly of Drury-lane Theatre) dis playecther powers to great advantage in the character of Mrs. Woodville. She was occasionally affecting in., a very high degree. The House, before the end of the 'play, was graced with a company more nume rous and respectable than could be expected at a period when so many places of amusement are open, and when there are so many inducements to prome-' Pada is this uncommonly fine weather. 'THE ARMY. Sunday the AME RICA , 6 4 , passed by Plymouth to the westward, with a large convoy of transports, vic tuallers, arid store-ships for Lisbon. The ROVER, IS, Captain FINLEY, sailed on Tues day from Portsmouth, for Lisbon, with specie belong ing to Government on board. Lord EUbTON and Lord CLINTON are gone in her. On the 3d and 4th instant, the second and third divisions of the West Middlesex Militia marched from Cork, on their way to Loughrea. On the 6th, the Waterford Militia marched from Cork to Monkstown, to embark for England. Last Friday the Royal Nottinghamshire Regiment of Militia, commanded by E. T. Goutx, Esq. marched from the Pigeon house, into Dublin, where .they are to do duty. The East Norfolk Militia are embarked at Rams gate, bound for Ireland, waiting the arrival of two other Militia Regiments from Harwich, which are at present wind-bound there. The depot of the following Infantry Regiments of the Line are ordered to be established at A.shford Barracks, for which place they mostly commenced their march this day, and will arrive as under The 7th (Royal Fusileers) from Maidstone, In a few days. Bth (King's Own) from Ludlow. Sept. 23. 22d (Cheshire Regt.) from Chester • Oct. 1. 31st (Huntingdon lint.) from Macclesfield, Sept. 27. 331 (Shropshire Regt.) front Shrewsbury, Sept. 30. 64th (2d Suffurd Regt.) from Drayton. Sept. 25. 86th (Leicester) from Stockport, Sept. SO. Saturday morning marched from Deal for Dover, the Rutland Militia, to be embarked for Ireland. Two regiments of Irish Militia are daily expected at Plymouth-Dock, to do garrison duty. Friday, the first division of the Westminster Mili tia marched into Liverpool from Sunderland, on its way to Ireland ; the following day the remainder ar rived, and were immediately embarked, and sailed with a fair wind. Tuesday, four companies of the Berwickshire Mili. tia marched from Haddington to Dunbar Barracks. The remaining part of that regiment march for the same place as soon as they are relieved by the 21st regiment of foot, who are expected to land at Ar dtossan, from Ireland, about the Bth instant. On the 28th ult. Green Castle Barracks, in Inis howen, where some troops were quartered to prevent illicit distillation, were surrounded in the middle of the night by a patty of upwards of 200 men, and burned to the ground ; after which exploit the mob leisurely dispersed.—(Beyart Paper.) I A ISH CATHOLICS. We have this day received Dublin papers of Satur. day last. The Dublin Evening Post contains the fol. lowing account of the proceedings of the Catholics : DUBLIN, SEPTEMBER 7. The Meeting to be held in Cart iw, will, we are happy to say, have the support of many enlightened Prinestants. This meeting will he held on the 19th. It is the-duty of every man who values Liberty and the Constitution, to stand forward in this important crisis of Ireland's fate. The County of Louth is to meet on the 12th inst. The Requisition has been signed by Lord Viscount Southwell, Sir Edward Pellew,Bart. Richard Strange, L Taaffe, John Byrne, M. O'Reilly, Esqrs. and se. veral other gentlemen of rank and fortune. The County of Longford meets on the 14th inst. and Fermanagh on Monday nett. There are only two parishes in Dublin which have not met, and one of them is to assemble on Monday, in Rosemary-lane Chapel. Requisitions are signing to convene the Counties of Dublin and Wicklow. Siam CATnoue MEETING.—A most respectable and numerous Meeting of the Catholics of the county of Sligo, was held in that town on Monday List.-•-• IGNATIUS EVEitARD, Esq. being called to the Chair, the business WAS opened in a suitable speech, by DA.. NIZI, JONES, Esq. who concluded by moving several Resolutions—they were seconded by Dr. COYNE, of Sligo, who addressed the Meeting to the following effect :—‘, in presenting myself to second these Re solutions, !rom the unanimity that exists, it might ap pear superfluous to offer any comment or observation t but I cannot dismiss the subject without remarking that they meet my warm approbation, and, I doubt not, that of every person present, anasmuch as they are not the mere echo of those of any county that pre ceded us in their meetings, and also, as the language is decorous, though manly—firm, but tonstitutional s but chiefly because it is liberal. I would wish to call the attention of those Gentlemen now assembled, more particularly to the fourth Resolution, as you have just now heard from Mr. Daniel Jones. It ap pears peculiarly well calculated to obviate those ca. litinnies that have been circulated by our enemies with so much industry, and it is, I may say, in itself an avowal of our political creed. You must all know, Gentlemen, what pains have been taken to propagate a report equally unfounded and malicious, that, meet ing to petition for Catholic Emancipation, is made a pretext to meet, to forward the views of seditious per sons, or to aid that Tyrant, who is equally the enemy of us Tyrant, I say, whose heart is as hard as his abilities are transcendent, and who seems deter mined to break down, with the iron mace of despo tism, the barriers of justice—to crush the charities of social life, and trample down the liberty of mankind. Should it be written in the Decrees of PROVIDENCE ) that he should ever land on our shores. I have no doubt the valour and patriotism of our Catholic coun trymen will, upon that day, appear as conspictwus as their firmness and mode i ation. do upon the present oc. casion." Dr. Coyne, after a few other observations, concluded by seconding the Resolutions, which were unanimously agreed to. By letters received at Plymouth from the PIERCER sun -brig, dated off ISourdeaux, we learn that she fell in with an American brig off that poit. On boarditig her she proved to be bound to New York, and no doubt is entertained of her cargo being entirely French pro perty ; it con.; ,ts of brandies, several cases of dollars in bulk; and several cases of French gold watches. It is supposed she will be condemned for breiCh of blockade. . NAVAL INTELLIGIVICE. The MANLY gust-brig, which sailed firm the Nore the 19th ult. with a fleet for the Baltic, in company with the FLAMER gun-brig, was taken on her return to England by three Danish brigs. She had seen the fleet safe into the Sleeve, and left them under charge of the Ragan. The CHANTICLEER SIOOp of war is arrived at Sheerness, with some damage, and seven of her crew wounded,having heenattacked by the enemy. She bad seen the fleet which sailed under her convoy from the Humber 23d ult. into the Sleeve, and left them in chirge also of the FLAMER. TORBAY, SEPTEMBER s. Yesterday morning arrived from a cruize, his Ma jesty's ship PARTRIDGE, aryl last evening sailed again on a cruize, with his Majesty's hired brig, LORD COCHRANE, Lieut. TYNDALE, the convoy for the fish ing craft here.—Arrived, from Jersey, and remain here, the schooner Agnes, NICHOLAS SMITH, master ; also the Minerva, JAMES STOCKMAN, master ; they bring no news of importance.—Sailed, with roots, vegetables, and other supplies for his Majesty's ships cruizing off and at Cadiz, the schooner Venus, JOHN WHITEAWAY, master.—Wind E.S.E. variable, with remarkable fine weather. FALMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 9. Sailed the Princess Elizabeth packet, with Mails for the Brazils. PLYMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 10. The ketch Jonge Adelf, BoEa master, laden with wine and Juniper berries, bound to London, has been on shore at St. Nicholas Island, and is much da maged : she is now unloading to repair. The Ame rican brig Catherine Augusta, has been detained and sent in here by the ACASTA frigate: she has 20 pas sengers on board, and a cargo of wine and brandy, bound from Nantz to New York. PORTSMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 11. Arrived the Hovspun from off Cherbourg, and the HINDOSTAN from the Downs.---Sailed the ANT on a cruize.—Wind S. DEAL, SEPTEMBER 11. Sailed the ACTIVE cutter with dispatches and let ters for the fleet off Flushing. Also sailed the whole of the outward-bound under convoy of the PIGMY for Portsmouth.--Arrived the Rou.& sloop of war from a cruize.—Wind S.W. SHEERNESS, SEPT. it. Sailed this morning from the Note, the SHELDRAK2 and TWILD, with a fleet for the Baltic. YARMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 11. Yesterday, P.M. sailed the LEVERET, Lieutenant Wonize, with a convoy for the ports up the Baltic ; and, this morning, the PRINCE OF WALES, with con voy for Heligoland.—Arrived the 'Lumen with convoy from Heligoland.—ln the Roads, the HAVOC, Vice-Admiral MURRAY. — Wind N.W. LEITH, AUGUST 9. Sailed from Leith Roads yesterday morning, the EGERIA sloop of war, with a convoy to Gottenburgh. Arrived in the Roads last night, a Danish sloop, a prize ; and this morning the Neptune smack, from Hull, with goods. The Jean and Ann, VIVERS, from Leith, is arrived at Oporto. PORT SPAIN, TRINIDAD, JULY 4. Several Spanish vessels on the coast of Africa have been condemned at Sierra Leone, for having taken on board in England part of their outward cargo for the Slave Trade, although from England they went directly to Cadiz. The owner of one of these ships brought upon the coast a small sloop to carry him and his people to Cuba, and they have put in here in digress, with a sea letter from C. Columbine, Gover nor of Sierra Leone, certifying this. ARRIVED—At Whitby, the Fidelity, from Mon treal. At Swansea, Reward, from Lisbon. At Bel fast, Bellisarius; and Africa, SCOTT, from Wiscasset. Arroiwria ' , yrs.—Captain Houghton is appointed to the Al fred, 74, at Cadiz, and is gone out iu the Arrow schooner, to join her; CAptain Joyce to the Manila, in the room of Captain Seymour; Captain Pechel to the Cleopatra; Lieutenants R. Todd, to the Freya ; H. Stewart and Fosse, to the Tigre. Mr. Pres : con, to be Master of the Zephyr; Mr. Rutheford, to be Master of the Menelaus; Mr. Cunningham, to be Master of the Argo. Mr. Henderson, to be Surgeon of the Tigre. Sir RICHARD STRACHAN, who had been some days in town, has returned to Deal, to resume the com mand of the in-shore squadron off the Scheldt. Captain BAYNTUN is appointed to command the ROYAL SOVEREIGN, yacht, at Deptford, in the room of Capt. GRAHAM MOORE. The LITTLE BELT sloop of war is arrived at Dept ford, at which place she is to undergo a thorough re pair. Captain BINGHAM has had several interviews with the Board of Admiralty and the Secretary of State, relative to his engagement with the President. The NAIAD frigate, having on board Admiral and Lady Lucy FOLEY, returned to Deal on Tuesday morning, from a cruize off Boulogne : they were fired upon from the batteries, and one shell went over the NAIAD, without injury. The PHIPPS schooner, and Fotss-roNs lugger, wde in company with the NAIAD on the cruize. Friday se'nnight, one of the north country boats that annually resort to different parts of the coast with dried fish, left Montrose for the Frith of Forth, and was upset by a sudden squall off the Red-hcaJ.; the sail prevented the boat from turning completely over, and in expectation of her aga4l righting, the mast was struck, which unfortunately completed what it was intended to avoid. The crew a father, and his two sons, happily succeeded in catching hold of the keel, and in this situation they were soon discovered by a sloop, who took them oi, board, and they were all safely towed into Montrose, by a boat belonging to Usan, with the loss of the whole of their fish, and other property, to the amount of £5O. The boat belongs to Cullen, for which place they sailed off, Tuesday lam sEprikiii s _ I ablimmm.ll.lllo . . ,-.. . . . OUr Races began en Tneiday, a day earlier Thai Was at first intended, owing to the oiletilitg of the Circuit Court of ittiriciary here to.Mrisiew: The weather hai proved uncommonly tie, widths tt?gsr ther with the excellence of the sport, and the .vast assemblage of beatify and failiiOn; altraeted dtp ite• mense crowd of speetatcrs front the „Suit:minding country. During these three last days, dim town and neighbourhood have exhibited a scene of uninterrupted gaiety, festivity, and Splendour. Many of the raeel were well contested, and the most succeisful top titor was Lord MOsi TOOSt KAI C. EARTHQUAKE. EXTRACT OF • LETTER MON A LADY AT CAFE Tow 7e, DATED JUNE THE 8114 tO HER FAMILY IN 'COUNTY OF DEVON : " I broke off very abruptly while Writing to yon yesterday, in consequence of the dreadful alarm oe casioned by an Earthquake. ! —My little girl was irk bed when we first felt the shock, which was juit about noon ; I caught her instantly Up, and ran into the street, followed 14 my servants: I found thire assem. bled almost all the inhabitants of tht Cape Town and a greater scene ot confusion and wrercliesiness, it is scarcely possible to witness—people wringing their hands, screaming with agony over the expteted fate of their houses and property. My husband was at his efface at this time, writing at a heavy table—he tried in vain to keep himself steady —the table was quite moved about the room' 'Happily, although inqsr: of the houses suffered some degree ot injury, only on. life was lost, and that was caused by the falling of a chitnney upon a woman's head.—ln one part of the town, the ground was cracked upwards of tifiy We felt another shock in the evening, but by it.) means so severe, and another next morn:rii; stilt les:, so." , It is remarkable, that on the 6th ot June, in the morning, the sea was so agitated on the coast, at Plymouth, that it rose and fail very much in a most rapid succession several times; and It is not by any means improbable, that it might be 'owing to due earthquake at the Cape, which was first teat On the preceding day at noon. The agitation of the sea, in the same mariner, on the Slat of May, is as yet unac counted fur. A ship pf 50 guns is to be built at Chatham Dock yard, to he called the Lis. A successor to the lurrative situation of Marshal to the Admiralty, in the roomilt the late Mr. Calcium., is not yet-appointed. The duties of that office are to be performed by the deputy to the late Marshal, until ,a nomination takes pl,:cc. PARTRI6G2 Sw;oriNo.—Accounts from variou, parts of the country state great feats of execution done by sportsmen on this species of the feathered tribe. But it is submitted to all such, whether it be not an object of far more con.equence to them to err , deavour to feather their nests with the productive game in our present State Lottery Scheme. To bring down any one of its increased variety of principal Prizes, will literally prove a capital shot. There are only 13,500 rickets, all to be drawn 22d October. The Foundation Stone of a new Theatre, Ball room and Hotel, was laid, at Plymouth, on Tuesday, by the Worshipful the Mayor. The foundation stone, in a part which will be always visible, has the follow ing inscription : Theatri et Hospitil impends Maioris Communitatis Burgi " Plymourla," Idmundus Lociyer, M.l). Malot Fundatnenta lucasit, 1811. Juhanne Fon !stun Areb•teeto. THE Coster.—The comet now begins to be in ()S. ject of general observation, and it will every night in crease in importance. It has been seen in England nearly a month ; but due attention was not paid by astronomers to the first intimation of the stranger being visible in our atmosphere. Most people are acgisain. ted with the chief stars in the constellation of the Great Bear, called vulgarly Charles's Wain, and those will direct us soon after sunset to the Comet. Soon after the stars of the second magnitude hare made their appearance in the skies, and the seven stars are fully visible in the north -crest, the spectator till fix his attention on the two bright stars nearest the three in the tail. By drawing a line through them to the horison, and firing his eyes near the middle of that line, he will first perceive a haze, which as the night grows darker will gradually discover itself to be the comet. Above it he would on Sunday night ha' a perceived a star of the third magnitude, which is nearly in the direct line with the two stars ab o v e . mentioned. This star is called 4 , Ursa Majoris, or the 23d of the Great Bear, and a little attention would have pointed out to him lower down, a star of the rourth magnitude, called w Una Majoris, or the twenty-fourth of the Great Bear. By means of these two stars the observer wijl note the progress of the comet for some time to come, and he may form to himself some idea of die extent ai\d breadth of its tail, and if he, has a celestial globe, he may mark its path in a tolerably accurate manner. The writer of this had not the opportunity of making accurate observe. Lions, but the communications made to him state, that on Friday night its right ascension was by three ob. servers placed at one hundred and littynine degrees, and its declination north at forty-one degrees.— On Saturday night its tight ascension is placed by one of them at a hundred and sixty-two degrees and a half, and its declination north at forty-two degrees and a half. The length of the tail is conjectured to be between twenty and thirty millions of miles. Ma observer, to verify or refute this conjecture, will note the star nearest to the Cornet, and the star at the ex tremity of the tail. It may be of use to inform our ►eadcrs, that for common obseivations, the best in. stt umeut they can look through at this Comet is an opera-glass. The Comet is now visible ail night; but it is too near the horiton at its lowest depression to permit good observations upon it. It was first seen in the morning in this country, the brightness of the night and its small height above the horizen after sun-set prevented its being noticed earlier in the even. ing, though it might have been discovered by an at tentive astronomer. The absence of the -moon in the early part of the night, and the increasing distance a the Comet from the sun, render this object more and mere interesting every sveaing. II