Star. — London, England, 1811-03-25 00:00:00

prevented any attempt on his dispersed'divisions. Lieutenant-General GRAHAM bestows est praise on the whole of his cnrps, for ordinary exertions of valour displayed agains. enemy so greatly superior in ambers. " Thu loss {including that of the 20th Portuguese regiment) amounts to 7 officers and 195 men killed, 53 officers and 935 men wounded, and nine missing' No field officer is amongst the killed. Lieutenant- Colonels HEPELIIIN, &MIGHT, BARNARD, PREVOST, and BUS,CIIE are wounded, as is Major M.LittNe. " The enemy's loss is computed at 3000 men. — General BELLEGARDE, an Aide-de-camp of Marshal Vicron, and the Colonel of the Bth regiment, are amongst the killed. Twenty officers, and about 420 men are taken. General RousseAo is dead cf his wounds. An Eagle and six pieces of cannon remain in the hands of the English. "Finding it impossible to procure supplies upon the ground he occupied, Lieutenant General &gamut was under the necessity of withdrawing his division into the Isle of Leon on the morning of the 6th of March, leaving three companies of the 25th regi ment, on the other side of the river St. Peter ; and he adds in his letter of the lath inst. the gratifying intelligence that his wounded are in general doing well." RANK AND NAMES Or OFFICERS KILLED AND WOUNDED IN THE ACTION OF BARRObSA. KILLED. Staff.—Ens . ign Eyre, let Guards, Acting Aid-de-Camp to Cobs nel Whcatly. Ist Regiment of Guards—Ensign Commerell. Coldstream Guards—Ensign Watts. 3d Guards—Captain Swann. 47th, 2d Battalion—Ensign Delacherois. 87th, ad Battalion—Ensign E. E. Kough. 95th, 3d Battall•n—Captain Knipe. N. B. Ensign Eyre is returned in the killed of the Ist Regiment of Guards. LONDON. • MONDAY, MARCH 25. I...are-Da.r.-Ijolday at the Dank and Exchequer. DEFEAT OF THE FRENCH NEAR CADIZ. At. twelve o'clock last night Captain HoeE, Aid de-Camp to General GRAHAM, arrived at the Office of the Earl of LIVERPOOL, with dispatches, dated Isle de Leon the 6th instant, announcing, that on the pre ceding day General GRAHAM had attacked and de !feated the French division under Marshal therm lTke-dispatches containing the particulars of this splen did Victory, will be published in an Extraordinary Ga sette: in the mean time the following communication j bas been sent TO THE LORD MAYOR : " DOWNING-STREET, MARCH 14.—Midnight 4 " MY LORD. --Captain Hoer, Aid-de-Camp to Lieutenant-General GRAHAM, is just arrived with the account of the glorious issue of an action fought on the sth inst. by the division under his command, against the army of Marshal VICTOR, composed of the two divisions of RU YEA and Laveß.—General GRA. Ham's division marched from Pacifa on the 25th ult. On the sth instant, after a night's march of sixteen boars, they arrived at the bridge of Barrosa, about four miles to the southward of the St. Peter River. A well conducted attack was then made on the rear of the enemy's line, near St. Peter, by the vanguard of the Spanish army, under General LADRIGAREL, and opened a communication with the Isle of Leon. Lieut.-General GRA HAM having received thedirections of the Spanish Commander in Chief to move down frinr the position of B trrasz to Torre de Berringa, received notice on the march that the enemy had ap peared in force on the plain, and was advanced to wards the heights of Barrosa. In this position a most desperate action took place, in which the enemy was completely repulsed, with the less of an eagle and six pieces of cannon. " The General of Division RUFFE2;, and the Ge neral of Brigade Rossear, were wounded and taken. Tlie.Chief of the Staff, General BELGRADE, an Aide de-Camp of General VICTOR, one Colonel, nine Cap tains, and about 480 rank and file, were mode priso ners, The field was covered with the dead bodies of II the enemy; and it was supposed that their loss amoun ted to about 3000 in killed and wounded. " The loss on she part of the British troops amounts to - 2 Captains, 5 Easirns, and about 190 rank and file killed.—Five Lientenant-Colon,els, 1 Major, 14 Captains, 2C Lieutenant* 8 Ensigns, and about . 940 rank and File wounded. " alpears that the enemy had about 8000 men engaged, aod that the British with the Spaniards at tached to them amounted to 5000. 64 Lieutenant-General Geattam, with the troops under his command, had crossed the St. Peter River, and re-entered the Isle of Leon. " I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed). " VEll The Park and Tower guns were fired this morning, Vial Celebration of the above important event. The following official details on the above subject were circulated in the cot:: se of this day in the Go. vernment Offices : • Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, his Mancsry came on IWindsor Terrace, with the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, and walked till one ; he was accompanied by Sir H. Hatroan and Dr. WILLIS. The Duke afterwards set off in his chaise-and-four for London. At two ' o'clock his MAJeSTY came again on the Terrace, ac companied by General MANNERS, and walked till four. The Park was crowded with numbers of the Nobility and Gentry parading, during the time the King was walking. Saturday the Archbishops of CANTERBURY and YORE, the Duke of MONTROSE, Earls WINCH ELSEA, AYLESPORD, and MORTON; and others, arrived at Windsor about eleven o'clock, from London ; and, about twelve, proceeded to the Castle to hold a Coun cil with the QUEEN upon the state of the KING'S health. All the Doctors in attendance upon the KING atten ded, and underwent an examination. The Council , did not break up till near four o'clock. Count GOTTORP (the King of Swarm) returned to town, from Wimbledon, on Saturday. He sets out immediately for the North of Europe ; and will call at Heligoland, where he expects to receive further communications from Russia. Letters from New Orleans have been received in town dated 4th February. We learn by them, that a serious insurrection had broken out among die groes, who had set fire to several plantations, and de stroyed property of great value. The military were called in to subdue the rioters ; they shot every man of colour they met. The slaughter was dreadful, but; it had the effect of quelling the insurrection. We regret to learn that theArnericans seem doer. mined to enforce their Non.lntercourse Law against this country. The Lucy, Gibbs, arrived on Saturclosy, at Liverpqol from New York, from which place s sailed en the 21st ult. Five American vessels ha been seized at New York under the Non-importati Act. The ship Mount Vernon, of and from Liver• pool, had also been seized on her arrival at New York It is stated by some persons who have arrived in, town, who left France on Friday; that the French Empress has been delivered of a son. This event was no doubt the cause of the firing along the French coast on Wednesday. Letters from Paris, to the 16th instant, have arrived in town, which state, that the decree prohibiting the exportation of silk had been rescinded, and that some , favourable omens began to appear which , if realized, I would go far to release the long'dormant activity of the merchants, whose distress it was at last hoped,had I been attended to. A person arrived in town on Saturday, who made ,his escape onWednesday last from Antwerp, at which time the enemy had ready for sea fifteen ship; of the line, manned chiefly by conscripts recently calkd out 'for the - -v. On Tuesday -paws had been sum- SEVERELY WOUNDED. id Hussars King's German Legion—Captain You (since dead). Royal Artillery—Lieutenants Maitland and Pester. st Guards—Lieutenant-Colonel Sebtight, Captains Stables and Culquitt, Ensigns Sir H. Lambert, Cameron, and Vizors. 3d Guards—Lieutenant Colonel Hepburn. • Ist Battalion 9th Foot—Captain Godwin, and Lieutenant Seward. tst Battalion 28th Foot—Honourable Captain Mullins, Lieute nants Wilkinson, Moore, and John Anderson. 4d Battalion 82d Foot—Lieutenant M`Koy. 3d Battalion 95th Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel Barnard, Lieutenant W. CamptieT!. 2d Battalion 67th Foot—Capt.Patrickson, Ensign Sutherland. 2d Battalion 27th Foot—Major Maclaine, Captain Somalian. 'Lieutenants J. G. Fennell and L C. Barton. 2cl Battalion 95th Foot—Lieutenants Cochrane and Ho pe. DANGEROUSLY WOUNDED. Royal Artillery—Lieutenant Wookombe (since dead.) lit Battalion 9th Foot—Lieutenant Taylor. Ist Battalion 211th Foot—Lieuts. Light and Bennet (since dead.) 20th Portuguese—Lieutenant-Colonel Bushe. SLIWITLY WOUNDED. Sd Ilwasars King's German Legioa—Li. utenant Bock. Royal A rtillery—Captains Hughes and. Cator, Lieutenants E. Mitchell, Brereton, and C. Manners. Ist Guards--Captain Adair, Ensign Fielde. Coldstream Guards—Ensigns Bernina and Talbot. Sd Guards—Ensign and Adjutant Watson. Ist Battalion 9th loot—Lieinenant Robinson. Ist Battalion uuth Fret—Captain Bradbey, Lieutenant Blatesey. 2d Battalion 62d Foot—Captain Stewart. • 3d Baualion 95th Foot—Lieutenant 1-lo•ettdea. 94 Battalion 47th Foot—Captain Fetherstone. sd Battalion 67th Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel Prevost, Lieutenant W. Ronald. 20th Portuguese—Captain Derrieres. Lieutenants Dom Estavan, Panralehao de Oliviera, Ensign Felix Antonio Miranda. Staff.—Captain D. Ivitico, .kki Regiment of Petards, Aid-de- Camp to Brigadieno leneral DiArs. N.B. Captain Mercer it returned in the wounded of the 3d Regiment of Guards. (Signed) Josue MA COON A LD 4 Lieut. Col. Deputy-Adjutant-General. Dispaohes have been received by the Earl of Liveeeontirom Lieutenant-General GRAHAM, dated lel* de Leon, 6th and 10th March, 1811. 46 By these it appears that the allied forces under General De Pete a, hiving marched from Vigea on the evening of the 4th, reached the heights of Burros* (about four miles from the river St. Peter) on the morning cf the sth. " Lieutenant-GeneralsGnanam was then otderedl, to move with the British division, to secure the corn municaiiott with the Isla across the River : upon his', march through the Pine woods, he learnt that the enemy was advancing in force, and very rapidly, to' the grcund he had quitted, and which was considered of the greatest importance to the safety of the allies. 66 Tice Lieutenant-General immediately returned, end finding the enemy very close, decided upon anti cipating the attack, although his troops could not be disentangled from the wood and intricacies of the ground. The enemy's force under Marshal Vteron, was composed of the two divisions, Ruffin and Laver, the former having already occupied the height of liar. rosa, while the latter-advanced against the left wing of General Guairssfs cores, althong:i exposed to se vere loss from the fire of the British artillery. After a heavy 'fire of musketry, 3 Con:retries of the Coldstream Guards and the t 9ifi Regiment charged General LAvaL's division, and routed it, taking the Eagle of the Bth Light Infantry, which Segiment suffered a very great loss. 66 The light wing of the British, led by the. .C..cardt , under Genteel Dri.xes, advancing to charge the *division of RIMINI were met by their opponents, and a sanguinary cooflict was terminated by the tria l pletc defeat of the French, who left Generals Ru k -ejN. and Rousz.ki:, and some picas of cannon in our poi.' session. 66 A squadron of French cavalry was, towards the close of the battle. charged and routed by a squadron of the 2d German flussars, under Lieutenant Colonel POT46OIIIIT and Captain Evlloll and the advance of oF LOi it.-1 . THE, ARMY. think that dia• has , . reinfdrcrin i nu an d The 21.1 Battalion of the 18th, cr .Royal Irish Ra giment, in three divisions, still occupy Dartmouth, also of drawing Lord . Totness, and Newton Abbot, waiting the arrival of —crichrnents. 1 . transports to convey them to the Island of .1 rsey. General Sir S. COTTON, Captains Co x , r One of the letters . brought by the GANeas state, - J CULLY / that the Spaniards had intercepted a large quantity and Ross, have arrived at Plymatith, in order to ern lof biscuit, intended for the French army in Portugal. bark an board the SvaLowau for Lisbon. • We need hardly add that the greatest impatience The Honourable Major-General STEWART, Major. General ANON, and Brigadier-General CR/Win:RD, and anxiety to learn the result of the British pursuit, will take their passage from Portsmouth to Lisbon in the Elizabeth, 74 guns, Captain Levesost GOWER, to pervades all ranks. Front the known abilities and j prudence of Lord WDLLINGTON the highest hopes may join the army. The Elizabeth will sail to-morrow._ be entertained, and we may be allowed to anticipate Captain HoLoomne's company of Artillery will ens. the most glorious issue. bark this day for the same destination. One hundred and seventy German Hussars embarked last weak . ..—--- THE KING. They will sail under convoy of the Elizabeth. Yesterday the following Bulletin was :hewn at St. Thursday last, the volunteering rn from the Sligo and South Cork Militia,• quartered in- Limerick, co -44 WINDSOR CASTLE, MARCH 24. James's Palace : ! menced, when 14 of the former, and 1 9 of the latter "The inotbas been a little better these two dayi.,, entered into the line. (Signed by the five Physicians.) The inquest upon the body of Captain BOARDMAN, 1 of the 2d battalion 60th Regiment, killed in a duel at Jarbadoes, has, in the absence of all evidence, re turned a verdict of Wilful Murder against some person unknown. Captain SKINNER met last week with a very bid accident by a fall from his horse, in hunting near • Beaumoris. His collar-bone and two of his ribs are broken, but we hear with great satisfaction, that he is doing well, and likely to rec aver in a short time. The charge of the office of Ordnance for the United Kingdom, for the service of the year 1811, amounts to £4,256,890. 17s. Sd. iodating £457,956. 8s- 10d. for Ireland. —o—^.—. By t h e Mail of yesterday, we are sorry to learn the loss of the Pandora, Captain FERGUSON, in the Cat tegat ; 109 persons were brought on shore from the vessel, of whom 14 men and one woman died of the 'fatigue they had undergone. What might have been expected has already come to pass—the price of bullion is advanced in come oeszoo s a t e u n r t d o a y f the so ld ßo t k Es. on s t d hei a r o t d oken gol s i . ' quence per ounce. The was solddo 1 0 l a f a r t w: 5 The Correspondence relative to the advance in the value of dollars, ordered to be printed by the House of CoMmous.ou the 15th instant, has been delivered. It consists of— •'` An Abstract Account of the prices paid by the Bank of England for gold and silver bullion in each year, from 1697 to the 28th February, 1811. In the former of which years, it appears that silver was Is. 24d. per ounce, and in the latter is ss. 10d. Of a Copy of a Treasury Minute, dated Ist of October, 1771, stating, that the Governor and De. t 7 Governor of the Bank being called in, they con. pined that they sustained a great loss by the quantity • gold coin and bullion exported, which had increased very much of late years ; and that they attributed this 'crease to the operation of the Act of the 91st of the prttearist reign, for the better payment of seamen% wages, and the increased number of British and Iris subjects travelling , abroad, who carry guineas Unica' of bills of Credit. Of,theopirtiorts of the Attorney and Solkitor-Ge foeral, Thurlow and Wedderburn, as to the Acts in f ce to. prevent the exportation Of bullion, in which l differ ; Mr. Wedderburn, afterwards Earl of it ia yn, conceiving that several Statutes on the sub ject, which Lord Thurlow considered perpetual, were only temporary. , A. letter from the Secretaries .of the Treasury to the Commissioners of the Treasury dated 12, 1762, requesting them to. direct the Officers at the several ports, particularly those of Dover, Margate, and that part of the coast, to search all ontward-- bound vessels, and seize any gold and silver found on board. dons from the Treasui .!_ • of , dated AU( 9th, _..e navy. Vii ....._ -- - Direc, 117 ,gust . - moned on board, for the purpose of taking the ships 1.783, granting a moiety such seizure to the officer out. The gentleman in his passage to England met :andnote f th RETREAT OF MASSENA. with Sir EDWARD Peetanv's squadron, to whom he ma king it ; a from e Treasury, dated Au gust: lOsh, 1783, revesting that the name of t: .e -- gave the information. , Bank should not appear in the notices which may be This event, of which we Lave been in expectation The TREMENDOUS, 74, Capt. R. CAMPBELL , an d sent to t h e Commissioners of the Customs, in pur for some time, was communicated on Saturday eve- Pitmen Cenotnie, 74, Capt. DowwMAN, stance o f left thel - the precasting direetions of the9ill Augue. ning by a telegraphic notice from Plymouth, which enemy's ships safe at Cherbourg on Tuesday, watched . The Board of Trade have communicated to the was immediately transmitted by Mr. Yonne, in the by the AMELIA, FAWN, and HAWK. There are one ship of the line, a frigate, a sloop, and a bra 7, quite ! Merchants • the precise condit'ions on which licences following note : will be granted. The subject having hitherto been hut ready for sea ; and one Inchne of battle ship not quite . a 3 THE LORD MAYOR. brtefly alluded to,'we shall here subjoin particulars. ready. The ships ready for sea are deeply laden 1 " Mr. Yosac presents hi.tcomplinsent. to the I.ofts MAYOR, their destination is conjectured to be the relief of Ba- I Imparts from the Baltic are to continue until the Lt and ha. the honour to transmit, for his Lordship's intormation , tavis. i day of January, 1812, cs. - infi neer to the ports to the mt . II ward of the river Odro, on the south side l of the 131- tlae copy of a Telegraphic Dispatch just received from Plymouth. The following English and Ameri sels were PLYMOUTH TELIGLAItt.-•-•MASSIENA retreated front San- publicly sold at Bayonne, at the latter end of DeCe72l- I tic, on condition that the starve of toe vessel, t a e ' Co untry to which she behangs, the tonnage, the name tareme-Lora WELLINGTOSi in pursuit , March Eperhap. 13th her :—The Willing, Eagle , Franklin, Tantivy, An-1 . f Mare t , as there is [wrong signal before the sthl—GAafillT drew, Fnx, Rose-in-Bloom, Enterprize, St. Tamman y, . of her master, and Ehe port for which she is to clear out are all specified in the licence. waved." Maryann, Postboy, Young, Connecticut, Freedom,' Imports hear the Swedish ports in the Balt i c to The intelligence to which the above communica- Sally, Betsy, Hefty, and Salem. The sale o f t h e lion refers was brought by the GANGS'S man of war, sh i ps was f ollowed b y that of the car g oes in the en- the eastward ot Rano Bay, are confined to th e p ort suing month, and the proceeds of both paid into the of which reached Plymouth oa Friday night from Lis- F , rench ttreasury.l.l'm sta po d r orts to the westward of the river . ts from the p bon, which place she left on the 9th inst. The di g - A Court-Martial has been held at the Isle of France . O urn are allowed on the same conditions as those o f the Baltic, except, that it - is required that an export patches have since reached town, and will probably on Captains PYM, LAMBIIKT, Cuter's, and Wm- from the 'United Kingdom must first take plac e. be soon made pull; r.: in the mean time, we lay be. taxertev, for the loss of their respective snipe (the Si - Imports .from :Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, fore our Readers the substance of the accounts that ries, Ipbigenia, Magicienne, and Nereide), in action . without the Baltic, are to be admitted on the sain st with the enemy in the Isle de Passe; when they were . have reached us by the GANG. conditions as before. ES The retreat of MAASV..IA from (Illustrious) President. 1 CaRN MARKET, Mene-ektaa.—The fresh arrival, on the sth instant, and was so precipitate, that he A very active impress for seatnen and laadmen still 'of Wheat to-day make the supply somewhat C ont. . left behiocl him a large quantity of heavy baggage, goes on at Plymouth. No less than seven di ff erent ! derable ; fine hardly at late prices ; other qu dittes o at camp eqiiipaoe, &c. The reinforcements under Sir gangs are nightly employed on this service. All pro- : a declension ihprice of 2s. and Bs. o=r quat . to.t h r. v4 ; e e. I ley, in demand, and i tri fl e dearer. Malt, a a i tenuous are disregarded. J. S. YORKE, our Readers will recollect, reached the &Ala of both , and Grey Peas, at . little variation ; Tagus on the 4th. s We announced on Saturday the arrival of the lies of kinds, likewise. There are large fresh mai and sales The and two other cartels at Portsmouth, from The retreat of MASSENA was not known by the Motive, after landing French prisoners. The car- : Oats. with considerable quantities on hand ; sales British till early on the morning sof the 6th, the tels are not suffered to haVe the least communica- ' latein this trade rather lower. Flour scarcely *miming - - 1 I whirl ' French Commander having, as is reported, placed lion with the shore, nor with each other, whilst they . prices. GICHLIAL CUIinICY AS 014. TH. effigies with muskets in the front of his entrenchments. - la y - . • in the port• However urgent their necessities, ' . When tia 40% flii. Be ans , 4es. 54 4 . it would not prevail to the least relaxation of the Fine ditto, 545. Clia.. Tido di-to, 45..4.1. When the Geteoes sailed, Lord WeLLI6OToN was, girder. The Bombay cartel arrived there about six Rye, (new) 345• S. oats, '2Ol. 851.261. still in perseit of the enemy, and' several skirmishes Ptilat,d ditto, 270..29 4 . weeks since, with French prisoners from Bourbon ; !tarlea, 3d.. 35*. ed. Potatoe ditto, St 4. s„' dd. had taken pl ice between our van and the rear of the I and the pilot in taking her into the harbour, run her m It 12s. 68. * %%liar Peas (Boiler') 465. Ms. Rape Seed /48152 French army, in ss'uicit the British troops made a • ashoreas..—Seconds,on the rocks . In rendering the minim ex . Grey ditto, sat. 455. - number of prisoners. A cutter was left waiting i.i; I onions , the Captain of the cartel had his leg broke.— ' etre Fleur, am. to 65Seconds, 75s to 80s. hislife was pet in jeopardy by the acci- Although Lisbon, ready to -start with the official dispatches, dent; the French would not suffer him to be taken Menge Price of Corn in England and Wales from the routes Which are honrly expected to arrive, on shore, and-he was obliged to remain on board his en elas the 161 h of March, Mil. Various causes are assigned in the privete letters obits during the time she was ender repair. A large W h eat. R y e. Barley. Aug. Beans. Pe sfe. for this retrograde movement on the past of Matt- French schnoner privateer, of 14. guns and 100 men, 16 d• I st & 1 3. • 1 a. d • I'' d ' 'EWA. Some attribute it to his having received an c ' Tli d was lying at Morlaix. It is supposed she sailed oft a ' 9B 7 I The i s Price o Swear amapated frem the returns made 44 6 se 0 se 1 144 II f4B 3 ram ou us ay evening. al die wadi adios as atak 44 al alsok is *au id. pa ewe. , . • • . • , • • - alow"ormou...~alar" - * -- • t _ ---moa t $, - s- '‘ f - 7 , - • ,<- ...it • ..1 -it - 61 .. • - • ..• tt-, our artillery preventeg I-1 E EN INt STAR: aim . yto rally hes &A T Lmsronant-nrene ~' r ~~ 4 , i•' •tf the part ttf tlierspastlll4 account of chit strength . * "awards's winforcements , Others th . tows the warm. ionir fallen back to meet his own reit for their extra- Isopplies ; and with the view also of ed against an 'WELLINGTON from his entrenchments . . .. .1 , S > t