Star. — London, England, 1811-02-20 00:00:00

ANHOLt MAIL. An Aral*lt Mail arrived this morning, brought to Harwich by the Lord Duncan packet. The subjoined intelligence.frowt the Coutinental Journals is all that appears interesting in them : NAPLES, JANUARY 12. An Italian Courier arrived on the 7th of this month at Barletta from Corfu, which place he left on the' sth ; he annolinces that, on the 4th, two French fri. gates, with troops on board, entered that port. Many transports also dispatched from Ancona, loaded with grain and other provisions, have likewise arrived at Corfu. OTRANTO, JANUARY 5. M. Berrault, Captain of the Ist Neapolitan Regi- Vent of light horse, arrived yesterday from Corfu, as - -tearer of the dispatches from his Excellency General bonzelet, Governor-General of the lonian Islands, for his Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies. This officer reports, that the Isle of Faro has been occupied since the sth December by a French gar . riaon, as well as in those of Merlair and Samadroche, and that the English cruizers are no longer able to deep the sea on these coasts. Three swift sailing vessels, with money on board. and 14 transports, laden with provisions and troops, sailed on the 24th December from Otranto for Corfu, and arrived there. - • . • •.• • , M. Barault adds, that he left the island in the most brilliant situation, military sopplies and provisions of every description for the inhabitants, were in - the greatest abundance. The garrison was numerous; of an excellent appearance, and in the most perfect health. All the fortifications are now completed,' and they' are establishing an entrenched camp, which :Will be as formidable by its position as the works of which it will be composed. Four battalions are daily working upon it, and this construction will soon be finished, thanks to the zeal of the inhabitants of the country, who assist informing it with joy and activity. We see from these details; that it is to be wished that the English, in place of keeping away from Corfu, would, on the contrary, attempt to attack it, as,they would be received by the garrison and inha bitants in a way that would prove how well founded their projects are for the dominion of the coasts of the lonian Islands. STOCKHOLM, FEBRUARY z, Mr. C. Hougherg has been acknowledged by his Ma jetty the King of Prussia, Consul-General in• Sweden. CONSTANTINOPLE, NOV. so. With regard to the intelligence received that the English has sustained, and is still sustaining, very considerable losses, it is hcre observed, that the said nude is not by any means so flourishing in Turkey. In the same manner as in Malta, magazines have been formed in Smyrna, Saloniche, and here in the capital, full of Euglish goods, which either cannot be disposed of a; all, or must be sold at very inferior prices. Several failures have already taken place, and 'gill more are expected. Government has prohibited the exportation of iron, cordsge, and linen, in the Mediterranean. This prohibition proves very un pleasant to the English, as they are always anxious to receive and re-export all such Russian commodities as arrive here from the Russian ports. VIENNA, JANUARY 23. The General-in-Chief Kamensky, in conformity to orders which he has received from Petersburgh, is constructing many forts and entrenchments in Mol davia and Wallachia. They are likewise preparing many other fortifications. Notwithstanding all the reports which have hitherto been spread respecting. changes in the Ministry of Finances, Count Wallis is still at the head of that department, and works night and day at the restora tion of our finances. He has frequent conferences with his Majesty, who is especially occupied with this gran object. ... We are assured that new protests have been ad . - dressed to his Majesty the Emperor; entreating him to desist from the plan, decreed by his Council, rela tive to the sale of a part of the ecclesiastical property. We are assured that these remonstrances are highly approved by the Archbishop of Vienna. The sum cf&reetty thelekurar elergy, in the event of Govern. meat acceding to their wishes, is, it is said, very considerable, but the StMODI44I not specified. We do aot know what nsaffinal sulThiatite Minister will persevere Ili a plan Which was rot adopted till Niter long discussions, and which seems calculated to draw the state from a powerful situation. It is possible that the uncertainty of the measures to be taken may have some influence upon the course of exchange, and prevent it from being so high as could be desired. JANUARY 29.—A society of Austrian military men of all ranks, with the consent of the Emperor, has addressed a circular letter to their brothers in arms, inviting them to unite and erect a monument to the memory of the brave men who remained upon the Lids of battle of Aspern and Wagram. It is reported, on the authority of letters by a ves i2l that sailed from Heligoland, since the packet left it, on the 14th instant, that Russia has formally de. dared War against France. We do 'not believe this statement; but it is a positive fact that a Russian Ge. neral has been arrested and thrown into prison by his Government, on the chartre of having traitorously declared to Cata.txcovivr, the French Minister, the crength, poticions, ansl resolute; of the Reuias bury forte. • ; , Tn: , ,~ ._ The ships had been left with so few men to ma nage them, that I had merely directed Captain Foote to lead into any anchcrage that he might be able to maintain, to make a diversion in our favour; hut they were worked against all the unfavourable circumstances of a dark and squally night, in a nar. row channel, with the most determined perseverance, and with that degree of zeal that I expected from an %Seer of my own rank, whose heart and hand had always been with me on every point of public service. Captain Xenah, who led the storming party, crowned a series of valuable services during two months difficult and intricate navigation through the Eastern seas, by his bravery and activity on shore. The colours of forts Nassau and Belgica will be presented to your Excellency by Lieutenant John Gil mour) who has served nine years in this country as a Lieutenant, and a large portion of that time as First. Lieutenant under ay contriand. Although labouring under severe illness ) be took dome of the ship on nay quitting her I and his assauddike- and widow coo. (last is the disabuse of bia trust wed*lta caul* • • • • I. (7 , CAPTORS Though the official dispatches of the capture of this Island have not yet bee* received fry Governmenr,l private copies of them have nevertheless reached the, friends of some of the Officers employed in that ardii. ous and successful enterprise : and through one of these channels we are enahledeo gratify public cant , osity with the subjoined copy of them : its Majesty'. ship Caxouws, Batt& Augnst 10, 1810. - S have the honour and happiness of acquaint ing you with the capture of Banda Neira, the chief of the spice islands, on the 9th of August, hy a portion of the force under any orders, in consequence of a night attack, which completely surprised the enemy, ,although the approach of the ships had been unavoi dably discovered the day before. i• The weather proved so unfavourable for boat ser vice on the night of the Bth instant, that although nearly 400 officers and men had been selected for this • COMMERCE. occasion, yet, on assembling under Great Banda, at two in the following morning, I found that the state Yesterday a Deputation of Merchantslnterested in of the weather would deprive us of the services of ' the Northern Commerce, waited on the BoardofTrade, some valuable men, under Lieutenant Stephens, of according to appointment. to learn the determination the Royal Marines, and the greater part of the de mi of their Londchips on th re e important subj eats:-Ist. tachment of the Madras European regiment, Whether the Baltic Li c e nces , all of which f expired on rom svhom I had expected the must steady support the 9th December last, were to be prolonged in favour and assistance. The attempt was now to be made with less than or thole shiPss which, from the severity of the season, and the vicissitudes of the times, had n o t 200 men, consisting of the seamen and marines, and been enabled to return within the limit assigned J r -- about forty of the Madras European regiment; or Idly' "Nrhether should the 'Licences to the Deltic not our labours in the boats, through a dark and squally be extended, those to the coast of Norway would be night, in the open sea, must end in the severest mor- enlarged, so as to enable about two hundred vessels, tification. • in the ports of that kingdom, to return home unmo- After getting under the shelter of the land, the lested ?-3dly. 'Whether the temporary embargo which same circumstances of the weather, which before ope - had been imposed on. the ships from Friesland, and rated against us, were now favourable to us, and the other dependencies of the French Empire in the North confidence I had in the handful of o ffi cers and men ' -‘ihout me, lee 'me no hesitation • and with a degree Seas, would be remove d i n t h e manner t h e restr i c- of silence and firmness th ht will ever command m tions on the departu r e of th e vesse l s b e l ong i ng to t h e heartfelt acenowledgments, ' the boats proceeded t o Hanseatic Towns had been w i s hd rawn ? , W net regard to the first, m or e ti me was requ i re d the point of debarkation. A dark cloud, with rain, 'covered our landing within a hundred yards of a bat- to form the deci s i on o f t h e B oar d, an d no d ay was eery of 10 guns, where, by the promptitude and awchti fixed on which the determination of th e i r L or d s hip s . vity of Captain Kenah and Lieutenant Carew, o- would be given. With res p ec t to , t h e secon d, i t was admitted . that Norway did not fall within the general were ordered with the pieemen to the attack, the bat rule appl ied to the Baltic, and th a t i t rather devolved ivy was taken in the rear, and an officer and his under that which was established with reference t o guard made prisoners without a musket being bred, although the enemy were at their guns with matches Archangel, where the licen ces h a d b een a l rea dy ex lighted. tended. The concession as to the latter had been m From the near approach of day-light our situation made, although it h a d b een di scover ed f rom a li ft handed to the Board that the Masters of at least 40 became critical, but we had procured a native guide ships had availed themselves of the licences to proceed to carry us to the walls of the Castle of Belgica ; and to France instead of entering the ports of this coun after leaving a guard over the prisoners, and in charge try' But it did not appea r to the Loi ds of Trade of the battery, the party made a rapidernovement that there were the same motives f or gran ti ng the round the skirts of the town, where the sound of the like indulgence to the vessels in the Norwegian har bugle was spreading alarm amongst the enemy. In hours, as the impediments from distance, climate, and twenty minutes the scalingladders were placed against other causes, as well incidental as natural, were not the walls of the outer pentagon of Belgica ; and the the same as they were in the latitude of the White' first muskets fired were by the enemy's sentries. The Sea. It was well blown that at the time when the gallantry and activity with which the scaling ladders ships were taking their departure from that Bay, where hauled up after the outwork was carried, and • a storm arose, -in which upwards of thirty ofi 'placed for the attack of the inner-work, under a them went .donn e and the rest were deterred from sharp fire from the garrison, exceed all praise.' The proceeding. on seeing the fate of their corn anions. enemy, after fi ring three guns, and keeping up an —As to the third, the Chairman said, that the tern- 111 discharge of musketry, for 10 sr 15 mi. porary embargo which had been imposed, o would notes, fled in all directions, and through the gate l - be immediately withdrawn," and he assigned the way, leaving the Colonel-Commandant and ten others I reason connected with the dipl oma ti c arrangemen t s ! dead, and two Officers and thirty prisoners in our hands. t hat which had led to —at measure, lie said, that it Captain Kenah, Lieutenants Carew, Allen, Pratt, having been presumed th a t a c ha nge o f C ounc il s Walker and Lyons, of the nav ; Lieutenant Yeates would take place on the app o intm en t o f the R egen t, y Ministers did not think it either proper or delicate that and Ensign Allen (a volunteer) of the Madras Sernd- they should prevent thei r successors f rom a d o p t i ng the vice,were amongst the foremost in the escalade; a course they might think most beneficial with r e ga rd my thanks are due to Captain-Lieutenant Nixon, of , to the shipping appertaining to the new dependencies tbe Madras European regiment, for the steady and ! of France, and they therefore resorted to a p r ovisional officer-like conduct with which he directed the co restriction, which would leave the p ro p er ty a t th e di s c vering parry entrusted to his charge, and Lieutenantsi , sal of the new advisers of hi s R o y a l Hi g h ness , to Brown and Dekaof that regiment, attached to the whomsoever his commands might be directed. The marines. former Administration having been continued in office, With such examples, our brave fellows swept the ; the di ffi culty was now removed, and the licences were ramparts like a whirlwind ; and in • addition to the to be extended, so that the ships might take their providential circumstance of the service being per. departure. formed with scarcely a hurt or wound, I have the sa- From the whole that passed during this interview, tisfaction of reporting, that there was no instance of we deem it highly probable that the licetices of the yes irregularity arising from success, sels in the North Sea, and in the Baltic, will be pro- The day nhw beaming on the British flag, disco longed, so as to enable them to return with their pro vered to us the fort of Nassau and the sea-defences at dace, but it seems very unlikely. and perhaps it is not our feet, and the enemy at their guns at the different less impolitic, that any newlicences should be granted posts. I dispatched Captain Kenah with a flag of to the Baltic. truce to the Governor, requiring the immediate stir render of Nassau, and with a promise of protection ' for private property. At sun-rise the Dutch flag was hoisted in Nassau, and the sea-batteries opened a fire on the Caroline (followed by the Piedmontaise and Baracouta), then approaching the harbour. Having selected a detachment to secure Belgica, the remain der with their sealing-ladders were ordered for the immediate storm of Nassau ; but Captain Kenah had -- , eueu 1 11(0 service, returned with the verbal submission of the Governor,t The great stone Thum \ aig' 40 — 0: - and I was'induced to send a second flag, stating my, mere capacious than tie''' . - (Yeternshostion to storm Nassau that instant, and to , has been lete' this town in ashes, if the colours were not imme- I --" This threat, and a well placed shot from &Iva (which completely commands all the principal defences) into one of their sea-batteries, pro duced an immediate and unqualified submission ; and we found ourselves in possession of the two forts and several batteries, mounting 120 pieces of cannon, and , defended by nearly 700 disciplined troops, and the cuous. I he's leave most earnestly to recommend hint to Tons notice, . .• . , I Al o transmit a plan of the de t entes of Banda !Neira, with the position of the . Dutch troops, and our i ow i t rouse from the landiopplace.to 13el, ;Ca. The enemy . , had advanced a st ro ng c o rp s t o iva t Ihe place where Admiral Rainier's forces had f , landed; and a suspicion that thi s w o uld' b e case, and that the roads Would be destroyed, _determined me as to the point and method of our attack. The service perfdrmed was of such a pecaliar. na ttireohat I could not do justice to the merits of my crimpanions, without entering much into detail ; and I feel confident, that in ynitt Excellency's disposition to appreciate duly the merits olthose under your com mand, I shall find an excuse for having taken up so much of your tune.- I am, Sit, with great respect, Your Very obedient Servant, (Signed) CHRISTOPHER CCiLiik 1 To Ith Eteellency WiWarri O'Brien Drury, Esq. Rent*Admlral of the Red, Commander in Chief, &c. I .. ---. i'ljE ARMY:.`` - The . :Plymouticciiiiiini. of the LtitiOn ;.•=i Med . terranean convoys still remains in port. Their deka tion is the more to be reg:etted, as they have on board large supplies of wine, brandy, mediciaes, ind provl ilreits,for our army ia Pcrttrgal and Bat Gibialtar. Lientenaot Colonel CAMPBELL, who was killed at the Isle of France, in the attack on Port Louis, on thelllst December last, commanding the flank com panies in advance of our army, was in of Colonel Duvcats CAMPBELL ) Killichronan, Argyleshire, and only brother to Major A. Attout CAMPBELL, of the 4&I Regiment, whose honaneable and glorious career dosed with Sir .fintsr Miunties consign in 1409.;-- Lieutenant-Colonel CAMPBELL was on his rtturn to F.urope, after serving his King and Country krlodit for upwards of 20 years. • - • • Lieut.-Colonel Knartac, who was shot ettnugh the leg, at the successful attack on thetio of France, under the command of General ABERCBOMBY and Admiral BERM, was, when the dispatches sailed, in a fair way of recovery. This gallant Officer tom manded the reserve, and remained atthe head of his brigade a cnosiderable,time .after. )te WAA wounded, and until the enemy ceased tp.makefuriher resistance. The Governor-General in Council;Lord hpaTo, has, in-the most honourable, Manlier, recorded his iprriter services at 'Bourbon, of which island ColPriel a IT ' vials appointed Lieutenant-Ognshnor CommiOdant s sand sehere„in conjonction sitlr his brave and distin. guished friendaaetain Aertar, he comp e ll e d , r h o French to.lerdostu 1.134 r arms and surrender priso siert Of wise': ' 1:401 • • • • . • &OWL INTEL LIGEN • • • • PLYMOUTH, FEB:WARY 18. 000/011 . hopes are entertained that the hull of •the Aassruyas frigate will be saved. No more of the drcsavued have been yet found.—Arrived the BADGER brig of war, from the westward Luse DIANA frigate, from Ireland; MARINER and Fererzer gun-brigs, from a cruise.—Sailed the leraLt.tosarr gun brig, for Mil ford ; and UNION frigate, on a cruize. PORTSMOUTH, FEBRUARY I O. Nothing arrived or sailed to-Al:tr.—Wind Easterly. DEAL, FEBRUARY 19. Sailed the whole of the outward-bound, under con voy of his Majesty's ships HUMBER and REDPOLE. Sailed the NONPAREIL schooner, on a cruite. 3HFERNBOO, 'FEBRUARY In. Arrived the MERMAID, from Chatham. Sailed the -Rua: and ATTACK, for Chatham. Gone out of Harbour, the AGGRESSOR acid. STARLING. Came into Harbour, the Demos and l'ociArtoos. • FEB. 19.—The SNAP was this day paid off. .LEITH, FE3RUAitY 14. Tuesday his Majesty's gun brig Cute arrive.' from Stieererts, and on Wegueiday the ALLION cutter L-om a craze. Yesterday sailed front the Roads the VA NCIIIA ID, of 74 gems, and the Dec.. raTot and Ruler, of 64 g oa l s each, for Sheeruess, and the GA I.• LAKT gun brig, with two sail under convoy, to the Note. The Eliza, SWAN, of Montrose, from Qucbee with dieter, any into the Road.: this morn *lg. The Good'lnNnt, ItekilleY, front Lancastei to Dublin, was tq. tally Insect! Dillas on the 30th ult.—crew Med. The Mary, from &arisen, Is taken by tbstyjotur primer*. 'Pile Surrey, IWCultum, from London to Fbncluvas, was 1 at Jamaica the Bth of Decerabei—most of eke earl , owed. The Elktibeth, Manners, from Newry, was totally lett id Dun iruna Ely, the 11th inst. The Francisio, Gilley, from Malta to Lftndon, was driven ces shore at Scilly, the 7th inst. Part of the cargo saved. The $ locos, Heseitine, from Hull and Li►buu to Zaute, was taken and carried into Tunis. The Friends, from Shields to London, is lost near this Gunfleet. The Rose (late James), from Malta to Lisbon, was taken the r 54th of September, and carried into Malaga. The Two Friends, --, of Ipswich, Fran Plymouth, is lost near the South Foreland. The Commerce, Haywood, from Gibraltar to London, was last near Margate, on Saturday. The dispatches by the second fleet, consisting of the following ships, w;11 be sect from the India HJUSe on Friday or Saturday next, viz. Hope, Taunton 0..u1e--Madras and Chins; Princess Amelia, Rose, Metcalfe, Carnatic, aid Castle Livia —Madras mad Bengal; Marchioness of Exeter, and Union—St. Miena znd B•ngal; Northampton, Union, sad Reutin—Botnisty and Bengal. DUBLIN, FEBRUART 15. The proceedings at the Special Commission were resumed on Saturday, in the County Coon, when Lor4 Norbury and the Lord Chief Baron both sat on the Bench. The prosecutions were conducted by the Sa. licitor-General, Serjeant Moore, Mr. Prendergast, and Mr.Pennefather. ;and the defence by Mr. McNally, Mr. C.)oke, Mr. Grace, Mr. Herbert, and Mr. King. The following is a correctlist of the trials and convic tions: Patrick Blake, John Conolly, Thomas Brien, Patrick Baker, John Butler, Thomas Mahony, and John D;)oly, for burglary and felony in the house of .Edmund Flahaven, assaulting his habitation, forcibly taking arms, attempting to compel him to quit his farm, and attempting to discharge a pistol—Guilty. To be hanged the Isth February, at L,Olyduff Hill. Thomas bower,for, felony and robbery of arms, con fessed guilt, to be hanged the 9th March. Maurice Quo, .Tohri Brown, Thomas Whelan, aadJohnWhe lan, for felony, burglary, and robbery of arms— Guilty. Maurice Quart to be hanged on Carrick bridge, on Saturday, 23.1 February ; Brown and Whelan to be hanged on 9th March. The two last pleaded guilty. • •.: • - The business of the Commission may be mituralel as dlosed—The Counsel for the Crown, train asititee of humanity, and in the hope that the awful examples exhibited, will be sufficient to restore peace to the County, having declined for the present to carry the prosecutious any farther. In the Afesiteurs to the 10th instant, the only mil eie that has not been already given, contains an acri. Monious attack upon the commerce of England, and, above all, upon the liberty of the press, which all tyrants instinctively hate. A Decree, dated the 3d, directs 80,000 conscripts, out of the 120,000 of 1811, to be called into service. The great stone Theatre at the ResSian expital, more capacious than the late Drury-Lane Theatre, has been lately' bamt to the ground. Mr. Itarcm, well known in the commercial world, died in that city in his 52d year. We are authorised to state that there was no truth in the paragraph which has appeared in some of the newspapers, stating that Mr. Thomas Rogers, of Basingstoke, was robbed oa kempshot Hill, on Thursday Ltc.. There was a meeting at Hertford on Saturday last, I when, on the motion of Mr. Hatt, jun. it was agreed to petition the House ofCommons in favour of Reform. Mr. BRAND and Sir JOHN SRADRIGHT spoke on the oc casion. The following passage in the speech of the latter Gentleman was much applauded :•^4‘ He was a friend to a mild, temperate, and well-timed reform; but he was the determined enemy of those wild, fan tastic, impracticable speculations, introduced by weak MAnK-LaNs.—This day there are several fresh at theorists or wicked men—(Lord amlause)—men who i rivals of Wheat, which, with that on hand, makes a would destroy what they never could improve, and I c o ns iderable supply; second and Inferior qualities poll down the Constitution under the pretence of re. are quoted cheaper—Battey again in large supply, pairing it.— (Laud cheers.) and sales dull at a farther reduction of is. and 2s. His Royal Highness the PRINCE Rearm' has been per quarter-- ' Malt at less—Few White Peas—Beans graciously pleased to grant a respite, during pleasure, of both sorts scarcely at lust prites—Them are like to Peter Ogilvie, now under sentence of death in the Tolbooth, Glasgow. wise large supplies of Oats, and sales thereof quoted ,rather . lower—Pricei of Flout without variation. AS 171101 R. This morning was executed la front of New ate os s . so: stun. &An. (Old), 43A. 513. G. Towsrs, for lobbing his former master, Mr. Bryant, Fi ne dius, ea. Wee. 3 ick 'ditto (oh!), 44a. 491. an old gentleman, in Manchester-street, accompanied Rye (arer), 96 1 . 40*. Oats. 225. 265. 511 e, by circumstances of cruelty ; and A. Cane, for re. Elwin , 2gs.sek P 01304 ditto, 90.. sea. 6d. Potat peetedly extorting Motley from a gentleman, on a riaaalt4 (bonen 449. 7ts: of chatting bigt *ids an uanstatal dime. ), see. Rapeo, ditto, Oa 345. 01. Seed, X 44, Inn Drat, No. to $540-6cconds, 71. to 110 e. .. - -" _~~