Star. — London, England, 1811-12-06 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE n-cLocK per Ct. Cons. foi money shut—Ditto for opg. G 4 3 per Ct. Reduced 644-4 per Cent 78i3 Navy 5 per Ct. shut—Bondslss. I Gs.pr.—Uranium 3 dim. Exch. Bills (3d.) par to es. dis.—Ditto (3td.) 2s. to Ss. pre.. Private Letters from our army in Portugal, re ceived by the Lisbon Mail of yesterday, inform us, that Lord WELLINGTON intended to put himself at the head of General limes brigade, reinforced by a large body of cavalry, in order to proceed to the ru;ighbottrhood of Badajos. This movement had been determined upon, in consequence of intelligence Lord WELLINGTON had received that the provisions of the garrison of Badajos would be exhausted about the middle of December, and that Marshal SoULT was contemplating the relief of that fortress, and had collected a large quantity of provisions in the neighbourhood of Seville for its supply. Towards the - close cf October, the number of troops to o,le Acrtli of the 'raps, in a state fit for duty in the field (comprehending we presume the Portu guese regiments) was 35,000. The present season able weather, h6wever, will at least occasion the re turn to duty of 10,000 more from the hospitals. So great was the sickness prevalent in one battalion, which left England 750 strong, that they could.never . bring into the field more than 288 men. We can fur ther state, that the French are in no condition, for the present, to recommence offensive operations, from the scarcity of provisions in their camp, and other causes. deny that they formed tit! %object of fits hitt? • views with the Emperors of AU/1111U and RusatAi and, finally, will it deny, that, some time about, or rather prior to the 12th of January last, at • grand Confederation of Kings, somewhat in its principles like the Family Compact o?.the Bourbons; was arranged at Paris, for the solemn and dread ful purpose of destroying the British Nation, wholly on account of the moral and political principles of the inhabitants !—Let the Tyrant know, that he has been betrayed in this conspiracy against mankind ; and that, froth the moment of the arrangement, not only his owa, but the fortunes of the French' nation changed. The seeds of opposition to this extravagant and com prehensive iniquity have been sown, and, though they have not yet become manifest, they are secretly swelling and germinating by the irresistible operation of providential Nature,, and their vigour and fruit will in due time appear and come to maturity. A respectable Morning Paper observes, that the' sixth maxim quoted above is unsound," adding I " we are not proprietors of that Island (Jamaica) be cause we defend it; but vice versa we defend it be cause we are proprietors." We had not thought that in the present state of political science such an obser vation could have been made. What is war ?—ln I every appeal to arms is mot success justice ? - --We con sider it impious to dispute this maxim. What gave us the right to Jamaica but the inability of the Spa nish nation to defend it. The moment that France can take it from us, she will be as rightfully the pro prietor as we are at present. It is the misfortune of the world that the Community of Nations should still be in so savage a state, as that might constitutes right in their dealings, but so it is. Before the French Revolution, Europe was approximating to the acqui sition of a code of public law in the treaties of her nations, but in that convulsion the collection was de stroyed, and until a Congress of Ministers of Inde pendent States can be assembled, we must bewail that the principles between nation and nation are different from those between man and man. , - .1 4 Ht ARMY. 11AITLI OF ARROYO DEL MOLINO. LETTER FROM tus ' aupritiornYhTA TO DM EXCELLENCY ' LORD WttLINOTON, AFTER THE ACTION or 28TH OF OCTOEEN. Is Valencia d'Alcintara, Oct. Sl, 1811. " MOST EXCTLLINT revect whial the Surerlor Junta of Estrtmadura has always . felt for rt.:- Excelltncy, it a l testimony of its g:atitude and the confidence it has that your Ex cellency entertains a predilection for this province. The gloidous battle in which the brave Allied troops, commanded by General HILL, defeated the enemy on the esth inst. in the plains of Ar.•• royo del Molluo, has confirmed the Junta in this fiataing idea, and clams more and more its gratitude. " The Junta, in the name of all the people witEin Its juris dic.ion, offers to your Excellency the expression of its most sin. sere thank,. GOD preserve your Excellency many years, (Signed) " The Marquis De Mt/NSADUO. " FRANCISCO Rear DC CASTILLA. " MATT LAW 'CARA." ANSWER 01 lIIS EXCELLENCY. " Freiteoa, Nov. 9, 1911. " MOST EXCELLINT Superi,r Junta of Estrous dun dots me justice in believing that I always wish din pr..i,per:zy of that province, and that I will low no opportunity in wh i ch I shalljutige it practicable to undertake operations which may con tribute to its benefit. " I have the greatest pleasure in reflecting that I have lately had an occasion to prove th s assertion, and that General HILL has carried into elf.ct the instraztions I communie.ded t.. Wm, to give the enemy a blow of csm,iderable importance to our cause. " COD preserve your Excellency many years. " WELLINGTON." COPY OF A LETTER FROM GENERAL HILL TO GENERAL CASTANOS, RELATIVE TO THE ACTION AT ARROYO DEL MOLINO, FItOSI TIIE REGENCY GAZETTEOF N0V.21. " Mosr EXCELLENT Sia—As General Giron, Chief of the Staff to your Excellency, was present at the operations executed in Estremadura, and Is well Informed of all the movemects and of all my dispositions, I consider it as unnecessary to trouble your Excellency with the details, as that General can inform you corn pletely of every particular. I cannot, however, resist tits desire I have to express to your Excellency my gratitude for the services of General Giron, whose cenansels and assistance essen:ially con tributed to the success of the combined arms, and, added to the energy with which he fulfilled all my wishes, give him an incon testible right to my most decisive thanks. I wish likewise to ex press to your Excellency the satisfaction with which I have seen the zeal, good conduct, and gellantry with which the Spanish troops acted with those under my orders ; and I- entreat you to thank them in my name, as well as Field-Marshal Conde de Penne Villamur, Brigadier Morillo, Colonel Downie, and other Chiefs, for their excellent conduct on this occasion, adding my sincere wishes that in future they may obtain equally favourable success against the enemies of their country. I must likewise express my thanks to Brigadier D. J. de Espelet and the Chiefs of General Giro's', Staff, who omitted no opportunity of assisting me by their exertions and advice. lat the same time return your Excellency many thanks for the felicitations with which you have done me NAPOLEON AND SICILY. "NEW YORK, NOV. 6. the honour of congratulating me on this fortunate event, which I Desirous at all times of presenting such a state- only view as the precursor of still more favourable ones . -1 hays 44 It is the opinion of the best informed that MT. ment of facts, as will enable our Readers to judge, Gallatin, our present Secretary of the Treasury, is the honour to be, &c. (Signed) R. Hies, Lt. Gen." themselves, of the procession of circumstances, we likely soon to resign, and the motive assigned for it EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER IN THE DlFi is a misunderstanding between him and Mr. Munroe, • , siox OF THE *BU U NDER IN PORTUGAL ,U NDER GEN. HILL. rarely obtrude our private opinions, but never ~ Portalegre. 9th Nov. 1811. the new Secretary of .State. Considerable seizures eWe are returned without effect. On,more than one occasion we have just to our cantonments, after a very tough have taken place of goods brought in by Upper Ca had the honour of seeing our sentiments and princi- nada and the other British Settlements. Our vessels Job, the result of which, however, amply compensates us for the pies stigmatised by the Moniteur as obnoxious ; and of war are abut repairing to New London, where fatigues we underwent. Whim the French retired lathe morning we well remember the acrimony with which that they will winter, but I believe they will first make from hialpartida they went to Caceres, and from thenca to Torre one cruize along the coast. All kinds of business are de Mujcho. Our cavalrifollowed them as far as eseeres,and then mouth of despotism expressed its vexation, when we very dull, and you may expect to hear in the course returned; they naturally supposed therefore that we hadgiven up inferred from contrary declarations of NAPOLEON, the of this winter of the failure of many more of the the pursuit, as they eepected their information from Caceres.— existence of a settled resolution to subjugate the house principal houses in this country. The President's Now instead of going there, we made a circuit to the right of it, of Austria, long before the last Austrian war was Message which has just arrived here in 20 hours from and aftc r marching the whole day oa the 47th, arrived at dark at apprehended even by the Cabinet of Vienna. We Washington, is deemed to be very hostile." a village called Alcoesta,sthere we lay under a bin, without being NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 8. allemed to light fires, in consequence of the Vicinity of the enemy I could not hope, in delivering our honest conceptions this was trying work fur our poor fellows—they had eaten no- Extract of a letter from Washington, dated on of the Sicilian question, that we should pass unno- I Monday last t- 44 have conversed with many Mem- thing for two days, and after marching all day in the pouring rain, ticed—but we were not prepared to bear our state- hers of Congress who have just come in from various were obliged to lie in a ploughed fi eld, up to their knees in mud. " We marched from this about two o'clock, quite dark,and rain ments spoken of as official writings, far less to have' parts of the United States ; but they all seem at a me of our maxims recommended to the careful me- : loss to predict what will be done during the Session. ing dreadfully, and by daybreak we had 3 brigades formed under a ditation and study of Kings. In the six maxims ; . Several of them have expressed an opinion, that it hill, within cannonoahot of Rio de Molino, where Monsieur was would be wise to abandon the merchants altogether, still snoring, unconscious of his danger. One outlying piqu,t of which the Monittur has extracted from our pages, andl and let them legislate for themselves. 'They say that the enc:ny Would have frustrated our whole plan ; they had one which we gave yesterday from the French Papers, inl the various attempts to protect commerce have, and about a mile from the village, but most fortunately they bad re the French edition a few slight deviations have oc- I always will, prove useless, and werse than useless ; tired (in consequence of the troops having an order to march on curred ;we therefore re-state them in their original for it has prevented the usual revenue, and left our six o'clock) just before the head of our column came to the spot. Treasury pennyless. For my part lam of opinion, Rio de Molino , where the y were, is a small village at the hot tons language : " I. The treaty of defence with the King of Sicily was not a that something will be done to enable the merchants of a very steep ridge of moun tains. The 71st, 92d, and 50th were to manage their own affairs in their own way. There ordered to march immediately upon lr, while the 34th, ulth, 89th, compact with him as an individual, but with him, in his public i saill . _be anexhibitioa of more independence in the in- 6th Portuguese, and 6th Cacadores brought their left shoulders cap c'ty and regal character ; as the chief Magistrate of Sicily, d , ivi %al Members, than at any former period since forward, and marched, or rather ran, in the best possible order, -x:3l a limited prerogative, and lawfcely incapable either of levy- the Jeffersonian reign." Ito gain the Merida road before the enemy—v. hick done, they la.; caeca, cr of alterine -he law.; and constitution of the State, ssi , •, iut tlie consimt of hi, Parliament. A letter from Washington, to the Editor of the wou ld have no alternative but to take to the mountains. Two Freeman's Journal, observes— or three cannon shot from the village informed us that the bird " If. The KLtg of Sicily, levying taxes and suspending the laws " Mr. Clay, who is appointed Speaker of the had not flown—they were, however, formed outside of it, and at eicesure, is not the same King with whom we entered into House of Representatives, is considered the most able ready to march. General GIRARD laughed, and said that the olliaoce, but a usure er of authorities which that King did* not man i n the house, except J. Randolph. His election English were too fond of comfort to get out of their beds such lawiiilly possr:-. I was agreed on in Congress last evening, probably to mornings as these (raining hard) —he thought it was only an ad " 11l We therefore are under no obligations to this usurper. I prevent the election of Mr. Macon, who is undoubt- vanced party of Spaniards, and was hurrying his men out of the " IV. The ussrping and anti-social Government of Sicily is edly the most fit for that office of any one on the de- r village, in order (as he said) to drub them heartily. 'On turning not only hostile to us, but to civilized society in general; and mocratic side of the House ; but his independence i round, the first man he saw was one of the 92d, and he rode off then. fore Faust be held as in its nature jacobinical, against which i was an insuperable objection to him. They feared he to set his troops in motion. we, with a nerc,sary wisdom, cherish perpetual enmity. would not place on the standing committees the suit- u GIRARD, who was wounded twice, got off with three or 400 "V. Does not the justice of the British nation require, that a able thorough-going tools of administration. They men, and they say four Eagles, but they were invisible, the officers Government which publicly professes the jacobinical principle of feared Mr. Randolph would be at the head of the • having pocketed them. Had one squadron of our cavalry gone being bound by no compacts, should itself be deprived oldie Committee of Ways and Means, or Foreign Relations. round the foot of the Sierra, not a man would have power of doing further mischief ? Clay's election was most unexpected." When we saw there was no possibility of following them, we " VI. The nation which furnishes the means of defence to a The American papers contain Resolutions of an , tried a ruse de ricer; after their own fashion; but it did not do— country is the political proprietor of that country. We are the Assembly of Planters and Merchants, at Barbadoes, i a flag of truce was sent to tell theta they were surrounded, and r eitical proprietors of the island of Jamaica, because we defend in which it is stated, that while American bottoms Ito ask them to surrender. it ; are we not then entitled to consider ourselves as the political were permitted to carry away sugars in return for 1 " The Men and officers seemed inclined to do so, and an sift proprietors of the island of Sicily ?" • 1 the stores supplied; there was a regular market for ' cer and a few men actually came off ; but GIRARD said he would It affords us no small satisfaction to know that 25,000 hogsheads of the former, which was now ' never surrender with like - and, if taken, there was his resource, wholly closed, to the great distress of the island.— ' pointing to his pistols—be was in tears, and much agitated. The these six maxims have made so deep an imp r e ssion on They then determine, that the disuse of sugar in the ' prisoners are chiefly the 34th and 40th fight infantry, all the Ruler of the Continent , as to be r ecommended by I • distilleries, under the present impediments to their Frenchmen, and looked upon as In vincibles. The horses taken him to be " read—re-read, and meditated by all .. i • trade, is extremely injurious ; and that the measures are sold, for the purpose of equally dividing amongst our men en -1 ings." Among his other titles tbis'personage has adopted in the House of Commons in 1808, for the gaged." not yet found it convenient to disclose, that which he partial exports in American ships,ought to be resumed. , assumed on or before the 12th of January last, and In the sequel, a Committee was appointed to carry! General Hawes:a, of the 14th Light Dragoons, is which in effect was 44 Co nfederator of Kings." Theinto effect the objects of their Resolutions. ' placed on the Staff, and is tQ command the cavalry in On the receipt of 'the PRIAIDENT'S Message at Li- • the Eastern district, under the Earl of CHATIIAhi.— MOGifeUr denied the authenticity of the famous stele-' verpool, one Gentleman, a partner in an eminent He will leave town shottlyforColchester, from whence - tures on the principles of the British Nation, addressed house there, started immediately in a post:chariot and he will probably proceed to Woodbrid7e. by the Duke of CADOnE to the foreign Ministers at four, having relays ready at all the stages, and though . WESTMINSTER PLAY.—The Adria of TERENCE wa Paris. The precise form of the communication may , does treme urgency produced several untoward acci- on Wednesday night p . erformed by ome of the foung t—breaking down twice, causing the wheels to Gentlemen of Westminster School ;and, much as the be denied, but will the Mositeur still persevere in de- ' take fire, &c.—so as to compel him at last to finish merits of former scholars have been admired in Simi raying the fact of some such. representation having the journey on a saddle horse, he arrived in 20 hours, Jar exhibitions, there was - hardly ever a greater dis been made—will it'deny that the anti-despot princi- 1 an d h a d t h e first of the market, purchasingupwards play of ability than appeared on this occasion. — ples of the British Nati on have been for a long ,time of 1000 bass of cotton, before the merchants in town There was a numerous, and highly respectable body • the particular antipathies of NAPOLI:ON ? Will it were acquainted with the nature of the Speech. of visitors. k The most important article contained in the Spa nish Papers received by the Cadiz mail of yesterday, is the official account of the action between BLAKE and SUCHET, which we have given at full length. It is a manly and candid statement, and amply verifies the opinion we ventured to entertain in publishing the French account. BLAKE seems to have been hard pressed in his retreat to Valencia; and it was even reported at Cadiz, that the place had fallen, after another engagement under the walls, in which BLAKE was once more defeated. On On the 15th ultimo, how ever, we know that it had not fallen, for there are letters in town of that date, which leave no doubt of its being then in the hands of the Spaniards. His Royal Highness the PRINCE RECENT'S intended return to town, this day, is postponed, owing to the paint not being sufficiently dry at Carlton House, it being his intention to go there on his return. His Royal Highness will remain at Oatlands a few days longer. The following are extracts from private letters re ceived by the Magdalen, just arrived at Liverpool, in 23 days, from New York : PAPAL INTELLICSYM IFALMOUTR, DECEMBER S. Nothing arrived or sailed to-day, Should the Wind continue to blow as at present, the Nrcton and ,ihr• lington packets that sailed last evening will in all pro. bzbility return.—W,nd NV,,S.W. strong gales. PLYMOUTH, DECEMI RR 4. Arrived the Qt•rtt.t, 98 guns, from the French coast; also the brig Sarnu , l, belonging to Mr. PAGETT, of Great Yarmouth, CIIAIILII3 NEWSOM, late master, from Lisbon with a cargo of oranges, bound to Londrn. She was captured on Saturday morning last, about 17 leiru , s to the westward of Scilly, by the Fret•,ll pr;veeer brig (supposed to be la Emilie) who took c u: five perwits, viz. the Capt in and the whole of ::.c crew, with the exception c f a little boy, who is now no board the hanmel, and put seven men on board. ti;:. was afterw:rds recaptured by the Foxnovm) sloop cf war, oiler a lore cht , e, from day to ncor, rear the Lle cf Bass. The Foxriousn had two boats swamped in taking possession of the recapture, but I - rtunately no 1 7 v-s were lost. The- S •muel lost lur jih.btumoc , ..a,,ior.c... by tuaning foul iof the roxriot;sn. PoßTsMotrn!, DEC2MDER S. &Oki his tel...it.Sty'S EV% and MIMS for off Chcrh;:ur7. The Tinite las drnpped down to St. Helen's: The Rover, Capb.in FLT LAY, has made a valuable prize, and brought her into Spithead she is from Batavia, laden wi'll spice and cochine4, and mounts 14 r,tals. The Itsrut has ;Also srnt in a prize (a recapture), laden with cotton and Spanish wool.—Wind N.N.W. DEAL, DECEMBER S. Sailed the Earl St. Vincent, HArrow, for iama:ca, with the loss of an anchor and cable; also the therine, GREEN, with damage.—Wind N.N.W. Five o'Clock. Several more ships are getting under weigh, but the convoy do not appear tb 'be preparing to sail to-night. The wind is not better than N.N.W. The Grace cartell, J. CAN:runt master, returned to Plymouth on Monday from Morlaix, to which place she took Mr. CURWAN, an American Minister, and a number of sick and infirm prisoners on 'Thursday se'n night. Captain C.states that M. Dutache,the master a a French niercharitman,ivho had been some time since sent from Portsmouth, was seized immediately on landing; and aster undergoing a simmary process,. was next morning brought out and shot, as a spy sent over by England. The cartels are not allowed to have any communication with the shore, and all the persons that land from them are strictly searched on • their arrival, and afterwards kept in a place of safety till orders are sent from their government as to their disopsal. Thre-e stout privateers are still lying there, and many English prizes. ' Three French prisoner:, Who had made their escape arm prison, were taken up at Plymouth on Tuesday by the town-serjeants, while loitering near thaptuay, whence they iirtt.nded, in the night, to have stolen some small vessel, and made toward the French coast. DREADFCL MURDER.—'The Diana frigate has an. r'sved at Plyin-arth from a cruize off Brest..9n Tues. day, the 19th of November last, they took French brig, by cutting her out. They took out the French. men who were on board her, and sent Mr. Andrews, Master's Mate, a Quarter Master, named Bolen, Mr. Winsland, Captain's Steward, four seamen of the Diana, and two belonging to the Growler, and sent her for Plymatn't . Aster they were out of sight of the frigate, two Black fellows who were on board, joined by the two men sent from the Growler, (who wereforrignen its our :entire) rose upon the crew, and killed Mr. Andrews, the Master's Mate, by thrusting a crow-bar through his skull. They then called Mr. Bolen, the Quarter Master, up from his sleep, and asked him it he would join with them ? and on his answering in the negative ? one of the Blacks struck him on the head with an axe, mid killed him on the spot. They afterwards went below and killed Mr. Winsland, the Steward, as he lay in his hammocks, and threw the three bodies overboard. The other two men belonging to the Diana, were compelled to assist them in working the ship, intending to take her I into Brest, but the wind being N.E. they could not effect their purpose ; and, after being four days in pos session of the brig, the Aquilon and Diana again fell in with them, took out those most atrocious mur. derers, and put others on board her. The wretches have arrived at Plymouth in the Diana, to be tried by a Court Martial, and the two men whom they compelled to assist, are to be evidence against than. The captured brig has not yet arrived. Norrismtem.—Various letters received yesterday from Nottingham mention, that the rioters continue their practice of frame-breaking, notwithstanding the liberal -proposals held out to them by the trade. On Monday and Tuesday nights, much mischief was done at Ilkiston ; and several frames were broken aboirt the same time, in the vicinity of Nottingham. Some thieves, a few nights since, attempted to break open the house of the Earl of 131138011011014 9 is Cavendish-square, by boring holes in the window.. shutter at 'the back of the house, but fortunately the thieves alarmed the servants, and escaped without their booty. The present seasonable severity of the frost, gives the natural rote to the cheek of beauty. MARK-LAN F. —The market to-day has few further arrivals of Wheat, and the trade ter fine at somewhat better price ; some s +triples of fine old rather excetid the quotation. Barley, Malt, and White Peasneerty at last prices. Beans of each sort fully keep their price. There are also few fresh at rivals of Oats, Wit tolerable supplies on hand, and sales thereof quoted rather dearer. Prices '1 Flour without variation. CLINIC/Ur PRICES Of GRAIN. 'Wheat, 764.955. 114 k _Beans 551. 601. Flee ditto, 116 s. 1121. _ Tkk ditto 465. 525. Rye 545. COt I)itto (fine Old) .545. Ms. Barley, 461.544.0 d. Oats aas Ms. Stk. Malt, 110 s. ses. rolaLl ditto; 345. fila. OIL White Peas (boilers), Us. efa Potatoe ditto, 495. 411 s. Fine now, 95a. 100a,--Secends, Ws. 105 s. ,AO