Star. — London, England, 1807-05-28 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, MAY zB. TRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : Confols, for money, 341—for July 641-omnium if. Reduced 64—Exchequer Bills as. prem. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. , Bonk Stock I India Bonds 5s 6s prem: 3 per Cent. R. An. 63f 63 Imp. 3 per C.- 3 pr. C. Cod An. 630 Ezcheq. Bills, par 3s. pr. s 4 per CAM. uranium if pretn 5 per C. Navy 99 gn 99 9 8 1 Itifh Ditto ef pr. Long Ann. 171 z c-16ths Lottery Tickos 191 161. Indlis Stock ayi tB7 Confols for acc.64fii GIBRALTAR. By the Royal George, Admiral Dociworrw's hip, we have received letters from Gibraltar to the loth intl. but their contents are not of much imps.. tance. On the gth, Admiral THORIIIIOROUGH had a rrived there from the fleet off Cadiz, on his way to Sicily, to take the command of the Britith fleet in the Mediterranean. By the_fame channel we have received accounts of a MUTINY AT MALTA Haying broken out in Faossec's Regiment, orrt poling part of that Garrifon, and which had been attended with the molt melancholy confequences.— This regiment, which was chiefly cornpofed of Alba nians, and other foreigners, from the Levant, being ex tremely difrati,fied wi:h the mode in which they had been railed, and at the drcfs and difcipline they were obliged to adopt, broke out into open Mutiny in one of the Forts where they were quartered, at the en. trance oldie harbour. They cut the Adjutant and one of the Captains to pieces, wounded Lieut. Colonel Scrivstrestaryst, and would alto have murdered Lieut. Colonel BARNES, their Commanding Officer, had he not been luckily abfent at the time. The mutineers remained in pofreffi •rt of the fort for feveral days, during which time they obliged the Officer of Artillery, on rain of death, to fire upon the Town; and feveral (hells were aCtually thrown by them into the place. All provifions being cut off from the mu• timers, they threatened to blow up the Fort if they vete not fupplied ; which being refuted, fome them attempted to put their threats in execution, and aCtually let fire to the powder magazine. Troops were then fent againfl them, and about zoo of the principal ringleaders were fecured, of which z 6 I.ad been hanged, when the Royal George failed from Malta, and a General Court Martial was fitting on the remainder. The twenty fix who were executed, died in the moll daring manner, glorying in the crime they had committed, and curling the fervice and Government they had been enlifled into. . The event of the mitchief effeCted by there del peradoes is not Rated in the letters that have reached us, but enough has tranfpired to (hew the danger and ruinous confequences, that may refult from a lryttem which has been carried of late to a confider. able extent, that of forming foreign corps in our fervice. Dillon's regiment, as our Readers may re coiled, was difbanded in Gibraltar to avoid a mutiny there, and now Malta is brought into the molt immi nent danger, from the fame tante ; for we have only two Britifh regiments there : all the reit are foreign troops, and a good deal of untafinefs is felt on that (core. Foreign corps railed in the Mita fervice are often a vile job, to ferve fome needy foreigner, at the expenfe of the public purfe. The men are picked up by crimps any where, and boundlefs promifes are held out, which, in the nature of things, cannot poi fibly be realifed. Corps of foreigners railed in a regular manner, from among the regular peafantry of any country, might be expeCted to poffefs as many good moral qualities, as can be looked for from men in fimilar circumflances ; but fuch corps we can hardly by any pdfibility obtain. If we compote corps of all the vagabonds of the earth that can be colleeted together, what can we expal from them ? Such troops, under particular circumfiances, will ever prove more formidable to their friends than their enemies. LISBON MAILS. The letters and papers brought by the Prince of Wales packet, Captain TODD, in i 2 days from Lifbon, .. have been delivered out at the Poll Office.—lt ap pears by their concurrent teftimony, that the prep . j rations on every part of the Spanifh frontier have i excited a very lively alarm in the Court of Lifbon ; 1 and that even mercantile credit bad begun to fitffer, . from the general apprehenSon of an immediate inva lion. The Court of Madrid i , . Rated to have already asade i come extravagant demands on that of Lifbon, afee,lng to have conceived great difgufl at the Ain ; ancelgivar by the latter to the Eng bib fquadrons in -'. the Plata.—The Lifbon payers begin to fpeak very indignantly of the conduit of the Government of Spain. One of them demands, with great reafon, what Spain could expe4l from the ruin of Portugal ? Is it the interelt of France, that Spain, flrengthened by the union of Portn . iii, fhotild rife to an equality, or at teal nearer to an equality, with the French Em pire? Or is it nct rather the interefl of France; that the contefis of Spain and Portugal thould fo exhaufl the ilrength of both, as to render both of them an eafy fril to their fironger and wifer neighbour ? The Prince of Peace would do well to confider this.— The prefent feafon is very critical : an error may be ei mmitted in a moment, wh . ch an age would not 1 epair. MVEDilki AND CltgAT BRITAIN. M. Ds Rea - iussw, the Swedifh Minifter, received yefterday, very unexpeCtedly, from his gyred& Ma. jelly, an order for his return, and lie will leave this country ,ithour delay. We are not fufficiently inforMed of the ;motives which have led to this event, to juatry us in Circling a conjeBure upon it. ST. DOMINGO. We are no* enabled to lay before i duk Rearievi it* Conftitutional Code, that has at length been adopted in this ifland. It differs but little from thofe wbicb were in force under TOUSSAINT and Duct:dm Is. — The great principles of every free Government perfonal liberty, fecurity of property, and freedom of religion —are recognized in it. Next to there, its merit confills in its fimplicity, and in its adaptation to that degree of civilization and intelligenie which may be fuppofed to prevail among the itihabitants of Hayti. Both the Code and the Proclamation of Cuatsrovits hold out the greatefl encouragement to foreign commerce. The Imperial diadem, with all its vanities, :deflation, and ahfurdity, has been bro ken and can afide. A fyfiem of order, jurlice, and morality, itas fucceeded to the tyranny, licentiouf nefs, and impiety, which prevailed during the rapa cious Government of the reprefintatives of BONA PARTE. and the ferocious rule of Dessaumar, who expelled them. This Conllitution, proclaimed in February, was in full aflivity fix weeks after. The public tranquillity had at that lime been folly reflored ; and both foreign commerce and domeflic induftry revived and Oa. Walled to a degree, fcarcely to be hoped for after fo important a change in the Government. • EXPEDITION UNDER GEN. CRAUFORD. We have received from our Correfpondent with this expedition, the rubj-ined account of the princi • pal occurrences that took place from the time the Expedition left England: The Expedition failed from Port Praya say, St. Jago, in the evening of the tith January, under con• voy of the SPENCER, i 4. the Hon. Captain STOP FORD Commodore; TH ESEUS, 74; Capt. HOP ; PA ULIN• lop, 16, Capt. LUMLEY ; and the HAUGHTY brig, Lieutenant Kr:. 14 [L., with jt fiil of tranfports. On the following morning the CAPTAIN, and GANCIst of 74 guns each, Captains COCKBURN', and HALKET' left the fleet, being ordered to England. On the 29 , h January the fleet crolred the equator in the lon gitude of as Weft. The Expedition, after a tedious patage of 68 days, arrived in Simon's Bay, at the Cape of Good Hope, in the morning of the acth Match. On the 24th the fleet came to anchor in Table Bay for the better (up ply of water and refreffiments for the troops. The obje& and deflination of this expedition has been fo indunrioufly concealed, that when the fleet failed from St. Jago in January, no perfon, the Commodore and the Brigadier General excepted, was fuppnfed to be informed of the nest rendezvous of the fleet, many Lille and vague reports having been induflri. puny circulated for the purplfe of mifleading there who were not entrufled with the fecret. The force now under the orders of Brigadier General Oulu FL/RD, confifls of the following Battalions, and de tachments of Regiments t Corps. St,en z a. F,fiffives. &motion/i v (pers. Royal Artillery s Companies z6o Captain 1-lAn KIR. 6th Drag Guards s Squadrons 319 Lieut.CoI.KINGTON. sth Foot I Ba•talion tOOO ...--- DAVI E. 36th Ditto Dittew 950 Ptt RN C. 45th Ditto Ditto 925 --.—GUARD. 88th Ditto Ditto 920 --.... —Dur r. 95th or Rifle Rest. 5 Companies 396 -- M'LLon. Total - 4680 The troops ever fince their leaving Falmouth have enjoyed an uncommon (hare of health, which is to be attributed to the extreme degree 9f cleanlinefs and attention which was invariably preferred on board every tranfport of the fleet. The decks and fides of the fmaller veffels were perforated in order to venti late them effeeually, and every means ufed to pre ferve them healthy. Some of the mailers of the Iran( ports were removed from their ships for infolence and unwarrantable conduit to the officers on board ; and the Military Commanding Officers on board each tranfport were veiled with a certain degree a con troul over each of the mailers, of much the fame na. ture'as obtains in the Navy. This in all our expedi• tion was loudly called fort and we hope, that is fu ture no unpleafant mifunderffanding can even exill regarding the neceffary prerogative of Commanding Officers in Chief over the meters of tranfports. Although all the regiments of the expedition have been embarked nearly (wren months, and fome of them even nine, the degree of health which prevails is unparalleled. The lots by deaths, has been com paratively little more than that of a tingle battalion,. embarked for a long expedition in an unhealthy cli mate. There is now fcarcely a tingle lick man in the whole fleet. The General ordered the troops to land by regi menu, for the put pole of cleaning and white washing the tranfports, and giving the men exercife. The report of General Fox's return from Sicily, which found its way into a!! the newlpapers, is now contradißed. The General, it is faid, flill retains his command in that ifland. *iir ci".4I?.LIAAIEN*. MEMBERS ELECTED. PAM ON —Loft! Stanley and S. Horracks. Efq. Daiw's—Sir R. Milbanke and Sir H. V. Tempe*: CONTESTED ELECTIONS. Pittston, MAT 18.—At the dole of the Poll this evening, when Mr. Hanfon withdrew from the conicit, and requetled his numerous friends to withhold Illb Votes they intended to give in his favour, the numbcri were as follow Lord Stanley - itss J. Hutton. Efq. • I.xl S. Horrocks. Efq. 11 39 The latter steady all Plu-apers. • Yoas.sroiss. MAY as.—State of the P.. 11. Witt. Wilberforce. Efq. 59[9 Lord Milton . 3 1 9 0 Hon. Henry Lakellet 3296 Mar 26.—State of the P.. 11. Mr Wilberforie 7203 Lord Milton 9 1 3 8 Mr. Laftelles 6453 POot.i.—At the cl•fe of the Poll. . Mr Jeffery - SS Mr. Garland - 53 Sir R. Bickerton 53 Dowrim—Tliircl day's Poll. J. W. Croker. Ftli. . - 6 B 6B ES. Ru!ti , en Efq. - est LtmEcticit Coinvri.—Secund clay's Poll. Col.rel Odell - ii, Mr. Munfell - 7j Honourable W. Qin t i a DK 4 'O9FiIA.-- . -Flin (14y's Poll. Hon. Colonel Fofter 27 H. M Oglc,.lqq• 28 SUSSEX, MAY 117 —F uttters li day's Poll. wyncibam - 4278 Sericfm - 2 409 Fuller - $477 SCOTS PE ERS. A change has taken place in the lift of Noblemen handed about in the Mini(lerial Circles, as inlet:Jed to reprefent. the Scots Peerage in the New PATNA ment. The following have been fubflitured in the lift given in the STAR of 27th April, viz. Th e E ar l s of CAITHRLS3 and BALCARR AS, and L..rd SALTON, for the Earl of HOFCTON, Lord ARIBUTt4NqT, and Lord Sosisavtt.t.c. The blinitletial Lift therefore now Hands as iollow.: Earls Aarsaints Faris KELLY MOYNE SELKIRK BALCARRAS S TEAT HMOItt CAITHNESS Lords CAT HCART DALHOUSIE FORBES GLASGOW NAPIEg HAD DINGTON SAL roN Hume SINCLAIR The Candidates who are undertioodio be in the oppolition interefl, are the Eath of ELGIN, Nos-rii ASK and STAIR, with Lords REAT, ELPHIRSTON, BLAN TYRE, and KINK. IRD. Vellerday his MAJESTY came to town about twelve o'clock, arrived at the Qeen's Palace, and held a private levee, which was attended by The Archhifhop of Canterbury, the: Lord Chancellor, the Lord Prefident of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the Firft Lord of the Treafury, the Chancellor of the Fxchequer, the Secre taries of State for the Home and Colonial Vt;artmentx, the Maf ter General of the Ordnance, the Judge Advecatg, the Serretar) at War; the Dukes of Nevreaftle and Montrofe ; Fail of Aylel ford ; Lords Willoughby De Broke, Cathcart, and C. Srencer , the Bilhops of Salifbury and Flphin : Sir j. Pulteney ; Colonel Pietem ; the Key. Dr. Beyam ; Mars Pierrepoint,'Greville and Fawkner. The following had the honour of being prefented to bis MAJESTY Colonel Picrorr, on his return Rom being Governor of Tri nidad. _ . The Rev. Dr. BMOC by Sir JAMES PULTICHLY, nn his being appointed Redtor of the pas of Wyke, in Weymouth. Dr. Fi !MIA did homage before his MAI' r, on his being tran Rated from the Bifhoprie of Exeter to Selifbury. The Bifhoy of Ecru' N, in IreLmd, by the ilithop of SA Ltssuar, on his returning to Ireland. • MT. Pr IF It it FPOINT took leave of his MAJESTY, pre vious to his departure upon his Embaffy for Sweden. His Mays srr held a Privy Council, and afterwards gave audience to Lord Hawarsauar t Earl CAMDEN, VirCOUTIr CASTLERsacN, the Duke of PoarLaan, Mr. PERCEVAL; Mr. PIERRE POINT, and Mr. BOND, who hid before his Mairsrt the proceedings of feveral Courts Martial. goon after fix o'clock his MAJESTY let off cn his return to Windfor. Mr. ARBUTHNOT, our late Mini(ler at Con!lanri nople, and Vice Admiral DucxwoßTH, ate arrived in the Royal George. Sir SIDNEY SMITH is erpeeled daily in the Pompee. We have not heard that they have brought any intelligence of importance. Vice Admiral DucKwoßrif is to be fuccceded, we heat, in his command in the Mediterianeln by Admiral MARTIN. At Lewes fair, on Tuefday, there was a very large fhow of cattle, of all defaiptions, but they were fo extremely dull of rale, that but few purchafes were made. Green peafe were yenerday f Id in Covent Garden Market at 9s. the quart. Yellerday fe'nnight, the day after the riot in Leed-, the found of a bugle ft oni one of the coaches, called a party of the military, as they imagined, to their duty ; and they proceeded, though without orders, to clear the fireets, which were again crowded. According to a new !Willie teport, the Auflrian Empire contains t r ,680 fquare miles, and a popnla• lion of 2.3.500,000 I-vils. The revenues amount to t04,000,0c0 of guilders, the expenditure to t 03,000,000, and the national debt to t zoo 000.oco . The prefent ettablinament of the army cattails of 344,315 men. _ _ _ ..... _ _ Laft week a Freeholder of the name of Mourow, voted at the Sufrex Election for a Freehold at Raper, which had been in ,the potreffion of himfelf and his ancellors 753 years I !! - - - - Yenerday, as the Dukes of York and Cambridge were coming nut of the Q2een's Palace, a woman. decently dreffed, prefented a letter to the Duke of York, which his Royal Highnefs was about to take, when Sayers, who was in attendance, knowing her, and fufpeding the was deranged, put her slide.— She went a few yards from the 'inure, but loon re turned, and remained there during the whole after nonn. About five o'clock, when the King's 'carriage entered to wait for his Majefly, the ruched in after it, unperceived by the fentinels. She was, holves ! r, nbferved by Sayers end Mr. Baker, the . Gentleman Porter. who nor her before the got to the door of the Palace, and rock the letter from her. It was dirs.led to the King and (tteen. There were five other letters incloftd in it. From their contents, there was no doubt of her being deranged. Her name appears to be Margaret Flett, and the refides in Star-court, Eaft Smithfield. Thrfe who recoiled the appearance of Margaret NicholfOn, when fhe at tempted to flab the King, fay, the is a Gm►lar woman, and dread exaaly like htr. NAUT:CAL INrELLIGENCE. buhltn _Ward ford Gatteliburgh 0 MAILS. A o P. Du : . I lull • 2 . 1 . .. Pt iiiii .ge• O I f 1 , •. 0 0 0 W. have the pleifure to announce the fife array. I of the fhip Experiment in the Downs, from Bombay. Sbe failed from Bombay about the 2 xcl of December Lift, touched at the Cape, and left St. Helena the 27th Match. There *ere not any E India flitits at that lihnd when laded. PLYMOUTH, MAY 26. Came in the Pcoisa, of 18 glinc, from a crnize; (he has detained a Haran•ph (hip, fiorn the hie of France. on a fuppnliiion of he Cagn being enemy's property. The R"YAL of Ito guns, patirt.l up Channel veliei day to the eatiwArd. The Pilephine French fel o n. r pr , va . ec r, of 14 guns. is ca.)tnie.i by his bliojelly's Ibips Amsynysr, DaY.6, and PLOVER, and ihh ,, utly expected to ~wi ve here. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 27. Arrived hi, MAjelty's (hips DAPPfilt, iron) a Cr'l;7! ; ExcEt.i.Ftit an.i CHILDERS, fr,iti the Weltward.— Wind W. MAL tit ‘Y 27. Arrived the REouLus, ut 44. glint, an 4 Julio fri gate, (rum the Wettward, and tailed thtouJls for the. River; Humber arm e d (hi p , from Falnit.uth, haviu k t, under her convoy leven failof merchant velfris, have failed tutough fur the River ; alfo the Lat'v Warren, l'utt.Lirs, from Ply:nowt' ; Ranger navy tranfport. from Pen tfmouth, and failed through tisr Sheernefs ; Fxertion and Blazer gun brigs, from A cruize off Offend. Sailed lati night the Detrierate and Turbulent gun brigs, on a cruise ; the Defperaie put back again this morning. Sailed the Furious gun brig, on a cruise off 011 end.—P. S. Arrived the F x periment, —, from the Eall Indies, and remains in the Downs with the Humber, Explnflon, and the *tips as per lag : alfo the Lord Nellon, ANDER S' , lt e for Surinam ; and the Atlantic, for Lifbon. —Wind S. W. variable. YARMOUTH, MAY 27 Sailtd the Am ASIA frigate, on a cruise.--Arrived the FORRESTER (loop of war, and which fhip is now performing quarantine, fhe having board,cl fon), foreign veffels at fea; alto arrived the STAR LI m gun., brig.—Sailed the Sraattow floop of war, will a franc- port, with troops on board, for Scotland. Ships of war—Rtiebuck, Orion. Minotaur, Agamemnon, Na mur, Diaator, Ruby, Vanguard, Goliah , Agincourt, Velal frigate, Alert, Ariel, and Fnrrefirr (bops, Starling, and Bruiser gun brigs.—Wind W. GREENOCK, MAY Is. The fhip William, IsitLia, from hence fir St. Thomas's, was captured on the Bth ult. in lat. i 8.5. N. Long. 57. W. by a French privateer of ta , guns, and iso men, after an engagement of so minutes, and recaptured by his Majelly's !hip St. Cxttsro- PH FR, two days after, and • carried to Antigua.— While the William was in poffefllou of the enemy, they plundered her of about 150 packages of goods. AULTVCD —Off Dover, the Concordia, Rollins. from Bolton. At Africa, George, Irwin; Agnes, Everett: and the Liberty, Kennedy, from Liverpool. At St. Thomas's, Fortitude, Friar, from Liverpool. At Ber Lice, Ranger, W..lker, from ditto. The George Waillington (an American), Gardner, from St. Domingo, for Gottenbarg, has been captured by a French ptiva. tcer, and carried into Savanilla Bay—ftnce cut out by the Media tor frigate, and arrived at Jamaica. The Alt:ander, Mos, from Africa, is arrived at Trinidad, *her beating off a privateer. The Flura, Mains, from New O. leans for Liverpool, is put into New Providence, having been on Owe. A Court of Aldermen was held on Trulllay at Guildhall, at which the price of Bread was ordered to he reduced half an affize ; the Qartern Loaf will therefore to-morrow fell for r rid.—The LORD MAY /R nominated the following Gentlemen, for the Livery to fele& two proper perfoos from, to terve the office of Sheriff for the year enfuing; and Pre cepts were ordered to be iffued fir a Common Hall to be held on Nlidfummer day for that put-pole : FRANCIS N11911(1/7, Efq. Citizen and Coldrinith. Sir Tuoss A 3 COZH RAD. Khight, Citizen and Cooper. CHARLES BROOKS. bfq. Citizen and Atiu6cian. Gaoane tarts, Efq. Citizen and Salter. CORM OrIIER SMITH. Etq. Citizen and Draper. RICHARD PHILLIPS, Fri. n and Stationer. • MATTIIIIW WOOD, Eft Citizen and Fishmonger. • GROROZ FRIEND. Efq. Chian and Upholder. And SOLOMON HOUORAM, Efq. Citizen and Goldfnilth. Thanks were voted to the Loan MAYOR'S Chap. lain, for his Sermon, at St. Paul's, on the fiat Sun- ' day in Ealler Term.—Courts of Confervancy, for Efra and licnt, were ordered to be held on the gth of J une; a nd for Surrey and Middlefez on the- tfith.— 'l'he Eleaion of Rulers of the Watermen's Company was ordered to take place at the firfl Court in June. The Funeral of the Duke of Monrrrastaa, bro ther to the Duke of °WAN', took place on Tnefday evening. His remains were depofited in the eel aide of Wellminfler Abbey, in the vault of the Right Hon. Earl DARNLIT. The cavalcade was as ralows Two Mutes—Wurning Coach bearing the Urn, fvpported by Four Pages—Two Porters in Scarves—STATE Lio. and Two Pages—HEARSE and Six, with Ten Pages Coach and hi: of his Royal Highnefs the PRINCE of WALIES —Five Suppiirtere— Siz Coaches and Four, with Twelve Paget—Five Conduet.,y, on Foot—Rrtinue of Fuller,' Carriages, followed by the Pquipagesof the Fa rhcii Pethces the rear being brought up byrheCarriagt s of their Royal Hichnefres the PRINCE of WALES Duxes of Yoe& and Kour...Several of the Fore , gn Ambaff,dors, and Fdends, who had been in the habit of intimacy, and kntw the private worth iif the lilußtious Perfonage while living. About one o'clock on Tuefday fe'anight a party of the 43d Regiment, corfifling of three privates, who had been chinking at the Great Grin, a public•houfe, rear Brockman's Barn, in Romney Masrfh,challengnd a man of the name of Mai ( who lived at BormarTh, but was employed near flit trot, in the ereeti , n of the towers) with being a deferter, and on niter tinning flirt► to that effeet, the man Paid he did not objeft to furrendering himfelf, provided they Brewed a proper authority—that he was about to proceed to his work (the bell having rang for that purpole), and they might attend and guard him till one of them had fetched the ferjeant who commanded ; when, on his moving• forward, one of the f.ldiers drew forth a pißol and Quit him, when he fell dead on the (pot, the ball having penetrated under the imps& of the left Moulder through the break. The f•Jdier who fired immediately ran off towards Hyth ee but was, with his ck.turades, loon after taken ii4l4 cuttody. •