Star. — London, England, 1807-06-25 00:00:00

tip AtM. St urgent was the call iby troops in India, that the fleet failed on Monday with the 14th Regiment, and id battalion 6f the ye ft and } 6th, leaVing behind *General Wsiaaa aL, and the troops and fhips far the Cape of Good Hope. to the great joy of the troops, and of every 'victual in the'lliaid; tient. General Sir Jona Doe' ca, tart. hal arrived in the island of Guernfe y , and re famed the Cornmind in Chief. That dtie Regiminto the Ayrffiire Militia; are on their march to Portfmouth. . di4ition of the Oh toot marched from Leikefter on Tuefday, tinder the 'command of Major Hawav Caemivari—their dtftination for the coat, as it is faid. The 2d Battalion of the both has difembarked at the Ifle of Wight, and oceOpies the cluarttri lately poileffed by the Pompadours. do Wedilefday the 2d battalion of Lotd CH Ai• ilA)l 9 b regiment, the 4th foot, commanded by Lieu tenant Colonel Esyssasia, was reviewed at Portf- Month by Sir Clouse Pasvosi, pretrioufly to their embarkation. The id Battalion of the 69th .are daily eitpetied from Ireland. The 13th and abth Regiments, it is laid, go to a foreign ftation. Lieutenant• Colonel Sir J. Waitniave, of the 64. - Regiment, whit was latel y fo very feverely wounded in the Weft Indies; in defending the Afia tranfport, has been twice wounded in ailloo, and nearly diC abled. Enfign Liiiiiestos, of the 4th *eft India Regi. matt; who was killed In the Afia, was in Officer of great promife. Tht gallant 76th regiment, who fo mach dial& guifhed themfelves on many occafions in India, art about to go to Jerfey, to be completed, and again proceed on feivice. A very large draft of men and officers is abbot to be made from the fecond battalion of the 31ft to tht rR battalion, to fupply the place of thole brave fel lows who lately fell in Egypt. The fecond battalion of the 3t ft is now in Ireland, commanded by Colo nel CAbt r E Lc, a very waive and able officer. The 2d Foot, or Queen's Regiment, commanded by the Hon. Colonel Ramsay, has arrived fare at Guernfey, *here it is now Rationed. ft is with much concern we learn that the flaugh. ter of the ad Battalion of the 78th Regiment, or Rofsfhire Highlanders, in Egypt, was fo great, that the Battalion was nearly , annihilated. Sir Famscts Buansyr has fent One Thonfand Pounds to the Weitminfter Hofpiral, which, we are lorry to fay, from the low Rate of its funds, Rands in great need of fuch benevolent cheraders, to Rep forward in the flippers of fuffering lytmanity. _ _ YetterditY. a Court of Directors was held at the Ealt India Houfe, when the underthentinned Officers Were (wor' into the command of their refpeltiVe *kips, viz. Capt. MiDtivooxi..;-.Tlgris.—Capt.HoltATlO evet-.otorY. The fhips taken up lately were thus Rationed, eiz For Madras and Bengal.s-Sarah Chriftlana, Ana, Diana, Glory, and Northampton. For Madeira, Madras, and Bengal—Tigris and Experiment. For Bombay—Sir William Pisheney, and Union. The Court adjourned at a late hour, when the Di reaors dined at the new houfe called the City of T.ondon Tavern. Yeßerday being Midiummenday, a Common Hall was held at Guildhall for the Elation of Sheriffs, Chamberlain, Auditor, Bridge.mstlers, &c. which was attended by a very numerous and refpeft able affemblage of the Liver". The names of the follow. ing Gentlemen were put in nomination for the office of - Sheriff : Aldertnan Rowcroft, Smith, Lea, Hunter, Prinfep, Boydell, Birch ; William Row, ER) broiderer ; Allen Pearfon, Efq. glover ; Edward Farmer Taylor, Efq. armonrer and brasier; Wtn. Barlow, Efq. tyler and bricklayer; John. Thomas, Efq glover ; William Clarke, Efq. pattenmaker ; George Fryer, Efq. falter; Chriflopher Smith, Efq. draper; Richard Phillips Efq. ftatliner ; Matthew , Wood, Efq. fifhmonger ; George Friend, Eft upholder. When Chriftopher Smith Efq. citizen and draper ; and Richard Phillips, Efq. citizen and Rationer, were unanimoutly elated Sheriffs, amiclft a continued burg of acclamation. Richard Clarke, Efq. was re tithed Chamberlain, Melts. , Galabin and Wells, Bridgematters ; and Metlis. Hall and Coffart were elated Auditors of the City and Bridge-bowie Accounts for the enfuing year, together with Mars. Dimfdale and Leopard elefted IA year. The Ale Conners appionted lail year were iteleftid for this year. The Lord Mayor and Aldermen withdrew to the Council-chamber, and held a Conti of Aldermen, at which the Chamberlain, Bridgemallers and Rulers of the Watermen and Lightermen's company were fe verally (worn into their refpeflive Offices. Precepts were ordered to be iffued for the elation of a Lord Mayor, on Michaelmas-day neat. MARINASt is bufily employed in painting a fet, of fcenery for his benefit, for ad of July. We hope, nay, we have no doubt, but his merit will be re warded, for the difplay of fcenery in the Siege of Troy Ramps his ability. The ftory advertifed is a continuation of the Siege of Troy, entitled, Pale e Laviaie. Madame CATALAN' frogs. All this may be called the acme of pleating. COLMAR'S THEATIE-.was latt night numeroufly and fathionably attended, to witnefs the Second Ap. pearance of Mr. YOUNG, in Hamlet. His perform ance juftified the very fay urable opinion we advan eed on his firft reprefentation of the charafter at this Theatre. He was loudly and defervedly applauded. We are informed that Madame CATALAN. means to make a tour of England and Scotland immedi ; ately after the expiration of her engagements in Dublin, and to give concerts in the principal towns through which the patio under the ditedtion of Mr. Yriwitwicz. b PoLMIML DINER. friends The __ —of the late A iminillration dined yef terday at Willis's Rooms. There were prefect forty. three Peers, and one hundred and thirty-f eve rs Wm hers of the Houfe pf Commons. • His ,Highoefs the Duke Of GLOM/MTN! was prefect; and, on a mode rate climate, the landed property of the company altembled, was not thort of twenty-five millions. The following toafis were given— s. The Meg,. s. The Prince of Wale. 3. The Q3cen and Royal Penally. 4. The Duke of Glouceftei. 5. The Navy. 6. The Army. The Militia. L The Volunteers. 9. Our Allies. and fucecfs to them. ara. The Navigation and Commerce of the Empire. T. The Agriculture of the United kingdom. 11. The late Adminiftration, both in Great Britain and Ireland; and thanks to them for their public fervicu. 13. The Chairman. The Duke of Gt.oucs rr at made a very eloquent return of thanks to the Company on his Heath being drank; and when a Toaft was given to the late Ad rninißration, the Ojai of the Meeting, Lord Gess- TILLS for himfelf; and in the name of his Colleagues,' returned thank. for the very marked and kind atten tion which Co refpeEtable a body had paid to his Mti-' jelly's lateldinifters. It could not fail to make a deep imprefGon en their hearts. Feeling this to be in the nature of a convivial meeting only, he would abnain from all political &Conlon ; but he ironed that he thould be honoured with the company of fuch perfons as are Members of the Houfe to which he belonged, tomorrow evening at half part nine, at the houfe of his relative, the Earl of Portekne, where he refided. And that the Members of the Houfe of Commons would, at the fame boar, meet his Noble Friend, Lord Howick, at his houfe, to concert the proper Reps to be taken in a crifts fo imminent, for the pre tervation of every thing that.was dear to us a people. The Noble Chairman made a fhort and neat addrefs to the company, on his health being drunk. the Memory of the lamented Charles James Fox, propofed by the Earl of LA UDLID4LI e was received with the moil affeaing folemnity. And en Earl Coot• 140111:1111.11 1 11 retiring. Sir WarettoWit.t.tittasWymme took the chair, and maintained the conviviality of the meeting to a late hour. In the courfe of Lord Glt Euvicta's kart fpeech, he expreffed the hope that the fame company, with many others who were known to participate in the fentiment which &floated their hearts, hut who were not yet ar rived in town, would have other occafi ms of meeting, and it was undert*ood that a fecund dinner would be appointed for the enfuing week. The Members of the lilt Cabinet, with the exception of Lord Simeon, mil Lord ELLlNsottouun, withdrew for tome time, with a few friends, to a ;nitrate apartment, where it was underflood that they *ere engaged in the con federation of the Amendment that is to be propefed to the Addrefs. It was reported, at the fame time; in the Dinner Room, that the Minlftry had offered a eompromik with the Leaders of this very formidable Oppofition ; the fubftance of which gave affluence., that it was not intended, in the Royal Speech, to touch upon fubjefts of Party Difference; end, then fore, that it was the particular with of the Minnie', that the Addrefs Might be allowed to pars une‘ ' moony. The propofed Amendment was read tram the Chair. There Teems to have been &Me foundation for the reported Offer of Compromife on the part of the New Miniftry, as the Amendment has undergone eonfiderable alterations from the original Draft, a Copy of which we !bane days ago prefented to the Public. The Chairman anticipated the unanimity with which it would be received in the form in which it tires then 'conceived. On its being read, it Was received with repeated cheers. The folloWing is a Ea of the Company= His Hlghnefs the bate of Glovcciter. Deininthlre Argyle Medford St. Alban'i Hea/ford Blanchard 'CARL!: Wes &Thorough haslyn Cowper Suffolk itirdiiiicke Forteicue Mdiri Spencer ofrory Shafteibury Lekefter Albemarle Efifton Pitzwilant Breada'bate Tanlicrville Loans. De Clifford Milton Cawdor Sap and Sok 'bloke Yaitlarough St. John Malan Towntheati Althorpe Modal' Ma:petit Clrarkarde ulßon Itenfingtoti Southanspial Grey. de Ruthenia Morton Forbes J._Carispbdi W. Retell Sellers Tempktoi►h Mr! Jirfey Mhnontlekt Da:Onion tres•Ms Hoitrick Ethane aides Carringtou Ponfonby G. Cavendidi A. Hamilton H. Fitageraid Braybrooke H. Petty Milford Ankh . - SIRS. J. Anibuther W.W. Wynne j. Aubrey G. Warrender J. C. Hippig e r R. Milbarke A. Noe , W. Milner ta. Nugent TS. Romill ldliler y M. W. Roo J. Newport . • An minatnii-Markkem and Campbell. Donor Lawrence. MIMS. T. Orenville • Shandpeare Neville Windham . Caleraft Shipley Dudley North Eden Meade H. Howard Frankland C. Dundas Sheridan J. W. Ward Halley Fitzpatrick W. H. Lyuleton Dundal Fremantle T. W. Coke Pamela W. Elliot S. Whitbread Quin Cavendilla . T. Baring Antorle Orde M. A. Tall x Lambton Cuthbert Agar Pyin r Brand Loveden Curwen Fleming Peter Moore Leack Walpole W. Built& Lking Grattan 3. C. Jereore Mazwell Sharpe • Scudansore Hughes Landc Foley Granfell Riddulph Vernon 0. Williams Knapp • - Macdonald Oteelhill Berwicke Jekyll Maule O'Callaghan Lateuche J. Wharton H. Mardn Pkillipi D. B Daly Combo G. Ponfonb r C. Bradlhaw Maddocke F. Ponfonby Power Creevy Prattle Talbot Adam A. Baring Pelham Byng J. Smith Campbell O'Hara' J. Aber.ro able Lloyd T. H. Knox Hibbert Praed Calutt George Sri :h Bernard • roormoirromm. s MAILS Wiwi I. L JAL DUS. am Ws. •; Dublin ; 0 z Ton:gegen 0 • Waterford • g Litboo 0t 1 Clotteoburgit 0 New York 0 0 THE BLENHEIM MAN OF WAft. •,. ,TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. ~ SIR—It has been with a conllderable . degree of • p a in I have tied in Come of the Papers. an extra& of 1 a letter from an officer of the, Halal la IlooP,in which he MA improperly reports the almoll certain lofs of his %jelly's (hip Bossiness:. Now, Sir, ow the officer of . the Hataisa, or any other veffel; could' fo far commit themfelves, I am,at a lots to imagine; when. any - perfon who is a feaman, mull well know that if the BLENH aim was in a bad date, and a gale If wind overtook them in the latitude and longitude he mentions, the would, newer run for the Cape of Gad Hope, when fo very near Madagafcar, which Am could tamer fetch than the Cape, and where the has certainly gone ; and, as there is no regular mode for communicating intelligence from St. Mary's, or 4ny of the pints of Madagafcar, to the Cape, it is tierly impoffible that any one could give a real and 3itthenlic secant of the BLENHEIM ; and, Mr. Edi tor, from ,the general charader of Sir THObtlls 11) Tii7wiiivaa I‘. an officer and Iceman, there remains tit little doubt, but that inked of going for the Cape, he put into.Madagafcar, as being far more prudent than going on for the Cape of Good Hope, confidering the (late of the fhip, and the weather at the time the Hawse loft fight of her. I am, Sir, your moll obedient Servant, Portfmouth, June 24. K. L. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 14. Arrived his Majefty'sibmips Vass, ANT, la FLECK!, HINDUSTAN, and I'ARcus, with conveys from the Downs. Sailed his Majefty's chips PAULINA, with a Convoy for the Downs; Srsprtuous, on a cruize ; Isis and ALPHA, for Newfoundland ; the convoy remains, but is expected to fail under convoy of his Majefty's flip MERCURY. His Majefty's Aiip MALL. BAR, with her convoy, for South America, is getting under weigh.—Wind S. S. E. DEAL, JUNE 24. • Arrived the Eames' floop, from Cork, having under convoy the brig John and Grace, from Fal mouth ; brig Newry, from Niwry ; brig Maria, and fhip Ann, from Cork, which have failed through for the River; the brig Dove ( i(1 ' ) failed under the fame convoy, but put into Plymouth. Arrived the Pre tioyante Rore (hip, from the River, bound to Gibral tar ; Trompeufe (loop, from Shetland ; Blazer gun brig, from off the coaft of France; alto feveral light tranfports from the Nore—Wind S. W. moderate brute. IX THE DOWNi. Princefs of Orange, Alfred, Trufty, Prevoyanie itorefblp, Trompeufe, tfplegle, and Mudbe floops ; Fury and Explollon bombs; Blazer, Monkey. and Fariefs gun brip ; Sofres. Oak bleed ketch, with a number of tranfports, hiving op Wed Part of the Etes's Gernisui Legion, leaking for a convoy. GREENOCK, JU N E aa. • 'ltk Rope, *Gaines; and Commerce, Warr, bah Frain Demerara, arrived here lalt night, after a paffsge of 42 dayi t failed in company, but parted about half paffage. Crops rather fhort in Demerara, but abundant in Berbice, whither the Brilliant, Gem. seam.; and Lucretia, 1 4 .4‘Galcoa, had gone, and tnay be expelled in a, fortnight. Captain WAIT rpoke his Majelly's chip HI prom a* a, to the windward of Antigita, and on the 16th current, in lat. 544. long. tfl. the Bell, of Teignmouth, from Liverpool, rot Newfoundland, all Well. The Aleiander, SCOTT, Was.inaciiug at Demerara, for this port, and would tall with the convoy appointed 6th June. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. GRAVIIIIIID, JONI 24.:—Pareci Baltimore Venus frigate, fr om the Weft Indies ; Cots , Mooney, from ; Albion, ----, from Waterford; Fiefdom, Allan; and the Eleanore, Brown, bun MesoeL _ Coccerr, Wearremezz. —Yeßerday, before the MoR Nnble and Right Honourible the L , rds Com. iitiNoners of Appeals in Prize Caufes. Te beldst,Parlter mafter..-.Thfs flap, laden with a cargo of Ouse's, oil, ind nther tudeles, was captured on the tath of May, ing, by fdt Majeltrs IlOotpkorploo,and lugger join, and brought to Poitfmoutb. Stadt Cope:l64a, Treats tnattevThis wed, tinder Dania 'eolours, with a cameo of fail sloth, cheeks, *dles, and various niter artietn, was captured on the sd of May, am by his Ma. )sty's hired armed cutter 'Abort'', and brought to Yarmouth. The Unverboft, Cornelis mafter..—This Danqh Rip, with a cargo of various ardeks, was captured on the ad of May, :799, alto by his Majefty's cutter Liberty, and brought to Yarmouth. Neiman*, Hanfes asafter.—This Daniat Stip, with a cargo of Oarious meichandise, was captured on the 59th of March. 1799. by his Majefty's ftdp of war Latona, and brouglat,firit to the Downs and afterwards to Ramfgate. The Genet, Barrett matter. —This Odp, under Anterkanoolours s t t dos with a cargo of gin and Iron, was captured on tie 14th of ay, 1799, by his Majesty's chip of war Didtator, and - brought to annautts. It appeared In the above cafes, that the Judge of the High Cobrt of Admiralty condemned 'the pro petty, on the ground of a violation of the blockade of the Terel. Their Lordlkips, after hearing the Counfel on both fides, in each cafe, affirmed the fentence of the Court below. NEWLY-DISCOVERED ROCK. . EXTRACT of a Larread.-from Captain EDWARD LUCID ! Of the Ship BRITAN Nu. to Kb OWN MR. at 141107001. dated St. Tho man, May 15,1807. 0 There is a circumflance which I omitted in my former letters, of a dangerous Rock which I difco 'eyed, and which ought to be made known to all Mariners coming to there Iflands. The particulars I dull iafert, taken from my own lrnal :— " Monday, April 27,1807. " At to minutes before 3 r. sr. chfcovered Come- thing a-head, like a broken malt of a Slip, with its end vertical ;- in 5 minutes plainly fair it was a [harp pointed rock, fometitnes covered; it was about 4 feet high, when the fea left it; there was a great (well at the time on the welt fide; could plainly perceive a Large hed of ropk, about so yard. fciliare.—We were fo clofe to it, that with difficulty we cleared it ; and bad the fea been (month, we ihotild inevitably have the fltip , and perhaps our lives. Its latitude is *8 oz. N. bearing from the S. end, St. Bartholomew's, E. 6y N. half N. t 4 leagnei; at 6 r. K. raw the land above mentioned.—The *bore rock is not known by any pcthn in thcfe feas." , 7 ele.s4r. • •* • I r . .• .:' 1 ~. MIRICLJNE. _,- -•• •:'. 4 .....:,....... .:, 4 • • cotIftIXCHANGE. VIM ss. • .Wbeat is bets i to•day in confiderable (apply, the &let are sery du% *id few , ;treading the pretest! prices —Some gnod,American,about 4.5. per quarter —.Barley is in rather large [apply, and about us: per quarter ch per—Malt likewsfo- r -11111 but few While i and arty a.—Beal, s arc rather. lower—there are fcveral fn arrivals of foreign Coots, and this trade further, declines in.price, about as. Per quarter—Flour as Per currency—fine Nominal 6%.. . ' • ~ . oeuvre+ =mammy Ai wrote. What. 40 Sh 71 1 Per 45- 01 ,7.Peds 43 1 47$ Pine Ditto. yss Os Sump. (old) os QS ad Rye,, 4cs 402 ~... Tick Ditto, so aoe od bide?, Soo 34 Id Oats., iss ola vs . • matt,sos Km . Polsod Moo so 339 Gd Whits Pao. 1 , ) Sea So .. Rape Seed 541231. Fine froa 63a — so. to sto 60... 1 A ~ DALIN; JUNE 30. Thurfday; at an adj )noment of the Qprter Sef lions for the County of Dublin, held at the Setßous houte at Kilmainham, L. ihrph was indilled for uttering (editions words in a pilot% both. at Ill And bridge on the 6th of Aptil IA damning the King, and wilhing to fee Bonaparte ride triumphant over King George and his army. Mr. M 4 Naxxr let up g defence that tits nuts had been a foldier for fame time in his hisjeny's army, from whence be had been difcharged j thin be bad always been a very loyal man, but that when he drank fpirits, as was the cafe on that evening; he was infane.—The Jury found him guilty and he was fentenced to be fined 6d. to be imprifoned fix months, and to be expofed in and upon the pillory at 'nand-bridge, on the ill of July next for one hour, between the hours of twelve and one o'clock. • On Monday night lafl, Mr. Janice DRURY appre hended a man named 7 ownfend from the county of Wivlclow; charged with having paired feveral Bank Po(t Bills, which were Rolen out of the Mail ; there were feveral Bank PoR Bills for five guineas each, as alfo three and three and an half guineas, on the Bank of Beresford and Co. found concealed in the hand kerchief about his neck, and infide his fhirt, by the clofe examination of the Magißrate ; he has been identified by feveral perfons whom he bad fucceeded in defrauding. Wedtsefday morning, Sheriff Nugent, aflilled by Mr. William *Dowell, Deputy-gaoler, of Newgate. feized, at a man of the name of Tools's, in Longford. greet, a great number of forgeries on the Bank of Ireland, filled and ready for immediate circulation. On Monday, a difpute took place at Talla, in the County df Clue, between a man named M'Namara, and other perform, when Daniel Minoage, a farmer, interfering, received a blow from MN:mars on the head, which it is feared will prove mortal...—M.Na narnara has abfconded. This day the Hon. Mr. Wactsscat Pot', lately appointed Secretary to the Board of Admiralty, took pareflion of hi. new apartments in the Admiralty. Our leading fummer place of-•qatufemenr, the Royal Amphitheatre, Virelimintier Bridge, has this helot., in a ldition to one of the bell Com ic; Panto inimes produced for years, in the Harlequinade of Mother Bunch, the farther, and indeed, exclufive merit of prefenting to the view of admiring, and we Will fay, attonifhed thoufands, one of the grande9 military produitions, in the fpeEtacle of the Breve Glad, ever*Wititeffed, perhaps, in the world. - - The 1 . within cap of Foriaturtst" is a pretty *mut ing tiory. But the votaries of dame Fortune mutt file her in other language than that of mere withes. Many, doubtlefs, with to obtain capital Prizes in a Lottery ; but they. can be acquired only by the pur chafe of neceffary qualifications, and frequently by a perfeverance in adventure. Can the readers of the prefent impirtant Scheme view it without interek without withes, or without perfevering to gain the (miles of the wealth-giving dame ? About ten o'clock at night of Saturday the 6th inft. a gang of footpads, fit or (even in number, armed with a gun, piftols, and a cutlafs, flopped an old man, his wife, and daughter, in a cart on the Prefcott-road, returning from Liverpool market, rob. bed them of what property they had, and much ' abufed them. Same night, loon after twelve o'clock, a like number of men fuppofed the fame, robbed a Merman, going from Liverpool to Kirkdale, whom they robbed of his watch and what money he had ; while they were committing this depredation, a part Of them bad got another man down in the ditch, whom they alto robbed, and then took their way to Liverpool, bat were loon afterwards purfued, by the filherman, with Tome friends he had got together, who found the villains in the Old Church yard, when a battle taking place, two of the rob bers were fecumd ; three more of them have been fince taken, one of them has turned evidence, and the other four committed to Lancaller for trial. They are fuppnfed to be the fame men that robbed Mr. and Mrs. Hughes in High Park, Tome little lime before. Flan —Tnefday fe'nnight, a fire broke nut at the houfe of Mr.Warmington, in Amin fier, which burnt fo furioufly as fpeedily to communicate to Mils For. ward's, Mrs. Palmer's, Mrs. Haydon's, and the hotel (Ire Mr. Bilke's houfe), and one houfe betides, all of which were entirely defiroyed. The wind being very high, and water fcarce, the whole town was in danger, but by great exertions further mifchief was prevented, The houfe of the Rev. Mr. Small, and the workhonfe. were feveral times on fire, but fortunately extingui fired without doing much injury. A heavy Brower of rain falling at the time was a great help in flopping the flames. No lives were loft. Tuefday morning a fire broke out at a public honk in Old Gravel-lane, Wapping, which threatened deftrultion to the whole neighbourhood. It entirely confirmed the interior of theprernifes, with the fur niture ; but the timely arrival of the firemen and engines prevented farther damage. La& week, a woman in Liverpool, who wanted a chimney cleaned, and who was making a bargain with a chinsney-fweeper, differed with him for' a peony, his demand being fnorpenee, and the unwilling to give More than . three -pence. They parted, ma this frugal" hdofeisfs, to fave all expence. (et her chimney on fire; the eaarequence was, that the houfe caught fire ; two beds were burnt, and it was with difficulty, that the building was preferred. ,N, a , .1 1 4•.