Star. — London, England, 1809-12-30 00:00:00

S 1 TIM ARMY t ; The ttnaerMentioned Regiments have atrived at i3ortsmooth from Walchereni; they were to &sato bark this day, and march, agreeable to War.Ofice routes— The 5. , 6th to liorsham. 32d Ditto. 1.3 a Chichester Barracks. 77th Ditto. 81st Blachiggton. Captain GRANT, of the 42d, is appointed Aid-de- Camp to General Virurrnmt, in place of Major NIXON, who is appointed Major of the 12th Foot, in the East Indies. We have already stated the arrival in the Downs of Sir RICHARD STRACHAN g in the Idas cutter, with a large fleet of transports from Walcheren. Detach -tents of the. troops have since been daily disembark /.! both at Deal and Dover, and- have marched for their respective+ destinations, which we already men, the 6th at Dover, 38th and 91st at Shorn 68th, ,71st, and 85th at Braborne Lees, the s6tb a Battle, 50th at Silverhill, and Ist and 2d Light Battalions of the Cenral% Legion at Bexhill.— The regiments destined for Sussex arc to be conveyed by the Royal Military Canal into that district. The infantry destined to reinforce Lord Wettoro. TON °S army in Portugal, it is understood will corn. . rise 5,000 men, independent of Artillery and Ca r tlry, in which latter force two regiments of heavy Dragoons are mentioned. Besides these a great num tp:r of British Officers are going out with local rank, T. order to take commands in the Spanish army. ;:1;s measire is supposed to have been adopted on the recommendation of the Marquis WELLEst.xv, tire . Spanish army Ir . ng extremely . deficient in good Officers. :- , - The Troop of Horse Artilletr,tiMaptain Ls ' vet's) destined for the above service, is in come uence of a countermand to that effect, to be embarked t Pc,rtsmouth, instead of Ramsgate, stgdPitlis ex (ected will march from thence for that purpose, be ;veep. this and Monday next. . , . Captain BEAN'S Company of. Artillery, marched from Canterbury yesterday morning, on its route for Battle in Sussex. Wednesday upwards of 200 of the 2nd battalion *the 15th Regiment of Foot, marched into Oxford, i their route from the city of York, to join the Ist ittalion in the West Indies. Thursday last the Regiment of Oxford Volunteer -gantry, was inspected, on their parade in Broad: treet, by Lieutenant-Colonel AUBREY. The Barracks in Winchester are to undergo a corn lete repair, for the reception of troops.—Tenders are been forwarded to . Government for that purpose. Monday last, the 1!.9131 Chelteubarrl Volunteerln, ;•ntry finished their exercise for the present year ; and he term for which they originally engaged being ex fired, they were informed by the officers, that they ere all then at liberty to withdraw, it they chose so do ; and that by withdrawing they would not be , ;usidered as subjecting themselves to the smallest' .putation. But if it was their wish that the corps h .6uld be continued, all the officers were willing to retinue their situations. A very small number, to -t:orn it was extremely inconvenient to attend, ex ressed a wish to withdraw until actual service might necessary. —The remainder expressed their deter iination to remain :in the corps ; and more have ,ready offered to joirt•tha,ntan be received into it. - __-__-- TO THE EDITOR 'OF THE STAR. . 01••••=... Sm—As I am a constant reader of your paper, and 3serve with much pleasure your assiduous attention . whatever concerns the true interests of the Army, am induced to request you will give a place in your aluable Paper to the following short statement. the ccuracy of which will be at once apparent to your mi. tary Readers ; my object is merely to set the public . ght with regard to a very fallacious notion that has ne abroad, namely, that the pay of the Officers of the .rrny has been lately augmented ; whereas. I think shall be able to prove, beyond a possibility of Jubt, that in some instances (as in my own cacey it s suffered a considerable diminution. I am, Sir, a, Iptain of eleven years standing, having been O-. i.t oted to a Company in .the year 1798 ; at which liod the Army was not assessed with any tax what-, r, and the annual pay and allowances to a Captain . a Company, sixty strong, then stood as follows : Captain's pay at .96 iod. per diem - ' .2171 17 1 contingent Allowance at I s . 6d. per diem - 117 7 6 lon-ekectrre ditto - - 20 0 0 op an cat rat! it -1 ist Total £219 4 7 Now, Sir, I beg leave to observe, that the contin ent and non-effeetiim allowances (being intended ;r the purpote of reimbursing the Captain for the pelves attending repair of arms, and all other sualties) cannot justly be conside r ed as forming a rt of his income, he is, boisever, rigorously assessed ith tax for the same, which leaves the present pay d allowances of a Captain exactly as follows : r:aptain's Pap at Ifts. 6d. per dit Xl9ll 32 6 Contingent Alitmaaces - 27 7' 6 I ' l .n -effective ditto 20 0 0 ex V Deduct Income-Tat 039 0 0 U )$ 0 £1 5 2 0 Diminution £4 2 7 Thus, Sir, I trust I have clearly sheen, by the ''se simple statement, which I challenge any one onfute, that the annual income td a Captain in Army is less by £4 2s. ', ‘l. than it was eleven $ r. MILLS , • c . - AFFAIRS OP ATI* .• • ) s• t ' s Private accounts, received by the late entrels fro Bombay, communicate intelligence efitinneesemplest sant nature these not onlyvesifiree formation, of the edemas of ar oseielit• ding between the Civil of. ausafthe -dian Presidencies and thi Military, but add a parti cular net generally known in this country, that one of the Company's regiments had forcibly po ssesse d itself Of the fort of Maiullpfatarn. The commanding officer of the regiment is said to have been previously ' placed under arrest by the soldiery. The accounts do not state whether the fort had been subsequently sur rendered by the mutineers, though mentionis made that, after a vain attempt t o di v ide t h e regiment, by ordering small detachments from it, Colonel Mal colm had been sent to the northward with concilia tory proposals, and had returned to Madras; without effecting tie purport of his mission. As the imme diate circumstances which led to this extraordinary measure are not very accurately explained, we for bear to notice them ; but we think it right to advert thus generally to the report in circulation, in the ex pectation that the proper authorities in this country, who have very recent accounts from India, may give such particulars as are in their possession in respect to the unfortunate transactions, and relieve the minds of individuals from great anxiety. 'The obnoxious officers, who were supposed to have taken an active share in the circulation of within their respective commands, and who, accord ing to foregoing accounts, had been, in consequence, ordered to the Presidency, for the purpose of taking., their passage to Europe, had arrived at Madras s— and One of 'an officer of distinction and family, had been sent in close arrest to Poonamalle, the de pot of the French and Dut c h prisoners. We are ig norant of the cause of this seemin g ly strong m e a sure; but it certainly does not appear calculated to allay the ferment in the army, nor very consistent with the po licy adopted .in the preceding instance. . The Governor General had deemed• it necessary, in this state of things, to address a detached' rder to the coast army, consisting of 68 manuscript pages, conveying his sense of the late acts of that body, in very energetic language. As this paper professed not to be dictated by any conciliatory spirit, it is net to be wondered that it was unattended by any'concilia• tory effect. Some persons affected to entertain apprehensions that Holkar and Scindeah, taking advantage of the present temper of the military, might make a sudden irruption into the Company's territories. But such a circumstance, thoughst might, in some respects, •be deprecated, would be the moaned immediately unit= ing in a firm bond the parties now unhappily divided, and of directing their mutual force against the com mon enemy: lihwever some of the Company's Offi cers may conceive themselves aggrieved by certain regulations in respect to their allowances and eco nomy, we are satisfted that they would exert every 'nerve to retain lie country against the efforts of fo reign or' domestic enemies. If we have any fear at this season, it arises from the possible effect of these unfortunate differencest on the minds of the native troops, and the examples they would seem to hold out ; for it must not be forgotten, that to them we must principally look for the defence of our Indian , Letters from Bombay also mention, that the pi. rates in the Persian Gulph, owing to the supineness of the local government in that quarter, had increased to a most formidable body, and bad carried on their depredatory warfare with unusual success, and more than usual barbarity. The Minerva, Hopwood, had been recently captured, and her passengers and crew most inhumanly treated. The list of captures was so extensive, as to force the consideration of the sub ject on the attention of the . Bombay Government. A naval and military forte had in consequence been or dered to proceed to the Gulph. Three frigates, with numerous transports, and a part of the 65th regiment; ;with a detachment of Sepoys and artillery, had been destined to this service. But the arrangements for the dispatch of this force to the proposed scene of action were so slowly prosecuted, that the Monsoon set in before the expedition sailed from the harbour, so that the transports were likely to remain in demur rage for more than two months. This delay, how lifer, will give the Government time to consider of the adequacy of the force intended to have been em ployed to the object in view, and may possibly lead them to• enlarge . the scale of the armament. The pi rates are stated, in round numbers, at twelve thousand men. PEDUTRIAN ?4,vrcu.—Mr. WAN; of Nottingham street, undertook, yesterday, for a bet of 100 guineas, to go from his residence to the Town Hall, at Wind sor (23 miles), in three hours. The match was made on the 22d instant. He started at eight o'clock in the morning, and arrived at Hounslow (eleven miles), at 25 minutes past nine. The heaviness of the roads fatigued him considerably, but he got on till within a mile of Slough, when he resigned, hav ing then three miles to perform in 24 minutes. Between seven and eight in the evening of Wednes day, as the gardener of Hales-place, was going from Canterbury towards his home, he was stopped near the Cotton Mill, at Shoal Oak, by six persons, two of Whom had the appearance of men habited as wo• men, who after demanding his money knocked him down, by which his collar-bone was broken, and he was otherwise severely bruised, and afterwards rifled his pockets ; but obtaining no booty, as he contrived to secret his watch. They then left him, and he re mained in a state of insensibility for some time, till on recovery, after passing two soldiers near the gar den-gate, he reached his house without further mo lestation. _ _ About nine on the same evening as William Oak enfold, of Harbledown, wargoing from Canterbury to the above village, he was overtaken in the field of Westgate-court, near the cross stiles by a man gen teelly dressed in a dark coat and boots, who after familiarly accosting him, suddenly seized him by the arm and demanded his money, saying that he must have. Oakenfold answered he had but a few half- 1 pence, but at that moment a carriage approaching by the road, the robber ran off across the field, and the darkness of the night prevented any discovery of , his track. Monday morning, the house of Mr. Ham. baker, at Witney, was baoken into, and a considerable quan tity of bread and flour stolen therefrom. • Tl.-f -~ , , , , : • . I, N. 4 1 ,414 Ili4 84191. Mat ; t AND , PLYMOUIII-DOCK,PECEMIO se. . - aaived•the Yarbmausts and CssAR men - of tear . 'hes Flushing ; anckie MittOtitb, of 74 gads, frog VI% Roads, to victual and refit...Sailedthe TfIUSA frigate on a cruise. . • , _ . Thuesday night last William Powell, a seaman belonging to the AMETHYST, fell overboard in Ha : moaze, and was drowned. .PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 29. Arrived the ST. GEORGE and HERO men of war ; GALA, BLOSSOM, and OP/EN GLENDOWER, sloops of war, from the Eastward ; and 1 . 10).1;100p of War from the 'Mediterranean. Also-arrived, the following outward bound, from the Downs—the Recovery, Royal Bri scoe, Ewison, Urania, Susan, Edward and Ann, Hope, Charlotte, and the Champion DEAL, DECEMBER 29. , Arrived the Tuissus, of 74 galls, from the East ward ; Rosa sloop, from Yarmouth ; RESOLUTION 'hired armed cutter, from Flushing ; Vzsuvms bomb and HARPY sloop, from Portsmouth ; APELLES and SHEERWATER sloops, from a cruise; VIRAGO gun brig, with a convoy from Ireland. itsums In rue DowNs.--The Princess of Orange, St. Do ming*, Marlborough, Audacious. Blake, Aboukir, Courageaux, and Theseus, of 74 guns ; Agincourt and Monmouth, of 64 guns; Oyde, Dime s and Jason frigates; Podargus, CastiHon Apelles, kg" sal Hupp Moor; Vesuvius bomb ;,Forious. and Virago gun-brigs; Resolution, Betsey, Gambler, Nymphe, Idas (1), and Countess of Elgin hired armed cutters ; Folkstone hired arme.l lugger, and Flying-fish hired armed schooner. Wind W.S. W. strong gale. LLOYD'S LIST. • Gitovrstmo, Ditcassaan 29.—Arrived the Woodland Castle, Freeman, from Oporto.—Sailed the Alice, Lovett, for Lisbon ; Fame, Sherwood, for Grenada ; Albion, Kidd, for Gibraltar ; and the Gustav*, Noreluis, for Gottenburgh. The English brig Sparrow, and seven others, are captured in 'the Archipelago, by the Josephine privateer, and carried into uonu. The ?fancy, .----, froth Quebec, is taken and carried into Haire. The Deliverance, ---, from New York, is taken and c'arried fisto Calais. The Jostitia, —, from Guernsey to Gottenburgli, is, taken and carried into Dieppe. The Summer, Hubbard, for Donia, is captured Andcarried into The Rochdale, Hobby, from Stockholm to London, is put into Holy Island. The Fortitude, Highton, from Ireland to London, was driven on shore in a gale on the 13th October : her masts were cut away and it was expected she would be got off. The Wilgangens —, from Carisham , is put into Yarmouth, full of water, having been span Scroby Sand. The Pomona, Sinclair, from —, was wrecked on the 15th ult. near the Orkneys. The Orion, Vickery, for Virginia, has been taken, retaken, and arrived at Portsmouth. The Ann and Mary, of Aberdeen, from New Brunswick, is abandoned at sea. The Susannah, Estill, for London, was lost at Dominica, on the Isth of October. The Arsino, Grande, from Lisbon to Para, is lost near Pan. The Marquis of Huntley, —.—, from Gefle to Havre, is lost Anbolt. The Volontaire, front Lisbon to Bristol, is taken by a French privateer. The Vaynol, Jones, from Stockholm to London, drove on shore an Sprat Iteeve, sad was burnt by the English. • SPANISH COLONIES. HAVANNAS, SLIT. 1809. MESSRS. LANG AND TURNER.—IR order to Save many of our countrymen from suffering heavy losses, I forward to you herewith a copy of a new order, of the 19th instant, also a copy of the Royal Cedula, to which it refers. You will see by this Cedula, that no vessel can enter without new Negroes; and as there are not any to be had at this time in the United States, the vessels must proceed to foreign ports to get them. On their arrival here, the entry must be made in the Custom house ; consequently their entry, or a transcript thereof, will be sufficient to produce against them in the United States, to' convict, provided any evil-dis posed person should inform, or prosecute them, after their return from this city. I am, Gentlemen, &c. F. C. RETRACT FROM THE ROYAL ORDER RESPECTING THE TRADE OF REGROW, DATED ARANRIEZ, THE 22D et APRIL, 1804. 44 I declare, for the benefit of my subjects, that the return freight of negroes, which, from their great scarcity, or for other just cause, they have made from foreign ports, consisting of implements of hus bandry, machines, and utensils for plantations, ex pressed in the third Article of the Royal Order of the year 1794, as well as boards for sugar-boxes, staves, hoops, and shooks, shall be free from all duty. The same is also to be understood, when imported by strangers, together with new negroes, but not alone. " Inasmuch as I do hereby prohibit the entrance of foreign vessels into my ports, even with cargoes, unless at the same time they carry new Negroes. 64 But it is not permitted, either to Spaniards or foreigners, to import iron or steel, even of the produce of Spain, under the pretext of their being necessary to repair said implements or utensils. " The Governor, Captain-General and Intendant of the Royal Hacienda of this island, yesterday, in Council, decreed—That the foreign vessels now lying at the anchoring place called Blacer, in this port, and those to whom entrance has been granted on account of 'distress, be permitted t I discharge such articles as are expressed in the Royi.l Order cf the 20th April, 1804. In consequence of which, the consignees will deliver in a manifest of all their cargoes, or the dis patch of such articles as are mentioned in that indul gence, which will expire on the 30th April, 1810. (Signed) " ISLA." " Havaunah, October 19, 18G9." It is stated in one of the last American Papers, that, on the night of the 9th of September, a vessel, on her passage from Jamaica to Baltimore, felt a sudden shock which astonished all hands. After some time, the mate discovered that a large sword-fish had struck the ship, which was unable to extricate itself, be'ng fastened in the timbers ; the vessel sprang a • moderate leak immediately. Length of the fish 25 feet, and seven feet round, by computation, and re mained fastened to the vessel six or seven hours, when it Isiolitoff, apparently dead. . • - w 4 &roan, Dec: 30.—Lord Gnemvrtte has intimated intention of adding a third prize to , the two which bellegiveß by the ChancAlnr of the Univer ,. 'Tlits prize, we understand, will be, for the best ,ornposition in Latin Prose. A dispensation has passed the CT eat Seal, for enab , ling the Rev. , Darnet Boys, Chaplain to the Earl of TYRCONNEL I and Vicar of Benaenden, in the county of Kent, to hold with that living the Vicarage of Brookland, in the same county and diocese, to whiet he has been presented by the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury.. Rev. CHARLES MATTHEW 3 to the Vicarage of All Saint and Ste Peters, Maldon, Essex. IM I were CAMBRIDGE, DBC. 30..-411 e Rev. CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH, M. A. .Dean of Hocking, in Esser, and formerlj Fellow of Trinity College, is created D. D. by Royal mandate. FRANCIS Szvrime, Esq. and the Rev. H. KEBBELL, of Sidney College, are admitted Bachelors in Civil Law ; and Messrs. ROBERT MOUNSELL I of Trinity College, and Taos. Spiny, of Bene't College, B.A. I , A pistol was lately fired off, in the evening, at Mr, S WANE, 'the Clergyman of Itchley parish, in Hertford shire, the ball of which passed within a foot of him, as he was reading, and lodged in the wainscot-of the loom. A reward has been offered for the discovery .of the offender. Tuesday last as Mr. Heath, banker, at High Wy cornbe, was shooting in his woods, near the Grove, his gun burst and shattered his right hand in so dread ful a manner, that he was obliged to suffer amputa tion. - Sunday night, at t Re lve o'clock, two of the con• victs from the Zealand, made their escape from the ship by swimming on shore to the dock-yard, at Sheer ness, and secreted themselv es in the foreman of the yard's office, until ten o'clock on Monday, when the foreman went to his office, where he discovered them lying under a table, almost naked, and nearly dead $ they were taken up to the guard-house fire in the dock-yard, and from thence back to their ship. A few days ago, as two sawyers were employed in cutting up an oak -tree, about 13 inches in diameter, for the use of the Earl of Derby's Colliery, in Rains ford, in the county of Lancaster, the man in the pit perceived something to move in the cut they were then cutting, which, on examination, proved to be a, full-grown toad. The animal was quite alive when taken up, notwithstanding one of the legs had been cut off by the saw. The cavity in which it was found was exactly in the centre of the tree, just large enough to contain the body, and measured three yards and a half from the root or bottom. The tree was perfectly sound in every part, and not the least crack or aperture could be discovered ' that had a communication with the atmosphere. ELOPJSMENTS.—On Thursday evening, during the absence hf her relations, a young lady who_ is in pos session of considerable property, attended by a female servant, eloped with a Naval Officer from her resi dence in the neighbourhood of Manchester-square. Some time since a young Lady, of Bath, possessing a handsome- fortune, being in Wales, wrote to her brother and sister, in London, informing them she was about to come to town, but did not fix any time, observing they need not expect her till they saw her. However, two months elapsing, and not hearing from her, they wrote to inquire after her, and re• ceived for answer that she had left Wales about two months, with her uncle, of Bath. On further in quiry, it was ascertained that the-uncle had left -his family about the same time, and was supposed to be in London. The brother made great exertions to find the uncle, and at length discovered his lodgings, in Blewett's-buildings, Fetter-lane ; and on Tuesday morning the brother and sister's husband went there, -when they found that they had been living together as man and wife, for about two months. The brother remonstrated with her on her conduct, and intreated • her to go with him, but without effect, for she prefer red continuing in this most horrid state. She is only 26 years of age ' • her uncle 60, a n d h as a wife And two children about the age of the young lady, idiom he has deserted, to cohabit with his niece.— Her brother, however, set off for a constable, but while he was gone, they, in defiance_ of the brother in-law, left,the house ; he followed them, but they repeatedly told hii. it WA' of no use, as they should go into.no house while he followed them, and he gave up the pursuit. On meeting his brother again, they went to Bow-street office, and stated the case to the Magistrate, who informed them, that their conduct did not come within the cognizance of a Magistrate. —.Adkins the officer, however, went the following morning with them, accompanied by his brother; to the house in Blewet's-buildings, where they learned that the young lady and her uncle had returned in the evening, paid the rent, and taken part of their property away. Adkins, in consequence, stationed his brother to watch the house, and in a short time, a woman came to fetch the remaining property ; H. Adkins watched her to a house in New-street, Shoe lane, and gave information to his brother, and the young lady's brotherspin a short time after they all went to the house, where Adkins saw the woman. She proved to be the sister of the uncle, and denied that the parties were in her house. Adkins, how ever, prevailed upon her to allow him to go up stairs to search for them. On his getting upon the first floor, he found her husband, who is a tailor, at work ; Ind the garments of a female in an adjoining room, when he gave a signal to her brother to follow him, which he did, and recognized her to be his sister.— He endeavoured to prevail upon her to go with him, and in which he was cordially joined by the brother in-law, but in vain. They then began to use force, when the uncle rushed from a closet, and they both declared they would never separate. A pulley haufey battle then ensued; the young lady, her uncle, and a niece of the tailor's on one side, and the lady's bro. ther, and brother-in law, on the other. The wife of the tailor attacked Adkins, and •beat him unmerci. fully. The taylor took no part in the affray,-except abusing Adkins for not keeping the peace. 'At length all the parties were on the floor together fighting for the young lady, till nearly all her clothes were torn off, and then her brothers finding it her deter*** resolution to continue to cohabit with her undo, left her to her own coolie. asp , : 1