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THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. MONDAY, SFPTEMBER 7. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : Confols, money, 62i—f0...0610ber 631—Onmium pre. ESChrqu'er Lab, par to is Prem. PRICE OF STOCKS ON SATURDAY. '- 3 per Cent. Red Butt India Bonds. par Is dif. 3 n,..r Ct. Conf 6I imp. Ann. 7 i I,z6ths ♦ per Cent. (hut Excheq. Bills, par as. dit' ''''" 5 per Cs. Navy, 964 Omnium t pr. Lang Ann. al Englilh Tickets 20 19$. India Stuck 177 Confols for acc. 63-r4 A great number of tranfports are fitting out at the fca ports for an Expedition, faid to be in the con ten-Oa:ion of Government. Three fine veffels of this defcription failed on Saturday from Plymouth Portfmouth. The Gazette of Saturday night, which will be found in another part of our Paper, contains the Military Report of the Army under the command of Lord CATHCAaT, from the 14th to the 21ft ult. inCIUtIVC. The fame Gazette contains a Letter from Admiral GAMBIER, dated the a in which he informs his MAJESTY'S Secretary,that he had deemed it necefrary to interdi6l all Neutral Traders from entering into the Port of Copenhagen, or through the paffage of the Great Belt, and that he had publifhed a Proclama tion accordingly. No official intelligence from the Baltic Fleet has been received fence our laft, nor, fuch has been the (late of the wind for tome days, can be imme- diately expelled. But there ate various reports in circulation in the City refpeCting the furrender of Copenhagen.— Dutch Papers and Letters are faid to have been re ceived, announcing its furrender on the 24th ult. together with twenty fail (f the line. Other accounts (late its furrender on the 25th, fame on the 26th.— Letters from Hamburgh to the 28th, are fluent on the fubjeet. A letter, dated the 24th ult. from an Officer on board one of the (hips of war off Copenhagen, Rates, that on that day every thing remained quiet ; but that they were apprehenfive the Danes were by no means idle in their preparations for a defence, which they had reafon to fear would be fttenuous and bloody, w.,:le it fluoild laft, owing to the long time that had b-en ;Wowed to elapfe before the attack. The letter alluded to is one day later than any other we have feen, and is only important in as far as it fi i ews that another day 11::d paired e..ithout any thing occurring dcferving of particular atteniion. • On Satutday night Mr. CLINE and Mr. Nys, the Admiralty Melfengers, were fent off with difpatches to the Pcrt Adlr.irel.i, at l'almouth and Plymouth. A Gen:l.-man, or ,M-frenger, was fent off from the Foreign Office on Saturday evening, with difpatches to the Commanders at Copenhagen : he 'ikewife took stifpatches from the I. , trds of the Admiralty. It is f ‘id he took with hint en order to be admitteirl cn bard Admiral GaP4BII•A'S flrip immediately on his ariival, and to have an interview with the Admiral. Lrfl Earl CI, TH Aht left town for Colchefler, io order to take the command of the troops Rationed in titat place, and within tlie furroun6iog diltrid. The y a Re i iment, which has been flationed at Killarney, Zec. has let cut for Cork. in order t. , join the 3d Regiment, and proceed direct for Canada. The 21.1 Regiment of Heavy Dragoons of the King's Germ :r Legion marched thr;;tigh Wettmin tter—on S.itutday lett, on their way from Deptford, Gre:nwich, &c. to Liverpool, at which place they are to embark for Ireland. Bnth men and horfes made a very fine appearance, and attracted much notice Itorn the furrottndinl fpedattirs, who teemed tie lighted with the fpvetacle. On Friday mnrning an order was fent to the Chat ham -divti. , n of Royal Marines, for an immediate entbaikv . i.m of officers and men to proceed immedi ately join the expedition in the Baltic. A letter from Conflantinople, of the date of the 20:h of June, confirms the Itatetnent of the Moniteur, that tie Divan had rcfolved not to rtceive the new Engliffi Arnhaffsdor. A metrage was accordingly fent to him, to prevent him from entering the capi tal. He alfo received notice, that no ptopolition from his Court would be littened to till the Englifb had entirely evacuated Egypt, and withdrawn their trizet s f,orn that pat tot the Mediterranean. This c viduet on the part •f the Divan, has been purfued entirely through the influence ot Sebatliani, who, it laid, not only threatened, in cafe any favour were ilve.ven to the Engliffi, to leave that city, but alto to excite the Jai.itrai it s againtt the pre:cat Governtrent of Turkey. By this Inenll3 lie ex;:q:Sted to intimidate t h e Di van into an adoption of the Machiavelian views of France ; for the liniff•.tics may he 'pa l> , confider ed as the prefetit Sovereigns of Turkey ; and they site klr.Wil to be entirely under the influence of the Fitoch Tvlit!chi Pacha has been ep ts.;,intettGran.lViziet. Ile is held in great eiltem by t.e janiffaries, over v.hom he is Commander in Chief. tiatorday a f tiling hoar v. ith two young men in it, n:tfet, by a fut.:den gull of wind, near Eta-lane, hen one of them was drowned—the trier was taken up by Tome fithermen. Mr.. Env , 74, dui iv the ret Liu:lance of Mr:et:few, on Wedneflay fv'onight, in the Cork Theatre, re c_ived an injury from a blow given her.head by the t•-idden fall of one of the drop fcenes, which, it is teared, is not of a right nature. Mifs Walla under volt the part which this unfortunate circumftance has:v instai,ieitated Mrs. EDWIN from p4rforming. LETTERS FROM THE FLEET OFF CQ?. HAGEN. • • f ! . " COPENHAGEN ROADS, AUGUST sw " An opportunity offering to fend letters to Eng• land, I cannot omit acquainting you how we are going on here, as I fiippoie you are all anxious to bear the refult of the Expedition, which has for fome time paft occafioned In many conjeflures :—We ar• rived here with our fleet on the 15th inflant, and the next morning landed the army, confifting of about 15,000 men, about fix miles from Copenhagen, with rout oppnfition, the Danith army having retired into the town. They are fuppofed to confift of 7 or 8000 regulars, and about 12,000 mili.ia —but there are various reports on the fubjea, and in fhort on every other circumftance conneeted with it. I believe it is very certain that they are determined to refill us to die utmoft of their power, and as the towa is laid to be flrongly fortified, if they continue in the fame mind, it is probable our objet will be attended with fome difficulty, and it will take a length of time to reduce Copenhagen: from the lea, it has all the appearance of great firength, particularl♦ the Crowr. Batteries,which are fituated upon fmalMflands, about three-fourths of a mile from the town, and appear to be ereaed for the purpofe of defending the en• trance of the harbour, where the men of war are laid up, which are plainly to be feen from the fhip, with only their lower malls in. There are alfo feveral large hulks anchored at different parts round the town, and the whole (hare feems, from the firing we frequently fee, covered with fmall batteries, fitted up with very heavy artillery, as are likewife the hulks. They have alfo a great number of gun boats, which frequently come out and amufe us with a little can nonading, but they have yet done us no injury. The German Legion, from Kugen, landed in Kinge Bay, and are at prefent with our army. They are about 7000 ftrong. " We are bnfily employed in getting on (bore bodes, artillery, and other (bares, which I hope will he all on (bore in a very (host time. The army had advanced very near the town, and are preparing to befiege it : there has been come flcirmilhing, but with lade lots on our fide, and not very great on theirs. We °bier ved a heavy firing early this morning onfliore, and a report has jull reached us that the Danes made a for tie with 4000 men, but were driven back into the town with confiderable lots, and with little on ours. " On our arrival at Eifineur, a Danifh frigate in the roads, 0132 guns, bore the flag of a Vice Admiral, and the day before we left it, the went to lea in the night; the CoMus, Capt. HEywoon, was difpatched after her, and the day before yefterday the brought her to this place, having taken her after an aCti,,n of 5o minutes, in which the lon 13 men killed, and 18 wounded (2 fince dead) ; the COt4US had only one man flightly wounded. " The Crown Prince came from Hnlflein WI be fore we landed, and toot the King with him there. The head quarters of General Burrard are at prefent l in one of the King's palaces, called Frederickburgh, about three or four miles from Copenhagen." Another letter Rates the hulks mentioned in the above officer's letter to be the Elephanter, Perefure, Wilhelmina Carolina, and Maria, blockfhips, and the St. Thomas frigate.—There are likewife in the har bror of Copenhagen, the Heyer, Svanfetker, Lan derman, Veromp, and three other bombs, and 13 gun•veffels. " HULL, SEPTEMBER S. " A letter from a non commiaioned Officer of the 7th or Englifh fufikers, which lately embarked at this port, to his wife at this place dated Aug. 2 r fays : " After having been three days at anchor be calmed, about eight or nine miles from Ellinenr, we got a breeze this morning, and paired the Cattle be• tween nine and ten o'clock. They never fired a (hot at us ; we ran dole under the Swediih land, about half a mile from (hone. We are making the belt of cur way to Copenhagen, from which we are dittant ten cr twelve miles, and have the grand fleet in view. Fourteen thoufand of our troops have landed on the tight of Copenhagen, and 14.,000 on the left. The fleet is lying abreaft of Copenhagen, ready for. a breeze to take them in. It is expeCted they will blow Copenhagen up, if the inhabitants do not furrender to the Bt lair army and navy. Ten thoufand French troops have landed in Sweden, and the Swedes have flan 5000 and taken zOOO prifoners. " The Riling Star, Smith, arrived here this morn ing from Longfound, in Norway, which place he left on the 19th ult. On the 17th his veffel was detained by the Officers of the Cu(toms, but let at liberty on the evening of the 18th. Capt. SMITH was advifed by his merchant at Lon /found not on any account to put into a port of Norway in his pa ffage. " A letter received here this morning from an Of ficer of his Majetty's (hip FRANCHIss, dated on the zoth inflant, off Nyborg in the ifland of Funen, Rates, that the rear fquadron of the fleet, under the command of Commodore KSATS was then Rationed in the Great Belt, to prevent the Danes from fending reinforcements to the liland of Zealand. The inha bitants had fortified the malt, and lined it with troops; and would fuffer no communication with the (bore. Boats from the Britilb (hips rowed guard every night from nine o'clock until the fame hour in the morning. " Two or three Dani(h veffels have been flopped at this port. " A letter received this day by a rerpeEtable mer cantile !lode in this town Rates, " that a quantity of Britifh manufattured goods, recently landed at Ton ningen by neutral weird, had been feized there by order of the Daniitt Government. " A floop cutter arrived in Bridlington Bay on Monday, to water, having landed difpatches for Go. vernment at Scat borough on the preceding day. The mailer of this veinl had been employed in laying down hnoys in the inner road of Copenhagen, for the guidance of our fleet in making an attack upon that place. fie dates, that our troops were landed cn the ; 6111 ult. between Elfineur and Copenhagen ; on the fame day he failed for England, and was fired at by the ca:lle of Ellineur in palling. In the conrfe of that evening and the next day he heard a very heavy rit ing,iu the direction of Copenhagen, to which place bur fleet had al gone from Ellineur roads. The Da:lid] boats had taken and burned an Englilh tranfporr. On her palrage the floop had captured two Dattill v:lrels, one from Bourdeaux with wine, and the other from the WA SXIIII4CT OF A LiTTLI FRAM ♦M AMU". •• Hercule, off Copenhagen, Are $O. "WffillDed iB,OOO men on Sunday, Angell 16, about fix miles from Copenhagen, Without any ,toff, the Danes not being aware of their landing. The convoy of too fail of tranfports have in fight the fame day in the afternoon, from the South; with the German Legion ; there being little or no wind, the enemy began to fire on them, and the Admiral received a flag of truce, (feting, that if the mint parts palled the Crown Batteries at that place, they would fink the whole convoy. At five o'clock the Admiral made fignal to weigh anchor, and (land further in. and for all boats to return to their re fpe6live (hips, and we cleared for aflion, with fprings on the cables : we perceived the (hells flying among the tranfports from nine until eleven, without doing any mifchief. •• On the 17th, at 9 o'clock, we difcovered t 8 of the enemy's'gun•boats making towards the tranfports to cut them off: all the boats in the fleet were man ned and armed, and fent after them: the enemy took poffelEon of one veffel belonging to Liverpool ; but, feeiog our boats advance, they fet fire to and left her, and made their eicape: all hands were Caved from the wreck. ‘• On the rEth a flag of truce was fent from Co penhagen to the Admiral for leave for the Royal Family to quit the place, which was granted. In the afternoon the gun boats approached along (bore to annoy the army, but were repulfed without doing any mifchief. In the evening they came out again, and a very heavy fire commenced between them and our frigates, which did them much damage. At dark they returned with eight boats only out of fourteen ; thofe were obliged to be towed in. 66 The army is now about a mile in the rear of Copenhagen, flcirmithing with the advanced guard, who are flying in all direai , ors. 66 AUGUST i9.—We are now pretty quiet, the army teem enjoying themfelves boiling their kettles Ste.—we are fo near that we can hear them give the watch word ; a !Urinals took place yeflerday, in which nur men took forty baggage and ammunition waggons, &c. and one Danith General, feveral were killed and wounded ; our lois was one Captain of artillery and a few privates. Signal is jolt made for all our large boats to provide thearrelves with mor tars, and a flag of truce is fent into Copenhagen, to warn all neutral (hips to quit the port . or run the confequence. We begin, it is laid, to bombard tomorrow; the (hips in front, and tl.e troops in the rear of C.penl , agen. We have already 23,c00 men within a mile of Copenhagen, and hope to fend you good news loon. We have taken fair Danilh fri- I gates, and added them to our fleet."" The &VALOR f1 , .0p of war, with the fleet for the Weft Indies, failed from Cork on the ioth ult. An embargo was on Monday laid upon the D.tr.ifn veffels in the harbour of BeWaft. A notice from the Crown Office of Limerick has been addreffed to the inhabitants, apprifing them of the impart of the late aa relative to the regillering of arms and hlackfmiths' forges. On Saturday we had the plealure, in a part of nut impreffion, to announce the Cafe arrival off the Ifle of Wight of the Eaft India Fleet, under convoy of his Majefty's fhip Ammo's. Lail night ten of the Purfers had arrived at the Eall India Hanle, vit. Lady Jane Dundas Captain I I NDSA Hugh Inglis Captain FAIRFAx Bengl Captain Co MIN Lord CalUereagh Captain KYM Atia Captain WA RDLAW Wakhamftow Captain Wl.Enn Alexander Captain Fa.% NCKLIN Sovereign • - Captain CAmrBELL Monarch Captain Hawes Harriett Captain LYNCU Lord Nelfon Captain HUTTON Fart St. Vincent Captain Jo NE s Huddart Captain DAT LITT. With the Scorpion and Atlantic whalers, and a Swede. The Fleet failed from St. Helena the 27th of June. Captain G. M. GORDON, of the Antelope, which convoyed the Eaa India fleet, attended yefterday at the Admiralty, with difpatches from Sir Enwean Pr LLSW to the Lords of the Admiralty. Captain GORDON has alfo brought difpatches tut fume of the other official Departments. We flared on Saturday that Admiral DRURY was to have failed, as yefterday, from Portfmouth, in the Monmouth, to refume his command in the Indian Sea, as fucceffor to Sir THOMAS TROwSRIDOE. His departure was, however, prevented by an exprefs difpatched from the Admiralty, on Saturday, requir ing his immediate return to town. The gallant Admiral accordingly returned to to% n without de lay, and attended the Admiralty Board, Taft morn. ing, at ten o'clock. Admiral DRURY W.As appointed, we believe, npoo the prefumptum that the Blenheim, commanded by Sir Tuoraas TROWERLDGF, was.laft in a norm off Madagafcar. The cattle which report has aligned for the recal of Admiral Mutest, is, that Miniaers have received, by the Eall India fleet, an account of the fafety of the Blenheim, which is Paid to have put into an Am,.rican port. Tl.is ac count appears very improbable, but we give it merely as a report. Admiral DR PRY% attendance at the Board lifted a confiderable time. Captain DVMARESQ on Thurfil ty commiffioned the Dioatenr, of so guns, at Portitnieuth, which is fitting for Sir James SAUMAREZ'S Hag, at Gucrnfey. Captain Loam° has taken the command of the Sea Fencibles in Portfmouth Captain.WALPOLE (llsn of the Hon. Captain Wei.- erns), who was taken in the Muasave, and is lately returned from Paris, is appointed to the PILOT, a new brig at Portfmouth. The general Court-Martial which lately afTembled at Colchetter, and of which the H(.n. Col. WOCD• House was Prelident, is diffolved ; his Mature having been pleated to confirm the lenience, whereby three Officers, Captains of the Wcamintler Militia, were adjudged to be cafhiered. The circumtlances which gave rife to the trial .originated in a quarrel between two of the parties, in a hich the third became a mediator. Charges of criminaticn and reel intina tion milted : there were made the fubjc& of a Coutt Martial, which involved the fecond as well as the principals, and terminated in the dicrnifral of all the three Officers. The difpute aas between Capt. GascoyNi and Capt. GRANT. Capt. STAPLES was the friend of the former. The Court Martial had no reference whatever to any military mif. condo& MARK-LANE. CORN EXCHANGE, SEPTEMBER 7. Today there is a middling fupply of Wheat at. rived, which is ready of fale, at a fmall advance in price on that of firs quality—Barley in fhort fupply, and little in requeft—Malt has few buyers, excepting for fine—White Peas are rather lower—Beans, of both fotts, are dearer—there are but few Oats ar. rived, and this trade is at higher price—Sales of ur as under. Fine Flour sss 6os—Seconds sos to sss. BRIGHTON, SEPT. 4. This day the Southdown Fair took place upon the Prince's Cricket Ground, which was admirably well adapted for the occafion. The day was alfo exceed ingly favourable, and a g reat many Fafhionables were thereby induced to atten d in carriages, on horfehack, or on foot, to witnefs a fcene fo novel in this quarter of the county rf Suirex. The Show of Sheep was immenfe, their being corn. puted to be about 12,000 of the real Southdown breed, none other being admitted. The bell price paid for 'he Ewes was two guineas ; for Lambs 2ss.; and for Rams trom two guineas and a half to three guineas. They were in general of 'lie very fira qua. lity, and the ale: were pretty rapid. It being intended to make this fair annual, every farmer who brought his fheep upon the ground paid at the rite of 51. per hundred, in order to efiablifh the fair, and to defray the expences thereof. In future this expence u ill not be incurred, as every farmer will be allowed to bring his fheep free of expence to this annual fair for Pale, provided they are entirely of the Southdown breed. A few Hodes, OlWb, and Hogs, were alfn dirpo. fed of; and feveral farmers produced Couples of Corn.—Various booths and tents, or marquees, were crated round tie (pot. TITHES. Maxstna Houst.—The Rev. Mr. Conk, Rector of St. Helen's, Billtopfgateltreet, as Impropriator of the Great Tithes of that parith, having called on the proprietors to pay their tithes agreeably to the rents of their refpetaive properties, which was refilled by them, en the ground of immemorial ufage, by which a mods,: had been fettled, now brought ten dd. ferent complaints before the LORD Wilma, as Chief Magiftrate of the City of London, againtt Mars. Stratton and Gibfan, and various other proptietors of houfes in the parifb, to have his right to the tithes afcertained, and the proprietors compelled to make a chfcovery of the amount of the rents of their refpec tive properties, for the purpofe of fixing the tithe to be paid by each ; or, otherwife, to pay the refpalire fums claimed by Mr. Cook, as Impropriator. Mr. Cook appeared on his own behalf, and Mr. Reader, as Colloid for the rroprietors. Mr. COOK began by referring to the Aes of Henry VIII. abolithing Monaneries. and to the /WU c f the fame King, and of Qeen Elizabeth, conferring dif fereat grants on the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, and on various individuals ; particularly a grant of the great tithes of the parifh of St. Helen's, to a per ton in right of whom Mr. Cook now claimed. He begged it to be übferved, that the prefent was not a question between the officiating clergymen of the pa rith of St. Helen's and the proprietors of the pun, but a queftion as between landlord and tenant : he ( Mr. Cook) claiming as Impropriator, in virtue of the tithes granted in favour of his predeceffor. He thoald proceed to prove his title, which he prefumed to think would throw the onus probandi on the other party: Mr. READER had no objeftion to admit L' ,e title. Mr. COOK afked if he alfo admitted that the onus probano6 lay on him ? Mr. READER fad he could not aufwer that queftion till he knew what the complainant's demand was and in what capacity he made it. Mr.Coc fa'd, he had already flated,that he claimed in the capacity of Impropriator of the Great Tithes, and his claim, as fuel), was to the extent of es. in the pound of the rents of the parifh. What thefe rents I were it n as for the Defendants to thew. The LORD Marin here obferved, that no power lay with him to compel the Defendants to tell the amount of their rents. Mr. COOK alluded to the great, important, and ex clufive privileges of the city of London, far greater, and more extenfive, than thole conferred on any other body, place, or jurifdiEtion, within thefe king doms That his Lorcithia, as Chief Magiftrate of the City, was the head of all juftice to be admini tiered witlin it, civil, as well as criminal ; that he was Lord Chancellor in the city of London, and, of caurfe, was vetted with full powers to decide, and in deed was the only, or at leaft the original competent tribunal for deciding the queftion in difpute. The Reverend Gentleman was proceeding, when Mr. READER Paid, that as he had admitted the title, fo did he admit the jurifditlion. The LORD MAYOR Paid he had looked into this cafe, and found it to be one of In much difficulty, that he was convinced it would be much better and much mare fatisfaCtorily decided in Chancery. Therefore, although he was fatisfied that the jurifdielion lay with him, he declined interfering or making any order in the bufinefs, fatisfied that it would find an equally competent tribunal elsewhere. Mr. READER Paid the quellion was this, whether cutlomary payment which had exiled for an hundred years was to be overturned, by which the Parilh of St. Helen's would have to pay in the ratio of 15001. to toc..? The Court of Chancery, or the Court of Er chequer, if called on to decide this queftion, would not do fo without evidence; they would fiat direa an iffue to be tried. This his Lordfhip had no power to do. The LORD MAYOR Paid, neither could he enforce tt difcovery. Mr. Cook declared himfelf perfeely fatisfied. had done what he thought was his duty in bringing the in :tter, its the fittt inftance, before the Leal Mayor, thereby taking. care that the privileges of the City of Lai don thould not be compromifed. 11c thould now go to Chancery, and file his bi ll of di c.). Yet 7, fatisfied that he thould obtain ample ilia** 1