Star. — London, England, 1811-08-21 00:00:00

, THE ARMY. ivarAL INTALLIcEzkir. Th:s morning the PutNcE REGENT reviewed the PLYMairsi, AIYG`UST ie.. R.- , yal Horse Guards (Blues), on Winkfield Plain. The BOYNEI 98, will sail this evening or to-morrow, Yonclay put into Torbay his Majesty's ship VOL. to relieve the RgYAL GEOEGE, on the Rochefort sta vearNE, with several transports under convoy, having tint,. It is as s erted on good authority, that a Chan on board the sth regiment of Dragoons, part of the 9th 'lel fleet, of*en sail of the line, is to be immediately regiment, and some artillery, bound to Lisbon ; also his formed here, under the orders of Admiral Sir C. COT-. Majesty's ships ELEANoa and PonAuGus, with several Toil, who will hoist his flag on board the MALTA, transports, which have some regiments of Militia on now lying in this harbour, and only wants rigging to board, bound to Ireland. complete her for service. The crew of the SAN Another large Beet, by which strong reinforce- JOSEF are to be turned over to her. 'rents of every description will be sent out to Lord The SAN Josef is in a very leaky state, and must 'eLLINoroN, is. now fitting for sea at Portsmouth. undergo a thorough repair, before she can go to sea Several transports are likewise getting ready for . the again. his imagined she will be laid up in ordinary same quarter at Plymouth. Lord PAGET% fine regi- for some time. The INTELLItENT gun-brig Is ordered ment, the 7th Hussars, will go by the first fleet.— to the Downs, with convoy, and sailed thisevening. lost probably the remainder of the Hussar Brigade, It appeats by the last French papers, that the SNAP the 10th, 15th, and 18th Dragoons, will speedily PER schooner, of this port, commanded by Lieutenant follow; but we hear that the Brigade of Household -TIIRACKSTONE, has been taken by a French vessel of ' Cavalry will not go at the same time. ! much superior force, and carried into Sable d'Olone. We regret to hear that General LEITH, who was The SNAPPER only mounted four guns. immediately to have rejoined Lord WELLINGTON, is A fleet of merchantmen are now in the Offing to detained in this country by bad health:, the Eastward, bound down Channel, but unles the Lieutenant-General Sir STAPLETON COTTON and wind shifts they will be obliged to put in here. The General Stens are expected home; and it is much wind is now W.—lt lightened incessantly during the feared that Marshal BEREEFORD will be obliged to whole of last night, and this morning we were visited return to this country on account of his health, which by a thunder storm, accompanied by heavy rain, of assuredly is bad. It is said that he comes home for several hours continuance. . the wafers of Bath and Cheltenham, and that in his Five p.m. the SEINE frigate is now standing in with absence General HAMILTON will be appointed to the the above-mentioned convoy. The American ship chief command of the Portuguese Army. • Brutus, from Baltimore to. Bourdeaux, has been do- We may daily expect to hear accounts of the great Limited by the DIANA. expedition which ha's sailed for the reduction of Ba- A number of convicts are coming here, to work on tavia and Manilla, and which holds out hopes of ins- the break-water or pier, about to be erected at the en mense booty to the captors. trance of Plymouth Sound. Yesterday, the 2d Battalion of the 57th Regiment 1 PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST gn. arrived at Portsmouth, from Jersey. I &lived the VENERABLE from off Brest, DOMINICA The North Mayo Militia have left Clononey bier- from Guernsey, and the HAWKE from a cruize—she racks for Dublin, whereahey are to embark for Eng. has taken a French galliot and brought her into Spit. land. de land. the APELLES for the Downs, and the ANT on a cruize. Tuesday last the first division of the Carlow regi . DEAL, AUGUST 20. meat, and on the owe following days the remaining ' Arrived the PIGMY cutter,with a small convoy from divisions marched into Mullingar from Derry. It is Portsmouth, which are sailed for the River. The brig said that they are only to remain there to do duty until Woodman, from Southampton for Newcastle, was the arrival of an English militia regiment, and then captured last night off Dover by a French privateer, and recaptured by the Ecuo sloop of war, and brought proceed toCork orDublin for immediate embarkation. into the Downs.—Arrived the SKYLARK sloop of war The last division of the Royal City Dublin militia from a cruize.—Wind S.W. arrived at Limerick on Monday se'nnight e and anti Amin/ED—At Bristol, Julia and Mary, from Virginia; and rued its route to embark for England at Cork—only APTllaresin Lisbon. At Chepstow, Lent, —, frum Oporto Waterford, Mary, Leaper, from Lisbon. In the River Plate, 9 men of this regiment did not re-attest ; they are or- Alfred, —, Irons Guernsey. At Newfoundland, Sidney, dered to Dublin, to be attached to the sth Garrison from London. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. Battalion, quartered there. The Zealand, for several Danish vessels and the Cupido. will ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE.—A meeting of the Su. be paid on saturday, at 13, Clement's Inn; and recalled Mondays preme Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of the and Thursdays. The Swiftsure, Sr. Albans, Reiles, Assistance, Chichester, College, was held at High Wycombe, on the 19th Triton, and Adventure, for the 'Zuyderberg, will be paid on instant, for the purpose of inspecting the Senior De. Tuesday, at No. 18, Clement's Inn; and recalled Tuesdays and partment, which is situated there, and also for eza- ! Thursdays. h e Censer, for the Prince Carle; Swan, for the Constantine ; mining such Students as were judged to have made Lyra and Pioneer, for the Defehtra, will be recalled at No. 12, such progress as to admit of their leaving the Insti., Sir SAMUEL HooD proceeds immediately to India, tution. The Board was composed of the Right Hon. in the Swarrsuaz, 74 guns, Captain WESLEY, from Earl Hammer, the late Governor, who sat as Presi Portsmouth. dent ; his Royal Highness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE ; I Sunday night, about seven o'clock, an American ' vessel, which had been detained and sent into Ply- Major-General the Hon. A. HOPE, the present Go- !mouth, was observed to be getting under weigh. Se vernor ; the Adjutant-General; the Quarter. Master I veral beats were sent to bring her back, one of which General ; and the Commandant of the Junior De- j came up with her, and several muskets were discharged partment of the College. Captains GAUNTLETT, to bring her tn. The boats crew were then allowed to I come on board, when she was immediately seen to stand MACKAY, and ANGELA), were examined in presence out to sea, to the great surprise of the spectators. of the Board, on the subjects of Mathematics, Forti- The Preece REGENT has been pleased to direct, by fication, and Military Drawing. They all gave ample I an Order in Council, that Lotd WILLIAM FITZItoY, proofs of their acquirements in these branches of who had been dismissed from the command of the knowledge, and received certificates testifying their MacenoNtn, at Lisbon, and struck off the list of the • being qualified to serve in the General Staff of the Army. Royal Navy by sentence ef a Court Martial, shall be restored to his former rank of Post-Captain. The accounts which have been recently in circiala tion on the subject of the desertions from the Portu guese army have been greatly exaggerated. The fullownis a correct statement of the numbers now in the " The total establishment of the Porsuenese regti- 1 kr army is competed at 50,000. On the Ist of July Last there were 44,000 men, of whom .2.8,000 were I present and fit for duty ; there were 6000 Jewelled on duty ; and 10,000 under the head of sick, recruits, prisoners, and absent without leave—of the latter there were not more than 200. 01 the 28,000 men present, fit for duty, 21,000 wet e with Lord WELLINGrox, in cerporated with the 8t16,11 Army. The cavalry was Vat(' to be reduced to WOO. They Amounted to 4000; but of this number there were wine sick. There were 2000 of them with Lord WELLINGTON. Of the Militia, there ware upwards of 85,000 armed and fit for duty." From this statement it appears that there are 6000 men wanting to complete the regular army. A decree of the Stli of May last ordered 9000 men to be raised, and they were to be at the d. pots about the end of July. Six more battalions of light troops, amounting Si()to i men, were also ordered to be raised ; of these elle.lalsitanian Legion will form three battalions, and ere actually ready. On the 1-t of July last, the allied army under Lord WEeenterivet amounted to 50,000 rank and file, with out reckpoinga single Spaniard. All the Spaniards, indeed,mepttng an escort of 70 men, who remained with General CARTA:4OS, had left Lord WELLINGTON, and gone with General BLAKE. ACcOISIDg to their own returns, which have been intercepted, the French armies in Spain amounted, on the Ist June, 1810, to 230,400 men. On the Ist June 1811, they were only 140,000 men. Total loss in 13 months, 90,400. And here it is to be observed, that no troops returned to France during that period, except the Officers and Staff of • o.ne skeleton regi hums. Indeed the demand for troops in Spain has . been so urgent, that Ditutxr's corps, which came to MASEENA, was composed of the fifth !Nitta of different regiments, which are usually ea de ma which scarcely ever before had been sent out oi Fr ance. • - NAVAL ENGAGEMENT.—We have not for 4 consi• derable time seen such simple yet ingenious little works as Mit. NEWTON 's Sitze and N.syno ENGAGE MENT. They are calculated at once to improve the nu•niory and recreate the mind. They combine a code of calcillstion which will be found equally use ful to the tyro either in n.ival or military studies, and serve the auxiliary purpose of amusement with in !.truction.—Naval and Military Acade:Lies will be served at the wholesale prices, by applying to J. Bucic- LAND, No. '23, Brook -street, Holborn. TEIONMOUTfI, Auausr 16.—Wednesday was our Annual Regatta. At ten o'clock Stockford's Rooms were opened, and 140 fashionables sat down to an elegant public breakfast, where every delicacy was provided. At half-past eleven a signal gun was fired, preparatory to the boats starting, which were of two classes, decked boats and open boats. At twelve another gun was the sipal fn sailing, and they moved off in graceful st)le. The Den or Public Walk was one blase of beauty, elegance, and fashion, drawn from Exmouth, Dawfish, Torquay, and the neighbourhood, in addition to our own, to witness the race. During the time the boats were going their course, a donkey race and jumping in sacks took place on the Green, to the great amusement of every class. At four o'clock the boat-race ended. The Hon. Mr. Rot Nun( won the prize for the open brats, and Mr. \VALL'S cutter that for the decked boat. They were bah cheered by the fair spectators as they came in. There was a Ball at the Rooms in the evening, graced ,by the presenCe of 24'4 persons. Yesterday a Rowing Match took place between six boats, three belonging m Sheldon and three to Teignmouth, rowed by women dressed in white, and distinguished by bows of different coloured ribbons in their bonnets. The interest taken by the Ladies was cons!derable; having made many bets on their favourite colours. The match between the pilpt boats was interesting and well contested. The Geatkmen refreshed the-boat womea with tea and punch on their landing. The day was particularly fine, and the Walk, Beach, anti Cliffs crowded with spectators to witness the race. The evening concluded with another Ball at the' ' Rooms, and an elegant Children's Ball, given by Mrs. ELVDINATONE R at be house OD the Dew. yi 7777 7 -",-'!":71111p ••~~• •-• ~ - A . . • ' . Plitt ritkext .kilLisito - • • • LAW AtrEt.LICIAtt. • • _....„._.—. A letter from ati Officer on board his Majesty's COURT OF CHANCERY, AUOUST 19. Fe- treaters. ritoitisos, &c. IN Tilt SlArtilfi ilk cattstatit ship the Lots. of 64 guns, dated Boinbay, brusry 1, says- 0 This ship left Rio Janeiro on the Astia GASKELL. tBth of September, arrived at the island of Ceylon This was a new case. Co son and Ga-kell had d , -- posited ,20,000 worth of gtw).ls with Heyaiaal kbl on the 19th of December, 1810, where she took in a , supply of water and fresh provisions. Ou the 29th Co. Heywood and Co. adv 'need them settlaao upon the deposit. They soon ofitr sold the g .t‘d., of the same Month the ship east anchor in Cochin £s,ooo's worth to a stranger, and .£ls,ooo's worth roads ; was supplied there by the inhabitahts with back to Carson and Gaskell thernseivks. Carson :/..d abundance of poultry, fruit, vegetables, yOung bid- , back became bankrupts; and the question Wa‘i locks, &c. She arrived on the . 11th January. On our whether they had originally transferred the legal right arrival here the PIeRSIAN AMB ASSADOR received a let in the property to Heywood an! Co. ; whether the ter from the King of PERSIA, signifying that he had conferred on him the title of Khan, which is the high- consequent sale was a good one ; and whether Hey est tank next the Royal Family. All the Persians wood dad Co. should prove in thp commission under the original debt of the 110,000, or under the Lila of and Parsees at Bombay came off to the ship to pay their respects to his Excellency ; after which seven the Rls,ooo's worth of goods ! • boats, with a band in one of them, came off to con- This is a short analysis of the case ; but the whole duct him on shote. On leaving the ship, he was sa- is so extremely interesting that we are induced to I.sy luted by us with 21 guns, and received with a like the statement of Counsel before our Readers: salute on shore. The Commissioner, Captains, and Sir SANIUSL RoSIILLY :rated it to be au applicatiort on the part of the Assignees of the Bankrupts to have Army Officers, afterwards came off to pay their re- on debt of R6OOO, and-another debt of £l5O, which to Sir Gone OUSELEY, who went on shore in a had been allowed to be proved tinder the Commission, superb style ; Sir GORE in our barge, with the stan dard of Old England flying, followed by the different in the name of Heywood and Gladstone, expunges!. The Learned Counsel admitted that this was sortie- Captains, &c. with a band playing ; and he was sa what a singular case, but he trusted his Lord,hip luted by all the ships with '2l guns. The men in the would be of opinion, that the Commissioners, in al yards were all dressed in white, and standing. On lowing the proef of the debt in question, had acted landing, Sir GORE was received with 21 guns and the military were all turned out. We are to sail in a few t under a mistake. The bankrupts having a variety of days for the Persian Gulph, and are in hopes that we cottons, sizars, coffees, &c. to dispose of, proposed to shall not remain there more than 15 days. if so, we consign them ta Messrs. Heywood and Gladstone, to be hope to be back time enough to go with the expedi- by them soli, they remitting to the bankrupts tion against Java." three-fourths of the market value, in bills payable in London, the goods to continue under the key of Hey be \ The Algerine Ambassador will return home in the MeNeLaos frigate, Capt. PARKER. AJvices have been received from Tenerife, dated the 15th ultimo. The ship conveying them w.ts sup plied with clean bills of health, and has not therefore suffered a moment's detention. The malady with which a part of that island has been afflicted has wholly disappeared ; but the intelligence of a com mercial nature is by no means favourable to the views of the trading adventurers. Within the last ten days, an alteration has been observed by our cruizers to have taken place among the enemy's ships irs the Scheldt. It is ascertained that twelve sail of vessels, including two-deckers, I sloops, brigs, &c. have proceeded up that river from the situation in which they had previously been dis 'covered. Whether this movement has taken place for the purpose of inducing our ships to relax in their vigilance, is not known. A three-decker which has been some time building at Antwerp is now com pleted, and will speedily be launched. It is rather a remarkable cir,:umstance, that ever since the occupation of Barcelona by the French, which is now more than three years ago, we have had little or no account of the internal situation of that unfortunate city. At one period it was supposed to contain a population of mere than 100,000 souls, and was one of the most commercial cities on the coast of the Mediterranean. What it is now, under French occupation, we have no means of ascertaining ; but it may be readily conjectured to have greatly declined. I —While France, however, by her wanton aggression, has heaped innumerable evils on the once-flourishing cities of Spain, her own commercial towns, by a just reaction, have declined from their ancient prosperity.l A Gentleman, lately arrived from Bourdeaux, states, that on a recent census of the inhabitants of that city, it was found to contain only 72,000 souls, though its population was formerly estimated at 110,000.- I'hough no troops had lately passed through Bordeaux for Spain, yet since the commencement of the Spanish war the inhabitants had suffered most grievously from the numbers of troops, on their march to the Pyrenees, that had been quartered on them. Friday evening three Foreigners, of genteel appear. ance, were apprehended at Dover, on suspicion of being French officers broke from their parole. They represent themselves as being foreign merchants re siding in London, and came by way of Margate for an excursion along the coast : however, after having been examined for a considerable time by the Collec tor of the Customs, acting under the Alien Office, they were remanded back to the King's Head Inn, where they still remain under the guard of some Peace Officers. wood and G 1 idstane till sold ; the proceeds then to c. imputed, in the first place, is payment of their ad vances to Messrs. Carson and Co. of their expences, commission, ice. and the residue, if any, being to be paid over to the consignors ; while, on the other hand, if there should be a deti:iency, it was to be made up by . them. This proposal being agreed to, Messrs. Carson and Gaskell consigned to Messrs. Heywood and Glad stane, goods to a considerable amount, on the secu rity of which they received an advance to the amount of £24,000. Ot the good's so consigned to them by the bankrupts, they made sales to the amount of £13,000, and upwards; and they parted with them to Sit and Co. whom they knew to be the brukers for the bankrupts, some of the goods to the amount of £lO,OOO, and another parcel t o the amount of k 6,000, for which latter sum, having received a bill, they had proved the same under the commission, but the proof of it was now asked to he expunged. The only debt which Heywood and Gladstone could be admitted to prove under this commission, the Learned Counsel 'contended, was to the extent of £24,000, which was nothing but a loan, for which they had the 'security of those goods, with which they were not bound to part but where they pleased. They could not here be regarded as pt.rting with the goods to the bankrupts, as buyers of them, but only as re storing to them part of the goods received --. a secu. rity for the advance made. Mr.Motrracu,on the same side,stated. that the q act don here was, whether Hey wocrd and Gladstone were entitled to prove to the extent of £lO,OOO, being the sum remaining clue on their advance to the bankrupts. I or, if they were entitled to prove for between £16,000 ;and £17,000, till they had received full payment of !their advance of £lO,OOO. Messrs. Heywood and Co. were originally creditors of the bankrupts to Our amount of about £24,000. They had sold of the. goods consigned to them by the bankrupts, to stroll. gers, between £13,000 and Xll,OOO. They had pav ted with goods to Sill and Co. on account of the bankrupts to the amount of upwards of £lO,OOO 'these sums amounting together to more than the gum for which they were creditors. What fight then had they to retain the X 6,000, till the bill for £lO,OOO was paid, unless they had some special agreement to that effect ? Having parted with their security, Messrs. H. and G. must stand as any other creditors, and must come in and prove their debt. They had par ted with their security on the property consigned to them, and had taken the bankrupt. Mr. Hater and Mr.CuLLEN, on the other side, con. tended that this was 1 fraud against the creditors for whom they appeared. They were to have right to the proceeds of the goods. This very bill, for which they were told they ought not to be allowed to prove, was part of these proceeds; they were not by tho agreement to be accountable for more than the net proceeds, and this bill, till paid, could never be reck oned as forming any part of those net proceeds. The LORD CIIANCRIAOa was of opinion the debt in question must be expunged. Heywood and Glaistaoe agreed to become simple contract debtors of the bank. rupts for X 24,000, and that they should have placed in their hands in security of that sum, certain goods on terms agreed on. One of these terms was, that the goods should be sold ; a term which implied that they should be sold to some other person than the one depositing them. The reason of this was obvious,. If it were not so, a person about to become bankrupt might give a security to the am aunt of at:10,000 where the debt was only £20,000, thereby defrauding all his other creditors. If this were to be regarded as a sale, the evil consequences resulting from the enter taining of such a notice could not be conceived. The proof of the debt: was tl ctfore ordered to be expunged. Saturday morning an alarming fire broke out in the premises of a coal-merchant in Brick-lane, which, together with a part of the furniture, were consumed in a short time. A most alarming and destructive fire broke out, at ihree o'clock on Friday morning last, at Mr. Zacca riah Pigott's, Mucking-hall, Essex, which entirely consumed a house, with 21 calves, two pigs, a large barn, with the produce of twelve acres of pease, 1150 fleeces of wool, and three stacks of hay ; the sparks communicated to a large granary, containing a va riety of farming implements which were .all destroyed. The flames at one time threatened the whole of the premises. At seven o'clock a fire-engine arrived, which happily saved a large barn full of wheat, a gra nary with wool, and a stack of wheat adjoining. Two nun who slept on the premises with difficulty saved their lives. The property was insured. Sunday morning, a young lad, about fourteen years of age, was drowned- off Westminster Bridge stairs, while amusing himself in a boat. By some unskilful management it overset, and he was plunged into the stream, in the presence of several spectators, some of whom swam after him, but unfortunately too late to save him. AUGUST TO. EX-PARTE COLE 1N THE HATTER nr DOYLE. This was an application to prevent Doyle from being declared a bankrupt. T:te act of bankruptcy on which it was attempie,t to issue the commissis n ' was 1112 alledged writing of letter in which D , yle confessed his absence from his creditors. The inter was, however, writun beyon,l SP ; and it was tended by Sir S. RONIILLT and Mr. MoNr.koug, t'at the writing of a letter out of England was not An act of bankruptcy. If a mut should say in France, "It is true, I owe money in England, but in order to avr d frl f creditors, I will not rtturn thither;" even th .t would not be an act of bankruptcy. In order that a man may be legally declared a bankrupt in England, it was necessary that the act of bankruptcy should be committed in England. For the troth of this state ment of the law, Mr. Montague referred to the case Ingles v.prant, Fifth Tertn Reports. • :iv The Loan CHANCELLOR salt', that the writing dr such letter was not an act of bankruptcy; but, c' n netted with /tarok evidence, or other peculiar ct , rrc ocs• rating circumstances, it might become so. A man, who keeps a kind of office for selling charac• ters to servants who are in want of them, has been re manled from Marlborough-street Office, for recom mending a fellow of the name of Mott, to the service of a Gentleman in Wimpole-street, and giving a false character. The character was proved to he in the prisoner's hand-writing, who represented hinis?lf to be a Captain Mason, to whom Mott had been groom for two years. The said Mott had robbed his master of £lOO, and decamped, which gave aile to this inquiry. MARS.-LANs, AVOMITAL- 1 1 . 0.41.11y we Lave but few flesh ' arrivals - of Wheat, and again not much remaining supplies, t alt bog arrethda, few Sales are made, and thew tally at Monday's, lleslisiiii...-13arley in abort 'apply, and somewhat darer—Malt and White Peas fully maintain their prise, not many of the lat ter—Grey, and Baum of each dem lition, also keep their price' —The Oats on hand, with a few arrival•, form a miedling sup piy,and sides thereat at little fluetuatioa—Flour at late prkt s paced. • • i