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THE EVENING STAR. LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 3. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: S per Cent. Consoh 667,-3 per Cent. Reduced 651/. • Onmitun 1 dis. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. Bank Stock 235 India Bonds, Ss. es. pre. I a per Cent. Red. 6.41 . Ex. Bills Ss. Ss. pre. S per Cent. Conti, Otnnlurn • per Cent. B , J I ,if Cons. for acc. 66f Our Paper having been put to press yesterday be fore the following Bulletin was issued, announcing the actual junction of the two corps of British troops in Spain, we again give it a place in our columns. This junction, 'as we stated yesterday, took place on the 17th ult. " DOWNING-STREET, JAN. L. " Letters of the 16th December, dated Toro, have been received ; General Sir JOHN Moon!" who was then forming his junction with General Sir DA VID BAIRD, and was marching with the hope of falling in with Marshal SOULT, who had been ordered to make himself master of Leon and Zamora.— Brigadier General CHARLES STEWART, with part of the 18th Light Dragoons, had surprised and taken a detachment of cavalry and infantry at Rueda, with about Je20,000 in value of cotton, which the French had collected. They had also taken a patrole of an officer and 22 dragoons." From the above it may be inferred, that Sir JOHN MOORE has marched in the direction of Medina de Rio Seco and Palentia, to place himself between the French army at Madrid and -Souvr, who is suppo sed to be at Salcilna with 20,000 men. By this move ment Sir JoUN will probably be enabled to fall in with Sout.r before the latter shall be joined by the reinforce ments which are marching from France ; and it is more than probable that he will be obliged to fall back to the Ebro, leaving NApottow without the hope or chance of receiving any supplies or reinforce ments for some time to come. In the mean time should the levy en-masse, which has at length been resorted to, take the field with spirit, it is very possi ble the invaders in all quarters may be pressed in a manner which there was no rational ground to ex. .pect only a few weekslago. If the Spanish male po• pulation rise in a mass, they may trample their ene. mies in the dust. If ,they do not, no power on earth can save them from their merciless foe. Our port letters add little or nothing to what we have already stated. The action alluded to in the subjoined letter is evidently the affair stated in the Balletin, of the 18th Light Dragoons, with a small detachment of the enemy, ot PLYMOUTHPOCR, JANUARY 1. " The rumours from Spain, contained in my letter of yesterday's date, are still in general circulation here, and even gain more credit hourly. The GROWLER did not bring any Spanish papers ; but Lieutenant CROSBMAN positively says the dispatches he brought contain the details of an advantage gained by some of our cavalry, over a similar force of the enemy, after a short but obstinate conflict. s Letters from Corunna,dated the '22d ult. brought by the SwAr.Low, state that Sir Jon MOORE, with upwards of 20,000 English troops, had got in the rear of the defeated French army, and no doubt was entertained of his being able to cut them off." " His Majesty's ship Narcissus, (one of the blockading frigates stationed off Nantz) Dec. 18, 11108. " In my last, which was dated the 15th October, and dispatched a few days afterwards :by the Master of our Ship, who sailed for Plymouth with prize pro perty, I informed you that our gallant First Lieute nant, Mr. Octz.va., assisted by the boats of the ship, well manned and armed, had succeeded in taking from under a battery, without any loss on our side, four French chasse-marees, laden with wine, flour, 1 and stores, destined for the relief of the French Islands in the West-Indies ; these we destroyed, after taking ont their cargoes, which were put on board a brig we had previously captured, and sent for your port. 66 1 have now the pleasure to inform you, that on Tuesday, in cruizing a few leagues to the westward of our station, in company with his Majesty's ship NAIAD, we had the good fortune to fall in with and capture a large French cutter, mounting 16 guns, and a brig letter of marque, both laden with provi sions and stores for Martinique, and afterwards des tined to cruize against our trade in the West-Indies. They endeavoured to escape us, and no doubt would have got off, had they not been so heavily laden ; but the moment we came within gun shot, they hauled down their colours. We took out the crews (f both vessels, and dispatched them under the care of our Master, and 2 Mate of the NAIAD, with criers to make any British port to the westward the wind will permit. 44 There is nothing brilliant in these achievements, but it is nevertheless satisfactory to think that a few British frigates are able to blockade the harbours ,of the enemy, and not only intercept their supplies, but even to cut off their vessels from under the very ram. parts of their batteries. We have been frequently employed on service of this sort, and have hitherto been so singularly fortunate as not to lose a man, although we have had several slightly wounded, among whom is Mr. OGILVIE ) a very ogritorious and gallant Officer. ig We expect shortly to return into port, to repair some trivial damage we sustained itl3 Use gale : it ". - V. is uncertain whether we shall resume cur present sta tion ; you will 'therefore defer writing till you hear further from me." •• The Corunna papers, which we have received to the 24th uh. explain the grounds of the rumours which reached us yesterday. It would appear incre dible, if we had not, at the -moment we are writing, the Diaries before us, that it should have been re potted and believed at Corunna, so late as the 16th ult—that the French had been defeated at Madrid, between the 3cl and 7th, with the loss of 18,000, and the remainder 04,000) treating ror a capitulation. Nor is this all. At Somosierra they lost 8000—at La Pucrta Santa Barbara I2,ooo—at La Puerta de Al cala 7000, &c. &c. It would be a waste of room to republish such details--we therefore confine our ex tracts to the following : U '1 • I ' CORUNNA, DECEMBER 21. Three couriers arrived this Merning, one of them an English Cabinet Messenger, from General Baird's head quarters at Benevente, which place he left on the 17th, and on the same day met with General Moore at Alaejos : the two armies were within twenty-four hours march of each other, and in the highest spirits. The 18th regiment of English cavalry, belonging to the army from Portugal, had had several rencounters with the enemy, in which they were always successful ; on one occasion they brought in eighty-eight priso ners, and on the following day thirty-six, besides horses. Nothing certain was known at head-quarters re lative to the situation of Madrid ; but it was generally supposed that the French had obtained possession of it, after sustaining considerable loss. The Intelligent gain-brig arrived this morning from England, with a Messenger and dispatches for the British Ambassador. . Drc. 23.—A report is in circulation of an action having been fought near Valladolid, between a divi sion of the British army and a corps of the enemy, in which the latter were defeated : probably, how ever, it is only a•repetition of the news received the day before yesterday, respecting the 18th dragoons. .---The Central Junta is said to have removed from Truzillo to Puesta Santa Maria, near Cadiz. VIGO, DECEMBrit 10. The Encounter gun-brig arrived here last night from Plymouth, after a passage of five days, with dispatches for Sir David Baird. The following ships compose the squadron now lying here: Ville de Paris, Barfleur, Victory, Implacable, and Alfred, of the line ; Endymion, Minerva, Cossack, and Pallas, frigates ; and Bonne Citoyenne sloop. OPORTO, DECEMBER 14. Sir Robert Wilson with his 'legion is now marching out to join the English Army in Spain,, and will be followed by the Portuguese troops. These Papers likewise contain a Royal Decree, cal ling on the people to resist the enemy with the utmost energy. This document, which is extremely well written, we shall lay before our Readers to-morrow. On Saturday • morning, about eight o'clock, his Royal Highness the Duke of YORK left town in his travelling carriage, for Windsor. His Royal High ness took with lam the voluminous proceedings and Report of the Court of Inquiry, upon the Conven tion of Cintra. It was so extremely large, that it was made into two parcels, each of them. weighing nearly twenty pounds. His Royal Highness arrived at Windsor soon after ten o'clock. In a.short time :'titer, his Royal Highness had an interview with his Itlamn, and laid the Proceedings and Report be fore him. The Duke proceeded to mad them, and continued to do so during the whole of the day; ex:. ccpt at his • MAJZ STY 'S dinner-time ; and at four o'clock, the dining hour of her MAJESTY and the PRINCESSES, his Royal Highness dined with them. His MAJESTY informed the DUKE he should conii= sider of the business till Sunday ; and desired his Royal Highness to attend him on that day, it • being his Royal Highness'S intention to go to Oatlands that night. • The QUEEN desired him to bring the Dueness with him. On Sunday mottling their Royal High nesses arrived at Windsor, from Oatlands. - Their Royal Highnesses having invited a large party to din ner on that day, and in consequence of its being their Royal Parents' wish to see them at Windsor, they appointed Lady SMITH, and one of his Royal High ness's Aides-du-Camp, to preside at the table to entertain their guests. At four o'clock the ROYAL FAMILY sat down to dinner, and his MAJESTY, in compliment to, the.N Duchess of YORK, sat at table the whale time, al-1 though he had previously dined about one o'clock ;" his MAJESTY partook .of the confectionary, dessert, and wines, and we have great pleasure in saying, .he. appeared in most excellent health and spirits. There were present, besides their MAJESTIES, the Duke a n d Duchess of YORK, and five Princesses, the Dukes of CUNIBRRLAND and CAMBRIDGE. In the evening the ROYAL FAMILY partook of tea and coffee, during which time her MAJESTY'S band played several pieces of sacred music from the works Of H ANDEL. Lord Viscount GRIMSTON died on Friday. By his decease, his eldest son, who succeeded a few days ago to the title of FORRN3TER, now becomes an Irish Viscount, and an English Bcron, in addition to his Scotch Peerage. Two men of the names of Hankey and Bartholo mew, the former an upholsterer's porter, and the latter a coacharan, had quarrelled at a pot-house in Oxford -street, on Saturday night; and in consequence of the coachman having pulled the porter's nose they repaired to a spot not far distant to fight. A sangui nary battle took place, each being inebriated and unskilful ; aad after having been engaged half an. hour, the coachman received a fall on the head, which terminated his existence, lie was taken life. less to the hospital. ~.;~ ~. , • THE ARMY, _ • -.. • The telsidi 4 doti is now only prevented from starting by some delay which occurred in the embarkation Of the baggage and horses of the Guards. The 87th and 88th regiments arrived at Spithead on Sunday morn ing, and are waiting therewith the Engineers and Horse Artillery the arrival of the Guards. It was hoped to the Guards would have got down last night, and enable the whole to sail to their destination,' where, no doubt,they are anxiously and eagerly looked for. The wind is at present favourable, and would in a few days carry them to Spain or Portugal., A very considerable part of the present Expedition' consists of reinforcements to the corps in Spain and Portugal, the Scots Royals, 42d, 71st, and 79th High land regiments, the 9th, 29th, and that eminently' distinguished corps the 50th regiment, with very large reinforcements of both men and officers; bait there ' is no corps in these armies that does not want recruits : every corps, both in Spain and Portugal, will be com pleted to their establishment. In this way the 2d or 3d battalions at borne are eminently useful, as nurseries for the Ist battalions on service. So great is the press for the men now gOing off, that, to prevent delay, the forces from this country, Scotland, and Ireland, will, it is supposed, sail in se: parate and single convoys; and that even the artillery, 87th, and 88th regiments, with the reinforcements for all the regiments in Spain, will sail to-day by them selves, if the Guards do not arrive, leaving them tol follow with a separate convoy. With the large reinforcements now sailing, it will amount to the formidable number of nearly 70,000 British troops.—At present, Sic loess Moons is Conunander4lollll4 Sir DAVID BAIRD, Sewed L CORRIIIIMIL Sir 'DON STEWART Wilt be Third in Cow l Jinx Hops is fund when he arrive• ; Lieun Third in Conunand it present. Sir AIRTIMR WILLS/LIT will be Fourth in Command wben be arrives; Lienteeant-General FRASIR is Fourthdixt Command at present. Lieutenant-General Sir Jong , CRADDOCK and gadier-General ANsTIWTHER have been left in Pat•tu-1 gal; but with very few troops. I The bus frigate, Captain Towan, goes as convoy of the Eipedition now at Portsmouth. THE EMBARKATION. RAMSGATE, JAN. I.—Yesterday the 3d division of i the Guards marched in here, and embarked immesh., ately. They were about WO strong, belonging to the Ist battalion of the 3d regiment. The 2d division of the Guards, that embarked on Friday, sailed the same evening from the harbour ; and the wind being fair for Portsmouth, they went through the Downs without bringing up there, in company with the rest of the troops that had before sailed from Ramsgate Pier. The 3d division of the Guards, which sailed from the Downs last night, have also proceeded for Portsmouth, the wind continuing favourable. The conduct of the Guards during the embarka tion cannot be too highly praised, for their steadiness and attention to discipline and order. At the hour appointed for the third division sailing last night from the Pier, the usual guard went round to pick up strapi piers, &c at which time not an offiter or private was found loitering in the town, every man being en board his preper vessel. On leaving the Pier they gave three cheers, which were returned by their well. washers on shore. During thelabole of the embar. kation not a single accident happy's& • NAUTICAL *INTELLIGENCE. PLYMOUTH, JANUARY 1. No arrivals.—This evening sailed the PILCHARD schooner to the West7ard.—Captain GOODALL, High Admiral of his Impetial Majesty CH RISTOPIIR, Em peror of Hayti, landed here on Thursday morning, and proceeded to town. He arrived the preceding evening in the Ravenbrig,, Captain GRANT, from Jamaica. He complains loudly of the insult he has suffered by the seizure and.detention of his vessel by ' a British cruizer ; and it is said he is come over for the express purpose of presenting a strong \remon strance or memorial to our G6vernment on e sub ject.—Captain GRANT left Jamaica the 31st of cto- Pber ; of course he brings no intelligence but wh t is already known. - -Admiral GOODALL still insists that the affairs of his patron, CIIRISTOPIIE, are not in that desperate state in which they are represented by the English papers, and inveighs strongly against their misrepresentations. He says s CHRISTOPHE would long since have been in possession of the whole Island, but for treachery ; and that his ultimate success, even now, is by no means uncertain. Captain G. appears an enterprising, intelligent man, and conversed freely on the present state of our own and the enemy's pos. sessions in the West Indies.—His sable Majesty, it seems, is quite enraged at our breach of good faith, as he understood himself to be perfectly at peace with the English, whose friendship and good•wili he was solicitous to retain. The Cora brig, Captain MASON, laden with proi. visions, bound from Dublin to London, was captured on Sunday last by the Clarisse French lugger priva- teer, and recaptured the Tuesday following, by the, ENTREPRENANTE cutter, Lieutenant WILLIAMS, Idle sent her for this port, where she arrived on Thursday, evening.. The above privateer sailed front St. Mal* on FridaT se'nnight, the WM ult. in company six other lugger privateers, and two large brigs, the latter. mounting twenty guns each, The Frenchmen taken hi the Cora have been lodged in Mill-prison : they say, that the luggers are intended to cruize in our Channel, and the brigs off Cape Fumisterre. I am sorry to state that the enemy's privateers, in the Channel, have latterly been Very successful--four vessels, traders, between London•and the Land's End, have been taken by them within these ten days ; and the Orpheus, from Liverpool ; and Good Intent, from PortsmoUth, which arrived on Friday, had a very narrow escape, being chaced several lenses b y an enemy's cruizer, which would have captured them, had not another vessel hove in sight, which the e nemy mistaking for one of our sun brigs, sheered off across the Channel. The EMERALD, of $6 guns, Captain MAITLAND, is ordered to Hamoaze to refit. The AMETHYST, Captain SEYMOUR, is expected to sail towards the end of the ensuing week ; every e - ertion has been made by the officers . of the Doc?: - yard in repairing the tiamage she sustained in the late gallant action. Her prise, also, h. Thetis, is in forward state of equipment. PORTSMOUTH, JANUARY 2. Arrived. his Majesty's brig Comairmart, with convoy frons the Downs, among them several trans ports with troops for foreign service t also wired his Majesty's ship PRIMROSE, Spin a ElRithe Orion, IRELAND, from Cadiz for London, in - ten days,— The BRILLIANT frigate, Captain SMYTH, is uncler orders to join Sir SIDNEY SMITH, at Rio lanei-o Th e Ivorroma, captain LAMBERT, OR her arrival here from Sheerness, is to sail for the Mediterran ean . Th e lan, Captain TowErt, will sail is a few days for - Coronae and Lisbon. Captain HANDED has corn., missioned the VICTORIOUS, of 74, at this port. The Won. Captain Durocax is appointed„to the LEONIDAS ; Captain HOPE, to the MERcurtr. The Coromandel store-ship, commanded by Mr. PRITCHARD, in this hdrbour, is destined for the Capeof Good Hope and New South Wales. 'The LAVINIA, Lord W. STuArr, arrived here on Siturday evening froM Lisbon : site sailed iwo days after the Ulm itmrun.—Colonetla,Excx landed yes. terday, near Lymington, with the dispatches which she brought, and set off for London. They are not of great impqrtance. Major MILLER, of the 6th Re giment, landed here this evening... He' lift General ABSTRUTHER, at. Almied4,- on the Ist instant, and does not bring so late intelligence froni Spain, as that brought by Mr. LEE, who came home in the Ur, DAUNTED. We learn by thelavinia, that the squa t dron which was at L'grient, has put -- to sea. La LOIRE, Capt. &ROMBERG, fell in with one of the Dais of-battle-ships, and gallantly engaged'her twenty nutes. La LOIRE had three men killed and a pettt , officer wounded. She was steering W. S. W. and had lost her fore and main-top-masts. The Lallkia,-; recaptured, on Thursday, the Lady Ann; from New foundland, otie of the AVENOER'S convoy, which been taken by the French privateer Speculator, cf SL Maloes. She had only made. another captite,"i Guernsey brig, laden with cyder; bound to BMW. DEAL, JANTARY 4. - Arrived the KANGAROO sloop - from a . Cite of Feehirnp ; TROSPZUn sloop from aovoitialiDiePPes and brought in with her four large fish* boats be. longing to . that place, having on•hatieh Altogether, 46 men ; TIIIIASHER gun brig from a assize off Boulogne ; Pomm' gun brig from Dover Pier, and sailed through for Sheerness. Sailed the BUSTARD And Ctocus sloops on a cruize off Boulogne ; STARI aro gun brig for Yarmouth ; ZenvatA sloop on a , Gruite off Calais. Arrived the INDIGNANT gun brig from a cruize off Boulogne. Sailed the Poatous gun brig on a cruize off Ostend.—ln the Downs as yes. terday, with the alteration as above. Y4R2•407111, JANIZARY 2.. An-inzd from the Baltic, the Kim, t 4 gun, Cap. taro Luittx.--tailed the CitANTECLZER and BRISZIgf sloops of wati.Retnain the Roams, Viee..Admiral DOUGLAS ; BiturtoPnobr, Hon;Acuital GARDNER ; PRINCESS CAROLINE, Asetacsa, STATELY, Mosconi% CALYPSO, EGICRIA, HAVOC, SAFEGUARD, LoccWki and CaNsoa......lVind E. • FROM LLOYD'S LIST ! QIATRUND J ,_ JAL 2.—Passd by the Fly, Aspinall, from the Or Good Hope ; Mercurius , Guist ; James sod Mirgaret, M ; Douro Reid • Re li ance, Green; Hope, Geary; Dimas Theme; Galen, Stellialart • Albion, Algrin ; and the Courier, Olsteia, from GrAtenbergb:—Sailed the Jolly Batchelor, Van, for Corunna • Voanimity, Kent, for Mideira Dar" wood, for M alta; and the Louis, Allard, for Cork. The Saotissimo Sacramento, De Souza ; and the Prince's of Piers, Periero, from Pernambuco, for London, out 67 days. were spoke with on the 26th ult. in lat. 45.47. N. long. 9.47. W. by the Lavinia, steering for Corunna or Ferrol, In consequence of being leaky, their masts sprung, and the wind at N. E. Lord Stuart, Captain of the Lavinia, states, that they were under c..t) . sail, and not taking :Advantage of thewind they ought to hav4.4lol:e • The Marrnydos, Clark ; and the Alexander, Eattleman, North Shields, in ballast, are on shore near Blackeney. The James, of Sunderland, is lost near the same place. The Neptune, Story, of North Shields, is on shore on the coast of Lincolnshire. The Ross, and the Atlantic, from Jamaica, for London, cap, tired and carried into Spain, are given up by a compromise of par cent. Ills Lady Anne, Cats, from Newfoun dl and, for Poole; and Guernsey brig, with cyder, for Guernsey, have been captured by a French privateer ; the fopmer is recaptured by the Lavinia. The William, Carleton, from Gottenburgh, tor Alicant, is lost near Cape Wrath. Crew saved. The Nancy, Inglatt, from Malta, for Landon, was totally lost on the Ist of November, on the coast of Gallicia—,Cattaia and crew were drowned. • - • DIED. An ewes, ire andentand, wired in town yesterday. from Path. 'Wag the death of Lora Gardner, "rho had been in a -kr city for some tune for the bent& of heal& His Los us was in Wl6O year. LQNDON Printrd and Published by LEVEL KEN ' terbery Place, Lambeth, at the ST A a-O rrics , N o . 1. ItTillt Irtiehhed also at the SseaChretce, Temple r ar-