Star. — London, England, 1805-12-26 00:00:00

AMERICA. NEW YORK, NOV. 2T. The bri g Franklin touched at M.d•Ara on her pat. tRe from Gibraltar : a Nita fleet of 160 fail, in reling 15 veffeli of war, of which three were of the , (Ailed from Madeira on the 14th Llt.iitember, to Southward. General Moar2u, it fail, will attend the review the troops, in this c ity, on the 2 5th infant. M4dame JEROME WlN:irate-re and child, Mrs. Au sasool, Mrs. EDE, and Mr. ItOlitilT PATTERSON, ar pved at Baltimore, on Wednefd.ty lid, in the brig gat s from London. The 1-IPn. Rost cr R. Livia srom, late Minifler of he United S:ates at the French Court, attired in Vtralhingtc n on Monday lait. It is :aid, in the Baltimore Federal Gazette, received in Saturday morning, that another report of a decla ration of war, Ly Spain, has been received from the Merinsid, fpoken with at fea on the 28th ult. Her Intelligence is faid - to be feveral days later than even that received by Mr. SRIPWITH. The continual depredations upon our commerce,by French and Spanith cruizers, call aloud for the inter potition of Government. Scarcely a Jingle velTel, let ber deltination be what it may, that falls in with a French or Spann privateer, efcapes without being captured or plundered. Letters by the Hannah, from New Orleans, arc to the 2oth ult. ; they continue to (late feveral occur sences which lead to a fuppofition, that a Rate of tran quillity cannot be long maintained. The Marquis de Cass*. Ca evo had left New Orleans for Nachitoche, which occafinned various conjectures. It was very onfidently afferted, that a very confiderable body ofl leavalry had arrived on the Wellern frontier, either with a view of ctoffing thence to the Florida', or to remain there ready fur any fudden emergency. The igate Pomona had arrived at Penfacola, and landed stoo men. Thefe circumaances, it is added, very na ; wally awaken in us (Iron apprebenfions of the con tinuance of peace. We underliand the United States frigate, Congrefs, Captain Decavue, in confequence of orders from the Secretary of the Navy, has returned to Hampton Roads. Orders. we are told, are lodged for the other Commanders of the United States thips of war is remain in Hampton Roads, and not to proceed up to Wafhington as origioally intended. It is to be in ferred from there cireumnances, that there is an ex ',citation that th:fs: ihips will be wanted for immedi ate ftrvice. The Tunifiaa Ambaffador, and his fuite, proceeded to Wafhington in a packet. Trig as our paper was putting to pres, we were informed, from undoubted authority, that the Con. grefs'frigate is ordered out upon a cruile immediate. ly. 'Some orders, it is alto Rated, arc fent to Capt. STIWART, of the Conflellation.—( Nor. L'4.) Yetteroav, came up from the Congrefs frigate, in Hampton Roads, his Excellency Sir Sint SOLYMAN Mct.susr.r, Ambaffador from the Bey of Tunis to the United States, attended by two of his Secretaries.— They viii:ed Fort Netfon on their way up, by which they were fainted upon landing. Afterwards they proceeded to town, and dined with a fele& party, at Bainbridge's Hotel, accompanied alto by Captain DECATUR, and feveral of his officers. In the evening, the Mayor, and feveral refpeitable gentlemen of the town, vifited the Ambaffador, to whom they were prelented by Captain Dacerua ; and this morning, accompanied by his two &Cre te:les, he returned the silks to the Mayor and (date other gentlemen. We do not know when they leave town, but underfland they only wait for so fair wind to proceed in the frigate to Wafhington. The no velty of their appearance, and their magnificent COJI iLiff2C, in the true Turkilh Rile, attratled more atten tion than comported with good' breeding • they did not, however, appear difpleafed, but teemed to attri bute it to a right caufe. The Ambaffador appears turned of fifty years of age, of a grave, dignified de portment. By the arrival of the Swift, yeflerday morning, from the Havannah, we are informed, that Moray before her failing, a frigate with Soo troops on board, had been fent over to Penfacola ; and that the fchoo. nor Letitia, FRANKLIN, of this port, captured by a Spanifh privateer, on her voyage to New Orleans, had arrived there, and no proceedings bad been adopted, in confequence of the captain of the priva teer being at Mariel. The Intendant, however, had fent for him, and it was mated her cafe would be immediately confidered. No pretext is affigned for the capture. It was believed at Havannah, that the would be liberated, but not without long detention and ferious lof..—(Phil. True Jul.) We have the pleafure to announce the arrival of General EATON (lays The Norfolk Ledger ;) he came paffenger in the Franklin, from Gibraltar. General EATON landed at Hampton yelterday, and proceed ed this morning to Wafhington. CURIOUS RELics.—Near the Great Mad, on the well branch of the Sufquehannah, there has lately turn difcovered a depofitory for the dead, confining or feveral lengths of humafl body ; the hole is in a rc•ck, which projeas from near the top of an hill, to. watde the tooth well, fo as to have a hot expofure during the fummer feafon, and a dry fituation at aU times. The contents of thcfe chambers have gone nearly to decal, excepting only one pair of feet and leg.. and the upper part of the head; the fkin, hair, nails, colour, and natural appearance of theft, are in a good Rate of prefervation. So hard and entirely diaated of moitture ; as to be eafily fecured from change by the hand of time. They have been for itarded to a Gentleman at George town, Potomac, and are foppofed to be the remains of a young Indian (tousle, of lime of the Pafpages, whole family had depofited her there with much care and attention.— fler apartment was finnifhed with fuitable trinkets, shanges of clothes, and srafs kettles, for a long jour. nay ; her feet were in two pair of moquefons, one new; the other probably the laR the had worn. The °Aden white inhabitants these have no recol lection of any Indian or other account of loch burial. Only one of the above mentioned legs, with its foot and motlefons, part of the clothes and tome trinkets, were rent to this place. We have Peen them in the Ili , of the Rev. 1). Muir, at the Columbian , the gentleman to whom they were fent. deferip , ion we have extrated from .714 spears to be petty corree. iretervations of the human body, without On ;ri a art, are hut uh‘t,tomuti in the Eaßern Continent ; but k is believeJ, that this is one of the fitfi of the kind that has been difcovercd in this coun try. A more complete account of the depofitory and its contents. will probably be given in a Wort timc. —( WO. Fed.) E4Bl INDIES. lITRACT OF A LATTIA Timm BURTPOOR, YEBRU• ART, 22, 1805. "I have witneffet a fcene of warfare, beyond my expeaatien fevere and fatal.—At daylight on the loth init. the enemy made a general attack upon all our batteries and trenches, and killed and wounded a great number; hut as there were near Toe Euro. peens in them, and two or three battalions of lea pays, they were repulfed with great lots; at three o'clock on the fame day the ftorming party advanced to the bread), but filch a determined oppofition was made by the enemy, and the breach itfelf Co difficult, that after an hour's exertion the whole fell back. On the 211 t the whale of the Europeans in camp volun teered to Rorm again, and declared they would eithet die in the breach, or get polfeflion of the height, four of the belt battalions accompanied them, and marched from camp at about half pall two o'clock : the Europeans and Seapoys rushed on with she moll determined bravery • and, although many at a time were blown up by the enemy, without the pability of revenging themfelves, the reft rutted on, and were blown away from guns, fpeared, (hot, and logs of wood thrown down upon them, in short, as fart as they advanced they were deftroyed by the enemy. They continued in this fituation two hours, and nei ther our Europeans or Seapoys Teemed inclined to withdraw ; at laft the whole furviving plunged back into the ditch, falling on each others [words and bay onets, and only few reached the battery with found heads ; upwards of t zoo men were killed and wound ed in thefe attacks. Since the army left Agra 18 officers have been killed, and above too wounded. The officers killed in the laR are as follows : Captain Stewart, of the 75th ; Major Menzies, A. D. C. Capt. Corfield, 76th ; Lieut. Templeton, ditto; Lieutenant Lumfdaine, 9 N. I. Lieut. Ker, Bth ; Lieut. Hartley.; 15th ;Lieut. Gowan, Artillery ; Lieut. Chance, Eu-; ropean Regiment ; Lieut. Hamilton, ditto ; and Capt. Hawkes, 2 N. L are mortally wounded, aid two Bombay Officers killed ; the wounded are very numerous, amongil whom I know Capt. Nelly, Ma jor Hammond, Major Radcliffe, Captains Ker, Du rant, &c. Etc. One column, which was Cent to the right of the ftorming party, drove the enemy from a ltrong fortification, and took 13 guns. " We withdrew all our gum and troops laft night from the batteries and trenches, and the enemy tri umph over us ; however, I truft we (hall yet get at them, as I know General Lake's fpii it. and feel con fident we (hall attack them in tome other point ; they are a molt refolute fet of fellows, and when they attacked our trench, every cut they made at the Eu ropeans took off an arm, or a head, at a ftroke.— Scindia has taken the field, and we Stall Coon have him here. " In the return of eafualties in the army on the aoth and at ft, there amears as follows Officers killed and wounded, 56; privates 2300." LONDON. THURSDAY, DECEMB E R s 6. ST. ST PH ex —Holiday. Yetlerday, jull after our paper was put to prefs, the following Official communication was feat to Lloyd's : " ADMIRALTY OFFICE, DEC. zs, 18os. gg On the 13th innant his Majelly's Ships Ace " stunt and Loses fell in with a fquadron of the " enemy's Ships, anfwering the defcription of that " which failed from Rochefort, in lat. 4a. long. t 3 ; " and again on the 16th init. in lat. 4+ 16. long. gg 12. 30, then !landing E. S. E. fuppofed for Fer. rol, with the wind at N. E.—The Louts cond o nued to watch them, and the ALcMEntt returned gg to communicate the intelligence. There were - ... " not any prizes in company, excepting the CAL. " C UTTA." The following letters, containing other particulars, reached us this morning : 0 Plymouth, Deemer $4. 66 By the ALcrestts, of 3: gun!, arrived here, I have learnt that, Come days fence, whilft cruizing in company with la Lola', of 4o guns, they perceived ►en fail of veffels--afterwards clearly defcried them to be fix fail of the line, two frigates, and two brigs ; one of them under jury mans (viz. the Calcutta) : the Loma was left to watch them. Admiral Coeu r/ALLIS, in the Vti.t.a az PARIS (on the arrival of the A1.04E110 immediately got-under weigh, and is gone in chace of them with fome other men of war. 66 Arrrived the American brig Peggy, WILLIAM Janos matter, from Cadiz, with wine, put in here for orders. The Mater reports, that on the tgth inn. in lat. 47. ts. long. to. 30. he taw feventeen I fail of (hips, two of which (that were In the rear) appeared to be cwo•deck'd (hips, under a pre's of fail; he afterwards (poke a brig, No. It, which informed him, that on that morning, when in company with a convoy of fifteen fail, bound to the Welt Indies, they were attacked by four enemy's line of battle (hips, and that they had been obliged to difperfe for their fafety." ♦NOTHE% LETTER, SAKE DATE. " The ALCMENE frigate has brought the following important intelligence : That on the t rth inft. the Lorca in company, (be fell in with the Rochefort Squadron, about which there have been fo many conjeaures, confifting of le Majefteaux of 130 guns, le Jemappe of $4 guns, three yes, the Calcutta 34, three frigates, (4eb) and two brigs. Our (hips kept company with the enemy till the 16th ha though chafed feveral times, when the A, ICI4 AND punted for England, firft (haping a coutfe for 13reft. Nct finding Adtlek Al CORIMALLIII on that Ration, Sae nude for this port. where the arrived late lalt night. 4 , The ALC 14 EN It left the French Squadron in lat. 44. 16 . long to. 30. beating againa a foul wind, for Rochefort ; the Louts dodging them. " Admiral CORNWALLIS will be after them inftant ly. I hear he grumbles much at the fquadron getting out from Brett, which fell in with the Ocean cartel on the t6th, in lat. 47. 30. long. 7°.—He can hardly believe it poftible they are from Breit, but the Mailer left on board has offered to make affidavit of the fa& of the fquadron which boarded the Ocean, not being the fame the Atcrisna faw. 41 Indeed the difference of three degrees of latitude, and three of longitude, appears to juftify the idea of the enemy's flips being two diftina fquadrons. P. S. Admiral Coen WAL LIS is under weigh, and will probably take with him the (hips from Torbay." From the falls Rated in the above letters, there can be little doubt a fquadron has efeaped from Breit. Their deftination is fuppofed to be the Weft Indies, as Tome of the people reported who boarded the Cartel and the Tiber. Nothing, however, is known certainly refpefking their deftination, and hopes are entertained that Admiral Coe awa 1. cis will be fortunate enough to fall in with them. _ _ _ The Rochefort finadron is by this time probably in port. Letters from Holland to the 2 ift have, it is re• ported, reached town ; but they bring nothing in addition to what was publithed in the Hague State Gate& on the 13th. Letters from Berlin of the 1 tth intl. repeat the in telligence we have already had. They [late that a courier had, on that day, arrived from M. Rum. wirz, with the accounts of the battles on the sd, 3d, and 4th ; that the Ruffian infantry fufiained a defeat on the ad, occafioned by the um:l:ldled open ing of a /stalked battery of t 8 pieces of cannon, by which about is s ooo of the Ruffians were in a fhort time cut off ; that on the 4th, General KIITUsow, and the Princes PANORAMIC and Latotattrrsts turned the right wing of the French, and gained a complete viCtory ; and that the Ruffians retook the cannon, and liberated the prifoners they had loft on the ad. We are run, however, without any official accounts of the proceedings of the Allied Army; for the above can only be confidered in the light of any other pri vate letter, though the news is laid to ref on dif patches from M. Haucwivz.—The two Hamburgh 'Mails now due, and which are hour), mated, will probably bring the details that are fo ansioufly looked for. Yefterday being Chriftmas Day, their Maj arms and the Nacelles heard divine fervice, and the Korn, as dual. received the facrament. - The Queen's Houfe in Greenwich Park, commonly known by the appellation of Lady Catherine Pd• ham's, is purchafed by Government, who mean to convert it into a Naval Academy, upon a plan Come what fimilar to the Military one at Chelfea :—the rights of the Princefs of Way es, as the prefent Ranger,. and thofe of her Highne(e's fuccclFors, have been duly confidered, and arranged. At a General Meeting of the County of Norfolk, at Norwich, on Tuefday fall, it was agreed to eredt a Column, by public fubfcription, to the memory of the heroic Lord Nilson, who was a native of that county. A tranfport, from Dublin to Liverpool, with part of the t 7th regiment of light dragoons (20 men and 31 horfes), put into Whitehaven on Saturday. The following regimental orders were circulated laft week among the Members of the Law Affocia don, by the Hon. Colonel Elazig : a The Lieutenant Colonel having reafon to eve& that the Volunteers of the Metropolis will bi reseed to appear. under -arms, at the Funeral of the late Admiral Lord bletsote,he natters Mullen that the Corps will eagerly embrace the oppornmity of gr afting at that national folemnity. It is, indeed, a kind of public duty, in the Law Afliciation, to be forward in poling the CR ho nours to a man who may be faid to have fallen in defence of the laws of England; the very exitteuce of which inuft'l9: ever de pend upon the fecutity and independence of our country. Jks In dividuals, alto, we cannot but be anxious to dikbarge a debt of gratitude and affection for the benefits we have derived, and the luftre reflected, upon us, as Britilh fulled', tram his glorious fee. vices. Every Member of the Corps, who ran engage to be pre fect, is ditGred to fend his name without delay to the Adjutant. (Signed) " T. ERSAINS." ANNUAL DIAN ilt.TGefday fennight, a great and fumptuous entertainment was given at White naven Cattle, in commemoration of the New Win. nine, and the completion of that wonderful combi nation of mechanic powers, Irdfiatn-Pit (Coal -pit). On Saturday !aft, Lord EARDLIT'S gift of bread and money was diftributed by his Lorelfhip's Steward, to near 200 poor of the parifh of Edda. The butchers about the metropolis made a pond difplay of their Chriftmas beef on Tnefday, and afkeditrineely prices for it. One in Long acre expiated for Earle part of the Duke of Bedford's prize (Imp, and for every inch of lean you might calculate upon• fir of fat. The tallonspebatullers admired it exceeding ly, and the fervant girls and weir pronounced that there were fome petty tidings about it. In the early part of yefterday afternoon the ftreets were fluent and deferted to a degree, which was fymptomatic of the preparations, within doors, for the elr6pw, both of dinners and of guefis. To this fucceeded the rattle of coaches and the Italie of pe defirians on the way to the different fcenes of adion. —Another period of filence without aftir wards gave notice of awful havock within. The rattling, the rolling, and the reeling homewards followed, till twelve ; but what with 'the fteepleffnefs of over fluffed children, the wrangling of affedionate couples about the manage Tent of trumps and odd tricks, the fending for ApotheearieA to relieve furfeits, and other cufto. Mary accurrences, it was five this morning before the Metropolis had completely Wen into its natural reit. I • l I p pool: irwn • c idemy, th.rt • a • pp St.ch pr i..:43% LORD NELSON. Tuefday a Committee of the Corporation of Lon don, attended by tl.e Remembraneer, waited on the flight Hon. Lord HAMAESSIMY, finally to arrange the ceremonial part to beobferved by the Corporation at large, at the funeral of Lord tilsLson. The Com mittee confined of the following eight Gentlemen:— Deputies& R err, Pr aos R,SirW. Raw LI a 3, Noe NOLL% WADI), GOODSENIZI; Meffrs. Dixon and j. Boaa. At the funeral of Lord Nsi.som, the whole of the morning let vice will take place prior to the burial fervice. The cable that now extends from the top of the Dome in St. Piul's is intended to hang all the Colours of the different Powers taken by the gallant Lord; at the top will be difplayed the &Ili& Flag of the Vi dory, which, on a fignal being given, will be lowered into the grave, with the remains of the ever-to.be-lamented Noble Earl. The carpenter's and undertaker's men are going on faft with the preparations at the Painted Hall in Greenwich Hofpital. The platform upon which the pale are to walk, is now completely 6niffied ; it is divided into two palfages for people, each about eight feet wide ; part of the wells are bun with black, a canopy of black velvet, with black fringe, is put up at the wellern extremity of the ball, where the body is to be placed. The public is to enter at the gate next the River, and go out at the weftern gate. The public are to be admitted gratis into the hall on this occafton, though at other times 3d. is paid by every perfon who fees it, and this money is appropriated to the tile of the charity. If no nnforefeen accident oc curs, and no unexpefted delay takes place, the lying in Rate at that place, will be on the sth, 6th, and 7th of next month ; and on the Bth, there will be the proceffion by water to Whitehall, and if the public !hall not be extremely anxious to ke the Rate at the Admiralty, the body will be removed the next day to St. Paul's, where the tail folemnity will take place ; but it is Not fuppofed at prefent that at all events the burial will be law than the loth of next month. The order of the Rate at Greenwich, at the Admi ralty, and the form of public interment, will be nearly the fame as that which was obfkrved at the time of the death of the Earl of Sandwich. The lying is Rate at the Admiralty for more than one night will. if poffible, be difpenfed with, as the keeping a public office of its importance might materially impede the bufinefs of the public. The Hon. General Gomm*, the Earl of BocetaG. ANISHIRI, and the Earl of Sprawl, are the purebafers of the Cenral old honfes leading from Hamilton ftreet to Hyde Part Terrace, which are immediately to come down, and, in their place, will be built three elegant large manfions, in a parallel line with the Terrace. The pntchafe money for the freehold, is laid to be Hoed. Sunday night three french prifonets efcaped From a prifon (hip in Hamoase, and took a boat dole ai fide, but the gale upfet it; two were drownedin the other fwam along-fide, and was taken on board almoft dead with fright. The ambitions views of Botta:airs are thus dif chafed in a pretended letter from Vienna, dated the sad of November, which appeared in the Paris Paper, called the Paliciik, a demi-official Journal, On the loth inftant. . The writer lays-- 0 I with to fee Auftria lofe the Tyrol and Saltabonrg,in favour of Bavaria, which fbould be crated into a kingdom ; the title of Emperor of Germany fupprefed ; Narocaom made Emperor of the Weft; a new kingdom formed of Turkey in Europe ; and the French c Spaniards, Ger mans, Italians, and Greeks, united under one Chief; iter prevent the Scythians from ever piling the Dar danelles, and traverfing Poland. This Chief of the Weft will be mailer of the commerce of the Eat ; and lila% when be choofes, make a jourpey to the Gangeo M. MAIM, v celebrated aaor of the Comic Opera at Paris, has lately gained a caufe againft Mademoi (elle SIMONET, his firit wife. M. MARTIN was fr.. perated from her in the year 4. by an as of di. vorce, palled by mutual confent. Marlensolfelle &mow sr claimed a penfion of three thonfand francs. The Tribunal, in the 4ta inflame, adjudged, that he ffionld pay woo francs. On appeal, Mademoifelle &mower's demand was difmiffed, on the ground that the ezercife of her talents was, in her e rofefEon, fuf ficient to procure her a maintenance. At Peafemore, near Newbury, the baptifm of * child was attended with the following fingular cumftance--Joran Janis, the fon of J s s and Et 4- *aims MiTCHIL, was baptifed on the fame day on which bis father came of age. The child had the fame godfathers and the fame godmothers as his fa thee, what were alto bis great-grandfathers and great srandmothers. On Wednefday IA was killed. at the Earl of. Carlitles Farm, Cattle Howard, a molt extraordinary pig, of which the following is an accurate defcription as to weight and fize ; he had only been fed twelve months; and had nothing but common ford given to him :—Wight four quarters 6;ft. 4ab. offal, &c. h eft. Total Soft. 41b. 141 b. to the done ; length 8 feet. girth 7 feet, height 4 feet. As fume workmen were digging, about a fortnight ago, in the Cellars of the Crots Keys, Gracechurch ftreet, for the purpofe of enlarging them, they found it neceffary to break through a wall which obarnaed their progrefs, when they di - covered a vault, which. on entering, they found contained a quantity of hu man bones, and a coffin, with the skeleton of a man in it. A dagger, of an ancient and curious form, was lying by the fide of him, which is in the pOlief fion of a refpeaable wine and brandy merchant, in the neighbourhood of High-flreet, Lambeth. It is conje&ured, that theft relics mull have lain buried fqr Tome ceaturie' pall, and that the cellars joined the vaults of a monaflery Ludt on the fpot in former times. Yefterday morning, about one o'clock, Skinner, a conftable, apprehended a man in his_ apartments in Bride-lane, Fket 4treet, charged on fufpicion of has. ing committed forgeries on the Banks at Sheffield and Rotherham, in York(hire. He was fafely lodged in the Poultry Compter. Early yefterday morning a milkman, of the name of Ltoaava, was attacked by three men on Finchli Common, who knocked him down, and robbed him of 4s. (scl. and fpilled his milk, becaufe be bad no more money.