Star. — London, England, 1805-07-02 00:00:00

o r ler:Ail-4e we ban of Use great itraith of the Enemy lately arrived in thek Seas, witted to the mo lt awkward drcuniftance of doe being no editing Houle of Affembly,! it becomes necelTary to the esiftence of the Colony that di - calve and vigorous =dons ihoald be inflantly adopted: I do by and with the advice and content of his Majefty's Coun cil, make ufe of the power and authority vetted in me by his Ms wty, and for loch cafes provided, And I hereby declare this If nd to be under Mutt.] Law from the morning of tomorrow, till the Evening Gun firirg on 9 uefday next ; bedariog, during the above (pace of time, that this Mind is under and liable to the laws and ufages in fimPar cafes cultoinary in his Majdty's Cob- ; of which all concerned will take due notice. tinder pain of ire ufual penalties ; and for no lorger a fpace of time is Martial Law, on any pretence to prevail, utile(' front the continuance of the cireumftaucca abbve, I flail fee fit to renew this my ProciX tuat:f4i. Gwen under my Hand and Seal at Arms in Council Chamber at the Town Hall this x Bth day of May, tabs, and is the Emir fifth year of his Majelty's Reign. GOD SAVE TIM KINO By His E =Unity's Command, J i o s. D. Ho SIANDS, Dels. Sec. MARTIAL LAW CONTINUFD. RtitsAnocs—BOß Excellepey the Doiernii, Rt. &c. Ett: SEAPORTH. NVlaereas the circumilancei of danger attending this Bland, which caufca me to Me my Pinelsolation of the 18th loft. arc fo far from being dimlnifhed, that they are rather increakd : • I do hereby, by and with the advice aad content of his Majefty's Council, continue my above-mendoood Proclamation in full force until gun-fire on Saturday evening next : And it is hereby conti hued in full force, of whith all cohcernett ails required to take notice. Circa I:nder my hand and Peal at arm, in Council Chamber, at thi; atft day of May, 2805, and in the asth year of hi, bl..jcfly's ReiZn. GOD SAVE THIC KING! By hi: ExcAlency's Command, Jos. D. HUSBANDS, Dep. Sec. Private letters from St. Lucie, dated the 15th of Nay, (leo thatthe inhabitants of St. Lucie were in the higheit fpirits, and had great confidence in theit power to repel any attack which might be made upon them by the enemy, notwithaanding the amount of their force, of which they were apprifed t they write, 44 Should the enemy attempt a landing, it may col the inane a number of lives, but we are confident as to the refult. The works are undergoing a revifion, and nothing is hitended to be left undone, which can peilibly add to the defence of the Hand." Accounts froiu St. Lucia ( fate, that on the acth of Nay, the French for ce were at Tingle anchor in tart Royal, Martinique, except four frigates which week fent to cruize among the !fiends. The troops *ore reported to be -very unhealthy. • The following StateMent Of the Force under Ad miral Lord Nexson, and of the Ships of War on the Jam tica and Leeward IllandStations, Mull, at this : l anai:re, be partictilarly gratifying to our Readeti. We think it proper to obierVe, hoivevet, that Lord Ilst.sow has one (hip of the line, foals Ity three, kat enumerated in this lilt : LORD NILSON ? S FLIRT. Vice-Atkn. LdVireceipt Nat- Ififtory • • Ito SON, Rear-Adm. 4 MDR ' It AT ' CDPe. T.M.Hitibte tonnegai • - to Cattal o I.e Tigre • RO HALLowsit. Execlleht - - 74 TUIRON . - gi rILLV ZIT. 10. Crinquaor Belleife - 74 11,414 boo) Spencer • - 74 Storrbao. Superb . • 74 SLATS. Switture - - 74 ---- Amagon • - gi P La Decade • - Si RU TTTTT mtg. Martin - - r 8 SAVA= SIMI UNDER 1113141RAiS DAURES AND DOCIIRANZ, IN +DR WIRT INDIC& ~Z Rear-Admiral Cocritata, "S Captain Tom N. 9 8 Di COURCY. 74 MAXWELL. 74 ........—.. 74 Coy..- 74 Sir F. LA FORM 74 Prat. 74 I Rear-Admiral DAUER& Cap IdU ./..:. 74 EVANS. 64 NEWMAN. With i 4 Or is Frigates. Nortlihmbcriand St. George • centaur • Hercule knolt I.e Spartlate Atlas Thefeus Vanguard Veteran It will be fcen by the foregoing lift, that on the ar rival of Lord NELSON, our naval fore in the Well Indies would be much fuperior to that of the enemy. We are happy in being able to (late that letters were yeflerday received at the Admiralty from Lord /Nit limo, living, that he knew the deffination of the enemy, and that he was (leering after them with every fail that he could fet. He was behind them only three weeks in point of time ; but confidering their deviations, we apprehend that hit Lorcilhip was more clofely on their track than may generally be fuppo& ed. If the enemy Would proceed to Jamaica, there is uo doubt but that his Lordthip will be there in time to fipesistled their operations. The Britifh fleet will then amount to twenty fail of the line ; a force not only fufficient to check the efforts of the enemy, but to convoy a part of his fleet, at lean, in fifety to an Englith harbour I—Another fource of confolation is foand in the ftatement, that the homeward•bound Jamaica fleet, cotfilling of izo fail, had cleared the le.:4lward Nage on the 17th of May, and was therefore flllt of all reach of the holt& fquadrons. The Op Barbadoes, Capt. Lswrs, arrived at Li verpool, f a iled from Barbadoes oh the lfith of May, with difpateh•• Cut Government by her the follow. mg intelligence has alto been received : Extraa of a letter from Barbadoes, dated May as, By a fchooner from Dominica, we are informed that General. Pasvosr expelts another vifit. Gene ral Merman° is gone to his Government at Gre nada. Our force in thofa teas at prefent fit for fervice are the STAATIATI, two frigates, and two {loops of war. We are all ready to receive them here when they cf me. My Ration is at Ormand's Battery where • The Eledion :ors new ATembii was not to come on Mao b of May. 'this is written on i 4-ponnJer. Rations , were iffued yeaercliy for 25,000 Whites and fOcks.— All the loaded (hips are moored in Carlifle Bay, the Am of (hips and companies doing duty." " Admiral COCHRAN& is Rill in purfuit. We have heard nothing of him fince he left this, which is (even weeks ago. I fear for our homeward bound fleets. The veflels at St. Vincent's have gone to Grenada, where they flow themfelves in the Carenage. Ours and the tell of the iflands are in imminent danger, as they bare threatened , s with a vifit. Accounts have been received from Martinique down to the sift, at which time the French fleet remained there, and had not commenced any operations. The Surinam (hips have joined the (hips at Demerara, where the whole are hauled clore in land. They have planted eighty pieces of cannon at Ore mouth of the river, and at the whok of our iflands every exertion is making for , defence." • The MIAMI !loop of war, with the fleet tinder convoy, which failed from Cork on the a3d of March, arrived in the offing of liingfton, Jamaica, on the t tth of May. • t JAMAICA MAIL. A Mail arrived this morning from Jamaica. Our Letters are of the 14th May. At that time they had received no certain accounts of the enemy's fleet. A recaptured American (hip which arrived there on the i Ith May, reported, that on the sth, to the Northward of the Windward paffage, he faw the French fleet, condßing of twelve fail. Fears were in confequence entertained at Kingflon that they were waiting for our convoy which failed from Port An. tonio on the nth of April. From fome fads Rated in the letters that have reached us, we are inclined to think that Jamaica will be indebted for a cnnfiderable portion of its feel:- rity, to the alarm occafioned by the vifit lately paid to thefe Iflatids by the Rochefort Squadron. One of the letters fpeaking of the tueafures taken at that time, Pays: a's We had martial law, and during the time the alarm lifted, were getting every thing in readiness to receive the enemy, but since martial law has ceifed, every thing has again gone to Beep. On the late alartis, when the Rate of the works at Fort Royal were examined, the greater part of the guns and car• riages were found unfit for fervice, and there was only one rammer and fpunge in the fort. Had the French made en attack upon us in the Rate we then were; they might have dallied into Port Royal. and taken the town without mach trouble. Our forts are Rill in a ruinous Rate, but thank Gov we have now plenty of arms and ammunition, between five and fix thoufand regulars, and about to,ooo militia. Should the Toulon and Cadiz fleets now come here, they will make little or no impreffion. They may dearo; fome property, and caufe much alarm, but it would require at !eat a force of 25,000 men, to give them any chance of fuccefs. Were our forts in a proper Rate of defence ) we might defy any force whatever." The Msacuar, belonging to Sir JOHN Osiss's knadron, arrived at Jamaica on the gth May, in 29 days from Sir Jolla ORM, The Hamilton packet was to leave Jamaica for England on the tab. 41•111•11. LISBON MAIL. A Mail has attired from Lifbon. The letters by this conveyance come down to the gth nit. It is Rated in letters from Madrid, of the 28th of May, that Mr. Mow sot, the American Ambaffador, had quitted that city two days before, in confetinence of the ntgotiation between the American and Spanifh Governments relating to the confirthation of the eel: fion of Louifiana, having been entirely broken off. This unexpeled termination of the treaty pending was fuppofed, from motives which are not explained, to have been brought about at the inftigation of the French Government. We believe there is little doubt of the general feet, as the intelligence is Eohfirmed by letters from Lifbon. It does not appear that the blockade of Cadiz has been refumed. Letters from that port, bf the 28th May, (peak pofitively as to that point, and remark, at the fame time, upon the inutility of fuch a tnea• Pure, there not being a fingle (hip of war In that harbour. This intelligence is not in unifots with the pompous accounts inferted in molt of the Continental papers, of the formidable preparations in the ports of Spain, which mention that ten fail of the line were in readincfs at Cadiz. The letters from Gibraltar are to the aath of May. They Rate that there was not the fmaltell profpc of their being molelled by the Spaniards," and that no apprehention whatever was entertained of the refult of any attack the enemy could make upon that garrifon. The following Proclamation bad been lately iffued PROCLAMATION. a Head Q_uartera, Gibrakat. May at, 1801. • Whereas his Excellency the Han. Lieotenant Governor has had indmatioo firm Ms Excellency General CAITANOS, that it has been thought needfary, for the better feentity of the health of Spain, to prohibit any pedal from this garrifoo to pafs by land into the lines, And that a qoaraittine will be put on an thole who may have °coition to go Into Spde by water ; alto that no woollen or cotton goods will be admitted; which regulations are to cow. mem vet the left day of June next. • His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor therefore thinks it oeceffary to make this publicly known, that all thole whom it may ace, may govern tivet aecordlogly, • By Ceannuid, (Signed) • Timex* TODD, Secretary," N4UTJCAL INTELLIGINCL • . . • • • . FALMOUTH, jUNI 29. —The Dana brig Fortitude, Hannascisou, arrived from Barcelona on the 27th, with wine, brandy, ice. and is gone into quarantine, the having been boarded by a boat's crew from his. Majelly's 114 TROMP, (guard (tip) ; that Intel is alfo gone into quarantine ; as is likewife the Diana packet, Sr. Ausyw, which arrived on the 37th with mails from Lifbon. The Diana left lying at Laos the Prince of Vales packet, TODD, and a fleet of Merchant rads from England, which arrived there on the 6th June. Sailed this day, the Walfingham packet, RODARTI, for Litton, with mails of the 18th and 2 sth inilant.—Wind N. E. PORTSMOUTH, JULY t.—Yeßerday artived the Mar hoop, Captain Bitowuatoo, from the Downs. —This morning arrived the Cuirrosie, of 44 guns, Captain ADAM, from off Havre; MISCABILA, of 16 guns, Captain DUFF, from off Dieppe and the Lo c usr gun velfel fl.om a cruize. On Saturday a court martial was held on Mr. Fumes, boatfwain, and Mr. Stieuiwooo, carpenter, of the Turns, for drunken nefs and negled of duty ; when they were both fen tenced to be difmiffed from their &nations, and terve as cotnmon men—Sir Isaac Coyne, Bart. Prefident. Sailed the Vesuvius bomb, with a convoy for the DoWns. Half pall Seven.—The MzectlßY frigate, which was fent by Sir Jona Osos to the Weft Indies, with intelligence of the combined fquadron having efcap. ed, is juft arrived from Jamaica in (even weeks pal rage; with a mail, for which the mail coach has been detained to take it to London. She brings informa tion that the Toulon fleet has arrived at Martinique. Dam., Juts t.-Arrived the Royalift, Ills, Of bourn, and Alert tranfports from Leith ; alfo feveral gen.brigs, Ike. from off the French coati. Came down from Sheernefs the Vut.r us' !loop of war and BLAZtIi gun•brig, with thirteen fail of fire.veffels under convoy, all of which remain in the Downs with the (hips as per laft.—Wind Southerly. YAIMOUTMJULY t.—The Cautzr.4. (loop of war, Captain Haycock, has fent in here a large boy laden with wine, which was brought off the beach by the boats of that veirel. Tb avoid being taken, the crew ran the hoy on the ehenty's beach, under a battery, which kept up i► conflant fire on them, but happily did them no hurt. The Musoarrro floop of war has fent in here a fmtggling lugger, which flue captured off the Cocket (on the York(hire eoaft) ; the lugger had on board 334 ankers of Geneva, and 24 ankers brandy. —Put in here wind bound, on her palfage to Gotten. burgh with mails, the Auckland packet, Captain THOMAS Balms. Ships in the Roads as per laft.— Wind N.E. 1 4 4sstwa, Mar t I.—The American fquadron, confifting of thirteen veffels, tying here, and off Sy racufe, will fhortly fail on another expedition againft Tripoli. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. Aaitann.—At Liverpool, Refo!laden, Bunker, from New Or leans- Diana; liolbrook,firom Baltimore; and Union, Gold. from Wilmington—At; Dublin, Logan, M'Cennell ; and Joreph, Walker, from Loodon—At Arufterdant, Minerva, Howland, from New York; Wafp, Hanfen • i and Princeffes, Minder, from China—At Llibon, Jenny, Saunders, from Clyde; Eliza, from Lher pool; Albion, and Bon Mu', from Undo:la—At Oporto, Hoopeide, Zeinan; and Loured& Cbriitiara, —, from London—At St. Lucia, Harriet, Everett, from Africa ; and Anna, Crouch, from Liverpool—At Nevrfoundland, Holtman, from Liverpool. Two American :refits, which bad delivered a large quantity of powder to Deffalines, were, on their return to New York, loaded with St. Domini: produce. den:ined by the Cambrian frigate. and fent to Halifax for adjudication: they have been condemned there, on the ground that . St. Deiningo continues to be a colony of France.altimegb the infurgent Blacks hate obtained the fovereighty of pan of It. An NIA Gentleman who has been deialaed in France fince the breaking out of the War, made his gimps from Paris in the month of May, and arrived in London a few days face. He has drawn up a faithful account of the prefent "late of the French people and bf France, under the defpotifm of BottAPAITE, which be is about to publilin and which cannot fail to be read with interett from one end of Great Britain to the other. The Commiffioners of the Vianalling turd have returned from making a fumy at Falmouth, for a proper plate for ftorehonfes at that Pon, to contain faked provaions and bifcuit for his Mayfly's Chips that arrive there : they have been alfo infpeeting the Vidtualling office at Plymouth, the Slaughter houfes at DeviPsToint, and the Brewhoufes at South Down, alt of which are full of times, and in the highelt order. The Bill now before Parliament refpetling the futnre internal regulation of the Cultom•ltonfe is of great im portance to the commercial part of the community. Its tendency is to revife, alter, and amend, an the prefent methods of tranfading Inland's in the Cullom Houle department. All holidays (except Chtittmas Day) are to be abolifhed. No Clerk or Officer will be permitted lo take any fee whatever, on any pre tence,. but in lieu thereof are to have a reafonable augtnentation of falary. The Clerks to attend from ten to three in the winter, and nine to four in the Wainer. The other officers, as feareliers, Ice. are to have falaries, commenfurate to the reputed value of the patent tinder which the office is held. By this regulation it is not doubted, that the vaft tranfalitions in the commercial department of this great town will be greatly accelerated. Baean.-.-There was no Court of Aldermen this day. The Lord Mayor, after infpefting the return of the mealweighers, ordered bread to continue the fame as laf week. Hunts° FISNIIRY.—The Misery on the Coals of the IN of Man, (by permiffion) commenced on Thurfday lag, with an abundant promife of fuccefs. One boat, on Friday night, caught nearly a maze of finer herrings than were taken during the UR fufon. FIRI AT WDOLWICE WARREN. At about i quarter . before ten o'clock an thoday night an alarm was given, that a fire had hrohlos out in a large range of wooden Blue Store-houfes in Wool wich Warren, not far diftant from the Magazine.— The Royal Artillery were infiantly turiteei out, and ran down to the place, when it was found impoflible to lave any part of the building on fire, or of another building of the fame defeription near it. The firft and grand confederation was to prevent the dame : Lion of the Magazine; the fecond to rave a large clothing flare, in which were fuits for Sotto men, both of which were not more than thirty paces from the buildings on fire. The Royal Artillerymen alcanded the roof of t!te Magazine. and notwithflanding the great heat from the buildings on fire, they continued there covering the top of it with wet blankets and wad-mill till. (generally ufed to cover large waggons) until it yr.'s( declared out of danger. At one time the heat from the premifes on fire was Co intenfc, that the faldiets oo the Magazine requelled to have water from the• engines thrown on themtclres, to enable them to Rand to the work they acre employed in. The two buildings confirmed were full of what is called dead ammunition, fuch as grape and cannifier shot in boxes, ready to be Cent . to different garrifons at home and abroad. The boxes are fuppored to have amount ed to half a million in number. The buildings eon fumed were fituated behind the Mote, and were about the length of 160 or tyo feet, and two Rorie. high.. not a veflige of which remains. The buildings, with what they contained, were very viluable; the efii mate of damages is not yet afcertained, but it is Cop pofed to be from fifty to one hunched thoufand pounds. Notwithilanding the imminent danger that almoft every inftant threatened the defiralion of the whole of the Royal Artillery, by the blowing up of the Magazine, not an individual was abfent from his poll. The orders of the General to his Officers, and of the Officers to their men, were equally prompt and judicious. It was not until near four o'clock yeller day morning that the fire was fo far extingoiffied as to place the Magazine out of danger. The Huntingdon and London Militias were under arms. and rendered much fervice in keeping off offici ous or impl.oper perfons; but from tie great number of the Royal Artillery employed in extinguiffilng . e fire, they could not have been called on to affii tiler with any advantage.—There is every reafon to believe that the fire did not originate from accident. The Rore-honfes in which it broke out, were, by the proper officers, locked up on Saturday night, and not opened all day on Sunday ; and, what is very re markable, five centinels and a watchman gave the alarm at the fame indent, and in the fhorteft time imaginable the Blue (lore houfes were fo fat enve loped in flames as to render any attempt to fare them ineffee.tual. come perfons arrin cuftody on forpicion s but nothing yet has been found out, which it would be proper to communicate to the public. We are happy to announce, that no lives were loft, and only a very few trifling accidents happened. ANOTHSR accoosT.—At half paR nine o'clock, on Sunday night, an alarming fire broke out in the Royal Arfenal, lately Woolwich Warren, clofe to the Powder Magazine, which threatened the whole plies with deftrudion. There was a long range of wooden ore-h oufes parallel to the Magazine, and at a diftance from it of between to and zo yards. This range was filled with empty boxes for ammunitior, hemp, cor. dage, oil for panning, and other combuftible matter. Parallel to it Rood a fecond range of lore-houfes. built with the like materials, and filled with the like matter, except the ground floor, which was fitted up as Rabies for the horfes, tired in the bnfinefs of the arfenal. The diftance between thefe two ranges was not more than fufficient for a waggon to pats, and it was in the fecond or more remote of the two ranges from the Magazine the fire broke out. The fire, as might to expelled from the nalnle of the building and its contents, made a r. pid progrefs ; and before the expiration of many minutes aft .r it was difcovered, the two ranges of ftore•hot: fes we. e one dreadful blaze. —The flore.hcares being completely enveloped in flames, and their being no chance of faring them. the attention of thofe who fird came to the (pot was direaed to the magazine. A great number of wad mill tilts (large pieces of 'tuff, like carpets, but much thicker and coarfer, and made of coarfe woollen yarn) were hauled up upon the face of the magazine, fronting the fire, and carried over the roof. The engines of the Arfenal and town of Woolwich were inllantly brought to bear upon the magazine ; and, though of a fmall capacity, they kept the wadmill tilts fo wet. as to prevent them from catching fire, notwithfianding the fury and proximity of the flaming ftore-houfes. We do not know the exaa quantity of powder in the magazine ; but it has been Rated to ns at between two hundred and three hundred thoufiend barrels. The greater portion of this is of courfe dep( crest in apartments prote.fted againft accidental fire. Still, however, a great quantity of it remained in an expofed Rate, from the neceffity of having it convenient and at hand for the workmen daily employed in making cartridges. &c. The apprehenfion that prevailed at Woolwich. on the grit report of the fire, was, that it had broken out in the Magazine, and every inhabitant of the place momentarily expeael that the Magazine would blow up, and that the whole town would be involved in univerfal ruin. The horror, confternation. and confufion that enfued, would be difficult to defcribe. The women and children loft not a moment to make their efcape. Some fled to Shooter's Hill, fume to the Barrack-field, fome in other direftions. In every approach to the town they might be leen, fume dref fed, others half drefred, particularly children, who had gone early to bed, and were fuddenly roofed from their (lumbers. Several hoofs were Oro flrip ped by their owners, who were bufily employed in carrying off their furniture, and depofiting it in a place of fafety. Fortunately, however, the engines fucceeded in preventing the flames from extending to the magazines, and the two ranges of ftorehoufes were in about two hours totally vsniumed. ur u t tt farther mire:lief. About twelve o'clock feveral gives had arrived frOm within a diftance of le , miles • but the fire had completely fublided, and only ( erred to reftore confidence to the tremblim habitanis. It is oniverfally believed at Wool that the place was intentionally fet on fire, as ne or candle has ever been allowed within thefe houfes. Had the wind blown at S. W. no effort Ihave fared the magazine. lIMIN ding 'al cn• , leveret d they • ing in• .Iwich, ne fire Roar could