Star. — London, England, 1801-05-06 00:00:00

1 NAtlricAL mertuisizvci MAILS THIS DAY.4trIND N. N. E. •RRIVED i DubUn l Waterford, I Donnaghadee, t Lilbon, FALMOUTH, MAY 3. This day arrived his Majefty's packet KING Groac 1, Captain YESCOMBE, with a mail from Li:bon, in 24. days; the failed from this port on the isth of March : on the 21ft, in lat. 45. t. h a g. 8. se. fpoke the Alarm privateer, of Guern fey, out 63 days, but had taken nothing, and on the 24 th (poke the NAIAD frigate on a crnize ; fhe ar rived at Lilbon on the 25th, and found there his Majefly's (hip MONTAGUE, which failed on the 31 ft.—The DIANA frigate arrived from Gibraltar on the 4th of April, with tranfpbrts under convoy. —On the 6th arrived his Majefty's (hip ENDIMION, from England, and alfo the GOWER packet,' in (even days from Falmouth.—The KING GEORGE left Lilbon on the loth of April, the Eametiou was to fail on the 28th, as convoy to the Lilbon fleet bound to England. It dbes not appear that the brings any parti cular news ; among the paffengers (2z in num ber) are Colonel BOEG, Captains DURBAN, and Cr:maim of the army, Lieutenant La Few of the Royal Artillery, and Mars. FITZGERALD and This morning arrived here, the American !hip Aurora, Capt. Paiscs, from Charleilown, for Amfterdam, after a paffage of 53 days, az days of which the has been in founding:, but owing to contrary Wind could not get up ; the is laden with fugar, coffee, &c. and called here for orders. Arrived alto, the Mary Ann, and Mine, fchooners, with coals from Wales.—The ACT:vs, Excife cutter, from a cruise.—The PILOVIDEnca Reve nue lugger from Scilly—The HECATI gun-brig has detained and fcnt into Mounts Bay, a Pruffian dodger, laden with wine and brandy, from France. Put into St. Maur's, the Selina, privateer of Plymouth. Wind YARMOUTH, RIAY s. This day failed his Majeliy's packet Panics er WALaS, Captain SUTTON, without a mail. The EXPRUS is in the Roads, for the mail of the 6th idflant. Wind N. E. to S. COVE OF CORK, APRIL sq. This day arrived the fhips Reunion and James of Liverpool, from Jamaica, taken by the Braave, and retaken by his Majefty's fhips HOSSAR and GALATIA I alfo arrived this week, Marine of Glaf gow, for New York, taken by the Braave, and re taken by the R EVOLIITIONA/RZ, Capt. TV/TEDFN, hich frigate is in quell of the Braave, and no doubt, if fhe gets a fair chace at her, will bring her in. PORTSMOUTH, MAY s. Sailed the BRUNSWICK, of 74 guns, Capt. Srr. yews, to join the Baltic fleet. The BRUNSWICK was fome time ago ordered on the prefent fervice, but diefe orders were, a few days fence, ed, and the laft night got under weigh to join Ad miral COL NWALL I s, and • was flopped exaely in time, by a mefage per telegraph, to proceed on her original deflination. It would appear from this, that the difagreeable bufinefs in the North is not fo nearly accommodated as force have reprefented. PLYMOUTH, MAY 4. Came in, from the Channel fleet, the %LIAM. of 74 guns, Captain Boy:As and the RasoLu -nom, of 74 guns, Captain GAILDNItIt It is Paid that thefe (hips have brought in tick men from the fleet.—Sailed the Doals, of 36 guns, Capt. HAL. z.Day, on a cruize.—Came in the Tago, of and for Laos:, from Brillol, laden with bottles and earthen-ware t the was taken by la Loire, French privateer, of :6 guns, and re-taken by the Lana, of 38 guns, Captain H OPE t the Loire was brought in here on Thurfday laft. 6 —Sailed the CANADA, of 74 guns, Captain Da COLIICIT, to-join the fleet; — Caine in a French chaffe-maree, name unknown, laden with wine, taken by his Majek 's (hip AM/. 111, of 44 guns, Captain HERBERT. F&OM LLOYD'. LIST. Drat MAY S.—Came down and failed through the Do wns, the John, Howl', for Charlefion.-- Wind N. E. GIU111$1111), MAT 5...-P2fred by the Aurora, THomuks. from Rotterdam; Ameba, —, from liAntzick ; Anna Catharina, and Anna ~Lui.l, Agars from Rotlock.—Sailed the Maria, for Lilbon ; and Magdalena Catliarina, --, for Hamburgh. HULL, MAY S. The Mercurim, HOLLAND►a j VViihtlm, Ntxctt l•'ear ; and Vrnw Anna, DE BOER, all from this port, are arrived at Hambro'.—Sara Marg2- tctta, PRA!, from this port, is arrived at Bremen. On Friday !aft, the merchants and Blip owners of port petitioned the Admiralty for a convoy to fad from hence with flips for Hamburgh, Bre men, and Embden. The Sound lifts of April 14, 58, and at, notify !he paffage of 3c Teffels for this country with grain. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, MAYS. ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, MAY 5. Copy of a letter from the Hon. WILLIAM CORNWALL'S, Ad miral of the Blue, &c. to EVAN NIPS AN, Efq. tinted off Daunt, 28th April. Sist—l have inclofed a letter from Captain HOTHA IN, Of Majefly's fhip IMMOETALITS, giv. ing an account of his having taken a French pri vateer. (Signed) W. CORNWALLIS. IMMORTALITL, St Sea, April 17. Silt—l have the honour to inform you, that on the 14th, in lat. 49 deg. 8 min. N. and long. 13. deg. 25 min. W. I fell in with and captured la Lame French privateer brig, of 14 g uns, and 78 men, who had been fifteen d a y s o u t from St. Ma loes, and had taken nothing but a Portuguefe vef fel from Brittol bound to Lifbon ; but during her former cruizes had made feventeen captures. (Signed) HENRY HOTHAM. Copy of a letter from Lord ASIELIOS Br AOC!. sat, Captain of his Majetty's thip FORTUNKS, to EVAN NVIZAN,Efq. dat ed Spithead, April z. SIR—I acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commiflioners of the Admiralty, in com pany with his Majefty's fhip Twos. and DOLPHIN Cutter, we captured on the 2oth of April, after a chace of ten hours, dole in with St. Aubin's Bay, le Renard French privateer lugger, from St. Ma loes, pierced for ten guns; which veffel has been a great detriment to our coafting trade. (Signed) A. REAUCLEAK. Copy of a lam from Lieutenant LOSACt, Commanding his Mujefty's lkip in sow, to EVAN NMAN,Efq. dated at Sea, April 1. Stg—l have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of my Lords Commiflioners of the Admiralty, of my having, at one o'clock this morning, Cherbourg bearing South, diftant four leagues, captured farad French brig privateer, mounting 14 brats fix-pounders, and 53 men, commanded by Citoyen LEFLYEE, from Cher bourefix hours, and bound for a ernize off the coati of Spain. (Signed) WOODLEY LOSACE. IN OF PRIZE MONEY. The crew of the hired cutter LORD Duncan, for the capture of the French privateer l'Eclair, a diftributton of the net proceeds of hull and Rores will be made on board the Paid cutter at Deal, on Friday the Bth infiant. To the crew of the (loop NAUTILUS, for the capture of the French brig Regicide, a difiribu tion of the net proceeds of head-money will be made at No. 7,Beaufort Buildings,on Friday next. The crew of the floop RANOIR will be paid on board the faid (loop at Sheernefs, the Bth inftant, their (hares of the cargo of the Andromache. The crew of the (loop ZEPHYR, will be paid on board at the Nore, the Bth inftant, the proceeds of head-money fbr the French privateer la Vengeur de Francois and Va Tout. The crew of the (loop RANGER will be paid on board laid (loop at Sheernefs, the Bth inglant, their (hares of the Johanna. To the crew of the LEDA a cliftribution 'of the net proceeds of the filvage of the recaptured (hip Bolton, will be made on board the LEDA on her arrival at Plymouth. To the crew of the REPULSE, for the capture of the Sophie French brig, a diftribution of the net proceeds of the hull and cargo of the Paid vef fel will be made on Tburfday the 14th inftant, at No. t 4, Surrey-ftreet, Strand. To the crew of the PEGASUS a diftribution of the head-money for deftroying the Echo and De Gier, two Dutch brigs, will be made on Friday the Bth ina. at Salters' Hall Court, Cannon-ftreat. On the 3oth ult. arrived at Greenock, the (hip Governor PiEton, RITCHIE,rom Trinidad, in 35 days, by which we learn, t4at an expedition had failed from Martinique in March,fuppofed againft the Danifh and Swedifb Elands. By letters from Palermo, dated the 13th March, the following veffels are arrived at Malta, viz.— Hawke, Captain SPARK j Weymouth, Wrzoom ; Maria, BARRI' j Nile, BaoAD; Walf/flgharn, SIII•1111 ; Mary, MACK; Lord Nelfon, —; Triton, Giasoa • Cleopatra, GA 11.DNI1 nadian, LEIGM; and H ' amilton, HARRISON. The Friends, CHRISTIAN, from Lifbon to Lon don, was captured the 21R of March, by a French privateer, and carried into Cadiz. The Tejo, OLIVEIRA, from Briftol to Lifbon, has been captured, recaptured, and arrived at Plymouth. The Guernfey, Batocs, from Ipfwich to Liver pool, has been taken by the Intrepid privateer, of Boulogne, and carried into Dieppe. The xperiment (an American), Livracz It, from Ayamorri in Spain, to New York, is fent into Cadiz by a French privateer. The Anna Matilda, BORDES, from Hamburgh 1 1 to Weymouth, has been taken, retaken, and is ar rived in the Downs. A letter from Breft, dated April 34, fays,“ Con trary to all expeCtation, and againit the mon rea fonable probabilities, there have entered with in a month a hundred (hips as well at Benaudet, near Qi2imper, as in our harbour. Yet the Englifh larc Rill on our coati ; for every day we fee them, to the number of 25 or _so fail." A letter from Rochfort, dated April 24, lays, The brave Captain Ronal. Suitcouar, of St. Maloes, is jug arrived from the 'Mauritius, com manding the Bourdeaux privateer, the Confiance, of 16 guns and. t so men, with which he took the Kent, from London, by which he war attacked in i the Gulph of Bengal." Letters received from the Channel fleet Rate the following gallant condo& of the Roau sr, of 74 guns, Captain Noma a t When cruising fingly off Port Louis, L'Orient, in the dufk of the evening, I flte fell in with two large !hips, which Captain BROWN& millook for a line of battle 'hip, and a vary huge frigate. He immediately determined to hear down and attack them. When within pificil (tot, he difcovered them to be a French (hip, called PArsonaut, of $4 guns, and tOOO men, and a Spanith flip of 74 guns, handing towards Port Louia. The ROBUST had cleared for adion, and lay to, to engage them, with her three top-fails to the mail; but the enemy paired her within piffol (hot, without attempting to fire, and made Ind for L'Orient, not .thoofing to rifk an aftion eves with to inferior a Brill& force. SPORDING INTELtIGENCE. CURRAGH RACES, MONDAY, APRIL The sogs. Handy-cap Plate, three years old courfe heats -5 gs. entrance ; weight and dinances fixed by the Stewards. Mr. Kirwan's Drone - r I Mr. Hamilton's Little Bowes • - - a a Mr. Kelly's Lumbinos 3 - - Mr. Taylor) Bagatelle - - - - 4 4 Mr. Daly's Corytto - 3 S NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING. TUESDAY, MAY 5. A Subfcription Plate of 501. for three yr old colts carrying Bft. 41b.—fillies Bft. It. M. D. of Graftbn's b. f. Penelope, by Trampater - Mr. Bullock's b. c. brother to Spear - a Mr. R. Heatheute's b. c. Paulo, brother to Vivaldi - 3 Mr. Watt's br. c. by Trumpator, out of Clumdalca 4 D. of Qiieenfberry) b. f. by %VW!key Mr. Wilon's b. c. Fawkes, by Buzzard Mr. Wattaa's b. c.by Delphd Mr. Panton's ch. e. Trombone, by Truaspator Mr. Perren's b. c. Jack Chance Mr. Fawkener's b. f. Heel, by Delpini Mr. Ladbrokc's bl. c. brother to Whilkerandos The Judge placed only the firlt Four. Four tot aga inft Penelope-5 to t ag.tinfl brother to Spear-5 to 2 againft Paulo -7 tot againft Trombone—to tot againft Whifiterandos. The Jockey Club Plate of sogs. for four yr olds carrying 7ft. 21b.—five yr olds Bft. 31b.—fix yr olds Aft. 91b.—and aged Bft. 111. B. C. D. of Crafton's b. m. Hornby Lars, 5 yrs old, walked over. Mr. Cox's Pet, beat Lord Clermont': c. by Me teor, N. each. Ab. M. wogs. h. ft.—Six to 4 on Pet. Mr. Bullock's Sir Harry, MI. 71b, beat Mr. Wyndham's Telegraph, Sft. Lift 3.qrs. of Ab. M. sogs.—Six to 5 on Sir Harry. Lady Lout SA MANNERS'S Rout on Friday night comprehended as large and diftinguilhed a circle as any of this feafon. The PRINCE, the Duchefs of GORDON, and all the chief Nobility and beauties in town were prefent, among whom flood confpi cuous MTS. DUFF. Orsaa.—Signora Vim et made her &Lug laft night on the Lcndon Theatre, in the charatier of La Prinripeja Fr?viola, an Opera compofed by AN DIM% ZI. The VI act is a grand and fuperb figure, tall and majeftic in her deportment,and with great fiexibility of expreffion in her features. She was re ceived throughout with the warmeft applaufe. The Theatre was 26 much .rowded as on a Satur day night. It has been the fortune of Sir SIDNIY SMITH, from the commencement of his naval and military career, to be almott continually engazed in deeds of enterprize, and till the late operations of our troops in Egypt, he has had the luck to efcape un hurt.—Nearly the fame kind of deftiny attaches to the exploits of BONAPARTR ; and Mr. PORTER has been fortunate enough in his prefent Pidure at the Lyceum, to exhibit on the fame canvas, inter efting Portraits of the Hero of Acre, and t he Con queror of Italy. The remains of the late MAURICE NELSON, Efq. of the Navy Office, the brother of Lord NELSON, were on Sunday la g conveyed into Norfolk, and interred in the Family Burying Place. The remains of the late Admiral GOODALL, ,agreeable to his will, were lag week fupported to the grave by fix old feamen, accompanied by fix young maids ; to each of whom he had ordered one guinea to be given. We find that General MACKENZIE did not come from Bombay, but from Mahon. The news, however, which we have Rated him to have brought, is given in letters from Bombay of the t4th of January, which fay, that a bottle of wa ter for the expedition to Suez will coft as much as a bottle of Madeira, and on account of a number of difficulties it is not fuppofed pralicable to put the enterprize into execution. A very handfome new church has been ereaed in the Black Town in Madras, and juR finifhed.— The neceffary form of confecration will be fent by the fhips of the prefent feafon. Yefterday morning an inqueft was taken on the body pf a woman of name of Jobufon, before W. Waller, Efq. Coroner for Middlefex, at a hut on Stepney Common, where fhe was murdered the preceding morning, and robbed of us. The Jury returned a verdid of wilful murder again& Come perfon unknown. The Kt no of Pa uss is having direded the Danifh troops to evacuate Hamburgh, our Court has, in return, declared, in an official note, delivered by Lord CARYSFORT, that all Pruffian goods on board of neutral vellels, than pats unmolefted. The Danes were to have marched out of Hamburgh laft Saturday. A letter from Hamburgh of the sBth rays, 4 , Re fpedable private letters from Berlin of the s6th infant confidently Rate, that a great change has juR taken place in the political fentiments of the Pruffian Government. • On the arrival of an Eng. lifh and Ruffian courier, a Fraud Council of State was held, at which old Prince Hasty of Pruflia attended by particular defire. State matters of the utmofl importance were fubmitted to its con. fideration, and for the filit time it appeared the Minifter Count HAVOWITZ had 101 l his influence. Prince HANRY, it is reported, advifed an imme diate reconciliation with England, and the evacu ation of the Eledorate of Hanover. The fame Prince likewife recommended the clofeft harmony and union with the new Ruffian Monarch. 4 , The refult of this important deliberation, is by all accounts, highly in favour of Great Britain and the Houfe of Brunfwick. _ _ On Saturday Lan, a Pruffmn courier brought difpatches to the PrulEan Knifter refident here, with two letters from his PRUSSIAN MAJESTY, one to the Senate of Hamburgh, and the other to the Prince of Hasse, who commands the nanifh troops in this city. The Minifter waited immediately upon his Hi&hnefs with the letter from his Sove reign, in which the latter' declares that he heard with great difpleafure of the enetions made by the Danifh troops; and acquaints his Serene High 'tiers that if he does not quit this free city aad its environs, as fpeedily as ble, his PrulGan Ma jelly will take fuck matfures as Gall compel him to evacuate it." -vizattai, 2 Monday night, a Romantic bra*, intit:ect Adelfflnien the Outlaw, the produetion of Mc. I..swt Author of the C , A Spare, was performed, for the firft tithe at the above Theatre, of which we will venture to prediet, that it will not be born; for many nights. In this piece Mr. Ltwis has out-hortified all his former horrors, by the ma chinery of Gholls, the iiltrodation of a vilionary hell, &c. for Ming altogether fie!' a mats of fillemn abfurdity, as we defy the whole herd of Bedlarnite novel writers, mile and female, to equal. In the Rory of Adehncra there is nothing but wh,:t hai been an htindred times before the public, and very little that is not to he found in the Gaille Spi2r: it felf. The dialogue is, for the moil part, a tans of fullian, blafphemy, and ribaldry; in a word, there is nothing tolerable in the piece, except the mufic and fccnety. On being given cut for a fu- ture reprefentation, the noes had greatly the ma jority. The ailing was good throughout, and Mrs. Joeimit fpoke an Epilog, tit! which, with all her influence, had but little acd in appealing the wrath of the At2skliznee. Latt night a fecond attempt was made to recoil; cile the town to the Gothic lumber of the Uuriput, and with fo much fuccefs as to fecure for it a more patient hearing than it experienced on the prceed , ing evening, in confequence of the omiflion of the greater part Of the low dialogue and fupernatural agency of the latt at .—With thefe alterations the piece, like its hero, may have the negative good fortune todie a natural death--That Inch a rickety banding Ihould be long-lived we think impotlible: —The audience of laft night, except is the boxer * was but thin. ROTAL ACADEMT. O.—View of Oxford.—A. W. CA L LCOTT.—NO: being able to trace the likenefs of any one created thing in this pkiure, we will not prefume to cri ticife it, fearful of miftaking the artift's objed For ought we know, Come molt admirable fatire lurks under the coat of colours that covers his canvas, which we !ball leave the wife heads of Oxford to find out, as a matter that we fuppofe particularly concerns thernfelves. TI. Portrait: of the late Colonel Fitch and hi: Vers. —J. S. COPLEY, It A.—Of the likenefs of thefe portraits we cannot (peak, but the picture is alto gether well painted. It holds a noble breadth of light and fhadow, the grouping of the figures is good, and the colouring is divetled of all that trick which is too much the Rudy of many of our mo dern artifts. 75. Portrait of a Gm:Mit:arr.—J. °PIE, R. A.— A very fine head, the features clearly defined, the gradations of fhadow very delicately managed, and the colouring equal in regard to brightnefs and local truth, to that of any of the bell works of• RINIBILANDT. 91. View in af Frill-fah-I.—T. DAN ar L, R. A. —A very brilliant landfcape, which has every up. peatance of being a true portrait of oriental na• Lure ; the dead tyger furni(hes a proof that the pencil of Mr. Daniel is not confined to one kind of painting.—The human figures introduced are all touched in with great fpirit. 97. Interview of Charlet the Ficg and Mr Family. - WOODFORD, R. A.—The grouping of the figures in this defign is good, and the drawing is corral, but the contour of the different parts taken feparately is not pleating to the e.ye.—The character of Oliver Cromwell is well conceived. and the general efidt of the pidure is better than its execution in detail. 122. German Soldier: quartered in a ruined Couvetst. —C. GESII2II.—AII this painter's groupes of fol diers look more like groupes of banditti.—The drawing of this picture is incorrect, the colouring dirty, and the effect not Inch as the artift feems to have intended.—He items to know little of leepirg. 134. Abraham aad lfaac going to Sacra, fice.-11. Wasr, R. A.—The chief merit of this picture confifts in the Rile of its compofition, which is fcholaftic and grand ; but the outline is hard, and the colouring 13eayy. This is, however, only a (ketch, and if copied by any other artift of merit than the original defigner, might probably furnilh materials for a very rich and mellowiiiieure. 257. Lord St. rummer Vittory.—K. CLI VIL EY. —Very correaly painted, as an affemblage of por traits of (hips of war, and probably a no les cor rect delineation of the glorious bufinefs of St. Va lentine's day. The (ky and water are particularly well executed. 259. Portrait of General Harris.—R. K. PORTER. —This may be a good likcnefs of the face of the Conqueror of Myfore ; but the painter has ftninge ly caricatured the figure. In the colouring of tEis piatire Mr. Porter has run into his ufual fault : it has too much of the brick-dull tinge. 167. Shetelt---The effinajoet.—Sal42 The cfefign of this pilture is better than that of the preceding, but it is liable to the fame objetions in point of execution. 579. The Red6reto.—H.THOMSol4.—This young painter, we underftand, has travelled, by which we cannot perceive that he has gained much : this is a pretty defign, but the execution is rather flo venly. It pouffes, however, the merit of good drawing, and manifefts no affeftation in theArtift, in whom we look for daily improvement. 184. Caster *twee: to Mary WRITALL, R. A.--There is Tome beautiful colour. ing in this piaure, and the contour of the figure is pleating ; but the whole wants force, and the land fcape is rather common place. The fubjea, hand led as it is by this artill, would have made a better drawing that) it does a piaure. SOO. 201. Portraits as Oa ad • c.v.. —J. Waan.—Painted as well as fuch things need be ; Mr. Ward follows nature clofely, when he deli neates inferior animals! refpeaing the human form he has very much to learn. 250. The Death-Bra! of Hairy As Fifth. —J. Mum. A.—Had this piaure not been the pro duaion of a Member of the Academy, we Mould have been furprifed at its admiffion : it is altoge ther one of the molt wretched daubs as an exhi bition pia= we ever beheld. It defies ciiticiim.