Star. — London, England, 1805-07-13 00:00:00

GIBIIALTA,YEINA it. Veflerday morning the Euavoics add %audio , l ived here from England, with a convoy from Bore mouth under their charge. They fpoke with part of Admiral Coi.LIN (swoop's fleet of nine fail of the line, off Cadiz, whictrits now blockading that port. In the afternoon we faw the expeaed reinforce ment of gun and mortar boats arrive from Cadiz, at Algefiras ; they confifted of is gun boats, two mor tar boats, and two howitzer boats. This now makes thirtrfeven gun and mortar boats at Algefiras ; and a large addition is alfo coming from Carthagena to c ninplete the number to fatty. Ile whole is to be commanded by Admiral Ddn BaoNo de EZETA, who yeflerday hoifted his flag at Algefiras, and is univerfally reckoned tobe one of the moft daring and enterprizing officers in the Spanifk navy. Our accounts from Algefiras alto Rate, that Ge• neral MORE AU is expeCted there fromTangiers, where be has been for this fortnight paR. _ _ So large a flotilla, collecting at Algefiras, has caufed a variety of fpeculations; as, duringthe famous liege, they never had above thirty gun and mortar boats employed againft the garrifon at any one time, and now they are collecting double that number. The enemy, however, are not making any addi tional preparatkns towards the land fide, fo that there is nothing apprehended from that Tuner. The garrlfi n is in general tolerably healthy, tho' great druskennefs prevails among the troops, and a few days age (on the Bth of June) all the wine houfes were ordered in the public orders to be opened for the troops, from (even in the morning till eight in the evening, a meafure which will certainly increafe the evil, though it may add very confiderably to the emoluments of the Commander in Chief, who de rives great perfonal profit from a tax laid upon the wine drank in the wine houfes. JUNI 13. The expedition under Sir Jasel3 Cacao is Rill lying in the Bay, waiting for further orders ; they have now been exaLly one month here, and it feems a very extraordinary circumfance that a fine army, of Soon men, fhouid have been here for fo long a time, idle on board of tranfports, when their Cervices might have been fo ufcfully employed in other parts of the world. General Moitrzu arrived at AlgeGras yeßerday morning. In his way from Tangier he landed at Tariffa, a (mall town in the middle of the Streights, where be was received with every honour and mark of dißinflion, and he is expeeed in the Spanith lines to-day, to examine the works of this place.—Five snore gun boats arrived !aft night at AlgeGras. Their force is now exaOly forty gun boats. two mortar. boats, and two howitzer boats ; it is to be iuereafed to ferenty 11INS 17. We have been in daily expedlation of an attack upon Sir limas Caaro's elpeditien, lying in the Bay, from the enemy's gan and mortar boats. and to-day the fleet intends to put to tea, to avoid the confequenres. We underfland they are to anchor fume where on—the coat of Africa, ontfide of the Streights. Sir Jamas and his Staff remain on !here till the orders for their final departure arrive. Some of the letters from Gibraltar (late, that on the 15th of June the Spaniards captured one of the gun veffels belonging to the United States, and car ried her into Algefiras. Our own letters do not men tion this circumaance. The Two Friends, Captain NEAL!, from London for Charlellon; has alfo been captured, off Charlef ton, and fent for Guadaloupe, by a French fchooner privateer, which had the day before taken the flap Juno, Captain MALCOLM, from Liverpool for Sayan. nab, but being laden with falt only, they gave her up. Early yefterday morning Mr. Basil..stco, the met: finger, was fait off with difpatches to his Mail STY at Windfor. In the afternoon Mr. WaGs-rarr, the rneffenger, followed his MAJESTY toWcymouth, with More difpatches frf m Minifters. Thutfday Mr. Wastes CAN and others of the Com mittee of the Houfe of Commons for condoning the Impeachment of Lord Ms LVILt.s, went to the Bank, and examined the books of accounts relating to the ferrite of the Navy. Mrs. Dz.tro Las, widow of Mr. Illouccas, late Pay. mailer of the Navy, being fummoned to attend the Committee for condoning the Impeachment againft Lard MELVILLE, and having excufed hetfelf upon the ground of ill health. Mr. Wort-B'2AD, and tome other Member, of the Committee, accompanied by their Clerk, oo receiving the anfwer, immediately set off in a hackney coach from the Committee room, to; eramine that Lady at her houfe in Harley•ltreet. MIDDLE sEx ELSCTION. —A Bill of Indinment was yetlerday found a true Bill by a Grand Jury of the t. ""y (.1 London againft John Fre?, Thomas Rove Da v:f ?2,1 &mos Gran/lade, 44imon Greenflade, Stephen Taylor. .Saniud Jenkins, William Saunders, and licaz Alton Felon, for confpiting among themfelves and with others to corrupt divers peribnc, not having a right to vote, to claim that right, and to vote for Sir FRANcts Box. bt Tr, Barr, at the late Middlefex Elenion, in order 11,.tt Sir FRANCIS BURDeTT, by means of fraudulent and fi&iti•itis r ates, might he elened and returned a Knight to terve in this prefent Parliament, in viola. lion of the liberties and privileges of the real Free ...Alt.' I); that totin'. ixpA.biriort Mtn SIR plas meta. The public will fee by the following letter from an Officer, belonging to this expedition, that one of its objeets is to take poiliffion of Alexandria—a meafure which we recommended at the very commencement of the prefent war, and which cannot fail to prove of great importance in the farther profecution of it.— We with we could alto annoence an expedition to take polleifion of the Cape of Good Hope. We might then nurfe our refources, lie upon our arms, and let .he other Powers do what they pleafe refpea ing France. 44 GIBRALTAR BAT, ;MIR 13, 1805. •" We are Rill lying here, totally uncertain of our future deftioation, and all of us heartily tired of our prefent life, which is as inaaive and unpleafant as you can well conceive. We have nothing to do, and almoß nothing to eat, but the (hip's provifions. " We are not without fome apprehenfions of an attempt being made upon our fleet of tranfports from the enemy's fire•lhips or gun-boats ; and, cer tainly, if a few (hips or fire rafts were fent in upon us, in our prefent crouded fituation, they could not fail of doing incredible tnifchief, anchored as we are feven or eight deep in fome places, off the New Mole. Within thefe few days our bell armed !hips have been drawn up in two lines, to refill any at tempts of the enemy, who are extremely formidable with their gun boats, they having nearly 4o of them already at the town of Algefiras, oppoflte to us, while we have only two gun boats and two gun brigs to oppofe them ; for, as to our frigates, they are of no ufe againft them, and indeed the Spanifh gun boats feem to regard them no more than they would fo many fheer hulks, as they can always efcape with their oars, and fail under the proteaion of their own batteries, whenever they are purfued by our frigates in a breeze of wind, which however they (eldom at tempt to do, as they do not like to meddle with gun boats. " I am lorry to inform you that Captain FULLER, of the loth Regiment of Light Dragoons, was drowned on Sunday lafi, on a party of pleafure, at the back of the Rock, owing to the boat overturn ing : he was a very elegant, fine young man, and a grandfon of the great Lord HIATHTIILD, who fo gallantly defended the Garrifon : he is much regret ted by every one. He was a volunteer upon the ex pedition. " 1 feldom go on &me: the garrifon prefents fo many difguiling fcenes of drunkennefs and wanton secs; and I never, when I can avoid it, permit any of the men to go on &ore, that they may neither witnefs or partake of the difgraceful examples the garrifon daily exibits. 44 Sir Jessie CRAIG has ordered Mr. Flasaaosz, our Cowmiiery General, to pay us all zoo days bat and forage, which has been very welcome. "The objea of our expedition feasts now to be pretty well known : Sir Impels Casio is to remain at Malta, as Commander in Chief of the forces in the Mediter ranean, and General Sir JOHN STeWART if to go on with jOOO men, to take poffeffion of Alexandria, to keep the French out of Egypt; where, however, there can be no poffibility of their going,until their Toulon Beet returns to that port again from the Weft Indies. " Our troops are all very healthy on board, and there never was an army in higher order, or fitter for any kind of fervice. We hear General MOWS/ has arrived at Al gefiras, and as the Chips there have had their colours hoitled, and all the batteries and gun-boats have been faluting to-day, we fuppofe it is in compliment to him. 66 Rear Admiral Ka icor has his flag hoifted on board the LiveLy frigate, within there few days. " Jotts t6.—We received orders yeflerday for no Officer to go on (bore, and for all the boats of the fleet to be ready manned and aimed, in eonfequence of an expefled attack from the enemy's flotilla of gun and mortar boats, which accordingly, at fix o'clock in the evening, we raw getting under weigh, and row. ing towards us in three divifions ; when within about a league of us they brought to, teeing we had about fixty armed boats ready to receive them drawn op infide of the men of war; and after deliberating about half an hour, they returned to Algefiras with. out attempting any thing. We had five frigates, fix Hoops of war or gun brigs, and I think we fhould have given a good account of them, had they made the Attempt in day-light, as we intended to have boarded them with all our armed boats. It is an at tack in the night which we dread. The enemy's mortar boats have been throwing live (tells this after. noon at Algefiras, and making them burft in the air by way of praeice. " Jo w e 17. —We have jail received orders forevery perfon to repair on board, and are to fail this after noon through the Streights, again to take filcher in a Bay under Cape Spartel, on the Barbary eoaft, co avoid any attempts of the enemy's gun boats on the !hipping, of which our commanders, both of the navy and army, feem very apprehenfive, if we may judge from the multiplicity of orders, and counter-orders, which k is imporfible to help finning at fometimes, as we have generally had a frefh plan of defence for the men of war and (hipping every day ; and now that their ingenuity feems to be exhaufied in contriving new pofitions, they are going to move off to a frefh anchoring•ground on the coati of Barbary, where, as we (hall not be protetfted by a funk gun or battery on More, toe after having ran the gauntlet through all the enemy's gun boats (of which there art about a hundred between this and Cadiz), have an admirable opportunity of taking up a new advan• tageous potation. ,‘ I always thought Gibraltar in our bands had been the Kg of I& Streik:, till my arrival here; but I now find, to my difappointment, that the Spaniards have put a Lock upon it, which our Bey at prefent certainly will not open, and that even an Englifls fleet cannot lie with fafety under the guns of the fourth." DUBLIN, yuLr 9. Saturday, the Commiffion of Oyer and Termluer was opened by the Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR be fore the Hon. Jußice Fur year us, and Baron Gactos, and new Grand Juries fworn in, for the City and County of Dublin. At the Comariffion yeßerday, there were three perfons capitally convifted for forgery on the Bank of Ireland, viz. John Mourn, Jo& Gallaher, and .7aha Dada*. Pder liinrobrep was acquitted of the charge of palling forged notes. The caufe of Mr. Ferries refignation has been very erroneoufly Rated in the Englifh newfpapers. In the Ides Ditlillery Bill, and Hearth Money Bill, which were prepared by that Right Hon. Gentleman, a dank was introduced by him, transferring certain bufinefs from the Board of Revenue to the Board of Cullom& Lord HAWICIIIIIVILY, when the Bills came before the Committee, altered each Bill, which put a negative on each of the claims. Thole Bills, as being Money-Bills, were thrown out by the Commons, and new Bills were introduced on the fame night, by our Chief Secretary, to the fame effed. Mr.TOSTIII fat on the Oppolition Bench at the time, but took no part in the bufiners.—Frvernaa's journal WINDSOR. "'tar 1 I. All is buftle in the Cattle and throughout Windfor, with preparations for the departure of their Majef t ies to-morrow. At eleven o'clock this morning his Malay walked to the Cavalry Barracks, to, take leave of his favor. rite regiment. the Blues ; the fight was a very fine one, and there was a good deal of company pre fent. The King was attended by the Duke of Kent, Count Munger, Generals Fitzroy, Garth, and Man ners, Colonels Delbrow, Moore, and Kenzie. The regiment was drawn up in front of the Barracks, and went through tome evolutions difnsounted. His Ma jelly then infpeCted the whole narrowly, and his own troop moll minutely. The King looked very well ; he fees much better than h. did ; he wore the uni form of the Blues, with the exception of a round bat. The (liver kettle drums given by his Majetty were out on this occafinn, and the very fine band of the la, or Scots Royals, alternately, with the trum pets of the Blues, played fome pieces of mufic, by &fire of the Duke of Kent. FRIDAY MORNING.—The Terrace was lan night one of the molt brilliant of the feafon. The King, furreunded by almott every individual of his family, was in excellent fpirits. It rejoiced every fpeftator to fee the very good terms on which the Prince and his Royal Father were. The evening was very fine, and the company very numerous ; three bands alternately played in diffe rent parts of the Terrace, the Qtieen's, that of the Staffordlhire Militia, and the fine band of the zlt Foot, or Scots Royals. Their Majelies and fuite depart early to-morrow morning—the Blues and the Stafford!hire Militia are to be drawn up on the Road as they pal:. To the extreme regret of every one, after a feven years refidence in Windfor, the Staffordlhire Militia are going—they march for Portfrnouth on Monday ; however, we look for them again in autumn or winter. The 3d battalion of the ad regiment of Ayrthire 1 Volunteers, marched from Irvine on Tuefday fen night for their refpeittive homes, after remaining on ' permanent duty for eighteen days. The ad regiment of Ayrthire Volunteer Infantry, commanded by the Right Hon. the Earl of Ewan -1 TOM as Colonel, affembled at the Troon, on the 37th ult. where they were reviewed by his Excellency Earl i r Motati, Commander in Chief in Scotland, when his Excellency declared himfelf high:y gratified by the foldier-like appearance they made, and congratulated them on their attained degree of difeipline, which will enable them to oppofe themfelves, with perfeti con fidence, to any twenty who may attempt to invade their country. The Volunteer corps, prefently on permanent duty at Dundee are, the tit Forfarthire, commanded by Lieutenint•Colonel CoLvit.t.e I the ad Forfarthire, commanded by Lieutenant• Colonel GAILEINSt ; and the Glammis and Kirriemuir, commanded by Lieu tenant Colonel Kim LOCH. On Tuefday morning the Royal York Mary-la bonne Volunteers, Colonel Lord Vifcount Duacatt sox, made a molt refpeaable mutter at their ufual place of parade, and were conveyed from thence in a number of the newly invented cars to HounfLw. heath. From thence they ficirmithed acrofs the coun try to Teddington and other neighbour ing places.— When they had finillsed the bufinefs of the day, they partook of a homely repaft in-a foldierlike manner upon the turf. They then returned to town in the fame manner as they :4ad proceeded to the country, after having well earned the thanks of their Noble Commander by their day's exertion. Wednefday the St. James's Layal Volunteers, Colo nel Lord Am sr Barr, to the amount of near pc) men, muttered in front of But lington-houfe at nine, and fet off from thence at ten, in upwards of 30 cars, together with about Iso horfes, 6o drivers, and feveral ammu nition carts. They then proceeded to Dulwich, where the Volunteers divided into two parties. A fham-battle commenced near Sydenham Common, and from thence almofi every inch of the ground was contefted until they came near Shooter's-hill, when the bat tle ended as ufual by the dircomfiture of the party denominated French. The whole Corps afterwards dined together in commemoration of the day on which the Corps was inftituted. They returned to town, as they bad (pent the day, in the molt foldiculik e an d orderly manner. Dublin Waterford 1•1 IV4tfrid,tt INfILLIOEATCL MAUI THIS DAY.-.-Wlnd kortliertyd •aa. 11.11. •11. run. S o Hamburgh 0 °snaky/Eh 0 0 This morning arrived a Mail from New York and Halifax, brought to Falmouth by the Prince Emelt packet, in tst days paffage from the latter place. Par ZIICII, JOLT to.—Since my tall the Prince of Wales regular tin (hip, TARAWA*, failed for Lon+ &It ; and the Good Intent, of Dartmouth, Tusr. usu., from Guernfey, with Raves, for Cork. Pzvuottrn, JULY t t.—Came in the Hamburet galyacht Jeffrow Anna, Captain G. Swartz., with bale goods, from Tonningen, bound to Gilboa, de - tamped by the Hero privateer ; and the Pruffian brig Jonge Onne Peters Brouwer, Captain Ryan, from Bourdeauz, with brandy, bound to Embden, detain ed by the Lord Nelfon privateer; failed the CAROL... of 16 guns, and Wasp, of 16 guns, on a crnize.— Wind N.E. POLTSMOUTH, JULY 2.—Arrived the Mourne armed tranfport, with the following tranfports under convoy, viz. the Alert, Ifis, Hope, Commerce, Char lotte, and the Three Brothers, from Leith; on gun veffel from a cruize, and the Profpero bomb with a convoy from the Downs. The Zraaa bomb, with three tranfports, are getting under weigh for the EalLward.—Wind W. S. W. DSAL, JULY 12.-.-Arrived the BLOODHOUND gots. brig, from a cruize, and failed for Sheernefs.—Sailed the Cycxurr !loop of war, on a cruize, off the French Coall.—Came down from Sheernefs the CONSTANT gun-brig, and remains in the Downs with the ref of the !hips as per tall. Several !hips are jut round the South Foreland working into the Downs, fuppofed to be part of the Leeward Mend Fleet.— Wind Northerly. YARMOUTH, JULY 12.--Yefterday evening paled through thefe Roads under convoy, a fleet of mer chantmen, from the Baltic. Arrived here from Nor- way, the John, Caarsa ; Ceres, Laws ; and front Memel, the Memel, Baowu Mailer. Arrived the CORMOILAST sloop of war, Captain STEWAIT, from cruize off Heligoland, and has brought in with her two prizes, viz, one with fled, and the other with lead. Arrived the SNIPS. Lieutenant CHasivios, from a cruize. The (hips of war here are the Roe buck, of 44. guns ; Penelope frigate; Cormorant and Mut - quit° floops ; Snipe gun brag r and Hunter cut ten—Wind N.E. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. GRA aaaa ND Jura , ra.—Pa ff ed by the Forthude, Ange ll; Hope and Anchor, Lyderfon; Crown Prince, —; Inliada. .-- • Fortuna, Hendee= ; Spes Fides, Lawl or' ; Lawrence and Mar, Miller • and the Trilnitc, Coulfon, from Norway; WO behnina, Bab ott, Prom Pillau ; Hebe, Oxley ; Harnbro' Bork Herwedge; and Charlotte, Bennett, from Tonningen ; Hoppa; Baker, from Stockholm; North Star, Venner ; and the Dredger, Mostow, from Stettin; Kennett, Alexander, from Vareil ; He. raid, White ; February, Evers ; Otam,Scay.mb ; end the Grapier. Guts, from Datitzie ; Neptunes, Hoop, from Poppenburg ; Ge neral Elliot, Headley ; sod the Chriftiana, Andcrfon, from Me mel. Sailed the Caroline, Peters ; and the Defence, Reynolds, for Stockholm. Attar's° —Off the Lizard, Polly, Cont, from New York-.At Liverpool, Rofe, Jenkins, from Ncw Orleans; and Quebee, Ar mand, from Quebec —At Dublin, Ann, Jamairon, from Jamaica —At Helvoet, Port Mary, Purcell, from Charletton—At New. foundland, Prickle, Fcrd, from Dartmouth ; Lark, Norton, from Liverpool ; Commerce, Britton ; Minerva, Brißow ; and Snake. Aldis, from Pooh — At Botany Bay, Aleander, Moody, from London. The Argo, Baden, from London for the South Seas, arrived at Rio Janeiro on the 19th of March. The Brltilli Tar, of Landon, was at Port Prays on the nth of January. The Charming Kitty, of London, is alto arrived at Rio Jand d4dre with only 4 2 tons of oil, the Captain and (eventlCß having The Maria, &Imeldalle, from Dartmouth for Newfoundland, b loft near Ferryland. In addition to the number of daring salons exe cuted by &kith bravery. we have to relate one per formed by the Second Lieutenant, and part of the crew of the WILANGLII gnn•velfel, commanded br Lieut. Jolts PITTIT The WaMIGLIIII was crus fing off Boulogne, and perceived a Hoop lying under the batteries, ready to fail on the lint convenient op. portunity ; the Commander of the Waanot.sa pro. poled attempting to cut her out, and was immedi ately feconded in the projel by his fecond in command and a brave let of fellows, fufficient to man the long boat ; they punted off almolt as loon as the (acme was formed, and in a (bort time reached their °Nee. —They were challenged by the 'loop's centinel, to whom they paid no attention, but running the boat alongfide, immediately boarded. The Frenchmen, when they faw our gallant countrymen on the deck, took direCtly to a boat lying alongfide the floop, and made the belt of their way towards the More, leav ing only their captain on board. We are happy to announce that the floop was brought out fafely, with out the flightek injury to any one, though a very heavy fire was kept up from the batteries. The prize was laden with provifions, and is arrived at Ramf gate Pier." A letter from Madrid of the 3111 May, in the Pa• tif Papers, fays, " Mr. Moment, the American Am balTador Extraordinary to our Court, for the purport' of treating on the fubjeft of Louifiana, and other im portant object►, departed 1, om hence on the zath init. for London, on his way home. It is reported that he has not fucceeded in his million." _ _ The bringing before the public fo glorious an achievement as that performed by thole Heroes Captain Maitland and Lieutenant l'eo, could not fail of proving highly gratifying ; and a finer yeprefcn• ration of it cannot be produced than the one now at the Royal Circus, in the Fourth of June, or Muros Bay, which has the advantage of having feveral very interaing fituations end charaCters blended with it ; the whole is received every evening, by a crowded audience, with the louden plaudits. Imo gen, Princefs of Britain, is a prudution thoroughly ettablifhed in public eltimarioo, and admirably fup ported by its numeious performers. Mils Giroux's Imogen, Bradbury': lachimo, Roberts's Ponta:to% and Makeen's Clown, deft _ thefe productions the Hari makes a molt pleafing addii ferve particular notice : to rlequiaade of a Mogul Tale ditton.