Star. — London, England, 1806-01-06 00:00:00

FiIIN.BI4L OP LORD ,NELSO N. -.-.._—..... • On Saturday was h. Id an efpecial Court of Com mon Council, as the fumrgons expreffed, nn Wands that deeply concerned the honour and dignity of the City of London :—Prefent the Lord Mayor, flatten Aldermen, and a great number of Commoners. As there was an efpecial Court of Aldermen on the fame bufineft, it was late before the Court met. The Mi. antes of the lag Court were read. Upon the open ?ng the buGnefs by the Lord Mayor, for which he bad affembled the Court, it was moved aat grangers do withdraw, which the Lord M a y or or d ere d accord ingly. The Lord Mayor then acquainted the Court, that from the time he lag met them, he had been engaged in a continued negotiation with hi. Majegy's Idinigers, as to the lunation he &fluid fill in the pro. ceffion of the late Lord Nelfen's funeral, he conteddrd' ing ht ought not to give place to any fiiirjed whoa ever within the Lib ert i es o f t h e Ci ty of Lodon, hi which he was the King's Vicegerent, and quoted G► weal precedents on record, particularly Qteen I.lizabeth's coming to ht. Paul's. to return Tom thanks, after the degrutlion of the Spanith Armada. Alfo his prefent Majeliy coming to St. Paul's, in the years 1789. and t 797. The Lord Mayor atfured the Coon, that he was not difpofed to fooaifi ee an iota of aheir rights and privileges, but to preferve them uodinninilhed, as he received them, to pollerity. i . Mr. Deplore BIRCH role to move the Court, that tan iddrets Should be prefented to his Majelty on the Illbjedt, to know hi t roy a l w ill an d p l ea f ure. The Atcotirita, on reading the motion to the Court. digge:ted his doubts as to the legality of any ads don:: by them in their prefent capacity, the re. turns not having been made, and the Mengiers not having been Avian in at the Quarter Seffiont, accord• ing to Ad of Parliament,. Which could not potlibly be done before Plow Monday. Hereupon precedents were called for, unfortunately the only ones produced Were during the interregnum Different members contended for and andogaing the competency,of the Court to enter upon public bufinefs, lituated as they were. • •-• As con fi derable doubt prevailed up on t h e fubjed, the Lord Mayor &fired the Proceeding. of the Court cf Aldermen upon the fame gibjed might be read. :They had entered into fome fpirized Refolinions upon the fobjed, and had appointed 1 deputation to wait upon Lord Hawkdbory on Saturday afternoon. Therefore, upon an affurance from the. Lord Mayor, that he would take particular care of the rights of the Corporation as well as his own, and thofe. of the Cohn, of Aldermen, the Court broke tip, without coming to any determination upon the fubjed. , I.ORD NELSON LYING IN STATE AT GREENWICH. • FIIII.T . DAY.—So great was the public curiofity to teethe remains of Lord tl elfon lying in gate, that, as early as levee o'clock felierday morning, the toad from I..ondon to Greenwich; was covered with car riages and foot pallengera of every defcription, as was alto below bridge the river with boats filled with anziousiipedlators, and by nine o'clock the town of reetiwich wastroWded with *Goats of every deferfp. Colt. It was not, however, till eleven, after divine fervieis that the great gates stf . the hofpital were thrown open to admit the crowd that pretted for m61111E01). The weather ? In the morning, was ex tremely favourable. the outfide ccf fi n arrived in treenwich about twelve o'clock on Friday, %only after which the other two coffins, containing the body, were pin into it. The decorations being adjulted by I+lr. Beckwonb, the body was removed from the Record Chamber to the Painted Hall, and placed rander thexanopy. Over the breall plate of she cof lin were laced the 'crown and edition ;at the head of the ea ', ageing the black, were his Lordfhip' s ft :Is Arms, w th the word Ta•ratcait in large golden letters t at diet foot of the coffin was a . fmall table, on which were placed the helmet, thsield, gloves. &c. with all the entblemi of the Order of the Bath. IN each fide were fie fmall flags, with the in feription of the moll remarkable engagements fought bighit•Lordfhip, filch as Copenhagen, Trafalgar, the Vile, i&c. Between each were three lofty iifver can dlellicks,tach holding two wax lights. Every thing being thus adjufled on Friday evening, preparations *ere made on Saturday to light up the Hall, the Printers of Wales, and other perfons of diflinftion, being expeded. About foor o'clock in the afternoon, the hall, being lopertily illuminated, was opened, when Lord Hood, Governor cf Greenwich Hofpi• cal, and i large party of private friends entered.— They walked round the Hall, appeared greatly af feAed, and even flied tears over the departed hero. The Piincefs of Wales ' being indifpoled, did not at tend. ' use Greenwich Volunteers paraded at eight o'clock is the morning ; a company of them were Rationed in the Painted Hall ; force were Rationed at the gates ; and others lined the way from the gate to the flair, leading to the Hall. After the Ball was lieited up, and before the gates were open • ed for public admiffion, all the pentioners belonging to the College went in regular prucerlion round the Hall to view the preci•.us remains of the heroic Ad miral. The boy, belonging to the College were then permitted to take their turn ; after which the Batt was thretwo open fur the adidiflion of the public an general. •Berides the Volunteers who were Rationed Skeen order, there were levet Bkw-lireet Officers prefent, to taketoguizance of depredators. Oa cpening the Rate, the crowd willed in wi:h loch violence, that feveral women faMted, 4111 were nearly trampled to Beath. They nailed on with ilich impctudity, that the Voinnteers, who were Ilationed on the Ileps of the (lairs, to keep them back, were almolt carried off their legs. 'Several of the River rendbles with pikes, aided in keeping order. Thc,i , uter gates were obliged to be flint till all who were in the yard had I pared ; and in this manner the gates were opened and Phut for the iemainder of the day. On entering the Hall the inind WAS Cenfibly (truck with the gloomy grandeur ❑nd Inlernni;y of the! place, the isterinr being coveted with black, and all the avenues hung with silver konces, each holding two wax lights. Between each icon:. c was placed a fmall elcutclieon. In the upper ;.Al: were two ranges of (coulees and efentcheons, the one above the other. The candles on each fide the coffin, the flags, and : It:endants in deep mourning, produced a very fulemn 'inpreffion. Three attendants in black fat on (tools nn each tide. Mr. March, from the Lord Chamber lain's office, fat at the foot of the coffin. The fpec !viirs *ere not allowed to flop. On leaving the' Hail they paired by a different gate frcm that at which they entered, to the tows. Several women loft their times, cloaks, and pockets. The pickpock ets, notwithfianaing the vigilance of the Baw-ftreet Officers, made a plentiful barrel • The town of Gre e n w i c h was completely filled with carriages of all defcriptions, and it was almoll poffible for a font-paffenger to get along. In return. ing, the coaches were obliged to gn up the hill.— The day was remarkably fine, and the water was co vered with boats. The public houfes were every where overflowing. At fuur o'clock the gates were flint, leaving thoufands ungratified in their laudable 'tithes. The road at night exhibited a moil piftu refque appearance Some were falling from their horfes, others tumbling nut of their gigs; here, a broken down gigg, or horfes were tanning away from their riders, and there eiders looking fur their horfes. There were feveral broken bones ; but no lives we underhand sere loft, although we cannot lay as moeh of pocket books, watches, and other articles of inferior note. Yefterday, in fart, was at once a holiday and a day of pilgrimage. Saturday morning, foon after ten o'clock, a Chap ter was held in the Veflry Room of Sr. Paul', Cache. dral, which was attended by the Bifhop of Lincoln (the Dean) the Bi(hop of London, and Earl NIL. sow. The machine which had been placed by the Infpettor of the Works tirder the dome, for letting the body of Lord 1111. son down to the vault. and which Ras been firongly objected to by the Gentlemen of the Church, and the College of Heralds, was or dered to be removed. It was propofed, and, we noderfiand. decided, that oar departed Hero's body &mild not be buried, as original], intended, but _remain in the vault upon a gone- tablet.. The Eagle upon the brat; read iog defk, in the choir where the Litany is in ge. neral read; was ordered to be removed, and we un. derfland, that the corpfe is to be placed upon the re. ,maining brafa.work The Artillery Company ate not to attend at St. Paul's in the procelfih n. as on intended, his hlsprirry having fignified his' Royal Commands, through. General Casvtar, the Adjutant General, that the Life. Guards and Foot. Gu.rds are to attend in their Read. The Loyal North Britons were yeflerday morn ing paraded at their ofual qparters in Gray's Inn Gardens, topper the command of their Royal Colo nel the Dnke of Sofres : they metered well, and were ordered to parade again on Thorfday morning at feven o'clock, to march down to the Strand, where they are to be Rationed on the dty of the funeral procellion of the gallant Clarißian Hero, Lord Vif corint Nelfon. • The River Fencibles, under Commodore Lucas, were alto muflered on Tower Hill, and received linsilar orders to attend, a‘did the Harbour Marine Fencibles, Captain Snow, and the Greenwich Water Fencibles, Captain Slaney, who are alib to form a part of the procelLan. The Mk battalion of the 79th regiment came info .Rochener on Thurfday ; the feeood battalion were expetaled yeflerday : they, are to attend the funeral of Lord Nelfon. „Four 'regiments of infantry and fix fqoadrrns rf witty are to he affembled in London, under the command of General Sir David Duncla, in order Ito attend the funeral of Lord Nelfon. The infantry will be drawn from the Southern Diflriet : Two Highland Regiments, the 79th (ill battalion) and the 92d, from Ofpringe and Canterbury, nnder Major General Hope, the other regiments from Sulks.— The Cavalry under Major General Burrard A detachment of the Royal Artillery, with eleven gaps, is alto under orders to attend. The Regiments from Kent are expeeted to march—the 79th and the 924 this day. The Royal Family are a:peeled in town for the feat - on on the 14th or 15th The daughter of a wealthy Jew merchant in the City, Come evenings fince, eloped from the hours of a Gentleman in the neighbourhood of Bloomlbury fquare, where fhe had been invited to a large party. A young Gentleman, who was likewife there, is alt The fubjeet of the Difirtation for the Hulfean Prize at Cambridge, for the enfuing year is, The Pro pagation of Cbrillianity was not indebted to any feeondary earVel. STRANGE 12 tsoLve.—A Man of the name of BAZ• TER, who formerly was a refpeEtable Farmer at Buckingham, has taken a raft refolution of refuting any kind of fullenance, which he has maintained for thirty-two days, at the White Horfe at Kenninghall, in Norfolk, and furvived on Saturday laft. He has given no reafon for this extraordinary conclua. William Harms, under fentence of death in the gaol of Tipperary, for forgery, has obtained a free pardon. On the afternoon of Monday fe'nnight, a (hocking accident happened in Rubinfon Rnw, Hull, to a fine girl, about fix years of age, daughter of Mr. Joaasoq, of Appleby, near Brigg. in Linenhalve; while liirring the tire, the flames caught her stuflin trick, and no perfon being in the houle except ann. ther young girl, the ran out into the areet for affilt. ance; but before it cuuld he afforded, was fo dread fully burnt that The expired the next morning. A palfage boat, with thirty pattengers, oii the in tilt. upfet neat New York, when fourteen perfuns tithed. Thur . fday morning, about three o'clock, the C.‘ r Tritcry, of 64 guns, which was taken out of dock at Portfmouth, a few days fi nee, tilted to receive prifoners o f war, funk at her moorings at the entrance of Po t . clieller Lake: there were but the ultral number of per. lons on board, which belong to a thip in ordinal y, who were all faved. It is imagined thdt Ile broke htr back, from being moored improperly. She funk in four minutes after the cram waa heard. On the tßth of December, as a Mr. Lion, of Chattetis,was (lcaiting on his way to Nordelph (witrn the parifh of Downturn Market), he faw a hate on the ice : he pnrfued, and was aloud of her for up wards of a mile, and at 'aft took her without any *Mance or weapon but a (mall dick he bad ia his band. ,-. .. AMERICA. Letters are received from Chhrlefton, Alexandria,{ New York, and other parts of AMerica, down to the t ith December. They contain the followitig article :1 111.11 011 FRANCS ; 111 , T. 17. " We have received various accounts from the' Peninfula that the Britifh Admiral 4 Ps setw, isma k . ing great preparations at Calcutta and along the Malabar coaft, for an attack on thetk Iftands, Ind this Government is making correlponding exertions. ' " A Britifh fquadron, under the orders of Com modore Ossoaso, con(iiling of the TH114111011./S ; of 74 guns; GRAMPUS. BARIErIi ; Of 30; PITT, V RSHON, ir , f 40; Taarstemoes, iiiii4UllST ; of 36; was ten weeks off this Hand, but left os- on the t 3rh ult. The' PITT, during her blockade of Bourbon, cut out of the roads the Frenoli (hip Falleux, Of and from Mar feilles, with 600 bags of coffee ors' hoard. " The markets here are Pt nverflucked with foreign produce, that a very eonfiderahle ',onion of it can not find purchafers at the prime coil. Money is un commonly fearce, and credit In fltaken by the fears of invalion that the belt paper in the Eland bears a dilcount o f to 3 per cent. per month. 111 Ind pro• duce is In high, that numerous veicis have been obliged to fail in ballaft. It is fuppored that the quantity of imported pruvilions now here is equal to 4 year's tonfumptinn of both iflands. Several Eng % veffels have been fent in, but with one or two exceptions, they are only coafters with rice." EAST !LADIES - - . Saturday a confiderable number of letters, brought front India were delivered from the Pail Office. The Berar Rajah, it appeare, has been reconciled to Hotter: and was expefted to declare in hls favour on the maturation of their compreiseafive and cau tious plan of operations. Every part of India now (warms with erniffaries from the infingent Chiefs, who travel under lteltrtious habits, and the pretence of pilgrimages. Several of there agents have been arrefled in the Bundlecund and Coimbatoor country, and their difpatches found concealed in their turbans, &c. Others appear to have been intrufted with ver- . baljareffages but threats and promifes have been eqtferr ineffedual to indyce a difclofiire of them. On the foutheru frontlet of Coimbatoor Cenral partizani; of the late Pyche Rajah, in correfpondance with and affifted by Holkar, fucceeded in mating fonts dianrbances ; but the pronipt exertions of the military of the diflritt fpeed:ly rettored tranquillity. ' A detachment from Lord Lake's army, in the latter end of July, fell in with a corps of predatory cavalry, who had plundered and deftroyed feveral villages on the banks of the Chamnut river, and after a feeble refillance put them to the Nan. The enemy left behiltd all their booty, which, when properly identified, will be rellored to the unfortunate owners. Meer Khan, the aeiVe enterpvifing partifan of Holkar b is not dead, as was reported : be was fe• vcrely wounded, but was carried off by his frildiers, and, acceding to the Taft accounts, was at Lahore, with a view, as wasfuppored, of entering the fervice of the Seiks, or of exciting them to holtdity againft the Britith. The Marquis CORNWALLIS has made numerous re forms in the Adminiftration of India, and confider.' able retrenchments in its difburfements, fubßitutirg a fytiem of limple and unoftentatious tees:loamy, for tile parade and fplendnur which has hitherto been coclidered of ential to the flare and condition of the Chief Governor. Thole who know the charaeter of ' the natives, and the influence which appearances have on their mind, queflion the policy of the alteration. Lord CORNWALLIS, a few weeks after his arrival, proceeded up the river, on tome oiled of Wind's, when his whole retinue was comprifed in fix boats.— Lord Wet iistat, a year fince, made the like ex tortion, under fimilar motives, and there were nearly fix hundred boats in his fuite. We hear too, that Lord Coaxal/Ala-is has converted the magnificent Government hook, lately built for the refidence of the Governor General. into public offices. The Earl Howe, Windham, and Gardner India men, have been ordered to proceed from Madras to China, intlead of loading at the former place, as had been intended, and failed und er convoy of t he LAN.' CASTIIt i of 64 guns. CALCUTTA GAZETTE. loar WILLI4BI,JONt 27, dos. The Calcutta, belongi ng t o Bengal, formerly commanded by Capt. Dryladle, which was cut off at Borneo three years ago and converted into an armed (hip in the fervice of the Rajah of Sambas, load been attacked in Sambas's River by the Hon. Ciimpani% cruizer les Freres Uni, Lieut. Robert Deane, and carried, after a (harp anion of 40 minutes, in which les Freres Uni 101 l one man killed and one wounded. Les Freres Uni had arrived at Penang with her prize. The enemy had ten men found dead on the Calcutta, and eighteen on board one of the Junks, the other veffels' lofs not afcertained. The pirate, brother ti. the Rajah of Sambas, elcaped on lhore, but died or his wounds. To the foregoing we are concerned to add the lowing melancholy fate of the (hip Perfa•erance, Cape. James johnflone, belonging to Madras ; the failed from Penang in April latt, bound zo Rangoon, but three days after leaving the Mend, the Manilla Seacunnies murdered the Captain, Officers, and Pat (engem and then fet fire to the (hip, making off in a boat, canying with them about tow dollars, which they found, and actually lit foam unfortunate Lat cars on board, to perifh in the flames. It is to be hoped that it will prove a caution to commanders. of country (hips againft (hipping Manilla Seacontdes, as this is not the tint ialtance of Rich melancholy events from the fame calif,. Advices fru= the Par Gan Gulf Rate, that the Dolo of Mocha had ordered a Wm, to be fired, in com memoration of a vieory Paid to have been gained by the Imatim's troop, over the Wallabies in the vici. nity of the capital of Yemen. This report is not, however, generally c r e di te d, for the Wahabies have been in polfeffinn of the two Princes of Hadejah and Hamra, only four days march from Senna, for twelve months previous to this brilliant event. FORT WILLIAM, JULY 6, Otos. Diipatchls (of which the fo:lowing cPpie% are pub lithed for general inform oi ,, 11) Dave ly,ten received by his Excellency the milt nt.:c Goveinor Ge nciJl in Council, from the Litu:ccur.! Geyer:lyr of Prince of Wales's I irO J. 1.1711110116 CHM SteIt2TAIT TO TH2 OLTITRII WANT AT FORT WILLIAM. • " 4 81a—I have the honour to tranfmit to you, for the Information of his Excellency the moll: noble the G. - 'vernor General in Council, a copy of a letter under date the ad inllant, from Lieutenant Deane, cr.rn mandine the Honnurable Company's cruizer Its Freres conveying the accounts of his having en gaged the Chip Calcutta on the 22d nit. and captured that veffel, afier a cnntefl of furry minves. I have already had the honour of detailing to iris Ercellehey the mode in which the Calcutta sad • been manned and armed, and the great injury that the Eakin tract. has futhined from the pirat:eaf free hooter who' commanded her. I sof happy $n inform you, •his man, the brother of the Rajah,af Samlias, was Idled in the aBl .n. • The difficulties of steers to the Calentta, Rationed in a driang pliant', and fupported by two tette China Junks, leveret miles op the river 'of Samba*, eintrilni.e greatly to the honour of the atebieveower, ard retied great credit on Lieutenant Deane's OW ti c ., valour, and pe-ieverance. Lint. Deane has ferved under my order nearly five years, during vL hich peti^d (4 time I have inva : iahly experienced in h:m every criai:fication of a valuable officer, and a fairs of condtia, that has uni formly entitled him to try highetl aprrnbation. therefore, take the liberty of recommending Lieute nant Deane to the moil favourable notice of his Ex cellency in Council. The able luppnrt that Lieutenant Deane received from Capt. Lynch, commanding the fhip &hi - arias, is highly creditable to the public zeal and intrepidity of that officer, and correfponds 'with the favourable report that I have, on frequent occafions, made to his Excellency, refpefting the meritorious eondua of Capt. Lynch, in volunteering for the public benefit. • I have the honour to be, Sir, your moil obedient humble fervent, I. T. FAILQIINAR, Lieut. Coy, of Prince of Wales's IlLend, Feet Conntiallis. Prince of wale's Mond, June ta, slog. • TO t. T. Tim:Luta', LSO, LISOT. GMMED* Of fttIICIS 'OS WALIIS'S ISLAND AND ire DIPLNDINCISS. Sta—l have the honour to inform you, that I left Rhin on the gth of April, at night, in company with the Belifarins and Warren Haftings, Captain Scott, who wilted notch to proceed with us to Pontiana, whett we anchored on the t4th, and delivered your letters and prefents to the Suitauns of Pontiana and Mompawa, who were much ple a ted , an d el p r effed themfelveshighly fenfible of the honour done them. Having gained every information refpeaing the Calcutta, and a party of Chit:ere, in feven boats, to attend us up Sambas River, where , he fhip was Paid to be lying, I put to tea with the Belifarius, on the morning of the tfith, and on the tBth, anchored abreaft of the River; on the ig-h, after much trouble and the lots of 200 bags of rice, which Capt. Lynch was obliged to throw overboard, we fucceeded in getting the chips over the bar, and pro ceeded up the river. On the 2tft, at night, we feized five Chinefe, who informed me the Calcutta was at anchor about four or five miles up the frnall river of Sambas, and that •two China junks, and fix large prows Were moored near her, and well provided with guns, to prevent any thing palling. Having gained this in. formation, and n. - rt having a pod opinion of the Chinele in their bears, determined me to Amick them with both •elfels ; and at eleven, A. M. on the 22d, I weighed and ftr.nd op the (mall river, followed by the Belifarius ; at a quarter before noon, I taw the fhip with a junk, and three large prows moored on each fide of her, and fo dole as to prevent a veffel going between them. Immediately we got near, they began to fire from all the veifels, which wasstor returned by me until within piaoi !hot, when I an chored, and commenced the affirm upon as many as we could get guns to bear ; in 40 minutes we had funk two prows, and filenced the flip, the junk, and the remaining prow, that was moored on her lar board tide ; the others kept up a brifk fire, until they were driven from their guns °vet board by the board ing party ; at a quarter after two, P. M. we took poffeffion of the Ihip, two junks, and two prows, the other two made their efcape up the river. Captain Lynch was prevented, by the narrownefs of the River, getting fo near as he could have wifhed; nor could he, although every exertion was made, get a gun to bear upon the mealy, until the dole of the aftion. I am happy to inform you, that our lots is very eonlidering the number of guns we had at one time playing upon us, having only one European kil led, and four Europeans and two Sepoys wounded ; who, lam happy to fay, are all recovered. The Serang of the Belifatius was fbot through the leg, in boarding, who ties Since died of his wounds. could not, in jutliee, dole this, without expref ling my entire fatisfaaion of the Officers and fhip's company, for their Ready behaviour during the ac tion, particularly Lieutenants Wheatall and Phillips, and Mr Lord, in being fo waive in boarding. The lois on the part of the enemy mull have been very coniidriable, having found so men dead on board the (hip, and t un boar! one of the junks.—l have not been able to afeettain the number on board the other veffiels. The pirate, brother of the Rojah of Sambas, was wounded in two places, but effeaesi his triceps in a (mall boat ; I have [icor been inlarwled that be died of his wounds. We have had great difficulty in getting the Bell farius and Calcutta over the bar, which was not e lated until Capta;n Lynch had thrown overboard too bags of rice, and a great quantity of bailitft, nut of the Calcutta. We returned to Pont;ana Roads on the zd May, in order to re l 4;r out damages, and put the Calcutta in a time lot fi.t, and failed again for this place on the I Cti). I am lorry to itilotm you. that we were prevented from teaming through the Straits of B ADC 4. owi;,, to the &fabled Rate or the Calcutta, which we have been obliged to tow all the I failed teem Malacca on the :a I of May, and an chored titr F•ut Cornwalii, this mornin The folkyring is an account of the guns in the dif ferent reirets : Ili, 9s, C.. 314 is Two junks. ,':tco Ea Plows, ditto Total tiemh,r I have the honour to be, Sir, Your moll obedient humble fertant, ROSIRT Duri , Lieut. Corn. ti C .CnOzer. lc. Freres Md. Prime se Wakea poi J. nc a, t?::: • 26 21 IS ...C.:2 A i e