Star. — London, England, 1806-09-05 00:00:00

1p ; LONDON OtIZETTE ErTRAORDINAR.n. vatoay s Matt 5. • • IDOW111110•11T111,11T, 111PT514/11111 4. r• • 'A Difpateh has ben this day roccivad by the Right Hon. William Windham', one of his Majefty's Principal Secretaries of State, from Major General Sir johofitoart. commanding his Majeity's Troops lining in (palm.,of wbkb the follominq is a copy • Camp cat the Plain of Maida, July S, 1806. Silt —lt is with .the molt heartfelt fatisfanion that I have the honour c of reporting to you, .for the infor mation of his Majeßy, the, particulars of an anion in which the French army quartered in this province huge fuftuined a fignal defeat by the troops under my command. . General Remits& ' having been apprifed of oor tifembarkation at St. Eufemia, appears to have made a rapid march froth Reggio, uniting, as he advanced, his de , ached corps, for the purpofe of attacking., and with his chsranertflic confidence, of defeating us. On the afternoon of the 3d intim% I received Intel. 1 gence that as had that day encamped near Maida, about ten miles efillant from our pofition, that his force .c,on4fte4 at the moment of about voci Infantry tad 300 ertwalry, together with four pieces of artillery, stud that he was in expetlation of being joined within a day or two by sooc. more troops who were march. ing after him in a fecond . I determined therefor* to adyneee towards his pit. fition, and,having left four companies of Wanted's'. Aegiinent under Major Fig wea to protect the sores, and occupy a work which had been thrown up at our landing place, .the body. of the army marche d nett morning according to ,the following detain Advanced Coepo—Lientanne CadoodLlpt, ittith tyre pounders. Light infantry hstranoo. beset:rim Royal Cretan Ban t us. Detachment Royal f t ieilian Ifahratorn. ett Brlpde—Rrigadier General Cole, with three feerioaaders. Orettadier Battalion. s7tb Regiment. ad Brigage—rkigadier General Ackland, with throe four •poanderit - Otte Reaeaut. Rialigna t , $4.404041.14 411141. with two faeripineallara. ytth Raeimmt. ,• •• Waterville* Itegiaase. tee maybales. aoth lteetelm*.Lleimliaat Caked ltats.latuled during the adios. , itetervave allreilbtri.-4Aajor LCIIIOIIIC. Ilaipanatters and i howitzers. Total—Rant sod tele, including the &oral Artillery, 4795. Genera Kiosise was encamped nit the fide of a 'woody hill, Woo the village of Maida, Hoping into tilt plain of St. Eufernia; his flanks were firength. ened by a thici impervious undersiood. The. Amain, a river perfealy fordable, but, of which the tides are ektremely marlity, ran along hes front my approagh So him from the fee fide Wong the borders of which I directed my march. until I had nearly turned. his left) was aci'ofe a fpacions plain; wbich,,gave him every opportunity of minutely ohferving my move- meets. .. • . • . After Tome Vinfe firi ng from the nankin to cover the deploiements of the two armies, by nine o'tlock in the morning the oppofing fronß were warrnly en gaged, when the prowefs of the rival nations limed how fairly to be, it trial before the world. and, the fu periority was greatly and glorioully decided to be oar own. • . The Corp' which formed the right 'gibe advanced line, was the battalion of light infantry commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Kees rr, confdlinj of the light companies of the loth, 27th, 3gth, e6rh, 6i9, 8111, and Vstastath.sa's, together with. one hundred and fifty ehofen battalion men of the 35th rigispent, under Major Romnsow. Direly opprded to - them, was the favourite French regiment 111 Ligere. The two corps at the diflance of about one hundred yards fired teciprocally a few rounds, when, as if by martial agreement. the firing was fofpended, and in dofe compel order and awful (hence, they advanced to wards each oiher. untie their bayonets began to crofs. At this momentous crifis the enemy became appalled. They broke, and endearontred in fly, but it was inn late ; they were overtakes with the tuna dreadful (laughter. Brigadier Genet-el iciest.aoo, whnk brigade was immediately on the left of the light infantry.with great fpi r it availed himfelf of this favrairable moment to prefs inliandy forward upon the corps in his front; the brave 78th regiment, commanded by Lieutenant. Colonel Macssoo,andthe,sif regiment, under Ma jor PnarrotieLsarse, both diiiinguithed rhernfelves on • this occafion. The enemy fled with difmay and dif order before them. leavingthe plain entered with their dead and wounded. The enemy being thus completely difcomgted nn their left, began to make a new effort with their light, in the hopes of recovering the day. They were relined moil gallantly by the brigade under Brigadier General Cont. Nothing could (hake the undaunted firmnefs of the Grenadiers under Lieutenant Colonel Q'Crs n 1.1014171, and of the 2tal regiment under Lieu , tenant Colonel SMITH. The cavalry, lucceftvely repelled from before their front, made an effort to turn their left. when Lieutenant Colonel Ross, who had that morning landed from Melnswa with the zoth - regiment. and was coming up to the army during the adion, having obferved the movement, threw his regiment opportunely into a (mall cover upon their dads, and by a heavy and well directed Gre s entirely difconcerted this attempt. This was the IA feeble druggle of the enemy, who now, attonifhed and difmayed by the intrepidity with which they were all:ailed, began precipitately to re tire, leaving the field covered with carnage. Above feven I •tndicd bodies of their dead have been buried upon the ground. The wounded and prifs.ners already in our hands (among whcm are General Compere, and an Aid-de-Camp, the Lieutenant Colonel of the Swifs regiment, and a long lift of officers of differ ent ranks) amount to above one thoufand. There are alfo above one thoufand men left in Monteleone and the different pods between this and Reggio, who have moftly notified their readinefs to furrender, whenever a Britifb force (hall be fem to receive their Iltibmidion, and to proteft them from the fury of the people. The peafantry arc hourly bringing in firgi • tiwes, who difperfed in the woods and mountains after the battle, In (tort; neiet has the pride of our prefumptuous enesny been more feverely humbled, k . nor the lOpetiority of the iltitifh troops more glo• ) ' 4 ite &tiny proved, than in the eventi of this memoraleld 1 1 14 7 ' ; IA --., —AjtsTY may, perhaps, fill deign to epre t4ate more highly the achi e v ements o f t hi s lit tle ar my, when it is known that the feconi divilion which the enemy were Paid to be ezpeaing had all joined m the night before the aaion I no flatetnent that have heard of their numbers places them at a let' calculation than (even thoufand men. Our vieorious infantry continued the pur(uit of the routed enemy fo long as they were able t—but as .' the latter difperfed in every direeion, and we were under the neceffity of preferving our order, the trial of (peed became unequal. The total lots occafioned to the enercy by this contlia cannot be Ist than four thoufand men. When I oppofe to the above our own (mall comparative lofs, as underneath detailed, his Majelly will, I hope,' difcern in the fait, the happy effete' of that efiablifh ed difcipline to which we owe the triumphs by which our army has been latterly fo highly dillingoiffied. I am now beginning my march fouthward prepa ratory to my return to Sicily, for which Ration I (hall re-embark with the army, as foot as his Sicilian Majetty !hall have arranged a difpofition of his own forces to fecure thole advantages which have been gained by the prefent expedition. There feldom has happened an anion in Which the zeal and perfonal etertions of individuals were fo im pasioutly called for as in the prefent I feidont an cc gallon where a General had a fairer opportunity of ohferving them. The General Officers, and thole who commanded regiments, will feel a Itronger ten of their merits in the eircumftances that have been &tailed of their oonclua, than in any eulogium I could prefume to pals upon them. The pBth and Watteville's Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant Colonels Jolt a stow and Warr svi ta.s, which formed the referve, under Colonel Oswato, were ably direacd in their application to that effect tial duty. The judgment and effea with which our artillery was diresled by Major Lassoing, was, in our dearth of cavalry, of moil effential ufe ; ancel have a plea , lure in reporting the effeaive Cervices of that valuable and dillinguilhed corps. To the fevers' departments of the army. every ac knoOledginent is due ; but to no officer, am I bound to exprei them Co fully, on my part, as to Lieutenant Colonel Burial/Iv, the Deputy Quarter Mailer Ge neral, to whore teal and aaivity, and able arrange memu in the important branch of fervice which he !Jima', the army as well as myfelf, are under every marked obligation. From Captaio Tolima, the ailing Head of the Adjutant General's Department, and from the Offi cers of my own family, I have received much aslive aflame. Among the latter lam to mention Lieu. tenant Colonel Mootta of the 23c1 Light Dragoons, who being in Sicily for his health at the time of our departure, folicited pertaiffion to accompany me on this expedition ; he was wounded in the execution of my orders. From the Medical Department under the direainn of Mr. Gatavas, the Deputy Infpeaor, I am to ac. knowledge much profeffional attention, the snore ro as their labours have been greatly accumulated by the number of wounded .prifoners who have become equally with our own, the fubjea of their mire. The fettle of aaion was too far from the lea to enable us to derive any direft co-operation from the navy Ibut Admiral Sir Simi ay. 5t41114, who had ar• rived in the bay the evening before the aftion, hid directed fuch a clifpofition of (hips and gun boats as would have greatly favoured us, had events obliged us to retire. The folicitude however of every pail of the navy to be of life to us, the'prompritode with which the (cameo battened on (bore with our fup plies, their anxiety to all our wounded, and the tendernefs with which they treated them, would have been an steaing circtunflance to abler-rens Oren the moil indifferent. To me it was particularly fo. Captain FeLtows, of his Majelly's (hip has been fpecially attached to this expedition by the Rear Admiral ; and, in every circumaince of pro feflionil fervice, I beg leave to mention our grateful obligations to this officer, as well as to Captains Cock sr and Warson, Agents of Tranfports, who afted under his orders. Captain titmice:Ay, my Aide de Camp, who will lave the honour of prefcnting this letter to you, has attended me throughout the whole of the Cervices itt the Mediterranean, and will therefUre be aide to give you every additional inlormation on the fuhje& of my prefent communiCation. t have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) J. STUART. Major Gen. Returned of Killed and Wounded of the britidaTroops under the Comns3bd of Major General Or John Stuart, in the Bank on the Plains of St. Euphernia, near Meida, July 4, 1)106. . _ Royal Artillery -2 knees killed; 3 gunnery 'rounded. Grenadier Battalion -4 rank and En titled; t officer, t kr• joint, 15 rank and file wounded. Light Infantry Battalion— t °Meer, y rank and file killed; °Meer, a drummer, et rank and file woundedi, aotli Foot-. 4 rank and fik kfilcd ; I drummer. s rank and fik wounded. Ott: Foot, :ft Battation.-.6 rank and Me killed; t ferjcant, alb rank and Mc wounded. 1 8th Foot, ift Bartallon-2 rank and file, wounded. 78th Foot, ad Battallon-4 rank and file killed; 7 officers. 4 ferjeants, t drummer, 69 rank and file wounded. 8111 Foot, tft Battalion-3 ferjeanta, 16 rank and file killed; a officers, r frrjeanr, 61 rank and file wounded. Regiment of Watteville-3 tank and file wounded. Royal Corfican Rangers-3 rank and file killed; five rank and file wounded. T0ta1....t officer, 3 Icrjaants, 41 rank and file Med; i r of& cars, 8 relearns. s drummers, 26t rank and file wounded. MOWS of Officers Killed and Wounded. Killed—light Infantry Battalion—Captain Nl'Leane, of soth Foot. Wounded...fire/m(ller Battalion... Major 1 - lacrimal, of Royal Regiment of Malta. Light Infantry Battalion.—. Major Paulett, of the 44th Foot, fe, verely. 48th Foot, ad Baud lon —lieutenant Colonel M.Leod ; Major D. Stuart Captalin D M Pberfon and D. M•Gregor ; Lieute nant lama M.Kay; Enagns Colin M'Kenzie and Peter M'Gregor. Sift Foot. IR Battalion...-. Captain Waterhoure ; Lieutenant and Adjutant Ginger. Staff—Lieutenant Colonel Moore, of 23d Light Dragoons, aeling Aid-do• Camp ta Major•Gcneral Sir John Stuart. (Signed) A. Toatain, ASS. Adj. Gen. I Tit iVENING • T-' • "' LONDON. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBEII, PRJCZ OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT E O'CLOCK.. Co& neasero63ff—for oet.sce. 6311 • • ammism.mt,ep itad account. 3f S—Esebeguer Mk, par. PRICE OP STOCKS YESTERDAY Pak Stork 'sof sso4 Imp. 3 pot Ccee 654 3 pot Cant IL An. Out Imp. M 6.14 p.s6 3 per C. Cie. 6to4 63 F 166.51116, mt. se. pr. pat Pa' C. NavY Ornniutn 64 7464 St II Leap A. I fs bilis Am* so. de. • Coot. for W. 634623 634 When it was known that M. D'Ott tutu had figned a Preliminary Treaty of Peace, we were the fit ft to announce that it was not expeßed it would be rati fled by the Emperor A AAAAA Pit. We Rated alto that D'Otnutic had been impofed upon; and far. cher, that the bah • ith which he fet out from Paris was occafionid by his difcovering the trick that had been paired upon him, and in the hope that he would reach Peterfbargh before his own courier, nor to hafien but to prevent the Treaty from being rati fied under any falfe impreffion. The event has completely jullified oar Ratements: THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA HAS REFUSED TO RATIFY THE TREATY CONCLUDED BY M. D'OUBRIL AT PARIS. This fat" we Rated yellerday on the authority of our letters from Hamburgh, and we Rod it confirmed by the PARIS JOURNALS Which have been received to the IR infirm. The Magueys- is totally fluent on the fubleel, but all other Paris papers of Monday laR, announce the arrival of M. D'Ou atm at Peterfburgh on the gth ult. and that (as was yellerday Rated in the STAR) a Grand Coun. cil was immediately fummoned to take the bufinefs into coufideratinn. At this Council the following Members affifted 4 The Baron de Boom°. lllllnifter for Foreign Alban The Prince LA POVIIILIM. Matter of Jollies. The COMIC KITCIIOV IX T. Minifter of the Interior. The Comte Z , bollniftar of Public loftrudion, The Comte Vasiuerr, Mattes of the Finances. The Comte It 011AINTIOPY, ?distiller of Commerce. And General VJLIMITI war r. Monter of the Land Force.. His Majefly the Emperor was prefeot in perkm, and after the Council the lejeaion was officially no tified to all the Minifler' at his Court. M. Gaos. MOWS icy, Knight of Malta, was difpatched to Paris, and ke arrived in that city on the 3oth. On Monday the tit indantrthe Earl of Lauor a- DALII difpatched his Meffmatett, BasiLico, with the refult of the conferente which he, no doubt, had after the receipt of this news. But there is nothing in the Mositevr that can give us the lead hint as to the im preffion which it nucleon BONAPARTE. For ten days fucceffively the French Journals are unufually modefl in their lenguage. There is not the flighted animad. verfion on the conduit of Great Britain ; but on the contrary, there is a marked referve, even when (peak ing of the WAR IN CALABRIA, an ►he part which we have bad in the iefillante of that brave and unfortunate people. The public will read the merincholy details of the propels of that war, in the tranflations which we have made from the Official Journal, and otheis. it is obviour, that though our gallant countrymen, under General Sru ♦ar, difplayed the ufual vigour of our arms, yet they were but a handful in comparifon of the armies which were affembling again them ; and it is clear that they have membarked and retutned to Sicily. In that ifland they may continue the alarm which they have iofpired ; for, mailers as we are of the fea, if tire war is to go on, a (mall body of troops in Sicily *III keep the new King of NArLis inceffantly on the alert, and find employment for so,ooo of the bell troops of his Imperial Brother. Our Readers will obferve that the career of NIAsseNA was every where marked with blood I for, it is conftantly Bated, that all prifoners in every aelion, received rikaryjudgrano on the fpot ; by which we fuppofe it is meant, that' they received quarter in the heat of battle, and were fhot in cold blood. The expreflion is, "fuse: mill t airement." THE LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, Given in the preceding columns, containing the dif patches which we yeflerday announced to have been received refpeding the operations of the Britifh in Calabria, was publifhed this morning. Lad night the Park and Tower Guos announced to the public the fuccefs that bad been obtained in that quarter. The Cabinet Council which was yefterday fum• monad to take into confideration the difpatches from Paris, from St. Peter burgh, and from the Mediter• ranean, fat from two till balf•pa(! three o'clock.— The Members were, Loid G11E111 , 17- Li , Lord Hinter Parry, Earl Sr 'nose, Mr•WINDHAbIp Lord HO WICK, and Lord SIDMOUTH. After the Council a Mellinger was difpatcliecl to Paris, fo that no time hat ken hill on the port of oar Mini• flee: in replying 10 the 45 . 1liaid of 14. Earl if L. 14, DAID.ILI. HAMBUItGH MAILS. The Mail due on Sunday arrived Jail night, and the one due on Wednefilay this morning. The news which they bring from the South of Europe is not fo recent as that furnifhed by the French papas ; but . , . • on: private letters, from the Ninth, enable us to ate* noorsce that Profs and. Sweden fees to be, coming to a better undetitandiog, and that it was generally believed, when dee left mail left Hambargh, the the French would be oppofed by force, if they &mild perfift in thole movements which were fo alarming to the Northern Powers. Letters from Naples, dated Anguft tsib, fay. " When advice was received at Naples of the Peace concluded between France and &Art, the f.. .l awing obforvations were made on that event i■ an offici.l Publication : " The Emperor Acuminate has ?acceded to all the chatyges on the Continent that have taken place fine the battle of Auflerlitz. , In confequence of this Treaty, the flag of Jowl' Narocsoa I. will be r • fpeeted by the RutGans, as we refpeet the Ruirsan Oaf. " The importance of this article to us is•manifefi the trade of the Black Sea, the Levant, and Turkey, will be advantageoufly opened to us under a fires and beneficent Government, and . the nation =Ay profit, without reltraint, of its prodtt3ive powers." MARX LdINE, CORN EXCHANGE, SEPTEMBER S. r . To day there are fevers' further arrivals of Wheat, and this trade is heavy of tales, and hardly maintains our left quoted prices. Still very Sort fupplies.tf Barley, which is at further advance, and a riling ay tide. Malt and Peas keep their prices. Beaacor loth forts are rather dearer. Several frefh cargents of Oats are arrived, the beft keep their price—ficond and inferior are fomewhat lower. Flour sisitliqut teration—fine American 4os. to 45e. per barrel. . - rid/uric:4L INTEL LIGINOR, MAILS THIS DAY.—Wiped S. W. ARE. acv. ARE. pea. I GOMMthIFEIi o 3 I a Hamburg!' •it a PLYMOUTH, SEPT. S. • Came in the nom, of to guns, Sod! a cruise, We underhand that when the accident happened to the GIBRALTAR, of go guns, the was fo near the Ve. reran, of 74 guns, Parma Bo a, that her Sots were completely hulling her, and (be was gaining upon the Veteran fo fall, that in a very Sort time the would have &aped her murk for an EngliOt port; but if we are rightly informed, the Groan.. TAR'S frretopmaft was carried away by a Sot from one of the Veteran's Reim chacers, and this gave her a decided roper lority in failing. It is alto Rated.(as another inilance of Jarmo a's good fortune), that the day that he entered L'Orierr, was the only day that he could have got in unmolefied for a very confid,. ruble time pall, as it has been clofely watched by a fquadron, under the command of Sir Cass. Carron, but they were that day unfortunately drawn off by duce. and were abfcnt at the critical moment of his entering that port. Sailed the Fitist cutter, with a fleet to the eaflward. About 3000 troops pitched their tents on Buckland Down yeßerday, Rod the remainder are marched for the fame place to-day. WEYMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 4 . Sailed, the Rebecca, Wurnau, for Portfinonth Alerts Gaetano, for London ; Johns, Rags, for Plymouth ; Jnfeph and Betfey, Hoarse, for Portfmouth; Laura, Sly, for London ; and Effort, White, for Ramfgate...-Arrived, the Greyhound revenue cutter; with a leisure of fprits; alto the Hart cutter, ; Alert by.'onat, Puracia ; Princefs An. gotta, Ctalta ; and Brilliant, Cover, from C uero . fey ; William, LAIIOIIBI4, from Dublin; Profperity, Camaro, from Alderney ; Neptune, Foos, from Lyrn. ington ; Fanny, Bea 1.1, from Sunderland ; Nancy, HOWARD ' from Southampton ; the Five Bro th ers, from the Abergavenny EaR Indianian, with a cargo of fundries, taken up from that (hip, in the Roads ; and his Majeßy's brig SAFEGUARD, from a cruise, PORTSMOUTH, PEPTEMBER 4. Arrived the Awe armed brig, with the Dallier and Betfey tranfports under convoy from Plymouth; Hannah, limos, from Guernfer ; Martha, MAL. LARD, from Cork, and leveret outward-bound vdels from the Downs. Sailed the Pim ro Hoop of war on a cruise. His Majefiy's (hip Race NOM is releafed from quarantine. His Majelly's Sip RATLIR is ap. pointed convoy for Newfoundland.—Wind S.W. DEAL, SEPTEMBER 4. This morning the Swift and Diligence EaR India pilot veffels faired for the River with the Elia India. men and Whalers. Arrived the GLATTON man of war, from Sheernefi, with Son fiapernumeraries on board, bound to Portfmouth, and remain in the Downs with the reR of the (hips as per lag. Arrived alto the Human armed Sip, with a convoy, from Falmouth, which are failed for the River; Dauer tars Hoop, and Bevaaa gun brig, from a cruise off Boulogne ; Plymouth tranfport, from Plymouth, and failed through for the Nore • i and Suite; O;k hired ketch, from Deptford. Sailed the BLOODHOUND, FANCY, ARCHER. B • and RIFLEMAN gun.brigs, NAIAD frigate, and Taoursusa Hoop, on a cruise, off the Cosa of France; and &miss gun brig, for the Note. Wind S. W. Dublin Wsterfotd YARMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 4. This morning arrived from Hufum the Beanfoy packet, Capt. Voaats, with mails and feveral paffen pers. Sailed tin a cruise the Fat.cor (loop of war. Remain flips as per la. Wind S. W, ROM LLOYD'S LIST. Odaotiatto, Strr. 4,--Pa a 6ed by the Hartford, Berry, from Stockholm; Lou lra Marianna, from Dernarara; Cam. Bosom, from Gibraltar • Fog, Oackerip, from (gyehce; Load Fes. Sit ; Willi a m an d: Hairy, DWI • tied Elizabeth, from jamalca.-.Sailed tbe Boyd, LaughtOo, for Se. Domingo; boa Blptraina, Laareon, for Madeira; add Its joose Jobaa, Plat, for Cotwyek. Yefterddy morning, about fix o'clock, ■ meeting took place in a field near Adon, between the Hun. Captein M. and Captain when, after exchang ing 'hots without effe4, the Seconds interfered, and a proper explanation taking place, the parties returned to town together. This morning was married at the pasiEs church of St. Mary.la•bonne, the Rev. Poi HoLa, Rahn. of Woolfordifworthy and Broadwoodkelly, Devon, to Mifi Sormo• E fecond daughter of the Imo Nsesamiss. Blla MY, Eli.