Star. — London, England, 1812-08-31 00:00:00

i ~. 14,00: ; rn • s oilert t the Ittsaians 11,000 kiUed Ind w oun• d e d• We are all on the tiptoe of expectation, w aiting further intelligence." Th e a bove letter was conveyed to Harwich by the sn oi a , Captain PAIN, which sailed from Gotten burgh on the '2sth, and reached Harwich on Friday, the ego, after a passage of three days. . The Sophia off , Harwich after the departure of I ving arrived e Post on Friday, the 'letter from Gottenburgh, ; o rs which the above report is founded, was trans pitted by one of the coaches, and reached town AA bout one o'clock on Saturday. .. We are the more anxious to state all these minute particu l ars , because considerable doubt has been thru ms upon the whole story by some of our con temporaries, from the arrival of a Gottenburgh Mail on Saturday, with advices down to the 22d, in which wo a dditional battle is mentioned; but this is a cir cumstance of little weight with us, for our Harwich letter, received this morning, announces in the first place the arrival of the King George packet, which left Gottenburgh with the Mail above alluded to, on the 22d instant, and secondly the arrival of the A uck ' land packet, which left the same place on the 20th, two days previous. Now when we take into consi deration the lapse of time between the sailing of these two vessels, and their arrival on the same day at Harwich, see can see no reason whatever to doubt that the Sophia, which sailed on the 25th, was for tunate enough to make her passage in three days, and outstrip both. Those who are acquainted with the intricate navigation of the Baltic, and have re marked the state of the winds for these few days past, will bear us out in our reasoning, on this point. But we have the satisfaction to state, upon autho rity, for the accuracy of which we pledge our cha racters as Journalists, that on Saturday information to the following effect was received at the Admiraky, as communicated in our Third Edition of Saturday: . . 64 A British Cruizer in the North Seas has picked . ep a Dutch Fishing Boat, the men on board of which state, that they left Holland on the 25th inst. l on which day a report prevailed, that Bowaeaire had been defeated in a great battle with the Russians, sad that he had lost between 30 and 40,000 men!" The Gottenburgh letter states the loss of the Frenehat 18,000 killed and wounded, and 14,000 prisoners ; and these numbers will be found to cor rapend with the account of the Dutch Fishermen. All these are circumstances which give an air of probability to the report of the victory,--that it may ultimately prove to have been unfounded is not impos sible, but we shall be slow in withdrawing our belief entirely from it until the arrival of another Gotten burgh Mail, which has been due since yesterday. With respect to any arguments for the credibility or improbability of the report which may be derived Iron the scene of action being laid 160 miles from Witepsk, where the French Head-quarters were on the 7th, the date of their last bulletin, we think it by no •means impossible that the interval between the 7th and the 15th may have been occupied in retro grade movements. The halting of the convoys of provisions, the or ders for sending back the immense park of artillery 1 from the Niemen to Dantaic, ir. that Bulletin, are,l in oar estim a ti on , s y m p toms o f a retreat b e i ng i n contemplation ; besides, the importance of Riga in a military point of view, and the determined spirit of resistance exhibited by the garrison, may have indu ced the French Emperor to abandon the further pur suit of the Russians in the direction of Smolensk and Moscow, and move with his whole army towards Riga, which is undoubtedly the key to St. Peters. , burgh, and the possession of which would furnish him with farther means of enforcing his favourite Continental System. The dispatches from Sir James Saustinez received at the Admiralty on Saturday, are dated on the 18th inst. Those received thie morning are dated on the 22d. We believe we can confidently state that ALIA, the Messenger, who is alluded to in the letter of the 24th, from Gottenburgh, was the next . • in rotation for bringing dispatches to this country— t this is tolerable evidence of the truth of one part of fl the letter at lea.st. Dispatches have been received from Riga of the llth. They contain an account of General THo asessow's victory overcqic Saxon General at Cebryn. The Saxons lost one General, four standaids, eight' piece s of cannon, 70 Officers, 3000 prisoners, Asa aboul 7000 killed or wounded. The Russian army from Turkey has actually en tered Wolllynia irtthe rear of the French, and ii ad vancing by rapid :marches to join General THOMAS 30W. This, connected with the success of the latter, may account for any retrograde movement of BoNA-. PART!, particularly as his own Bulletins exhibit a seeming intention to retire into winter quarters. MACDONALD is said to have retreated from the vieh. ility of Riga. There were no accounts at Riga of General Wtfir- OINSXSIN having been beaten on the Ist August. The Armies of General TotLi and Prince BAGRA• TioN were in front of Smolenski-.--there were frequent skirmishes with the advanced posts, Which werere , nerally in favour of the Russians. The aocounts from Riga represent the condition of the Russian army to be most excellent, and the disposition of the Russian inhabitants to be unsaie • Pious in favour of the war. ).' • • T. PETIRSIURGH, AUGUST 6. " Lieutenant-General Count WITTGICNSTIPT, who commands a corps of the Ist army under gAIICLAT DE TOLLY, and who remained in the 'fortified camp at Drissa, while the main army marched towards Vi tack', has reported on the rBth, that having received that an enemy's corps, under Ounitior, had crossed the Duna at a small distance above him, with intention to cut hint off from the road that leads to Pekov, he marched out to attack them, and gained a complete victory, having entirely defeated their whole corps, and driven them back with great loss, took 3000 prisoners, two pieces of cannon, a great quantity of ammunitio4, all their baggage and wounded, two of their Generals (LA GRANGE s a nd VINDER), and killed 5 or 6000 soldiers. " Count WITTGENSTEIN adds that he was pursuing them towards Polotsk, and that after driving thdm over the Duna he intended to return and attack M'DONALD's corps, and if successful, would re lieve Riga thereby. The loss of the Russians has been very great. Among the killed they have to lament the brave General KULNOFF, whose legs were both shot off, and who died in the field shortly after. Information is also received, that the two Grand Armies of Prince BACRATION and BARCLAY DE TOLL? have joined, and that a general engage ment was expected to take place in the neighbour hood of Smolinsk, and on which battle much depends —if lost, the French will be in a fair way to get to Moscow, at which place they are evidently aiming." THE ARMY. Friday, Lieutenant-General Sir EDWARD 1 3 AGIT, K.B. (who lost an arm in a former campaign in the Peninsula) sailed in the Rota, Captain SIINIERVILLE, from Portsmouth, for Portugal. Sir EDWARD has gone out second in command to the Marquis WEL.. LINGTON. Thursday the convoy of Transports for Portugal and Spain (taking the detachments embarked) and the trade for the Mediterranean, sailed from Ports mouth, with a fine wind, under convoy of the PRINCE ov WAIN, 98 guns, Captain J. E. DOUGLAS; and the TYRIAN, Capt. BALDWIN ; with the MALABAR store ship, for Gibraltar, and the CORMORANT, for Lisbon. 'Brigadier-General MADDEN, to resume the command of the second brigade of Portuguese cavalry, went out in the convoy. r Major-General the Hon. W. STEarittr has left Woodbridge, having resigned the command of the garrison there to join the army in Spain under blur quis WELLINGTON. The second battalion of the 59th regiment march ed into Portsmouth on Thursday, and embarked 'with several detachments of dragoons, the former for Cadiz, and the latter for Lisbon. • A dttachment of 100 men of the 89th regiment embarked ou Wednesday to join the la battalion is Spain. Detachments of the 14th and 16th Light Dragoons embarked yesterday for Portugal ; also a detachment of the 34th regiment, for the same place. One hundred and twenty thousand uniforms are now making up in this country, by order of the Go vernmeot of Spain, for clothing the Spanish army. Extra Ordinary exertions have been latfly made at, the Tower in preparing arms for foreign service ; 90,000 stand have - been completed within the last. fortnight, 10,000 of which have been sent to Port Mahon, 10,000 to Corunna, and 50,000 will be im mediately shipped for the Baltic,. A battalion of the 60th regiment arrived last month at Barbadoes to replace the Ist battalion of the Royals and 6th regiment, which are ordered t• Halifax. • The '23d regiment of Light Dragoons is ordered to Coventry. Accounts from Sic ly dated 7th July, 1812, state, that at that time Lot d W. liaxxuqcx had lent Lord Wct.i.moros 7000 men, who were to be joined at Mahon by many more British, and- 11,000 Portu guese, and they were to proceed to Earcelona ; among them welt two troops of the 20ih Light Dragoons, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel BLAKE, and Cap taillS NEWLAND and Mourimmt, also a foteign troop alight dragoons, commanded by the senior Lieute nant of the 20th. Lieutenant Pin, of the Roya), Ntvy,Agent of Transports, had returned from Egypt with corn, and was preparing to go on the expedition, Captain Moutswoam, of the 20th Light Dragoons, Assistant Adjutant-General, had just returned from Greece and 'turkey where he had been to purchase horses for the army—he had not been very success ful, but expected to go to Egypt cn the same service immediately. Lieutenant BLIOIIT, of the Royal Navy, Apra for Transports, had arrived anti sailed immediately for Palermo, which is now head-quarters. A Letter from Port Mahon, dated July I, says ; .••••" The Swat. Low has just anchored here, after one of the most obstinate and sanguinary engagements that has taken place for a long time : hereknasts, !-sails, and rigging are desperately cut up. It appears that the action, on the part of the enemy, had been in agitation for several days, and that the largest of the French vessels was called the Reyoard, and the Com mander of her was formerly Commandant of the Proserpine frigate, at Toulon, which ship he left but a short time since, with 80 chosen men : arld he stood pledged to the Minister of Marine to bring the SWAL LOW into Frejus, or to forfeit his existence: nor did he at the time bargain for the auxiliary assistance of a 16-gun schooner, which he also brought into the action with him. The AMERICA, 74, arrived last night ; she boarded a fishing-boat, who informed her the brig had every gun dismounted bur one, by the shot from the SwALLow,—her starboard side almost completely stove in,—and 1.50 men were killed and wounded in her and the schooner, the greater part of - Extract 'of a letter from an Officer of his Majesty's the SWALLOW. The little town of Frejus was a scene ship ACHILLES,' dated off Corfu, May 4, 1812:- ' of mourning, from the number of people belonging "We are on our way to the head of the gulf. There to that place who served as volunteers in the enemy's are two line-ot-battle ships ready for sea at Venice, brig and schooner. There were several troops em the San one of the m will f Sanßernardo and itiafi to our no Re share- aleanc i t:, FrenchA , r wearei obeaereedkiee a pr o m ise of b barked the morning beingenrolled ed in g thn e g e action, i which io n o all 'gate lately escape out of firinderi, doring a gale ' Honour, after the capture of the SWALLOW : they of wind which blew the Unite off the , station. The ' were all ranged along the gangways, bowsprit, and Island of Liss has lately been garrisoned with 500 rigging, coming out. The SWALLOW passed between sfri .men, ana it deserves all our care, as it is of every im- ; the brig and schooner, within thirty yards of the for portance that we should have a good harbour to run , mer and ten of the latter, opening a fire of sixty-four Ito in this part of world. There is no force at Corfu pounds of cannister, and 321bs. of musket-balls, from at present, but they are looking out for three store- every Fun on both sides. The enemy's brig had a ships daily. We are told- its garrison consists of long nine-pounder in her bridle port, one on each side. 10,000 men; but,ootwithstandingthis circumstance, her forecastle, and nine 321 b. carronades on each an attempt; re understand, will shortly be made to , side ; and the schooner eight long 9-pounders 011 take it. It being the key to the Mediterranean, the each side. Thus were they more than dosible the, rissessionof it wouldprevent the French from making force of the SwALLow ; hid every advantage, as the any lodgment on the Albanian shores. The Greeks water was smooth, and were alone beaten and fol , and i fUlaariruss lately expressed a wish to Captain lowed in under their batteries by fair artillery, the ROWLE'Y (of the Eagle) to attack it by sea, whilst SWALLOW'S superiority in tactics being lost, as there they would do so by land ; but, as he had no faith , was neither wind .nor sea. The SWALLOW'S loss bai in them, he declined it. The Eagle is since gone to been severe, but from the nature of the action it foto the fleet, resigning the command to us." • not be expected to be Aligy ip.” . . IFINDSOR, .41.0 fir ri . I .., - i The PRINCE REGENT; QUEEN, r, and Row. AVM 'did not go to the Princess ELtsasarn's Cottage i dinner, on Thursday afternt on, as was expected Ee r y dined in the Castle ; after which th e Ron ty all went to the Cottage, drank tea, &c. Th dens were illuminated, .mid at eight o'clock, hi Royal Highness, the PRINCE REGENT and the RuYAI )IPA/41LY came on the Lawn, when the Coogrer ,Rockets were to be displayed._ There were only two discharged ; which were fixed to the ground, and te Off: This was done to explain to the PRINCE Raosa. and ROYAL FAMILY the use and intent of this grey instrument of war, and which gave great satiblictioi to the Royal Party. The Band of the 29. h Regimen attended on the Lawn. The Qualm and PRINCENSE left the Cottaffe at ten o'clock, to return to the Castle The PRINCE REGENT and his Party stayed till eleven and then left the Cottage. Friday morning Princess Anonym and Princes CHARLOTTE of WA LIP took their usual rides horseback, accompanied by Lord WA Lumm n Lad: THYNNE, General WYNYARD, and Colonel TAYLOR. Saturday being a wet day there were no move ments of the ROYAL FAMILY. The PRINCY RECIEXT and Duke of Causemoa Wiudhor yesterday. CHELTENHAM, AUGUST 28. This town never before boasted such an assemblagi of beauty and fa,hion, nor were the lodging a n, boarding-houses ever so completely filltd as chain the last fortnight and the present weck. The weath being so very favourable, the place wears a face gaiety all through the walks and promenades: The Theatre boasts an unusual degree of patro l nage since the KEMBLICS have performed. Their fifsl appearance was an overflow in all parts. The 3d, 4th, and sth nights, were patronized respectivel by Lady MARY BLAIR, the Hon. Mrs. MIL .as, COO tens COWPER. and Lady CUNNINGHAM. This evenin the Countess of isitsee bespeaks. In the centra l box, last night, we noticed—Lord and Lady Hall land, Lord Byron, Lord Impey, Earl and Countes Charlemont, Lady Clonbrock, Lady Elizabeth Ma thew, Admiral Bertie, Colonel M•Mahon, and man. other newly arrived fashionables. Mrs. Fii had the Manager's box. Atka ntraLLIGENCB. ..~.. MAILS. • Do 'Ass. ,Dablie • a. - s . o I Guernsey - 1 • Waterford II 1 Jamaica - 0 • Cadiz - 1 Jersey - - 1 0 Lif.boa - - 0 1 I Anbolt - • 0 Malta - 0 0 Gmtemburgb - 1 1 Heligoland - 1 o I Madeira - • • PLYMOUTH, AUGUST 28. Arrived the VIRAGO gun-brig from Cork, Specu lator, hired lugger, from a cruize, MoriisEcevu, hired armed brig, with a fleet under convoy from Wales. August 29.—Arrived Division (of Dantzic) NEIMICE Master, from St. Petersburgh, with hemp and iron for his Majesty's Dock Yard. Sailed his Majesty's sloop FOXHOUND, Captain PARISH, un der a great press of sail for the Westward. The Speculator, hired lugger, is appointed convoy to the Downs. PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST so. • Arrived the NORTH STAR sloop of war from a eruize. 'Sailed his Majesty's ship NIEMEN for the Downs, and the VENTEUR sloop of war, with a fleet for Guernsey.—Wind North. DEAL, AUGUST 30. Sailed the PIONEER, with the outward-bound, for Portsmouth.—Wind N.E. YARMOUTH, AUGUST 30. Yesterday arrived the CHANTICLEER gun-brig and RANGER cutter from a. cruize.—On Friday evening,. in a gale from the N. E. the ketch Jane, G. MORDEN, of and for Colchester, with coals, parted from her anchors, and drove on this beach, where she became soon after a complete wreck ; crew are saved. The PPobPERO and CYGNET have sent in another fishing vessel, with salt and fish.--Wind E. N. E. HARWICH, AUGUST 29. Arrived the King George packet, from Gotten. burgh—sailed 22d inst. Two large convoys had ar rived in Hawke-roads from the East Sea, and were about to sail for England when the King George left. A convoy from Leith had arrived out. Arrived the Auckland packet, from Gottenburgh—sailed 20th inst. passed much wreckage off the Holm, and part ' of a ship, apparently of about 250 tons, her quarter was painted with chequers. The Auckland brought a Messenger with the ratification of the Treaty of Peace between this Country and Sweden. NAVAL APPOINTMENTS. Captain Eveligh, of the Jasper, to the rank of Post Captain. Lieutenants W. Bryan, J. Noyce, and A. Westropp, to the rank of Commander. l.ieutenant J. C. Roberts, to the rank of Commander. 111 r. J. Harvie, promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. Captain Malin, to the Royal Charlotte yacht. Captain M hie, to the Venerable. Captain Dashwood, to the Cressey. Captain Dunn, to the Dublin. Captain Temple, to the Armide. ' Captain A'Court, to the Diomede. Captain G. Harris, to the Belle Poule. Captain I. A. Gordon to the Pyramui. Captain F. Barclay, to the Success. • Captain K. J. White, to the Thistle. Captain R. L. Coulson, to the Stork. Captain Robb, to the AlseUes. Captain Skekel to the fold. Captain Dundas, to be Pay Captain at Sheerness. Captain I'. Everard, to the Wasp. I ieutenants Robert Shed, W. E. Flott, J. Studdert, and Ed- I ward Purcel, from the Marlborough to the Chatham. Lieutenant W. Stone, to the Royal William. lieutenant H. Eutwistle, to the Warspite. lieutenants Pedlar, Ingram, Ainslie, and Dawson, to the Grampus. lieutenant Rowan, to the Dublin. Lieutenant E. Medley, to the Diomede. Lieutenant D. Edwards, to the Adamant. Mr. J. B. Tucker, to be lieutenant of tne Standard. Lieutenant R. Coles, to the Melpomene. Lieutenant P.. Watts, to the Fox. Lieutenant C. fearion, to the Pinabe. 1 ieutenant T. Mat..baU, to the 4corn. Lieutenant Rudbridge, to the Rover. Lieutenant F. Hough; on, to the Magnet. Lieutenant W. Finlayson, to the Nimrod. Lieutenant P. F. Peyton, to the Bold. Lieutenant Peter Despourrins, late of the Waldemar prison ship, to be Agent for all such prisoners of war as may be put on parole at Biggar, in North Britain. Mr. G. Toms, Master, from the Grampus to the Marlborough. Mr. Pearsh, Master, to the Grampus. Mr. Andrew Leslie, Rear-Admiral Scott's Surgeon, from the Marlborough to the Chatham. Mr. Wiliam Warden, Surgeon, from the Grampus to the Mar4borough. The GRAMPUS, of 50 guns, Captain BARRIE, is petted to sail this day from Portsmouth, fur Ca. and the Mediterranean. The POUNCE, of 80 guns, Sir JAMES WOOD, takes convoy to the Mediterranepn. The 'Hawke cartel sailed from Portsmouth o Thursday for Morlaix, with passengers. Mr. firma and family, who are on their way to Vienna, wen going over, but it being discovered that Mr. F. ha, a quantity of gold in possession (300 ducats) thei voyage was delayed. Colonel BURR is mentioned in a Boston Paper to have returned to the United States, and to hart taken up his residence at New York. West India Journals have been received to the 1 st of July. At Dominica some differences had arises between Governor BARNES and the Council. Thu Governor had thought it necessary to dissolve twc successive Houses of Assembly—one having refused to vote the necessary tupplies, and tire other havine declined to meet in October last, during a period o f general alarm, on the discovery of a conspiracy is Martinique. The Board of Council declare theit disapprobation of the refusal of the House to meel for the dispatch of public business ; adding theirbe, lief, that the motives which actuate the individual* were,good, and that the utmost harmony prevailed in the legislative intercourse between the Board and the House. Governor BARNEi, in his reply, EOM ments with severity on the inconsistency of their del claration—that they disapproved the conduct of House of Assembly, yet were convinced of the good mess of their motives, and acted in harmony wt them. He then remarks, as a singular circumstance, that when the public tranquillity was threatened, ant the House of Assembly refused to meet, a voluntee organization of patrole guards, which had subsist( l until that period, was suddenly Fr( I the whole, particularly the insinnatioi s of the car dates at the elections, the Governor appears to tl that there was a design " to alienate the aglow of the French inhabitants from his Mcjesty's Go rstent." 'On Saturday morning a High Mass, a re In. 'and Benediction of the Sacrament. were ce esrateil the Spanish Ambassador's Ckapel, Manchester-street Manchestersquare, in commemoration of the o fidelity having been taken to the Spanish Constitu tion, as decreed by the Cortes. The Spanish A bassador, and the principal Spanish Families • town attended, dressed in the most splendid mincer On the left of the altar was a seat for the Sp ini Ambassador, and on the right a canopy and a ch • of state, with the portrait of Ferdinaltd VII. T chair, however, was not only vacant, but upset, as type of the situation of that unfortunate Monarch' throne. AU the Spaniards, 'who had a share in cerenualles, paid the portrait the same honours as • his Majesty himself had been present. The sing a i and music were excellent. In the evening a part of'che company dined at the City of Load,* Tavern. The Spanish Ambassador presided. Not less than a thousand men, to whotsi o t c er oaths had been administerd, in the neighbour i tt Leeds, have within these few days abjured thoseoltha and taken the oaths of allegiance to his Majesty. CORN MARKET, MARK-LANE, AUOUS r at. To-day the fresh arrivals of Wheat make a middling supply singles aline quality named fully at last prices ; emend and erg dietary at somewhat less. Batley sad Malt Dearly salads thi lest geotatien. White Peas hardly so. Beans at the ewe kind are dearer. There is a tolerable supply of Oat., lardy of de new crop, and sales thereof quoted is. Wm. Flaw a late prices. CURRENT PRICSII Al UNDER Wheat, Ns. Ms. 15(*. Beam MM. M. Pine ditto, 1525. 1555. Tick dam, Sts. DO& Rye, 745. agp. Oats, Ha. 70a. Ttle. Barley, Me. 7s. od. Poland ditto, Tn. tab Maio, Ms. 100 a. ' Pennies ditto, Ms. Ma. White Peas (bonen) 7110.114 e. Rage Seed tM. AM Grey ditto, Its. lea. Pbellour, tat lrah. PRICt groCKs DAT AT ONI OVLOallip 11 pat Ct. I.oL Oft--Casts. .1 4 per Ct. 14--a per Ct. oaf as ISO gt—Booth M. es. ace.--ILL Amis. - 1510.10M. ritc4) ie. di& I pc , 4 -IPat le. Se. eft 4,-iffeSogiv", ~.. Al