Star. — London, England, 1813-09-25 00:00:00

. THE . Altlit the bate or RICHMOND is 1411)01Mt4 to the c bland of tne Sussex District.. Lientenant•Col.nel PEE preteeds iminediately )0 Jamaica, as Deputy Quarter-Master General. ' Sir JOHN HOPE, COHIMEDdEr of the Rates in Irelandb has received orders for Spain, as second in command under Marshal Wauniorom, in the place of the gallant Sir THOMAS GILAkAII, who is coming home, we are sorry to say, on account of ill health. Sir J. HOPE was expected to leave Dolan) on Thurs day, when Lord Foanas assumed the command, mid 'will tetain•it until the arrival of Omni Itlywarr, who is appointed his suceeisor. Sir JOHN STUART, it was thought, would have succeeded SirJotutHon in Ireland, but we understand he will assume the am, duct of the operations in the . Bast of Spain. The COMMANDER IN Cum has ordered that the Adjutants of Local Militia , appointed to raise men for the army, who have •not met with adequate suc cess, or who have- not eierted•themselves in the duty, should no longer be employed on that service. The remainder of the $d Garrison Battalion, which remained in Ireland, is ordered to embark from Spike Island for Malta. . • The Germin prisoners .of war in Scotland have ' , freely enlisted into the 60th tegiment, and have been ordered to assemble at Edinburgh Castle for the different depots. - A detachment from the 2d battalion of the Buffs is under orders to proceed from Reading from em barkation. . The two thousand prisoners arrived at Plymouth from Passage, are the fruits of the battles of the Py rennees, and have been landed at Mill Prison. The 6th and 7th Regiments are op their way from Jersey to the Isle of Wight. • The 2d battalion of the 9th Foot, at present sta tioned in Canterbury, have received orders to hold themselves in readiness to join Lord WELLINccrox, in Spain.. This battalion returned only a few weeks since from Gibraltar. His Majesty's sloop STORK is waiting it the Cove of Cork, to convoy to Portsmouth the fleet, having on board the Cardigan and Cornish Miners Regiments of Militia, and the depots of the 19th Dragoons, the 20th, 76th, and 84th Regiments. The 2d battalion, 40th regiment, recently quar-' tered near Waterford, is under orders to embark im mediately from Cork for St. Sebastian's. It is also said, that the 37th regiment is to be brought forward to the same destination, from Gibraltar, in order to form part of the garrison of St. Sebastian's, which is considered the Gibraltar of the north of Spain : a corps from the southern Gibraltar is therefore select ed, as particularly adapted for the foundation upon which the new garrison of this important station is, to be formed. The remainder of the garrtson, it is expected, will consist of Spanish regiments, to whom, after a little time, the whole charge of the place will be committed. It is rather a singular circumstance, that the two regiments which have suffered so severely at St. Se bastian, should have been those in which the gallant Colonel VASSALf. ran his glorious career. At the ago of awelve years he entered the 59t1i. and served in it as Ensign, Lieutenant, Adjutant, Captain, and Major, He was Lieutenant-Colonel halite 38th, and 'Commanding Officer: he brought' that regiment to such a state of perfection, as to be unequalled in the service at the time he fell. When Lord CATHCART was the Commander in Chief in Ireland, and had an encampment on the Curragh of 20,000 men, pre vious to the - 38th going to South America, that Regiment was ordered thither, not to be improved, RS his Lordship was pleased to say, but to be the pat tern for other corps. It was called “ the Crack Re giment of Ireland." The Ist Battalion is now corn. manded by the Hon. Colonel OREM ts—the old by Lieutenant Colonel NUGENT, both excellent Officers. The following extract of a letter from an Officer on the spot, gives the particulars of the death of Cap tain RHODES, of the Royal Engineei, who was killed at the head of the storming party in the breach of St. Sebastian's : _ Ramp, near St:Sebestian's, Sept. 4, 1813. " He fell in the assault of this town, what pliantly leading ea di! storming patty to the breach ; he•wascovered with wounds, living been pierced With no less than eleven balls & the first shot, which was from a musket, Um& him In the left arm, sad was almost it.stantly succeeded by a grape shot, which shattered the same arm to pieces : notwithstanding which he ascended the 'reach, and leaping down into the midst of the enemy, received the remainder of his wounds, amounting altogether to eleven, which terminated his existence.* Lieutenants ROBERTS, of the 71st Regiment, who was wounded it Vittoria, supposed mortally, we are happy to say is recovered ; but he. is a prisoner of wat. In that memorable engagement he received a sabre wound, which laid him senseless on the; ground. The French, on returning to the field of battle, humanely picked him up, finding that he still breathed, and conveyed him to Bayonne, what he is rapidly recovering. RETRACT OF A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER WITS na' • liIIRAL GIBBS' ARMY, DATED " Stralsund, August Sl,llll S. uWe are not likely to remain long - here. A de tachment of our small army has marched this day for Lubeck, which the French' have been compelled to deliver up to the brave Swedes. This is certainly the land of plenty; bread ld. per pound, beef 4d. but ter 10d. &c. Colonial produce is dear, and Manu factured goodi scarce ; moist sugar 14d. per pound, lump from Is. Gd. to Is. 10d. • " We have been this week a little alarmed by the advance of a French corps of 16,000 men into Poore. rania. This town is in a very bad state of defence, but all the inhabitants without distinction of rank or sex, are employed upon the fortifications. The vo lunteers of the town mount guard night and day, and have enough of service, as the extensive w require one thousand men to complete them. We have a number of French prisoners brought in daily, some as old as 60, and others u young as ISI most, miserable wretches they are, without sines or hats,' and with clothing barely sufficient to cover their nakedness. "'We have about two thousand Germans here, who call themselves the death and glory corps ; and they havi taken an oath not to be made prisoners, but to conquer or to die ! They are fine handsome young fellowt of respectable famlies, well disciplined and eloathed at their. own expence. Sunday we es-i - - lofted &think tot the nestraisect emu op to Iliad hoborgb,. whi - ch-we reached on Tuesday 'matins,' "here we found the 6th British regiment, ands de tachment of the German Legion. • " Friday, one of the French Generals who lints in ustia last winter, was brought in by some Costacks. He iris travelling in disguise to Norway. "' Last night seven waggon-loads of prisoner ar rived here in a deplorable condition. Thursday, the Duke of Mecklenburgh and suite arrived here, in 42 carriages, on his way to his own territories. Our troops are daily firing fen.dejoies for victories." PYRENEES. " CAMP, 4th DIVISION , AUGUST,m, I ".We have been allot us gaping in the grand. arnly I for news from England; and all anxious to know how John Bull would receive the accounts of the two bat tles of the Pyrenees ; they assuredly have covered the Marquis (the Duke we hope by-this time) with more honour and glory than all his former exploits. Instead of 15,000 men, all the deserters say that Souk's army is now near 30,000 men less - than it was before his expedition, undertaken to chive us beyond the Ebro. We fear that you will not be able, nor even many military lit home, properly to appreciate the value of the two battles of the Pyrenees. There never was a finer display of military skill and ma neavre than was exhibited by WELLINGTON and So JLT, from the 25th July to the 2d August and the French, the whole of them now confess, that the Duke of DALMATIA, whom they all looked up to next to Boxesaays, and whom they all wanted to bring into contact with the Marquis, was " buss, Mama baits.' Never did Philladore play a game of 'chess with more science and accuracy than the mili tary game Loid WituaNaron played. Every move had an object, and contributed to the glorious end of liberating the Peninsula, and ultimately the world from the slaiery and chains . of a merciless tyrant.— None of the English papers that we haie seen convey the least idea of - what has been done lately. " Our situation was more than once critical in the extreme—the instant Lord WELLINGTON came up he saw every thing with an eagle's eye, sat down in a village, which the enemy was striving to get and our people to retain, and wrote his orders. It is actually the case, that it was likely the enemy would have en tered before he could finish ; and he had his horse and orderly Dragoon at the door, and an Aide-de- Camp on the out look to let him know if they were galloping into the town. He had hardly given the orders to Lord FITZROY Sommer to carry to Sir Lown COLE, and mounted his horse, when the French Dragoons were in the village—he was out of it in an instant, and on a neighbouring height, re connoitring them with his glass. The accounts of his being up, ran like lightning among the Officers and men of the 4th division, and they felt a confi dence which would have macje them attempt any thing. The brilliancy of the manoeuvres, and the profound skill displayed, is the ti etne ef universal admiration among the French Officers. " At one time SOULT sins within an ace of being taken, an excellent English horse which he rode alone saved him. Many of the French Officers, lam sorry to say, owe their escape to the same cause, and this accounts for our having so few officers, and no Ge neral, prisoners, with 4500. " The Spaniards make the Marquis Prince of the Pyrenees—we confidently look to his being made an English Duke ; and that the Hero of Barossa, the gallant PrcroN and HILL, will be made Barons. On such an occasion BONAPARTE would have made three or four Princes, half a,dozen of Marshals, and half a hundred Barons and Counts ; and this is one of the secrets of his great success ; he has the means of re warding, and of,•I may say, bidding higher for mili tary merit ; he bribes his Generals to do extraordinary feats. It is said with us thit ourible (2narter-Master- General and Adjutant-General, the Hon. Lieutenant. , Generals STEWART and CoLvicce, and Generals ' BRISBANE, KEAIPT, BARNES, and Ross,- who all so greatly distinguished themselves,, will either get red ribbands or be made Baronets." " CAMP, 9th DIVISION, SEPTEMBER 8. " We are all delighted to hear that• our gallant Commander, Lord DALHOUSIE, along with General STEWART and the Adjutant and Quarter-Master-Ge neral, were made knights of the Both. This honour could not ban been conferred on any four individuals who are more popular in• the army, or whose merits stand higher. " Being encouraged by Sows, who is constantly sending in spies to Pampeluna, and communicating by signals with the Castle of St. Sebastian's, the Go vernors of these places continue to hold out. We hear by deserters, that SOULT has just received consi. derable reinforcements; and that he will immediately again make another great effort, attack us, and drive us from our present position overlooking France.— There is no doubt he will continue us these attacks, harassing us as long as these two places hold our. " We still want more troops. We have heard a story, which we would fondly believe, that 50,000 Militia are coming out ; to which as many cavalry, artillery, and regulars will be added, las will make the force 40,000 ; the whole -under the•.ommand of Sir J. HOP; and some of the best home Generals.— We are in the mean time fortifying the whole front of our position, constructing redoubts, breast-works, &c. along the whole line of the Pyrenees which the Allied Army occupy. The rainy weather has set in, and bleak enough is our post. Wben we came to this part of Spain, so near to the North coast and so short a distance from Eng t land, we expected to find sutlers with all the good things as well as with articles of cloathing, but every thing is uncommonly dear. Tea from three to four dollars a pound, English sugar and cheese a dollar a pound. In fact, a dollar is a round sum, and nothing comes under it. " Since writing the above, I hear at last that the 'Castle of Sr Sebastian, the Gibraltar of this part of Spain, has fallen. As the Bth division can now join the,arnsy, there is no doubt we shall move on. " The French, it is said, have moved backward behind a ravine which is immediately in front of Bayonne, and we shall occupy the ground they have left, and descend from the top of the mountain. In the mean time we move to the right towards Ronce valles. The 4th division relieves us. We have suf fered much in all the late glorious alrairs-i4he poor el st •are quite cutup." inAtsdit, tl•PreMakß Wll4 . lllteall s Y OtisLISA MONO Els, bake AreLA 11131CX arrived heir. An Ames *lied 'lsere the same tetning, aboht eleven o'clock, from the Mune Radix* toiler MAJESTY. with the particulars of the dispatches from Sir C. STEWART. Yesterday morning her lifinsrY, accompanied by the Princess Euzaarrn ' took an airing to Frogmort. Princesses Avomira andSOPAIA accompanied by the Duke of CLAHRECR, Generals iiiirTllTA/U) and TAT wit. with . their other attendants, rode on horseback in the Great Park. His Royal Highness the Duke of awarsca left Windsor this day. This morning her MAJESTY and Princesses ELlZA snit and MARY took an airing to Frogmore. The Duke of nun arrived at the Castle, from Casdebar Hill, and at ten o'clock accompanied Princesses Au °arra and SOPHIA on horseback in the Great Park. Her Royal Highness Princess CHARLOTTE of WALES took 'an airing to her phaeton and grey ponies. COVENT-GARI . IIBN THEATRE. - Mr. Vim°, who came out last week in Frederic-A, is The Poor Gest/max, made his second appearance last night as Harry Dorwtou, in The Road to Rails. In this character Mr. V. improved upon acquaint ance. In the scene with Silky, and in that where he receives the 416000 from the Widow, he surpassed our expectations. His performance thr o ugh out was re spectable, and he obtai ne d cons id erable applause.— TERRY'S Old Dorman is a good piece of acting. No man on the stage seems to enter more completely into the spirit of the character he sustains than Mr. ' Tana Y.—Maritsws, in Goldfock, was ben up, and touched up four-in-band folly prime. Emmy, in Silky, displayed genuine humour, and seemed to feel himself more at home than he usually does in old characters. The meanness and hypocrisy of ete usurer were pourtrayed with a masterly hand, and it was impossible to witness his performance, and refrain from laughter. Mrs. KENNEDY acted the Widow Warren exceedingly well. She ought to have made her debut in this character, as she appeared to much greater advantage in it than in any thing she has yet attempted. Miss BOOTH was greatly applauded in Sophia, and the play went off in the best style. MARGATE, SEPT. 23. Intelligence has at length arrived relative to the lost packet. The King George hoy came into port this morning, and informs us that the British Queen is now performing quarantine in the creek below Gravesend. We learn, that on Monday night she ran athwart the bows of a ship from the Levant. One of the sailors belonging - to the Queen jumped on board the proscribed vessel, to release the rigging, but returned immediately to his own ship. The dm. covery was too late. The British Queen is now ob. liged to comply with the strict rules provided in these case', and is placed under the same restrictions as the other vessel. We hear that there are about thirty passengers on board the former ;—the limited time of performing quarantine is 40 days. Wripezar's Musical Promenade. on Tuesday last, was attended by the first quality of Margate, broad. stairs, and Ramsgate ; the attraction was Master WziPesaz, who made his first appearance in public on the pedal harp. He performed an ohligato part in a Trio, with his father and Master De PlNlgat t in a masterly style, and received universal applause. A MANIAQ—Dorins several days past, a seaman, named kifta., boatswain of the Lynx, has been trou blestnne at the Admiralty, by making inquiry for the Lords Commissioners, conducting himself indeco rously, and insulting the officers. In consequence of his extravagant behaviour, be was yesterday turned out of the Office, and very soon after was seen walk ing in the Admiralty-yard with a large clasp knife open.. He was heard in that menacing attitude to say he knew the man who had turned him out, and that he would be revenged when the person came to the spot where he was waiting. The determined con duct of the man induced the Messengers to send to Bow-street, and Lavender and Pearks, the officers, soon nude their appearance. They immediately se cured him, and searching his person, found nothing but half a horse-shoe, which he was extremely anio ous to preserve, saying it was his property, and that he had brought it from Halifax, in America. The officers had orders to convey him to the receiving. ship at the Tower, from whence he is to go to the Nore to be examined, and in case he proves to be in saneswill be sent to a lunatic asylum. Atone boy, about nine years of age, the son of Mr. WILLIAMS' Printer, was drowned yesterday af ternoon. opposite the Savoy prison, in the river Thames. The child had been playing with several of his little companions on some coal-barges which are moored off that place, when, unhappily his foot slipped, and he was precipitated into the water. An alarm was immediately given, and every exertion wits made, by dragging and otherwise, to find the body. These exertions were, however, unsuccessful for one hour, at the end of which time the lifeless corpse was drawn on shore. Monday, about two o'clock in the morning, as Grottoa Bums and his son, (about 13 years of age) were driving their master's, Mr. Cook's waggon, from Stoke by .Nayland to Sudbury, the horses tcok fright about two miles from the -termer place, and the fathes and son in attempting to stop them, were both beaten down, and the waggon passed over them ; the son immediately got up and went to his father, and asked him if he was hurt 1 who replied, that his leg was broken, and asked his son if be was hurt I who said, the waggon ran over me, but I think I shall soon be better. He then got his father's hat, which laid in the road, and put kt on his parent's head, but upon being asked by his father, if he could go to a neigh. bonring house to get assistance 1 he said, no, dear father, for I am worse, I must lay downs which be did, and died almost immediately! The father in this situation crept upon his hands and knees about a quarter of a mile ; but it was upwards of two hours before any assistance could be obtained. The horses ran to Sudbury, a distance of nearly eight miles.— The poor man and his son both bad most excellent characters. On the following day-an inquisition was taken by JOHN WAYMAN. Gent. upon the body of the unfortunat; young man, and the Jnry of course retto nod a verdict 0f..-Accisissual Death. _ - . . .. inke,4olo4.etlibe WM I . • _ • 4 .1a-aaa • The tonnartag pettaaehirs reopettat th is Wirer& state woman are stilted in some affidaVits gamin le the patentee_ of laird Quint, the Hi . li Shitiff; tad four Magistrates of the county of Tipperaral pt Meeting content's! at eabir. fot the potpie* awaking inquiry tespecting Mrs Clifford's character, on ay. count of her being impeached by Leary with the tiiiirder of Clifford. It appears that Clifford was * well-known character in that part of the cnuntg, ai where he we n t by th e na m e o f N ed C li ffor d . earned his livelihood by jobbing in cattle at fairs, and had a few pounds of his own. Thomas Burke, the husband of Mr& Clifford, quitted his wife and family about ix years ago, and came to London, where he remained Only about three weeks. He and his wife and family leading a most wretched life of contention, they, in the presence of his brother, Wm. Burke, a wealthy man, and much led in that neighbourhood, agreed to separate an apart- In consequence of this agreement, Thomas Burke disposed of his holding to his Mother William, for which he received £3O an Bank of Ire► land notes, sixteen of which, and a horse, Thomas Burke paid to his wife, on condition of her taking the five youngest children with her, leaving the eldest, a boy 17 years of age, with him. Mrs. Burke deter mined to remove from that neighbourhood, and re: side with a sister of her's, who lived near Lismore, In the county of Waterford, a distance of about four teen miles. On the day of her departure for th a t place, her brothe r -i o -l aw . William Burke, accoms panied her to a cousin of her's, who lived about seven miles on her road, at a place called I'ubbera, in the parish of Caster Grace ; he took her furniture with him in a horse and cart of his own, and the horse given her by her hu s b an d was led alo ng side. When Wm. Burke left her, and her children and furnitutes at her cousin's, he took his leave. Here she remained until her sister sent her eldest sin with a horse and cart for her, her children, and furniture, being about seven miles further, where she remained five week.s, and where she was thin determined to settle. She proposed selling the horse to her brother-in-law ; but he would not buy the horse without h e r hu s b an d' s consent, lest he should have any future claim on it. for which purpose he sent for Thomas Burke; who accordingly came, and gave his consent to the sale ' , on condition that neither she nor the five children she had with her, nor the one of which she was then prer nant, should ever trouble him. Edward Clifford, 'the deceased, called there, being determined to go to Loos don, in order to get a letter to her brother, Mr. Lyons, in Parker -street, in hopes he could befriend him on his arrival in London t this letter he bats pro. raised, but desired to call again. In the course of conversation between the two .sits tern, it was agreed upon that Mrs. Burke should take advantage of Clifford's going to London, to take her children with her and accompany him, in hopes that her brother, who was -a widowef, and comfortably situated, would do something for her and her Ails dren ; accordingly they set off together. In Cork she exchanged her Trish noteslor English ones, which she received from Mr. Cahil, clerk to Mr. Daly, an eminent merchant, residing in Mallow-lane, Cott.... On their journey they agreed to live as man and was, DERBY, saprlktuit We have seldom Seen so large a concourse of pet)- * collected together in this town, as Are assembled to witness the ascent of Mr. WiLice,'s Balloon, on Monday last._ From nine o'clock in the morning till twelve the street* of Derby, and the various roads leading to the Siddals, were crowded with passengers I of all kinds, in every kind of conveyance, finds the titled equipage to the handsome fanner's daughter on foot, with her clean white gown and party-eo. loured ornaments. They all seemed abundantly happy with the thoughts of the day's amusement and certainly the fineness of the weather, the eitteib lence of the ground from which the balloon was to ascend, and the well oncerted atrangtarti adopted by the Committee who managed the business on the part of our infirmary, offered MT, reasonable expire. ration that the Public would have beet fully grail. 1 fie& Bat it was fated that all this favoured us la vain ; for although the process of filloig went on for a short time in the best manner, and the proper gas continued to be produced by the sulphuric acid and zinc with such rapidity as to endanger the bursting of the apparatus, the balloon filled to a certain point, and then continued stationed, in consequence of its being full of small holes, which let out the gas as fast as it was generated. When every expectation of its being filled was abandoned, the Committee at last gave orders for the gaspipe to be turned from the balloon, which very soon lost all the air which it con. coined, and fell empty to the grounds After this, the Committee came forward, and assn. red the spectators, as a recompense for their &sap. pointment, that they would endeavour to bring Mr. SADLER to the town with his balloon, and that be should ascend without any more expense to.thein.. They appeared to be perfectly satisfied with this dc. claration; and, although so great a number of per. sons were collected together, they began to disperse quietly, and every thing would have terminated peaceably, had not a few ill advised individuals exci ted a disposition to tear in pieces the balloon, which was properly quelled by the dragoons who were pre. sent. But this called down the vengeance of the people upon themselves; although they had only done their duty, and were not at all instrumental in the. disappointment. They were obliged to guard the balloon from the Siddals to the Town.hall; but as they pissed over the Canal-bridge and down the Siddals-lane, they were assailed from behind the hedges with the most violent showers of stones, which wounded several, and made it absolutely necessary for one of the Ma. Aistrates to order them to clear every place, at all Its. lards. No person, however, was materially hurt, and this is to be attributed to the good temper and address displayed by Major HAMELN and the Scots Greys, who bore the intemperance of the mob for a considerable time before they began to act. deserve equal commendation for the dexterity with which they put to flight the disorderly without inju. ring them, striking with the fiat side of their swords, and almost teaching their horses to be as careful as they were themselves. We were sorry to see two or dwelt dragoons with severe wounds on their heads, and their cap-plates beaten in, besides OW who had his anger dislocated by x stem