Star. — London, England, 1812-06-11 00:00:00

LONDON. THURSDAY, JUNE 11. tr.Batualas.—Holiday at the Exchequer, Bank, East India, and South Sea Houses. The 'important fact which we stated yesterday, with respect to the sentiments of Ministers on the great Catholic Question, was fully confirmed in the House of Commons last night. Lord CASTLE. WM, in answer to a question from Mr. SPENCER STANHOPE, distinctly stated, that the ensuing discus sion of the claims of the Catholics, would be left en tirely to the discretion of Par:iarnent, and that the Mergers of the Government and their fliends were at perfect liberty to vote as they pleased. On the subject of the additional Ministerial ar rangements we can State nothing upon which our tinders can with certainty rely. It is 'our duty, how ever, to give the reports which are in circulation.— Lord LIVERPOOL, it is now said, has succeeded in ob taining the assistance of Earl BATHURST, as Secretary of State for the War and Colonies ; Lord SIDNOUTH as Secretary for the Home Department, and of Lord lisaaoway as President of the Council. The other arrangements, which it is said will include Mr. CAN., NING, but in what department, we confess ourselves unable to determine, will be settled to day—they will, probably be announced this evening in the House of Commons, previous to the discusion on Mr. Wonz in's Motion. Yesterday a running ship from the Baltic brought letters more recent from that quarrer by several days than the last mail from Gottenburgh. We subjoin an extract from one of them, which will be found to con tain some interesting facts : M BALTIC, JUNE 2. 46 We have letters from Hano. The Orion's con voy all got safe throughthe Belt, although the enemy's privateers were very troublesome. g , Letters from Riga of the 18th state, that the Rus sian ports were to be opened to us ; but the customs and other officers had not received their instructions. Report from two or three houses mentions, that the Russians were at Memel, and that the French had occupied Pillau ; but that Colberg and the other sea- ports were still Lept by Prussian troops. " The French seem to occupy all other parts es that unhappy country. lam far fr..m thinking they have any good design in not possessing themselves of the sea putts, and - imagine their forbearance is with a view to facilitate the entry of grain ;—a want of which begins to press very heavily on Prussia. One hundred and fifty vessels from Pillau, Memel, &c. had entered Riga, for grain, within the last six weeks, which is the cause of the Russian Government pro.. hibiting the export." A letter from Baltimore, dated May 4, sad s, " Our Congress are in stalu qu7. We do not think war will begin at this side ; if it does it will not be supported by the people. ST. JAMES'S PLACE, JUNE 6, IBM 1 " We fear the embargo vt ill be felt in Liston and mull or A CONVERSAT ION BETWEEN LOBE, MOIRA, Cadiz. We however do not think it will he renewed, atco Loans GREY AND GRENVILLE, AT WHICH LORD as it is a measure very obnoxious to the Agricultural ERSKINE RAS PRESENT, intererst which rules here, besides which, the ap- Lord MOIRA stated to Lord GREY and Lord GREN VILLE that he was aut h or i se d by t h e P RINCE REGENT proachiag State elections, will no doubt prove the unpopularity of this restrictive system, especially as to consul t w i t h t h em on t h e f ormat i on o f a new Go- there is little or no hope of any accommodation refitment; and satisfactory explanations having taken with France." between them, respecting such measures as ap- A Lisbon letter, dated May 26, says, " American pasted to be of the greatest urgency at the present Importations ceased the 18th instant, and prices are moment, more especially with reference to the situa- regulated as follows :—Flour, per barrel, £5 ss. tion of his MAJESTY'S Roman Catholic subjects, and sterling ; Rye ditto, 44. Is. Bd. ; Wheat Bs. 9d. ; In the differencesnow ur ha ppily subsi sting with A meripa, dian Corn ss. 3d. ; Rice £3. 4s. and 03. 6s. per Cwt. and that Lord MOIRA had received this commission .—The stock of flour imported since the Ist instant, without any restrict ion or limitation v. h at ever being laid is near 80,000 barrels, and it is ordered that every by the hunt on their considering any points which bolder shall reserve one-third of what he has, at the they judged useful for his service, they expressed their disposition of the Corn-market. The sales in that satisfAction with the fairness of this proposal, and their readiness t o enter i nto such d i scuss i ons a market amount to near 600 per day, and it is ex t must pre- • pected that when the wants of the provinces induce i . tede the det a il s o f any new arrangement. A s a pre them to give the above prices, the sales will be nearly miinarY questio n , w hi c h appeare d to t h em o f great double. An order has been issued, prohibiting the importance, an d w hi c h they thoug h t i t necessary im transport of provisions beyond the frontiers, and no mediately to b r i ng f orwar d, to prevent t h e inconve ►provision cargoes are suffered to leave this. The hai manse and embarrassment of the further delay which - m ight be produced if this nerciation should bFeak veseassurnes a very promising appearance, and is near at I.and." cif in a more advanced state, they asked whether thi s full liberty extended to the consideration of new ap- Piottnents to those great offices of the Household l'hich have been usually included in the political arrangements made in a change of Administration ? intimating their opinion, that it would be necessary to act on the same principle en the present occasion. Sul Moritat answered, that the PRINCZ had laid no restriction upon him in that respect, and bad never Pointed, in the most distant manner, at the protec tion. of those Officers from remov a l. That it wo u ld , mera, b e i mpossible for him (Earl MOIRA), to c a eaM ar in making the exercise of this power positive and indispensible in the formation of the Administra boor because he-should deem it, on public grounds, The following item appears in the public accounts ~~ • Great Britain, and condemning the attack ott the d t i e Belt, kc. &c. stands at the head of the list." WILMINGTON, APRIL 8. A tritish 50 gun ship, supposed the CtIRRRIIII ) li d a frigate were off the C a p e s o f Delaware on Fri °,d. lot , in ten tathoms water, with American en u.s fly i ng . Atter the Pilots went alongside they 9 ba g :j e d down the American ensign and hoisted St. George , ,114 g. They enqnired of the Pilots whether soy American vessels of war were cruizing along the ? probably the British Government hive con. ascel d e d to station a few ships, &r . along our coasts te protect' the flour trade, which at the present wo nt is very brisk, by giving a few ilasstrerts to those o f our vessels who, from neglect or hurry, boto we without procuring them from the Bri.i.h c og g. p r ig Philadelphia blockaded—Within the last few days t wo British frigates, one of them the Guerrier, have taken a station in our Bay, in ten fathoms water . No vessel whatever is suffered to pass until situ having been boarded and examined. Both fri gates stew the American colours. Eitract of a letter from a Gentleman on a visit to jk a ufort, (South Carolina) to his Friend in Philadel phia, dated February 11 : Since I have been here, I have been witness to &most alarming occurrences. Frequent shocks of sa earthquake had been felt, of which you no doubt h o e beard. Last Friday we experienced one much w oo severe than any yet feltit happened about four i n thrumming. I was lying awake in spy bed, when Ibsen to feel my bed shake, but being witness to so s pay, I was not at first much alarmed. The house Min to shake more and more. I leaped from my bad in fear, lest the house should fall, and, in running . 1 l oss the room, I staggered like one very much in. t aiated. The house shook so much that . 1 was fated to support myself, by holding fast to the case sent of the door of my room. It continued for four ive minutes ; I can only comp are the motion to that of a ship at sea. The of the house was cracked ;0 several places in consequence of it. The people bereare very much alarmed, and the Civil Power have appointed a day of fasting, humiliation, tad prayer, that the evil which seams to await us may be aver ted." THE EVENING STAR. ' peculiarly objectionable. To this tart -Cart Rad Lord GitkNsflLLE replied, they also acted on public grotands alone, and with no other feeling whatever, than that which arose from the necessity of giving to a new Government that character of efficiency and stabi. lity, and those marks of the constitutional support of the Crown, which are required to enable it to act use , fully for the public service ; and that on these grounds it appeared to thorn indispensible, that the connection of the great offices trf the Court with the Administra tion should be clearly established in its first arrange ments. A decided difference of opinion, as to this point, having been thus eipressed on both sides, the conversation ended here with mutual declarations of regret. Nothing was said oil the subject of official arrangements, nor any persons proposed, on either side, to fill any particular situations. We are happy to have it in onr power to contra dict a rumour which has prevailed within these few days, of a contagious fever having brien out at Carthagena. Our letters from Gibraltar, which are to the 25th ult. are silent on the subject. The fol lowing is one of the most recent communications from that quarter : " GIBRALTAR, MAY 24, 1814. " We have nothing new in this neighbourhood.—• BALLASTERWS Willy is at St. Roque and Algeciras. The greatest scarcity prevails, and many of th.: un fortunate peasantry have died of famine.—We daily expect to hear of part of Lord WELLINGTON'S army penetrating into Andalusia ; and some French de serters state, that the advanced guard had already reached Cordova. Thd barman.; Captain ADAMS, has driven the French out of Almeria, and brought eff all the ordnance, after blowing up the fortifications. " MAY 25.—Some deserters, which came in this morning from Malaga, state; that the French were removing all the ammunition and guns from that place to Antequera." 11,11 , AL INDELLIGRNCE. PLYMOUTH JUNE 9. . Arrived his Majesty's ship HOTSPUR front Ports. mouth, and his Majesty's ships Murtr►e and Hzucow from a cruize. Sailed his Majesty's ship ABUNDANCE to Portsmouth.—The cLARENCE, 74, is to be com missioned ; the command, it is sa;d, to he given to Captain Surrom Saturday last, Sit RORER CALDER. Bart. struck his flag, on quitting his command here, on a temporary leave of absence, during which Sir EDWARD Bum.art, Bart. will represent him. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 10. ' Arrived his Majesty's ships thvssas and MISSkLTO from Guernsey and Jersey.—Wind N.E. DEAL, JUNE 10. Sailed his Majesty's brig CUURLY with a convoy to Poitsmouth.—Wind N. YARMOUTH. JUNE 10. Sailed this mornings his Majesty's ship FORWARD. for Shields.—Wind N. GRAVESEND, JUNI 10. Sailed the Bluchar, Games, for Malta ; Wylatm, CUNNINGHAM, for ditto ; the Blossom, SALMON, and Anna, FLACK, for Oporto; Maria, ESTILL, for Wingo Sound ; JAne, JOLLY, for Guernsey ; and the Cornelia Susannah, To NTO. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. Mdampus, for the Fantome, en Friday, at Mr. Hawker's Office, Plymouth, and there recalled. Starling, for the Fomoyeligheden and Willielmina, on her ar rival hi port; recalls at IS, Clement's Inn. Rennmmee, for the Henrietta, on the 17th inst.; recalls at 14, Clement's Cambrian, for the Aurora, on the 15th inst. at S, Salter's-half court., Cannon-strert, and tkere roodltd. SHIPS ARRIVED. At Liverpool—The Harmlee, Proctor; from Lisbon; and Constitu'ion, Peers, from Cadiz. At Waterford—The Mary, Crawford, from Lisbon. At Cork—The Unity, Twookey ; Oak, M'Cleod ; and Henry, Pykr, from Lmbon. At Newfoundland—The Lowden, Amery, from Liverpool. Off Penzance—'the Robert, —, from Antigua ; and Velo city, Bly,h, from Gibraltar. FROM LLOYD'S BOOKS. The Unice, from New York to Oporto, is Stranded at Sandy Hook. The Hamlet, —, from Tortola, I% supposed to have arrived at Ghsgow, letters having been rec.nved marked by her. under the head - of “ —neous Services"—For of Bridport, one of his pupils, to fig - ht on some spot his Majesty's Foreign and other Secret Services, between Exeter and Hannon, for 500 guineas. , £151,539. 14e. 3d. I Among the last arrivals at Bath are— The gross amount of the tax upon hackney - Lady Elphinstone, Hon. P. Piarrepoint, Sir J. Caldwell, *4- ' coaches and chairs for last year, is iSO,9o9.—the rnatntivre:t: La Ad dy, and i l l iss Onaluw, Admiral Aylmer, General HAdinl. charges of management, ie3,182. Is. Sd. and the net General and Mrs. Powell, Hon. Cal. Cal r lean, Col. R. a Z v ope eT , produce, £27,726. 18s. 9cl. i and Lieutenant Colonel Stewart. The expences of the establishment of the horse An investigation has taken place in Plymouth-yard, patrole, for the better security of the public roads relative to the causes of the late calamitous fire, but leading to the metropolis , for thr e e quarters of a' nothing satisfactorily has transpired. Some ashes year, amount.to £1 ,6 40 . 1 Is. of lightning were observed on Monday morning, but c.:lit is not believed that the fire originated from these. the reports which have reached the Admiralty, The sum charged under the head of 44 secret s nothing has transpired to justify an opinion that say vice" money, from the 23 d of April , 1807, to the I st i From November, 1809, while Mr. CANNING w as Fore i gn Secretary, amounted to £284,627. 16s. 7d. incendiary was concerned. Greenock, June e. I Yesterday, Motet McDonald was executed here, for The Middle . Regiment of Royal Bucks, or King's the robbery of the shop ofJames Jelly, grocer, Laigh- Own Local Militia, under the command of Lord street, in December last, in this town. He had been 1 NUGENT, completed their 14 d tys training at Ayles. tried and received sentence of death at the last Circuit ' bury, the beginning of last week, . Court of Justiciary in Glasgow ; but the Judges The heavy baggage, convalescents, and recruits, thought it must add to the effect of the example to belonging to the sth Regiment, lately embarked for order their sentence to be put into execution in the place where the crime was committed. In addition Portugal, have been ordered from Leland to Kings. bridge, in Devonshire. to the detachment of the Ayrshire Militio which has been stmioned here for some time, four cimpanies There are four lists forming for the ensuing loan, namely— , arrived from Paisley, on Thursday, of the same re- Messrs. ROBARTS CURTI4, and CO. I giment, at present quartered in that town . The gib- Messrs. lisaiNG, 'Bac) ruKas, and Co. I bet was erected early yesterday morning, on the Messrs. RCM, IrtviNo, and Co. with JOHN JACKSON , and Co. square, about six yards from the front of the church. Messrs. 13A.stocs, RICARDO, and Co. of the Stock F.icbange. l At twelve o'clock the military were drawn out round Sir R. STRACHAN, since his matrimonial alliance, the scaffold ; at a quarter past two, this Sheriff, the has struck his Flag. two Magistrates, with white staves in their hands, The statue of Mr. PITT, about to be placed in the the Town Council, Town Clerk, Rezennd Mr. Steel, Senate House, at Cambridge, is by NOLLEKINS, and Dr. Gilchrist, Reverend Messrs. Hereus and Bryan, cost four thousand guineas. 1 . his father and sister, all dressed in black, together The beautiful seat of Wall-hall, in Hertfordshire, with the town o ffi cers, the executioner from Edin late the property of Mr. Tusr.tessom, uncle to Lord burgh, and the criminal, attended by a party of sol- R ENDLESHAM, has been recently purchased by Mr. diets, came down from the Bridewell, and walked TILNEY LONG POLY WELLESLEY. -.11,) unc'er the portico at the church ' • the criminal then Sir LEONARD THOMAS WORSLEY HOLMES, Bart i received some wine from the h ands of his sister. ....: h I continued in prayer and singing psalms un- M. P. for Newport, Hants, will shortly lead to by ten minutes past three o'clock, when he took fare the Hymeneal Altar the beautiful and accom wel of the Magistrates and Clergy, and ascended the plished Miss MURRAY, youngest daughter of Lat'y scaffold with a firm step, by a stage erected out from Geoeoe MURRAY, and sister to the Countess of the Church railing; the executioner then pat the rope loculalTEß. round his neck, chew a white cap over his face, then 'To select the ingenuity and improve on the taste withdrew, and at a quarter past three, he gave the of every country, seem to have been the aim of the signal by dropping a handkerchief ; the drop fell, Proprietors of Vauxhall Gardens this season ; who w hen,. dreadful tn.-relate, the rope broke, arid he tell have happily united Chinese elegance with Grecian i to the ground ; his sister, who was near instantly as. beauty, and adorned the Gardens in a manner that sisted him in rising, (his arms being tied) he ins. at once excites and attracts the admiration of the No- mediately got up, and walked steadily, without the bility and Gentry ho honour the Gardens with their least attempt to escape, to the Church-door ; h..! was presence every evening. I then taken into the Church, and turned tai..t ' • the Monday night the Count De Lint ( LotrisXVl II.) back of his head vas a little bruised by the fall— and Duc De BERRI, arrived at the George Inn, Ports. ! another rope was procured, the drop was sukported mouth, on their way to the Isle of Wight. Honour- I underneath by a plank, he again mounted the scaf able Commissioner GREY, and Admiral Sir R. Bic- ! fold with a firm and quick pace, the execu t ioner put steamy, Commander-in-Chief at that port, on T ues . ' the r o pe round his neck, tied the other end on the day morning attended them to the Dock yard. They ' hook above, and drew the cap over his face. He proceeded yesterday to the Island. I then went below, and, on the signal being given, Sir FRANCIS MOLYNEUX, Gentleman Usher of the knocked the prop away, when the drop fell, and he Black Rod, died on Tuesday morning, and Sir was launched into eternity at 20 minutes before four o'clock.—He made three or four feeble convulsive THOMAS TYRWHITT has been appointed to that Office by the Lord Chamberlain (Marquis of Hmerroar.) 1 throes, and was apparently dead in three minutes, The estates in Cornwall, the property of the late The body was taken down at 20 minutes past four Earl put into a coffin, and given to his relations, Earl of ORFORD, but now in possession of Lord CLIK- Ton, are, we understand, claimed by Earl CHOLMON- who carried it up to the Bridewell. Macdonald was DALLY, and measures are in train for an appeal to the I a stout man, about 35 years of age, a native of Ire. Courts of Law. land, but has resided here for a number of years, By a Gentleman who has reached London from I wrought as a jobber about the quays, said furnished with ballast. He was dressed in biz common Prussia, we learn some singular advantages under : s hips viz. a short blue coat, blue vest, white which re French Commissariat contracts for corn. i clo t h es, All vessels containing this commodity in the Prue-1 tr.owsers, and grey stockings. He seemed very pe. sian ports are seized ; a valuation is made of the and duly affected with his awful situation.— In di io f tent, iHe has left a wife and five children. There was a cargo, at the di scret i on t h e F rench, and the sellers great number of spectators, but no accident happen. a. e paid in bills on the Treasury at Paris, which are ;d. s—A this was the first execution that ever took to become due in the year 1816 ; but this is not suf.! [lace at Greenock, we sincerely hope it may be the ficient. Before payment is given, both the old con.' last, and that the recollection of ource that pro ttibutions and the new contributions are deducted duced such an awful spectacle to the crowd assem from the amount, in proportions adjusted by the same . bled, and painful task to those more immediately discretion. The bills so applied are already at a die count of 72 per cent. charged with stens the law pot in exe,utio.i, may serve as a warning and admonition to that part of the Molineux has received a challenge from Gaffey, commu nity , who by their heedless or determined _ _ . .____ • - course of life, render such dreadful examples necessary. There are immense number of counterfeit Su Bank tokens in circulation. On a minute inspection of them it vrill be found they may easily be discovered by attentively examining the figure 8 in the date.— The figure upon those of a spurious descripti in is so small and so fine, that it appears to be ahno.t in two distinct parts, but on these that are genuine the mid. dle line, is proportionably strong and legible. Ano ther criterion for judging of counterfeits, is, that, la the genuine tokens, the dashes from the rim touch exactly on the upper part of the letter r in the word Res is the atergue, whereas in the counterfeits the J dash goes between sbe • an Graua sad the rip Itez• . LONDON'bER.qr, JUNE t Wednesday last, we witnessed the most extrsortils nary storm ever remembered. About thrs4 o'clock, the sky began to lour ; and the atmosphere became so dense, that respiration was found difficult in the streets. Several flashes of lightning mete instanta neously succeeded by loud peals of thunder. In a few moment: the rain began to descend in torrents. Next day, upwards of sixty loads of mud and gravel were takes up at Shipquay-gate, where the flood from several streets rested, and had formed a little sea.— The rain continued to fall for about sixty minutes, and was occasionally intermixed with hail of an asto nishing size, which broke many windows on the high grounds about the city. Fortunately, the storm did not extend far into the country, nor has much injury' been done, excepting to a few gardens, where the fruit-trees have suffered heavily. HORRID MURDER. Extract of a letter, dated Resolis, in the shire of Cromarty, 4th June, 1812:—" On Tuesday last. the 2d hist. Captain Charles Munro, late of the 42d regiment, and Robert Ferguson, ship-carpenter, both residing at Inverbreaky ferry, parish of Resolis, hav ing met at a neighbouring workshop, a trifling dis pute arose Ix tareen them. After a little altercation Ferguson pulled a large knife out of his pocket, and plunged it into Captain Munro's side. Dr. *Do nald, at- Cromarty, who was immediately called, dressed the wc , und with the greatest skill and ten derness, and afforded every possible assistance, but all to no purpose, the wound was mortal, and next evening, about twenty-eight hours after receiving the cruel stab, the Captain died ! Upon perpetrating the atrocious deed, the base assassin attempted to elude the violated laws of his country, by abscond ing. In consequence, however, of the exertions f Captain Mackenzie of Newhall, whose activity on this occasion merits the highest praise, the misci cant was taken on the same evening, and lodgeJ early next morning in the jail of Tain. Captain Munro has lett an indigent widow and a numerous helpless fa imily to d:plore his premature and cruel dtath." EXECUTION OF MOSES 11,130N4LD.