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'ME EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20. weig OF IfOCKS THIS DAY AT ONT. O'CLOCK. Re d sed itri.—e per Crat 79+-5 pa Cent. spii Coos. sea 510--Ons. 4* pr.—Bonds 31.48. db. ischaper Bah Oki 21 •Pre — Do. Letters re ceived at Plymouth, from Villa Zero, mat Burgos, dated 22d of September, state that the front of the Castle were completed; works erected in that the troops were that morning getting the heavy ortibal3CE into the batteries; and that it was otter- j en tly expected that the Castle would speedily stir. mu t e r. The sth and 7th divisions (Portuguese) had marc h e d that morning from Burgos towards Vitto. v i a; and it was rumoured at Villa Zoro, that the F re nch, having been reinforced, were advancing. Ia another,eolumn we have the satisfaction of lay. ing before our Readers some most important infor. ;nation on the subject of Russia, communicated by 'an intelligent and enlightened native. It proves, (if proof were wanting,) that the occupation of Moscow by the enemy, during winter, will be the most disas trous event for the French army which ever occurred i n military annals. The picture it presents Of the privations which the severity of a Russian winter snot inevitably occasion, is of such a cast, that we are induced to, repose some confidence in the reports that Botraparrre has really made overtures for a pa cification. These, we trust, will never be listened to, while there is a Frenchman or a Frenchman's slave within the limits of the Russian Empire. It WAS this morning reported, that the Twenty second Bulletin was in town ; but it is said to allude to no military event whatever—a certain proof that the Russians are too formidable around Moscow to make an attack upon them successful. It is unmanly to insult a fallen enemy, but there is really sa much of the truly ridiculous, so much of the earitatura in poor General Num.'s narrative, that we cannot withhold it from our Readers. If the Americans are to take the Canadas in this way, the Greek Calends will bring the account of their stir- I tender. From General Deannourre and his 30,000 men, we have no fears. General HuLL has already shewn us hoiv " impossible it is in the nature of things" for the Americans to fight, and we are satis fied. A Colonel CASS, who accompanied General HULL on his expedition,has published a narrative of the cam paign—in which we find the terms "timid, irresolute and indecisive measures."—" Cowardice and miscon duct" applied pretty truly to the captive General. this we regard, however, as a puff preliMinary inibepventotiou of CASS himself. His narrative is a fit doormat to be bound up with his master's Procla mation, on entering Canada, and with Commodore Room' Journal of his voyage. These Americans talk big, and would probably fight well too, if they fought in a good cause, but the invasion of Canada and the capture of British vessels are not of this de scription. In the mean time our extracts from the American Papers will :hew that the British are about to act on the offensive--this will replace matters the more speedily on an amicable footing. With respect to the intentions of the American Government, as we stated yesterday, little with cer tainty is known, and that little' is not of a pacific mature. Sir JOHN BORLASE WARREN'S intended visit to America with full powers to negotiate, was known at Washington, and is said to have produced a reso lution on the part of MADISON to rise higher in his demands. But from all we can learn, his re-election as President, is a matter of some doubt. The Federal ,party is now running very high—the States of Vir giuia having declared themselves averse to the war. While the Russians are carving out abandan ce of werw work for BONAPARTE in the North, during the winter, we have the satisfaction to find that Miniiseri have determined to keep his troops in Spain also in full employment. Sixteen thousand British troops an now et the water's edge, preparing for embarka tion. Teas is acting with becoming spirit. The first division of the Life Guards left London for Porti., mouth yesterjay morning. The second followed taday.—The subjoined letter from Cork gives se account of what is passing there on this subject : ' " COVE, OCTOBER 14. " Monday the 20th Regiment marched in here from Middle. ttailed Immeduarely embarked on board his Majesty's ships 414 nspiasotosus, and Dorn', and on the *lame day, the sd terse of the 6th, embarked under the command of Lieute. asi t .C46o4 CAlaalat4, at Monlattown, on board the Lord „„ ^ imam sad Bellona transports, for Corunns. Yesterday ac iabidaa above men of war got under weigh, with the wind Iron the S. E.—but one of the transports having, in heating dose heat bionkstown, got aground, they were obliged to Some ft anchor. The ships composing the Corunna fleet have **topsails loose, and are now preparing to get under weigh "A a liliba bresne at N.N.B. The troops are all in high spirits." We rejoice to hear, from the subjoined letter, that 'Oka Hero of Acre is once more in full employment : GIBRALTAR, OCTOBER it. " By our last accounts from Alicant of the 25th ult. it appears, that Soult was at Caravaca on the 22d I his army, when united to Suchet's, and the troops which Joseph brought from Madrid, will amount to fall sixty thousand men. General Maitland was foraying his position at Alica.at. Sir Sidney Smith, ass at Carthagena 08 the. 22d, where he had bees for some days most actively employed in putting the place in such a state of defence, as to guard against any sudden attempt of the enemy to take it. Gen. Ross who commands. the British troops there, had been very ill of an intermitting fever for some time. The yellow fever had nearly ceased at that place, and all our troops had hitherto escaped the disease, from the precautions which had been taken to avoid all com munication with the town. Ballasteros's army was at Guadire, by the last ac •coutyts from that quarter. Trade Is very dull here, as ail communication with Spain, ;s still cut 'IL till the disease ceases entirely at Carthagroa." Baron NICOL Ai, the Russian Ambassador, had a long interview this morning with Mr. Cooms, Lord CASTLIMEACIWS Secretary. We understand that an immense quantity of arms of every' description, is in stantly to be shipped for Russia, with which to arm the whole population. 4.. GENERAL ELECT7O,I4.. • `' 'fe MINIM itTIIIINID TO SERVI IN Tat weir PAI4IAMOINTo Au:minima—Lord Dwffedn, aidA4 Sttabaii, Bow . •• . BIAIIIVIAaIs—T. F. Lewis, B*N• • ° • • • BaltiPollT.••••MT. St,jeant Deo, and St. PaaL Bairros.—R. H Davies, and ---mlorociter os; Siam. •Iltawica—A. E.q. and . H. H. St. Paul, Esq. . . 'Caatolaa - Ilomas /ohms. Caatosrr, acc.—Lord W. Stuart. , , • - ,s.• CARNARVOINIIHIIIt.•—Sit R. Williams. CO M 3 ISLA II D.—LOEd MOrpeth, and 1. landir,2ll. . . DEN szon—Lord Viscount Kirkwall. .1 • DENBIGHSHIRE—Sir W. Wm. Wynne, Bart . ' • Devotes HIKE—J. P. Bastard, Esq. and Sit T.D.Aclind, Ban. FIERETORDSIIIR a—Sir J. G. COS terell i and Colonel Foley. HAVESTORDWIIST. ord Kensington. LEICESTER MIMI s—Lord R. Manners, sad A. L. Mick, fsq. LIVER rooL—Hight Hon. G. Canning, and General Gascoigne. MON MOUTHSHIRIL—Lord A. Somerset, .ind Sir C. Morgan, Bt. MOS rern—Wm. Ord, Esq. and the Hon Wm. Howard. NorTmostAissants—Lord Newark, and Lord Wm. Bentinck. NOTTINGHAM- -J. Smith, Esq. sod Lcrti Rancid!. Oxman—Right Hon. C. Arbuthnot, and E. A. ki‘Naghttn, Esq. OICIORD Wright, and J. Lockhart, Esqrs. PENRI`II.—H. Swann, and P. Gen. Esq. 'PET mulatto—H. bluffs, ''q_ and Right Hen. Geo. Canning. PR LITON—E. Horpby, and S. Horrocks, Esqrs. Ran NORS Wilkins, Esq. 1 1 ST. MA B. Moreland, and W. Shepley, Esqrs. ST. IVES—Sir W.L.Wellealey, and Sir Walter St•ding. WaosLT—Lord St. Asaph, and Hon. W. L. Bathurst. Yaa sultan—Lord Mann, and the Hon. H. I.s.eellet. BIRKS/11311.—State of the Poll Seventh Day : Dundee, 1053—Neville, 846—Hallett, V& The KING continues nearly in the same state as for the last three months, free from any violent recurrence of paroxysm. BREAM—No alteration in the price this week. The State Lottery began drawing at eleven o'clock this morning ; and, when our Paper was put to press, the only Capital drawn was Nn. 302, a Prize of A. 20,000, which was sold at Wasa's truly fortunate Office, No. 17, Ludgate -stmt, in one half and eight sixteenth Shares. The fortunate Holders may re ceive their money of Wass, as early as they please to-morrow. Eigtit French Officers, who were prisoners Of war' on their parole at Andover; having been taken at Hoe► dle, near Lymington, in attempting to make their escape, are committed to the county gaol. The enemy's fleet in the Scheldt, 19 sail of the line and six frigates, have moved up that river, but not quite so high up as Antwerp; the fleet in the Texel, nine sail of the line and four frigates, are ex pected to take up their inner anchorage soon. The Basin at Flushing is completed, and the enemy are now using every exertion to get the passage clear be. fore the gates, that some of the ships may get in, and he laid up there during tkb winter.. Should any accidental fire happen, it would probably destroy the whole of them. The INDEFATIGABLY, DMA'S, CRE TAN, DRAWS, and 'UAW% an watching the Teal ships. .• The Coquette, Captainffisiiiirow arrived at Ports. mouth from Halifax, oa Wednesday, in 26days. She left there the AratcA.,64, Rear-Admiral SAWYSR; Jo. NON, Capt. SANDERS; TARTARUS, Capt. PASCOZ CO. LUBSSIA sloop, Capt. WATSON; and HOLLY schooner. - The Columbia was the American privateer captured by the Acasta. Captain WArsow, of the Africa, was promoted to the commrnd of her. The Junon was waiting the arrival of Sir J. Witattsn, at Halifax, whose squadron was daily expected. Captain DACRES and the remains of the crew of the Guerriere, had sailed from Boston : Lieut. Kxwr, with the first di. vision, arrived at Halifax, previous to the Coquette's sailing. The Martin's convoy from England was daily looked for. During the high wind yesterday morning, a tile was blown from a house in Charles-court, in the Strand, and, falling on the head of a child, inflicted so severe a wound, that its life is despaired of; and, at Broraton, a chimney-pot was blown from a house near the old Swan, and falling on the shoulder of a gardener, named Thomas, broke his collar-bone. Snnday se'nnight, about half-past five o'clock, five villains entered the dwelling-house of the miller at Balm-mill, near Clackheaton, and robbed him of near £l5O ; they were immediately pursued, but we are sorry to add, have yet escaped. Monday se'nnight a person at Durham had his hand shattered to pieces by the bursting of his gun, which he had foolishly charged with powder, well wadded, and water, in order to stun, without killing, a parrot which had escaped, and was flying about. Extract of a letter from an Officer of his Majesty's ship ACHILL," dated Lissa, August 6 We are just returned here from three months cruise off Ve nice (where we left the EAGLE) ; at that port, and at Chorzza, the French have two line of battle ships, called the Regienatorico and St. Burnando, ready for sea ; one frigate, five brigs, and as many schooners. Eight line of battle ships will_ be launched at Venice lin the course of the next twelve months. All the . shipwrights, &c. are pressed into service in the arse, nal. One frigate is lying at Trieste, and oqe at. An. coast, ready for sea. The ALCAIRNS lately captured a trabuculo with her boats, in which Lieutenant SAUREN lost an arszty.andnerveral men were wounded. The troops which came up here to land on the Dal matian coast s have sailed on their returato Palermo. FURTHER ErrIACTS PROM THE AME• RICAN PAPERS i Prom the Public Adfafiker et The 19 tii Sept i es We are anthorisei to staff to the public, that it grand Caucus, consisting _of 70 Federal Delegates ' from the different States, held on - Thursday last. at Kent's Tavern, in Broad-street., the iiod, De Witt Clinton was (with bUt two exceptions) unanimouslT nominated as the Federal Candidate for the Pres; den cy, Jarered Ingersoll tot theVice-Presidency of the tit,tted States at the ensuing Election, and we are further authorised to state, that the conlitions of the barodn offered by the Federal and embraced by the Clinto. nian party, were in substance as follows: “ 1. That, in the event of the election of their candidate, a cessation of hostittiel against the British should take place with: in tatenty.four hours thereafter. " 2. That the Clintonian /Federal Pardee Aida ilitielpre equally in the takes of State. !I MI " nd That the Seat of Government should be trulliali be New 11;rk or Philadelphia. " 4. That a hereditary Senate should be established." EXTRACT OP A LETTER FROM A RESPECTABLE MICR. CHANT IN LAI:MIRA, DATED 29TH JULY. " Political affairs in this country had come to so alarming a . crisis, that the supremacy of the parties was on the point of being decided by force of arms, when a reconciliation happily took place, and a treaty of Peace concluded : things will return to their former state, just as they were previous to the 19th of April. . 1 A very strict embargo has been laid on in this port, on the 2d July—it is in force yet. Hencefor ward vessels coming to this quarter must be furnished with certificates from the Consuls of his Catholic Majesty. BUsiness will soon resume its usual course. 4 , Public confidence being restored, produce will be plentiful." • NlPM•mma• MM. Ww•••••=1.1. N41'44 INTELLIGENCE. FALMOUTH, OCTOBER 17. Arrived the Queen Charlotte Packet, from Lisbon, last from Plymouth, where she landed the Mail ; the Duke of Kent Packer, from Malta, last from Tor bay, where she landed the Mail ; and the American ship Maysville, from Gallipoli, under a license.— The Marlborough and Chesterfield Packets still re main windbound. Put back the brie Rosehill, BAR. Ina, for Lisbon—sailed three days since, under con voy of his Majesty's ship Seanowza, whom she last. PLYMOUTH, OCTOBER 18. Sailed the RACOON, 18 guns, with a convoy for Portsmouth.—Arrived the SIiALARK, 16 guns, from a cruize off the Start. PORTSMOUTH. OCTOBER IS. Arrived yesterday his Majesty's ships SPRIGHTLY and DERWENT from a cruise. Sailed his Majesty's ship HOPE on a cruise. Put back his. Majesty's ship SEMIRAMIS, bound to the Cape of Good Hope. Ar rived the PARTRIDGE sloop of war from a cruize.— His Majesty's ship BOXER is appointed convoy for the Downs. The Atm is appointed to receive the flag of Admiral STIRLING, at Jamaica, and will shortly sail for that station. The CASTOE, Cap tain Dams, sailed on Wednesday for the Mediter ranean.—Wind S.W. OCTOBER 19.—Arrived his Majesty's ship SAVAGE from Qoebec.last from the Westward. Came in the Diana transport, having slipt her cable • also came into harbour the brig Mary, from Cardiff for Lon don, with loss of anchors and cables.—Wind W. DEAL, OCTOBER 19. The whole of last night and this day we have ex- Talented a heavy gale from the S.S.W. during which at is feared some of the ships must have suffered.— The Orion, Capt. FERRIER, for Gibraltar, parted a large ship, has lost her foremast and bowsprit ; two or three others have parted—particulars we cannot ascertain at present.—Five o'Clock. Ir still continues to blow hard, and a very heavy sea running. The ships appear at present to ride tolerably well. YARMOUTH, OCTOBER 19. Yesterday, P. Id. sailed with convoy for the River, the SNAILS and RAvIN sloops of war.—Arrived the Wasiltaiti. tender, from Heligoland ; and the IN. iniSTIGATOR, from the Westward, and remain in the Roads with the SoLIBAY and PRIMIOU. Wind S.W. blows strong. Three frigates were at Bourdeaux a few days since, completely manned and ready for sea. Commodore Rowans had his leg broken in his action with the BILVIDERA. A letter from New Orleans, dated Augsut 21, says, " On Wednesday night last, About ten o'clock, a gale commenced, occasionally accompanied with rain and hail, and which continued with a most dreadful violence for upwards of four hours. As we have ne ver witnessed any thing to equal it, neither do we be lieve the imagination can picture to itself a scene more truly awful and distressing than that which its conse quences present. The market-house, a large and so lid building, entirely demolished; its brick columns, of two feet diameter, swept down as though their weighty construction presented no obstacle whatever to the overwhelming element. The roof carried off from the church of the convent, the fence surround ing which, as also the trees in the garden, many whereof are remarkable large, levelled to the ground. The tin covering of the theatres, nailed on in such a manner as would certainly have resisted any ordinary force, twisted and torn off as though it were mere pa per. A great part of the brick wall curosulding the garrison beat down. It would be impossible to par ticularise all the damage that has been clOne; we be lieve, however, we may assert, that there is not a building in the City or fauxbourgs, but what has been more or less injured. 44 But the. scene presented to us on visiting the &home/he shag attempt to describe ? The level al most entirelt destroyed—the beach covered with fragments of. vessels, merchandise, trunks, &c. and here and there the eye falling upon a mangled corpse. All the shipping below town high and dry in the woods. All the river craft, barges, market-boats, &c. entirely crushed to atoms. As far as we have heard from the country, the ravages have been ter rible--the planters' dwellings, sugar-houses, &c. de molished , and we have reason to fear that nearly the whole crop of sugar will be lost." • • 2.- RUSSIA A Correspendent has favoured us w;th the follow. ing particulars respecting Russia, which are entitled to Attention, as conveying the informatioffi received front a person of distinction, and a native of HMCO* a In the possession of Moscow, Bonaparte hoped to secure for his army good winter-quarters, and abed& ance of supplies. For the attainm en t o f firm ob. jest it is probable that enough of the town has been restated from the fl =es ; for though the buildings in Moscow consist chiefly of small wooden houses, there are while streets of stone and brick palaces roofed with iron, and the walls of these edifices are so prodigiously thick, that the conflagration could scarcely spread througfastliern. The phrase us-al in the Bulletin 4, Moscowls no more," was perhaps employed to educe a string impression on the minds of the Russian people, and to alienate their affections from their G )vernment, as the alledged cause of such destruction. Bin thottgh a sufficient number of buildings mar remain to afford barracks for the French army, kis difficult to imagine, how this army is to be subsisted through a long winter in this rigorous climate. The statement in the 20th Bulletion, that " every house was provided for eight months with necessaries of every description," is perfectly false. The season for laying in a stock of provisions had not arrived when the French entered Moscow. It is only about the middle of Oeteber, just before the snow begins to fall, char the winter supplies.are collected. At other seasons of the year, the general stock of provisions itl the town is calculated only for a short period of con sumption. It is equally false that the French found large supplies of wines, brandy, ace. in the cellars.— The middle and inferior classes at Moscow are alto. gether without any supplies whateverof these articles. They are obliged to be contented with humble liven, a beverage that may hereafter produce a greater mortality among the French, than the grapes of Champagne did among the Prussians under the Duke of Brunswick, at the commencement of the revolts. lion. In the cellars of the richt r and higher orders alone were such supplies to be discovered, but in no pmportion to the quantity stated in the Bulletin. The necessity for collecting. stores for the winter is occasioned by the cessation of all intercourse betweeu Moscow, and the smaller towns, villages, and estates, during that severe season. Except the great and leading roads of the Empire, every highway and footpath is lost in the fallen snow. It is difficult to conceive how the French army can obtain the means of subsistence for the winter, surrounded, as it must be, by impassable and trackless snow, and by a hos tile population. Bonaparte has asserted, that he found in Moscow 60,000 stand of arms, and 150 pieces of cannon. This is not to be credited ;—there is no arsenal at Moscow; .and the prodigious extent of the town renders it p er . I fectly indefitui6le. It is surrounded dy no firtified liner, 'and so numerous a park of artillery was not requi site for the defence of the Kremlin. A circumstance which hitherto appears to have escaped general observation is, : 'the probable diminu tion of the numbers of the French, by the effects of climate alone, at this season of the year. There are `three rivers, which partly surround and flow through the city of Moscow ; and the fogs and exhalations ' them, jest previously to the falling of the snow, 'titre extremely injurious to the health, even of th e in • bitants seasoned to the climate. In these destruc tive miasmata the Russians will probably have an 17111 effective ally; and we may confidently expect, that (thousands of Bonaparte's southern troops will thus be litscrificed to the pestilential rigours t f a Russian cli , mate.—While the numbers of the French army are diminishing, to those of the Russian a constant aug mentation will be made. The destruction of the greater part of Moscow, instead of dispiriting the Russian nobility, has exasperated and animated tbetn to the greatest exertions and sacrifices. Already have they placed one-tenth of their vassals at the disposal ' of the Government : and it is calculated that, by this Mode of supply, upwards of 400,000 men may be raised. In Russia there are 42 provincial or depart mental Governments ; and it is supposed, that even the smallest will be able to raise nearly ten thousand recruits. In penetrating to Moscow, it appears, that Bona parte calculated on a certain spirit of disaffection to the Government, which has generally been known to exist in that part of the empire: but he seems to have committed the gross error of concluding, that because the Muscovite Nobility were dissatisfied with the Go. vernment, he should find them ready to join a Cor. sicaa invader. He ;14S been deceived and disap pointed. It is certainly true, that a sort of esprit de corps—or what may rather be called an esprit de rang —pervades this class of the Russian Nobility. They •consist chiefly of the most ancient families in the em pire. They have been established in the territory of Moscow and the neighbouring provinces for ages ; they have always been in a masked degree attached to the ancient Metropolis, and consequently have viewed with jealousy the rapid growth of the new capital in the North. These andother circumstances, by fostering a spirit of union atm* them, have given them a conscious. nest of imporsance and strength ; and their opinions have not always been in unison with those of the Court. But these feelings have nothing . in them un patriotic,—nothing favourable to the views of a fo. reign interest,—nothing that Bonaparte should have conceived to be favourable to his designs. It remains only to say a word on that influence which it is suspected may divert the Emperor Alexan der from his present determination to reject all over tures to a pacification. Romanzoff, though much abused, is, in heat t, a Russian. At the period wben Great Britain and Russia were at variance, he was suspected, ' because he manifested norefcrence in oar fare*, 'Of an attachment to the policy of France. The.lattgr .. ?was then the inclination of the Russian Court,, sod j itomanzoff, who is by no means a man of powerful talents, followed the stream.% He is too timid,, and too humble art iridieidual, a°. guide the decisions elf Alexander. He is content with the moderate ambia tion of endeavouring to ascertain the wishes of the Emperor, and of contributing to citeir fulfilizsessioas The same observatious,may be app* to Luigi*, a Two women ha -- nr...."7 - -- •z • - • fi W4 hale; hiAr welt nklam., tkp,, act of passing bad tokens, who have **lt. 'nation, as, it is hoped, will 'lead to e lii =sTgoir the manufactory of these spurious coins. i ~~ i. ~, si di