Star. — London, England, 1813-10-09 00:00:00

~• ' '`; -. a Y 4vorittAv #- t . . --• Ofgc;el Rout* itotit the *Of 'Arifty. &Mkt ToePiitz. the Sitt;ot/sugust,after gl uig hi detail 4 af.e destruction of Vattdatnme's corps, proceeds *1 . follows : • • „ .Colonel Mensclott is . operating with, tbi tsesi effects in the rear of the enemy. He has cut 'oir 'the' _F nuriers, taken some prisoners, dispersed several sions of cavalry sent against him, end keeps the gar, rison of Lejpiick, 8000 strong, in such a state of; aim) that they dare not make. gay mcieinneht.'" 44 How-quarters, at Twilit?, September 1, at six in the evening. • This motheht a courier' has arrived from General blucher, with new accounts of Ms Victory. Of the French army, 80,000 strong, which was destined against Silesia, scarcely 10,000 are in -an organised state ; the remainder are disbanded. Fif-'1 teen thousand prisoners, 92 cannon, SOO ammunition waggons, and four eagles, are in the hands of the conqueror. The remainder are either killed, wound."' ed or dispersed : the swollen waters of theßober alone, prevented the complete destruction of the enemy. " The whole division of Puthod was destroyed be-' fore Lowenberg ; it fell, with its General, and all the officers of its Staff, at iss head, into the hands of General Langeron ; what were not made prisoners were drowned in the Bober. The army of Marshal WDonald may be looked upon as annilidated." • " Head-guartere, at ToepUm, September % ig The advanced guard of the maul army daily Win more ground in Sa zony. That of General Count ittgenstein had yesterday a very brilliant affair; it drove the enemy from Pirna and Dohna towards Dresden. In the-evening the enemy received-ccnsi cletable reinforcements, and attacked our troops with great impetuosity ; but his attack was repelled by the brave Russians, and Pirna, Zehist, and also Zits thehdorf were maintained. Two squadrons of the! 14th French Hussar regiment were surrounded during the battle, by the Grodno Hussars, the greawr part of them cut down, and the remainder, with the Lieu tenant Color4l who commanded them made prisoners. The advanced guard of the right wing is before Zittan and in Rumburg. Colonel Count Zichy has stormed Rumburg, and made there a number of pi- Aloners. gi The Emperor Napoleon appears to have, some days ago, directed his whole force against General Blucher. The latter, however, did not accept the ofrer of battle,but marched towards the Neisse, whilst his detached troops, in co-operation with the Austrian troops of General Bubna, acted with great effect in the rear of the army. " Major Falkeuhausen and Captain Swanenfeld, on the lit, between Goeslitz and Bautzen, fell in with one company of French artillery, one squadron' of thaeseurs, and a company of infantry. They com pletely dispersed them, and took from them the last cannon that Was left to their army after the battle of the Katzbach. A Secretary of the Duke of Vicenza, Grind Ecuyer, who had been sent to provide quarters at Bautzen, was taken on his way thither." THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. • a • Our philanthropic Birmingham Friend has our best thanks. "We shall attend to Lis hints about lowering the price of Bread, pith pleasure. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1813. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS I.Mir AT TWELVE O'CLOCK . Cons. 5810—for sec. 5846—80nd% par Is. dis. 5 per Ct. 88.1—Onto. 7;.g—Escb. Bills 2s. 4s. pr. To-day we present our Readers with two addi. tional Bulletins from the CROWN PRINCE'S army, a spirited Proclamation to the Salons, bearing the ho. toured signature of CitanLas Joint, and a letter from that magnanimous and accomplished,warrior to his old Master. ' The Swedish - Bulletins come first in order they detail a series of most successful operations, not only of the army under the immediate command of the CROWN PRINCE, but of the various detached corps which are acting in subordination w the magnificent plan of the 'Campaign, arranged among the Allied Sorereigns, The Army of the CROWN PRINCE has new formed a junction with that of General BLUCHER, - but this was not accomplished-without a desperate effort being made by the French to ptevent it. The Duke of RAGUSA was detached with 25,000 nen to support the Prince of MOSKWA. and to sepa sate the allied army of Berlin from that of Silesia.— At Hoyerswerda, however, about half way between Dresden and the Plains of Dennevitz---a position ad mirably calculated to effect his purpose—he heard'of the battle of Dennevita, and his Highness of Ruction immediately scampered off for Dresden. But he was sot allowed to escape. in this way, for a spirited attack was made upon his rear by a detachment' of the Russian Guards. A free communication with BLucnaa was thus opened, and the French com pelled to concentrate still more closely upon Dresden- In the mean time, while these operations were going on in the right, or northern bank of the Elbe,. the CROWN PRiNCE passed over his cavalry to the left, or Southern bank. They penetrated to Naumburg, on the Saale, where they met the 4 , deserter" THIEL MAN, and in concert with him occasioned a thousand vexations to the French forces in that quarter : 80 Cossacks took a whole Bavarian regiment, amount. ing to about 500 men, prisoners 1. The terror in spired,by these doughty champions of injuted man kind, among the shivering wretches who make up the contingents of the mock Xing of Bs.vituo, no doubt contributed to their capture. We trust that we shall hear of the regeneration of these poor men, by their joining the common standard. The King of NAPLES (of whom we have heard rtothisg of late) is detached to the right bank of the Ws, with two corps' d'annee t iitcludiog IS regi: t - manta c!lt t ewaskiii AN *gat wip to to to Oak 1 another ptiA. against the ittised armies of Duxes and lissnasatti `Wtrisgree *kb tht bobest Swede ' thinking that the tatter will give a pia 4cco of their antagonist. dl be siege of Wittenberg- het emmenced in, forrnz:l4e garrison. bfying been: G t . itoq,sfy. reinforced by tle French. Thin* leS. , aaantas'n Spain—not a fiat's* will pi"lytlitt while a human being is found. to defend appetite for human blood, which charaeterisesthis scourge of mankind, has been gorged with hecatombs of victims already, and yet he demands a continfett of the sanguinary homage. The Proclamation' issued by the Pinaca ROYAL to the Saxons is equally applicable to every country now at wAr. The good effects which are to flow from it cannot be confined to Saxony. Bavaria, Baden, Wu. terotterg, Holland, Denmatk : all the servile Confe derates who follow in BONAPARTE'S train must be re generated by similar means. Already, in fact, do we see the unwilling Conscripts from these unhappy countries laying down their arms or enlisting against France. The examples of D'Yoiuc and THIELMANN will, we trust, be emulated by the Generals of other nations. Posterity will hail them as the deliverers of their countries. Thl e letter from the PAM' ROYAL to BONAPARTE breathes a spirit which, with all our high notions of the superiority of the moderns, we could scarcely hope belonged to the,age in which we live. It is by read ing such compositions, that we are reminded -of the dignity of human nature, and comprehend the high minded eloquence of the immortal BURKE, when he speaks of the chivalrous spirit of past ages asbeing that unbought grace of life—the cheapest and the best defence of Nations !" The CROWN PRINCE of Scam= expresses a manly Sorrow for the evils which have been inflicted on his country. He bears-it no ill will, but his magnanimity raises him far above' the person whcim he addresses, for he desires him to be contented with the kingdom of France, and gives not the least hint of being actu ated by petty feelings of jealousy. He avows, how ever, that he has taken the field to drive him, if he will not retire peaceably, behind the Rhine ; and we cannot doubt that he will redeem his pledge. Alluding to their former friendship—to those days in which they drank together at the fountain of mili tary glory—the PRINCE ROYAL thus nobly expresses himself : In politics, Sire, neither friendship nor hatred has place; there are only duties to fulfil towards the nations whom PROVIDENCE has summoned us to govern: their laws and their privileges are the blessings which are dear to them; and if, in order to preserve them, one is compelled to renounce old connections and family affections, the Prince who wishes to perform his duty can never hesitate which course to adopt." . . On the who le, the posture of :off tirs on the Conti nent is highly consolatory to the hopes of humanity; nor is it possible to praise sufficiently the 'perseve. ranee, firmness, and decision of his Majesty's Minis. ters, which have _contributed so largely to the de velopement of those singular and important events that have so much improved the circumstances of Europe within the last twelve months. Events have strewn, that while a great people should never despair of maintaining their own rights or independence, or for a single moment listen tet the voice of that tempo rising policy, which solicits concessions to a turbulent but successful child of Fortune—so they should ever avoid that selfish policy which makes weak States and imbecile Ministers disregard the welfare aad safety of other Powers. Had our present Ministers been actuated by such narrow and criminal .views—had they l'esitated to aid Portugal—to assist the Spaniards--to second the efforts of Russia, of Prussia, of Sweden—..of the whole of Euri.pe, to repress the ambitious encroachments cf that unprincipled individual who wades through human blood to attain universal empire—had they' sacrificed a sense of duty to the clamours of those who, tegardless of consequences, were for Peace on ankterms and at all events, what must have been the ' state of Europe at the present moment I Let the most besotted politician answer the question. French, Papers, to the 7th inst. arrived this day, but they contain no news from the Armies. Extracts from Halifax Papers to the 10th oh. be found in another part of our Paper. They enable us to contradict the report, received via Frani* of the British having been defeated on the Lakes. To the list of brave men who have fallen in CO-- nada, we have to-add the name of Colonel.Bisnor.' -.who died of the wounds he received at Black Rock. • The Regiment de Meuron landed at Quebec July last, m the highest possible state of equipment. We statedlesterday exclusively, the capture of his Majesty's ship .Dosstwica, by an American priyateer. It is with concern we have to state, that the Lapwing packet, from Halifax, brings an official confirmation of the circumstance. All the Officers of the Dusts- NICA and 60 men were -killed or wounded, and the survivors made a most desperate resistance. The privateer .which made the capture has nothing to boast of. The Secretary of State for the Home Department has appointed a general volunteering from the Militia to take place on the 19th, 20th, and 21st days of this month. • Lord CHARLES SOMERSET is to proceed to the Cape - :he of Good Hope to relieve Sir Joint CRADOCK in tt. Government and command of that colony; this ap pointment is, perhaps, the most valuable military situation in the gift of the Crown. It is said that there are at present no lea than one thousand-names on- the Commander in Chief's List, as applicants for Ensigncies in the army, exclusive of the Cadets at the Royal Military College. The leading distinction acquired by a General Officer who obtains the rank of Field Marshal, is the honour of being exclu:ive% saluted with the colours and standards of all the fortes. - a . I:3OtITR AttilitA; 13y the Leeward Island Mail stf 4d: !hi:truing, 'iltnnient have receivad-aicoants,lltoin *ASA tt ears, that the Spallish ,- ;:its4altat Atm) , ,in• Se America hat receitity iiisitikea a !host serer ail_ st •. ail_ : the pr9vince of Iterteaitell. r . The Iniurgents e * otatbk sole themselves, ths Udepandents, had driia4 ibiEsimahldvr of. the Royalists into Puerto. Cavallo, Attifse# RA I *ere Cooped up under General MoNTE- V , - • • / •• • , ..,. Itlftbii.' • , . ii ,•• • , . •• . THE PENINSULA. • The rumour brought yesterday from the outports, of the Allies having made themselves. masters of part of the out-works and town of Pampelona, is not con firmed, by the letters received from the Peninsula. On the contrary, ottr Readers will see, by the sub- , joined letter from an Officer with the Army, that the place is not expected to fall before the end of the . current month : . " CAMP,P7/RENEES, SEPT. fri. " The unoaking ruins of St. Sebastian's have been . given over to the Spaniards, there are eight houses , standing of aline large town. It was, perhaps, more than any town in Spain, in the French interest. At the beginning. of the French Revolution, the French, who knew the value and strength of St. Sebastian's, ' got possession of it, and under various pretexts, con trived to retain it. ever since, a period of 20 years. During this time, they used every means which the art of fortification affords, to add to the worte.olll plan which nature had made impregnable. The Castle of St. Sebastian's is memorable in the annals of history—the great Duke of Beawzcx besieged it for a long time, and was at last znfirching, 6ff in despair, when an accident put it in his posses: pion. When the Spaniards will repair it GOD knows: If they go to work as they did at Ciudad Rodrigo, Rodrigo, cher will never do it—they are rare lads at engineering ! Our brave fellows have at last done with riiy. leriieg, it was necessary to let them have their bout, sad it was difficult to say whether they or the Jacks mere most extraordinary while the thing lasted. As long as there was plunder the drunkenness continued. ..—soldiers and sailors are unhappy while they have a' sixpence remaining. Many of them slimed a great 4eal of humour and fun, many of them presented the :most grotesque figures, dressed in the Frenchmen's dress, silk coats, with dress swords, and huge hats ; some playing ; the Frenchman admirably. " The soldiers' ladies are literally bedizened with lace and cloathed in silks. Several Officers are rich in plate, having not only complete sets for the break-, !fast table, but also a good shew for dinner. Every. victory we gain shews us in what superior stile the 'French -officers live to what we do. It must be so while BONAPARTE, himself a soldier, maker the mil.- r tary the most lucrative, as it is the most honourable profession. " Sebastian's has reduced our regiment cc:6l'Si sarong reinforcements must be speedily sent out. . " Pampeluna still holds out, mid will for a month :longer. Santona is now strictly blockaded. We have a Spanish army near us, and fine fellows they look. vThey ate the same who .the other day, for the first ,base. charged the French, and drove them back with a loss of 6000 Men and four of their Generals, and very proud they are of it. Officers and soldiers, all of them speak with admiration of the Grande Lords. The prevalence of an infectious fever at Gibridtir is unhappily confiqued, by. letters from thence .and Cadiz to the 19th ult. containing the following official • particulars : On the 6th September two Jew porters were takes 11;'acid died fifty hours afterwards. " On the Bth, a soldier of the garrison threw hinomilf from a window of the barracks in a delirium, one of the eriliptoms of the fever. " The state of the Sick and Dead is u follows DAT!. n.&• Mb, September 9 • 10 • 11: If Is . $2 ..... 14 I'S 16 17 ...... 4B 18 251 " On the 18th September, four servants in the family of Ma jot Moose, of the Veterans, were taken ill, which left no doubt in the minds of the medical men that the disorder was contagious or epidemicaL 0 A Proclamation was published declaring the garrison in a state of infection, and directing th at no more clean Bills of health should be granted. • " The inhabitants immediately caught the alarm, and abeitt 4000 of them quitted the garrison. All the poorer claandollawi been ordered to the neutral ground. " The Windmill to the South has been converted Into a Litail retto, and all persons were removed to it Immediately theewar• infected. The town has been divided into 27 districts, And dba South into seven sale divisions, with a Committee to superintend each, and to make daily reports. to the Board of Health. The subsequent letters refer to the alarm of a simi calamity at Cadiz : • 44 cArom, SEPT. 17. " We have had here much apprehension of sickness for some days back, and' yesterday the number amounted, to 19, which is nearly. doubk the usual mamber. I believe, however, they an 'to be attributed to the season of the year. Be this as it may, the Government has taken the alarm, and yesterday the order was chculated with all possible secrecy; for the removal of the Mi nisters to Madrid; but the people got scent of it, and tanned upon aisembling the - Extraordinary Cones (the former being dis solved en the 14th instant) to prevent their going ,away, and the matter is not yet decided. " SAME DATE. " The industry' with which the alarm of the fever has been spread since the suspension of the Cones Extraordinary, on the 14th instant, glees us reason to suspect some .maaceuvre for many are anxious there should he no Cone.. From the discus sion of this morning, at a Special Meeting of the Cortes, it is de dared that there does not exist any contagious fever in Cade, but only the putrid fever, which more or less affects this climate every autumn. To-morrow the Cones will receive a further re port from the Committee. The Ordinary Cortes will be in. stalled on the 25th instant, and proceed to business en Ist Octo - Last night when the Cones was summoned, was the most alarming period, and it was generally reported that the Members of the Government were to make off at eight this morning, and the people Were consequently In a tumult. One thoesaod dollars Wile been offered for a coach to Madrid." We learn with sktisfacdon, by a letter from a most respectable quarter, dated as late as the 17th ult. from Leghorn, that the plague has wholly disap peared in Valetto, and that its ravages were much di minished in the villages of the Island of Malta. The information was brought to Leghorn by a vess-Awhich had arrived from Malta on the 15tb. of last month. ' _f4 At 107 ; 1MitAfeR, "13111. ASS. are. liaginP'' 0 1 Nagaland Waterfilgii - 0 1 Gotiiriburglt Lisboa - 0 0 (tu,ruNey . Cbruaili . 0 o ler•ey Halita; t„ 1 0 I.e.rwarml hauls . ir.ILMOISO-k, 004 BER 1. Billie LAPWING %W.'. leirn that the accinint the. loss of his Majesty's schooner Dominica correct.; •she was taken off St. Thomat'sby the modore Decatur American privateer.- -All the cers of the DosiirficA, inclitilith 60 men, tve:re killed or wounded. Arrived - eie Lcird Wbart r with a Mail from St thomas's,in 36 days. the RAtErl schooner for Plyinoutli.—Wind light - breezes with close • weather.. • PLYMoUtti, OCTOBER 7: Came in the lincintroorngun brig with, from Wales ' • Reif& schooner with dispatcher! Passage ; Darase . cutter from a cruise ; r Pacrrecrott gun brig . witha fleet of transport* LCork.. Sailed the Szatwast frigate and Paine of war; for Portsmouth. The Itovcti schooner - her fore -mast, and bowsprit on the passage. fits the Wisnmo schooner front a cruize.—Wind KiRTSMOUTH, OCTOBER 11. Arrived his Majesty's ship BRSSIUDA, with ti. lowing transports tinder convoy, from Plymouth pa A. 'ir•olgo ; 442, Anderson ; '265, Robert and ' la, Adamant ; 497, Milbank; 239, Plutt, 'Henry; 108, Northumberland • IS, Ellen ; 4136, sitania ; 192 - , Ann vend the Helmsley: Alga his Majesty's ihips as foll6w "%URGE, 98, Sat, fligate, Misateraz and TYRIAN sloops of war, the Westward; Raoul-us and MEI:POMENE, from Mediterranean ; and are put under Strict quaraniiire CENTAUR, DANNEMARK, DERWEST, l Elouttr' WOLVERINE, from off Cherbtirgbm-the latter French lugger privateer, her prize; the STORK from Cork ; and several merchantmen from theWesiWard, Also arri,ved . his Majesty's ship WAsp, t Captain (late Captain AftcrtEn,,who died in the West froth. Jamaica.—Papsed by the ASIA man of with the remainder (about 15 sail) of the fleet,..Wind W. blows strong. MAL, OCTOBER a. Arrived the Aitorsza - sleop of war, with a from Portsmouth, and the GAMBIER armed with a convoy from Exmouth; the whole are , for the River. Put back by contrary winds, Nrurircutter and her cotivoy,that'sailed kern , on, the' 6th. Cane down 'from the River, ray's ship Say RAN ) and remains.—Wintl'W The Elizabeth, —, front theßraiilk to - Lam... pod, has been taken by,anirNmeriein privstaer.-4inee retaken, and carried. into Halifax On tale 2d • The - Malvina DAWNS, frotn St . Martin's fl ` ock, put into Bermuda - in distress; and was lust there on the 4th August. All the c a rgo, between forty and fifty casks, had been landed: The Elizabeth,- LIGHTFOOT, from brngici, shore at Bristol, bute.xpeetedstrfbe gdt ?ff. Aft NIGH ma OF !MEAD. ' In the discussion§ whieli lately took ?lace Common Hall, as reported-in cur Paper of ' last, it was stated, - that - the presentlitke _ &Om which the assize price'of - Bread. . turd is the Mature of things belied, owing to the of the Bakers to use wheat t lilnllsl,per sic( than it dtherwise would have been; owing dry weathm having left principal miles, 1 the wheat is ground fottlie. UlO4 of Londe great measure destititeof water : yet we di; serve that any of the speakers took up this part subject,. or attempted to suggest a retried, great :and not unfrequent tax .oathe inhabitants the tnetropolis,by proposing the ertctlon ofSteemn within the port of - London, where the *heat regularly and certainly converted to-fllur. A important eVitthan this temporary want Of w consequent advance of Flour, exists in the •eelf; by which the Metropolis is supplied essential wide, and which will be four.d to i ralleled, we believe,. in may other:large town maid. By far the greater part' of rhe Wheal which the Londoners are fed- arrives , first Thames, and •is sold at Mark-lane ; yet, instead this town being provided with the means of the same, it is purchased by opulent millers, take it up the country, from 10 -or 15 to - i" miles, grind it, and place the Flour in die Stores„ from week to week wily supply London limited quantity, that shall - not only ampt them for the interest on their capital for which is perhaps the average period in. Flour could soonest return .to .Lonclon, the lighterage andtialc. thereon, which is considers, and their fair profits for grinding, warehousing, att. but almost any further charge which an understand ing amongst these Millers and the Flour/ may choose-to impose on the public. In order to save to the inhabitants of the this improvident waste of time, labour, and profits on the staff of life, it might be well to at this juncture of. the propriety of erecting steam-mill% as near as. possible to the shi t _ public Companies, who should on no pretence What or flour, but only grind for hire at fixed for any pawn who employed them ; an( Bakers of the Meuopolis should be invited couraged to purchase their own Wheat and get i as Is done in nearly every other large toe. kingdom. The Magistrates of London might then safely imitate the example of those of Bath, Norwich, &c. in suspending at least, instead of enforcing l-li the Assize of Bread, and perhaps of suffering it to go into disush altogether, as far as price is concerned, and confine their superintending powers in future to the quality and weight of bread made for sale in the Metropolis. The rain has been incessant during the week : The Avant of watur to turn the mills, can, therefore, to I no longer adduced as a reason fur the high price o f flour. It wily now, no doubt, be asserted, that the floods have carried away half the mills l Persons who may be desirous of obtaining any par titular numbers, in the Lottery to be drawn on the 9d of Novocain, should apply immediately to some of the Offices, otherwise they may - be disappointed, as awe-fourth of the Tickets are already isaced from the Bank. • . • . - kg MINA: IF • 1 0 • - • ". • hunt ef I 1 im;ives he Ciro. lie Otfi.' re eittier t pa c ket Sailed ' S. S. E a a fleet • les fro:n I and the rts from ne man over lost Came rind %V. t the fol. Louth nil Ann; tus*; 186, a arriied *Alloltile ar t from from the traniiite t and m with a ?aft from restward. aifi t Indies) F war, 74, Jamaich a convoy • cutter, are sailed rinds, the °in Bence his telti- V.S.VV::" • 1 to Liter- tr sine . •ultifea: to Gree t Ai totally io, except ietf. • Ica; is on, . . me ;tithe r Tuesday or.Flostr; anJ mint r inability ck greater :o the late ' by which 4 01 11 it * id not -ob. part of the ly - for this tbitants of itrant Mill: t might. be ' far more ma ter, and system it- with this o be enpa- wn in the heat from , rst in the • instead of If grinding deers, who )40 br 50 Stores, amid with that tply repay a month,' whir.h the the double nsiderable, osing, &c. inderstand- ,our-factors Metropolis I multiplied to considtr g powerful lipping, by 'ewe drat fixed prices ad that the ted and en. , ret it f reseed. town m the might them