Star. — London, England, 1813-03-25 00:00:00

um _ - - THE EVENING STAR . LONDON. THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1819. LADy-DAY.—Holiday at the Stock Ezdatage. Te fact of Hamburgh being occupied by the Russians is now placed beyond all doubt. A Danish vessel, from the vicinity of Toningen, has arrived in the River, the Captain of which reports, that on the 17th instant a party of 200 Cossacks had entered liamburgh, where they were received with every de monstration of joy. The inhabitants vied with each other in acts of hospitality, and the strangers are said to have conducted themselves in the most exem plary manner. A larger Russian force was march ing upon Hamburgh, but it was understood that the main body of the Russian Army was proceeding to Magdeburgh, where the French were said to be in great force. The latter circumstance is confirmed by letters from the French coast. The Danish Cap tain above mentioned, speaks of the dispositions of his countrymen as decidedly favourable to the gene ral cause of liberty. He says, that great exultation was testified on the news of a friendly arrangement with England. A notification had been made, ac cording to the custom of the country, in all the ehurciges throughout Denmark, that the Danish na vigation in the Baltic, and on the coasts, would be free and undisturbed ; that the Danish gun-boats and privateers were galled in ; and that hostilities were to cease on both sides, in the Baltic : and this notifi cation was received with universal satisfaction, as being considered to prognosticate a renewal of closer and more amicable relations with England. In the event of the defeat of the French at Magdeburgh, and we see no reason to doubt the prowess or skill of the troops opposed to them, their retreat to France must be hazardous in the extreme. The Auckland packet has arrived at Yarmouth from Gottenburgh, with Mails and a Messenger, who immediately pro c eeded to London. He is the bearer of Dispatches from Lord CATHCART, Whn is now, according to reports in Sweden, with the Em peror ALEXANDER at Dresden. The letters and rapers from Gottenburgh confirm all the favourable intelligence which has been recently in circulation. At Warsaw, Berlin, Dresden, and Hamburgh, the Russians have been hailed as deli verers, and joined by immense bodies of national troops. General D'Yoax is in full activity at the head of a Prussian army, and pursues the fugitive Vice Roy of Italy, (Beauttanwols) without intermis sion. Some of the letters from Gottenburgh state, that the Emperor ALEXANDER and the King of Peorsra had met at Breslau to concert measures s,r the more effectual expulsion of the French from the North of Europe. The following are extracts from the above communications : " PETERSBURGH. FEBRUARY 20. 66 Warsaw is in possession of the Russians. Ge. neral Vasselebikoff is hourly expected with the et ys, when Te Deum will be celebrated. 44 Prince Kutusoff, in a report of the operations, dated Hoek, 10th February, states, that on the Bsh February, General Mileradowitsch took possession of the city of Warsaw.—ln this report the Prince also mentions, that the enemy, who had made a sortie from Dantzic on the 4th of February, had succeeded in driving in bis outposts, but were afterwards cut off from the city, to which not a single man of the whole column, consisting of 1000 men, returned." " 001TENSURGH, MARCH 17. " General D'York is appointed Governor of Ber lin. Letters from Carlsharn, of the 11th, inst. men tion that the King of Prussia has positively declared war against France, and that he had agreed to give 1100,000 men in favour of the good cause." M HAMBURGH, MARCH 7. " Eleven more of the celprits who took part in the uproar, were condemned to death ; yesterday was the day appointed for their execution, brit to Inhabitants would not permit it. The soldiers who were to have been their executioners were obliged to retire, and the French Authorities immediately left this place. " It is also said the Russians are on the borderCof Hanover. One thousand six hundred horses, des tined for the Grand Army, have been torten by Il•-• Missions near Wittenberg, who also seized the Milt,' fatthful to his signet the ItussianSiCiiliaii possession of his country, and'it will be governed by the Russians. The Vice-Roy retired with 2,000 cavalry. Report states General D'York to be in pun t suit of him on the Wittenberg road, with 8,000 men: , " A Russian corps, under General 13erikendori v is marching towards Mecklenbourg,, another on this place." ADDRESS FROZII THE CITIZENS OF WARSAW TO THIS BRETHREN NOW LN ARMS. " SoLumas—The valour of our Soldiers and of the Army, and the many sacrifices we have made, have not been sufficient to resist the victorious Rus sian Army : they have entered our country, taken possession of our metropolis, and (praised be the AL MIGHTY !) are become our friends. All our imagi nary dread and terror vanished on the declaration of the Commanding General being made public, by which all our countrymen are assured of the protec don of the great Emperor, Alexander. Our souls, which were already nearly related by language and by amicable intercourse, were the more willing to unite in the bands of friendship, as the experience of several years has taught us ; " That Napoleon did not seek our happiness, or oar independence, but merely sought by our strength and the valour of our armies, to subdue other nations, and thereby elevate himself to the station of Auto crat. The great Russian nation has shewn us what sacrifices a nation is able to make, if-she has pride' sufficient—rather to lose every thing than her liberty and independence. She has been victorious—she hiss joined with us, she has done more than subdued our armies—Alexander and his Russians have gained our hearts. 66 Brave soldiers ! ye who are still fighting under the banners of Napoleon —ye who are still fighting against your own brethren, and the interest of all Europe•—forsake the standards of the most vile de spotism —return to your brethren in arms, and prove that you are worthy of living among us, who have been taught by experience, and know that we have nought but good to expect from the magnanimity of the noble Alexander. t'e French had paid for them, which they gave I the people who d,Evered the horses. " The Vic:•roy rf• Italy arrived, as is said, fro Berlin, at Wirtem!)erg ; some accounts say, he been taken prisoner." "Obey the call of your brethren, fly into the arms of your friends, cultivate your fields—become again citizens of the State, and supporters of your famiiies —or receive the rewards of your valour in the ranks of your brethren, whose love Te.ean regain only when you no longer suffer your noble blood to flow for the interest of an Alien.—We call on you, by our Holy Religion, to return." OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE TREATY BETWEEN THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA AND KING OF PRUSSIA. After this Paper had been some time at Press Go vernment received Dispatches from Lord CATCH CART, of the Sth instant, which confirm all the ac counts of the succtssful advance of the Rus,ian forces, and add the important intelligence, that a TREATY, orrzNstvg and DILYZNIIIVE had been signed and ratified between the Emperor of RUSSIA and the King Of PRUSSIA. Lord CATHCART writes from the Emperor of Rus- SIA'S Head-quarters at Kalitch. Yesterday the LORD COANCELLOR, the Earl of Lt. VERPOOL, and Viscount CAsviLettaaait, had audiences of the PRINCE REGENT at Carlton House. The view which we hazarded yesterday respecting Mrs. List.a's evidence, is not only justified by the argument of a Lord Chancellor, in a precedent which we shall lay before our Readers, but the precedent itself goes to establish that so tar is it from being true that " the very foundations of justice would be shaken if a witness were permitted. after having given a formal deposition, to rectify, alter, or amend that deposition," that, on the contra: y, it is " for the advancement of truth and justice that the mistake of a wit ness should be amended." The concluding sentence of the subjoined case deserves particular attention : "As to the inconvenience of amending the deposition after publication, it guar impossible to know it until publication." " GRIELLS V. CANSELL.-2d Peere Williams, 647. '4 Lotd Chancellor KING.—SI Eq. Ca. Ab. 59. pt. 6.—A Deposi tion of a Witness amended after publication. " On Petition to amend a deposition of a witness, (oae Du bourdieu, a Clergyman, who had been examined in this cause), the witness was ordered to attend, as was also the Examiner; the latter of whom, Iscing examined by the Lord Chanctllor, swore he took the deposition tru'y Irom the mouth of the witness, to whom the deposition was afterwards distinctly read, and then • 'thesocitness subscribed h name. i. 'I he witness being examined, did not Itt.oo, tOdliVtly Mat eke Esqminer had taken his deposition false; but that he was in- I- the the J to be!ieve be did not express himself in the manner Me de. ii,: pliiloll lane taken ; and Was positive he did not i n t en d, or mean to ! swear, as the Examiner had taken It, but that he really intended " HAMIsURGII. MARCH 9. to swear in the manner as the amendment was desired, and that the ire Fren c h l e f t B er li n OR t h e 1111 instant, afte t r dance was what he h a d b e f ore d ec l are d i n conversat i on, as also T . n f i. what another witness in the cause had positi ve ly worn. Laviiii 3 O barricacloed t h e gate , an d ta k en t h e k e y s witb ' , i The Counsel oh the other side insisted, that tho ug h t h ere them. 'lhe Cossacks, however, WWI forced them, and were instances where a defendant's answer had been amended, considerable corps of regular troops entered the city, (a) no precedent could be produced for amending a deposition ~after publication; or at least if the Court was in c li ne d t o amends where they did nu t rema i n l ong , b ut procee d e d i ll this would be better deferred to the hearing, when it would b e pursuit of the Viceroy. , more fully possessed of the whole matter. " The French Are preparing to quit the country ; . Loan Cli• NC aiLoft—Where it appease to the Court, that and, agcordilig to .tli uppearaii‘e, it will not be lung. either the Examiner is mistaken in taking the depositi ons , or the saistiree in main: it, I think It for the whaneeseent truth and jus. ere they de 40. Tlic I reticii aothorities have all Ift the, that the mistake should be amended ; and the sooner this us : ICC Counsellor of State, Cliabon ; the Prefect, i I. done the Niter. in regard, the witness may be dead, or in re- Cor.sul, aid many o th ers , are now i n Al tona , e note parts, before the hearing. It would be hard and u n j u st re pia a witaas down to what ls a mistake, by denying to rectify It. " The intelligence licm Dresden only comes down As to what has been objected, of the Inconvenience of amending impossihe n be hle to know as to the 2d. It is to-day said, that in consequence of t u he ntil publit i tiona•ftewrispubificati°ll:l9 It was the Proclamation issued by the King of Saxony, at desired, and the winters swear it over again (6)," ES departure, io which he declares that he will bt to Vide 1 Gi99. Co. t% (9 Beg. 4,1 h. +.1784 fol. Ph • NAVAL insuraNcl. LLOYD'S. MARCH itt. None of our letters received this morning from the out-ports, mention the arrival of the BormsCrrovzmuz slOop of war from the Brazils. FALMOUTH. MARCH 12. Arrived the Nymph packet from Jamaica, in 42 The outward-bound remain.—Wind W. TORBAY, MARCH 13. The East•lndia and Southseamea, under his Ma jesty's ships SALCgTTE and DORIS, are standing but of the Bay with the wind at South, but variable. PLYMOUTH, MARCH ILL Arrived the REINDEER, of 18 guns, with her prize, a French schooner, laden with colonial produce ; and the FAIRY, of 18 guns, from the North-west coast of Spain. Sailed the STRENUOUS, of 14 guns, for Ports mouth, and the RESOLUTE, of 14 guns, for the Cork station. Came in the American schooner Messenger, from Boardeaux for Philadelphia, prize to his Ma jesty's ships MEDUSA and HELICON ; the American schooner Independence, from Rochelle for New-York, prize to the ROVER ; and the American schooner Pan dous, from America for France, prize to the Ram. Dirt.—Wind S.W• PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 24. Arrived the DAPPER,GROWLEn, and ESCORT, from a cruize, and the SERAPIS store ship from Gibraltar. Sailed the POET MAHON for North Yarmouth ; and the Lorna frigate on secret service, supposed for the Coast of Africa. Arrived the Echo, —, from Youghall, after having, been captured aii.l rc-cap tured by his Majcsty's slip TY It I.lN.—Wind S.W. fresh gales, but dirty weather. DLAL, MARCH 24. Put back, by contrary wit.d, thy: RAND schocmer, and ELGIN cutter, and their convoy, which sailed yesterday. Came down from the River, the Moffatt and Union East Indiamen. Arrived the SAVAGE and DWARF cutter, with a convoy of transports, from Portsmouth, and proceeded to Yarmouth, un der protection of the former.—Wind S.W. YARMOUTH, MARCH 24. Yesterday arrived the DEVASTATION bomb, and remains with the ships of war and transperts as per last. Arrived this day the Frau Maria, from Am sterdam, with iron, tent in by the HEARTY gun-brig. ONE P.M.—The Auckland is just arrived, from Gottenburgli, with Mails, Messenger, and several passengers. COVE OF CORK, MARCH 19. The three large fleets now assembled here, for the West Indies ,and Brazils, Halifax and Newfound land, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, it is said, will sail first fair wind after the 20th instant. His Ma jesty's ship Dovot, Captain DRURY, with part of the tlillOarrison BaLtaiion, will sail to-day for Malta, call oniheir return to Cadit, and sail for North Ametica- The TALBOT sloop of war, Captain SIVAISE, day in quest of the American privateer True-blouded Yaukey, which has made so many captures in the Channel. His Majesty's ship SYBILLE, Capt. UPTON. is kola(' for every tide. The Serapis store-ship has ariived at Portsmouth, with dispatche* from the Mediterranean. She left Malta on the 6th of February, and Gibraltar un the 3d instant. We have received Jamaica Papers this morning to the 9th cf February. The following are extracts : KINk.STON, J.N. C 9. " It is melancholy to state, that the Spanish ship Salvador, from Cadiz for Monte Video, with 650 soldiers, together with officers, passengers, and the crew (in number 350 persons), was lost, ndar Mal donado, and all cn board perished, except 130 per song, who reached the shore in a most deplorable state. • Fan. 9.—At a Meeting of -the Planters, Mer. c nts, and others concerned in the shipping, held at a Court House, on the .sth of February, the fol lowing rates of freights, for the present year, were agreed to :—Sugar, 10s. per hundred ; ColFce, 10s. per ditto ; Rnm, I Id. per gallon." The Nymph, which brought the abo4e Papers, ,sailed from Jamaica the 10th February, and brought th following passengers : 'Major M'Neal; Captains Spr:ner, Gibson, and Stumpton ; Lieutenant Kelly; and Meurs.Beckwortb, Irving, Belt, Castello, anti Stringer. :the Diana arrived at Jamaica the 4th February. Mr. ROFFE, one of his Majesty's Messengers, left Thwn last night with dispatches for the Residentiary lconister at Hamburgh, whence he is to proceed to Denmark and Sweden. IA Messenger also left town for St. Petersburg!), with the Order of the Garter, (vacant by the death of the Marquis of BUCKINGHAM ), with which the Emperor ALEXANDER is to be invested. We are sincerely glad to find that none of our Military force is to be frittered away in the at a time when the Peninsula affords an ample theatre for its operations. The fleet rendezvousing at Yar mouth, under the orders of Admiral HOPE, proceeds empty to the Baltic. Lieutenant-General Sir STAPLETON Cotrox pro ceeds to retake the command of the Cavalry under, the Marquis of WELLINGTON. We trust there will bit delay in his departure, 'and that he will use npbe expedition than Generals who have not shared in 'the glories of Salamanca. Major-General O'Louanun goes out to take the ccosinaota of tb, brigade of Life eod Horse Guaids. LOSS OF HTS MAJESTY'S SHIP CAPTAIN, OFSF.VENTY-FOURGIUNS. BY FIRE. Thisskip, whose name is familiar to every English man, being the vessel in which the immortal Nazarow achieved never-fading laurels, in the battle off St. Vincent, was totally destroyed, by fire, on the night of the 22d inst. in Hamoaze, Plymouth. Being not found sea-worthy, in consequence of a series of active service, the Carrara was made a re. ceiving skip , and had the stores of the SAN Joys, of 112 guns, on board. The latter ship, also, lay along side the former. The fire was discoiered at eleven I'. M. bursting from the galley of the CAPTAiN t and spread itself with uncommon rapidity over every part of the ship. The SALVADOR DEL MIND% the flag ship in Hamoaze, fired ten guns to communicate the alarm, and the bells of the Deck-yard rang, to sum mon the artificers-to their duty. During a considerable time no small agitation pre vailed in the town of Plymouth Dock, it beirg every where confidently reported that the SAN 3::N was on fire. The activity, however, of her officers and men had prevented this catastrophe, and she, with other ships, had dropped down to other moorings. The boats of the Dock-yard, and of the Fleet, bad now surrounded the flaming ship, but it was beyond the reach of human effort to arrest the progress of the flames. The scene was grand and magnificent be. yonf description. Hamoaze was illuminated in every part—the numerous boats OR its spacious bosbm—the seamen crowding the decks, or hanging on the rig ging of the shipping, were as discernable As at noun. day; as were also the hills embosomin3 H imoaze, • and the towns in the vicinity. It WAS a scene most picturesque, and yet most afilicting—unequalled in sublimity, but productive of poignant sensations. In the mean time the tide was rapidly running through Harnoaze, and a brisk N.W. breeze drove vast columns of smoke, and dikes of fire, over the - Dock-yard. It was feared that the bitts, to which the moorings of the ship were attached, would be destroyed, in which case she would either drift on • the Dock-yard, or on the shipping. Thousands, tens of thousands of anxious spectators awaited this tremendous event through the eight—an event which would have happened at an early hour of the night. . had not the vessel been fortunately secured with • chains ; and to which, perhaps, is owing the preset.. . • vation of the finest arsenal in Europe. The Artificers of the Dock-yard, however, with great intrepidity, approached the bows of the ship, on which they fastened iron clamps, and chore rings bolts, and a Erie of boats was stationed to pull as sf on as she might be perceived to drift. At ones:. w. it was jud:;ed prn.dent to sink her; and as it was found impossib:e to scuttle her, two launches were armed with c•tr--;:oidcs from the Duvan friga t e, and two oLLI-s fiel..:-pi:ces frost the park on shore; and atzcr a ni;:r!ler of discharges, she sunk at four a. tr. while as yet lax timbers bad not fallen a prey • to t!te flames. No lives were lost. The whole of the stores of tl.e SAN Jozpr were destroyed, as also tha sea-stores. I clothes, Svc. of the Officers. Her Captain is a consi derable sufferer. Fortunately for the seamen, the ing day had been appointed for them to take their clothes, chests, beddirg, &c. on hoard the CAP TAIN, and thus they have saved their little inviluable property. The-CAPTAIN, as has been noticed before, was the vessel in which the lamented NELsoN so highly dis tinguished hims.elf in the battle 'off Cape St. Vincent. The SAN JOSEF, of 112 guns, which lay alongside. the CAPTAIN, and so narrowly escaped destruction, was the vessel which NUL9O24, in the CATTAIN, so no. bly boarded, and so dauntlessly carried. The VAN. cumin, cf 74 guns, his Lordship's ship at the battle of the Nile, lay just above the scene cf destruction. These are remarkable singularities. Deplorable as this business is, the preservation of the immense arsenal, and the valual.le ...hips at Ply. mouth, from the most imminent danger, is conzola. tory ; and it ought to be stated, that at no time, and under no circumstances, have the activity and zeal of the artizans of the Dock-yard, and of the seamen, been more usefully evinced than on the present oc casion. On the 22d instant, the University of Cambridge was again thrown into considerable alarm by a fire breaking out at Sidney College. The flames were happily got under without much damage. It was discovered between nine and ten in the evening. A letter from Bristol, dated March 24, says " Between nine and tPn o'clock last night, some evil disposed persons, most probably from seditious mo. dyes, destroyed the beautiful Statue of his present Kwitny, which-was erected a short time !ince at a great expence, in Portland-square. One of the per. sons was caught by Captain STEVENS, of this city, in the act of escaping over the palisadoes, and lodged in Brideweil." The bad effects of the late Tax upon Leather now begin to be most severely felt by every branch of the manufacture.—lt was proved before the Committee of the House of Commons list week, that the Shoe makers in general were deprived of one third of their employment, and that the trade of Stafford in parti cular was in a most distressed state. One of the evi. dence proved the loss of very large orders of shoes for exportation only, on account of the high price they cost the manufacturers. BOXING.—The great battle betwixt Maxey* and Carter will take place in Oxfordshire, on Friday, the id of April. It has excited equal interest in the sporting wQrld to that bcwiat Crib& and the BINA. •