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

Il• -- - COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.. There is the incessant attraction of ,novelty at this Theatre. Last night a Misr Marrnews, from the: 'Bath stage, made her first appearance in Ihe -gads' and Relines, stud wet the Most flattering reception from a crowded home., Miss MATTHZWS has an ele gant form, and is easy and graceful in her carriage. Her voice is not remarkable for volume ; the gift she possesses she manages v.ithtaste and moderation. ' , She attempts'nothing beyond' her strength. There is no affectation of those refinements which half-bred lyric essayists are so fond of displaying, to the clisclo .sure of their positive want of true science. On the contrary, she sung with simplicity, was perfectly in tune, and gave the real character of the melodies de -sikned 'by the amiable author of the music=the in. • terestintalid unaffected SHIELD. If she had him for her instructor, she could not have entered with more truth and felicity into the soul of the simple air— ,. Whilst with village maids I stray," than she did list night. She was universally and deservedly encored .- in it; and she made, her reverence of thanks to the ..company in the most pol , shed style. Miss RENNELL played the part of William. She made a pretty 14p , per youth, as she is uncommonly well formed', and sbe played with great vivacity. ' Her duet with Mrs.' 'iLHITON was a trying 'scene for her musical talent, as she had to sustain a comparison with , the clear, „articulate and simple delivery of *at delightful singer. Miss RENNELL, however, acquitted herself highly to the satisfaction of the audience. The other characters, both in Play and Farce, presented no no velty—it is-sufficient to observe, that, on no former occasion have we seen the pieces better supported. re -t... THE RIDICULOUS STORT. The Public has been for some time amused with foolish stories about the reappearance or resurrection of the late Premier, Mr. PITT. The monstrous ab- surdity of the thing induced us to pass over the mat ter without material notice. A statement, however, of the case has been published, from which we ex tract the following particulars for the amusement of our Readers: •6 One Frapcis Murray, now of Green-street, Lambeth, locksmith, was, in 1788, employed as a constable to watch the 'French emigrants here, in which service he expended .C3O ; but his immediate employer (Mr. Mason) dying abroad, and Mr. Pitt,• as it was said, having died in January, 1806, he lost all hopes of getting his money. Passing, however, along London-road, St. George's-fields, one evening in 1806, he met Mr. Pitt on horseback. From this time, being well acquainted with Mr. Pitt, having seen him every week for twenty years together, Mur ray began to talk of the circumstance (first taking care to watch and see the Right Hon. Gentleman several time s), in consequence of which be was deemed by some a madman, and by others an im postor, by which he lost his connections in trade, which made him rather liackward in the business.— Still he kept on watching till 1808, and traced Mr. Pitt to Richardson's stable-yard, in Westminster. mad, where he went by the nante of Chapman.— Calling again at these stables about a week after, he was infemed that the Gentleman had removed his horses .to Somers's stables, opposite the Asylum. Here be watched, and in three or four days saw Mr. Pitt outer the place, leave his horse, and proceed on foot, to Lord Castlereagh's Office, in St. James's Park: Murray followed, and at the door of the Office challenged him as being no other than the Right Hon. William Pitt, late Prime Minister of England, whereupon he tooled exceedingly terrified, and hastened in door: without :peaking a word.' • a About a fortnight after he again met Mr. Pitt in a gig, when he again challenged him upon which he bowed and drove off. In April, 1809, he also challenged him at the door of Lerti Liverpool's Office, when he looked terrified as before. In the evening, Murray, accompanied by a friend, saw Mr. Pitt pass Westminster Ilrit!ge, escorted by four Bow street horse patroles. In September, October, and November, 1811, he saw, accosted, and convtrsed with Mr. Pitt several times, on one of which occa sions he said, in a low tone of voice—' You are all mistaken.' 66 In June, 1812, he again stopped Mr. Pitt in the street and demanded his money; upon which, says Murray, finding he had no means of escape, he . gave me his word ;and honour that he would enquire 'into the particulars, and that I shotild be-paid.'— Nothing, however, being done, though Mr. Pitt said he had written to Mr. Conant, the Magistrate, on the • subject, Mutray called upon the Magistrate, who said that he must go to the Treasury and enquire for Mr. Chapman, for in that name hepassed, and that he was one of the clerks.' He accordingly went -off to the Treasury, saw Mr. Pitt coming out of Lord Liverpool's Office, told him of his visit to Mr. Conant, and explained to Rita the nature of his de mand ; but nothing then followed. a On the 10th of July, 1812, he again accosted Mr. Fitt, in the presence of twenty or thirty by-sta.u..i tiers, at Gallen's livery-stables in King.street, when' Mr. Pitt told him plainly, that all his pains were useless.' Here Murray says he lost all patience, called the Right Hon. Gentleman a shuffier, an impostor * , a traitor and threatened to take him to the bar of the 'House of Commons, and expose him to all the world !• Mr. Pitt made no reply, but bung down his bead ind drove off. "About this time the indefatigable Murray called • . ppon Mr. Whitbread, and rave him some papers on the subject, which he promised to read. On the 12th July he was going to bed tit hand's at Kensington, to tell him of tl,e d.ctimstance, when he met Mr. - Whitbread com.ng out, who expressed his surprise • Om.t he should still persist in his assertion respecting Mr Pitt, bind asked when he saw him last ? After some conversation, it was . agreed that a meeting sbculd take place in Parham. nt-street, on Monday, the lath. Mr Whitbread, about six o'clock on that . diy, came out of the House of Commons with any, air . Gentleman, and said he could not attend him #.elt, but that the Gentleman present knew Mr. Pitt very well, and he would go with him. They went into King -street, and Murray pointed out Mr. Pitt. The Gentleman desired Murray to o back, which ptetOded to dO, but watched ther m. When the Geoilemati came up to Mr. Pitt, Murray heard him For God's sake, turn back, turn* bask, Sir ; you are discovered." Murray followed them; they at last stood still, and beckoned him. The Gentle man, in company with Mr. Pitt, asked Mnnay ill*. knew'who - he was ? Murray replied that be lees Mr. Pitt. The Gentleman then said, his name is Chap ' man . ... Murray said•that it was talse—his name-was Pitt. They desired him not to speak so loud, and put - on his hat, After some further conversation. it was settled that be should go to Mr. Whitbread's the next trior,ning—he•did so, but the meeting was post poned till the 24,th, when all the parties were to-as semble there. Suspecting that some mischief was , plotting against him, Murray wrote a . letter to Mr. W. which his wife carried. Having, she says, ar rived at Mr. W. P 3, she was waiting in the hall when Mr. Pitt came in, and walked into the front parlour, but while she was there, several ill-looking fellows were let in and sent down stairs. Mr. Pitt and Mr. Whitbread having remained in conference for about a quarter of an hour, Mrs. Murray was called before them, when the following dialogue took place : " Mr. W.-4 presume you are Mra. Murray f—A. Yes " Mr. W.—phis is the Gentleman your husband takes to be Mr. Pitt, but he is not Mr. Pitt; he is tall, to be sure, like Mr. ' Pitt ; and he wears leather breathe., and looks like Mr. Pitt; • .but his features are uut like Mr. . Pitt; his hair, his complexion, his limbs, nor his feet, are like Mr. Pitt. " Mr. P.—Does any body else say I am Mr. Pitt besides Your husband ?—A. Ido not know, Sir, much about that. I have beard some say you are the real Gentleman, and I believe it myself, as well as many others; and there are those again who will have it to be all false. i• Mr. P.—Why, if I were to pay this 430, the whole world would say I was the man. " Mr. W.—Aye; but this is not Mr. Pitt, and on my oath it is not Mr. Pitt. Is your husband right here ? (pointing to his forekead)—A. Lord, yes! I never knew ai.y thing the matter with him, and I have been married to hies these thirty-three Mr. Mr. Whitbread here wrote the following note to Mr. Murray, with which he dismissed his wi!e: " Mr. MUItRATI am very sorry you could not come. Your wife and child are here, and in their presence, and in the presence of Mr. Chapman, who is here also, and who is the man you. take for Mr. Pitt, and I write that it Is not Mr. Pitt. He is thin and wears leather breeches, and in these circumstances alone he resembles Mr. Pitt. His features are not lake Mr. Pitt, his com plexion is not like Mr. Pitt, his hair Is not not like Mr. Pat, his limbs and feet are not like Mr. Pitt, and he is net so tall as Pitt. Upon my oath he is not Mr. Pitt. I therefore say to you, after this solemn assurance, you must he satisfied and quiet. I entreat to let this close the mutt. for cum—Your friend, • " Dover-street, July 24, 1812." " S. warreasa.a." Upon the receipt of this conclusive letter, Murray was much exasperated; and sallied out in quest of Mr. Pitt, whom he met going out of town in the evening. He stopped him, and asked whether that was die way he meant to pay him, by attempting to immure him in a mad-house ? 44 I abused and threatened him," says Murray, "in the presence of the mob, who ga thered round." He appeared much terrified, and said, " Don't threaten, for that is not the way to get your money." On the 28th, he received a letter from Mr. Conant, stating, that it he would call at his Office, he had orders to do something for him; and on the 23d of August, Murray received from Mr. Conant £l2, out of the st3o, due to him. Finding he could get nothing more from them, he resolved to petition Parliament, and left a petition with Sir Francis Burdett. Sir Francis sent a Gentleman to the Police Office and to the Treasury, to know wha it was that had ordered the payment of the 41'2 ? "He found," says Murray, .g that the pretended Mr. Chapman did not belong to the Treasury, but to the Colonial Office ' • on a strict - inquii y, he proved him to be the Right Hon. W. Pitt." Through the medium of this Gentleman, a negociation :was opened, and on the sth of January, 1813, Murray received, in the hall of Sir Francis 13urdett's house, in Piccadilly, a check on Mr. Coutts for 420, by the hands of a Mr. Butts, for which he gave a receipt, and signed a promise that he would never again challenge Mr. Chapman, or make any farther demand upon liini, they has ing first promised, he says, to procure 11101 a place, to compensate him for his loss of time, &c. On the 17th of March last, Murray says he met Mr. Pitt arm in arm with Mr. Chaptriaii, Portland street. Mr. Pitt called out. Murray, Murray,' and asked him it he had got his situation ? lie said, no. Mr. l'itt said, he had sroken for him, and would speak again. In May Murray presented a Later to Mr. Able tt, the Speaker, concerning this promise. Mr. Abbott merely said, he had no autho rity over that department. On the Ist of August, he . met Mrs. Sparrow, widow of a King's Messenger be told her, that if Mr. Pitt did not perform his pro mise, he would fulfil his, and he knew what that was. On the 7th he received a letter from Mr. Conant, desiring him to attend at the Office on the 9th. He did so, and suspecting what they were about, took three neighbours with Ijhm as bail. Mrs. Sparrow attended, and swore that he had threatened Mr. Chapman's life. Murray denied having mentioned the name of Chapman. After some hesitation, the Magistrate sent for Mr. Chapman; who, in about two hours, made his appearance. Upon his entry, Mur ray said, that he was not Mr. Chapman, but .the Right Hon. Wm. Pitt, of which he was prepared to make oath. Mr. Pitt, alias Mr. Chapman, here de. manded what all this meant ? Murray said, lie was brought there to prosecute him, and he insisted that he should he bound over for that purpose. Mr. Chapman asked what he should prosecute him for ? Murray then reminded him of his promise to get him a place; which he did not deny, but said he had it not in his power. He then asked, if the bail had any personal knowledge of Mr. Pitt ? One said, he had not the honour of knowing, but he knew enough of Murray's character to believe what be offered to swear to. Another replied,' Ido not recollect hav ing seen Mr. Pitt before he rose from the dead ; but I am sure I see him now.' " Mr. Pitt—Where ‘dia you know me, Murray At Sr. James's, your Honour. " Mr. Pitt—You may have seen me get Into my carriage ? A. Yes ; and many a time I have h Iped you into your carriage. " Mr. Pitt—How is that ?—A. Whrn your servants were out of the way, 'and gone to take refreshment, and did not taped you so soon:' No inclination being shewn to let the law take its course, Motaapetook his hat and left the Office with his bail, first saying— " Gentlemen—You seem to make a laugh of this business ; you now see wlaa is right and who is wrong —here is my bail, it yott - choose to take it y You will rather, perhaps, choose to sake a few days considera tion :- do so, if you like it. You know where to find me; I am forthcoming at any hour. • '6 Being well aware of the childish notion which has been entertained on the subject a my imputed Thereby engage to Oring forward "00 madness, a , re spectable persons to refute that silty suggestirin. (Signed) • "s.StinnAire" I GOTTENBURGII Millll. . - GOTTENBURGH, AUGUST st. The Queen Dowager died ola Saturdq the 21st instant, at a quarter past four a. m. General. Win zingerode made a strong reconnoissance on the 17th instant with 9,000 cavalry, and took some prisoners, among whom were two Captains. _ _ Tw — o Officers from Dantzic have deserted to Ge neral Moreau. A General Jomini has done the same, to General Blucher, and was immediately sent to the Russian headquarters. The English General Martin has taken possession of Lubeck ; and Eekmuhl has left HambUrgh with his whole corps, leaving the Danes to garrison it. The Crown Prince of Sweden has 90,000 men un der his command. They are so situated that he can, bring them to one point in less than twelve hours. The Prince writes; that he has 90,000 infantry and 40,000 cavalry. It is said, that the French Officers in Dresden drank the health of Carl John and General Moreau, which, when Nap - oleon heard, he ordered every third man to be shot ; but Betthier interfered and settled it. Head-quarters at Potsdam, the 16th Aususi. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince yesterday evening removed his head-quarters to this city. The army is concentrating. As the Congress for Peace, opened at Prague, gave no hopes of progress, the armistice was declared by the Allied Powers to be at an end on the 10th instant, so that hostilities might recommence to.niorrow. The declaration of war, by the Court of Austria against France, was transmitted by Count Metternich to Count Narbonne, at Prague, on the 11th instant, at one o'clock in the morning. BERLIN, AUGUST 12. General Moreau arrived here on the evening of the 10th instant, accompanied. by his brother is arms and' Adjutant, Colonel Rappatel, ac likewise the Counsellor of Legation to the Russian Embassy to North America, Mr. Von Swindon. The numerous populace assembled before his lodgings honoured his arr►val with repeated hurrahs, and in the evening he was serenaded. Yesterday morning he paid his visits to all the Princes of the Royal House now at this place, and to several Generals which visit was mediately returned in person by Prince Augustus Ferdinand, and by the Generals Dillow, Tauenzien, and Oppen. At noon General Moreau, accompanied by Colonel Rappatel and the Counsellor of Legation Von Swindon, proceeded on his journey to the Rus , sian and Prussian headquarters. PRAGUE, AUGUST 18. The King of Prussia arrived here to day, at three! o'clock in the afternoon. The Emperor went a mile from our capital to meet him- To.morrow their Ma jesties the Emperors of Russia and Austria, and the King of Prussia, will review the Austrian army, which is concentrated upon both banks of the Elbe. Their Majesties will in the evening return to Prague. . AUGUST I9.—Lord Cathcart, the English Ambas: sador to the Court of St. Petersburgh ; Sir Charles Stewart, English Minister to the Prussian Court ; Count Loewenhulm, Swedish Minister to the Russian Ct art; and tie Chancellor of State, Baron• Kaden hrrg, are at present here, His Serene Highness the Dtike . of Cumberland is expected every moment, as well as the Marquis of Aberdeen, who is to fill the post of English Minister to the Austrian Court. . PRIVATE LEITER. " Reichenbaek. (in Silthis) ♦ugust IL After remaining at Stockholm some time, vie left Sweden about the beginning of July, and crossed the Baltic to Stralsund. The Swedish army was then under the Crown Prince, amounting to 30,000 .men, One hears but little of military Swedes since the days of Charles XII. but I assure you that they are some of the finest troops on the Continent. The artillery is beautiful, and perhaps equal to any in Europe. .In Sweden, and throughout the army, the name of the Crown Prince is idolized. No enthupiastic admiration of a Sovereign could. be carried higher, than that expressed for his Royal Highness. His look is keen and . piercing, and his air extremely sol dierlike. I saw him several times at the Opera at Berlin, surrounded by the Prussian Princes, and re ! ceiving from every part of the House the loudest and repeated tributes of applause. You have heard, per. liapsonuch of the spirit of the Continent, but I as sure you no idea can be formed in England of the enthusiasm that animates every individual in Prussia against Frenchmen, French-principles; and manners.' The levy en mouse has been completely organized, and every one is a soldier in reality. The women of all ranks have given up to Government great part 'of their watches, jewels, and ornaments, and for a month the .public sale of them has been going on. The higher orders are universally employed in furnishing , clothing, linen, 3cc. for the army. ; 4 6 In repairing the fortifications at Spandau, mate' hundreds of women are at work, who take it by tans to give their labour voluntary and without pay, to the King. I went to see in what state the siege had lift the place. All that was the beatitiful part of the town is in ashes. There is not a house besides, that has not marks of shells and balls innumerable ; but the celebrated fortress, which covers a great extent of ground, is in the interior one scene of devastation. One part of it, where the powder magazine blew up, is completely destroyed, bastion and all. The suburbs, consisting of 4.50 country houses, were completely destroyed before the siege by the French, and the trees in the vicinity were cut down, that they ;night not intercept the view. During our stay, the Crown Prince arrived to ! take the command of the Allied Army in that place. He was received with the greatest demonstrati .ns of joy, and appeared to the people in the character of I their guardian angel. He has under him 110,0(X) I men.—The Russian army is the finest sight imagin able ; tl e tioops incomparably well disciplined and accoutred. The Austrians, with 100,u(X) men, undoubtedly join us—they are now at Prague, and detachments from hence have already marched to join them. Bennigsen, with 100,000 new levies, is corning through Warsaw. We have lived `mengst Russians of the first order, and received uncommon civilities among them. Messrs. D. Kinnaird, per ceval, and Hobhouse, had just left it eichenb4ch ae we arrived, and are gone to Vienna, whither we shall proceed to-morrow, for the army is already in ;notion, end head -quarters remored in a day or two','f FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, SEPTEMBER 3. IMPERIAL DECREE. Napoleon, Sy the Grace of Gorr, &c. &c. The Senate, after having heard the Orators of the Council of State, decreed, and we order what follows EXTRACT FROM THE REGISTERS Or THE CONSERVATIVE SIDIATE, Or AUGUS, St, 1813. 41 The Conservative Senate having assembled to the number of members prescribed by article 90, of die Act of the Constitution of December 13,1799. " Considering the projet of the Senator Corusdient, corrected in the form prescribed by article 57, cf the Act uf the Constitution of August 4, 1802 ; " After having heard, upon the motives of the said projet, the Orators of the Council of State, and the report of the Special Comtnission, appointed in the sitting of yesterday the adoption having been del:. ' berated by the number of voices prescribed by article 56, of the regulation of the 4th August, 1802." Decreed, Art I,—Thirty thousand men, taken from tae classes of 181*, 1813, 1812, and anterior ones, in the departments hereafter snentioacd—(here follow the name, which are autnerons)—shall be placed at the disposition of the . Minister at War.—(The Decree aftetlvirds order: That those 30,000 men shall be di. tided among the corps d'armees in Spain.) I-lAWBURGH, AUGUST 21, • On the 22J, the Marshal had his head-quarts 7., before Wastoff, and General Count Loisoa was a- Ckmmin, marching upon Wittemberg. All the imperial and Danish troops were in line. 4LGUsT 27...—Marshal the Prince of Eckmuhl tered- Schwerin on the 23d instant. The inhabitants of Schwerin, as well as those of Hamburg!), curse the partisans of ararchy and adven turers- ; villages, and are anxious to satisfy all demands made for the service of the army. The most perfect harmony prevails between the French end Danish troops. Different engagements have already taken place between the corps of that nation and the enemy; and the Danes have merited the esteem of their allies. General Loison was on the 95th at Wismar; he left it yesterday to march upon ltostoOk. FRONTIERS OP AUSTRIA, AUGUST ea. We have received intelligence from Bohemia. The most important announces the march of the principal Russian army, and a Prussian corps to join the Acts. trier army. NUREMBERG, AUGUST 27. We impatiently expect accounts from Silesia and Lussau. We posiiively know, that the French and their allies have been victorious, on all the points where they have hitherto fought, MILAN, AUGUST 21. They write from T4rvis, under date of the 25th. that the Prince Viceroy arrived there in the night he tWeen the 24th and 25th. Our troops had, on the 23d and 24th, some skirmishes with the enemy ; ;hey constantly had the advantage, and made two or elm • • hundred prisoners. MALT . A. ••=•••••• The followint letter, of the latest date that has yet been received from Malta, was brought by the Sarah, which has arrived at Bristol, direct from that Island. Our Readers will perceive that it coshfirms the ac. count communicated at sea to the LARK cutter, by his Majesty's ship Kmoansuaa, and which we laid before our Readers on Tuesday. We cannot suffi ciently press the necessity of a rigid observance of the laws of quarantine. We repeat this recommendAtion, not from any suspicion that Government will know. ingly suffer any relaxation of these beneficial reple tion: ; but we know how anxious ships, and parties, lArly passengers, ere to evade their operation--pd it therefore is the duty of every individual in the outposts to become a watchman for the public safety. Any person who attempts to break quarantine should experience the utmost infliction of the laws s • • " MALTA, JULY IS. 4 0- I- can convey no idea of the general distress nceasioned by the. disorder with which this Island is unhappily visited. The mortality is now be tween sixty and seventy per day, with every pro bability of increasing. It is found to be abso lutely impossible to exact precaution from the lower order of natives, .whose ideas of predestinatie o Make 'them careless to the last degree. One part of the tuburhs bids fair to be entirely depopulateJ ; 1 anoiher part, on the contrary, where the most rigid Measures have been adopted, in not soffeting any . con 4 unication whatever even with the city, tema.m.: perfectly free from the difease. This is a clear part of what may be effected by cutting of the intereour , r with each other and keeping up a strict system fA quarantine. " It is impossible to foresee a termination to th l i horrible disorder—at present, the prospect is distni indeed, and much fear that, notwilletanding the libe• ral subscription entered into to feed the pocsr, eta' of them die from want. The funds are not adecieue. nor can they be well expected to be so when the u''' tributions arc so few comp-lied with the objects 0. charity which, in a poptilation of 80,000 soul=, d , barred of their usual Tncir,s of supply, must be grey' bey* conception." •