Star. — London, England, 1812-09-08 00:00:00

~i I. ;N... - • LONDON. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. POCE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Jper Ct. Red.— —Core. 6oif—Tor opg. 60fi 4vs Ct. shut-5 per Ct. 92 954 92—Bank stock Om a. 4 4pre.—Bonas Gs. Ts. slis.—Long s u b. Bills. (Sid.) par Is. pm... Do. (Sid.) 45. ss. pre. ,THE Ei/ENINU STA . Nothing farther has been received this day either o .6rm of contradict the reports that the French '"emperor has either been dreadfully woundid or with insanity. There can be no doubt that, m m opervative Senate have had th r ee Si tt i ng s as u•W'An the minor French Papers ; and there Mit' i etas in Town from Paris, which mention,thelact is an extraordinary circumstance, tent they do nor-, b'br a single conjecture as to the cause sOf their convocation. The statement - respecting NAPOLEON* jests, therefore, entirely on the reports brought from the French coast. We wait with impatience the receipt of fetish ac-' counts from the French coast, not only to ascertain what may be the fact tespectigg BONAPARTE, but to' icing something like official partiulars respecting • -she boasted succestes of she. Fsvash .at Smoiensko; - on the 14th, IStbotnd 19dtillti."foitts jet Apse rest Andy on private littera in the shisior Jobrnals. • t • _. • Further extracts frOM Cadik NOM' chill be found in our Columns of to-day I the; afford ample confir . mation of the gratifying.intelligence which com- Itunicated is our Second Edition of yesterday, of ihe French being not only on-the eve of raising the siege of Cadiz,"but of evacuating Spain. Indeed, from the formidable positions which our glorious armies now &copy in the Peninsula, we cannot for a moment • Withhold our belief from the intelligence, however high-coloured it may appear to some readers, which 'the Spanish Papers convey. , We rejoice to learn, that the Defeat of General O'Dostat. had excited a considerable sensation at Cadiz ; and as the candid manner in which the Spaniards allude to it does great honour to their rational character, we have given at full length the proceedings of the Government on the oceasioa.— _ - islot only is this foolish.. if not cowardly General to be punished, but even those who were his patrons in the act of his appointment are likely to undergo the chastisement of dismissal from office.—This is as it should be, and the Spanish RegenCy will thereby be purged from some of the drivellers, whose councils have too long palsied the efforts of real 'S fa tr iotisok SECOND EDITION. "SPIK STAR OFPICE, TWO O'CLOCK. We are now enabled to throw some light on the supposed mysterious assembling of the Conservative Senate. We have seen letters from Paris of the sth instant, which state, that BONAPARTII having long since resolved to seize upon Pru s sia as a fief of Trance, it became necessary to have the sanction of the Conservative Senate pro forma to that proceeding. One of their first measures has therefore been, for mally to declare that the KING of PRUSSIA, alias Count RUPPIN, 1136 ceased to reign ! But this is not the only important intelligence these letters contain: they state, that the defeats of the French armies in Spain had produced the utmost consternation in the capital of France ; and that it was another object of the meetings of the Senate, to supply, if possible, the immense losses in Spain and Portugal, and to make a last desperate cart in the Peninsula. With this view, the Conservative Senate has ordered all the troops of the line stationed at Brest, Toulon, ..nd other important points in the French Empire, to march instantly for Spain : they are to be replaced by the cohorts of the departments. By the French constitution, in the absence of the Emperor,•no changes in the destination of the troops of the empire can be made without thg consent of the Conservative Senate. The above letters are wholly silent respecting the was with Russia, or any accident having befallen BONAPARTE. The annexation of Prussia to France, as an inte gral part of her territories, is calculated to produce most important changes on the political relations of the European States. By this measure NAPOLEON • makes himself master of the coast .of the Baltie from the Duchy of Mecklenburgh to Courland, aboit'4Bo. geographical miles ; and gets the command of 4 . fine corn country, and many valuable ports, which can. not fail to be of essential service to him in his future 'TitwA upon the independence of those Northern States ,ilehich, from local , circumstances, have hitherto scapd his grasp. Yesterday his Highness th e Duke of 13nnwswicx alai : long inLerviebi with * Lord MaLvILLE at the . 114 4 ;r i . lt y • 't 4, or d byncm-bas completed his sale of Newsted Abbey, T igi zs e :ottinghamsWre, by which he will receive e i 4o , ooo f o . A properly that had been previously valued at only n' 60,000 • Sir Salami. lkosn.LY and his Lady arrived on Fri. .day last at pumswitcs.'s Hotel, Edinburgh. They sere op amisit to the Nolte of ROXBURGH. ..4 grand dinner wakren at Liverpool on Friday, iiltthe Liverpool Arrost:iotely to H. BROUGHAM, Esq. * ' 44d. P. Among tht cOmPanY were the Earls of DERBY OKI SEFTON, 1.01,11 STARLET, i.he Hon. Mr. BENNBT, 151111 . ... Id - Lord TnintanviLLE, Major CWWRIGHT, &c. .wv,lgsscomeSsci. 01 the Chair, - .. THE ARMY. 'R amity IN skim , _ FOEL THE Ai._ The First, Beyond, and Third Regiments of Foot Guards were yesterday inspected in Hyde Park. by his Royal Highness the Commander.in•Chief their. Royal Highnesses the Dukes of CLeataNce and Cara- 1 BRIDGIt were on the ground. Fo - urteen hundred and fifty men were dratted from the first battalions for embarkation for Portugal. On being informed that they were to join the Marquis of WSLUNOTON'S army, they gave three cheers. This morning, at fire o'clock, the right wing of the Ist battalion of theist regiment of Foot Guards, consisting of 800 men, grenadiers and light infantry, were mustered in Knightsbridge barracks, Colonel GReVILLE Urron Commander ; and, being formed in two dirisions by Captain Lastneur, they marched at six 'o'clock, with drums beating and colours flying, for Putney, where. the Band left them. They then proceeded to Kingston, on their way to Portsmouth, for embarkation. The band of the regiment played the Duke of York's March as they passed Knights bridge barracks, when the men, one and all, gave three hearty cheers. - . RIMiMidMMINT Fear women, having no children, in each company, were allowed to go with them : in the centre •of the Division several of the female heroines were observed marching in quick time, with the firelock in their hand. Greatly to their honour, none of the men were the least inebriated. They received, last night, ten shillings each, bring a part of the first payment, becoming due, of the Waldierns isrize-monqi. . . After the inspection, yesterday, in Hyde-Park, die Commander-Ll-Chief ordered every man to have a shilling, to drink his It.' yal Highness's health and success to the Marquis of Wiewmaros and the troops under his command. The cloathing and ammuni tion for the reinforcements were conveyed in two large baggage waggons. Another division of the Guards will march to-morrow morning, should the weather c tintie fair, also for Portsmouth, to em 'hark for 8 ain. 11 . , . The /4' Regiment of Life Guards. are expected to march next week, beit apathies-being nearly ready. _ .. - We are enabled, from good authority, to state, that General Sir S. CorroN is recovering from the Wound be accidentally received from a centinel; after the battle near Salamanca. A ball passed through his lett arm, just below the elbow, and broke the small bone ; an exfoliation has taken place; and the gallant Commander, in a letter to his friends in Cheshire, speaks confidently of being able to take the field early in September. The PRINCE'REGENT is expected to review the bri gade of Life Guards and Oxford Blues, next week, on Wimbledon Common. General Fouttn, and family, are amongthepassen-1 gers in the Lady Lushihgton, arrived from Bengal. The command of the Western District has devol ved on Major General ERSKINE during the absence of Lieutenant General ENGLAND from Plymouth. A detachment of 200 men (with Officers) of the sth Battalion of the 60th Regiment, embarked at the Isle of Wight, on Thursday last, for Portugal. A Commission of Yield Marshal of England is making out for the Marquis of WaLLniozow. A most handsome provision has been made for the family of the gallant General La MARCHANT, who died with 96 balls in his body, while advancing and cheering at the head of his men. To the Lidest son A pension is given 9 . f . £3OO a-year, to each o( the four a-year, daughters £l2O -year, and to each of the three younger sons .glOO. Last week a Leeds publican was fined for refusing to admit soldiers into his house at midnight. A third battalion of Royal Marines is to be imme diately formed for active service, the command of which, it is said, will be given to Major TIMMS. About 900 arrived at Portsmouth on Tuesday, in the Dover, from Anholt, who are to constitute a part of the force. That island is now garrisoned by one of the Garrison Battalions. On Tuesday morning 120 French prisoners were marched from Greenlaw through Leith for the new prison at Perth. The following energetic lines are taken Worn " NA POLEON," by the Rev. C. COTTON.—A Poem which we do not hesitate to prorriunce the best delineation we have seen of the Corsican Usurper. The semi ments it contains will find an e.ho in every breast. By the Preface, we learn it is translating into the French language. Its circulation on the Continent cannot be too much encouraged : Say, Tragi-comic Harlequin of Fate ! What mad, yet mournful pranks, the world await ? Dread Pantomimic Preteus of the age! Strut thy peer hour on Europe's bloody stage ; Kings and their armies for thine actors have, And Fortune for, thy Cymbsline and Slave, Then wield awhile her•all-subduing wand, Decree this throne to fall, and that to stand ; Change with a frown orspile, the face of things, Make Monarchs Mendicants, Adventurers Kings, Frond Cities Ruins, Wealth and Property, A Sapless, rootless, shorn, transplanted tree. Triumph, a little space, by craft and crime, Two foes thou caner not conquer—Tata n and Time ! Mr. KIDNOCK, who left Bengal as passenger in the Lady Lushington East-Indiaman, after leaving St, Helena, was attacked with a dysentery and died, leaving a fortune of ,850,000 behind him, acquired is the Company's service ; 5e40,000 of which he has left to wounded Scotchmen, and 810,000 to two friends: This day the Lottery began Drawing . at eleven o'clock. The four first drawn Blanks entitled to the eight packets of Tickets, were as follows :—Nos. 3235, 2549, 1573, and 963. Three of them were sold at BISH'S Offices, 4, Cornhill, and 9, Charing- Crots, where 3880, a Prize of £3OOO, in Class B. was sold in Shares, and the Share-holders may re ceive their Money on demand. Basuin—.No alteration in the price this week—the quartern loaf Is. Bd. 66 HALIFAX, SEPT. s.—We are 'sorry to sayohe Luddites get very active again, and very near us too. They have been seizing arms all up the Calder Val ley, and on Thursday night broke a gig of Mr. W.'s. They have plundered arms at Mr. P.'s, at Green royd, and we are in nightly expectation of a visit at the Mill. There was a Militia regiment here, a com pany of which was at one of these places half an hour before the depredations were committed." • .. , NAVAL INTAL LICENCE. FALMOUTH, SEPTEMBER S. Artie ed the queen Charlotte ( 2d) w from Plymouth, to be convertbd into a Packet. ind E.S.E. PLYMOU CH, SEPT. S. Sailed the Neptune (2) tender, for Dublin; l-- LARK 12 guns, for Exmouth, to convoy a new btig, just launched ; 10 guns, * tor Falmouth.- 1 The MACRDONIAN 38 guns, is come from the Sound to Barnpool, to have a new mainmast.* old ohe be ing rotten. Wind,S.S.E. PORTSMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 7. Sailed the Quum CHARLOTTE cutter, with a con- vny for Guernsey and Jersey. Hi s Majesty's ship ROSARIO has made a signal for the convoy bound for the Downs to get under-weigh. Wind South. DEAL, SEPTEMBER 7. • Sailed his Majesty's ship WARSPITE on a cruize off Flushing. Came down from the River the Jwif t, East India Pilot-sloop, to wait the arrival of the la diamen. The Nymph hired armed cutter has a ,ig nal flying for Portsmouth. Wind N.E. YARMOUTH, SEPT. 7. Arrived this Morning , from a cruize off the North Cape the MERCURIUS sloop of war, and the PRINCESS AUGUSTA cutter from Heligoland. Sailed nn a cruize the BEAVER sloop of war.—Remain the Sale.: bay, Leveret, and Vixen refitting. DARTMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 6. Sailed the Providence and Eliza cartels, for Morlalit; LEITH, SEPTEMBER 96 • • The FREYA frigate sailed from the Roads on Tues day for Portsmouth.—The brig Hermes arrived in the Roads on Tuesday, from Pictou with timber.-- Two Russian vessels, prizes to the gIERCIIRIUS sloop of war, arrived on Saturday ; and an American brig, prize to the GALLANT, on Monday night. • EAST-INDIA SHIPPING. The under-mentioned ships arrived at Falmouth the 4th inst. under convoy of the IPItIGENIA, viz. William Pitt, David Scott, and Retreat, (sailed from Beng al 18th March); Lord Forbes, Tottenham ' and Lady Lushington ; sailed from. Bengal 19 th March. Sailed [Mtn St. Helena the 7th July, in company, the Eclipse brig of war, which left the fleet the ed inst. The Providence Botany Bay ship, last front China, , sailed with the fleet from St. Helena, and is arrived at Falmouth. The Surrey, Lady Castlereagh, Walthamstow, Marquis Wel lesley, and Dover Castle were left in Bengal. The Warren Has tings and Lord Castlereagh were to proceed front Bengal to China about the middle of April, with a cargo of cotton, on ac count of the company, and were to return to Bengal. Lord El don and Batavia were lying at Sauger nearly laden. Baring and two country ships were loading for Europe. Ihe Coldstream and Larkins, outward-bound, salted from St. Helena 7th July. Passengers per David Scott—Lieutenant-Colonel Christie, Mr. J. Mackintosh, Lieutenant J. M'hythe, 24th regiment of dragoons, ' and Mr. J. Robertson, from Bengal; Mr. and Mrs. Hale, from St. Helena. 'Passengers rer William PlN—Misses and Master Portethis. Pasiengen per Tottenham-- , Lieutenanr J. E. Odell. DIS TRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. Plelcer, for la Sophie, on Thursday, at 13, Clement's inn ; re ailed Mondays and Thursdays. Calyp“s, for the Edo"' Cathetina ; and Swan, for the Haabet, on the toth r and Cherub, for la Velicite, on the 18th inst. at te, Clement's Inn, and there recalled. Cambrian, for the F.nttrprize, on the 10th inst. at 7, Wat. brook, and there recalled. Blazer, for the Patriot and Blazer, the 13th, at 1. James e Krectr Adelphi, and there recalled. Snapper-and Arrow, for la Sophie, on the 4th instaat, at IS, George-street, and there recalled. - Arrow, for la Maria Louisa, on the I6th inst. at Plymouth, and recalled at s, Clifford's Inn. - • NAVAL PROMOWONS: • • Lieutenant R. Mainwaring, to the rank Of Coleetadler. Mr. Hay, of the Victory, is promotedle the rank d 'Ante ' nant, and appointed to that ship. . Captain B. W. Page, 13 appointed to the Puissant. Captain J. Bitsett, to the Royal Sovereign. • Captain R. Mansell, to the Chatham. • Captain Sir 'C. J. Cochrane, to the Surprise. Captain R. Mainwaring, to the Gorgon, Captain E. Collier, to the Manly. Lieuttnatits H. Baker and C. IL. Norman, to the Queep. lieutenant E. Kelty, to the York. Lieutenants N. Glen and J. MiCandllsh, to the Alfred. Lieutenant T. Day, to tht / Atabnte. LieutenantsJ.Packenham and Fluruaurice, to the Magicienne. Lieutenant Wm. M'Leod, to the Snap. Lieutenant Wells, to the Freya. • Lieutenant Malachi Donnellan, to the Childers. Lieutenant H. Ready, to the Moselle. Mr. Turner, Master, to the Barfieur. Rear-Admiral TYLER is appointed Commander-in- Chief at the Cape of Good Hope. It is said that Lord BALGONIE is to have the new frigate the SURPRIZE, now at Plymouth. The mail of Sunday arrived at Yarmouth with the English and Spanish colours flying ; and on its arriving at the Star Tavern gave three cheers, which was returned by the populace ; soon after the Ga wile was made public, the bells were rang, and the ships in the harbour were decorated with flags. The VOLAGE, Captain MACKAY, with Sir EVAN NEPEAN on board for Bombay, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope on tha 24th Juue, with three cqtel ships from England, on their return to the East Indies. Admiral STOPFORD was at the Cape, with the LION; Ninth and GALATEA. The President left' the Cape on the 17th of June for the Isle of France. - The NARcissus, Captain LUMLEY ; goes to the West-Indies with a convoy ; and the ABUNDANCE, store-ship, JOSIAU OAK, Master commanding, to Jamaica. The PROTECTOR, Lieutenant Mrrontsoa, arrived at Portsmouth, brings the moat favourable reports of the healthy state of the ships on the coast of Africa. The PROTECTOR, during her stay of two years on that station, only lost two, and the AMELIA, Hon. Captain FOLEY, Commodore, had only lost one man. The twits, Captain SCOBELL, arrived at Gorce on the 10th of June, from England, and was left there on the 20th of that mouth, with the KANGAROO; Captain LLOYD. The AMELIA left Sierra Leone on the 10th of May, on a cruize down the coast. She Was ex. pected to return to Eneand in December. Extract or a letter tram the fleet off the Schel:lt, dated on the Ist instant The 'Frye en got a-shore on the Whiting Sand, a few days since, but by prompt assistance from the 'Pezel squadron she was got off without damage, after taking some of her guns out. The next day it blew a gale : had it happened then, she must have gone to pieces. The ships at present off the Texel are—ROYAL OAK,' 74, Rear-Admiral Lord AMELIUS BEAUCLERC, Captain &MILANI, ; DUNCAN, 74, Captain R. LAMBERT ; EGMONT, 74; Captain BINGHAM ; ELEPHANT, 74, Captain AUSTEN ; BBUFORD ; 74, Captain WAikKEU ; anriNthe Scants, 74, Captain T. HARM. . ' - A ' irDira9SOß, SIVANNts.-7*-1- . Yesterday morning . the Quasi' amd Divine Service performed in the Castle; the" wards went to Fro more ; returned' to dinnet, returned again to Frrgmore to tea: ' This 11119 ming Princesses CHARI,OTTZ Of W and AUGUSTA took an airing on horsebick i Great Park, to Cranburn, Sec. accompanied by I WALSINOHAM, Lady Nuts; General Wyss* and Colonel TAYLOR. The Qualm and Paincessas will honour I. Lady Hmicouitr with their company to &nod their beautiful seat, at Si. Leonard's Hill. We m.m.••••=••• COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. Last night this place of Public Amusement o ened for the Siason. SHAKESPEAR's Romeo Julia was the Play which the Managers selecte the debut of their 'Company on this occasion, an was throughout tolerably well supported —wt tolerably, because we do certainly think that a sprightly" Romeo than Mr. CHARLES KIMBLE m have been selected; without going beyond the pur of the Garden. There is too much s f the .4 h lightness I—serious vanity !" of the family, in Gentleman, to fit him for such a lover' as SHA . -lino has depicted in Romeo. There was little o 'novehy in the cast of the Play :—Mr. JONES, CLAE/5/1204,, fi1111110249, Mr.' BRUNION, MiStAVFNPORT, and Miss BOOTH, W 41 welcomed with catisfaction, if not with en itiasm. We were -glad to see CLAKEMONT, ea ?dice, restored to his legitimate rank, because it been whispered that this useful and correct Perfor had been dismissed, to make way for somecheaperri —The miserable. Harlequinade of the Guiders was, !wok lard& .f got up as the after-piece, as i enable the audience.to estimate the respective cla . to dramatic excellence of SHAIERSPRAR and GRIMA for it is the latter Gm:lmm wltp gives life to ' Piece, and not its author. It went off very col. and the slight applause it received, emanated fr those only to wham a fire-eater in Bartholomew ' would have given more satisfaction. The audience was by no means numerous— managers may console themselves with the idea, t • the absence of the fashionables from town acc. for this deficiency ; but we can tell them, that if place Sataxitarstaattand Harlequin cheek by jowl foe remainder of the season, their benches ought tta empty. With Mrs. SIDDONS and JOHN KILMIILIL I age of chivalry at Covent-Garden departed.. It is but justice, hovrevei,, to the Gentlemen, whom we have been offering some wholesome advi to say, that they have shewn a becoming defere to public opinion, in improving the interior arras: ment of their Theatre. The pigeon-hole galleries, which honest .folsa Bull was cooped up for the t last seasons, have been removed • and instead of heavy arches, which disfigured t he upper part of House, slender iron pillars have been substitu Th kjovial visitors of the gallery will therefore hay shilling's worth, for their hard-earned shilling. Avon -kola on each side, which were allotted to billing and cooing . of the dermas of Paphos, are I most properly removed, and these gay parties now be confined to their proper element, the lobbt —Before dismissing this subject, we must obser 4414 opening so early as last -night, the Ploprieto -have displayed a remnant df that,spu it of monopoi which we thought had been'completely laid in d Red Sea, by the good old English Necromancer 0. The Directors of i the affairs of Covent Garden, they think themselves stout, ought also to " be me ciful,"—they ought to recollect that a Sister Instio tion, the Haymarket Theatre, is struggling to vrdi ther the storm of an expensive season i and courtei at least, might have induced them to have kept the doors shut for another week, as usual in all fora} seasons—even then they would have had the start 'New prin., by. a 411 month. PEDISTRIANISM.—Yesterday -- Stanton, a , neyman hatter, undertook, for a wager of £5, to on foot from Whitechapel Church to the Bald.fac , Stag on Ening Forest, and back again, in two hou and a halt, (20 miles), which be performed 10 mimic, within the tune. Last week was not very fatal to patridges, thel strong holds having protected them from the assault of the enemy. It has been observed, that fewer biro have been brought to town by the mails and stag coaches, than during the first week of shooting in an one of the preceding 20 years. The four French officers who broke their paro And were apprehended at Dorchester, were on Mo day se'nnight marched off by an escort of the 39 Regiment to Forton prison. Saturday night, about ten o'clock, a young ma collecting clerk et the houseof a wholesale tradism in Whitechapel, passing along near the end of Flee market, Snew-hill, was hustled by a gang of five six fellows, who shoved him down, and robbed hi of his rocket-book, containing. £53 in Bank-notes. -1 Saturday evening a dent looking man, appari ently of the labouring class of the community, hav in entered the Admiralty gateway, anti turned inadver tendy to the right hand, where some new buildiug, are erecting, unfortunately fell over into an are near twelve feet in depth, where he was soon after, wards found in a state of insensibility. He was car tied to the Middlesex Hospital, where ft was founi that his skull was fractured, and where he has re mained _ever since speechless—nothing, hat bee: found on his person by which his name-or place o abode can be traced. Great praise is due to Mr ' BARROW of the Admiralty, for his benevolent atter tion to the unfortunate stranger. On Friday se'nnight a very melancholy occur rence took place at Drumcondra, near Dakiiin. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell were Jetting apparently the greatest harmony in their parlour, when the ti fortunate lady, in a sudden fit of insanity, got u took down a case of pistols that were hanging eha ged over the fire place, presented one at her husbaru and shot him through the heart before he could at derstand what she was about. She then attemre to put an end to her own existence with the othe but having missed fire, she searched for a knife t cut her throat. In the mean time a servant.mal alarmed by the report of the first pistol, entered di room, and he arrived just in time to rescue his i tress from th natialel7 co d of ber ill-fated husbani 'Y