Star. — London, England, 1813-12-24 00:00:00

( General Dattollgn4c.ctOok Pollesiks* • . Un' taro of Partouhirii, and avowed Ota 3t. Jail) VICOis- Monguere, 'whence it attacked the right of the enemy's position t the attack was verY brisk; ant sicceidid very well. The enemy brought up fresh troops, we imme diately brotight into the line she &sigh)* of General ... Foy ; that of General Marausio and thrf Gruardet, Of the ditisitai DArmagnac k which ha.. _ been yet engaged. enemy warreiweled, and the combat continued the teat of the ,44f, with advan tages supported on our Side. . . We have bad about 5 5 013 killed and. 2500 Wounded. The loss of the enemy was !inch more considerable, *hole lines were destroyed. We haVe only taken 300 Engrish, among whom Are several officers. Macquerytand Madconole Ge nerals of Brigade, have been wounded. The enemy has taken from us no' prisoneii. n. general the enemy has greatly suffered this day' as. vigil as the preceding. General Soult Wettt yesterday to Plaspatert, with wart of his cavalry, and drove the enemy from it. found on Mount Choulie the division of Murillo abd several English squadrons. He had some eharges #hh this eavalry—he wounded some and took some trisenters. Yesterday evening he took a position at oulse. , Baircitsaz, THE SAKE EVENING..—tothe inhabitants ,of St. lean de Luz arrived bete yesterday. They re late that the enemy suffered extremely on the 9th and 10th; that the houseS and roads from St. Jean de Ltia ;.s far as to the old gate of Bedart, were to vend with wounded English and Portuguese. , According to what, the enemy's officers say, their loss ht killed and wounded, up to yesterday the 12th, anointed to 10 br j 2,000 med. St. Jean de Luz the peopieWere struck with the`oonsternation of the enemy. On the 10th, they eipe t ctia to see the 'troops of • the Dube of Dalmatia arrfit under the walk of the town. The English Ge ier:if Robiitson, severely wOunded, as well as Many SUferior Officers, hid been conveyed 10 Si. Sean de Luz in tbe night of the 10th. The Wounded are renoied (hiking the night that the inhabitant's may not see hQw numerous they are. French funds on Saturday, Dec. 18, 54. f. IAgGE; DECEMBER There is nOthing i nesir on the Rhine. The Duke of Padua is at Cologne. . Letters have been received from Bois-le-Doc, dated the,ilth, from which it appears that there were nntiel Of the enemy's troops in the environs: . . , Dee. 13.—The news from AntWerp announces that 6000 of the imperial Gitaird,' cavalry, inranerp aia4 artMery, arrived there the day before Yesterciay. The account, from Gorcum and Bergen-op-Zooth ;de satisfactory. . . • Travellors have itikived at Liege to-clay,,the-156,, coming froin Bois-le-Duc, by the way Of . G.an - Vinlo Alwl Maestricht. General Merle is Governor Of the List place, and has put it in a state of siege. • VERO)JA, DECEMBER IL M. Marcacci, Envoy of the Siviss Confederation, Asiding at Milan, repaired yesterday to the head= inarters of the Viceroy. He bad the honour to pre. tent to his Imperial Highness a letter, by which the I,andammaa of Switzerland announces the resolution of the Swiss Diet to observe a SyStem of neutrality. The Prince condescended to Live himself to the En= Ay a snitffhoz, adorned _with his portrait ) and set n diamonds. OALLIN, DECEMBER 4. lite A l astrian corps which was maraiiig towards Lbidaa, has received orders to proceed directly from tb StOcksch. It is supposed that this efitige is in consequence of lhbfliimal recognition of • the nentridity'ot Switzerland. AU is tranquilon the frontiers ` : of the Canton of the Coliona. • Dec. 110.—An briVr - of thiDay t pi bliihati it the haadquertem of tte !irinoe of §chweitie• ahem, an noancesitat our neutrality is recognized. On the 2d instant Count Talleyrand dined with the Landarrouan of the Confederation. A gerieral pacification is said to be bu the carpet. , WESEL, DECEMBER We ltinrn froth kiarnburgh, that the Prince OtEek m uhl hai -twenty-five thousand men; a magnificent artillery; ammunition foV nine months; a formidable pogitiott and that the brave banes are more faithful and More prudent than other people have been. write thlY write from Brussel s , t h at nuffierous bodies Of tf6ops pass through that toi.n. Ail is tranquil on thg Rhine. ANTWERP, DECENIPtit Our City continues to enjoy the greatest security. The garrison i's VYry numerous, and daily increases. works on the port and the duck ate continued without interruption. . • BOURDEAUX, DECEMBER 14. All lecoUntilfrotti Bayonne; contain interesting de tails on the affairs of. the 10th. It seems that the Anglo. Spanish Army is discouraged by the check it hai received, and that it is not inclined to renew its attacks--too happy if it is suffered to retrain undis torted. 'KICK OM S PUCKS THIS DAY A 1 TWELVE 0 LLUCK Reduced sq 64j—,Cons. shut—for arc. 661 67 66t _pet Ct. sOf 80-.l4av ihut—Bank Long Anus. 1.51 161- 7 B4s. par Is. (113.—Exch. Bills 38.55. CORN MARKET, MARK-LANE, DEC. H. Having no fresh arrivals of any Grain this morning, our prices continue nominally as on Wodnestlay ; but- what little Fine Wquotadout.heat, Barley s and Oats appeared, ra ft paeOasert 4t put last - -- Make Peaes..—les slatO it. It does not breathe, the ipirtt and It thin' niiitspeak tielangnitm of D ace. It does not even aahibit 15 - mptoms of a tegard for the language of trilth. LiEe the F4thei of lies, hirdelf,Eii Vicegerent upon earth is kdown by 'carry ing a lie in his right band, cid all occasions. 44 Splen did victories," he tells hit fellow iMpostors, a have raised the Obi* of the French arms during this cash paign 44 . Defections without fiantlkl - have rai igtaeltikwa aislarr."--- 4 ‘ I have raised Theo*: for raw she:" In these two passages he de nounces vengeance Against his singrAterul Allies, and, in a sdbseeinetit Sentence, be threatens , interminable war against England. 41 The RSPUBLIC of the TYwired Suns of Are. Alta CONTINUES, succes4 its van ionnuy EntLAND." Wherefore it this inforMatidn communiated at thi% moment ? when he is constrained to admit thin Eng land is the arbitress of his fate—wink, If he *as sin cete in his siibmission, he ought to *Oak in the udder-tones of supplication. • Wherefore does lie sound the - trumpet of war ? and why does the hero, who has " conceived and executed such great designs for the prosperity and happiness of the world," exult in the Continuance of our unhappy 'contest *ith Ame rica ? Is it because this war it a child of his own de rogate body, which his feiotious brother, blanisoN, has adopted ? 6 8 . I have recognited," he 'tells ha Senators at the end of hb harangue, " the neutrality of the 19 Swiss tantons."—WAtt AGAIN 1 The magician vanishes io . a clap of thimdee 1 - We shall have occasion to say a *old or two of this armed neutrality by and bye. In the mean time, let us look our ne* Ally in tbe'face—let us strip him of hit borrowed featilert-.-he is no lodger the " Cap tain who made Euiiipbtruiihle"but, the Jackdaw . NAPOLEON BONAPAIIiikI He makes his efildfat-a Pacificator, clothed in the same party-cololtted garnients in Wilich he made wara tissue of falseheodiand eguirecationt markn all his ekits and his entrances. He wants " new saw orifices" from the French nation—more conscript& and more monet —to be ready to frighten the Mitt into his . o*n tettns. Nbw, what occasion can he have for preserving a warlike attitude ? The Allies have given him 41 an eitent of territory which France, under her Kings, never knew"—they' have dubbed - him, by common consent, the Emperor NAPOLEON ! He tells lite french ' nation; that ice 11 adheres to the prelitiiinary basis" which were pre seined to him: these, if we mistake nbt, were con tained in the Frankfort Declaratiou, and they pro.' mised that the arts should flourish and commerce revive in France. With any other peison then to. }:Avnara these offers. would have been the signals for disbanding his armies; and for taking off the war taxes : but he wishes that France should once more, display 1, ber whole strength ;" in other words, be wishes new armies and replenished coffers. He has a long reckoning to settle with his ungriteful 'Allies, WhO deserted Mai in the hour of danget: We do not than to say, that in the present circunt- , stances of the world, Peace is ndt dEstiable—it is; id short, always desirable—nor are we disposed to blibse an experimental Peace. War is a goddeits who ought never to be flirted with—but Peace - may; with less danger,• be treated as a coquette. Let us have; therefore, an experimental Peace, but let it be deli. ' berately and calmly concluded. On the part of air, adversary there will be abundance of cutting( and shuffling, and shirking. .....—,.. On the opening of the Stock Exchange th is morn ' ing, Omnium commenced at 16i, and suddenly rose to 18; in a short time afterwardi it fell back to In . for money, and at one o'clock its price was 15 to one hilf. . The Pit'N'ce REGENT leaves town on Monday, irpon a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of SALISBURY, at Hatfield. House, where he proposes to pass two days ; from thence he proceeds to Lord Werrstos- LAND'S, at Apthorp Hall, and, nett in succession, honours the Earl of LONSIIALR with a visit at Cots mete, where he will take the diversion of the thuse, and contintie till he moves for nelvoir Castle. Monday nett his Royal Highnesi the Dtfice ofl CLARIINCE is expected in town frotn Bushy Park, in order to accompany the PRINCE REGENT to Beliroir Castle, the seat of _4he Duke of RUTLAND ;—and on Saturday week hi r Royal Highness intends leaving town for Sheerness; where he will embark for Holland. It it said that the intended grind fete, which tvas to have been held on the 7th of January nett. at Carlton House, in hOnour of the Princess CuitnLoTTE of WaLret Birthday, and her coming of age, is postponed until a future day. Letters from St. Petersburgh, dated the 23d No vember, we re received yesterday, stating, that the second attempt of Mediation by Russia haying failed of its purpose, Messrs. GALLATIN and BAYARD were preparing to take their departure, and were to return by Berlin and Copenhagen. The vessel which had been provided with the cartel foi their accommoda tion having been lost on the voyage from the Gulph of Finland to Gotienburgh, another ship was pre paring for their reception. A . . . • • .• 1 .:1 . ' • i . . ;•-• N . ..*: -° ....- 1 ,...t,( - 1 , i .:,7... : '...., ii l' T.% 1 )1121• Il v n ~ eIIIC. 1 r•L t AV VgNtVG STAR ..* . i nra 11 • - . tor' . - 411 . 7 - i j i tig 't '''' ----- - - ---•-•••...... i d a d dc i - .- OObIDON. • • ':`I"OkiDAY.O3ECEI4I3Eit it, 181 i. Die- - l'tgi old A *iii,itsiaimse Scot " seadi 13eitteen .' acd to. • le *. • '.l Aaa so malt sea litpgr / eral ~ , • rade - . litißtii4t : Firi.SPee€ll tn. itaVe Body has not arrived. Shallow.imid [ the like himself. will say that eis seriously disposed to • . . 0 '. . . • .26 .-„: . ........ , e :4,7: . ,ii ... . & § tiCti t 1 4 D 'Y td t 1 ► ~.e bIi',FEATA SOTTIT Wir LORD WELLINMON: BAYONNE SURROUAIED• . . _._ , • • . • 1 STAR•OFFICE, THREE ©'CLOCK. The following official statement Of this gratif7itii event, has been WI instant issued b Crovernmedt : " V 4 unclAinZ thill Gentili DON, at Guernsey, has recitecill letter 6016 an officer at Passage, slated the 11th, which statg, that on the day before Three Regiments, Four Thlitisand strong, had come oirei from the etteniy. Stipulating to be sent td deisnahr and that Loki WILLLINGTON hid iiinnuncieil Bayonne ; lad that all supplies by the River to the Town were eat off." • • AMERICAN PAPERS. e ban this day received Boston Pa - pets to the litth Nofiember and Halifax to the 20th. - In theta Papers *e have the ,Aatterican official Ittiattent of the akdon with General Paoeroa. This 'dneument, signed by General Haattpdx, is very pro'. 'lii, occupying upwards of three columns. The Ame *tans, who acknowledge theniselvet to have bees illperior in numbers to the British, claim a decitive 'victory; but the particulart ire so diffuse, that we can 'make little of them. la fact, the result is biiii impetfectly detailed: Ile dispatch Says t I left the army before an official return of. the ; prisoners; or that of the killed and wounded, was made out, It was, however, ascertained that the for mer athdrints to six hundred and one regulars,' in: tuding twenty-five Officers. Our loss is seven killeck 'd twenty-two wounded, five, of whom hate sings, died. Of the British troops twelve were trilled, and twenty-two wounded. The Inclians suffered most— thirty-three of them having been found upon the. ground besides those killed on the retreat. . 1111 _ • . 6 , On the day of the action, six piece s of bras* re• tillery were taken, and two iron '24-pounders thelay before. Several others were discOveteci in the ricer' and can be easily procured." We are happy to add; that it is confintred by the American statement that General Peocroa, with part of his small corps, escaped..A postscript sayst, ff General Paocron escaped by the fleetness of h , horses, escorted by forty Dragoons, and A number of mounted Indians." , I In the same Papet we find the 'followieg Gemeti ' Orders : ' - " • Head Vuarteri, Montreal, October ii. ' " His Excellency the Governer General and Corn. , Minder of the Fortes ; having transmitted to his Ma jesty's Government, a letter from Major General Dearborn; itiltiUg that the American Commissary at I Prisoners in London had made it known to. his app. veintnerit, that 23 soldiers of the lit; nth, and 13th regiments of United states infantry; made prisoneri, had been sen; to England and belt in dose confinea ment as flritiah subjects, and. tbat Major General neat:born had received instrdctiOns from his Governs ment; to put into close exifitiement 23 British soil tilers, to be kept as hdstiges for the safe-keepiiat and.' testoradon in exchtilige of the soldiers of the esti.. ted States, who had been sent as above stated . England 1 11l obedience to wich instructions he had put t*tf4l;.y4hree British soldiers ihto close con. finetnent, to be kept as hostages ; and the persons re feited to in Major-General Dearborn's letter, being soldiers serving in the American army, taken priscP• ners at Queenstown, who had declared themselvts to be British born subjects, and were held in couod, iil England, there to unJrgo a legal trial. ' ... - ' • • 44 Hit Excellency the Commander of the total has received the itotitnands of his Royal Highness the Prince Itegerit; through the Right Honottrable i. the Earl Bathutsi, Secretary of State, to lose 116 time in communitating to Major-General Dearborn, that he has transmitted the Copy of his Letter, and that he is in consequence instructed, distinctly to state to Major-General Dearborn, that his Excellency has re, ceived the commands of his Royal Highness the I Prince Regent, .fOrtfiwjth to put in close eonfinemeni 46 American 'Officers and Non-Commissioned Offi cers, to be held as hostages for the safe keeping of the twenty-three British soldiers stated to have been I Wit in close con fi nement by the AmeriCan Govern ment. service. • And he is at the same time to apprise him, that if any of the said British soldiers shall suffer deiith by reason that the soldiers now under confinement in . England have been found guilty, and that the known law, not only of Great Britain; but of every pendent State in similar circumst.inces, has been in consequence executed, he has been instructed to se. lect, out of the American Officers and non-com missioned officers put into confinement, as many as may double the number of British soldiers who shall have been so unwarrantably put to death, and cause such Officers and non-•commissioned officers to suffer death imtnediately. • " And his Excellency is further instructed to no tify to Majoi-General Dearborn, that the-Comman ders of his Majesty's armies and fleets on the Coasts of America, have received instructions to prosecute the war with unmitigated severity against all cities; towns and villages belonging to the United States. 7 • • . •-. . . ''l . - "s -- "r" *t• ' ' l ' ``' ‘ 6 . 4 !" gifid itgahlot the inl ititunts therao4 if, Ow this cOrbnuniication shall brititt 'been only made to Major- Getteral Dearborn, .at l ltl a reetsonable time given If r - its being trant;iiitted the American dovernmem, that Government she ;unhappily dot be detet9id froM poiting to death any of the soldiers who now are', or who May hereafter be , kept as hostages ft r the Ptirposei stated in the letter Willa Major-General . Dearborn. . . ' " Hit Excellency - tht tberirniiider of die vorceso in ankiiincing to ale kroopS ill command, 'al his Royal Higliness the trincc Regent, is confident tbat . they ant fie! . sensible of il l ie paternal solislqicle which his Royal Highness has tainted for the protection of the person and honour of the British Soldiers, thus , grossly out raged, in ConteMpt of justice; humanity, and the law of nations, in the persotit of 23 soldieii , Placed in close confinement, as hostage* for an tqual ntmiber of traitors, who have bettli guilty of the basil and unnatural crime of raising their parricidal arms against that country which gave them tab, and Who have been delivered over for legal trial, to the just Liwi of their offended country. . . di The British soldier will feel thit . unprincipled outrage, added to the galling insults 'and cruel barba . - rides that are daily wantonly infliCiad on many of his untortunite comrades, Who have fallen into the 'enemy's hands, as additinual mini* to excite his de termined resolution never to relign his liberty but irith his life, to a foe so regardless of all sense of hoKour, justice, and the rights of war. . (Signed) " EDWARD BavNrr, Adj. Oen. Brig N. Arrieitra." . The followinvis Sir Joint B. WARREN'S Declara tion on the Vigaroaa mea.snie of blockading slit Ame rican Harbour's : • SY TUE RIGHT kok. STD JON* 30/18AllE WADDRI4, BART. hc.S. ADMIRAL OE TUC SLUT * &C. &C. A PRO C LAMATION, walnut:. Dart: 26T1 or mow, 1815. " %%peas hit SloyalliTehnees the Palm: t lit meat kw awed his pleasure to tie signiabd to the %Wm Hanourable the ',or& Commissioners of the Admiralty, ts.dirett that I should institute a strict and rigorous frocks& al ebe Perts and Hat hours of New fork, Charleston, Port-Royal, Savannah, iind the liver Mis- .. sbsippi, Ur the licked States of Atnetka, had thaintasn and e, force t h e same mmording to Ike mates of irfat in similar cues And illtswiee; that the Ministers of Natitha Powers should be duly notified, that an the Pleasure* adthodsed by the law of nations, will be adopted and clocked, wills respect to all a w ttimis o hkh Map attempt to violate the said Blikkade. ______,,i .!. " I d hereby require and direct you, to p a y the wemalF . tit sard and attention to his Royal Highdels t e Prinee Rapier Se as before mentioned, and by every meant in Our rimer, to maintain ind enforce the Sant strict and rirrbui blockade of the -rite of New York, Charleston ; Port-Royal, Savannah, and of the River Missikappi, in the United Stites Of America, misseckiigly; and in pursuance of tbe: flowers la me illstal, I do further declait from the Ist of Stlstember, lite, Sadie odtkts from the Albemarle and Patutie? • Sounds, eon. flitted by MUMS lissitestkel with the port Of N'orfulk, the putts ' It Ileaufort Mid Ocraeocite, Norfolk, Carolled', Cape Feet Rivir, • • and sismisotesm, soot, Caronna, and Sdaltury an Daka In - GsPorsia, in a state otstrift and risordos Sickish.... " " (Hien tiodei My hand, en bugnil . .s'3 lia jr.tel ibrp.liks bothiesok Chempeafte, Ist Sefti. Ili a. (steed) " }efts BORLASI WARRIM: I “ To the Cothillindlng Moot Of his Majesiy'l slips, se." • Comesoalrfalita " Pareplieu:' ' I' - , 'Mt ARMY. . • week six Eoiliplete troops off' the o.d itusiara • lof the King'S Gerniiin Legion tinieheri from Ips iech for Harwich to embark for Holland. The men were in high and the horses in iery fide cdb; ditian:. ..;„ • The Elyilehian to Hollanil is to be on a hater scale th.iti WI. at• first intended. In addition t 6 the ;mops tohiCh have sailed from the Downs and Yar . - montb, under General .Sir Tnomis GliAliAbi and Major-General Otsas, the 30th and 81st regiments at Jersey, and the 21st and 78th teginsenti tau North , Britain, will proceed immediately to that destination. Captain Scittieurtaa and Captain Pilaf, of the Engineeri.ot the King's Germah are or= deted to Hairnver. Th6 . 4oateeii for o the iiiovisititial Militia, now in ryo‘port, are wader orders w thArch for Co!chester. ,there to be Armed into battalions for immediate ATAVAL INTELLIGtAtE. . LLOYD'SIiaI-put iS o'clock. is The Congress Ameridan frigate has taken a large home Ward-bound ship from China, after an engage ment of half an hour, and was seen with her in cotn- pany off the Azores." FALmot yff; Dict MIIPR 21. Arrived the Princess Elizabeth packet, with I mail from Lisbon, in yix days ; Osborne packet, from the Leeward Islands, with a mail in six weeks. Sailed his Majesty's ship R.! ettr, with a cnovoy for the Dostosi;--Wind W. frcth breezes and clear weather. PLYMOUTH, DECEMBER 22. Altived the Eweretta, BEaysoN, from Quebec, qes of the Etuamos's convoys. Sailed the MALI K, 741 to the West Ward. POuTsMOUTH, btermtp.R 23. Arrived his Majesty's ship Pon:trans frOM Dropt down to 3t. Helen's Ili: Majesty's ship Veit. RABLE, Admiral DUMAN, boun d to the Leevraid Islands. '['he British Hors), Ocean, Ariadue, and Sir J. -B. WARKEN's transport, kre feleased kohl quarantine.—A rtivcd several ships from Lisbon- . .- sailed 9th inst. under convoy of the Posmria, frem Whoth..the, parted about 60 leagues to tbt:Westward t f the Land's End, with the ships bound to Cork. DEAL, DECEMBER 22. Arriied the Renwtrld sloop of war, with a cbnvoy from the Mediterranean, Which are- sailed for the River; and hit Majesty's %hip RoLLA, froth the Bal• tic, last fro ha Hoseley Bay. Sailed tht Elphinstone, • Neptue, and Scaleby Cistle East Indiamen, for Ports. mouth. Came down from the River, the Mangles East Indian's*, and remaiol,....Wind 1 ,