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strong at S. E. directly into the Bay, our sails and rig. • ging were considerably damaged before wecould close with them ; and seeing the enemy erecting batteries on shore, I was at first unwilling to go close in, but at six we anchored with springs upon the cable, within pistol-shot of the enemy, when the action immedi ately commenced on our part ; they stood our fire for about 20 minutes, when the whole cut their cables, ran closer in, and again opened their fire : their in creased distance was now too great for our carronades • to have their proper effect, we cut the cable, ran within half pistol-shot, and recommenced the action. The enemy now opened their fire upon us from three large guns, at the distance of SO yards from each other, and two or three hundred musketry, on the heights immediately over us; we continued closely engaged in this manner; at ten, three of them struck their colours, two were driven on shore, and one sunk. They were now reinforced by four gun-boats from the eastward, who at first anchored outside, and com menced firing at us, which obliged us to engage on both sides ; but they shortly after ran in and joined the others, who placed themselves behind a point of land, where we could only see their masts from the deck, when they commenced a most destructive fiie, their grape-shot striking us over the land in every part; at this time our number was so re duced that we could with difficulty man four guns, the marines and a few seamen firing musketry, our grape all expended. We continued in close action until three p. m. when the enemy discontinued their fire. After forty minutes the action again com menced, and continued, without intermission, till half-past six in the evening, when the firing entirely ceased on both sides. The enemy during the day had received considerable supplies of troops on shore, who had kept up an incessant fire upon us. We were now in a very critical situation, being but a very few yards from a lee-shore, almost a complete wreck, the 1 whole of our running and greater part of the standing rigging gone, most of the sails shot from the yards, the masts shot through in several places, and many shot in the hull, five between wind and water, both our pumps also shot away between the decks, with difficulty we could keep her free by constantly hailing at both hatches. In the action of this day I found we had lost five killed and twenty wounded. At dark the boats succeeded in burning and destroying, be- I sides the sun-boats, eight sail of the convoy, bringing away their anchors, all ours being shot to pieces and rendered entirely unserviceable ; indeed it is to this I am to attribute the being enabled to warp his Ma jesty's sloop out. At day-light of the 23d, having warped about a mile from the land, the remaining gun-boats again attacked us, and musketry from the shore; this was most annoying, they having us in a raking position, our last cable half shot through, the wind blowing strong in, we could not venture to bring our broadside to bear upon them ; all this day and night we were warping out from the shore, but very slowly, the people being reduced in number and exiausted with fatigue. On the 24th, the enemy had erected a battery of three guns on a point of the bay, close to which we must pass : this they opened upon us about noon when we got within their range: the gun-boats pull ing out in a line astern, commenced their fire about one P. M. during all the time we were warping out' under their fire, and that of musketry from the shore. Wind now moderate, and shortly Afer quite calm. At tour, nearly out of the bay, the gun-b-ats follow. in.; and firing at us. At five, they got within the range of our guns, when we opened our larboard broadside and drove them o.ff ; but it continuing calm. we were un able to follow them. The condur t of the whole of try officers and ship's cortiNny during these three days of most arduous service, merits my warme.a praise ; indeed, I am at a loss which most to admire, their determined bravery i in action, or their steady perseverance in warping , 1 the brig our. Our number was considerably reduced When we first went into action, owing to several men being away in prize , , and two boats which joined us seven hours afterwards. Mr. Thomas Whaley, First Lieutenant, being severely wounded in the , ae r tion, I received every attention front Mr. Michael Quin, the Second, whose conduct at all times has been much to my satisfaction ; I beg leave to recommend to your notice, Mr. William Simkin, Master's Mate, who lost his right arm early in the action, and also the services of Mr. James Stewart, Midshipman, who was actively employed in one of the boats, burning } and destroying several of the convoy. Enclosed I transmit to you a list of the killed and wounded, great part of the latter, I am sorry to say severely. I have the honour to he, &c. (Signed) i k JAMES BLACK. A LIST OP KILLED AND WOUNDED ON BOARD NIS MAJESTY'S SLOOP WEAELE, ON THE °JD APRIL, 1813. KILLED—Mr Janles Toby, boatswain; John Bowes, quarter master; John Kennedy, able seaman; Wm. Hayden, boat swain's mate ; Wm. '1 revick, private'marine. SEVERELY WOUNDED—Air. '1 hems Whaley, first lhutenant ; Mr. Wm. Sinikin, rrn..t..r's•maie ; J. C. Daum, Jacob G uni son, Richard /lon, John Cosgrove, John •Formelia, Thomas Peek, Abraham Hamilton, James Mein, John Martin, Peter Basil, and William Stevens, seainen. SLIGHTLY WOU N D ED—Mr. Benjamin Bremner, carpenter; William Watson, Joseph Nichols, Robert Lewis, seamen ; Mr. James Stewart, midshipman ; George Crawford, Daniel Patterson, Rody Delamy, seamen; George Sherry, Janes Taylor, James Feathers, mark:es. (Shwa.) JAMES BLACIL. J. Kistmsst, His Majesty's sloop Surgeon. Weaide, Lissa, April 26, I ail 3.::tract of a Letter from Captain Head, of Ms Majesty's sloop Cur ew, addressed so Captain Oliver, of the Valiant, and trausmitt‘d by Admiril Sir John Borlase Warren, Ban. and ft. B. to Juba Wilton Croker, Esq. His Msjesey's sdoop Curlew, at Sea, Mush 26. I beg leave to acquaint you, that the ship you saw me capture to-day, proved to be the American ship letter of marque Volante, pierced for twenty-two :4411% but only fourteen mounted, ten twenty-four pounder cartonades, and four long nine-pounders, •Rich a complement of eighty-five men. DISTRILUTION OF PRIZE-MONSY. —- - - The Nimble, for the Danish sloop No. 5, will be paid on Friday seat, at 23, Norfolk -street, Strand, arid there recalled. - . - The Tartar s for the Primus, to-morrow, at 41, and there recalled. The Virago, fur the Ramonclta, on Thursday nest, and 13, Clement s Inn, and there recalled. AVERAGE PRICE of CORN IN ENGLAND and WALES, from the returns ending the 3d of July, 1813. Wheat. Rye. Barley. Oats. Beans. Pease. d. 116 3 174 1 57 • 9 42 10 1 81 Of 84 1 'The average Price of Sugar, computed from the returns made 'a the week *ridi ng t he 7 t h o f is 635. Sid. per Cwt. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. MONDAY, JULY 12, 1813. PRICE OF OCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK : Red. 560—Cone. 56t—for ace. 57I—Bonds par IR dia. 4 per Ct. 711 72-5 per Cr, 85i 86-0 m niu tn 5 pr. Bank Long Anna. At 3-16thst—Exch. Bills 2c. ss. pr. A Letter from Heligoland, dated July 8, says,—• " The frigate, which remained here for some time with two gun-brigs and eleven gun-boats, have taken their departure for the Elbe, and in a few days we hope to hoar some good accounts from that quarter. Yesterday a boat put in here from the Elbe, by which we have reports that the Allies have taken Lubeck, and that the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA is dead." The Gazette of Saturday contains the important intelligence of the commencement of the siege of Pamplona. and of the flight into France of the shat tered remains of JOSEPH'S Army, pursued not only by the Guerillas, but by a regular Spanish Army under General GIRON. Marquis WELLINGTON'S intention seems to be to occupy the Passes of the Pyrennees with such a force as to forbid all future entrancik to French troops, while by this movement he also precludes all chance of escape to SUCHET, CLAUSEL, and Four, the three French Generals who have now armies in Spain.— General GRAHAM is at Tolosa, on the Western Py rennees, and Lord WELLING ToN is proceeding to the Eastern Passes.—Sir JOHN MURRAY has landed in Catalonia. The French now in Spain are between Scylla and Charibdys. Some of our contemporaries have hazarded a con jecture that his Lordship's next movement will be towards Bayonne, but the place where his Lordship's head-quarters were on the 26th, does not admit of such an inference. With such a force as the three French Generals above named could unite in his rear, it would not be \ safe, we apprehend, to advance against Bayonne with the whole Allied Army : be sides a coup de main on the part of the Spaniards who have been detached in pursuit, would effect every de sirable object in that quarter. Jaca, upon which place Lord WELLINGTON has moved, is 70 miles eastward from Pamplona, and is in the direct road from Saragossa to France. Tolosa, where Sir THOMAS GRAHAM and the Spanish General GIRON with their divisions have arrived, is only 37 miles from Bayonne. The following is an eitract of a private Letter, dated " CAMO, NEAR PAMPLONA, JUNE " You will no doubt have fail and most sathfac• tory accounts of the battle of Vittoria, the most glo rious to Old England, and yielding to none in the most brilliant pages of the annals of our country. The grandeur of the whole was beyond expression—the two armies drawn up in face of each other, the French occupied a large plain in front of Vittoria, and had posts on two ridges of hills that flanked it on the right and left. 4 ' From an early hour in the morning till the mid dle of the day we continued to drive the French army steadily, though slowly, before us, from village to village, from woods and heights. It was for a long time an affair of artillery, in which BONAPARTE always musters very strongly, and they annoyed us much on the 21st and before ours could be made to tell on them. —At length the third division was brought to bear on the French line : the contest was sharp, but not long—they broke it. The French, who know this division full well, cried out, it was " c'est la division de Picton," and they retreated with the greatest speed, leaving their guns. The gallant Hussar Brigade came up, chased their rear-guard, and secured, as a prize, their whole artillery, great part of the bag gage of the army, and the carriages and wine of the French Officers. 41 The Portuguese troops have of late often be haved like good soldiers, but never with such distill. guished gallantry as on this occasion; their Line, and the firmness with which it advanced, was the admi ration of the whole army. You will, I know, be glad to hear that, in the battle of the 21st, the Spa nish division under General Mcaltus, behaved very well. i g We have to regret the loss of some brave Offi cers. The Hon. Colonel CADOGAN, a relation of the Marquis's, has often distinguished himself in the corn mand of the 71st Highlanders, in South America and in this country. Colonel GRANT was a most gallant old soldier, and respected by the whole army. He had often distinguished himself in India ; his gallant conduct in front of Gibraltar saved the re. maioder of the little army there, when General Lord BLANEY was taken by the enemy. . 44 The Marquis of TWEEDALE was wounded slightly, and for a short time inopossession of the enemy, but got off from them. " As usual, our illustrious Chief was in the heart of the shot. Marshal BERESEORD had a bullet brush his cockade, when near the Marquis. 6 6 The enemy made a desperate attempt to turn upon us and retake their carriages, baggage, kc. and endeavoured to get into the town ; but the inha bitants seeing this, several of them got firelocks, and from the walls of Vittoria threatened to fire on the French if they attempted to push in. 66 The plunder made by some men is enormous : a drummer got £l5OO in gold, and several dragoons are very rich in money and jewels.", NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. It is confidently stated, that Commodore Roams, in the President, has put Into Bergen, there watered, and has proceeded to intercept our bomeward.bound Greenland ships.—An English line.of-battle ship and a frigate, are, however, in those seas, and will no doubt give a good account of him. FALMOUTH, JULY 9. Arrived yesterday, the Apollo, Atm, from New Providence for London.—On the 27th ult. in lat. 46. 54. N. long. 31. W. she was captured by the York Town American privateer, Captain RICKER, who had also captured, on the 24th ult. in lat. 47. '2O. N. long. 25. W. the Manchester Packet, Captain ELPHINSTON, who left this port on the 15th ult. with a mail for Halifax.—She was taken after a chace of 37 hours, 20 of which she sustained a running fight v. ith the enemy, which terminated in a close engagement of one hour and seven minutes, in which Captain EL. PHINSTON and his little crew behaved with the greatest gallantry, as did also the passengers, viz. Captain SABINA, of the Royal Artillery, Mr. G. BELL, mer chant, and Mr. PETER SNELL—the latter, with two seamen, are slightly wounded. The York Town is a cut down East Indiaman, of five hundred tons, with a bulwark' of fourteen inch solid timber, six feet high, and mounts 16 long 12 and 9.pounders, and had on board 116 men. The Manchester car ried 10 guns, 6 and 3-pounders, and 30 men, aid only 180 tons burthen. At the time she struck she had only 2lbs. of powder left, and her sails, rigging, masts, &c. cut to pieces. The Mail was sunk. The York Town was much cut up in her rigging, and had three men wounded. She is the same privateer that took the Ann packet, has been out three months, and has made nine prizes, one of which was the Malvina, O'CosNon, from St. John's, from Oporto, the crew of which, as well as the Master, Mate, and several of the crew of the Manchester, were put on board the Apollo, and have arrived here. PLYMOUTH, JULY 10. Arrived yesterday the Quern Elizabeth, CHANT• LER, from Alicant ; and the Swan, SYMES, from Palma ; they left Gibraltar 4th inst. with a fleet under convoy of his Majesty's ships LEVIATHAN and Zr- PHYE, %Vila are gone up Channel; also the BELLE PouLE frigate• trim a cruize. Sailed the FOXHOUND on a cruize, and the LAPWING sloop of war from Milford.—Wind variable. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 11. Yesterday arrived the ZEPHYR, of 16 guns, Capt. KITCHENS, with the following ships under convoy, from Gibraltar and Cadiz :—the Jane, Si ARK ; Ca. therine,BßOWN ; Robert, MONKMAN; Emerald, STORE; and Amity, FOREMAN. The LEVIATHAN, 74, Cell% CAMPBELL, is gone by with the remainder of the con voy for the River. Also arrived the ALPIIEA, 12 guns, Lieutenant MACDONALD, from off Cherbourg. This day arrived the ESCORT, 14, Lieutenant Ctiossis ; and DEXTEROUS, 14, Lieutenant Tommxsox, with convoy, from Guernsey.—Sailed the SNAP, 10 guns, Captain SARTORIL'S, with convoy for Guernsey; the MENELAUS, 38, Captain Sir P. PARKER, and FLY, 18, Captain Sir W. PARKER, for Plymouth. The AL BION, 74, Captain DEVONSHIRE, and PRIMROSE, 18, Captain PHILLOTT, sailed this morning with the ships bound to Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Halifax, and Quebec, but are now woi king into St. Helen's again, notwithstanding the wind is favourable for their pro ceeding.—Arrived the brig John Anderson, BRCcE, from the coast of Africa, last from Fayal. DEAL, JULY 11. Came down from the River, his Majesty's ship MEDWAY, and passed through the Downs fcr Ports mouth ; Venns, HILGOUR, for the Cape, and several more, particulars not known ; also came down the Three Bees, Watt's, for Botany Bay, and remains. Arrived his Majesty's ships RINALDO, from Ports. mouth, and ROSARIO, from off the French Coast, and remains.—Wind N. SHEERNESS, JULY 11. Sailed his Majesty's ships PINCHER and MERCURIUS with a convoy for the Baltic :—the next will sail about the 19th inst.—Wind N. YARMOUTH. JULY H. Arrived from the Humber the PRINCESS orWALss and BRITISH FAIR hired cutters, with some light transports under their convoy, which proceeded for the River. NAVAL APPOINTMENTS. Captain Edward Saurin, to the Hope. Lieutenants Wallis and Faulknor, of the Shannon, who so gal lantly distinguished themselves in t he capture of the Chesapeake, are promoted to the rank of Commanders. The Midshipmen are also promoted to the rank of Lieutenants. Lieutenant Dale, to the Laurel. Mr. W. Turner, t. be Purser of the Mohawk. Mr. Lewis Gordon, Purser of the Mars, to be Storekeeper at Mahon; Mr. Felton, late Stortkeeper at Mahon, to be Store keeper at Gibraltar, vice Cutliffe, retired. The TWEED, Captain SYMONDS which arrived at Portsmouth on Thursday from the coast of Africa, left the Trusts, 20, Capt. SCOBELL, very healthy. She brought two ships under convoy from the coast, and captured an American brig, under Portugne e co• lours, off the Western Islands. He brought the prize into Portsmouth. ROBERT THORPE, Esq. Judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court at Sierra Leore, came hrme passenger in her. During the last two years' this gentleman had the gratification of releasing 7000 slaves, and restraining the trade of slave-carrying, by adjudicating 44 vessels. The Portuguese is the only Government upon which the stigma of inhuman traf fic now rests, the trade being at length ei,tirely con fined to their ports on the coast. The TWEED did not suffer any loss in her crew by the climate. THE ARMY. Among the Officers who fell glo►riously in the battle of Vittoria, were Captain CURRIIt, son of the late Dr. Cuatus, of Liverpool ; and Lieutenant and Adjutant BARKER, of the 2d Battalion, 4th Foot, a promising young man, a native of Chester. The following regiments, on- foreign stations, are to be immediately reinforced by the detachments new in North Britain, viz. : First, or Royals, sd battaliott; 26th regiment, 1•r battalion; 27th regiment, 3d battalion ; 42L1 regiment, Ist battalion ; 71,t regiment, Ist battalion ; 75(11 regiment; 79th regiment, let ba:- talion ; 92d regiment, let battalion; Pith regiment. Wednesday, drafts from the 27th, 71st, 79th, and 92d regiments, marched from Glasgow barracks to Leith, to embark for Spain. Thursday, a further detachment of the Berw•ick shire Militia arrived at Carlisle, to assist in doing the duty of the place. The South Gloucester Militia, commanded by Co lonel &Rama, arrived in Bristol on Wedneschy, to take garrison duty. The Bedford have also atrivi.J. The East Middling: embarked there for Le land un Saturday. - —WINDSOR, Juix 11. The Duke of MONTROSE has been the Member rf the QUEEN'S Council in attendance at the Castle, by command of her MAJESTY, during the time she was in London.—This morning Divine Service was per formed by the QUERN'S Chaplain,. in the Chapel in the Castle, before the ROYAL FAMILY, And their Households. Saturday, at one o'clock, the Duke of YORK ar lived at Windsor, and dined with the Quxxx and PRINCESSES, ar.d left a little before six for Londol4. The Royal rarnily then went to Clay Hall to tea, &c. The Duke of Camnionox and the "rincess CHAR- Lam: attended Divine Service yestet day at the Chapel Royal ; as did the Duchess of YORK, at the Royal Military Chapel, Whitehall. Friday evening, as the Royal Family were return ing from the Princess Eliribeth's Cottage to the Castle at Windsor, MArow, her Majesty's coael•rnan, had the misfortune to be thrown from the box, by which his leg was broken. Friday Mr. AIIBUTUNOT gavel grand supper at his house in Downing -street, to Earl WE.stmorrELAsp, and a party of twenty-tour. A letter, said to he written by the Queen of &clot. to Lord WILLIAM 131:NTINCK, has appeared Lc sonic contemporary journals, but it contains internal tr'.. dente of not being authentic. •Her Majesty is made to say, twat she declines " going to Sardinia, as I tit, not choose to be separated from every branch.of my family." Now the fact is, that she has nearer and dearer relations in that island than at Vitnna. Fhr daughter is married to the Kirg's brother, who is heir to the crown ; and her nephew, who also resides there, is married to the King's daughter, the cele brated Princess BEATRICE. When Captain CARDEN, on the surrender of the MAceeeNIAN 10 the United States, presented hissrmid to Captain DECATUR, tLe latter addressed him as fel. lows :••••64 No, Sir, a Commander and crew who have defended thenbelves in the manner w hich ynn and your gallant men have done, d. serve all prissibk hi); nour and esteem Torn their crinqueroT and mankind." A duel tonk place on Frilly, near Cal islwi in the Isle of between Lieut. Hu: nett, and. Lieutenant M.b ItEGOlt, of t:ie 101st which the former received a wound, which* consi. tiered likely to prove fatal to him. Lieutenant BURN. DELL was lately married to the daughter (11 H. Wiwi. Esq. of Portsmouth ; and, what is remarklibl. h.: adversary in this unfortunate dispute !kin the Lady away. The following is the subs'ance of his Royal High. ness the PRINCE REGesrr's Letter to the Marquis of WELLINGTON :—The letter begins with congratula tions and thanks for the truly brilliant and complete I Victory which the gall ,nt Marquis li .s recently I achieved. It acknowledges, in very f :cible lan.' guage, how deeply both his Royal Highness and tae 1 country are indebted for his m my ant most impoi cant services, and laments the inability of both to requite them by any thing like an adequilte rev ard. In re. turn for the baton of a Marshal of France, which I is 1 Lordship has sent to him, his Royal Highness sends , Lord W. the baton of a Marshal of England, wh.ch is all that is in his power. Th s his Royal Highness accompanies with his most devout prayers, that thi Noble Marquis may continue in t -e unint. rrupted enjoyment of health and prosperity, and that he mayi still reap a richer harvest of laurels, urder the shade; of which his Royal Highness hopes he may long enjoyl that glory which the gallant Marquis has so nobty acquired for himself, and which b e h as so l arge l y s h e d on the arms and the military character of the nati , n., The letter concludes with the most marked expressions: of personal friendship and esteem. , A most atrocious murder w.is perp etrate d at , a'l colliery called Woodsess, near Ki r k mu i r h i ll, in Laa, narkshire, on the night between Thursday theist and Friday the 2d inst. On Friday morning, about six o'clock, one of the workmen on descending into the coal-lit discovered the cot pse 'of Agnes Watson, alai wrought at the said colliery, lying at the tait!ont in a; shockingly mangled condition, her head nearly seer.; red from her body, which .was stabbed in diffeient: parts, and the whole of her person exh,bited a most, frightful appearance. In the shade, or 1, ,dge, as it i called, at the mouth of the pit, a considei,:b:a quail.' thy of bliaod, soma hair, a comb, and other articlesi e belonging to the deceased, wer e f o u n d, which plainl y shewed that the unfortunate woman, wh i had I,ee 1: missing since ten o'clock the p rece di ng es; n;tig, had I made considerable resistance b e fo re s h e st as subdued. We have only to add that James Jaelson, a collier a Woodsess, to whom Agnes Wat son was f , r a d van ced in pregnancy, is in custody on sus pi c i on o f t h ' t. murder, and that a precognition is going out with iti view of inquiring into the circumstances attendin this most barbarous affair. CORN-MARKET, MARK-LANE, JULY 14. Our market contii.uing shoray sipplied with fine Wheat, thi best runs front Kent and L.tiCZ met rea.ly sale, early thi, morn leg, at a tritog advance; but all other descriptions at 'hi p. ices of last Monday. Havirg vo fire Barley at market, th price of that uncle Is nominally a, last week. Beans are quarttr cheaper, having a good sup;,ly, and bat few buyers. I liat I rade contit nes vity dull, ant mtst be calkd se. per go .r ter cbeaper than oa this Jay se'nnigbt. In Yuas, Kyr, and eas at iclts, awe is uo aJteratioa.