Star. — London, England, 1812-08-11 00:00:00

SIR HOME POPHAM'S SQUADRON. The following letter contains some additional par ticulars with regard to the late unsuccessful attempt o n Santander His Majesty's ship Rhin, off the Tower of Santander, July SO. er We arrived here on the 2'2d instant, and com p:lewd operations on the 24th, byThounting some guns o n a c ourtshipsrock of a tour-gun battery, under of which Cover t h e b A ttery• BY the 27th, two of the enemy's guns were disabled, but not without some loss to us. Ge neral POts ER . having sent forward his advanced ard, 80 marines joined it from the MEDUSA and V suuttAnt , in order to co.operate with the General in an attac k on the rear of the town, while we occu pied t h e emy's attention in the front • At four accomenp anied by two other frigates . and three brip, we passed the battery, keeping up at the same ti m e such a fire from the ships and rock that the ene my was rendered unable to do us any injury. On ge tting into the rear of the fort, the mat ines were raided, when the French garrison instantly took to' the heels. Sir GEORGE COLLIER, who headed the marines, relying on the co-operation of General POR. LISA at the back of the town, pushed on towards its front, as had been agreed on : but the enemy having r eceived reinforcements (which made their force 5000 men, instead of 500 as we expected), in the Tann time not only kept PORLIER in check at the very moment he had allotted for the assault, but re pulsed the British, when every thing ensured success, indeed, when nothing but the reinforcements sent to the enemy could have saved the town from capture. In this affair Captain LAXE, of the MAGNIFICENT, received two wounds ; Sir GEORGE COLLIE% was wooded in the knee, but not dangerously ; Captain Iklcau.z, of the Marines, was, I fear, mortally woun ded and taken prisoner, besides 24 Marines killed and wounded, and four taken prisoners, while em ployed in carrying off Captain NOBLE. Ido not know our loss in seamen, but I do not believe it to be considerable. We know that MARMONT has written to the north coast for reinforcements, but none could be spared to his solicitations, on account of our flou rishing up and down here : indeed, the enemy's force in this direction has accumulated instead of lessening. The blam:iriceNT is going home, with Sir Grantors Cola= in her. Our Purser has just returned with a (lag of truce. Captain None tis exchanged, and hopes are entertained of his recovery. There are only two Marines prisoners, so that the other two must have been killed. The number of the enemy in San under is 4000, but they will be obliged to quit soon for want of provisions. The Ruts has had four a.arines killed, and the same number wounded; a braver set of men cannot belong to any ship. A Serjeant of the VENERABLE was shot through the arm by a French soldier, but having strength enough left to return the salute, be shot the soldier dead." The following is an extract from a letter dated the 16th of June, off Frejus, from an Officer on board the Swallow ; " This afternoon we have had a very severe engagement wi. h two enemy's vessels, nearly double our own force ; it was pi e equated by they for several days, and they stood pledged to tlibuitiabinsots to take us into Frejus that evening, or both go dew of us. We engaged, guns nearly touchiug, and later an a;:tion the most sanguinary (in width they four times at stmpttd to board, being full cl troops) they niade all sail. and took refuge under the batteries of the town. We have been de.- perattly cut up, and, l am sorry to add, lost sever.il brave fellows.' It is now ten o'clock—the bell dein. issilicg, atter burying the dead, and I have just left the deck after pertot [raiz the last and melancholy rites due to Christians. 'Hsi; task was the more paniful, as In r-ading the funeral service over the dead, it also fell to my lot o p tform that office for t: e clerk, whit, was killed in the act of :peaking to me; a person who l was exceedingly partial to, and one of the hunt young men I ever knew. Ibe Captain did mt.the honour to place the marines and boarders under my direction ; my hat was knocked off by a double-headed abut ; I was twi e knoek,d down ; but, thank GOD, have all my Jegi and arms barging about me; nor did t Suffer any injury, but a contusion, of little corstqui.nce, In my side. These are cir • camstancer I would not Acep.a.int you with, but as all my loess mates ate wntiog to their friends, I do not see why I should not do the same, particularly as you will see the business in the laptrt." We learn with pleasure that the Lords Commis sioners of his Majesty's Treasury, having had under 'consideration the gallant and seaman-like conduct of the Master (ALex. GORDON), and crew of the Eco. homy transport, of 231 tons, in en action with a pri vateer of superior force, on the Bth of January, 1811, on her passage from Gibraltar to England, have or. dered Rewards to be paid to the Captain and ship's company for their gallant defence of the Ship, and as an inducement to the crews of all transports to preserve their ships from capture, in the following proportion, viz.—The Captain £lOO ; First Mate £4O; Second Mate £25 ; Carpenter £l5 ; seven Seamen, each RIO ; three Apprentices, each The last cartel which left Morlaix was surrounded hyguard•boats the moment she arrived, which con tinued to watch her until she put to sea. It is con jetbured, from the unusual severity of this treatment, .that some very unfavourable news was afloat in France, which the Commandant there bad orders to prevent reaching this country. Sunday s'ennight, five prisoners broke out of the Crown prison -ship, at Portsmouth, but an alarm ;being given they were all retaken. On the night of the 31st ult. fonr prisoners con fined on bond the Suffolk, effected their escape by hauling in the grating of the alter prison and slipping overboard. The night was dark and favourable; they took a boat from the magazine, and were shot tly alter re-taken, (one excepted) by the Gambier cut ter; the one missing is the man that some years ago look away the buoy boat, and from the account of his comrade, it is almost certain he is drowned; he had a club leg, and they waited for him to join them Upwards of une hour. An older, it is understood, has been received at Ponsmonth for the removal of 7000 French. priso- BIS from tho depots there to the New Prison near Edinburgh. The instructions expresses, that none but soldiers are to be sent. Another of tire French prisoners, who escaped from the Tolbooth of Edinburgh, has been apprehended it Dublin, and committed to Kihrainham goal. Thursday,' about 400 French prisoners, who had been landed at Dundee from a transport vessel, ar. zived at the depot at Perth. A few days ago, a young man of the name of RonsoN, a resident of Chester, for a wager of or.e hundred guineas, went the amazing distance of 84 lards at ‘i() hops, on Kersal Moor, near Marecitester. ~ deaths from the Smill Pox is uniformly decreasing, in proportion as Vaccination becomes more general, and the inoculation of the Small Pot declines. •' The disappearance of the Small Pox from the Island of Ceylon, was noticed in the Report of last year ; and the Board has now the pleasure of stating, from sources of authentic and satisfactory informa tion, that, in consequence of Vaccination, this dread ful disease has in no instance lately occurred in the Island of Anglesey, in the populous City of New castle-upon-Tyne, in the Town of Petworth, or in the adjoining district. " Through the different counties of England, the practice of Vaccination is becoming general, and the Small Pox is gradually declining ; and even in Lon don, where the opposition to the new Inoculation has been most violent, it is prevailing, and its salutary effects are becoming daily more evident. At present, by the best estimate we are able to make, it appears that nearly two-thirds of the Children annually born in the Metropolis, are vaccinated either by charititble institutions or private practitioners ; and that the number of deaths by Small Pox has proportionably decreased. Previous to the discovery of Vaccination, the average number of deaths by Small Pox within the Bills of Mortality, was 2,000 annually ; whereas in the last year, only 751 persons have died of that disease, although the increase of population within the last ten years has been 133,139. The increase of population throughout Great Britain, in the same . period of time, has been 1,609.000; and to these i augmentations the practice of Vaccination has pro bably much contributed. !• " The Reports from the Cow Pock Institution in ; Dublin are of the most favourable nature, and fur nish sufficient reason to believe, that since the intro duction of the Vaccine preventive, the mortality from Small Pox has considerably declined in that city. The correspondence of the Institution affords satisfactory evidence of the prog-essive increase of Vaccination throughout Ireland. In most of the principal towns ot that kingdom, the Poor have the . advantage of gratuitous inoculation with Cow Pox, either at the hospitals, or at the houses of the Physi cians ; and it is stated, that among the higher ranks, : Vaccination is universally adopted. " The accounts from Scotland, particularly those ifrom the Faculty at Glasgow, which have been trans ! mated to the Board, furnish evidence of the general land rapid increase of Vaccination in the norther - 1 ! part of the Island, and give the most satisfactory I proofs of the success and effic icy of the practice. "Notwithstanding the incontr ,, v Itible evidence of the very great advantages of V iccination, it. is much to be lamented that there are still some Medical Practitioners, though the number of Viern is compara tively mall, who obstinately persist in .lisseminating by inoculation the contag on of th.: Small l'or, and who stienuotisly eacourape and support, especially arnoi,g the lot% er orders of the people, the prejudice against the new practice ; tumours are industriously sprea.l abroad, of deforming and loathsome diseases produced by this practice ; and numerous misstate ments of cases are puhlished, of the occurrence of Small Pox alter Vaccination.—That in some in st owes the Small Pox has affected persons who have been most carefully vaccinated, is sufficiently mita blis!.ed ; nor ought we to be surprised at this, when we consider that the Inoculation for the Small Pox sometimes fails, and that several cases may be pro duced, in which persons have been affected with the natural disease mare than once in the course of life. The number of instances of small Pox after Vacci nation however is very small, and we may fairly pre sume, that in proportioa as improvements ire made in the practice, such occurrences will still be more rare. " The Board have infinite satisfaction in stating the two following important and decisive facts in proot of the efficacy and safety of Vaccination, viz. that in the cases which have come to their knowledge, the Small Pox after Vaccination, with a very few ex ceptions, has been a mild disease ; and that out of REPORT OP THE NATIONAL VACCINE ESTABLISHMENT, , the many hunched thousand persons Vaccinated, not DATED 9TII MAncii, 181'2. la single well-authenticated instance tsas been com- Ordered, by the House of Commons, to he printed, July 29, INI 2. municated to them, of the occurrence of a fatal Small 10 THE RIGHT ZION. RICHARD RIDER, PRINCIPAL SECRETARY I Pox after Vaccination. OW STATE , /WAIL DEEARTIVIENT, &C. &C. &C. . National Vaccine Establishment, " They cannot conclude their Report, without ad -I.eiarer-s.luare, March 9,181'2. I vetting to the mischiefs which are daily arising from " Sift—The Board of the National Vaccine Esta- the diffusion of the fatal contagion of Small Pox in blishmetit have the honour of reporting to you, that the community, in consequence of Varioleus Inocu during the year 1811, the Surgeons appointed by ilation, among the lower classes of people, which con their authority to the nine Stations in London, have scantly keeps up the contagion, and where it saves a vaccinated 3,148 persons, 2nd have distributed 23,794 single life, exposes numbers to a most dangerous dis. charges of Vaccine Lymph to the Public. The ! ease. It is greatly to be wished that this evil could number vaccinated this year rather exceeds that cf I be checked, by such measures as Government in its the year 1410, and the demand for Lymph has been i tt isdom might judge proper to frame, in order to often so gr, at that it could not be imn.cdiately sup- , prevent the spreading of the Small Pox, and thus plied. keeping up a continual source of infection in the ' 4 They have great satisfaction in stating, that heart of the Metropolis. since the commencement of this Establishment, not " The constant renewal of the contagion of Small a single instance of the accession of Small-Pox, after Pox in this Capital, which they so deeply lament, is Vaccination, has occurred to any of the vaccinating strikingly contrasted with the advantages enjoyed by Surgeons of the nine Stations. several of the other capitals of Europe, in conse-. ' 6 The Board report, that they have been lately fur- quence of the universal adoption of Vaccination by niched with many satisfactory official documents from Medical Practitioners, seconded by the authority of the Naval and Military Departments of Government, Government. The cities of Vienna and Milan, in respecting the progress of Vaccination, and have i which the mortality from the Small Pox was former likewise obtained some other authentic papers on the ; ly considerable in proportion to their population than subject, containing much important information.— ' in London, have been for some time freed altogether They think it expedient to lay before you a summary from this destructive pest; the first for five, and the of their contents. latter for eight years according to the statements of “ It appears, that in consequence of an order from Drs. De Curti° and Sacco; And in the city of Ge the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, Vacci- i neva, the Small Pox has been nearly extirpated. In nation has been practised in the Navy to a great ex.; Switzerland in general, but more particularly in Ge tent; and although it has not been universally adopt- neva, the extension of the blessings connected with ed, the mortality from the Small Pox, among sea- - Vaccination, has in a great degree depended on the men, is already greatly diminished. warm and active co-operation of the Clergy, who 46 In the Army, the practice of Vaccination has were assiduous in recommending the practice to their been long established, by an order from the Com. Parishioners from the pulpit, as well as promoting it mander-m-Chief, and its effects have been decidedly by every other exertion in their power. Impressed beneficial ; for almost the only persons among the with the strongest conviction of the great advantage troops who have lately been affected with Small Pox, which Vaccination would derive from a similar co have been either recruits, who had received the infer- operation in this country, the Board formerly consi tion previous to their enlistment, or soldiers who had dered it as a. pait of their duty to address the Bishops, not been vaccinated, on the supposition of their for the purpose of soliciting their assistance in having had the variolous disease. Thus, with a few checking the ravages of the Small Pox, by rendering exceptions, a disorder formerly so fatal to the troops, the beiarits of the Vaccine Inoculation more eaten. is now considered as -nearly extinguished in the sively known. Army. - " The Board has great pleasure in stating, that the. " By information transmitted to the Board from Money granted by Parliament during the last Ses their numerous Correspondents in all parts of the sion, has been sufficient to defray the expenses of the country, it appears that Vaccination is almost every year 1811, and they are of opinion, that the same where gaining ground, throughout th e B r i t i s h Do- sum will be adequate to the expenditure.of the cur minions, though its progress is very different in dif- rail. year. By order of the Board, ferent places i and it is, found that the number of Jetips HULYEir t Regist‘r. THE ARMY:- •lIMME•me The review of the 10th Hussars, tfloParxes ItE• GENT'S Regiment y is postponed til l Monday next. The QUEEN and PRINCESSES are expected to honour the review with their presence. A new establishment of Militia has lately beets adopted in Canada, and three new permanent Regi. ments formed, according to a plan prepared by Ge neral Sir JAMES CRAIG, Governor of the Province. It having been resolved to extinguish one of the . Local Militia Staffs in Cornwall, as matter of econo my, on the reduced establishment, the lot has fallen on the North Cornwall. Tuesday a quantity of ammunition was sent on from Chester Castle, for the camp at Kersal Moor, near Manchester. A new Quarter-Mastet-General is about to be ap pointed for India, in the room of Majot- General SKINNER, who is appointed a General Officer on the Staff there ; as also a new Adjutant-G;oeral, in the MOM of SIR WILLIAM NICHOLSON, who will retire. Thursday several troops of that fine regiment, the Oxford Blues, were'reviewed on Newton Heath, near Warrington, and went through their evolutions with characteristic steadiness. Colonel Nicou.s, the Deputy-Adjutant-General in Ireland, will be succeeded in that appointment by Lieutenant-Colonel CAREY, of the 84th Regiment, the former O ffi cer being removed to the Staff in the East Indies. It is stated, that in many instances, attestations used for enlisting soldiers have been printed without adding the words Heirs and Successors to his MAJESTY, contrary to a General Order issued on that subject, and which has occasioned a reference to the Law Authorities, the soldiers declining to be again at tested under the new form. Detachments, to reinforce the regiments in the West Indies, amounting to five Ilandred men, were embarked on the 2d instant, on bmard the Caledonia and Harmony, transports, at the file of Wight, under the charge of Colonel ItENNia, of the 15th toot. The 2d battalion of the 63d regiment has arrived at kortsmou - h from Guernsey, arid is ordered to the coast of Sussex. The undermentioned regiments of Militia have been encamped during the Summer as follows : North Gloucester . . . at . . . • San.lhurst. Sussex Edinburgh . . .. . Stirling . Louth at Ditto. _ _ Colonel DOUGLAS, of the 55th regiment, has been I ordered from Jamaics to Curacoa, as second in cern :nand to Major-General Honusorr. A number of men, belonging to the Limerick Mi litia, at Portsmouth, offered some tew days ago, to volunteer into the 87th regiment, under the express . proviso that they should be immediately embarked for Spain, which was acceded to. The excessive heat in Estremadura at this season is ' much complained of by the Officers under Sir Row- LAND HILL: the troops are in the field during the night, and go into cantonments during the day. The French cavalry opposed to the force under General HILL are constantly on the watch fur the Spaniards and Portuguese ; but as soon as a British column appears they immediately retire. • Puts, Auous r EL—On Saturday•the first, and on Monday the second divisions of the Renfrewshire Militia. arrived here from Edinburgh. They are quartered in the Barracks, together with the Fifeshire regiment, m hich has been joined by the two companies that were detached to Dundee. Sleet: the departure' of the 6th Dragoon Guards, the barracks have undagnne cousi n derable changes to prepare them for the accommodation of in ' fantry. The rabies are now converted into solditrs' rooms, and t several officers' rooms have been fitted up in the higher storey. —The whole will accommodate 1000 men, which is nearly the amount of the troops at present here. VACCINE INOCULATION. ASSIZES. ' ~ MAIDSTONE, AUGUST 7. MM U. • William Brows, a private in the Royal A was indicted for the wi.ful murder or . Isabella guire, a child of the age of seven years. The circumstances of this case were of an dinary nature. The prisoner was servant I, tenant Webber, and bore a most ex •nipl character in the regiment : some things, had been mien from his master's closet, ant suspected of the theft. He absented himself night of the 4th of April, and on the mnrni Sih, as early as between five and six, he el to the bari acks, and awoke a person of of Jeffecot, with whom he had lived. A. preliminary conversation, he told him he mitred a crime for which he must be hat% desired to be taken to the guardhouse. Little, Serjeant-Maj•w, there received him in and desiring to speak to the Serjeant in pri , then told him that List nigh he had murdere. girl. The Serjeant desired him to state Wittig? ticulars. He said, that getting over a stile wh into a lane, he saw the child at pl ay, who c,' she saw him ; that he then took the child - in and with his finger and thumb strangled it as it was dead he carried it under his arm distance, and laid it on some stone steps . he described. The Prisoner could ascribe tive for this act, but told the Serjeant he hat lice against the child, and could not tell came to do it. Mr. Cunwoon, as Counsel for the Prisons mined as to whether the prisoner might not' ing under temporary inflammation of tl.e the improper use of mercurial medicine. The Serjeant said, heknew the pris••ner nistcred mercury and laudanum to him e medical advice; but he knew not in what The LORD CHIEF BARON, in summ'n dente, stated, that the mere atiocity of VD must not be considered evidence of nhani:y the most guilty criminals wo.ili escape was evidence much too slight to infer an, ment of mind. • The Jury found the Prisoner guilty, an, 1 ved sentence to be executed on the Mond; HILL v. TILVER. ' This was an action of Mr. Jos .ph Hill, ney, against the defendant, for i A s.all—ef in was struck of the Rolls. The witness to prove the slander was a Sheriff's Officer, who stated, that drum: Assizes, at the Haunch or Willson publi( Maidsuic, the plytn• iIF and defenda . present, Mr. Hill produced a letter swat dereodant to A third person, which c slander. The deend.nt immod..ttel oo said so. Mr. Hill, ..m this, the witness s.' some poetry, which he could nut nitiern . knew it began with— Who steals my mime ,teals trash." Lord ELLawaollol.l4ll held this! the words slanderous, as many persons were struck off at their request, and foe many reasons misconduct ; therefore, to say that a man off the Rolls did not necessarily imply that been guilty of any malpractices. Plaintiff nonsuited. THE KIND v. HILL. This was an information against the defendant aiding the escape d three French prisoners. The facts against the defendant were The boat of the Cybille being cruising of , saw an open boat within three nada of the piddling in for the shore. She was found , three prisoners, who, it turned out, had escs, prison ;. and on the stern of the boat was ► though nearly obliterated, " W. Kite, Kite was a fisherman at Folkstone, who lately died; and Mrs. Kite being exami that she had sold the boat a day or two defendant Hill, for eleven pounds, and for it the morning the boat was missing, say any thing about losing it. The van, WAS proved by the Custom-house Surveyl more than 45. Mr. BOLLAND, for the defendant, cone this evidence was much too slight to co fendant, itsasmuch as his boat might hay , horn the beach ; and with regard to extra price, he might want it for other pi haps not strictly legal. But here was . the smallest, of any connection between prisoners and the defendant, except that been found at sea in a boat bought by ' The Jury retired for some time, and a verdict of Guilty. AUGUST 8. William Col 7 and France: his wife were maliciously shooting at and wounding " Gadding deposed, that he lived'with Beakesbourne, in this county, who ha, :beep frequently stolen, employed the man of the name of White to watch on tweets thel9th and 20th of April. lief they saw a man and woman come into chace the sheep, endeavouring to drive a corner ; upon this the witness, who was a double-barrelled gun, came from his • cealment, and told the Prisoner to surrender himselt and go with him, or be would shoot him. The pri soner swore he would neither go nor surrender, and dared him to shoot. The witness then said he would stay by him till the morning, and they remained t.,- gether for some time, when the prisoner made a sud den jump at the witness, and pulling a pistol from his breast, fired at the witness, and wounded him it the thigh. White, the other man, fired his gun and wounded the prisoner ; the woman at the same ment snapped a pistol at the head of White; she immediately knocked down, but Gadding being bad. ly wounded, they both escaped. They were, how. ever, traced, and apprehended at Canterbury the next day. —Guilty. The case of Miss St. Julian, for a conspiracy to es• tort money from the Hon. B. Cochrane, was remo• ved by certiorari. • • The Assizes and Home Circuit fin;shed here. :dcg A lriui t tiit Le :dinwriw i:e am te u r sng , gnoawtheimereatezwttaipnig.thweuknoltvi.cesr,p..trisiisos,o::::ol4.7.. • . • I I Artlllet? Sella Ma 1 in extreme to .4 Lieu )lary goo. howev nd he elf all t tine t.fth. came bac '-1 the nam Liter s nt had c ,, m nged. an.. e. Ada... in eustod y privet:, he ere I a little arctic , rar. VrVii led • ie4 when in his arm t ; as stem for sotne in a pia- , be no . I had no ma ell how . • eeta t he I..h.ur. brAin Ir r had altni e f. with u qua.itittes. tip the tit he act y,iithinusi • and here des ang nJh_kecei I, an Au. r n saying he R. hankie, lag the last ic-hi use, swing w,th ' tt,.l) by the to..ined the rye t tee ii.td t.d, 'eve • but ha ords were not off the it imptrag w stripk that bet had • defendant for news. 31 s follow 3 Boolqgne t the harbour, nd to Contain escbped from ss legibk, al- , Folkstone." who had then mined, stated, ) before to the d he paid her g, but did no‘ toe of the boat eyor not to bat contended t .t onvict the. de. we been sole* his givin4 elk purpose", per- no proot, not en the Fre.sch that they ii4d him. • then returnicl ere indicted for J. Godding. h a farmer, at aving had his witness an.t 4 ▪ the rtightbe- efore day.ligin o the field and e them up into ras armed with s place of con. rrender kinbelt aim. The psi. surrender, and said he would