Star. — London, England, 1813-01-07 00:00:00

L shores.—A few terrible examples are about to be made to convince British seamen of the criminality of entering the American service. The Americans have the effrontery to call these deluded men Ameri can citizens, and-they talk largely of retaliation on British prisoners. Thrice now has the British flag struck to the Ame rican—renspora mutantur ! After the perusal of the partly report of the Captain of the MACEDONIA.N, to insinuate censure against the gallant Captain himself, his Officers, or crew, would be an act of injustice— even to withhold approbation would be a want of generosity. Blame, however, rests somewhere, and ve surely need not be more explicit than merely to state, that at this moment Great Britain has in commission 6 Admirals, 11 Vice-Admirals, and 20 Rear-Admirals ; 159 ships of the line ; 20 ships of from 50 to 44. guns ; 157 frigates, 95 sloops, 203 brigs, 41 cutters, and 62 tuggers, besides 297 vessels of war of different descriptions at her disposal I We never founded the naval character of our country upon a " charm:" we know its bases to be skill, disci pline, and bravery ; nor can we allow the managers of the maritime means of our country, to demand from our brave defenders the useless sacrifice of their Eves, and to screen themselves behind the shield of chivalry," as if parity of effect is to be miaow. ably expected from disparity of power. It gives us sincere pleasure however, to be able to anuonnce, that at last energetic measures are to be employed against the Marine of Laputa. Orders have reached Plymouth, to cut down the CULLCIDEIf t of 74 guns, to a raw, and moreibips are immediately to undergo the same change. Lard AuzLrus BEAUCLERE takes out the squadron !bout to sail for America. The TIGRE, of 90 guns, the Quzzw, of 74, and AZERCROUBIE, of 74 guns, have order's to rendezvous at Portsmouth, for that purposes The last time the President frigate was in the channel, she was boarded by a pilot, belonging to Cawsand, who was addressed by at least twenty of her crew, requesting to be informed of the welfare of their relatives, living about Cawsand, and Plymouth. When the same frigate was last at Gibraltar, up wards of 100 letters were tent on shore, to the Post- Office, by the crew, directed to their friends in England. The fact 104 Hated, speaks a volarnmin support of our right of search : nor will any Minister of this country ever dare to propoie its abandonment. It gives us satisfaction, however, to learn that the War Department does not slumber, but that pre parations are now making to enable Sir GEORGE PREVOST to open the Spring campaign with effect. We have received Paris Papers to the sa instant, They are wholly silent on the subject of ds the Grand Army;" but; in the mute eloquence of real distress, den latent, elqinant ! The debris of the various corps which reached WU. ra—the Imperial Guards, the sacred squadron of mounted Officers, and the French Marshals who were left at Smorgonie, have been cut off from all intercourse with the Duchy of Warsaw nay, the probabilities are in favour of the supposition that they are at this moment in the hands of the Russians, as prisoners, for the Duke of BASSAIIO, (MARE?) Counts LAVRISTON, NARBONNE, and other Slaves of knee= note, are on their way to Paris ; and an additional military force has been called out for the dews of Warsaw 1 In sober English, the 'Ressian armies have advanced from Minsk into the Duchy of War• saw, and have thus surrounded the - French amps d'annie which remain in Poland: The Monikur again confers upon us the honoUr of hotiting our humble efforts, as Journalists, to rouse Europe from hez lethargy. In the STAR of Tuesday, Decetnber 22d, we stated the evacuation of Spain to be a consequence a the ruinous State of the Grand Army in Russia, and hailed the arrival of Lord WALPOLE at Vienna, (an article of intelligence which by the bye, was exclusively our own) as the cont: menceinent of an era, which would compel i3oria- PARTE to confine his troops to the protection of France. We see no cause for retracting our opinions, not withstanding the flippant answer of our Parisian =- They tell us that their Master is pouring :ements into Spain—we deny it—let them our columns of to-day for evidence. They Lord WALpoLE Was soon dismissed from Ave answer that this is a falsehood. His 0, as we stated, was received at Vienna with Irk of distinction and favour, and how will wretches tremble for the stability of their fa lynasty, when we inform them, that his Lord mission has been attended with effects even picious to the overthrow of BONAPARTE'S han the most ardent friends of humanity ista! ideuce were wanting that the blow which the received in Russia has staggered his whole of despotism, we would adduce these critiques Ifoniteur. But we have other documents to nn the record. The King of SAXONY, in a . statement given in our columns of today, teclared his inability to adhere to the continental and we now tell the Editor of the Moniteur, wn words, that Austria, Holland, Rome, Piedmont, Belgium, Nice, will shortly the yoke, under which they have groaned. us a we beseech you, most sagacious Critics *here is the ire* which u to keep these eonntrie, long* in subjection ? even the invalids (as we are inforined by a gentleman recently arrived from the other side) have been marched into Paris. All is gloom, and discontent, and suspicion, in the capi. tat. Fresh arrests are made daily, and it is not easy fol. the Tyrant to know how to dispose of those whom he has already in custody. J. F. RAM, Colonel of the First Regiment of Paris, in whose case the punishment Of death has been commuted for that of perpetual imprisonment, entered the army in 1783, as a private in the regi ment d'Arton : being a tall handsome man he was soon made a Drum-major. In 1792, when the un fortunate Louis XVI. permitted Non-commissioned Officers to be advanced to the higher ranks in the army, RABBE was cute of the first to whom promo tion was granted : he served in the 62d demi-brigade till 1796, when he was raised to the rank of Adju tant-Major of the Guards of the National Convention. When BOVAPARTZ mated his Garde Coneulaire, in 1800, he was raised to the . rank of chef de bataillon ; afterwards he was made Colonel of the First Regiment of the Municipal Guards. In that capacity RABBI was called to sit on the trial of the Duke d'EnonEix. As a recompence for his share in this infamous tran saction, (for RARER took care to remind BONAPARTE of it on his return from Poland) mercy was extended to him. Nothing perhaps is more remarkable in the perso nal history of BONAPARTX than the uniform system of favouritism iron which he has acted towards the murderers of his most formidable rival. To return to RABBI:. Till Within these few years, he could neither read nor write—and at the present moment, we haVe reason to believe that his literary accomplishments are Confined to the signature of his name. He used to devote his leisure hours, even when a Field Officer, to the teaching of fencing, being unquestionably one of the best swordsmen in ' Europe. His advanced age (being upwards of 60), and his limited education, will render his imprison ment insupportable, unless he dwindles into thehumble rank of what is termed a Mouton, I. e. a spy upon his fellow prisoners, a service for which his talents emi nently qualify hint. While on the subject of BONAPAItTE 2 S favourites, it is but fair to correct some mis-statements, which have recently crept into the public papers. It is but too true that the majority of his Generals have been Thieves, Swindlers; Galley Slaves, and Footmen t— but none of these epithets apply to General MONCEY. That Officer was a Captain in the French army in 1787, and received his commission of Lieutenant- Colonel of a corps of Light. Infantry in 1793. He is erroneously described by an ardent anti-gallican writer as having been a footman. LISBON AND CORUNNA PAPERS. DISPATCHES FROM THE MARQUIS OF WELLINGTON. The Carteret Packet has arrived at Falmotith, from Corona; and the GLEANER ketch from Lisbon, both with Mails and Dispatches. No movements of importance had taken plate on the pail of the allied Armies, and those of the French seem to have been tither of a retrograde description: The Marquis of WELLINGTON has proceeded to Cadiz, to concert measures fok the further prolecution of the war in the Peninsula. We hasten to lay the following extracts before our Readers t EXTRACT or AN OPEICIAL DIEPAtCH FROM GENERAL THE MARQUIS oi WELLINGTON, DATED HEAD-QUARTERS, ERZTNADA, DECEMBER 9, TO HIS EXCELLENCY DON MIGUEL PEREIRA FORIAZ Nothing of importance has occurred since I trans mitted to your Excellency my official dispatch of the 2d instant. 41 Some of Marshal Soult's troops arrived in the •alley of the Tagus on the Sd instant. 4 , At the end of last month, the Spanish trot* Were still in Madrid." •' LISBON, DECEMBER 14. 'II The troops have come considerably into the in. terror, for their refitment—some towards Porto, others in the direction of Coimbra. General Hill's division is at Corii—the first division, under Stewart, it Vi. sett : mean time, the Marquis of Wellington goes to Badajosi from whence it is supposed be will proceed to Cadii: 44 General Hill Is the nett in coininini, tad his situation at Coria is an excellent one for that im pose; being advanced sufficiently, and Very central. 4 , The 6th and 20th regiments have received their routes for the sth and 7th divisions, and leave Lisbon directly to join." LISBO N, DECEMBER 14. " The Marquis of Wellington was to have been at Badajos yesterday, Seville to-day, and at Cadiz on the 18th. 66 It is confidently said Caffarelli has marched for France, with 4000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry." LISBON, DECEMBER 48. 64 We have not s word of news—the army is dis persed throughout the kingdom, between the Tagus and the Douro, refitting ; the cavalry head-quarters are at Coimbra ; the Prince of Orange and the re mainder of the Marquis of Wellington's Staff, are at Porto, from whence they are to proceed to Lisbon : this circumstance induces us to hope we shall have the high gratification of shortly seeing our Hero in this capital. •' Saturday last we bad a great gale here. The greater part of the *ends in therfver have salfered I seven or eight Americans were wrecked on the Xlar and on the coast. His Majesty's ship Non Pareil, and the Prince Ernest here Suffered ccinsideribly.a. The total damage sustained is calculated at six hundred thousand pounds. ".ttAbAYoz, bEciran tL 41 According to intelligence dated the sth instant, on the 3d, 21,000 infantry and 5500 French hone, entered Madrid, and suddenly seiied upon the maga zines of bread. Another division, of from sto 6000 infantry and SOO . horse, descended from the port of Pict) to Tallavera la Reyna ; and by Porine, 10 or 12,000 infantry are marching for Cadalso. " Under date of the 10th, we are informed, that the French remained in Madrid, having some divi sions encamped in The neighbourhood ; other divisions had proceeded for Villatavas, and various places in Mancha. " On the i'th they mitered Toledo, having left 400 inftntry at the bridge of Montalvan. The national troops, who compose the 2d and 3d armies, were in Albacete, and those denominated the 4th, in Infantes. " According to the latest accounts, the positions of the. French army on the line of the Tagus are as follow :—Pontes, Oropisa, Tallavera, Cevalla, For tino, Carpeo, Fuensalida, Nagues, Torrigos, Puebla de Moritalben, and Toledo. In the last city, the French General Tombousson had ordered 30,000 rations to be got ready.—(Lid on Gazette, Dec. 22.) tag rein ° f il o i r s c t e s• tr look at at say that .1 Vienna.--1 Lordship, eery mar these caret vourite dy ship's !Ili& more aus] ; , ower, th If evide Tyrant r( System of of the Mo put upon laboured has declaz system ; in his ow Tuscany, shake off u; FROM THE PORTUGUESE TELEGRAPH, OF DEC. 22. " We are assured that Soult was in Tabevera la Reyna, with 5 or 6000 men, employed in building boats, and a contribution of 26,000,000 of reals upon Madrid. 46 The Amy which was Ballasteros's, lately moved towards Dispenhapuros. The French have fortified the bridge of Arcibispo, barricading all its commu. nitations, and scarcely leaving room for a single per son to pass." PROM TIIE SAME :I . APICIt Or DECP.MBER 26. - h i lt appears from the Cociubo, that there are 'nifty conjectures respecting the towing of the Maiituis of Wellington to Cadiz. " They write flora Alicant, under date of Deeeth.l ber Si that from sto 6000 English froi Sicily, ?rad disembarked there. The number of French through out the Whole province of Valencia does not exceed thirteen thousand infantry, and froth 16 to 1800 horse. kt Suchet has ordered the citadel of Valencia to be mined, and continues to dismantle the fortifications removing the maurials to SagUnta, where he is re pairing all the timber with which the batteries are constructed. On the 2d of December, General Bal. lasteros arrived at Ceuta. " COk'UNNA, bEciman h Nothing can be said with certainty either of the army of the enemy, or the allied army ; they both preserve their position ; the formek., however, is' nly employed in making excursions to procure provisions. Though a report has been current that they are taking the direction of Asturias, it is not certain. •1 The Vrench are obliged to employ a great num betr of troops on their foraging parties, and to send considerable reinforcements wherever they wish to maintain a point, without which they would infallibly be cut off." “ SANTIAGO, DECEMBER 15. ik It was not true that the French had approached ' Leon and Astorga. from both these places the last mail brought lettert of a very recent date. This re port originated in the threat of the enemy to proceed to Leon, and thence to Asturias, a design which, according to confidential advices, they have desisted from; and fell back upon Torn; Which spews that they felt considerable anxiety With respect to the movement of Lord Wellington, as it was not cer tain Whether he would not advance upon Salamanca as was asserted. The greater part of our troops of the 6th army have alicaclP arrived at Puebla de Sa nabria and its neighbourhoOtl, and stragglers are con tinuant joining, so that it appears that the loss was not so great as it was thought, and as the violent rain and heavy daikness of these days made us sup pose. The 4th army is advancing upon the Tagus, threatening_ to fall by Cuenca upon Valencia. . 44 Lord Wellington had his head-quarters, on the SOth', hi Frinada, and General Hill in Robleda." -' MADRID, NOVEMBER 24. Thb intrusive King still remains at Salamanca, but he appears to be in in motion. ei At Fuentes de Ono, three leagues from this ca pital, it is said that the enemy are making vinegar I for the use of the army of the intrusive King." The Maxqbis of WELLINGTON'S dispatches are dated at Frenada, on the 20th ult. but they detail no mili tary movements whatever. Monday tnorning, the QUEEN, and Princesses ar- EMIETH and MARY, attended by the Ladies in Wait ing, left Windsor for Oatlands, escorted by a party of the Royal Horse Guards, and returned 'to Windsor in the eVening. Yesterday her MAJESTY and Princeises AUGUSTA and MARY, arrived at the Queen's Palace, about half. past one o'clock. Soon after two o'clock they ar rived in the PRINCE REGENT'S carriage at Carlton- House, where they were received by the PRINCE, and the Dukes of CLARENCE and CUMBERLAND. About three o'clock they went to visit the Duchess of BRUNSWICK, and in the evening they dined with the rauics Rama and a select pony. morAL AirELLreznek. 04 LLOYD'S, kANUARY T, , a On inquiry at Portsmouth, it appears that thi repcet in circulation tteit on Monday, of the eapturi of COmmodore RoOtat and his Squadron, is Withon foundation." MARTWICIUS, NOV. is. The Weit India seas Mei:warming With privateers Our force, since the departure of the DRAGOON America, it reduced to Orie frigate of $B, and and fourteen or fifteen imaller vesselv. We given to understand, that a considerable addidoni force is on tie way to as. The privateers are such swift sailors, that our cruizers have little chance of bringing them to action. The Inturance from Martinique to Malta yesterday at SS ! FALMOUTH, JANUARY 4. Arrived the GLBANER ketch, of 12 gunk, Liskatfi nant KNIGHT, with dispatches from Lisbon. days, having experienced very heavy gales, lb she was under the necessity of heaving her wins board—she also received much other dainigi hull and sails. The Duke of Kent Packet f 1) from Lisbon, with a Mail, the same day Gleaner, but his not yet arrived. Alio arrived, Carteret Packet, Captain DAVEY, with a Mai. Corunna, in fire dayi. The Duke of Kent (2), with a Mail for Lisbon, is gone into the and with the other Packets still reinain.—Wil PLYMOUTH, JANUARY S. Arrived the PuzAurr sloop of war, from a Came in the Francis, from Hivanitah to Cat taken by the SURVIULLANTE frigate. PORTSMOU rH, JANUARY 6. Arrived his Majesty'l ships BARROW, Mr Mutut, and DAEDALUS, from the Downs. Majesty's ship HOPE is appointed convoy 1 Downs.—Mind S.W. blows hard. DEAL, JANUARY 6. Arrived, and sailed for the River, the HALL, from Surinam. Remain all the out \ bound, detained by contrary winds, except the max—she has lost her bowsprit.—Wind S.W Tuesday the Duke bf Ybiut held a Military at his Offite in the Horse Guards. Among who attended it were Generals Newirr mut Mi NELI t Majors Tousorr and KELLY, and Dr. Physician to the Rates. LORD PORTSMOUTH'S trrr....-- - Yesterday dred and one boys and seventy girls, edutated clothed by voluntary subscription, in the parishes St. Giltt in the Fields abet St. George's, I bury,, walked in procession to receive On bounty of the Earl of Portsmouth, in Linfoln'' fields. It has been the custom of that Nnbl entertain the childrenof the above sc:..'ol on _ Monday, but this year the usual act t. , f benevolem took place yesterday. Aft& they had been - with twelfth cake and wine they returned schobl. The spectacle was highly interestini, clean appearance of the girls, in particular, subject of admiration. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held East India House, when the following Captvtins sworn into the command of their respective viz. Captain J. Coraans, Wirley, for Chjna dit Captain Yotmostuarsatirt, Union,- for Madeira, dras, and Bengal. A Bill has been found at York, against dereh of Mr. HOESIALL. They were to yesterday. A letter from Nottingham ailirts, that then from thence, which have appeared in all the of extensive rioting in that neighbourhood, are false. The four men lately taken at Bulwell enmmitted for a bur . The exaggerate menu of which comp laint is made, are very , reprobated as productive of much mischief, them is attributed an outrage since committed town, namely, on Monday night last, when fir belonging to Mr. PARKER were broke. A vessel has arrived under licence from site coast, and a letter has been received fro containing some remarks on the late Moniteare, adverted to the appearance of NAPOLEON ar and Reviews—his visit to the Museum Opera—and, his sporting excursions in the Versailles.—Thin letter is written by a Gentlemat who actually ia* him ; and he says than only aver/ short time at the Review, that alight from his carriage and enter the Museum, that he sat for about a quarter of an hour Opera; but he asserts that what is alledged amusements in the neighbourhood of Versailles is ut terly false: and he adds, that BONAPARTE looks es tretnely ill, and appears wholly incapable of pas taking of the diversions of the field. Yesterday a Coroner's Inquest was held at th Ashby Castle public-house, Northampton-square, o the body of Henry Alder, a child tour years of age who met his death in consequence of his clot he having taken fire, by which he was burnt in so shock ing a manner as to survive only about three hour: when he died in great agony. Verdict—Accidents Death. On Monday night, as Mr. Young, who has fillet the office of Clerk to the Parish Church of Cambet well, Surrey, for many years past, was walking int the yard at the back of his house, in Globe-lane Camberwell, he suddenly dropped down in an apo plectic fit and instantly expired. Tuesday se'nnight, at the Fountain public-house Sheffield, a man had both his arms broken by leapinf out of the window in his sleep, and was otherwm very much bruised. He was conveyed to the Infir mary without hopes of recovery. The poor fellov came from Owlerton, in pursuit of his ton, who hat got with some recruiting parties. FRILL OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Red. 60I—Cons. 591 60 ex. div.—Cons. for ac. 644 4 per Ct. 764---5 per Ct. 9O f ex. divr—Ls.Anns.lsl 7-16ths Bonds is. 3s. dis.—Each. Bills Ss. 7s. pr. To-morrow the Dividends are paid at tke Bank, and tenure day neat the Lottery will in drawe. tam. , that th wiptori witho vateeri eon foe one ga We art ditiona; Lae wa Lance a! ta Wti Lientel ▪ in 17 os ovept in /lei ) u lee as Oa red, th 4 • from Packet Roads) iud S. a cruize. idiz, re. Itst.rroa 5. His for the Stebeck mtward: the Tho. V.. ry Lev%;:e ng this, MINN ▪ Hvsta one hum rated ant arishes a Blooms he anntta ileman 14 on Baste: nevolenr4 n *lrak; d to th.!;.. ng. Thi 1.5 r, was s id at du thins were ive ships direct it eira, Ma the ntotl be triec r account le Papers ire utterli lwell wen tea state naturall: ef, and tc ted in th, ire frame the oppo rom Paris eurs, whici Lt Council and th wealds o - ientlemai hat he wa that he di4 iseum, hour at th aged of hi tales is ut it looks es ole of par eld at th square, a mrs of age his clot he n so shock