Star. — London, England, 1813-04-17 00:00:00

lj . .~ Y ►• . t STAR LONDON. A.'iti'ltiDAY, APRIL 17, 1815. itttCll OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT DNB &CLOCK: ked.SAS}—Cons. 581 P-4 per Ct. 72 73—for ace. stn . . L per Cent. 11110.=Bonds par is. dig. —Exch. Bills ts. W. pie. bank Leal Anniatles 1411.16 tbs •••id.•101• The Gottenhurgh Mail of yesterday, while it ari :loomed the safe arrival of the homeward•bound Bal tic convoy, brought the unpleasant intelligence of the Panes having fired upon our fleet in passing the bat teries at Elsineur. If they had confined themselves to this act of aggression, wanton as it certainly must be considered, they might have been excused from the circumstance of their being still masters of the Sound, and, thetefore, entitled to demand the usual tribute. But their hostilities did not stop here, for their gun-boats made several attempts at capture' which were frustrated only by the prowess and dex terity. of the convoying squadron. If Denmark be still a prey to the vacillating policy of the dotard, who has been too long permitted to direct 'her hosti lities against her best and safest friends, it is time that England, and Sweden and Russia should assume an authoritative attitude, and strip the viper of his sting. —lt is, indeed, a most childish and antiquated policy to make war is sokration—we mean precisely such a war as has been waged against Denmark. It may be' true, that, like other Powers, she has been seduced by the specious pretexts of France ; but she ought to be instructed, by the thunder of British vengeance, that it is contamination to come even within grasp of the Tyrant, and that nothing can ensure her existence as an independent State, but a speedy and unreserved repentance. As to her cause of irritation against England, the very aspect of affairs at this moment ought to convince her Statesmen, as it must do every enlightened mind, that the seizure of her Fleet was one of the links in the great chain of events which have finally overwhelmed the French Ruler with ruin and disgrace. In short, if this malignant spirit of resv.ntment be again displayed, we trust that we shall see Zealand occupied by foreign troops, and declared the fief of another Sovereign. The following are the circumstances which at tended the unpleasant business to which we have just alluded : " k hid been understood in Sweden. that Matters were so far seconunodated between Great Britain and Denmark, that British 6hippills would be allowed to pass the Sound unntoltate4; and it has been stated to us, that single vessels had sailed clfise under the Daui:h batteries without interruption. However, it was . no. !teed, that upon the approach of the homeward-bound convoy, the Danes were all of a sadden on the alert, preparing their gun* at Cumbers Castle, and stationing their gun-boats in such a man ner as could only indicate au hostile intention. !' It was consequently deemed expedient by the British Admi ✓al to wait until a strong beers, should spring up, so that in case the Danes should fire, the c h ance of injury would be so much the less. It was several days Weis the ships obtained such a wind as they wanted ;but a breeze springing up on the 6th instant, the 'thole Sett pushed forward. As they had apprehended, they no sooner got abreast of Cmnberg Castle than the firing began both #rost the Castle and the gun-boats, which lasted for three hours and a half. " The gun-boats made several attempts to capture the vessels which dropt astern ; but the convoying bhips always coming to their relief, the enemy were unable to carry off a single prize. One Russian ship alone was ran oa shore, but that being on the blondish side of the coast, she will probably be got off. Several merchantmen received a trifling damage from the fire of the guns; and the Vigo herself, thellag•ship, was struck, but with out killing or wounding a single individual a board. The Swedes bad laid down many buoys, and stationed small craft on their coast, as a guide to our shipping, but one night previous to the 6th, the Danes bad the audacity to cut them all adrift." We are unable to confirm from official sources the intelligence of Austria having taken the field against France, but the report still continues to swim down the tide of probabilities. The resturation of Trieste, Fiume, the Tyrol, and other ancient possessions, to the House of Austria, are the boons which Russia and her allies are said to have held out; and we trust they are too tempting to be rejected. But the Em peror of Ausrau► has other and stronger claims upon his honour—the Germans are every where in arms to pull down that monstrous tyranny which deprived him of the dignity of Chief of the Empire. Among the 'Germans he is still regarded as the Emperor of Germany and the Electoral Chief of the Roman Empire. If they shake off the yoke under which they have so long groaned, the States of Germany must revert to the farms at least of their old consti tutions. The high-minded heroes who have fought and bled with WITTGENSTEIN, will not surely accept of a drivelling slave for their Chief, who crouches and trembles at the name of NAPOLEON. Let FRANCIS r!:init of this—let him follow up the proclamations to the Germans, by declaring himself once more their Emperor ; or let him hire himself as Nurse to the King of Roma for the rest of his life. There are ethers of his House who will be proud of the revival cf these ancient honours. Letters from Berlin attribute the recal of Orro from Vienna, to his not having kept a good look out when Lord WALPOLIC arrived there ; who, it is said, was ten days in the Austrian capital before the French Ambassador was apprized of the fact. - - _ By a ship from Santander, advices have been re ceived from Biscay to the Ist inst. The French had not made their appearance in the neighbourhood of that port, but they still continued-in the unmolested possession of Bilboa and the contiguous territory. . , Ltudovni. *kit, • „ iiveial &pa froin the Vresulattia r Mahn, tied& coast of Attica; got‘ot tseit,—No arri vils c tailings toschirsi- - Wind L PLYWAItH, .APRIL 18. Arrived the Spraytollllbe l WILIJASIS, &MI B vital ; and the Abbey, kiimarotin, froni Vtales.—=Sailed the Dasrtt brig of war on a cruize, and the Sillcu- LATOR lugger With a convoy to the Eastward: - PORTSMOUTH, ApRIL 16. , I Arrived his Majesty's ships Velma Aux, 74 gudis Captain MILKE, and Trout, 74, Ciptaill HALLI . DAY, from off Cherbourg; also ten sail of transport; from the Meditei7.-thin, and are placed under quarantine. The convoy with the merchant-vessels has passed by for the River.—Sailed the PRESIDENT, 38, Captain WARREN, for Chatham.—The outward-bound still remain.—Wind W.N.W. DEAL, APRIL 16. The MAncHlowEss or Excl.En, East-Indiaman, came down and passed through the Downs on Wed nesday evening, and not the DEVONSMIU4 as before stated. Came down from the River the CAMBIUM! and CARNATIC. East-Indiamen, and several other ships—the whole remain. Arrived his Majesty's ship BOYNE, to join the Scheldt feet ; and the SNAP gun brig, from Portsmouth.—Wind S.W. HARWICH, APRIL IS. The PRINCE OF WALES packet, Captain MASON, has arrived this day at noon from Gottenburgh, halr ing landed a Swedish and Spanish Messenger at Southwold ; she does not bring any particular news: a large convoy had arrived from the Baltic atWingo Sound, before she sailed—she has had a passage - of a week only. A very large convoy, apparently bound to the Baltic, or river Elbe, is now in the offing. SHEERNESS, APRIL 16. Sailed the FLAMER gun-brig, with a convoy, for Heligoland.—Wind W. • YARMOUTH, APRIL 16. Arrived the ALBJCORE from Portsmouth, and the BEAVER from the Nore, and are sailed again for the Humber. SCILLY, APRIL 15. Arrived his Majesty's ship FRZYA, with the fol lowing transports, from Lisbon : Zeda, and the Duchess of Bedford, SIMPSON ; Alfred, Latona, Nestor, Dutchess of Richmond, Thynne, Jane, Al lison, and the Mary. COVE OF CORK. APRIL it Friday sailed his Majesty's ship Smt, Captain COULSON, for Loughswilly, with a view to intercept a great many sail of Americans, who have wintered at Archangel, and will return from thence as soon as the ice breaks up. On Saturday afternoon the seve ral outward-bound fleets made an unsuccessful effort to put to .sea, but were obliged to come to again. Early yesterday morning they made another attempt, and after standing out a considerable 'way in the offing, were obliged to put back. Admiral Keters, in the flzuznortioN, of 74 guns, is expected to call here to•day, in his way to Newfoundland, where he is appointed Governor for three years, the usual'time. Yesterday afternoon his Majesty's ship TALBOT, Capt. SWAINS, arrived from a cruise. His Majesty's ships Cm - mum: and JALOUSE, are expected in from a cruise. All the Indiamen which sailed from England to Bengal last season, had arrived at that presidency previous to 'the 29th of November, except the Eu- PHRATES, FAIRLIE, CARMARTHEN, and NORTHAM!). TON, which were dispatched late in the season._ Sixteen out of 18 of the China ships had arrived at Canton previous to the 3d of September. The re mainder, the DAVID SCOTT and ROYAL GEORGE, were daily expected from Madras. We are concerned to announce the loss of the Har. riet Indiaman by fire. The fact is conveyed in a postscript to a letter addressed to a managing owner, dated Calcutta, the 30th November, in these terms: We are sorry to inform you, that the Harriet, Capt. LTNcu, has been burnt, while loading homeward." LICENSES TO AMERICA.—The following is aCopy of the Commercial Regulations issued by Government : " April 10, 1819. " Licenses will be granted by the Board of Trade— " For exportation and insponation of all articles to and from any port in America not blockaded. " Neutral ships only, and of the build of the country to which they are declared to belong. 66 The name and tonnage of the ships to be mentioned in talc. big out the License." GREENWICH Cuts-r.—The following is an account of the receipts and expences of the Chest at Green wich, for the year 1812 : RtCXIPTIL From deductions of sixpence per man per month on ship and dock-yard books, paid in 18!2, mfAlctl, fines, &c. - - - £76,679 lii 81 From dividends from funded property - 27,783 0 A From rents of estates - - - 42 5 9 From £3.61. ed. per centum on net proceeds of prizes 23,937 15 0 X 128,496 19 91 N B. The total amount of the funded property M the name of the " Corporation of the Chest at Greenwich,' is £1,028,300 3 per Celli. Consols. EXPENSES. Paid to Pensioners - - - £69,764 6 4 Paid salaries to Officers, Clerks, &e. - 1,919 10 0 Paid taxes, coals, candles, and water, for Office 104 16 2 Paid stationary• and tradesmen? bills - 603 7 10 Paid travelling expenses and petty disbursements 68 16 11 Paid two and threepenny postage .- . 94 12 3 472,447 II i Balance in favour of the Cheat 55,9811 $ Si £198038 19 91 As accounts have been received of the arrival of the Russians at Thorn. a Punster observes, that we may shortly expect to hear of some Merit work. • * • •,• . •. • •• • . , . . 'ire i',Brix ti;fotry art. It is said. to • ` la n nucleus be sent to the N y as a . clitC/;;;41)1 fok the colleition Of i large army in I-laborer ; but we have i their yet lexxnt r pee.; destination. , Wednesday , last, the 2d battalion of'cu -t 'e 'Ncill'^ -f foot, Which has, so kicentlY returned from long series of arduous service with „Marquis WELLINGTON in the Peninsula, astarried from Hull to Berwicic-upri, Tweed, under the Cetamind th ajor Ramer. It is believed 4hµ allwi will continue there for some time, to mover Ws the fatigues cif four successive cacti -55th Regs . " 7 1xieat is under Orders to march from Canterbury for Chelmsford, on Monday next. ,The East Kent Militi a , quartered at Birr , in ba bied, have received a letter Of readiness to be removed: The Royal Cornirall Light Infantry, quartered in Kayo, have given agriatnuniber of volunteers. to the Line; who have marched in high spiriti to join _their respective regfinents. The West Norfolk Militia, from Haddington, have replaced the Pertliihire in Edinburgh Castle. hioriday sionnight i the 2d Battalion 12th Regiment of Pt* arrived at Clonotiy Barracks, near Banagher, ern Permoy, to replace the Roy a l City Cork Militia, which are ordered to embark at Dublin for England Saturday the East Devon Regiment of Militia, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel VULFORD, marched into Exeter, from Leicester and Tarnworth, and on Monday and Tuesday proceeded for Berry head Barracks. The Royal Tyrone regiment have received the route from Tuam, preparatory to going to England. The following is a List of the troops in Scotland till the end of the years The 2d Battalion 7151 are gone to Ayr ; The depot of the 93d, upwards of 800 fine young Highlanders, are at Inverness ; The 16th and 70th Regiment, with the Dunham Militia, for the garrison of Perth; The 2d Battalion 79th and 92d, with the Wiltshire Militia, are at Glasgow; and The 4th Battalion of the Royal Scotch, and 3d Battalion 27th Regiment, at Edinburgh. Monday last the North York Regiment of Militia marched from Colchester to Harwich and Weeley Barracks. Same day the 2d West York Regiment pf Militia marched from Hat wich to Colchester, on the route for duty at the Tower of London. Sunday se'nnight, sixty-one volunteers from the East-Kept Militia, for the following regiments, arri ved in Limerick, from Birr, and next day pursued their route for Cork :—for the 2d Regiment of Foot Guilds, 4; 3d (or Buffs), 3; 12th Foot, 1; 13th, 3; 28th, 1; 37th, 4•; 44th, 1; 95th ( Rifle Regiment), 44. Total, 61. Thursday se'nnight, the first division of the Mona ghan Militia, quartered in Cork, marched for Mid dleton—the detachments in country cantonments fol lowed this week, and will be replaced by some of the East-Norfolk Regiment, a detachment of which have marched for Ennis. Sir Romani. Kra POUTER, who Lately brought over dispatches from Petersburgh, is at present engaged in writing a Narrative of the late Campaign in Rus sia, illustrated with Plans, &c. of the general move ments of both Armies, during their advance and re treat, which will be published in the course of next Month, by Messrs. Longman and Co. The work will contain information drawn from , official sources, and from intercepted French Documents, hitherto un known to the British public. Sir ROBERT having been on the spot during the whole-Campaign, and from his extensive information concerning Russia and R ussian affairs, we may expect he will give a correct and faithful account of that most interesting period. Snnday se'nnight, the Lady of Lieutenant-Colonel La Gaos, of the sth Essex Local Militia, and of Chigwell, was standing by the fire-side, by some ac cident her dress caught by the flame, and the family being absent at church, it is presumed, that from the alarm, Mrs. Le GROS was prevented tailing that as sistance which would otherwise have been more rea dily obtained; and such were the melancholy effects of the fire, that on the Tuesday following she expired. A melancholy. accident happened yesterday se'n night, at an early hour in the morning, at the head of the Quay, Bristol : as JAMES CRAW, Esq. late sur geon in the Westmoreland Militia, was - returning to nis lodgings in Queen-square from Broad -street, he fell into the water, and was drowned. RUSSIAN FORCES.—The Russian force is divided into three large armies—one under Wittgenstein, a second under Tchitchagoff, and a third under Win zingerode ; Kutousoff commanding the whole.— Wittgenstein's main force has crossed the Elbe, in order to drive the French force towards the Maine. They will not probably wait to be attacked. One of Wittgenstein's corps, under General Beckendorff, has entered Lubeck. Other corps are on the Elbe, -near Boitzenberg. Part of Tschichegow's army is near Thorn, whilst another part is employed under Pia tow in the siege of Dantzic. Part of Winaingerode's army is near Custrin and Lansberg. Another part occupies the old town of Dresden, whilst another corps passed the Elbe at Schandau, to turn Davoust.l About 100,000 Russian reinforcement sere on the Vis tula.—The Prussian force is thus distributed : Gene ral Blucher has moved from Silesia into Saxony ; Ge neral York is at Berlin with the main army. Detach ments have been sent to Hamburgh and Rostock, which are now occupied by Prussian corps. Another Prussian detachment has invested Stettin, which by the last accounts was on the point of surrendering. —A Swedish force is at Stralsund, and by the corn mencement of the campaign the Crown Prince of Sweden will have the command of 50,000 men.— The Rnuian force with which the campaign will open cannot be less than 220,000 men. The Prussian 70,000. Swedish and Pomeranian 50,000.—A grand total of $40,000 men. To this must be added the force which Hanover, and Hesse, and Brunswick, and the Hanse Towns, and perhaps, Saxony, may furnish. There will be no want of numerical force 4 against France, we may be sure. • -,-- •••• - I I iou r s . F • ' •• , A • .• , o ; Advice, finto Vent Cruz .we treceived yesterday, h? the brgio niqg of January. The following is an extract l a letter s • , _ • I • • / LL . • r`• • 1. 4 Tite toad batmen this pbee (Vera Cruz) and Mexico . remains closed, in consequen c e o f i ts being blockaded by the I,lllU{gents, On the Ist No. vember, , Moan= entered Onsava with 7000 men ; 200 of the garrison were killed, and as many made prisoners: ...Jibe General gave quarter to the con. quered, and treated the officers with distinction. Not a house was pillaged, nor one personal insult offered, ond good order and respect of property were secured $ }a roclamatio n . He ordered the tobacco in the public stores to be burnt, on account of the Royal monopoly i—it . was valued at ten million dollars, being the crop of three years." Yesterday forenoon a Spanish Courier arrived at die Spanish Ambassador's, in Grafton -street, with important dispatches from the Spanish Anabassadot at St. ratersburgh. Mirai STOPFORD arrived in Town yesterday froth Portsmouth, and bad an audience of the Lords of the Admiralty. The foreigner (we believe a Dutchman) who late4y arrived at Deal, remains still at the Three Kings Ho, tel there, never having left it, as reported ; there have however, been several interchanges of communication between him and Government by means of esprelies. Earl MOIRA, Suite, the Countess of Locooti and MOIRA, Lord. Fi UNTIRODOR,. two Ladies RAWDON g two Misses Ross, with their numerous attendantc, embarked on Wednesday, from the Star Inn, Gos- port (where they had been for some days) on board his Majesty's ship STrituno CASTLE, for India ; and the following clay Lady Cetaat.orrs RAWDON, the Earl's sister, left the above ins on her return to Bath. Advice* have been received at the India House, importing that the MORATIO frigate was expected dally to arrive at St. Helena from the Cape, to.cos , voy home, jointly with the But FitANCIS DRAMS. tilt fleet which was lying at that island nn the 18th of February, when the PRESIDLNT sailed for England. The 10th of Mar& ryas the day appointed for the fleet to sail from St. Helena for England. The SPEAKER, on leaving the House of Commons on Thursday, immediately set off for his country seat in Ashedown Forest. where he intends spending the Easter Holidays. The Bishop of BATH and Watts still holds out against the terms offered for the renewal or certain episcopal leases within his diocese, which fall in upon the demise of his present Majesty : the terms now offered do not exceed £12,000, but should his Lord ship's life survive that of the Kum, the immediate value would exceed 880,000. The Bishoprick of Sodor and M.tn having become vacant by the death of Dr. CRMAN, tLe See has been confeired on the Rev. GifORGI MURRAY, son of` the late Bishop of St. Ddvid's, nephew to his Grace the Duke of ATHOL, and brother-in-law to the Earl Of KINNOUL. I The Archbitohnp of CANTERBURY greyed at that city on Monday, and on Tuesday Lis Grace conse. crated the New Church and Banal Ground at Re culver, in the presence of a large assemblage of spec.. tators. After the ceremony, his Grace vaned the ruins of the ancient Church ; and on Wednesday his Grace left Canterbury for his Palace at Lambeth. The Doke of RUTLAND'S Elinahet4 is matched against Mr. Baucm's flol&lock, at the first Spring Newmarket Meeting, for 200 guineas. At the second Spring Meeting, Mr. BRUEN'S Hot , lyhock is matched against Mr. Caaveles rooky, for 200 guineas. A foot-race has been made for '2OO guineas, which excites :more interest in the sporting world than any thing of the kind since the 13ancLar match :—The Kentish pedestrian, who lately performed ten miles within an hour on Sunbury Common, has been matched against Captain BARCLAY'S Groom, to go 100 miles, and to give the latter an hour at starting. The Captain's groom is a tried man, and is known to possess strength and courage to go through the herculean task. The Kentish man is supposed to be the fastest of the day ; but he is untried at a long distance, and is consequently backed very cautiously, / not knowing his own capabilities. The groom it at present the favourite. There are two boxing matches made : the one lie. twixt Fuller, the successful opponent of Jay. and Harry Hannan. Another match has been made be. twixt Oliver, who beat Ford in a hard battle, and s Cooper, the conqueror of Lancaster. The latter match will be decided in a fortnight. Wednesday last , a duel was fought by two of the French prisoners on board the Sampson, prison-ship, lying in Gillingham Reach, when one of them, in consequence, was killed. Not having any swords, they attached to the end of two sticks a pair of self,- :ors each. The deceased received the mortal wound in the abdomen; his bowels protruded, and yet he con. tinued to parry with his antagonist while his strengt2 would admit. Afterwards an application was mad: to the Surgeon of the ship, who replaced.the intestine and sewed up the wound, but he survived but a shor time . the Coroner was immediately sent for from Rochester, but the verdict is not yet known. Tin: transaction took place below, in the prison, unknown to the ship's company, the evidence, therefore, or the inquest, will be of his own countrymen. Some French prisoners lately attempted to escape at midnight, from a prison-ship in Hamoaae ; and having let themselves into the water about a minute before a heavy storm of hail came down, one of then was drowned. The rest, by calling out for assistance were saved. A female, tailed the Away sy . Lambeth Marsh, wa marred on Sunday to a young chimney-sweeper o Newington; and on Wednesday the fair bride expo raenced some very unpleasant sensations, Swe &I hat ing Imhof of with 50 guineas, paid by her whim a the day of marriage ! Friday, a volunteer from the Cambridgeshire mi litia, stooping to wash his face Its the Tweed, ma Peebles, somewhat intoxicated, *lts suddenly swe i from the bank, and drowned. .~