Star. — London, England, 1806-06-24 00:00:00

tint hefides Ibis, it pisced the man who held it in fbeh a &nation, as that no Gentleman filling the of fice could fare one Ogling from the Income. He had heard that rumours prevailed without doors re• fpetili% the immenfe emoluments amaffed by him but without d e i gn in g t o t a k e an y n ot i ce o f f uc k s e fertions—when, however, fuch allufions were made within thole walls. he felt it his duty to anfwv, and be trolled that he had now fatisfatitorily refuted them —When his Right Honourable Friend had formerly retired from office, he believed it was fully in the re collation of the Right Honourable Gentleman (n•Air a Noble Lord) who (=elided him, that he had been tainefily folieited to continue in office, but pofitively declined it—ne•t would he ad 'infer any other Ad- Atinittration than that of his Right Honourable Friend, while he lived t add he could now appeal to the Noble Lord, at the head of the Adminiltration, whether be had not repeatedly preffed him to appoint a (ocean,' in the department be filled ; In far woe be from feeling any folicitndt to continue in office. The part he had taken in this Houle fince the change of Adminiftration was one which he thought be came him. He had vindicated the conduel of his late Right Honourable Friend, and the Adminifira: tion in which he prefided, from the eenfores In con tinually call on them by the Noble Lord and his eolleagues--and he could afore the Noble Lord, that rat::l not been for thefe cenfnres, he would hare . ued as filent a Member fince, as he bad been i before hi. departure from office.. The queltiott being put. leave was given to bring in the Bill. mewls wattestsv. Mr. PAULL now moved the Order of the Day for refurning the Committee upon the charges againit Lord Wellefley. The Houle accordingly refolved into a Committee, W. HAWTHORNE in the Chair. Colonel Bayne. Aid de Camp to General Sir amss Craig in India, and Sir R. Strachey, Criminal Judie in Bengal, were examined at Come length. After Lime oppufition from Mr. PAULL and Dr. 2.AWRENCE, on the ground of certain documents t6t being before the Mae, Which would be of im• poitance in his examination, Captain Sermon, who was fummoned on the motion of Colonel Wood, was then called in and examined. This O ffi cer had been Auditor of Military Accounts to the Bengal Govern ment. and had been employed under Marquis Wel. Utley in droving up the ellimates of the expence of Earopean Regiments employed in the fervice, and at Lhe emetics of the Nabob. Thefe eflimates were, in i s opinion, rather favrevrable than oppreffive to the abub. He uticleiltoed it to be the with of Marquis Wellefley to make them Co. Some regiments had been charged as full *hen not complete; while others were charged below their cdriptemeni. The witnefs then withdrew, and the Chairniai reported 'progrefs, and ailed leave to fit again to-morrow. Mr. PAULL then moved, that there be laid before the Houle an Account of the Expence of the extra lumber of Troops paid for by the Nabob, from No. vember tym to November iSei, above the number Aipulated for in the original treaty.—Ordered. The other Orders of the Day were then dlfpofed at and 'tilt Hiefe adjourned. de Calle the t 3th July, and be sassed his feneiost both as Governor and Commander in Chief on the 19.11 at Colombo, the capital of the Hand. The let ter proceed., the new Governor has already made immenfe alterations and reforms, in the civil is well as in the military departments, and I breve no doubt he will make a jull and good Governor, though a very fevtre one at the outfit. He has quite changed the condua of the Candian war, by direiling, that the foldiers are only to as againk men in inns, and that they are on no account to injure or molell the peaceable inhabitants. There is no doubt of the junice or propriety of this order, but when our minds were in a (late of irritation from the roaffacre, we rifled on very different principles. During the late war, the enemy never made a ferious (land: there could be no ufe, therefore, in fending detachments into the inte rior ; and it Items, therefore, General Karma n's plan, to remain entirely on the defenlive, and cever to march the men from our own garrifons, unlefs the ene my penetrate into our territory, which is nut likely to happen, unlefs they are aided by a French or Dutch force." DUTCH PAPERS. We have received the leydas Gautier to the 2 ift• The Paper of Friday laR contains an account of the reception of King Louis and his Family. HAGUE, Jose !S.—Though their Majeßies the King and (teen were expeaed here to-day, a courier from the head-quarters arrived on Tue.lay evening with certain information, that they might be espea ed yeßerday in the afternoon, and which fell out ac eordingly. The approach of their Majeßies towards this refidente was no ((loner known, than a flag was hoißed upon the Marine Obfervatory. At the fame moment, the artillery in the Meadow Camp area falute of twenty-one guns, which was contitineti every half hour, till the Commanding Officer was informed of their Majeßies' arrival at the Houfc in the Wood. As loon as the lira twenty-one guns were heard, the chimes at the Great Church were in readinefs For playing ; the great flag was likewife hoißed upon die Town-bode ; and the chimea continued playing half an hdhr after the laR guns were fired. A Deputatiois of the MagiOratesfet out from the Hague to the Lean Hock of the Niew 03einde, to welcome their Ma jellies to the territory of the Hague . , and to prefent them with fume wine, according to mallow. The De putation afterwards accompanied their Majeßies to the Houfe in the Wood, and then withdrew, having obtained leave for that Fillmore. Soon after, their Majeßies were met by the Deputation, they found the dragoon guards and the hairs polled to receiv e Am, with Genteel Colleen at their head. A band of mu& was placed in the village of Vooburg, to . recite their Majeßies; and theft, with the military, table to determine with what view. ITALY, May a6.—The city of Venice has re folved to fend in extraordin.ry Deputation to Paris, which will be accompanied by Deputies from all the other Er-Venetian provinces. The number of Englith troops in Sicily amounts , now to about poo men. EXTRACT OP A PRIVATE LETTER FROM •larna, sure 4- i " Though I cannot abfolutely vouch for the aa• thenticity of the following, letter, which is circulated privately here, yet I cannot refrain from fending you ' a copy of it, as it is certainly not unfuitable to the chara(er of the man to whom it is attributed." " TO THE KING OF BAVARIA. " Sta ADD BROTHER, " I made you a King; and, from parti:ttlar efteem " and refpeB for your perfn, fent you my Minifler " at War and able Counfellors, to organize and di " tell the Adminiaration ofyour States ; yet though " you haveenjoyed there advantages full four months, " you have hitherto done nothing really ufeful ; and " I, confequently, have reafon to believe that you " do not peel's the valities ,fteefari to govern " well. I mutt, therefore, advife you to abdicate in a favour of your fon, of whom have conceived bet " ter bopts. If, as I with and exped, ydn acquiefee " in this propofal, I !hall take care to Acme to you " a !bitable penfion. (Signed) a navozeoe." HAMBURGH, Joss 13. —All the letters and re ports of travellers from Hanover concur• in, Rating the diflike, or rather hatred of the people to ►heir new Mailer, and their loosing for the re-eftablifh went of their old Government. The Pruffian Officers lead a moll nnpleafant life, being invited into no company, nor taken any notice of. Indeed not only the Officers, but the foldiers are highly dlffatidted with the prefent fyllem. The lan guage held in Berlin itfelf is of the molt violent nature. Almon all the odium of the public f.ells, how ever, on Count Haugwitz, who is generally execrated. In Hanover many houfes were illuminated on the 4th intim', and Goo rave the King publicly rung in the firms. All there houfes were, however, marked by the dragoons, who paraded the areas all night in parties, and the next day, foldiers extraordi• shy were quartered in each. The Pruffian Arms, on the public buildings, &c. are abfolutely plaiflered over with mud, and the peafants lofe no opportunity of fhewipg their hatred of the Curio°, as they in dal lion term the Prutlian Eagle. I have myfelf a fre quent torrefpondence with Hanover, and in almoft every lend. there is repeated," Had we only our dear Adolphus here!" Del Ntl W•vitiford I.ltea PAILS THIS N.W. ♦is. DIM. /MIL 11011 Gettenburgh It a Harnbergh a 1 0 I .•••• • FAIMOOTN,IOO2 2 theAtickland packer, Soo uvula, with a mail for Lifbon. Wind N. W. POlll3llOOll. JuN a 23.—Arrived the ATL•2 man of war from Jamaica, lift from Plymouth.—Sailed the Hunt brig of war on servile.' Palled by for the Dnains the Margarett, .--, from the Eaft Indies. The Wrisvetres Hoop of war is appointed convoy for the Wefl Indies.—Wind North. Cuun•se, Junta 24. —Arrived the &HMIS, fermi Yarmouth, to be eoppered and fitted. On Satur day the SHIIIIIO,I frigate was commitfioned by Capt. Bunks. The Say Lau got down to the Nore on Saturday. . Drat., Jura 23. —.Arrived the /ET WA b0:21/1. front Portfmnuth; Bursa& gun brig, from a cruise off Boulogne; luau-rut (loop, from of Calais. and Bo sTLLIt gun brig, from off Milling ; the Vs ovens bomb, with a convoy from Portfinouth, which tee failed for the River —Sailed the /Era• bomb for Spithead; the EXPLostos bomb, with a fleet or oat ward bound vac's for Pnrtfmouth. Arrived the Hamburgh fhip Johann and Siegmund, Capt. Hu stle' Noun., from the river Plata, bound to DM gingen, with a cargo of bides and copper, detained by - his Majelly's hoop Kant:upon. Sailed through the Downs the Lord Mellon. ANDIISON, for Surf. um.—WindN.N W. FROM LLOYD's GRAVIIIIIID, June 23.—Pared by the NOW Venue, Orquimet. from °braise ; Elisabeth Criteria*, Newman; Gratis, Ma. kat* ; and the Pettus, Barron, from Norway; Arendnlie, from Chriltiana ; Mary Ann, Simpfon, from Chews; 1 Mc: Holliday ; Rockford, Wood; Tritoe, Maiden Margeretio. H ; and the Flora, Wilkinfon, from Psalm*. GAM the Bag, Borg, foe Senegal; Loudon, Lauder; Geanaaa Moody Belrey ; and the Vigilant, HA foe Timings'. The Pltt,Campbea, and be Hope, Reynolds. are arrived in the Clyde from Jamaica; they parted from the fleet no the sib of May. in lot 31. g 6. sag yj. J. Oa the sub the Pitt wit/Joined by the Jane. et Liverpool, and he other mirth of the Beet, and parted on the apib. h le reported, that the following saki., bound to the Clyde, hove use been ben dace the Beet got through the Windward Pater, vb. the Lay, Boat; the Jane, Cowan ; and the. Juno. M'Lea. The Adventure, Ratufdeo, from Sicily for London, put Into Malta in diftrefa, and is academia. The Margaret packet, from Bengal. whence the failed on the 16th of February, is arrived at Pore mouth. At the time of her departure from India. tranquillity was entirely iesilablifbed. The Mar garet touched at Bt. Helena, and failed from thence on the 2d of May, at which time no (hips nett lying there. ARMY. SOUTHAMPTON. This attrading fpot, and its beautiful neighbour. hood, though early in the (talon, has already brought together many of the gay and falbionable world. The Marquis of Larson's is with us, but bu fi ly fitting up his fuperb manfion hers. We have in the town a fine regiment, the Qneen's or ad Foot, commanded by the Honourable Colonel RASISILT: their band is a moil chalks one. We &sped the 14th Dragoons in a few days. • TUESDAY, WM se. efeorted them to the Houfe io the Wand. A detach- WITTITY Op BT. Ins,. is. Iruvrlteaday. . meat from the Flat Regiment of Huttars, and an pRIOIt Oft Mats Y AY. Bonk Steck it t bulb StIA 1 93 Equerry, hail been previoufly fent to Delft to meet 3 per Cent Red. Ann. 641 61 Imp. Ann. 119.16 his Majelly, and to convey the fpeedieft intelligence 3 per Cent Conf. glint beim" 11Zisr sa. at. per Coe- Soil Ovenlini Si of his approach to the Hague. The Infantry of the 3 per Cent Navy fltot link Midi err-silt genitals under the Senior Officer , formed a line on Leas AArt. tyit Cell far W.. 6340 both fide' Of the way, and upon the fleps of the Royal We havt hitherto forborne to mentiml a report, Refidenee. Here another full band of mune was generally believed to be a foul and internals' Dander, placed to receiii their Majellies. At the Palace, the Which has for tome time been the fubjeti of private Minifters were alto in waiting to receive them, toge• talk and general 'execration among the higher ranks. thee with the Prefident of the States, the Elder Secre- Sat as It has very prematurely found its way into all tory, &c. Their Majellies' entrance into the Palace the other papers, though a matter of the utmoft de- was announced by the band of mew. The Depart. rreuy, and which involves the reputation cf a Perfon mental Adminiftration of Holland had difpatched a in alemift the Hight& Situation, we cannot avoid Deputation to meet their Msjefties on Monday even. 'eating, that, horn an inveftigation that has taken ing at Stryen Sas, and to welcome them to the ter. place, it appears the Perfunage againft whom the ritory of Holland. infinuation was thrown otit, has been highly injured. The Vice Admiral Verheul. with Tome Generals It Is expelled, and indeed it teems now indifpenfably Adjutants, and Offices of the Stair, State Mace smeary, that the refult of the inveiligation mould gers, &c. were at Rotterdam on the fubfequent even be laid before the public in an official manner. ing, there to await their Majellies. WE regret that the calumny has been mentioned at A number of triumphal arches extended from the all till brought forward in a folemn manner. It is Laan to the Niew Ofteinde, where a bridge had been with pain we have noticed it, but farther caution on laid, in order that their Majefties might proceed to our part was rendered acid's by the indifcretion of the Hague in a dire!! line. Thefe arches were or our rivals, all of whom have made this rumour the namented with green boughs, and, being illuminated, !bile& of anineadiresfion in their columns. had a very good effect. The King and Q2een, and the young Princes, were all in the fame carriage, en• circled by the Guard of Honour, and were alto pre. ceded and followed by a great number of cavalry. Next to the Royal carriage came Admiral Verh til, and Come other Minifters and Deputies. Eaclufive ' of the illumination of the triumphal arches, the way which their Majeflies proceeded in through the Wood was lighted with flambeau:. INDIA. This morning an overland packet was received at the EaR India Houle, which brings letters, confirm. fug the news of tranquillity being rellored in India, confequenec of peace having been concluded with BOMAR. • The ?GUJARAT packet arrived at Falmouth the IR June; left Calcutta Lath February, arrived at St. Helena the ?9th April, left there the ad May. Sir Geosca BARLOW had returned to Calcutta, and fiery thing was in perfect tranquillity, Peace having ts te ff concluded with Jefvrunt Row Holkar, upon honourabk terms. An Expedition from the Cape, tinder Sir Hosts Poemen. and General BIRESFORD, had arrived at Bt. Helena, and failed horn thence, fuppored for the Buenos Ayres. The Sally whaler, (Maasu•tt), arrived at St. Helena the tEtth April, and failed from thence, for Zngland, the next day. The Hercules whaler, (Scorn), arrived at St. Helena the 27th April. The SURRRY, WALPOLE, LORD DUNCAN, and LADY CAS LL %%% OH, failed from Bengal the :ad of February, for Madras. We have kill been fhewn a letter from Ceylon : it ,ro tilted sth Septembe r lait. The Hon. General Along with that of other diaries, the Staff of the South Weftern is to be confidetably reduced ; there is to be one Lieutenant General to command the di& trie s (which probably will be enlarged), and one Major General to reticle always at Portfmouth as the Lieutenant Governor. There will be no Brigadier in that diltria : the reduction of the Subaltern Staff there is to be proportionable to the above fcale of General Officers. Lieutenant General Lord Cates. Sou IRS IT leaves that diarie s and there will probably be a young Lieutenant General appointed to com mand the South Weftera diarie. Almoll all the inland diariets are to be immediately abolifhed : the York and the Northern Diflriels are to be incorporated : neither Sir Hew DALtYI4 ?Lc, nor General Yves, to command ; but a young Lieutenant . General, or perhaps a Major General will have the Diftt iet. Major General Wi(mtgia. from Brighton, is mentioned. An embarkation at Portfmonth of General Officers, Do&ors, and Come regiments, is expeßed for the Weft Lieutenant General the Duke of CumsaatAND ar• rived on Sunday at Weymouth, on a vifit to his re• giment, the t sth Light Dragoons,.previonfly to their march to Windfor, to gn on the King's duty. This very fine regiment was better known as Elliot's Light Horfe : they now mantain a reputation inferior to no regiment in the fervice: in drefs and appointment, far fuperinr to any. The isth is to be relieved at Wey mouth by the lath Light Dragoons, a regiment well known to every Cavalry Officer, for the very high order, and excellent dicipline in which they are ; the zeal and talents of their excellent Commanding Offi cer, Colonel HAWKER, are well known to military men in general. HAMBURGH MAIL. The Mail due on Wednetllay arrived this mot , Ong, but the principal articles were anticipated ycf terday by the receipt of Hamburgh Papers. The following are, however, worthy of notice : VIENNA, Jowl 4.—We are to day pofiiively lured, though not officially, that M. D'art): il has brought a formal order for the evacuation of Albania. The Court of Vienna has at length determined to fend a Minifier to the new King of Naples. MUNICH, Juwa 4.—We are Rift:red that tlie Arch Chancellor of the Germanic Empire will receive an augmentation of territory on the fide of Ratifbon, and that our Sovereign will receive in exchange c able indemnification% in the circle of Franconia. AUGSBURG, Jun S.—According to letters re I A letter from an Officer on board me of the Mips ceived from Bratioani the French do not appear as , off Brett, dated the sob inftant, Hoes that there ate yet to be making any preparations to deliver up that lin kart et fail s f the line, a pparently ready place to the Attatians. It is certain that the French 1 , 2 r lea, tne Ittgatt , , a corvette, and a s, Before the dole of the Market yeflerday the Funds whith had been riling for Tome days began to de. cline. Omnium which in the morning was as high as 61 fell to 5. Various reafons were affigned for the fall. It was now laid that Rua' inflead of treating jointly with this country, as was rumoured the day before, had entered into a feparate negociatinn with France. We do not believe this rumour refis on any authority. In f.s the fall may be accounted fur without having recourfe to any fuch cattle. Thole who railed the market, when they found it high enough, endeavoured to fecure a pri-6t by dit piing of a part of what they had purchakd. Indies. IIYTHE, guars 23. Yefterday afternoon his Grace the Lord Archbi. (hop of C ssssss tray, accompanied by the lop of Ocrotto, arrived at the White Hart lon, in his coach, and fix fine black florin, from whence they proceeded to the hoofs of Mr. DUDS, where they were to fleep; the coach and horfes returned to the Inn. Between ten and eleven o'clock the liable, in which his Grace's bodes had been placed, was difcovered to be on fire, when, nntwithflanding every exertion was made to fare them, two of thole beautiful animals were beret to death, and another fo badly burnt, that it was obliged to be killed; a fourth was very much fcorcbed but is now alive, and it is thought will recover ; the other two efcaped with little or nn injury. Two engines were procured, and there being plenty of water near, the ravages of the fire were flopped be fore the whole of the (tables were confumed ;arid we are happy to Rate, no farther mifchief was done. No one has been able to account for the accident. The Royal Military Canal at Hytbe is now nearly completed ; the eleven•gun battery is in a Rate of forwardoels at Brockman Barn, which with the towers arc going forward with confiderabk progrefs; foundations are now digging for three to be crated on Shornecliff Heights. Report fags, there is to be another eleven•gun battery at Seabrook, but this is not certain. It is alto Paid, that when the canal is finifhed, an additional or enlarged harbour will be made there, and one at Hythe, which will be a raft benefit to that part, being intended to navigate gun. boats, &c. on the canal, from one place to another. Yefterday morning the Earl of Sr. ViNCINT, Mt. companied by his Secretary, the Rev. Mr. Pascal, arrived at the Admiralty from Portfmouth, whets his Lordilip landed on Sunday from the Hisearta, of 1 to guns, from the Channel fleet. Lieutenant SOIAIRVILLI is appointed to the corn. mind of the Vigilant prifon (hip, at Portfmouth. The Duke of Groucrsvart gave his IntroduElory Dinner to the whole of the Officers of the 3d Guards, and a Party of Nobility, on Saturday, at Wirus's Rooms ; and yellerday evening the Officers of the 31 Regiment of Guards gave a moll fumptunus Diener at thefame place to his Royal Highnefs andfuite. The band played almoft all the evening on the itaircafe. Several loyal and patriotic oats were drank, and the evening was (pent in the mot convivial manner. BOAT RACl.—Yefterday As 's anneal prize wherry was rowed for by fits pair of (culls. The competitors tinted from Wellminner bridge at the ufnal time, and the firft heat was won by Rclart Bor row, of Blacktriars, 70/1111 COMIOft, of Bankfide, and nowas Overton, of I..imehoure. At the feeond hear, which decided the conteff. Barrow, • hrs evinced mows (kill in rowing, took the lead of Cannon, and came in. alrint hall a boat's leagth before him. He was con fequenily declared vi4tor. and received his prize at the Amphitheatre, amtdli the acual applaufe. The River was covered with boats burthened with gay fpritatore, and leveral aquatic pugiliftic encounters trick place among the element dahers, many of whom attempted to foal the race.