Star. — London, England, 1812-09-22 00:00:00

..•--- ,% 1 . 0 eta fila Tngdatae e smog o f Notts c t retk j his eavalry en the left of the enemy, which ameuttted en 7or MOO cavalry. Several charges took place, all to our adVantage. A battalion of the enemy was penetrated by the 4th regibient of Lancets. A Min d,. I prisoners were the result el this small affair. Tke positions of the enemy were carried, and h e wa obliged to quicken his retreat. •On the 29th, the enemy was pursued. 'the ad *canted guards of three French columns came up with rte re ar guard of the enemy ; they exchannged seve ral cannon-shot. The enemy was driven every where. • General Count CAULINCOURT entered Viasma on. the 29th, at day-break. if The enemy had burned the bridges, and set fire to setetal quarters of the city. Viasma is a town of 15,000 inhabitants: there ate 4000 burghers, mer chants, and artisans ; there are 32 churches. Consi derable resources in flour, soap, drugs, &c. and large magatines of brandy were found. a The Russians burnt the magazines, and the finest houses in the town were on fire at our arrival. Two battalions of the 25th were employed with much activity in extinguishing them. We got it under and saved three quarrers of the town. a The Cossacks before they left it committed the theadfullest pillage, which has made the inhabitants lay, that the Russians think Viasma Al be no lona. Eer under theft dominion, since they treat it in so barbarous a manner. All the population of the towns retires upon Moscow. It is said there are now 'one millien and a half of people in that great tity. They fear the result of these crowds. The inhabitants say that General KvTusow has been ap pointed Commander-in-Chief of !he Russian army, sad that he took the command on the 28th. a The Grand Mite CONSTANTINE, who had re turned to the army, having fallen ill, has quitted it. 'll A little rain has fallen ) which has laid the dust that incommoded the army. The weather to-d.ty is Very fiaes-Lit will last, as they believe, to the 19th October, which gives us still 40 days campaign." 4111rENTBEN1H BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY. " GYjat, Sept. 3, 1812. I , The NM-quarters were, on the 31st of August, it Velitchero ; on the 1A and 2cl September at Ghje. 04 The King of Naples, with the advanced guard, 6d his head-quaiters on the Ist, ten wrests in ad 'mice of Glijat ; the Viceroy had his the same dis- lance in advance on the left; and Prince Poniatowslci had pushed forward two leagues on the right. Some discharges of artillery and attacks with the sabre were exchanged in each direction ) and a fe'w hun dreds of prisoners were taken. * the Ghjat river empties itself into the Volga. hut w are in possessiini or the course of those Waters that flow into the Caspian Sea. The Ghjat Is navigable to the Wolga► a The city of Ghjat contains a pdpulation of eight Or 10,000 ildividuals. Many of the houses at% built of stone and Mick - . There are many parish churches, Ind seVeril manufactories of linen cloth. It is per fectly clear that agriculture has made great progress in this country withln the last forty years. It no kager bears any resemblance to the descriptions which are given of Potatoes, pulse, and• cab 'loges grow there in abundance : the granaries arc full. The ptiesent is the harvest season, and we en now the same weather here as we have in France at the commencement of October. 4 r r, if ke ci ik he A a The deserters, the prisoners, the inhabitants, all 'agree that the greatest confusion prevails at Moscow, sad in the Russian army, which is distracted with a diversity of opinions, and has suffered enormous losses in the different actions. Some of the Generals Save been changed. It appears that the opinion of the army is not favourable to the phtns of Barclay de Tali : he is accused of having made his divisions fight in detail. "*The Prince of Schwartzcnbdrg is in Volhynia : the Russians fly before him. " Some sharp affairs have taken place before Riga : the Prussians have always had the advantage. ." We have found in this place two- Bulletins, Vaich give an account of - the actions before SMQ. lensko, and of the battle of the Drissa. They hovge appeared sufficiently curious to be annezed - to this Bulletin. When we shall receive the sequel• of these Bulletins, they shall be sent to the Ai/ea:ear. '-It appears by their contents that the Editor has profited by the instructions he received from Mos ow) " that the truth is not to be told to die Russian penple, but that they are to ,be deceive.' ttli lies." "Smolensko was set du fire by the Russians.— They set fire to the suburbs on the Jay atter the twlle, when they saw our_ bridge established over Oleo Borighenca They also set fire to boroilld 5111 j, to Viasmi, and to Gl)jat ; but the French nine up in tithe to ettinguish it. this irtny be ,Nily ebeteived. The F renc h h ave go i nt e rest in burning those towns that belong tb them ) and in de !living themselves of the resources which they afford. '-The cellars have been every where filled with .tiTandy, leather/ and every species of article that is Itsdal to an a rmy . " If the country be wasted, if the inhabitants suf. ret more than a state of war warrants, the fault is lithe Russians. " The army rested on the 2d and 3d in the vici. lit) of Ghjat. k It is positively asserted, that the enemy is em. • isioyeci 6 lot tng to entrenched caitsp In bout .or hiojaisk, and has established lines beferV Mostow. 66 At the battle of ktasnoi, Colonel Marbeisf, of the sixth light cavalry, wat Wotinded 'with a bayonet. at the head of his regiment, in the midst of a sq u are of Russian infantry, which he had penetrated with the greatest intrepidity. , 4 We have thrown six bridges crier the Ghjat." By letters from Bilboa, brought by a vessel which left that port ten days ago, we are informed that the French, having returned to that neighbourhood, had been twice repulsed by the Spaniards in attempts to occupy the place ; but on the 27th ult. having a third time attacked the town with a force Much superict in numbers to that by which it was defended, they were successful. They retained possession, however. but for a short time: the Biscayans having collected in such numbers on the adjacent mountains, that the French took the alarm, and retrated precipitately on the nth inst. without sacking the town or perpetrat ing any of their usual enormities. The following is an extract of a letter on the subject : " BILBOA, SEPT. 9. " Since the I tb..of August, when the French evacuated this place, they have made two attempts to enter it again, but were repulsed on both oc casions by the Spanish troops. On the. 27th ult. the General in ChW, Count Cafllarelli, at the head of nine thousand infantry, eight hundred cavalry, and. several pieces of cannon, entered this town, the Spa niards having withdrawn on their approach. The enemy remained here until yesterday, the Bth instant, when, about two o'clock P. M. they again quitted as It is reported that the English have taken St. Antonio." We rather doubt the intelligence contained in the Postscript. The capture of Santona, had it taken place, would probably have been sooner conveyed to us by a direct channel. Other letters state, that the Spanish troops had again taken possession of Bilboa. By private accounts from Riga, we learn, that the force assembled in that town is very considerable, — not less, it is said, than 20,000 men. They are by no means confined to merely defensive operations, and must derive material support from the gun-boats and other craft in the raver Aa, which are manned with 5000 Russian seamen. The following letter shews, that the garrison was annoying the Prussians ex tremely, and had made a number of prisoners--the fact to which it alludes, was already partially known : " The result of General Lowts's expedition, yester day, is 600 prisoners and eight officers. They were surrounded and taken at Kekkau. The church con taining their stores they burnt. A redoubt of seven cannon was stormed and taken. Another Rbssian column had taken the road to Olai, and a great many wounded have been brought in from Rolbusch. Co lonel Trim:mattNtv died of a wound he received from a pistol-shot this morning, shortly after hewas brought ha General Loam is returned. The Prussian flying• artillery at Kekkau retired with precipitation, and saved their cannon—so that only the seven pieces mentioned have been taken, They are this afternoon still fighting on the road to Olai—Rtftsiar. and Prus sian wounded are continually bringing in." .6 ft is added in another letter that the British squa dron, under Adrhiml MARTIN, together with most of the British and Russian gun-boats, had left Riga ; with the view, as was supposed, of proceeding to Lie. bau, and landing troops to act in the rear of the enemy. “ We have learned from respectable authority, that the French carry along with them an immense quan tity of fabricated Russian paper-money, with which they pay for such articles as they parchHse in Russia. The paper-currency of the country enables BoNA reriTr•, to resort to this nefarious system , of fraud, and robbery, which is not new in the tactics of trance About the commencement of the weir of the revolu tion, when the French army entered Germany, the inhabitants were compelled to tike assignaU in ex change for provisions.” We are happy to be able to contradict any rumour 1 of his Nla.tetar having experienced the return of a severe paroxysm. The KING'S health, during the past week, has been as good as at any period since the last Report of the Physicians. Yesterday his Royal Highness the Duke of YORK had an audience of the Pares Renton - . His Royal Highness the Duke of YORK, as Lord ' Warden of NVindsor Forest, attended the Verderer's twit, held at Wokingham, and afterwards dined at General GowEit's, at Bill Hill. His Royal High ness was welcomed into Wokingham by the ringing of bells, and Other demonstrations of rApect. An elegant dinner was provided at the Rose on the oc castor', at %Zilch Colonel VANSITTARt, as Senior WI-- deter, presided, and was honoured with the cam- party of most of the Gentlemen in the neighbourhood. The Act of Proliament, by which the aiding of the escape of French Prtstrners is rebdercd a felony, ought to be printed in a cbeap form, and distributed - , in every hamlet, town, and vill age in the kingdom ; for in many places the law is unknown. It should also be read frAm the pulpit in every church and chapel, and published in all the newspapers. The approach of the winter nights renders such precau tions more than ever necessary. • It would likewise be advisable to enjoin the Commissaries at the dif ferent depots to call the prisoners before them two or three times a-week, or even daily. In France, we believe that the muster-roll is called over every even ing and mornin.,—, and, on some occasions at dinner time... The penalties of the act ought to have beet' extended to those who receive and forward letters, secretly, s or from primerf o war. sitrt AltW. Tl,e Life Cluards, and Blues) appointed for foreign *twice, are to be reviewed on Friday next, by the Palace REGENT, on Wimbledon Common. Lieuenant-Canetal W. STEWART goes nut tti Lis bon with the detachments that art embarked in the present fleet. By the last accounts from India, the 17th Dra goons is represented as the finest corps that has been in that country. The 12th Light Dragoons have pilled the highest credit fur their great bravery at the battle of Sala manca. N One charge the enemy were completely panic struck, and fled at their approach. This morning 200 invalids, belonging to the Cer man Legion, passed through town, on their route for Harwich. All the Battalions in England are to send 'detach ments to the Peninsula, so as to leave theniseltes ske letons to be filled up by recruiting. This is cer tainly the best mode of re-inforeing the Marquis of WELLINGTON. NAVAL ACTION BETWEEN THE AMERI. CANS AND ENGLISH. Dispatches have been received at the Admiralty limn the British Admiral on the Newfoundland sta- tion, confining intelligence of the csptdre of the British sloop of war ALERT / by the American fri• gate Essex, after a desperate arid long action, in which the loss of the Americans was treble that of the British, and during which the former repeatedly deserted their guns ! The Essex is rated as a 44 gun frigate, but she is in fact, like all the American frigates, a 50 gun ship in size and complement. The ALE►tT carries SIXTEEN guns—and yet her brave Commander, with courage truly British, en gaged the Essex for several hours. The Americans have thus had another specimen of what they may expect from the chastisement of British seamen, BREAD.—No alteration in the price this week. The quarters loaf, Is. Bd. MONTAaulluncorst, Esq. renews his opposition to Admiral HARVEY and Mr: HOBLON, fur the County of Essex. Mr. GASKELL opposes Colonel STRUT? and Mr. C. C. WEsrEnN, for the Borough of Maiden. Mr. SHERIDAN, it is expected will have an unmo lested return for Stafford. The Honourable CHARLES WINDHAM and Mr. ROSE FULLER are prepated tor a strong opposition in the County of Sussex. The I)nke of Nonwout will be opposed in the City of GlouLcater. The HonourAble Mr. NEVILLE opposes the Sitting Member for Berkshire, with a certainty of success. Sir FRANCIS BUIIDETT's class of Constituents de clam that they hive a Candidate in Itch% as an oppo nent to Mr. MELLIsti, for Middlesex. Ihe Mai quis of TAvisTocx will, no doubt, offer himself as a third CAndidate for the City of West minster. Mr. LASCELLES has again declared himself a Can didate for the County of York The contest will again be chiefly between him and Lord MILTON. MILES PETER ANDREWS, Esq. left town yesterday on a visit to his Constituents at Bewdley, in Worces tershire; as did several other M. P.'s, on similar Di:- :elution trip to their respective Boroughs ! His Royal Highness the Duke of. BERRY, nephew of Louis XVIII. is so far recovered from his illness, as to have been able to visit the house of Mr. CoL-' NAGHI, in Cockspur-street. A singular character was apprehended at Leith on Thursday, calling himself Commissary—General DOUGLAS, from Bengal. It has, however, turned out that his real name is fames .Rannie, and he is supposed to be a deserter from his Majesty's forces In India. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. Richard the Third was last night performed, for the purpose of intro ducing Mr. CHARLES KENriILE, in the Character ofi Richard. Some men, in the language of SHAKE.. SPEARE, are said to have greatness thrust upon them, I and this, we suspect, to have been the case with Mr. C. KEMBLE in the present instance. With powers of a second rate order very respectable, Mr. C. KEMBLE is a useful Performer ; but the character of Richard is beyond his power. The part was more suitable to Mr. Youxo ; but with the recollection of Mr. Croke and cf Mr. J. Enlace' full in otir minds, even Mr. YOUNG would have fallen short in supplying us with nu adequate representation of the crooked backed Tyrant. As an attempt to amuse the Public, Mr. C. Kezinta:'s Richard was received with great indul gence, but siihout any encouragement to induce him to repeat the character. Mr. ABBOTT, as the Earl Richmond, was very respectable. His combat' with khard was well managed. Mrs. POW ELL and Miss S. Boolat supported the ch.tracters of Queen Elise:4sA, and Lady Anne with great feeling.—The fitithtta of Midas followed, and received the usual applause.— The House was very respectably attended. MARGATE, SEPT. 20.--The strong winds from the N.E. which have prevailed for the bet few days, have blown away a great number rf our visitors, who 'daily bi. 4 farewell to merry Margate, and put them selves on board the packets for London. The more fashionable part of the company, however, still' re .nor will many of them quit until the middle or even the end of October. The assemblies are more genteelly and respectably attended than formerly, but of course n( t S 3 numerously. Dunux, Suervaineit 19.—Wednesday night, Mr. Sheriff HARTY,' attended by RICHARD HAYDEN, one of the turnkeys of Nev.-gate, went to the house of M'Keon, (the Keeper of a Gaming Table) just ad- joining the Head Police Office, and dispersed the per sons who were collected at play. He then convicted the Keeper, on vice, in the penalty of £lOO, and left Mr. HAYDEN as a guard, to prevent the re-admission of the company. He then repaired to -the house of George Thornton, in Crow-street—convicted the pro prietor in a penalty of £IOD, and seized the furniture fpr the purpose of sale in dischaige of thefine. He then went to another gaming-house kept in Essex street by one Laurence Byrne, but tit% proprietor o! the table havink received an intimation of the nature of the visit refused him a d m i ttaace . • ArriLLIGANCA MAILS. Alt. bet. Ala. at; De6llo - . 1 0 Gaelmity • 1 6 Wattrfora . 1 0 lusty . • 1 0 Cadiz • - 0 V Anhoh • - • 0 FALMOUTH, sEpr. 19. Nd arrivals. Sailed a few coasters.—Wind and blows strong. PLYMOUTH, Stir!: 20i Sailed the tANCY Cate for the Brest station ; the INTELLtGuNT, of 14 guns, for Teignmouth. HELICON I of ten guns, did not artive yesterday, stated by mistake : it was the atinres, of 18 git that arrived. PORTSMOUTH, St PTEMbEIt et. Arrived his Majesty's ships B,sv4oz and Afars MESE from the Downs i and the • hip Hero, Stamm' sox. for Quebec. Sailed his Majesty's til;p PLONEaI with a convoy for Plymouth. His Majesty's shlj MARLBOROWGH, with the ships under cdnvoy f )1. Ca diz and Gibraltar, remain.—Wind S.E. tb S.W. 110 and variable. DEAL, SEPT. 111. Can* down from the River his Majesty's ships. Dtous.na and Success, and Malabar transport with troops for foreign service ; and his Majesty's ship CUMBERLAND for off Flushing. CORN, SEPTEMBER *7. His Majesjy's ship CIRO!, Captain iliromoinell, sailed yesterday morning to cruise for the protect►on. of the homeward•bound West India and North Ame rican con'oys. Remain, the Talbot, Fawn, Helens, and Jalonse, the latter wind•botutd, with her convoy for the Downs. ViceiAdmiral TMORNDOROUDH terday communicated to D. CALLACMIAN t Deg. for the information of the Merchants of this city, his in. tention of appointing a convoy to sail for Lisbon lb*. first fair wind after the 20th instant. NAVAL. APPOINTMENTS, Messra.l4. Tucker and L Poakhlidshipthen s to the rank et Lieutenant. Captain J. Brisbane, to the PetnbrAe. Captain H. E. R. Baker, to the Dantnivic. Captaib J. Wilson, to cite Arab. Captain Muddle, (a.tting) to the Stately. Captain Francis 'I erotic to the Armitle. Captain Charles Hope Reid, to the Fervent. Ca,tain E. Orey, to the Fairy. Lieutenant J. P. Baker, to the Bathana. Lieutenant J. Smith, to the Pembroke. Lieutenant R. HApman to the Fairy. Lieutenant W s H. Rawlins/in, to the Wasp. Lieutenant L Hackett, to the Success. Llcuten,utt J. Douglas, to the Surveillant°. Lieutenant John lirdderick, to the Iphigenla Lieutenant J. H. Hughes, to the Mackerels. Lieutenant T. Tridinter, to the Mulgrave. 1.1.-utenant H. F. G. Poison, to the Brambles Lieutenant H. Tucker, to the Ceatatir. I.4entehant E. White, to the Horatio. Lieutenant H. Betsey, to the Lieutenant C. H. Searle, to the Watspi:e. Lieutenant Wns. Almer, to the Fervent. Lieutenants G. Faulip and J. S. Fletcher, to the Metalled. Mr. George Whitebread. late Purser of the Psyche, to di" Dartmouth, a new ilvigate billlding.tt Dartmouth. ' Mr. Wm. Bowden, to be Purser of the Ferventa 'Mr. James Galles, to be Purser of the Swan. Mr. S. Wikoz, to be Purser of the Appellee. Mr. J. Slater, to be Purser of the Jaaeur. • Mr. David Patterson, to be Gunner OW thill vice Mr. Mathew Blood, superanuated. It Must give great pleasure to the Mends of th. Navy to observe, that Lord Mitt.vitxt is busily tabs ',b l ed in a thorough enquiry into the claims of Nara Officers, whose meritorious and gafarit Services have hitherto received no ailequate ieshuneration. Its -1 I consequence' of this enquiry; Lieutenant Gnome KIPPEN has just been promoted 'to the rank of Com mander, and been appointed to command the Pam, mils, one of the finest sloops in the Navy. This Officer was one of the first in boarding the SAN Joskr, on the 2/th of Fetnyary,l797. He was thee on board the Carram, Commodore [afterwards Lord] NttAox, which was at the same moment en gaged also with the San Nicholas. He wasalongsideof the same hero in the disastrous attack upon Teneriff, where NELsos lost his arm. In the memorable batik I of the MLR he so much distinguished himself, that he was warmly recommended by his Admiral to Lord St. VINCENT, and was appointed acting Limp tenant, though he bad not served his time ; and at' the expiration of his time was confirmed, in coast- ; quence of a personal application of Lord Mums to ' the First Lord of the Admiralty. In the battle of Trafalgar, he served an board the Dareaca, Captain HOPE, now Rear-Admiral, and one of the Lords of the Admiralty. After the death of Lord NUE% KIPPEN'S name was found in his list of meritorious officers ; but till now he remained without farther promotion. The number of aetious in which Captain KIPPEN has served, counting regular engagements. and the no less dangerous service of cutting out ves sels, exceeds 20.—The last action in which he served , was as First Lieutenant of the DNFIANCE I when that ship drove three French frigates on shore neat Rochefibrt. .~ ♦ !. ERUPTION AT ST. W 101141 1 2/ •-•••i i k latter fro* St. Vincent's, dated July 4, says, TheWallibon Qum-ter on Sunday night last, wit nessed a scene of horror and devastation, much more terrific and destructive in its effects than even the memorable night of the awful eruption of the biome Souffriere. Prodigious masses of ignited substances, which were ejected from the mouth of the Wallibon river, effectually stopped the rolling of its waters, and a vast lake, in a constant state of effervescence, • had formed near its source, which continued &Lily to increase till it covered about four acres of land. On Sunday night last, the diffusion of water, from the fall of heavy rains, became so great that the frkh o ti ful reservoir overflowed, and the prodigious burst through the barrier of volcanic combusitiblei with irresistible fury; and such was its destructivs impetuosity, that it completely inundated the adja cent valley; and besides its ravages in bearing down a number of .negro houses, several lives were lost, ancVothevs so dreadfully scalded from the river of ~~ A :i liquitbate'which overwhelmed them, that their lives are despaired of. The mountain too, during the dreadful . scene, had a rettirn of Gas o_,f its Trifle fever- fi ts ; its settlings caused a generar cousterna. tion ; and on the follo c i o e l ig ist right, about eleven o'clock, emelt violent on of the earth, such .s the oldest inbibitaati new experience o de was felt all over the isboll.".