Star. — London, England, 1812-11-13 00:00:00

I / MiZION INTELLIGANCE . . 1 kWILNA, OCTOBER 10. Our Gazette contains the following declaration; made in the name of M. D'Engestrom, Minister for Foreign Affairs in Sweden : " Furnished with full powers from his Excellency the Count D'Engestrom, Minister for Foreign Af fairs in the kingdom of Sweden, decorated with the ..grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour, and other IA (Weirs, I accede in his name to the confederation of the kindom of Poland. " He, who in the years 1789, 90, and 91, being Swedish Minister at Warsaw, gave so many proofs of attachment to the Polish nation, that he drew on himself the hatred and vengeance of the Cabinet of St. Fetersburgh ; he, who has considered it as the greatest honour to be admitted among"the Polish no bility; he, who in various missions from his Sove reign always received the Poles as his countrymen; be, In fine, who‘had formed the design of spending the remainder of his life among us, had not the esteem of his Sovereign, and the wishes of his nation, called him to the elevated office which he fills, has doubtless sufficient recommendations. " I. trust that the Council General of the Confe. detation of the kingdom of Poland, will cheerfully give me the attestation of the accession which I now make, in order that by sending it to Stockholm I stay fulfil the wishes of M. D'Engestrom. • • (Signed) " The Abbe Woutxx.." r Warsaw, August 02, 1812." BERNE, OCTOBER 14. All the Swiss battalions, commanded by General 3elliard, are at present on the Duna, under the orders of Marshal St. gr. CASSE., OCTOBER 17. General Count Lepel, one of the Aides-de-camp of the King, commanding the brigade of Westpha lian cuirassiers, forming part of the 4th cavalry corps. of the Grand Army, died at Mojaisk on the 21st tilt, of the severe wounds he received in the battle of l‘loskwa. • Colonel Gilsa, commanding the Ist regi. silent of the same cuirassiers, is also dead of his wounds. HAMBURGH, OCTOBER 18. There have lately arrived here, from Copenhagen, two officers, in the service of France, who were Yong prisoners of war in England. They were there treated with the greatest inhumanity. Conhned.at first in a prison destined for c evicts, they remained '22 days 'in a dungeon, where they were refused even straw to lie upon. During their passage to England, which lasted 29 days, the Captain of the vessel treated Them in the most improper manner, giving them only a small quantity of food, and that generally spoiled,i while the crew were well fed. This was not all; after a residence of some months in Devonshire, they were seized unexpectedly, and carried to the Mill Prison, at Plymouth, where they remained only four days. They were then put on board the Romulus. When landed at Leith and its environs, the situation sof the prisoners was somewhat improved, They lived on good terms with the inhabitants, whom they amused with plays and concerts ; but at last these entertainments were prohibited, and the inhabitants were desired not to associate with the French, who, it was said, would corrupt English morals. The two Officers lately arrived assuie us, that England never was in so critical a situation as at this moment ; a great number of manufacturers were without bread. A fortnight before the departure of .. the Officers, there was a serious rising in Edinburgh; the people pillaged the markets and the granaries. THE _EVENING STAR. . LONVON. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER i► 'PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Reduced 54-4 per Cent. 74-5-5 per Ct. 9lif Cons.s9h—for ac.59-K—Otnn. sfi pr.—Bonds par Is. Os. Each. BIW. (std.) sa. 4r. pr.—Do, (30.) sa. 7s. pre. • The rORTUNEE frigate, Captain Smionn, has ar rived at Plymouth from the coast of Spain. This • vessel brings no dispatches from Marquis WELLING• - • TON, but private accounts state, that on the Ist of • November his Lordship's head-quarters were at Ca .._ beztin, and the French at Duenas, and that he had cut off an advanced-guard of the enemy, making pri sawn SOO cavalry, and CV infantry. The left wing of the British rear-guard commenced the action, which was maintained with great obstinacy on both sides.— Several eagles, with a great quantity of artillery, stores, Etc. also fell into the hands of the victors—night put an end to the contest. The Fortunee came from Santander. flis Lordship's dispatches are supposed to have been sent by the way of Cotunna or Lisbon. —Cabeion is nearly mid way between Valladolid and Duenas, and from the proximity of these places, whether the Allies were at Valladolid or Cabezon, a rencontre between the main armies must be consi dered as inevitable. The Prussian galliot Union, has arrived at Fal mouth in eight days, from Bourdeaux, with a cargo- 1 of wines. The Master states, that instead of sending more troops into Spain, the French are withdrawing them. Two American vessels (brig and schconer) tailed from BOurilesur the day before, with cargoes of wines, brandy, &c. for America. The Master of the Union also confirms the report that several squa drons of men of war and frigates were expected to faillroin Franca for Ame,rica. Two privateers were fitting out at Bourdeauz to be manned by Americans to sail under Americus colours, (;„` 3 • .• ry • In a Second Edition Zesterday we announced that the disasters of the French and their allies were not confined to Russia. The advance of the Russian troops to the vicinity of Warsaw, indicates that a well , , concerted plan has been agreed upon between , floss:an Generals, whic4 bas for. iRs oLject frothing 4108 of tile a4Pibiletion of the French Amy. If the armies from Moldavia and VoThria have been really able to advance from Minsk in the direction Of Warsaw and Wilna, the retreat of Bowaymera even, throngh . Poland, supposing him to have era* the Duna in safety; will beta most arduous undertaking. —But he cannot get even the length of Smolensk without another battle, and this must take place pre cisely at the time and place most convenient to the Russians. The great road to Smolenck is com pletely shut upon him by the junction of the right wing of Wirczexuattone's army and the left of Ku. TO3ovz's. Besides, "'Lawry, the Cossack Chieftain, has been dispatched to Smolensk with 1. regiments of the &nest cavalry in the world, to await the arri val of the Corsican and his followers. Then we have WITTGENSTEIN pushing rapidly up the Duna from Polotsk, at the head of A victorious army. The loss of the 38 pieces of cannon in MURAT'S action, is a convincing proof how miserably deficient the French army must be in draught horses. They must be in a still more wretched condition in respect of their cavalry, and how necessary this description of force is to a retreating army, every military Reader can speak with confidence. On the other hand, the horses of the Russian cavalry, besides being unri valled in point of bottom, have almost all recently joined the army, and are in the highest possible con dition.—We repeat, therdore, that nothing short of a miracle can save the French army from total de struction,—and we may venture to predict that the winter quarters ordered for it at Konigsberg, will never be occupied. The Royalist sloop of war, Captain Dowma, on the 3d instant boarded a AO going from artend to Bourdeaux, the master of which reported, g , that an account had been received at Ostend, just befbre he sailed, that the French were driien from Moscow, and that BONAPARTE was almost out of Russia. Thus it is now beyond the possibility of doubt that the recent disturbances in France were occasioned by the re verses in the North. A military despot, like BONA PARTE, can only count upon the submission of man kind to his authority during the continuance of his prosperous cateer. Every arrival of individuals from the Continent, since the commencement of his monstrous usurpation, has incontestibly proved that terror was one of the ' most formidable weapons which he employed to keep under the population of France. His military uc cesses, and his barbarous system of carrying the seat of war out of the territory of those who owned him for their Sovereign, added to their antipathies against the frightful state of anarchy which preceded his elevation to the throne, may also have rivetted the attachments, er rather the acquiescence, of numbers to his sway : but amid all this apparent tranquillity, there has been a spirit of rebellion secretly stirring among his subjects, which only requires events like those which are now passing in the North, to fan it into flame. A press of intelligence has hitherto prevented us from recurring to the atrocious principle avowed .and acted upon by the French in trying, condemning, and executing the loyal subjects of an invaded coun try, for obeying the orders of their legitimate supe riors. We have more than once expressed our undis• guised opinion, of the treatment which all invaders ought to experience, whenever they fall into the power of those whom they come to abuse, rob, plunder, and destroy. That none of them should experience the least mercy is 'the stern voice of social justice, and particularly those who not only yield a blind obe dience to the mandates of an unprincipled Tyrant, but endeavour to ingratiate themselves into his favour by anticipating his wishes in the inflictions of merci less cruelty. If men are to be tried by a foreign Power, and their natural protectors fail in devising or executing measures which may have a counteract ing ,1 influence, not only ou the minds of their inva ders, but of their own subjects, all the bonds which unite the members of a nation must he annihilated ; and the bold tyrant who aims at the subjugation of the civilized world must, eventually, if he live long enough, succeed in his designs,. by the mere opera tion of terror upofi the human mind. If such an enormity as the murder of the men, who executed the order of their superiors in setting fire to the city of Moscow be not, in some way or other, visited with examplary retributive vengeance, what men in the face of the bare possibility of experiencing the same fate, will be found possessed of sufficient nerves to enable them with promptness and decision to execute a like order on any similar emergency ?-- On the other hand, if a tremendous recompence be hurled on the satellites of the despot, the moral effect will be balanced, and his myrmidons, when called on again to sit in judgment on men who never owed him either allegiance or obedience, will hesitate in pronouncing sentence. N The process that should bst followed on the present occasion is simple and obvious—bring the invaders to trial fornsurder—produce in evidenceagainst them the sanguinary Bulletins of their Master, in which he boasts of the French sabiring 'the subjects of ALgratunza. in addition, let widowed and orphan Russians vouch for the truth of the fact.— and to crown the whole, exhibit the official proceedings o f the French Military Commission that dared to try ' and condemn, upon their own soil, loyal Runiaak for discharging %heir dufy to their Fardili.ls ;heir overeign o and their cognpi "'wig, INDELZIGENCR. • - -'' . ::,:. MAILS. i A f, . , Aut. Doc I • • ' 44112 a. *TM . Pubfin • - 1 1 - Oto4noir • • 9 1 Waterford - 0 3 Jersey • • .' , • ) Cadiz - 0 1 Coming - • •0 - • 0 I,loboo • Z Helijo i. - • S- Wl9 - - 0 o Gottenburgla -• 0 •1. MILFORD, NOV. 9. Yesterday the men at the Light-house meth, Smalls were taken from their perilous situation. It appears that the cause of the lights being extinguish ed was the heavy sea, during the late gales, breaking, the windows where the reflectors were, and which.' were ultimately washed away. There is some ida. mage done to two or three of the stays belonging tbt ' the pillars, but the pillars themselves are firm in-the rock, and the light-house but little damaged—little: as it is, however, it is not suppostd that it can he t ew . paired until next summer. TORBAY, NOVKMBER at. Arrived the sloop Providence, of Hull, GAW7IIOII,' master, having sprung a leak on her passage from London to Lisbon she was one of the Nieuwe/I convoy, and parted 13 leagues south-west of the Berry-head, and as the wind continued to the East of South for some time after the Providence parted, the convoy ere this must be clear of the land. The wind now is about South, blowing strong. FALMOUTH, NOVEMBER 10, Arrived his Majesty's ship SARACEN to take the 1 , ships assembled here tor Gibraltar, Malta, and other ports of the Mediterranean. The convoy from which the, SAR ACEN parted, passed down Channel this mar- 1 ning with the wind at S.E. Arrived his Majesty's ship CASTILIAN, from a cruize. The Nymph packet, for the West Indies, has gone into the Roads. Also arrived the Prussian gaUtot Union, with a cargo of, oil, prunes, &c. from Bourdeaus for London ;—left eight days since. The Master states, that in lieu of sending reinforcements to Spain, the French are with drawing their troops. Two Americans (brig and' schooner) vessels sailed front Bourdeaux the day be fore, with cargoes of wines, brandy, &c. for Ame rica. Several squadrons were expected to sail from France for America. Two privateers were fitting out at Bourdeaux, to be manned by Americans, to sail under American colours. Also arrived the sloop Two Brothers, Captain MYRTLE, from Cardiff, with iron, for Southampton—very leaky, and will be obliged to discharge. ,fican Cork to the different parts of the world wi l t which the commerce of the above-mention e d po nt may be concerned . Their L or d s hi ps, theseyoir suggest the expediency of a n early conarnunicat4l amongst the trade on this subject; and trust that a ss Merchants, considering the pressing exigencies of tht public naval service, will endeavour (whether th e i 'shall desire to fiz the convoys at elated firer, °Toe the assemblage of a given funnier of vessels) to limi t their demands as much as possible, and enabl e t h e i t Lordships to economise, in as great a degre e as mai be consistent with an adequate protection of the te& d s, the naval means of the country. The following letter from on board the Done,. just arrived from the Baltic, gives us reason tou t the immediate approach of the Russian fleet: Daptiee,Nevetabe r t. " I suppose you will in a few days h ave t h e Rtig. Ilan fleet in a British port. It consists of 21 sa il of the line, besides a great many beautiful frig ates and smaller vessels. We have been at Riga, which is uncommonly strong and well fortified. The inhabs, tants are very much attached to the English, and raid us great :tampion. Every body is in high spite and confident of defeating all the attempts 4 1 4 t h e French may make." EXTRACT OF A LETT/M FROM HIS MAJESile4lipuit. MOORE, OFF OCIERESEY, NOV; 6, g , There is a great number of privateers ready r ot sea in the French ports. We lately deiced a large one for 21 hours; but he escaped in a calm by ge t . Ong out his sweeps. The privateers are OP a l utes scale than usual, appear to carry from Ulm 20 guns, and have from 120 to ISO men, and sail extremely ' well. We were out in all the late tremendous ga l % but got off without injury." The Violet, JEPSON, from Yarmouth to Guts. borough, is totally lost. A. British ship of 425 tons, 14 guns, and 25 men, with a cargo of 449 hogsheads and 40 tierces of sngsr, 140 puncheons of rum, TO tons of coffee, and 60 tees o p t logwood, arrived at Portsmouth (A.) Sept e nst es 10th, prize to the Revenge privateer of that port. • The brig San Gabriel, MARTIN, from Porto Riot s arrived at Baltimore, September IV, having had nearly all-her cargo taken out by his Majesty's ship Bale VIDERA. The schooner Hiram, from Palermo, is arrived at Baltimore, having been captured by his Majesty's ship BELVLDERA, which, after taking out the whole at her cargo, suffered her to proceed. The sloop Philadelphia, from Richmond, _TA corn, was captured by a British cruizer, recapture:l by the Saratoga privatecr, and arrived at New Yost September 17th. There will be no further British convoy.from %try this season, the ships of war there having positive or. ders not to issue any instructions to any vessel. The convoys will sail from Goteenburgh for Eng. land as long as the weather continues open, A fleet of about 46 vessels sailed from the former piaci about the 4th ult. for the Baltic, but had not got throssb the Belt the latter end of last month, The Lady Augusta, Captain Mum, from Peen pool to Sligo, sailed from Liverpool oh the 91 of October—nothing heard of her since, except slut contained in the Isle of Man Gazette, stating, aka; belonging to the ship, with -4 dead sailor in it, la& been washed on shore there. • The Earl of GALLOWAY is expected in sows is few days, from Galloway-House, in Siodatoh Major-General the Honourable W. LUMLZT has been appointed Colonel of the Royal West-India Rangers. Sunday evining last, between the hours of six ao4 eight o'clock, whilst all the fainily were at citapel,tha house of Mr. J. EVANS, of the tiorongh was entered entered by means of picklock Jteysi 61016111111 of the sideboard and cellaret opened means, and eight silver table spoons, two va= 12 desert spoons, a set of silver castors, a wm ' several other articles, were taken away. On the and _ _ return of the servants, the doors were &Ind gm, and the picklock keys remaining in them, The fire in Newgate-street, to which we alluded our last, broke out in a large modern-Wu& house, the lower part of which was divided into two sbopsf one of theft was occupied in the, fancy.triounins line by Mr. Wright, and the other by• Mr. Smith, a tap for. The tire broke out in the rear of the growl& floor, but in the part occupied by which of tbs two could not be ascertained. ProysdentiatlY, there val . eater 14 d tido PLYMOUTH, NOVEMBER ii. Arrived the brig Stag, —, from Gibraltar. in 17 days ; also several vessels from the Thames, and a gun.brig, with a convoy of coasters, from Wales. Sailed the Russian ship Neptune, for Petersburgh. Remain in Hamuaze—l he Foudroyant and Centaur, of 74 guns each ; Rhin, Surprise, Sybille, Belle Pottle, Doris, Andro meda, Fantome, Pelican, Amaranthe, Sparrow, and Neptune (4) tender. In Stonebouse Pool—The Growler, Resolute, Arrow, and Fancy cutter. Between the Island and the Main—The He licon, Orestes, Conquest, and Intelligent. In the Sound—The Andromache, Fortune, and Favourite. In Cawsand Bay—The San Josef, 112 guns, and the Hannibal, 74 guns. PORTSMOUTH, NOVEMBER 12. Arrived his Majesty's brig TYRIAN, Capt. BALD WIN, from a cruize ; Venus, LE FRUVRR, from Ma laga, under quarantine; Mania, PHILLIPS, from Sun-, derland ; and Unity, MOUDAR, from London. Sailed the Amity, MADDICK, with a cartel flag, for Morlaix. His Majesty's ship JAVA, and the Maitland Indiaman, brought up in Yarmouth Roads yesterday, in coase- 1 quence of the wind backing to the southward, but sailed again this morning, with a fine breeze from the eastward: DEAL, NOVEMBER ie. Sailed his Majesty's ship ASIA, to join Rear-Ad miral Scores squadron cff the Texel. Arrived his Ma' - ship PROSPERO from off the Scheldt; Con- I jesty's FROSPERO from oft the Scheldt; DELIA from Portsmouth, atter seeing her convoy safe in ; Ecuo, from Sheerness, and two ships from the River. The Anne Maria, just bound to Madeira, has proved leaky, and has sailed on her return to Gravesend. Wind S.E.—blows strong. HARWICH, NOVEMBER Is. Arrived the Beanioy Packet, Noma, 'from Hen, goland, with a Mail; and the Friendship, Penman.' with hemp, flax, and tallow, from Petersbaripis—she parted her convoy at sea.—His MajeArs ship PEIGLE, who had charge of it, is supposed an hove passed this harbour yesterday with about four sail of them. The King George Packet, for Gottenburgh, has put back by contrary winds. HULL, NOVEMBER IL The following very important communication from aco apples . s. ire the Admiralty was received here on Saturday more- pious supply of w, ', whichweis much address and activity by the firemen, um ing, and occasioned a degree of sensation amongst fine the devastation within comparatively the shipping and mercantile interest at this port. If bounds. The Premises in whichit commenced _ AI An resolve at the Admiralty be final, we understand ever, were totally destroyed ; and we are storl lo . l , 'that a great number of ships, expected home this that of the extensive stock of Mr. Smith not >1 ti season, will be detained in the Baltic all the winter. ri article was saved, and that even his books becuee i A petition has, however, been signed by the met.. prey to the devouring flames. The house of Mr. chants, and sent to the Lords of the Admiralty, Woolf, the si g n rif the Magpie, was also peril di' stating the inconveniences and injuries to which their maged in the rear. As is too frequently determination will subject the trade, and. requesting suc h me l anc h o ly occasions, there were Mg wan* the o 'them to appoint a convoy for a later period. which, I those whose unreeling minds turned the ecese at c'' when they are informed of the state of things, it is hoped they will do :la the objects of distress. A lodger of Mr. Woofl,v ag. lamity to their own emolument, by pitman% "In reply to an application made to the Lords Ovnualeetevers was -carrying a box containing ir3o worth of of the Admiralty, by Messrs. W. and P. Emce e for a convoy from Maw* tar Great Britain, their Lordships regret that p • ti let ' fll on the stones, by which it seee craved the assistance of a by.stander• who tea' they sluiuld not feel themselves j us tified in complying with the trive to it a application, or in risking to any later period than was at first de. shivered in pieces, and the greater part of the lOW teratiatd his Majesty's ship* in the Baltic. ' No B. It was arranged at the commencement of the season, watchman in Little Britain SA II 1 . 2 1 Het the last convoy should kale Harm Bay 10th October : the sw bec p am ped e b a y p th re e y to the marauders. One Mlll_, he was, or% 0 Lembo, sth Novembei, 1812." and the liquor was of course waste d ; a intsmarriviiis &died the 9th. (signed) W. s tuows. keg of gin, when he immediately staved the dilia ., _ sr t ; ever conveyed to the Compter, and will, INletter has been transmitted from the Admiralty meet his deserts. Mr. Wo4i's watch was , to le Loan Peovorr of Glasgow, stating, that under stolen by some unknown plunderer. present circumstances, the Lords Commissioners did not think it expedient to grant (except in very special W C . LIT no fr esh ir CH tab arrsais LO s $OWa • IL sinctosNDONedno4,o 74 ri Tscet.e ....A . crises) licences for ships to sail without convoy ; brit which being principally of an inferior quarith lea b`""aale being, at the same .ume, anxious to afford to the at a decline et 21 ‘• ger quarter' fine cues l 7, country every possible protection and facility which ea the other pressing demands of the naval force will English Wheat, sr. 119 s. us.. Iris 4 teq s ans. eid jen o , l'illt prices-1n other Grain or Seeds. no _ 'Admit, direct that the merchants of the several ports hu t t E c i k 4 . ° ' 't l i b ' " ..............-- new les toce in th e Bristol and Irish Channels, as well as of 12 —ye, tub. 6es. Tut Ditto. OA Me. les& ----.-- Ator ea ' 2" Greenock and all other ports, the shipping of which Barley, enis. 714 tepid fekdezvous at Cork, do communicate and con. Malt, 1051..1105. i Hog Pas•7ll6. WI cwt. 7its. ?Ss. 1 &Ige n I°s6 ' l2" llar talk bilge .Ther, an favour th eir Lordships with their l camel read Wri t Caraway, a per der, do. 40e. 445. IL Opinion, 41) to the several minds which may be COll- Mimi pi, per b ue 4 e i, mu, goo. 1 Winter Tares 11 4,re *_ sidered, with 'respect to their general interests, as the whi te m a ma, sin. ells. u.. 1 Rite Se. 4 11 ,... ROW s ill " — Mos; convenient and Proper for the ;suing a CollfOr ' 4 ATOI4O 40. ipl, 411,