Star. — London, England, 1812-08-08 00:00:00

.. ~'T TH E EVENING STAR. LONDON: BA.fiTRDAY, AUGUST a PRICE OF S I'OCKS THIS D.kY AT ONE crei(iti. w et. Red. 54 57—Ctine. 58f —for ope. 5q 57 per Ct. 731 -5 per Ct. 881—Hank Stock 214 2151 I pre.—Bonds 6s. 7.. dis.—Long Anne. 11 5-`lBtlis Pith. Bid& (3td.) 211. dii. a par—Do. (30) pre. DEFEAT OP THE FRENCH BY THE RUSSIANS AT DUNABURG. The L or d Nelson Packet, Captain DEANC hat imived at Hatwich, from G o tt en b urg h_ di rect, with a mail an d passengers. Before this vessel left Gotten i,urgb, a tiessel had arrived at Stockholm, which left kip the 2f)th July; with the important intelligence, that the main body of the French army had at length advanced from Wilma Ipod Dunaburg, where the R uss i a ns were entrenched, and that the latter had gallantly repulsed three successive attacks upon their ent renchments. The French had thrown several bridges over the Dwina with their Usual dexterity, and amid 4 tremenduous fire from the opposite shores, tut they were finally defeated, with immense loss. We hive no doubt that we shall speedily have it in our power to comfirm the above glorious intelli. get* upon official authority; for the French Papers inform us, that BONAPARIT set out from Wilna on lilt 17th, and if he travelled with his usual rapidity, be ma)t have reached the army on the Dwina so as to direct its nperationt nett day. The distance be. tween Wilna and Dunaburg does not exceed 60 miles. The battle; in all probability, was fought upon the 19th, and the intelligence would reach Riga, which is st the month of the Dwina, in eight or ten hours. The following are such additional particulars of this important event, as we have been able to collect frnm the letters and papers brou r (ht by the above Nsil GOTTENP.URCK IULY 28. Letters from Stockholm, received this morning, tnention that a vessel had arrived there without con 4toy, which left Riga on the 20111, and reported that great bustle previoled there, on account of a battle tvhit.h had been fought at a place c..l.ea Dunaburg, about '2O Gil - man miles ft care thence ; and it was confidently said that the French. had attacked that place with the greatest fury three times, and were thrice repulsed with very great loss, " No man was allowed to depart from Riga, but were all most actively employed in adding to the for tifications and defences of the place, The women Ind vbildren had been sent off to St. Petersburgh, &ockholnt, and the island of Oesel. " Admiral Bentinci arrived at Revel on e the Smith bltinto, and immediately proceeded to headi Licit ter s." 'I VIENNA, JULY 11. " We no longer doubt that hostilities have recont‘ menced between the Russians and Turks ; the preli minaries of peace not having been ratified by the Grand SeigniQr. " The Russian troops, who have received another destination, are returning towards the Brinks of the D4nube." " BRESLAU, JULY is; " On the 6th, the Russinn Minister at Berlin had strived at Kuningsburgh, on his return to St. Peters , burgh. " Lithuania is provisionally divided into three de , partments, viz. Mina, Brzeic, and Grednn. " The King of Westphalia is near Minsk, as well ai the Polish army." The Swedish Papers contain an animated Procla mation from General BARCLAY DE TOLLI to the Gin. man troops now serving under BONAPARTE, in which becalls upon them to leave the banners of the Tyrant, lid fight for the common cause of mankind, while filusia and Sweden are now in the field. STAR-01410E, THREE O'CLIOCK. We stop the Press to state, that although Govern tent hawk received no regular official reports of the Battle of the Dwina, between the Russians and the French, all the letters from Mr. Taionsron and the British resident's in the Baltic to Ministers, concur in the intelligence above communicated, and state that 8 was cOildently believed in Sweden. The following letter from St. Petersburgh, is the test which has been received from that quarter : iITRACT OF A LETTER PROM ST. PETERESURGII, DATED 28TH JUNE (BTH JULY). " Nothing decisive his taken plate any where— the rear of our army beat off a few attacks, in which we made several prisoners of distinction. If we are fictoriou.; in the battle expected, we hope that busi- Sias will revive h'ete, in some measure at least. " Out army is in good condition, and full of S PiritS as to success, and there is not the least doubt of their being victorious when opportunity O ffers. oul Cossacks are very successful in the Wicks and skirmishes. 4 It cannot be long before the blow is struct, and 11)° 1* to GOD our arms may prove successful. ' You see Botinpanta has not done what he expected, and t rust he may not be able to accomplish be foul clequ.s, On Thursday the ?mice REGstir, and most of tbe Ministers, dined With ;he Duke of CUMBEItt-1141). -YeSterdat Admiral Sir J. B. Wanner.; was intro tp duced to the eItINGE Ittocc-r by Viscount MEt.vaut, his departure for America. Yesterday, Lord MULGRAVI had au audience of tile 1 ) 141:C1 RIKANT. EARL NirEttigCtOWS GRAND VICTORY. Still we are without the ( Ificial communication from the Hero hitt:self; on the subject of his late glorious achievement in the Peninsula ; but our spirits are not depressed by any diminution of our confi dence in the truth of the otiginal and subsequent statements. We now find hy our Plymouth letter of this morning, that Sir Hosts Porttam's accounts of the battle Were brought to Torbay by the IN soteNT gun-brig, Captain BRAZIER (not BLAQUIERE, at stated yesterday by mistake), who instantly set off for London with the account. The INSOLENT, Alter landing Captain BRAZIER, made sail for Ply mouth, whe►e she has arrived : she had several men killed and wouoded in one of Sir HOME Pormases late •ilerp: izes. While on the subject of the confirmation of Lord WELLINGTON'S victory, we ought to remind our Readers, that the wind has been adverse during the whole week to the arrival of any vessel from Lisbon ; besides the long series of operations, which the inte resting period between the 14th of July (the date of the gallant General's last dispatches) and the 24th, when his Lordship is said to have completed his victory must have required much labour and attention on the part of his Lordship and Staff, to collect the various details necessary for his dispatches to Government. The last dispatches received from his Lordship at Rueda, in some measure prepared us for the glo rious event. He was possessed of intelligence that MARMONT, having been reinforced by BONNET, thought himself strong enough to attack the British, and with that view was repairing the bridges over the Douro at Toro. Lord WELLINGTON was also aware that Xing JosEPH was on his way from Madrid to attack him in the rear, and so early as the Ist of July, he had made arrangements to con centre in Avaliegoz, if MARMONT should- pass the Douro : he recalled Don CARLOS D'ESPAGNE and Don JULIAN SANCHEZ, wh6 a few dayS before had advanced within a league of Valladolid, and who, it appears, were warmly engaged on the left of our file on the 18th. Besides all these mas terly arrangements, which bespeak the foresight of one if the greatest Captains the world ever saw, we have the satisfaction of knowing that 8000 men, as a reinforcement, had passed Benevente on the 224 to join his Lordship, and that 8000 More, which were besieging Astoiga, would join the instant the fortress fell. His Lordship's retreat from his advance at Rue sla to Salamanca, was no doubt a masterly feint to' bring MARMONT into the plains of the Tormes, where his destruction was as certain as it was complete. By a fetter from an Officer on board one of his Majesty's ships off Flushing, we learn that the following is the amount of the enemy's Fleet there-83 ships of the line, 12 frigates, and 111 sloops; our force consists of 25 tail of the line, 5 frigates, and 10 sloop, under the command of Admiral You NO. The Right Hon. GEORGE PoNsotosv, Lnrd MU& atERRY, and Lady LOUISE CONEL LY I are among the latest arrivals in Dublin from England. Yesterday Viscount CASTLEREAGH gave a grand entertainment to the PtuNca REGENT. His loyal Highness arrived at the Noble Viscount's house, in Ch4rles street, St. James's- square, about seven o'clock, and was received by his Lordship . at thy door. The party consisted of the D u k es of YORK, CUMBERLAND, and CAMBRIDGE, Earls of LIVERPOOL, WE•TMORLAND, BCCEINGHA MSHIRE, YARMOUTH, HARROWBY, Vis counts MELVILLE and SIDNIOUTH, Lord M U L ORAVE , Sir W. :-.,cur 1., Mr. VAN SITTA RT, Mn B. BA TH UltsT, Mr. RYDER, Mr. COOXE. Mr. G. ROSE, Mr. LONDOCC• ROWING tslATClL—Yesterday, pursuant to adjourn ment, in consequence of fouling on the regularly ap ' pointed day, (the Ist of August) the Coat and Badge* live pounds and three pounds, the annual Prizes left by Mr. THOMAS DOGGETT, the Comedian, were con• tested for in good style by memo, of Rothertithe; Stowe, of the Towers Hairls, of Bank , ide ; Fuller, of Blackfriars ; Reynolds, of Hungerfurd ; and May, of Westminster. The competitors started from the 01d Swan, Lon don pridge, about three o'clock ; the match was well and fairly contested, and they reached the Swan, at Chelsea, in the following order: May, of Westminster, t ; Fuller, of Blackfriars, (Surreysside,) 2; Reynolds, of Hungerford, 3; Harris, of Bwokside, 4 Stowe, of the . 1 ower, 5; and Mussett, of Rotherhitbe, 6. A great num:. Ler of boats, with genteel company, were on the river. A poor tennale maniac was yesterday morning found wandering about Cheapside. She had on a straight waistcoat, and seemed to have recer.tly broken from some place of confinement. Her ac cent was Scotch, and she said her name was SIM- AitT. Site was conveyed us the Puuitry Compter, where she now remains. Lady MELBOURNE gate a grand supper on Thurs dal evening at her elegant mansion, Whitehall, to his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGINT, and up wards of 100 dissinguished personages. The Pope . has been removed from Fontainbleatt, lest, in the absence of the army from Italy, some at tempt might be ma.!e to release him from Savona, and crewe an insurrection in Italy. Tim following is an extract of a letter, received yes terday from au Officer with the expedition in the Me diterranean : " liis Majesty's Swop Neniesls,Pott Mahan, July 6. " We have been at Carthagena and Alicant, and are now mustering here a very large expedition. against the French in Catalonia. There will be tto,ooo English and Spanish troops, and ten sail of line of battle ships ernigoyed Monday, as some labourers were employed In throwing stones froins the ground to a scaffold, erected on a h•iuse near Knacker's-hole, Devon, a man on, the scaffold advised one below not to throw any mare, as the scaffold would not bear any more. He had hardly spoken when the scaffold fell on the unfortu nate man below, broke an arm and a leg, and a long nail entering his side, put an instant end to his existence. PEACZ WITH AMERICA RESTOREB. We itopjed the press yesterJay to state the areval of intelligence of a most gratifying nature from America, and we have the satisfaction to be able to confirm out statement in its fullest extent by the ar rivals of this morning. Letters from Halifax, of the 9th ult. Which bring down intelligence from Washington to the 30th of June, inform us, the account of the death of Mr. PER. CEVAL had been received at the seat of American Go vernment, and that Mr. MADISON had in consequence determined to suspend the issuing of letters of marque and reprisals against British shipping, until farther accounts were received from England. But this is not all—straPge as it may appear, we learn, upon the most unquestionable authority, that a Bill was immediately brought •in to _Congress, which had been read twice, to repeal the Non-Inter course law, prohibiting, however, the importation of the following articles : Hats, Woollen Cloths, which cost more Shoes, than 6s. sterling, per yard. Millinery, Cotton Cloth., of which the prime Cloathing—ready made. cost is less than Isd. or more than Ss. Silk, Hemp. Articles which principally consist of those Ma. I.eaturr, or terials—ricepting kith linens. Fla:. The duties on importation are, by the same act, doubled. The above intelligence fully coincides with the doctrines which we have again and again promul gated, on the subject of American politics, and a few hours will probably put us in possession of still more agreeable information, for the GLEANER, which left England on the 19th of June, carried cut to America the first intimation of the intentions of the British Government to repeal the Orders in Council, was met in lat. 34. long. 56. :,bout the 7th of July, by a ship which arrived yesterday; being within four or five days sail of the American coast. " LLOYDS, AUGUST S. " The Diana, IsfGxottor:, arrived in the Clyde, 4th inst. from Demerara, was boarded 12th ult. in lat. 45. Lions. 44. by his blajessy's ketch GLEANER, bound to America ; she was !lion of water, which the Diana supplied. The wind for five days af►et was from the eastward, blowing strong." By the arrival of the Hope, DUNCAN, at Greenock, from Quebec, we have received Quebec Gazettes to the 30th June. An emb trgo had been imposed by the Governor on the Ist July, on all vessels in that port, but it was thought it would be taken off in a few days. On the 30th of June, the following Proclamation was issued by his Excellency Sir GICORGIC PItSVOST, Baronet, President in and over the Province of Lower Canada, and Administrator of the Govern ment thereof, atc. &c. &c. " Whereas War has been declared by the Government of the Milted States of America, to exist between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Dependencies thereof, and the Unites' States of America, and their Terr.torles;—And whereas divers persons, being subjects of the said United Sates of America, are now within the limits of this Province, and it is expediint and necessary that such persons should depart from this Province within a limited period :—I have therefore thought fit, by and with the adviceof the Executive Council of this Pro. 'lnce, to issue this sny Proclamation, to order, enjwiii, and direct, and I do hereby enjoin and direct, all parsons who are Subjects of the United States of America, to depart from this Province withn Fourteen days hum the day of the date of eiis Proclan.s. tion. THE ARMY. trecinesday the last division of the Royal gtanna Corps of Artillery arriVed in Plymouth Dock; fr Cornwall. This *rill, complete the training . bf tb whole of the Local Militia Of Conwall. The 2d battalion 89tH Regitriento nb* qtfartere at Brighton, are under orders for Guernsey. The following Officers are to be Brigadier • rals on the Staff under the Earl of WawnovoN Colonels Nous, 57th, WILSON, 39th, &AO of t Guards, and BARNS, 46th Regiment. • Colonels Nous and Virmsow, have long with the Army in Portugal, and highly distiff nisi themselves in the principal engagements there j the were both wounded at Aliment. Large detachments of Dragoons are on the mat for embarkation to join their Regiments in Spain and Portugal. The Heavy Cavalry to go trim Portia mouth, and the Light Dragooes from Plymout!:. A new Quarter-Master-General is Awl to be ap pointed for India, in to m of tlaj:)r-General Scar-- NER, who is appointed a General Officer on the Sta there. As also a n-w Adjutant-General in room Sir WILLIAM NICOLSON, who is about to retire. The Durham Militia,which m-sche 1 la-1 week from, Seaton-H o u se , near Edi:thurgh, now ccupy qn-rt. rs' at Kinross, Dundee, K:ngh n-n, and Kit kaLly, tor.the purpose of escorting prisoners of war, who may be destined for the new depot at Perth. }4riday the 2d battalion of the 42d regiment, ot; Royal Highlanders, arrived at Inv; tress. • They), chiefly consist cf tEcers and non , claimissinned bffi4 cers, owing to the privates h It;rlg transfilred their) , services to the Ist battalion, xelkit is 13J0 Strong, and leit in high health and spit - its under Lord Wtzta , , , t LINOTON I with whom they are great tavourites. 1 NAVAL 1117T.LLICENCE. MAILS. AIR. SUL slam bleb I Dublin . - 1 0 Guernsey .. 0 1 Waterford - 1 1 Jamaica . . 0 0 Cadiz • - 0 0 Jerry - . ..11 I Lisboa . - 0 1 Al.ho:t . . 0 0 Malta . - 0 0 Gottenburgh 1 1 ANOTHIIIt AMERMAN CA P1V1RD....-Hif 11aj Sc)'. ship Labs hisas, Captain Galt PITHS, sent into Oat, nn ,he 23 Adolf, a tine new American ship, last from abraltars She Is moored Alongside the Perseverance of New York, sent Why the hybeuc The homeward -bound convoy, from G trenborgh, wc:e all well off the Scaw, on the 30th July, under convoy of three imbed ships. PLYMOVITI, AUGUST O. Cattle ill the TALBOT sloop of war. from a mite. and hat detained and brought 41 with her the Ame• rican ship Rim(lan and Betsey, Irons Cadiz. bound to Liverpool; in LIANA. 6:tiled his Majesty's ship ACHATES, on a cruizea—Wind W. PORTSMOUTH; AUGUST 1. Atriired his Majesty's ship Pt.cr.aa a from the Downs ; and the Soma, froth a cruite. The Tv• maw is 'appointed convoy fur the Downs ; also ar. rived the Ocean, TRACY # from Quebec j and the London Packet, from Havannab. DEAL, AUGUST 7. ATTi7e4l the Acutt cutter, from off" ineshing and his Majesty's ship CABMUII, film the N..tth4 ward.—Sailed last evening the Chrurcritss or ELGitt cutter, with a convoy, for Portsmouth. The Class stus has a signal flying for tonvoy to the Westwards The American ship Mary Red line has been de. tamped and sent in.— , -Wind S. E. YARMOUTH; AUGUST t Sailed the REbBREAST, 611" Girona* ktrrn I and the ALBAN cutter for the Mae, to be taken' Into Dock. His Majesty's ship Mosovrth has Captured off the Dogger Bank three small trutth prices; and his Majesty's ship Honarto has taptured and Beat in one ditto. The LBTERNT, Captain ttictas, bound to the Baltic, Kith Messenger and Despatches, bat captured and sent in here ht Brave French privateer, 16 guns. but only one mounted, and S 2 men, cap. turgid on the Dogger 13. In ks and commanded by J. M. H. GRANDIN, master, from Calais, had not made any captures this cruize, but has been reigning eight, years, and has been very fortunate.—Remain in the Roads the Solebay and Sheldrake.—Wind N. " And whereas by an Order of Police, Issued at the City of Quebec, on the 29th instant, requiring all such Sul Jects of the United States of America, as are now in the District of Quebec, to depart from the City of Quebec on or before the first day of July next, before twelve o'clock; and irons the Dhartet of Que• bee on or before the third day of July nest, before twelve o'clock. And whereas the persons tieing Sul jecta of the United states, who are now in the City and District of Qt.r.bec, are prin cipally persons who have entered this Province in good faith, in the prosecution of commercial punults—l Lave therefore tia3ught fit to enlarge, and I do hereby enlarge the period allowed by the said Order of Police, for the departure of such persons from the City and District of Quebec, for and during the period of seven days from the day of the date of this Procl:imatiou. (Signed) " GLORGL PILLVOiT. " QUEBEC, JUNE 2s. The following was received : ived In town this morning, Bow - nevem — Yesterday Joreph Taylor, the owner by express, from Mont r e a and driver of the Ware st a g e - coac h, w as b roug h t up l "Montreal, BA. N. June 24. Iby a summons, charged with carrying more outside “We have just received advice, by an express,passengers than are allowed by Act of Parliament. which left New York on the '2oth inst. informing us Mr. T Istated, tl • th e ot t f July last A _ '.r. _ rol.ope iat on -s o i . that war against Great Britain is declared.defendant's ttom he was travelling by the coach, 44 No pat ticulars s,:hataver are mentioned, but teede. , At Wi mile', in Ware to London,. on the outs . cannot doubt the fact, which can be accounted for Hertfordshire, they had fourteen passengers ott the upon no ptir.ciple short ofFrench bribery or insanity." outside, including two children Aft er t h e y passe d MONTREAL, JUNE 20. i Waltham•cross, the defendant, w h o was d r i ver of the • ' coach,, took; up two more passengers, and went on Advices were received on Thursday last by one of with that number to Edmonton. The defendant was .., the most respectable houses in this city, that on the sth instant, the British schooner Lord Nelson, on her . cntivicte4 in the penalty of £2O f o r eac h passenger 1 more than are allowed by. the Act, making in the vaage from Prescott to Niagara ,. laden entirely wi t h whole £6O. The defendant gav e n o ti ce o f h s wen. wallai property, was b oar d e d b y t h e A merican armed vessel the Oneida, on L a k e O nta r i o, an d taken Lion to appeal to the Sc a lonsI ons against the convic t ion. , suao- into Sacket harbour, A man underwentong examin a ti on , on where she w as di smant l e d, an d : o i on of w i lfully setting fire to the the property on board se i ze d. Th e pretext set up for this new and uwarrantable cond u c t i s , t h at t hi s , Infortna-ion was rec e i ve d at t h e Offi ce , t h at a man n , haycock, at Islington, on Fridiy se ri hay-ricks of night. vessel's papers were not satisfactory Co the American ' of the na me of Patrick Ra gan w as at l arge i n Sh ort ' s Officer with respect to he r d est i nat i on and toyageaa that she had no clearance from any custom.house. It Gardens, who had shot a man some time side., who is known by us, as well as by the Americans, that had died of the wounds receive d. In consequence of there is no law in Canad a obliging vessvls to clear . * this, Salmon was dispat c h e d i n pursu i t of hi m ;—he I took him into custody, an d b roug h t hi m to the office, out; and, indeed, such l aw wou ld appear to be super. where he underwent an examinatiliu. Ir appeared Since the above, has been of captured a l so by an Arne: ; deceased, and ot h ers , that 011 the 7th April last, the rican armed boat, t he A merican schooner Ontario, . deceased was at the St. G eorge ' s w i sic-vaults, i e (said to be the property o f our goo d f r i en d the eels . ; braced pa Suffolk street, in the B oroug h ; t h e pr i va i r was a patriotMr. Porter,) from Ni a ga ra to P rescott , i the door. He took . a blunderbuss horn a patrole, loaded with flour belonging to British sultjects. She 1 and old the deceased if he au( nipted to cnme art was carried into Gravelly Point, below Carleton of the house he would shoo- him. Tiv deceased did Island. This vessel had left the Uoiied States pre- and the prisoner discharged Vie blunder vans to the enactme n t o f t h e em b argo. T oe reason came out, given for this sec o nd ne f at i ous act, by the boarding buss at Vie dec ea s e d, t h e contetits Id which weft, Officer was, that he s us p ecte d h er . lodged in his tr. ck. The wt touted man was takes to St. Thomas's Hospital, where he died th ' . f .hewing I day, and the prisoner absconded. The deceased There Is now a remarkably fine Lioness on board el> .ng words w re that tbe na pri vn anner ig shot the deceased, . the Sbeerhulk, in Hamo.ae, Ph mouth-Dock, brought Ihe prisoner did not defy .ty to hi m , or that b e over in a sloop of war, from Africa, and intended as but clenied laa . v silly a n y bad d or it s present to the Patna Recur. Vatended to Ica him.