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IF DAVID DAVIS, who about three years since worked as a Labourer in Woolwich Warren,. will apply to . Mr EDISON, Coopers' Hall, Basingliall-street, he 'nay bear of something to his advantage; or, if any person or persons can give Information of the death .1 the said DAVID DAVI% they will be. rewarded for fletr trouble. AMERICA. From America we learn, that on a rocky island called Baratavia, adjacent to the mouth of the Miss's. sippi, a number of French pirates have formed a re gular establishment. From thence they send out nu merous armed vessels, and most grievously infest the coast of Louisiana, -plundering and destroying the Spanish vessels, and those of every other nation, the French excepted. The property they thus pillage they deposit within the ramparts of a fort, which for this purpose they have constructed and provided with 14 pieces of artillery. To give a sort of character to these proceedings, they have formed a Tribunal, which they denominate a court of Vice-admiralty, and where they condemn without ceremony the property they have thus acquired. After judgment is passed, the merchandize is sold at low prices, but for ready money, and in open market. This market is kept two days in a week, and if no buyer be found, the goods are introduced into New Orleans as articles of contraband trade. Information of these proceedings has been given to the Governors-General of the Ha vanna and of the Floridas. FRENCH PAPERS. PARTS, OCTOBER M. By energetic addresses, which paint the sentiments with which all Frenchmen are animated, the Munici- pal Councils of the towns of Dieppe, Colmar, Char tres, and St. Quentin, swear, that no effort will be painful to them, no sacrisce considered as of conse quence, when the object is to conquer peace, and pre serve the noble and precious inheritances acquired to France by the immcrtal labours of our august Emperor. FRANKFORT, OCTOBER f.,0. The French garrison of this town set out yesterday, and the day before yesterday, for its ulterior ,desti. a nation. 'Yesterday a French courier arrived here coming from Erfurth, and proceeding to carlsmhe. LEIPZIC, OCTOBER 12. According to the reports of persons who appear to be well informed, the French army extends from Dresden toLeipsic. The head-quarters of the Emperor were on the Bth, at Rip pach, near Lutzen. Pirna and Sonnenstein are occupied by a great number of troops, and surrounded with redoubts. The defiles of Waldheim have also been fortified, and redoubts thrown up round Nossen. Ile Kit's of Naples is with a very considerable corps at Rochlitz. As on all sides the armies are in pre sence of each other, it is probable that some important event will soon tike place. AUGSBURGH, OCTOBER 19. The passage of French troops through Frankfort is again very considerable. MAGDEBURG, OCTOBER 12. Our Gazette of to-day contains the following : 44 A Zupplement to the Berlin Gazette of the 2d instant gives the 1411. Bulletin, dated from Head quarters, Zerhst, the 80th of September, and which contains as follows :_ " < The misery of the inhabitants of Magdeburg is at its height ; upwards of an hundred families, which could not provide fnr their subsistence, have left it. The garrison, which is composed of all nations, has, many sick. The rage of the Saxons and Westpha lians against the French has broken out in such a manner as to give place to several quarrels : they have fired upon each other, and the French have, for their defence, pointed cannon in the streets.' 44 We know nothing of all this in Magdeburg, and, we cannot allow our Readers to complain of being imposed on by tales of this kind, respecting the real situation of our town, and the tranquillity which reigns in it." GOTFENBURGH MAIL. GOTTENBURGH, OCTOBER 2!. It is not to be doubted, that Bavaria has joined the Allies; 30,000 of them are making towards Er• Furth, under the command of General Wrede. Generals Bulow and Tauenzien do their utmost, joined to the Landstrum, to keep Ney's corps off from Berlin • the latter is reckoned to be 30,000 strong. They have beaten off two severe attacks frotulley's corps, and pushed them back, although with the loss of many brave soldiers, amongst whom are a number of' Walmoden's division. We have news from Berlin down to the 17th; all was well there. CUXHAVEN, OCTOBER 24. All our information from the armies is encourag ing. There have been incessant skirmishes, but none of importance, and no general action. The letters by the Gottenburgh Mail were deliver ed from the Post Office yesterday :—those from that port are to the 24th of this month, and the intelligence from Berlin is of the 17th inst. It is adverted to in the following letter : 44 Gottenburgh, October 44. •' We have news from Berlin of the 17th of this month, and at that time so much alarm prevailed under the expectation of the approach of the French, that the Merchants and others were packing up the more valuable part of their property to remove it from danger. Ney had crossed the Elbe at Witten • burg with 35,000 men, on which Tauenzien and _Thumen had raised the siege of that place, their force being indadequate to give any effectual opposition to the enemy. The French grand army occupied the whole country froth the Pleiss to the Elbe, and consisted of about 170,000 men. The Allies have all inined, and on each side Bonaparte hat to encounter 180,000 men. The Bohemian army is comriuted at this DUffi ber, and at the same number the Northern army combined with that of Silesia." AMSTERDAM, OCTOBER 23. A part of Tette:thorn's corps has penetrated as far as Lingen (13 miles west of Bremen, near the Dutch frontiers,) where they delivered the conscripts, plun dered are French public chests, and delivered every , wbowthkeitive German patriots. • • - • . .- ~ THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. - SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1813. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Reduced .561ii—Cous. 57f 58—for sec. 581 4 per Ct. 714--5 per Ct.BBl-onut. Bk. Lg. Ans. 14 146dt I—lncll443onds Ss. li. prom Exchequer Bills par ls. dls. A Path Paper, of the 25th, readied Town last night ; but it contains nothing from the army in Saxony of a more recent date than the Bth instant.— This is an additional proof that the communications with France are entirely interrupted. At that date, BONAPARTE is said to have been somewhere near Lutzen. The KING of NAPLES (MURAT) was at Rochlitz ; and the French army is described as oc cupying a strong line of positions, extending from Dresden to Leipsic. In the mean time, Frankfort has been stripped of its garrison, with a view, no doubt, to reinforce the Grand Army, or to serve as a pint d'apititi, in any retrograde movements which BONAPARTE may find necessary. The positions of the Allies on the 12th instant, according to the private advices from Gottenbergh, were as follow : the CROWN PRINCE was at Merseburg, General BLUCHER at Halle, and Prince SCHWART• zamizno at Borna. There were other Russian, Aus trian and Prussian troops between Altenburg, Chem nitz, Freyberg, and Marienberg. The following is a tolerably accurate muster-roll of their combined forces. It may serve to correct some misconceptions which have arisen with respect to the amount of the Russians : Russians and Prussians under Barclay de Tolly - - 80,000 Reserve under Bennigsen, some divisions having re mained with Blucher , effec tive, - - - 40 NO The Austrians under Selwartzetsberg - 55 , C00 Klenau ..... • - 10,e00 Total Grand Army - - 185,000 Prince Royal and Blucher (not including 30,000 under buiow, and the troops acting against Davoust) 100,000 Total in combined movement upon Leipsic • 285,000 We are credibly informed, that the whole force under BONAPAIUE falls short of 180,000. To the force of the Allies we have now to add the Bavarian and Austrian Army under General Witans, 60,000 strong, and now in full march, according to the Gottenburgh letters, upon Erfurth and Gotha, in Saxony, with a view also to intercept the retreat of the French army. On the side of Westphalia, TED. TENBORN, THIELMAN, LANGENALI, and MENSDORF all of whom " make war upon their own account, after the manner of Scum.," are in full activity. Not only has the former surprised Bremen and Oldenburgh,. but he has now pushed forward a corps to Staade. —The country between the sea coast and Cassel, the Westphalian capital, is over-run by the Partisan corps of the latter, and they act in full communication with the Cossacks under PLATOFF. How this rideau is to be drawn aside by the French army we are at a loss to know. With respect to any projected movement upon Berlin, that seems not to have seriously been persisted in ; at least we know that the Prussian ca pital was safe on the 17th. Mails from Gibraltar, Cadiz, and Corunna, arrived this morning. The Corunna Papers furnish nothing of interest, but those from Cadiz and Gibraltar are more important. We regret to say, that the malig. nant fever at Gibraltar still continues. The follow ing are such extracts from the Spanish Papers and our own private communications as we deem most interesting : 1, GIBRALTAR, SEPTEMBER 13, 1313. PRIVATE LETTER. It I am sorry to inform you, that a very alarming fever has made its appearance here for some days past. The Faculty have not yet declared their opi. nion as to the nature of the disease; but those who witnessed the horrid pestilence here in 1804 think that the symptoms of this fever are extremely similar, as it commonly proves' fatal on the third or fourth day, and those who die have the black vomit : Captain HALL, Brigade Major, died with this symptom yes terday morning. All the sick are removed to a lazaretto outside the Garrison ; the churches are shut up, and all communication between the Town and South is cut off, except to Officers and' soldiers on duty. The Spaniards have drawn a cordon of troops across the Neutral Ground, and cut of all intercourse with the place by sea and land. is The deaths yesterday were six—Sick in the laza. retto 17. " The SERAPIS has just arrived, in nine days from Mahon, and brings intelligence of the 21st tilt. from Malta, where the Plague had very much decreased, only two having died that day in the city of Valette." " MADRID, OCTOBER 8. " They write from Tarragona that they continue working with the utmost activity on that fortress.— Lord Bentinck has gone to Palermo, leaving Gene ral Clinton in the command till the arrival of Picton, who is expected every moment. The enemy re. main on the right of the Llobregat, in number from 14 to 15,000 men ; and, according to intelligence received in Tarragona on the 28th ult. his movement towards Lerida appears very near :—the reason• for believing this, is his having distributed rations for ten days to his soldiers. " They write from Rues, under date of September 28, as follows : " Suchet occupies his former positions on the plain of Barcelona. The English and Neapolitan divisions are in Tarragona; the Calabria: and Sicilians in Valls; the Majorcan division in this town, and the ;reliant Army of Catalonia on the points of Vique, to oppose the Marshal in the event of his attempting an invasion.. Sarsfield is with the vanguard in Villa. franca. The walls of the fortress of Tarragona, Fuerte Real, and its curtain, are already in a condition to resist any attack from the enemy : 5000 English are employed in repairing the fortifications, which in two months will be in a better state than they were previous to the siege. 41 In one of the villages in the neighbourhood of Seo de Urge!, 500 men belonging to the Prince's re giment were attacked by 1000 of the enemy, under the command of General Expert, who, notwithstan ding his superiority of forces, was repulsed with con siderable loss." GENERAL AND EXTRAORDINARY CORTES. SEPTEMBER 14.-THE LAST DAY OF THE SITTINGS. "At half-past nine in the morning, the Deputies of the Cortes assembled in the Episcopal Palace, and ' from thence proceeded to the Cathedral, where Te Deem was sung. They afterwards returned to their Hall of Sitting, which opened at twelve o'clock. 64 The Act of the preceding day was, read, and afterwards the following Decree : ' Concerning the Day on which the Deputies of the Ordinary Cones, should meet to examine their respective powers, the General and Extraordinary Cortes hating decreed their sittings should close on the 14th September.' " On the conclusion of the reading of this Decree, the President made an energetic, eloquent, and pa thetic speech, which lasted an hour and an half ; in it, after stating that the General and Extraordinary Cones were installed in the Isle of Leon, on the 24th of September, 1810, amidst the ac c l amat i ons o f t h e l most Generous nation in the world, to-day concluded their useful and most important labours, in the most glorious and successful manner; spoke of the great efforts made by the nation against the greatest of tyrants, and pointed out the lamentable condition in which it was at their installation. 4 ; The act dissolving the General and Extraordi. nary Cortes was then signed by all the Deputies, after which the sitting broke up, amidst the greatest ap plause and acclamations." THE ORDINARY CORTES. gg On the 25th of September the Ordinary Cones were installed, when Senor Ledesma, from Estrezna dura, was chosen President; Senor Gonzalo Herrera, of Cuba, Vice-President ; Ist Secretary, Senor Fellie, of Peru ; 2d ditto, Senor Zumabacarregue, of Guipa zeva ; 3d dit to, Senor Acosta, of Cuba; and 4th ditto, Senor Diag, of; Grenada." There are no accounts in the Cadiz, Corunna, or Madrid Papers, relative to the fever prevailing at Gibraltar, of so recent a date as those already before the public. It does not appear that any malignant disease prevails at Cadiz, as a proof of which, the fol• lowing numbers of deaths in the first twenty days of, September, 1811, 1812, and 1813, has been pub- 1 lished 143 ; 1812, 181 ; 1813, 176. To this statement it is added, that in 1812, which was considered a healthy year, the deaths were more nu merous than in 1813 ; and that there are, at present,' more people in Cadiz than there were in 1811. It is understood by Members of the House of Cora mons, now in London, that Parliament will be con. tinued sitting from the opening of the Session until' the 19th of December, when an adjournment to the middle of February is expeczed to take place. Mr. CHARLES GRANT seconds the Address in the House of Commons ; Lord Cosmos, as we before stated, moves it. Admiral Doturr retired from the Board of Admi ralty yesterday, in consequence of his promotion to be Port Admiral at Plymouth. Admiral Horn suc ceeds him at the Admiralty Board. Mr. WHARTON, after attending a Board of the Lords of the Treasury, left town for Bath, for the benefit of his health. Mr. GORDON, the Earl of ABERDZEWS brother, who brought the dispatches on Thursday night, from his brother, visited the Earl of LIVERPOOL and Viscount CASTLEREAGH yesterday. FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. The Duke of Clarence, at his house in Stable-yard, St. James's, from Bushy-pari. The Earl of Westmorland, at his house in Grosvenor-square, from his seat, Aptlicipe, Northamptonshire. The Countess of Jersey, at her house, Berkeley-square, from the Earl and Countess Cowper's seat, Pansanger, kierts. Colonel Thornton, in St. James's, from a tour. DEPARTURES. The Duke of Devonshire, from Devonshire House, to his seat at Chiswick. General Sir Thomas Graham, from his house in George-street, Hanover-square, to Brighton. The Earl of Dartmouth, from his seat at Blackheath, to Brighton. Lord Say and Sele, Sir Cullen Smith, Bart. and the Hon. Mr. Eardley, from Honley Abbey, to Doncaster, Yorkshire. The Earl of Jersey, from Eail Cowper's seat, Pansanger, to Newmarket. COVENT GARDENTHEATRE. —MISS ST EPH ENS made ber appearance again last night, in Polly, with addi. tional lustre. Her timidity , was overcume, and her voice was exerted in all its force and sweetness. Tbis morning was married, at St. John's, Hackney, Mr. DAVID DUNBAR, to MISS ANN STORES, Of Dalston. , This morning the Old Bailey Sessions House was uncommonly crowded to witness the trial of Joseph Henry May, the bill broker, who, our Readers will re collect, stood charged with altering a bill of exchange from £2B to £lO2B, with intent to defraud the Bank ing-house of Down, Thornton, and Co. The prisoner was put to the bar, but his Counsel having stated that a material witness was absent, the Court postponed the trial until next Sessions. The drawers of the bill so altered in question, were Messrs. Brash and Reid, booksellers, of Glasgow, and, as we understand, one of the partners only being present, the trial could not be entered into. There are two other serious charges against the prisoner. THE ARMY. Lieutenant-General Sir GEORGE BECRWITH, Com mander of the Forces in the West Indies. will shortly return to England, after an absence of several years. Captain Ctoirra, of the 15th Hussars, has lately been appointed Aide.de.Camp to Lord CHARM So. MERSEL Captain Arrow, of the 92d regiment, is appointed Aide-de-Camp to Major-General GRAHAM, stationed at Pertb. The COMMANDER-IN-CHM has signified his appro. bation to the General Officers commanding districts, that a certain proportion of Officers and men should have leave of absence, and furloughs from their re. spective regiments, during the winter months. The measure of a general volunteering of the Mi. litia, by regiments, for limited foreign service, and more particularly for the service of Lord Wmwittc. Tow's army, is now generally understood to be ar ranged by Government, and is expected to be sub. mitted for the sanction of Parliament soon after the opening of the Session. IidVAL INTELLIGENCE. SCILLY. OCTOBER 26. Arrived, on the 22d, his Majesty's schooner MAC. N4REL, from Cadiz, with dispatches, bound to Ply. mouth ; on the 23d, his Majesty's ship BtrraßN, from Liverpool bound to Plymouth ; same day, his Ma. jesty's ship BLOODHOUND, from Swansea, with a fleet. Yesterday came in, the sloop Clifton Union, Russ master, from Plymouth, with timber and slate : was taken last night,' off the Wolf Rock, by a French lugger privateer, of 10 guns, but was not detained. PLYMOUTH, OCTOBER se. Yesterday arrived the TARTAR frigate, and the PARTRIAN brig of war, from the Eastward ; the Tho. mas and Mary, CIIIDLEY, from Biddeford; and the Samuel, Virrary, from Llanelly. Arrived this day the ROYALIST brig of war, Capt. BREMER, from Fal. mouth, with part of the ern► of the Weser French frigate. PORTSMOUTH. OCTOBER 29. Arrived the SNAP sloop of was from a cruise, and a few vessels from the Downs. Among them are the Loyalist, from St. Petersburgh, with hemp and iron ' for the Dock-yard—sailed from Gottenburgh on the 22c1 instant with a large fleet, under convoy of his Ma jesty's ship CHRROKER and four other King's ships. Sailed She TARTARUS and ZEPHYR for Cork, with a convoy ; and his Majesty's ship Humans, for the River. DEAL, OCTOBER 19. At day-light this morning a vessel was observed an I the Goodwin Sand? immediately the water flowed a great number of boats launched and went off to her assistance; they are not yet returned, consequently we cannot learn her name—her masts are gone, and we suppose her to be one of the ships from Gotten. burgh. Arrived the Axel and Bernhard, from Stock. holm ; Alexander, Agimonian, Roberts and Harriet. from Gottenburgh, under convoy of his Majesty's ship RENARD. Came down from the River three met.. chantmen, and sailed for Portsmouth, under convey 1 of the GRIFFIN sloop of war. FIVE o'CLocc—The vessel on the Sands is a brig, belonging to Shields, from Gottenburgh for Ply. mouth, laden with timber—name we cannot learn. MILFORD, OCTOBER 37. Arrived his Majesty's ship BRISK, Captain Monx. sturn, from a cruize ; Mary, HURLOW, from Bristol; and Betsey, JoNss, from Newport, for this port LYNX and DILIGENCE Custom House cotters, from a cruize. Sailed the Charles, Russm, for Falmouth ; Aurora, CORMACK, for Cork ; and Sally, Hun Low, for Dublin; all from this port ; and ANTELOPE, CO* torn House cutter, on a cruize. GLASGOW, OCTOBER 26. FRENCH FRIGATES IN THE NORTH SEA.--The CRUIZER arrived in Leith Roads on Saturday, and considerable alarm was occasioned by an account of two French frigates being off the month of the Forth. The fleet for Gottenburgh had intended to sail on Friday, but fortunately was prevented by contrary winds. Admiral OTWAY transmitted the following letter to the LORD Pnovosr of Edinburgh, who for warded a duplicate of it to the LORD PROVOST of this city : _ _ 44 Nightingale, In Leith Rout, Oct. 24,1813. "MY LORD—I beg leave to inform your Lordship, that Captain Tonna, of his Majesty's sloop CROIZILR, reports, that on the 22d instant, in lat 55.26, North, long. O. 42. East, he saw two large French frigates, which probably escaped from the Scheldt or Ten), during the late easterly gales. By the course they steered when last seen, it appears to be their intention to go to the Northward : so that I do not apprehend any danger from them to the convoy for Gottenburgh, now on the point of sailing. The enemy captured and burnt an English brig, while the CRUIZER was in sight. I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lord ship's most obedient humble servant. (Signed) WILLIAM OTWAY, Vice Admiral." Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when Captain Wm. MosTAT w.is sworn into the command of the ship Winchelsea, con signed to Madras and China. Dom" OCTOBER 25.—ESCAPE OF TWEE, THE MURDERER.—Yesterday evening, Francis Twits, who was confined in Newgate to abide his trial at the ap proaching Commission of Oyer and Terminer, for the murder of Mr. GOLDING, of South Anne-street, effected his escape. It appears, that he contrived to dress himself in female apparel, and. in that disgu ise to have evaded the vigilance of the Turnkey. His escape must have occurred about half-past four o'clock in the afternoon, as he was in the yard at four, and at five, the time for locking up the felon-side of the pri son, he was missed. His coat was found, but the chains which were on his legs were taken away, which it is supposed he contrived to tie up in such a manner that they could not either make a noise or ,nterropt him in his escape; they were very light, and could be very easily concealed under the petticoats.