Star. — London, England, 1813-10-16 00:00:00

[ ttere it *saia to be tbrotighailt ghat ciesnlatiOn; *larks and mills deistroyed, canes lodged or 'torn up. and coffee estates almost completely deprived both of their old and young plants, and their buildings thrown down ; ingro-grounds and gardens laid wastes gene rally ; plaintatti-walks ruined ; fiuit and other trees, for fruit or ornament, completely broken, and ren dertd for ever useless and unprofitable. One circumstance above all others astonished the inhabitants, particularly those in the Bay of Roseau and New-town, dr Charlotte•vilie, and was the cause of great and anxious alarm—the sudden rising of the tea, atter the wind bad veered to the eastward and Sontliward : certainly nothing could be more fright fully awful. The waves curled their monstrous beads !r. high as the sills of the windows on the second sto +ies of houses on the Bay, and thundering alung, f.,:00k the buildings to ;heir foundation. Many of the. front walls and pillars of the galleries were destroyed inn the Bay, and the stores and cellars filled with tim sea :-- through some of the stores the water broke entirely, and drove up above 150 feet from high water 'nark ; scarce a boat, flat, launch, or canoe, kern . ains. The ships Venus, Captain Bruce,. and .Chard, Captain Motherwell, loaded, and in the bay, ready to sail with the expected convoy, cut early, aid got out to sea, as did all the small craft. The ships lost their mizen-mists, but are in other respects said to have been unhurt; of the small craft return , ecl, at present, is only the sloop Lune, Captain Cnn / ningham. Such are our short details of the melan choly morning of the i),3d of July, and which we sin. rerely hope may not be followed and aggravated by absolute want of disease in the colony. His Excel lency, with great humanity and promptitude, assem bled the Privy Council, and has opened the ports for the importation of all sorts of lumber and provisions, free of duty, by proclamation, for three months; and we trust the neighbouring islands, which have hap. pily escaped this deplorable calamity, may have some powers to relieve us, and will be expeditiots in succouring our distress. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1813. 44101 OF Si I OCKS THIS DAN AT TWELVE O'CLOCK Reduced G 6 }}—Coto: 571—10 r ace. SBf-4 per Ct, 71U 5 per Ct. 88 87i—Onin. 6f pr.—Bonds par BL Lg. in; 141-16th—Exchequer Bills Ss. Se. prem. Yesterday we announced the arrival of the Dm- . TATOR, at Portsmouth, with accounts of Lord Wlu.- LlNorott i ts actual descent from the Pyrennees into France. To-day we have but few particulars to add, for no dispatches have at yet arrived—the vessel which is to be the bearer of them was waiting at Passages when the Thomson sailed. In the Mean time, upon the authority of a passenger by the DICTATOR, and a private letter from Irun, we learn that Lord W sL. LINOTON, wtth part of the British Army, had crossed the Bidassoa, at Irun, on the 7th ins:ant, and passing through the small towns of Behebie, Urrugni, and St. Jean de Luz, had taken up a position on the Nive, cr Nivrlle, within three or four leagues of Bayortv. At 13ehtbie his Lordship rust met the enemy, and forced their lines, with a loss t 3 them of 530 in killed and wounded, and .►bout as many prisone•s. The loss of the British was only 200, and no officer suffered...di. The enemy fled towards Bayonne. According to the accounts brought by the DICTA• ion, his Lordship has only the Ist and sth Divisions of the British army with him; and a Passenger by the Dlcrnrtlß describes his Lordship's movement as a mere reconnsirsance, at the he.id of a formidable party. The circumstance of the British keeping clis/ along shore, is, we think, a proof that the above is the true character of his Lordship's operation. Those who regard it as the commencement of a grand and extensive invasion of France ) will do well to recollect, that while Suomi. occupies Catalonia with a force sufficient to keep Lord WILLIAM BEN. TINCK'S army at bay, it would be unsafe to trust the British array far within the French frontiers. —A demonstration, therefore, upon Bayonne and' Pau, is all that is wanted : it will probably draw Suctirc from Catalonia, and the entire liberation - of Spain will then leave the whole united armies in the Peninsula to invade France upon a scale of magnitude capable of calling BONAPARTE and his Imperial Guard from Saxony. But it is too much to expect that such a magnificent project can be exe- cured under existing ctrcumstances, and within the few short weeks of Autumn which remain. In the mean time, the winds have been propitious to the wise and spirited exertions of Ministers to reinforce his Lordship's army, for the DICTATOR also brings accounts of the arrival at Passages of 5000 infantry, 1500 cavalry, and a fine train of artillery, f r om England. The PRINCJI REGENT iS expected in town to-mor row from Sussex. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE was so much pleased with his shooting at Rendlesbam, that he returned to that place or. Thursday. The pheasant preserves them are unrivalled in Suffolk. The Earl of LIVERPOOL, and all the Cabinet Mi nisters in town, dined with the SPANISH AMBASSADOR on Tivarsday. Yesterday Viscount SIDUOU3H, after transacting hqsiness at his Office, went to his house in Richmond Park. • The LORD CHANCELLOR continues at his seat in Dorsetshire. Mr. Comex, the Under Secretary of State for Fo teign Affairs, we regret to hear, is confined with in disposition at Brighton. The Earl and Countess of HARRINGTON are ex pected in town in a few days. Mr. SADLER complains that he found great crj►, but little woo!, at Derby.. , MAiitiEsb bF absAlAlitEis AfTIMPT TO ENBI I AVE EUROPE. It is an observation of the celebrated Moi:Tr-sciutEcr, in his Spfrit of Law:, that uuiversal • empire has never been able to maintain itself in Europe. Mit.row, in his History, says, that the English and other Northern Nations did not derive their liberty from any forms of Government: they were by nature free men.— The Romans extended their empire over Europe, northward as ftic as the Elbe ; but they were not able to maintain it long after its gradual extension ceased to be progressive; and in Germany they never main tained army other than a tumultuous, turbulent, and divided empire. BONAPARTE'S empire in the West 'and in the North has ceased to be progressive : this is a prelude to its declination and fall. The secret fatal us- him r as it was to the Roman power, has been disclosed. The tiations have been taught, that Bo- NAPARTE may be resisted, baffled, and put to his last shifts. It was observed by a renowned Roman Historian, that while the German tribes were engaged singly in wars with each other, the whole of them were sub dued by one conqueror. This observation might have been extended to the whole of the European nations. Taken singly, they were easily subdued by the Romans; united (had.it been possible for so great a number of barbarians to be united), they would have been invincible, as in fact they were when they poured in upon the empire'vrithour concert. The quick communication of thought, and the practicability of forming a concert of wills among a number of powers having one common interest, viz. that of checking and chastening the Corsican, the usurper, forms more than a counterbalance to all the wilts and machinations of this monster. The tension of the cord by which he fastens together different States and classes of men, must at all events be re laxed by his death, or various accidents of health and fortune. In the designs of a great confederacy there is something of greater compass and permanency ; and it is among the greatest, if not the greatest charac . teristics i of the present tra or age—that it unites the :greatest luxury, with a degree of manly and martial intrepidity never surpassed, and rarely, if indeed ever equalled in any age or country. Our barbarous ancestors were not more courage ous, or more patient of hardships and privations, than the sons of our Gentlemen ) Noblemen, and even of the Royal Family. Our Illustrious C iKstANDEtt IN CIIIEF has neither shunned the dangers of the field, nor the fatigues of a laborious and most successful attention to the duties of his high and important office. His Royal Highness Prince VitttlAm of CuitxxsrEtt ha) never discredited the early pledge he gate to his cluntrfr on his expedition to Holland—tm-, fortumite in its resat, bin not inglorious to the British • aims. There is not a s:ngle member or cadet of the Royal Fimily, • f whose gallantry and bravery the remotest doubt or suspicion is entertained by any.— There is also in the higher tanks, and even among the Princes of Northern Europe on the Continent, a high, codrageou:•, and daring spirit of military eater prise and glory, which ought to make, and, we have no doubt, does make BONAPARTE tremble. Fortune may vary, but the unconquered and unconquerable will, a high sense of honour, and the resources of a spirit of liberty, are obstacles to the ambition of Bo- NAPARTE not to be surmounted. It is, indeed, asto nishing that a genius so brilliant and profound a-. BONAPARTE does not perceive the futility of an at. tempt to establish universal monarchy in Europe even for his own life time, and the utter madness of harbouring an idea that it would possibly survive him , self, or even the stage of life suited to his designs: While the fortune of war seems to be somewhat suspended on the Elbe, we may safely repose our co'nfidence in the above oinervations, that the final result will be favourable to the Allies. It is said when the unfortunate MARIA LOUISA went to the French Senate ircaused a lively impres sion. The business which called her there will make a deadly one. _ _ Mr.Tnostas SHERIDAN is not going to the Cape of Good Hope in .he suite of Lord C. Sosteitscr, or in any official employment whatever, but solely with a view to the recovery of his health. A new Comedy was read in the Green-loom of Drury.lane on Wednesday. 1 The ancient rivalry between the public schools'of Eton and Westminster is no longer numerical ' . the former, it is said , consisting of upwards of tivedhun dred Students, the latter about three hundred and fifty. The Committee upon the price of Bread met on Thursday, Mr. Alderman BIRCH in the Chair. The Lonn MAYon laid before them a great number of re., marks on the inefficiency of the clauses of the present Act; after hearing Gentlemen conversant in the Corn Trade, the meeting was adjourned. A Report of the investigation of the Committee will be made in a short time to the Court of Common Council. Yesterday.se'nnight, at the Quarter Sessions for the County of Antrizn, Dr.TBIiN ENT was tried, and found guilty, for an assault upon the Rev. Mr. MAY. The Court sentenced him to pay a fine of £5O, and to be imprisoned three months in Carrickfergus gaol. The assault was committed at a public meeting of the in• habitants of Belfast, on the 18th of August last. Bow:G.—The battle between Hichon, the Sarr butcher, and Burn, the cordwainer, from Margate, was decided on Wednesday morning at Vincent Farm, in the Isle of Thanet. After seven rounds, the but cher was completely beaten : he wanted both skill and strength to contend with his scientific and power ful opponent. Nitr;ll, AftELWEATE. , • FALMCiUtH, &TUBER 1% No Arrivals. Sailed his Majesty's cutter tAxD hAtt., with, dispatches for Passage; Lady Louisa packet, with a mail, for ditto ;• Prince Ernest packet, with a mail, for Lisbon; Lady Mary Pelham packet, with a mail, for the Bratils ; the Portuguese Ship Oceano, for Lisbon'; and his Majesty's ship Euto- Tus, for the coast of France.—Wind ist. MILFORD, OCTOBER is. Arrived the Sarah, MArrirewsom, from Riga, for Waterford ; Northumberland, NICHOLSON. from Que bec, for Milford ; Eleanor, EDKIN, from Riga, for Cork ; and,Lady Fitzgerald, awes, froM Water. ford, for Bristol. Sailed the Sarah, Lucas, from Malta for Bristol ; and pruorsce Custom House cutter, on a cruize. PORTSMOUTH, OCTOBER IS. Arrived his Majesty's ship JALOUSE, from Cork, I having under her convoy the following transports, , with the Argyleshire Militia on board, viz.—A.J. Betsey ; 8.8. Plymouth ; A.Y. Laurie; A.G. Wil liam ; A.U. Mercury; and A.N. Henry. Came into harbour, the Riga packet, recaptured; and the Portland and the Hind, from Quebec * with timber ' for the Deal Yard. The following are the Convoys appointed—Rivou, for Spain, Portugal, and the, Mediterranean ; MEDWAY, for Bermuda and the Ba hama Islands ; and the CYAN, ' for Madeira and the Coast of Africa.—Wind S.W. blows strong. DOVER, OCTOBER 35. Came in the Fly brig, letter of marque, froth Lon don, bound to Guernsey and Africa, having had part of her side beat in, in the gale of Tuesday. Early yesterday morning, as a boat was coming ashore from One of his Majesty's ships in the Downs, it was by a sudden gust upset, and Mr. HARRISON KING, a Mid shipman (nephew to WILLIAM KING, Esq. one of the Justices of this town) drowned. Came in the Dover Pilot cutter, having lost her bowsprit, which in its fall broke the arm of Mr. KNOCKER, pilot, of this place. DEAL, OCTOBER 15. Arrived the CADMUS sloop of war, from a crnize ; and two ships from the River, viz. the Favourite, for Gibraltar; and the Progress, for Demerara. TARMOtTI'H. OCTOBER IS. Sailed yesterday the BONNZ CITOICZNNE, fig the Downs; and the SPIT/rine, for Spithead. COVE, OCTOBER 11. Yesterday arrived here a Vessel with the Masters of ten sail of the Halifax and Quebec Fleet, captured by an Americzci privateer, said to be the Yankee. This fleet sa►led hence about five weeks ago, under convoy of his Majesty's ships ENDYMION, ATRALIA r JASON, PROMETHEUS, &c. The captured vessels were separated from the rest of the convoy in a gale and thick weather ; and were then (Alen in with by the ene my, who destloyed them all, except Jne vessel given up to the Masters and crews. GALWAY, OCTOBER 7. Thursday last, put. into Arran ttoad, the Swedish ship Anna, C. G. ULFSPARRIC master, from Amelia Island, bound to Gottenburgh, ',laden with cotton : sailed from the above island the 11th August last, on the 16th of September got into soundings, and on the 2fld was boarded by his Majesty's brig BACCHUS, Captain Houdx, out 18 hours from Cork. The Anna experienced a series of bad weather during the voyage, and suffered considerably in her riking, having her' rtain•top.mast carried away in a gale. The crew of the Anna was for several days on short allowance.— The Lady of Colonel WARDROBE (who formerly commanded a light brigade in this town) came pas. senger in the above vessel. ARILIVALS. Off Margate, the Aberdeen, Main, from Quebec. At Liver pool, Liberty, Wilson, from Montreal; Mars, Williamson, from Buenos Ayres ; Fair Hibernian, —, from Lisbon ; and Margaret, Muller, from the Baltic. In the Clyde, Rover, "fameslane, from Lisbon; James,—; Maria Hannah, Neptune, Neil; and Echo, Taylor,from Quebec; Speculator, Collins, from Archangel. At Maranliam, Fame, Williams; and Venus, Stott, from Liver pool; Mercurio, Fells ; and Lord Cathcart, —, from London. At Pernambuco, Nicholson, Fullart ; Argo, Cummins; and Peggy, Sheriff, from Liverpool ; Spartan, Forret), from London ; Ama zade, from Lisbon; and Felix Ventura, from Oporto. A letter from St. Andero, dated Sept. 27, says, fg one of the transports that came in our convoy was taken the night we arrived here, (25th September) and carried into Santona, about 15 miles East of this place, where the French have a force of two thousand men very strongly fortified, and from whence they commit great depredations. The vessel captured is valued at E 75,000, having a cargo of wheat, cloath. ing, and stores. The French have, we understand, at Santona two brigs, a corvette, and some row. boats, which they man with 40 or 50 people." • The high spring tide of Monday last, which, aided by a strong south westerly wind, inundated the southern coast .of Kent, and particularly at Folkestone, washed down two dwellings on the Stade, and the new embankment which had been formed for the protection of that part of the town, was predicted by the French astronomers as likely to be productive of considerable inundations on the maritime coasts, if favoured by winds. According to the same calcu lations, another tide, higher than the ordiaary spring tides may be expected about the 25th instant, and another stillhigher than that of Monday last, on the 9th of November, whose eff-ct may be encreased ur diminished, as the wind may operate either on the eastern'or southern coasts of the county.' The latter is calculated as the highest of any which may occur in the present year. The Lord Warden held a Pilot's Court at Dover on Monday, when fifteen new pilots were made for Dover, Deal, and Ramsgate. % `u, tiit Abet. Tfie men who were wnunded by some of Ow Mo. naghan Militia, in the affray at Plymouth Dsek, on Tuesday night, are expected to recover. Several of the ringleaders have been secured, and order restored. Detachments from Scotland for the 31st, 79th and 92d regiments; proceeded on Monday from Graves. end to Portsmouth, to embark for foreign service. The last letters from the Peninsula infirm us, that the Medical Department had Mbit strongly Trefoil mended the imthediate adoption ut flannel to Officers and men. The Inspectors of Army Clothing have been or dered to finish their inspections of the cif - aling of the regiments stationed in England, and the Isl inds in the Channel, in the course of the present month. It appears by authentic doeumentq, that everyfifik man enlisted in Ireland for the army, deserts the ser vice before he is seat to his regiment. The undermentioned corps of British Militia are deficient in their quotas to be given to the Army, oar hundred mm sand upwards :—The Carmarthen, Cum berland, East Devon, North Devon, East Norfolk. lit Tower Hamlets, Ist West York, Aberdeen, Ar gyle, /cc. Dumfries, &c. Edinburgh, Firfar, ate. In verness, kc. Lanark, Renfrew, Ross, &c. The Ist West York and Galway regiments.of ME. litia. now .stationed in the garrison at Dover, have received orders to hold themselves in readiness to march from that place. They are to be r, placed by the Kerry Militia, and the Cornish Miners ; the latter of, whom were stationed in Dover nearly eight years previous to their departure for Ireland. Part of the Derbyshire Militia marched thip day from Dover to Dell ; the First West York march from Dover ou the Y.sth inst. for Essex ; they are to be replaced by the Ahetdeeniaire and Letby PORTUoULSE 1 REZIT. Our relations with the Pottugoese have lately undergone revision, and assumed a new form, cabin. lated to facilitate and -Lend commercial eaterprize between the subjects af the respective Stites. l'he changes that have been introduced are favourab.e to the commerce of this country, and creditable to his Majesty's Ministers. They are as follow ; We the undersigned Commissioner', applitred by his Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State for Fo. reign Affairs, and by the Aatbassad•ir ot the Prince Regent of Portugal, resident at this Couit, for the settlement of some mans under the late Treaty of Commerce, - which require to be adjusted with as much precision as t'ae nature of the circumstances will admit, have mutually agreed upon the several points hereafter mentioned, and have authenticated such agreement by our respective signatures. 66 Ist. The Identific .tion of British ships. " It is agreed that the official certificate of regis. try, signed by the proper OtEcers of the Biki,h Cus toms, shall be deemed sufficientlo indemnify a Bi itish built ship, and that on the production of such ceiti. ficate, see shairbe admitted as such in any of tbe ports within the dominions of his Roy al Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal. .' J. The verification of Br:tish Merchandise in the Portuguese Dominions • 64 Itisagreed, that 0.1 tae importation of any g o o d s or merchatalize fromithe United Kitiodom.. inio any of the ports of the dominions of hii Royal Highness the Prince Regent of P,rtugal, all such goods ,sibakl be accompanied by the original crickets, signed and sealed by the proper Officers of the British Custom!' at the port of shipping, and that the cocl:ets belong ing to each ship shall be numbered progressively, the total number stated on the first and last cocket by tho proper Officers of the Customs, at the final.clearance of each vessel at the British port ; and it is further agreed, that prior to the final clearance of the Searchers at the shipping port, the cockets for ea%VtO mast ' be collected and fastened toget:ier, towhiqs,o#ll be annexed a paper with the number of the c,clcets,i ed with the official seal, and signed by sl i o,SeatclZrsa The cockets so 'collected shall be produced. h er with the manifest sworu by the Contain, to i& — Por.. tuguese Consul, who strait ciiroly the same die • manifest. The cockets thus secured top;ether, and the manifest so authenticated, to be returned to the Searchers, in order to the final clearance ot the ship. 3. An arrangement of &image, Package, and Trinity Dues. 44 It is agreed to place the Portuguese merchant on • the same footing with the British, both with regard to the duties of Scavage and Package payable to the Coiporation of London, and the duties pay tble on Shipping to the Corporation of the Trinity House in London ; to effect this, and at the s sme time to pre serve the chartered rights of the Corporation o' Lon don and of the Trinity House, it will be necessary that those duties should. in the first instance. be paid as at present, and in all cases, where it shall appear that the Portuguese merchant shall have paid more than the British, the difference to be, returoed with. out expense, in such manner as the Ileitis!' Govern ( ment shall direct. gg 4. The mode of levying duties of 15 per cent, on British good in Portuguese ports. gg It is agreed, that the most equitable mode of adjusting this matter, so as to secure to the Portu guese Revenue, the full payment of the duty of 15 per cent. and to afford to the merchant the certainty of sot being compelled to pay more, in any case, ap pears to be thus : " That the Importer shall, on making the entry at the Portuguese Custom House, sign a declaration of the value of his goods to such amount as he flail deem proper, and in case the Portuguese examining officers should be of opinion that such valuation is in. sufficient, they shall be at liberty to take the goods on paying the importer the amount, according to this declaration, with the addition of 10 per cent. and also returning t he duty paid. " The amount to be paid on the goods being deli vered to the Portuguese officers, which must be within 15 days from the first detention of the goods. 46 A. T. SM. PAYO• " X. varwnr. " A. J. DA Ca'sTA. " WM. suns." The Guild of Merchants 91 Dublin have voted thanks, and a gold box, to Mr. Alderman Kt •41, the late Lord Mayer, for his conduc; iu regtud to the Catholic Question.