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vi a foot, consisting of 500 volunteers, will be raised, o f whom 300 are already collected and fitted out. Th e Pomeranean Regiment consists of about 600 men making, in the whole, a total of 3600 fighting rem The army is advancing at all points te*ards the Elbe. The head-quarters of the Crown Prince ore ex pected to be on the 30th at Wittenburg, to w hich pLice the whole of the Swedish troops are ad- Vancin THI FiV.F.NING STAR LoNDONs FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1813. Tat !Cool Static-bAs.—Holidty at all the ruhr.c °Sees. OCCUPATION OF HAMBURGH BY THE EItENCH. We are sorry td announce this distressing'event, which took place on Sunday. It seems to have been the immediate consequence of the failure of the siego clarions commenced by Deninarit, with the view of enabling that Power to take the field in support of the common cause of nations. Again we say tha this is a most distressing event', and so far as it has been brought about by human agency—the misguided cr selfish pblicy, which has thus given up a brave and generous population to indiscriminate massacre, can set be too publicly denounced or too extensively exe_ . crated. Where the blame lies we pretend not at resent to discriminate.—Our Readers will perceive, that as the Danish force which occupies Hamburgh, in conjunction with the French, is far more numerous, there is some probability that the latter will not be able to put BON'APARTE'S threats of vengeance in execution : H2LIGOLAND, MAY 31. We have jest received the unfortunate intelli gence that Hamburgh again felLinto the hands of the French yesterday evening. a At eight o'clock on Sunday morning Major- Ceae:al Tettenborn; with all the military, left it, after issuing a Proclamati•>n to the Inhabitants, telling them he could no longer protect them, and that it Was of Louse left to them to do what they pleased. At nine o'clock 4000 Danes, cavalry and infan try, and 20 cannon, entered the town, and a French General rode alongside of the Danish Officer, who headed the Danes. Prior to the entering of these forces, negotiations had been entered into between the Citizens and Military Commandant, at Altonz, and it was stipulated• the Hainburghers were to de- Ever up their arms, &c. " Between seven and eight last night, the French who had crossed atWilhelmsberg entered Himhurgh, atter having been fired tipon by thi inhabitants of the Deip, dose to Hamburgh, of whom several were in consequence cut down. The douaneers and gens tl'armes headed their column." HARWICH, JUNE s. 4 The arrival of the treating smack this evening has disappointed all our expectations, and we have the melancholy task of announcing the occupation of Ilitnburgh by the French oh Sunday evening last, thrthigh the treacherous conduct of the Danes, who entered the City, from Altona, 5000 strong, in the morning of that day ; and in the- evening gave up the Jnhappy inhabitants to experience every misery, and we tear, unexampled cruelty from their ruthless ifivaders, 1500 of whom v►ere admitted at six o'clock: Irhe the French commander was we have not heard, but suppose it must be the same force that had pos. tssien of the adjacent islands." By the two Heligoland Mails which arrived yes tetchy, we have received some important communi cations froth our Correspndent at Hamburgh. They detail the occurrences at, that place up to the moment cf ;ts hostile octupation by the French and Danish Mops. The particulars with which we are furnished tirbugh the same medium, respecting the recent great battles, still bear us out in our opinion —the Allies have never yet been defeated. PRIVATE LETTERS. " HAMBURGH, MAY 25. " In continuation of my last, I proceed to inform you that after the Danes had left us on Wednesday tver.ing, and the posts were all occupied by the Cid :er,s, the French threw, during the night, a great tumber of shells and cannon balls into the city, which lilted two persons and wounded four or five of the Guard. Happily the shells did not cause fire tobreak cut any where. The French fire was silenced by a most extramdinary circumstance, which it is pretended i 5 :ell attested. A ball from our side entered the mut!' a French cannon, at the moment it was loaded ; it instantly went off—the terrible colli sion caused the cannon to burst, and 26 men in the battery were either killed or wounded by the explo nn. Something like this at least certainly happened. 03 Thursday all was still. On Friday two battalions bf Swedes arr4e4.--General Tettenborn went to meet then, and the Bamiler•guard was drawn up to re 'e've them oa their entrance, and, as well as the as: stmLled pe. , ple, gave them a joyful huzza. " Friday night the French, on rafts and in small 7 e" 4.1 5, favoured by the darkness of the night, sur. Prised the guard-ship in our harbour, and were ac tually carrying her away, when they ran her aground. ne Burgher Guard, supported by the Swedes, now began a terrible fire of small arms, and soon obliged t he few French on board the ship to demand quarter. killed h a d on this occasion, it is supposed, 200 men and wounded, but only ten or twelve prisoners. On Saturday night the French again threw a great , hurnher of shells, which broke an infinite number at windows, and killed two persons ; but nowhere caused fine to break out so as to be dangerous. Some balls struck the steeple of St. Catherine's Church. Since then'all is quiet, except that yesterday evening we could see from our ramparts a smart engagement be hind Harburg. " The French lying between, we cannot know either who were engaged, or what was the result; but the French seemed to retire, and it is said the Prussians and Russians are in possession of Harburg. But nothing is Made known here of what measures are intended to be taken, as we have a horrible ntun ber of Spies." 46 HAMBUROH, MAY 28. " The Emperor Napoleon, it seems. finding the position of the Allied Army near Bautzen so strong, wished to entice them out of it without a battle, and made a diversion witlia strong corps towards Berlin; but this being repulsed, as stated in my last, he was obliged to risk a battle oh the 21st and 22d, but without attaining his object. Yet it is of the highest importance to him soon to obtain some decisive ad vantage; without which, his situation must become very critical. The Allied Army becomes daily stronger by the numerous reinforcements which join it; and, besides others which are soon expected, 25,000 reconvalescents from the field•hospitals have returned to their corp., 8000 new-raised Prussians are arrived, large detachments of Cossacks are has tening through Poland, and Lieutenant-General Ba ron Sacken is marching through Silesia to the army with his corps, having forced the Poles assemtled at Cracow to lay down their arms and return to their homes. " Meantime 8000 Cossacks, under fourteen leaders, have appeared before Dresden, in, the rear of the French army, harassing it exceedingly, p.lrticularly by cutting off its supplies, of which it has extreme need, being in a country that is almost eaten ups pri • soners declare, that for three days they have had no thing to eat. Desertion is great, and the proximity of the Bohemian mountains makes it very easy : two battalions of Croats have deserted in a body; a body of Spaniards has also deserted. None of the Princes of the Confederation of the Rhine seem to have cou rage to repair the faults of so many years against the Emperor and Empire, by a change of conduct. Ten thousand Bavarians are in the French army. The soldiers, in general, are otherwise disposed than their Princes, and tired of being misemployed by the French. Napoleon received the King of Saxony very angrily, and forced him to dismiss Baron Senft von Pilsack and General Langenau,,ihe advisers of his unhappy conduct. The Manifesto of the Allies against the King of Saxony will appear in a few days, and offer to support the nation, betrayed by its Prince to misfortune and infamy. 44 As fur the situntion of Hamburgh, it has been very singular and problematical. In the night of I Tuesday the Swedes left us without any one's being able to assign the reason. Some say they were come without orders from the Prince, others that the Danes had declared they would regard their stay at Ham burgh as a declaration of war; others thought that they would cross the Elbe higher up to attack tile French in the rear, and so cortipel them to abandon the islands which they still occupy opposite us. But it does not appear that any Swedes have yet passed the Elbe. " On Thursday morning and this. Morning about l , 1900 Prussians of the corps of General Doernberg arrived here ; last night a great many boats were put in requis;tion, as it was thought to convey the Prussians o?er to Wilhelmsbutg to attack the French, but this had not been done, nor do they seem to be yet strong enough. " This morning early the French again threw some balls and grenades into the town, which did no damage. They_ would probably long since have done us much more hArm, had not the heaVy rains and the high floods of the Elbe rendered their situa tion in a swampy ground very inconvenient, and im peded their works, by filling their trenches with water. Their situation must certainly be, on the whole, bad. Deserters say they are in want of all kinds of provi- sions, except meat, and that they have a great num ber of sick. It were heartily to be wished that we were rid of them. , s Another unpleasant feature of our situation is, the interruption of the direct correspondence with England. The Danes have refused to let the two last mails of Friday and Tuesday pass, and they were sent on Wednesday to Lubeck, as I suppose this will be. Nor will they stiffer two mails lying at Heligo land to come up ; so that till the Hanoverian side of the Elbe is cleared from the French, all communica tion must be by a round-about way. This dissension between England, Denmark, and Sweden, at so cri tical a period, is highly to be lamented; for the harm it does to the common cause. , g The Danish Government complains of Bern storff's being sent away from London unheard, and being only told that no peace could be treated of but on the basis of Sweden's claims, and with its concur rence, in another place than London ; and these claims being adverse to the continued union of the sister kingdoms Norway and Denmark, the war, we have reason to fear, will still be continued. In Altona many people have sent away their families, from an apprehension that the Bnglish gtm-boats will force their way and bombard the town : a groundless fear surely. Others with mote reason fear fur Cupen • beton . Which an tallish fleet, daily increasing •in strength, is lying. The .King of Denmark is ex. petted hi Holstein.° • Private letters received this Morning, by the *ity or Heligoland,fron)Hamburgh, Mention, that the Danes entered Hambutgli on Sunday morning 9000 strong, commanded by a French General, who took possession of Hamburgh,in the name of Na POLEON: On their en trance, the Danes issued a Proclaination, stating, that all persons and property should be protected if they submitted peaceably to the French Government, which they have done. They then salt boats to Wilhelms burgh, for the purpose of carrying the French troops to Hamburgh. Gottenburgh Papers were received last night to the 25th ultimo. The CROWN PRiNCIL had arrived at Stralsund on the 18th, and after remaining there one hour only, put the whole of his troops in that quarter (about 15,090) in motion. He himself proceeded to Lubeck. Baron ENGESTROM, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, has published a circular to all Com• manders, &c. in which he states, that DOLGORUCKI I having exceeded his instructions at Copeqhagen, had been recalled from that city, and ordered not to ap pear at head-quarters; and also that England had determined not to make peace with Denmark on any grounds not perfectly consistent with her relations with Sweden and Russia. The report that Austria has joined the common cause is, we fear, a repetition of an unfounded rumour. The Austrian Ministers have certainly much to answer for: hundreds and thousan3s of our fellow-creatures have perished with in these few weeks, whose lives would have been saved had Austria shewn some firmness at the outset, and felt some sympathy for the calamities inflicted upon that part of Europe of which sbe was once the Pro tectress. Shame and disgrace upon that Government which, through weakness or selfishness, can be indiffe rent to the shedding of human blood, and permit crimes to over-run the earth like a torrent, whilst, by a single step, it could have put a bar against the career of the Destroyer ! A letter from GottenbArgh,' dated May 29, says, 4 , We have accounts from "Stralsund up to the 20th, they contain nothing new. Different accounts from Vienna say that the Emperor has declared in favour of the Allies, and marched 80,000 men to join them -Intelligence has just been received here of an American schooner privateer, with six 4-pounders, having come disguised into Rora, a srissill harbour be tween Marstrand and the Wiugo. This information was immediately forwarded by the British Consul to the Commander of his Majesty's i.:hips in the Roads, and there is no doubt she will be taken care of." A Mail from ,Limaica, with Papers to the 27th of April, ha 4 arrived. The following are extracts : " JAMAICA, AP:? :I. 2,2. " His Majesty's ship Anco, of 44 guns, I•as been ordered to sea this morning, for the purpose a col lecting the vessels of the homeward-bound fleet. 44 His Majesty's ship CYANE may be hourly ex pected from Porto Bello, with almost half a million, of specie. 4 , Upwards of 200 prizes have been carried into Bermuda since the American war, and a considerable. number into Halifax." " JAMAICA, APRIL 2t .6 We learn by recent accounts frlm Carthagena, that the Indians from Scenega had offered' to come under protection of the President of Carthagena, and that Santa Martha was about being put in possession of the Independants. Sir Gregor *Gregor has been appointed to the command of 1200 Men, by Presi, dent Narino, of Santa Fee, and had penetrated into Ventuel.t. General Boliver, with 2000 men, had beaten and dispersed an army from Caracca, and was following up his success." The remark of the enlightened SPEAKER of the House of Com Mons, that the Catholic Bill as lately proposed, would neither prove acceptable to the Ca tholics of Ireland, nor to the people, is fully verified in the former particular, at least, by the conduct of the Catholics upon receiving intelligence of the fate of the Bill. The Irish Papers are filled with Resolu tions frotn Roman Catholics against the Bill as it ap peared in its amended state. We are happy to ob serve, that all their Resolutions are couched in tem perate language, and display an unabated spirit of loyalty. The PRINCE REGENT held a Court yesterday, when Lord WHITWORTH received his appointment as Lord Lieutenant of Treland. Most of the Cabinet Minis. ters were present. Mr, iIIeKrELL ) the Solicitor to the Admiralty, has been appointed Clerk at the Board of Green Cloth, on the resignation of HENRY NORTON WILLIS, Esq. The place is worth about £3OO per annum, with the deduction kf the income tax. WEYNIOUTkt ELEC: lON.—S•eCOrld Day's Poll. _ _ Lord CRANBOURN, 51 I Mr. U► R, &1 I Mr. STUART, S 9 Mr. Intr, 51 Mr.WILLIAMS, 40 Halifax Papers were received yesterday to the 12th ult. which state that General PROCTOR had defeated the army of the enemy, with the loss of 1000 in killed and wounded. Yesterday St. Paul's Cathedral was crowded, in consequence of the Annual Meeting of the children educating in the several parish schools, within the city and suburbs : an excellent sermon was preached by the Bishop of Chester ; the Coronation Anthem and several Psalms were sung and chaunted by the Gentlemen of the Choir, the children joining in the choruses. The number of children present was much on account of the heat of the weather. • So NAVAL iNtELLIGtNet the Lapwing Paticel, from 1 1 / 4 1.41ta, and the Fo! Nati, from Lisbon, are arrived at Falmouth—•the Mails will be in Town to-morrow. .EAST INDIA SHIPPING. The Purser of the NErruss Ariiveci at the East India-Housb soon after eight n i elocl: yesterday even. ing, with Olt+ intilig . ente of the arrival of th. 2 tinder 7 mentioned ships dr Plymouth on the Ist lust. flockr convoy of his isfajesty's ship Tussit:, , , g:ins, and CORNELIA. fri7 . ,:ite, Vl7. : NEPTUfi E s ELPiI! XSTOE, CAC VA A NISTON. MARQUIS OF TLEY, CI CENCRSTER. CUFFN RlLry WEXFORD, OVAL CII A R TE, AVNIVDCIC CASTLT• BOMBAY; WINCIIELSEA THAMES" SURAT CA..OTLIC b Courrk, and ClLAtrcs—sailed from China the sth of January. The extra ship SOVFMON Madras about. thi rtllddlc January ; the LAIIKIrc, CHAPSIAN g front BengAl ; and the FANNY brig, from tl 'Cape of God Hope. The whole sailed limn St. Helena the 6th of April. EurnitATP3, HEREPKT, sad to he hest off Don dra licod, outward•bound, Is: of January lost-6-crew saved. . The Darin Scorr and ROYAL GEOROE were to sail from China iri ohout six weeks from the I Silt of January—they arrived at Macao on the 13th of that month. FALMOUTH, JUNE 2. Oxa o'CLocx, A► M.—This moment arrivel Majesty's brig PELICAN, Captain M tri.vs, from Ja maica, with a Mail, in 42 days, last from Bermuda, in Lk' days. By her we I...tru, that s;iteen sail of American prizes had sailed hum Bermuda seven drys before the PELICAN left that island, under con voy of two men of war. The PELICAN has brought a report Which she learnt at Bermuda, that the Essex frigate was taken by Lis Majesty's ship PostoNE, but little credit was given to it. His Majesty's ship VENGEUR left Port Royal, Jamaica, on the 20th of April, with a convoy, and a large quantity of specie for the rendezvous.—Sailed the Lady Mary Pelham packet, with a Mail for Surinam. PLYMOUTH, JUNE st. A pilot berm arrived here this Morning, with two passengers, which she took out of the Neptune and Castle's, homeward bound Chinamen, last evening, at five o'clock, about eight leagues south-west of the Dodman, the wind then at N.N.E. which ships Were then in company. with the homeward-bound East India Fleet. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 3. His Majesty's brig DExmr.ous, of 16 guns, Cap. tain Tommsos, is appointed convoy to the Downs. Arrived the Si.vedish ship Triton, OUN EN, from St(ick holm, laden with Pr and iron for this port. A Spa ni.,ll Officer has arrived from France, his name is Dom CoNrumtos, late Governor of Tarragona, he is ac companied by a French loyalist, rho has also escaped from prison. They are detained at this pert until permissicn in obtained from the Secretary of gate for their proceeding to Lond,n. The wind ti',. blows strong from the Westward, and it is to be apprehen ded the convoy which sailed from hence yisterday, will be obliged to put back, or go into some port to the westward. DEAL, JUNE s. • Sailed five sail of the line and one frigate, (Rus sians,) on a cruize off the Texel, under the c(mmlind of Rear-Admiral KoßoßAA.—Came down from the River the DROMEDARY store-ship,. and sailed for Portsmouth.—Wind N.E. HARWICH, JUNE s. The brig George, Capt. KING, with the Mails of the Ist, sails this evening for Gottenburgh, as did the Lord Duncan, Capt. linxtwrox, for Heligoland& The LEVERET sloop of war ha: arrived here to join the expedition, and remains with the ROSA MIR, Rao: POLE, ARCHER, and PINCHER brigs, 14 sail of trans ports, &c. The Diana, Capt. M.DoNomil, has also come in from Gottenburghi but does not bring any news.—Wind N.W. THE LATE MURDERS.-2Vichohon, the footman, who is charged by the verdict of the Coroner's Jury, with the atrocious murder of his master and mistress, was, at three o'clock yesterday, alive, and his recovery was highly probable, unless counteracted by his own desperation ; up to that hour he had not made any' confession, but persisted In declaring his innocence. Early this morning, the house, No. 44,. in Baker. street. was brbken into, and robbed of plate to a very great amount. The robbers entered by one of the area windows, and have not yet been discovered. Persons possessing any of the Numbers of Dr. THORNTON'S grand, national, and betutiftal BovAx:. CAL WORK, may complete the same by applying to any Bookseller, or to Dr. Titonsros, No. 1, Hinde. street, Manchester-square. The Plates of this fine Work in ten days will be destroyed, after wlicli, no copies can be completed: This opportunity, if lo.t, can never 'be regained. TWENTY THOUS aiND POUNDS Pnizc.—This Morn ing at Nine o'Clock the: Lottery becTan Drawing, 214 before Eleven o'Clock No. 5237 was drawn a Prize of £20,000, which was sold in One Quarter, One Eighth, and Ten Sixteenth Shares, at the tc'rtunate Of. flees of T. Btsit, the Contractor. No. 1, Cornbill, and No. 9, Charing-Cross ; and No. S:101, dr.:wn this morning a Prize of .€IOOC, was also sold by him in a Whole Ticker. CORN EXCHANGE, JUNE 4. _ _ We have a considerable Ittatirity of Wheat at NTar:tet, frOm. previous arrivals, bur very little fresh in this day. Cur prices re maia the same as on ".\ ednesii.iy, hut the sales were heavy, and not much has been disposed of—Barley goes off very slowly, having hut few buyers, and ail increase u: our supply by the ar rival of several vessels frcm Nori4k, where the sales are forced, lower prices must he submitted to.—Oasts are front Is. to 2s. per quarter lower, taring several fresh arrivals! this tuwning. Beans are dull sale, and rather cheaper.—The other articles, co alteration.