Star. — London, England, 1813-04-24 00:00:00

enn is genetailk eiteted foto, dI which the prki.iplei :f exchange ate previously settled, but in the present :ase, the Americans have assumed to theinseles a sight which cannot be tolerated by•the belligerents opposed to thena. General HuLt. and his . Officers, if taken in arms, will be shot in defiance of the ex change thus promulgated. We trust, howeeer, that the mild and conciliatory but firm remonstrance of C01 , ,,Del BAYNES, will have the desired effect, for we !save no wish to see eitretnities resorted to, even With the miserable beings who tan away at the sight of Spiitiog and RouniNsea-4, the Indian Warriors: Letters from New York, of the 20th March, by way of Liverpool, received in town thii morning ; rnerition that no cartel Mini .Ainerici will be per.: witted to sail. , The pressuie of foreign and other matter of yes terday did not leave us time to comment on the gra tifying details which we communicated. The last stand made by the shattered French army under BEAUHARNOIS has, like the rest of their struggles, terminated unfavourably ; and they can have now no resting place until they reach the Rhine. The glori ous victory gained by WITTGENSTEIN on the sth inst. near Magdeburg, *was already partially known, but until yesterday we were not in possession of the de tails. The French accounts, it will be recollected, stated that it was a mere affair of posts Out it turns out, that instead of rour battalioni, it was a whole carps d'armEe, of four divisions, 24 000 strong, ram )nanded by BEAUNARNOIB himself, which was engag ed ; and that it sestained a complete defeat, with the loss of 1000 prisoners, and 2000 in killed and wounded, among 'the latter of whom were General* GRENIEN and GRONDLER• In order to judge of the importahee of this victory, we must revert to a late statement in the French Jour. nals, in which it is asserted, that General LAtousrott, with five divisions, formed of old troops drawn from France, and furnished with a numerous artillery, and double sets of horses, together with a Westphalian corps, and the first corps of French cavalry, occu pied Magdeburg ; that a great military force was daily Collecting at this point; that Davouse with the first s add Vicron with the second corps, were in the neighbourhood; GRENIER, with the 11th corps, before Wittimberg ; REGNIER, With the 7th corps.(be sides Dundrif's division, and a division of Bava rians), at Dresden ; and BEAVIIARNOIS, with the head-quarters, at Leipsic. It was intimated that this vast assemblage of troops awaited only the signal to pass the Elbe at various points, occupy Berlin, and carry all before them to the banks of the Oder. ' After a month's delay, during which lie had been receiving daily accessions to his strength, BEAVHARNOJS, it seems, thought it high time u distinguish himself as Generalissimo, by making a dash at the Prussian capital. A detach ment of the Allies, commanded by General Von 33o1sreee, bad had the boldness to approach the right bank within a few miles of Magdeburg, in or. tier to prevent the garrison from laying the neigh bouring country under contribution. On the 2cl instant, a superior French force being sent out against, this Officer, he fell back, according to orders; spread ing his light troops en all the neighbouring roads, to prevent information from being communicated to the enemy. This precaution was attended with the happiest effects. Contrary to what we always used to observe in the Continental wars, the French have of late been kept in the greatest ignorance of their adversaries' movements; and the Allies have generally contrivedto obtain accurate information of their plans. —Thus it happened in the present instance. Whilst BEAVIIARNOIS, not knowing that WITTGENSTEIN was so near him, was flattering himself that he should march on unimpeded to Berlin, the latter was taking the most skilful measures, first to surround, and then to fall upoti him with his entire force. For this purpose, he collected the corps of Von YORCKp and BERG, at Zerbst and Leitzkau, on the great south ern road from Magdeburg to Dessau, whilst those of BORSTELL and Bueow were stationed at Nedlitz and Ziesar, rather to the northward of Magdeburg. Both parties were to move forward simultaneously from the opposite points, and the one was to fall on the enemy with impetuosity, the moment it learnt, by a canno nade, that the other had commenced an attack. The plan perfectly succeeded. The enemy, who had the advantage of the ground, resisted obstinately ; but he was successively driven, by the separate detachments of the allies, from the positions, which he endeavoured to maintain at three different villages, and alter having two regiments of cavalry entirely cut to pieces, lie owed the preservation of his remaining farce only so the intervention of darkness. In the course of the night he drew off at all points, and did not even at tempt to maintain the defiles, but retreated through them to Magdeburg, which fortress has been since closely blockaded on that side. Thus have the French been already twice defeated by the united Russian and Prussian forces. 'I heir first attempt, on each side of she Elbe, has been disgracefully frustrated. The vic tories of Luneburg and Mockern have been hailed as omens of the success of the campaign ; and a solemn Te Dane has been sung on account of these glorious exploits, in all the churches of the Prussian Me tropolis. Count MIMES had a long interview with the ?RIMS RBGENT I at Carlton House, yesterday. AZ' ARMY; • • An:bider bas beesi ;wined GOVeinment to the Conlin:titling Officer of ill the itegisnisits o LOC.4 . Militia, wait; thirty miles of LOndon, to give op th . ' accoutrements of their respecti ve cor p s , - for the pur pose of being iirsittediausly forwarded tb the North of Germany: . . A large quantitY•of arm s an d =Munition are or dered to be sent from the Ordnlinee Dirks of Chat ham, (or Harwich, to be shipped for Germany: Several sail of transports are arrived at liarwir.b• previous to an eMbarkation daily eipected therti 5000 troops going to the Continent. The Waterford Militia is on iti,march from Sheiv.: neA to Dover, to relieve the Derbyshire Militia, which are under orders to embark fot Ireland. - - The 73d and 91st Regiments of Foot haire Marched into Cokhester BarraCks. Wednesday the 25th Regiiitent of Foot marched into Ipswich garrison from Berwltit-upon.Tweed. N.fl4tl• INTELLIGENCE. PLYMOUTH, APRIL EL Put back the FAVOURITE sloop of war, with a fleet for the Doalns. Arrived the Surma man of wai from a cruize ; also, the American ship Magdalen, be longing to New-York, SnTchtuty master ; and the American schooner Viper, WILLIAMS master, both from Nantz, with brandy, wine, acc. bound to New York, captured on the leyth instant, by his Majesty's ships SUPERB, PYRAMUS, Rovezt, and FANCY hired cutter, which were left in chace of another schooner, called the General Marmion, Canana master, also from Nantz, with a cargo homeward-bound, and it was expected would come up with hei. These ves sels sailed on the 15th; neither we understand have brought any particular news. The Magdalen and irr are Ivy fine vessels.—Wind East. PORTSMOUTH. APRIL 53. Arrived at Spithead the &MIRE, of 18 guns, Lieutenant GLANVILL, from the Motherbank, where she had been performing quarantine, for having had communication with the ship Fermina, from the Me diterranean, which had been captured by a French privateer, after a very spirited resistance, having one killed and another wounded, and recaptured by the SPITFIRE; also arrived the SURLY cutter, from the Eastward...—Put back the BONNE CITOYENNE, Capt. GREEN; and RINODOVE, 18; Captain DOWERS, not having been able to reach the Downs, in consequence ) of the strong Easterly breeze.—Sailed the CASTILIAN, 18, Captain BRAIMER, on a cruize. The FREYA, 38, Captaiti Soon', takes the next convoy to Lisbon. I DEAL, APRIL 2.3. Arrived the FLYING FISH schooper, from off Flush ing. The convoy signal to the Westward is shifted from the ALERT to the PIONEER.—Wind N. E. HARWICH, APRIL 29. The outward-bound convoy for the Baltic came up from Hosley Bay this morning, and have anchored in art harbour. About five sail have cut from their anchors. We have heard of no other damage. A boat, with two dead bodies in it, was picked up on the coast of St. Domingo in January last, having " Flora, of London," painted on it. A large fire had been seen at sea a few nights before. GREAT FIRE AT POOL. POOL, APRIL 22.—Yesterday morning, between five and siz o'clock, a most alarming and destructive fire broke out at the King's Arms public.honse, on the quay, which was quickly consumed, together with the whole range of adjoining buildings, con sisting of a druggist's shop, several small tenements, the Custom-house, and two large store luiuses facing the harbour, with the whole of their valuable con. tents.—The Custom-house being the most remote, the greater part of its stores were saved. Ihe confla gration was occasioned by a servant girl belonging to the King's Arms going into a fuel-house with a lighted candle, and stumbling with it, set fire to a quantity of dry heath, which burnt so furiously, that it was impossible to arrest its progress. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING-1313. FRIDAY, April 23. The Billingbear Stakes, of Wogs. each, b. ft. for the prawn of untried mares, covrred by untried stallions: colts, ad. 71b.; fillies, ast. slb. Ab. M.—Giles and Popinjay allowed WI un tried stallions. Mr. Vansittart's f. Pentagon, by Selim, dam by Delpissi 1 1.4. Darlington's f. by Giles, out of Mony Musk Five to four on 14. Darlington's f. Mr. Neville's Ridicule, Bat. beat Gen. Grosvenor's Lasyboots, fist. 71b. T. Y. C. 50gs.—Five to two on Ridicule. Ld. C. H. Somerset's b. c. Claudio, by Gamine, best Major Wilson's b. 1.11 brother to Vivaldi, dam by Stamford, Bst. 71b. each. 1). I. 100 gs. h. ft.—Seven to four on Claudio. Mr. Craven's Toole, est. llb. beat Major Wilson's Spotless, est. 1 lb. D. I. 200g5.•-• Four to one on Tooley. Sir 3. Shelley's c. Caliban, by Sorcerer, out of Houghton Lass, Bst. 31b. agst. Mr. Watson's E (dead) by Waxy, out of Lily, 85t. IL M. 200 gs. b. ft. • D. of Rutland's c. Rostopchin, by True Blue, out of Rival, rec. 45gs. from Ld. F. Bentinck's c. by Camenat, out of Little Pickle, bit. 51b. each. Ab. M. IS:Ogs. h. ft. Viscount CASTLEREAGH had an audience of the PRINCE R EGENT, at Carlton House. Yesterday the PRINCE REGENT had a select. party to dinner. Yesterday morning, Viscount CASTLERZAGH ar rived in his carriage and four, at the Foreign Office, from his seat at North Cray, in Kent. The Earl and Countess of LIVXRPOOL are expected in town to-day, from Walmer Castle. The Earl and Countess of MULGRAVC and family arrived in town a few days since, in consequence of another of their daughters being taken dangerously ill, in order to procure the bestenedical.achoce. PRINCESS OF ‘. sffEßirrs, att en d e d by DifrAiscssteitawcza, Waned on her Royal Hit:nese the Princisti,of WALES at Bleak/teeth yesterday, at four o'clock in the after noon, to. know hei Royal Highness's mill and plea sure on the subect of receivEg the A,ddress. of the Lord Mayor,. Aldermen, and commons of the City of London, voted yesterday:—;Her Royal Highness wis pleised togive the fkollowins Answer : shall have peculiar sathifiCtiou i receiVing the ,Lod Mayor, Aldermen i and Coalman; at tensington Pilger, on Wednesday nest, at ono o'clock : but I cannot delay till the; expressin g how . kiwi I inn gratified by seeing the Prevalence of the same senti ments among ail rinks of the pecik in the great qty yoi represent." . , , MEETING OF THE LIVERY OF LONDON. Yester4ay,, in compliance with a verbal requisition of Alderman Wien; the Loan MAYOR assembled a Common Hall, for the purpose of receiving the Ai; ewer of the Princess of WAt.es to the City Address, presented to her koyal Highness on the Second day of this month. • The Loan Mama addressed the Miiering, and laid, as he hid assembled the Livery in die Common Hall to -dal without a regular requisition,— it become his dUty to inform them, that he did so in Compliance with the desire of Alderman Wood; who appeired anxious to communicate to them the answer which the Princess of Wales had made to their late Ad dues. For his own part, he (the Lord Mayor) did not conceive their was any occasion for assembling the Livery on so trivial an occasion, as the mere hearing of the report ; the proper °Seer, lioviever, would give them every information.. The Town Clerk immedia te ly proceeded to com municate to the Meeting the steps taken by the Re membrancer to procure the appointment of a day, on which her Royal Highness would receive their Address ; ;an account of the procession, in conse quence of the day being fixed ; their very gracious reception from the Princess ; their permission to kiss her band '.• and the answer which sh e was pl ease d to give on the presentation of the Address, all of which have already been communicated to the public in our columns. The officer then proceeded to read the correspon dence which took place between the Remembrancer of London and Mr. Rolleston and Lord Sidmouth, concerning the propriety of printing and publishing the Address with the Answer, in the Gazette. Copies of the Address and Answer having been transmitted to the Gazette Office for insertion, a letter to the following effect was addressed to Mr. Rolles ton, in consequence of their non-appearance *: " Sta—l sent you a copy of the City Address, with t h e An. saver of her Royal Highness, foe insertion in the Casette. Why have they nut appeared ? " T. TYRRILL." To this letter Mr. Rolleston returned for answer, " That he was not permitted to publish thein unless they were transmitted by the Secretary of State for the Home Department." In consequence of this com munication, a letter was addressed by Mr. Tyrrell, the Remembrancer, to Lord Sidmouth, enclosing the Address and Answer, and informing his Lordship of the refusal of Mr. Rolleston to insert them in the Ga zette w ithout his authority, to which he received the following reply : " Whitehall, April 7. SIIL—I have just received your letter of this day's date, in. closing a copy of an Address from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Livery of the City of LontionAci her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, with a copy rf. her Royal Highness's Answer thereto, and desiring that I will order the same to be inserted in the London Gazette—in reply, I have to acquaint you, that in the exercise of the discretion which belongs to my official situation, I tio not think it proper to cause the Address and answer above., mentioned to be inserted In the Lenders Gacetk. 1 am, Sir, your most obedient humble servant. " SIUMOUTM. " To the City kemembrancer." _ _ _ _ (Loutfhistin . g, mingled with aliftrobation.) The Lunn MAYOR came forward and said, eg You see, Gentlemen, I had good reason to doubt the pro priety of calling you together from your ordinary em ployments to-day—( Murnturr.)—to receive the An swer of her Royal Highness. I have now, Gentle men, only to comniunicate a letter to you from Mr. WHITBREAD, containing his acknowledgments for the Vote of Thanks which you bestowed on him for his public conduct. (Loud .4111aure.) 41 Mr LORD—I have received a Copy of the Resolutions con taining a Vote of Thanks to me for my public conduct. 1 am happy that I have so conducted myself, that my endeavours have merited the approbation of the City of London. "To the Lord Mayor." " SASIVIL WRITRIRAD. The LOAD MAYOR then said—." Gentlemen, I thank you for your attendance to-day, and I now dis solvethe Common Hall—This Hallis now dissolved." At this dismissal extraordinary clamour ensued, and Alderman Wood having come forward, as if de sirous to address the Meeting, was called on to speak by many, whilst numbers cried No, no!" and during the continuance of this disturbance, the Lord Mayor withdrew, amidst a tumultuous shout of dis approbation, and some applause. A crowd of Ladies anei Gentlemen now entered and mingled with the Liverymen, occupying about a third part of the Hall. Mr. WAITHMAN then came forward and addressed the Assembly. They were not in a new situation, for Chief Magistrates before now had deserted their duty 'before the conclusion of the business for which they had collected the Livery, and on those occa. :ions Gentlemen had been voted into the Chair who were willing to proceed in the accoMplisbment of the intentions of the Meeting. Something similar had occurred during the contested election, in the time of John Wilkes. He should therefore propose, g , that Alderman Smith do preside among us at a eeting of the Livery." • Alderman SMITH declared that he entertained scruples respecting the propriety of such a step, which the speech of the worthy Gentleman had by no means removed. He lamented that the Lord Mayor should have thought proper to dissolve the Hall, but be did not think it was becoming in him to accept of the Chair. Mr. Alderman WOOD then proposed that Sir Wm. Rawlins should take the Chair ; which was unani. mously carried, and Sir William proceeded to preside accordingly. Alderman SMITH said, as a Magistrate of London, he had obeyed the order of the Chief M.lgistrate in the dismissal of the Hall, but he was now very wil ling to continue among them as a Liveryman. Mr. Alderman WOOD was not prepared to propose a vote of censure on the conduct of the Chief Ma.. giants i nom :thstanding, however, his Lordship's opinion, it wu a common pr ctice to convene the - 2r • •• }1.4 after any Adarea,.retitton. ot Remonstration fro* the Livery, id beee presented. for the r=" oflearing what answer hid b e e r t.returnecl. T. gh the fiord Mayor considered the occasion of the ingito. be Annul, he w as o f opi n i on . t h at the fZetie eet , fen* Lord Sidmopth, peremptorily refusing the ad.. mission of the Address atd Answer into th e G aseire , wa.l a circumstance of magnitude su ffi cient to rs. guise th eir consideration. —(Load—Wfaa the Gases& Office continued in Shoelaile, he only :I:membered one instance of a coinmunication from the;Livery being refused insertion ; but since its re. mural to the west end of the town, some kind of, con tamination had happened. hid not the refusal to in, sett these communications bear evident marks of a feeling existing somewhere, in hostility to the nature of their Address ? Did not the leading of the citizens through. St: Giles .with the Address, and turning item off towards Tyburn, indicate something ? (Lead applause . .)—He was assured that no order, di. resting the ceremony or route of the Processi6n, bad emanated from Carlton House: he had made every isquiry, and had good reason to be satisfied with the accuracy of his information. He was confident that the Prince Regent had never given any derectioes whatever; for nodoubt he rejoiced at the public feer• ing manifested so spontaneously on the innocence of -+ his wife, and would feel an unwillingness to have be. insulted. But he was afraid that his Majesty's Mi nisters were not possessed of equal feelings. The following circumstance he had learned from the best information :—The Lord Mayor went to Lord Sid mouth concerning the tequisitiog:for calling a Cots. mon Hall; and asked his advidE Lord Sidmouth said, gi Why, my Lord, you are the best judge of City affairs ; but, as you ask me for my advice, if I were in your situation, I would not grant it." The ' observation which was then made by the Chief Ma- gistrate was somewhat singular—“ Ah ! my Lord," said he, 4 4 I have already promised the Gentlemen that I would grant them the Hall."—(Laushree.)— Concerning the case of the illustrious Princess herself, he had formerly reasons to apprehend that inquiries were carrying on, but he believed these were now stopped, possibly from the marked expressions of public feeling, and from the utter hopelessness of suc cess in their pursuit. He hoped that the discussions of this day would-for ever cause further inquiries to cease; for nothing could be a surer mart of a spotless reputation than the spontaneous manifestato of the public feelings of Englishmen,—(Loud approbasion.) Mr. WAIT*JMAN said, it had nut at first been his intention to pass a censure on the conduct of the Lord Mayor. A difference of opir.iiin had prevailed, as to the propriety pt the first Hall •• but after th e R eso l u . 'dons then made, th ere cou ld be but one sentiment.... that as Mitch weight as perisible ought to be given to the decision of the Livery of London. He therefore went himself in the Procession, and even regarded it as a fortunate circumstance, that' the Address had been carried. Considering the conduct of the Lord Mayor and Lord Sidmouth, they seemed to him to have acted under an erroneous impression —that the Prince could be displeased at the discovery of the f tol conspiracy against his own wife; that her triumphant rescue from atrocious Vlunipy would be ungrateful to the feelings cf a husuand.—(Huzzar.)— His own opinion was far different : he had no doubt that the Prince Regent must be delighted at the tsitiroph of one so dear to him by birth, as well as marriage.--. (Loud applause.) —How, thrh, had Lord Sidmouth dared, by his conduct, to countenance an epinion, that the Address would be unpleasing to his Royal Highness ?—(Applause.)—As to the conduct of the Lord Mayor s why had he carried the Livery Of Lon don by a circuitous route ? Why had he presumed to • think, that the triumph wltich the City wire cele brating would give displeasure in any particular quarter ? The Lord Mayor had yesterday excused himself by saying, that his oath compelled him to keep the peace of the. city. .What ! was it to pre. serve the peace of the city that the Livery of London were carried to St. Giles's ?—(4 laugh.)--lie thought that a public procession should go tbreitgli all the most crowded streets where the people wise assent. bled to demonstrate their joy. It was not proper that the conduct of the Chief Magistrate should be passed over without disapprobation. He had dissolved the Hall, because he knew that he deserved their censure. He had abandoned theni, because he felt that he should meet with their execration instead or their thanks.—( Lad shouts of aftplasse.)—For the purpose of marking their opinion of h:s Lordship's conduct; in the best possible manner, he would more, as a Resolution, " That it appeared to be the incumbent duty of the Chief Magistrate, to carry the Resolutions of the Livtry into the best possible effect—That the Lord Mayor, Ly carrying their buy Address to its destination by a circuitous mute, ipd *hewn a dig. respect for the Livery ; and his behaviour, cu the prevent occo. sion, had proved him unworthy of their confidence. ' Mr. TnoursoN seconded the motion, and expressed his conviction that the Prince and his Mother were at the bottom of the proceedings against the Princess (luau and applause.) He was surprised that the prin. cipks of liberty should be discussed in a place where a statue had lately been erected to the destroyer of the human race (hisses.) He proceeded to observe, that Baronets would soon become as despicable as Peg Nicholson's Knights. For his part, when he saw Bart. against a man's name, he thought it stood for " bartered." He supposed the Lord Mayor would be made a Baronet for his services to-day. Was it not evident that there was a feeling existing against the Princess of Wales, as well from the conduct of the hypocritical Lord Sidmouth, as that of the Lord Mayor ? The Resolution of censure was then put and scar ried, with one dissentient voice, and was ordtrad to be published in the Papers. Mr. WAITIIM AN then moved the Thanks of the Meeting to Sir W. Rawlins. W Mr. ADDINGTON stepped forward to propose a Resolution in the name of the Meeting, protesting , against the conduct of the Commissioners, the m.in ner of taking evidence, and the recent conduct of the Privy Council—proceedings which were without pre cedent since the days of Henry VIII. Mr. WA ITHMAN said, whatever indignation the Meeting might feel on the subject it was not now be. fore them ; and they could not without notice discuss any matter which would not have been proper had the Lord Mayor been present. The Resolution, not being seconded, came to no-. thing. The thanks of the Meeting were then vottd to Sir W. Rawlins, who returned thanks, end the Meeting dispersed. '~~s ~e~_ eu duo Ecei. as* Pre- take ther rim; for :erd Ua!'. than a (14. ca." .ces the Dc• it• P. id