Star. — London, England, 1808-09-05 00:00:00

• THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. MONDAY, SEPTEMBIR 5. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK s Consols, for money, 654—ace. 66}..-Reduced 664. Omnium dist. PRICE OF STOCKS ON SATURDAY. panlrStork 240 . Omnium, 1 li4 dle 3 per C. Red Ann. 66if India Stock 177} 3 per C. Cons. 66{ 66 India Bonds; 3s. a O. 5 per Cent. Navy 97{ 98 Lubec!. Bills, 35. a 65. pre= Long Ann. 946 Consols for cc. 64 Dish 5 per Cent. 97i GOTTENBIIRGH MAILS. Two Mails arrived from Gottenburgh last night.— The letters received by them repeat the report that Sir SAMUEL HOOD had fallen in with the Russian fleet. In other respects the Mails bring but little intelligence, if we except a statement repeated in several letters, that the French troops on the Elbe, who had been put in motion to proceed to Spain, had shewn the most marked detestation of the service in which they were to be engaged.. It was currently reported and cre dited on the 'Change at Gottenburgh, before the Mails came away, that a body of French soldiers, in num b er 2200, in crossing the Elbe for Hamburgh, on bearing that they were to march for Spain, declared to a man that they would not march to Spain to be murdered, and that they threw all their muskets into t he River/ In our last, in addition to the Official details of the victories obtained by our brave countrymeU in Portu gal on the 17th and 21st ult. we stated the accounts that had been received from Oporto of the final cap ture ofJurror and his army on the 24th. As one of the letters from Oporto, received on Saturday by a Merchant in the City, and dated Sunday sennight, did not reach us till a small part of our impression was worked off, we again insert its inclosure, reported to have been posted at the Exchange of Oporto " Lotsou, with five thousand men, killed.—Justor and LA. WORDS prisoners on their way to Coimbra and Oporto, as the Bri tish General would not concede to them any honours.—Thirty three wagons loaded with the plunder taken.—The Russians, as soon as the french left the capital, hoisted Portuguese colours.— There has been a naval engagement, in which the English de stroyed a French Squadron, which was conveying to Portugal Prince Ettotit a (our Kiss ) with several thousand men to re inforce Juno:." That such accounts had reached Oporto is not to be doubted, from the respectable quarter whence the let ters came ; but the intelligence is not generally- cre dited, because it is thought it would have probably come direct from the Tagus, if correct, as. we have plenty of cruizers off that part of the coast. Some of the letters from Oporto also state, that Sir C. COTToN had intimated to the Russian Admiral, that the Por tugtese Government having been superseded in the Tagus by. the French, and the Russians having put themselves under the protection of their allies the French, he must demand their surrender to his Bri tannic Majesty. _ . Government have not yet received accounts of the turrender of Jr ;Nor, but they do not discredit the above intelligence, though not yet received officially. , —To this we have to add, that our letters from Ply. mouth Dock, received this morning, announce the arrival of the SCORPION, " with intelligence of the surren• der of Jusor, and that our troop: are in tottettion of Lit kn." We may, therefore, hope, that a few hours will confirm the intelligence of the complete triumph of the British troops, and the capture oldie Russian feet The proposals of capitulation brought to Sir Haw DALRYMPLE by the French General KELLERMAN, were totally inadmissible. They were, in substance, that General Jurror would evacuate the Portuguese territory, upon condition that he was suffered to de part unmolested in the Russian fleet, which, having originally taken shelter in the port of a friendly power, meld not be treated as an enemy. This was, of course, refused, and the right of our army, which had not been engaged on the 21st, was dispatched on the 23 in pursuit of the enemy. By the arrival of Sir HARRY BURRARD our army amounts to near 30,000 men, and it has now 2000 cavalry. JUNOT, with all his obstinate bravery, would hardly venture another battle with such an enemy. We this day lay before our readers various articles from an immense mass of Spanish and Portuguese papers. These papers present so many repetitions of important events with which our readers have been made acquainted, and addresses and proclamations so, much in the style of those before given, that we are obliged to be select in our extracts. It appears from the Portuguese papers that numer ous desertions have taken place from the Portuguese corps which AMOY had formed in Lisbon. A consider able part of the cavalry of the Lisbon Police Guards made their escape about the beginning of August, and an interesting account of this transaction will be found in a preceding column of our Paper. It is not a little remarkable, that their officers, in the first instance, discouraged the plan of desertion which the privates had formed, but at last some of them joined in it. The confidence which appears to have been placed in these Portuguese troops by the French is very unaccountable. After the desertion of the first corps of the Guards, NIVON, their Commander, sent directions to the French Commandant at Santorem, to intercept them, and it is singular, that his dispatch was forwarded, not by a French Officer, but by a Portuguese Serjeant. This messenger, however, and the troops be 6d with him, fell is w ith the deserters, and joined them. Letters from Madrid congrna the report we have already given of the retreat of JOSEPH BONAPARTI jom Vittoria. The French army, however, accord ing to the last accounts, was posted in the neighbour hood of that thy, and occupied n space of two leagues. It is said that they are forming - an entrenched camp, and throwing up strong works on the banks of the Ebro. We are sorry to learn that the French occupied Bilboa so late as the 21st. General PONTE had, how ever, by that time made arrangements fur attacking them with every prospect of success. A.battalion of Poles, to the number of 700 men, has deserted from the French division of moNczy to the Arragon army under PALA/PDX, and arrived at Catalynd with their accoutrements. The French troops at Barcelona are reduced to great ernbartassment by the want of provisions : it is stated that, for some time previous to the date of tile last accounts, beans were delivered out instead of brad. A body of 44)00 men, which was advancing to their succour,nncler the command of General SABRAN, has been totally defeated near Arbes—General SABRAN was killed, and the whole of the division either cut to pieces or made prisoners.—Great num bers of persons have escaped from Barcelona, by scaling the walls of the town. General EspurrA had compelled all the Spanish troops in the place to join the garrison in the citadel, and had shot several who refused to do so. The heads of most of the principal families were likewise held in custody as hostages for the devotion of the inhabitants to the French interest. The Neapolitan and Swiss troops take every opportunity to desert. The Patriots of Manresa, Vick, Lerida, Gerona, Berga, Back, and Montserrat, were, at the date of the last accounts, as sembled at Tarrosa, for the purpose of advancing against the enemy at Barcelona. GIBRALTAR. From various letters which have reached us from Gibraltar we select the following articles:— On the 9th ult. the 42d Regiment (the Old High. land Watch) embarked there to proceed to join the British Army in Portugal. On the same day his Majesty's ship THUNDERED, 74 guns, arrived there from Sicily, and on the 13th landed the following personages there : namely, his Royal Highness Prince LEOPOLDO BARRON!, second son ,of the King, and Infant of Sicily ; the Duke ofj ORLEANS (whose brother died lately at Malta) ; the' Prince del CASSERO and his son the Duke of Ascou, the Marquis Sr. CLAIRE, the Marquis de Li Tema, and the Prince's confidential Counsellor, the Chevalier TOMASI. These personages were all going into Spain to learn the actual state of the Patriotic cause ; and it was believed in Sicily, that one object of the Prince's visit to Spain, was to offer himself to succeed to the SpanishCrown,in the event of FEnziINANDV I I.not bcing restored. But this seems to be a preposterous notion. —The Spanish Cortrs (or Parliament) meets this ' month ; and however they may labour to reform the abuses of their Constitution and Government, it is not likely that they will. violate the right of FEM. NAND, in whose name they have fought, and hitherto conquered. Till he is restored, or dies, a regency will no doubt be appointed to govern in his name. It is far more probable that the journey of this Prince to Spain, with so splendid a retinue, was undertaken with the view of uniting the two peninsulas in a com mon cause against the Oppressor of both. Lord COLLINGWOOD returns to the Mediterranean to take the command off Toulon. Sir Hew DALRYMPLE and his Staff sailed from Gibraltar, in the FIKEBE frigate, on the 13th ult. to take the command of the several corps which had reached Portugal under Generals &MAAR/4 WELLES LEY, MOORE, AXSTRUTHER and SraNcEn, the whole of which would amount to 35,000 men. The above accounts were brought by the Marlbo rough packet, arrived at Falmouth. By this packet has come over S. FERDINANDO BIASCELLO, with dis: patches from the Sicilian Government. This Gentic man reports, that General Sir JOHN STUART, the Hero of Mai4a, was preparing to make A DESCENT UPON NAPLES. His force consisted of 15,000 British, 8,000 Sicilian troops of the line, and 4000 armed peasantry. — It was eipected that he would sail from Sicily in eight or ten days after the departure of this mes senger. It was known to Sir Joint STUART, that very few French troops remained in Italy, from whence great numbers had marched for Spain.— Calabria had been entirely evacuated by them. The Italians were generally well informed of the successful progresss of the Spanish Patriots, and such is the detestation in which the French are held throughout Italy, that the most confident hopes were entertained in the British army of the whole country rising to join the Hero of Maida as soon as he appears. Prince MoLrrxxxo, who sailed some time since in a packet from Falmouth, is to have a command in the Expedition. The Sixth Report of the Commissioners of Military Inquiry has been printed. It occupies three hundred and sixty-six folio pages, embracing the office of the Secretary at War, Regimental Accounts, Agency, and Clothing. On the subject of clothing, it proposes to allow the Colonels of the regular regungnts about 7001. a year in lieu of their profits on that article.---1; proposes 90 alteration in the clothing system of the Militia. AJAR K-LANE CORN-EXCHANOR, ISETPr. The arrivals of Wheat this d 4 make but a short supply, arid sales early in the forenoon were brisk, at An increase in price of about ls. and 21s. per quarter —a. Barley and Malt dull sale, and hardly fetch last prices —.White and Grey Peas are rathet cheaper—Beans of both sorts likew;r,e--Tlv! nipplies of Oats are cor• siderable, and at somewhat less price--• Flour as our last. We feel the greatest satisfaction in announcing, that the Spanish troops who so gallantly withdrew them selves from the power of the French in Fuhnen, are now on their way to the British coast, where they may be daily expected. Lieut. HANSON arrived yes. terda yat the Admiralty, with dispatches from Admi ral KEATS, communicating the pleasing intelligence that the whole of the trocps wh o had been landed atian geland had embarked en board different vessels, and set sail. A Spanish Officer accompanied Lieutenant HANSON, with dispaches from the Marquis de la ROMANA to the Spanish Deputies. The following are letters written by Officers on the field of action, n ar Lisbon : " CAMP AT VERMIO, AUG. 22. " We have been engaged in two glorious actions; the first was on the 17th instant, when our army forced one of the strongest pas a cxes in this country, near Obeidos. And, yesterday, the 21st, ti';e army gained a complete victory over the French, com manded by the Due d'Abrantes, otherwise Junot, in person. I consider myself very fortunate to have been attached to the artil lery, which was IppOinted to the left wing of the army, where fourteen pieces of c.:Onon were taken, and as many ammunition waggons. The slaughov among the French has been' very great. Considerable reinforteme ,u hate, and continue, to join us, so that we expect it is iutended we are ultimately to act in Spain against the French." " VEILMIO, AUGUST 22. " Yesterday the fate of Portugal was decided; and, I may say, with great bravery on our side. On the l'ith it was we first met the French, then about 6000 strong. We killed and wounded 1500 of them, and completely beat the rest. This ac tion, however, was but trifling, compared to the one of yester day ; when the two armies met, the French bad 16,000, and we 18,000, hut we beat them with only half our number, the other half could not come up. We took 20 pieces of cannon, and two howitzers, besides 2,000 prisoners; we have all their ammuni tion and artillery.—The battle began at sine o'clock (Sunday morning) and ended about two in the afternoon.—lt was obsti nate on both sides ; but nothing can withstand the English charge —it is dreadful. The army has lost many a brave fellow; but, however, it was a most glorious day, and I think will be a lau rel added to the army of Old England." In the Gazette return of the killed, wounded, and missing. in the action of the 17th of August, Captain Ton of Ilse 29th, with some other Officers, are reported as missing. It was afterwards ascertained that Cap tain TOD had been severely wounded an , ' taken pri soner. The Gazette of Saturday night contains several pro moticms in the army, in consequence of the recent deaths amongst our gallant troops in Portugal. The public joy diffused by the late glorious victo ries in Portugal is greatly allayed by the loss of so many of our brave officers and men. Among the former the public will unite with us in sincerely de ploring- the death of Lieutenant Colonel TAYLOR, son of L Ir. TAYLOR, of Reading. This gallant officer, at the head of a small body of cavalry defeated and pursued a numerous force of the enemy, and drove them into a wood, where they were reinforced, aad ral bed for a short time, when he was shot through the bean. This distinguished and amiable character was enthusiastically fond of his profession, in which he had been actively engaged, during the last and pre sent wars, in the severest service on the Continent.— He was rising fast to the highest eminence, and the greatest expectations were formed from his skilful and incessant exertions. It is some consolation to his afflicted friends, and to his grateful country, that he died in the moment of victory in an action, on which the fate of the British army in Portugal depen ded, and which has secured our ancient allies from the grasp of the merciless usurper. The Hon. Captain PAKENHAM of the Second Bat talion' 95th (or Rifle) Regiment, who was wounded in the first engagement with the French in Portugal, is brother-in-law of Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY,and brother of the present Earl of LONGFORD of the County West meath. Lieutenant BUNBURY of the same regiment, who was unfortunately killed, was a most gallant young Officer, and of a very ancient and respectable family in Tipperary. Cener4l CASAR BaRTIIIER, with four other French Field Officers, have been carried prisoners to the head quarters of the Murcian and Valencian armies at Al manza. One of the sons of General JUNOT is at Badajoz, amongst other prisoners taken by the Spaniards. The French General REGNIER is stated to have been killed in La Mancha ; and General HESCHEL MANN, with his Aids-de-Camp,.and a body of troops, attempting to escape from Valencia, were taken pri soners and conducted to Albacete. Of the first battle, that of the 17th, an Officer writes as follows Our troops forced a pass, main tained by about 6,000 French, which no troops in the whole world, but British, could have passed : our light companies charged and routed upwards of 400 French, with dreadful slaughter: not more than two men could pass at a time. The pass was a narrow passage in a valleybetween two hills: the French had possession of the hills, and one to defend the passage which we took. The 82d regiment had only three companies engaged, the remainder could not be brought up in time. The light companies charged up a most stu pendous rock like lions—a rock which I with difficulty climbed." A letter from Cadiz contains the following sum mary of the plunder taken by the Spanish armies from DUPONT 17,000 suits of military clothing; 36,000 muskets, packed up ; 120 pieces of cannon • 36 mortars ; 116 coaches; 2000 excellent horses; 200 ammun ition carts; six millions of hard dollars and thandlitary chest ; all the plate stolen at Cordova ' and the usher places through which the French army marched, had been melted into bars. A duel was fought early on Saturday morning in a field near the third bridge on the Paddington canal, betwixt Mr. G—A —r, —N a surgeon, and Lieutenant R—o--n, belonging to the 7th regiment. The com batants each missed their aim, and returned to Lon. don uninjured._ We observe Dr. Ourras, who is to conduct the Musical Festival at Birmingham, has prepared an excellent scheme of performances for the occasion (see Advertisement). A well selected band of 2CO performers, under so able a conductor, must give a sublime effect to the Chor.tcses of Handel and Haydn. • NAUTICAL .txrELLicsAtcr. FOLKSTONE, SLPITMIII2 4. A fleet is gone past, said to be from she flrazll.l. PLYMOUTH, SEP rEMPER S. tame in the SCORPION, of 18 guns, from off Lisbc with seven light transports undcr convoy--the Captain WOODBURY, fiosti TeueriSe, with orders. Sailed the Augustus, American Captain lit:onaLL, from Canton, fur London bh4 WAS escorted by the HIND revenue cutter, Captairii ALLEN. Came in the Sally, Captain W'r.A.l3, rrons• Alicant, with wine, and sailed Again for London. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 4. Arrived the Aretbusa, DAVIDSON, (a transport) from Gibraltar. His Majesty's scbonncr PAZ is ap. pointed convoy for the Downs. , —Wind westerly. SHEERNESS, SEPT Z. Arrived His Majesty's Sloop, Eymna, from Chat. ham. The VENIRABLR has been paid. The Con voy signal for Gottenburg and the Baltic is hoisted on board a ship at the• Little Note s she will sail about the 6th or 7th instant. Swriman S.—Arrived His Majesty's sloop Nitre ELVIN, from Sea. The ON TX sloop is commissioned. Wind W. N. W. fresh breeze. DEAL, sEvrtm/lER s. Arrived the KANGAROO from Lisbon, the CHM* LENDER sloop from a cruize, and the HUMBER armed ship from Falmouth. Sailed the WARAPITE, of 74, guns, and QUEBEC frigate, for Portsmouth ; PIGEON schooner, off Flushing ; and BLAZER and Famu.r.s* gun-brigs, off the Coast of Franca. • SEPTEMBER 4.—Arrived the PANDORA sloop from a cruize, and BEAoLN sloop from Portsmouth.--Sailed the CROCUS sloop, with the outward-bound under convoy for Portsmouth; and Manta armed ship for Falmouth. Came down from the River, his Majesty's ship VENERABLE. Remain In the Downs-a-1 ) &4:es. of Orange, like-Admiral Campbell; Bellerophon, Rear-Admiral Gardner; Levistßao s Hero, Invincible, Bombay, Illustrious, Clyde, Trusty, Kangaroo, Pandora, Beagle, Challenger, Flutter, and Furious. YARMOUTH, AUGUST 4. Yesterday arrived the MINOtAITE, 74 guns, BUST• LER, BLOODHOUND, PHOSPHORUS, and ACIFTE gunbrigs. Arrived the Lord Duncan Packet, Capt. HAMILTON * from Gottcnburgh, with mails, GmL, Esq. Swb► dish Consul-General, and several other passengers.- - This day, sailed Admiral RUSSELL, with the MA JESTIC, MINOTAUR, ABOUKIR, SKYLARK, and RED. BREAST, on a cruize; and the Cevsoit to the Baltic.— In the Roads, ROEBUCK, NASSAU, BLOODHOUND, ACUTIfy BUSTLER, and Puospaortus....Wind N.W. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. GRAVESEND, SEPT. 4.--Paued by the Kingsmere. Chester, from Rio Jacek° ; Aurora, Coin, from Guyon ; and the Specu lator, Bulby, from Waterford.—Sailed the Friends, Sedman, for Oporto; Crown, Howland, for Halifax; Sampson, Harris, flor Dublin ; Three Brothers, Ewart, for Quebec ; Friendship, Spiels for Heligoland ; Ontario, Nyce, and the Sarah, Mallett, for Malta. ' On Friday last, the ST. Amax's, of 64 guns, Captain AUSTEN, arrived at Portmouth from Mon dego Bay ; she sailed on the 23d ult. when the terms of capitulation proposed by JUNOT to Sir Animus WELLESLEY had not been agreed upon. The wounded of the British army had been sent to an hospital at Oporto ; and the twenty-one pieces of cannon, taken from JUNOT, had been shipped. The transports, with Sir HARRY BURRA RD'S force on board, were going into Mondego Bay when the St. ALBAN'S left it.— She has brought here General PELET, Adjuant-Ge neral to JUNOT'S army, who was wounded and taken prisoner, and 92 other prisoners, of different descrip. tions. Many of the privates are Swiss. The Sr. ALBAN'S left the coast of Portugal on the 26th ult. Saturday morning, the MURDERER, of 74 guns, Captain TALBOT, was released from quarantine at Portsmouth. She sailed from Palermo on the 27th cf July : on her p issage to Gibraltar she snoke a Spanish boat, which told her that four of our h ps of the line were at anchor to the eastward of B-arcciona, and that they had destroyed a convoy going with troops from Toulon to Barcelona. DUPONT arrived at Cadiz on the Itith tilt. On his arrival the mob' insisted on searching his baggage, in which they found vast quantities of church plate. He was badly wounded by the mob. The THUNDERER took from Palermo to Gibraltar, Prince LEOPOLD,' second son of the King of NAPLES. He is sent by his f a th e r to claim the Regency of Spain, as next heir to the Crown of Spain.—The Duke of ORLEANS, who accompa-. nied his brother, the late Count BEAUJOLOIS, to Malta (where he died a few days after he landed), and Ge neral Timor:, arrived at Portsmouth, in the TIIUN- . DERE% from Palermo, and landed on Saturday morning. The Duke is at General WitErtiases, the Lieutenant-Governor. The THUNDERER brought dispatches from Lord Commrowoon, whom she left on the 24th ult. off Cadiz. The WIN Dsott CASTLE, of 98, Captain BOYLES ; and the Qt El.'s, of 98, Captain SHORTEAND, sailed from Gibraltar for England, on the lid ult. with a convoy. Admiral THORNBOROUGH was off Toulon with the following ships :—ROYAL SOVEREIGN (flag ship), Captain GARRETT ; SpA RTIATB, 74, Sir F. LAFOREY ; EA GLE, 74, Captain ROWLLY ; FORMIDAB .E, Cap tain PAYERMAN ; C/E.SA It, 80, Rear-Admiral Sir RICHARD STRACIIAN, Captain RICHARDSON ; COLOS. sus, 74, Captain MORRIS ; Maostvicastr, 74, Capt. EYRE; MALTA, 84, Captain SHIELD ; RENOWN, 74, Captain A LEXANDKR. The CANoPus, 80, Rear-Ad.. miral MAETIN, Captain INGLIS ; KENT, 74, Capt a i n Roorats ; SULTAN, 71, Captain GRIFFITH ; and Moirraoux,, 74, Captain Orwar, were lying at Mi norca on the I Ith of July. They were to sail the next day to crtaize off Barcelona. The FORMIDABLE, KENT, REPULSE, and Tnaarto, arc coming home.— The Turkish it igates, at Malta, which were taken at Alexandria, are found not to be in a suiELi nit state of repair to come to England. Lord Couniowooo intends taking the command of the squadron off Toulon. --