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• . FRENCH PAPERS ARMIES OF SPAIN. =MIR FROM GENERAL REY, COMMANDANT AT ST. SE BASTIAN, TO Jill EXCELLENCY THE DUKE OF FELTRE, MINISTER AT WAR, DATED THE 26TH OF JULY. 6 6 MONSEIGNEUR—An Officer, bearing a Flag of • Truce, presented himself / iris afternoon, to request information respecting several missing officers. He appeared very' uneasy respecting the fate of the Co lonel of the Ist Royal Regiment, (i.e. Major FRASER, Of the Royals,) who was killed upon the breach. 66 It is certain, that in the assault the English lost a Colonel, four Lieutenant-Colonels or Majors, and "42 Officers—that the number of sub-officers and sol diers is about 1600, killed, wounded, or prisonets, all English ; and near SOO Portuguese. The Ehglish speak of their allies with contempt. This officer confirmed what their prisoners had be fore said—that their eight best companies of grena. diers were totally destroyed on the day the assault took place. In the morning the enemy embarked 36 boats of wounded. He fired during the day a great number of shells; he only directed some howitzers against the houses set on fire, which Made tne pre sume he had commenced embarking troops. The officer bearing the flag of truce thanked us, in the name of his General, for the care which he h ad: seen us take of his wounded. " Half of the town is completely destroyed by fire, the greater part of the remaining houses are extremely damaged. We have not yet succeeded in extinguish ing the fire. Should the wind increase, the remain der of the town would be lost. The quantity of am munition which the English, with their 45 pieces of cannon constantly in action consumed, is astonishing; the proximity of the sea and fleet, could alone have supplied this consumption. 66 I continue to cause the streets of the town to be barricadoed by traverses, which I reckon upon defen ding foot by foot ; if at any time I should be obliged to quit my first line, your Excellency may rely, that the garrison of St. Sebastian will do its duty, and continue to give proofs of its devotion for our august Emperor.-1 pray," 3cc. (Signed) 66 REY. 64 P.S. I forgot to mention to your Excellency re specting the ladders with which the enemy's troops were furnished on theis assault on the covered way ; we are in possession of them." PROM THE SAME TO THE SAME, DATED JULY 27. a MONSEIGNEUR—This morning, at four o'clock, visiting the advanced posts on the left with Colonel Sougeon, who commands them, I perceived that se veral boats were leaving the Sand Batteries to join those cruizing ; and 1 was immediately convinced, that the batteries which had been battering in a breach had been disarmed. 66 I went to the land advanced posts, where the enemy had discontinued his works : the enemy noloeger fired. 1 immediately decided upon reconnoitring his trenches, and by a brisk movement make him deploy, and inform myself of what he was doing. I there. fore gave orders to two companies of the mountain chasseurs of the third battalion, to the voltigeurs of the 62d regiment, and to the sappers who were in the works, to rapidly advance to the trenches, and destroy or take all they encountered; the artillery, at the same time, received orders to protect the retreat of these detachments and play upon whatever the tnemy should send to•succour the trenches. " Thug, as I expected, the enemy did not expect to be attacked at this hour; the trenches were sur prised, and all who were in them destroyed. The column which took the direction of the suburb of St. Catharine, advanced to the burned bridge, and the second to the burned houses in St. Martin. The result of this operation, which was conducted by Chef de Battalion Blanchard with understanding and distinction, was complete. We took SS! Eng lish and Portuguese prisoners, of whom nine are Officers ; 14.0 English who attempted to pass the river were drowned, the artillery had a great effect ; the enemy, in less than an hour, lost more than 1200 men ; that is to say, almost all that was in the trenches. 66 This affair does much honour to the garrison. The troops acted with the greatest vigour. The mountain chasseurs, the 62d, and the sai,pers merit the highest praise. Lieutenant Dugar, of the moun tain chasseurs, particularly distinguished himself by first entering the trenches ; he was wounded. The enemy only fired with five pieces of artillery ; one from Mount Julian ; one from the old breaching bat., tery ; one at St. Bartholomew ; and two in advance-' of St. Bartholomew. We have filled his trenches.— The enemy has begun re-embarking to raise the siege. This town merits a better fate. Ile wind having increased, we are using our endeavours to diminish its effect and stop the fire.—l pray, fcc. (Signed) 44 REY." FARIS, AUGUST to. Her Majesty the Empress Queen and Regent to. day returned from her journey to Mayence at seven in the mains to the Palace at St. Cloud. DRESDEN, AUGUST I. The day before yesterday seven couriers set out for Prague and two arrived from thence. AUGUST 4.—His Majesty arrived here to-day, at nine in the in'.rning. He passed throtigh Wu;tzburg, Bamberg, Bareuth, Hoff, and stolped at all points where there were troops, to review them. AUGUST 7.—His Majesty the Emperor and King . . se the sth and 6th. h occupied with General Count lent branches His Majesty Daum about cant respecting Larnartellare has not gone out during the days of the sth and fith. /ktijbsty has been very much occupied with the Voice r f Bassan ,, , with the Major-General Count D.irey, and the prii,cipals of the'ilifferent branches of the Administration of the Army. His Majesty has (been engaged with the Ordinateur Paure about rom:ions, with the Qrdinateur Marchant respecting hopitals, and with the Ordin.iteur Lamartalure concerning transporks and clothing. As the armistice nrty be deno?nced before the 15th of August. the troops are preparing to celebrate the fete of the gmperor on the loth August. FRANIEFORT, AUGUST S.. It is generally -*.4 that the Armistice it prolonged tot e tst of September, kut nothing pOsitive is known on this subject. Aupuer 9, —private letters from Vienna confirm the account that the Armistice has been prolonged to the Ist of September. BERLIN, JULY *4. The King set out yesterday at ;ix in the morning from Charlottenbers for head-quarters.. As Ma jesty on the 22d reviewed ell the troops who ware in Berlin. The Duke of Cumberland has set out for Straits. PRAGUE, JULY Si. Hitherto nothing has publicly transpired relative to the state of proceedings between the Plenipoten tiaries at the Congress—we only know, that every thing is at present confined •to the exchanging of notes. There is in the suite of the two French Ple nipotentiaries a numerous chancery. His Majesty often comes here Iscim Mr:sutlers • it is pretended that his Majesty will shortly . establis h his residence near ' this capital. AUGUST 2.—The Archduke Maximilian arrived here on the 28th July, from Vienna. His Majesty arrived here from Branders on the 30th of the same month. BREMEN, AUGUST 3. For some time there have passed through here large convoys of artillery and ammunition of every description. SMTRIVA. FROM AUTHORITY.) We are happy to be assured, that there is every probability that the plague has long since ceased at Smyrna ; our Consul resident there having given offi cial information on the 7th April last, that the deaths from that disease had been very few during the fort night preceding ; and subsequent letters from several merchants in that city to the latest date, the 2d June, being entirely silent upon the subject. Constantinople suffered infinitely more than Smyrna ; but Mr. WIL KINSON, who arrived three days ago, with dispatches from his Majcsty's Ambassador there, states, that the plague had entirely ceased for a long time previous to the lsth June, when he quitted that capital. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1813. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK, Red. 571 58 51—Cons. OH 1 —foram 57U—Bds. par 2s. dl.. 4 per Cent. 72if-5 per Ct. 87ii—Ontniutn Sinpr . Bank Lg. Anns. I4l—Exch. Bill, par, 31. pr. Paris Papers to the 17th have arrived. The minor papers state, that the Armistice has been prolonged to the Ist of September ; but the fact is not mentioned in the Moniteur. From this circumstance, and from a change announced respecting the day for the cele bration of the birth of the Emperor, which was or dered to be on the 10th in place of the 15th, it has been inferred, by many, that the mentioned prolonga• tion cannot be correct, and that, therefore, we may expect a renewal of hostilities. Bit, independently of any inference that may be drawn from the French Papers, we have no doubt whatever, from the present posture of the Continent, that the Negotiation which has been commenced will be proceeded in, and that there will be no more hostilities till every effort has been made to restore Peace to Europe, and have beet, found to fail, from the unreasonable demands of one or other of the parties. In the opinions we entertain at the present moment we may appear somewhat singular, but history, the best guide to probable results in all cases of political difficulty, allows us to draw no other inference than that the present Negotiations must, and will lead to a temporary Peace. Ambitious Potentates never sus pend hostilities while there is a hope of gaining their object by war. When such men conclude an armis tice, and especially when they renew it, they practi cally confess, whatever different complexion their speeches and public documents may exhibit, that their means (at least for the moment) are inadequate to their object. Is a Treaty, concluded under such circumstances, to be held as an entire abandonment of the contested claims No, no ! But policy may for a time re press their desires to renew them. At the present moment the enmity of NAPOLEON to Great Britain is the principal bar to Peace. England has hitherto baffled his attempts to obtain Universal Empire ! She has done more—ln a struggle of Finance she has beat him ! His finances are exhausted ! Yes, his finances and means are exhausted. No other inference can be drawn from present cir cumstances...and therefore we are warranted in draw ing another :—•that there will be a Peace ; for the aim of England has not been Empire, but Safety Not the slavery, but the emancipation and security of other States, and therefore she has no interest in pia longing the war if the Arch Disturber will only be at rest. But what is to become of the most prominent claims of the two principal Foes:—the Continental' System of the one, and the Maritime ROI: of the other j This question is already answered by the pre. sent state of the parties. The one that has been foiled in the struggle .tirusr give way. pa the first he•may re serve himself ft,r the future effort; of diplomatic chicane and dishonest ingenuity to cheat us, in peace, out of this part of the fruits of pur victory ; but the other will be passed over in silence in the Mersa: nego tiation:. There is yet another question; but, prominent and useful as it has been on the theatre of contest, it is in fact but secondary—What will become of Spain ? If we form an opinion from the same premises that have led to the preceding conclusions, we say, that NamitoN will profess his abandonment of all designs against ►hat kingdom. He will never, however, re linquish his designs upon it; but that Will be no far to peace, far a time at least. The report of general Racy respecting tjw pin* 'of St. Sebastian's, is A mull} f4irer iitatert* ;144 we should have expected. His account of the British "Mss d4s not appear to be e x aggerated, nor does he attempt to conceal the amount of the damage which the town and works have sustained. He seems to hate treated the Wounded and prisoners with great humanity—indeed we have better evidence even than General Ray's on the subject, for we have•seen pri vate letters, which state that the French actually ceased firing upon the assailants, when they saw that they must inevitably fail in the attack, and called out to the British Officer* to draw off their men. BRIGHTON, AUGUST 18. The PRIWCE RE:OI2IT arrived here from Windsor yesterday evening before ten. His Royal Highness has remained in the Pavillion to day. The Duke of CLARINCE, Lord Ymmourn, and the Pontuntntsa Astsmution, came down yesterday. Many persons of fashion are expected to visit the Pantcz REGENT, who will continue here ten days.— To-day his Royal Highness had a select dinner party, and music, as usual, in the evening. The 44th regiment, and the South Cork militia are here: volunteering for the line does not appear ex actly to suit the disposition of the latter. WINDSOR, AUGUS7'I9. Tuesday Princess CHARLOTTE sported her four beau tiful grey ponies in her phaeton, and drove them in great style through the delightfully pleasant planta tions, and various other places. The band of the Royal Horse Guards attended her Royal Highness in the evening, at her residence in the Lower Lodge, in the Park, and played till ten o'clock: 'rite Queen and Pai.cies.as went to Frogmore to tea, and spent the evening there. Her MAJESTY, for exercise, was drawn in a garden chair by a beau tiful bay pony. Yesterday morning the remainder of the Royal Horse Guards marched from hence for Knightsbridge Barracks, to take the London duty. Their band remains, and ate to attend at the Lower Ledge every evening at six o'clock, during the .ea,on, t►► play for the amusement of the Princess CHARLOTTE. The same day Princesses AUOUsTA. S.:PHIA, and Cuatu.orra rode on horseback in the Great Palk, ac companied by Lord WAL►IROHAM, Dowager Duchess of LIMB, Countess of ROsNLYN, Generals WYNYARD and Taftnott, and Colonel DoNottow. The Query. and Princesses ELIZABETH and MARY spent the day at Frogmore, except dining at the Castle. In the evening Princess Ctimmorra sported her tour greys again in the phaeton through the Great Park till near eight o'clock. This morning Princesses AUGUSTA, SAPHIA, and Ctimmorrs rode on horseback, attended by Lord WALSINGHAM, Lady THYNNE, Miss KNIGHT, Generals WYNYARD and TAYLOR, and Colonel DISBROW. DEATH OF THE 'BISHOP OF WATERFORD.—The I Right Rev. Dr. JOSEPH Srocs, Bishop ot that diocese, and formerly a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, died, on the 18th inst. at the Patace in Waterford, in his 77ih year. Wednesday his Royal Highness.the Duke of CAIII aairtim, accompanied by three other Gentlemen, in an open landau, attired at Salisbury, to be present at the grand Musical Festival which commenced that day, and was attended by a numerous and brilliant assemblage of fashionables. His Royal Highness was escorted into the Town at half-past two o'clock by the Yeomanry Cavalry, amid the huzzas ot the populace, all of whom wore sprigs of laurel in their hats or bosoms, in honour of the battle of Vittoria. Monday a small party of the North York Militia arrived at Greenock from Glasgow, to relieve the de tachment of the 27th Regiment, ordered to Head quarters, at Ayr. Thursday se'nnight, at Paisley, a horse, startled by the 79th Regiment firing a feu-ae joie in honour of the/ PRINCE REGENT'S Binh-day, ran over a goy in St. James's-street, who was so much hurt, that he died next day. The Duke of RUTLAND'S horse Wyman is matched against Lord G. H. Cavesouni's zeciesten, at the first October Newmarket Meeting. for 200 gs. The Duke of RUTLAND'S Sorcery is matched at the second October Meeting, a,aiust Lord G. H. Cht• %WIDISH'S Gaffer, for Wogs. nuisseu's BILL.—A plumber having been em ployed to erect a copper in a workhouse at the east end of the town, sent in I - is bill as follows :-- 4 4 To banging a Goofier, to woke sour for the poor 'mirk, 5e2.185." A. man, among a society of his friends in a public room, made himself so obnoxious by the violence of his conduct, that after breaking the window, he was turned out ; desirous, bowel er, to join his companions again, be put his head in the hole he had made, and asked pardon, saying 4 4 he saw through his error!" The light heels displayed by a French corps on the advance of the English light division, make good the old saying-4g Light come, light go," DUEL PREVENTED.—In consequence of a misunder standing and warm altercation at the County Court house of Limerick, on Wednesday se'nnight, between Counsellors O'CONNELL and MAGRAT/I, the parties met early on the following morning, at a field adjoin. ing the Old Windmill. Mr. O'Gorman, who attend ed Mr. O'CONNELL, and Mr. BENNETT, who attended Mr. MAGRATII I measured the ground, and the parties were immediately placed on it. A number of Gen tlemen here interfered, and after much conversation, Mr. O'GoastAx consented that the business should be adjusted, on Mr. MAGRATH'S declaring from his ground, with a loaded pistol in his hand, that be lamented what passed, and was sorry for it.— Here Mr. LEADER threw in, requesting, that as Mr. O'CONNELL was well known to entertain no enmity to Mr. M d 4an4ro, he should say, on coming to his ground, that he was about to fight a man against whom he entertained no enmity. This proposal created some pause; but Mr. O'GORMAN at length, on thp earnest interference of mutual friends, assented. Both Gentlemen then came on their ground, with loaded pistols in their hands, and having complied with thp above terms, immediately advanced amidst the loudest acclamations of all rrsons present, and shook hands, They then stepped into the same car riage, apd returned to town together, Tiros has en ded an agair which created a deep interest in the pub lic mind s from the estimation in which the two Oen. *MR NATAL INTELLIGENCE. FALMOUTH, AUGUST it. Arrived the Government packets Essex and Sally. from Liverpool, bound for the Brazils. Sailed the Little Catherine packet, foe Halifax ; Chesterfield, for Jamaica; and the Chichester, for Surinam, all with Mails.—Wind N. PLYMOUTH, AUGUST Is. Put in here yesterday, to join convoy, the ketch William and Esther, belonging to this port, Wtt. LIAMS master, from Limerick, with a cargo of provi sions, bound to London. Arrived the brig Lady Betsey, JAMES, from Limerick; and the sloop Frieads' Adventure, CHAPMAN, from Waterford, both with cargoes of wheat, &c. for this port ; the Industry, LONGMAID ; Mary and Matilda, QUILL= ; Yeoman's Glory, COOPER ; and the Sisters, LONOWAID. from Wales ; Venus, Put; from Poole ; Sprightly, Suer- HERD, from Padstow ; Sampson, PAnszn, from Gloucester ; Cork Rump, SHAH, from Poole ;—and the Lord Wellington, idaocucx, from Portsmouth. We understand a ire was discovered yesterday mor ning on board of his Majesty's ship Butwamr, of 74 guns, the flag-ship of Rear Admiral DURHAM, lying in Cawsand Bay, which had a very alarming appear. ante, but by the very great exertions of the officers and crew, it was soon extinguished, without doing any material damage. Arrived the Three Brothers, Loxxs, from Exeter; Hero, Bann.rrr ; and the Mary, Blown:, from Wales; and the Union, TREN NICK, from Dartmouth ; the Taunton, belonging to Cardigan ; Frederick, SEABORN master, from Dun dalk, with a cargo of provisions for this port ;-.-antl the ARCHER gun brig, from Portsmouth. PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 19. Sailed his Majesty's ships BOYNE, 98 guns, Capt. BURLTON ; SABRINA, 18, Captain MACKENZIE ; and the Prevoyante store.ship,, with a large fleet under convoy, for St. Andero, Lisbon, and into the Medi terranean ; the PROMETHEUS, 16, Captain Roatasos s and Jaszt:a, 18, Captain WATTS, with convoy for Cork ; the BELLONA, 74, Captain MACKINLEY, and EGMONT, 74, Captain BINGHAM, for off Cherbourg.. His Majesty's ship MAGICIENNE, 36, the Hun. Capt, GORDON, has made the preparatory signal for sailing for the horse transports bound to Passage; they art now dropping down to the Easternmost part of Spit. head, and will sail is the morning, should the wind be fair.—The Avian, 50, Captain DICKSON, sails , lyith the convoy for Brazil, instead p North Ante. rica, as mentioned.—Wind N, HARWICH, AUGUST IR, No foreign arrivals for these two daps past.-,TM Beaufoy, Captain Nona's, and the Little Auckland, Captain LYNNI, sailed yesterday evening with the Mails of the 17th—the former for Gottenburgh, and the latter for Heligoland.—Wind N.W. . DEAL, AUGUST IL Came down from the River the Recovery, Bums, for the South Seas ; the Mary Ann, --, for Rio Janeiro; and the Tobago, htLact.aami, for Tobago, and sailed with the whole of the outward•bonld zner. chantmen, transports, coasters, and colliers, under cnnvoy of the Virtu and ELIZA cutters, fa Ports. mouth.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Yowl, trom * cruize off Flushing.—.ailed the 2411111CVAT frigatf, for the ltiver ; and the FKOLIC sloop of war, for Portsmouth.—. Wind S. GREENOCK, AUGUST NI. The Malvina, Dowws, one of the West-India fleet, for this port, from St. Martin's. sprung a leak, and bore up for Bermuda, under charge of the SUlUntla frigate. His Majesty's ship COQUETTS, Capt. Snip. sow, has arrived in Fairy Roads. The Royal George cutter arrived from a cruize on Saturday, and sailed again same day. The Fortitude, Pours, from Davis's Straits iu arrived at Southwould ; and the Ferseverance,l.zwis t has arrived at Hull from Greenland. Last week, as a small vessel, with several hands and passengers on bawd, was coming round from the Troon to Ayr, she sprung a leak, and her danger being perceived by the boat's crew of the EuroPe, which was in the bay of Ayr, they put off to her re• lief, and had just time to save the persons on board, for in one minute after they were taken out of her, the bark went t ) the bottom. There is now living at Leeds a youth, in the 21st year of his age, lately discharged from the ad Rep giment of Foot, who received eighteen wounds at Sa. lamanca, viz. seventeen by sabres, and one by a mus. ket-shot, the ball of which has not yet been extracted. A Gentleman, who has lately travelled through part of Essex, Suffolk, Cambridge, the 14e of Ely, and Lincolnshire, states, that the crops this year elf the most luxuriant he ever witnessed, and far exceed , ing an average crop. CORN-EXCHANGE. MARK-LANE, AUGUST W. Although we had no fresh arrivals of Wheat this morning, yet our market is abundantly supplied by the overflowing of our pre vious supplies. Very few sales were effected to-day,'lsaving bit little demand; and Wednesday's prices could not be obtained by 2s. per tivartermatark7 continues escrediull dull sale. the de , nand being very trilling.—Oats move (Otiosely, at Wodiwoday's prices.—Pesa are rather cheaper, aad beans scarcely support last prices.—l.Ln other Grain no alto — -- 12gItsh. Wheat, Kent and Edam, 1004. Fore*. Wheat, Americus Os. 04. per quartet. Ditto. DaMax 110 s. 310 s. Dino, Beide ite.l 110 s. 11/041. I*m, Hambrp' or ►upe. per quorter. Ditto. FuE4lk, ins. 10Se. Ditto, Norfolk, SOL 9ist Rye 50s. ilfe• /Maley 445. 443 e. Fuae 00e. 00s. White Peas, NIL 90e. hollers, Bremen, 808. 10118. Ditto. Brabant Red SM. 1008. Rye, 50s. See. Bsrley, 40s. 418. Oats, Brew, Oats, Feed, Wbite PCS% 9.55. Grey Ditto, 0102. Sibs. Small Brans, Tick Beam Au ettC4ll Aggro 7% to 751. POs. 00s. Grey, ditto, 611 a 'Oa. Small Beans, 70.. 711 a 'llea 40. a.m. ¢ph Fine 001. . .. Oats. Put,tus, 40s. 465. Ditto, }upland, 30s. 441. Ditto; Feed, 945. 40s. Fine Flour, per Sack ; 950. 1001.