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"vitably have arrived .before them, occupied t h e i r posts, and annihilated them as an army. Sir A. WELLESLEY, who, from all the letters re. ceived from Portugal, appears to be perfectly adored by the -army, having been attacked with the greatest indecency, malignity, and party virulence, it has been deemed a justice due to the public, as well as to Sir ARTHUR that the foreging facts and circumstances should be clearly stated." Sir RICHARD PHILLIPS'S expected Lfttill to the Li very of London will make its appearatice on Thurs day morning. Along with the official documents laid before the French Senate at their last meeting, by order of NA youtori (published in the STAR of Friday last) were copies of the Treaties concluded with King CHARL/23 IV. and the Prince of ASTLRIA3 for the cession of the Kingdom of Spain ; these we have this day inserted, for the amusement of our Readers. The Marquis DE ROMANA arrived in town yester jar ; he is attended by his Aid-de-Camp, Colonel O'Dworm.. The Marquis is very short in stature, but is an enlightened clever Officer. O'DoNNo. is very tall, and of a commanding figure. They state, that not more than 4,500 of the Spaniards are left behind, who are for the most part in Zealand. Most of those who had escaped were put on board transports at Gottenburgh, and were to proceed north about to Spain, The rema;nder were waiting for transports, which were daily expected, and there is little doubt that the whole are by this time on their way to Spain. The Marquis had not heard from Spain for three months previous to his escape with his army from Fahnen, nor was he aware of the situation of his toontry, until he was made acquainted with it from England. By the CHAMPION frigate, arrived from Cadiz, ad vices front that quarter of the 29th ult. have been re d/N.4m. They state, that on the morning of that day a vessel had arrived from Buenos-Ayres with dis patches, after a passage of 84 days. The letters had n ot been delivered when the CHAMPION sailed, but it was understood that the Portuguese Government at the srazils had sent a force against Spanish America, and demanded the immediate surrender of Monte. Video and Buenos-Ayres. Compliance with this demand was peremptorily refused, and 11,000 troops. under the command of the respective Governors rf those places, were in arms to defend themselves against the advances of the forces from the Brazils. The accounts of the late events in Europe will of course induce the Portuguese to forego any farther hostile project against the Spanish colonies. Other letters from Cadiz confirm the report that it had been found necessary to confine DUPONT in the Castle of that place, on account of his insolent de portment. The most proper mode of correcting this Goldman, would be to present him with the French narrative of the occurrences in Spain ; in which is contained his Master's judgment of the skill displayed by him in the battle of Audujar. If this does not , pacify the indignant warrior, he ought to be sent home to France s , JunoT was certainly wounded on his cheek by a drairun, who was ignorant of his rank, in the battle of 1 4 AY:tire, and was only preserved by the fleetness Of his horse ; hut, after the engagement, he conduct d himself with the greatest insolence, and treated the negotiator with the utmost contempt. Captain BRADFORD, who was unfortunately Idle d at the battle of Vimeira, is not, as was erroneously stated, the son of Mr. BRADFORD, of Ashdown Park, Sussex, of the 4th or King's own Regiment ; but Captain BRADFORD, of the , Third Guards. By the Manchester packet, Captain Davtes, in 17 days from Halifax, we are informed that upwards of 1000 seamen have arrived at Halifax from the United States, since the laying on of the embargo ; of whom, as many as could prove themselves British subjects, have been received into our navy. Thirty-four pas sengers ca•na over in this packet. They represent the trade of America as quite at a stand, the labour ing classes starving and discontented. Yet the same mistaken notion prevails ill America, as BONAPARTE has laboured to impress upon the d eluded people of Europe, that England is starving for want of trade, though at this moment the trade of the whole world is is the hands of the English. The Americans col - so`e themselves with the hope that our want of their flour and rice will at length compel ns to submit to their terms ! • The crew of the Dutch frigate, taken by the VIII.. GIN'S, give a fair criterion of the present spirit of their countrymen. The Captain, at the beginning of the action, intreated his officers and men to fight net for Bonaftarte's Government, but for Dutch Icascoar They appear confident that a counter-revolution must take place in Holland. It is that alone which pre vents them from entering into our Navy. This fri gate could not easilyegoosd her fate. She was in the track of the.- MOBS and the VIRGIN'S. The former passed her in a fog ; E. latter was more fortunate, and acquired well merited laurels. Cheltenham never vms so full of company as at present ; the Notaries are well and the board ing houses crosnded to an overflow. Bath and Dublin Hotel, although of recent t, bids fair, from the unremitting assiduity and po ite atten tion of the host and hostess, to rival the first establish. ments of . the kind. A peney started from the Plough, Cheltenham, on Wednesday last, to go to the Bell Inn, Gloucester, a distance of nine mires and three-quarters, in half an hour, which it accomplished in 45 seconds within the time, carryi ng Mr. Kingston, a gentleman riding 15,1 -stone. Considerable bets were depending: 25 guineas to five were betted against the pone) , at starting. The original bet was for 100 guineas ; but the rider declared that he would not perform the task again for 1000 guineas ! A foot-race for 100 guineas was run at four o'clock yesterday afternoon, in l o ord's Cricket-Ground, be. tween the celebrated Coolc, the soldier, and a young man of the name of WILLIAM& The distance was 200 yards, and betting was 5 to 4 on Coox, although WILLLAMS beat Gnnaiy, the celebrated 100-yards 'runner, fait Summer. COOK had the best of the start, which however his adversary eacovered in the first 80 lards ; but his strength was not attificient to maintain the superiority for the whole distaice, and WILLIAM, log the race by about 6 feet . The distance was per . formed in 24 'seconds. DRLIDIrIa Pill(11 410.ENT GARDEN. It is our painful to no coMnamticate one of the most awful calatnitiftd6t ' has occurred these man? years. Covent Gar. Theatre is a smoking beep of ruins t not less than twenty human beings have War. tunately perished in the names, and upwards of twenty have been, carried to various Hospitals, so dreadfully mangled and burnt as to afford slender hopes of their recovery ! We shall now detail the par ticulars of the fatal catastrophe as correctly as tie have been enabled to ascertain them. The Play of Pisirro uncommonly brilliant retired at the usual hour, servants of the house ' and nothing whatever alarm. Soon after four ever, the surrounding simultaneous bursting , flames and smoke, acconwanied by she cries of Fire ! Fire! resounding from the doors and windows of the neighbouring streets. The scene then became truly iswful—miseribb naked beings, male and female, were seen running is every direction, carrying their children and valuables to places of safety, while the furniture of the sum**. ding houses was indiscriminately thrown into the streets. The arrival of the various fire-engines, with their attendants, increased for a moment the uproar and confusion ; but they speedily succeeded, by the skilful management of their engines, in considerably allaying the apprehensions of the inhabitants in ad. joining streets. The engines played with the utmost possible effect for upwards of an hour, when the roof of the Theatre fell in with'a dreadful crash, and thus announced the destruction of the interior of that ele gant building. On this occasion no individual re ceived the slightest injury, but we now come to the most painful part of the detail. The engines con tinued discharging their liquid torrents upon the ruins left by the devouring element with unceasing activity, n order to save as much as possible of the surrounding :)uildings. For this purpose a large engine, belonging to the Phoenix Fire Office, was stationed in the vaulted passage leading from the Piazzas in Covent Garden, to the various vomitories of the Theatre. Eleven fire men, belonging to the Phoenix establishment, three labouring people, and a generous-hearted private of a Volunteer Corps, were at work upon this engine. —About seven o'clock, a dreadful crash, resembling an explosion of gunpowder, was heard to proceed from the spot where they were at work; and upon the mul titude in the Garden running to the place, they found the engine, and the miserable beings who surrounded it, to the number of twenty, buried in a heap of ruins! Upwards of fifteen, who stood near them, were dreadfully mangled and scorched, and carried off in coaches to the nearest hospitals. The lifeless trunks of the unfortunate assistants at the engine were dug up about eight o'clock, and carried to Coven: Garden Church-yard, to be owned. Nothing can exceed the alacrity with which the dif ferent firemen did their duty. Companies of the Foot Guards, and of the Royal Horse Guards imme diately attended, and were of great service ; nor were the different Volunteer Corps of the Metropolis back ward in contributing their assistance, many hundreds of whom turned out on the drums beating to arms.— The crowds flocking from all quarters, to witness the dreadful scene, are immense, and have continued increasing since the first moment of the breaking out of the fire. At one o'clock this day the ruins were burning in various directions, and thirteen mangled bodies only had ban dug out of the ruins. The total number of killed, we are sorry to add, amounts to twenty at least; among whom is a Mem ber of the Bloomsbury Volunteer Corps. Six adjacent houses are totally destroyed, and nearly four more are irreparably injured in various parts. The houses opposite the great door in Hart street are much injured from the flames bursting across the way with great violence. The greatest mischief seems to have been done towards Bew street, in which street alone the six houses first men tioned were situated. The back parts, and roofs of the houses situated in the Piazzas of Covent Garden are much injured, and the damage in this quarter is not so great from the circumstanceof the wind being west erly. Among the houses totally destroyed are the Strugglers' public house in Bow -street, and the house of Mr. JOHNSTON, the fruiterer, adjoining the pit door-way from Bow-street. It is scarcely necessary to add, that not a vestige of the valuable property in scenery, dresses, and de corations, music and musical instruments, belonging to the Theatre, remains. The loss to the individual performers is also immense ; a great part of their dresses being their own property, besides the incon venience they must suffer from being thrown out of employment. The flour and barley mills, with the warehouses, in Burntisland, belonging to Messrs. imam STRONG and Co. have been entirely consumed by fire, and about twenty quarters of grain destroyed. On Saturday morning the 10th instant a duel took place near Whitchurch, ten miles from Dorchester, between Major J—s and Lieutenant G. B----w, of the sth Dragoon Guards . It was agreed by the parties to fire on a signal being given. Major J. on receiving the fire of his antagonist, discharged his pistol in the air, when the seconds iatetfecing, the affair wilt amicably adjusted. ro was acted last night to an t and crowded audionis 'who or. The Peri'miners, O.other had also retired to , kfirees. r occurred to (mite 04.11ast Kir o'clock this haw. inhabitants w ere by the forth of Lumen* volumes of _• a . TIMARMY.: • The following regiments of thst Nese ate at present. stationed in the Islands of Jerse y. sued Guernsey ; in the former island Lieutenznt-raltlan commands, and in the latter Lieuttaant-General Sir J. DovLic : IN MAUL 34th Restatat, td Battalion, Lieutenant 47th Ditto Ditt0......... Lieutenant-i 57th Ditto lieutenant-Colonel M'Doatisi.n. 58th Ditto Ditto Major Votive°. 3d Veteran Battalion. Lieutenant-0 0 3 -- 4th Garrison Battalion l.ieut. Colonel Sir C. !smote. MAISTEIL. WAILDItOII. Wrvu.Le. IN GUERNSEY. 24th Regiment, 2d Battabon, Lieutenant-Colonel Diummotto. 82d Ditto Ditto Lieutenant-C,lonel Po w ea. 39th Ditto Ditto 44th Ditto Ditto Lieutenant-Colonel GARDZIN. 61st Ditto Ditto Lieutenant-Colonel BA RLOW. WILSON. Sth Veteran Battalion Lieutenant-Colonel LE BLANC. The Sibattalion of the 60th Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel COM, embarked on board transports at St. Aubin's Bay, Jersey, on the 7th in stant, destination not known at present. The Leda transport, Captain Witator, from Jersey, with 645 soldiers, belonging to the 2cl battalion of the 60th regiment of foot, put into Plymouth on Sa turday, for orders. The regiments in Jersey are all in quarte►s at pre sent, the 2d Battalion 47th excepted, who are en camped at Mont le Marque Heights, above St. Owen's Eay. Since there has been so general and so laudable a spirit among the Volunteers to transfer their services to the Local Militia, we understand that it is the in tention of Government to encourage and increase the latter. For this purpose the pay and the exemptions of the former will be withdrawn, and the Local Mi litia will be raised to at least 200,000 men. It is by no means intended to under-rate the merit of the Vo lunteers. It is by their means that so universal a zeal in the service of the country has been manifested. But they will be the first to acknowledge that an effective strength requires more perfection of disci pline, and more certainty of continuance, than the most zealous bodies of them can display in their pre sent form. We have heard the names of several General Offi cers named for the Colonelcy of the 64th regiment, vacant by the death of General Vairrres. We are confident that it will not be given to any officer of home service. We hope such of the General Officers now in Portugal as have formerly distinguished them selves in other services will not be forgotten. The appointment of Colonel BURNE, of the 36th regiment, to a Government, and so soon after receipt of the dispatches from Portugal, does the greatest credit to the Duke of YORK. The long and able ser vice of this able gallant officer in India, South Ame rica, and other quarters, call for rewards from his country. At Buenos Ayres he put to , the route 700 Spaniards with a handful of the Grenadirs of the :36th. General WARD 4 of the Foot Guards, goes in com mand of the troops now in the Downs. The number of General Officers who have gone out to Portugal and the Mediterranean on the Staff, or as spectators, is said not to be much less than half a hundred; but either of these quarters are excellent schools. Among others, Lord Hvrentwsox, Lord BANBURY, and Co neral Gaosvayna, are encntioned for the com mand in chief of Jamaica. In our list of the General Officers under Sir JOHN STEWART. in the Mediterranean is omitted Lord FORBES, of the Guards. The selection of, Sir DAVID BARD for a command gives general satrifaction : there is no Officer in the British service more popular among the soldiers. He is a tried Officer, his services in India exceeded 20 years. When the force now under orders is off; - we shall have between 60 and 70,000 British troops in Portugal and in the Mediterranean. Why are not all the German corps, particularly the artillery and cavalry, sent off on service ? As an excellent school for our General and other Officers, they should at present be sent to the scene of action. We have many. able and sound men of mi litary science on the list of the British General Offi cers, but excepting Lord HUTCHINSON, Generals HOPE, SPENCER, OAKES, Lord CATHCART, Sir JOHN DOYLE, Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY, and Sir JOHN MooRE, not many who combine experience and varied services with talent and military science. Sir CHARLES Asoul.'s regiment, the I I th, has com pleted a second battalion, which will soon be ready for service. It is expected that the 73d, 75th, 77th, artd 84th regiments, will all speedily get second battalions.— From their popularity, and the high names which the first of those regiments in particular has acquired on service, there is no doubt but that they will very speedily complete their numbers. General HILL, who so nobly distinguished himself at Vimeira, is brother to Mr. HILL, formerly envoy to Denmark, and to Colonel HILL, of the Oxford Blues, and is nephew to Sir RICHARD HILL. Lieutenant-Colonel PACK, who led the 71st High landers, is the same gallant officer who distinguished himself at Buenos Ayres, and was taken with Gene ral BERESFORD. CANTERBURY, SEPT. 16.=—The two companies of the Royal Artillery which are ordered on foreign service, as before stated, expect to march this day from Canterbury, for embarkation at Ramsgate. The Waggon Train still wait the arrival of transports, which ate, however, hourly expected from the River. That gallant and distinguished regiment, 12th (or Prince of Wales's) Light Dragoons, was inspected, on Friday last, at Deal, by Major-General the Hon. -CHARLES HOPE, previous to its immediate embarka tion for foreign service. The General expressed him self pleased with the exactness and degree of celerity with which this tine regiment performed all its move ments. The York Militia at present en - camped on Chatham Lines, have received orders to hold themselves in readiness to march as soon as the camp breaks up. Friday last, the Sevenoaks and Farningham troop of Yeomanry cavalry kad a grand field-day in Lord CAMDEN'S park, the Wilderness ; after which, his Lordship entertained them, and a great many of the neighbouring gentlemen, (ISO in number) with a sumptuous dinner, under a gram: =Argue in the park. IC4L - , PORTSMOUTH, SEPT.I9. Sailed, his Majesty's ships CHRISTIAN VII. QUEEN, and Fuse:ous t -with a convoy for the Downs. Wind West. DEAL, SEPTEMBER 19. _ _ Arrived the WARAPI7I6 of 74 guns, Honourable H. BLAGICWOOD Captain, from Portsmouth ; ZENOBIA sloop' froni off Flushing, which brings intelligence of nine sail of the line being in that port equipped for sea ; Folkstone hired lugger with a French bout which she has captured. Wind W. N. W. moderate breeze. Remain in the Downs—Princess of Orange, Vlee-Adoilral Caserazti. ; Warspite and Ramillies, of 74 guns; CIO* fri gate ; Zenobia, Royalist, and Olomen,sloops ; Desperate, Blood hound, Cherokee, Indignant, and Phosphorus. SHEERNESS, SEPT 19. • Sailed his Majesty's ship G ILLANT, with the con. voy for Heligoland ; and several transports to th e Downs, and with them the Peace, POTTER, for Spain. —Arrived his Majesty's ship ADAMANT, from the I Downs, and sailed immediately to Chatham.—The itot.z.s - has made the signal for getting under way to Al to the Downs, in her way to her station off Dun. geness.—Arrivel the Diana, BLOM, from London, bound to Stockholm ; and the CALLIOPE brig, from the River.—There are a great number of ships now waiting to proceed to the Baltic with the NED ELVIN man of war.—Wind W. YARMOUTH, SEPT. 19. i Arrived his Majesty's ShipSTHUNDERER, ST.ALBANR, ROSAMOND, SKYLARK, HAVOC, and PRINCE of WALES cutter; and remain in the Roads with the ROEBUCK man ofwar, CALYPSO, BRUIZER and CENSOR gun-brigs, CLAUDiA and BRII ISM FAIR cutters. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. Ganveseiso, Sum, IL—Sailed the Logan, M'Connell, SF r Belfast; Amy, Oats, for Lisbon; and Speculation, Hughes, for Rio Janeiro. An order has been issued to the Dock Yards, not to ship any more stores for ships of Ist and 2d rates in the Mediterranean. The Panics WILLIAM armed ship is appointed -con voy to the Baltic, and will sail from the Humber as soon as the wind beomes favourable. The brig Nancy, from Norfolk, on the Ist of May fell in with the wreck of the schooner Lovely Lucy, in lat. 33. Long. 76. from which they took up Mt: - CHALMERS, the owner, and eight seamen. Mr. C. states, that he was bound from Baltimore to Savan nah, and was captured on the 22d April by the French schooner Superior, and a prize master and crew put on board. Shortly after they had taken possession the vessel became a wreck : most of the Frenchmen were lost very early, but the Americans preserved their lives by subsisting on the dead bodies of their fellow creatures. The Captain of the Superior in formed Mr. CHALMERS, that he had captured an Eng lish Guineaman, of 12 guns, a brig from Jamaica, and a sloop from Trinidad ; and that he was bound to Philadelphia, under the order of General- FBRRAND for cash, on account of the French Government. A few days ago the Emerald, CRIGHTOII 9 from Lon don to Newfoundland, passed through the Needles with a heavy gale at S. W. When she came off Port land Roads, her starboard quarter struck against a sunken rock. It was then attempted to wear ship, but in the attempt her larboard bow struck against another rock. The surf ran uncommonly heavy.— The pinnace was washed away from her lashings on the booms, and before any of the crew could get into her, to save themselves, she was stove to pieces against the ship's side. Both pumps were constantly em ployed at work, but the leak gained on them from ' four till ten feet water in the main hold. Eight of the men then got into the Jolly boat, and with diffi culty reached the shore, which was then abo u t h a lf a mile distant from the ship. A lad of the name of Walwyn, who could swim well, very humanely and ingeniously tied a shirt by the sleeves round his body over his clothes ; he made another lad who could not swim, jump into the sea, and lay hold of his shirt tail, and so towed him fairly in shore, an example well worthy of imitation. The Captain, his son, and 14 others, were lost in the wreck. The cargo of the Chiswick, Cullan, front Liverpool for Hayti, wrecked near Aux Cares, is saved by the Diamond, and carried into Jamaica. The sloop Swift, from Gibraltar for London, has been captur ed, recaptured, and carried into Portsmouth. The brig Collingwood, Captain Osborn, frees Dominica, was run foul of at sea by a ship, name mammon, which carried away both masts and swept every thi ng c l ear w i th the deck. The ship then run f oul of the Nisniod sloop of war, and it is much to be feared that both foundered, as they were not seen afterwards by the Collingwood. The Cygnet, Ball, from Jamaica for London, is lost on the Oiled Camaynes; pan of the cargo saved. The Daphne, of and for Charleston from Africa, put into Car ease, in distress, where site was seized by the French, and con damned. The Florenza, Matson, from Gottenburgh for Dublin, vras cap tured on the 9th of June, by a Danish privateer, and carried into Norwaf. The Ranger, Henderson; Argo, —; sad a Beet from Ports. mouth, are arrived at Gibraltar. The Carron, Leekie, from Palermo fpr Malta, Is captured. The Lydia, WHITTLE; and Lord Cranston, GIBSON ire a srived- at Liverp oo l ; t h ey sa il e d from St. Kitt's on the Bth of August; on the 9d instant, in long. 23. 30. spoke the Wentworh, Sawa? ' from Liverp o ol, f or Ch ar l eston; on the 20th of August, sptece the Hibernia, Ftsotar, from Liverpool, for Charleston ; in long. 42. spoke the Mends, from Quebec, fir London; and in long. 32. 29. spoke the Sally, —, from Quebec, for Chatham. The Princess of Wales Is arrived at Liverpool from Rio Jan. iro ; she sailed on the sth of July, ender convoy of the Marl borough and Fondroyant, to a certain latitude; the Pheitskr. for Liverpool, parted t h e same n i g h t ; on t h e 20th of Auguit, In lat. 30. 22. long. SO. spoke the Francisco de Paull, from St. Salve. done, foraibraltar ; and on the 12th, spoke the Carleton, CLINT, from St. Michael's, for Jamaica, out 12 days. NAVAL APPOCNTAlzwrs.—Captain Maude to the intrepid, vice Worseley, indisposed; Capt. Woolcombe, of th e Hi ppomenes, to the Belleisle ; `apt. Watt, to the Julia; Capt. Napier, to the Re cruit ; Capt. Scobell, to the St. Christopher, vice Taneock, indis posed ; Capt. Patterson, to the Hawke; Capt. Spear to the Goree t (late Favoarite) ; Hon. Capt. Crofton to the Fawn; Capt. Joyce, to the Redpole ; Capt. Martin White to the Vulture; Capt. Rush. worth If promoted to a Pest Captain, and aopoi t,d to the Cap. tab ; Lieut. Butt is promoted to a /