Star. — London, England, 1812-10-24 00:00:00

x .n . . . .. . . the IldSsiall iangttage and. chaneter,.• from -his residence at St. Petersburgh, BatroPattra-plite4 t greatest reliance; in the event of hii tieinteuiwea k o the .. - a 4 . ..... • dictate terms.ot 13 ; eiteoiram tl F :itiei,!ill,... !- . , .71.1irri, ~ t-. -... .. . ;-,.., .• 1 . tPAltte * * : ..A .: .. : • '.. ! i . 1 • * Letters from that busy scene.draigtkot, the Iseigh;. bourhood of Burgos, say 1 " *hen - we came tip ,. ..-.. ; It was fully expected in the army that We . were het continue our course after the enemy and see t : f a i r ly in their own Country ; and there is not an 0 . -: het cer of this division who did not isile to se* the Py refinear but, like what We were, you :are a., great da l too sanguine in England in ybur expectation'; of us. I fear that every thins is done that will be done this season . We have met a most effectnii Check here : the eighteen hundred inea in this Castle of Burgos deride our efforts ; and we have come here without the means of taking th e ...2sile. Engineering and castle-taking ate not our forte; and in three of the four attempts Which we made, We ha4e com pletely failed. SOUL? tvarify keeps his ground in the Centre of the kingdom; and if tlm Marquis e of ivall.niorom cannot bring down this ; part of the ar my, Sour!. will Maintain himself against Hiu.. .All chi' spay appear stiinge if not unaccountable to ion in England ; particularly. when. you Sit down and calculate the number of the- French armies com pared with thOse,Of the British, which, united to the . It Allies the Spanish and Portuguese, appear extremely formidable. There lies the mystery: The Portu rese, mingled with bur troops or supported by them, do admirably well; but indeed I cannot say so much of our other allies.. We have 13,000 of them here ; but althetigh various plans have been adopted, and though none of our attempts have been successful against' the Castle of Burgos, the MarqUis of WEL LIEOTON has never thought of emplciying any part of CAStANOPS army Against- that fortress. . . ~ At Madrid, the numbers of Don CARLO'S' army ste ii - ow very , formidable ; and MINA, EL MEDICO, Lopes, and a &son of other Guerilla leaders, have each their armies, but' we hear of no general junc tion of the Spanith irmt in the centre with General •Hiti, who is now joined by the force from Cadiz. I sai we hear of nb general junction bf this kind ; or of General lin.L'i attacking SCULL With this number he could givaity Outnumber him ; if the troops are good, he ought to annihilate Sours—and might, thefeafter, with ,ease, attack SUCHET and Josent, whci would then be in a most perilous titna ,tion, having Generals MAITLAND and Ross in hit .44 with 22,000 fresh troops. All this might be •eiteseif things were as they ought to be, and if the )palish troops Were asgood and as staunch is the came ai mina But again :--even witheiii the SPiittish troopi, and With only the handful of British - soldiers (and they are nothing but a handful) in this AountrY, it the energies of the people were alive--if they felt for their cause as the people of England, Scotland, and Ireland, would ftel with an invader in their country, who had come ireadieroitsly into it, seized oh their :prope*ti, carried on. a constant state of depredation, not unfreefbehtly ravishing their wcrxnen, and taut : Bering their Children—we would soon drive. every Frenchman out of Spain. I know facts On this slits ject that Would hardly be believed by those who did: *not IthoW Me. In their recent retreat thruugh this un happy country the french have committed nuntherleis enoinsitiel and atrocities on the very peOple ',both they lived dining the last four yeiri. After a: complete plunder, before leaving the village; I know that in several instances, just before their departure, they ravished, publicly, every woman in the place, bid and young, and, as I have heard, more from the drollery thin the pleashre, as they boast of their &As: Yet with all these evils heaped upoti this wretched Country, there is none of the indignation that Might be expected, no rising it man the Spaniards, in reality, diarist our power to sive them! they think that the French under Bonat.airrit Will come back, and that We Must retire: Iridependehtly of all theie drawbacks, we are grievously disappointed at the small efforts' made its England to renforce us. tlad you sent one teh or twelve thousand men immediately after the glorious battle of Salamanca, and thereby enabled our great leaciet to have followed up his bIOW, not a French. man woind s have remained in Spain, and we might have retired thin the Peninsula. NoW, lam afraid that that even this force would come too lite : the Freneh have received reinforeementi. Yohr 1508 Gtrlirdf .and twelve troops of horse wdlda nothing. They will not make up a sixth pan of our loud since the 21. J of July 14 lit y in -IJI ea- nib *t • etterf rom Madrid • of the 29th uIG we leant that on . P ...AVARRO SANDOVAL was . banged, on the 28th, n the Great Square of that city, in pursu ance of ate sentence pf a Court Martial, having been detected, in the habit of a priest, with false passports, tind a letter from Marshal Sotnir to JosrPie. By letters from illcaras, of tht 29th ult..wc learn, that during the whole of the Usurper's match to Va lencia, the desertion of his troops was very consiciera aniounting to some thousands of Germans and .lu ranaentados, and would have been much greater, had 'not the villages they passed through been forsaken, and had they not been afraid of being attacked in the fields. Even among the Spanish agents who ac. companied him, there were some who preferred suf.: fering the punishment due to their treason, and left sus intruder. *A i • • • ,/ . I t..r.( a • • ~4' a rL,I 40:4te ThE ARMY. . . . • - • • - • • • 'llia Regiment de Meuron hasbeen given to General WALKER, who kat s'ofrequently distinguished himself in the Peninsula,: and was so desperately wounded•it the storming of Badajos--Pokrani gal mertat fait.. Captain VRAZER, of the Guards, who was latelzAo severely woitnded In leadin g _ a storMing party, is the son of the late Ge nera l M.E=EIE FRAZER. • Doctor LIDDEntsAL T ., who lately died in Valladolid, was an officer highly fespected by the whole of the 'Marquis of Wet.LiNoror'S Army. His funeral was 'attended by Sii STAPiETONCOTTON,Dr. EATERY, CAMERON, superior of the SCOt.l.Collitt, bythe Gentlemen ri the Irish College, and may Officers.. Major. General ViTILDIR, has been r.etioved from the Staff, in Mirth Britain, to thr gu;tern District, an t d appointed to culumand ibe r ßrigade at Wood bridge, in Suffolk. . • The autumnal allowance jlf amronnitibn for the. .exercise and practice of regiments of infantry, now in the course of delivery, consists often rounds of ball cartridges, and, twenty rounds of blank cartridges foi l each soldier bearing arms. , . • The two regiments of .lAfe Guard& which have just marched from the Metropolis, were placed on the .establishment on the 25th June, 1788, and to which the Marquis of LOTHIAN and Lord 4rdneisr ivere then appointed Colonels: . The,unserviceable arms add accoutrements of the detaChteents at Canterbury, have been delivered up in the ordhanee stores, in order that they may be for warded to the ruiver of London. The Sligo Regitnent of Militia, now stationed at bunmow, Braintree', &c. have received orders to Larch for Norman-cross. Yesterday se'nnight the Officers of the above re,giment were most sumptuously ,intertained at dinner by Lieutenant-General thump tut, at Nekton-Hall. On 'Wednesday a Court Martial wag opened before .Major General DYarn and a Board of Officers, CIO ,Quarter Master Wice, of the Scots Greys, for the .purpose of investigating a charge preferred agebast him of overcharging the necessaries of the men. The examination of the witnesses continued until Friday when the prisoner begged till Monday to prepare his defence.—The Court granted his petition, and ad journed to that day. Monday morning, a party of the Perthshire Mi litia marched from Edinburgh Castle to Leith, from whence they escorted the crews of . the American ves sels lying in the harbour,. as prisorers of war, to the depot at Pennycuick. These fellows, while they marched through Edinburgh, continually huzzaed and laughed, betokening their regardlesness of their situation: ESCAPE OF Fir.NCH TkiSONERS.. The breachet of parole among the adherents of the Great NAtsotaox, who are prisoners of war in thik country, still continue; and the.seuing in of the Rovember nights will, no doubt, increase, their Ire , quency.—An intelligent correspondent (himself a -foreigner) suggests, that if clauses to the following effect were introduced the law recently passed, *taking it felony to aid or abet a French prisoner itt 'fits escape, the practice would be soon pia a stop t 6. Every person sending money or letters to a pri-, 'inner of war through any other medium than that of the Transport Office or the District Commissary,l 'sbotild be punished as an accessary, if the prisonee thus supplied with money, Makes his escape. , tiery isitner of war convicted of receiving a letter or money in this clandestine manner, ought alioibbe,put under some closer restraint than usua l, ""kt being mustered more frequently before the Com missary at the Depot. The Commissaries at the depots ought be se lected from among our invalided or half-pay officers —these Gentlemeno who have been themselves soli. diers, and perhaps pritoners of war, would be far better qualified for the situation titan the shopkeepers 'or ConatrY attornies who are now employed, and whO 'lrequehily, without knowing it, provide the prisoner ,1 ; With the very disguise in Which he escapes: GENERAL , ELECTION• fer, • R EV • 1 • _; • illikliEßS llitOiNlLa IN TRZIIIEV PAILIAIItiIIIT. inICARDINI (Cofinty)-4. Hurley Drummond; Esq. Lisßawao—Hon. W. Elliot, and Hon. C. P. Ygrke. brsourrantar-'-dir C, Heatheote, Bart. and C. N. Notl, Est Bankstuazo;;-.State of the Poll Eleventh Day : Dundasi 1436—Neville, 1130—Hallett, 436. Counts' DoWN.-- Monday, a great number of Free holders 'being ,assembled in the Court-honse• Of the County.ofDoim,, JOWN REILLY, Esq. proposed that M. SA+ntsa should be nominated as one of the can .didates to represent the isonnty: Me. MONTGOMERY, of Rosemount, seconded the motion. Mr. SAVAGE NUGENT propoted•LordViSCCMlll CASYLIWIRAOH, and was seconded by Mr. PRICE, of Santfield. The Hon. EDWARD WARD proposed Colonel MEADe; Who Wu seconded by Mr. IDo*oLas, of GraceSxll.—The ' contest is expected to be very keens . . . . • , BOROUGH OF DOFINFATRICK.--:-Moildair; Mr. HAW- TiIORNE was 26 a-head of Mr. Criortna, so that it was '.thought Mr. HawruonsE would be returned. Friday se'nnight cemmenced the Election for the . City of 'Limerick; when Lord GLENTWORTH and' ,' Colonel VEREKitIt Were put in nomination:—State of e Poll on Saturday : , Colonel VerekeT - Is I'Lai4 aniiie*Ra. . . . ~ We have authinftyie defiare; t . at theisai.;Ertigh which appeared in the Morning aroisiele Of the 19th r h instant, stating, that '' Me Friend who stArcribed £30;0(:0 toward: Mr: laleelles'e thetion, p rove: to hi Lord liariuyod," is utterly Ellie: . . Between the brurplane Addressesi and the Ad dresses of Parliamentary Candidatesi we believe there nevet was a period in which more aossetue arid trams were inflicted upon a harmless Pubge. Thursday the tide tote again to an extraordinary height in the neighbourhood of Westminster Abbey. The Hall, and the houeet in its immediate vicinity, all were flooded. The SPEA EPA of the HoOse of Coinni' efts left town on Thuriday fer Bath. It was full time, as his house at Westminsterhas been for these several disys dilusedi.by theriterivEsing of the Tlutaiesd . ..,...-..,0) . iri..,giilirat. . . . , .. -,,, t : •Y:; , ..:0? oast . t' 1t . ~.r ! ..sie:. a a; . .. ~,, 16 I lir4L iivritzleikvce. •••••• • mAitL" • - • 1! ▪ . AIL Sit. • J tt. birk. Pub% I • 0 Ciirkway .• • • 0 1 Waterfont • , • 1 Jersey 0 Cadit 0 0 Got4enburgh 0 1 ▪ b d Heligoland • 0 d Malin b 0 Brandi . 0 0 .7 ! It hal Leib stitinglY ripdrte,l at Pl yfatkth Dock tor some days that the ST. DOinNaCi 4 Admilal WAR REN, has captured.the,Puestn*T itate. • Letters to the 18th ult. ifrOm - the Balton; islands, mention, that their trede,iseintir4y,ilt a stand, occa sioned by 'th'e swarm of American Privateers on those seas. • • 1. •1• ! I • ! . EAST . .• The JA 1.4 frigate, Captain the Hon. W. Gbanox, ,is under orders to proceed. immediately with dis. patches for India, and will sail .on. Tuesday next, if possible. General HOLOP goes out in the Jays, whicbi : we understand, touches first at Bonkbaye and in succession at the other Presidencies anil naval sta tions in the India Seas... • , • • ~The..kaitland country ship is still at Gravesend, but is.ready to. sail the instant the wind becomes fa vourable to. proceed through the.Dolirnsi where the shipping for the westward is detained by contrary winds. •• ST. MICHAE.LS, SkPTEMBER 10. An American schooner of six guns, has cut opt of Fayal Roads three prizes; (Ate. of which, knounting 34 guns, made resistance, hilt was at ie6gth com pelled to strike for want of ammunition. FALMOUTH, OCTOBER Li, Put butt the SEAFLOWER sloop of war, Lieutenant STEWART, with the Amsterdam Packet, and the Apollo, MILLER, both with little damage—the rest of the convoy are dispersed. Sailed the Fogrusitis frigate, on a cruize ; Ann Packet, with Mails filr Corurina ; and the Manchester Packet, with Mails for Surinam. TORBAY, OCTOBER 22. Arrived the brig Minerva, Captain Berl, of this port, having been dismasted at sea and received other damage on the 19th, 10 leagues S.W. of Scilly—lost every thing off the deck—she was one of the Sea floiver's convoy. . PLYMOUTH, OCTOBER 22. Arrived the Patent letter of marque, Captain M•MAszEtti, from the West Indies. On the 14th of September, a few leagues frdm Bermuda, she fell ih 'with the Americah ship Hannibal, Captain Ham., bound to America, having been , out nearly four years on a very successful tradihg voyage on the North West Coast ; independant salf a very valuable cargos she had on board 500;000 dollars. On hailing the American, her Captain requested a supply of pro visions, on which Captain M , Masratts desired her boat to be sent on board, and immediately the Ame rican Supercargo, Mate, and boat's crew came oh; board the Patent s atid were instantly made prisnnerK Captain MAMArrEas then sent his Mate and a boaf,4 ; crew to take - possession of the Hannibal, with direct: tions to the Mate to Make a signal if . he met with! any resistants, •which was not done ; and soon aftifi ! he got on board the American, it is presumed Ai, 'cheat was discovered, and the English hbaes-ctew, made pr.oners in their turn, as she instantly filled her. sails, and put, before the wind.; and sailing better, than the Patent, made her escape, -carrying With her the English mate and boat's crew.. The Supercargo, Mate, and boat's crew of the' Hannibal have arrived here in the Patera. The Lord Keith transport, *hich attired yesterday, parted with the fleet for Corunna land Lis . bon on Sunday last, about 70 tnilei to the westward of Scilly, under protection of his Majesty's sloop SaarLowka ' • the remainder of the fleet put into Falmouth on Tues day last. Sailed the BARBARA 10 guns, tb the eastward, with a small convoy. Arrived the BITTERN of 18 guns, bound to Liverpool on the impress service, but obliged to put back, the wind.being- four. " The, PlEacktt of 14 guns went from between the Island and the Main so Cawsand Bat, bound off Brest. The ARROW of 12 guns, Cannp from the Sound to Stone-house Pool. The AMARANTHZ was undoeked last evening, as was the REVOLDTIONAIRE of 38 guns, after a complete re pair. The RHIN of 38 guns was docked. Remain hi Hamoate—tbe Implacable and Centaur, of 74 guns each; the Phtebe, Surprise, Sybelle, Stork; Amaranth!, Rapid, Fantome, Virago, Alpkea, sad Surly. In Stone-house Pool—the Growler, Clenoire, Nimrod cutter, Rosa, Neptune, and Ells* enders. In Barnizol—the Medusa. Between the Island and the Main Lana—the Foxhound, Escort, Strenuous ' Arrow, Barbara and Bramble. In the Sound—the Hermes, Dotterel' and Piercer. In Cawsaud Bay—the Foudroyant of 80 guns, and the Dioniede of p 0 50 tt gil Tsm uS. OUTH; OCTOBER 93. Arrived his Majesty's ship A RDRN r, from Berrfinda, irid the BOLD sloop of wai from a cruize.—Wind W. DEAL, OCTOBER 23. . .. „: Remain all his Majesty's ships under Adiniral Toitab, and the merchantmen, coasters, and colliers; Wind-bbund. Wind N.W. SHEERNESS, OCTOBER 23. • t • Sailed his Majesty's ship Foattaarza, with I ten icy for the Baltic. Wind.W. . "': t oek OF CORK, OCTOBER 19. . . Te4terday art feed the Earl Spenter cutter, Lieu t. Borttwett., froth Galway, with new-raised men and kubstitutes, for the Fleet.. His Majesty's ship PHEA.-• EANI; Captain PALMER, with, the outward-bound Newfoundland Fleet, still.remain wind-botind,. .. Re mains theClßeg frigate, ciputitWdoz.costit ;dining the gale she drove considerably: Last night, about alf-past nine, a most dreadful.storin came on, at ended with thunder and lightning , *hieh, we fear, lags done Considerable mischief a ong the Coast. It Ittntinued to blow the whole of he night *ith un abated fUry—the 'grind piincipalty 4 S.W. Except the loss of a fee, boats, and the Moidrfg do‘n of the gable end of a new building, we do not' hear .ot a4y considerable damage done in the neighbourhood. The roof of the Actmiral'i house is nearly stripped. The interesting daughter of the tinfortunate Xing 'Of France Louis XVI. the amiable Duchesi VAN- . ' tioutesti, lies dangerotrsly ill at Zartwell, the resi dence of his Majesty Louts XVIII. A eery fine Indiaman, called the Lord tediaitoast was yesttrday launched at ltotherhithe, amidst the jOyous acclamations of an admiring crowd, among 'Man well ictyral persons of disTinetiOts. 1 . • • ' sifroopeip"..— . „ kURDiRS: • . - • 'Wednesday was committed to Exeter gaol Thomas Litcomk, labourer, ch.trged with the wilful murder of Margaret Huttable, at Dodbraoke r , a child about nine years of age, in January last (for the discovery of the perpetrator the Prince Regent offered a reward of 200 guineas) ; also charged with the wilful mur der of Sarah Ford, ,abi ut 60 years of, age, of parish of North Knish, on the receding Saturday. We have already related the circumstances *!rich led to his app •r4tlb, sion. When brought to the Dart mouth Inn, Plymouth,. he voluntarily confessed the murder of Sarah Ford, which he effected by first beating her with a broom-stiek, and cutting her ne:k with a wood hook ; he then •tpok from her 225. 6d. thtew a bag ovef het head, clor4 the window-cur tain, went up stairs, broke open tt lioi, took .an entire shit of clothes bblongidg to the husband of the de. ceased, in which be dressed himself, left the house after locking the door, and throwing away the key : he :then went to the river s where he sunk the whole of, his own clothes, exceptPs bat, which he left near the corpse of the woman, He wis conducted to kingsbridge, with a view.toasceitain if he was con cerned in d)e murder of the child at POdbrooke, on the 20th of. January last, at he had been four, times apprehended and examined by a Cemmittee , of Gen tlemen and Magistrates, whieb had been formed foc the purtlose of Investigating .that foul deed, but had escaped for want of sufficient evidence-, , Tuesday morning, after requesting bis udele to be sent for, in his presence; end that cf the constable's, be confessed the horrible act by sayi ng , " Well, I did murder the child." Upon being interrogated as to the particulail, he further stated, •that about six o'clbek in the evening of the 20th of January last, he met the child between Bell Cross and the Houses ; that he 'tweeted her to shew him the way ip Sentry gate, and he would give her a penny; shi l Lvinsplied with his request; .and proceeded over the i stotte steps and the stile leading to it ; that in the seoondfield he took her out of the path, went across that O' d into the next, where he attempted to violate het but could'not effect, in consequence of her, cries and resistance i . .he then took A stick from the hedge, struck her twice •on the bend, which he supposed to have stunned her, as she Made no more noise; after wards dashed her heed to pieces with large stones ; and it being dark, he lays * to be quite certain she. was dead, he felt with Ids bated;-and found het. brains were beaten out ; he sti:ipPed her of all her clothes but her stockings, which he intended to have taken. away, but thinking them of little value, left theta in the fame field, except the shift; he they went to a pool, near Sentry-gate, washed h is trowsers and hit hands, and wiped them with the Shift, which be throw into the hedge; he returned lb his lodgings sit Moreleigb, at about half-past nine o'clock. Another horrid murder was committed last Monte . day night at Longford, a small 4 rillage near Market Drayton, Shropthire (about ten miles distant frem the place where Mr. Moray was murdered. by his wife and servant), on the bodies of Mr. F. Bruce, 4 farmer, and his housekeeper, who were both found on Tuesday morning in their kitehen with their throats cut, and the house robbed, On Wednesday; the' Coronet's Jury sat; but nd discovery had then been made of the wretches whoharl 'perpetrated the deed ; but it was supposed to have been done before eight o'clock in the evening - , as they generally retired early to bed s . The blood had, however, been traced on a stile aod gate at Morton, a distance of about a mile ; which, it is hoped, will lead to same discovery. He strongly asserts he has nn associate; but was the . sole.perpetrator of these blOody murders. An affray unfortunately took plate in the begin ning of this month, in Holbeach Marsh, Lincoln shire, when a labourer, in the service of Mr. Waders, was killed by a servant or Mr. Cooper. Tlie Coro ner returned a verdict of wilful murder. • , BELFAST ' ', OCTOBER 20.--Yesterday Morning about nine o'clock, the tide and flood rose to io extraordi nary a height as to pass oSer part of Sir EDWARD MAT', great embankment; which was lower dad the' rest, making a breach in it, and flooding the low grounds. Before ten o'clock, the nev'r markets were entirely under water; which rushing with vibience against some brick walls, levelled them in a nibinent. The grottncl4loors of the new-bdifi houses in the vici nity of the markets, were several feet Miler water, and a number Of tables, chairs, Sic. Alert washed away in the flood. . The inhabitants were in imminent den . ger, one man was obliged tosvihi from his house: The flood extended to the south end of Lover Arthur ' street, and inundated Ann -street; High-street was completely. flooded, op die length of ChurCh-lane.— r Other parts of the town suffered in a similar manner by-the rise of thelide, about the neii quays, damagink tobacco, &c: in stores. The east end of the long Bridge, in,the County of Down side, was not efempt. The barotheter was so low as 28. ettatin; bcrnaast 2l:—lnformition having bed ieceived at Ormond-quay Police Office, that a gang of Bank-note fcrigers were at work in a house in But s Chief Constables - Manning procc 1 s ~~+b, , . 1 4., sheet, Chief donstables Saris and Manning proceeded - to the place, where, in the back drawii(g-room, %via discoveted two men and a woman. On searching the.rbotn, thqy found .Wet.p4per whh. the veter-mark of ale Bank Of Ireland on it I alio a laige quantity of one-pound notes of Mr. Shaw's Bank, &led up, ready tor. circulation. 04 seaiching the woman, they found, concealed in bet clothes,. a !Ale bundle Ot bank-n Otes ready for rigningoen 11Which weie nea.notes Of the Dank of Ireland, and fifty. of one.: pound of the Chaileville Bank, eoitpletelY filled for issuing. So Well were these executed ih every re- -4,sect, that one of them has been trairtnitted to Lon. don to trace where the plate hal been ingraied.:-: One of the men, of the name of bl.goonaldi stated, that he Was a carpenter in Rathfamlini: , The offi: .cers went to that place and fount ' thit be hid nii4. piesented his wade ' • for he roved to - 1)6 a paper- maker. In bii /Grim iv as foufid aL D O ife filled with she pulp fetal for ma4ing paper,. and also the boards aid felts. The Mould was gone: 'the pulp wai stoles i front a paper-mill iri the neighbourhood w he re .M.bonald Worked. TkeY were all fully commitud , for trial, it the next Ceuta:ll'4on. The . copperplate **his anti betn diScoiefed In a waste room in Chttichltieet, where likewise was found an immense qiiintrty of paper bearing the water-mark of several , Banks—of Messrs. O'NitThitof Waterford, there was riper at "I*A:di of 04 iota'.