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tier .EAST4ND 1 A 'IOUS 11, January 26, 1813. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENGLAND, WAN: to Me EAST INDIES, do hereiy give idiot, That the Transfer Books of the said Company's Stock will be abut on Thursday, the 4th of March nest, at two-o'clock, and opened again on 1 huraday, the 15th of 4,pril followins. That a Quarterly General Court of the said Company will be held at their House itt I eadenhall-greet, on Wednesday, the 24th March next, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon. • That a General Court of the said Company, will be held, at their House in Leadenhall-street, on Wednesday, the 14th April newt, from Nine o'Clock in the Morning until Six in the Even ing, for the Election of Six Directors of the said Company for rew Years. Mid that the Lists of the Members of the said Company will be ready to be delivered at this House, on Friday, the 46th Much beat. JAMES COBB,-Aiiiateat-Serretary. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1813. PRICE OF S POCKS TJBS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: Red. Mil—Cons. 59i if—Cons. for see. 59114 4 per Ct. Z5l-5 per Cent. 89 841-otnnium 8 pr. Lg. Anna. 151 s.lBtbs--lndia Bonds Ss. Ss. dia. Entre-quer Bills 88.95. premium. 1 We stated yesterday, that certain foreign Officers were immediately to be employed on the Continent, under the auspices of Government, in raising the Standard of Revolt against the abominable despotism of France. We believe we can now state with con fidence. that since our publication of yesterday,. mill. tary appointments have been given to three foreign Officers of high consideration among their respective cnontrymen. It would be dangerous perhaps to their personal safety to mention their names or particular destinations at present. We are at liberty to state, • owevcr, that an Austrian, a Prussian, and a Dutch General--all voluntary exiles since the subjugation of their native countries, will instantly be employed in the great work of emancipating Europe.—That the whole of the Inhabitants of Europe, who have so many years groaned under the iron rod of oppres ion, are ready to assert their national independence, . ow that the circumstances of the times admit of their taking the field against the common Tyrant, cannot now be doubted. Indeed, there are at this moment unequivocal proofs of this disposition, in the shape of diplomatic documents, in the possession of Ministers. It is scarcely possible to foresee, in any complicated conjuncture, the part that will be acted by a private individual. Individuals are guided in their conduct .y a thousand circumstances peculiar to their own situation. They are under the influence of many ieeret prejudices and passions. The case is not Sweetly so with poblic bodies of man, and least of all with Sovereign States. Even arbitrary monarchs ore for the most part swayed by a regard to their po litical interests. Political considerations prevail over all others in the breasts of men whose royal state is object peculiarly their own ; it ,is identified with themselves ; it elevates them above the sympathies that govern men in inferior stations. In great and ancient dynasties, ambition, and the pride of in pendent po.• er, triumphs over the tenderest affec tions. Invincible necessity may compel them to tem orize, but the predominant passion, the pride, and e lust of power, breaks out sooner or later. A Persian Prince having set out in the night at 03e head of his army, on a certain expedition, offered reward to any one who should first announce the *sing of the Sun—an object of worship to the Per 'ans. Every eye was turned to the east. But one f the officers looked in a contrary direction, towards e summits of a range of mountains, by which the ays of the Sun were reflected some minutes before e ascent of any part of his body above the horizon. e obtained the proferred reward. In order to be guided in our our anticipations of e future, therefore; we should turn our eyes back to hat is past. Genuine history is an expansion, an lustration, a picture .f human nature placed in va ious situations. It is the great guide of life, and s pecially of the political enquirer and statesman— . What has been is that which shall be ; and there s nothing new under the Sun !" Let us enquire, herefore, what have been the results of analogous ircumstances in former times : In the beginning of the last century, the Continent . if Europe trembled and crouched under the over ithelming aggressions of LEWIS XIV. Few of his neighbours dared even to murmur complaint, and ewer still to start into a posture of self-defence and esistance. Europe found a Saviour in our immortal VILLIAM 111. Prince of Orange. Beth the Engtish nd the Dutch Nations had been trained to arms, nd enured to war, under the auspices of that Hero, then their united force was directed against France' y the singular int-epidity and military genius of the enowned Duke of MARLISONOUGII. A system of de ence, on which the Princes of Orange had hitherto cted, was turned into a system of attack. The ;rand Monarch was found neither to be invincible tor invulnerable. All Europe, v.ith the exception sf the Duke of BAvAitia, and the King of SWEDEN, tho was neutral, was drawn by degrees into 4 corn lination akiit)st the French King. The Allies, under the command of MARIASOROUGH MCI the illustrious Prince EUGENE of Savoy, after the eduction of Lisle, Tournay. Ypres, Menin, Conde, daubeuge, Douay, Aine, and other places, were ad :ancing still with their faces towards Paris. The taughty Litvrts was reduced to the necessity of re :.111..g Ulb troops from Spain, for the defence of his lan Eastern Mustier humbled to the dust, 'he suppli.l cated peace, on almost any terms, from those Hot- Landers whom he had formerly treated with so much contempt and insolence. The Great HzNnY TV. of France was restrained by prudence from espousing the cause of the Hollanders till they had repeatedly,' under Prince WILLIAM of Orange, proved that they were worthy of support, and that it would neither be dangerous, nor without advantage to himself, to support them. He now sup plied them with arms, troops, and money ; so also did our Queen ELIZABETH. After the capture of General Emma and his army, and not before, the French espoused the cause, and lent powerful aid, to the revoked Americans. It has been the fate of Commercial States, pos sessing but little territory, soon to be enervated, cor. rupted by a mere spirit of traffic and gain, and to fall under the dominion of some warlike neighbour. The British are a Commercial Nation : but they pos sess very extensive territories. The warlike spirit of this great Nation has never been sunk and lost in that of Commerce. Agriculture and Navigation breed a robust race of meu—the grand materials of an army. Our army had indeed fallen into a miserable state, for want of due discipline and due encourage ment. With such troops even the Duke of MARL BOROUGH could not possibly have prevailed over the well-disciplined troops, and the skilful Generals of France. But the British troops, now orga nized and disciplined to admiration, and ani. mated by the magnanimous and benevolent atten tions of their country, have uniformly sustained the character of bold enterprize, and steady valour : nor have they been at all deficient in military skill and stratagems of war. They were such troops as passed, after the death of WILLIAM 111. into the hands of the Duke of MARLBOROUGH. And they have now, with our Allies, the Spaniards and Portuguese, been hap pily placed under the orders of a Chief, by no means inferio: to that Great Commander. It may reasonably, and with much confidence, be expected, that the victories 'obtained over the French by the Allies in Spain, and the expulsion from Russia, and subsequent annihilatiou of the, Grand French Army, and disgraceful flight of po- NAPARTE, will be followed by such -a combination against that Usurper, as was formed against LEWIS XIV. combination of all the great Powers on the Continent, even Austria not excepted. Will the Emperor FRANCIS 11. embrace the dynasty of the Corsican, though his son-in-law, in preference 1 to the recovery of the independence and greatness of the House of Austria ? This would not be :Aired by the Princes of his family, nor even by the rest of his subjects. In the war of the succession the Duke of SAVOY, afterwards King of SARDINIA, grandson of Lzwis XIII. made war on hi- cousin, PHILIP V. of Spain, and fought against the Duke of BURGUNDY, heir ap parent to the Crown of France, also his cousin, al though both these cousins were-married to his daugh . ters. WILLIAM 111. of England, with the concur. rence and approbation of the Princess, daughter of JAMES 11. of England, dethroned his father-in-law. We shall pursue t his subject on another occasion. Letters from the French coast, of the 22d instant, were last night received in town. They state that BONAPARTE has issued a proclamation forbidding every Frenchman, who served in the late campaign in Russia, to return to France under pain of death. We are also informed, through the same channel, that a diligent search is now made at the French ports for English newspapers, which are immediately burnt. We rejoice to learn that this last precaution is considered necessary. It is resorted to as a last effort to maintain, fot a short period, the tottering dynasty. BONAPARTE has always regarded the Press of this country as his most formidable enemy—but it is with this glorious weapon alone that the wounds inflicted upon him in Russia are to be kept open, until he breathes out his last imprecation against , mankind ! By a foreign Gentleman who left Berlin on the sth instant, we are informed, that a few days before, the French Ambassador made a demand of 30,01)0 additional troops for a spring campaign in the North. The demand was made to the King in person, when Baron HARDFXBERG, his Minister, was present. His Majesty at first started several objections, and conclu ded by positively declaring it to be impracticable.—_ Baron HARDEN BERG then, in a resolute - and dignified manner, ieminded tl. Frenchman that the whole of the Prussian fortresses were still garrisoned by French troops ; although Prussia had long since furnished the contingent, at a security for which the fortresses were temporarily occupied by French garrisons. In the name of the King of Pitussra, therefore, he dc. rnanded that these fortrises' should be given up to him in pursuance of the Treaty entered into.--The French Ambassador artfully replied:-that he had no instructions on this head, and that the Prussian Mi nister must apply elsewhere.—Here the conference ended, with mutual expressions of dissatisfaction. We this morning received Papers from Boston, to the 12th of December, but they contain no intelli gence of a striking character. They bring the pro ceedings of the House of Representatives down to the 2d of December, but at that period nothing on the subject o$ peace or war had come under discussion. They contain various accounts of the rapture of thr MACZDONIAN by the United States American frigate; and, as might be expected, they are filled with enco miums on Commodore DECATUR and his crew. These captures of British ships of war have dons incredible mischief to the interests of Great Britain in America : even the federalists now t'lk of acquiring a naval su periority before they vote for an end being put to the war. The following are extracts from these papers : " BOSTON, DECEMBER 11. u War against America, which has so long existed in fact, is now declared in form, on the part of Eng land. Let us have a war in its true character, rather than a peace like a - war. Let us leave nothing un done to obtain an honourable peace by negotiation : if we fail we must pursue, and pursue with vigour, the only course left for its attainment. Let us employ our resources, and exert our energies where the finger of PROVIDENOE points to success-..let the war rage where our injuries have been inflicted—on the ocean, There our avenging Ministers of justice will continue to speak a language. and to act in a spirit of honour that will leave no suspicion of insincerity : they will display the true genius of America, and command that respect, without which true friendship can never exist between individuals or nations." 66 EXTRACT OF A LETTER, DATED AT SEA, OCTOUR 27, 1812, LAT. AND LONO. 29. FROM A VOLUN- TEER ON BOARD THE FRIGATE UNITED STATES. The day before yesterday we met hereabouts one of his Majesty's best frigates, and Hogged her, after an hour and an half hard work, though it can not be called hard fighting. She proved to be the Macedonian, 38, Captain Carden, on her return to England, which she had left a month previous, with a troop ship, bound to India, under her convoy. She is a less ship than the rg :asta, in fact, though I do not believe it would strike the eye of every one to be so ; her othcers know the Shannon and Spartan, and say she is. considerably larger than either of them.— She mounts 49 guns, and one of them she fought both sides, giving her a battery cl 25 pieces ; she is only two years old, was built on the river Thames by Government builders, and not by conuact, as some are ; is just out of dock, with a full comple ment of as tine men as over were afloat. " The action continued tnis length of time from their having the weather gunge, and engaging us at eummous long shot—at a distance I am sure you never dreamed of ships fighting ; besides, there was a heavy swell at the time, which made it difficult hitting so far off. Notwithstanding, our Yankees made out tip get sight quite enough to fire 70 bro.tdsides in one hour and twenty minutes. The Macedonian officers say, and 1 believe, there was not one of our shot fired a-head or astern of their hull ; and a large portion of it was sent in amid-ships, where two of her guns were swept clear_of the men three times. " You can have no conception, fe,im the exercise you saw on board the President, of the rapidity of this ship's fire. I declare it seemed to me to be kept up with as much life as I ever heard musketry. We had only 8 killed and 4 wounded, and were so little in jured.in our spars and rigging, that we could have made just such another fight in one hour after this was over. They had 36 killed and 68 wounded ; lost their mizen-Mast, fore andbmain.topmasts, and main. yard. We are refitting her, and she is now almost ready to commence her voyage for her new home: in this, if he succeed, I think the Commodore will show his peculiarity of character more than in his victory, for we are now at least 2500 miles from home. 1 only hope we may meet your crack ship, my old friend the Acosta, for although we are 100 men short of our complement, I have not the least anxiety about the issue. " You may rely on it, our men are cool and highly animated with a spirit of hostility to an English man of war, that could not be subdued, and trained in the use of their guns to a degree of skill unknown to the enemy ; and our guns, notwithstanding their ex perience, are fitted and equipped in a mode of which they are utterly ignorant. It is remarkable, that during an action of one hour and a half, and a fire which I believe, and am told, was ntver equalled by any single deck, that not an accident occurred, not a deficiency was felt, not a rope-yarn of our gun tackle strained, cartridges, shot and wads, nay every thing was at hand. All the guus on the quarter-deck and forecastle of the Macedonian were dismounted or rendered unserviceable." STAR•OFFICE, TWO O'CLOCK. Letters from New York, of the 21st December, have been received in town. We are sorry to state, that they mention in positive teams that MADISON has been re-elected President. Yesterday the Earl of LIVERPOOL went tent in hip carriage for the first time since his indisii t Extract of a letter from Setzen, in Courland, dated ' I December 17th :-- " The day before yesterday there passed this place a Polish regiment, the last of those which infested this neighbourhood. Overcome with cold and fa mine, they took up their quarters for the night in the neighbourhood of Setzen. A whole battalion of 700 men lay in a large cattle-shed, and in the most negli gent manner kindled a fire in the shed. While they were all asleep, the fire burnt on, communicating it self to the building, and, according to the report of some of the soldiers themselves, 400 of their com rades were burnt to death; 70 of them were not com pletely dead, but were so frightfully burnt that they expired before evening." A 4741. Ih7 ELLIGENCL The SPECULATOR lugger bas arrived at FAlmw.4. from Corunna,in eight days, with Dispatch e , 1 11 , 4 the Marquis of WILL9JUTON. FALMOUTH, JANUARY 24. Arrived his Majesty's ships BITTIRN LER, from a cruise ;. SrscuLarcus lugger, from CUT • runna, with Dispatches, in eight days. Came in a French brig and three chasse marees t laden v 0.., brandy and wine, from Bourdeaux, prises to his M. jesty's ships ARROW and GROWLER. Sdiled a l tile i.j:. zabeth packet, for Lisbon ; and the HinchenhaAr packet, for Gibraltar and Malta, both with %As. There being no man of war or packet at Con.r.;ia when the SPECULATOR lugger sailed, dispatches wre put on board her just as she was about to get ti...zer weigh ; they are said to be of importance. t FalmtA.h. Aches fr(g a Gre ; from C. Came in a aden to his Ma. led:the ichenhrt.ni t with Mails. it Con.r.;ra itches wros s get tt...ier f the Coal e STIO.LbiG ships Bit - - ad SUOCEc a cruise.— ) the West. ro, bound bound to the follow. the Dogger , Het ring, :ermonia. tnd Fan . % , uth. :Y. !, for the Ma St. Johannes, Abo and Er. ), on the 2ittlt vlary Ann, ea viol, for the Adelphi. t 6, Laurence rrey-street. 31, Howard. 12, states, from Fal• le Leeward td retaken, sailed from and Islands gen on tht hidings. It preceding which was as not able current. d from the ire spplica• inburgh, to he number may be lin. y 20, lel& er of the 14th I entered into :e and Mattw g day ; and if Omer Ron. his Majesty's a support are mut:rat." orning at a fide, which e it was er- ing, a fire Bowl pub. rival of se- ished, after o'clock, an fr. Watkin• in a s',:ort large quart- n) rered to b! f the upper work of an tin a short has beer. the prese:lt it had done m into ens- ceding fire. stating the officer was business. ise, one of ts. A Gen- Duntry, had ess in town. out into th New Ciii", mes's Cot hear of the door. q. 47. ippiy of Pears to t.t. , but intent , 1104. 105 s. . Btis. 90'. t. 445. 10. Stis. 424 Is. :62 per laa". PLYMOUTH, JANUARY S. Came in the UNICORN frigate, from off the Coal of France, having been on shore ; and the STIRLING CASTLE, of 74' guns. Sailed bit Majesty's ship Bar. Tear, Fos, and PYRAMUS, on a cruise. PORTSMOUIII, JANUARY U. Arrived his Majety's ship! FRHIlit and Snocsr from Leith. Sailed the VIPER cutter on a cruise.— His Majesty's sloop Bonua takes convoy to the West ward. Also arrived the Stranger, Sauttuo, bound to Jamaica; and the Henrietta. Wnrsom, bound to Berbice.—Wind S.E. YARMOUTH, JANUARY 26. His Majesty's ship CRETAN has sent in the follow. ing small vessels, which she captured on the Dogger Bank, ♦iz. Arnercooas, Vrow Cornelies , Herring, and Codfish ; Johann t Margaretha, and Hermonia. DEAL, JANUARY S 5. Arrived his Majesty's ships SUCCEM and FRLI from - Leith, and sailed again for Portsmouth. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. Clio, for the Opsloe, on the 27th, and Crocodile, for the Ma riming, on the 3uth , at 2; Norfolk-street. _ _ Tarrar, for the St. Peter , St. Simeon, St. Helena, St. Johannes, (Allots Nos. 7 and 9, St. Alexis, and the packet of Abo and Li. pressen, on the t6th, and Proserpine, fur the Hoop, on the 2ntli instant, at 41, Norfolk-street. locust, for theW.lliam ; and Aehates, for the Mary Ann, ea their arrival; recalls at 41, Norfolk-street. Princess Caroline, for the Constantine; and Cheerful, for the Charlotte of Wismar, the 26th, at 10, John -street, Adelphi. Jamaica, for the Virginia, the 9d of February, at 6, Laurence Pountney-hilL • Kite, for the Renard, the 90th instant, at 23, Surrey-street. King George, for the John, the 90th instant, at 11, Howard. strut. 111 A letter from Antigua, dated Dec. 12, states, eg the Townsend packet, which sailed from Fal• mouth the 14th October, with mails for the Leeward Islands and Jamaica, had been taken and retaken, and that the WalsiAgham packet, which sailed from Falmouth the 4th Noiember, for the Leeward Islands had not arrived." A severe ple took place at Copenhagen on tilt sOth ult. which damaged a number of buildings. ft is feared that some vessels which s tiled the preceding evening have foundered, for the thick ice which was near the bAttery of the Three Crowns, was not able to resist the twited force of the wind and current. The following letter has been received from tht Earl of BeCKINGIWIIIIRE, in answer to the applica. Lion of the ChAmber of Commerce of Edinburgh, to • have the port of Leith included among the number of ports into which East India produce may be itaf ported : _ . " India Board, January 20, 1812. " Ste—l had the honour of receiving your letter of the 14th Fstant, transmitting a copy of certain Resolutions entered into at a General Meeting of the Chamber of Commerce and Manir tacturers of the city of Edinburgh, on the preceding day ; and I have the honour to acquaint you, that the object of these Ron. lutiots will not fall to receive that atteniwn from his Majesty's Government, to which the persons interii• ed in its support ate so well entitled.—l have the honour to be, Exc. (Signed) sucximon4itsapts." FIRES.—A fire broke out on Monday morning at a tallow-chandler's, in Bread-street, Cheapside, which burnt the lower part of the premises before it was ex tinguished. About three o'clock, yesterday morning, a fire broke out with great violence in the Punch Bowl pub. lic-house, Holborn—but by the timely arrival of' se veral engines the flames were extinguished, after doing considerable damage. This morning, between five and six o'clock, an alarming fire broke out in the house of Mr. Watkin son, in the Borough, Southwark, which in a s::vt time consumed the same, together with a large quan• tity of corn, and two houses adjoining. Happily n) lives were lost. Sidney College, Cambridge, was discovered to b! on fire on Sunday. It broke ont in one of the upper rooms, and is suspected to have been the work of an incendiary. This is the third time, within a short period, in which it is supposed this College has beer. set on fire wilfully and maliciously. Upon the prese:lt occasion, it was happily got under before it had done much mischief. A person has been taken into cus tody, who bad been examined on the preceding fire. An express arrived in town yesterday, stating the above circumstances ; and a Bow-street officer was immediately dispatched to investigate the business. By the fire at St. James's Coffee-house, one of the losses is singular, as it is described lo us. A Gen tleman just come to that Hotel from the country, had received the money, the object of his business in town. too late for the banker ; the money was put into lii portmantua, and he went to dinner at the New Ciu!,, (the Albion) next door but one to the St. James's Cut tee-house ; and, strange to say, he did not hear of the fire there till it was impossible to enter the door. CORN-MARKET, MAR)C-LANE, JAN. 47. Our tarrrency remiss as on Monday. Ile supply of 40,9 t rUI eautiours large ; bat no material variation appears to t.t place this morning. Fine Barley Is rather brisker, but inter ,o aorta ant still dull. English Wheat, 765. 100,. 140 s. 1844. Foreign do. 755. 98s. 110 s. 126* Rye, 725. 745. 765. Barley, 58s. 645. 681. 751. Mak, 10.55. 1141. Hog Peas 805. 865. Boilers 955. 105 s. MK Canary Seed, 903.1055. Caraway, per cwt. 84s. 90'. Coriander, do. 40s. 445. White Muotard, do. :36. VS. per bushel. Brown do. SOs. 345. Rape Seed £5B, £62 per Lie. ,10s. per sack. Oats 33g. 465. 565. Horse Beans, 764 84s. Tick Ditto, fes. 755. Hour 103 s. t•