Star. — London, England, 1812-05-27 00:00:00

,: t v ; and nodoubt the Hon. Gentleman would feel ~ elf affronte 1, were it said of him, that he ridiculed L. 8,11 m the Hoose, and declared it admirable whn b went into ciutnany. He (Mr Sherhtin) had no fag f the consumption of pewter falling ' , ff. Having the honour to he Retetver General fur Cornwall, the emoluments of which office chiefly arose froin the pt ,,Juce of tin, h. must be alliiwed to be perfectly id;p, rtiAl , n his support of the measure. Th e Gallery was then tle3red for a division, when Metnhers in the House, an adjourn thee n' t b ein g i ? tot irotni•iii it vri p.4ce THE EVENING STAR. LONDON: WEDNESDAY, MAY TT. ?RICE np g,,,~,& 1 Hlo DAY AT ONE O I C per Cent. Rrd. rloa —4 per Cent. 751 prr Ct. Cons. for money 61f—Ditto fur account 611 5 per Cent 91} 94} —Scup pre—Long Awls...—. Exch. Bills par la pre.—Bonds par N. pre. The country, we sre sorry to say, is still without fixed Administration.. The conversation between L en d CASTLEREAGH and Messrs. BROVOHAM and WHITBREAD. in Ye House of Commons last night on this subject, is decisive on the point. It is believed that the PRINCE REGENT has ex. pressed a strong wish that his late, or present Minis. "Is, for we knnw not which to call them, should relax trom their determination to resist the Catholic claims. It so, it would apppar, that on this point tliey are as unwilling to concede as those whom they eked to associate with them ; for the Marquis of WELLESLEY and Lord LIVERPOOL still seem to draw dietetic ways. We have more than once alluded to the corres pondence that is known to have taicen place between the Marquis WELLESLEY and Lords GREY and GltEti vaLv.—We are now enabled to lay before our Readers an abstract,—we believe a faithful one,—of the correspondence which has taken place, from thence an accurate view may be taken of the princi ples and opinions of the parties implicated. The substance of the joint letter of Lords GREY and GRENVILLE is as follows : “ They are perfectly ready to sacrifice all personal feelings, order to give effect to the vote of the House of Commons, in the present alarming crisis Aff m They express their sincere acknowledgments to Lord WELLESLEY, for his powerful exertions in sup. port of the Catholic claims ; and state their perfect escurrence in his first principle on this subject. " With regard to the war in the Peninsula, they declare, that no persons can more deeply feel than they di , the importance of its successiul termination; bat that in regard to its management, it is difficult, without an acquaintance with the detailb, al d all the circumstances 01 the war, which can only be acces. sable to persons in office, to give a decided opinion. "They are perfectly ready, however, to enter into *dispassionate discussion of that important question ; but that it is fair to declare, that they entertain &ulna whether„ in the present distressed state of the country, it will be found practicable to encrease the public burthiens; gi Lords Hot.t.Awn Ind LANSDOWNE concurred generally in that epillion ; and particularly in the part which refers to the powerful exertions of Lord WELLESLEY in support of the Catholic claims. 4 Mr. CANNING and Mr. W. POLE are of course trader:Loki to concur throughout with the Noble Marquis who flukes the propositibh ; in whose prin. tiples and opinion the Lords MotkA and ERSKINE, together with Mr. SHERIDAN, are Skid to coincide." The following is the substance of Lord LINTER rooes answer and that of his colleagues, to Lord libu.testry i That it was unnecessary to discuss the ptineiples of the basis proposed by Lord WELLESLEY for a new Administration ; because he and his colleagues cle: sirea to decline being members of any Administrate tion formed by Lord WELLESLEY: . I Lord MELVILLE assented to the principles main. trilled by the Marquis WELLESLEY; and was willing to serte tvisk, but not tinder his Lordship. " The Budget, to be brought forward immedi_ atelYs was lei' ready prepared by Mt. PEEMAL. It adds two millions to tie present taxes." At a Lte hour on Monday night, after the PRINCE I)4 GENT's cOnterence with Mr. CANING, expresses nere sent to Lord &MOUTII, at Richmond Park, to LOU: CANDEN,-Wilo Was dining at the Trinity House, and tn'all tare other Members of the late Cabinet and the res Ult was yesterday made known to the PRINCE by the Earl of Livesspoor. and Lord Et.notr. The nature of the answer may be interred hobs the `Ctufnistance that happened after wards, since earl Matti was immediately sent for by his Royal nigh. Ile% and had an audiente at five o'clock in the afternoon.. The interview between the two friends, is said to have been extremely affecting and another coder ence is to take place this evening—Perhaps for the purl of receiving commands from the Pianos to form an Administrition that shall conciliate all descriptions of his Majesty's people: From *a that has yet transpired, however, it may be inferred -that all the conciliatory attempts that bare yet been made to arrange the .arartatis ?MINI bare failed of their effect,. The hope of an effective C as.ition has rather dttrtased, as the Lords LIVIR- root. and Mst.vzw.e are no more disposed to enacede to Marqms W nusuct and Mr. CANNING, than the Lords LANSDOWN lc and HOLLAND are to depart from their politiLal allegiance to the Lords Gner and GRENVILLE. If neither of the patties can be induced to give up the points that have bethertr , prevented union, it seems very probable that the Opposition will come into place. Indeed; It the influence and talents of Mar cities WELLE:LEY, Mr. CANNING, and the Opposition, be united against any Administration, it is difficult to conceive how public business could be carried on. The Lail cf LIVERPOOL, the LORD CIiAgCELLOR, dud Lord MetArtu.E, had audiences of the PitiNcE RLGF:N r ycstertay ; but we understand that no deci. sive measure was the result. Marquis Wist.t.ssutv left town about three o'clock. The Lisbon Mail, which arrived yesterday, was brought to Falmouth by the Princess Charlotte, in six days.—We have little to add to the details which we were enabled togive yesterday.—Earl WELLING TON and his gallant army are now posted so as completely to frustrate any further movements of the French upon Portugal. Indeed the latter do not seem either willing or able to make any attempt of the kind. SQULT, if we may credit the accounts in the Portuguese Papers, is extremely uneasy at Seville, and threatens to retire upon the kingdom of Grenada. We have seen several letters•from New York, of the 21st April, complaining loudly of the Embargo, and stating, that a great ferment prevails in the pub lic mind in consequence. The table of the House of Representatives is covered with Petitions from Merchants, praying a renewal of the intercoqrse with Great Britain ; while the latest communications from Mr. Jost. BARLOW, at Paris, are said to have been of the most gloomy description. B r the Chichester. packet, which has arrived from the Leeward Islands, we learn that the melancholy news respectng the earthquake at the Caraccas is confirmed, but not to the extent brought by the Wind sor Castle packer. . The loss now is stated to be 10,000 souls. The shock was felt at several of the West India Islands.—The GLotitE frigate sail d from Tortola six days previous to t h e Chichester, with 50 sail of ships for England, leaving 40 sail behind. Monday evening the Cabinet Ministers had a ge neral Meeting at the Earl of LlvenPooL's house, Whitehall, and sat till a late hour. Yesterday, at eleven o'clock, the Duke of YORK had an audience of the PRINCE ltaosN r, prey ions to his setting off for Ascot Heath Races. Yesterday Lords ELDON, Ltvenroot, and MOIRA, attended at Carlton House ; the two former about half-past 12 o'clock, and the latter about five. The Order of the Bath is be extended to fifty, in cluding the Sovereign and the Grand Master ; twenty. three are to be installed next Monday, at Westminster Abbey. The Dowager Lady FORTESCUE died yesterday afternoon, at her house in Wimpole•street. Her LA dyship was in her 85th year, and was mother to the present Earl. The Marquis of HUNTLEY returned to town yes terday from Scotland, where, with the most exem plary filial devotion, he superintended the funeral of the lamented Duchess of GORDON, whose remains were interred at Kinrara, on the 11th instant. KING'S THICATRIC —Last night one of the most brilliant and fashionable audiences which has been witnessed this season, graced the boxes at this splendid place of amusement. The grand Opera, or rather Melo-drame of Camilla,• was received with increased sat:sfaction, and the new singer, Mr. F/SCIIER, as Merle, met with unbounded applause. The exqui site sensibility of Madame CATALANI, in the dungeon scene, where she first sees her child after an imprison ment of some years, was such as to awaken the finest emotions in her auditors. Such a mother only as Madame, CATALANI unquestionably is in her do mestic relations, could conceive and execute the in teresting scene with such pathos ; and her 6 4 0 fortunato momenta!" dreW tears frdm every parent in. the house'.'--The new Ballet of Zephyr and Flora, which does so much honour to the classical taste and genius of DIDELOTi followed the Opera ; and every night of its representation the excellent Corps de Ballet are indi vidually More and more au fait in their respective parts. No Ballet Master who ever visited this country, can boast like M. Dtor.t.or, not only of being the Author of many charming Pantomimic representations, but also of being the original founder of a Corps de Ballet out of English materials. The secession to the Pantheon of almost all the foreign dancers of the regular Opera establishment, had left M. DIDELOT ( with the excel). Lion of Vssrurs, and Mesdames Dieinor and Arrow usr) almost no dancers of experience. M. I:honor, however t has surrnottnted all difficulties, and proved how much may be made of English talent, under the tuition of an able master. The vigorous, and yet graceful agility; of Madame Donor, as the Bacchante in the Cymbal ;Dance, stands unrivalled, and furnishes a living picture-of what we have only hitherto ima gined, from the glowing descriptions of the ancient Poets. The esertions of this lady to gratify the au dience, are rendered doubly meritorious, from the circumstance of her labouring under a severe lunation of the muscles of the leg, and which - renders her move ments sotheWhat painful to hetself.—Amid the in teresting juvenile gronpe, of M. Domot's forma tion, Mademoiselle Clikailf is pre-eminent :—her be witching playfulness, and graceful movements, thronghont the Whole of the ballet, proclaim her the rising Diem de At dance ; a station for which, the ele gant symmetry of her form eminently qualifies hen.— The. curtain (hurt amid thunders of applause.—ln the Boxes we *bier red the Duke of CLARENCE and his amiable datierters, the Misses FITZCLARENCE ) with a long train ut fashiOnables• Nar,lL INTELLIC.ENCE. . THE ARMY. 1 ... —.. THE FRENCH SQUADRON. General Haevze hat arrived at Falmouth frnm Tt appears by acc o u n t s font Vied by the Pend, l''''''n.' in the Queen Cnarlotte Packet : b e rule the vessel releas e d w i t h p r i s ners b y t h e French direct from ri ad et: (vers. • squadron, and which arrived at Plymouth on Sueday. Two detachm nts of Horse Artillery are under that this squadron had, in the West Indies, captured orders of en b.rhation, at Portsmou t h and Cork, for mid destroyed 29 sa il o f B r i t i s h an d A merican ships, Portugal ; that at the former p.rt consists .1 upward' • and, including all their captures on the cruize, about sail. This squadro n l e f t M intz on t h e 9tlr o f Jo- of 10(3s ens, with a due plopoitioti of office iv nd 40 sa unary, and kept ilia sea till the depar t u re o f t h e Pa- men; and at the latter,- tA Buu horses, with a simile ' pruporxi m of strength. tent—upwards of tour months. A detachment of the Royal reg:ment of artillery, The ships taken and destroyed were all running- consisting cif abouX 8J men, tot ber th : command of ships. The Frenchmen often jeered their prisoners Captains Cueerr and Mossy, ..nd two Lietrenants, by saying " Englishmen were. all adult, all snug, in liar- arrived at Haddington on 'Thursday Liao tio li Lei h Lour." Off the coast of Portugal a plan w as f orme d . Fort, and those who acre f rm et ly stetioned them e by the prisone r s o n b oar d t h e French Consmodnre to Imarched same day to L e ith Fur, un d e r th e coo take possession of he r , an d f or t hi s purpose t h ey got man d o f Captain CAUSIXIIAEL possession of the arms chest, and stowed it forwards. A detachment of the Royal Wsgen Train 's also This plan however failed, from the circumstance of embarking at Pottsmuu.h fur Lisb. n, and 'mother the prisoners not having acquainted the En elish Cap- for Cadiz. tains and Mates on board with their intenvons.— AVe learn,wids contern,th itLi in.-ColonelCoorre, Many of these were pushing about the jovial glass of the id Somerset, has been obiiged to clime to teen with the French Officers when the daring attempt from Weymt utli, fir surgical assietance, in c. nse commenced, and foiled for want of proper leaders quence of an enlargement of the k rejoiitt, uliech after they had obtained possession of the gun-dect renders him incapable of moving without the aid of of the frigate. crutches. From this circumstance, and from the scarcity of The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has ;soled war provisions, of which there was only three weeks' rants to p ace on permanent duty ter me of the Yeo stock left, the French determined on putting ail the minty in the counties ef Clare, Kerry, and Limerick. Engli-h, Prussians, and Danes, on board the Patent, to relietre the Army stationed in didetent I area l flame which had just b een ca p ture d i n b a ll ast , an d sen di ng them away to shift for them se lve s . They retained counties. The AVatwiek Reginsent of Militia marched from as prisoners all the Spaniards and Portuguese. Two Birr, on Wednesday last, for Dublin, where .hey are hundred and twentyyive, including Captains and Mates, to be quartered. were put on board the Patent, of whom 140 arrived Wednesday last, die Sd West Yerk Militia teturn in that vessel, the rest having been pressed at sea. ed to Colic from Middleton. The French behaved very well to their prisoners, the The Cailis Casein of tie Bth. contains the fol- English Captains dining with the French Officers lowing citract of an Order of the Day, dated Un every day. The frigates hadd - a great deal of specie quera. April 28 : on board, ancrany one of the four composi lg t hi s CHIIII STAfli, rinitrit ARMY. most successful squadron, would prove a most valua- " •".-, ed Geservati-Ohi f, to-day, saw, Wilt sattepetion, the ble capture for any of ?ur frigates. battalions of Catalonia, Barba tot, sod Navara, and the opts. dm. of Uhrique, &feat and portage, fur thine I agues. nOOO of the tnenly's infantry, and 400 bone , eoronsardeti by Generals Rey at,d Ranieri. Part et - our troops marched II hours without rating, to obtain this triumph. Nb oldie, 'hewed the leak sign of suffering, because their Chiefs, possess* g aid:o*-y di.c pt • at, endure with tealgoa:ion, imitating the 4 :ample of ttssrOeneral• in -Chief, the fatigues, considering this con 'uct necessary to -see the country. Whoever is not prepared to make tdsch socrificte, must quit this army, Which has no other ideas than those of provirg to the :laden that the !about of a pattiotie war are satis factory." - . The Lishbot t7iiiitie of the 16th contains a very long Order of the Day issued by Marshal Beanseoeo, at Fuente Guinaldo, and dated May 7.—lt reprima le* in very sivere terms the conduct of several caps of Portuguese militia, particularly that of Opoi to, duns ing the late irruption of the French into the north of Portugal. It appears that these corps, instead of defending the heights of Guardai were seized with a . panic, threw away ther arms, and deserted their co- • lours. Two or three hundred of them were Liken by the enemy, and some of them drowned in the Mons clego while about 1600 dispersed and deserted.-- Marshal BERESFORD directs that their cornirs shall not be restored to these corps until they have behav ed withlalour in the presence of the enemy ; and that those of the officers and soldiers alt i disgraced themselves tin this occesico, shall be tried by a Court Martial. ' His Excellency at the same time bestows discritninatingNpraise on such of the militia regi ntents* as perfoitned their duty. The Older then concludes as foLows: a "His Excellency Buds it WS duty en state the etc. flent conduct of the garrison of A , metda, under The orders of she Governor, Colonel i.e Mesurier, when flie enemy approached that place. His Excellency gives ids &habits to the Governor rid garrison, in which are comprehended a regiment belonging tO the Oporto district. . - " The conduct of the ninth throoghout all the Idnebna, es. err on this unforturate oecasion, was atwkys good in rtipeet to oppoEbg the enemy; and his Etta, bey dose not entertain • s.uubt, but the regiments which have been w beam will not fall to seize the first opp.ittuoityto recover theft honour, sad rave themse.ves Portuguese. " The General Officers did terry thibg In their power so ree attain and collect the trops, but those who ware seized with panic neither saw nor heardt nor. In short, knew what they were doing: thus the efforts of their Offiects wore rendered tussle. but his Excellency is fully Satisfied With them.' The DAUNTLESS sloop of war sailed from Jamaica the 31st March, with 32 sail under convoy for Great Britain, and arrived at Portsmouth the 13th May, without any of the fleet, they having parted on the '29th April in a very heavy gale of wind from the westward, in lat. 35. long. 56. Nineteen of the convoy have since arrived : the rest, via. the Oaks, Mint, Ceres, Sarah, Emerald, and Louisa, for Lon don ; Irwin, for Liverpool ; Cumberland, Jane, and Eliza, for Greenock ; Hugh Jones, and Dick, for Belfast ; and Surinam, for Cork, are still missing. GARR ISO fl RACES: ' ARIIARI DOWNS CCIUItsP, MONDAY, 114 Y 25, 1812. Match for 850.—'1 WO Mr. Dobbyn'e b. m Delis, (rude bj Capt Humphries) beat Mr. Raitt's ch. g. Sandy (rude by :be owner)-1% on easy. Handicap t•b4e of £so.—One hit.. Capt. Stantoi's (14 I.a.reashint on. - • - Mr. Cubitt (4th Q 0 DragrAms) br. n. Capt. Humi Ivey': (Royal. Art Eery) b. g. Madcap - - A most excellent beat, and boat by only by Ulf a Dear. CHATHAM, MAY 24. Tl7e THRASHER, DIADEM, and BARKEtt, have all sailed from this port in the course of the week. The STIRLING CASTLE will sail to.morrow. The Wititsvn E arrived yesterday at Gillingham. The BrsuNswtck will be taken into Dock on Wednesday.owing to the great receipt of timber and increase of business,, additional hands and horses are emplorid in the Dock Yard, and work after the dock hours. FALMOUTH, MAY 24. Arrived the Queen Charlotte Packet, with a Mail from Lisbon, in six days ; and the Chichester Packet, with a Mail from the Leeward Islands, in 27 days. PLYMOUTH, MAY 25. Arrived the ELIZABETH tender, from Greenock ; and a French lugger, PErpaonex, of 10 guns and 48 men, captured off Ushant, in a calm, by the boats of his Majesty's ship Rorn—out two days from St. Ma loes, and had made no captures : the ROTA had one man killed and ten wounded, the privateer five killed. The PHEASANT had previously chaced the privateer from the Land's End to Brest.—Sailed the NIMROD' cutter, for Basque Roads ; and the Aid naval trans port.—Lord KEmi r s flag is nr,w sh;ft,d to the CON = QUESTADOR from the CoLossus.—Wind W. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 26. This morning, Rear-Admiral BROWN hoisted his flag on board the SPITFIRE, and is to sail to Jersey. Sailed his Majesty's slips MAUTEUR, - BEAGLE, and Litoirr, on a cruize. . His Majesty's ship BRISK is appointed convoy for Cork, and the intermediate ports in the Channel.—Wind S. E. DEAL, MAY 26. Arrived the Recovery, SPENCER, from the South Seas. Sailed the RAvatr, for off Flushing. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. Bellona, for the Enterprize, on her arrival at Deal ; and Arrow, for l'Aimees, on her arrival at Plymouth; recalled at No. 3, Clement's Inn. - . L'Epetvier, for the Active; St. Christopher, for the Specula tor; and Cerberus, for the Fanny, on Friday next, at IS, Ck meat's inn, and there recalled. FRANCIS BEATTY, Esq. is appointed to be Purser of the QUEEN CHARLOTTE, of 110 guns, at Plymouth. Admiral BERKELEY IS to be relieved in the com mand at Lisbon, by Adlpiral MARTIN, who will sail in a few days for the Tagus. In the course of last week two Messengers Were , sent off with important dispatches to the North. Within these few days Messrs. Scuaw and Ross have been sent to Mr. FosrEtt, with dispatches from the Secretary of State's Office. At a meeting of the Catholic Board, held in Dub. lin, on Saturday, the 16th ,instant, Major BRYAN in the Chair, Counsellor O'CONNELL postponed his Mo tion for calling an Aggregate Meeting of the Catho lics of Ireland, till after the return of the EA of FIGALL, and the other Catholic Deputies, to Inland, and till the result of Mr. CANNING 'S Motion should be known. Mr. O'CONNELL, in the course of a skit ' speech upon this Occasion, expressed his confidence, that “Catholic Emancipation was no longer a matter of doubt." He also corrected a misapprehension as to what, had fallen from him at the last meeting of the Board, which was supposed to . convey the idea of an attempt to be made to disunite the Catholic Laity from the Catholic Clergy. But this he was sure was impossitfle. Genius is shewn only by invention. _ That the Contraitors for the present Lottery have a fair claitni to the possession of it, will not be disputed, when it is seen that although their Scheme consists but of 8000 Tickets, yet they have managed to give Prizes of £20,000;810,000, 85000, BSOOO, 82000, £lOOO. &c. &c. &c. Many a person will have cause to ap , plaud their genius on the 4th of June. A letter from Huddersfield, d iced May 4?., says— tt Two men (one in a very shabby dress) were appre hended in ibis town, on Wednesday laic. on suspi. cion of putting off lorged ' hank notes. On their ez. amination, it turned out that one had been entneer in Mr. Burton's factory, in Lancashire, and I iad given information against some of the persons concerneJ in setting fire to Mr. Burton's house ; and the other had prevailed on him to leave that ccunit y, in order that he Might not appear in evidence against them, on their approaching trials at Lancaster ! they had in their podets ut £lO each, in Bank of England notes ; and had been ring from 'hop to shop In this town, purchasing wearing apparel, offcting notes in payment at each shop, and tequning change, which exci•ed suspic.on. They were escorted by a troop of the Queen's B.ys to the Police-offi.e, Manchester, yesterday.—The man who had been prevailed upon to leave the county of Lanc ister appt..red very much agitated, and sal! he had been threatened by the Luddite: with tire. - destruction, if he appeared in evi. dente against the rioters ; and that they Would like. wise murder his.father and mother !" CORI.4 , MARKET, MARK-LAPIS. MAY 27. This day the Market liestokrable remaining suppiiesof Wheat films the opinion that the foreign arrivals will h, knosilYtikentsi (Jr the public, this trade s .pi irts last prices. Mirky and Malt heaiy Ale, at the late reduction. White and Grey Peas and Beans of each deicrrption at little litiouation. 'lisle are hbewitita tolerabk supplies of Oats on hand, sites dull, aftiberdly la lad prices—ln Flour no variation. • coitaa.ne resets A 5 VflDte Wheat, 244. 10es. 128 a. beans 725. 775 ' Fine ditto, i st.s. 13as. 7 kik ditto (ore) CR, 71110.: Rye. 744. 82s. Ditto (fine 01.1) *: is. 718 s Barley, 345.641.0 d. Oats. 41$ 4dke 5 • . Mgr, 844. 94g. Poland ditto, 355. 371.; White Pease (boller4)1121 Us I" olattie dittos Ma. Grey dkto, 745. 7es. Rape iced, Alb. Rue Fleur, 1026.1 lOn—afiecenda. sOus. - M r ' .I