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LONDON. MONDAY, MAY 21, 1813. p , ?len OF sTOCICS FUN DAY Al' ONE O'CLOCK: V.cd. 5571 58—Cons. sgif —for acc. Stil 59-4 per Ct. 72f vet. Cent. 87 i 31--Bonds ls. 2s. dii.—Exc'a. bills is. ss. pre. Bank Long Annuities 14 11- t6ths At a late hour last night, a Heligoland Mail arri ved, with fetters and Papers from Hamburgh to the ' 16th instant. The contents of the former are filled %rith gloomy apprehensions for the safety of that city. We :etc: our Readers to the communications from ar irtelligent private Correspondent on this subject. The contents of the German Papers are somewhat tlnre cocoa:aging. A great battle is said to have '), , en fought on the 9th at Zwenkau, in which the trench were defeated. This would imply, that the Allies had taken up a position in the rear of the !'rench after the hittle of Lutzcn ; but we fear the report is too improbable to be believed. The exact position of the allied armies was in fact unknown at the date of the last accounts from the Contn.ent, nor in dispatches been received ire m Lord Cain. ART to clear up the mystery which has attended recent movements. The Saxon General, who commands at Torgau, 'las rinsed to deliver up that fortress to the Trench— .!.is Noks well, and the report comes to us in a shape A , 11:;.11 renders it less questionable thJn that which rc atei to die victory of the 9th. Austria was expected to declare on tlle 21th ef 7 ' 1 .17 (this day) bu., whether for or against France, ca.n,ct ne prognosteated with safety. /la :Lrtcle trom Copenhagen stat.s, that the report cf the annexation of Norway to Sweden, had been re. tile Norwegians with great indignation ; ::.'_d AO.s, th..lt. the Danish Sovereign had left his ca. pltal lnr DaaiJi Holstein, to superintend, we pre. rume, the operations of the Danish Army. lie has ro dr.abt ti,e occupation of the Hanse Towns within ..is immediate purview. Whether in concert with Fiance cr. with Russia, time will spew —at all events he cainot be rApposed to act with good-will towards Sweden —nay, it is not improbable that the Danish ao.d Swedish armies may speedily come in hostile cc;nact—for they occupy the same territories—Deus r,:ertat would be distracting the councils of the Allies with a vengeance ! " STETT!N, MAY 6. " The French continue more and more to fortify C.Pmselves in the intcriur of this town, and oppress the inhabitants. A new contraintion is to Le levied of 40,000 dollars, many necessaries of wearing apparel, which must be defrayed by the 18th inst. without any lenity being shewn. " On the day before yesterday, at break of day, I [he enemy began to cannonade our position - at Fin tenwalde very briskly ; and for which purpose he had, during the night, brought 24 and 12-pounder• cannon into his batteries. Our artillery fired with so much effect, that it silenced that of the enemy, although it was greatly superior in number, and heavier metal, and the Governor was obliged to ab stain from his intention of storming our entrench ment, for which purpose some squadrons had marched out from Stettin. This cannonade continued twelve hours, and it is with pleasure that I can assert, that the loss on our side consisted only in three men slightly wounded. According to reports given by deserters, the enemy has lost a great number in killed add wounded, and likewise had a quantity of artillery dismounted. " Major Von Knoblick had likewise a trifling afEtir on the 2d inst. in which the tiralleurs of his detach ment particularly distinguished themselves, and drove the enemy back to the glacis of Damon. Our artil lery continues to distinguish themselves in every op. portunity, and the rest of the troops exhibit them selves in the most respectable light. Desertions from the Dutch and Germans are vet y frequent, and sick ness is making great devastation among the garrison. Major Von Knoblick, with his battalion, has this day had a skirmish near the Phiecoat Mill, and repulsed the enemy with considerable loss." PRIVA II LETTERS. " HAMBURG, MAY 14. " I shall endeavour to give you some account of the critical and painful situation in which we have I been for some days, and still continue. Atter the I battle on Sunday, in which the French were repulsed from Wilhelmsburg by our troops, though with more loss on our side than might have sufficed, if proper measures had been taken, th:ngs remain.,.d tolerably quiet till Tuesday evening at six o'clock, when the alarm was beat, and it was reported that our troops had abandoned the important island of Wilhelmsburg—nobody could tell why, and that the French were landed there in great force, as it ap. peared, (though this was not known till afterwards), without any opposition. We were, however, com forted, in some measure, by the entrance of some Danish troops, the very same who were said to be the forerunners of a corps of '25,000 men. At six o'clock on Wednesday morning the alarm bell was rung, the drums beat to arms, all was in confusion and anxious expectation. When about eight a brisk firing of small arms was heard so near, that it seemed to be in the streets. I hastened home to my house, which has a view of the river and its islands, and there saw boats arrive on our side full of our troops, and on the other side some wading through the water and flying when they reached the land in the utnnst terror. All this I could distinguish clearly through an indifferent telescope. Soon atter some cannon-shot were fired from our side, and the tiring in a little time ceased. Meanwhile wounded were brought in ; the fugitives ran through the streets—people ran about, crying that all was lost, wringing their hands, and expecting that the Fret ch would be here in half an hour's time, fi,rgetting that there was a large branch of the Elbe between, that the French had certainly not boats at hand to land in :14 numbers, and evidently no artillery, as they had not fired a cannon-shot during the action. " Of the circumstances of the action it was ab solutely impossible to get Any thing resembling a distinct idea, so various were the accounts at first given by the soldiers of the different corps engaged. There were I\lecklenburghers, Danes, riflemen of the English legion, a part of our Burgher guard and of the Hanseatic legion, and some artillery, with six or eight pieces of cannon—about 1500 in all, as is said. Of the nunibers of the French we are not even yet clearly informed; it appears, however, that they could not be fewer than '3OOO. 4‘ No official account whatever, nor i ndeed any account in print, has been given of this action, which however was very fatal for us. It seems, from all the various accounts I have heard, to have been nearly as follows:—our troops after leaving Wilhelmsburg retired to another island, called the Fiddel, and the Prate, where they had very advantageous positions, as well by nature as by their entrenchments and bat teries. Without properly reconnoitring the enemy, the Burgher Guards (or 100 of them, invited to it by their Major, a Frenchman, who is now arrested) and the riflemen attacked the French, and were soon joined by the Mecklenburghers and Danes (two com • panics). They gained some advantage at first, and the French retired. Tie Hanseatic Legion were then to have advanced to support them, but were ordered by their Commander soon after to halt. The others were soon surrounded by a very superior num ber of the enemy, and, not being supported, fell back fighting, particularly the Mecklenbuighers, with a valour worthy of a better fate. In short, they were soon overpowered, arid obliged to retreat in the ut most confusion to their boats, two of which sunk from being overloaded. The loss, not being °fir. chilly published, cannot be ascertained, but it was certainly very considerable. The whole misfortune is unanimously attributed by the soldiers of the Hanseatic Legion, to the treachery •of their own Commander, and of others of their Officers. They accuse him of not properly re connoitring the enemy, of having wilfully neglected all the advantages of the ground, which were such that the French might have been hindered from land. ing, or even repulsed alter it, our troops being pro tected by double entrenchments, by trees, (from be hind which the riflemen fired with great success), and by their artillery, while the French had no artillery, nor any protection but two or three houses which cur cannons might have destroyed, but on which he did not allow a single shot to be fired. Finally, when the troops were embarking, be went on board one of the boats, wishing them to return, but not prevailing, ht leaped out, waded ashore, threw his cap and handkerchief into the air, and went over to the enemy. " Behold, then, the French in the possession of an island, from which, if they had any howitzers, they might burn the part of the city nearest to them, par ticularly the tar and pitch magazine. As yet they have attempted nothing. Several flags of truce have come, but what they propose is absolutely unknown. We can see the glittering of their arms from our ' windows, and their straw huts v ith the naked eye. We hoped that something would be done to expel them from this important post: Some thousand Danes are come, and reports are continually spread of their having landed, or intending to laud, in the rear of the French ; but nothing has been done, ex cept now and then a 24-pounder to disturb them in their erection of platforms for batteries and other works. They have as yet no cannon ; but if They are left alone, rcill certainly bring some frem Har burg. Meantime reports are spread of advantages gained by General Dornberg, on the other silo. of the river. Then again it is s.id the D tries will leave us to our fate; but we may truly say we know nothing. Our citizens are liari:sed to death—exposed to lie four or five nights togethor in the open air; I myself have been forty-eight hours on g,tiard out of sixty : in short, our situation is painful in the extreme. To day a death-like silence has prevailed—thousands have fled, Goo knows where ; the shops are shut, and we long for the hour that shall bring us some as surances of our fate." " HAMBURGH, MAY IS. " The post did not go yesterday eveniug, there being hardly any letters. To-day not a shot has been filed on either side. There seems nn room to doubt that a grand plan for dislodging the French from all their positions is on the eve of execution, but every thing is kept secret ; a precaution which the great number of spies renders necessary. This evening acconnts are received through various channels of a second battle, in which the French have been totally defeated with prodigious loss. A Gentleman has just assured me, that a friend from Wittenberg has re ceived a letter from his brother-in-law, in those parts, stating, that the French had lost 21,000 men and SG pieces cf cannon. " A Courier has also this instant arrived at Colo nel Tettetiborn's, but not being in town, the contents of the dizpatches are not known : it is said, however, that he has brought the ner:i of a great victory. " Intelligence has also arrived, which may be re lied on, that General Dornbeig is at Duntberg, with 8000 Prussians, on his way to Hamhurgh. We are also informed, but with what truth we know not, that 9000 men frcm England are landed at Cux. haven, which town is burnt. This you will know better than I do. Some thousands more Danes have marched to-day towards the Elba. It is said the Frenc:i have offered the Haile: Towns to the Danes, until a Peace is cbncluded." SECOND EDITION. STAR-OFFICE, TWO O'CLOCK. We understand Government have received Dis patches front Lord CATHCART and Sir CHARLES Smwanr, dated Dresden, the 7th inst. which came by the way of Gottenburgh ; and that they contain accounts similar to those published in the German Papers, as to the superiority of the Allies in the great battle of the 2d, near Lutzen. The circumstance 'of the Allies remaining masters of the field after the engagement, is completely confirmed. It appears, however, that they subsequently retired to the Elbe. —The Emperor was at Dresden on the 7th, and the heavy baggage had crossed the Elbe. It also ap pears that on the 2.1 the Allies under Bulow, beat the French severely at Halle ; and that from the 2d to the. 7th there were merely affairs of posts and the rear-guard. It now appears, by the letters received by the Gnt tenburgh Mal, that the visit of his Royal Highness the Duke of CUM BERLAND to the Continent, is not precisely of a diplomatic or military abaracter. A marriage is spoken of as likely to take place between his ROYAL HIGIIN&S and the ARCIIDUCHLSS, sister to the Emperor ALEXANDER. Sir CIIAItLES Fi.owen, it is expected, will succeed to the v.tcancy in the West India Dock direction, which is caused by the death of Sir JOHN WILLIAM ANDERSON. NATioxALDEBT.—Amount of the Debt redeemed, .C 251,692,391. The sum to be expended in the ensu ing quarter is £1,07-1,156. Is. 94d. COLRT OF• KING'S BENCH.-This morning Mr. H. WHITE, proprietor of the hidertinknt Whig, was brought up to receive the judgment of the Ceurt, for a libel on the Duke 01 CUNII:EFLAND. The sentence was, that he should be imprisoned 15 months in Newgate, and pay a fine of £2OO to the King, and that he be further imprisoned till the fine be paid. GOTTENBURGH MAIL. GOTTENBURG, MAY IS. a On the 13th his Royal Highness the D u k e o f C UMEE RLAND arrived here, in his Majesty's ship N vm phee. He proceeded from hence, via Ystadt, early this morning, for the head-quarters of the " PETERSBURGII, APRIL 29. , g Barons DUE and Ems arrived to-day from Lem berg. They are charged, on the part of the Austrian Emperor, to accompany her Serene Highness the Vileness CATHARINE through the Austrian States, % here every disposition has been made to render her j o urney equally commodious as agreeable."—( Peter:- furgh Gazette, 30th April.) GERMAN PAPERS. BERLIN, MAY 11. A report is just now spread here, that a battle has taken place near Zwenkau, which terminated in fa vour of the Allies ; and in consequence of which, Count Wittgenstein is said to have received the order of St. Andrew. To-day or to-morrow we expect to bear again of a grand battle having taken place. FROM SAXONY, MAY 8. The combined Russian and Prussian army has :l ow taken up a strong position along the Elbe, where they await their reinforcements, in order to re sunie otronsive operations against the enemy. The h e .uktiarterq of his Majesty the King of Prussia trorc, according to the latest accounts, at Konigs bruck ; those of general Count Wittgenstein at Meis .en ; General Von Bulow was at Dessau—he had kit that - place on the 6th, and marched in again on the 7th, on which day Leipsic was not occupied by the French. A corps which had before been there :;ad mado a diversion towards Torgau ; the Com :aanding ;general of which, it is said, had, accord ing to orders received from the Emperor Napoleon, summoned the Commander of the said fortress, Lieu tenant-General Thielmann, to deliver it tip and join him with the Saxon corps under his command ; but ;astead of doing which, General Thielmann ii.formed llitn he must have the orders of his King for so doing, without which he could by no means comply with this request; and that in case of hostile measures beng resored to on the part of the French, he should .tai himself under the necessity of repelling force by lATRACT OF A LETTER FROM A PRUSSIAN OFFICER AT DESSAU, DATED THE BTII OF MAY. Affairs look well. The theltre of war is on the Upper Elbe, drawn towards Dresden and Meissen, w:lere our army has taken a position which Napo leon cannot attack without running a great risk of coming off with the worst. Bulow's corps, which 1:i pursuance of orders had again quitted Halle, is now in a very good position. It is said that Napoleon', army, in the battle of Great Gorschen, was 180,000 strong. HAMBURGH, MAY 14. It is said that Leipsick was taken possession of by the French troops on the evening of the sth. The fair was continued without disturbance, and will, ac cording to ad appearance, turn out well. According to private accounts received from Dres itn, a fresh action took place on the Bth inst. nen. ZTenkau, between Leipsick and Pegau, in which the French were repulsed, and ob;iged to leave twenty cne pieces of artillery behind diem. THE EVENING STAR :PORTING INTBLLIGEArCE. NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING-18IS. SATURDAY, MAT itt. Lord F. G. Osborne's July, Bst. 41b. apt Mr. Vanslttart's St. lima, Bst. i lb. T. Y. C. 10egs. h. ft. Dud Htat.—s and 4 to 1 on July. Lord G. H. Cavendish's Caber, Bst. 101 b. beat Mr. Villlers's Don Cosack, rot. lolb. T. C. VOogl.-2 to lon Caber. I.ord G. H. Cavendish's Handel, SA. b-at Gen. Gower's Ana stasia, nu. Sib. T. Y. C. ltd.-7 to 4 art Handel. Mr. Craven's l'ooley, 7st. tilb. rtc. ft. front Mr. Bruen's Hol lyhock, Bst. 911). D. L 200 gs. h. ft. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Advice was this day received at the East India House, stating, that the ships Rose, BRIDGEWATER, ESSEX, ATLAS, PRINCESS AMELI A, METC ALFE, BARING, and MARQUIS WELLINGTON, which sailed from Ports mouth the 29th January last, were, on the 28th March, in lat. 15 S. long. 28 W. under convoy of his Majesty's ship DXDALUS. PLYMOUTH, MAY 22. Put back his Majesty's ship SAN JosEF, having met with very bad weather. Arrived his Majesty's ship BRISK, with a convoy of transports from Ireland.— Came in the French ship letter of marque, Empress Queen, of 400 tons, IS guns, and GO men, from Ncw York, bound to Rochelle, with sugar, coffee, cotton, &c. prize to the HOT&PCR frigate. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 29. Arrived yesterday his Majesty's ship DERWENT, from a cruize. Sailed his Majesty's ships Dtbiazt and TYRIAN, on a cruize ; and the PRINIKOSR and SWIFT for the Downs. Arrived to-day his :%lA . ;sty's sloop FLY, from WoJlwich.—Wind S.W. • DEAL, MAY 43. Came down from the Ri‘er his Majesty's slip Insuc, and sailed for Portsmouth. Arrived his Ma jesty's ships PIONEER and ACTIVE from a cruize ; OLYMPIA from Sheerness, and remain with the out ward-b,:und, stiil detained. Arrived his Mjesty's sirip RAPID from F.llmouth, with t ci.nvoy, which are sailed for the R; ver.— Wind S.W. t•HEERNFS.i, MAY ES. Sailed Lis Nesty's ship PINCIIFK, Wi'3l convriy for Heligoland, th next will sail about the sth of June.—Wind W. YARMOUTH, MAY f'.9. Arrived the RAVEV sloop of war, fim off the Texel to refit; and the HOLLY schorner from Cotten burgh, but is has net yet transpired whether Ae is the tearer of any divatches or importance. COVE, MAY 17. Friday evening sailed for Portsmouth. theVißaco, Lieutenant PITTMAN, having under convey . a rormher of transports, with the Brunswick cavalry, and Gal way and Rutland Militia. The Tl:aztit gun brig, LientenantJcuisx, sailed on Saturi'ay morning, with transports, having on board the Monaghan Militia, for Plymouth. The several vessels bound to Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, put to sea on Saturday, but were forced to put back shortly after sailing, owing to the shifting of the wind—they are still detained here. His Majesty's ship LFONIDAS, Captain SLY- - N101:11, which arrived on Friday, gees on a cruEze in a day or two, as e!oes also the FORTE:NEE, Captain GOATE. The BRISK sloop of war, Captain Mount SHEER, arrived on Saturday from Lougliswilly, and proceeds to-morrow for England. The TALBOT, CaptainSwAlNE, sailed on Saturday for Portsmouth. MAY 19.—The Lisbr,n Fleet yesterday made an . other attempt to put to sea, but shortly after were I impelled to put hack again.—Remain the Leonidas. 38 guns, Hon. Captain Scymourt ; and Fortunee, 28 guns, Captain GOATE, &c. CREFNOCK, MAY 19. The Cervantes, PATEizqls, from Cork, was off Madeira gist ultimo. The Clyde division of the fleet all well. LEITH, MAY :o. The Ar.EXAxunt.► frigate and SPITFIRE SinOp of war sailed on Tuesday to the Northwarl, to rroize in the track of the Greenland ships.—The APELLES sloop of war sailed yesterday with a convoy of about 20 sail, for Archangel ; and the CkiEERLE gun-brig, with a convoy to Gottenburgh. The Matilda American privateer of 10 punt and 70 men, was taken off Pernambuco 22d Match, by the Lion privateer, of London, after a severe en gagement. The, North Star, 20, Captain COE, goes to Fal mouth, to proceed thence with a convoy to Jamaica. She will join the Lacedemonian, Ardent, D and Abundance, and the convoys fur Bermuda and Halifax, off that port. The Commerce, KING, of Arundel, from Cork to Southampton, ,foundered off Scilly yesterday se'n night during a heavy gale—crew saved. The East India, Brazil, coast of Africa, and Lis bon convoys remained yesterday windbound at Ports mouth. The Bacchante, Captain Hos Tit, has captured two more gun-boats in the Adriatic. The enemy have only one remaining at Corfu. • The STIRLIVG CAST! Sir HOME POPHAM, had quick run from Spithead —she was 2.50 miles N.V. of Madeira on the Ist inst. T!'ree days previously the convoy exper;enced a ye: v heavy gale for three hours, in which the SHILLING CASTLE and INDEFA TIGABLE loq their top-masts. It was feared the Cog. niac packet, for Rio Janeiro, was lost. The Doris and Salsette, Cur ,he Eao. I..dies; Phoebe, for Lima; and Porcupine, for the Brazils, sailed horn Teneritie, on the 15th and 16:;) uli. CORN-MA aKET, MARK-LANE, MAY 'M. The supply of Wheat t.) this day's market was nit'' , r small; fine WLeat from Lssrx sold freely, at rat!.cr bete: prices thatt were obtain e d last Monday, but th•:re is no al etati in in the or. &:a. - y qualities, which are taken o i rather slowly. Barley went oil freely at last week's p , icts, the tr.,..t k ohttined 575. to 58s. and that from Norfolk 53s to 555. BeAll are nut so ready sale as last week, bu' pri-e, continue ewe sim • Oats are 2s. per quarter cheaper. ►n other articke nu altetatitm.