Star. — London, England, 1813-01-29 00:00:00

*. THE EVENING STAR. . LONDON. FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1813: piucE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CL OCKI Red. 59114 --Cons. s!}}—Cons.[oe ate. Stitt a per Ct. 57i- 4 per Ct. 75H-5 per Cent. 91)ne ILIA Stock 221 i 492 —India Stock 165 e 164.-Barbds dis. Lg. Anns.lsl 5-16th.—Otanitnn 7t pr. Exchequer Bills 96.10 a premium. By letters from the Peninsula We learn, that the campaign will be rene wed early in March, and that the Marquis of Watztuarou purposes taking the field, instead of occupying A cantonment, as is usual 'with our Commanders-in-Chief. The 9th, 12th, and lith Dragoons ate coming home immediately, in c onsequence of the severe losses they have sustained. General Ca&RLES STEWART (the ci-devant Adjutant- General) is going out to command the cavalry, vice Sit STAPLETON COTTON, who is come home wounded, and will be appointed Colonel of the King's Dragoon Guards, vice Lord HEATHIIELD• A frigate has been ordered yound to Israrmotttb, to take on board the Duke of BRUNSWICK Oacs, and some other Foreigners of distinction, for the Conti. Pent. They take with them arms and other military equipments for 20,000 men. The prisoners, and de. serters from the French army which invaded Russia, will be chip first to be carolled on this glorious oc casion. 4 Government have received information that the Scheldt Fleet is ready for sea. Their destination is said to be America. The following extract from a letter received by il,e last Gottenburgh Mail, exhibits a melancholy picture of the ravages which attended the career of the French in Russia. It is from a Correspondent now at St. Petersburgb " In their advance they committed the most shocking ravages, and would have been guilty of still greater mischief in their re• treat, had they had the powkr so to do. In pasting through Cour land, they destroyed thk Countess of Ma Ncst ent's house, con verted her garden into a burying-ground, and kiUed about 2000 head of her oxen. During their stay in Moue* they threw their dead into wells and ponds. On leaving that city, gunpowder was placed under the churches and all the good buildings which re• =tined, in order to blow them up. " There are now lying on the roads between Moscow and Konigsberg, at least 350,000 dead bodies, which cannot be buried, as the earth is frozen, and they cannot be burnt in consequence of the deficiency of fuel. Had it not been for the intense frost, it is apprehended a plague would have broken out. . - " Ihe French, during their retreat, avoided making large fires, I^A they should be discovered by their enemy. " Small French parties, consisting of about eight or ten men each, are often found frozen to death in the attitude of warming their hands at one of those fires round which they had placed themselves. '1 he man who drove Bonaparte, en leaving Mos cow, has been taken, and the Imperial Private Jewel Boa has tlio Wien into the bands of the Russians." The Marquis WELLESLEY has been confined to Apsley -house for some days by indisposition. Six extra Knights of the Bath are, it is said, to be immediately invested with the insignia of that Order: the Hon. Admiral BERKELEY, Lieutenant-General Lord Writ. BEsiTtNcK, Lieutenant-General Sir JOHN Doy LE, Major-General PicToN, Major-General the Hon. G. L. CoLL, and Major-General the Hon. C. W. STEWART. The ball, in Alfred-place, given by Mrs. HAWKER, en Monday last, was numerously and fashionably at tended. The dancing, led off by Lady FORD and Mr. MARCH, commenced about ten, and was kept up till a late hour, when the company retired to supper; atter which the dancing was renewed with additional vivacity, and continued till daylight next morning. The Earl of CARLISLE has given a cart load of coals to each poor housekeeper in Brampton. By the death of the Duchess of CHANDOS, Earl TEMPLE comes into the possession of a very large pro perty. His Lordship- assumed the name of Chandos, on his marriage with the heiress of that family. New STREET FROM CARLTON HOUSE TO PORT( AND PLAcE.--Wednesday a meeting of the persons inte rested in the projected New Street took place at the Great Room, Brewer.street.—Lot d DUNCANNON in the Chair; when it was agreed to petition Parliament ast the project, which, it was stated, would in- Ire the ruin of more than 1200 householders; and Committee was appointed to carry the Petition into .t. The meeting was numerously attended. Lord CoVENTRY is improving the Park front of the iccadilly house with a rail, instead of the wall ; an )provement which should be continued, till stopped the private garden of Lord W. GORDON. Jesus College, Oxford, it seems is among those wbo Alt much from the new Bridge at the Strand. For ieirs is the fie of some of the largest leaseholds, on the ney-side of the bridge. Our Readers will no doubt be glad to hear again any thing like the sound of standard metallic money. Therefore it is with pleasure we can announce, that there is to be a New Silver Coinage of Ninetenny Pieces; .it is confined only to them. This is perhaps the .st introduction of such a piece into the series of Bri. ,ich coins; and perhaps also this is the first coinage of any silver money during the present long reign, - ith the exception, probably, of the small series of the ;er pieces (as 1,2, 3,4 d. each), which, according the annual custom, are distributed among the ap inted number of poor, from his Majesty, through his_ inner.--The last silver coinage from the Mint Was, we believe, what is called the Lima shilling. bue.L.—Yesterday se'nnight, a meeting took place -twcen Mr. RICHARD Nriwcosta, jun. and Mr. Oc. thl lUS GILCIIRIST, of Stamford, when, after an ex. lge of shots, on the interference of the seconds, ..utual explanations were made, and the diffesences "tweak the parties were amicably settled. against velve t a Com effect. LGr Piccad impros by the Jesu profit theirs barrel Out any th There there i but it first it tish ct of an with t lower to the points Alm ( Was, 1)t bears TA I chant t"•utt letsv VLIONCL At4r4L AIR. avg. Malls . • 1 1 Waterford * 1 I Cadiz • 0 • Lisbon 6 0 1 Maly • Leeward Islands 0 - 0 Att. *vs. tiberhser & 0 0 ,Jersey . D Cortina .0 0 Heligoland . 0 D Gottehburgh 0 1 Brazils 0 0 FALMOUTH, JANUARY 26. Arrived the Generous Planter, and the Elitaboth, from London for the West-Indies. Sailed the Mary packet, with a Mail for Coruna.—Wild PLYMOUTH, JANUARY 27. Arrived the Chums, of 18 guns;—Remain in Hainoaze the Danematik and rent, 74 guns ; Uni corn, Briton, Crescent, Doris, Amide, Bustard, Lyra, Alphea, Whiting, and Glenor..ln Stonehouse Pool, the Speculator.—ln Barn Pool, the Leonidas' Phoebe, and Helen.—ln the Sound, the Orestes, Pe• lican, Rolla, and Spy.—in Casrsand Bay, the Norge, Centaur, Abercrombie, and Stirling Castle, of 74 guns each. PORTSMOUTH. JANUARY 2s. Arrived his Majesty's ships Sai.currx, of 38 guns, Captain HOPE ; and Fox, 36 guns, Capt. PAtxasow, with convoy frog; Plymouth 1 and the FYLLA from Guernsey.—The 10th Hussars are embarked, and the transports out of harbour, and should the wind con. tinue fair will be off to-morrow e Generals STEWART and Bustkisz accompany them. DEAL, JANUARY se. Arrived his Majesty's sloops ROYALIST and Con• ' DELIA from a cruize. Came down from the River the HAvoc gun•brig, with several transports and met• chantment ; the latter sailed for Portsmouth, under coavoy of the OLYMPIA cutter. Sailed the Rauus Deal pilot.boat, on a cruise off Dungeness. YARMOUTH, JANUARY U. Arrived the PRIMROSE from off the Texel. Sailed the BEAVER and CENSOR for Sheerness ) to refit; the REntnEAsz, Sir GE°. KEITH, for Heligoland. Put back the FORWARD gun-brig, and remains in the Roads with the Soleby, Chanticleer, Blazer, and Leveret. GREENOCK, JANUARY VI, The information contained in our last, that the ship Ariadne, BIRD, of this port, Was on shore at Gibral tar, turns out to be incorrect, as we have seen a letter from the Second Mate of that vessel, dated the let inst. which contains the following paragraph : 4 4 We had a very heavy gale here from the eastward, and there are about twenty ships on shore, and no hopes' of getting off. We lost our jib-boom and jolly boat, and some other damages, but not great." Extract of a letter from Cunemara to a Gentleman in Galway, Ireland : " Saturday sennight the brig ludo, of Aberdeen, bound from Nova Scotia to Greenock, with timber, put into the Shannon for a market none offering, she took in 450 firkins of butter ; sailed from thence the preceding Friday, and got on the breakers off Bunown in a fog. The crew with difficulty got oe oboes.— We are sorry to mention, that during the absence of the crew numbers of the country people went on board the vessel, cut away her fore-mast., stain-topmast, all her rigging, &c. carried on shore her sails, cables, and spars s they also plundered the un fortunate sailors of every article they possessed. Had it not been for the interferente of Captain Tnouws MARTIN, of the Balli nahinch Yeomanry Cavalry, who arrived with his corps in time to prevent their cutting the decks, the entire cargo would have been plundered. The vessel struck about two leagues off the land, and drifted in under the (..stle of Bunown. The greater putt of the butter has been plundered and taken away ; and Mr O'N eiLL's stores, in which part of the rigging and some of th. timber were deposited, were broken open, and the same taken thereuut." LEITH, JANUARY 23. Extract of a letter from Captain ALEXANDER Pnil.lr, of the schooner Barbara, of Aberdeen, to his owner, dated St. Michael's Roads, 28th Dec. 1812 : " SlR—This will inform you of my arrival at this port, after a most disagreeable passage of 44 days from Bristol, three weeks of which I was beating about this island, before I got in with the land. On the sth instant, I had the misfortune to be captured by the Rolla, American schooner privateer, James Dooley, Com' mender, of nine guns, and 78 men, off the west end of the island, myself and crew being tatvn on board the privateer, and detained 24 hours. The American crew plundered us, and destroyed every thing that came in their way on board the Barbara; and took all my provisions, stores of all sorts, as ropes, warps, and spare sails, unbending also the but sails, and, after overhauling my letters and papers, gave me up the vessel again a mere wreck. The master and crew of the three•masted schooner Brisk, of Plymouth, which had been captured two hours before me, with part of her cargo, were put on board, six in number; and we were now, 14 of us, 15 days on half a bag of moulded bread, and half a barrel of beef, an that the Americans thought proper to leave for carrying us to St. Michael's ; I might u well have fallen in with a pirate, being stripped of every thing, as well as my crew, and having only saved five guineas and my watch, which were stowed away. lam to sail this evening, and shall make all dispatch." The galliot Johanna, with barley, from Jutland to Norway, arrived on Wednesday last, at Aberdeen, prize to his Majesty's brig BREVDAGERYS. The Jo hanna, GOURLAY, of Aberdeen, from Lisbon to Lon don, has been taken by a French privateer.; retaken by the SCYLLA sloop of war, and arrived at Plymouth 13th instant. The STIRLING CASTLE is to be fitted for the recep tion of Lord MOIRA, to take his passage to India.— Sir HOME POPHAM will command her. The Underwriters of Liverpool have presented an elagant silver cup, of the - value of £4O, to Captain AFFLECK, who so bravely defended his ship, the May, against an American privateer, last summer. CORN-MARKET, MARK-LANE, JAN. 29. c We experience no variation from our last in the prices of Grain in general—Oats continue to come to hand in abundance, I but no material variation has taken place, ei.pecially in fine sam ples.—We refer 19 OUf Wednesday's currency for further in formatting. Tut Mart The 19th Itegimetit of toot) VAIL+ has been doh* duty at Windsor, being Ordered, with other regi ments, to hold themselves in readiness to embark for foreign service, to join the army under the Marquis of Wswnwrosi, Brigade Orders Were Issued yester& day, by command of his Royal Highness the Com- MANDER-IN-ClllEir for the three Regiments of Foot- Guards respectively to take their routine of duty, as in former years ) at Windsor ) to guard his Majesty's Person. The two Regiments of Life-Guards are augment ing with increased activity, to reinforce that corps recently sent to the Marquis of WeLraworow, as the long established Royal Gttard of Honour. This morning a number of fine young recruits, be longing to the Somerset regiment of militia, passed through town to join that regiment at Canterbury. THE LUMBER Taoor.--This Society, which is formed upon military principles, and boasts amongst its members some of the most respectable individuals belonging to the Corporation of the City of London, held a numerous meeting yesterday, for the purpose of paying due honour to the funeral ceremonies of their deceased member§ Mr. HENRY Wooriroaos. The coffin was conveyed into the club-roora, and the Society obeyed his injunctions in partaking of a gui nea's-warth of punch bequeathed by him for this oco casion. At three o'clock the body was conveyed through the Window of the room, and about forty of the Members proceeded with it to St. Bride's Church ? Fleet-street. A ft er the performance of the Funeral Service seven small brass cannon %ere discharged over his grave. A vast number of spectators assembled. On Monday, the 18th instant, were committed to Huntingdon gaol, by Homy FAIRMAR and H. Y. SMYTHIES, Clerks, Sokmets Gm* and William Pa:se two privates of the South Lincoln militia, charged on the evidence of William Culley, private of the said regiment, an accomplice, with stealing in the night between the 11th and 12th inst. three whole carcasses of mutton from the 111..ghter-shop of John Chamberlin, butcher of Yazley, in the County of Huntingdon. DOCTOR Samcsorr.—A superb silver Warwick Vase, of large dimensions, and exquisite workmanship, is about to be presented to the venerable Dr. Jocasom, late Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, by a numerous and distinguished body of the Irish Noblemen and Gentlemen, who have been Members of that Society since the commencement of the present century. The Vase rests upon a pedestal, which is decorated with characteristic national devices. On one side of it is a fac-simile of the ancient Irish Harp ; on another, the following inscription t Reverend° vie° Cyr JAe eow, IL T. P. Aldia Oaths! in Ozcoia, Per Anna Vigenti et Set Demo. Hiberni ex eadesu Ade Profetti, D. D. D. Aped Memores scat graft. Barran PaoTRRTY IN SWEDIN.-...A Meeting was held yesterday at the Merchant Seamen's Office, of persons interested in the property seized some time ago in the ports of Sweden, by order of the Swedish Government. It was stated to the Meeting, that the Swedish Government had restored 4100,000 of the seized, property, and farther restoration was expected to be made. The only question to be considered was the most expedient way of dividing the same. equally and fairly amongst the whole of the sufferers. A deed of trust was considered the most eligible • mode of proceeding. It was suggested, however, by a gen tleman present, that by obtaining an Act of Parlia meat to authorize the division of the monies restored, the end proposed would be better attaintd, as those acting under a deed of trust might be called upon by claimants years after the account was closed ; but an Act of Parliament would be a complete answer to those who did not come forward within a prescribed period. After some farther discussion, the arrange ment of this matter was left with the Committee. LATHAM AND PARRY'S BANRUPTCY.OD Tuesday the creditors of Messrs. LATHAM and PARRY met for the first time at Guildhall, to prove their debts under this commission. Mr. Mowravee attended as Commissioner. Mr. Ds TASTW4 the principal creditor, made a claim on the estate for £86,000, being the balance due to him from Mr. PARRY, allowing that all the genuine bills he held in his hands were paid, for which he had given the account credit. Mr. MONTAGUE rejected the claim altogether, on the ground, that Mr. PARRY had made over to Mr. 13e TAsrtr rums, brandies, &c. to the amount of several thousand pounds, subsequent to his having committed an act of bankruptcy; and that, in con sequence, such property ought to be given up for the benefit of the creditors at large. Mr. MONTAGUE stated, that on Thursday, the 14th instant, Mr. DE TASTET was fully aware that the bills he held from Mr. PARRY were not valid securities, and it was sub sequent to that period that property t 6 an immense value had been transferred by him to Mr. Da Tasrirr. For these reasons he could not admit the present claim of Mr. Da Tann, nor that he should be come the sole Assignee, in compliance with his wish. Mr. MONTAGUE examined Mr. De TASTET as to his first acquaintance with Mr. PARRY, and relative to the transactions between them ; but he said he would decline interrogating him on other points rela tive to the invalid bill,, in the hope that Mr. Di TAs. Ter would see the expediency of giving up that pro perty, which he conceived belonged to the estate ; and himself partake of it in proportion with the rest of the creditors. Mr. FRANKLAND attended as Counsel for Mr. Dr TASTET, and maintained the right of claim of his client, using various arguments in support of it. The Commissioners, however, did not accord with him on the occasion. Mr. LATHAM was examined as to his knowledge of the recent transactions of Mr. PARRY. He de clared that he was entirely a stranger to the whole of this business. That in consequence of a complaint in his bead, for which he was recommended violent exercise on horseback, he had been induced to resign the whole of the countingehouse concerns into the hands of Mr. PARRY, who had the entire superinten dance of them ; and the better to keep him in the dark; Mr. PARRY had, in some instances, two sets of books, and resorted to other means which rendered It difficult to detect him. ........, • Wlideal )1111114 MINIMMIMMEIaI• __ •!~ A nttmerotts Meeting of the Freeholders br Cotmty of Wilts) was held in the Town Hall of De: vises on Wednesday last, ibr the pdtpose csf Obi:ills dering the Catholic Claims.-4Culonel Pariatninotit was in the Chair. Mr. CA LLT, Membet for Crickladtk; !ft* 4 fit* preparatory obsertations, moved 14 that en , Aridtess be presented to his Royal Highness the Prince Rea• gent ) and Petitions to both Houses of Peril:inches preying that no alteration whatever, Under the pre sent circumstances, might be made iti the Laws which relate to the Roman Catholics." The motion being seconded, Lord Annotint ohs served that the good of the country could nob be mote effectually promoted than by conciliating thd affections of all classes of his Majesty's subjects mild providing for the general safety of the empire ) by strengthening the attachment of all its inhabitehtss of whatever persuasion, to its Government Lordship then moved an Address to that effect ) hi way of Amendment to the (rigida' motion. The Atnendmkr.t being seconded, the Martpii bf LANSDOWN, Lord }JOLLA ND, Mr. ENTCOVNT, and Mr. hierntrzx severally addressed the Meeting. No other person having signified a wish to be heard ) the Chairman proceeded in taking the sense of the Meeting, to propose, firsts the Resolution ) and then the Amendment i and the numbers for the Addtesi constituted at least seven eighths of the Meeting. The CHAIRMAN having declared the sense of the Meeting o be in favour of the Addtess, The Marquis of LANSVOWN then moved that the Address should be published in the Salisbury, Baths and Cheltenham ) and some of the London News& papers ) and that a copy should be presented by the County Members to the House of Commons, which was agreed to. The thanks of the Meeting wete then enanimoutlt voted to the Chairman, after which the Meeting broke up. A few evenings ago, some persons wantonly ilk charged their guns at the vrindoets of Piduirightte church, Sussex, and shattered them to pieces. A large field of gorse, upon the estate of Huxley, in Cheshire, the property of R. Wilbraham, of Rode& hall, Esq. was, on the sth inst. maliciously set opt fire, and entirely consumed. One day last week sothe persons stole from the plea mises of Mr. Close, of Guestling, Sussex, all his breed: ing geese, and, in despite of their cacklings, the thlivait got clear off with their booty. On the 80th ult. a small box was stolen froth Seat withinside the Chelmsford coach, directed to Mr, Kelham, jeweller, of Chelmsford, and Which cob. tained three gold repeating watches, of the Valise of £l4O. James trdell, otherwise David French, who lsa* long been detained in custody on suspicion of being an accessary in the murder of William Webb and Mary Gibbons, after great exertions of the Magistratey and different examinations, is at length fully aft* mitted for trial. A shocking accident happened on Friday sennighe in the Broad Street, Aberdeen. A boy was running across the street from Long Acre, his foot slipp4 staid he fell before a loaded coal cart, one of the lsbeels of which passing over his neck, killed him oil .ebe spot. A mast outrageous attack was made upon Mr. iltaur f a farmer, at Cashley-hole, in Sornersetshire, about nine o'clock on the evening of Monday lasts The family were first alarmed by the barking of * yard-dog, soon after which there was a knocking at the yard-doors no answer was returned to interrogatories from within ; but shortly after four ruffiani entered the parlour, armed with bludgeons, where Mr. and Mrs. EALE, their daughter, (seven years old), and a maid-servant, were sitting ; when one of the villains levelled a blow at Mr. EALE, which laid him ptostrate on the floor, and, by a repetition of violence, he Wat unable to move. The robbers then fastened Mrs. E. and her daughter in a closet, and proceeded up stairs with the servant-maid, breaking open every lock they could find. They got from a bureau 4113 in notes and cash, besides a quantity of plate, with which they escaped. Mr. Eats is in a dangerous state.--A eartet and his boy, who slept in a different part of the hots% were not disturbed. Saturday se'nnight, about one o'clock, the ;obi+ bitants of Shaftsbury-place, Aldersgate-street, Were alarmed by the report of a pistol, when, on inquiry, it was found that Mr. Garrick, a respectable engraver, residing in that place, had, in a fit of insanity, shot himself with a pistol loaded with slugs, which went through his bead, and literally bespattered his brains about the floor. This catastrophe, according to re. port, was the consequence of his wife having pawned a large silver spoon, from a set which he had tes engrave upon, for a respectable silversoiith in that quarter, whom he had been in the habit of wot king for a considerable time, and on questioning his itife repecting the spoon, she declared she knew nothkg of it ;—words that arose, and be immediately wok up the butt efid of his gun, which he kept in the room, (having formerly belonged to a corps of sharpshooters), and struck his wife over the head, by which the blood began to flow very copiously, and fractured her skull ; and, thinking that he had killed her, be immediately put a period to his esistence.... A Coroner's Inquest was held upon the body of the unfortunate man, at Mr. Gardiner's, the Kirsee Arms public-house, dedersgate-street, before T. SKELTON, Esq. Coroner for the City of London, when it appeared from the deposietuts of several persons that had known the family a long tithe,that the wo man had been guilty of pawning several articles of silver plate, at various times, which helsad to engrave, with the view of spending the money in drink, and that last July, he attempted to tut his throat in conse quence of her proceedings, she always being intoxi cated. They had parted previous to thr melancholy catastrophe taking place, for the space of three weeks, when he took lodgings for her io Old -street, St. Luke's; but not being comfortably situated Without her assistance, he took her home once more to attend the children, as there were four of them. lie received the sacrament on the Sunday previous to his fermi. nation. The Jury, which was very respectable, after a long deliberation, returned a verdict, Insanity.— The body was interred on the Sunday following, in the church-yard of that parish. The deceased - was only '2B years of age. The woman now lies in St. Bar thulosnew's Hosyital, and is considered out of ean.;er. , '94 1 t • • • • • I r • I I