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their fire, to which the French did not cease replying, so tho there was a continnetrnegagenient, which lasted from four in the morning to eight in the even ing. Two inhabitants of this city were killed, and between 30 and 40 wounded. A number of balls fell oa the houses and in the streets, but did no damage. Thus the inhabitants o f Dresden spent this day in fear and alarm. Scarcely h a d we reposed a few hours, when at one in the mor ning of the 10th, the cannonade and fire of the mus ketry recommenced, and lasted till four o'clock.— The Russians quitted the New Town, and a French , arrison was immediately placed there. Probably the n ew bridge of boats will be forthwith re-established,. THE EVENING STAR LONDON. THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1813. HOLY Thuasomr.—Holiday at the Stock Eachanp. Paris Papers to the 19th instant have come to hand bringing accounts from the theatre of war to the nth inclusive. There has been no action of im portance since the battle of the 2d ; but BonAPArtra has gained one considerable advantage—he has been j o ined by the King of SAXONY at Dresden, and, in con sequence NEY has been received into Torgau, and lUGMLR has again taken the command of THlEL may's corps. Language does not offer terms strong enough tol mark the execration due to the infamy or weakness Jf the King of SAXONY—to the turpitude and base ness of his counsellors. It is impossible to calculate the moral effects that may flow from this blindness— this fear—this surrender of every principle that should' actuate the bosom of a Sovereign! Every one looks now with an eye of anxiety to Austria. 'Mat influence will the demeanour of the King of Saxony have upon the future conduct of this Power ? In the course of next month Austria will be able to bring 150,000 men into the Feld. Possibly t}e incertitude that exists respecting her intentions, may have been one of the causes which induced the Allies to fall back behind the Elbe; and the same doubt may intimidate BOIMPARTE from making any hasty movement beyond that River. Certain it is, eat instead of advancing he has contented himself with a Proclamation to his army, ordering Te Daan to be sung at Paris for the result of the battle of Lutzen. In the intelligence of the 10th, it h stated that the Allies appeared to be retiring upon the Oder ; nothing later is stated respecting them. On the evening of the 12th NAPOLEON was still at Dresden. This day Mr. Rostrum, one of his MAJzsts's Messengers, arrived at the Colonial Office, in Down ing -street, with dispatches from Lord Wiztattom and Sir RowLARD Hitt. Their contents had not transpired when this Paper went to Press, but it was mowed that an action had taken place, in which the Fre,nch had lost a considerable number 01 men. Yesterday, the Earl of LIVERPOOL and Viscount CAsrLEREAGH had audiences of the PRINCE RECENT. Yesterday morning, at seven o'clock, an express was received at the Admiralty, from the Governor and Commander in Chief at Guernsey. The PRINCE REGENT, it is said, has transferred to the Duke of BRUNSWICK, the £15,000 felt by his late mother to the Princess of WALES, and which as her husband became the property of the PRINCE. Last night, in the House of Lords, the Duke of NORFOLK gave notice that he would on Monday pre. sent a Bill to alter the Test Act, in respect to the aths of Roman Catholics, for the purpose of Fen- Ler:rg it applicable to Irish Catholics when in this c untry. The only question of great importance likely to c;:tiry the attention of Parliament the present Session ;It relating to the East-India Company's Charter: Is therefore expected that a prorogation will take pze about the cnd of June. The Select Committee of the House of Commons, pointed to inquire into the Corn Trade of the l'n:ted Kingdom, has made its Report. It states, as fair practical inference to be drawn from their in uiry into the means which Great Britain and Ire possess, of growing an additional quantity, that :hey are able to produce as much more Corn, in ad. ition to that which they already grow, as would re. ..eve them from the necessity of continuing, in any :epee, dependent for a supply on foreign countries. A the last five years, the value of the whole of t h e !,,rri imported into reat Britain, was .418,934,3 A el which more than one-third was Irtsh Corn. Letters from Bengal state, that by the latest Uk bars received, Runjeet Sing had arrived at Umrutsir: Prince Gorug Sing had previously departed for :.e army. There was no change of consequence in ie airitirs of the Punjab; except that the army op posed to t h e Cashmerians had been joined.by a con s4lerable reinforcement under Mann. Sing. Great scmcity of provisions prevailed in the Punjab; with the troops were supplied. A nicer Khan had arrived at Agmeer, frryn whence, • conjunction A . ith Bapoojee and other Chieftains, .e was expected to attempt an immediate diversion in avour of Mohammed Shah Khan, by invading and :ayinq waste the Jaypere Country. Mohammed Shali'Khan was encamped near the fortress of Hur 7eesoolee, the gates of which were shut against him. Chaund sing continued tai press upon him. Lalla Mulhar Rao has been dispossessed of the im prtant Fort of Rampoorah, by Purseram Daragah, whom the Bhae had deputed to fill his place, in con. :'-quence of the conduct of the former towards Mo -arnmed Shah Khan. Ni lt app ears f rom a periodical work published by the • '''lSSlCnarieS at Calcutta, that, in the months of May ..111 June 1812, 70 widows, leaving 184. orphans, J .:fish e d on the funeral pile ‘, on both sides of Calcutta, • °. : l CosfArnbuaar, to the mouth of the Hoogly.'. THE ARMY. . . . . His Royal Highness the Pan= RIICIVNT will re view the Life Guards to-morrow, on Wimbledon Common. The route received by the 54th Regiment to march from Woodbridge to Colchester, has been counter• manded. They remain, therefore, at Woodbridge. The Westminster Militia are arrived at Peebles, fiom Ireland. They relieve the Ayrshire at Penny cuiek, who return to Queensberry barracks. The Carnarvon bra* from Ireland, are arrived at Dunbar. The Shropshire Regiment of Militia embarked on Monday afternoon, on board transports in Catwater, Plymouth, for Ireland, which were to sail for Cork the moment the wind proved favourable, under con voy of the TZAZZR gun-brig. The Cheshire Militia have marched into Plymouth garrison. The following is the Distribution of the British Army in the Peninsula : Marquis of Wellington's Head-quarters—at Frenada. Light Division, Major-General C. Alton—Guinaldo. Ist Division, Lieutenant-General Sir homas Graham—Vizeu; Guards, at Oporto. 2d Division, Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland Hill—Corig. 3d Division, Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton; 4th Divi sion, Lieutenant-General Cole; Sth Division (was Major-Cr _ . _ _ _ neral Clinton's will be perhaps Majot-General Oswald's—in the neighbourhood of Laniego. 6th Division (was Major-General Leith's, at present is Major- General Hay's, but is to be Major-Gen. Stewart's)—at Cea. 7th Division, Lieutenant-General Lord Dalbousie--at Vintro. IA Brigade of Portuguese is attached to each Division, aid Lieutenant-General Hill has about 10,000 at Corial Major-General Brock's Brigade, Ist and tid heavy Gernians-- near Coimbra. Major-General Ponsonby's Tirigack, 3d and 4th Dragoons, and Sth division guards ; and Major-General Anson 'a Brigade, 12th and 15th light dragoons—at - Avicos Major-General Alton 's Brigade, Ist German hussars, and t4fh light dragoons; and Royal Horse Guards (Blue)—at Thontar. Life Guards—at Chamusca. 10th Hussars—at Villa Franca. 18th Hussars—at Abrantes. Major-General blade's brigade, royals and 341 dragoon guards ; and Major-General Long's brigade, 2d bus,ars and 19th light dragoons—in the neighbourhood of Placentia. Major- General Cooke—at Cadiz, with the 29th regiment, a German battalion, and three companies of artillery. Major-General Peacock—at Lisbon, with the 77th regiment, and detachments. Lieutenant-General Sir John Murray—at Alicant, with the Ist Battalions of the 10th, 58th, and 81st regiments; 2d Batta lion of the 27th regiment; 2d and atb Battalions German in fantry; Sicilian regiment; De Rolle's ditto; 2d Italian levy; Brunswick Dragoons, and part of the 20th Dragoons, and flank companies of the 67th, 21st, 75th, 31st., and asth Regiments, making a force, with the Spanish troops and some Portuguese artillery, of upward.; of 29,000. Wednesday se'nnight the Cavan Militia, quartered at Wexford, were reviewed by Major-Gen. blrrtat ELL. Monday se'nnight the 2d Royal Surrey Militia marched from Mullingar, on their route to Dublin, where they are to embark for England. As a ge nuine mark of mutual unanimity, and in veneration of Old Ireland, they gave three hearty cheers when on the eve of departure, and marched off with the national air " Patrick's Day," which was followed by " The Sprig of Shillelah," &c.—Tliey have been replaced in Mullingar by the Royal Carmarthen Militia. The detachment of the Royal Buck inghamshire Militia, quartered at Carlisle, have marched to Lan caster, there to join the regiment. The Royal Westmoreland Militia marched, on Monday se'nnight, from Galway (where they have been quartered nearly twelve months), on their route fig Tullamore, King's County, preparatory to their embarking for . Great Britain. Sunday se'nnight, a troop of the Ist Dragoon Guards arrived at Limerick from Ballinasloe, and joined the squadron of said regiment in that garrison. Captain HARRY POWF.LL, of the 76th Regiment, is appointed Brigade Major of the Limerick District, in the room of Major O'DONOGIME, promoted. Colonel HUTCHINSON, late Inspecting Field Officer at Cork, is appointed to the Staff at Malta, as Bri. gadier General. The Northampton Militia, commanded by Sir RICHARD BROOKE, Bart. but under the immediate or ders of Lieutenant Colonel Isnam, are arrived at Edinburgh Castle. Monday se'nnight, Colonel MAXWELL, Major , WILKIE, and the other Officers of Winchester Gar rison, gave an elegant entertainment, to the Ladies and Gentlemen of Winchester, and its vicinity. At a General Court-martial held in Dublin, on the 2lth of March, private Gilbert Kane, of the 3d regi ment of Foot, was arraigned upon the undermen tioued charge, viz. " For having mutilated and maimed himself in the neighbourhood of Dublin, on or about the evening of the 3d day of February, by cutting off one of his fingers, for the purpose of ren dering himself unfit for the duty of a soldier, and of thereby avoiding a continuance of his military set , - vice."—The Court found him guilty, and sentenced. him to receive 700 lashes. A Court-martial was held at Worcester, on Mon day, for the trial of a private of the West Local Militia, for being absent from the regiment without leave ; and his sentence was three months imprison ment in the County gaol. Friday, a Serjeant of the Artillery was committed to jail for 30 days, for assaulting a man in the Fish Market, Edinburgh, without the least provocation. MAJOR-GENERAL WHEIHAM.••—The funeral of this lamented Officer took place yesterday at Portsmouth. The procession began to move from the Lieutenant- Governor's House, in St. Thomas's -street, about two o'clock, and proceeded down High -street, along the Grand Parade to the Garrison Chapel. The streets were lined by the Oxfordshire, Worcestershire, He refordshire, and Royal County of Limerick Regi ments. A party of the Royal Artillery with four field-pieces, and a detachment of the tf4tWragoons, with Bands of Music, preceded the Wine, which was borne by eight grenadiers, and the pall-supported by Major General FARMER, Rear Admiral: rcetre, Lieu. tenant Genetal ELLIOTT, Major General WINTER, Major General FISHER, and Admiral Sir RICHARD BICKERTON. All the Officers off duty at Portsmouth, Porchester, Hilsea, Fort Cumberland, and Gosport, attended. The Union-flag was hoisted half-mast high at the different Forts in the neighbourhood, and minute guns were fired from the Grand Battery till the Corpse entered 'the Chapel, and when the cere mony was concluded, three rounds of eleven pieces of cannon were discharged. NAVAL 11VTELLIGENCE. • TO MARINERS. NOTICE OF A NEWLY DISCOVERED SHOAL The fonowing is a description of a Shoal seen by the Anteri- CIA ship Union, Captain MACNEVEN, Mr. CHARDON, Super cargo, bound from New York and the Cape of Good Hope to tit* Ide of Mauritius t 44 July 22, 1812: Lat. at noon, 35 deg. 23 min. S. long, by Chro. 41 deg. 29 min. E.long. by Lun. Ob. 41 deg. 12 min. E. N Light winds; very clear sky; ship just steering —at four. ►. u. saw a rock about 20 yards long, and six feet above the water, surrounded by a bank of sand, visible as the breaker: re ceded; and, from it, in an easterly direction, breakers as far as the eye could reach from the main-top-mast-head. At sun-set, the extremes from N E. half East, to East and by South—the body of the shoal about three miles distant: no bottom with 120 fathoms. At sun-set tacked." PLYMOUTH, MAY 25. The famous American. privateer Paul Jones, Cap tain ARCHIBALD TAYLOR, which has lately so much annoyed our trade, arrived here last evening, prize to the LEONIDAS frigate, by which she was captured on the 23d inst. at five p.m. 100 miles to the south ward of Cape Clear. The privateer is a very fine vessel, about 250 tons burthen, schooner rigged, pierced for 20 guns, has mounted 15 long sixes and a carronade, with a complement of 100 men, and is an amazing fast sailer. She was discovered by the LEONIDAS, after a very thick fog, laying to, and, being very near the frigate, was soon in her posses sion; had been out five weeks, and took three English vessels. She belongs to Nevi-York. On the day of her capture, she took a brig from Cork, bound to Lisbon, which the LEONIDAS was lett in chace of, both which are hourly expected here, as there is no doubt of her having been re-captured. Sailed the PHEASANT sloop of war for Torbay, to collect the trade for Newfoundland.—The CHILDERS sloop of war is fitting in Barnpool for Halifax, and will be ready for sea in a few days. The SAN JOSEF man of war, bound to the Mediterranean, is detained in .Cawsand Bay by contrary winds.—Wind S.W. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 26. Arrived his Majesty's ship MISSLETOE, with one transport from Falmouth, and the SHARPSHOOTER sloop of war with a convoy from Guernsey. His Majesty's ship PARTHIAN has made the signal for the convoy for the Downs to get under weigh. DEAL, MAY 26. The fleet outward bound have increased to near 70 sail ; they are still wind-bound. Sailed his Majesty's ship CHATHAM for off Flushing. Arrived the BAD GER cutter from off ditto.—Five o'Clock. Several coasters and colliers have sailed'to the Westward.— Wind N.N.W. and squally. YARMOUTH, MAY 26. Arrived the PIERCER from Heligoland, with a ves sel under her convoy, to take in water for the island. Sailed the DEFENDER for ,the Downs, and the KING GEORGE for off the Texel. DARTMOUTH, MAY 25. Arrived the Pacquebot cartel from Morlair, with six French and English ladies, passengers. The cartel returned the same evening. HARWICH, MAY 126. The Lady Frances packet, that arrived from Got tenburgh yesterday, passed on the night of the 17th an outward and an homeward-bound fleet in the Sleeve. A Leith and a London fleet had left Got tenburgh for the Baltic, with which the Swedish troops went. Passed this day at noon from Sheer. ness, the outward-bound Baltic convoy. The Lark, Captain SHERLOCK, and Auckland, Captain LYNE, with the mails of the 25th, will sail early to-morrow morning ; the former for Gottenburgh, and the latter for Heligoland.—Wind West, and squally. NASSAU, BAHAMA, MARCH ii. Sunday last arrived the cutter Caledonia, privateer. I. W. HINSON Commander, from a cruize blithe coast of America ; and a good deal injured from a fight she sustained with an Ame rican privateer. Oa the 23d ult. at 9 A. at. off Charlston Bar, and in sight of the light-house, she espied a ship on her starboard bow, made sail in chace, and at 10 boarded her, when she proved to Lie the Albion, of London, ALEXANDER NICHOLSON master, from Demerary, bound home, with a cargo of 400 hogsheads of sugar, 69 puncheons of rum, 10 bales of cotton and 36 casks and 300 tags of coffee. This ship had been captured on the Ist ult. by the American privateer schooner Hazard, PLACIDE La CHAR. Commander. Captain HINSON took possession of her, sent his First Lieutenant and nine men on board, and made sail to return to port with so valuable a recapture. At eleven disco. vered a schooner in chace—when the prisoners taken on board the Albion, an officer and six men, were secured. At noon found the chace to come up fast, and she proveckto be the priva teer Hazard, which had captured the ship. At 1 P. at. the pri vateer having come up, the cutter prepared for action. Spoke the ship, and ordered her to do the same, she having 12 guns mounted on board ; which unfortunately, however, did not after wards prove of any service. At 3 10. P. A. the privfteer having come alongside, the cutter commenced a heavy fire upon her, which was returned on her part. At 3 30. had three men woun ded, and at 4 30. ceased firing, the piOvateer having dropt astern, peak hallyards being shot away. At 6. 30. the privateer having again come up, the fight was renewed with great warmth on both sides. At seven, the priva teer boarded the ship on her larboard quarter, when the cutter was in so o.attered a state as to be unable to afford the necessary assistance to her re-capture, her braces and topsail lifts being shot away, and the vessel very materially injured in her sails and rigging. The enemy, having now ceased firing, the cutter was obliged to do so likewise, and bore away; Captain HINSON being satisfied of the impossibility either to capture the privateer or again to, re-capture the ship ; the enemy having 56 men, and the cutter then only 19 remaining fit for action. On the following day, one of the wounded men, Laurence Linguist, carpenter, died of his wounds. The cutter then made sail for Nassau. On the 26th, in crossing the Gulph, saw a privateer schooner, but kept on her course. On the 6th instant, off Harbor Island, saw a sail, which upon nearing proved to be another American pri vatcer full of nteu. tiovo to NA! prerared icy actiov 3 yfkto the enemy sleeted of to the Eastward, soon after whiclithe cutter again made sail and the best of her way for Nassau. His Excellency the Governor having received Captain His. votes report, immediately ordered the Government hired armed ac►aener SWIFT, RICHARD COULSON Commander, to put to sea• in quest of the privateer seen off Harbor Island, and the SWIFT soon after sailed on that service. AMERICAN METHOD OF MAKING WAR, CANARY ISLANDS, APRIL 30.—0 n the 22d ultimo, ' the Spanish ship Nostra Senora de Cabadenga, Capt. VINCENT! LEMos, from Havannah to Teneriffe, was robbed at sea, near Madeira, by the American schoo ner privateer General Armstrong, Captain J. SMITH, of Salem; under British colours, of sugar, rum, and other articles, to the amount of between three and four thousand dollars the Spanish crew having been confined upwards of six hours, with sentries on the hatches, and the Captain pinioned in the cabin of the privateer, while the plundering was going on. On lea v ing the ship, they gave the following Paper: " At Sea, March 22. " Received of the bearer the sum of one hundred dollars, be ing in full for wear and rum. (Signed) " Davin LovD, " Lieutenant of his Britannic Majesty's Schooner Antelope, of Plymouth." The privateer having sent her boats on shore at Santa Cruz, Teneriffe, on the 27th April, the marau ders were recognized ; but having information that steps were taking for their seizure, they unfortunately effected their escape. The purpose of this visit from those vindicators of the rights of neutrals, was to land the following Letter, addressed to GILBERT S. Btwcr, Esq. his Britannic Majesty's Consul. General " April 26—On board the United States private armed Schooner General Armstrong. " Sta—Having captured the British packet Mary Ann, from Malta, I am in posselsion of the Malls Cat were on board, con sisting.of two large leather bags of letters, whlch, should you choose to ransom, I will deliver them up by your paying me a handsome reward: my boat will waft three quarters of .11 hour for your answer and the cash. I am Sir, your most obedient servant, (Signed) " J. SMITIK." The FIRST LORD of the Amin:Aury held a CoUn yestertay, and transacted business with many dis. tinguished naval characters. The MAJESTIC, one of the cut-down 74's. is to sail immediately for America. Admiral GRIFFITHS hoists his flag on board the MAJEIVC, as Comman der at Halifax. The valuable American Indiaman belonging to Mr. GIRARD, of Philadelphia, which was captured by Commodore BURESVOLtD in the Delaware, has been ransomed by her owner for 180,000 dollars. The money was sent on board the Poictiers in a pilot-beat. The ship and her cargo were worth four times the sum,could they have been dispened of at a fair market. Of the four vessels mentioned in 17e Gazette, as captured by the boats of Sir J. B. WAartzm's squa dron, the Dolphin was a privatPer ; the Racer and Lynx, letters of marque, for France ; and the Arab, a ketch, for Savannah. The American Papers in form us, that these vessels being afterwards manned, and converted into tenders by the were sent farther up the Chesapeake; and about six miles above Patuxent, fell in with a number of small craft, which they took, together with the schooner Providence Packet. The following is the substance of the Act of Con gress of the United States, to prevent the employ. ment of fineign seamen on bo4rd Ameliczri ships, which has been transmitted from Washingt-n : " 1. No naturalized Citizo-n shall be employed unless be pro- duce the Act of his natura ization. " 2. No sta'aring man shall be received as a passPnger in any foreign port, unless with the permitsion of the proper officer of the country to which he may belong, first had in writing. " 3. Foreign Consuls and Agents shall he admirted to state their objection to the employment of any fore:go seaman, on ac count el his being a subject or citizen of the state by which they are appointed. •` 4. Commanders of public vessels who shall knowingly em— ploy a foreigner shall forfeit a thousand dollars for each person so employeti. The forfeiture on board private vessels for such offence, and for each holividual, shall be 504 dollars. " 3. No person arriving in thr United States after the passing of this Act shal be admitted to become a ei:izen until he shall have resided therein five years. " 6. Forging a certificate of naturalisation, sr using or selling the same, or making use of a true one otherwise than for the person to whom given, shall be felony." An unfortunate circumstance occurred on Wed nesday at Yarmouth, by the LEVERET'S boat upset ting, by which means a midshipman and two young seamen were drowned. Sunday afternoon, a peter-boat, belonging to fisherman, in which were a party of ten persons, going down the River, was upset at ‘Voolwich, through the unskilfulness of the party in managing the sail, by which the whole of them were precipitated into the water, and saved their lives by fortunately cling. ing to the keel of the boat, until assistance was at: forded by two young men rowing up to them, who, with the assistance of another, a waterman, happily succeeded in saving them from a watery grave. Sunday se'nnight, near Bervie, James Alexander, Master of the sloop Fame, from Sunderland to Aber deen, was thrown overboird by the main.boom, and drowned. Sir Trios( As MosTrx, Batt. M.P. for the County of Flint, has this season planted seven hundred thou sand forest-trees on his estate in that county. It is stated, that there are now upwards of 1,100 houses unoccupied in the town of Manchester, in cluding a rental of considerably more than £13,000. The total premises unoccupied, of every description in the town, farms a rental of upwards of A. 27,000. TEN THOUSAND AND FIFTY POUNDS.—..The Ticket 9190 being the first Prize above £4O, drawn this day, and as such entitled to £lO,OOO, was Sold by Bism in one Quarter, one Eighth, and ten Sixteenth Shales, at his truly fortunate Offiets, 4., Corithill, and 9, Cha ling Cross, where the Shareholders may receive their Money, or exchange them for undrawn Tickets and Shares fir the last day of drawing, which will be on our beloved Sovereign's Birth-day, the 4th of June. On Monday, Lave!, the turnpike-gate-kPeper at Stone's.end, Southwark, was convicted, befav the Magistrates of Union Hall Office, of outrageous ar.d improper conduct to a Gentleman who resides in Downing-street. Joh. Goodman and Richard Hayward are fully com mitted for trial at the General Sessions for Canter. bury, in July next, on a charge of robbing the Can terbury Union Bank. At Tenterden Ses,ions last week, Thomas Pain and Henry Coleman were convicted of stealing three arUirlp and sentenced to b: transported fur seven years.