Star. — London, England, 1812-08-27 00:00:00

Titk . A lit .: tiMMIRINONI ••••llb SALAMANOA; tat ii. ow; Lora VirSLLINdTON the other day, 'before si ng home the dispatches, was anxious to•coltect lithe eagles taken.from the enemy, it *as fdund t oc Marshal Beresford's regiinent, the Connaught port s, had got three of them, and sold them to a ._, A ,,, fora bottle of rum I Pi 7 hin e very corps conducted itself so nobly, and 0 greatly contributed to the Military reputation .of ,c,.n an y, it is di f f icult to particularise ; but we hear that on the 01 of July, the Cavalry estahli s h e thh e i r eredit aut i c haracter. On that day and in the three foaniog ays, in pursuit of the French, the German . tro ß es iments conducted themselves, as they ever hoo d o o, in the most gallant manner, haraiseit the ecta y excessively and took many prisoners: The' Go on Hussar Regiment• likewise conducted itaeli OW usual gallant stile.' y co m his excessive #nery, and the superabundani* oce on his coat and trappings on his horse, Sir 1 s r anwrox COTTON was wounded by a Portuguese ( * am, who immediately seized upon him as. rich ; l e ader, taking him for • a French/slan t and - 'redid bare used him very rotighly , but fo! he plaints* his men. .. . .. . . i. The conduct of General . Hazen, in the 6th dill. ' , is here praised in every quarter. ,6 a .criiscel this brave and esteemed Officer formed and • t Wdo the division, and led them to victory. Lord WELLINGTON, who, whenever there Is ait . 10. 7 gets into , 4 the thick of it," had seal 4 hair. Width and miraculous escape*: he had balls assed *cosh almost every part of his cloaths. Had he, to is misfortune of the army and of the nation, fallen, Canal CLINTON would have commanded the army i t i f the action, every Lieutenant-General but him elf being wounded. At present this amiable man ad popular officer h second in command of the army coder Lord WELLINGTON. Many of the French Generals were Wounded... MARMONT, BONNET, MOWERS, Tanta, and three bore, most severely; it is reported that the three first Ste 4d of their wounds, as an immense number iferior officers and soldiers have done. In our fetstit of them, we found the roads covered with their dead and dying, as well as with horses, mules, and Dale, with the plunder which they were obliged to "rave behind them. Vilna the enemy had crossed the Douro and had inched Valladolid. .the Duke of RAGUSA. sent an lielt•de-Camp to . Lord. WELLINGTON, requesting, due as he teas very ill, he might be permitted to re , pi at Valladolid, and not be considered a prisoner Lisrar. His Lordship could not of course listen to ids a proposal. eirthe second day of the retreat, MARMONT, who ess laid at his full length in one of his barouchis, sent for an English Officer, a prisoner, who afterwards sloped, and enquired of him the strength of the rein- Jortement which Lord WELLINGTON had got up the tight before the action, when the 0 fficer infortned him, that be was ignorant of Lord WELLINGTON'S having pt any reinforcement; MARMONT repeated, that he kw* well he had got 10,000 men up ; anti added, Lord WELLINGTON did not spare the rum to his sol then, for that all those furious men who turned his tight were drunk. It is a fact, notorious in the army, that our poor fellows had got no spftits served out for tyro days, nor any meat on the 22d. MARMONT left 1600 men desperately wounded, without any surgeon to take care of them, at Valla dolidl 500 sick were left in the hospitals; the wards were covered with sick and wounded Frenchmen, and every where the French Generals follow their mas ter's example, in not caring for the sick and wound ed soldiers. When a man can no longer use the musket, BONAPARTE has no further care for him. The transports of the people, on the entrance into [Valladolid even exceeded those exhibited on his first entrance into Salamanca; the joy of the people on seeing themselves rid of the French, who held them bondagt for three years, and le Duc de Rodrigo toter as a Conqueror, surrounded by Spanish as well as English Generals, knew no bounds, all ranks, par: titularly the women, ran to embrace him. On passing the Tormes, the armies of Don Carlos i lled ton Julian had the new Constitution of the Cortes Wad to them, and swore obedience to it. On the first of August the new Constitution was pro. claimed with due solemnity at Salamanca, all Polak Orders attending and taking the oaths, the Grandees who have returned, the Heads of Religious Houses, Heads of Colleges, Municipality and 'Military. Ifs T quarter the Grandees and opulent inhabitants ilhertained the British and Portuguese Officers, and health of GEORGE 111. FERDINAND VII. the, Cones, the British Parliament, the PRINCE REGENT, !ad the PRINCE REGENT of Portugal, were the leading b s ews- In the evening there were panics given, and Pe s sid fire -works in the elegant square in the centre 4' t he town. On the 3d a grand Tr Drum was per-- leaned at the Cathedral, there was a bull-fight, and as the evening a grand ball ; the Theatre being like wise open every night. In short, & appearances are at Into be believed, the Spanish natives, where our troops We been, seem determined to retain their liberties, 1 ,(1 there were three days of festivity and rejoicing hp up, which all ranks seemed to enjoy. CAEIANOS has 8000 men under one of his Generals, besieging Astbigilb soh 9600 *slit! Sr. P i nng, at Zamora ; both are daily. expected to fall, and all Ga licia; as well as the Asturias are now free. We look to Lord WELLINGTON'S being made a British Duke. The Spaniards, it is said, will finite hiM a Prince of either Salamanca or Valladolid ; others say of Gallicia— the Spanish soldiers would, if they could, make him any thing. They have' been overheard to say, that he would be a fitter King than eiren rERDINAND VII. We have been long and im patiently lookihg for the Anglo-Sicilian army to land in this country s bed they arrived, the country might, by this time, hare been nigh cleared of the trench hotdeit. A patty of Joserit's Guards have deserted and come in ; they are dressed in a very gaudy stile, and you would take them for the band of some of our Guards, or of some of our smart Militiamen or Volunteer corps. AU the deserters and prisoners agree in the accounts of scarcity of provisions at Madrid, and that JOSEPH would rather be a prisoner in England, liiing as brother Lucius does, than be King of Spain ; but he dares not budge on account of brother NAP: who keeps all the family in order. Things are very dear with the army—English por ter) butter and cheese, though easily carried from Oporto, 6s. each per pound, pickles and other Eng lish articles in the same proportion; fowls ss. 6d. each ; tea and other articles equally dear in the coun try, so that it is difficult for an Officer to live, unless on his bare rations. Tuesday, the PRINCE REGENT, accompanied by the Dukes of CLARENCE and CUMBERLAND, visited Wool. wich, where, after inspecting the various exercises of heavy artillery in the grounds of the Royal Military Repository, and reviewing the regiment, both horse and font, his Royal Highness dined a , General Cou ancra's with the Generals and Field Officers of the corps. The report of the Earl of Uxbridge having left town on Thursday for Portsmouth, in order to em bark for Portugal, is erroneous, as his Lordship is now at his seat in Wales. Lieutenant-Genera! S 7 r EDWARD PAGET left town on Friday last, for t'ortsmouth, to join the Marquis of WELLINGTON, but has not yet embarked. He is at present on a visit to the Hon. Captain PAGET, at Fair Oak Cottage, near Petersfield. The 7th Dragoon Guards is the only regiment of cavalry which has this year been encamped in Eng land, and now forms part of the force at Sutton Camp. The exertinns of Lieutenant-General CHAMPAGNE and the Officers of the 41st Regiment, in obtaining recruits and volunteers, have been rewarded, that re giment having now obtained the establishment of a second battalion. The movement of the different battalions of the Guards in London to new quarters sill not take place until the Ist battalion of the Ist regiment shall' begin its march, which has been postponed. The underwritten list of Field Marshals is copied from the Monthly _Army List of 1798. It will at least serve to shew that it was not the original intention of the KING to confine that rank to his own family The Duke of GLOUCESTER, October 12, 1793. The Duke of Yo sit, February if?, 1793. The Duke of ARGYLE, July SO W -1796. STUDISOLME HODSON, (HIM • Marquis Towns FIEND, ditto. Lord F. CAVENDISH ditto. CHARLES Duke Of RICHMOND, ditto. The Officers 6f the King's German Legion hav ing, by the especial favour of the PRINCE REGENT, in consequence of their meritorious services, obtained -permanent rank in the Army, we subjoin the distri bution of that corps, as it is at present stationed : Ist Heavy Dragoons Ipswich and Portugal. fd Ditto - Ditto, ditto. Ist Light Dragoons Ditto, ditto. 2d Ditto - - Portugal and Cadiz. 3d Ditto - Ipswich. Ist Light Infantry Portugal. 2d Ditto - . Bezhill. Ist Line Battalion Portugal. 2d Ditto - . Ditto. 5d Ditto Sicily. 4th Ditto - . Ditto. sth Ditto - - PortugaL 6th Ditto - - Sicily. 7th Ditto . - Ditto. . Bth Ditto - - Ditto. A few days since, as one of the serjeants of the Leitrim Militia was walking through St. James's Church-yard, Bristol, between eight and nine o'clock in the evening, he was accosted by a man, who asked him if he belonged to the Irish militia regiment quar tered in Bristol ? His answer was, that he did. He then asked him how he liked this gauntry ? He re plied, very much. He_ then began to abuse the ser jeant, by cursing him and every one from his coun try ; -when a second man same behind him, and with a carving -knife, or some similar instrument, cut The sinews of his right leg in so dreadful a manner, that the poor fellow'slife is desptired of. THE LUDDIT—A Letter, of which the following is a copy, has been received by the Home Secretary of State, from a Cheshire Magistrate : ".My Lord—Yesterday several of the Laciltes from the neigh bourhood of Motown, the most disturbed in Cheshire, and bor dering upon the Huddersfield neighbourhood, came before me, and took the oath of allegiance. I have reason to expect that numbers will follow their example; and under the conviction that your Lordship will be pleased to hear of the good effects of the late Act of Parliament for preventing the administering un lawful oaths, and if tht prospect that now opens of the serious alarms which, since the middle of Pebnsary werhave been sub ject to, subsiding, I have taken the liberty of making the above communication—l have the honour to be," dec. WHITECHAPEL.—Yesterday, J. Schofield, of Holm firth, Yorkshire, underwent an examination, charged with going to the house of Mr. Hinchcliff, the parish dolt of Holmfirth, avid telling him he wished to speak to him, and having drawn him to some dis tance down a lane, exclaimed—"" D—n you! you never more shall my any thing against the Luddites," and immediately fired a blunderbuss, the ball of which entered one of his eyes, and penetrated two inches into his head, but was afterwards extracted, and Mr. Hinchcliff is likely to recover. The prisoner was apprehended on board as American vessel, in the London Dock, and was ordered to be sent to Holmfirth ) strongly guarded, to take his trial. AU . GM' 26. , Yesterday evening th e Q UERN and ratvetests spent t).eir etching at Froginore. Princess CHARLOTTE of WALES took an airing through the pleasant rides and plantation± lit the Great Park, in her phrton and greys. —This morning Princesses A ccit:svn and CHAR LOTTE WALES rode at horseback the Great of _4.1 1v...- _ _ - in wI k, accompanied by L4wd WALSINGHA 51 and Lady IoRELLA THYNNE, General WYNYARD, and Colonel TAYLOR. The Quattu, and Princesses ELIZABETH and MARY, went to Princess Elizabeth's Cottage, at Old Windsor.—Princess Eustaairrn will give an ele- Pant dinner this day, at her Cotta ge , to th e Q UEEN , RINCE REGENT, Duke of YORK. Princess CHARLOTTE of WALES, and her Royal Sisters, except SOPHIA, who is not able to attend, but, thank GoD ! is in a fair way of recovery. The PRINCE DECENT and Duke of Ynaic will come from Egliam Races to the Cottage at Old Win dsor to dinner. Our Sunday's promenade in the Great Park is become very respectably attended by all the Nobility, Gentry, and Fashioaables of the County ; many noble and respectable families attend in their carriages, and more than two thousand respectable people, of all descriptions, attend while the band of the 29th Regiment .plays many pleasant tunes and airs, The inhabitants of Windsor are delighted by the unaffecre4 condescension of the Princess CHARLOTTE, whose person and countenance are now daily acqui ringgrace and beauty. An elegant oval face, fea tures exquisitely moulded, and the Most delicate tints of complexion, are all rendered more interesting, in her Royal Highness by the mellow lustre of her tine blue eyes. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. • EGHAM RACES. WEDNESDAY, AUGUsT 26 The Magna Charts Stakes of sop raeh, h. ft. for three-yr olds ; colts carrying est, 51b. fillies, Bat. glb. The Nsw Mile. Ten Subscribers. The Duke of Yotk's Rohner - . 1 Mr. Blake's Pupil - - - 9 _ . Mr. Ladbrokes Octavius ' 51b. extra - a s General L. Gower ' s hr. f . Loan of Arc - - 4 Three to 1 on Octavius, and 190 to 20 apt the winner. A Sweepstakes of 25gs each, 15gs. ft. for horses of all ages. Two miles and a gleaner. The winner to be sold fur 350 gs. if de manded, &c. Four Subscribers. The Duke of York's b. c. by Boaster, 9 yrs. Sat. Glb. 1 Mr. Blake's b. f. Atalanta, 4 yrs, 84.91 b. - 2 Sir C. Bunbury's Scout, 3yrs . . 7;t. 61b. . - 3 Four to 1 agst the winner, and even betting betwixt Scout and Atalanta. The Ladies' Plate of 150 for 3-yr olds carrying 7st. 31b. 4-yr, olds, 814. 71b. The best of three two-mile heats. Mr. Make's Sprightly - - - 2 1 1 Mr. Laelbroite's Hamleg ''' . . . 3 2dr. General L Gower's b. f. Anastasio, 3 yrs - 1 3 dr. Six to 4 apt Sprightly..—'rhe course was crowded. .81f1V170N, AUGUST' 24. The Ball at the Castle last night, was but very thinly attended. WALKER'S Marine, and Messrs. GILBURD'S new Library, to a late hour, were both crowded. It is the intention of the Countess of DZLAWARR, we find, to give a splendid fete here, and upon a very extended scale of hospitable liberality, in October next, to celebrate the happy event of her son's attain ing his twenty-first year, or, according to the adopted phrase, becoming of age. Dimensions of the whole suite of rooms at the Castle were taken this morning, by persons sent purposely down from London, and other preliminary arrangements are forthwith to be attended to. The Countess, for a three months' so journ with us, is expected t 6 grace our fashionable circles in a day or two. The farce of the Devil to Pay here appears to be in active rehearsal among the Stable-keepers, and Post horse Masters. For some time past, the charge for a post-chaise and pair, has been Is. 9d. per mile ; oats, per feed Bd. and hay, for the night 2s. From some disagreements among themselves, however, these charges, in some places, have been publicly announ ced to-day to have dwindled as follows: Post-chaise and pair, per mile, I Id. oats, per feed, 6d. and hay, for a single horse, per night, Is. and it is said, that the opposing spirit of the contending parties is such, that a farther reduction may shortly be expected.— 'The Stagecoach Proprietors also appear in a state verging on combustion and explosion ; such - as will singe the interest of no persons but themselves, may there fore be looked for in that quarter. Tile New Circulating Library, in the neighbour-, hood of the New Steyne, and designated the New Steyne Library, under the direction of Messrs. Gu.- mai, was opened this morning, and many names of high fashionable importance added to the Subscrip tion Book. Mrs. WALLACE and family are among the last ar• rivals at the New Steyne Hotel. LYCEUM THEATEE.—The Opera of the Privateer continues to be repeated with increased success. It was last night represented to a very crowded au dience, and highly applauded. VAUXHALL MMIQUERADE.—An hour before the Gardens were thrown open last night, the avenues to the different doors were thronged with people, anxious to get a commodious situation to see the cha racters and dressgs of the Masques. At ten o'clock the different doors were opened, and a blaze of splen dour and magnificence was presented to the eager spectators which it is impossible sufficiently to de scribe. There were several new decorations appro. priate to the late Glotious Victory. Crowds of Do. minos and well-supported Characters were constantly flocking in, arid the exhilirating sounds of mirth and revelry re-echoed from every side. The boxes; which were previously clssed, were laid open at about one o'clock, and they were soon filled with motley groupes, anxious to receive, fr4)m the elegant and profuse refreshments of the table, sew strength and spirit for the renewal of their mirthful fatigues.— The sportive gaieties soon re-commenced, and the characters were in general exceedingly well supported: Notwithstanding BONAPARTE'S strict prohibition against our manufactures, we suisect, from the fol lowing article of Paris fashions, for the month of July, that English manufactures, and English taste too, find their way even into his capital.—" Straw hats, and gowns of cambric muslin, (Iterlak,) are the most fashionable dresses, even in the finest assemblies. The highest taste fur the back of the gown is k do: a e ',Waite, it consists of broad tucks from the neck to the waist. . - CSLIBRATION 47' PLrifoV77l OF ireA navia OF MifReVIS WELLINGTON. Motiday night, the Towns of Plymouth, Plymouth 4 Dock, Stonehouse, Torvint, and &hash, with theis vicinities, were splendidly illuminated in consequencd of the late glorious victor" , near Salaminca. All thii regiments in garrison, the Gloucester, Cheshire, Lancashire, Shropshire, Roscommon, and Somerset' regiments, were stationed round the lines int-round. ing Plymouth-Dock, and at a quarter past nine, at night, on the firing of a rocket from the Cavaliers Battery, five great guns were discharged as the signal to commence firing, which began with the wimps on. the lines at Mount Wise, and ended at the Westerns Barrier. This was repeated three times, the menj standing in single files, and discharging their pieces in quick succession. The effect of this mode of firing, pursued as it was through all the obliquities of the works, was singularly impressive. After the firing had ceased, a rocket from the Cavaliere Bat- tery gave the sigma to the soldiery to cheer, which again began at Mount Wise and ran round the lines, deepened by the voluntary shouts of the populace within and w;thout the works. 'this was an interest•' ing and impressive moment—a moment in which Englishmen—Soldiers, s lilors, or citizens, joined id one general peal of exultation. The illuminatiots, we understand, Were to be repeated. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. Plymouth, Tuesday, Angst U. The ilhneinift ons wete general throughout the town last evening, the transparencies chaste, elegant, appropriate, and abundant, the devices of " LINOToN and Victoty," " Son of Victory," Wu. LINGTON," " Hero of Salamanca," and many others, were numerous, and increased the variety, of the scene. The weather being fine, appeared congenial with the wishes of all, and allowed the preparations to be carried into effect without obstacles. The ram parts of the citadel, as well as the lines round the ' dock, presented at 9 o'clock a delightful view from tile firing of the military, and great guns, as &feu de jeye. Upon the whole, the populace conducted them selves w ith great propriety, and we have neither heard of any scenes of excess being committed, no of any accidents having happened. The illuminations will be repeated in many houses this evening. The great news which has reached us this day from Jersey, (to which place if was brought by the Stag, from Co. rtrnna, of the whole of Maassour's army (15,000) having been taken by the renowned Hero of Sala naanca, adds additional spirit to the already elevated sentiments which the inhabitants of this place enter. taro towards his Lordship. A epowder mill blew up yesterday, at Hounslow Heath, whereby one of the workmen was killed. Tuesday. evening, Mrs. Baanow, an.elderly gen. , tlewoman of Tavistock-street, Tottenham-court-road, was found bUrnt to death in herbed, the curtains of which had caught fire accidentally. The following is the extract of a letter from Mos. cow, by which it appears that BONAPAIita has emis saries employed in that ancient seat of ibe Russian Government : U Moscow, JULY 17.—Count Rastaipschin, our Military Governor, has given notice that the Po'ice of this City has at length discovered the Author and Publisher of the seditious Pamphlet, in which it is stated that the Emperor Napoleon pro mises to be, before the expiration of six months, in possetaion of the two Capitals of Russia. Ihe patties concerned in this affair are, a merchant of the name of Vereshaguene, and bisicedmplice. Marckhoff, Secretary of the Government, who are arrested, and will be soon brought to trial." =TEM! OF A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER IN SIR HOME POPHAM'S SQUADRON. " Csnro Urdiates, Cout of Him!, August It. ••• The country is miserably poor, owing to the 1 continual demands of t h e French, the Guerillas, and, I I may add the English. What we can procure is much the same price as we pay in England, and, of course, not so good. This place is in the French in terest, as are all the rswns; indeed it is not to be wondered at ; they kept this place four years, and all the inhabitants gave them a high character for re gularity and kindness. It is true they made the peo ple contribute towards the maintenance ch their troops, but with less extravagance than the Guerillas, whom our presence here has brought in like locusts ; they go into the house and take w hatever eatables they can procure. My pen cannot do justice to these bands of licenced banditti ; they are in bodies of from one to five thousand, under various chiefs. At least seven or eight of these bodies have rendezvoused here, and are constantly within a few leagues of us. They avoid meeting the enemy in open battle, but watch every opportunity of harassing them on their march. They are never beaten, and never conquer. By a seeming mutual agreement they spare no prisoners We have saved a number since we came here. They are the most ferocious, animated bands, the imagination can picture • they wear the clothe s and a rms o f t h e i r ene mies t hat hive fallen in battle, but will obey no orders, neitheri•will they bind themselves by any com. 1 pact. Without the efforts of a Wellington in their favour, they never would expel the French, neither would the Fretteh ever be able to put them down, or possess the country in peace. They seem to follow the peculiar geniis, of the Spanish nation in this Un• setued wandering life; and should this country see the day (which ithink is nut distant) when their ser vices are no longer required, it will find that its dread ful necessities had obliged it to employ an instrument which will produce a disease nearly as dreadful as the one it was intended to cure. We bave beard of Lord WELLINGTON'S victory. In akw months there will not be a Frenchman ia Spain. I cannot help giving you an anecdote that oc curried two evenings ago • the offices of the ship that WAS left off here during t he absence of the fleet, gave a ball to the Guerillas, inhabitants, and ourselves. Se veral ladies in the French interest did not attend, the Guerilla General, RonevatArs, issued cards for one in return, and at the bottom gave notice that all ladies were to pay six dollars admittance, for the purpose of clothing a regiment of Biscayans that are encamped, outside the place, adding, th at a ll l oya l citizens woul d be happy at the opportunity offcred them of con'ai buting in so, good a cause, and that th ose w h o ab sented themselves should have a company of soldiers billeted on them next morning : it produced a hill meeting, and a very pleasant dance; they feadar and iolleroed, and wakuti, with tha, greatest good humour." , I ~ , , . i • t /