Star. — London, England, 1812-10-06 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUMMY, OCTOBER. 6. PRICE OF S COCKS 'THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCk. Cops. 571 58—i or apg. 584-5 per Ct. 118 en—Chnn. 31 4 pr. goods es.los. 41 is.-1.006 Anne. Usk 2sillr. (Sid.) Si. SS • dos.-1)n. (skd.) Is. %Us. 2s. pre. The Carteret packet, Captain DAVEY, bu arrived at Falmouth with Mails from America: sailed from New York the 29th of August, and left lying there the United States frigate John Adams, of 32gtins, and on the following day spite his Majesty's ship Gra/mow, of 38 guns, on a cruize ; and was informed that they had parted from bis Majesty's ships Emir and BELVIDERB on the 28th. at &grit : arrived at Ha lifax on the 7th ultimo, and found lying there his Majesty's ships ATRICA, CALIBRI, and Cunceve brig, (late American privateer.) His Majesty's ship PRO. ?A nimus, with the Three Sisters store ship, arrived at Halifax oh the 7th ultimo; and his Majesty's ship trwosr, of 40 guns, arrived there with dispatches from . England, on the Bth : on the same day a cartel ar. tilted at Halifax from New-York, which bad been hoarded on the 6th ultimo by C'emmodore Ronouts' selteadron, off Cape Sable, steeriag from New-Yolk, ThVee British frigates were immediately dispatched a ft e r them, but it was feared they would escape to New-York. The Nymph packet had arrived at Ha lifax, and proceeded fel New-York ; the Paolirrum and Cotten! sailed from Halifax on the 10th ultimo, cm a crbizt. The Carteret brings no news of impor. tance troM America on public affairs ; the public opininis was much against the war, but it was feared that an adjustment of the existing differences would not take place soon. The length and importance of our details from other quarters of the globe, compel, us to be brief in our selections film the American Papers, brought by the above packet. We know nothing decisive re specting the intentions of the American Government, but a great bustle, or rather consternation, prevails at Washington, among the heads of departments. The refusal of the President to ratify the armistice in Canada is an event which every honest man oughi to rejoice at. His whole army has consequently been sacrificed ; and the burst of unpopularity and indig nation Whit.h this ill-judged and malignantresolutiou. has occasioned, will ultimately siis-seat him from the Presidency. The Federalists will acquire the asceni. dancy, And tht age of reason will be restored in America. SURRENDER or THE WHOLE AMERICAN ARMY. Victory continues tb follow the career of the Bri ms tish Army, wherever it moves. The whole of the American troops under General Hutt, destined to act against Upper Canada, .have been taken prisoners ; and the campaign in that qu aster of the world has been terminated, almost without bloodshed : three British soldiers only have been killed, and two officers and thirteen Men wounded ! At an early hour this morning, the gratifying in telligence was announced in the following Bulletin: " COLONIAL DEPARTMENT. " Downing-street, October 6, Isl 2. 6 A.M. "Captain COOKE, Aide-de-Camp to Lieut.-General Sir GEORGE PREVOST, is just arrived 'with Dispatches from that Officer, dated Montreal, 26th August, skid Ist September, 1812. (*They announce the successful termination of the Campaign in Upper Canada, by the surrender of Fort Detroit, 33 pieces of Cannon, and the 'whole of the American Army under the command of General Hutt, on the 16th of August, to his Majesty's farces, commanded by Major• General &tom The Officers and Men are Prisoners of War. " The loss of the British in the actions which pre ceded the surrender is trifling, being only Three Men Killed, and Two Officers and Thin, en Men Wounded. " The names of the Officers wounded are, Capt. MUlk and Lieut. SUTHERLAND, of the 41st regiment." Between eight and nine o'clock this morning the Park and Tower guns were fired in honour of the event, and the following Letter was sent to the LORD MAYOR in the course of the morning : WAR DEPARTMENT. " Downing-etrect, eNteber 6, 1819. " MY Lonn—l have the honour of, accituinting your Lordship, that Captain Cootie oarived this mor ning with dispatches from Lieutenant-General Sir GLORGE PitEYos - r, announcing the agreeable intelli hence that the invasion of Upper Canada had termi. n ated, in the defeat and surrender of General Box, as a prisoner of war, together with the whole of the I° rth-u'estern Amy, the Fort of Detroit, and S 3 pieces of cannon. I am happy to be able to add, that the less with which this success has been achie-' ved is very trifling—not amounting in the whole to above 18 killed and wounded ; among the latter of whom are two dEcers.--I have the honour," &c. (Signed) 44 BATHURST." Captair, COORE, w'ho brought the dispatches, came to Bristol, from Halifax, in a sloop of war. Since this Paper was put to Press, the Gatrite Extraordinary has been published. It embraces the' details of the operations previous to the surrender of tort Detroit, which are too minute and detailed to give at length until to-morrow. They are amply anticipated in the above column. cAbii MAEL A Cadiz Mail arrived this maiming —the following are the chief articles of int4lightihe which it britigs. General HILL is in full march for Madrid. On the 23d August, king JOSEPH entered Valencia with an escort, which, when added to Sureer's army, trade the latter amount to 22,000 men. The Juramenta : dos daily desert from Sooty and JOSEPH'S armies.= The Inquisition of Seville was resuscitated after the departure of the French by some foolish bigots, but General CRUZ, who commanded, refused to permit them to revive it. SouLT has halted in Granada with a view of form ing a junction with Damn., but this had not taken place on the 6th September. This delay is said to have retarded the junction of SOULT with SUCHET, and given an opportunity to the Combined Army to advance to Albocete, where, according to the Cadia Papers, they only wait for the return of the Marquis of WELLINGTON from the North to fall upon Soeur anti Daouar on their march. As a proof of the spirit of robbery with which Jowls is animated, he arrived at Valencia, followed by three hundred and seventy toaches, more than 800 waggons, and an innumerable number of bag gage carts. On the journey, the fugitive, were some- times three days without bread, or even watef, and numbers died of fatigue. In addition to these mise ries, numerous bodies of Guerillas hovered on their flanks and rear, hourly cutting off entire companies of Juramentados and other followers. " MADRID, SEPTEMBER IS. 44 Prom a person worthy of every credit we know that hitherto there has nc.t been the least sign of any reinforcement coming from France. " The French have evacuated the cities of Tara zona and B tja, whose garrisons, after having demo. lished the fortifications, marched for Saragossa, sup• ported by 300 infantry and 200 horse, which for this purpose had marched from that capital. This is an unequivocal proof of the fear which accompanies the French, and of the necessity under which they are of concentrating their forces in order to maintain them selves for any time. " Sarr. 2.5..—0 n the 4th instant disembarked in Alicant, General Elio, with 3000 men. It is said he is to take the command of the army of the centre, which had received orders to hold itself in readiness to march, but we are ignorant what is to be its desti nation ; some believe that this resolution has caused Soult's retreat, who is reported to be in Guadix, and Baza, an d who will probably desist from marching towards the points of Lovea and Murcia, on account of the plague having manifested itself in these two cities.--On the 6th, O'Donnel was still in Stettin, with all his infantry. The English General, Mait land, with his troops, were in the neighbourhood of Alicante ; and General Roche in Alcoy, with the reserve of that army. " The French were in Aleira, and their advance extended to St. Felipe. Upon their right flanks there were 500 hone belonging to the 3d army, and Ge neral Freyre w a s in Albaute, with the remainder of the cavalry. It is to be hoped that the Spanish and English will offer, in that part of the Peninsula, simi lar scenes to those acted in Castile, and that shortly the enemy on the Ebro will be obliged to fonfine themselves to its frontiers, even under shelter of the important places gained by perfidy, and the diabo lical machinations of Napoleon and his agents." A letter from Laza, of 10th September, asserts that General BALLASTEROS is marching for Granada, which has been evacuated by the enemy ; and some of the Journals state that the French have also quit ted Andalusia. Government this morning received Dispatches from Cadiz. The following will be found to be an accu rate sketch of their contents : 44 Souvr was at Grenada on the 16th ult. 4 4 The Spaniards had gained some advantages over his rear on'tbe 15th ult. " General Comm was at Seville on the 17th ult. " Genera) HILL, on the 13th ult. was preparing to pass the Tagus at Almaraz. But the most glorious intelligence of all is that the Cartes have voted the Marquis of WELLsmazos to be Generallisiml of all Spain I yheliighly-gratifying intelligence from the Mar quis of WELLINGTON on the subject of the Capture of Burgos, was published in a Supplemental Gazette yesterday afternoon, but too late to appear in the 1 whole of our impression of yesterday. We are there- 1 fore under the necessity of repeating it to-day: the Idetails are of so cheering a nature, however, that they I will bear a second perusal by those who may have ('already seen them, and an apology for their repetition Ibecomes the less necessary. The subjoined official notification appeared in the greater part of our impression yesterday. Its chief interest is derived from the mention of a Orson whose name has made some noise in the world, General MIRANDA, but whose career seems to be now drawing to a close: " DOWNING-STREET, OCTOBER S. gi By accounts from Curacoa and St. Thomas,dated the .sth and 25th August, it appears that the City of Caraccas capitulated to the Royalist Army, under General Konxivniot. is the 28th July ; and that Ci Wit sttiraltchired at lisetttiob on the 81st. General Mzeititba is cloieli itivrisithed at this !awe place. The greatest distrese had beezi biteriefited at the Caraccas." Dispatches have been rcoeived at the Admiralty from Admiral SAWYER, as tiAlifax. We regret t(: say, that they announce the dapture of the CUBA- Maas frigate, Captain DACRES, by the Constitution, American frigate, after a most gallant action, in which the GUERRIRRE fought under the most disas -. crow and disadvantageous circumstances. The first Ibroadside from the Constitution carried away her wizen-mast, and soon afterwards the whole of her i masts fell overboard. The GUViRIERE had only 244 men at•quarters— the Constitution 476, thirty '24-pounders on her main deck, twenty-four 32-pounders and two 18-pounders on her Upper-deck. The GCERRIERZ had 15 killed, and 6g wounded, and was found in such a state that the Americans were obliged to set her on fire.— Commodore RODGERS has arrived at Boston, after an, l unsuccessful cruize, having destroyed five or six ves sels of little or no value. His crew is dreadfully of- 1 flicted with the scurvy. EXTRACT 01 A LiFITZL PROM lIALIFAX, bAllni ' SRPTEMBER 8 ru. " On the 27th nit. Commodore Rdooests, witis three frigates aid two smaller ships, were spoken about 100 r1::!es S. W. of this Light-house. They !were afterwards seen by the STATIRA frigate, which they chased 70 miles. There are nin• frigates on the look out for them, and if he is not gone into Boston, which we think probable, there is a great chance of his being fallen hi with." A Boston Paper of the 22d August, says, " A Gentleman arrived at Boston from Halifax informs us, that he was assured by Admiral SAWYMI s that he had written to the Secretary at War of the United States, by the GLEANER, communicating to him the 'repeal of the Orders in Council, and that if the Go• vcrnment of the United States wished, he would be happy in suspending hostilities, until the Repeal was officially made known ; and that, in the interim, he would withdraw the squadron now on °if coast." Advices have been received from Bourdeaux, bring ing information of the arrival there of three armed American schooners ? which had the gcpd luck to escape the vigil ince of our cruisers stationed at the mouth of the Garonne. The latest adv ices from St. Petersburgh are to the 6th ult. They confirm the artival, in the Russian capital, of the Emperor ALEXANDER. No official re port had appeared of Ole battles of Smoleask and Valontina. Several families had arrived at Sr. Pe-1 tersburgh from Moscow ; and they write from the ! former city as if the fall of Moscow was anticipated, in the contemplation of which they do not discover the smallest sympton of despair as to the successful result of the cause of Russia. Fresh reinforcements had been sent off to Moscow, and also instructions from the Emperor to destroy every thing valuable, or that might be useful to the enemy in the city, as soon as his obtaining it by force appeared probable. The exchange was from 23 to 24.. One hundred and sixty-three convalescent; out of l about 400 wounded soldiers, now at the Royal Mili. tary Hospital, Plymouth-Dock, are going to Chelsea Hospital. They are to be allowet either a residence at the Hospital for life, or to receive a pension. It is truly affecting to behold these mutilated brave men as they pass through the streets, or engaged in con versation with the' inhabitants, relate in 'garrulous detail the exploits of themselves and gallant com rades. Most of these, unfortunately, have lost legs and arms, and were wounded at the storm ing of Badajoz. The French not only employed cannon, musketry, and the baycinet, in repelling the stormers, but had recourse to the rolling of immense stones a-la-Tyrolne, of casks, &c. on their heads. These brave fellows appear extremely well clothed, and maugre their sufferings are all fine jolly fellows. They speak with rapture of the attention of the Marquis of WELLINGTON to the wounded. This hero, the theme of every soldier, frequently visited the Hospitals, and consoled the sufferers with the most tender and soothing language. The planet Venus is to be seen at present with the naked eye in daylight, in a clear sky, any time from dawn till three o'clock in the afternoon. Venus is at present one sign and a half, or 45 degrees , west of the sun, and may be seen on the mer i dia n or due south, when the sun is at nine o'clock in the fore noon. It is at present 13 degrees north declination, or 13 degrees north from the place of the sun, at this Itime on the equinoctial. Saturday se'nnight, between two and three o'clock in the morning, ROBERT TKOMPSON, a private in the 2d battalion 90th regiment, standing sentinel at the King's Stores, opposite the Earl of Listuticx's house in Limerick, was fired at by an assassin, accompa nied by three other villains, from a musket loaded with balls, two of which struck the sentry-box, and one hit the soldier near the left knee, by which he was so much injured that amputation of the limb be came unavoida ble, and has been performed. THOM!. sox, notwithstanding the violent saock of the wound, loaded his piece and fired towards the cowardly as sailants, but, it is believed, without effect. The learned VI:RAIL:4 has observed that, "works of fiction are among the most instructive of every po. listed nation, and must contain all the useful truths of fife, if composed with. genius." Madame Da MON TO.. taw, whose talents in ihis lint are so well_ known, by her admirable production of u Carafe die Lichield." has just published, at Paris, hers Recital de Novvelks," and we have the pleasure to add, that its re-publica tion in London will certainly take place in ; few days. Wednesday night, as W. Mathias, master of the sloop Mary Ann, of Newport, lying at Milford, Vas on his way down to the boat, be fell over a precipice about 90 feet hies, and fractured his skull so dread- Mir, that he died immediately. • ELBcivote. Lt NOVI% WAStIt ELECTIOI4O.--atiN i of the Poll nn at 12 o'clock & Cahrest.llo3--Thornton, 434:+i3ardett, 67. eltt ELEcricrue:—Stite of the Poll this day, at .'clock Combe, tat—shaii; 149—Atkins, si ..‘'ai.lan 93. We bate elreasly noticed, that Mr. FA ZACHERJ hai started for the City of Lincoln, in the root Lord MElBollOtoti, who retires. A Sbarlo cot was expected from Mr. Si.n.i.rvism, on the nem uasismitt interest, but on the Ist instant, to the 'g chagrin cki the Electors, it was announced the declined the h.knour. Mr. OSeALDESTON, of hospitable and Fox-lism celebrity, is said to have been offered Retford, an have gone there on Opp..sition Interest. Mr. GiRDLER, an independent Magistrate al dlesex, who has recently recovered from a seven disposition, has been invited to offer himself for County and for Berkshire. Sit J. YORK IC is gone to Sandwich, fat which p he will be returnee;, • Mr. Canasta is gone to Dublin. Colonel Halms has resigned the contest P-1.1 ventiy, and Mr. P. MOORiI and Mt. BUTTIRWOI have been re-elected. Messrs. CAINERT and taxman, the bid Memt ,for the Town of Huntingdon, were yesterday elected without oppositicn. The tlettion for the County of Huntingdol fixed for the 19th instant, when (Mr. Lows ha, died dux:hill) the old Members, Lord HIPICIIINOBRI and Mr. FIeLLOWICSi are expected to be re-elected Sir Aarnutt Paare and Major-General Wm] sire returned for Arundel. At Plymouth, Mr. LANCNItAb, Colonel BLI mum, and Sir C. Pots, are eserting themselves very great diligence. Rona BOROUGHS OF SCOTLAND. TO THE EDITOR OF THII STAR. Sie—The utility of a correct ♦iew of the Part ment.try Representation' and Elective Franchise the people of the United Kingdom at all times, more especially at this precise crisis, gave pe interest to the abstract which appeared in the of the 3d instant. Of the independence or subjection of the &fie! Counties, Cities, and Bomughs in England Wales ; or er the correctness of ihe" names of Masters of those coming under the latter charac I know nothing ; but, IV= local knowledge and perience, I must b e g leave to rescue the Royal roughs of Scotland from the state of apparent gradation in which they are placed (doubtless is vertently) by your abstract. The number of vot for the Boroughs of Scotland is represented in y article to be only 64, being one voter Ica* than number of Boroughs, and Queensferry seems to be nonentity ; whereas, by the subjoined statement, aggregate number of voters must be at least IC and is, I am persuaded, about 20001 1 Bresses, Edinburgh (City of) Dingwall, Durnock, Wick, Kirkwall, and Tala Fortrose, Invernee,lrn, and of res Pdgin, Ilamfl, Cullen, Kintore, acd Inverou?ie Aberdeen, Monti use. Brechin,Aberbroilinck, and iamb, Perth, Dundee, 6t. Andrew's, Cupar. and Forfar Kllrenny, Anstruthor IA ester, Anstruther Easter, a Pittenweem Kinghorn, Dysart, Kirkaldie, and Bruntisland • Stirling, Inverkeithlng, Dumferline, Culross, end Queensferry , Glasgow, Renfrew ' Dumbarton, and itudieritlen - . ledburgh, Dunbar, North Berwick, Lauder, and fiaddingtos, Peebles, Linlithgow, Selkirk, and Lanerk Dumfrier, Kirkcudbright, Annan, Lochniaben, and song Whitehaven, New Galloway, Stranraer, and Wigton Irvine, Kothsay, lnverary, Campbeitowit, and Ayr _,7 3 In order to make this statement more intelligibl to your English Readers, it is necessary to rernar that the Elective Franchise of a Burgh is placed its Municipal Authorities ' consisting, for the unallesi of three Magistrates, a Dean of Guild, and a Counel of twelve Members, so that the Representative of • District of five Burghs has, at the very lowest cake lotion. Eighty Constituents. The election is held al seinately in each Burgh of the District, which called the Returning Burgh as having the castin, vote, and to which a delegate from each of the othei repairs, not to vote according to his own inclination' but agreeably to the positive instructions of thoi who sent him. The Delegates, on such occasion are, in fact, mere Messengers. The preceding remaiks may probably thew d propriety of enlarging the Elective Franchise of t} Scottish Boroughs ; —but Scotland has strongi grounds of complant arising from the system County Representation. By the existing laws, r landed property which did tot at the last valuatic (in the reign of Queen Anne) amount to fin hundred pounds Scots • per annum, can qualil the proprietor for voting fora Representative in Pa Lament, although such property may have been :Ira enhanced to an annual rental of £lOOO sterling while the fortunate property then valued at leidt Scots, can, by the process of rplittiog, or the tempos* alienation of the Superiority (or right of voting) lea the actual possession, qualify three voters, althouj its present value should not now be equal to the 01 ginal estimate, were such deterioration possible. The necessity of a revaluation of the landed p petty of Scodand must be obvious from the precedit SCOTUS. ion4 - rks. Bloektrines Road, October 4. • A Pound Scots is one-twelfth of a pound , . throughcnt the country ay. _ that they cannot address their Electors as cause the walls in every town are engrossed by tery Bills. We know but of one remedy, that is, the Candidates to buy up the Tickets and Shares, , which they will not only secure all the walls to the* selves, but also aH d . .e Prizes, and as Ope Nemb will gain 1240,000, on the 40th This Moeda, del 'amid pay for their Election out d it, and pocket *time besides. L Imen.—This day the LORD MAYOR ',Mend tb pica to fall 4d. is the peck lost, to tale place net Thursday; the quart..rn loaf will dm be le:714: till