Star. — London, England, 1813-07-06 00:00:00

IRI A, song sink*, Wild to tectile‘tlti istriettO duty, ling to which they had always been attentive, but .ainly not more so in consequence of any thing t had fallen from the Noble Lord, nor wete any meastres in contemplation. With regard to the er question, the• tourse of - exchange of prisoners h America, bad certainly been stopped for a while, because nor seamen went up into the interior,and re forcta to be brought down again by force, but :auscr some hardships had been inflicted on our gal a men, and in order to make necessary inquiries on the subject—(Hear, hear !).—Thus much he oke of his personal knowledge, in contradiction to sat the Noble Lord had said ; and as to his state-' ent of forty of them being brought down to New ork by force, the Noble Lord would excuse him if disbelieved that, resting, as it did, only on the oble Lord's own assertion. He would add, that had taken down the three cases mentioned by the . oble Lord, intending to make proper inquiry into tern, and the result of which he should communi 4te to the House. The question was then negatived Without a division. After a short eonvereation on the motion for going into a Com three on the Report on the Curates St ipendary Bill, it was agreed he taken into further consideration en Wednesday. Übe other orders of the day were then disposed of.—Adjourned. tl 1] i~ -- 'THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TIMSDAY, JULY 8, IAIS. lift OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O I CLOC.K . Red. 86ii—Cor.s. 56Li'l ex. div.—for ace. 5Ki 58 4 per Cr. 713i-5 per Cr. 85+; ex. div.—Oninium 5-/ 5 Bonds par 3r. (I.4.—Exch. Bilk is ss. pr. Bank Long Anna. 14 :3.16th51 This morning the order was given to pay Dividends( : to !Vier. chant., Bankers, &c. this day and to-morrow—to the Public, oil Thursday. Altona Papers to the ult. reached Town by the Gottenburh Mail of yesterday. A Proclama tion has been circuLued in Norway i by the Clams PIZINCE of SwLDEN, in which he &elates that it is not his intention to commit hostilities upon the Nor wegians, but to conciliate them if possible to the Swe dish Government, not only by tutbearance, but. by acts of positive kindness. lie states that the Swtdish troops have taken up positions in Pomerania, for the porpuse of carrying on war against Denmark, in 1-IPlitein4 Jutland, or Zealand, if necessary, and thus to avoid all hostilities in Norway. A most agrOeable expectation is held out in the latter part of this docu- , rnenr, which we trust will be fulfilled---the guarantee of Austria to the annexation of Norway to Sweden, is said to be daily expected at Stockholm ! This voti;tl be next to a declaration by Austria against :France, and most happy shall we be to announce it upon official authcrity. In the mean citric, now that the CROWN PRINCE has formally announced the commenci.meht of hosti lities with Denmark, it is extremely desirable that he should .trike in instant and terrible blow against the 3/inish army opposed to him at Lubec and its vici• thereby rendering it incapable of any diversion in &vow of the FICI.Ch. DA VOUST must of necessity come out of liamburgh to the assistance of his faithful allies, and there must be an end of the Armistice. Denmark, as we have more than once observed ; has now no right to expect mercy. Her uniform line of policy for these twenty years has been marked by a base submission to France. When all the crowned heads in Europe shuddered at the murder of Louts XVI. GROUVELLE) the chief regicide, who read the sentence of death upon his Sovereign, was received at C penhagen as the accredited M;nister of the Re. volutionary Tribunal ; and when he delivered a dis course to the Daai,h Monarch, full of republicanism and menaces, the KING of DENMARK and his Min;- sters were silent. IVhen all the nations of Europe took up arms to check the mania of the French revo lutionists, Denmark remained not merely a silent spectator, but took care by covert acts of assistance to France, to give uneasiness to her neighbours. Upon the death of Mr. PITT, Lord Hoverm (the organ of the new Ministry in the House of Commons) in his Exposel of our foreign relations, solemnly de clared " that there was no security, and no confi: dente to be reposed in the measures of Denmark." When, in 1808, Sweden fought single-handed for her existence against Russia, she lost Finland, because she was basely attacked at the same moment by Den mark on the side of Norway, and could not concen trate her army in Finland. But let us come to recent instances r—Let it be re collected, that when BONAPARTE meditated the con. quest of Russia, last year, he endeavoured to seduce .Sweden. He promisA, in a dispatch of which the son of Marshal AUGEREAU was the bearer, not only :Norway and Finland, but even certain allocations in Germany, if Sweden would make common cause against Russia. BERNADOT k: read the dispatch while attending a meeting of the Stites-General. He pr vately marked with a pencil, kfuss:, to all the offers in succession, and his private Secretary sent oir young ALTOEREAO in half an hour with a most laconic an er to the above effect. When the Emperor ALEXANDER made. a similar request to BERNADOTTE, his answer was frank and manly—ii I cannot march an army to your assistance while I am exposed to be attacked by Denmark on the side of Norway."—Out of this answer arose the guarantee of Norway to Sweden by Russia, to which Great Britain subsequently acceded. What might not havre been the consequences of the refusal of Sweden to join Russia and Great Britain ? W'hile the Russian army ts drawing on the invin cible NAPOLEON to Moscow, BERNADOTTE might have led a naval and military armament against St. re. tetabdvitt. We ate !tot *baiting entirely hipotheti callS, On this occasion, for we have reason to know that precisely such an item fcirmed part of the mac,b nifictnt projilt of the invasion of Russia 14 rollA• PARTE last Year ! But the hero of the drama hat of hit otirrl accord, exposed all the wires which set ltis puppets in motion: INlapot.EoN has impudently declared to the world, that it is he who has long gUided the destinies of Denmark ! In fact, he admits that it was he who furnished Count BERNaTORY, with his credentials to the Court of London ; and to give a colour to his pretended friendship for Denniark, he restores the ' Danish crews of the four men of war in the Scheldt, and permits the Danish army to defend Hamburgh against his own troops. The proposal of Count BERNSTORFF was precisely to the following effect Let Gieat Britain ab jure her Alliance with Rtissia and Sweden—guarantee the possession of benmark—and, in this case, mark will condescend to take back all her Colonies, and the ships which England seized for her own se curity—accepting of a compensation in money for those which are no longer in existence 1"--After this who can doubt the supremacy of BONAL;AILTE over Denmark ? No farther accounts had been received from Lord WELLisoToN whim this Paper was put to press; but we have various kart s, written before the battle of Vit toria, which all concur in representing the army as then in such a high state. c)f health, vigour, and discipline, that every thing po,sible to be achieved by men might be expected !rent it. Though the fruit of Lord WEL LIN(i VON'S incessant attention to the troops has already been displayed at Vittoria, a few extracts relative to previous dispositions cannot but prove interesting to our Military Readers. An Oilicer belonging to the Light Division writes thus to an Officer now in London : " CAMP, JUNE 13 " Description cannot convey, even to a soldier, a correct idea et the perfect state of this army. Never did an army take the field so effective, the men in such line condition, and every department so com plete in its equipment. Out of evil often comes good : 'n- re!reat last year WAS thought to have ruined the army ; but it hai produced eirects which have raised it to a pitch of effective organization w Lich we should probably never have witnessed, but tor the necessity of new-creating its discipline, which by that event was nearly annihilated. Ever since that perird, the Generals and all the Officers have been kept close and incessantly to their duty, and the effects have been answerable to the exertions. " Whatever your ililosophers and theorists may say, nothing but the most rigid discipline, bordering on extreme desvolisin, ever made an army or a fleet forrni 1:+'•Ie. During the last half year we hive had courts martial, punishirsents, and licentious in abun dance : but hit perhaps has tended more to the effective state 01 the army, ,ai.d that Lord WELLING TON brings 45,c0U effective British into the held, be sides the Allies, is, that his Ltsrdship has kept a very tight hand over ti -e Comm;ssaries and Doctors, in consequence of which, the army was never so well fed, or the sick fewer than of late. 46 The noble, the brilliant conduct of the Hussar brigade, is the theme of praise and the .admirat ion of the whole army ; they hive led the way which we hope all our other cavalry corps will follow. The 16th regiment of French Dragoons, which. our 10th has completely annihilated, was one of th it chief crack corps, famed for its explr.its, and which once met General SLADE'S brigade. The French Dra• goons are now cowed, they have never shewn fneir faces with any kind of confidence shice the memora ble rencontre with the Hussar brigade in front of "Faro. 46 We bring into the field of as fine a staff as ever wore a soldier's coat, 4.5,000 British and 50,000 Por tuguese CASTANOS' army with us, may amount to 15,000 completely armed. SICIIET will, it is believed, be prevented from joining the enemy in our front, by Sit-ions; NILIMAY, whose force consists of 30,000 fine tro •ps. Besides this forte, there are now, under the orders of Lord WELLINGTINV, UpWarjS of 100,00(1 Spaniards, under the Duke del PA ItQur., ato, WIIITTINOIiANI, DOYLE, &c. You may therefore expect a decisive and bril liant campaign. " The French in our front are about 80,000 t ffec- tive men. " JUNE 13.—Hitherto every thing has gone on as well as the most sanguine of you could expect, and you cannot but be well pleased with what the Army has done. Including some excellent Spanish, and a few Portugtbese and 6500 British, the force of cavalry rather exceeds 10,000—the %%hole commanded by Baron BocK, a most able cavalry officer belonging to the King'S - German Legion, the same officer who has so ably commanded the cavalry since Sir STA pLE-ros Co'r'ns was wounded at Salamanca. " Until I saw matters here, I thought that all the newspaper accounts of the exactions, extortions, and tyranny of the French were fictitious, but they really exceed every thing I have read. We were the first to come into Z.tmora, Toro, Palencia, and many other places, after the French had one out at the other ends of these towns—l saw their orders posted up in the public places. In every place heavy contributions were levied, and imprisonment and castigation threat ened on those who fell short in their payments—nor were these empty threats : in several places the j ils were full of poor wretches who could not pay any more, and even old men and women bore mat ks of stripes. Besides the money, they seized the grain in ; Toro and many other places, and actually set a price upon it, and made the people buy it they directed it to be sold in a few hours, and the money to be forth-coming, under threat of military punishment. —\Vhen they went off, they took ‘‘ith them all the church plate, some belonging to the families whom they had lived with, together with their table and bed linen, pictures, &c. ; and in most places they carried off the young women, many of whom were, however, volunteers. Wherever th c French halted seduction became a trade which they most success. fully followed. Our astonishment is, that under such a mass of misery inflicted on them, the Spanish na tion has not risen, man and boy, old and young, to tear their cruel oppressors to pieces." THE ARMY. IL T. UZUALITIONS. The pnhlie Jo ) . exhibited itself last night in a * yaii ri ex e c ' ee Y It 'i d ili f i er uni"a number,ti ins, ssil taste, iirl a w il l i e 's;l r e t nl 'h u i r Y . rlh ' never streets were crowded tili a late lienr. and the disel.• y fully gratifi• d all the ctfrioshy diet oared be felt by the Stoll itude, on one of the proudest and most eh& leg ecoisions in the sennals of: Br itisli warfare At the . remote .11,1 of Piccadilly, Apsley-house, a,- the residence of the Marquis WELLEsLEY. was the el most striking objeet. The screen in front was illuminated with coloured lamps. The arches of the gates wete hung ivith crescents : the centre occupied with a transparent paining—Victore cr wning the bust of the Marquis of WELLINGTON '.'i .1) lAtlrel ; and Fame, with her trumpet to h- lips ; sendirg his fame on the winds ; a scroll in her lef hand, bearing the words—te India, Spain, Portugal." This picttoe was szit in a triple row of lamps : the design of the paint ing was admirably expressed ; the frame was of day. • I zling lustre. i In the progress down Piccadilly, the illuminations ° were unequal. Devonshire-h. the had a rich dis. play of lights; and Vinoria, in large characters. The , Subscription-houses—Stars and occasional Mottos. The RUSSIAN ASIRASSAnott's, in Harley -street, was tastefully ornamented with wreaths of lamps on the balconies and cleor. But the most tasteful in its simplicity, and the most delicate in spirit, was the motto on the house of the Marchioness of Were.receos. It was simply, "The brave companions of WELLINGTON." The crowd be. ; fore the door, in exerting the license usual on such oc casions, exerted it in a way that might well be par. cloned for its intention. They compelled the servants lof every carriage that passed to take off their hats. The Sea NISI! A maessersou's, in Grafton etrei t, was By the Malta Mail of yesterday we 'gain that, on a superb spectacle. The h ruse, from the roef !oche the 16th of M.ty, Captain Bitace, of the Benwte.g, monad, was covered with lamps. From the attic , , 71, and EUKYALCS frigate, having been detached windows the British and Spanish banners were waving , together. Beneeth those was a large transparent from the Toulon squadron, for the per pose of anno-- . . . ) eiscription" To the Duke of Cis ono Ronefoo.— ing the enemy's coasting trade, they succeeded in Victory of Vittoria, 2lst June, Ibie." At the foot driving a convoy of 20 or 3() sail on shore, in Cava- . the words - " Spanish Nation." Nothing valid be - laire Bay. The British 'seamen and marines having more glittering and rich then the toner d'ail 0-this been I..nded, succeeded in bringing out 23 sail of small stately mansion. In St. James's -street, the Subscriptinnhouses were vessels, with a small ship of war of I() guns and 9.5 well lighted. In‘criptions of " V ttatia," transpa. men. The loss on the part of the British was trifling, rencies, with Busts of Lord Wellngten, were to be being only one man killed and one missing. Captain - seen every where, and a pr?fusioti of stars and wreiths BaACE hi ought fourteen sail safely into Port Mahon. 44 shed brightness on the night." The Guards' Club , Tne rest were destroyed. was peculiarly showy. W. V. was in the centre of • the balcony, surmounted by A Crown and two ap - FALMOUTH, JULY S. . propriatil stars; insignia of the Coldstream and 3d . of Horse Guards. . , Arrived his Majesty's ship Nvetetrine with. several regimentln Pell Mall, the Ordnence Office was decorated sail from Portsmouth—she will take the ships now , with the usual ornaments—a star in the centre, and 4 hem to Portugal, &c. The brig Lady Coote, from festoons and circles in the wines. Carlton House : Greenock for Lisbon, struck on a rock at the entrance win g s. ! 4 of the harbour, and remained there for some time, naturally drew the general gaze. The body of the , mansion was in shade—the screen was illuminated: but was got off—she must unload. wreaths of lamps twined round the columns, pyre. Eleven o'clock, P.M.—Just arrived the Portuguese no ds on the summit, and stars on the gates, united in brig Phcenix 'rriumphente, from Rio Janeiro, in 101 one . blaze of ovetpowering brightness. The words days. The Swiftsure packet was to leave Rio the 44 \t: ellington" and 44 Vittoria" had a peculiar effect, 1 day after. I PORTSISIOUTH, JULY .1. las having from their place a peculiar value. The 1 enti was ast magnifi. 1 ' His Majesty's sloop SNAP will take convoy to „ t re he Ope m ra-house had th cent e name of Wellington In Guernsey and Jersey.—Nothing arrived or sailed to' day.—Wind W. S.W. . coloured lamps; the Little Theatre, Wellington and 1 la l'iurel wreath : Covent-garden had Lord 'Welling. DEAL, JULY 5. '' ton's name ; Drury lane his portrait. Sailed his Majesty's ship CUMBERLAND for Sheer. t The screen in i.i • ont ut the Admiralty bore the usual ness, and the Ye Re on a cruize off Flushing. Arrived devices of the Anchor and Crown, with G. P. R. on the ARCHER sleep of war from off the French coast, one side, and W. F. M. on the other. The illumine and remains. : tion was not less lavish than on former occesions.- - . HARWICH, JULY 5. ° The Horse-guards bore lamps on all the lines of its The Aeenfoe frigate, Capt. S rewene, having are architecture : the screen, the wings, and the interior, rived last night, as convoy, to the transports corn- were hung with lights. posing the expedition at this port, all was bustle here The Secretaty of State's Offices, in Downing street, in consequence this atterneon ; at foor o'clock the we: e fuliy iilumin toed, and the name of Welleigton. 1 signal was made for the ships to weigh anchor, but • AtaceastaNe's, in the Straud, took its usual show i the .wind proving very light, and veering to the East- in the general festivity : it presented a handsome Ale- : ward, thev woe obli-red to d. sist ; should the wind goric transparency of Britannia receiving the tidings I he more favourable in the morning, they will cer- o f L ar d W e lli ngto n' s Victery, and Time about to ' - • iv:drily sail.—Wind least. i make his actions immortal. A fine star of gas-light COVE OF CORK, JUNE 50. . surmounted the entire, i His Majesty's ship Beeenue, Captain HOLE,•carlY . Soreerset House was, perhaps, the most distin. this morning got under weigh with the transports, ' -.1 •d all the public buildings in the Weat. guis is among taming out the 7th Dragoons, intended, it is said, , Its larger dimensions gave larger opportunity for or. as a body guard for the Marquis of WELLINGTON.— :lament, and the occasem WAS fully employed. It was The Baccuus also took charge of eighteen sail of one glow of light : the various tints of the lamps—' Merchantmen, bound to Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar. the mingling of that multitude of deep and burning: JULY 2.—Wednesday his Majesty's sloop S'roire, Imes—the number and the diversity, made the gene. Captain Cout.soe arrived here, after ertlizing for so- rah view singularly imposing and singularly beauti veral days, though unsuccessfully, in quest of the ful. On the east side of Templobar the illumination • Fox American privateer, between Achill-head and sae s general. • Cape Clear. The STORK left on Tuesday week his The East India House was handsome and taste. Majesty's ship FOHTUNEE, Captain COATES Off Tory ful: a beautiful oval, c-mposed of green, red, and i Island, where she was to cruiee for three months.— white lamps, inclosed the letterW. formed of yellow t • Some of the Fox's people had the audacity to go on this was surmounted by a brilliant crown s on the shore at Sligo and Newport, in uniform, and persona- • sides were the letters G. R.; while two large and ling English Officers, procured supplies of fresh pro- glittering stars blazed beside them, and gave effect - visions, &c. at both places, and gave the requisite to the whole : this was by far the best and most ele. drafts for the payment of the amount. I gant exhibition in the city. I ' The Hudson's Bay-house was elegantly and ap. prcpriately illuminated with a Crown, W, and stars and festoons of coloureu lamps. The Excise-office presented a vast quatizity of lamps. A long strait line of light contained the following :• 44 Glorious Victory obtained in Spain:" at bottom was the word 64 Vittoria." The decorations at the Pest-office were on a small scale • the letters G. R. and M. W. sm. mounted the different gates, and a large variegated star shone in the middle. Each of the recesses in front of the Bank displayed a brilliant star, and the centre was ornamented with a Crown, and under it the name of WZLLINOTON. The Mansion-house was exceedingly neat ; a sort of frame was fabricated with a con•iderAble number of lamps, and in the centre . was a bust of lees! WiLLINGTON. Proceeding up Cheapside we were greeted with a continuous show ' of lamps awl cansiles, elitists only diversity was that 0 f mere U r less in number. In St. Paul's Church. i yard, the letters M. W. surmounted with two gracefull spiigs of lae:el, formed by green lanips. The front' o f t! ) .! spa ca us hense of Nests. exhibited the same I letters with beautiful festoons of light. ';'he house of 1 1 . 41 r. sh,:riff lii.Aur4, on 1 aidgate.litll, presented A i l arand triumphal arch, supported by lart:e pillars of light, end in it its best ornament, tbe initial et . the naive of Wellington, and a crown. Peirectes, tit Fleet-street, exhibited tour pillars, covsted with ea. negated lamps : the appearance was striking an pLesing. In Holborn, in Lincoln's Inn Fields, and in all the *poises, there were also spier:did lights, too numerosui t) mention- An Tinniense train of artillery has been embarked l withirf the last .week, and ha: sailed for. Heligoland. It is intended for the 114 e of the Allies; htit is in pro ceed in the first i.sr.ance to Hejivioland, until the is . su of the Armistice be knr,ms. T ue whole is under the charge of Major t‘l,..cro IN A Lb, of the atrse Artillery. The Reginritts emharked at Harwich yesterda) were the 91st, 13.1, .51. th, and 9.51 h ; which are to he joined by the 33J frO'n Windsor, and Royals from Leith. They carry an immense qUantitY of stores ' and camp equipage. General HiesTos will command in Portsmouth garrison and district, until the return of General OAKS, from Malta. General MAITLAND intends taaini Lis dep irture for that island in a few days. Yesterday and this day the 33d Regiment, froth Windsor, marched through London on its ratite to Harwich, for embarkation. His Majesty's ship CortnectA hat 4 . rived at Ports- ' mouth from Berwick, having "under her convoy the 30th Regiment, and will proceed on. with them to Jersey. The detachments of the Ist and 2d Light Batta lion 4, and of the Ist, 2d, and 3d Line Battalions, King's German Legion, at Bexhill, are ordered in stantly to Portsmouth, to embark for the Peninsula. The 2cl Surrey and Anglesea Militias were ditem barked on S: - .turday last at Bristol, from Dublin. ' A number of French deserters have a:lived at Ply mouth from Cortinna, in his M.ijesty's ship IRIS. The Dublin and Westmeath Militias are embarking at Portsmouth for Ireland. N.l PAL INTELLIGENCE. Lord COCHRANE is appointed to the command of the S.vruoN, for North America. The LEvta•rftaN man of war, and ZEPHYR sloop of war, have arrived at Gibraltar from Malta, with a fleet under convoy, and sailed on the 4th ultimo for England. We have this morning received the following article from Oporto. The event alluded to is by no means ' unlikely : “ OPORTO, JUNE 23. I ” It is positively asserted here, that JOSEPH BONA. i PAR E's Prime Minister, and all the contributions '. levied at, and proceeding from Madrid, have been taken by the Guerillas." In consequence of the recent mlvements cf the Army, orders hAve been sent to ‘Voolwich f. r the instant dispatch to St. Ander of all the ordnance and other stores, wh;ch were shipping for Lisbon and Oporto. St. Ander will nnw be the entrepoi of all supplies to the Army ; and we trust Oa, for the satisfaction of the Public, either a Post-Office packet will be established, or that horn Corunna d:recttd to touch at that port. . To the names (+f the hostage requi7ed from Ham. buri , ,h, we have to add three others, very respeitabte, 1 Luis, of the house et Luis . and JLNc..r...r.i., Mr. I RUCKEN, and Mr. BoL - r. On I.Loyn's Books tllere are upwards of twenty vessels from America, with flour and uhe a. arrived at Lisbon. _ _ 13111:an:—No alteration in the price this week: the quartern loaf eighteen pnce.halipenr.7.