Star. — London, England, 1810-12-27 00:00:00

NAVAL .thriurczni. /:' . TORBAY, DECEMBER SS. j r has With a gale from the westward the wliole 7 12 a night and this day. His Majesty's ships dnd o ther vessels in the Bay, have rode. it out ieri e n so far, but are obliged to strike their yards and pasts. Just now arrived his Makatea ship Usi;,l ; I have not learnt where she Ca= from not. h e re she is bound. „ . PLYMOUTH, DECEMBER *S. , ' . Last night it blew a severe gale at S.W. One of letran spOrti which arrived yesterday went on share , oder Mount Batten, and was dashed to pieces. A. ortsmouth sloop also sunk at her moorings off North' o we. Arrived 06 Noctbn packet with mails from : E ta ; also the MEROPB, 16 guns, from the Westi m ike. Sailed the MEDUSA frigate, but put bacl4 gain through the violence of the gale. The light Tans ports I mentioned yesterday, tame from Lisbon) 0 embark artillery and cavalry, for Portugal. They aft Lisbon 12 days since, in company with 16 other ra nsports, under ilinvoy of the ELIZABETH, 74 guns, w hich is gone up channel to Portsmouth, with the re iainder of the transports. PORTSMOUTH, DEC 26. Arrived the GANNET riOiit a Cruise. The:Prince or Wales transport, which was on shore on the Spit,- is :ome into harbour. The Ealing Grove West India. ran was yesterday fun On board by a Portuguese, ard Must come into harboUr. The Miners, SHEP ;mum, broke her windlass yesterday, and is Coining into harbour.—Wind W.N.W. DEAL, DECEMBER *6. . . The ship Sinclair, DARBY, from JathaiCa, , got 6ff, and gone into Ramsgate Pier. Arrived the brig Lancaster, Captain LANCURSE, from Quebec for Cha tham. A ship was:, on shore this morning on the North Saud Headi she was got off by the assistance of a Ramsgate boat, but is full of water.—Wind W. SHEERNESS, DECEMBER ss. • Arrived his Majesty's ships CALLIOPE from the Northward; BILLETE from the Westward, and Mtn- CURTUS from . Heligoland. Went off the slip the STAR usc gii-brig.--"Nesterday we expeiieneed a very j heavy gale from N. W. The Portia, Captain HESS, drove from her anchOrs, but has not received any da mage; stre has taken her station again and is in tafety. The ship, 1-hislaim, from St. Thomas's to Sidon, Captain DANIEL g`FA.RLANE, gbt on shore on Shorburyness Sands, with the loss of her rudder, a cable, and anchor ; she hai since been got off . by tome smacki, replaced hei rudder,* and got a new Cable and anCher, to enable her to proceed to LbEidon's • FROM LLOYD'S LIST: 7 tRAVIEgiro, PILCZAAS E i 86 --Arrived the brattish nutlet, para. frees Cadis.—.Baßektie Cumberland, Wilkinson, for Indfa; Aurora, Fitaitaanievis, for Belfast; Florenso, king, for Boston ; Favouiite, Graliaba,fot Madeira ; and Active, Lauz,laton, for J;utit n. bISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY: The FAIR, for the Mafia Kirstini end Fran MVete, Captured June 19,1810, Was paid the 19th uiaa. and will be . recalled at No. 13, Mines° ;nu. . • . • The Menus*, for h Legere and carp,. captured October 'lO, 1809, for l'Eole, and for the Hope Amerfean brig and cargo detained Augu st 14,1809, will be paid. on beard , and recalle d at No. eines...street, Plymokth-dock. TheLtveit yr; fair the Neptinus, captaire4 May 1809, was paid the 24th inst. and will be retailed at No. 93. 1 Surrey- Street, Strand. • The HAR6E, for the Minerva, captured. April 9,188, was paid in the 21st inst. and will be recalled at No. 23' Norfolk-stet*, Strand, The CAL t - rti laid PERT, for the Catharine, then OctOber 13. and for the Amalia, taken October 17, and the GALATEA and HART, for the schooner John and Joseph, captured October 12, and the CERSERUS and HART . , for the galliot Mary, cap tured October 10, 1807, were paid the 17thinst. at No.l, Ftsb street, Doctor's Commons, and will be there recalled. The Ex r R ass, and BA I.LA non, for the sloop Endeavour. recap tured March 2, !Sol, were paid and will be recalled is above. The Bentali, for the lunge Jah, recaptured April 7, 1810, was paid the 111th inst. and wall be recalled at No. 10; Jobnlstreet, Adelphi. The Patiwais of Watts, for the WhitWett Frost and Haabet, captured April 21 and 26, 1810, was -paid the liStls instant, and will be recalled it No.lB, Clement's-inn. The same, for the Frietle fishing slogger, captured July 18, 1810, was paid and will be recalled as above. She NirMeu, for the Property captured at the Dutch town and fort Of Chinsurall, in the East Indies% in the year 17816 was paid the 20th instant, at No. 29, Norfolk-Street, Strand,. and will be these retailed. On 'Saturday evening - , as Sir W. DRUItiMOND and Lord ABERDEEN* were returning in a post-coach froin Brighton to Sir WILLIAM'S house in Harley-street, a trunk containing two gold stars, an Order of Merit from the King of SICILY, and other articles of value, was cut front behind the carriage. Information was given generally at Marlborough-street Police-office, and Hamilton found the trunk unopened at a trades 'van's house in Oxford-street. It turned out that a t'aief had been seen to cut away the trunk in Oxford street, but three persons who were passing noticed his conduct, he escaped, and the trunk was lodged in the house mentioned. ..... At. Lockerbie, on the night between the 12th and 13th instant, while WILLIAM WHITE, tailor, his wife three children, were in bed, they were alarmed oy an extraordinary noise from the roof of the house, which was thatched, and loaded with divot, &C. In 411 instant ihe wood, which was old and rotten, gave way, and the whole roof and walls fell at one crash,. k.xcept a small piece of the wall, at which the end of he bed stood. It supported the timbers and left a Hole, through which the poor woman, with her infant in her arms, escaped. She alarmed .the neighbours with her cries ' ~vho soon came to her assistance and dug o ut h er husband and one boy. Still there re mained another child.fast asleep in the bed and in im minent danger; but the roof of the bed being of wood , sustained the weight of the rubbish, till the cries of the poor woman awakened the child, who cried out, to the great joy of all present—" I'm just rising, mammy $" but the bed being broken, he was got out, and in a moment the bed was f illed with rabbilibv which Rust hievitably bare smithired him. • AMER/CA . intLYAN3 TikklifOki • . . ORLEANS; Warr pittmAviiee find the rumour of la as it relates to the takilig of the fort at Baum . to be true. young Mr. Grand Pre died t wounds he received a short time after the affair. tieral Thomas commands, aid, we are informed, at the head of the executive, Governor Lassus is dose confinement. The greatest part of niards mide.their escape, and numbers of them arrived in this city. At first there was danger prehended from the people of the Amite and Comite, but *heiathe mail passed every thing was . and active . preparations were making for defence.— The Coriirention, under whose orders General mas has acted, and continues to act, are determined on supporting their independence. OCT. 5.--. At the moment our Paper was press, we receiied information that General marched with • 400 men, as mounted infantry, Tuesday evening lait, frorn Baton RoUge, district of St. Helena, to establish order, and all ihose who will not suliiiribe to the powers Cinvention. We hope that Mr. Brown, mandant of that district, and General Thomas, accommodate their disputes without bloodshed, form :one bad of Gower:went, which is infinitely i. than the anarchy with which they are threatened. We are informed by a Gentleman in this city, of respectability, that the people of Springfield, a town building at Bookter's Landing, in West Florida, have erected a fort, and named it Ferdinand, for their King, and that they are determined to oppose General Thomas, and all the acts of the Convention. Our in formant adds, that they have ordered drums, fifes, powder, lead, kc. to be purchased and sent to them. Oar. 11.—Ve are informed, and we ptesume cor rectly, that General Thomas took poitession of the diitrict of St. Helena on Thursday last, without op position—that the inhabitants, who were employed in erecting a fort at Bookter's Landing, abandoned it and joined the General': standard. It was reported on Fri day morning, our informant adds, that General Tho mas was preparing to march for Mobile. OCT. 10.—The Convention adjourned to the first Monday of November, leaving at 13aton Rouge Messrs. Johnson, Leonard, and Hawes, as a Committee of Public Safety, and to draft a constitution similar to that of the Uiiited States. The Convention resolved to send a Minister to the United States after the adop tion of a Constitution. A standing force of 104 men was enlisted to garrison Baton Rouge, under Captain Ballenger. The militia had returned home. The tax on the slaves of emigrants to , 4 the Commonwealth of West Florida" is abolished. It was expected the State Prisoners would shortly be liberated. • . , To-day Souk! troops and the magistracy went out to meet him. Notwithstanding the contribution which was lately imposed has not yet been wholly rekeived, he has im posed a fresh one of eight millions: Seloastiani, whO Marched against Marbtlla, has been obliged to fall back. The disposition of the people of Seville is always the same. The proximity of the Spanish parties, who have penetrated neatly tai Cruz del Campo and Vinta de la Catos ; the want of couriers from Madrid, none of whom have arrivei since the 21st ult. ; the intelligence from Portugal ; ' the march of the French partizans, and other indica tions of fear and dejection on the French, augment the hopes that the loyal inhabitants of Seville have always pursued of bettering their condition. VALENZA DE ALCANTARA, DECEMBER 1. They write from La Mancha, under the date of the 21st nit. that the French General Boni, while at a ball given at Hinojosa, on the night of the 18th, received a courier at three o'clock in the morning, and at four was upon his march for Cordova, with all the troops under his command, with the exception of a garrison which was left in Belalcazar. The cause of this movement is unknown ; but it is generally attributed to some bad success which the enemy has ' sustained. We have no intelligence from Spain, except the above article, with which the public papers have fur nished us. It appears, however, according to some private accounts, that there had been a battle in Cata lonia, from which important advantages would result to the brave Catalonians. The French were in the greatest difficulty, and were on the eve of receiving a decisive blow, which has perhaps ere now given independence to that province. This event will doubt less have an important influence on the militAry ope , rations of the neighbouring provinces of the Peninsula. SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. MADRID, NOVEMBER 2. On the 31st ult. we received intelligence that an advanced guard from this city was destroyed on the road between Puerto de Heviro and the Pardo Ac cording .to letters received from the kingdom of Gre nada, on the 19th October, passed through Antequers, 150 English. made prisoners on the coast of Ma la g a by the French, who paid very dear for the advantage, by the number of men they lost in obtaining it. The French spread reports of new projects of Na poleon, with regard to the fate of Spain and the Royal family. Sensible persons hear them with contempt, and view them as artifices to lull the Spanish nation. The French officers spread and support them, because they hope by these means to be*able to finish the war in Spain, which they carry on with the utmost repugnance and even with horror. They write from Castile,' that in the hospitals of Salamanca, there are more than 4000 French sick, of whom 60 die per day ; that at Valladolid, sick and wounded of the same nation continually arrive, the daily mortality among which is from '25 to 30. They mention likewise, the great inconvenience the party of D. Thomas Principle, that is in the vicinity of this last-mentioned city, causes the enemy. On the 3d instant, set out for France, the French convoy of which so much has been said, It departed by various gates, but united on the road of the Pardo. There go with it 300 Spanish, Portuguese, and Eng lish prisoners ; 5V waggons of mutilated and invalided French, other waggons with wool, pictures, select sna nuscripts,and other precious effects, and many French people of both sexes. The escort consisted of 1500 infantry. The following day many waggons and people left this place to join the caravans. There have arrived from France, 17 waggons laden with clothing and other effects, in charge of 200 soldiers. The Minitteis of Joseph are extremely pleased with the intelligence, that Napoleon has called to France, Kellerman, the Governor of St. Andero, and others ; and say that Joseph is named Generalissimo of the French troops in Spain, and Belltard, his Major-Ge neral. But at the same time, they are disgusted by Aranza having been arrested at Paris by order of Bo naparte (this is positively asserted), who has likewis.• ordered Urquijo to appear there. The reason appears to be the publication made by the Spanish Govern ment, from various intercepted letters ; to which is added, other charges relative to the managing and employing of the public purse. The point which extremely pains Bonaparte, is the seeing himself obliged to send as much money to Spain, as he formerly drew from it, and much more than he can again reckon upon obtaining from it. NOVEMBER 9.—ln the night between the Atli and 7th instant, marched out, by the road of Leganos, from 3 to 400 infantry, and 200 horse, with some ar tillery. On the following day some more troops set out ; some accounts say to join the first, others to m irch to Aranjeuz. On the 4th instant, official intelligence arrived of a disembarkation having been made by Spanish and English troops on the coast of Cantabria • this in has caused great inquietude to the French and their friends. The Courier from Andalusia, who arrived on the 6th, brought no letters from the king- THE CORTES.—SITTING OF NOVEMBER is. Senor PEREZ DE CASTRO, addressing the Corte., spoke in substance as follows:— ,, I have long felt a desire to propose to the Cortes a resolution, thsorlop tion of which appears to me very proper, because it is very just; 'but the important affairs which have occupied your Majesty since your installation, and the multitude of occurrences, if not so importint in themselves, yet at least all springing from the wish to advance in the grand career of the salvation of the , qountry, have hitherto prevented me in spite of my self. In the mean time, I have been able to obeerve, with much satisfaction, on repeated occasions, that the opinion of many Deputies of the Cortes, as ap peared from their speeches, was in accordance with my own ideas; therefore, I submit them to your Ma jesty, in the well-founded confidence that they will merit your high approbation. I mean to speak of the profound gratitude which the Spanish nation feels for England, its generous ally. The whole world knows how much we are indebted to her illustrious Sovereign, as great in his sentiments towards the Spa niards, as determined in his purpose to protect her sacred cause. There is not a patriot, who, so to I speak, does not feel his sensibility excited when con. templating the abundant supplies of troops, arms, ships and money, which the generous British nation has freely bestowed on Spain from the moment at which it beheld our heroic resolution. Donations, praises, enthusiasm, all have been lavished by the English people on their ally ; and posterity, painting in majestic colours the heroism, the constancy, and fi delity of Spain, will place in the same picture the un bounded generosity and truly inimitable exertions of Great Britain in our behalf. England knows our gratitude, the *hole world knows it.; it is engraven on our hearts ; our past governments have repeated it on every occasion that offered ; but it is just, it is necessary, that the whOle nation, that is, the Cortes, i who represent it in the fullest manner, should solemnly manifest it, by voting an eternal monument of natio nal gratitude to the worthy head of that great nation. —Thus shall we perform a sacred duty ; thus shall we give a public proof of one of those virtues, which greatly characterize the noble people whom we repre sent, I mean gratitude. Let us declare at the same time, that we will never lay down our arms till we have seen secured our independence, the integrity of our territory in both hemispheres without dismember. ment, and our lawful King free. Let us run the painful but heroic and glorious course of our holy war, always in good understanding with, always uni ted to the great nation, which aids us so generously ; and may that union be as eternal, as the ties are sa ' cred and sincere which bind us to our ally, by the last treaty of the 14th January, 1809. My wish is, that since such are the vows of the whole nation, its repre sentatiies also may sanction them. If the Certesthink St to adopt my ideas, I beg permission to read the heads of a decree, conformable to what I have sug ,, , ssfq . Regency communicated to the King of Great Britain in the most solemn manner ; and will at the same tiniete an account to the Cortes of the plan which 'lt'• adopt for erecting a public monument, with the exe cution of which it is entrusted. The Council of Regency shall be made acquainteill with this Decree, to take the necessary means fbe ise accomplishment, and thatit Se printed, publish* 44 circulated. (Signed) si Locum Deg. Mort4s, . . Ptealigne. M&auAt. Lax.se, and I Secreta its.. EVARISTO PIERO/NI CASTRO, Royal tae fiLeoe, November it, ISM( . .'r We cannot do less that: call to the aktensina down readers the following circumstance, worthy of the Sr tendon and admiration of all who have the binder ea call themselves Spaniards, and even of all presenting' future generations, to whoa it may serve as a soodeL Every body knows that there are, in the Cortes/ Deputies who are reduced to such necessity, that thef would often want their necessary food, if it were not for the kindness of some ftiend : cases have even hapb pened in which they had not wherewith to bey a candle to give themselves light: examples, perhaps, nestana• pled in history, and which words are wanting WIMP press as they deserve, particularly when it is c that they are individuals at .whose disposal this nation has placed all its means and resoureer —that they are occupied night and day in the great work of the liberty and happiness of our native country. Although we abstain from giving the names of snap individuals, lest we should hurt their delicacy, yet it would not be difficult to prove that such must be' the natural consequence of their situation. For these being many deputies from provinces occupied by the enemy, who cannot pay them their stipends, and eithei depending for support ot% their professions, which they cannot exercise by belonging to the Cortes, or upon prebends which they do not enjoy, or upon estate!. which are trod upon by the sacrllegious feet of these Vandals, it follows that such must necessarily want the means of subsistence. But if it is evident that this heroic trisodention*ancl disinterestedness redound to the glary of the nation as well as of the Cortes, it is not less so that the honour and the interest of the former demand that the father; of the'country should not remain a single moment as such a situation. LISBON. DECEMBER !. We haie no political news of importance to cells- Municate ; Massena has withdrawn part of his troops from Santarem, and they have taken the road to Lein. It is supposed to be a manoeuvre to draw Gen. Mrs division to this side of the Tagus, that he may be able to push a force to the other side withodt opposition; Lord Wellington and General Beresford were at Almada a few days ago, respecting the fortifications erecting there, which evinces appithensions of an at tack in that quarter. It is certainly our most valuable point. ANOTHER LETTER, SAME DATE. Lord Wellington and Sir W. C. Beresford were on the other side of the water on the 6th instant, plan ning new fortifications. It is understood that works are to be thrown up from Palema Castle to the Ta gus, and the country intersected by a kind of'ravibe or canal, so as, that should the enemy think fit to make an irruption into the province of Alenteije, they might be prevented entering Estreniadura, and mo. lesting either Lisbon or the entrance of the harbodr. To effect this, after the works are thrown np, there will be no necessity for keeping any large force on the other side, as should the enemy endeavour to cross, with the facilities we have of plenty of boats, long before they could do any thing, we could transport any body of troops over ; besides which, from our navy, consisting now of 11. line of battle ships, fri gates, &c. we could land in a short time a very respec table number of marines, supported, if necessary, by as many as eight or ten thousand seamen from the transports and men of war, which would be as good as troops to man the works. Decrosslut 10.—The following Edict has been publicly affixed here : Jose Lniz Marqles, Captain Commazidant of the Ordenanzas of Alemquer and its territory, in the absence of the Sargento Mpr. 44 I hereby make known to all the Ordenanzas of the said district, in whatsoever part they may be stationed, as also to the superior and inferior Officers, that, in consequence of the orders which I have re. ceived, by the authority of the Prince Regent, that the Ordenanzas shall proceed to the south of the Tagus, and there execute the orders which have been issued ; for which purpose, on the part of the Prince I require all the ab0vn.n.....:-_ • to , dom of Grenada. It is - supposed that the Patriots gested. • Regent, _ .--inioned persons . have latterly intercepted, in that side of Andugar, The motion vras arproved of by acclamation. The assemble at my quarters, at St. Isabel, within the pe, four couriers going or coming.der the pain of being imprisoned, and, as soon as decree was then read, which was also carried by at- riod of four days, reckoning from the date hereof, un- A few days ago entered this per• proceeding ken clamadon, without the alteration of a single word.— Malaga, a bark *rata with one 24-pounder, and two Joy was depicted in tha'nonntenanqlnof all dast ars- ;dowsed, pun i s h.d as rebels. (Signed) 8-pMeilers, ea SCI men, commanded by D. Gabriel teWeeilind the gra!kwierlilehallfielkir beleoleitaa Nor. 90. “ JOSS Lola MAILQUIL" ;*: . ,, Afts ofto dioduijap• 1 .is i ift.s44%. • . • ...- ~ . ' „ a . . ---- ai I ite imieil ii atigiii • aisiiayea i); the iiiii iiiiiiiai orprar. ion ca wham . . ma , ,pii in .Sfailists, and thot!ght they had subdteed,.VVltted N aP • .•- .. ' I ••'..V..MtXr- the kistimand of t hi bark, which he hiitiffht,'the DHOW. =aunt he was able, to restore to his ccithilry. WT. a: , - • The Geheral iini Extraord m a afi lt Ciortes, . penetra • fiEVELLi s ~ 2404. if. With the most lively and siatere matitude tow:yds : . Lilt ireek,' , •-. the King of the United King pf Britain ` :net . . c rn Itarage,: , ,The ntorments of the French troops are cent:not, Ireland, Graeae HI, for the generous interest which ed of the at in all directions. The garrison of this city does he has displayed, and for the abtuidant aids which flair. Ge-, mit : actually amount to 2000 men. On the 12th _en be has uninterruptedly afforded to the Spaniskra- formed, ii embargo was laid upon all the cocoa and sugar in thil n on, by granting it arms, money, troops, aid dips; ssus being place, and a great requisition of horses has been from the first moment when the Provinces raised 4h6 f the Spa- made, for what purpose we are not acquainted. On voice of independence, and of fidelity. to their )444 hem have the lbth, a large mortar was shipped for San Lucas . , ' Sovereign FgatnN AND VII: vilely betrtyed„ tramiled ranger ap- and on the frame day the whole of the brigades, with upon and oppressed by the usurper of the throng of Id Comite, their eotreiponding baggage, marched for Carniona. France, Napoleon Bonaparte ; decriie, that $ public , i tranquil, —The troops advanced from Las Puerto: have also monument :hail be erected tn Ctoaos 111. in tes- defence.— taken the same direction. From this latter place many tim o ny of the national gratitude .wb e ich the Spanish neral Tho- carts yesterday arrived, laden with smith's forge: and nation feels for a Sovezeign so august and generous, determined other effects. One hundred and eighty horse, whkh as well as for the invincible ' English nation, who garrisoned Osuna and Ecija, have passed to Estee- have taken so great an interest in the glorious defence 1s i g not i n t a o fhadura to reinforce General Gerrard. l o f t h e S pan i s h nation. The tou es sittriaghet u the it :1 The French division of. Grenada is reduced to 6400 s ame time, that the Spanish' nation win,,e3- JAY ifantry, on infantry, and 600 wretched horse. When it entered down their arms till they . have Secured their mdeisen- g e, for the I the province, it was composed of 8500 toot, and dance, the absolute integrity of the monarchy ifOoth ' and confine i 1500 cavalry, subsequently to which it has been re- hemispheres, without the smallest distnentistireapnea ,veers of the - , inforced by 2100 of the foot, and 150 of the latter.— an d restore d to t h e i r Ki ng FICADINAiD YA.47121 , the com-ILatterly they have spread themselves in Grenada , acting in accordance, and with the most perfec 10M1S, will Santate, Churriani and Mora ; part of them are occu- w i t h t h e Ki ng o f Gr eat B r i ta i n , i n conformity tq the i dshed, and `pied in the Alpujarras against an Akade who has strict amity, and perfect and indissoluble allianee i , *. litely better killed many of their men. stipulated in th e treaty of the 14th January 1809 r-V eatened. w 1 To-day Soultlentered this city from Xeres. The i The Council of Regency will Cause this Decree to be _ . •