Star. — London, England, 1814-01-05 00:00:00

BULLSTIN OF TEL CROWN PRINCL. HEAD QUARTERS, KIEL, DEC: Et. u General Benkendorf has made himself magerlf . Gertoydenberg t General Loranzay who comma-, ded there, is to return to France with his garrison, on condition of not serving against the Allies for one year. The fortress of Williamstadt was evacuated w ith so much precipitation, that the enemy aban doned twenty gun boats that were there. - $1 In all the towns of Holland that have hien re stored to freedom, Burgher-guards are forming. Gluckstadt is surrounded. If the place be not surrendered by the first frog it will be stormed. The garrison had established near the village of Ivensloth, in a very advantageous position, a battery of four I 3. pounders, with 200 infantry to serve it A battalioq of the brigade of General de BOye made Weil master of the battery, pursued the enemy . under the ,grape shot fire of the fortress, and made many prisoners. All the preparations bad been made to attack the fortress of Frederiesort : the troops of the second brigade under General Baron de Posse, were at 300 paccs from the wall. After a very sharp fire which lasted a day and night, and which our soldiers sus tained with true northern sangfroid, the Commandant capitulated on the 19th. We found in the place 101 p i ece s of cannon, moth ammunition, including four er five hundred OM* of powder. The garrison ate prisoners of war." THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. - WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1814. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Reduced62f 63 —Cons. for see. 644-1-4 per Ct. 78f1 J-w Omn. )3I —F.zehequer Bills 4s. Ss. pre. Long 41111334 IS S.l6ths.—Bonds par Is. dis. The report of yesterday, that accounts had been received from France stating a rise in the French Funds, was in the course of the day converted into an arrival of Paris Palters, announcing that fact.— This was asserted with so much confidence as to re ceive very general credit, and our own Finids . thereby experienced a rise. The rumour is now ascribed to Stock jobbing efforts, many speculators having large balances to settle in consequence of the recent sudden rise and subsequent fall of the Frinds. At a late hour last night a Mail from Passages arrived, with accounts from the Army to the 28th.— They state the important fact of the removal of thy. Bead-quarters of the Allied' Armies from St. Jean de Luz to Ustaritz, which is considerably-in advance towards Bayonne, or rather towards Dax, the place which SOOLT has selected for a temporstri4s7irms.--. Bayonne will, no doubt, be blockaded by the Spa. Wards, who so successfully reduced Pamplona, while the main body, under the Marquess WELLINGTON, will move forward upon SOULT. It has not been his Lordship's usual policy to give any breathing-time to the enemy after a victory ; and we can see no reason whatever to suppose, that any of those absurd and ante-British principles enter into his Lordship's cha racter, which we hear daily echoed at home respect ing the Invasion of France. Paradoxical as it may appear to certain wiseacres, we can assure our Rea ders, that Lord WELUNOTON and his gallant At my have never, since they crossed the Pyrennees, found them :elves in an enemy's country, and we refer to the Private Letters of our own numerous Correspondents, now with the army, for proofs. One of our military friends, it will be recollected, stated, that 5000 of SOULT 9 S conscripts decamped in one night, and another informed us, that the British soldiers found themselves as much at home in the French towns and villages, as the Guards at West minster. But we have still another most convincing proof of the dispositions of the inhabitants towards their deliverers from the most inexorable tyranny which ever scourged mankiad. Its one of Me recent ac :i,,nrin the vicinity of the 4i.str, the British Regiments, svien charging the & f ood French esleliert thowgh a lase were retwatestly cheered by Me lahahitaatz! and, we have reason to believe that it was part of the object of the Count de GRAIMONT'S visit td this country, to make these and , similar representations• to the British Government. All the doubts respect' a* doe determination of the Allies to persevere in this II interminable , war," as the Peace faction tall it, are now, happily for man kind, dissipated by the arrival of intelligence that the Allies, to the number of one hundred and fifty thou. :and, have crossed the Rhine ! They entered 'France cn the 20th ultimo. ,We communicate this intelli- trice with the most heartfelt satisfaction—we hail it .►s the harbinger of that " secure And honourable Peace," and of that , s long repose," fot'which all the Statesmen and warriors of Europe have been contend ing for at least twenty years. We shall now see of what stuff the resources of BONAPARTZ and hiz banditti are composed—We. shall now learn, whether the French nation ate in earnest in the g , new sacrifices" which they are represented to have offered at the Shrine of ;his exterminating Idol. We shall shortly witness the reality or emptiness of those phantoms which the Peace faction, alias the in glorious admirers of the Corsican Dynasty, have ex hibited during the holidays, to . frighten our women and children. '4O. POrdL POMP, ABAYOIIi CATTLE.. His Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT arrived at the splendid mansion of his Grace the Duke of RUTLAND, Belvoir Castle, at four o'clock on Sunday, under a salute of twenty-one guns, planted on the walls of the mansion. His Royal Highness the Duke of YORK, who left London at four in the morning, arrived in half an hour after his Royal Brother, ac companied by the Hen. B. CotAvEor. An immense number of people had assembled at Grantham to con gratulate the Illustrious Personages on their visit to cthe North ; but their Royal Highnesses went the nearer road to the Castle, by Denton, where from two to three hundred horsemen, compoFed of the Gentry and Yeomanry of the county, had assembled to wel come the PRINCE REGENT to Belvoir. On the arrival of the Prince, the air was rent with a general burst of loyal•enthusiam. Many females, wives and daugh ters nt the tenantry of the House of RUTLAND, well mounted, 11n1sed in the cavalcade, and the whole dashed on at the rate of twelves miles an hour : many were unable to keep pace with the Regent's carriage. As the Illustrious Visitor alighted from his carriage, he was received by the Noble H os t o f t h e C as tl e , who presented him with the keys thereof, and at the same time a Royal salute of twenty-one guns was fired, which, together with the cheerings and huzzas of the company assembled, had a most inspiring effect.— His Royal Highness the Duke of YORK was re ceived with the like testimonials of respect. At eight in the evening another salute of twenty-one guns was fired in honour of the illustrious visitors. Monday the Royal Party, accompanied by the nobility pre sent, have inspected the castle and domains, which are equal in beauty to any in the world, and they expressed their high satisfaction at the treat.— Mr. CHAPLIN, the County Member, and Mr. BEL GRAVE, Deputy Mayor, with part of the Coporation of Stamford, presented a a congratulatory address to the PRINCE REGENT at Cottesmere, which his Royal Highness received with I.is usual dignity and affable deportment, and was pleased to return a gracious an swer. His Royal Highness spentame day at Apthorpe, and from Thursday till Sunday he remained at the Earl of LOXSDALE'S atCottesmere. There were at his Lordship's the Marquis of EXETER, Lords WINCHIL SEA and WESTMORELAND, Viscount LOWTIIER, Lord ROBERT MANNERS, Sir GER A R D N O EL, General GROS VENOR, Mr. CROKER, BCC. The PRINCR rode OM every day, and was in excellent health and spirits. Mr. CO:rum; arrived at Liverpool on Friday last, on a visit to Mr. GLADSTONE, of that town. In the evening he attended the annual Ball for the benefit of the Ladies' Charity. Thursday last the Marqnis of WORCESTER was una nimously chosen a Member of Parliament for the Borough of Monmouth, in the room of Lord Cu ARLES SOMERSET, appointed Governor and Commander-in- Chief at the Cape of Good .Hope. Captain Sir P. B. V. BROKE, Commander of the SHANNON, who captured the Chesapeake American frigate, attendel Earl Met.v.mut's Levee this morn ing at the - Admiralty, and was most courteously re ceived by his Lordship, and every Naval Officer. The Gazette of last night contains a dispatch from Sir G. PREVOST, dated La Chine, Nov. 15, detailing the splendid achievement at Christler's Farm, with Which the public were already acquainted, through the medium of the Quebec Papers.—lt also contains a dispatch from Colonel MonttisoN, who commanded the small, but heroic band, which defeated the Ame- ricans. By a letter received in town, from an Officer of General GRAHAM'S Staff, it appears the General left Williamstadt on the 17th ult. in further advince into the interior. About eight hundred men of the Regiments of Nassau and Frankfort, have already arrived at Ply mouth from Passage, and will sail immediately to the Eastward, to join convoy for Holland. PHILIPPART'II NORTHERN CAMPAIGNS.—Those per sons who may wish to see a splendid Edition of this work, which has been prepared for the Emperor ALEXANDER, may gratify their curiosity by calling at the shop of the publishers, LARISEE. MARTIN and Co. of Oxford-street. - , . In the alarming fire which consumed a large part of the York Lunatic Asylum, it is said, that tour of the unhappy patients perished: the remains of three having been found in the ruins. Of the two escaped one has since been taken. The lunatics during the unhappy scene manifested the most frantic joy ; and some of them endeavoured to return to the flames. On the 25th ult. as Mr. SAMUELENGLISH, of Burgh, Cumberland, was in the fields with a gun, the piece burst, and the breech with part of the stock penetrat ed his forehead, the whole frontal bone of which was nearly destroyed. Notwithstanding his dreadful , situ ation, he had the strength and resolution to extricate the breech of the piece, and to walk about a mile to his home ; when medical assistance was procured; and, though a large portion of the brain was extract ed, he is to recover ! PRIVATE LETTER FROM THE RooscroT.---- 46 Admi.. ral YOUNG has nearly 20 sail of the line, besides fri gates, with him in the Roompot. The British troops have invested the Fort of Rana, which is expected to surrender immediately, and then they will proceed against tort Lillo. Commodore OWEN has gone up the River above sixteen miles With . about 4)0 ma rines, to assist in the reduction of Battz. The French are pouring fresh troops into Waleheren every day, and are very active in fortifying the Island all round. Some of our troops have intercepted a letter from the Commandant at Flushing, to the General at Antwerp, in which he says, if they do not speedily send him a sufficient number of troops, it will be impossible for him to keep the inhabitants quiet, and expresses the greatest apprehensions lest the British should affect landing. They seem to think we may take all the Wand except Flushing, which they consider as im pregnable. The French bare landed all their guns out of four of their frigates, to fortify the places most liable to be attacked. All provisions are remarkabl. cheap. Bread, six loaves tif white flour • and nearl y as large as our half-ctartern, cost only lOd.—Ducks, Is. a couple—Pigeons, 2s. per dozen., Apples, ss. per sack—Hollands, 16s. a tub, containing Sour gallons— Claret, l s. 3d. per bottle—Rabbits, five for a shilling 'and every thing else in proportion, except tea, coffee, and sugar, which are very dear;, common moist su gar, 2s. Osi ; coffee, ss. and 6s. and indifferent ; tea, 17s.a t 1 t As. per lb."' • -- Afitrtil t INTEL,LHANOL - - • .. • • • • 41,‘ 140 , • • AIM Dn a milt. ME. Duttllti . . Hellsofan i d • 1 b Waterford . I 2 Gottenburgis • 0 4 Pawage I 0 Guernsey o I Leeward Islands 0 0 Jersey • 0 1 TORBAY, JANUARY S. Passed the Start on Saturday, at four o'clock, ft. *. the East-India Fleet, under convny of his Majesty's ship MEDWAY, &c. for India.—Wi,,d at East. FALMOUTH, JANUARY a. Arrived the Duke of Marlborough packet, with a Mail from, Passages, in five days : she saw, off the Lizard, a convoy of fifteen sail of transports, under a frigate,. standing to the Southward ; and, off the Manacles saw a convoy of large ships, supposed to be Indiamen, standing to the Westward.--Wind - West, and light breezes. PLYMOUTH, JANUARY S. Arrived four French chasse marees, with cargoes, consisting of brandy, wine, and salt, bound coastwise, captured a few days since by the MADAGASCAR' fri gate. Arrived this day the WARSPITE man of war, from the squadron off Brest ; the Providence, HAM' from Falmouth; and the John, CoTroo, from South ampton. Arrived the RESIsTANC2 frigate, Captain Pauxw, from the Mediterranean, and has been pot under quarantine.—Sailed the EGMONT man of war, to join the Channel Fleet.—Wind S.E. PORTSMOUTH, JANUARY 4. A very heavy snow storm, which has continued the whole day without intermission, prevents the pos. sibility of ascertaining the particulars of several arri. yak, though it is believed they are unimportant. Sailed his Majesty's ship INVINCIBLE, of 74 guns, Captain ADAM, for Plymouth, to be docked. The REDWING sloop of war and the transport Ethel red were this day released from quarantine. Gene ral H. OAKES is on board the latter, and will diem_ bark to-morrow morning, should the weather permit. : The gallant General, after a short sojourn in Town, is expected to commence his Lieutenant-Governorship of this garrison. DEAL, JANUARY 4. Came down from the River the Venus for Rio Ja neiro, Mentor for Pernambuco, and the Aquilber for Havannah, and sailed with the whole of the outward. bound merchantmen and transports, under convoy of the GRIFFON and VIPER cutters.—Wind N.E. LIVERPOOL, JANUARY 3. The Nimble, CUM) ) and the Cornwall, MsDounAt., for this port, with seven others of the Leeward Island fleet, parted three weeks ay. with a sloop of war.— An American privateer was off Colonsa 25th Dec. HARWICH, JANUARY 4. Arrived the Frederick, PATERSON, from Stettin, in ballast, bound to Liverpool ; and the Lord Duncan, Captain HAMILTON, from Bremerlehe. The Auck land, Captain Batuato with the Malts for Holland of the 31st ult. did not sail till this morning, and has since put t.ack from contrary winds.--Wind N.E. THE ARMY. Two squadrons of the Queen's Bays, and one squadron of the Scotch Greys, marched through Towii this morning, for Ramsgate, to embark for Holland. Captain DRUMMOND, of the 72d regiment, has been appointed Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Fosses, commanding the garrison of Cork. LAUNCELOT JAMES KIGGELL, Esq. is appointed First Lieutenant in the Glyn cavalry, vice Griffin, resigned. Captain T. G. CooTx, of the 24th regiment, is pointed permanently on the recruiting service in the Limerick District, and to be stationed in Limerick, vice Captain JOHN Nowa, of the 24th, ordered to join his regiment in France. Lieutenant Poarxtt, of .the 86th regiment, ltas: succeeded Lieutenant HonosoN, of said regiment, and, is stationed at Newcastle, county of Limerick. Lieutenant-General the Honourable MONTAGU' MATHEW'S Regiment, the 99th, or Prince of Wales's Tipperary, one of the first corps in the service, having lately received an augmentation, it will, in all probability, offer a fair opportunity tp Lieutenants' of the British and Irish Militia to exert themselves,i Lind raise men, in order to obtain the preference for s the vacancies. The 99th is a Regiment of only one "'Battalion, and is stationed in North America. The English Militia regiments, in Dublin, have given to the Line, as follows, up to Wednesday Last, viz. Gloucester, to the Waggon Train, Guards, 54t.1, and 56th 252 Somerset, to the Guards, sd, and 9th . 221 Lancashire, to the Guards, and 15th regiment 82-555 Thursday the above volunteers, with 220 from the Berks, quartered at Galway, embarked at Dublin, for Liverpool. The Berkshire generally entered for the 14th. Thursday the first division of the Wicklow militia marched from Clonmel for Bin—the second division marched on Monday. The King's County militia succeeds the Wicklot in the garrison of Clonmel. Sunday the transports with the Derby Militia sailed 'from Ramsgate for Ireland. The Royal East Middlesex regiment have march ed from Newry to Belfast. 4 ' f Thursday the first division of the 16th regiment of imp s Commanded by Major THOMAS, marched into Clonmel from Fermoy, on their way to Kilkenny. Wedoesdaby the 12th battalion of Yeomen infantry,. in the County of Antrim, consisting of the Lisbtirrl, Derryaghy, And Poleglass Corps, and also the Lis burn cavalry, have unanimously volunteered their services t to any part of the Kingdom, when required. By the first-convoy that sails for, the West Indies,! will proceed all the detachments at 'the Depots in the Isle of Wight, at Hilsea, and at Lraingtou t for Ja maica and the Leeward Islands. . - twat/10000 _ RkTRACT OP A LETTER PROM A CAPTAIN SERVING will/ THE Is? REGIMENT Or CA9ADoREs, WHO IS ALSO A CAPTAIN IN lift BRITISH SRRVICE t TO HIS FATHER IN LONDON. " Half s tope from Thiamine, December 21. " I am once more, my dear Father, enabled to address you from the field of battle, having escaped with a whole skin, after tour days successive fighting, attended with the most extreme fatigue, not having had time nor opportunity to change any part of my clothes, from the morning of the 9th until last night s Ey servants and baggage having been in the rear. I only received a slight contus;on, from a spent ball s in the hand, which I considered too trigng to report— unwilling also that you, and my other friends, shotild see my name among the wounded. " My letter of the Bth, dated from Arcaroe'll haire Informed you, that the pontoons had been ordered to the right, as it was understood that the right wing; under the gallant Sir ROWLAND ast,, was to make a forward movement on the 9th, by crossing the river /fire, and that this operation would be favoured by axeneral movement of the line. The enemy mai. iisitd a strong position in front of Bayonne, their right resting on the sea. The Combined Army in their front, with their left resting on St Jean de Luz. The enemy's lines, on which they incessantly laboured, were very strong. it was supposed, that the object of the general attack on the 9th was, in the first place, to them the lett, under Sir Jour Hnrz, on the heights occupied by the enemy's right, and to extend and advance the right, under Sir RowLAND HILL, to wards the high road from Bayonne to Boordeani, which movement, by reference to the Map, you will perceive, would have had the Sect of completely in vesting Bayonne. This, hOarever, was conjecture for the plans of Lord Vizuanoroi are so difficult to divine, that it is almost idle to hazard an opinion. 44 The Light, Ist, and sth divisions advanced under Sir Joust Hors, and drove the enemy succes sively from position to position until he crossed the river Adour into the town of Bayonne ; the left wing then took a position about a mile in front of the town, where we expected to bivouac for the night ; but we were ordered to countermarch, and the wing reached the cantonments we occupied the nighebefore at nine 'o'clock. I ;had fortunately a picket guard, which prevente4 my going •to bed, for the enemy took ad vantage of the Sight to sneak forth from his intrencli ments in the hope of surprising us, and my picket was attacked before day by a strong party of the enemy's skirmishers. o Although on the alert, 'I was °Wird to give way ,to superior numbers, and I fell back on Col. Mem, .52d regiment, who commended the advanced guard, a most gallant and intelligent Officer, and we made -*gallant stand until our ammunition was expended ; ire then retired to our position in good order. Colo nel Mons and Captain DOUGLAS, 52d, were wounded early in the business, consequently the command de volved on me as senior Captain, a Portuguese Cap.. lain who had been senior to me haring run away aithen the enemy advanced, and for the succeeding days I had the good fortune to conduct the battalion bounanner that obtained for roe the daily expression of my commanding Officer's approbation, who assur ed me that he has made' the most favourable reports if. my conduct to Marshal Benassonn. He is a noble•minded fellow, Wave as a lion ; the same Offs- Cer Lord WNLLINGToIea dispatches made such hand• some mention of, when commandin& the lath Portu guese Regiment at the siege of St. bebastian. 44 On the 10th the enemy fought with great impe - •sity and obstinacy in endeavouring to take tw6 batteries defended by the Ist and sth divisions. They turned at different times to the charge, but they 4 irere always repulsed with the bayonet with great loss. On the 11th the enemy renewed the attack, deter mined to gain the position •' mite *coute," but his efforts were equally fruitless and unsuccessful as before. Again, on the 12th, he attacked, but with more caution, and finding his efforts unavailing, retired into Bayonne ; and, on the morning of the ISth he made a movement on his left, to attack the right under Sir RowLAND; but that vigilant and •intelligent Officer, ever on the alert, received him in a manner that made him pity dear for hie temerity, having left, as I ancinformed, 1600 dead °tithe field, and 8000 wounded, besides numerous prisoners. The prisoners report, that they got no rations for four days previous to the 10th, and that they were told they must seek them in the English camp. The Re giments of Nassau and of Frankfort came over to us on the night of the 10th,' with all their equipments, and they have been embarked at Passages for Hol land, at their own request. " The Portuguese in the 2d division behaved ad mirably. Our battalion suffered severely in men and officers ; we had but one Lieutenant killed ; but Co lonel SNoDGRAsa, who succeeded Ar.oro, a Major, a Captain, and the Adjutant, were wounded. I am astonished how I have escaped even a wound, when I reflect on the numerous conflicts in which I have been engaged, from the battle of Vimiera to that of Bayonne, on the 12th of this month. - Thusiar I have been f,rtunate. '146. • 44 I have great pleasure In informing ran, that the important intelligence of SoULT'a departure from Bayonne, with the principal part of his army, has been just announced to this division ; be is marching on Dax, a small town on ele great road to Bour deaux, distant about thirty miles from Bayonne.— Conjecture, ever busy, will have it that our great Commanderwill mask Bayonne, and pursue the flying enemy ; while others imagine tliat the siege of Bay onne will be the first operation ; 'certain it is, that the battering cannon are ordered up, which favours the latter opinion." • Thirty persons have been buried in the parish of Ands:wet, during the last year, whose united ages amounted to 2109. The parish clerk of Andover (who is in his seventy-fifth year) has held that office half a century. William Patten, late of Whitechapel, hosier and col lector of the assessed taxes, was on Thursday hitt committed, under a warrant of the Commissioners of the district, to his Majesty's gaol of Newgate, for fraudulent misapplication of near £lBOO of the pub. lie money. 3 _IL .. ._ ii: e tat 9lNlN IVIIIAKIL - i,IVIARicLANI, JANUAIIf 5, •r, lit* an fresh Wheat appeared at this morns 's market ready Ms at Monday's prices. We bail a few arrivals of IWO front Suffolk, which void freely, and fully Ina/mains its Odom In Pdas, Scabs, and odor anklet there is ho atteratioa.