Star. — London, England, 1814-03-31 00:00:00

- • aiicw that any Member has a right to lay an impeada. :neat upon the table without any notice, but the House has never, I apprehend, proceeded to InVesti gate the accusation immediately and without deli berAtion. Sir JOHN NEWPORT contended, that the *hole object of the other side of the House had been an swered by putting the Members in possession of the Speech from authority, by printing it. No further object could lw attained by publishing the precise terms of the motion intended to be made. The question was then put, and it was ordered that the House shot,ld be called over on Friday, 22d April.—Adjourned. PREMEN AND HELIGOLAND 11fAIL3. BREMEN, MARCH 25. stvENTH BULLETIN. Head Quarters of the General in Chief of the Army of Poland, at Pinneburg, before Hamburgb. f‘ Marshal Davoust, after having sustained so many locses at the Williamsburg, appears to have given up a ll idea of defending it against us, as he keeps there merely posts for information and communication be tween Hamburgh and Harburg, which are fortified with the greatest skill, and connected with each other. Insurmountable obstacles continue to compel the besiegers to content themselves with obtaining small advantages over the enemy, and the General in Chief, Count Bennigsen, directs these to be carried as far as moral and physical causes will permit our soldiers to do it, against the advantageous position of the enemy. For this purpose small expeditions of a few hundred volunteers are daily, and especially by night, sent either against the Island of Wilhelmsburg, or the enemy's advanced posts on the other side, which are incautiously pushed too far, and which are really amusement to our soldiers, but which wearies out the besieged, and causes them many losses. " Among many such daily fortunate occurrences, and in which there are always more or less prisoners made without suffering any considerable loss on our side, the following are most worthy notice : " On the 23d of February the enemy was disturbed en several points at the same time, and by carrying off some of his advanced posts, alarmed him so much that he nude signals, and fired with his heavy artil lery on small patroles, even at a great distance. " On the 26th the enemy, tendered more secure by the trifling skirmishes of the preceding night, suf fered a strong column, under the command of Ge neral Balatoff, and the corps of Markoff, to approach so near the Wilhelmsburg, that :hese were enabled to surprise several officers' posts, and posh forward to the road of communication between Hamburgh and Haarburgh, on which the nearest batteries of Ham burgh and Haarburgh began to fire bn us, although without causing us the least loss ; and after having at tained the object intended, we returned td our old cantonments with the prisoners we had taken. The speedy retreat of the enemy prevented us from cut tine :off his cannon. On the 28th General Von Markoff again under took an expedition against Wilhelmsburg, overthrew ad the posts estaialished on it, and. pushed across the whole island between Hamburgh and Haarburgh, alarming both, these fortresses, and likewise Bell and Ochsenweider, to the other end of it, where General Von Doctoroff, who commanded there, sent some battilions to meet him. The result of these three ex peditions is the more fortunate,, on account of the very small loss sustained in them, which does not ex ceed twenty men, in killed and wounded ; whilst that of , the enemy consists in eight officers and 383 pri 'fates made prisoners, exclusive- of a considerable number of killed and wounded. " On the sth March, Prince pagration, who corn tnands the advanced guards on the side of Altona, and had daily small affairs with the enemy, van ano ther ttifling etpedition against the Wilhelmsburg; broke 'the posts of carabineers supported by infantry, arid made 13 cuirassiers and 18 infantry prisoners, with the hiss of only three Cossacks wounded. . •' In the following night (6th March), General Bulatoff fell on the outworks of the Star Battery, and with the same insignificant loss, took one officer, six serkanti, and 67 privates, prisoners. " In the night between the l'lth and 12th March, PiinCe Bagration again surprised the enemy's head post of carabineers, on the Wilhelmsburg, and was so fortunate as to carry off 43 cuirassiers and 49 horie chasseurs, without losing a single man. The risoners assure us that one of their Officer s was killed. 64 OR the side of Haarburg, where the English Genet-al Lyen commands a part of the besieging army; several petty affairs have recently taken place, several sallies made by the enemy from Haarburg having been continually repulsed, and always to their loss. . The Hanovciian troops stationed them keep the enemy in check. The General in Chief has, on the v.1: , 1,:, tarcen the most proper measures against any sallies of the g-irrison of Hamburgh. The Ge nerale of cavalry Tschaplitz and Chepolcf command the whole, of the a..ivaliced guard, and Generals DoctoroiF, Tolstoy, and Markoff, support them with their ei v 3i: )11 s of infantry. The English General e! inmands a mixcci corps of Russians, liana veri..ns ttl 1 Hanseatic', before Haarburg. " The General in Chief has latterly again detached Some cerps oh cavalry to, the Rhine, and has retainu. l .re before Hamburgh and Haarburg than what is requiSite for the service there ; on the other hand, he is dra,viiii; considerable detachments of infantry to reinforce himself. The thaws which may sown be ex pected, will require a new and different kind of opt ,...tions before the fortresses of Hamburgh and Haar an ! the needful preparations are accordingly making for that purpose. By several officers who have deserted to us, and afnung whom there are even some native French, we have received the most particular information con ' ceraing both the strength and the spirit of the guru son. li we were to ealetia:e merely on the number of soldiers the corps-d'arrnee under Marshal Davoust, alei before his walls, might be deemed force suffi cient ; but the moral and physical state of the gar rison reduces them at least one half pact. The Com manding General in Chief, Count Bennigsen, has at the request of the Sovereign Prince of the Nether lands, given permission for raising a company at . Blankanese, out of the Dutch prisoners and deser ters, and to send them from thence to Holland. By these means several hundreds of these unfortunates are already gone from Hamburgh, that unfortunate • . ..- • . city, and which may be considered as one of the last Fietich dungeons, to assist In the iiheratttn of theft. native country." . . . . • EXTRACT OP A PRIVATE LETTER PROM BASLE, OF THE 15TH MARCH. . • 44 IV A Officer who left Chaumont, In the night be : . tween the 12th and 13th, assures us, that apartments were pre - pared on the 12th, for Count Rosumnwsky, and the other Plenipotentiaries of the Allied Powers, who were expected at Chaumont in consequence of the Congress at Chatillon having broke up. 41 The head-quarters were to be removed from Chaumont to Bar•sur Aube. 46 Count d'Artois, who had been invited by a de putation from Lorraine, was to depart this clay (the 15th) from Vesoul for Nancy." COPENHAGEN, MARCH 12. On the 9th inst. Baron Towast, Lieutenant Gene ral, and Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword, in a private audience, delivered to his Majesty a letter from his Majesty the King of Sweden, whereby he is accredited as Charge d'Affaires, until a Swedish Am bassador be formally appointed. FRANKFORT, MARCH IS. Our paper of this day contains the following Bul letin from the Grand Army of the Allies : 44 The Arms of the Allied Powers have gained a glorious Victory—Count de St. Priest, Adjutant- General to his Majesty the Emperor of all the Rus sias, took the City of Rheims by storm, at six o'clock in the morning of the 12th March. " The enemy's cavalry, which formed a part of the garrison, and attempted to cut its 'way through the Allies, was totally destroyed ; 2500 prisoners, among whom were GenerakLacoste, Colonel Regnier, and a great number of officers, fell into our hands.— The loss on our side was inconsiderable, the attack having been made with unexampled celerity. Lieu tenant Field Marshal Bianchi has totally defeated Marshal Augereau, on the 13th, near Macon, and taken all his artillery and a great number of prisoners." PROCLAMATION BY PRINCE SCHWARTZENI3ERG. " Head-quarters, Troyei, March 15. gg FRENCHMEN !—Yo are not to consider us culpa ble for the calamities you suffer, but the Government under which you have so unfortunately lived for many years. Our object is not to increase, but to diminish the distre-sses under which you labour, and for that purpose alone we have entered your territory, and we shall be anxious to retire the moment we have obtained the object for which we have co:ue—a safe, lasting, and honourable Peace. 46 It is not surprising, after the experience you have had of the conduct of other Generals, that you should think we have appeared before you for the purposes of mercenary gain and personal aggrandisement, and that we intend to enrich ourselves by reducing you to a still lower state of poverty, and to prey upon the property of the people of France. No, Frenchmen, it is not our design. It may happen in particular in stances that troops of the best disciplined armies com mit depredations, but no such aggressions have the assent of the General who commands them, and he, under the direction of the Allied Sovereigns, has pro hibited every species of rapine and plunder. If any individual has sustained injury by such excesses, let him make the proper representation of his case, and the offender shall be punished with the utmost rigour of martial law. 44 We will secure your happiness at the hazard of our own lives, and peace shall not be denied to you, although it may be delayed. That we may controul it, reinforcements are arriving from all quarters. — Thousands have flocked to my standard from Bohe mia and Hungary, and 'others are hastening from Belgium and from Holland, from l'inssia, and from every district of Germany. Entertain then no fear, for the result—that is obvious and certain ; and in the painful interval be assured that no means shall be neglected for your consolation, while you rei n in a state in' wl.lich you must necessarily be expose.? t many of the miseries of war. 46 Given at the Grand Camp of the AlPcs. gi NONCE SCHWA ItTZ EN BERG, " MarNlial and Contrulnder-ni- Chief." THE EVENING ST.kit. LONDON. THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1814. PRICE of STOCKS THI3 DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK Cons. 631 64 631 624 621—tor act. 63164 654 621 62* 5 per Ct. 91F—Onm. 13 14 13 121 12 India Bond; is.dis. is. pr.—Exchequer Bills par Is. dis. The rumours of yesterday were so numerous, strange, and contradictory, that we were afraid even to notice the greater part of them. The most pro minent was the one we stated respecting a victory said to have been gained by Prince SCII W A RTZENBERG and General BLUCHER over the French. This report, which now appears to have rested on no authority, was, we doubt not, connected with another trick of some of the stock jobbing swindlers. About eleven o'clock an express from Dartford announced at 'Change that a Messenger was on the way with dis patches relative to a great victory over BONAPARTE, and the capture of 25,000 prisoners, &c.—and not long after a Rochester chaise-and-four galloped past. Came/ Du Bourg ! on this occasion was not dressed in uniform, but he actually drove to Downing-street, and had the assurancl to say to a person in attend ' ance at one of the doors, where he dismissed the chaise, that he knew he was too early to find any of the Secretaries in the Office, and he would therefore go to Mr. HAMILTON'S house. He then walked through one of the passages into the Park, and dis appeared. The Funds felt a momentary elevation, but soon fellgeven lower than before the hoax. A servant of Mr. THORNTON ) our Minister with the CROWN PRINCE of SWEDEN, reached town, on Tuesday evening, with dispatches ; but as nething has trans pired respecting their contents, we presume they are not of a date late enough to throw any certain light on the state of the negociations. From the CHAN* CELLOR of the ExcuEctusa declining to answer the qttastion pet by Mr. )311AND, last : hight, in die /tome of Commons It mar 6e inferrelf, that Ministeh hale ` no informaiion that the Negotiations are actually braked off ; for a fact of so much importance, if) known, would no; be withheld From Parliament. Oa this subject it is difficult to form a decided opinion. —From the Declarations of Marshal BLUCHER and Prince SCHWARTZENISERG it seems certain that the delays have been of BONAPARTE'S OWO creation.— This fact is of great importance ; the Declaration of Austria to this effect is tantamount.. to an admis• slot), that nothing has been insisted upon by any of the Allies of which that Power does not most heartily approve—thit there has been no attempt on the part of the British Cabinet to dictati to the Allies—and that the Coalesced Powers are unanimous in their determination to conquer an honourable, a safe, and a lasting Peace. CAPTURE OF L'ETOILE FRENCH FRIGATE.. The report of the capture of another French frigate turns out to be perfectly correct :—the following are the particulars of the action : " PLYMOUTH, MARCH 29. " Arrived the HEBRUS frigate with a French fri. gate, the Etoile, of 41. guns and 350 men, which she captured off the H0gu , ..., on ,he '27th instant, after an action of two h•burs ..n.l eight minutes, The Etoile has 40 kiP 3...4 73 wounded. The HEBRUS sixteen killed and 26 wounded. Both ships are very much damaged in masts, sails, hull, and rigging." A N r. , THER LLTTER - SAME D.-kTE. " Yo'.l will probably have heat d, befor , :: this reaches y"ti, that Sir MICIIAEL SEYMOUR had art ived at Ports trict)th with the Silicone French frigate, which he captured off Cherbourg: This frigate and i'Etoile were fallen in with by the HANNIBAL and 111,:Baus they separated, and the HANNIBAL was left in chace of the Sultane. The 1-lEBm..took l'Etoile, and ar rived here this morning with her prize, which has lost her mizen-mast, and the 1-I.Kaaus her fore-mast." A Mail from Heligoland and Bremen has arrived. The military movements in France which are de tailed in the Bremen Papers are not more recent than those already known through other channels. Prince SCUWARTZENBERG has addressed a very spirited Pro clamation to the French People, in which he assures them that their sufferings are owing to the perverse ness and obstinacy of the French Government. It is in short a transcript of BL,trcutres Proclamation, tvh;ch wegave yesterday. We regret to learn that there is an speedy prc.spect of the surrender of Hamburgh. The letter from Basle, in the Bremen Papers, con tains a variety of reports, which we know to be un founded. The rupture of the negociations at Cha tillon and - the great victory claimed over Nee, are of 'his description. The account of the rising of the inhabitants of Nancy in favour of the BOURBONS is, however, correct, for a French Gentleman has ar rived in London, with dispatches to the same effect from his Royal Highnesi MoNstEurt. They were immediately tot warded to Lours RVIII% at Hartwell. The Letters and Papers by the Corunna Mail, the arrival of which was announced yesterday, were de livered out this day. We subjoin the following ex- : acts : " ST. JEAN 1)E LUZ, MARCH,' 8, A Deputation has set out from Pau to receive the Duke d'Angouleme, and offer him the Palace o Henry IV." " ST. SEVERS, MARCH 8, 44 For some time a day has not passed without snow. Another battle, it is presumed, will take place, between Pau and Tolosa. Soult retired in disorder. The men who deserted him exceed four thousand. The inhabitants curse the infamous conduct of the French troops." " IRITN, ?1 ARC 1 g 4 In the action of Orthes, two thousand prisoners and eight pies of cannon were taken from the etse my. Suult took the direction of Tolosa. Magazines have been found in Reque!ort and Langon. " The troops of General Freyre are to change their march, and proceed by Santa Martha, de Gosse, Port de Laine, Pariehlurade, and Orthes, to Pau, where they will establish their head-quarters. In the places through which they have passed, our troops have been extremely well received, and on the roads there is perfect security. They receive provisions from the Engli,h Commissaries the same as the British troops. The strictest discipline is observed, and the inhabitants are much respected." The North British Review, No. I. is arrived, and may be had of a COLBURN, No. 50, Conduit-street ; G. and S. ROBINSON, and all Booksellers. It is expected that the 49th (or Hertfordshire) Re. giment, which has been so actively engaged with the Americans, and particularly distinguished in all the dispatches from Canada, will be very successful in the ensuing Volunteering of the Militia. It is now forming a second battalion at Maldon, and such is the prospect of rapid promotion, &c. that the advan tages arising both to officers and men, in giving a preference to this Regiment, must be obvious. According to an account laid before Parliament, the number of three shilling tokens issued by the Bank of England, from the 10th of December, 18: to March, 1814, was 9,008,993, and their amount in value 8151,347. 9s. each token weighing 9dwts. Ilgrs. the silver of dollar standard. The number of eighteen-penny pieces issued in the same period was 1,510,440, the value £113,283. Is. ed. each weighing 4dwts. 17grs. of dollar staudard. No dollars were issued in the same period. 111,R0e4L HIGHNESS THE DO'irE CLARENCE. - I SHEMNESS, MARCH 29. This day, it two o'clock, p. m. his Majesty' .490 N arrived here, having on board his Royal ness the Duke of C,Lanzt , :sce and her Royal Highness the Duchess of oLvit•intrao and suite. Their was announced by the sring of a royal salute the ships at the Great Nore and Little Nore, the yards of the different ships were manned, moment she came to an anchor, Admiral Si WILLIAMS went on beard in his barge to tece!\ Royal Highnesses, the ships and fortifications ting them as they passed. The sight watt gratifying. The procession consisted of the barge, in . Which was leis Royal Highness the CLARENCE, her Royal HighnesS the Duchess XPENBURG, and the Honottiable Captain KING. followed Admfral Bif 'l'. WILLIAMS in his bac several Captains in succession, viz. AUSTIN, DONNELi-, HENDESSON, &c. eic. The barge which conveyed the Duke, etc. was steered by a Lieutenant. They landed At the Commissioner's Stairs, and walked to the Admiral's, where they dined, &c. &c. The whole of his Majesty's Nafal Captains, and Russian Captains, waited on their Royal Highnesses to pay their respects. This day, Wednesday; their Royal Highnesses visited the garrison; reviewed the troops, and walkeil round the battery to view the fortifications, Ste.— They were cheered ) and their Highnesses were highly gratified. The Duchess of OLDENBURG appears to be about twenty-nie years of age, rather handsome. She wore a curious and magnifceniltussian dress. The Duke WAS in the full dress uniform of an Admiral. —They leave this to-morrow morning.-They have brought their own cirriages. Dubin Water ford Cadiz • Malta - Goitenburgh Holland • NAP ef L IN ELL IGENCE. Arr.. DC[. o 2 - 1 0 - 0 0 0 0 • 0 2J - 0 1 113. Cnruona Hciigoland ARR. Put. o 0 1 0 Guernsey - 0 0 Jersey - - 0 0 Pacsagos . 0 0 tizlifax - 0 0 Lematti Islands -• 0 0 By a letter received at the Admitalty, dated Ma deira, 28th linunry last, Captain Sir Ttios. StAiNes, of his niiesty's ship 13Ritox, had arrived there on that day, with the country ship Fort William, out ward-hoiind, in a Crippled state ; she was, however, expected to sail in a few days. NOR I SMOUTH, MARO449. Arrived at St. Helen's the Saniuul and Santa, OGLE, from Burney ; the Edgar, At:riane. Lady Shaw, Ranger, Triton, and three other transports, with stores, &c. for themen of war bound to Ame rica. Arrived also his Majesty's ship CORMORANT, from thelwas. Sailed his Majesty's ships 11mm; and DIOMEDE, with a ccnvey for the Downs. t•:anie into harbour the Sultane French frigate. Went out his Majesty's ship BELLEIWaION.-7. S. The Downs convuy have brought up again. DEAL, MARCH 30. Arrived the REDPOLE sloop of war, frt] Port!. mouth, with a convoy, among them are the I(adrir. East Indiaman, for Bengal ; and the Hercules, for the South Seas. Sailed the whole of the homeward bound vessels, for the Rim.; and the ACTIVE hired cutter, with dispatches for Admiral YOUNG. IiARNVICII, NIARCII 30. Arrived the Earl Leicester packet, from Heligo !and, Kith a Mail and plsszngers. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. MR. EDITOR —Having addressed two Letters to the Cott; mittee of the Stock Exchange, and from whom I cannot get a reply, I request you will be good enough to insert in your Paper a copy of ;hose Letters, which are herewith tran ,nntted to you, in order that tho'r Gentlemen ma y have another opportunity of seeing in pur Paper, what they have already seen at their Coin: mime. I am, Sir, your humble servant, lbbetson'.: Hotel, Were-street, near R. G. BUTT. Bond-streer, 31st March, 1614. " Gentlemen—As it becomes necessary for me to regulate my accounts with Mr. Foam (my Stock-broker), and finding from him, that the several transactions executed by him, for me, by my orders, have been the cause of your stopping the whole of my balances gained by me previous to the 21st of February last, as v ill as what was gatnel upon that day, which amounted to the sum of Xit.o2 17 se 6d. upon the Osmium held by me on that day, and purchased by Mr. Fears), and the profit upon the Con sol account to £l5O. 12s. 6d. " As I address you as a body of-Gentlemen, whom I suppose wLh to do what is correct, and finding from Mr Fa*KN you have stopped Xi:00 upon my Conseil Account which had been settled on the 25th of February, and the differences lost by nix paid on that Jay to my other Brokers, " I feel it but justice to myself, as well as creditable to your-- selves, that you will be good enough to acquaint me, without loss of time, with the precise sums ywu have stopped on my ac count from my broker, specifying the several beads and periods I of time for which those deductions had been made. 1 " I am, Gentlemen, your most obedient Servant , Ibbetson's Hotel, Vere-street, near 1 " R. G. BUTT:* Bond-street, n3cl March, 1 b 14. S 2, I The CROWN PRINCR Of SwEDIIN, by his lON} Stll7 at Liege, has acquired the title of the Liege Lord A claim has been made by the hos hAnd ot Mn. . BISHOP, (who was killed lately in consequence of the full of the house at Glasgow), against the proprie. tor of the building, for 41500, on account of SR lots of his wife. " Gentlemen—l addressed a letter to you on the 23d instant, begging you to give me a statement of the different sums which you had stopped from my Broker (Mr. Fearn) upon my account. " As you have not replied to that letter, and as no doubt you wish the Public as well as myself to suppose you are Gentlemen, I must again request of you the explanation which my torma letter conveyed.-1 am, Gentlemen, " Your most obedient Servant, (Signed) 46 R. G. BUTT. " Ibbetson's Hotel, Vere-street, near Bond-street, March 28, 181 4:' OF ' ty's ship al High- iighness it arrival :e by all , and all d. The lir THOS. •ive their on! Sabi- highlr JASON'S Duke of ss of Oc- a. Next • arge, and