Star. — London, England, 1808-08-11 00:00:00

PL r 7 a - rbave bsen — twedwsd, Kb" Sams is glee "py. ditating an inglorious and precipitate retreat froze that capital. Such are the effects that have resulted from the discomfiture of DUPONT'S army, to which we may also, in some degree, attribute the speedy de fection of so many of those Nobles who were entrap, ped at Bayonne. A letter from on board the thqcoax, dated off St. Andero, the 31st ult. says: " Desertions are very frequent from the French army In Spain. Ten made their escape yesterday on board, and have castoff themselves u marines in this ship. A gentleman on shore re. ceived a letter last night from St. Juan de Luz, a port to the westward of Bayonne, which mentions that the reams of Bo p quitting Bayonne in such a hurry was his having seat orders to the Senate to direct a levy-enantasse of all persons in Prance, frosts 18 to 40, able to bear arms; and on their not kn. mediately complying with, or refusing to comply with, the order, be immediately set cff to Paris, and put six of the Senators under an arrest, to be tried by a military tribunal." Government are in hourly expectatign of the arri val of the dispatches from Lord CoLzarcwoon, con. taining the particulars of the defeat and surrender of the army of General DTJPONT. The FAVOVRITZ cut. ter, arrived at Plymouth, brought advice, that on the 6th instant a sloop of war spoke Admiral SOTHEBY; in the Sr. GEORGE, and informed him that she hid the dispatches on board with the glorious intelligence. The following is an extract of a letter received at Plymouth by the FAvocrura, which left the Char.nel , feet on Saturday last The news of Durowes surrender, with his 15,000 men, may be depended on, as we learnt it from a sloop of war, bound ►ome from Gibraltar with dispatches to that effect, this morning." ..—(August 6, 1808, off Ushant). A vessel arrived at Plymouth from Corunna, has brought advices corroborative of the intelligence of Sir ARTHUE VittLEst.gr having landed his army on the 27th ult. about 30 miles to the northward cf Lis- bon, where he expected to be joined by a well-appoin ted force of Portuguese Patriots on the following day. Important intelligence from that quarter may now, therefore, be da;ly expected. Considering the situation of affairs in Spain, it can not but appear surprising that we have not by this time heard of immense French armies pouring into that country; nor can the tardiness of NAPOLEON'S motions in that quarter be easily accounted for, but by believing that in another quarter he expects to find sufficient business to occupy his arms for some time. Austria is the Power to which every eye is turned at this moment, and so general was the belief in the City yesterday that a war would instantly burst out between the twc Emperors, that Stocks suffered a considerable depression—not so much from any apprehension as to the issue, as from the expectation that, in conse quence, there would soon be a gnat demand for money to make remittances. It was even asserted with confidence, that Government have received dis- patches from Vienna, by a special Messenger, in which the apprehensions of a rupture betw.ten France and Austria are converted into certainty. The Court of Vienna, it is said, convinced that it I is impossible to avert the blow that is meditated against them, have become bold from necessity, and have peremptorily demanded that the French shall forth with withdraw their garrisons from the fortresses in &c. agreeably to the treaty of Tilsit, the con- tinued occupation of which, the Court of Vienna could view in no other light than as a preparation of hostility against themselves. The Emperor FRANCIS has, in the most formal way, constituted Fiume as an integral part of his kingdom of Hungary. He would not have I 'ventured upon such , step unless he were prepared for, the worst, and by identifying Fiume with Hungary e _sk Measure whkh the people of that country have long desired, he has given them new motives for opposing the designs of the FrenCh Ruler to secure it to himself. A circumstance lately took place, upon the truth of which our Readers may depend, which places the insolence of the French Government' in a very con spicuous point of view, though, unhappily, we want no information in that respect. When the Emperor of AUSTRIA had resolved to pay a visit to Hun gary, chiefly for the purpose, as since supposed, of making the cession of Fiume, the visit was announced to be of a private nature, and therefore he signified to the Ambassadors from the several Countries, as sembled in Vienna, that he would not trouble them ' to follow him, as 'his stay would be short. All the Ambassadors but ANDREOL-SY paid their compliments to the Emperor on his departure, and readily acqui esced in his wial that they should remain at Vienna till his return. ANDRROSSY, however, intimated his determination to follow the Emperor, and notwith standing the repugnance which was manifested by the Emperor himself and some of his Ministers, actually traced big !tips, appeared like a _spy to watch every movement, and carried his inquisitive impudence to such an excess m to exhaust the patience of the Em peror, and to draw on himself a stropg eiressicm of personal disgust, Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, his MAJESTY arrived at the Queen's Palace from Windsor. At two o'clock his MAJESTY held a private Levee. The following Mi litary Gentlemen had the honour of being presented : General FINCH on hiipromotioo to the 5 4tb•Regiment. Lieutenant-General NicoLts, on his appointment to the 66th Regiment. General GwTN, for the Lieutenant-Governorship of the Isle •of Wight. General CALCRATT, on being appointed First Major to the Coldstream Regiment of Guards. His MAJESTY afterwards held a Privy Council, and gave audience to the Duke of PORTLAND and the rest of the Cabinet Ministers, and left town for Windsor, exactly at four o'clock. Pailn 7 C4 • The Princess Amelia, Dicssotz ; and the inuills Amor, from Grenada, are arrived o$ Dover : they sailed from Tortola on the 26th June, with the fleet for England, under convoy of his Majesty's ships CA. 'LLA, ROSARIO, and SATELLITE, and parted company on the 26th July, in lat. 47. N. lops. 37.50. about 130 sail in 'company. TORBAY, AUGUST 9. Sailed his Majesty's ship Innostaa, with the Beet, for Newfoundland, Quebec, &c. ; Halumatatt and Loan COCHRANE armed ships to the Westward:— Wind E. FALMOUTH, AUGUST 8. Arrived the ship PH(ENIX, Captain TATLER ) from London for JarnaiCa. A large fleet of vessels :re now off this port, steering to the westward, supposed to be the Expedition under Sir Jour/ Mooitz.— Wind W. PLYMOUTH, AUGUST 9. Came in the PARTHIAN, of 18 guns, from 'the , Downs ; GIRRARTAR, of 84 guns, from Coruna ; the, MEDIATOR, of 44 guns, from Portsmouth. Sailed ' the SCORPION, of 18 guns, for the coast of Spain ; the INDEFATIGABLE, AMETHYST, and PRINCESS CHAR. LOTTE D to the Westward. Came down out of har bour and anchored in Cawsand Bay his Majesty's ship LEVIATHAN. PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 10. Arrived the VIOLET lugger, from the Eastward ; and a Portuguese frigate and merchantman, from the Brazils. DEAL, AUGUST 9. Arrived the BOLD and FLAMER gun-brigs from a cruize. Put back, the Raucous gun brig, with a con ' von, Arrived, the HARDY gun brig, with a convoy ikorn PlymOuth. Awm - sT 10.—Arrived, the CLYDE, Commodore Owx.v, from a cruize off B•ulogne ; FISGUARD frigate, ind PINCHER gun-brig, from a cruize off Ostend.— Sailed the SPARROW sloop, and RESOLUTE and HARDY gun brigs, With a convoy for Plymouth ; the BLOOD HOUND and FLAMER gun brigs, on a cruize off Bou logne tand the SPARROWHAWKE sloop, on a cruize off Ostend. GREENOCK, AUGUST s. Arrived on Friday night, the Kitty, Rim, from Ja-I maica, the only ship for Clyde in the fleet. Sailed from Port Royal 18th May, 20 sail under convoy of the Avow brig, which left them off Port Antonio, where they were joined by 41e SPARROW brig, which convoyed the fleet home. There mere only nine sail' in company when Captain RraD left the fleet five days ago, the rest having parted in a fog. Came through the Gulph. Arrived at Port Glasgow, on Friday, the Hussaren, MaFARLANE, from St. Thomas's, the first of the Leeward Island fleet ; sailed with the fleet 26th June, and parted with them - three days after sailing. Sailed yesterday, in company, the following armed ships : United Kingdcim, J.kwasow, for An tigua, &c. Betsey, HATRICK, for Jamaica, and Royal Charlotte, MORRIS, for New Providence.—Wind E. N. E. LErTH, AUGUST 8. The Margaret, Capt. SMITH, arrived at Queens ferry on the sth instant, from the island of St. John's, Nova Scotia. On the Ist ult. when in lat. 45. 53. N. and long. 51.28. W. spoke the ship Minx of Mary port, HurcunisoN, from Liverpool for Quebec; Anc on the 6th, in lat. 48. 40. N. and long. 4 4 . : 1 4 . Mx* . the ship Diana of Liverpool, Lams, for Mirrimichie, out 15 days from Liverpool—bothehips well. It is believed that the Margaret is the first vessel, belonging to the ii!et,, Mich sailed from Leith Roads on the 10th-if &pril last, which has arrived from America. —Yesterday a small Danish fishing-boat was sent into Leith by the Asewmeirigate. She was taken in the North Sea. Yesterday morning the William and Anne, and the Raith, from Davis' Straits Fishery, -arrived in the Roe*. The former has ten fish, and .the latter seven.. The Royal Bounty, Success, and Rattler, also belonging to this port, were left fishing, and all of them had rt fish. The Royal Bounty had six about the beginning of last month. FROM LLOYL'S LIST. Comment'', AoousT 10A-.Passed by the Venus, Tozer, &c ell Jamaica I and Lucia, M‘Xenzie, from Dundalk. Sailed the Mal. vine, Smith, for Malaga ; and London packet, Roberts, for Cork. The Thunder bomb, Charger, Piercer and Turbulent gun brigs, tailed from Malmoe 9th June, with a Beet consisting of 76 sail bound to the Baltic. When nearly eiareast of the south end of Saltholm, the wind began to slacken • about SP. M. the Danish sailing boats and their gun boats beg an to attack the rear of the convoy. The Turbulent's main top mast being shot away, she was obliged to strike, and the Charger and Piercer being in the van, and far distant, and the wind unfavourable, they could not assist the rear. The enemy then formed on both quarters and astern of the Thunder. Two 4-pounders were got out abaft, and the fire was kept up from 6 to 10 P. M.; and when the enemy retired, only 7 shot, out of their complement of 140, were left. Had the Thunder been captured, nothing could have steed the convey; and in consequence of the great exertions of Captain Caulfield, Lis officers and crew, only twelve sail fell into the hands of the enem), several of which were deserted by 'their CSVWS before the enemy's gun boats were near. Letters from Madeira were received in town yester day, dated the 28th July, brought by the INDEPATI GARLB lugger, arrived at Plymouth. Our troops were particularly healthy ; several had been sent out to the West Indies. On the 13th July, the SYBILLZ frigate and SAPPHO sloop arrived there with , a fleet irom Cork, bound to the West Indies, and sailed again on the 17th July. The EURYDICE, DECADE, and FYLLA frigates, and Pairanosz sloop, sailed from Portsmouth on Tuesday, with about thirty sail of transports and several mer chantmen, bound to Spain and Portugal • but as the wind came round to the westward yesterd ay, it is sup posed they will be obliged to put back. • ', 4PWINO . ....a.....,... . . I : . . . LEWES RACES, AUGUST O. I the 'Third and Last Year of a Sweepstakes of Idgs. ear 6. ter s-Tri old colts het illb. and fillies est. the het toile-and a h a lf The winner of the Derby, Oak. or Aecot, to carry 71b.ertra.. ... . IA Egremones b. F. by Gehenna, out of Lary . ‘I IA G. Cavendish's b. e. by Coriander •Ld Chicbatees be. e. Ferdinand, by Waxy • .. S. Si/ to four on Lord Egremones Gohanna. • Ten Subscribers. Seven paid off. His R. H. the Prince of Wakes Rubins, brother m Castrato est. Jib. apt. Mr. Fermor's b. c. by Gohanna, bought of Mr Bird, est. 61b. the last mile 200 p. Off. - • --- - - His Majesty's PistooftoOgs.fo; any bone; Mee, or geeing ; 41-yt obis to carry los, 41b. Syr olds Het. 61b. 6-yr olds 12st. 014 aged 12st. Ilb. the best *Educe 4-Mile heats. Ld Egrernnnt's dt.bi needs% 4 yes old • '4 g Mr. Daly's du 11, 110 b lerfifp f‘ffs old i•dir Mr. J. Croft's b. b. Hawk, 4 yrs old His Royal Hightiesss the Prince of WALES arrived at the Pavilion at five o'clock yesterday morning, at. companied by Lord Gaon= CAVENDISH. At seven a torrent of rain fell, which greatly delayed and im peded the usual preparations for Lewes races. At a quarter before two his Royal Highness arrived on the round, mounted on his grey charger, and dressed in the hussa r un if orm . His Royal Highness rade close to his travelling carriage, in which were Mrs. FITZIIEREERT and Lady HAGGERSTONE. His Royal Highness's elegant landau-barouche and six followed. empty. The Stand was very thinly attended, and there were very few carriages. The Countess of Cumin/- TER came in a close carriage. The first race for the sweepstakes of ten guineas did not begin until half past one; the weather was very rainy. His Royal Highness then came to Lewes, and partook of an elegant dinner, provided by Colonel NEWTON. The Earls of DARLINGTON and Eona. MONT I Major BLOOMFIELD, and several Officers be longing to the 10th regiment, dined with his Royal I Highness. The second race did not take place until sir o'clock, and the rain came down in torrents. The Earl of ! Egremont's Election came in easy, and won his Ma jesty's Plate. Mr. Daly's Bob Booty was drawn after ! the first heat. The sport was allowed to be the worst I in the memory of the oldest visitors of the Course.— The company returned to Brighton, amidst a deluge of rajn, accompanied with vivid flashes of li g htning. I Yesterday the Cabinet Ministers dined with.* Duke of PORTLAND. • This day the Duchess of BRUNSWICK completed her 71st year. It is reported that the Lona PRESIDENT of the Court of Session in Scotland has resigned that office, and that he will be succeeded by ROBERT BLAIR, Esq. Dean of the Faculty of Advocates.—lt is supposed MATTHEW ROSS, Esq will succeed Mr. BLAIR as Dean of Faeulty.-4t is further stated, that Lord DCNSINNAN resigns both his gowns, and is to be suc ceeded as a Lord of Justiciary by Lord HERMAN% and as a Lord of Session by ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, Esq. younger of Succoth. We have not heard who is to replace Mr. CAMPBELL as one of the Commissa• ries of Edinburgh. Yesterday was a grand public day at the Princess ELizaorrit's cottage, at Old Windsor. Upwards of 100 of A pe neighbouring Nobility and Gentry sat down clan excellent dinner. The tables were placed on the lawn, in tents, and every accommodation afforded for the convenience of the company, who ap peared highly delighted with the treat. A grand Ball and supper were given on Monday night by the mfficers of his Majesty's ship Christian the Seventh, commanded by Sir Josium YORK, lying in Portsmouth Harbour. The quarter-deck, which was elegantly decorated, was appropriated for dan cing, which commenced at eight and was kept up with great spirit till half past one in the morning. Supper was then announced, and after an elegant repast dancing was resumed. The company, upwards of 1150 in number, did not depart till eight o'clock in the orning. Between forty and fifty men have been employed for this some time during•spring tides, in clearing out a foundation for a Martello Tower at the Beacon, Leith. The corps of Gilcomston Light Infantry Volunteers have agreed to transfer their services to the Local Militia. TRAFALGAR.—Englishmen have and ever will have such an interest in whatever relates to this place, that pp } eerhaps the etymology may not be unacceptable.— .TaAvA is an old Spanish word for multitude, ALGAR, including the Arabic,„article, means rock. Cape TRA VALOAR, or TRAFALGAR, is, therefore, Cape many Rock:; and in some Spanish maps there may be seen several marks placed about it to denote that circum stance of its situation. A pugilistic exhibition took place at five o'clock yesterday afternoon, at Wilsden Green, for 40 guineas a side, between DixoN, the baker, and GEORGE GREEN. The firmer of the champions is a first-rate professor. in miniature. The battle lasted one hour and a quar ter, and the scientific man had decidedly the best of he combat for the,first half hour, but Green suc ceeded in obtaiiing the victory by superior strength, and bearing down his adversary, who was hurt often by heavy falls. Very little money was betted, but the spectators were numerous. Jones seconded Dixon, and young Belcher an'd Blake the winner. On Tuesday evening a foot-race was run in a field near Shooters' Hlll, between a soldier in the artillery at Woolwich, and a carpenter at the same place.— The wager was for five guineas ; the former to run 100 yards, while his opponent went 40, carrying a heavy man on his back ; several bets were depending. The wager was decided in favour of the latter. Cojt EXCHANGE, MARK -LANE, AUGUST 11.—The supplies of Wheat this day are short, and last prices in this trade are fully supported. Barley likewise. Malt and White Peas little alteration—Rye is lower.— Beans of both sorts are rather lower—Oats are again in very large supply, and this article is quoted cheaper—Flour fluctuates but little. OZNZIAL CIPRIMNCT Al UNDO.*: Wheat, 571:705. 8181. Beans 60.. 665. Pine ditto, 84s. 871. Tick ditto pg. 651. Rye, 465. 504. Oats, 311 s. 40s. 435. Barley, 42a. 475. Ptdandctitto, 445. 451. Melt, 665. 761. Potstoe ditto 47s White Peas (beaten), 1101.1205. Rape Seed, 2 . 71. to 4111. Grey ditto, 555. 60s. rim Floor tithe. est. dierSeceoda /WAG.. "i7 O • . . URY OF CHANCRE', AUGUST td. nu KOTA& HIONOINO MN DURO OF 4IVSst AND LA*? 1 AUGUSTA MURRAY, NuM BAIRONtis D'AMELARD. Mr. THOMPSON m wed the Court to set aside ad order granted by his Honour the Master of the Rolls, Idirecting Mr. Lox, a Master in Chancery, to make in. • quiry, and report to the -Court a proper 'Jerson, W be guardian to Frederick Augustus and his sister, the Chris dreg of the Dyke of 8 ussex, by Lady A signals Mutitsly. The Learned Counsel stated, thatin the year 16011 Ludy Augusta Murray L ilied her bill against the peke of Sussex, to recover the income sec ur ed to h e r by- settlement of .100;.1. a.r at. The eetni granta ets infisnetion to present hifittayal Highness from te: veiving so much of his passion, or hit allowtmeefrom Governm .ut s as would be adequate SO the auseity.of ILady Augusta. :The cause never tuft to issue ; the i late Mr. Pitt interfered, and it was Seitlikl anticably in the year 1806. ' Hit ltotal Hight** Wectited rstcs ; deeds ; one appointing the Eistl of Moira and Lard I Fineastle trustees, to superintend the educatioa• of his son will.: a minor ; the other, engaging to Pay `I them the sum of 5001. a-year for the eapences they might incur for his education, and 2001. alear for the maintenance and education of his doubter, to be paid to Lady IkAmeland, while his daughter should continue to reside with her. It appeared, that the 7001. a-yearhadbeen regularly paid to Lady D'Ame. land, and not to the trustees. In the year 1807, a bill was filed on behalf of the children, prayistg, that only the sum of 2201. should be paid for their main tenance and education, during their minority, and I that .the balance should accumulate until they came I to their respective ages of 21. In the month of July last, the Duke of Sussex, by an exisark petition, ap plied to his Honour, the Master of the Rolls, that there might be a legal guardian to the children ap. pointed, and his Honour gave an order, that a Master should make an inquiry, and report a proper guar dian. Mr. Thompson contended, this order was ir regular ; altho ug h th e bill was fi led in 1807 it never was acted upon ; the Defendants were never even served with a subptena, and the first they knew of It was by his Honour's order. It was a case ofestrenne hardship on Lady D'Ameland. She never would have come to the agreement she did, if it was not for the consideration of having her children with her, and under her protection. The deed of trust, executed in 1806, to the Earl of Moira and Lord Fincastln was done to satisfy her mind on that point ; that deed appointed them guardians, and there could be no ne cessity for that Court interfering. There could be nothing imputed to those noble Lords that made them unfit for the guardians and trustees of those children. LORD CHANCALLOR-.4 The Duke of Sussex could not appoint guardians for those children ; he had no legal right over them, they being illegitimate chil dren ; so the deed of trust must be constiered as null and void." . Mr. TriohipsCO, in continuation—" Supposing for a moment the deed of trust to be void, had not Lady D'Ameland, as the-mother of the children, a right to their persons ? would not that Court pay some respect to the feelings of a fond mother ? He would not dis guise from the Court that his client was fearful that the wish of having a lawful guardian appointed was to deprive her of the comforts she derived from the company and education of her children. It was well known, when a lawful guardian was appointed, he would have the power of removing them where he thought proper ; and the bill tended to operate in another way againse'her Ladyship, as it would oblige her to account for the money she had received. He trusted, under those : considerations, his Lordship would set aside his Honour's order ; and he felt con fident that the Master of the Rolls, when he granted that order, was not aware that not any of the parties had notice of. the petition. The Earl of Moira and Lord Fincastle had not an op portunity een of answering the bill, as they had never served with notice. It was, without saying any thing harsher, insulting those Noblemen, so well known for their integrity.' Lord Eenoe observed, that in this case it was net an order directing the Master to appoint a legal guar dian. It was an order to the Master to make in quiries, and report who was the proper person to be the guardian. There could be no surprise complained of, for the Master, in making his inquiry, would be obliged to summon all the parties, and examine them upon oath. If he neglected to do this, then any of the parties might come before the Court. and move to have his report set aside. He thought his Honour, the Master of the Rolls, bad acted very wisely in re ferring it to a Master ; it was a case that could be much better and more properly discussed before him than before the Court. The Court had always held, in the case of illegitimate children, that the parent who provided for them, should have the manage ment of them, although the law' did not recog nize the authority of a parent in such cases. in the case of Powell v. Connel, the Court decided, that a person who had settled a yearly income on a child, had a right to take him away from his parents, al though lie was born in wedlock. He could not help saying, that decision was a far-stretched prerogative of the Court. But after having given the application all due consideration, he perfectly agreed with his Honour as to the propriety of the order he had made, and he therefore dismissed the application. Sir ARTHUR PIOOOTT was employed as Colima roe his Royal Highness. . . . To the Right Worshipful the PRESIDENT, and to the Right' Worshipful and Worshipful the TREASURER and GOVER. NC:IRS of CHRIST's HOfiPITAL. . Ossertamett, 'THE Office of Solicitor to Christ's Hospital hay. A. lag beeomtvacant by the decease of my father, Mr.Thos. Mtley Moberly, permit me to rcquct the honour of your Vote and Interest to succeed to the appointment. I beg leave to mention, :hat I have been eleven years in the office of my late father, having been trained up to my profession under him, the latter five years of which purled I have been in i partnership with him. During the whole of this time I have bad continual opportunity of +uniing a knowledge of the rights and interests of your Hospital, and of making myself master of its concerns generally, many of which have incidentally (and particularly daring the in. different Sated my late father's health), been under my hums. diate management Allow me to assure you that, should I succeed kt my applies. don for the very respectable apperiounent whichT now take the liberty of soliciting, It shall be my utmost !tad constant soden* your to follow the steps of my late father, who, for upwards of 18 years, made it his ambition ant pride to discharge, with most scrupulous integrity and active seal, the dutiesof that alma. don in which you had done him the honour of placing him. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your most obedient humble servan Bedfoni.,Rovs, Aug. 5,1808. JOSEPH %. 1 1 '