Star. — London, England, 1808-03-12 00:00:00

Dl4 t ARMY. piMm° l ""'• • THE EVtNiIsTG STAR. LONDON. o n the part of this eenntry. • . Mr Arnistrenis aec ess , 2 7„ c an Minister at Paris, had applied to the in ' — o f m ar ine in France, Mons. Decret, on the 14.1 , 11 „' ster d was informed by him that the Decrees 014 " -- an be acted on With respect to America.— .et not to authority could be applied to,. and it was ?" )bett m . ce er for him to inquire farther. We had, Ot7„, sa m s r- hly cast away the American trade. He length :lowered at cons iderable some arguments of Stevens, on the subj ect of p remiums on insurance, gr , a s ueht that we ought to have waited nnother month ,se;how the Americans would act, and was of °pi th if the doctrine of Ministers was admitted , itteldathe ‘ s sible that neutrals could carry o n AP h atever all s tra r. w EvENI, S . explaioed, in answer to the last I sou , some points in his speech on the preceding BARIN G r.made some observations in support o f his statementSE . defended the principle measure of the Bill, as 14 ~ RO . of the utmost i mportance to the mercan- WC this country. Neutrals had no right i nter es. comp in of the Orders in Council, for they became to este, in consequence of Bona p arte ' s decree, ut ovoi I „;,,the British Isles in a state of blockade. He a , tc ,,r - d u a e d ° with observ ing , . that the present Atimini `ton- a d no hostile idea against America. tr t e E MORRIS, with considerable animation, lu : re d ;he Orders . in Council, which tended to ruin cog t o commerce of this country. Instead of irritating fi n gs of the Americans, already too much car- L' e ;3 , We o ught to hold out some coneiliation, and ; mo n ' the mutual interests of both nations. The - o r d e rs were contrary to the common law of the land, • dire ct violation to the 28th of Edward 111. and con trary to the law of nations ; since it was th ere lid down, that the consent of the neutral ought to be reviouslyobtained, before his right could be infringed. !dr. HALL defended the measures of the Orders ! I Council, and contended that we were justified in t hen by the multiplied aggressions of France, and bs the law of s elf-preservation and retaliation. The SOLICITOR -GENERAL entered at length into defence of the Bill. He maintained that it en of infinite importance at this awful period of the , world, that we should stand high in point of moral character in the eyes of Europe and the world. He' therefore could not but deprecate the attempts that lad been made to depreciate it, by holding up those measures as violations of all law and justice. He con tended they were, under the circumstances of Europe, perfectly conformable to, and consistent with the Law of Nations, and that they were governed by princi ples of the soundest policy. Mr. GRATTAN abstained from taking any share in the debate, in the hopes of hearing any thing in the shape of argument from the other side, in favour of a measure which foreboded the ruin of British corn tierce. He was astonished at the mode in which this Bill was originally forced on the House ; and he was equally surprised when the evidence which the Mer chants of Liverpool and London had to offer against the Orders was rejected. Mr. BANKES argued ably on the same side, and emjured the House to pause before it proceeded in that career of violence against neutral states. Mr. WiPERFORCE supported the measure ; and Lord Henry Petty rose at two o'clock, wken he tatted into a most perspicuous statement of the con sequences which would result from these measures, sad cautioned Ministers of their responsibility for the system of political empiricism which they were pur suing. Mr. CANNING, in a most brilliant speech, ex posed the fallacy that pervaded every argument from the other side. It was in viewing this measure, - not as directed against an enemy, and only incidentally affecting neutrals, but as a blow aimed directly at neutrals themselves. file lamented as much as any one that neutrals, from the circumstances of the world, were placed in this predicament • but shoved, that it was no new principle from which they so suffered, but one established since the very first period that blockade had been resorted to, as in the blockade of a port or a river, all the innocent inha bitants surrounding the one, or living upon the banks of the other, suffered equally with the enemy, against whom the blockade was directed. He ridiculed, in Brains of the happiest oratory, the line of argu ment adopted by the enemies of the Bill. They had chosen to give up the evidence of Lord I lowick's letter, the most wise and exalted document of the A Petition for Peace is now going round for sig united abilities of the late Government ; they had natures in the towns of Manchester, Salford, and chosen to pass by the less firm and important letter neighbouring places in the County of Lancaster. The of Lords Holland and Auckland to Mr. Mattison ; signatures on Wednesday evening last, amounted to and they had chosen to rest the whole strength of their upwards of 37,000. wet on the afire dinit of Mr. Decres, a French Mi- Sir-Emit:No NEAGLE was yesterday appointed Cono ruster, whose doctrine had been proved false in point minder in Chief of the squadron on the Jersey and of fact, and f a lla c io us in point of reasoning. He then Guernsey station, in the room of Sir JA MES SAUMA. onsidered the question as it regarded America, and An, who is to be employed on a Secret Expedition. said, the doctrine now laid down would, .if acted ORATORIO.—The Selection last night, at Covent Non, amount to this : If we were at war withsone Garden, 'consisted of the favourite Serenata of Aar Pewee, we would have no hesitation in injuring all and Galatea, which was delightfully performed by , the rest of the world, being neutrals, in pursuing M p KPRARAM, Mrs. DICKONS, Madame DussEs, measures against that single Belligerent—but,. as Mrs. BLAND, Miss BOLTON, Mr. Goss, and Mr. the number of belligerents increased, so in proportion I BELLAMY. Mrs. BLAND was loudly applauded in me would rel ax i n our system, till, at last, there being , Would you- gain- a tender creature?" Mr. Bea only one neutral to all the world in arms against us, lanai was rapturously encored in " Love sounds the' We would allow that neutral, unrestrained and tiocon- . alarm." He also sang, in the happiest stile, BAUZ. I tr a, aletelloto supply all our enemies with every thin g • zisn's sweet air to Sir JOHN DALLAS ' S words , " St rik e , flat they could desire. This was precisely t he case strike _ lJ _the Harp," and received unbounded applause. l e the present instance ; and America was said to be Mrs. ICKONS was most rapturously encored in "01 the more injured, because, by her remaining the only had I Jubal's lyre !" The whole ended with the neutral power in the world, she had engrossed all that grand Chorus of " Live, live for ever." The House tonunerce, which would, under other circumstances, was crowded, and the Company elegant. hive been participated among many. He contrasted At the close of Chief Baron Sir A. MACDONALD'S., the conduct of the late Administration with regard to charge to the Grand Jury of Essex, on Tuesday last, America and Denmark, and condemned their having at Chelmsford, his Lordship remarked, that he was I threatened the power least able to resist the rights of under the painful necessity of calling the attention of Great Britain, while they had rather bowed to the the Gentlemen of the County to the cold and uncom.' monger power. ' fortable lodgings, that had for so many years been Mr. WHITBREAD answered Mr. Canning in an provided for the Judges in that town, and of which *mated s p eec h ; h e con sidered the principles laid t hey had so long complained. The Sheriff had of down by the Right Tionourable Gentleman who pre. ficially exerted himself to the utmost in his power to ceded him, as totally subversive of the commercial remedy it, but in vain. After stating the extreme in- PelieJ of the country. He was anxiou s the House conv enience, and uncomfortableness of the apartments, should vindicate its character by an almost unani. both to Mr. Justice HEATH and himself; and the proba mous opposition to the measure proposed by his Ma- ble impediment of the public business of the Circuit, iestY's Ministers. from the health of the Judges being so erpo-ed, his Mr. ROSE explained a after which a divis ion t ook Lordshi p said, they had resolved, if they did not re place, when there appeared for the Bill, ceive assurance of more appropriate lodgings being Ayes, 168—Noes, 68—Majority, 100. , provided before the next Commission, to remove the Assizes from Chelmsford, and hold them in future The House adjourned at Six o'clock this morning, in this town of Colchester. till Mond r y nest. SATURDAY, MARCH 12. - PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Consols, money, 641--for April acc. 6411--Owitlimn S 4 pre. Exchequer Bills, par. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. 9 per Cent. Red. shut India Bonds, 2s. 3s. dis. s percent. Cans, 64f Imp. Ann. 71 4 per Cent. shut Ex. Bills, 4s. 2s. pr. 5 per Cent. 9611 English Tickets, 211. Long Ann. shut Cons for Feb. 641 i India Stock 172 opg. The Herald, Captain MiKissocK, is arrived at Greenock, from Jamaica, which place she left 26th January, in company with the Croydon, for London, which has a Mail on board under convoy of a ship of war, and parted two days after sailing ; his Majesty's ship Meleager, with the fleet under her convoy, which sailed from Portsmouth on the 18th of November, lad arrived at Jamaica ; also a fleet from Cork. —The brig Margaretta, formerly la Plata Packet, i from Monte Video, parted from the convoy in lat. 10. 8. and had not arrived on 23d January ; the rest of the convoy arrived 11th January. The Mars, REID, from Monte Video for St. Dcmingo, I.a I been de tained by a British cruizer, off Cape Nichola Mole, and carried into Jamaica, where it was thought she would be condemned, not having a licence. the real rhe. to ctl v af- ci3l, the mbet orders some ancel lets in on be 40.. a it the mdse. LTER ~ and coma em bi Lt that ; ittrop nut 4 ; me+~- ~q. o f the u:ih itio, to 2ttER lOW' be re' IL He veditnt ;r••^C , I , l ed co.- re No.n• he ust take be.:vme Sir Joins STUART, the Hero of Maida, will sail immediately, to take the contntand of all the British troops in the Mediterranean. Among the Officers to he entpioyedoa the Swedish Expedition, are mentioned the names of Lords Row- LYN, MoIRA, HurentNsow, and PAGET General Ccrr- TON * Major-General JOHN HOPE, Brigadiers Drorr, Hourros, and DORRIEN. Generals Lori BANBURY, FINCII, and THORNTON, go with the Guards. The forte on this expedition will exceed that of the Danish. In addition to the corps mentioned in the StAll of Thursday last, it is said that there will go— Lord Cathcart's Regirnent of the 3th Foot. Life Guards. Sli,t Do. (21 Battalion). The Horse Guards, Blue. 42d, or Royal Highlanders, (21 Ist and 241 Dragoon Guards. Battalion.) Scots Greys. 71st Highlanders. 14th, 15th, and 16th Light 73d Ditto. Dragoons. 74th Ditto. A very large Force of Foot and 87th, or Irish Heroes, (24 Bat.) Horse Artillery. 921, Gordon Highlanders, (2cl sth Foot. Battalion.) We are sorry to hear that the Egyptian ophthalmia prevails much at the C ape of Good Hope. It was brought to that settlement by the Ist Battalion of General \Vim Etocas.'s regiment, who had 300 men down with it ay . bin our accounts came away ; however, by the excellent regulations of Brigadier-General Lord BLAY.- NET, and by the police established by Lord CALEDON , Arrivals from Holland are now more frequent than the contagion was kept down in the settlement. lately. By an American vessel we have received We are sorry to hear that a fever prevails among Dutch papers to the Bth instant. The news from the troops in garrison at Plymouth. Paris given in these papers, only comes down to the , 2d. Private letters of the Bth have also been received WEST INDIES. from Holland, which are full of complaints of the Wejust received the Journal of our Corres have j distresses occasioned by NAPOLEON'S commercial re strictions. I pondent (date beginning of January) at Barbadoes. The Commander-in-chief had gone on the expedi tion against the Danish Islands, from which the Accounts from Barcelona state, that the French en cers concerned promised themselves much prize-money. offi tered that city on the 16th of February, to the num ber of 10,000 men. They have also marched in great That excellent officer Sir JOHN WARDLAW comman force to Cadiz, and it is said intend to occupy all the ded at Barbadoes. General BOWYER had taken with sea ports of Spain. Ihim all the troops he could collect, (about 1.500) and Several American vessels have been brought into General MAITLAND and Brigadier-General GLAD - Leghorn STANES. Generals MACLEAN, SHIPLY, and RAMSAY , rn by French privateers, and there condemned as in the ports of France. That place , as well as had sailed a fortnight before the Commander - in - chief. Civita Vecchia and Ancona, according to rumours q The troops were rather sickly, particularly at Bar bebadoes and Grenada. Some regiments from Englai d contained in the Foreign Papers, is to united to the kingdom of Italy. To this, probably , the curious were anxiously looked for, particularly the 13 th, 25 th, document refers, which we insert to day—the feeble and 63d, who must by this time have relieved the protest of Pius VII. against the occupation of his 37th, 70th, and some others of the skeleton corps. territory by the troops of BONAPARTE. General BOWYEIt was immediately to go home after A vessel which left Bilboa about ten days since, the capture of the Danish islands. Lieutenant-Ge brings a report that the Porn has resig ned both his neral BECKWITH was to act till a new Commander in temporal and spiritual power in favour of Cardinal Chief was appointed, and come out with a Staff from FISCH, NAPOLEON'S uncle. England. The Captain of a French privateer, carried into Plymouth on Thursday, reports that five or six sail of the line got out of Brest between the '2sth and 31st of January. Letters have been received from Genoa of the 15th ult. which state, that a French squadron had arrived at Toulon from the ocean. After remaining in that port till the ships already lying there were made ready for sea, they all departed, but in what direction is not , intimated, some time between the 6th and 10th of February ; yet it has been said, that one squadron sailed from Toulon on the 18th of January. At the 1 1 same time, the French papers publish an account of one of their squadrons being seen off the Cape de Verd Islands, on the 29th of January, by a Danish East Indiaman. These 'atter articles of intelligence have again rendered doubtful the correctness of the state ment that it was the Rochefort squadron which passed the Cape de Gatte on the 26th of January ; though it is not a matter of doubt that it was an hostile squadron. DUEL.—On the 12th ult. a very remarkable duel was fought near the Austrian fortress of Brannan, with a publicity and a solemnity, we believe, altogether un exampled in modern times, and which assimilates this combat to the legal and judicial duels of the feudal ages. The parties were Baron von MISER, formerly Swedish Minister at Vienna, and Baron von WREDE, a General in the Bavarian service ; and the occasion of it, as far as we recollect in general, was this : Some dispatches, which had been sent from Vienna to Stockholm, by the Swedish Minister, were inter cepted by the French, and made public. In these, Baron DUBEN had reflected very severely upon the conduct of the Bavarian troops in the campaign of 1805, accusing them of surpassing even the French in acts of pillage and cruelty. This was resented as a calumny on the Bavarian military. General I WREDE, as the principal officer, immediately chal-1 longed Baron Dvnen, with an intimation that if he himself should fall, the Baron would be called out by the next in rank, and so on, till he was killed. The parties could not come together immediately ; the re spective Sovereigns both forbade their fighting ; but the Swede ventured in a case of this kind to disobey, and travelled into the South of Germany to meet his enemy. But here he found that the Bavarian Gene ral had been more obedient to his Master, and had, on command, neglected to attend his appointment. On this the Minister posted the General as a coward in the public prints of Germany, about a year since ; and the general opinion was of course in his favour. We' find from the last French Papers, that the duel 'was fought on the 12th ult. near Brannan, in the presence of a great number of the inhabitants. Baron DI:BEN came from Vienna on purpose, and had been already a week there; General WREDE arrived the day before. The parties met in the village on the Bavarian side of the Inn ; and after the seconds (the English Col. BURKE, and Count Von RECHBERG) had made the arrange.. ments, they entered the lists, which were beset by Ba -, Tartan military, and placed themselves at a distance of -15 paces. Baron DUBEN fired, and the ball passed the right ear of his adversary. General Wiizon's first pistol missed fire. The Baron's second fire was equally ineffectual, the ball passing the General's breast. The General's next pistol flashed in the pan. Enraged at this repeated mischance, he drew his sword, and advanced towards the Baron ; but the se conds rushed forward, and declared that the combat. ants had acted like men of honour, and that nothing further could or should be done. They then departed from each other in a state of r erixt reconciliation. About six in the evening of Tuesday last, a tre mendously alarming fire broke out in the newly erec t-A flour mill at Sturry, near Canterbv rj, belonging to Mr. Sampson Kingsford, which burnt so rapidly, that in the space of three hours it was wholly destroyed, togetht r with a large quantity of wheat and flour.— The fire is supposed to have been occasioned by the friction of some part of the machinery in the fourth floor. No part of the building remains but the brick work of the ground floor, and the large waterwheel; the other wheels, which were of iron, are either broken or otherwise rendered useless. Dui ing the pro7res , o' the flames a quantity of flour which was in sacks, was moved from the lower stages, but compa• atively tri fling with what has been consumed, whi h, in vh c alone, is said to have consisted of 2 1 50 quarter. NAtitICAG INTELLICOCL GREENOCK, MARCH,. The Herald, bl , Kissock, irrived here lastsevenifigi from Kingston, (Jamaica) 42 days passage; soled in company with the Croirdtin who had a packet for Falmouth, tinder convoy of ! the Sandwich ship of' war ; parted company with the Croydon two days after sailing. The Herald brings accounts of the ar rival at Jamtica of the . fleet of the 11th Nov. from Cork, among which were the Fame, Kenyon; Ann, Thompson ; Mars, Campbell ; Columbus, Reid . ; Ja maica, Burns ; Kitty, Reid ; and Mary, Alexander, of this port : also, of thg arrival of the fleet from Portsmouth of 15th Nov. under convoy of the Melea ger. The packet 'may be hourly looked for. PENZANCE, MARCH O. Last night his Majesty's schooner Pickle landed dispatches, which she took out of his Majesty's ship Pallas, now at anchor under Mullion, the eastern part of this Bay, The Pickle sailed again to join the Pallas. PiSMOUTII, MARCH to."'• Came in the Experiment. Capt. SAUNDERS, fr( Portsmouth, bound to Gibraltar, with tobacco, have ing carried away her foretoptuast, and lost the c, n voy, which passed by yesterday to the Westward. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH IL- Nothing t arrived or sailed this day.—Wind N.E. DEAL, MARCH 11. Remain.in the Downs his Majesty's ships Princess of Orange, Goliah, Trusty, Clyde, Ranger, Ear nest, NVrangier, . and Tygress ; Folkstone lugger, and Harmony victualler.—Wind N.E. blows hard. GRAVESEND, MARCH 11. Past by the Spring Grove, GREENWOOD, from Monte Video. The Elizabeth, Bolin, bound to Gottenburgh, is seized by the French at St. Übe's. The Twe Gebroders, from Hull for Malmoe, put into Arundahl on the 22d of December last, by stress of weather, where she was obliged to discharge her cargo to repair. The cargo has been detained by order of the Danish Government, who are proceeding against it, on suspicion of its being English property. The Ocean, Westburn, from London for Davis's Streights, is on shore at Ythan ; but is expected to be got off. The Custom-house Dock of Dublin having been found unequal to the trade of that City, Government have determined to accommodate the merchants by another very capacious Dock, eastward of the Cus tom-house. The Proserpine and Mercury, with the fleet for the the Mediterranean, called off Falmouth on the 7th inst. where they were joined by the Hydra, Captain i Carrick, from Plymouth for Malta. The King George, Middleyard, of Shields, coal laden, is on shore at Bridlington ; and, it is feared, will be lost. The Mary, Mereton, of Hull, from Riga, is cap- I cured and carried into Copenhagen. Tuesday a Court Martial was assembled on board the Magnanime, at Sheerness, when the Court pro ceeded to try two seamen, and one in nine, belong ing to the Amaranth sloop of war, for desertion, the latter from his post as centinel ; when every circum stance being heard; and duly . investigated, the Court adjudged the seamen to receive 200 lashes each, and the Marine 300, alongside such ships and at such time as the Commander in Chief may think proper to order. BIRTHS. MARRIED. Thursday the Mars, of 74 guns, Captain LURIN, was paid wages at Portsmouth, and there being a number of Jews and other slop-sellers round the ship, as usual, endeavouring to obtain admission to vend their commodities, they were ordered to keep off from the ship, but one boat persisted in coming alongside, when the Marine on the gangway fired into her, and shot a young man of the name of Abrahams, dead on the spot. On Tuesday se'nnight, as the crew of the Diann, of Sunderland, Captain Damn, now lying in Mar gate harbour, were sitting down to dinner, tw ) of the apprentices disputed about something, when one of them, James Randall, aged 17, struck the other, Isaac Terry, aged 18, a blow on the face, whic l .l the latter returned by stabbing Randall in the left breast with his dinner knife, with such violence as to perforate his lungs ; he lies at the New Inn, with but small hopes of recovery. Terry was immediately secured, and forwarded to Dover gaoL They are both natives of Whitstable. • A few evenings since, between sir and seven o'clock, a poor woman was stopped in the carriage road; Hyde Park, leading from Chesterfield-gate, by a soldier, who drew a knife upon her, robbed her of a few shillings, and made his escape. A few mornings since the house of Sir Martin Foulkes, In Ca vindish-square, was broke open, and robbed of considerable pro- Baty, besides eight pheasants and six partridges. Saturday night, as Mr. John Wood, of Stanmore, was tra vellingbetween Hampstead and Hendon, he was stopped by three footpads, who robbed him of his cash, pocket-book, coat, and 'ilk handkerchief that was about his neck. After the villains had taken the contents of the pocket-book, they returned it to him. Same night, between ten and eleven o'clock, as Mr. Coltfort, jun. of Finsbury-square, was passing through St. Giles's, be was knocked down, opposite the church, by a stout man, who con trived to make off with his hat. Early a few evenings since, the shop of Mr. John Walker, in Blackman-street, Borough, was broke open, and robbed of Irish linen, damasks, marcellas, quilting., shawls, silk handkerchiefs, tablecloths, &c. to a stonslelerable amount. A few evenings since, as Mr. George Goddard, of Feltham, was travelling between Hawley-lane, Hillingdon, and Harting ton, he was 'toped by four footpads, and robbed of his cash and watch. ' On the night of Thursday se'nnight, the house of Mr. Vernon, in Charing-cross, was broke open and robbed of Bank notes and other property to a considerable amount. The same night, the house of Mr. West, a grocer, in Fetter lane, was broke open, and robbed of plate and other property to a considerable amount. Next Tuesday, Second Day's Drawing of the State Lottery, on which day a variety of capital prizes from 5001. to 20,0001. must be drawn; as sixch, those who have not alreddy bought, will not surely lose so favou rable an opportunity ; likewise those who have small prizes, drawn the First Day, will no doubt exchange them for undrawn Tickets or Shares, which may be had at HORNSBY and Co's. 26, Cornhill, 52, Charing- Cross, and St. Margaret's Hill, Borough. Thursday morning, at Merton, Mrs. Perry, the wife of James Perry, Esq of a daughter. At Denham Green, on the 4th instant, the Hon. Mrs. Erslcin: of Cardross, of a son. On the 4th !net It Truro, in the County of Cornwall, Mr. John Marshall, in the 72d year of his age, son of the late George Marshall, Esq. Patent Comptroller of that port. i I 1 t i r