Star. — London, England, 1814-10-07 00:00:00

WINCH PAPERS. ROME, SEPTEMBER 17. The Rev. Jesuits Robert St. Leger, Charles Ayl mer. Paul Ferley, Bartholomew Esmonde, and James Butler, on Thursday last lett Rome for Ireland, their naivo country. These Monks performed their novi. cute at Palermo. GENOA, SEPTEMBER 24. In the night of the 4th instant a terrible hurricane caused great ravages in the port and town of Ancona. Twenty-six vessels were sunk in the port, and siz• wrecked on the coast : forty lives were lost by this disaster. Many houses in the town suffered consi derably ; and the total loss is immense. They add, that on the 30th ult. a vessel arrived at Messina from Naples, the Captain of which reported, that on the 23d, Murat, while reviewing his troops in the Champ de Mars, was fired at by a soldier with a :musket, the ball from which wounded severely an Aide-de-Camp close at his side. The Neapolitan army is 55,000 strong, divided into three grand corps. VENICE, SEPTEMBER 11. The fire in our arsenal has given rise to a thousand conjectures. Besides the loss of the ships, the maga zines have sustained considerable damage, and at one time great apprehensions were entertained for the safety of the Hope-house. We cannot form a correct estimate of the damage, but it is considerable. The idea that the plague ha" not ceased in Smyrna, and that it has appeared in the Isles of the Archipelago, does excessive injury to out commerce. VIENNA, SEPTEMBER 2L The Emperor hat sent to Prince Schwartzenberg a number of the Crosses made of cannon taken from the enemy in 1814, aml intended for soldiers who made that campaign. He has sent a medal of the same kind to Prince Metternich, and requested both; in (Littering letters written with his own hand, to wear them round their necks. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1814. PRICE OF ' )CRA THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK: Consols 65it —Consols for account 651 S per Cent . Navy 241-osonlons, 224 clis. Bands 13s. to Us. pos....Exchequer Bills par, 9s. Letters were reteived yesterday from Ghent to the lath inst. Several of the Commissioners, both Arne- rican and English, were absent, and nothing was known respecting the progress of the negociation BAYARD had returned front a visit which he made to Mr. CRAWFORD at Paris, who, it was re. ported, !tad received no encouragement to hope tha t the French Government would take any part what ever .e behalf of America in her present awful cir cumsn Ince'. It was also stated, that on Wednesday last die answer of the British Government to the last comer innication of the American Negociators, which was t trade on the . 26th ultimo, would be formally delivi :red, and that the whole body of Public Agents timid dbe re-assembled on the occasion.. The letters ftons Paris continue to speculate upon a speedy peace bets, Teen Great Britain and America, but the writers food d their opinion upon the mistaken notion that the' affair df Washington was so , decisive as to place Grl •at Britain in the attitude of a conqueror in the ayks of Mantsou and his adherents, and that they will .instantly accede to - any terms which may leave them in possession of the reins of Government.— We say that this is a mistaken idea, for obstinacy in persevering in a bad cause is what such thorough paced Jacobins call virtue and public spirit.— The probabilities are, therefore, that MADISON will persevere until a Baltimore mob (and perhaps the same groupe who . murdered General LINOARq and who were so humanely kept back even from trial by the President's Neil itraropi), take justice into their own hands, and seal the rrpose of the civilized world by a sudden burst of popular indignation. Certain it is, that England has a right, after every new sue tess to her arms, to rise in her demands : this ought to have been foreseen both by the Negotiators at Ghent, and the Incapable: at Washington. If they had any thing like a regard for the true interests of their country, they would instantly patch up an ac commodation, even if it thoold be but a hollow Ar mistice, to enable them to re-organize their army and their navy. Thus we now hear it rumoured, that net only are Ministers determined to insist on exclu ding them entirely from Lakes Erie and Ontario, but also from the trade with our West-India Colonies-. from the trade to India and China i and though last, not least, from the great Fishery on the Banks of Newfoundland. The American States have been, in short, ruined, in a commercial, military, and naval point of view, by this short but unprincipled war ; and twenty , years of peace will net restore them to the rank which they held when they elected that miserable driveUer for their Governor, who promised them the empire of the Seas and the possession of Canadas in the course of a single Session of Congress ! By some further extracts which we have given this slay lion Paris Papers, it will be seen that MURAT, the soi-disant King of Naples, was shot at when re viewing his troops : this is one of many warnings which this Gentleman has received from his 44 be loved subjects" the Neapolitans, and we trust he will profit by it, to resign to the lawful owner a crown which can never sit gracefully on the brows of the person who commanded the guard which conveyed Louts XVI. to the scaffold, and (strange coinci dence !) the person who, as military Governor of Paris, furnished the platoon by whose fire the Doc d'ENGIRUIX was murdered ! . TM ,pemr. rt mut be gratifying to our Military headers to learn, that Generals DRUMMOND and RIALL, who so recently distinguished themselves in Canada, and who were both wounded, are soon likely to be restored to their country and the service. The following letters from the British Army in that quarter contain some highly gratifying particulars reipecting these gallant heroes : Fauract of a Letter from an Officer at York (in Upper Canada) to a Frkod at Montreal—dated August 9, 1814. " We have bad two very severe engagements in this neigh bourhood—the latter of which (on the 25th July) was bravely contested, and but for the skill and intrepidity of General Daus- MOND must have ended in our defeat. The numbers ►ere so disproportionate, that the greatest exertions were neeessluy.— It will delight you to hear of the gallantry of the General. He formed his men, brought up his troops as they arrived, and gave his orders with as much coolness and judgment as if he had been in his closet: After he was wounded, he never betrayed the smallest appearance of uneasiness; and but for the blood, no one would have known that any thing bad happened to MM. He tied a handkerchief round his neck, and continued in the hottest of the fire, animating the troops and encouraging them to pen.- vere. Every body delighted vrlth him; and had it been day. light, the enthusiasm which his conduct inspired Into the Army would have enabled it to capture that of the enemy. Though bis wound was se►ere and painful, he still pursued them ; and If be comes in contact with them at Fort Erie, I trust we shall have a good account. You will have seen the Order Issued by General DRUMMOND, which gives a very modest and impartial account of the battle." The following is a letter received by Aavaint RIALL, Esq. of Clonmell, brother to the gallant General of that name, who was wounded and taken rrisoner by the Americans, in the sane battle in which General Dauatesonn distinguished himself: " Head-quarters, Falls of Niagara, July 31,1814. " It is with the greatest concern I have to inform you, that your gallant brother, General RIAU., fell, wounded, into the hands of the enemy, in an action which took place near this spot on the 25th instant, in which our brave twiny obtained a com plete victory. I have, however, the consolation to acquaint you, that I this morning received a letter from the General, in which he tells me, that it bad been indurated to hlm that he Is to bo removed to-day further into the interior, to Batavia, and the every care was taken to render his journey as easy as possible; and he desires me to write to you, that there is not any danger to be apprehended from his wound. I had myself considerable apprehension, as I heard he bad lost his arm, but I afterwards found the report incorrect, and indeed be wrote tome In his own hand great part of the letter, and the wound I am almost confi dent is In his right arm—lndeed my recollection cannot so far fail me, as I was close to him when he was wounded. " I requested those about him to stay by him, while I rode off to procure a Surgeon. When I returned to the ground, I found he had been led off, and was afterwards told be had been placed on his horse, and with his orderly dragoon had gone off towards Fort George. The enemy's dragoons were unfortunately in pos session of that part of the road at the tine, and I imagine he was intercepted, as the orderly dragoon h among the missing. lam greatly in hopes that an exchange for the General may be at no great distance of time effected. I have applied to go to the Lower Province, where I may have better opportunities of bearing of this, and I shall not fail to write to you whenever I may receive any information on a subject which must be the source of so much anxiety to you. I have the honour to be, dear Sir, your very obedient humble servant, " 1. W. HOLLAND, " To Arthur Esq." Aid-de-Camp. A letter from an Officer of his Majesty's ship RE ouLus, dated Patuxent River, August SO, communi cates some particulars of the destruction of Fort Was hington by the dives sion appointed for that purpose s " On the morning of the 25th, I was sent with three Officers and 200 men, down t. destroy Port Washington, built to pre vent ships coming up the River to attack the town. About 150 barrels of gunpowder, found here, were thrown into the well of the Fort; when one of the artillerymen most unfortunately dropped a lighted port-fire into the well, which, with a maga. sine, about 12 yards distant, full of shells, charged and primed, blew up with the most tremendous explosion I ever heard.— One house was unroofed, and the walls of two others, which had been burnt an hour before, were shook dews ; large pieces of earth, stones, ►rick, shot, shells, &c. burst into the air, and falling amongst us (who had no where to run, being on a gar row neck of land, with the sea on three sides), killed about 12 men, and wounded above SO more, most of them is a dreadful manner. I had the good fortune to escape with whole skin and bones, but somewhat braised. The groans of the people, almost buried in the earth, or int& legs and arms broke, and the sight of pieces of bodies lying about, was a thousand times more dig pressing than the loss we met with in the field the day before." The 2d regiment of Life Guards, commanded by Major FITZGIMALD, did duty yesterday at the Horse Guards. The 3d battalion of the Ist regiment of Foot Guards, commanded by Colonel DORYILLZ, marched to St. James's yesterday, to relieve Colonel RAMSDEN. Lieutenant-Colonel Toosaas Tammany, from half pay, is appointed to the Woolwich Division of Royal Marines, •ice DAVY, placed on half-pay, retaining his Government of Van Dieman's Land, with the local rank of Colonel in New South Wales only. The 47th Regiment has marched from Chichester fee Liverpool, with the exception of 200 men, who are stationed at Sandhurst, near Bagshot, employed on the works of the Royal Military College. Four companies of the 7th, or Royal Fuzileers em barked on Wednesday at Portsmouth, for America. The men cheered heartily as they went off. It is supposed they will call at Plymouth for convoy. Such is the slow promotion in the Ruyal Marine corps, that the senior Captain has been thirty-six years arriving at that exalted situation, and the senior Subalterns :sateen : the latter without any hope of further advancement, in consequence of the late ea tensive reduction. Gineatran, SEPT. 12.—0 n the 10th instant, the body of Lord Montgomery was landed from a ship in the Roads, the men of war and battery firing mi nute gu;s, flags half mast and half staff high, &c. and yesterday he was buried with military honours in the Convent Chapel; the troops, on the occasion, were commanded by Major-General Widdrington. General Smith, Commander-in-Chief, chief mourner, and General Griffiths, Sir Charles Holloway, and the six Officers next in rank were pall-bearers, followed by the Civil; Military, and Staff Officers of the gar rison : his Lordship died at Alicant in January last, on his way home horn Palermo. The 'following is the inscription on the coffin :—' Major-General Lord Montgomery, his Britannic Majesty's late Minister at Palermo, died 24th Jan. 1814.—Aged 41.". NArAL INTELLIGENCE. FALMOUTH, OCTOBER 4. • Sailedthe CONQUEST gun-brig for Wales ; SWALLOW cutter on a cruise. It is reported that there are up. wards of 70 vessels is Whit:and Bay, waiting a wind to come up Channel.—Wind East. PORTSMOUTH, OCTOBER 6. Arrived the Aux than of war from Ply Mouth— . the BUZZARD and TUB MARANT for the Downs. The Captains of ships bound to Spain, Portugal, and the Mediterranean, must report themselves oa arrival, at the Admiral's Office.—Wind West. DEAL, OCTOEER 6. Sailed the Duchess of Richmond and ReWard trans ports for the River. Came down from the River the Diana and Walker transports, and remain in the Downs with his Majesty's ships and the transports bound to Ostend, as per last. Arrived the Isabella, Norfolk, and Antelope transports, with some Irish Militia on board, from Harwich, for Waterford. FLEET FOR SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. Coos or Coas t Strr. SO. Yesterday sailed the Timm frigate, Captain Has.• rogasoa, and PELICAN sloop of war, Capt. Basiasn, with the trade as far as Gibraltar. They soon cleared the harbour with a fine wind. The Spanish ship that arrived on Sunday, with cork and wines, from the Mediterranean, has been put under quarahtine. Se veral of the inhabitants who had boarded her previous to its being found necessary to make her perform pratique, have been obliged to conform to the usual regulations, and are now performing the necessary quarantine.—Remain the several Vessels as per last. BRIGHTON, OCTOBE3 5. The remains of the seaman and boy who were drowned on board the Fountain collier, were interred this afternoon, in Hove Church-yard. The names of the sufferers are M. &amnia, aged about 44 ; and G. Bail, about 16 : they were both natives of Sun derland. The man has left a widow and three chil dren to deplore his unfortunate fate. The vessel, when she foundered, was not so far from the beach as to leave the hull beneath the sea at low-water ; and at the ebbing of the tide, the bodies were taken out. They were found in the hammock where they had been sleeping, the man's arms round the boy, as if he had perished while in the act of endeavouring to render him assistance. The accident happened about one o'clock on Monday morning, when a sudden gust occasioned such a shifting of the cargo of the vessel (a part of which had been discharged) as instantly turned her upon her beam ends, when she filled and sunk. Two seamen, who were on deck, saved their lives by swimming on shore. —The ship was insured pretty nearly to her value ; but what is peculiarly un fortunate to the owner, the policy expired but the day previous to her loss. The wreck now lies dry on shore. Nearly the whole of her canto has been got out, and men are actively employed in stopping the leaks, in the hopes of getting her into Shoreham harbour. GRAVESEND, OCTOI3ER 6. Arrived the Aurora, Corur.er, from Lisbon ; Nelson, Gray, from liamburgh; Friendschaft, Casser, from Norden. Sailed the Sydney, Hebeltine, for Newfoundland ; Twee Gebroders, Boer, for Memel; Harmunie, Platt, for Antwerp; Good Hope, Riot, for Rotterdam ; Hartle-, English, for Bremen ; Concordia, Hofte, for Amsterdam. The tonnage duty of vessels carrying horses and carriages to France has been taken off, to the great satisfaction of the parties interested. COMMERCE. —The following is an extract of a letter from Leipsic, dated Sept. 23:—« Thour.,h our fair is not yet begun, yet it promises to be a very busy one. The number of strangers who arrive every day is very great; the quantity of goods which pouria from all - quarters exceeds all expectation. Already large purchases have been made, and made goods dis. posed of. We learn from Brody, that the sales at the fair at Berdiczew, were very considerable ; and we expect from thence many Polish Jews, who make great purchases. The number of English and French already here is very considerable : and we have also a number of Greeks, from Moldavia and Wallachia." A Paris Paper, under the head of Hamburgh, Sept. 17, says—" The intelligence that the English have taken possession of the island of Bornholm, and the almost impregnable fortress of Christiansoe, is this day confirmed. They have thus a secure shelter and an excellent seaport in the Baltic, as they have also in the North Sea, in the island of Heligoland." Our intelligence from Hamburgh, of a much later date, does not communicate any such information. The Palermo papers of the 12th of September state, that the elections were nearly over in Sicily, and t he new Parliament would shortly op en. Letters from Gibraltar of the 16th u It. state, that there was no amendment, but rather the contrary, in the epidemic complaint. Both the cues and the deaths. had rather augmented. The military were p rincipally encamped on the neutral ground, and were, by the latest accounts, wholly free from the disorder. Sir TMOMA3 DYER, the first Officer who held a British Commission in Spain, on the 24th of July wrote a letter to the Secretary of War at Madrid, desiring that his name should be erased from the list of Spanish Lieutenant-Generals, as he considered his rank in that service a disgrace to him ; because cer tain Members of the Cones, and others, had been confined and refused trial ; because the Cones had been illegally dissolved, and no new assembly ap pointed; and because the liberties of the nation, which his eompatriots had shed their blood to pre serve, had been abrogated by the oppression of the present Government. Not having obtained an an swer to that application, SiTTHoMM has since written the following : TO TOR SZCRISTART AT WAR, MAIM": " London, September 24,1114. " MOST EXCELLENT haVe the honour to Inclose an nezed a copy of the letter which I wrote your Excellency on the 24th July, and to which I have received no answer. In conse quence of this silence, 1 a second time intreat your Excellency that my name may be struck from the list of Generals In the Spanish Army ; for I never can consent to accept any rank from a Government which deprives a whole people of the right of representation ; but especially I cannot submit to it from the Spanish Government, which has received so many proofs of the affection of its subjects in the exertions they have made, and of which I am myself the witness, for the establishment of the in dependence of the monarchy: It appears to me that the Ministers on the return of his Majesty ought at least to have advised their Sovereign to confirm all the anc.ent rights of the nation, which so many noble and glorious sacrifices have been offered up to maintain..—Con preserve your Excellency, ace. (Signed) " TOMAS DYER." • aP9RTINO INTILLIGENdit. NEWMARKET FIRS r OC TOEER ]METING, 1114. THURSDAY, (X;TOEIER 6. the Torii! Plate of £5O, for three-yr-old cd•s, lit. 71b. and fillies, Itst. 91b. D. I. Enrrance "as. The winner of the Sub scription for 3-yr-blds on Wednesday, to carry 71b. extra. Duke of Graftoo's br. f. Wire Duke of Rutlancrs br. c. Kutuaoff Lord Egremoot's b. c. Olive • II • 3 • 4 • S Mr. Crockford's b. c. Marplot, by Wary Mr. R. Prince's b. c. by Hedley - Even betting on Wire-4 to 4 apt Olive. Lord Foley's Teesdale beat Duke of Gratton's Woerul,Sst..2lb. each. T. M. M. 20010.-9 to low Teesdale . The King's Plate of 100 gs. for 4-yr.ol , ls earryirg 10st. 41b. 5 yr. olds I I st. Itlb. 6-yr-ultl4, I 2st. and aged 12. st. ilb. 11. C. Mr. Villiers's br. h. Merryll,ld, 6 yrs old I.ord Egremont's roan c. Quack, 4 yr. old Mr. R2witusen's br. e. Charles Surface, 4 yrs old Six to tour apt Merrylleld—Even on Quack. IMPROMP'T'U. . 2 .. 2 When Madison wisely from Washington seamper'3, Though his kik he left, he was very well kaosp:r%l ! Yesterday Lord SIDAIOUTH and the Duke of YORK had audiences of the PRINCC REGENT, at Carlton. house. It is said that the Duchess of CUMSERLAND will speedily accompany her husband to this coontry, where their marriage will be re.solemnised, according to the usual forms of the Church of England. The French Journalists seem very angry with us for destroying the City of Washington—and may say, with truth, that the Allis did nos serve than so! The gallant General Ross, after his supper at Wash ington, instead of saying, what's to pay ? might very well have asked—what's the damage ? The French, k appears, do not reliah the St. Dl mingo Lemonade, and the St. Domingo Mat mauls goes equally against their stomachs. A legal wit, being asked whether he thought it pm bable that Mi,: Joanna would have issue? replied, that it would certainly not be an Heir at Law ! The Duke and Duchess of ORLEANS have requested that women of the town and gaming-houses may no longer disgrace the Palais Royal. It is not often that we have heard a Prince of the House of Orleans give it as his opinion, that " the nation ne'er will thrive Till the w—.4es are harm alive!" It will be found. however. to be a Herculean labrr to cleanse this Augean stable. Englishmen should be cautious how they buy pro perty in France ; as the Droils trifuhaine, which were repealed by the first Legislative Body, have been revived. It is an undoubted fact, that the ancestors of the celebrated French Marshal Nev, were natives of Brighton, and some of the family are at this time re sidents here. His grandfather was a Brighton fisher. man, and afterwards settled at Fechamp, as a smuggler, little expecting the distinguished figure his grandson would afterwards make in conseq lence of the Revolution. His Imperial Highness FERDINAND 111. Grand Duke of Tuscany, on the 17th ult. made his solemn er trance into Florence. The return of this Prince was celebrated by magnificent fetes and universal 2CCIA. matrons. The three children of his Imperial High. tress arrived the same evening. Daises AT MAROATI.—The female ball-dress ap. proaches towards nudity, as the cold approaches. The sweet young nymphs, and many of their main. mas, likewise, are distinguishable for their nAtti shoulders, backs and bosoms; the petticoat cx ten 3ing a hair's breadth below the calf of the leg, and flounced with Valenciennes lace, three rows deep. Artificial flowers fancifully entwined in the hair, in full bunches, constitute the prevailing head-dress. MaLAucnoLy ACCIDENT.—This morning, about half-past seven o'clock, as WILLIAM BULL, the son r f a respectable baker of that name, in Higli.street, Sr. Giles's, was cleaning the front window if bis father's shop, the ladder, owing to the slippery state of the flags, gave way, when, shocking to relate, he fell upon some large spikes which penetrated his body. He was with difficulty extricated, after which he at tempted to run towards an apothecary's shop, about 20 yards off, in the hopes of procuring assistance, hut he fell on his back before he approached the shop, and instantly expired. LIMERICK, Sarremnaa 28.—Monday evening Ser jeant Michael Clifford, of the Ist battalicn 91st Re giment, having stopped at Bruff, in this county, on his way from Cork to this city, was attacked by two men in a waste plot, near the house he lodged in, who Most savagely wounded him in several parts of the body with a sharp scythe. cut the tendons of his legs, and then robbed him of his pocket. book ; the Serjeant lives in most excruciating torture. —Two of the first Dragoon Guards, quartered at Tallow, were on Sunday morning last violently as saulted by two ruffians, not 500 yards from the bar racks : one of the soldiers had his skull fractured by a stroke from the handle of a pike, the other was also dangerously wounded. A private of the North Cork Regtment, quartered atCappa, being sent on Monday evening last to Dungarvan, was, on his return, way laid, and barbarously murdered on the high road, about a mile distant from the last mentioned place. About five o'clock on Wednesday se'nnight, the bacon stores of Mr. Joyce, of Clonmel, were observed to be on fire, and in a short time assumed a most alarming appearance, there being a great deal of straw in the premises. About six the root of the range ad joining the Suir fell in. The great store adjoining the bank of the river is entirely in ruins, as is the range of building running up to Mr. JOYCE'S dwelling house; and indeed of the whole bacon concern, little remai^s but the walls. A large quantity of butter. of salt, and bacon wrappers, was also destroyed, with ;:n itn• mense quantity of straw, hay, and many mat,' ,ls belonging to the place. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK:LANE, OCTOBER 7. Our Wheat Trade conanues eaceedingly heavy; havii.g had but few buyers, and a considerable quantity at market, both Fog lia' and forsign Wheat, the few sales eff.:cietl this mulling stmt on lower terns than on Wednesday by fill t'4. par quarter. B.ws Icy goes off slowly at 404. and 41 s. althou l th the supply of that grain la very short. Grey Peas are duel sale, and rather cheap, r. in Oats and other articles there is no variation. smrrtioni.D MARKET, OCTOBER 7. Beef Ss Od to 6, Od V•al h. tHI to 74 6t Mutton is ud to 64 10,1 Park t s 0.1 to 76 ui Cattle at lark. .t. Beam 11,0—Sleep and Lambs 6,74o—Calves too—Pico SL a. HAY AND S CRAW, PIK LOAD. Meadow Hay 41 to hi S• I Clover *I Is to 71 71. Rowse 61 tir W 03 I Straw 11 12s to :1 its.