Star. — London, England, 1810-04-24 00:00:00

TIIF, EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, APRIL 24. EASTER TUESDAY.—Haday at the Public Offices. A Yesterday morning, a heavy firing was heard at 7 )3ver and the neighbourhood, from the French coast ; ',1 , 1t the weather being hazy, it has not. been ascer -:tined whether it 'vas occasioned by any rejoicing, or any of our cruizers getting within range of the l'rench batteries. The American ship Adelaide has arrived at Liver; I poi, after a voyage of thirty days, - from New York, brings advices ten days later than the former accounts. We believe that there is no prospect of :4ny determination being had upon Mr. Macon's Bill, until the temper of this country should have been ascertained from the contents of Mr. PlNcxxEy's dis patches, transmittid in the John .Adams. The gene- Al opinion in the United States was, that Congress :could he prorogued at the commencement of the al- , - 14oaching month. We have received Portuguese Papers to the lOth Instant, from which wz. , subjoin some extracts. They tre the less interesting, as we have before announced receipt of private letters to the 17th. LISBON, APRIL to. By a letter from the head-quarters in Chavis, dated the 31 bt ult. the following intelligence has been re. " Ror.quillo, March 27, 1810." PARIS, APRIL. I:. There will be an extensive promotion and a diplo matic audience to-day at Compiegne. Several of the Ministers set out for that place yesterday morning. We are assured that his Majesty's excursion to Saint Quintin is deferred. aeived : " Since the 23d instant, Astterga is formally in- . COMPEIGNE, APRIL F. vested by a force consisting of from 10 to 12,000 Friday his Majesty hunted on horseback. The stag men, commanded by Jnnot. On the 15th some was killed in the river, after having crossed it two or skirmishes took place, the result of which was fa- three times. Her Majesty the Empress, followed the %flaw tisk to the Spaniards. It appears that General chase in her open chariot, accompanied by the Lady Malty is advancing to succour Astorga, but all the in waiting, several of her female attendants in car troops in Galicia are not very numerous. ridges, and equerries on horseback. In the evening " Don Antonio Arse, Captain General of Astoria, the play of the Cid was performed in the new gallery has preceded to Eadajos, and the few troops who by the company from the French Theatre. '!'alma are in that principality are commanded by . General performed the principal character. Ponte. The Marquesito (a Spanish partizan) endea- Yesterday their Majesties took an airing in the yours to collect a small force, but the whole track forest. In the evening Pkettra was performed—leAa of country, as far as the river Narcea; is occupied by demoiselle Duchesnois displayed extraordinary abili. the French. On the left banks of • the ,Douro small * tics ; she was well supported by Damas and Saint p ties of the enemy's troops continue now and then Rix. The company will perform Andromache and • - to make their appearance." i IBritaenicue, and then make room for the performers BADAJOZ, APRIL 4. from the Comic Opera, who will give several succes- Reynier's division, composed of 6000 foot and WO ; sive representations. horse, arrived in Merida on the 2d - instant, and on I Their Majmies, the King and Queen of West the following day moved from thence in the direction • phalia, the King and Queen of Naples, their High of Villa Nova de la Serena , wh ither it W:l3 to pro nesses the Enke of Wurtzbureh 9 and the Princess eted by forced marches. The light troops of the e. Borehese, are arrived, and have taken up their resi van-guard of Ballasteros' army arrived on the Ist 0 der, ce in the Imperial Palace. The Vice-Roy and instant in Azuailoollas, from which place the Corn- Vice Queen of Italy, and the Grand Duchess of Tus. wander, Don J. Vallodaus, sent an official intimation , cuty, are exaected. to the University of Seville to ha ve the next da y 3°oo rations in readiness for the use of the Spanish army, which is on its march to that capital —On the 27th of last month 4000 French marched from Se ville to Chapatro, where the head-quarters of the Freech are established, which is opposed to that of Ballasteros, whose head-quarters are still in Ron_ In La Mancha are several flying parties, some of them of considerable strength, which greatly harass and molest the enemy's troops. Letters are this moment received from Seville, of the 30th ult. which contain the following intelli gence: 4 6 In this capital, and its suburbs, snore than 2000 French have met their fate ; in Quintellana the militia of the province arid some flying parties, were lately engaged with the enemy, whose loss was con siderable. Mortia informed the Municipality that he should, perhaps, order the bridge to be broken down. Joseph Bonaparte has returned to Carolina. It is said that Victor is on the point of leaving the hie of Leon for Corunna." APRIL 6.—General Ballasteros has transmitted the following report to his Excellency the Marquis Romana " Most Excellent Sir—On the 24th instant, after the first division of Estramadura had formed a joist.- tion - with me, I determined to attack the enemy in St. Olalla, marching in different columns, • one of which put itself in motion on the 24th at night, anti the other on the 25th, at break of day ; but the weather became so tempestuous, that el found myself obliged, at two o'clock in the morning, to suspend the march. At eight o'clock, the weather clearing up a little, I put my corps again in motion for Olalla, where I arrived at half past two, and learned that the enemy had marched at seven o'clock Inr Ronquillo, with a forie composed of 2,500 foot and 590 horse. 'Being desirous to come up with him, I ordered the light parties to reach Ronquillo the same evening, and to begin harrasssing the French ; while 1, with the rest of my corps, advanced within two leagues distance from that place, where I halted.— The three flying parties, commanded by Don Filipe Vila - nit, Don Luiz Canal, and Don Jaime Botler, opened their fire at ten o'clock at night, and conti nued it until six o'clock in the morning, when I arri ved. At nine o'clock, the firing having continued mithcrat intermission, the enemy bega..'eo retreat.— Being closely - -pursued as far as Rio Huilla, he halted, and engaged our advance& parties, which being supported by the regiment of Congar, COM 'inanded by Lieutenant-Colonel D. T. Degar (the Colonel having the command of a Colonel), and othrr . cl:mhm:nts of different corps, which fought in line PAMPELUNA, MARCH co. Mina, who was at the head of one of the most nu merous bands that infested Navarre, was yestei day wounded and carred by one of our moveable columns, before General Duf,,ur, Governor of the Province. TRIESTE, MARCH 2n. We have received very satisfactory advices from Corfu. Since the late fruitless &bat kation of the ' English, they have made no further attempt against that island, the garrison of which is in a very respec table state of defence. The English have not a suf ficient number of troops to enable them to make a successful descent. General Stuart, the Commander in Chicf, being unwilling to weaken the defence of Sicily, has refused to give Admiral Martin a few bat talions which he applied for. On the other hand, the blockade of the island, by the English men of war, is not so strict as to prevent all communication with it. In consequence of the number of robberies com mitted on the road between this place and Fiume, the Governor-General has issued an order, rendering the Communes responsible for the restitution of the property taken from travellers, and directing that two horses shall be taken from the Commune where any robbery or assassination is committed, for every indi vidual attacked, and that they shall be confined in our citadel until the culprits are delivered up to abide the sentence of a court martial. The bodies of the culprits are to be hung :a chains on the highway. , • VIENNA, MARCH 30. The latest ad vices from Turkey state, that the Rug-, sians were preparing to attack :he Turks near Nissa, and important results were expected. The combined Russian and Servian army was daily augmenting by a prodigious number of deserters from the Northern provinces of Turkey. FRANKFORT, APRIL 7. The ccrdon of troops forming on the maritime frontier of the North, from the mouth of tl:e Ems to that of the Elbe, will be forthwith reinforced by seve ral French and Westphalian regiments. According tiiletters from Hanover, the greater. part of the troops that have been for some time past quartered in that city and the environs, have actually received orders to set out for the coasts, and have be gun their march for Bremen. None of the French corps from the Banks of the Inn and Danube have hitherto moved down to the coasts ; but orders are daily expected from Paris, to regulate the definitive posit►ons which they are to occupy. HANOVER, MOCH 29. Tiv. Imperial Commissary, aad Director• General ~,.~ ~m. - ---,. , _ for three hours together with ate Inmost intrepidity of the Extraordinary Customs, has published a noti and valour; they kept their ground, and the enemy fication respecting the provisional measures he is found it altogether impossible to regain one single inch charged to adopt for the administration of the cus of the territory which has just been relieved from his toms in the Duchy of Lauenburgh, in as much as by scourge. In this state of things I discontinued the pur- virtue of the first article of the Treaty of Cassel, suit,because my troops stood much in need of food and which is explanatory of the Treaty of of Paris of the of some repose. The ground gained b y hard fi g htin g 14th of January, 1810, the Duchy Lauenburgh is is still in our power, and I did not retrograde an excepted from the cession made of the Hanoverian inch. The enemy's advanced parties are in sight of territories to the King of Westphalia, and will con mine. All the troops under my command are in the tinue to be administered in the name, and for the ac highest spirits worthy of the Spanish name , and con- count of his Majesty the Emperor of the French. tinually desirous to engage the enemy , whose loss in BERLIN, MARCH 31. the above engagement was c onsiderable. Ours can- 1 The re part is revived of his Majesty intendin g not as yet be ascertained, as I have not yet received shortly to make an excursion to Silesia. The time of the returns from the different corps. Brigadier-Ge- his setting off is not yet exactly fixed. It is, however, neral Don J. S. de Contraras, Commander-in-Chief supposed that his Majesty will satisfy himself, for the of the first division of Estremadura, contributed much Present, with visiting Breslau, and that he will not go to the success of our operations by the prudence and to Upper Silesia. The Queen will accompany her energy he displayed on the occ asion, and which are august spouse upon this occa sion, as well a s in his worthy of the highest praise. (Signed) journey to Paris. "F. BALLisTEROs." In consequence of the order issued on the 6th in-' stant by the police of this city, prohibiting the circu s— lation and reading of " The Bee," seals have been A private letter from Paris, dated the 13th instant, put upon all the copies found in the bands of book repeats, that the common topic of conversation in sellers, and in reading-rooms, and the owners have that city was, the re-establishment of a general peace, been compelled to make oath that they will not suffer through the mediation of the Emperor of AUsliiiA. ;single copy to be circulated. . The following are eztracts from Paris Papers to CONSTANTINOPLE, MATCH 1. the 15 . ,11 iastant : j Tile first stone of the immense building, properly called the Porte (the gate) has been just laid with the usual ceremonies. This building, it is known, was burned by the Janissaries. Under its ruins were bu ! tied that bold and enterprising man, Mustapha Bai ractar, the mainspring of the revolution undertaken to re-establish the Sultan Selim, which proved fatal to that Prince. SCHWERIN, MAkCH s' The military conscription proceeds regularly in our duchy ; but the exceptions are too numerous, and the persons at the head of the recruiting department ton indulgent. It has as yet been only applied to the la bouring peasantry—a regulation which will no doubt he soon changed. Our Government, on receiving intelligence of the sailing of the English fleet for the Baltic, dispatched commissaries to Wismar and Wagemunde, to M- I quire into the means of defending these ports, in case they should be attacked by the enemies of the Conti nent. The system relat'nt! to the non-admittance of sus pected vessels is exeeuted here with more rigour, if I possible, tnan in tlic. t eighbouring States. Sugar and coffee have almost entirely disappeared. Letters from Morlaix, received yesterday, commu nicate the arrnizd at rt, and departure _r Paris, of Messrs. M'KENzir. And DicKiNsoN; who sailed some time ago from Plymouth to negeciate an exchange of prisoners of war. They also add, that they were re ceived with every mark of respect on their landing, and proceeded on their journey to the capital without meeting with the least difficulty or delay. A Gentleman was on Change yesterday who has just arrived from Lima. At the time he left Peru, the discontents in the interior of the Colonies had been entirely suppressed. About twelve millions of dollars, in three Spanish ships of war, were on their voyage to Old Spain. The Alp,esiras, which was the richest of them, had left Vera Cruz, and might be daily ex- pc ted Euiope. Letters have been received from Buenos Ayres of the (44111 January, by a vessel arrived in the Downs. It arpeart by these that there is no truth in the late :If:comas received from Monte Video of the Viceroy CisxEuos orderii4 ali foreign vessels, without excel): don, to depart, and that a proclamation to that effect was about to be issued. On the contrary, the greatest harmony subsisted baween the Governor and the English, who were there' ! )u commercial affairs, and the different cargoes landed were selling off at very good prices. The new Governor seems to be extremely popular; he is using every rqthod to conciliate the I people. He entered upon his government with very disheartening prospects ; the troops iv ere quite naked, and had not received any pay fur some time ; not a 1 single dollar in the treasury ; no replations whatever ; as to commerce, bales. of goods ,being landed on the , coast without paying the least duty ; and in an open state of warfare with the interior, from whence he de rived his supplies. Many salutary rep l itlations had however been already adopted, to the generaitiatis faction of the people, and no doubt was entertained of his being able to carry into execution the whole'oc 1 his excellent plans. _ _ _ • Letters from Konigsburg, of the 9th instant, state, that in pursuance of the system to be adopted throUgh out the Baltic, the Court of Denmark has issued a Decree, which is to be enforced with the utmost rigour, ordering that no neutral vessel laden with co lonial produce shall be allowed to pass the Sound, or to land her cargo on the Danish territory; which shall not have come from some port of America, or direct from the West India Islands. The Master of an American vessel, which has been condemned at Christiansand in Norway, arrived in Town ye'sterday. He states, that between forty and fifty American vessels had been seized in Norway, and were in course of adjudication. The slightest pre ' texts were made use of to cover these piracies. Some vessels were seized because they had been overhauled 1 by British cruizers ; others for irregularities in their papers ; and in one instance a vessel was condemned because the supercargo was empowered to dispose of a share in her to any American citizen resident' at Riga. A vast number of privateers were fitting out in the ports of Norway. A letter from on board a transport in the harbour of Messina, dated February 5, says-- ,, We have had 1 dreailful weather here, and at Malta nine ships sunk lin the harbour. On Friday night last three ships ran 1 on shore here, and were dashed to pieces : there were 200 women 'on board one of these ships, who were t going up to Ceuta to their husbands : fortunately they l were all saved." THE ARMY. Yesterday Colonel NEWPORT'S fine regiment, th e Worcester Militia, were reviewed at Portsmouth, by General Warn(Abt, who expressed himself highly pleased with the discipline and appearance of the corps. Colonel GRANT, M. P. has left town for Ports. mouth, to join his regiment, the Inverness Militia, which is to be reviewed. The regiments of Local Militia in the county of Inverness have been called out. Preparations are making at Plymouth for the re• ception of _ 1000 sick and wounded from Lord WE 4 - LINGTON'S army. General ENGLAND has put all the medical men in that quarter in requisition to attend them. We are glad to hear that by the abilities and per . severing zeal of Dr. GRANT, under the orders of Ge. neral NicoLLs, the regiments which arrived in so crip pled a state are now all getting effective, and, as was stated by Sir LUCAS PEPYS in the House of Commons, will all be fit for another service next month. Lord MORTON'S regiment, the Fifeshire which has the last five years been dch,g duty in Eng land, has just marched into tlie barrack.; at A.berdcen , and are to be reviewed by General *DONALD. The 2d battalion of the 79th, or Cameron High landers, are quartered ia the neighbourhood of Edin burgh, and are fast completing. The first battalion of this noble corps is on the advance post at Cadiz their gallant Colonel, General CAMERGN, is with Lord WELLINGTON. From some unknown cause, an uncustomary muc ter of one of the battalions of the Coldstream Re , j. ments of Guards took place yesterday evening, seyen o'clock, in the Birdcage Walk, St. James Part.. After the men had been properly drawn up, the Ad. jutant read a copy of a General Order to them; afte which they were dismissed. Major-General MONCRIEF left Hull on Wednesda ; for Ipswich, having been removed, to take a cea mand in that District. Brigadier-General Sir Meg TAOVE BuItGOYNE, Dart. succeeds Major.Gener MONCRIEF in the commapd of the Garrison at HuC A general Court Martial is ordcred to assemble. the West. Indies, for the trial of the Grenadier con: panies of two battalions of the 60th. for misconclua before the enemy at Guadaloupe. The most magnificent entertainment that has witnessed for many years in this Country, was y terday given by his Royal Highness the Prince WALE% to the Knights.of the Garter, and the Offs belonging to that most noble Order. An additional room, besides these previously adapt ed to the reception of his Royal Highneis's visitant cats thrown open upon this occasion. Nothing cou' exceed the brilliancy of the scene. The following is a list of the Illustrious and H nottrable Personages who were present : Duke of York, Duke of Clatence, Duke of Kent, Duke Cumberland, Duke of Susses, Duke of Cambridge, Duke, Gliucester, Duke of Devonshire, MarqUis of Buckinjham,L Chatham, Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Westmorland; Lord lisle, Lord Spencer, Lord Camden, Duke of Rutland, Hardwicke, Duke of Beaufort, Marquis of Abercom Chesterfield, Marquis of Stafford , M ar q uis of Hertford, L Dartmouth, Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lonsdale ' Lord Windy sea, Bishop of Winchester, Bishop of Salisbury, Sir 13a34 Hear; Dean of Windarar. The Dukes of MARLBOROUGH, GRAFTON, No TH W AIBER.LAND, and BUCCLEUGH, Lord PEMBROKE Al' Sir FRANCIS MOLYNiUZ, were invited ; but from i' health, were unable to attend. JOHN BURNET, Esq. is appointed Judge Admiral Scotland, in room of ROBERT liorsON CAT, Esq. ceased ; and ALEXANDER MACONOCHIE, Esq. Advt cam, is appointed Sheriff of Haddington, in room a MT. BURNET. • : Wednesday last, at seven o'. - lock in the evening, meeting took place' between Lieutenant BOOTH, tended by Lieutenant Kthvit;oios, and Lieute PONSONBY, attended by Captain CLEAVER, all of ' East York regiment, now in barracks at Sunderlar when after an exchange of shots, without either taF effect, their indifferences were accommodated. Mr. SMITH, who fought the fatal duel with the Mr. W. PRIEST, surrendered and took his trial Bristol on Thursday last. He was acquitted. 'DIE UNFORTUNATE JEFFERY.--From the foliinto paragraph, which we copy f rom a Paper pred Plymouth, the place whence we received the repo of JEFFERY'S death, we are inclined to hope that di report will prove unfounded, an donat 'there is s till chance that be may have been ied to Amen as formerly stated : ' 4- " Plymouth, April 3. " A report has been in circulation for several days par, that letter to the mother of the 'unfortunate Jeffery has been recciil from an American Captain, addresses' to her at Fowey, t/ his being taken off the islard, after a lapse of twelve days, that he had eaten the flesh off his shoulders. We have o pains to•ascertain what credit is due to the report, and find it d tirely staid of truth. The mother resides at Polperro, armne under the 'name of Honor toad, basing been married to . husband ; she lately received a letter trona the Navy Boa that she should receive the wages due to her son, as so on'_ , _, received a proper account of his death; she has also recow letter from Mr. Whitbread, making enquiries into the si. of the young man's relatives. The anxiety of this poor f. friends may be more easily conceived than described ;.aod renders the conduct of Captain Lake doubly atrocious pressed Jeffry, - when only Its years of age, out of a prig setf• Two young e men now reside at P o lperro, who sailed with r the Recrikit, but they cannot give any satisfactory a:counto 1 after being put on shore" The Society of College Youths, of Ashton• an ' line, in the county of Lancaster, a few days ago on their st. Michael's Gothic church bells, a c. plete Peal of 7002 harmonious c hanges of Gran Caters, which was nobly brought round in fou.,,th , and ton Minutes—and 'the artists were, 1 Mr. James Moss ; 2, Mr. James Turner ; 9, 11 . 1. '1, muel Moss i 4, Mr. Elias Hall ; • Mr. lIP jun. ;6, Mr. Thomas Hammond ,7, Ti" 5, Mr. John 'O l Dewsnap ; 8, Mr: Aaron Walker ; 9. Mr. . 11 . 1 0 Granger ; tenor, Mr: Charles ea es s ; C eightond, of the Peal, Mr. Samuel-Moss, jun. at • . tenor, 20 cwt.