Star. — London, England, 1808-02-03 00:00:00

LOWR Y ELUTION COhOdITTSX. lige in reressing WNW disorders, the iseet;;oik tom * WHITE broug ht u p the reduced List of the poem o f the war pp . chosen by ballot, to try the merits of the The inconvenience of theprivations to which the t'll uil— non iptainsti g of an undue election and return Continent is subjected by NAPOLIOS'S deems against krition the &rou t of Banbury, in Oxfordshire. The otoo g i nz names of the Members : commerce, may be inferred from the following arti u''''' - ' t er Honourable E. Finch, Chill cle published in the Berlin Telegraph : H. FsrStsd, Esq. Right Hon. It. Donau, - Y. Pints rig* Right Hon. Sir l. Newport, " All the levied Societies on the Continent ought e. Horner, ksq. I. Egerton, Esq. to make it a duty to propose important and honours F. m y, Esq. H. Smith, Esq. 14. C▪ alvert, T. W. Adams, Esq. Me rewards for those who shall resolve this question: si r 3. s. Yorke, Bart T. Thornton, Esq. " What is the bat means of supplying the 'dace of then Right Hon. C. llatlsuat, Nonsinees. I c N adu, Eat. an d the " colonial cemsnotlitits which are most in vogue, and to AMERICAN TREATY. 44 which we have been most accustomed, by products of Mr. EDEN rose to move, pursuant to notice, for " the Continent ?" trop' of the Note sent by the President of the United to the House of Congress, relative to the refu- A gentleman who left Morlaix only four days since, : I t , rat ify d,c American Treaty. It was necessary informs us, that he left there two large French lug in order to enable the countryto she v e this paper, gees, one of them belonging to the Government, the n ose to a right u nderstanding . of the slibjectl He other a privateer, both of which will soon be at sea. Yd ee -h T vat regret heard it stated in his Milesty's The American ship Aurora, of Baltimore, with a nsiech, that the President had refused to ratify that h*regret was the great', as he had un- cargo of coffee , su g ar, &c. had j ust arrived, captured e nd Is greater , uretl; wood, that, though there were several points to be by a French privateer, after having been detained by an accommodation might still have been adjueed,an English frigate. It was asserted at Morlaix that f RI; WI As the production of this paper sees not to I . •he would merely state the ground of his , tish P shi and cargo would be condemned as prize, a Bri te resi sted, • It appeared to him, that the passage in his Officer, • a Midshipman, having been found on Lo tion. jesty's speech that stated the rejectioe of die treaty board. Ma w ooed explanation. One would imagine from this, i •••••••••••••• 1 t hat t he President ha d been invested Erich regal power.; 1 Letters from Oporto of the 20th ult. have been re- , 1 t h a t he could make war and peace, and perform every ' 1 submitting t h em tcw the exe,:utive act, only hm afterward ceived in town. The w•ritors describe their p resent l . situation as lamentable, and their prospects equally c ongre ss. But, if he was rightly informed, hc cou d , have no more power to make or reject a treaty, with- deplorable.Thep are suffering under a scarcity of out the ap ps of two-thirds of the Coogres provisions ; and this calamity is aggravated by the t han his Mojestv here could levy taxes without the obligation of supporting 15,000 Spanish troops. consent of Parliament. Some explanation of the ---- in his Majesty's speec h *. passage all aged t o was the Admiral BERM was to sail f rom Pl y mouth on fore necessary. He then adverted to the bad effects Monday, with a squadron of the attack on the Chesa p eake, and moved, 1 4 six sail of the line, to That an !mishit Address be prese n t ed us '. is Majesty, that be be stationed off Brest. Concerning that fleet, the re would be graciously pleased to la/ before the House a copy of the • Preaeat's Note to the Congress, of the 27th of October, /cc i ports of its escape have received no con fi rmation. Mr. CANNING had no objection to the motion, The last errival from which intelligence might have Hon. Captain though Ministers had not an authenticated copy of • b ow , received was the Spencer, t he Note, as the Americans had nothing correspond-. ' STOPFORD. She sailed from St. Helen's lately, to ing to our Gazette. But he had applied to the Ante- . can Minister, who had promise d an authenticated J oin the Channel fl eet ; could n ot find them at the copy ; bnt there could be no question here as to the usual station, they being in pursuit of the Rochefort constitutional power of the President, for the Congress squadron. She cruized some days off Ushant, in could take no cognizance of the Treaty, till the Pre-', company with two sloops of war, when the westerly sident had given his assent w it. He had refused that 1 drove her into es T orbay. initial act, and therefore it was correctly stated to be , g ' ------- rejected. of tn 1 Yesterday being the anniversary of the Purification Mr. TIERNEY sa id, that the language of the the Vt • rg• tia MARY, commonly called Candlemas speech, and of the Right Honourable Gentleman o as 'Day, the usual offerings were made at the Chapel unguarded, because the President must state to Con- . Roval. gress the grounds of his refusal, and it remained' for 1 Thi s the Congress to approve of them or nnf.—Notwith. I morning the domestics of Count PoTocswil l standing his rejection, the Treaty mig ht therefore left town for Dover, from whence they will proceed ultimately be ratified. He also observed; that it was direct for Paris : and on Saturday next Prince Estee- 1 strange they should have stated in his Majesty s i • , Homo Count PoTocsKl, and Major de MARKVS, with I I Speech, the rejection by the: President, if they had 14 . two or them attendants, leave town on their return to riet an euthenticaied co py. , . . itisitt. .....0 ..• ungasy. Mr. CANNING said, that . the iti Onourable The Right Hon. RICHARD RYDER, of Lincoln's •Gentleman was mistaken is to the acts. Tie mo- , Inn, in the County of Middlesex, has been elected ion was then put and carried. Member of Parliament for the Borough of Tiverton. - ..,; TIIIC RANK. - i DONEGAL ELDCTION.—NiOth day, Jan. 27, at the Mr. TIMMY. after some previous observations close,of she poll, Colonel out Mon General moved, that there be laid before the House copies of • Hart 701- 7 -Majority for Colonel Montgomery 225. the correspondence between the First Lard- of the I Sansiday se'nnight, a Lieutenant of the Navy ar 'rreasury and the Chancellor of t)te Exchequer, on , r ived, at Cork with dispatches for Admiral WIIITSIIEN the one hand, and the Governor arid Deputy, Po ver. conuminicating intelligence of the Rochefort squadron nor of the. Bank, on the other, since the. Ist of May, having effected its escape from Basque Roads. , • , 1807, on the subject of the rnanogement of the public , A Court of Inquiry was on Monday held on board debt ; the application of unclaimed dividends, and a the Gladiator, of 44 guns, at Portsmouth, on Cap westain loan for the public service. He could not see, _ that WooDotee, for the loss of the Caloutta, when he there could be any objection to the laying these papers most honourably acquitted. on the table, and they might be produced before Mon-j . day. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER did . I Lieutenant HENDERSON, who brought the accounts from Sir Samuel Hoop of the surrender of Madeira, is promoted to the rank of Commander. sot object, but mentioned, that the correspondence did not include all that passed, but principally re . I Captain PARthlt, of the Prometheus sloop of war, ferred to the results of verbal conferences. After a is promoted to the rank of Post Captain. few observations from Mr. Thornton and Mr. Hus- , Admiral Beton is recalled from the Government iisson, the motion was agreed to. I of New South Wales. Mr. HUSIUSSON then moved for a statement of ! A letter has been received from Falmouth, which the unclaimed Dividends at the Bank, remaining in states that dispatches, supposed to be of greett conse each quarter for the last three years, as they stood in quence, were found on Friday last, in possession of a each period previous to the y issue from the Exchequer passenger (a innFrechman) on board an American for the payment of the Didends for the next quart schooner lying that harbour, lately sent in by the I Mars privateer, bound from Bourde aux to New York. ter.—Agreed to. Adjourned. 1 —The dispatches are from the French Ministry for i Martinique and Guadaloupe , and were discovered in 1 the hold of the ship, in a large trunk, just in the main hatchway, through the information of one of the crew. A letter from New York of the 26th of December, received by a mercantile house in Glasgow, states that the embargo had already caused a considerable de clension in the price of flour, that article having fallen at Alexandria from 6to 4 dollars per barrel. The price of other articles was expected to decline in the same proportion. The postscript mentions a rumour that the embargo had been recommended by Tv RREAU, the French Minister.—Another letter from New York, of the 26th, states, that the minority in both Houses, on the question for laying on the embargo, corms, ponded precisely with the numbers of the Federalists, and that the names given in as opposing the act, were the most distinguished and leading men of that party. Dovevoetoso—Monday night a young lady, from a private theatre, appeared at this house, for the first time, as Elvira, in the tragedy of Pizarro.—She possesses but an indifferent figure ; a regular, rather than an expressive set of features, and a voice of no very extensive compass ; and she has much to ac quire by study before she can take rank in the theatre, equal to the support of such characters as Elvira.- 9he appears, however, to have been tolerably well schooled in the mere business of the stage ; but her action is rather commonplace, and she was last night not a little depressed by diffidence—she was, not withstanding, much applauded.—This play still iv tains its attractions : the house was well filled. The Cabinet was performed last night to an elegant audience • the performance was inimitable. -The Earl and Countess SPESCER, and the Honourable T. GRENYILLE , were present. Covzor.Gmetwo.—lasi night, after the new play tor Mr Wanderer, the musical entertaniment of Paul ad rieginia was revived. Mrs. H. Joneurroe resumed 'her favourite part of Virginia, and was very well re ceived. Mr. INCLEDON and Mr. Stemmas performed with their usual excellence. and the piece went off with much eclat, TII F. F' ENING S'a'il U. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3. PRICE OF STOCKS nits DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Consols, for moncF, 63H —for February account, 64:. Reduced 64.—Oninium 4.11 3—Eicheq. &UN par Wo have received Paris Journals to the 26th ult.li By these we learn that the high tide of the night of I the 14th ult. did considerable dam a g e at Antwerp,' i where many of the houses, warehouses and cellars, were laid under water, and a great quantity' of perish- able commodities, as potash, and other 'foreign pro duce, was destroyed. The water 'rose a foot and a I half higher than was ever kn own. • 1 These Journals contain copies of the onerespondence , which took place between the Courts of Sweden and . 1 Denmark, relating to the demand made by this coun- 1 try to be put la possession of the Danish Navy, &c. — They will be read with interest at the present mo ment, as standing connected with the question that cornet under discussion this night in the House of Cernrnons. The Paris papers also contain a decree, calling out 80,r00 conscripts for 1809 ; another, uniting Kehl, Wesel, Cassel, and Flashing with the French empire; obcervations on these degrees ; and reports front the Minister at War. - - ..... There appears to have been some popular comma tiuns on the Continent, but the joutnals speak of then; with CO much reserve, that their extent cannot be as. certaiaa. The Moxikur, speaking of some such movement in the Duchy of Warsaw, says, " The French troops have renAiered the most essential ser- THE ARMY. IVAttrICAL mrsusiciscale. _....... rt-trtd6trilk, sitattenott t. Cants in the RONSGASss of 74 pas, flee the Chen. 'nel fleet. Sailed the Penelope, of 36 gamy with transports for Portsaioath. having ea board die 15ds teshaatt of &St. The Canopus that was arentled seaway last, is still oa the rocks a the cargo, woo silting oft offee; spar, taco. and indigo, hat ham ender water every flood tide, and is exceeding!, di , effort is ti (staged :every used _ save as nroch as possi. ‘ilwl i s: . t i t:it, but the loss will be very great. Sailed the . of 10 pins, with a Gem' under convoy foe the II 1.1 11)17ns, among which are many Danish prizes. rooiratotrrit, ran. a. Arrived his Majesty's ship Penelope, with a lint of transports from Plyaouth ; Goshawk, Dapper, and Hearty, from a Cruise ; also the brig Clyda• Ospein JACKSON, from Halifax, which place she leis a• the 7th January. Hit Majesty's ship Leopard had staled for Bermuda. Saved his Majesty's ships Chickasaw and Sprightly to the Westward.—Wind W. CHATHAM, JAN. 111. The Zenobia sailed from hence oa Thursday. The same day the Victory was put into commission. .. Wednesday the Sampson was put out of dock j and yesterday the Poropee, of 80 guns, commanded by Capt. Dames, was taken in ; not being put out of commission, it is expected she will remain in dock only till next spring tides. The Agincourt is order ed here to refit. GRAVESEND, PM 2. Passed by the Malta, l'unr, from Jamaica. Sailed the Union, BROWN, for drenida ; Charles, Btraxarr, for New York; and the Edward, Lowe, for Jamaica. PARIS, JANUARY ss. The following is a Statement of the Prizes taken by the French Privatoers, and carried into port, be. tween the Ist of Dcecmber 1807, and the 10th of January 1808: Erom the English : The ildinburgh, 41.,0 tons, with cotton and Eng ish stuffs, ea. rid into Calais. The Martha, 60 tons, with wheat, carried into Cherbourg. The Elizabeth, 107 tons, with oil, carded into Boulogne. The Velocity, 150 tons, with salt fish, into .Calais. The Alfred, '340 tons, with stock 4 ish , carried into Roscoe The Selina, 190 tons, with wool and leather, carried into Luarca. The Esperiment, 162 tons, with salt fish, carried into Dieppe. The Peggy, 500 tons, carried into Conquet. The Harmony, 50 tons, with wheat, carried into Dieppe. The Clio, 60 tons, with bricks, carried into Caen. A Shop, nameless, 70 tons, carried into Calais. The Launl, 120 tons, into Calais. The Norwich racket, 100 tons, into Dunkirk. The Betsey, 60 tons, with grocery, into Dieppe. The Martha, into Amsterdam. The Nancy, into ditto. The Lord Neiman, 170 . togs, with salt fish, into Granville. The John, into Amsterdam. The Friendship into ditto. The Peggy, 20 tons, into Boulogne. The Joseph and Edward, ISo tons, with Marble, into dkto. The Aticiaide,l s o tons, into ditto. The YU:abets, 160 tons, with timber, into Dieppe. 1 The Testimony, 133 tons, with coals, into ( alai. The Brilliant, 120 tons, with coals, into Ostend. 1 1 The William, 110 tons, with coals, into Boulogne. The Navigator, ISO tons, with oil and dried fish, into Dunkirk. The Mary, 141 tons, with coals, into Calais. The Maria, 200 tons, with cotton and sugar, into Boulogne. The Endeavour, ISO tons, with coals, into Fec am p . The Venice, 120 tons, with colonial commodities, into ditto. The Lord Keith, of 10 r.ns, into Hamburg!. From the Portuguese : The Esperanca, 80 tons, with wine, into Brest. The Gratis Diving, 70 tons, with wine, into Gijon. The Amante, 75 tons, with wine, into Boulogne. St. Antonio, Soo tons, with wine, into Rochelle. The packet Worn, 200 tons, with wheat, into Porros.. From the Swedes : The Nayade, 150 tons, with tar and iron, into Flushing. Retaken from the English— The Saint Constantine, a Russian ship, carried into Leghorn. The Dorothea, a Bremen ship, of 200 tons, with wool, , into Segos. The Two Sisters, from Bremen, 190 tons, with eolocial =Wines, into belleisle. The Rand Jethelsona, Danish ship, carri..d into Cherbourg. The Prudence, a Kniphausen ship, 100 tons, with wine,' Cherbourg. The following are• American ships, with Colonia roduce, retaken from the English : The Catharine, carried into Sr. awe. The Augusta, 140 tons, into Soros. The Hyades,-209 tons, into Calais. The lames Adams, 410 ties, into Dunkirk. The Calliope, 150 tons, into L'Orient. The Sally, 161-tens, into Autry.—Meeirser, Jos. 29. The Lady Nelson, WADE, from Oporto, which Irirea at Limerick the 21st ult. was hailed off the kett by a large armed schooner, full of men, supposed a privateer, she fired two shots at the Lady Nelson, who returned a broadside,..and they saw the privateer run on sh..ret TRIAL OF GENERAL WHITELOCICE. nYTIE DAY. The uncommonly fine appearance of the morning attracted a greater croud than usual to Chelsea to-day, and at an early hour the Great Hall was nearly filled with auditors of both sexes. The names of the Members having been called I over, General Wurraxoc:cr took his place about 20 minutes past Ten, and Lieutenant-Co&onel Bytute being called in, proceeded with his narrative of the operations of the Army. At Twelve o'Clock, when our express came away, Colonel BwtKE had nearly finished his detail.. At a quarter past two o'clock, yesterday, the exa mination a:Central Gowan was for the present closed, and Lieutenant Colonel BURKE, the Quarter Master General of the forces in the expedition against Spanish America, was called in and sworn. He made an ap plication through the ;Judge Advocate, trusting that the Court would pardon any indistinctness or delay in the delivery of his testimony, as his hesitation was the effect of a wound he had received in the mouth.-- , This witness gave a . general statement of the opera tions of the army and of the staff, previous to the embarkation 'at Monte Video. He was the officer employed ty reconnoitre the banks of La Plata, in or der to ascertain the most convenient place for landing the troops destined for the attack. A paragraph having appeared in several of the papers, that the Hon. General ST. JOHN had been tried by a Court Martial and broke, we have authority to say that such statement is erroneous. General ST. Jolts has not been tried ; but a Special Board of Ge neral Officers was appointed by his Majesty, to inquire into his conduct at the battle of Laswarrte • the re port of which Board be in g considered by the Cou stawout in Ctin.F as unfavourable, he has communi cated to General ST. JOHN, that it is not his MAJESI•T intention to appoint him to any military comm and.'s The Magistrates and Council of Inverness have voted a loyal and dutiful address to his Majesty on the pre sent state of public affairs, recommending a vigorous prosecution of hostilities, and a resolute assertion of our national dignity, until we can lay down our arms on conditions of honour and security. A curious•case is about to he presented at Doctors' Commons, of a marriage contracted at Brighton last summer, between a young gentleman, heir to a great fortune, and a Lady, who was passed upon him as a woman of rank and fortune. Monrday the construction of the Will of the late Lord Lenin was argued at some length in the Court of Chancery, by Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY, and Messrs. RIcuARDS, LEECH, AGAR, &c. It appeared that his Lordship devised to the next and nearest of his kin dred, “ he being a malt, and of kr blond and name," cer tain parts of his estate in remainder, Etc. Now the qUesuon is, whether the son of the sister of the testa tor, who has changed his.name from SMITH to LEIGH, is entitled to such remainder? The plaintiff was next of kin by the female line ; his original name had been SMITH in the year 1802, four years before the death of Mrs. MARY Lrault, he took the name of LEIGH, by his Majesty's licence, and brought his bill in Chancery to recover the estates under the Will, as being nearest of kin, and bearing the name of Lawn ; but it is con.', tended that his name having been originally Santa. he does not answer the description in the Will; and that the licence of his Majesty to assume the name of I.Eion, will not entitle him to take under the provi• lions of the Will.—Tlie case stands over. Mr. Justice GRoSE, in his charge to the Grand Jury of Middlesex on Monday, called their particular at tention to the prevailing disposition of individual's to encourage prize-fighting and boxing. He observed, that it was not only a very serious breach of the peace, but the places of meeting being constantly attended by persons of the very worst character and descrip tion, the practice led to results extremely injurious to society. He therefore hoped they would take every possible means within their power of discountenancing and repressing it. A Word to the Wise is sufficient. Shares of Tickets, Sixteen Shillings a Ticket cheaper than at other Offices, at J. WARNER'S, No. 16, Cornhill, who recommends an immediate purchase, as he expects Shares will rise. The Lottery Scheme is doubly stored with capitals, compared with former Lotteries, all of which, if sold at J. WAaNea's, will be paid on demand, as soon as drawn: The absurdity of fixing particular Days for Drawing the great Prizes in the Lottery is done away :—the Prizes will be put promiscuously into the Wheel of Fortune, and drawn out as Chance may direct.—The Sale of Tickets and Shares has considerably increased in consequence of the alteration. The purchaser can not fail of observing the advantages derived bybuying before the drawing commences ; as a great many of the Capital Prizes may be drawn on the First Day of Drawing. HoaNszy and Co. humbly solicit public favour on the present occasion, and feel much obliged by the past.-26, Cornhill, 52, Charing Cross, and St. Margaret's Hill, B•lrough. DUEL. —Saturday se'nnight a meeing took place at Six-mile Bridge, county Clare, between Wm. Hammond, Esq. of Limerick, and Wm. Foley, Esq. of Shepperton, in the said county, the result of a pre vious 'Altercation. On firing, the former gentleman received the ball of the latter in the wrist, and Mr. Foley received a mortal wound, the ball entering his side, passed through the intestines and perforated the spine, and he expired the next night in great agony. ('ORN.EXCIIANGE, MARK -LANE, FEB. 3.—There are few fresh arrivals of Wheat and Barley, which i are in short s upply ; and last prices are ful l in tained--Malt likewise--White Peas and of b ot h sorts this week are higher — Oat s are also in oft supply, and fine samples fetch rather better prim,— Flour without alteration.—Fine American is dearer, 40s. to 445. per. barrel. GiNtRAL CVIRINCT AS ONDIR: .. Wheat, 46.. 600. 795. Beans (old) 575. CU Fine ditto, 74.. 755. Tick ditto (old) 53.. 59.. Rye (New) 46.. SOs. Oats, 90$. 94.. 965. Batley, 40s. 465. Poland ditto, Ws. 40s. AL Malt 765. 71*. Rape Seed, it J. LP:. c a, A short time since a boat returning from with mussels for Ayr, struck on a rock on the side of the Horse Isle, and went to pieces. were two lota in her ; one of them, Niel McDougall, wailing , tunauly lost, the & f ler, William Houston, got upon the Isle, where he remained above a tore he was takeh off. Friday night last, as Sir H. Vane Tenipest passing in his carriage through Bruton -street, .- the pavement suddenly gave way, and by the • of the shuck which the carriage received, the man was thrown from the boa upon the pavement.-- Me was severely bruised by the fall, but he is - a fair way of recovery. An inhuman monster who has lately stabbed seve. ral young women in Portsmouth, and the places ad. jacent, was on Monday apprehended and committed to Omit. The Price of Bread was yesterday ordered so be raised half in Assize, to take place tomorrow; ;be n the Quartern Loaf of wheaten is to be.seld for 11.4 and household 10d. piall.. l . l mllmill ; and rnov uma the he i t — the i *To tt" e lid 1 80 ' would deb; d epi• loan bona ther 4. and on cis the dal refure, .Right not eating did actel fern subject few ok the ' kis e stir. the ;noun. • eat noJie ; 4 ea ( ;ice by for nity " ore' 11• d at the ould he Lirt pre. lest , Mud expel- from it us man .s might s he had offer 14 :tel. that he t i an icate. ktion was finisters ;son, and 2 vllClene t the mat' • e. iecretarl at he was d his 01 ' L the sub w hich to wish fa rs. aed th l 2. ming 7, he Oaow" n .y wont lone. n otion iv , ne st. , :EQUIA ome ot ll6 on to laY Ind take tire to efore, 1 "' cil' 4c a was • r. I L t K. II 0. ditto. C. C. thorn. , carried dal coin. marg. rine, into filch ar- the Bias- apposed Nelson, privateer • t Mkt he South There Dongall, Houston, a day be. pest was •t., part of t t vtolence le (Mach' iS now is )bed wee- Pting inrui :own. rould' could d P refit rs. lred