Star. — London, England, 1810-06-26 00:00:00

.ate, that no decree prohibiting the met tuition of grain in general, has been published. Rye is the only species which is not permitted to be exported.— These letters, however, communicate a new fiscal re gulation; namely, the imposition of a new duty of fifteen per cent. on all wheat exporteJ By letters from Malta, dated seven *Ps subsequent to Brigadier-General OswALD's dispatches, we learn that there was great danger of our troops being ob liged to abandon their new possessions, so gallantly acquired in the Adriatic Seas ; as our whole force amounted only to 10,000 effective men, against which the enemy were then proceeding from Naples with an army of 40,000. Sunday evening his MAJESTY, accompanied by the Princesses ELIZABETH and SorrnA, walked on Wind sor Terrace from seven o'clock till half past eight. They were attended by the Marquis CORNWALLIS, the Earls of AYLESFORD, HARRINGTON, the Countess of HARRINGTON, Ladies COLT EA R, MTS. DRAX GROWL. yoR, Miss ONSLOW, Count MUNST E R, Ge nera l GARTH and Colonel TAYLOR. The banns of the Royal Horse Guards and Stafford Militia attended and played as usual. The company was extremely numerous. Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, Princesses Au- MITA and SOPHIA, accompanied by, the Earl of SANDWICH and others, took their usual ride on horse- back in Windsor Forest. Yesterday being what is termed by the Professors of the LOA, "'grand Day," in the hall of the Middle Temple, the Society was entertained with a sumptuous dinner there. Dinner was served up at four o'clock, and consisted of every elegance that the season affords; and the loyal effusion of , 4 the King's health" being given, the whole Hall demonstrated their siscere proofs of attachment to their Sovereign. Among the Benchers we noticed the LORD CHANCELLOR, Lord CARLTON, Sir JAMES MANSFIELD, Mr. Baron WOOD, Mr. JERVIS, Mr. HATszu., of the House of Commons, the Recorder of London, and several other Gentle men, who, as Members of the Long Robe, have emi nently distinguished themselves. Letters and papers have been received by the way of Liverpool from the United States, t o th e 28 t h ult. but contain nothing new. A letter from Halifax says—" Vessels are already up for different ports of the United States, and T have no doubt considerable trade will be carried on to mu., tual advantage." A letter from Charlston mentions, that an embargo w.is expected to be laid on immediately at the Ha vannah, in consequence of dispatches received there, which had informed Government of the dissolution of the Junta, and of the appointment of a Regency in Old Spain. Letters from St. Helena, dated March 30, state, that the homeward-bound Enst-India fleet would sail from thence on the 15th of April, provided the Chi na ships should have arrived by that time. The Am°, of 44 guns, Captain S. WARREN, is to convoy them home. Three vessels, laden with wheat, arrived last week at Portsmouth, from France. Monday last, a match for £.50 a side was run for over Penrith Race.groend, betwixt Mr. WILLIANt PEARSON'S bay mare, of Wigganby, in Cumberland, and Mr. LAMB'S bay mare, of Kirkby Stephen, in the county of Westmorland, (heats folk miles each,) wl•ich was won by the latter gentlemsca at two heats. ..4.fzer the match was run, there was good racing for r.ddles, bridles, &c. W'e(inesday last a match was decided on Haver fr dwest Course, between two ponies belonging to Major STOKES and Lieutenant FRANCIS, of the Nor thern Pembrokeshire Local Militia. The ground was crowded at an early hour by a numerous assem hlane of Fashionables to witness the race, which afforded capital sport, and was won, after two re maikably well contested heats, by Lieutenant FRAN CIS, to the great disappointment of the knowing ones, who were completely taken in on the occasion. The dwelling house of Mr. Henry Berington, in Surrey -square, was on Tuesday night, or early on the morning of Wednesday, broken open, and a deal "of property taken away i .eith which the thieves got off undiscovered. A reward is offered for their appre hension. The shop of Mr. Harris, a glover, in Berkeley square, was robbed, a few days since, of lace to the amount of £l5O. Hand-bills were circulated, arid the thief was detected in a pawnbroker's shop, in the person of a girl fourteen years old. She was recog nized as having been at Mr. Harris's shop the day the lace was missed, and she has been fully commit ted for trial. Saturday last an Inquest was .held at Bishopsgate Workhouse, on the body of a new-born infant, found suffocated in Half-Moon -street, Bishopsgate-street.— The surgeon who had examined the body, stated that. the infant had been born alive. Verdict—Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown. RESURRECTION MEN.--William Webb, grave-digger tn the parish of St. George, Hanover-square, was bctlire the Magistrate at Marlborough -street, ' Charged with stealing a body from the parish burying ~N und at the back of St. George's-row, Paddington. It appeared that Miss Lane, a respectable young wo man, apprenticed to Mrs : Bean, milliner and dress naker, is Albemarl-street, died of the Measles, and her body was interred in the burying-ground above stated on Thursday last. There were other funerals at the time, and the prisoner was observed very busy a t the grave of Miss Lane after the clergyman had left it. It turned out that he had got the body out of the elffin into a sack, and returned the shroud.— T i. be ?weld was fill e d near l y to t h e top at one en d of the grave, and the sack was placed with the body al most in an erect posture, with the mouth of it withi n 21) out a fo ot o f the su rface of the grave ; and the Muhl having been lightly filled in, the body could by been got out with ease. Inf or m at i on was g i ven , eY a Person in St. George's-row, to the friends of the .. c ceased, of th e p r i soner ' s act i ons ; and on h i s being tuallenged with stealing the body, he stated that it ivas then in the grave; and on an examination taking Place, the body was found ig the sack, as we have de ,zribed. The prisoner was recently recommended to his situation by a Noble Lord in the parish. He wAs fully committed fur. trial. NAPA AtELLMSNCE. mmouni, si Sailed the P r i nce of Wiles packet, Captain &ac me, for Lisbon ; his Majesty's gun-brig Cum% with a mail, for the Leeward Islands; ship Kingston, BENSON, for Jamaica ; and the Neptune l BROCILJET. for Malta.—Wind S.E. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 24. Last night came up harbour to refit and repair, the Ulysses, 44, recently arrived from Lisbon. Also came up harbour, to repair, the DEFIANCE, 74.—The FYLLA, 22 guns, was in the offing the whole of last evening, but had no communication with the shore ; she stood up channel in the night : it is conjectured here that she has important dispatches on board.— Arrived Pawnees, 74 guns, from the Nore.—Sailed the FAVOURITE sloop, with two dock-yard lighters, for Cork ; and the CHEERLY gun.brig, with Sir Jo- SEPH SIDNEY YORKE'S baggage on board—unknown at present where bound. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 2S. Yesterday arrived the Aurora, FORSTER, from Ca diz for London (single ship). Sailed the GANNET sloop of war for Guernsey. Passed up Channel a fleet from the Westward.—Wind variable. DEAL, JUNI 25. Arrived the TutsAN frigate from a cruize off Bou logne.—Wind E. YARMOUTH, JUNk 25. Arrived the VIXEN, Lieutenant WRIGHT, end a prize, the Juliana schooner privateer, of nine guns, captured off the Naze of Norway, by the FISGUARD frigate. Previous to the boats taking possession of her, the crew left her, leaving every thing behind— by her logbook she had been very fortnnate, and her last capture was an American laden with tobacco.— The Latona, S. C. ALWARDT master, from Stock. holm, with pitch and tar, bound to the Weser, sent in by the Ranger sloop of war ; the Agenora, F. C. LUDVIGSEN, from Longsound, with timber and deals for a market ; and the Minerva, Captain JONES, from Oporto with wines. Sailed the DILIGENCE armed ship, with convoy for Hull. The SIIELDRAKE is under sailing orders for the Nore. The BOLD is put back, and remains with the ROEBUCK, CHANTICLEER, SHELDRAKE, and ACUTE.—Wind variable. TIIE BALTIC. EXTRACT OP A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER ON BOARD lIIS IHAJI . STY'S SHIP EDGAR, DATED WINGOE•SOUND, JUNE 16. In consequence of a number of inaccuracies re specting.the operations of the fleet in the Baltic, ap pearing in several papers, I beg leave to contradict some of them. Admiral REYNOLDS, in the St. George, ' passed us on the 20th May, off Petersdorf, previous to which we had been Senior Officer, up the Bahic, with the Orion and Saturn, and had done nothing : the enemy did not annoy us in the least, passiog the Belts, with the outward convoy ; but on the 31st ult. in again coming down, the Sheldrake and two mer chant brigs being some distance a-head of the convoy at anchor, and it being calm, they came out and opened their fire on them ; a breeze springing up about nine, the convoy weighed, when the Ranger and Sheldrake returned their fire, and a heavy can nonading commenced ; the enemy's metal was heavy, but owing either to the inferiority of their powder, or , want of elevation of their guns, the sloops threw their shot much farther than their range, and obliged them to pull in -shore, without having done the smallest mischief. In the evening of the 31st a large convoy passed, under the Princess Caroline. On the 3d June, Sir Janus SAUNAKEZ passed us, with another convoy : the Admiral did not bring up. On the 4th, we sent the Sheldrake with dispatches after him, and on her return the boats again attacked her, and she narrowly escaped. On the 6th, we anchored at Anholt, and sent the Alexandria home with the convoy. The improvements made and making on this island do the Governor infinite credit ; labour has not been spired, and a great deal of ingenuity has been exer cised in its fortification ; by the winter it will be ca pable of defending itself .Ig;linst any force the enemy can bring against it, and there is not the smallest doubt, that, in the course of a year or two, it will become_a place of considerable importance to the Baltic trade. The soil is barren, being a complete sand-bank ; but it affords excellent water, and in abun dance. We watered three line-of-battle ships in three days, not fifty yards from the beach ; by digging three or four feet deep, you find a spring of good water, and the same all over the Island. , 6 The enemy nuking a move to the northward with his gun-boats, and it being expected they would annoy the convoy between this and Anholt, was the cause of our coming here. We have no communication with Gottenburgh. Nothing has been heard here of the French fleet. The trade is carried on only by. Eng lish licences, and very few captures have been made." NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.••••••CapI. JAMES NASA IS ap pointed Flag Captain at Plymouth ; Capt. BROWN, of the PLOVER sloop, is made Post; Capt. CAMPBELL, late of the Helicon, is appointed to the PLOVER; Capt. T. COLE is appointed to the NORTH STAR, a new sloop of war, fitting out at Plymouth. The appointment of Sir ROBERT CALDER to the Chief Command at Plymouth is at length officially announced. Sir RICHARD STRACHAN it now nominated to the Chief Command in the East Indies, instead of Admi ral KEATS ; and will sail, it is said, in the AFRICAINE frigate, now at Plymouth. Sir EDWARD PELLW has left Plymouth for London, and the CHRISTIAN THE SEVENTH iS ordered round to the Downs, where he will hoist his flag. Wednesday morning last, a coasting sloop took fire in Torbay, and was burnt to the water's edge. She had just arrived from London, laden with hemp, spirits, grocery, !cc. no part of whi c h was save d.— It was providentially discovered in time to save the lives of two boys who were asleep on board. The ves sel was the property of Mr. Srnanas, of Torquay. tIMPIRSITr INTELLIGENCB. SUNS 22.—0 n Sunday last the Lord Bishop of Bristol held a private Ordination in the Chapel of Trinity College, *hen the following Gen tlemen were ordained : Pam cT.—Mr. Chailas J. Bloomfield. B. A. Fellow of Trinity College. D!ACONS—Mr. John Clarkson, M. A. Fellow of Trinity Co!hie; Mr. Samuel Fitzherbert, of Benet College, and from the Diocese of Bristol. The following Gentlemen were admitted to the under-mentioned degrees on Wednesday : Dec-reit ix Divisurr.—The Rev. Henry Butler Patty, of Pembroke College. DOCTOR IN MILDICINZr•JORCph Pilkington Brandreth, of Trinity College. l'vkAsT rag or Arrs.--Joseph Kirkman Miller, William Lewis Rham, and James Rickard Bark er , o f Tfi n i t y C o ll ege; .an d Jo seph Thackeray, King's College. Reenact:tits or ARTS.—James Hogins, and Philip Wynne Yorke, of St. John's College. Sir William Browne's gold med ii for the Greek Ode is this year adjudged to Mr. Edward V. Bloom field, of Caius College ; and that for the Greek and Latin Epigrams, to Mr. William Sheepshanks, of Trinity College. The Rev. William Chafy, B.D. Fellow and Tutor of Sidney College, is appointed one of his Majesty's Preachers at Whitehall. THE ARMY. The 26th for Cameronians), and the 77th Regi ments, which lately embarked at Portsmouth, are ar rived at Jersey, and have taken up their quarters at Grouville Barracks. The Bth (or King's own) have sailed from Jersey for FlAliftx in Nova Scotia, in the transports which carried the 26th and 77th to Jersey. Eight transports arrived•at Harwich on Friday to receive a body of troops assembled in that neighbour hood for foreign service. The 33th Regiment of Foot, at Shortieldle, are under orders for embarkation. The Ist East Devon Militia arrived at Saltwood Barracks on Thursday and Friday from Plymouth, a distance of 236 miles, having halted but twice on their march. The &I Regiment of Dragoon Guards marched from London on Saturday to their old quarters at Guildford. The first and second divisions of the Somerset Mi litia breakfasted yesterday and this morning in the bowling-green of the Yorkshire Sting() public house, Mary-la-bonne, on their march from Dorset to Wood bridge, in Suffolk. They are a fine body of men, re spectable in their conduct, and correct in their ma nceuvres. A detachment of the 14th Regiment of Light Cow- Dragoons marched yesterday from Jventry. The 25th Regiment has marched from Port Seaton to Haddington. 1 1' COMMON HALL. The Livery assembled in Common Hill yesterdiv to elect Sheriffs and other Officers for the ensuing year.---The Lord Mayor, attended by the Recorder. &c. arrived on the Hustings between one and tw3 o'clock. The Recorder stated the object of the meeting, after which the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, &c. retired as usual till thc Elections were concluded. The Common Serjeant then read to the Livery the names of persons who had been put in nomiu tion for Sheriffs. Twenty-eight names were read, the first being Mr. Alderman Bird; the second, Sir William Plomer, Alderman ; the third, Mr. Alderman Goodbehere. Sir William Plomer and Mr. Alderman Goodbehere were chosen. The fifth name was Mr. Jacob, the reading of which was fol lowed with a hideous groan. Mr. Richard Clarke WAS re-elected Chamberlain. The former Bridge masters were re-elected. Pulley and Eade added to two of the old Auditors. Brookes, Jones, Simmons, and West, chosen Ale-Conners. The Sheriffs and Common Serjeant then retired, and reported to the Lord Mayor as usual. His Lordship returned to the Hall, and the Recorder in the usual form declared the Election. Previous to the proceedings for the choice of She riffs,'Mr.Waithman adverting to a paragraph in some Paper, that Alderman Goodbehere and Mr. Wardle were to be chosen Sheriffs, denied that any such plan had been set on foot by them or their friends, and he .had been desired by Mr. Alderman Goodbehere to request that they would not bring him forward till his turn came. Sir W. PLOSHIR and Mr. Alderman Goonsemme severally came forward and returned thanks for the honour done them ; but not having been aware of it when they came into the Hall, they deferred giving an answer whether they would serve till the next Court of Aldermen. THANKS TO THE SHERIFFS. Mr. Quoi then came forward and moved a Rev). lotion of Thanks to Sheriffs Wood and Atkins, fot their meritorious conduct on Thursday night in pre serving the peace of the metropolis without military aid. Mr. WATTHMAN seconded the Resolution. He had observed much of their conduct that night, and be. lieved that greater exertion and zeal in the execution of their duty had never been displayed by public offi cers on any occasion. The Resolution passed unanimously, and was or dered to be published in the usual Morning and Even ing Papers. Mr. Sheriff' WOOD expressed his satisfaction at their approbation of his conduct. It had been asserted that he intended to hare joined the procession on Thursday—on the ciintrary, his answer to an appli. cation for that purpo s e had been, that he had other business that day, the preservation of the peace. k appeared that a letter had been sent to some Common Cotr .incilmen to attend him at a certain place to join in that procession, but it was fit it should be known that this was done without any authority from him. I _ - had The Lanark Militia are gone to P r estonpa ns , Port .t had been said that Minister s . , ve r y m uc h Jarrow. him on a former occasion, so mu c h so th a t th e y Seaton, and Tranent, to make room, at Miisselburgh, sent for Mr. Forbes, the Under-Sheriff, to examine for the 42d Regiment, on their passage from England. into his conduct. This was the specimen of their Saturday se'nnight the Mount's-bay (or 4th Corn- favour ! and if they could by any means have found wall Regiment of Local Militia), under the command a pretence for doing him an injury they would gladly of Colonel OXNANI, completed their term of service have seized it. He had long been convinced that by for the present year, having conducted themselves proper exertion on the part of the Sheriffs the peace during the whole period in a manner that deserves the o f the metropolis and couniy night, on most occa highest praise. sions of popular assemblage, be preserved, without the The Loyal Meneage Yeomanry Cavalry, under aid of the military or hired police. He had on Thurs. the command of Major Vevv AN, have completed day put this to the proof, and the result was highly their ten days permanent duty at Helston ; and were satisfactory. When called upon to attend in his official dismissed with the fullest approbation of their highly capacity on any occasion, he had never taken any' respectable Commander. share in politics, but acted with the impartiality be- Serjeant Mosey, of the West Norfolk Milit i a coming his office. In the Common Council he had who was the principal evidence against E. Stubbing, e xerted himself as usual, and bad a perfect right to tried at the late Norwich quarter Sessions, f or u tt er - ao so. He was glad of their approbation, and in the b ine seditious language, has been rewarded fo r hi s ex ecution loyalty by an Ensigncy in the 4th Garrison Battalion. o ffice, he . s h ould e ndeavour to continue to deserve it—. SOLDIERS DESERTING.—If any soldier, who shall and when he ret ired, he hoped, in his capacity as a have been tried by a Court-Martial, for desertion, and Magistrate, to conduct himself to merit the approba convicted thereof, shall be again tried and convicted lion of all good men. Wherever corruption appeared of desertion, the Court may, if it shall so thi n k fit, in he was, and ever would be, its decided enemy.—. Large sums of money were expended to write down addition to any other punishment it may award for any such subsequent desertion, order that such deser- the opponents of corruption, and, of course, he had ter be marked on the left side, two inches below the not been spared in the paragraphs of its defenders. arm pit, with the letter D. ; and such letter not to be These, however, were too contemptible to merit no less than half an inch in length, and to be marked tice. (Loud a/Wow.) upon the skin with some ink, or gun-powder, or some- Mr. Sheriff ATKINS was glad when his efforts in the other preparation, so as to be visible and conspicuous, discharge ofhis duty met with their approbation—and and not to be obliterated. he was the more happy at receiving their unanimous DIED—At Addersey-Lodge, near Stoke Golding- thanks on this occasion, because he sometimes had the misfortune to differ from them. He then spoke ton, Bucks, on Saturday the 9th inst. at an advanced in the highest terms of the disposition to good order age, Colonel PHILIP SKENE, formerly of Skenesbo rough, Lieutenant-Governor of Crown Point and manifested by the immense multitude assembled ott Thursday. Had it not been for - this, it might have Ticonderoga, and Surveyor of his Majesty's Woods and Forests bordering on Lake Champlain, in the State been of little consequence for them to have displayed of New York, whose loyalty can only be equalled by their insignia of office. During their whole progress every wave of their wands had been attended to with his singular bravery, having served as an Officerin the British army from the year 1739 to the clo se of the the utmost deference, with the single exception of a American war in 1782: during which p er i o d h e was Gentleman's coachman in Piccadilly. It was im engaged in tome of the severest conflicts recorded i n possible to have viewed this without admiration, and the British Annals, and often wound e d. Besides it was but justice to the crowd then assembled to many actions of inferior note, he was at the taking state the circumstance. It proceeded, no doubt. and destroying of Certhagena and Porto-bello, at the from that respect which Englishmen had properly battle of Culloden, and afterwards a t Fon teno y, L a - been taught to pay to the civil power—a respect which feldt, &c. under his Royal Highnes s ,th e D u k e o f it was their best interest to cherish and encourage. When people conducted themselves in this orderly CUMBERLAND ; from thence lie went, in 1756, t o m America, was engaged under Lord Howe, at t h e un anner, their political differences would soon be brought to a nutshell, and ultimately accommodated. fortunate attack at Ticonderoga, afterwards under Lord 1 He concluded by repeating his satisfaction at having AMHERST at its capture, with that of Crown Point, I met with their approbation.—(Loud applause). &c. and from thence went to the attack of Martinique and the Havannah, ender Lord ALBEMARLE, and was / The proper Officer then dissolved the Meeting in one of the first who entered the breach at storming the usual form. the Moro Castle. In the Fete American war, after A Conrt of Aldermen was afterwards held to swear being exchanged as a prisoner, he served a short time in the Chamberlain, &c. under Sir WILLIAM Howe, at New York, and then The Thanks of the Court were voted to the Lord volunteered his services under General BURGOYNE ; Mayor's Chaplain, for his sermon, on Sunday, at St. during that arduous campaign he had his horse twice Paul's, being the first Sunday in Term. shot under him, and suffered the fate of that army by A quantity of gold was sworn to, as foreign, for being a second time made prisoner. After the close exportation. of the AmeriCan war, in which, from his well-known loyalty, he lost an ample fortune, he Lived in seclud- The Clockmakers' Company were increased in their ed retirement to the time of his death . Colonel Livery from 120 to 200. Seeea's Grandfather, JOHN SKENR, of Halyards, in precepts for the election of Lord Mayor were or. Fifeshire,Scotland, was married toELlzAerru,daugh. dared to be issued. ter of Sir THOMAS WALLACE, of Craigie, in Ayrshire, ' the nearest c o ll a te r al descendant of the celebrated but BREAD.—This day there was no Court of Alder. unfortunate WILLIAM WALLACE. Colonel Smtets has i men. The LORD MAYOR, after hispecting the returns. lett a son and two daughters to lament his death. lordered Bread to remain at present pr;- PP