Star. — London, England, 1817-01-02 00:00:00

. . ; ,"7g at itt head General Zarasa, fell upon the ca. nn the enemy's right, which he caused to re tre to the rexr of his in:ientry, while the CoMman der.in.Chief taking the colours of the battalion (de g g lavento), put himself at the head of the infantry, um mAnding them to charge with the bayonet, pr e . r ;riteci.l himself into the enemy's line. General Me•.. ~ , ,zas charged on the left, the infantry of the reserve the line in this movement, and tile cavalry on I :ght charged on the enemy's left, with such im pet:,oity, that tee bark was decided in a few mi rTes in the co nplete destruction t+the enemy. Toe enemy !eft more than .500 killed on the field, WhOM was Captain (2,ticeda, of the King's Pe.tdion, with nearly all its Officers. We took 300 rt.', nos, 360 muskets, a large quantity of lances, anm unitioo-chests, one colour, one field-piece, and many hoses. He was pursued with perseverance in t - r y direction, and the same night the whole of our rrrry arrived At Chap.irro. • Our Ines consisted of four killed, amongst whom WAS a Cornet of the gall Ant squadron, and about 40 srninded, amongst whom were 12 Officers of voti ve ranks. In no action was intrepidity and good c-Jet more conspicuous : soldiers, olEcers, chiefs and generals, All were animated with the same spirit, and :a cite any in particular would he doing an injury to (Signed) " CARLOS SOCRLETT, Major-General. • thatl-qaarters at Antos, Sty. a, 1816." the rot. tais P.pers of hlond.sy arrived this morning. but they posses so little interest. that we have bees able it) duke but few extracts from them. The result of the debate on the Law of Elections, whichVas w hive been resumed on Monday, could r..t of course be known in time for the Papers of that ru.raiag. An ankle from Madrid contradicts the agreeable sport, which we noticed a few days ago, of great rti,itils being in progress at the Escurial, more espe c vith respect to the Clergy. It is perhaps some excepti , n to the verity of this contradiction, that in anlther article from Augsburg, of so late a date as the '2oth of December, it is positively stated, that a Papal Brief is immediately to appear for the reduc tion and regulation of the Monastic Orders, in the benefits of which Spain will of course p trticipate equally with every other Country which is suffering, and has suaered Irom the enormous abuses of these establishments. It is not a little remarkable that great care has been taken to prevent any p .rticulars of the real transactions at Bourdeaux from appearing in the Paris Papers. One of them, without arly previous notice of disturbances, assures its Readers that the utmost tranquillity prevails in that City ! Another in a letter from that place, of the same date as the private letter which we yesterday laid before the pub lic, giving an account of the general review of the Na tional Guards at Bourdeaux, on the 22d, the Anniver sary ni toe Duchess of AstoouLeme's birth-day, presents the following paragraph r••• 44 The Prefect has for some " days obtained the proof of a person named Azema, "a Serjeant of the Sappers of the National Guards, " having been concerned in a plot of secret enlisting, "all the authors of which are arrested. Wishing to " give the National Guard public satisfaction against "a traitor who had introduced him:elf into their " ranks, he waited for the moment of the review to "order his arrest."—This was done on,the instant. . PARIS, IYECEMBER 30. His Majesty's health continues to improve; his Majesty still hear% mass in his apartments. Yesterday there was a grand parade ; the first re giment of Swiss troops was present. !! t. MADRID, DECEMBER 1 7. The report of cer:ain reforms being about to be made in the Church, of an approaching Convocation of the Cortes, of new plans of Finance, and of other novelties, is without foundation. There is nothing vhich announces the least innovation. M. de Cevallus, who was to have departed on his embassy to Naples on the 16th instant, has received an order from the King to suspend his journey. FRANKFORT, DECEMBER 21. The Diet held their last Sitting for this year on the 19th. In their latter Sittings they have been c!tiefly employed with the appeal of the Jews on the subject of their exclusion from political rights. As yet they have determined nothing with regard to the representative constitutions of the different States of Germany. The affair of the mediatised Princes, is the first important matter which will come under their consideration upon their Sittings being resumed. AUSgBURG, DECEMpER w. We are assured that a Papal Brief will immedi ately appear concerning the diminution of Monastic Orders, and that his Holiness is desirous to restore these Orders generally to their first Institutions. STOCKHOLM, DECEMBER is. The Prince Royal intends proceeding in the begin ning of the ensuing year to Norway, in order to carry into effect the great changes which have been devised in the organization of that country. Prince / /car is to be appointed Viceroy of Norway, in place of the Field ISlArshal Moerner. Wtxmnit, JAN. I.—This morning the Duke of Your; arrived from London, and the Dilates' of TURK from Oatlands. The Duke and Duchess or Gi.oumsraft arrived from Bagshot-Park, to cele brate the New Year's Day with the QUEEN and PIUN CESsEs. In' the evening her MAJESTY will have a party et the neighbouring Nobility. THE FUKIS§; The various reports circulated respecting the means of raising the National deficiency, has cauteci heavy speculations in the tunds. On Tuesday last bets to the amount of upwards of ICI,OOO were deter mined by Consols being done at 61, as the proposi tion was, they would not arrive at that price before the 17th instant. It is now henerally expected that stocks will continue to advance, and this day offers were made that Consols would be done at 65, for the present accounts. Yesterday being a holiday, no business was trans acted; but Como]; this day were done at 61i, 1. — The dividends upon Consols and Five per Cents. will be paid to the merchant* on Tuesday next, and to the public on the following day. At this time of the year there never was known such a quantity of money in the market as there is at resent, and this has been considerably increased by the large remit tapes from abroad to the merchants. NAPAI. Mr/ L IGEN CE FALMOUTH, DECEMBER 30. Arrived the Lord Si.lm loth packet with Mails from New York ; she sailed the 9th December. • PORESMOUII4. JANUARY 1. Arrived the following ships from the Downs : Blucher, for Liverpool; Richard and Sibella, for Barbadoes; Ddckenfield Hall, lin St. Vincent's; and William, for Buenos Ayres.—Wind S.S.W. DEAL, JANUARY I. Came down from the River last evening the Van sittart, Bombay, and Richmond, for India; Canada, for Bombay; and Porcupine, for Trieste.—Arrived the Hipppolita, from North Shields for Jamaica.— Wind S. W. WEYMOUTH, JANUARY I. Arrived the Yeoman from Sunderland, and •the, Nymph from Guernsey, with loss .ot bulwarks, and one man washed overboard MARGATE, JANUARY I. • -Arrived the Mars, OWEN, of Barmnoth. from Campvero to London, with wheat, leaky, having struck oa the Knock Sand. CUS FOM-HOUSE, JANUARY I. Sum ENTERED !Kw.% a os.—Tisc Princess of Wales, Fox, from Ostend ; Grace, Kerr, Irons Buenos Ayres; Dart, Bedwell, from Charente; Eliza, King, from the I.lc of France; Sophia, from Holland ; Twee Gebroeders, Carst ; Vrien.:schap, Mole. graeff; Uric Gebroetlets, Om; Drie Gebroetler., Daniels ; Bros derliefde, Cant; and Vrow Hetudnka , Kramer, Irons Amster ,'am; Vrow hole, looker, from Rotterdam; and Vrow Hendrika, Bolster, irom Harlingen. Our waans —l'he Eliza, Bower, for Rotterdam ; Malvin*, Barrett, for Gibraltar; Britannia, Fox, for Boordeas* ; Vrow Frentje, Kanto, for Antwerp ; Ebenezer, Edmonds, for Ham. burgh; and Perseverance, MoNabtv for Belfast. THE ARMY: The Inspecting Field Officers of Militia in Canada, the provinces ot Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, have been struck off and placed upon half-pay. The following reinforcements embarked at Dover on Saturday and Monday last, to join the bead quar ters under his Grace the Duke of W stumacrosr, viz. Cavalry, a reinforcement from the 2d and 3d Dra goon Guards, 7th Light Dragoons, 12th (Lancers), and 18th (Hussars.) The 46th Regiment is expected to leave New South Wales for India, and is to be replaced by the 48th. The 55th Regiment arrived at Guernsey, and re lieved the 32d, which we have already announced is arrived at Gosport. Part of the 2d Battalion of the 60th Regiment is to be stationed at Harwich instead ot Chelsea. The 7th Battalion of the 60th Regiment it is ex pected will be reduced. A reinforcemant of the 75th embarked last week at Deptford, to join its regiment at Corfu. Tuesday se'nnight the depot of the 80th Regiment arrived at Chatham from Canterbury. The Invalid Establishment at York Hospital, Chelsea, is ordered to be transferred to Chatham. Captain BEAUSIOAUDT has commissioned the MA DAGASCAR frigatt, et Sheernes, : she is to be fitted out for a troop ship, to carry out 200 Marine Artillery to Canada. A large number of the Honourable East India Compan>'s troops, together with numerous detach ments of King's troops, belonging to the several regi ments of foot serving in India, were embarked at Gravesend a few days back, under the superinten. dance of Colonel MIDGEJA, embarking officer at Til bury. His Royal Highn:•ss the Commander in Chief, has judiciously directed the depots of regiments serving in the East Indies, to be assembled and sta tioned in Chatham Barracks, where the Honourable East India Company's troops have been stationed for a considerable time, and from whence they can be embarked with the greatest convenience and facility. The wisdom and superiority of this arrangement, be comes more evident at every embarkation. The Company's ships are obliged to lay at Gravesend for some time, and the troops being marched from Chat ham, are embarked at a few hours notice, and the ships proceed on their voyage without any interrup tion or delay; whereas, when the troops were em barked at the Isle of Wight, the ships were obliged' to come to an anchor at that place, and it frequently happened during the time they were unavoidably detained there, that a contrary wind arose, and pre vented them from proceeding on their voyage fur a considerable time. The Clerks discharged from the victualling Office have been allowed six months' salary each by the Commissioners. A Letter from New Orleans, dated September 11, says—" Large quai.tities of goods are purchasing here to be shipped to Mata Gorda, to supply the coast of the Gulph of Mexico, now all in possession of the Patriots. Commodore Aury is at Mata Gorda : he has with him 2,000 men. We are momentarily expecting interesting news from that quarter. I am desired to make inquiry if vessels, under the Mexican Bag, with cargoes of produce, the growth of New Spain, will be admitted into British ports ?" By a Letter from New-York, of the 6th of Decem ber, we learn that a dreadful fire broke out in that city on the night of the 4th, on the premises of Mr. Hzwzi - r, a cabinet-maker, which totally consumed them, and newly thirty other buildings. A number ,v 1 people were also seriously hunt. LORD t'OckkAiri: . . Yesterday a pretty numerous Meeting of the Elec toil of Westminster was held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern in the Strand; to receive-the answer of Lord Cottinnxt to the Address voted to him by his constituents on tile 17th of last month. Ab3ut haViriiit one o'clock Mak:- CAIITWRIbIIT was called to i!te Ch lir, and the answer of Lord CocintaNa, slated the '24th of December, wasordered to be read. The answer (which was of extraordinary I length) commenced with stating that the.protection Int the Electors of Westminster, joined to the con sciousness of his inniicence, bad supported him through a long series of persecutions, to which lie had been exposed for so many years. The Noble Lord then took a review of the events of his life, from the action in Basque Roads down to the pre sent period, and commented on them at much length, and with great freedom. He enlarged particularly upon the circumstances of his trial for breaking out of prison, and the sentence that had been afterwards passed upon him -in the Court of King's Bench, ac companying the whole with very pointed remarks, and which repeatedly called forth the loudest expres sions of applause from the Meeting. He (Lord Cochrane) had been informed, that upon receiving information that he had broke out of prison, a cep. tain Noble Lord had said, let him be taken dead or alive, otherwise I shall have a dagger at my breast ; hut he (Lord Cochrane) though he would speak daggers . would use none. After some observations upon the House of Commons declining to interfere in the case of the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, the Noble Lord concluded by expressions of gratitude and attachment to his constituents, the in dependent Electors of Westminster. The applause called forth by the answer having subsided. Mr. WALKER begged leave to submit a Resolu tion to the Meeting, that Lord Cochrane, by the an swer he had returned, had justified the opinion the Meeting had formed of him, and their admiration of his character; and confirmed them in the well grounded -confidence that he would exert his best energies to remove the wrongs and redress the grie vances of the country, arising from a corrupt repre sentation of the people, which could only be done away by annual Parliaments, and a radical reform in the Commons House of Parliament. Mr. HICALEY seconded the Resolution, and, ad verting to the conduct of the High Bailiff in refusing to c a Meeting. of the Electors, ascribed it to hid advice, as no danger could have arisen from the friends of Reform meeting in Palace-yard. Their Noble Representative had suffered from the influence of corruption, and the hydra must be destroyed, otherwise (said the Speaker), it will destroy you.— (Loud am/aure.) The speaker next alluded to the Address of tete Corporation of London, and observed that the Common Council had formerly been too much the tools of the Ministers of the day, by the support they had lent to the Pitt system, and to Pitt principles. The system of placemen had been to support a venal press, whose object it was to abuse whatever was free and independent, and had termed the Committee of the Electors of Westminster the self-elected Committee. To be able to procure the old Constitution, under which the country had flourished and prospered, it was necessary to returp to annual Parliaments, and to freedom of suffrage.— , (Amieure.) Many who had formerly been under the dominion of prejtidice began now to be.enlight ' coed, and much had been done for the cause of Re. form by the answer of the Prince Regent to the Ad dress of the City. He trusted the answer of Lord Cochrane would not be garbled, as it would do much to enlighten the people.—(Near, hear.) The Noble Lord had checked the patrons of corruption at the London Tavern, and he had no doubt would be pre ' pared to follow up the blow. • Mr. rARKINS proposed that a subscription should be entered into to defray the expense of printing the letter of Lord Cochrane, to which he was ready to contribute ten guineas. This motion wis subse quently carried, with an additional clause embracing a report of the proceedings of that day. Mr. WeLcs strenuously supported the principles of the proposed Resolution; bt,t suggested that they would be pursuing a more practicable object, if they were to confine their attention at present to a reform by means of triennial Parliaments. (Dirapprotatiew.) He did not desire that their pursuit should be limited to the attainment of this measure ; but he considered that it would be a considerable step to the accom plishment of their great ultimate-end—anneal Par liaments and universal suffrage. A great good was not always to be obtained at once; but was generally brought about by slow degrees and progressive success. Mr. WALKER said, that the present was the first instance among the Electors of Westminster of a dissent from the principle of annual Parliaments.— When a person could vote at the age of twenty-one, he could not see why three years should elapse before he could again exercise his right of suffrage. In pri vate life how would a man like that three years should expire before he bad an account rendtred to him of the state of hit affairs The state of the country was at present greatly distressed. He knew a man who had come to town to borrow one hundred pounds, having se9l to pay as the arrears of the Property TAX, though he had, in fact, lost from five to six hundred pounds. Not contented with di:- training Ina cattle and farming implements, they had come into his parlour, when the person in queetion seized a gun, but when he looked round upon his eight children, he laid it down, and the persons em ployed to distrain remained without. Major CARTWIUGHT said, he had for the space of forty years, attended to the state of Parliamentary Repreientation, and saw not the slightest hope of any change, unless the proposed change should be backed by the voice of the people. Without the voice of people being raised in favour of reform, it would be as easy to pull the sun from the firmament, as to ef fect a change in the state of the representation. The analogy alluded to, of the ultimate result of a gr.t. dual progress, would not apply to the operations of mind. He had himself issued three humiree lams of petitions in favour of Parliamentary Reform, and had no doubt there would be many more, enough, indeed i to make the hair of the Borough. mongers stand on end. (Loud applause•) When Mr. Grey had made his motion for reform, there had; only been 2i , petitions iu favour of it. But now h• , . did — liot doubt but theie would be 2400. The people miitht as well have the selole ai the half of their rights, anneal, as triennial Parliaments ; as nnt!);n7 WAI erai done 14 driblt•t;. and the work to b. dime well, must be dane at once. Both the Resolutions respecting the opiniln the Meeting entertained ri Lord CoetritaAn and the prin ting his answer, aad the proceed:llgs or the 47, were then put, ar•.d carried unanimmisly. ThankS were then voted to Mkj who, in reply, observed, that he was now too old to chingeand the Meeting broke up. 11 - .IT.SON 1'111: ELDER. The elder iVatson was this day broaght up for exaniinatitm; hefOre Sir NATHANIEL CONAN r, at B' street. The cli.irge as laid against him is for •• being concerned with toed other.persons, not yet taken, in feloniously, unlawfully, wilfully, and maliciously shooting at Charles Ka, (the parrolc) with intent in so doing to kill and murder the said Charles Miell agaitist the statute." The examination was private; hut the result was, Dr. Wasion's commitment to Newgate> to take his trial at the ensuing Old Bailey Sessions. Whatever bthei objects m;gl,t o?er tte to produce the late visit tit the I)tike r,t ELLINUTON to I.9n= dun, we cannot doubt that the conspiracy discovered at Boursleaux, and which probably rmhr tced many rami&oations of which we are not yet inlfirrired, wai one of them. All the Captains of Pd::krti concur in stating, that an unusual degree of agitation And ter; ment has been conspictithis in parts of Norniandy, particularly at Reu,,n. The, clay, at three eiclnck, a Council meets by sumnions at the Pavilion, Brigh ton, at which most of the Ministers are expiFted to be present. Lord and Lid,. G. H. CAVEKDISII, and Lord Moni.rm. are among the ditringuished visi!:irs at the Duke of DLYONStiIIteS seat, Chatsworth, D?rbyshire. JOHN YE1.1311451, EMI. has resigned the Receiver.: Generalship of the Eastern division of the county of Essex, to which ttust CHARLES Rot:xn, Esq. of Birch Hall, has been appointed. A subscription, amounting to about £2,000 hat been entered into by the inhabitants of Tavistock, to supply the means of labour. His Grace the Duke of &mum munificently contributed £l,OOO, and the two Borough idembert, with Mr. CAItPfiATEK, of Montavy, £lOO each. In compliance with the benevolent bequest of the late Dowager Countess of CONEN(111.111 to the poor of the parish► of Minster. in Thank, the sum of CU) WAS distributed by the churchwardens and principal inha bitants, on Saturday, the 'list instant. being Sii Thomas's Day. and a further sum of £5O, on day last, the 26th instant. On the way to Stirling, the Grand Doke IslicitoCts and* suite visited the Carmn Foundery, wheie they minutely inspected the process of every thing, frorn its rut* state to its highest finish. His Imperial ness was as much astonished as gratified with the sight of such extensive works, where upwards of 2000 ' men are daily employed. His Highness left a hand some sum to be divided among the men, and on his retiring rectived three cheers. Sir Wiwast .MAXWELL has purchased the brown yearling coltThusiden of Mr. G. HAMILTON DoNbss. The Marquis 61 QUEXNSIBERRY has also purchased this bay colt foal Sir I 'Joky Whagg (elharghadibume. With the exception of the ,e 40,000 Consol Prize, sold by Bisu, in a whole 'Ticket, all the Capitals of the Ast Lottery were shared, and a great part of them sent for sale, to the Agents in the Country) by these means there was scarcely a town of any consequence but what partook of the favours of Fortune.—lf it be asked, why there should he such a demand fir Tick ets and Shares in the present Lottery? it Pray be an wered, this acconnisolor it." The largest and most handsome Theatre of Eu rope, the Theatre-Royal of Saint Charles, at Naples, which WAS entirely Lonsumed by fire on the 14th of February last. has arisen from the awes as if by en chantment. M. A—, Secretary of the Embassy of France to the Court of Rome, lately experienced the greatest dangerpn his retuin to Paris. lit the morning, about three o'clock, ss he was travelling post in his carriage on the side of a forest, five robbers ruNhed out, stop. ped the holies, and knocked down the postillion : the glasses of the carriage were broken, and the rob. hers presented their pistols, ordering M. A-- to get out immediately, and surrender himself and his mo ney, when the moon, which had been obscured, shone forth, and the courier, who perceived some other robbers who called to their comrades to shoot —with out being perceived, got behind, and fired a large blunderbuss loaded to the top, which so 'frightened 1 the robbers, that they immediately Bed : the hems niched cm without a conductor and overturned the carriage in a ditch. Having succeeded in getting out, they drove on to the next relay, and they escaped from danger. Nothing has been heard of the un. fortunate postillion. It is affirmed that the courier has received a pension of 60(1 francs. Advice from New South Wales, we are sorry to say, represent the Settlement tube iu a very disturbed state, and lamentably retrograding iii pilot of pros perky. Wretched as ate the elements of which tli , s establishment is, in great part, composed, we cannot wonder at the slow advances it has hitherto made, nor even at its actually falling back, as is stated now to be the ease. The civil ;toil military Auilea ities 'unhappily disagree; and the limits of e i? , g re . I l e a c in t siveofpoiwnverassiobeninfg hut ill clsfi red, eac h cam ront the other, and retnott strances are Arta home accordingly. The corvles, but little affected with the leniency by which they are treated by the present Governor MACQI: mar, a man, it is said, of mild and amiatile have fallen into a state. of great insubordination', which, it is much feared, may spread its contagion to the sokfery. Hence it has been determined to eh, nee the regiment stationed (the 46th), which is to be sent to Madras, and - thesOth is to be dispatched in fs place to S dory: Tiaosports were yesterday taken op for the Purpose of carrying out she latter eezi. ment. - Bidder the inconveniencies occasioned by the t rbelence of the convicts, there are ushers fr im the perpetual disagreements of the ~ 1.1 and Was ; of whom the latter, coming out in great num bers, an d banished with better nle.ins of cultivAtiOa than the former, excite their jealousy ; en that, trim one cause or another, the Colony may be said to by 'going very much to decay. • • • • ;•1 .4 .r