Star. — London, England, 1810-12-05 00:00:00

WHIP OWNERS, SHIP-BUILDERS, TIMBER kr4RCE-LAN IS, and Others, have now :;:t opportunity of inspecting that handsome copper-bottomed Ship MODESFE, captured !t'y Isis Majesty's ship Hussar, and will be SOLD by AUCTION, with all her Stores and Materials, on Friday, the 7th of D,Teinber, Itt in, at Mr. Carrott's, a Farmer, of Friskney, being on shore near that part of the coast of Lincolnshire, which is ab.wr 14 miles from Boston. A more favourable opportunity, perhaps, never offered for such persons to become purcliaskrs who may want Ships Stores, Cordage, Sails, &c. or who mar understand getting oil, or break ing up a vessel of ails docrip.ion, being of about 350 mus bur then, nearly new, and cost i weuty-five Thousand Dollars a few inontbs ago. Further particulars may be known by applying to Mr. Thos Alldridge, White Hart, 13m:on, Lincolnshire. N. B. The above ship is pierced for 1(3 guns, American built, and will bc bought by the Farmer for firewood, &c. if not other wise divobed of. LISBON PAPERS. LISBON, NOVEMBER if:. CONSIDERATIONS ON THE WAR fl PORTLIGAG. gg What could have convinced Massena, that with an army of 72,000 men he could not force the posi - ion of Bus.co, where the Anglo-Portuguese army had only 52,000 ? Only hi; own experience, which is the best teacher for undeceiving haughty men. But after that battle, confiding in the superiority of his force, particularly in cavalry, he thought, that by turning the fl .tiks ()law allied army, he would oblige it to fir-ht in the plains of Coimbra, where he expected to mike up for his disaster on the 27th of September ; Luc Lord Wellington, having foreseen this movement, Nv , !hi rew, with as much rapidity as regularity, the C , n , bined Army to the left of the Mondego, leaving n tl.e other side only a few cavalry and light troops, to allow more time for the evacuation of Coimbra. • • " Massena, whose rale it has been in Portugal to do every thing under mistaken ideas, seeing the com bined army in fill retreat and Coimbra abandoned, is rmed the flattering ncticn that the English were Jiving to embai kat Lisbon. He lett 3300 xr.?n to gairison Coimbra, not so much to keep up his corn municatims, il,c that seemed unnecessary when he al ready looked upon himself as master of Lisbon, as to serve 1!-r a glut:A to 1.500 sick and wounded whom Le had left there. By this incomprehensible conduct, he seemed to mike no account of an army of 20,000 which we had in the provinces of the North ; but in a few days a single division of these militia surprised his garrison in C.,:irnbra, and completely cut otr his communications on that side. This affair only vexed, but did not dismay him ; for he learned ;t on the f - sith or 10th, at a time when he still made sure of, the conquest of Lisbon. It was on the 14th that he reconnoitred our lines in person, and when his troops were hoping that a battle in awo or three days would ensure their entrance into Lisbon, it was soon disco- 1 vered that Massena contented himself with the con-. quest of Serra dc Ilona .Tunto, and the possession of , the Indian corn and grapes in the low : . *rounds of Alemquer, where he has hitherto remained.' There let us leave him, and turn our eyes to this terrible invasion of barbarous and criminal men, who respect neither. the laws of civilization nor humanity. " Two provinces of the North and two of the south have hid the good fortune to escape those Vandals ; but it has been the fate of Beira and Estre inadura to euth:re the d;?structive scourve. The Traater part el the inl:abitants escaped from their vi olence and rapacity ; but through what toils and dif ficulties ! Numbers of delicate ladies were obliged t) travel on foot many leagues of road ; leavin:; their moveables to chance, some of which were saved, and others fell into the hands of those masters in the art, of rol , hcry. Some unfortunate families, who for want of resolution or of time were unable to pursue their route to the capital, fled to the mountains, where the enemy chased them Eke wolves, and robbed and in sulted them alter the aezustomed manner of this bar barous and unbridled soldiery. 04 And shall there be round men wicked enough to assert, that these atrocities are a consequence of the rights of war ? When did they authorise the viola tion of warm', the slanlit - ering of the aged and other defenceless inhabitants of d.st:':cts which made no re sistance ; Oa ? assassination men, accounted rich. only becans. they did fa:nish that quantity of money which, it was said, they possessed' Of all these, however, and still more execrable atrocities, examples were given in the City o; Con:4lra ai , ine ; :old the same was done in other districts, with little distinction. Let net, therefore. strangers wonder, if the Portuguese cannot treat with kindness or urbanity the French soldiers ; let them not. call the Spaniards barbarous, the Portuguese vindictive ; the fault is their's who have excited eternal hatred between the two natio: - .s, and have raised an insurmountable wall of separati , a , . .I.eiing of vengeance is not, it is true, a generous fec:ing ; but it cannot he condemned 'n nations vho h.tvc '.'en themselves invaded without reason, witheut : - aotive, and in a way that shews a l design rather to exterminate and ckstroy than to con-1 quer or i•nbalite Bonapaite and . his satellites' appear abortions of hell, meters of death,whose great cSt pleasure is ruin, blood, and death : the unhappy soidicr is L culpable ;he fogows the example, of his dapi dyed c!acts. as Let it not be imagined from what we have said, that we are of the opinion of thoze gloomy persons wh o think these two provinces (Beira and Estrema dura) ruined for many years, and that it will be dif tieult to restore them : such men have as little con r age as they :tie barren in resources and in under standing. riches of a nation, or of a prov4nee, may be, cl;v;d,,l into popillati.in, buildings, moveables, money, aad Liids. Iu Fa/Alin:ion our 1013 has been smatl-; hi this respect the - system of evacuation has had happy effects. .In Coimbra and its suburbs, for example, 40' persons were assassinated ; but had ell the inhabitants remained,the slaughter would probably have exceeded 3or 4'lo. Our loss in population, then, has been but trifling ; aad the same way be said with regard to buildings, " Tn moveables, the loss of the inhabitants has been prodigious ; from the want of transports and of time, it became necessary to leave almost all the furniture, and money and plate were scarcely saved ; even these valuables were left in a few instances. Articles of furniture in wood, because they could not be carried off, were burnt or destroyed by this barbarous and lexterminating race. " Such losses are certainly to be lamented, but they are not in general so great as may at first sight appear. Thesz French left in many places the plunder which they had made in othors ; in this way some persons arc totally destitute of effects, while others have got more than they ever had before. In the fear of the French armies it is always usual to see some of the ' lciwest class, who plunder what is left by the French. Much of this property will he restored again to its owners by the exertions of the magistrates, as happened last year at Oporto: With regard to the loss of such furniture as consisted of articles of luxury, we may perhaps be permitted to observe, that much cannot be said in favour of luxury in a country where the na tional industry has hitherto been small, and where all such objects are pip-eh:mil with ready money from the foreign merchant. Tables and chairs may be al ways procured of the ordinary or of inferior quality. " The quantity of money plundered by the French is inconsiderable ; it is true they found many families in the woods, whom they robbed of all that they had, but on the other hand, from the removal of the popu lation, they could not impose those pecuniary .contri• butions which they formerly levied in the North, and which they now exact in Spain. " We now come to the great source of our wealth in nu? territorial property. " In Beira they have not destroyed the vines and olives; but in Estremadura many olive grounds have been ruined, and this loss will require many years to repair it. The harvest c,t this year has'also been lost in many districts of the two provinces; but this loss will not exceed that of some other rears, if the farmers have seed-corn, and cattle to continue the cultivation of the soil. It cannot be drubted that the resources of many are small, that some are wholly ruined by the invasion, and that assistance will be necessary to enable them to continue their labours, so important to the pnblie good ; but we doubt not that all diligence will be used to supply such as;istance. Upon the whole, tt may be ;aid, that the injuries of this inva sion, at least the steat,:r part of them, will admit of Ibeing repaired in the course of ft year. " On the other Land, la it he recollected that al nun.t all public evils bring with them some benefits. The ea, thipiake of Lisbon was the cause of that city being rebuilt in a manner more regular and more perfect. Onr present situation, by increasing our ne cessities, will better dcvelope our industry ; and per haps the time may arrive when our proprietors shall divest themselves of those capricious and ruinous wants which consume so great a part of their stock ; and we shall begin to pursue with efficacy the besz means for augmentif,.: t the cultivation of corn in our cogntry, so as not to be indebted to foreign nations for that IleCCSiaTy. " The while nation ,has seen and estimated the wise provisions of our Government, with regard to the subsistence of Lisbon, the relief of the indigent, who have taken refuge there, the public tranquillity, &c. and its paternal cares will not be less bestowed on the means of repairing, as much as possible, the losses of the farmers and proprietors of that part of the kingdom which has'suffered from the invasion of the enemy. It is probable, that by means of subscrip tions both within and without the kingdom, their un fortunate situation may be in part assisted or relieved ; and we have in the inhabitants of the town of Cuba and of Evora a recent example of what may be ef fected by generous minds." FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PEFERSBURGH, NOV. S. The Court Gazette of this day contains the fol lowing intelligence from our army in Moldavia : OFFICIAL IN TtLLIGENCE. " Advices have been obtai:wd from the Imperial armv under Gcnti:l Count Kaminskoi, dated the 20th of Oztober. No .i:!cisive battle had been fought, and the two arn,ies remained. on the same ground. Tne Imperial Russian forces are in the best condition, an' in want or none of the necessaries of life. The Ot:: disc `tufted in every at tack, and disappointed in all its designs, by the supe rior skill of the Russian Commander, is subject to de,:crtic.os, and evon to rchAion. On the 17th of Octi,lizr a dispute arose betweca the Janissaries and some of the auxiliaries, in which above 500 men fell Ilefore it could be suppressed. 'the universal cry is Peace. A Flag of Truce artived on the Bth instant at tl:e head quart•rs, offering terms, which were not accepted by the Commander in Chid. " On the 51 of October a battle was fought near Raborsh, in Scrvia, in which the Turks were defeated, I leap 550 t) dead on the held, and seven stand:irds were t b aken. On the same day a body of Turks, corn posed Ut .50(M) men, under an Agar and a Paella, namt::d Dash, surrendered without firing a shot to General Subaloff. 46 The Black Sea has been deserted entirely by the Turkish fleet, and the Russian Admiral is completely master of it, even to the Canal of Constantinople.— The Turkish flotilla before Ode;sa its been deleated, And several vessels takeb. It was reported that the plague had broken ota at Constantinotlgs and that it raged furiously. The grand Seignior h. thoughts of retiring bag Asia, and appointing a Council to goyern his empire. The Grand Viz,ier is very unpopular." SMITH, MAYOR. THE FIRST COURT, held on 'Tuesday the 4th day-of Dect•enh..tr, 1810, and in the 31st Year of the Reign of C;tokot the •I'nu n, of the United Kingdom of Great Etitain an:l Ireland, Kin . Ste. RtsoLvED LINA NocnirtLY. That the Thanks of this Court be given to the Right ✓ lionourable THOMAS' SMITH, late Lord Mayor of this City, for his faithful anil indrperident discharge of the Public Duties of that high and important Office—for his po lite attention to the Members of this Court—for the easiness of access which he constantly afforded to all ranks of his Fellow- Citizens—and, more especially, for his aa , iduity to, preserve the Public Peace of this City at times, and upon all occasions. WOODTHOR PR. AUGSBURGH, 18,1(4V. A Courier from Constantinople has to-day excited much surprire, by passing through this city on his road to Paris. He passed through Vienna, in his *w.ty, and delivered dispatches to the Minister there. He travriled with all haste. His object is s;rid to be to obtain the-mediationof the Emperor of the Tema, in the war b.tw•eca Russia and Turkel• • . THE EVENING VAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 5. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CP.OOK. 3 per Cent. Cons. money, shut—for opg. 67ii. Reduced 661f-4 per Cent. 52i1. • Navy 5 per Cent. shit—Onuilum 5 dis. Excheq. Bills, 4s. 9s, prem.—Bonds 20s. prem. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. 3 per Cent. Red. 681 Omnlmp 5 dis. s per Cent. Cons. 66i 11-16 India'Bonds, 21s. 10s. tOs. 4 per Cent. 8201-H. Exc. Bills, 41. 9s. prem. 5 per Cent. Navy toot English Lottery Ticke:s Itl. Long Ann. 7{ 11-16 Cons. for acc. 671 The last dispatches from Lisbon came in so short a time, that farther accounts from the army cannot be expected for some days. In the interim, ingenuity and conjecture are busy to account for MASSENA'S re- trent, and to divine the events that may result from it. On the whole, it appears pretty certain that MAS• snsit must have had some other reason for his move ment than want of provisions ; for, in this respect, the best-informed Officers state that there was no de ficiency. Two reasons may be assigned, which, taken toge:her, may have prompted the Tretich General to retreat :—he found it impossible to attack: Lord Wet, : lINGTON in his entrenchments before Lisbon, with any prospect of advantage ; but, by changing his own ground, it would become ne,:c;;;ary for the British to change theirs, and consequently to sacrifice some of the advantages which they possessed; and by retreat ing, MASSENA was approaching his own reiaforce 7 ments. These, and circumstances which may easily be conceived connected with them, account satisfactorilT for the movement that has taken place; and shew, at the same time, that there is but little chance of a ge neral battle for some time. The two Commanders seem equally to balance the ruin that would follow a dcfer s t ; and the movements that have commenced may be considered more as a contest of military skill, than as indicative of a wish to risque the contest on the issue of a battle. THE KING. The following are the Bulletins issued tt!s dly 46 WINDS.* CASTLE. w k . 4 . 41 Nine, P.M. ctH o i s MA J ESTY " continues g t r in ed ue ) ll the„ ih it. pocw sameas r lie: s the morn ing. 46 W. SiEnPNI:Ey. Id. BAILIk. " 11. WILL:S." ei wintson CASTLE, DECEMBER S. it. His MAJESTI his passed another good n; i lt. and is still a little better this mornin?." (Sigr , ...d as b,kre.l .—_.. TEE Agmy. Sir Davin DI:NDAS held a public day yes:crday,z his Office, in the Horse Guards, and gave aud.en v4 to 3 number Of military Officer.. The 2d Battalion 35th Regiment march from Chi• chester, where they have been some time, to Vir. ;n dif Barracks, where they are expected by .the 1 (il l i nz A letter from an Officer belonging to the Roy2l Artillery-drivers, dated Lisbon, November 20, Lap , 46 A detachment our corps are ordered to Curuteu where a large force is assembling, to act ;n tl,r r ea ; of the French army ; hut this clof,ign, wc hare ever reason to think, will b• rendered tp.:eless ; for, c, t t h e night of the 1 Ith instal:: Ole French ::rrry The following lettcr . from an officer ed rank will place oar !.:r.orance on the s:;!,j:ct of !:s supposed want of prov:sions in at .f.•:iking (aunt ni v i ew Massena's retreat (if so it is to LI cai!o.i) has afforded us a serious lesson, that we Inuit I,t trust any longer to. famine as an ally. In all thevii. lager through which I have passed, the enemy hu e left wheat, graiu, and even cattle, to a large amount, sufficient, from what I have casually seen, for mote than a week's consumption for the whole army." It must be a singular gratification to the mime' Ireland, that among the officers who have distinguish. ed themselves in Portugal. they can reckon among their countrymen, Lord WELLINGTON, Marshal N I RESFORTI, Sir B. SEENCER, Gen. COLE, G:n. STEWART, Lord Avuattn, Gen. PACE, Gen. Cox, Colonels PA. R: EN HAM, ROACH, DOI'S, MsCEk:AGVI, A letter from an Of f icer on board the Semiramis frigate, Captain ltrotaansow, dated in Vigo Bay, ' November 17, states, that while cruizing off the liar, hour of Vigo, on the evcnirg of the sth of November, 01.2 y eitrouuteiLd a dreadful storm-to tlie fury of tv:ach they were exrced till noon on t!le 61::—ard were several times near foundering, or striking on the rocks at the entrance of the Bay ; they were, hoe. ever, luckily brought up by their best bower. Finding no abatement in the storm, the Master at length took charge of Cie ship, and luckily ran her up the harlwir in telfcty, without any other damage thaw the less of her cables. A s soon as the :s refitted, and the we'. char modcl.ates, she is going to cruize off Oporto : Captain RICHARVON, he commander, being apvir...• ed to the command of a detached squadron on that, station, to act as cir.:timstances trly rfr.der it nem. sary ; for which service a more able and za`lint Oi. cer could not have been rgelected. Great improvements and extensive buildings are going on in the town of Plymouth. fn consequence ofits having been declared a free port, lame houses have been erected, and cellars fitted up in evi direction, for the stowage of rnerelandihe of all de scriptions ; and this part of the kingdom, which has hitherto been neglected by the artisan and nrinufac turer, seems at length destined to be taken into netko. Several pa l lic-spirited Manufacturers from Birmigg ham, Sheikh!, Leeds, and Manchester, hive byri surveying the adjacent country, to find nti s,,yus :he most hie to establish manufactories on—fcr no co my in the kingdom can be better ad.iptel for than Devonshire—particularly the vicinity of Ply month, which abounds with plentiful streams of wa ter, limestone rocks, and quarries of other stone, and is at all times well supplied with every description of coal. CITY BustsEss.—Yesterday a Court of Alderson was held at Guildhall, which being the first Courtof Aldermen in the mayoralty, the LORD MAYOR went in state from the Mansion-house to Guildhall. 'lle Thanks of the Court were voted to the late LOW MAYOR (See a preceding column.) The Court inspecud the meal-weighers' reports, and ordered the priced bread to be raised halt an assize, or Id. in die peck. loaf, to commence to-morrow ; the qientern ,02 1. 11 wheaten is then to be sold for ls. 3d. and h o u selsa at Is. 11c1.—It was referred to a Committee of whole Cour t to consider the present Act of NW' meat for regulating the assize of bread, and re, , what alteration (if any) should be made therein: r wLat steps are necessary to be pursued therenn. --, freedoms we: e granted to Gtonor. ELDRIDUZ fa extraordinary and courageous conduct in endear. ing to apprehend some thieves in Ald er manbury,ll _ i which he lost an eye. —A Court of Common Co' will be held to-morrow. • PRICE OF BREAD.—It will been by the proceeer of the Court of Aldermen yesterday, that the C were under the necessity of ordering an adranc.e . , the price of bread of a penny in the peck loaf. --11" it will naturally be asked by the Publi c, can h' given occasion for this rise, under the pres ent tiro! . stances ? Some weeks ago the dealers in flour r" . ." tinned want of water for grinding as the cause o!,, high price. Do they mean now to urge th:-'` have too large a supply of water ? There is r . somewhere, and we are glad to see tha t it has • referred to a Committee of the whole Court men to consider the present Act of Parliaraeot regulating the Assize of Bread, and to repoet_. A , alterations and steps may be necessaryto be pum- The late Sir E. B. being stark mad with Ebel . ache, at his seat in Norfolk, sent for- the ° doctor, who was a blacionith-:—a &adore, a tooth-elrasver ! On being asked by the how long he had been in traciite- 64 Whys r: your Honour (replied Mr. Dow, for that name) • I have been 20 years in lwriaro, as a ; smith, and 10 in the cloch4kaning and 4404 d . ; and in that time have seen zworephrical t hat 4 cast: ! • • • • SWEDEN. The declaration of war by Sweden against this country has excited but little surprise, having been generally cpnsidered as inevitable, from the moment that BERNADOTTE was appointed successor to the throne of GUSTAVE& Sweden, as our Readers will see by the subjoined letter, accedes to the continental system of NAroz.r:ss : indeed she had no choice but to obey the mandate. (..:01TENBURGH, NOV. 26. In respect to the demands on the. part of France to our Court, we learn, from good authority, that they consist of the following-- I. That a Declaration of War shall be issued by Sweden against se Great Britain. 2. That ail British Property and Colonial Produce, by what ever means imported irto Sweden, shall be vinfi*cated. An unconditional answer was required from the Swedish Government on bo:h these matters ; and the reply was to he given within five days from their de livery, in default of which the French Minister was to quit Stockholm. Sweden transmitted the subsequent ultimatum— To the Ist—That a Declaration of War, as required, shall be issued by the Swedish Government against Great Britain. .'To the 21—That a limited time shall be allowed for the in vestigation of the subject ; and if it shall be found that, subse quent to the 24th of April, merchandize from England have been introduced into Sweden illicitly, sentence shall be pronounced as respects it, according to the laws of the country. Accounts were yesterday received from Konings berg to the 12th ult. stating that upwards of 40 fresh seizures had been made in the Prussian ports, and that all the British goods which had been put under sequestration were confiscated. They also state, that some reluctance having been manifested by the Prus sian Government to proceed to these rigorous mea sures, it was signified to it, that a foreign force and a legion of thuaniers, in case of refusal, would imme diately enter the Prussian territories, and cause them to be carried into effect. The Konnigsberg letters mention, that the utmost severity is continued with respect to trade, and that it is presumed that all the ships seized at Pillau will have their cargoes condemned, and publicly sold. The following letter from Stockholm, gives a cu rious instance of French finesse— " Stockholm, November €O. " Bernadotte's wife has been detained by the French at Ham. lrirgh, under pretence that the new Crown Prince bad not in. fluenced Sweden to conform to the continental syAem, and other measures hostile to Great Britain. This is nothing but a contri vance to remove the odium of the steps to be taken from Berna dotte, by falsely representing his unwillingness to resort to them." By letters of the 11th ult received yesterday from Hamburgh, it appears that a new Decree has been passed, inflicting additional pains and penalties on persons maintaining any intercourse direct or indirect, with Great Britain and her dependencies. In obe dience to this order, a banker at Hamburgh writes to a friend at Carlshamns, that he will not draw, accept, or indorse any hills whatever to which, an English merchant is a party. Another Correspon dent writes, "4s I have determined to accede to the continental system, I must desire you to write no more on matters of trade." The goocts are delivered up by the - Hamburgh merchants to the French Com missioners, through the fear of being shot. The French are not satisfied with the quantity of effects obtained, and domiciliary visits are to be renewed in Hamburp.