Star. — London, England, 1814-12-05 00:00:00

ddgibi." ~ I PITItACT OF A I.ltrrittt PROM IioNTIMAL, NOV. S. " You are probably acquainted with the nature of the position on the Chippewa, to which General Dromrnond fell back.. General Izard, with 2000 men, joined the American army, under Gen. Brown, about the 12th of October. As the right division, under General Drummond, was known to be in great want of provisions and much 'reduced by sickness, great anxiety was felt for its situation, particularly as our fleet was not expected to take the Lake until the 15th. On that very day (and the day before the fleet, with the new ship, sailed•from Kingston,) the American army advanced with a great display of force, drove in our piquets and posts on Street's Creek, came up in front of our line on the Chippawa, and cannonaded ineffectually the whole day, and at night oared again behind Street's Creek. They remained quiet during the 16th, 17th, and 18th : on the 19th they again advanced in our front, as if determined to force the tete-du-pint on the Chippawa; but when they approached, they were met by a force from our lines that checked and repelled them : they then push ed a body of men up the right bank of the Chippewa, with a view of turning our right above the ravine; but General Drummond detached a force, under Co. lontl Myers, up the left bankovhich met the Ame ricans in the woods, and after some smart skirmishing, in which they lost 30 men, and we none, they fell back on the main body. " About this time it is probable the enemy got sight of our fleet, which had left Kingston on the 16th; for the whole of their 'army retreated with great precipitation on that and the following day, having previously destroyed a large quantity of wheat and heavy baggage, which they were in tco great a haste to carry away. Such, indeed, was the rapidity of their retreat, that their own people an the other side of the river appear not to have been aware of the movement; for a large boat, laden with provisions for a brigade, came over after their retreat to a posi tion they had occupied, and fell into our hands. The fleet, atter landing five companies of the 90th regi ment, and a quantity of provisions brought from Kingston, returned to that place on the 23d. It sailed again on the Ist for the head, of the Lake, ith the 37th regiment, recruits for the 6th and 82d, and a brigade of artillery. We shall be anxious to hear of their safe arrival, as this season is boisterous, and on Lake Ontario particularly dangerous. The new ship works remarkably well, and is considered as fine a ship as any in the British Navy. •g It is a thing that must appear singular to all, aid pmiuous to the supersitious, that on her first mite she was struck by a thunderbolt, her top-gal. Tant.:4l - st Shivered, and her main-mast much injured. The. Prince Regent was also struck, and a man killed on board. The Amerfcan fleet retired into Sackett's Harbour oat the 11th tilt. When the enemy retreated from before Chippewa part of their force crossed the river; and the remainder at the date of the last ac countawere posted in Fort Erie, and upon the sur rounding ground which our army took up during the blockade. The pars that crossed the river was about 2000, under General Brown, who have since arrived *1 Sackett's Harbour for the relief of that place. It i t s reported, that there is souse difference between him and General hard, who is left with such reduced numbers as Fort Erie, that great hopes are entertained qt General Drummond being enabled to drive him from thence upon the arrival of the reinforcements which were on board the fleet. There are accounts lion" Michilimackinac to the 19th of October, at _sy:h • time. one brigade of canoes had an ived with derision:, stores, and A reinforcement of troops, and Another was close at hand.. Great advantage had been derived from the captured schooners." THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. MONDAY, DECZMBE R 5, 1814. • YtticE Of STOCKS THKI'DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK: Wanted 631141-4 per Cent. Slti-5 per Cent. Navy shut Consols suet--fer account, 86'1 67i—Omnium di.. Long Ann.. 16} —India Bonds 174 id.. pre. Eichtquer Bills Is. to si. prem. . From the Paris and Brussels Papers received since oar last, it appears that the faze of Saxony is not yet decided. The Chronicle of the C:tegress states, that Lord CASTLEREAGH has presented a note in favour of Saxony; and the King of SAXONY has published a Proclamation protesting against spoliation, arid de- Ciaring he will. accept of no compensation. The ease of Saxony deserves great cor.sideration. It can not be denied that the King lent all the facilities in his pawer to promote to schemes of BONAPAILTE bUt, .n the other hand,were not all the States of the Continent dragooned into similar acquiescence ? and is Knot no. . talons, that the Allies were much indebted for theyic tory of Leipsic to the Saxon army which joined them? • Is itinspossible to find any other means to punish the • , !ting_than that of depriving his people of their inde pendence ? Our own opinion is, that Europe will be rendered much safer by having a great number of small States, than by having them all consolidated into three or four great Empires ; nor do we think it would require much argument to prove that, so far as concerns this country, were selfish considerations allowed to have any weight, our comparative im Tlal:ance in the scale will stand higher under the first u:,::1 it can under the latter system. Most of our Readers will recollect, that a few years Jim, (in March, 18100 the Marquis WELLPSLEY, then Minister for Foreign Affairs, employed a fo reigner, calling himself the Baron de KOLLI, to pro ceed to VAlensay, where FraDINAND, the present King of Spain, was then confined, by order of BONA.. PARTE• The object of this mission was to prevail upon his bls.restr to.proceed with him privately to England iii the first instance, and afterwards to Spain; and a British squadron, under Admiral Coctt- 110112 i ** ordered to eruize off the coast of Nor- mandy, to take the Royal Fugitive on board. The Baron do KouLt was furnished with a letter from our gracious Sovereign to FERDINAgII I and other clocu ments, besides jewels and presents of the value of from ten to fifteen thousand pounds. Shortly after the Baron's departure from London, there appeared in the Moniteur an account of thesei- . ... sure in the Park of Valencay, of a person calling himself the Baron de Kow, who was detected in attempting to commence a traitorous intercourse with the Ex-Royal Family of Spain ; and every one who knew any thing of the regime of BoNA. PARTE, concluded that Komi was instantly r ut to death! Will it be believed that the whole story, as related in the Moniteur, is a fabrication ? Baron de Kottt is still alive, and is now in this country—he is furnished with ample documents to support the account which he gives of himself and of his mission—his history is curious in the extreme : and did we not live in an age of wonders, would be scarcely credible. On quitting London, it appears that KoLLI imme diately proceeded to Paris, via Qttiberon : in the French capital he spent a few days, making arrange_ ments and purchasing riding horses of great beauty and value with which to proceed to Valencay, it having been agreed that FERDINAND should be conduc ted by him to the coast of Normandy on horseback, without any other attendants. While exercising the horses in the Palk of Vincennes previous to his de- parture, Kow was arrested by an order from thr Minister of Police : he was instantly conveyed to the dungeons of Vincennes, and all his papers and valua• bles were seized. When taken before SAVARV, the Minister of Police, and his myrmidons, he was called upon to give up the names of his accomplices (if he had any) at Paris or at Valencay : to these demands, as he informs us, he replied with the indignation of a man of honour, faithful to his trust : he was accordingly remanded to his dungeon, which he never quitted until the resto ration of the Bourbons in April last. It remains to be explained how the Moniteur stated that he had been seized at Valensay ; and here we have another of the thousand instances of the fraud, falsehood, and de ception practised under BONAPARTE'S Government, which has justly rendered his name, and the names of all his minions, execrable, in recula seculorum. A person of the name of RICHARD was procured at the price of 12,000 francs to assume the name of the Baron de Kow, and to proceed toValencay with all that person's credentials: if FERDINANS listened to his scheme, and if it appeared that he had Leen previously , made acquainted with the object of KoLLI's mission, RICHARD'S instructions directed him to get the names of all the persons connected with the plot, and to convey FERDINAND straight to the Castle of Vin cennes, on the pretext that he was carrying him to the Coast of Normandy for embarkation ! RICHARD proceeded on his hopeful mission ; the Governor of Valengay, FERDINAND'S gaoler, gave him abundanee'of opportunities of conversin i ; with his prisoner; but DON ANTONIO ( FERDINAND'S uncle), probably suspecting that all was not right, and cal culating upon the weak state of his nephew's intel lects, most rigidly prevented all private interccurse between him and the pretended Baron de KOLLI : the latter was, therefore, recalled to Paris re infra,: : to SAVARY he returned the credentials and jewels, QC. and received the stipulated reward. The fircnitree immediately published the fabricated statement to which we have alluded. The real Baron de Kow in the mean time re mained a close prisoner until April last, and wLen set at liberty, lie presented a Memorial to FLUDIN AND VII. stating that he had risked his life for him, but to which, as might be expected, he received no an swer : he then applied to Louts XVIII. praying the restoration of the jewels, &c. as his personal property : to this with beconiing dignity and honour his MA JESTY replied, that the consent of the British Govern ment must be first obtained, and here the matter rests for the present. In the mean time the truth of the Baron de Kora.' is certified by SAVARY, Duke of Rovigo, RICHARD who personated the Baron at Va- 1 lencay, &c. &c. The fabricated documents published in the Motaleur on this singular subject were given in the STAR of Monday, the 7th of May, 1810. We boldly stated our doubts of their authenticity at the time. We received some Hamburgh Papers this morn ing : they contain the following article from Vienna : VIENNA, MAY 18. Saxe Weimar is to be greatly increased on the left , bank of the Elbe. Austria will receive four circles in Poland. We hear that the fate of Genoa is de cided, and that it is to he incorporated with Sardinia. The first plan to separate the territory from the city, to give the former to Sardinia and let the city remain a free Republic, would have been a half measure in jurious to the Genoese themselves, as the richest cid *efts chiefly supported their dignity by the possession ' i of their estates in the Genoese territory. It was evident that Sardinia, which, for the wel fare of Italy, is equally connected by ties of friend slip with all the great Powers, must be indemnified for its losses in Savoy, and would be so at the Con gress. BRESCIA, NOV. 5. Political robbers yesterday stopped the mail near this city and took from the postilion all the Govern ment dispatches. JAMAICA MAIL: • TLe Montagne packet has arrived from Jamaica: she sailed on the 17th of October, sad brings the fol low•ing intelligence : JAMAICA, OCTOBER 17. The Sspply, from Nassau, was captured by the Saucy Jack ; since retaken, and arrived at Jamaica- The Napoleon, of 24 guns and 160 men, has been captured by the Endymion frigate, and sent for Hali fax. The Argo frigate was appointed to sail from Jamaica with the fleet on the gist of October. The Egbert, from the Havannah to Port-au-Prince, was captured by the Saucy Jack American privateer.— The Thracian sloop of war has detained and carried into Jamaica the Hayward, from Port-au-Prince to Liverpool. The Euryalus gun brig was to sail for England on the 10th of November. FROM THE ROYAL JAMAICA GAZETTE-OCT. t 5. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM CA RTHAGENA, DATED THE sTil INSTANT. gi By the Palma frigate, from St. Thomas's, we learn of a late arrival at that island from Spain, which stated that country to be in a violent ferment, and that the troops intended for the Col,)nies could not be spared. England had acknowledged Buenos Ayres and Monte Video as independent, and refused to fur nish transports to carry troops against South America. This news had had a good effect, and a large sum of money, from Morpex, is on its way to this port for trans-shipment to your city. Colonel Robertson and Bolivar are to leave here this evening for the Congress at Santa Fe. Two thousand of Bolivar's army are at Cuerta, on the borders of Venezuela, and in this Stat.!, which he again joins, bent on pushing Lis I..)ttutic once more." PROM THE SAME PAPER. " The Palma frigate, of 36 guns, Captain Worth, arrived at Carthagena on the 2d instant from Barba. does and St. Thomas's 1 by her accounts were re ceived of the arrival from Halifax, at the latter island, of le Rhin frigate, of 36 guns, Capt. Malcolm, after having fallen in with the American ship Peacock, Captain Warrington, off the Banks of Newfoundland, and captured her, after a chace of two hours, during which the former fired her stern chasers, which killed six and wounded eight of le Rhin's crew. Tue Rhin and her prize had arrived at Halifax—she had separated from the fleet udder the Warrior's protec tion some days previous. Captain. Worth had Hali fax Papers with the particulars of the capture, which he gave to the President of Carthagena. " Two days previously to the sailing of the Tal bot from Carthagena, advices were received there from the interior ( where hostilities had ceased) of a large sum of money being on its way to that place, which had occasioned a considerable rise in the price of dry goods, and there was every prospect of trade becoming very brisk. " By the Betsey we learn that the British brig Eg . Bert, from the Havannah to Port-au-Prince, was cap. tared on the 2d inst. on the coast of Cuba, by the American privateer schooner Saucy Jack, where the Captain and part of the crew were sent on shore at a port near St. Jago." FROM THE KINGSTON CHRONICLE, OF OCTOBER 15. A letter from Montego Bay, dated the 11th in stant, says—' There is a privateer off Lucca, which has this day plundered the sloop Endeavour, Captain llanlin, just off the Harbour's mouth, of all her &c. ecc.' 44 Another letter, of the same date, from Lucca, statcs- 4 We are now troubled with the Saucy Jack 'privateer on the coast, the Captain of which has said he will cut out the ship True Briton, Captain Wil liams ; but I hope he will be disappointed : he stood in this morning close to the fort, and took a dagger ; the Contest brig of war went out, but stood no chance with her.' " STATE OF THE KING'S Hui:mi.—Yesterday the following monthly report of the Physicians U'AS exhi bited at St. James% Palace : " WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. 3. ag His MAJESTY has been uniformly composed through the last month, but without any alteration in the state of his disorder." Lord ARTHUR SOMERSET came passenger in LIFFEY frigate, which arrived on Monday at Ports mouth from Quebec. His Lordship left Sir Geostoe PnEvosT's head-quarters on the sth uh. but we un derstand his Lordship's dispatches were only dupli cates of others previously received, no event having occurred, since the affair of Plattsburgh, of sufficient importance to be made the subject of a public com munication to Government. We learn by the LIFFEY, that Sir JAMES Yzo, having got the ST. LAWRENCE (his large ship) ready for sea, left Kingston with the whole of his squadron, and cruized round the Lake —Commodore CHAUNCEY having retired into Sackett's Harbour. That on the 2d ult. Sir J. YEo again put to sea, for the head of the Lake, having 1200 troops on board his fleet, and a quantity of provisions and supplies, for the relief of General DRCSIMOND'S army on the frontiers of Niagara. This reinforcement of troops to General DRUMMOND had become necessary by the junction of the armies under Generals Izattio and BROWN, whose united force being opposed to Ge- neral DRUMMOND, prevented him from every active operation ; besides, the army was in great distress for previsions. Commodore CHAUNCEY was strongly for tifying Sackett's Harbour ; the number of troops in the garrison, it WAS understood, was considerable, and 2000 men were daily expected from the States. It had been ascertained that he drew rations for 20,000 men, but a great number of these were non-combatants-:-arti ficers of various descriptions. From these circum stances, and the advancement of the_season, it was ge- lierally supposed, that Sir JAMES Yeo would not able to do more this year than convey the necessary supplies across the Lake to General DRUMMOND* N411.4L igTELLIGENCR. EAST-INDIA SHIPPING. The BAROSSA country ship, from Bengal, arthred yesterday in the Downs : she left Bengal the 12th May, the Isle of France the 15th August, and Saint Helena the Ist October. The Captain reports that there were some priva. teers in the Bay of Bengal, which had taken several vessels • and that the ELK sloop of war had arrived from England at the Isle of France, with accounts of the Peace. FALMOUTH, DECEMBER 2. Arrived the Sandwich packet with a Mail from the Leeward Islands, in 36 days ; and the Montague packet, with a Mail from Jamaica, in 49 days. Sailed his Majesty's ship GOLDFINCH with twenty-two sail of merchantmen for Spain, Portugal, and the Mediten ranean, to join his Majesty's ships MEANDER and and AMARANTHE, that are hourly expected off this port with the remainder of the fleet from Plymouth. Also sailed his Majesty's ship CONQUEST, with a con voy for Cork.—Wind S. S. E. TOR BAY, DECEMBER S. The West-India fleet is now off the Berry Head, and the wind at S. S► W. It is expected they will not weather the Start, but beat up for this Bay. PLYMOUTH, DECEMBER 3. Sailed his Majesty's ship ULYSSES, with a fleet for Rio Janeiro; his Majesty's ships MEANDER and AMARANTH, with the fleets bound for Spai n, &C. to call off Falmouth for the ships of that port ; also sailed his Majesty's ship FOXHOUND, with a convoy for France.—Since writing the above, the wind .11::s come round to the South, and tlre above fleets a:e at this moment returning to harbour.—Arrived Sydney Cove, MourtisoN, from London for Rio J.I n*o ; a Ruisian ship, from St. Petersburgh, with timbers; and the French chasse maree la Babel, of 17 tons, with a cargo of wheat and butter. consigned to Messrs. HAWKER and SONS, of this port.—Sailed the St. Philip cartel, with prisoners, fur America. PORTSMOUTH, DECEMBER 4. Arrived the Mary, Quiwros, from Quebec ; the Jane, Concord, Desire, and Neptune colliers ; and the Sarah, from Cork, with provisions. Sailed, yes terday, his Majesty's ship COMET, for Plymouth; the CHALLENGER, for the owns ; and the Melanthe, GOOCH, from Batavia, for the River.—'tVind W. DEAL, DECEMBER 4. Arrived the airrobA, FenousON, from Bengal and the Ise of France; Melatithe, Goocu, from Batavia and the Cape, last from Portsmouth ; CvoNeT sloop of war, from Portsmouth, ::td severalothet ships, par ticulars not known.--Wind W. The,Diana, MUNCASTER, from Lisbon to Liver. pool, grounded on an anchor in the Tagus, the 12th ult. and nearly filled with water-157 bags of wool damaged. The large Fleet for the West Indies which had as sembled at Portsmouth sailed on Friday afternoon with a fair wind. It consisted of two hundred and fifteen merchantmen. The convoying ships are the SWIFTSIME, ARAXES, DRAKE, REDWING, BUFFALO. TORTOISE, and SWIFT. The NlEANDrit's convoy, for the Mediterranean, which put into Plymouth with foul winds, sailed from thence on Thursday. In consequence of the Quebec fleet having parted convoy in a gale of wind off Newfoundland on the 15th ult. application was made from Lloyd's to the Admiralty to send out cruizers for their protection.— The following is a copy of the answer returned : " 1 Admiralty-Office Dec. 2 11414. " Szit —Having laid before my Lora. Commissioners of the Admiralty your letter of this day's date, requesting that some cruizers may he ordered out for the protection of the homeward bound trade from Quebec, which you met ion to have been ►e parated front the convoy of his Majesty's ship Liffey, on the 15th ult. in a severe gale of wind off the Banks of Newfoundland, I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you, that Caere are a number of crtezers at sea, on the Irish and Plymouth stations, which their Lordships hope will afford all the ;,ro• tectioo which it is pos‘ible to provide under the circumstances of the case; but that my Lords have directed the Admirals on those stations, to send to sea any disposable cruizers that they may have in port, with a view to theprotection of the trade above alluded to; and to enjoin their Commanders to be particularly vigilant. —I am, Sir, your very humble Servant, . (Signed) " J. W. CLOKEI. " Mr. John Bennett, jen. Lloyd's." The English brig Wainol, Captain MORGAN, took the ground close to the mouth of the port of Havle, during a storm on the '26th ult. Humane attempts were made from the shore to save the lives of the crew, but the weather being so tempestuous, they proved for some time fruitless, and two persons lost their lives in the endeavour, having been driven on the beach by a heavy surge. At last ropes having been thrown to the vessel, the Captain and three of the crew got to land, but the remaining two were drowned in the attempt. The ship and cargo were ultimately saved. The English at Havre made a subscription for the families of the two Frenchmen who perished, and for four American sailors who had greatly exerted themselves on the occasion. The Court Martial on Sir JouN MURRAY will take place on the 12th of January next. Captain FITZCLARINCR, 17th Light Dragoons, and Lieutenant FITZCLARENUE, 22d Light Dragoons, will take their passage to India with Admiral EURLTON, in the CORNWALLIS. Captain FITZCLAMINCR is I.p. pointed Aide•de-Camp to Earl MOIRA, Governor- General. The town and suburbs of Rangoon, in the East In dies, have been nearly destroyed by fire, upwards of 6000 houses having been burnt, besides immense stores of teak and other wood. Three merchants in African Slave-Trading hive been brought from Sierra Leone in the Ariel, and lodged in Portsmouth gaol, in order to their he'll: sent to New South Wales for fourteen years, toat being the sentence of punishment passed upon ten after their trial at Sierre Leone. Their names att.: James Dunbar, a Spaniard ; Makolm Brodie, a na tive of Manchester; and George Cooke, an American. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK LANE, DEC. 5. Our Market war very considerably supplied with Wheat this morning, a great part of which was what remained unsold last week, and the trade being very heavy little has been disposed of, and our prices are full Ss. per quarter lower than on this day week. Barley is also Ss. per quarter lower, and a tolerable large quantity remaining unsold, on account of its inferior quality. In Buns and Peas there is no alteration. Oats are vs. per qr. cheaper. ••• Price of Flour not fixed when our Paper was put to Fe.ss. SMITHFIELD MARKET, DECEMBER 5 Beef 5s 04 to as Od Veal 7s 04 to as 04 Mutton ds 04 to 6s 24 Perk as 04 to Ts 6d Bests 3140—Shaqb and Lambs 15,120—Calvee I2o—Pip 440 HAY AND STRAW. PER LOAD. Meadow Hay 41 to 61 Os Chimer IN Os t• ; d d agor• aids