Star. — London, England, 1808-01-25 00:00:00

i ste lligerice has reached the Admiralty, that the übefort squadron, consisting of six sail of the line, , t k i pte, and a brig, sailed on the 17i1 instant. The s a clay the EVRYDICE frigate was chased by them' od near Bring talcen, but fortunately made her ' l ope, and on Monday she joined Sir J. T. Ducit- E am, and gave him the information. He imme 'body made sail in quest of them in the ROYAL Gros, 100 guns, and the TIMERAIRZ and NT2. .. • T ryg i 98 guns each; TONNANT, 80 guns, DRAGON, 74 guns, and two frigates ; leaving the DREAD MOT off Brest, and dispatching a brig for Sir bar Satin, and the ANN armed brig for Ire. led. The flag ship of the enemy's force mounts 110 guns. The squadron was supposed to be about Toreeemleagues from Admiral DUCKWORTH, in the South West quarter. The dispatches announcing is escape of the Rochefort squadron were on Thurs day brought to Torbay, by the ENTREPRENANTE cutter, Lieutenant WILLIAMS. Sir RICIIARD STRAIIIAN also soon got informed 6f this movement, and immediately - *;ent off in pursuit of the enemy. Every exertion will be made to give :good account of the fugitives, and we hope that we shall won have to congratulate the public on ano ther glorious naval victory. We are indebted for this above bitelligence to Captain RAwLING, of the Matchless privateer of Fowey, who received it on Wednesday last from the Ann hired armed brig, which be spoke at sea, and was desired to communi cate it to all the cruizers he might meet with. h• an r 1• On Saturday a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office. It ma at two, and continued deli berating until a e,uarter after four o'clock. The Dike PORTLAND, Earls CAmoEsr.and WESTMORELAND ; Lords HARIESSCRY, MELGRAVE, and BATimitsT ; Mr. CANNING, and the CstaNcEt.ton of the EXCIII:QI:ER Wee present. Saturday morning Viscount SropFonn waited upon Es MAJESTY at the Queen's Palace with the Address uf the House of Commons. On Saturday the Royal Family left town► for Wind sor, and yesterday his MAHSTY, with Princesses At ' stsrA, MARY, SOPHIA, and Amr.un, attended divine service at St. George's Chapel, and heard a sermon byhe Rev. Dr. ITEATit, from the first Epistle of St. Peter, chap. v. verse 3. Lord ERSKINE had a large party of political friends u dinner, on Saturday, among whom were Lord HOLLAND, Lord H. PETTY, MT. HOWARD, &C. &C. On Saturday last died, in St. James's-street, aged In years, deeply lamented by her parents, HtiN iurtrA TOWNLEY PLUMBE, fourth daughter of Lieu tenant-Colonel Ptumar., of Tong Hall, Yorkshire. The Oratorios this season commence much earlier than usual at Covent Garden Theatre. Mr. ASHLEY alinotmces a proud list of performers, with Mr. %arta at their head, and takes advantage of Satur day next, being King Charles's Martyrdom, when no Opera or Play will be performed, to commence with nandel's Sacred Oratorio of The tifeuiah. THE PARKS.—Yesterday, notwithstanding the un favourable state of the weather, the Parks displayed t zunber of dashing prontitadert, clad in crimson vel 'et pelisses, elegantly ornamented with fur. The ifirltry scene became dreary towards the evening, and c erY few pedestrians remained after three o'clock. , Her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES, accord - Pained by the Countess Dowager DE CLIFFORD, Passed through St. James's Park about half past two o'clock, on an airing. The servants appeared. in. heautifal new scarlet great coats, and gold lace. Se veral fa s hi ona bk s also appeared in Hyde Park, in their carriages. About five o'cloCk in the afternoon, a carriage belonging to Mr. HULL, of Grosvenor- Place, with two Geatkmen inside, was (lathed vio lently against the iron gate at Hyde Park. The horses ran away, and the coachman as incapable of . I°PPing them. By the shock, the footman was ' u ' r wrl from behind the carriage with great violence, a nd the pole was shattered to pieces. Fortunately serious The was done to the Gentlemen or the ' erv ants• The horses and carriage were taken to a 6 ' 1 7-Stable in Downing-street. • War 6141.R..A • S *E N LONDON. . ONDAY, JANUARY 25. 000 or s e . EAut..--No bushier, et the Stock Exchange. ME OF S TOCKS ON SATURDAY. MI e& 6 4 63 1 imperial Annuities 7 9 . 16 R Trish S per Cent, 9 6 11 Cons. Excheqter.Bals, par 3s. prem. r COL 112 0 Ornniurn 21 ils.„001 Off Asseities 1 2 I•16?bi EnSligh Tickets, 201. 19s. isois, par a ts. 613. Consoh acc. 631-11 • 'per Cent. 631 ! • ' papers 03 the 20th instant hoe been received eur last. 'rlie principal article they present is Ike by NAPOLEON, dated the 11th instant, 1 Wider tou t er more effectual the Decrees of . the 23d No- n t td 17th December, against the commerce a th is country. .s long of Spain has also published a Decree, t d oe 3d instant, which, after enumerating a va- * of c h a rges against this conntry,,oncludes by de- that the measures adapt d by his intimate the E m peror of the French against English com - a Abe in force in every respect In the Spanish ' • • ns. 4 , A n article from Frankfort gives a detailed scheme me march of a French and a Russian army to a s , which, according to this speculation, will not m ore than five months, supposing they have occu rrence and assistance of Persia. o . it i s s or generally understood that an embargo is y Lid on all British ships by the American Gove rnment. ire J • ; • -- 14'Ar/TICAL INTELLIGENCE. COitii, JANUARY 17. .. Sailed his Majesty ' s silipsißussika and. MOIZLLE with the fleet for 44 Virest7ndies. ,His Majeity°s ship DECADE accompanies them as far as Madeira. FALMOUTH ) JANUARY 22. , Eight P.M.—The fleet For the Mediterranean is just arrived off this port ; and a boat from the ship of war has been directing the Captains of vessel; bound thither to get out as early as possible to-morrow morn ing. .PLYMOUTH, JAN. U. It is verycurrenoy reported here that the Rochefcirt squadron are at sea,,consisting of siz sail of the line, two frigates, and two sloops of war, and that they are pursued by a squadron detached from the Chan nel fleet, which is stated to be about 15 leagues a-stern of them, but steering in the direction of the enemy's squadron : Sir R. STRACHAN'S squadron were cruizing on that station, but it is stated were very short of water. Came in the French galliot Fanny, from Bourdeaux to I'Orient, with wine, captured by the Indefatigable, of 40 guns ; Lilly of the Valley, Captain DAVIE, from Quebec ; a Fleet of Coasters from the Downs, under convoy of a gun brig. Sailed the Defiance, of 74 guns, to join the Channel fleet. All the vessels of war at this port are ordered for sea immediately. Came in the Portuguese ship Bald mas, Captain Joza ALVAZ, from Rio de Janeiro for Lisbon, with sugar, &c. detained by the squadron under Sir SIDNEY SMITH. A fleet of twelve sail of ships are gone into Cawsand Bay, from the Eastward, said to be from Portsmouth, bound to the East- Indies ; with the Stork, &c. Came in the Helena, of 18 guns, from Ireland, and sailed again to the Eastward. Sailed the Sybelle, of 40 guns, on a cruize. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 23. Admiral MURRAY has struck his flag, and is gone to London to attend, as a witness, on the trial of Ge neral WHITELOCKE. Captain Bavarux, of the Africa, is also a witness. Captain BAYNTUN is appointed to the Leviathan, at Plymouth ; and Captain Bastarcr to the Africa, at this pdrt. Yesterday F. Has., Esq. Secretary of Legation to the Portugueze•Fvovern ment ; and Mr. CHAMBERLAYNE, Secretary, and Ac ting Consul-General at the Brazils, sailed in the Sur veillante, Sir GEORGE COLLIP.R, for Rio Janerio. The Surveillante is charged with dispatches for Sir &Duty Small, off the Tagus ; for Sir SAMUEL Ho at Madeira ; and for the Portuguese Government. has on board 40,000 dollars for Madeira, besides the loan of 100,0001. for the Portuguese Government. — The Leonidas frigate, Captain DUNB AR, will sail in a few days for the Mediterranean, with the Honour able W. Hru, Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Sardinia. The Baraconta, Captain HARRIS, will sail for the Brazils, the Cape, and for Madras, immediately ca the arrival of dispatches from London, which are hourly expected. pDOVER, lAN. 25. The vessel which went over with Prince STAREM• BERG returned last night, having landed him at eight o'clock yesterday morning ; she was permitted to go into Calais harbour, but her crew were not allowed to have any communication with the shore, nor were the inhabitants even suffered to speak to any of the crew. Passed by the ship Ocean, Captain GIRDON, from Philadelphia, bound to Rotterdam. Mr. CLIVE and his family sailed this morning in a flag of truce for Holland. Wind W. S. W. and moderate, with rain. DEAL, JANUARY 23. Sailed the Urgent gun brig, for Yarmouth; Earnest gun brig, for Sheerness ; Mutine sloop, on a cruize, off Boulogne. JANUARY 24.—Arrived the Resolute gun brig, with a convoy, from Ireland, which are sailed for the River ; Eclipse sloop, from a cruize off the Coast of France ; Travers homeward bound East Indianian, from Portsmouth, and sailed through for the River ; also a fleet of transports from the westward, and sailed to the northward. The Resolute gun brig has a sig nal flying for a convoy to the westward. 1M1t11.41,025, DICIMBER & His Majest73 brig Civic:be arrived yestel* is ; Carlisle Bay, announctiag q .by the half-hoist 4 her co lours, the death of her C r alitain. The Chnieux, Cap tain &lemur, being cruising to windward of the island, -fell. in on the 2d instant pith a American vessel, from which he learned. that ai . Freach pri vateer ship was to the northward of him. and in-' stanily shaped- his course so as to all in with her, he, at ten, P. M. the next day discovered her stand ing close-hauled under easy sail ,to the northward• and eastward. The enemy is supposed about the same time to have discovered the Curieux, for he was soon after observed to bear .up, and set mote sail, which induced the Curieux occasionally to edge Of the wind, - to twing them soon up with each other. At two P.. M. the brig having, tacked, brought her to close action, the enemy appa rently well prepared, haTing taken in her royals, Ac. and clewed up her mainsail, as she came into action. A very heavy cannonade was kept up on both sides for more than an hour, when the Curieuz, having ad vanced a little a-head, and become unmanageable from her tiller ropes, bowlines, and braces being shot away, the enemy took advantage of the occasion, and running down on her,.attempted to board on the starboard quarter. In gallantly repulsing this effort, which he enemy made with a great number of men, Captain SHERRI/Pr received a mortal wound, and se veral of his crew were killed. Such, howtver, was the warm reception given the, enemy, that he immediately fell off; but this laying him across the Curieur's stern, she poured a raking fire into her, which_ carried away the main boom, cut the gaff, and greatly injured almost all the sails and rigging ; Captain SIIERRIPP at the same time re ' ceiving another wound, by which this brave Officer was Cut off from Nature's and from Glory's course, Which never mortal was so fond to run ! Lieutenant Mum, on whom the command now devolved, continued the conflict with equal spirit ; and the enemy again attempting to throw a number of men on board, was driven back with such slaughter, as discouraged any other attempt, and compelled him to give up the contest. The Curieux Being much disabled, had no chance of bringing the enemy again to action, who n9w bore away and effected his escape, leaving the Curiexu Ltor of the day. The loss of the enemy must undoubtedly be consi derable ; that on our part we lament, has also been great ; besides Captain SHERRI'S', whose manly heart was fraught:with every generous and heroic quality, eight seamen were killed, and 12 wounded. Lieu tenant Muir was also slightly wounded; and Mr. Templeton, boatswain, dangerously. The enemy's privateer is supposed to be the late British Tar Guilwaman, of Bristol, built in 1797 at Plymouth ; of '247 tons burden, and now mounting twenty-four 12-pounders, and one long 24- pounder amidships, on a traverse ; with a comple ment of 180 men, and not more than ten or twelve days from Point-a-Petre. The CUrieux is a small brig of ten 24-pounder carronades and eight 6's, with only 110 men. The disparity, therefore, between the combatants, gives a fait claim to our officers and men, to victory ; while the enemy, withdrawing vanquished from the fight, sought safety in retreat. IRISH CATHOLICS.—The Catholics of Ireland seem unanimous in their resolution to bring their case before both Houses of Parliament in the course of the present- Session. For this purpose they are following the same course which they pursued in the years 1792 and 1793. Meetings are about to be convened in the several counties, and in the principal towns through out the kingdom, in order to prepare and subscribe petitions to Parliament. Some meetings, indeed, have already taken place, and others are summoned. —On the 16th instant ' a meeting of the Catholics of Cork took place at the Bush Tavern. arr.rincx Rome, Esq. being called to the Chair, resolutions were entered into, expressing their determination to pursue every legal and constisutional means, for the repeal of their remaining disabilities, and for which purpose an humble petition to the Imperial Legisla ture was proposed and read by JUSTIN MACARTY, Esq. which was unanimously agreed to. After this had been disposed of, a Committee of Fourteen was cho sen, to act as the organ of the body for the city, and to conduct every future proceeding relative to it.— It is, we understand, the intention of the Catholics to have their petitions to the House of Commons pre sented by their respective representatives. The pe tition from the main body of the Catholics connected with Dublin will, it is said, be presented by Lord MiT.ToN, and that to the House of Lords by Lord GRENVILLE. The other Noble Lords, friendly to the Catholic cause, will be solicited to present petitions from the several counties. The King of Prussia has ordered a Council of War to assemble at Memel, to examine into the conduct of, the Commanders of fortresses, And other Officers, that capitulated in the contse: of the last campaign. Ge-1 nerals LesToca,and BLumixit are ipPointed.llembers of it. . . • :••• Friday a. Court,Manial Wa's held, at Spithead, on Mr. D. Cunningham, Boatswain of his Majesty's sltip Proserpine, for drunkenness. Fauns. 41SMiSte 1 / 4 1 . 1di ship. Captain W. HAnoood, President. • 7.1 The contest for Common Councilman in the Ward of Cripplegate Without, which has been unusually' fingbfd on Wednesday. The Candidates were, Messis..Delley,_ Daker, Godfrey Brown, W. IL H. Brown, and GeorgelMaguire. The scrutiny com menced on Friday last, When* • Common Selma attended as Assessor, and Mr. Adolphus on behalf of Messrs. Dolley, Daker, Godfrey'Bfown, and Win. H. Brown, and Mr. Frederick PolloCkiin behalf of Mr. R. Dixon. Two slight shocke of an earthquake weresfelt et DusseldorA, on the morning of the 22d ult. ' TUE-,A>tn. ~Illattieday a bag 4.letters was received at the Ge terarPoie-OffsCe from Barbadoes, with accounts from thence to the 12th of December, at which period skr COCIVIANE was lying in Carlisle Bay', waiting the eipected arrival of the troops from England, to %a dertake the, expedition against the Dar.ish Islands. The 25th and 63d regiments will probably reach , the West-Indies towards the close of this month, and it - is reported are to be followed by two other regiments. The. Sd Garrison Battalion has marched froeuNew Geneva to Waterford ; and the 2d Battalico, of the 40th, under command of the Veteran Lieutenant Colonel Kamm, have proceeded from thence to Cashel. The Ski Battalion of the 69th Regiment of Foot, have passed through Southampton on their route to embark for the East Indies, to join the Ist battalion. The four regiments which are going to Halifax with Sir GEORGE Paavosr, have begun to embark at Portsmouth : the 7th and Bth regiments, marched in from Lewes and Bexhill, on Friday and Saturday, and were embarked. The 23d regiment was to come in and embark this day and to-morrow.. The 13th regiment have orders to come from Plymouth. Sir GEORGE arrived at Portsmouth on Saturday. Major LIGZETWOOD is appointed his Secretary. The Swedish army consists, at this moment, of 45,000 infantry, 8000 cavalry, and 3700 artillery— in all, 56,700 men,• without reckoning officers and Others employed. Major General C. ARCHER, commanding the trc o2s at St. John's, Antig%la, died there on the 25th No vember, after a very_short illness. SHEERNESS, JAN. 23. Arrived, his Majesty's ship Nautilus, from the Nore. His Grace the Duke of MANCHESTER has em barked on board the Guerrier frigate at the Nore, and will immediately sail, we understand, to the West Indies : on his Lordship's arriving on board the fri gate he was saluted. Yesterday the brig Hero, of Boston, in Lincolnshire, Richard Fleck master, laden with oats for London, in sailing by the Nore, struck on a sunken wreck and knocked a hole in her bottom, so that she soon sunk, but by the assistance of three smacks she is got up, and is now gone up to London,, but it is feared her cargo is much damagedby the salt water. The effects - or the late dreadful gale ,ie in some neeasuie *bated; bit the Level is still under water.*** All the Danish merchant-ships that lie here are condemned, and will proceed to the London `Docks as soon as possible.—Wind S.W. moderate. JANunny 24.—Sailed, the Guerrier frigate, to the Downs. . ....f 1 YARMOUTH, JANU4RRYS2II: I Arrived on Friday evening, his Majesty's ship Go- LIM!, FORRESTER, and URGENT, from a cruize ; also last night, the Earl of Leicester Packet, Capt. HAM moNv, from Gottenburgh, with Mails and passengers, after a very boisterous passage. The Lady Nepean Packet, Captain DEAN, (who died suddenly on his passage on Monday last) also arrived this day. Both the Packets were chased by a Danish line of battle ship, but escaped by superior sailing.—Wind N. W. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Snt—You wished to have a Translation sent to you of some Verses of the Marquis de Fulvy, which ap peared in your Paper of the sth inst. if you think the following sufficiently expressive, you are at liberty to insert it: To thee, 0 generous Land! I owe These days of peace I grateful know ; Yet, spite of all thy friendly skill, My bean a stranger pest was still : Till sheltering him with wl.om I join Each link of patriot love divine, Thou dainist no ties estrang'd from me, Who view my country now in thee. Ellis— Eed— S-ae NOIIIO. PEDESTRIANISM. EXETIN, JAN. 21.—This day Lieutenant HALIFAX, of the Royal Lancashire Militia, whose engagement to walk thirty miles per day, for twenty successive days, has been already several times noticed, com pleted his laborious undertaking, and he was ushered into this city in triumph, precede' by the regimental band of music, and accompanied by an immense con course of people, both on horseback and on foot, who celebrated his victory with rcpeated huzzas. The number of persons of all ranks, both of this city and the neighbourhood, who lined thz Topsham road, the hedges, and the streets through which he !sussed. can scarcely be credited—they must have amounted tc scarcely less than 20,00. MATRIMONIAL. ENCOURAGEMENT. Many lovers incline, To attend Hvmsn's shrine, If a Home of their own they had not. Such a House in the Scheme, That with Freeholds now tet m, By a venture, may seen csown their lot. CORNNARICZT MARK-LANs, JAN. 25.—T h arri vals of Wheat to day,: make a tolerable supply, and the general sales effected are at a reduction in price of about ls. and 2s. per quarter.—Barley and Malt are very heavy in sales, at small variation.—Peas and Beans of the two kinds, likewise Oats, are in consi derable supply, and this trade is named rather cheaper. A coachmaker, of the name of Hiley, in the neigh bourhood of Bishopsgate-street, undertook, for the trifling sum of five shillings, to drink a quart of gin in three minutes, which he accomplished, but soon be came the victim of his criminal folly ; for, after being put to bed, he expired in about three hours, surgical aid being applied in vain. Thursday night, one of the privates of the Stafford Militia., on duty, on Windsor Terrace, opposite thi Queen's Lodge, fell over the wall, and was killed on the spot. It is supposed he sat on the wall, and fell asleep. The Coroner's Inquest sat on the body on Friday. Verdict—Accidental Death. Jane Mosenau, who was capitally convicted of steal ing a quantity of lace from her employer, has received his Majesty's pardon, on condition of being confined twelve months in the House of Correction. Yesterday se'nniiiht, John Grover, the younger, who is charged with having committed three burglaries and several robberies in the city of Oxford, made his escape from the Police Office in that city, by leaping out of a garrett window, by which he cut and tore one of his arms in a most shocking manner. Thursday night as Ma. PHIPPS, a Clerk in the ser vice of the East-India Dock Company, was crossing a field from Stepney to the Commercial Road, he was stopped by two footpads, who knocked him :down, crammed a handkerchief into his mouth, robbed him. of five guineas, his hat and shoes, and left him in a ltati of . insensibility, in which state, but for the , casual passing of a friend, he would probably have perished. by the inclemency of the weather. On Tuesday aftiisoOn 'last, when Mr. Smith, of Langbunt; in Cumberland, taturned home from Wig tonrmarket, he tottnd his wife and sister-in-law, Miss Pattinsan, murdered..and mangled in the most horrid manner. The weapon•.ueed appears to have been a billhook. One victim was found in the 'kitchen, the other in the barn, where she is supposed to have se creted herself. The murderer thtn broke open* chest. and took from it 101. in notes; he also took anew hat of Smith's, leaving his own. lia is supposed to be a youth of 18 years of age, who bas been in the employ of Mr. Smith. I