Star. — London, England, 1808-03-24 00:00:00

a. • ir ey had already injects enough 410 01°166n ' fair ambition for their erwiuragement, without a ddition. j BERESPORD considered the Bill as a ?,fr. decided encroachment upon the chartered rights of The CHA NCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER e d the Bill to interfere as lit tle as possible with Ithe ishchartered rights of Dublin. Howeve r, this was n ot the regular stage for discussion. Mr . FITZGERALD (Knight of Kerry) inquired , e ) r ether the e:cpense was to be defrayed by any addi tional taxes on the Citizens of Dublin, or were to woe out Wof the Treasury. A. EL LESLEY answered, that there was iara sir dy a ve ry large fund for the su pp ort of the Po.. lice o f D u blin, arising from tax es u p on the cit y . the foto o f the new system would ver y little, if any e xc eed the present. In addition to the taxes n ,and ta id by the citizens. a co nsiderable sum was a lready r rece ived from the Treasuryhis p oil lan • — wis • ittoo aed to proceed upon the same system. In rot to what had been said of the quietness of the ( 3,,„f Dublin, he begged leave to observe, that the reason w as pretty obvious, and not at all owing to the r i g iiance of the Police Magistrates. There was a r• - • of 7000 men at one end of the city ; there or e forty different guard houses, with strong detach mots, dispersed in different parts of it, and patroles m arching from one to the other every hour of the night, so that no depredation could be committed without immediate detection ; but any man who went half a mile from the town, after night-fall, would stand in imminent danger of being robbed. Leave was given to bring in the Bill, which accord -1„0 ~,,„Cad the flea time; and on the motion for Kadin it a second time on Monday, with a view to its commitment, pro fortna, to fill up the blanks, and have it printed and transmitted to Dublin for consideration thcre, a further discussion took place ; b ur i n the sequel, the Bill was ordered for the second re ading on Monday. glr. FOSTER gave notice of a motion to-morrow, for leave to Meg in a Bill to abolish Custom House Officers' fees in Ireland, ad to regulate the attendance of the Officers of Excise, founded ten the first report of the Irish Commissioners of Enquiry. Mr. FITZGERALD gave notice of a motion to.morrow, for some further papers respecting Grand Jury Assessments in Ireland. Mr. PARNELL moved for abstracts of all Petitions presented t, the Irish Commissioners of Compensation to Loyalists, for lasses sustained in the Rebellion, on account of loss by tithes, dis tinguishing such as came front eedesiattical persons, and lay-iin pcirietors • 9 with the decision of the Coramis•doners thereon, r opectively.—Ordered. Mr. FOSTER presented a Bill for levying certain duties on pods exported from Ireland.—Read the firsttime, and ordered for de second reading to-morrow. The Maynooth College Bill was read a third time, and passed. Mr. FOSTER broullst up a Bill prohibiting the exportation of cam wool and Jesuit's - Bark from Ireland. Read a first time. CoIoneI,LONGFIELD presented a petition from the merchants Maoists of the City of Cork, which having been ordered to Ikon the table, he then: moved, that they be heard by themselves a Counsel at the Dar of the House. After a few observations from the Chancellor of the Exchequer sad Sir John Newport, Ccilonel Longfield withdrew his motion /deeding Counsel, and the petition was orderodto lie on the table, NABOB OF ARCOT. After some conversation between the Chancellor of the Exche quer ad j.ord Archibakllfdinilton, the latter agreed to postpone 13 motion relative to the Nabob of Arcot, which stood for to mrrow, until tcemerrow se'onight. The Irish Token Bill went through a Committee. ORDERS IN COUNCIL. The Rouse resolved ftself into a Committee to hear Counsel I relative to the Petitions from London, Liverpool, and Tanches. ter, against the Orders in Council ; and Mr. Wharton having taken the Chair, Counsel was called in, and ordered to OrOC..e their further examination of the reserved witnesses. This concluded, other witnesses were successively brought far sv ard.— Their exammation was conducted by the same .7\ lembtia. who took a 1,.:A.ir4 part on the two former occaii , os ; and at half past One, the Hou s e was :::surnea, report ^+Zr, lad an adjournment took place until to-rnornsw. • TIIE EVENING STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, MARCH 21. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. tosoli, money, 643—for April acc. 6416—Omnium 31 pre, Navy 5 per. Cent. 97—Exchequer Bills, 4s. pre. TRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. Balk for npg. 233 Long Ann. shut 3 per Colt. Red. Ann. shut India lion :is, Is. 26. die. 3 per Cent. Cons. 611 3,5. 6s. 1,1 - . 4 prr Cent. shut Enplisk Tickets, '2ll. Spa' Cent. Navy 961 97 Cogs. f..n . ace. 64 Tuesday morning, in consequence of the wind get ting round to the N. E. his Majesty's ships Ville de Paris, Bellerophon, Dreadnought, Africa, Spencer, Brunswick, Gibraltar, Valiant, and Rose, got under weigh, and proceeded down Chancel. Yesterday morning seven Portuguese seamen landed at Dover from Flushing, having escaped from thence in an open boat on Monday night last ; they had been detained in Holland ever since the embargo was laid on the ships of their ration, and a short time since were informed that they must tither go on hoard the ships of war to assist in fitting them out, or go to pri son : they accepted of the former ; hut, as soon as an opportunity offered, they took a Dutch boat and came away sans certmortie. There are eight ships of the line now ready for sea, besides frigates, at Flush ing, but want men to man tkem. Two Dutch fri gates, and two schooners mad P their escape from the Texel, a few days since, and got sate to Flashing Roads, where they now remain. The Nocton packet, with mails fvom America, has arrived at Falmouth, after a passage of twenty-three days from New York, and has brought dispatches frtan Mr. ROSE. The public may, therefore, expect' soon to learn something from authority respecting the aspect of affairs between America and this country. We entertain sanguine hopes that the relations of ' peace and amity between the two countries will not be interrupted. The letters and newspapers have not yet reached town. But the Captain of the above packet reports that he brings no news, except that thingc, remained as they were when Mr. Rose arrived, and tl az there were no appearances of a relaxation in 'he Aratrican embargo. The SURIWA)4, the arrival Of Which Rom the M e .. diterranean we annotinced yesterday, left Sicily 9th February, and Malta 16th following'; sailed from Gibraltar 29th Feb. and Cadiz the 2d instant. Sir RICHARD STRACHAN passed the Strcights the 23c1 February, said to be gone after five rail of the line that escaped from Carthagena, and were last seen in a Bay to the southward of Minorca. Admiral COLLINGWOOD was off Palermo, having been joined by Admiral THORNEGROUGH, and were 11 sail of the line. Admiral Funvis was off Cadiz with 13 sail of the line F and Admiral COTTON was off Lisbon, with 9 sail of the line ; the Swallow, of 18 guns, having left them the .sth instant. Captain HERAULT of the Day, arrived at Liverpool from Messina, states, that early on the morning of the 29th January, off Minorca, he saw five sail of the line, a frigate, and a brig, within two miles of him, under a press of sail, steering, as he supposed, for Toulon ; but whether they were British or French he could not dis cover ; but it was neither Admirals Coeenecwoon's or THORNBOROUGH'S squadron, as he left them both at Sicily when he sailed, on the 18th January. Ad miral COLLINGWOOD had with him seven sail of the line ; and Admiral THORN BOROUGH Six. The Carteret Packet, from Gibraltar, has also arri ved at Falmouth, but having sailed from that place ten days before the Auckland, which, as we announ ced yesterday, came from thence on the Ist inst. the intelligence she brings is not so recant as that brought by the latter and by the Surinam ; they possess, how ever, some interest, and serve to fill up the chasm in the regular detail of dates. They are subjoined : " GIBRALTAR, FEB. 6. " We learn from the Prize Master of an American brig, detained by his Majesty's sloop Surinam, that on the '29th ult. in the longitude of Cape de Gatte, he fell in with a strange squadron, consisting of six sail of the line and one brig, which he is of opinion were either Russians or French. The brig gave chace to the detained vessel, which hove to and shewed her colours ; on seeing which a signal of recall appeared to be made from the squadron, as she hauled her wind and joined. They were steering to the Eastward. " The following account received by the Master of an American ship, from New York to Marseilles, which arrived yesterday, may serve to spare us a multiplicity of conjectures as to their nation. On the 27th, in lat. 37. long. 10. 30. he fell in with a French squadron., consisting of one three-decker, four seventy fours, a heavy frigate, and a brig. From the frigate we learnt that, taking advantage of the late heavy eales which had blown our cruizers off the coast, they had effected their escape from Rochefort on the 22d, and in doubling Cape Finisterre, had steered to the Southward in the long. of 11.0. to avoid our look-out frigate. After examining the American ship they con tinued a southern course, until they reached the lat. of 35. 0. when they hauled to the Eastward, and fell in with the coast of Barbary, about ten or twelve' leagues to the Southward of Cape Spartel ; on the 28th she lay-to till sun-art ; about six it came to blow very hard at S.W. with . rain, when she entered the Gut under double-reefed top-sails, and were abreast of Ceuta about twelve o'clock at night, when the American lost sight of ill= in a squall. This vessel was bound to Marseilles, but falling in with the Hydra, off Carthagena, was ordered to rcturn to this port, in conformity with his Majesty's itce Orders of Council. As the Hydra had not seen the enemy's squadron, we think it probable they may have passed to the Southward on the Barbary Coast." " FEB. 13.—0 n the 10th instant Rear-Admiral Sir RICHARD STRACHAN, with the undermentioned ships composing his squadron, appeared in the offing; and, having sent the Lavinia in, we suppose for in formation, as he did not anchor, hove to, and being joined by her about an hour after, made sail to the Eastward with a strong breeze at W.N.W.—Caesar, Sir R. STRSCHAN) Captain RICHARDSON ; Superb, Captain M‘Leon ; Cumberland, Honourable Captain WOODHOUSE ; Spartiate, Sir FRANCIS LAFOREY ; Warrior, Captain SPRANGER ; Renown, Capt. ALEX ANDER ; Coiossus, Captain Moftets ; and Lavinia, Captain HANCOCK. " By the passengers in the American ship, Two Brothers, we learn that BONAPARTE has declared war against the Sardinian flag. This intelligence reached Leghorn a few days before the ship sailed. 44 From the log-book of an American Captain ar rived here, we learn the following particulars respec ting the Rochefort squadron :—On the 23d instant he fell in with it, when he was taken in tow by a fri gate, two 74's keeping constantly on either side, and the brig a.stern, as he supposes, in case the tow-rope should break, to prevent his escape in the night. " On the '26th, about 6 P.M. they cast him off, and made all possible sail in for the land, being then in lat. 35. .53. Soon after they parted company, a signal was made from the flag ship, and answered by the frigate, which immediately shortened sail, hove to, and , spoke the American, ordering him to steer S. W. till the) should be out cf sight. He accordingly hauled his wind titthe Westward about two hours, and then bore away fa the Gut. He learned from the frigate, that the squadron had been six days at sea when he fell in with it. The ships are described as being most wretchedly manned with respect to seamen, with the exception of two seventy-fours, which appeared to be very well handled. They were 01111,1:m1y filled with troops. , • “ 15.—The Sirius frigate and Maki convoy is coming in from the eastward. • " FEB. 18. —Yesterday a Quarier Sessions was held at the Court-House, for the dial of Mr. (loose, a midshipman, belonging to the Renommee, for kil ling Mr. Barnes, another midshipman, in a duel. A woman of the name of Hunter, was also tried for murder, but both the parties were acquitted. The half of the Juiry, on this occasion, was composed of Officers of the Army, belonging to the different regi ments here. " The Walsingham packet arrived this morning, in 8 days front Falmouth. A large American ship was this day carried Into Algesira', by one of the enemy's privateers. Captain USHER, in the Redwing, in the most gallant manner; attempted to cut her off, under the fire of all the enemy's batteries, in which he would have succeeded, but unfortunately the signal was made for his recal, when he was on the point of boarding her. FEB. 19.—8 y the last accounts from Cartha gena, it is certain that the Spanish fleet in that port did not join the Rochefort squadron when they passed. 4 ,, Sir RICHARD STRACHAN'S squadron were seen on the 13th, off Cape Pallas, with a fair wind, under a press of sail, steering for Sicily. " Two large French friate. were seen at the en trance of the Streights on the 10th of this month, and I they have ,iipeared off Cape Spartcl. It is expectt!cl they will attempt to pass the Streights the first dark night." NAUTIC4IL INTELLIGSIICE. Yesterday, about T . .% Ave o'clock, his MAJESTY came to town, as usual, ram Windsor, and was received at the Qneen'f l'ldace by the Dukes cf Yolix, K r.sT, and Camei6 wI. At two o'clock his Mi.JESTI held a private lev,-• . which was fully attended. The f( lowing had the honour of being presented to his MAJESTY : General N. BALF twit, upon his promotion. Brigadier General T.osr L EY, by Lord HEa rIiFIELD, upon his appointment on the Stall at Malta. The Rev. Dr. GOODALL, the Master of Eton Colter, upon his being appointed a Canon of Windsor , in the room of the late Dr. DuvAL. The Rev. Dr. KING, upon his being appointed a Prebend of Westminster Abbey. The Earl of PEMIsROICE, upon his marriage. kiis MAJESTY held a Privy Council, and gave au diences to the Cabinet Ministers, Viscount CATHCART, and Mr. RYDER, the Judge Advocite, who laid be fore his MAJESTY the voluminous report of the Trial] of General WIIITELOCKE , a nd was closeted with his I MAJESTY for nearly two hours upon the business. At half past six o'clock his MAJESTY set off on h is return to Windsor. Yesterday 'the sentence of the Court Martial on General WIIITELOCKE was laid before his MaJe.srr by the JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL; who afterwards took the documents, with his Majesty's pleasure upon the 1 proceedings, to the Duke of YORK . I t is rumoured that the Sentence is against the General upon all the charges but that which might affect his life During th. progress of the trial, the public mind was dispos ed to think that the Sentence would take this middle course. On the afternoon of the 14th inst. as the Emerald frigate was standing along the coast of Spain, on her way to the squadron off arrol, she discovered a large French schooner coming out of Vivero. All sail was immediately made in chace ; the schooner, on dis covering the frigate, put about and returned to Vivero, and ran on shore at high-water, under the protection of two batteries. Captain MAITLAND immediately hoisted out his boats, and sent them to take the batteries and destroy the schooner, un der the orders of the first Lieutenant (Be aroN ), I with the assistance of the Marine Officers, with the I marines of the frigate, and a party of seamen Vo lunteers. They landed and took possession of two batteries, the one having eight 18-pounders, the other seven 9-pounders, without any loss ; they spiked the guns, and then went on to the schooner, which was about two or three miles off; one of their boats had gone on to take possession of the vessel, which they did without any difficulty, for the French:nen had left her ; and another boat, with a party of men under the command of Lieutenant SMITH, took pos session of a fort on the other side, that was f.r . iig on them, so that they had complete posse.,sien of three forts and the schooner, with only one or two men wounded. On the first Lieutenant getting to the vessel, he found her fast on shore ; but supposing the tide to be flowing (in which he was unfortunately mis taken), he sent one boat to the frigate for an anchor and hawser, hoping, as the tide flowed, to be able to haul her off. This gave time to the inhabitants, assisted by the crew of the vessel, to collect in great numbers; and, night coming on, they attacked the schooner most furiously, under cover of the bushes and rocks, and from the heights, much above the schooner, which gave them every advantage. Our gallant fellows thought it best to stay by the schooner (for had they landed they would have been over powered by numbers), and wait for the tide floating the vessel off. It would have been well if they had destroyed the schooner at once, and returned to their ship ; but I am truly sorry to say, that an over- i anxiety to get her out caused the loss of some brave men. Nine tell on board of her, and 15 were wounded, all by musketry, from fellows they could not see— when finding no hopes of getting the vessel off, they set her on fire, and returned to their ship. The Lieu tenant who commanded the party, with the two Officers of Marines, are among the wounded. TB poor fellows who were killed found a grave in th'e ashes of the schooner, which blew up soon after our people left her ; and thus ended a most gallant, but unfortunate expedition. The schooner proved to be a National vessel, mounting fourteen carronades, from the Fact Indies, bound to Bourdeaux. She had been at Vivero since D ece mber ; and when the frigate saw her, was in tending to finish her voyage. She had on board se veral things of value, and some cash. Before she was set on fire, our people had leave to plunder, and seine of them, I am told, got cash and articles to a large amount. The next day the gun-boats came out to attack the frigate, but were put to The roue com pletely ; several of the shot struck the Emerald, but karo happy to say, did so material damage. The Sirius frigate, with about 40 sail of vessels un der convoy, sailed from Gibraltar for England) the Ist instant. The Marlborough packett, Captain BULL, mails froin Jamaica, is arrived at Falmouth. The letters by her will not be delivered till to morrow, as well as the letters by the packet from New Yolk. BRIXUAM QUAY, MARCH 22. Sailed from Torbay the Channel fleet, under com mand of Admiral BERTIE, for their station off Brest. • FALMOUTH, MARCH 21. • Arrived the Cartarett packet, Captain PATTIIRSOY, from Malta and Gibraltar, in thirty days from the latter place; and the Nockton packet, Captain Blight, from New York, in twenty-eight days, and brings accounts that the differences between America and this Country appeared to be in the same state they had been for some time past. The embargo was not taken off. Arrived the Adrian and King cut ters, from off Brest. Sailed the Lady Arabella packet, Captain POwrEUS, for the Leeward Islands. Wind N.E. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 22. Came in the Swallow, of 18 guns, from the squa dron off Cadiz, with victuallers ; Surinam, of '2O guns, from Sicily, Malta, and Gibraltar, with dis pitches for Gc.% orniusau ; she left the squadron off Cadiz the 2d instant. NVe cannot discover what news she has brought ; but it is stated that when she kit the Streights, the Rochefort squadron was at Toulon, which makes the ships in that port thirteen sail of the line. Sailed the Hound, of 1 0 guns, to the Eastward Orestes, of 18 guns, for Portsmouth ; Avenger, of 18 guns, with a tLet for the Downs. The Surinam brings an account of the capture of the Delight brig, of 18 guns, Captain HANDFIELD. It is stated that she chaced an enemy's brig of war, and being too near the shore on the coast of Calabria, got aground, where she had to contend for three days with the batteries ana soldiers from the shore • but in this unequal contest, after a very great loss of officers and men, was obliged to strike. It is said there are only sixteen survivors. Came in the Gibraltar, of 84 guns, from the east. ward, and two other men of war, names unknown. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 23. Arrived the American ship Sally and Hetty, FLEat. MING, from Lisbon for Philadelphia, detained by the Blossom sloop of war. Put back his Majesty's ship , : Steady, Hardy, and Escort from the eastward. Sail a his Majesty's ship Ant on a cruize. The Thetis fri gate is appointed convoy for Newfoundland, 8:c. DEAL, MARCH os Arrived the Trompeuse sloop, from a cruize, and sailed again this afternoon, per signal from Comma.: dore OwEx, in company with the Royalist sloop, Folkstone lugger, and Active cutter. Arrived the Urgent gun-brig, from the Nore.—Wind E. N. E. strong breeze. SHEERNESS, MARCH 22. Sailed the Tartarus and Kangaroo sloops of war to the Great Nore.—Arrived in the harbour the Fu rious gunbrig, to refit.—Sailed the Danish prize ships Elizabeth, Two Sisters, and Jonge Thomas, from hence to Chatham, to take in all the refused naval stores from the Danish fleet, and convey them to the Danish Commissioners at London for sale. MARc!! 23.—This day several outward bound ves sels have run in to take shelter, owing to the adverse winds.—Sailed the Friend 41i p, ALEXANDER, for Wells, in Norfolk.—Wind E. blows strong. YARMOUTH, MARCH 25, Yesterday - arrived in the offing the Forrester sloop of war, and has made a telegraph dispatch to the Ad miral that two of the enemy's frigates were seen off Flamborougll Head—ships have been ordered, by signal, to sail in quest of them, but the wind remain ing at east, they have not been able to proceed. S hi p s of remain as per last. HULL, MARCH 21. The Dunkerquois French cutter privateer, of four 3-pounders and forty-five men, (formerly his Ma jesty's revenue cutter the Nimble, of Deal) has been driven ashore at Katwick, and destroyed by the boats of the hired armed cuttcr Princess Augusta, Lieute nant McCui„ ;'ridgy morning arrived in Leith Roads, the Chil ders sloop of war, from a cruize, having seen into Leith harbour a Danish dogger, partly laden with fish, which they cut out of one of the creeks on the rJast of Norway. After the Childers captured this vessel, she fell in with a large privateer vessel, c,f very superior force and weight of metal, with which she maintained a severe conflict for some time, when the privateer made off. It is stated the Childers had three men killed, and several wounded, amongst whom is the Captain, V/ n was severely wounded by a splinter striking his thigh. Dispatches were yesterday received at the Admi. ralty from Lord COLLINGWOOD : they were brought by the Surinam, which has arrived at Plymouth. It appears that the English brig which was mentioned in the last French papers to have been taken in the 'Faro of Messina, was the Delight, commanded by Captain HANFIELD, (not STANDFIELD, as stilted yes terday by mistake) Which unfortunately got aground in attempting to defend five Sicilian gun-boats, which were on the point of falling into the hands of theenein y. Tuesday Lord BAnsittG was elected by the Cot poration of Yarmouth High Steward of that Borough, in the room of the late Marquis TOWNSHEND. Married on the 19th instant, at Weodlands, Corn• wall, Captain Tnomits BALL SOLIVAN, Royal Navy, to Miss Hannurrra PENDAn Ivans, youngest Baugh-• ter of Captain BARTHOLOMEW JAMES, Royal Navy. The Oratorio, last night, was fashionably attended. Mr. BRAHAM and Mr. BELLAMY 5211114 BOYCE'S fa. vourite duetto .4 Here shall soft Charity," most di vinely. Mrs. BLAzin sweetly warbled The Hymn of Eve." Mr. Biimmie was most rapturously ap plauded in . 6 Come, if you dare." The whole selec tion was rapturously applauded. The kigliat Capital drawn on Tuesday last, was No. 11,576, 3 Pnze of 1.1000, which was sold in Shares by SwirT and Co, No. 11, Poultry, and No. 12, Charing-Cross 3 who also sold in Shares, Ns. 2+,884., a Prize of £4oo.—•Tuesday is the pen day of Drawing. • 1