Star. — London, England, 1810-09-10 00:00:00

!ROM SATURDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. DIVIDENDS. October S. Joseph Scvill, now or late of Green-lane, otherwise Spring-lane, parish of Saddleworth, Yorkshire, cotton-manufac turer, at eleven, at the Coach apd Horses Inn, Manchester. — Sept. S. Philip Ptina, of Brewer-street, Golden-square, Middle sex, Jeweller, at ele►en, at Gaildhall.--Oetober 90. Wm. Johnson and Nevin Browne, of Fish-street-kill, London, grocers, at eleven, at Guildhall.—Nov. 6. Wm. Piddock Roper, late of London, and late of the Cape of Good Hope, merchant and ship-owner, at doyen, at Guildhall.—October 10. James Cox and John Smith, of Manchester, auctioneers, at three, at the Star inn, Manchester. Sept. 29. Henry Zinck, of Liverpool, merchant, at ekven, at the Stir and Garter Tavern, Liverpool---October 6. Samuel Pears, of Bread -street, London, warehouseman and factor, and John Watson, John Watson the younger, and Joseph Watson, all of Prestoo, Lancashire, cotton-manufacturers, at eleven, at Guildhall. —October 1. Matthew Harker, late of Oakham ' Rutin:chitin, men's-draper and haberdasher, at eleven, at the Angel Inn, Peter borough.--September 26. John hlacauley, Patrick Whytock, and John Duncan, late of Liverpool, merchants, at one, at the Globe Tavern, John-street, Liverpool.—September 29. William Arnold, of Cranbourn-passage, Leicester-fields, Middlesex, linen draper, at twelve, at Guildhall, London.—September 29. John Bore, now or late of Bishop's Castle, Shropshlge, plumber and glazier, at eleven, at the Castle Inn, Bishop's Castle.—October 2. ' David Jenkins, of Llantriuent, Glamorganshire, shopkteper, at one, at the Bash Tavern, Corn -street, Bristol.—Oct. O. Henry Moseley, of Lawrence Poutney Hid, and Is..ac Whieldon, of Copthal-court, Throgmorton Areet, London, merchants, at one at Guildhall.—October 9. John I.obban,late of Great Wild-street, Lincoln's-inn-Gelds, Middlesex, coach-plate founder, at eleven,at Guildhall, London. ADMIRALTY OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 8. Extracts of two letters from Vice Admiral Drury, Commander in Chief of his Majesty's ships and Vessels in the East Indies, ad dressed to the Honourable W. W. Pole, and dated on boar! Lis • Majesty' ship Russel, Madras Roads, the 16th of FehrtlarYs 1810. have received a letter front captain Briggs, of his Majesty's ship Clorinde, stating his having captured on the 28th of January last, off the Basses, the French ship privateer, l'Henri, mounting eight twelve pounders, pierced for 14 guus, and with a comple ment of fifty-seven men. lieutenant William Kempthorne, commanding bi► Majesty's brig Diana, hai captured the Tephin, a Dutch national brig of wer,on the 11th of September last, having fourteen guns. ADMIRALTY OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 8. Copy of a letter from Vice-Admiral D'Augverne, Commander in Chief of his Majesty's ships and vessels at Guernsey, to John Wilson Croker, Esq. dated on beard his Majesty's ship Dip- Grouville bay, Jersey, the 30th of August, 1810. SIR-I have the honour to transmit inclosed, for the informa tion of my l / 4 Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the Master of the hired cutter Queen Charlotte's report of the very gallant ac tion he sustained yesterday afternoon with one of the enemy's large cutters near Alderney ; when the great disproportion of force opposed to our small vessel is considered, the conduct of Mr. Thomas, the Commander of the Queen Charlotte, and his gallant little crew, appears highly creditable to them. The Queen Charlotte is armed only with eight four-pounders and twenty-five men, whereas the enemy's vessel appears to have been formerly the Swan, one of our Revenue cutters, captured oboist two years ago off Portland, and is known to be armed with *blear twelve pounders, from eighty to one hundred men, and still, with that immense superiority, found it meet to give way to the distinguished gallantry of our little vessel, wbo besides being shattered in her rigging aid sails, I have to lament that most of her wouaded are grievously an, one has died and another is given over, but the rest are doing well at Alderney, where they were landed after the action, the cutter having no surgical assistance on board. I ave the honour to be, Inc. (Signed) J. D'AUOIMLNE AND SOVILLON, His Majesty's Hired Cutter Queen Charlotte, St. Aubin's Bay, August 30, 1810. SIR-4 have the honour to acquaint you, that pro ceedin cif Cherbourg, agreeably to your orders, with Mr. P. A. M'ilgrave, on the 29th instant, at three P.M. Alderney bearing S.S.W. three or four leagues, observed a large cutter in the S.E. standing for us, with an English white ensign and pendant flying ; not liking her appearance I made the necessary pre paration for giving her as warm a reception as possi ble. At half past three lie came close to us, luffed up, and hauleel down the English ensign, and hoisted French, and at the same time we gavellim our broad side of round and grape, which was quickly returned by the enemy ; we continued the action within pistol shot till five P.M. when the enemy hauled his wind to the N.E. leaving us in no condition to follow him, having the' boatswain killed, and fourteen wounded, some of them badly ; among the latter is Mr. P. A. Nulgrave. At six, P. M. two shore boats came off from Alderney, and I sent the wounded men by them on shore. From the great superiority of the enemy, being a large cutter of sixteen guns, and full of men ; and our crew only twenty-five men in I trust that the con. duct of his Majesty's hired cutter Queen Charlotte will meet your approbation on this occasion. I cannot say too much in praise of my chief-mate and pilot, and all my little crew, for their undaunted bravery and good conduct. I inclose a list of the killed and wounded. I have the honour to be, &c, JOSEPH THOMAS, master, To Viae Admiral D'Auvergne, &c. Ice. John Loria, Boatswain, killed ; John Adams, Mate, badly wounded ; James Flinders, seaman, ditto ; Edward Baker, sea man, ditto ; John Matson, seaman, ditto ; Theophilus Carter, seaman, ditto ; George Warren, seaman, ditto ; John Robinson, sepias', ditto ; Henry Knowles, seaman, ditto ; John May, sea man; ditto ; John Spidneck, seaman, slightly wounded ; Richard Spidneek, seaman, ditto ; William Rogers, seaman, ditto t Tho mas Da.kersoo, 'gamin, ditto Mr. P.A. Musgrave, very badly wounded. Esttact of a Letter from Captain Byron, of his Majesty's ,Ship Belvidera, to John Wilson Croker, Esq. dated Nardi Yar. cth instant. You will be pleasedc o inform my Lords Commis sioners of the Admiralty, that being near in shore off Studtland, coast of Norway, on the 22d of July, his Majesty's ship Nemesis in company, I observed a deep bay in the evening, and sent Mr. *Pherson, the Master of the Belvidera, to sound round it, who per ceiving three vessels at anchor, rowed near to recon noitre them; in the night they fired at him, the stran gers being Danish gun vessels. On the following morning the launch, with a twelve pounder carro nade in bow, barge, and two cutters of the Belvidera, were well manned and armed as soon as possible, un der the command of Lieutenants Nisbett and Bruce, and Lieutenant Campbell of the Royal Marines ; and the launch, pinnace, and yawl of the Neniesis, under Lieutenants Hndgskeas and Smith ; the seven boats rapidly advanced to attack,the enemy, which soon be gan to cannonade them ; the boats firing their bow guns with great effect, the Danish colours were soon ltruck, and the two gun schooners Balder and Thor, each carrying two long 24-pounders and six pounder iPawitzen, and each manned with forty-five men, in our i?ostosiun ; the gun boat, No. 5, carrying one 111111ounder and 44 men, had repeatedly fired, was erst pp a Fiera and abandoned by the crew, was tapir our boAts, whose semslitest,lesie ;sod rasa. to close threw the enemy afusi . • . • notwithstanding the and Rasmusen, lo be ineffective ; enemy had four praise the conduct , Midshipmen, and k Belvidera. Captain perfect approbation GO777ANBURGH MAIL. STOCKHOLM, AUGUST SS. Extract of a Letter from Orebro, 21st August :••••". 44 Immediately after the election of the Prince of Ponte Corvo as Crown Prince of Sweden, and suc cessor to the Swedish throne, a courier was dispatched to Paris, to notify that happy event to his Majesty the Emperor of France and King of Italy, as well as his Highness the Prince, whose answer is shortly ex pected." MONDA, PRICE OF STOCES s per CL Cons. money, 671 U—so. - Navy S per Cent. sins, par to Ss. pro. , Bonds 113 a. 44a. pram.—Omalom s 4ls. • •••■••••• By the Princess Augusta packet, Captain FURS; arrived at Falmouth, we have received accounts from Messina to the 28th July, and from Gibraltar to the 21st ultimo. The former are particularly interesting, Captain Funs had an interview with Sir JOHN STU ART, before he left Messina, from whom be learnt that the force of the enemy on the opposite shore amoun ted t 2 47,000, of whom 14,000 were sick. Th'e shells I thrown by the British frequently fell into the enemy's camp ; and scarcely a night passed that some of their boats did not come over to us with deserters. A boat with 14 men and two very fine brass guns, came over while the packet lay there. The French General is in the habit of sending over his proclamations inclosed in the hollow of canes, and set afloat : some thousands of his threatening and cajoling papers have been picked up on the shores of Sicily. The French army expect the Toulon fleet to come and convoy them over to the island. The British ships of war there, on the 28th July, were the CANOPUS, CUMBERLAND, VICTORIOUS, WAR RIOR, THAMES, SUCCESS, TERMAGANT, WEAZLE, SWALLOW, PILOT, BUSTARD, HALCYON, and ORENZA. Skirmishes are frequent with the French gun-boats, and in every instance the enemy has been beaten or put to flight. On the 21st July, the English and Sicilian gun-boats made a general attack upon the French gunboats and batteries ; the enemy retreated among the rocks and hauled up their boats, of which many were knocked to pieces. We lost 4 men killed in this affair, and 17 were wounded. While the packet was at Cagliari, a vessel arrived from Messi na with a report, that the THAMES frigate had fallen in with a great number of French gun-boats on their way from Naples for Scylla, and of which he had taken and destroyed 58. This is probably the affair mentioned in the concluding paragraph of our corres pondent's letter, which we shall subjoin. It is ascertained, that eight of their largest gun boats were sunk, by a division of our boats, on the 10th of June ; that 14 more, laden with warlike store were captured about the same time. In these affairs, we had one Sicilian gun-boat sunk, and one captured. The Success and CEPHALUS attacked another division of them, near Catraro, on the 14th, took SO, and de stroyed a great many more. A third division, of forty sail, were attacked on the 18th off Squallace, by the RESISTANCE frigate, which took and burnt seventeen of them, and dispersed the remainder. The British soldiers and seamen are in high health and spirits. In another column we have given a Proclamation, issued by his Sicilian Majesty on the 10th of July, copied from the Gibraltar Chronicle. The subjoined letters and General Orders are direct from Messina : " MESSINA, JUL, 26. gg The storm in this quarter has thickened very mud; of late. General MURAT came down, about two months ago, to Calabria, with all his best Gene rals and Ministers of State, to step into his kingdom of Sicily ; and he issued a proclamation to notify that the fate of the island was already decided, and that he was coming over with thirty thousand brave French troops to drive away the English from the country. It was discouraging to find the backward. ness of the Court to assist in the general defence.— On the contrary, they shewed an indifference that ap peared most mysterious, and Sir JOHN STUART was left alone with the British troops, either to take the best steps for resistance or to secure his retreat. Our gallant General did not hesitate to chuse. The spirit which animated us at Alexandria and at Maida, again :hewed itself. Our batteries rose as if by ma gic--all our troops were drawn together—the Streight of the Faro was covered with gun boats—every thing was armed that could swim—our men of war came gathering round us from every direction, so that Mu- RAT has remained ever since with his thirty thousand Ivrea -in-Calabria, amidst all the comforts of the pes tilential air, the musquitoes, the tarantulas, and the hot weather, to enjoy the sight of this coveted king. dom, enamoured of its fertility, and sighing to finger a little of its treasures, with which he had promised to balance all his accounts, and to settle the claims of his troops, and all his followers. Our preparations now are so advanced, that un less he receives some co-operative aid from other quar ters, it is impossible he can hope to accomplish any thing here ; but after all, we hope Government will now begin to think of us a little, and of the country we are defrodiog, for our situation begins to be cri tical. The people are all very well inclined to us ; but they frequently ask us what is to become of them, should they expose themselves to the resentment of the French, and then_ be abandoned by us at a peace ? Thus we, who were sent to assist, have been left to our own exertions for every measure of de ' fence. 4 , Our Commander in Chief has only a choke of difficulties, And the British Government must now either resolve to give up Sicily, or take more decided the firmness of Lientenante Dablreup 2. their Commanders, caused their Are ; we fortunately had no Joss ; the r men killed. I cannot mithciendy ct of all the Officers, Masters' Mates, id every seaman and marine of the PIM tain Ferris has expressed to me his 1.4 on of all belonging to the Nemesis. EVENING STAR. • LONDON. - i*.`r'‘' ' 1 • DAY, SEPTEMBER 10. !CIES THIS DAT AT ONE cycLocE nu. money, 611 U--far ace. 6110 measures for its preservation, The total sxpences of our governnient upon this isitadeince we first arrived, as etltnlated here, have *gay cam* twelve mil lions atetling." .•. . • COPENHAGEN, AUGUST S. A report having been spread by ill-disposed people that his Majesty the King had seized the bank, and undertaken to pay to the holders of bank shares 1600 rix dollars for every share, we think it right to state, that the above report is totally false—Government is not engaged in any negociations either with the holders of bank shares, or with the directors of the bank, nor have either the former or latter had any meeting on that subject. AUGUST 27.—The Royal Board of Admiralty has now received the official report of the capture of the convoy which was lately taken and carried to Chris tiansand. The said convoy, which• consisted of 47 ships, was attacked on the 19th of last month from seven to eight miles S.W. of Lenduras by five of his Majesty's gun-brigs, under the orders of Capt. Bugir —an English gun-brig (the Forward), ran away as soon as the Danish gun-brigs hove in sight. The car goes of the captured ships consist of flax, hemp, sail cloth, wheat, rye, planks, boards, tallow, tar, oil, pot ash, &c. &c. PRIVATE LETTER.—HELIGOLAND, SEPT. 1. 11 Considerable alarm prevails for the safety of the property on this island ; according to all accounts such active preparations are making by the Dutch and Danes, that we cannot be without our suspicions. Persons arrived here from Antwerp assure us that it is Bonaparte's intention to send out an expedition from thence against the Island. We do not fear so much that we shall lose the Island as the property upon it. There are troops enough to defend it; but immense quantities of Colonial produce lie on the beach completely exposed under wooden sheds, which if the enemy could approach near enough might be destroyed in a few moments by red-hot balls. We have been watching the opposite coast for some time with anxiety." .174 L r. PALERMO, JULY 10. PROCLAMATION BY THE ICING Off THE TWO EMIRS. Ferdinand IV. by the grace of GOD, King of the two Sicilies, Jerusalem, &c. Infant of Spain, Duke of Parma, Piacenza, Castis, &c. Grand Hereditary Prince of Tuscany, to our beloved and faithful people of Sicily. The ferocious enemy who threatens to invade this happy kingdom, and to bring amongst us desolation, shame, and death, is carrying on his preparations.— His pride supports him, notwithstanding the want of confidence of the unfortunate victims of his despotism, whom he intends to employ on this rash expedition. In vain does he try, with unequalled impudencies, to pervert and misrepresent facts for the purpose of ani mating his soldiers and sailors ; they all know the losses he has sustained ; they all know, that to flight alone they are indebted for their lives ; and they all see that the batteries on the Calabrian coast are their only asylum and protection. Sicilians ! experience clearly shews you what an unlimited confidence you should repose on the heroic valour of our royal navy, and that of our august ally, the King of Great Britain. To this moment they have baffled the enemy's attempts ; and, with unim paired zeal and courage, they will continue to avert from our shores - the dreadful evils with which you are threatened. But what brilliant results have you not a right to expect, of cherishing in yOur own breasts the enthusiastic love and loyalty with which you are nobly animated ; and join your assistance, exertions, and means to the forces which we and our gallant allies oppose to the enemy. Then will victory be certain, and your tranquillity insured. The preser vation of our holy religion, and of all the objects of your regards, and the sentiments of love and attach• meet which you have always displayed towards our person, call for all your exertions. Hold, then, yourselves in readiness to join, at the voice of your Sovereign and Father, our troops and those of our faithful ally, the Kipg of Great Britain, for the purpbse of resisting the threatened invasion, and thereby securing his throne and its independence, and let your alacrity in obeying this call, afford the enemy an additional proof, that, making common cause with our allies, the English, you follow our ex ample, and comply with our will ; and that, there fore, he will find in all the inhabitants of this island a general and unanimous determination to shed to the last drop of their blood, and to die with arms in their hands, rather than submit to his abhorred yoke.— Sicilians ! remember your former glory, and you shall be invincible. (Signed) FERDINAND THOMAS() DI SOMMA. JULY 21. His Majesty the King of the two Sicilies, having been informed by his Excellency Lieutenant-General 1 Denaro, of the zeal and activity with which his Ex cellency Lieutenant-General Sir J. Stuart has provid. ed for the security of the city of Messina, and the defence of this country against the common enemy, has charged Lieutenant-General Denaro, not only to express to Lieutenant-General Stuart his Majesty's unqualified approbation of all the measures adopted for that purpose, but also to make it known to the public at large. The prizes lately taken off Citraro by an English gun-brig have already arrived ; the two gun-brigs are of an excellent construction I. oat has an 18-endnder mounted, and the other a 36-pounder. A boat a t med wick a brass 41saasdar, lad mimed with IS men sorted last Thasedai meming *Am tile f 4 .I°od, British 1441V1 . , " IasSNA, nay et Nothing epit mad the beauty of th e B i:e i ght at this nso(nent. The banks on each side, at only two m il es distant, are covered with camps and moun t columns of poops. Mtm&r's pavillion is display b i upon an elevated spot called Pelia, with an u n tri•colear flag waving from its summit. We se him every e vening, surrounded by his milita ry court. Sir JOHN STUART occupies a beautiful casin o directly opposite, about mid-way between Messin a and the Faro. We see the channel between the te n armies is covered with gun-boats, which are frequentl y engaged in partial encounters, and the shells andheary shot are perpetually arching across between shore and shore from Abe mortars and 36-pounders, whisk are mounte d i n battery on each side. At interne. mediate :points our co-operative men of war display themselves in lofty grandeur—it is a scene of war II all its awful magnificence. P. S. While I write this, three frigates are tele• graphed coming from the northward towards th e Faro, with fifty boats, including ten gun boats, take n ' as prizes, being an entire convoy of provisions and artillery, coming fremNaplestothearmy in Calabria." K GENERAL ORDERS. 44 Messina, July 4,111 t es Lieutenant General Sir JORN STUART is aw that it is unnecessary to call the attention of the army to the great equipments at present of the enemy is our front, with the avowed declaration to the world of intended enterprize upon the part of this Islasa defended by the British forces—but the General extrhs that we can reply to the vauntings of our adversary by displaying to his view the calm with which we prepare to meet his approaches. ~ The British Officers commanding at the different posts will be often obliged to appropriate the local resources of the country for the service of the tro ip s , to the partial privation and inconvenience perhaps of the inhabitants ; but die necessity of circumstances, and the reflection that oar measures are only for their own security, and to sustain them in defending the rights aad interests of their lawful Prince, against an enemy thirsting for violence and rapine, will, no doubt, ensure a continuance of that zealous and friendly assistance which the British troops have eve; habitually experienced from the friendship of the Si. cilian People, but which the objects of our common cause may require from them more actively at this moment. 44 The Control, however, desires that it may still be remembered by Officers in command, that every requisition from the population shall be made as hew tofore, where possible, through the channel of the legal Magistrates ; and that all supplies, whether of article or labour, are to be duly and regularly paid for. Meanwhile the successful gallantry of the corn. blued British and Sicilian flotillas, attached to the service of the army, have already proved anew to the enemy their impotency in every attempt to ope. rate upon an element on which the enterprizes of their station have been only recorded by ignominious flights, or by discomfitures ; and should any of their disor dered divisions reach the shores which his Sicilian Majesty has, in by flattering confidence, committed to British protection, they will be received by troops, in whom the language of menace excites ne emotion but that of contempt; and who never as yet have met their boasted legions on any terms of equalitr, but to be victorious. (Signed) T. CAMPULIop A.O. " GIBRALTAR, AUGUST CI. 44 The affairs of Spain now begin to assume an as pect so favourable as to outstrip the expectations d those who were most sanguine in her cause; and un less the enemy throws in immense reinforcements i;n• mediately, he will be speedily driven from the Penis• sula. Several families who had taken refuge in this garrison for some time past, have returned to their residences in Spain, under the conviction of their being perfectly secure from any further molestation by the enemy. 44 We are still extremely crowded here by refugees from Cadiz, Alicant, &c. which occasions provisions to be not over abundant, and rather high in price. Several gun-boats are fitting out here, to go against the enemy's batteries in the vicinity of Cadiz ; and a detachment-of artillery embark here to-morrow, for the same destination." Since our last, accounts have. been received from► the British Army in Portugal to the 22d ult. and from the corps under SILVIERA to the 24th. Lord WELLINGTON'S head-quarters were still at Ceierico. --The advanced posts were established at Ade Stiero. Lord WELLINGTON was indefatigable in devising every possible means of improving hit situation, and the better to be enabled to repel all attack that the enemy might be induced to make, Lord WELLINGTON had so far concentrated his forces as to call in the brigades of Generals HILL and PAYNE. According to other accounts, there was ao probability of any offensive operations being for the present attempted by the enemy. It is asserted II the Master of a vessel arrived from Comma , t hat advice had been received there previous to his sailing of Marshal Mumma baying fallen back towards Sa• lamanca, in consequence of the mortality that r e " vailed in his army and the want of provisions ; but ibis statement, however probable, we deem it nee* saryto °bierfei i ußsanctioird hT MIT 0 4 44 O r au ' thentic adirice‘ The accounts front the South of Spain optima to Teak of d e 4istresfd split 9f the comp Sod the - 4