Star. — London, England, 1814-03-23 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR LONDON. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23. 1814. PRICE OF S COCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK 3 per Cent. Red, shut—Cons, 703—for acc. 711 4 per Ct. shut-5 per Cr. 97i—Otnnium 26t India Bands 71. 95. pr.—Exchequer Bills 3s. es. pt. Last night official details respecting the oeettation of Bo .rdeaux by the British troops, were published in a Gatette Extraordinary. The dispatches are dated the 13th and 14th inst. They are short but highly important, and are as follow : LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY. TUESDAY, MARCH 22. VAR DEPARTMENT. t a tOWN/NI3.3TREET, MARCH 22, 1814. Dispatches; of Which the following are ettratts, have been this day received, addressed to Earl BA. IHMST, by the Marquis of WELLINGTON, dated Aire, 13th and 14th March; 1814 : Alt* ' 1 3th March, 1814. The excessive bad weather and violent fall of rain, in the beginning of the month, having swelled, td an extraordinary degree; all the rivers, and rendered it difficulL and tedious to repair the numerous bridges, which the enemy had destroyed in their retreat, and the different parts of the army being without commu rication with each other, I was obliged to halt. The enemy retired after the affair with Lieutenant General Sir Rowland Hill on the 2d, by both banks of the Adour towards Tarbes, probably with a view to be joined by the detachments from Marshal Su- , chet's army, Which loft Catalonia in the last week in February. In the mean time I sent, on the 7th, a detachment, under Major-General Fane, to take possession of Pau ; and another on the Bth, under Marshal Sir William Beresford, to take possession of Bottrdeaux. I have the pleasure to inform your Lordship, that the Marshal arrived there yesterday (the small force which was there having in the preCeding evening re tired across the Garonne) and that this important city is in our possession. Lieutenant General Don Manuel rrere joined the army this day, with that part of the 4th army under his immediate command, and I expect that Major Ge neral Ponsonby's brigade of cavalry will join to-mos. rows I learn from Major General Fane, who com mands Lieutenant General Sir Rowland Hill's out posts, that the enemy have this day collected a consi derable force in the neighbourhood of Couches, and I therefore conclude that they have been joined by the detachment of the army of Catalonia, which, it is re ported, amounts to 10,000 men. Nothing inaportant has occurred at the blockade of Bayonne,' or in Catalonia since I addressed your Lordship last. .Aire, March 14. I enclose Marshal Sir William Beiesford's private letter to me, written after his arrival at Bousdeaux, from which you will see that the Mayor and people of the town have adopted the white cockade, and de clared for the House of Bourbon. Marshal Sir W. Beresford's private letter, to which Lord Wellington's dispatch refers, is dated Bour deaux, 12th March, 1814. It states, in substance, that he entered the city on that day. That he was tnet a short distance from the town by the Civil Authorities and population of the place, and was received in the city with every de- Monstration of joy. The Magistrates and the city guards took off the eagles and other badges, and spontaneously "substi tuted the White Cockade, which had been adopted universally by the people of Bourdeaux. Eighty-four pieces of cannon were found in the thy I and an hundred boxes of secreted arms had been produced already. The occupation of the second city in France for 'wealth, magnitude, and population, for such h Bour deaux, containing 112,000 souls, is an interesting event in itself ; but the circumstances with which it has been attended, give it ten-fold importance. All hope had in a great degree been abandoned as to any burst of loyalty in favour of the BOURBONS tAing place in France. The efforts of a few isolated indi viduals, which was all that had hitherto appeared, did not present that character which ' , could encourage ether governments to continue to give them the slightest weight in calculations upon contingencies. The French had shewn an apathy not to have been expected from a people goaded ss ith the lash of tyranny, and which could only be accounted for from the torpor occasioned by their long-born galling fetters. It would appear, however, from the occurrences at onrcleaux, that attachment to the ancient Royal Fa tinily is not extinct. It has only been repressed froth maniTesting itself by the terror of the Tyrant's Go vernment. Now that it has burst forth—now that a Srst-rte city has offered to receive its legitimate Sovereign, and the neighbouring country manifests a similar spirit, it seems to come within the reach of rational hope, that the flame will spread ; and that France, by an internal effort, may possibly herself accomplish what could not be effected by a pressure merely external. France has been slow in seeking her own deliverance ; but if Preliminaries of Peace have not already been signed, it may not yet be too late to attempt the struggle. We fear that the dilatorineu of the French in as- setting their .owri caase.i•fdt emancipation from slavery is their own cause—may have brought on an embarrassing crisis to She Allied Soiereigns but if the spirit that has been manifested at Bourdeaux should spread withipat rapidity which the cause seems fitted to inspire, the States of Europe may soon witness a change, which was more to have been de sired than hoped for only a few weeks ago, We cannot quit the subject without observing that the occurrences at Bourdeaux should serve as a cau tion to Members of Parliament not to be precipitate in prdposing motions which interfere with the mea sures of the Executive Government. How much might the possible embarrasment of the present mo ment have been increased had the motion of Lord Os su I.STON been entertained by the Commons on Monday evenh:g ? We speak now only of the mischiefs which might result from injudicious anticipation and inter ' ference, but in another view the motion appears to have been ill advised. If we understood his Lordship (for he spoke very inaudibly) his motion was calculated tq bring into discussion the Treaty of Amiens—a Treaty con cluded under circumstances every way different from those in which we are now placed—a Treaty which at the time was considered more as an experiment than as promising solid peace. The clamour at the moment was for Peace. The experiment was tried, and we all know what was the issue. The Ministers of the time would have been highly censured had they then persevered in war : and we add, that but for the opportunity which that peace gave to BONA PA RTE to exhibit his true character, his utter contempt of public faith, this country could never have been brought to submit to the struggle she has since encountered, nor would Europe have been enabled to vindicate her own cause, as she has been enabled to do, by our perseverance—all would have been buried in an overwhelming flood of rapine and confusion. French Papers, of the date of Saturday last, arrived at a late hour last night. They speak of Chalons sur-Marne being re-taken by the French from the Allies ; and add, that the latter are still held in check on the Laon road. The Rheims road is de scribed:2as free. The fact seems to be, that Rheims and Soissons are occupied in force by the French army under BONAPARTE, who may thus think still to prevent a junction between SCHWARTZENBERG and BLUCHER. The latter surely is not loitering at Laon ; tor, according to Colonel LowE's last dispatch, he was acting on the offensive, and again advancing in the direction of Paris. May he not be between the Capital and BONAPARTE ? The low state of the French funds may be occasioned by the alarm ex cited by this, among other circumstances. The in surrection at Bourdeaux against BONAPARTE'S Go vernment, must have been known at Paris by the 15th at the latest ; for it was upon that dAy,that the French funds felt from 50 to 48, and next day the King of ROME (mark the attempt to bolster up the NAPOLEON dynasty !) was exhibited to the gaping multitude of Paris.—The following are the extracts : " PARIS, MARCH is. ed Private letters announce that a corps of French troops has entered Chalons-sur-Marne, and driven from it the enemy, from whom it took many pri- soners." " CHATEAU THIERRY, MARCH 17. gi We this instant learn that a corps of the French army has entered Chalons-sur-Marne after a battle in which we took a great number of prisoners from the enemy." SOISSONS, MARCH 17, IN THE IVENING, " Nothing new has taken place to.day. The enemy is still held in check upon the Laon road. That of Rheims is free." - . The Journal de Path, of the 19th, states, that on the 15th an attack was made on Compeigne, by 300 of the enemy, who were repulsed. The Journal de 1 'Empire, of the 19th, contains a Proclamation from Soult to his soldiers, dated head_ quarters, Bth March. In it he makes no mention of his defeats up to that time ; he accuses Lord Welling_ ton of inciting the population to sedition and revolt ; calls upon them to Yevenge this insult in blood ; and tells them that whether the assailants or the assailed, that till the allied army, formed of so extraordinary elements, be annihilated, or shall have evacuated the territory of the „Empire, them can be no repose for them.—French Funds for March 22, 48 f. 50 c. A Dutch Mail atrrivcd last night with letters and papers to the 20th instant.—(For the contents see the last page.) The Amsterdam Courant announces the capitulation of Custrin. The garrison are prisoners of war. Two thousand more of the citizens of Ham. burgh have been expelled, but we have no account of the progrcss of the siege. The CROWN PRINCE of SWEDEN remained at Liege on the 10th instant. The QUEEN and two of the Princesses are expected in town this day ; in the evening they will dine with the PRINCE REGENT. Ye. , ,todAy the Duke of YORK held a levee at his Office ;n the Horse Guards. Among those on his Royal Hig hness ' s list, who had interviews, were Lieutenant -General Sir G. Broornhead, Lieutenant-General Drummond, Lieutenant-General Mnr,hrad, General Norton, Major-General Disney, Major-General Ariey, lieutenant-Gene ral Ferguson, Lord George Beresford, Earl of Aboyne, &c. Yesterday the Duke'of YORK, Earls BATHURST and LIVERPOOL, had audiences of the PRINCE RWENT, at Carlton-House. The First Number of The ileadeaskal Gazette, a Newspaper for Schools and Families, to be pub lished. Weekly, makes its appearance this afternocu. kiviL AFTELLIOENct. ivtAi bublia "Waterford • Cldiz Lltbon . ARC dug. • 2 0 2 - tl o - 0 1 CoFunni Heligoland Guernsey Jersey ARC DUI. 0 0 - Q 1 0 . 1 0 Malta - • Passages . 0 Onttent)urgh Halifax - 0 0 Hdlland . Leeward Islands . e 0 FAI.MdtiTH, MARCH so. Arrived the-Princess Elizabeth packet with a Mail from Passages, in five days ; and the Ptincess Char lotte packet from ditto with a Mail, in three days.— No Messenger or Officer came over in the Prin c ess Charlotte, but her Captain (WHITE) has set off ex. press for London with dispatches. P. S. 10 P. M.—Since writing the above I have learnt that several vessels were lost at St. Jean de Luz, and other parts of the coast in that neighbourhood, on the Ist inst. Among them are the following :- - Gleaner ketch, crew saved ; Fox, BROWARD, ditto ; Friendship, BARRETT, crew lost. The following are transports :—No. 104, one man drowned ; No. 181, crew saved ; D, crew saved ; CY, crew saved ; BY, crew saved ; EA, crew saved ; IS, crew saved ; FW, crew supposed to be lost. The convoy under his Majesty's brig BLINKER, which sailed from hence about three weeks since, arrived safe out at Passages. Wind S. light breezes and fine weather. O 1 O 21 - 1 0 PLYMOUTH, MARCH 21. Arrived the Brutus transport from Passages:— brings an account that the Gleaner ketch and about 20 sail of transports were lost, near St. Jean de Luz, on the 2d inst. in a heavy gale at N.W. Came in the Halcyon, a French national brig of war, 18 guns and 126 men, prize to his Majesty's ship AJAX.— Arrived the CLARENCE and AJAX man of war from cruize, the LYNX sloop of war with dispatches from Spain, CONSTANT gun•brig from ditto, and ORESTES sloop of war from a cruize. Sailed the SYBELLE fri gate for the Coast of France. The brig Halcyon, captured by his Majesty's ship AJAX, is a fine vessel of 320 tons. She did a great deal of mischief on her last cruize.--Wind W. POR I SMOUTH, MARCH :."2. Arrived the Zeritva sloop of war from Plymouth. DEAL, MARCH 22. Came down from the River the General Von Yorke, the Charlotte, for ---, and remain with his Ma jesty's ships as per la►t.—Wind S. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. The Scylla, for the Fox, will he paid on hoard, at Plymouth, on the 26th intant. Recalls at 22, Norfolk-street. _ _ The Warspite, for the Flash, the President anti Juniper,, for the Marmion, and the Decoy, for the Drie Vrienden, Courier, Lark, and Fox, will be paid on beard, on arrival. Recalls at 41, Norfolk-street. Royalist, for the Ned, on board, at Plymouth; recalled at 70,, Great Russell street. Redwing, for the Eon Fe Nova; will be recalled on Tuesdays an.l Fridays, at v.S, Nottolk-srrecr. Quebec, tor the St. Jean B,ptiste, I.a Comtesse and La For ben ; will be recalled on TttecdJys and 1,1.141, at 4, Upper Fhatues.street. Telegraph, for the 1111...t1 and Erneline, on her arrival ; recalled Wednesdaya and 'llit:rsdays, at 3, Cl:fford: Scorpion, f.q. the Jorle Anna Pietro Breuer; Ranger, for t:. Nordstiem.n ; Kent, for the Three Frien4; Plantagenet and Vanguard, for the Frederica and Maria Christha ; and Vanguard, for the Oalitini, an 4 another vessel, on Friday, at St , Norfolk stre,:!. Eeltoua, for the N on Friday, at 10, John-street, Adelphi. The following Letter has been received by Mr. :4URDoCK, Chairmin of the Committee of Merchants trading to Madeira, in answer to an application re specting a convoy to that Island : " ADMIRALTY OFFICE, MARCH 21, 1814. " Six—Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, your letter of the 19th Instant, relative to the West- India Convoy in Apra next being arected to call at the Island of Madeira, I have their Lordihips' commands to acquaint you, that the Convoys for the West-Indies are all ordered to touch at that Island, to see in and call out the Trade, but not to anchor. " I am, Sir, your very humble Servant, (Signed) j. w. CROKIR." THOMAS MURDOCK, Esq. Chairman of Madeira Merchants, No. 28, Broad-street-place, New Broad-street." The Hoop, BOULERSTEIN, from St. Maa's Sluys to Lisbon, was taken on Monday last, neat Calais, by a French privateer. Five other privateers were in sight. The master of the French fishing vessel that was sent into Dover on Monday morning, prize to his Majesty's cutter PIGMY, states, that he was one of twelve which were taken up or otherwise impressed into the service, for the purpose of conveying the ordnance stores from Boulogne to Havre de Grace. He states that the utmost confusion prevails at the former place, the inhabitants packing up their valua bles, &c. in daily expectation of the arrival of the Cossacks. It cannot at present be ascertained what the object of the French Government is, in thus re moving the public stores, unless they did not consi der them as safe at Boulogne. This Boat was laden with cannon, shot, grenades, &c. The Deputies from Norway, last from Leith, san ded at Gravesend on Thursday, and immediately transmitted an application for passports to proceed to town, to lay before Ministers the change of affairs which has recently taken place in Norway, with the view, as is sup-pc , sed, of obtaining the sanction of the British Government to their independence and lieu. trality. The Gazette of last night contains an Order in Council, allowing the importation from the East- Indies of rise, free of duty, for six months, from the 25th of the present month. A plan is said to be in agitation for the removal of the Post-office from Lombard.street to the top of Cheapside. A great part of St. Martin's-le.grand is to be pulled down. A highly-finished Portrait of Mr. K►aAN, engraved by BLOOD, from an original Painting by S. DRUM MOND, Esq. A. R. A. ornaments The European Maga sine for March, 1614, printed for J. ASPRRNR, No. SY, Cornhill ; of whom may be had, the same interesting Miscellany for January and February, with the Portraits of Lord BYRON and Count PLAYOFF, and a 'View of the Peak Cavern, Derbyshire, price 2s. each. SVCOVD VIMTION: STAR-OFFICE, FOUR O'CLOCK. We Stop the Press to state, that the TetegrApii it this instant reported to have announted the Arrival at Plymouth of two Persons of Distinction, as a De putation from the South of France uith the intell; gence of the rapid spread of the Bountsc*i principle throughout the whale of that opulent and populuut District. VITtORIA P4PERS: Vittoria Papers arrived Last night, froth which we have made extracts. They contain same pm ticuLart relating to the action of the rth, on the Adour, iat France. PROM THE VITTORIA PAPER OF THE I 2TH MARCII. IR the battle of the 27th ult. the French General. Harispe and Foie were wounded, and an , ,ther Gene ral killed. The officers taken prisoners say, that b r an order from Bonaparte, a fifth part of the pay is= kept back from the whole of the French army. Many'of the conscripts escaped t r their houses, And every day some desert. They write from Iron that the battering artillery has passed the Adour ; that the division of Carlos Espana, and several Engl;sh brie gades, were forming the siege of B iyonne ; th it the remainder of the Spanish troops, and the head.quar ' ters of the Fourth Army were already in march with rations for four days. FfkOM THE SAME PAPER OF THE 7TH. The da before yesterday an Aide de.Camp from the Lord passed through this place, with the deta;la of the events which took place on the 27th nit. All that we have been able to learn ic, that if the roads had allowed the right and lett columns to arrive itt time, Soult was inevitably lost, hut he succeeded in passing the Adour, though in disorder, and in sucli precipitation that he abincloned the large m tgAzines of forage and meal which he had in Aire and Mort Marsin, where the left of the allied army w.►s. ' FROM THE SAME PAPER OF THE 5111 MAUCH. On the 27th of February, in the vic.nity anti Om% Marshal Soult was completely be.iteii, his army dispersed, was retiring towards durdios, in di rection the Duke of Ciudad 12.1drigo, w*, ing his having been wounded in the aim, as k:r. ► General Alava, was pursuing him. We have not received all the particulars of this brilliant victory ; but it is stated that an English Gener :I was killed, and two or three others wounded in it ; that the num ber of French killed exceeded 3000, with 900 priso ners, and that they besides lost eight pieces of artil lery. It appears that the division of Morillo, took a brilliant part in this memorable day, and it is even addeethat this valiant Captain lost a horse. SUSS*EX ASSIZES. HORSHAM, MONDAY, MARCH !3. COLLYNS V. CAFE% N. This was an action tor the breach of an agteeernent. The defendant was lately a tailor and draper in the town of Horsham, and being about to remove ce . Brighton, he agreed to dispose (E his business to the plaintiff, for a premium of £5O. and the plaint ff WAS also to take all his stock at prime cost, for which he Altered into an agreement that he would not tarry on kusiness within ten miles of Horsham. He, how ever, although he moved his residence to Brighton, solicited custom, and actually served many persons in Horsham and ; its neighbourhood. Several witnesses having proved these facts, the Jury found a verdict for plaintiff—Damages £5l BULL V. ALLEN. This was an action to recover the sun of fiftv seven potinds, f , r money advanced and pild for Miss E. Allen, the defendan - , by the plaintiff.— The plaintiff resided at Brighton, as did also Miss Allen, the defendant, where she and her sister kept+a boarding-school. The plaintiff had pid the sum in question for goods bought at a sale, which the de. tendant had had. The tact that the plaintiff had paid the money was not Uisputed, nor that the defendant had had the goods ; but it was insisted, for the de fendant, that Mr, Bull had made a present of them to Miss Mary Allen, the sister of the defe-rdant. 'The Miss Aliens were described to be the daughters of the late Dr. Allen, a respectable physician, who bc;ng left in rather narrow circumstances, were obliged to keep a boarding•schnol, and being highly repected, many most respectable characters had made them presents. The plaintiff had a daughter at their school, and being willing to serve them, bought the goods in question, and gave them to Miss Mary Allen. To prove this case, Mrs. Brookes, a married sister of the Miss Aliens, stated, that the defendant, Elizabeth Allen, had requested the plaintiff to take an acknow ledgment for the amount of the goods, hut that he re ' fused, saying that he meant them a present f Mary. ' An old servant also stated, that when a part of ' them (a lot of crockery ware) came home, Mrs. • Brookes was about to take some of them : the plain ' tiff asked what she was going to do with it, as it was ' Mary's ? She said Mary had given it to hers he re ' plied, he had given it to Mary, and she might du AS she pleased with it. The Jury found a verdict for the defendant. Advices from St. Petersburgh to the 18th ult. state that the two younger Brothers of the EMPICROK, the Grand Dukes NICOLAI and MICUAEL, had taken their departure from thence to join the Russian army. Letters from Bourdeaux say, thAt our troops are living in the most splendid style of luxury. Ti.ey say that they drink the finest claret at 2Ud. per bottle. Thursday morning Mr. HEARNDEN, of Ashford undertook for a wager cf £lO, to go from the above place to Canterbury, and back in six hours, a distance of 32 miles, which he performed with ease in twenty minutes less than the given time. Early yesterday rnorting the warehouse of Mr. Flanders, in Crispin -street, Spital-fiells, was broke open, and robbed of property to a large amount. with which the thieves got clear off, although a watchman is stationed near ae premises. CORN EXCHANGE. MARK-LANE, MARCH 11. • We Lad but two vesub with Whet At ne..l ket tw, 0.1 the supply of that article was rather scanty, but u a dm taken place in the weather, the p:igelpal buyers are ke. pi.. In allocution of a decline, and tom prices must be quoted salty as en Mo.. day s aLboush the market looks upon the o mg • d noi- 4eslume. ,