Star. — London, England, 1810-07-31 00:00:00

.. SPAIN. CADIZ, JUNE sc We have seen a Artier trom Serrania de Ronda of the .z.2,t lust. which contains many particulars relative to that noble insurrection. The principal is, that the French in Ronda endeavoured to force the Sierra, which the Serranos defended during the 19th, 20th, and 21st. _ _ On the first day, the enemy were repulsed with loss ; on the second they were likewise repulsed, in the same manner, with the loss of two field-pieces : two spies were made prisoners, who pretended to be dumb, but being severely treated, were made to speak. On the third day, they were not only repulsed, but pursued into the very town of Ronda. We have not yet received the details of the killed, but the Serra nians are preparing to attack Ronda. Un the 22d, the reinforcements of troops of the line which had been dispatched to Serrania arrived at Tafate, two leagues from Ronda. In Algesiras and St. Roque, a great number of di , nerseu patriots have again collected together, and will considerably augment the force destined to act in that part. lie desertion of the enemy in Castile is equal to what it is in the other provinces: not a day passes without some deserter coming in. In the beginning of the present month, there has been a desertion of 50 men at one time, who were conducted to Celerico de Beira. Of a Swiss regiment which was in garrison at Astorga, the greatcr part has, in like manner, de serted ; some are going to incorporate themselves with the division of Senor Mahy, others to La Pue bla, where the first brigade of the Army of Galicia is posted. The new army of this kingdom is forming itself • with activity, and all tke well-known enthusiasm of the inhabitants. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, JULY 31. TRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, 3 per ( ent. Cons. money, 63/I—acc. 68}. 3 per Cent. Reduced 69#-4 per Cent. b 5/. 8 per Cent. 99 ; 11 —Exchequer Bills 4s. to is. pr. (Thulium Ito dis.—Bonds 235. 245. prem. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. Bank St Long Ann. ISi 9.l6ths Sips 691411 India Bonds 233. 255. pr. 3 per C. Con. 841-3 69 Exc. Bills, Ss. Ss. prem. 4 per Cent. 85131 Lottery Tickets £22. ISo. I S per C. Navy 993 106 991 Cons. for ;cc. Last night we received Portuguese papers to the 22d inst. containing an o:Ecial announcement of the surrender of Ciudad Rodrigo on the 10th inst. after a most gallant defence. The terms are not yet known. Tae exertions of the garrison, according to private Utters, were unremitting to the last moment ; the breaches which were effected by the artillery of the enemy were not only repaired during the night, but, when occasion required, in the open day, under the most terrible discharges from the batteries of the as *Banta. While two divisions of the enemy, the 6th and Bth, were thus employed in pressing the siege and reduc ing the gallant garfison of Ciudad Rodrigo, other detachments attempted to beat up our advanced post, on the 4th, after passing the Agueda, as we long since have mentioned. They attacked General CRAVPURD on the 4th, near Almeida, and the Portuguese Gene. rtl CARRUA at Guardarin, but their attack was fruit less. The French advanced again on the sixth, on the side of the Puerte de la Conception, and were again re pulsed by a British detachment, consisting chiefly of tile 14th dragoons. This success was not purchased ithout some loss op our side, as a very brave Officer, Colonel TALBOT) who gallantly led on the British troops, fell on this occasion. He was killed in conse iuence of both the fore legs of his horse having been ,ken. In this stite the anthill 'of course plunged, the lamented hero fell over his tied on the enemy 1 - o nets, and was instantly dispatcheV-His loss iiversally lamented. He was a near relation of TALBOT, Member for the county of Dublin.— , loss otherwise was comparatively very trifling. The dispatches received by Government from lord 'ELLINGTON t are dated the 11th instant. On that • the head-quarters were at Alverca. The enemy done every thing in their power to draw his Lord from his position, into the plain, but they were ippointed. , gentleman from Lisbon, who reached town yes-' ty i states; that ti r ,' WstuNoroN preserved the profound secrecy, ' to; only as to his future ope lions, but as to the motives* his present conduct. ‘ force under MASSL , NA was not v i olent when the , accounts came from Alverca (ti & • i t in nst.) as ik had been ascertained to be a fortnigh re, on ount of several detachments having proCeNded to North, in the direction of Toro, to reinforce 4 G4 4; KELLERMAN'S division in that neighbourhood• rom the same authority we are informed, that the 'rench army was suffering materially from desertion, that almost the whole of the Swiss regiments had abandoned the standard of NAPOLEON. is stated from authority, that of the Polish divi. ' , which lately entered Spain, 1500 have gone over the Spaniards, and the remainder, it is added, re m fight the patriots, and insist upon being marched back to their own country. Lord WELLINGTON, in a letter to the Secretary of Portuguese Government, gives some particulars the action which took place on the 4th, between the advanced guard of General CRAUPEIRVE division and considerable body of the enemy. The great supe riority of the latter rendered it prudent for the former fall back, whi ch they did, we believe, without any • • loss. ome P i c rtuguese troops were also engaged on 1 this occasion, and are stated to have acted with much 'steady bravery. Lori WELLINGTON, in the same latter, alio gives some account of the surrender of Ciudad Rodrigo, the defence of which, he observes, does infinite honour to its Governor, while the con duct of its brave garrison reflects the utmost glory on the Spanish Army. For ample extracts from the Portuguese journals, see our front page. The accounts from Cadiz to the 14th, contain de tails of various military operations in other parts of Spain, which shew the general activity that prevails through the Peninsula. On the 6th, General REG NEER is said to have attacked General Imaz, with 9or 10,000 men, at Xeres de los Caballeros. The Spaniards, aided by their position, maintained a gal lant action till evening, when they retreated ; but REONIER himself is said to have retreated likewise.— General BaLtasTEROS has sustained a check, and been forced to fall back. No account has yet been received of the operations of that force which was landed from Cadiz at Algesiras, in order to harrass the rear of the enemy through the defiles of Sierra Ronda. When the last accounts left Cadiz, every thing wore a favourable aspect. The enemy's force before the place had been increased to above 22,000 men ; of whom more than 2000 were understood to be con fined in the hospitals. The French were labouring under various kinds of distress, particularly for money. The inhabitants and the garrison were plentifully supplied with all sorts of provisions, and were under no alarm. The attack that had been concerted in the rear of the enemy, was deferred until the works erecting for the defence of the place should be fully completed. Ad dresses in several languages to the French armies had been dispersed in all directions, and have already had the effect of bringing in a number of deserters. Since writing the above, we find that Government received dispatches this day from Lord WELLINGTON, dated the 18th inst. Head-quarters remained at Al. verca. These dispatches speak highly of the spirit and skill displayed by the Spaniards in the defence of Ciudad Rodrigo, which did not surrender till far ther resistance would have been utterly hopeless. Government alsoreceived this-day dispatches from Cadiz, dated the 14th, but they contain nothing of importance. ` Friday last, late in the evening, the Right Hon. Mr. YORKE, First Lord of the Admiralty,acelmpanied by his brother, Sir J. S. YORKE, one of the junor Lords, arrived at Sheerness. The next morning Ad miral STANHOPE hoisted the Admiralty flag, when the ships at the Great and Little Nor. saluted with 19 guns. '1 he sum left by the late Mr. CAVENDISH to Lord GEORGE CAVENDISH, and his three sons, proves to be lull 8700,000. Baaan.—There was no Court of Aldermen this day : the Lotto MAYOR, after inspecting the Returns, ordered the present prices to be continued. In a Bookseller's catalogue appears the following article, " Memoirs of Charles I. with a Head catiitalls executed The difference between war and peace has been well defined by an ancient writer. In the time of peace, the :ons bury their fathers; in the time of war, fathers bury their son:. Our female performers have, it seems, a new field opened to their attractions in their summer excursions to the provincial theatres, by assuming juvenile cha racters, from which their ages and persons exempt them in the winter. Thus the same Lady who figures as a Matron in town, becorn: • a Girl in the country, and the termagant Mistress of the London boards is metan - .o phosed into a gentle Juliet on the country stage : " Ss true it is, as DRY InN sung. Women are ever fair and young." Ormskirk Races, which began on Wednesday last. have been attended by a very numerous and brit. liant assemblage of the neighbouring gentry. The diversion has been, on the whole, very good, parti cularly on Thursday. The weather was very fine, and the course in excellent order.. We are con cerned to state, that some very distressing accidents have happened on this occasion. Mr. RANCE, a re spectable coach-proprietor in Liverpool, was on Wed nesday thrown from the dicky of a coach, and un fortunately having got entangled with the wheels, was so , dreadfully hurt, that he survived only till the following day. Another person was thrown from his horse, and had his leg and thigh broken ; and a third was thrown from a coach in Dale -street, and very dangerously bruised. We have received American papers to tie 6th inst from which we have given some extracts; but they are not of first rate importance. The people of Mexico, according to the American journals, remain firm in their allegiance to FERDIN AND the VT!. not withstand - the industry of some French incendiaries in cir culating proclamations in behalf of King Josent's Government. A young gentleman who arrived in town yesterday from Holland, having escaped in a potatoe boat, and been three days on his passage, gives. a most melan chaileport of the condition to which the people in that dented country have been reduced by their tame submission to the tyrant. The French troops sent in to keep them down, are in a state of nakedness, and they help themselves at pleasure to every thing they avant. The people are totally broken down in spirit, and are quite at the mercy of their oppressors, even for food, as the markets are entirely under the con mom' of the soldiery. All the Dutch troops are march. ed away, and are to be sent to Spain, which is regard ed as the certain grave of every man who goes thither. What a lesson to every independent people how they suffer the first attack to be made on their indepen dence ! Wednesday a man belonging to one of the Mount's bay scan's, in attempting to get at a Kite's nest, in a high cliff at Mul ion, fell eighty or ninety feet almost perpendicular height, upon the crags below, yet es , ;aped. with cols a few slight bru'aes. the 14 withot Colons troops quenci broker and tb 's bays is univ Mr. T Our 1c The WELL day di had cI4 ship ft disapF A terday most I ration The f 1 last al it had accou the N neral From Frent and t abani It • to th fuse mare the] of th adv: a co riori t 0 N.OWL •••••MmEMPI.IP FALMOUTH, JULY U. ived the Princess Elizabeth packet, Captain front ,Lisbon in five days.—Wind S. W. PLYMOUTH, JULY 19. A small cartel landed a Messenger here last night, from Morlaiz, with dispatches. The cartel sailed again this day. The WOLVERINE sloop, with the 13 transports for Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, still re. main wind-bound in Cawsand Bay. Sailed the PEA COCK sloop, with 18 merchantmen and transports under convoy for the Downs ; also the PARTRIDGE sloop (that arrived yesterday from the West-Indies) for Portsmouth and the NORTH STAR sloop, for Li verpool, to bring round impressed men. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 30. Arrived his Majesty's ship IRIS from the westward ; and the PARTRIDGE sloop of war from the West In dies ; and the Britannia transport from Lisbon. The China fleet have been about five months from Canton ; touched at Penang, where they left the Cuff nells repairing ; and at St. Helena, which they had left seven weeks when they were fallen in with, off the Western Isles, by-the REVENGE, of 74, Hon. Captain PAGET, and lats frigate, Capt. SHORTLAZIP. They have had a fine passage of a fortnight since. The Revenge is arrived, and the Iris isgnne by with convoy. —The Sr. Dosimoo, 80, Captain GILL, will be ready for sea at Plymouth, in a few days. The luggage of Sir RICHARD STRACHAN has been embarked there. Sir RICHARD, we believei will sail in about three weeks upon the particulai service ( we have stated it to be the Mauritius) intended for him.—The HAMA. DRYAD frigate, Sir THOMAS STAINES ; and the RACE HORSE, Captain FISHER, expect hourly to sail for the Cape of Good Hope. The King George cartel will sail for Morlaix to morrow morning. Madame la Corntesse de TRocßorr, who has been 18 years in England, Captain BANEES (lately from Cadiz), and Monsieur MONTAGUE, with 15 other persons, will return to France in her. The King George arrived here only on Tuesday, from Morlaix, and brought over four ladies and three soldiers' wives ; the latter were taken at Corunna.— The DIADEM, Captain Pnactstont, and Recta" Captain HUDSON, armed en flute, have orders to sail for Halifax and Lisbon. The Bth regimen (2d bat talion) will embark on Monday on board these ships for Halifax. Colonel Iltustrr, and a detachment from the Isle of Wight, for service in North America, will embark on board the REGULUS. A convoy for Portugal, Spain, and the Mediterranean, is collecting at Spithead, which the UNDAUNTED frigate. Captain G. M‘Ksszts, is appointed to protect. DEAL, JULY 30. Arrived the Braganza, HAEI, from the River Plate. His Majesty's brig CRACKER, Lieutenant JOHN LEACH, has made another (the third) seizure of gold bars and coin, which has been landed and conveyed, under an escort, this morning to the Custom House. Five o'clock—Just arrived the Thetis, SANDERSON, from Demerara. Wind S. W. LEITii; JULY tf. His Majesty's brig Rovert, Captain Nor?, sailed on Friday, and on Saturday the NYZINIEN, Captain MAXWELL / on a cruize. GREENOCK, JULY 17. Arrived at Ardrossan, 24th instant, the Helen, Rn. BERT MILLER master, in SI days from the Bay of Shalem, North America, with a cargo of timber.— Spoke at Sea, nn the 20th inst. the John and Francis Captain M'EWAN, of Clyde, from Liverpool to New foundland, nine days out, in lat. 55. long. 14. SO. all well. LLOYD'S LIST. GRAVESZND, JULY S.—No arrivals. Sailed the Surinam, Hyndmao, for Surinam ; and the Perseverance, Bennet, for Malta. ARRIVED—At Liverpool, Venerable, Gillespie; Tigre, —; and Bootle, Ford, from &srbadoes ; Liverpool, —, from St. Croix; and Francis and Ann, Swody, from New York. In the Clyde, Sitters, Williams, from Demerara. At Guadeloupe, Watts, Miller, from Liverpool. At St. Vincent's, Olenmore, Goulding, from Liverpool. At St. Thomas's, Alfred, Malcolm ; Lavinia, Nichols; and Transit, Vaux, from London. At Rio Janeiro, Essex, Miles, from Liverpool; Comet, from London; Prince of Brazils Packet, Hicks, with damage, from the River Plate ; parted from the Braganza brig, from the same place, in a gale of wind at sea. The Richard and Mary, HALL, from London to Rio Janeiro, was totally lost the 25th of April, near Rio Doce. , • The Ben Lomond, BRows, from Rio to London, has foundered at Bahia. The Lively Lass, BROCELILBANK, from Guadaloupe to Liver pool, was lost at the former place the 16th ult. The Susannah, Rtworrarrr, from Liverpool to Lid dewalla, is lost on the coast of Scotland. The Catherine, BUTTER, from Leith to the Medi diterranean, sprung a leak two days alter sailing, and sunk. The Catherine, with a cargo of flax and flax-seed, worth 100,000 rix-dollars, was captured off Bornholm on the 28th ult. and has been carried into Nysted.— The same day a brig laden with fruit was captured by a division of Danish gun-boats. Hopes are entertained that many of the !hips which we named as having been captured off the Naze, will arrive safe in England. Two of that number. the Wilhelmina and another. k is ascertained, are safe, from letters received yesterday. The report of the capture of the Hero privateer, of Guernsey, In Basque Roads, is unfounded ; it was another vessel that was captured, and mistaken for the Hero ; the latter was safe at Alderney. on Friday the 20th instant. !AR-INDIA. ARRIVALS. The fleet from China arrived in the Downs 29th instant, sailed from Canion the 6th March. Bt. Helena the filth May--off the Cape of Hope, they spoke the Company's ship OaAm, ward-bound. The CUMULI came down the sea, with the fleet, when she parted company, proceeded for Bombay to be docked, proving PASSZNOZRS DT THE FLIRT FROM CHILI. Per Glatton.—Mr. llburry. Per Warren Hastinp.—Mn. Gilchrist, Miss Larkins, G. Nangle HiU, 47th Regiment. Per Tkamea—Mr. W. Brown. Per Neptune.—Mr. J. Molony, Mr. James 1. Fraser, I Little, Lieut. J. Doyle. Per Albion.—Mr. Mak. Per Nottingham.—Major De Morgan, Capt. J. Grant eltib , , Master Cockburn, Miu F. Brown. Per Coutts.—Master Day. Per Perseverance.—Lieut. Col. Dunn, Mr. Surglen Stalely Per Scaleby Cask . — Mr. aM Miss Metcalfe, liou. I. P assim, Mr. C. Magniac, Lieut. Pratt. Per Marquis of Ely.—Mrs. Hobson. His Majesty's ship Sr. ALBANS, which convoyed the beet from China, we are assured, has on hoard upwards of ElOO,OOO in dollars, consigned to the East-India Company. The report of the safety of the True Briton India. man was revived yesterday. A Gentleman, who ar rived as a passenger in the China fleet, writes to his friend that he learnt at St. Helena that the Captain of that Indiaman had communicated to the Governor at Bombay, his arrival in distress at Cochia. One of the first houses in town, concerned in India commerce, has received similar accounts. vits t ) A—kf t GOOd 4 , out. China 7. and very I. Lieu; Captain and fa. toddy. reared DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY. The Thunder, for the Frau Anna Margaretha, captured April 90,1.6, will he paid on arrival, in port, and recalled at No. t, 'tunas-street, Adelphi, on Wednesdays and ThurstLys, for three months. The same, for the Faderns Bestlusting, captured May 5,l•Ci, will be paid and recalled u above. The same, for the Trends Sashinders, corned March 24, sos, will be paid and recalled as above. The Constant, for the lunge Meiners, capture 4 Novemher 1808, will be paid on the lit August next, at Pqmouth, and rt. called at No. 13, artnent's Inn, London. Tke Virago, for the Mart, captured August tO, IBM will be paid on board, at Cork, on the tat Aqua next, and recalled u above, on Mondays and Thursdays. The Boston, for the Nancy, captured April tf, 11104, after de• ducting the expences in the case of the Jefferson restored, Will be paid on the 34 August next, and recalled at No. 3, CJifford's but, on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Lem rs from Tortola, received by the last Leeward Island mail, state that the homeward-bound fleet was to sail under convoy of a frigate and two ships of the line, one of which is the Assacaostssz, recently cap. tured in the Saintes. On Monday, the cutter belonging to Colonel Pt:- Lorry:4, of Emral, in Flintshire, struck upon a rock on the entrance into the Swilly, in the river Menai, and almost immediately sunk. By the exertions of the Bangor Ferry boatmen, who observed the acci• dent, Colonel P. and his suite sere providentially re. lieved from their very perilous situation. The Catharine, BVTLia, which only sailed frill Leith on Sunday sennight, with a rich cargo for Malta, suddenly filled with water, and wear down. off the Coquet Island. The Captain and crew had only time to save their lives in their boat. The ship and cargo are valued at six or seven thousand pounds. Our ships (chiefly frigates) have lately been of essential service to the Spanish cause, by landing and destroying batteries on different parts of the coast, in possession of the enemy ; and as soon as they had drawn their attention to that quarter, re.embarking. and landing on an opposite direction—thus keeping the French in a constant state e alarm, and perpetually harrassing them; obliging them likewise to keep large detachments constantly in motion to watch our ope. rations. Last week, four boats belonging to the salmon fishing company at Spey, caught 2003 fish, in one I hour and torty minutes. As the wind blew hard from the east, the boats could not get over the bar, to the smack in the bays and they were obliged to convey the fists by land to Port Gordon, when each man engaged to carry them to the vessel from thence, earned dm* guineas in less than four hours. On the 27th instant, the Duke of Marlborough packet fell in with a French privateer, in lat. 40. 12. long. 7. IS. She was one of a large class, mounting sixteen 18-pounders, and two long bow guns. The packet was of much inferior force ; she however en. gaged the enemy for two hours, and until, by a for tunate shot, she cut away the privateer's topmast, which immediately sheered off to the Northward. The packet suffered much in her rigging, and from the shot-holes in her hull below she had several het water in her hold. All the passengers behaved man• fully on the occasion, except two, who skulked below, and declined to take any part in the action. The rest assisted at the guns, and shared in the dangers of the engagement. The Marlbro' packet that so gallantly beat off a French privateer, on her passage from Lisbon, was commanded by her Chief mate, Mr. JAMItS ; Captain BULL, her commander, having remained at home.... The privateer, in the middle of the action, hoisted the Bloody Flag, which was answered by the Marl• hr./ with three cheers. A ship, named the Success, was brought into Hull on Friday, loaded with wheat and yarn. She was cut out of Rumie, in the island of Bornholm, on the 18th ult. by 18 seamen and marines, in the boats be longing to his Majesty's sloop Woomzez, Captain Warrs. The Success was bound from Pinar to London, and had been captured by the Danes, who ' had taken 26 lasts of wheat out of her. The officers and men in the Woodlark's boats pushed boldly into the harbour, reserving their fire until nearly side of the prize, when they fired, and boarded her. All the crew of the Success, one man, leaped overboard, and swam to The captured vessel was nearly unri within pistol.shot of two batteries, werh 4 .. a heavy . fire upon her, and killed one British and a marine, and wounded tour others, could get her under weigh. Twentptwo of different sizes were, at the time, lying . in the harbour ; three of the nearest of them . veral :boil, and sailed in pursuit of the Success• captors waited their approach with coolness, • near enough fired two or three vullies of and killed two Danes, when the privateers the chat,. boldly into early along' td instantly cess, exalt o the shore. I, and lyln commenced itish seaman before they ro prviateerS E blear uP 6eni fired be. lUCCeSS. The and whey smell irs g4ll OP