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• the full diets of eight mesths'ef hen& . Without laying stress on the threat of Ge l:4lld ga g man, that if the Convention was rejected 'Aeon should be destroyed, it could hardly be sup. ,a t hat the fate of that city should be indifferent r - its o wn inhabitants or to the Portuguese natiodin =tWhat might have been its situation ilhos. ad been renewed, it was difficult to say , . The , s enses had at least been the means of ridding it of of its invaders. The Address of Thanks to t e g e .p ei gymple, which had been read to the Court, ,h e atief Magistrate of Lisbon, in his own name, from , s d that of the inhabitants, proved that, notwithstand. 7 , f. t he protest formerly taken by him against certain ' l 7 ti ' c les in the Convention, he had on reflection come to se e things in a different and more favourable light, and to estimate more truly the mercies which, S tou gh means of the British army, they enjoyed. That he had resolved that nothing but private pro y belonging to the French should be carried off , ws made apparent when General Kellerman called ri him (Sir Hew Dalrymple) on this subject, and gretted, that a person over whom he •had no con , troul was resolved to carry off some valuable public pro pe rty. Sir Hew's answer then was, that if any per son from the General in Chief downwards pre sumed to attempt to carry off what was not strictly e drate proeertYs he should esteem them to have vio lated t he Treaty, and as such should order them to be d eta ined as prisoners of war. The Addresses f rom the Bishop of Oporto, and other bodies, also red, that they did net view the Convention in the light in which it had been treated by many persons in this country. A letter from General Castanos a l so s k ew ed the necessity of a speedy co-operation in spin, which from his instructions he (Sir Hew Dal rymple) was led to suppose one of the chief, or ra ther main object of his command ; and a letter from Lord William Bentinck, who had since that period ken in Madrid, chewed, that the Convention 'was thought adviseable, because it had rendered the army in Portugal disposable for this purpose. Sir Hew Dautvreez.z having concluded his narra tive, and delivered in the manuscript to the Court, Sir Arruun WELLESLEY rose, and expressed his hope that the Court would indulge him, on a subse quent day, to offer some observations, in writing, upon the narrative just concluded by General Dal. ample, and which he should prepare without delay. To this the Court assented. The JUDGE ADVOCATE then read one of the docu ments alluded to in the narrative of Sir Hew Dal rymple. It was a letter from Lord William Bentinck to the General, approving generally the proceedings he had adopted in respect to the Convention of Cintra, as highly conducive to the object ot the expedition, and the good of the common cause, but expressing disapprobation of some of the terms, which, however, it did not particularize.—After some consultation, the President, at half past three, adjourned the Court until ten to-morrow morning . FIFTH *DAY.' As soon as the Court assembled, the Jus ADVO CATE began to read over the statement made by Sir Hinv DALRYMPLE yesterday. The perusal of this 'document occupied nearly two hours, when the Court proceeded to put several ques tions so Sir Hen► DaonvmpLE, for the purpose of obtaining information on several points. The Dukes of CUMBERLAND and CAMBRIDGE were again present, but the assemblage of company was by no means so great as that of any former day. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22. TRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE. O'CLOCK. Cor.sois for money 641—for account 661—Comnium 1 I dis. 4 per Cent. 81; 82—S per Cents. 99j to par. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. 8 per Cent Red. 66 , 1 India Bonds, 6s. 7s. pr. 3 per C. Ccos. 66lia Ex. Bills 7s. 10s. pre. 4 per Cent. 811 82 State Lottery Tickets, 211. 152. 3 pet Cam. Nan' nil Cons. for acc. 66! Lon, Ana. li 1-16 Yesterday his Majesty's ship STANDARD, of 64 guns, TRONAS HARVZY, Esq. Captain, arrived at Portsmouth from Malta and Gibraltar, with a convoy of about forty sail ; she left Malta on the 26th of Sep tember, and Gibraltar on the 26th of October. Our Readers will remember that this was one of the ships which composed the squadron Under the com mand of Sir JOHN THOMAS DUCKWORTH, in forcing the hitherto deemed impregnable castles of the Dar danelles. She was attached to the rear division commanded by the gallant Sir SIDNEY SMITH, and was nobly led into the midst of the enemy's ships (at anchor under their own formidable batteries), by Captain HARVEY, who had the honour of striking the Pacha's flag. This is the ship which in re-passing the Castles, Ins struck by a stone shot of 7721b5. weight, which killed and wounded 54 men.—She also fell in with, wad reconnoitred the Rochefort and Toulon squib. drogkin March last off Corfu ; and had it not been for her superior sailing, must have been inevitably taken, as she was chased by them several times. The accounts received yesterday from Spain - are very contradictory. That an action took place on the 4th and sth, in which General BLAKE gained a signal advantage, we can hardly doubt, from the accounts that we yesterday laid before our Readers ; and they are corroborated by a letter from an Officer in Buzz's Array to the Mayor of Santander, dated the 9th inst. given below. But, a Gentleman who arrived in town yesterday from Santander, which place he left on the 13th instant, states — " that the contending zanies had been engaged for several days, with va rious success, and that the Spaniards were at length defeated, and thrown into the utmost confusion. R "ANA, who had reached St. Andero, having re ceived an account of the disasters which haEbefallen General BLAKE, marched precipitately on the 12th from them e with %OM dismounted cavalry, with a view of assisting to prevent the immediate approach of the enemy to St. Andeto, notwithstanding which the people of that place, calculating on the well known discomfiture of the Spanish army, were in the utmost confusion, and the French were expected daily at St. Andero." It is possible that the above account, though the Gentleman left Spain so recently, may only relate to the affair of the 31st, but we cannot help expressing our fears, that no vet y great advantage was gained on the 4th, for Ministers have agents both at Gijon and Santander, and we cannot help thinking that, had they received accounts of such a nature as private letters have communicated, they would have suffered them to transpire. At Corunna we understand things to hate been rather gloomy. It was known there that the Mar quis de ROMANA was appointed Commander of the Northern Army in the room of General BLAKE, but they knew of no action by that Army subsequent to the battle of Sornosa. If one actually took place, the circumstance of its not been known at Corunna on the 15th, is rather inauspicious.—They had there received news of a battle in another quarter. Let ters received there from Madrid, mentioned an en gagement to have taken place in Navarre on the 29th ult. in which General CASTANOS had been de feated and wounded. The particulars of the action were not known, but the French were stated to have repassed the Ebro. It is certainly possible that the operations of the ellemy in Biscay may have no other object but to favour a more important attack in another quarter. The defeat of the army of CASTANOS and PALAJOX is of far greater consequence to BONAPARTE than that of Ge neral BLAKE. The latter could certainly annoy him considerably, by threatening to interrupt his commu nication with France ; but until the former be dis posed of, he can. neither advance to Madrid nor open the way to Catalonia. We are, therefore, more anxi ous about this army than that of BLAKE ; for it is pro bably against it that his first and most vigorous efforts will be exerted. The new position it has taken is well adapted to defence. The letters received from Lisbon yesterday all agree respecting the extreme discontent that prevails there, and the little authority possessed by the Re gency. The following is an extract from one of these, dated the 9th inst.: " Every body here is complaining. They say there is little harmony among the Lords of the Regency themselves, and not much between them and our officers. At Oporto there has been some disturb ances, and troops have been sent from hence to quell them, and to keep the people quiet. The Bishop has been called to the capital as one of the Regents, but evades the request. What all this means, I know not. There is much dissatisfaction, and every where po verty and distress." His MAiksTy has been graciously pleased to direct an augmentation of honour to the family Arms and Crest of the late Captain HARDINGE, in consequence of his gallantry and of his glorious death off Ceylon, upon the Bth of March last. The LORD MAYOR received a Requisition on Sa turday, signed by a considerable number of Livery men, to convene a Common Hall for the purpose of taking into consideration the Convention of Cintra, and adopting such Resolutions as may be deemed ad viseable, in consequence of the Answer of his Ma jesty's Ministers to the late Address of the City of London. - The SPEAKER of the House of Commons has is sued his warrant to the Clerk of the. Crown to make out a new writ for electing a Burgess to serve in Par liament for the borough of Itossinef, in Cornwall, in the room of the deceased Lord RENDLESHAM, late Member for the above borough. Miss Hawangs, a most beautiful young Lady, with a fortune of ,f 35,00 0) has been a constant visitor of the Court of Inquiry, since its commencement at Chelsea. She accompanies Lady NUCIENT6 Captain FREEMANTLE and Captain BAYNTUN, who were deputed to see the Monument erected on Ports down Hill, to the memory of Lord Nat.sou, properly executed, inspected it last week, and are satisfied that the wishes of the fleet have been complied with. They have given directions for the following inscription to be put on it : Consecrated to the Memory of Lord Viscount Nrtsow, by the zealous Attachment of all those who fought at Trafalgar—to perpetuate his Triunlph and their Revd.-1805." And on the opposite side the following : " The British Fleet consisted of 27 ships of the Tine—of France and Spain there were 33•-•-19 of which were taken or destroyed." Yesterday se'nnight, as the Earl of ILCIIESTER WaS hunting near his country seat at Melbury, Somerset, his horse, in leaping over a brook, fell with him, by which accident his Lordship's thigh was broken ; but we are happy to hear he is in a fair way of recovery. Thursday a large quantity of pike and other fish, which nearly filled a cart, were put into the Canal in St. James's Park, by order of Lord SYDNEY, the Park- keeper. The South-west gales have been felt in a very seri ous way at Brighton. The sea has washed down a large part of the Cliff on the Marine Parade, and narrowed the coach-road, which was before too nar row. It is now obvious that the whole of that Cliff will speedily give way, unless a most expensive work shall be undertaken to prevent it. A match was made a fortnight since, for 100 gui neas, play or pay, for a small mare, the property of Mr. &TWILL, of Charlotte -street, to perform 56 miles in four hours, with half an hour's stoppage allowed for feeding. The match was undertaken yesterday from a spot near Shillingford, Berks, to Hounslow; and the mare did her task in seven minutes less than the given time. She performed chiefly at the trot, and baited, after going half the distance in three mi nutes less than half the time. The odds were consi. derably against the performance. THE BRAZILS. Advice% were yesterday received from the Brazils to the Yd ult. They state that the authority and in fluence of the Government were daily increasing. The commercial speculations from this country had been carried to such an excess, that the markets were completely glutted, and English manufactures were selling at SO per cent. under prime cost. About the end of August the Court had issued a Protest in the name of the INFANT and INFANTA of SPAIN, who emigrated with the Housz of BRAOANZA I against the transactions at Bayonne. This protest declares the right of the Infant DoN Louis and the Infanta, his consort, the daughter of the PRINCE RE. GENT, to be by no means surrendered or compromised, by the pretended cession of CARLOS and FERDINAND. It also asserts a right for this Prince, being the nearest relation to FERDINAND not in the power of the enemy, to the Regency of Spain. There is a very stung party, at the head of which is M. IYARA.To, the per son who was sb much suspected by the Portuguese, in Lisbon, and who escaped their vengeance with difficulty. Ministers, we understand, have received very particular accounts of the state of affairs in the Brazils. Lord Viscount DKERHORST is appointed Lord Lientenant of the County of Worcester ; the Earl of COVENTRY, his father, from age and infirmity, har ing resigned the same. Tuesday a detachment of the 10th Light Dragoons arrived at the Barracks of Southampton, where they are to remain for the present. The second regiment of Edinburgh Local Militia, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel CRICHTON, was, last week, completed to its establishment. The mortality in the 96th Regiment of Foot, since their arrival at the island of St. Croix, in the West Indies, has been very great. In the course of sir weeks, they lost six officers and upwards of 100 pri vates. Among the former, we lament to state, are Lieutenant-Colonel Laurin:a, Captain POHLMAN / and Lieutenant UnounAßr. An entire regiment of Swiss, that was in the ser vice of France, found means to desert after the Con vention in Portugal. They escaped from on board the transports in small parties ; and at length made ap plication &the British Commander, offering to enlist in the service of England : they had formed a part of the garrison of Elvas, are all fine young men from 18 to 25 years of age, and are about 900 in number remaining out of 1400, who passed the Pyrenees a twelvemonth ago. They were at length received on board British transports, and arrived at Portsmouth on Saturday last. A letter from Corunna, dated the 14th instant, states, that one of the transports in which the 15th Dragoons went out, had been captured in the Bay of Biscay by a French privateer. The French Captain proposed to kill the horses, and to take the men t o France ; but the men declared, that they would suffer any thing rather than consent to this cruel massacre of the noble animals, whom they regarded as compa nions and friends. The Frenchman was affected by the lively emotions of this generous attachment ; he accordingly consented to spare the horses, and to leave the men with them, obliging them by oath not to serve till they shall be exchanged. Some more transports coming in sight, the Frenchman made off with a press of sail. Extract of a letter from an Officer in General BLAKE'S army, to the Mayor of St. Andero, and from thence sent express on the 10th inst. to Gijon Lanistosa, November 9, 1808. u I have just received your letter of yesterday, and in answer have to say, that General BLAZZ has answered to the dispatch that the Auditor-General of the Army, and the Major-General of Engineers, sent to him from the quarters of Urrantiagal, on Sun day, at two o'clock in the evening, saying that Saturday was a happy day, and that the aspect of things had completely changed; for the fourth division being cut off, and 4000 Asturians near failing into the hands of the enemy, he commanded a movement to attract the attention of the enemy towards Valmaseda, where he sent the fourth division, and all the rest of the people to the heights of Orrantia and its environs, He states, that the fourth division was attacked, but defended itself with courage and re puked the enemy, dislodging them from Valmaseda, daughterit # them, and following them up as far as the Tren-works of Orrutia. That the same day the second division joined, also the Asturians which caused him great joy; and on Sunday evening be transferred his bead-quarters to Vaintaseda, promising himself happy results, as the army was desirous to fight. " The express arrived yesterday morning, and desirti the two Regidores to remain here yesterday, although they could very • well have gone to head-quarters. " For the present we have no further intelligence, but we are very contented, for the French, who had come to Medina, marched away, and there is no advice of their returning. The Messenger , adds, that he was informed that our troops would, enter Bilboa yesterday, the nth." A letter received from Paris states, that a great' number of persons had recently been arrested in France, charged with a conspiracy against the Go vernment. The number is estimated at 550. It also mentions, that an Austrian Courier had arrived with dispatches from the Cabinet of Vienna, on the subject of the communications made by BONAPAATI to Baron VINCENT, at Erfurth. It affords us great pleasure to observe that the author of the MiSmq Mentor, a work of extraordinary merit, has announced three volumes of Essays on the Modern Art of War. No work could be more season able or patriotic, at a time when the salvation of civil society depends on superiority of tactics and military DRURY•LANN THEATRE.-..Yesterclay, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern in the Strand, a very numerous meeting took place of the Old and New Renters of this Theatre, in consequence of Mr. RANDLE JACK SON, who not long since was elected a Trustee to the property, having expressed a desire of resigna tion : the cause of the assemblage was, therefore, solely for the purpose of electing a successor to the vacant situation. The meeting consisted of upwards of one hundred and fifty. Mr. SHULMAN, in a very luminous speech, gave a clear and com prehensive aecount of the internal affairs of the The. atre, and every circumstance connected with its interests; and from the perspicuous statements of Mr. GRAHAM and Mr. T. SHERIDAN, it appeared to the complete satisfaction of the company, that the concerns of the Theatre were in that state of prospe rity which must ever result from a judicious and ac tive management. The sense of the meting was afterwards taken, and WILLIAM HOLSTON, Esq. was chosen a Trustee, in the place of Mr. RANDALL JACiLIQN• NAtirlcAL INTELLIGENCE. PLYMOUTH, NOVEMBER 20. Put in, in distress, the Hazlewood, Capt. Fowria, from Malta for Portsmouth, with various goods.— Sailed the ORESTES, PLOYLIt, ani SOORPION sloops of war, with the crew of the WINDSOR CASTLE, of 98 guns, for Portsmouth. PORTSMOUTH, NOVEMBER , 2 . Arrired his Majesty's ships RESISTANCE, SCORPION, PLOVER, ORESrES, MACKEREL, and BLACK JOKE, (TOM die westward ; PYLLA, with a fleet of transports, from Cork; la SYSILLE, with a fleet of transports, from Corunna ; and the STANDARD, with a fleet, from the Mediterranean ; also a fleet of transports, from Lis bon and Rochelle.—Sailed Lis Majesty's ship Atm. coat, on a cruize.—Wind S.W. DOVER, NOVEMBER 21. Came in last night the brig Gustaf Wasa, Captain Exmax, of and for Gottenbt•rgh, with a cargo of salt from Lisbon ; having, on Friday night last, been cap tured off Portland, by a French lugger privateer, from which seven Frenchmen came on board, and it then blowing hard, prevented any of the brig's crew from being put into the privateer, in consequence of which Captain EKAIAN, with his men, seized the first oppor tunity that offered, and got all the Frenchmen below and kept them there until yesterday, when she fell in with the PLUTO sloop of war, on board of which vessel the prisoners were sent.—l am happy to communicate that a French lugger privateer was taken by one of our cruizers last night off Folkstone, and she passed by here for the Downs this morning. The Pappen. burgh brig Mercur, mentioned in my letter of yester day to be on shore outside of our harbour, was hove safe in last sight without receiving any material da mage.—Passed by this day two convoys from the Westward, bound to the Downs ; also the Howard, Captain MARSH, from Teneriffe, bound to London.— Wind S. W. and moderate. DEAL, NOVEMBER 21. Arrived the PODARGUS, GLODEN, CROCUS, OSPREY, and THRASHER, from a maize ; SPRIGHTLY cutter, from the Channel; STRENUOUS gunbrig, from Jersey; PELTER gunbrig, from Cork, with a convoy, which are sailed for the River ; also, the Princess Mary, Hu rctruisoN, from St. Domingo.—Sailed theS TATELY, of 61 guns, for Yarmouth.—The KANGAROO sloop cf war sailed on a cruize last night, and returned again this morning with a French lugger privateer, out from Calais at 2 r. M. and captured off Dungeness at 10 P. Al.—Wind W. SHEERNESS, NOVEMBER 21. Sailed his Majesty's ship VANGUARD, from the Great Nore, to Chatham. His Majesty's ship BLOOD. HOUR has the signal flying for the Baltic convoy, and will sail in two or three days, or sooner, if the trade accumulate for departure. The Heligoland convoy will sail the same time ; but there is not yet any par ticular ship named to take them.—Arrived the Jonge Henrick, Poo; Vrow Ida, HooK, and Uranius, Rvcx; the latter is gone to Chatham Yard to deliver her cargo of hemp, iron, and sail-cloth, and the two former wait convoy. Sailed the Resolution, CAL. LANDER, from Stockholm, with deals, tar, and iron, to London ; also the Redligheten, GIRDIS, with pitch, tar, deals, &c. from Stockholm for Gosport ; and a large fleet of Swedish ships from the Baltic to the Downs, on their way to Portsmouth, to take convoy from thence for several ports in Portugal, where they are to deliver their present cargoes, and return with salt to Sweden. The materials df the ship George, Captain BAKER, from Shields with coals, wrecked on the Mouse sand, are in general saved, and brought here, but the hull is a total wreck.—Wind S. W. TRURO, NOVEMBER 19. The violence of the wind during the present week has been-seldom exceeded. Tuesday night and Wed nesday, it blew a hurricane at about S. and yesterday it was equally severe at N. W. We fear it has done much damage at sea. The violent storms of this week have thrown on shore a large portion of the remains of the ANSON frigate, wrecked last week near Helston ; but a much larger portion remains in sight at low water. By the Princess Mary Packet we learn, though so many of the French ships have been captured on their way to the West Indies with provisions and stores, yet a greater number have escaped. Marti nique and Guadaloupe are now, in consequence, well provided. The gallant Captain Anthony, of the [Cornwallis packet, has distinguished himself again in a smart brush with a French privateer off Barbadoes, which he succeeded in beating off. Two brigs were driven on shore last evening, between Newkey and Padstow, in the violent storm at N. W. and wrecked. LEITH, NOVEMBER 17. All yesterday it blew a very violent gale from the S. W. which we are afraid has done considerable da mage.—Sailed from the Roads, the CIIILDERS sloop of war with a convoy to the northward, QUEEN CHAR. LOTTE hired cutter with a convoy for Heligoland, and the Cm* sloop, with a convoy for Gottenburgh. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. Gagsvasaxn, Nov.2l.—Passed by the lamina, Gibbon, front Dublin; Fame, Courtny, from Malaga; Britannia, Chater ; and Success, Cattle; from Malta,--.Sailed the Knaptor, Child; Al. fred, Parish; Burdon, Smith; Aid, Redmayne, Catharine Green, Steele; and Sir Egiward Hamilton, Bell, for Jamaica—Lady Ann, Barron, for Grenada; Nelson, Herbert; Delaford, Young; and Adventure, Johnson, for St. Vincent's—Flora, Young, for Barba. does; Caroline, Hays, for St. Kitt's; Helena, Pheland, fur Montserrat; Antelope, Bryan, far St. Croix; Brown, Gray, for Gibraltar; Recovery, Lamb, for Tobago; hannibal, Kern, fcr Londonderry ; Santa Anna Isabel, Gonsalvos, for the Brazils ; Tralk, Moin ; and Livonia, Males, fur Demerara. Captain ORR, of the William Pitt, from Cotten. burgh, arrived at Stromness, states that som' of the fleet which sailed with him from Co tenbt.rgli, we:4 lost, and others captured ; a brig he saw go tiow:t, • f r, n n s. in it P - En !n :h iT- in Lel to of of ed n. er- ve la- he -el, Cr, er, I; ch ry, f lltl nit at he )n. nd Lde ny ar- ge 3c; ier WO IL. )n, a Ise ' O 7 tey ith ge* :ed eek ed. lay