Star. — London, England, 1810-09-15 00:00:00

. t. - NAVAL INTELLJGENCIL FALMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 12. • Sailed the DUKE of KENT packet, for Jamaica 4 Wind N.W. MILFORD, SEPTEMBER Is. • Arrived this morning the Portuguese ichixfner Estrella de Mar, of St. Übes : she was captured on the Sd instant, by the Ellenora, French priiateer, Captain Black. The privateer had captured *A i(me. ricaa and the brig Zone, of Boston, Suitvii . from Ali. cant, with salt. On board the Zone was William Harris, an American seaman, whom the Captain of the privateer selected to accompany the prize-master and four marines, in the schooner Estrella, to France, but Hams well knowing this port, and taking the advantage of a gale and the utter ignorance of his companions, ran the schooner for Milford, and arrived in perfect safety. PLYMOUTH, SEPTEMBER IS. The AMETHYST frigate, Captain WALTON, has come into Barnpool tb refit.—The TaLsor sloop; the arri val of which I noticed yesterday, came hit from Portsmouth, to which place she convoyed several ves sels from Cork, but did not anchor there.—Arrived the ALLIGATOR and LAPWING frigates, from Cork, where they went some time since to weigh up the 13rit.innia transport, sunk in that harbour ; the E.iil Spencer hired cutter, from Rochefort ; and the Eliza beth tender, withinipt esseed men for the Navy, from Greenock. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. .14. Arrived his Majesty's ship GANNET, from a cruize of Guernsey ; DoNNEGAL, from off Cherburgh ; MARINER gun-brig, with a convoy from Plymoutla, and is appointed to take convoy back to the same place, and the HOPE to take convoy to the Downs. Wind N.N.E. SHEERNESS SEPT. 14. Sailed the DRAKE sloop of war, for Yarmouth. Passed the Note from the River Thames, the Wow.- w:::u man of war, bound to the Westward : his Ma jesty's cutter PlosEza bas the signal for convoy to Dowr,s, and will sail to-morrow. YARMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 14. S2iled the SOLEBAY frigate, Captain l'aonv, and the KANGAROO sloop of war, with the Trinity Yatcht, for the Nora, and the HEARTY gun b, Lieuten. .• Wiciamm, on a cruize. Arrived the BRITOMART, Captain HONT, from a cruize. Remain, Roebuck * Bayne, and Briseis. Several prizes lent in by the North Sea cruizers. 'Wind N. GREENOCK, SEPTEMBER 12. The Fglinton, GI LEI NSON, passed yesterday morning, from Otcoach, in 44 days. Ihe Betsey, Are srauTura, arrived at Fort Gla-gow from Quebec, was boarded on the 21st ult. by his Majesty's ship FAA NCHlbg, in lat. 47. N.long. 48. W. then bound ' to Newfoundland, all well. On the 124 ult. ‘Tio‘tet e Mary Ann, of Teignmouth, from Liverpool for St. John's, in lat 47. long. 46. some days after spoke the Mercury. ADAMS, from Liverpool for Newfoundland, lat. 5;. 15. long. eco. The Char lour, (A.) L'EARcs, arrived here on Monday from Boston, for Cottenbuigh, with tobacco, &e. The Dunlop, STEVEN SON, ar rived here yesterday morning from Quebec ; sailed thence the 9th tilt. Lett loading the new ship Pompey. Cowaar, and brig Betsey, WILSON, for this port ; and DvArr, for Port- Gli‘gow ; the ;sr; mat sloop of war was to sail on the 10th, as co: voy front thence to Great Britain ; the brig St. Larre!.ce, Sucitirr, loaded and hound for this port, was run toul of by a Newcastle brig on the ici of August, and lost her bowsprit ; toe S'. Lawrence was at anchor off Bique Island, when the Dunlop passed.'lie Dunlop vilte the following vessels hound in Que bec :—On the 19th nit. off Green Island, the ship Four Brothers, out Lire weeks. i-otn /-1,11; aid brig Sir Christopher, ECCLES, out twelve weeks from Berwick ; on the 20th, the Recovery, Wren, of and from hence ; and Johns. —, of and from List(r pool, off the Island of Bique ; on the s 4 h, the Ann Green, ABRAMS, of this port, from Whitby, off Cape Gaspee ; on the 15th, spoke the Rolla, Tenor, two days trom Newfoundland to Lisbon ; and, on the id instant, the ship Wreck, from Landon to Quebec.. Mr. JOHN HARE POWELL, the American Secretary of Legation, who was obliged to return, in conse quence of not having been permitted to land eithe- at Calais or Boulogne, set out again last night, with dis patches from Mr. PINKNEY for General ARMSTRONG, ;It Paris ;—it it supposed he will now proceed via lilorlaix. By the last Cartel from Morlaix, a number of letters Were received from British prisoners at Arras, Givet, and Morlaix. We understand matters to be now in such a train, that Mr. MACKENZIE expects that before a month from this date a general and uninterrupted exchang? of prisoners will take place. By the Cartel before mentioned, a number of sol diers' wives and children came passengers. They were wrecked with their husbands, in a transport, on the coast of Spain, about fiveesokiths since, and taken prisoner; by the enemy, who placed them under• a guard of Spanish and German troops, to march them to the frontiers. By these hirelings they were treated With extreme cruelty and insult ; but, after paising the frontiers, they were placed under a guitcl of , French troops, and Ili them, as well as by the inha:., bitants of the different places through which they passed, they were treated with great kindness and hospitality, and liberally supplied with the best fare that could be procured. The men were ultimately sent to Givet, and the women to fvforlaix, to embark for England. At Morlaix they experienced the greatest kindness from Mr. MACKENZIE, who cheered their drooping spirits by an assurance that their husbands Would be speedily released from their captivity and rejoin them. That inimitable comic performer MUNDEN is con- fined by a severe fit of the gout at Liverpool. 1 The approaching pugilistic contest between Crib and Mu'incur the black, will, it is said, be decided at Pegwell Bay, near Ramsgate. The great success that has attended Bisn's offices for a considerable number of years, and the known punctuality in paying all prises on demand, will, he hopes, insure a continuance of the public favour in the present Lottery, which has the novelty of having only 4,000 Numbers, 5,000 Prizes, and Five Prizes of 420,000. Tickets and Shares are to be had consi derably cheaper that last Lottery, at 4, Cornhill, and 9, Charing,Closs. • thi. .. ~ AMY% 1 . - 14 -;xe t,),,i 8i4m 0. 6 1.-, , ..,, & , L.... i ... _..........., . ~.... . 44i:s: eve; ~.s. - rlrrivirirrtoe» bli ) - -' •: .• • . 77 -77". t:-.- - ivi.ti_pro 4, ;. - Yesterday his Majesty's 'ship Mat.rolttve saileti f ro A rig, h nOW ibetaciOt lie t t i. , .. , . ~... 414 sea l . Deal, with part of the l ist Regiment on board, for - tte. . That of last . nig . X, dun . 7 - pax' .the Portugal: evening; was not exceeded ill npruarinumest. } Any The 7th Dragoon Guards have lately been removed of fait season ,, durin g the hoOest of the O. P. co4qs.t. from the North-West Di str i ct to t h e I n l an d. P e rh aps At the first account the Pit war not more than ,itter • there are few regiinents more fit for service than this thirds fUll, and the Bases rather thin. 'roes the highly disciplined corps, which i s to he a tt r ibuted to quiet which prevailed at first, see.ahisostanticipated the unremitted exertionsof their Commanding Officer, night of at most but partial distnibawrg. 44 Gen save that highly-respectable veteran, BPevet Lieutenant- the King" was called for as Usturl,inisi played., The Colonel LATHAM. who ha s , we un d erstan d, b een up - curtain drew up amidst some hissing and consider- Wards of 60 years in that regiment, though it was able applauie. Soon after the commencement of the only the last brevet promotion that secured to it the , first Act, a person in the Pit, who was very loudly advantige of his permanent command. practising vociferation, was as loudly called uron for Quarter-Masters of Local Militia Regiments are in silence. Refusing to comply with this demand, there future, by order of the Secretary at War, to pay the s was a cry of "Turn him out I" and some persons permanent Staff Officers on the 26th of every month, assailed him for the purpose of ejecting him by force, and Non-commissioned Officers and Drummers at the , which, after some struggle, they accomplished. The end of every Week. 1 victorious party had, however, but a short triumph, Private letters from the British Army in Portugal as almost immediately about twenty came in, who announce the death of the Hon. Captain STEWART, seemed determined to nuke a noise. One of them second brother of Lord CasmettEAost. An express . stood up on the bench with a carpenter's rule in his has been sent off to Ireland to communicate the af- hand, which he held tip to public inspection, bawling flitting intelligence to his Lordship, Captain the Hon- nut at the same time, .. Who lost a rule?" A willing T. H. SrEwstar was the third son of the Earl of immediately answered, " Give it to Johnny Kemble, Londonderry. He had just completed his 20th year, he's out of all rule ;" which caused some laugher, and having been born the 27th of August, 1790. some pet son in the height of his indignation seized the The Bank Volunteers mustered at seven o'clock rule and broke it. yesterday morning, in their new clothes, on their pa- This caused another scuffle, wh:cii for some time set rade in the Royal Exchange, and marched with their at defiance all rule. A third scuffle f o llowed soon after full band playing to Moortields, where they were in- wards, and from the number engaged a battle royal sheeted by the Governor of the Bank. They marched. seemed to be threatened ; b ut one o f t h e warr i ors , i n in review order and present e d arnss , a f ter w hi c h they consequence of the pressure or of being thrown down, were dismissed. The corps appeared to better ad. tainted, and was carried out, and a parley having vantage than in their former uniform, the present taken place, a truce ensued. Some females in the being a legulation dress. A great concourse of spec- Pit were much distressed by these repeated contests, rotors were present. being driven from their seats, or in danger of being BILLETING OF SOLDIERS.—Within these few days, much hurt. In the mean time, the first Act of Love several of the most respectable hotel-keepers, &c. in the in a Village was performing on the stage, some parts of neighbourhood of St. James's-square, were summoned which, in intervals of tranquillity, were heard. Some before'Wll. FIELDING and PATRICK COLQUHOUN, Esq. passages were seized on, and " House, I say; hip, hob, at the Public Office, Queen-square, for refusing to lo !" was re-echoed till the house rung again. " This receive soldiers, though regularly billeted upon them, is as it should be," was loudly answered by " No, no, upon the plea that they were not victuallers within no !ss The dance at the end was highly relished and the meaning of the Act of Parliament, when upon a much applauded. Simmons, in female attire, as the fair and impartial investigation, it was adjudged that cook, was esti emely whimsical. they were liable, and ordered to receive the soldiers The most discintented spectator could not repress accordingly. One of the party resisting was fined his risibility at Simmons's personation of the Coal-maid 40s. with costs. —it was truly comic, and created peals of laughter. Thursday, a General Court-Martial assembled at His mock fainting-fit was an excellent barlesque on Bexhill, for the trial of two Privates of the 2d Batta- the affectation of delicacy which we frequently wit lion of the Royal German Legion, who deserted a ness amongst servants.. few days ago, and took from the beach a large boat The storms which had tak'en place seemed to have fur the purpose 'of going . over to the enemy. They had the effect of purifying the theatrical atmosphere, were apprehended off Dover by a boatman of that and the second Act commenced very tranquilly.— place, and were last week brought back to the regi- Nearly the whole of it was heard. The Pit were all went under a proper military escort. seated, and peace seemed generally to prevail. Mrs. Horse-Guards, 20th August ; 1810. Dickoas received much deserved applause, though At a General Court-Martial, held at Barbadoes on we cannot help thinking that 4er flourishes are rather the '2lst of April, 1810, and continued by adjourn- at variance with the simple melodies cf this very char ment to the 28th of the same month, Captain Francis ming and truly English Opera. Assiotti, of thiSd West India Regiment, was arraign. 'the calm, however, as in many other instances, ed upon the under-mentioned charges, viz. was only the prelude to a most tremendous tempest. mi. For conduct unbecoming the character of an Officer and a Gentleman, in misapplying the public monies trusted to his A ~ strong and numerous party came in at half price, charge on account of his Company, and refusin g payment to 1 % Ithe th new initial C. for Contract, mounted in their the followin g perms's, for neces'aries anti vegetables furnished hats, who bore down every thing before them. Then hi. said Company, for which the men were char g ed, he having came " the rreeived the full amount of his abstract to the 24th of December, . tug of war," and the warriors under their 1809, viz. new banners fought the ba• tee of tliV 0. P.'s of old, with nearly all the weapons that were wielded in the I'o QuaLter-Master Serjeant Clyne, £l3O Os. 8d sterlin g , or thereabouts: far-famed 0. P. War. Mounted aloft on the Pit • To Joseph Itsinnedy, a tradesman of Bridgetown, £l3 19s. old. benches, with their hats on, the signal foi hostility, or thereabouts. they roared and routed till the whole pit becaMe "one To Betty Dial, for vegetables, Li 10s. 44. sterling. Suck -sactir, b.. wide scene of rude commotion." The actors iboitcl - transactions -'ng highly injurious to the honour of the I Corps, and ili,grace i.l in themselves. I their lips, but to them it was not fated to be heard. ed For detrauds g hi , men, by an overcharge on shoes, pur- 1 A loud and shrill peal was sounded by the perfur cbased by hint Iron, Paymaster Cranford at Ss. 4d. sterling per 1 mers before the curtain, which resembled any thing pair, and issuing the Lame to his Company a: Gs. id. sterling per pair ;as also for pantaloons bought by him from Joseph Kennedy rather than Love in a Village. The amatory strains at 9s. 9i,1. sterling per pair. anti delivering them out to his Com- of the tranquil village were lost and overwhelmed in pang a - 1 , x rid. sterling: tranpactions injurious to the honour of i the uproarious rowing of a crowded theatre. The the Ccrpx, and disgraceful in themselves. I dulcet sounds of a watchman's rattle in the lower 3d. For disobedience of orders, in refusing to submit to the 1 boxes were loudly and voci ferously examination of the Commanding Officer of his Compaoy's books. cheered from the Pit, where another soon added its melodious notes ; The Court-Martial found the prisoner Guilty of all . the Charges preferred against him, and adjudged, ' and lo ! a third appeared to make the concert still that he should pay the overcharge which he made on ! more harmonious. The watchmen's rattles, the em -64 pair of trowsers (being so. sterling on each pair)! blems of a row, were sprung, but so loud was the roar to those persons who received them at the overcharged that they could add little to the noise. a Contract ! price ; and that he should also pay the overcharge of ' Contract !" was resounded on all sides, was danced, Is sterling per pair on 48 pairs of shoes, to those per- i and beat time to in the old 0. P. style, and " Con sons who received them at the overcharged price ; ! tract" appeared in large characters on several pia , and the Court further adjudged the prisoner to be dis- 1 cards unfurled in the Pit ; other placards were ele missed his Majesty's service. 1 vated, with the following inscriptions: His Majesty has been pleased to approve and con. " Contract, mid N. P. B." firm the Opinion and Sentence of the Court ; and the " John BuU and Contract." . Commander in Chief directs, that the Charges pre. " Remember the Crown and Anchor Treaty." ferred against Captain Assiotti, together with the 6 , A Private Box to let, with accommodatk Sentence of the Court, and his Majesty's con fi t motion beast. —Apply to Black Jack:' thereof, shall be read at the head of every Regiment, M " Boxes Gs. or N. P. B." and entered in the Regimental Orderly Book. se Contract, or 0. P." Letters from the British head-quarters in Portugal f " The contract." eiplain the reason and object of MASSENA'S late move- " John Bull demands his Contract." ments. His distress for provisions has induced him Minor attempts atitlacordisnr, and some compositions to send 35,000 of his troops back, to quarter them, in of the moment, as we presume, were moved before the fact, on the country, and to save his own magazines, audience. The Shakespeare quotation seemed to be the Which would not have sustained his whole army, ac- rage: and " I'll have my bond"—" We come here for cording to report, more than a fortnight. Lord WEL- ourßond,"continued to be favourites duringthenight. LINGTON, therefore, has advanced towards Almeida ; ' At length the grand placard, which was probably re not to relieve that place unless a favourable occasion served for theinale of the performance, was reared on should occur, but to force MASSENA to recal his .two sticks ; and moved about from side to side of the troops, and force him to the consumption of his own house with all imaginable dignity. This formidable stores. manifesto was expressed in the following words : The intended destination of the expedition, consist- es Dec. so, 1809. ing of 4.000 men, which lately sailed from Cadiz, was i " Crown and Anchor Tavern. " We promise and contract San Lucar ; but from the violence of the gale on the " To deliver up twenty Private Boxes to the Public, evening appointed for sailing, it did not sail till the " Fir favours conferred upon following day, lest the troops should not be able to " John Krmild e aged Co. 1 effect a landing. The enemy observing early in the " Protested fur non-fulfilment, Sept. 14." 1 morning the number of troops that had been embark- This produced its effects in a roar that lasted for a con ed, immediately sent from 2500 to 5000 men from siderable time. The roar died away for a moment, Port Saiat Mary's, by the route of Xerez, which force a nd the genius of the Contract-men was for that period I was distinctly seen from the Castle of St. Sebastian. a t a loss to give employment to the national taste. 1 This event caused the plan of attack to be altered, Th e C on t rac t T r oop s ga ined posses s ion of the cen ! and at the departure of the last packet from Cadiz, it tre of the Pit, formed their ring and brandished theiel was ascertained that the Expedition had effected a st i c k s . Th e v i ctor y was t h e i rs , an d a ll o pp os i t i on wes t landing at Ayamonte, for the purpose of attacking a vain. In one of these rings, however, a Gentleman I small French force in the neighbourhood ; after which stood for a considerable time, manifesting the most it was to proceed, in order to effect a junction with a s.oical indifference to the taunts of the contract men, division of the army pf General BALLAsranos. till at last, when they began to push him about, he 1 The 91st Highland Regiment, from Ashford, is ' prostrated several of them under the seats, and came mentioned as likely to replace the 92d in barracks at off tri nm ph ant. Lovein a Pillage concluded amidst huge Canterbury. • uproar, and Claremont, who came on to announce the 1 1 Major-General K. A. HOWARD, lately placed on ; pl a y f or Monday, gesticulated and bowed, but was the staff of the Rent District, is appointed to the not permitted to be heard. The Opera being ended, command of garrison in Canterbury, where he the Contract Troops gained a breathing time, and f *livid:du T , 7. '•. "- . • ..- - . rested from their labours, they seated themselves and for man and * Air unusually short interval was all.;Svegetween 'the Opera and the Afterpiece, and the drawkig rip - of the curtain was the signal for the recontmAcem •at the rm. The Child of Natire Was ov:rpowelei the Stentorian arts of the Contract Troops, and not A word of the Afterpiece, from beginning to end, con's' ,be heard. The actors made their entrances and th-ir !elks, and moved their lips, and it is very prob that they spoke, but the probability is all we haie for it. The Contract Tinops gained mare bench ground in the pit, and scuffled, and danced, and roared, whilst detachments in the boxes added their miffs of noise, some in open friendship, and others pretendi.,7 to be enemies merely for the sake of keeping up the rev. A Gentleman had his cheek severely cut by a dextrous blow from a practiked opponent.— Amidst this unceasing war vociferation tend up roar, the curtain dropped at '2O minutes before te.t o'clock. T.)t contract troops then took their se..:s and pulled off their hats; they called 1 , .t. Kemble, hot he would not come, and they uttered three um) ins for him. After going through their evoluti its of 'groans and cheers, and after orders had been issued fur a general mtbter on Ntiriday, they diperted, and the house was cleared in about half an hour. Our Readers will have observed the alvert ••• : mast offering a reward of two hundred guineas for the aft (prehension of 1)r. R .AEHTON, the Acconchour. Pm charge again'a him is of a name, whi..l, 0:t•- respcct !for the sex prevents us fr un Suffice at to say, that it amounts to the suspicion of wilful mur. der of an infant extr.icted from die womb under cumstances the most shocking. But he made a pro: fessional defence, which induced two Most honourable men to enter into high bail fur his appearanee. Fro's* that bail he has flown. A melancholy circumstance occurred ugly on Mon. day morning, on board the Fox packet, on her passage fiom London to Ramsgate, with passengers. The vessel was lying off Broadstairs, waiting until the tide flowed to enable leer to get into Ramsgate harbour, when by some means one of the passengers, Mr. Campbell, Surgeon and Apothecary, of Coventry. street, London, fell overboard, and the tide running itrong, he immediately drove from the vessel, thougb still floating on the sort ice of the water ; a boat w es instantly put off, and lie was taken on board ; bet nutw•ithstand+ng he had not been overboard mord than six or seven minutes, every endeavour used by some gentlemen, his friends, who were in the vessel, to restore hint to life, unfortunately proved inef fectual. 6 Yesterday Jaw Brown was fully committed from Bow-street Office, charged with stealing a box from the bar of the Edinburgh Castle, in the Strand. .W. Wale; driver of a hackney coach, was charged by Mr. Bigud, of the Herald's Office, with extortion. Mr. Bignel stated, that he ei,gaged the defendant to bring him from the Plough and Harrow, at HAM. mersmith, to town, for Its. 6d. t. but on hia are rival in town, he refused to let him nut without pay. ing one guinea. The prisoner made no defence, and was fined 40s, Yesterday W. North and J. Da, were charged, at Guildhall, by Mr. Anness, watchmaker, Cheapside, the first with receiving a watch which the latter had stolen from him. Mr. Anness stet* that on the evening of Thurs. day he was sitting at tea in his back parlour, when some one opened the door leading from his shop into a narrow coon, .put in his hand, and took up some. thing with which he ran off. Mr. Anness imnt2clis ately followed and seized Day, who handed some. thing over to North, whom Mr. Anness immediately seized also. In the passage leading to the warehouse of Messrs. Townsend and Simpson, a watch and cast were found, which Mr. Anness **ore to as having . been lying a few minutes before en his counter. They were fully committed for trial. Yesterday, at Union Hall, Williaos Barnett, and .Elistabrth, his wife, who, it appeared, had been mar. ried nearly 40 years, and had seen better days, were charged with pledging a bolster, two pillows, four l au blankets, a carpet, &c. the furniture of their furnished fipartments. They were convicted, and fiped gOs. ; t not being possessed of so much money, the man 'was committed to the House of Correction, and the woman was discharged. A French Lady and Gentleman, residing in Brook ,street, Walcot-place,_ were summoned to give evi dence in a case of felony, of which the following are the particulars : a woman, named Bailey, who lived servant in the family, quitted her place on Saturday last, and previous to leaving the house, brought down her box, in which were eight pounds in cash, and clothes worth near twenty pounds, for her mistress to examine ; she then left the hbuse to fetch a person to take her box away ; on returning, however, about alt hour after, she was informed a woman had taken the box away soon after she left the house. The mistress, shortly after the box was gone, began to suspect she had done wrong in letting it go, and sent a little girl to watch where it was conveyed. The girl traced her to Westminster Bridge .; where the woman took a boat, and all traces of her and the box were lost. The servant seemed to insinuate that her mis tress must have some knowledge of the person who took away the box ; but there not appearing any grounds for such a suspicion, the Magistrate dismissed the complaint. Coal, alias Fop, was yesterday charged at Marl. - borough -street, with a burglary in the house of Mr. Thompson, of Tottenham-court-road. The prosecutor was awoke by a noise in the lower pan of the house, ss lion he ran down stairs; fonnd his shutters broken, his door open, and the prisoner. and ,another standing on the pavement, the forcer he seized, but the latter escaped. Another men was yesterday apprehended on suspicion, and therivisez WAS remanded. - - , . CANTIRBUILT —olll' p lanters brat ge nerally comnsentld picking, and from their concurring tostiikoor there is little doslitlet that the crop bas been tresto.rabki by at law ale lualky it, however, etcerlin rigicaier day in gym gibisicis the soaticesprd of ‘bei y* Apo 1:::4 .."# ri tirp t the strald, coaart!td w we t 4 . 1 ! hip ~ toiZg r ri Vita:. Ttsii 147114 not :lit tilos ve. 11 .10 ether brook idleneii,'Ami Thy employed th lelthz. in singing 44 God saire die King." SAN Pr..." 9 they jumped lip again. and the 0. P.' 'yin' • / irk c ot Dance, with all the v.trious other evolarro'util U..-. discipline. , . .1 Pt, l'fi •• cwf ;O •• • • • alLag