Star. — London, England, 1814-03-19 00:00:00

- TH EVENING -STAR. LON DON. •••••••••.••.1.. • SATURDAY, MARCH 19;181+. 'RtCR OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT 'TWELVE O'CLOCK. Red. shut—Cons. 71-.; i —fer sec. 7 4 per Cr.shut-5 per Ct. 93—0ntn.271 Lidice Bonds 96.105. prc.—Exchequer Bats Ss. ss. rre. This morning it has been strongly rumoured in the Court end of the Town, that Preliminari e s of Peace Ave been signed, and that intelligence of the event As actually arrived. That the Preliminaries may Ave been signed before this time is- certainly very probable, hut we du not believe that any notification pt the fact has yet been received. We are rather in clined to consider the report as only an inference from Acts known, and whispered, by persons supposed to be acquainted with the state of the Negotiation when the last accounts left Chatillon. We would, however, be understood only to state this as accounting for the rumour ; for we know no thing of the fact. It is however far from improbable that the desperate situation of BONAPARTE'S affairs may induce him to sue for terms which he had before rejected ; and, on the other hand, it is possible that the obstinacy he has shewn t and the necessity imposr ed upon the Allies, by that obstinacy, to advance their armies to the vicinity of Paris, may induce them to refuse terms which they would before have grant ed, and to press matters to a more decisive crisis than they perhaps at one time anticipated. sent to Lord CASTLEREAGH in re_ •ht by Mr. SHAW, probably contain Cabinet on these or similar ques- Jay expect soon to hear, either that Lccepted the terms proposed by the that affairs have taken such a de_ lost to preclude the idea of farther pestiferous individual. we received Deitch Papers to tile , hich we make the following selec the most ir.teresting intelligence : " ROTTERDAM, MARCH 14. letters from Ghent of the 10th Armies had, on the 70, at four rning, attacked and defeated the :beoe, and pursued him as far as Kos ,ace die Allies entered on the Bt:i nag received a reinforcement from Weimar, they pursued the enemy. it of Ghent, whn left Paris on the .s, that since the 25th of last month, Paris had begun toestimate the in .ir Emperor at its real value, and Jere was in great disorder and con- Mies were at but a very short dis m the side of Meaux ; and that the ad on his journey been informed, Vendee was in insurrection, and had to cockade. learn from Breda, under the !inch battalion of Gillot, and a regi Hanoverian cavalry, had passed through that Drabant." " ARNHEIM, MARCH is. several hundred French prisoners this place, who were in a most de there being more sick than healthy several of them daily dying through They were quartered here in the guarded by some of the landsturm. illed them with necessary clothing. " OUDENARDE. MARCH 6. ie Allied troops decoyed the French 'Ali of our sit*. By this manoeuvre took place at Beveren, a village is in which the French were driven irps of the Alhid troops has arrived " GHENT, MARCH 7. Itelligence from Oudenat de states, who had been complied to qui. the ,wn, were in full re:re-tr. a:.other quartir, that €2OO lancers, out of Lisle with General Matson, General, and had arrived at Binges baggage. ie French made a sally from Yzen flteen men and an officer had pushed 'he Cossacks lying in garrison at Jacked them, made a Strjeant and isoners, and likewise took frtmt them 's and five horses, which are arrived Int Buclialoff is marched out this ps of Prussians and Cossacks, and Kortyk. • “ BRUSSELS, MARCH 9. taken last Sunday morning by the ,ans and jaYoos, who, after having ted the FrenCh near to that city who were calioned in the vicinity arched away twoldayi since, in the 'werp, to strengthen the corps lying 4t LEyDEVI, MARCH ri. gArrisetia, 'shut up in the important i - up-den-Zootn. We‘el. apd Juliersi , , d euntinue to defend them - . -that of %Alit o s* these fortresses has just, ' aid an attack made by the British troop who endeavoured to surprise it...- The details of this expedition, In which the English lost above 1300 men, are given in a private letter from Rcsendal, of the 10th of Narch, in which we read— ,. On Tuesday morning; at ten o'clock, 3000 Bri tish set out from hence and the adjacent places, fur nished with ladders. and evary thing necessary for an assault. The place of their destination then re mained a secret. But we soon learned these troops had proceeded that day to Halteren, situated between Steenbcrgen and Bergen.op.den.Zoom, from whence they made on the following night against this last town, 1011C11 was attended with the worst success.— About eleven o'clock, 1000 men approached the place with the utmost silence, escaladed the ramparts (in appearance very fortunately ), and penetrated into the town, " At the same time the remainder of the troops approached the gates, and seeing them open thought they could tranquilly enter ; but the enemy, certainly informed of the plan of the British, had taken his measures in consequence, and disposed a part of his forces to attack from all parts at once, the British, who had escaladed the ramparts, whilst he opened upon those who had entered by the gate, a made. rous fire of grape shot from all the artillery, which he had placed in the barripaded streets. They fought for some time in the town, but always with unequal forces ; but at last the British who had escaladed the ramparts, as well as those who entered by the gate, were constrained to retire with a very considerable loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners—their loss, at the least, is estimated at 1500 men. gg According to some accounts, the French had formed a plan for making a general attack against the English troops stationed from Breskaat to the Etcoult ; but this plan, by which they were to have united the troops which •they have in the, island of Walcheren and at adz, and in consequence of which the garrison of Antwerp would have acted at the same time, has fortunately been discovered." " GHENT, MARCH 8. " We have this moment received intelligence, by a courier, of the Allies having entered Kostryk after a satviiinary action, in which upwards of 2000 men were left on the field of battle." ALTONA, MARCH 4. , c We are sorry to state, that contagious fevers stir continue to rage here ; and the state of blockade be. tween the besieging corps and Hamburgh incom , modes us not a little. " According to intelligence from Hamburgh, a respectable citizen there had been brought before a Court Martial for having got our newspaper, the Mercurius, into the city, and escaped death through his daughter's pleadings only. Davoust had lately given a grand ball. " The attack on Hamburgh will be deferrcti till the heavy artillery is brought up." When Mr. SIIAW, the King's Messenger, left Chaumont, the Emperor of Rumu.,, the Emperor of GERMANY, and the King of PrtusslA, with their Mi nisters for Foreign Affairs, were there with Viscount CASTLEREAGH. He passed through Chatillon-sur. Seine, where he was detained-some hours with Vis- Count CATHCART, the Earl of ABERDEEN. and Sir C. STEWART, who were there with CAULINCOURT, the French Minister. Every possible attention was shewn the Messenger as he passed through France. He was accompanied from Paris to Calais by an Officer in the army. He was not allowed to bring any French papers or letters with him, except his dis patches. On his 'arrival in town yesterday, in a chaise and four, Mr. HAMILTON not being at the Foreign Office, he drove to that Gentleman's house in Dean-street, South Awlley-street. In a short time after Mr. HAMILTON attended the 'Earl of LIVERPOOL with the dispatches at Fife House, when orders were given for summoning a Cabinet Council with all possihlefdisptitch for two o'clock. The End of Ltvcaroot, waited upon the PRINCE REGEN soon after twelve o'clock, with the dispatches from his Noble Colleague, to take his Royal Highness's com mands upon ihem. The Noble Earl was closeted with the PRINCE for about an hour; he afterwards went attend the Cabinet Council, which was attended by The Lori Chancellor, Earl of Elarowby, Earl of IV etrmur !at Earl Bathurst, Earl . f.lulgr Ave , Earl of Buckinghamshire) Viscount Melville, Mr. VansitLrt, and Mr. B. Bathurst. the Council broke up at a quarter before five; after which Mr. ItoniNsosi, the King's Messenger, was sent off with dispatches to Viscount CASTLEREAGH. Mr. GUY, another Messenger, was ordered to hold him self in readiness for a Foreign journey. The following Letter from our Dover Correspon dent, contains some additional particulars of consi d,rable interest; DOVER, MARCH IR. Mr. Su.tw, the Messenger, landed here at one o'clock this Morning from a Flag of Truce from C.AlAis, and set off soon afterwards for town in a chaise and fool-. He comes from Chatillon, where the Congress was still sitting, and there were no symptoms of preparation for the departure of any of the Plenipotentiaries. When Mr. SHAW passed • through Paris, great alarm and confusion prevailed, and all the population were arming. He l had ob. tained some of the latest French Papers, but the Com missary of Police at Calais compelled him to deliver, them up before he embarked, saying, •ist broken Eng. / ish, " they were no good for France." • • . • iw Mie PRt R • 4 C h.ll h As hal FR) ot clit fAc be the The dispatches I ply to those brough the opinion of our tions. If so, we rm BONAPARTE haS RC Allied Powers, or chive turn, as almo treaty with such a [ This morning vs 15th inst. from wh Lions, as conveying " According to instant, the AL ,:c1 o'clock in the mor enemy at Harlebeol tryk, into which pl. instant, and, havin, the Duke of Saxe ' as far as Lisle. " An inhabitant sth instant, relates, the inhabitants of 1 telligence from thei that every thing thi fuSion; that the Al tance from Paris, of said Gentleman ha that the whole of V mounted the white MMECII 13th, that the Put melt of Hanoveria ,•• 'place on its way to • iS Last Friday were brought to th _plorable situation, among them, and s want and fatigue. barracks, and are g The citizens provii • . " Yesterday the cl(ile Under the wa an engagement tot tuatee near to ns, back with great los " A strong cori here to-day. " The latest int that the French, w Vicinity of that tow *44 We learn from who had marched had deserted th,tt with their arms an( " On the sth thi dyk, and with eigh to Watervliet. T Gas:vin-Ghent att two soldiers prisoi two peasants' carts at Ghent; • Colonel Coun evening with a cot taken the road to I 44 Kostryk was t • combined Prussian: ' completely defeate 12 to Viet) men, v of this place ; Marc morning, for Antw before that city." The French g places of llergen-0 -*l- FRENCH JOURNALS . Paris Papers to the 16tit inclusive have been re ceived. They contain the Offi‘ial Bulletins of the operations of the French Armies down to the 14th. DI course, as was to be expected, Bortni , AttTE claims advantages over the Army of BLUCiiER in the dif ferent battles at Laon, and says, that on the 13th, three thousand prisoners were taken from the enemy ; but acknowledges that some reverses took place near Rheims, which city fell into the hands of the enemy. The French Funds continue at the same price that they were on the 12th. The Papers talk about Peace ; and the Prefect of Gravelines says—" Every thing wears a new aspect ; we expect every hour the arrival of the Preliminaries of Peace, and I should be greatly disappointed were the next Messenger to come without them." THE ARMY. Instructions are preparing at the Secretary of State's Office for a new Volunteering from the Militia, which will take place early in the ensuing month. The 2d R. N. B. Dragoons, or Scots Greys, at present stationed in Canterbury, are under orders for immediate embarkation. Wednesday morning a detachment, cnnsistieg of two officers and fifty men of the Royal Artillery, left Canterbury for Portsmouth, to embark for the army under Lord WKLLINOTON. The 22c1 regiment, now in garrison at Chester, have received their route for Portsmouth, on their way to Spain. As a great part of this fine body of men is composed of volunteers from the Royal Den bighshire Militia, they will have an opportunity of shaking hands with their compatriots, who have sailed for the same destination. We do not understand that any further adjourn ment of Parliament will be proposed. It meets next Monday. The Oratorio at Covent-Garden, last night, at tracted a full and fashionable audience. Madame CATALAN! was in fine voice, and encored in two of her airs. Drury-Lane was also well attended, and the performances were highly applauded. Prince SCHWA RTZENSENG has been strengthened by a body of newly-raised Swiss troops, amounting to 7 or 8000, which were marched a short time ago from Geneva and its neighbourhood. Reirree. ments are rolling on*ard from all directions to the head-quarters of the Allies. From Hungary there have been dispatched - several new And very fine re giments. A letter from Brussels, dated March 8, saes— " The Duke of Saze Weimar came here a few - days ago, from the head-quarters of the army under Bu low, upon a financial mission to the ten Provinces, a nd has succeeded in making an arrangement, by which it is settled, that the arrears of taxes due when the French.aetired, shall be forthwith paid up, and a cert. tribution of 3,1:00,000 of francs is already in the course of receipt ; that 50,000,000 of francs more shall be levied from the inhabitants yearly." The rapidity with which the levies raised by the German Princes have been brought into the field is very surprising. They are marching from Frank fort, Dusseldorf, Cologne, and other situations on the Rhine, to unite with the grand army. TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS.—On Monday last, the 14th instant, the Lottery 6nished Drawing, No. ,5151, was drawn a Mize of 430, which being tfie ti:st above £l7, was further entitled to TWNNTY THOUSAND POUNDS, and was sold in One Half and Eight Sixteenth Shares at Blues truly Fortunate Offices, No. 4, Cornhill, and 9, Charing Cross, Lon don, where No. 4175, a Prize of 4'300 same day, and .5928 a Prize of *MO the First Day, were cold in Eighteen Shares. I', BISH returns his sincere Thanks to the Public for the very chstii.guished pre ference shewo him in the late and former L , itteries, and requests die Holders of the fortunate Shares to brio . g them for Payment, (oil Demand) to either of his Offices as above, or to exchange them 'or Tickets or Shares in the New Lottery, which c. mmences Drawing on the 3d of May, and which was cou•racted for on the 15th inst. the biddings were as under : RICUARDION, SWIFT, and Co. £l6 9 10 SIVEWRIGHT 1 5 10 8 Btsu and Stumm. - _l5 6 0 - - _ Schemes with Particulars may be had, gratis, ai Bran's, 4, Corhhill, or 9, Charing Cross. : Net VAL IMILLIGINCI. ARI. DV[. Dublin 1 1 Corunna Waterford 1 2 Helloliind Vinli2 •- 0 0 Gottenburgb Lisbon 9 1 H 311 acid SCILLY, MARCH 12. Arrived fourteen sail of transports from Passages. AIL DDL 0 0 10 1 g PENZANCE, MARCH le. Arrived the N/ARTA hired armed schooner, from off Brest. The Officer commanding her reports, that two more French frigates have escaped from that port. I 6,11 I 'ok 40 .4116- 1 1 k ADVANCE OF . 1 4 9 WELLINGTON UPON BOURDEAUX. k4kl STAR OFFICE, TWO O'CLOCK. At length we have to communicate to our Readers something in an authentic and demi.official shape from Lord WELLINGTON'S Army. Government this morning received intelligence from St. Maim's, in France, brought by the way o Jersey, of Lord WELL;NGTONgS arrival with his army at Roquefort, in Gascony, half way between Bayonne and Bourdeaur. We have not learnt on what day his Lordship was at the above place, but we understand the communi cations from St.‘Maloe% on the subject arc dated on the 12th instant. Roquefort, where, according to the abOve accounts . Lord WELLINcrroN had arrived, is generally called _Roquefort de Marsan. It is situated upon the River lloaze, on the great road leading from Bayonne to Bourdeauz, from which places it is equidistant about sixty miles. FALMOUTH, MARCH 16. Arrived the Zodiac and Farefield transports, from Passages ; Vittoria, BULLY, from Vigo ; and a few coasters trom Wales. Nothing sailed today. The Grace packet, with a Mail for Cadiz, is gon e i nto the Roads. The Zodiac and Farefield transports sailed from Passages the 26th ult. under convoy of the ETIIALION frigate (70 sail in convoy), and parted in a gale the day after.—Wind E.N.E. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 17: Came in the &rect.': frigate from the Eastward and SCYLLA sloop of war from a cruize. Sailed the CYRUS frigate with the FANNY for Gibraltar, but tiler remain off this port, for the outward-bound Mediter• ranean fleet from Portsmouth. Also sailed the Re. SAMOND £loop of war for off Bonrcleaux ; arrived the ETHALION frigate from Passages. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH ie. No King's ships arrived. Sailed the ARCHIIR gun. brig on a crnize. His M. , j-sty's ship TYRIAV IS ar. pointed convoy for Plymouth, and is expected to sa►l to.mor:ow. DEAL, MARC!! 12. Nothing ailed or arrived to-day. Remain in the Downs liis Majesty's ships Monmouth, Leveret, Olympia, Viper, and Investigator; Active, Alert, ana Folkstone, hiked vessels.—Wind N. • . . HARWICH, MARCH is. Arrived the Lord Duncan packet front liclrce:. sluys, with a Mail and Passengers. YARMOUTH, MARCH is. Sailed on the 12th inst. the PORTIA sloop, and PruNcEp or WALLS cutter, in quest of a French lug ger privateer, who had captured five vessels off Souqiwold, one of which, a brig laden with ship tim ber, belonging to Arundel, is retaken by a Lowestoft boat, and brought into this port ; and another, a light collier, is retaken by a boat from Suuthwold, 4nd carried into that port. GRAVESEND, MARCH to r -ft.— This day the DORStTSHIRR, THA3II9 I sad * Lento 'CCM), East Incliamen t sailed tar the Downs ind Portsmouth. A singular circumstance occnrced last week at tote Huntingdon Assizes; two women appeared nesse!, to charge a poor girl with a grand latoty, who was no sooner acquitted, than a discovery % was made that the perjured wretches were themsetets the perpetrators °Eche robbery, on which they ivet`toirn mediately secured, tried the next day before Mr. Jus tice Heim", capitally convicted, and now remain under sentence of death. EAST-INDIA HOUSE, MARCH 18. A Special General Court of Proprietors was thi. day held, for the purpose of taking into con-ideratiod the P.ipers laid before the last Court, by the Select Committee, appointed to enquire Into the expediency ot granting an augmentation of salary to die Direc tors ; and also to debate a motion, of v.hich notice had been given, at the s.+me• time, by Mr. P. MOORE, relative to a graduated scale of salaries, to remune rate the services ot the Gentlemen in the Direction. The Minutes of the last Court having been gain thrrivh— The CHAIRMAN (R. Thornton, Esq. M.P.) states the business which occasioned the Court to be assent.. bled, and directed the motion of Mr. P. Moon to be read, which having been done, Mr. 1-10m:writ said, as he had been prevented by , illness from attending the last Court, he trusted he would then be allowed to enter into some explanu tion of his conduct, as Chairman of the Select Corn: mittee, feeling himself called on to come forward, in con§equence of the observations which had been m.,de at that Court A short statement of facts would, he conceis ea, place the business in its true light, and explain most satisfactorily the circum stances under which the papers then before the Court were oiTered for the inspection of the Proprietors in their present shape. When this question was first started by Mr. Moore, he (Mr. Howarth) thought as many other Gentlemen did, that it involved an extravagant and improvident expence, when it was not accompanied with any stipulations, relative to a revisal of ttie bye-laws, which, in consequence of the lapse of time, required alteration. He therefore had proposed to the Court of Proprietors, that a Com mittee should be appointed to enquire into the sub ject. The suggestion was approved of, and a Corn. mine: was accordingly nominated. The Gentlemen placed on the Committee e'ected him their Chair. man—an office which he WAS anxious to decline— becagse he conscientiously felt that his humble abili tcs %%ere not calculated to conduct su delicate ard important an investigation. They commenced theik proceedings by calling on Mr. Moore, who had fit st props•sed the augmentation, to make good his case— and he was requested to call for any evidence wlpcli he rniklit deem necessary for that purpose. And to Mr. flume it was intimated, as h.. had originally op. se.i the proposition, that it 'multi desirable for inn. to br ng forward whatever, in Lis opir.ion, WAS to rt taut the arguments of Mr. Moore. Under Oa se circumstal- c s, the documents tan the tabu, conprising the si n iments of several individual Mem bers of the Comm.ttee, and the Minutes which were taken at the time, came before the Court. The Committee closed its inve , tigations n the 21st of De. cember, but not bef. re every Gentleman was ask. d whether there was any Lther evil a .e e •is :