Star. — London, England, 1803-09-20 00:00:00

CHINA. We have received a letter from Bombay, by the late Exprefs, dated the 4th of April, which fays," A communication has been received here from China, detailing the circumftances of a deciftve a'tion hav ing been fought near Lindi Shao, between the troops orthe King and the Rebels. It appears, that the firit alarm the Government had of the near approach of the rebels, was furnifhed by fome intercepted pa pers. which were entrufled to a perfon who bad pair ed the fiontier. The King, in confequence, took his departure from his capital, and advanced with thirty thoufand men to defend the pairage of Linth Shao. His Majefly arrived on the 6th of the 12th moon, at fix in the evening. The Rebel army had advanced fome hours before them, and had no apprehenfion of the King's movements. The enemy's fleet, however, were time enough to land their ammunition and a large portion of their artillery. The contending ar mies at length met, and a dreadful conflia enfued ; the enemy was repulfed (even times, and as often re turned to the afrault ; they at length mounted the ramparts of the baflion, where the King was him fell. It was at this period that the fight became fanguinary beyond defcription—the King, placed in the centre of his guards, (word in hand, dealt de ftrudlion all around. About the conclufion of the afternoon, the ramparts were entirely cleared, and the gates were ordered to be opened ; the King then attacked and followed the rebels to the banks of the river, where the engagement was renewed with re doubled fury, and the molt dreadful (laughter com menced; for the gun-boats played upon them in front, and the river being broad and rapid, and night coming on, thoufands perifhed in the water. Want: Touata, fon of the Ufurper, whofe brother was King of Cochin China, and he himfelf Governor of Tonk. ing, fled to the mountains; but his younger brother bad not equal good fortune. Thirty General Officers and Colonels, as well as s z,OOO men, were taken pri loners ; the numbers which are drowned are Rated at sOOO. The day after the battle, the King came to the capital, and iffued orders to attack the fugitive rebels in every direaion in the province of Quin Hon. In confequence of this order, which was immediately complied with, their army was attacked on the third of the fecond moon, in four different pofirions--to the South, General 0110 T lAM Q . OOll, with 40,000 men ; to the Eali, the Queen's coufin landed 30,000 troops; to the North, G eneral DIME Tea with 70,000 men; to the Wen, General Donna was appointed, with ttoootr. All the paffages were guard ed with bong detachments. On the oh, they forced a defile to the North, which is called Benda Moun tain t and the Generals of the Northern Divifion were fortunate enough to effete a junction in due plain of Mon San. The lots of the enemy was in conceivably great, the killed amounting to stooo, and the peifoners to 6000. On the 7th, they again gave battle : the marine force was added to the army of the North, and advanced to the fouthward gra. dually, until the eyth of the moon, when a complete junaion of all the armies was effe&ed, to the num. ber of two hundred thoufand men ! The enemy ap • peared to cover anaztent of fix miles at the foot o f the Mountains. Thai: Commander in Chief, Sense Piton; the General of the Rebel Marine Force which had been previoufly burnt by the King, named Tutu Do; the General Dou Douseroo, and their recitative attendance, decamped in the night of the w6th or t 7th of the ad moon, and retired to the Mountains of Laos. Thus matters remain, accord ing to the latell intelligence received at Bom bay; but certain advices have been tranfmitted from China, Rating that the King, with a view to era& this for. snidable rebellion, w h ich has trifled with more or lefs conference for there forty years, and at the fame time to give due energy to his Government, had (et ' , oat on the t9th of the sd moon,. with an army of Socwoo, to Tonking, to be publicly crowned. LONDON. TUUOAY SEPrilflait . - 1 0 111X2 OF 'MCIOIIIII3 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK I spa Coweonfols 3314—Ountimo, 3 at P 10.10.1 Of STOCKS YEETAIRDAY. 3 per Cellt. ROL Ot Exchequer Mai 34. re 41117, $ Per Cea SOO a as. die ii par Cam Navy fp. Ditto AL ditto per. to Is. dit =No 1737 Sat Ornniunt I per Celt. diL Long Asa. lbw 6 0 6 1400 Oft Inds >w a as diC CooL for ea. jai This mooning arrived *Mail from Liam, brought ea Yakesutk by the Wash:Warm packet, in :6 days a Mail from the Leeward Iflands, brought by the rjliliClSS CaatLOTv■ packet, in fix week. ; a Mail hail New York and Halifax, brought by the Lamaism' packet i end three Hamburgh Mails, - brought by the Diana packet. Our letters from the Leeward Mandl inform us, that his Majeay's ship Couaaosa nit, of, 74 guns, failed front Antigua on the iflth of July, with a con voy for England. Every thing remained quiet in abe ifiands. Frain Lithos we are informed, that his Majefly's jap 31TTAIII, of s 6 guns, Captain Coatirr, arrived at Lila,. with difpatches from Gibraltar, on the ad SAL and had in company a French Ibip her prize, formerly the C.hefter6eld packet, of Falmouth. $o many mails arriving together, the letters by ft vend of them were not delivered out when this pape r was put to refs. Yeterday the A NT _C_ r h OOnet, Lieut. CARPINTIR, strived at Portlinonth with the American (hip Pro. videoce, which the fell with on Sunday night, oil the back the Ills of Wight. The burthen of the thiP, the sn..oner in which the was painted and rig red, and her p. -*a of deftination (Amfterdam) agree ing with orders t , thich had been font by the Admi ralty to the Comma-titters of our Channel cruisers, recp e e t i„ g a „fel for sich they were to keep a rigi• lant loot out, and to fend 'uto the 'Karen port, fhould they fall in with her, the has tecordingly been detain. cd. It is fig po.' - ed that •1 Domilmairsikluibt7 of the PIM Coven, who lately efeaped befog tap cured, by having quitted the veffel in which he was coming home from St. Domingo, and gone on board another, which landed him in America, is on board the above American ibip. Lieut. DAIVIDSON, of the MAGNt►ICLNT, who is acquainted with his perfon, was fent off to examine thole on board, to difcover whether he be among them, but had not returned to the chore when the Mail left Portfmouth ; of courfe, our curiolity raped ing this perfouage mutt remain nalatisfied till to morrow. ATTACK ON GRANVILLE. The preparations making along the whole line of the French and Dutch coafts, for the invafion of this country, are in fo great a (tate of forwardnefs as to engage the molt ferious attention of his Majefty's Minilters. In every diralion are our fquadrons now at fea ; and the country will rejoice to hear, that fo clofely watched are the enemy in all their ope. rations, that fcarce a fingle movement can be made by them, which is not immediately difcovered, and its ;to, in a great degree, if not effesltually fruf. trat In our Paper of Saturday, we mentioned the ctrcumftance of a flotilla of gun-boats having paffed Jerfey on Tuefday laR, Banding for Gran ville, and that the fame night a heavy cannon ading was heard in that quarter, which .continued with unabated warmth till day-light on the following morning. The refult, we are happy to Rate, proved eminently fuccefsful to the Britifh arms, and, what mutt be confidercd as enhancing the value of the ad vantage obtained, not a fingle life on our fide was loft on the occafioa, The force which paffed Jerfey, as before Rated, now turns out to have been French. It confilled of two fifty gun (hips, and a number of I floops, and gun-boats, amounting altogether to about fifty fail. Sir Jonas Saussaasz, who commands the Britifh fquadron on that Ration, went imme diately in purfuit of the enemy. With his (mall (quadrate, he proceeded dire6ly to Granville, where, finding the enemy's flotilla had arrived from St. Maloe's, he loft no time in commencing the bom bardment of the place. The attack continued during the whole of Tuefday night, with firth ample fucccfs, that the (hipping were for the greater part, if not entirely, deßroyed (twenty or thirty of the gun boats were certainly afcertained to be in that Rate) ; the batteries completely filenced, the barracks and works of the harbour demoliflted, and a confiderable portion of the town laid in ruins; in confequence of which, the inhabitants fled a few miles into the in terior. Sir JAMBS, after this important atchievement, proceeded to the !mall ifles of La Conchee, of which he took poffelfion without oppofition. Thefe iflands are advantageoully fituated near Concale and St. Maloe's, where fevers' more gun veffels are under flood to be in a forward flare of preparation ; and our poffeffion of them will enable us to defeat, in its infancy, any expedition the enemy may be induced to fit out in that direaion. We add, with the greater fatisfa&ion, that not a tingle life was 101 l in the attack ; and that a report oi l the gallant Commander having been wounded by a fplinter, is deßitute of foundation. This expedition, we truft, will be followed by others of fimilar defign and with iimilar etre& Its de ante:five confequences cannot be concealed from the French people, and will, we prefume, lower the fan guine expeaations which they have been perfuaded to entertain rcfpc6iog the projeaed invafion of this Country. The inhabitants of Granville, in their prefent ruin ed condition, have the moll affeeing reafons for de precating the war, as well as tlie ambitious fpirit that provoked it. The veffels tinder the command of Sir Jaw's SAVNARIZ, were as follow The C aaaaa us frigate, The R ditto, The CIIAILWILLOcoop, The Buirova and T bombs, and Two Gun Brigs, The bombs anchored dote to the town, and in fuch an advantageous pofition, that the (hells which fell (tort of the town, (truck the gun-boats, and did cenfiderable emotion. An Officer of the SULTIIVIt obferves, " that it was diflreffing to fee the inhabi tants making a precipitate retreat through the avenues of the town. with what little property the exigency of the moment fuffered them to take." One hundred and fifty-one ffiells were thrown from the Sut.rntra only in four hours and a quarter, feven of which hock the barracks, and put the foldiers to the route. Oar cruisers on the coal of France go into their harbours with the tide, and drive the gun•boats on the mud, and then retire with the greaten fang froid The C ttttt us lately got on (bore at Havre, where fhe lay a tide, and not one, out of ten gun-boats which were in the harbour, attempted to attack her. Indeed our officers, who are employed on the fervice, fpeak mcal coutemptuoufly of the daflardly fpirit of the French naval officers, in not attempting to come out, when there is occafionally a probability of (m -eets, from the fortuitous event of the winds and tides. Yefterday morning his MajasTY, Pr inCers St/THIA, and the Doke of C•w as roc r, attende.lby Lady PITT, Lord WALSINCEMAM, Sir W. PITT, and Col. FITS• ant, took an airing on horieback in the Great Park. Her M•Jesrr and PrincelTes AvourTA, ELIZaRITN, and blaar, attended by Lady STAW,LL, took an airing to Woomera. Prince& AMELI• is lb SUMO, that ale has not b,e airing tbcfc three days. PUBLII 4 I, SEPT. 16. PRIVATE LETTER. Singe the adjournment of the Commiffion, we have a dearth of news. This day was occupied at the Cagle in examining ptifoners, Tome of whom, I think, will become witneffes for the Crown on the profecution of Emmet. Report Pays that Stockdale, the printer, confined in Newgate, has turned King's evidence, and will prove that Emmet gave him the manufcript of the Proclamation of the Provifional Government to print, but this report is repelled by his family and friends. Monday will determine the matter. It is reported to-day that as confpirators have been taken, fitting in Committee, in the neighbour. hood of Marybro', in the Queen's County;—they were arrefled by the Abbeylaix Yeomanry, and not without refinance. The molt waive and unremitting efforts are mak ing by Brigadier General DUN Ns to perfea the dif cipline of our Yeomanry in this City : they are odt in fucceffive parties with him, almoft every morning in the Park, and I think before winter they will be as effeaive for the defence of this City and neighbour• hood, as any troops of the line. The Yeomanry arc a brave and ufeful body, and merit the high refpea, and warm attentions, which they have experienced from Lord HAILDMICia, and thofe who are immedi ately the organs and fupporters of his fentiments, the Right Hon. Mr. WIckHAM, and Mr. MaIIDIN. I have nothing interefting to communicate to you, nor expea to have before Tuefday next, when Em met's trial will probably come on. The Hon. General Turmas Mamma, is eeturtied for the borough of Haddington. The Hon. Mr. Pamir and Suite. have arrived from the Court of Vienna. Mr. STUART ASS as char', du Afaira, in his abfence. Sir GRORGI and Lady PARKOT hare returned from the Continent. They landed yefterday at Yar• mouth. The Earl of Jemmy and Family removed yeller day from their elegant mnnaon in Stratford-place, to their new town refidenee in Comberland-place. The Duchefs of DIVONSIIIIIS is confined to her bed by an alarming indifpofition. His Royal High. nefs the Prince of Wets, fent an esprefs from Brighton in order to obtain more cue information of her Grace's health. The following are among the fationable arrivals in London yellerday : Captain and Lady Halliday to their town Mere In Albemarle ftreet—Eari of Luny to his bode in Charlooltreet.—Lord and Lady Haywarden, and Lord Carberry to St. janteefrareet Lord and Lady Stopford to Hill-ftmet, from Scwind—The Earl of Cannown from his feat In Inland...OW. W. Butler. of the 59th from Ireland, to s& St. anweii-ftreet—Lord Hawkdbury and ßegiment, Family to kla hot& In St J unes'a-fet—Mr. and Mrs. Lyra', and daisktese. to tbdr town re.dcaoe In Sc, Janteerfqoare. Sir Huon Owls came of age about a week ago, on which occafion great rejoicings took place throughout Pembrokelhire, particularly in the gay little town of Tenby, where a bullock was roatled. and with plenty of ilrong beer and bread, was dif tributed among the populace. In the evening there was an illumination. On Friday fe'nnight the Earl of Dolor+ UTZ/. gave a moll folendid Ball at his feat at Milton Abbey, near Dorchefler. Upwards of so° perfons fat down to an elegant fupper in the Gothic hall, which was finely illuminated, as well as the whole fuite of apart ments both above and below !lairs. Among the Company were— The Duchefs of Bolton and her Nieces, the Ws Perrys ; the Earls of Wefttoordand, !Wordier, and Dishy; Commit seam feed, the Ladles Strongman, Mr. and Lady H. Frampton, Mr. and Lady 0. Buckley, Mr. and Lady Amelia TreneharA, Hoe. Col. and Mrs. Fane, Hoe. Mr. and Mn. St:anyway% Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart, HOW Mr. Stamm, Hon. Mr. and Mn. Dinner, Sir john and Lady Sisaleld. Sir John, Lady, sad Mir. Smith, Sir 0.0. Paul. Sir John and LodyLekelter, Admiral and MI 1) Dis hy, Admiral Brine..and the Men beksoging to Lord Derailmiteis Caelm At the Curragkon Monday feinnight,Mr. Whaley's horfe Buffer won the Gold Cup. which we underhand he did with cafe. There was not leis than 50,0001. won and 101 l upon that race. A Play was performed at Richmond Theatre, on Saturday evening, for the benefit of the Patriotic Fund, at Lloyd's. The play was commanded by his Royal Highnefs the Duke of Cutasace.--Mrs. Joanaw performed the part of Piietlow in TIN ireadtr. Pisarre again auraßed a crowded audience to Drury-lane Theatre on Saturday night. Mr. Rae- MOND was the Rolla. He went through the part with much foitit, and difplayed powers of a very high calL. Alonzo had a new reprefentative in Mr. H. Joint stow, who fupported the character with great ability. Mrs. Pow I. t. again excited much admiration asEloira, and Mrs. You ito's Gera was plaintive and greeting. TNIATIS ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.—The Renee eel i 75lirt of laft night,wert Mr. C. Kauat.s.and Mn. H. Sinnott, who were received in the moil flattering manner. Lswis's Mercloi*, was as fprightly and en taining as ever. The Ifikkod Reel followed, in which MUNDIII, INCLIDON, and Mifs MAIM ob tained loud and well-merited applaufe. To-morrow, being St. Matthew's Day. according to annual cullom, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, She riffs, and Governors of the fevers' Royal Hofpitals, will attend Divine Service at Chrill Church. After a fermon. to be p. cached by the Rev. WM. GILLY, A. M. they will proceed to the Creat Hall, in Chrill's Hofpital, where two orations will be deliver ed in Latin, by Turmas &sears, and in Englilh by WILLIAM 1 - 11i4ItY NEAL., the two fenior fcbolars of the Grammar School. ALI r s.—The firft embarkation of there perfons took place at GrAvefend on Friday UR. They amounted to too, among whom were only two refrac tory perfons, who are confined on board a cutter to the river. Some foreigners choofing to pay their own pairage, west on board of neutral veffels, and are to be landed either in France or Holland. The final embarkation takes place this day. Every scums. laudation is provisicil for th eir pa(age. EAST-INDIA NOUSE. Yeßerday morning, purfuant to adjournment, M. Ds took the Chair in the Sale Room, for the purpofe of continuing the Pale of fugars. Mr. BENJAMIN T entered at large into the fubjed of the prefent difpute between the Company and the Dealers, and Rated the firm determination of the Trade to defiß from bidding, till the Court had agreed to allow the cuftomary Rrike of one pound. _ _ _ Mr. Flit4ll followed up the arguments of Mr. Tra. vers e and contended that thetompany would in the end be conliderable lofers by difallowing the ftrike. Mr. DISVAYNES declared that the orders of she Court left him without any difcretionary power, and that the Cale ma proceed. Mr. TRAVERS haled that the Chairman was in poffeffion of equal power with that exercifed upon a former occafion by Mr. Robert Thornton. He then, in irder to prove the neceffity of an adjournment, read the following paper, being the refult of a meet ing of the Dealers in Ealt India Sugar, held on Sa• turday at the City Coffee Houfe : 4 , This Meeting having taken into confideration the declaration of the Eati India Company, to refute in future the accullomed draft of alb. per bag on Eaft India fugar, refolved unanimoully— " tit, That foth refufal is a violation of the Invariable ufage of trade in general, from time immemorial, founded on the princi ple; of juitice, and abfolutely needfary to fecure the dealers in this article from the lots they mutt otherwife fulls& on the rota& thereoG ad, That it is the opinion of this Meeting, that as the EAR India Company enjoys the ezelufive fupply of the market, it is more particularly iucumbent an them to take efpedal care that their Sales be concluded on the principles of Ilberallty and jultice. yd, That this Meeting cannot Aylmer to awe& their firm con oak et , that the Trade will not Candi= ■ reedit= which mull entail inevltabk ids an theinfetves, by perchating Ealt India fogars upon any other mad/Lions than the , to which they have hitherto been secuitomed.* The Arli s and third of there Refolotions, (Mr. Da rave's declining to ea) were read by Mr. T sr once more, and each Refelation being fubmitted by him as a feparate gueflion, was palle d unanimoutly. Mr. KIMIILZ urged the propriety of an adjourn.. ment, and deprecated the evils which mail refult to the Company and the trade at large fro partial biddings. As a Proprietor of India Stock, be pleaded the caufe of the orphan and the widow, and earnettly implored Mr. Dav•vaas not to folly his wellearned popularity by pertinacioufly adhering to the rigid order of the Court. Mr. DITATISM after it few conciliatory remarks, which had the dewed etre& of creating good humour, obferved, that it had been the uniform with of the Court to pd up to, and keel) Plc. with the exifting Laws of the Revenuer having been given to under hand that the Dealers at large were to have an in terview with the CNANCILLOR of the ENCRIOSIII, that day of one o'clock, he thought it bat fair to ad journ the Meeting till Thurfday sundry which rho, circumeances may have fa far ehango as to selkare to the fale.ropm its wonted harmony. MILIVIS CORNWALLIS is gout to SoSolt on a Soot. tog party.. Lord CITNCACE is .xpeaed to kt out in a few days for Ireland, to take the command of the troops in that country, in the room of Gencrul To*. ROBERT Eimer was one of the Students expelled from Tnnity . College by the late Lord Chancellor CLAIM, as Vice Chancellor of that feminary. Saturday 10 t h e body of Mr. CIIRISTOPUII Dal* PIT, Surgeon of the Wellminfler Volunteers, was interred with military honours in the church-yard of the parith of Si. Ann's. Soho, of wbicb 444 cin ceafed bad been Aa inhabitant. Giles's-Hill fiir, near Winthefier, was 'very nit. meroutly attended lan week t a great quantity Of cheefe was pitched, the whole .af which met with ie rapid fele. It fetched ss. per cwt. more than the cheefe at Magdalen-Hill fair. At Wilton fair, near Saliibury,on the i ath tai. abet* 38,000 Cheep and lambs were penned for title ; dime voo lefs than lan year. The prices Of lambs were from 4s. to ys. thole of ewes frpm is. to 5µ cheaper than left year, though, on the whole, the ewes wimp confidered about is. a head dearer than at the late Britford fail, and their Pale was much Wither in the afternoon than in the morning. One Gentleman de. dared the ewes be fold this year for stk. were is bete ter condition than there of I lait r a r for 4ss. Mr. Hawaii. was the ten ; he bought grea ese, of yl about moo. Mr. Mes-court.fium, his Lemener rams as low as ten guineas each. Yefterday there was an inquell held before Gee. Howson, EA. Coroner for the County of Middlefes at the Green Dragon in Chelfea on the body did Mary Anne Staker, who was Chelfea, in the Canal facing Chelfea College, about two o'clock on Satur day afternoon. The deceafed was a very amiable young Lady, in the sIR year of ber age. rather de licate, with Candy hair, of a fickly habit I her mother is a widow Lady, having no more children, except $ fat, who is abroad in the ferrice of his Country.— She took lodgings at No. 9, Upper Eaton•areet, Pimlico, where the fended a few months for the be. nefit of hes daughter's health, of whom the was re. markably fond, and every fine day generally took a walk in the Garden of Chelfea College, contumely called the Water Garden, owing to a Canal whirl went through it. On the fatal day the mother and daughter walked there as ufoal, and, after walking for Come time, they fat down on one of the benches. The mother complained, that the place they fat if was rather cold, on which the deceafed replied, " I &all run and find a warmer fituatien." She then flood up, and ran down the green, which went atlope towards the water. Her mothe r thinking that the flak' longer than necefrary, went in ketch ofber; but not finding her, the was alarmed, particularly as there was no other way out but the one they came in at. She therefore ran to fee if the deceafed went back ; bnt meeting two Gentlemen, who were go. ing into the garden, they allured her that the did not go out that way. The alarm being gi . ein, Mr. Garth iltore came with a boat hook, and, as a little time, he hooked her clothes, and the was taken out of the water lifelefs. She was brought into the Infirmary. where every means preferibed by the humane Society, were ufed without elk& Thus periled an amiable young Lady in the bloom of youth, and under the unused*. care of aa affatiesite taceber.—Serdiat Accidental Deadu cs e; in b