Star. — London, England, 1817-07-29 00:00:00

SIEGE OF .RUGUSTURA. E Am!, Jere 24'.—By the brig Augusta, who ar2 r , v,d at this port from Aurtsrura, which she left the the 20th May, we have the follotring intelligence;— That en the loth March, the Royalists, about WOO strong, u.i kr Murales, wao lad proceeded , rom Angostura to at ack the .'airluts at a place called the Missions, ino miles below Augus t:lra, were toially defeated and cut in pieces; only six men • ••sr.rcl. ineluilin4 Morales and two naive , . All who were not :'.lied on the field of battle were afterward shot, and among them, enemy, formerly Governor of Augusrura. After the bairn-, the Patriots under General Plar approached Nugusrura, where they threw tip a breast-work, upon which the ions of the fort could not be brought to bear, •and commenced firing upon the,tirern within half motet shot, and •h.: firing had been caintinagel day arid night. They had made s:veral attacks on the plate, but without great loss on either side. •fle of the officer. had gone for cannon, more tflectually to a .teeb the works. _ _ . 1...0 tuts had completely totrronnded the place, and the sahib:tabu and salmon were rellue‘d to the most vorttched and I rinds eontli.i,a for want of provisions. Great numbers bad . died of starvation. HOiSC3, IMAM ilekaS.lo4, site. • • 1 been consumed, and the Governor himself bad actuallypaid dollars for a C.,! A great number of the inliabltants bad left Atiustura. and principally women and clilltiti n, in the most deplorable ndition, sailed the same day the Augustaleft,ln Spanish vessel. •he men were. nut allowed to depart . Our incormant thinks it _ _ . • possible that the place could have held out more than two or .ree days after he left, unless relieved in some unexpected tt twayana was still in possession of the Royalists—ft was •• °ugly fortified, and no probability of its being taken, except by .t•-vasion. bi•zgerald, the Governor. of Aagustura, who had to a: rested and sent to Caracas, on suspicion of treachery, been ord.% •d back, and was still in connand of the place. I li•. most sanguinary measures were adopted at Augustura in ard to suepected persons. Eight men were shut at one time, tint the hest of May, on r espytiw of being friendly to the rests. i ionaoy cause! 'flee forces of the Patriots were estimated at from four to six • • macaw' men all mounted, and they bad complete possession of .utrouadAng country. . THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, JULY 29. 1817. PRICE OF STOCK.; THIS DAY AT TWELVE n'cLocic s ei!need 79ji—Consols 7911—Coma, fur Ansa 4 per Con. 90-5 per Cent. Navy, 10n India Bonds 113 115 pr.—Esebegiser Bilia SOs. pr. American Papers to the 4th instant reached us this morning. The New York Gazette of the Ist, Announces the arrival of the British ship Vittoria at Charleston from Kingston, with 100,000 dollars in specie. By the latest accounts in these papers the Patriots were reported to have evacuated the Islandlif Mar. garitta for the puTose of forming a junction with the forces on the river Oroonoko. A letter from St. Mary's, received at Charleston, chtteJ the 14th June, says—“ There are four large Carthagenian vessels now off Amelia Island ; several families have removed to this place in consequence. We are all anxious to know their object." A letter from St. Thomas's, dated the 25th of June, says- 0 We have not heard lately from the Patriot Privateers, but suppose them to be cruising, about the Main. The Spanish squadron is at La pin'. r shall leave here to day for Porto Cavello, when I arrive I shall be able to give you correct in formation in regard to war operations.—Subiness is dull here at present. Flour is selling at 16 dollars." At a late hour last night a \ Dutch Mail arrived.— T,.e following extracts are interesting : " HAGUE, JULY is. " We learn that the Synod of the Reformed Church has re solved, that the third Centenary of the Reformation shall be religiously observed in all the Reformed Churches in the Nether lands, on the Sd of November, being the first Sunday after the :list of October, the day upon which the great Lorna, three centuries ago, laid publicly the first foundation of the great work of the Reformation; that the Preachers in the Lienoon shall ex pound to the Congregatioo, in the spirit of Christian charity, the Newry of the principal particulars of the work of the Reforma. den ; and that the Ministers (Kirkersden) be ordered, in the test of the service of this day, to commemorate this event to tbeglory of the Atm:on-re, with all the solemnity that the nature of the service and the local circumstances will allow." " HAARLEM, JULY 11S. " On the aid the water rest at Nimeguen to sixteen fleet nine inches, and at Anddem to fifteen feet nine. The neat day, how ever, it fell two inches at the last piece. The Lek, too, which bad been rising• for a week, has fallen one loth. The latest accounts from Switzerland state, that the waters begin to fall la some prams." The Trials at the York Assizes, of the Prisoners concerned in the disturbances at Huddersfield, have terminated in the acquittal of the Prisoners; not on the plea that the crime charged had not been com mitted, but from want of evidence sufficient to fie it upon the parties, as willing and free agents. Mr. Baron Woon gave the prisoners a suitable admoni tion, and cautioned them against engaging in future riots, as they could not hope always to escape punish ment : one replied, for the rest, that they would have nothing to do with such proceedings in future. We think it highly probable that the proceedings' which have taken place will have a salutary effect upon that class wbich is ever the easiest to be acted upon by designing individuals, and led to the perpetration .ot acts dangerous to the pew of the community,, and to themselves personally.—Oliver was not tried It these Assizes. • The Doke of YORK transacted military business yesterday with the PRINCZ REGRIIT. Yesterday Earl BATHURST had an audience of the hung RROZNT, at Carlton-House. Mr. HAMILTON, the Under Secretary of State for t he Foreign Department, is about to retire hom office, after a number of years' service. Mr. PLANTA sue. Leeds him, and attended ye►terday, for the first time, the Foreign Office, in that capacity. NAVAL INT.E.LIGENCI!. ---.- The INCONSTANT frigate, or. 42 guns, Caphin Sir Jima LUCAS Yee, K.C.B. anchored at Port Royal. Jamaica, on the 24.1 of June—she left Cape Coast Castle, Africa, on the Ist of May, arrived at Barba does on the 29th, and saled from thence the 21 ult. The BRAZEN sloop of war, Captain Srtituao, End the CHILDERS brig, of 18 guns, Captain WorrnorP, were at anchor in Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes, when the INCONSTANT left it. FALMOUTH, JULY _ Arrived the Betsy transport from CAW', and En• terprize transport horn Dover. both bound to Cork. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 2d. Put back, atter being at ;CA five days. the Ame rican ship Milton, THOMAS, bound to Batavia. DEAL, IITI Y Qv. Arrived and sailed for the River the Princess of Wales. Sims; Jack Tar, BELL, and Crown, Rose., from Jamaica ; Kate, SMITH, from St. Domingo for Antwerp; Waterloo. Myatt°. in IC days, from Oporto; and Susan, COATES, from Grenada. Came down from the River the Nereid for Madeira. Bowen for Naples, Lord Normandy for Madeira, and Van sittart for the South Seas. PENZANCE, JULY att. Part of the, wreck of a vessel has come on shore near the Land's End this weeks it appears to have been some time in the water. it is •a copper-bottom vessel, fir-built, timber twelve inches square. Part of i mast has been taken up by one of the Bay boats, which appears to have belonged to the same wreck, being very much worm-eaten. HARWICH, JULY es. Arrived the Castlereagh packet, with a mail from Holland.—Wind S.W. , GRAVESEKD JULY U. Arrived the Princess Amelia, front China; Astell„ from Cal cutta; Daphne, from the We of France; Minden Castle, front Bengal ; Margaret, Kelly, from Baltimore; Duke of Kent pac ket, Pounds, front Rotterdam; Planet, Weynton, and Volusla, Cooper, from Jamaica ; and the Hero, Boos, front Havansah.— Sailed the Favourite, Emery, for Philadelphia; Wilna, Bradfield, for Bahia; Ktddington, Bacon, for Jamaica; Speedwell packet, Varrell, for Boulogne ; Hero, Evans, and Queen, Urquhart, for Rotterdam; and Forman, Collins, for Cadiz. CUSTOMHOUSE, JULY its. Sum INTBIZO INMAII,DI—The Duke of Wellington, Martin, from Odead; Speculadon,Crawhorst, from Boulogne; Prospect, Wake, from Riga; Regent, Browning. from Havre; Perceval, 'Fbonspsoa, (rein Halifax; Ante, Peters, from Amsterdam; Scholfield, Evans, from Mogadore; Gardner, Meson, from Dentate; Pbeasant, Barnes, from Waterford ; Marianne, Patter. son, from the Cape of Good Hope ; Fortuna, Wye, froin Gamla Carieby, in Sweden ; and Julie and Leopoldine, Blank, from Wolgast. OUT WAIN Ds--Tbe Amelia, Lowe, for Demerara; Enterprise,' Young, fur Lisbon; Iris, Greadiead, for Madeira and Rio Ja neiro; Repeater, Alien, for Baltimore; Robert, Watson, for Hamburgls ;Regent, Betts, fur Amsterdam; Trafalgar, Dawes, fur Maranbam; Thema., Bowman, for St. John's (N. 8.) and Halifax; Volgdhagen, Wallis, for Wolgast; Union, Robinson. for Rotterdam ; Wellington, Sedgwick, for Calais; and Bruns. wick, Fisher, for Jamaica—tor passengers only. The Minerva (arrived off the Isle of Wight) spoke a ship off the Cape, on the 27th of May, for Botany Bay, with convicts, that sailed from England on the 17th March. The convicts had attempted to take possession of the ship. Twenty of them %%ere , shot, and the remainder subdued ; further particulars' stolid not be learned, as it blew a gale at the time. A boat put some letters on board the Minerva, but it was impossible for the Officer to get on board. A circumstance has occurred at Santa Cruz, which we hope will 'Weise the attention of- his Majesty's Government. The master of the Stafford merchant ship, who is also an Officer in the British navy, had a dispute with an English sailor, which detained him on shore longer than usual, on the evening appointed for the departure of Iris *hip from Teneriffe. It is not permitted on the island that any person should embark alter dusk, and centinels are placed to pre vent the infraction of this order. The master, in this situation, attempted to take water in his boat, when he was obstructed by the sentinel on duty. Indignant at this interruption, he lifted up the oar, and levelled A blow, as it is alleged, at the soldier, but as he asserts,' at the sailor, who was also interposing. The centinel advanced with his bayonet presented, when he was, forced back by some person, whom the public accu ser declared to be a Mr. Worse, now acting in the station of Supercargo, although the nephew of a Ge neral of immortal memory. Seven military officers were termed into a tribunal, and both the Master and Mr. WOLFS were tried for this insult or circumven tion as to the centinel on duty. The Master was sen tenced to tour months imprisonment, but the Super. cargo was acquitted ; yet they are both confined, be. 'cause the Governor will not confirm the sentence of acquittal, declaring that he has sent to the Court of Made id to receive Instructions from his Sovereign.— Mr. Bence. the British Consul; has in vain interposed, and it ought to be made known, that an English agent, in a responsible situation, is treated with ne glect and indifference at this dependency of the Spa. isish Crown.—Ceinierriere Memory. Saturday night, about ten o'clock. while Mr. Wil. ham Drake, landlord of the King's Arms public house, King's street, Southwark. was busy in his bur attending on his customers, and• his wife and serving likewise employed, and the parlour and tap.room lull, some villains, who it is supposed had confede rates drinking in the house, and on the alert, pro ceeded up stairs unperceived, arid by means of pick lock kels, entered his bed-room, and opened his bureau, which cher robbed of 420 in bank notes, £8 in silver, a gold ring, pearl ear.rings, a silver punch ladle, and other valuable articles, likewise a large painting that hung up in the room, with which they decamped without discovery. A fatal accident occurred on Thursday morning last, at the bottom of the hill at Potter Newton, on the way from Chapeltown to Leeds. A woman of the name of Snowden, with pn infant in her arms, bad taken her passage in Wood's cart front Knares borough to Leeds, whith, in descending the hill, passed too near the causeway, and was upset ; the driver, the woman, and the child, being all thrown into the road, with the boxes resting upon them. Some butchers' boys passing that way came to their relief. On removing the boxes, it was found that one of them had fillets upon the head of the mother, who was scarcely freed from the pressure before she expired. The child received no material injury, and the ,Iriver, though considerably bruised, was able to pursue his journey.—The same day a Coroner's In. quest sat on the b , Aly of the deceased, and returned 4 verdict of—Accidental Dead.. - SPORMI INTEL I.; ATE. STATEMENT of the ODDS on the DONCASTER LEGER STAKES, Ike —lnly N. Taken.—a•—'l4 to 1 asst. Mr. Watt's e. by Whitelode. 7'akett--75 to 1 asst. D. of Hamilton s 'trade's. l'aken-11 to i apt. Sir r. Stanley's Wirral!. Takeo--11 to I ag.t. Stainskaough. II to 1 art. Mr. CattertonN Sober Rob!o. 13 to 1 age. Mr. Fletcher's Canttliun. DERBY 6 FAKES, 181$. 14 to 1 ag.t. air I. Shelley's brother to Crecy. to 1 agst. Mr. Crockford's c. out of Sister to Remembrancer. 17 to 1 apt. any other. Letters of 15th May from the Portage, mention that i.nrd SELKIRK, leariiig he might not malve good the title by winch beheld Fort William, and afraid also of meeting the C , nimissioners sent up by Government, hail ►etreated with the whole ot his forces towards the Red River. The Awl petticoat fashion has produced a schism among the Ladies. Every female who wears long petticoats is now set down as having Mid leer. A cause was tried in the Grand Court, J►maica, on the 7th of last month, which appeared to involve an interesting question of public law, as connected w►th the actual condition of the Insurgents in South America. A Venezuelian Government schooner, the Condor. commanded by Captain Philipe Estevez, arrived at Kingston, and a replevin was issued against her by the agents of her original owners, who were Spanish subjects residing in the Havannah, and firs whom she was captured by the Insurgents. A mo tion being made to discontinue the replevin, the Court considered the question in three points of view, first, how far the plaintiffs could proceed in a British Court of Justice to recover a vessel which, by their own confession, was engaged in a traffic directly in the teeth of the abolition Acts of Great Britain, at the mo ment of its capture ? !dly, whether the Cow t could decide upon a great political question between Great Britain and the subjects of another country, in a state of civil war among themselves, when the British Go vernment was maintaining the most marked neutra lity towards both the contending parties ? thirdly, whether the Condor, coming in a public character' from Venezuela, not only with dispatches for the Admiral on that station, but with dispatches to be forwarded from him for our own Government at home, which might be of the utmost importance to the Mother Country, was not entitled rather to the protection of the Court, than to be considered as sub ject to be detained by its process, and that particu larly at the instance of subjects of Spain ? The Court delivered no opinion upon the first point, and the se cond they considered as not coming within their ju risdiction. They therefore determined that the Con dor came in a character which entitled her, by the law of nations, to protection from civil process, and that the replevin was consequently improperly brought. On Monday the fist instant, Ayr jail was ag.in broken, and three of the prisoners escaped. These three prisoners were confined in the very strongest room of the prison, usually called the condemned cell. Nevertheless, by the means of a single common mason's iron, they raised up one of the Bags of the floor. broke so iron grating on which the stone lay, and also an arch upon which both are founded.— Through the opening thus made, tbepri loners dropped into the cellar where the fire engines are kept, the lock on the door of which they wrenched off. and so got to the street.—Their flight was discovered almost instandy, and officers dispatched in various directions, but hitherto none of them have been caught. This is the third time within a twelvemonth this prison has been broken. IMPLIDENT Roaseriv.—Friday afternoon, as the domestics of General FANNING, of Upper Seymour. street,Portman-square, were at tea in the back kitchen, a footstep was heard in the passage leading to the area. One of the female servants coming out to as certain who it was, saw a boy going out at the door. She asked him his business, when he inquired if a Mrs. -- lived there ? To which receiving an answer in the negative, he departed. In a short time after, several articles of plate of considerable value were missed from a table in the front room, where they had been placed preparatory to heingcleaned. A search was instituted for the depredator, but wi►hout avail. Several houses in that quarter have lately been plun dered in the same manner. Coaoxxit's Isyouitsr.—An Inquisition was oaken yesterday afternoon sidle St. John of Jerusalem. Ro samond-street, Clerkenwell, on the body of James Cull, aged 35 years. the son of Mr. Cull, plumber, Btc. Rosamond-street, Clerkenwell. A surgeon stated, that he was seat for to the deceased on the morning of Wednesday last ; he attended him immediately at his father's house and found him dead and cold ; at the request of his friends be opened his head, there being an external blackness► When he had opened the external skin he found the skull fractured, and about six ounces of coagulated blood on the brain that had effused from a blood vessel which had been raptured. The skull was remarkably thin, and a blow of no very great violence would possibly have caused the fracture which produced his decease.— William Tibbet, son of Mr. Tibbet, 6, Bowling. green-lane, being sworn, stated, that on Tuesday last, between seven and eight o'clock at night, the deceased, himself, and four others, went to the Merlin's Cave field, Spa-fields, o play at cricket. While he was throwing the ball, he heard one of the boys call to James Cull, and ask him, it be allowed Martindale to sit on his coat? he replied. no; and went up to Martindale and pulled the coat from under him ; as Martindale rose from the ground, he accidentally struck the deceased with his elbow on the head, the deceased struck him again with his clenched fist, and was in a violent passion, and Martindale struck him a back-handed blow. The deceased walked away, and laid himself on the grass. He (witness) went up to the deceased ; he said that he was hurt ; he went up to Martindale, and asked him how he came to hit the deceased so violently ? he replied, that he did not intend to hurt him, and only struck him in return for a blow he gave him.—Henry August Roux sworn, stated, that he saw Martindale hit the deceased with his elbow accidentally, as he was rising from the ground; he beggsd pardon of the deceased, but he being in a passion, struck Martindale with his closed fist, and Martindale struck him again with the back of his right hand. The blow he gave him with his elbow might be very violent, but he was certain it was not given intentionally. The deceased was found dead in his bed nest morning. Verdict—Died from A btu w he received in a scufll accidentally. N lIIMATR. JULY i 3. Sa•T:rdAy a number of the Gen•lemen 043 cotti• pose the holy e f Tie..ters fur Rartisgate Ilarbnur, :,rrived here in the Trinity yacht, and they trete:on.) after j, , ined by their 14c , ti ,, or ChAirm:in, Sir WILLI:it ,CeItTIS, who, as a Commander-in-Chief ought, at. 'dived in hit own vessel. T...day is grand gala. The yachts are decorated with their colours ;figs arc displayed in varirus ruts o f the harbour ; and all the cvoks, havink been p.:: under requisition. are now bull' preparing for the grand banquet. to which twiny of our resrevable inhabitants and visitors have been invited. Thursday a grand entertainment and ball wal given on hoard the !sten trigate, Captain FonttesT, Ituads, to a great number of Ladies and of he first fashion in Edirthtlrgh. The day being very fine, added greatly to the gratifica , don of the company. Sunday evening as Lord CASTIARSACII was plays ing with a favourite dog of his Lady's, at their seat at Footscray, in Kent, the animal bit his hand, v.hich yesterday became so much inflamed, that his l'hy_ sician was sent for. The Doctor left London with all possible speed yesterday morning to &tend his Lordship. The Count whom we stated yeterday to have beets killed in a duel at Paris was the Count de Sr. NIORYS, a Lieutenant in the Garde: du Corks. He was a long time resident in England. On his return to France, he collected the wreck of his fortune, which amoun ted originally to 100,0(N) livres a-year, and built a castle on his estate at Houdginville, near Clerniont sur POise, near the old mansion, destroyed during the Revolution. His antagonist was a half.pay Co lonel, who had purchased great part of his estate as emigrant property. LADY ANN! MURRAY.—This benevolent character rewarded the fidelity of htr servants in the most 1;- beral manner, as the following statement of bequests will shew :—To her housekeeper, who had been nearly thirty-three years in her servic , !, she has given rt 3,500 and her wardrobe; to her bu•h:r, who had been twenty-four years, 5e1,200 ; to her cook, who had been nineteen years, £700; to her laundress, who had been eleven years, tat(); to her two houtem.tids, one of whom had been eighteen, and the other nine years, £6OO each; and to her footman, who had beer. nine years, aE6"O. The residue of her I,a 2T ship's property will dett , ,lve on Gs:onoe Fincit HAT TON, Esq. of Eastv!ell Park, in Kent, who married her niece, and who is appointed sole executor. The trial of Red, the other master chimney.sweep, r concerned with Rae in the culpable homicide, at Edin burgh, of which the latter has been found guilty, s related in the STAR of yesterday, is put off till Sep tember. As Mr. Menzies, a manufacturer in CatFsle, was travelling towards Dumfries in a gig, a few nights since, he was overturned, by A110%4 ing his hoes in ihe dark, t go too near the side of the road, :s he was descending the hill, on the other ,ile of the a k Toll Bar. Early the next morning he WAS discovered by the guard of the mail coach, and t Ikea up without any signs of life, the horse and gig having lain all night on his body. Mentnett.— Our Readers will probably recoil' ct the case of a most inhuman murder committed upan a person of the name of John Payne, a sack carrier, of Billington, in 13ediordshire, sonic time since io H t fordshire. The deceased was in the habit of regu larly attending Bernet Hempstead market, to which he carried the farmers' corn, and sold it, bringing back the sacks to them, ard accounting to them for the money he received as the produce of their grain. On the Ist of May last, on his way home firms the market, he was found murdered in his cat t, his throat being cut from ear to ear, and two consider able bruises on his head ; one of his breast pockets. in which be usually carried in a pocket-book the notes he received at market, was cut from his coat, and with the pocket-book gone. It happened how ever rather remarkably, that on that day the deceased had. contrary to his usual custom, placed his rules in his breeches pocket, where they were found safe. The next morning the deceased's pscket.beok and pocket were accidentally found in the barn of Daniel Munn, a small farmer resid , ng at Dagnal, wi him the boundaries of Bucks, who was well acquainted with the deceased. This led to the discovery nt a variety of suspicious circumstances respecting Munn. blood being traced upon his clothes, and his being seen in the way to the place where the murder was committed, although he had stated, that at the time specified he went a different road, which was also negatived by the most direct evidence urn the trial, in consequence of which he was committed to the County Gaol of Hertford, charged with tf:e murder. At the Assizes at Hertford. on Friday, ke was brought up for trial, when the circumstances above mentioned were distinctly proved, together with other particulars, amongst which was Iris bor rowing a hammer, the morning of the murder; tar-sr of the wounds in the head of the deceased appearin;; to have been inflicted with such an instrument, ant the hammer never having been found since. Th.. whole case left no doubt whatever on the minds ..1. the Judge or Jury; and the latter, after five minutes' deliberation, having Icund him Guilty, the Judge (Mr. Justice I)Au.As) passed sr ntence of deat'l upon him in a very impressive manner, and erdercil him for execution on the 7sh of August. 'D as prisoner, who was 45 years of age, was a min of 4 forbidding aspect, and through the whole of the trial, and even at the tragical conclusion of it, he nevi" evinced the slightest emotion of feeling, but to the last maintained a malignant sullenness. On the evening of Friday he was visited by a Gentleman, in c ()mi . ! it! with the Chaplain, both of whom seriously admot,eh ed him on the Pray of persevering in the denial ot . a crime of which there was no doubt he was guilty. Their admonitions, however, made no impression on him, and he remained in the same temrer. He was again visited on Saturday morning by the same per- sons, who, with the utmost humanity, paid him every attention; and the Chaplain then asked if he wowd permit them to join in prayer ? The unhappy man instantly burst into tears, and expressed his grautu.!e for their attention. And after prayers el:CW[ll4: 2 y " I am indeed guilty, tor I murdered the man with a hammer, which I borrowed for the puipase from n'y brother." After some f urther conversation, the Cbal's lain and his friend retired, leaving the prisoLer it a comparatively tranquil sr.a!e.-.-There was $ gte t .ruwd e'n to 11.0.1- cuil&timird