Star.
London, England, 1808-09-05 00:00:00

GIBRALTAR.

From various letters which have reached us from
Gibraltar we select the following articles:—

On the 9th ult. the 42d Regiment (the Old High.
land Watch) embarked there to proceed to join the
British Army in Portugal.
On the same day his Majesty's ship THUNDERED,
74 guns, arrived there from Sicily, and on the 13th
landed the following personages there : namely, his
Royal Highness Prince LEOPOLDO BARRON!, second
son
,of the King, and Infant of Sicily ; the Duke ofj
ORLEANS (whose brother died lately at Malta) ; the'
Prince del CASSERO and his son the Duke of Ascou,
the Marquis Sr. CLAIRE, the Marquis de Li Tema, and
the Prince's confidential Counsellor, the Chevalier
TOMASI. These personages were all going into Spain
to learn the actual state of the Patriotic cause ; and
it was believed in Sicily, that one object of the Prince's
visit to Spain, was to offer himself to succeed to the
SpanishCrown,in the event of FEnziINANDV I I.not bcing
restored. But this seems to be a preposterous notion.
—The Spanish Cortrs (or Parliament) meets this '
month ; and however they may labour to reform the
abuses of their Constitution and Government, it is
not likely that they will. violate the right of FEM.
NAND, in whose name they have fought, and hitherto
conquered. Till he is restored, or dies, a regency
will no doubt be appointed to govern in his name.
It is far more probable that the journey of this Prince
to Spain, with so splendid a retinue, was undertaken
with the view of uniting the two peninsulas in a com-
mon cause against the Oppressor of both.
Lord COLLINGWOOD returns to the Mediterranean
to take the command off Toulon.

Sir Hew DALRYMPLE and his Staff sailed from
Gibraltar, in the FIKEBE frigate, on the 13th ult. to
take the command of the several corps which had
reached Portugal under Generals &MAAR/4 WELLES-
LEY, MOORE, AXSTRUTHER and SraNcEn, the whole
of which would amount to 35,000 men.
The above accounts were brought by the Marlbo-
rough packet, arrived at Falmouth. By this packet
has come over S. FERDINANDO BIASCELLO, with dis:
patches from the Sicilian Government. This Gentic-
man reports, that General Sir JOHN STUART, the
Hero of Mai4a, was preparing to make

A DESCENT UPON NAPLES.
His force consisted of 15,000 British, 8,000 Sicilian
troops of the line, and 4000 armed peasantry.—
It was eipected that he would sail from Sicily in
eight or ten days after the departure of this mes-
senger. It was known to Sir Joint STUART, that
very few French troops remained in Italy, from
whence great numbers had marched for Spain.—
Calabria had been entirely evacuated by them.
The Italians were generally well informed of the
successful progresss of the Spanish Patriots, and
such is the detestation in which the French are
held throughout Italy, that the most confident hopes
were entertained in the British army of the whole
country rising to join the Hero of Maida as soon as
he appears. Prince MoLrrxxxo, who sailed some
time since in a packet from Falmouth, is to have a
command in the Expedition.

The Sixth Report of the Commissioners of Military
Inquiry has been printed. It occupies three hundred
and sixty-six folio pages, embracing the office of the
Secretary at War, Regimental Accounts, Agency,
and Clothing. On the subject of clothing, it proposes
to allow the Colonels of the regular regungnts about
7001. a year in lieu of their profits on that article.---1;
proposes 90 alteration in the clothing system of the
Militia.