Star.
London, England, 1808-08-11 00:00:00

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ditating an inglorious and precipitate retreat froze
that capital. Such are the effects that have resulted
from the discomfiture of DUPONT'S army, to which
we may also, in some degree, attribute the speedy de-
fection of so many of those Nobles who were entrap,
ped at Bayonne.
A letter from on board the thqcoax, dated off St.
Andero, the 31st ult. says:
" Desertions are very frequent from the French army In Spain.
Ten made their escape yesterday on board, and have castoff
themselves u marines in this ship. A gentleman on shore re.
ceived a letter last night from St. Juan de Luz, a port to the
westward of Bayonne, which mentions that the reams of Bo-
p quitting Bayonne in such a hurry was his having seat
orders to the Senate to direct a levy-enantasse of all persons in
Prance, frosts 18 to 40, able to bear arms; and on their not kn.
mediately complying with, or refusing to comply with, the order,
be immediately set cff to Paris, and put six of the Senators under
an arrest, to be tried by a military tribunal."
Government are in hourly expectatign of the arri-
val of the dispatches from Lord CoLzarcwoon, con.
taining the particulars of the defeat and surrender of
the army of General DTJPONT. The FAVOVRITZ cut.
ter, arrived at Plymouth, brought advice, that on the
6th instant a sloop of war spoke Admiral SOTHEBY;
in the Sr. GEORGE, and informed him that she hid
the dispatches on board with the glorious intelligence.
The following is an extract of a letter received at
Plymouth by the FAvocrura, which left the Char.nel ,
feet on Saturday last
The news of Durowes surrender, with his 15,000 men,
may be depended on, as we learnt it from a sloop of war, bound
►ome from Gibraltar with dispatches to that effect, this morning."
..—(August 6, 1808, off Ushant).
A vessel arrived at Plymouth from Corunna, has
brought advices corroborative of the intelligence of
Sir ARTHUE VittLEst.gr having landed his army on
the 27th ult. about 30 miles to the northward cf Lis-

bon, where he expected to be joined by a well-appoin-
ted force of Portuguese Patriots on the following
day. Important intelligence from that quarter may
now, therefore, be da;ly expected.
Considering the situation of affairs in Spain, it can-
not but appear surprising that we have not by this
time heard of immense French armies pouring into
that country; nor can the tardiness of NAPOLEON'S
motions in that quarter be easily accounted for, but

by believing that in another quarter he expects to find
sufficient business to occupy his arms for some time.
Austria is the Power to which every eye is turned at
this moment, and so general was the belief in the City
yesterday that a war would instantly burst out between
the twc Emperors, that Stocks suffered a considerable

depression—not so much from any apprehension as to
the issue, as from the expectation that, in conse-
quence, there would soon be a gnat demand for
money to make remittances. It was even asserted
with confidence, that Government have received dis-
patches from Vienna, by a special Messenger, in
which the apprehensions of a rupture betw.ten France
and Austria are converted into certainty.

The Court of Vienna, it is said, convinced that it I
is impossible to avert the blow that is meditated against
them, have become bold from necessity, and have
peremptorily demanded that the French shall forth-
with withdraw their garrisons from the fortresses in
&c. agreeably to the treaty of Tilsit, the con-
tinued occupation of which, the Court of Vienna could
view in no other light than as a preparation of hostility
against themselves. The Emperor FRANCIS has, in
the most formal way, constituted Fiume as an integral
part of his kingdom of Hungary. He would not have I
'ventured upon such , step unless he were prepared for,
the worst, and by identifying Fiume with Hungarye_sk
Measure whkh the people of that country have long
desired, he has given them new motives for opposing
the designs of the FrenCh Ruler to secure it to himself.

A circumstance lately took place, upon the truth of
which our Readers may depend, which places the
insolence of the French Government' in a very con-
spicuous point of view, though, unhappily, we want
no information in that respect. When the Emperor
of AUSTRIA had resolved to pay a visit to Hun-
gary, chiefly for the purpose, as since supposed, of
making the cession of Fiume, the visit was announced
to be of a private nature, and therefore he signified
to the Ambassadors from the several Countries, as-
sembled in Vienna, that he would not trouble them '
to follow him, as 'his stay would be short. All the
Ambassadors but ANDREOL-SY paid their compliments
to the Emperor on his departure, and readily acqui-
esced in his wial that they should remain at Vienna
till his return. ANDRROSSY, however, intimated his
determination to follow the Emperor, and notwith-
standing the repugnance which was manifested by the
Emperor himself and some of his Ministers, actually
traced big !tips, appeared like a
_spy to watch every
movement, and carried his inquisitive impudence to
such an excess m to exhaust the patience of the Em-
peror, and to draw on himself a stropg eiressicm of
personal disgust,

Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, his MAJESTY arrived
at the Queen's Palace from Windsor. At two o'clock
his MAJESTY held a private Levee. The following Mi-
litary Gentlemen had the honour of being presented :
General FINCH on hiipromotioo to the 54tb•Regiment.
Lieutenant-General NicoLts, on his appointment to the 66th
Regiment.
General GwTN, for the Lieutenant-Governorship of the Isle
•of Wight.
General CALCRATT, on being appointed First Major to the
Coldstream Regiment of Guards.
His MAJESTY afterwards held a Privy Council, and
gave audience to the Duke of PORTLAND and the rest
of the Cabinet Ministers, and left town for Windsor,
exactly at four o'clock.

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The Princess Amelia, Dicssotz ; and the inuills
Amor, from Grenada, are arrived o$ Dover : they
sailed from Tortola on the 26th June, with the fleet
for England, under convoy of his Majesty's ships CA.
'LLA, ROSARIO, and SATELLITE, and parted company
on the 26th July, in lat. 47. N. lops. 37.50. about
130 sail in 'company.

TORBAY, AUGUST 9.
Sailed his Majesty's ship Innostaa, with the Beet,
for Newfoundland, Quebec, &c. ; Halumatatt and
Loan COCHRANE armed ships to the Westward:—
Wind E.