Star.
London, England, 1808-08-23 00:00:00

EDINBURGH, AUGUST 20.

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acquaintal with the recent counter-revolutions in
Spain. The last dispatches only carried out an ac-
count of the resignation of old King CRARLIA in. fa.
tour of Prince FERDINAND, which' excited great joy
among the Spanish inhabitants of the Havannah.
Accounts had reached New York from Madeisa,
of the rising of the Spanish and Portuguese pa-
triots, against the BoNAratcres ; but this intelligence
seems to have been discredited in. America.

.The Officer who arrived from the Baltic, (as men.
tinned in our last), did not land at Leith, but at Eye-
mouth, and immediately set off for London. The
Spanish troops, who had corresponded with Sir JAmzs
SALMAREE, were in the island of Funen, one of the
Danish islands in the Baltic.
Thursday, the 18th instant, a Court Martial was
held on board his Majesty's ship TARTAR) in Leith
Roads, for the trial of Mr. JOHN NEIL, Master of his
Majesty's ship Aambrr, on charges exhibited against
him by Lieutenant GEORGE PECK, First Lieutenant of
the same ship, for drunkenness, disobedience of or-
ders, contemptuous behaviour to him ; which
charges being clearly proved, the Court adjudged the
said Mr. Joins Nen to be dismissed his Majesty's
naval service. The Court consisted of
1 Ifice•Admlril Vasuoit, Commander in Chief, &c. President.
CATTAIHS.
harm HARM bliers OAL2 VASHOH
ARTHUR FARQUHAR OICOP.GR ANDRIWS.
riAvto K. WHYTE, ESQ. OE6:Ain Judge Advocate.

•
A few days back a French Officer and a Seaman,
who had effected their escape from the Bahama prison
ship, at Gillingham, near Chatham, a short time pre-
vious, were picked up by one of our cruizers, in an
open boat, within a league of the French coast, and
were last week safely deposited in their old quarters.
The officer, whose name is ROUSSEAU, has three times
escaped from his.confinement, and been as often re-
taken. -
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Saturday one hundred French Conscripts, most ofi
them fine young men, who had effected their escape 1
from Oporto, were received on board the several pri- ! PORTSMOU FM, AUG. s 2.
son ships at Gillingham; they were almost naked, I Sailed his Majesty's ships la FLECHE, for Ply.
-PODARGUS, with dispatches, for Spain;
hip
and gave a most lamentable account of the hardss ." n'A
CI outh ;
LDICORE, :old SHARPSHOOTER, for Guernsey. His
. Majesty's brig Resoeure is appointed convoy for
they have experienced. Being well acquainted with
the reverses which the French have experienced in Cork.—Wind N.E.
Spain, they have communicated that intelligence DLAL, 'AUGUST It
h the Downs the Fame, lissmost,
amongst the prisoners of all ranks, who are confined Sailed throug
for Jamaica, and the Surinam, HYNDMAN, for Suri-
at Chatham, among whom a general and rooted dis-
belief was established of the news we have reeeiv,2d nam.—Wind N.E. •
HARWICH, AUCUST 22.
from that quarter. An incipient coolness towards No troops have yet a: rived.—Came in this day the
BONAPARTE has been thereby occasioned, and they AUCKLAND paciset, Captain GEORGE: DEANE, with
now appear to think that he is not that great, and mails and passengers, from Heligoland.
good, and invincible character which they had hi- . YARMOUTH, AUGUST 21.
therto conceived him to be; and, when speaking of Arrived the Locus r gun brig„with the Davis' Straits
ships ; and the CALYPSO sloop of war.—Sailed the
him, some, even of the Officers, now that, his sun Vane gunbrig with convoy fur the Baltic.
appears declining in the horizon, assert that he is not ,
SHEgRNESS, AUGUST so.
worthy of the high situation he has obtained, and , Sailed the BREVEDAGERMN gun-brig, Lieutenant
that it is time that France should have a period put Deems, with a great number of vessels under convoy
to the' privation she has endured, for the sole pur- for the Baltic. The WINCIIELSEA has made the Bal-
pose of promoting his ambitious views. tic convoy signal, for the 20th instant, till A sh:p is
appointed.--Arrived the Timers., of 50 guns, from
Yarmouth ; it is expected she will go to Chatham to
Yesterday morning Lord Viscountslocitevu set out he paid off. The Oerx. is undocked, and the 'TOM
from Batt's Hotel, in Jermyn.street, with important cutter brig taken in.
dispatches to the Junta of Seville. His Lordship will Auce:s - 21.—Sailed the RACOON sloop of war,
embark at Portsmouth en board the SUCCESS frigate. Captain W,ss.cii, on a cruize. The CASTOR frigate,
Saturday the embarkation of a considerable num- which has undergone a thorough repair, on the slip,
ber of men aad horses, belonging to the corps of is to be launched to-morrow.—Yesterday Captain
Gunner Drivers, was just completed at Northfleet, Cumsineos, of the BOMBAY, of 71, gave a dinner on
when an express arrived, ordering their immediate board to the Admiral, Commissioner, &c. &c. and a
disembarks.tion ; we also understand that the expedi- party of Ladies. The ship was manned on the ant
don to which they were to have been attached has val of the Admiral, in a most pleasing and masterly
been ordered to stop till further notice. The object of style • the whole of the lower deck guns bring scaled
this expedition is kept a profound secret, and the .at the same time. In the evening there was a ball,
countermanding ifs proceeding has given birth to a ; and the company departed at a late hour, highly
variety of speculations. ! gratified with their excursion.—Sailed the SAM
The transports with the 18th Dragoons on board, ' GUARD for Yarmouth.
sailed from Plymouth on Wednesday last, under con. i CHATHAM, AUGUST 22.
voy of the E URYDICE and PRIM-ROSE, for Lisbon ; I Arrived, on the 17th instant, the Diticiosci,
since which they had a very fine wind at north. i!Awls zo, andVAI,OISOO3 sloops, from the river Thames,
The 51st Regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel Matewan- : to be paid off ; they were fitted to lie at Gibraltar.
Iwo, 700 strong, marched into Portsmouth, on Thurs. i The Dreinrce, Captain Awes, is rigging, and pre-
day, from Chichester, and embarked for Spain. paring for sea. The ENDYMION, Honourable Capt.
Saturday, the Yarmouth Volunteers completed ! Cam., is to be undocked the sth of next month, and
their 14 days permanent duty. They were on Friday fitted for sea immediately. The Biusetsbrig.sloop is
il,
reviewed by Colonel HARBORT, Lord Lieutenant for to sail to-morrow, and take her powder in at G
that County, who was pleased to express his approba- , gingham.
don of their soldier-like appearance.
The Ayrshire Militia, Colonel Sir Dam HUNTER
BLAIR, at Gosport, have volunteered their services in
support of the Spanish Patriots.
Saturday se'nnight the Londonderry Militia, 1000
strong, arrived in Cork, under the commaud of Lieu-
tenant-Colonel HEYLAND, from the Camp at the Cur-
ragh, and next morning proceeded on their route for
Mallow and Charleville, where they are to be stationed

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

'FROM LLOYD'S LIST.

GIATZSLIM, Avourt 22.—•-Passed by the Dart, Rowe, from
Plevrioundiand; Royal Edward, Mttirhead ; Commerce, Richartb
son; Alma, Fryer ; I.etitia Dodds; Diana, Allebard; Heim,
-George ; Adonis, Boyce; Virelltsley, Bruce ; Atlas, Newton;
Argo, Henderson; Kingston, Warden; Enterorize, Wilkinson;
Lucy, Blair !emir, M'lntosh ; Enterprize, Bennett; Pursuit,
Ford; Switzer, Lulton ; St. Mary, Ayton ; Gunstoite, ----;
and 'eve' others from Jan-vies, names unkr.osvu.—wiled the
Lilly, Nudity, for Malta, and Vine, durstA, fur Newry.
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NAVAL APPQIN'TMENT3.
' Captain MACKAY, to the inflesibk.
Captain GORDON. of the hl,.rcury, to the Active.
Li :utenant H. S. Jones is prontoted to a Commander, and ap►
poit•.tcd to le Grisson.
Lieutenant W. R. Satan is promoted to 'a Commander, and
appoint,. 1 to the Hunter.
Lieutenant Fleming to summand the Bumble schooner.

till further orders.
The King's County Militia have replaced the Li-
merick City Militia at Ballyshannon.
Wednesday a company of the 7th battalion of the
Artillery under the command of Captain WALL,
marched into Cork from Longford.
Thursday a division of the 68th Foot marched into
barracks at Hull, from York, and was succeeded by
the remainder of the Regiment on Friday.
Friday morning, the remainder of the 9th Gar.'
rison battalion, reduced by the recent discharges of
the men raised under the Army of Reserve Act, whose ,
times of limited service had expired, to about forty
men, left Hull, on the route for Bury bt. Edmund's.
Major JF.RENHAII DICKSON, a permanent Assistant
Quarter-Master-General, is appointed Assistant Quar-
ter-Master-General on the Staff of the Kent District,
in the room of Colonel DoNKIN.
General BLAKE, who has acquired so much distinc.
Lion by his virtue and valour in Spain, is a native of
that country, but his father, who is still living, is a
native of Galway. •
So certain is Government of the speedy recovery of
Lisbon, that preparations are already made for re=
estabilshing packets between that place and Falmouth..,
Two vessels have sailed from Falmouth with halal
gccds for Spain ; one for Cadiz and the other for
Corunna.
The Mediterranean packet is in future to touch at
Cadiz, for which place a mail will be made up for the
first time this day.
At one of the dinners given to the Spanish Depu-
ties, Lord ERSKINE, who was present, commented
very severely on the toast lately received with such
disapprobation at a _public meeting. 4, I dislike as
much as any one," said the Noble Lord, " many of
the measures that have been pursued by this country
towards America ; but I would never propose, in
Champaign or Burgundy, to drink the health of that
man who refused our brave tars a drop of water P'
The tradesmen of the Duke of CLARENCE illumi-
nated their several houses last night in honour of his
Royal Highness's birth-day.
Mrs. WARREN, the wife of the Manager of the New
York and Philadelphia. Theatres, died at New York
in July last,
Lord BOBO:MON, Sir VIENRY and Lady FITZHER-
BERT, are among the last arrivals at Scarborough.

The Nocton packet, arrived at Falmouth, sailed
from Jamaica on the 11th July, and the next day
spoke the Duke of Kent packet, with snails for Ja-
maica.
The Vicissitude, from Jamaica, that was on the
Goodwin Sands, is got off, and carried into the
Downs.
The Adventure, Bosom, o' Shields! is lost in DA.
vis's Streights..
The Young John, of Shields, viras lost in the River
St. Lawrence, on the 18th of June.
The Rattler, from Dav's's Straights, is arrived at
Borrowstounness with eight fish.
The Zees.ovs, 74, Captain PraRREFONT, fro n
Cadiz ; and the Consionner, Capt. farcnr;, with
convoy from the Cape of Goad Hope, Are on their
passage to England.
The following vessels from the Leeward Islands,
under convoy of the CAMILLA, are yet unaccounted
for, viz :—The ,Indetn Packet, . RINGE ; or
e,
Milne, PATTISON ; and the Duke of York, CASS, for
London ; the —, Foal), for Liverpool; Charnieg
Eliza, SCALLION ; and Inchittry,Caams., for Dublin.
The James, Danish schooner, from the Havannah
for Bourdeaux, is taken by the lan, and is arrived of
Dover.
The Neptune, MAGINN7S, from Liverpool 'arrived
at Old Calabar the 30th April, and was expected to
leave there for Camarrions in about a month. Captain
MAGINN is, on his ou:ward•bound passage, in lati‘ucte •
6 deg. 22 min. N. about twern.y ,eaguei from Cape
Mount, spoke the American vessel Daphne,
slave laden, which had sailed from Cabenda 00 the
14th January, bound to Charleston ; she had buried
the Captain, Doctor, all the officers, and JO staves,'
and had many skk ;. they were in great distress, and
at their very earnest request, Captain aetamos
spared them his second mate to conduct the vesszl to
Charleston
THE BLENHEIM AND JAVA.--4111 the circumstances
given in an article from the Calcutta Mosta& .1)
he
el.
encourag.nk a hope that these two ships may yet
safh, were mentioned in this paper some months since