Star.
London, England, 1808-08-25 00:00:00

The expels& attending it Cirithje;*to..' the titres Haase
Towns, Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh, notless
than half a million of nuffir. Lubeck and Bremen are to
send Deputies to be present at th;s fete. Twat triumphal
arches have been erected, and 150,000 lamps, with
all the materials for illuminations, fire-works, &c.
as well as the most costly viands, have been put in
requisition.
It is now rumoured that Marshal Bernadotte
(Prince of Ponte Corvo), will be created King of
Portugal, and have the chief command of the French
and their allies in Spain, to which country French and
German troops have, during the last fortnight, been i
sent by forced marches.
Bernadotte was at Travernunde, using the baths
fur the benefit of his health, when the arrival of cou-
riers suddenly obliged him to set out for Rendsburg,
of which place, according to some reports, the Spa-1
uish insurgent army have rendered themselves mas-
ters, and turned the artillery against their enemies.
It is much doubted, from what has happened, whe-
ther Bernadotte will really come to the festival of the
13th, as the Spaniards have, by all accounts, made
so unexpected a diversion. Probably the French are
now weak in Holstein, as several of their regiments
in this country have broken up within these few days,
and are on their march with all expedition for Spain.

~ Not less than 50,000 pieces of- nankeen have
been put into requisition by the French Commandant
at H4mburgh, to cover the walls of the Government
House, where a temporaryLbuilding has been erected
for the French Officers and their favourite ladies to
dance in, on this festive occasion.
4, The Lord Keith cutter, wrecked in a storm in
the beginning of the year, lies now- ready to sail in
the Elbe, off Altona. The Danes are likewise fitting
out a number of privateers to cruize in the Elbe and
Weser, to prevent all communication with England
b) way of Heligoland. These vessels are mostly
Blanckanese fishing-smacks. Since yesterday, all the
French and Dutch troops have also broken up from
-Holstein and other neighbouring towns, in Holstein
with the utmost haste to go to Rensburg ; and the
report of a defection on the part of a Spanish army
in that country, and of the landing of 18,000 British
troops in Fuhben, gains more credit every hour.
" It is reported, that the British fleet has defeated
that of Cronstadt, and that the Russians have discon-
tinued all further operations in Finland.

" Adv ices from Frankfort state that lettershave been
received from Trieste, with intelligence that another
English flag of truce has arrived there, with the news
that the insurrection in Spain was almost general.
and that the British regular troops had joined the
insurgents, and were engaged in a great battle with
the French when the accounts came away.
" The number of insurgents is rated at upwards
of 500,000, who have been joined by the remainder
of the troops of the line.

" The French military authorities at Hamburgh,
and in the North of Germany, exercise the utmost
severity : executions are daily to be seen at Ham.
burgh' Two Hanoverians and a citizen of Altona,
have been shot in Heiligengeist field, near Hamburgh,
by the sentence of the Military Committee for having,
as it was pretended, enlistedfor the British service. The
Gaud'arnta continually arrest citizens of Hamburgh,
Mona, and Lubcck, on some specious pretext or
other, to deliver them up to those tribunals of blood,
which remind people of the reign of Robespierre.
" The public misery daily increves every where in
the North of Germany. The populous and ruined
city of Hamburgh is entirely deprived of that great
resource of the poor at this season of the year—fish.
Neither the French nor the Danes will allow a fishing
boat to go out, and the Blankanese fishermen, who
lately presented a petition to the Prince of Porte Corvo
on the subject, were even refused permission to fish ; so
that all the fishermen in Holstein are nearly reduced
to beggary.

" The French Commandant de Place in Hamburgh
has just set out for Spain. The reports that Austria
is about to declare war against France still continue,
:nd are believed by many. A great number of sailors
daily arrive from Mecklenburgh, Pomerania, and.se-
Mal parts of Prussia, even Dantzick included, who
are driven by famine and distress to enter into the
French service."

RUSSIA.
From a friend just arrived at Yarmouth from Rus-
sia, where he has been detained for a considerable
time, we have received the following letter

" YARMOUTH, AUGUST 22.

44 After a detention of several months, I obtain-
ed
the liberty of returning to England. We were
hurried away from Revel before we had completed
our preparations. We were told that if an English
ship of war appeared we should instantly be recom-
mitted to imprisonment. Such were the positive
orders of Government.

" The Russian nation are by no means hostile to
us. As far as their wishes and their endeavours will
permit, we may carry on trade as usual. Tha had
been done by the connivance of the Government ;but
CAuuNcouur, the French Ambassador, sent his
agents, under the name of Consuls, to every sea-port
town, and stopped the communication with England.
This celebrated character is in reality master of
thc Russian Empire. He has contrived to remove
the greatest part of the Russian army far from the