Star.
London, England, 1808-05-02 00:00:00

REPORTED REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA.

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In addition to the intelligence we laid before our
Readers on Saturday, as having been received
through the medium of his Majesty's sloop of war
SNAKE, which left Gottenburgh Roads on the 23c1
ult. and arrived in Leith Roads on the 27th, we
have to state the arrival of the SNIPE gun brig in the
same anchorage.

The SNIPE left Gottenburgh three days previous to
the SNAKE, viz. on the 20th ult. when a report was
prevalent in Sweden, and currently believed, that
ALEXANDER had been put to death on the 2d of April.
The private letters received from Leith on this sub-
ject add, that the Emperor's own body guards were
the perpetrators of his murder, and that his brother
CONSTANTINE shared the same fate.

Whatever reality there may be in these reports,
they have not failed to make an impression on the 1,
markets for Russian produce ; hemp, flax, and tal- ,
low, are lower, in the expectation of a change in our,
commercial relations with that country ; and a po-
licy was on Saturday opened at Lloyd's, by which it
was agreed to pay 15 guineas, to receive £lOO, if
peace took place between Britain and Russia by the-
-Ist of June.

A letter from the squadron off Cadiz, dated the
6th of April, says, BONAPARTE arrived at Madrid
on the 27th ult.—Various are the conjectures since he
arrived. We have hopes that the enemy's fleet in
Cadiz will be ordered to sea. The MAGNIFICENT and
FAME are at Gibraltar; when they join, we shall be
12 sail of the line. The ILLustmous and ENDYMION
sail with the convoy for England. The ZEALOUS has
orders to proceed to England to be docked."
Letters recived at Hull last week from Carlsham,
dated the 15th ult. say, that the Englsh ships de-
tained there during the winter, were all ready
for sea, and anxiously waiting the arrival of a convoy
to bring them home ; but none had appeared at the
above date.
On Saturday the dispatches were finally closed at
the East-India House, and delivered to the Pursers
of the undermentioned ships, viz.—
lane Duchess of Gordon, Captain Cameron ; Bengal, Sharp—
A sufficient number of facts have not yet transpired Ceylon and
(1 a: Bengal. s
za Vincent, Captain Samson; Huddart, Nesbitt—Bons-
to enable any one to form a correct opinion of the bay
Revolution in Spain. But whatever were the move- 44,ceiatptain Eckford ; Streatham, Dale; * -
rielt-:aLdy Jan! ID:gcl.as
dras sad Bengal
ments that more immediately brought on the •:ata. , Large bodies of 7 Aradsers , have attacked the houses
strophe, the real eause must be sought for in the vices of numerous persons in and about Ballynamore, and
and decrepitude of the late Government. The ma- ' compelled the male inhabitants to take oaths of Ole.
chine was worn out, and it needed only the slightest giance to Captain Thrarher, under penalty of being
shock to make it fall in pieces. Spain had long been carded with a machine used in carding wool.
A letter from Galway, dated April 21, says—
governed by a Minister, who had no other aim than " This day, in consequence of the shipment of 70
to secure to himself the retention of his power : well tons of meal on board the Anne for Londonderry,
knowing that a state of war, by producing immediate the populace rose to prevent its sailing, and actually
inconvenience and distress, was likely to endanger his stripped her of her sails."
political existence, he made peace with the French Several bankers in the City have lately had forgedcheeks presented, and the imitations executed in so
Republic, and received the title, of seeming promise, masterly a manner, that they have been paid without
but of ill omen, PRINCE or Pascr.. Being become hesitation. On Friday one was presented at the house
the ally of France, he was involved in the vortex of of Down and Co. for £5OO, by a ticket porter, purport-
the largtr body ; he became, of necessity, the tool of ing to be drawn by Baron Wolfe, but which fortu-
n :tely was discovered. The man has been detained for
France. further examination. Amongst the houses who have
The Government of St. Cloud was too wise not already suffered by these frauds are those of Paasoorr
to foresee the advantages to itself from the dissentions and Co. to the amount of seso ; Smrrn, PAYNE and
of the Spanish Court and people ; and when the an- Co. £6OO ; MASTERMAN and Co. :E250; Bouzzao
and Co. 8200 ; Stags and, £4OO ; of which
cient Nobility of Spain gained the Prince of Arru- sums wire paid in single checks, purporting to be
st ‘s fee a leader, France was looked up to as umpire. from parsons who kept cash at their houses, and all
WI en the first imperfect accounts were known here within the last ten days.

General Amor has published at Lisbon what he
calls an Historical Account of the Actual State of
England in the year 1808. The object of this pub-
lication is to make the oppressed inhabitants of Por-
tugal believe that their sufferings must soon terminate
by the submission of England, now rendered inevit-
able by the distressed and ruinous situation to which
she is reduced. He draws his inferences chiefly from ,
arguments and statements made use of by cur Par-
liamentary orators !

THE EXPEDITION.

.4N MOORE le el Saturday morning at
o'cliick from his hos* in York-street, St.Jamea's-
square, for Ramsgate, to take the command of, the
Northern Expedition.
Mr. IC.sanowy, the Commissary-General, Jet . off
the same day. Dr. FRANKS gOes out as Inspector of
Hospitals. Mr. FERGUSSON, Deputy Inspector, left
town on Friday evening for Gravesend, there to em-
:bark on board the ()swarm transport with the whole
Medical Staff. The Expedition is expected to sail

" HARWICH, MAY I.

44 No further embarkation has taken place since my
last. The transports still =main here, though ther
wind is very fair ;.however as a frigate is now in sighs.
should suppose she is coming to take charge of them.
4, Generals CLINTON and FRASER, and suite, em.
bark here."

NAUTICAL ATELLIGENCL

',East-India House, that the following ships, outward
bound, were off the Cape de Verd Islands the 7th of

“ DEAL, APRIL 30.
“ Five hundred German Infantry, which arrived
here yesterday, have this morning marched for Rams-
gate, to embark. Sailed the RANGER sloop of war,
having on board two flat-bottom boats, for Harwich.
14 MAY I.—Several transports have taken on board
from the Naval Stores here flat-bottom boats ; the
skips of war have likewise taken some in a very great
hurry ; it'd it is expected the fleet will sail early to. 1
morrow morning. General Sir JOHN MOORE and his
suite are going to embark this afternoon, on board
his Majesty's, ship AUDACIOUS. Sailed the Edward
transport, I. E. for the Downs, having got in another
bowsprit.

" Remain in the Downs the Trusty, Viee-Admiral Campbell ;
Mars, Rear-Admiral Keats; Tigre SO guns, Audacious, Edgar,
Triumph, Minotaur, and Polyphemus 74 guns, Skylark, Ranger,
and Speedy sloops, Proselyte and Hound bombs, Piercer, Flamer,
and Tigress gunbrip, Pigeon schooner, and a number of trans-
ports with troops.—Wind S.S. W. moderr.te."

THE LATE FATAL DUEL.

The remains of Captain GRANT,
boned in the STAR of Friday last, as having been
killed in a duel with Lieutenant LArrow, have been
removed from Dover•court to Colchester, where part
of his regiment (the 95th) are in garrison, to be in-
terred.—An Inquest sat on the body, and the Jury
brought in their verdict--Magrlaughter.

An account has been received this morning at the

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March last, all well, via. ELPHDISTONE., WlNClinut
WAMSIIIt Cutts, PiKLNIX, and Ezsx;
A letter from Barbadoes, dated 21st of March, re-
ceived this morning, says His Majesty's brig
JULIA brings an account that five large ships have
been seen going into Fort Royal, Martinique. The
Admiral is off there before this time, as he was at
Dominica when the news reached him."
The Lancashire Witch, SICTARATT, is arrived at
Liverpool, from Barbadoes, which place she left on
the 26th March, in company with the Sarah priva.
teen, of London, and parted from her three days after
passing Tortola. The Venerable, Lawns, from
Liverpool, had arrived at Barbadoes, and expected
to sail from thence about the 10th April, in company
with the Thetis, CHRISTIE, and icingsraill, WAD).
A neutral vessel arrived at Barbadoes the day before
the Lancashire Witch sailed, and reported that a
Guineaman, with 300 slaves on board, was captimcd
and carried into Martinique, (name unknown) sup.
posed to be the Francis, Wausau, of Liverpool..
The vessels at Barbadoes were to sail on the 16th of.
1 April, to join the homeward-bound convoy at Tortola.

• CORK, APRIL 25.
Yesterday-morning the W est India fleet, consisting
of upwards of twenty sail, under convoy of his Ma.
jesty's ship AURORA, Captain MUIRE ; and Litman
gun brig, Lieutenant Coon I and his Majesty's ship
PRINCESS CHARLOTTE, Captain Toms, as far as Ma.
dein, sailed from Cove for their destination.

An affair of honour took place on Saturday mor-
ning in the fields at the back of the Cock, at Kilburn,
between Mr. S—, a gentleman who was recently
on the Staff of the Guards, and W—n, Esq. a Mer-
chant. The parties disagreed at the Opera Concert,
and they had met on Friday morning, but the com-
bat was deferred from a supposed interruption. The
combatants had three fires each, and in the last fire
Mr. S. was severely wounded in the cheek, the ball
having taken a slanting course, and his adversary
dangerously in the left arm. Captain P. and a Mr.
Rogers were the seconds. •
A coroner's inquest was, on the 28th ult.. held at
Maldon, on the body of Lieut. DUNDAS, of .the -4.1 d
regiment, lying in the barracks in that town, when it
appeared from the evidence before the Jury, that. the
deceased, accompanied by Captain Ltoirn, Lieute-
nant Hopancs, of the same regiment, and Lieutenant
WILLIAMS, of the 10th Dragoons, set off from the
mess-room about two o'clock in the morning, with a
candle and lan thorn, for the purpose of bathing in the
salt water, when Lieutenant DUNDAS was unhappily
drowned. The Jury, after three hours deliberation,
returned a verdict—Accidental Death.

The following are among the fashionable arrange.
menu for the week :
Tall' Byte:No—The Duke of St. Alban's Grand Dinner,
Stratford-place ; Duchess of St. Alban's Party ; Mrs. Benyon's
Rout, Grosvenor-square.
To ISDAT—Mrs. Benyon's party. Grosvenor-square; the Bishop
of Bath and Wells' dinner, Wimpole-street; the Whig Club (rui-
ner, Crown and Anchor Tavern.
WiZINISDAT—The Marchioness of Buckingham's Rout, Pall
Mall : Lady Elliot's Rout, St. latueie-square • Lady Hyde Par-
her's Rout, Cumberland-place ; Mrs. Bowie's Party, King-
street, Portman-square.
TiIURIDAY—The Marchioness of Lansdowne's Rout, Berke-
ierstPlare• n
of Essex'. Rout, Berkeley-square • Lady
Huise's Rout, Mansfield-street; Harrissn's Annual Grand Cour
art, Opera House.
SATVILDAT—Duke of Portland's Grand Dinner.
MAY DAY, which animates the creation, and inspires
us with love and jey, invited thousands of equestrians
and pedestrians yesterday to visit the rides and walks
in the vicity of the metropolis. The Parks and Ken-
sington Gardens never displayed a more crowded or
brilliant company. The carriages formed a triple
line from Hyde Park Corner to the gate of Kensing-
ton• Gardens. The ride, promenade, and banks of
the Serpentine River, displayed the, gayest and most
diversified scene. The carriages, from the fineness
of the day, were almost all open, and the fair inhabi-
tants elegantly dressed ; small caps to match their
pelisses, with lace quilling to the face ; a lace half-
handkerchief or veil, carelessly thrown over, was very
'general. Violet, lilac, jonquil, and azure blue, are
the prevailing colours • the silks were mostly figured.
But it was the fair pedestrians who displayed variety
of costume ; pelisses, long and short spencers, scarfs,
mantles, the fierce helmet, the simple gipsey, and the
shell poke, were equally prevalent ; but every Lady
sported her ruicile.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES, in a
curricle and pair, with two outriders, was in the ride.
Her Royal Highness was dressed in blue silk, with a'
gipsey hat. Her Royal Highness the Princess CHAR•
LOTTE of Wales was also in the ride, in her landeau,
accompanied by the Dowager Lady Da CLIFFORD.
Amongst the other persons of distinction who went
in the ride were
The Dachau of St Albans; Duke of Argyle; the Marquisses
iof Htadfort and Wellesley ; Earls Westmoreland, Stair, Jersey,
Sefton, Mountnorris, and Wilton. Amongst the carriages, we
noticed those of the Duchesses of Leeds, Bolton, Beaufort, Gor-
don, and Dorset; the Marchionesses of Townshend, Salisbury,
Wellesley, Downshire, Bath, and Buckingham.
Earl Gm drove four in hand. The Marquis and
Marchioness of WATERFORD were in a curricle and.
pair. Her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES
left the Past at half pasf3 o'clock.