Star.
London, England, 1808-01-25 00:00:00

TURDAY. NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

:OWN OFFICE, JANUARY 23.
`JED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PAR-7
LIAMENT. . .

Tavistock..-The Right Hon. GEORGE
the room of the Right Hon. CHARLES
commonly called Lord Viscount Howtoc,
:BY, called up to the House of Peers.
,incoln.—The Right Hon. Join &w ax
;borough, of Methley Hall, in the county
the room of the Hon. WILLI:LH MON-
:eased.

IMIRALTY-OFFICE, JANUARY as.
from Admiral Montagu, Commander in Chief.
Majesty's Ships and Vessels at Portsmouth and Spithead,
W. W. Pole, dated on board the Royal William,
!he 20th instant.
the honour to inclose, for the information of my
issioners of the Admiralty, a letter which I have re-
Lieutenant Tracey, commanding the Linnet brig,
account of the capture of la Courier, French lugger
shews much judgment and gallantry in that Of•
te honour to be, &c. (Signed) c. MONTAO6.
His Majesty's brig Linnet, at Sea, Jan. 16.
,ve the honour to inform you, on Satur•
instant, Cape Barfleur W. by N. silt
,gues, I saw a French lugger in chace of,
ship and brig : the two latter I immedi-
and thought proper to run in company'
until night should favour my closing with
At half-past six P. M. the lugger conk'
ire on the ship, which she gallantly 're.
seven the lugger attempted to haul off:
.ig within musket shot rendered 7tis attempt
Ten minutes past seven I fired a broad-
ad and grape, with a volley of musketry,
Tried away his bowsprit and main lugg. I
him to strike.; instead of which she
lugg. I then commenced a steady fire,
tasted one hour and a half (with round, grape,
;ketry ;) during which time her luggs were
)wn, and as often hoisted (at -least ten
ifty minutes past eight, being in a sinking
_l, she had struck : proves to be le Courier
Cherbourg, commanded by Captain Alexander
minting eighteen guns, with a complement
men ; second Captain of which was killed,
• seamen wounded ; sails remarkably fait ;
days ; made no capture ; but came from
.4 Isles of Marcou at eleven A. M. this in-
?here she anchored for shelter from the late
am happy to add we sustained no loss, and
conduct of my officers and ship's company
warmest praise. ' I have the honour to
(Signed) T. TRACEY,
Lieutenant and Commander.
Letter from Vice Admiral Rowley, Commander in
his Majesty's Ships and Vessels in the Downs, to the
W. Pole, dated on board his Majesty's ship Princess
, in the Downs, the 19th instant.
ave the honour to transmit, for their Lordships' infor-
copy of a letter from Captain Spence, of his Majesty's
Pandora, to Commodore Owen, giving an account of the
of the French lugger privateer l'Entreprenant, of 16 guns,
I have the honour to be, Ste. (Signed)
1. 5. ROWLZT.
North Foreland W. Six Leagues, Jan. 14.
am happy to inform you, that about ten
before eight o'clock last evening, Folkstone
N. W. six or seven miles, I fell in with
ttreprenant, French privateer bigger, of sixteen
Id 58 men, commanded by Captain Bloudin,
after a chace of an hour and forty minutes, we
good fortune to come up with and capture
miles of the French shore, Cape Grisnez
south. From his being so very close to his
• (the b.:tteries firing over us) he persevered
:mpt to escape, till our musketry had woun-
Captain, the Second Captain, and four or five
would not shorten sail till we run alongside
the has been out three days from Calais, and
the brig Mary of Sunderland. She is a very
new lugger, and sails exceedingly fast. The
Ater joined in the chace, and assisted in re-
the prisoners. I have, Bcc. (Signed)
HENRY HUME SPENCE.

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
Harris, of Drury-lane, Middlesex, woollen-draper.
BANKRUPTS.

Barker, late of Cheapside, London, but now of Bread-
varehouseman, to surrender January 25, at eleven, Feb.
and March 5, at twelve, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr.
IM Jewry, London.
ton, of Lawrence Pountney-lane, London, merchant,
26, 30, and March 5, at ten, at Guildhall. Attornies,
Palmer, Tomlinson, and Thomson, Copthall-court,

John

Broom, of Long Alley, Shoreditch, Middlesex, victual-
tr and chapnrin, January 25, at eleven, February 6, at
March 5, at one, at Guildhall
of Holborn, Middlesex, glover, dealer and chap.
Lary 26, February 9, and March 5, at twelve, at Guild-
-ctornies, Messrs. Street and Woolfe, Philpot-lane.
Roser, late of Lindheld, Susstix, soap-manufacturer and
miller, February 2., 6, and March 5, at twelve, at
, London. Attorney, Mr. James Reilly, Stafford-row,
gham Gate.
Cassidy, of Waltham Abbey, Essex, shopkeeper, dealer
mcan, January t 6, 30, and March 5, at ten, at Guildhall,
Attorney, Mr. Syddall, Aldersgate-street. .
tier the younger, of Blackfriar's Road, Surrey, painter
glazier, January Zci, February 2, at two, and March 5, at
guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Meymott, Charlotte-street,
lar's Road.
:combe, of Horrabridge, parish of Walkhampton, Devon,
Lewarne, of Truro, Cornwall, William Hore, of Gram-
', Cornwall, Catherine Hoyte, of the same place, widow,
Burley, of Horrabridge aforesaid, and Richard Searle,
• same place, but now of Launceston, woollen-manu.
and partners, February 27, at ten, March 4, and s,lst
t the Pope's Head Inn, Plymouth. Attorney, Mr. Ed..
ty, 'Eavistock, Devon.
of Ferrybridge, otherwise Ferry-Fryston, Yorkshire,
coal-merchant, dealer andchapman, January 27, at six, January
at ten, at the Angel Inn, Ferrybridge, and March .5, at ten,
`lotel, Leeds. Attornies, Mr. W. Scott, of Leeds ;or
Exley and Stocker, Furnival's Inn:London.
cokes Dudley, of Gracechurch-street, London, merchant,
• 205, at two, and March 5, at one, at Guildliall....
, Messrs. Eaton and Hardy, Birchin-lane London.
of Hartshead, parish of Dewsbury, Yorkshire, rner•
manufacturer, dealer and Chapman, February 10, at
11, and March .5, at ten, at the Man and Saddle Inn,
r. Attornics, Messrs. Sykes and Knowles, New Inn,
or Mr. Francis Sykes, of Dewsbury.
Ils, late of Horton, bdiddlesex, and since of the Colo-
rish of St. Pancrass (but now of the King's Beads
baker, dealer and Chapman, January 26, February
'eh 5, at twelve, at Guildhall. Attornies, Messrs. M••
Veal, Abingdon-street, Westminster.
Hudson, of Salford, Lancashire, manufacturer, dealer
2man, February 16,17, and March 5, at eleven, at the
avern, Manchester. Attornies, Messrs. Halstead and
torth, Manchester; or Messrs. Milne and Parry, os.
London.

_ Fuller, of Yoxford, Suffolk, draper, grocer, dealer
•hapman, February 1,2, and March 5, at ten, at the /fell
Saunundhaut. Attendee, Mr. John RAbett, Calton, Suf-

folk; elf• Mears. Debit? es Derby, No. 1, ?anklet-court.
Inner Temple, Lagelest.
Robert Hanes, late of Kelsale,-Soffolk, eordwainer, dealer and
eltapmatt, February 1,2, and Ml.rck 3, at ten, at the Bell Inn,
Saxmundham. Attorney, Mr. John Rabett, Carlton, Saba.
John Turner, of Swelling, Suffolk, draper, Pura, dealer and chap-
man, February 1,2, and March 5, at ten, at the Bell, Sexasund-
ham. Anoraks, Mr. John Rabett, Carlton, Suffolk; Or Meson.
Debary and Derby, No. 1, Tanfield-court, Inner Temple.
William Daniel Halliday, of Bath-street, City Road, Middlesex,
livery stable keeper and grocer, February 2, at tan. Feb. 9, and
March 5, at one, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Pellatt, Iron-
mongers' Hall, Fentkurch-street.
George Eadon, otherwise Yeadon, of Bermondsey-street, Surrey,
leather-dresser, February 6, at twelve, Feb.-15, at one, and
March 5, at two,_ at Guildhall. Attorney, klr. Pearce and Son,
Swithin's-lane, London.
. • DIVIDENDS.
Jan. 23. Emanuel Partfuet, of Goswell Place, City Road, Middle-
sex, rectifier, at one, at Guildhall.
Jan. 23. Arthur: Lewis, of Banbury, Oxfordshire, mercer and
draper, at eleven, at the White Lion, Banbury.
Jan. 23. James Ward, of Banbury, Oxfordshire, dyer, at one, at

the White Lion Inn, Banbury.
Jan. 29. Benjamin iower, of Manchester, merchant and hatter,
at two, at the PaLice Inn, Manchester.
Jan. 27. John Julian, late of Robbers' Mill, Nottinghanishire,
miller, at eleven, at the Blackmoor's Head, Nottingham.
Jan. 29. Isaac Rowe, of Mile End Green, Middlesex, mariner, at
ten, at Guildhall.
PAR'

DISSOLVED.

Thomas Browning, Daniel White, and Margaret Sargeaunt, of
Lidney, Gloucestershire, mercers, grocers, and shopkeepers.
February 9, 1805.
Thomas Hughes and John Pyrite, of Uske, near PontypookMon-
mouthshire, japanners. Dec. 23, 1807.
George Snowden, John Dodgson, Thomas Occleston, and John
Charlesworth, of Clayton, Lancashire, calico printers. Ja-
nuary 13, 1808.
John Wood and Richard Chillingworth;of Birmingham, working,
. jewellers. November 27, 1807.
Sarah Sunderland and James Walker, in Burloigh-street, Strand,
Middlesex, livery stable keepers and coach masters. Decvm-
• ber 25 1807.
Charles itayo and Thomas Pearse, of Cloak-lane, London, attor-
Mee and solicitors. January 11, 1808.
George Williams, of Bristol, and William Wells, late of Plymouth
Dock, whip manufacturers. Nov. 14, 1807.
George Gates and Nicholas Dyer, of Brighthelrnstone, Sussex,
cabinet makers and upholsterers. Oct. 28, 1807.
Anthony Mandry and Francis Jaunay, of Leicester-se
'
dlesex hotel and tavern keepers. Jart.9.o, 1808.
Thomas Maylin and William Hewlett, of Silver-street, Golden-
square, currier, and leather cutters. Jan. 2, 1808.
Samuel Healey and John Parton, of LiverpooL Jan. 20,1808.
John Hemrningway and George Hemmingway, of Hightown,
Yorkshire, card makers. February 1. 1807.
William and Thomas Wilkinson, of Moorfields, upholsterers.
Jan. 16, 1808.
William Hodgkinson and John Davies, of Bond-street, linen-dra-
pers. Jan. 14, 1808.
lorence Plummer and Isaac Charles Bordier, of Holywell-street,
Shoreditch, chemists. Dec. 31, 1807.
;oho Lawrence and William Renshaw, of Birmingham, silver-
smiths. Dec. 31, 1807.
(The Gazette also contains three Addresses to his Majesty :
the first from the Magisttacy of Edinburgh ; the second from the
Merchants, &c. of Glasgow ; and the third from the Baillies and
Trustees of the united towns of Port Glasgow and Newark ; all of
them expressing a conviction that vigorous measures alone can
insure us a lasting Peace, and pledging the Addressers to .sup-
port his Majesty, or to fall with the honour of his Crown.]

!, Mid-

FOREIGN lATELLIGENCE.

PARIS, JANUARY 14.

The following Imperial Decree, additional to the
decrees containing measures against die maritime
system of England, has just appeared in the bulletin
of laws :

_
" At the Palace of the Thuilleries, Jan. 11, 1 Root.
NAPOLZON, &C. upon the report of our Minister of Finances
teeing our Decrees of the 234 November and 17th Decem-
cerriber, with the concurrence of our Council of Slate, we
have decreed, and do decree as follows :
. .

Aar. L When a vessel shall enter into a French port, or into that
of a country occupied by our armies, any man of the crew, or a
passenger, who shall declare to the Principal of the Custom-house
that the said ship comes from England or her Colonies, or coun -
tries occupied by English troops, or that it has been visited by any
Ei.glish veswl, shall receive a third part of the produce of then et
sale of the ship and cargo, if it be known that his declaration is
exact.

ART. 11. The Principal of the Custom-house, who shall receive
the declaration mentioned in the preceding Article, shall, in con-
junction with the Commissary of Police, who shall called on for
that purpose, and the two Principal of the Custom-house Officers
of the port, shall cause each of the crew and passengers to under-
go separately the interrogatory prescribed by the second article of
our Decree of the Yid November, 1807.

ART. 111. Any functionary or agent of Government, who shall
be convicted of having Etvoured the contravention of our Decrees
of the '23d November and 17th December, 1607, shall be prosecu-
ted in th? Criminal Court of the Department of the Seine, which
shall be formed into a special tribunal for this purpose, and puni-
shed, if convicted, as if guilty of high treason.
_ _

•
Air. IV. Our Ministers are charged, each in his respective de-
partment, with the s:xecution of the present Decree.
(Signed) NAPOLEON.
MADRID, JAN. R.

His Majesty, on the 3d of this month, issued the
following ..14.)ecree:
The abominable attack committed by English ships of war in
no 4, by the express order of that Government, when four frigates
of the Royal fleet, which, sailing under the full assurance of peace,
were unjustly surprised, attacked, and compelled to surrender,
determined me to,break all connection with the British Cabinet,
and to consider myself as at war with a nation which had so ini-
quitously violated the law of nations and of humanity.
So atrocious an aggression was a sufficient motive for breaking
all the bonds which unite one nation with another ; even.had I
not considered what I owe to myelf, to the honour and glory of
my crown, and to my beloved subjects. Two years of war have
elapsed, and Great Britain has not moderated her pride, nor re-
nouncer' the unjust domination which she exercises over the seas •
but, on the contrary, confounding at once friends, enemies, and
neutrals, she has manifested the fornral intention of treating them
AU withahe same tyranny.
From these considerations I determined in February last year,.
in conformity to the wisemeaspres adopted by my intimate ally,
the Emperor of the French and King of Italy, to declare, as I
have declared, the British Isles in a state of blbckade, in order to
see if that-measure would reduce the British Cabinet to abdicate
its unjust supremacy over the seas, and to conclude a solid and
durable peace. Far from that, the English Giareromenr has not
only rejected the propositions which were mad* on the part of
my intimate ally the Emperor of the French and King of Italy,
whether directly or by the mediation of different powers friendly
to England, but also having committed the most enormous of
atrocities and injuries, by its scandalous attack on the city and
harbour of Copenhagen, it has thrown off the mask ; and no
person can any longer doubt that its insatiable ambition aspires to
the exclusive commerce and navigation of the seas. Nothing can
prove this more evidently than the measures which that Govern-
ment has just' adopted by its orders of the 14th of November last ;
by which it not only declares the coast of France, Spain, and their
allies, and all those occupied by the armies of Other power, in a
state of blockade, but has even subjected tint ships of neutral
powers, the friends, and even the allies of England, to the visits
of English cruisers, and to be forcibly carried into an English
port, where they are to be obliged to pay a tax on their cargoes,
I the quantity of which is to be determined by the English Legisla-
ture.

Authorised by a just right of reprisal to take the measures which
shall appear to me proper to prevent the abuse which the British
Cabinet makes of its power, with respect to neutral flags, and to
see if we cannot force. it to renounce so unjust a tyranny, I have
resolved to adopt, and do hereby require there shall be adopted, in
all my States, the same measures which have been taken by my
intimate Ally, the Emperor of the French and King of Italy, and
which are of the following tenor.
[Here follows a literal Copy of the becree of the 28th Decem-
ber, issued on this subject by his Majesty the Emperor and King.]
Cascas 1r Frauce,-hrt. 19, end Moniterr, Jan. 90.

ANCONA, JANUZIJIM e.
We already perceive here the happy effects of the
Imperial,Decree of the 17th of December, relative to
the commerce with England. The greatest activity
prevails in our port. M. Passano, a speculator in prt
vateers, has lately fitted out two, which, notwith-
standing the absence of a part of their crews, set sail
at the end of two days. Three large vessels from
Messina, Trapani, and Syracuse, laden with salt,
coffee, wool, dried raisins, &c. have been brought into
Ancona. A fourth vessel, captured by the same pri-
vateers, is, it appears, detained by contrary winds in
a port of Dalmatia.

MOSCOW, NOVEMBER so.
The negotiations with Persia have taken the most
favourable turn. It is believed here, that a joint-
expedition against the English possessions in Hindos-
tan is in contemplation. Some French officers who
have served in that quarter, under M. D. Bussy and
other Generals, are expected at Astracan.

FRANKFORT, JAN. 14.
The wish to humble England animates all minds.
The German politicians are particularly employed on
the means of attacking her in the Indies, and striking
her to thi heart. The alliance of Russia, France and
Persia, appears to them adapted to accelerate this
project. The public papers of Germany are there-
fore filled with plans relative to this expedition.-1
Among those which have appeared, the following,
published in the Journal of Manheim, has attracted
*onsiderable notice.
The author sdpposes that the expedition will be
made not only with the consent of the King of Per-
sia, hut that that monarch will furnish the armies that
shall pass thmugh his territory with every thing ne-
cessary for their subsistence. He chuses Astracan
for the place of rendezvous of the French and Rus-
sian armies; and he adds, the Russian army will not
only be sufficiently provided with artillery and am-
munition, but the Russian Generals will take care to
have them is readiness fur the French, which, to faci-
litate its march, will take with it neither cannon,
ammunition, nor horses. The Russian army will
easily be collected at Astracan, but it will be neces-
sary to shorten and facilitate the march of the French
army. It has two points of departure, consequently
two routes to follow, to arrive at Astracan, one from
the Duchy of. Warsaw, and the other through Dal-
matia.
By the former, the army will proceed in a right
line to Zarozun, making a march of about 4601eagues
(or 230 German miles). There it will embark on
the Volga for Astracan, from which Lazuzum is dis-
tant about 100 leagues. Thus the French army set-
ting out from Warsaw will.have 560 leagues to go to
reach Astracan, 100 of which will be by water—a
march that will employ two months and a half or
three months.
By the second route, that is to say from Dalmatia,
the French army will make a march of about 140
leagues, to reach the Danube at a place proper to
embark. It will go down the Danube to its mouth
on board vessels brought from the Black Sea. When
arrived at the Black Sea, it will pursue its route, and
passing by the Strait of the Crimea, will land at San-
garoc, on the Sea of Azou. From Sangaroc it will
march to the Don, which it will pass near Piati Isbi-
anka, and proceed to the Zarozun, where it will em-
bark for Astracan,it is only about 140 leagues from
Sangaroc to Zarozun—it appears, that by this route
the French arm has only about '240 or '250 'leagues
1. to march by land, in going from Dalmatia to As-
tracan.

The time which still be employed by the French in
this march, may be estimated at about six weeks—
that is to say, about half the time of the former. Hav-
ing joined at Astracan, the two Franco-Russian ar-
nues, with their artillery, ammunitton, horses, &c.
will embark in vessels put in requisition on the Cas-
pian Sea, will traverse that sea, and arrive at Astra-
bat in Persia, after a passage of ten or twelve days.
From Astrabat the two armies, furnished with provi-
sions by the King of Persia, will pursue their route
through that kingdom for the Indus, where they will
arrive, after a march of seven or eight weeks.
It results from this plan, that a French army of
30,000 men, setting out from Dalmatia, and a Rus-
sian army (which may likewise be joined by a Per-
sian army) may arrive in the East Indies at the end
of five months at latest.