Star.
London, England, 1812-05-04 00:00:00

THE LATE FLAGS OF TRUCE.

Although three communications have been received
from France within the last ten days, ane only is
Understood to have conveyed propositions on the sub_
ject of the existing relations between the two coun-
tries. The two subsequent Flags of Truce, (one of
which came from Boulogne, and the other from Ca-
jais,) were merely apologies from the French Govern.
}cent for the mistake of the Military Authorities at
Calais, in firing upon the ship which carried over the
sesv3er of the British Government to the first com-
munication from France. The circumstances which
tendered it necessary for the French Government to
spologite were briefly these :—On the 24th ult. the
tottormt was dispatched by Rear-Admiral FOLEY
With dispatches for the Minister for Foreign Relations
at Paris. The CORDELIA anchored within a mile of
the Pier-head Battery at Calais, and sent a boat on
Jim with a flag of truce flying, under the direction
of the First Lieutenant. Notwithstanding of this,
bthveter, the enemy opened their fire from three bat-
teries at once, which compelled.Ciptain KENNEDY, of,
the CORDELIA, to cut his cable and run to sea. Next
day (Saturday) Captain KENNEDY, again made an
atimpt to have a communication with the shore, and
all day remained at anchor clear of their shot, with
the Bag of truce flying, to no purpose. The dis-
patches were then actually returned to Rear-Admiral
tan, in the Downs.*

Many conjectures are of course ventured on the
subject of the communications between the two coun-
tries. By some they are said to have related merely
to the treuttnent of the pris.mers of war, whose condi.
tion is to be greatly ameliorated. Others assert, and
with perhaps more plausibility, that circumstances,
such as those which we hinted at on Saturday, have
occurred, to postpone the EMPEROR'S departure for
the army, and to make it ari object of the first impor-
tance with him to gain time. It is now said, that in
&LW,* to his apprehensions of the fidelity of Austria,
bit bodily infirmities demand tranquillity and repose.
He is said to be suffering under an incipiect dropsy.

By the Volante, a Spanish merchant vessel, which
has arrived at Plymouth, from Gijon, we learn, that
the French hate entirely evacuated the Province of
the Asturias. The.only part of Spain which is now
completely undet the subjection of .the Invaders is
atalenia ; and even this Province they are not allow-
ed to occupy in tranquillity. The Volante also
brings a report, that BALLASTEROS had proceeded
from Seville in the direction of Madrid, while the
French, under SOULT, were pursuing their journey
northwards.

The Mary Ann Packet, from New York and Ha.
lifax, has atrived at Falmouth. She sailed from New
York on the 18th of March, and brings despatches
of importance from our Minister in America, on the
subject of the Correspondenc4, between the late Sir
LIMES CRAIG and Mr. HENRY. •

The disclosures made by HENRY, the American
Spy, still continue to occupy the attention of the
public, and we this day present bur readers with a
part of his correspondence with SirJA MES CRAIG, while
employed on his pretended mission to Boston. The
language of some of the American Journalists is as
might have been expected, highly inflammatory.—
The National Ink!!isomer, Mr. MADDISON'S favourite
Journal, is particularly severe in its animadversions ,
...Speaking of the pretended Plot, the Editor says !
" This whole affair one on which comment
would be superfluous. It speaks in a voice of thun-
der, which the very deaf shall hear. Instead of ap-
plying it as a stimulus to party fervour, let it become
&bond of union against a common foe, who, whilst
she was making lavish professions of friendship
through our Minister in England and her Minister in
this city, was perfidiously stirring op rebellion and
compassing 'disunion in this land, by secret agencies;
at the moment she was-pretending to hold out one
kaud in fellowship, with the other she was feeling fur
the vitals of the Republic, to which she might in the
dead of night direct her poisoned dagger."—(Natierral
lattifigeacer, 101 h March.)
And again, he proceeds
Whatever may be thought of the past, the public
will•not fail properly to appreciate the views of him
wha shall, after this disclosure, trumpet forth the just
Lice, clemency, and forbearance of Great Britain to
..tke United States. ,If such a one shall be found, let
him be marked as the foe to l reedom, as the part icida
.nemy of his country!"-('bid.) •
'n the mean time, Ministers, we have reason to be.

lieve, Save not been insensible to the dangerous con:
siquences of .popular burst of indignation in Ame-
rica against this country. The WEiTING schooner
was dispatched on Saturday;from Plymouth, with a
Messenger, for ow Minister in America, whq is said
to be the bearer of instructions of a conciliatory na-
ture. HENRY, who is the principal hero in the plots
is now in Paris, where, he arrived a few days since.

A Heligoland Mail arrived this morning, but the
intelligence k brings is uninteresting. The movements
of troops throughout the whole of the North of Eu-
rope, are daily mentioned, but nothing of their des-
tination is known.

A native of Heligoland was lately shot on the Con-
tinent, in pursuance of BONAPARTE'S Decree, prohi-
'biting all intercourse with that Island. Two others,
his fellow-travellers, were sent to the Gallies. .

The PRINCE REGENT has declined the invitation of
the LORD MAYOR, to dine at the Mansion•house.

i It has been reported that Mr.PERCEVAL has deter.
mined, as a matter of prudence, to offer to the Ca•
tholic Body three of their principal demands, viz.

" The removal of every existing impediment to their pro-
motion to the highest ranks in the army—a similar extension
of the opportunities of acquiring promotion with respect to the
navy—the same advantages in the profession of the law. But
he will not concede, at least for the present, the right of being
elected to seats in the House of Commons, or of sitdng in the
Upper House as British Peers, or as Representative Peers of Ire.
land or Scotland."
Lord COCHRANE on Saturday transacted business
with Lord MELv.u.s.a, at the Admiralty.

Admiral BROWN is to have the command at Jersey
and Guernsey, in the room of Admiral D'AUVERGNE.
Major-General LINDSEY and suite go to Barbadoes
in the MINERVA, Captain HAWKINS.
The GANYMEDE, Captain PURVIS, takes out Ma-
jor-General CLINTON to Sicily ; and Mr. BURROUGH
and Mr. A'CounT, to Malta : the two latter are
Commissioners for settling the *sirs of Malta.

Lieutenant LORD, who is intrusted with dispatches
from Governor MACQUARRIE to Government, left
the New Zealander at SG Helena, and went aboard
the Psyche, for whose safety, as we stated on Friday,
great fears are entertained. A number of passengers
embarked in her at the East Indies.
The East India fleet will sail from Portsmouth in
the early part of this week, protected by the MON•
TAGUE, 74, Admiral MANLY DIXON. The ships are
—Princess Charlotte of Wales and Thomas Grenville,
for Ceylon and Bengal ; Broibornebury, Sir God-
frey Webster, and Apollo, for Bengal direct; Dun-
can, for Madeira and Bombay ; and- the Juliana, for
Batavia. They are to be dispatched this day.

To-morrow the Commissioners for liquidating the
National Debt, begin buying daily £135,000 3 per
cent. Consols, or Reduced, which will take off the
market this week alone above half a million of stock.

Sir SIDNEY SMITH, on Friday last, went out in his
carriage for the first time since his indisposition.
Saturday the banks of the Serpentine River, in
Hyde Park, were crowded to an extreme degree by
people of every description, for the purpose of wit-
nessing a trial of Captain Marant's invention for
saving the lives of wrecked seamen. The apparatus,
which was very simple, lay upon the- south side of
the river. A tree upon the opposite side was the
substitute for the ship in distress, and at the third
discharge of the mortar, a ball with one end of a rope
attached to it (the other being kept fast near the
mortar) was sent right over the tree. It is unnecessary
to state, that it is by means of the rope the fives of
the wrecked are to be saved. When a vessel is
wrecked half a mile, or farther, from the shore, it is
immediately ascertained what quantity of powder is
necessary to send the ball to the exact distance.—
Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of YORK, KENT,
CAMBRIDGE, aad CUMBERLAND were present at the
spot. A great number of the Nobility attended, but
the sharp breezes from the water began to be trou-
blesome at two o'clock, and the multitude diminished
in a very short time.
The New Zealander is arrived in the Downs from
the Southern Fishery. She touched at Port Jackson
lon her way home, and brings accounts that the co-
lony had been very plentifully supplied from India
with wheat, rice, &c. Governor MACQUARRIE was re-
paring to go to Van Dieman's Land when the above
vessel left in October. We understand that there
had been another flood at. the Hawkesbtiry, which
[
nearly inundated the settlement. Lieutenant Loan,
of the Marines, and a Captain CAMPBELL, came pas.
Isengers in the New Zealander; the latter has been
very successful in the pearl fishery in the South Seas,
land has brought a large quantity of pearls with him.
[ The letters from Port Jackson state, that in conse-
,quence of- a quarrel at the races, a duel had taken
place between Captain RITCHIE of the 73d, and Mr.
CAMPBELL, Secretary to the Governor, in which the
former was severely wounded.
An elegant hospital has been built by contract at
Port Jackson.—The condition on which the building
is reared isTather novel—that the contractors should
receive no money for the election, but be permitted
in lieu thereof to import '30,000 gallons of rum,
duty free.
The following letter from. Sicily was received by
the Maidstone :
ta Palermo Bay, March 5, 1812.
" Admiral Freemantle will sail for Tunis to-clor-
tew, in the Milford, to carry into effect a treaty for
the- release of Sicilian slaves. The Achilles, 74,
Captain Holies, goes to the Adriatic, to relieve the
Eagle, which came to Malta to refit. The Nautilui
has sailed for the fleet and Lisbon, with dispatclaeft
of great importance for Sir Edward Pellew and Lord
Wellington, the infoanation was obtained from an
Officer taken in a prize. Every thing_ is quiet and
amicable in Sicily ; the banished Princes are all in
official situations; and our troops are remarkable for
their exemplary conduct and good discipline. Seve-
ral Sicilian regiments are at Melazzo, which was for.
mealy garrisoned by English troops. Lord W. Den-
tinck has entered into a subscription, which has hen
liberally supported, fur the purpose of purchasing
corn in Egypt for the Siciliah poor. The Duke of
Leinster, Lords William Fitzger.ild, Montgomery,
and Malpas, and Mr. Howard (presumptive heir to
the Dukedom of Norfolk), and a number of English
Nobility are here."

NAVAL INTALLIGR:N6A

FALMOUTH, MAY I.
' Sailed the EAGLE critter tan a cruize: The Nymph
packet for Lisbon and Cadiz, is gone into the Roads.
DOVER, MAY S.
Last night a French row-boat, with about thirty
men, came close in shore ; she was observed by one
of our cruizers, and went in chase immediately, over
to the othercoast—she had a near escape.
PLYMOUTH, MAY I.
Arrived the American ship Lark, Hurcnovs, from
Bourdeaux, for Philadelphia, with between 400 and
500 tons of brandies and dry goods, detained 28th
alt. by the NIEMEN and A.RIIIDA frigates. Also the
Volante Spanish brig, from Gijon, for London.
Sailed, the Union (cartel), of this port, fur Mor-
laix, with 45 French prisoners, released on account
of age and infirmity ; the Monaisrowm and HIND
brig, with a convoy for Swansea ; the Neptune ten-
ders (1 and 2), for Dublin ; and the Worrino, of
4 guns, with a King's Messenger, for America.—
The GOLDFINCH, 18 guns, went into the 9ou'id, from
Igamoaze.—The ENDYMION is to be paid off.—The
DIANA was put out of commission yesterday—both
are in i bad state of repair.—The MULLET, 10 guns,
is ordered to prepare for foreign service.—The lugger
which lately captured some vessels off the Deadman,
ran down the coast of Cornwall, and from the sig-
nal post of St. Anthony, was seen to capture an out-
ward-bound ship, and to proceed with her down
IChannel.—Signals were made, but nothing put to
sea after her, except the FOXHOUND, Captain PARISH,
,which has since returned from an unsuccessful pur-
Isuit.—lt was not Salt who was pardoned on board
'the Colossus on Wednesday, but a man of the name
lof Lae. It was not known here that any other but
Salt was under sentence.—Wind East.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY s.
The LOIRE, Captain Scoomezeo, arrived at Spit-
head this morning. She sailed from this port about
two months since, to protect the outward-bound East
and West,lndia fleets, the former under convoy of
the ANTELOPE, and the latter under the JASON. The
ANTELOPE with the East Indiamen, parted company
off Falmouth, where the LOIRE and the remainder
came to anchor to avoid a storm then coming on.—
She sailed again the next day, and accompanied the
JASON and her convoy till within three. days sail of
IMadeira, when they were separated by a violent gale.
The East India fleet had not touched at that port
when the Lovas arrived, but were said to have gone
on, and only one West Indiaman came in. The
LOIRE left Madeira on the 4th ult. ands poke the
Newfoundland and Quebec convoys abour a fortnight
since, all well ; the latter under the protection of the
Pnizzair.—By a letter, dated the 16th of February,
we learn that the West India fleet, under convoy of
the CYANE, arrived at Barbadoes the Bth February,
all well • when Captain Cowen, of the CYANIC, went
into the 2bRAGON, and Captain FORREST of that ship"
into the CYANE, and proceeded with convoy. • Sir
FRANCIS LAPOREY, in the DRAGON, purposed making
the tour of the islands under his command, about the
18th of the above month.—We have the pleasure to
state, that when the Barton, West India runner, sail-
ed, the islands were remarkably healthy,•so much so,
that not a single invalid was in the hospital at Bar-
badoes. The PORPOISE store-ship, for whose safety
great apprehensions were entertained, arrived, with
General WALLIS and suite, some weeks after the
convoy ; owing to extreme bad weather end sailing
heavily. Bridge Town is remarkably gay, on ac-
count of theatrical amusements. No promotion
whatever has taken,place. The GLOIRE brings home
the nest convoy ; the STATIRA follows. The SPIDER
was expected daily from Surinam, when she will re-
main with the VESTAL and MERCURY, on the leeward
island station.
MAY 3.—Arrived the BRISK from the West Indies,
left her convoy in charge of the Peosamsus off St.
Catherine's. Also arrived the THRACIAN from
cruize. Sailed. the GANNETTE on a cruize, Casimir
for the Baltic, MISSELTO with a convoy for Guernsey
and Jersey, ROVER on a cruize, and the REGULUS
with French prisoners for Leith.—Wind E.
DEAL, MAY S.
Arrived his Majesty's ship SAN Dolma*, Sir It.
STRACHAN, and the Nortoz, from off Flushing ; the
RiEDPOLE sloop of war, frOm off Dunkirk. Sailed the
DRAKE sloop of war for off Flushing. Came down
from the River, his Majesty's ship Dimancir, and
sailed for Gibraltar • the Lovely Ann, RUMFORD, for
Martinique ; and the Rover, KING, for Halifax—and
sailed for Portsmouth under convoy of' the Loon=
gun-brig.—Wind N.E.
YARMOUTH, MAY s.
Sailed the LEvaari sloop of war, on a cruize; and
the ANACREON and PRINCE OF WALES cutters, with
iinpressed men and volunteers for the fleet. Arrived
the Barrism FAIR cutter, from Grimsby. Remain in
the Roads the Solebay, Beaver, and Hearty gun-brigs.
Extract of a letter from an Officer belonging to the
Antacaosiniz, of 74 guns, off Brest, dated April 18 :
• ,4 We are likely to remain on this station 6 months ;
the Colossus has just completed her 31 weeks—a
pretty good opell. I was in great hopes the blowiog
weather was all over, but we have had nothing but
gales since we arrived here.. A very nice looking
prize slipped through our fingers on the 16th; the
BULWARK was sent in chace, but the signal was made
for recal at sun-set. We reconnoitered the French
fleet yesterday, (the 17th) and found them as fol-
lows: viz. five sail of the line and three frigates ready
for sea
" L'Eylau, Admiral Allemand, R 4 guns; Marengo 80; Vete-
ran 74.; Diadetn 74 ; Nestor 74 ; Clorinde 98; Pugelle 36 ; Re-
venge 44.--BoILDINO, L'Orieut 80; Sirius 44.—Fl rpm o-Ocr,
Mercury 44 ; La Nymph 38.
4,N. g. The names of the last four we learnt from
an American, who also informed us that the French
have no intention to come out, to which we add our
firm belief." •
Attdmiral YOUNG sailed from the Downs on Wed-
nesday, with the Imeiteonmsce, PRINCE OF WALES,
MARLBOROUGH, and le HOGUE, to take the com-
mand off the Scheidt. The enemy have broughrt
ten sail of the line down t.) Flashing, which are'
ready for sea.
Rear-Admiral T. BYAM MARTIN is appointed td
the Baltic station, in the room of'Admiral Dunmasei
who has hoisted• his, flag under Lord KEITH, fir
Channel Service. The BULWARK, 74, Captain T
ilsowsz, is to be the flag-ship of the late Officer,'
AtirlliTAl MARTIN has haiste4 his flag in the AJOUEIR.