Star.
London, England, 1812-12-22 00:00:00

latZellibNei THZO.4l.lfOltr COUNCIL.

Ar_,ltte.rdar

-fp g St. Thomas's Day, the different
Wardr in the City of London proceeded to elect their
Ward Officers for 1103. The Loan Kavort presided
at several of these assemblies for, the Aldermen wbo
were indisposed, or who, from other, causet. could
not attend., There have seldom be so few zontests
.as. on the'prei,ent occasion, and, we believe, never so
few changes, Put of twenty wards, which return not
less than 300 members, we only tind the fallowing
ch and they all proceed from resignation.—
N:rTaiv'e we heard of more 'than one death in this
large. body for the last. /2 months, and the vacant;
thus occasioned 'On Bread-street Ward) was filled up
in the middle of the year.
POIWROKEN WARD.—Mr. PARKER, &will(' in the
roam of Mr. Deputy ATKINSON, resigned ; ErowieltD
COLEBATCH, Esq. chosen the new Deputy.
CAWDLEWICK WARD—Mr. EATON, elected in the
room of Mr. POYKDER, resigned.
' ALDERSGAYE WARD.—Mr. 1). KAY, elected in the
room of Mr. ROSE. resigned.
The following Wards ,are contested. ~ The polls
continue to-day, and finally close to-ram:oak
FARRINGDON WI [MUT.
Mr. Waldman - 18 I Mr. Aar! *on
W. J. Reeves - 16 'Marriott -
Murrell - - 15
Harper - - 15 0
Quin'
'Crook -
3'. Reeve
Pontifet '-
Herring, Deputy
Bardin -

. 12
- 12
•CriAtti ' = 10
young - 10
•Robins - - 9
•Blsckett - - 9.
•Rosser - 8
•Hedjes • 6
Brewer, Deputy - 6

• - 141
- 131— 13
- • • - 12 1
This Ward return
FARAINGDO

as 16 Members.
IN WITHIN.
Mr. Walker . - 90
.Pearsall - 39
Daw - Si
Lewis 37
1411 h -
Stokes • - 90,
'Cue - 2.7
••Blacket - . • 00
'Oldham • • 6.
u 17 Mwobet&
ire new Candidates.

r. Pinder w - 43
Seatcberd - -48,
Cadvrell .• - 02.
Dunnett
Pritchard ,ft 41,
Whebie . 41
Crowder - - 40,
Cooke - 40;
Roberta -
Winter - . • , 39

This Wl* taut
Thom "'licked thus 4'

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THE FLIGHT OF BONAPARTE FROM THE BATTLE

OP ICRASNOI; OR, THE THREE " OFFS."

Brave ItoTo altss PIAT-vlr too,
Are names quite free from scoff, Siri
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But of the tAird, pray what think you*
• ' Nor BONAPARTE'S it,

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bur sympathy for the suffering Russians, is, .kre
are happy to find, by no means singular. There has
filrea‘dy been a Meeting at Isfaldbn,.ia Essex, where
a subscription for their relief has been °penes!, to
which a considesab!^ sum has been subscribed.

The following article is taken front. The Berlin Ge-
Zeite, of December 1 :_u The latest accounts from
the Prussian corps in Conrland, state in suhst....nee as
follow t The garrison of Riga having for some time
alarnied our advanced threatened our right
wing, and taken Lieut. Lonrti!..% with a small party
of 17 men, the Duke of TAILIIIITO deter Mined to ,
Arils. Am (mann. laftni. t.. lice Ar4abi.a. 1.40r0 R
and for that purpose sent the trench Gendral of Bri-
gade Bac.34k:Lti, who on the 12th took the coninsind of
an expedition, for thgt purpose, Which completely suc-
ceeded. According to the report of the Marshal,
the enemy by this expedition, which scarcely cost us
SO men in killed and Wounded, lost from 12 to 1506
prisoners. Considerable reinforcements hare been
ordered to the Prussian auxiliary caps."
. .
LetterS from Skveden state, that 1800 Prassians,
who tuarthed from Colberg to reinfOrce the army,
returned to 'that fortress after the first day's 'Mitch,
having poSitivelY refused to proceed.
, Three colliers, bOUtid front Shields to LonclOn;
were driven up the Frith of Forth, on Thursday night,
lEy Ale strong easterly winds. The Captatin of one of
(the Anh of Shields) has been washed over=
dw.4l
boitrd and drowned. ,
kansAn Ramo w beaptlful phenomenon
was seep
• , •
was seep in great perfection at Ecilnbtirgh, on Wed-
nesday night, about ten o'clock.
During,last week, three French prisoners were
,re!
leased and sent to Prance, for throwing,themselves
overbOard and saving the lives of British subjects,
who hid been upset cir fell overboard by accident.
4 Court-Martial was held lailweek on Lieutenant
R. N. Maacer, of the Alfred, for giving. orderi for
defacing the King's pistols, belonging to the said ship,
end for altering the same, not only for his own on.
Pate use, but for the ute of other personi, contrary
to the rules of the service. The Court .agreed that
the charges had been in part proved ; but, in consi-
deration of his forme good character, and the wohndi
he had ;received in the public service, did adjudge
film only to lose two years rank on the list of Lieute-
nants of the Royal Navy, to be severely reprimanded,
and to be acfmmaish,:d to be careful of his Majesty's
stores in future.

Saturday night, some villains attempted to force
an entrance into the house of Mr. Dodd, goldsinitli,
in Aldersg,ate-street ; when, being baffled in their at-
tempts to undo the usual fastenings, they actually
cut away one of the door-pillars, which was of un-
usual dimensions, leaving nothing standing but the
cap and base. They were, however, dit.:ppopted of
the fruits of their industry by the arrival of the watch.
man, on whose appearance they made a precipitate
retreat.
The following unfortunate circumstance took place
at Hammersmith, on Sunday morning last : —Mr.
PAYNE* a master lawyer at that place, had been much
insulted during the morning by one of his workmen,
Who had persisted iri creating h disturbance at his
door; when Payne was at length provoked to push
hifis aWay With some violence. The man fell down,
And unluckily pitched in such a way as to break his
, beck, which cashed his death in a few minutes.
111 The Paris Journals notice a Matrimonial Agency
Office, which has been opened by M. VILLIAUNIE, in
New St. Eustache-street, in that city. The personal
charms, fortune, and pretensions, of the candidates.
for the hymeneal state, are registered. M.VILLIAUM
in reply to the epigrams and pleasantries of the Pa-
risian wits, announces 206 marriages, the fruits of
his labours, within two years.

PAPAL :INTELLIGEXCE.

PALMOVTB, DECEMBER 10.
. We stated to have arrived list night, his
ship IPHIGENIA, instead of which,. it is the ANDRO
MACHE, with Rear-Admiral LINZER, wailing the ar-
rival of the Mediterranean convoy, hOurly expected.
Arrived this day, the Princess Elizabeth and Duke
of Kent Packets Prow Scilly, the former from Lis-
bon, the latter froth Corunna, with Mails, which were
landed at Scilly. Captain DAvirt, of the C t-reret
Packet (which left this op the 17th inst. for Cc, unna),
states, in a letter receivedllre ft ois him, of his h.. 'Ting
seen a frigate, which he supposed to be French, en-
gaged with two slo,ps of war, off the Lizard, and
ihat they were not seen long when the sloop: of war
made sail to the'Southward, and the frigate to the
-Westward. Pot in this day, with the loss of her
Main top-mast, the brig Jo'al and Thomas, H
ibt4 brith copper ore, bound to Wales. Arrived the
Traveller, Swart, from Lisbon, with fret for Lon-
don. A tadit Mai has also arrived. The I. .t Y•
KING Packet Sails this evening, with dispatches re-
ceived last night, for Lisbon. Wind S.E.
PLYMOILTIV, DEOEMETAL 20.
Arri*AthiS Mani/1g the French brig priVateer San
Souci, of 11 guars asdld men, captured on Thurs-
day last, after sec/rase of twelve hours by his Ma-
jesty's frigates ANDRO6ACUE and Batrots. The above
privateer had been outkrlSt. Maloes's slr Weeks, and
made two prizes : the Frederick Of. London, Capt.
Boni, firm the Sontb.Seas for London, after a smart
action of about an honr, in which Captain Bony and
three or four men were severely Wounded, and the
Mate killed; two or three Frenchmen were wounded.
—She also captured the Swedish Ship Speculation;
from Cork, bound to Lisbon, with provisions. The
French privateer, the night before she captured the
Swedish,ship, spoke :in English brig laden with bale
goods, that had previoutly been raptured by another
privateer. Arrived .be American brig Leaver',
Mitts, from Boston, SO days passage, bound to Bout-
deaux, Captured by the 13atrotr and Amintosucius
frigatei. Also arrived a French schooner, laden with
stores, captured bY.the CONSTANT gun-brig.—Sailed
the ildtROP cutter, for 'die Ceet off rest. The Caw
omit, of 38 guns. tame from the SomM to Hanitiase:
The MELANIPM frigate went under jury-masts to
Capviter, to be repaired. The rinaisus,of Sfignos;
was docked last night.
PORT. Fr, tttathlilee et. -
'htstou'r• -
Arrived the Brilliant, MATP.P., from Guernsey, an"
the Friends, But.ener, from London. The I,.aceo.e.
MONIAN was launched this morning from his
jesty's Dock-yard at this pert she Is one of the
largest class of frigates, and Considered as
.fine A mo-
ck' as any in the navy. She was imltiediately elite*
into dock to be Copperedi arid it is expected *lll be
ready tOr sea in a few days.
Arrived his Majesty's ship la, Hoene, frotn the
Downs., .Sailed his Majesty's ship Astemuna, for off
Cherborgh ; and the Et.orv, cutter; with a convoy,
for Plymouth. The Vevus frigate is appoitited con-
voy for the East Indies, and will sail to-morrow it the
wind be fair.=-Wind N. W. •

I,ARWICO, DECEMBER O.
. . .
. Tea Sall of Liverpodl slips arrived Gottenbuthi
t tailed. Sailed the lOll.4ing
packets: Lord Duncan, Lady and tar
Leicester, for Cottenburgh ; and the sing George
and Lark, fer Heligoland.—P. S. The Lord Duo-
'can packet is detained for a Messenger.
CORK, DECEMBER ict.
Arrived his Majesty's ship CUMIRRLARD, Capt.
BAKER, convoy to the West indies ; FORTUNRI, Capt.
S2TMOUR, from Plymontli. Passed up three brigs
and two sloops blowing a pie at E. imposiible to
board them.. '`Fhe Straw.' has arrived at Cove tsi
'take cos?voy to the West Indies.
A few days back, a sloop which hAd sailed froth
this haibour bound to Lisbon, laded chiefly with A
cargo. of butter, was boarded, under cover of a fog,
by a French privateer, near the Old Head of Kioitle.
tie prize not proving of a sufficient value to the
enemy, they threw the most considerable share of
the property overboard, hating previously pit the
sloop's crew in board a Vessel which has since arrived
in Kinsale harbour.

LEITH; DECEMBER 17.
•_-• the GALLANT 101n-brig arrived In the Roads on
Tuesday, from Gettenburgh ; she sailed hoist thence
about nine or ten days ago, With the following yes.
eels : Isobel, SihpsoN ; Dore, and Jasper, *Lam.
for Leith; Trident,. GAsannNa; and Wellingtow,
STzwART, for Belfast; Louisa,. MANI, for Lino:.
pool ; Nile, Bari., for Dumfries. She parted whfil
in a gale them shortly after she sailed. Fhe bog
Simpson and Jasper, arrived on Tuesday afters ~
Yesterday the Filuuri sloop of• war arrivetilellte
Roads from a cruize ; and the,NtenTixottilt Amp
Of war sailed for the Nose. Two Danish
prizes to the Ctio sloop of wAr and Gsu.A.Wtgeb-
brig, Arrived on Teesday.. Strong gales Minh the
eastward yesterday and to-day.

The following is zt list of vessels dettised in Gib. ,
raltar Bay on the news of the American cap.
Lured and sent in on their homeward passages :
Brig Margaret, Selby, Philadelphia; Ellen, Longfellow, Port..
bald; Tyger, Bartlett, Boston; Graee Ann Green, Wallace, Phi.
ladelphia ; John, Sears, Boston; Panlina, Field,
South Cuoljaa ; ship Eliza, Leslie, New York; AlLgany, EK
leth, for Algiers, with tribute; schooner Dolphin, Skinner, PIA.
la.delphia t Sally, Hall, Salem; and Phenix, Batchelder, ditto.
The following is a list of vessels in Gibraltar Bay,
from the United States of America, with flour, &c.
for Lisbon and Cadiz, and captured by his Majesty's
ships, on their outward passages:
. Brig Argus, Noyes, Providence: for Cadiz ; Julia end Mary,
Goodwin, Richmond, for —; Chatham, Livingston, Philada.
phia, for Lisbon ; John aed Yeyl, Curran, Norfolk, for Cadiz;'
Freatt, bavis Gloucester, tor Lisbon; ydia, Birtet, Philadel.
phia, for Cadiz;
ship Miser; Magte, Boston; Topaz, Davis,
; Apollo, Bell, Philadelphia ; Camilla, ()Elegy, gild
Wellington, —; schotiner Draper, Spain.
Also, the following vessels, under Spanish col Ours:
The ship Comnierce, Clark, ..Aleatendria, for Client ; el Condo
de Cimera, Clark, Baltimore, ditto; brig Louisa, Dyer, Memo;
aria, ditto; Juan, Dyer, ditto, ditto.

A letter from St. ttiomas's mentions, that a saw
hurricane was experienced there bn the Ist of °miles
Several vessels were driven on shore, and other* slip
ped their cables, and put to sea. Twelve boon las
blown down, and several lives lost.