Star.
London, England, 1812-03-17 00:00:00

" FEBRUARY 6.

" Mr. QUINCEY presented petitions from Joseph
Ward, Esq. and from the Vermont Mineral Company.
" Mr. WILLIAMS, from the Committee on military
affairs, reported a Bill for detaching 100,000 of the
militia. The bill authorizes the President to call for
the whole, or a part, who are to be ready at a mo-
ment's warning, for a term not exceeding six months;
if called into service, the pay and rations are to be
similar to those of the regular army, and appropri-
ates one million of dollars.—Twice read, and referred
Ito the Committee of the whole.

“ The bill for the support of the six companies of
Rangers ; that for the support of the military estab-
lishment ; that for the support of the additional mi-
litary force, and that for the support of the navy, all
for the year 1812, were severally read a third time
and passed.

" Me. CONDIT offered a resolution, directing the
Committee on military affairs to bring in a bill for
arming the militia. The resolution was adopted
without a division:

,g On the motion of Mr. DAWSON, the House pro-
ceeded to consider the bill for the relief of the infirm,
disabled and superannuated officer* and soldiers of
the late revolutionary and present army of the United
States. The bill was agreed to and reported to the
House. On the engrossment for a third reading, the
Yeas were 54, noes 35."
66 FEBRUARY 13. ,

" The joint Committee of Bank applications made
a report. By this report all the petitioners for the
renewal of Bank Charters, are to have liberty to
,withdraw their petitions.

14 The Bill to exempt miners and aged people
from the Poll Tax, &c. was discussed, and refused
on a second reading."

,t WASHINGTON, FEBRUARY S.

" Five out of the seven of the Committee on Fo-
reign Relations cannot agree as to ulterior measures ;
and have agreed to let the session die away, with a
determination, however, to do something with the
Non-importation Act, in relation to which consider-
able disagreement prevails. There are too many ob-
stacles is the way to attack the unoffeuding Cana.

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and at *piestnt it is advisibk ivicatiier may ba
said, to do nothing.
" Are the French lieer its Repealed ?—Selio. offer
—For as much as this vessel, which was cle.zed otit
for St. Petersbnrgh, touched at Gottenburgh, irAt
loaded with colonial produce (of which part evi-1
dently came from Bengal and part from a Spanish
colony, Laguira, in a state of insurrection,) that if, as
the Captain declared; the Hero has not been bo irded
by any English ships of war, this must prozeed from
his being an Englishman in the disguise of an Ame-
rican, and that he entered the Baltic with British
convoys.

" Mark the facts : the Hero was a bona, fide Ame.
rican vessel, bound on a fair voyage, with all due
papers from the American pert of Marblehead to (we
had almost said) another port of an ally of France,
and the only article she had on board of Bengal pro-
duce, was a single box of indigo. But granting every
particle of this lying pretext to be true, whit right
had Bonaparte to condemn an American vessel thus
situated, if his Berlin and Milan Decrees were re•
pealed ? The dear friends of France are challenged to
furnish the shadow of a pretext."

We have received regular sets of the Moniteur and
other Paris Papers to the 12th instant. I'he follow-
ing is all they Contain relative to the Peninsula :

" MADRID, FEBRUARY 20.
" The insurgents have been completely routed at Altafulla,
near Tarragcna. They lost 1,800 men and two pieces of cannon)
which they had With them.
" General Reille is in pursuit of the enemy, and unfortunate
Catalonia will soon be delivered from its oppressors.
" Captain Montinol, of the 22d Dragoons, attacked and pur-
sued the bands of the Physician and Escalera, conshtitg of 500
horse. They formed in.uider of battle near Yebenes."

The Editor of the Madrid Gazette makes the fol-
lowing reflections on the occasion of the surrender of
Peniscola :

" The capitulation of this place is a proof that the true Spa-
niards, who have been forced to take part in the insurrection,
either through force, or in consequence of their passions, will at
last understand their duty towards their country and their Soya'.
reign. If other Chiefs had anticipated the example which Che
Governor of Peniscola has just given them, what blood and nils-
fartunes would have been spared unhappy Spain! That Gover-
nor, disdaining the offers made him by the English, to engage
him to deliver up to them the fortress, surrendered it to its true
sovereign, the King our Lord, by placing it In the heads of the
Imperial troops charged with the defence of his crown and rights.
The surrender of this place is a real less to the common enemy,
wbo wished to establish himself in the strong castle which de-
fends it, and which has ever been celebrated for the excellence of
its position. If the English were masters of Peniscola, they
could continue to feed the lire of insurrection in Vakncia, Arra-
gon, and Catalonia, by establishing is it a British colony as they
have done in Cadiz.

" GOD pant that this success mry awaken in the goals of Spa-
niards, instruments of England; or deceived by her, a sentiment
of love for the country ; and that they may direct this sentiment
in such a manner as to save it, as well as themselves, the evils
which a resistance, equally useless as fatal for Spain, must
produce."

" PETERWARADEN, FEB. 14.

" L ettcrs from the Turkish frontiers, for the authenticity of
which we du not pledge ourselves, state, that the Russians have
abandoned Belgrade, and descended the Danube. A repot is like
wise in circulation that Czerni Georges has offered to submit to
the Porte, provided his demands were allowed, the principal of
which w as his being named Payiha of Beryls."
" VIENNA, FEB. 16.

" The new General-in-Chief of the Russian Army, Count
Langeron, has notified to the Servian Senate, that the armistice
was at an end; and that, therefore, the Servians should place
themselves in a situation to recommence the war, and act in con-
cert with the Russian armies. This news has produced a dread-
ful sensation at Belgrade, the country being drained of provisions,
men, and money, and the Servians no longer evince the tame
order. It is added, that Czerni Georges has been obliged td em-
ploy very severe measures.

" It is said, that the Grand Vizier, after having collected the
different dispersed Turkish corps in the cantonments during the
armistice, ordered the corps d'armees, which was formed near
Adrianople, to advance towards the Danube. He wishes to open
the campaign with eclat, to efface, if possible, the impression
which his reverses have left in the minds of tho troops.

44 VIENNA, FEBRUARY 27.

"Some couriers who have arrived from Constantlnople,and lately
passed through this city, assert, that the roads leading to Widdin
and Sebumla are covered with Asiatic troops. The Grand Vizier
is at Widdin, where he is making preparations for the approaching
campaign ; and, it is thought, he is decidedly determined upon
attacking Servia."

Yesterday the Dukes of Yonsc and CLARENCE, the
Marquis Of WINCH ESTER, Lords CASTLEREAGH and
CHOLHONDELEY, had audiences of the PRINCZ RZGEN Tp
at Carlton-house:

Yesterday Mr. LISTO transacted business with
Lord CASTLEREAGH, at the Foreign Office, previously
to setting off on his mission to Constantinople.
GENERAL ELECTION.—Lord MILFORD hasexpressed
his intention of retiring from Parliameet ; and the
Hon. JOHN FREDCRIC CAMPBELL, MT. OWEN, aild
Mr. MANSEL, have declared themselves candidates for
Pembrokeshire.

The demand for seamen is so great that the im.
press officers take nearly from all protections. The
indulgence which has hitherto been granted by the
Admiralty of discharging men on certain conditions
is suspended, according to report, during the present
exigency.

Two battalions have been raised at Metz and other
depots, from among the Spanish prisoners. The
greater part of these unfortunate captives enlisted
under the belief that their services would be required
in Spain, when ai4 opportunity would be afforded of
deserting ; 'but after being dtganized, they received
routes for Germany.

It is not true that one of the Judge% was robbed of
his watrh, at Reading. He mislaid it for a short time,
and the report was spread that it had been stolen ;
but he soon found that he had only mislaid it. The
moral exclamations of some of the papers are there-
fore, in this instance, without fotiodauos.

• UP

THi ARMY.

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A Return, presented tp Row' o o:nmons,
gives the follavng statelnent of the,amount of the
establishment and-efectiver,Arength of the YeornAnn y
and ,Volunteer Corps of Grtat Britain:
Este% Effect.
Yeomanry, rank and flu. .... 013 10,517
• knfautry and Artillery, Ina ind file 15,114.5 4 9,4:4

. .—„„, ....,—.
'Total 99,359 68,643
Regulation of the ',Umber 6f servants and tonnage
for baggage, allowed to Offict.rs on board of trart.portS
proceeding to join t::::ir regiments on foreign service:
R..i.k,. 34-vai.ts. Tonnage (.1- Bazgage.
SulQtern
Cal tan' I
Major or Litut.-C01... 4 ...... ..........
Colonel 9 • S
General Officer 4 lO
The Leitrim Militia, 500 strong, commanded by
Colonel CLardaNTs, have marched into ltanalgate, to
replace the '2d Symerset : they area flee bodyof men,
and have furnished their quota for the line.
Tuesday and Friday the first and second divisCons
of the 9tlst Regiment, under the command of Major '
CocLAz, arrived at Montrose, on their march for
Aberdeen. Tuesday a detachment of the 4!d marched
through Montr.ne for lnverne.s.-

The 2d battalion of the 50th Regiment, after fur-
nishing a draft tor the Ist battalion in Powsgal, has
received orders to proceed from Jersey to Portsmouth.
The Sussex Militia marched on Friddy se'nuight
from Sheernelat on their route for the gast:rn Dis-
trict, and were replaced by six companies of the Ist
West York, from Chatham, for which latter plate the
2d Somerset have proceeded in two divisions from
Canterbury.

It is with extreme concern we state, that the Fly
packet, from Newry to Liverpool, which was lately
lost, and on board of which all perished, had a de-
tachment of the army as passengers, consisting of SO
men, chiefly recruits, belonging to the 18th Dragoons,
the 4Stli, 71st, and 81st Regiments of Foot.
The Walcheren disorder, whith had so long Ten-
dered some of our finest regiments ineffective, may
now be stated to be entirely subdued. The first bat-
talions of the sth and 6th Regiments of Foot, which
suffered so severely from it, are perfectly recovered,
and will sail trom Ireland to Portugal as soon as
transports shall arrive to receive them.