Star.
London, England, 1809-10-11 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Lieutenant-General IslicnoLLs is mentioned as likely
:o bo the successor of Sir Gcoitce NUGENT, in the
command of the Kent District.

By a vessel arrived at Yarmouth from Flushing we
learn, that the sick were rapidly recovering in the
island of \Valcheren. Great numbers were daily dis-
charged from the hospitals perfectly recovered.
The Officers of the 9th Dragoons, who landed at
Plymouth on Saturday from \Valcheren, still remain
at Watkins's hotel ; the men have gone into barracks
at Stcke, near that town.

The 91th, or Scotch Brigade, have been embarked
sonic time in transports at Spithead, and will sail for
Guernsey immediately.
The half-yearly inspections of regiments in the
P. rtsmouth District were concluded yesterday, and
from the very good conduct of the different corps, the
General Officers who have inspected them have been
able to make the most favourable reports.

Mr. PIOUDMAN, one of the King's Messengers, ar-
rived yesterday at the Foreign Office, with dispatches
from Marquis WeLLULEY.

Earl BATHURST transacted business at the Board
of Trade yesterday.

Sir DAVLD DuNDAS held a public day yesterday, at
the Commander inthief's Office, in the Horse Guards,
and gave audience to a number of military officers.
Mr. O'KSZIPTE, to whom the Stage is indebted for
manylively and eccentric productions, and who has
been blind for nearly 20 years, has recovered his sight.

An alarming fire broke out at two o'clock yester-
day afternoon, at Mr. DANIEL'S, coachmaker, in
Greek-street, Soho. The flames spread with great
rapidity, and the roof of the house being pitched,
caught fire in various places ; but, by the assistance
of the neighbours and the firemen, it was got under.

iioLlTrtAt. CORRESPONDENCE.

The following have been puhliiheti this Morning,
.as correct copies of the correspondence respecting the
late overtures for forming an extended Administra-
tion

No. I.—(COPY).
LETTER SENT IN DUPLICATE TO EARL GREY AND LORD
GRENVILLR.•

" My Lotto, " Windsor, Saturday, Sept. 2S, 1809:
41 The Duke of Portland having signified to his Majesty his
intention of retiring from his Majesty's service, in consequence
of the state of his Grace's heslth, his Majesty has authorised
Lord Liverpool, in conjunction with myself, to communicate
with your Lordship and Lord Grey, for the purpose of forming
an extended and combined Administration.

" I hope, therefore, that your lordship, in consequence of this
communication will come to town, in order that as little titre zs
possible may be lost in forwarding this iMportant object, and that
you will have the goodnea to inform me of your arrival.
" I am also to acquaint your Lordship, that I have recrived his
Majesty's commands to make a similar communication to Lord
Grey of his Majesty's pleasure.
" I think it proper to add, for your Lordship's information,
that Lord Castlereagh and Mr. Secretary Canning have intimated
their intentions to resign their offices. I have the honour to be,
&c. &c. (Signed) " SPLNCER PIERCILVAL "

No. 11.-(COPY).
ANSWER FROM EARL GREY.
" SIR, " Howick, Sept. '26.
" I have this evening had the honour of receivi,,g' your letter
of the 23d, informing me, that in consequence of the Duke of
Portland's intention of retiring from his Majesty's service, his
Majesty had authorised you, in conjunction with the Earl of Li-
verpool, to clmmunicate with Lord Grenville and myself, fur the
purpose of forming an extended and combined Administration,
and expressing a hope, that in consequence of this communication
I would go to town, in order that as little time as possible may be
lost In forwarding this important object.
" Had his Majesty been pleased to signify that he had any
commands Tor me personally, I should not have lost a moment in
slit-wing my duty and obedience, by a prompt attendance oat his
Royal pleasure.
" But when it is proposed to me to communicate with his
Majt sty's present Ministers, for the purpose of forming a voin-
bined Administration with them, I feel that I should be wanting
la duty to his Majesty, and in fairness to them, if I did not frankly
and at once declare, that such an union is, wiih respect to me,
under the present circumstances, impossible. This being the an•
swer that I find myself under the necessity of giving, my ap-
nearance in London could be of no advantage, and might possi-
!ly at a moment like the present, be attended with sonic incon-
venience.

" I have thought It better td request, that you will have the
;oodness to lay my duty at the feet of his Majesty, handily In-
treating him not to attribute to any want of attachment to his
Royal Person, or to diminished zeal for his service, my declining
a communication, which, on the terms proposed, could lead to no
useful result, and which might be of serious detriment to the
country, if in consequence of a less decisive answer from me,
any further delay should take place in the formation of a settled
gf.vernment.-1 am, Ike. (signed) " GAEY."
No. 111.—(COPY).
FIRST ANSWER FROM LORD GRENVILLE.
%‘ Boconnoc, Sept. 23, 1809.

"

. .
" I have the honour to acknowledge your letter of the 23d in-
stant, and understanding it as an official signification of his Ma-
jesty's pleasure for my attendance in town, I shall lose no time
in repairing thither, in humble obedience to his Majesty's com-
mands.

" I must beg leave to defer until my arrival all observations on
the other matters to which your letter relates.-1 have, &c.
(Signed) mts:NvILLE."
No. IV.—(COPY).
SECOND ANSWER FROM LORD GRENVILLE.
" September 29, 1809._

" Having last night arrived here, in humble obedience to his
Majesty's commands, I think it now my duty to lose no time in
expressing to you the necessity under which I feel myself of de-
clining the communication proposed in your letter; being satisfied
that it could not, under the circumstances there mentioned, be
productive of any public advantage.
" I trust I need not say, that this opinion is neither founded in
any sentiment of personal hostility, nor in a desire of unnecessa-
rily prolonging political differences.
" To compose, not to inflame the divisions of the Empire, has
always been my anxious wish, and is now more than ever the
duty of every loyal subject; but my accession to the existing Ad-
ministration could, I am confident, in no respect contribute to this
object ; nor could it, I think, he considered in any other light than
a dereliction of public principle.
" 'l'his wer, which I must have given to any such proposal
if made whil: the Government was yet entire, cannot be varied
by the retreat of sonic of its Members.
" Tel), objections are not personal—they apply to the principle
of the Government itself, and to the circumstances which attended
its appointment.
" I have now, therefore, only to request, that you will do me
I the honour of submitting, in the most respectful terms, these my
humble opinions to his Majesty, accompanied by the dutiful arid
sincere assuranc- of my earliest desire at all times to testify, by
all such means as are in my power, my unvaried zeal for his Ma-
. .
jesty s servix. I have, &c. (igncd) " GRENVII.LE,"
No. V.—(COPY.)
LETTER FROM MR. PERCEVAL TO LORD CRENVILLE.

" My LORD, " Sept. 29, 1809.
" I lost no time in communicating to Lord Liverpool your
Lordship's letter of this day.
" It is with great concern that we have learnt from it, that
your Lordship feels yourself under the necessity of declining the
communication which I have had the honour to propose.
" In proposing to your Lordship and Lord Grey, under his
Majesty's authority, to communicate. with Lord Liverpool and
myself, not for the accession of your Lordship to the present
Administration, but for the purpose of forming a combined and
extended Administration, no idea existed in our minds of the
necessary of any dereliction of public principle on either side.
" Your Lordship may rest assured, that in communicating to
his M.ljesty the necessity under which you feel yourself of de- I
dining the communication which I had the honour to propose to
your Lordship, I will do every justice to the respectful terms, and
the dutiful and sincere assurance of your LordAip'sutivarical zeal
for his Majesty's service, with which the expression of that ne-
cessity was accompanied.
" I cannot conclude without expressing the satisfaction of
Lord Liverpool and myself at your Lordship's assurance, that the
failure of this proposal is not to be ascrilied to any sentiment of
personal hostility. I have, &c. &c.
" Lord Grenville." (Signed) " SP. PEaczync."
To this last paper it is understood that no reply
was judged necessary.
It had not, like the former, the character of an au-
thorised communication, it professed to be written
before his Majesty's pleasure had been received ; and
it contained, therefore, nothing more than the indi-
vidual remarks of the Earl of LavEaroot and Mr.
PERCEVAL.

The Harvest in the North of Scotland, we are happy
to learn, is already• far advanced, particularly in
Banff and Moray Shires, where the use of the scythe
has become pretty general.
Coax MARKET, MARK-LANE, OCT. 11.—To-day tl-e supply
of Wheat is somewhat considerable; sales are again heavy and
rather lower— Barley and Malt likewise—White Peas maintain
their prices •-Beans of the two kinds plenty and cheaper—There
arc considerable supplies of Oats, w•lth several cargoes of Foreign,
and sales thereof are rather lower, excepting prime samples.—
Flour at the late reduction, and fine 4merican also.

OLNg&AL CkflatENCY Ai LINDER t
Wheat, 78s. 90s. 10.1 s. Beans, 60s. 665.
Fine ditto, 106 s. nos. Tick ditto, 50s. 561.
Rye, 5.55. 69,. Oats, 275. 50s. !His.
Barl, 508.565. 01 polandditto, 330. 411.0 d.
Malt, 7as 116 s. Putatoe ditto, 425.
White Peas (boilers) 925.1009. Rape Seed, 481 to 541.
Grey ditto, 545. 601.
FL:sensor, 904. 9Sl.—§tcoalis 85s. !Os.

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FALMOUTIS; OCTOBER S. •
. .
. Arrived hii Majesty's ship Goldfinch with diatatches front
Cadiz. The Lyre frigate has sent in a Prussian galliet. Yes-
terday arrived the Hind Revenue cutter from a crulze : on Wed:
aesday she fell in with a French lugger privateer off the Edy.
stone, in the act of capturing two ships, which the Hind pre-
vented. On the next day, Thursday, the Hind fell in with tl e
same privateer, and. after a chase often hours, came up and con.-
menced a running fight with her, carried away her maintop-
mast,and all her rigging and sails, and ultimately.drove her un
shore among the rocks near Mcirlaix. 'The Hind had not a man
hurt, though she hadieventy thot.holrs in her main sail.

PLYMOUTH, OCTOBER 9.
A King's Messenger arrived here this morning from London,
with important dispatches fur Marquis WELLCSLEY at Cadiz.—
The Pickle brig, now lying in the Sound, is appointed to carry
him out.—Sailed the British Brig,Captain Stewart, for the Riveri
tke wind blwiting fresh from the eastward, she was obliged to
put hack again : off this port she fell in with a pilot boat from
the westward, from whom the received intelligence, that the
frretich lugger privateer, that has of late so much annoyed our
trade in the Channel, Was then about th:it latitude, and that she
had captured ye,terday morning, at seven o'clock, a large Eng-
lish brig deeply laden, about eight leagues to the westward of
the Bolt Tail. Arrived the Harlequin hired armed ship, Lieut.
Anstruther, front the Downs, and was immediately appointed
convoy to the eastward. Sailed the Hesper sloop of war for the
East Indirs, with dispatches from Governmeat and the Honour-
able East India company, to tot:ch at Madeira and the Cape of
Good Hope ; also the Alarm privateer lugger on a cruize ;
the Narcissus frigate to the westward.