Star.
London, England, 1814-03-18 00:00:00

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SECOND EDITION
IXSPATCHES FROM LORD
CASTLEREAGH.

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STAR. OFFICE, TWO O'CLOCK..

Mr. SHAW, the Messenger, has strived in Dows-
ing-street, with Dispatches from Lord Carrustr.aos,
dated at Chatillon, on the 13th instant.

It is not understood that he brings any dispatches
(Toni Lord BURGHERSH or Sir C. STEWART, and of
course there are no fresh accounts of military opera-
tions subsequent to those already known.

The contents of Lord CASTLEREAGH'S .dispatches
are not suffered to transpire—they will be laid before
a Cabinet Council, which has been summoned to
meet this afternoon.

Of this important fact, however, we can assure
our Readers, that no Preliminaries of Peace had
been signed, nor any Armistice entered into with
BONAPARTE, when the Messenger left Chatillon.

Mr. SHAW left Lord CASTLEREAGH on Sunday
mcFning last, and passed through Paris on Monday.
die was detained a considerable time in the French
capital from the dreadful confusion prevalent in all
the different departments of Government.

The Police found time, however, to rob him of
every Paper he had about his person, the dispatches
excepted.. He had with him several French News-
papers, as usual with other Messengers ; and, as we
understand, some ptivate letters on matters of friend-
ship and business.

Mr. SHAW was detained near a week at Paris on
his way to Chatillon, in consequence of some ma-
noeuvres of BONAPARTE'S Police.

Terror and despair were visible in the countenances
of all the inhabitants of the French Capital on Mon-
day last.

The barriers were shut and most part of the shops
and public places.

The reports of Yesterday that BONAPARTE had fled
to Rouen, in Normandy, re still unconfirmed ; it is
rather singular, however, that a recent Moniteur
boasted that Rouen was secure from any attack.
The following article from Bourdeaux, is extracted
from the French Papers. It conveys no account of the
operations either of Lord Wellington or Soult :

" Bourdeaux, March 7.

B.iron Lhuiller, General of Division, command-
ing the 1 Rh Military Division, has his residence at
the Hotel de FumiA."

A politician, hoar iag a-reprt- cif wirittle; is: v4dch
BfINAPARTZ was severely beaten, and obliged to re-
treat to Rbuen, observed, that he was by no means
astonished at it, as he considered the EMPEROR had
been for some time past going the Road to Ruin .

We hear of the Allies at Bar-sur-Aube and Bar-
sur-Seine, but neither seems a bar to their advance.

Bergen-op-Zoom was first attacked by the Spaniards
in 15t58, and was gallantly defended by Morgan, an
intelli gent-and ,enterpri sing Englishman. The Duke
of Parma, who 'vas aware of the difficulties which
he had to encounter, and of the almost impregnable
state of the fortress, endeavoured to shorten the siege
by bribing two English, officers, whose minds were
supposed capabk of so base an act. These officers dis:
closed to their Governor Morgan, the overtures which
had been made by the Duke. They were imme-
diately directed to go to the enemy's camp, and there
to enter into negucations. Parma, in the full confi-
dence of success, COHIMIS to their charge 4000 men,
with instructions to seize upon the town. The two
English officers themselves are posted at their head
between two Spanish soldiers, who had orders to stab
them should They betray their trust, or not succeed
in marching the detachment safely into the citadel.
—They enter accordingly ; but scarcely had forty
men passed the gate, when the port-cullis was sad-.
_dwell dropped. The Spaniards, finding themselves
shut up in Bergen op-Zoom, were afraid of killing
their leaders, while the whole of the cannon that could
be brought to bear, was instantly showered upon the
detachment that stood under the wall. Disgrace and
discomfiture fell upon the Spaniards, who were thus
caught in their own snare.

In 1622, the same place was attacked by the cele-
brated Spinola, ro whom the Court of Madrid had
given the command of an army of 60,000 men. After
having sat two months before the town, they lost ten
thous And men. This glorious resistance caused the
fortress to be called La Puce le, or the Maiden.
For upwards of one hundred years this Virgin re-
mained immaculate ; till at last in 1747, she was wad-
denly ravished, and robbed of a reputation which she
had enjoyed for so many years. After the battle
of Lantek, Louis XIV. ordered the famous Lowend-
hal to besiege the town ; which he accordingly did,
and took it by assault on the 16th September, 1747.
In a letter to Marshal Saxe, Count Lowendhal esti.
mates his loss at 400 men only, and he computes that
of the enemy at 5000.
Lowitiortat. lay before Bergen-op-Zoom with open
trenches more than three weeks, during which time
upwards of 20,000 men fell ill, and became useless,
through the contagious effects of a mash fever.—
When he determined upon storming the place, the
breaches were not yet practicAle. This famous
Captain, however, resolved to break through the pre-
scribed_tules, and by one bold and well• -erred
effort, lo
Such iethe
The
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in Warwic,

STAR OFFICE, THREE O'CLOCK.

•••••11110.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN.
" FOREIGN OFFICE, MARCH 18.
4 Accounts have bees received from Chaununt,
dated the 12th, and from Chatillon the 18th.
" The news of Marshal BLUCHER'S victory was ara
rived at Chatillon, and that General Sr. PRIEST had
retaken Rlaeims on the 12th, and made Three Thou.
sand Prisoesra.

" Prince SCAWARTiENBERGI who had remained at
Troyes, was moving upon Chalons.

ge General 131ANcnt had defeated AUOIMEAU at
Macon, bat the details had not been received.

46 The Plenipotentiaries were still at Chat;

THE ARMY.

Lieutenant-GenerAl FERGUSON is appointed second
in command of the British Army in Holland.
Yesterday morning a muster of the three regiments
of Foot Guards took place in the Bird-cage Walk,
when SOO men were drafted, ,and ordered to hold
themselves in readiness for immediate embarkation.
Yesterday the. West Kent Regiment of Militia arrit.
ved at Windsor to relieve the sth Foot, who at* or-
dered for immediate embarkation.

NAVAL !NIEL L IGENCE.

ARR. DUE.
Doblin I I C.arunris
Waterford 0 2 Heligoland
Cadiz 0 0 Oottenbtuils
Lisbon 0 1 PI-Aland
• . FALMOUTH, MARCH IS.

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Arrived about a dozen ships from Waterford, Cork,
and Wales.—Sailed the Walsingham packet with a
Mail for Surinam.—Wind E. cloudy weather.

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 17.

Arrived the William, HARRINGTON) from Water.
ford, with provisions.—Nothing sailed to-day.—Came-
into harbour the CLORINDR (late French) frigate.

DEAL, MARCH 17.

Sailed the GRIFFONS sloop of war, with General
TAYLOR, for Holland ; and the BADGER hired cutter,
with dispatches for Admiral YOUNG.—The OLYMPIA
cutter has a s'gnal for sailing to Portsmouth.

TERNEUZE, MARCH 1.

Eight English ships of war have arrived in our
roads, britsging the troops to be employed in Flat-.
ders, and these are to be followed soon by many
more. On passing before llreskens the French bat-
teries fired on these ships, but without causing them
any damage. •

The bodies of the six unfortunate sufferers on board
the 1336141iitiaai piciet have been can ashore some
miles to the northward of Rattrayhead, and decent!?
interred in the burial-ground of St. Combs, near the
fish-town of Cairnbulg.

The following is an Extract of a Letter from an
Officer on board the Asteutos, dated near Tholen,
March 8 :—" At one o'clock yesterday morning,
knowing some brigs of the enemy had moved down
from Antwerp on Lillo, the boats of this ship were
sent up the river with one of mine from the JASON, the
whole under,the command of the First Lieutenant of
this ship, myself second in command : we had hopes
of getting two by themselves, and clear-of the bat-
teries : we should then have had one a-piece. We
were disappointed ; five of them were manned with
picked men, were all in a lump, and close under the
batteries. At five o'clock in the morning we got close
to them, and endeavoured to ensure success by laying
one on board. We did so ;—five boats, with real
Briton's hearts, attacked one who was unfortunately
' prepared by all the arts of war for our recap-
tion. The whole of the flotilla commenced a beavy
and destructive fire on us ; the batteries likewise and
after trying all that British heroism could do, we were
obliged to retire, with the loss of four killed and fif-
teen wounded, out of sixty. The first in command,
I regret to say, is among the former. I escaped un-
hurt, and most miraculously ; for though knocked
off the enemy's upper works, I have not received any
injury. Not a man escaped without some mark of
the enemy ; for those who did not get wounded, had
work made for the tailois, by pikes through their
clothes, &c. Had we succeeded, Ido not hesitate in
saying, it would have been one of the most gallant
things done this war, and we should all have been
rewarded. We have met with defeat—but glorious
defeat ; and at this moment I reflect on the conduct
of the brave fellows around me with admiration."
SPORTlNG.—Saturday last, athalf-past one o'clock,
a very fine stag was enlarged before that excellent
pack of hounds belonging to the Newtownbreda
Club. Notwithstanding the severity of the day, many
able sportsmen attended ; the place appointed for his
enlargement was well chosen, being on the top of the
healthful hill of Castlereagh. He went off in grand
style, and although the hounds were laid on a few
minutes after, he led the high mettled pack running
breast high for upwards of a mike and a half ; when
to the grief of the sportsmen, he was entangled by the
antlers in a quickset hedge, but owing to the timely
assistance of one of the sportsmen, he was again set et
_liberty, and yielded txcellent sport running in the di-
InktiGn of HUGH CRAWFORD's, Esq. of Orange Field;
and, atter some circuitous windings, he made straight
for Hollywood Hill, where he was
' taken up,
alter a run of 25 minutes, through a deep and well
enclosed country, a distance of rive miles.

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