Star.
London, England, 1809-09-18 00:00:00

TEL ARMY.

The E;r: cf CHArnAm, accompinied by the Larl
of rvitcorNEL, Lords L iiAra.Ls
.and Roc:. .%v MAN-
:Nos, Gitcrd 13:tows arm, Sir IL DoccLac;, the
Iron. Col!mel Uri,/ oN, Colonel 13tueli, Colonel BRAD..
rono, Colonel DAnnv, Colonel Cuts-, Captain Lne-
siscua!!, Cqtain HADUZN, Captain FAYLE, and the
1/evei.rJ 131tanFou1, embarked at Flushing cn
Thursday; on hoard the Venerable, of 74 guns, Cap-
tain Kix6. About. one o'clock on the same day, Sir
SatektraN and Sir 1-I. Portr.tx went on board'that
vessel, ~nd tcek leave of the Commander-in-Chief and
Lis Staff. At half-past one they returned on shore,
and the Venerable set sail for Deal, where she cast
anchor at half-past 11 o'clock on Friday morning.—
At one o'clock the passengers landed at Deal ; but
there being a scarcity of post-horses, several of the
office,s were detained there. The Earl of CIIATHAM,
idler taking some rdieshment, proceeded on his way
ra town, to Sittingbourne, where he slept on Friday
4t, and xrived at the Horse-Guards on. Saturday,
app.:ret:tly nod heahli. Lord C. MAN NEILS arrived
at ele house of his mother, the Duchess Dowager of
ItunANo, is Sackvillc-street, at ten o'clock on Sa-
tur,!ay nigh:. His brother, Lord R. MANNEas, did
not reach toh
n until six o'clock last evening. They
are both, we are happy to state, in perfect health.
Major-General Goss; DIR has been appointed Com-
mander-in-Chiel of the army at Fort St. George.
rive transprats have arrived in the Downs from
Aberdeen, having on board the 94. th Regiment, on •
their voya,c,,e to Jersey.

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The 14t1), .;Ist, and n'd regiments, part of Gene.
ral ficit:sTox's brigade, in transports, arrived at
Portsmouth on Saturday morning from the Scheldt.
The 11th will begin to disembark this day, and march
to Steyning ; the nd to Lewes ; and the .51st to
it.wham.

A drau.;lit of 900 men, of the :3d Regiment of
Glards, commanded b:: Colonel Sir W. Guise,
marched into Po.rtsmouth on Wednesday last, and
embarked for Portugal.

Part of the sick of the army from Walcheren,
amounting to nearly 700 men, were disembarked on
Saturday, and sent to the different hospitals in Ports.
notali and :he neighbourhood. The disembarkation.
was under the superintendence of Dcctor VEasritom,
• Stt;-geon-Gmeral of the I{inp,'s German Legion, for
which purpose he has been several days waiting at
Portnnouth. Amongst the spectators of this truly
e:3trosing scene were Lord COCHRANE, and his bro •
the:-. Colonel COCHRANE, who commanded the regi-
ment ef deta4ments which was formed in the Isle of
ri,bitt, expressly for the late expedition. Several
Of,iaers air sick at Portsmouth, and those who wish'
aie to be provided with most comfortable sick quar-
ters in the Royal Naval Hospital. The remainder of
tl:t sick are to be landed to-morrow. The 82d ap-
pears to have suffered most.
.The Herald, RonissoN, and the Soken, ItlritErt,
hoc arrived at Yarmouth from Flushing, with stores,
and p:ut of the sick. of the 4th, Bth, t2t)th, 28th, and
630 t Regirnents of Infantry, who have been landed
and Lent to the hospitals. The troops landed at Yar-
mouth imp) we daily, every attention being paid to •
them in their present situation.

Saturday the 2d or Queen's; 4th or King's, and 13d
Regiroents, disembarked at Harwich, and marched
thr Colchester. Such of the sick as were not able to
proceed with them we left in the barracks at Har-
ich,

\Ve arc harpy to hear that a-great proportion of
the kick. men now at Harwich, are doing well. A con-
Qeable number were yesterday able to join their
regiments, though they have only been a week on
shore. Only one died in the course of Saturday.
M,m(l.iy the ‘..).d Berks Local Militia, under the
eAnnwal of Lieutenant-Colonels KEARNEY and Sir
lulus XNE:IS, arrived in Reading.
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The regiments now form the garrison of
hover-11on•gumery, Buckingham, Warwick, and
Penh : the Anglesea and Cardigan are at Deal ; the
Itutlan.l and South Lincoln at Fulkstone, Hythe, and
tl:e forts adjacent ; the I.e.d West York at Reading
:rctt ; the Denbigh at Ospringe,. and the East Suf-
folk at Achford. The West Suffolk are at Sheerness,
;a the Isle of Sheppey.
The recruiting for the Militia by beat of drum is
as:onishingly productive, so much so, that most of
the regiments will have obtained their complement
by Christmas next. All parties must agree in giving
Ministers the most unqualified credit for this wise and
constitutional mode of filling the ranks of our ar-
mies, as the men are obtained at little more than a
?Garth part of the expence, and the necessity of re-
sorting to that partial and vexatious mode of con-
scription, the ballot, is dome away.
The Local Militia Bill will not be further acted
JpJa until the established Militia shall be completed.

i:!!:•act of a Letter from an Officer of Artillery)
Vecre, Island of \Valcheren, September I 0:
" are making every preparation in our regiment
• act on the defensive. I am going to-morrow to
! charge of a battery on Armingden Point, which
erecting there in order to prevent the enemy from
if they attempt such a thing from Beveland-
I 'A IS over in North Beveland yesterday to ascertain
the Listance from this to the nearest point in Bevelani
•vhere the enemy could erect batteries. 1 find we are
gitiiin cannon-shut of them, therefere •if they bring
..:o-am heavy orcluance, they will annoy us at Veere.



IVe are very well off acre tot provisions, taut we hatrt
consumed all the port wine in the country, and we
are anxiuttAy locking out for ships from Guernsey
for A supply. The medical men desire ii% to-drink
as much .ofit• as we can get. I fellow their advit.e,.
and have not been at all. emelt yet. Our troops
i have been in general very unhealthy, owing to the
heat of the weather, and king . exposed at night tp.i
•the heavy dews ; Ira they are getting better quickly.,
now that they are settled in quarters.o
Corporal punis'arrient for desertion has been abo-
lished in the arnir, excepting in cases of desertion
rfrom the depot in the Isle of NVight, and deserters are
'now subject to the severe pexalty of incorporation in
'the condemned res.iment.s. Two prison ships• have
been fitted up in the Medina, (Isle of Wight) for the
reception of deserters, and are said now to contain
700 waiting opportunities to be sent out to the regi-
ments to which they are to be attached.

A Cabinet Council was summoned for eight o'clock
I last night, and was' attended by a full meeting.—
Lord MULGRAVE, and others, who reside out of town,
;are their usual friendly dinners at the early hour of
tour o'clock, to enable them to attend the Council at
the appointed time.

Ali. Austrian Courier arrived in town on Saturday
with dispatches to prince STA lIREATtERG.

Yesterday evening dispatches from Portugal were
delivered at the Office of Lord Castlereagh, in,Down-
ing-street.

Since the arrival of Lord CHATITAIt from Wal-
cheren it has been reported, but we know not on what
authority, that Ministers have come to the resolutiLn
of abandoning that island.

Various rumours continue to prevail respecting
changes (partial ones) in the Administration ; but
they have not acquired that degree of probability,
much less certainty, that would justify our risking
wh it might appear an in:position on the public-. Ge-
neral opinion seems to direct its more certain expec
tttions to the dismissal of par:kill:lr (;fficers than to
eleir successors. Among other things, it is said, that
the Duke of RiciiNioNo will come from Ireland to
succeed Lord CHATHAM. It is also said, that Mr.
CANNING will not retain his situation, if certain
persons are admitted into his MAJEsTy's Count i 1
who they are, we. shall not venture to suggest.-
-We could mention others, but as the general com-
plexion of any change that ni../ take place is partial,
and looks to different parties fur the members of the
rew eficient Government, we shall not venture to en-
large farther upon so delicate a subject.
A lea r from 80.,t0n, New England, says, that it
was not expected that Mr. JACKSON would be able to
reconcile matters berveen the United States and Great
Britain, and that all intercourse must be suspended
until a -mutual good understanding was established.
With respect to France, it is mentioned that a ship
with a Messenger on hoard, would be dispatched thi-
ther, as that country had cot:rented to revoke her decrees.
It is added, that a treaty had actually been prepared,
which waited only for the ratification of the French
Government.

Captain jt \NTER, of Plymouth-Dock, late of the
CAmit-s, ::7pointed to the CRANE, a fine new sloop
of war, it.st latmched and fitted out at Chatham.—
Captain FOOT, late of the TISIPIIONE, is appointed to
the Limn -::DOE sloop.
The following are the names of the tradesmen who
concerned in the building of Covent Garden
Theatre :

Bricklayer and Carpenter . .
TT
/I..oArßLAtsit.
n.
Masan
Piaisterer and Cement . . BERNAscorst.
Smiths
MA CNAUGNTON.
Patt.LlPs.
Chandeliers CO L LINS.
Decorative Painter . Dilo N,

Mrs. CLARKS is at present at West Cowes, in the
Isle of IVight, in a house a few doors distant from
the one occupied by the Pri:zcess SOPHIA of GLou-
cEsrEu.

The total number of persons drowned by the up-
setting of the terry•boat at the Meikle ferry, near
Tainc, as stated in our paper a few days ago, is 14.7.
All their bodies have been found except 29.
Tl•e Masters of two of the packet-boats between
Leith and Kinghorn, have been fined, five guineas
each, besides expences, for refusing to take over pas-
sengers at tke proper hour of tide.

On Thursday next, being. St. Matthew's day, ac-
cording to custom, the LORD MAYOR, Alder-
men, Sheriffs, and Governors of the several Royal
Hospitals, will attend Di vine Service at Christ Church.
After a sermon, preached by the Rev. JOHN ROGERS
PiTAIAN, A. 13. they will repair to the Great Hall in
Christ's Hospital, lvhcie two Orations will be deli-
vered, in Latin, by RICHARD NEWTON ADAMS, and
in English, by TitoNfts AQUILA DALE, two of the
senior Scholars of the Grammar School.

A few dap since the parisH church of Great Maple-
stead, in Essex, was broke open and robbed of a silver
chalice, panel, and plate.
Several hundred French prisoners were marched on
Saturday morning from the Mill prison, Plynmuth,
to the prison at Dartmoor, escorted by the hfilitia.
Ftaxs.—Three cottages were consumed on Monday
lel
last at Halkerton,' in Devonshire,
hex against one'
owin to a small
quantity of unslaked lime being
of them • -and which kindled during e night after a
shower Of rain. An infant, three years old, unfortu-
nately perished in the flames, and its parents, in at-
tempting to rescue it, experienced considerable injury.
The workhouse at Yaxley was on Satiudayse'nnight
burnt to the ground.
This mor,,ing, between two and three o'clock, a
fire broke, out in Bear-Yard, Lincoln's Inn-Fieldn.
As part of the premises consist of the workshops of a
tallow•chandler, the flames speedily communicated
with great" violence to the whole buildings situated
in the centre of the Yard, and which are mostly oc-
cupied as slaughter-houses for the butchers in Clare-
Market. In less than an hour the whole pile of
1 buildings in which the fire broke out w4s in mins.
The flames have done considerable damage to the
windows of several houses situated North of Bear-yar4;
and the inhabitants were obliged to remove their fur.
nature. No individual has sufiered any personal in-
jury that We can learn. The e;ertions of the firemen
were, as usual, praiseworthy, and they succeeded in
confiaing the kelamage, in a great measure, to the
Stack of buildings in which the fire broke out.

Animir
ISTAPAL hVIELLIGIA'CR.

..41 GREENOCK, §L• PT.EMBER I. • ,
`Mc Platite7,ll4r.fsoN, 'one of the flew,- arriricl
. ,
yesterday Sailed froin Wegtil IBs7,GOtk,
July,: under convoy of the .Favourite
1:n1 oil iii company, and came through -the Ge.pa of
Florida. • On the passage, was joined by the 2nierald,.
CB4N4 from Kingston, arrived here the day before him:
the 21st August, the Pilgrim, CAMPBELL, of
this port, had her main-topmast and niain.-mast shat,
tered, supposed by lightning, and was two days towed
by the commodore ; could not learn if she had
mined any other damage. On the 27th in 'lat. 41.
-long: 46. die fleet was dispersed in a drmdfill
cane, which continued till next morning. during which
Captain Nta,soN passed several cotton bags and spars
with some seamen who had been washed overboard
some of the ships clinging to them, but it blowing
hard could render them no assistance; saw. the Robust,
.LANDELLS, next morning, all veal, and eight more of
the fleet, some of them with the loss of mizen-masts,
others main-masts, yards, &c. &c. A few days after
the gale, spoke the Favourite, GIIISON, of this port,
one cf the Leeward Island Fleet, bound for Liver-
, pool. .Spoke on the 2d Sept. in lat. 20. long. 45. the
American brig Ceres, —, out SO days, from Liver-
pool, Lound to Wiscasset.

The following are the Clyde ships by th:s Flcet,
viz.—the lane, WI I.LiE ; Robust, LANDELLs ; Lady
C mote, CoNNELL ; Ardent, Rtroni:; and Pilgrim,
CA .:P3ELL.

rrived on Wednesday, the Benson, SPENCER, from
T rinidad—snoke seven days ago, the brig Nelly act!
Peggy, of Ayr, from thence to Pictou, dismasted,
and was making the best of her way back to Ayr.
Arrived same day, the Countess of Crawford, AN-
STRUTHER,from Quebec; sailed tw•odays after the fleet.
• The Harmony, Mqvitt.t.Ax, arrived here on Tues-
day from Limerick. Spoke the Watson, TIIONINON,
from Quebec, in the River Shannon, bound to Lime-
rick, all well.