Star.
London, England, 1813-07-15 00:00:00

DRESDEN, JUNE 21.

The Emperor passes almost every morning in re-
viewing the French troops who are in garrison here,
or who pass through this place. His continual acti-
vity is hereby surprising—he yesterday visited the
hospitals and bakeries. We continue to fortify the
new town ; a redoubt is constructing in advance of
the; Black Gate in the form of a star, upon which
more than 4000 workmen ale employed, and paid by
the French Authorities:. A great number of troops
have occupied a camp in front of the Black Gate,
upon the Weissenberg ; others are expected who ate
also to encamp in this neighbourhood.

FRANKFORT, JUNE C.O.
The Duke of Castiglione, Commander in Chief of
the Bavarian Army of Observation, set out this mor-
ning for Wurtzburg ; General Minard, Chid* of the
Staff, accompanied his Excellency.

BERLIN, JUNE 13.

ORDNANCE CONCERNING ACCEPTING RUSSIAN BANK PAPER Af

CIRCULATING MONEY.

" We Frederick William, &c. &c. make known the difficulty
which exists ter paying the expences of the war occasioned by the
considerable distance et the frontiers, and at this moment in-
creased by the most commercial places in Germany being in the
power of the enemy, make it a duty, for the success of the corn-
mos cause, and tor thew parts of our estates in which the arnnes
are at present, to tacilitare the means of payment for the wants
of the Russian army. And as the accepting the paper-money of
• great and immoveable empire, according to a rare fixed in
money by the course of exchange, dries not offer the same incon-
venience as the forced circulation of paper-money according to
its nominal value, and as experience has demonstrated that nei-
ther, difficulty nor injury resulted from the circulation of Russian
Bank Stills in our Provinces beyond the Vistula, and in the Duchy
of Warsaw, we have decreed as follows :

[Here follows the Decree, which consists of five
Articles, by which Russian Paper is to be received as
ready money till two months after the Russians shall
have left the Prussian States ; but is not to extend to
bargains made previous' to the issuing of the Decree,
and that the course of exchange is provisionally fixed
at 25 per cent. and subject to alterations.] (Moni-
ker, July 6.)
This Paper also contains three appeals from Gene-
ral Bulow, to the inhabitants of Berlin and its neigh-
bourhood, inviting them to give up their fire-arms,
and offer patriotic gifts to furnish the brave defenders
of the country with such articles as they stand in
need of.

THt4VENING STAR.

*lf LONDON.

THUESDAY, JULY 15, 1813.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Red. 56ii—Cons. 5631—f0r acc. 5711—Bonds 21. 3s. dis.
4 per Ct. 71 7:2-5 per Ct. 851—Oninium 4111 i pr.
Bk. Stock 2iB—Lg. Ans. 14i 3-16:las—EL Bids t:E. pr. Is. dis.

Paris Papers to the 11th have put us in possession
of SUCH ET's account ofwhat he is pleasei to term the
defeat of Sir JOHN MURRAY, on the coast of C:t t 2.
lonia ; and it has so much cf the character of wile.:
is vulgarly called a blinking" account of the busi-
ness, that but for the partizans which SUCIIET has
some how or other acquired among our brother Jour-
nalists, we should have confined our remarks to a
simple negation of his statements, firmly believing
him, like all his countrymen, to be I, a vain glorious
bo.ister, a magnifier of his own exploits, andan under-
valu.:r of the skill and bravery of his antagonists."—
But we have a double duty to perform—to detect
the fahelloods of S UCH ET himself, and to expose the
perverse fallacies of the personal enemies of Sir JoHN
Mutinay, who have taken the field as the champions
of his antagonist. We are told with a sneer (for we
know the %Au: of a happy introduction of Italics to
a weak or malignant writer) that his detractors do
not mean to insinuate with SUCHET, that Sir J. fslea-
nay was "frightened" by the advance of the French
force. A soldier's honour, like the virtue of the wife of
Casait, should not be called in question—but this
soldier is absent on a distant station in the service of
his country, and whatever cause of offence he may
have given at home, by possessing the confidence of
the Ministers, it becomes every Englishman to hold
up his hand and his voice in his defence, until, by the
arrival of his dispatches, he is in Court by himself or
his attorney. With feelings such as these,• we shall
defend him even with the materials which his adver-
sary has supplied, and we shall speak with the intre-
pidity of perfect disinterestedness, for we have no
personal feelings on the subject.
We have been accused of over-rating the French
army under SUCHET in Catalonia and Arragon—we
stated it to amount to 24,000 men—our authorities
were drawn from an accurate comparison of Spanish,
French, and English official and demi-official details.
Whence, we would ask, did the Editor of the Times
(for to this versatile writer, who has chiefly attacked
us, we now return the ingredients of the poisoned
chalice)—from what source, we say, did he draw the
following information contained in his Paper of Mon-
day ?-46. SUCHET, with Au army of tisuentyfive thousand
" men, has been for some time past at Valencia. The
" Lisbon Mail, which arrived on Saturday, witkpapers
" to the 20th ult. informs us) that this Qeueral broke
_• • •

" tip from his positions on the 4th uR. teav;ng ahem
" 5000 light troops in the lines, to cover his move-
'44 ment, and marched upOn Saragossa."
This Very accurate writer next asks where toe it-i
ceived our information that Sooner was joined by
the Garrison of Tarragona ? This querist might be
fairly put down, by asking him in the same flippant
way, g 4 was it likely that the Garrison of Tarragona
would remain idle spectators of the combat ?"—But
Sucner's narrative luckily comes to our aid. g, It"
was the raj:lance of the place (i. e. the Garrison of
Tarragona) and the march of columns from Barce-
lona and Valencia"—thus placing him between two
separate armies advancing from opposite directions,
that compelled, or as SUCHET will have k, II fright-
ened" the British General into a re-embarkation.

But let us now endeavour to estimate from Stl-
CHET'S dispatches the real numbers he was able to
bring against the expedition. From the moment of
the embarkation at Alicant, he was prepared :—he
ordered General DECAEN to collect troops—these
were the flying divisions to which we yesterday al-
luded.—SUCHET himself set out from Valencia. On
the 2d of June BEIMMIAINN Brigade, MusNEit's divi-
sion, and the brigades of PANNETIER and AIGRa-
MONT, had joined him. Three brigades and one
division, if composed of entire regiments, would
he a fcrce of nearly twenty thousand men.
SUCIIET says hehad only 6000 infantryand 800 horse
with him, but his regiments must have been like
those which crossed the Berezyna last winter, if this
statement be correct. At the same moment General
MArmEo moved from Tharcelona— what force he had
we are left to ccrjecture—iniced, it is necessary for
SUCHETIS individual glory, that this fact should be
concealed. It was numerous enough, however, to
contribute to “frio/./01" an I:n:7/A enemy !
What are we to think of the ..Engli.-h Dragoons
being overthrown by the Westphalian Horse, and
five battalions (all Ehglish, firm top to toe) being
beaten by a Trench Light Infantry Regiment ?

In common with some commentators on SeeitET's
dispatches, we lament the less of the 27 picces of '
cannon, and we are not silly enough, like others, to
say that they were useless, because if they were, they
had no business there. We lament also our loss of
WOO in killed, wounded, prisoners; and deserters,Ltit
we do riot think that Sir Jottrt MUBRAY has been de-
feated, or has failed in his efforts to rekindle the po,
pular war in Catalonia.
We fear, however, that the mention of dessr ter
(and 2.5 came in one day to SCCIIET with highly use.
ful information) gave Sir Jourt MURRAY anothcr
enemy to contend with ! So much for the indircrim:-
nate employment of foreign troops,
No mention is made of the glorious affair of Vit-
toria in the French Papers—at this we are not sur-
prized: but from Saragossa we learn, under date of
the Ist of July, that CLAUSELI with his army, had
safely arrived there, after beating all the Brigands
on his way—not a word of his visit to Vittoria! He
also, in his turn, was " frightened" away by Lord
WELLINGTON !

Yesterday Viscount SIDMOUTH had an audience of
the PRINCF. REGENT at Carlton House.

The Duke of YoRK .transacted military business
with the PRINCE RECENT yesterday morning.
The Duke of CLARENCE is nearly recovered from
his serious indisposition.

The Duke or KENT removed from Kensington Pa.'
lace, on Monday, to his seat at Castlebar Hill, for
the season.

Yesterday the Pntxcc REGesr dined with Earl
CONYNGFIANI, at his house in Stanhope•street.
Mr. GASCOIGNE gave a grand dinner on Tuesday,
at his house in Stanhope-street, May-fair.
Lady JONES had a grand party at her house in
!,Baker-street, on Monday night.
i• Miss JENNINGS had a fashionable party onTuesday
night, at her house in Grosvenor-square.

It was Lieutenant-Colonel ROOKS, of the Adjutant-
General's Department, who was mentioned in Lord
WELLINGTON'S dispatches, instead of Colonel BROKIE.
Honourable mention was also made of the former
Officer, in Sir R. Hiu.'s dispatches relative to the
affair of Arroyo Molinos, and in Marshal 13aattstortn's
respecting the battle of Albuera.

Last night the House of Commons adjourned to
Tuceday next, and the Bills which are now before the
Lords, it is expected, will by that time have under-
gone the necessary deliberations at the different stages
throne-1i which they must pass, previous to their re-
ceiving the Roy? 1 Assent. It is expected that the
Session will terminate on this day se'nnight, and Par•
liament, it is understocd, will then be prorogued by
the PRINCE REGENT in person.

This is St. Swithin't Dug; and it havingirained
most copiously throughout, the believers in ancient
augury expect wet weather for six weeks to come !

Sir F. GOOLD, Bart. and Mr. &RICE, of Glinsk,
yesterday w.tited on her Royal Highness the Princess
of WALES, at Kensington Palace, with the congratu-
latory Address of the Roman Cazholics or Ireland.
Her Royal Highness was graciously pleased to re-
ceive the Delegates in the most condescending man-
ner, and returned the following answer to the Address:
" I receive, with the highest satisfaction, this testimony of af-
fection for me, and your loyalty to the Crown. The Irish people,
of whom )ou form so large a part, have ever been distingulsbirl
by their generous spirit; and your body, upon this as on forgoer
occasion-, bas shewn that it yields to no class of his Majesty's
subjects in attachment to the true principles of the Constitution,
and regard fur the honour of the House of Brunswick."

An Imperial Decree, dated Dresden, Bth May,
1813, orders confiscation, with expedition, against
all and every s(3t of British mercha.ndizes and Colo-
niAl prcduce w:,ich are and may be found in the great
Duchy of Ihig, in Hamburgh and Bremen, and all
towns and places adjoining. The Douaniers to seize
All property w!lich may further arrive. The Decree
makes nu disCnction against licenked or other ships
which may have came in any. Qther wanner.