Star.
London, England, 1809-08-23 00:00:00

CAPTURE OF SENEGAL.

Captain COLUMBINE, of the Solebay frigate, arrivs.d
at the Admiralty yesterday with dispatcher., annot:r.:-
ing the surrender of the French Settlement of
on the coast dr Africa to his MAJZSTY'S arms. Ti..
particulars which hive transpired are briefly these
Major MAXWELL, the Military Commandant of
Island of Goree, hiving received intell g nce that the
garrison of Senegal was extremely weak, attacked
with 168 men, accompanied by Captain
in the Solebay. Our small expedition passed the Ear
with the loss of a schooner, whereby two Officers and
five men were drowned from the violence ot the swf.
The enemy retired to a battery about 12 miles nn t;
river, And preparations were made by Major M... 1.
wEix to carry it by storm, but it was evacuated at
midnight, and next day (the Bth of July) the Fort and
its dependencies capitulated. The garrison, consis•
ing of 160 French soldiers, are to be sent to France,
but are not to serve against this country until ex.
changed% The service was attended with no loss rf
lives except what is above stated. The Solebay un.
fortunately ran aground when silencing a battery, and
could not be brought cff. The crew and stores we:c
saved. The Solebay was a very old vessel.
The settlement of Senegal is the great mart of the
gum trade, on the coast of Africa. Eight hundred
tons of this valuable article were annually exported
to France and her dependencies. The above settle.
ment also afforded shelter to hordes of privateers,
which infested our trade along the coast of Africa.
The importance of this capture will be heightened in
every feeling mind by the reflection that it will afford
additional facilities for the more effectual abolition of
the nefarious traffic in Slaves throutlaout the civilaed
world.

Captain Com:snore left Senegal on the 22.1 of
July, in a sloop of war.

The Earl of YARMOUTH and Lord LOWTHER, who
arrived yesterday from Walcheren, brought d:s•
patches from Lord CHATHAM, inclosing a duplicate
of the Articles of Capitulation of the small Nandi
near Walcheren, which have before been given.
When the Earl of CHATHAM'S dispatches left VT2I-
- on the evening of the 18th, it was underst.-.
that the enemy bad lightened all their ships of v. ar,
by taking out their guns and stores, and had carved
them up the Scheldt into a situation totally cut of d e
reach of our navy. They had also, by the sirXrz
of old hulks,and other impediments, done every
they could to render the navigation of the river ill:.
practicable to vessels equipped for actual service
The French have, it is said, -also dismantled the
arsenal of Antwerp, where timber, sail-cloth, rop.ss,
and other stores, sufficient for the equipment yf
twenty-one ships, had been collected.

The circumstances attending the surrender of
important fottress of Batz, or St. Martin's,
tioned in the last dispatches from Lord
are somewhat remarkable :—A party of the (in.:id:,
consisting of about SO, who had strolled frcm tlie
army at Goes, the night after the surrender (I th.tt
place, finding no obstruction, proceeded along the
Wall on the south coast of South Beveland, and an,
rived unexpectedly at the Fort, when the Govern-r,
taking them for a detachment from the main army,
spiked the guns, and deserted it with the garrisvn.—
On finding themselves in possession of so invor•
taut a place, one of them returned to acquaint Cole.
ral HOPE with the circumstance, who immediately
ordered down several Engineers with the tnettn.,, et
defence. In the mean time, the Officer comman6,
at Achterbrook, knowing the importance of the siala•
tion to the further operations of the British atml:i
and disappointed at its suit-ender without either fit lig
a gun or ascertaining the nember of its assailarr,
ordered it to be attacked by several gun-boats, wa
a view to retake it ; five of which were driven on
shore" and burnt, and the rest were deserted by f;e::
crews. Batz, or Fort St. Martin, is a place of very
considerable strength, and its surrender of the h;g:icst
consequence to the advance of. the British ;miry
wards Antwerp—being only 18 miles from that r:....e,
and five from Fort Lillo.

Not calculating on the British army advincit,-; Fr)
rapidly, the greater part of the garrison, an.i tl/!
whole of the ammunition, had been drawn Jr to
Flushing, and was to have been replaced on ae fol-
lowing day, so, that had it not been frern the ;.i)ove
circumstance, the army would, no have
been detained a considerable time in reducing it, 45
it is allowed by all military men to
strength, and capaiole of -bolding out, ItAv
built purposely for the protection of the navia(;::10:
the Scheldt.

By French and Dutch Papers received last nig!,7,
we are informed that the American Minister 1:e.!
from Paris on a journey to AVM( rdam on the 'c;h

ult. but with the declared intention of returning to
Faris in three weeks, alter which he teal to take his
departure tcr Arne/ ica. We do not presume to ae-
crart fa r this cicceiniinatien of Va. A RDISTRO!..O •We
he;ieve :hat in the beginsing of July he flattered
tit;—e;l All the Lope of an amicable settlement of
all d ierces that existed bet vein Trance and
the Unir,-d States; but subsequent events seem to have
ch +ne.ed 'he resolution of BONAPARTE on the subject ;
and we l rvp reason to believe that the American
Mi-
p.s'er has left Paris with the conviction on his mind
g;,,,, Thneh GoTernment is now indispesed to his
We rave no doubt but that the check which
y,NALki,TE met with at Aspen; produced the placa-
b; ~ • Ira which Mr. Artm.rnoxo made his first au:.
7, 0,,,i ;hat the battle of Wagram had the effect
ct ;:..caging the tone of the French Emperor. Per.
hap;, if Mr. AnmsrßoNo had remained another week
pra-,5, the rupture of the Armistice on the Danube
rri;;;ht again have changed his resolution. However,
as he is to return to Paris, no positive conclusion can
be drawn from his journey to Amsterdam.
The Dutch papers contain an article purporting to
be the Order of the Day issued by the Archduke
CHARLES after the battle of Wagram, in which his
Highness is made to express great dissatisfaction at
the conduct of his army in that engagement. We
sincerely hope that this article will prove to be a for-
gen' ; f.%r the conduct described in it would disgrace
an army of undisciplined new levies.

Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, Princesses AL%
Got' and SOPHIA, accompanied by Lady G. Mit-
rAV, Count MUNSTER, Generals CARTIvaiGHT and
ET:ItOY, Colonels TAYLOR and DEs3itowE, rade in
NV ilesnr Park, till noon, and afterwards returned
Palzire.

A Cahinct Council was held yesterday at the fo-
reign Oa
BottatNe.DoN yesterday again entered into the
holy state of motrimeny. His Lordship was mar-
ried at St. George's church, to the Hon. TA LBOT,
sister to Sir Cit ~tit.LsTAAso-r, an amiable young Lady
of great persor..ii accomplishments.
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Letters are said t have been received at Plymouth,
stating, that St. Domingo surrendered on the 10th
to the united British and Spanish forces. The
part'culars are net yet known ; but it is said that
our alies made a very vigorous assault, which acce-
lerated the capture of the place. To the above, we
have only to add, that our Plymouth letters of yester-
day and t;its morning are silent on the subject.

Lord Wittiast RUSSELL, the second son of the Duke
f BEDFORD, distinguished himself greatly in the late
battle of Talavera, and had a most narrow escape.—
He was struck by three musket balls, and his horse
was shot in the shoulder and jaw ; his Lordship and
a private are all who are left of the squadron to which
hr belonged. Every officer in the regiment (the 23d
Dragoons) was killed or wounded ; and the charge of
this regiment is considered as one of the nit gallant
r!N:r was ever made, it being against three lines of
ini int-y, supported by cavalry and artillery.

: 2 f.-)ilowing extract of a letter is from an Officer
bt.:0n;4:117 to the division of the Expedition under the
I•l6rri,-. Of HUNTLY
. _ _ . . _

' zch.lbker, (a small village in South Beveland), Aug. 12.

"o.:r -'iv:sion of the if et sailed on the 27th July, ane anchored
3Octe:-.:1 the next morning. We were to have landed en Cad-
iz-4.41A the 71-inps were in perfect readiness ; but the landing
•A';.s not at!emp!ed. I am told the cause was the wart of a suffici-
s.-.• .5. rs of flat bostomed boats. We lay off C.....sand, for
befit or ten and were then ordered round t ocuth Beve-
ls-3 ".here we larded on the 9th instant, th island having been
pr- occ.:pied without much opposition, by str John Hope's
I he firing at Flushing having ceasad, I suppose we shall
irr.:ne.lie-elv proceed to attack Lillo and Antw....rp. A fordable
pa,s;.p. b,:en discovered on the arm of the S. clieldt which se-
parate!. !Hs island from Holland ; the passage is defended by 8000
ncr. 1 he enemy are said to have :0,000 men at I.illo, and 20,000
a: aln:werp. It is supposed there are 1.3,000 on Cadsand.

A Gentleman lately arrived from Holland, and'
-.vhc, left Paris the latter end of July, states that NA-
7oLtoN, in his late conduct towards the POPE, was ac-
tuated by a spirit of resentment, for his refusal to
si:irl'on his infamous usurpation in Spain. Upon
entrance into Madrid, he wrote a letter
to the Prn-it, requesting him to repair immediately to
that city, in crier to crown his brother Jot.:Pit. To
t!iis expe&er.t :e had recourse from the effect he cal-
culated open its producing on the minds of the Spa-,
ni:h people, devoted as they are to the Catholic faith.
The Pon, however, so far from complying with the
unprincipled request, or entering into the perfidious
projects of the Usurper, returned an immediate an-
swer, that he would sooner suffer death than prosti-
tute his sacred office to so infamous a purpose.
A Gentleman who is just arrived in town from
Amsterdam, which he left about a week since, states,
that the American Ambassador, General ARMSTRONG,
11.4 arrived in that city, where he had taken up his
resi(lence at the house of the American Consul, Mr.
llorie.L. It was not positively known- whether he
had formally resigned his diplomatic character, and
11:ici finally left Paris ; but a ship was expected to ar-
;re horn America in September, in order to curry
ticnie the General, it being deemed impossible to re-
sr.tore amicable relations between France and the
Ulited States.
FAIRS.-At Britford Fair, near Salis-
F;ary, en Saturday, 35.000 sheep and lambs were
enaed, and but few remained !inseld. The prices
ere full 4s. per head dearer than last year; ewes
'"etched from to 355. ; wethers 355. to 465. ; and
„trybs.lss. to 235. The preference was in favour of
Southdown stock.

At Lansdown Fair, on Thursday, a large quan-,
tay of cheese was pitched ; prices horn 565. to 635.;
many loads were carried off unsold. Very few good
''ores, and even inferior ones sold high. One gen-
.!eran missed his pocket-book, which contained near
A;01.

At WorceFter Lammas fair there was a very large
of cattle and sheep ; the former were rather
-p, ti the decline in price, the latter maintained the
3;,!•:.' prices as at the last fair, and many of both
voe driven away for want of purchasers. Good
were scat ce, and sold at very high prices.—
;o.vrnty pockets of hrps were weighed, current price
crn 14. ICs. to 51. Its. pt_r cwt.