Star.
London, England, 1807-03-09 00:00:00

BULLETIN.

44 A King's Mellinger arrived this morning with
" difpatches from St. Peter(burgh, communicating
4' the Official Details of the operations of the Ruffian
64 Army in Pruffia. It appears that the ardent and
" perfevering gallantry of the Ruffian General has
" been crowned with figrial fuccefs—for feveral
fucceffive days he attacked the French Army,
1" always to advantage, but in the laft affairs to
44 their decifive defeat, they having on that occafion
44 101 l upwards of Twenty Thonfand Men, Twelve
44 Eagles, and feveral Pieces of Cannon.
" Great rejoicings have taken place at St. Peed-
" burgh, and the City was illuminated at the depar-
" tare of the Meffenger."
In the evening the accounts received by Govern.
ment were publi(hed in the following

LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.
SUNDAY. MARCH 8.
" A Difpatch, dated St. Peterlburgh, z 7th February aBo7, of which
the following is an extraeL was this day received from the
Marquis of Dount.as and CLTORSDALZ, his IWajeßy's Am.
baffador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Court of
St. Peterfburgh. by Lord Vircount Howlett, his Majetty's
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs :

•' I have the pleafure of inclofing, for your Lord-
fhip's information, two papers, giving an account of a
fignal viaory gained by the Ruffians over the French.
Trannation of a letter front General Di BUDD TIM, kis Imperial
Majefty'sliter for Foreign Affairs, to his Excellency the

Marquis Of DOUGLAS SOW CLTDISISALI.(3)-15th Feb otBo7.

" General Blloll6ltOt Minifter for Foreign Affairs,
haflens to communicate to his Excellency the Am-
baffador of his Britannic Majefty, the following in-
telligence which arrived Taft night from the army
" General BINSIGSIII, after having fallen back for
the purpofe of chafing a pofition which he judged
better adapted for manoeuvring the troops under his
command, took up a pofition at Preuffich-Eylau.
During four days fncceffively, his rear-guard, com-
manded by Major-General Base:4r sillTou.v, had
to withftand feveral vigorous attacks. and on the
26th Jan. (7th Feb.) at three o'clock in the afternoon,
the battle became general throughout the whole
line of the main army. The conteft was deilrunive,
and the night came on without the enemy having
been able w gain ground. On the 27th Jan. (Bth Feb.)
early in the morning, the French renewed the attack,
and the anion was conceited with great obftioacy on

both fides ; but, towards the evening. the enemy was!
repaired on all fides, and General Basasosee re.
rosined in polreffion of the field of battle.
I. Bona PART' commanded in perfon,and under him
blarihals AUGBILIAU, D'ATOVST, Souvr, Nav, and
Reissues, at the Head of the Guards, who [offered
the moll Our lots is from fix to eight thoufand
men, whiff% that of the enemy is eflimated at from
twelve to fifteen thoufand. We have alfo silken
Twelve lead of colours, and about fifteen hundred
paoners, among whom there are thirty officers.

" The Courier who brought the difpatches baying
been fent off immediately after the battle, the Mi-
nifiers of His Imperial Majsity do not yet know all
the details of the above-mentioned day.
"General Bunasac has the honour, &c.
• Trardlation of a Letter from General the Baron de Battotosow
so His Majefty the Emperor of gala, delivered by Lieutenant'
Coloaellravyrzat. Aid-de-Camp to Ws imperial Majcfty.
" On the lad of battle, Prenfleh-Ellan,
Jan. $7, (Feb. 8), any.

g' B.aa—l am truly happy to have it in my power
to inform your Imperial Maleßy, that the army, the
command of which your Majefty has deigned to
confide to me. has been again viaorious. The battle
which has jail taken place has been bloody and de.
flruaire. It began on the 26th Jan. (7th Feb.) at
three o'clock in the afternoon, and laßed until fix
o'clock in the evening of the 27th Jan. (Bth Feb.)

" The enemy was completely defeated ; one thou-
fend prifonert, and twelve Rand of colours, which I
have the honour herewith to trartmit to your Ma-
jefty, fell into the hands of the conquerors. This
day I:6IIAPARTI attacked me with his belt troops, on
my centre, and on bath wings, but he was repulfed
and beaten on all fides. His guards repeatedly at-
tacked my centre without the (mallet (uccef.. After
a very Wilk fire, they were repuUed at all points, by
the bayonet and by charges of the cavalry. Several
columns of Infantry, and picked regiments of cuiraf-

tiers, were dettroyed.
" I (hall not fail to tranfmit to your Majelly, as loon
as poffible, a detailed account of the memorable battle
of Prcutlieh•Eylau.
" I think our loft may perhaps exceed fix thonfand
men, and I certainly do not exaggerate, when I (late
the lots of the enemy at confiderably more than twelve
thoufand men."

From the foregoing details it appears, beyond all
poffibility of doubt, that in the bloody conflkis al-
luded to, the enemy, inflead of gaining any of the
boated advantages Rata in the bulletins of the
French army, has been completely foiled, and fuf•
tamed a confiderable lofs.

It was reported yellerday,that before Mr. Vic x left
Pcterfburgh, a French General who had deferted had
arrived there, and Paid that the French had loft near
00,000 men, by difeafe and the fword, !ince the in-
vafion of Poland. The nuluber may be exaggerated,
but we have no doubt it is very great. The Ruffian
army we do not believe exceeds too,ono, if indeed 4
be fo numerous. BOW/011TE has led into Poland
at 'call s 80,000. It is probable that he had fuperior
numbers in the late battle : but the Ruffian reinforce.
ments are but now beginning to arrive. At the com-
mencement of the campaign they could not be pre-
pared to refill the enormous force that unexpeaedly
invaded Poland. Their fuccefsful nand againft
the French hitherto is wonderful, and it affords a
moll flattering prefage of what they may effea, when
they are more on an equality in point of numbers with
their opponents. We do not believe that the French
troops will be brought to fight them again with any
fpirit. There is no hope of beating them but by dcf
perate fighting, and that the French like only by sway
of dafh. They can make a brilliant charge, but
to fight with almofi the certainty of being killed, and
with an antagonift that will fight till he is killed, is
what foldiers of fortune do not reliflt, and indeed is
hardly to be attempted by that fort of courage which
belongs to refleaing men, unlefs where the motive is
irrefiftible. But to maintain a warfare of this kind in
Poland, for no objea but that of a leader's ambition
(a matter that will now be openly difeuffed) the
French army will not long confent to do. It feems
very evident even now, that the French army is dill
contented. BO lAPAara has repeatedly, and in vain,
promifesl them winter quarters. He cannot keep his
word. All the fighting force November has been with-
out objea ; nothing has been gained. The Ruffians,
on the contrary, have gained every thing—gime, ex-
perience, confidence. Then the French have loft irre-
parable numbers, and that reputation which was worth
numbers.

In ill& eircumfiances, if Aunt is would aft boldly,
and by a decifive movement on his rear, interpofe be-
tween BONAPARTZ and,France, be would be utterly
ruined. The Ruffians, in his front, are a snatch for
him the Aufirians, on his rear, with So or soo,ooo
men, would render his efcapeimpotfible. Any other
mode of proceeding will not fucceed. Agamft him
every effort Would be direited ; and from his defeat
every thing that the Allies could defirc mitt after-
wards be Et(ely obtained. If Au trig does nct kite

this opportunity, the will deferve the fate which hat
overtaken Pruffia, as the punitlinsent of fimilar
cowardice and indecifion.

The next accounts from the Continent will proba-
bly inform us of the retreat of the French, and that
the Ruffians continue to annoy them. That fyliern
of warfare mull finally prevail.

It has been reported that BONAPARTE has quitted
the army and left it to Mamma. It was his inten-
tion to leave the comMand to Masssua ; but per.
haps be will not now venture to quit it, unlefs indeed
he return to France to haften reinforcements, of which
he Mai be to much in want. MASSENA is his belt
General ; but being very unpopular with the Officers,
(it might be dangerous to employ him in the chief
command in the preterit circumftancek.

HOLLAND.

That Bonavars has experienced a refißance, ns)
which he by no means calculated when he matched
his army into foland, and fuftained a lots of troops,
which he finds it very difficult to replace, is proved
by all the accounts from the Continent. The Lord
Keith cutter from the Dutch coati, which has arrived
at Yarmouth, brings accounts that no troops have
been left•in Holland—all have been marched to the
theatre of war, and King Louis's guard now coating
of men taken from the Mips of war.

We mentioned laft week that three f igates, part of
an expedition, had left the Dutch ports for Batavia,
&c. The frigates alluded to failed on the 2d of Fe-
bruary, but have fince been compelled to return to
Goree. in confequence of the heavy gales which they
oxpetienced at fea ; one of them came in completely
difmafted, and her companions had fufiained great
injury. The embargo lately laid on all veifels in the
Dutch ports, took place in confequence of the expe-
dition. The Naffau frigate has been reconnoitring cif
the Testi for tome time pan, and in ihe beginning of
the week a gun brig arrived with difpatches from the
Naffau to Admiral Ruffen. in Yarmouth Roads,
er pin ins him of the movements of the enemy in the
Tele', and advifing that the men of war in the Diep
had removed into the Outer Road, and evinced a dif-
pofition to put to fea. General Daendels, and another
General Officer were on board, and they had with
them a confiderable number of troops. About the
Both ult. orders were publifhed by the Commander
in Chief, that no perfon belonging to the expeditioa
fhould be permitted to fleep on fhore, on any account
whatever. Whether the expedition has failed, or has
been prevented by the return of the frigateh we have
not afcertained ; but we know that the embargo has
been taken ol.and Admiral Ruffell has difpatched a
fufficient force to cope with it. fitould it put to ha.
By the Lord Keith, accounts have been received,
that on the isth ult. the Utrecht frigate failed from
Helvoet full of men—dellination not known. Two
other frigates and a large (hip Hill remain in that
harbour.

Some French and Dutch Papers, but without
(cries and conneOion, have reached town fince our
The French Papers are for the mot} part the
Journals of minor reputation. Thu.: is but one
Moniterr ; little is contained in it but what the Public
has already learned from the Papers before received.
It is ftrongly reported in Paris, and indeed appea I
to be generally credited, that Martha' Mutest —the
Grand Duke of Berg, as he is called—has died c f
the wounds be received in the battle of Eylau; and
we are the more induced to attach fome weight to
this report, as we underftand that fomething of the
fame nature has been received by the Dorfet Packet.
The Moniterr, indeed—the one to which we allude—
does not mention it, but obferves generally, that there
are fome very abfnrd reports in circulation refpeeing
the late battles of the French armies—that, by the
condefcenfion of the Emperor, the French have re•
gular and official narratives of whatever occurs—and
that if they choofe to believe more than is contained
in thefe narratives, which are drawn up on the fpot,
and publifheal in the face of the whole army, they
deferve to be deceived for their folly and credulity.
The Minor French Journals, which (peak with
more freedom—if not with equal authority with the
lifessiterres—are filled with the details of the late alto•
cities, as they call them, in Heffia ; they concur,
however, in the afertion, that tranquillity is reftored
but that the intrigues of a faithlefs enemy are bill at
work in other parts of Germany. It would fees; by
this that the difcontent had fpread beyond its firft
limits; and that every thing was not according to the
French willies in the other German States.

The Dutch Papers, moreover, contain a Rata:mar
that Witteravia, on the banks of the Main, were in
the hands of the inlurgents ; and that in Weimar,
Gotha, and other Duchies on the banks of that river,
a fyttens of organized revolt called for the vigilance
and energy of a military government. If thefe (Lau.
meats are to be relied upon, much may be expetited
from this fiate of things.

On Monday laa a very large balloon was inflated
in the Duke of Yoac's Gardens, in the Stable Yard,
at eleven in the morning, in the prefence of his Ro)al
High=Cs, General Goa Dom , and feveral other petit na
of dinineion. It rote in the mole tnajeftic Kyle, cot..
tinned fairly in fight for about the (pace of fire mw
notes, and then took a fonthern dire/lion, at an im-
mac height above the earth. The experiment was
performed by a Gentleman of diEtinaion. It has
not face been heard where the balloon kn.,

THE SOUTH AMERICAN EXPETAIION.

The Commander in Chief, Lieutenant Gtneta)

Watmocx, yetierday arrived at the Crown Inn,
I'ortfmouth, and would have gone on board imme-
diately aad failed, but molt unfortunately the wind
has got round to the Southward.
The General, and his Perfonal Staff, go in the
Tutsaz frigate, Capt. SHE PPERD : Generals GOWER
and ACKLAND go in the tranfports.
The Staff is now nearly completed : to the correet
ha given in Saturday's STAR, we have now to add
Deputy (`carter Matter General, Lieutenant Colonel By ax ;
AMltant Deputy Adjutant General, Lieut. Colonel ST zwn LT ;
Brigade Majors BaowNE, Cocusoats a, and M.txwE
In this Expedition, the interell of the fciences is
not neglected : Government have attached a Mine-
ralogill to General \VHITELOCIC, and Dr. AHILAN
has been appointed, and has fet off along with the
General.
We underhand that the Commander in Chief fails
in a tingle (hip, the THISIE, and is to make the bell
of his way to his deflination. Whenever the wind
is favourable, the reft of the fleet will likewife hart,
convoyed by the CORMORANT, HE:MSS, and SrskIDIP
floops of war.

An account has been hid before Parliament of the
Exemptions from the Property Tax enjoyed by Fo-
reigners, from which it appears that the exemptions
on the July dividends, 1806, were—
Amount of Dividends £253,840 3 3 Duty £85,384 0 4
Odtober !Sob, ditto 60,359 8 t Ditto 6,085 a 6
January ac.;, ditto 94,269 t t Ditto 9,426 a o
The Return adds—" The total amount of exemptions
may be efiimated at nearly 63,0001. being double the
amount of exemptions granted upon the dividends
payable on the sth July and toth October, t So6."—
This Return includes all kind of public lock. Eall
India, South Sea, Imperial, Bce., ; and it (hews how
ill founded the objections Were in the fuppofition of
the great amount of the flock exempted.
The number of honks for which duty is paid in
Great Britain, is 1,178,000 t their annual confumption
is hated, in the agricultural reports, to be the produce
of (even millions of acres. The number of acres ne-
ceffary to afford fubliftence to eight millions of people
in England, according to the prefent mode of living,
is eftimated at twenty one millions, including twelve
millions as grafs land for meat.
Thurfday mottling the fitfl divilion of the Forfar-
fhire Militia, cbmmanded by the Honourable Colonel
ARCHIB•LD DOUGLAS, marched from Glafgow for
Stirling, where they are to be flationed. The fol-
dierly good conduct of this regiment, officers and
• men, merits every praife. They are to be replaced
in the Glafgow barracks by the fecond battalion of
the 71 ft regiment, commanded by Lord Gloaos
BERZSTORD.
A duel was fought on Friday afternoon, in Kil•
burn fields, between Mr. S. a medical (Indent, and
Lieutenant M'C. in confequence of a difpute which
originated between the parties, at a mufic meeting,
on Wednefday. The parties had met on Thurfday to
decide their difpute, but, apprehenfive of an alarm,
they retired from the field, and renewed the meet-
ing on Friday. They difcharged two cafes of piflols,
and in the latter fire Mr. S. was (lightly wounded in
the right arm, when the feconds interfered, and the
difpute was adjulled.
COVENT GARDEN.—MiIs BOLTON appeared at this
Theatre on Saturday night, as Ophelia, in the Tra-
gedy of Hamlet' the Songs of which Charadter fire
fung with much fweetnels ; but, as an Aftrefs, her
Performance was not fuch as to add any thing to
her theatrical reputation —Mr. KEMELF, in Hamlet,'
difplayed his ufual difcrimination, but his phylicaT
'powers appear to have fuffered Tome abatement.—
In the foliloquy, " To be or not to be," his me-
mory once failed him.—Mr. Popes Gh?ft was folemn
and (lately; and Lirrotr, in the abfence of MUNDEN,
acquitted himfelf very tolerably in Polonius.—At the
end of the Second Ad, a Gentleman attempted to ,
addrcfs the audience from the firl tier of the Boxes;
and, in a rambling kind of way, talked of Mr.
Nemble's having murdered a fpe,ch ;—faid his filler
was married to Sir Francis Baring, and that his
mother was dead ; the horde, however, became cla
morons, and he quietly refumed his feat.
Sroariac.—The trotting match between Mr. Si /4-
moan's chefrort mare, and a celebrated grey horfe
belonging to Captain Masses, took place, agreeable
to appointment, on Saturday morning, near Totte-
ridge, Herts. A diflance of ten miles to and from
was marked out on the high road, and notwithfland-
ing the feverity of the morning, there was a great
number of perfons affembled to witnefs the decifion
of the match, which was for zoo guineas. The
animals were flarted early in the morning, and the
average betting was five to four on the horfe, and
the fame odds, that the winner did not perform the
ten miles in 36 minutes. The cattle kept together
the firfl three miles, when the horfe took fright and
bolted, and the mare, which by this event had got
about 300 yards a-head, made play, and kept the
advantage for about fix miles, when the was clofely
followed. The fall four miles were well contelled—
the animals were neck and neck for three miles of
the diflance, when the horfe got an advantage, and
won by jockeyfhip, by about too yards. The diflance
was performed in thirty.feven minutes, and the road
was heavy.
A man of the name of Madden was tried on a ca-
pital indictment, at the Allizes for Bet kfhire, held at
Reading, during the lalt week, for (hooting at ano-
ther man, with intent to kill; The circumflances at-
tending the cafe were fingular. The prifoner had fold
the produCtion of a cherry orchard, at Cookham, but
he afterwards repented of the cnntrarff, and wifhed
to cancel the bargain. The purchafer repaired to the
orchard, when the fruit was fit to gather ; and when
In the aft of plucking from the tree, the prifnner ap-
peared with a gun, and flatbed the pan at him. The
man remained on the tree, and the prifoner put in
ire& prime, difcharged the piece and lodged the
contents in the body of the purchafer, who, after a
long illnefs from the effeeti of the rash act of the pri-
foner, recovered. The prifoner was found guilty, and
ordered for execution.