Star.
London, England, 1809-11-14 00:00:00

C.OVBNT-CARIVNTIIRATP47.

The uproar of last night was as bad as that t.t a
those memorable nights before the the!.tre
for the Committee's Report, when, voz.il and
mental, the noise was terrific. Large b:lls were;,
in full swing, rattles were struck incessantl;•
horns were exalted all night long. In the earl':
of the evening a person appeared in the pit witli.a
nightcap, which occasioned considerable mirth .
he was soon removed, and carried to the 80v,..:.1
Office. Another person was also carried out be
rel officers, who met with some feeble resistance ft
a few of the 0. P.'s in the pit. A Naval
one of the boxes attracted some notice by occa;:',
calling out—" Turn out the bLekgiiard., ;
for Blackguards, but N. P. for Gentlem!ii."
prize placard was displayed in the huge It,lleof
painting of
.Mr. KEMBI.E in the pillory, a l,r,rd
ness, as large as life, with a large key banging rr
his neck, superscribed,
"To guilty minds a terrible example.h—Ssa t,
and superscribed—
" For keeping a house of ill fame."
On the I.evAersewretipcfhetdhtis uin‘bvraesl
wwarsithtteena,ctoes
We make improvements in the present age."
' This ' continued to be most conspicuously disp!i
almost the whole evening.
During the farce, Mr. Lisrom being singhid rt
hooting if possible somewhat more deafening t'iar,
which was bestowed upon the rest of the perk,
he at length stepped forward, and made as if
wished to address the audience. " Silence" 15.,15
for so long and loudly at thisoverture,that we th,
it never would have been obtained ; but, at last,
LtsroN did contrive to speak as follows, being it
rtipted only at the end of every branch ct ever
tence, with shouts of " Hear him," from t::o
were afraid they should be denied that pleasutv
" Ladies and Gentlemen, I cannot but perceive Iron'
conduct this evening, that I have unhappily fallen unikr
displeasure; but I trust, that with your kind hearing, I
able to remove every unfavourable impression width
sentation has occasioned. About three weeks ago, there am
.a letter in an Evening Paper, stating, that I had whiled
a public Coffee-room, that " the Managers would have
their point, bad it not been for the blacipuiri tizats.-
letter appeared on a Saturday, and my a;iswer wai Ili
in the same paper on the Monday following, wherein! deilic,
charge ; and here I trusted the business would end ; but E.,
surprise, I found that the same charge wal in repeated
paper of Saturday last. I have only now to declare, most ui
vocally, upon the honour of a man, that I never in my life
ed any such words as those imputed to me."
This speech was received with huzzas and hurli
of caps, and Mr. LISTON was once more received it,
favour. At the conclusion of the perfc,rmance, ti.
usual scene was acted, interspersed with the usu,
songs, and the pit quitted the Tl,e,itte, with 0. 1
and N. P. B. (no private boxes) in theirhitts, and'
same initials in their mouths.

PUBLIC OFFICE, Bow-43TREE c.—Thrze men of
appearance, of the names of ilrberc Stevenson,
journeyman in Leadenhall-marlA, Henry Woodfr
who stated himself to 1w groom to a French Man
in Charles-street, Middlesex-Hospital, and a-ba lth
ed at No. 13, Windmill-street, and Ceorge Na:
who stated himself to reside at 14, Ecrkelcv-sciaa
and to be a Gentleman intimately acquainted v;
' the Duchess of Manchester, and who kept his N
servant, were brought to this Office. The apps
ance of the latter prisoner was groom-like, and
happened to be a person in the office who knew
to be an inferior clerk at the office of Messrs. Cox
Greenwood, and informed the Magistrate of
fact. On being interrogated, he confessed }fa\
given a false representation of himself; and that
he knew of the DuchesS of Manchester was, thatl
mother was a servant in her Grace's family. Ti
charge against the defendant Stevenson was, that
was running up and down the benches in the pit .
0. P. in a red cap, and exciting tumult. The deft
dant, on being taken, confessed having gone intoi
pit with Mr. Turner, a salesman, in Leadenh
market, who gave him four shillings for his adm
sion, upon condition that he was to wear the red c
with the 0. P. Mr. Morris, a poulterer, in Bishc
gate-street, and a person of the name of 131ackr
also a poulterer, were of the party with the dt.l
dant, Stevenson ; and another man, who was a.
paid four shillings by them, for his admissicil, al
to wear a white cap with 0. P. The charges aga
Woodman and Stevenson were for exciting tumid:
the pit, by sounding a whistle, and the whole w,
committed.
A person of the name of Millar,lif Millman-stret!
an Attorney's Clerk, was held in sufficient surcti
to keep the peace towards a Mr. Grace, for sendi
him a challenge to fight. The quarrel originated
Covent Garden Theatre, on Saturday night, atio!
Mr. MILLER'S wearing the letters 0 P in his hat.

Madame CATALAN[ made her appearance at
Bath Theatre on Saturday evening last. The audiei
was crowded and fashionable in the extreme, but
harmony of the entertainment was considerably nu
rupted by a spirit of opposition which manifested
self in the course of the evening. Although her
mirers succeeded in drowning the sounds of discor.i
by their applause, she did not make her second ap•
pearance on Monday night, as announced on the
ground or indisposition.
BREAM—This day there was no Court of Alder-
men. The Loup Mayon, after inspecting the Returns,
ordered it to remain at present prices.
It is stated in the Exeter Flying Post, that a private
in the North Hants Militia has been sentenced by
Court Martial to receiveSOOlashes, of which 100 were:
actually inflicted, for no other clime than because Lc
had AIARRIED, without hazing previously ckaind
leave of his Commanding Ofrer !
Five French officers, on their parole at Tiverton,
escaped from that place on the sth instant, and got
as far as Lone in Cornwall, where they seized a boat
with intent of pushing off tor the French coast ; but
had not proceeded tar, before the boat got on a sand
bank, in which. ,rtu•,t:,.n the officers were secured,
and carried on Saturday to Plymouth, and closely
confined in Mill Prison.
On Saturday a bankrupt, who had been previously
committed to Newgate by the Commissioners for ►wt
giving a satisfactory account of his property, under-
went another examination AL Guildhall, when it ap-
peared - •,at he had sold a hone since his bankruptcy,
to A p!rson in Blackfriars-road ; he had not, how-
ever, received the money for it. There were seve-
ral other suspicious circumstances attached to his
conduct, and he was again sent to Newgate.

7170 L.

sigiSTANCE OF Till STATEMENT OF THE TYROL
. ' DEPUTIES•

The county of Tyrol and the seven principalities
of Voralberg have, for a series of-centuries, consite.,
ted an hereditary portion bf the Iniperial House of
Austria. The people inhabiting these countries dis-
tinguished themselvesin every -war by such undaun-
ted valour, that the Emperors successively conferred
upon them very considerable privileges. During the
seventeenth and the last centuries, when the Swedes,
French, and Bavarians, made such rapid advances in
he German Empire, these provinces always repulsed
the enemy with considerable loss. In the year 1703,
particularly, when the Bavarian army had penetrated
into the Tyrol, it was so ill received, that scarcely a
ftw remained to attend their Elector back. The at-
tachment of the Tyroleans and Voralbergers to their
Emperors was always firm ; for they governed them
with signal and paternal mildness, faithfully preserving
their privileges. Thus, though not blessed either
Ira a delicious climate, or a fertile soil, these pasto-
ral nations, ngt aware of their poverty, led a very
contented and h4ppy life in their cottages, until the
war of the French Revolution broke out. The vallies
were inhabited by thousands of persons, who, before
that period, had never seen a soldier ; but thence-
fi,,vrard whole armies traversed their country, some
proceeding to the interior of Germany, and others l
going to Italy. The poor inhabitants furnished them
gratuitously with provisions and all sorts of neces-
saries, and thereby put themselves to great inconve-
nience. Still, they not only refrained from murmurs,
but evinced their loyalty by the erection of a corps of
Tvrol and Voralberg chasseurs, called " the Tyrol
Fieldyagers,"—all of them volunteers and natives ;
who, in addition to their pay, were allowed by their
county nine creutzers each man daily. It is to be
observed, that the male population in those moun-
tains is, from its eighth year, trained to the use of
the gun, by hunting, as well as firing at targets.—
Such superior marksmen, as this ancient practice
makes of them, must, it may easily be supposed, prove
a great addition to any army. In fact, they have
ever uncommonly signalized themselves in all Au-
strian wars. Yet they could not stem the current of
disaster which overwhelmed the arms of their Go-
vernment, and, in 1794, the enemy approached their
frontiers.

The Emperor now summoned his brave and be-
Icred Tyrol or Voralberg subjects, reminding them
of. their ancient fame for sharp-shooting. But they
1,,a1 anticipated the summons by organizing, e+r their
own accord, a levy en masse. They hastened to the
detonce of the frontiers, and thus preserved their coun-
tries free from invasion.

In 1798, the enetny again attempted to make in-
to.cis from Italy, Switzerland, the Grisons, and Sua-
bil. He only succeeded on the side of the Grisons,
where the passes were but weakly guarded, as the
rain force had been dispatched towards Suabia and
Italy, where the enemy, likewise, was strongest.—
kill the invaders kept only four days possession of
the Pfintschgau, when they were vigorously driven
back upon the Grisons and the Engadine, though, in
their retreat, they pillaged and burnt the towns of
Mals and Glurens.

War having again broke out in 1799, their fron-
tiers were also menaced. The inhabitants immedi.
ately repaired thither to guard them : and in 1800,
sr];ea Marshal Massena had crossed the Rhine near
Feldkirk, in the Voralberg, with a very superior and
victorious force, he was there, as well as near the
almost impregnable mountain-fortress of St. Lucien-
steig, so completely &leated, as to lose several thou-
sand in killed and prisoners, besides a great quantity-
of field pieces and ammunition. They also dispossess
sed him of the Grisons, and pursued him, in company
viith other troops, as far as Zurich.
After a few years quiet, the flames of war re-
'aindled more furiously than ever in 1801. The in-
habitants of the Tyrol and Voralberg were at once
:ittacked oa every side, so as to be rendered dubious
whither to carry relief first. Notwithstanding, the
eacmy was valorously checked at every point, and
.11fiered, especially on the banks of the Scharnitz, a
dreadful discomfiture ; unfortunately their indivi-
dual bravery could not retrieve the general cause.—
By the terms of the armistice entered into after the
disastrous battle of Hohenlinden, the Tyrol and Vo-',
flberg, countries that had constantly bid defiance to
the victorious troops of France, were surrendered as
pledges ! It was then that the real hardships of
these poor mountaineers began. Their barren coun-
ties, even before drained of their little pittance, were
now obliged to maintains body of French troops, in
:,,idition to a corps of Austrians. The savage fo-
signers were destitute of every thing, and all their
ant; were to be supplied. This dreadful calamity
Lted thiee months, a calamity which the ever un-
thdued 'Tyrolese and Voralbergers imagined to have
little deserved by their firm attachment to their Em-
perors.

Bonaparte's insatiable ambition having stirred up
vra r once more in 1805, he ordered the Tyrolese and
Voralbergers to be attacked in every point. Marshal
liey, on the banks of the Scharnitz, repeated his at-
tack thrice. He was driven back with immense
slaughter. The same fate was shared by the• Bavarian
Generals Deroy and Sicbbein, who made a vigorous
assault upon Kufstein and the pass of Strub.
These efforts, however, were unable to counter-
poise the disastrous surrender of Ulm by General
Mack, and the calamitous issue of the engagement
of Austerlitz ; in.consequence of which, Bonaparte,
in the peace of Presburg, made the cession of the
Tyrol and Voralberg an express condition.
It is not in the power of language to describe the
feelings of the honest Tyroleans and Voralbergers at
the receipt of this melancholy intelligence. Ever since
1794, when the Revolutionary war began, their bril-
liant victories had not been sullied by any defeat
They were an heroic people in the literal sense of the
word. Yet the reward of their loyalty was a fate
which usually falls to the lot of the dastardly. To
render their calamity more poignant, these indigent
shepherds found themselves involved in the immense
debt of twenty millions of florins.
The Emperor of Austria did what he could to al-
leviate this heavy misfortune ; he stipulated, that the
privileges of the Tyrolese and Voralbergers should
remain entire. But is these any one so credulous, or
so nninformed of the grand events of the day, as to
suppose that Bonaparte could be bound by any en-
gagements ? Faithful only to his usual triacherYt he

no sooner had the invincible Tyrolese and Voraiber-
gers in his grasp, than he imposed upon them contri-
butions of every kind, without remitting a single
creutzer ; and having taken this barbarous revenge,
he surrendered them to his recently created King of
Bavaria.

This prince, in his turn, made a poiht of impove
rishing and oppressing his new acquisiticins. Not sa-
tisfied with raising heavy contributions, he overthrew
their ancient constitution, which they had observed
for a series of ages ; abolished the representatiVe
States, in order to obstruct the way to all popular re-
monstrances, and seized the provincial, pupillary, and
credit-funds. He moreover confiscated all ecclesias-
tical property, abolished the prelacies and convents,
and sold all public buildings to replenish his empty
coffers. What proved more painful to the inhabi-
tants than all these oppressions, was the disposal of
the ancient and original castle of the Counts of the
Tyrol.

Every successive month was marked with a list of
new exactions and taxes, that were levied with the
utmost rigour. Coin had become uncommonly scarce,
and the Bavarian Government enhanced the embar-
rassment, arising from this circumstance, by depre-
ciating the Austrian bank-bills, which were still in
circulation, to one half of their nominal value. This
operation caused to the countries in question a fresh
loss, amounting to at least twenty millions of florins.
To crown all these oppressive measures, Bavaria
had it in contemplation to change the very names of
the provinces of Tyrol and Nroralberg, by calling
them after the principal rivers, and Incorporating
them with her own dominions.

These excessive hardships lasted three years. Pe.
titions and complaints were not only rejected, but by
an express law absolutely prohibited.
When, therefore, in the beginning of the current
year, it appeared certain that a new contest between
Austria and France was inevitable, the intelligence
was greeted by the poor Tyroleans and Voralbergers,
as the rising sun is hailed by the shepherd. Scarcely
had they received the news of the actual movements
of the two hostile armies, before they rose in a mass.
Their outset was brilliant beyond expectation. The
troops of the enemy sent against them consisted of
27,000 men, whom they resolutely attacked in all
points. Their victory was complete; those of the
enemy who escaped with their lives being either
wounded or taken prisoners. Among the latter were
two Generals; the sharpshooters took, besides, a quan-
tity of cannon, ammunition, arms, and several stand
of colours. This memorable battle was fought on
the 10th and Ilth of April last. The merit of it be-
longed solely to the valorous inhabitants of the Tyrol
and Voralberg ; for the regular Austrian army, has-
tening to their relief, did not join them before the
13th of April ; it was received by the conquerors
with drums beating and colours flying, while shouts
of joy, and " Long live our beloved Emperor Fran-
cis," rent the air.

Those who know the mildness of Bonaparte's tem-
per will be able to conceive an idea of the impression
which this news made upon him. He instantly di-
rected Marshal Lefebvre, supported by the Bavarian
Generals Wreden, Duroy, and Sibbein, at the head
of 24,000 men, to march against the Tyrolese by the
way of Salzburg. General Rusca, with eight thou-
sand men, was ordered to advance from Italy, while
General Ferron approached from Carinthia, and Ge-
neral Marmont from Bavaria and Suabia with from
six to seven thousand troops more.
This was certainly a formidable force, which would
have conquered, and even annihilated, any other two
nations of equal numbers. The conflict, indeed, was
obstinate and terrible. But the enemies were defeat-
ed all but Lefebvre, whose force was too large, and
whose devastations and cruelties were such as to
spread terror every where. He burnt towns and vil-
lages, and gave quarter to no one. The aged were
suspended from trees, and then shot. The pregnant
women were even ript up, and their breasts cut off,
while their embryos were crammed down their throats
to put an end to the shrieks and moanings of the wretch-
ed victims. If a Tyrolese or Voralberger, bearing
arms, had the misfortune to fall into their hands,
they immediately tore out his tongue. The children
were cut down without mercy, and most frequently
carried about transfixed with bayonets. A number
of these innocents happening to return from school,
were met with and driven by these monsters into
some barns, and burnt alive.

Lefebvre arid his cannibals imagined to be able to
intimidate the Tyrolese and Voralbergers by such
cruelties, but they had the very opposite elect.—
The Tyrolese sharpshooters now resembled blood-
thirsty lions, they rushed upon Lefebvre, and totally
defeated him, thousands of the enemy were slain, and
the General, accompanied only by a few remnants of
Iris great force, sought safety in an ignominious flight
directed towards Vienna.
The result of this complete victory was, that the
Tyrol and Voralberg, being now free from their in-
vaders, served as an asylum to those Austrian priso-
ners who had been taken by the French at Ratisbon,
Aspern, and Esslingen, and who found little diffi-
culty in making their escape. About ten thousand
profited by this opportunity ; they were nearly na-
ked, and the eapence of cluathing and arming them
anew proved no small burthen to their hospitable
friends.

Another advantage of this victory displayed itself
in the superior courage with which it inspired the
conquerors. They now sallied forth beyond their
frontiers to seek the enemy. In Bavaria, they ad-
vanced as far as Munich, the capital city. In Suabia
they took Kempton, pushing on beyond Memming
and Ulm. In Italy, they proceeded to within a few
miles of Verona, and some corps overran Carinthia
and Salzburg, then already in the power of the ene-
my, so as to become to a great degree masters of
those countries.
Notwithstanding these successes, the conquerors
were guilty of no cruelties or acts of oppression.—
Not a single house was pillaged by them, not a barn
laid in ashes. No peasant was ever taken prisoner
or insulted. The wounded enemies were particularly
taken care of. It was the usual practice to carry them
on shoulders into some house. The Tyrolese and
Voralbergers acted throughout from an honourable
ambition, to shame their cruel enemies, and convince
them of the superior humanity of poor German
mountaineers.
Neither France nor any of her allies can adduce a
single instanceof their prisoners having been ill-treated
either in the Tyrol or Voralberg, though di, prisoners

from either country were tortured, Murdered, or •
dsed by the French.
All these glorious achievements, however, could
sot arrest the progress of the enemy in other quar-
ters. In fine, an armistice Wit again concluded.—
The corps of Austrian troops left iiY the Tyrol, and
consisting for the most part of the above-mentioned
refugees, was suddehly recalled, and carried away all
the ordnance and ammunition which the Tyrolese
had taken. Thus the latter found themselves com-
pelled to abandon their conquests, and satisfy them-
selves with guarding their own frontiers.
Lefebvre, Rusca, Ferion, and other Generals, pe-
netrated once more as far AS Inspruck, the capital of
the Tyrol, repeating their former devastations and '
cruelties. But the indignation e*cited by the re-ap-
pearance of those inhuman chiefs ivas such, that the
very women, whose business had hitherto been con-
fined to conveying the prisoners to places of safety,
assembled in numbers and put to death 640 of the
enemy near Landeck ; and though the whole force of
the enemy amounted to about thirty thousand, they
were attacked by the Tyrolese and Voralbergers, who
had risen en manse, with such irresistible fury, that those
who saved themselves by flight, were pursued to a
great distance, so as to be unable, during the space
of 24 hours, to allay their thirst with a draught of
water.

It was in vain that Bonaparte, on hearing this
new disaster of his arms, detached Marshals Macdo-
nald and Bessieres, with picked troops, against the
Tyrolese. They were routed, and obliged to return.
From the concurring accounts in the Dutch, Ger-
man, and French papers, which are copied into the
daily prints of London, it is placed beyond all doubt,
that the Tyrolese and Voralbergers persevere in their
obstinate resistance to the French and their allies.

They are indeed now free, but at the eispence of
very uncommon sacrifices. Numbers of them mourn
their fathers, brothers, and sons, not slain in battle,
but for the most part murdered in the most inhuman
manner.

Four towns and twenty-six flourishing villages are
reduced to heaps of ashes—not to mention the de-
struction of a large number of detached cottages.—
These calamities are felt more sensibly in a climate
which is very far from being mild. The Mountains
of the Tyrol and Voralberg have, ever since the be-
ginning of October, been covered with snow and ice.
The inhabitants, though accustomed to subsist upon
the hardest fare, can, after so many devastations, pil-
lages, conflagrations, and hardships of every kind,
scarcely get wherewithal to satisfy the cravings of
nature. Multitudes at this moment are happy in being
allowed some little corner in a crowded barn, stable,
or hut.

In spite of all these sufferings, they are fully de-
termined never to listen to any accommodation with
Bonaparte, or consent to be again governed by the
iron sceptre of Bavaria. This determination, though
it may appear rash, can be satisfactorily accounted
for, from the above•stated cruelties, exactions, and op-
pressions.
All, to a man, trained to the most skilful use of
the rifle ; inured to the inclemencies of the seasons ;
defended by huge mountains accessible to none but
themselves ; surrounded in every direction by, and
allied to mountaineers that are animated with the
same love of independence ; reared up and happy in
poverty ; religious ; virtuous from habit ; utter stran-
gers to luxury ; preferring their barren mountains to
the most fruitful soils—and, above all, remembering
the horrible outrages committed by the order of Bo-
naparte, to whom they have to oppose one hundred
and fifty thousand sharpshooters, in a country where
no regular armies can act, and where they and they
alone knciw the paths to procure supplies, if they have
but the means to purchase them. Such a hardy, stub-
born, and athletic race of men are very formidable
enemies. Such they have certainly proved to France,
and no peace Ivliieli their beloved Prince may have
been compelled to enter into, will induce them to be-
come a party to it.
They are firmly resolved either to conquer or die:
(Signed) SCHOENECHER.
London, November 13, 1809. MULLER, Major: