Star.
London, England, 1812-01-27 00:00:00

LONDON.

ONDAY, JANUARY 27.
FMCS Rls rocKi IMY AT ONE O'CLOCK
per Cent. Red. 633—Navy 5 per Cent. 94
4 per Cent.79-1;-1ionds 17s. 18s. pre.—Omnium.4 dis

By the arrival of the TEMERAIRE yesterday at
Portsmouth, from Gibraltar, we have received the
important intelligence of the enemy having raised the
fiegr of Tarifa on the sth butane, leaving ten pieces of
ordn:inte, and A great quantity cf ammunition.—The
filllowing letter appeared in a Gibraltar paper of the
4th instot

64 TARIFA, DEC. 31.

I am happy to inform you, that the enemy has
been repulsed in an attempt to assault this place. Af-
ter my letter of yesterday was sent off, the breaching
battery, which seems to have four 16-pounders, and
one 12-pounder, continued its fire, and made at open.
ing of about 20 yards, being nearly the whole space
between two of the flanking towers on the east side of
the town. In the ,Frernoon a summons was sent by
General Leval, who stated that the defence had al-
ready been honourable, andthat the breach was prac-
ticable the day before.
" On an answer being returned, the firing was re-
sumed, and continued all night, without doing any
material injury t:) the garrison. The enemy made
but little addition to the entrenchments ; but early
this morning we saw them filled n ith troops, and ob-
served that great numbers were passing down to the
'valley, through which flows the stream that passes
through the town, and in which the bi caching battery
is t fallished. The violence of tie tot rent had dur-
ing •he ;tight swept away the rows of palisades out-
s cit and inside the wall, and even bent the portcullis.
The enemy appears to have supposed this also had
been earred off, as he advanced along the bed of the
stream, and came directly to it. The breach is only
a few yaris from the entrance of the water, but not
i man spewed himself on it. Finding that there
seas no opening, and that they were exposed to a most
galling fire from all parts, the assailants, though they
had several hundred men under the wall, began to
retina h about half an hour, and again hid themselves
in their trenches.

" Their loss has been very severe. Most of them
badly wounded have been brought in, including six
cr seven officers. The 6-pounder, under Capt. Mit-
chell, was of most essential use ; indeed half the',
execution, at least, was done by it. Our loss is not
great. Lieut. Longley, of the engineets, and Lieut.
Hall, of the 47tL, are killed ; also a man of the
rife corps, and there are about 10 wounded. From
the wounded prisoners I learn, that General Leval
has with him altogether 12 pieces of artillery, all of
which are in battery, and nearly ten thousand men ;
fiat the storm:og party consisted of twenty compa-
fe of grenadiers and volt igen' s, and two of sappers,
nuking from 13aa to t'olo men.
k JAN. 2.—The weather here has been dreadful—
two Spanish gun-boats hate been lost—but we ought
not to complain of the rain, 3ioce it must be more an-
rt}ingsto the enemy &an to us. He has done no-
thing the assault, and thete has been little firing
en either side.

4, We have nut been able to ascertain the loss of the
French ou that day. An &dicer who canua wa a
ILI of truce told me it was 110 ; but we know that
nea,ly this number was left killed and badly wounded.
Thcy were allowed to take all those not close t.)
" dome of tlicir al:cars brought in stated their loss
previous t:.) the storming to amount to 700 men, prin.
fhim the sliclls. Seven or eight deserters have
t.,me in and dtcribcd the effects of the rain on the
Trench tr.:ops, ananr.miticn, &c. to be dreadful; their
battery guns cannot be-moved a yard from their pre-
scat position for scmc time."

Litters from Gibraltar cif the 7th state, that by an
2-TiV d there irons Alicant of the 31st of DecembLr,
Fornttion had been received th:d General BLAKE's
army had been dispersed and Defeated. Soucticr
having received a reinforcement of 8000 men, attack-
ed the Spaniih lines, and succeeded :n dispersing and
kstroyed the whole of the army with the exception
r.f:.bout 50:10 men, with which BLAKE retired Aithin
•' body of the City.
!t was expected that his army and place would
pure:War, as .his furce was but small—the po-
: idatiun.ot Valencia in 15,000 inhabitants.

mince writing the atrA,-,:, we I:arn that Valen;:ia
actually tAllen.j

SECO N 1) E DITIO N.

STAR OFPC.::', TWO O'CLOCK.
A Lisrbrit Mail his this moment arrived, and
i.A.) dispatches front Lord WELLIVUTON.

" WAR DEPARTNIEN r.

DOWNINC-Z1 t):%:', JANUARY 27.
" A dispatch is received from Lord WELLINGTON,
Ct..; Gallegos, 9th January.
" Hia Lordship invested Ciultd Rod, igo on theBtha
" The eatraY bAd iucre.a.ej tLe difficulty of ap-

poaching the place by a strong redoubt, constructed
on the Hill of St. Francisco. It was necessary to at-1
tempt to take it. It was stormed on the night oldie,
Bth, „Waletachment of the light division, led by
lieu; nt•Colonel COLBOURNE. The work was car-
ried in the m-st brilliant manner, and all the garrison
either killed or taken. Our loss was only six men
killed ; Captain Marx and Lieutenant WOODOATE of
the 52d, and Lieutenant HAWKESLEY of the 95th,
with 14 men, wounded.
" By this success Lord IVEtuyorox has been ena-
bled to break ground within 600 yards of the place,
the redoubt of St. Francisco being converted into a
part of the first parallel.

" General HILL entered Merida on the 30th of
December. He had hoped to surprise General Dom-
DROIIIKE, but his approach was discovered by a pa-
trole. The French General retreated from Merida,
leaving magazines of bread and wheat, and several
unfinished works.
" On the Ist General HILL marched to attack
Daourr's coips d'Armee at Altnendralop, but the
eucmy retreated to Zafra, abandoning 450,000 pounds
of lA. at. On the 3d a detachment of our cavalry
beat a body of the enemy's horse, at Puente del MACS.
tro, taking two officers and SO men prisoners.
" General Duourr retreating to Llerena, General
HILL found it useless to pursue him, and returned on
the sth of January to Merida "

HOSTILE DISPOJIT.ON OF THE
AMERICANS.

We have this morning rect ived files of American
Papers to the end of December. They were brought
to Liverpool by the Lydia, which has arrived
from New York, after a quick passage of 21 days.
We regret to find that the dispositions of the Ameri-
can Congress are decidedly hostile. All the violent
Resolutions, for creating 'a war establishment, have
been carried by large m tjorities, and several of the
States have sent up to Congress addresses of a most
inflammatory tendency. The Assembly of Virginia
have adopted the following, among many other vio-
lent es pression s :
" Resolved, That however highly we value the
blessings of peace, and however we may deprecate
the evils of war, the period has now arrived when
peace, as we how have it, is disgraceful, and war is
honourable."

it ought to be remarked, however, that some' of
the United States are still so decidedly averse from
war, that a separation from the Union is confidently
spoken of, while several of the American Journalists
assure their readers, that notwithstanding the cry of
war, there is no money in the country, with which

to carry it on.
The following are ample details on the above in-
resting topics :

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DBC. 11.

Mr. RANDOLNI, from the Committee of Confer-
ence appointed on the part of the House to confer
with a Committee of the Senate, on the subject of the
difference between the two Houses, relative to the
apportionment Bill reported, that the Committee on
the part of the House had made four propositions to
the Committee of the Senate :
;, To give up, each House, hs determ'ned num!7ers, 35 and
37,000, and make it 34,000. This proposition wits refused.
2. To fix it at 40,e00. This was likewise r..fteszd.
3. To fix it at 33,000. This was also refused.
I. To evil! the difference and make it 36,000. This also was
refused ; cat h refusal being made by the nionosyl:able No; and
nu proposition being made on the part of the Senate Commioee.
At 12 o'clock. the unfinished business of yesterday
was called.

Mr. JOHNSON, of Kentucky, addressed the Chair,
the 2d Resolution still under consideration, and con-
tinued his speech till nearly half past one, in favour
of the resolution (that for raising an additional force).
He declared this was not to be an offensive war,
yet shortly after hesitated non() say that the addi.
tional troops and the volunteers were intended to
make a descent upon Carr.da. He had weighed well
in his closet the consequences of a war, and had ap.
proached the question with more fear and trembling
than he should have approached the cannon's mouth.
He did not see, as Mr. Randolph had done, the ini-
quity of invi ing the Canadians to resist their own
government ; and referred to the 'old 'Journals of
Congress, cf 1771, or thereabouts, quoting an Ad
dress of Congress to the Canadians, urging them to
join the common cause. Mr. Johnson offered no pro-1
position for resisting • France, though he declared he
had not been backward in noticing their misconduct
towards us. We were pledged, he said, to ourselves
and to France to continue the hon-importation
act, otherwise he should wish its repeal. There
was, he said, no danger of alliance with France; to
such an alliance he should be opposed. He denied
the declaration of Foster, that we had departed from
our neutrality, and had assisted the French in their
continental restrictive system. There was no choice
but dishonourable submission, or war. How many
An:erican seamen were impressed he knew not, but
supposed 50,000.
Mr. Wait:fur spoke about the same length of time.
He believed, from the best authority, there were about
3,000 Americans impressed.
DECENInvt 12.
The Siteartea laid before Vie House a memorial
front the Legislative Council of the Mississippi Ter-
ritory, praying to be admitted as a State into the
Union. Ordered to lie oa the table.
Mr. RANDOLPH called for the consideration of the
Rep( rt of the Committee of Conference relathe to
the Bill fixing the ratio of representation ; but the
House refused to take it up.
Mr. RaNnotert observed, th it it was pretty obvi-
ous, ferm the early hour at which the House had ad-
journed for several days, that there was no dispesitron
to press a decision on the report of the Committee of
foreign relations.—He thought it would be better to
lay aside that subject for a few days, and take up
some other business; than to adjourn so early. If they
wauld nut consent to do th's gave etti,;e:

for the coftsideration

that he should again c.
above report to-morrow.
The House resumed the considttation of the unfi-
nished business of yesterday (resolution for raising
an additional force).
Mr. CALHOUN, Mr. SIMI!. and Mr. DMA seve-
rally spoke in favour of the resolution, and a debate
of considerable length ensued, which Mr.TItOUP s mid
he should endeavour to put an end to by calling for
the previous question, if those on the other side of the
House did not take part in thz. discussion.
• After some observations on the disagreement
amongst the Committee & Foreign Relations on the
subject of war (which observations were confined
principally to the Members of the Committee them-
selves) the House adjourned at three o'clock.