Star.
London, England, 1807-03-17 00:00:00

LONDON.

TUESDAY, MARCH r 7.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE. WC! OCK
Coufuls, for moncy, 641—for Aprll 6311I—Ornolum 11 pre.]
Exchequer Bills, par as

The enemy's frigate, which we announced yeller-
day to have been driven on flwre in the Orkney
Iflands, turns out to be a Dutch frigate of 42 guns,
and 4.z0 men, including 31 that pee ithed before lan.
ding. She was driven on the ifland called Sanda,
by the gale of the 26!h ult. in the morning, bot k was
fix in the evening before the men were got afhore.
She turns out to be one of the three frigates which
failed from Holland early !aft month, fuppofed to be
defined for Batavia. She bad Farted from the other
two the day before. The latter were feen from the
Or kneys afterwards, when the weather had cleared up
a little.

In a fubfequent part of this paper, will be found
Come of the accounts that have been received frcm
the Orkneys. Proper meafures were taken to fend a
reinforcement from the neighbouring iflands to San.
da, to fecure the Dutchman, and proteet the inhabi.
tants.

It was laa night reported, that an account had
been received in the City, from Lifbon, of the Cap.
tore of Monte Video, in the Rio de la Plata. Govern-
ment, we believe, have not received any intimation
to this effedt—lil dates are mentioned.

A Gentleman who has arrived in Town from
Hambnrgh Rates, that fome French officers who had
been in the battle of the Bth, had mentioned, that at
one time Bou AP ARTII was furrounded on that day by
the Ruffians, and that it colt General Nay's diviiion
0,000 men to extricate him. The fame officer Rated,
that fuch another battle would oblige the French
army to make a run from the Viflula to the Rhine.
Two Gouenburgh Mails arrived yefterday after-
noon, but they brought nothing new from the feat a
war. Some farther particulars are mentioned of the
aelion between General &AVM and General Von
Esst N's corps on the 16th ult. The French had a
General killed, and feveral officers of rank wounded.
They Rill, however, claim the advantage in that
affair.

The letters from Vienna fay nothing refpeOing the
intentions of that Cabinet ; but it kerns that the
army will fonn be in a moft formidable Hate.

The French have made no progrefs in the liege of
Stralfund.

A letter from Rotterdam, of the date of Wednefday
!all, hates, that BONAPARTE was daily expeded at
Paris, havirg left the command of the army to MAE-
SENA. His Imperial Majelly is Paid to be feverely
indifpoled. A report alfo prevailed at Rotterdam,
that an Auttrian army was in full march towards
Saxony.

Yefterday accounts were alfo reeceived in this city
that a veffel had arrived from Heligoland, after a
paffage of four days. It was Rated that a Meffenger
with difpatches was left on the other fide. The report
was, that the French were retreating, but that no
new aftion had place. It was added, that a report
prevailed of the Aufirians having declared war again ft
the French. There accounts, however, cannot be
confidered more than the reports of the day.

The Society of Writers to the Signet, in re (land,
after two days deliberation, upon the bill now pend-
ing in Parliament, for the better regulation of the
Court of Se lion, have approved of the introduelion
of Jury Trials, in certain civil caufes—of the divilion
of the Court into three Chambers—and of the efta-
bliihment of a Chamber of Review.
FALMOUTH, MARCH t4.—Sailed the Lord Cornwallis packer,
Captain Anthony, with mails for Gibraltar and Malta —Wind N. E.
PORT amou ru, MARCH t6—Arrived the Strenuous and Cracker
gun brigs from a cruize, and failed the Ezplofion bomb, with a
Convoy for the Downs.—Wind S. W.
DEAL, Meitea rev—Arrived laft night from the River, and
failed through for Portfmouli, under convoy of the Fury bomb,
the Robert and Ann, Mercator, Jupiter, Dominica, Olive Branch,
and Landon tranfports, with the Pleafant Hill hired floop, and a
number of merchant veffels. Arrived this morning, the Lord
Hawkelbury, and Surrey EaR India °tip., from the River, and
failed through for Portfmouth, with his Majefty's tranfpost Ply-
mouth. Arrived the Favourite floop of war, and Alkmaar ftore
(hip, from the Nore ; the former failed through for Falmouth, the
I tter remains to deliver the naval flora Rae has on board to the
King's naval yard here. Arrived the Royal Fleape lighter, from
Deptford; Flora frigate, and Pincher gun brig, from a cruise off
the emit of France.
SHIRR N [SS, MA RCN 16 —All the copper b dtorned Tranfports
have failed from hence with the firft fair wind for Portfmouth.—.
Sailed to the Nore the Ruby man of war, from the Note for the
Downs, the Mercury frigate; and the Active, Sewell, for St. Do.
ming°. The Baltic convoy, if the wind continues, fail to-morrow
morning. This day the Royal Radnor Militia marched from
hence to Ofpringt, and are to be replaced here by Come of the
Gernun Legion.—Wind N.W. W.
GRATISRND, MARCH r6..—Sailed, the David, Dennifon, for
St. Domingo ; Vigalaut, When, to LANAI; Linnenhall, Laving.
ton, for Dublin Ann and ivirt.-y -,v'er. for Melfina ;
Curry; and the Forth, Mackie, for Halifax;

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L 032 OF A DUTCH FRIG,ITE.

Three frigates. that lett the Dutch ports early in
February, Curried to be deil.ned for Batavia, in
yoint, North ahroit, made their appearance off the
Orkneys, n the 26th of lalt month, when one of them
was driven Arne on the fmall ifland of Sanda. The
particulars will be found in the two following letters.
Three hundred of the Caithnefs' Volunteers, with the
Arne alacrity and fpirit which they difplayed on a
firmer occalion, have embarked for Sanda, to pro-
reef tt e inhabitants, and to fecure the troops and
!allots who have landed on the Wand.

COPY OF A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN, IN AN OFFI•
CI; L SITUATInN, IN CAITHNESS, DATED THURSO,

MARCH 3, 1807.
" f have juft received notice, by exprefs, from Kirkwall, that a
Dutch frigate, of 42 guns with a complement of 420 men, inclu-
ding 3 confiderahle number of marines, or foot fol.liers, had been
driven on fhore in the Mattel of Sanda, upon Thurf-lay Taft, and
that the troops having raved a confiderable part of their (mall
arms, had become formidable, not only to the inhabitants of that
ifland, but to the country at large. In confequenee of this notice,
tranfmitted direectly by the Lieutenancy of Orkney, a meeting of
the Deputy Lieutenants of this county has juft been held at this
place in which it has been rrfolved to fend a ftrong detachment
from the volunteer force of this county, to thy relief of our friends
on the other fide of the water The expedition will fail in the
courfe of the night, and I hope you will loon hear a good account
of them. Ido not fuppofe that the enemy can be in any fituation
to refilt with effyet. the force that will be font againft them. lam
only fearful that they may find an opportunity of effeeting their
efeape, by means of Come of the trading veffels, before our people
get up, and thus rob them of their laurels." •

EXTRACT OF ANOTHER LETTER, DATED EDINBURGH,

MARCH IZ.

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" By a letter juft received from Thurfo, I find that a Dutch 42
gun thip is on Ihore at Sande, with 420 men, including 3 t that pe-
rifhed before landing. They were driven on the ifland on Thurf-
day morning, the 26th ulr. and it was fix in the evening before they
were got albore ; the inhabitants diltributed them in fmall panics
among the different families, and fecured about one hundred Rand
of fmall arms in a (tore houfe, which the Dutch threatened to
break open. The Gentleman who writes me faw a letter from a
Mr. David Fotheringbam, to the Ma giftrates of Kirkwall, requeft-
big immediate affiftance. Captain Richert, in hie Majefty's armed
Chip Norfolk, was in Deer Sound, but he had only fifty men on
board his Ihip. Smacks were fcnt from Orkney to Thurfo, and
near three hundred of the Caithnefs Volunteers had affembled to
embark. as loon as the wind, which, at the time the letter was writ-
te•.t, blew hard, bad abated. The frigate parted company from two
other; through thicknefs of weather, the day the got on chore,
and they have lince been fern from the Orkneys. They were faid
to bc bound to the Welt Indies, and to have troops on board."
ANOTHER. LETTER—FROM THURSO, TO A GENTLE•
MAN IN THE CITY.
" Thurfo, March 3.

" An exprefs arrived here' this morning from the Lieutenancy
of Kirkwall, and figned by the Magiftrates, rcquefting the Vo-
hinteers might be fent to the ifland of Sanday, where a Dutch 44
gun !hip is wrecked, with azo men on board, 31 of whom died
becore they could be landed. This happened on Thurfday laft,
a hich proved one of the worft days that has been experienced in
this part during thefe twelve years; the wind blew tremendoufly,
and the fnow fell fo thick, as to darken the air. During the
norm , many !beep, cattle. and horfes were loft in the heavy drifts
of fnow. The Dutchman, not being able to weather the gale,
was driven on {here in the morning; and it was fix o'clock in the
ever ing before the perfons on board were landed; the inhabi•
tar ts of the Aland difperied them into fault parties, when they
took Deicer among the houfes, at a diftance from the ifland, which
is about fifteen miles long. The inhabitants fearful of an attack,
leaved a hundred thud of arms in a [tore houfe, and fecretsd a
quantity in the land. Thu Dutchmen did not Teem difpofcd to
furrendcr without refiftance, for they were threatening to f• ize
the arms in the ftorc-hoofe when the expref. came away. If they
fucceed, we do not hear that they are in poffeffion of ammunition.
There!were three thins in company before the ftorm; the two
other frigates were feen off the ifland on Sunday. They are the
fame mentioned in the London Papers a (hurt time ago, as lying
with fpriegs on their cables, in a Dutch port, and had zoo troops
on board of each (hip. Our Lieutenancy have refolved that 3:o
men (ball be I; nt againft the Dutchmen, who, it i hoped (for their
own fakes), will not prove refraelory Six fmacks are already
arrived to convey our troops to their deftination. Colonel Sin•
Clair, of Ririe, and Colonel Williams, arc to command the ex-
pedition."