Star.
London, England, 1809-12-13 00:00:00

FORGERY AND (REWARD OF FIFTY GUINEAS.

WHEREAS, JAMES HOUSTAN, in Daffin,
in the parish of Kirkfmtbrerli and Stewartry of Kirkcud-
bright, having lately Forged Bills to a considerable amount, dis-
counted the s-one,and absconded with the proceeds, intending to
leave the Kingdom; a Reward of FIFTY GUINEAS is hereby
offered for his apprehension, to be paid upon conviction ; and it is
requested of all Magistrates, Custom-house Officers, as well as of
all Bankers, or Merchants, from whom he may attempt to obtain •
geld or Bills of Exchange, that they will be aiding and assisting in
causing the said lames Houstan to be apprehended and committed
to prison ; and forthwith to transmit infotmation thereof to the
Procurator Fiscal of said Stewartry, who will pay all expences
attending his apprehension, over and above the said Reward.
The said James Houstan is about 32 years of age, upwards of
six feet high, strong boned and rather thin, of pale complexion,
fair hair, blue eyes rather sunk, long face, hangs his head, walks
with a long strideor lounge, generally wear? coarse blue coat
with metal buttons under a drab-coloured great-coat, corduroy
breeches, long coarse boots, and carries a whip or Small hazel
stick; speaks slow, and the Scotch dialect. He left home on horse-
back on Monday, the 20th of November, and would likely dis-
pose of his horse on the journey.
Kirkcudbright, Dec. 2, 1809. ROBERT GORDON.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

ADMIRALTY OFFICE, DEC. 12.

Copy of a Letter from Captain Macdonald, of the Red Pole
Sloop, dated the 10th instant, addressed to Vice Admiral
Campbell, and transmitted by the latter to John Wilson Cro-

ker, Esq.
Sir--1 have the honour to acquaint you, that on
the 9th inst. at daylight, Beach), Head N. by E. nine
leagues, wind W. two luggers were observed on. our
lee bow, to which chace was immediately given ; and
at ten, I had the good fortune to get alongside the
weathermost, which had the temerity to engage us
for half an hour, when she suirendered. She proves
to be le Grand Rodeur, of Boulogne, sixteen guns
and eighty men, Captain J. G. Huret, four days from
Dieppe, and had made no capture. lam sorry to
id, that the privateer had one man killed and two
wounded, one of them badly. Towards the latter
part of the chace, his Majesty's sloop Pelican hove in
sight, and pursued the other, but did not capture her.
To the officers and ship's company I feel greatly in-
debted for their cool and steady conduct during the
chace and action, when every manoeuvre was attempt-
ed by the enemy to escape. I am, &c. (Signed)

C. MACDONALD.

Vice Admiral Campbell, Commander in Chief of
his Majesty's skips and vessels in the Downs, has
transmitted to John Wilson Croker, Esq. a letter
from Captain Maxwell, of the Royalist sloop, dated
the 6th instant, stating, that he had captured on that
day, the French cutter privateer I'Heureuse Etoile,
of two guns and fifteen men. She had sailed from
Dieppe the preceding evening, and had not made
any capture.

Coyy of another Letter from Captain Maxwell of the Royalist
Sloop, addressed to Vice Admiral Campbell, and transmitted
by the latter to John W. Croker, Esq.
His Majesty's Sloop Royalist, at Sea, Dec. 10.
Sir—l have the honour to inform you of his Ma-
jesty's sloop under my command, having captured
at six P. M. le Beau Marseille, French lugger priva-
teer, of fourteen guns and sixty men ; she is a very
beautiful vessel, only three months old, and consi-
dered one of the fastest sailors out of Boulogne. I
have the honour to be, &c. (Signed)

JOHN MAXWELL.
MILITARY PROMOTIONS.

Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the
County of Kent.
Greenwich Water Fencible Volunteers.

Captain Wm. Brownfield to be
ney, resigned. Dated November 22,1809.
Lieutenant Thomas East to be Captain, vice. Brownfield. Dated
as above.
Thomas Ross, Gent. to be Lieutenant, vice Slaney,cleceased ;
George Slaney, Gent. to be ditto; vice East. Dated .14 above.
Commissions in the 38th or. Ayrshire Regiment of
Militia, signed by the Lord Lieutenant.
Colin Campbell, Esq. to be Captain, vice Eccles, resigned. Dated
November 24, 1809.
J.mes Findlay, Gent, to be Ensign, vice Paterson, resigned.
%Val. Alexander, Gent. to be ditto, vice M'Gechin, resigned.--
Dated as as above.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.

lam, vice Sla-

John Pearson, of Holyhead, in the Lland of .Anglcsea, Nortb
Wales, stationer, dealer and chapman.
John Houlding and James William Sowerby, both of Liverpool,
merchants and coparthers.
BANKRUPTS.

John Smith, new or late of Leeds, Yorkshire, grocer, dealer .and
chapinan, to surremler December 26, 27, and January 23, at
eleven, a! the Bull and Mouth Inn, Leeds. Attorniez, Messrs.
Lee and Raynar, Leeds ; or Messrs. Sykes and Knowles, New
Inn, London.
I c•lin spencer, of Manchester, victualler, dealer and chapman,
December 27, 28, and January 23, at two, at the Coach and
I tones Inn, Manchester. Atturney, Mr. Cardwell, Manchester.
Sxnue: Paull, of Lalehtun, Middlesex, baker, dealer and chapman,
December 16, 26, at twelve, and January 33, at ten, at Guild-
hall, London. Ammo*, Mr. Richard Matthew Eghans Hithe,
Suinea-Bridge, Surrey ; or Mr. R, S. Taylor, Field-court,
Gray's Inn, London-.
Thomas Anstead, late of Wake4old, It'orkzliire, innkeeper, dealer
and chapman, January I, 2,and 23, at eleven, at the New Court
House, Wakefield. Attornies, Mr. Richard Battye, No. 20,
Chane-ry-lane, London; or Mr. Edward Brooks, Wakefield.
ajorge Wooten, of Northellurch, Hems, straw hat dealer, dealer
and chaptnan, December 16, 28, at one, and January 23, at
tee, at Cuiiditall. Attorney, Mr. Jo: quo Mayhew, Sytatmd's
Inn, Chancery-lane, Loldun.
-1 hontas Astr.e. , late of No. Old North-street, Red.lion-square,
*
Midede-sex, muchu.t, dealt:: and diapason, December 16 19,
en 4 January 23, at ten, 4t Attorney, Mr, Lee,
L , atale-stree.t, lidburn.
ipooos Lurcock, a dettim rn booe, Kent, woollen-draper, dealer
„.-n1 chapmao, Dec. 30, January 6, and 23, at devep, at Guild,
4484 no io
rti. attorney, NU. (kin? atainswi, Cone-street,
P,116.1

FRENCH PAPERS.

IPENING OY THE LEGISLATIVE BODY, AND SPEECH DT
THE EMPEROR AND KING.
' (From the Moniteur of the 4th December.)
Yesterday, at six in the morning, a discharge of
artillery announced the solemnities that were to take
place. At half-past ten the Emperor left the Tuille-
ries to proceed to Notre Dame. He was in the Co-
ronation coach with his Majesty the King of West-
phalia. The King of Naples, the Princes, Grand
Dignitaries, Ministers, Grand Officers of the Empire
and of the Crown, preceded his Majesty.
The Clergy received his Majesty at the entrance of
the church, and he was conducted to the choir, under
a canopy.
The Tribunals of the Choir were occupied by her
Majesty the Empress, the Imperial Family, the Kings
of Wirtemberg and Saxony; and the Queen of West-
phalia. One of the Almoners of his Majesty said the
Mass, his Eminence Cardinal Fesch, Grand Almoner,
celebrated Te Dem.
H;s Majesty, reconducted under the canopy, as on
his entrance to the Church, proceeded to the Palace
of the Legislative Body.
The Emperor being seated, the Members of the
Legislative Body, newly elect, took the oaths : after
which the Emperor made the following speech :
" Gentlemen Deputies of Departments to the
Legislative Body,
" Since your last session I have reduced Arragon
and Castile to submission, and driven from Madrid'
the fallacious Government formed by England. I
was.marching upon Cadiz and Lisbon, when I was
under the necessity of treading back my steps, and of
planting my eagles on the ramparts of Vienna. Three
'months have seen the rise and termination of this 4th ,
Punk War. Accustomed to the devotedness and C 01-
rage of my armies, I must nevertheless, under these
circumstances, acknowledge the particular proofs of
affection which my soldiers of Germany have given,'
me. The genius of France conducted the English
army—it has terminated its projects in the pestilen-
tial marshes of Walcheren. In that important period
I remained 400 leagues distant, certain of the new
glory which my people would acquire, and of the
grand character they would display. My hopes have
not been deceived—l owe particular thanks to the
Citizens of the Departments of the Pas de Calais and
the North.
" Frenchmen—Every one that shall oppose you,
shall be conquered, and reduced to submission. Your
grandeur shall be encreased by the hatred of your
enemies. You have before you long years of glory
and prosperity. You have the force and energy of the
Hercules of the Ancienti.
" I have united Tuscany to the Empire. The
Tuscans were worthy of it by the mildness of their
character, by the attachment their ancestors have
always shewn us, and by the services they have ren-
dered to European civilization.,
" History pointed out to me the conduct I ought
to pursue towards Rome— the Popes, become Sove-
reigns of part of Italy, have constantly shewn them-
selves enemies of every preponderating power in the
peninsula—they have employed their spiritual powei
to injure it—it was then demonstrated to me that the
spiritual influence exercised in my States by a foreign
Sovereign, was contrary to the independence of France
—to the dignity and safety of my throne. However,
as I acknowledge the necessity of the spiritual inns-
ence of the descendants of the first of the pastors, I
could not conciliate these grand interests, but by an-
nulling the donative of the French Emperors, my pre-
decessors, and by uniting the Roman States to France.
".By the Treaty of Vienna, all the Kings and So-
vereigns, my Allies, who have given me so many
proofs of the constancy of their friendship, have ac-
quired and shall acquire a fresh increase of territory.
" The Illyrian Provinces stretch the frontiers of
my great Empire to the Save. Contiguous to the
Empire of Cons:antinople, I shall find myself in a
situation to watch over the first interests of my com-
merce in the Mediterranean, the Adriatic, and the
Levant.
" I will protect the Porte, if the Porte withdraw
herself from the fatal influence of England. I shall
know how to punish her, if she suffer herself to be
governed by cunning and perfidious counsels.
J have wished to give the Swiss nation a new
proof of my esteem, by annexing to my titles that of
their Mediator, and thus putting an end to all the
uneasiness endeavoured to be spread among that
brave people. •
" Holland, placed between England and France,
is equally bruised by them. Yet she is the debouche of
the principal arteries of my Empire. Changes will
become necessary ; the safety of my frontiers and the
well understood interests of the two countries imperi-
ously require them.
" Sweden has lost, by her alliance with England,
after a disastrous war, the finest and most important
of her provinces. Happy would it have been for
that nation, if the wise Prince that governs her now
had ascended the throne some years sooner !
" This example proves anew to Kings, that the al-
liance of England is the surest presage of ruin.
6' My ally and friend the Emperor of Russia has
united to his vast Empire, Finland, Moldavia, Walla.
chia, and a district of Gallicia. lam not jealous of
any thing that can produce good to that empire. My
sentiments for its illustrious Sovereign are in unison
with my policy.
64 When I shall spew myself beyond the Pyrenees
the frightened leopard will fly to the ocean, to avoid
shame, defeat, and death. The triumph of my arms
will be the triumph of the genius of good over that
of evil, of moderation, order, and morality over civil ;
war, anarchy, and the bad passions. My friendship
and protection will, I hope, restore tranquillity and
happiness to the people of the Spains.
" Gentlemen, Deputies of Departments to the Le-
gislative Body, I have directed my Minister of the
Interior to lay before you the history of the legisla-
tion, of the administration, and of the finances of the
year just expired ; you will see that all the ideas I
had conceived for the amelioration of my people have
been followed with the greatest activity ; that in Paris
as in the most distant parts of my empire, the war
has not. prodtwed any delay in the public works. The
Members of my Council of State will submit to you
different projects of law, and especially the law upon
the finances ; you will see it in their prosperous con. '
dition. I demand of my people no new sacrifice, al-
though circumstances have obliged me to double my
military means."

PORTUGAL AND SPAIN. - -
. _ .
•
DECREE OF THE PRINCE REGENT OP IkilatlGAL.
. . . DATED RIO JANZIRO, JULY 6, 1809.
" Governor" of the Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarve',
Friends!
" I the Prince Regent send unto you, greeting, as unto those
whom I love and prize.—lt being my principal care to secure, by
every means possible, the independence of my dominions, and to
deliver them completely from the cruel enemy who so inhumanly,
and contrary to the good faith of treaties' has invaded the states
of my Crown in Europe, and has never ceased making upon tl.em
the most unjust war • and as it is on the one hand acknowledged,
that, in such a difficult crisis, nothing can more contribute to the
defence of the kingdom than a Government composed of a small
number of individuals; and as, on the other, it is indispensable to
preserve with my ancient and faithful ally the King of Great Bri-
tain net only the best understanding, but likewise to prove to him,
in the most evident manner, that my intentions are not different
from those by which he is animated in the promotion of the com-
mon cause, that his Britannic Majesty may continue in the same
efficacious manner to succour Portugal and the whole of the Pe-
ninsula; and as it cannot be doubted that this glorious purpose,
which I so ardently desire to effect, can only be attained by the
most extensive, firm, and reciprocal confidence ; and his Britannic
Majesty having made known his principles on this subject, and
what he judges will most contribute to &happy result, and is most
essential to the defence of the kingdom and of the peninsula; I
have seen fit to order that you shall be immediately reduced to
the number of three or two Governors, having a deliberate vote
on all objects of the public adminstration, and that these ahall be
—the Patriarch Elect of Lisbon, the Marquis das Minas, and the
Marquis Monteiro Mor, President of the Board-di' Consciencia e
Ordens, Don Francis Xavier ila Cunha e Menezer, performing the
functions of President of the Privy Council, to which place he
is appointed by the present decree. It is further my pleasure
to direct you to acknowledge Sir Arthur Wellesley as Marshal
General of my Armies, as long as he shall continue in the com-
mand of the allied Portuguese and English forces, taking then
his rank over 'Marshal Beresford, as Commander in Chief; and
as soon as he shall have been recognised as such, you will invite
him to all the sittings of Government, in• which matters come
under discussion which concern the organization of the army,
or important determinations, whether financial or others, which
it may be necessary to • adopt for the defence of the kingdom
' and of the whole peninsula • taking his opinion and advice on
all subjects of that nature; and should he be absent in such cases,
and not be able to assist at.'your deliberations, you are to apply for
his advice in writing, if poisible, giving him full information on
the subject Under discussion, in order that he may be perfectly
acquainted with your discussion and determination of matters of
the above description. In this manner the affairs of Government
shall be conducted with the utmost energy and harmony, as long
as unfortunately it shall not be poisible to conclude a permanent
and general pcace. His Britannic Majesty will thus be convinced
that it is my earnest wish to eradicate the general vice of difference
of opinion between the Powers who make common cause ' • and
he will be made perfectly acquainted with the orders which I have
given, and shall continue to give, that the most strenuous efforts
shall be made to attain that safe and permanent peace which is
universally desired, by means of a grand display of all the forces
and resources of my kingdom, which I can only Batter myself
completely to recover by the most powerful means and exertions.
" Palace of Rio Janeiro, the 6th July, 1809,
" TEM PRINCt."
" To the Governor of the Kingdom of Portugal and Algarve."

PRIVATE LETTERS. -
" LISBON, NOVEMBER 25.
eg At last the political and military arrangements
for the management of the affairs of this country,
have been formed. A Royal Decree has been pub-
lished with the customary ceremonials, the substance
of which is—
" Ist. The Regency is to consist of the Patriarch,'
the Marquis de Mendos, the Marquis of Montemore.
The Military as well as Civil Affairs, are to be under
the controul of the Regency ; but in the former the ,
members are to be assisted by Lord Wellington, on
all occasions, while he continues Commander-in-
Chief of the British army in Portugal.
g. 2d, Of the armies of Portugal Lord Wellington
is to be Commander-in. Chief, during the time he con-
tinues in the kingdom.
46 The latest accounts from head-quarters are dated
upon the 19th inst. Nothing had transpired there of
particular importance. Notwithstanding the change
in affairs, no movement of the troops was either in
act or in contemplation. Lord Wellington was then
at Badajos.
" The intelligence from Spain gives no account of
any general or 'decisive battle. The Spanish and
French out-posts have frequent encounters.
" The political changes I have mentioned ap-
peared in the official Gazette on Tuesday last, and
they have been subsequently introduced into other
papers. What effect these alterations in the public
authorities will produce here, and what influence they
will have in the way of example on the neighbouring
kingdom is yet to be ascertained. To express my
hopes on the one hand, and my tears on the other,
without stating the circumstances by which the for-
mer are supported and the latter awakened, would be
trifling with your understanding."

“ SEVILLE, NOVEMBER 10.

" The efforts of the rapid movements of the army
of La Mancha already begin to manifest themselves.
On the Gth our cavalry, about 2500 in number, char-
ged, put to flight, and pursued the enemy's cavalry,
consisting of 3000, killing more than 100 of them,
and taking from them a considerable quantity of pro-
visions and other articles. •

" NOVEMBER 11.—By a dispatch from the Gene.
ral, the enemy's loss is ascertained to have been 400
in killed and prisoners. They were pursued as far
as Tembleque, where they took the road to Seper.
The enemy were filled with dismay, and our troops
animated to enthusiasm by the event of the late ac-
tion.

" NOVEMBER 17.—We yesterday received advice
that Arrizaga, leaving two divisions of infantry and
some cavalry in the environs of Aranjuez, to conceal
his real designs from the French, ordered the rest of
his army to advance to Fuente Duenas. 'When the
courier came away, 12,000 infantry and the cavalry
had already passed the Tagus at that point. The
infantry passed by a flying bridge, and the cavalry
by a ford. The artillery was immediately to be con.
veyed across by a bridge, constructed with great soli.
dity. The passage was effected without any opposi-
tion from the French, whose vigilance had, in this
instance, been completelyeluded ; for they were throw.
ing up works near Salinas, in the supposition that our
army intended to advance by Aranjuez. The forti-
fications in the vicinity of Salinas have thus been ren.
dered useless; for they are now exposed to be attack.
ed by us in flank or rear. We may, therefore, daily
expect to hear of a battles the result of which, if fa-
vourable, will enable us to enter Madrid. That such
will be the result, we are led to expect from the great
confidencereposed in the activity, zeal, and talents of
the General, and in the high spirits and good dispo-
sition which our army evinces on its march,
" It is further stated, that the Dukes del Farque
and Albuquerque have formed a junction, and are
directing that( mirch upon Madrid. The French
Moniieurs Madrid must therefore be on the alert

to escape from the storm with which t hey are threa
tened.

•4 '•lt is positively stated, that a levy is to be forth_
with decreed of 50,000, to be taken from the age of
16 to 55, without distinction of rank ; and that, Ia
addition to this, there will speedily be formed an
army of 60,000 men, for which purpose there is to be
a general requisition of arms and horses.
,4 To conclude, instead of being dismayed by the
bad news from Austria, we are all of us daily anima.
ted with a more ardent determination to resist the
French, and to overthrow the reputation of their fen..
cious leader."

TURKEY.

INSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 41.