Star.
London, England, 1812-04-23 00:00:00

FALL OF BADAJOZ.

We have to congratulate our readers upon the
fall of this most important Fortress. The glorious
!event took place on the 6th instant.

The place was taken by assault, after a most ob-
stinate resistance on the part of the besieged, in which
the greater number were killed or wounded. The
loss on the part of the British was comparatively small.
A telegraphic communication to the above effect,
was made from the signal station at Plymouth-Dock,
yesterday, and it reached the station at Cabbage-hill,
on the road to town, before night-fill. From this
place the intelligence was forwarded by Post, to the
Admiralty, where it arrived this morning, at eleven
1 o'clock.

No further telegraphic, or other communication,
had reached the Government Offices when this Paper
was put to press. The instant any further particu-
lars arrive we shall communicate them in a SECOND
EDITION. The weather has been so hazy since
morning, however, that the Admiralty Telegraph
has not' been at work.

In the mean time, there is a vague report in the
Oty, that the loss on the part of the British amounted
to 1400 men. The siege, altogether, occupied twenty
days, before the place fail.

Yestilday, soon after two o'clock, his Royal High-
ness the PRINCE REtnilxv held a Levee at Carlton
House. A troop of theld Life Guards marched into
Pall Mall about one o'clock, and a detachment of the
Ist Guards into the Court-yard, with colours Hying,
and the band in their state uniforms. Their Royal
Ht,,hnessos the Dukes of KENT, CANmatnoe, and
GLOUCESTER arrived early; the former was accom-
panied by the Dukes of CLARENCE and BRUNSWICK.
There were present, the Lord Chancellor, the
President of the Board of Trade, the First Lord of
the Admiralty, the First Lord of the Treasury and
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Master General of
the Ordnance, the Secretaries of State for the Home
and War Department, the President of the Board of
Controul, the Lord Steward of the Household, the
Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, the Bishop of
Exeter, the Neapolitan, Sicilian, and Turkish Am-
bassadors; the Lord Mayor, Recorder, and Remern-
brancer of London, with the Sheritts; and the Dukes
of Portland and Montrose.

After the Levee the PRINCE gave audiences to the
Earl of Livr.ttrooL, and Mr. Shetiff litiu•tt and the
City Remernbrancor, when his Royal Highness was
pleased to appoint next Tuesday, at three o'clock, to
receive the City Address.

By the Nimrod letters have been receiyed from
Malta to the 14th ult. The last advices received there
from Sicily, do not represent the state of that island
as yet wholly free from disturbance. We subjoin an
extract of a letter from Malta on this subject :

MALTA, MARCH 8.

6, We are much depressed here from the still un-
determined state of the affairs of Sicily. It appears
that matters are there but externally settled : the
force of the hostile puny is alive and active. In the
opinion of informed persons, nothing less than the
entire removal of the Queen, and her advisers and
confederates, can insure security and peace to our
possession of that island. The rumoured pacification
between Turkey and Russia has not yet taken place."

Jamaica Papers have reached us to the 14th of
'February. From these we learn the following or:
tculars respecting the Amethyst, lately captured by
the SOUTHAMPTON British frigate :
" The crew of the Amethyst, a frigate belonging
to CHRISTOPHE, it should seem, mutinied, and seizing
the vessel, took her into Maragcane, one of the ports
in the Department of the South, in the hands of a
French patty, where a Frenchman took the command
of her. Information having been given at the same
time, that a sloop of war, and a brig, belonging to
Cmustorne, werr also at sea, the Amethyst was
fresh manned with Frenchmen and others,_ and pro-
ceeded in quest of them ; but instead of meeting
with what they sought for, they had the luck to fall
in with the Souniami.Tow, Captain Itso, who felt
himself fully justified in capturing them. The Ame-
thyst was so complete a wreck atter the engagement,
that it was with difficulty she could be kept above
water. The nearest port was Port-au-Prince, into
which she was carried by the permission of _Pertori,
who afforded Captain Yeo every accommodation.
On the Bth of February she was fitted out with jury-
masts, and was about to sail for Port Royal, in Ja-
maica."
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The Jamaica Papers contain Resolutions, passed
at Meetings of Proprietors of Estates in Demarara
and Tobago. In the third Resolution of the furmer it
is stated, that the settlement lost last year R 1,200.000.
Ihe eleventh directs that a Petition be presented to
Parliament, to introduce sugar into our Distilleries.
The tenth Resolution at the Tobago Meeting states,
s, That nothing but the hope of some relict; and the
' duty they owe to their creditors, could induce the
Planters to continue the cultivation of their estates,
for any other purpose than the maintenance of
themselves and their negroes, by raising stock and
provisions.
C4tain Phibbin, of the 60th regiment, was taken
suddenly ill on Monday in the street, and was coo-
lveyed into a house at Lambeth tar medicalaid, which
was instant_ly afforded, but without etilvt, as he shortly
expired. tie had been married but a ieW day s.

i.iPtii•

THE ARMY.

Military dispatChes were yesterday received from.
Jamaica ; the remaining companies. of the 54th and
55th regiments are under Jriers to return to Eng.
land, as soon as the 4th but tlinn of the 60th regi.
ment shall arrive. The men belonging to those
companies who choose to continue in t:ic island will
be permitted to volunteer and j'An ether corps on that
station.

In addition to the Cavalry reinforcement; men-
tioned in the STAR of the tith inst. the figlowing very
fine remounts are immediately ordered to Portsmouth
Plymouth, to embark for Portugal, viz.
Re Hu"a" 4') °llembark :it Portsmouth.
fict Ditto - 21 to
3th Light Dragoons 83
11th Ditto Ditto 110
12th Ditto Ditto 150
13th Ditto Ditto 160 to embark at Plytaouth.
11th Ditto Data GS
16th Ditto Ditto 100
Horses
Nearly 1000 Spanish Recruits have been lately
sent from Corunna to Lisbon.

The skeleton of the 52d regiment is on its way
from Lisbon. It consists of 13 Officers, and only
114 men.

Monday morning detachments from the 4th. Dr-
agoon Guards, and Royal Dragoons, marched from
the Cavalry Depot, Canterbury, on their route for
Portsmouth, where they will embark to join their re-
spective regiments now in Portugal.
The Dukes of YORK, Cumsatoug, and GLOUCES
TYR were on the parade this morning, and inspected
the Guards ;n their new caps and knaksacks, and
were pleased with the goad appearance of the men.
The 29th Regiment is now un its march to per-
form the King's duty at Windsor. The selection of
that corps for so honourable a duty, affords a con-
vincing proof of the respect which is entertained for
its gallant and distinguished services, during it period
of four years in the Peninsula. The ske:eton 61 the
regiment returned from Portugal in December last,
but the decided preference manifested for it by se-
veral corps of Militia, will, no doubt, coon complete
its ranks.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM TIIE ARMY IN PORTUGAL.

" That zealous yourg Offiter MULCAITZR, of the
Royal Engineers, ho lost his life early hi the morning of 26th
March, at Badaj had been relieved in Ids duty fu the trenches
by Captain WILLIAws, and %vas visiting tile har,eries with him,
to explain what was goitv forward, when a cannon shot struck
his head—his death was instantaneous. He had barely recovered
of a wound he had rec• iv.d at Ciudad Rodrigo. The fall of this
young man must be a severe affliction to his family, a loss to the
profession, and to his ::unierous military friends, fur his to
virtues and public character had endeared him to all who know
him. He was in the 24th year of his age, youngest son of the
Late General MULCAs.rea, of the Royal Engineers, and ne,hew
to the gallant General Sir SAMUEL AUCIIMUTIN"

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
FALMOUTH, APRIL 20.
Sailed the ll.dce of Clarence packet for Lisbon.

PLYMOUTH, APRIL. 21.
Tuesday an ived the MottalsrowN hired armed brig
with a convoy from Swansea • the. Asx tender, with
impressed men and volunteers, Bristol and Swan.
sea ; NEPTUNE from Dublin, and WHITING from Fal-
mouth. Arrived theFoxnuusmgun-brig fromacruize.
A fleet passed down Channel this morning from the
Eastward. The WairriNG schooner is expected to sail
to-morrow for (guernsey and Jersey, with a convoy.
Arrived the Robert and Sarah, in 20 days, from Gib-
raltar; brings no news. he HANADRYAD, 38 guns,
went from filmoaze to the Sound, to resume the
Irish station. Sailed the ELIZABETH, 74. guns, and
MlNznva, 32 gons, for Portsmouth ; and the Comm.,
18 guns, to the Westward.—The blat.astrus frigate
and Brrrmor sloop of war, at Plymouth, are ordered
to be fitted nut with Al the dispatch that circumstances
will admit.—Wind N.W.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 22.
Arrived the LINNET sloop of war from Cork, with
a convoy ; the ELIZABETH man of war from Fal-
mouth ; blisrliva from Plymouth ; CoMEr from a
cruize ; and the DoLeanN store-ship from the West-
ward, supposed from the Brazils—Wind N.V.

DEM., APRIL 22.
Arrived his Majesty's ships Vie. cony, Vice-Admiral
Sir .1 AMEN SAUmAitEz, from the Baltic; Impntax AMC,
Admiral Youm.; ; and the \Volution, Capt. BYNU
to augment the fleet off Flushing. Arrived his Ma-
jesty's ship MA it Laottouott from off ditto. Came down
from the River the Indefatigable, Cam, for New
South Wales and China, and several others.

I LONDON TAVERN, APRIL 23, 1812.—T0 the Loyal
f Independent
s•
1 an tnartenaent Li of London—The ADDRESS
to leis Royal Highness the PRINCIi• Reoexr will lie
for signature a few days longer, at the London Ta-
' Tern, Bishopsgate-street ; and London Coffee-house,
Ludgate-Ml—Rica/IRD CLARKE, Sec.
; SADLER'S WELLS.---A young Lady, of the name
of APPLETON, was introduced to the public as a
singer, on Monday evening, and was very favourably
received. The cGmpass abet. voice is great, and her
tones are as clear and sweet as they are powerful.—
The applause of a-crowded house accompanied the
display of her abilities, first in a glee, and afterwards
in a very pleasing song, which it is understood was
composectpurposely fur her by a Gentleman of that
Ilwatre. Miss A. certainly possesses considerable
talents, and as she is said to be under the care of a
preceptor of some eminence, will doubtless advance
rapidly in be public favour.
Fits Anil —Owing to a sintilarityornameoccurrinz
between those two excellent artists, Mr. WILKIE and
Mr. WILT UN, both of wham have fine works of art at
present on exhibition ; it is necessary to inform the
public, that the first of these artists is the Gentleman
who painted •the Blind Fidler, and other much ad-
mired works, some cf which have already been be-
fore the public, and all of which ate now brought to-
gether at No. 37, Pall-mall ; the second is the Gen-
-Itleman who !mode the fine dr.twing of the Dead
Chritt and the Marys,- from the picture of ANNIBAL.
CARAMI, formerly to the Orleans Collection, for the
purpose of being engraved by Mr. SHA.kP, to form
one of the series of 12 lari,e engravings, illustrative
of the works of the leading Masters of the various
Schools of Painting, with many other capital draw-
- ings in water colours, which are now exhibiting at
No. 89, Sack ville-street, Piccadilly ; and are executed
in a style of rigour, and uncommott richness of co-
!oaring, which render them perfect Jae-similes of the
original pic • utes fronavilich they are taken. DWI of
these Exhibitions we can pronounce to he well worthy
the auention of every admirer of th: Fine A