Star.
London, England, 1814-07-11 00:00:00

FROM THE HALIFAX PAPER, JUNE 17.

From Quebec we have Papers to the 2d instant.
A letter this day says, Chauncy will not come out,
so we are not to have any fighting on the Lake. Our
new ship will be in the water by the last of August.
Captain Mulcaster is recovering. The 16th Regi-
ment, and about 700 men for different Regiments,
have arrived here—total 1700 men. Seven hundred

seamen and 300 artificers have also arrived, and fur-
ther reinforcements are daily expected, with abun-
dance of stores of every description.

A Jamaica Mail also arrived to-day, but it brings
no intelligence of importance.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY ADDRESS—Such Members
as wish to attend are requested to be at the Royal
Hotel, Pall-Mall, to-morrow at one o'clock.
The Princess of WALES has taken a house at Wor-
thing for the ensuing season.
Yesterday morning the Prince of MECKLENBERO
left the Queen's Palace, about seven o'clock, and pro-
ceeded to Dover, to embark there.
Their Highnesses the Princes of BRUNSWICK left
Towti for Oxtord early on Friday morning, intend-
ing to make a tour from thence of the country, pre-
vious to their departure for Germany, which is
now shortly expected to take place.
The Prince PLATOYI, visited the PRINCE REGENT
yesterday.
Prince PLATOIF does not leave London till the
latter end of this week.

Saturday Marshal Prince BLUCHER visited the Bank
of England, and was entertained by the Directors.
As it was known that the venerable BLUCHER was
to set out yesterday morning for Harwich, on his
way to Prussia, a vast number of people were assem-
bled before his door at ten o'clock, to witness his de-
parture. The Marshal had, however, gone out, and
did not return till twelve, at which hour the post
bases were put to his coach. The Hall was so
crowded, that the Marshal could scarcely get up
stairs : the Anti-room was full of Officers.

The Dutch papers are full of the progress of the
Emperor Alexisnder through Holland, and of the
honours with which he was received at Rotterdam,
the Hague, and Amsterdam. The visit of his Im-
perial Majesty to the village of Saardam was interest-
ing. The house which Peter the Great first entered
on his arrival, August 18,1697, was prepared for the
reception of his Majesty, and the Sovereign Prince,
who accompanied him. The house was fitted up with
Dutch neatness. In the parlour was a fine portrait
of Peter the Great in armour. The Emperor and
Ithe Prince were received by 16 daughters of the Ma-
gistrates, in the dress of Saardam. The illustrious
visitors testified their satisfaction at their reception,
and then went to the house of the Czar Peter,
which had simply the inscription—,, To the great
man nothing is too little." The Emperor having
visited the dock, where Peter engaged himself as
a workman, came to the house. The Prince led
him in, and one could immediately see the im-
pression which the immense contrast of the sim-
ple dwelling with the power and splandohr of its
firmer inhabitant, and so many other recollections,
would not fail to insp're. The Prince requested the
Emperor to leave a memorial of this remarkable visit,
and all having been prepared, the Emperor, with a
silver trowel, fixed in the chimney a square of white
marble, on which is inscribed, in golden letters—
" PETRO MAGNO, ALEXANDER."

Extract from a letter dated Minorca, 29th May,
1814:—" BosnranTE is At Elba, and is very atten-
tive to all our Captains. I hope to see him before I
go home. Captain Ustien, Captain TOWER, and
some others, dine with him continually, and he talks
of late events with great familiarity, and does not
all despond. He says he knows the Boutin°Ns can
never reign long, and he expects in a few years to be
called back to the Throne of France."

A Brighton Paper says that tl•e benevolent Mr.
Wasp, whose extraordinary charities have been so
much spoken of, left the Castle Tavern, in that town,
on Monday last, for Arundel, but had not proceeded
far before he was overtaken by his brother and ano-
ther Gentleman, in a chaise and four, into which he
WAS instantly put and driven off for London. To
this statement it is added—" We understand he is to be
placed in one of due establishments which are devoted to the
reception of such as labour under mental derangement !"
Are our men of fortune to be permitted to squander
not only their own money, but that of their creditors
at large, on the Race-course, and at the Gaming-
, table, with impunity, and is giving money to the poor
to be considered an act of insanity ?
Public credit has received a considerable shock
within the last few days by the stoppage of the fol-
lowing Banks :
Boston and Lincolnshlre—Williata Robert Thomas Lawrence
and John James Barnard.
Boston—Abraham Sheath and Son.
Boston and Spilaby—A. Sheath, Challis SLeatb, and George
Smith.

Lincoln—A. Sheath, I. Steel, and I. Wray.
Derby—Bell4irs, Sons, and Co.
Stanitord—A. W. Bellairs and Son.
Leicester—Bellaire, Welby, and Co.
—These distressing failures are, we understand,
ascribed principally to unfortunate speculations in
grain.—Leth Mentor

ir,firAL

CAPTURE OF MAlEsrY's REUAEER, OF I e
GiJNS, BY THE AMERICAN SLOOP OE WAR WASP.
OF ss Clll4B.

PLYMOUTH, JULY O.—Arrived the Portuguese *hip
toreu de Lisbon from Lisbon to Havre-de-Grace,
haaitig'ot) board the crew of the ship Orange B >yen,
Captain BEDBROKE, from Bermuda to London, which
vessel was captured '26th ultimo by the Wasp, Ame-
rican sloop of war, and destroyed. This vessel brings
an account that on the 28th ult. the REINDEER brig of
war, Captain MANNERS, fell in with the Wasp Ame-
rican sloop of war, and engaged her, at close quar-
ters, for 25 minutes, and attempted to carry the Ame-
rican twice by boarding, but was over-powered by
numbers, and at length obliged to strike, but not un-
til Captain MANNERS, the Purser, and 27 men, were
killed, and the first Lieutenant, Master, two Midship-
men, and 41 men wounded.—The Wasp had T 1 men
killed and 19 wounded. The RYINDEEIt was ►urnt'
the day after the action.

British Force 16-24-o I
• oundersi 100 men, 380 Toni.
Ditte, 2 long 12 ditto,
American Force 20-32-pounders 175
men, 600 Toni.
Ditto, 2 long 12 ditto,)

The Wasp had captured six other British vessels and
destroyed them : she is supposed to have gone to Nor-
way to repair her damage, which is very great. The
action was fought in lat. 48. 10.. long. 11.
Came in the American privateer RATTLESNAKE, of
18 guns and .50 men. captured by his Majesty's ship
HYPERION : she left Rochelle in company with the
American ship Decatur. She had captured the
cutter Wasp, from Lisbon, tind the brig Dover, of
London, and burnt them.