Star.
London, England, 1809-09-16 00:00:00

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Wit_ EV.INING
LONDON.
,A TURD,

THE ARMY;
Lord DALMIOUSI ad tirank,

S, ,AY, SEPTEMBER 16.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CL•OCiia
S per Cent. Cons. for money 6401 i—for ace. Saff.
Omaiutn = prem.—Excheq. Bills, 6s. 11s. prem.
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY.
Bank Stock shut India Bonds `2os. pr.
a per Cent. Red. shut Excheq,Bills, 6s. 14s. pre.
f per Cent. Cons. 68fi4i Omnium
4 per Cent. shut State Lottery Tickets Z4l 17s.
per
' ' £8

, and set el-al
rived in town yeitcrday'morning from Flushing.
LaSt night Lord CHATHAM, law Commander in
Chief at Walcheren, arrived in town from Dover, at
which port he landed yesterday morning from the
SUPERB, Rear-Admiral KEAT'S ship.
Yesterday General PLCTON was landed at Deal
from the MONMOUTH, in a weakly state of health.

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1 Cons. for acc. 681 The followingl.l Officers have arrived at Harwich,
—.e.. several of whom are very ill, viz.—Major FRASER,
The reports respecting the determination of Minis- 76th regiment; Conimissaries BAXTER and Ltereness;
ters in regard to Spain and Portugal are various and Captains RANKIN and GRINIES ; Lieutenants MAY-
contradictory. The general opinion is, that all hopes
POWDER, BOAT, HATC'IIELL, HAGGERSTON, COLLING-
of being able to do any thing in the interior of Spain
WOOD, SMITH, and BEARD.
is abandoned, and it is believed, by many, that we When these Officers left Walcheren our Engineers
shall also withdraw our troops entirely from Portugal. were employed in planning fortifications, and in put-
It would give us much pleasure to be able to an- Iting the island in the best posture of defence. No ap-
nounce this as a fact; but, frofn present movements, prehensions were entertained from a coup de main on
it is not possible to decide what is really intended.— the part of the enemy.
Let :he Public judge : The '23d, 45th, 48th, 87th,i With the SUPERB arrived some other men of war
and 88th Regiments, have been embarked at Ports- from Walcheren : part of several regiments arrived;
mouth this week, and with a large number of store- ' and were landed at Deal.
ships ' sail for Lisbon this very day (if the wind
i Yesterday his Majesty ships SCEPTRE and GANGES
permits) under convoy of the AJAX. I
. arrived off' Dover from the Downs. From the former
Such was the arrangement—bat counter-orders ship about 500 of the 2d battalion 95th (Rifle) regi-
may have been sent ; for an order reached Porte- ' ment landed, and from the latter between two and
month yesterday, for the whole of the copper-bottomed 500 of the 2d battalion 52d regiment ; they were
transports cusembled at Spithcad, to proceed to Lisbon with brought on shore by the Dover boatmen, in their
the "17.1 X. If this statement be correct, all the empty large boats ; there are several sick men among them.
transports go out, as well as the victuallers and trans- ' Two hundred men belonging to the 52d regiment
ports with troops ;—and hence it may be inferred that ' marched into Dover from Deal ; they came on shore
our army is recalled from the Peninsula—GeD grant it! from the 'SUPERB. Another 71 was coming into the
It is possible, however, that this measure is not yet Roads to land troops when our letters came away.
absolutely determined on ; but merely contemplated i Some sick soldiers from Flushing in the RAVEN
as a possible contingency, for which adequate pro.lgun-brig, arrived at Yarmouth yesterday.
vision ought to be made. Most assuredly, our gal- i A troop of the 2d Hussars King's German Legion
lent army ought not to be left without the means of ' ,
which was intended to have formed a part of the force
transporting itself from a country which will, ere ' left for the defence of the Island of -Walcheren, has
long, display more energy as our enemy, than it has , been disembarked at Ramsgate, and marched to Can-
yet done as the ally of Brltain.
I terbury, where it is to remain until Monday next, to
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refresh the horses : it then moves for Ipswich, thc
COVENT GARDEN THEATRE opens on Monday, and
we can assure the Public that the Proprietors have not head-quarters of the regiment. The 9th Light Dra-
been inattentive to provide means calculated to silence ' goons are now the only cavalry remaining in Wal-
every clamour that may be excited against the new. cher".
tax which they mean to levy upon the citizens of Lon- I A numbes of horses, belonline to the General and
b
don and Westminster. If •the town shall submit on i
the first night to the verdict of workmen and Ia- 1 Field Officers of Regiments, Nave been disembarked
bourers, hired by the Proprietors, and who are to be .it Ramsgate within these few days ; also the bat
distributed in various parts of the house, this can be. hot ses belonging to the greatest part of the regi-
no reason' why they should acquiesce in the imposi- rmtnbthe army , which were immediate)y ments fo • 0 • •
tion oaf ftsture-evenings !
marched to the points of destination to which the re-
On no principle of justice or policy should Govern.
meet permit sveisefte/ists to fix their own prices on pub- , giments are ordered. The reason of their being
lit amusements. In all well governed states theatrical . landed at Ramsgate is, that the disembarkation of
exhibitions have been permitted, not because they pro:. ; horses is effected with greater safety and facility in
duce no evil, and much less that they improve public ' Ramsgate Harbour, than at any other port in the
murals ; but because the idle, the profligate and the -
up a i kingdom. The Infant: y, with very few exceptions, will
vicious, if debarred from such means of filling
portion of their vacant time, not only might, hut cer- • occupy the same quarters they left on going upon this
tainly would be employed in other pursuits more data- ; service ; and as the season of the year admits of such
geroas to the public peace. 1 an arrangement, the Transports (as they daily at--
This principle is so well knoWn, that we cannot rive
allow ourselves to believe that the imposition of an.
advanced rice tivhich in itself tends to defeat the for the purpose of disembarkation.
vley object of public amusements by excluding num-, The garrison of Canterbury now consists of a very
bees who would otherwise frequent them and be brge detachment of horse and foot artillery- The
quiet) will be acquiesced in by Government. id Dragoons, the 9th, or Queen's Bays, the 3d, or
We mean to affirm that it is a duty which our Li
es own Dragoons, cavalry ; and the 9th and 42d
rulers owe to the public, to oppose such modes of tax-
ation for private emolument ;that, if they neglect in- lle' - - •
(Ist battalions) infantry—all of which were employed
:
terlerence, the public will have a right to make them in the late expedition. The cavalry have suffered
accountable for the consequences ; and that, at any very little (from not having lanced) and the horses
rate, all monopoly should be instantly destroyech are so far improved as to be fit for. any service ; but
A Lady of the name of CLARK will make her 4 .
the infantry are most alarmingly sickly—indeed, there
debut on the boards of the new Theatre, Covent-1
Garden, in the course of a few days, in the interesting I has been scarce an instance even in the West Indies,
character of Eli/lam/a in the Grecian Daughter. Pro-1 of troops having sustained so serious a reduction by
vincial report speaks in flattering terms of her per. sickness, as this brave but ill-fated army has done.
formance.' The 12th (Prince of Wales' Irish) Light Dragoons,
Forer RACING.—A curious etamination took place
kettithed frOfti Zealand, kas resumed the coast duty
at Marlborough-street Police-Office, yesterday, in
consequence of a charge made by a Mr. Jones against of Kent-
three other persons. About a fortnight ago a foot- i The 50th Foot (2d battalion) is now stationed at
race for 100 guineas was rem between a person of the Ramsgate, but in daily expectation of moving, Co
name of Jones, and another person of the name of ! give room for the troops on their arrival,about 4000 of
Pollard, 20 miles on Epsom Downs, which was won •
that,i whom are eipected to disembark at Ramsgate, to oc-
by Pollard. It was stated by the Prosectstor,
Jones, the runner, had come to London from Lan-, .01PY the following barracks—Ashford, llrabourne
cashire, and had challenged, by public advertise- Lees, Hythe; and Sboracliii.
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nient, to run any man in England twenty miles, The 2d battalion of the 14th Foot, 2d battalion
and that Mr. Walker, one of the Defendants, had 88d Foot, and 51st Foot, are now lying in the Downs,
accepted the challenge to find a man, within a given
time. Pollard, who is one of the best twenty.mile.
1
I:waiting a fair wind for Portsmouth.
runners in England, was sent for from Manchester, i A past of Colonel COCHRANE'S detachment is also
and he won the match easily, and could give his ad- I in the Downs, waiting a wind for the Isle of Wight.
versary five miles in twenty. Jones, the runner, who i -During the Week, detachments of the 23d, 45th,
Was also one of the Defendants, haft represented to
I 48th, 87th, 88th, have marched into Portsmouth),
Mr. Jones, his backer, that he could beat any man, i
and on his ipse dixit the prosecutor had staked a share and embarked on board different transports bound for
of Jones's money, amounting to about £350, in the j Portugal, under convoy of the AJAX, of 74 guns.
hands of the third defendant, a Mr. Nelson. It was All the militia in the different barracks at Ports-
urged by the prosecutor, that by artifice he had been mouth, are to be encamped as soon as the regiments
prevailed on to back his namesake by the parties on ,: .
of the line arrive from Flushing.
the opposite side. It turned out, however, that the • I
race was fairly conducted ; and that so far from col- The Leicester militia march from Hasler barracks
lusion, Pollard could givehis adversary the odds before into the new Military barracks, to leave room for the
stated. Mr. ADOLPHUS attended for Jones, the Pro-
sick,
secutor, and Mr. ALLEY, for the defendants. The A very large fleet of men of war and transports wasl
latter condemned, in strong terms, the conduct of
coming into Portsmouth from the Eastward when the I
the prosecutor, who, he said, having lost his money,
had attempted to institute a something to intimidate mail came away last night, believed to be from Zea-
the defendants to return it. The Learned Counsel , land. It is believed they have a great number of sick
recommended a prosecution against the prosecutor, on board, and most excellent arrangements have been
at the suit of the three defendants, for false imprison- 1 made for their accommodation by Dr. M'GREGOR,
ment. The Magistrate coincided with Mr. ALLEY,
and thought Mr. Jones had no ground of complaint. Inspector of Hospitals.
Some passengers arrived yesterday from Bilboa, Two regiments are under orders for the West In.'
who state, that when they were off the port of San- dies, to replace the n7th and 63d, now reduced to a
tona, they heard loud discharges of artillery in that skeleton, and just returned by the last West India
direction. It is highly probable that General BAL-
fleet. At the time the fleet left Martinique, Sir GEORGE
LASTEROS, who has so lately re-occupied Santander,
was endeavouring to acquire possession of the com-
BECEWITH was preparing an expedition against Gua•
modious harbour of Santona, when tLe report of can- , &loupe ; and Sir Geoatte PartrosT was expec'
non was in that neighbourhood. • • with a force from Halifax.