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

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Orders 'lave been received at Portcbester Castle, to
prepare immediately stores for ten thousand men, for
foreign service.

Letters by the Walcheren Mail, which arrived yes.
terday, mention, that General GRAHAM would be/eft
in the command of that Island, with from 11,000 to
16,000 men.

Ten sail of transports have arrived at peal from
Walcheren, having on board about 500 sick soldiers,
belonging to different regiments. An Officer on board
one of the above transports reports, that when he
left fhe Scheldt, there were upwards of ten thousand
sick in the different islands in our poss2ssion.
Other transports from Flushing, with the I I th,
79th, 59th, and parties of the Guarch.„9rtillery, and
other Regiments, arrived yesterday at Harwich.—
A great many sick and wounded are on board these
transports.

Lieutenant• Colonel DONALDSON, of the Guards,
we are grieved to state, died at Harwich yesterday
morning ; two other officers, whose names we have
not learnt, are also dead on board the transports.
The sick and wounded were landed yesterday, and
a detachment of artillery ; the other troops were ex-
pected to be disembarked this day, and will imme-
diately march for•Colchester, Weeley, Sec.
General LEITH is on board a 74, off Harwich.—
He is, we are concerned to state, very dangerously
ill. A cutter had just gone off to bring him on shore;
when the mail came away yesterday afternoon.
The Union transport (marked FD.) W. JEFFERSON,
arrived on Thursday at Harwich, from Flushing, with
sick and wounded soldiers. The following officers
are come on shore :—viz. Brigade-Major MACIUL,
Capt. GARDNER (Staff), Lieut. Colonel DRAPER,
Hon. Major BLACQUIERE, Capt. ELPHINSTONE, and
Capt. TWISDELL. They appear to be perfectly well.
Another transport (marked AI-I.) arrived on the
same evening, with sick and wounded ; others were
expected hourly. Captain SMITH, of the sth Regi-
ment of Foot ; Mr. SroKrs, Commissary-General r
Capt. BROWN, of the 40th Regiment of Foot ; arid
Mr. DAVIS, Paymaster-General, came passengers by
the Lady Frances packet.

The 2d Light Cavalry of the German Legion,
which had been landed at Ramsgate, has marched in
two divisions from Canterbury, for the depot of the
regiment at Ipswich. The 2d Dragoon Guards, or
Queen's Bays, with the 3d, King's own Dragoons, arc
arrived at their former stations in Canterbury.—The
12th Light Dragoons has also been disembarked ac
Ramsgate, and is to be cantoned at their former quar-
ters on the coast. The detachment of the 95th Rifle
corps which arrived in the Hebe transport, has been
debarked at Dover, and marched for the depot of the
battalion at Hythe barracks.—These men appeared
very sickly, but the cavalry not having -been landed
are in general healthy.
The 75th Regiment is under orders to march from
Perth to Aberdeen, to replace the 91th embarked oz
Foreign service.
The following extract of a letter from an Officer
in Lord WELLINGTON'S army, will not fail to afford
considerable consolation to the relatives and friends
of our brave countrymen, who, through the criminal
misconduct of CuEs-ra, were left at Talavera :

•` 14 miles from Trialllo, August 14, 1809.

" We have just received a very handsome latter from Marshal
Monier, expressing his intention of affording every possible as-
sistance to our Officers and men left in Talavera : indeed it does
him the highest credit, and I am leippy to add that th,. way In
which the french officers and men who tell into our hands were
treated after the battle was not undeserving of the return they.
have made us.—Such acts as these present a pleasing contrast to
Cats severities of war."

When the NErruxu left Martinique, about six
weeks ago, the island was healthy, and they were
then getting reedy to make an attack upon Guade-
loupe. The 4th West India Regiment, 13th, Sd
Battalion of the 60th, and G3d Foot, remain i s the
island.

The Germans that were in the French service in
Martinique have, generally speaking, enlisted into
some of our regiments there.