Star.
London, England, 1809-05-30 00:00:00

LONDON.

THE ARMY.

The Royal West Middlesex Militia have received
a route to march from Portsmouth to Chichester,
where they are to receive further orders. They leave
Portsmouth on Saturday next, and are to be replaced
The Princess Augusta packet has arrived at. Fal- by the Leicester and Renfrew Regiments of Militia.
mouth in forty days from Jamaica. I C tptain BUROES CAmsc, one of Marquis WELtes-
.
The Prince Adolphus packet has also arrived from LEY'S. Aides-de-Camp, left town yesterday for Ports-
'America—fifty days from New York, arid twenty slays mouth, to prepare for his Lordship's departure for
Spain.
from Halifax. Government were informed of the The sentence of the Court-Martial on the Honour-
arrival of this packet, by express, yesterday evening. . able Capiain COCHRANE., of the 15th Dragoons, was
Shortly afterwards a letter, of which the following is delivered yesterday. He was honourably acquitted
a copy, was transmitted to Mr. SANSOM, the Chair- of all the charges.
man of the American Committee, dated
May, 1809. 1 Major Hmtvay, of the 14th Light Dragoons, who
" Fortign
' was so dangerously wounded at the battle of Oporto,
Office, .
it in a fair way of doing well, but then= was obliged
" SIR-1 am directed by Mr. Secretary CANNING to inform
to be amputated close to the shoulder' by Surgeon
you, that as, in consequence of the arrival this morning of a mail SALMON, of the 3d Guards. ... • •
from America, it !nigh.. be convenient to the merchants concerned Wednesday and Thursday two divisions of the
in the trade with the United States to avail themselves of the ship Stirlingshire Militia arrived in Glasgow frog. Dunbar,
of war appointed to proceed to America, for the purpose of send'
to replace the Berwickshire Militia, the first division
ing answers by that convenience; Mr. CANNING has directed
iof which had marched for 'Edinburgh Castle. On
that the &Torture of that vessel should be postponed until the
, Thursday a division of the 26th regiment also marched
arrival at Plymouth of the letters sent from London by'the mail from Glasgow barracks for Dunbar.
of Wednesday night.—l am, &c. &c. " GEO. HAMMOND.
iTuesday the 94th regini'ent, under the command of
"To PHILIP SANSOM, Esq." ' r Lieutenant-Colonel Jaams CAMPBELL, marched from
The Prince Adolphus having left New York on Edinburgh for Aberdeen. The regiment is nearly.
the 27th ult. only two days later than the vessel 800 strong, though so lately from India.
which brought Mr. ERSKINE'S dispatches, she brings Wednesday 100 volunteers arrived at Southamp-
,
only farther accounts of the general joy diffused ts)l.' from the Donegal, or Prince of Wales's Irish Mi-
. luta, to embark for the depot in the Isle of. Wight, for
among the American merchants by the supposed ter-. I different regiments on foreign service.
mination of all the disputes with this country.— 1 • A detachment of nine officers and 300 men of the
New York Papers to the V6th, and Halifax to the lst, or Glasgow Regiment of Light Infantry, from
29th ult. received by the Piince Adolphus, are filled : lasgow barracks, under the command of Captain
with accounts of illi minations and other publfc marks SSSSUTHERLAND, are arrived at Leith, for embarkation
for the Downs.
of rejoicing on the occasion. Addresses of thanks The 2d battalion of the 50th Regiment has re-
and congratulation to the Legislature were also pre_ moved from Ashford *to Reading-sttect Barracks,
paring in the principal towns. How grievously will Tenterden.
the Americans feel themselves disappointed, when The Dumfries and NithsdaYe Regiments of Local
they learn that the arrangement will not be sanctioned Militia, are to assemble. at Dumfries on the 31st in-
stant, to continue on duty for 28 days.
by the British Government ! ---

TUESDAY, MAY 30.
TRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Como's, for money, rAii—Ditto, for op& 683-omnium pr.

SPAIN.

CATHOLIC MEETING.

We stated yesterday that the Plover, arrived at
Penzance, had been informed by a vessel at sea, that
the Spaniards were in possession of Madrid. By pri-
vate letters received from Oviedo, accounts have been
received which seem to give some degree of probabi-
lity to this statement. They mention that "it is sa-
tisfactorily ascertained, that King JosErn has retreated
to Burgoi."
The -Oviedo Gazette of the 6th instant, contains a
report to the Marquis RONIANA, by General VALLES"
TEROS, relating the particulars of a successful engage.
ment maintained by the provincial army against the
division of BO`.;ET, along the line of the river Deva,
in the Montana, parallel with the Nansa. " The re-
sult ( f this action has been the taking from the enemy
three pieces cf cannon, many muskets, &c. and 150
prisoners, among whom were five officers, four of
whom were severely wounded. In a word, we.have
cut to pieces the division of Bonet." The loss of the
Spaniards appears to have been small. The report is
dated Villanueva, April 30.

Dublin, May 25.

Yesterday, according to the Requisition, a numerous
Meeting of Roman Catholic Nobility and Gentry was
held at the Exhibition Room, in William-street.
After Lord FINGAL had taken the Chair, the pur-
pose of the Meeting was introduced, and the cause and
object of it discussed. Upon the necessity of refer-
ring the condition of his Majesty's Roman Catholic
subjects to the corsideration of Parliament, there ex-
isted perfect unanimity of sentiment ; but upon the
expediency of submitting a petition to tile Legislature
at so late a period of the Session, within a few days of
its prorogation, there prevailed some diversity of
Mr. O'GORMAN (the Barrister) moved a Resolu-
tion, founded upon the precedent of one which, at the
instance of Mr. Keogh, was used in 1807, when the
Sessions of Parliament was then near a close.

Sir FRANCIS Goon), Bart. proposed an amendment, .1
not- with intention to question the great and vital
necessity that existed for petitioning Parliament, but,
as the Session was so far advanced, to take such,
proceedings at the present, as would shew theirreso-1
lotion 16 apply on the next Session to the liberality of
the Legislature, and would also satisfy their friends'
in England, that by not taking any active course
at present, they had not ab;ndoned the firm but re-
spectful assertion of their claims. Sir Francis having
put his sentiments in the form of an amendment, mo-
ved, that a Committee should be appointed to frame
and prepare a Petition against the next ensuing Ses-
sion, and that a Member of Parliament, upon Vk hose
support they might rely, should be requested to give
notice, as soon as possible, that such Petition should
be presented early after the meeting of Parliament.
This amendment Mr.O'GORMAti consented should
supercede his Resolution, a concession which, howe-
ver, was warmly contested.
Mr. KEOGH then proposed a series of Resolutions,
to which several very strenuously objected, and among
Others, Dr Dromgoole, who submitted other Resolu-
tions foe the adoption of the meeting—tlwse, however,
were negatived without a division, and then the ques-
tion to be decided was, whether the motion of Sir
Francis Goold should be adopted, or the Resolutions
moved by Mr. Keogh. After some debate the meeling
divided, when there appeared—Fur Mr. Keogh's Re-
solutions 160—Fir Sir Francis Goold's Motion 110.
Majority 50.

VALLESTEROS has since announced to the Marquis
that he had fixed his head-quarters at San Vicente de
Barquera.
The following particulars are stated by Lieutenant
HENDERSON, who was a prisoner with the French,
and effected his escape from them during their retreat
om Oporto :

" The French advanced division was, on the IGth,
about two I,agues \Vest cf Armtrante, and coni4ted
of 8000 men. They were then in the utmost con-
fusion, cavalry and infantry flying pell-mell, and
they were blowing up their powder and destro)ing can-
non and bagg,age. Great numbers of the enemy were
lying dead in the roads, and many had heel killed and
stripped by the Po tuguese peasantry. The Portu-
guese peasantry harassed the rear of the enemy very
much. It was reported at Oporto, on the lBth, that
General BERINFORD had turned them. The French
OtTicers said, that when they left Corunna they had
27,000 men, since which time they had lost above
10,000 men."

The Pitt, which hls arrived at Liverpool from Mar-
tinique, brings an account that the two line of batty
ships and two frigates belonging to L'Oritmt squadron
had put into Guadaloupe, and were blockaded by
Admiral COCHRANE!. We have since heard, much to
our regret, that accounts have been received at the
Admiralty of the two ships of the line which 'escaped
from the Saintes having arrived in a French port, we
belieVe at Cherbourg. The intelligence brought by
the Pitt, therefore, can only be considered as true in
respect to the frigates.
The following are among the latest arrivals at
Cheltenham :

The Right Honourable the Earl of Moira, Lord Yardley,
Lady George Sutton, Sir Henry Lushington, Rev. Dr. Macdowell,
Lieutenant-General Kerr, Colonel and Mrs. Mackenzie, ft ear-
Admiral Smith ; Colonels Goldie, Haldane, Digby, at.d 1). Con-
ningham ; Majors Nichols, Haven, Hill, Dawson, Yonde, Taub-
man, and family; Captains Hancock, James, and Carpenter;
Reverends Wilson Macklin, F. Crofts, John Smith, Mr. Jay,
and Mr. Gibson; Mr. and Mrs.- Newcombe, Mr. and Mrs.
Bridges, Mr. and Mrs. Roebuck, Mr. Mrs. and Miss Made,
Mr. Mrs. and Miss Rabone, Mr. and Mrs. James, Mr. and Mrs.
Turbitr, Mr. J. Dyke, Mr. Hunter, Mr. Paul, Mr. Hoskin, Mr.
Smith, Mr. J. Bruce' Mr. S. Matthews, Mr. Austie, Mr. Ed-
ward Spencer, Mr. Merewether, Mr. Cawood, Mr. Powlett,
Mr. A. Graham, Mr. Mather, Mr. Rutherford, Mr. Tukell,
Mr. LabalmontPere, Mr. Miggison, Mr. Taubman, Mr. Robert
Beachcrott, Mr. Richard Beachcroft, Mr. Paterson, Mr. Neville,
Mr. R Clarke, Mr. Stewart, Mr. Matthetson, Mr. Fowler, Mr.
V. Croft'', Mr. Shore, Mr. Robert Smith, Mr. John Dykes, Mr.
Fuller, Mr. Vos, Mr. Walker, Mr. R. Walker, Mr. Shore, Mr.
Cox, Mr. Heard, Mr. John Bridges, Count Zenobio, Mr. B.
Cooper; Mrs. Houghton, Mrs. Oxley, Mrs. Wright, Mrs.
Wardlaw, Mrs. Erissett, Mrs. La Forest, Mrs. Smith, Mrs.
Sadler, Mrs. King, Mrs. Underwood, Mrs Jay, Mrs. and Miss
Rodd, Miss savage, Miss Helen Shaw, Miss Musgrove, Miss
Coleman, Miss Larden, and Miss Elderfield.
Saturday lastJamezDuj:y,whowasundersentence of
death in the tolbooth of Dumfries for uttering forged
notes, received a respite during his Majesty's pka-
iure.