Star.
London, England, 1812-01-14 00:00:00

DIKE OF YORK.

Lord COCHRANE gave notice that he would on
Thursday next move for an Address to his Royal
Highness the Prince Regent, praying that he would
be graciously pleased to order a copy of a letter from
the Duke of Cambridge to the Duke of York respec-
ting a recent occurrence, with a copy of the letter in
reply by the latter, to be laid before the House.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE,
• Mr. WHITBREAD gave notice, that on Mon-
day, he would move for leave to bring in a Bill, as
an amendment on an Act passed during the last Ses-
sion, respecting the rebuilding of Drury-lane Theatre.
The SPEAKER doubted whether there was a ne-
cessity for giving any notice, the Bill being of a pri-
vate nature. Adjourned tin. to-morrow.

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LONDON.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 14%

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY Al ONE O'CLOCK
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9 per Cent. Red. 624 69—Navy S per Cent. 9414 ex. dir.
4 per Cent. 7914—Bonds 17s. 18*. pre.—Omniunt 4 dis.
Exch. Bills (3d.) Ss. 4s. pre.—Ditto (Std.) 41. Ss. 6s. pre.
The Dividends are now paying at the Bank. The State
Lottery begins Drawing at Nine &Clock Tuesday Morning, and
fintshee the same day.

A Lisbon Mail arrived this morning. The head-
quarters are still at Freynada, and the allied army is
in a state of perfect tranquillity. The dispatches from
Lord WELLINGTON are dated on the 18th ultimo, but
they are devoid of any intelligence of a public
nature. NO disposition whatever was shewn on
the part of the enemy to disturb the Allied Army,
the postare of which was becoming every day more
formidable in point of numbers and resources of every
description. The English officers and soldiers, in
particular, were to a man in high health and spirits.
The following is the most interesting part of the
letters and papers brought on the above occasion :

" LISBON, DECEMBER 22.

" Head-quarters still remain at Freynada, where
our gallant soldiers and their incomparable Comman-
der amuse their leisure hours with hunting, shoot-
ing, &c.

66 General Hir.'s division likewise remains quiet :
he has kept two or three regiments at Albuquerque
ever since Girard's affair. Our men who were sick
are now recovering very fast.
66 Mina continues to invest Saragossa. He had,
the other day, a successful affair with a French force
of 2000 men, at Darnca.

tg Our last adviccs from Valencia are of the 29th
ultimo, at which time Suchet bad not repaired the
destruction the garrison caused in their sortie of tLe
19th.

44 The Guerillas in the neighbourhood of Madrid
have paid another visit to King Joseph, and carried
off from 30 to 40 of his finest mules."
gusBON, DECEMBER 17.

" Cadiz Gazettes to the 4th have arrived; they
do not confirm the accounts before received that Su-
chet had raised the siege of Valencia. They speak
of an action of the Empecinado, but not at Cubillego,
with the French who had evacuated the Castle of
Mulina—he killed 400, and wounded .500. Ballas-
teros was under the artillery of Gibraltar.

VALENCIA D'ALCANTARA, DEC. S.
" Head-quarters of the Sixth Army, Nov. 11.
_ _

" The head-quarters of this army left Villa Franca
on the 7th, for Vintiates, and on the same day the
troops of the vanguard, and the second division which
occupied El Viergo, put themselves in motion in dif-
ferent directions, debouching by the passes of Fuence-
badon and Manzanal, and some corps approaching
to within a quarter of a league of Astorga ; the troops
of the 3d division had orders to operate in the di-
rections of Banheza and Benavente.

K The object of this movement was to call the at-
tention of the troops which were in Leon, in order to
reinforce those which were entering the Asturias, as
was done ; for on the 9th 4000 infantry and 600
horse passed by Orbigo for Astorga. The object
proposed being obtained, the troops retired into their
cantonments, leaving a corps of cavalry in advance
to act in the vicinity of Carrizo.

.4 From want of shoes and other articles indispen.
übly necessary for making war in such a climate and
situation, the operations of this part of the army have
been delayed, awaiting the national gratitude and
support, which those merit who have sacrificed every
necessary of life to maintain the independence of their
country, and preserve the rights and property of their
fellow-citizens.

" His Excellency also received yesterday a letter
from General Silviera, dated from his head-quarters
at Villareal, in which he says, that he had received
orders from General Lord Wellington to act in con-
cert with our army, on which account he bad marched
for Chaves, in which place, and in Braganza, the
divsion under his command would assembal, to act
as circumstances might require ; his principle object
being to defend Portugal on that side, and, when
it can be done without risk, to co-operate in the
defence of Gallicia.

a He also says, that Don Carlos dc Hispanha
is at Lumbrales, arming and clothing his division,
for the use of which he ha.l received from Lord
Wellington 1000 stand of arms."
4, VALENCIA DE ALCANTARA, DEC. to.
a General Bregneer, who occupied Placentia and
its neighbourhood, has completely fulfilled his com-
mission—filling with misery that unfortunate country.
We are assured that he has sent away 100 Ecclesias-
tics, or respectable Citizens, because their respective
places did not id fact enable them to pay the extra.
ordinary contributions imposed upon them. His
conduct in the other parts of the province has been
similar.

44 The letters by the last Courier say, that the de-
fenders of Valencia every day hope to strike some
great and successful blow against the enemy, who
they have already dislodged from the Anabalde de
Alboyara, and obliged to concentrate themselves in
Murviedro ; that the Empecinado and Duran have
blockaded the garrison of Daroca..jvfina has entered
flue 3C a; and taken sonle hondredsofFrencb prisoners."

eg MCA, (IN CATALONIA) Om Hi
N. All the official accounts, which come down to
the 15th instant, as well as private letters of the issh.
afford a consolotary idea on contemplating tie pa.
triode reaction of our arms, since the last disasters.
u The General-in-Chief D. Louis Lacy officially
has informed the Sopelor of the bravery with whiek
the Baron d'Eroles and his valiant troops took a ea,
toy under Tgualada, destroying a battalion which 00,
coned it, and a strong column which sallied frost
Igualada to protect it ; the killed were numerous, h.
cause the action was obstinate and bloody ; the rd.
soners and wounded amount to 200.

al On the 11th the Baron informed the Genera Lie.
Chief of his having taken pritoners the whole garrisco
of Cervera. In Bell Puit 400 more of the enemy wet
blockaded, and the Baron was fully confident tk.ie,
would meet the fate of their companions in Centre.
Partial actions daily take place in every direction, be.
tween our Guerillas and the enemy, in which siace
the assassination of Sen. Montardit in Balaguer. it is
not customary to give quarter.

" Our army augments extraordinarily, and the
arms of independence acquire fresh motives for dr
exaltation of the patriotism of these valiant 41114.
tants."

ITh Royal Highness the PRINCE Recur has bete
pleased, in the name and on behalf of his MAJEsry, bt
Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Ireland, tone,
mote the Rev.ionti Lew', D.D. Dean oftheCatfiettpl
Church of Cork, to the Bishopric of Dromore, la et
room of the Right Rev. Dr. Gunton HALL, late*.
shop thereof, deceased.

&tram—There -was no Court of Aldermen today,
The LORD MAYOR, after inspecting the Retain; O.
dered k to fall One Penny per peck.
At the last meeting of the Chamber of Commerce
of Glasgow, we understandaComminee was appoire.
ed to consider and report, what steps ought to
taken upon the approaching expiration of the Eta
India Company's Charter, thin that immense hdd
commerce might be opened to the individual entw.
prize and capital of the Merchants of this country,
in the same way that it has, for so log a Came, bee
to traders from America.

The American Commodores BARON and BAR.
BRING; who were acting as Supracargees on board
merchantmen. have been taken by Danish prinks.%
and carried into Sweden. The former commando!
the Chesapeake in the affair with the Leopard—tin
latter is conlidered one of best seamanin the ADM*
rican Navy.

The remains of the late Mr. Disowns, Mawr
and Proprietor of the Bath Theatre, were depteld
on Thursday last in the Abbey Church of that site.
A large crowd of spectators attended on the unisp
choly occasion, and, by their unaffected grief; bass
testimony to the distinguished worth of the deceased.
Mr. Dtx(ims was in the 57th year of his age. Ile ma
highly esteemed for rod sense, a benevolent ditgai
eition, and the gentlemanly urbanity of his nom"
Thursday night a quart bottle we; threwn 004
the first gallery at the Theatre, Hull, into the
which struck a young woman of the game of TY*
son on the head, and hurt her severely. Saw afp
came forward, and pointed out four soldiers as it
party by some of whom the bottle bad been throes(
they were immediatel7 taken into custody; owe if
whom confessed to throwing the bottle.
Saturday a private belonging to a regiment of
litia, lying at Plymouth, was detected in passing ks
ged notes on the Bank of England, he was taken is
custody by Captain LLOYD of the same regiment
and, on being searched, there was found on him now
as follows :—Two of 415, one of £2, and one
amounting in all to £l5 • which notes he
were manufactured on board the prison shipsl,forat
Hamoaze, and that be purchased them that n
of the prisoners, paying one pound in cash for is
whole. He will be delivered over to the civil Paolo
and will be sent to the county jail in a few tin •
take his trial at the ensuing Assizes.
Wednesday night, the house of Captain SemtP
ville, in George-street, Plymouth-Dock, was ••
tered by some daring villains, who proceeded to dir
steward's room, but on searching the room, one ef
the mput his hand on the face of the steward as be
in bed, and awoke him, on which the steward
at the robbers, when a scuffle ensiled ; Captain '
ville, hearing the noise, proceeded to the room •
which the villains ran off, taking with them a par
of boots and, a great coat from the passage, bet 0
being Closely pursued, they dropped them, and dud
their escape.

Yesterday evening se'nnigbt, between five and at
o'clock, a daring attack was made on two young mill
returning to Bristol over Broad&ld Downs, has
Wrington, by two highwaymen. Without sluing a
word they fired a pistol, which missing the young sr'
and startling their horses, one of the highwaymee 21•
mediately commenced a pursuit, and again fired
soon overtook the hindmost, who was not so v?•+
mounted as his companion, and after dragging 1?11
off his horse, beat him unmercifully, and rubbed
A letter from Sweden gives the following Utk
cause of the French Minister's retirement from Stalk
holm :-••ALQUIER, at an audience with the C.OI
Peswee, requested, that in future he might be Pi!
mitted to communicate on all business relating t 0
mission immediately with his Royal Highnesewill'
out the intervention or privity of Baron ENossters•
the Minister for Foreign Affairs. BRIM A DOM 0'
plied, that such a proposition was contrary to all
usual mode, and quite inadmissible ; and that be
determined never to deviate from the usual mods!
intercourse with Foreign Ministers. Soon aftairlo"
in an official conference with Baron Von Esollittil
respecting therelations with England, ALOIS' ciw
the Swedish Government infamous (" 5
Gouversnonst," were his words.) This insult at'
rally occarioned a conlness towards the Freel
nister, which induced him to complain to Bet!ar
who instructed him in the next audience be aught
with the Pittxce to demand the dismission et ES.
most, which he accordingly did, but without I
and in consequence, following the instructions
master, he left Stockholm without taking lean
riuNCaa aad Proceeded to Coraboseii•

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• THE ARMY.

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in addition to regimenti stationed in the East In •
the under-mentioned battalions have been
authorized by his Royal Highness the Com-
toy
older in Chief to enlist boys, viz. the 3d Regiment
a Foot, 2d Battalion ; Bth Regiment, 2cl Battalion as
18th Regiment ; 23d Regiment, 2d Battalion ; 26th
Regiment, 2d Battalion ; 36th Regiment, 2d Batta-
lion; 45th Regiment, 2d Battalion ; 46, 54th, and
AO Regiments ; 57th Regiment, 2d -Battalion ; 62d
Regiment, 2d Battalion; 70th Regiment; 73d Re-
t, Ist Battalion; 79th Regiment, 2d Batta-
; 81st Regiment, 2d Battalion ; 83d Regiment,
ist Battalion ; 91st Regiment, 2d Battalion; and
ffsd Regiment.
Trois are daily marching to the outports, where
they are embarking in transports for Lisbon. Yes-
way 500 of the Guards were selected for this ser-
vice. The 2d battalion of the Coldstream, quartered
bthe Tower, which was inspected in the forenoon by
Highness the Duke of CANIBRIDGE, sup-
his Royal
dad 250 of this number; and the other 250 were
hafted from the 3d Regiment, after inspection, at
the Portman.street Barracks, by his Highness the
Duke of GLOUCESTER. These troops are expected to
embark at Portsmouth on the 24th instant.
General Sir SOHN HOPS is expected to leave town,
In the course of the week, to take the command of she
Torres in Ireland.
The Royal South Gloucester Militia, now qua*.
eft in Plymouth, are in daily expectation of orderFto
embark for Ireland. Six Militia Regiments, in the
same &strict, are also under orders for Ireland. •
The late alteration in the dress of the Office% of
the Line, affords general satisfaction throughour*e
Army, particularly to those brave fellows on per-
c4of whom so many have fallen vict;ms to the
jams appearance of their fotmer uniform ; and
itis now universally hoped, that his Royal Highness
the Commander-in-Chief will permit Officers of In-
fantry to wear sabres, which will not only better ena-
ble them to act on the offensive, but ensure them a
superiority when acting on the defensive; for which
the present regulation sword is by no means calcu-
lated. Offictrs arc not unfrequently cut down, who
might, if provided with a proper weapon of defence,
protect themselves. •
The sentence of the Court Martial on Lieut. Leach,
of the Wiltshire Militia, for sleeping out of the Kron
Princessen, in which be was embarked, has received
the Prince Regent's sanction ; he is sentenced to lose
six months rank and pay.

IiFFAIR IN BiISQUE ROADS.

'Be latest accounts state, that on the 27th ult.
the boats of the Colossus and Conquestador, under
the command of Lieutenant arnocpric z, of the latter
teral, and Lieutenant SOADY, of the former, at-
tacked an enemy's convoy passing along shore to the
northward, and would have accomplished its capture
tielhatietiOlt, had not the wind suddenly shifted
free N.W. to W.S.W. just as the boats were to the
wading of Chatillon reef. The shifting of the
Mad enabled the ships escorting the convoy, viz.
three gan•brigs, an armed lugger, and several pin-
teen, to attack the boats, the crews of which made
Several gallant attempts to board their opponents,
(nand particularly the lugger, in two instances) but
the superiority of numbers on the part of the enemy
rendered every attempt ineffectual. Undaunted by
this superiority, or the galling fire- from several bat-
lelieS, and the vessels around them, our noble tars,
disdaining to surrender to the gun-brigs, pulled
wily toward the shore, where they were taken pi-
teous, being 104 in number, except those in the boat
with Lieutenant SOADY, which miraculously escaped.
The ConqUestador and Piercer gun-brig were under
'sigh near the scene of action, and witnessed every'
part of it, without being able to give our noble fel-
ls's the least assistance. Soon afterwards the wea-
r moderated,
the French Commodore,when a
f
l.jragco that
ain to
t he
of truce
tocreeqwuestas se
<odd allow clothes, &c. to be sent to the prisoners,
*nd give information as to the number of men killed
and wounded. The Commander politely replied,
thsthe had no objection to the clothes, &c. being
sent, and was happy to say, that no more than four
a five bad fallen—amongst whom was a mastct's-
state, cornthanding one of the boats. He at the same
tine expressed his astonishment that so few should
have fallen ; and intimated, that the luisoners were
is the hands of Frenchmen, who would treat them
*ell, in consequence of the determined bravery they
had exhibited. Lieutenant SracaroLE was ascer-
tained to be weal on the 39th, three days after this
unpleasant affair, the result of which must be ascrib-
ed,. solely to the wind frustrating the design in view.
There is one consolation, however, in reflecting on
thb }ass of so many brave men, that if they did not
ohtain success, they amply deserved it.
n A subscription was immediately set on foot in the
"'"sus, Conquestador, and Arrow schooner, by
which accw.iderable sum was raised, and seat in with
the clothes to Rochelle.
A brilliant attack had been previously made, on
the lit ultimo, by the boats cf the Colossus, Con-
Ihestador, and Arrow, under the command cf Lieu-
te!ant LEAN, of the former vessel, on a convoy of
dump sail of vessels, escorted by several armed pin-
'el; and launches, and standing to the northward,'
defiance of a severe fire of musketry, they suc-
;7ldin destroying three of the enemy's vessels, and
1047ing several others on shore. One man was Jill-
-2 by a grape-shot, and another was wounded
%rough both arms on that occasion.
04Ondiee
,sof the four prizes lately taken by the Anutow,
hoe Dasque Roads station (three only of which
arrivedEatain at Plymouth) being unable to weather
zeef, was under.the necessity of bearing up
ough the
haled b passage Britton. She was Immediately
CAL Y thseveral batteries, and fired at ; but Mr.
aa*tin • the prize-master, a spirited youth, or-
hismen below, persevered in his course in the
?Kt! rninedmanner,and succeeded in carrying the
exel safely into Basque Roads. She was frequently
tad b 7 the
shot, and her sails and rigging were
aloth cut, but •
happily no lives were lost.