Star.
London, England, 1807-01-16 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER acquainted the Honfe that he had received a
letter from the Right Honourable WUllain Wickham, Rating that
that Gentleman having been returned foe the Boma& of Mid-
burff and CaMutton, he made his eledion ferve for the latter
place ; and that, had nut he been prevented by ilinefs, an intim&
don to this e.feet would have been made to the Houle within the
limited time.
A new Writ was ordered for the Borough of Bletchingky, in
the room of Mr. Poreher, who bad accepted the Stewardihip'of
the Chiltern Hundreds.
The Malt Duty Bill was read a third time, palled, and ordered
to the Lords.
Sir CHARLES PRICE moved, that an account of the Tonnage
of Ships and Veins built from the sth January, r Sob, to the sth
January, 1837, diftinguilhing the Tonnage of each Ship or VeiTel,
and the Port, where built; as alfo an account of the Prire Ships
regifteeed in that period, be laid before the Rohe.—Ordered with.
out any obfervatian.
Mr. PE CEVAL gave notice, that he &mild, to-morrow. mo►e,
that the Order of Cuturcil for the 7th of January, be laid before
;Ile Houk.
Itltiftge from the Lords,accuainting the Houk that that Lord-
Blips haul agreed to the Lathequer Bills Bill.
BARRACK ESTIMATES.

Mr. VAbIiIITART brought up the Accounts of the
Etti-
marea of the Barrack and Cummittary Departments for the year
itio7 —Orilered to lie on the table, and notice given that the fame
could he taken into conlideratiou in the Committee of Supply on
Wethiefday next.
IRISH MILITIA.
Sir W. WYNNE gave notice, that he_would move for leave to
bring in * Bill to continue an Adt of the 44th of the King. em-
powering hi. Mayelly to accept the agerrof feivice from Volun-
teers of the Militia in [Wand.
SINECUARS, PINSIONS, &C.
Mr. BIDDULPH gave notice, that he would on Toefday neat
move, that ineonfequence of the extraordinary gran" of =fig
made by that Houfe for tome years back, and the great iricreafe of
taxes. a Cor.unittee 14e appointed to confider the expediency of
aholithing certain Offices. Places. rentions, Sinecures, and exor-
bitant Fees, for mom malty alleviating the accumulating burtheu*
of the people.
IRISH CVSTCM flOdSl nil/sett.

Sir J. NEWPORT (the Report of the Commiffioners of Inquiry
for January 18:6, having bean prcvioufly read), faid that the; re-
(nit of that inquiry had convir•.eed the Commiffioners that a num-
ber of,the offices connedad with the Cullom. of Ireland had be-
come Veleta. paid that a great part of thofe offices had been eon-
- vetted into finecures, by the fuliftittitiGit of other employments
In their place; that one of the grills number tlitty-eight were, by
this report, condemned to be abolithtd, and twenty-Ls to be eon-
folidated; that in tho 38th ot his recent blajelly a fimilar Report
had been made. The 2lonourabie Baronet then,without any fur-
ther °Memnon. moved, that leave be given to bring in a Bill foe
the abolition of certain Offices in in Lind, and the • eotafehdatiop
tied regulation of other Offices theretwvm-LeaVe • •

CORN MUILCOO,IIII act
Sir J. REV/PORT raid, that he would to-morrow e.. 0 the at.
tendon of the Hods to the 46th of the /Clog. chap. 39, as doubts
bad azifen u to the true &Jed of the bill, owing. be believed, to
the too great generality in the wording of the Corn lotercourfe
A& He wand therefore that foam proceeding should be taken
declaratory of the oiled of the Bill, and confining its application
to the grain of the two countries only, and not is relating to the
earn of any foreign market—a (*eel that it was unneecifary to
add waster conliderable importance to the agricultural interval of
the empire. He concluded with giving notice, that he ihould to-
morrow move foe a Committee of the whole Houle to take the
aid 818 loco confideradon —Adjourned.

THE EVENING STAR.

• LONDON.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 16.
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The report is revived that a battle has taken place
on the Villala, in which the Ruffians were worfted ;
and, we are forty to add, the report is thought to
&terve tome credit. Information of this kind was,
it. is raid, receive by one of the Foreign Milliners on.
Monday, and communicated to Government ; and,
if we may credit accounts received from the corals
there has been, within there two days, great re•
joicings at Boulogne, &c. fuch as have been too Ire-
queatly found to correfpond with the periods of
French viaories. Still, however, we are without any
pofitive accounts that filch an event has taken place ;
and, as former accounts gave us reafon to believe
that the Ruffians meant to avoid a general battle, we
may hope that the enemy has not gained any very
fignal advantage. Indeed, according to the rumours
circulated, only one divifion of the Ruffians, that
under General BININGSTN, was engaged; and the
moll adverfe flatements do net reprefent their dilater
as amounting to a total defeat. The account is
ftated to have been received by the Auftrian Envoy
at the Hague on the sth infant, and by bim to have
been tranfmitted to this country.
It is poffible after all, that the above rumours re-
late to mere fkirmiffies, which we know by
FOREIGN JOURNALS,

Of the date of the Bth inflant, took place on the
Vial)la on the 18th and 19th ult. but which were
followed by refiilts of very little moment to either
party. The accnunts in thefe papers come down to
the 211 of December, and at that time no new affair
of any confequence had taken place between the
French and Ruffians. But the 44th Bulletin an-
nouncer, " That every corps was in motion, and
that, if the enemy remained in his pofition, a battle
would take place in a few days"—and the fair Enfe
rence from this is, that if the Ruffians would not come
and attack..the French in their entrenchments, the
latter would Conn proceed to attack them in their
pofiann, however prong it might be.—Can the at.
tack here threatened have taken place ? And do the
reports that have been circulated, relate to that
battle ?

The movements of the French divifions are repeat
ed in this laft Bulletin in almoft the fame terms that
they were mentioned in the Kro fill Bulletin, and
in the intelligence from Berlin and Warfaw, commu.
nicated in our Paper of Monday. Six divifions, thole
of Marfhals BEESIERES, NAY, BERNADOTTE, ANGIE
RIAU, SOULT, and DAvousT, appear to have all
croffed the Viltula. Nothing is mentioned of LASNIS'
divifion, or the Army of the Confederation- of the
Rhine, under General Prince Jeaom E.
The difappointment which the French have met
with at Congantinople, appears to weigh particularly
heavy upon NaroLeom. It is fur the third or fourth
time, we believe, alluded to in this Bulletin. He has i
even made Pruifia a party in the affair. That power 1
is Rated to have; as great an intereft as France, in
preventing the humiliation of the Porte. Does 1
NAPOLEON mean to attempt to draw Pruffia over to 1
his fide, or to hold out inducements to her to make
common caufe with him ? We fhould not be fur-
prifed if he did. We have remarked fomething like
a difpofitinn of this kind in his late Treaty 'with
Saxony. He there (peaks of a " future p:ace with
Pruffia," at the time that the viEtnries and progrefs
of the French have scarcely lef: his Pruffian Majefty
in poffeflion of one hundred fquare leagues of territory.
The repo: is of cool-limbic reverfes, on the pail of
the French, were nut, it appear., confined to Ham
burgh, Altona, and other towns, which it was natural
fhonld feel Tome fatisfadion in the defeat of the
common enemy of the Continent : they prevailed, we
fild, at Berlin to a more important extent, fa much
Ifo, indeed, that it was found neceffsry to meet them
with a fort of demy-official contradiSion.
FOR IY-FOURTH BULLETIN OF THZ GRAND ARMY
. 0 Warfaw, Dec. sr.
" Yellerday the Empc:roi inf Paled the works of
Praga, where eight fine redoubts, with pallifadoes,
bastions, &c. inclofe a fpace of ryoo toifes, and form,
' upon the whole, the intrenched camp.
"The Ififlula is one of the largell rivers in the world.
The Bug, though confiderahly fmallei, is (till larger
than the Seine. The bridge over the Bug is com-
pleted. Gayfural Gauthier, with the alth and 85th 1
regimental( infititry, occupies the are th post; which
General CChaffeloop bar fortified with great &ill; fo
that thisrete de pat, which is nearly ,too toile.; in extent,
.together with the moraffes and the river, iaclofe an
'it/trenched camp which is capable of coming tUe

whole army upon the right bank. ridMedlin 111
from any-attempt by the enemy. A brigade of the
tight cavalry of the referve has fkirrailhes with the
Ruffian cavalry every day.
" On the t Bth Mar Thai Davoult felt the neceffity of!
Itrengthening and improving his camp appn the right 1•
bank of the river, and likewife occuping a (mall iffand
at the mouth of the Urka. '1 he enemy perceived
the convergency of this pot, and a heavy fulillade
immediately commenced between the advanced polls;
however, the conquell of the Maud remained with
the French. Our lofs confifled of a, few wounded.—
The Officer of the Engineers, Clouet, a young man
of great prornife, rrceived a ball in the breafl.
" On the igth, a regiment of Coffacks, affilled by
the Ruffian huffars, endeavoured to furprife the
picquet of Light Cavalry at the ate de pent of the
Bug ; but the picquet bad taken fuch a poillion as
fecured it againft any furprife. The firft regiment of
buffos, and a Colonel, with a fquadron of the 13th,
immediately coming to the affiflance of the picquet,
the enemy were thrown into confrifion. In this
trifling affair we bad three nr four men wounded,
but the Colonel of the Colfacks was killed, and
thirty men ; twenty-five holies fell into oar handl,'
There are no men fo wretched and cowardly as tht
Coffacics ; they are a fcar.dal to human nature. They!
pats the Bug, and violate the Auflrian neutrality
every day, merely to plunder a houfe in Gallicia, or
to compel the inhabitants to give them brandy, which
they drink with' great avidity. But fence the haft
campaign, our cavalry is accofinmed to the mode of
attack made nik of by thefe wretches ; and notwith-
flanding their numbers, and their hideous cry on
thefe occalions, they await them without alarm, as
it is well known that two thoufand of thefe wretches
are not equal to the attack of a fquadron of our
cavalry.

• 66 Marthal Augereau pallid the Viflula at Utratta.
General Lain& entered Plonfk, after drawing out
the enemy.

4' Martha' Soult paired the fame river at Vizngrod.

" Martha! Beflieres was at Kikol on the sEth, with
the fecond corps of the cavalry of referve. His
advanced guard is at Serpez. There have been fe-
veral affairs between our cavalry and the Prullian
hears, of whom a great number have been made
prifoners. The right bank of the Viftula is quite
cleared.
" Martha! Ney with his light corps fupports Mar-
tha! Beffieres ; and his right at 14e fame time extends
to that under the command of Martha! the Prince of
Pont° Corvo.

" Thus every carps is in motion, and if the enemy
remains in his polition, a battle will take place in a
few days. With onib help, the Woe cannot be un-
certain. The Ruffian army is commanded by Gene•
ral Kamenikny, an old man about fevcnty•6ve years
of ake. The Generals Buzhowden and Betutingfen
command under him.

" General Michelfon has beyond a doubt pene-
trated into Moldavia, and there are accounts that he
arrived at pay on the 29th of November. We are
affured that his Generals took Bender by form, and
put every one to the (word. Here behold war de-
clared againfi the Porte without reafon or pretext !
but at St. Peterfburgh it was thought that the mo-
ment had arrived when France and Praia, the two
powers who had the greateft intereft in preferring
the independence of the Porte. being at war, was the
moft favourable period for fubjugating the Turkifh
empire. Still the events of one month have defeated
that projeet, and to there events the Porte (hall be
indebted for its prefervation.
I, The Grand Duke of Berg has a fever, but he
is better. The weather is as mild as at Paris in the
month of Ottober, but rainy, which makes it in-
convenient. We have taken meafures for the delivery
of a fufficient quantity of wine, in order to fupport
the vigour of the troops.
44 The palace of the King of Poland, at Warfaw,
is a fine edifice, and well furnifhed. There are fe-
veral noble palaces and private !spores in this city.—
Our hofpitals are well eflablifhed, which is no (mall
advantage in this country. The enemy teems to have
a number of fick ; they alfo lore greatly by detesters ;
and of the Proffians we hear nothing, for even whole
corps of them have deferted, to avoid that continual
contempt which they might coped among the Ruf-
fians." •