Star.
London, England, 1809-01-26 00:00:00

PROTEST

Of the Earl of Moira, as Baron Hastings, in the House of Peers,
entered on the 23d instant on the Question being negatived for
giving the 'I hanks of the House to Lieutenant-General Sir
Harry Burrard
Dlssz NTIENT,
Because it has been established by evidence in a public Court
that Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Burrard was in the Field
throughout the whole of the Action at Vintiera, exerciFing Com-
mand ; and no Officer has the power of chsqualifying himself, or
of divesting himself of the Trust .reposed in him by his Sovereign.
On this account I cannot agree to leave out the name of Liet.-•
tenant General Sir Harry Burrard, no neglect or misconduct ha--
ing been imputed to him, from the Thanks adds House to those
who atchieved the glorious Victory at Vimiera.
(Signed) HP.STINC.S, &-.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, JANUARY
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK :
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A report was yesterday circulated, that a 74 gun
ship had been lost off Falmouth. We can state with
confidence, that though a ship of war has been lost,
the calamity has not been of such magnitude. The
ship lost was that mentioned in our Falmouth letter
yesterday, the PRIMROSE brig, of 18 guns. We lament
to say, that the account we gave yesterday is but too
truly confirmed : not an individual was saved but one
boy. The officers lost on this unhappy occasion are
Major CAVENDISH, Captain DUNCANIIELD, and Lieu-
tenant WALDEGRAVE. The Pitimitosn was one of the
'ships which sailed from Portsmouth a few days ago
with about thirty sail of transports, having troops on i By the OSBORN hospital ship, arrived from Lisbon
board. Of tie rest of this fleet we have heard with sick troops to the amount of 200, accounts have
nothing. been received that when she sailed, eight days since,
The transport lost near the same spot was the Dis- every preparation was making for the immediate eva-
patch, which had a detachment of the 7th Light cuation of that ,place by the British, two regiments
Dragoons on board and a few horses. The crew and i (the 27th and 9th foot) were to have embarked that
soldiers were in all about 200 ; and out of the whole, I day-in the River ; our troops were recalled from the
melancholy to relate, only seven perssns were saved. frontiers ; the Portuguese seemed to be in a state of
Besides the ships which we have already mentioned I the utmost alarm.
to have arrived from Corunna, we are harpy in being Letters from Lisbon to the 15th inst. repeat the
able to announce that the VILLE pi: Pants, the PLAN. I reports of the French having entered Portugal in con-
TAGENET, and CHAMPION, reached Portsmouth yestar.. siderable force. The consternation at Lisbon appears
slay with a number of the transports—all of them with to be very great, and most of the English, who were
troops. 'This is a-mose pleasing c4-cumstance, as no . not connected with the army, had prepared to leave
little degree of anxiety prevailed for the safety of the city. Our troops have been recalled from the
.many of them. The whole, or nearly the whole of frontiers, and several regiments were under orders for
the fleet from Corunna has now arrived. I embarkation in the Tagus. •
The Captain of the Sally schooner arrived at Ply. _a Seine intelligence had been received from Madrid
mouth states, that he was at the mouth of Corunna Iby the way of Badajos. It was supposed that the
Bay op the 18th inst. which it v. as his intension to i garrison left by BONAPARTE, when he set out in pur-
have entered, to seek a market for his cargo (fish from I suit of the British army, did not consist of more than
Newfoundland), but that he relinquished the idea, 8000 men, chiefly Poles and Germans. The,French
on observing the whole town in a conflagration. It is had loaded 150 waggons with the effects of the
Pence inferred that, the French had met with resistance National Bank, property of the Walloon Guards, &c.
ircap 4:e Fpaniards, which had occasioned this diabia. —They seized and confiscated every thing in the