Star.
London, England, 1809-04-24 00:00:00

ARTHUR WELLESLEY, with the Expedition under his
command, was hourly expected, when the WnLsmrta-
►rear came away. The intelligence from Spain,
brought by the Lisboa Mail, relates to partial and
trivial successes obtained by the Patriots : the spirit
of resistance seems to be still unbroken.

Sir A. WELLESLEY, and the troops with him, passed
Plymouth on Thursday, with a favourable breeze,
for Lisbon.

Letters from Holland, received on Saturday, men-
tioned a rumour of a revolution at St. Petersburgh,
during which the Emperor had been assassinated.
This report was attempted to be revived yesterday
upon the alledged authority of a letter from Harwich.
Our Readers will see from our port letters of to-day,
that the rumour in question is totally without foun-
dation.

Letters from Holland state, that several hundred
armed Prussians lately entered the kindom of West-
phalia, and seized the money belonging to the Crown.
They did not commit the least violation of private
property. After remaining 48 hours they retired,
having previously circulated a variety of proclama-
tions, inciting the inhabitants to rise and shake off the
yoke of France. This event is taken up very seriously
by King JEROME. He has sent a courier to Konings-
berg, to demand an explanation ' • and if sufficient sa-
tisfaction be not made, it shall be considered as a
declaratiox of war.

Lord COCISRANE the heroic director of the late at-
chievement in Basque-roads, arrived in town on Fri-
day evening in perfect health.
It is now ascertained, that the fleet thus destroyed',
was destined for South America. The conquest is
therefore invaluable.

Yesterday morning Lord COCHRANE had a long
conference with Lord MULGRAVE, at his residence at
the Admiralty.
Saturday the Duke of GORDON arrived from Scot-
land at his house in Green-street, Grosvenor-square,
after an absence of ten months.

The Mayor of Lynn has refused to call a meeting
of the inhabitants on the subject of the late investiga'
tion.

Saturday last the Scottish Hospital Society held
their Spring Festival Meeting at the Crown and An-
chor in the Strand, his Grace the Duke of MONTROSE,
President, in the Chair. His Royal Highness the
Duke of KENT became a Member, and sat on the
right hand of the President. The company was nu-
merous and of the first respectability ;. upwards of
three hundred sat down to dinner.

Among the Illuminations on Saturday night, in
honour or our recent Naval successes, that excellent
Institution, the Warehouse, at Charing Cross, for the
distribution of the Yellow Fever Remedy, was parti-
cularly brilliant and appropriate.
Yesterday the weather was cold, and ionebre clouds
rendered a fashionable walk cheerless. Many persons
of distinction drove round the Park in carriages, and
groups of well dressed females paraded with their
umbrellas ; but we did not notice any fashionable
novelty.

GRAND BAPTlSM.—Saturday, the Infant Son of the
Earl and Countess of JERSEY was baptized, at his
Lordship's house in Berkeley-square. The prepara-
tions were in the most splendid style. At seven
o'clock in the evening, the ceremony was performed
in the grand back drawing-room, by the Rev. Mr.
BROOKE. His Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALES,
in person, and Lady PONSONBY as proxy for Lady
ELIZABETH VILLIERS, who was prevented from attend.
ing by indisposition, were sponsors. The child was
named GEORGE FREDERICK Aucusr us, after his Royal
Highness the Prince of WALES. A most sumptuous
dinner was served up, of which the sponsors and the
following company partook :
Marchioness of Downshire, Earla Westmorland and Yarmouth,
Viscount and Viscountess Duncannon, Lords Burghersh and Pon-
sonby, Colonel Bloomfield, and Mr. George Villiers.
Saturday the Mails were somewhat delayed by the
fall of snow on Thursday night and Friday morning,
having in some places rendered the roads impassable,
particularly on the Devizes road, between Marlbo-
rough and Bath, where the snow lay so deep, that no
carriage had been able to proceed on it since the mail-
coach of London on Friday ; and it was hazardous
to proceed on the Caine road, the snow on the level
lying three feet deep. The waters of Chesterford
were so much cut, that carriages were unable to pro-
ceed along the road through Littlebury, but were
obliged to go round by Saffron Walden.
Mr. P9gYs, brother to the Dean of CANTERBURY,
on Thursday se'nnight, was found drowned in a pond
at Fowley, in Oxfordshire. He had been to the Quar-
ter Sessions, and on his return home was, at his own
desire, set down a short distance from his own dwell-
ing, by a friend : the night being very dark, it is
supposed he walked into the pond, and being over-
come by fright fell down and was suffocated, as the
water scarcely covered him.

OLD BA FlV.—Friday these Sessions ended, when the follow-
ing convicts received sentence of death, viz.— J. Mangan aud
Ann Curtis, for highway robberies ; T. Bolton, A. Tiffin, J.
Crowther, alias Brown, T. Cooper, and J. Carter, for burglaries;
Mary Mountain, for stealing in a dwelling house ; E. L. Leader,
alias Thurston, and K. L. Leader, alias *1 hurston, for stealing a
mare ; T. Ward, for setting fire to a dwelling house; and Eliza-
beth Stuith, for uttering counterfeit money.
W. Wakeman was sentenced to be transported for life.
P. Collins, J. Clark, J. Fay, I'. Smirk, Ann Horsley, Louisa
Smith, W. Hall, Alice Bunting, J. Davis, J. Hart, B. Cavanagh,
P. Freggar, Ann Newton, G. New, Frances Coles W. Beresford,
I'. Kedge, J. Pearce, and T. Yeo, for seven years ; three were
ordered to be imprisoned in the 'House of Correction for two
years ; 14 for twelve, and 24 for six months ; 22 in Newgate for
various periods, one of whom, viz. T. Sheerman, to be placed in
the pillory at the Old Bailey, within the period of his sentence of
three months ; eight judgments respited, (among whom are six
journeymen packers for a conspiracy) ; 19 to be priiately, and
two publicly whipped ; four fined Is. and discharged; and 29
were discharged by proclaniation.
CORN MA RK ET, MARK-LANE, APRIL. 24.—The
supplies of Wheat this day are but inconsiderable, and
sales are made at a small advance in price from Fri-
day—there are short supplies of Barley, which is ra-
ther dearer—Malt likewise—White Peas are cheaper
—Tick Beans are also dearer, and very few at Lind
—there are tolerable supplies of Oats, and this trade
is named at little variation.—Four at last week's
currency.

GENERAL CURRENCY AS UNDIR :
W!telt, F, 33. 80'.. 92. b.• Beans 545. 605.01.
Fine ditto, 955. 955. Tick ditto 465. 51s. ed.
Rye, .525. 365. Oita; • Os. ?.us. 255.
Barley, 445. 503. cd. Poland ditto, 375. 295. 01.
M!iit 7•2.5. 801. Potatoe ditto to 41s Od.
White Peas (boilers), 95s 105 s Rape Seed, 551. to 601.
Grey ditto, 4bs. 535.
Fin* Fiery; SOL 85s.—Scconds, 7.55, 1101.