Star.
London, England, 1809-02-20 00:00:00

IV TII BDTIV4 OF. Till M4ll.

. „
• cad no Main to notice the Introduction of my some
iotot6e.tiunsactions now before the ,public (in a manner equally
•aftd and astonishing to myself,) otherwise than by making to
privatemY and personal friends, the solemn asseveration of my
to the steps taken with a view to serve me, by mis-
wl seal and erring gratitude; accompanied by such proof as
o
me ature'of the case admits.
But the pride of conscious innocence will not allow me to be
nt, when I observe in several of the papers, and particularly in
pondealltegister of yesterday, the name of my honoured fa-
. 710. confusedly blended with my own. It is to shield his fair
' from the possibility of censure, that I thus address you, Sir,
faialt
feveging you to give the utmost publicity to the declaration,
o Mat the introduction of Dr. Gan ss a's name into these misera-
ble dissussions is totally and altogether founded in error." To
rhose who are acquainted with the tenor of Dr. Geassr.'s life
wing a ministry of more than fifty years, this avo*al may be un-
ocmarywould, however, be unjust, tha an idea to his pre-
-I„Aier shotdd even accidentally be imprinted on the .mind of a
By my own conduct, as far as honesty of intention
ready to *stand or fall ; and on.that ground I am little
:freed even by the attacks of calumny ; but I confess myself un-
to' to enduring the thought, that the.closiug hours of a blame-
" and venerable man should he embittered by imputations ab-
horrent trom his character, or that he should be implicated in a
t.harge, against which every feeling of his soul would not fail to
/vel.dt I am, Sir, your obedient humble servant,
GEORGE MINItY GLAM.
pool ifoose..l-balwell, Feb. 19, 1809.

NAPA 17VTEL LICENCE,
Jpi t, 91- .it _441 41i 1
.
The lode-preva.lll4: westerll • *tiliKr.inbitis have
blown with little
prevent the outward-in;iiiiii 4tlioys roi • 04Z t In-
dies, Cape of Geod Hope, the Bratils, West ladies,.
Mediterranean, and the coast of Portugal, from sail-
ing from Portsmouth. The two first fleets for the
East Indies are both to sail under convoy of the St-
atus, Captain PYM. The ships are—the Warren
Hastings, True Briton, Cumberland, Scalesby Castle,
Neptune, Perseverance, Nottingham, Carnatic, Lord
Duncan, Lord Melville, Lady Castlereagh, and
Baring. Most of the ships for China haVe taken troops
on board for Madras. They are all dispatched, and
ready to sail.

captsin Roams, of the Swedish ship Odin, arrived
at Famouth,,leit St, tJbes on the 3d instant, at which
time it was nol'itiolon there that any Freitch troops had
entered Portugal ; as every thing was quiet in that
oeighbourhood.
Iheliero,a.-snerellaqt vessel, has arrived at Dub- I
lin from Lisbon, which place she left on the 4th inst.
eft that a 4 Ictubt and uncertainty respect-
'Mg the fate rortu~ga
Another einhargo-hieiter; bound'to Liverpool, with
tore cotton, it arrived.' She is nominally from Mas
saehussets, but in fett'from Charleston, and is called
the say, MACKAY. The Sally left America nearly
at the same time as.the vessels already known to have

arrived. .
The Pelee, ToLatma.from SpackbolM, has arrived
at Liverpool. The n4vigation to Gottenburgh, it is
ondertood, is now open.
Advices from the Mediterranean state; that the
Russian Admiral at Trieste has. promised to the Bri-
tish Officer blockading that port; to dismantle his fleet,
provided the blockade he raised ; but the proposition
has been rejected. The same accounts state that a
flotilla destined for Reggio, with stores for the pro-
jected expedition against Sicily, has been destroyed
by one of our squadrons.
Early on Friday morning the Earl of CHESTERFIELD
had an audience of his krAJESTY at Windsor Castle,
for upwards of an hour.
Sir FRANCIS BUERETT has been this fortnight past
atfined with the gout. .
Tuesday last TisOMAS HUSSEY, Esq. fif Fulmer, in
Oxfordshire. son-in-lavr of the Earl of OREORD, was
unanimously elected M. P. for Aylesbury, on a va-
cancy in the representation of that Borough, occa-
sioned by the death of Major GEORGE HENRY Coe P.
TON CAVENDISH, son of Lord G. H. C&YENDISH, who
perished in the Dispatch transport, near Falmouth,
on his return from Spain.
Captain .S.ANDEakt, who was committed for prevari-
cation to Newgate, was, on the rising of the House on
Friday morning, confined in a chamber appropriated
to persons ordered to be held in close custody. There
IRS a bed at his service,_but,..as the night was far ad-
vanced, he preferred to sit up. He partook of no
refreshment, and was taken in a hackney-coach to
Newgatel about nine o'clock, by the High Bailiff of
Westminster, and two of. the Messengers. -
We are authorised to state, that the Hope Insurance
Company has no connection whatever - with-the in-
tended Cattle Life Insurance-Company,
In the Court.of Common Pleas, on Saturday* Mr.
Fnnerty obtained a verdict of One Shilling damps
against Mr. Tipper, of Leadenhall-street,.fm Publish-
ing a libel on the plaintiff. •
FAsEDNAELE PRoMENADE..—YeStEUtiy the genial
rays of. Sol warmed the 'fashicitiables to life. Hyde
Park presented charms to divert the idle and delight.
the active. mind. Thessaft d'ail wag new, because
many of tlie promenaders threw off the garb of winter
lur habiliments suited to the open state of the season.
We have seldom witnessed a greater concourse of pe-
destrians. - They formed- a line from Piccadilly to
Kensington. Gate, and the spectacle was variable and
pleasing. Among-the -company, composed of persons
of every description, on fOot or in_carriages, beauty
Was sccn spreading her snares, and dashing fashiona•
hies wciediiplaying to achniritio'n their 'loiter, live-
ries; mid 'carriages. The most fashionable ladies wore
,short cloaks of orange silk, trimmed withgoldlace, and
;pelisses of crimson silk, beautifully embroidered with
,fioweri. Pilgrim hats, with silver cockle-shills in
Tiont, were much Worn. The carriages displayed the
usual appearance of grandeur, and the riders exhibited
their equestrian exploits in dashing style : -
Among the females of the first consequence in the
coach cavalcade, there were the following : •
The Ductless of St. Alban's, the Ladies Percy, the Marchio-
nesses of Stafford and J.ansdown, the young Lady Mayoress,
Lord Auckland, Lord Tamps, Lord Barrymore, the Portuguese
and Turkish Ambassadoni, aid many other distinguished Perso-
nages, were in the Park.
Dt.m.LlNG.—Thursday evening information was
received at Bow-'street Office, that Captain Eastfield,
in the East India servile. and Mr. Ashton, a MateJ
in the same service, were to fight a duel, at Bromley
Fields, on Friday morning. Rivett and Pearkes be-
ing directed, in cOnippencep to prevent them, they
accordingly went to fields, 'and waited till near
twelve o'clock, when they found Mr. Ashton, who
was conveyed to the Ofhict, and bound, in the penalty
of 4500, to keep the peace for twelve mouths. The
Captain appeared at the Office in the evening, and en-
tered into a similar rectinizance.
CORN EXCHANGI, MARX-LANE, Vas. 20.—The Market to-day
:lain has a tolerable supply' of Wheat, mostly second and ordi,
which is dull sale ; but the" few fine samples are rather
dearer, and some prime old exceeds the qUotation—ln Barley and
Milt little variation—White Peas likewise—Beans of the two
ku.ds rather dearer—There is a middling supply of Qats, mostly
inferior, and fine samples arerattertigher—in Flour no &erotica.
a t AAA et/Rai/MT AS UNDIR :
',cheat, otea. sot. 90s. • . •"' Reins (new) 58$. eSs. D 4.
tine ditto, 941. ers. 'u .k (new) SOL 58s. ed.
tYe, 60s. 665. Oats, 364,1911.455.
=l7:ry, 435. 495. Od.
Poland ditto, 445. 465. Od.
klait 825.- • otation ditto to 475 Ott.
nA:lll,e Peas (boilers), 140.110 s Seeds SOL to sat? .
.rey ditto, ses. 566-*• ,•
tine •Flottr NS. tiAlSareSfPnis f 14•4011"... 7.

PLYMOUTR-DOCK, FEB. IR.

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Yesterday morning, as the Theresa gallic4 Cape: I
KIRKuOVE, was working down Hamoase, in order to
join convoy for the eastward, she ran foul of the Sal-
tador- del Mundb, by which accident she carried
away her mizen-mast just above
,the deck, and was in
consequence prevented; from going to, sea : she is
laden with brandy, bound to London.—Sailed the
RAVEN brig of war, with upwards of 60 sail of trans.
ports under convoy, "having troops on board for
Portsmouth ; the MARTIAL gun-brig, with a fleet of
transports for Torbay ; the Cruiser, ANDERSON, for
Dominica; Dart, Gascony; and Caroline, PINCTON,
for Dartmouth ; Mary Ann; COTTON, for Padstow ;
and the Phcbe private ship of war, on I cruize.
_

The GLIXXSTADTI 20 guns, Captain BASS, which
sailed from hence on the 14th ultimo, with a
fleet of light transports for Vigo, returned here
yesterday, very much disabled, having encountered
a troves:does storm off Cape Finisterre, in which she
was obliged to throw all her guns overboard, to pre-
♦ent her from foundering-.

PORTSMOUTH, FEBRUARY 19.
Arrived the Thetis, DAVIDSON, and the Hannah,
DOUGLAS, with several other transports, from Ply.
mouth.—Wind S.W.

DOVER, FEB. 19.
Passed by this morning for the Downs, about 30
sail of transports, with troops on board, last from Ply-
mouth. Came in this day the Fortune, French lugger
privateer, pierced for 16 guns, captured on Friday
night last by his Majeity's sloop- BEAGLE, after a
'duce of two hours ; she is only four months old, had
,on board.sB men when taken, had made no captures
since she last sailed from Calais, but had taken four
prizes since she first fitted out.—Wind W. S. W. and
blows strong with small rain.

DEAL, FEBRUARY 18.

Airiired the BEAGLE sloop, and brought in with
her a French lugger privateer called la Fortnnee,
tommanded.by Captain TUCKER, having on board 16 I
carriage-guns and 58 men, which she captured on Ii
Friday evening last off Dearness. She belongs to
Dunkirk, but came last froth Calais, and had not
made- any captures this cruize. Also. arrived the',
Cvewei-sleap froM the Nore.. *Sailed the Tnnasnr.a
gun-brig for Sheerness. • -
FEBRGARY 18.—Arived the RovALAT sloop from
Yarmouth. Sailed the KANGAROO and. FEARLESS on
a cruize; :end Cowin...re and DEFENDER for PIXIE:
mouth.—Wind S.W.
P. S.—Just arrived a fleet of transports from the
Westward marked Nos. 37, 3, 83, 193, 255, 250,
221; IG. and BH. having on board part of the 14th,
32d, and 71st, awl several other Regiments.
. . YARMOUTH, FEB. isk.
Arrived the RICHMOND sloop of war from Heligo-
land, with letters and passengers ; and the MONKEY
gun brig .from the westward. Sailed the BRUIZER
gun brig on a crake. The ships in the Roads are the i
Roebuck, Vice Admiral Rtsszt.r., Princess Caroline,l
Commodore Parse ; Bellerophon, Stately, Aboukir, 1
Crocodile,.Euryalus, Zenobia„.Egeria, Btitoinart, Bri-
seis, Havoc, Indignant, Vixen, Censor, and Mariner.
Wind W. N. W.—The North Sea fleet will, •in the
spring, he augmented to upwards of 20 sail et the line.
•GREENOCK, FEBRUARY 11.
Arrived on Friday the Irmelinda, Mttaths. from
New Provideace, after a boisterous passage 9f 46
days. 'The Ariel, Beanowhata, had arrived from
Liverpool a few days•befere the saitett, pnd ttibiCate,
--:, from St. DoMingo. ' The BehtimA continued
to bewbundantlr supphed:with lumberindprovisioesl
by 'American vessels, . is 4allasio . going .feom ..the
.Northern State* ;c> New Orleans.—The, Neptune,
C.;a94.1,4 Irbni Clyde-tti Antigua, going to nlain con-
visy 'at Cork, was lots sit-Cbiiriovrn, mirth-of Wexford,'
tin the-nigo-of-Wadnaday the Bth insfahti Two of
..: the crew droxrad; arid Captain -muelr bruised.. - It i i
=OW tal ?Oat: OIL cargo—will be SA vu AMC, but
coIASIEFAbIY;CirI. :kig.e4' , ... . _.7 7.: 7 • n..: ‘: *•-•orr .
._

THE *ARMY.
• •
Forty sail of transports are to proceed from-Ports-
mouth to Cork, under convoy of the PORT MAHON,
to receive the troops there.
Orders were received at Plymouth-Dock on Friday,
for the AMAZON frigate, Captairt PARKER, to prepare
for the reception of General BERESFORD, whose arri-
val there, accompanied by a numerous Staff, was
shortly4xpeeted.
Lieutenant EDWAnD CHRISTIAN, of the 43d Regi-
ment, died on Friday, at Plymouth-Dock. The im-
mediate cause of his decease was a feier, brought
on by excessive fatigue, during the late campaign in
Spain.
Monday se'nnight a detachment of the 9th Royal
Veteran Battalion, consisting of 14 officers and 260
privates, embarked at Leith for Kit wall. They are
PLYMOUTH, FEB. 18. under the command of Major WesT.
Came in the Lord Collingwood, Captain ADAM,I Thursday, the 111, or Queen's Dragoon Guards,
from Portsmouth, bound to Oporto, in ballast, put
arrived in Canterbury from Hythe, Ashford, &c. and
are stationed in the Permanent Barracks.
back from the Bay of Biscay, by contrary winds ;
from Parts of Captains Wilmot, Crawford, Truseott,
Barrick transport, No. 213, Capt. DUNCAN, and Bean's companies of the Royal Artillery have'
'Cork, with provisions for the fleet at Lisbon ; arrived at Canterbury, where they will be joined by
'LACABLE, of 74 guns, from the Westward, with the remainder as soon as they are landed, when the
damage. Sailed the RAVEN, of 18 guns, and the whole will be stationed at the Ordnance Barracks,
IGOLDFINCH, of 18 guns, with transports to the East- Northgate.
ward: many that were to have accompanied could. Successive detachments of the troops which have
• been disembarked at Ramsgate, have last week pro..
not get out, the wind being far to the Southward;
seeded through Canterbury to their various destina-
MARTua. gun brig, with victuallers, for Torbay.— tiens, amounting to between 2 and 3000 men, viz.
Came in the Netley, a very large ship, Capt. JOHN 200 Foot Artillery, part of the Guards, '2d, 4th, 6th,
Awnraiox, from Cork, bound to Surinam, laden 21st, 28d, 26th, 28th, 32d, 38th, 43d, 50th, 71st, 76th,
91st. The SSth have already taken possession of the
with provisions lind'ckber goods : she was taken the
barracks in Canterittry ; and the 9th Foot, Ist batta-
JOth inst. by the NoueeUe Gironde French privateer,
lion, wilt also arrivf there on the 21st instant, when
and retaken yesterday by the John Bull privateer, of • *the -remainder of the Warwick Militia • will March
this port, which vessel is also aITiVed••••••GLIICKSTADTi to -Ashford. .' , .
of 18 guns, from the_ Coast of Spain t'Vlitioo, of 18 I We 'are *sorry to hear that -si:knAs and morta-
guns, from the Westward, with the loss of hernfoatt.-
• 'lit), h.ls pflate been veil great amimg; the medical
top-mast. l'ge4emen attending 6111.- hrave:soldiers in the Hospi-
tali'it PlyititAtth and 'POrtsmouth.
..Dm-GIANT and WARNENT have; been ill at Ply-
mouth, but have recovered vbut Mr. *GILL, of the
Royals ; Mr. Lntp, 'Surgeon, 434 regiment Mr.
TORNER,As4qailt Surgeop,.9.sth.rement ; atiaMr.
EstEttsoN, DepUty nrveyor of the tutees, have died
•
at.Poftstriouth,.inattending the. sick.
General NIGHTINGALE and his suite are on the eve
of setting 'off for Portsmouth, to
.proceed to his Go-
vernment of New 'South Wales, aleg .with the 73d
„.
Inagmatto nnegiment, tubler. Colonel blQuAaate.
It is said that the Expedition under Genera/ BE-
REWORD is ping to take. possession of Minorca.
We are glad to hear that that excellent Ofqcer, Co-
ilonel WYNCH, of the 4th or King's Regiment, is re-
covering from his wounds at Plymouth. The Colonel
jsuffered an attack of fever, which is now gone. He
is attended by Dr. GRANT. A bad fever has broken
out not only at the hospitals in Portsmouth and Ply-
mouth, but at several barracks, among the mon lately
I landed from Spain.
The Northumberland Regiments are expected to
arrive at Ipswich, from Chelmsford, to-morrow.
I By our accounts from the West Indies, it will be seen
that though a very fine at my of not less than 12,000
men, and commanded by Sir GEORGE PREvosT, Gene-
rals HOUGHTON, COLVILLE, and OnuE, some of then:
first rate Officers, has been collected, it is probable
that nothing will be dune. So great reinforcements
I have of late constantly poured into Martinique and
Guadeloupe from France, that any attempt of ours
would be a sacrifice of men equal to madness. But
why is this; how comes it, that such reinforcements
of troops and quantities of provisions, have been
thrown into the French West-India Islands, while we
have such a strong naval force on that station ?
Blame attaches somewhere, and we ardently hope that
enquiry may fix it.
MILITARY DESERTERS.—To check the great fre-
quency of desertions from the army, particularly
duriiiig the present critical times, when men's services
'are so much wanted, it has been recommended to
:enact a law, subjecting every soldier who
hereafter desert, on conviction, to be branded, in a
conspicuoui manner, with the mark of the King's
broad arrow on the right cheek, in place of other
corporal punishment. However novel this recom-
mendation may seemijthere can be no doubt that
such an experiment would effect a radical cure for
desertion, if that be possible, for no deserter so bran-
ded could ever escape ; and we
.do not think such a
punishment would be so severe as the present for the
crime.. It is well known that many notorious deser-
ters avail themselves of his Majesty's Royal Procla-
mation for pardoning deserters, and deliver them-
selves up, that they may again desert whenever it
serves their purpose so to do ; and it is also notorious
that some of them, by this means, procure their en-
largement from goals, where, if left to abide their trials
for civil offences, they might be capitally convicted,
or sentenced to transportation.

RAMSGATE, FEB. 13.
Last night several transports with a part of the 91st Highland
Regiment, and of the 521 Regiment, 2d battalion, arrived here.
These transports, with several others, had unknowingly got so
near the French coast, the slay-before, as to be fired at from the
batteries at Calais ; and it was with great difficulty they got clear
of the shore. It appears that the French toast was mistaken for
the English. The 5251 marched from hence to Deal, as soon as they
had disembarked.
Fes .14.—The 91st Highlanders which arrived here yesterday,
disembarked early this morning, and marched immediately to
Canterbury, on the route for Ashford.
Fes. IC—The following are the particulars of the troops which
, have arrived here in the transports since Tuesday—Cicero, Royal
Artillery Drivers, 390 men, 24 women, and 13 children ; Hebe,
170 0171st regiment ; William and John, 217 of 71st ditto ; part
' of the 6th regiment, from several transports; part of fifteen re-
giments on board tke Ann, amounting to 104 men ; and the
transport the William, 30 sick and wounded ; Leda, upwards of
300 of 38th regiment ; James, 953 men, 22 women, 16 children,
91st regiment ; Two Friends, 126 men, 5 women, 3 chilren, 71st
regiment ; David, 18 horses, and 30 men, Royal Artillery; Juno,
7 horses, 87 men, Staff Corps ; Favourite, 21 horses, no men
Royal Artillery ; Oxford and Lord Mulgrave, a part of the 2d
battalion 52d regiment, of which near 100 are sick ; Scipio, 51
women, 39 children, of different regiments ; Hero, 47 men of 15
diffi•rent regiments : Agincourt, about 270 of 10 regiments ; Pitt •
;41 men not landed ; I.eda, 350 of 38th regiment ; William and ,
Aso, 41 men, one horse, of Horse Artillery ; Attn.'s-La, 2.00 of
.latlegiment ; Salus, 25 horses, 40 men, Royal Artillery ; For_
.140 MD, Royals, and 824 regiments; Cleveland, ma
Awe and officers, end and 28th regiments; Lady ilamilto n, 220
ot Royal Artillery Martha, 205 men of fourteen differ( ut re-
giments ; Doris, 159 of Royal Artillery, and. five
otherr regi-
ments. Most of the troops have been lad. d been
marched to their respective destinations; many, however, of the
sick remain for the preseut byre, and every attention is paid to
their comforti: •