Star.
London, England, 1809-05-23 00:00:00

MR. SMITH. TO MR. ERSKINE..

Department of State, April 19, 1809.
SIR —Havinglati before the President your Note of this day,
co staining an assurance that his Britannic Majesty will, on the
h day of June next, have withdrawn Ida Orders in Council of
January and N.)vember 1807, so far as respects the United States,
I have the honour of informing you, that the President will ac-
cordingly, and in pursuance of the eleventh section of the statute
commonly called the Non-irytercourse Act, issue a Proclamation,
to that the trade of the United States with Great Britain may,
on the same day, be renewed, in the manner provided in the said
section.—l have the bons= to be, ac. &c. (Signed)

a. SMITE.

SPANISH PAPERS,

VILANOVA DE SITJES, APRIL 15.

The wounded French soldier:, are ctinstantly brines- '
ing into Barcelona. They come from the neighbour-
hood of Valles, where they have Found a more reso-
lute enemy than they expected. On the LAI no
fewer than fifty waggons of wounded entered the
city. It is suppos!ci, that mart than thirty of their
soldiers die daily in the five hospitals of the city only,
without reckoning those in the military seminary, or
those in private houses. Out of ten vessels which came
!rom Leghorn with provision, and stores .for Barce-
lona, only three have arrived, the rest were taken by
the English.
General Lechi, who commands the enemy's force
in Valles, has made three attempts to enter Barcelona,
but has been given to understand by General St.
Cyr, that lie must return to his former station, and
therefore he remains on the defensive in the intricate
labyrinths of Valles.
APRIL 16.—General St. Cyr has returned to Bar-
celona with three thousand men, having found it im-
possible to advance by Castel Bisbsl. This force af-
terwards proceeded to reinforce their countrymen in
Valles, with other troops of the enemy in the neigh-
bourhood of Barcelona. Letters from Mollet, in the
district of Valles, mention, that great destruction is
made by our people among the Monsieurs, frog
whom they have taken two large pieces of artillery,
and a quantity of baggage.

DUTCH PAPERS.

ST. PETERSBURGH, APRIL 2E,
In an Appendix to our Court Gazette, stands the
followin P

" After repeated approximations to peace with
the Ottoman Porte, which were however without ef-
fect, it- was judged expedient to open rizociations
with her Pleniputentiarv, in order to settle the basis
of it. But just as the Plenipotentiaries reached the
designatz.d spot, intelligence was received that the
Porte, contrary to her engagements, had formed a
new alliance with a Puwer hostile to us, and received
an English Ambassador. This intelligence revealed
the principle of her conduct, and her wish, by nev-
er-16On, to gain time for preparations in order to
carry on the war. In consequence of this discovery,
Prince Prosorowsky, Commander in Chief of the
army i‘! Moldavia, received orders to send an express
to Constantinople, and amtounce to the Turkish Go-
vernment, that unless the lingli,h Minister was cEs-
t-nls.;!!kl twen7y-fintr hratr,, the armistice should •
•beatan e: 'l, and rer.ewed. This proposal
was rej:!czetl i)y the Pot.te, and the war began on the
same day. The fir.t rno•.-ement was to destroy Slo-
bod!,tia!;, a first of importance to ill?. enemy, near the
iortrc%, Guir,..;c, arid zhe of the ammunition
and mvg:t7.i.ies in that rintress. This was carried
into effect with the characteristic bravery of Russians.;
and on the (45th of March, Lieutenant-General Mi•
iuzadowitsch scut the following dispatch to the Corn-
in (2:lid—

ss intr.:;!..:ll:-ts of th,! comes, (t'irge have been com-
;let* d .ironed, tii.twithtaniling the obstinate resistance of the
a:Ai:lly. Two pieces of 4; 2anon wore captured, and tl.e rest
,pikt:d.—S!o! othijah w.a tam aril destroyed by Colonel Lopu-
The pi,wder in..:fazint tinder the Dashaw's house, with an
in the In.use, werc blown up. From the magazines every
Ihing pc.ssiblu was t:.'st n out, and the rtst destroyed. Twenty-
seven cannon of lar;;Vealfbre were spiked. The enemy also :oat
32 standards. The booty was divided among the soldiery.—The
enemy's loss was consithrable, thou33t, it cannot yet he estimated.
Our loss has bean inc(,nsiderable; but Major-Cetieral :stawizkie
was killed by a cannon ball.—Colonel Crekow has brist.ght over
to our sale about a chow-Ara:Turkish nannies."