Star.
London, England, 1807-10-22 00:00:00

r rt M. r;ARNEFIV.

y night will hut affolci
narratives which I
he courfe ()1 my forty
not have to deferibe
h nature cominually
nt who alcv:ids in fa•
give• a narrative ci
nigh terminating in

caufetl to the
ntly apprized me n!
d to the difficulties of
bulence f a party, by
lacing the cord of the
he, which, in cafe of
gas into a direaina
Cutrounded the bottom

ompanied by M. De
rm, which continually
if my departure, gave
t till:111er as Mr. 14Ian-
met with in Holland.
yin the boat. I mutt
ion ; for I am convin-
made this young man,
t the boat, if the well
I entertained, of feeing
lion, had not fuggened
him, that the balloon
p two perfons.
adverfe weather, and
Lion and the tumult. of
is eafy to guefs at, that
lalf pall ten t.), lock on
nber. An unexampled
remely necetfary to pre-
la& with the adjoining
clouds, and in a Lew
nenle height, the extent
acertain, n account of
merits %%Nth suddenly
id p evented me front
,e mercury in the baro.
it to the frozen regions,
) a degree of expaufion
reatell apprehention.—
ween certain death and
gas, and this at the rifle
c. I gradually opened
bout two feet diameter,

large volumes, while,
d as many of the lights
wt, I several times was
d falling cut of the boat.
unity of regulating the
lip without a rudder,
he influence of the terr-
ain. Whenever the force
e (I,.ritt, which kept fill
w out ballast, for the pur•
ing frr in imminent fhip-
tick in the morning, after
ally enveloped in thick
Id (adorn fee the moon,
toyfelf in the air were
poffeffed was no longer
ral times (truck againft
rom thence. The tem-
It fides and tops of
anchiir caught in a tree,
y agitared by the wind,
•:onveniciice of a violent
e time to the bottom of
Fier I alcended, and aC•
le violence of the coned.
and I lay for a hall-bout
fentibility. During this
rceived Mom Tonnerre,
.ashes of thunder, and al
I would be my lad, that
rd rm.untain the Eagle a

ALExasora.
or tumc time longer by
ly fonie pealants came to
It that the anchor hooked
of the cords which hung
td me in a forea upon the
pail five in the morning,
m• departure, and more
mi Paris. They toi.k me
f Wahifirchbach, and de-
e. M. Cdar, a ma' pf
the neighb.,uring to
y Alliance in I.a p, wet
it narrative, which

trtainet: the next day at.
of Friends of the Attu,
the Olii‘ if thtt
Vld the Mc- be., ill lie:
• •
GALfth.loll•''

, THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

Our Friends at Portfmouth ara refperftfully informed, that they
may be fupplied with the STAI daily, by Mrs. HICKS, of the
Navy Poft Office, Patfrnouth ; alfo tp7 Mr.WOOO wit Ito, Printer,
Potties.

THURSDAY, OC 1 03ER 22.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE 0'01.Ork:
3 per Cent. Confols, for morey arc 62 4.
Reduced 6114—Excheq. Bills. 36. to 4.. preen —Onunurn 4 dif.
PRICE OF STOCKS YES I'EROAY.
sank Stock, 226 2451 India Bonds, par Is. pre.
3 per Cent. Red. 6411 kith S per Cent. 91
3 per Cent. Confola 6214 Exalt. Ms. IS. 21 4s. pee.
4 per Cent. 98,4,1 Oninium f dir.
s per Cent. Navy 964111 Engliih Tickets all.
Long Ann.t7l 9-161 Conf. for aec 6441

'His Majefly's fhip TWEED, with the fleet under
convoy for the Weil Indies, which failed from Port':
mouth on the 26t11 June, arrived at Barbadoes zgth
Aug('ll. The James mail boat, from Barbadoes for
Demerara, was captured on the 24. th Anna, by the
Jenne Addle Prench privateer, who has 21fo captured
the Borchal, Tyes, and the Dar.ithifcliooner Betfey,
DILL, from Barbadoes, for Surinam, and carried
them all into Guadaloupe.

Private letters were yeflerday received in town
from Rotterdam, of the date of Saturday 'aft. They
Wate a raft to which we know not how to give credit
.--that the French troops were to be admitted into
the Swedifh as well as the Danifh territories. His
Swims! MIUESTY, it is Paid, has agreed to allow a
French force to occupy certain points in his domi-
nions until a general Peace. We have obfcrved, for
Come time pan, articles in the Dutch paper, which
Teemed to have been inrerted for 'the purpofe 'of pro.
ducing a belief, that a change a policy was abcut to
be manifelted by the Cabinet of Stockholm. In the
Paprrs from which we made extrzEts on Monday, it
was Rated that the Swedifh Pilots were prohibited
from navigating any Englifh fbipsor Prizes ; and
lournals, which we received yetterday, contain a let.
ter from Copenhagen, dated September 29, in which
it is infinuated, that a good rarderflanding no longer
prevails between England and Sweden. The gallant
and difinterefled conclat of the King of Sweden for-
lids as to encourage the fufpicion which thefe reports
alight other wife be calculated to create ; but we have
tiara them as they have reached us. If any altera-
tion has taken place in tilt fy item which the Govern-
ment of Sweden has• fu firmly and honourably put-
bed during the war, we are convinced that the
"change can only be attributed to the influence of
Ruflia. The letters from Holland regard a war be-
tween that Power and this country as unavoidable.
It is reported that 30,000 French troops are about to
enter Holland, in order to be new clothed and fed for
Tome time at the ezpence of the people of that unfor.
tunate country.

Some of the letters frrm Holland (late that King
Law's has performed a very magnanimous aft, ;n
caufing to be liberated all perfons who had been im-
prifoned during his abfence, under the decree which
prohibits the landing on the Dutch chores cf any
perfon from a 13t.tith port. The letters alto mention
fome circumflances which induce a belief that the
meafures lately adopted againa Blitifn commerce
will henceforward be leis I igorotalf enforced.
According to the accounts received by the veil-els
which have juft arrived from Copenhagen, it is Elated
that the Danifh feanien have volunteered to bring
home the Danifh veflels tchrrifelves, and therefore
the number of volunteers we have fent out will be
utelefs. It is alit mentioned, upon the authority of
thefe vefrels, that feveral fli;ps had brought provi-
fions from Riga and Memei to uur force at Copen-
hagen.

Accordin; to a letter from Bayonne, given among
other afts from the French and Dutch papers
in ig column, the army of cblervation, as
- the army for the invafion of Portugal,
fpe.king, had not broken up on the
25th ult. the dangers, therefore, which menace
Litho°, are not fo imminent as we had reafon to
fear. It is impoflible any force, which fet out from
Bayonne at the latter end of September, could reach
the capital of Portugal, pat ticulatly if any oppofition
-was to be expected, before the end of this month. In
this interval there will be fufficient time for the re-
moval of Britifh perfons and property. It appears to
be a matter of Tome chubt, whether the French will
fend a fquadron or battalion beyond the Pyrennees,
..The mandate of NAPOLEON will as effeetually do
the bufinefs as any force he can difpatch. The ex-.
pulfion of the Britifh, the claing of the Portogoefe
Ports, and the confifcation of ail property belonging
to Englifh fithjeCts, or, what is as good, a full equi-
valent for it, will probably fatisty France, without
the inconvenience of fending an army to Lifbon.—
There obfervations derive foul,: furpot t from what is
palling in our ports. Within thzi'c two or three days
a number of light veff.is have proceeded under con-
Toy to the Tagus, where they cannot be expeCted to
arrive before the end of this month. It is not to be
fuppofed they would have been ordered thither, if
there was the lead aFprehrufian that the French
aratll reach Li(b )n its i e inter val.
The French Emperor teems determined, that his
Lesnßative Authority fh.:ll march, pari feu, with
his military defpotdm nn the Continent. The Re
prefentative Syllem, or, in other word., the NAPO-
LEONCode, is to he adcyted throosianut all the
countries under hi., influence.

'SOUTH AMEItICA.

'

EX7RACT OF A LETTER FROM A BRITISH OFFICER.

• " MONT* VIDEO, JULY 26.
" I wrote you the day before yelierday by the
Phcafant, but as the letter may not reach you, and
oar friends mull be dittraAled till they know every
thing, I mutt, though I cannot fpare much time, se-
peat fhartly a few of the particulars.
," Our operations in the field, though of fhort dn.
ration, were attended wir,h as (evere hardthips as can
well be conceived—but we have acquired immortal
honours ! ! The walls of this place are decorated'
with complimentary addreffes extolling our exploits.
In no age did the Mita arms ever atchieve fo much
glory I but you fhall judge for yourfelf.
• " We landed ft.o Miles below Buenos Ayres, at El
Sonada, the 28th June, without any oppofition. The
diftarice we marched from thence to Buenos Ayres
was very circuitous, on account of the many marfhes
and impalrable parts of the country, and could not
have been lets than '6o miles. We commenced cur
march about to A. M. of the 29th, which was firft
through a bog of font miles up to the knees. None
but the General's Staff of the Army and Command-
ing Officers, are allowed to ride, and the lei vants of
the Generals. Unfortunately all the corps were over-
loaded with knapfacks. The weather was very cold
and damp, and they were obliged to be in the open
lair all night, fo that they carried with them a blan-
ket and great coat. each man, betides ttiree days pro-
( vitions. We got through it alloniflingly.
" On the ill J tly, we arrived in fight of Buenos
Ayres, about 4P. M. Ever fince we marched, the
I following has been the order of the Army, : the Bat-
talion of Light Companies? detachment of 95th under
Colonel CRAUVUKD, as the advance; the 36th and
88th, Get.eral Lurecsr, in the rear the main body,
under General WHI r ELOCK. The main body reached
Reduftion, where 131•IthSYCIRD was met by the enemy
haft year, this afternoon. The Light Brigade, 36th,
and 88th, were about z miles farther advanced, under •
General G'iwea. o.lr piquets fired
,repeatedly at
panics of the enemy's horfe, during the night, but
no body of them made their appearance.
" Ar 8 A. M. of the zd July, we fet off for the
city. The light brigade it, front, half a mile the
36th and 88th followin.g in order. The diflance we
had to march on our route, by the ford of Chico, was
23 or 24 mks. We expelled to fee the main body
com;ng up to fupport us, but we were expelling them
in vain. We crafted the liver Chicelle up to our
middles about four, without oppofition. We imme•
diately advanced to the town. At inn-fet, or a little
after, the light battalion in front, were oppofed at
the turning of a road within lets than two miles of
the citadel, and taken in reverie by the fire of tz
cannon, fupported by 2500 men, and the Spanifh
General LIMIER in perfon. They immediately charg-
ed them with the bayonet, took the guns, killed zoo,
and made many prifoners. We rufhed on to the
town, the enemy firing on us as we paired through
the chafe lanes, from their gardens and houfes. It
was dnik when we got within a few hundred yards
of the citadel. We had pcfreflion of the flteet till
near nine o'clock, and then retreated outfidc.

We had a good deal of fkimifhing on the 3d
and 4th, and proceeded by order of the General to
form the town on the morning of the sth. But I
mutt firil acquaint you that we expeeted to get pof-
felfui of the town and citadel the fi, lt night, nor can
we conceive why we retreated, and why e•e advanced
co far into the town without doing any thing further.
It is laid that General CRAUFURD offered to take
the place with the light brigade, but it was not ap-
proved of by General Gowert. Here I mull tell
you, that the lafl time I law poor TROTTER, was in
the Erects of the town that night, along with the
light brigade. He fhook me by the hand, and at
that infant, the left of our column had come up, and
I was obliged to leave him. He was Major of the
battalion, and unirerfally beloved. There was very
hale lots on our part iu the freers, but the enemy
fuffered feverely.

al At day light of the gth, the troops began to
march illy() the fireets. Colonel PACK, and every
other perfon, rerrefented that the top of every houfe
was covered with mulketeers and riflemen, but thefe
things were mere trifles ! We ruffled like madmen
into the flreets with fixed bayonets. Not a foul was
to be teen till we got into the middle of the town.—
We had orders not to fire a (hot ! In an inflant we
were fired at in every die eaion from the honk tops,
windows, loop holes, in front, rear, and every way.
But all this was not worth our notice ! We were
to do every thing by the bayonet. 'l'o fire was cow-
ardly, and would have been putting ourfelves in lonic
degree on an equality with the enemy ! Not a piece
was loaded ! We took poireflion of a church and a
houfe, which we then defended as long as r,ffible,
with gun powder. In two hours we were ',bilged to
furrenser, with the lots of many poor fellows.
s' A was with General WHyrtiocas, in a
fnug, fate place, as part of his guard. Honett
M‘GstGOR was killed in the court of a houfe, in re-
connoitring the enemy, who were on the houfe tops.
He was 111,4 through the back, and died ida moment.
Tao-r res was }hot through the head and breafl,from
the top of a houfe, while looking through a glafs at
the corner of a flreet, near the Church St. Domingo.
Never did an officer die with more regret, or mote
beloved by all rank.

TICITT fit wag lJEcred, but refuted, the appoint-
,ment 9f Deputy Qcarter Mailer General, and pie-
(erred a dalhing ferviee, as Ile called it, to anv other.
4 4 We re-embarked at Buenos Ayres on the to:h,
and arrived here on the 4.1.."

•

Yeflerday, about twelve o'clock, their MAJEST!: S
arrived in• their travelling poll chariot, at theQ!,ecn's
Palace, from Windfor, elcorted by a party of Light
Horfe ; they were received, on their entrance to tl:e
Palace, by the Dukes of YORK, KENT, and CUM-
BERLAND. The five Princeffes followed their MAJEs
Tits, in two carriages, attended by the. Colloids of
tt.ciresTEtt and Lady J. THYNN E.. Suon after their
arrival, the Princefs MARY went to Sr. James's Pa,ce,
in the Duke of Yoa it's carriage, and honoured Lady
CHARLOTTE FiNCH with a vilit at her apartments,
and returned to the Qieen's Palace.
About one o'clock, tier MAJESTY and all the FRIN•
cEssEs, accompanied by the Dote of CU MiIi"zRLAND,
let off for Blackheath, upon a vilit to the Pi incels of
VALES and Ditchers Of BRUNSWICK, where they par.
took of a fumptuotts dinner, at three o'clock ; after
which they returned to the Queen's Palace, where
they arrived loon after five. They did not alight from
their carriages, but remained in them while the harks
were changing, and then proceeded, with all poffible
(peed, to Windfor. The Duke of CUMBERLAND, g
into his oEvn carriage, which was in waiting, and Wc.BI
to his apat trnents in St. James's Palace.
His MA IEsTY held a private levee, at the Q2een's
Palace, Piton after two o'clock, which was attended
by— •

The Arch:U(ll°p of Canterbury. the Secretaries of State for the
Home and Colonial Department.., the Matter General of the Ord-
nance the Pita Lord of the Admiralty, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, the liar! of Wincbt!fra, Groom of the Stole ; Lord Bol-
ton, in Waiting ; Admiral Gould, Colonel Cadogan, and Mdirs.
Fawkner and Greville, Groom in Waiting.
The following had the honour of being prefented
to his MajesTy :
Rear Admiral GouLD, upon his promotion to that rank.
Colonel CA DooAN,upon hie arrival from South Atncrica.
His MAJESTY gave audiences tattle Cabinet Mini.
(lets, and held a Privy Council, which fat but a thou
rime.

About four o'clock his MAJESTY fet off on his re•
turn toWindfor.

We have to carrell a wUlake in a STAR of laa
week—it is the zd battalion of the 89th, (General
Writ rcocx.x's regiment) and not of the 88th, which is
fo badly afiliaed with ophthalmia. The zd battalion
4 the 88th regiment is at Geneva barracks, where,
from the, great populatiry of their Colonel, General
BERESFORD, and the,high name the carps has gained
in South America and other quarters. both the tlt
and zd -battalion of the regiment, are likely Lon to
he completed from the Irifh

Colonel Dv FF, who has jut' arrived wi.h difpatches
from General WHITLOCKE, is nephew to Earl FIFE.
The Colonel led 430 of his men, and 34 officers into
are field ; of the officers 30, and of the men 300.
were either killed or wounded, when they furrendered
to General LfiIIERE.

We regret to hear that there are not a few defer.
ticins from both our army and navy in South Arne; ica.
The 2d battalion of the 34th Regiment ftillremairis
at Yarmouth. Tile of Wight, and the convoy has
returned to Spithead. fo that it is fuppcfed General
B&RESFORD'S expedition is quite given up.

The chip Augufia, of Norfolk (Virginia), is the
veffel in which Mr. MUNROE is to return to America.
She will dear out from the London Docks to-morrow,
and then go round to Falmouth, where the will Lae
his Excellency on board, and proceed from thence
to Norfolk.

Covssr GARDEN.—The C-medy of The Rage was
performed lalt night for the purpofe of giving Mr.
JONFS an opportunity of dilidaying his powers in the
charaeer of Gingham. He aced with much fpirit,
and the general approbation which he received con-
firmed the opinion which we had formed of him.—
The oftener we fee Mrs. MATTOCKS, the more we
admire thole talents which for a long reties of years
have been the commendation of all circles.—. em
Thumb followed, in which MCINDEN'S King ildbur,
LtsroN's I ord Grizzle, TAYLOR'S AO0d1; and Sr st •
MONDS'S Doodle, were loudly applauded. Mrs. Lis
Totes Dollakla was alfo extremely humournus.
DRURY LANE.-Milb LYON again appeared in the
charaaer of Roj,%ita, at this Theatre, lilt night,
and, if poffible, was in finer voice than on any of
the former occalions. Her charaeler, as a finger, is
completely eflablithed, and, in her dialogue, the alfo
promifes very confiderable excellence. The bottle
was very full.

The irilbman in London doled the entertainment of
the evening, in which Mr. JOHNSTONIVE efforts to
plettfe were fuitably rewarde I by the gond humour
and Applaufe of the audience. MIA MELLON too,
and the other performers, had their (hate of cordial
approbation.

THE COM ET.—Yefterday evening, at (even o'clock,
the Comet was cne degree to the eatt of the liar mark-
ed Y on Hercules's right 'boulder, its declination
being nearly 20 degrees north, and right afcenflon
243 degrees, being t 6 hours to minutes. Sets about
half pall nine, at 33 degrees to the north of the well;
having increafed its declination ►4 degrees, and its
right afcenlion 23 degrees, in fifteen days. The fun
having paired over 15 degrees of right afcenfion in
the fame time, and made five degrees of fouthern de
clination ; wherefore, the Comet has increafed its dif-
ranee from the Sun by about 18 degrees, and evi-
dently appears returning from the Sun, which, in
that cafe, it mutt have gone round, or paired its
perihelion, before it was ditcovered by thepublichere.
On Monday morning, in Mancheller, about 20
minutes pall live o'clock, a meteor was teen, in the
form of an arrow, apparently about four feet in
length, in a north weft direction ; its altitudeabout a
quarter of a mil, from the earth ; its duration about
filreen feconds in declination to the earth ; the point
fiery red ; the (haft pale red: it illuminated the whole
at mofphe re.

Wedoefday fe'nnight a farmer in the neighbour.
hood of Bury, was fined by Sir THOMAS CULLUM,
Bart. in the penalty of al. los. for refuting to provide
a waggon and horfes to remove part of the bageagc
of the Weflmorland Militia on their route to New-
market.

B. C. Y. the letters which have lately appeared in
all quarters of the town, lignified a watch-word againft
Popery, in the r:ign of James, viz. ‘, Beware of Ca-
th2lic York."

PAU:

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FALMOII rH, 0cT05.:.R.,19

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• •

Ai rived the Ames ican hrit Caroline, Capt.
fin] New York for Cnzrbutirg, laden with ciAttnn,
lice; &c. detained by the Mai ips wateer.—WindS.W.

lOR OC*l OBER sr.

Attired his Maj.:!iy's 'hips Street, ss And NU in,
frnm a ciu;ze ; ailb, the-Ichooner I.4delhaide, frnin
C .erbourg, t>7 St. Itlaloe's, la.len wiili fugir,•
pwalli, and 1( gwnod, eaprure,t by his 111:iff fly', flip:
6.ICCESS, ItF.sISTANCE, :in I SPKIGHTLY. Sailed his
1114jeily's fhip I)Ams, r,u a crilizo.—his 111.Jjelly's
SARACry is appointed convoy.to the Mediterra
near, an. the SUCCESS for the Downs.—Wind W.
DEAL, OCTOBER zi.
_ .

S.riled his Majelty% (hips HANGAR :10 and Fultioes,
on a cruize.—Remain in the 11,>.‘ns the reit of his
Nlajetly% (hips, with the outward bf)und, &c. as per
laii.—Wind S. W.

CHATHAM, OCTOBER 23.
The TARTAR ftiqrte has dropped down to Gil.
lingliam Reach, under jury math, on her way
to IVo'il with to lie tepaired. Ti e LEONIDAS, a fine
new frigate, .ti 33 guns, has been taken ) Dock to
be c The IVASSPITE, a 74 gun flip. of the
laigeit will be launched from the King's Yard
in tie courts of next ro-nth ; Captain 13csexwoors
wid corronand her. The Guertier frigate, which
was caatureci by the Et-at/cub, has undergone- a
thorough repair, and will come out of Dock in a
ftat:,ight.'s time.
GREENOCK, OCTOBER 19.
The Commerce, Denniflon, arrived here thismorn.
ing from New York, in 41 dap. The Captain re-
pot ts, that a number of merchantmen were laid up
ti'l the prcient negociations with this e,qintry are
fettled. Spoke in lat. 41. long. 56. the Ichooteet
Wathington, from Leghorn for B out 8o days,
and then fhort of provifions, which Cap' .D 'tuition
fupplied. Arrived here yetterday, the Caledlnia,
Sit wart, from Naffau, in 47 days ; fpoke ve,fels.
The owners of Lhe (hip Eutopa, of this port, have
received advices of the ftranding of that veffel on
Needham's Point, on the 23th Augtill tall. It was
expeOed that great part of her c irgo will be got
laved, but in a damaged (late. This news came by
the Captain of a London brig from Barbadoes, who
came out in the convoy, and was an eye witnefs to
the unfortunate fate of the Europe. He informs that
the velel went entirely to pieces before he lett there,
bet from his Paying nothing c.f the ciew, we are
willing to prefunte that all the people are faved.

NEW YORK. SEPT. 33.
His Britannic Mak. Ity's fchuoner Pike, was lately
taken by a French privateer. It is airerted in a New
Providence paper, that the privatecrfmen cot off all
the Bi ILA failors ears, and placed them in their thus
as cockades.