Star.
London, England, 1809-09-09 00:00:00

THE MEDITERRANEAi+t.

A Malta mail arrived yesterday.• His Majesty's
Chip FsEntatossrcw, with her valuable convoy, had
arrived out in safety; but it appears that the Medi-
terranean swarms with French privateers, which had
taken six sail of merchantmen, whose names are as

vet unknown.
The SCOUT sloop of war has put into Gibraltar for
repair, after an action with two privateers, one of 18
and :he other of 20 guns, in the Gulf of Genoa. The
,41,15 w of the SCOUT and five men were killed.
The Rosa, WARE, from London to Smyrna, has
been taken by a French privateer, after an actiun of
six hours, and carried into Cerigo. An American
ve,cei from Smyrna, (supposed to be the Globe, Cap.
,ain WILLIAMS), had also been taken, and carried into
,he same place.

The Thetis, CLARK, from Cagliari, has been taken,
retaken, anal carried into Gibraltar.
The Lucy, Wilson ; and Salermo, Phipps, from
Malta to Liverpool, are taken by the French, and
carried into Algiers.
It appears by letters from Smyrna, under date of
June '2l , that trade there was at a stand ; an account
of the success of the French had reached that place,
and the Turks were making every preparation to re-
sist both them and the Russians. The bisars (shops)
had almost all been closed, to make way for a general
It was supposed that in Smyrna alone,

recruiting•

lop() men could be raised for the armies.

DUEL.—A meeting took place early on Tuesday
noroing, in Bermondsey-fields, between Captain E.
of the Royal Navy, and Mr. E. of Oxford-street, in
consequence of some family dispute. The former
was wcianded in the groin, and now lies in a dange-
roac state. The parties hare absconded.
EtoroirN.r.—A young lady of twenty-three, of
,the name cf Tibbs, doped from her parents, in the
neighbourhood of Prince's-street, on Sunday night
3ast, with a sea Captain of sixty-eight. The amorous
pair were married at a village near Reading, on Wed-
nesday, by licence. The bride, who is the daughter
of a hi LA-maker, will shortly inherit five hundred
poinkk a.year.
Thursiay afternoon a desperate pitched battle was
fought in Stepney-fields, between a sailor belonging
to a Newcastle collier, and a journeyman carpenter
in the service of a respectable ship-builder in the
neighbourhood. They fought for nearly 30 minutes
with in:abated fury, till the latter was, with seeming
reluctance, obliged to give in. The victor was car-
ried off the ground, being, from the severe blows he
received unable to walk.

The fbilowing are among the last arrivals at
Cheltenham

lhe Right Hon. Lord Glenbervie, I arsi and Lady Riversliae,
C r 1 Schaw, Colonel and Mrs. Blanchford, Lieut.-Colonel
Black Major Thesiger, Captain Charles Jones, Captain Skinner,
Capt.ia Weeki, Captain Young, Captain I.e Geyt, Rev. 1.. Ro-
hm., Rev. C. Wapshare, Rev. M. Armstrong, Mr. and Mrs.
Cook, Mr.and Mrs. Bernell, Mr. and Mrs. Yapp, Mr. Mrs. and
Miss Laird, Mr. and Mrs. Wy,e, Mr. and Mrs. Fergusson, Mr.
!:uchan, Mr. Osborne Rich, Mr. Barber, Mr. Dowdale, Mr. De
Cnarcy, Mr. Swann, Mr.. Rawlins, Mr. Lloyd, Mr. W. Stoke.,
B.:4ceryille, Mr. Moeller, Mr. James Cuppaidge, Mr.
v:icyl:T, Mr. Spencer Mackay, Mr. W. H. Addison, Mr. Dona
car, Mr. P. Bernar.l, Mr. 'Thomas Coles, Mr. Aust, Mr. Field,
71:r. K-altaly, Mr. S. M'Malmn, Mr. T. Vt'y se, Mr. Jones, Mr.
.k. Übburn, Mr. John Stewart, Mr. C. F. 'Williams,
'fir. C. G. Wynne, Mr. Peyton, Mr. Humfrey, Mr. Fortis ington,
4:r. Ansel!, Mr. Weston, Mr. Smith, Mr. Henderson, Mr. Pha-
lli', Mr. Robert Smith, Mr. O'Dwyer, Mr. Prestow, Mr. Shaw,
M. nit:L., Mr. Knox, Mr. J. Nitric...ship, Mrs. Prescott, Mrs.
Jks. Monson, Mrs. Ramsay, Mrs. Trundle, Mrs. Christie,
Tirwme, Miss Binny, Miss H. Binny, Miss Lobbiu, Miss
Edwerds, Miss Colwell, Miss Reeves, &c. &c.
A later from Dover, dated September 7, says—
" Li,t nh;ht the Elizabeth, of Dover, HAYWARD,
P,:7:ve,l from Morlaix, where she had been with
French prisAners, from Gillingham, as was men-
ti• :It the time : one of whom died while the
to sel lay here wind-hound, three died on their
Ty.sage, and two inore were nearly dead on their
arrival in Trance. When the prisoners were about
to hurl, it was perceived they had secreted a great
raather cf letters ; some had been sewed tip in dif-
ferent parts cf their apparel, and some concealed
their crutches, which had been excavated for'
I!.e purpo;e. They took great care, however, that
should be practised on themselveN,
:Ls w,tnen on board to search ours, seven in
tul,riers' wives, who came back in the cartel.
A Lieutenant in the navy, named Wallace, who was
tal.cn prirrer on board the Minerva, about four years
5:1..•e, was the url r passenger, besides the people of
the cartel. He ...as informed that several persons
had lately been shot for refusing to join the army.
T ;:e report there was the same as here respecting
re;:ce being concluded with Austria, but, like us,
thev had got no confirmation."
short time. ago, Mr. RqscoE, of Liverpool, re-
i‘cti ar anonymous letter informing him that six
!rives had been thrown into prisolby a Portu-
;,-;:e0 Captain, upon alledged actions oraebt ; but in
re1!::y because he found that they were free on their
ronsal in England, and he hoped by this expedient to
deraia them until his vessel should be ready to sail.
Ifavin,,-, verified the fact, Mr. Roscoe: sent a person to
all the actions. An order was accordingly issued
for the di:.charge of the prisoners, when it was disco-
vered that the Portuguese Captain had mustered about
lrlj (f his countrymen to seize the blacks by force on
their exit fro:n prison. Application was instantly
niadc to the Magistrates, who took the Captain into
custody, bound him to Ids good behaviour, and re-
Erred the poor blacks to the enjoyment of thcir newly-
acyired liberty.
As the parish church at Lcilds was undergoing
repairs, the ,:orkmen found a stone coffin, eon-
a complete skeleton, and the bones of two

lir:lan subjects, under the inundation of the
r..2ar the entrance to the bell-chamber. The col-
cut out of a solid block seven feet long,
t .in:l a half deep ; its internal dimensions
fict three inches in length, about twelve
cs (icy and between two or three feet wide. The
v-hich formed the cover, bore no inscription.—
t.:le situation in which it was found, it must have
' ~hat place ever since the church was erected,
• rmac than 700 }cars. The air was so corn-
: •• .t-ltided, that the bones lentain as firm and
' • lately inturcd.