Star.
London, England, 1812-07-09 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS.

German papers reached town this morning. They
contain a copy of the Convention between the King
of PRUSSIA and the Emperor of FRANCE, of which an
abstract has, already appeared in the STAR. A letter
from Vienna, of the 6th June, says

The intelligence -seread through this city of
Peace having been Concluded between the Porte and
Russia, comes from a .stranger lately arr. it'd foot
Hungary."
The marching of troops and military baggage
from the South of Europe towards the theatre of the
expected war, still continues. In the mean time,
ALEXANDER has used every effort to avert actual.
hostilities. He is said to have
,represented to
NA-
POLEON, that Russia' could Rot exist longer as a
nation without commerce ; and that he was willing
to make great sacrifices to secure even a portion
of trade to bis subject;. He therefore proposed to
lay a new duty of 25 per cent. on all colonial pro-
duce and goods of British manufacture ; and would
allow France half the revenue to sanction the measure.
—To this proposal, it is said, BONAPARTE replied,
that nothing short. of shutting the ports of Russia
against British shipping would satisfy him. Any
compromise on his- part would be a total abandon-

ment of 64 the Continental System."
As a,firther proof of the good understanding be-
tween the British Government and_tbat of Sweden, a
respectable house in the Ci t y has been pertnitted to con-
tract with the Swedish Government for clothing for.

o,Ooti slaked, tbit litilet .2 pail
or the *hole 60,000 niaphas hike beep shipped for
Sweden:* •

Lettets from toil), (gout) Atnerica) of the 20th
April, state, that since the fatal earthquake expe-
rienced at Caraccas, on the 26th March, they have
had several shocks, particularly on the 19th April,
the crew of a launch, Which passed Laguira on that
day, felt the shock on the water, but they did not
land. The rebel expedition against Guayana is re-
ported to have been completely routed ; Mamma's
forces, which had passed the river, having all nearly
perished.

SECOND EDITION.

ADVANCE OF LORD WELLINGTON INTO

SPAIN.

CAPTURE OF SALAMANCA.

WAR DEPARTMENT, JULY 9, 1812.
Despatches have been received from the Earl of
-Wewaormr, dated Salamanca, 18th June :

" The Allied 'Army crossed the Agueda on the
13th June, and arrived near Salamanca en the 16th.
The enemy sheaved some troops in frt..nt of the town,
but upon the advancing of our cavalry tlizy retreated
across the Torrnes, and evacuated Salamanca, leaving
about 800 men in some forts, constructed upon the
ruins of colleges and convents.
The allios enured the c.ty, but Lord WELLING-
TON had found it necessary to break groun i against
the fortified pasts still held by the enemy. The Gth
Division, under Major-Central CLINTON, warehar
ged with the reduction of these forts, and the batte-
ries were expected to cpen against them on the 19th.
MAIIMONT'S artny was retreating to the Douro, and
it was imagined he meant to take up a position
hind that river between Zamora and Toro.

44 In Estremadura, Major-General SLADE'S bri-
gade of cavalry (3d Dragoon Guards, and Royal
Dragoons) having fallen in with two F►ench regi-
ments of Dragoons under General L'Allernand
near Llera, charged and broke the enemy's line, but
havingpnr:tued wi►hout sufficient caution or order, a
body kept by the .enemy in reserve-fell upon thy► Bri-
tish before they could form and retook nearly all the
plispners Gen. SLADE had made, killing and wound•
in: 20 or 30 of his dragoons, and taking prisoners
two Lieutenants and above 100 men.

" P. S. The dispatches received at the Foreign
Office from Mr. STEw.gar contain intclligem.e from
Estramadura of alater date.
It appears that the forces under Marshal SouLr
end General Daourr having caected, I:ad moved
lor ward to Lkrena and Santa 011.41 a. In conse.
quence of which iir Rov,Lawo HILL had called in
all.his detached troops, and had aswaibled the whole
of his army at Albuera, where he was joined upon the
18th, by four Portuguese regiments fr* m Batlajor,
and by tl.e Spuds', troops unckr the Conde DE PENN,
VlLLamoua. G.n( ral HILLS advanced posts acre
at Santa Martha.

" On tit? I2th of June there was a tkiimish of ca-
valry near Llereria, in which Lieutenant SMEN [AYH
made prisoticrs 25 er,:g. oons and cne officer."

Paris Pape-s to the sth instant hav, been -received
in Tc wn this thorpii-g. -By these we are informed,
that BONAFARTE has declared War against Russia
and Sweden.

His Royal Highness the Duke of CLanvice WAS
yesterday rather better than on the preceding day.
Parliament, we understand, will be prorogued by
Commission, on Monday, the 20th instaut.

Last night Lady CASTLERE 10H entertained the
fashionable world with a -grand ball and supper, at
her house in St. James's-square.

Last nigla Mrs. MONTELIECS rout was uncom-
monly brilliant.
The Roxburgh Sale concluded on S.rturchy. The
total of the Sate was about £23,000. The library
cost the late Duke under A'.5,000. _ _

At a sale of horses, the property of the late SA MUEL
MA NESTY, Esq. en Tuesday, a small Arabian horse,
aged, was purchased by Lord DARTMOUTH, for the
I enormous price of 710 guineas ; and a yearling filly.
was suld fur 150 guineas.
•HA Y-MA REM' THEATRE.—Yesterday evening a
new after-piece, entitled the Child of Chance, was pre-
cd at this Theatre ; the whole strength of which
s exerted in favour of the luckless orphan : it was
,
impossible, however, to save it. The audience ex.
paused their disapprobation early in the first act; but
afterwards listened rather patiently till near the ersd
of the second, when the storm of disapprobation could
wo longer be restrained, and the Farce was ttnequivo-
, gaily damned. s '
• Four score packages of Grecian mutilated Gods,
and Goddesses, nime,a4l4 heads, and many wiehosii,.
.aee arrived, and have been landed at the Custom
house, consigned to Lord &am and Sir JAMES
GRAHAM I the son of the latter having been the prin-
cipal collector.
SPARRING Exmarriox.—The amateurs of pireism
made a strong muster yesterday, at the Five's-Co.rtt,
for the benefit of Belcher; and some of the best spar.
ring matches which for a length of time have been
witnessed took place.
Saturday a rowing match took plice near Wind-
isor-bridge, by two gentlemen formerly of Eton Col-
lege, Mr. PONSONBY and MY. GRAHAM, for 100 gui-
neas, from the Bridge to Clewer Point, the distance
,is about four miles there and back, which was won
by Mr. Ponsonby.
Sunday murni
. same distance, -

LET for Or Like

by Mr. GRAIL4III.

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Fitt itti4d.
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The /3- ulietin, received yesterday morning froiß
Windsor, was,
" His,Mamiit shpt, at intervals, six hotirs and
half, in the course of last night, and is tranquil this
mornings'
Another Bulletin, stating that his MAitSfY co&
firmed in nearly the satne state, was received at six
o'clock last night.
_ The following noti6cation tirat exhibited yesterday
at St: James's Palace:

" By her MAJzsrv's command, BUlletini will be
given in future on the Sunday succeeding the first
Saturday of every month."
.The accounts received from Windsor this morning
state, that his MAJESTY Cannot be considered as worse&
but, on the whole, as rather better than he was yes&
terday.

BRISTOL ELECTION, JULY 8.
IN COURT, THREE 6'CLOCR.—AII was perfectly
quiet last night, and this day ou; election goes on very
soberly. 'I his'elay Davta,lsas polled 77, and HUNT
3. There is now a paitited board affixed over the
heal of the latter with--a Huitr, Peace, and Plenty,"
painted upon it. his CcirsfiAL ntly whlpered about
that CoPREIT AA ill be here on Fridat, but it is a great
recut / No vote has yet been tendered for him, though
his name still appears as usual. The laugh of t
day is the retort LOZIrtetIUS to the 44 Lunatic escaped."
66 A Baboon escaped from Colchester"--ateswerhg
to the name of 66 Dtex"--a great devourer of tallow,
and consumer of Spanish wO;il—has lately been io
London, where he was tausht to grumble out, 66 No
Enqu.ry— No Reform— Orders ia Council, &c." It
is requestrd that all 11,mest ceuple. will join in Hunt.
ing lism out!" It seems ►he determinat:, of dm Blues
to Chair Mr. DAVIS, calve que caste, %LIES TIIR ILIX-
rION Is ENDRU ! ! I

N4:7411. IN7ELLIVENCP.
FRENCH SQUpARON IN' THE. WEST INDIIII.
His Britannic Majesty's brig Coronae, Captain
l'rrosiesom, ars ived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the
24th of May, with her prize, the American hi;g Pleia-
Jes, from Belfast f New-York, with passengets.--
l'he Collette lett Bermuda on the 17th. On the. mor a.
Ing of that day an Eliglish schooner arrived thee
from Lominica, the Captain tf, which iiitermi3l
that six French sail of the line were in the West In.
dies ; and that cannonading, in the direction of Gtl4.•
daloupe, had been heard at Durninica.

The Br iti:ll shgs of war 1311APittox and Gettßint•
have unt into 13t.rinuda an Anaeiic.►n slip flOni
Bourdeaur.

FALMOUTH, JULY 6.
Arrived the Lapwing packet from New-York and
Halifax, in 22 days from the former. Things were
looking very unpleasant in Anteiica, and a war with
that country was considered as inevit ible. The prin.
cess Mary packet, for Malta, is detained here until
Friday, but the Nymph and Sivalci..v pat k is M id.
s til to. morrow. Also arrivid the Princess ElizaLeth
packet irom Surinam and Marinfqste, in ,t 1 days
from the former, and 24 data froth the *alter place.
Arrived the Fox packet from the Leeward Islands,
in 24 days.. Sailed the Duke of Kent packet, with a .
mail for Lisbon.

PLYMOUTH, JULY y.
Sailed the Fozatut;so, 18 guns, on a crttire and
the CROCoDILE 18 guns, for Jersey, with a sindc ,n-
-soy. The LATONA passed up Channel last vv, n,pg,
with transports from Lisbon with prisoners, 16 of he
transports put into the Sound last night, and c..me
into Hamottze this afternoon. The usual comple•
ment of marines with their officers seciit to-day on
board the new sh;p the CLAULNCE, lately commis..
.Anneal by C (vain VANSITTAMT. Sailed trie GPICC
cartel, cl Plymouth, CasirsEcc master, for Mot rails
with a few passengers, among whom is Mr bLoasg,
in ikmerican gentleman, charged with dispatches to
Mr. BARLOW. A large fleet of vessels was off last
night at 6 A. N. sus po,ed to be the homeward-bound
Mediterranean convoy, in charge of the Vivi-mous,
of 74 guns—the Rivoit in company.

PORTSMOUTH, JULY S.
Sailed his Majesty's ship ULY•SLS with a cnnv,y
for Gnernsey and Jersey ; VAUTOUK for Lidlon and 4,
Orrto, with the Hoeg stoop of wat in compisny.--:
Also sailed the ReE,tilus store-ship with French pri-
soners for Leith. . •
DEAL, JULY s.
Sailed this morning the whole of, the outward-
bound, under convoy of the ATTACK gun-brig for
Portsmouth,

Yesterday morning, a little before one o'clock, a
hoy, lying off the Custotit-house Quilt, was boarded
by a gang of robbers, who seized the Custom-hiuse
Officers, bound them hands and feet, presented a
blunderbuss to them, and threatened instant iLath if
they made any noise or 'resistance ; moved the 1).1
.01 to a floating buoy, and-robbed the vessel of silk •*.
from Italy, to the amount offe36oo, and madeclear
eff 'with it by halt past one o'clock. The officeri
were released by calling for ass;stance. •
We are desired by our Plymouth Correspondeat to
insect the following account of the h( r r d aff or, in
Old Town,- Plymouth, mentioned in our paper or
yesterday: it differs in some measure from the pal lieu-
tars already given but we are sorry to say that there`
is no abatement in the chief te4torts of ss dreadful' -
hnsiuess : On Monday morning Mr. Hr Hs rose
early, leaving Mrs. HYNIII asleep, and having sent his
two maid savants out of the house on frL mouser- " •
rands, betook the yonugest child, about 13 mouths •
Old, to the bottom of the ;;arden,'and cut its throat ;
be then nturned through the iii-den to the house,
entered the kitchen, and placed the child on a chair.
The nest rictins was a tine child of three years of age,
whose brains he blew cut with a pistoL He theft
'rushed up-die stairs to his wife's chamber, found Lee
awaking, ItisAd her, and-di.ctiarged 1 sit her, .
the lull entering the left bieast. - -
the stair case, put a pito)l to h's
down stairs, and dropped dea'd in

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idge, by two gentlemen formerly of tton Col- I awaking, tigAd her, and-di.ciiargrti pistol at her, .
Mr. PONSONBY and MY. GRAHAM, for 100 gui- the nail entering the left breast. He' then went on •
from the Bridge to Clewer Point, the distance the stair case, put a pistol to h's left bre- ijoishiil.i 1----
ut four miles there and back, which was won downstairs, and dropped dead in the ki
r. Ponsonby. thought Mrs. HYNE cannot survive,
. tnou
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day morning mother match was 'rowed the is extracted and the wound Hut . .
-t.
distance, between Mr.•G4AHAM and Mr. Luse. I lost a constdr. hle quantity of b
ir de like sum, which was wort with great ease may be aupposed, much depreseed •
r. 'face of biz tamely.
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