Star.
London, England, 1807-03-31 00:00:00

LISBON MAIL.

A Mail from Lith m art ived this mooing. The
letters by this cone cyance flee, that every thing is
quiet her and likely 19 remain fv ;as the French
Government, irdtead r,f preffing Spain to match troops
againit Portugal, is requiting moil urgently that the
i,l fend a reinforcement to France.

The fame lettcra date that we may fonn elite& to
receive important naval intelligence from Cadiz, ai
the enemy'b fleet ibquiite ready fur fea and is expated
to make an attempt to fail.

Lord HUTCHINSON fent home a ith his lift di6.
p.ttches a part of one rf the French Eagles (Sfand•
:lids), taken in the dcfperate Het inn of Elan. It 4
numbered on each fide " 44." This tr.( phy was ac.
cnn,paniecl by 2 medal of the Frenc h Orcer, which
was taken by a Ruffian from a French Off= of
diflinition, whom he found dead on the field of battle.
It was fufpended from the buttonlible of the coat by
a crimfon ribbon, and is ab tit the fize of a half
crown piece. On one fide is the head of BONAPARIS
in gold, encircled with the words, '' Nopokon /mt.
des Francais," and on the other, a correfponding
medallion, wi.h the infciiption " L'llonnent du
P atria."

Tuefday left a curious experiment was made at
Woolwich with balloons, intended to carry chipatches
fr om one poll to another, when the wind ferves. A
m atch is put in one part of them, which at the end
of a certain time lets fire to a firing fufiaining
parachute or other cr.ntrivance, and when rh• firing
is cordumed, the parachute and difpatches fail to the
ground and are picked up by the centry, who is on
the watch for them at fome dillant poll. The length
of time that the match is to born is regulated by the
velocity of the wind and the dittance ;he ballo.,n has
to travel.
The Emperor of Aullria has been pleafed to remit
the lenience of Prince Au [RSPB/LC, who was ordered
to be confined three years in one of the fortrales. He
is to retitle for the future on his elate.
Koalas xr, who commanded one of the Polifh Le.
gions, and was taken by the gait lion of Colberg, has
been executed as a traitor.

By tome young Is:Miners who were carried info
Kouiglburgh, it appears, that out of 140 (Chotar: 4t
an Aoademical Inttituticn nn the frontiers of France,
tzo were taken by force to jlin the army.
At the Derby Mixes, IV. iVeVer was found pill,
of murdering Mrs. Dakin and Mu: Roe, of Parwich,
in Der byfhire, by :nixing po;fon in their ale. At the
place of execution he conteifed the faa, and raid he
intended to have poif,ned Mr. Dakin.

A few days fince, a girl aged nine months, died
in the King's lathd, Limerick, in confequence of
its being milerably burnt, a few days ago, by i
wretched mother fattening a candle to a parti.ion,
which had near:y confirmed their dwelling.
A dreadful accident befel Mrs. Grtt., the wid )1v
of the late Colonel GELS., at her refidence,
Hill, near Bayfwater, on Tuefthay. She had enter-
tained a party of friends on the evening of Monday ;
and early un Tuefday morning, the fervant of Colonel
M‘DoNat.o heard a finicking in the honfe of Mrs.
GILL. and on his Littering, her drefs was in ablate.
Otte foon after expired, leaving a family often chililteu.

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