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

the isreiteh army. TI tf acknotiledge a h•ss of 700
killed and 3200 wonrutliti; while titre are informed that
the Russians lost 4700 Ira MO, 7.•0r 8000 in wounded,
and 2000 in prisoners. This dispropOrtion is incre-
dible. The Russians were defended by stone wails,
and It appears that they had time enough to set gre
to die town, and even to retreat in good order—the
whole of their magazines, and an immense quantity
of pilvate property, were involved in the conflagra-
tion. So far the Russians have effected another most
important object in their present mode of warfare.
—The cliagrn of BON A.PARTE at thus losing the
mesons of subsi,tence to his troops is manifested in
the Fourteenth Bulletia ; and he must now repose
at Slnolcnsko as he did at Witepsk, until the means,
of advancing farther are brought from the rear.
Hew much longer the French army can advance
amid the scene of ruin and desolation which the Rus-
sians are spreading around them, remains to be
shewn. In the mean time, it is but justice to our
brave and gallant Allies, to say, that their conduct,
even as described by their enemies, has been beyond
all praise. They are said to have uniformly retreated
with slowness and hesitation, facing about upon their
pursuers at every favourable moment, and checking
their advance with the most heroic courage : and on
one occasion, 12,000 Russian cavalry turned upon
General SEBASTIAN!, and obliged him to retreat,
,g fighting all day." The French here acknowledge
a loss of two htindred, besides a whole company of
Vdtigeurs.
We have already alluded to the grand affair of
Smolensko. The battle of Valertina was another
most severely contested action : the French admit a
loss of 600 in killed, and 2,600 in wounded—the
loss of the Russians is described as being triple.—
This is a vague computation; and we have no doubt
it will appear, that although they may have had the
worst of the day, they inflicted a most severe chas-
tisement on their orimnents.
The heat cf the weather at Smolensko, at the date
of tl.te 4th Bulletin, must have been truly excessive.
The 26th degree cl their thermometer answers to the
79th in ours: a heat, which is seldom experienced
even on the warmest summer day in England.

STAR OFFICE, TWO O'CLOCK.

FALL OF ASTORGA.

The Telegraph from Plymouth last night atinoun-
ced to the Admiralty that Astorga had fallen ; and
• this day, at one o'clock, the Earl of Maim/4 one of the
Marquis of WELLING[O\'s Aides de•Camp, arri.
ved at Downing-street wiLh a confirmation of the
agreeable circumstance ; with the aidition, that the
garrison, consisting of 1200 men, had surrendered
prisoners of war to the Spani•trds under Sarcrocu.oes.
Colonel Mawave, of the 553, commanded the attack.

General Culvui. made an attempt to relieve As-
torga, but. was a day too late, and retired. Toro
and Zamora have been evacuated by the enemy, and
we are thus in rosbession of the whale line cf the
Douro.

Lord Matto' does not bring any later intelligence
from Madrid than that of which we are already in
possession. He is merely the bearer of duplicates of
Marquis WELLINGTON'S dispatches announcing the
cal►ture of Madrid. Lord Maacis castle by the way
of Corunna, where he heard ct the fall of Astorga,
as above stated.

The Marquis of WELLINGTON was at Madrid on
the 25th ult. but part of his force had advanced.

nOTTENBURGH MAIL.

A Gottenbnrgh Mail h.•s also arrived, but the ac•
counts which it brings ale not so late as those re-
c.ived by the French Papers :

" GOTTENBUROH, SEPT. 1.

" Count Wittgenstein, on the 12th of August, at-
tacked Macdonel's corps, defeated and pursued him
to the Duna.

" General Essen, at Riga, ordered some of the
English gun-boats up the River—they dismounted
their batteries, and went up as f,ir as Neiten.
The Russian General Platow, on the 27th of
July, in a skirmish, took one Colonel and five hun-
dred prisoners.
" The King of Denmark has declared, it is slid.
that he will enter into no negotiation with England."

Yesterday Lord MELVILLE held a Levee at the
Admiralty.
Mr. PEELS, Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieute-
nant of Leland, is arrived in Dublin from England.
The insignia of the Order of the Golden Fieece,
which has been sent by the Spanish Regency to the
Marquis of V.'ecr.tvo•roN, are magnificently set with
brilliantsand had belonged to the Infant Don Louis.
We have no reason to regret the Partridge :hooting
being postponed, as our brave countrymen have lately
had nobler game in view--that of Mooting far eagles.
KELLY is to preside raver the musical department
of the new Drury-lane Theatre. .
COOKE lately wrote to the Proprietors of Covent-
Garden Theatre, signifying that he should soon re-
turn from America, but there have been no further
tidings of him.
Miss Mwna, who appeared some years ago nt
Covent-Garden Theatre, and who has reached her
*fifteenth year, performed Little Pidle in the Smiled
Child, on Monday night, at the Surrey Theatre : she
acquitted herself with much spirit, and was highly
applauded.