Star.
London, England, 1806-05-12 00:00:00

FOREIGN EXPEDITIONS.

We now know, that the sift Dragnons tuld 4th
battalion 6oth Regiment, are vane to the Cape-;—the
2111 Dragoons to relieve the soth there, and the Ike.
leton of the 6oth to receive as privates part of the
late Dutch garrifon, who have entered our fervice.
The 4th is the only battalion of the 6oth regiment
that has ever been fent on any other fervice than the
Well Indies.

The prefent prefling calls for troops in India and
Sicily, has, for a lime, it is Paid, prevented our fend.
ing an army to the afEllance of our gallant Ally, the
magnanimous King of Sweden. It is Paid that fhortly
a force will be collefted for this fervice, and the 43d,
Sad, and 34th regiments, are mentioned as three of
thofe intended. But for the ftate of Sir JAME, Canto's
health, which caufed his return from Sicily, Sir
jolts Mooas was intended for the command of oar
troops to co-operate with the Swedilh and Ruffian
armies.

In our paper of Saturday, we gave an ample detail
of the exertions employed, to expedite the failing of
the different fleets from Porsfmnuth, for their refpec-
tive deflinations. To the particulars then commit.
nicated, we have to add, for the informati,m of the
public, and particularly of thole whn have relatives
embarked in the different fleets, the fubjoined letters
received this morning :

" PORTSMOUTH, SATURDAY [YINING°
MAY 10.
" Every body is now on bond ; ten troops of Ge-
neral TARLYTON'S Regiment, the 21(t Dragoons,
were embarked this morning, it was former than they
expeded. Several Indiamen and Itore•fbip, arrived
this morning from the River and the Downs. The
Admiral has ordered, that they (hall pniitively fail cc-
morrow morning. The convoy confifts of the Ltow,
of so grins, Capt.• Rou.ss, who is Comrnr. d 'he
Msous• frigate, and the live (loop of tsar, bziides
two other (loops of war, who, after going to a cer-
tain latitude, are to proceed with the army for Sicily,
and the large Mediterranean convoy for Gibraltar,
Malta, and other ports.

'• The Comm done has orders, after feting them
to a certain Windt, to fend the Hors with that part
the fleet which is deflined for the Cape, while he
himfelf proceeds with the India Sips and Chinamen :
he rendezvonfes with the troops at Polo Penang.
" All is brae in the harbour ; every boat is M.
ployeel carrying on board flock or bag cage ; all the
coaches Came in here lafl night and this morning
loaded, and yet many Officers t‘i;l he left beltivd, lo
peremptory are the orders for e, et) fhip that is at.
rived to 141 as they are. The Officers left behind
will proceed wirlt the fecund divifirm of troops and
!hips, which will fail from hence. The Officers of the
Staff now etob,grked are—

Colonel SHAW, Barrack Mallet General;
Colonel *Leon, Adjutant General, Madras A*my;
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Wu. Kam. Adjutant Ge-
ne:al, Bengal Army;

Brigade Major Gam, Brigade Major LATH.
WAITE, and the Hon. Major General /AZAD.
" Reinforcements of Men and Officers are now go-
ing out to the regiments at Ceylon : a good many
men go to the 66th and Both regiments.
" MAY IL—After much hurtle, the Drama frigate.
Capt. Mat.rwo, and Ricirmorror of te. guns, Lieut.
Fis Panic, with the Mediterranean fleet, has dropped
down to St. Helen's.

" l'he Ltow, with the fhips for the Cape and India,
are expeCted to fail to-morrow.

Aimiral Mos tacos. M4jnr Gen. Sir Grntc■
Pasverr, =leapt. Parma, of the Tranfport Office,

have been moll indefatigably alive in fending nil ow
armies for the Cape, India, and Sicily."

We have in a preceding column given a few far-
ther extraas from the French and Dutch Journals
received on Saturday. Admiral Vitr.swauva, who
was allowed to return to France, is limed in the Paris
Papers to have dellroyed himfelf at Rennes. We
notice the circumftance (though it is an invariable
rule with us never to record inftances of fuicide), be.
caufe we do not credit the fan. TOUSSAINT, Gene-
ral Picuaoau, and Captain WRIGHT, were ..11 three
reported to have put an end to their exilic= ; but it
is well known they were murdered.

On Saturday a report prevailed in the city that s
the Duke of Battu MICR was immediately coming to
this country on a diplomatic miffion from the Court
of Berlin, and in order to endea►our to adjufk the
matters in difpute between the two Governments ;
and it was even laid, that &honk had been hired for
his accommodation.

We have heard nothing to countenance this report.
Some are of opinion, however, that the Court of Ber-
lin, under the diration of Bo AAAAA Ts, may fend a
diplomatic agent here for the purpoce of negociation,
or at leaf of founding the difpnfition of the Govern-
ment, and afcertaining the temper of the country.—
The million of fo eminent a perfon as the Duke of
&mamma, whether his propofitions were 6t to be
accepted or not, would be a pledge that the objeft
was honourable.

It was lan night reported that information had
been received through an indireet channel, that the
fquadron of Jeans', Bowaraara hid been entirely
captured near theftle of France.—One account flitted
that he was blockaded at that Ifland.—We have not
been able to trace this report to any authentic foam t
it may however prove corral.

It has been afferted by an Evening Paper, with a
degree of confidence which was calculated.to impofe
on the public, that there was likely to be a [operate
negociation between Ruffia and France, and that
overtures to this effe& had *dually been made
through Pruffia:—We can effort our Readers that
there is not the flighteß foundation for this furmife.
The Paragraph teems to be a fabrication from a pre-
tended account of the political intrigues of the Coat
of St. Peterfburgh, which tome days ago filled a co-
lumn of a newfpaper, and which would have been
mifchievons,but.for its ablurdity.—We are perfuaded
that the good faith, honour, and magnanimity of the
Emperor At.axasota locate to us his alive co•opc-
ration ; and that there is no truth whatever in the
infidious dories to his difcredit.

It is now moll certain that the Earl of Leonel.
DAL, is the new Governor General of India. He is
to leave town almoff immediately, for Portfmouth,
where a frigate has been ordeted for him and his
Suite. Lord MA/TLAND, and the reit of his Lord.
fhip's family, are preparing to accompany him to
Calcutta.
We have great pleafure in hating that Lieutenant
General Sir JANIS CRAIG, whole arrival at Plymouth,
hum Sicily we announced on Saturday, though Rill .
very much indifpofed, is much better than when he
entbatked. He Wes accompanied by Dr. S-w wet.
Infpedor of Hofpitals, in the Mediterranean.
The Lords of the Treafury have written to Gene-
ral Da LANCET, direeting him to pay into the Bank
with7i three days the 93,0001. which, according to
the Report of the Army Commiilloners, it appears
he has retained of the public money.
The CAPTAIN, of 74 guns, and the RANOIR !loop
of war, having now undergone a thorough repairs
will immediately go out of deck at Portfmouth.
Her Royal Highnefs the Princels of WAL ta paired
through Plymouth on Thurfday afternoon, on her
way to the feat of Lord MOUNT Eaccomaa.
The medals to commemorate the glorious Victory
off 'Trafalgar have been (truck, and delivered to the
Admirals and Captains who ferved on that memora-
ble day. The medals are tl be worn in the fame
manner as that: granted by his Majetly on occafion
of the lot mer viattries.

It is limed, that at the date of the Jail overland
difpatch, HoLeas. had fent a Vakeel to Ojien, for
the purpofe of fignifying to the Britifh Refident there
his readinefs to enter into terms of accommodation
with the India Government. He propofes to place
every thing on the fame footing as before the war, •
both in regard to hind-elf and his allies.
The Ben, Rajah had, at the fame period, difmiffed
the principal.part of his troops, in compliance with
the terms of his treaty with the Britilb Government.
A Memorial has been prefinted to the Reprefenta-
tives of the Batavia° Republic, feigned by a great
numb-r of the Citizens and Inhabitants of that State,
in which, after alluding to the paragraph in the Mo.
nueer of the t Bth ult. Rating indirectly the neeeffity for
a Monarchical Government in Holland, they depre-
cate, in the arongea • terms, the introduaion of arty
ether Government than that of a Republican Coafti.
tution, which they confider as abfolurely neceffary to
the ezillence of the ground on which they dwell, that
depending upon the general inter** taken by the peo-
ple in the management of the dikes. They ezprefs
their hopes that, on the contrary, fuch new modifica-
tions will be made in their republican films of govern.
ment as will thew to the world that the prefervation
of the Republic counterbalances every other confi-
deration id a nation that loves fo much its liberty;
and they finally Rate, that, under fuch a government
the country would be far more 'ireful to its ally than, b
fuppofing the ground itfclf not to be (wallowed up is
a few years. ii pudibly could if it mull fubmit to af§lp of Government. from even the name of which air I
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ancettots bad ever been arch.

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