Star.
London, England, 1811-05-11 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIG.ESCE.

:0 beg peace on my knees from England ; but I have,
succeeded to the Emperors of France ; I have tinned . . . •
1 R
heiwanforcements of men and officers fer those of the
Empire the mouths of the largest rivers and of
:o my . . St goons made prisoners by the French, elet
'the Adriatic, and nothing can longer hinder me front going out to Lisbon;
cunstructing and arming a fleet of two hundred ships 1
General Gowta, who was second in command in
of the line. I know that the English will have better the Expedition to Buenos Ayres, is just placed as a
Admirals, and this is a great advantage ; but, in pro. General Officer on the Staff in England: .
portion to the frequency of our fighting with them, We are sorry to state, that the large fleets for PI.YMOUTH, MAY O.
Arrived the NAecuistis from Portsmouth, end*
we shall learn to conquer them. We •shall lose the Lisbon, Cadiz, &c. which have been for some weeks
MULLET from the Westward. Also the CADMUS brig
collecting at Portsmouth, are still detained there by
first, second, and third battles, but we shall gain the contrary winds. Considerable reinforcements of men, of war, from a cruize of iieveral months off the French
and
fourth, for this plain and obvious reason, that he who officer:, go outby em ; among the latter
and many offi them Spanish coasts ; and the Onerres deep of war,
is strongest must ultimately subjugate the weakest. —Colonels WATsoN, . BUCHAN (to command a corps with the Dutch brig, her prize.—The PIERCER gun-
e I had no idea that the deluge of English mann- of detachments), MIDDLE/4011R, BEVAN, W brig put back again I
HlM.last night, but sailed this day for
cetures which overwhelms the markets of South 6°NO a"' Rochefort.—The Rose in Bloom American vessel,
e i
en sent in here by the SHANNON and AMAZON, will no
CHELSEA COLLEGE, MAY 10.—Court Mar ta
America, was to be so speedily followed by ruinous doubt be condemned, having a considerable quantity
Lieutenant-Colonel Geoace JoHesrow of the 102 d ;of French property on board her. —A fine Dutch
~,nsequences, but I had accurately calculated on the Fee nt, or the New South Wales Cs'orps. Fourth brig, deeply laden with spices, &c. from Batavia,
:.ullity of the returns from these markets. The inlets Day.—The Court met at ten o'clock, and the cross- i came its here last night, prize to the ORESTES' sloop of
for Colonial produce on the Continent being once well examination alone of the prisoner continued until . war, Captain LAPENOTIERI : her cargo is estimated at
closed, the English will be obliged to throw into the three. The principal intention of the examination was,
whether Governor BLUSH did not order that six of the upwards of £30,000. She . was first taken by one
of our packets, which kept possession of her fur seven
Thames the sugar and indigo for which they have
Officers belonging to the 102 d regiment should wait days,. when the ORESTES fell in with and took charge
exchanged the fruits of their industry, and which
on him for the purpese of being put under an arrest, of her ; and such, I understand, are the rules of the
once furnished them with considerable resources. because they declined to swear in Judge Advocate AT- service, that, although the packet took her, she will
e Here, as well as in England, the manufacturers meas. We decline detailing the evidence, accord. not be entitled to any share of the prize-money.
have made imprudent and foolish speculations, not ing to the order of the Court.—Adjourned at three.
BATTLE OF BAROSSA. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 10.
having learnt to proportion their industry to the de-
LETTER YRObt LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GRAHAM TO THE Sailed his Majesty's ships NIOBE for Leith, and
mands of the consumer. The English Government i RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY WELLESLEY. MEDUSA on a cruize off Cherburgh.
have given them great assistance—l have also grant- i Six, Isla de Leon, 54th March, 1811. i DEAL, MAY so.
ed assistance to some, and I shall do much more ; , You will do justice to my reluctance to enter into any contro- Arrived the Pno.seene and ECHO from a cruize off
y for the purpose of counteracting the effects of that ob- Flushing.—Wind South.
but Ido not think it prudent to encourage principles itseerUy which you yourself and many others assured me my con-
equally bad as they are dangerous. It is not enough duct was exposed to by the reports circulated in Cadiz relative HARWICH, MAY 10.
; to the issue of the late expedition.
to manufacture--ono must also know and possess the Sailed the Prince of Wales packet with the Anholt
Beg a copy of a printed statement of General Lapena having
means of selling, and not manufacture ten yards oft been *hewn to me-yesterday, which, by implication at least, leaves Mail of the 7th instant.
the blame of the failure of the moat brilliant prospects on me, it
cloth, when we cannot sell four. It was not difficult becomes indispensibly necessary that 1 should take up my pen in
to foresee, that after 20 years of war and misfortune, self defence.
the consumpt of the Continent ought to be much di- Having already sent you a copy of my dispatch to the Earl
of Liverpool, with a report of the action, I will not trouble you,
ininished, and that many persons who used to wear with any detail of the firm movements of the army, nor with
four suits of clothes a year, now wear only one or any ether observation retie.e to them, than that the troops suf-
fered much unnecessary fatigue by rnarchiag in the night, and
two. Commerce is an honourable avocation, but its erfthout good guides.
essentials are prudence and economy. You must be Considering the nature of the serviee'we were engaged in, I
was mast anxious that the army should not come into contact
wise, Gentlemen—A merchant ought not to gain his with the enemy in an exhausted state, nor be exposed to the
fortune as a general does a battle—He ought to gain attack of the enemy but when it was well collected; and in con-
sequence of representations to chi effect, I understood that the
little at a time, but constaatly."• march of the afternoon of the 4th was to be a short one, to take
up for the night a position near Conil—to prepare which, Staff-
Officers of both nations were scut forward with a proper escort.
The march was nevertheless continued through the night with
those frequent and harassing halts which the necessity of slop-
ing for the way occasioned.
When the British division began its march from the position
of Barrosa to that of Bermeja, I left the General on the Barret*
height nor did I know of his intention of quitting it, and when I
ordered the division to countermarch in the wood, I did so to
support troops left for its defence, and believing the General to
be there in person. In this belief I sent no report of the attack
which was made so near ,he spot where the General was sup-
posed to he, and, though confident in the bravery of the British
poops, I was not less so in the support I should receive from the
Spanish army. The iiitance, however, to Bermeja is trifling, and
no orders were given from had-quarters for the movement of
any corps of the Spanish army to support the British division, to
muscat its defeat in this unequal contest, or to profit of the !ac-
cess earned at so heavy an expence. The voluntarr zeal cf the
two small battalions (Walloon Guards and Ciudad Real) which
had bees detached from my division, brought them alone back
from the wood; but, notwithstanding dui: utmost efforts, they
could only come at the close of the action.
Had the whole boijy of the Spanish cavalry with the hone-
artillery bun rapidly sent by the sea beach, to form in the
plain, and to envelope the enemy's left—had the greatest part of
the infantry been marched through the pine wood in our rear, to
turn his right, what success might not have been expected frith
such decisive movements ? The enemy must either have retired
instantly, and without occasioning any serious less to the Bri-
tish division, or he would have exposed himself to absolute de-
structior —lis cavalry greatly outnumbered, his artillery lost,
his columns mixed and in confusion, a general dispersion would
' have been the inevitable consequence of a close pursuit. Our
wearied men would have found spirits to go on, and would have
trusted to finding refreshment and repose at Chiclana. This me-
meet was lost. Within a quarter of an hour's ride of the scene
of action, the General remained ignorant of what was passing,
amil made:ere; dose. Let not then this action of Barrosa form
any part of the general result of the transactions of the day ; it
was an accidental and insulated feature • it was the result of no
combination, ft was equally unseen and feature;
by the Spanish
Staff; the British division, left alone, suffered the less of more
tisn one fourth of its number, and became unfit for further ex-1
ertion. Need I say more to justify my determination of declining
any further co-operation in the field towards the prosecution of
the object of the expiration ? 1 am, however, free to confess,
that having thus placed myself and the British division under the I
direction of the Spanish Commander-in-Chief, in the field, (con-1
trary to my instructions) I should net have thought myself justi-
fied to my King and county to risk the absolute destruition of I
this division in a second trial. But I have a right to claim credit'
for what would have been my conduct, from what it was • and
I will ask if it can be doubted, after my zealous co-ope;atiom
throughout, and the ready assistance afforded to the troops kit
on Barrow Height, that the same anxiety for the success of the
cause would not have secured to the Spanish army the utmost
efforts of the British division during the whole of the enterprise,
had we kw settorted as vet had a right to expect.
There is net a man an the division who would not gladly have
relhapithed his claim to glory,acquired by the action of Barrosa,
to have shared with the Spaniards the ultimate success that was
within our grasp as It were.
The people of Spain, the brave and persevering people are uni-
versally esteemed, respected and admired by all who value liberty
and independenco—the hearts and hands of British soldiers will
ever be with them; the cause of Spain is felt by all to be a com-
MOB o.se.—l conclude with mentioning, that the only regret ex-
pressed to me at Head-quarters on the morning ache 6th, on not
knowing of my intention to send -the British troops across the
River Sant! Petri, was, Mar She apporryairy If withdrawiaz the Sta-
id:A temps dewier: the sigAt luau tut ; and on my observing that,
after such a defeat, there was no risk of attack from the enemy,
• very ewitrary °tittles was mairsiaiised. in point of fact, no enemy
lover appeared during several days employed in bringing off the
wounded and burying the dead. It may be proper to remark on
the reports pie fished, relative to the enemy's number at Smal-
-1 Petri (4500 men of Villat's division), that by the concurrent tes-
' timony of all the French Officers here, General Villat's division
had charge of the whole line. What then must be the strength
of that division, to have afforded 4500 miss to Santi Petri alone t
' la order to establish by authentic documents, facts which may
have been disputed, and to elucidate others, I lncloee, by way of
Jprodit, the reports of various Officers othis division.
I have the honour to be, with the greatest regard, Sir,
Your most obedient humble servant,
TKOMAS GRAHAM, Lieut.-General.
Pl. I must add this postscript, distinctly so deny my having
spoken at Head-quarters, on the evening of the Sth, of sending
for mote troops or for provisions from the Isla.
My visit was a very short one, of mere ceremony—l may have
asked if the Spanish troops expected were arrived. This error
must have arisen from the difficulty of conversing In a foreign
language.
With this I send you a sketch of the ground; &e. of the action
of Barrosa, by which it will be seen how impossible, according to
my judgment, it would be for an enemy to expose his left flank,
by making a direct attack through she wood on the Bernick po-
sition, while that of liarreso was occupied in force by the allied
army.
We have not received the appeadia alluded to by
the gallant General
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TORBAY, MAY I.
Arrived his Majety'S ship Maatsononan and
tosicranous gun-brig, from the Westward. Aesd, the
Sunni' East -.lndia snip, last from Portsmouth, put in
here to join the others, who are all waiting for a fair
wind.

LAST INDIA HOUSE.

It is reported that there is at present a person in
London, charged with pacific overtures from the
French Government. He came last from Vienna,
and has been in town for several days.

By the Anholt Mad of yesterday, papers and let-
ters from Petersburgh were received to the 17th ult.
from Stockholm to the Ist inst. and from Gottenburg
to the sth.—The exchange at the Russian capital
varied from 121 to 121, and one of the letters from
thence, contains this postscript-4, We understand
that war is determined upon between France aad
this country."
Letters from Colberg, posterior to the date assigned
for the confiict between the French and Prussians,
mention no such event, it may, therefore, be conclu-
ded, that there is not a word of truth in the account
that was transmitted.
Letters from the Cape of Good Hope to the 2d of
March mentions, that the PRESIDENT. MALACCA, and
GALATEA frigates arrived there on the 22d of Fe.
bruary, in pursuit of the four French frigates which
escaped from L'Orient and Nantz in November last,
destined (as was supposed) to the Isles of France.
By recent arrivals from Bayonne, we learn, that a
great number of French troops had been detached from
the French4armies in Spain nearest the Pyrenees, to
join, it is supposed, the French armies in the north of
Europe, which clearly makes it appear,thatNapoleon's
subjugation of Spain is atpresentlaid aside. The march
of the French troops is conducted in a very cunning
way. They arrive at Bayonne at midnight, stay that
night and the following day to refresh themselves,
receive clothes, shoes, &c. ; the cavalry forage, &c. On
the second night they march from Bayonne, as if for
Spain again, after having quitted the town : on the
toad they snake a counter-march, and proceed throulh
that part of France, ea surd, to join their comrades in
the north of Europe. The misery of the French mer-
chants at Bayonne, and the nearest commercial towns,
is extreme.

A packet has arrived from Jamaica after a voyage
of durty-seven days, by which we have a regular se-
ries of Newspapers from that quarter.
CitRISTOPHE is forming a naval armament to com-
mit piratical depredations against every nation, (Eng-
land at present excepted) and for this exception we are
indebted to the apprehension of an attack from our
powerful fleet in his neighbourhood. We learn with
concern that the inhabitants of the Windward Islands
have no knowledge of the practices of the marauders
under the flag of CHRISTOPIIE, and therefore under-
take their several trading voyages from island to
island, and to America, uninsured and unprotected.

The Jamaica Papers received yesterday, state a
fact which we trust will occupy the immediate and
most serious attention of our Government—namely,
that the French have fitted out several large privateers,
in the pretended neutral ports of America, to cruise
against our trade in the West Indies. The French
Living no longer any ports in the West Indies, the
A!nerican Government, while clamorously insisting
upon all the rights of neutrality, affords to the ene-
my's ships of war all possible protection and support,
while it dcnics even admission to the vessels of Great
Britain.

Yesterday, at 12 o'clock, his MAJZSrY came on thel
Terrace, at Windsor, accompanied by Dr. WILLts,
and walked till one, when he retired to dine. At
t vo o'clock, his Mairarr resumed his afternoon's
walk, accompanied by General GWYNN&
Tlie Law Officers of the Croivn have stated as their
opinion, tilt the R FAINT, as a Sovereign Prince, can- I
rot, consistently with his rank in the State, accept the
freedom of any Corporate Body whatever.
A new coinage of silver is immediately to take
place, and will consist chiefly of pieces of eighteen
pence and three shillings value.
The Yd or Queen's Dragoon Guards, sAicb have
been for nearly two years stationed in Canterlsnry, are
ordered to the Northern district, and commence•their
march on Monday next. Newcastle, York, and Be-
velleY, are their supposed destinatiOs•

A General Court of Proprietors of East India
Stock, very numerously attended, was yesterday held
at the lndiafrlouse, for the consideration of special
affairs.
Mr. Itosawourr, the Chairman, stated, that the
subject for the consideration of the Court was, the pro-
priety of a Resolution of the Directors, for an appli-
cation to Parliament for leave to raise the sum of two
millions sterling on bonds. The Resolution, the pro-
posed petition to the House of Commons, and a draft
of the bill, would now be read to them, after which,
he would give a short statement of their affairs, to
sheer the grounds on which the Resolution of the Di-
rector was founded. The pap CT s being accordingly read,
Mr. BOSANQUET recalled to the recollection of the
Court; that by the Act of 1797, the Company was
empowered to add to their capital of six millions two
millions more, if they should think fit, which, as their
stock was at '2OO, would amount to four millions ter-
ling. It was imagined at that time that the trade of
the Company might be considerably increased, though
at the moment they were labouring under some tem-
porary embarrassment. It so happened, however, that
ever since that period, with the exception of the short
interval of the peace of Amiens, Europe had been in-
I volved in war, and trade subjected to much hazard and
uncertainty. The Company's authorities, therefore,
had not availed themselves of the power with which
they had been entrusted. la 1794 the French had
sent an expedition to Egypt, consisting of up wards of
14,0,000 men, for the purpose evidently of overturning
the British authority there, with the assistance of such
native powers as might join them in that object. By
the exertions of his Majesty's arms, united with those
of the Company, this project had been completely frus-
trated. From the expence attending these exertions,
and other circumstances, the embarrassments ,pf the
Company between 97 and 1802 had increased, and at
the latter period it became necessary to resort to some
means of relieving the pressure. Under all the cir-
cumstances, it was thought more-advisable to apply to
Government for part of the sum owing on various ac-
counts to the Company, than to have recourse to the
power of raising the capital. Of the justice of the
Company's claims Government was so sensible that
one million sterling was immediately advanced. From
1802 to 1807 several sums had been obtained on the
same account—but dqring this period expensive wars
had been carried on in India—whether justly or not
was not now to be discussed. By an Act of the
47th of the King, therefore, they had obtained leave
to raise two millions sterling on bonds, but he knew
not for what reason a clause had been introduced,
providing, that if the Company availed itself of the
power of adliug to its capital under the 37th of his
Majesty, the capital so added should, in the first place,
be applied to the payment of these bonds. Debts at
the same time were necessarily contracted in India,
and the capital so raised having been applied to the
acquisition and management sit the extensive domi-
nions added to the Company's possessions, these debts
were properly chargeable on the territoaies thus ac-
quired. They were contracted, however, under those
disadvantages to which borrowers are subjected when
under great pressure—at a heavy interest, and for a
fixed number of years, with an option at the end of
that period to have them transferred to this country,
and paid at the home Treasury—the lenders being
persons returning to Great Britain, or intending soon
to return. Many of these debts had now become due,
and there was consequently a greater pressure on the
home Treasury than the ordinary profits of their com-
merce were sufficient to meet. The object of the'
present application to Parliament was to enable them
to meet this temporary demand. If it were prudent
to add to their capital, no relief could be gained
without raising two millions of capital instead of one
—lor if one only were raised, the whole would, under
the clause of the Act of 1807, before mentioned,
be absorbed in the payment of the two millions
sterling then obtained on bonds. It had therefore,
been deemed by the Directors more advisable to apply
to Parliament, and the proposed application wasnothing
more than to be relieved from the condition imposed by
the clause of 1807, with this additional circnmstance,
that they might be permitted to add a million to their • DIED.
capital, or to raise two millions sterling on bond s,as they Sunday, at his residence, at the New Rlver Head, tater woos,
might think expedient. For some years past a pro- ton, Robert Milne, architect, in the 19:21 year of bas age.
found peace had prevailed in India, and their Gower- Thursday, in Newgate, Malcohh Craig, a Costiposher.-.Thie
nors there had availed themselves f the first moment person was one of the nineteen visa found guilty, about sin
of tranquillity to reduce the interest of the debt. It eloottis ago, of COlT.pinilly In endeavouring tie obtain ed.
Twice of wag' es. Mr. Box, 814eins E Newgate, signed a petition
had accordingly been reduced from 12 to 9,8, 7, and in behalf of the unfortunate sea, to the Pnace Regent, who 116,
now 6 per cent. The saving from this operation alone media* granted bra a free pardon, which arrived but a few
amounted to half a million ; and though, from the
___,"urs before his death. He was an weletzleree peaceable man
saunwelt in creating the India debt, there was aita has wit a widow and four children stoprovided for.