Star.
London, England, 1811-04-25 00:00:00

THURSDAY, APRIL tS.

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Government have received dispatches from Lord
Wsuruerrou, which will be laid before the public'
ibis evening or to-morrow morning in a Garotte Lie.
trordarary. We understand that they announce the
actual Surrender of Ahneida, with the whole pr.
risco, consisting of 7000 men.

After the STAR was at press yesterday, some farther 1
rumours were circulated respecting the reported in•
surrection in Holland. The Danish, Dutch and Nor•
efegian sailors had, it is said, deserted from the French I
meet at Antwerp : it is added that the Dutch sailors
in particular had joined the insurgents in Antwerp
and Flushing. In these and other towns the greatest
disturbance! are said .to have prevailed ; and k
is added that some lives were lost during the night of
the 20th. This news is said to have been received
from Hull, but we have not seen the letter.
Paris Papers to the 20th arrived lait night, but
their contents are not of much importance. The Em-
press MARIA LOUISA is recovered from the effects If
her arcossliniorg, and has already received the digni-
taries and great officers of state. The 2d of June is
axed for the baptism of the young Prince ; on whicf
occasion, his grandfather, the Emperor FRANCIS, it
u believed, will stand, by proxy, as godfather.—The
Terkish fleet has entered the Black Sea, and in consi-
derable force--twelve sail of the line.—We have given
some extracts from these Papers in a preceding co-
lon:I.

The accounts received from Jamaica by the Mail
of yesterday, are to the 6th ult. The most impor-
tant article of intelligence from that Wand is, that
tie bloated/ of the ports of the Caraccas, and the ad-
latent settlements, had been established, and that it
has been recognized by the Naval Commander on the
Jamaica station. The following is a copy of 'a letter
ftom Vice-Admiral ROWLEY to GEORGE KINGMAN.
Esq. Mayor of Kingston, apprising him of his having
received a regular notification of the blockade :

“ Polyphemus, Port Royal, Feb. 25.
Stn—l think it right to acquaint you, for the
information of the merchants of Kingston, that I ,
have received official information from Curacoa, that
the Decree of the Government of Spain, of the 81st
of July Islo, declaring in a state of blockade, the
coast of the Caraccas, New Barcelona, Puerto Ca-
bello, &c. is now enforced by a Spanish frigate, of
38 guns, a corvette of 20 guns, two brigs, -and a
schooner.”

Ought we to infer from the above letter, the acqui-
escence of the British Government in the measure now
announced It is certainly difficult to decide what line,
of conduct would be most politic at such a crisis ; but
certainly the change of system which may be infer-
red from the facts before us may lead the revolted
colonies to assert their own independence. The course
now followed is very different from that pursued at
Buenos Ares, where we have insisted upon an exemp-
tion from the blockade established by the Governor of
Montevideo. The Edict of the letter is, perhaps, not
considered as sufficiently authoritative; and Ministers
may draw a distinction between it and a blockade
expressly enjoined by a Decree of the Cortes. •
We learn from the Kingston Papers, that on the
4th of February, one of the regiments in garrison at
Carthagena, instigated by two of their Officers and
several European Spaniards, mutinied, and attempted
to seize on the Members of the present Government,
and send them to. Spain. The mob, in great num-
bers, instantly overawed the regiment, and secured
the instigators, upon which tranquillity was gradually
re-established. To the honour of the people it is said,
that although the confusion was great, and every one
armed with some description of weapon, no blood was
shed, nor any robbery perpetrated.
The alum of the arrival of a French fleet in the
West Indies, after the reported capture of the Cork
fleet, had reached Jamaica ; but, a day or two before
the packet sailed, the report was ascertained to have
been fabricated by a scoundrel who commanded a
running vessel that had put into Martinique, whose
ohjeetresidensirwas to procure a ready and profitable
musket for his cargo:

Yesterday morning his MAJESTY walked on Wind-
sor Terrace frem twelve o'clock till one, accompanied
by Dr. WILLIS. About half pas twelve, Lord EL.
nom went on the Terrace and walked with his MA.
JPNIY.
Yesterday Princesses SOPHIA and M:sum. took
it usual morning's exercise on horseback in Wind-
or Great Park, accompanied by Lord ARDEN, Laity
• MURRAY, Gen. GWYNNE, and Col. TAYLOR.
The Queen, Princesses ELIZABETH and MARY,
ok an airing to Frogmore Lodge, and walked in
e gardens.
The Duke of Suss: and Lord ARDEN arrived at
indsor on Tuesday.
Yesterday morning the Duke of MONTRoss, the
rchbishops of CANTERBURY and YORK, Lords EL-
N., AVLWORD, and WINCHRLSEA, Members of the
ueen's Council, arrived at Windsor.

rm the grounds for his motion of Thanks.
By the accounts laid before Parliament, it appears
at the Mail Coaches pay a duty to Government of
I. per mile. which amounts to 440,842, 10d. per
mum; and the distance the Mail Coaches travel
tily is 12,500 milts.

RELIEF TO THE PORTUGUESE NATION.

A most respectable Meeting, of Merchants and Ban-
kers of the City of London, was yesterday held at the
City of London Tavern, for the purpose of taking
into consideration the best mode of raising a Subscrip-
tion for the Relief of the Inhabitants of Portugal.—
Mr. WHITMORE was in the Chair. Never did we be.
hold a more respectable Meeting—upwards of doe.
hundred of the most respectable Merchants and Ban-
ken were present. The Chairman read a letter from
the Hon. Mr. Vaunts, in which he directed his name
to be inserted in the list of subscriptions for £lOO.
Several Resolutions were agreed to, and, after a
variety of observations from Alderman SMITH, Mr.
Rowcaore, Mr. WAR!, Mr. FOSTER, &c. *kc. ooks
for the entry of names were opened, and before four
O'clock the amount subscribed exceeded £10,700,
and at five o'clock it amounted to ktween Eleven and
Twelve Thousand The subscription is become gene-
ral throughout the United Kingdom.

The Bullion Brokers to the Bank have, it is said,
formally declared, that silver has, within a few days,
fallen in value in such proportion, as to reduce the in-
trinsic value of a dollar solve thillinp one penny and a
fraction.
A marriage is to take place between the Honourable
I WILLIAM FITZROY and his amiable cousin, Lady ELl-
zaarru FITZROY, one of the daughters of the late
I Duke of GftarroN.
ITuesday se'nnight, died a Duff-house Banffshire,
the Right Hon. ALE:calloza, Earl of Fife, &c. He
was only confined for a few days. He is succeeded
in his titles and estates by the gallant Viscount biAc-
purr, who is now in Spain.
THE LATE Miss GASHION...4t must be in the recol.
lection of our raiders, that the attention of this young
Lady to the departed Princess Amelia, during her long
illness, was marked with the most affectionate solici-
tude. His Majesty, sensible of the faithful services
of this young Lady, has ordered a marble tablet to
her memory, to be placed on the right hand aisle of
St. George's Chapel, Windsor, which will be done in
, the course of the present week. It is extremely neat,
and has the following inscription :
KING GEORGE 111.

mused to be interred near this place
the Body of MARY GASHION,
Servant to rise late Princes. AMILIA;
and this Stone
to be 111/IGribed in testimony of his grateful sense
of the faithful service and attachment
of an amiable young woman to his beloved Daughter,
whom she survived only three wionths.
Sloe died the 19th of February,lllll.

The case of the Marchioness of DOUGLAS is become
hopeless : the spasms of her stomach continue with
such increasing violence, that the dissolution of this
amiable woman may hourly be expected.

A person of some consideration in Dublin, on the
31st of last month, read his recantation publicly in
one of the Protestant churches, and abjured the errors
of Popery. He has since published a letter, in which
he expressed his contrition for having done so, and
has recanted to the Roman Catholic Religion.
Tuesday se'nnight, between the hours of 7 and 8
o'clock in the evening, a fire broke out in the work-
shops of Mr. Larkworthy, horn worker, in the Se-
cond Back lane, Exeter, which were entirely destroy-
ed, and considerable injury done to the dwelling
house and other premises adjoining. The flames
raged for an hour with great fury, but the intrepidity
of- the people succeeded in stopping its further pro-
gress. The greatest praise is due to the soldiers of
the Royal Artillery, the 9th Light Dragoons, and
the East Kent Militia, for their prompt assistance ;
the two former, with their fire engines belonging to
their barracks, rendered the most essential service.
In the afternoon of Friday, the 12th instant, a fire
broke out at Merriott, near Crewkerne, Somerset, by
' which 23 dwelling houses and cottages, besides out-
-1 houses, were entirely destroyed. It began in the
malthnuse of Mr. John Murly, common brewer.
i The wind was very high, and the flames extended so
rapidly that all attempts to stop their progress were
nearly useless, and in about four hours nothing re-
mained of the buildings but the walls. Unfortunately
the property was not insured.
A striking proof of the mildness of the season
I lately occurred in the garden of Greenfield, near
' Glasgow. The nest VI a Missel bird, with young,
ripe for flight, has been discovered there. The Mis.
eel is the most majestic of the Thrush kind. The
male delights to perch on the top of the loftiest tree,
! and to sing, especially in tempestuous weather, whence
Ihe has obtained the name of the Storm Cock. He

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also sings during the night, and his note is charming.
It is but within these few years that this species has
been so far north.

Tuesday se'nnight there was found in a field in the
neighbourhood of Arbroath a skylark's nest, contain-
ing three young larks well fledged.
An aged woman was defrauded, on Tuesday, of a
dividend which she had just received at the Bank, by
a fellow running up to her and persaading her that
he was a clerk in the Bank, and that abe had received
her dividend short.

On the 4th of February, a serious commotion took
place in Carthagena. One of the regiments of the
garrison, instigated by two of their officers and seve-
ral European Spaniards, mutinied, intending to seize
on the Members of the present Government, and send
them to Spain. The mob in great numbers instantly
overawed the regiment, took the instigators prisoners,
when tranquillity was gradually rei tired.
Sunday afternoon, as one of the Midshipmen be-
longing to the impress service at Greenock was walk-
ing down by the Dock-head, he was attacked by a
number of boys in going into a house. In the scuffle
two seamen and a young boy were cut in several
places.
A letter from New York of the 17th ult states, that
some goods shipped at Liverpool prior to the 2,d of
February, on board the Maria Penn, the Mount Ver-
non, and Paragon, had been admitted to entry at the
Ca:tots-house, but not landed ; the Marshal of the
United States refusing to deliver them until certain
fees were paid; amounted to about 50 dollars on each
consignment. This measure had produced a great
sensation among the consignees. Some had paid, and
intended to prosecute him for the amount ; others re-
fused and intended to sue him for the goods. These
vessels arrived at New York before the Non.lmpor-
tAtion Act was • passed, and were seized untder the
President's Proclamation.,

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