Star.
London, England, 1810-09-29 00:00:00

OPORTO, SEPTEMBER 9.

Massena has been obliged to send some of his forces
to Navarre, Biscay, and Arragon ; in which provinces
the people are in open arms. Romana has four regi-
ments of Portuguese cavalry with him, which are
commanded by Brigadier-General Madden. A part
of our army has again fallen back to occupy their old
quarters at Torozello, four leagues from the Puinte
de Mariella. Lord Wellington's head•quarters were
on the 31st ult. at Celerico, Marshal Beresford's
at Logeosa. Five or six. British officers were made
prisoners at Almeida.
We are informed here that the accidenret Almeida
happened in the following manner : A train of gun-
powder communicated from one of the small maga-
zines to the large one, upon which some sparks fell
from a match or candle ; the small one blew up a few
moments before the larger, and prevented the explo-
sion of the latter being heard. The cannonade was
tremendous on both sides. About 900 persons were
killed and 400 wounded by the accident. Out of
400 artillery men, 25 only escaped.

Massena proposed to exchange the regulars, but the
Marquis Lorna (a Portuguese Gentleman, in the
French service) would not agree to this, but wished
them to join the French, which they refused. All
the Militia were sent to their homes, with the excep-
tion of 18 men from each company, who are detained
to repair the fortifications. The peasants, near
Feixas, have taken a Lieut.:Mine', one Lieutenant,
and 42 men, of the gear d'anan. The British troops
have been actively employed in destroying the corn-
mills on the Coa. It is grafterally thought that ere long
a battle must inevitably take place. The French rob,
I plunder, and murder, wherever they wake their ap-
pearance.

The men of the '24th Portuguese regiment on the
29th ult. entered the French service, and on the 4th
instant nearly the whole fiad deserted, and joined at

head-quarters. A division of 6000 militia, under
General Miller, is at Chaves. Silveira is on the
upper banks of the Douro,-and General Trent in the
neighbourhood of St. J. de Pesqueira, so that if the
French get near Vizen they will be flanked by the
militia, who are very good troops. The French now
have the whole of their force in the vicinity of Penhil.
Including Regnier and Junot's divisions, it is esti-
mated at about 93,000 men. The latter is with
Massena, who can bring 60,000 troops into the field.
Should he advance against Lord Wellington, his
Lordship will no doubt retire to the Punta rig Mur-
iella. We every hour expect to hear of this having
taken place.
It is said that 8000 troops from France have en-
tered Navarre. During the last four months Junot's
division has experienced a lo►s of upwards of 10,000
men by desertion, sickness, and the sword.
About 3.500 troops have been sent from Salamanca
to the Asturias. We have just learned that n the
6th instant our advanced posts were at Trancosa, and
Lord Wellington near Vizeu.

Accounts have just reached town, that the French
squadron at Chcrburgh have put to sea ; they chas-
ed the CAYENNE sloop of war. The Dotcr.oAt. and
REVENGE are on the Cher burgh station.

The KING,. accompanied by Princesses AUGUSTA
and SOPHIA, attended by Lady ELY, Gen. FITZROY,
and Colonel TAYLOR, rode on horseback in Windsor
Park, on Thursday morning.

Dr. POPE went from his house at Staines, on Thurs.
day, to attend the Princess AMELIA, at Windsor, who,
we are sorry to say, has had so much of a relapse, as
to require the Doctor's constant attendance, as well
as the Physicians from London, occasionally. The
Royal Family at Windsor daily visit her Royal
Highness.

Yesterday Aldermen GOODBEHERE and PLostitn,
Sheriffs elect Tor the ensuing year, were sworn into
office before the Lord Mayor, at Guildhall ; and
afterwards proceeded in the usual state to the Court
of Exchequer, at Westminster, where they were in-
troduced to the Cursitor Baron in an eloquent speech
from the Recorder ; after which, they went through
the usual ceremonies.

Orders were sent from the War.office, on Tuesday
last, to Thame, in Oxfordshire, for the removal of
five French Officers from that place, who had broke
their parole of honour. They were, on Thursday,
conveyed under a proper escort to Portsmouth, where
they are to be put into one of the prison ships, off that
port.

A Gentleman from Berlin, who arrived by the
Gottenborgh Mail, states, that the French had not
entered Konigsburg up to the 14th instant. The re-
port of the removal of the Russian Ministry, and of
the disgrace of ROMANZOYIP, has been revived on the
Continent, but we believe on insufficient grounds.
A Gentleman who quitted Holland on Monday,
describes the situation of the merchants there as most
calamitous. A decree had been published by NAPO-
LEON, assigning one-fifth of any commercial pro-
perty concealed, to the informer, who should dis-
cover it, and one-tenth to the douaniers concerned in
the seizure of it: the consequence was, that servants
in the closest connection with the Proprietors had
turned informers, and a large quantity of effects that
had been buried was brought to light.
The report of a pacification having taken place be-
tween Russia and the Porte, is, we find, credited by
some of the best informed persons in the mercantile
and political circles. The preliminaries are said to
have been settled about the beginning of the present
month. According to the concurring opinion of
those who have recently arrived from the Russian
ports, a rupture with France is considered as inevita.
ble. The necessity of a renewal of the ordinary in-
tercourse with this country, was pressed upon the
attention of ALEXANDER from all quarters, and inde-
pendently of all other grounds of quarrel, peace with
England was supposed to lead, as a matter of course,
to a war with her adversary.
THEATRE, COVENT-GARDEN.—The entertainments
of last night were All is the Wrong and the Turnltile-
Gate. .Mrs. C. Katances Lady Restless was a most
finished piece of acting, and she exhibited the teazing
and sometimes enraged dispositions of the fashionable
termagant wilh great fidelity. Mrs. H. JOHNSTON
was not inferior to any Belinda we have seen on the
stage, and Mr. Yousces*Sir John Restless was as usual,
a master-piece. In the after-piece BLANCHARD'S
Grad kept the audience in a rear of merriment. His
grimaces were irresistibly laughable. The pit was
crowded, but the boxes were but thinly attealtd.
Tuesday se'nnight the Magistrates and Council of
Glasgow walked in procession from the Council Cham-
ber to the Low Green, where the Lord Provost laid
the foundation stone of the new Court House, Public
Offices, and Jail. Under the foundation same are de-
posited, the gold, silver, and copper coins of his pre-
sent Mojesty's reign, the newspapers of the day, sc•
and a plate on which were engraved the names of the
Gentlemen of the Magistracy and Council, and an
appropriate inscription. In the east, or principakfront,
which is to look to the Green, and which is to be em-
bellished with a spacious portico, with a double row
of columns, are to be contained the Justiciary Court
Hall, the Council Chamber, the City Court Hall, and
the other Public Offices. The south front which is
to look to the river, and the intended continuation of
Clyde-street, and the north front which is also to look
to a public street, are to form the Jail for debtors.—
The west front is to form the prison for persons ac-
cused or convicted of crimes, and to contain the
Jailor's house, the Infirmary, and Chapel. And
within the buildings, there are to be two Court-yards,
for the purpose of-affording to the prisoners the be-
nefit of fresh air, without the risk of escape.
A most dreadful thunder storm took place at Shef-
field on Saturday evening, which did incalculable
mischief in the neighbourhood ; and near Norton
Hammer a respectable fanner was thttwn from his
bone, and killed on the vat.

T ~ ~ ~

OF MR:GOLDSNID.

The circumstances attending this Gentleman's pre.
mature dissolution were withheld from the public in
, our paper of yesterday, because it is a decided maxim
'with us, that all publicity given to crimes against the
laws of nature, tend only to harass the feelings of a
well regulated mind, while the columns of our News.
papers incontestibly prove that from some fatal sym.
pathy in minds of a different description, the fre.
quency of such crimes is increased in direct proportion
to the interest which has been excited by their disci°.
sures. The important rank in life, however, which
Mr. Goldsmid held, renders it impossible to conceal
from public ♦iew the facts which have come to
our knowledge respecting his death, and we regret
ta state, that he put a period to his existent* with a
pistol, in a water-closet, situatein a part of the shrub.
bery, called the Wilderness, at his house at Morden.
He was discovered about eight o'clock mortally
wounded, but not dead. Medical assistance was sent
for, but he died at ten o'clock, in the bosom of his
afflicted family. He was in the 53d year of his age,
and till within the last fortnight in the most perfect
enjoyment of all his faculties ; but the extreme irri.
Cation of his feelings, from the pressure of the many
intricate concerns in which he was involved, had, for
the last ten or twelve days, preyed upon him so much
that he w:►s visibly disturbed ; and in a moment of
mental delirium, he committed this fatal act, which
has deprived his numerous family of an inestimable
parent, and the country of one of its most honourable
and benevolent citizens. A man more truly amiable
in all the relations of life never existed. He was in.
cessantly employed in acts of friendship ; and though
like every man of extensive dealings, he had to en-
counter the bitterness of opposition anclenvy, we never
heard even from his most active rivals, any other than
the most favourable testimony to his virtues.
Of course it is impossible, as yet, to make even a
supposition as to the state of his complicated affairs.
The Public may form some idea of the extent of his
influence on the money market, when they learn that
the nev►s of his death produced an instantaneous fall
of four per cent. on the funds of the country. Om.
nium fell from 6 to 10 per cent. discount, and Con.
sols from 65,E to 63. But in the course of the day
they sensibly recovered, as our Readers will see from
the Stock List.

Mr. NATHAN SoLostoxs, his broker, communicated
to the Gentlemen on the Stock Exchange, for their in-
formation, that his account there, as it is technically
called, though considerable, was not so great as it had
been on many former occasions—that the moment the
Executors could examine the affairs of the deceased,
the House should know the result, but he had not
reason to believe that there would be any demur.—.
His account with Government, we understand, is per.
fectly clear—and the or.ly loss he appears to have sus.
tained is by the fall of Omnium.
It is said that on Thursday afternoon he discharged
the labourers employed about his beautiful grounds
at Morden—and shewed evident signs of mental dis.
composure. He rose, as was his constant custom, by
day-lighs, and was thus able to perpetrate the fatal
act unobserved.

Messengers were sent off yesterday, one to GEORG.
ALCOCK, Esq. at Staines ; and the other to Mr. CHIN.
blunt, Chief Clerk of the Treasury, now on a visit at
Gilwell House, near Waltham Abbey, apprising
those Gentlemen of the fatal catastrophe that had
befallen Mr. ABRAHAM GOLDSWD, and requesting
their immediate attendance in Town. A messenger
was also sent off to the KING, at Windsor.
The Coroner's Inquest will be taken this day.
Mr. MoxoN, partner with the late Mr. ABRAHAM
Gotosuirm, attended this morning, as early as half.
past eight o'clock, at the Treasury, and remained in
conference with the CHAXCILLOR op Till EXCHEQUER
and other Members of Administration till eleven
o'clock.

Mr. HORNS TcocE.—A public sensation has been
excited in the course of this week by the alarming
state of health of that most distinguished literary and
political character, Mr. HORNS TOOKZ. On inquiry,
we find that but slender hopes aro encenained by his
family and friends. He remains in a most exhausted
condition, but very sensible and grateful for their
kindness, and the exertions of his physician, Dr. PFAR•
sox, whose attention to his friend and patient is above
all praise. Aware of his declining state, Mr. Toots
has been particularly anxious, during some months
past, to complete a vault for his remains, under a
plot of grass in the garden, near the north wall on
Wimbledon Common. It is now ready for his re-
ception ; a handsome tomb-stone of finely polished
black marble, about 8 feet long and 2 wide, with the
following engraven epitaph was a few days
by
his own direction, laid down. May the awful man-
sion long remain untenanted l and long may it be
'ere she blanks in the inscription be filled up !
JOII4N HORNE TOOKE,
Late Proprietor and now Occupier
Of this Spot,
Was Born in Lune, 17341,
And Died in
Aged -- Years,
COIITINTIO, AND

It is said that the cause of the failure of the three
great commercial houses at Petersburgh which recently
stopped payment, was, that the bills which they drew
upon Paris were refused payment, by Lhe express de-
lire of BONAPA UT& The houses in question were
principally eesseerned in the French trade, and one of
them had advanced very large sums to CAULINCOURTp
the French Ambassador.
Yesterday a palter Irbil, aiming fish at Billings-
gab, fell into the river and was denerned.

THE ARMY.

The ballot goes on with various success in the cfif-
;l..rent counties for the Militia ; but we learn with
much pleasure, that so successful have several of the
popular regiments been
in recruiting, that they have
no occasion to have recourse to the ballot.
A volunteering for the line is expected to take place
in a few months; and it is said, that that most useful
corps, the 95th or Rifle corps, will receive two more
battalions; that the Scots Royals, Royal Irish, 42d,
and the Inniskillings, will each receive an additional
battalion.
The fleet with reinforcements for Lord WELLING-
.roN, sailed from Spithead yesterday, under convoy
of the ()wee GLENDOW ; the regiments who get
most recruits by this fleet are the 48th, Scots Royals,
and 88th. A great many Officers have gone out to
join, Deputy Commissary-General GAUNTLET with
many Officers for that department, and Dr. Hoc°,
with several Physicians, and many Surgeons and
Apothecaries.
The Marquis of DROGHEDA'S fine regiment, the
18th Irish Hussars, are under orders to embark to
join Lord WELLINGTON'S army ; and the other regi-
ments of the Hussar Brigade are expected speedily to
follow—a Swell as the Marquis of LovitiAN's regiment,
the 11th Light Dragoons,' tehlth is in the highest
order for service.
So high is the character of the 18th Royal Irish re-
giment, that though the 2d battalion returned from
the Wrest Indies to Britain only a few weeks since, the
battalion is now nearly complete again, and will, it is
supposed, soon be sent to Lord WELLINGTON'S army.
The battalion is at present quartered at Kingsbridge,
in Devonshire. _ _ _

We are glad to hear that Lord ROSSLYN9B regi-
ment, the 9th Light Dragoons, begin at length to re.
cover from the effects of the Walcheren fever. They
still contir,,ie quartered at Exeter, where they are
great favourites.
The Ist battalion of the gallant 42d, or Royal
Highlanders, have now nearly recovered from the
effects of the Walcheren fever, which proved so fatal
to this distinguished corps. The battalion is quar-
tered at Mussleburgh. Lord CATIMICART has repor-
ted them again fit for service and it is supposed they
will soon he sent out to Portugal, where the 2d bat-
talion has been for some time.

Another fleet will in about ten days be dispatched
with reinforcements for our armies in Portugal, Sicily
and Cadiz.

The following is a Return of the strength of the
Native Army in Portugal, made under the authority
of Marshal BERESFORD

• 37,000
7,123
5,768
2,267
4,800
4,562

24 Regiments of Infantry, at 1550 men
12 Ditto Cavalry, 594 men -
6 Battalions of Chasseurs, at 628 men ..
Loyal Lusicanian Legion - -
4 Regiments of Artillery, at 1800 men -
Ditto, dito, at 1148 men - -

Total Regulars -
O 8 Regiments of Militia, at 1101 men • -

Total Native Army

British Army, at . •

Total Allied Army

- 59,5b5
- 52,848

• 112,403
• SO,COO

• 142,403

Yesterday arrived in London Lieutenant-Colonel
LEITH, charged with dispatches of great importance
from the Governor-General of India. He came pas-
senger in the William Pitt extra ship, which left Ma-
dr.ls on the Bth of May, when every thing was in a
state of the greatest tranquillity. Lord MINTo was'
preparing to return to Bengal.
An Expedition had been fitted out for the Isle of
Bourbon, of the success of which no doubt was en=
tertained.

The detachments under Colonel CLOSE hal retur-
red to cantonments, and the general state of Hindo-
stan was perfectly satisfactory.
By letters received by the William Pitt, we learn
the following particulars :—Colonel Close, who had
pursue. 4 Meer Khan beyond the Nerbuddah, was re-
turning with his army to his former station, being un-
able to come up with the fugitive Chieftain, who,
though now deserted by almost the whole of his fol-
lowers, would easily find means to collect them again
upon a favourable opportunity. Before Colonel
Close's army had crossed the Nerbuddah, two regi-
ments of Native Cavalry, which composed part of
the Expedition, intended to demand an increase of
pay; but Colonel Close having received intimation of
their design the morning before the river was to be
forded, ordered some arrangements to be made which
placed the Native Cavalry between the Europeans,
and in front of the artillery, and then gave his orders
for the cavalry to cross the river. The cavalry being
thus placed in a situation. so entirely commanded,
went forward in obedience to the orders of their Com-
mander, without preferring their intended demand.
It is, however, believed that Colonel Close had found
it Expedient ultimately to grant an increase of one
r: ;see per month, and a seer of rice per day.
in the course of the expedition against Meer Khan,
a Lieutenant Davidson had placed a Subandar, (a
native officer whose rank eorresponds with that of
Captain) under arrest. The Subandar, while a pri-
soner, appealed to Colonel Close, and preferred being
still a prisoner, a complaint against Mr. Davidson,
alledging that he had made use of the Company's
grain to feed his ( Davidson's) horse. The Subandar
was released from his arrest ; Mr. Davidson was
brought to a Court Martial, and suspended for three
months.

Captain SYDEN/lANI, late Resident at Hyderabad,
has resigned, it is said, in consequence of an allusion
made to him in the General Orders published by Ge-
neral GOWDIE and Lord MINT°, on the acquittal of
Colonel DovETON.
General MALCOLM, late Ambassador at the Court
of Persia, it is said, is about to leave India.
The Agency of the Army Clothing has been taken
away from the brother of Major Bouts, who held it
for the purpose of arranging the Major's concerns,
and transferred to Colonel him.

NdrAL

FALMOUTH, SEPTE.PAIUM 26.
The Eliza packet, with the Mediterranean
&c. will sail this morning.—Wind E.

PLYMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 27.
The PENELOPE frigate was last night put out of
commission. Arrived the ELIZABETH, 74 guns, from
Portsmouth. Sailed the WEAZLE schooner, for Fal.
mouth ; and the INTELLIGENT gun-brig, with a small
convoy, for Cork.

PORTSMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 28.
Arrived his Majesty's ships HERO and MARS, from
the Baltic, and are sailed again for off Cherburgh.—
Sailed his Majesty's ship SCEPTRE, for Plymouth ;
HUMBER, EYDEREN, WEYMOUTH, and GANNYMEDE,
with the West India and Mediterranean fleet under
convoy.—The Mediterranean and Portugal convoys
remain in Cowes Roads.—Wind S.

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