Star.
London, England, 1811-05-25 00:00:00

ABOLITION 07 CRIMPAGI.

Mr. CROIEBR, In answer to a question put on a former night
by an Honnerable Gentleman then present (Mr. Whitbread),
beggtd leave to state the nature of the fund newly created by
fines for the dleebarge of Seamen. According to the old arrange-
ment, when a seaman was permitted to procure a substitute in
order to quit the service himself, his only course was to apply to
persons called Crimps, who charged at the rate of 100 guineas
for an able-bodied seaman, and l• guineas for a landsman, and
they Insisted that the entire sum should be deposited in the first
Instance, often Ulcer they had obtained the substitute them-
selves. The consequence of this was, that months, and even
years elapsed, before the substitute was found; and the indivi-
dual, who paid his money, had often sailed to a foreign station,
or. perhaps, died, before the object was accomplished. losing to
his distressed family, the full amount of his discharge. The Go-
venom:at, considering this a subject which called for its inter-
femme, resolved to interpose Its authority, and put an end to
the iniquitous trade of Crimps altogether. With this view it
was desermiped by the Board of Admiralty, that the man should
be discharged the moment his discharge was paid for at the rate
of iso guineas for an able-bodied seaman, in the place of 100 gui-
neas, and 40 guineas fora landsman, in the place of .50, as char-
god by the Crimps under all the casualties of imposition and de-
lay. The motley thes received, was carried foto the Fund for
raising Volunteer. Seamen ; and he had the satisfaction to state
to the Hassel thu all the objects of the arrangement were fully
aoswered. There was likewise an adequate security for the pro-
per application of the money, there being no Its, than lye checks
upon the Fond. This, he hoped, was a satisfactory answer to
the question of the Honourable Gentleman.
Mr. WHITBREAD declared himself perfectly satisfied with
the explanation, and was sunfideeit the public would be perfectly
also.—Adjourned. •

THE EVEvINC- WA R.

LONDON.'

gATURDAY, MAY 25.
PRICE OF 9 MCKS I'HIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Cont. money 64i—for AZCOViIt 634
S per Cent. Red.tced 630-4 per Cent. 7911
S per Cell. Nary 4151i—Exchey. pr to 4s. prem.
Beads les. and I is. pre..—Onan;um pre. •

GLORIOUS VICTORY J PORTUGAL.

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OFFICIAL ACCOUNT.

" DOWNING-sTRER r, MAY 25, isir.

" Dispatches have been received from Lord %Va..
LINGTON of the Bth and 10th inst. by which it appear%
that the Enemy's whole Army, consisting of the 2d,
6th, and Bth Corps, and all the Cavalry which could
be collected in Castile and Leon, including 900 of 11
the Imperial Guard, together with some of the Bat-
talions of the 9th Corps, crossed the Agueda, at Ciu-
dad Rodrigo, nn the 2J inst. and on the 3d and sth
made two desperate attacks on the British Army, for
the purpose of relieving Almeida.
" The contest, though very severe, especially on
the sth instant, tertninated in the complete repulse
luf the enemy, and in the Allied Army continuing to
!hold its position.

" O❑ the 7th, at night, the French army retreated
from the position which it had occupied on the pre-
ceding day on the Duas Casas.
"On the Bth the enemy continued their retrca•
to the woods between Gallegos Espeda and Fuenta
de Honor. On the 9th they crossed the Agar*, and
on the 10th the Agueda, leaving Almeida to its late.
In the action of the 3d May, the British loss consis-
ted of 22 killed, and 171 wounded ; that of the Portu-
guese was 14 killed, and 33 wounded.

" On the sth the British loss consisted of 148
killed,, and 872 wounded. The Portuguese loss was
50 killed, and 158 wounded.

The number of the Allies missing in the two
days amounted to 316. .

" The enemy's loss appears to hare been great in
killed, wounded, and prisoners, but no return has
born transmitted of, the ezact amounts."

• The above Dispatches were brought by Mr. Sit.
varin, a Ring's Messenger he left 'Lisbon on the
13th, and'arrived in Downing-street at twelve o'clock
this forenoon. The Park and Towerguns were fired
immediately after the 'artival of the gratifying in.
,„
teutgence, and a letter nosh. subject was transmitted
to the Lour MAy which is literally the same as
the abnve disp Itches, and therefore can convey no
new information to our Readers. The following is a

LIST OP KILLED AND. WOUNDS&
KILLED, ON TILL Ile or MAY.
Lieutenant Co+wtll, 71st Regiment.
Lieutenant imLull, 79th ditto.
wouNuito.

Capt. Keatichenherg, l•t Hussar., German Legion, slightly.
Captain MlDonald, 48(1 Font, severely.
lieutenant Rudkin, 50th Foot, slightly.
Ensign Grant, ditto, ditto.
Lieutenant-Coionel Will'ams, 60th Foot, severely.
Lieutenant 3)u Chanelet, ditto, slightly.
Captain M'intyre, 71st Foot, severely.
Lieutenant Fox, ditto, ditto.
Lieutenant M'Craw, ditto, slightly.
Ensign Kearns, ditto, dangerously.
Adjutant Law, ditto, slightly.
Lieutenant Calder, 79th ditto.
Ensign Brown. ditto, severely.
Lieutenant Hill, 921, ditto.
Lkutcusait Hinache, 95th Foot, dkeca
STH MAY.
10th Hussars—Majnt Gen. Nightingale, Lieut. Fits Claseeee,
and Majos-Gen. Stewart, slightly.
Royal Fuot Artillery—Capt. G. Ilsompson, Lieutenants Martin
and Woolcombe, slightly.
Ist Royal Dragoons—Lieut. Foster, slightly.
4th Light Dragoons—Capt. Knipe, severely ; Capt. Mills, Lieut.
Gwynne, Lieut. Radcock, and Cornet Ellis, slightly.
16th Light Dragoons—Lieut. Wtylaud, severely ; Lieut. Blake,
since dead.
Ist Hus-ars German Legion—Major Meyer, slightly; Capt Bin
Guiben, Ljeut. Knauchenberg, severely.
Coldstream 3d Cuards— Car. Harvey Clitherow, slightly.
60th Foot—MsjorWoodgate avid Lieut. Wynne, slightly.
71st—Ensign Cox, slightly ; Vandekur, severely ; Adjutant Law,
slightly.
74th—Captain M'Queen, severely ; Moore, slightly ; Adjutant
White, ditto.
79th Regiment—Lieut. CoL Cameron, severely; Capt. Fraser,
slightly; Capt. Fraser, severely, since dead; Lieut. Sinclair,
slightly; Lieuts. A. Cameron, Webb, and Robinson, and En-
sign D. Cameron, slig sly.
83d—Lieutenant Verecker, severe.
Kith—Captain Nixon, slight; Lieutenant Brock, dangerous
L'eu•enant Hogg, severe.
38th lel'Alphenei slightly; Ensign Hogg, severely.
92d—blajor Grain, lett leg off; Lieutatatit M'Nabb, right arm.
Cha:ieurs Britanniques—Captalu Treultr, stightly ; Captain
'I surnefort, ditto ; Lieutenant Blamer, ditto; En•ign Foot°,
ditto ; Major Beck, ditto, Ist B. L. G. L ; Captain Mesal.er,
severely, ltd B.; Captain Decken, ditto ; Ensign Buchelle,
ditto, 7th B.
Brunswick Otis—Lleutenant Zollikofu, slightly.
1415111N0.
15th Light Dragoons--Captain Bettie.
Coldsiream Guards—linogn modart.
ad Ditto—Lieutenant-Colonel HilL
.4th
Fnot
Foot—Captain
Ryan.airputtarinniAndws.
50th
71st—l..eutenaots Roy and Baldwin.
KILUMD.

Sd Cum d.,—Ensign Cookson.
Liiutenauti Ireland, 11th Foot ; Hotnitown, 7 let ditto; Graham,
ditto; Johnston, Thth ; Ferns, oSel ; Holmes, acids; Captair:
trwiu, itinh ; I,utensot Westby, 15th.
Although there is no mention in any of the official
accounts which we have seen of the loss of the French
in the above engagements, their loss, according to

private accounts, has beeu very great in killed, woun-
ded. add priories...

NWPAL

The latest accounts from Madeira represent our
garrison there as being tolerably healthy.
The last accounts from our squadron cruising is
Basque Roads, and along the French coast, state,
that the greatest activity continues to prevail in all
the enemy's ports, in fitting their respective sh is for
sea : the progress they make is almost daily visible.
1 The John Adams, American frigate, Capt. Dswr,
has arrived at Cowes from L'Ot ient with dispatches
for the American Minister now in London, which
were immediately forwarded to town.
FALMOUTH, MAY at.
This morning arrived the brig Shclbnrne, Ronan?
TAYWR master, frem Berbice, with coffee: the Cap.
fain brings an account of the capture of the ship Bro-
thers, of Liverpool, Gann` PowIIITCH eo aster, Irons
Bahia, bound to Lund et, by the French brig la Di-
ligente, 16 guns and 120 men, in lat. 11. N. lung.
55. W. which privateer had also taken the Thomas
and Mary and Ealingrove, of London : she is fitted
out from Charlestovm, and said to be partly owned
by Americans; half of the crew are Americans.--.
Arrived the Sir Charles Cotton, Joyce master, from
London, bound to Malta, with bale go .ds, very leaky;
the Laura, Quica, from Bristol ; the Speedwell, Det•
trout Waterford; and the Spanish brig San Jo.
seph, Asn*oa, fronrCadie, 18 days passage, with
wool, &c. for London. Yesterday passed this port,
'the ship Benetes, from Jamaica ; she has on board die
crew of the ship Harmony, of Liverpool, C.aptairt
MARTINELL, from Amelia Islands, bound to Ply.
month, with timber, which she fell in with in lat. 48.
long. sfl. water-logged. Sailed this day the General
Small cutter, SAVAJIY master, for Plymouth.
TORBAY, MAY 23.
Passed up Channel the ship Eliza, War. Larimr.
-master, from Jamaica, bound to London, all %eel—.
She was boarded yesterday by one of the Torbay fish-
ing boats, who brought letters on shore from her,
which were forwarded by this night's post.
PLYMOUTH, MAY RIR
Arrived the Sczorme, of 74 guns, from a cruize of
Brest ; and the Cocossos, of 74, from the toast of
France. Also arrived the VENERABLE, 74, from off
Brest • and the Neptune (2) tender from Dublin with
impressed men. Went out of harbour, the DRYAD
frigate. Sailed the Rosa tender for Greenock ;
SEAFLOWER, and IVIIITINO on a cruize.
PORTSMOU fH, MAY 24.
Arrived the VIOLET lugger, fr m Guernsey, with
a prize.—Sailed the PARTRIDGE sloop of war, on a
cruize.—TheDHOISIMARY store-ship, laden with naval
stores for the East Indies, went out of harbour yes-
terday morning.—The Fame, of 74 guns, made the
signal to go out, but the wind hauled round to the
Southward, which prevented her.—The STRO)11301.0
bomb warped alongside the sheer-hulk to-day, to get
her mortars in.—Wind S.W.
DF.AI., MAY 24.
Arrived his Majesty's ships Ditir.AnwoUGHT, HAr.
SISAL, ORION, MARS, and FIsGARD, from Portsmouth,
bound to she Baltic. The Portuguese Ambassador
and suite, who have been waiting here some days,
embarked on board the FISOARD, and will sail foe
Russia on Sunday morning, if the wind be fair...—
Caine down from the River Ole Lord Forbes, --,
for Bengal.—Wind S.W.
SHEERNRSS, MAY 24.
The British Fair and Spy passed the More for the
River Thames; the Ems andJhade in-boats arrived.
and are gone to Chatham4 the Lyra sailed from the
Note to the River Thai:nes.
FROM LLOYD'S LIST.
The Neptune, —, from Lisbon to London, was taken the
SOth ult aad carried into Amhteteuse.
The W,lhant, of and from Sunderland, was taken and
carried into Calais, the fliath
The Lapwing, Strachan, from Shield, to Port•mouth, was de-
serted on 'Tuesday morning, Off Dunkirk. before being taken by
the enemy. A beta, belonging to Rye, was deservd a- game time.
The Isla, Hallanin, from Sardinia to London, is got intoWor
mouth, after having been on bre and scuttled.
The Frederick and Teresa, Davy, from l'eoby, foundered off
Mount's Bay, the 19th inst.
The Felitry, Sheriff, bound to Madeira, was lost at Gibraltar,
the 28th of March.
The brig Eheoner, Hill, of Rhode Island, with goods and sl2
thousand dollars, sailed from New Providence, the 29th of Au-
gust, bound to New Orleans. The Master is reported to have
proceeded to the United Stases, and, after mains sale of the ver-
eel, applied the spode to Isle own purposes, std is now it Rhode
Island.

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DELICATE b:vtArichtTioN,': bas been r.Ceinly publish-
ed by Allen, and Co. of Paternoster-mw. The work
is entitled " THE SPIRIT 01 THE BooK," embracing
the subject matter of that extramdinary, momentous,
and interesting Vi,lume ; and comprehending the
Memoirs of many of the most distinguished and il-
lustrious Personages of the age.
MEETING or DISSENTERS.—The Meeting of Dissen-
ters, of which notice had been pi ven. took place yester-
dayat the London Tavern, Mr. Mims in the Chair.

The CHAIRMAM having taken his seat, he proceeded
to state to the assembly, that in consequence of the
zealot thepersons to whom they had entrusted the ma.
nagement of their interests, not less then three hun.
dred and fifty-six petitions had been obtained against
the Bill framed by Lord Sidmouth against their rights)
they had also succeeded in interesting so great a num-
b :r of the Peers in their favour, that the Bi:I had been
ngatived on the second reading.
Mr. Mtats then proposed a resolution, importing
that the report of the Committee was highly satisfac.
tory to the kteetng, and that there was much reason
for exultation, afforded by the complete success which
had been consequent on their dim ts.
This resolution was the first of a series agreed to
at the meeting, of the most remarkable of which the -
following is the substant e
" The appointment of a Society, consisting of Dis-
senting Ministers, in consequence of the recent attack
on religious freedom, and the sundry:oounce corn.
mitted against Dissenting Corigregatt-in.—o, be sup-
ported by subscription, and whose duty it should be
to watch in future over the interests of ,he ilissenters,
and resist similar attempts on tinge riets." •
A Vote of Thanks to the Meu5,..0.0., for their co-
operation.
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A Vote of Thanks to Mr. PERCEVAL and his col.
leagbes ; but this question was carried in the aHitma•
tive by a very slander majority indeed.
Previous to the meetu.6 breAcibit up, a subecrip-
sion was commenced.