Star.
London, England, 1811-09-17 00:00:00

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Covernor of COrdova, commanding a column of two
thousand French, has been defeated by Brigadier bon
P. Morillovin Vallaneuva de Cardenes. • •
From Cordoba they write, under date Of the /sth,
that the whole of the Frencti force in that city, inclu-
ding the sick,,clid not exceed 7000 men ; but the/ say
10,000 more are expected.
From Seville they write, that Qn the Skil the re-
maint of the 9th Corps of the French Army, under
the 'command of Dronet, which anteriorly occupied
EstreMadura, entered that city.
AucysT 3.—Yesterday, at half-Past eleven in the
:norning, Soult entered this city, accompanied by
Montareo, Matte, and many other French offiFars,
with 900 infantry and 500 horse. In the evening,
troops of every 'description, with artillery, arrived
from the Senaria de Ronda ; and with them came
many families, from Malaga, who did not consider
themselves.safe in their houses. It is said the garri-
son of Malaga is expected; id fact, some of the.
excl.% with their equipages, enteied here.

This morning Soult inspected tbe fortifications, and
in consequence inereased.the garrison of Alhambra ;
62,000 reals are daily collected for Soult's expences,
who intends levying a contribution in the same style
as in Cordoba, where, in al few hours he collected
3,000,000. SiMilar exactions have taken place in all
the towns through which the enemy passed.
MADRID,
The intelligence .from the frontiers respecting the
entrance of troop; are much at varianee, although
those the most to be relied upon assm, that if any
detachments have entered, it was only those which
some time back escorted Generals and mutilated sol-
diers to France.

JULY 30.—These has been a contribution of
9+30,000 bushels of wheat, and 750,000 of barley,
imposed upon the Provinces of Madri4. Toledo,
Cuenca, Mancha, Avila, and Segovia. The entry
and going out of troops from this city, in which there
ire from four to 5000 men, still continues.

CADIZ, AUGUST so.

The day before yesterday anchored in this port the
Spanish frigate El Comercio de Lima, from Callas,
after a passage of II I days ; among other thing's she
brings 332,902 dollars, and 1000 quintals of powder.
This,iutelligence received by her respecting the public
tranquillity and good dispositions of.the inhabitants
of the new Royalty of Peru, are most satisfactory.

We are assured that Soult has returned to Seville,
and that He will proceed to France.

On the 12th instant, was introduced to the Council
of Regency, his Serene Highness the Prince of
')range, grandson of the Late Stadtholder of Holland,
:nd nephew of the King of Prussia.—His Royal
Higlene:ss was received with all the honours due to
elevated sitnation. the object of the voyage of
This young Prince, was to see Cadiz, the position of
tie font Wand of Leon, and the works of our liness
On the 11th, his Excellency the English Minister,
vntertitned him with a ball and supper : and en the
following day, his Serene Highness sailed for Portu-
gal, in the English corrtAte the Sabrina, the same
in which he came here.

ASTORGA, AUGUST 1.
STAFF OF THE SIXTH ARMY,

Our troops maintain their positions : they occupy
• Astorga, Puente, Orbign, and Beneza. The enemy
are in tw•o corps ; the one at Leon, the other at Va.
larnanon : the latter has made a movement with a
battalion upon Toral de los GuzmAns. .At the
bridge of Castro Gonzala, they maintain another
small

The troops which occupied the line of Orbigo have
advanced to Leon and Villamanan. The enemy,
altrmed at this movement, have retiredfrom the Vir-
gen del Camino to rule city.
CeST coops hale retired to their for-
mer position.

The Lisbon Gazette of August 23, has given a
translation of the Note addressed by the Hon. H.
Wellesley to Don Eusebio Bardaxi y Azara, with The
answer of the latter, and subjoined to them the fol-
lowing observations :

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awed and sontetinati.given law even to those who
now would erase her from the list of pOwers: • -
'4 But as these evil.disposed persons retain no sen-
timents of honour or virtue, no pity ought to be ex..
tended to• theme Men so corrupted can never be
amended, and can only be corrected by the authority
of j tistice. Nor . ought they by any means to be spared,.
from the consideration that the number of these ma-
lignants rely small in comparison with that of good
Spaniards; because a little leaven, if time be'allowed
it, will soon leaven a large mass." •
A malignant fever is stated to have broken out at
Carthagernt, similar to that which proved such a
scourge to that city last year. The accounts do not-
enter into details of its fatal consequences ; but; as a
measure of precaution, the Governor had issued a
proclamation, requiring all good citizens to remain
quiet at their homes, until the state of the town, re•
carding the fever, had been investigated ; and should ,
its contagion be established, the gates of the city
would be shut, and every means taken to prevent its
further progress. At Cadiz, as well as at Gibraltar,
great alarm had been excited by this malady, and•
measures of precaution were resorted to at both places.
It having been reported to the Spanish Cortes that
a number of British ships were under orders to pro-
ceed direct from the ports of that country to the Spa-
nish colonies of South America, the subject was
lately brought into discussion, on a motion being
made that such commerce should be legaVied under
the sanction of a Decree of the Government. The de-
bate on this proposition was conducted with great ani-
-rnation by the disputants on both sides of the ques-
tion, during a very long sitting, in which all the de-
mands andpretensionsof England were asserted on the
most liberal principles in support of the motion ; but
at length the narrow policy of the Spaniards prevailed,
and the measure was negatived by a great majority.
—The party friendly to the best interests of the co-
lonies
being thus disappointed, several resolutions were
' proposed, under which it was determined, that the
duties on English goods which had been hitherto un-
reasonable and excessive on the transport to the colo.
nits, should be considerably reduced, and that some
articles which had been prohibited, should in future
be allowed. In the course of the examination of the
commercial relations of the two countries it was shewn,
that the English, instead of being treated as allies, and
'as the most favoured nation, had in some respects,
been discouraged mote than others, which had very
inferior claims to indulgence from Spain. The re-
solutions were agreed to, but the proportion of the
duties was reserved for consideration on a future day.
The quantity of ordnance stores shipped within the
last six months, and now shipping, by the Board of
Ordnance, for Sicily aqd Malta, amounts to about
five thousand tons.
The arrival of SEBASTIAN( at Paris, is confirmed,
but for what purpose, is held in mysterious silence.—
' Letters from Spain assert Besstear.s to have been re-
' called, in consequence of his having evacuated the As-
tunas, contrary to the opinions of the other French
Commanders.
The Duke DEL Isms TARO has taken the Earl of
liklatatessoar's house in Spring Gardens, for which •
'he is to pay 1400 guineas per annum rent. He hits
also taken the adjoining house, late Lord riTZUER-
Buis's, for his mother.
The NYADEN frigate, Captain EPWORTII, Will sail
' shortly for Sicily. She takes out 210,000 dollars, and
seven transports under convoy, with a reinforcement
of troops on board, Merchant-ships bound to Cadiz
and Gibraltar go under her prptection. The dis-
patches are expected to be ready on Friday next.
Coy ENT-GARDEN.—Richard the Third was last night
'performed to a numerous and elegant audience. Mr.
KEMBLE was the representative of the crooked-back
tyrant, and his performance was of the most masterly
description. All the other parts were well sup.
ported, and the piece received great applause.—
The PRINCE REGENT and the Duke of CUMBERLAND
were present during the greater part of the perfor-
mance, in the private boxes. The House was quite
crowded..
HAY-MARKET....-1/ Curefor the Heart-aclie,Ths Rival
Soldier:, and A Day after the Wedding, were performed
here last night. Mr. MuNDEN, and Mr.•.loats (an apo-
logy having been made for the absence of Mr. Eottsrox, ,
on account of a domestic misfortune) were exceedingly
happy in Old and roung Ralsid, and the piece was alto-
gether well performed. Nothing could be imagined i
more truly ludicrous and laughable than MUNDEN, in
Nipper4in, in the interlude; the /louse was convulsed
with laughter at.hia' peculiar drollery and truly comic
humour ; and PArtit sung his airs with much taste
and sweetness,,,,
The Music •Meeting at Gloucester concluded on '
Thursday last. It was most numerously attended, and
the performances of Sacred Music at the Cathedral, with
the Concerts it; the eveninj proved most successful
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~ We have to-day published two very important t-o—the Charity of Widows and Orphans of the poor 1
documents under the head Cadiz. By them our ! Clergy. The amount of contributions on the first day
Readers will see the intimate friendship which subsists was aBl7B. 13s. 4.d. ; second day, £209. 13s. ; third '
between England and Spain, notwithstanding the en-' day, £363. 14s. 6d. making the total £752. Os. 10d.
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deavours of a handful of rualignants sold to our creel being £142 more than was collected at the triennial
Meeting of 1808. .
oppressor : by them is established that fundamental i '
On Sunday night, the Bth instant, an alarming and
political tryth with respect to both the nations of the • destructive fire was discovered in the house of Captain'
Peninsula and England—that the Peninsula alone 1 JAMES BIM r, of Stebbon Heath Terrace, Salmon's '
cannot resist the invasion of the French Usurper, and Fields. The cause of the calamity has not been as.
certained, and so sudden and rapid was the eonflagra.
apt Entrland could not commit herself on the Conti- ; tion,
ts it •,: as with much difficulty. the family escaped
-nt without the great and cordial support of the wit r their lives : Captain B. with the help of the bed- I
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her nations engaged in, this struggle. : clothes, tied with a slip knot, lowered his wife, sister,
" The three Powers compose a whole body, which ' and servant, two stories from the basement floor.
,ar ; i
cannot be disunited and separated without danger of DUSPF.RATE ATTACK OF FOUR . ICARS.—Satura
niight, about eleven o'clock, as Mr, Kilmarthen, of
losing that concentration and amity of council and Piccadilly, was walking along the lower road, Dept-
force which alone can conduct to a final triumph ; ford; near the Five Bells, be was attacked by four '
and is it possible that, in the midst of the blood of so foreigners (Lascar4 one of whom made a desperate
many martyrs—in the midst of so many acts of he-
slow at his breast with a sharp instrument, but fortu-
nately
missed his mark; The other three then began i
rokm which have enriched the annals of Spain from
to maltreat him, by hitting him on the „bead with
shelled of May, 1308, to the present time, there should bludgeons, at the same time uttering the most blas-'!
!ie found persona so infamously base, as to think of phemous words. They then threw him down, and '
',:ellirtg at any price the fruit of so many sacrifices— two of them held him down, while the other two were
'?re independence and honouratde name of their coon-
employed in pilfering his breeches pockets, from,
whence they took a black pocket-book, containing
try ? And of what country ?—Of great and gene-
, cash and notes to the amount of £lO 17s. 6d. Some
tmas Spaini which possesses in Europe a territory ' passengers coming by at the time, hearing Mr. K.
Uncle less than that of Old France, besides the fin- crying out for help went to his assistance, bin in the
mecca eOnntries of America, anal which has OF.r. mean time the villains made off. -
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$ The litkG contiottes in the Lime state.
(Signed)
6611. ILALFOXD. " IV+ lIRStRDEN. " R. WILLIS."
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THE ARMY. •
Friday, the 4th Reflation of the firct, or Royal Re-
giment of Foot, upwards of 1800 strong, commenced
their march from Stirling, on their route to Mussel-
burgh,
The Rnyal Lanarkshire Militia, upwards of 1000
men, landed it Belfast on Saturday se'nnight, from
Scotland. first division of this regiment marched
next day for Londonderry.
The vote of a sum passed in Parliament, for the
payment of Officers Widows' Pensions, last Session,
was £51,530, which, at a drawback of oat shilling in
the pound, which is the sum allowed to the Pay:nes-
. ter, by the warrant, makes the produce two Awned
jive hundred and seventydevo itoun&, for the present year.

ammaii•lbwialas
OBaRVAINOXS ON TOR INOBANT APPEARANCE Op"rtiti
engirt, saw. 'tease, ESQ. OP aorrits, tficnoisietitk.
The brilliant appearance which the Cornet now
makes ill 60 north, having etched the attention not
only et the studtnts in Astronomy, but also that *of
the public kt large, I hope it will direct many to the
pursuit of that beautiful and interesting science ) 'for
in this country, it mast be observed with regret, that
it has not been of late cultivated with the ardour its
imp,:rtance demands.
The following observations on the Comet have been
taken, at eight o'clock in the evening, according to
the dates below :
From the circumstance of my tieing, at present, irt. .
a town where I cannot heed access to astronomical
instruments, I arts under the necessity Of using a qua'
drant of my awn construction I it is made of well-dried
mahogany, and its radius is 14,1 inches, which gives
nearly 3-10ths of an inch for a degree, I therefore
flatter myself they are not very erroneous. Its situa•
tion respecting the Right Ascention and{ Declination,
being taken from Senex's 18-inch Celestial Globe,
canonlytle regarded as an approximation) but at thew
have been done with great care, they wills it is hoped,
be found sutfic:cntly Correct to delineate tts apparent
path in the heavens.
SEPT. 7, 1811, eight o'clock In the everting, Boston, -1
Lincolnshire, lat. 53° 1' N. long. 0° 5' E.
' Frans' the star oin Ursa Major • 14° o`. Ditto
star y 15'15'. Right ascension 160°2(f. Declination
42° 30'.
SEPT. 8.--. From the star 8 13° 30'. Ditto star y
15' 0. Right ascension 161° 3(e. Declination 4'2°45'.
Sept. 9.—From the star gl 13° 15', Ditto s
14° 30%* Right ascension 162° o'. Declination 42°V.
On the Bth and 9ththestar vo was seen through thetaiL
SEPT. 10.—From the star p 13° o'. Ditto star y• •
13°15'. Right ascension 163°3(Y. Declination 45.15'.. .
SEPT. 11.— From the star 7 lt).° 45'. Ditto star
in the same constellation 8° (7. Right ascension 164°
50'. Declination 43°40% •.
A line drawn from Cor Caroli to the star A in the
foot of Ursa Major passed through the Cornet ; also
one drawn from the star x, in the same constellation,
to the star A in Draco, very nearly.
SEPTEMBER l 2.—A cloudy night.•
SEPTEMBER 13.—From the star y 12° 0. Ditto
star x6° o'. Right Ascension 166° 40'. Declina.
tion 43° 60'.
A line drawn from.Cor Caroli to w in Una Major,
'and one drawn from through 40, in the same con.
istellation, passed through the Comet.
From the above it appears that the Comet sill pass
through the neck of Asterion, about 5° below the star
7 in Ursa Major, which I have endeavoured to• spew
in the diagram : that it also passed the ecliptic about
the 25° of. Cancer. In a small table of Comets which
have been observed, I find this account of those
which pas.sed through Cancer in their perhelion.

NAVAL INTELLICENCS.

rAt.motrni, SEPTEMBER. 14i
Arrived the Chichester packet with anotl'er Mail
from Cadiz, in 11 days. The packet is pitt under
quarantine for having boarded, about seven days since,.
the Express packet, from the Mediterranean. The
latter vessel has not yet arrived. A man of war brig
is making for the hat hour, supposed to be the
SHOOTER.
TORBAY, SEPTEMBER 11
Put back the Lord Cochrane hired cutter, with the
Sir Joseph Bauks transport, and remain with his Ma.
jesty's ship Leopard.—Wind E.S.E.
• PLYMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 15.•
Arrived, the BtoomsouND gun.brig, from Fal.
mouth ; and the DIANA frigate, from the coast of
France. The KANGAROO, 18 guns, is in the Offing,
from the westward ; but appears to be standing up
Channel.

PORTSMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 38.
Arrived the ZEPHYR from Guernsey, and the PAR-
TRIDGE, with a convoy, from Plymouth.—Sailed the
VAiscuarto for off Cherbourg, and the PYRAIIVS for
the S.E.
ORAL, SEPTEMBER 16.
' Arrived thelizaor.z sloop of war from off Bou-
logne, and the Inas cutter with dispatches from off
Flushing. Arrived an American frigate ; particulars
not known.—Wind E.

YARMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 16.
Arrived, the Braila sloop of war, Capt. TIIOII/1-
gm, from a cruixe, and remains in the Roads with
the BLAZER gun-brig. Yesterday, the MARS, TENtE-
RAIRE, and three other sail of the line, from the Bal-
tic, passed this port for the Downs.—Wind W.
The Anne and Elizabeth, from Swansea to Dub-
lin, foundered at sea on the 2d inst.—Crew saved.
NAVAL APPOINTAit NTS:Captain Bayntun, to the Royal So •
vereign yarch; Captain Larcom to be Commissioner of the Navy
at Malta; Captain Littlebales, to be Pay Comptroller at Ply-
mouth; Captain T. Well(, to the Phipps; LieutenantW. S. Key,
to command the Alban cutter; I.ieutenant M•Donald, to com-
mand the British Fair cutter ; Lieutenants A. Houirain, to the
San Josef; J. Sandys, Vo'age; M. Quarry, Berwick ; G. Beas-
ley, Abercrombie; W. Minton and hates Naven, Magnet ; M.
Forster, Mermaid; B. Msunsell, Helder; R. 'Tyte, Glory; Colin
Campbell, Leyden ; T. Packernall, Strombolo.
Extract of the Journal of the Francis Freeling
packet, BALL, arrived at Falmouth from Cadiz, in
2d'ilays Sailed from Cadiz, Sept. 4 —ln lat. 45.
32. long. et. 45. spoke the St. Fiorenzo frigate, from
Lisbon, out 13 days, with wounded soldiers on board;
the Mercury arrived the day previous to her sailing
On the 7th, in lat. 49. 27. long. 3.2. spoke the Kan-
garoo : there were eight line of battle-ships, and one
frigate in company.
The Friends, timber-ship, arrived on Saturday at
Plymouth from Quebec, In six weeks. She sailed in
company with seven sail, the sth ult. but parted from
them in a gale of wind. Another fleet was expected
for England, which would sail as soon as any frigate
I arrived to protect them. The Louts, of 36 guns.
had sailed for Halifax, with the 41st regiment on
board for that garrison. The PLUMPER gun-brig pass-
ed by the Ft lends, on her passage for Halifax.
Ott Friday, a Court. Martial was held at Ports-
mouth on William Lashbrook, carpenter of his Ma-
jesty's ship Primrose, for repeated drunkenness, and
for having burnt, or otherwise destroyed his working
abstract, thereby delaying the equipment of the.sloop.
He was sentenced to be dismissed his office, and to
serve in such other situation as the Contmatider7in-
Chief shall direct.—On the same day, .14An Aldus, a
marine of the Venerable, for running away from the,
boat, for making use of seditious and contemptuons
words, and striking a midshipman, was sentenced to
receive 200 lashes.
Two shipwrights belonging to the dock-yard at
Plymouth, being at work on board an old Spinish
sloop of war, which is fitting for a receiving hulk, itt
cutting away a piece of cieling plank, they found a
bag of doubloons concealed, to the value of upwards
of £5OO.

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The Henry transport, with 250 French deserters
or. board, accompanied the RHIN frigate, which lately
Arrived from Corunna, and was in so bad a state that
she was towed nearly all the way by the frigate. '
,Tuesday the French prisoners confined in Portches-
ter Castle, were surprised in an attempt to escape from
their confinement : it appears they had, on a former
occasion, picked the lock of.an ancient dungeon, into
which they had daily gone. and dug to a great depth ;
upon detection, the dungeon was securely locked;,
they had, however, contrived to dig out the outside of
it, till they were enabled to get upder the foundation,
and again commenced on the former bolo, and had
proceeded so far, that but for the timely detection,'
they would, in great numbers, have been enabled to
• make their escape.
Tuesday everting last, four of the French prisoners.
on boiald his Majesty's prison ship Vigilante. made
an unsuccessful attempt to escape, .Three of them
were found in the wash-house of the ship, and the
fourth in the-chains just as he was getting. intO the
water to swim away.
BREAD.—This day the Lord Mayor and Aldermen,
after inspecting the Returns, ordered it tease 2d. per
Peck Loaf. •

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.
Sin—ln your Paper of Friday last, it is said, that
Mr. Nos of Congleton has pronounced, (from com
putation, we must suppose,) that the comet now visi-
ble is the same as that which appeared in 1661.
Now, the lovers of astronomy will be much obliged
to Mr. PAGE for any information respecting the data
upon which his calculations aile founded. There
seems, however, a. great probability that it is the same
as that which was seen in the years 1747, 1683, 1618,
11556, and 1299, answering to a period of revolution
of 64. years nearly ; but it should have been visible
about the years 1492, 1428, 1364., the three period
between 1299 and 15:56 ; it. would therefore be dew-
able to ascertain whether any comets were noticed
about these times, for which purpose, Pingre's large
Work on Comets perhaps, or Lubienietski Theatruna
Conieticum, are the best books to be consulted.
Yours, &c. 2.

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Bow-terneer.—Andrecus and Hall, mentitinecl ;n ottr
last, were yesterday brought up for examination:.
Among the persons who preferred charges against
them were :—Mr. Inman. a jeweller, nf the Strand
Thomas Betteridge, the waiter at the Feathers pub:. 1
lic house, in Hand-court, Holborn ; Mr. Stephens, I
a coffee-house keeper, in St: James's-street ; Mr.
Brendell, of the 'Artichoke public house, at Black.
wall ;an .1 Mr. Simpson, of Le.idenhall-creet. The
Magistrates ailvi.ed all the parties to go to the Seth•
sions holding, at Clerkenwell-green, and indict the
priioners for conspiracies, Andrews st,:knowledged
the drafts to be his hand-wt.:6'lg. He addressed the
Mkgistrates at cdrsiderable length, and hoped that -
blic prejud ed would not operate agaisiq him on
1 trial. Hall did not say any thing. They were
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c .mitted to take their trial at the ; resent Session,
aPini the' iitcfictrnent fouud against them 'last Febru.
ary; by'Mr. Kende), ofthe St. Oleinent's 04de-house.
Daniel Davit, a letter-carrier belonging to the Gene-
ral PostOffiie, in the neighboorho4d of Sgho, under.
went an examination, charged with feloniously steal.
lug a MO !Lank of t ngland note, front a letter sent •
by Mr. Ji;lin Seholfield, of Liverpool, directed by
him to Mr: Thompson Raine, a perfumer of King.
street, thiiiiit.garden, :which did not come td hand,
and it leis traced to the prisoner. He was fully
committed for triat. .
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