Star.
London, England, 1810-02-06 00:00:00

NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 27.

A letter received in this city, dated New Orleans,l
November 20, says—,6 The Collector of this port last
'week robbed the United States of about 200,000 dol-
lars, and went off with an English felucca, which it
appears he secretly purchased and prepared for that
villainous purpose. Active means have been taken
to pursue him, but we think he will not be found, as
the vessel he went in sails remarkably fast."
• A Petition has been presented to the Legislature
of Georgia, from which the following very extraor-
dinary passages are extracted : it will be seen that
the Democrats of Georgia have outstript even their
political brethren in Pennsylvania in the race of Jaco-
binism :

" We pray your Honourable Body to make such laws as to
dispense with and totally obliterate the most useless pests that
ever disgraced the human society, viz, the Lawyers, who have so
successfully learnt the trade of living.
" We, your Petitioners, as Republicans, believing in the equal
tights of man, and also that the Dui Y in the creation did not
contemplate Lawyers—having made no distinction in the forma-
tion of man, but left the Lawyers as adequate to the pursuit of
1 enest labour as the rest of mankind.
" It has been said that Sampson slew his thousands with the
jaw-bone of an ass ! but, in our opinion, the jaw-bones of Law-
yers, assisted by their tongues, have since devoured their millions
to one slain by that of the ass."

THE EVENING tiTA. R.

LONDON.

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5 per Cent. N.ivy 944 I State Lottery Tickets £22.155.
Long Ann. 18 7-16thst I Consols lot Acc. 68f

A passenger by the Nuestra Sra. de Bigona, arrived
at Plymouth after a short passage of five days, and
who left Villa Viliosa on the 28th ult. states, that
news had been received of the destruction of the
French central army by the Spaniards. Knowing the
deceptions which have been practised upon the zealous
Patriots in the province we have named, we •cannot
give credit to the above intelligehce : we cannot, how-
ever,- give it an absolute contradiction, as no intelli-
gence has been received from Spain of so recent a
date by several weeks.
In our first page we have laid before our Readers a
copy of the Instructions to be observed in the Election
of the Deputies to the Cortes. The Spaniards have
been more fortunate than could well have been ex-
pected, in not having had their whole country over-
run by the French before the period appointed for
electing the Cortes ; and we must say, that this event
affords some reasonable hope that Spain may yet assert
her independence, and defy the whole Power of France
to bring her under. the yoke of NAPOLEON. •

For this change in the circumstances of Spain, the
wald is indebted to the enlightened policy and firm-1
ness of Marquis WELLESLEY while resident with the
Supreme Sp:knish Government at Seville. We un-
derstand that the Marquis, after recommending the
adoption of such a system as would engage the affec-
tions and dearest interests of the people in the strug-
gle, declared to the Supreme Junta that unless a form
of Government founded on popular feedom, should
be adop:ed by the Kingdom, the British Government_
could form no rational hope of successfully opposing
French invaders, and under this impression would
feel itself compelled to withdraw its troops and with-
hold all further supplies.

The present scene may be considered as a pheno-
menon, It is the first attempt that has been made
since the commencement of the French revolution to
make the people not a nominal but a real party in the
struggle. It is impossible to calculate the effects
which may result from it. They have only three
evils to guard again,t :—Treachery, Treason and
Rashness.

Letters from Alicant mention that great commo
ons had taken place in the city of Valencia, in ton-
sequence of the advance 0. the French The inha-
bitants, suspecting that some secret correspowignce
w:ts carried on between the Junta of Valencia and the
enemy, rose in a body, and secured all persons sup-
posed to be concerned in the plot, and proceeded to
take the most active measures for putting the city into •
a proper state of defence.

The American Papers received by the Duke of
Kent Packet, the arrival of which we mentioned yes-
terday, are 411 ed with debates in Congress on the

subject of their relations with this country.. Alth
resolutions of a hostile tendency have passed though
certain stages, they seem to have excited• a formi-
dable opposition from the various. Members of the
American Congress. The Resolution of the Senate,
approving the conduct of the Executive in refusing
to receive any further communication from Mr. JACK..
sox, was discussed for several days in the House of
Representatives, in a Committee of the whole. It
was at length agreed, on the 27th December, by a
majority of 19, to report the Resolution to the House.
Debates afterwards took place on the Report being
received ; and the subject was still under discussion
on the 2d ult. when the Duke of Kent sailed.—Ex-
tracts from the above Papers will be found in an,
other part of this Paper.

Dispatches were yesterday received at the India
House from Lord CALEDON at the Cape of Good
Hope. We have great pleasure in being able to state
that they announce the complete restoration of tran-
quillity in India ; and that it is not 'necessary to send
any additional military force to Madras.
Advice was yesterday received at the Admiralty
of the capture of the French frigate la Nymphe by
his Majesty's ship IPIIEGENIA, which has been sent
into the Cape of Good Hope.
Intelligence has been received by the Country ships
LARKENS and GENERAL WELLESLEY, which left in Sep-
tenaber last, and are arrived at Portsmouth, that the 1
Loan CASTLEREAGII and ANN store-ship arrived at Fort
Marlbro' Ist May, and were expected' to return to
Bengal in about a fortnight.
The WARREN HASTINGS, LORD DUNCAN, CARNA•
TIC, BARING, and LORD MELVILLE, arrived in Bengal
in July last. The TOTTENHAM gone into dock to
repair damages, received in going down the River.
The Roman Catholics of Dublin, at their great
meeting held last week, have resolved not to give the
veto to the Crown on the nomination of the Bishops.
They have also determined to request some other
Peer instead of Lord GRENVILLE to present their Pe-
tition to the House of Lords.
W. WELLESLEY POLE, Secretary of State for Ireland,
and Member of Parliament for the Queen's County,
has answered to an application of the Roman Catho-
lics of that county to present their petition, that they
must be already aware of his sentiments on the Ro-
man Catholic question, and that he saw no reason to
, alter them. Mr. PARNELL, the other Member, has
given a more favourable answer. Colonel VEREKER
has likewise refused to support the petition of the Ro-
man Catholics at Limerick, who accordingly handed
it to Colonel ODELL and the Hon. WYNDHAM Qum,
the County Members.
A letter from Mr. JERNINGIIAM, on the subject of
the Veto, has. appeared in The Dublin Evening PAtip
which states as follows :
“ It was with the utmost surprise and indignatioWhat I this 1
morning read in your Papers of the 16th and 18th inst. a most false
and scandalous statement, relative to a supposed combination be-
tween the Catholics of England, and certain of their friends is
Parliament, for the purpose of introducing a Bill upon the subject
of the Veto.
" I have to request, Sir, that you will mate known to the Irish
Catholic Public, my formal declaration, that the whole of the
mutr contained in your Papers of the 16th and 18th inst. as far
as nrards the Catholics of England, is absolutely and entirely
false.
" No plan or arrangements whatever upon the subject of the
Vat), are, or have been, in contemplation, as between the Board
of English Catholics, and any person or persona whomsoever ;
and if any draft of a proposed Bill has been prepared, it is the
mere speculative publication of an individual Member of Parlia-
ment.

" The Catholics of England have no wish, and still less the
pretensiqn, to interfere with the question which concerns alone
the Catholics of Ireland; they are anxious only to remain firmly
united with their brethren throughout the British Empire ; and
I have no hesitation in repeating, therefore, that the communica-
tion stated to have been received at your office (from whatever
quarter it may have come), is an infamous and scandalous false-
hood, maliciously contrived, for the sole purpose cf sowing divi-
sion between the Catholics of the two kingdoms."
The chief thing that strikes every Irdy with sur-
prise in the documents hitherto published respecting,
the Scheldt Expedition, relates to the head " Intelli-
fence." Under this tide, we receive a variety of in-,
ormation respecting the Island of Walcheren, Ant.;
werp, the forces and batteries in each, &c. ; but is it
not most singular, that the first inquiries of Ministers
respecting this grand point of attack should have
taken place last Christmas twelvemonth, and their
Expedition not have sailed till after Midsummer ?
They had marked down Zealand for the scene of their
future operations, a quarter 01 a year-before the war
between France and Austria began ; and yet they did
not reach that scene of operationstill after the war was
ended. Lord Chatham only lingered cne month in the
Scheldt, without advancing against Antwerp ; while
his employers spent five months in barely enquiring
about the Scheldt and Antwerp ! The papers
I laid on the table of the House of Commons open
with " Answers to questions put by to two
confidential persons," relatingto the state of defence of
Flushing ; and these " Answers" were given before
I the 2d Jan. 1809. Government has-likewise answers•
innumerable upon the same topics during that whole
month ; during the ensuing 'months of February, of
Mai ch, of April, of May ; and on the 9th of Jute
the Expeditioa was first widertaicn. There are so many
reports of these papers upon the state of the enemy's
! fleet in the Scheldt that it might almost be thought
we were going to take it upon a valuation.
There is nu country in the world where Voluntary Contribu-
tions are so generously supported as in England. Were it pos-
sible to introduce voluntary taxes similar to the Lottery, more
money would be raised for the country than what is now collected.
Eight Hundred Thousand Pounds is 'annually raised by Lottery
Sub gibers, who lose nothing by so doing, because the Sub-
scribers would be compelled to pay the amount of such subscrip-
tions in some other way, and lose the chance of realizing a large
income. HaaNsay and Co. acquaint the Public, that the Lot-
tery Draws on the 14th of the present Month (Valentine's Day,)
previous to which they hope to sell to those who honour them
with their commands, a good share of the Capital Prizes, which
will be paid immediately they are drawn, at either of their Old
State Lottery Offices, No. 26, Cornhill, or St. Margaret's MU,
Borough.
" Delays are dangerous" in most of the affairs of life,but par-
ticularly in the purchase of a Lottery Share, as every day increases
the probability that some more fortunate Adventurer may have
chosen the large Prizes; therefore lose no time. but apply imme-
diately to Swirl. and Co.'s fortunate Offices, where Five of the
Capital Prize% in the last Lottery were sod in Shares.
On Wednesday Week the State Lottery will begin, and con-
elude Drawing in the short space of twelve hours. Those who
mean to adventure should not delay their purchases, lest they
deprive themselves of the grand chance of obtaining Eighty Thou..
sand Pounds by one. Dumber, which event re pt ;tapper yd
*I
14th of the present swath, when £1100,009 pc money will ba
distributed in OM day. Tickets and Shares are on sale at the old
Of4ces of iticaozaqx,Glocismocn, and Co.

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ZARBADoES, =COUR es.
The daring enterprise of our naval character, we
are proud to find now maintaining itself With true Dri.-
tish splendour and rival greatness, carrying itstriumets
to die very shores of the enemy, and by retributive
victory, snatching from him his short-lived and but
temporary success. Such has been the result of the-
cannonading and explosion mentioned in our last to
have been seen off the shores of Guadaloum_vihich,
as we predicted, was an attack On the Frenrigaies
lately escaped to that island, and has terminated in
their total destruction. This enterprise, however, at-
tended with themost desirable success, is the more
honourable from the prompt and vigorous manner in
which it was carried into effect. As far as we are I
able to collect the particulars, it appears that the
enemy's squadron (four frigates), fell in with the
Junon and Observateur brig, about 200 miles to wind-
ward of Deseada, and by hoisting Spanish colours,
and answering the Junon's private signal, decoyed
her close in among them before she discovered their
real character, when they hoisted French colours, and
ordered her to strike ; but our gallant seamen being
unaccustomed to yield so tamely, were resolved to
fight their way, or fall honourably ; and although
the disparity of force and the actually surrounded
situation of our frigate gave no chance of success, a
most desperate and well-fought action was maintain-
ed with the whole of them, within musket-shot, for
upwards of an hour and a half, when the Junon being
completely " riddled," cut up in her sails, yards,
masts, and hull, and her deck strewed with carnage,
yielded to their numbers, and on being taken posses-
sign of, a mere wreck, was found so embarrassing to
th! captors, that after removing the officers and crew,
tcrgt fire to and abandoned her. Meantime the
e ateur having escaped, fell in with one of our
li ht squadrons of Guadaloupe, and apprizing them
t
of the approach of the enemy, proceeded to l'sfarti-
nque to inform the Admiral of the occurrence. At
the moment of Sir ALEXANDEfi COCHRANE'S receiving
the information, the Sceptre and Alfred were standing
into Port Royal Bay, and were instantly ordered off
by the Admiral, who in the Pompie, and with the
1 Abercrombie, proceeded to sea the following evening,
and the whole arrived off Vieux Fort, Guadaloupe,
in time to see a most gallant display of naval he-
' roism, in which all.that zeal, and courage, and promp-
titude could effect, was most gloriously exhibited.
• The Gloire and Blonde frigates, Ringdove and
-hazard sloops, apprized by the Observateur of the
enemy being at hand (who, however separated his
force after the capture of the Junon), made the most
judicious arrangements to cut him off, and so far suc-
ceeded, that he was compelled to take refuge in Vieux
Fort, a small bay well defended, a few miles to the
northward and westward of Basseterre. Here they
instantly resolved upon attacking him ; and so
promptly were their measures carried into effect, that
1 before any additional force, which now had eatly
accumulated, (the Admiral and four line of-battle
ships, and several frigates, being in the offing) could
act with them, the Ringdove was fairly in shore of the
enemy's two ships, by the time they had landed the
troops with which they were crowded ; and Captain I
Dow mar, at the head of a party of seamen and ma-
rines, followed so close on shore upon them that he
stormed and carried a strong battery before their face.
—The boats of the Gloire, Blonde, Hazard, and Pul-
tusk, which were up in time to share in the glory of
the day, speedily followed ; and successively stormed
three batteries that defended the port; Captains CA-
MERON of the Hazard, and ELLIOT of the Pultusk,
leading, like Captain Downs, their respective par-
ties ; as was no less gallantly that from the Blonde by
Lieutenant JENKINS. The enemy's troops landed from
the frigates were rather a miserable conscript banditti,
than actual soldiers ; they were without arms, and fled
upon reaching shore ; the batteries, however, were
well manned, spiritedly defended, and carried only by
the superior bravery of our seamen and marines.—
Captain DOWERS distinguished himself particularly by
the undaunted manner in which he landed his party,
and rushed to the attack, unsupported by the other
boats ; but to every officer and man is a full propor-
tion of applause justly due ; while to Captain CAME-
RON and Lieutenant JeKKINS we owe the tribute of
unavailing sorrow, for in the midst of victory they
tell, alike covered with wounds and glory ; Captain
CAMEROXI after himself striking the enemy's coloura, 1
receiving a musket-ball wound while doing it, was
killed by a grape-shot, in getting into his boat ; and
Lieutenant JENKINS, in the midst of a most gallant
struggle within the enemy's works, lost his life at the
instant he had triumphed.
While thus the enemy was driven from his bat-
teries, that he might not annoy us in ouf attack on
the frigates, a heavy cannonade was kept up on them
from the in-shore squadron, whose boats had thus de-
stroyed
his line of defence ashore ; and dispositions
were making to attack the frigates ; when, dismayed 1
by the impetuosity and courage which they had seen
displayed around them, and conscious that all resis- 1
tance would be unavailing, the enemy abandoned
them, first setting them on fire; and happily before
any of our party had got within reach of the destruc-
five conflagration, they both 'slew up with a tremen-
dous explosion, accomplishing, by their own act, the
full object and intention of our enterprise.
Such are the particulars as they have reached us ;
but which cannot possibly embrace the correct de-
tails of this gallant affair, no returns or authentic ac-
count having transpired at Martinique (from whence
they are obtained here) when the last accounts came

away..
Of the two other frigates that formed part of the
enemy's squadron, it is only ascertained, that after
the burning of the Junon, they separated, according
to some reports, to return to France ; having first
turned over the troops on board them to those arrived
at Vieux Fort ; and, as stated by others, in order the
better to elude our cruisers, by getting into Guada-
loupe by another route. The number of troops on
board these vessels is also ♦ariously stated ; some re-
presenting them to be between 400 and 500, and
others amounting to nearly 1000 men.

Essex ELEgriow.—At the close of the Poll yester-
day, the numbers stood thus.
HoopLON 0. • . 1877
lquitoonst. • ♦. 304

Majority -
BIMAD.—This day there being ao Court of Aldei-
meo, the LORD MAYOR, after mart-tin; die returns,
ordehd it to fall W. per reck,

WINO" Mil il..teititZ4VGC; : • .
•••••••MEMPI
• FALMOUTH, FEBIWARY S.
Arriied the Chichester packet, Capt. Roans, with
a mail from the Leeward Islands, after a very quick
pusag* of 24 days. —(Mail not up.) —Wind W.lsl,Vir.
PLYMOUTH, FEBRUARY 4.
Th4Mersator trantitort, the arrival of which from
`JaittlinrilleltiretHYrmy letter of yesterday, sailed
from .thence the 5d of Pecember,. in company with
e V....nager,transports; having 5O
French prisoners on bOaid (`tiken at St. Domingo),
and three merchantmen; viz. the Cambrian; Pluzair,
and John Bull, sunder convoy of the NIOBE 'frigate,
Capt. LORING. The Mercator parted company in a
gale, the 9th ult. The Mote has since arrived at
Portsmouth. On the 21st ult. the Vutonnz frigate,
Capt. BRACE, fell in with two French frigates, in 14.
48. 50. long. 13. 20. W. The, enemy were steering
S. W, under a press of sail-, and "'did not alter thc:r
course to chace the Yr:watts. . The AMETHYST had
also fallen in with the abode frigates, two days before,
Arrived the HARrY, Capt. IttAar:Ev, from Port:,
mouth. Sailed la SEINE agate, Capt. ATKINS, kr
the coast of Spain s the DAPHNE, Capt. Pipos, fc:
the Jersey station ; and the FAVocarrn !loop, Capt.
CLimercrs, on a cruize,: supposed fur the coast of Ire,
land.
PORTSMOUTH, FEBRUARY 4.

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Arrived his Majesty's ship ME.RCCRY, with a small,
convoy Ciotti the Mediterranean.—Sealed the RoyAL
OAK and DONEGAL, for off Cheburgh ; MILFORD,
for Basque Roads ; ANTELOPR, with Mr. WELLasur
on board for Cadiz ; and the PROTECTOR, on a cruize.
—The JAMAICA takes convoy to the Mediterranean..
s.—Arrived the PORT MAHoN, from a cruize.
Came into harbour the Mt*oss.--Whis PILOT sloop
of war takes convoy to the Downsty,Wind S.W.
DEAL, FEBRUARY 5.

Sailed the FISIUARD frigate, on a cruise bff Flush.
ing. Put back the 'Fitment.° sloop of war, with her
convoy of outward•bound that sailed from hence yes.
ttlilay. The Alfred, Woodford, and Elphiestene
East Indiamen, still keep out.—Wind S.W.