Star.
London, England, 1810-09-10 00:00:00

COPENHAGEN, AUGUST S.

A report having been spread by ill-disposed people
that his Majesty the King had seized the bank, and
undertaken to pay to the holders of bank shares 1600
rix dollars for every share, we think it right to state,
that the above report is totally false—Government
is not engaged in any negociations either with the
holders of bank shares, or with the directors of the
bank, nor have either the former or latter had any
meeting on that subject.
AUGUST 27.—The Royal Board of Admiralty has
now received the official report of the capture of the
convoy which was lately taken and carried to Chris-
tiansand. The said convoy, which• consisted of 47
ships, was attacked on the 19th of last month from
seven to eight miles S.W. of Lenduras by five of his
Majesty's gun-brigs, under the orders of Capt. Bugir
—an English gun-brig (the Forward), ran away as
soon as the Danish gun-brigs hove in sight. The car-
goes of the captured ships consist of flax, hemp, sail-
cloth, wheat, rye, planks, boards, tallow, tar, oil, pot-
ash, &c. &c.
PRIVATE LETTER.—HELIGOLAND, SEPT. 1.

11 Considerable alarm prevails for the safety of the
property on this island ; according to all accounts
such active preparations are making by the Dutch
and Danes, that we cannot be without our suspicions.
Persons arrived here from Antwerp assure us that it
is Bonaparte's intention to send out an expedition
from thence against the Island. We do not fear so
much that we shall lose the Island as the property
upon it. There are troops enough to defend it; but
immense quantities of Colonial produce lie on the
beach completely exposed under wooden sheds, which
if the enemy could approach near enough might be
destroyed in a few moments by red-hot balls. We
have been watching the opposite coast for some time
with anxiety."

.174 L r.

PALERMO, JULY 10.

PROCLAMATION BY THE ICING Off THE TWO EMIRS.
Ferdinand IV. by the grace of GOD, King of the
two Sicilies, Jerusalem, &c. Infant of Spain, Duke
of Parma, Piacenza, Castis, &c. Grand Hereditary
Prince of Tuscany, to our beloved and faithful people
of Sicily.

The ferocious enemy who threatens to invade this
happy kingdom, and to bring amongst us desolation,
shame, and death, is carrying on his preparations.—
His pride supports him, notwithstanding the want of
confidence of the unfortunate victims of his despotism,
whom he intends to employ on this rash expedition.
In vain does he try, with unequalled impudencies, to
pervert and misrepresent facts for the purpose of ani-
mating his soldiers and sailors ; they all know the
losses he has sustained ; they all know, that to flight
alone they are indebted for their lives ; and they all
see that the batteries on the Calabrian coast are their
only asylum and protection.

Sicilians ! experience clearly shews you what an
unlimited confidence you should repose on the heroic
valour of our royal navy, and that of our august ally,
the King of Great Britain. To this moment they
have baffled the enemy's attempts ; and, with unim-
paired zeal and courage, they will continue to avert
from our shores- the dreadful evils with which you are
threatened. But what brilliant results have you not
a right to expect, of cherishing in yOur own breasts
the enthusiastic love and loyalty with which you are
nobly animated ; and join your assistance, exertions,
and means to the forces which we and our gallant
allies oppose to the enemy. Then will victory be
certain, and your tranquillity insured. The preser-
vation of our holy religion, and of all the objects of
your regards, and the sentiments of love and attach•
meet which you have always displayed towards our
person, call for all your exertions.

Hold, then, yourselves in readiness to join, at the
voice of your Sovereign and Father, our troops and
those of our faithful ally, the Kipg of Great Britain,
for the purpbse of resisting the threatened invasion,
and thereby securing his throne and its independence,
and let your alacrity in obeying this call, afford the
enemy an additional proof, that, making common
cause with our allies, the English, you follow our ex-
ample, and comply with our will ; and that, there-
fore, he will find in all the inhabitants of this island
a general and unanimous determination to shed to the
last drop of their blood, and to die with arms in their
hands, rather than submit to his abhorred yoke.—
Sicilians ! remember your former glory, and you
shall be invincible. (Signed)

FERDINAND THOMAS() DI SOMMA.
JULY 21.

His Majesty the King of the two Sicilies, having
been informed by his Excellency Lieutenant-General 1
Denaro, of the zeal and activity with which his Ex-
cellency Lieutenant-General Sir J. Stuart has provid.
ed for the security of the city of Messina, and the
defence of this country against the common enemy,
has charged Lieutenant-General Denaro, not only to
express to Lieutenant-General Stuart his Majesty's
unqualified approbation of all the measures adopted
for that purpose, but also to make it known to the
public at large.
The prizes lately taken off Citraro by an English
gun-brig have already arrived ; the two gun-brigs are
of an excellent construction I. oat has an 18-endnder
mounted, and the other a 36-pounder. A boat atmed
wick a brass 41saasdar, lad mimed with IS men
sorted last Thasedai meming *Am tile f 4
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