Star.
London, England, 1810-04-19 00:00:00

GREENOCK, APRIL 13.

F.:tract of a letter from Captain Jamas MiDowr Li., of the
brig Hibernia, from Jamaica, of and for Belfast, to his owners
there, dated Cork, April 3, 1810:—" 1 am sorry to inform you
of my being captured on the 92d March, in lat. 49. 47. long 24.6.
by the Frenei privateer le Deiste, of fourteen 24-pound tarns-
nades, and two long nines, and 150 men. In siz days after she
captured the ship Wanstead, of London, mounting 16 guns, also
a brig for this port, loaded with lumber and staves, which the
master of the privateer did not think worth keeping, but sent the
Captain of the Wanstead and me, with a part of both our crews
in bet, and we arrived here yesterday. The crew of the priva-

.eer took from us all our clothes, ice. they even took my watch,
and did not leave me a second shirt."

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.

GRAVISETID, APRIL 18.—Arrived the Boyne, Nicholls, from
Bengal ; and the St. Raplia. Santon, from Malaga.—Sailed the
Bombay, Hamilton, for India.
The Hector, GRIFFITH, from Cardiff to London,
was run down off Beachy-head on Monday night.

A requisition has been sent to the Mayor of Hull,
requesting him to call a meeting, to consider the con-
duct of Ministers in planning and executing the Wal-
cheren Expedition. _
It will be secn, on reference to our Report of the
business in the House of Commons last Tuesday night.
that Lord CHATHAM is, and is likely to continue
for some time, at the head of the Ordnance, and in
full receipt of the emoluments attached to that office.
An inquiry of Mr. WHITBREAD'S led to this discovery.
The second notice of action served by Sir FRANCIS
BURDETT upon the SPEAKER of the House of Com-
mons, and entered upon the Journals on Tuesday
night, differs from the former one only in correcting
the error, by which Sir FRANCIS'S house in Piccadilly
was described as being in„the parish of Saint James,
'whereas it is, in fact, in the parish of St. George.
A new writ was moved for the Borough of St. Ger-
main's, in the room of Sir JOSEPH YORKE, who is to
be succeeded by his brother, the ex-member for Cam-
bridgeshire—the new Teller to the Exchequer.
A report has just reached us, that the Commander
in Chief, Sir DAVID DUNDAS, has tendered his resig-
nation. The report adds, that for a con:iderable
time there has been no cordiality between Sir DAVID
and the Ministry, and that he obstinately retained his
own opinions on military subjects. Lord WELLING*
TON is mentioned as the new Commander in Chief ;
and Sir JOHN HOPE, Marshal BERESEORD, General
GRAHAM, and Sir JOHN SHERBROOKE, are variously
mentioned as the successors of Lord WELLINGTON in
Spain. We believe his Lordship to be a very able
as well as an active officer, and we believe also that
he has the voice of the Army with him, but after
, the noble and firm stand, which Sir DAVID DUNDAS
' 1 has made, we confess we will regret the hour he ceases
to be Commander in Chief at home. Few men wculd
have dared to act the noble part which Sir DAVID
DUNDAS did, when Sir WILLIAM PITT died.
Friday se'nnight was committed to the county of
Waterford gaol, by E. LEE, Esq. M. Barr9n, charged
with being a Captain of Caravats, and setting fire to
a house on the lands of Knockeen, near that city.
A murder attended with rape and other circum-
stances of a most atrocious nature was commited
on Sunday se'nnight, in the palish of Speymouth,
during divine service, on the body of a gill of the
name of LAMB, only ten years of age. The girl
had gone out in the forenoon with her father's cat-
tle, to a moor in the vicinity of his firm, where she
was followed by a lad of the name of Gilv,ean, a neigh-
bouring farm servant, who carried with him an oaken
bludgeon taken from a plantation near the place,
with which he felled her to the ground, and after-
wards, shocking to relate ! beat out her brains with
two stones that were found, together with the blud-
geon, beside the mangled body. After the commis-
, mon of this horrid deed he hastened to church to avoid
suspicion. For several days he denied the crime laid
to his charge, but we are since informed that he ad-
mits having committed the murder, but persists in
denying she rape. The unhappy wretch pleads men-
tal derangement at the time of committing the act in
extenuation of his horrid barbarity. A