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

K GENERAL ORDERS.

44 Messina, July 4,111 t
es Lieutenant General Sir JORN STUART is aw
that it is unnecessary to call the attention of the army
to the great equipments at present of the enemy is
our front, with the avowed declaration to the world
of intended enterprize upon the part of this Islasa
defended by the British forces—but the General extrhs
that we can reply to the vauntings of our adversary
by displaying to his view the calm with which we
prepare to meet his approaches.

~ The British Officers commanding at the different
posts will be often obliged to appropriate the local
resources of the country for the service of the tro ips,
to the partial privation and inconvenience perhaps of
the inhabitants ; but die necessity of circumstances,
and the reflection that oar measures are only for their
own security, and to sustain them in defending the
rights aad interests of their lawful Prince, against an
enemy thirsting for violence and rapine, will, no
doubt, ensure a continuance of that zealous and

friendly assistance which the British troops have eve;
habitually experienced from the friendship of the Si.
cilian People, but which the objects of our common
cause may require from them more actively at this
moment.

44 The Control, however, desires that it may still
be remembered by Officers in command, that every
requisition from the population shall be made as hew
tofore, where possible, through the channel of the legal
Magistrates ; and that all supplies, whether of article
or labour, are to be duly and regularly paid for.
Meanwhile the successful gallantry of the corn.
blued British and Sicilian flotillas, attached to the
service of the army, have already proved anew to
the enemy their impotency in every attempt to ope.
rate upon an element on which the enterprizes of their
station have been only recorded by ignominious flights,
or by discomfitures ; and should any of their disor-
dered divisions reach the shores which his Sicilian
Majesty has, in by flattering confidence, committed
to British protection, they will be received by troops,
in whom the language of menace excites ne emotion
but that of contempt; and who never as yet have
met their boasted legions on any terms of equalitr,
but to be victorious. (Signed) T. CAMPULIop A.O.
" GIBRALTAR, AUGUST CI.

44 The affairs of Spain now begin to assume an as-
pect so favourable as to outstrip the expectations d
those who were most sanguine in her cause; and un-
less the enemy throws in immense reinforcements i;n•
mediately, he will be speedily driven from the Penis•
sula. Several families who had taken refuge in this
garrison for some time past, have returned to their
residences in Spain, under the conviction of their
being perfectly secure from any further molestation
by the enemy.
44 We are still extremely crowded here by refugees
from Cadiz, Alicant, &c. which occasions provisions
to be not over abundant, and rather high in price.
Several gun-boats are fitting out here, to go against
the enemy's batteries in the vicinity of Cadiz ; and a
detachment-of artillery embark here to-morrow, for
the same destination."

Since our last, accounts have. been received from►
the British Army in Portugal to the 22d ult. and
from the corps under SILVIERA to the 24th. Lord
WELLINGTON'S head-quarters were still at Ceierico.
--The advanced posts were established at Ade
Stiero. Lord WELLINGTON was indefatigable in
devising every possible means of improving hit
situation, and the better to be enabled to repel all
attack that the enemy might be induced to make,
Lord WELLINGTON had so far concentrated his
forces as to call in the brigades of Generals HILL and
PAYNE. According to other accounts, there was
ao
probability of any offensive operations being for the
present attempted by the enemy. It is asserted II
the Master of a vessel arrived from Comma, that
advice had been received there previous to his sailing
of Marshal Mumma baying fallen back towards Sa•
lamanca, in consequence of the mortality that re"
vailed in his army and the want of provisions ; but
ibis statement, however probable, we deem it nee*
saryto °bierfei i ußsanctioird hT MIT 0444 Or au'
thentic adirice‘
The accounts front the South of Spain optima to
Teak of d e 4istresfd split 9f the comp Sod the

towing aheontents of the troops tor want of the at-
:essary provisions ; and assert, that some advantages
tare lately been obtained by the Patriots, the nature
extent of which are, however, not mentioned

A mail from Gottenburgh has also arrived since
oar last, by which we learn, that the accession of the
Prince of Ponte Corvo is received with that perfect
indifference which seems to be the characteristic of
all people under the destinywhith prevails. Notice of
his nomination has been transmitted to Path, and a
very few weeks will elapse, before the neW Crown
Prince will, by some new event, assume the reins of

Government.
There appears by a paragrah from Copenhagen,
OW an alarm has been spread there of Government
seiz;n gon the funds of the Bank. The terms of the
contradiction prove at least the existence of the alarm.
Little doubt can be entertained of the approaching
fate of that Monarchy also for every where we find
the Councils of BONAPARTE as successful as his arms.
And how indeed can it be otherwise, considering the
character of the Councils every where opposed to him?

Letters from the French coast, dated on Wednes-
day, state, that an Imperial Decree was signed on the
2gth of August, which prohibits passengers from
landing at or sailingfrom any of the ports of France,
under the penalty of the confiscation of any vessel the
master of which shall contravene this resolution.
The American Secretary of Legation sailed from
Dover yesterday morning in a flag of truce for Calais.
The Turkish frigate, which was captured by the
otottsE some time ago in the Mediterranean, passed
novo- yesterday, for the River : she is a very large
ship, and under jury top-masts, having lost her proper
cues in a gale in the Bay.
The Comm:, Captain M. SMYTH, was to sail trom
Lisbon on an embassy to Algiers.
The Report of the quantity of colonial produce in
Holland, at the period of its incorporation with the
French empire, states the following as the quantities
at the under-mentioned depots :

C zterdam
Rotterdam

Dort, &c. • • •