Star.
London, England, 1810-10-06 00:00:00

SPORTING IN POR?UG4L.

We have been requested to insert the fellowing• ac
count of the Races that were ran during the summer
at Portalegre, in Portugal. The Stewards were—
Captains Steevens, Clifford, and Fancourt.
A Sweepstakes of Ten Dollars each, for Horses of all denomina-
tions. One-mile Heats Gentlemen Riders. Si: Subscribers.
Mr. Churchill's b. h. Debauches - ' 1 1
Mr. Price's ch. g. Rattletrap - - - 2 2
Major Roberts's r. m. Kitty - - - 3 S
The first was a well-contested heat between the Gohanna colt
and Rattletrap. Two to one on the Gohanna colt.
A poney Stakes of Five Dollars each, catch-weights. One.mne
Heats.

Cart. Stewart's brown - 1
Major Dickens's brown bolted
Mr Hill's roan - - 90
Major Dickens's the favourite at starting—. Even betting after
the first heat.
A Match.

Mr. Churchill's ch.-No Chance, beat Mr. Price's h g. Astro.
comer—One mile—Astronomer bolted—Even betting.
A Handicap Sweepstakes of Ten Dollars each, p. p. for Hores
not iborough-bred, kiwi* property of Officers of the Second
Division.—•One-mile Heats.—• Gentlemen Riders---(17 Sub-
seriberp).
Mr. Churchill's eh. g. No-chance - - 1 1
Major Parke's b. m. Mrs. Clarke - - i 1
Capt. Price's b. g. Astronomer - - 3 $
Cam Hill's ch. g. Viscount - . fell.
Capt. Marley's b. g. .. - • dis.
The second heat was well contested between the mare and No-
chance-2 to I apt. the winner.
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A Sweepstakes of Five Dollars each, for Country Hones, to
which were added Sixty Dollars from the Racing Fen& One.

mile Heats.
Capt. Taylor's g. h. Duncan - . $ 1. - 1
Major L'Estrange's b. h. Padilla - 1 *2 dls.
Viscount De Lapaile b. h. Mar ro . 8 8
Capt. Wood's b. h. Rodney - . - dis.
Major Dickens's b. b. Sulkysides . - - _ bolted
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A good race; 4 to I agst. Duncan after the first beat.
A Sweepstakes of Three Dollars each, for Portuguese Horses not
weeding 14 bands high, with Thirty-in Dollars added from
the Racing Fund. One-mile Heats.
Capt. Stewart's b. h. Bucksford . - 1 2 1
Major Dickens's b. h. Sulkysides . . . 2 I 2
Capt. Hill's roan, Palafox • • 3 3 3
Major Taylor's g. h. Duncan - - • • 4 4 4
Besides the above, many matches were run, some of
which afforded good sport. The fineness of the
weather, and the beautiful situation of the course, at-
tracted a crowd of Spectators. The sparkling eyes
Of the Portuguese brunettes added much to the gaiety
of the scene. There was much betting in the stand.
The activity of the Stewards gave universal satisfac-
tion.

Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, the Dukes of
YORK, KENT, and CUMBERLAND, Princesses AUGUSTA
and SOPHIA, accompanied by Lord WALSINGHASt,
Lady ELY, General FITZROY, and Colonel TAYLOR,
took an airing in Windsor Great Park till half-past
twelve o'clock.

The Princess AMELIA, we are sorry to learn, con-
tinues in the same alarming state. No hopes are
entertained of her Royal Highness's recovery. Dr.
BAILEY arrived yesterday morning at Windsor, from
his seat at Cirencester ; and he, together with Sir.
BIENRY HALFORD and Dr. POPE, were in attendance
on her Royal Highness during the whole of the day.

All the ROYAL Dimas remained at Windsor. The
PRINCE left town yesterday morning, at ten o'clock,
on a visit to the PRINCESS. At seven o'clock in the
morning Miss GOROSWORYITY left town for Windsor,
having received an express from thence, stating her
Royal Highness to be in a most alarming state.

Lucun4 BoNaPAarE.--It is byisome supposed that
Lucien has fallen involuntarily into the hands of our
Government. He is said to have been actually pro-
ceeding to the United States in the vessel which con-
veyed him from Civita Vecchia, when she was over-
hauled by the Pomona frigate. Being a French sub-
ject, both himself and his property on board, which is
stated at £lOO,OOO sterling, become, in a strict sense
of the laws of war, subject to capture ; and it will
rest with the Cliovernment and captors whether he is
to be exempted from their operation.
The following short Memoir of him will be found
not uninteresting :
Lucien Bonaparte was born in the year 1774. He
came to France in 1793, and became an assistant
usher to a primary school at Marseilles, where he soon
after his arrival niarried an innkeeper's daughter.
Some few years after this, he had his wife destroyed.
When his brother was appointed Commander in Chief
of the army of Italy, Lucien obtained the situation
of a cornminaire de guerre, in which post he soon amassed
A considerable fortune.

When he was at Genoa, he became owner of a
privateer, or rather a pirate. The depredations com-
mitted by that vessel excited the animadversions of all
the French Papers. One case, in particular, made
a great noise in Paris. A vessel from Morocco was
bound to some port in Italy ; she was met by Lucien's
privateer, and carried into Ajaccio, in Corsica, where
she was condemned ; the crew were imprisoned, and
afterwards sent from the island in an open boat.—
However they found their way to Marseilles, and the
Captain found means to go to Paris, where he made
the affair known. The cause came on before the
Prize Court ; but it was so hare.faced a robbery that
the President informed the Directory of it ; the con.
sequence was, that the Turk was arrested, and con-
veyed under an escort to Marseilles, where he and his
crew took their passage on board some neutral vessel
for Sicily, with a pretty good specimen of French
republican fraternity and civilization ! !
On the 18th Brumaire, it was Lucien who gained
the day. In return for which, his brother appointed
him Minister of the Interior. His conduct in that
situation was infamous beyond example; he robbed
and pilfered in every direction. His intrigues and de-
baucheries with the fair sex were numberless. At his
office he violated a young lady of 18 ; her screams
bronght all the cleats of the office to thc Minister's
apartment. This affair made a great sensation; and
his amour: with his sister Murat contributed in a great
degree to his brother's removing him from Paris; and
accordingly he was sent Ambassador to Madrid.—
Very soon after he went to Badajoz, to treat for peace
with Portugal. The :int rut non was to be a private
ilouceur to himof six millions of livres,ubout 42900,000
sterling ; but as the Government of Portugal had not
i_pecie to give, theT paid him in rough diamonds.—
on after his return to Paris, a Mr. Solomon:, a rich
diamond merchant, from London, went there to pur-
chase them.
Lucien was appointed Member of the Tribunate
en his return, and made some very good speeches.—
Ile was afterwards made Senator, but did not get
beyond that.

• THE. Amy. e•

er An Ollcersofbrarons has bur beet thanks. We shall be
glad to bear from him again. His tikes will be attended to.
Report says, that an Eva:Edon on a small scale
will speedily be sent to the Baltic.
The hearty co-operation of General GRAHAM and
of Sir RICHARD KZATII, with the Spaniards at Cadiz,
has done more good to the common cause than per-
haps any occurrences of the war. The Spaniards look
with confidence to these very able Commanders.
It is calculated, that by the Ist instant, Lord War.-
LINGrox had received a reinforcement, consisting of
part of the German Light Dragoons,
Two Brigades of Artillery,
The 7th Foot, or Royal Paulleers,
itch Ditto, or King's Own Regiment,
&kb Regiment, '
?Ise Highlanders, (Colonel Piteu's Regiment)
79th, or Cameronian Highlanders,
92d, or Gordon Highlanders,
94th, or Scotch Brigade,
95th, or Rifle Corps, a strong detachment,
The Duke of Brunkwiek ON's corps,
Besides reinforcements and recruits for almost every Regiment

composing his Army.
Whether this large reinforcement arrives before the
battle, or immediately after, they will be of the
greatest service. Generals CoLvtr,LE and HAY, Sir
WILLIAM Ettsme, and many of our best Officers,
have by this time joined Lord WELLINGTON.
An expedition is about to proceed to Corunna, under
these celebrated officers, General WALKER and Sir
HOME POPHAM ; the troops to assemble at Plymouth..
A brigade of heavy Dragoons, and the 6th, Stith,
37th, 52d, 42d, and some other corps, will soon be
sent on service.

It is said that Sir JOHN Hors will succeed General
BROWNIUGG as Quarter-Master•General of the British
Army ; but other reports, and those we think more
probable, mention Sir JOHN Horn as the new Corn.
mander-in•Ch:ef of the Army in the Mediterranean.
Sir JOHN Hon ii undoubtedly one of the best officers
we have, and we would be sorry to see him employed
otherwise than in the active duties of his profession.

GENERAL ORDERS.
Horse Guards, October 1,1810.
His Majesty has been pleased to make the follow.
ing appointment on the Staff of the Army, viz.

Coif:one! RALPS DAILitICI, of the Slat Regiment, to be a De-
puty Adjutant General of the Forces.
The Commander-in-Chief is pleased to direct, that Colonel
DARLING shall, Under the superintendance of the AdjutaniGe-
neral, take charge of the details of the Recruiting Service of the
Army.

All letters, returns, &e. relative to this branch of the service,
am to be transmitted as heretofore, under cover, to the Adju-
tant Generli of the Forces, Horse Guards, Limdon ; the words,
a Recruiting Department," being marked on-the outside of the
cover.

By command of the Right Hon. the Commander.in-Chief.
HA ZIT CA LVIRT, Adjutant-Getietol

COURT-MARTIAL AT BRIGHTON, OCTOBER 4.

THIRD DAY.

The Court Martial at the Castle, for the trial of
Captain Ellman, was re•opened at twelve o'clock this
day. The prisoner concluded his defence yesterday;
the closing reply of Colonel Graham, therefore, was
only wanting, ere the Court proceeded to deliberate
on its decision. This reply Colonel Graham read.
He dwelt with some warmth upon that part of the
defence wherein the prisoner stated that he bad been
induced to tender his resignation in consequence of
the letter that had been written to him on the subject
of his solicited exchange into the Pevensey battalion,
the language in which it was couched having
been so much disapproved ; whereas the Colonel as-
serted that he had finally decided upon what con-
duct to adopt, prior to his having received that let-
ter, which, he said, was proved by his previous appli-
cation for a removal to the Earl of Chichester. The
defence generally, the Colonel observed, was unsup-
ported by evidence, and, therefore, required no refu-
tation from him, as the Court would decide from the
.evidence before them ; though a few contradictions
between some parts of the defence and the evidence
he pointed out. At the time that Captain Ellman's
tender of resignation was made, he said several offi.
cers of the battalion had .imilarly addressed
Compliance with their wishes, at a time so unseaso-
nable as when the regiment was about to be called
out, would have tended to the injury cf the service,
and this apinion he had not failed to communicate to
the Lord Lieutenant. None of the resignations ten-
dered, therefore, had been accepted ; and no officer
had a right to expect, under such circumstances. that
as exception would have been made in his favour.— •
The Colonel read a letter which be had received from
the Duke of Norfolk after the closing of the Court
yesterday, approving of his (the Colonel's) conduct
throughout this affair ; and, if we heard rightly, ob-
serving, that the calling out of the commissioned ot-
ficers, when the battalion received orders to be embo-
died, rested, not with the Lord Lieutenant, but with
the Commandant of the corps ; and thereby, of
course, exonerating Captain Ellman completely from
the effects of the first charge.
The Court was ordered to be cleared, as soon as
Colonel Graham had concluded, that they might
proceed to their decision ; the result of which will nct
be made known until after it bas received his Ma-
jesty's sanction.
The Local Militia were marched from the level to
the slope of the Downs to the north of this place, at
about lour o'clock this afternoon, where they were
reviewed and inspected by General Houston. Hay
ing passed the General to orderly and quick time, in
open and close column, the line was again formed,
and various evolutions and manoeuvres, marching in
companies and in line, took place, with a regularity
and skill that astonished the General, who subse-
quently expressed his satisfaction in the warmest lan-
guage to their Colonel. In truth, the rapid improve-
ment of this battalion, in the short time it has been
out, is almost incredible, and reflects the highest ho-
nour, not only upon the officers, but every consonant
part of it.
The Lord Lieutenant, his Grace of Norfolk, is ar-
rived, and is now honouring the mess of the officers
of the Local Militia, by having taken a seat at the
table.

•
NAVAL INTILLTUNCE.
FALMOUTH, OCTOBER 3.
Arrived the WinnNo schooner from a cruize.
PLYMOUTH, OCTOBER 4.
Sailed the Atom& frigate, for the West Indies ;
the Havocz sloop, on a cruize ; and the Etazaaarat
74, for Cadiz, where she is to be followed by the NEP-
TUNE, $8; report says, to bring home our wounded;
Oazsras, on a ernize; and LAToNA frigate to Ports-
mouth. Wind E.—The report of the loss of the
LIVELY frig:ate, said to be brought by the Larowa,
is not credited here in the best informed circles. Let-
ters were several days ago received from Sir C.
Bones, and another gentleman who went from Gib-
raltar to Malta in the LIVELY, stating their having
arrived in safety, after a very fine passage. Had
they suffered shipwreck the circumstance would have
been alluded to by these respectable personages, were
it only to relieve the anxiety of their respective friends
and connections.

PORTSMOUTH, OCTOBER 5.
Arrived the Ltmccr sloop of war from a cruize.
DEAL, OCTOBER 5.

Came down from the River and sailed, the Chitham
Castle, NEALE, for Surinam; and the GANVMEDII,
to the Westward. Came down from the River, and
sailed under convoy of the REBUFF gun-brig to Pons-
mouth, the Sovereign, Mosratnt, and Eagle, PEAR-
SON, for Lisbon ; and the Expedition, Loanics, for
Cadiz.—Wind E.
YARMOUTH, OCTOBER S.
This morning the REDBREAST', Sir GEORGE KEITH,
and the PRINCESS AUGUSTA cutter, arrived here from
Heligoland, with convoy ; and the BRISEIS gun-brig,
from the Westward.—Sailed the Auckland packet,
Captain T. Brun9E, with mails and passengers, for
Heligoland.