Star.
London, England, 1811-08-12 00:00:00

MARIBO, JULY LI.

On the evening of the Ilth, three sloops were car-I
cured by a row-boat, which was formerly Danish, off
Nyord; even the pilots barraging to Nyord consider•
ed her as such, and in the afternsion rowed along-side
her, to enquire if she wanted a pilot. How dange-
rous will it not be hereafter for our Danish vessels
which trade between Copenhagen and the islands; it
being difficult to discover any difference between the
enemy's vessels and our own.
KONIGSBERG, JULY IS.
Last night another fire broke out here, in the Schul-
gassc, in the old town; from the confined situation
in which it made its appearance, we were at first
much alarmed, hut timely and active assistance be-
ing given, it only destroyed three battles.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

MONDAY, AUGUST 12.
PIING! RtGINTI BIRTM-DAT.—Holiday at the Public Oiltese.

A Heligoland Mail arrived this morning. The
letters by this conveyance record a most gallant
achievement on the part of a small boat expedition
sent up by the river Y.thde, under the command of
Lieutenant &Tilt, of the QUEBEC frigate. They suc-
ceeded in capturing several French gun-boats, but
suffered a severe loss in killed and wounded, in
consequence of the blowing up of some gun-Powder
on board one of the prizes.

Government have not as yet received any confir-
mation of the account received by the way of Bristol•
of peace having been concluded between Russia and
Turkey. The intelligence by the late Anholt Mails
does not add much to the probability of the report,
although it does not seem to be of such a recent date
as that brought by the Nimrod to Bristol.

A merchant-♦essel (the Malvina) laden with hides,
tallow, and bark, from South America, was boarded

by a pilot-boat, off Plymouth, on Friday afternoon.
She had been only 48 days from Buenos Ayres ; and,

if the intellig-nce she brings be correct, it may by

considered of some importance. The Master of this
vessel stated, that great rejoicings had taken place at
Buenos Ayres, in consequence of a victory obtained

by the troops of that Government over those of the
Vice-Roll of Monte Video. Etto, himself, is re-

ported to have fled, with a few followers.—Another

account states him to have been assassinated by his

own troops—nearly two-thirds of whom are said t•
have deserted his cause, and joined the popular party.
who are represented as rapidly acquiring strength in

every direction.
In confirmation of the above, we have to notice the
arrival of letters and papers from the River Plate, to
the date of the 2d May. At that time it was known
that General BELORANO, who commands the troops
of Buenas Ayres, had blockaded Monte Video on the

land side with a force of between 6 and 7000 men,

and had the good fortune to fall in with a drove of

6,000 bullocks, intended for the supply of the place.

Provisions at Monte Video are sold as in all Spanish

towns, at a price fixed by the municipality. Mesh

was so scarce within the fortress that no inhabitant

was allowed to expend above a rial a-day in meat for

his own individual subsistence. ato had not more

I,

than 800 troops under his orders, and the whole po-
pulation of the place, the troops not excepted, were
much discontented with his Government, so that it
was expected this only remaining possession of Old
Spain on the Eastern side of the Southern Continent
would soon fall under the power of the revolutionary
party. The Junta of Buenos Ayres had published a
notice, that all persons having vessels which they are
disposed to arm, to act against the squadron of Mr'nto
Video, shall be provided with cannon and amunitioat
at the expence of the Government.
From among the violent Proclamations of Eris,
we have selected the following :
" By virtue of the powers vested in me, and by my
authority as Viceroy and Captain-General of these
colonies, I declare in the name of our august Sove-
reign,, Ferdinand VII. and of the Nation, that the
revolutionary and tyrannical Government of Buenas
Ayres is in a state of rebellion against our lawful
Prince. That all who compose such Governmenr.
and that all who carry arms or transmit supplies for
its assistance, to enable it to attack the sacred stan.
dard of the King of Spain, shall be deemed traitors
to their Monarch and to the State, and as such shall
be tried, sentenced and punished. And in order that
this our determination in the name of his Majesty
and of his kingdom may be made known to all, it
shall be published in General Orders, and shalt
be placarded in all public places, that none may
i plead ignorance of the same.
(Signed) " XAVIER ELIOp
" JUAN RAUTISTER ESTELLFS, SEC.'
It has been announced by Viceroy Eta° in a Pro-
clamation he issued, and which we have before insert.
ed, that several thousands of the troops of Brazil
were in readiness to co-operate with him for the re-
duction of the malcontents of Buenos Ayres. In an-
swer to this declaration, the Junta of that city I.ave
published the following official letter, refeived from
the Conde de LINARES, Minister for Foreign Affairs
to the Prince Regent of Portugal :-
4, Most Excellent Signors—The letter that by or-
der of your Excellencies was written to me by your
Secretary, D. Mariano Moreno, having been intro-
duced into the august presence of his Royal I ligh-
ness the Prince Regent of Portugal, I am comet aid.
ed to inform you that the profession the Junta has
made of its sentiments of respectful fidelity towards
his Catholic Majesty, Ferdinand VII. and his legiti-
mate successors, are highly pleasing to his R 3yal,
Highness. He is also happy to find that the Juil:a is
desirous of preserving towards his Royal Highness
that disposition of friendship and good harmony which
the connection of their respective territories require,
the inhabitants of which are united by nature, by re-
ligion, and almost by identity of language.
41 Under these circumstances, his Royal Highness
authorizes me to inform you of his tender q.nsdelity
towards you, for the attachment you have expressed,
and to declare to you that he will take no part what.
ever in the internal dissensions of the vassals of a
Prince allied to him by blood, and by every ether re-
lation ; and he will only offer up his prayers that these
dissensions may have a speedy and beneficial termi-
nation ; and adopt those means that he shall deem
necessary to prevent the flame of civil war from ex-
tending to his own possessions, in consistency with his
anxiety to preserve the welfare and tranquillity of his
subjects, to which they sire so justly entitled.
(Signed) " COND.& DE UNARM

in

AFFAIRS OP IRALAND,

We are concerned to,state that the Roman eathb-
-I,c question seems hastening to a crisis, which pin-
,i,,nce must deprecate as ill timed, at the present mo-
nient, when his MAJESTY, to whose paternal reign his
Catholic subjects owe so many obligations, is debarred
by an afflicting malady from interfering with the afs
fairs of Government.
The question between Government and the Catho-
lic Committee or Convention must, in some shape or
other, come to an issue before many days pass over ;
for we learn, by private letters received this morning
from Dublin, that five of the Delegates were arrested
on Friday last, the 9th inst. and held to bail. Some
of our letters state that one of them has refused to
five in bail, but we are not certain of the fact.
'!'be Gentlemen arrested are—Doctors SHERIDAN',
BURK E, and BREEN, and Messrs. TAAFE and KIRWAN.
The STAR has always been favourable to Catholic
emancipation as well as to rational liberty generally,
in the proper sense of that term ; but we cannot but
deprecate the spirit by which some of the Catholics
seem to be actuated at the present moment. When
the Government is embarrassed by so many unfore-
seen contingencies, arising out of the indisposition of
cur beloved Monarch, is this a fit moment to urge a
question which, at any time, must require cool deli-
beration, unrestrained discussion, and unawed deci-
sion ? We cannot but think it reprehensible in the
Catholics to persist its appointing delegates and as-
sembling in such questionable numbers in the teeth of
Proclamation. Will it be denied by any reasonable
Yvan that the actual business of a petition could be
carried on without a convention of six or seven hun-
dred persons ? The very different line which they
have chosen to follow certainly called upon the Go-
vernment to interfere for the maintenance of public
order, and justifies the precautions which it has
tdoptrd.
It appears from the Dublin Evening Post that the
Catholics of the City and County of Kilkenny assem-
bled on Tuesday, and passed certain Resolutions, ex-
pressive of their determination to petition the Legis-
lature for an abolition of the restraints laid upon them
in consequence of their religion. Six Protestant Ma-
gistrates are said to have been present at this Meeting,
and to have expressed their approbation of the measure.
The Catholics of Cork, Tipperary, and Limerick,
Save come to similar resolutions.
The requisitions for the above meetings were issued,
in some instances, within half an hour after the receipt
of the Proclamation of the Irish Government.
From the Llndonderry Journal of Tuesday last.—
"'The question between Government and the Catho-
lic Committee is likely to come at length to an issue.
A Proclamation was issued by the Lord Lieutenant

and Privy CJuncil, on the 30th ult. and forwarded
to the different Magistrates throughout the Country,
comm.maing them to put the Convention Act in

force, and prevent meetings for the purpose of choos-
ing Delegates. In the present awful and melancholy
moment, when the Hand of the ALMIGHTY is laid so
heavy on their afflicted Sovereign, to whose mild and

beneficent reign they owe all the liberties they now
enjoy, we cannot help saying, that it would be more
decorous in our Catholic Fellow-Subjects to have sus-
pended their proceedings, and not add to the already
agitated state of the public feelings. We would put
it to them whether they think such conduct, at the
present moment, can make a favourable impression
npon the dignified and feeling mind of the Flair Ap-
parent, and whether it can tend to their advantage, to
let public clamour break in upon those moments
which are allowed to the suffering of his Royal and
•tMicted Parent."
From the DullinCorrestondent of Friday last.—" This
morning Messrs. TAAFFE and lillawAN were arrested
tinder a warrant from Lord Chief Justice Dowsas,
fer acting as Delegates ; and Mr. SCURLOG, Doctors
RE EN and BOURKE, f►r acting as Electors of Dele-
gates to the Catholic Committee, were also arrested,
and the whole of these Gentlemen were brought in
custody to the house of the Lord Chief Justice, in
Merrion-square, where they respectively gave bail to
stand their trial for the alledged offence ; these pro-
ceedings have occasioned a very great ensations in
town, and it is said, a Privy Council will be assem-
bled to-morrow.—We understand there are several
warrants issued against other persons, who are not yet
in custody, for similar alleged offences."
From the Freeman's Journal.—.1 This morning the
following Gentlemen who were lately elected Dele-
gates to represent their Roman Catholic Brethren,
were arrested and held to bail before Judge Dowses :
GREGORY SCURLOO, Dr. BREEN, Dr. BURKE, Mr.
11:1RIY.101, and Mr. TAA FEE."
From the Dublin Evening Post of Friday last
E PnoCLAMATIOW.—•The general report through-
out Dublin at the present moment is, that Govern-
ment had resolved to act under the Proclamation, and
that several arrests would take place in the course of
this evening, or early to-morrow. That such a ru-
mour has had its source in the Castle we know, but
that WILLIAM WELLESLEY POLE could think of car-
rying his temerity to a length so much to be depre-
cated, is what we can scarcely believe. What can
be the object of a measure in every point of •iew un-
constitutional ? Is it to intimidate the people ? Is it
to prevent their laying a statement of their grievances
at the foot of the Throne or before Parliament Is

it to render the Wlll de& Secretary sltperiet to the
Constitution and the law ? Is it to make the chain
of political exclusion and provincial servitude doubly
galling ? Is it to add insult to the injuries of an en-
slaved people, by throwing the Catholic Peer and
Country Gentleman into the polluted arms of a Bai-
liff, or amidst the poisonous exhalations of a Dun-
geon ? Is it to render the PRINCE unpopular with a
People who reverence him, and who look up to him
as their only hope in this dark night of intolerance
and persecution ? Is it to unnerve the Independent
Press of the Country—that grand engine of Liberty,
the scourge of the oppressor, and the castigator of
every petulant, rash, narrow-minded, intolerant little
creature in office ? Should any, or all of these things
be contemplated by the Irish Secretary, he will have
to suffer all the acute feelings of disappointment.
" The Catholics will not be intimidated either by
arrest, fine, or imprisonment. The Press will conti-
nue in the bold language of the Constitution, to ad-
vocate the rights. of Ireland, and the PRINCE, inter-
posing between the oppressor and the oppressed, will
retain his popularity, and ever reign in the hearts of
the Irish People."

Accounts from Gibraltar to the 25th ult. afford the
gratifying information, « that an express had arrived
there from Cadiz, announcing that the Minho man of
war had arrived at the latter port, from Vera Cruz,
with eight millions of dollars on board." This is the
desirable supply which the Regency of Cadiz expec-
ted hourly to arrive, according to the letters from
thence by the last mail.
Thefullowing is an extract of one of our letters :

" GIBRALTAR, JULY 9.5.
" The packet-boat from Cadiz has just arrived, bringing ina
formation that the Minho ship of war has come in front Ver'
Cruz, with seven millions of dollars. The exchange, in conse-
qui.nce, has fallen to 41."
This acquisition is very opportune, as the Spanish
Executive Government was in so much distress for
money, that they could not even supply the army with
necessaries, much less pay up the arrears. According
to BLAKE'S account, one-third of them was destitute
of shoes, and although there was abundance of flour
in the port, the Regency had no resources to purchase
it of the Proprietors, for the maintenance of the forces.
Mr. WELLESLEY, the British Minister, had advanced
to the Spanish Government two millions of dollars,
which, it is presumed, will now be returned, as nearly
the whole of the seven millions is remitted on public
account.

Lord WELLINGTON, greatly to his honour, has de,
dined the pension of 20,000 crusades (about £2,500,
offered to him by the PRINCE REGENT of Poltroon..
In 1809, he declined the pay of a Captain General of
Spain OE3OOO. a year), which was offered to him by
the Central Junrl. That body also offered. him some
horses, and the rank of Captain-General in the Army
(not of a province, which is very different), and which
is the same as a Marshal of France under the old re-
gime. These two offers Lord WELLINGTON accepted;
but the horses were never sent to him. His Lordship,
it is also said, has declined accepting the pay of a
Marshal-General of Portugal, which amounts to more
than £3,000 a-year. The arrears due to him on
that account, it is added, are upwards of £2.0,000,
which his Lordship refuses to receive.
The convoy of about seventy sail, with 4,000 troops
on board, which have been wind-bound since the 2d
inst. at Falmouth, sailed on Friday, under convoy
of the MERCURY, SPITFIRE, and JASPER, with a fine
breeac from N.W. to N. for Lisbon, &c. The Ann
packet sailed at the same time for Gibraltar and
Malta. The Duke of Kent packet, Captain COTES-
WORTH, and the Coichester, Capt. ROGERS sailed from
Falmouth on Saturday ; the former for Lisbon and
the latter for Cadiz.
The Ist Somereet Militia, with the exception of
16; have volunteered their services for Ireland, and
been re-attested ; they are at present stationed at
Plymouth garrison.
General WALKER has arrived at Plymouth to em-
bark for Corunna : he was expected to sail yesterday
in the UNICORN frigate.
Sir R. CALDER, Port-Admiral at Plymouth, arri-
ved in town last week.
The ROYAL OAK arrived nn Friday at St. Helen's.
Captain PULTENEY NI/sm.:ol,m is appointed to her, in
the roam of Lord AMELWS BEM:CLERK, promoted.
The Melpomene, Captain FALCON, sailed from
Portsmouth, on gaturday afternoon, with Generals
LE MARCHANI and VANDELEUR for Portugal, hav-
ing under convoy the 3d or King's Own Dragoons,
and 600 German troops, which embarked the prece-
ding week.

Th.:. sailor has arrived in England who some time
since saved the life of the Queen of PORTUGAL, by
stopping the horses to the carriage which had run
away. He has since been discharged the service, and
is about to have a pension for his life from this Go-
vernment—the Queen of PORYUGAL hits also made
him an allowance.
NATIONAL 1)t sr.—An Account of the Reduction
the National Debt, from the Ist of August, 1786, to
the Ist of August, 1811 :
Redeemed by the Sinking Fund
Transferred by Land-tax redeemed -
Ditto by Life Annuities purchased -
Ditto of Ireland - -
Ditto of Imperial Loan -
Ditto •f Loan to Portugal

.11811,345,C011
23,835,476
1,449,910
8,894,414
1,176,938
92,5'34

Total - - £111.5,293,354
The sum to be expended in the ensuing quarter is
£2,880,149, 16s. 41

RANELAGIT, MILLBANIC.*TO-morrow, August 13,
in honour of his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT'S
Birth-day, will be given a splendid Fete, and a superb
Exhibition of Fireworks. On this occasion, the Gar-
dens will present a brilliant blaze of light with thou.
sandsof variegated and other lamps, new devices,trans-
parencies, and decorations. To the entertainments
of the evening will be added, a Grand Discharge of
Sky and Water Rockets, on the River Thames : the
brilliant Display of Fireworks in the Gardens will
follow immediately after.—Doors open at Seven, and
the Concert to begin at Bight o'clock precisely.—
Admission, 2s. 6d.