Star.
London, England, 1810-09-07 00:00:00

PETERSBURG, AUGUST 8.

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A change in the urbanization of our Ministry is
shortly expected.—We understand that tke cargoes
of ali the merchant vessels arrived with (pretended)
Teneriffe papers, in several Russian ports, have been
condemned.

PRESBURG, AUGUST 14.
Our Gazette speaks of another battle near Schumla,
of which we wait the particulars.

EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

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To the accounts which we gave yesterday from
Lord WELLINGIGN2S army to the 18th and from Lis-
bon to the 23d ult. we have yet some interesting par-
ticulars to add. By all the letters it appears certain
that NIASSENAPS army is much distressed by disease
and want of provisions. It seems also evident that
the ranks of the Portuguese are every day increasing
in numbers. All the youths of the country are sent
to the army. The principal depot for the recruit
vas near Coimbra. There they were disciplined,
armed, and provided, and sent forward in bodies of
ei;ht and ten thousand, as they were prepared, to join
ttushal BEItE•SFORD at his bead-quarters. No fears
sere entertained for Oporto under the expectation of
Jucor's approach, as in the difficult and impracticable
country of Tralos Montes, every defile was fortified
and guarded. General TRANT had returned to Oporto,
where his conduct was highly approved. The head-
quarters of the Militia, consisting of 15,000 men,
cntinued at Lamego.
Some changes have taken place in the Regency,
and Don RICARDO RAYMUNDO NOGUEIRA has been
advanced to the rank of a Member of the Government-
He was formerly a Professor at Coimbra, and subse-
quently a Tutor to the Royal Family, and Director
of the College of Nobles at Lisbon. He is a man of
extraordinary abilities and unblemished integrity, and
very sanguine expectations are indulged from his
assistance.

A strict system of river police has been adopted at
the mouth of the Tagus, in order to prevent any.
spies or suspicious persons from proceeding up the
fiver towards the allied army, and this precaution
has become extremely necessary. •
The following letter, the most recent we have seen,
contains some interesting particulars, and as far as
the writer (a British Naval Officer) had • the means
of ascertaining the facts stated, may be perfectly re-
lied upon

"LISBON, AUGUST 22.

" Dear Sir,--I know you expect a large budgie
of news, but do not feel disappointed when I tell you
I have little to offer—all I can muster, however, is at
your service. We are kept in complete ignorance of
the movements of the contending armies, and what I
have gathered is from the British officers who come
here invalided, or on military misiions.
" I am sorry to find by letters from England, that
snme of the people at home do not make a proper
enimate of the abilities of our Military Commander.
in-Chief. This I can assert • with confidence, from
the knowledge I have myself obtained since I have
been in this country. From the bridge of Alva, on
Cie Douro, to Mearles on the Tagus, are nothing
but barren rocks, deserts, and mountains. MASSENA
has employed every exertion and artifice to which the
most skilful General could resort to, to bring on a
general battle ; but Lord WELLINGTON is too wise
f r him, and has kept retreating as the former ad-
vanced, destroying every vestige of vegetation for

upwards of 40 maes NMs rear. The place

Lord WELLIVGTON means to make a stand and

a battle, is Villa Nova, one of the strongest positions
n Portugal, and has an immense chain of posts, well
fortified with masked artillery. ShOuld his Lordship
have the misfortune to be there beaten, he will again
retreat to another chain of posts, at Alandra, near
Lisbon, equally strong as the former ; and, if again
beaten here, he will retire to the fi r.s on the Tagus,
where he can embark his army in safety, under the
protection of the shipping. But a retreat is said to
be one of the last things thought of by Lord Wu-
LINGT•N.

" You will say, what is to prevent the enemy from
advancing down the south bank of the Tagus ? I will
answer, with respect to the force opposed, there is lit-
tle or nothing. We have a force there of about
12,000 men, under General HILL, opposed to REG-
NIER ; but precaittions have been taken tO send all
the cattle to the north side, and there is not now a
herd, or a piece of artillery from Portolegre to Lis-
bon; in fact, the country is a perfect desert for nearly
an hundred miles in that direction: therefore we have
nothing to fear from that point.
" It may likewise be said, what is to prevent the
enemy from entering Portugal by the province of
Tralos Montes and Oporto ? Why, because that
part of the country is well defended, and there
are no roads over the mountains for them to
bring their artillery. It will also be recollected,
that when Sows fled that way, two years ago,
he was forced to abandon all his artillery, and
even his mules and sick—neither was Lord WELLING•
TON (then Sir ARTIIUR WaLLEstm) enabled to fol-
low him, because he could not carry artillery with him.
Therefore that point is settled. The most experienced
military men that have written on the defence of Por-
tugal, recommend, in case of necessity, the abandon-
ment of every thing except Estremadura and Beira.
" We hear t'-day, that the Emperor NAPOLEON is
so much exasperated at the delays MASSENA has, from
necessity, been forced to make, that he intends coming
in person to chastise 41 the insolent islanders." The
force MASSENA has with him exceeds 80,000 men.—
Lord WELLINGTON has near 30,000 British (includ-
ing the last reinforcement), 30,000 Portuguese in
British pay, and near the same number in Portuguese
pay. Every province has also its Militia, nor is this
city backward in Volunteer Corps : but how they
will stand the brunt, when put to the test, a short
time must determine. At present we have nothing
to fear ; MASTEN/A head-quarters are about twenty
miles from Almeida ; and some even report him to
be retreating for want of provisions. This, however,
is not believed here.

The enemy are certainly very tardy in their ope-
rations, considering the advanced season of the year ;
for next month the heavy rains set in, when they can-
not undertake the least operation of any consequence.
We have an innumerable number of transports in the
Tagus, and there they will be kept for the present ;
though it is not my opinion that they will be wanted
this season."

" GIBRALTAR, AUGUST IS:

" Between Cape Trafalgar and the town of Guelva
the privateers of the enemy swarm in great numbers.
They bear the appearance of row-boats, and approach
vessels near the coast under pretence of putting a
pilot on board. The British ship MINZRVA, of 12
guns, has been captured by them in the mouth of Ca.
diz harbour."

Last night we received Paris Papers to the SOth
ult. and Dutch to the 2d instant.

The former contain some very angry Notes on ar-
ticles which lately appeared in the English papers
respecting the state of the war in the Peninsula, and
particularly in Portugal. This is exactly as we could
wish it. The Imperial Editor seems highly morti-
fied, that instead of being able to boast of the success
of his arms in that quarter, nothing is left to him but
to nibble at the statements of his adversaries. Our
limits do not allow us to insert these Notes at present,
but we have given some other extracts in a preceding
column.

We this day insert a farther continuation of the
documents received from India respecting the Army,
and we shall continue them, in our next if possible.
The letters from India communicate some interesting
information respecting the movements and intentions
of the native Princes and Chieftains. Accounts had
reached Bombay of a second engagement between the
followers of AMEBA . Knew and the Berar troops,
`which
terminated to the advantage of the latter.—
AMEER, it was said, had lost a number of men and
some artillery, and had also received a severe wound
from a spear, in the heat of the engagement.—
In consequence of his ill success on this occasion, he
was abandoned by many of his followers. He was
not expected to wait the approach of either of the
British detachments in the field. The latest accounts
of him stated that he was in the Bopal district, from
! whence he was supposed to maintain an understand-

ing with the Chief of the Mahrattas.
Major KELLY had been detached from Colonel
MARTINDALE'S army, and was to pass the Kayn river
about the latter end of January. The object of this
expedition was to repel an incursion made by GOPAUL
SING, who formerly occupied the Korrah district in
that province, but was dispossessed by the British
IGovernment, in favour of the right owner. GopAut.
had obtained some victories, and was proceeding so

successfully itt his career, that it was found necessary
to send a British force against him. Major KELLY
having ihoved from Chatterpore for that purpose, pro-
ceeded rapidly to the entrance of the Ghauts;, and
after a fatiguing march reached Salyha and Ging,
where GOPAUL SING had taken post. The latter,
however, being informed of the approach of the Bri-
tish, moved off with all his plunder the day before
*they arrived at his position. A few days after, Major
KELLY, having obtained information that a body of
GOPAIIL% adherents had again descended the Ghauts,
and taken post at three different places, endeavoured
to surprize them. His success, however, was but par-
' tial ; he pursued them several miles, killed a few, and
took some luggage.

Mr. Nair arrived in town yesterday morning, with
dispatches frum Mr. MACKENZIE, at Modals. He
came over in the Active cartel to Plymouth, where

the same vessel waits to take him back. The nego-
ciarien for the exchange of prisoners still continued.

Orders were received on Monday at Plymouth to
fit out all the men of war that were in a state of for.

wardness, with all possible dispatch. The utmost
activity of course prevails at that port.
His Grace the Duke of NORFOLK arrived at Pen-
rith on the 14th of last month, and proceeded to
Graystoke Castle the next morning.

Yestcrday the Privy Council met at the Council-
Office, Whitehall, to investigate a charge preferred
against three sailors, two English and one Irish, be-
longing to the CUMBERLAND Indiaman, for murdering
a Chinaman at Canton.
ELOPEMENT.— A married Lady eloped on Tuesday
with a Barrister, from a village called Stroude, a few
*miles from Chichester. The fair fugitive was the
daughter of a clergyman in London, who married a
Gentleman of fortune, about three years ago, she be-
ing eighteen at the time. She has left two young
children. Her gallant is not known to the husband.
The parties were traced to an inn at Docking, which
they had left about four hours.

The Sampford Ghost may do Ary well as a hoax
in the beginning of the present century ; but the send-
ing for a Clergyman to lay it, would have been more
aysropos about two centuries since !

Waunmsox, who formerly belonged to the Bath
Theatre, and afterwards to Covent Garden, in which
he made his debut as the original Bob of the Mill, in
the Opera of The Woodman, died yesterday morning at
Richmond. The previous evening he fell out of his
chair in a tit, and never spoke afterwards..
As the mail coach between Coventry and Leam-
ington was passing on the road to Warwick, on Thurs.
clay morning, one of the wheels came off, by which
accident a proprietor, who was driving at the time,
was thrown from the box, and was much injured.
The passengers fortunately escaped without any se-
rious injury.

The following is t'.e substance of a letter received
yesterday morning ?:om Heligoland :
"The French lave now an army of sixty thousand
men in Prussian Poland ; and it is generally thought,
if the Emperor of Russia does not awake from his
lethargy, and make active use of his time that Bo-
WAPARTZ will be in St. Petersburgh in less than six
months. It is not supposed that the Dines will inter.
pose any resistance or opposition: they have for some
time past been successful in privateering, and that
seems to be all they at present think about."

The Gottenburgh Mail of yesterday brought letters
from Hamburgh to the 25th, from Konigsburg to the
21st, and from Got tenburg to the 29th ult. Six hun-
dred ships are now in that sea, waiting the issue of
the present state of affairs. Nine had been seized in
Rostock, and 100 more were just entering the port
when the British Admiral acquainted the Captains
with the seizures there, stopped their progress, and
took them under his protection. The I rench troops
were proceeding through the whole line of coast to the
east, and it was not expected that they would pause
until they had made the same seizures at Memel
which they had commenced at Wismar and Rostock.
Letters from Konigsburg, the new residence of the
Prussian Court, state, that the inhabitants were in
daily expectation of the arrival of a French garrison,
to take possession of the shipping. there. One of the
letter: observes, that Alexander Berthier, Prince of Neuf-
chatel, was expected to be raised to the throne of Prusna,
aid the family of Brandenburg to be reduced to a private
station.
A communication from Gottenburgh dated the 27th
ult. contains these words It is generally stated
here that an embargo has been impdsed on all ship-
ping in the Russian ports."
We have received Papers from Norfolk, in Ame-
rica, to the 31st of July, one of which, The Norfoll
Ledger, of the 30th, contains the following article,
dated Charleston, July 23 :
" On Wednesday, a boat's crew, belonging to a British three-
Masted schooner, lying at Amelia, deserted, and made for Cum-
berland Island, on the American side of the river. Captain
Fusser., of the British Government brig Plumper, also lying
there, instantly manned a boat and jumped Into her, in pursuit
of the deserters. When the boats had got into the American
waters and near to the shore, the deserters were fired upon by
Captain FRIULI.. At the same time a boat belonging to one of
the United States' gun-boats, lying near the spot, fired upon the
Plumper's boat, and the fire was returned by Capt. Fa issEL ; the
deserters, however, reached Cumberland ar.,l made otl. When
the crews of the British and American heats met upon the beach,
some very severe language passed betty• en Capt. Fa iss zt. and the
American Lieutenant; and it was ,aid the Boatswain of the
Plumper was knocked down by th;: latter officer. This affair had
like to excite the animosity of h..th parties an that river, and it
was feared that something of a mere serious nature might take
place between them. We have these particulars from the pas-
, *eager* in the Perseverance."
CORN MARKET, MARK-LANE.--.There are several
further arrivals of Wheat to-day, with considerable on
hand ; sales are particularly heavy, and rather give
way in price. In Barley and Malt, little variation.
White Peas, hardly at last prices. Grey, and Beans
of each description, likewise at little variation. The
quantities of Oats rather considerable, and this trade
quoted cheaper, excepting fine samples. Sales of
Flour at the last reduction.