Star.
London, England, 1811-10-19 00:00:00

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We have receited . some' 'auks, alba seeti tt,
trans Portugal, since the date of last dispatches,
bf them speak of the affair as of little4epertetine
it is expected that both Milks. will infeleshatifre
same time, till after the rainy season:-6-10th
and English Aimies bad a large boderkf Sick.
Captain SIIADWELL CLERICE, returned lately from
Portugal severely wounded, has Served from the tom-
mendentent of the campaign in the Peninsula, irt the
sth regiment of foot, spoken so highly of by their
gallant Chief Load WELLINGTON.
One Hundred and Eighty Royal Marines are about
to be sent from the Plymouth division to Lisbon, to
assist in the batteries there.
It is impossible to speak in adequate terms of the
spirit and gallantry displayed by Major Paws of the
.sth regiment, on the 25th ult. Lord Wsu.t.txcrrox,
at the close of the action, rode up to the Command-
ing Officer, and thanked him for the steady conduct
of the regiment. They charged the enemy's cavalry,
and completely drove them from the heights, and at
the same time retook six pieces of artillery, which the
Portuguese left on the attack of the enemy,
The 2d Battalion of the 71st Light infantry, coat-
manded by that excellent Officer Colonel PR A COCK,
fwas inspected at Deal, on Wednesday last, by General
Hon., who was highly pleased with the appearance
and interior management of this fine corps.
Thursday, the 10th inst. the Officers bf the Royal
t ast Middlesex Regiment, now at Portsmouth, gave
a magnificent ball and supper to Lady,Canourrx
Woon, her friends, aad the nobility and gentry of the
neighbourhood, amounting to 150 people. The danc-
ing was commenced by Lady MATILDA STEWART
and Lord BaLeforry, and continued with great glee
until three o'clock, when the party retired to supper
in two rooms, decorated for the occasion ; after
i which, the dancing was recommenced, and kept up
N":.ch +spirit till seven o'clock in the morning. On the
Saturday following Colonel WOOD, who is ever anxious
to contribute to the amusement of his regiment, gave
a dijeuni, to the Officers and Ladies of the Regiment,
and some of his friends ; after which, coeotry dances
were commenced and continued until five o'clock.
We have been favoured with a copy of the follow-
ing original letter intended, as the sequel imports. to
have been circulated by Lord WELLINGTON among the
officers of the army under his command, but which
circulation, from some unexplained cause, was not
carried into effct. Any military observations from
the pen of so distinguished a General as Lord WEI,
LANGTON, Mat b+, acceptable to etz public kshot, if
the maxims het e inculcated are more than others con-
spicuous in the conduct of this a mmander, it
cannot fail to be perceived, how p 'gently certain
they are reduced to demonstrations by the recent'
movements of his Lordship in the presence of a supe-
rior enemy.—Kratish Gazeitt.
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Although the Dusett Of CLAIMUCQ Mls taken uplia •
residence at Ramsgate. a grest part of tis morniuge
is occupied in visits to this place. Lady Carteesunt
TV-wet Loxu, and her fair daughters,engtsist a peat
deal of his attention. independently of doe beautiful
ecenery which every where presents itself-to this west h-•
bourhood. This evening his Royal Higleeessis **-
petted at a grail.' Ball, patronise,' !.}Lady Widows-
tess Witu.trzoras, 4e Nwrsaiii Meaty. and for
which great preparatioas have, been taskiog for the
last fortnight.
RAMSCiffE, OG7VBSit 18.
His Royal Highness the Dues of CLARVICIC, and
his daughter, Miss CLAStit-See, still occypy the house
No. 7, Nelson's Crescent. HipKorai Highnexs is so
much delighted with the Isle of Thanet that lie ?yr.-
poses remaintng in it foe some time, Hie mortungal
are spent in visits and excursions rotted the neig.lik
bourheod, and his evenings in the gaieties which ire;
polished society presents. On Tuesday he danced -
three country daßces at the Assembly, in the Albion,
Hotel, and on Wednesday he honoured the Theatre.
at Margate with his presence. Tomorrow he dilute.
with Colonel COOPER, and the Officers of the 2d So-
merset Militis, at the Albion Hotel; and on Sunday,
by his desire, a Sermon is to bepreached in Rama.
gate Chapel, after which, a Collection will be made
to assist in alleviating the distresses of the subjects of
Great Britain, detained as piisnners in France. The
Preacher, on this occasion, is to be the Rev. DAYIU
WILLIAM GAnuow, A.M. a young gentleman, whose
maiden sermon, in the nose Chapel on Sunday last,
evinced, to a numerous and very elegant auditory,
that his father is not moue- celebrated at the bar than
he is likely to be in the palpit. His Royal Highness
the Ports ltageNT is expected here in a day or two.
His precursor, Colonel NI'MAHQS, is already aorived.
EXTRAORDIN4R r ROBBERY.
(Accounts of suicides, or other censer against nature, seldom or
never disgrace the columns of the ST A 11 ; but the oircumstances
attending the tahowing ease are such as to induce us fur one,
to deviate from what we cancoive to be a wholesome rule
Oa Sunday evening siennight, the Hon. Mr. C—, the p :r--
sees accum:d, who had been lacking at the Crown Inn, az. Palk.
mouth, tor about a form gbr, previous to 4th sailing for India,
where he was going out as an Aid de Camp to a General, peeled'
the company of Mr. Bradbury, the celebrated down, wive hal
lately arrived at Poramouth from Plymouth, and two gentle-
men, to supper in the coffee-root. Mr. Bradbury Is in posses-
sion of a very curious and valuable sr.uff-box, trade in the she^e
of a large huotintoireit, which he handed round. They wets
up about twelve, whet Bradbury left the house end went to the
Blue Pus:. Tun, where he lodged. In a short Urn, atter, he
tu:seed his box, and went beck to the Crown Ins to Inquire for
it. Hr saw the potter, who told him he had net heard of such
as article being found ; If he bad left it them It would he taken
mat care uf. gradbuey, the brat thing la the pluming, act calf
for the Crown lam, to reCuVer his box; in La way there be met
tvtr. C—, to whom he soninsunies-ed the 10-s of It. Mr C.
denied ary knowledge ut it, and at the s..tne tirM lava med Mr.
Bradbury, as an extraordinary clretimstance, that bb bed-rossu
had been robbed of -ids gold watch, chain, and seals In thebolete
of the night, and he was then en bit way to a Jew'sln that temvt,
elversttoh re t weelimakertto desire Lim, in cue such

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Villa Formosa, Nlay IS. . he V.
Sim, ant-
". to m for filer to stop the person, and glee
Adverting to your report of the transactions of the morning ntonticne.eteoe lirtn7.eeN':hen Bradbury got to the Crown Inn% the gen-
of the SI -t oh. in pursuit of the peels In of Aleneida, I have to i denten he had supPed with pledged their honour they did nor
state, that nothing has given me more concern than the conduct ( know any thing of theinea AU the servants declared oat 10...
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offered anti watbiehr, t,„ ~.__ _
of the Hon. lieutenant Colonel Cochrane of the :16th regiment.
When the enemy had passed the bridge of Barba ad Porto the leninly they had not seen it. As soon as this inquiry had fittith•
ed, t was discovered that Lieutenant Lloyd's room had bees
further pursuit of those troops was useless, and every step taken of his Majesty's ship Hantatirysit, of a gold watch-chain and two
robbedi of Bank-notes, to the amount of Alit Lieutenant Pelvis,
beyond the point to which the Lieutenant Colonel was ordered gold teals ; the Purser of the Regulus, of a *liver watch, go 4
dales, and two gold seals. All thew gentlemen's rooms were
to proceed, was only a risk to the officers and soldiers under his
on the second floor, where Mr. C.'c rune was. These disci.-
command, from whence retreat was next to impossible. 'Met, excited considerable alarm thruughout the house, and in
" The Lieutenant Colonel did not know possibly, that the mere degree in the town. •rhe house continued in a scene of
whole of the 2d Corps d'Armei was at St. Pellets, but a short confusion during the whets of the day on the Minday, printed
distance from Barba del Porto, and ti on hearing the firing for- biUsn were
a ti"heneddetneetitelonnngorteeh"e dethievnese .tnels;retnCv.eetesntetheleraPees-tost
med on the Agued2 to protect the retreat of those troop, ;—he
knew, however, that the garrison of Almeida, although perhaps . against respectable characters. Nothing being discovered during
PvroleYnt about the I .11 of his watch, and insinuating auspices'..
in disorder, were a body far superior in numbers to those he heat !that day, un the Tuesday
alarmed
Hafnmehr,cthnheralandlorl of the
under his command, aed he did not know what troops were luthat Mr. the character
Grahaetme,atill,e M isl reaps e.:
tabs
ultAlbsetgupseeantliyl
hearing
St. Fetters to support them ; his advance, therefore, and his pas- seve,Tbelonging to the Public Office, Bow-street' was in the
sage of the bridge was an imprudence, to which all the boson of , town, applied to him, who wrote off for Rivera. the officer, to
the day must by attributed. i come down. The uffieer arrive/ there on Thursday mottling,
"The frequent instances that occurred lately of severe land proceeding into the bar with Bradbury,- was put in full pm-
oss, and session of every particular respecting the bungle., ; Bradbury va-
in souse instances, of important failures, by officers leading the pressing his suspicion of Mr. C. at that iustant they saw Mr. C.
troops beyond the point to which they were ordered, and be- walkir.-; in the street, and caliel him in ; the landlord introthic d
yond all bounds ; such as the loss of prisoners taken in front of Rived toibim, aenhdattokaidd
hbinteenhneowmenti7tieldie in
no investigate "Ki li :tee the afar.
the village of Fuentes, on the 9d and ith ; the loss incurred by inatielwngeveernbkne. :es that Riven Ita4 been sent fur, therefore esprest.
the lith Light Dragoons, near and at liadajos, on the 2SM of ed no surprise, but on the contrary appeared glad to see hiss, .
March ; the severe tou Incurred by the troops at the siege of Ba. and hoped he would be able to detect the thief and recover hen
dajos, on the :1,04 of the Guadianajin thehis valuablo watch again. Rivets propoled that be should seam.'
10th inst. have in-
the trunks and the house generally, winch was agreed to russet
diced me to determine to bring before a General Court Martial „ by 41. The Officer this obeereed, that as Mr. C. ape
for disobedience of orders, any enter who should in future be peewit to be going fur:lter ha a hurry, he woald *gin with him
guilty of this conduct. ' are, which would prevent his being detained; which Mr. C.
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hesitation, and insanely delivered up •
..I entertain no doubt of the readiness of the officers and sot- nut
keys tt al
og; his trunkianeldbaxes which he was going to take with. • -,'
diars of the army to advance upon the enemy, but it is my duty, him to India. He accompanied Riven. to his room, Bradbury -
and that of every General and other Officer its command, to and others being admitted as spectators. Rivet nude a pude •
emulate the spirit, and not to expose the soldiers to ooatend with mile searhenh,
hwithoutaitibreisngedi arter.toctit;andaariryestiZtianfa p
manner,telodb
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oh -
unequal numbers in situations where they cannot be supported, ~,,Llrtvilirneg',. that
t thne rivet unpleasant part of hat duty to be perfor-
Irons which their retreat is net acetate ; and in which they rue oiled was to search WI person; till this he had appeared uneon-
theliik of being prisoners to the enemy they had before beaten. cerned and in high sprits ;he then, ktreeette, appeared musk
" The desire of being forwardin engaging the enemy is not msofused, and ceir il t congas, when ha requestedtaiiced-corinuwr.ltivettw
was r
er p
thatin egvte ory body
him, y
uncommon in the British army; but that quality which I wish wionljidzs a
lave matter
room crept the Officer and aredbury. which •
to see the officers poesese, who are at the bead of troops, is a cool request was complied with. lie then slipped iradbury's ben
discriminating judgment intim/don, which will enable them to .into his hand, asking forgiveness, bineffintgedhfi:n to spare hZiii,i,
decide with promptitude how far they can and ought to go with antewerl dtoowsenarocnhileiii*rklL byes ain e, and found tea:efts:lMb of the
propriety,ett
and to convey. their 4rders, and to act with such vf- propertype that had been stolen has the hoses. Rivets net camels-
pr and decision as that ids soldiers will look up to them with tag ha bad mit the whole of the Batik-notes, asked bum when
conißasee in the moruendebiction and obey themiirlth alacrity, the remainder was, whets be pointad toßia packet-bunk we:
The lacers of the seensfottnk depend open it, that the enemy to under
intht:efootact ofe fthsetnnb.npiin;
gand
dawnwht.olepiek it unpuele, Mr. C.lncietailitht
whom they are opposed ark not less prudent than powerful e-- up a pen-knife and cui hisehrott. Rivett and Bradbury nailed
notwithstanding what hits been printed in Gazettes and News- an arm each, and forced the knife front him ; but he appear.
papers, we have never seen small bodies, unsupported, opposed l
head about in didirent ways to make the wound tem. e. ed so determined on his own destruction, that he masted
,lb
his
to large, nor has the experience 1 of any officer realized the stories, 'prevent him from continuing this, he was timed rap with I netts
which all have read, of whole armies being driven by a handfril num: his neck, so tight t..at he could not Move It. A susg MI
of Light Infantry or Dragoon,. of the touts, with two assistants, tame, and after seeing tkg
" I trust that this Letter, copies of which I propose to emu- wounds galeaketlEhthare ,°•P:niel4,4 that
tmict powerful up full°::l46:lch bol Mira t
late to General Officers of Divisions, with directions to circulate !.,,,egcoivoner ; taencl.'d ---,„1 the-sib
wound."l "'Ws-clothes ware then et •t
It aMong the Officers of tits Arnre; will bave the effect of in- off, and'he was carded down stairs Into a baler room. Curie(
rioting them to reflect seriously upon the duties which they have this operation he -coughed violently, bat whew natundbe ter l'
Ito perform, before the enemy, and to avoid the crime ' drligs' to tusks his wound waulittewas 'Out
ateenatntnii
it
he"
whish is
, the eubject of it, and which is really beeorne of eerious detettnent in ' • fie
however the effect of seettlag it a e.ettitng Moos vid at twist.'
g war obliged to repeated. Two Mai sat up With int a I
to the army and pubic' interest. fsSigebit)- - • eight. On Friday warning the depositions of thy winnow, wee,
''WILLINEITGIN." . taken before the Mayer, and Mr. C. was committed.

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'fir.rtit. set
'igeti Vega! Yesterday evening, the-Gepte;es of the Na try gave 4
h esjiii Infttlideadid he; as supper at the elegintsuoutria
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the et-ount Hotel, to Colonel gut Lady CmwAiiiii;
Opertso344.-mo wuon, and the.Offiders of the Gartitoa, at uhleimueift,
Kteartliebr porent not ally the beauty aesi fashion, which i4i6
Both Fiencti tau ball of the Mish4lF4F,.PUt Getteral am*. 1 . Avous-nt LEM. M.ijor and Hon. Mrs. 5t95444. 44 7
it sick. .