Star.
London, England, 1811-09-02 00:00:00

OPORTO, AUGUST 17.

Part of our army is round Pinhel, and it is said
Pack's brigade has passed Almuda, and is to remain
in front of Ciudad Rodrigo, of which fortress the
French have changed the garrison. •
The stores are all gone from hence by water, and
the men, about 200 in number, went yesterday. The
army of Gallicia was in motion about a fortnight,
ago, but is said to have halted again. We do not
hear of any troop. having entered Spain, though it
was reported at Corunna that some had. In conse-
quence of the movement of our army, trade is very
brisk here, but report states, that the greater part of
the provisions will be sent up the Mendigo. Colonel
Tr.,nr, who has been at Lisbon for some days, will be
here to•mc.rrow.

By the extracts from the American Pagers to the
4th ultimo, which will be found in another part of
onr Paper, it will be seen that Congress will meet
earliei than usual this year; which implies that no
negociation will be concluded with this country until
Congress can be consulted.
The following is an extract from a private letter :
K• NEW YORK. AUGUST 4.

" The taisdon of Mr. Furst, (like that of Rosa, Easum
and Licason,) has failed. The American Government and be
have split upon the ne;lin and Milan beams, the latter deman-
ding u hat It was impossible the former could require of France,
viz. that British goods as well as American should be admitted
into the Continent in American vessels.

" Congress has hs consequence been summoned by the Prue
dent, with advice, for the purpose of adopting some measures.—
The Ministers have all gone to their country seats.
" The general sentiment here, and particularly at Washington,
is warlike." ,

The subsequent is the official statement published
in the Natiagal Ink/lige:Jur, of the regulations made by
France respecting American Commerce :

" American vessels coming from the United States and laden
with the pr:duce of the United States, wel be admitted and re-
c.:teed la all the ports Of France, on payment of the legal duties,
There cargoes must be accompanied with certificates of origin
delivered by the Wends Consuls, and the vessels must in return
take equal value in French wines, silk*, and other manufactures
certain fixed proportions.

'• Tobacco is not grobibital, but that article, being under a

foetal direction, it must on its arrival he deposited, and if
quaninies.arrive than the direction can purchase, the
through France to Germany and other European coon.
srs,s, will be permitted.

" sugar, coffee, cocoa, and other colonial produce, ate admit-
ted only in vessels having permission for that purpnse."
The American Papers are still contradictory in re-
spect to the report of the capture of the Entrepenante
Ly Atlante.

Jamaica papers to the 21st July, have furnished us
It some particulars from Mexico and Caraccas. In
'we beginning of June a dreadful battle took place be.
teen the Government troops and the Revolutienists,
in Mexico, in which the former were defeated I% ith
irninenie loss. The Archbishop was straining every
ma‘e to procure reinforcements to the loyal party.
sod am Volunteers bad sailed from Campeachy, on
board stun.' transports for Mexico. •

THE KING.

Yesterday and this day the following Bulletins
were shewn at St. James's :
"'WINDSOR CASTLE, SEPT. 1.
" The symptons of his MAJarry's disorder remain
nearly the same as they were yesterday.

(Signed)
g 4 M. BAILLIE. " W. HEBERDEN. «R. WILLIS."
" WI\DsOR•CAs•rLE, SEPTEMBER 2.
al There is little alteration in His lorlA.rsares
symptoms to-day. (Signed)

" U. FIALKORD. W. HEBERDEN. R. WILLIS."
His MAJESTY remains in the same state respecting
his malady ; but strong in bodily health, and eats his
meals regularly.

We have this morning received Dublin. Papers of
Friday last. In addition to the Catholic Meetings
which have already taken place, we learn, that the
Catholics of Waterford, Sligo, Kildare, Monaghan,
and Down, are to meet in the course of this week. In
the mean time, the following paragraph, which we
copy from the Dublin Evening Herald of Friday last,
shews that the Irish Government keeps a watchful
eye over the tranquillity of the country :
" We have jest heard, that P. W. Harvey, Pro-
prietor, M. Heery, Printer, and W. '!'illan, Publisher
of the Freeman's Journal, have got notice to attend,
at the Attorney-General's house, " and shew cause
why an information, ex yficio, should not be granted
against them, for publishing a libel in the Freeman's
Journal of the Ist of August.' It is supposed it is
for publishing the Catholic Debate and Resolutions
on the Proclamation."

We have received a letter from an officer at Cadiz,
dated the Sth inst. It says, "There is nothing going
on here at present ; but we expect, daily, that the
French will attack our works at Isla de Leon. They
have brought mortars into Fort Catalina, for the pur-
pose of annoying our shipping ; and the battery of
Fort Napoleon throws shells every night among the
Spanish gun-boats, which are close to Puntales. As
the Ephera, Captain Eviataftn, was cruising off Rota,
last week, a shot from the French battery fell on
board her, and took off Capt. E's right arm ; he is,
however, doing well. Lieutenant WEYMOUTH of the
Revenge, has been put into the command of the
Ephera, until Capt. E. is quite recovered. NWe do
not expect Admiral LEGGE, who is cruising between
the Capes Trafalgar and Spartel, will return to this
anchorage till next month. The Colun- bine, Captain
WEsrPitat, took the Archbishop of TOLEDO and se-
veral Nobles to Tavira, a few days since. She has
since sailed with a convoy fur Gibraltar. The De-
vastation bomb, Capt. TAYLOR, is expected to sail
for England soon, she bring in a bad state. The
French General commanding at St. Mary's is mak-
ing grand preparations for a ball, which is to be given
on Bonaparte's birth-night (15th inst.) Remain here,
Druid, Capt. SEARLE ; Devastation, Capt. TAYLOR ;
Thunder', Capt. PELL; Etna, Capt. MAPLES; Hound,
Captain PHILLIPS, acting ; Desperate, Lieutenant
JENKINS ; with the flotilla of gun.boats, under Cap-
tains Cam:a. and Thomas."

The Tortoise, which arrived at Portsmouth on
Thursday front the Brazils, left Rio Janeiro on the
17th of June. Sir JAMES GAMBIER (lately British
Consul there) and family, came passengers in her.—
Sit JAMES brought dispatches of importance from the
British Minister, Lord STRANGFORD. The Porcupine
frigate, Captain Eworr, was the only ship at Rio ;
she was to sail shortly for England, with some dia-
monds on board of great value. Admiral Ds Cooney,
in the Foudroyante, had gone to Bova with the'Por-
tuguese ships Reine de Portugal and Martin de Fre-
tis, of 74 guns each. The Nereus, Captain P. Hall..
WOOD, was at Buenos Ayres protecting the trade,
where she would shortly take on board two million
dollars for England. Trade was not only very dull,
but crippled by vexatious restrictions ; which had
induced a number of Americans to run the hazard of
smuggling their goods. The Tortoise has brought
home a considerable quantity of specie for British
merchants, besides Brazil-wood, tallow, and con-
demned stores. LieutenantsTosenviLLE and FULLER,
of the Royal Navy, invalided, came home in her.

The Tortoise brings no intelligence whatever con-
cerning the three French frigates, which sailed some
time state for the Isle of France, and were stated to
have made several captors on the coast of Brazil.
The BELLE PouLE, Capt. C. ButssastE, which ar-
rived at Portsmouth on Thursday night, with 13 sail
of transports from Malta and Gibraltar, left the former
place on the Ist of July, and the latter on the Ist of
August, with .50 sail of transports and merchantmen :
some are gene to the British Channel, others went into
the western ports, and the remainder (excepting the
above 13 sail) .are gone to the Downs, protected by
the LEONIDAS, Capt. J. A. GRIFFITIIS. The only ships
lying at Malta were the Trident and Pomona ; and at
Gibraltar, the St. Juan. The Belle Poule spoke the
. Theban and her convoy for the East Indies, all well.
The following is an extract of a letter, dated the
24th ult. from an Officer of one of our ships off Flush.
ing In the Scheldt, before Flushing, a few days
since, there were 15 ships of the line, one frigate, and
nine brigs, all ready for sea ; and at Antwerp, three
sail of the line under repair, nearly finished, with the
addition of seven ships of the line oh the stocks, in
great forwardness. Report 'says, there is much dis-
content prevailing in those ships, and that the sailors
of the different nations do not agree ; how far this is
true, I cannot say, but think it very probable. The
Goree squadron, three ships of the line, after taking
all their guns and stores out, were buoyed with empty
water casks, and transported from thence to the
Scheldt, over the flats, inside the islands. In this
hazardous undertaking, the Royal Hollander, a new
ship, built about two years since at Rotterdam, broke
her back, and the other two received some damage.
At the Texel, which we reconnoitred the last spring
tides, there are flee line of battle ships and one frigate
nearly ready for sea ; anti the Dutch fishermen in.
form us, there are four others nearly ready to come
down the Znyder-Zee."

There are two transports at Portsmouth, having on
board a number of male and female convicts, fur Bo-
tany /lg. A young Lady of great respectability and
large fortune, attended by some female domestics, is
going out with them, for the purpase of being married
on their arrival at the settlement, to one of the above
capvicts.

THE COMET.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.
Somers Town, September I, Put.
Sir—The accounts which you have lately seen in
the public papers of a Comet having been seen in its
approach towards the sun, early in the Spring, by the
French Astronomers, and of a prediction of its return
from the sun in August, may have led you to expect
some account of this phenomenon : 1 thereibre take
this opportunity to inform you, that on Monday morn.
ing last, August 26, as 1 was looking for the planet
Venus, a little before the sun arose, I discovered this
Comet; and which, from its situation and appearance,
I have concluded might have been seen ten or fifteen
days earlier had it been sought for. The morning from
being very fine a little before, had now become cloudy
and particularly about the part of the heavens where
the Comet appeared, so that I had but a very transi.
tory view of it. It appears in great splendour about
three o'clock in the morning, and cannot fail to be seen
by any person who looks at this time towards the
north-east part of the horizon and about 10 degrees
above it. I saw it this morning with my naked eye
till twenty minutes past four o'clock, in very strong
twilight, and have no doubt of its being visible during
the day to persons provided with equatoral instru-
ments ; its appearance is a bright nucleus surrounded
by a large coma without a tail. As the appearance of
the Comet is so striking, it is unnecessary to give a
more minute description than the above to any parson
desirous of seeing and observing it.
I am, &c. THOMAS PIRMmOER,
Late Assistant Astronomer at the Royal Obser-
vatory, Greenwich.