Star.
London, England, 1818-06-05 00:00:00

Exchange on London-32. 10. 33. 1.

Yesterday her MAsErrY rode out twice in her gar-
den-chaise, in the garden at the back of her Palace,
accompanied by the Paincs REOZNT on foot.
Yesterday Lord Viscount MILvILLs left town for
Scotland..

Counsellor NORTON, of the Temple, is a Candidate
for City Counsel, in the room of W. WATSON, Esq.
deceased.

Professor horn., of Geneva, one of the Editors of
the periodical Work entitled 4ibliotheque Universelk,
now in London, has favoured us with the following
account, extracted from a letter addressed to him by
the Prior of St. Bernard :

" A few days since (says the father) an evaletteke has actually
stopped that branch of the river Rance which descends from
the extensive valley of Bagnes, near St. Branchler on the left of
the road to the Convent. It fell in a piece wits:* the valley Is
only sheet 100 tains In breadth, and is thalami en both Ades
by enormous vertical rocks, the interval between which has
been filled up by the fall of vast masses of snow and ice, pro-
ceeding from very extensive glaciers, which have furnished a
number of successive avalanches. The water of the torrent
rising in consequence, has formed a lake of about three quer-
ten of a league in length. Tue water rises vertically abass
four feet in twenty-four hours, and has yet but five tosses
to ascend to averflow, and make a tremendous- @annul
from above, or perhaps a more dreadful issue from below.—
Numbers are at work to diminish, if possible, the impending
danger, but hitherto to little purpose. The avalanche occupies
307 teises in length. Most of the inhabitants of the interior
parts of the valley have left their homes, and will return only
when the catastrophe is over."
The following Letter from Ceylon, dated February
1, gives a melancholy account of the state of the war-
fare in that country :
" The Kandian Insurrection, as it is called, is more general
than ever, and as far from being quelled. In the course of last
moo* lapel M'Nen died of the fever; Lieutenant M'Laax,
of the 73d Regiment, has been killed—Captain BLACKWVIO.
wounded, and several men killed and surrendered; Captain
Wu.xteson and a detachment of thirty men were obliged to re-
treat. The DilllAllll of Osta has brought his giogal-pieces into
the field against us, and the other day opened them upon one of
pur detachments.
" The new system of extermination is every where acted
upon--a party of fifty men, women, and children, were surprised
in a cave—the men rushed out, and about twenty were bayonet-
ted—two or three women, and several children, fell in this in-
discriminate slaughter ! The night, and the suddenness of the
ambuscade, prevented them from seeing who or what they were
who came in their way. It is doubted whether these utfurtu-
nate creatures were in the cave for any other cause but triage.
Several instances of this sort have occurred, where parties of five
or six have been met and bayonetted. One cannot help doubt-
ing the hostile intentions of men, who, with so many means of
escaping, suffer our troops to conic up with them : this, how-
ever, is the system which has been acted upon for the last month,
and is still persevered in. It has produced no other effect as yet
than that of rendering the Kandians more desperate and deter-
mined to resist." _ _ _

The following is a statement of the late move-
ments of the contending parties on the Spanish Main,
transmitted from St. Thomas's, under date April 9 :

" Here we receive no other advice& than those which come
from Momito himseff or the city of Caracess, and consequently
they must be believed with the greatest caution. Private ac-
counts all clash with the official Bulletins of the Spaniards, who
evidently are endesthuring very hard to hide the very desperate
ciretunstances into which they are plunged. So great is the con-
fusion caused by this studied system of deception, that it is dif-
ficult to ascertain with ...curacy any thing, except the actual
positions of the respective armies ; but by knowing these as they
are at present, and recollecting what they were a short time ago,
it is easy to judge which party has the upper hand.
" Mouse° made a thundering boast about the affair at Som-
brero, though he was compelled to retreat, and the greatest coo-
methadon followed ; but he was completely silent whilst he was
effecting his escape to Valencia. Then he breaks his silence to
announce further triumphs and the destruction of the Patriots ;
and under date of the lath ultimo (March), he says he had dis-
persed 1400 of the enemy's cavalry, posted in Markey. On the
16th, he tells ul in another dispatch, dated Villa de Curs, one
o'clock at night, that he had pursued the Insurgents. and taken
up a new position there, and that next morning he would follow
them up. On the 19th he puts forth a third dispatch in Valen-
cia, asserting that he had defeated the Patriots near La Puerta,
two leagues distant from Villa de Cure, and that he was then in
pursuit of them. Perfectly to judge of this juggle attempted to
be practised on the public; it would merely be necessary to con-
sult a asp; but suiee it to say, that here the stories and othcial
reports of the Spaniards are believed by no one but those who
are paid to do It.
" The fact is, that Botavae not having moved his head-quar-
ters from Sombrero, only sent a division In pursuit of Moatiao,
with which be occupied Victoria, Maracay, and Consejo—that
is, the valfies of Aragus, for the purpose of drawing to him all
the partisans of the cause, which he was enabled to do. Mo-
Rua* instantly assembitethe garrisons of La Guira, Caracas,
and Puerto Cavello, and attacked this advanced division with
his whole force. This division fell back, first on Villa de Cure,
and thee on La Puerta, where, as well as in Menem, the Inde-1
pendents endeavoured to fight whilst they were retreating. in
order to draw the Spaniards on towards the plains. The affair
was so serious for the latter, notwithstanding they retained for
the moment the field of battle, they lost the bar of their °Seers
and men and even the great As4cator himself. Moitu.ui, was
wounded with the stroke of a lance, and tarried to Valencia,
hors de consist.

" The division of the Patriots continued its retreat, and lobed
the main body of the army; and the Royalists, under a new
Chief, being thus completely deceived, marched oa as far as
Rastro, six leagues from Sombrero, where learning ttpateite-fo-
surgents Were stronger than they believed, and as g com-
manded by leaders either so daring or so obednate as Mostu.o,
they undertook a retreat, but they were inatantlytcrytted by the
Patriotic cavalry and suffered coadderably, till ere able
to gain the heights leading to Villa de Curs, where Larosa's
bead quarters were. Owing to these misfortunes dissentions
.have sprung up among the Spaniards. Mossi.ss, the bat Off-
car they have, has been deposed, and Mono, the diptain Gene-
ral, shipped away. The former coameaded tha itanpard.--
The Patriots at La Puerta lot not a de* distr, vim did the
Spaniards take a single prisoner. We new Nos That itisau to,
who is frantic with rage, it threatened in Valencia by a Petrie-1
tie WWII, that has pushed on through San Carlos, only dusts
I eaves frem Valencia."
701 TERA T URfir—We are requested to state that the
following interesting Works have been recently pub-
lished by Mr. CoLBURN, Conduit•street,
_ _ _

1. Memoirs of John Evelyn, by himself Horace Wal.l
pole . Correspondent* with George Montague, Esq. Fronk-
lies Life, by himself, Octavo Edition Authentic Ilberefint
of LaWsca% 0-4. Litton of a Prussian
John Poland and Disquiet, Mamba of
a Ream= in I-7. Account of the Preach Hipedialse
to Senegal, and wreck of the Massa s—e. Main. It
Suers Life of her r.-Y. Ca. In Golewnks% Eferraske
of his captivity In Japan p-10. Cann litendhars Travels In
Italy s--11. Third Bditlan of lob Moripan's Frames s—te.
Woman, a Poem, by B. F. baste, S. Mameires st
deau
correspondence do Mathew trEpieny p-ad 14. Zenta, by Na-
be Gulls.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PLYMOUTH, JUIII 2.
Passed by, landed passengers at Dartmouth, the

Princess Charlotte of Wales, Captain Gittsats,

from Bengal. Also passed the Honourable Company's
ship Art.As, Captain MAYNR, from China; sailed in
January.—Landed, two Gentlemen passengers, out
of the Dutch brig African, Captain.MANNINOS, from
Elmina, Gold Coast of Africa, 12 weeks passage :
they state that part to be very healthy, and trade
improving, but greatly annoyed by illicit traders,
Spaniards and Portuguese ; the former frequently
acting as pirates, and plundering. every thing they
meet. One vessel of this description has been cap.,
tared by his Majesty's ship CHERUB, and sent to.
Sierra Leone for adjudication, alleging that they are
only retaliating for losses they have sustained by
captures as Slave traders. Sir JAMES Yno, in Ids
Majesty's ship &maims, had sailed to return home,
his powers being considered too restrictive to act with
any effect in restraining the unlawful traffic, &c.—
On her passage home, the African spoke the follow-
ing vessels :-24th April, in lat. 16. 19. long. 31. W.
the ship Belmont, of Liverpool, Captain FERGUSON,
bound to Demerara—obtained supplies from her; on

the 26th April, in lat. 35. the Vitoria, of Glasgow,'
bound to Jamaica; Ist May, in lat. 25.40. long. 4.,
the East India ships Huddart and Carmarthen, from
India; 7th May, in lat. 37. 24.10ng. 54. 16. the Hi-
bernia, from Calcutta, (suppose Captain Laxsarr) ;
25th May, spoke an American brig, from Manilla to
Amsterdam-15th May, from Boston.
June 3.—This morning passengers and dispatches
were landed here out of the East India ship Hud-
dart, from Bombay. Appeared off and proceeded
for the Thames, the Sir Ste en Lushington, Capt.
frach
CHIVERS ; sailed from Ben the 2d of January, and
from Madras the 11 th o the same month ; sailed
from the Cape of Good Hope the 20th of March, all
well. Also la Constance, Capt. La VAILLANT Du-
DOUET, 45 days from Martinique, for Havre. Passed
on the Amegican ship Frances Henrietta, Capt. AL-
LEN, 40 days from New York, for Antwerp ; and
Warren, Puny, from the South Seas, for London.

PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 4.

Wind S. S. E.—Arrived the brig. Waterloo, COLE,
from St. Salvador, for Hamburgh, in 77 days.

DEAL. JUNE 4,

Wind N. E.—Arrived and sailed for the River, the
Thomas Grenville, ALSAOAR, from Bengal. Came
down from the River and sailed, the Vittoria,
So UTH AM, fOrHaVallnall ; Harriet,G A VIET, for Quebec.