Star.
London, England, 1811-11-06 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER Q.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE. O'CLOCK
leer Ct. Cons. for money 643—Ditto for account 64}}
r Ct. Retluce4 631/-4 per Cent. 79 76}
Nary 5 per Ct. 9S} }—Gonda 14s. Lis. pre.—Omnium 3 die;
Era. Bille (341.) Is. 23. pre.—Ditto (334.) O. to ss. pre.

The Patera Spanish frigate, which has com& to
England to refit, has brought edvices from.Corunisa,l
to the date of the 31st ult. General A3ADIA, after
/owing withdrawn his forces a short distance from the
French* lines, so that they would be in perfect seen-
.fity, had arrived at Corunna, where he had employed
himself in raising money for the purchase of cloathing
and accoutrements for his reinforcements. He has
been toler tbly successful in his endeavours, and had
sent off many comforts to his forces in the neighbour-
hood of Astorga.
in his capacity of Captain-General of the province
of Galicia, he had received dispatches from the Re-
giney it Cadiz, ordering him to supply a quota of
2000 ineb, to proceed to Vera Cruz. The force re-
quired had been raised and fitted out, and General
Altana was employing himself in procuring trans-
ports for their conveyance to Cadiz, where they would
be joined by 2000 more, who were bound on the same
destination. The whole of the 4000 men, with a
large quantity of ammunition and stores, were to be
placed at the disposal of the Viceiby of Mexico, Ge.
neral VANEGAS.
Just before the Prueva sailed, information had been
received, that after a desperate conflict between a
strong Guerrilla party and a powerful detachment of
the enemy, neat Placentia, the former -had been vic-
torious, and had made 600 prisoners. We shall be
glad to see these particulars confirmed, but we have
some doubts of the accuracy of the account from the
situation assigned to the conflict.
The accounts from the British army by the same,
ship are to the 20th October, being four days later than
Lord WELLINGTON'S dispatches. Nothing material
had occurred since the•l6th, and our troops continued
within cantonments. The French are stated to be in
great force towards the Gallician frontier.

The dazette of last night contains the official ac•
counts of the late affair in the vicinity of Gibraltar
Which ended in the retreat of BALLASTEROS under the
guns of that fortress ; the French seem to have reti-
red once more, after committing the usual ravages.
Letteri have been received from Alicant, dated the
18th Aim" • The enemy had been repulsed• in re.l
pirated atiempti apon the fortress of Saguntum. The
forces under st7Citzr consisted of about 16,000 infan.•
try and 3000 cavalry; and those of the Spaniards op.;
posed to them, both font and horse, were comptiffd)
.iit the same number, and in the same proportion. 1
At Calatayud the French had a garrison of 4.001
men. This place had been attacked by a Guerilla
party, and after the destruction of 200 of the enemy,
had been taken possess* of by the Patriots. This
is the substance of a sort of official account, Which
teas published in the Spanish camp.
At Alicant vigorous preparations had been nvde,
and sanguine hopes were entertained there, as well as
in the city of Valencia, that the entcrprize of the
trench against that part of the country would be un.
successful, from the deficiency of their force for the
accomplishment of their projects. The yellow fever,
we are concerned to find, has extended itself to ail the
villages round Alicant ; and many fears were enter-
tained, from some sickly symptoms. that it bad. not-
withstanding all the pi-ecatitions taken, crept into
Alicant itself.

One letter mentions, that Btasmg hat reeeived a
small reinforcement of volunteers, but unprovided
with arms, and undisciplined.

A few days ago we informed our Readers that an
application had been triode to the Board of Trade, by
the Silk Merchants and Weavers to obtain permission
to import Silk from France. This application we are
happy to and meets with opposition from the East
India Corapany. Indeed, we never could have sup-
posed, under the present circumstances, that any in-
Wrested representation would induce our Government
to give consent to a proposition, the tendency of which
is to encourage the growth of the enemy's means and
resources. Tt may be true that the silk-weavers are
suffering inconvenience—So are the Cotton Mann-
faeturers—and of the two, the case of the latter much
more requires the consideration of Government than
that of the former ; for the cotton-weavers cannot
bail a market for their commodities, whit.: the silk-
weaver makes no such complaint. On Cie contrary
from the very nature of his application it would ap-
appear that he has a craving market at present, other.
wire he could feel no want of additional materials.
We should have hoped that there would have been
atrtrient public spirit among the Ladies of this coun-
Pry to sacrifice their partiality for French commodi.
ties and every thing of French origin ; but it is a
part of the Alive mania which has so long contami.
sated this country. We beg the unhappy persons
Wawa with this malady to consider the consequences
of their disreputable pre.lelictions to our own vople.
At a time when the industrious part of our commu-
aity are suffering so many privations, surely it ought
to be considered that every foreign article of dress
N so much subtracted from the employment of our
sips workstee. !very article procured from the