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London, England, 1810-12-08 00:00:00

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/121/AANSTADT eriANtinvArnA),
The Grand Via* sent I kw days ag(
ties to Count Katnenski, dedinding an
The 'Russian General replied; that be was author
ed by his Sovereign to treat of and conclude a pea
but that he could not agree to any suspension
arms. Next day, great part of the Russian army put
itself in march upon Nicopoli and Terut.va, and the
Turkish deputies went off under an engagement to
return again.

THE EVENING STAR.

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r LONDON.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
s per Cent. Cons. money, shut—for opg. 67j.
Reitteed 66,H.--4 per Cent. 84f.
Navy S per Cent. shut—Orimiurn die.
Eacheq. tills, 6s. 10s. prem.—Bonds 90s. Ills. press.
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. •
Bank Stock 2441 244 India Bonds, Ms. pre. •
9 per Cent. Red. 6Silt Etc. BiUs, se. Ss. prem.
3 per Cent.,eons. shut Omnium db.
4 per rent. 8214 English Lottery Tickeo 421.
5 per Cent. Navy shut Cons. for acc. 67{
Long Ann. 11} 11-10

By a private ship, a great variety of papers
been received from the United States, but not of a,
later date than those we have before announced, X.
the sth ult. The sanguinary affair at Quito hits
roused the indignation of the people of Caraccas and'
Cartaxena, and had disposed them to adopt the most
conciliatory measures towards their friends, and the
most vigorous against their enemies. The unfortu-
nate persons who accompanied General MIRANDA in
his expeditions from New-York, and who were made
prisonefs, availed themselves of this favourable oppor-
tunity to apply for a release from their long confine-
r ment, which request the Provisional Government
granted, and ordered their liberation.

THE KING.
The following Bulletin was issued this day :
gg WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. 8.
His MAJESTY has passed a sleepless night, and is
not quite so well as he was yesterday. (Signed)
" H. R. REYNOLDS.
gg HENRY HALFORD.
" W. HEBERDEN•
ig M. BAILIE.
" R. WILLIS."

The alteration for only one Bulletin in a day to be
issued on the state of his MAJESTY was made by Mr.
RYDER, as Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment, when he was at Windsor on Wednesday with
the Doctors, when he and the Earl of LIVERPOOL had
upwards of an hour's conversation with them upon
the state of his MAJESTY. The evening Bulletins
were indeed always unnecessary.

His MAJESTY is expected in town in about ten days,
as great exertions are malting for his reception in his
apartments. •
•
Yesterday morning the QUIZ= Led incess &w,.
arm took an airing in a canine by Maidenhead,
Taplow, &c. and returned to the Palace about two
o'chick ; they were accompanied by Ladies ILCHES.
TER and CRANLEY. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE, Prin-
cesses AUGUSTA and SOPII:A, took an airing on horse-
back in Windsor Park, accompanied by Lord WAL.
SINGHAM, Lady ELY, Generals MANNERS and CART.
WRIGHT.

The Prince of WALLS arrived at Windsor on
Thursday evening, and yesterday, about one o'clock,
his Royal Highness left Windsor for London, after
conversing with the Physicians respecting the state of
his Royal Father.

We are very sorry to learn that the Princess MARY
was not well enougb to take an airing with the QuEnt
and the other Princesses. .

JAMES FARQUHAR, Esq. M.P. is appointed Deputy
Registrar of the Admiralty Court, in the stead of
Ronzar JENNER, Esq. lately deceased ; and JAMES
RIVINOTONWHEELER, Esq. the other Deputy Registrar,
has resigned in favour of JAMES Bust', Esq.
PRISONERS OF WAR.—The following is a Copy of
Letter which the British Government has ordered the
Commissioners of the Transport Board to send in
reply to all the demands of French Officers here to
be released. It proves that, although the negotiation
is broken off, our Government will still soften, as
much as possible, the misery of individuals, and ex-
change, on the principle of man for man, and rank
for rank, such of the French prisoners as may obtain
the consent of their own Government for their releasr,‘
14 Transport-Office, Lowilwt.

" Sir—The Commissioners of his Majesty's 11mi1
rr
port Board have received your letter, dated the
and they have directed me to inform you, that it is
the determination of his Majesty's Government not
to send back French Officers to their own country,
until the Fr-etch Government have released some

English Officers, in exchange for the great number of
French Officers who have obtained this favour from
the British Government; or until the French Govern-
ment have consented to a cartel, upon the fair basis
of man for man, and rank for rank, conformably to
the constant usage of civilized nations, which his Ma-
jesty's Commissioners have frequently proposed,
though their efforts to accelerate an exchange have
always been ineffectual.
" I am, however, to inform you, that if the French
Governmynt will send back to England an Officer of
your rank in exchange for you, or even certify offi-
cially to his Britannic Majesty's Commissioners, that,
'upon your arrival in France, an English prisoner of
your rank shall be released, you shall instantly obtain
your release.

a Yon must see, that in'the present state of affairs,
your Government alone is the cause of your detention
in this country; but if you think proper to make any
representation to your Government, you may rely
upon it, that his Majesty's Commissioners will faith-
fully transmit them. I am, Sir, •
do Your very humble and obedient Servant,
46 ALIA. NDC&Les, Secretary."

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DREADFUL FIRE. .J • 1.
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Tms !Ranting, abost three o'clock, as alarming
ire brialte out in Lisle-street, Leicester...cigar; in the
extensive premises occupied by Mr. &meow, as the
Mexican Coffee-house and American Hotel. We
regret to state, that Mr. Santora and his wife perished
in the flames. Some lodgers who were in the house,
together with thk waiters and female savants, almost
without clothing, escaped, partly by the roof, and
partly by the street door, upon the alarm being given
by the watchman.
The fire broke out in the lower part of the premises ;
but how it originated is not yet ascertained. In less
than an hour after the alarm was given, the whole pre,'
mises were completely destroyed. The head waiter,
who had narrowly escaped with his life from the con-
flagration, on hearing that his master and mistress
were missing, instantly rushed back into the house
but was met on the staircase by such a volume o
smoke and flame, that he could not effect his praise-
worthy object. A servant boy who leapt into the street
from a window, is much hurt, but not dangerously.
Mr. SIMEON, who unfortunately perished, was an old
andfaithful domestic to the late Duke ofPowmArsn, and
attended his Grace at his death. He afterwards took
the house in question, which/ was fitted up in a supe-
rior stile of elegance as a Hotel and Coffee-house.—
The unfortunate people were but recently married,
and had no children. The firemen were, as usual,
most successful in preventing the ravages of the de-
vouring element from extending farther, and in pro-
' tecting the property of the neighbours which was re-
moved during the existence of the danger.

The St. James's and the Westminster Volunteers
attended with great promptness on the occasion, and
rendered every possible assistance to the sufferers in
the removal of their property, and in averting the
ravages of the destructive element.

it is said, that Lord Mayor's day will be celebrated
by a grand dinner on the 22d instant.
Yesterday, a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when the extra ships Cambridge
and Lord Wellington for Madeira, Madras and Ben-
gal, were ordered to be afloat the 14th January, the
David Scott, Madeira and Bengal ; new ship building
at Chester, Madeira and Bombay, and Moffat for
Bengal direct, to be afloat 9ilt March ; and William
Pitt, Lady Lushington and Lord Forbes for Bengal
direct, to be afloat Bth April next. The ship Warren
' Hastings was taken up and stationed for China direct.
The Court adjourned at six o'clock till Tuesday next.
The new farce entitled X. Y. Z. in preparation at
Covent-garden Theatre, is said to be the production
of Mr. COLMAN.
A new piece from the pen of Mr. Swale ?ox,
was read on Thursday last in the Green-room of the
' Lyceum Theatre, and is to be brought forward im-
mediately.
A respectable farmer in the neighbourhood of Ux-
bridge gave his daughter, on her first going to board-
ing-school, a 7s. piece, with a promise that every time
she returned home for holidays, the sum then in her
possession should be doubled; this promise was strictly
fulfilled until the last vacation, whets the sum to be
paid amounted to upwards of £13.50. It was then
considered expedient to drop the doubling system.
Skiddaw, the mountain !wade of Cumberland, and
the admiration of numerous visitors from all parts of
the United Kingdom, was sold on Wednesday the
21st ult. for the sum of £1,970. The purchase com-
prises 1732 acres.
A Bill of Indictment was preferred and found, on
Thursday, by the London Grand Jury, against the,
Managers of the Stock Exchange, for a libellous pub-
lication, reflecting upon a Gentleman who was for.
merly a subscriber to that house.
The question of the right of entry into Ramsgame
Harbour, which our readers will recollect some week*
back 'was forcibly contested in the case of a vessel
which had been wrecked on the coast, and afterwards
got afloat, . and brought to that h arbour, has, c is
said, been determined by an appeal to the Laws, as
the vessel has been admitted into the basin, as a pre-',
paratory step to her farther admission into the Dry
Dock.
Wednesday last, at a chalk-pit at Broughton, in
sent, three horses, the property of P. Geoves, Esq.
were killed by a fall of chalk, whilst the servant was
employed in loading a cart, to which the horses were
attached. The man escaped with a few slight bruises.
Early on Sunday morning the premises of Mr. Long,
copper-plate-printer, in Clement's-lane, Strand, were
broke open and robbed of plate, table cloths, and other
valuables to the amount of upwards of £5OO.
• Yesterday morning. a single-hoese chaise corning'
into contact with a dray in Holborn, the horse,
struggling to disengage the chaise, broke off both the
14bafts, and setoff at full speed, leaving the Gentle-
,alsan and the body of the carriage in the street. The
*trifled animal ran with great swiftness on the foot-
pavement towards Gray's Inn-lane, and in his pro-
gress knocked down several persons, some of whom
were dangerously hurt.
The coach with the London mail arrived at Mil-
ford on. Thursday se'nnight, without coachman or
, guard. They got down at Staynton (two miles dis-
-1 cant) to light one of the lamps, when the horses set
off at a very brisk rate, and could not be overtaken,
though they were pursued by th! landlord of the
White Hart Inn, from Staynton to Milfeffd, without
any clothes on, except his shirt ; and although they
came in at full gallop, reached the Nelson hotel-yard
in safety. There was one gentleman in the coith,
who leaped out on its approaching the church, with.
out receiving the least injury.
Tuesday se'nnight, about eight o'clock at night, a
fire was discovered in the premises of Mr. Walford,
shoemaker and shopkeeper, in Wroxton, which break-
ing out in a fuel-house, raged for a considerable time
with great fury; but by the timely arrival of the en-

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THE ARI►WY.

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/ In consequence of the last intelligence frem p
vugal, we understand that Government have pAt
before they send out the intended reiitforcemeat
They were to have been a body of Artillery,
more of the Foot Guati.li; two Brigades of Cava,
and the infantry regiments already mentioned
STAR, with Some from Ireland, Jersey and Guest •,• s•-. •
The Beet for Parturg and the West Indies, is
wind-bound ; in the mean time many Officers
had an opportunity of going on board. There au
boardMejor-General NIOSITINGA LE, Brigadie-.
STUMM; ; Lieutenant-Colonels CuAra,
M'MAIIQ!, and 14,Natit ; Major FRAM; CA
BERZSFODD, (the Marshal'a' Nephew) Scc. etc. .
tor MgDouoaL, with many Gentlemen of the M.
Staff, and many of the Commissariat and Pay
partmenu, to join Lord WELLINGTOK.
An Officer will soon he sent out in place of C
ral STZWART; who was killed by jumping cut cE
window, in the delirium of fever. The loss a
excellent Officer, as also of Deputy Commissary
neral COOPER, who likewise died of fever, is eztresad
regretted by the whole army in Portugal:
It WAS General RICHARD STSWAKT, Of he 4
Light Infantry.regiment, a brave and exce:k4
ca.* who died. There are two othcr Gener.:l
of that name in Portugal ; one of them lAA! e:oi
Earl of GALLOWAY, and the other brother of
CASTLEREAGH : but both of them among Litt
promising Officers in the British army.
Wednesday se'nnjght, Wss. Doe was charged
fore the Rev. JAMES JoNss, of Rochester, Li- ne .
ing to appear at the late Training of the Chstfm
and Dartford Regiments of Local Militia, he b*
a volunteer for the parish of Cooling, Ktnt.
was committed to the House of Correction for if
months, or until he can pay the fine of s€2o, siko
the Act directs.
Thursday the Gth ipst. WaLIANI Berrawowns I
the Dog and Bear Inn, Lenham, was fined by GtOttl
Beer, Esq. one of his Majesty's Justices of the ta
in and for Kent, in the mitigated penalty of 40s. tact
for refusing to receive four soldiers of the bah rty,
ment, legally billetted upon him by the constabk.
The Officers of the 7th Royal Twitters, at tl
Misidstone depot, gave • a ball and suppers oa Tee
day evening, at the Stat Hotel, to the Nobility u
Gentry of that neighbourhood. Arnett whom vrit
the Earl and Countess of R0)1144 Lord and Lad
MARSHASI, Colonel PRITZLLYR and his Lady, atc.ki
The Ball-room was elegantly ornamemed with
tart' &Vices. Lady EMILY MAtailAll ind Capri
OAR opened the Ball. The dancing was kept up vc
great spirit to ti la* hour. The supper COlHuttliC
every delicacy tbastibe season:could afford.
The second performance of the Military Officer
Canterborntook place on Tuesday night last. T
comedy of The Poor Goietlemon and The Way of if.
sir formed the scenic -representations, and were pi
formed (the former in particular) in a style W 4
justly deserved the encomiums and applause the
dience bestowed on them. The audience consist
of nearly SOO persons of the first families in that
cinity. The performance was not finished Wine,
one o'clock, when the orchestra, which was veryfi
and ably conducted by, Captifin Totoce., strict
" GOD save the King," which was immediately sa
in full chorus, and the audience departed highly,
tified by their evening's entertainment.

gines"'from Banbury, and the prompt exertions of the
inhabitants, it was overcome without spreading any
further. Mi. W.'s premises were mostly consumed,
and thaitaighkinurWsionsf.i.4 imminent danger. It
is supposed to have been maliciously set On ire.