Star.
London, England, 1810-05-10 00:00:00

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THURSDAY, MAY 10.
pilezOr arocits 'THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
$ per C. Cons money, 761—ace. 70/.
Itedneed 691-4 pei Cent. 844—i per Cent. }lvry 101.
Notch. BMs, 4s. ro Ift. prem.—Bonds tla pre. .

The Master Of the Spanish ship Espera' nce, which
Las arrived at Scettery, near Limerick, reports : that
devious to his sailing from Oporto," on the ISth ult.
an action had been fought between the British, aided
by two regiments of Portuguese troops, andthe French
army upon the frontier, in which the former gained
a victory ; that General BLAKE, with a large army,
bad entered Madrid ; and that the enemy's force was
retreating from Cadiz in all' directions, and in some
diaorder)"—On this report it is only necessary to
add, that the last dispatches from Lord WELLINGTON
were to the 25th, at which time nothing had occurred
in that quarter since the trifling affair at San Felices.
We may soon expect, however, to receive impor-
tant intelligence from Portugal ; for we learn by Paris
papers to the 6th instant, from which we have given
some important extracts, that General Worse is on
bit march to that country with an army of 90,000
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We have also intelligence-from Vigo, by letters of
the 12th ult. and from Corimna by a gentleman who.
left that port on the 17th of the same Month. The ac-
count of the successes of the French in Asturia's is con-
firmed. Nothing was known of the Marquis 11.ordama
and his army ; and it was imagined that they had. for
the present disbanded themselves, and were wandering
along the chain of mountains on the southern boundary
of the province. They sought no pay or assistance from
the established Government, and subsisted only on
what they exacted from the districts they occupied, or
on what they received from the generosity of the inha-
bitants. General MAHI was at Villa Franca, with
about 6000 troops, well clothed, and all of them pro-
vided with muskets. They had also a considerable
quantity of artillery to assist in guarding the defiles.
That officer had nominated his brother Commander of
the cavalry, which was not only few in number, but
weak and inefficient in almost every other respect. The
-fezp, of Cortinna were proceeding with the work of
nnecting the adjacent
insulating the town by a Z.l.:!fh
Estuaries ; but this expedient will he d- little use, and
nothing could secure the place, if the Pass of
Franca were carried by the enemy. Of the transactions
in the interior, they had very little information. The
Marquis de la ROMANA was at Badajos, with the main
body of his army, and BALLASTEROS, with a strong
detachment, was in the neighbourhood of Seville.
Contrary to -what has been stated, no arms had ar-
rived from England, to supply the urgent demands of
the Gallicians in that essential pirticular.

INTELLIGENCE FROM CADIZ.
We heartily wish that the preceding were the only
accounts from the Peninsula, which it is our duty this
day to communicate to the public. His Majesty's
ship Amami. has arrived at Plymouth With dispatches
which are far from being of an agreeable complexion.
The accounts from Cadiz, by this vessel, contra-,
dict the statements that have been for some time cir-
culating, of the enemy having withdrawn from the
Isle of Leon ; on the contrary, they state that skir-
mishes are continually taking -place; and that we
have been losing from 20 to 30 men daily in killed
and wounded, for some time past.
Nor is the above the only disagreeable intelligence
brought by the . RECRUIT. Before she sailed, the
Castle de Matagorda, which was in possession of the
British and Spaniards, had been unexpectedly at-
tacked by the French, who opened a battery of 40
guns and eight mortars, of the existence of which,
our troops were entirely ignorant.
The Spaniards, we understand, retreated across the
river, leaving our troops to maintain the contest alone.
They maintained the unequal conflict for some time,
when having lost Major LEFERRE of the Engineers,
killed, about 15 or 20 others killed, and about 40
wounded, they were also obliged to retire to Cadiz,
and to leave the wounded at Matagorda.
The Spanish colours had always been diiplayed on
the fort since we took possession of it—but the men
called out during the attack, ,4 np.with the English."
The loss of this fort will enable the rrench to ad-
vance their works nearer, and it is feared they will
m ike the passage by sea very difficult to our Wa.
tering place—it is feared also that they will be able
to open a partial bombardment of Cadiz, and
make the anchorage very confined. The shore from
C.idiz to the Puntales, and from the Puntales to the
Fernando Fort, is to be lined with mortar batteries,
to meet the enemy, should he attempt to throw up
the works, which he' is expected to do.
A Spanish line of battle ship which lay within gun
sllcit of Matagorda, was obliged to retire up the river
towards Caraceas, where another line of battle ship
and some merchant ships lie. -
These are the only particulars we have yet been
able to collect, but *hat we have given is from the
Mt authority. We understand also that none of our
fleet or transports were within reach and above Ma-
t.igorda.

'T'he SPEAKER and Serjeant at Arms are not the
t n'y persons involved in a legal process by the late
eedings of the House against Sir FRANCIS Bun.
D STY. The latter has served a notice :.n Earl MOIRA,
rstable of the Tower, to inform him that he
In ends to prosecute him for detention.

yesterday at one. o'clock Mr. Sheriff Wenn,. and
the Deputation of the Livery of the City of Loaddo
appointed• to communicate to Sir FRANCO BUMS*
the Resolutions respecting the . Hon. Baronet, agreed
to at the Common Hall held last Friday, met at
Guildhall.. It was originally intended thu the De-
putation should not consist of more that twenty
Members ; but as that intention had not been fornsally
made known, many attended for the purpose of ac-
companying the Sheriff without any previous invites;
tion. Before the procession set out, the number
of Liverymen who appeared ready in their gowns
, amounted to one hundred._ ,

Shortly after one o'clock, the frocession began to
move, amid a vast multitude *which almost choaked
up the space before Guildhall, and the streets and
avenues leading to it, and King-street.
It was headed by several Marshalmea on foot, who
were followed by the City Marshals on horseback in
full uniform, and a considerable number of constables.
Mr. Sheriff Wool) preceded, in his state carriage, the
cavalcade, which was composed of abort SO chariots
and coaches, attended, from their leaving Guildhall
to their arrival at the Tower, by an immense throng.
-In one of the leading Carriages were Colonel WAR•
DLE and the eldest son of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT. As
they passed, they were greeted with loud cheers by
the spectators.
On the appearance of the procession on Tower.
hill, the numbers of the spectators had so materially'
accumulated, that at least ten thousand persons were
assembled to witness the entrance into the Toiver of
the Sheriff and the Depitation. Although no notice
had been given to the Earl of MOIRA of the intended
visit, his Lordship very politely transmitted to the
Sheriffs in the course of the morning a letter, stating
the necessity under which he found himself, in his
official capacity of Constable of the Tower, of declar-
ing that, should they happen to be accompanied by a
multitude pressing. upon or approaching the barrier,
it would be requisite for them,. with the Deputation,
to enter the Tower at the wicket, and to walk to the
, residence of Sir Fitaxcis BuRDETT. With this regu-
lation the procession was, of course, obliged to com-
ply, as the concourse of people was as great as on the
commitment of Sir FRANCIS, and pressed in all pos-
sible directions upon the barrier. The carriages
drew up accordingly at the wicket, in the order they
left Guildhall ; and the Sheriff and Deputation hav-
ing alighted, were received by the Earl of MOIRA in
person, who accompanied them to the house inhabi-
rated by Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, and gave to them re-
peated instances of politeness and attention. His
Lordship then withdrew.
Having arrived at the house, they formed a circle,
and Sir FRANCIS BURDETT came forward and saluted
the deputation. Mr. Sheriff WOOD addressed the
lioliCgrable Baronet, stating, that he felt it his duty
to wait upon him, accompanied by a deputation of
his fellow-citizens, for the purpose, as expressed by
the sentiments of the Livery of London, in Common
Hall legally assembled, of presenting him with cer-
tain resolutions, approving of his conduct in Parlia-
ment ; supporting his argument in favour of the laws
of the land against the privilege of imprisonment for
offences cognizable by the Courts of Law,' as asserted
land exercised by the House of Commons; and as-
,' suring him, that his release could not be a triumph
for the people of England, unless obtained by the
vindication and legal establishment of those grand
principles of the Constitution, which in his person
had been so grossly violated.—Mr. Sheriff Wool)
added, that he could safely assert, that the resolutions
to which he alluded were sanctioned by a vast majo-
rity of the Livery. The resolutions would be read
to Sir FRANCIS by his Under Sheriff.
Mr. SMITH then came forward, and read the Reso-
lutions.
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT addressed the Deputation in
a low tone of voice, but in a feeling and impressive
manner. He spoke to the following effect :
" MR. SHERITri, AND GEN LUMEN or TUE LIVERY.

" The Resolutions which I have just heard, and the appear-1
ance of this respectable Deputation, are, in my mind, the greatest
reward that can be bestowed for any punishment, however un-
deserved,
which may he inflicted. The approbation of my fel-
low-citizens,
at all times cheering, is at this moment peculiarly so.
It is to me, it would necessarily be sa to every man similarly'
situated, a powerful, an irresistible incentive to persevere in the
support of a cause, which, front the best founded conviction of
the grand principles of the Constitution, I feel myself bound to
support and suffer for, and which I can never relinquish while I
retain the possession of my senses, and the free use of my reason.
Yet, although I feel, and know myself already sufficiently strong
to bear, and even to surmount every difficulty and danger, as ap-
plying to myself personally, I should indeed be lost to a due
sense of this very signal and gratifying proof of your kindness and
sympathy, were Ltiot to consider it as an additional stimulus to
encounter hardships much more severe. Give me leave to ob-
serve, that I ant bound to view it, not only as a mark of your
approbation, but as the increased means of enabling me to perse-
vere in the opinions I have thought it my duty to uphold. It
would be difficult, and I may truly add impossible, overpowered,
as I feel myself, by the honour you have conferred upon me, to
I give to my feelings adequate txpression—to find for the ideas that
press upon me, words suitable to the present workings of my heart,
eqd of my mind. But, however great my own personal feeling*
may be, however gratifying your approbation must prove to me, I
will freely and conscientiouslyavow, that I feel a higher satisfaction
in looking to, and in anticipating the important advantages which j
art likely to follow, for the revival and re-establishment of the
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true and genuine laws of the land. We ask, Gentlemen, (for our
cause is the same) for no new-fangled doctrines ; we advocate no"
new principles ; we merely desire that those rules, those regula-
tions, those laws, should be maintained and enforced, which we
know to be the standards of our libel ties, which we have been ac-
customed from our earliest days to admire and venerate as such,
and which, at once intelligible to the simplest comprehension, are
incontrovertible by the most Ingenious. For the maintaining and
upholding of these invaluable securities and safeguards of our
lives, liberties, and properties, we ask and desire only the disin-
terested support and co-operation of good and honest men .—Our
success will defeat the venality and machinations of evil minded
men, and give confidence to the doubtful, the weak, and the ti-
mid.—lsmy present situation, it would be idle in me to say that
have not suffered personal inconvenience; but -that inconve-
nience, compared with the great objects for which we struggle;
has been truly trifling; and I can state, with the most cordial ac-
knowledgments, that it has been much diminished by the polite
attentions of the Noble Lord to whom the command of this place
is entrusted. Yet, if it had not been so---if those attentions, for
which I thus express my full acknowledgments, had not been
given ; permit me to say, that I feel in myself, sufficient confidence
to assure you, that under any eintenneaseces I should not have
wanted any other support than the benne conviction with which
I am linpreased, of the justice of the mum I support ; of the pu-
rity of the motives that actuate me. If no other benefits ensue
from the contest now at issue, but those which have already oc-
curred, lam inclined to view even these as advantages of no hi-
considerable magnitude.
" When I reflect upon the sentiments and-language mend,'
delivered by a great legal authority With respect to the question
now pending, can I hesitate to consider them as peoductive of egd
!benefit to the cause in which we are engaged ? The speech delivered'
by Lord Erskine in the House of Lords must, Gentlemen, Matt
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sure. It made, and can make, .no difference to me, whathee.
the men who conducted them were Whip or Tories. Thus I
names, these classes, these watchwords and catchwordssm
contemptible to be attended to. These only are to be sza
against who are either ready to do the drudgery of corruption, or
who, under the specious mask of , conceal their am-
bition, and unite in promoting accelerating the downfall of
the State. Let us then bear no ware Oda invidious diatinctions
of Whip and Tories ! Let us all join and Invoke the assistance
of ill honest men (n defence of our King and Country ! •Let us
ask nothing but what the law declara and maintains! We call
for no change; we desire no innovation! Gentlemen, it Is not
that our views, our wishes, and objects, should be
clearly stated), and distinctly understood. Yea want, I am con-
vinced, no new plan of Reform, whether that plea comes
from Lord Grey, Lord Grenvillei Mr. Brand, or Sir Francis
Burdett. You only want the Constitution and the Laws of the
Land, as they ought to exist and to be administered ; and if you
persevere with firmness and moderation, you cannot Maoism
your wants and wishes realised."
After a few more remarks, Sir FRANCIS, inc wise
almost inaudible, once more thanked the Sheriff and
Deputation for the distinguished honour the Livery
had conferred upon him. •He then went round the
circle, conversing with those whom he knew, and
shaking hands with all. His speech was occasionally
interrupted with loud and repeated marks of enthu-
siastic applause.
The procession then formed in the order they en-
tered the Tower, and being again joined by Lord
Moma, they were conducted to the wicket, when they
entered their carriages succession. The cavalcade
proceeded to Guildhall, but Mr. Sheriff WOOD'S
horses were taken from his carriage on Tower-hill,
and it continued to be drawn by the people until
its arrival at Guildhall. A similar compliment was
shortly afterwards paid to the carriages, in which
were Mr. FAVELL, Mr. WAITIf MAN, and Colonel
WA RDLE.
During the cotirse of the proceedings, no accident
happened of a serious nature, nor was the slightest
violence or outrage committed.
The following is the copy of the letter from Lord
MOIRA to the Sheriffs, respecting the reception of the
Deputation :
" Lord MOIRA presents his best compliments to the Sheriffs
of London ; and lest any circumstance should be exposed to mis-
construction, entreats their care to keep back from the nnighbour-
hood of the barrier any crowd that may_ happen to accompany
them. Were there to be any concourse of people near the barrier,
the rules of military discipline would oblige Lord MOIRA to keep
it shut. The Sheriffs would then have to alight at thewicket,and
to walk into the Tower ; a trouble which Lord Moist would
wish to spare them, from every motive of personal consideration
towards them, and of respect towards the City."
" Tower, Wednesday Morning, May 1, MO."

Yesterday, about two o'clock, his MAJESTY held a
Private Levee at the Queen's Palace.—The follow-
ing had the honour of being presented to his MA-
JESTY :

The Earl of GLA scow, upon his being appointed Lord Lieu-
tenant of Reafrewahire. _ _ _

The Earl of Kuntout., On his being appointed Colonel of the
Royal Perthshire Militia.
Lord MARCH. upon hts-arritral from Ireland.
The Bishop of Noavnen' to present his Sermon on tts Pro.
pagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir MORRIS Xiattnas, on his being ap-
pointed to the 2d Berke Local Militia.
Captain FRASER, of the *oyal Navy, on his return from the
Baltic. _ _

Captain CURZON, of the Oxford Militia, upon his coming of
age, by Colonel Curzon.
Captain SPICER, on his appointment to the 2d Reglmre et
Life Guards.

lieutenant-Colonel THEAINItY, op his appointment to the I
Command of the 2d Regiment of Berkihire Local Militia.
Mr. BARILLTT NAHD, on kle coming of age.
Mr. WILLIAM BURHILL, on his tieing appointed Lieutenant-
Colonel of the Stamford Regiment of Lincolnshire Local Miltia.
Mr. YORK!, on being appointed First Lord of the Admiralty.
Mr. JOHN PHILIP MORIZR, on his being appointed Secretary
of Legatlon to the United States of America.
Mr. Owttr, of Orielton, Pembrokeshire, Member for Pera •
broke, by Lord Boston.
The Chevalier de BRINKMAN, the Swedish Ambas-
sador, took leave of his MAJESTY.
The KING gave audience to Marquis WELLESLEY,
the Earls Of WESTMORLAND and LIVERPOOL, Lord
MIAGRAVEI Sir DAVID DIINDAs, Messrs. PERCEVAL,
YORKE, RYDER, and M. SUTTON ; the latter laid be-
fore his MAJESTY the proceedings of some Courts
Martial.
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Yesterday, at three o'clock, her MAJESTY, the
Princesses AUGUSTA, ELIZABETH, and SorinA, the
Dukes of YORK and CUMBERLAND, dined with Lord
and Lady Annex, who received the Queen and Prin-
cesses at their door, and conducted them to the inte-
rior of the house. The Royal Party returned to the
Palace at half past five.
A Gentlemanis arrived from the coast of France,.
who, in the beginning of the month of April List,
was at Verdun, where he frequently saw many of our
countrymen confined in that town. He mentions
particularly Lieutenants HENY CONN, WILLIAM
Tuossas. a Midshipman, Mr. TOGIIAB IRVING of the'
ship Bear, of London; Mr. LISTON, of the blip Hope,
of Bristol; Mr. PATTERSON, of the brig. Chance, of
`Glasgow ; and Mr. SIZIONS, of the brig Juno, of
Yarmouth. We readily insert the names of these
Gentlemen, that their relations and friends may learn•
that they were in perfect health when our informant
last saw them.—British heroism is the same in all
countries. The following trait does honour to the
character of our sailors, already so high in the, esti-
mation of the world, and at the same time proves
that our enemies themselves are not blind to their
merit. We little expected to find British Tars on the
list of NApotrox's Knights of Honour.—ln the vi-
cinity of Verdun, a village had been nearly destroyed
by fire. The house in which the flames were first
discovered, and most of the adjoining houses vere soon
burnt to the ground. The people of the village fled
in every direction, and the place was abandoned, when
a large party of British sinuuesit who volunteered their
assistance, soon found means of stopping the progress
of the flames, and finally succeeded in quenching the
fire, and saving the village. For this service their
conduct was reported. to the French Government by
the principal inhabitants, who solicited permission
for the most active of the British, on that occasion,
to return to England. this request was refused ;
but each person was rewarded. with a sift Of 050,
and ordeced to be recorded a Moho. or the Legion
of Hobo r, by which they will 23* emitted-t 9 :nate
each about £9 pi*. annum,

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the camp at Moanslovi, it is thought will be a
ioitsiderable one. It is said that the brigade of Heavy.
Dragoons, intended for Lord WELLINGTON'S army,
will go to Houndow. The Scotch Greys are comill
fromiabled for it•
The brigade of Horse artillery that have been var.
tered at Hampstead, are ordered to Woolwich.
Monday die first division ot the 37th regiment of
Foot from Derby, marched into Horsham idatrads,
where they Are to be stationed till further orders
They are a fine body .of men, made up from the
'Scotch Militia.

The 26th, or Cameronianh brought to London du.
ring the late disturbances, have resumed their old
quarters in Horsham barracks, where both office:.
and men are in great estimation.
The brdicia regiments in Plymouth garrison }ass„
-been ' Lieutenant-General ENGLAND du
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