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Irny, EVENING STAR.

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LOpbON.

memare.llo..l.
SATti ar)Alf. AP RI L
?RICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
per Cent. Cons. money, 6444—for account 64W
Reince4 631-4 per Cent. 793 80-5 per C. Nasy 114 IA
Excheq. Dllls ?s. to 10s. pr.—Bond% 30s. prem.
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY.
Busk Stock 1394 2414 210 I India Stock 180
* per Cent. lied. B:tfigt India Bonds Vs. a 295.
3 per Cent, Cons. 641 84i Fxcheq. Bills, 7s. Ws. pre
4 per Cent. 80 79i so I Lottery Tickets seal. Ws.
5 per Cent. Navy 97 961 i Cons, for ace. 44fif
Long Ann. 3.14
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Our Plymouth Correspondent, in a Postscript, dated
" Halt pa, five P. M." writes as follows :
'f I have just been informed that a letter has been
rec:!ived hi re by an Officer of rank, stating the impor-
tant tntell Bence that the French army before Cadiz,
11AV:i‘g received information of the unexpected retreat
of MA-StENA. and being apprehensive of consequent
danger to themselves, had suddenly raised the siege
paid. decamped. How this letter has come I have
not learnt : but a vessel is now in the Qffing to the
westward, and it is, therefore, possible that we may
have farther details in a few hours.'t
Government this morning, received a confirmation
of the report of Marshal NEY'S having been sent to
Paris under arrest. MASSE'A chargps him with the
whole of the disasters of the French army in Portugal.
In another column we have given an extract trout
a Corunna Gazette) which tends to confirm the re•
port that has been prevalent for some days, that Mt.':
?mew.: intends to withdraw a portion of his troops
from Spain, and contract the scale of his operations
in that quarter. Whether this be in expectation of
any rupture with the Northern Powers, we cannot de-
termine. The political horizon has for some time
been louring in that quarter ; but, on the other hand,
those who possess the best means of being well infor-
med on the subject, affirm, that though Russra and
France are mutually dissatisfied with each other,
neither have any wish to venture upon hostilities at
the present moment.

Yesterday some additional Portuguese Papers came
to our hands, but rather of a prospective than retro-
spective charac:er. It is said that General Baampostn,
Who remained at Elvas, was, on the 6th instant, to
proceed to Badajos, where the French, according to
the last dispatch 4 from Mr. STUART, were collecting
in strength. The breach in the walls, which was
made during the siege, and which wai 30 yards wide.
we understand, had been repaired.
Ow papers mention that Xing lawn has given
great disgust at Madrid, by -allesving public exhibi-1
tions on Fast Days, and by the iptiodaction of spas-
quera.des, at which the Dignitaries of the Church have,
been turned into ridicule.
It is said, that in the course of the present year, DO
Vends troops hire entered by the Pyrenean frontier?
cseeiting about 2030.0 men accompanying a convoy !
ot`eicort, Vihich had but just reached Madrid. ' ,
The Colonel of the regiment of Navarre, made psi.
spier it Ql; 'se*. is spill of the garquis of Piles;
- eritfined in the Retire, having refused tosimit
(Fair: tol*Pa.
Ist is stated that the'esear, which was eondusdng
Ake French prisoners from Oliveima, bad been at•
tacked near Coca by the skirmishing ?arty under
liotcaou, andallof them hid been tet at liberty. 'his
intJligenie is.s4l Os be c'fficial.. •
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Yesterday morning turning out wet, his MAJESTY
did not take his usual walk on Winilsor Terrace, but
Walked ati. ut.the'aisititmentaln Palace. tie after-
noon, hoit ever, proving very fine, his MAJESTY took
his walk on the Terrace from two tiU tobr, accer-
, panied by General GWYNNE..
Monitiiirs; and 'other' French Papers to the 11th
instant, art ve4 last night ; but .they do not Ott-
tain a single articln.relative to the affairs of Portugal
pr Spain, and are in every other respect altogether
uninteresting. It is Merely Stated, that NAPOLeori•
presided at a Conned of State on the 9th instant.'
A Brazil Mail also reached Lctiadon yesterd:ty.—
*three.new Agents. resident in London laves been ap-
pointed for the concerns of .the. Battk Or Rio Janeiro,
find* the orders of the ftitima so hill-
in atilsthe connection between the' Bank and the GO-
yerameni, that from this circumstance we might infer
a change
. thes Chart.
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14 it will not be easy to send out any successor that will
be equally acceptable to the army and to the inhabi.
tants of this country."
A Staff is organizing fur the Mauritius and its de,
pendencies. The only office yet filled up and an-
nounced, is the Deputy Adjutant-General, to which
the Hon. Major DIINDAS (the son of Lord Duxom)
is appointed, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in

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the Army,
By the Botany Bay ship, just arrived from Bengal.
we are glad to see order restored in the very great
and formidable Army which we have in the East.—
We wish that the measure at length adopted had bees
had recourse to earlier, viz. the re-establishment of
the injured Officers, and the removal of the obnoxious
Governor. The twelve Indiamen now under dispatch
will sail from Portsmouth on Tuesday,
In the course of the ensuing week, it is expected
that a fleet from Portsmouth, and another from Ply-
mouth, will sail for Portugal : by this fleet, great rein-
forcements of men and officers, and of medical and
stores, go out for the army under Lord

WELLING:Tor:.
Another detachment of Foot Guards is about to set
off on the march to Portsmouth to unite to reinforce
the gallant General GRAHAM'S army.
General WHETHAM'S battalion of the 60th or Royal
American regiment, 1100 strong, has been disem-
barked at Portsmouth ; they were intended for the
Cape of Good Hope : but report says, that it is not
improbable they may go to LordWELLlNarozes army,
where the sth, or rifle battalion of the 60th, is now
serving with distinguished merit.
It is expected that the gallant 87th, who took an
Eagle from the front of BONAPARTE'S favourite regi-
ment, the Bth, and sogreatly distinguished themselves
at Barrosa, will be made a royal regiment, and have
a distinctive badge and inscription In the regimental
colours. The 87th is the Prince of Wales's Irish
Heroes, and is the regiment of the gallant Lieutenant-
' General Sir JOHN DOYLE, Bart. Governor of Guern-
sey, a name well known to all our Military Readers,
a man whom History will hand down to the latest
records, for his heroic conduct in the command at
Allost, in Flanders, under the Duke of Yoiuc, in 1794.
The following is an extract of a letter from an Of.
fiver high in rank in Portugal, who was in the late
action near Badajos :
" NEAR BADAJOS, MARCH 2E.
" Nothing could equal ,the heroic bravery of Cola
HEAD, the officers, and soldiers of the 13th Light
Dragoons, on the present ever memorable occasion.
There were but four troops engaged, which were',
Captains Bucnarrarer,Doramtrx's, BOWER'S, and Gus-
li
BlNs's. The remainder of the regiment were placed with
the Light Brigade, divided in skirmishing parties.—
The, two squadrons were led on in the most gallant
and determined manner by Colonel HEAD, and at-
tacked four regiments of French cavalry, considered
the finest in their services capitally mounted and ac-
coutred. After two desperate charges, the four French
regiment g fled from the four troops of the 13th Light
Dragoons, who were then joined by a Portuguese re-
giment, and pursued them to the walls of Badajos.
"After the enemy had taken to flight, and had cleat-
ed their intintry, which the 13th had no idea were con-
cealed in their rear, the most 'tremendous fire from
above a thousand men was opened upon them. By this
front the 13th had to gallop, and in doing which many
fell, among the rest Lieutenant SMITH received a se-
vere wound. It La calculated from 800 to 1000 must
have surrendered in 'this pursuit, which was 14 miles
at a brisk gallop. They took from the enemy an irm«
mense quantity of ammunition,baggage,and 15 pieces
of cannon, but were unfortunately obliged to abandon
most part of it, meeting with another body of French
on their return. Of killed and missing, the troops
engaged lost 40 men, and 39 wounded. Lieu-
tenant and Adjutant HoLMES, and Lieutenant GEALE
Were both wounded. The 13th Light Dragoons must
be for ever indebted to that highly meritorious and in-
defatigable of cer,,Major-General BoLToN, for their
present high state of discipline."
We have been favoured with the following extract
of a lettei from ao Officer in the division commanded
by Marshal Sir WILLIAM BARESFORD, dated Elvas,
March 27, 1811 :
" Since the sth instant wc'have been constantly on
the move, long and haraasing marches, backwards
and forwards, according-to circumstances. On the 24th
we dune in sight of the enenatandCampo Major,which
place they had taken a few days before ; their infor-
, oration was bad, or they did not think we could move
ost so rapidly as we had done. The moment they first
saw us was the moment of flight—they lead not time
to file over the drawbridge, but made a breach in the
bastion next Badajos, pulled down the .countetscarp,
and moved off in column. 2 I was in front with the
13thi.raht Dragoons andtwo pieces of artillery, at the
time their rear-guard was getting out of Elie ditch; the
at finery opened upon it, but 4id no harm; the 13th and
two regiments of Portuguenicavalry theo
The road fromCastmo Major to 13adajns rani 'across the
great plain of Badajos, and 'his cot ev'en st thistle or
briar to intercept the prospect: ThOrttir.lipitucenvred
most beautifully all the way, and sititskined three
cha'rge's of our -cavalry viithout breaking: Ths lath

persed nitamaili.- • ing
it was certaialy most beautiful. The infaimin fol-
lowed in columns, one led by the Marshal (alum-,
FORD) and the other by General HAalwroari but!
were not at all engaged only in their movement coo the!
plain. _ The Frenc oolumns retiring rapidly be.
fore them, the cavalry skirmishing between, the fire!
from the outworks of Badajos to cover the passage!
of the bridge, with the fineness of the day, formed
altogether a whole that could not be excelled. Wei
had 19,000 infantry, 2000 cavalry, and two bri-
gades of artillery ; we have lost, that is, the 13th and
Ist Portuguese cavalry, but chiefly the 13th, 23 killed
65 wounded, 20 horses killed, 35 wounded, 108 2i
ing ; one Cornet killed, two Lieutenants wou
(one died next morning). The French force, I sup-
pose, did not exceed 5000, but they had a superiority
in cavalry. In Badajos and the neighbourhood they
have 22,000, with whom we shall have a rattle in a
few days.
dg Yesterday a French Captain of Dragoons brought
over a trum pet, demanding permission to search among
the dead for his Colonel—his regiment was a fine one,
with bright brass helmets, arid black horse hair, ex
aftly like what the old Romans are depicted with;
;he Captain was a fine young man, and had his arm in
a sling. Many of us went out with him—it *as truly
a bloody scene, being almost sabre wounds, the slain
were 411 naked, the peasants having stripped them in the
night ; it was long before we could find the French
Colonel—he was lying on his face, his naked body
weltering in blood, and as soon as he was turned up,
the Officer knew him, he gave a sort of scream and
sprung off his horse, dashed his helmet on the ground,
knelt by the body, took the bloody hand and kissed it
many times in an agony of grief; it was an affecting
and awful scene. I suppose there were about 600 na-
ked dead bodies lying on the ground at one view—the
Adjutant General says the French lost7oo;but I think
not so many. The French Colonel I have already
mentioned, was killed by a corporal of the 13th; this
corporal had killed one of his men, and he was so en-
raged thathe sallied out himself and attackedthe corpo.
rat—the corporal was well mounted and a good swords-
man, as was aho the Colonel—both defended for
some time, the corporal cut him twice in the face, his
helmet came off at the second, when the corporal
slew him by a cut which nearly cleft his skull asun-
der, it cut in as deep as the nose through the brain.
The corporal isnot wounded."
It is expected that the whole of the Volunteer Corps
of the metropolis, and the environs, will very shortly
be reviewed in Hide Park, 11 his Royal Highness
the PRINCE REGENT.
The St. James's Volunteer Corps were on Thurs-
day inspected in Hyde Park. There was a tolerable
full attendance, and the various members of the regi-
ment went through their *several evolutions with con-
siderable skill and facility.

TOesday se'nnight the Right Hon. WILLIAM Earl
CRAVEN was elected Recorder of Coventry, in the
room of his Grace the Duke of GaArroN, deceased.
The Marchioaessof DOUGLAS is afflicted with spasins
in the stomach, which have hitherto baffled the skill

of her physicians.
Mr. DAVID COURTNRY was thrown from his horse
last week, in the neighbourhood of Dublin, and killed
on the spot.
At the expiration of the present Crown:leases,
which will be in about three years, the houses:in Pall
Mall, from the corner of Market-lane to the 'Hay-,
Market, are to be pulled down, and a grand front,
under the direction of an eminent architect,'-is into be.
formed to the Opera• House, upon the site. This
will be an improvement long wanted.
The son of Judge NELLo, a Portuguese, was re.
cenily executed by order of the Regency, for having
served in the French army: He was taken near Ba-
dajos with some French prisoners, and being recog-
nixed, was ordered for trial. The young man is
stated to have died with fortitude.
Of the 44 French prisdners who escaped from
Edinburgh Castle, on Friday night, ten of them, we
understand, were taken on Sunday at Linlithgow...-.
One, who some time ago escaped from Valleyfield,
was taken on Leith Walk, by the sentinel a the Com.
mercial Bank.
In the STAR of Wednesday last was inserted the
death of Mrs. GoanoN, relict of Captain JOHN GS*
rids, jun. of the 2d or Queen's Regiment ; but whit*
should hale been, the Wife of Captain JOHN GoiwoX,
jun. of the 2d or Queen's Regiment.
Tuesday the annual Easter Plate wss run for 41111,
Barham Downs,and won in good style by Mr. Ho*.
ARD'S chesnut horse Deceiver, beating Mr. COLLARgeII
bay horse Tom Boy.
Between one and two o'clock this morning a fire
broke out at the corner of Halfmoon-alley, in Bishops.'
gate-street, in the house occupied by Mr. Goott.az,
a pork butcher ; the house being one of the oldest
houses in London, and built entirely of wood, was
burnt to the ground in the space of half an hour, and
we are sorry to say, that, out of ten inmates it con-
tained, seven were burned to death ! The mangled
remains of six human bodies were this morning dug
out of the ruins, but in such a shocking state that
neither their sex or age could be distinguished. Mr.
Gotmeer, his wife, and four children, and a maid-
servant, are the unfortunate sufferers. Three lodgers
scAL
eaed by leaping aided from the first-Boor window.
pARMING FallGalisgs.—The paper-currency of the
country at large has already sustained considerable in-
jury, and is likely to suffei still more, by the ingenuity
of the :french prisoners of war confined at the different
depots throughout the kingdom. Forgeries to a con-
siderable extent have been traced to them, and fresh
distovezies are daily making. 'Most of the local notes
in tfie Plymouth district, together with these of the
Bank of England, have been so well , xecuted Isnefirni.
tated by them, that even the Bankers themselvts east.
not at first sight discover the forgery ; and an immethe
ntimber of them have in consequence got into circuLi-
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the constant subject of tinietgrivct regret throughout byre seen aischooli except the three charges. The sone
whole way across the plain was a succession of indivi-
the army, where he it literally adored, as well by the
dual contests, here and there, as the cavalry all dis- •,.,_
soldiery as by the native inhabitants, as the letter lays, persed in illi;mishing parties to cover their rear, &c. i L'ilz..
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