Star.
London, England, 1811-02-02 00:00:00

TARRAGONA, DECEMBER le.

The division of General Labarre, in the beginning
of November, dispersed the convoy proceeding from
Mequinenza to the besiegers of Tortosa ; rendered
useless the 3000 men which protected it, and sunk or
burnt several boats laden with ammunition, which
weir going down the Ebro.
The Gazettes of Cordova, of the month of Novem-
ber, contain accounts of different actions between the
patriots and the French near Qnesada, Jodar, Passa-
dilla, and Alomilla ; in which the former have almost
always the advantage.

Those of Madrid of the same month also mention
combats maintained by the French troops in Cama-
renas, Valdepenas, Scc. in which they are stated to
have gained advantages at a trifling expence.

EXTRACT Or A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER Or RANK,

DATED DX IRLANGIN, DECEMBER 18, 1810.

" We have the glory of having fought with only
400 horse, under General Bum.), which composed
the vanguard, 600 French horse sustair,cd by infan-
try, and sir pieces of cannon.

" The action lasted six sours under an infernal
fre. Our troops received seven charges, notwith-
ganding which, our loss does .nit exceed 20 men.
The loss of the enemy exceeded 150 men. We re-
mained masters of the field of battle."
ALDESIRAS, DEC. 1.
The insurrection in the Sovrania de Malaga in-
creases, the Patriots have gained advantages in Al-
hama, Antequera, and Loja, and have received from
the fortress ot. Gibraltar an Aid of 1000 muskets and
60,000 cartridges. •
Brigadier Don Pedro Cortes, who commanded on
the eastern coast, has been made prisdner, with four
other Officers and 30 soldiers, in an encounter with
the French. This advantage cost the enemy 100
soldiers, who were killed in tie combat.

AltAmmon, mermin vs.

to consequence of General Capon's retreat, the
French had over-run the County of Niebla, and eotti-
mitted their usual extortions and acts of violence in
that county. In Castillejas, Aremloerg demanded a
contribution of 200,000 rials, and six mules ; and in
Alrnendeo, also six mules, and 60,000 rids. To se-
cure the payment of the said contribution, he has car-
ried off two gentlemen of property from each place as
hostages.
Soult, who directed his March to the ports, is said
to have marched back to the interior with 5000 men.
It cannot be a matter of surprise that this movement
should have been occasioned by the advantage ob-
tained on the 14th instant, in Cazala by Ballesteros,
where, although the French were 400 stronger than
our trbops, the former took to flight, were pursued to
a considerable distance, and lost a great number of
men in killed and prisoners.
A few days before Soult left Port St. Mary, he
gave a ball, and afterwards ordered the said place to
pay a contribution of 25,000 bard dollars, but he was
obliged to set off without being able to obtain the
money.

A still further delay will intervene before the.
PRINCE can take upon him the Regency. Lord Lt.
VERPOOL did not, as expected, move the Resolution
yesterday, for issuing a Commission under the Great
Seal for giving an assent to the Bill, but merely laid
the proposed form of the Commission on the Table
of the House of Lords, giving notice, that he would
move the Resolution this day, provided no discussion
was expected to take place upon it, but if a debate was
likely to arise, then, he should postpone his motion till
Monday, to which day, in the mean time, the House
c* Commons adjourned, so that the Resolution ca•mot
at any rate be sent down to the Commons this day.
—By this delay, the PRINCR cannot hold a Privy
Council tilt Tuesday ; and it is probable that he will
not go to the House of Lcrds before Thursd.ty next.

The question of privilege, which caused the exclu-
sion of strangers on Thursday in the House of Lords,
related to Lady Lacers, the widow of Lord LkceLE,
an Irish Baron, and brother of the late Duke of LEIN.
STER. Her Ladyship resides in the west end of the
Town, and was lately arrested for a certain sum of
money. Mr. FLASHMAN, of Ely-place, had been em-
ployed as' attorney on the part of the plaintiff, and
one Isaacs, a bailiff, carried the process into execu-
tion. Upon this statement being communicated
to the House of Lords, they considered it a breach
of the privileges of the Peerage, and the attorney
and bailiff were ordered to be taken into custody, and
were brought to the bar of their Lordships' House.
We understand their Lordships' judgment to have
been—that the attorney and bailiff be discharged on
paying their fees. The lady is related to one of the
first families in Ireland ; the sum for which she was
arrested was £4B.

Wednesday the Dukes of YORK and CAMBRIDGE,
with a numerous party of persons of distinction, en-
joyed the sport of shooting in the neighbourhood of
Oatlands, where they killed no less than 40 hares and
'2O cock pheasants. After enjoying the sports of the
field for several hours, they retired to the house of
the Duke of Yoam„ where they were sumptuously
entertained.

Fox HUNTING.—The Essex Fox-hounds, under the
management of Colonel CooK, had one of the severest
runs on Saturday ever known in Essex. They met
at Leading Wood, about three miles from Fifield.—
The frost being very hard, the hounds did not throw
Into cover till half past twelve o'clock ; after drawing
the small cowers near Leading Rothing without suc-
cess, the Colonel trotted on to a cover about seven
miles from the place of meeting called Brick-hills,
where they soon found. The fox immediately broke
cover and made for Norwood, where be was headed
and went back to Brick-hills ; from thence to a favou-
rite cover called Manwood, from whence he broke
over the open country and made for Lord Maynard's
Highwoods towards Dnnmow, but being hard pressed
was not able to reach the cover, and he turned to the
right over the Rotbings, and at the end of one hour
and fifty minutes hard running, they killed him in a
meadow near Aylthorp Rothing. This severe chace
proves the stoutness of the Rothing foxes, for out of
fifty horsemen at starting, only nine were in at the
death.

KING'S THEATRE.—Tuesday evening there came
lon to be heard before the MASTER of the Rou.s, an
argument on a bill filed by the house of Alexander
Davidson and Co. against Mr. Taylor, of the Opera
House, and the Executors of the late Mr. Gould, for
sums of money paid to Mons. and Madame Des Hayes,
for dancing at the Opera, which sums, amounting to
82,500 per annum, the said bankers had paid in con-
sequence of chair guarantee. To this Mr. Taylor ob.
jetted, because his late partner had made an impro-
vident engagement, not warranted by the deed of
trust. The bill, after an argument, was dismissed, as
against Mr. Taylor, leaving to the bankers their re•
medy against the executors of Mr. Gould.
• Saturday the remains of the late Mr. Lewis, the
Comedian, were interred in a family vault at Christ
Church, Liverpool. The procession consisted of a
hearse and four horses, followed by two coaches, with
four horses each, in one of which Mr. THOMAS LEWIS
(the youngest son of the deceased) attended as chief
mourner ' in the other there were a few friends of the
family. The whole was conducted Privately and so-
lemnly, and the funeral service was most pathetically
read by the Rev. Mr. VALISE. The streets through
which the procession passed were crowded with peo-
ple, each anxious to pay the last mournful tribute of
respect to the memory of a man who had so long con-
tinued the pride of his profession. Every face ex-
pressed sincere sorrow at saying good-by for ever to
their departed favourite.
Two's Chronology just published, which includes a
correct register`of all the remarkable events in the
present r, &c. &c. is a work of such general utility,
that no Compting-house, Public Library, Seminary,
nor indeed private family,.should be without it. It is
a volume of useful knowledge well worthy the atten-
tion of every person in the kingdom.
On Wednesday last, at Grimsby, an apprentice
boy, belonging to the Berstig Greenland ship, acciden-
tally fell into the river, and was drowned.

?RE ARMY,
The Germans, and second division of trocps, have
not been able to sail from Portsmouth : so contrary
has the wind been, that it is feared the fleet under
Sir Jost/4r YDR/C will be obliged to return to port,
NI/VAIL mrrnmatmcs.

PLYMOU al, JANUARY, 31.
I mentioned the arrival of the Noacz from Cadiz
Yesterday, with three transports under convoy, hav-
ing French prisoners and Foreign deserters on board;
and that they were all put under quarantine : the
crew of the NORGE are, however, in perfect health.—
There were no art ivals this day.—The COURAGEUX,
.7 i•, and ENDYDIION irigate,have come up the harbour
to be docked ; and the FAvouarrx sloop into B.irn.
pool, to refit.—The following packets are new at this
port, viz.—The Ann; Marlborough, Princess Mary,
Princess Charlotte, Lord Hobart, Duke of Kent,
Princess Amelia, Swallow, Manchester, Chichester.
FALMOUTH, JANUARY 80.
Arrived his Majesty's ship FoxitouNn froen'a cruize.

• PORTSMOUTH, FEBRUARY 1.
Arrived his Majesty's ships DONNEGAL. Datwlcz,
Co(warm and THRACIAN, from a cruize off Cher.
bocrgh ; GANNETT sloop of war from a cruize.
DEAL, FEBRUARY 5.

Arrived his Majesty's schooner Nov:AnsiL from
Plymouth, and remains.—Wind South.

SHEERNESS, FEBRUARY 1►

Sailed this day the Pyramus, so the westward.—
Arrived the Pilchard, from Chatham.—The Egeria
went out of harbour.

ADMIRALTY COURT, DOCTORS' COMMONS, Fem. I.
This day the Right Hon. Sir WttuAsi SCOTT pro-
ceeded to the adjudication of the following cases :
Coed Haal, Tonningson master.—This vessel sailed under Da-
nish colours, laden with rye, malt, pease. &c.—Ship restored and
the malt condemned. Capton' espences allowed in taking the
depositions.
Dre Drie Freunden, lorginson master.--This vessel sailed ender
Prussian colours, laden with provisions. Further documents re-
quired.
Anna Regina, Sculdt master.—Thia vessel was laden with iron
&c. No claim being set up, the property was condemned.

Ceres, master.—This vessel was laden with barley and
rye, and being a shame case to the above, a like sentence was
issued.

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Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when Captain BLANCHARD was
sworn into the command of the ship James Sibbald,
consigned to Madeira, Madras, and Bengal.

'lle Agenora, Griffiths, from Waterford and Milford, bound
for London, has been taken, retakes, and arrived at Portsmouth.
The Lady Mitchell, Wood, from Halifax to Liverpool. was
deserted at sea by her cre o, on the Ist of November, being in a
leaky state.

The New Success, from Duagarvon to Weymouth, went
on shore near Ushant, in October last,. and mai aieibeci by the
enemy.

LTC£I.7I4 TneATRE.—A new musical piece, enti-
tled The Peasant Bog, was on Thursday night repre-
sented at this Theatre. The leading features of the
plot were as follow :—An Italian Duke ( HOLLAND)
goes to the wars ; his cousin (RAY/4mb) becomes
anxious for the title and estates ; he attempts to woo
the Duke's niece, but is rejected. Disappointed in
love, he resolves on murder ; and as the Duke is
about to return, at that precise period, he determines
to murder him. A rencontre ensues, in which, after
receiving a slight wound, Alberti is rescued by the sud-
den appearance of Lodovico (Loveamov a) who pur-
sues the assassin, and wounds him in the right hand.
The assassin, Montalvi, flies, and to escape the pur-
suit, which is close upon him, drops his cloak, mask,
and dagger, at the door of a peasant's cottage. Ju-
lian, the peasant's son (Miss KELLY) comes out, and
in the act of examining the cloak, is seized by the
Duke's servants. He is thrown into prison, and, at
length, brought to trial, when, at the moment of sen-
tence, Lutkviro appears, and Nontalvi is convicted of
the crime. Miss KELLY did all for the Peasant Boy that
the most sanguine wishes of the Author could require.
In the scene where she pleads her cause before the
Tribunal, her feelings were excited to such a degree
that she fainted away. The interest of the denouement
was, for a moment, forgotten in the general and anxi.
ous concern for the fate of the performer, who was
carried off the stage. When the curtain dropped, as
the audience continued their inquiries respecting her,
Mr. LovEcmove came forward, and informed them
that she was considerably recovered. Miss DUNCAN
was encored in a song, which she accompanied on the
harp.
The following is a specimen of the Poetry—•
:,A crown of fresh roses at sun-rise I wreath'4,l,
All dropping wits silver-bright dew ;

Alt ! how soft and how sweet were the perfumes it breath'd,
And how blushingly beauteous its hue !
Etultittg I wore k--the merry hours basted,
And laughingly tripp'd away morn ;
A storm came at noon—the red lightning-shaft blasted
AU my roses, and left the bare thorn.
range groves and bowers,
To seek other flowers,
But none find so fragrant or fair;
My brow now Is torn
By the sharp-pointed thorn,
It reminds me—* ISOSE ONCE WAS TIMERS !

Love! Love! Love!
Capricious God ! tyrannie
Thy words are mad—thy looks are wild....
Who trusts thee most is most beguird--,
1 pry'thee fly from me!
Love! Love! Level
'Forgive my spleen—forget my pmer
I all my pettish oaths outwear,
And sue thy fetter stiU to wear,
More dear than liberty !
Love ! Love ! Love!
Tiro' strong thy bow, and keen thy daft,
Thou neer did'st leave the stricken heart,
Without a balm to soothe its smart,
Then pry'thee gay with me!



oLbtreEsTzlt nEcnoM

•

• Gloucester, Febrouy 1.

Notwithstanding this majority, the partisans of Mr.
Durrow, calculating on the great numbers 'they have
to bring up Irom the distant parts of the country, aid
manj of them having been prevented from attending
in consequence of the badness of the weather, enter-
tain not the least doubt of taccess. •

1711krr DAv's Iyl t„
For Sir Williita Guise 014.140,4 ;
tor Sir W. Guise 116
Mr, Dutton 1475

StsossoDmr‘ Pots..
For 'Milian Guise 67.5
Mr. :.r.
Dutton ' 4321 Majorirt for Sir W. Guise ]4S

TIIIIII:DAT'S POLL.

4Pe2i
Majority NI- Sir W. Guts* U
397
rOORTH DAT'acot.t.
411/
Mijority for Sir W. Cul4e 157%
264

Sir William Cui.d
Mr. Dutton

Sir Wm. Guise
Mr, Dutto

Tota M*jor*y far Sir \V. Guise

Finr.R.—,A fire btoke out at the ho.:-e of Qs-env
Pots, Esq, Brackhall, Surrey, which consumed the
same, together with outhouses cnntiguntis. It was
occasioned by an oven being over-heated, and it was
discovered at midnight, but providentially the family
escaped in safety.
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...

A dreadful fine broke out yesterday morning, about
ring o'clock, at a barge-builder's, a, Nine Elms, Bat.
ivrsea, which raged with the utroost fury. 't he early
arrival if the engines and the prompt auistance of
the firemen and others, prevented the fire from spread.
-ing to any greater extent, and after four hours great
exertion, It was got out after destroying the premises.
It is not known how the fire happened, but it is con.
jectared to have begun through the carelessness of
some person having left a lighted candle near some
wood and shavings, which must have communicated
to the buildings.
Yesterday a Man wns brought to Bow-street Office
from the Stamp Office, under the f Bowing
stances :—lt appeared, from the evidence of an et-
graver, that the prisoner applied to him to engrave
an instrument to stamp the name of Thomas Robins,
whom he represented as a banker at I.4keard, in Corn.
wall, who had the misfortune to disable himself front
writing his name, his hand being shot with a pist. 1.
The engraver at first hesitated at undertaking to eke-
lcute the instrument, but was at length persuaded by
the prisoner to do it, and ;Treed to get it done in a
week for two guineas. However, after the prisoner
I was gone he repented of his engagement, and made
some enquiries ; he found out the bankers in London
with whom the bankers at-Lisiteard cashed, and learnt
from them that one of the partners of the Liskeard
Bank was in London, and upon inquiry of him, he
was infoftned that no such accident as Mr. Robins
shooting his hand had happened. Information of the
circumstance was given at the St .nip Office, in case
of his applying there for damps—which he accor-
,dingly did, and presented 100. pieces of paper fitr
stamping, suspected to be for the purpose of issuing
notes resembling those of the Liskeard Bank. The
prisoner was ordered to fwd bail.
Yesterday Franthre. h Portuguese sailc!, was
fully committed, from the Mansion House, chargect
with stealing eight five shilling papers of copper from
the shop of Nutall, watchmaker in Hounalsn itch.
From the evidence of Mr. and Mrs. Nutali, it ap-
peared the prisoner, with tWo• others, went into tae
shop, en pretence of buying a watch ; and, while 0n,,:
of them was looking at the watch, the others stole
the property. with v.!11.31) they got cif before a con-
stable could be procured ; but, being pursued, the
prisoner was taken, with, te two parcels in his pos-
session. In defence, he said (through an interpreter)
that his enmpanionsgave him the money, and that he
did not steal it.
Yesterday J. Mason, aged 16, was felly committed.
from Hatton Garden Office, charged with stea;ing a
cake of bees'-wax from the shop of Mr. Plumb, oil-
man, in Leather-lane, in company with'V. Atterbury,
who was capitally convicted thereof, at dip.! last Old
Bailey sessions, and another boy, not yet taken.
A Mrs. Stanton has been examined at Marlborough.
street Office, charged with passing one pound and
twa-pound-notes, purporting to be of a bank at
haven, at which place no such bank is in existence is
and about Chelsea. When apprehended, several net.:
of a similar description were found about her. She
was committed for re-examinatirm.
Another woman, named Gast, seas also remanded,
charged with obtaining goods from various stiop.
keepers under fake pretences,
On Friday se'nnight a heinous attempt at robbery
and murder was made in the neighbourhood of
Louth; the circumstances connected with which 2t-
tempt are as follow ;—On the day mentioned. Mr.
Hobson, of Skendleby, went in his gig to Louth, to
pay a pretty considerable sum of milney, His busi-
ness detained him rather late ; so that it was quite
dark when he set out on his return home. When he
had got Out about four miles, at a part of the road
called Mannersdane, he perceived a man standing
just outside of the rut. It should be observed, that
thereabouts the road passes through a kind of swamp
for 40 or 50 yards, which, particularly at this seasiit
of the year, prevents carriages from quieting the track
on the rampart. The circumstance, therefore, of a
man standing as we have described, created a suspi-
cion in the mind of Mr. H. who, in order to avoid
danger, gave the whip to his horse, and made him
start into a canter. As soon as he reached the man,
the fellow made a snatch at the bridle of the horse,
and called to Mr. H. to stop ; but the suiftness e.f the
animal occasioned the man to miss his hold. Thus
disappointed, he exclaimed, D—n him, I have
missed him," and at the same instant aimed a bl,,w
at Mr. Hobson, with a cudgel u inch he had in his
hand—but, luckily, hit him rather smartly on the

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4.IIIII¢MittIPMFIII-
- THE .SCIiOOI.O4I43Y'S PETITION.
Pity the 'sorrow* et a Us* boy,
Whose pocket's ilakt--whose pence are new no snore;
Whose dwindled cash denotes no coming joy ;
•
0 give relief, and ronotate his store !
These pouting lips disquietude bespeak;
These wistful eyes proclaim my hopes and fears ;
And the sly dimple in my rosy cheek
Still holds the remnants of the recent tears.
Yen tarts, arranged tit the skelvy round,
With tempting aspect drew my looks aside;
For raisins there a residence had found,
And cherries ripe, and sugar-plumbs beside.
Hard is the lot of little boys and pow !
My pockets all were rumnufd o'er in 'Vain)
For me the huckster open'd not her door,
From me she turn'd to greet the richer min.

O from your ample funds replenish mine!
Strong comes the scent, delicious are the gales;
So may that keen sensation neer be thine,
Wber. sw..cts allure, and pocket-money fails!
Should I relate the tale of all my grief ;

If you'll remember that you once were young; '
Your hands would not withhold the kind relief,
•
The,sage advice should issue from your tongue.
. • •
Of tarts and cheesecakes you may say," Beware ;*
That little boys from teasing should refrain:
But little boys, while little boys they are,
Will spend their money, and then ask again.
bright half-crown was mine:—with eager haste,
Gay, as the lark, f tripp'd across the way:
But, ah ! how soon 'twas sacrified to taste,
And but one sixpence view'd declining day.
That sixpence too, sweet solace of my soul,
teed by a queen-cake from its silken home,
Was soon, alas! to me no longer whole,

But doom'd in circulation's speed to roans.
My penny tots, my last remaining sum,
Struck by the thought to be itself as free,
. Went, quickly went, a victim to a plumb,
And kft the purse to poverty and tuth
Pity the sorrows of a little boy,
Whose pocket's light, whose pence are now na more)
Wbcse dwindled cash denotes no Coming joy !
0 give relief, and renovate his store !

7 -
LAND INTELLIGENCE.

eOURT OF KING'S BENCH, FEB. 1.
DREAM OF THE QIIARAHTINZ LAWS. •
'THE KING v. HATTHEWB AND OTHERS.
Mr. GA RROW moved for the judgment of the Court
on five persons, apparently common mariners, who
now stood on the floor of the Court, convicted on their
own confession of a breach of the Quarantine Laws,
having been found within the quarantine station con.
triiry to the provisions of the Act.
The prisoners, who were named Thomas Mathews,
John Shearman, Thomas Dupre, Henry Dupre, and
John Dupre, had allowed judgment to go against
them by default.
Mr. GAZZLEC, for the-prisoners, stated, that he had
affidavits to offer for them, purporting that they had
transgressed the law purely by mistake, and that
they had each of them wives and large families. As
the Act, however, imposed a specific punishment,
and did not leave it to the discretion of the Court, be
was aware, that to put in his affidavits would be of
no avail. -
Mr. Justice Gaoss, in pronouncing sentence, enlar-
ged on the salutary consequences resulting to the
country in general from the exactperformance of
quarantine, and the evils which might ensue from
suffering a breach of the laws enforcing it to pass
with impunity. Those laws were imperative on the
Court, and invested them with no discretion in the
apportioning of the punishment. The sentence there-
fore was—that the defendants, and each of them, do
pay a fine of £5OO, and be committed to the custody
of the Marshal of the Court till the same be respec-
tively paid.

THE KINCi v. KING.
Mr. COMMON SERJEANT moved that the order for
the attendance of the defendant in this case do stand
over still further, on account of his continued ill
health. He held in. his hand an affidavit by Mr.
Young, the surgeon who had made the former affi-
davits, stating that the defendant's health was by no
means better ; but on the contrary, that fresh symp-
toms had this day appeared; that the defendant had
communicated to him his intention of going out to-
day to attend the Court; but that in his (Mr. Young's)
judgment, it would be highly improper the defendant
should do so.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH said, the term 'impeller wa I
not sufficient ; the Court must have something more. '
—He did not mean to apply this to the present case,
but if they were to lay this down as a rule, they
would never have any person who would come up
for judgment.
The different affidavits by Mr. Thomas Young
and Mr. James Stevenson, surgeons, were then read,
the first of which bore the defendant to be in such a
stae cf health, that he could not, without danger to
his life • quit his room to encounter a cold atmo-
sphere ; and to this affidavit those subsequently filed
had reference.
Lofd ELLatiBOROVOII observed, that the term ins-
peeper, in Mr. Young's affidavit of to-day, greatly let
down the force and import of the words of the former
affidavits. One would be extremely sorry to do any
thing which might have a tendency to endanger the
• life of another ; but still justice was not to be euded.
If gentlemen on the other side were desirous of hay-
ing other medical men to wait on the defendant, for
the purpose of ascertaining the actual state of his
health, the Court would feel inclined to yield to their
desire ; if net, the order for the attendance of the de-
fendant to-day must stand over.
Mr. ABBOTT, for the prosecutor, stated, that he
would be ;lad to send a medical man to visit the de-
fendant.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH said there could be no objec-
tion to it ; the Court, however, expected that the pro-
secutor would send for this purpose a practitioner of
• ninence, one mane exception: major. The Coast should
therefore enlarge the um for the defendant's attest-
dance till Wednesday not g but they expected that'