Star. — 1809-04-14 (London, England)

WELLESLEY.  • Yesterday the Lords Commissioners of A, in Prize Causes met at • the Cockpit, • . agreeable to adjournment, to hear and detelr.:,.,,. . • same, but Sir W. SCOTT being out of town thea• Lordships adjourned. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the  East India House, when the six new Directors took the usual oats and their seats. C. GRANT and W. ASTELL, Esqrs. were elected Chairman and Deputy Chairman.  A rumour was circulated yesterday, but we could not discover any authentic source, that the people of Ferrol had risen on the French, and that it was expected they would force the garrison to surrender, and rescue the fleet from their power. This would really revive our hopes of exertion from the Patriots ! The boats of his Majesty's sloop RINALDO lately cut out of a port to the eastward of Dieppe, in the most gallant manner, a schooner, laden with cyder, under a most tremendous fire of musketry from the shore, by which two of the Rinaldo's brave crew were slightly wounded. The Royal Charlotte, MORRIS, is arrived in the Clyde, from Grenada, which place "she left on the 2d ult. in company with the Eglinstown, GILLINSON, bound to Glasgow, and parted from her on the 7th, off St. Thomas's. The Soverereign, —, for London ; and the Hector, —, for Liverpool, put into Grenada in February, being leaky, and discharged part of their cargoes. The former sailed again on the 1 lth of February, and the latter was to sail the midd'e of March. The Royal Charlotte met t!:e e tte s op of war, at sea, on the 11th of March, and rec v d flora her the news of the surrender of Fort Bourbon. The Officer of the Bellette, who boarded the Royal Charlotte, told Captain Moanis he s ipposed the Frit' sh trod s had before that time made a landing at Guadaloupe. The Bellette had two transports under convoy, going to collect more troops to aid in fle enterprize, of the complete success of which we expect very shortly to be informed. A Requisition for a County Meeting in Hampshire, for the purpose of thanking Mr. WARDLE, was last Saturday carried to the Sheriff, signed by sixty nine landholders of that county; men free from all party connections, and chiefly yeomen of large property. The Requisition was signed at Winchester on the same day. Monday a numerous meeting of the inhabitants of Norwich was held at the Guildhall, in St. Andrew's. The Mayor, S. DAY, jun. refused to call a CommonHall. The inhabitants, however, persisted in their intention of meeting, and the Mayor did not think proper to keep the Hall•cloors closed. JAMES MARSH, Esq. was called to the Chair, who briefly stated the purport of the meeting, which was the same as that of the Common Hall in London, namely, to return thanks to Mr. WARDLE and his parliamentary sup. porters.—The Resolutions were put and carried unanimously. Some persons attempted to interrupt the business of the meeting, but the people soon cleared the Hall of them, and the business proceeded without further interruption. A curious circumstance occurred' on Wednesday afternoon in St. James's Park, durin the firing of the guns. A lame spaniel dog kept barking and wagging his tail, when the Artillery gunner, Mr. Serjeant CLEGG, threw a piece of the match-light at him, which burning the animal's face, it flew at the engineer, and bit his cheek and hands. A second person seeing his danger, endeavoured to extricate him, whom the dog also bit, and then evaded his pursuers, by ; making a rapid progress through the Park.  The Rev. FITZGERALD TISDALE, rector of Kenmare, County of Kerry, was barbarously murdered on Sunday, 26th March, in the morning, at a place called the Priest's Leap, when on his way from Bantry to Kenmarc. The body was stripped of every thing, both money and clothes, and thrown into a cave some distance from the road.