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men. They have 101 l about Soon, according to their own account. d 6 All my troops fought with the greateit bravery. "The following Generals particularly dillinguithed t hernfelves--011erman,loy, Barkelay de Tolly, Prince Dolgorouky, Baggonaut, Sommoff and Sitoff of the Infantry, alto Colonels Daviddoffacy and Gondoff, &c. &c. &c. " Field Marthal Karnenficoy departed from Nitta for 011ralenfica on the morning of the 26th Decem ber, previous to the attack, and again gave up the whole command to me, fo that I have had the good fortune to command alone in this affair, and t. beat the enemy. 44 I have to lament that the long expeCted fuccour of General Buxhovden had not arrived, although he wa s only two German miles diftant, and even halted half way. I fhould otherwife have been able to fol low up my viaory. I have further to lament that the total want of provifmns and forage oblige me to retire with my corps to Rozaw ; the enemy has not molefted me in my retreat. (Signed) 66 BENNINGSEN. " Rozaw, the 27th (WO Dee. 18c6." By the above Official document, it plainly appears, that though the Ruffians have reafon to be fatisfied with the tefait of that, day's action, all the accounts received of a battle on the :7th were unfounded ; and hence we may infer that none took place on the two following days. General BININGSEN retreated after the battle towards Rozaw, which lies about half way between Pultufk and Ofirolenfka, which laft place is about fifty miles difiant from Pultufk : it is therefore not credible that on the 28th, or even the 291 h, the French army, confidering the Rate of the road=, could have at ptared at Ofiralenfka ; and indeed the French accounts do not admit of any aelion after the 26th, but ref their claim cf victory on the retreat which General BASSINGSEN was obliged to make, owing to his want of forage and provifions. It is certain, however, that at Konigfberg, when the lan difpatches came away, it was cu'rently reported and believed, that another victory had been obtained by the Ruffians, though the particulars had not traniFired, but this report ought to be received with caution. General BEN trio SEWS narrative of the battle at Pus. tufk agrees with the French account in feveral parti. I cuiars, and has the merit of being more circutottan tial. It appears to be a very fair report of the occur rences of that day- We know not hr”..ever how to reconcile the latter part of his account with the French relation of the battle at Golymiii. ft en :s not appear, from General BENINGSIN'S lethi, that General Buznovnse was at all engaged ; and ye. the 47th Bulletin contains a very circumflantial nar• 'alive of the different attacks made upon him by the divifions of DAVOUST, AUGER EAU, and the Grand Duke of BERG—attacks which !ailed from 46 three o'clock in the afternoon till eleven at night." It is very orange that all this fhould have paired within one, or at molt two German miles of General BE N ING SE N, and that he fhould preferve firth an invincible "'llene on the fobjth. It is clear, from his report , that he was by no means fatisfied with General 13UXHOVDPN'S condt:& ; but why should he conceal In important a fa& as that he was attacked—a fast, certainly according to the French reprefentation of it, quite fufficient to account for his not coming to the affitlance of General Bz:NINGSEN ? There is fome thing fo very my flerious in all this, that we are not without our fears that Tome mifunderflanding or jea loufy has crept in among the Ruffian Generals. From the circumstance of Martial Kamsasitoe's fetting out fur Oarolenfica on the morning of the ac tion, we are inclined to believe that the Ruffian army was not perfeaiy concentrated at the latter end of December, and that it was confequently not in a con dition to engage in a general affair. It fhould feem that only a very inconfiderable part of it was engaged On the 26th. JAMAICA MAIL. The letters and papers by this mail were not deli- vered out when our Paper was put to pref.. We are enabled, however, to give the following anticipation of part of their contents : ISLAND OF CURACOA We are happy to inform our Readers, that this fettlement, being the only confiderable polled - ton of the Dutch in the Weft Indies, has become a Bt itifh Colonial acquifition, without the Ids of a tingle man. The following are the letters of our Correfpondents at Falmouth on the fubjea : " FALMOU FEB. t. " Arrived the Dux E or KENT packet, Capt. LAW. REECE, with mails from Jamaica, in 47 days palage : the brings an account of the RESISTANCE frigate, which failed from hence with the ARDENT man of war for Buenos Ayres, having arrived at Jamaica on the 25th of November, and failed again on the i Ith of December : the carried information of the recapture of Buenos Ayres. The inhabitants of Curacoa haying expreffed themfelves willing to place themfelves under the protedion of the Bri tint Govcinment, Admiral DACRES difpatched his Majeily's (hips ARETHUSA, FISGARD, and LATONA, EO take pireffion of it in his Majefty's name. His Majefty's (hip POMONA failed :n company with the packet, but having carried away her fore topmaft and fluting her bowfprit, was obliged to put back."l ASOTHER LETTER, SAME DATE. " Arrived this day the DUKE of KENT, (2d)LAw- LANCE, with Mails from Jamaica, in 46 days paltage —By her we learn the arrival there, on the 26th of November, of his Majefty's fhip RssisTAwcz, of 38 guns, with the intelligence of the recapture of Buenos Ayres : the RESISTANCE failed from hence on the tth of Odober, with his Majefly's fhip ARMIN; of 64 guns : the left Jamaica again on the tt th of December. The inhabitants of Curagoa being in a diftrefted [late, expreffed a with to Admiral DACR es, that he should be put in pofteffion of the Ifland, if he would fend troops for that purpofe; in confequence he difpatched his Majefty's fhip FIsGARD, LATONA, and AaETN use, of 38 guns, and no doubt but that this Ifland is now in our pofteffion. The POMONA convoyed out the packet, but having carried away her foretop•maf3, Ilse again put back." Cnracoa is 25 miles in length and 12 in breadth, and its principal trade confifts in fugar and fkins.— The principal town is of the fame name with the ifland, and it has a good harbour and a fort. The Houfe of Aftembly in Jamaica have voted an Addrefs to e Lieutenant General Sir ERAS Coors, the Commander in Chief and Lieutenant Governor of that ifland. The addrefs is expreffive of fentiments of the higheß gratitude and attachment for the at tention of that dillinguiffied officer to the interells of the ifland during the period of his command. It is a remarkable but neceffary fetture of the plan of the Journal of Contemporary Voyages and Tra vels, that it contains the molt recent defci iptions of all the Countries which, for the lalt two years, have been objets of public enquiry and curiolity.— A periodical work which fyßernatically, and at a cheap rate, exclufivahr introduces its Readers to the lad and mpg interetting Voyages and Travels, plf kites a pre-eminent claim to the notice of every one who piques himtelf on ;good intelligence, andlfuperior knowledge. The pains of a party of pie/Are were moR lit ikingly difplayed at the conclufion of the Italian Opera on Saturday night. The rain fell in torrents as the Ladies were coming out ; and the thorteß walk to a carriage was enough to drench a perfon to the !kin. The confulion arising rrom the joftling of coaches may 'o_ more eafily imagined than defcribed. The Birth Day of °Lave' GOLDSMITH, was cele. ated on the 16th ult. at Elphin, in Ireland, the place of his nativity, by all the Ladies and Gentlemen hat neighbourhood. Numerous transparencies etninited scenes from his works. The body of the late Mr. FLETCHER READ was 0p ,, ),d at 6ticoperton on Saturday, previous to the Ccroner's Inqueff, when it was afcertained that he had died in confequence of the rupture of a blood vac' in the brain. Thiriday being the day appointed for the elation Of a , iew Rerrefentative for Suirex to fucceed Lieute nant General Lsw ?lox, now Duke of Richmond, at Lewes, the Hun.C.W. WYNDHAM was chofen without opputition. Saturday the Shropfhire Militia marched into Chatham on their way to Dover. They will remain there till the elation for a Member of Pathament for Canterbury is terminated. The troops Rationed in Canterbury, marched on Saturday to Ramfgate, Margate, Milford, and the neighbouring villages, where they arc to be cantoned during the elation. The Oxford Troop of Cavalry have determined on difcontinuing their Cervices. The Denbigh Militia are fhortly expected to refume their old quarters at Fort Pitt, near Chatham. In the Cavan Militia is eflablithed a fchool for the education of foldiers lons ; they are taught to read and write, and the common rules of arithmetic; they are inaruCted in the principles of the Chriff ian religion and duties of morality: are paraded with the men every Sunday, and marched with them to their re fpative places of worfbip. On Saturday the matter has the boys prepared for examination, and any Of. ficer wha chutes to attend may examine them. They are furniffied with a leather cap, a jacket, and two pair of cloth trowfers annually, the parents fupply them with (hoes and thins. The expence of this effabliffiment is defrayed by a very trifling monthly fobfcription among the Officers, in the following pro portions : Field Officers Bs. each per month, Cap tains6s . Lieutenants 3s. En figns U.—with this flender fund they are enabled to clothe and educate 40 boys. DUEL.—Lait Sunday an affair of honour took place at Chalk Farm, between Mr. F. a, an eminent Solicitor, and Mr. M.C—v, a Gentleman of confiderable fortune : when, after an exchange of three !hots, the feconds interfered and amicably let tled the difpute. On Tuefday IA a mot defperate pitched battle for five guineas was fought at Newbury, between a tinker named Symmetter, celebrated fur agility, and a jolly miller named Harrifon, equally noted for tirength, both inhabitants of that town ; the conteff failed an hour and twenty minutes, in which there were (ay revere rounds. Although the man of metal was of the whole time of aftion by his wife's affectionate attention with a bottle of rum and water, which at intervals the fent to him by his daughter, (a damfel about feven years of age) and had all() fought fifty pitched battles, and (hewed much fcience, yet the athletic limbs and long wind of the miller at latt prevailed—the amateurs prefent fpeak of the contell in the higheß terms. On Friday morning a foot-race was run for five guineas, between Twining, an elderly man, and Wil liam Brommel, aged 18: the former Ratted from Featherffone•ttreet, City Road, and the latter from Moorgate, to the Blue-coat Boy at Iflington, and back to Moorgate, Brommel giving Twining half a mile. They Railed at feven o'clock by fignal the race was won by Twining by one minute, he arrived at the winning poll Ist minutes, and Brommel 20 minutes after feven o'clock; the dittance for Twining was two miles and a half, and for the other three miles. BREAD—There being no Court of Aldermen held to-day, the Loan MAYOR, after infpeeling there turns, ordered it to Lill td per Peck Loaf. NitUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. FALMOUTH, FEBRUARY i. His Majelly's brig GRAIISHOPPVR fails the firfl fa vourable wind, with convoy, fur Portugal and the Mediterranean. Arrived the 'rowan, Candy, &Hy and Margaret, and John and Sally, from London. Sailed lag evening his Majelly's fhip HUMBER, with a convoy for the Downs.—Wind N. DEAL, FEBRUARY s. Sailed the SPITFIRE Hoop of war, on a cruize.— Arrived the Att low fchooner, and the PIERCER gun brig, from a cruize, and remain in the Downs with the reft of the (hips as per la& Wind S. W. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 2. Arrived his Majelly's thip SPARTAN, Sir JAMES SAVMAREZ, from off Guernfey ; BLANCHE frigate, from a cruize, with an American (hip which the de tained off Rochefort ; DEFENDER and HEARTY gun brigs, from a cruize.—Wind S. W. The follots ing is faid to be the difpofition of Lord Collingwood's fleet off Cadiz, and in the Mediiter• ranean .—His Lordthip was blockading Cadiz, on the 7th ult. with the following (hips :—Ocean, Lord Cotlingwiod ; Royal George, Sir J. T. Duckworth ; Atlas, Admiral Put vis:—(Teen, Windfor Can't!, Repulre, Tigre, Saturn, Zealous, and the Ajax. His Lordfhip, we are happy to fay, is in excellent health ; he has not been in port !ince his refit after the glorious battle of Trafalgar. The Canopus, Admiral Louis ; Thunderer, Standard, and Aaive, are on a particu lar fervice in the Black Sea. The Pompee, Sir Sid ney Smith, Eagle, Swiftfute, Intrepid, Apollo, Ant. phion, Juno, Aurora, Bittern, and Wizard, are pro teeting Sicily. The Endymion, Unite, Melpomene, and Ambufcade, are blockading Venice. The Niger, Eurya!us , Chiffonne, Renommee, Halcyon. Imogene, Beagle, Pylades, Minorca, Scout, King'sfi(her, Mor. giana, Weazie, and Efpoir, are cruizing. The enemy's force in Cadiz confilis of twelve fail of the line, three frigates, and two corvettes, apparently ready for fea ; and three fail of the line fitting. As Buenos Ayres is in the potreffi , n of the Spaniards, a fquadron is expeeted to attempt to leave Cadiz, or Carthagena ; at the latter port the Spaniards have fix fail of the line, two frigates, and one corvette, ready for fea ; and one two decker, one frigate, and a corvette fitting. At Toulon, there are five fail of the line, four frigates, and four corvettes, ready for fea; two fail of the line in ordinary at Malaga ; one frigate, two corvettes, and thirty gun boats, ready for fea at Naples and Gaeta ; four frigates, four corvettes, and thirty gun bo its, ready for fea at Genoa, Venice, and Leghorn. Lord Collingwood's force is judicioufly appointed to watch the enemy at thefe ports. Friday a Court Martial was held on board the Gladiator, on Jonathan Armarong, alias William Anderfon, belonging to his Majelly's (hip Leander : lie being ore of the crew of the boat who mutinoufly took the command of her from the officer and de ferted, was found guilty, and fentenced to fiiffer death ; but, in confequence of his extreme good charafter, he was recommended by the Court to mercy. - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ The fame day Mr. John Hall, Boatfwain of his Majeily's fhip Crocodile, was tr icd for abfenting him fell from his duty without leave, and general bad conduct ; which was partly proved. He was recom mended to be removed into a fhip in ordinary, in confederation of his age and long fervice. Admiral Sir Ifaac Coffin, Bart. Prefident. On Tnefday the troops in this gat rifon, at Gofport, and in the neighbourhood, were marched to Hilfea Barrack., to wand's the punitilment of Kennedy and o , Callagan, privates of the 54th regiment, who had been fentenced, by a Court Martial held on them, to receive, one of them 1500 and the other moo lathes, for attempting to flab with their bayonets, an officer of the 3111 regiment, who interfered to advife them to orderly conduit, on finding them engaged in a quarrel in the ftreets. The offence was fo enormous and aggravated in its circumftances, that they were ordered to receive as many lathes as could with fufety to their lives be infliCted on them ; and each of them received upwards of four hundred lathes at that time. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. GIAVCSLND, FEs. 2.—qailed the Sheeldons, M Donald, for Jamaica ; Duckworth, Warming, for Honduras; New Jerfcy, M'Crow, for Philadelphia ; and the Henry; Pype, for Dublin. The Marquis of Lorne, White, from Riga to London, is cap tured by a privateer, off Yarmouth. The Balance, Koinger, from Dantzic for Liverpool, is loft in the Orkneys. The Margaret, Landoll, from Glafgow for Jamaica, has put Into Milford, and been obliged to unload. Tht Brilliant, tattle, from Southampton for Guernicy, is on there at Cowes. The Providecria, Thomas, from Yarmouth fur Swanfta, is loft uear St. David's Head. NAVAL. APPOINTMENTS. Captain J. Welt, to the Excellent; Captain Lake, re-appointed to the Gibraltar ; Captain K. Mc. Kenzie, to the Valiant ; Captain Raggett, to the Africane; Captain Role, to retain the command of the Agamemnon ; Captain W. Peake, to the Etna ; Captain Schomberg, to the Juno; Captain Mainwaring, to the Tartarus; Lieut. D. Car 'met., to the Chrarful cutter .arpenter. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. The Franchife, for the Rapofa, January 6, t 806, will be paid on board this day. Recalls, Tuefdays and Fridays, at N 0.3, Philpot lane. The Swift, for the Brie C;ebroeders, June /8, isot, will be paid on the s7th of February, at No. 12, Staple's Inn, Holborn. Re. calls Tuefdays and Thurfdays, at the famc place. The Megara, for the Hoffoung, Sept. at, 18C4, will he paid on the txth MR. at No. 9, New Broad-ftreet. Rccalla Wednefday and Thurfdays, at the fame place. The CROCODILE floop, which lately failed from Chatham, in working out of Spithead on Saturday fe'nnight, got aground on No Man's Sand, where the tide left her quite dry. Proper aftiltance being F.iven her at high water, the was got off without fultaining much damage. Wednefday lag the body of a man was feen floating near Roche(ler bridge by a perf►n who was pafling along it, and who gave immediate intimation of the circumflance to fume watermen. The watermen proceeded direCtly to the place where the body was feen, and loon returned with it. The unfortunate perf n was dreffed in a very refpeetable manner, and had every appearance of a gentleman. Upwards of 20 guineas and tome raver were found in his pockets, hut not any thing that 'could lead to a dircovet y of his name or connections, and every enquiry to atcer• tain to whom he may belong, has hitherto proved ineffectual.—A Jury was hzld on the body, but as no witneffes were found to give any account of the means by which the deceafed came by his death, and as no marks •of violence appeared upon the body, they merely gave in a vcrclidt that he was—Fond drowned. THE.ITR E. • COVENT GARDEN.—YouNG's Tragedy of the Re venge was repeated at this theatre, for the third time, tall evening. In the perf'nation of the character of 'he revengeful Zangd, Mr. KEMBLE gave us a faithful pi&ure of the perfidious hyporicfy, which marks the condua of the Moor. Through the whole of the piece, he difplayed a thorough conception of the de. tigning artifice, and feemed to premeditate the pro greffive lleps. by which he intended the dellrnaion rf his mailer, h/a4zo. In the . denouernent, where he con. felfes the full extent of his guil', he became truly great, and we difcerne•l the brutal latisladion both in his countenance. ipeech, and aait.n. which fhould per vade the foul of the exulting villain. Mr. C. &EMMA was more animated in illonzo, than we have ohferved Mtn to he in any other charafter. The lloufe WAS crowded in every part. Wednefday evening tali, the Gentlemen of the GuardF, ilationed at Chatham, with fome G-n ltt- en of the neighbourhood, performed the tragedy o 1 Zara, with the burletta of Torn Tktrnb. The houfe was filled with as elegant aa audience as ever graced its walls, and never did an audience leave it with grt'ater fa tisfaflian at the entertainment they had met taith. The performance, b.th of the tragedy am,l the bur letta, were admirable ; every pert . ..niter was cntrcdt and happy in the delineation of the char after he re. prefented ; there were tome who particularly excelled, but as all were aetuated by the fame fentiment of benevolence in coming forward for a eliaritAle pur. pole, it would be invidinth to make didinEtitms. As a pot coach was proceeding to the theatre at Chatham, on Wednefttay evening, with General Lawson, and a patty of Ladies and Gentlemen, it broke down and overturned near the Horfe and Groom in Rochefler, by which accident fome of the party were feverely bruited, but fortunately, no feri ons injury was fuftained by any one. Lail Friday afternoon, as Mr,. Knit!, wife of the Mayor of Hereford, was fitting by the fire,her clothes caught fire, and were inflantly in a blaze; by which the was fo dreadfully burnt, that the expired next morning. She was nearly ninety years of age, and been deprived of her light for feveral years. Sunday fe'nnight, a man of the name of Denis Boyle, of Killawel, near Ballymoto, in the county of Sligo, was inhumanly murdered ; his head nearly fevered from his body, his tongue almnd dragged from his head, and his whole frame mutilated in a manner too horrible to defcribe. The only leafrn for this horrid deed is entirely afcribed to his having given teflimony at the late Special Commillian, againtt one of thole unfortunate beings called Threthers. A more dillrefling accident from the imprudent tile of fire arms has not of late occurred than the following :—On Thurfday fe'nnight a gun, without a lock, was fent to a gun fmith's (hop, in Chefler, to get one put on ; the gun, in that Rate, was put into a vice, and an apprentice was affixing a lock on it, when a girl about thirteen years of age, with the in. fant child of her mailer in her arms, came to At a qtreftion of the apprentice, and flood near the muzzle, when the boy unfortunately trying the lock, it went off, and lodged the contents:in her body,car. ying with it part of the infant's clothes, which it ftt fire to.— Immediate furgical Alliance was procured, but in v tin, as the girl only furvived the accident three quar ters of an hour. The infant was not hurt. The Jueges met on Friday in the King's Bench Treartny Chamber, and chofe their Chtunb for the enfuing Lent Affizes, as under, viz. Nourn K —Right Honourable Lord Ellenborough and the Honourable Mr. Juttice Grote. MIDLAND-Right Honcurable Lord Chief Jur.ice MausSeld and Hot.uurable Nir. Barcn Graham. Hose—Right Honourable Lord Chief Baron and Honourable Mr. Jultsce H ath. OlTOED—Honourable Mr. Baron Thompfon and Honourable Mr. Jutlice Lawrence. NORTH eari—Honour.ble Mr. Juilice Rook and Honourable Mr. Jultice Le Tklane. WE ssr Er. N•-/ iononrable Mr.Juftice Chambre and Honourable Mr. Baron Sutton. MUILDBR.—The ftillowirg is an inflance of barba rity fcarcely to be paralleled in the annals cf cruelty : Wm. Williams, of Pentwyn, in the Parifh of Crick bowel), a (mall farmer and fhepherd, who had been accuflomed to attend daily to his flock, left his cot tage on the morning of Saturday fe'nnight, accom panied by his dog. In the afternoon the dog returned home without his mailer, and howled fo much as to have created great alarm in the family. Night coming on, and the deceafed not appearing, his friends became much dial-died ; and, on the following morning, his wife and children, with fome neighbours, went in fearch of him ; the faithful and fagacious dog accom. panied them, repeating his howling, and expreffing figns of great agitation ; he led the parties to a final coppice, where his mailer was found murdered, his head having been fplit with an axe. The unfortunate man has left a wife and feven children to bewail his fate.—Two brothers, named Timothy and John who retitled in the fame parifh with the deceafed, were furpeded, in confequence of the unfortunate man (who is a contlable) having, difcovered the retreat of their father, after he had effeded his efcape from juflice, on a charge of lheep-Realing. They are both lodged in Brecon jail, under the charge of wilful murder. Saturday, at Marlborough Ricer, an Italian of fortune, arid Come diftindion, named Leipfl, was charged with having written and fent fetteral letter , containing menaces, threats, and abufe, to a Mt. ADAM, a mercantile gentleman, refiding in Chat ; lotto street, Itathbone•place, with intent to provoke that gentleman to fight a duel. The complainant Rated to the Magittrates, that about two months ago, he was addreffed by this Signior, in the pit of the Opera Hnufe, who accufed hitn of having de. famed and vilified his reputation and charader at Fribnrgh. in Switzerland, in the year 1803. Mr. ADAM told him, he was utterly mißaken, as he had never, in the courfe of his exitlence, been in Sask. voland ; and, in order to convince the foreigner more fully of his mißake, he gave him his card, with his addrefs. The Signior, however, pertiffed in de claring Mr. ADAM to be the perfon who had calum. nutted him, and in confequence of his obßinate re. fentment, wrote that gentleman a variety of letters, replete with the molt foul and fcandalous obloquy and ahufe, intimating to him in his !aft, that unlefs he would accept a challenge, he muff fiblynit to that which would irevitably follow. The di fe ulant gate his own fecurity in tool. an t two furetics in 301. each, to keep the peacc towatds Mr. ADAM.