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at the 4pearance of the French frigate, imagining she was the precursor of a larger force, and the fort'. fications here ate not strong. We have besides but one frigate at present cn this station, the remainder being off the Rio Plata, under Admiral Decourcy.— The Admiral is, however, daily expected here.— The stores of the Agamemnon man of war have all been saved. Though the intercourse between this place and the Spanish Settlement of Monte Video is now per fectly free and open, we have hut few arrivals of any consequt r.ce from them. This is supposed to be owing to the interruption which took place in the negociation for a Commercial Treaty, A% hich Sir Sidney Smith was carrying on with Liniers at tlie time of his /Teal. It is supposed, however, that Admiral Decourcf has resumed the negociation, and this conjecture is sop ported by the circumstance of his continuing so long at the Rio Plata, as this port is the regular station of the Commander in Chief. He has already been six weeks absent. I E EVENING LONDON. SATURDAY, SEPTEMLER 23. PP ICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. p.-r Cuns. Consols, flr money 66;-I—ditto for acc. 6Sti. °anum t j pran.—r.xchequvr tills, 6s. 1.13. Respecting Cabinet Arrangements we have nothing sat . st.ictory to communicate to our Readers. I)iffe rent pei stns have been applied to, and various attempts have been made, to form an Administration compre hending many c,f the men who have for some time chr 'cul the public affairs. See have refused— others refuse a definitive answer till they can be in formed what situation they are expected to fill, and others refuse unless their friends come in along with them. The whsle of yesterday was spent in negociation, in which a Royal Duke, already distingniched for the leading part he took in bringing together the present Members of his MAJESTY'S Ciuncils, was busily em ployed. Ilk Royal 1-lig.)ness has been three times at Windsor since two o'clock cn Thursday. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, but its deliberations did rot last lcng. It was attended by Lords Ecnox, Nuica Ayr, and LEVIsON Cower, Earls LIVERPOPL I , CAMLEN, Ea Tzzt.; as r,Cilaa HA M, WESTMORZL AND, and Mr. l'Artc EV AL. Mr. PEWEVAL is understood to have mule a formal denial that he aspired to he Premier; and some of his friends assert that his only aim was to oppose the am bition of Mr. CANNING who aimed at filling that situ ation, and is reported to have sent for his friend the Right Hon. Roaztur DUNDAS from Ireland, to assist in making an arrangement. Mr. CANNING'S plan is reported to have been as follows:—" Himself to he First Lord cf the Trea sury and Chancellor of the Exchequer ; or, Mr. Pia. CEVA 1., Chancellorolthe Exchequer—Lord MEtvltt.J., the Admiralty—Lord Mute:TAN - F., the Ordnance— Lord LEVISOX COW LP., the Foreign ; Lard LIVER- Pact., the Hcre.e ; and Marquis WELLESLEY, the War Dep,, rt ment." The following is said to he the arrangements pro posed by Mr. PERCEVAL :—" Lord Smmourx, First Lord of the Treasury, ticc the Duke of FORT LAND ; Marquis AVELI.E.SLEY, Secretary of State for t'ie War and Colonies, vice Lord CASI'LZ:IIEAGII. The other parts (:f the Cabinet to remain as before." Others assert, that dissentious have come to that height, that all the Members of the Cabinet, except the LOED CIIANCLI.LOII and thorEarl of LIVERPOOL, have tendered their resignation It has also been ru moured that Lord LONSDALP iStO succeed Mr. CAN NINC; as Secretary for the Foreign Dept! tment ; and it has been confidently asserted by some, ::nd as confi dently denied by others, that Lords CaNVILI.I.; any; Howieic have been sent for. What a state for a country to be in ? To he in a great measure without a government !—We say without a government," for it is impossible that eilicicnt measui :2s can be carried on, or the details of public business receive that degree of att.ntion x , hich is requisite, from then engaged in party squabbles, and struggling to hold, hr to obtain for themselves or their con :cons, the emoluments of Alice ! To what do we owe the present distracted state of our Government ? To the infatuation NV;tll which Ministers have persevered in interlag with the af fairs of the Continent, and particularly with these of Sp..in ! The disasters which betel Sir JOHN Moonr's army occasioned no little difference of opinion in the Cabinet. The love of power, and the sweets of of ice, soarcd over the wound ; but, instead of profiting by experience, another and a better appointed army was scut to the P , :niasula! and, as if this had not been a suflicier.t drain upon our population, a third army was sent to Zealand. Asa diversion in favour o f Austria ? No ! Austria had given up the contest But tie army had been provided, and it was thought coul.l be made sub:.et rient to a Cabinet arrangement, planned in consequence of the Duke of PORTLAND'S infirmities having induced him to express a wish to withdraw from public business. Lord CHATHAM was iptendei for his successor. The expedition to the s c h e la it was expected would give eclat to his ap., pointment. We all know what was aecomplisbed— and what was ntt accomplished i--sied now we see the consequences beginning to develope themselves. ' Britons, you are on the verge of ruin. Such mea sures as you have clamoured for, could not have suc ceeded in the hands of any Administration.. It is high time that the country should retrace its steps, return to common sense, abandon all attempts to sup port or to restore in other countries, institutions ini m:cal to industry and public happiness--and subver sive of sound morality.—Your attempts are madness! they cannot prolper ! If you persevere in them, you will inevitably he involved in the ruin that has over whelmed those institutions on the Continer.t, for the destruction of which your forefathers not only cried to HEAVES, but shed their bicod ! . ."" _ The PORCUPINE is arrived at Spithead from Cadiz, , which place she left on . the Sd instant, with dispatches from Marquis WELLESLEY, having on board Sir JO H N CRADDOCK, from Gibraltar. The dispatches were brought to town this day by Captain Months• Aij-de-Camp to Sir Join CRADDOCK. The General himself is on his way to town, accompanied by Colo nel REYKELL and Viscount JOCELYN. The dispatches do not, we undcrt.tand, contain any miiitary intelligence of importance. The French corps were at Placentia, Toledo, and Tdlavcra. Our army had retired to Portugal, and Marshal Beau- FORD'S head-quarters were at Tamer. The Junta, it is supposed, has by this time been dissolved. ' A Regency was expected to be declared at Cadiz about the sth of this month. The Arch bishop of TOLEDO was to be Regent. Dispatches were this day received from Sir JANIZS CRAIG, Governor of Canada ; but we were not able to learn what they contained. IThe VIRGINIA sloop of war has arrived with dis patches of an important and interesting nature from Sir Roa:ar BARLOW, for the Directors of the East- India Comp lily. Every thing was in a state of tran quillity when this vessel came away. This morning we received New-York Papers to the 15th ult. brought to Falmouth by the Mary packet, Capt. Coox, in 30 days from New-York, and 18 from Halifax. The contents of the American Papers are comp:rativeiy unimportant, but private letters are said to have been received, stating, that the Ame rican Government is decidedly hostile to Great Bri tain, and that it has beeti privately resolved on to re fuse admission to Mr. JACKSON, our negotiator—orders having been sent to the ses-ports to prevent him or his suite from landing. Mr. JOIIN QUINCY ADAMS, the new AMerican Mi ' nistcr for Russia, sailed from New-York fur St. Pc tersburgh in the beginning of August. The American Papers are filled, as usual, with ac counts of outrages said to be committed at sea by our cruisers oa the American vessels. The language cf political writers, however, is not so violent against this country as formerly. The American Governer TRUMBULL, died at Con necticut, on the •ld of August, in the €9th year of his age. According to the ietrers received by the Flushing Mail, the works on the fortifications are proceeding, • especially on the side of kammekins, with all the ra pidity the health of the persons destined to this em ployment will al . ow. Notwithstanding- the number of sick \rho have left the island, nearly 8'2.A.) were on the medical list. The whole cf the !British force in that situation did not much exceed HMO. The follow- I ing is an extract of a letter Inirn thence: • • " nus!l:ng, S,p:ember " There is no appearance of any intiuitioi. to evacuate the ielcrd; but, on the contrary, stores from the transports are con tinually coming in, for the apparent purpose a permanent oc cupation." The Middleburgh Gazeres to the date of Tuesday • last contain no account of the military operations, either of the British in Walcheren, or of the enemy in Cadsand and South Beveland. They are principally devoted to details of Custom-house regulations for the temporary arrangement of the duties and prohibitions to which the trade of the isl ind shall be subject. Wedne day evening, a boat, with. two men in it, was upset nearly opposite the Magazine, in Hamoaze, Plymouth, and one of the men unfortunately drowned; the other was picked up. The Dutclt newspapers of the 12th state, that the Fortune, HENrRicKs, bound to Heligolandvatts car ried into the Teiel en the ith instant, by the Hebe French privateer. The Industrie, Iftwtyle, was car ried into the Vlic the same day by the Anacreon French privateer. The Impregnable, KELmon, and the Wilhelmina, Dz. BEST, from London to Heligo land, are taken by the Prosper French privateer, and carried into Sererme.nchong. 1 . 11 F: llta.—The precise grounds cf the dispute which led to the meeting between Lord CASTI.r.. IZEAGII and Mr. CANNING, and the circumstances at tending the rei:c(Vn: are :still 'but imperfectly known, although it is admitted by their respective friends that the chef cause of time difference was of an o Siciainature. —lt is also asccrtained that the challenge was sent by Lord CASTLEREAGII Ivitll a specific demand not cf ee. planation but of sessfaction. The requisition was fire/v:4u, and thns every avenue to conciliation was closed. Mr. CANNING was in considerable pain the whole of Thursday afternoon ; but he passed part of the night in tranquillity,,and was yesterday evening much better. The bone - is not in the least .affected by the ball, and the wound is confined altogether to the flesh. Mrs. CANNING and her children ate, we understand, in Leicestershire, and aq intimate friend set off at 12 o'clock on Tuesday to communicate the event to her. A great personage is stated to have expressed his most serious dkpleasute 'at this new mode of adjusting 0ff.../27/ disputes, which are in fact more peiplexed and embroiled than before. We bel:eve this is the second time of Lord CASTLEREAGLI entering the field. Mr. CANNING /lad never fought duel. , mosioffiliNlNNl :::/L, Kh:n, z.ntl'u.•:-. I come up harbour to be repaired. t‘kiiii,nadi, and I: . . 1 THE A-13.MY. -,- , . - (strong gale. tour more linerof battle ships are order sill at Ports..( List of Ships in Port—Scipion, and Tonant, of to run-. mouth, for the purpose of being sunk in the -Scheldt, t i a o in ; , A se m d et Y h o y r s k t:A 7 r 4 m; id ln e t , re a p n i d d, A 6 m 4 c;li Ac a, • . .. ... Ife - ,' ... i r od ; H N e e s p p t e u r n , e anc t l e rtn i dg m e, oc l 6 B l ; t S o zd l : ri vi g e. , E, B ai r . i ci ta l asle,. to 't : , :: and the convicts are now getting reidi e illp jury rig (ring. b .:, Ira. og.. .7 111 4: 1 4Y - 47 , : 1 whiting schooner. --- :--: - - can, r, The following O ffi cers arr i v ed Harwich, from Flushing : 1• . , PORTSMOUTH, SEPM TE81712 T o. General PRATT. • • , Arrived his Majest y's ships CHRISTIA X Vz- Majors WACKINGER (Aulstant-Commissary at Walcheren), fj v HUNT, and Cote. RFITE and GOSHAWKE, from St. Hele n ' s ; and il e a,„ Captains BENNETT, NIKON, WRITE, MANDY, I.SDON, and ctIFINE, . with a General Officer on boai d, fi sin CARMICHAEL, of the 9th Light Dragoons; and COLELOUGII and Mediterranean. Came into harbour his M. - , . aiestv s .;• MITCHELL. j BELLEISLE. ' Lieutenants GERLINO, MORLE, MANNER', and 'DIM. 1 The AJAX, with the convoy for the ?Jed% Ensigns MOTILE, FITZGERALD, and FAKIANT. i I,.:7lr l p ti and the Tagus still remain at Spithcad. Ti A Major-General With-Timm was expected to review le tio s • with the convoy for the Eastward, has co: yo,, sa : l ,' the Regiment of detachments this morning, upon although the wiad is fair. The PeaP.l. I-' ' South-sea Common, Portsmouth. . .a; , ,ta gist, convoy instructions to the ships bound to Ne.,i • Doctor M 4 Gatoon, Inspector of Hospitals, is di- . oil ,I 5•,.. s' rected to leave Portsmouth, and embark immediately rica. Some few days ago a Fre.ncli F.i,rattss cos. for the Irland of Walcheren, where his great and ills lured three sloops close off Selse a Bill, . DEAL, SEPTEMBER 21. defatigable zeal will be of great utility in the manage- Arrived his Majesty's ship EsPiEgf. f r ri I:llerrt of the sick. The excessive fatigue undergone i _ a cs sz . SEPT. 22.-s-Sailed the GLOCKsTADE I - by the medical men there, has literally rendered . , s ,:Dp et ve , wita a fleet of transports for the Scheldt. —lvi n d s . i • many of them Unfit for duty. i The skeletons of the 7th and Sth Regiments of Foot ; blows hard. gun-brigs, f n uo i nr n : g cb , rcli a g ; tsen, eight lgutrh,l o lt : e i: l e o g e soi k ti , i p t us h : It e dt n ll cdr :,.1;11i,:. ,led YARMOUTH, SEPTEMLEP 2,.. were on Thursday landed at Plymouth from Marti. nique. They were 'on board four transports which STTAlRbtiot.s. utNmnGdo .l.lc,rNrLr.-, came under convoy of the CAPTAIN, INTREPID and • 'ExsotEss, and formed part of the unfortunate homes v ", • ward-bound West India fleet which suffered so dread- "C July in the late gales. Not one hundred of either clf w i nd blowing fresh at s'.7.S.W tile • • •% . of sight by ten o'clock.—Sailed for the kskic, Le . , . 3 tkot ali (.4r • DAUNTLESS sloop of war and Locys•r gun-brig, L: f a ro o m ru iz ;ltishing, transport \o . to 4 d l .: ; cr i the above Regiments have been left alive, and those • a I . who landed . were in a most deplorable condition frail Apr, • has landed several sick soldiers belonging 4C Arrived pm ..., E 7.: fatigue and disease. Several more transports with - sick regiments. From the att e nti on paid by the Factil•r, whose care they :ire und er , ver y few - irsen have te n troops from the West Indies are hourly expected at Plymouth, cur new translantic possessions having been unusually fatal to our brave soldiers during the ~ , s, ss . sost.-1 P . M . arrived Ice PANDORA gun-brig. last eight months. Remain in the Roads—Roebuck, Chan:icler, Thursday 509 more . French prisoners were sent Richmond, and Redbreast. • from Mill Prison to Dartmoor, escorted by a detach- 1 aom LLOYD'S LIST. ment of the West Essex Militia. GitAvrst vD, Scr-; Basra 22.—Arrived the Minerve, 1111--., from Almirena; Gold Grove, Piece, trent Tel-,,,-) ; li.s.- IiI4IIPAL INTELLIGENCE, Hepburn, from Jamaica; Stag, Carpenter, from Cadiz ; IZti :)haw,s/tedweck, from Jamaica; Print, Lindsey, front Vin c .,, a; • Entely, Taylor, from Quehec ; Three Brothers, Ritmo. tr.iin INDT.A. SHIPPING. Martinique. coiled the Earl Percy, Itobboa, fur Mang,,,. • September r. 3. The Margaret An; from Iceland to London, was banauette His Majesty's ship VIRGINIA arrived at Portsmouth 27th of August. the 22d instant. Left Madras 16th May, and St. The Duke of Kent, —, from Lisbon t o P a l errna , is fain-, is the Susannah, of Ne w castl e , f rom America, is on shorexcer the Mediterranean. Helena 7th August. The WARLEY had arrived at St. Helena ; also. the UNITED KINGDoM, from En ts- Myth, and expeated to be lost. land. No news of the seyetl missing ships at f 7.;:. The George, —, and the Minerva, Smith. brand tn Phila. delphia, which were .on shore near Liverpool, have been r o f. Helena. Ile former wit hoot damage, the latter is put into 6s. Georgi's The CASTLE EDEN, SURREY, MAIRCHIONEtS OF EXE- ILialu Basun, car g o discharging. The Auna Maria, Murdoch, from New Bru n swi c k bs b.e• TER, DEVONSIIIIIE, MARQUIS WEI.LELEY, TAUNTON des- rted by the crew , being leaky and full of water.. ' ' -t. CASTLE, CITY Or LONDON, ME - roams, Dos Fat CAS- The Kentish, Nerqnay, from Liverpool to Baltimore, is ref TL It, EA:tr. Howe, and RETREAT (from ts Dich ships back with darn a g e, ARRIVED—.:t Portsmouth, the Harriet, Melville front hi the UNITED KINGDOM had parted company), were ,n:ca,disn,ssrctl. At Liverpool, t he D o v er Bloomfiel:: ; Ale,, well the 9th July, 1809, at sea, lat. 24. 40. South Davis ; Itteci,us, Johnson, fr o m Quebec ; and hy.n, Wrg . ,t.fica Plii;atici ? ltia. At Halifax, the Dykea, 1 horn :son, from Lire. ling. 26..!0. West. • poal. e`i.t Cork, the Martha, Cain, trona St. Uh'e's ; Baltic, —; We are happy to learn, that •the war in Travancore and Thompson, —, from eq. Croix. At Dublin, the Isce,Ris, , 3011, from ft-tide:4d ; altd the Eliza, Graham, n o m Outtentrar g 4. is settled, and that, all is quiet at Madras. At Newfoundland, the Manannp, Stanworth, from Livirpnol. FALMOUTH, SE 'TEMBER 20 In .the powns the Favorite sloop o f war, —, f rom hens* 2.:- Ellison, Sims; David Shaw, ---; ai:ci 1... ist Queer, thmady, This morning arrived the Princess Augusta packet fram Jamaica ; Proselyte, Larten ; and Echo, Rowe, I:o.!1:;44. in 29 days, from St. Thomas's, with the Leeward does ; 'll:ree brothers, ,--, trona M.. Kitt's ; Entvrpri k e,Sievets; arid pine, WilFaxason, from Defnetit;a , 'I bus, Jennii g , ;mt. Island Mails : in consequence of the death of the Trinidad; Lord Nelson, l'hilli f s, Irons Martinique; 11 J, thy, Hayti; , outharniton, ---; aid ATilt•i:S y Craig, tr.,:iy:. Captain (ST. Auns7N) and eleven of the crew during ! itmn 1 C ro ix ' • P• T s g y, Edeylon, front Quebec; Ins, Stringer, Errs., Grp. . their stay in the Islands, she is put under stric,. quar- 1 hada ; llenty, R ;plain, fru.ti JuLain.: ; and :Vary Aim, licaikr• r . ora; Erni,y, I ai• routine—Pasieno.ers by.her, are tr. AustsTaosso s ! son, Irons Bethke ; Dance, Frown, from Dttiit. o , 1,, 5 , f rom Quebec; E conomy , H a l l , from bunnent ; aLd lici., PETER DELisias, Esq. Mr. and Mrs. HILL and family. i —, from George Town. On the 17th September, in lat. 49. 9.1. long. 7. 44. ' -- spoke the ship Thomas and Mary, from Martinique, for Liverpool, out 49 days, had lost all her top-masts in a gale on the 26th ult. off the Banks of Newfound land. Arrived also this day the Mary packet, Capt. Coos, from New York and Halifax, left the former on the 17th ult. and the latter on the Ist September. The Windsor Castle arrived at New York on the 25th July. His Majesty's ship PONIPEE, Admiral Cools itaxE, arrived at Halifax on the 29th August—Pas sengers by the Mary, ale Captain JOHN Rietranns, NonLE HARVEY, Esq. Mr. THOMAS HILL and family. The Mary brings no particular news—the fever con tinues at Philadelphia, about 80 die daily; at Nev York very few. The Non-Intercourse Act is again in full force ; also arrived this day the CONFLICT gun brig, and AL-rEox sloop of war, from a -c . ruize ; the DosturtN cutter, from the Coast of Spain ; and the George, Ricnanos, from Portsmouth.—Wind W. PLYMOUTH-DOCK, SEPTEMBER 21. Several more of the homeward-bound Martinique and Jamaica convoys have come into the Spund this afternoon ; and I sincerely hope the aggregate of losses will not bear any proportion to what has been anticipated. The brig Winshut of Teignrnoutli, LANG DON master, arrived at Plymouth yesterday, nearly sinking, having seven feet of water in her hold : she ' had been 26 days from Liverpool, bound to New foundland with a cargo of tobacco, butter, &e.—en countered a severe gale ofF the Western Isles, which swept every thing from LUC decks; dismasted the ves sel, and otherwise so severely damaged her, that her crew were in momentary expectation of her foun dering. Sailed the Hope merchant brig, Commis master, for Barbadoes and Trinidad ; the Morning Star, cartel, for Lisbon ; and the PHEASANT sloop of war for Liverpool, to bring round impressed men,. La ::.lIIN frigke sailed again this morning, but was forced to put back—she will sail for Rochefort the moment the wind becomes fair, having seven trans. ports under convoy, with supplies for Admiral So-111E -BEl'3 STIOTOR, consting of the DILEADNOUGIIT, GI BRALTAR, and' MILFORD. The 1..11i11' frigate has • Mr. I.rNDLY's new Novel, called Rey!ridit. was published this day. M. LA:ts, Esq. of Ramsgate, has been app.)intei Spanish Vice : Consul at that pert. . As the time limited for granting licences to vessel' passing to and from Holland, expires on Friday next an application was made yesterday by some person interested in that trade, for an extension of Lae but it was refused. Yesterday Lord Cotma.lNE and Sir J. N:ES PUTS transacual business with Lord N..lt;:.c&A - ..f., at his residence at the Admiralty. MOnday the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury pared through that city for Bishopsbonro, en a visit to his son-in -Jaw, the Hon. and Rev. Hugh Percy, wi:eie his Grace will remain till to-nkrrovf, when 1:,2 164 make his annual Visitation, and hold an Ord.. ...on at the Cathedral. -. • A few days ago an a(Fray took place at Arundel, between two officers of the 18th Hussars and a rani of the inhabifanti:si.hen a woman, who was Tar active in the aifair;had one Cif - ker fingers cut off by sable. • At' the late Litchfield Races, General Massa,. late Governoi of Flushing, Brigadier General Osmv, Colonel SEntos, Recthr Da JOLT, and 1)E LaNU$, prisoners of war; at Lichfiel , were present. The former, though . of Dural make, is of French orig" and wears .tho' various insignia of French t 12 1 4 11 honours. The latter are•very fine men. The Tunnel is completed through Hay-hill to the Fores: of Dean, which is connected with the ['Jeer Severn, and a channel thus established, by which the valuable productions cifile,forest may be brought to market with a facilityllitherto unknown. It is with pleacure we . have it.in our power aga l le to notice an additi ona l p roo f of . the ezemplAry go od conduct, and if it could be judged necess,try, of the essential services of that inestimalsie Corps,.the Ropli Marines : In Lit!utenant-General Sir EYRE Coors's Orders ; dated Head-quarters, Middlcburgh, 30th August ! 1809, that Veteran General thus t. xpresses himself; " The service of the Battalion of Royal Alnints, mils* comruand of Captain Li ARM, beirg ro longer required 01 sh° ge s Lieutenant-General Sir PYRE Cool t car not allow that corpsr be removed from \Valcheren orit!touz besring, testimony ID 1' 61 4 ; Orders to the soldier-like :tad prais,?-worthy conduct it Lei u9ze formly maintained :luring its stay in the island, and el which most favourable report bas been made to me by 14100V 411 " 9. lone' FANS, cotnlnandhig at Vt ere." _ • n ill11111111111.111111111 —" , RIO JANEIRO, JULY 8. A French frigate has just arrived here from the Isle of France as a cartel, with 300 Portuguese priso- ners taken from a Portuguese Indiaman. No corn- rnunication was allowed between the ship and the shore, and the Captain was not permitted to land for scme days. The inhabitants were greatly alarmed r the ~ n nearftnee of the French frigate. imagining ~_ ti I I M 1 Nl4l