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`_ kit t he bay unobserved by any peorkm, all (ex. li pp d a g nne , a prisoner) having the watch on deck. to gook with them several muskets, a supply of monn ition, and many articles of but little value.— ly atte mpt to pursue them was prevented by their ouny i n g partially the only boat (near the beach) mat time sea-warthr• a on the 12th April began to rig the ships Serin* nouns and Sir Andrew Hammond, which, as I' m i n ted, employed the men until the Ist of May. b ot h were then engaged us getting the remain a o f the property from the Greenwich to the Serin- Ir ma, as I began to despair of your rejoining me that place. a The work west on well, and the men were obe. est tp my orders, though I discovered an evident lair in their countenances, which led me to sup w dare was something wrong in agitation, and or t h a t un* /session had all the muskets, ammuni to, and small arms of every description, taken to a Greenwich, (the ship I lived on board of) from a et her ships, as a necessary precaution against a o ne from my own men. On the 7th of May, while on board the Seringa w duty which required my being present, a s i g ma place, in which I was wounded, and the unotan s ucceeded in getting the Seringapatam oat Ibe b n i...two days after, when making the meek pai n n uions to depart for Valparaiso, we were by the savages, and I have, with the deepest g et, to hiatus you, Sir, Midshipmen William elm , AD Thomas, Thomas Gibbs, and William bell, were massacred, and Peter Coddington, , • dangerously wounded. After bending the an d spanker, we cut our moorings, and fortu tely bad a light breeze that carried the ship clear the bay, with six cartridges remaining out of the y barrel left us by the mutineers. a After getting out of the bay, we found our si= most distressing. In attempting to run the ep, it broke in two parts, and we were cons to tut away from the bows, the only anchor, lag able to cat it. We mustered, altogether, persons ; out of which there was one cripplia, dangerously wounded, one sick, one just reco • g from the scurvy, and myself, confined to the with a high fever, produced by my wound. a In that state, destitute of charts, and almost of means of navigating the ship, I reached the •ch Island, after a passage of seventeen days, suffering much from fatigue and hardships. I there unlmtunately captured by the English • Cherub; remained a prisoner on board of her to months; during which time, my men were • red in a most shameful manner. We were then on shore at Rio de Janeiro, without the possibi. of getting away until after hearing of the peace. then, by the advice of the physician who attended ne, embarked on board a Swedish ship bound to de Grace, (there being no other means of my • away at that time) leaving behind acting • • Clapp and five men, having lost one after my arrival in that place with the small-pox. ▪ On tie lst instant, lat. 47. Al. long. 13. W. we is with the American ship Oliver Ellsworth, from e, booed to this port. I took a passage on of her, and arrived here two days since, after upwards of an hundred days at sea. lam at unable to travel, and shall therefore await I _our orders, or the orders of the Commandant the MAN Corps at this place. " I have the honour to remain, with the highest and esteem, Sir, your obedient servant, 46 JOHN M. GAMBLE." A copious supply of German Papers reached us st night. They do not present us with any articles lerikeug general interest. The Rhenish Memory mimes to inveigh against France and Frenchmen, Oa the usual head of a Private Letter from Paris. be population of France is rated at twenty five mil e; of this number one million only, the writer Nide% as having shared in the atrocities of the evolution, and therefore they ought to be expelled no the European Continent. The following pro. led and judicious remarks on the French character ea fellow : *That we should hate and detest these (i.e. the revolutionists) who can blame us ? But the other !ietty-four millions, who, as well as ourselves, lay der the oppression of the wicked—the cultivator, tactful citizen—why should we hate them ? " I say not that we should love them—that we form friendship with them; you must not ez imPossibilities. Love and friendship are founded lialatity of pursuits and feelings, and cannot It where this similarity is wanting. But what Meyer distinguish the Frenchman from the Ger. Id is this, that he has no simplicity of character, no RI Ojai/ice, and that there is nothing in him which 'Pet hint towards the pro fund. A Frenchman is 4 4 to be found who has an ingenuous uncon 6321aest of his own merits. In like manner, I have ial Bone who derived any satisfaction from losing they unjustly possessed, and in whom the feel. ofilnice was paramount to gain. There is none 41/ h° has any perception of the metaphysical of things, without even excepting their excel. PaseaL, in whose writings you find nothing of :Pith that distinguishes Bnuzio and SPINOSA. If s then, we are neither to love nor hate the what are we to do ?—let them alone. Had ° al once again Alsace and Lorraine, we should nothing snore to ask of them. That the French % da will be able to put down all ta among thew, and acquire civil freedom, S !is what w cabby seateitas promise or gearintee to 1 them. It will be peculiarly-difficult to found civil tritedom among cheat, on account of their great le• vity, and their prtinenesi to Comedy, One of the most intelligent among them once said, “ Perhaps misfottune May strip us of that levity of character, which all oar Governments hive carefully nursed, because it was necessary to make of us a slavish people.' This frivolity probably contributed more to the unfortunate course which the Revolution took, than all that they call the subterranean intrigues of Orleans and the Emigrants" Paris Papers to the 20th arrived at a late hour last night. According to the Gazesle Vale, the sus pended march of the foreign troops, and the arrival of reinforcements, arises only from delays of em barkation occasioned by the weather, and the arrival of detachments to complete the regiments of &cu. pation according to the Treaty. Theie papers add little or nothing to the reports respecting Sir R. *molt; and really little is known but the fact that he is charged, along with Captain HUTCHINSON and Mr. Baum., with having aided the escape of Lavaurris. We'hope it will prove other wise un his trial; for the act, if true, cannot be jus tified on any ground. A Morning Paper, under the , head of a Private Letter from Paris, gives the follow ing documents, said to have been found by the French Police, which are to be adduced in evidetice against the English Gentlemen implicated in the escape of LAVALETTE - - " I. The Tailor's Bill, sent by hatchlnssiel to Wilson, for the uniform, supposed to be that in which Lavaktte escape.). " 2. A Nute of the sth instant, froni Hutchinson to Bruce, asking him, ' whether he hail forgot his poor friends in the little room 1' and engaging him to tome and join them at one o'clock.? " S. A Note of the 13th of December, from Wilson to Hat: chinson, hi which he says, that 4 if the expedients proposed are tried, success is certain.' He also adds ; that' andH—; Englishmen of note, are quite turious at the fate of iley: " 4. C.rtain Nqtes of Wilson, relative to conuntinieations ‘vh:eh he had made to an Engll.6 Newspaper in favour of Ney." COPY OF A LEITF:R FROM SIR CHARLES STUART TO THE DUKE DE RICHELIEU, ON THE ARREST OF SIR ROBERT WILSON, MR. C. BRUCE, AND MR. HUTCIIINSON. •• PARIS, JAN. 13. Sift-I have learned with surprise that several English Gentlemen, among whom arc General Sir Robert Wilson, Mr. Crawford Bruce, and Mr. Hut chinson, have been arrested this morning, that their papers have been seized, and that they have been conveyed to the prisons of this city under the direc- I don of the Minister of the Police. 14 As I have repeatedly manifested to your Excel lency my determination to extend the protection of my Sovereign to no person whose conduct endangers the safety of this Government, I should !lava been flattered, if, as British Ambassador at the Court of France, I bad betn honoured with a communication qiism your Excellency; which -might have prevented the necessity of an official explanation of the motives for a proceeding of this nature towards iirdividuals whose services and rank in some measure guarantee the loyalty of their conduct.—l have the honour, &c. (Signed) 41 CHARLEY STUART." The French Journals mention two Protestant Fa maies having abjured their errors and been received into the Loom of the Church of Rnme 1 The details which we have given under the head French Pro testants, throw some light on the real source of these conversion:. We again assert, that persecution has not ceased in the South of France ; and we maintain tat the very efforts that are made to mislead the Protestants in other countries on this subject, ought to operate as a most powerful stimulus to persevere in their efforts for the emancipation of their fellow chris tians from being subjected to suffering for conscience sakL'. The very effort of their enemies to throw upon them the odium of the revolutionary crimes perpetrated by the majority (that is by the Catholics) is in itself a most abominable trait of a persecuting spirit. Mockings, reproaches, and calumnies, are not slight inflictions. We are rejoiced, however, to find that the persecutors, be they who they may, have failed in their efforts to extend their system to other places when they endeavoured to have the flying Protestants denied the common rights of hospitality. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT 1 WELVE O'CLOCK. Reduced Gorr—Cosa. mo. 644} —for ace. fait 4 per Cent. 75} 76-5 per Ct. A!};—Bonds 6s. 7s. pr. Own. 151{ pr.--Do. pay. 161 i pr.—Ezch. aids 4s. fis. pr. The SPEAK= of the House of Commons will give his first public dinner on Saturday se'nnight. Lord and Lady CASTLZREAGH will come to town this day for the season, which is several days sooner than they were expected, they having fixed on th e 30th instant. The Earl and Countess of Liveneoor. came to town yesterday for the season. The Earl of LIVERPOOL will give the first Cabinet, dinner for the season to morrow, at Fife House. We believe we may at length announce, that a matrimonial arrangement has actually taken _place, in behalf of the presumptive Heiress of the British Throne, on the one part—and a Prince of the House of Sa x e -Cobourg, on the other. The probability of the event has been so long whispered, that its final settle ment will excite less general surprise. It is the third son of the reigning Duke who is to receive, some time during the ensuing spring, the hand of the Princess Cneatorra of Warta. The Bride groom elecr,—we suppose we may call him,—is the same Prince who drew considerable attention in Lon don, about a year and a half ago, by the grace of his person and the dignity of his address t we believe we may also add, in plain English phraseology, that his Highness is in other respects a very excellent and worthy man. He is at present a Captain only in the Austrian service, about 26 years of age. I AItiGHTON, JANUAR Y 21. The following Bulletin was exhibited at the Pa vilion this morning " Sunday, half-past Ten. ,A.M. " The Pewee RscritT has passed a good night, and is, in eery respect, better rlhls morning. M. J. TIERNEY." His Royal Highness this day, yesterday, and the day before, has been enabled to leave his char b-: for an apartment adjoining ; and this day, in pm t. cular, the symptoms of returning health linhre sc fully manifested themselves, that a relapse is happily regarded as not probable. JANUARY W.—The PRINCE REGENT, we Ere happy to state, is now in a fair way of being speedily and perfectly relieved from that painful c , )mpanion. the gout. The following Bulletin was issued this morning: " Pavilion, half-past Ten, A.M. Monday.' " His Royal Highness is much better this morning. " M. J. TIERNEY." 711.5 dßmr. . . • The 64th Reg im ent, commanded by Major PEARS, passed through Petenfield on the 22d Instant, on the way to Plymouth. This regiment eimbarked for fo reign service the 14th January.lBol, and disembarked from IFra'nce at Dover die 14th January, 1816, thus ertatlY compleating a period of 15 years out of Englaal WINDSOR, JANUARY 22. This mining a grand Military spectacle Was exhi bited In this town. It being known that a part of the victors from the battle-of Waterloo were expected at the 'riot barracks, great numbers of the inhabitants left the town to meet them on the road ; on foot, on horseback, and in carriages; the Guards, amounting to upwards of 6ve hundred, with laurels in their caps, and with theii hand, were then headed by his Royal Highness the Duke of YORK, OH horseback, as Colo nel of the Ist Regiment of Foot Guards. The QUEEN, and Princesses AUGUSTA, ELIZABETH and MARY, took their stations at the windows of her Majesty's house in Park-street. The military halted when they came opposite the house and gave three cheers.. The Duke of Yonk concluded the military to the barracks, and went afterwards on foot to the Castle; they left Paris six weeks yesterday. RAM:if:TATE, JANUARY 110. Sailed fbr Calais, eleven freight-vessels and four transports, to bring home troops and horses. Arrived the Samuel, Juno, and Fomax transports, Mary An- Itabella, and Charming Molly freight-vessels, from Calais, with 160 men and horses of the Royal Artil lery, with their field-pieces-.—horses, we are happy to say, all landed it) line condition. The Lord Hill packet-vessel is said to be put into Dunkirk with the loss of many hoises. The King George is reported to be lost, but it is not believed. We learn that several dead horses have been washed on shore in the neigh bourhood of Dunkit k, from which it is feared some of the freight-vessels or transports have been lost :altogether. bos/Inv 21.—Arrived from Ostend the Lord Li verpool Packet, and Good Statesman troop ship-1 the former with passengers, and the latter with a number of soldiers of diti;:rmt regiments in charge ut baggage. JaxuAny V..—Arrived from Calais the Blucher, Lively, Ann, and Resolution freight vessels, with • 1 1 20 fat:a and horses of the Royal Artillery; the holies are now coming on shore, and appear in a good state. Sailed last night for Ostend the Prince of Waterloo Packet, with passengers and goods.— Arrived three large transports, the Lord - Melville, Lord Dunconthe, and William Pitt, to be employed in the conveyance of troops to Ireland. The pretended confidential cofiemunicalioa from Lord CASTLI.REAGH to his friends, upon the measures in tended to he proposed in Parliament, and copied by us from a Morning Paper, proves to be a forgery. Diwtches were received on Sunday at the Fo reign Office. from Paris, which were forwarded to Lord CASTLEREAGH, who sent them to the Earl of LlvEatrooL. Mr. CANNING, we understand, is expected to ar rive from Lisbon in the month of March. We are happy to learn that the health of Mr. CANNING'S son is considerably improved; FIRES.—This morning, between two and three o'clock, a dreadful fire broke out in the stables be longing to Mr. WILSON'S coal wharf, Duwgate, which soon communicated to the adjoining warehouses, which were burnt to the ground, together with several barges, waggons, and carts. The horses were all got out safe, and we do not learn that any human livis were lost. Tuesday night, an alarming fire broke out in the farm steading of Mr. TURNBULL, Crichton, near Edinburgh, which raged with unabating fury, from nine to twelve at night ; and we regret to say, that one side of the square was burnt down, and sixteen cattle lost. Wednesday morning, about one o'clock, a dread ful fire broke out in the extensive cabinet and carpen ter's shops of Messrs. ROIEBT WADDILL and Son, Stockwell street, Glasgow. The flames, aided by a strong gale from the south-west, communicated from the work-shops; which stand on the south side of a court of thirty feet wide, to an extensive range of buildings, belonging to the same Company, on the north side, and occupied as a dwelliag house and warehouses, whereby the whole premises, nearly all the made work, a great quantity of wood, and all the workmen's tools, were destroyed ; one of the pro prietors and his family narrowly escaped with their , lives, leaving every thing behind except the night clothes they wore at the time. The African Expedition, now fitting out to explore the source of the River Comm, reminds us of a pas sage in Swift': Gulliver, where the whole body of learned men in a kingdom were employed in plans to ascertain the imaginary wealth of other climate:, while•foteigners were running away with the sterling riches 11 their own country ; and so it may happen now, for while many are indulging in the fancied 'possession of African ore, the foreign orders, to secure a share in the mine of standard gold, ready coined into English guineas, now in the wheel of Forbore, are immense, and without an immediate purchast, they may run away with the Two Prizes of 25,000 Guineas. the Two Prizes of £20,000, &c. with which the present Lottery abounds, as it begins Drawing 14th February, being Valentine's Day, and there are not Two Blanks to a Prize I NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. MAIL'S. . •11. DUE. AIR. nut. Dublin - . . 0 1 Litbon - 0 u Waterford . hz - 0 0 Gursmey and Jersey 0 0 i MAIL' - 0 • .io►hnd 0 0 Elimbargh 0 1 '`ice - - 0 1 I Flanders - - 0 0 FALMOUTH, JANUARY 20. Arrived the American ship Howland, Captain ilowLaND, from Chrrlesto Nn order,; Jane, Cap. rain Sniverri, from London ; Shat:n.o, Captain M'lwrostt, from Cower for the Medit:erranezn, with fish.--Put back the George packer, with the Mails for Surinam.—Wind S. PORTSMOU CH, JANUARY 22. Arrived the Mary, Fox, fr:)m sailrd his Majesty's ships BRAZE, 4.1 Barb does; and SaLisn: rtv, for the West 1 ..iies ; and Alert ) Me.vEtts, tur Londnn.—Wind S E. DEAL, *JANU ARY 21. Sailed this molting the Butcn, Dace,!, f-r a I Kiddington, Swisxy, tor J anaic4 ; and mist of the outward-bound, except the Hon. Company's Sbi ;.s, they all remain.—Five o'clock, the wind has teLaed back again to die S. W. and the outward bound are coming back.—Wind S. E. MARGATE, JANUARY 22. The brig Lyra, of North Shields, SYMONDS master, from Ostend, got on shore yesterday oa raa : ness dock, bi assistance from hence was got off with. out Mucremage. HARWICH, JANUARY 22. ' Arrived the Earl of Leicester packet, with a Mail from Cuxhaven. The Elbe having become free from ice, 53 vessels proceeded bp from Cuxhaven fir Hamburgh on Friday last, the day the pachA EXMOUTH, JANUARY 2t. The William and Mary, Baamarr, from Sunder land, struck on the Rocks in coming ever the Bar this morning. She has been hove off, hut makes a great deal of water. She had previously cut from her anchors. Sunday morning, about seven o'clock, seven Cus tom-house officers, at Worthing, proceeded to sea in a boat, on the look out for a smuggling vessel. The violence of the breakers unfortunately upset the boat, and five of the party met with a watery grave. Tveo of them were saved with great difficulty by clinging to the boat. Three of the bodies have been picked up. Monday se'nuight the jelly.boat of the INCONSTANT was pulling off to that ship at Si:ithead, against a heavy swell of the tide (the effect of a subsided southerly gale, which had blown all day), when her broadside fell towards the tide, and she instantly filled and went down. Mr. Watts, a very proseisieg young Gentleman (son of Culonel Watts, (..f Ro chester), and four seamen, wi ra unfortunately drowned. Two wherries instantly put off front t! e Sally Port, not tar from which the accident hap pened, but they were nor successful in rendering any assistance. The body of ene of the seamen has been since picked up. On the I 1 di tilt. Mr. Macdonald, younger, of Rhue, and three set rants, having se. out from Ari seig, ter Knoydett, by sea, their bon suddenly struck on a hidden rock, in a herd gale, ueJ was placed on her beam mire In veil perilous situatien, Mr. Met donald and his men clung to the guiowele, but pet ceiving that they could not all, without danger, remain in this situation, he left the wreck, and getting hold of the !suet's oars, by which he sup ported himself, he swam ashore, after being two hours in the water. Scarcely bad ne left it, when the boat was seen by persons on oi:re to sink, and the three servants were unfortunately lost. EXPEDITION TO AFRICA.—In our next pege will be fund some information on this subject, to w: ich the following may be considered as a sequel : A trial of the Cone) was made on Friday, which did not answer expectation, and yesterday was fixed for another trial. The morning proved levoureble, and by eleven o'clock the Port Admiral, Sir Home Poenau, Sir EDWARD TUCKER, Captain Teceee, and several other Naval Officers., assembled on board the CONGO to witness the experiment. The steam boat, lightened of her lockers, masts, and riggieg, made her way much better on this than on the first day. She drew from four feet three to four feet six inches of water, and went for the most part at the rate of five miles and a half in the hour. She started from off Deptford Lock-yard, at a few minutes after twelve o'clock, against tide, and pro ceeded at the rate above-mentioned, up to Lime house Reach, when she turned, and came down with the stream. She again ascended, and Sir Hoots now proposed, that they og should carry her up to the Admiralty at once," as it was supposed at low-water means might be found to get her through the bridgc. The funnel, however, which conveys the smoke from the fuel consumed to work the steam-engine, pre sented an obstacle to this, and the design was aban doned. The vessel continued to manmuvre beau et. Greenwich and Limehouse, till bet Been three and four o'clock in the afternoon. During this time, the paddles of the wheels by which it is worked Were moved repeatedly, but, the progress of vessel lees never more rapid than above described. Though the CONGO went much better yesterday than on day, the experiment served but to confirm the appree pensions previously entertained. Since it is proved that her masts, rigging, &c. removed, she will not draw less than four feet three inches of water, nit go more than five miles'and a half in an hour, it follows, that carrying what she must carry, when transported to Africa (tor it is not to be supposed she can pro ceed empty, to accomplish the ultimate objects of the expedition), her draught cannot be sufficiently small, nor her velotity sufficiently great, to answer the pi,. pose fur which she was constructed.—ln our optilen, this experiment only proves that the vessel intended t r the object in view is nit wide enough—perhaps, also, she is ton short. We hesitate not to say, that her bulk, her thickness, and her capacity being known, her draught of water might have been ascertained within two inches, by mere calculation. It requires no witchcraft to ascertain that every floating vessel must displace a volume of water equal to her own weight : therefore, to gain the object in view, cepa city should be given to the vessel in breadth, riot in depth. Nothing can be more certain, than that a vessel of the required tonnage and draught of water may be constructed, if the requisites of science be only attended to.