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• :Aft natote. This burin& had lately Mai leertifed, and it was , r..oper •hat the Court thould be relieved. He highly comet.' irt rat . the Clergy of Scotland, who were diftingulOsett for their cloy And good morals. Their emoluments, he laid, were very . na :iequate to their Ration, and the duties they had to perform. The LORD ADVOCATE diklaimed any diftruft of the Court of Sefton, or any difrefpedt to the Clergy of Scotland. It was his pride to be defeended from a family, which the Clergy of Scotland, wlick were eminent for their learning, piety and morals, had al ways looked up to as their firmeß friends. The objedt of the Bill was to relieve the Court of Salon from a prefs of bufinefs of this mature No lets than 149 felts for augmentations had commenced fume July laft. • After Come further converfation between Mr. Ruthwen, Mr Vim Dusidas, Mr. Perceval. Mr. S turges Bourne and the Lord Advocate.the Bill was read a fecond time, and ordered to be conm• mitud on this day fe'nnight. IRISH ELECTION BILL. The Nth Eleetion Bill was committed. Mr. BARRY, in the Committee, moved that the tithe for tak ing the recognizance, in Irilh cafes fhould be extended to a 8 days, ioftead of 14. This was agreed to. Several other amendments were propofed by Sir John Newport, Mr. Corry, Mr. Ruthwen, Mr. Parnell, and Mr. Shaw, which were alfo agreed to for the prefent. The Bill was then reported afid ordered to be printed as amended. Report to be further conlidcred on Monday. Mr. MELLISH prefented a Petition from the Tanners ofl..rtn don againft the Oak Bark Bill.—Ordered to be referred to the Committee appointed to confider that fubjedt. The Committee on the Woollen Yarn was poßponed till to morrow. The leill3 Cuftorna Regulation Bill was commined.—.Report to morrow —Adjourt.ed. WEDNSLDAY, JANUARY 28. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Confulsi money. 6of—for January ifustf-ftOmnium 31 4 prem. Excheq. Bills, par to 23. prem. WEST INDIES. A Philadelphia Newfpaper of the 24th ult. received by way of Liverpool, contains the following cxtraas from Jamaica papers received the re : " KINGSTON, NOV. 26. Arrived the fhip Ellifon, Wigmaker, feven days from Dominique, where it was reported that an em bargo had been laid upon the (hipping in the French Windward Mends, and that a French fquadron of twelve fail of the line had arrived at Guadaloupe. " The Kinjjon Daily Advertifir of the 25th ult. lays, 's We undertiand the frigate Refinance an chored yetterday at Port Royal, with difpatches for the Lieuttnant Governor. Nothing has tranfpired but the difagrecable news of the re-capture of Buenos Ayres by the Spaniards." AMERICAN PAYERS. We have this day received New York papers to the sth ha They were brodght by the Liberty, of New York; airived in the River, after a paffage of menty.four days. Nrw You, Jam s.-'-By letters from Trinidad, dated 22d of November, we learn that General MI RANDA had gone to Barbadoes, where a Britilh Expe dition was preparing againit the Spanith Main. MIRANDA had been made a &kith Brigadier Gene ral, and his Officers had received Comn.iirioo; in the Britith fervice. Accounts from Frankfort, Kentucky, dated De cember 5, announce the acquittal of Colonel Buaa, and that all the charges againfl him were proved al together unfounded. There papers alfo contain the Spanifh official ac. count of the furrender of Buenos Ayres. Our limits do not allow us to lay the whole before our Readers to-day. To a fummnns fent by the Spani(h Commander, on the loth of Anglia, General Balm FORD returned the following aufwer : a I have taken the town, after two viaories. Its " fate arms will decide." Oar troops furrendered on the evening of the 13th, after the place had been entered by affault on the t tth. The foldiers orifoncr% of war—The Officers allowed the honours of war. All the Engnth veflels at Bar. ragau Bay efcaped. THE CONTINENT. 'We are concerned in being obliged to fl-tte, that notwithflanding the accounts that have been received of the fuccefTe.b of the Ruffians, great apprehenfions entertained by thole v-113 ought to have the bell inrmation, that ultimately the enemy gained con fiderable advantages. A GOTTENBURGH MAIL Arrived this morning, which we are lorry to Rate, has brought no intelligence to remove our anxiety, the accounts by it not being fo recent as thofe received within the laft three days by other channels. Stock holm and Copenhagen Gazettes, to the 14th infant, have been received by this conveyance, but the in• selligence they contain relates only to Dautzic, and that neighbourhood. A letter from a Gentleman who, on the loth infi. arrived at Ytiadt from Stralfund, (laces, that nn his departure from the latter place, no news had been received there from the armies. A morning Rates the receipt of other foreign journals to the 23d init. but does not fay what they are, but only that they do not furnifh any thing inteteft ing. If there be no typographical error in the date, we may certainly be allowed to augur favourably from their filence refpetling any frcfh vielaries ob tained by the enemy ; but on the other hand is it not singular, if the Ruffians have defeated the French, tbat their fuccelles should not be mentioned in the papers alluded tc? The following are the only articles furnifhed by the foreign journals received this day : Bums, DEC. 25.—Though all the Papers have lately printed the Articles of a Treaty concluded between the Porte and ltuflia, they are a mere fabri cation. Thefe Powers are rum at war. The injui ies fuflained by the Porte will unite all Muffulmen in the defence of the common caufe. Michelfon and Dol. , . . go condi, who command the Ruffians, have already folicited reinforcements. VERNNA, Dsc. 28.—The entrance of the Rnffiansl into Moldavia and Wallachia, ha: completely es pace' their deigns. People would naturally have thought that their object was to bring about an ad jultraent of their differences with France, withont compelling fo formidable an enemy to have recourfe to arms. But all the paffions of the Cabinet of Sr. James's predominate in that of Ruffia. Ruffia has fer aide all that regard due from one nation to another; and even at the moment her troops entered Moldavia, the declared fhe was making a common caufe with the GRAND SEIGNIOR, and ingrueted all her agents to publifh that Treaty in the Newfpapers, the exigence of which is now difowned by the DIVAN. The Porte has had recourfe to arms. Pafwan Oglou, and Muflapha Baitatter, the fuceeffor of *.ferzerick Oglou, at Roftchuck, have paged the Danube, and taken poffeffion of Buchareft with thirty thoufand men, which has arrefted the march of the Ruffian army. The Porte, requiring an explanation from the Ruffian Minifter refpeeting Moldavia, re ceived an evafive anfwer ; and the French Conful at Buchareft being arrefted by the Ruffians, Muflapha Bairatter and the Pacha of Widdin have in retalia tion arrefted the Ruffian Conful. Four English Chips of war are lying before Con• (lantinople to terrify the Porte ; but it is moft alto railing, that England fhould fupport the objells of ' Rata at the expence of its deareß intereis. It is 'true (he may plunder a few veffels ; but then all the ports in Turkey will be (hut againft her. Surely the Englifh politicians will not lofe fight of the danger to which their commerce will be expofed. FROM THZ JAN. 14.—1 t is now certain that Breflau has capitulated. The Wurtemherg be fteging corps broke up from before the place on the 6th, and have marched to Strehlin, probably with the intention of inverting Schweidnitz. COPENHAGEN GAZETTE. ELSINEOR, JAM. 2.—Captains Berneman and Schult,v ho arrived here this day from Dantzic, which they left. a fortnight fence, (late, that the garrifon, com pofed of Pruilians and Poles, amounts to zo,ooo men; that no apprehenfions are entertained there of the French, and that the latter feem determined to direi9 their operations agaia& Koninglberg. DUTCI! EAST INDIAMEN. In the Stu., of Saturday we announced the cap. tureof a Dutch frigate and two Indiamen,richly laden, on th_ir vi yage from Batavia. We are happy to be rnabie d, by the kindnefs of a valuable correfpondent, to la) the particulars before the Public. The fol lowing is a correEt tranflition of the difpatches of the late G overnor General of the India Needderlande (the Netherlands) found on board the Danifh fhip Lifette, detained on her voyage from Batavia to Copenha gen, and fent into Dartmouth by his Majetly's fhip PLUTO, RICHALD JAWTERIN, Efq. Commander. DUTCH OFFICIAL DISPATCHES. " With the fevereft feelings of affliftion I have to " mention, that according to the Well authentic in " telligence here, von the zoth July, 1806, in the " latitude of Saleyer Iflands, the Batavian frigate " the Pallas, and the corvette the William (coming " from Amboyna, and having under convoy the Vietorie and the Batavia, two very large (hips, be " longing to the Company, completely laden with 4 , mace, cloves, and nutmegs), had an engagement 44 with an Englilh frigate and a brig, and the un " fortunate iffue was, that the frigate was forced " to surrender, and both the Company's (hips are biecome the prey of the enemy. We know no further " particulars, except, that the William iiefcaped by flight, and got to Macaffer ; but the intelligence has " ca tt univerfal dejeftion over every one here, and " truly not without reafon, as the lofs amounts to " full a million dollars in (peck, which the tale of " the fpices was to have replaced, and the blow will 4 1 be feverely felt by theTreafury, the theft of which 44 is already in fo exhaufted a condition." The value of the fpices on board the ViOorie and Batavia were ettimated at Bata,:a at full 600,0c01. tlerling. The prime colt price in the Spice Iflands was upwards of a million Sting , inflver. The Cap tain and the Firtt Lieutenantof the Dutch frigate Pallas were killed the firtt broadfide. The names of the Englifh frigate and brig are not mentioneJ. The lr•.tliamen are 'Jew, and the largeft and molt beauti ful veffels the Dutch Atiatic Company poffefs. Thefe (hips contain the entire produce of all the Dutch fpice eftablifbnients of the growth of 18os. Thus,, thouid this precious freight reach Britain in fafety, they certainly will prove as rich prizes as ever re• warded the bravery of Britilb Tars. Pcrl).tps, to fecure their next expedition of this fort, the Dutch Cr,inpany will adopt the fame weans to convoy, in fafety, their fpices from Amboyne to Ba tavia, as they do to fend their coffee, &c.front Batavia to Anaaerdam, namely, ufe neutral flags. The D►LtcENcs flonp of war, with a fleet under convoy from England and Gibraltar, ib arrived at Frurn the extraordinary rich Hate of the Lottery Wheel, and the certainty of the Firfkirawn Ticket on Wednefday next being entitled to 30,0001. are benefits in favour yf the porehafer, which never be fore exifted. Tickets and Shares are felling, war ranted undrawn, at Hosussv and Co.'s State Lot t:ry Offices, Nos. z 6, Cornhill, 52, Charing Crofs, and St. Magaret's Hill, Borough. . . - From the LONDON GAZETTE, YIN. :7. • ~ DOWNING STRFET, JAN. 27. Difpatehes, of which the following are copies, have been received by this Right Honourable William Wi n dh a m, o n e o f hi s Mi.;,-f -ty's Principal Secrztaries of State. from Lieutenant Colonel Baekhoufe, commanding a detachment of his Majefty's Land Forces in the River de la Plata. 0 Royal Charlotte, tranfport, off Monte Video, Odt. is. 1 "f Sir—Underfianding that a wild is to fail immediately for England, I do myfelf the hotrour to tranfmit to you a copy of a letter, addreffed to Lieutenant General Sir David Baird, in °be t thence to whore orders I failed on the 29th of Augult latt, with ta batt.47th regiment, for the purpofe of joining Major General Be resford In South America." Royal Charlotte Tranfport, f ff Monte Vld:o, Ott. i 3. Sir—l have the honour to acquaint your Excel lency, that, on my arrival bete. I had the mortifica. tion to find the city of Buenos Ayres recaptured, and that Major General Beresford, with the forces under his command (after a molt able and gallant defence) had been made prifoners of war, fo far back as the I:th of Auguft halt. Having arrived lan night, I am not, at this mo. ment, fufficiently acquainted with the particithrs to enable me to detail them, though I pref.ime due and I full information of this unfortunate and important event, mull have been tranfinitted to you loon after its occurrence. You are aware, Sir, that the command of his Ma ! jelly's land forces, at prefent in this river, devolves upon me, with which, in co-operation v.ith the fqua dron under Sir Hom e P o ph am , i t is my intention to occupy a favourable politico, until a reinforcement fhall arrive, or I may be honoured with your further inftruCtions ; and turd that, by an early opportunity, I (hall be able to afford you a fatisfador y report of my arrangements and operations in carrying your defigns into execution. And am, &c. &c. &c. To Lieutenant General Sir D. Baird, &c &c &c. The immediate departure of the Chip for England, and the flotation in which I find myrel, unexpec tedly placed, prevent anyfurther communication than what is contained in the preceding letter. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) T. J. BACK HousF, Coki.el, Commanding the 47th Regiment. The Right Hon. William Windham, &c. &c. &c. Copy of a Difpatch from Lieutenant Colnncl Backhoufe to the Right Hon. William Windham, dated Nlzldonado, in the River de 14 Plata, ()doter 31. Sir—ln my letter of the 13th infiant, I had the honour to tranfmit a copy of my letter, of the fame date, to his Excellency Lieutenant General Sir David Baird, apprifing him of my arrival in the river Plata, and of my intention to occupy a politico on lhore, to wait his further orders. I, in confcquence, immediately reconnoitred, from one of the frigates, which car vied me fufficiently dole in (bore for the purpofe, the works of the place, and the politions and defences in the vicinity of Monte Video, from which I formed, as the molt eligible mode of attack, the idea of being able to carry the town and citadel by afrault, on the froth face edging on the water, in co-operation with the (hips of the fquadron, under Commodore Sir Home Popham, which were to Silence the batteries on that face, fo as to enable the troops to land and enter. The attempt was accordingly c(.mmenced on the 28th, by the navy ; but the water proving too (hallow to admit of the (hips coming fufficiently near to cannonade it with effect, a further effort was needfully given up. Upon this I deemed it advifable, with the co-ope rative concurrence of Sir Home Popham, to take poffeffion of the town of Maldonado, as a favourable pofition for the purpofe of refrefhing the troops, mounting my cavalry, and carrying on fuck other arrangements as might thereafter appear molt ne• ceffary. Not a moment was loft ; and accordingly on the evening of the 29th, I landed with about ant) men, converted principally of a part of the 3801 regiment, under Colonel Vaffal, and advanced toneintt the town, !which feemed to be occupied by about fix hundred regulars and militia, molfly mounted, wish one howitzer, and one long four port:icier field pie.e, both brafs. Notwithfiandina we were without any artillery, the enemy were loon d 6 rfperfed, with the lots of their guns, and about fifty men killed and wounded. The lofs on our fide was two killed and four wounded, of his islajetty's 38th regiment. To the cool intrepidity of our little column on this occafion, much praise is due, as it advanced with the utmolt Iteadinefs and alacrity, and without firing a Thor, until fufficiently near to make a certainty of car ry*g both the gu.rs and the town, which was prin cipally done by the bayonet, notwitlifiandi-g the ad vance was made under heavy difcharges of grape and mufketry. To the well known gallantry and abilty of Coloni Vaffal, I feel myfelf much indebted : and the con . dna of every other Officer in the field has command ed my thanks. At day-break yefierday morning I detached Co lonel Vaffal to take poffilion of the heavy batteries on the beach of the harbour, and on the Peninfula, which precluded any communication for the enemy between the main land and the Itrong itland and putt of Goretti, fituated in, arid much commanding the Bay of Maldonado, and which, in confequence, in the courfe of the day, furrendered at difcretinn to a fummons font from Sir Home P, Pham, and thereby prevented the neceffiry of carrying it by dorm, and the conferment bloodfhed that might have enfued.— During yefterday and this morning the chief part of the remainder of the troops have been landed, and I have already contrived to mount nearly one halt of my cavalry. The Wellington tranfpnrt being direeted to fail immediately to England, I have taken the liberty of addreffirig this lhort account of my proceedings diTealy to you, Sir Hume Popham having reprefent ed to me his inability to difpatch a veffel at this rime to the Cape of Good Hope, precluding me the power of making my report through the regular channel of Lieut. General Sir David Baird. I ought not to omit to mention the very Ready and praife worthy conduct of a (mall party at marines and armed Seamen, fent on (bore by Sir Home Pop ham, who joined and compofed part of our column on its way into the town, and occupied Such pofitions as were allotted to them, during the night, in loch a corredt manner as to retie° the greatelt credit both on the Officers that commanded them and their own zeal and difcipline. I fhould alto be wanting in juftice to my own feel ings, if I doled my difpatch without acknowledging the Cervices I have received from Lieutenant Colonel] Brownrigg, Deputy Quarter Mailer General, and Major Trotter of the 83d regiment, :feting Deputy Adjutant General to the forces at prclent under my command. And I alto beg leavo: to acknowledge the affifiance afforded me by Major Tucker, of the 72d regiment, who, by permiffion of Lientemn'- General Sir David Baird, is with me on this occa lion, and alting in the capacity of Military Secretary. I herewith have the honour to enclofe the return of fuch ordnance, ammunition, and force, ab have yet been difc , ivered. (Signed) J. I'. BAC [HOUSE, Lieut. Col. 47th Reg. Return c.f the Killed and Wounded of the Troops under the cum. mind of I.ieut Colortl Backhoufe. in the Attack of Maldir nado, on the 29th of October, 1806. 38th Regiment--z rank and file killed; 4 rank and file wounded. (Signed) W. R. TROT!' b.R, Maj. 83d Rcg. A dins Dcp Adj. Ger. Return of Ordnance, Ammunition, and Stores Re. taken f-om the enemy in the town and vi c i n i t y o r Mald onado, and Wend nt Gcretti, on the 29th of Odlober, 18c6. Brass Ordnance—l 6-inch bow itter, with ten rounds damn u nitioo—t 6-pounder. with ten rounds of ditto. Iron Ordnance-12 26 pounders on lea batteries-2024.1,0bn den on the tiLind of Gereiti-70.) mulkets, 200 pittuis, Jco fvrords, 1..)8 barrels of powder. (S'gned) A. WATSON, Captain R. M. Artillery. N. B. The above is the molt coned Return I have yet been able to collect. (Signed) W. R. TROTTER, Acting Deputy Adj Oen. - ADMIRALTY OFFICE, JAN. 27. Difpatches. of which the following are Copies, have been received at this 0 fEce from Conuncalcri. Sir Home Popham, addreirtd to William Madden, Efq. His Majcily's Chip Diadem, Rio de la Plata, Sr., Augult 25, au& When the events of war ceale to he favourable to any armament, I confider it the duty of Command. ing Officers to Hate all the circumtlarces under their knowledge or information with clearnefs and per fpi cuity, which, either progreflively or fuddenly, led to a reveife of fortune. In purluing this courfe, I feel confident I limit be able to falisty the Lords Comrniflioners of the Ad• miralty, that the libel al and beneficent principles upon which the Govt rnment of General Beresford was condudcd, do more honour to his Majeay's arms, and the charader of Great Britain, than if he had retorted to expedients completely within his power, which would have effectually annihilated all the efforts of the enemy, and wrelled, probably for ever, thefe counties tro.n the Crown of Spain. Poet idon, one of the Municipality, appears to have been the great ell ot gait of the revolution. He applied himfilf with peat ai t and addrefs in preparing the peoplc fur a general inturredion. The arms in the town were fecreted, ready for the moment of adion, the difcontented aflembled every n'ght, and attended to his inftrudions, and he railed all the rabble of the country by the ample (upplies of money with which he was furniihed on the Nurth fidc of the river. Colonel Liniers, a French officer in the Spanifh fery ice, and on his parole, fucceftfully em ployed himfelf in collecting people at Colonia. Terror was ettablifhed, and every perfon who re futed to cnctliblite his affiflance to this confpiracy, was threatened with immediate death. I have traced this from very unquellionable autho rity, and fo rapid was the progrefs of the revolution, when it firft 11.zwed itfelf, that it was not until the 3 t It of July that I learnt by a difpatch from the Ge neral, which reached me at Enfenada, on my return from Monte Video, that he was apprehenlive, from the information he received, an intonation would 'Lord) , be made. _ . _ I heard at the fame time from Captain Thornton, that feventeen of the enemy . % veftels had jolt arrived at Colonia, and, as it was reported, that force wa , 11111 to be increafed from Monte Video, I fent orders for the Diomede to be brought to Enfenada, and for Captain K:ng of the Diadem to come up with the remaining few marines, the two companies of ➢lues, and as many other men as could in any degree be fparei horn the (hips, for the purpofe of arming fome veffels to attack the enemy at Colonia, as it was im poflible to prevent his croffing from the north fho-e whenever the wind was fair. On the ill cf Auguft, in the afternoon, the Leda anchored off Buenos Ayres, about twelve miles dif taut, and on my landing on the ad, which I did as foon as the weather would admit of a boat getting on fhore, 1 found the General had juft made a very loc. cefsful attack on about fifteen hundred Spaniards under Pueridon, five leagues from the town, with five hundred men, in which he took all the enemy's cannon (T think nine pieces) and feveral prifoners. On the 3d, I attempted to return to the Leda, in the Encounter, which Captain Honyman brought within a tew miles of the fhore for this purpofe, as it blew very Itrorg : but the wind frefhened fo confi• derably from the eaftward that we could not get to windward. On the 4.h, in the morning, it was very thick weather, an.i. the gale increafed to much that it uas 01 weigh. About noun Captain ling arrived is a gallivat with ( ne hundred and fifty men from the Diadem, for the purpole of aiming and commanding the few (mall veffels we had collated in the harbour but he was not able to get there till the following day. ' On the sth, in the morning, it moderated, and I reached the Leda, when I received a report from Captain Thornton that in the gale of the preceding day the enemy had croffed from Colonia totally unob ferved by any of our (hips except the fchooner under the command of Lieutenant Herrick, who was ly• ing in the narrow gut leading to Couchas and Sr. Ilidro, but the eafterly wind had thrown fo much hater in the river that the enemy were enableJ to crofs over any part vf the Palmas bank wi: iu. ut the necetlity of making a greater detour by going bights up the river. On the 6th and 71h it blew a hurricane ; the Leda was lying in four fathoms, with two anchors down, and her yards and topmalls (buck. On the Bth I heard from Captain King that fire of our gun boats had foundered at than. anchors : that the Walker had loft her rudder, and that the launches and large cutters of the Diadem and Leda were loft. The torrents of rain that fell during the 6th, 7th, and Rth, had rendered the roads totally imprataica ble fur any thing but cavalry, and confequently Ge neral Beresford was moll ferionfly difappointed in his determination to attack the enemy at a difiance from the town—in which, had it taken place, I ehrertain no doubt that his army would have added another trait of its issihciblo (pink umis; his difpofitions. [Tam (men