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LONDON. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 45. aCE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : Per Cent. COPAL for money 6J; I--account Mg 70► Omilium ;IR preen.—Erclt<•quer Bills 6s. 13s. prem. 'PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. sank Stock 2723 272 $ per Cent. Red.C.94 111 per Cent. Care. 6914 70 69.1 • per Cent. 84i $ per C. Navy 161,!..11 1.. Ar.r. 18 9-18t114 Inds Bonds Us. 295. pr. • Imp. S per C. 871 Excbeq. Dili., 11s. 153. pre. Lottery Tickets L 9.2.155. City Diego La 153. CODS. for sec:69l 70 Thi HonOurable DAVID ERSKINE, late British Am bassadorto the United States, has reached this country. He arrived at Portsmouth yesterday in his Majesty's ship AFRICAINE, and reached London this morning. Mr. ERSKINE left Hampton Roads on the 30th of °either. Four French frigates and a brig, from the river Loire, are now at sea. A Papenburgh vessel, which has arrived at Plymouth, fell in with them on the 16th instant, in lat. 45°. at 9 A. M. and was boarded by one of the frigates, the RENOMMETy of 28 guns, but *iffered to pursue her voyage. _ _ _ His Majesty's 'hip DREADNOUGHT, of 96 guns, Admiral SOTHEBY, which has also arrived at Ply mouth, chaced four suspicious frigates and a brig, which mast have been the above vessels, but unfor tunately carried away her main-top-mast in the pur suit, and was in consequence obliged to give up the Phase. Our readers will recollect that another French fri gate, le Milan, was sent in as a prize to Portsmouth. She must have been sent ahead of these and with the same object, being also from the Loire and bound for Guadaloupe, to which these are likewise destined; taut we may hope yet to receive a good account of (hem as thy can hardly avoid the track of some of our cruizers. The Papenburger spoke his- Majlti's ship 6EINL only 14 hours before she fell in 'with the Trench ships. Since writing the above we have seen a letter from "tatbadoes, of which the following is an extract ; " BAREADOES, SEPT, t. a We learn that four French frigates, armed ex " fate, are expected at Guadaloupe. The At c! and some ether frigates ha;ie been sent to look out for them." It has been confidently reported on 'Change, this morning, that the Marquis WELLEitzt has arrived in •ngland. On inquiry, we find this rumour to have originated in some mistake. We have stated above, the arrival of the Dut:AnNotxarr—in some of the Ply mouth letters, th:s vessel has been called the DONE. GAL. We can assure the Public, that the Doskcuu. has not yet arrived. All the men of war at Plymouth arc ordered to be fitted for sea, wi:h all possible dispatch ; and even the ships in ordinary are to be surveyed immediately, end those deemed worthy of being fitted for service, to be reported accordingly. Naval preparations are accordingly going on with reat vigour. ltia SPAIN. It is long since we ceased to credit any thing pub lished in the ::;paniAt Journals, unless supported by better authority ; nor is it easy to procure authentic statements from that country. All die private letters are nearly unanimous is the picture they give of the imbecile and wretched state of the Government, nor is the day distant in which the opinions we have so, of en laid before our readers will be the sentiment of the whole piblic.—lc is impossible. to save a people cursed with such a lack of sound, energetic, end patriotic lead,r s. One cannot but regret that popular virtues, which were capable of producing such brave and patriotic duds as have been wit uessed in the conduct of the inhabitants cf Sam gosa and G.!rona, ha'ie been rendered fru7tless by the apathy and weakness cf those who ought to Live called into action the moral and physical energies, cf an abused and insulted people. The following letter deserves attention : CAEI6, OCTOBER 'o. " The chi , nges that were agitated in the beginning of the month, in t:!e departments of Govtrnment, and which were immediately necessary for the salvation of the country, are not yet, as far as any man of sense can see, one moment nearer their execution 1 and supposition prevails, which may or may net be well founded, that these alterations were only brought into notice to amuse a discf , ntented people, but were rever nierint to be carried into effect. The epinions entertained regarding these changes, are as erroneous as they are numerous, for no one, net even I believe the NltTnbers of the .lunta tiw.riselves, know.wh...t is to be done. The Marquis de la ReMANA has been called from an active and mefal service at the head of his brave army, tuAr the vain idea of patching a rotten Go , :err.rie:it which never can be mended, and which must ha c!ii.iietely destroyed before any solid good c.ui bz: Svain. All the cs , .:rti , as of the NlarquisWELLEsi.EY (and hav , .: been great) to enft+rte a reformation, have come le nothing. ',the r u ty of the Ji nta is too strong ; thus tit.•le%,.ly wastel his time, he is tx w days to take kat.; of and of the 13.::a rill in the world, he le tf) rote.er any benefit. is of tlte country, speaking in general el:az: tic in the patrivtic Fause ils gleY could be wished ; but they have few leaders on whom they can depend. Of what Spaniards are capable, Gerona is an eternal monument, ►here undaunted bravery and gallant perseverance has nude the armies of France tremble at her name. " BLAKE possesses the entire confidence of all classes, and deservedly; his military skill is not small and his courage and patriotism h undoubted. The defect of the whole plan is, that the people have no head to look to. That is the radical crier, and until it is remedied all must go wrong." and thi pecked i-. a fcw Sp.:in, tov,l•.ic has kill unabli ems, sT“.c.r")Pl GOTTENBURGH A Cottenburgh Ma 1 arrived this morning, from which we present our leaders with the following extraets l • The regulations on the subject of the future inter course between Sweden and Russia are interesting in a commercial point (1 view. The ports of Sweden may now be considered as shut against British vessels. RIGA, OCTOBER 23. According to authentic intelligence received from Petersburgh, the treaty of commerce concluded in 1801, between Russia and Sweden, has regained its full force ; yet, with regard to ships papers, the Swe dish ships are to be subjected to the same proceedings which are observed with regard to other neutral ves sels, viz, that they must be transmitted to Petersburgh and examined there, before they are unloaded, which takes from 12 to 14 days. The papers which the ships are bound to have on board, are the muster roll, mea surement bill, and bill brief ; and the bills of lading and certificates of origin must be signed by the Rus sian or French Consul, or, in places where no such Consul resides, by the Magistrate of the place. It is reported that the exportation of rye is to be per mitted exclusively from this port ; but we have not yet received any official isdarmation on this subject. Atcording to the last accounts from Petersburgh, all sorts of Colonial produce maintain very high prices, while the catrse of exchange is extremely low. Se veral ships have lately arrived here under . Swedish colours. STOCKEOLNT, NOVEMBER 13. It is now made publicly known, that our intercourse with Enghnd is to cease, according to the stipulations of the late Treaty ; for yesterday, (Sunday), notice was given from the pulpit here, and in several other of the maritime towns of Sweden, that our ports would be shut against all English ships on Wednesday the 15th inst. ; and it is therefore expected that an official communication to that effect will then be made to Rear Admiral Pickmore, the Commander in Chief of the British ships on this stztion. He is to sail for England on the Nth; but the last convoy cannot sail before the Ist December, and two ships of war will be suffered to remain at Carlscrona to escort it. —..Two Swedish ships of the line, four frigates, and several gun-boats, have, within these few days, sailed from this city for that port, before which there is at present one ship cruising, to prevent the entrance of any English vessels. The inhabitants here, and particnlarly those of Carlscrona, are greatly alarmed from fear of a visit by an English fleet to remonstrate against this exclusion of their ships from our ports; alai all the assurances which the English Resident here can give them, dia.. no harm is intended them, are insufficient to coiet their apprehensions. WALCHEREN. " FLUSHING, NOV. 14. " You have learnt that the greater part (two-thirds) • of the 16,000 [(Gips who were left to garrison Wal chcren, have been s:7t home -•vith a malignant fever. Hitherto, there has been little alteratkn for the better. Officers and soldiers fall sick- nearly as fast as ever, in • proportion to the number that are left : and when some of the newspapers state that the amount of the sick is diminished, they for-et that the decrease is owing to two causes—to the number of deaths here, and the number of men sent to England. • " The original garrison of Flushing consisted of 6000 men ; but on Sunday last, notwithstanding all the officers' servants, and those to whom the care of the s'ck was intrusted, were collected, not more than 750 could be mustered. The sick and healthy bear the same proportion throughout the whole island.— The Artillery, you know, are upon a more liberal establishment than the rest of the,army : yet of two companies here, one had every man in the hospital except the Captain ; and the other had only five fit r for duty out of 120, though 5.5 of these were well last ninth." Thursday her MAJESTY and tjte Princess EI.IZA BETH, attended by Miss liNtatyr, took an airing to Frogmore Lodge, where her MAJESTY sat two hours to TotNERELLI for her bust, to be a ccmpanion to his MAJ.EsTv's Jubilee bust, by the same artist. Thursday the Duchess of YORK arrived atWincher on a visit to their MAJESTIES and the PluNcEssEs, and is expected to leave `Windsor this day. On account of the wet weather, his MAJESTY did not ride nut on Thuisda y. Yesterday, the rain ceasing, afrerhis MAKISTY had breakfasted, he rode on horse • back in Windsor Park, accompanied by the Prin. cesses ; but the rain coning on, his Mit.rEsn soon re. turned toahe Palace. On Thursday Earl CAsitzu took an airing in .his carriage for the first time sincellis'severe indisposition. Lord - CASTL EREAGH'S intention of proposing a Par liamentary inquiry into the rnseits of the expedition, affords much satisfaction: Yesterday Lord MULGRAVE transacted bu siness with Lord Coons, at his house in Arlialton - street • • THE ARK?. Yesterday the PORT MAHON sailed from forunionth for the Downs, with thily empty transports. The PERSIAN takes convoy to Portugal and the Me diterranean. A large quantity of militaty clothing is shipped for Corunna, for the use of the Spaniards ; as is also all kind of stores for our army in Portugal The 3d Dragoon Guards has suffaed so severely in the late actions with Lord WELLINGTON'S army in Spain, &c. that after giving up its horses to the 4th Dragoons, it is understood to be on its retum. home immediately. 'The Prison ships are now put entirely on a new footing. The Commanders are appointed by the Transport Board, and are to have 15s. per day, and are not to have the controul of the Militia soldiers, who are doing duty on board as Marines. Lietitenant•General Ishcom,s, the Commander in Chief of the Canterbury district, has fixed his resi dence at Bifrops House, near Canterbury. CWENT-GARDEN THEATRE. Last night, the Comedy of The Way to Get Married was performed to a very numerous and respectable house. The play is most excellently cast. Miss Noa- TON, as Julia Fauliner, delighted the audience, and was, in particular, successful in those p:.rts where ; pathos was most required. In the scene, where her fa ther proposes suicide, as the terrnination to their misfortunes, she Wa3 pre-emittvtly affecting and impressive. EGERTON played Co plain Faulkner, and also succeeded well. Mummy; as Caueic, was comic I in the extreme, and drew from his auditors repeated I bursts of laughter. And EbIERY, in Toby—Allspce, JONES, in Tandem, and FARLEY, in Dick Dashall, filled lup the measure of humour. Mrs. Gums was a capi tal Clementina Allspice ; and, with Mrs. DAVENPORT, in Lady Sorrel, obtained many flattering testimonies of public approbation. The Comedy passed uninterrupted from the thing of th 3 curtain until its fall, and every sentence was clearly and distinctly heard. A solitary hiss now and then, barely marked the existence of discontent, but the thunders of applause which followed, forcibly announced the triumph of order and decorum. The afterpiece of Don Juan was also received with marked attention. The songs were for the first time plainly heard ; at the falling of the curtain, an nouncing the close of the entertainments for the even ing, a general burst of applause evinced the satis faction of the audience, who immediately departed without the customary acclamations or cliorusses.— , - A few, indeed, about a dozen, of the 0. P. corps, mustered at the back of the pit, were huddled toge ther, and sheaved to each other a placard, on which was written, : —" Persevere in 0. P.-inn, but the watch-word of " The Officers," instantly dispersed them. The house was completely cleared by eleven o'clock.. Bow-STREET.—Mr. David Forster applied to the Sitting Magistrate; (Mr. Ilare4) as the performance of the play had concluded, for a warrant against a person who pointed at him in the pit as an object of ridicule. Mr. NA RES observed, that he could not grant a war rant without an assault• was proved. Mr. Forster then edited, that he considered if he was brought to the c Ike on a charge of riot, that he ought also to be protected ; he was, on a former night, taken into custody 'before he was five minutes in the house. Mr. N tars—" If you are brought here or. a charge of riot, And is is substantiated, it will be my duty to commit you. If you conceive the persons charging you have been guilLy of perjury, it is in your power to indict them for it." Mr. Forster then lift the office. saying, " the he would not again return to the Theatre, as he could not be protected." On Saturday last, orders were received at Sheer ness Dock-yard to put down 12 pair of new moorings for 12 line of battle ships in Saltpan Reach, for ships in ordinary. A ship has arrived from Charleston, but we have not by this opportunity, nor can we expect to have, until after Christmas, any intelligence regarding the negociation with Mr. JACKSON. While the foreign trade of the Republic is . snffering some interruption from political causes, the inhabitants are not only at tending to their domestic manufactures, but are forming extensive projects for the maiittainance of their relations with the vast continent to which they belong. A hardy body of warriors, hunters and trappers, all %veil armed and equipped, have taken their departure from Louisville, on a three years ex pedition, to join the Missouri Company, who design' to establish themselves not only on the river Colum bia, but to enlarge the sphere of their commerce to the East Indies. On the 11th init. the Marquis of TITOSIOND was' knighted by his Grace the LORD LastmExANT, and was afterwards elected a Companion of the Most Il lustrious Order of St. Patrick, and invested with the Blue Ribband of the Order. Yesterday the Luchess of BRUNSWICK entertained her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES, her Royal Highness the Princess C HARLOTTE o f W ALES , t h e Duke of BRUNSWICK, Countess of EFFINGHAM, Lady DE CLIFFORD, and a select party, with an elegant dinner, at her house in Spring Gardens. ! Yesterday tile .garl of HA RROWBY gave a grand din ner to Lord G. LEVESON GOWER and a select party, at his housein Grosvenor-square. Yesterday Lord MuLortavE gave a grand dinner to Sir RICHARD BICKERTON, General PHIPPS, Mr. AUGUSTUS PHIPPS, Mr. \VALCII, Mr. WARD, &C. at his house at the Admiralty. ' Yesterday his loyal Highness the Duke of YORK gave a grand dinner to a large party of Military Gen-' tlemen, at his house, Stable-yard, St. James's. Yesterday his Royal Highness the Prince of WALsts and Duke of SussEx, and a large piny of General Of ficers, dined with his Rdyal Highness the Duke of CANIIIRIIXIE, at his house in Berkeley-square. Her Royal Highness Princess AMELIA, we are happy to state, is announced by her Physitians to be out of danger. iIyIeERSII7 IVTELLIGENCR. OXFORD, Nov, 25.—Thursday at tI4 • in t gentlemen were admitted to degrees : - SILAS TKR S Of Airrs.- T -Albany Sava:, Esq. of a,. ei,..._c rani Compounder; John Phcbps, Evq. of Cli. C on . petunder ; Rev. Citarles Bryan, of Oriel. ZACRELORS of Aa rs.—Williani Hall Jones, I:sq. of Oriel Grand Cotnpounder klobsrt Cray of Oliul; Mr. Chari e3 dm*, of Oriel; Mr. Joseph Algar, of Wadhant ; Mr. 10:11 William Mackie, of Ch. Ch.; Mr, John Birt, of t;11. CIL; Mr. ward Howell, of Ch. Mr. Phipps Gerard Skitter, of Ch. Ch. mr. Thomas Laudon, of Worcester ; Mr. William kiu s . king, of- Trinity ; Mr. Thomas Allies, 0 Bt. Edintznd hall ; Mr. Thomas Hancock, of Pembroke; Mr. William ;ones, of ;esti.: ind Mr. Nathaniel Dodsan, of St. Joins's. The names of these Candidates, who, at the close of the Public Examination this term, were admited 6y the Examiners into the first and second classes of Literz Humanioreil and ascipliow Mathernatict et Physicz, respectively, according to the alpLabetica4 arranaement prescribed by the statute, stand as foli c; In the first C4fIS of Liter* Plunianiares.— ; Doueac, Ch. Ch.; Firth, Wiliam, C. C. C. ; Tyler, Junes k, Orid ; Wit son. John, "Isrhi In the First Class of Discip. Ma:hem. et I'l3ys.--Cray,R, ; l, l . Oriel; glattii:, Phipps Gerard, Ch. Ch. In the Second Class of Literx lie man.—Crook, Charles, Oriel Dodson, Nathaniel, St. John's ; Drury, Charles, (Mei ; Shato' Phipps Gerard, Ch. Ch,; Swete, John B. Oriel.—Badb a : Charles, Pembroke; Birt, John, Cl,. Ch.; Eaqt, James, Ch. CI ) • Gray, Robert, Oriel; Hancock, William, Magdalen; Hur ts : Henry, IVlaedalen ; Hoskin ,, , William, Trinity ; Johnson, vha r 6: . H. Brisiennose ; Jones, Wiliam, Jesus; Irvine, George P,( Ch.; I.gge, Heneage, Souls; Newby, Insliva, Maz,l4, m, Richardson, Samuel, Jesue ; NViLiams, John, Jesus . In the Second Class of Ma , heni. et Phys.—Dot:oas ; Fredetit, Ch. Ch.; Tyler, James E. Oriel. ICOCLESI AR'Tp.: AI. PROMOTIONS. Rev. Randolph, B. D. mi:tister of IVinible:!on, cr.IL - te t l the rectory of vo;t1 by the death of the Res G. 14. Glasse, M. A. Rev. 1. L. Craw,ley, to the rector). of Ilaidenby, North:lml. tonAire. BRIGHTON, NOVEMBER 42. The weather hem still continues seasonably 6 0 14 and bright; though we understand that some scl:el storms have been recently felt both to the Last arra West of us. As a proof that some damage must liav, been done by them, the fragment of a boat, with a square sail, nearly new, with a yard, ropes, &c. at tached to it, was picked up by the fishermen, nearly opposite to the gap of Ship -street, about the centre of the front of the town, yesterday The fishermen are elated with their prize, as it is considered to be 17orth from three to four pounds, at least. His Royal Highness the Duke .); KENT ha; been pleased to appoint Mr. AKMIGER, of Sz. Mary Axe; one of his Surgeons Extraordinary. Mr. GEORGE SLADE i 4 appointed Temporary Clerk in the Master Shipwright's Office, Chatl• • yard, in the room of Mr. RICHARD YEATES CUNIMIN3 I removed to the Barrack Office k Wedne;day last a fire broke out in the house of Mr. Brooke, in Pembroke -street, Plymouth-Dock, which was fortunately go: under, after it had destroyed the room in which it commenced, with all the furniture therein.—The accident was occasioned by the too-re, prehensible practice of setting fire to chimnies, in or der to clear them from soot. Tuesday evening a fire broke out at the house of Mr. KENNETT, jun. in Horton Market-place, which destroyed the whole of the premises, and greatly da maged the Jolly Butchers' pthlic-house adjoining. Monday night, the family of Mr. Burton, of the Cross Keys, Belton-street, Long-acre, were much, alarmed by the screams of his mother, who was oa a visit to them ; and, on entering her room, they fouri her clothes completely in a flame, and, notwithstand ing. the most prompt assistance, she aspired on Wed nesday morning. A child, named Daniel Jackson, was lately butrz. at Framiload, in Gloucestershire. He was at a day school" and whilst the mistress was out of the roon'.. got to the fire, and was burnt so dreadfully, that lingered only to the following day. A Coronet's 'u gliest found a verdict of—Accidental Death. DESTRUCTIVE FIR& —Tuesday night, ahoot gem o'clock, a most alarming and destructive tile locke out in the stable of Mr. EDWA RD A R.GLEti, uphol.. sterer, situate at the back of his house, in the High. street, Maidstone, from whence it communicated itscif in a short time to the work shops and exten sive premises adjoining ; and, from the great quan tity of timber and other combustible fuel which the shop and loft contained, the flames and body of fire were so exceedingly strong, that the greatest alarm and consternation prevailed for some time. — In about half an hour, the engines from the Cavalry Depot, and Phoenix Office, arrived, and with the assistance of the garrison and the inhabitants, the greatest exertions were made use of to stop the devouring ,flames that had then nearly consumed th e buildings, but which could not be accomplished, till they had communicated to, and burned likewise the valuable, and but lately built shop of Mr. Wm. Valentine, plumber and glazier, containing a veryt large stock of the various articles used in that busi ness: also to four or five houses belonging to a Mrs. Russell, a widow woman, one or two of which are completely burned down, and the others quite gut ted and torn to pieces ; the poor inhabitants of which houses escaped with difficulty, the principal part of their household goods being consumed. The fire then caught anther building, a slaughter-house, be longing to Mr. Johnson, butcher, which is entirely burned down, and a summer-house in Mr. Argles's garden, which it also nearly demolished, and where the connection with any other building being cut off, it of course stopped. The night was very serene and calm, and at the time when the greatest degree of danger presented itself, and the raging flames were destroying every impediment in their way, the wind suddenly shifted, and had it not been for these circumstances, in all pro bability the flames would have communicated to the High -street, and the consequences might have proved ! much more calamitous. The whole of the chests of tools belonging-to the workmen and a very large qua:- city of feathers, bedsteads, with a large stock of ma hogany, and flier timber, of Mr. Argles's property, is entirely destroyed. The amount of the damage is incalculable, but the rumour states some t ilonsan.l.: of pounds.. The premises a re s a id to be All insure d, hist not to near the amount of the less that will be sustained.