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, THE EVF',IsTING grAn. LONDON. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAV AT ONE n•cLocK. 3 per Ct. Cans. for money 6374—Ditto for account ptr C' Reduced shut—Navy 5 per Cent. 941 951 4 per Cent. shut—Bonds 16s. pre.—Omnium # dis. Exch. Bilk (3c1.) is. dis. to Is. pre.—Ditto (314) ls.to as. pre. The General Porlier, which has arrived from Co rinna, has brought letters dated from thence to the 7th of September. We are happy to find, that an active co-operation may be expected from the Galli cian army extremely favourable to the purposes of Lord WELLINGTON. A division of these forces, to the number of 2500 men, had advanced to Benavente, from whence the French had retired, and tock pos session of the place. The retreat of the enemy was auxiliary to his union of the concentration of the troops in the Northern District, under the command of General D'ORSENNE. Letters from Cadiz have been transmitted by a private ship to the Bth instant, but they communi cate no news of the least importance. On the 29th of August, in the evening, General BALLEstEttos entered Cadiz. .On his landing, he was surrounded by an immense multitude, who greeted him with loud and continued acclamatiods. From some Papers from the Peninsula, we select the following articles : VILLANUEVA DE CELTRU, AUGUST 22. The Superior Junta of this Priucipality (Cralonia) continues in Berga, and the Head-quarters have been at Itipol since the 15th instant. Our troops have returned from an invasion of the French territory with a considerable booty. Our dispersed forces reunite in every direction, mostly with their arms, and join the skirmishing parties. General Lacey is an eye-witness of the en tbuslastn of the Catalonians. General Milans has left Arinis, with 1508 men and 40 horse, for Ampurdan, which will be the theatre of war, and from whence we hope taking a happy result of the enterprise in mutt mplation. While the project against Rosas is conducting, the Port of Pa -1111103 will be extremely useful to assist in the operations, and it may be defended by a small gsrrison. The sharpshooters perse vere in following up the French, especially in the neighbourhood of Villafranca; Barcelona, Valls, and Arnpurdati. On the 16th of this month, 130 French were killed in the mn- Watery of Montserrat; and waggons with wounded are con rinn ally passing from !gush& to Le Orda. The stations of Mongat and Contreria are defetid.d by our valiant Patriots. • In Motril 300 of our soldiers took the whole French garrison, sonsisting of 180 men. After these prisoners were embarked, MOO of the enemy arrived from Almeria, and were fired upon by the armed vessels. The following letter from Rio de la Plata came to band yesterday, and it will be found to relate two important facts : " BUENOS AYRES, JULY 12. " Since the short-lived attempt of the Cabildo to b!ockade this port, that measure has not been resumed. The Nereus has sailed for Monte Video; and it is'said t• be the Intention •f Captain Heywood to order all British vessels t• leave that port, and' to proceed to any other they choose—as Elio has not suffered them to hoist their colours, and therthy to be protected frogs the fire of the besieging Buenos Ayre's army." Several imporrtnt documents from Buenos Ayres' were also receiveJ. An official statenic;,t of the p;.1). lie force estimates the army of that city at 37b3 men, independent of the volunteers. A dispatch from Chili declares the pnrpose of that Government to support the capital of Buenos Ayres against Etto's nefarious designs. captivity fast approaching, through the means of the English frigate. It is also reported, that the Dutch erpressed‘great joy on coming on board the NAIAD. Monday last, the new Magistrates of Dublin were sworn :n.There was afterwards a grand dinner at the Mansion House, at which were present the Duke of :licrtairrala Mr. W. POLE, Earls MARCH, HARRING TON; '.. In the toasts, after dinner, the health of 1,,):' AiAncii, who had retired, being given, the Duke of RICHMOND returned thanks, and said, " I'm sure you w ill give due credit to his absence, when I tell yCll MARCH has retired to lay in a stock of health, to enable him to return to his master, LordWELLINGL'ON, 1 to fight your battles." Mrs. Mary White, who lately died at Ince, inl Cheshire, had for a long time Iraq:tented Chester' market with fish. At the time of her death she had in her possession 7.50 guineas, €2O in silver, and se- , curity tot €lOOO, the accumulated proceeds of her i earnings, which, for security, were deposited under a flag stone in the kitchen. BREAKING OPEN TDB PRIVY COUNCIL OFFICE.—A low nights since the Privy Council Office was broken open. The office-keeper was alarmed by a noisy in the upper part of the office, which awoke him ; he got a light immediately and went up stairs, and dis covered that some person or persons li:d entered by a •.viodow which had been opened by the parties from . the back premises leading from the ruins of an old house in Downing-street, which was pulled dowa some tine since for the purpose of enlarging the East India Board Office. That plan has beau abandoned, and the Privy Council Office is now where the East India Board used to be held. The robbers decamped, it is supposed, without stealing any thing on hearing the office-keeper stirring. It is suspected that the, thieves narrowly escaped falling into a large cistern of water, belonging to a water-closet, which was close to the window where they entered. HORRID MURDER AND ROBBERY.—On Wednesday evening, about seven o'clock, as Mr.WTylde, a farmer, of Sunderidge-place, was returning from Croydon Fair, in a horse and chaise, accompanied by his son and grandson, they were stopped near the top of -Westerhain-hill, by a single footpad, who demanded their money ; Mr. Wylde replied, " My friend, you are too late, as I have paid all my money away in the purchase of sonic oxen at the fair."—The robber presented a pistol at the time he stopped them. Mr. Wylde, however, gave him all the money he had at the time, which was only a few shillings, with which the villain expressed himself much dissatisfied ; he insisted upon having more from them, and said he was sure it was not all they had got. The villain keeping his pistoh presented at Mr. Wylde's head, -- Mr. N. turned it from his head with his whip ; but Letters have been received from the French coast, while he was doing this, the robber, without any threat which report that the military force collected at Dou- or notice, immediately discharged it, and the con logne had broke up, and that several corps were tents of it lodged in Mr. W.'s breast and bead, and =arching towards Holland. The general opinion, ,caused instant death. He expired in his son's arms, he wens, was, that the real destination of these troops without a groan. Tliere.were seven slugs in the pis was Prussia, whither, it is believed BONAPARTE will tot ; two of them lodged in his head, and five in his proceed before he returns to Paris. It appears to be side and breast. Mr. W.'s son is about the age of his policy to collect a force in the North of Germany 19, and his grandson 11 years.--The murderer had which shall.be ready to act in case of a rupture ak ito had the appearance of a farmer's servant. We are Russia, while in the mean time, the Kings of Pntali A l concerned to say he escaped.—The grief and distress and Daaataax will be compelled to surrender ihe r 'of the deceased's son and grandson is more . easily r i 'cit. al per y and territories, the possession of which conceived than described :—they remained without may be demanded on die usual gr.nn.l of convicting assistance,with the body, until some travellers came t.,.. cont 1 inental system. , up- , • . - Accounts were yesseiday received from Gibraltar, and from several Spanish ports on the 'coast of the Mediterranean. The letter from Valencia reach to the end of August, at which time much alarm pre ♦ailed, in cDnsecrience of the approach of the French who are said to have advanced rapidly, and in consi derable force, alcng the coast from Catalonia. The Eliza cartel has arrived at Dartmouth from Mc.rlaix, with an American messenger on board. is the bearer of dispatches for the American in London, with which he immediately set. off for Lond , n. In the present state of our relations with America, the following communication may .be re zarded as highly important : " The Prince Madoc, G. W. B.ttctt master, bound from Nur elk to London, was boarded in the Chops of the Channel by a French privateer, iehen a minute examination was made of her Papers, and it being ascertained that she ..vas an American ves sel with Americas' produce, she was permitted to proceed on her voyage, without molestation, and was treated with particular •ivility." This is, perhaps, the Fast instance in which it has been sheen, that the French law of blockade, as ap plied to the flag of the United States, is rescinded. If these examples of forbearance be repeated, there will be no doubt respecting the revocation of the Berlin and lk;iion Decrees, as far as they relate to the Republic. The Constitution American frigate, which has arri ved in the Downs from the Texel, has left in Holland 250,000 dollars, in payment of the dividends on the American funds. She is to proceed by the first fair wind to Cherbourg, to receive on board Mr. Russsot , who is appointed Charge d'Affaires for the United States at the Court of London. - 1,. , ,' • r , . . . NAVAL Ar TEL LICENCt . THE ARMt. TORBAY, OCTOBER S. We yesterday received letters from Jersey and Sailed, this morning, his Majesty's ship MARTIN, . Guernsey, where every preparation is making to re. with the transports destined for Cork, except the ceive the enemy, under the very able Officers Gate. Ariadne, N. 120, which will be ready for sea to ' rals Dots and Sir Joust DOYLE, Bart. General DON morrow. i has under him General HATTON, and a fine garrison PLYMOUTH, OCTOBEIk S. "in the island. Sir JOHN Dorte has under him Sit. ArriVed, the SABRINA, is guns, from a cruize, A. GLEDSTANIDI and Gen. CIiEsTER, with some tine . Parliament was yesterday prorogued by Commis- last from Portsmouth : came iutO harbour, to refit, young battalions. Reinforcements are about to sail aion, in the usual form, till Tuesday the 12th of No the SYBILLE frigate. Sailed, the Colossus, 74, to for these two islands ; and it is thoug ht that a Bri. *ember. The Commissioners were the LORD Cl- • ulnae o ff Brest ; and the Sc .' vat's ' brig of ' war, to gadier will be sent to each of theft At the present cacton, the Earl of AYLESFORD, and Lord Muc cruize off the Black Rocks. A large armed transport GRAVE. The Commons were represented by Mr. Dv- moment General Dox and Sir JOHN Dostc feel the BON, Clerk Assistant, and the Officers of the House. brig went out of harbour and sailed last evening, with utmost security from any attack the enemy can make. Lord WILLIANI BENTINCK transacted business yes- 1000 barrels of gunpowder on board, for the Mediter- The Militia force comprises every man who can bear terday at the Foreign Office with Lord LIVERPOOL Taiwan fleet. We have not a single man of war now arms ; and certainly no corner of the British domi and Mr. PERCEVAL. in Cawsand Bay,, where our ships of the line always nions is more loyal, or breathes a more determined This day Lord WILLIAM BENTINCK is to set off ford rendezvous.—Wind S.S.E. squally. Falmouth, where the MENELAUs frigate waits to carry . i hatred against France, and the disturber of the repose him to Sicily. PORTSMOUTH, OCTOBER 4. ' of Europe. ' his Majesty ' s ships THRACIAN, BERWICK, : A skip has arrived from Dieppe, which sailed on Arrived In the event of a desperate attempt being suddenly the 2d inst. Bonaparte was at that time at Antwerp PORCUPINE, MERMAID, and PODARGUS, with a convey made by the enemy, we understand that measures o f With Admiral De Winter, examining the fleet, which fiorn the Downs ; and the PORT MAHON from Lisbon. precaution have been taken regardin g Portsmouth mance wouldfrom proceedce to Adatn. Letters received in town from Teneriffe, of the Lisbon, but it is supposed they have not got fu r the r lessen the prodigious accumulation o f French priso than Cowes or Yarmouth Roads. 24th of August, communicate the unpleasant intelli-, ners at these our two principal Naval Stations and Bence, that the fever of last year had again visited DARTMOUTH, OCTOBER I. arsenals ; and all the dispoacable King's ships- are the inhabitants of the Canary Islands, and had proved Arrived, the Etaz I cartel, from Nforlaix, with an carrying the prisoners .to Scotland. The REGULUS, extremely laud. American Messenger, from Paris.—The cartel also 44;, is now about to sail with a great number from A late decree of theßegency at Lisbon, prohibiting brought over several English women and children. Portsmouth for Leith. • the importation of American spirits into Portugal, is DEAL, OCTOBER 4. I Sir WILLIAM CO.7.KBURN has been appointed a Ge nth country, by enlarging the consumption of Irish likely to prove beneficial to the agricuaural interests of . Arrived his Majesty's ship NIOBE from off Bou. ' nera l Offi cer on t h e S ta ff , i n the West Indies. .• spirits of that market; and it has already caused the logne ; Lind the RESOLUTION cutter, with dispatches Yesterday the NAYADEN frigate sailed fur Lisbon ; shipments of nearly 2,000 puncheons within the last and letters from off Flushing.—Wind' S. many Officers went by her. fortnight from Dublin, Cork, and Belfast. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. Detachments of the Quarter Master General's Re. The Sophia, Martin, bound to Bri‘tol, received much dama g the late fi re is estimated at near £20,000. e I The damage occasioned to Greenwich Hospital by by lightning, at Jamaica, the end of July. giment are embarked at Falmouth, and ready to sail The Robust, Landell, arrived in the Clyde the 26th ult. from for Goree. - COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. A young Lady of the Jamaica, spoke on the 4th of August, off Cuba, the Jamaica Plan name of CHILL made a very promising debut last night ter and . L•rd ire, Haley, sailed from Jamaica for London Wellington, from Jamaica to London. The Clare Militia, commanded by Major FITZGE in the part of Emily, in the Woodman, and was much T e the rat of Au g u t s i t. BALD; the South Mayo, commanded by Major Baowx, applauded ;as was also Mr. SINCLAIR, in the charac- Th e C armen , —, from London to the Havannah, Is reported with the Tipperary Militia, have sated fur the Downs ter of Wilford. ' to be arrived at Cecel, in Campeaehy. from Ireland, having been driven back to Spithead. Mr. B. (a well-known Miser) was extremely ava- The Essex, Brooks, from London to Gibraltar, bag put into Ramsgate, leaky. The Carlow have arrived at Spithead, and this fine ricious. Not having given :441 entertainment timing a The John, —, from Oporto, is supposed to have arrived at - - --- • . t h e .regiment is to go to Latcnester f or %sinter, an ex. - • '-e-hou.e 'THE KING. WINDSOR-CASltt, OCTOBER t. 44 The knio has passel the night without sleep, and is not quite so well this morning. (Signed) "H. HALFORD. W. HEBERDEN. K. BAILLIE. R. WILLIS." summer, and his ice-house remaining still quite full Hull, lettersltaving been received marked by her. in the month of January, his steward asked him what The Mars, —, from Quebec to London, is supposed to his he should do with all the ice ? " Why !" replied Mr. arrived oft - Shields. ; "The Rigby, —, from Jamaica to London, was lost early in B. ' a' let it be given to the.poor!" i August, on a smaa island near Cuba. It is reported in the fashionable circles, that Lady HOME POPHAM is to have another grand Masquerade Admiral STIaLING is appointed Naval Commander at Portsmouth, on a much larger scale than the last. in-Chief at Jamaica, in the room of Admiral ROWLEY. When the Commodore LE COUPE'S praam was The statement, that Capt. BINGHAM, of the LITTLE BELT, had been promoted to the rank of Ty-Captain, coming into close action with the NAIAD, it is said and to the command of the VOLAGE frigate, is withogt the Dutch seamen on board her ran below, not, as the Officers believed, through cowardice, but, according foundation. Capt. B. retains the command of the to their declaration at the time to the French Corn- former ship, which is undergoing a repair at Deptford. mandant, that they would net fight with the French, The la Hoot :F., of 71. guns, I flinched on Thursday, ho had forced them into their service, if they possi. at Deptford, is to be coppered at Woolwich without hip could avoid it, and now they saw an end of their delay , and will then proceed to Sheerness , to season . . _ - for six months. cellent quarter. Lieutenant-Colonel NESBITT, A ssistant Quarter• Master-General, at Plymouth, is appointed Deputy- Quarter-Master-General at the Isle of France. We may expect that the very first ships will bring us accounts of the grand expedition which has sailed under Sir SAMUEL. Ayala:ll3m Some more Majar-Generals, it is said, will be sent out to Portugal,, and some of our best and most ac tive Colonels have the rank of Brigadier in that coun. try. Ministry, it is s.tid, have given the choice of all these officers to Lord WELLINGTON. Yesterday a party of fine recruits for the 96th re. giment, and a party for the East-India Company's service, were landed at Tilbury Fort. They came from Leith on board of the London and Edinburgh Cam. pany's smack Cornet, Captain CUMMINOS, which, be. sides being the most elegant, is the fastest sailing ♦es sel in the trade between London and Leith. Thursday, Abraham Walton, an inrolled man in the Eastern Battalion of Oxfordshire Local Militia, was convicted of having failed to join the regiment during the last year's training and exercise, and paid the penalty of £2O, rather than suffer six months im. prisonment, which must otherwise have been the punishment. ror six A sloop of war is to be built in Deptford Dock yard, to he called the Bacchus. The French praam, taken by the NAIAD, anchored on Thursday, in the River, near Deptford. The enemy's ships in the Texel are closely watched by Admiral Dunham, in the HANNIBAL, of 74 guns, and some line-of-battle ships. He is to be reinforced by the Timm, of 80, Rear-Admiral HALLOWELL, and Captain lIALLIDAY. The following particulars relative to the Boulogne flotilla were received yesterday : " The flotilla consists of 16 ship praams, with 12 24-pounders and 112 men etch; 28 brigs, with false ;eels, from six to eight 2 t younders, and frent 70 to SO men; eight schooners, of 13 gun., and 40 men each; and 300 gun-boats, with two 24- pounders, and 26 men each; the sailors chiefly Flemish and Dutch. Five hundred impressed men lately arrived from Hol land. Several win-boats out of repair. The crews are mustered on shore every Sunday, and taught infantry movements. " About 30,000 soldiers at Boulogne under Marshal Ney, all French, except three Dutch battalions. " Bonaparte made a tour to the different naval arsenals.—The Empress having been wet by the tray in a bo.i.t, returned to Pal is, or is gone to Brume's." On the arrival of the transports with stores and am munition, destined for Russia, at Revel, they were greeted by the Government Authorities, as well as the populace, with the most cheering welcome. The Officers of the Gras,hopper were invited on shore to dine, and partook of tile . Russian hospitality pro vided for them. This occasion was, it is said, taken to explain to the Commander of the Grasshopper, that, under existing circumstances, the Government of Russia would be under the necessity of refusing to accept of the cargoes of the transports, of which Rus sia vond so much in need. The American frigate Constitution, which it will be remembered sailed a short time ago from this coun try to Holland, with a quantity of dollars on board, for the payment of the Dutch creditors on the Ame rican funds, is arrived in the Downs ; and, by letters received from on board, it appears that the Constitu tion could not get up the Texel for want of water, and therefore stood off and on the port till informa tion was received from the'Dutch Government how she was to proceed to deliver the dollars. At length, orders were received to put them on board a vessel at sea, which was sent out by the Government fur that purpose. The Resolute gun-brig will he soon released from quarantine. Btfore she left Gibraltar, it having been reported that the French were on their way to Mar bella, she was ordered to proceed thither, and to scour the coast ; upou which service she proceeded, and was soon under the walls of Matbella. It turned out to . be a false alarm, the French having only shewn a small marauding party, which the apprehension of the Spaniards magnified into an army—and Lieutenant KEENAN, with the Resolute, and the gun-boats under his command, returned, after a vigilant inspection of the coast, upon which no enemy was to be seen.— There was no men of war at Gibraltar when the Re solute sailed. On Tuesday se'nnight a vessel was wrecked near the harbour of Dunleary. She Was a very fine brig, from St. Übe's, laden with salt and cocoa. The crew were all saved by having contrived to get on board a Welch sloop, which having only ballast, drew so little water, that the rode in safety, close to the place where 'their vessel was wrecked. The cargo, which belonged to Mr. Roche, of Dublin, was entirely spoiled; and the brig is lying on her beain-ends. The following are the particulars of Major &mite's, of the 49th regiment, intrepid mode of escape from the prison of the Inquisition at Seville : • 64 On the evening of the 25th of July, an unknnwa Spaniard, who had never been seen in the prisos before, entered it, and said to Major Bitootze, 4 Sir, I three days ago saw yen through the iron bars of ' those windows, since which time I have not been able to rest night or day, in the hope of effecting your escape, led by an impulse I cannot account for e he then pulled from his shoulders a Spanish cloak, aid from under that a hat, also an cld waistcoat from his pocket, and a paper of paint ; saying,4 Sir, the mode - is now yet dangerous, but we must be desperate, :Ind if you date try, I will retura to you in the twilight of the evening.' - He then departed, and returned ac cording to promise, when he found the Major ready dressed, and disguised by the paint, and fully deter mined. The Spaniard then said, he would go about 20 yards in front, as, should they be detected, he inevitably would be put t death ; and most probably the Major, in the scuflla that would ensue, as they arranged to sell life as dear as possible. Five British •Officers, beside Major BROOKE—Captain ALLMAN, Lieutenants SAME. ELLWOOD, and MARSUALL, of the 48th, and Ensign Lents, of the 57th regiment, were confined and crowded into a small under-ground j room, filled with vermin and filth, an old rotten bed and coarse filthy sheet each, five sentinels over them, one at each window, one at the first door, one in the centre of the passage, one at the outward door, and a strong Officer's guard in the passage, all of which he passed, obliged occasionally to put his hand gently against some of them, to get by. He concealed him-. self in the house of the same Spaniard until the even ing of the 28th July, not having determined on what route to pursue ; when, finding that a reward of 5000 reals, and a situation under the French Government at Seville, was offered for his detection, and a protnise of not punishing,an' person concerned, he deemed it high time to get out of the place, and accordingly succeeded in passing the guards of the city, and on the bridge over the river Guadalquivir, getting safe into the mountains, and performed a journey et near 400 miles, sleeping every night among the bushes, wounded and exhausted as he was, with three cuts bind fractures; and grazed by a ball, the wh',le in the head. It is a justice due to say, the kindness of the ; .Spaniards, wherever they dared shew it to him, and. indeed to every English prisoner, was elzreme ; at:d where the men darednot come, they sent their women with all manner of felief to our priwners . ." . . / • . y \