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FOREIGN lATELLIGENCh. NAPLES, MAY 6. Letters from Malta, of the z4th ult. rnenti,,o, that the Englifb have been defeated in Egypt. An crdet, it is Paid, was in confequence fent to Sicily, that all the difpofahle force.thete fhould be immediAttly em• barked for Egypt. TRIESTF, MAY to. The unfortunateCtiati..r , of r ur portbecomes daily worfe, intlead of better. Srrce the late tranfaaions near Conitantinople and the Dardanelles, the Englifh have declared all the ports of the Levant in a Nate of blockade ; and tbe day before yeflerday we receiv ed intelligence, that two of our vaffels, which failed for Smyrna under the Anfirian flag, were taken and carried into Malta. The Ruffian and Englilh frigates "foffer no merchant veffels &lived for the ports oc cupied by the French to pah. Our city is conk guently in as difagreeable a fituatiQn as Venice is, •and its trade by fea is in a (late of total flagnation. There are a great number of veffels in the harbour, but they dare not attempt to put to fea. HAMBURGH. JUNE 3. We have accounts from Pillau as late as the 3oth ulr. The Garrifon of Dantzic have not been made prifoners of war, bet difmilred on parole, not to do duty within a year. The Garrifon of Weichfelmunde (computed to confitl of about 34+00 men), however,' has forrendered at difcretion. That of New Fahr wailer, from 3 to +coo men, have embarked and efc a ped. The King of Sweden has given orders to take all Lubec veffels in the Baltic. Of five or fix which were detained in Swedifh ports, two have efcaped and gone to Lubec ; a circumflance which will rather lead to more (vino' confequences, and perhaps bring on a blockade of the pit ; the more fo, as the French im mediately feixed the Swedifh failors who were on board the (hips. By feveral of there Lubec veffel,, about 40,000 ducats have been Chipped to St. Petal burgh or itiga. AMERICAN PAPERS. CHARLESTON, MAY ♦. The public have already been infotme,i, that the Brittlh lloop of war DRtviß, a veffel intertlided by the Prefident ft orn ever entering our hat hours, an chored on Thurfday laft abreaft of Fnrr Johnfon.— Two United States Officers of that fort waited upon the Governor on Flaky, to eonfolt with him on meafures necefiltry to be taken to expel her from the port ; his Excellency was not at home on Saturday, but the Commandant of Fort Johniitn addrcired a letter to the commanding officer of raid veffel, of which the following is a copy : " Fort Johnfun, Harbour of Char! Ron, May 2. 41 SlZ—The I'refident of he United Stares having by proclamation, bearing date the 3d of May. iBc.6, for ever interdifted his Btitannic Majefty's floop of war Delve& from entering any port of the Uuited States, and the laid veffel having entered this port. in contempt of the laid proclamation, my duty corn pcls me to demand that the Detvea do depart from this harbour from the date hereof. 64 Need I add, Sir, how repugnant it would be to my feelings, fhould any blood be fpilt. which muff inevitably be the cafe, if the communication he not complied with. Lieut. Wyndham of the artillery is charged with the delivery of this; he said receive your reply. I am, Sir, your molt obedient fervant, MICMALL WALTIISAN." To the Commanding Officer obis Britannic Majefty's Roop - DRIV ' His Majefty's (hip DRrvsa, Rcbtllion Roads, Charkiban, May 3. 66 Sra—l received your letter, and having Come doubts as to the authority by which it was written, I thought proper to fatisfy myfelf on that head before I (hould reply. By the threat it contains, you 21).1 pear, like your Government, to have fotncthii.g to learn. A Britilh fubjel knows too well how to re• foe& and obey the law: of his own country, to offer intentionally an outrage to thole of others, whenonce they are known to be fo: but I have to obferve, the proclamation you mention to have been iffued in May, 1807, I know nozhing of ; of that which was iffued in May, 1806, I have only to fey, that fo far frcm being either creditable or becoming in the Pre. lident of a country, uithing to be ranked amongli the civilized nations of the world, it wou ld, i o t h e °pinion of liberal and enlarged minds, have iNfgra• ced even the fanguir,ary pen of a Robefpierre, or the molt miferable petty i:at: in Bathary. It appears, that the fuppofed I> to bz edreEd Ll' a repe tition o f the eircl:rottar.ces cornilained of, and that on thofe who, fo far iron) having aay thing to do with the fuppofed aggraion, were not even on or near the American craft at the time. Aticl as Capt. Whitby's t r ial may, piohah:y, :;t this moment be pending, with the concurrence of the United States, and the proclamation retling on being Lrought to juilice, it ought to hAvt thotip,'lr of. However, as my proceeding to fca comes wizhin the limits of my in• tenti..ns, accordirig orders I am under, I (hall do fo whenever the pilot tiiiuks proper ; which orders have fur their view the advantage of the American tint, as wc las the proteCtion of t::e Ilritifiz. But 1 mull clfervt.., thAt ri": difficulty I have experienced in obtaining a full lent quantity of water, for the plirpores I with, oVriges me to have recourfe to Inch methods as are completely within my power, which I otherwife !horrid not have thought of. In the mean time, it is neccitary to inf um you, that his Majetty's Chip tinder my command, is at all times ready to re• fat and ptinifh any infult that may be offered to the fig the has the honour to bear, to the lan drop of blood d.at titall remain of the dutiful and loyal fob. Jeffs of a beloved Sovereign and an exalted country. I have the honour to be. Sir, your humble fervant, “ To Captain Kaltctfen, &c. &c. 46 WILLIAM LOVA." Fort johnfoo. S. C.' Difpatches fuppofed to relate to this fobjelt, have h!en torwarded to the Government of the United States, by Lieut. WYNDHAM, who is a pafenger ip Cie Semiramis. NEW YORK, MAY It. The Briti(h (,op of war DRIVER, failed from Chatteflon on Monday the 4th. The Captain got a lupply of water from Sullivan's Uland, and provi fions from an Engiiih Cuineawan in the harbour. May tB.—Colorel Burr arrived at tie city of Wautington yetterday fennight, and had not left it on Tucfday altemoon. 1 i I THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, JUNE 12. PR!CE OF STOCKS THIS DAY Al ' ONE O'CLOCK: Coutols, for July 640—Reduced 630—Onsuium ti prem. Suing. Bills t 4. to 34 run. Government have received very unpleafant accounts from Egypt. brought by the POMPEE, Adniiral Sir SIDNEY SMITH, whore arrival at Plymouth we an nounced yeflerday. The following is the fubaance of the accounts received.— Immediately after the furrender of Alexandria, General Faessa difpatched a corps, confilliug of about igoo men, under the command of Major- General WAUCHOPS, to obtain pollifiion of Rofetta, the occupation of which was defirable, to infure a regular fupply of provifions for the capital. The heights above the town were taken without any op pofition ; but on entering the place, it was found that tl.eTurki had polled a (bong force in the houfes, and on the roofs, which poured fuch a heavy fire on our troops, that they were forced to retire, with the lots of t7o killed, ant 253 wounded. The enemy were in fuch numbers, and fa com pletely covered from the fire of our foldiers, that it would have been adding madnefs to precipitation, to have perfified in endeavouring to make good a lodgment. In this attack General WAUCHOPE was killed, and Brigadier-General MEAD!, wounded. A fecond attack was, however, refolved on, to fa cilitate the required fu; ply of provitions for Alex andria. For this purple, a divifion of 2,500 men, under the orders of General STEWART, was fent from Alexandria by General FRASER. But, in the mean time, a large torte of Albanians had marched from Cairo to Itofetta : between there and the Britith di vifion, a battle took place in the neighbourhood of the town, which was very fangninary, and which ter minated in favour of the enemy, who were immenfely fuperior in numbers. Thofe of the &kali who .for. vived, made good their retreat to Alexandria, but not without much difficulty. In this fecond battle, which took place on the 19th of April, our lots is fuppofcd to have been upwards of loco men, but the returns had not, we believe, been made out, when thefe accounts came away. The following is a pretty correet lift of the killed and wouuded in the firtt attack, which was made on the 3 tft of March : OFFICERS KILLED. Major-General WM:ream. Captain Jou); ROBERTSON, 3tR Regiment. - SAXACOURT, Ctl4 !IMO'S Britanniques. Lizacnout del au CL, Do. WOUNDED. Brigadier General the Honourable...a-- MKAIIII. Captain kIAWKSIIAW,3IfiRcOmetit. ..•••" DOWD AL. Limit. E. KNOX. Do. - FLARON, • 1)o. THORN To:v, Do. Do. RYAN. Do. Enfign KIRBY, Do. Captain DUUZOTOY, Chaffeurs Britanniques. - COMRSIMILNT, Do. - CA LOV NE, Do. -- Da I A FtT re, Do. Lieut. I.IIIAI r t,, Do. - J. Ds SPITZ, Do. - Di &toes., Do. ••••••.. KLINGER, Do. !Wk., BONIINGAULT. DO. 170 Rank and File killed, 230 W 020004. •••••••••• 420 The greater part cf this number belonged to the 31(1 Regiment and theChafrcurs Britauniques. Such is the nature of the accounts that have been received. Nc,r need we wonder at the exultation of the French, in the accounts they have publifhe.i nt the German and French papers, relating to this affair. But, great as oar lot . , has been, our affairs in Egypt arc not in a defperate [late: Alexandria is fecure, and there is little doubt that General Faasta can maintain his potation till reinforcements arrive ; and indeed the probability is, that before this time he has been joined by frefh troops from Sicily or Malta. We fear that on the prefent occafion the enemy may have been held too cheap, or thzt there has been a miferable lack of information. This check, how ever, may, in the end, prove ferviceable : it does not, in the fmalletl degree, detraa from the wifdom and propriety of the expedition. If it was advifable, fix years ago, to expel the French from Egypt, it is no refs to at prefent, to preventthem from getting thither. Either Alexandria mull be occupied by them (or, which is much the fame thing, by the Turks in truft for them), or by us : there is no other altet native.— In our hands, it would be no ohflacle to the re-eila blifhment of peace ; in thufe of Bow', r arr e, it would be the fuurce and aliment of perpetual war. We are p;rfuzded that, if he once obtains poffelLon of Egypt, he will never confent to evacuate it. The recognition of his title, the confirmation of his power both in and out of France, the reftitution of all the conquefts England ha. made, would nut, in his mind, be confidered as a tufficient compenfation for the furrender of this, the chief, as it was tht fir objea of his ambition. Knowing the influence that the poffeffion of Alexandria will have upon whatever negotiation may take place, we cannot withhold our unqualified approbation of the firmnefs and forefight which the late Government have !hewn in ordering it to be occupied, nor can we doubt that our indent Miniacrs, aware of its importance, have long ere this followed up the plans of their predeceffors, in making arrangements for the fecurity of a poffeffion in every refpeft Co valuable. The difpofition of the natives is perfealy favourable to us, and when once the Turkifh troops (hall be expelled from the coun try, our conquea may be maintained with compara live cafe. MALTA AND GIBRALTAR. By the Lifbon mail we have received letters from Gibraltar and Malta. Every thing was quiet at the latter place in the beginning of May. About 3o of the mutineers of Froberg's regiment bad been execut ed, and the greater part of the remainder had been fent to Sicily, from whence two Britifis regiments were daily expelled to arrive at Malta. The Witaosot CASTLI had got her main man (hilted, and was expefted morn to fail for sicily. The troops in Garrifon at Gibraltar were in good health when our accounts game away. The 'l'aaa• SIT arrived there on the 16th, and the ELECTRA on the 17th ult. bath from Malta, and on the rfith the AIAPHION alto arrived at Gibraltar from Malta, with convoy, and 26 fail for England. Fur tome other particulars, fee our Falmouth letter. AMERICAN STATES. American Papers, to the tg•h ult. arrived yeller day. They contain accounts of a very unpleafaut occurrence in one of the ports of the United States. The DRIVER floop of war has been obliged to quit Charleflon Roads, in c )nfequence of a peremptory requifition made to Capt. Lava, by the Commander of Fort Johnfon. The letters which pared on that occafion will be found in another part of our Paper. They fully explain the motives of this extraordinary proceeding. The DRIVIR was one of the veffel., which, in confequence of the death of PEARCE. an Ametican feaman, by a flint fired from the LEANDER, was interdifled from entering any port or hat bonr of the• United States. We could hardly have elinaed, after the approximation which both countries had made towards a gond underflanding, that this filly interdiCtion wculd have been abed upon. We attri bute it rather to an overweening zeal on the part of an individual, and an effulion of official infolence, than a fettled intention to infult the Britith Rag. A New York Paper of the gth of May Rates, that Captain CoLar, from Alicant, reported that he faw eight fail of the•line (French), on the 14th March, in lat. 3r. long. 21. 41. The above fquadron is fup. poled to be that under the command of Sir S. Hon!), i as they were cruizing near that latitude at the above I date. Difpatches were yeflerday received from Colonel CRAUFnRD, at the Cape. His islsirrry has prefented a fuperb fervice of S icramental Plate, and Candelabra of the moll curious vi , 4km.infltip, for the altar of the great church at Quebec, which the Bllhop of that Province is to take over with him. His Majelly's Arms are richly emboffed on each article, and the whole fervice is curi , mily arranged in a mahogany cafe, with a green filk curtain to draw before it. On Wednefd,ry evening was baptized, at the honk of the Duchefs Dowager of RUTLAND, in Sackville- I llreer, the int - all fon of Lady C. Fostaasysa. The ceremony was perfoi med by the Arelibifhop'of CAN TERBURY, in the pretence of his Royal Highnefs the Prince of WALES, Duke and Dar.hefs of BEAUFORT. Duke and Ducbefs of RUTLAND, Lord CHARLES SOMERSET, Ladies GantGLS CAVENDISH, C. Hao- GERSTON, ane feveral other di Ringuilbed fafhionables. On Monday fe'nnight, the Sum of 8001. being the benefaetion of the Rev. D. TAYLOIIa and WILLIAM MTDDL ETON, Efq. to poor Clergymen, wish good charaaers and large families, was dint ibuted amongft teventpeight applicants : in the lilt we perceived the following names, viz. Solomon Lewthwaite, of Hut ton ; John Mayfon, of Thurfby ; Jofeph Rogerfon, of Caldbeck ; Thomas Shepherd, of Kirkhampton; John Topping, of Stapleton; and James Marflaall, of Ireby ; all in the county of Cumberland. The la(. mentioned is 53 years of agc, has ten children, and his income, 251. per annum.—Anthony Barrow, of Kentmere ; Rrbert Rigg. of Winfter ; and Henry Johnfon, of Martindale ; all is the county of Vv'eft morland. As Si;* DAVID BAIRD was returning to town a few I days ago, from Scotland, in croitng Barnet Common, he was flopped in his chaife by a Tingle highwayman, who demanded his money. Sir DAVID not being armed furrendered his purge, containing upwards of tool. in Bank of England notes, when the highway.' man, after politely thanking the General, rode off. By the Treaty of Peace figned at Pam, on the ith December, 1806, between Saxony and France, ! the latter engaged to obtain from Pruffia, for the former, the Circle of Cotbus Rad Peitz, fituated in Lufatia, and (+mounded on all fides by the Saxon territory. Added to the former Saxon dominions, it would render Saxony three times larger than Wir- temberg ; but even with this addition, Saxony would be cenfiderably Jell, though richer and better cultivated, than Bavaria. The Circle of Cotbus ami Peitz has an extent of about one hundred Englith fquare miles ; its foil is generally light and Candy, but in Come parts very fertile : it abounds in excellent paft urn, and numerous fifli ponds, which yield plenty of fine carp. Its two market towns are Cotbus and Peitz. The former has 800 well built houfes, and I food inhabitants, employed chiefly in brewing, and in force linen and woollen manufaCtures. There are, , befides, t 16 villages; and the whole Circle contains a population of about 30,000 inhabitants, moll of , whom are lineally defcended from the Vandals, whole language they have re t a i ne d. I Ron ft AC.IDEmr. EXHIBITION 1837. 502, 503. View, in Bert'Zire.--J. Dnuci.n. —i n one word, without cenfuring there produdions in par. ticular, we mill} enter our proteft againft all att tnipti to reprefent the effeds of Nature in this kind of 11Qn hand way. pg. tortraii Of .1 Gentleman.—H. SlwcLtroN very pleating fpecimen of fmall whole length per. manure, forming altogether a pillurefque cotrpoft. Lion, and diflinguithed for confiderable brilliancy of colour ing and freedom of pencilling. 49 2 . Twilight.—P. RUM AG LI A.--Alandfcape defigned on the pure principles of Nature. An ad mirable fobriety of tint prevails throughoka 11. e pic ture. the colouring of which is perfealy ch,tfle, and appropriate to the phenomenon► intended to ye t i hibned. A FAREWELL. TO ANNANDALE. Trwt-N MAIMS AND IRA[! 411 . DONNT Dow "• Ad:en, ye bonny banks and brat ! Adieu, each dear delightful vale ! No more 111 on your beautiet gar— No more I'll fee Tweet Annandale . No more your pleafant walks CjAt., Now diltaut kerma I go to hail, Far from my dear paternal home, And far from charming Annandale. Yet neer will f till Death's cold band Shall lay the Weida, low, and pate. Forgo any lovely, native land, 'The much lamented Annandale. Eli mind ilk bill, ilk howm, ilk heath, Ay,, till my bcanng pulfe mall fail, And, when I heave my Lindmoil brcatii, figh for boNtly Annandt.l.; ! Dasmfriu. w. ieVi The FLtymarket Theatre opens nn Monday Ilea, for the fealon, with every advantage of decoration' and embellifhment. SAILING MATCH.—Yeflerday the long depending Sailing Match, for so guineas, between Capt. Camp. bell Allan, of the Sally, and Captain Gardner, of the ViSory, both of H nfrlyclown, took place. They Ratted from Cuckold's P.,int to Erith and back, which was won by the Sally. The match was one of the fltarpea contefied we ever remember to have witneffed on the Thames ; bets at ft trti 1g were ten to five in favour of the Viaot y. When they arrived at Eti•h, they were as high as ten to one, but jolt before they were abreaß of Greenwich on the return, the ode were in favour of the Sally, which increafed as the came up the river, and beat the Viitory by about a cable's length. Wednefday afternoon a hnorepainter, working at the Treafury, Whitehall, fell from a fcaffqld, when he was taken to the Wrilminfler Infirm.try, where he foon after died. Yet:let-day a labourer on the q aye, convinFted at the lea Old Bailey feffions for pilfering, was publicly , whipped in Lower Thamectireet. Valentine fuitors put a variety of etudes (literary and non-literary,) under their pillows, in order to in duce pleafant dreams. Zuere----schether It may not be prudent in all fuch, at this critical moment, to become fuitors of Fortune, and to put under their pillows the figures No. 9,949, which, it is notorioully known, was a befpoke number, the offpring of fancy, and produced, in the left Lottery, 10,0001. to a re fpeaable tradefman at Southampton. It can do no harm, and may poffibly caufe a dream of a number that may taro out equally4 . ortunate. Some few days ago, a man went from Dallington to Hellingly, to be married, but not being provided with a certificate of the banns having been regularly publifhed, the Minifter was under the neceffity of poßponing the wedding till the following day, not thinNig it poffible that the man could return in time, fo great a dillance, on foot, for the performance of the ceremony fooner. He was, however, determined to make the attempt, and after pulling off his hat, and committing it to the care of his intended bride, flatted from the church-yaro, at Lull (peed, and re turned to Meltingly so minutes before twelve, corn. pitting a diftance of nearly 10 miles, in exaelly two hours and 35 minutes, to the great joy of the he. trothed damfel, who anzioully waited his arrival, which had n fooner taken place, titan a congratu latory fainte was exchanged, when the fond couple repaired to the Hymeneal altar, and were made happy. The bridegroom is final' of Ramie, about 25 years of age, and, of courfe, mutt have been wholly unprepared for fuch a pedeltrian enterprife. Ann Wilfon, a dafking Cypriots, underwent an exa mination at Guildhall, yetterday, charged with rob bing a gentleman of the name tof Dye, of his pocket. book, containing a 51. Bank of England note, and rBs. in hirer. As Mr. Dye was walking up Ludgate-hill. about eleven o'clock at night, the prifoner, who is a flout powerful woman, pounced upon him, feiud him round the body, and took from his fide-pocket the property above.mentioned. He inftantly charged her with Reeling his pocket-bogie, and gave her into the cußody of a watchman, who was obferving the prifoner's conduit; but on her being conveyed to the watch houfe, and fearched, the property was not found. No parlor. being near Mr. Dye at the time he was robbed but the watchman, and as he had been drinking with the prifoner not a minute before, there was reafon to believe that he was impli• cated in the affair, and it was fuggefted that he alto Ihould be (earthed ; but, before the conftable of the night could effetfk it, he fuddenly difappeared; nor could he be found for Tome time; and when he was found, the excufe he made for quitting the watch. houfe was fo improbable, that the officer of the night tent him, with the prifoner, to the Compter. Mr. Dye, however, declining to (wear pofitively that !mime the prifoner Wilfon convey his pocket book to the watch man, though,fr om their manner, they firmed perfeilly acquainted, he was difcharged; but Ann Wilfon was fully committed for trial. The watchman, elated at his diimiffal, Paid, he was to be found every night at the coiner of the Old Bailey ; but the Magiarate, conceiving him to be an improper perfon to guard the property of his fellow citizens, informed him, that he had given fuch initiations that be would k lota there no more. 1 s I . Col o Mu Cl, At tot ter, Lei 1 1 1 1 At Uri P.h svIC shr As _