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• . . POLITItta CeItJLESPONDZNCE. A letter has appeire4 • Dublin pa p er , froin Mr. Cusaix to Mr. Casa?ssi, in whiCh some curious de. tails are gives' with regard to the appointment of Mr. CURRAN to the of ice of Master of the Rolls in Ireland, ' and the circumstances Akidi which it was attended. Mr. Consult, m the commencement of his letter, ifter stating to his friend, that the detail he was about I to give was imperiously called for by the aspersions which had Iwo thrown on his character, proceeds— " You will remember the state sit Ireland in 1789: and the i necessity under which we found ourselves, of forming some bond ot hooourable connexion, by which the co-operation of even a small number might be secured, iu maklog same effort to stein i that current with was carrying eVery thing before It. For that purpose our little party was fornied—it consietta of yourself, the Duke sit Lobster (that excellent Irishman), the late Lord Pon soulty, Me. B. Doty, Mr. G. Ponsonby, Mr Forbes, myself, and some very few ethers. It may not he for us to pronounce enco :mums upon it, but we are entitled to say; that had it been as sac ceatful as it was honest,we might now look back to it with some degree ot satisfacuon. The reason (tinny adverting to it is, that, under tke sanction of dist party, and in Its presence, it was agreed between Mr. G. Ponsonby at d me, that tf any circumstances should arise, under which it might be honourably open to us to accept office, it should be on the-terms of his tusking the first, and my taking the second place us ;he course of professional ad- Vancement. chat this Was no paltry compact, with any view to the attainment of preferment, was obvious, for either of us could at any time command it ; it se as solely a pledge toetcure our co operation and perseverance in what we deemed our public duty, With what fidelity I adhered to every part of the engagements we then formed, you well know; and you alsoknow at what sacrifices, aud under what protessiona . penecution,and what impett.able and successtul attacks upon my person ,my character, and my furtnne. 1 so acted as to be fully entitled to perfect reciprocity of good faith, and to consider the perlorinance of the personal part of the com pact, as a nutter, not of favuur,but of right, which! might receive like the payment of any common debt, without being crushen.by the humwattng sensation that I must have felt, if my debeori by such payment, could become my patron or benefactor. Upon shut basis of this compact, which was always publicly known, and adopted by Lord kitzwilliam in 1795, Mr. G. Ponsonby was then !annulated to the cake of Attorney-General, I to the place of So licitur.tienetal. The completion of that arrangement was pre vented by the change of Irish Administration ; the compact itself continued, and with increased force, (if by the continued (deity of observance, a compact can be susceptible of accessional obliga tion) till the late chauge in 1806. On that occasion I was the (Iny interested member of that party that remained in Iteland. I did not write to any of my friends then in London ; not to Lord Ponsonby ; not even to you. I knew your zeal for my- interest ; I knew the fnendshsp sad purity of Lord Ponsonby-1 was sen sible of the warm protection ot Mr. lox, to which I had no claim, stye what might be suggested to a noble and generous spirit, like his, by my conduct as a public man ; I knew, also ' the pro tiction my interests would have found in Lord Moire, Lord Er stine, or Lord Howick, had such protection been necessary. I Mt Ho solicitude for myself; I remained at home; the event jus tified my confidence. Mr. G. Ponsonby accepted the Seals; a proof, of its. lf, that I most have been appointed to the next at tainable situation. that next situation could be no other than the ufice of Attorney-General; it was the only place in the power of the new Adnuitistratien to vacate; front its official rank in the Government, it was the natural passage to that place on the King's Bench, to which, as next in professional advancement, I bad a right to succeed. But on this fact I was nut left to conjec tare. I was apprised by letter from you, and also Mr. G. leon sunby, dial my interests had been taken care of; Mr. Ponsonby commuuicated the same to a relation of mine ' then in London ; directing Rita to inform me that my place as Attorney-General was fixed, and that my coming over would be but unnecessary trouble. " The Duke of Bedford soon after arrived in Ireland; and Mr. G. Ponsouby, as Chancellor, became an Irish Minister. At our first meeting, he assured me, somewhat in the stile of his previous letter, that my friends had - not been unmindful of me, and that I would find every thing perfeitly to my satisfaction. In a few days, however, 1 learned the Duke of Bedford had sent for Mr. Plunkett, the then Attorney-General, and assured him that he was not to be removed. It soon appeared that the report was trbe. To mg titc fact was incomprehensible. Mr. G. Ponsonby • left it in all its darkness ; for when we met, which was only by ac : cident, be was silent upon the subject. I soon received a letter from Lord Pensonliy, then confined in London, by that sickness Which was aeon to terminate his valuable life ; it was conceived in such terms as might be expected from the friendship and honour of the writer. He expressed indignation at the delay which had taken place in effecting that arrangement, which he had consider ed conclusively settled', desiring most anxiously to have It ex plained. I his letter I chewed to Mr. Ponsonby ; but without receiving any explanation whatsoever, I wrote to Lord Pcnsonby such an answer, as he had a right to expect from the affection of a man, to whom he had endeared himself.hy so persevering a fidelity, and by the uninterrupted friendship of so many years; such facts as I knew. I stated; but I had nu explanation to give. It would be affectation in me to say, that ueder these circum stances, I *as perfectly at ease. I might despise the triumph of my enemies : I could not be insensible to such coldness from a friend. " After a lapse of some weeks I waited on the Duke ofßed ford, by his Gi ace's desire: he apprised me that I was to be Master of the Roth, as soon as the necessary arrangements were • effected. You may easily judge of my feelings on this commu nication : but it was the firsi. time I had ever seen the Duke of Bedford; I had no shadow of claim upon his Grace ; he was not the person to whom I could complain, that I was humbled or ill treated; I barely said that " I was grateful to his Grace for the courtesy of the communication ;" and retired with an almost de aided purpose to decline the appointment. 'lbis substitution I consider o d a direct departure from the compact with Mr. G. Vonsonby, and accompanied by the aggravation of withholding that consultation and explanation, without which, and with out my own express convent, I ought not to have been so dispos ed of. As to tpe place itself, it was the last 1 sbauid have chosen ; it imposed upon me a change of all my habits of life; It forced racy mind into a new course of thinking, and into new modes of ; labour, and that increased labour ; it removed me from that in- 1 tellectual exercise which custom and temper had rendered easy sad pleasant; it excluded me from the enjoyment of the honest 1 gratification of an official share in an administration which i then thought would have consisted principally, if not altogether, oldie tried friends of Ireland. When the party with which I bad acted • so fairly, had, after so long a proscription, come at List t o t heir natural place, I did not expect to,have beenstack into a window, a spectator of the procession. From the station which I then held • at the Ear, to accept the neutralized situation of else Rolls, ap. peered to me a descent; and not an elevation :—it had no allure ment of wealth ; for diminished as my income had been by the most remorseless persecution for years, by which I was made to • expiate the crime of not being en alien to my country, by trea . ehery, or by birth, it was still abundant when compared with my occasions, and was likely to continue so as long as those oc easions should last."—(To be continued.) - • I and part of the new force consisted of that species I which is !mach wanted-2000 cavalry. The letters also mention, that about 1000 French, escorting 800 Spaniards and som& English prisoners had been attacked (the place is not mentioned) by a superior body of Spanish troops, who succeeded in liberating the whole of the prisoners, and taking about half of the enemy. It is also stated, that the French have evacuated the provinces of Asturia and Gallicia, with - a view to increase the forces opposed to Lord WELLINGTON. A passenger on board the Gannet has written to his friend resident in London, from Portsmouth, stat ing that out. advanced posts had had some slight ren contres with those of the enemy, and that many of the troops had advanced so far, that, by availing them selves of recesses and various bushes to conceal them selves, they had killed several of the enemy : these slight advantages did not fail to animate the allies, and a general engagement was ardently looked for. SECOND EDITION. Government have received dispatches by the GAN NET, of which the following abstract has been circu late4l in the Goverhment Offices : RETRACT OF AN AUTHENTIC LETTER FROM CORUNNA, DATED JUNE 29, 1811 : " I have the honour to inform you, that on the 13th instant, the enemy evacuated entirely the pro vince of Asturias, marching 3000 men under Gene. ral BONNET, by Pachares, towards Paz, and the re minder (about 2000 men) by El Infiesto towards St. Ander. The Asturian force, under General Pont., have since possessed themselves of Oviedo and Gijon. " General SANTOCILDES, with the Gallician army, consisting of 10,000 men, arrived on the 18th instant before Astozga. On the morning of the 20th, the French gave up the fortifications, and retired to Ba neya, towards Benevente. General SANTOCILDES, who was*Governor of that Town when besieged by JUNOT, was received with great rejoicing, and his po pularity in that place has enabled him considera bly to augment his force with men and arms : on the 23d his advanced guard at Cogerderos, near Leon encountered a party of 2,600 of the enemy, with whom they sustained a fight of some hours, until re inforced by General SANTOCILDES, with his cavalry, who pursued them to the bridge of Otbijo, causing him considerable loss. • • t i i • • 60 of who" he took. aad pet death, t remainde leaving In the roast their arms, escaped to Orduna. " Accounts from Pcitien, of the 11th May, stare, • that General PORlalla has for some time had his head quarters at that place, being charged with the for mation of the 7th Army. Great numbers of recruits are voluntarily joining him ; he has now 5000 men, but some are still recruits. " General R.oticer, having collected all the French forces in the Montagua, advanced to attack this ph. sition. General PORLIER, advised of his intention, disposed of his troops advantageously to.receive him which being seen by the enemy, be retreated again to Santander, with the lossof a few killed and prisoners." FRENCH OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS OF THE OPERATIONS in SPAIN and PORTUGAL. We have received Paris Papers to the 10th instant. The intelligence which they present from the armies, down to the date of the second assault upon Badajos by the British, has already appeared is the London Ga zette, and our present limits oblige us to confine our selves to the subsequent operations. The French papers state, that in the two assaults ' the English lost 1200 men, and then proceed is follows : " Lord WELIANOToN was about to make a des perate effort, when on the 16th the Duke of RaoLset arrived at Merida, and effected his junction with the Duke of DaLstams. The two armies marched on Badajos, of which place WELLINGTON precipitately raised the siege, reentering Portugal , with all his troops. Part of his battering artillertfand many of his sick have been taken. " On the 21st the Duke of RAGUSA had his head. quarters at Badajoz. " The details of use siege are every instant expected ' to be brought by General PHILIPPON, who, as well as the garrison, has covered himself with glory ; for the breach was every where practicable." SUCHET, in a letter of June 29, gives an account of the surrender of Tarragona. He says, that the fury of his soldiers had been increased by the resistance of the garrison. A fifth assault, given on the preceding day, had led to a terrible massacre, the example of which I would long be remembered in Spain. Four thousand ' men were killed in the town, and a thousand killed or drowned in endeavouring to escape-10,000 pri • soners would be sent to France. SouLT, in a letter of June 21, states that he had, on the 19th, been informed of the English having rai- I sed the siege of Badajoz—that they had abandoned i their position at Albuhera—evacuated Olivenza —and j withdrawn their troops to the right bank of the Gua diana, on the side. of Elvas. In the afternoon of the ' same day he received a letter from the Governor of Badajoz, PHILIPPON, confirming the enemy's retreat. He professes to regret that a general engagement has been avoided, and hopes that one may soon take place. The dispatches are very long. . _ " Three battalions have, within these few days, marched from hence to reinforce General SANTOCIL• DES, and this morning three companies of artillery, with 6-pounders and a quantity of military stores, marched from this place for Astorga. " The Commander of guerillas LOSADA joined Ge neral SANTOCILDES on the 20th with his party of 150 men, bringing 22 cavalry prisoners, with their horses, having also killed 20 of the garrison; which had that day abandoned Astorga. Two Anholt Mails arrived this morning, but the " The troops that escorted JOSEPH BONAPARTE to intelligence they bring furnishes us with little or no France, with the Spaniards in the French interest, intelligence from which we can form any opinion re. the', who went with him, entered Britieca on the 1 7th of specting the line of conduct to be adopted by the Northern Powers. From Turkey we learn that the June, on their return from Bayonne, in consequence Russians and,Turks are engaged in active hostilities, of an order from the Emperor, .that no Spaniard several smart a ff airs having taken place between 1 r 1 w h a tever be permitted to leave Spain to reside in `them. An article in the French papers seems, how- France.ever, to state, that negociations are again on foot. • The French garrison at Catalayne, consist- I t h emse l ves to the / A dreadful Ire broke out at Konigsberg on the e ing of 250 men, have delivered e 14th ult. which consumed between three and four party of MINA, as also 86 infantry; and 40 lancers hundred houses and warehouses ; the latter contain ', have delivered themselves to the guerilla patties com- ing an immense quantity of Tallow, corn, oil, wines, I . it _ manded by Aston. and Russian prodece. te " A letter from A Portuguese brig of war has arrived at Falmouth e-IMiranda del Ebro, of the 29th from Rio Janeiro in 70 days, brings intelligence that I ; May, states, that 800 men had come iri that day, in four French frigates were on that station, and that L I the greatest confusion, they (having been 1300 in the British Admiral had sent a squadron in quest of ai h- number) were attacked in the Pierre de Joto by the them. They were supposed to be bound for the ". Guerilla party commanded by DURAN, which dis :n; Mauritius. 1.41 persed them, killing and taking prisoners a great many. French papers to the 9th inst. have arrived. From .of , these it appears, that King Jowls left Bayonne on i „. i Colonel MINA, commandant of Navarre, having notice 27th ult. on his return to Spain, but with what escort asl lof the approach of an escort, with 1600 prisoners, is not stated. The ostensible object of his journey to ,r,`, English, Spanish, and Pprtuguese, attacked them at Paris was to congratulate his brothpon the birth of the Fuente de Artaban, with 2300 men. They arrived a sob , but if we may judge from his intercepted let hon the 24th May. In the commencement of the ac• xed ter, his real design seems to have been to request per. eir mission to return to private life—lt so, he has been ow, i tion the prisoners were much exposed, and about 200 disappointed in his object. held op- were killed. - After a short resistance the French sur- Three or four months ago the Austrian Govern ure- rendered ; and there have in consequence fallen into ment issued an order that its paper currency should le te to the hands of MINA 600 prisoners, two coaches, 70 circulate at only. one-fifth of its nominal value. By the Paris papers it appears, by the exchange on Angs carts laden with equipage, and other effects , tree- carts that the same paper is now at only 1-15th of with . valued at six millions of tea l s. Two Generals e ae- its nominal value. The estimate of its value abroad i accompanied the escort, one of whom was taken will enable us to judge pretty accurately of the rate prisoner : the other was shot in his back at the first at which it circulates at home. discharge. Six Spanish Ladies from Madrid, were It will be seen from Commodore Roozes's account taken with them, and instantly put to death. The of the late affair with the Little Belt, that he posi tively charges our Commander with having fired the only part of this convoy which escaped ? was the van- first shot. Till Capt. Bixedieses statement be made ICIC• guard, consisting of 100 men, who had charge of the . public, it is not possible that any correct opinion can be Officers, among whom were 40 English, with whom formed; but the American statement savours so much ill'- they get safe into Salines de Lering. The prisoners of special pleading that we are inclined to doubts its a. accuracy. The Commodore's reasoning, that perhaps who were escorted by the main body were all liber- Ca pt.BINGRAM "thought this a favourable opportunity ated. MASSENA was about half a league behind this of acquiring promotion," may be sound Yankey logic, convoy, and returned to Vittoria, to wait the arrival bat to every person of every other country, must sp. south, of JUNOT with his escort to pass together. pear downright nonsense. A British Captain obtain ire in- " Accounts from Frias state, that on the 14th of e ing promotion by violating the rightiof neutrality— f ters to May the Commander of Guerillas , LOOO, attacked b y acting contrary to the orders o his Government ! who can listen to such nonsense in a grave official do s later with his cavalry, in Villa de Losa, a party of the current There enemy which had come up froth Orduna to watch A letter from Baltimore, dated the Ist of 'June, lociott him it he took from them 70 prisoners and their Com- ' says, “We learn from an official source, that the Con re cis it minder, whom he sent to General P6ititen, at Poter. utitution, Captain Hull, now lying in the Chesapeake, it ordered to hold herself in readiness to take out Joel 3r near ~ On the 99th May LONOA had an - aetion with 600 Barlow, William Lee, Consul ft Bourdeaux, and era was of the enemy in Medina de Prima:, he defeated them two other Gentlemen, to Paris. She is not to sail until the United States frigate, Essex, arrives with ?dome.; with some loss on his own pis?. 'On the sth of June - &forced, he again attacked }SO Won-tin Pen de Orduna, Mr; Plnkney, our Minister at London." . .. . . . . . • • ' - . . • ' . . - . • .. ... - .41 THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. SATURDAY, JULY 13. PRICE OF S macs THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. per Cons. for money and account 611 64 ex. di,. S per C. Iteduccxl 62f —Navy 5 per Cent. 931 4 per Cent. 78-li—Bunds I ls. 12a. prens,—Omninln 2f dia. Excheq. (3d.) par to 2.1. prem.—Dltto (31c1.) ss. es. prem. INTELLIGENCE FROM LORD • W ELLINGTON. By the GANNET gun-brig, arrived at Portsmouth, and which left Corunna on the 30th ult. we have in telligence from Lord WELLINGTON'S head-quarters to the 18th of the same month, which is some days later than the last dispatches from his Lordship. There had been no engagement, nor bad Lord WELLINGTON repassed the Guadiana.. By the accounts before Os it -Tonic' appear that a blink was expected at, or near the. same spot on which tit* battle of Albuera wax fought. SOuLT had received considerable reinforce , them. 7he British mil had also *lv raimforced o ^4. 7 . .-,-,w T . • - - . ArAPAL flaw r .~ • FAST INDIA SHIPPINO. . . Advice seas this day received at the India-House; stating, the the Hen, JULIANA, and , LARKINS, ar. rived off Lymington yesterday•evening, having sail ed from Bengal on the 16th of February last, arrived at St. Helena on the Ilth of May, and sailed from thence on the 18th of that month. The WALMER CASTLE remained at St. Helena; spoke the Wellesley Cartel on the Ist of April going into the Cape, who informed them that the WIND. HAM and CEYLON were expected to sail from Port Louis on the 1 of April for England. Sprice the WILLIAM Pl'l T from the Isle of France, off the sand% heads, on the 16th February. . The HAMADRYAD and OWEN Gum:rowan frigates were at St. Heleira ,when they quitted that Island. The PHOENIX, HUGH INGLIS, PRESTON, BATA VIA, LORD ELDON, ASTELL, LORD KEITH, and DIANA were left et Bengal.—The CITY of LONDON was pro= 'seeding Op the river to Bengal. HARWICH, JULY 12. ArriVed the Lark packet, with two Mails and pas sepgers from Anholt. _ FALMOUTH, JULY 10. Last evening his Majesty's ship VENGED/t • with S sail of the line, a frigate, and schooner, under the command nf l Sir JOSEPH YORKE, appeared off here; , a breeze from the Northward in the night carried them on to the Westward. This evening an ived the Penn gum brig of war Falcon, 18 guns, Capt. de COSTER, • from Rio de Janeiro, with a Mail and dispatches for England, 70 days passage—no packet was there when she sailed.--The Marlborough packet, with Mails for Lisbon, is still detained for orders. PLYMOUTH, JULY 11. Arrived the Hon tender from Lonclondnry, with impressed men and volunteers for the Navy. Came upharbour to repair, &c. the ONYX and ORESTES. Remain in Cawsand Bay, the BoYNE, 98, and Noe- THUMBERLAND, of 74 guns.—ln the Sound, the SUR.. VEILLANTE and SHANNON frigates ; PICKLE, VESTA, Peacoca, and HOPE tender. PORTSMOUni, JULY 12. Arrived the MELPOMENE frigate from Lisbon ; Za- PHYR from a cruize. Sailed the Pmees on a cruize. DEAL, JULY 12. • Arrived his Majesty's ships A NlPHtein and VOL AGE, With two French frigates, from the Westward. Sailed the ECHO sloop of war with a convoy for P , mtsmotith, and the MARL BOROUGH man of war for off Flushing. P. S. Put back the Ecuo and convoy, by adverse winds. Came down from the River the Folgar, for the South Seas, and the Sir William Burrows, for the Isle of France.— Wind S.W. . YARMOUTH, JULY 12. Sailed this morning the CRACKER gun •brig, with transports Nos. 352, 318, 219, and 19, with the Ber wick Militia for Leith; and NIERCURIUS, with con voy for the Baltic. Arrived from a cruize the RA.* vim and LEVERET gun brigs. The following is the official Report of the State of his MAJESTY'S health on Saturday the 6th inst. as pre sented to the Privy Coencil.by the Queen's Council: "WINDSOR, JULY 6. " We the underwritten, Members of the Council, appointed to assist her Majesty in the Execution of 'the trusts committed to her Majesty, by virtue of the statute, - passed in the 5144 year of his M+6sty's reign. intiraled, " an Act to provide for the Athnittistration • " of the Royal Authority, and for the care of his Ma -66 jesty's Royal Person, during the continuance of his " Majesty's illness, and for the resumption of the ex -46 ercise of the Royal Authority by his Majesty," having duly met ogether, on the 6th day of July, , 181 at the Queen's Lodge, near to Windsor Castle, ; and having called before us, and examined upon oath,. the Physicians, and other persons attcndint upon his I Majesty, and having ascertained the state of his Ma jesty's health by all. such other ways and means as appeared tic us to'be necessary for that purpose, - go ' hereby declare and certify, that the state of his Ma! . jesty's health, at the time of this our meeting, is N.Ot • such as to enable his Majesty to resume the per,onal exercise of his Royal functions. " That his Majesty's bodily health is but little dis- ordered. " That, in consequence of an Accession of mental disorder, subsequent to our report of the 6th April last, a change took place in the system of manage ment, which had been previously adopted for his Majesty's cure. His Majesty's mental health is re presented to us by all the Physicians as certainly im proved since the 6th of April. We are unable, how ever, to ascertain what would be the effects of an immediate recurrence to any system of management, which should admit of as free an approach to his M. jesty's presence, as was allowed in a former period of his Majesty's indisposition. " Some of his Majesty's Physicians do not enters tain hopes of his Majesty's recovery quite so confi dent as those .*hich they had expressed on the 6th of April. The persuasion of others of his Majesty's Physicians, that his Majesty will completely reco ver, is not diminished—and they all appear to agree, - that there is a considerable probability of his Ma• jesty's final recovery ; and that neither his Majesty's bodily health, nor his present symptoms, nor the ef fect which the disease has yet produced upon his Majesty's faculties, afford any reason for thinking that his Majesty will not ultimately recover. (Signed) "C. CANT AUL " E. EBOII. " ELDON. " MONTROSE. 46 ELLENDOROTJOH. WINC4ELSBA. " W. GRANT." 41 AYLEWORD. A True Copy, CHETWYRD. Immediately after this Report was made, his Ma jesty had a fresh access of paroxysm, and from that time, the indulgence which had been allowed his Ma jesty of walking on the Terrace, has been withheld. Last night's private accounts from Windsor conti nued unfavourable. Dr. WlLcis has declared it un adviseable that his MAJESTY should repeat his wallet so often on the Terrace, particularly during the pre sent hot weather. Thursday last was married, at St. Pael's Church, Exeter, by the Rev. WILLIAM STASEACK, WILLIAM SEAMAN, Esq. Purser in the Royal Navy, to Mi l s S. Tweet, only daughter of Mr. E. TUCKER, of Tiverton. ♦ , . - • • , , . . N • • • . ' o' l *.*:; , 4 . . A • , IN ,I 1 -_ •1