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retiiun of death, and large (urns were often arcred fur a paitige in vain. Mrs. CAarisTes, wife of Capt. CARPENTER, Paymalter of the loth Regiment, died this morning of the fever.—Dead of the troops during the night, four; taken ill of the fever yetterday, only fcven, not half the usual number." PIINIYEERIAL ARRANGEMENTS. Lord MuLcaavz entered upon his n- v. (Zee ya terday, as Secretary of State fur the Foreign Depart. rnot, vice Lord HARROWBV. Mr. ROBERT WARD, Member fc , r Cockermouth, (author of the View of the Relative Situation of Mr. Farr and 4r. ADDINGTON") i. appointed Un der 13:cretary of State fur the Foreign Department, 14'v Mr. ELLIOT. Lon! HARROWBY is to fucceed Lard MULOItAVi, as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaller. Mr. N. VANSITTART, late Secretary to the Trea• fury, will probably fucceed Sir EVAN NE ?RAN. a• Chief Secretary to the LORD LIEUTENANT of Ireland. The Marquis CORN tvALLts has cettainly accepted t he appointment of Governnt General in India, and is now making the necell'Ary preparations for his de• Failure. Sunday evening their M•Jarrass had a Concert of Sacred biotic at Windfor Caine. The Mufic per formed was feleded by his MAIISTY. It confined of the celebrated Ts Deum, compofed by Fleartl., on the viEtory at Dettingen, which, with feveral other favourite pieces from the fame great mailer, were performed before the Royal Family, and feveral of the nobility, by her Majefty's band, and the Gentle men of the NVindfor Choir. Yeaerday morning, loon after breakfafl, his Piti• FSTY and fuite on horftback, and her lblajerrY and t: e PRINCESS'S, in two coaches and four, honoured Ccneral Wicsom, of Bill Hill, near Benfield, with a m o rning viGt, and after partaking of refredtments, tctor.:d to Wintifor to dinner. The Duke of Yoia arrived at Windfor yeßerday yam ning, and at twelve o'clock had an audience of Nlaj IST Y. Yefterday morning tlle Ruffian and Swedifit Am biSatiors tranfailcd banter:, at Lurd atatowtir's °Lice. Ydlerday, at twelve o'clock, a Cabinet Connell was held at the Foreign °nice, in l)owning•llreer, at which the Loan CHAthCLLLOR, the CNA/40U LOR of the Ercuscuisa, Duke of Muss -Rost, VA - count MILVILLII, Earl CAMDF 11. Lordb Hawes:azure, hfctokavc, and CASTLFREAcH, were pram, and which Wed till tour o'clock. Yetiorday morning Sir Evan NSPPAN arrived in tnwn from Dublin, and had very I , ,ng interviews with the CHANCALLOR of the }.xcusouss, in Down. log find, and Vifcount bli.vtuts, at the Admiralty. His Rnyal Highnersrhe Yrinceof Watas yellerday evening honoured LordVitcniint M►r Bout we with his company to dinner. There were alfo a :timber of perfons of both fixes of the fira rank and fathion of the party, among whom were Lord Ossucsros, Mr. LUTTRELL, the Duellers of Drivosisuir t a L Madame GRAMONT, and Mrs. FITZHE RNIRT . After dihner the company went to fee a private play performed by feveral perfons of chainition. , - Sir Joon Dumattso is arrived in London, at the head of the deputation from the Viands of Jerfey and Guernfey. Some meafure% are in the contempla tion of Government, which aired the constitutional privileges of thole Wands, and tbefe Gentlemen are come over with the intention of averting the blow. We than take an early opportunity of laying the rub jeli of difpute before our readers. The Bank of Ireland, it is faid; will in future be permitted to draw on the Bank of England at par to any amount. Five waggons, laden with treafnie from the Spann frigates, pallid through the Strand yeaerday mor ning, on their way to the Bank. Government have lately purchafed Come premilis is the file of Wight, nn which a fuitable manfion is to be erected for the relidence of the Commander in Chief on that Ifland. His Grace the Duke of NORTHUNEERLaw6 has ap pointed Josh Ctatt of Beblidc ;Wi Ltsa sr CLARK& of WAllfend, and 'Mt.:JAN SMITH of Togdon. Efqrs. Deputy Vice• Admirals for the coati of Northumber land. Yellerday difpatches were received at the Admi ralty from Lord Nst.snia, in the Mediterranean. Difpatches have been received from Admiral Coc n- I Rear, brought by the PIMA fchooner, in 49 hours. It is Paid that they mention the Admiral's having been allsore at Ferrol ; but bearing that bis boat's• crew bad been detained by a party of foldiers, he prudently got into a fame boat, and rowed to his Osip off Baratenz Bay. The crew of his barge were de tained in the Spanifh guard-houk. This attempt was made precious to its being generally known that war had been declared by the Span;ll Government = and it is fuppofed it was principally done at the infliga lion of the Commander of the French fquadron that harbour. A heavy cannonade was heard at teal on Satur day morning. in the direflion of Bottingne ; but the fr.z, which has been very thick for the lalt two days, prevented all yards horn arriving from the oppofite coca A I ‘g, untifually thick, prevailed at Portfmouth, 141 IVedneftlay. when (and it thoul..l be noticed as a n , ,vel effort of nautical zeal and (kill) the Paszcs Cr WALIS, 01 93 guns, was led out of the harbour of Spithead, by a drum being font from the fhip, and brat at the different buoys, where the atmnfphere .4 I s if, dente, that (he could nut diffially be Peen even when palling the platform. From the :Orations lately tranfmitted to the dif ferent Brigade Majots of Yeomanry in Ireland, we 14 1 the following extra before our readers : " You zre to receive from each Commanding Officer a report of !Lir ctsar.“.‘tsr. and conduct of every indivislu.l in his company, and oi rnsl rt.', on his mind the neceffiry of imnasliately removins, any thcre be) whole principles of loyelty are doubtful, whole eor.Judt bat bleu Irregular and dirosderly, ur who tball be unlit' !a lame,. is cacd out NAUTICAL LVTELLIGENCE. MAILS TH;. DA' '.—Wind W. 5. W. f►uhlin Waterford ARR. UJZ. ASR. DOI. I I Hamhur..h 0 0 4 Leeward I(lands I 0 TRURO, JAN. 5.-13 y the Towns ti se o packet. Cap tain Dom), which arrived at Falmouth on Thutfday tall, after a parage of twenty-two days from Lifbnn, we have authentic intelligence of the arrival of Mr. FR EZ ti in that City. He reached Lifbon two days before the Towe so END left it. ABi kith fligate was they tying in the Tagus, with twelve detained Spa flint vettels. In tl,i, frigate Mr. FREIE, it is expeatd, is now on his pattage to England. PENZANCE. JAM. S.—Arrived the Kitty, Nost., from Briftol ; Deccam, from Liverpool f'r Plymouth ; Mount Gelpin, Nos!, ; John and Eleanor, &MICK ; Ann, Hilsosvow, and Harmony, 'roc KEA, from Swanfea ; the American flap Colom bia, HAYDON mafter, from Alexandria, bound to Cowes fur orders, after a paftage of 45 days ; the Daniflt brig Three Brothers, Mit.t.ra matter, of and for Chriftianfound from St. Martin's, in diftrefs, hay ing loft her boats and two men overboard in the late' gales. Sailed Expediten, HEMBERO (a Swede), and Ingebor and Maria, Lessor+ (a Dane), with filb fur Naples ; but it is to be feared they have faltered from the contrary winds and feverity of the weather fence their departure. FALMOUTH. JAM. s.—Arrived yederday the Prof pan galliot Albtrtiena, Captain JOHANNA DRANDT, for pmbden with fah, from Marennes. Ile failed on tht a7th of Oltober laft ; loft his null and bow. fprit on the 3 ill December; on the zd intl. fell in with the NILt lugger, which put five men on board, and fent her in here. Alfo arrived the Townchend and Walfingham packets, with mails and difpatches from IMbon ; the for Mer in za days, and the latter in eleven. Mr. ritiat arrived at Li(bnn from Madrid on the gth ult. and on the 2at ult. a courier arrived at Lifbon from Madrid. bringing an account of Spain having declared war againft this country on the 12111 of December. Lord and Lady HOLLAND were alto at Lifhon, and it is reported that they intend refiding there fur the winter. General LASHES, with two ethers, were hoprly expelled at Lifbon.—The. Frs cARD frigate, of 44 guns, Captain the HT:. Lord M. Kfr ea, was lying in the Tagus with s 3 Spanifh veftels and five neutrals, which the bad detained.- 1 The Diana packet was going into Lifb.in as the Walfingham came out. No MelTengers came over in thole packets. Arrived this evening the Princes Elizabeth packet, KIDD, from Tortola, in 42 days. By accounts re ceived at Come of the Wands from England, it was fumbled that the arl Spencer (the following pac ket) COTISWOATII, had arrived fate at Barbadnes. The palrengers by the Elizabeth, are, Lieut. Colonel FR AZ ER, Major WlLLlAreson, of the loth Regiment, Colonel HOPS, Capt. BAcxwELL, and Mr. O'NEIL. Several Coaflers from Wales are arrived this day.— Remain in Carrick Roads, bis Majefly's fhips GANNeT, and Hosssaa, with the Trade, under con voy. for the Dnwns.—Arrived the AVROS A, Mil - - mica, from Milford, for the Southern Whale Filhery. Wind South. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 6.—Came in the NAIAD, of 38 guns, from a cruize, and brought in with her, which the has detained, the Spanifb (hip El Neuflro Senhor de Dolor, of St. Andero. Captain Fasectsco VBAII(WIN GotT4, from Vera Cruz, for St. An• dero, laden with fugar, cocoa, farfparilla, campea chy wood, and 185,400 dollars. Came in the Malt brig Henrietta, Captain E. JOHANSON MULLER, from Muntevido, bound to Bourdeaux, detained by the ENDYMION, of 44 guns ; alfo the Pim.' fchconer, of to guns, from a cruize. Cows:, JAN. 6.—Arrived the Fame, of and from Baltimore, NI cotoLsoq matter, laden with fugar and coffee for orders, but leaky ; and Louifa, of Emb den, GROUT, from Seville, with fruit.—Sailed the, St. Pieter, Nfissota, for London. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 7 —Arrived the FAYOURITR (loop of war, from off Havre ; and the Venus, Cap tain PAINT, from Naples, bound to Guernfey, and remains under quarantine. Yefterday afternoon the Four stows lugger arrived with her Rag half mall high, having on board the corpfe of her Commander, Lieutenant MULCASTER, who was killed, with be tween twenty and thirty men, behmging to her and the RATTLE* flonp, Captain MASON, in a gallant though onfuccefsful attack in their boats on a priva teer in the harbour of Dieppe. The other Lieute nant was killed in the boat fent from the RATTLAR. —Wind weflerly. VARMOITTN, JAL 7.—Sailed the INSPECTOR and CORMORANT (loops. Yellerday failed the SCORPION (loop of war, with the Admiral Magon French pri vateer, for Sheernefs, but the wind changing, they have been obliged to put back. Patted through fe veral fail of merchantmen, from the Eall, under con voy.—Sailed for the Tesel with a flag of truce, the HAZARD Cartel, having on board upwards of 6o Dutch prifnaers to exchange far a part of the crew of the Romney. The (hips its the Roads are, the Eagle, Admiral Ruffel, Majellic, Monmouth, Ada meat, one (loop of war, two armed brigs, and one cutter. Wind S. L throng breeze, wish rain, ' Dam., Jau.7.--Arrived the MA I ISTIC stifled Blip, 'and HECLA bomb, from Portfmouth with a convey, which is tided for the River. Arrived the Ita molt vattra frigates FORT bomb ; SPARIELIK and Ticit- Lta gun brigs from off Boulogne, and remain in the Downs with the Blips as per lag. Yefierday evening Vic:. Admiral HOLLOWAY (hilted his Bag front the CASTOR frigate to the UTRECHT man of war. Wind S. S. NV. blows hard, with rain. SHEERNESS, JAN. 7.—Arrh'ed his Majelly's fhip MACKIE:it/I, Capt. Mac,: EN z is, from Chatham, and the Joaus armed Ihip, with the DEVASTATION bomb, and Mowery gun brig from the Downs. Sailed the Thames, Bonetta, Utrecht, Elk, and Mediator, kith the Charles armed (hip, and the Safeguard, Archer, and Daring gun brigs; air° the Duchefs of Cum berland hired cutter. The Mortu.s is undocict;, and the AFRICAINE and Anose are docked. Am, DEC. 27.-I'he Neptune, formerly mention ed, was nn Friday got fate into the hat hour. The damage the has fit tlained has not yet been afeertaincd. Her fafety is wholly owing to the extraordinary exer• tions of Captam NEIL, and Marc. RALSTON and SMITH'S carpenters. About 4o of them were dole employed about her, from the time the came ashore, till the was gut into the harbour. FROM LLOYD'. LIST. GRAVESIND, JAN. 7.--Sailed the Eagle, King, for Tobago Governor Milne% Moffatt, fur Grenada; Alexander, Lille , for [a Moira; Entbden Packet, Paterfon, for ; Pbcenix • SdlVlLils, for Guernfey ; Drie Gefuners, Prunk ; and Tore L;cbrodt.rl, Rat, for Embden. ARRIVED. At Cowes, Fame, Nicholfon, from Baltimore—At Torbay, New Providence, Scaly, from Lifhon—At Holy Bland, syivian, Oilier, from gmebee—At Londonderry. Felicity, Anderfon, from Riga—At Cork, New Draper, Duke, from London—At I.llbon, Sportfman, Thorley; Britannia, Brawn; and Edinburgh. Tito , mos, from Loudon; Sufannah, fmm Briftol; Pmde, Forrefter; Lovely. Le Conte; Admiral Duncan, Pluto, Ingraham; Jeffy, Duvall; Stork, Webber; Hope, Bulky; Suc• eels, Wake; Nancy, Furnall ; Batchelor, Brand; and Serpent, Wallis, from Newfoundland; John, Tale,. from Limerkk ; Di ligent, Goose:; and San Carlos, from Cork; Neptune, —, from Belfast; Chatty, Scagor; Mary, Temple; Penelope, C um mi ngs; Gl o b e , —; and Mary. Slaw. front %Owe—At Oporto, Almlre, —, from London ; Foa, M. Keller, from Clyde; Hope, Wake; and Courier, Webber, from Newfoured land—At Cadiz, ()den, tirti:Son, from London ; Prefident, Job- bins ; and Reward, Moulton, from Liverpool. By advices from time ifland of Jerky, ftsrne hopes are entertained of getting off his Mak:ii y's (hip SEVFRII, driven on (pore on that ifland in the late feve:e caft erly wind. The Spann fhip, captured by the Neptune, of Greenc• k, as formerly menlioned, is eftimated to be worth soo,ocol. Extran of a letter from Oporto, dated December 12. 1804:—" Three or four veffels, a part of the fleet expeaed from England, are now off the BA., un der convoy of h;s fchooner Mst.t.Bßona." The Henry, WVeeerLEY,fram Lk erpool for Lon don, has ftruck on a rock, and is full of water, at Scilly. Captain LORING is appointed to the command of the AURORA frigate, at Portlmouth. A very hot Imprefs has taken place for fome &gilts pall, on the River, and many ufeful hands have been picked up. The vefrel which we lately Rated to h a re been loft on Stoney finks at the mouth of the Humber, proves to be the Familiar, HoLm, from Loogfound to Hull. The cargo and crew wese fared. Mr. PHILLIPS, of Sr. Paul's Churchyard. has transferred his bufinefs to fpacions and eleg.ant pre. mires in Niw Brtloos.srrtssr. worthy of the fiat Publifhing Ellablifhment in Europe. His Serene Highnefs the Margrave of ANSPACH has difiributed his annual bounty of bread and beef to the poor of Benham and Speen. His Majeily, upon favourable reports of the re pentance a five female convi&s, confined in the gact of Caermarthen, has been gracioufly pleafed to grant them a free pardon, and they are all gone home to their families. In confequence of a fire which took place a few days ago on board a tranfport near the Calder Balm, Plymouth, atilt orders have been given, that in fu ture no fires are to he kept on board heavy tranf ports, or any other veWel, while lying m that Balk. A proclamation of a very ufefnl tendency was on Saturday polled at the Manlion Houle. Several houfes have lately been robbed, and the proper) , carried away in hackney coaches, which the watch. men paged by without fulpici,)n. tinder any cir cumfiances where a coach is leer, thus tiandincr at an unfeafonable hour, the police otncers and watchmen are now charged to examine the coachman, and to knock at the door, and if a fatisfat!lory explanation be not given, to fend the coach to the Grecn•yard, and the driver to the watch houfe. Died, on Sunday, January 6, at his mother's bottle at Twickenham, the Hon. Gamma A ucurrus Wet. Cue zon, eldelt fon of the late Hun. PENN Ass ATOM Colima, and the Baronet's Horns. He was born May 14, 1788. Mr. THOMAS, of the Company of now at Falmouth, was on Friday found drowned in Fal mouth harbour. He had pairA the preceding eren ing in company at an inn, which he quitted about one o'clock in the morning ; hut how or v here he fell into the water is not known. In eotacquence of this/inherit:lndy accident there was no pet fu-mance on that night at the Theatre. Mr. MONTEATH, of Clofeburn, in Scotland, has made fuch progrefs in reclaiming peat bog, that he produced lull leaf on on five acres of bog, 20 feet deep, 480 large Rocks of excellent corn, being the G crop after potatoes. The Ha i ti-hates and Town Council of Paifley in tend to mice application next feflion of Parliament, for an aft for regulating the police of the town of Paifley, for paving, fighting, and cleaning the flreets; for treeing a Bridewell, and for making fundry im provements within the Borough. Steps are taking in Glafgow for providing g pro , per idyl= for the reception of the infuse, where they may receive a treatment fuited to their various eir. eamftances ; and we have no doubt that this under selling wilt receive, both from the city And nethhour. handy Os enaouragemeat doe to ita nectffiv and im ports's* BATH, 7ANU,4FIr 6. • The tkil at the Lower Root's on Friday eve;tin7, If not (Wale moll numerous attendance of the (calor, had to boafl of an affemblage of rank and beatfty, of the fill brilliance and fafhion. The hilarity of thefc Rooms may nosy be raid to have commenced; and an accurate lilt cf the Nobi lity, who may, in future, remit to them, we Tall, as occ4fion offers, not fail to give. The dancers Lill night were more to be diflin guifhed for rank than nur•.tbers ; though the GothlAs of the light fantallic toe nerer more cheerfully rnli vened her voLries. The ptohibition which exias at both the !toots aganit the Cempany purfuing the tn::ry dance eleven o'clock, we xre inforn:td is a rcgulation.isOi tined by the Corporation —a regtilsti•m to which the first Peers cl the ltealm are obliged to fuhrni r CIA in, however, has In reconciled the Ei co.:;tor:s to this Houle, for the terminAtibn oft cir mcbts at thofe places, that the fignal of the Mager of the Ceremonies for the Muficiaus to retire, which will fometimes happen in the middle of a dance, is fubmitted t fans animadvcrii-n or apparent regret. A RKl'..ll. j —The Earl of Scarborough, Lady C. Drumm:tate, Dowagcr Lady Affiburton, I.ady Napier, Lady Mary Myer-, night Hot:. J. Monckma -n, Rirlit Hon. W. Dundas, Hos. A. C. lhadbaw, Sir W. Woolley, fl'ir 0. Younle, Sir John and i.vry /whin, Sir J. Andrews, Sir R. L'arlow, Generals Delancey, Ha toy, Cluny:lgoe, Colonels Malfe7, &Von, &c. &c. Laa n'ght, as Mr. Port was Lid dead on the bier, in the charaEter of Rona, at Drury-lane Theatre, he rolled off, and it was fame time before the attendants were able to replace the corpfe in its fituation ; but we could not learn that it received any ittury by the Call. Monday evenlng J. Emerfon. a d e fert er f rom t h e Staffordthire Militia, and fuppofed m be ene of the culprits concerned in Realing thequstres poultry, being purfued by a ferjeant from his regiment, in endeavouring to efcape from a window, in a court in the Higloireet, Birmingham, fell and broke his leg in three places. He was taken to the Infi:stary. Thurfday fe'nnight the Patin:in carrying the lc-t ters from Bury to Bolton le-fvfoois, Lancalhke, hav ing left his horfe at an inn-door on Cocky-moor, the letter bag was :lolen, and not found till a•few days afterwards, when the bags had been opened, and ie. vend letters taken out. Tstz ROUGH Kiss.—On Friday, as a Gentleman was playing with his dog, which was of the New. foundland breed, at Perring's Hotel, in Duke-fireet, Manchetter fquare, the dog leaped with great force to kifs his mailer, and (truck him Inch a blow in the mouth with his fnont, as to throw him down. The Gentleman's mouth was cut againtl his teeth, for which offence the dog (hewed wonderful marls of penitence ! m _ BCllNG.—Notwitlifianding the unfavourable Rare of the weather, yeßerclay morning, an unafual num htr r f the amatcuis of boxing flocked down toWood Green, about twit, miles north of Highgate, to wit nefs a pitched battle, between the well-known Geo. Maddox, who is almoß in his soth year; and a young man of the name of Cribb, about 32, who never before entered the life. He is employed at Wapping as a Coal-beaver, and is well-known among the fra ternity by the name of The Black Diansond.°—. The fecond to the Old Man was Tom Jones ; and the Black Diamond was feconded by Black Sam, who tome time fince fought Maddox, and was beat by him on Wimbledon Common. They entered the ring about twelve o'clock, and on (tripping, appearances were much in favour of the youth : he is :c well-made man, (lands about 5 feet to inches, and thews a great deal of bone—Maddox is two inches that ter. The fir( round confined more of fparring than fighting, the Diamond liruck firlt, but no damage was done on either fide. The fourth round was well cqntefied, in which Maddox had confiderably the advantage, and &nich ed it with clofing his antagonifl's right eye. Odds in favour of the Old Mao. two to one. From this to the joth round, nothing of conf quence happened ; each fought as hard as he could, and endeavoured to outdo his antagonift by Banding belt up ; but when this period arrived, the Old Mars finding that his antagbnitt was a bout med man, and not to be beat by chance of fatigue, ufed every effort to deprive him of his other eye, which he feverely hurt in the 4ott► round, at which time they had ex aetly fought one hour -4 tot againit the old man. From the 4oth to the szd round there was nothing but hard fighting, and the odds changed but little, tmtil the 53d, when the Old Man hit the Black Dia. mond a fevere blow a little below his left eye, which nearly deprived him of his fight altogether. They had now one h^ttr and a half of fevere fighting ex. Rely. The battle continued, and every round until the Goth the Old Man contii.ued to lofe ground, when fome of his colleagues knocked up another fight at one fide of the ring, and his feconds led him off, de claring it to be a drawn battle ; the feconds of the Black Diamond demanded the purk, which being refilled, a general engagement in(tantly enfued, in which Caleb Baldwin, Tom Jones, Black Sam. Dutch Sam, and feferal other gemmen of the fill. took a very alive (hare, and in which tome one trete cheroufly cut the Black Diamond on the head with a Rick. Order being again reamed, the young man de minded either his prize, or that hit antagonift thonld again come to the combat ; this being lo fair a pro pufal, it baffled the ingenuity of the friends of Mad dox, and rather than tale their money, the Old Mn,4 again came from a hackney-coach, when the batti-z wds renewed, and lalled lumen rounds more, makiry, in all ferenty-fiz, which were fought in two hours and su The lafi fi x teen rounds, the Old Man fought hard ; and about the fourth, fume flight hopes were enter tained of hie winning ; but the firength and vigour of faith revelled. The purfe was made up by fame Gentlemen amateurs, twenty guineas for the winner, and five for the infer. The Black Diamond having Only ju ft entered the likhas yet but few frianos in k; in confequence of which he experienced mu: l unfair play; he is all excellent fparrer, but fig .e rather round. The rain tell in torrents daring the whole time of the fight, and the fpeastors were to entirely Ina Lid through with rain, that they are likely to pay dz.t: for their day's alaskaasi is beholding this brutai ex