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w i s h e d the Honourable Baronet to 'Withdraw his Pe.: titian, at least for the present,. • , Sir FRANCIS BURDETT. replied, that it had' b e en very recently put into his hand, and he wished the House to interfere. if it could, as speedily as pos. t able, otherwise the relief might come too Lite. At a ny r ate, it afforded additional reasons fer anxiously w i s hif an investigation into the state of 'gaols in geZ . , WALLACE thought, that as there was no thing offensive in the petition, the House mast re ceive it t but he wished that an opportunity hal been f inn of contradicting its statements at the very tune 2 its presentment. How could the House accede to V * prayer of the petition ? It could neithel• releaie A o prisoners, nor admit them to bail : the whole was ▪ ituation for the decision of a Jury. The Honour. a lste Baronet' ad been deceived last year in a similar sbeeplaint with tepid to Lancaster gaol, and the . , Who gave him the infOrmation was cast in damages for his calumny. He wished the pe. ~, ; to ll* withdrawn, to enabre thole Gentlemen to l i e pretest who could give some information as tb its 'illegatiolik• ,:: • • sir FRANLIS BURDETT was aware that the Ansfie could not Order the release of these prisohers, As . eight interfere t o prevent or alleviate the yawi of their treatment in prison. tis question was then put, and the Petition was °v a tt ed fo lie.on Ole table.—Adjourned. EVENING .STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22. pßnczoF .- , roCKS 'Ails DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: " l i st ed 60 611-4 per rtpt. 77b..Cons. for ac. 62j 05.14-4ovitt 7s. 84. &se—Lg. Ana s. 151 11-16th s . tub, (Sid.) is. 2s. tsr.--.(30.) Is..Sk—Lot. Tick. Atik Y. . esterday we notited the arrival of Paris Papers to 'the 16th instant. They contained, as we then stated, Oeimportant fait of BONAPARTE'S arrival in person in, the vicinity of Wilda, on the 29th of NoVeinhers; *rat he has since reached Wilna in safety we think there cannot be a doubt. We are not dispOsed, with 'me t a Of our contemporaries, to regard these state :ol fabrications;enikas Swishes have bear, and however strong the probabi. sties against the persOnal escape of the Tyrant, we have a.lw4t thought it best to repress the public er itectations on the subject. We must confess, that Vie ma cautious nlie in which r the whole of the Paris . .. •. articles are drawn utl, is stif6Cieatto puizle the most istaCious politician. There is a most hbOured attempt to remove Ai 'gyp relierisions in pe minds of the inhabitants Of 'ranee, as to the safety of the army in the North . .— If W are 'to believe their 'statements, 'BONiPARTE is 'roving quietly Pinter quarters at the head of an - 4 XIXONA, - §ovEMtall. 'maltase armi , and the only , part of' his foite which i " , • suffers axe the cavairy and artillery horse . Kind '- " Th ! T 1 ' . emy has treacly weakened his line, and Pouhl iheie demi-ofeial narraters humanel With , it is positively so., that Sucher has been Obliged to y holdfrnin die 'gre at Frenkh 'nation, the piatire of the ! send reinforcements to • Artagon." . cals e thities which havebefallen so'ltrany cif theirTellow ; ." AMA I% 10 . 44,11.M8Ek It. creatures. 'Nay, Until this moment, ale whole world I " girchet ,continues bis dispositions for retreating, has been deceird as to the rig Ours of a Rutsian'ivin- but he endeavenre 'to leave us eternal proofs of his iet— l it I has . 4 been, according to the trench state. luandliwil." a. ALICANT, NOV. 12. rents, Vropitions to the great iliny in its retreat, " Eve y effort of the 'enemy ha's been directed to tad at Dantzic, Warsaw, 'Mini; and • Grctdnci, .OS • d poWerful reinfor , eethents to Suthet. A division imtnYt Se Magaiines are formed for the subsis. of 'k om 6to 7000 Men, 'which occupied 'the banks of tence of the army during winter. Then we are --. led across the Atlantic by the inime juggler; elude Lobrieat, .it appears ba d no other object than 2 13 . • .) elude the vigilance of the t chiefs Baron de Erolesand and the friends of the Great NAPOLEON are in- ' Manso who, with thgrtespective divisions, w a ereob- . lOrmed that his Brother 'fiend, Mr. Jame,. IN MA- ' .' serving them, and by as Able manceuvreoo open to sc4, is triumphant, and 'carries all before him!— • , . 'themselves a passage to Valeaia l either by the high : His war with England is to become a national• . ,• • .• • . . . road or by the coasts of Garrat—but perceiving that ; one ! Admirable sophistry !—.But it cannot hide : ; they were likely to be surrounded Nip those active and the agony under which the Great Emperor And : ~ expert parties, they retreated hastily to the capital, his friends are writhing. The Grand Army, ab out .- rording the Lobregat it to the middle in water. which so mlich fuss is made, is gone, lost, a . :mi- , i " There has lately been taken in Villa Franca the Mated ! and that which we have frequently pre- : . dieted his happened. DONAPAitTE has escaped to bearer ofletter from Sachet to Decaen, diteeting "I i k,m t . a° send to him greatest , reinforcements he Wilna in person ; but it has been with an escort per- ~1 ° baps consisting of I few troopers only. Let us see could raise upon the whole coast.' how this was effected. On the ‘'ith of November he HEAD;QUARTaRs OF THE 4TI. A p I ilaY IIeARTItS• NOVE6I22R 24. was At t , ;rissow : on the 2&h he was at Zatinin (or u . , re. thin), a distance of only five miles ; but on the: "The 2d division has left this place, and the 29th he was '(wonderful to relate!) at Moldescheno mai•nder are to march." , . • . Voi hfOldellino), on the high read from Minsk to i . • 4 , SORIA, povEmiEit 16. . Vir “ The brave Duran has just destroyed a column of It is also said, that the army from Alicant marching against Valencia." - - " Nov. 29.—1 n the brilliant action of Mina, on the 15th ult. between Zirangi an'dMinerh, accotding to his own dispatch, the enema' , sustained a loss of 1460 men, among whom were 29 officers, and the Colo nel of the 105th 'regiment, killed there i had enteeed ilampelima 639 . Wounded. Mina tcok one cannon, 25 horses, and 18 . chests of muskets—his lo'ss was t*ienty seven killed aud 81 'a ounded. It is said that t'le in truder Joseph was lately in Salamanca." " CADIZ, NOt'EMBER 43. They write from Alicant, under date of the 9th, that Lord William Bentinck had artli , ed there *Boni ticily." Ana. He must have tiavellcd, therefore, about 120 miles in tWenty-four hours, being five miles an Eon: I In plain English, at Zabnin he found him- ielf to begirt and encompissed by the RUssian armies, that be took the resolution of galloping off, and by the help of good horses, and with a small ecort equally well mounted, he must have reached Molde- schen°. We are amply borne out in our view of the subject by the Paris Papers. A Polish Officer, we are mid, arrived at Wilna on the Ist—he left the Erni:ear in perfect health at Za bnin on the 28th. It is true that General VANDEDEN also arrived at Wilna, leaving the Read-quarters of the Emperor at Zabnin on the '29th—but nothing is Skid of the Emperor personally—mark this.-Lin nett Ciwe are told that the King of NAPLES and the Viceroy are in good health. Why is the august NJ' POLEON'S name omitted, about whose health all man kind are so solicitous ! The fact is, he was not at Za bnin on the 291.14 but at Moldescbeno, from which , we have no doubt, he proceeded instantly to Wilna. —How he escaped through Minsk, and eluded the vigilance of his numerous pursuers, remains to be seen. We are told that there was an affair on the 26th with the advanced guard of TSITCHAGOFF'S army, which terminated successfully for the French. • May not this have been a desperate and sanguinary conflict, in which the last remnant of the Frisch army, with Bowman, was annihilated .1' Vandals, between liewara and Caiinena, killing and wounding 250 of them, and taking twenty prisoners, several horses, six waggons; and other effects." " MADkID; NOVEMBER it. . 61 It appears certain, that Caffarelli has marched towards Viittoria with a corps, according to some, of, 1 :10,000 infantry and 4000 horse. It is also asserted, 1 that the Cade of Bilrgos has been dismantled." . , . MADRID, NOVEMBER 25. a On the 12th init. the enemy remained in Valen cia, demolishing the fortifications, levying contribu tions, removing the hospitals, and making such &is , pb.',.itions a's are usual on the ere of evacuating a town. i The army Of Elio, and a part of that commanded by 1 1 the Burke del Parqde, are at preient in Albacetes ; and that of Alicaht, greatly reinforced in taticit , g They 4iiite from Sofia, of the date of the 20th, that the Nthilititines have had a glorious ienconite in the distriil bf Caritietra (kingdoni Ariagon), lit Iwhich the enemy lost abilut SOO men. i" Several persons lately arrived from Bayonne is sett, that no reinforcements have been for a lour ' ' time received; and that the army of Ciffarelli, whibh 4 went to the relief bf Burgos, is compos ed entirel y of imit l I I the relics of that of Mernient, and the garrisons col- I /Jetted from different places iti Castile, Rielly 1 ; liscay, leaving several points absoliately unprotected. Dri At t. EVACUATICY MINCH _ _INOF SPAIN BY THE TROOPS. The reports in circulation of the evaeuation of Spain by the French, are amply confirmed by the ar-, rival of a Cadiz Mail of to-day. This is the best] comment we can make on the regent glOrious intelli-I gence from Russia. The tyrant's sanguinary career in Europe is near its conclusion, and his atrocities tnust Aow be confined to Frante. Every instant Nivel 'may expect to hear of Austria having boldly declined against him. Lord WALPOLE has long since reached Vienna.. He left St. Petersburgh on the'29th Octor her, and the journey Was itvomplisted in a month. We hasten to lay the pleasing details, by the Ca- ' dit Mail, before our Renders': " CADIZ, DECEMItit L. ;i . of Wellington's' 44 The Ilar - uts no disconragement here. The 'enlistment is carried on with greatactivitythmughout the country, and in this .province we already have an satiny *of reserve of 21.5,000 men. , • • 44 Letters froth Vaelrid Of the 28th tilt. state, that • ,. Massena had left Bayonne, in great haste, for Paris, in consequence of symptoms of commotion in the latter place ; that Getierals , Caf4relli and Dumour f&r had returned with 8000• Men from Castile toVit. toria, and that Espot and 9 a had moved with his whole force towards Airagon. . .- --, • . " CAW., PtOVEMBER 27. "By vessels arrived to-day fromtatalonia we learri, that there has been there a very sanguinary action, in which the Baron d'Eroles was in great danger ; but Raving been opportul ely assisted by Manso, the bat tleterminated favourably. l atZellibNei THZO.4l.lfOltr COUNCIL. A r _,ltte.rdar -fp g St. Thomas's Day, the different Wardr in the City of London proceeded to elect their Ward Officers for 1103. The Loan Kavort presided at several of these assemblies for, the Aldermen wbo were indisposed, or who, from other, causet. could not attend., There have seldom be so few zontests .as. on the'prei,ent occasion, and, we believe, never so few changes, Put of twenty wards, which return not less than 300 members, we only tind the fallowing ch and they all proceed from re s ign at i on .— N:rTa i v ' e we heard of more 'than one death in this large. body for the last. /2 months, and the vacant; thus occasioned 'On Bread-street Ward) was filled up in the middle of the year. POIWROKEN WARD.—Mr. PARKER, &will(' in the roam of Mr. Deputy ATKINSON, resigned ; ErowieltD COLEBATCH, Esq. chosen the new Deputy. CAWDLEWICK WARD—Mr. EATON, elected in the room of Mr. POYKDER, resigned. ' ALDERSGAYE WARD. — Mr. 1). KAY, elected in the room of Mr. ROSE. resigned. The following Wards ,are contested. ~ The polls continue to-day, and finally close to-ram:oak FARRINGDON WI [MUT. Mr. Waldman - 18 I Mr. Aar! *on W. J. Reeves - 16 'Marriott - Murrell - - 15 Harper - - 15 0 Quin' 'Crook - 3'. Reeve Pontifet '- Herring, Deputy Bardin - . 12 - 12 • CriAtti ' = 10 young - 10 •Robins - - 9 •Blsckett - - 9. •Rosser - 8 •Hedjes • 6 Brewer, Deputy - 6 • - 141 - 131— 13 - • • - 12 1 This Ward return FARAINGDO as 16 Members. IN WITHIN. Mr. Walker . - 90 .Pearsall - 39 Daw - Si Lewis 37 141 1 h - Stokes • - 90, 'Cue - 2.7 ••Blacket - . • 00 'Oldham • • 6. u 17 Mwobet& ire new Candidates. r. Pinder w - 43 Seatcberd - -48, Cadvrell .• - 02 . Dunnett Pritchard ,ft 41, Whebie . 41 Crowder - - 40, Cooke - 40; Roberta - Winter - . • , 39 This Wl* taut Thom "'licked thus 4' P, . . THE FLIGHT OF BONAPARTE FROM THE BATTLE OP ICRASNOI; OR, THE THREE " OFFS." Brave ItoTo altss PIAT-vlr too, Are names quite free from scoff, Siri • But of the tAird, pray what think you * • ' Nor BONAPARTE'S it, P. bur sympathy for the suffering Russians, is, .kre are happy to find, by no means singular. There has filrea‘dy been a Meeting at Isfaldbn,.ia Essex, where a subscription for their relief has been °penes!, to which a considesab!^ sum has been subscribed. The following article is taken front. The Berlin Ge- Zeite, of December 1 :_u The latest accounts from the Prussian corps in Conrland, state in suhst....nee as follow t The garrison of Riga having for some time alarnied our advanced threatened our right wing, and taken Lieut. Lonrti!..% with a small party of 17 men, the Duke of TAILIIIITO deter Mined to , Arils. Am (mann. laftni. t.. lice Ar 4abi.a . 1.40r0 R and for that purpose sent the trench Gendral of Bri gade Bac.34k:Lti, who on the 12th took the coninsind of an expedition, for thgt purpose, Which completely suc ceeded. According to the report of the Marshal, the enemy by this expedition, which scarcely cost us SO men in killed and Wounded, lost from 12 to 1506 prisoners. Considerable reinforcements hare been ordered to the Prussian auxiliary caps." . . LetterS from Skveden state, that 1800 Prassians, who tuarthed from Colberg to reinfOrce the army, returned to 'that fortress after the first day's 'Mitch, having poSitivelY refused to proceed. , Three colliers, bOUtid front Shields to LonclOn; were driven up the Frith of Forth, on Thursday night, lEy Ale strong easterly winds. The Capta t in of one of (the Anh of Shields) has been washed over = dw.4 l boitrd and drowned. , kansAn Ramo w beaptlful phenomenon was seep • , • was seep in great perfection at Ecilnbtirgh, on Wed nesday night, about ten o'clock. During,last week, three French prisoners were ,re ! leased and sent to Prance, for throwing,themselves overbOard and saving the lives of British subjects, who hid been upset cir fell overboard by accident. 4 Court-Martial was held lailweek on Lieutenant R. N. Maacer, of the Alfred, for giving. orderi for defacing the King's pistols, belonging to the said ship, end for altering the same, not only for his own on. Pate use, but for the ute of other personi, contrary to the rules of the service. The Court .agreed that the charges had been in part proved ; but, in consi deration of his forme good character, and the wohndi he had ;received in the public service, did adjudge film only to lose two years rank on the list of Lieute nants of the Royal Navy, to be severely reprimanded, and to be acfmmaish , :d to be careful of his Majesty's stores in future. Saturday night, some villains attempted to force an entrance into the house of Mr. Dodd, goldsinitli, in Aldersg,ate-street ; when, being baffled in their at tempts to undo the usual fastenings, they actually cut away one of the door-pillars, which was of un usual dimensions, leaving nothing standing but the cap and base. They were, however, dit.:ppopted of the fruits of their industry by the arrival of the watch. man, on whose appearance they made a precipitate retreat. The following unfortunate circumstance took place at Hammersmith, on Sunday morning last : —Mr. PAYNE* a master lawyer at that place, had been much insulted during the morning by one of his workmen, Who had persisted iri creating h disturbance at his door; when Payne was at length provoked to push hifis aWay With some violence. The man fell down, And unluckily pitched in such a way as to break his , beck, which cashed his death in a few minutes. 111 The Paris Journals notice a Matrimonial Agency Office, which has been opened by M. VILLIAUNIE, in New St. Eustache-street, in that city. The personal charms, fortune, and pretensions, of the candidates. for the hymeneal state, are registered. M.VILLIAUM in reply to the epigrams and pleasantries of the Pa risian wits, announces 206 marriages, the fruits of his labours, within two years. PAPAL :INTELLIGEXCE. PALMOVTB, DECEMBER 10. . We stated to have arrived list night, his ship IPHIGENIA, instead of which,. it is the ANDRO MACHE, with Rear-Admiral LINZER, wailing the ar rival of the Mediterranean convoy, hOurly expected. Arrived this day, the Princess Elizabeth and Duke of Kent Packets Prow Scilly, the former from Lis bon, the latter froth Corunna, with Mails, which were landed at Scilly. Captain DAvirt, of the C t-reret Packet (which left this op the 17th inst. for Cc , unna), states, in a letter receivedllre ft ois him, of his h.. 'Ting seen a frigate, which he supposed to be French, en gaged with two slo,ps of war, off the Lizard, and ihat they were not seen long when the sloop: of war made sail to the'Southward, and the frigate to the -Westward. Pot in this day, with the loss of her Main top-mast, the brig Jo'al and Thomas, H ibt4 brith copper ore, bound to Wales. Arrived the Traveller, Swart, from Lisbon, with fret for Lon don. A tadit Mai has also arrived. The I. .t Y• KING Packet Sails this evening, with dispatches re ceived last night, for Lisbon. Wind S.E. PLYMOILTIV, DEOEMETAL 20. Arri*AthiS Mani/1g the French brig priVateer San Souci, of 11 guars asdld men, captured on Thurs day last, after sec/rase of twelve hours by his Ma jesty's frigates ANDRO6ACUE and Batrots. The above privateer had been outkrlSt. Maloes's slr Weeks, and made two prizes : the Frederick Of. London, Capt. Boni, firm the Sontb.Seas for London, after a smart action of about an honr, in which Captain Bony and three or four men were severely Wounded, and the Mate killed; two or three Frenchmen were wounded. —She also captured the Swedish Ship Speculation; from Cork, bound to Lisbon, with provisions. The French privateer, the night before she captured the Swedish,ship, spoke :in English brig laden with bale goods, that had previoutly been raptured by another privateer. Arrived .be American brig Leaver', Mitts, from Boston, SO days passage, bound to Bout deaux, Captured by the 13atrotr and Amintosucius frigatei. Also arrived a French schooner, laden with stores, captured bY.the CONSTANT gun-brig.—Sailed the ildtROP cutter, for 'die Ceet off rest. The Caw omit, of 38 guns. tame from the SomM to Hanitiase: The MELANIPM frigate went under jury-masts to Capviter, to be repaired. The rinaisus,of Sfignos; was docked last night. PORT. Fr, tttathlilee et. - 'htstou'r• - Arrived the Brilliant, MATP.P., from Guernsey, an" the Friends, But.ener, from London. The I,.aceo.e. MONIAN was launched this morning from his jesty's Dock-yard at this pert she Is one of the largest class of frigates, and Considered as . fine A mo ck' as any in the navy. She was imltiediately elite* into dock to be Copperedi arid it is expected *lll be ready tOr sea in a few days. Arrived his Majesty's ship la, Hoene, frotn the Downs., .Sailed his Majesty's ship Astemuna, for off Cherborgh ; and the Et.orv, cutter; with a convoy, for Plymouth. The Vevus frigate is appoitited con voy for the East Indies, and will sail to-morrow it the wind be fair.=-Wind N. W. • I,ARWICO, DECEMBER O. . . . . Tea Sall of Liverpodl slips arrived Gottenbuthi t tailed. Sailed the lOll.4ing packets: Lord Duncan, Lady and tar Leicester, for Cottenburgh ; and the sing George and Lark, fer Heligoland.—P. S. The Lord Duo 'can packet is detained for a Messenger. CORK, DECEMBER ict. Arrived his Majesty's ship CUMIRRLARD, Capt. BAKER, convoy to the West indies ; FORTUNRI, Capt. S2TMOUR, from Plymontli. Passed up three brigs and two sloops blowing a pie at E. imposiible to board them.. '`Fhe Straw.' has arrived at Cove tsi 'take cos?voy to the West Indies. A few days back, a sloop which hAd sailed froth this haibour bound to Lisbon, laded chiefly with A cargo. of butter, was boarded, under cover of a fog, by a French privateer, near the Old Head of Kioitle. tie prize not proving of a sufficient value to the enemy, they threw the most considerable share of the property overboard, hating previously pit the sloop's crew in board a Vessel which has since arrived in Kinsale harbour. LEITH ; DECEMBER 17. •_-• the GALLANT 101n -brig arrived In the Roads on Tuesday, from Gettenburgh ; she sailed hoist thence about nine or ten days ago, With the following yes. eels : Isobel, SihpsoN ; Dore, and Jasper, *Lam. for Leith; Trident,. GAsannNa; and Wellingtow , STzwART, for Belfast; Louisa,. MANI, for Lino:. pool ; Nile, Bari., for Dumfries. She parted whfil in a gale them shortly after she sailed. Fhe bog Simpson and Jasper, arrived on Tuesday afters ~ Yesterday the Filuuri sloop of • war arrivetilellte Roads from a cruize ; and the,NtenTixottilt Amp Of war sailed for the Nose. Two Danish prizes to the Ctio sloop of wAr and Gsu.A.Wtgeb brig, Arrived on Teesday . . Strong gales Minh the eastward yesterday and to-day. The following is zt list of vessels dettised in Gib. , raltar Bay on the news of the American cap. Lured and sent in on their homeward passages : Brig Margaret, Selby, Philadelphia; Ellen, Longfell ow , P ort .. bald; Tyger, Bar tlett, Boston; Graee Ann Green, Wallace, Phi. ladelphia ; John, Sears, Boston; Panlina, Field, South Cuoljaa ; ship Eliza, Leslie, New York; AlLgany, EK leth, for Algiers, with tribute; schooner Dolphin, Skinner, PIA. la.delphia t Sally, Hall, Salem; and Phenix, Batchelder, ditto. The following is a list of vessels in Gibraltar Bay, from the United States of America, with flour, &c. for Lisbon and Cadiz, and captured by his Majesty's ships, on their outward passages: . Brig Argus, Noyes, Providence: for Cadiz ; Julia end Mary, Goodwin, Richmond, for —; Chatham, Livingston, Philada. phia, for Lisbon ; John aed Yeyl, Curran , Norfolk, for Cadiz; ' Freatt, bavis Gloucester, tor Lisbon; ydia, Birtet, Philadel. phia, for Cad iz; ship Miser; Magte, Boston; Topaz, Davis, ; Apollo, Bell, Philadelphia ; Camilla, ()Elegy, gild Wellington, —; schotiner Draper, Spain. Also, the following vessels, under Spanish col Ours: The ship Comnierce, Clark, ..Aleatendria, for Client ; el Condo de Cimera, Clark, Baltimore, ditto; brig Louisa, Dyer, Memo; aria, ditto; Juan, Dyer, ditto, ditto. A letter from St. ttiomas's mentions, that a sa w hurricane was experienced there bn the Ist of °miles Several vessels were driven on shore, and other* slip ped their cables, and put to sea. Twelve boon las blown down, and several lives lost.