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r IHE To CORIIMONDINTIP.-OIIT Sheffield irlandirffilibilliQueriee anointed in to-day's Paper. gkI i tIRDAY; NOVEMBER 15, 1818. . PRICE UP STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCk. Redveed.s6M—Cons. rift 58f—for act. byre 4 per Ct. 71if --5 per Ct. 14 s9—Oulu. Sii Bk Long Anne. 14 546th . i—Bolds.2l.lls. e Eitchquer Dills 4s. 55. prem. ° To-day there is no fresh arrival of French Papers. Those which we noticed yesterday stated that goes burgh is filling with troops, and that the fortress of !Uhl is in an excellent state of defence. This is a confir mation of the report that Wurtemburgh has joined the Allies; for, in the event of an attack upon the fortrissespf the Rhine, Strasburgh cannot be invested without the co-operation of Wurtemburgb. It has no doubt been threatened. The whole of the frontiers of France are no* encompassed by enemies. The grand Allied Artnies t • which figured so recently in the plains of Leipsic, are pressing onwaxd to the Rhine, the. northern and eastern boundary of the Trench Empire. Lord WELLINGTON is encamped in tight of Baygnite. On the side of Italy, the Bava rians, the Swiss, the Tyrolese, and the Austrians, under General Haw', are interposed between BEAU-' swims and his communications with the Parent Empire. Although General Wonsan, on taking the field with the Allies, announced in his Proclamation that the Austrian army would be commanded by the Archduke-Om/was, the state of that distinguished veteran's health has not as yet permitted him to take a share is the active duties of the geld. He is at present, we believe, at Vienna i and, iu the absence of the Earattoa and the Austrian Generals, super intends the 'arrangements for supplying the Au. strian army in Saxony with reinforctments. Prince Scawairraarasetto, who command, the Austrian army ht Chkf, is a Mach younger man than the Archduke CLIARLESp under whom he has repeatedry served. Previous to the ona- undertaken against lassie, however, he was only - known as a negociator, and to his diplomatic, rather than to his military talents, he was indebted for his appointment to com mand the Austiian contingent on that occasion. In fact, if required more of the tartique of the Cabinet than of the field to direct the movements of the At:- team In that campaign, Prince SCHWARTZANBEIWS duties were arduous in tke extreme ; he had to avoid coming in contact with the Russian armies, and at _the same time to make a thew of great zeal in the cause of BONAPARIPIL ' The diplomatic correspon dence between France and Austria, recently publhh ed, proses that his Court could .not have made a better adds. All Europe will remember with gra titude his abandonment of the “ Minsk line of ope rations" in the very crisis of the Ttrant's fate. Prince SCHWARTZENBEROPS career, as Commander in Chief of the Austrian army, has been brilliant and successful. His dispositions at the grand attack upon Dresden, in the Bohemian Passes, and latterly in the vicinity of Leipsic, codtribeted greatly to the cata strophe which has since overtaken the French army. Prince SCHWARTZENDERO was the Austrian Resident at Paris for several years. At a grand ball given a few years since in the French capital, his Princess was burnt to death, in consequence of the lighti set tiog fire to the furniture of the apartment. On that occasion, BONAPARTZ and JOSEIMIWII I with the other female appendages of his hopeful dynasty, narrowly escaped with their lives. Prince SCHWAIITZENBEAG in person saved the life of BoNAPARTE, by carrying him from the midst of the flames in his arms—the vorst action of his life ! The Diplomatists employed by the Austrian, and indeed by most of the Continental Cabinets, are, like Prince SCHWARTZFNURCh military men as well as po iiticians. In this they have been compelled to imi tate the example of the French since the Revolution- Count BMA, who figured lately as Austrian Am. bassador 4straordinary to BONAPARTE, now com mands a large division of the Austrian army. The French Generals ROCHANISEAU and VIAL, who were killed in the battles of the 16th October, were among the oldest and most experienced Officers in BONAPARTeS army. ROCHAIIBRA4 commanded at St. Domingo during the dreadful anarchy which pre vailed in the Freels Colonies, as a sequel to the Re volution in France—his atrocities rendered his name 'execrable wherever it was pronounced—it must be familiar to such of our Readers as are versant in the History of the period to which we have alluded. General VIAL was an Aide-de-Camp to BONA.- in Italy, and followed his fortunes to Egypt, where he was made a General. Subsequently he filled the functions of Ambassador in Switzerland. LaTornt MAUSOIIIIOI who was mortally wounded, has been long est;.emed one of the most excellent cavalry Officers in Europe. He has been Second in cons mind to - MURAT in this department of the French army ever singe BONAPARTE became Generalissimo. General Matson, also mortally wounded, was for merly an Aid-de-Camp to the CROWN Nemec. He was a common soldier in 1792. He has been at lust twenty times wounded. MAI:DONAL% who escaped by swimming across the Stale, performed a similar feat at the Battle of Trebia, in Italy, in 1799. The Russians were then at his ire's gos. 1261111116 =feria& Weisel( to be filen 7 is not surprising 3 already in the Battle of itz he had conducted himself, according to tbs disown Pa mesa 11Unetill , with the hardihood of a man 66 desirous of death." The death of PolllA rownor, the Polish Chieftain, will be regretted by SWAP/4U; even more than the defection of any of his allies. .He was the rallying point for the Polish tisision, and, besides being an excellent General, he was considered au experienced politician. Advice: have reached town from Antwerp, dated on the 7th instant; but what may be considered as singular, they are accompanied with no communica tions from Paris. They speak, however, of an ex pected •isit from the Allied forces on the Banks of the Scheldt, and mention that preparations have made to inundate the country, and destroy the trfp ping and arsenals, in such an event. There ate at least 16 sail of the line at Antwerp. The following particulars respecting the unfortn. nate condition of Hamburgh have been furnished by a Gentleman, who left that place i few days since : " - On the 81st ult. the fortifications were considered `to be nearly completed, and the gartison had 1 suc ceeded in provisioning itself for a long period to come. The Hamburgenberg had been pulled down, to the extent of four streets across the Hill, as far as the New Droege. The Glasshnt, with all that belonged to it, and every thing before the gate called Damthor, had been destroyed, as far as the Botanic Garden.— Before the gate Brokthor, and on the Grasbrok all the houses were in the act of being pulled down. The whole Borgfelde, and all the country in that neigh bourhood, had been levelled to the ground. In the suburbs, the pavement had been removed, and all the stones conveyed to Wilhelmsburgh, in order to make a grand paved road. .The bridge leading from the Brokthor, across the Grasbrok to Wilhelmsburg, has been finished, and cost in building four millions of franks. All the articles necessary for its construc tion had been taken by requisition. The whole seized in this manner, including timber, iron, hemp, tar, together with wine, brandy, &c. for the garrison, amounted at least to twenty millions of franks. " Two new citadels had been recently erected— one near Burth's Monument, commanding the Jung fersteig ; the other at the Stintfang, threatening the whole town. The church of the Holy Spirit had been converted into a magazine ; that of St. John into a magazine for wine ; and that of Gertrude, into one for flour. The sluices between the Great and Little Elster had been opened for the greater facility of conveying the materials for erecting some new palisadoes near the Elster. The opening the sluices, however, occasioned the rising of the water in the Little Elster to such a height, that it completely filled a the cellars belonging to the dwellengs of the lower dunes of peopled but of this circumstance no notice whatever was taken by the enemy. Instead of con ciliating the people, by studying their comfort, the French,do every thing to mortify them : the soldiers are heavily quartered on the inhabitants, and extraor dinary el'arges are laid on the people, independent of the heaiy contributions levied on them. About the 25th of October,- 12,000 blankets were demanded by the French Commandant, for the use of the troops : this being the whole supposed to be wanted, they were immediately furnished ; but in the course of a few days afterwards e a still greater supply (from 75 to 80,000) was required.—The respectable citizens con inued to avail themselves of every opportunity to escape from the clutches of the French, abandoning both their town and country houses, together with considerable property. " Twelve hundred of the Danish auxiliary troops were stationed at Altona, and 4000 sick were at the cotton manufactory before the Damtbor, as also 1600 out of the 10,000 in the field. Besides these, there was a great number of French sick in Ham. burgh, not less it is said,. than 6000 men. In the ter ritory of Eutin, which the French enter,d a few weeks ago, great outrages had been committed. The news of the battles of the 18th and 19th appeared to pro , duce considerable effect on the leading military men. and much disagreement evidently existed amongst them as to their future operations. That the place, however, would be defended to the last extremity, no one doubted." Yesterday their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of YORK, CLARENCE, and CAMBRIDGE, the Archbishop Of CANTERBURY, the LORD CHANCELLOR, and the Juno ADVOCATE, had interviews with the PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton House. Yesterday the CHAECELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had an interview with Viscount CASTLEREAGH at the Foreign Office, previous to their going to the House of Commons. It is ordered in the House of Lords, that no peti tion for a Private Bill in this Session, be received after the 13th day of February, and that no Report on the same be received after the Ist day of April. The SPEAKER'S Speech, delivered in the House of Lords, when addressing the Prince Regent, at the end of the last Session, has been printed. The following is the passage which has excited so much notice : " Other momentnus changes have been proposed for our con sideration. Adhering, however, to those laws, by which the Throne, the Parliament, and the Government of this Country are made fundamentally Protestant, we have not consented to allow, that those who acknowledge a Foreign Jurisdiction should be authorized to administer the Powers and Jurisdictions of this Realn; ; wiWng as we are, neverthelees,ond willing as I trust we ever shall be,to AIM the Imps scope to Itelltious Toleratioa.% % ~LISBOI4 ?AMU, 'To die Slit Octobstf o liiiii arrived. They eonvey the gratifying ;mil*. cif the whole Shores of the Adriatic being ones mace reatored to the dominion of tbeitiOnse of AUSTRIA.' For this event we were ftihrptepated by tecent deta% in the French Papers from their army in Italy. The Austrians have de feated BRAUUS.RNOIS at all points. TARRAGONA, OCTOBER 2. ' "'By way of the Adriatic, we have received the following important information : a The provinces of Istria and Croatia had risen en muse against the Tyrant. The Austrian flag floated in the ports of Fiume and Re, and almost on the whole Adriatic coast. In the port of Lissa were taken a ship, a frigate, and a French brigantine ; and it is expected that, in a short time, three of the former and four of the second, which are in Venice and Triest, will share a similar fate. al The Austrian General Nugent, with 22,000 men and some Croats, has defeated 40,000 French, whom. by a combined movement, they attacked near Triest, and took from them one cannon, much ammunition, and 800 men. We are assured that the Bavarians, 23,000 strong, have joined the 'Allies." " LISBON, OCTOBER 30. t , The Allied Army is going to be divided into. four corps, and Marshal Beresford will, it is command one of them, composed of the 3d and 6th Divisions. “ On the 20th the Great Lord, Marshal Beresford, and their Adjutants, visited the positions of the army: similar visits have usually been the precursors of new events and continued triumphs." NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. FALMOUTH, NOVEMBER 9. Arrived the Belvoir Castle, GREOSON, from Lisbon in eight weeks ; parted from the convoy under the MYRTLE off this port.—Wind S.W. fresh breezes and clear weather. NOVEMBER 10. Arrived the Princess Elizabeth packet, with a mail from St. Thomas's, in 30 days.—Wind W.S.W. fresh gales, and dirty weather. DARTMOUTH, NOVEMBER 11. Arrived the American schooner Charlotte,Bowzas, from Bourdeaux, bound to Charleston, with brandy, wine, and silk, prize to his Majesty's cutter DWARF, Lieutenant Gomm. S NING E LONDON, ~~ PORTSMOUTH, NOVEMBER ISt. Arrivtd an American schooner, a prize, (in Saint Helen's Roads), And the sloop Agenoria from euern sey.—Sailed his Majesty's ships AVON, Sroaz, and URGENT, on a cruise.--The Isabella transport, PAT. TILRSON master, lost two anchors and cables in the gale last night, and is come into harbour. Wind S.W. and has blown a gale nearly all day. DEAL, NOVEMBER H. Came down from the River the Ann, Ajax, Ha nover, and Rose, for Jamtsica ; Venilia and George Ratko - um for Bermuda ; the Ann Elizabeth, for Cayenne; Henry Curf, for Barbadoes; Balfiour, for Gibraltar, &c. ; Flora, for Martinique ; Mercator, for Honduras ; and the Corinna, for Grenada ; and remain with the outward-bound, detained by con trary winds.— Sailed his Majesty's ship LEVIATUAN, to join Admiral YOUNG. NOVEMBER 12. Nothing arrived or sailed to-day.—Remain the whole of his Majesty's ships and outward-bound mer chantmen and transports as per last, with their top gallant masts and yards struck: they appear to ride well, except two brigs that have lost an anchor and cable each, but we cannot learn their names.—Wind W.S.W. blows a gale. Five o'clock.—The gale continues. HARWICH, NOVEMBER 12. Arrived the Justes, ACKERILAbIi from Gottenburgh, with the loss of anchors and cables. The Nestor, BARRON, of North Shields, was lost on the Gunfleet last night.—Wind West. LYMINGTON, NOVEMBER 12. A French privateer has been hovering about the Needles within these fevi days, and yesterday she chased a pilot-boat close to the shore. It is also re ported that she yesterday captured alight brig.—Re mains in the Roads, his Majesty's brig Elizabeth. During her cruise, the President, Commodore Rodgers, captured, besides the Highflyer, The ship Eliza Swan, from Greenland for England—ransomed her for a€4ooo. Barque Lion, from do. for do.--ransomed for do. Packet Montrose, from Falmouth for Halifax—sent to Eng: land as a cartel. Brig Kitty, from Newfoundland for Alicant—retaken. Brig Maria, from do. for Spain. Brig Jane and Ann, from North Shields, for Archangel—de. stroyed her. Brig Daphne, from Cork, bound to Archangel—ditto. Brig Alert, from Archangel, bound to England—ditto. brig Shannon, from St. Kilt's, for Londe's—retaken. Brig Fly, from Jamaica, for London. Schooner Falcon, from Newfoundland, bound to Spain. The BRAZE.: sloop of war arrived at Stromness on the 26th ult. after having convoyed the ships of the Hudson's Bay Company to their destination. She brings intelligence of the safe arrival of the convoy at Churchill Fort, on the 18th of August, 52 days after their departure from Orkney ; but the people on board the ship Prince of Wales. destined for the settlement on Red River, had suffered much from sicknes. It appeared that one of the passengers, received on board at Stromness, had been infected with a contagious fever, which shewed itself on the fourth day after the fleet sailed. The disorder spread so rapidly, that, in the course of the voyage, two-thirds of the colonists had felt its effects. Out of sixty passengers who were fAtacked with the disorder, however, only five died. DUBLIN "SCIONS, NO nsighßA • COURIVITION, CONSPIRACY; MID ASSAULT. dirthar Cerra" and Mike ifegy, were indicted fot a riot, and also for assanhing Richard Couchtrran.—• These prisogers were thesame who were tried yester day for a conspiracy, with intent to murder the said Richard Couchman, and who had so uriraculously escaped conviction by an Mr. Mi lttlxv stated the save for the prosecution. Richard Couchman, the prosecutor, sworn.---ls coach-painter—an Englishman too; came to this country upon the invitation of Messrs. Hutton ; arri ved in December last; gave a supper on his coming over, as he understand it to he the general custom ; ,knows Arthur Conolly, who now stands at the bar ; be had been employed by Messrs. Hutton in the ea , pocky of body painter, but it was arranged that he was to be employed in another department, that of .burnishing, after the arrival of witness; at the supper Jest mentioned, Conolly obsereed to witaess—J , we are Irishmen, and. want no person to teach us our thosiness; and. if you find fault with my IROII4 shall tell you to do it better yourself.' Conolly remained for some length of time in the employ di Messrs. Hutton after this supper; his (Conolly's) wages were raised, and at the suggestion of witness. He recollects the evening_of the 27th of August last ; Conolly had been discharged previous to that even ing; witness left the factory that evening at a quartet before eight ; passed a dial, which makes him parti cular as to the hoary the factory is on Sommer-hill; witness lives on the circular road ; Mr. Underwood went part of the way borne with him; they parted at .the corner of Buckingham-street, and shortly after, as he was about to cross from the tight side of the street to the left, he received a most violent blow on the hack of the head, and as he was he saw Conolly (with whose countenance he was well ac quainted) very distinctly ; is perfectly satisfied that he saw and knew Conolly, and that he was she man who struck him ; at that time he saw no other person, but after he was on the ground, he perceived a num ber of legs, the glittering of instruments, and the ends of bludgeons ; though he was considerably stunned, he retained, after the first blow, his recollection and sense sufficiently strong to enable him to identify Co. nolly, without any danger of being mistaken. He was cross-ex mined by Mr. Tuarrin DRISCOLL to shew, if possible, something like * discrepancy be tween his direct and cross-examinations, or his eel.. denim yesterday and this day. There never, however, appeared a more caudid, conscientious and rational' witness in a Court of Justice. Other witnessei corroborated, at almost every ppaars titular circumstance, the prosecutor's evidence. defence set up by the prisoners was an alibi, in which they failed ; for after a trial of eleven hours the Jury retired, and, in five minutes, pronounced a verdict of Guilty. to the great satisfaction of every unprejudiced person in Court. Mr. Baron MCLELLAN' then proceeded to address the prisoners, concluding, in allusion to their acquit" , tal yesterday, as follows : " You have been equine(' by a Jury of your Countrymen, upon their otths, of that crime which would cOndernn you to suffer. death. I will not can• vas the merits of that Jury—neither shall I exa mine its demerits—but this I will say, tint there was not an individual out of the jury.o.ix, who bad witnessed your trial, that was not satisfied of your guilt—that retained the slightest doubt upon ,thsr subjec•—and I trust that you feel at this moment, the truth and the justice of what Lotter." ,His Lordship then passed the sentence arlscch that the prisoner; be confined for Pun Yeats, and do stand in the public pillory three times during that period ! After the Cabinet Council on Sunday, Viscount CASTLEREAGH sent for the Prince of OaAsoe to the Foreign Office. His Serene Highness dined with the ' Noble Viscount that evening. Yesterday the State Lowery was contracted for at the Treasury, by Messrs. RicitanDeos, Goonvoca. and Co. and SWIFT and Co. A part of the Garrison of Pamplona has already arrived at Portsmouth, on board the V do* Name frigate, Captain WALDEGRAVE. When the VOLON• TAME sailed from p.sesa g es on the 7th, it Maly fle ported that Lord Wecunaron intended to make a forward movement on the French territory, as soon as the weather, which had for some time been unfa vourable to military operations, would permit. The Army was in excellent health and spirits. NOMINATION OF SHERIFF'S LOS THE ENSUING YEAa.-. Yesterday the usual !preparations being made in the Court of Exchequer for this proceeding, and the dif ferent Officers being in attendance, the Cuancetioa of the EXCHEQUER, the LORD CHANCELLOR, the LORD PREFIDRNT, the LORD PRIVY SIMI., the Earl of Lt 'TERPOOLI Viscount SIDSIOHTH, Lord ELLID/ROROUHII. and Chief Justice MANSFIELD entered the COINS in state about haif-past two o'clock. The CHAS:COLLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. VANSITTART? was halides' in his robes of state, black damask si richly em broidered and embossed with gold. Their Lordships of the Council took their seats on the bench. They were followed by the Learned Judges (with the ex. caption of Chief Baron Glass), who took their seats round the table of the Court. The lists of the indi. viduals put in nomination were then read, and were in some instances amended, and several of the indivi. duals originally proposed, were excused, on the repre sentations and suggestions of some of the Learned Judges. The rest u ere approved, and the whole having gone through, the Court broke up, and their Lordships retired with the accustomed formalities. COVENT GARDEN 11111ATIV0.44iIS STIII2IIIIXS .last night made her appearance in the charact n- of "Donna Clara in the Dwane, and highly delighted the andi. ence by the display of science and taste of melody and harmony which so pre-eminently characterizes her vo cal exertions. Miss MArrnxws obtained also a deserved share of approbation for her very excellent style of playing Donna Loaisa, and her execution of the airs. SINCLAIR, in Don Carlo, fully maintained his reputation, by the manner in which he gave the .airs allotted to his character. A ridiculous 4 axon was given to Mrs. DavaNroar, in her caricature air of Jlla there Arnie, which she gave very skilfully metre in character, but the idea of encoring it was highly ab surd. It was, however, persisted sn by a few, for a short time, but eery properly not complied with. The other performers supported their characters with iorat spirit, and the opera wentollwith the highest