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onajneit, are almost entirety filled tip, ant every mea sure has been taken to render them useful in this employ. The regultr army has been recruited, as is abo the whole of the reserve, new cloathed and sup plied with well conditioned arms, of which sufficient are ((Tad in the magazines ; and the fottn quantities aeries for arms have obtained a renewed act i v i t y. The making of gunpowder and saltpetre has been ex tended and impmveo, and the artillery put into a re speeoble c ondition.—(To be continued.) LONDON. ONDAY, JANUARY 27. FMCS Rls rocKi IMY AT ONE O'CLOCK per Cent. Red. 633 —Navy 5 per Cent. 94 4 per Cent.79-1;-1ionds 17s. 18s. pre.—Omnium.4 dis By the arrival of the TEMERAIRE yesterday at Portsmouth, from Gibraltar, we have received the i m portant intelligence of the enemy having raised the fi egr of Tarifa on the sth butane, leaving ten pieces of or d n :inte, and A great quantity cf ammunition.—The filllowing letter appeared in a Gibraltar paper of the 4th instot 64 TARIFA, DEC. 31. I am happy to inform you, that the enemy has been repulsed in an attempt to assault this place. Af ter my letter of yesterday was sent off, the breaching battery, which seems to have four 16-pounders, and one 12-pounder, continued its fire, and made at open. ing of about 20 yards, being nearly the whole space between two of the flanking towers on the east side of t he town. In the ,Frernoon a summons was sent by General Leval, who stated that the defence had al ready been honourable, andthat the breach was prac ticable the day before. " On an answer being returned, the firing was re sumed, and continued all night, without doing any material injury t:) the garrison. The enemy made but little addition to the entrenchments ; but early this morning we saw them filled n ith troops, and ob served that great numbers were passing down to the 'valley, through which flows the stream that passes through the town, and in which the bi caching battery is t fallished. The violence of tie tot rent had dur ing •he ;tight swept away the rows of palisades out s cit and inside the wall, and even bent the portcullis. The enemy appears to have supposed this also had been earred off, as he advanced along the bed of the stream, and came directly to it. The breach is only a few yaris from the entrance of the water, but not i man spewed himself on it. Finding that there seas no opening, and that they were exposed to a most galling fire from all parts, the assailants, though they had several hundred men under the wall, began to retina h about half an hour, and again hid themselves in their trenches. " Their loss has been very severe. Most of them badly wounded have been brought in, including six cr seven officers. The 6-pounder, under Capt. Mit chell, was of most essential use ; indeed half the', execution, at least, was done by it. Our loss is not great. Lieut. Longley, of the engineets, and Lieut. Hall, of the 47tL, are killed ; also a man of the rife corps, and there are about 10 wounded. From the wounded prisoners I learn, that General Leval has with him altogether 12 pieces of artillery, all of which are in battery, and nearly ten thousand men ; fiat the storm:og party consisted of twenty compa fe of grenadiers and volt igen' s, and two of sappers, nuking from 13aa to t'olo men. k JAN. 2.—The weather here has been dreadful— two Spanish gun-boats hate been lost—but we ought not to complain of the rain, 3ioce it must be more an rt}ingsto the enemy &an to us. He has done no thing the assault, and thete has been little firing en either side. 4 , We have nut been able to ascertain the loss of the French ou that day. An &dicer who canua wa a ILI of truce told me it was 110 ; but we know that nea,ly this number was left killed and badly wounded. Thcy were allowed to take all those not close t.) " dome of tlicir al:cars brought in stated their loss previous t:.) the storming to amount to 700 men, prin. fhim the sliclls. Seven or eight deserters have t.,me in and dtcribcd the effects of the rain on the Trench tr.:ops, ananr.miticn, &c. to be dreadful; their battery guns cannot be-moved a yard from their pre scat position for scmc time." Litters from Gibraltar cif the 7th state, that by an 2 - TiV d there irons Alicant of the 31st of DecembLr, Fornttion had been received th:d General BLAKE's army had been dispersed and Defeated. Soucticr having received a reinforcement of 8000 men, attack ed the Spaniih lines, and succeeded :n dispersing and kstroyed the whole of the army with the exception r.f:.bout 50:10 men, with which BLAKE retired Aithin •' body of the City. !t was expected that his army and place would pure:War, as .his furce was but small—the po : idatiun . ot Valencia in 15,000 inhabitants. mince writing the atrA, - ,:, we I:arn that Valen;:ia actually tAllen.j SECO N 1) E DITIO N. STAR OFPC.::', TWO O'CLOCK. A Lisrbrit Mail his this moment arrived, and i.A.) dispatches front Lord WELLIVUTON. " WAR DEPARTNIEN r. DOWNINC-Z1 t):%:', JANUARY 27. " A dispatch is received from Lord WELLINGTON, Ct..; Gallegos, 9th January. " Hia Lordship invested Ciultd Rod, igo on theBtha " The eatraY bAd iucre.a.ej tLe difficulty of ap poaching the place by a strong redoubt, constructed on the Hill of St. Francisco. It was necessary to at- 1 tempt to take it. It was stormed on the night oldie, Bth, „Waletachment of the light division, led by lieu; nt•Colonel COLBOURNE. The work was car ried in the m-st brilliant manner, and all the garrison either killed or taken. Our loss was only six men killed ; Captain Marx and Lieutenant WOODOATE of the 52d, and Lieutenant HAWKESLEY of the 95th, with 14 men, wounded. " By this success Lord IVEtuyorox has been ena bled to break ground within 600 yards of the place, the redoubt of St. Francisco being converted into a part of the first parallel. " General HILL entered Merida on the 30th of December. He had hoped to surprise General Dom- DROIIIKE, but his approach was discovered by a pa trole. The French General retreated from Merida, leaving magazines of bread and wheat, and several unfinished works. " On the Ist General HILL marched to attack Daourr's coips d'Armee at Altnendralop, but the eucmy retreated to Zafra, abandoning 450,000 pounds of lA. at. On the 3d a detachment of our cavalry beat a body of the enemy's horse, at Puente del MACS. tro, taking two officers and SO men prisoners. " General Duourr retreating to Llerena, General HILL found it useless to pursue him, and returned on the sth of January to Merida " HOSTILE DISPOJIT.ON OF THE AMERICANS. We have this morning rect ived files of American Papers to the end of December. They were brought to Liverpool by the Lydia, which has arrived from New York, after a quick passage of 21 days. We regret to find that the dispositions of the Ameri can Congress are decidedly hostile. All the violent Resolutions, for creating 'a war establishment, have been carried by large m tjorities, and several of the States have sent up to Congress addresses of a most inflammatory tendency. The Assembly of Virginia have adopted the following, among many other vio lent es pression s : " Resolved, That however highly we value the blessings of peace, and however we may deprecate the evils of war, the period has now arrived when peace, as we how have it, is disgraceful, and war is honourable." it ought to be remarked, however, that some' of the United States are still so decidedly averse from war, that a separation from the Union is confidently spoken of, while several of the American Journalists assure their readers, that notwithstanding the cry of war, there is no money in the country, with which to carry it on. The following are ample details on the above in resting topics : HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DBC. 11. Mr. RANDOLNI, from the Committee of Confer ence appointed on the part of the House to confer with a Committee of the Senate, on the subject of the difference between the two Houses, relative to the apportionment Bill reported, that the Committee on the part of the House had made four propositions to the Committee of the Senate : ;, To give up, each House, hs determ'ned num!7ers, 35 and 37,000, and make it 34,000. This proposition wits refused. 2. To fix it at 40,e00. This was likewise r..fteszd. 3. To fix it at 33,000. This was also refused. I. To evil! the difference and make it 36,000. This also was refused ; cat h refusal being made by the nionosyl:able No; and nu proposition being made on the part of the Senate Commioee. At 12 o'clock. the unfinished business of yesterday was called. Mr. JOHNSON, of Kentucky, addressed the Chair, the 2d Resolution still under consideration, and con tinued his speech till nearly half past one, in favour of the resolution (that for raising an additional force). He declared this was not to be an offensive war, yet shortly after hesitated non() say that the addi. tional troops and the volunteers were intended to make a descent upon Carr.da. He had weighed well in his closet the consequences of a war, and had ap. proached the question with more fear and trembling than he should have approached the cannon's mouth. He did not see, as Mr. Randolph had done, the ini quity of invi ing the Canadians to resist their own government ; and referred to the 'old 'Journals of Congress, cf 1771, or thereabouts, quoting an Ad dress of Congress to the Canadians, urging them to join the common cause. Mr. Johnson offered no pro- 1 position for resisting • France, though he declared he had not been backward in noticing their misconduct towards us. We were pledged, he said, to ourselves and to France to continue the hon-importation act, otherwise he should wish its repeal. There was, he said, no danger of alliance with France; to such an alliance he should be opposed. He denied the declaration of Foster, that we had departed from our neutrality, and had assisted the French in their continental restrictive system. There was no choice but dishonourable submission, or war. How many An:erican seamen were impressed he knew not, but supposed 50,000. Mr. Wait:fur spoke about the same length of time. He believed, from the best authority, there were about 3,000 Americans impressed. DECENInvt 12. The Siteartea laid before Vie House a memorial front the Legislative Council of the Mississippi Ter ritory, praying to be admitted as a State into the Union. Ordered to lie oa the table. Mr. RANDOLPH called for the consideration of the Rep( rt of the Committee of Conference relathe to the Bill fixing the ratio of representation ; but the House refused to take it up. Mr. RaNnotert observed, th it it was pretty obvi ous, ferm the early hour at which the House had ad journed for several days, that there was no dispesitron to press a decision on the report of the Committee of foreign relations.—He thought it would be better to lay aside that subject for a few days, and take up some other business; than to adjourn so early. If they wauld nut consent to do th's gave etti,;e: for the coftsideration that he should again c. above report to-morrow. The House resumed the considttation of the unfi nished business of yesterday (resolution for raising an additional force). Mr. CALHOUN , Mr. SIMI!. and Mr. DMA seve rally spoke in favour of the resolution, and a debate of considerable length ensued, which Mr.TItOUP s mid he should endeavour to put an end to by calling for the previous question, if those on the other side of the House did not take part in thz. discussion. • After some observations on the disagreement amongst the Committee & Foreign Relations on the subject of war (which observations were confined principally to the Members of the Committee them selves) the House adjourned at three o'clock. MONDAY, DMAIBEK 16. Mr. SEYBERT, Ch.&Mari of the Committee upon that part of the President's message which relates t munitions of war, made a long report, and by leave of the House introduced a bill, appropriating dollars, fur the purpose of purchasing ordnance and other munitions of war, for the war department, and also dollars for the purchasing of saltpetre, sulphur, &c. for the navy department—read •Ist and 2d time, and committed to a Commit-ee of the whole House, and made the Order of the Day fur Friday next. Mr. SPEAKER presented a communication from the Secretary of the Tteasury, containing a statement of the district tonnage, for the year ending September 31st, 1810. The SPEAKER also presented a petition from seve ral inhabitants of Orange county, hi the State of New York, praying for encouragement for r inn of hemp.—Referred to the Committee of Com b ni-rce and Manufactures. Mr. TALLMADGE presented a petition from Thomas Hunt, and others, of New-Hawn, in Connectiew, stating that they imported into sad New-Haven, property from the West India British 'lands, hi pay pr'perty exported and sold, previous to The Pro clamation of the President of the United States cf the 2el of November, wh'ch was admitted to an entry by the collector, and then seized, hint the Incl).!ltY bonded, and afterwards rileasA —that after thi,, the vessel and cargo were again stized ;old libelled, and is row pending before the - D•strict Court—praying for relief—refr.rred to the C..;:nmittee of Commerce and Tvfanufactures. The Home resarned the consideration of the luta &shed business of Viidny la,t : viz. the '2.1 tesilizion of the Committee of Forego Itela:ions as amended in committee of the whole—" Tl;at an additional force of regular troops oriAlit to Ire immediately raised to serve for three years ; and that a bounty in lands I ought to be givetr to encourage enlistments." Mr. RANDOLPH spoke agaies: it, with great ability, for more than three hours. The ayes and noes bti ig taken, it pam.sd in the affirmative, ayes 110, noes 22. The ayes and noes were taken upon the 3d resolu tion, and carried, ayes 113, noes 16. The ayes and noes were taken upon the 4.:h resolu tion and carried, ayes 120, noes 8. _ _ The ayes and noes were taken upon the sth Reso lution, and carried.—Ayes, II 1 ; noes, 15. The 4rst three Resolutions were referred to the Committee of Foreign Relations, to bang hi Bills. The 6th Resolution, which relates to the arming of merchantmen, w.s ordered to lie on the table. Mr. PORTER moved that the three first Resolutioni be referred to the Committee on that part of - the Pre. sident's Message relating to the arm). Mr. WILLIAMS was opposed t.) this c"urse of proce. dare ; he thought as the Committee of Foreign Rela tions had commenced this business, they ought to go through with it. He hoped therefore they would be committed to that Committee. Mr. PITK IN fohowed on the same si.le. Mr. RANDOLPH moved to refer the Resolutions to gother with the Bill from the Senate relative to com pleting the existing army, to a Cornarittce of the whole flottse. On the suggestion of Mr. Pitkin, Mr. Randolph withdrew his motion. Mr. PORTER'S Motion was then negatived. The three first Resolutions were then referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Adjournzd at half past four o'clock. DECESIBEI: 23. A Message was received ,from the President, inclo sing a law of the Legislmure of New York relative to the above subject, which WAS referred to the Com mittee lust mentioned. Mr. PIl'K IN offered the following resolution : " Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to lay before this house a statement of the several banks in which public money is deposited— the amount deposited in each ; the greatest am tont deposited in any one shlce the 4th of March, 1811 : and also the amount in each bank on the 30th Sep tember, 1811: and that he be further directed to in- form this House on what terms, under wh:tt autho rity, and with what security such deposits are maUe." Mr. R. stated this object to be, to know whether any further Legilative provision was necessary for the security of the public money, which he said, was certainly an important point to be ascertained, espe cially in case of war. The resolution was agreed to. Mr. Pt taus; also offered three resolutions, in sub stance as ft.llows " 1. Resolved, That the Secretary of the Trea- ' sury be directed to lay b?fore this House a statement of the amount in value of the imports and exports of each State in each year, from the 4th of March, 1789, to the dote of the year 1810, distinguishing as far as practicable, the value of domestic produce mom that -of foreign articles. " 2. Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to lay before the House a statement ef the amount of the disitict tonnage of each state and terri tnry in each year from the 4th of March, 1789, to the close of the year 1810: distinguishing, as far as practicable, the amount of tonnage employed in fo reign trade, in the coasting trade, and in the fisheries; a'so the amount of foreign tonnage employed during the same pet iod. " 3. Resolved, That the Secretary of the Trea sm y be directed to lay bey .re this House a statement of the gross and nett amount of duties on imports ' and tonnage in each state and territory in each year from the 4th of 'March, 1789, to the close of the ye !r 1810: tog.ther with the charges of collect:Q:4 ani the mown of dr.vrback.: ;Ix each state r each ye r." Mr Ptrmsr obs•freed, that the :I . :formation !ere to or. ttvo prienn 1790, 1800, and 1810, form a valuable manual, by means of which a bird's eye view might at any time be taken of our progressive i , ..crease in wealth ..4 populat:on since the establishment il* the governm-lit The Ist Resolution was ag•ccd to : the reiraiiiing two were, on the motiou of Mr. BLickledge, ortler,3l to lie on the table. Mr. CONDIT presented a retition from eundry ma. nufacturers of iron in New Jerbey, prAyinie encoorave.' meat from CIDgTVSI6 cutter by iino•mg bi 11.. r diarist on imported iron, or otlierwi:e. Rcfrr:ed to the Cons mittee of Commeice and M a nuitct tti es. On Monday List, the House of Itepresentatives re ceived a message from the Seihite, infurnaing that they had passed a Bill fur raising 25,000 addl. tionid troops. WEDNEWAY, DECEMBER 23. Di:rENCIt ov N Eve-Yon In this season of agita. tion and al irm, when "the busy note of preparation" is at least talked of in Congress, and when, in our so leinn opinion, nothing but actual and efficient prepa ration can prevent war, it is useful, and wi:l be satis factory to the pu!ilic to kit's , / something of the force appropriated to the defence of New-York, the es, m . mercial emporium of the United States, tl.e rich. st and most populous and important city in America. The mitt a of the city and county consist of ten regiments of infintry, one battalion of riflemen, on* squadron of cavalry, three regiments of artillery, one company of flying artillery, and one company of ♦e. teran volunteers. The field-pir:ces are of brass, in compke order for service, and well provided with ammunition. . Exclusive orthese, the heavy iron pieces. mounted nn travelling airriages, and the stuAll amts and ac. coutremmits in the a•senal, under Commissary M‘Lean, are numerous an,' in perfect readiness, but t ► what amount we are nit precisely informed. The fort; ficAtians belonging to the United States, escito,ive cf tile loi:s at the Ku row, and immediate', att ;died to the Cite, are as lollous, and could be ,trem•,tl:etici by aliwst any number of camion at the shot test notice. i.y Bautry, N t'o. lAsnd - 20 twizty-fosirs. On El!1-'s Coto. - - 14 tkirty•twii's. At Cuast: WA - 2s f:rty-tw; , '4, i ihiny-two . ., and SO fifty's. For:Columbus - - twviity-fitiesond TOTAL 11 Di'CLAl3l,:g The bill auilinrisiag the iliesident of the United States to raiser (e-tai:i convitnes of rangers for the protection of the it:it:dor of Vie United .States, was read the third time; and the blank; being tilled, Mr. WoariiiNci - os mev.d to amend the Bill by inserting in Section 1. Art. 8. of the printed bill, atter the word 4, necess try" the words , ' not exceeding six," ' thereby limiting the number of companies to six, amendnhnt WAS unanimously agreed to. The Bill WAS then passed. 'lire Senate resumed the third reading of the Bill for the establishment of a quarter-mast is depart ment, and the blanks acre filled ; and On the motion of Mr. Bitexy, it was agree 4 that the further consideration of the Bill be postponed until Thursday next. Mr. CAMPAELL of Tennessee presented the resolu tions of the Legislature of Tennessee, similar to those , presented a few days ago by Mr. Rhea. The Senate then adjourned till Friday. wesr FLORIDA. Mr. POINDEXTER m9ved-.." That the President of the United States be requested to infirm the House whether any negociation is now pending between the United States and Spain, or any other power, respect ing the •claini of the Un4el States to that track of country of which poss , ,ssion was taken by virtue of the President's proclamation, bearing date e 27th day of October, 1810; and also whether he is pos sessed of any information which in his opinion re quires that die legislative authority of Congress over said country should be suspended with a view to fu ture negoc (aim' on that subject."—Ordered to lie on the üb.e. Mr. Stow moved, that should a war ensue between the United States and Great Britain, it would be ex pedient to provide by law a bounty to impressed, American seamen and tieir associates for each Bel. tilt ship of war which they may capture and bring' into an American putt_ —This Resolution was read, and referred to a Committee i the whole House on the first Monday in February next. The f-louse resolved itself into Committee of the whole on the bill to continue in force fur a further time the first seet;on of an act entitled An act fur ther to protect the commerce and seamen of I United Stat s against the Barbary Powers." The bill was ordered to be read the third time. The Bill from the Senate authorizing the presides cf the 'lrked States to raise certain companies Rangers for the protection of the frontier of the Uni ted Slates, was read the first time, and mu moti was read the second time, and reteired to the Cam rnitzee on that. part of the President's Message whit • relates to filling the ranks and prolonging the en meat rf the regular troops and to an - a:lair:guy ury fa rc e. The House adjourned to Thersday. MAnutan.—This morning, at St. Georges, Ha never-square, Mr. Slum , of New Bund-street i Miss MAgON, of the same place. A most horrid and inhuman murder has been cola m:tted on the tyaly f the child, of wine gears di th.tt was stolet Born Dodbroot, as stated in our List The child was found on the morning of that day, ' the niiidle of a field, about a mile from Dodbroo near the toad lading thence to Tottiess, entirei nakri, with the etceptton of its stockings, with I rains dashed out, and its body violated! Three rugged stones, weighing not less than sixteen polio each, were found close to the body, with which it a pears the blows on the head were inflicted—i clothts were found in the middle of the s true fie cover.rd with blood. A young man, b e lon g i ng to regiment of fo it, now lying at Kingsbridge barrac :has been taken up on susp icion of perpetrating foul dezd. g Fcr SAIe by Av.dien, at Gatraway's Coffee-haute,' on r: ursthy the soh Instant, Et one o'cl,vek, 150 Begs SP t tea WOOL. .10 hr vi awed at Messrs. Penton and stl and Ellsworth, sad I. C:urn . hwai e. Br ukts....-I.tiluary t 7, 1512. ;11111T5..1.1y 'lie 6.h of February has been fixed as 414 y icr Cat: tt LA or he Lath...lie adagates i in Ire I •