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1•1 1 /Oki& A 4 "j # &Sitar Aa://..0fte444 NUMBIR 13,188.] TO THE NOBILITY, GENTRY, AND CLERGY. ALADY. th e Daughter of a Beneficed Clergyman of the Established Church, of high Scottish descent, who has been kr several years past struggling for the Restoration of Righu and Property to a considerable estent; and in which struggle, She, with her younger Sister, have become severely em barrassed in their Finagle/1h from the consequences of a protracted Chancery Solt, solicits the feeling liberality of those Ladies and Gentlemen whose minds can duly appreciate her sufferings, driven, as she has been, from all Society for the last Five or SU Years, neither allowed the enjoyment of her inheritance, nor the pro- Niece of brilliant talents.-Bth May, 1829. Sir Claude Scott, Bart. and Co. have humanely granted a request to receive Subscriptions for these Ladies, at their Banking House, No. 1, Cavendish-square. SOCIETY for the DISCHARGE and RELIEF of PERSONS IMPRISONED FOR SMALL DEBTS throughout ENGLAND and WALES, established 1772. Passuazot—The Earl of ROMNEY. Lord De Denstanville Right Hon. Robert Peel, Lord Kenyon I Sir Francis Burdett, Baru M.P. T•krasuans--Benjamin Bond Cab!),ll. Esq .. Attires—John Pepys,/Ing. and Colin Maikeniie, Esq. At a 31 BETING of the UOVERNORS, held in Craven 'street, Wednesday, June 3, 11211. The Right Hon. Lord DR DU NSTANVILLE, in the Chair, it was resolved usanintousiy, That Charles Edward Pigott, E.P. Ibe-electal Tice-Ptesident. The cases of Ninety-nine Petitioners were considered, of whom Eisty-five were Approved, Twenty Rejected, Eleven huhuls and Three Deferted for Character. 'Since the Meeting held on the 6th of May, One Hundred and Tbree Debtors, of whom Eighty-one had Wives and Two Hun dred end 'Fifty. six Children, have been discharged from the Prisons of England and Wales; the expense of whose liberation, including every charge connected , with the Society, was £3611 3s. lid. and the following 3/I.IIIIFACTIONS MINS TIUIT DAY, 1112.• Edmond Starkie, Faq. Richard Berea, Esq. Nicholas Brown, Esq. Miss Brown . liirs. Fish . . X s. d. . A. 3 3 0 . A. 2 •it o . A. 2 2 0 • A. 1 1 0 . ii 0 0 31rs. Shipman . . . . A. S 5 0 A Lady • . • . . A. 1 0 0 The Hon. and Rev. &. C. Cult . . A. $ II 0 R. Barnsby Cooper, Esq. . . . A. 1 1 0 S. D. S. in a letter to B. B. Cabal, Esq. Treasurer 30 0 0 J. H. 1.. Third Benefaction . . .. 10 0 0 Nra. Betty HaU. and James Davidson, Esq. 25th Bend. 4so 0 0 J. P. Cranmer, Esq. . . . A. 1 1 0 Dodd Pennant, Esq. . . . A. 3 3 0 Morton John Davidson, Esq. &mulish, Durham A. 5 0 0 Sir John Trevelyn, Bart. and Lady Trevelyn A. 2 2 0 E. P. .61 Is.—M.P. ,El.—Found in Letter.bqx, 10s. 211 0 Benefactions are received by Benj. Bond Cabbell, Esq. the Trea surer, No. 1, Brick -court, Temple; alfolly the following (tankers: Messrs. Drummond. Cocks, Herries, Hanunersleys, Linares, Whitmore, Veres, Dorrien ; and by the Secretary, N 0.7, Craven street, Strand, where the Books may be seen, by those who are inclined to support the Charity, and where th e . Society meet on the first Wednesday in every Month. ROBERT BA LMANNO, Secretary. BUTLER'S VEGETABLE TOOTH-POW DER. THIS DENTIFRICE has so long been in general use, and an appendage to the fashionable toilet, that it is almost unnecessary to offer any further recommendation in favour of it. Composed of Vegetables, without the admixture of any Mineral or pernicious ingredient whatever, it is free from the usual objections so justly formed against the use of other Den tifrices. Its detersive pongee* just sufikient to remove those des gructive particles which adhere to the Gums and the Instertices of the Teeth; and if used regularly, will preserve them in a sound state even to old age. Sold in boxes at La. ed. by Messrs. Butler. Chemists, Cheapside, coiner St. Paul's, London; Sackville-street, Dublin ; and Princes. street, Edinburgh; and the principal Medicine Venders. Of whom may be bad, OTTO ROSE, ORANGE FLOWER. ALMOND, LA VENDER, MUSK,and CAMPHOR SOAPS, possessing the most delicate fragrance. "le The above Articles, when Genuine, will have the Name end address of Messrs. Resin attached to them.—Particular attention to this Caution is requested. SPRING. SHE debilitating effects of a long and cold winter are a languid action of the extreme vessels of the human body, and a stagnation and impurity of its fluids. When the spring excites the constitution into increased action. Inflammations, Tumours, Rheumatism, Asthma, Gout, &c. are produced or aura stated. In three cases, which, though divided Into separate classes. ire the diseases of the whole system—the VEGETABLE SYRUP of DR VELN OS. prepared by Mrs. CANHAM, is a remedy with which no other has for fifty years stood any thing like a competition. It is prepared at this season In large quantities, at the proprietor's house, No. 55, Berners-street, Oxford -street, where it is sold at 13s. per bottle. and at her Agents, Messrs. Sutton and Co. Bow Church-yard ; Mr. D. Farrow's, Tairlstoct-street, Covent-garden ; and at most of the respectable Medicine Vesidets in London, and every considerable town in the United Kingdom; at the Central Depot in France. by Mr. Iteruard, No. 17, Rue Vivienne, in Paris; at Marseilles, by Mr. Thunsin, Rue de Rome; at Bor deaux, by Mr. Gavanet, No . 19, Jake de Tourni • also at But. deans, by Lacotte, Place St. Culumbe. The Co ncentrated, for warm climates, is also sold by Mrs. Canhant's deputed Agents, in the East Indies, viz. Messrs. Nlackintesh. and Co. Calcutta; and Messrs. Forbes and Co. Bombay. " Domus et place.. uxor."— Doe. Thy house, and (in the cup of lite, That honey-drop) thy pleasing wife! HA PPINESS, " the gay to-morrtsw of the mind," is insured by marriage ; " the vrictest tie of perpetual Friend ship." is a gilt front Heaven, cementing pleasure with reason, by which, says Johnson, " we approach in some degree of asaociation vieh celestial intelligence." l'revious, however, to entering into this hallowed obligation, it becomes an imperative duty, nut only to regulate the passions, but to cleanse the grosser nature from those impurities which the free dom of unrestricted pleasure may have entailed upon it. To the brevet ut such attention are attributably many of those hapless instances which, while they excite the commiseration of the be bolder, should also impress him with the fear of self-reproach. Luxurious habits will effeminize the body—a residence in the tropics will relax the elastic fibre—but more especially does the prematute infatuation of youth too frequently compromise the na tural dignity into a state of inanition, from whence the agonized, sufferer more than doubts the chance of relet To all such then we address out selves, offering hope, energy, muscular strength, lelrclty ; nor will out advances appear questionable, sanctioned as they are by the multiplied proofs of 20 years' successful experience. The easy cares of married life are sometimes disturbed by the suspension of those blessings which concentrate the nuptial wreath —for .be female habit is often constitutionally week—yet it can be strengthened, ar.si deficient energy improved into functional power, In every case of syphilitic intrusion, as well as in every relaxation of the generative economy, we pledge ovr ability to cure speedily, and with effect. Earnestly solicitous to expel the unfeeling empyric from the position so presumptuously taken up, we deviate from general principles with less hesitation ; and confident in our own henourabk integrity as Members of the College of Surgeons, we Wet the suffering community of either Sex (especially those en feting into matrimonial life) at once to our house, where day attendance is given for personal consultatien ; and letters from the mewy are immediately answered; these must contain a remit lake for Advice and Medicine, which can be forwarded to any Part of the world, however distant. GOSS and Co. M.R.C. Surgeons, No. 11, Eouverie.street, Fleetotreet, London. ttr Jest published (Seventeenth Edition), 1. The /Ems of Lire, a familiar Commentary on the above Diseases. 2d, HTGZIANA; addressed exclusively to the Female Sex. May be had at 16, Princes -street, Sob° ; 174, Fleet-street ; 4, Catherine -aunt, &rand, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 10, Paternester.rs,w ; and Chapple, 4. Pall.tnaU, London; Porter, 71, Grshon-street Dublin; WPhan, 163, Trongate, Glasgow; s, Calten4trest, Edinburgh; and of all Booksellers. Price sa. &W ig ' g OOP Ift_ i Mr' ROM' s Wm. 111, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 5, 1829. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. Jaws 4. The Royal Await was given by commission to the Excise Acts Amendments (Scotland and Ireland) BBL the Attempt to Murder (Scotland) Bill, the Offence against the Person (Ireland) Bill, the Coroners (Ireland) Hill, the Memo Pieces, (Ireland) Arrest Bill, the Sheerness Pier Bill, and to several private Bills. The Lords Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Mar quis of Winchester, and the Earl of Shaftesbury. The City Canal Bill, with the amendments of their Lordships agreed to, was brought up from the House of Commons. Lord BERESFORD moved the order of the day for the com mittal of the Thoradyke Divorce Bill. The Earl of LAUDERDALE moved, as an amendment, that several witnesses who had already given their evidence be called back and reexamined. before the House proceeded any futdser with the Bill. After a short conversation the Earl of La 's amend ment was agreed to. Lord TEYNHAM presented a Petition from Lieut.-General Thornton. praying their Lordships to take into consideration the danger arising to the Established Church from the forbearance of enforcing the performance of both Morning and Evening Service oo Sundays, in the several Parish Churches and Chapels thrombotic the Kingdom.—Laid on the table. The Noble Loan presented another Petition from a person named Flanagan, on the subject of the Clerk of the Peace (Ire land) Bill. The Marquis of LA NSDOWN postponed the presentation of his Petitions on the East India Trade until to•morrow, in cone. quence (as the Noble Marquis stated) of the Noble President of the Board of Controul net being able to lay upon the table of the Home the papers connected with that subject until then. The House then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Smuts having been summoned to the House of Lads. aa bear the Royal Assent given to certain Bills, on his retumewelnee l rated them to the House—(See Lords' report). Colonel SIRTHORPE presented a Petition from Gen Chris. topper Radnor, complaining of Ms right as inventor of the Congreve rocket* having been interfered with, and claiming the protection of the House. Lord MILTON presented a Petition from the Merchants, Ma. oufacterers, fitc. of the tows of York, praying for the Legislature to open the trade to India. Mr. COURTEN AY presented a Petition from the inhabitants of Tomes and its vicinity, praying for a repeal of the Duty on Coals. Mr. PORTMAN hoped the Chancellor of the Exchequer would take the earliest opportunity of repealing this very opptes. rive tax. Lord MILTON thought, if the Chancellor of the Exchequer could give up a million and a half of taxes, be ought to repeal what pressed most on the attire community, and not what was only felt by a particular part. Mr. J. WOOD moved for several Returns relative to the duty on soap, tallow, candies, baring, ashes, sod oil. Mr. STUART moved tot the production of several papers re lative to theCivitend Military Establishment of the island of Ceylon. Sir J. MACINTOSH presented a Petition from John Clarke, late surgeon in the Perthshire Militia, complaining of the inade quacy of his half pay. The Hoe. Member likewise presented a Petition from the Congregation of Independents in the town of Leicester, against the practice of burning Hindoo widows; and a similar Petition front the males and females of Falmouth. Mr. PENDARYIS presented a Petition from the teens and pariah of Redrutb, praying for a repeal of the duty on coals which were carried coastwise. Colonel SISTHORPE gave notice, that next Session be should move for leave to bring in a Bill for the regulation of posting. Oo the mottos of Mr. GORDON,the Cotton Factories 818 was read a third time and passed. On the motifs of Mr. FAPALIIBIL the Ledge& of ColusieD l BM was read a third time and passed. Mr. P. THOMSON said, he had a Petition to present, bat, not seeing any of his Majesty's Ministers in their places be thought it would be better to move an adjournment. Sir J. MACINTOSH hoped the Hon. Member would not per sist in that motion, and be would himself make a motion which was quite Parliamentary, and which he thought there was a good chance of carrying at resent, namely, that the House bad no con fidence in his Majesty 's Ministers—(Laughter). Mr. COURTh:NAY hoped the Honourable and Learned Mem ber would nut press such a motion in the absence of the persons accused. On the motion of Mr. Bosom the East India Offices Bill was recommitted, the Report was received, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. On the motion of Mr. Woos the Silk Manufacturers' Bill was read a second time and went through a Committee. The Report was received, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time to mot row. Mr. K. DOUGLAS presented a Petition from persons residing in lielgtave-square, complaining of the inconveniences of the sr rangement in the general post delivery. Atter a few words front Lord Alaimo, Sir G. Musser, and Sir J. blacteman the Petition was ordered to be printed. Mr. BAILIN G presented a Petition from Isaac Strongmark, one of the old Dutch settlers of the Cape of Good Hope, com plaining of the losses be sustained by the depreciation of the cur rency in the Cape of Good Hope. The dollar was depreciated front 4s. 6d. to the value of is. 6d. and the petitioner declared that be bad been totally ruined by the depreciation. Sir J. MACINTOSH bore testintooy to the respectability of the petitioner's character. Gtr G. DIU RRAY said that, if the petitioner could make out any claim to relief, his Majesty's Ministers would be glad to rater. tats the: claim. It would be impossible, of course, to indemnify every individual who might happen to suffer in his pecuniary lute rest by a general measure of policy. After a few words from Mr. H. GURNEY the petition was ordered to be printed. IMASIATIC aurneastitr. Sir .1. MACINTOSH presented a Petition from Mr. Charles Buck, complaining that Managers of Theatres were allowed to per form dramatic pieces without the knowledge or leave of the writer, and without any profit to him. The Hon. Member said that Lord liyrue and Mr. Allman bad made similar complaints, and that every per,on who bad given that subject consideration admitted that literary property was not sufficiently protected in this country, and that the decline of dramatic writing was to be attributed to the state of the law. Mr. G. LAMB thought its very serious grievance that if a man wrote a tragedy it might be taken by any manager, and performed on the stage, and the writer brought to the miserable couditioa of a damned author, miens rotens—(A laugh). The decline of dramatic writing in this country was to be ascribed to the unprofitable nature of that description of writing, as compared with other branches of literature ; and it would be very desirable if a dramatic author had power to sell his play like any other description of property, and that no manager should perform it without paying the writer, which was the system in France. The petition was ordered to be printed. Mr. S. RICE presented a petition from Colonel Tighe, a pri soner in the King's Bench prison, complaining of abuses in the prison, and that the interest of the Marshal was opposed to his ducks.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. P. THOMSON presented a Petition from the landowners and farmers of the county of Kent, praying for an alteration in the present system of tithes. Mr. BENETT said the evil of church tithes was not greater ( than the evil of lay tithes; but he thought nothing was better ads misted to secure the property of the church than a commutation of tithes. In his opinion it would be impossible to preserve the property of the church In Ireland without sonwthing like a COW mutation of tithes ; and he hoped toe question would be taken up seriously next Session. The petition was ordered to lie on the table. DISTHEAS Or THE MANUFACTURING CLASSES. Mr. BROUGHAM said he held in his hand a Ped. tion from the Merchants, Manufacturers, and other Ilk habitants of Birmingham, complaining of the esisting distresses of the manufacturing classes. He felt peen liarly honoured by the confidence of those who had en• trusted him with the petition, as he had distinctly in. formed them that he did not concur in the prayer with which it concluded. Notwithstanding this declaration, however,and his recommendation that the petition should be given to some one who concurred mote fully with ds* views of the petitioners, they had done him the to say, that, notwithstandiog the difference of Palos &WIMP/INCE. opinion, they would be satisfied if he presented rhtif petition to the House, and stated the nature of its ere. tents. The confidence which the petitioners placed in him, he believed, was to be ascribed to feelings of kind. ness, arising out of the share which he bad taken in public transactions in which he heartily agreed with the petitioners, rather than to a desire on their part to se• lect the person best qualified to sustain their views and promote their interests. With this preface he might state that the petition was signed by eight thousand persons, and that it had been signed without solicitation or any other effort to procure signatures more than the mere announcement that the petition lay for signatures. He trusted that the petitioners would excuse him if he could not express a concurrence in the prayer of the petition. He was the furthest from denying, nay, he was fully convinced, that not only the labouring classes, but almost every description of capitalist, great and small, was suffering from the present distress. The cotton and other branches of manufacture he bad the hest reason to know were in a condition of the utmost difficulty. Much of this the petitioners were disposed to attribote to the pewit end past state of the currency. They contended that, from the period of 1819. it had, though endergoing many changes, settled down into a state that made a difference of four per cent. in the profits. He believed that at one time the difference was estimated as high as thirty per cent. Be that, however, as it might, tiresomely's% of the petitioners at present was, that they were suffering to an extent perfectly un paralleled. Th prayed that the House would tecoo. sider the state tithe currency, with a view to its re establishment on a just aad equitable basis, and for the purpose of facilitating that great object they prayed that there might be a revision of all establishments, civil and military, and such reductions effected as a sense of economy and a 'regard to the necessities of the people appeared to call for. They conceived themselves entitled to this on many grounds, and on this amongst others, that they were in effect paying an amount of debt which neither they nor their predecessors had ever incurred. They were called on to pay in one currency a debt which had been contracted in a currency of much less value. There was a fact st.ted by the petit. tioners which he felt great pleasure in adverting to, namely, that, out of seventy banks which had stopped payment during the panic, as many as sixty paid twenty shillings in the pound. He did not then stop to inquire whether or not the system of the country banking was what it ought to be, but he called the attention of the House to the fact stated in the petition, not so much for the purpose of proving that the system was sood, as that it proved the respectability of the parties in ques tion. He then proceeded to another part of the petition, in which the petitioners denied that existing distress was to be attributed to overtrading ; without combatting that position he proceeded into some particulars, for the purpose of shoeing that considerable overtrading bad recently taken place, and mentioned some remark. able inoances of wild and absurd speculations, which errata not have ended otherwise than in the ruin of the parties. Though differing from some of the doc trines laid down in the document which he held in his hand, yet he folly concurred in the prayer for a irdu.. tion of the salaries of public servants. The burdens of the country wire confessedly greater than they tad been, and the means of meeting them much diminished. Thus was industry crippled, and the resources of the country dried up. Thus, admitting the evil complained of, he debited to see a remedy. He wished he could perceive such a remedy. The salaries of public func tionaries might be reduced, and there was nothing he so much desired to see as such reduction. All fixed money payments might be placed upon a new footing, but atter all there remained the dead weight of the debt. There were still 800,000,0001. of debt, and 40 000 fIOOL of interest, which no economy could at. fact. Fos his part, he had never heard of any i lan which could obviate that difficulty. excepting such as involved a breach of that good faith which in national concerns, as in private affairs, should never be disre garded. He trusted that the Legislature would never set such an example to the country as that of commit ting an act of bankruptcy. But there would be surely no breach of faith in reducing salaries which had been raised in former times, when the currency was depre. ciated, on the very ground of that depreciation. He could not bring himself to agree with the petitioners that-any alteration in the currency was expedient. He hoped there would be no attempt made to open that question; but the more impracticable it was to affoid relief by the means which the petitioners contemplated, the more were they bound to do all in their power to effect, by means of reductions in the public expenshture. Mr. LAWLEY fully concurred in the views of the last speaker. He bad been applied to to support the petition; but he candidly told the petitioners chat i.e could not conscientiously support the prayer of their petition. The currency, he was quite WIC, was not the cause of the distress; and as to the assertion made in some quarters, that capital was wanted, he would affirm, upon excellent authority, that the country hookas were generally ready to advance money upon fair security— (Hear, hear, from Mr. Peel). Mi. WODEHOUSE contended that the present gold standard operated most injuriously as well towards foreign countries as at home—it was a standard not adopted any where. The most conclusive proof of its being an improper standard was, that the Legislature dare not and ought not apply it to Scotland and Ire land. He did not mean to say that that standard was solely, though he conceived it was mainly owing to that cause. Mr. LEYCESTER attributed an the evil to the Sinking Fund. Mr. E. DAVENPORT °braved, it was not to be expected that Members 01 that House holding places under Government would vote for a general redaction of salaries. Mr. BENETT said it could scarcely be a subject of wonder that the country was in a state of very deep distress; but the question should be, how that distress was to be remedied? He felt assured that it could only be done by some strong and decisive measure; and he apprehended that it would be found necessary to resort to a property tax. with a view to reduce the enormous debt with which the country was burthened, and to which be considered the distress of the country was to be mainly attributed. The argument of Mr. Ricardo was, that until this immense debt was paid off we could not safely indulge in free trade. One of the prin cipal .evils now felt throughout the kingdom arose from withdrawing the small notes from circulation. B. fore this measure was resolved on country bankers had some inducement to lend money to the farmers, because by this means they circulated their notes, and obtained in terest for their !honey, which they could not obtain by FRENCH PAPERS. NAM THZ GAIITTI DI PRANCE, JIVE S. PARIS, Jun 2. M. de Palmella left Paris the day before yesterday to return to London, from which place it is said that he will proceed to the island of Terceira, where he will establish a Regency in the name of Donna Maria da . Gloria. It is very probable that M. de Palmella will go from the island of Terceira to Brasil, according to in• structions which he is to receive at London from the Queen Donna Maria and Count de Barbacena. The Journal du Couenterca says that the measure of establishing a Regency in Terceira is said to be ap proved by the Cabinets of France and England. and that a Convention on the subject had been signed by the two Courts. The Moniteur of to-day contains, in the official part, an Ordinance of the King, relative to the organization of the general staff in fortified places. Yesterday, on Change, a list of Ministers was circu lated, which an intrigue would put in the place of thu present Ministry. In this list we find two Ministers of War, and two of Finance, doubtless to realise the plan announced by the Journal dcs Debats, of raising to 14 the number of Secretaries of State, as in England. FROM Tag JOURNAL DU COMMRRCR, JUlli 2. PARIS, Jura 1. Letters from Madrid announce that the inscription of 80,000,000 has been placed in the bands of M.St.Priest, our Ambassador at Madrid, in conformity with the tre.rty signed on the 30th of December last in that ca pita. These letters add, that the Spanish Government has placed at the disposal of its banker in Pais all the quicksilver at Seville and Almaden, which amounts to 20.000 quintals, in order to meet the payments of the interest for the first half year. There have been various other accounts of the manner in which this quicksilver was to be employed; we shall see whether the present account is correct. We were. unfortunately, correct when we announced on the 2d ult. that the nest average price of corn would probably show a rise. The table fixing the prices of corn published by the Minister of the Interior, states the general average of all Fiance at £41.50c. per hec tolitre for wheat. Last month the puke was 22f. 45c. The data on which the price is founded are up to the 15th of May; since that time prices have fallen in many places, and as the appearance of the harvest is in general good, we may flatter ourselves that the nest average price will be more satisfactory than that which we now publish. None of the Papers contain my Mete MOHR Dews from the theatre of war. Faison Funno-- . Pmus ' June 2.-1 1 1ve per `Guts. lOU. 107 f. 93e. 90e.—Three per Cents. 79f. 90e. tk. !Sec.—Sank Stook, 1.1172 f. Soc.—Naples Stock, S7f. 15c—Royal Spanish Loan, 771 f. —Haytian Loan, 493f.—Sachange on London, one month, ISt 45e. Three months, Set. 10c.—Optera Asdhateigase. DUTCH MALL._ • • BERLIN, MAT 30. NEWS FROM THE THEATRE OF WAR. WASSAIIN MAT 26. The campaign on the Danube has commenced with the investment of the important fortress of Silistria, which has been executed with equal energy and success. The head quarters were removed some time ago to Czernowody. Count Diebitsch having collected many troops there, advanced on the 13th of May. at the head of 21 battalions, 16 squadrons of cavalry, and some re• giments of Cossacks, by way of Kuzgown, towards Si listria. The great road, by way of Rasserat, was still under water, in consequence of the overflowing of the Danube, and the troops bad difficulties of all kinds to overcome, in consequence of the badness of the roads ; but the idea of marching against the enemy caused them to bear all hardships•wrth the greatest zeal. On the 17th of May, at three o'clock in the after noon, the Corps reached the village of Almalni, five wersts from Silistria. without having fallen in with the enemy nn their march. Here the Commander in Chief divided his Corps into three columns; the light under Lieut. General Bartholomey; the centre u.•der Major General Laschkiewitsch ; and the left under Lieutenant General Krauowsky. The first fell in with the ene• my about 5,000 strong, who occupied souse entrench ments which we erected last year, two wersts from Silistria. A brisk attack made by a regiment of, Cossacks, under the eye of the Commander in Chief.' spun a mass of Turkish cavalry posted upon the hei, : hts, was the signal for a general battle. The in- 1 tantry, which quickly followed, attacked with equal zeal, the enemy was broken, and in less than a quarter of an hour driven from all the works which he occupied on that point. The centre column followed this MlT pie, but the left column met with greater re.istance, and as, it had a longer march to make, it did not arrive till two o'clock in the afternoon. General Krassowsky having given his troops an hour's rest, led them against two strong redoubts, which were very advantageously situated, and which were taken in a moment. The Turks, who were driven back at every point, now thought of only getting back into the fortress. Our flotilla on the Danube, commanded by Rear Admiral Patiniotti. supported these movements; so that the investment of the very extensive fortress of Silistria was not only effected in a single day, but the troops advanced within the distance of cannon-shot of the walls. In the following night our Cossacks took a Turkish courier, sent by the Poch* of Silistria to the Grand Vizir at Schunsla, to inform him of the invest. meat of the place, and earnestly begging assistance. The loss of the enemy on the 17th of May may be labout 400 or 500 men killed and wounded ; ours is about 150 men killed and wounded. The bridge built at Kalarasch, the completion of which was delayed ►y this overflowing of the river. will be finished in two or I three days, and, as well as the bridge at Hirsowa. will facilitate the communication with the left bank of the Danube. The communication of the besieging corps with Bazardjick, Kusludji, and Pravadi, are fully se cured, and the detachments sent out to scour the country have only met with a few straggling parties of the enemy. Adjutant Greig, having been informed at Sizeboli of the appearance of the Turkish fleet in the Black Sea, hastened with theaquadron oilier his command to go to meet it.t t The reports inserted in various Papers of the occupation of liaidsbik and Kowsrna, and the retaking et Kaaba by the Turks, are sullicitedy refuted by tie above accesato—Proaka Mats Or NW, mg 30. - • • t i • • • * 1 • • r' bee at. Ow lock 11. end mat- NW' I do coeM a dis ( 0 bes 0 i s e :: re