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44 c h WaS jeltlttl at irtallugron. toy Generals, together with the Russian Ambassador, prince WILLIAM of FRUSSIAs and several other per. s ons of rank. The whole set out from Frankfort ear ly on urth the morning of the 26th, and were to reach E r f on the following day. The Emperor .A,Le.x ow, preceded by the Archduke CONSTANTINV pan ed through Leipsic on the 25th, for the same p l ac e ; and the projected meeting would, in all pro bability, be held about the close of the month. The F or eign Journals arc silent with respect to the imme diate object of this meeting ; but private accounts pos itively state it to be " a partition of the whole of the Eastern part of Europe, of which Austria will be o ffered a considerable portion." The Emperor FRAN CIS, h ow ever, we are assured, has declined aU partici. pation in this project of spoliation ; and it is even wired, that should an attempt be made to carr y it i nt o execution, he will make common cause with the Orro mmt Porte. It is added, that the plan thefGrand Conspirators is most deeply laid, and that its first effects will be visible in Asiatic Turkey, where a formidable revolutionary movement has long been or ganised in concert with the Court of Persia. In the snean timesaPoixoN appears to continue the exercise of his baleful influence over the Ottoman Councils, and to have induced the new Government to adop t the rigorous system he has so geenerally prescribed, relative to the exclusion of British commerce from their ports. The intelligence from Bayonne given in these pa pers is important. It is evident, from the obscure manner in which the expedition against Bilboa is al luded to, that an account of the recapture of that place had reached Bayonne. The enemy endeavours to disguise the fact, by a suggestion that the move ment against that town was only intended as a diver. sion ; and they talk of Marshal BESSIERES having marched at the head of a division to cut off the Spa nish detached force. The truth, we believe, is, that the French General marched not to cut off the Spa niards at Bilboa, but to avoid being turned by the right flank in his position on the Ebro, the conse quence of which would be, at least, the temporary interruption of his communication with France. — Instead of realizing the threat of NAPOLEON " that, by the end of the year, there will not be a single village in insurrection throughout Spain," the enemy are content, it appears, if they can maintain their s trong positions, where they say, " if the Spaniards venture to attack them, their temerity will cer tainly receive a severe chastisement." So, instead of carrying fire and sword into every corner of Spain, for that is NAPOLEON'S mode of putting down insur rection, King JOSEPH, it would seem, has made up his mind to continue in a state of siege all the winter. Notwithstanding all that has been said in the Con tinental Papers about the forced marches of thou sands of men towards Spain, it does not appear that any reinforcements of consequence had arrived by the way of Bayonne. Mention is made of some troops who were encamped on the glacis of that town having set out for Spain on the 23d ult. but their number not being stated, it may be inferred that it is not consi derable. The movements of the French armies are almost the only articles of intelligence from Germany. They are concentrating themselves daily, and it is obvious front the positions they either have taken, or are about to occupy, that the chief purpose for which they are put in motion is to intimidate or attack Austria. The Emperor ALEXANDER we find, on his passage through Koningsberg, condescended to take notice of his Prussian Majesty, the unfortunate and aban doned FREDERICK WILLIAM. He is said to have em braced him—and so he also did once before at the tomb of the Great FREDERICK ! SO also did NAPOLEON I with FERDINAND VII. half an hour before he sent him a command to resign his Crown ! Yesterday the Cabinet Ministers dined with the Duke of PORTLAND. The GLEANER sloop of war, bound from Lisbon to Isle Rile, with an Aid-de-Camp of JUNOT, on board, and three chests of valuables, supposed to be plunder, has been detained and sent back by one of the British truizers in the Bay of Biscay ; probably for the pur pose of being overhauled a-new. We understand that Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY will leave town in a few days for Ireland, to return to his ministerial functions in that country; and that after having arranged the business of his office, he will pro ceed to Spain in his military capacity. Upon the death of the learned and lamented Pro fessor PORSON, three Gentlemen, namely, Mr. MONK, and Mr. DOBREE, fellows of Trinity College, and Mr. KAYE, Fellow of Christ's College, presented them selves as Candidates for the vacant Greek Professor fillip in the University of Cambridge. But Messrs. KAYE and DOBREE having since withdrawn their names, Mr. MONK remains without competitor. The military hospital at Sheerness is removed to a ship in the harbour, where it is supposed the soldiers will be sent in future, as they require medical aid. Yesterday the St. Andrew's and St. George's Re giment of Volunteer Infantry; commanded by Lieu tenant Colonel READER, were inspected by Colonel JENKINSON in Hyde Park. Mr. GARDEN of Troup, with the gratuitous asssis tance of one hundred and thirty-seven Highlanders, has erected a rustic monument on the top of one of the highest mountains, near his shooting quarter of Garden Shiel, in the County of Aberdeen, to the me mory of Mr. Fox. The grand combat between Gregson and Crib, will take place on Tuesday se'nnight. The former is in training at the Isle of Wight, and Crib is in the vici nity of Croydon. Bets are even on the event, and the pugilists are iu sine condition. Yesterday, about twelve — ' -- o'clock, his MAJESTY ar lived at the Queen's Palace from Windsor, where he was received by the Duke of Kerr. At two o'clock his MAMMY was waited upon by a deputation from the Corporation of the City of London, consisting of the Lord Mayor, the Mace and Sword of State, the 1 Recorder, Aldermen SMITH and WooD, the Sheriffs , the Common Serjeant, Town Clerk, the Secondary, the City Counsel, and other City Officers, Messrs. Warramax and Quite, the mover and Secondef of the Address and Petition to his MAJESTY. There were likewise present of the Common Council, Messrs. LOVELAND, FRISBY, SADLER, GRIFFITHS, BROOK, METCALFE, NASH, CHAPMAN, and a number of others, The following is a copy of the Address and Answer: TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, The humble and dutiful Address and Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council assembled. MosT GRACIOUS SOVERRION, We, your Majesty's most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Com mon Council assembled, most humbly approach your Majesty with renewed assurances of attachment to your Majesty's most sacred Person and Government, aad veneration for the free prin ciples of the British Constitution. To express to your Majesty our grief and astonishment at the extraordinary and disgraceful Convention, lately entered into by the Commanders of your Majesty's Forces in Portugal, and the Commander of the French Army in Lisbon. The circumstances attending this afflicting event, cannot be contemplated in British minds, without the most painful emo tions, and all ranks of your Majesty's subjects seem to have felt the utmost concern and indignation at a Treaty so humiliating and degrading to this Country and its Allies. After a signal vic tory, gained by the valour and discipline of British troops, by which the Enemy appears to have been cut off from all means of succour or escape, we have the sad mortification of seeing the Laurels so nobly acquired, torn from the brows of our brave sol diers, and terms granted to the Enemy disgraceful to the British name, and injurious to the hest interests of the British Nation. Besides the restitut.en of the Russian Fleet upon a Definitive Treaty of Peace with that power, and the sending back to their country, without exchange, so large a number of Russian sailors; by this ignominious Convention, British Beets are to convey to France, the French army and its plunder, where they will be at liberty immediately to recommence their active operations against us, or our allies. The guarantee and safe conveyance of their plunder, cannot but prove highly irritating to the pillaged inhabi tants, overwhom they have tyrannized, and for whose deliverance and protection the British army was sent, and the full recognition of the title and dignity of Emperor of Trance, while all mention of the Government of Portugal is omitted, must be considered as highly disrespectful to the Legitimate authority of that country. We, therefore, humbly pray your Majesty, in justice to the out raged feelings of a brave, injured, anti indignant people, whose blood and treasure have been thus expended, as well as to retrieve the wounded honour of the country, and to remove from its cha racter so foul a stain in the eyes of Europe, that your Majesty will be graciously pleased, immediately to institute such an inquiry into this dishonourable and unprecedented transaction, as will lead to the discovery and punishment of those, by whose misconduct and incapacity, the cause of the country and its allies has been so shamefully sacrificed. We beg to assure your Majesty of our unalterable fidelity, and earnest desire to co-operate in every measure conducive to the peace, honour, and security of your Majesty's dominions. Signed by order of the Court. tIxNRT WOODTMOIO I . To which Address and Petition his MAJESTY was graciously pleased to return the following Answer : I am fully sensible of your loyalty and attachment to my Per. en and Govermnent. I give credit to the motives which bare dictated your Petition and Address, but I must remind you, that it Is inconsistent with the principles of British Justice, to pronounce judgment without previous investigation. I should have hoped, that recent occurrences would have con vinced you, that I am at all times ready to institute inquiries on occasions in which the character of the Country, or the honour of my Arms is concerned ; sad that the interposition of the City of London could not be necessary, for induciitg me, to direct due inquiry to be made into a transaction whiclitas disappointed the hopes and expectations of the Nation. The LORDMAYOR and Sheriffs (only) kissed hands. The Address and Petition were read by the RECOR DER, and the Answer was read by Lord HAWICESBURY. After the Deputation had withdrawn, his MAJESTY I held a Private Levee, which was attended lfy— The Archbishop of Canterbury, the First Lord of the Trea sury, the Lord Privy Seal, the three Secretaries of State, the ChansieUor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Duke of Montrose ; Lo rds Arden (in waiting), Heathfield (gold stick), and Somerset ; Sirs Thos. Jones and A. Wellesley ; Generals Turner, Ferguson, and Claverlng ; Admiral Pickmore ; Colonels Bradshaw, Birch, O'Loghlin, and Torrens ; Captains Bristow, Stanhope, Mellish, Malcolm, and Wemple; Lieutenant Davis, and Ensign Wyndham. The following had the honour of being presented to his MAJESTY : Colonel Ba ansu w, of the First Regiment of Life Guards' upon his promotion. I Major-General TURNIP., upon his tetura from abroad, and upon his promotion. Lieutenant-Colonel Brace, of the rust Regiment of Life Guards, upon his promotion. Sir THOMAS JON ts, upon his being created a Baronet. Lieutenant 0/iv's, of the First Regiment of Life Guards, upon his promotion. Ensign Wlr NDItAn, of the First Regiment of Guards, upon his return from the army in Portugal. Captain BRISTOW, of the First Regiment of Life Guards, upon his promotion. Lieutenant-General Sir Aarnua WILLZSLLY, upon his return from Portugal, on leave of absence. Colonel O'Loossum, of the First Regiment of Life Guards, upon his promotion. Captain STANHOPI, Aid-du-Camp to Sir Arthur Wellesley, upon his return from the army in Portugal. Captain MALcoLM, R.N. upon his being appointed to his Ma jesty's ship Donegal. Lord Firzaov SOMERSET, upon his return from Portugal. Lieutenant-Colonel TORRENS, upon his promotion. Major-General FLRGuSSoN, upon his return horn Portugal. Captain J. Mm ie, R.N. upon his being appoed to his Ma jesty's ship Crescent. Captain MaLLIIIK, upon his return from Portugal. Rear-Admiral Picessoes, upon his promotion. Brigadier-General CLAVERING, upon his return from the Cape of Good Hope. Yesterday Mr. RYDER, as Judge Advocate, laid before his MAJESTY the proceedings of several Courts Martial. About six o'clock his MAJESTY set off on his return to Windsor. It was an odd enough coincidence, that while the Mayor and Common Council were presenting their Address, Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY entered the Levee Room. His MAJESTY received him graciously, and [ conversed with him a considerable time. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the following Captains were sworn into the command of their respective ships, viz ;—Capt. G. BONHAM, True Briton, Bombay and China ; Capt. Loci, Scaleby Castle, Bombay and China; Capt. J. N. WHYTE, Lord Melville, Madras and Bengal. The Court adjourned at six o'clock till Wednuday next. Sense merchants of the first respectability, connect- JAMAICA FLEET. ed particularly with the trade to Spain and Portugal, We have the satisfaction to announce the arrival at had yesterday an interview with Lord BATHURST upon Bristol of the Martha Brae, Cox ; Diana, THOMAS ; commercial business, when the following important Ann, JAMES, and the .Eolus, part of the fleet from communication was made to them, namely, " that all " articles, the growth, produce, or manufacture of Jamaica. 66 such countries and their colonies as are in amity The ship Maxwell arrived at Liverpool on Mon " with Great Britain, may be imported either in Bri- day from Barbadoes, from whence she sailed on the '' tish ships or in ships belonging to those countries, 130th of August. As she came away, the POLYPHE " and re-exported either directly to countries in amity taus man of war and fleet, which sailed from Ports " with us, or through the medium of free ports, with- I , mouth the 2d of July, and from Madeira the :k1 of " out payment of the duty imposed by the Order in " Council Act. This order is to be retrospective, so i August, were going into Carlisle Bay. Admiral " far as extends to the time at which the countries COCHRANE arrived at Barbadoes on the 25 h of Au " alluded to have been declared in a state of amity." gust ; on the 27th, intelligence was received that a The effect of this arrangement will be, that the I produce of the Brazils will now be imported dirforce from Guadeloupe had made an attack on M.trie ktil without touching at Lisbon as an intermediate port . { Galante, but was repulsed. Two hundred black Upon a question being put to Lord BATHURST — troops were immediately sent from Barbadoes to re whether St. Domingo was to be included in this order, ' inforce the garrison, which was considered a sufficient the Noble Lord declined to give any decisive answer. , number to frustrate any future attempt of the French Thus, it seems, St. Domingo is not regarded by Minis- to re take it . ters as a state in amity with us : at least, they do to retake it. not wish it to be understood that it has been recog - PORTSMOUTH. OCTOBER 12. nized as such by Government. This was clearly im- Arrived his Majesty's ship PLovert, with a fleet of plied in the tone and terms in which Lord BATHURST ; transports from Plymouth. The HYDRA is appointed treated the question. 1 convoy for Malta, and the JUPITER, for Spain. Ministers have received and communicated to the ' DEAL, OCTOBER re. merchantsvery important intelligencefrom Mr. DUFF, Arrived the NEMESIS frigate yesterday evening from which demonstrates the liberality, gratitude, and at- Portsmouth, and sailed this afternoon for Yarmouth; tachment of the Spanish Governors towards this coun try. In the whole course of our relation with Spain ! BOLD gun brig from a cruize ; Supply navy trans for a series of years, even when our connection with i port from Plymouth. Sailed the PANDORA sloop for that country was most amicable, the importation of 1 , Yarmouth ; SKYLARK sloop for Portsmouth ; OBE. various articles from this country, particularly Man- ! RON and ROYALIST sloops on a cruize. Arrived the chester goods, hats, and Birmingham manufacture, i was totally prohibited. But it appears that an or-1 SATELLITE sloop[ of war from a cruize off Flushing. der has been issued permitting the importation Wind N. W. of all articles of British growth or manufacture, ! IN TNI Dow Ns.—Princess of Orange, Vice Admiral CAMP without exception, upon the payment of a small . SELL; Bellerophon, Rear Admiral GARDNER ; Warspitc, Hero. duty, namely, 15 per cent. ad valorem. The order 1 Invincible, Illustrious, Christian Vii. Leviathan, Bombay, Vene which we have described, specifically referred only ; rable,Tresty, Clyde, Prevoyante storeship ; Nightingale and Alert to the ships in the port of Cadiz, but ,it is considered sloops ; Bustler, Indignant, Bold, and Flamer gun brigs ; and the certain forerunner of a general decree from the Supply navy transport, with the transports having on board the Supreme Government. `Royal Waggon Train, which embarked in the River. SHEERNESS, OCTOBER 12. Arrived his Majesty's ship MONKEY, with a fleet of merchant ships from the Baltic.—Sailed the LOCUST man of war, with a convoy for Gnttenburgh and the Baltic : another convoy is expected to sail from the Nore on the 19th.—A number of vessels have assem bled here awaiting convoy to Heligoland, which in the regular course stands for to-morrow; but as yet not any ship is appointed to sail with them.—Wind N.W. PADSTOW, OCTOBER 9. The remains of a boat were driven on shore this morning, near this place, marked the Myrtle, of Lancaster, THOMAS HARPER. It is believed the un fortunate vessel was driven on shore in a tremendous gale of last night, against the high cliffs, about three miles from this place, and went instantly to pieces, as scarce a vestige of her remains. Some small quan tity of palm oil is washing on the Rocks. LEITH, OCTOBER 10. Saturday forenoon we had a very strong gale from the N. W. by which a number of cans were blown off the chimney tops. The ships in Leith Roads we;e hardly able to ride at their anchors. The Mary of Dundee, a fine brig, laden with coals for Gotten burgh, drove, and having unshipped her rudder, she came ashore about two o'clock to the east of the har bour, near the starting post. The people on board were all saved. Much praise is due to some New haven fishermen, who, at great hazard, came to the assistance of the Mary, but could not get her off. The cargo is landing, and it. is hoped the vessel will be saved. A boat belonging to the CHILDERS sloop of war, with a man in it, was driven down the Firth, and we have not heard what has become of her ; and a sloop was seen in distress in the forenoon, of whose fate we are also ignorant. GREENOCK, OCTOBER 10. During Thursday and Friday it blew very hard from the S. W. and early upon Saturday morning checked suddenly round to N. W. when the storm increased, and continued all day. We are happy to say that the damage sustained by the shipping here was inconsiderable. The sloop Jolly Major was driven upon the new East Quay, where she now lies high and dry, without being materially damaged.— The ship Mars carried away the pall she was fastened to at the East Quay, and ran aground at the Open Shore ; she was got off soon after, and but little in jured. The Shannon, and a coasting brig are ashore at Garvel Point. The Loyal Sam was run foul o by the ship Ann, and had her starboard rails tore away. The ship Columbus got foul of the Ann, GRANT, and carried away her sprit-sail-yard by th , bowsprit. A gabart went upon the bank, and soo after hoisted a signal of distress, when a boat's crew put off and relieved her. The ship George, ELME.% from this port to Pictou, ran aground on Thursday night below the Cloch light-house, but was got off next tide with little damage ; she now lies in Go' rock Bay. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. OE/AVIS/ND, OCT. 12.—Passed by the Surly, Harry, from Honduras; Ann, Fly, from Guernsey; and the Guite Hoff flu ng, --, from Oporto.—Salled the Herald, Scott, for M deira ; Royal Sovereign, —, and the James, Wander, Malta; Venus, Berkley, for St. Mary's ; Ce r es, Owen, Londonderry; Minerva, Alexander, for Surinam; Lusistiana, Carman, for Grenada, Pearl, Patterson, for Gottenburgh ; T Caracoes, Da Costa ; American, --, and the Gratido, gers, for the Brazils. The Mary Ellen Elizabeth, JOHNSON, from London, for the Western Islands ; Harmony, PAYNE ; and Freedom, THOMPSON, from Poole, for Newfoundlan sailed fr om Portsmouth a few days since, under c voy of the Lily, and parted off Plymouth, into wli place the Lily put, with the remainder of her cony viz. Emulation, BURROW, for Newfoundland ; H tor, —, for Lisbon ; and the Heroine, GRA for Halifax. The master of a vessel arrived in the River, fro the Baltic, reports that he parted from the fleet Yarmouth Roads. The Juno, BAXTER, for London, is lost near Li pool, at which place the Philipsburg, LIFFINGWELL, for New York, has received much damage, and mi- General PIEMAN, and the other officers sentenced to death for the surrender of Copenhagen, have experi enced a mitigation of their punishment. Some are to be confined for life at Bornholm, and others banished. SEAHORSE FRIGATE.—No official detail has yet been received at the Admiralty, of the brilliant action of the SEAHORSE. We have been favoured with the following extract of a letter from an Officer of that frigate, which gives a very modest and characteristic account of the engagement: " MALTA, JULY 31.—Fortune his at length smiled on the Old Horse—l arrived here five days ago, in the Dedera Zaffer, a Turkish frigate of fifty-two guns, which we captured in the Ar chipelago, after an action of four hours, on the night of the sth instant. There was a smaller frigate of twenty-six guns and two mortars which went down during the action , at l east she has not since be en ' beard of, and she was lost sight of by us very suddenly, a few minutes after we had been engaging her as near as the two ships could lie together. They bad also a galley full of men which escaped. " Our loss has been miraculously small, but five men killed and ten wounded, most of the latter not dangerously. Our ship has suffered considerably, many of our guns being unserviceable; we shall be detained here perhaps three weeks getting to rights, after wbkh I think it probable that we shall resume our station, and very possibly catch another." Thursday night a boat, with four men in her, two of them of the name of M'KISLAY (father and son), left Greenock harbour for Skipness. When off Mount Stuart, island of Rothesay, the boat, from her being old and in bad condition, split, when they all pe rished. This melancholy accident happened , within I view of several other boats, but which, in consequence ' of its blowing hard at the time, accompanied with a heavy swell, could render no assistance. Another boat, supposed also to belong to Skipness, went down, same day, near to Port Bannatyne, county of Bute. It appears from an official investigation respecting the Gentleman mentioned in the STAR of Saturday last to have been drowned near Helensburgh, in Scot land, that the unfortunate sufferer is from Wisbeach, in Cambridgeshire. The body has not yet been found, but the Procurator Fiscal of Dumbarton has very laudably offered a reward for its recovery. The body of the unfortunate Captain HERBERT, whose melancholy death we lately announced, was picked up a few days afterwards by the Unicorn fri gate, and interred at Gijon, with military honours, on the 23d of September last • most of the English there, and many Portuguese of t he first respectability atten ded the funeral. The body of Mr. CREED has also been picked up, and buried with due solemnity. It being a Roman Catholic country, and having no Pro testant minister at hand, they were under the neces sity of procuring an officer from the Unicorn, to per form the funeral rites, agreeably to our established re ligion. BOXING.—A very obstinately contested pitched battle was fought yesterday morning, for a purse of 20 guineas, and a blooming damsel of eighteen, be tween a gentleman coachman of the name of Howard, and a person of the name of Muffin, a coach proprie- , tor. The match was made in the heat of the moment on Monday last, when the competitors, who were rival suitors of the lady, both unluckily met together at her lodgings, in the Edgware Road, and a short rencontre followed. The money was staked, death or victorp and the parties met at day-break yesterday morning, in a field between Acton and Wormwood Scrubs. The battle lasted 40 minutes, and about double that number of tremendous unskilful blows were exchanged. Victory, which alternately hovered over each, ultimately crowned the head of Howard, who was quite as badly beaten as his antagonist ; and had the young lass for whom they fought been present, it would have puzzled her to distinguish the features of her champions. It has generally been experienced, when a Lottery occurred at the time of payment of stock dividends, that their receivers have, according to long usage, taken in different shares to the amount of many hun dreds of Tickets. What an extraordinary induce ment is at this moment presented them, when a most capital Scheme, consisting only of 20, 000 numbers , and with not three Blanks to a Prize, has the great additional attraction of two Prizes of 500 whole Tickets each, whose product alone is capable of in creasing the principal of their stock to an immense amount ! unload. The Jean, SMITH, from Guernsey, for Cork, is into Penzance, with seven feet water in her hold. 1 1. ff - c )1 :1- Le • r. rd sr- in Dp :h, rid )se trd ng rm • to ere vas lies ned .•, pen in- 'Lore • tl of tore • inn, I the soon: crew sday )t off a 011• from Hoff- r Ma- T t for n, for • [stiana, ; Tres o, Le- ndon, id the nand, r con- which Hec- 3RAY, from leet in Liver- EWELL, d must is put Id.