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THE ARMY. With th• 4th Expedition, it is said that a very large force of artillery and cavalry will go, and the following infantry- regiments : 2d, or Queen's ; 26th, or Carneronians ; 51st ; 87th, or Irish Heroes ; and 88t h 6 or Connaught Ran gel' Major-General Sir SAMUEL AUCHMUTY has ob iained permission to augment his corps (the 9th Gar rison Battalion), to a Legion, for the service of the Spanish Patriots. This gallant, admired, as distin guished Officer left town for Hull on Thursday last, w h er e his regiment is n. w quartered. Brigadier-Generals are, by a laze regulation, al lowed Aids-de-Camp when employed on actual service. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir GEORGE SMITH, who lately returned from Cadiz, has the command of a Brigade under Major-General SPENCER. This singular ap pointment originated in the very high military cha racter of Lieutenant-Colonel Sswrzt, when employed at Copenhagen. Major-General M‘Foitr-own, who left England with the force under General SPENCER, is appointed to the Staff of Sicily. Major-General PAGET, as well as his brother Lcrd PAGET, is employed on the Staff of the Expedition. Lieutenant-Colonel Bit,tx3rolu) is appointed an As sistant Adjutant.Geueral to Sir Hoitar !kimono's force. Lieutenant-Colonel ToRRENS accompanied Lieu tenant-General Sir A. WELLESLEY as Military Secre tary: he still retains his situation at the Horse Guards. Lord AYLMER goes on the Expedition as Assistant Adjutant-General. Major-General FRAZER is arrived in town from Guernsey. Captain PATRICK, of the Quarter-Master-General's Department, is employed with the Spaniards : this oEcer was taken with General )3ERESFORD. Colonel JAMES CATLIX CBAWFURD ( 91 s t regiment) Serves with Sir A.RTIILIt WELLESLE.V as rigadier. Major-General J. R. MA.CKENZ:E is appointed to the ccmrnand at Woodbridge. The Government of Carlisle is vacant by the death of General M. AG YEW. That excellent officer Sir GEORGE NUGENT. it is pid, will be employed in Spain. The 3d Dragoon Guards have marched into Chi• Chester, and occupied the late quarters of the Bays. The sth Dragoon Guards have arrived at Dor chester. Major-General Sir CHARLES GREEN, thelate Lieu tenant-Governor of Malta, has just arrived from thence: he was succeeded in his government by that able and active Officer General OAKES. The 2d battalion of the 78th is u:. . w quartered at the Isle of Wight, but expect soon to be sent to Ross shire to recruit. General MOORE and HARRY BURYLARD art of the same rank, viz. Lieutenant-Generals, and both attained their rank in the same year. The Whole of the Officers and three-fourths of the privates of the Royal Greenock Volunteers, cern manded by Colodel Dort,or, have also transferred their services into the Local Militia. The 4th and sth Fotfarshire Volunteers have of fered to transfer their services to form part of the Local Militia of that county. Several Volunteer Corps have handsomely come forward with an offer to extend their services to Spain. We advise all these corps to suspend their display of similar ardour till it shall be definitively settled who is to be their Commander in Chief on that service. Yesterday the 14th Light Dragoons marched into Ipswich. Yesterday the East and West London Regiments sf Militia changed quarters for half a year, the East marched down to Greenwich and Woolwich, and the West took possession of their city quarters in Bunhill row. Yesterday the North York Regiment of Militia ar rived at Chatham from Rye, and encamped on Cha tham Lines. Two more regiments ire expected to be encamped there, viz. the Perthshire and War wickshire regiments of Militia. Friday last the Ist regiment of Royal Edinburgh Volunteers, and the Ist battalion of the 2cl regiment, were reviewed as a brigade, in Burntsfield Links, by the Right Hon. Lord Viscount CATHCART. The regiments made a fine appearance, and went through their evolutions in such a manner as to reflect great eredit on both officers and men. The following Scots Volunteer Regiments have vo lunteered into the Local Militia, viz.—The Ist and id battalions of the 2d Regiment. of Royal t dinburgh Volunteers, Royal Highland Volunteers, Loyal Edin burgh Volunteers, Royal Leith Voltmteers, Mussel- burgh and Dalkeith Volunteers, and Royal Mid- Lothian Artillery. The Royal Flintshire Militia having volunteered their ser►ices to serve in Spain, the following is a copy 14 the letter from the :;ecretary at War on the °cap tion 10.4 " WAR Orricz, /Int 21, 1808. Si_!l have now the satisfaction to acquaint you, that Lord grokesbary haring bad the honour of laying before the King lite very spirited offer from the Offices and Men of the Royal Malkin Militia to serve in Spain, his Majesty via. graciously Staled to signify his pleasure that I should express the gratifica -1188 which his Majesty feels at receiving so hosiourable * test:l -t:loer/ of the alacrity and teal displayed by the Corps on this steasloo, (signed) Lutes PULTZNtY. N4V7klZ l lkliiti r dV4S. FALMOUTH, JULY IS. Arrived his Majesty's ship KANHARoo, with the Iris and Regard transports, from Plymouth for Por tugal. TORBAY, JULY 24. Arrived his Majesty's ship DREADNOUGHT, Admi ral Doom°RrH, from Plymouth, and remains with the Channel fleet. DEAL, JULY It Sailed the STATELY, of 64 guns, for Portsmouth ; RotsA sloop, and BLAZER gun-brig, on a cruize ; THRASHER gun-brig for the Nore. Arrived from Sheerness, the NED Etvam sloop ; and from Deptford, the Sheerress long-boat. Sailed the OSPREY sloop on a cruise. IN THE DOWNS. Primes of Orange, Truity, Clyde, Alert, Ned Elven, and Shetrness long-boat. CHATHAM, JULY as. The Badger brig sloop, of 235 tons, was launched from Mr. BRINDLEY'S Yard, at Friendsbury, this day. The Cornelia, of 32 guns, is to be launched this day from Mr. TEMPLE'S Yard, South Shields: Mr. Hex awl, superintending master, and 35 riggers, from this yard, are gone to that port. 3ULY 26.—The SCEPTRE, of 74. guns, is to be paid off this day, and her hull put into condition for service. The COMBATANT sloop, Captain RENWICK, dropped down to Gillingham to take in her powder, and is to sail to the Nore this day, if the wind permits. The ELPIIIN A brig sloop is commissioned by n HUGHES, and is to be fitted as soon as possible. The FYLLA, of 20 guns, has taken her guns on board, bent her sails, and is nearly ready for sea. FROM LLOYD'S LIST, GitActstwO, JULY 25.—Passed by the Eleanor, Keating, from Pensacola; Minerva, Williams, from Surinam; Sophia, Smith, from Smyrna; and the Padgey, Phillips, from Cork. Sailed the Forrestall, for Dublin. The FANCY F un -brig has arrived in Leith Roads, with four Danish prizes, on board One of which was a Danish mail from Copenhagen to Norway. It had been thrown overboard, but it was fortunately picked up. The SNIPE and Cuo sloops of war, and QUEEN CIL\ liLOrTz cutter, have also arrived at Leith from cruize to the Northward. The Jolly Tar, of London, Captain BROWN, from Quebec, in 36 days, put into Fraserburgh Bay on Friday ; saw a fleet from England pass up the River St. Lawrence before he left it. His Majesty's ship CYGNrr arrived in Brassay Sound 28th ult. On Satnrday se'nnight, arrived at Aberdeen, the Jane, J.kMESON, and the Hercules, GIBBON, from the Davis' Straits, whale fishery, with ten large fish each, both full ships. List of the success of the Ships in Davis's Straits, as brought by the Hercules, Captain Gibson, arrived at Aberdeen 6th July : P:rwick—Norfolk, 7, Dundee—Estri Igo, 4 ; lean, 4. • Grimsby—Earl raleonberg, 3. Hull--Brothers, 6 ; Cato, 4 ; Duncomb !, 8 ; Elizabeth, full ; Gardener and „Joseph, 9; Harmony, ; leviathan, 7 ; Ly-x, 5; Mary and Elizabeth, 3 or more; North Briton, 91; Prescott, 9; n-mmetry, 8; Samuels, 16; Trafalgar, to or more. Lei :It -.North Star, burnt; Rattler, 3; Raith, S cr more; Royal I,lounty, 2; Success, 2; Thomas and Ann, 14 or 15; Wil ham and Ann, S. • Lendon—Atirrira, 4; Ocean , 3 or more. SM.:lds—John and Margaret, 10 or more; Lady Jane, St. Yesterday was married, by special licence, at the Earl of BLVE 4LEY 'S hou se in Portman-square, Lady EMILY PERCY, youngest daughter of Lord BEVER LEY, to Mr. Mort I ZR Ilaussmosns, of Charing cross. The ceremony was p-n.formed by the Rev. Huom PERCY, brother to Lady EMILY ; after which the new married cnuplc left town I.w Mr. DRUM.. MOND'S seat at Denham, near Uxbridge, where they intend spending the honey-moon. The age of both is twenty-two. Friday ever,ing as five Portuguese sailors were in a boat in Long Reach, near Gravesend, going on board a ship, a strong gust of wind sprung up, which upset the boat, by which three of the crew were drowned ; the other two were saved by a fishing smack, which put them on board their ship. A few days since, Sir ANDREW FERGUSON, return ing homeward after having dined in the neighbour hood of Derry, and driving with incautious rapidity over a bridge wanting some r ep a i rs , th e vehicle was unfortunately overturned, and Sir ANDREW precipi tated from it with such fatal violence, that he lived but till his arrival at his own residence. His son, by whom be was accompapied in the carriage, escaped without injury. . Saturday morning. soon after the first division of the North York Maitia left Cranbrook, Lieutenant Clarkson, of that regirent, mounted his horse for the purpose of proceeding to Maidstone, but Lad not rode far, when the animal took fright, Ind set off at full speed. Lieutenant Clarkson soon lost his seat, and his foot unfortunately hanging in the stirrup, he was dragged nearly three miles along the road, and was so miserably mangled, that there is not the least hopes of recovery. As the coach which runs from Tunbride to Lon don was on its journey, on Ftiday last, with a great many passengers, the leade r s to o k fright at a dog which jumped over a hedge at the moment they were passing. The animals immediately set off at full' speed ; and the coachman, who was also the proprie tor, and had driteu the stage for 15 years, broke the rei t is in endeavouring to restrain the impetuosity of his horses; they ran at random for a considerable distance,whenthe coach overturned, with violence, and was dashed to pieces. Many of the passengers were very intich injured, several with fractured limbs ; and the coachman, in endeavouring to extricate the horses from their harness, received a violent kick from one of them which killed him on the spot. The rest of the persons who were injured, having been taken care Of, are in a fair way of doing well. Yesterday being the adjourned day of the West minster Se4sions i some accounts were delivered in and recognizance: withdrawn, after which the Court ad journed until next Sessions' srorrnve .. ~ DEAL, JULY U. To-morrow the Races on Freedown begin.—They are conducted by the Officers of the Ist and 3d regi ments of Guards. Great sport is expeCted,,and number of fashionables to attend. Many horses are entered—a number of booths are erected, one also, big enough to breakfast two hundred people, which will be filled by the Nobility. . A public breakfast to. be each day at two o'clock. TIATERN ABBET, ATONMOUTI7SHIRE, JULY 12. The beauty of this ruin having long been noticed: as an object of attention to the visitor in this county, I availed myself of the fineness of a day last week, and: descended the Wye from Monmouth in a boat for that purpose; whose sinuous course playing through such a district of rich scenery, was an ifitroductiod to the fea ture of my voyage of t'le most pleasing natrre. On entering the Abbey, all that descriptioa had painted of this enchanting pile, came very far short of the effects it produced upon my mind, in surveying its hallowed walls. Fortunately I had chosen a tithe for the excursion, when the spot was rensiered more inte resting by the company as.semriled. In ode part were a groupe of Ladies and Gentlemen, with a table-cloth spread on the green velvet, enjoying a neon day re past, the females seawd on the buttresses of the ancient pillars. In chosen points were men of taste, commit ting its ruined scenery to fame by means of the pen cil. In the choir, were elegant women walking at ease, or seated on its ruins, contemplating the beauty of the objects which surrounded them ; while, in the north transept, were a convivial party enjoying a lux urious dinner. With one of these parties were some gentlemen who performed extremely well on the Ger man flute, whose soft and dulcet sounds were occa sionally relieved by the grand notes of the bugle-horn, sounded from another part of the venerable pile. The evening was all that could be wished to crown such pleasures ; it being the full of the moon, whose in fluence was rendered inimitably fine, by her beams gleaming through the rich gothic windows, mantled with ivy, on the southern walls of this magnificent ruin. One of our royal Generals has had such a difference with his Agents, that he has withdrawn from them his regiment, consisting of five battalions. The following are the latest arrivals at Harrowgate: The Honourable Colonel and Mrs. Wingfield ; two Miss Car dona ; Mr. and Mrs. Wynne ; General and Captain Dr:lnman: d; Mrs. Westenra ; Colonel and Mrs. Wolseley ; Mrs. and thaw Miss Dennisons ; Mr. and Mrs. Trant ; Mr. and Master R. Dennison ; Mrs. and two Miss Whytes ; Mr. Mrs. Master, and Miss Bailie ; Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs. Sankey ; Mrs. Smith; Mr. Yorke ; Mr. Frost ; M... Whitaker ; Mr. Armytaie ; two Miss ArchdAls ; Mr. C. Marjoribanks, Captain Bonows ; Cap tain, Miss, Mr. C. and Mr. A. Gordon;• Mr.and Mrs. W. Hut chinson ; Mr. and Mrs. Heywood ; Miss Drinkwater ; Mr. Leys ; two Miss Brebnors ; Sir Thomas Slingsby ; the Honou rable Judge Lawrence ; the Honourable Mrs. Wollup ; Captain Horton, R. N. The last arrivals at Bath are, Earl Digby, Lord Boutton, Lady Pnrtarliagton and family, Sir Wm. Elford, Bart. Rear Admiral Baer, Colonel Cunningham, Major Brown, Rev. Mr. Belfour, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Stone and family, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Hudson, Captain Mackenzie, Capt. Johnsen, Captain Scott, Captain Galpin, Captain CFrpenttr, Cap tain Hope, Captain Bowles, Captain Palmer, and Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins. The last arrivals at Scarborough are, Lord and Lady Grantham and family ! Honaurable Mr. Re binson, the Earl of Effingham, the Countess of Effingham and family ; Lord and Lady 'forph:chen, Mi,. Wauchispe, Rev. Sir Charles Wletier, Ban. Mrs. Hume, Sir Thomas and Lady Frank. land, Mr. Frankland, Miss Smelt, Sir Thiima.s Whicheote, Ban. Miss Wbichcnce, Miss —•-•-• Wliiclicote, Col. and Mrs. Wynne, Mrs. and Miss Morrictt, Mr. and Mrs. Oates, Miss Grant, Mr. and Mrs. Watson and family; Mr. and Mrs Constable Maxwell and family ; Mr. and Mrs. Brown and Wilily. The following are among the latest arrivals at Cheltenham : Earl and Countess Nelson, Earls of Digby and Dunmore, Lord and Lady Rous, Lord Hutchinson, Honourable Mrs. N. kellowes, Sirs R. Milbanke and C. DiUon, Drs. Leigh and Watson, Colonel and Mrs. Massey, Colonel Xing, Major Hart, Rs's. Mr. and Mrs. Annesley, Mr. Stewart and family, Mr. and Mrs. Mocre, Messrs. Mocre and E. Maxwell * Mrs. aod Ass Hart, Miss Hutchimon, Ike— &c. &a. About one o'clock, on Sunday, the atmosphere over this metropolis became suddenly overcast with clouds, which soon burst in a torrent. There was not a breath of wind, and the rain fell perpendicu larly in a dense shower. The drops of water, were, many of them, as large as the largess pears. It did not continue longer than half an hour, and yet the rain in that short time had descended in so great a quan tity, the cellars in many parts of the town were filled; ' the streets in many places became impassable to peo ple on foot ; and some were so completely flooded, as to have all the appearance of a river. About four o'clock the rain began to descend again, but in gentle showers. During the heavy storm of rain on Sunday, as a large party were going through Chelsea-reach, 'the four gentlemen who were rowing rose up suddenly to put on their clothes, and the ladies shifting their seats at the same time, two of the gentlemen fell over board ; one was immediately picked up, but the other was drowned, and the body was not found till yester day morning. A most tremendous storm of rain, thunder and lightning, from the southward to the cast, burst over Newington and Walworil, yesterday morning about half past nine o'clock, the effects of which were se verely felt. A tire-ball entered the house of Mrs. Milton, who keeps a milk and fruit shop in Crown street, Walworth, by the chimney, and. running down in a slanting direction, shivered tie glass and frames of the windows, and exploded in the room where Mrs. Milton was sitting, .who was struck motionless; two medical Gentlemen immediately attended, and by their assistance the use of one side was, in a great measure, restored ; the other remains in a torpid state, as if from a paralytic stroke. What adds to the tnisfertune is, that the poor woman is very far ad. vanced in pregnancy, and it is feared that a prema ture parturiticn be the consequence. A singular I.lenctnenon occurred at Dover. on Thursday m bev....(;m seven and eight o'clock, the water being at the time_near low water mark ; the tide ebbed and Rowed three times in an hour, at one time rose to the height of two feet ; at the same time a great rumbling noise was heard. The inha bitants are totally at a loss to account for this, but abOut forty years since a case nearly similar took place, which was then thought to be in consequence of In-earthquake. fr 6 rim sTAR. TO Sax—ln your truly impartial and patriotic Pa7ter of a few days back, you very opportunely hinted at the propriety of subscriptions being . pened in vari ous parts of the United Empire, for the service of the Spanish Patriots; and have very judiciously given for your reason for adopting such a measure,. the decep. don under which the people cf the Continent lie, in respect to the actual state of the British public mind. So far, Sir, your recommendation deserves the .praise of every . Briton, whether followed or not. It is the universal sentiment of sympathy and ad miration we feel for these brave and generous men, :1 I. understood you right, Mr. Editor, that you chiefly intend should be expressed leaving the main :rapport in men, money, &c. to the munificence of le English Goyernment. I would now, Sir, wish to call your attention to anoth er su bj ect o f st;lfgrea tn. importance than the opening of subscriptions for the Spanish Patriots, and which, in my mind, should never be lost sight cf for a single mt ment—l allude to the loyalists of France. That a very great majority of this enslaved nation are.panting for a favourable opportunity to throw off the .Corsican yoke, no man can doubt, in the smallest degree acquainted with the privations. and oppres sion and misery endured by this once flourishing, in. genious, and industrtotts people. Let us then be tlert, and watch the favourable moment, and stand ready prepared to seize it, when a disposition in the maritime provinces of France is unequivocally and generally demonstrated, to decide finally their choice, whether in favour of an upstart, and ferocious and remorseless usurper, or a legitimate, mild, and ami able. Sovereign. I speak explicitly and particularly on such an occasion, wishing not to be misunderstood. I would dictate to no nation on earth who they arc to choose for their chief, or under what form of Go. vcrument they are to live ; but in the present state of fallen Europe (with life-blood enough, however, still left, it is to be hoped, to assert and maintain the dig nity of degraded human nature), let England be con sistent with herself, and be ready prepared to give to France, as she is now affording to Spain, an opportu nity to vindicate her character, and lend her assist ance not only to France, but to every enthralled people, to hurl the Corsican Usurpers from their blood stained thrones. The crisis which is to decide the fate of the whole civilized world seems arriving, and the writer of this hasty effusion would fain call, in a strain so loud as should vibrate upon the ears and hearts of the palzied and prostrate nations, " To awake, or be for ever fallen :"—rouse them to a sense of their mutual and irreversible misery, unless by one grand, one joint•effort, they even now, while time and the hour offers, rescue th emse l ves and their posterity from the fangs of despoilers, who have do. mineered too long already over the insulted earth ! Let us then hail the present auspicious dawn, and trust that it will once again usher in the day of le g iti. mate rule and lawful Government ; and believe that the hour is - at hand when the flag of Louis XVIII. shall be unfurled in the plains of France, as that of FERDINAND VII. is now victoriously displayed in the mountains of Spain. All virtue is not yet extinct in France; and the tide of fortune, which the Usurper has so long commanded, may at length turn against him. His flood seeots past, and a rapid ebb may hurry him down the stream, To bottom ess perdi dition." A CONSTANT READER. Dartmouth, July 10. The Duke of KENT has presented her Mitsr.rnt with two beautiful bay ponies, to be kept at Frog more, for the purpose of drawing her MAJESTY about the delightful grounds and gardens there. The -anniversivt of the memorable battle of Ems derff, July 6, 1760, i I. which a strong divi .ion of the French army was totally defeated, and. 3000 prisoners, nine pair of cololirs, and six pieces of cannon, were taken by the 15th ( King's) Light Dragoons, was celebrated by the detachment of that Regiment, sta tioned at Noiw:ch, on Saturday se'nnight. The first stone of the Sutton Courtney bridge, erected over the Thames, near Abingdon, was laid on the 16th instant by Master J. T. JUSTICE, eldest son of FRANCIS JUSTICE, Esq. of Abbey-house. At Stoke, in Buckinghamshire, a few days since, a man of the name of RAYMAN, belonging to the Chalk Pits, being in liquor, slipped from the surface to the bottom, the depth of 60 feet, and pitched tTon a heap of fine loose chalk ; he received very little minty he was brought to the surface, and taken to a surgeon, lest he should have internal bruises. A similar acci dent happened to a man named Wit.t,ET, about five months ago, in the same pits, when his dog followed him, where they lived for three days and nights, without water or food. Some men going down to work, released them from their perilous situation, and the man did well afterwards, but the dog died through the long abstinent: he had undergone. On Sunday last George Wood, a Police Officer be ' longing to Hatton Garden Police Office, did public penance at St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, in pur suance of the sentence of the Ecclesiastical Court, for having slanderously and shamefully traduced and vilified the character of a virtuous young woman, natri•!cl Elizabeth Gibbs, at the Royal Oak public house, near Hattori Garden, in calling her by the op probrions appellation of a wh—e. A dispute has taken place between the Minister and Churchwardens of the parish church of , St. Alban, WoOd-street, respecting the right of burial in certain parts of the church. The Minister claims the whole interior. The Churchwardens insist that only the Communion and.chancel belong to hint.; The con sequence was, that' when the remains of Mr. Mote. ?AIN, the late Proprietor of the Saracen's Head Inn, were taken inside the church for the purpose of burial, an understanding having been previously.entered into with the Churchwaidens for 'that purpose, the Mi nister refused to officiate, and the corpse was kept till another Clergyman could be sent for to perform 'the funeral service. This occupied the space of half an hour, when the Rev. Mr. C,LARKII, one of Ile Mince Canons of St. Paul's, committed the body to its last abode. This misunderstanding is likely to become a matter of legal investigation, both parties being reso lute in what they consider their right. Thirteen Capital Prizes to be Drawn of £20,000, £IC,OOO, £5,000, £2,000, and a full proportion of other Prizes. Next Tuesday, August 2, is the day. Tickets and Shares, warranted undrawn, are selling at all the Lottery Offices. 1 I , I