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WANTED, to occupy for the Winter Mhnths,.in the Vicinity of Camberwell, a FAM!LY HOUSE, gen. teely furnished, containing two Sittine. }<corns, four or five Bed Rooms, good Kitchen, Wash-house, &c.—Cards of Addres3, h Terms and Particulars, to be left at Mr. Cox, Coach Office, Camberwell. , NEW SOUTH WALES. FROM THE SIDNEY GAZETTE. FLOOD AT HAWKESBURV.—Accounts were on Tues day last,reaeived in town of the Hawkesbury settle ment being again flooded ; and in the course of the following day those accounts were unhappily confir med. A Mr. Bull, of Sydney, who was at the house of Mr. John Bcnn, down the river, at the commence ment of the flood, inform; us, little or no rain fell in that quarter until Saturday evening the (::9th ultimo, when a heavy rain set in, which continued without intermission until Monday morning : that a rise in the water was perceived between ten and eleven on Sunday night, and continued for some hours to rise gradually, but afterwards with an astonishing rapi dity, until the whole of the snrrounding farms were laid under water. About noon on Tuesday. it was at the highest, and in the course of the afternoon abated five or six feet ; but, in consequence of the de luges of rain that fell in the evening and night - f Tuesday, the water rose again several feet. On Wednesday it began again to fall; by-the. noon of Thursday, had.decreased ten feet from its greatest height. Among the principal sufferers that tie have heard of down the flyer is Mr. Kenn ; he having lost npwarals of 300 head of swine. 100 sheep, about 1000 bushels of: wheat threshed, or in stack, and a stack of barley, besides a valuable property contained in his dwelling-house and barn, among which were two chests .of tea and a ton of sugar, but a few days prior received from Sydney. From the Green Hills, the following report, con. in a private letter, dated on Tuesday night, eleven o'clock, was received in town on Thursday : ig With regret I inform you of the dreadful scene that at the present moment chills me with excessive horror. The whole of this extensive settlement is one uninterrupted sheet of water. The lower range of houses upon the Green hills is immersed, and the river has formed a junction with South Creek across the hills, through kickerby's grounds upon the river side, and those of the Rev. Mr. Marsden on the creek. Yesterday and last night was a most dreadful sea-' son. The danger encroached with a rapidity never before witnessed; and the cries of the numerous fa milies who were more imminently exposed were ren dered still more agonizing by the impracticability of affording them immediate relief. In one alarn ing instance, a young man, settler, his wife, and three children, were seated on a ladder lain across the fork of a tree, in which sitaation they contrived to sustain an equilibrium for nearly three hours, the man a great part of the time clinging by his hands at the end of the ladder ; but at last yielding to fatigue, be forsook his hold, and all were precipitated into the de luge. The woman and childien were picked up, but I , the fate of the unfortunate man is doubtful. A settler at Cornwallis passed the hills this morning on the top; of a small wheat stack ; his fate is not known, but it is much hoped he may have /ueen preserved by some! of the boats employed in this humane work. In ano ther and truly melancholy instance, eight persons are supposed to have perished in one spot. The names of those supposed unfortunates have been mentioned, but from this I must refrain, hoping the account may be erroneous, or at least exaggerated. At present o all is uncertainty - and dread, all terror and astonish ment. Some lives are lost, many have been saved by the exertions of the more enterprising, directed by our Magistrates, who by their example encouraged the toil of rescuing whole families front the very verge of fate. And I cannot omit to mention the active and indefatigable-exertions of Messrs. Thomp• son and Biggers, to whom, under the direction of 1)1 VINE PROVIDENCE, many are indebted for their lives. Their fatigues were equal to their dangers, which 'were increased by the extreme darkness of the night, during which their boats were repeatedly stove, and it was with difficulty they could with their crews preset ye their lives. Many others who volunteered their exertions are also entitled to every praise. At the ()rat- of Mr. Bell, the church was appropriated to the receptirn of the sufferers brought to the hills, and such as were destitute were victualled from the store,' and every measure that humanity could devise was adopted to alleviate as much as possible the misery of their condition. " It is considered that the perpendicular rise of the river could not be much less than 86 feet from the general level, andt to have exceeded that of March, 1806, by six or eight feet of perpendicular height ; and unfortunately happens at a time of the year which to.' tally destroys the prospects of the settler, and the de pendance of the colony upon this settlement for the next year, as the sown wheat will in all probabilit': perish in the ground in most of the lower situations." At the, farm of Mr. S. Terry, nine persons, viz.— C coley of To ugabbee ; Munsey, of Hawkesbury ; I. edges, servant to a gentleman of Sydney ; ivl n.ed, an Asiatic, his wife, and two, children, and two 1 ack men had en leavourel to secure themselves on• the top tit the ha- at, winch fell hi about iive on Mon day evening ; but as dn.re was no other resource left: tl ey continued upon the roof for about two Lo ur s atter, when die olfe of Mahorned fall through the th-atch with one of her child, en in her arms, and was r o more seen. y endeavouring to save the otl er child, wt ;eh citing to Mahomed the father, e peed with tho infant, and in like mariner disaa. pi ar ej ;as did Mansey also. Mahomed and the to o black men saved th.anvdves in trees ; end Hodges, Swimming about in the dark, at 1.-ngth got into the • stream, by a hick he was carried between five and six Miles tore a y impediment opposed his r.tpid course; when happily he found safety among the branches of a tree, from whence he was at length taken by a boat, and conveyed to a place of safety. The accounts from Richm..nd Hill are of the same distressing -tendency ; but from Portland Head no 'Fommunicatioa .has yet been received. The loss 4 stock has been very severe, as well i!s 'grain. No possible estimate can be formed at present, _ _ _ As soon as the melancholy ;ntelligence was re ceived, Lieuten ,melancholy Fo , eaux left town, ac conspaaied by h.s Secretary, wish intention to pro- • ----- received From tallied • i eleven c is WI that at horror. one unit of house river ha the hills side, an Yesterd son. bet ore I milies dered si affordin instance children of a tre an equi great p end of forsook loge. the fate at Corr of a sm ) is muci of the I ther an suppose of thosi but fro: be crro all is i ment. by the our Mt the toi verge • active son am blviNt lives. which night, and it 1 preset their e: the ore the re:: such ai and cv dopte ci thei: ‘, It river ci genera 1806,1 unforti tally d pendar nest yl perish At C oolel odg med, lack tl:e Le ; day e' tl ay c ai ;er, To TT Cll er sl Fix peare blaci twin, gtrea inike! whet a tre boat dish 'Faro MA p r e` ceiv coy ;teed to Hawkesbury direct ; but was obliged to re turn, as the roads•were impassable. The ban ks of, 'George's. Liter were unfortunately inundated at the same-rrne ; and a great quantity of stock and other pinperty lost. In Major Johnstone's stack-yard 490 sheep were drowned; Mr. M.Callam lost SOO, and several houses were left in ruins. SPANISH PAPLBS. ADDRESS TO THE, PEOPLE OF THOSE PARTS OF THE ASTU RIAS THAT ARE NOW OCCUPIED BY THE ENEMY. When a great and generous people opposes to the arms of a conqueror all the zeal and enthusiasm of Eberty, every attempt to enslave them will be found in vain. The tyrant, convinced of this truth, calls to his aid dissimulation, flattery, and artifice, which exercising an absolute dominion over the simplicity and unsuspecting nature of a noble and magnanimous nation, promise him in some degree that certain suc cess which he could have in vain hoped for froth vio lence and terror. Such is the ultimate systeM pursued by the French in the Peninsula, already considered by them as invincible by all. the efforts of their phy sical force. Asturians, you have unfortunately experienced all the attempts of this new and infernal policy. Those barbarians, who crowd upon your soil, and who now expect nothing from their power, that has been so long baffled, have recourse to the most fatal but re fined hypocrisy to subjugate and enslave yOu. You see how they run in every direction, inculcating peace and tranquillity, and masking their most horrible ex cesses with a yeil of apparent justice. They pursue the soldier who defends the rights of his country as a dis turber of the public peace, which they pretend to pro mote; they threaten, on pretext of his being a rebel, unless he appears, every one who,leaving his dear home and fireside, seeks safety among the savage beasts, as infinitely preferable to the society . and fellow ship of the French.' They proscribe, in short, as an insurgent, and a declared enemy of the public peace, every one who, preferring the public to his own private interest, sacrifices his happiness in any shape to the good of his country ; and under these spe cious pretexts, dispossesses those deserving Spaniards of whatever they have most valuable, even of that very property which they have so often sworn to respect and maintain. In this manner, Asturians, and by oppressing the people, the crafty enemy en deavours-to create a pernicious and ruinous indiffer ence to the public interest ; but not content with that, he aims at a complete triumph by means of hypocrisy :and pretended beneficence. Knowing the influence that this will have with the people, he pretends to act for the benefit of religion ; he erects himself into a protector of the sanctuary, while in his heart he de spises or disclaims the sacred object to which he pays his sacrilegious worship. He promises to the simple peasant the enjoyment of his farm, and the fruit of his labour, that misled, by so flattering a promise, he may not feel the sacrifices to which he will be conti nually exposed ; to the artisan he announces tran quillity, and promises him the reward of his industry ; in a word, he practises every thing that at little ex pence may procure him the esteem of the people, the only ground he has of his cruel hopes. i This conduct, Asturians, this fatal conduct has been invariably observed with respect to you ; but, after all, those tigers whom necessity obliges to array themselves in sheep's clothing, are they not the same who, according ter their first system, scattered, where ever they va.Ait, robbery, devastation, horror, murder, 'and sacrilege ? Be not deceived ; the mildness with which they now treat you resembles that by which Nature announces to us a terrible tempest. or a deso lating earthquake. Ah ! should the infamous op. 'pressor succeed in keeping up Your illusion, the day will soon arrive when, exhausted by vicissitudes, with out strength eind without hope, you will know too well that he has t n'y preserved you for a sacrifice. Then you shall See yourselves reduced to a herd of slaves, victims of your credulity and want of foresight, to i whom there will no longer be either national repre-; sentation or laws, or country, or religion, or customs. You will be led as wild beasts through every corner I of the world, to serve as instruments to the insatiable i ambition of a monster, who regards the human species as destined to be the humble footstool only to the throne of his greatness ; and sometimes, among the number of those against whom your arms will be di rected, you will find your friends, your brothers, even your fathers, and your dear unfortunate sons. Asturians, see here the result which the enemy ex pects from your credulity and his delusive snares ! Will you staffer him longer to flatter himself with such hopes ? Ah ! fly, fly, I. entreat you, from the deceit ful song of this syren, whose only aim is to sink you into an abyss of misfortune. Trust not, for a moment her deceitful promises, nor consider those barbarians! in any other light than they deserve, the destroyers of the human rice. Endeavour only to annihilate cr • to expel them from your territory, and from the Pe-1 ninsula, in which sacred and patriotic object we all severally can and ought to co-operate. The vigorous youth will fulfil their duty by hastening to unite themselves with the illustrious defenders . of the coun try,. who, overcoming :ill obstacles, have for so long, a time pursued, harassed, and consumed the forces of the enemy which oppress the province : the rich .and powerfal (unless they wish to lose every thing); by geaereusly devoting to the wants or the country; veliatevei surplus they have remaining, after the sup- I ;sly of their necessities ; the wise and learned men, distinguished by their information and knowledge, by communicating toalie public their enlightened views t i by .correcting opinion, and hit orming the people of 7 their true interests; in short, the venerable ecclesiastics, the old and feeble, the fair sex, and all those that are , absolutely incapable of bearing arms, will fulfil not i ' les their duty to the country by imploring the aid oil OsisreoTExce in behalf of cur independence, and in promoting that holy reform of life and manners in which we aught to place all our confidence. Asturians, in the name of tl)e legitimate Govern , mein, I exhort you to this heroic resolution. The Superior Junta offers you whatever assistance is in i l their power to promote your success, and wall not 1 I fail to recommend your several seivices to the Save. I , reign Authority. Cheerfully obey it, and those il lustrious Chiefs who direct you, that under their pa t ternal auspices, and by means cf your own active es- .ertions, you may effect the extinction of every one of] those vile hypocrites who infest your soil, intreatinil you to hilieve• that lizaarstx, nqw the declared Pro- 1 tector of our cause, will one day abundarktly reward . , . ...._ . . 1 your glorious labours ; and that a grateful country ; the ground that the people of Malaga w ere v i rtually will hereafter crown you with, laurels , and transmit Frenchmen, had plundered all the villages i n t h e t.1.,1 to posterity eternal monumenti of your heroic valour, ` neighbourhood, and among others Velez __ „„„ tga. fidelity, constancy, and patriotism. about five leagues from the port whence the letter's are dated. No new contributions had been raised In the name of the Superior Junta of the Principa it , contagiousa UG Us T d 2 i s 3 O . lity. (Signed) , PEDRO MIRANDA FLOREZ, SEC. . Castropol, September 3,1810. since the date of the last communications, which wtr o FROM THE COR.UNNA DIARY. of the Bth ultimo. F Prt or iv a A b T ou E t to add, The third letter of those which werelast intercepted i LE the T i r as E t ß six — weeks M s N a and transmitted by General Mahy, is, in our opinion, ~ the most interesting, although the rst letter, which has appeared in our army, but I am happy d i sorder was written by Mortier to' his Emperor, sufficiently manifested the jealousy which existed among some of that it has not yet spread to any great extent. We the Marshals (fortunately for us) and the little hope have about 500 who are sick with it in the hospitals, they entertained of the Spanish war, their dislike to and perhaps about 70 men have ,d . d b died, but a great continue it, and their wish to retreat. The second number of those who are attacked recover. Tile wep also well describes the hardships, privations, and weak ness which the army suffer ; but the third tells more t h ey here has been oppressively hot, and so continues, than any, and appears to be written by a person of no but in a short time an alteration for the better must mean capacity. We believe the people, on reading take place, should it not we have reason to dread the it, and reading it with attention, will think like our- continuance of this fpver with increased ma gnay. selves. It is as follows : 1 " Murat has abandoned for the present, at last, iris " Colonel F. has brought me tidings of your dear Julio ; I learned with pleasure that you were in good enterprize against this island, but his troops remain health and happy, which does not surprise me ; you posted, to the number of 40,000 men, on the oppos:;e deserve it, and you never can be mere so than I wish shore from Cape Vattican to Reggio, a • nd convoys you. I oweou many thanks for the favours you have done m e in my affairs with the officers of hem - are coming down the coast from frequently intercepted by our ships of war. 4 The burg. It will require some labour to succeed , but I enemy `will do my utmost; it was unworthy of the officers. has lately attained considerable dexterity in the ma - 41 I congratulate you on serving under General nagement of these convoys,. so as to keep. them pretty Dumas, who is my friend, and who esteems me close in shoie. much. I have not yet received any letter from him, + "By the arrival of a small vessel the day before but they May have missed their way • for in this I precious country, those couriers are lucky who escape ' yesterday at this port, we learn that 17 vessels we r e the Spanish rebels,who infest the rearguard, the vanguard, I destroyed on the 18th belonging to Joachial's flotilla, and theflamer of Me army. I beseech you to call me to but they are worth nothing. We likewise took two his honourable recollection, and hope that he will : o f his gun-boats, and about 80 men. This is only grant my request. If I cannot get into your corps, I j one of the numerous successful engagements in which do not know what will become of me. Really I can 1 Ido no more, my health no hunger supports me, which i our sailors acquit themselves Is ith the greatest gal, renders my immediate retirement. now necessary.-41antry, and generally with deserved success. 1 This climate quite exhausts all my physical and mo- gg The state of matters.here is very uncomfortable, ral faculties. It is proper to keep silent, or I might as we have no dependence on the natives, and we are relate wonders. , obliged to keep ourselves pretty much together, as 66 In short, if we have come . to ravage and destroy Spain, the army will sink under its labour, this is all. the lower classes of the Sicilians are great thieves, jWe are anrlng a fierce and exasperated people. Half and rob whenever they can do it with security. the fields have not been sown this year, and I foresee 4t The sickness, of which I spoke before, does not ithat the next will be worse. All labouring oxen have much affect the Officers ; but the service we are eme i been consumed, and every wood and every mountain contains a body of insurgents; and in half the towns Ployed on is one of great fatigue, as there is not au : and villages which have not been abandoned we hive instant when the guard is omitted, although the de. as many enemies. lam not ignorant or this, and our monstrations on the part of the enemy have been dis• !conquests lam afraid will become troublesome to us ; continued." but we must attack an evil in its cause we most esta- mom •••••••••••• blish discipline in the army, and suppress pillaging. This evil is our greatest danger. It was this thirst for money which destroyed the invincible legions of Rome. We ought to renovate our Government, wh:ch should be one; and every &vision and every corps'should no longer be a distinct ar my. We should respect men and property, and, above all, their wor ship, not to profane the churches, bu. Parcere subjectos, debellare superboa. Our not doing so renders all we have done to no pur pose. The reduction of one city or fort is of little consequence to this nation. Its strength and resist ance give us the utmost horror; and our misconduct has excited their utmost disgust. COTTENBURGH MAIL. -Four Gottenburgh Mails arrived this miming, bat the contents of the Papers which they bring itre un usually dull and uninteresting. We regret, howeVer, to state the capture of the Alban cutter, in the Baltic, by six Danish gun-boats, after a gallant action.—The Swedish Papers are again filled with fulsome details respecting the Prince of Pons Convo, the new Crown .Prince. OREBRO, SEPTEMBER as. Count Rosen. one of 'the Nobles who composed the. Deputation sear by the Diet to announce to the Em. peror Napoleon, and the Prince of Ponte•Corvo, that 'the choice of Crown Prince had unanimously fallen on the latter, returned here yesterday. We are as. sured that the Deputation was received iii a most distinguished manner by both of these illustrious per. sonages, and that the Emperor Napoleon not only expressed his perfect assent to the Prince's acceptance of the digni.y offered him, but has written a letter of felicitation to his Majesty on this happy event. The Prince has also addressed a letter to his Mi• jesty on the same occasion. ' His Royal Highness would, it was said, leave Paris fourteen days after Count Rosen. The departure of his Majesty for Stockholm has been postponed. His Majesty's sh;p ---, Wing° Sound, Sept. 27. The Alban cutter, of 12 guns, was capture! on the 12th inst. off the gcaw, by six Danish gunboats, ______ I carrying 10, 21, and 18, and 8 six-pounders, after A letter from the POMONE frigate, dated at Malta, ' an active of four hours. in which the Lieutenant and August 31st, after ticttila.g part of the information to one man were killed and three wounded. o‘ving 411 appe :red in the STAR on Friday and Saturday its being a dead calm, the Alban could not close last, states, that LUCIEN BONAPARTE is coming to with the enemy. England in the Postnee, together with all his family i OREBRO, SEPTEMBER 24. and property, and that he will have his choice of I His Royal Majesty was this day pleased, at an Et• either remaining in this ceuritry or proceeding to ' traordinary Meeting of the Chapter of the Seraphiae America. ' Order, to create Prince John Baptist Julius, elected ICrown Prince of the Kingdom of Sweden, a Knight 11 a vessel ywhich arrived yesterday from the coast " of the above Order, investing him, at the same tin* -of Portugal, a letter has bent received from Niana, . with the right of wearing the Grand Cross of the [deted the ,i2Bth ult. in which it is said that on the 24th Order of the Sword and North Star. :there was a smart skirmish between the rear-guard of i The Principality of Ponte Corvo is situated in the Lord WELLINGTON and the van of Messese. Neapolitan province of Terra di Lavois, en the freer: We have also received, throirglr Portugal, an ace: tiers of Campagna de Romana. The chief elite * count of some military operations in Spain, during the principality, called in Latin Pontur Coca , is a which the French abandoned Daroca and Calatayud. small inconsiderable town on the river Gargeglisuur The French who were in Castorin and its neigh- one mile from Aquino, and . two miles from the CO"" bourhood assembled in Lusa Major, when the infest- vent of Cassino. try and cavalry filed off for Portugal, and the artil- i PETERSBURGH, AUGUST 25. Moldy lery by the gate of Berales—all destined for the army I The Commander in Chief of the Army of • under MASSENA. 1 via has transmitte d from his heed-quarters, r ear the • t moth , The French troops which occupied Lerina, Bienve. fortress of Rudschuc k, dated the 26th of l as t port rec eived from nida, Ste. have withdrawn by the road of Guadalcana stating , that , acco r d in g to a re Ira; and Constantina. Major-General Count Zucaroff, Ceerni George _ Letters from Madrid state that Joann had gone tierce attacked by the Turks , on the 29th nines : from thence to Saragossa. July, in Baia, but that the latter w ere both ti . Near Miedas, 11 Spanish soldiers concealed them. pulsed by the Servians with their accustomed g selves in some corn, and from their ambuscade et, try, and compelled to retreat with great loss. tacked 20 French, out of whom they killed 6, and FRANKFORT, SEPT. 111. took an equal number of prisoners. His Serene Highneot the G rand Duke of Frank" on the We have some late letters from Malaga, by way of ordered, on the 12th inst. the Decree issue d .e. Gibraltar, of the 16th September, which contradict 17th Jane, 1809, to prevent ern; grations froniotihie lea : the statement that Senaseteer had withdrawn any banks of the Rhine, to be republished, it is "_ f _ itrat a part of the garrison of that place, for the purpose of • of The Fwnch Government having Insde rP confer' himself to meet 8 1,4112. The rattiots, on teloymotations, that i the coo WY ei -- ch e THE EVENING Kl'Ait. LONDON. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11. PRICE OF sTocKs THIS n%V I E eCI OCR: 3 per Cent. Cone. m oney, sqi—acc. Reduced 6; with div.-4 per Cent. 831 84, with div. Navy 5 per Cent. 98f 98-omnium 41 din. Ex. Bills Is. to 4s. prens.—BoniN I9s 203. prim. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTILRDAY. S per Cent. Cons. 6613 64 I Exch. Bells par Is pre. 5 per Cent. Navy 9114 Om:limn 51, q did. India Stock 174 Lottery Tickets €22. 15s. India Bonds 17s. 113 s. prem. Cons. Acc. 6iiii The Bank began paying the Dividends on .lit 4 per Cents. and Reduced yesterday to the Bankers This day those who had Edis were paid. 'I he Public at large will begin to receive their D.vi dends on Saturday, which is sooner by several days than the usual period. IV , THE STATE L0r1 . E . 4 WILL B' GIN AND FINISH DRAWING ON TILE 19.6 OE 1 km, MON'l H. Ily he en itd der We als, vat acs, lust the his nin )s:;e toys are any ma. Mh Fore were tilla, at an Es. he SeraphiPe ibus, elected en, a Knight e same time, Cross of the tuated in the ..n the fro. !hie( pllce Cow: , is a Gdrgegliana, .oni the Colt' ly of Mal" ers , r ear the tf last month , w ired from George was 9th and Nu' , b ot h tittles re" tooled g al " . t 101. e of FrAr kf l t p°issued " L ' s f ro m the P-T is a , f o llo: ti lade 'ti ler ;he e°l44craq