Star. — London, England, 1822-12-02 00:00:00

• i~ , • , THE EVEN' N 1: STA R. LON DON. l ib , II MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1822. - • THE FUNDS. STOCK MECO A NGE,,TWELVE O'CLOCK. Coneols opened this morning at 90/ to 91. It was soon afterwards known that an Express had arrived from Paris, and that the French Funds had fallen t0 . 87f. 50c. and Spanish 571. A thousand rumours were immediately circulated as to , the cause of this depression, but we believe that it was occasioned by..l mischievous but ridiculous report in Paris, that a respect able first rate English Broker had failed on our 'Change! that two Others had been sent to jail; and that our Stuck Exchange was shut up. This rumour was no doubt circulated for the purpose of influencing the Funds, as it was settling-day for the Foreign Fonda. The fall in the French Stock had some effect on our market, and Consols are, up to this hour, at 801 for the Account, and for Money 80 I. romans MIDS. The Express from Paris has also influenced this market, and caused a depression on all Foreign Funds this morning, and the market appears very heavy. New Spanish Bonds opened this morning at 58, afterwards fell to 571. The market has not yet recovered from the severe shock it felt -on Saturday last, owing to the immense failures. At the Stock Exchange, it is under stood there is not one defaulter of any consequence. Current Prices :—Chilian 66, New Spanish 57.1.1, Old docking doing, New Prussian 861 I, Old 861, Russian 654, Danish 90}1, Neapolitan 761, Colombian 791, New Spenish_Serip6l to 1 dis. STOCK EXCUANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. Every Broker, to the credit of the Stmt Exchange, notwith standing the fluctuation in Consols, paid up his differences on the but settling day. The Market is rather heavy. Consols are 11011 for Money, and 801 for the Account, and it appears the general opinion that they will be worse. TOWLIGN MA SEEL A number of parties who have been absent since the 15th ult. have made their re-appearance this morning upon the Royal Exchange, but they of course find it difficult to do any business. Prices remain the same. PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 246 1 /2 216 3 per Cent. Reduced 79 3 / 4 1 A Vs .1; per Cent. 6onsols 80 1 / 4 3 / 4 1 / 2 3 per Cent. 91 1 4 I A-4 per Cent. 97 1 4 t it 4 per Cent. New 101 1 /g 101 1011/4 . Bank Long Annuities 201/4 Vs India Bonds 41s. 375. Excheq. Bills (El ,000) 4s. 6s.—Small es. Bs. Consols for Acct. 81 % soy, 31. The French Papers of Thursday have reached us. Their principal interest relates to Spanish affair.— The cause of the Insurgents seems nearly at an end. Mina, it is admitted by the Ministerial Journals, tras made himself master of the city of Urgel, but they add that the garrison, 1000 strong, had .retired to the citadel. This force is known, from other and more impartial sources not to exceed half that num ber ; but even these, according to the Constitutionnel of Thursday, have been abandoned by their leader, the Baron d'Enokrats. He. is said at first, to have entertained the intention bf defending the fort to the last extremity, but had since retreated towards the valley of Andorre, a territory the right of which is in dispute between France and Spain, and had sent on the Records of the Regency to Llivia, which place is now described as a neutral State, but which is at all events wholly _surrounded by the French territory.. But the commercial letters quoted by the Constitutionnel, place the Regency in a still more desperate condition: they state that General MINA had gained a decisive victory over the remains of the .Army of the Faith, and that all those troops who bad neither been taken prisoners nor joined the ranks of the Constitutionalists had taken refuge at Llivia. More than half the Baion's troops, it is said, have joined MINA, who has also captured large stores of arms and ammunition provided by the Regency. MINA'S army in Catalonia is 'stated at 80,000 men. The Journal des Debats applies a very proper term to the extracts which it inserts from the Diario d' Urgel, in stating that it has culla the most curious among them—and curious enough they are. One is a decree from the Regency, or late Regency, an nouncing the departure of that illustrious body from Leo d'Urge}, and assigning all sorts of. reasons but the true one. The difficulty of the means of trans port among the mountains induces the Regents to try a second range of mountains ; then the impotsi. bility of accommodating such " an isseinblage" of General and other officers, as well Spanish as " fo reign," who come to fight under the standard of the Faith; compels the Court 'of Urgel to retire from that city, and to enlarge its quintets by residing in the village of Llivia—a little place enclave, as the diplomatic people call it, or, in other words, almost surrounded by the French territory. However, the truth peeps out from a paragraph of the Faithful Gazettes of the 18th of Novgmber, which affirm that the Constitutional Colonel Coira (this had 'reached the public previously through other quarters) left Barcelona a week before with two thousand men, to join Mixst.s at Vich ; and, it was feared, to steal a march upon Spanish Cerdagne, in which case these 'officers might have got behind the Regency had they temained at Urgef; or *caught them had • they re; treated no further than Puycerda. The official intelligence from large' itself admits, that after some fighting in the Conque de Trempe, MINA had driven EaoLLES from that, his last tenable position, and had entered Talaru, where it is alleged (though with an expressive doubt of the veracity of the tale) etiar i the.private residence of the COMmander of t h e kaltbid had been burned to ashes.. •, • iltat such excesses should be committed at any • • • • , din, would be subject of regret, but they are isie-1 parable from civil-warfare, and are rightfully charge- . Ole upon those Who, acting as base mercenaries to a foreign Power, or seeking (as we have heard was the cisse'with EROLLSS) to wreak their own personal ven geance on their enemies, have 'first lighted the torch of . insurrection. The*wife and family of EROLLIS had, according to letters from St. Beat, fled . tOviards the frontier, and on the 19th were to seek an asylum in the French village of Fos. MINA was on Sunday (November 17) at Real, a small town, within about two days' march of the frontier, at the bead of Six teen thousand men, the whole force under his orders in Catalonia only being 30,000. That, be it recol lected; is within 10,000 men of the reported strength of the French Army of Observation, with which it has been proposed to conquer Spain ! Two battalions from the interior had recently joined TORRIJOS at Vittoria, to assist his operations iu Navarre. &arta, the arch rebel, so long resident at Bayonne, has been ordered to betake himself to Toulouse, where the Trappist now is. • Accounts from Bayonne have been received to the 23d ultimo. The arrival of Toanuos at Vittoria had breathed new life into the military organization . of that proviOce. His first measure appears to have been a minute inquiry into the situation of the fifth district, in which he was about to operate, by calling together the Commanders of the troops and the Poli tical Functionaries, at head-quarters. The field di vision of General TONRIJOS amounts to 4,000 men. An energetic Address and Remonstrance to the in habitants was published by this active Officer on the 18th ; and annexed to it was a General Order, nearly a transcript, as is !fated, of hltwa's Proclamation from Castelfollit. An action, on a small scale, had taken place between JULIAN SANCHEZ, one of the Lieute nants of TORRIJOS, acid JAUNITO, a rebel Chief, in which the latter was defeated. O'DONNEL was looked for by the insurgents of Navarre. MINA and MILANS are declared in these accounts to be co-operating against the enemy ; the latter officer having moved on the 10th from Vich (probably after the junction e of his reinforcement from Barcelona). MINA'S imme diate force is estimated, as before, at 15,000 or 16,000. FSZNCH FUND* ON Wzonssnsv.—Five per Cents. opened at 139 f rose to 119 f. 30c. and closed at 89f. At a later hour than the issuing of the printed list, 5 per Cents. rose to 89f. 35c. Letters from Verona of the 19th ult. state; that the rising of Congress is definitively fixed for the Bth instant; It is at last resolved that there shall be no general declaration, or official document, with regard to Spain, issued by that Assembly ; even the expe dient of addressing separate Notes to that Power by each of the Members is said to be abandoned. All the Ambassadors accredited to-the Court of Madrid , will receive instructions to remain in that capital Only so long as a particular course of proceeding is main tained by the Spanish Government ; and that devi ated from, immediately to demand their passpoiti. Saturday, at the early hour of one o'clock, a tribi net Council was held at the Foreign Office, in Down ing -street, which was attended by the LORD Criatt- CELLOR, the Earl of HA EROWBY, Earl of LIVERPOOL, Earl of WESTMORLAND, Viscount' SIDMOUTH, Mr. PEEL, Mr. CANNING, Earl BATHURST, the CHANCEL LOR of the EXCHEQUER, Viscount MELVILLE, Mr. ROBINSON, Lord MA RYBOROUGH, and Mr. WYNN, which were all the members of the Cabinet, except the Duke of WELLINGTON, who is abroad,. and Mr. BRAGGE BATHURST, who is not in London, and was considered a very numerous assemblage of the mem bers of the Cabinet at this season of the year, espe cially as Parliament is not sitting. The Cabinet con tinued in deliberation till nearly half-past six. Some of the members left at a quarter before six. The members received the summonses to attend on Thurs day night, which were ordered to be issued by Mr. CANNING. The Earl of LIVERPOOL and the CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER came to town to attend the Cabinet . from their residences at Combe-wood and Blackheath, to which places they returned after the ' breaking up of the Cabinet. • Friday, the Lords of the Council assembled at the Council Office, Whitehall. There were present the Earl of HARROwBY, Earl BATHURST, Lord STOWILL, Lord COLCHESTER, Sir JOHN NICHOLL, and Mr. BECKETT. The subject under discussion was that of Mr. Serjeant RouGH, which was at length finally de termined after six days' discussion. Mr. BAcErmusE acts as Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs: he franks, &c. but has not been formally or officially appointed, by being introduced to the KING, &c. t The Gazette of Saturday night contains the lip pointment of JOH WHO% Esq. Advocate, tollie Ace of Solicitor-General for Scotland. This is the Gen . - tleman who, it will be recollected, was last Seliion called to the Bar of the House of Commons t for an' alleged breach of privilege, in a letter to Mr. Am caomair on the subject of the Beacon and Serifinei Newspapers. ' • The Court at St. James's is to be held in the New . Rooms for the first time on St. George's Day. • The access to St.- James's Palace will be Airy much improved, when the road to it, by the tide or Marlborough House, is thrown open. This morning the London Sessions commetned Rt Guildhall, before the Right Honourable the toms MAYOR, Sheriffs, and Aldermen Sir RICHARD Carta GLYNN, GA RRATT, SCHOLEY, the RECORDER, and other City Officers. The Grand and Petit Jury yeing sworn in, the. ourt proceeded to some trials of *as sault not of any great importance. The Admiralty Sessions, for the trial of offentes committed on the high seas, were held this morning, before the Right Hon. Lord STOWELL, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, and Sir CH RISTOPtiIiR ROBINSON. There were only font prisoners for trial. Two of them, of the names of Parker and Haulier . , were convicted of a disgusting . offence ' and were sen tenced to one year's imprisonment in Newgete, and to be twice privately whipped. The trial of two - men for attempting to . tcirttie a vessel was postponed until next'Adailtalti siiishipse and the prisoners admitted. to 64: • ••• ' • . • • • • • •• • ••, .THE ARNITim. • • , a. 41 • Friday, Arrived .. at Pomona*, the - he:yid transport. Lief. S. I'. Pant-WARD, Agent, inonl the ha ting three Companies of Royal Artillery on rd, nine rem at the Army, IRO privates, o invalid*, gg women, 62 children, and five prisoners, taken on board at Zairte Corfu, Malta, and Gibraltar : they left Malta the 17 th October, and Gibraltar the NoVeinbee The following OfOcers are passengers Liru tenants WvArt, Twain's; La w sauce, KNOWLIVI, and Assistant- Surgeon Coosa, Artillery; Capt. Kew', and Lieut. Eason, 28th Regiment ; Capt. PIACOCZE, 36th Regiment ; Lieut. Games, R. N. to join the William and Mary Dublin yacht; and Lieut. Ilaatovr, IL N.—The Intrepid has brought home Naval, Ord nance, and Victualling Stores. The 68th Light Infantry, quartered in Canada and the 3td Regiment, in the Mediterranean, have subscribed to the relief of the poor of Ireland : the former, Jett. 6s. 11d. the latter 3E26. 111 s. 9d. • The ship Echo, which sailed from Cowes on the 16th ult. hav ing detachments of the 33d, nth, 91st, and 92d, put into Brix ham, in distress, having been out during the late tremendous gales. (CIRCULAR.) War-Office, Department of Accompts, Nov. 16, 1822. Sta—lt having been found that Collectors of Taxes have been in the habit of demandiiig and receiving payment in advance fur the Tax of Officers' I iorses kept for the public service, lam di rected by the Secretary at War to state that in fdture such pay ments are not to be made in advance, but only- at the periods prescribed by the Act of Parliament ;-,-thit the duties to b, paid in one year are charged according to the number of horse' kept in the year preceding; that is to say, the duties assessed for the year ending sth April, 182.1, are calculated according to th. number of horses kept in the year ended sth April, '1822. I am to add that the first quarterly payment of the tax fro horses kept between sth Aprll, tll2l,.and sth April, 182 X, i not liable to be made until after the 20th June, 1822; and th future quarterly payments are to be made in like manner after' 20th September, 20th December, 1822, and 20th March, 1824' following. lam further directed-to state, that when Regiments proceed upon foreign service, a return is to be furnished to this Depart ment, with reference to this Circular, sheeting the number Pt horses for which the tax is liable to be demanded for each Offi eer, from the date to which the last payment was made to the date of embarkaiton, annexing the proper certificate of the Of. liter, spewing what horses were kept for the public service only. I am, Sec. LAU. SULIVAN. Officer Commanding ---- Regiment of ---. hlntosasoom—His Manny has directed that Lieutenant-. Colonels of the Line, not having the Army Rank of Colonel; who may exchange with Lieutenant-Colonels and Colonels of the Life Guards; and Majors of the Line, not having the Army sank of Lieutenant-Colonel, who may exchange with Majors and Lieutenant-Colonels of those Regiments, ate not, by such exchanges, to obtain the rank of Colonel and Lieutenant-Colo nel respectively, without the special authority of the Kute, as in other cases of Brevet Rank. Mnaoaanoult.—All Officers upon the list of Retired Full Pay, are (after the 24th December, 1822), to make the declara tion requiied front Officers upon. Half-pay, as to their not hold- 1 ing any other place or employment of profit, civil. or military, under his blanurv, or in the service of any other Government, in addition to the decimation heretofore required, that they are entitled to such Retired Full Pay. MILITARY PROMOTIONS. WAR-OFFICE, NOv. 29, 1822, 3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Captain the Honourable George Ralph Abercromby, from half-pay of the 12th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice St. Leger Hill, who exchanges, receiving the difference. 4th Ditto—To be Lieutenants—Lieutenant JamesWemyss,from . half-pay of the 68th Foot, vice Alexander Scott Broomfield, who exchanges, receiving the difference; Lieutenant Honour able Henry Dundas Shore, from the 11th Light Dragoons, vice Amyatt, who exchanges. lit Regiment of Dragoons—Thomas Beaumont, Gent. to be' Cornet, by purchase, vice Lord Muncaster, appointed to the 10th Light Dragoons. ' 4th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieutenant-Colonel Nathan: Wilson, from the 17th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant-Cu., kmel, vice James Hay, who retires upon half-pay 17th Light Dragoons; Cornet George Robbins to be Lieutenant, without , . purchase, vice Lindsey, deceased. 18th Ditto —Captain Valentine Jones Grzme tube Majnr, by purchase, vice Stapylton who retires ; Lieutenant William, C. Hamilton to be Captain, by purchase, vice Grzme ' • Cor net Charles Stuart Wortley, to be Lieutenant, by purchase; vice Hamilton, To be Cornets, without purchase—Ensign John Surman, from half-pay Ro yal York Rangers(Riding-master) ; Cornet Low ther Augustus John Lord Muncaster, from the lst Dragoons, vice Wortley. 11th Ditto—Lieutenant Augustus Amyatt, from the 4th Dra goon Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice Shore, Rho exchanges. Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—To be Ensigns and Lieutenants, by purchase—Ensign Frederick Peter • Dame . Radcliffe, rom the 90th Foot, vice Lord Chetviynd, who retires; Hon. Samuel Trench Henley Ongley, vice Amherst,' appointed to the 59th Foot. Ist Regiment of Foot—Captain Charles Deane, from half-pay of the 24th Light Dragoons, to. be Captain, vice Matthew • Ford, who exchanges, receiving the difference. sth Dittd—Lieutenant William Clone from half-pay of the 63d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Willi am Carruthers, whose ap pointment has not taken place. 7th Bitto--Lieutenant Henry Keane Bloomfield, from the 59th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Ricketts, promoted in 79d Foot. 10th Ditto—Ensign and Adjutant Thomas L. L. Galloway to have the rank of Lieutenant. 17th Ditto—Ensign Charles A. Young to be Lieutenant, by • purchase, vice Crawley, promoted. 19th Ditto—Captain Gonville Brombead, front the 54th Foot, to be Captain, vice Cox, who exchanges. 20th Ditto--Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Bunbury, from half pay of the 83d Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice . Maitland, appointed to the 84th Foot. 39th Ditto—Captain Joseph Wakeikld, from the half-pay of the 19th Light Dragoons, to be Oaptiin, vice Ablathar. Hawker, Who exchanges. 411th Ditto—lieutenant Alexander Campbell to be Captain, wAtheut purchase, vice Henuiworth, deceased ; Ensign Robert' Campbell to be Lieutenant, vice Campbell. 534 Ditto—Ensign Thomas Hill has been permitted to resign his commission. 54th Ditto--Captain William Cox, from the 19th Foot, to 4e, captain, vice Bromhead, who e xchanges.. 55th Dino--lieutenant William Kemp to be Captain, withal& purchase, vice Loftie, deceased ; Ensign William Macdonald to be Lieutenant, vice Kemp; Chartes.Mills, Gent. to be Bili sign, vice Macdonald. 511th Ditto--Lieutenant Hop. Jeffery Amherst, from the Ist or Grenadier Foot Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice Bloorafiekt, appointed to the 7th Foot. 72d Ditto—Lieutenant Charles Ricketts, from the 7th Foot, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Trappe. who retires. 84th Ditto—Colonel James Maitland, from the 20th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Henry Daubeny, who retistas. upon half-pay of the 83d Foot. • 84th Ditto—Lieutenant Henry Aleunder, from half-pay oFthi llth Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Grenville.Pigce, who exchanges, receiving the difference. 90th Ditto—William Beatty, Gent. to be Ensign, by porches% ;rice Radcliffe, appointed to the lit or Grenadier Foot Guards. Ist Royal Veteran Battalion—To be Captains—Captain Wile ham. Alexander Craig, from half.pay of the York Chessman., vice 14•Intyse, placed on the Retired List; Captain James Waller Saran, from lialf-pay of the 64th Foot, vice ChisisOins, placed on the Retired List. td Royal Veteran Battalion—Ensign Edward Crikerofroni half-pay of the.looth Foot, to be Ensign 3d Royal Veteran Battalion—Ensign John James Dwyer, front half-pay of the York Chaueurs, to be Ensign. Veteran Company—Captain James Bissett, fropa the Retired List of tius7th Royal Veteran Battalion to be Captain, vice Albert D'Alton, to be placed on the Retired List, CHELSEA aoseirat... Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel John Wilson, from balf-pay of the 77th Vint, to be Adjutant, vice Boycroft, deceased. OA &Mtn. Brevet Meior-Bisael Harvey, on half-pay of tie Ist Foot. to be Furt-blajtF it Edinburgh Cestle. vice Alves, who mita. • •",inawmAxacw. ..* • The appointment of Lieutenant alward Dem* AKerthy, (tom halivay d the 24 Osabon Bambo o vice AIN was to I ttilld West 10911 s Roghunt, and tiot to the Ole Brigade, a , , A,ocified in the Gamete of.the 113 d instant. larval'. To be. igajon in the Army—Captain Sir John William Head Brydges, serving with the Portuguese ; Captain Robert Had. Och s serving with the Portuguese ; Captain Robert Christ*. pher Hansel, on half-pay of the 93d Fast (late on the Staff at St. Helena); Captain Abraham Josiah Clone, no half-pay of the List Dragoons (on the Staff at the Cape ef Goad Hops), NAVAL'INTELLIGENCE. Friday a small vessei, belonging to Cowes, which used to trade to Swanage and back, with. stone, foundered in a squall sq the Needles, when unfortunately, two lads, sons of lime Haw, wete drowned. • A trunk, a dead goat, and es painted boards, supposed tO or be a part of a vessel's cabin _ binnacle, Were, on Wednesday night, cast on shore on the Dorm* of Balittaigne. The trunk contained some articles of female wearing apparel, and a feat books, in one of which was a receipt in the follo.ving Received from Mrs. DobeU sixty.tive dollars, for reLt of be" '.odgings to March instant." It is dated at Boston, March,l92t, aid signed " Wm. lAttle."—We eford Herald. • FALMOVTIf, Nova 99.—Wind 9.W.—.Nrrived the Stunner packet, from Lisbon, in six days. Nov. 50.—Wind W.N.W.—Sailed the following packets the Lady . Arabella, and Duke of Kent, for Lisbon; Cou ness Chichester, for the Islands ; and Camden, for the Urazils. PLYMOUTH, NOT. 50.—Wind W.— .Arrived the Vreed, Carel, from Lisbon. Remain; wind-bound, a large fleet consisting of .hove 50 sail. Potersstocru, Dec.. I.—Wind S.W.--It has blown a stron g gale the whole day, with heavy rain :—the outward-bou n d rode safety. Arri v ed Ald Intrepidvten dthe tr, fr om ra Batavia, t transport, from the alediter canran ; and Aiout 114 days, w g. h -.its of rudder and bowsprit. ' ilanwscsi, Dee.. W.S.W.—Arrived the e rtrzie, -- rom liamburgh, with ibis of anchor and cable. Sa l t e d the , y ririeese Ch ar l otte with Mails, for Cuxhaven; and Va.l.i..tart,• with Mails; for Holland. Dui., Nov. 30.—Mind W.S. W.—Came down front the !liver last night and uiled, the Melpomene, 11lowintar, for lkonbay. Arrived this morning and sailed fur the River, the I troy Perch:, CUNNINGHAM, from Madras; and Richard Reynolds, dieresis, from Jamaica . —Halfepast sx : wind W. S.W. quite moderate; the Sraaaownswx sloop of war has pat back ; the David Lyon, PURDY, for Jamaica, still keeps out. Dze.•l.Wind S.W.—Arrived early this morning and sailed for the River, the John, Bazar, front Calcutta • Pahvard, Nits- ROI, from Qu e bec; Eiiza, bLeacnasran, from Seville; Jack Tar, ANDERSON. from Jamaica; Lively, MITCHELL, from New Provi dence; and Gibson, TAUNDLit, from Berbice: the three latter vessels went into Ramsgate harbour.—Siz o'clock rat. wind W. S.W. blows hard ; Kreral•of the outward-bound have drove this afternoon, and let go-tbeir.second anchors, which appear to hold them.—Half-Pist {ix ; more moderate ; the ships in the Downs are reported to.continue well. The London, —, fur Jamaica, came down last nightind Ailed. Citszost-Housa, Nov. W.—Ships Entered Inwards : The Sir William Curtis, from Calais; Victory, from Harlingen; Iriy from Bilboa ; Lark, from Stettin; St. Helena, from Rigs; Azores, from Smyrna; Palermo, from Seville; and Hercules, from Quebec.—Cleaied Outwards : The Julius, for Sr. Kites ; Aurora, for Waterford ; Supply, for Lisbon ' • St. George, for Grenada; Ammo for 'Antigua • Gertruda, for Amsterdam; Prince of Saxe Co b urg , for: Rotter dam ; Flying Fish, for Ostend ; Three Sisters, for Rotterdam; Heworth, for the Cape of Good [Lope; and Bee, for Constantinople. PIRACY IN THE WEST INDIES. • The following is a copy of a letter from the Admiralty to the Chairman of the Ship Owners Committee, in reply to his re quest, that periodical convoys may be appointed to protect Bri tish: Commerce in the West Indies : " Admiralty Office, November 30, 1846. " Sra—Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your letter of yesterday's date, expressing the wish of the Committee of the Society of Ship wnlers, that the Ad miral on the West India star-;:, may be directed to appoint periodical convoys to sail fr. , rl Jamaica for the protection of the Trade through the Golf; auci, if it should appear nee ,alas to trail% periodical convoys to sail from the West India -I an stmmaoded by their Lordships to 'acquaint you, that or. dell to thtli effect were some time since transmitted to the Ad- Commaading on the above station. I am, Sir, your very obedient humble servant. • (Sigurd) "J. W. CRQKER. '" J, W. Buckle, Esq. Chairman of the Ship .owriers' Committee," • 1404Fai Friday night, the ship henry Porcher passe3 Portsmouth for the liiver, landing there several pas sengers, and a mail of 7000 letters. She left Bengal June. 4, Madras 17th July, and the Cape of Geed . • Hope October 3. The passengers by her are, from Bengal—Mesirs. STocitwau., -Forterrart, DORANr, HANNINGTON, and GASTIN ; from Mach:es—Messrs. ,SMART BLZMKENSOPP , WILLIAMS, and Mrs. Lowitr; from the Cape—Mr. RIVERS, of the 'twirl Engineers. The ship General Palmer was at Madras; loaded, and would sail for England about the 12th of August; the ship Mellish had left Bengal for Madras ; - the ship Commerce was at St. Helena, for England ; the General HeWitt and another.lndiaman, with the 16th Regiment of Lancers on board, for India, had ar rived at the. Cape, after fifteen weeks' passage. The Hon. Sir .IL Rwkeftwoou had left Madras in the L;AwriEn, 60, Captain. BAKER, for Trincomalee, in order to meet Commodore GRANT, in the LIFFEY.— The Admiral intended to leave the Indian command on the 12th of August. The GLASGOW frigate, Cap tain,DOTLE, had gone to Calcutta, to bring !tome the Marquis of HASTINGS.. Intelligence had been re ceived .at Madras of a dreadful- inundation of the Ganges, by which all the crops, and 100,000 people had been destroyed,. principplly inhabitants of the neighbourhood of Patna and Moorshedebad. The ,indigo crop had previously been destroyed by the stabs, and that article of commerce had risen to orKch hjgfier price than it can possibly realize in Di- . tope. No other event of importance had occurred in our Eastern possessions at the sailing of the above ship. Major-General REYNELL, who went. from Ports mouth in the GLASGOW, to assume the post of Second in COmmand at Bombay, has been appointed to the cOmnrand of the second field army at Meet ut, in the Upper Provinces of Bengal.' The Dnivien sloop of war, Captain T. WOLRIocr, captures!, on the 17th of August last, the Spannh schooner Josefa Maracayera, with 21 men, and t.IIG male slaves on board, armed with one long twent)- four-pounder. This vessel the DRIVER had ezamined a tuon4h before, in the river Bonny, when she had no Aare' pn board ; but suspecting she would attenii:t to Make. w dash out at the rime of full moon, alien the tide would allow her to get over' elicitor, the lialvskt contrived to be off the port on that night, and, fortunately, got sight of her soon a f te r s he had left the river ; the tide having then fallen, she could not regain the river ; the chacelasted'lS hours. Only one of the slaves had died, as they were shipped only two hours before the; schooner sailed. ; • The accounts from Ireland still continue to pros: t a list of daring outrages. On Saturday 'week a young snap was waylaid near Ball)•bay, and stabbed in seve eltl of the body with an instrument, supposed to have been a butcher's knife . ; dud on Monday eveniug a respectable woman, a lace-maker, was thiosvit it:to p.deep cave' by three wonrcu.