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lir- - h a s rendered him very distrustful. Tn tact, wring t h e persons put to death or banished, there are many i n dividnals who are thought zealous partizans of the revolution which has placed Sultan Mahomet on the throne of the Osmanhs. We are assured that Bache A ga , a restless man, who had always about him a troo p of people without occupation, ,and who has b e en beheaded in one of the public places, had taken t h e resolution of killing the Grand Vizier, but the project was discovered by one of his accomplices, and a n the conspirators, with their chief, were arrested. We no longer have any talking at Constantino ple of any new attempts of the English Envoy, Mr. Adair, to enter into negotiations with the Porte.— I t a ppears that the categorical answers which the Turkish government has made at different times to t h e a pplications which this Minister has made to the Di v an, has induced him to renounce his projects. We are assured that he will himself immediately re turn to England, to inform his cabinet of the bad su ccess of his negociation. The public report at Constantinople is, that the B r i t i s h . Cabinet had made some overtures to the F orte , before it had received the news of the deposi tion of Sultan Mustapha ; and that it the more flat tered itself with the hope of succeeding, as it had cor rupted some of the principal Members of the Divan. Ir was upon the intrigues of these personages that England depended for detaching the Porte from its alliance with France. To detach more easily Sultan Mustapha from France, the partizans of England endeavoured to persuade Sultan Mustapha, that it was France who bad counselled Sultan Selim to annihilate, by degrees, the Janissaries, and to create an European army ; but the revolution at Constantinople, and the elevz tion of Mustapha Bairactar to the place of Grand Vizier, deranged all these plans. Mr. Adair having heard of this revolution when at Malta, informed his Government of it, and waited new instructions. The British Cabinet employed means to gain the new Grand Vizier, and his principal parti zans; he then set out for the Archipelago, furnished with very large sums of money, but the means of corruption were destroyed, as he has retired : it has greatly suprised that his offers would not even be lis tened to. They add, that the Turkish Government is very well informed of all that England has done for the last year to sow discord on the Continent, and that the Grand Vizier Bairactar has declared, that he censiders every power who makes a common cause with England, as a lost power. It appears determined that the Turkish fleet shall Opus the Dardanelles. Many ships have already retuned to port and been laid up fot , the winter. The others will lose no time in following them. It is said that two English frigates, which were cruizing 'vale Archipelago, have returned to Malta. Smyrna and Alexandria are as little blockaded as Salonica, and it is not thought our enemies intend to renew the blockade during the winter—but the commerce and' negotiation of these seas are still disturbed by the treat number of privateers which infest them. HAMBURGH PAPERS. This morning we received a series of the 'Tam burgh Correspondent to the 30th ult. The statements of this paper, though often correct, we need hardly remark, should now be received cum grano calls. The subjoined are the only articles in these papo-1 s that de serve any attention : AMSTERDAM, NOVEMBER. 22. Our last intelligence from Batavia states, that Marshal Diendels, who has been appointed Governor of that colony, has escaped the vigilance of the English cruizers, which have lately captured ot* of our frigates, and arrived safe in Batavia. AUGSBURGH. NOV. 10. Yesterday morning a Turkish courier passed through this city on his way to Paris, attended by two Turkish officers. In the evening Prince Kurakin ar. here with a considerable retinue, and will set .ow for the French capital, where he is to Russian Ambassador. NAPLES, NOV. IR. tvirons of Vesuvius are threatened with a vi )tion of that volcano. The inhabitants of of Torre del Greco, about thirteen thousand number, have all deserted that place, which dur. last eruption, was for a considerable part co. ith lava. usTurkish offices reed here wit oat to-morrow reside as Russi The environ Cleat eruption 1 ' the town of Tc • number, ha. i • g the last ert ere d with lay: On the 17t arrieed here, c reported, that country, are t ' Duke of Auer '' time of his art' Letters frog 1 ' IK9 is not lik beginning of J General Le iia Berlin, t' an ' Her Majest °tidy indis, ices ithin a shot in this p 1 th• tha Dispatches ' ms's Offs Murdal withi HANOVER, NOV. :.,R. the 17th inst. Mr. Patje, Privy Councellor, here, on his return from Paris, and it is now that the French troops who occupied this are to be reduced to 14,000 men. The Auerstadt is expected in this place, but the his arrival is not known. Letters from Berlin advise, that his Prussian - Ma not likely to arrive in that capital before the of January. Lestocq has been appointed Governor of VIENNA, NOVEMBER 19. Majesty the Empress hits been for some days indisposed, but is now out of danger.— a short time six houses have stopped pay. this place, and about twenty in Triest. itches were last night sent from the Secretary Office to Plymouth, to be forwarded to without delay. ASSASSIRATIOIst of tits in l Y OF ALGIERS. . - By Letters Which we have this morning received from Gibraltar, dated the 23d ult. we are informed, that accounts had just reached that Garrison of ano ther Revolution having taken place in the wretc al Government at Algiers. The parti cu l ars a re o f stated, farther tha n t h at i t was e ff ecte d b y so m e o f l i the Soldiers of the Dey's Army, who had returned from Tunis.—They force their way into the Palace, and assassinated the Dey in his own apartment. ROSAS AND BARCELONA. One of our letters from Gibraltar contains the fol lowing paragraph : " GIBRALTAR, NOV. 23, MR. " A vessel, in eight days from the Bay of Rosas, reports that the French had made three several attempts on Roses to take It by storm, in which they had been defeated with great slaughter. The Master also reports that 4000 British troops from Sicily had landed near Barcelona, which was soon expected to surrender." The above accounts probably rest on the same authority as those transmitted from Lord Coiling wood, and which we have noticed in a preceding column.—We arc apprehensive that the French ac counts are later than these. Government, we understand, have received letters from Commissary MURRAY, at Corunna, dated the 9th inst. They state that Sir J. MOORE was certainly upon the retreat, but whether to the South of Spain or Portugal he had not learnt. He was himself pro paring to quit Corunna for Lisbon, and to take with him such of the supplies in his possession as he might be able to carry away. THE ARMY. The whole of the proceedings of the Board of In quiry, relative to the Convention of Cintra, is ordered to be printed, and distributed by Government. The Court of Inquiry at Chelsea is expected to make its report to his MAJESTY on Wednesday next. Among the Regiments ordered for embarkation to Spain, were the Ist Regiment of Dragoons ( Royals) and the 83d Regiment of Foot. They are at pc ese.it quartered in Dublin Garrison, and received orders to proceed to Cork with all expedition : several other , .regiments in Ireland received similar orders. It is probable, however, that orders have been sent to stop these movements, as well as those of the troops from this country. The 4th Regiment of Royal Irish Dragoon Guards is under orders for foreign service. The following Regiments are quartered as under : The 2d Battalion of the 44th—ist Guernsey. The 94th, or Scotch Brigade—at Dunbar. The 2d Battalion of the 90th.—at Armagh. The Ist Battalion of ditto—still at St. Vincent.. The 2d Battalion of the 69th—at Londonderry. The let Eattalion of ditto—still at Madras. The 2d Battalion of the 63d—at Weeley Barracks. The lit Battalion of ditto--still at Barbadpes. The 77th (Colonel Whitclocke)—at Winchester. The Carmarthen Militia—at Bristol. I • PRIVATE LETTER. " Corunna, December CO. 66 Intelligence was received at Madrid on the 27th of November, that the united army of Arragon and Andalusia, under the command of General Castanos, had been attacked at Tudela, on the morning of the 24th instant, and after an action which lasted nine. hours and a half, had been totally defeated and dis: persed. This misfortune is attributed in part to the badness of the position chosen by the Spanish Gene. ral, and in part to a division, consisting entirely of new levies, which gave way, when attacked by the French regulars, and opened to them a passage through the 4.inish army. General Castanos is said to have escaped to Calaluyud with 3000 infantry and a body of horse. Two divisions were completely dispersed, but many of the fugitives had escaped to Saragossa, where Palafox, who was not present in the action, commands, and where every preparation has been made for an obstinate resistance, if that city should be again attacked. The whole force in Saragossa, in cluding the armed inhabitants and a corps of the army which was not engaged in the battle, was cal culated at fifteen thousand men. There were some divisions of the army which had retired from the ac tion with inconsiderable loss, but it is not supposed that they have formed a junction, and one of them, that commanded by General Pena, must have fallen, it is feared, into the hands of the enemy, who were advancing against it in great force from Soria. a A considerable Spanish force (the remains of the Estremadura army with reinforcements - from Madrid) was collected at the Somo Sierra and near Madrid, which some estimate twenty thousand men, and great preparations were making for the defence of that ca pital, under the direction of Mona, the inhabitants being determined, in imitation of the people of Sara gossa, to bury themselves under the ruins of their city, rather than give it up to an enemy whose savage cruelty they have already experienced. In Leon, the Marquis of Romana has collected the scattered re mains of Blake's army, and has, according to some, seven thousand, according to others, aboutsixteen thou sand men under his command, but without shoes or clothes, and destitute of every thing. The army under Sir D. Baird was near Astorga on the 30th, the whole, of the Cavalry not having yet come up, and the in fantry having already begun their retreat. The army of Sir John Moore was at Salamanca on the 29th.— The division under General Hope, which had been ! sent round by Madrid, would be at Arevallos on the morning of the 29th, on its march to join Sir John I Moore; and as it was strong in cavalry and artillery, ' it would tend, when joined, to make his position at that place much stronger than it was before, and fa cilitate his advance, or what we fear is determined upon, secnre his retreat into Portugal. P. S. Before the battle of Tudela, the united armies of Arragon and Andalusia were estimated at fifty thousand men. The junction of the two had been effected only the nigh before the battle. NAUIICAIi INDELLICEATE. PLYMOUTH, DECEMBER IS. Came in the. Waterhouse, TAYLOR, from Gotten burgh for Bristol ; and the Onion, GIRDON, from L'Orient, in three days : The capture of the Thetis frigate by the AMETHYST, had been heard of in France before the Union sailed; but the capture was very differently reported from the true state of the case :—the French are given to understand that th 6 frigate she engaged was captured by her, but that line of battle ship, and two other frigates, bearing down upon her and her prize, after a most sanguinary conflict,,they were obliged to surrender to this supe rior force !—Sailed the STAR, of Plymouth, Captain M'WILLIAM, with a cargo of naval stores, for the Brazils. VaRTSMOUTH, DECEMBER 16. Sailed a fleet of transports, under convoy of his Ma jesty's ship NEMESIS for Spain. Wind N. E.. DOVER, DECEMBER 16. Arrived a flag of truce, vk fah Mr SIIAtV, from France. The gale abated during the night; and this day several vessels came in from the Roads ; the names of those with damage are—the HUGHES, from Newry, with provisions ; Flora, RANDALL, from Cork, with butter; lost two anchors and cables' each; Friendship, I.A.AIDERG, from Cork, with linen ; and Reliance, ANDREWS, from Poole, with oil; Fountain, JACKSON, and George, DAvisoN /both in ballast, bound to the Northward) all with . the loss of one anchor and cable each. The brig Fly which I men tioned to be in the Roads yesterday without' anchors and cables, is supposed to be gone for Portsmouth, as she is not nov: to be seen. The two East India ships - still remain in our Roads. DEAL, DECEMBER 16. Sailed his Majesty's sh:p Sr. FIOREN - 2.0 for Sheer ness. Wind E. N. E. YARMOUTH, DECEMBER le. Yesterday arrived the MAJESTIC from the Downz,l and the ONYX sloop.—Sailed on a cruize, under the command of the Hon. Admiral GAittmEß, the Bat.- LEROPHON, MAJESTIC, ARCiUKitt, STATELY, and PRIN. C'ESB CAROLNE; STARLING, ACUTE, CRUIZER, and SEALARIC.-.-.-In the Roads :—Roebuck, k A losquitn, Chanticleer, Onyx, Calypso, Leveret, Havtk, and Snipe.—Wind E. CRAVEIIEND, Dec. le.—Pcsqed by the Brothers, lealnsms, from New Ikunswick; Providence, Ingtaham, from New Provi dence; Mary and Susannah, —, and the Alphea, Hutton, from Gottenburgh.—Sailed the Paquette de Bahia, —, for the Brazils ; Jane, Hasslewood, for Teneriffe; Henry Addfngtoul Kirkpatrick ; Warren Hastings, Larkins; and the Neptune, Do naldson, for India. The sloop Diamond, Co)rsELL, from Liverpool to Clyde, has been obliged to put into Isle Ream, Sol way Frith, on the morning of 30th ult. off !tam say Bay, Isle of Man, sprung her mast in a heavy gale. Sir SANwel. Hoon is to be appointed to a command immediately. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the stations of the following ships were thus altered, viz. liort,: Carr LE, Captain -, for Bombay direct, instead of Madras acd vox s tan, Captain J. Murray, Madras and Bengal, instead of the Dover Castle. MARQUIS W2LLESLRY, Captain I.e Blanc, Ceylon and Ben gal, instead of Bombay. in the room of the Devonshire. The Court voted the pum of 10001. towards the subscription for the relief of the Spanish Patriots. The Court adjourned at six o'clock till Wednesday next. Extract of a letter from Madras, dated 15th June, 1808 —" A large French frigate, la Caroline, has „etched the Isle of France, five more a rc to follow. I *fish somefiut sailing frigates were senthere: all isweli irilndia, though we are looking anxiously to the event of the French Embassy to Persia, which has arrived some tinle ago. Colonel (now Brigadier General) I MAtcoust had set oil for Persia before Sir H. Joys arrived, which I am glad of. The capture of la Piedmontaize by the Fiorenzo, and beating off of la i Semillante by the Terpsichore, has given a momentary security to what little commerce remains." Last Sunday morning, as the' VILLE DE PARIS was zetting under weigh,' in . Cawsand Bay, the wife of one of the marines came alongside in a beat, with a 1 young child, which was handed to her husband to take a parting kiss, previous to his proceeding to sea; the marine afterwards gave the child to a sailor to return to the mother in the boat, whose toot slip ! ped, and both fell into th e wa t er . Th e f ee li ngs o f the parents can be more easily felt than described. It is truly astonishing, that the child did nos receive the i smallest injury, nor even its shoes been wetted, the sailor keeping it above water, with his arms extended, till another person jumped over-board, caught hold of the infant, and restored it to the arms of the anxi ous mother ; both the men then got safe on boitd the ship. A Lieutenapt of marines, who was on deck, ordered the mother on boa r d, till she was recovered from the effects of the accident. The Post Horse Duties were let yesterday at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, when the several rents were increased to 27,0001. and upwards, more than last year. • 'The export trade of Ireland has increased very ra pidly within the last six months ; 10,000 barrels of corn, and more than double that quantity of potatoes, have been shipped for Spain from Cork within that Pend- Saturday night a dreadful fire broke out in, the con iris or Mr. Hu on, an em'nent merchant and distiller, on Mount Brown, Dublin, by which the dis tillery, with the offices adjoining,! were totally de stroyed. Mademoiselle PROLE, the first comic dancer at the Opera House last season, died, about three weeks ago, on board the packet, as she was returning to the Con tinent. She went over to Ireland last summer with MaduntO CATALANI and the rest of the Operatical troop, but was too ill to perform once on the Dublin theatre. Her illness was a rapid decline, which car ried her off in the 18th year of her age. SMIDJIPIELD CL dot CietLE Slt Yesterday morning, Mr. SADLER'S Yard, in Gos well-street, was opened for publicly exhibiting the Cattle, Sheep, and Pigs, sent in by the candidates for the prizes of the year. MT. WILLIAM WALKER, Mr. WILLIAM WATtlnp and Mr. JOHN ROPER, three eminent graziers, were appointed Judges for awarding the prizes, which were as follow, viz.— Twenty guineas in Class 1. for the Hereford.hire breed of oxen, to Mr. Samuel Chandler, of Moreton, Bucks, for his six-year old pied 9x, bred by Mr. W illiam Walker, of Burton, Worcester shire ; and additional premium of ten guineas to the same gentle man, on account of his Ox being adjudged to be the best s h ewn , iu the firn six classes. Twenty guineas in Class IV. for the Sussex pr Kent breed of Oxen, to Mr. Edward Auger, of Eastbourne, Sussex, for his five-year old Red Ox, bred by himself. Twenty guineas In Class V. for the Devonshire breed of Oren, to Mr. Martin Webber, of Ilehester, Somersetshire, for his six year old Ox, bred by' Mr. Francis Quartley, of ivfolLmd, De vonshire. Twenty guineas in Clan VII. for large Oxen not worked, to Mr. Martin Webber, of Ilchcster, for his thtee-year old Red Devon Ox, bred by Mr. John Burgess, of South Moulton, De vonshire. Ten guineas in Class VII. for large Oxen, not Worked, to Mr. Samuel Chandler, of Morton, Bucks, for his six-year old Red Herefordshire Ox, bred by Mr. William WAlker, of Burton, Worcestershire. Ten guineas in Class VIII. for small Oxen, of any breed, to Mr. Samuel Brooks, of Wolvershill, Warwickshire, for his five yi.ar old black righland Scotch Ox. Ten guineas in Class IX. for fat Cows, having borne three calves, to Mr. Jan Westcar, of Creslow, bucks, for his six-year old Red Hereford Cow, bred by Mr. William Watkins, of Brin sop, Herefordshire. Ten guineas in Class X. for one-year old, long-wooled Wether Sheep, to the Rev. Thomas Plaskett, of Harlaxton Lodge, Lin colnshire, fbr bis three new Leicester Wethers, bred by himselE Ten guineas in Ctass XI. for two-years old long-wooled Wether Sheep, to Mr. Thomas Moore, of Tardlberg, Warwickshire, for his three new Leicester Wethers, bred by himself, from a ram of Mr. Thomas Chapman, of Fenny Drayton, Leicestershire. Ten guineas in Class XII. f or one-year old short-wooled Wether Sheep, to his Grace the Duke of Bedford, for his three Southdown Wethers, bred on his Maulden Farm, in Bedfordshire. Ten guineas in CIASS XIII. for, two-year old short-wooled We ther Sheep, to Mr. Henry King, jun. of Plaistow, Essex, for his three South-down Wethers, bred by Mr. John Ellman, of Glynd, Sussex. Ten guineas in Class XIV. for Pigs under two-yeats old, to Mr. John Roads, of Aston-Abbots, Buck►, for his black and white Berkshire Sow Pig, 54 weeks old, bred by Mr. John West. bropk, of Pinkney's-green, Hens. Ten guineas in Class XV. for -Pigs under one-year old, to Mr. John. Ha'.sard, of Brocker, Ilerts, fur his white half-bred Chini and Suffolk Pig, 48 weeks old, bred by Lord Melbourne, of Brocket•HaU,,.Herts. The Judges, by a special note annexed to their aviard, ailed the attention oT the' Club and the Corn. pasty to theircellent qualities of Mr. Thomas Crook's three-year old Scots Ox, in Class VIII. ; as also to the high perfection of Earl Macclesfield's, Mr. John Edmond's, and Mr. William Boultbee's pens of two . shear new Leicester Wether Sheep, in Class XI. ; 1 also to the pen of one-vear old new I eicesters, be. - longing to Mr. Thomas Oldacre's, in Class X. The great number of animals shewn this year pre -1 eludes our going particularly into the others exhibited. At three o'clock, such Gentlemen as are Members of the Club adjourned to Freemasons' Tavern, where a meeting was held—Lord SOMERVILLE in the Chair. Sir JOSEPH BANKS attended, and read to the Com- pany a. Memorial, intended to be presented to the Board of Trade, soliciting the support of Government in removing the dreadful damage and mischiefs which arise to individuals, and to the public, from the con fined and crowded state of Smithfield Market, and total inadequacy, intersected as it is by various great thoroughfares for carriages, to accommodate the in creasing number of cattle, sheep, and pigs sold there, atnotinting to the enormous sum, as it stated, olio: milliens sterling annually. The necessity of this mode of proceeL:ing is stated to arise from the City of Lon don having spent seven years in ineffectual attempts and schemes for enlarging this important market, whose extent remains the same now, as it was in the days of William the Ccrai uer6r. , At the conclusion of reading this memorial it w I handed round the room, and received the signature of the gentlemen present. At five o'clock near thirty Gentlemen sat down to a most sumptuous dinner—Lord SOAIERViLLE ill tile Chair. TREATRES.—Both Houses were last night filled with elegant company ; and at each there was a little novelty. At Drury-lane, Mr. MARSHALL, who ori ginally appeared at Covent-Garden Theatre with considerable eclat, and once or twice about a year ago performed at that Theatre his old character of Bagatelle in the Poor Soldier, came forward on this stage for the first time as Cattain Melville in ROsina, He supported the character with ability and effect ; ap pears to be well acquainted with the business of the stage, and promises to be at least an useful actor. At the Haymarket, Mr. YOUNG preferred new and forcible claims to public approbation, in the part of Ruben Glenroy, in the Comedy of . Town and Country, and was deservedly applauded throughout. The other principal characters were also well sustained. 1 After the Comedy, a new Ballet, called The Double Wedding, was performed. It - is a pleasing trifle, and promises to become a general favourite. Mademoi selle NORA in the Opera, exhibited her agile graces with great effect ; as did also the Misses ADAMS, and Master OSCAR BORNE, and RIDGWAY. The principal novelty was the introduction of a female child, only five years old, from Liverpool, and who by her agility and taste seemed to astonish the audience. She trod the boards with the experience of a veteran, and was received with much applause. The house was the most crowckd of the season, and the audience staid till the last moment, to enjoy the chaste humour of TOBIN'S Muse in The School for iluthorr, with the ae.- mirable reading of Morose, &c. The Captain of the Friends tran , port is in confine ment at Lisbon, for the murder os a youth only 14 years ct age,. whom he inhumanly stabbed dirk o n the Bth of October, and the youth expired on the 14th of the same month. ECCLESIASTICAL and ACADEMICAL PROMOTIONS. The Rev. Wm. Layng, A. M. Vicar of St. Laurence in the city of York, has been presented by Earl Fitzwilliam, to the United Vicarages of Great and Little Harrowden, N-rdsamptonshire. causal:3oz, Dec. 16.—This day the Senate being assembled in full congregation, It was voted, in consequence of a Grace offer ed to the Caput, that the Rev. Dr. E. D. Clarke be appointed Professor of the science of Mineralogy. This is the first instance of a Mineralogical Professor in the University. On the sth instant, in full Senates Academicus, the University of Edinburgh conferred upon the Rev. W. B. Collyer, of Peck ham the degree of Doctor of Divinity, as a tribute of approbation of his Lectures on Scripture Facts.