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s l r i ' '~ .\; • w .. 40) • t lA. • 'rite . f i s * \AlfklitV #7:11 411 ) •••/ Na.-N Iv rilik Pr-, • v • itt \ , (-4-e,A7( - 7", r ,ss to (;, Ni7,lltra I 1 436 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1823. FP E SEVEN-PENCE. SICKNESS IN TM, UA ITED STATES. POYAIS LOAN. NOTICE is hereby given, that the HALF YEARLY DIVIDEND of this LOAN will be paid to the Bond holders, on the Ist day of NOVEMBER next, and any subsequent day (Sundays excepted), between the hours of Ten and Two o'clock. The Dividend Warrants to be left for examination at the Count ing-house of the Subscriber, one day previous to reggiving.the Divi dend. HERMAN MNDRIKS. 7, Tokenhuuse-yard, 11th October, 1823. T AND J. SIVEWRIG HT, having already sold the V • highest Prize drawn this LOTTERY, No. 8,425,€10,000, in One Eighth add Fourteen Sixteenths, hope to have the tame good Fortune with the remaining great Prizes. being -3 . of - £20,000 1 - of - 10,000 2 - of - . 2,000 etc. &c. The Third Day of Drawing is on Tut:Roar swim, the 16th inss. when the above may be drawn, as none arc fixed for particular Days. Undrawn Tickets and Shares are on Sale at their Old and For tunate Offices ' 37, Coruhill; 38, H aymarket ; and 11, Holborn, London ; and their Agents in most principal Towns TEN GUINEAS REWARD. A BAY MARE AND BLACK PONY STOLEN. LATELY STOLEN from a field at Frimley. near Bagshot, Surrey, In the occupation of Mr. John Mathews, a BAY MARE, about fifteen hands high, with black legs, and one white hind-font, marked in the knee from a fall ; aged ; a little thick - winded ; strong make; a good roadster. When stolen, had a switch tail and long mane, and was well In flesh ; used to the saddle only. PROM THE AMERICAN PAPERS. New Yoee.—T, o physicians at New York have re ported to the Board of Health several cases of yeFo v fever, which have caused much uneasine-s in the ci;y. A letter frOm New York adds: « We are informed, it. a manner that commands our belief, that no less than Also, A BLACK MAR'S PONY, 121 hands high, or thereabouts; strong, handsome make, full neek, witk a white streak from the back down the side ; sight of right eye injured ; carries her head low ;is used to saddle or harness, and is aged. When stolen, had a switch tail and full mane, and in good condition. Whoever will give such information as will lead to the recovery of the animals, or either of them,shall receive a reward of Five Guineas for each, by application to Mr. Bruce, Royal Military Col lege, the owner; Mr..lohn Mathews, Frinlcy, Surrey; or at No. 19, Clarges-street, Piccadilly, London. Information will also be received at any of the Police. Offices in London. October 13th, 189.3. ....... eleven person have lately been seized with (his dreadful disease in this village, six of whom have died. The two last died yesterday, one of whom v, as a man living below the bank, and a child, which had been removed to the poor-house." TWO DAYS OVER. Q WITT and Co. respectfully submit to the Public the kJ &ate of the Wheel at the conclusion of the Second Day's D;aw•ing; viz. rFFIE COUNTY FIRE OFFICE AND PROW DENT LIFE OFFICE, Regent-street, were the ORI GINAL OFFICES s:•hich effected Insurances upon the principle d combining the secuti:y of an adequate permanent Capital (in addition to the fluent:Ain Funds arising from the Premiums) with the beneficial rule of returning, at stated periods, the surplus of the annual Premiums to the Contributors, after paying losses and expense s. The importmce of this improvement is acknowledged by extraordinary public approbation, and by the numerous imita tions of it which new Offices have lately otrered, and which older ones have adopted, in clinging their Constitutions. The principle is of chief value, because as it yields, by the specific sums insured, and the Return of the Surplus, the fullest value for the Deposita, persons have no reasonable motive for venturing on the lure of re dared and insufficient Premiums proposed to them by Adventurers, and which has led to frequent instances of disappointment and ruin. CAPITALS, a MILLION STERLING and upwards. SIXTY-FIVE THOUSAND PERSONS have sought Pro leaion in the COUNTY Orrice, and have found it. • CLAIMS have been Fid to Sixteen Modred Claimants. Exempt from the Expenses of Law-suits, and also from the Sa crifice of on enormous Commission to Agents, to which some New Offices submit, to induce them to canvass for business, great Aczumulations have been made. In these, Persons who now insure, y irticipate equally with the original Illembere. IinTURNS AND 20 PER CENT. in consequence, have been invariably paid to all Persons who -have continued in sured seven years, upon annual, as well as upon septennial Policies, atul whether they have been Claimants for losses or otherwise— £42,ooo have ben returned in this way to about 23,000 persons insured, within the last nine years—an important advantage which no ether Iniurance Offize existing has afforded. BONUSES of £l3. Sa. and £26. 12s. per cent have beets paid on LIFE Policies. r j - • Agents are appointed in all the principal Towns. THE BIBLE ADAPTED TO EDUCATION. T"E propriety o l introducing the Scriptures in the early stages of Education is universally felt, yet tveo difficulties have arisen ‘vhich have unhappily led , to their general disuse; first, the type of School Bibles is too small to learn to read by ; and se cond, large portions of the Volume are not adapted to the capaci ties of mere Children. To obviate these difficulties the R:v. S. %meow, Author of School Sermons, and of Questions on the Old and New Testament, has m :de a Selection of all the Narrative Parts of the Sacred Writings, and printed them in large clear type, under the title of SCRIP VURE N A ItßA'r IVES for Schools, and to render these Studies as attractive to young persons as others, he has enriched the Vo: , tme with no Engravings. It is sold at 7s. hound, with due allowance to Schools and Charities. London : Printed for F. WESTLLT, Stationers'-court, and to be had of all Booksellers. N.D. Of F. Westley may also be had, the illustrated editions of the Bibles, Te:taments, and Common Prayers—Bibles with 269 Engraving.—Testaments with 100—and Common Prayers with 64 or 72, in all varieties of bindings, and at very trifling additions to the prices of the dame Books without Engravings. Fart HUMMED QUESTIONS have been prepared on the Volume of Scrtirrcat NARRATWES, and printed in a large piano Copy Book, with Spaces for Answers, at 2s. INDIA GOODS, Ste. tAMILIES and 'MERCHANTS from abroad' are most respectfully acquainted, that INDIA SHAWLS, Sce. ate bought, sold, or exchanged, to the greatest advantage, at MILLARD and SON'S fast India Warehouses, in the City, from their immediate commu nication with the Foreign Markets ' • and purchases made of their New. Flaxen Linens (rendered of a durability which in no instance his failed), likewise of their own Patent Cloth, the most desirable to wear in both the Indies, as well as in this and the colder cli mates, being a fine substitute for the India Madras Cloth, at nearly half the price.-- - -India and British Piece Goods of every kind, in cluding the choicest Cravat Muslin, wholesale, &c. at fixed prices, from which no abatement is made, with every kind of Shawl, among which are those of the most curious ; Foreign Damask Table I Linvii and Napkins, in which the Nobility can have their arms sol)eillly introduced in the loom, to order; Foreign Russia and' (Alin ;'Marseilles Quilts; Gold and Silver Muslin.; India a.d B..kish ditto; French and Moravian Embroidered ditto; French tar:ll:ries and Lawns, as imported; Lace Shawls, Veils, and gcarf; ; French Trimmings, &c.—Families taking goods of every kind in the piece, or decoy, buy them at the wholesale price, sad the discount allowed.—The accustomed extensive variety of ui.ique Coloured Goods, White Chintz, and Anjengoes, obtained ex clusively at their house, with those adapted for the French and other foreign markets. Ladies' commissions and Merchants orders executed.—The whole of their very valuable and extensive Stock in hand to the 21st of July is selling off, without reserve, under Prime Cost.—No. 16, Cheapside. DR. ROBERTSON'S VEGETABLE DROPS. - These inval'jable Drops, prepared by a double distillation of Herbs and Roots, of a singularly medicinal quality, and without any mineral ingredient whatever (as verified on oath before the Lord Mayor), rank superior to any remedy ever yet offered co the Pub lic. They are particularly recommended, with the approbation of the most eminent of the Faculty, for bilious and nervous disorders, and are a complete antidote in all scorbutic cases, and impurities of the blood, whether arising from irregularities, or otherwise. To be had of the sole Proprietor, No. 7, Bloomsbury-square. Price, the quart bottle, 2.05. The smaller, for children, 6s. IMPOSTURE UNMASKED. ►rHE progress of atEarr, although frequently as -1. sailed, is not impeded by ENVY and Drraarrion. The ag gression of ambuscade terminates in defeat ; and conscious roctitude ultimately triumphs in the attainment of thezrand object—public approbation. The test of experienCe is the guarantee of favour, and has established WARREN'S BLACKING in general estimation: of which there exists not a stronger proof than the tacit acknow ledgment of a host cf servile imitators, who surreptitiously obtrude on the unwary a spurious preparation as the genuine article, to the great disappointment of the unguarded purchaser and manifest in jury of WARREN, whose character and interest by this iniquitous system are equally subject to detriment. It becomes therefore an indispensable duty to CAUTION THE PUBLIC against the manauyres of Unprincipled Venders, who basing no character to lose, and stimulated by avarice in their nefarious pursuits, aim at the acquisition of money through any medium than that cf honour! The original and matchless I/LACKING bears on. each bottle a short direction, with the signature W/0,/ 4/17ilwz. AU others are counterfeits ; and in many instances the imposition labels are artfully interlined with a different address, in very small characters, betweett the more conspicuous ones of " No. ZO," and " STRA ND." It is earnestly recommended to Shopkeepers and _ others who arc deceived by base fabrications of WARREN'S BLACKING, to return the detected trash to the source from whence it came, and expose the machinations of rascality to merited obloquy. WARREN'S BLACKING is surpassingly brilliant ;—it ex cl-ades damp; gives pliancy to the leather; retains its pristine virtue in ,-;!1 climates; and, combining elegance with comfort, is an article txpa!ly of indispensable fashion and utility. Sold by every respeci al4e Vender in Town and Country, in -bottles, at 0.1. 10d. 1101. aLd led. each. - 3 - - of - £20,000 1 - of - £lO,OOO I 7 - of - £5OO - of - 2,000 7 - of - 300 4-of - 1,00017 -of - 200 And 7,000 smaller Prizes. The next Day of Drawing is TIIURIDAY NEXT, 16th inst. Tickets and Shares are selling, considerably sower than at the same period of the Drawing for many Years past, liy SWIFT and Co. at their Old and Fortunate Offices, 11, POULTRY ; I 51, ALDUATY. 12, CHARING CROSS; This day was published, price 2s. the Third Edition of A VOICE from JAMAICA, in Reply to WILLIAM Wiusertroßcit, Esq. M.P. By the Rev. GEORGE WILSON BRIDGES, B.A. Of Trinity College, Oxford, and Rector of the Parish of Man chester, Jamaica. To be applied in Aid of the Funds of the Jamdca District Com mittee of the Society for Promoting Christian KiNivledge. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Paternoster-row. PRINCIPLES OF iiialey)GY. This day was publishad, in effiteip 14s. 14 boards. A N EXPOSITION of the PtirKCIPLES of PA THOLOGY, and of the TREATMENT of DISEASES. By DANIEL PILING, M.D. Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. Printed for Thomas and George Underwood, 74, Fleet-street: EARLE'S OBSERVATIONS T? SURGERY. This day was published, in Syn. price Sq. PRACTICAL REMARKS on FRACTURES at the Upper Part of the Thigh, arid particularly Fractures within the Capsular Ligament • with Critical ObservAtions on Sir Astley Cooper ' s Treatise on t hat subject. Observations on Frac tures of the Olecranon.—Description of a new Apparatus for se curing the Upper Extremity in Injuries of the S'loulder-joint am Scapula.—On the Re-establishment of a large Portion of the Ure thra.—On the Mechanism of the Spine. By IllOslltY EARLE, F.R.S. • Assistant-Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and Surgeon to the Foundling Hospital. Printed for Thomas and Gorge Underwood, Zit, Fleet-street. THE FOUIZTTII EDITION. Ornamented with an elegantly Engraved Title, price 39.6 d. 13ound in Black, THE NEW DEVOUT CONDIUNICANT, accord ing to the Church of England : containing an Account of the Institution; Prayers and Meditations before and after tbe Admi nistration, and a Companion at the Lord's Table. By the Rev. JAMES FORD, B. D. Minister of St. Lawrence, , Ipswich. Printed and Sold by J. Raw; soli' also by Longman, Hurst, Rces, Orme, and Co. C. and J. Rivingtuu ; and Hatchard and Son, London; and H. Musky, Derby. Where may be had, An inferior Edition, on common paper, price 9.5. in sheep. This Edition has been printed at the request of several Clergy men, who are desirous of distributing this little work among their poorer l'arishioners. • BEARS' GREASE. AIKINSON, Perfumer, 41, Gerard-street, Soho "; • square, owing to repeated inquiries, bas formed a Corre spondence with a respectable House in Russia, to supply him with the above Article, and be now regularly receives a Supply once in six or eight Weeks. It is selected from the Animal in its Native Climate, and sold without the leaSt admixture, only a little Per fume to keep it sweet. The high Estimation this Article has always held for promoting the Growth of the Hair, and the remark of a celebrated modern Physiologist, that " Bears' Grease, when pro cured from the Animal in its native Climate, possesses extraordi nary Properties for regenerating the Growth of the Hair," super , sedes the necessity of further remark ; the Importer will only add, that independent of making the Hair grow, it is very pleasant for dressing it—making it beautifully soft and glossy. Price lits. bs. 6cl. and ss. Csurzow.—Sold as above, and by most Hair-dressers and Per fumers; but, as there are many deceptions, the Importer warrants none genuine but what has his Signature and Address on the Bill round each Pot. N.B.—Orders from the Country, enclosing Cash, will he sent by return Coach. " Luta, 50rn JUNE, 1823. " We have received accounts of the Blucher's arrival at Valpa raiso. lam of opinion that the Spaniards cannot long remain in Lima, and the probability of their leaving it soon is greater on ac. count of the success which' the es ?edition to Interinedios (between Carpe diets— Lima and Valparaiso) has met with, and there is hardly a doubt of Be promply wise. the war being put an endto in a very few months. All the Inter- WHEN Science began to explore the complicated medios will be thrown open very soon, and also the communication machinery of Man, she was speedily entangled in a laby- wit " h the interior. rinth of mysterious confusion, from which intellectual perseverance It is reported here that the 'Spaniards have levied a duty of 40 alone emancipated her. Ignorance and empiricism, however, still per cent. on all goods found in the stores of . foreigners, and have oppose their venomous hostility, and the prejudice of weak minds, confiae.ated all property in the Custom House. ' in some measure, encourages their audacity. As Truth is us False- Extract of a letter from Callao, dated July 1: hood—so may our public statements be compared with their tut- " SUCRC, the Colombian General, has contrived to get qualified pretensions, and to expose their fallacies, we have not himself elected Captain General of the forces of Peru, hesitated to avow ourselves as practitioners in a class of Diseases which endanger the mystic evolutions of Nature. To be brief: by the Congress, which said assembly he, in a few days we are Members of thethondon College of Surgeons, can establish after, made shift to rid himself of, by sending them off the integrity of our Character upon the success of Twenty Vests' to Truxillo. He is now master of Peru, anti probably practical experience, and announce the grateful testimony of those it will be found in the end that it is Us intention to re in whom long suffering had nearly extinguished every hope of relief. main so. A very severe gale of wind took place at We pledge ourselves to the removal of Syphilis, from its in cipient symptoms to the remotest stages chtracterized by every Valparaiso' between the 11th and 17th of Julie, which doubt sand whatever malignancy. The intricate and much neg- drove several vessels on shore, and dismasted others; its !mid diseases of the Urethra have into carefully and studiously short, every vessel in the bay was more or less damaged • - considered; as have also those delicate and important sympathies and about 2 0 live. which refer to the Female Sex. The infirmities of virility h ave . were lost. This day the Alexander. been especially noticed, whether as arising front the debilitating' Colombian corvette, arrived from the southward,bring tyranny of a tropical atmosphere—the natural bias of constitution ing information that the expedition had reached Arica, —.the imprudence of gaiety—or the more alarming results of a pro- and the troops landed, and on the whole, had been rather pensity to practices " which shun the light;' the progress of which successful, having t-tken SOO horses, which they much is marked by a gradual dereliction of the animal powers. To all wanted. They are now marching upon Arequipa, who are thus circumstanced, and more especially to such as are aspirants for connubial pleasures, we earnestly recommend our without meeting any very great opposition; their loss Conwrientuies, Ist, The Agis of Life, .for the one Sex; or, and, on the passage to Arica amounted to 60 men, N‘bich is Ilygeiana, exclusively addressed to Females; the perusal of which much less than was expected. It is very difficult to must -prove beneficial to their moral happiness. These Books eta;. conceive what reasons could have induced the Spanish Lc had at Sherwoed,Jones, and Co. 20 , Paternoster-row; C. Chap. pel, 52,Pa11-Mall; S. W. Forts, 41, Piccadilly; Callow and Wil. General to advance upon Lima ' as there his operations son, Princes-street, corner of Gerrard - street, Soho ; T. and against these people roust end ; for notwithstanding he p. Underwood, 32, Fleet -street ; Highley and Son, 174, Fleet- , its _a n gained possession of. the city, , he must retreat in a street.; Onwhytt, No. 4, Catherine-street, Strand, Lond on ; . very short time; and that, too, in the:face. of an army Matehett and Stevenson, Burks and Kinnebrook, Norwich; R. Deck, Ipswich; Dutton, Bury St. Edmund's; Sheppard, torn- much superior to bis own i . however, it will have one street, Bristol; Barratt and Dardeld, Bath; Ilatt, Cambridge; , good effect, that of bringing ihe-contest to : amore _more Todd, Briggate, Leeds ; Wrightson; Thriningham ; Trewman, speedy issue than could have been hoped for had.the Ex e ter; Wobtenholme, York ; Gore, Liverpool ; liarrop, Man- ni . M ,optac Spaniards acted on the defensive only. td;hisid chester ; Jones, 117, Trongate, Glasgow; Porter , 72, Grafton • king t h e forts, that is of the question; as he has street, Dublin; awl by all Booksellers (price Es. ) Remedios can be forwarded to any parr of the world; Patients neither heavy guns nor mortars k nor can he-starve the writing for the same, will please to enclose a Bank Note. Attend. Patriots out by cutting off their supplies, the sea side ante at home for cOnsultation as usual. being perfectly fret., and must remain so from . waiit of GosS and CO. M.R.C.. Surgeons , No. 11, 13ouvetirstreet, • • • Fleet - street, London. a nav,al force.' r - ational Gazette says—" Its one haute in the neighbourhood of the city, a respecta ble physician found the father lying dead above stairs, the mother and four children below so reduced by elis- , ease, that neither had strength to hand a cup of water to the other, and no living being in.'the house to lend them assistance. In that part of Penn township which borders immediately on the city, %cents of the most un paralleled suffering now exist. Within a short distance _ are three families in the lowest stages of di s ease and want, destitute of food to support the miserable cr mnant of thei. days, of clothes to cover them, or beds toitie on." A letter from Natches, dated the 21st of August, says :—‘4 All is bustle and confusion here. The )ellow fever is raging with unexampled violence. Some, who veete well at breakfast, are in their coffins before nine o'clock at night. There were about - seventy-five cases reported. yesterday. The inhabitants are removing, and expected to go out en masse Co-day." WASHINGTON, SEPT. 4.. e are sorry to hear. from the upper country, that a great deal of sickness exists among the people. No house is free from it, and all along the roads persons are seen lying sick.—A very fatal fever prevails at this time through certain parts of Washington, co. Md. The citizens of li a ry s town ar e peculiarly aiicted. Those of Hageistown have gene rally opened subscriptions for their relief. The Public Authorities at Brooklyn, near New York, where some cases of yellow fever lately occurred, have removed ail the families in the neighbourhood of the spot in which the deaths took place, awl erected fences I to prevent intercourse with that part of the village. In the Western States, as it appears from their Pa pers, the country is particularly unhealthy, relatively to the towns. A Vit.cenues (Indian) Pape, mentions, that in the months of July and August, a num!ser of families had removed from Illinois to Vincennes, to remain during the sickly season. Three years since, the town of Vincennes was shunned as an infected district. The Repository, printed at Charleston, Jefferson' county, Virginia, states that a ccn,idei able degree of sickness exists at present in that ei n d the adjoining coun ties, and that many cases have terminated fatally. This but too surely confirms the oral accounts. Ia one fa• mil) , near Charleston, out of twenty-six pervins, twenty tour are down with intermittent or bilious fever. The IN'mu Oilcans. Iris of the 20:11 August mentions, that the - Board of . Elealth of that city reported forty-six deaths fronithe 12th to the 18th ultimo. No case of . yellow fever had yet occurred. The number of deaths in Pniladelphia city and county in the week ending September 12 was 112: adults 51, children 61 : of fevers 32, cholera morbus 7, measles 4. ' Deaths in New York city 101: adults 48, children 56 ; of fever 9, infantile flux 14, dysentery 6, measles 5. ST. LAWRENCE, SEPT. 2. The Circuit Court and Over and ",l'erminer for St. Lawrence, was held ia this village last week. William Kirby was indicted for mur:±er. On the morning of 2Gth December la•t.; Kirby led two children (one his own child, the otner a child of his wife by her former husban , l), to. the bridge which crosses the Oswagatchie at this place, in d deliberately thiew them into the river, by which they weie both drowned. After this act, lie oceeded to a Magi,trate, stated what he had done, and•mirendered hipself. The following is the substance of Kirby's examination, as taken before the Magistrate, k few hours after lie had committed the nitirder:— " Kirby says, he has had it in contemplation tode• stroy the children for about a week past; the children had given him .. no ofFer.ce; he was - actuated to this deed because he believa it better rot the 'thildrento go into eternity than to stop in this world ; he was educated a Christian, believes in the Gospels, but belongs to no re ligious persuasion ; his parents were Roman Catholics; the children bad been baptised by a Roman Catholic Priest, about two years since ; he intended to have de stroyed himself with the children, but the thought - struck him that suspicions might rest upon his wile, and he then determined to stay, to pt event any unfavourable imputations being cast upon her. lie is an Irishman by birth, and has been about five years in the United States ; he has for the last six months intended code. stroy himself; his object in destroying the children was not to rid himself cf an incumbrance, he having found no difficulty in suppotting them; believes lie should have been happy in the world to come, if he had thrown himself into the river after The children, and been d:owned." The Jury returnci with ttSeidict (4'0444 • The sentence pronounced by Judge WALWORTII was 'feeling and impressive. Kirby was sentenced to be executed on Thursday the 6th day of November next. The following brief communication, contained in a - letter writterr by his friend in India to a Gentleman in Edinburgh, dated Lamhah, 233 March, 1823, evinces that piotnptitude in military achievement which has ever distinguished ti.e British army in its various modes of warfare. The paragraph we quote runs thus: . " In the beginning of this month (March) Colonel Knox was ordered tip with a battalion of Infantry, a Regiment of Cavalry, two companies of Pioneers, two companies. of Lascars, two 24- ' pounders. two mortars, a company of European Artillery, and the ' light field battery, to take Lambah. Two flank companiesiof the 2d Native Infantry, were some days afterwards ordered to join, together with the light company of the Mil Regiment, and on the 14th another comp - any of the 2d, as also of the 29th, were ordered upon this service, with four mortars, They commenced erecting batteries Immediately, Colonel Knox giving the enemy till next dal (sbe I7tb) - st sunrise to determine whether they would surrender, .*d thaa_prevent- the consequences of .an attack. No satisfactory Myra being ;turned at the limited period, Colonel Koss gave orders for the batteries to be opened. and such was the vkour of 114 attack, that at twelve o'clock the fort and town were surren 'tiered Into our bands. , Few lives were lost in this brisk affair, there being only six killed, and as many wounded on the part of es enemy • while on the part of the British a few only were wountied, and no;tb PERU. The following extract from a letter received by a respectable mercantile house in Paisley, appears in the Glasgtlco Courier. Llsta., Jess 24, 1823. a You will no doubt on receipt hereof be surprised to find this plata again in. possession of the Spanish forces under General Can terac, who took possession of the City an the 19th inst. having pre viously occupied the same with some flying detachments of cavalry two days , before. " The rapid advance of the Spanish General across the Cordif- 4 leras, appears to have taken the late Government by surprise, as four days only expired between the first intelligence of the advance and the actual appearance of the army before the city. The Colom bian, Buenos Ayrian, and Chili troops went out, however, to the number of about 4000 men, with the iniention of giving battle, but the numerical forces of the Spanish army amounting to about 8000 men, of which 2000 are very superior cavalry, made it necessary for them to retire on the fort of Callao, leaving Lima. to its fate; whose inhabitants, front the first news of the approach of the Spa nish forces, became perfectly inanimate and panic-struck; and to their everlasting disgrace (out of a population of 18,000 men capable of bearing arms, and 9,000 of whom are disciplined) not a man was there to be found, from the Presidente and Soberano Congreso down wards, who possessed virtue, courage, or patriotism enough to de fend their capital, or to aid, or lend the least assfstanee to General Sucre, who commanded the Patriot forces ; and said General and his companions, seeing that want of disposition on the part of the lainutoians and Peruvians to aid him, was, from these circumstances no doubt iuduced to retire under the guns of Callao, where the army is now encamped. " Immediately on the advance of the Spanish army before the city, Captain Prescott went out as flag of truce, to confer with Ge neral Canterac with respect to British subjects resident in Lima, and their respective properties, which, from the conduct of the late Government, by embargoing every cart and mule for the State, it was found impossible to move, and he obtained at once from the General an assurance of security both for their persons and effects. The General has, however, since levied a contribution on the city of 350,000 dollars money, with 40,41 , 0 yards of cloth, and 40,000 yards duck and sheeting for the army, towards which the British were at first compelled to contribute a part by the city; and in case said demand is not complied with by the inhabitants the General threatens them with a general sack of tile city ; but this is looked on only as a threat, the more effectually to obtain his demands. " All the British merchants in ,Lima, with the exception of Mr. Proctor, the Loan Agent from London, and the two Contractors with the late Government, remained in Lima, the others lied to Callao, and it is reported here, their properties, wherever found, will be confiscated, " To all those who have remained, General Cantkrac has de clared his most friendly disposition, and every person here in busi ness has already conferred -with him, and by arrangements yester day entered into between General Canterac and'Captain Prescott, the Commander on the station, be has granted free and full pro tection of their persons and properties, and full power and license to trade in this country, and to export their returns in specie, upon, the same terms and conditions as citizens of the country. " With British property in the Custom-house, there may yet be some difficulty with respect to the duties, although none as to secu rity, I should hope of property; but I consider myself very fortu ' nate in having dispatched all my property to my own store, some days previous to the entry bf the Spanish army, and there is no doubt, as all communication will he now cut oft with Callao, that goods will become extremely scarce and considerably enhanced in price. " General Camerae being now, as he declares, master of the land, is extremely desirous of opening sonic port on the coast to free trade; and it is believed he has been conferring very seriously with the British Commanderupon the . subject, but what the determina tion of parties will be it is impossible to say at present, or what may be the result of the present warlike operations. General Bolivar has not yet arrived, nor the last division of his troops, from Guaya quil; but the force of the Spanish army here at present is certainly far superior to the Patriot force. We are also advised here that an expedition from Chili has sailed for Intermedios with 3,000 men, to join Santa Cruz with the Peruvians, about 5.000 men; while we are at the same time informed here that General Caratela is at Arequipa with 6,000 well-disciplined troops to meet them." Extract from another letter: