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- • FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. MALTA AND GIBRALTAWMAIrs- 7 I • otastistraa, sem. el• Yesterday arrived the Thew, Gift. Gage. from the Dardanelles ' last from Algiers, Jraviag Sir A. Paget on board. The army from Egypt arrived at Messina on the 18th of OCtober. Previous to evacuating the country, all the prisoners taken by the Turks had been given up.— ( Gib. Chron. ) Ds:camera 5. On the 25th ult. arrived His Majesty's ship grind JO? Calik, Captain Bdvle ; Qatem, Captain Short land ; Chironn., Captiin Wainwright, with 45 sail of transports, having on board about 9000 tronps, under the command of Sir John Moore, destitution unknown ; they made the voyage from Syracuse in 515 days. NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. Arrivals from the 27th of November, to the 4th rl t)ecenthrr :— r li, owlet convoy of His Majesty's ship Saracen, Elettta, Capt. Trollops, and store ship W, Mr. Trounce, the following English vessels, in 13 days fruns Falmouth, via.--Cerer, W. Cook ,• Margaret, N. Watson; Envy, J. Hutchons ,• William B. Francis; Elan George, .1 C. Painter ; George .1 Ciirchell ; Lilask, S. Ripley ; Generous Friend, A. Balilrey ; Fortitude, John Skelton; Metes, W. Cunningham; Sally, T. Wightaaft; Penner anise, A. Elliot ; Rate, T. Hewett Dedalus, G. Pye ; Grace, I. A. Harslet; Levant, W. Radon; Amphitrite, I. Philips; Ant, J. Marrison ;Ranger. R Anderson Speedwell, L. Dunn ; Nritannia, 1. Whiteside. ; Chirlotte, S. Watson; Isabella, I. Gordon; Mentor, E. Christie; Mary Ann, R. Torque ; with naval storm, provisions for the Army and Navy, sugar, coffee, seals. bricks, sundry merchandise, Jcc. &c. for this place and the Mediterranean. The Swedish brig Idagbeten, IfeCtlS Haggblons. 135 days from Carlbi with pitch and tar, for Malta.—The Enclish ship Fame, R . from London. with naval stores for Malta.— His Majesty's ships Windsor Cantle, Captain ioyle ; Queen, Captain Shortland ; Chiffonne ' Captain Wainwright; 35 days from Svrasuse , with General Moore, and sampans, having on board 8000 troops..—The English schooner Whim, James Forbes, 35 days from MeirSitll, with merchandise, for Algiers. —l4is Majesty's packet Princess Augusta, Captain St. Auhyn, 16 days from Mats, with Mails. Sailed on the Mk ralt.--His Majesty's brig Cheerly, to the Westward. Sailed on the Ist inst.—His Majesty's trig Dexterous, on a (Auks. Sailed on the 4th..-.111. Majesty's sloop Saracen, brie Elec tra, awl atere-abip Weymouth, with Übe Convey fur Mal.a. From Me Madra Gazelle. aussotov. R. Detailed accounts of all the French troops, of all descriptions, which have entered Spain through true, Irons the 19th of Dauber to the 7th of No- vember : OCT. I_9. The 70th regiment, infantry of the line, officers 63, privates 2,299, General of Brigade, Labril ; the 47th regiment, officers 32, privates 1,247. Ge. ueral of Division, Labarde ; regiment, No. 4, Swiss, Officers 41, privates 1,20. OCT. $O. General of Brigade, Brcnier ; 2 battalions, No. $6, officers 63, privates 2,332. OCT 21. 1 Battalion, No. 15—officers. 25; privates, 07. Corps of artillery—officers, 12; privates, 30G; pieces of ordnance of various natures, 34 ; ammo anon' boxes, 82; waggons; 'Tv snivelling forges, 4; drivers—office:s, 4; privates, 280. , OCT. 22 One battalion of the 2d regiment light infantry, officers, 111; privates, 1004. Another of the 4th regiment, ditto—officers, 11 ; privates, M. __ OCT. 23. One Battalion of the llitsiikregiment of light in fantry—officers, 16; privates, NO. , Another of the 15th regiment ditto—ofEceis, Q 4; privates, 1020. ocT. 44. One battalion of the sit.h regiment, infantry of the line ; officers 22, privates 1.050. Another of the 32d regiment ditto--officers 22, privates 1,019. OCT. 2.5. No. 2 ; Swiss infantry; officers Si, pri;ates ,100 ; General of brigade Catiot ; 21 waggons of the travelling hospital, and travelling forge of ditto. with 12 officers of health ; officers 5, privates 44. OCT. 26. One battalion of the 31st regiment light infan try ; officers 2u. privates 496 ; another of the 32d regiment ditto, officers 30, privates 1,106 ; Gene ral of Division Travot. Two divisions of artillery, with al waggons belonging to the park ; 64 am munition waggons, 7 carrisyges, 3 forges. o ffi cers 6, privates 131 ; drivers, officets .5, privates '2OO ; 21 waggons, 1 forge. 11. officers of health, privates oral drivers. 6 and 44. OCT. 27. 1 Battalion of the /6th regiment infantry of line—oricere..29 ; privates, 412. Two hattalioos of the Legit* of the South, No. I—light infantry, damn, 21; privates, 65,9 ; el waggons, 1 forge of the trav 114nghospital1 It officers of health; drivers, ••••eiginer, 1 I privates, St. ()CT. 23. Two battalions of this 66rb regiment intentry of the line—officers. St ; privates, 148. Hanoverian Legion, light isfitalay—officers,49o; pis ales. 7 40. OCT. 89. Detachment of light infantry. No. 32. another of the ):Rion of the South, officer 1. privates IS ; two hattairor.s r.t the 82d regiment. infantry of the line, •bfyirers 3,), privates Sit; General of Brigade Fri- Act ; divers detachments, consisting of 1 officer,ls2 privates. ocr. 30. Plank companies of the 8:.,i, officers S. privates let; ; Commander-in-Chief with the Staff s itegi• went of Cnasseurs, No. ^5, officals 8, privates and horses 160 ; in the Commander-in-Chiet's snits 62, r Imperial Gendarmerie s wish several superior offi• cm, 4.:). OCTO/111 91. .N . Provisional Regim en t o f I s t an d 3d Dragoons : "Seers 13, privates 495, horses 51/Y, General of .:rigade, Ittogaron; military equipage, 53 wak cons and 1 turg, ; (Akers 3; ptivates iGS. no►. 1. Third Provisional Regiment, consisting of the 4th and sth Dragoons—oei,:er.. 9 • privates, 592 ; Civil Branch of the Artillery—Officer t ; artificers 25; waggons h; officers 3 ; privates 1G; General ist Division, lieilcrman ; ii Aid-de-camp; 1 Chef d'Etat Major ; StO horses; 10 servants. Soldiers ut different corps—Officer 1; privates 1. ror. 2. Provi►iossal regiment of dragoops, of the 9t ?and 15th ; officers, 11; horses, 521 ; Majm-Getberal 'Fhiebalt, with his two Aides-de-Catnp and Commis. caries; privates of a regiment of horse, 11 ; baggage waggons, 6 ; officers, 2 ; drivers, 2S. No v . 3. Fourteen waggons, with the military chest of the army ; officers, 3; drivers, 54. soy. 5. General of Brigade. Tubiet ; General of infantry, Fornier, with 2 Aide:J.-Camp. Nov. 7. General of Brigade, hfatiain. AMERICA. THE AFF4III OF THE CHESAPEUCE. vrAstitmotort, Nov. 17. Mr. Blount, from a Committee of the blouse of Representatives on a part of the President's Message, reported, this day, on the sabjeet of the attack on the Chesapeake. The report commences with an expression of sensihility at this outrage ; states the receipt of information relative thereto, from the State and Navy Departments; presents a gereral view of the circumstances, observing that it might be said to have been incontestibly proved, that Wm. Ware, John Strachan, and Dan. Martin (three of the four persons taken out of the CiSe sapeol,), are citizens of the United States ; but the Committee add, that they conceive it unnecessary for them or the House to go into any inquiry on that part of the sobjeft, as in their opinion, whe ther the men taken from the Chesapeake were, or were not Citiaetu of the United States, and whether the Chesapeake was or was not within the acknow ledged limits of the United. States, at the time they were taken, the charatter of the aft of taking them remains the same. • " From the foregoing Gifts, it appears to your Committee, that the outrage committed on the fri. gate CArrarreake, has been stamped with circular stances of indignity and insult, of which there is scarcely to be found a parallel in the history of et •ilized nations, and iequiies only the senators of the Government, under colour of whom authority it was perpetrated, to make it just cause of. if not an irre sistible call for, instant and severe retaliation Whether it will receive that santlion, or be di,avow ed, and declared an unauthorised ac' of a subordi nate officer, remains to be determined by the answer shall which be given to the demand of explanation ; that answer, now daily expected, will tither sink the detestable ac' into piracy, or expand it to the magnitude of premeditated' hostility against the sovereignty and independence of this nation ; and until its true charafter shall be flied and known, your Committee deem it expedient to decline ex pressing any opinion as to the measures proper to be adopted in retaliation to it. But the Committee add, as other alts of aggression have been com mitted within our ports and waters, such as these mentioned in the President's Message, the Com mittee are of opinion, that it is expedient to provide more effeaually for the protedion of our ports and harbours; but not being prepared to report speci• fically on that subjedh, they ask further indulgence of the House; and submit the following Resolu tion : " Keeolved—That the attack of the Stitiih ship of wu Leopard. on the UaUed States frigate Chesspeake. was a /le -1 grant violation of the 1.1164i/bon of the United States; sad that that continuance of the British squedron (of whirls the Ler/paid ors. one) in their waters, after being notified of the Prottainatioa of the President of the limited States, ordering them to depot the sante, wasa blither titillation ilistetif. NOV. 20. A motion was made by Mr. Williams to adjourn until Monday. This was opposed by Mr. Crownin shield, who, among other observations. said. " he hoped the House would not lose two days is the week, when we were perhaps on the eve of a war." —This motion was lost. iscressisaa 41. hie curiosity, not unmixed with *suspicion, which seems priAcipally to save 'arisen from the place to which he is said to be going. • (Ftora 7Fe ty. t wk I.r44er, Not. SO.) Congress hag passed a Bill of Indemnity for the payment of naval and military stores, purchased en the late emergercy by the President, for which there was no appropriation by law. A letter from New Orleans, dated Sept. 17th, mentions a disturbance with the inhabitants having taken place, about a lot of ground in the suburbs of New Orleans, called Batture ; it was claimed by the city and an individual, and the Supreme Court gave a Decree in favour of the latter, who was put into possession by the Sheriff, and afterwards sold it to a Mr. Livingston. The inhabitants forcibly disputed his taking possession ; and assembled by beat of drum on the spot, in defiance of the Civil Authority. They were harangued by Governor Claibeurne, on which they dispersed, far from being satisfied. The next day they had advertisements posted up in all the public parts of the city, hold ing out menaces that they would apply to the Em- peror of the French, who they were confident would not leave them to the mercy of the plodding Greeks, as they call Ilse Americans. IN SENATE -AXTRAORDINAKY MEASURE. Yesterdaj Nt. Adams, ap pointed on a part of the President's Message, re ported to the Senate a Bill for the preservation of peace, and maintenance of the authority of the United States, in the potts, harbours, and waters under ;heir jurisdidhon, which received a first reading. The bill is very long, and contains numercus im portant details. The outlines are as follow: . _ It authorises the President to permit or interdict, at his discretion, the entrance of our harbours to all armed vessels belonging to a foreign power, and by force to repel and move them from the same, except in certain specified cases, in which cases the said vessels are to conform to rules prescribed by the Executive. It farther, in consequence of the late conduit of the British, prohibits the entrance of any British armed vessel into the harbours or waters of the Uaind States, except when driven is by stress of weather, or whet. charged with dispatches: pro vided that whenever reparation shall be made, to the satistadion of the Piesidetst, for the outrages committed *pm the nscional sovereignty, it shall bi lawful for the President to remove the interdic tion. On such vessel refusing to depart, she shall be declined to have made a hostile invasion of the ter ritory of the Uaited States, and shall be proceeded against as an enemy. and nay be seised. and brought in and forfeited, and shall acaus wholly to the c.rptors. All pacific intercourse with such vessel is forbid den. The President is authorised to use the lad kne and militia to seise such vesiel. He is also empowered to refuse admission t• illy vessel belonging to the subjects ut the native whose armed vend shall so remain is the baboon of the United bat s. It empowers any person or persons to burn, sink, or destroy any such vessel; tor which a bounty of --• dollars is offered on each gun of said veual. It authorises the President, to carry this ad into creel, to fit out all the armed vessels of the United StAiel. BOSTON. DEC. 3. GENERAL MOREAU. —We understand that Gen. Moreau, about a week since. lett Philadelphia for the Western country, it is said, for New Orleans. His unexpetted departure, and the rapidity with which he has passed on his journey, have excited considera- THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, TUESDAY, Dictum 29. We are well assured that no advices have bees received at the East India House of General Ovoi nor having arrived at Astracan, with his division of the French array, as has been asserted in a Morning Paper of yesterday ; nor does there exist the least idea of such an event having taken place. Yesterday afternoon, intelligence was received by Telegraph of the safe arrival in the Downs of the remainder of the East India fleet, under convoy of His MAJESTY'S ships Lion and St. 'Man's, viz.— Regal Charlotte, 'I ACIMII, Glation, Albion, Earl Smene's and Fort Williams. Great apprehensions are entertained for the safety of Lord Huscsinssou, and his brother, the lion. Ciseirrornsa Huscistmott, one of the Represent atives for the city of Cork. Government, we un derstand, received intelligence of their hav;ng sailed trout a Swedish port three weeks ego, since which time nothing farther has been heard of them. We trust, that a few days will relieve their friends from their present painful state of suspense, by bringing intelligence of their safety. We yesterday announced the arrival of the Prim. Cm Augusta packet, at Falmouth, with Mails from Malta and Gibraltar; she came from the latter place in fourteen &qt. The reports in the Foreign Papers of the loss of a fleet of transports off Sicily, with General Moons end troops on board, we are happy to say, arc wholly without foundation. That gallant Officer, with 9000 men, arrived at Gibraltar on the 25th last, in $5 days from Syracuse. The' fleet consisted of 45 transports, under convoy of the Windsor Castle and (Lures, of 98 guns each,. and Clsijosuse frigate. General Moose proceeded iD the Cillionne off the Tagus, where he held a con ference with Sir thorny SMITH, and bad re turned to Gibraltar. French troops had reached Cadiz. Whether the siege of Gibraltar or the gar risoning of Spain, be their objet, will soon appear. General Sir licw DALRYMPLE, who commands at Gibraltar, has taken every precaution for the secu rity of his important charge. The army from Egypt arrived in Sicily on the 18th of October, where they were joined by the troops from Malta, and the Sicilian troops have been transferred to Malta. From this we may presume, that there is no intention of abandoning Sicily. It also - strengthens the presumption, that the Ex. pedition under General Sr sates* and Admiral COT. Tem is destined for the Mediterranean, to as with the troops now at Gibraltar under General Moues. That it will proceed as tar as Gibraltar is certain. We stated in a former paper, and now repeat, that several ships are ordered to join it in the Streights. We Lope the Expedition cleared Scilly before the southerly wind, which set in on Wednesday. If it had not, there is danger that it may be forced back. The Princess Augusta left at Gibraltar the Quern 98, Wandler Castle 98, Bulwark 74, Hydra and Chi frame frigates, the latter refitting. Admiral Puavis's squadron off Cadiz, Lad sustained a severe gale, which hag damaged several ships in their rigging, The Terrible,74, left Gibraltar with the packet, to join Admiral Po a•is ; as di/ the Aurora frigate with a convoy, which passed up channel on Friday. The Madrid Gazette contains a detailed account of all the French troops which have entered Spain through bun, from the 19th of Ottober to the 7th of Novtr.bar. Tbey amount to V 5,000. We hive recei►ed New• York papers to the 22d last, and Boston to the 4th instant. They contain the proceedings in Congress down to tde Ist of No►ember. inclttsi►e, nn which tidy the Commit tee, to whom that psi.; of the Patstoser's Speech, relating to the attack upon the Chesapeake' frigate, was referred, reported, that the attack was " 4 gtant violation of the jurisdittion of the Unites States, and that the continuance of the British Squa dron in their waters, after the PagsDasst'► Procla mation, was a further violation thereof." The Report states, that it might be said to he incor.testibly proved, that three of the meo taken out of the CArbapeaka, were Citizens of the United States ; but, it adds, that iu the opinion of the Cam. raittee it was of no importance whether they were Citizens of the United States or nut. This language, taken abstraCtedly,,ir of an hos. tile chars ter; but as the Report adds, that it would depend upon the explanation of the British Go• vernment, whether the aft should or should not be made aground of hostility, and as that explana tion we know was satisfaCtory, Admiral BURKE L Er having been recalled, and the right to search ships of war disclaimed, we may consid:r that point as settled, and not likely to le id to a rupture. General MOREAU left Philadelphia the latter end of last month, it was supposed for New Orleans; and the letter from Boston, which mentions this circumstance, adds, " that his unexpected departure, and the rapidity with which he has passed on his journey, have excited considerable curiosity, not unmixed with suspicion, which seems principally to have arisen from the place to which he is said to be going." There is a strong fa tion in that quarter, in fa vour of France, and we shall not be surprised to find it soon in a state of disturbance. A dispute having fately taken place relative to a lot of ground in the suburbs of New Orleans,the inhabitants auem bled by beat cf drum, in defiance of the civil au thority, and posted up advertisements, threatening that they would apply to the Emperor of the Fags c Et to prated them against the Americans. Accounts from Cork of the 21st mention, on the authority of the Discs brig, which arrived there ors the preceding day, tbat on the 27th, sooe French troops were within a few leagaes of Lisbon. On the same day the Spaniards at Lisbon had corn. mitted some excesses, in consequence of the scarcity of provisions; and twenty of them were assassinated by the Portuguese. The following letter has been received from Crookhaven. Sir Stoma v's force, however, is much over-rated " Crook'taven, Dee. Is. " I left St. Mies on the 49th of November, when the Fren-h (eettain) 20,000 men, were distant only two days march,—ThePrince had embarked, with his Suite, for the Brazils, and declared in favour of England. An the guns of Fort St. Julien, and the other batterier,• WOOS spiked by hie order ; and Sir S. Smith, with 15 sail of the line, was of the Rock, and was expelled to enter the Tagus, and take posse laws of nine sail of Russian ships of the line, sad four frigates, that arrived there ten days ►efore. The greater part of the Portuguese army had embarked with the Prince in ten sail of the line and eight frigates. In Lisboa all was dreadful cot usion and dismay.* emeradrwww A Mess.nger left town, last night, with dispatches for Lord GA ItDPiii• The Americans seem extremely anxious to pro cure a repeal, suspension, Sr modification of the Non•lmportation AR, which was to be carried into idled on the 14th of December. Petitions for its repeal were preparing in several towns. Letters from the South of Ireland give a discou raging prosped of the opening of the new year. The potatoes, which are the principal food of the lower classes, having suffered considerably by the late se vere weather. The Prince Ernest packet, which was reported to have been taken in the West Indies, is arrived at Falmouth, in 56 days, from Jamaica. We do not understand that she brings .any intelligence of im portance. We have received Bombay papers to the 25th of July. containing the latest intelligence from that part of India. No accounts of the extra ship .s'idlom Castle, up to that date. Hai she arrived at Mada gascar, she would probably have been heard of ; and the only remaining hope is that she has made for some port to the eastward for water, and may have encountered adverse winds in the Bay. Of the other missing ships, the Blenheim and the Jaya, the Bombay paper takes the following notice : —lt appears that the Harrier parted company with them on the first of February, in 22. 0. S. and 63. 0. Eau, and that in the evening both of thins made signals of distress, and appeared to bb water-logged. At this time, the Harrier had a great malty feet of water in her hold, and was throwing her guns ever boird. She saw nothing of the /Umbria" and Java the next morning ; and, we are concerned to state, that the gale continued for five days after. Several ships had arrived at the Cape from Madagascar after the Hamer, but brought no intelligence of the men of war. No other hopes of their safety were enter tained at the Cape, except those which the possibi lity of their having made for Bombay gave rise to." On the 10th instant, Sir EDWAR D Paves LLOYD. Bart. of Pengwero, near St. Asaph, was unani mously eleaed to represent the borough ef Beau maris, in the room of the late Lord NAWIIOIIOIIIDi. deceased. The return of Sir EDWARD was cele brated with hilarity in the town of Flint, on Tues day. A large bonfire was made, at which two fat sheep were roasted whole, after which they were conveyed to the large room, at the Ship inn. where a large number of his friends partook of the repast. What added greatly to heighten the festivity of the day, different flags were displayed, and the Flint hand attended, and played many loyal and popular airs on the occasion. After dinner several healtlu were drank, with enthusiasm, particularly Sit E. P. L OY n, Bart. and the (louse of Peng went! J