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troth an officer serving January, At which slate in that island was AS the Guards and 78th the remainder of the battalions of the 33:h, Regimtnt, and the Chas lain* ; the first battalion along the coast; the se remainder of the British Ines in the neighbour- __Jgract. .etted al. mg the coast, from Syracuse to Me'attn. Vise whole of this force was in health and spirits, and the most peril's% dia. cipltne prevailed in the army." We have receivotl Hamburg's Papers to the 16. h iost. being of a later slate, by one day, than those from which we gave some extrafts yesterday. Their con.ents are not important. Ths Kormiplperg agar, tr, of the 26th March, con tains the official report of General flan Ninsces, re- Uwe to the battle of l'.ytau, of which so many acconuts are already before the public. The General states, that the Russ. ,in Army, in consequence of various detachments made from it, was only 70,000, while the French army amounted to 90,000. The battle, which began about three o'clock in the afternoon of the 7th February, lasted till mid night of the following day ; the loss of the enemy, says the General, according to their own account, amounted to 30,000 killed, and 12,000 wo ended, 2,000 were made prisoners, and 12 Eagles taken. Our loss c,nsists of 12,000 killei, and 7,900 wounded. Fonrteett French Generals were killed ce wounded. limo et our Generals were wounded, but most of them so slightly, that they have already rejoined CA* army. This report is signed by General ilsessosse. We stated, yesterday, that the noablorgh Cor. tespeadrentre of the 14th, contained a bog series of official papers, including a Report of the late occur , encl.§ at Constantinople. After stating the conditions •f t, have been stipulated by the English, which been published, " These cooditions," it bombardment;' was the declaration of A2miral.—On the 25th of Feb. the Eng ' .I.mhassador required that a place should be as • hint where he might land, in order to carry on with the Turkish Ministers. The Di . 1 11 . ered, that there W3S no place, not a foot of ..d i.l the whole Ottoman Empire, where an Eng ; I.!.an could land without being exposed to the 1• most danger from the fury of the people; that even the Seraglio itself, the GRAND Stanton had not • •3icient power to prated an Englishman from t. a rage of the blitssultnans. The English still c roinned, however, ta press the acceptance of I: conditions they proposed ; but the Grand • •,miar answered, that he would enter into no ne g...:iations while the Enrlish fleet remained oat that . 1 : the rordasbelloo. On she 26th of Feforoon't Admiral Detzwoive sear might: Note bk the kits fIrfISDI. In this Note no mention was made of the delivery ttp of the ifteen ships of war, and of the Dardanelles. The GRAND Sm its:to, however, was immov . abbt t and on the gd of March sent for General Seelsriamt, who found him on horseback in the fnid.t of his soldiers. The Grand Signior said to him--." The English require that I should sent away the French Am bassador, and make war against my best friend.— Write to tin Emperor, that I yesterday received a letter from him, that I continue—l will continue firm to my purpose; and that he may rely on me, as I likewise rely on him." Under these circum stances the English fleet found it advilable to re tire, and again passed the Dardanelles, and on the 3d of Irlairch :whored two leagues beyond the Strait, on the side of the old Castle of Asia. The Report adds, " The Turkish flees, of ten sail of the line, instantly pursued to the Dardanelles. The most prudent people were against this step, but the officers, janizaries, sailors, all contended for the honour of going on board, and it was impossible to restrain them. The Emperor NAPOLEON, at the first declaration of war, offered the Sut.. TAN in army to cover the Dardanelles and the Danube.—The PORTS would at first accept only engineers and Artillery ()dicers ; it has now re quired other aid, which is advancing with all speed." This account appears very improbable, and must increase the anxiety for the arrival of dispatches from Admiral Dix/moats. His squadron wa s well able to encounter the Turkish Fleet ; and we cannot conceive that it would have acted the inglo rious part assigned to it in the French account, for such we must consider the article in the Hamburgls raper. We hare receieed accounts from Barbadoes, from the tith February to the 9th last. The out ward-bound West India fleet arrived at Barbadoes, on the '23J Februiry. HS MAJESTY is espefteki i i town tomorrow. _ . YrsterdAy, Lords ISIIII.ORAVE And CASTLEIZAOII transAfted basalt s' with the Duke of YORK, at his ogee. YesterclAy, the Mari:pis Wect.tst.tv `aduin terview witn the llnk.: of PORI LAND. JOHN CLAUOILI BASCISVOAD, and Major Site, have been Heeled sheriffs of the City of Dublin, fur the ensoiag year. Sir CHARLES ORMSBY is appointed first Counsel to the Commissioners of the kevenue. He set oif on Saturday for Dublin. Dispatches for the kw de la Plata, and the Cape of Good Hope, were scot to Portsmouth, on Satur day night, from the Secretary of State's Office, to be forwarded by the Jatprar, of 50 guns. The Earl of elleillitOKA is appointed Ambassador to the Cow: of V ienaa ; and it is reported, that Lord Sr. HeLev's will be sent to St. Peterseurgh, on a special missitin. Mr. L;skine is to be recalled from America. Lord 13.AAKINGTOS, it is thought, will accompa'.y Lord C•TNEA AT to the Continent, in a diplonsatic capacity. The Hon. Mr. C. Jennie:son is appointed Under-Secretary for the Horne De partment. Mr. Parra Moons, in his examination before the Committee. Eletticts, on Saturday, said ih it he considered the Ele.lors of Wr semisoft,- a century he. hind those of Cot.ratry. Being asked if he was not Chairman or A Committee ? he said ha was self,cira 'timed Chid:man, for there was only one chili in the room, and he generally occupied it. A Court Martial assembled on board the Gleolia -104 in Portsmouth Harbour, on the 16th and 17th inst.: Piesent—Adm. Mont AOC. Presideat ; 'tear. Adm. Sir ISAAC Cow FIN, Bart. Captains Lawman, S. 1 - 1. LINZCS, G 4 AYES, Lewin, Hon. C. BOYLE. J. Bistsnane, H. E. K. BAKU, SOMERVILLE, NES II AM. 15Errtswoern, and*D. M'Leon; to inquire into the coniluel of Captain Hersey WtitT3V, late of His Maissr v's ship Leander, who, by order of Copt. JOHN Pas BEktaollo, of HIS MAJLSTY'S Shill Cambrian, (about April last), then Commander in-Chief of His Manirst's ships and vessels on the liAlitax ~cation, was cliretted to cruise off New Yuri., for the purpose of gaining information ; and who, by a letter dated the 6th of May last, to Capt. SLIMY ORO, represented, that on the 25th of the veccJing month, several vessels were coming clown from the Ligl:t [louse, r•.ear blew York, and, as they obstinately persisted in not attending to the first shot Irom the Leander, when closely pursued, several of the said vessels were bearded, and among the uumber that did not bring -to, WAS a coasting r sloop, on hoard of which it appeared, by various kuess and papers transmitted by Captain Bases- Faun to the Admiralty, an American seaman WAS unfit tutiately kiileo, uy a shot from the Ltandsr, I or from some other of His MAJ ;STY'S ships and vessels, then unJer the orders of Captain Wait. SY ; the Court having inquired into the conduit of Captain Wearer, on a charge of ♦iolating ti►e Neenah.' of a Nation in amity with His Ntla- Jtsr it, and having, on the 25th of April last, the waters and juitsdittions of the United States of America, ualawfully, wilfully, and of his malice atorethuugnt, caused a shot to he fired from His M aa car Y's ship Larder, whereby one Joni. Pe A RC', a Citizen of• America, was tel 'nionaly killed and murdered ; and having heard the• evidence in sup port of the charge, and by Capt. WIIIYIT in his defence; and haling maturely considered the whole. were of opimm, that the charge bad aot been prov ed, and 44 adjudge Capt. Waiver—to karprifieth Two flew charges were, yesterday. brought against Mr. Andrews, at Qveess•sguase POUCH-05CA ; one by a Mr. Nb.wtosik whom he had pomaded to take a house fur him in Hatton-garden; and anneher by a Woe. who had made liveries for him to the 'mount of Yul. ; and ea whom he imposed himself as a relative of M.P. hammers, Esq. and a Caadidate at the um, for the Boturigh of Ipawkh. 7 7 - • 7 ,:aer• - wvor ~ . .. • . . NA.. . , ,A.A. N • CO • A •A 4 ~.. . _., le c..... t .4., • . t 4„...: • .118ADOES. MAUI' B,' he 03 the 20th ill. the Bevis French icisc;oner „.;steer, detained an American ship, with 405 , • of ; Ares on board, from Africa, for Charleston, and 'r carried ber into Martinique. On the 224 ult. ar- of rvel here the R4millies man war, with 106 ' of vessels, under convoy, which sailed from !(I Do c on the 10th January, being the whole of the eq.!, except the jean, Service. from Glasgow for 13 i',s 3g o, which parted, being a heavy sailer. The p e nerara, Surinam, and Bethke skips, parted on 20th, under convoy of as Majesty's ship :s Bririo. On the 25th ult. arrived here, the Prigee Grow man of war, with 154 sail of resieh under convoy. which sai'ed from Ports- reels on the 4th January. Four sail of the ;ce missing ; 23 sail for Surinam, Deme- ed Rrrbi:e, paned on the Bth February, by ; the Surinam ships are arrived safe. toe 9.e. li Mt. His Majesty's ship Monde, with 12 . • of vessels under convoy, which sailed from ;.:rnouth nn the 7th of January, arrived here, and again on the 28th ult. with the trade from l'Jitsmouth and Cork for Jamaica; the rest of the 1 f!:ct proceeded for their destination, under separate convoy. THE BRITISH PRE SS. LONDON, ""x TUESDAY, Aram 21. A serionfnisunderstanding exists in the Ministry, sv:,ich may lead to important consequences. Mr. CAMPING, supported by Viscount Mar.vtxxs, re3o- - opposes the admissioa of Viscount Slob:OUT:1 into the Cabinet. Mr. Ceseren paid a visit, on Saturday, to • Viscount Bowles. and had a long conference with • Eli Lordship. We have re• - •...:ived a letter from an officer serving b Sicily, dated the 31st of January, At which date distribation of our force in that island was AS 10;i3ISS : The. Flank Battalion of the Guards and 78th Reijrnent, at Syracuse ; the remainder of the Card.s. in Catania ; the two battalions of the 35:h, fle tit st, 62d, Watteville's Reginitnt, and the Chas- stars Britannique, in Messina ; the first battalion le of the 27th, is quartered along the coast; the se- !; coed in the interior; the remainder of the British e- force at Malaise and the villages in the neighbour- s- bond. Telegrachs are eretled alfnig the coast, from GRAND VOCAL CONCERT. _....A....._ The second New Vocal Concert, tinder the di re Lion of Mr. SA Ito, was performed last night, at the Marchioness of HEAL:IIOIT I. The back draw ing-room was fitted up for the occasion, with taste and magnificence. Each part commenced with a symphony, by HA TIM. The vocal performers were Madame CATAL•NI, Madame RIANCHI, and Ms dame DUi6LII, Signors Naito, Reim, and Moen- Lt. Madame CATALANI sang two vety favourite airs, and j , ,ined in a charming serious Otariate ; in all of which she afforded the greatest delight, and received the most unbounded applause. he other performers were also in fine voice, and displayed their science and execution with the liapp'est effeet. It might be called the Feast of ihroolv. Mr. Weicuset. also lent his powerful aid on the occa sion. l'he greatest profusion of refreshments was served in the most sumptuous stile to the company ; amongst whom were— Their Royal Hie . ..rimer :ha Prince of Wales and Duke of C34,11).1.14.1; Pine Eaterhaty Prince de ennda; the Dnkcs of Orkin, and Di: Hem; the 1)L1411.31 of R Moo ; the and Marchioness of Staffe•rd ; the Fail and Countess Talbot; the rml arid Countess Dar.iloy ; the Earl and Counre.. of D•rl, ; tl a Fa•l cud Cnur.tess of CariLitn, and nearly niter 111,111111 ell usher Nubility and Pa.ititinob:sa. POET RY. MORE LAU F.I.S. Via MA in*, Mosta VII3F•D, I) .lU•14 LLLLL A 2. The English Gatiener's Lamentation fur the Less of his My Nursery once with r , ch Ltur I welt stocks.l, "rhe eye of eacii 'twig :r T. view it, my nlieclauri and trb,i.l; o!tin An 4 stern'd q d• But rv,w I it with branThes lAzlopt, Fur, 'spite of my and my vuxs, Successively leaf af•^,r bsf bay :een cropt, To deci our brave Warruir,' brows• Great Cetera!! hal I Chief ! 1 with prayrt from my heart Illoseech thee to make up the Quarrel; Or one bittle more, oh ! atigult synat a ! Will strip my plantation of 'Aare!. Then shotikYst thou come n'er, English Laurels to pluck, Believe me, we shditit rare a fig, Thoult find at'ry leaf ahuut Brutish brows stuck, And nought IJI for thee but a twit. . • April 16, 1807. The Earl and Countess TALIOT will give a grand dinner, next Thursday, at their house in Grosvenor-square. The Earl and Countess Foarascue will give a grand dinner. next Sunday. to a large party of Nobility. at their house in Grosvenor-square. Master BETTY is eigagA to perform four nights at the Carlisle 'theatre:wish Mr. Barrer/oat Me engagement was to commence last Saturday. us the part of trederit k, in the play of Lovers' row. Mrs. H. Jonrisron went to Bath in a critical mo ment t the Bath audience were satiated with tragedy, and longed for something natural; they had had a Rea* en airier*, and a Jane Shirr of iffiy. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lang:power will give a grand dinner, nen Saturday, to a large party of Nobility. The Countess Dowager of Stumm is perfealy recovered from her.late indisposition. We can assert wa:. c: - .nlidiince, that Mr. T. Ma ni N is no: the an!hor, n•or in any way concerned in tho composition of :he new Bolin at Covent-Garden 1.1-.eatre. the R'ght Hon. Lady It Lvov n has been pleased to preset the Rev. Roster' If vast Hotsk., M.A. of Preston, ti the v.duable Reaory of War.ington, void.by the depth of the Rev. Mr. owrie. Ile Earl and Cour..ess of DLit BY gave a grand yesttrliy, at their house in Grosvenor via ire, to thr' Earl and Countess of Da aut. sr, the Karl and Countess of ROSALYN, Lard Ktemaiao, Lord ARCHIBALD HAMILTON, Mr. and Mrs. 'lay.. Lot, Mr. &Niter, and the Misses HUNLOKt. Colonel and Mrs. Gaauass gave a grand supper, last night, at their house in Stratton -street, Picca dilly. to a large party of Nobility. The supper table was s•t out in the greatest style of elegance, and abound.:d with every dvlicacy of the season. Amongst the company were— vicount and Viscountess Hnwiek; Mr. and 144 Elitabeth Whitbread; Commissioner sort Lady Grey ; the Hon. Mr. BOVA M.. and Mrs. 11. Scott, M. Mrs. and the Misses kiansveri.:, Mr. arse Mrs. Sheridan. and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sheridan. _ _ _ Earl Pastor entered Mtn his 22J year, yesterday, wh;sh was celebrated by the ringing of Saint Mar tin's and Saint Clement's bells. His Lordship en tertained a large party of friends at dinner, at the Northumb-rland Coffee-house, in the Strand; and gave his n.ual gift of thirty pounds to the merry ringers, to regale themselves on the occasion. So abundant a crop'nt ROfcii and Ramie as the dramatic hol•Geds have produced this season, was never known ; and the demand for sitrations is such, that the Managers of the Kentish Tneatre have been oldiged to denounce all eppticeions tbat are not pwi-ped. Mrs V AUGHAN'S benefit Concert took place at the New Rooms, Hanover-square, last night, and was attended by all the Direaors of the Ancient Concert, and all the Nobility in town. The wlec lion displayed novelty and taste; Mr. and Mts. VAUCIIIAN sang a new and lively Duet (the poetry from the Romance of 77w Three Spimierds), Ti m o dents fair iffeetert. with great taste and sweetness. Mr. DALLAS. v sang When ths 614 4 beads hiewity, with the finest area; Madame lii snout and Signor Na Livi gave Os* favourite Duet, St Se m SpOS4 with great spirit, and were loudly . applauded. Miss PARRS, Messrs. W. KllTtlatT, A RAISON, aad BART LIM A it. sang a very sweet new glee, / mane like pe, 'salt Sir, harmonised from an air composed by Sat I' . nere were several new Glees. all so excellent in composition and execution, that it is invidious to solo& truss such a mass of =slime. Lai rimuosics. COURT Of WWI Merl, W u a, Anti It 1 The ATTORNIT-GOILIIINAL. applied to the Court for a Writ of Meedawas, to &redid to Ilse Mayor of the Borough of Thetford, commanding him to swear into the office of Burgesses of that Corporation, Messrs. Bidwell and Dagmore, two persons who had been duty defied. The Mayor had refused to swear these Gentle. men in as Burgesses, contending, that according to a bye-law, before they could be appointed to that °lnc.:, they should first become Members of the Commonalty; but the Learned Conasel 'Asserted, that the clauses provided for by the Charter itself, could not be aff,:fted by any bye-law which the Corporation might think proper to mad, and in that Charter, iv., such provision was made. H. therefore contended, that as these persons were duly eleCted, according to the Charier, they had a right to be sworn, and to exercise the funetions of that office. The Court granted the rule for a Afeadanaus. Mr. PA vics then applied for a similar Writ, to he direCled to the late Mayor and Deputy of the Vt. rough of Saltash, commanding them to deliver DP the keys of the corporation chest. the books, and other insignia of office, to the new Mayor er his . • Deputy, who bad been duly elated, according to the Charter t but the late Mayor, Ste. had refined • tet deliver over the keys, books, fee. without assign. ing any reason for witholding therm. • Rule gramed. • HABEAS COR PUS. Mr. MARI It ATT moved for a Writ of Rehr • Corpse, to bring up the body of U. Stele. in order to her discharge, won a Megistrate's oem mitral. This woman was committed far keeping a Latle-G.. but it appeared that the committal was informal, the Defendant not being discovered afhtelly using the Little-Go, at the time of her appreheasiois. Ac one chock, Lord Est.'s:loam:an sat at Pm?, when the following cause, among alms, was dlloplSA:d of : .satitaay se LOCKWOOD. This was an action ot assault. • The Pl.:int.:l' was the shoolmas:er on board the ship belonging to the MarinsSeciony„ for instructing their children, ant the Defendant was a pilot open the Thames. It appeared that the latter was moor. s- ing a ship alongside a wharf, and the Plaintiff, is his vessel, was passing, w.ien the Defendant threw him a rope, and desired he would bald by it ; this the Plaintiff refused, and much abusive language followed. Some time after, the parties met m a public house ; when souse person headed the Plaintiff's printed card shoat, which was as:woody conveyed to the Defendant; by which card it ap., peered that the Plaintiff was not only a schoolmaster but a maker of false eyes. Upon this the Defendant recognized his old friend who refused to hold fast for him, and instantly began to jibe, and jeer him, when the Plaintiff happened to give him tier he direct, which produced a eqesbbk, sad in di event, the Defendant violently awaited Mimi& The Court considered it a trivial natter, and the Jury found a stadia of forty shillings damage, for the Plaintiff. 1 9 1 Difaisifit-Avara ire I. Tuesday night there was a gran, farewell ban and supper given bk the Earl and Cousins et Hare rington to their Graces the Dui* and Dichosa te Bedcord. at the Commander-in-Chid% apartments ' ' at the Royal Hospital, to which all the pnnwipol No. bility and Gentry in and near Debra. were Invited.. Lord and Lady Harrington intend nsaltinea visit to England. Iv a short time, soon after the arrival of our new Lord Lieutenant. Yesterday her Grace the Duchess of Bodffard ac. companied her children to the Harbour, where they embarked, with their atteria lilts, for England. • There are cards issued by his Grace the Duke of Bedford, to invite the Nobility and Gentry to re-, ceive his Grua of Richmond. ' Tuesday morning Sir A. Wellesley arrived hi town from London, and waited on his Grace the Doke of Bedford, at the Cas•.ie. On Wednesday a meeting of the Catholics 'took place in the long-room at Benret's, in Et:swear-met. for the purpose of determining, we understand, the line of conduit to be pursued in consequence of the late political alterations that have occurred. The apartment being found too small for the number • assembled, an ad)outnment until next Saturday was moved and canted, and that a more suitable place should be fixed on for the purpose. . Yesterday, being the first sitting day of Easter Term, the Court of King's Bench sat, and a brand Jury was sworn for the City of Dublin. Judge Dar, in his address to the Jury, said be had looked into the gaol calendar, and bad great pleasure in observing, that the number of criminal charges was but small ; sspd, he added, that through the country from which be had just returned, so. thing cculd be more gratifying than the o► ~dsrl~ behaviour of the people; never bad the plastgi beta more generally or more indusui y em ployed—never was.shere reason to expea that the country would enjoy the fruits of that indasuy in greater tranquillity. On the 15th in it. the Anniversary of the Hu mana Social. sr was celebrated at the London Ta. rem. A more numerous revealable assay. blage of Philanthropists has not been observed for many years. Every heart expanded with joy at the glorious proofs of the high of the Io aes. anion. as the procession of Mee. W•Ame. and COSi. dea r in the awful solemnity of resisciteied Lei passedsi before their beriefigtors. Mr. iasr ptesided at a most sixeellent dinner. pro vided by the liberal hands of the Stewards. Dote for Hawes, whom unremitting seal appears to '4 grow with lair grovrth, and strengthen with his years, deliveied an address, glowleg with a fors your that obtained him the full 'weed of his desert and wishes. W• observed the Vice-Presidents, natal Preacher. and the Hebrew Friends. s'anding forward to support the Life-Saving Institation..... Plea Ne6is I)2xline was excellently given by Aims. Duni ura TA Y LOS, Hilarity soon became the order o f day ; loyal and sentimental mama.... The company quitted the banquet, to espy. is quietude of domestic retirement, their reisaiome. a day thus passed. i