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11 ~i 1 . S •.: I* . 1 • L!111. 71 - 131111r 0 4111911prrir •.• ' - "1-• read a ' , rand time, sad the mart . Mrdered 4111,114110111 to-morrow. The Seeman's Warn Bilk ens ma/ a second time, aid e& dered to be committed to-morrow • The Customs Consolidation Bill sal kik DistillessrW passed through a Committee,and theailkuot was . be received to-morrow. • Ig ad ••• Mr. M. EitzGra•to pee ea: 4 ~Oald move 'on Wednesday next, fur leave to iker to amend the Grand Jury Law* of Ireland. •• •a tl The Irish Post Roads Bill passed througli ju Committee. The AtteaNYY-Gitivre•t. gave notice that be would *lug fonrard his proposition fur revising Mr. Pitt's Bill for. regulating Public Meetings, to-morrow. The House resolved itself into a Committee of Ways and Mamie sad the clause reaper-tin Lotteries passed. The Chsandlor of the Exchequer ih &reed filling up the blauks sill to-morrow ' that an Hon Member who aitecided to op. Dine it, might hare an uppuitainty fur dcliver'ng his iris Coasts. The Excise Holiday Abolition Bill was read egret time, to be read x second tiros to-morrow. The Osamu Duty Bill was ordered to be committal sea Friday Lest. The Dublin 'Peeing nail Coal Trade Bills were read • first time, and ordered for a second readit.g towoorruw. Mr. Ms.Lt.ssa brou.Lt up the Report of the Committee s the UM for oicurponitiaz the Gas Light Company, which u As order. d to be read a thii 3 time to-morrow. l s he House resolved itself into a Coloinittee on the Sorry • Sewers Bill, hut proceetlisix to divide neon the question whether Council should be refl.:4 in, it was found that they wanted the mintier to ciristitute a House, and they Ad. • ISADRAg, Ott. 29, 1808. Eatmet of a letter front 'f riucomallee, dated the !nth of December, 11110 C---" The Europe, Lord Castlereagh, and Lord Keith, arrived this morning, having en board His 31ajesty's 836 regiment." BOMBAY. DEC. 14.183.3. Aboat five o'clock. on Saturday evening, a fire broke oat in Dongatee ; for souse time wore a very formidable aspect and threat:lied the destruction of most of the homes in that very po pulous part of the island. Oa the alarin rest have the Fort, the •second battalion of His Majesty's 36th regiment, under the immediate corm:tad of Lieutenant-Colunel Keating, marched to the piece. The houses most likely to communicate the flame were immediately demolished, and the fire got under before it spread to any considerable extent. This happy termination, however, was not effected without, some accidents ; and the casualties iu the id battalion of the 56th•ausoutited to one man killed and 34 wounded, some of them severely. A number of explosions took place dliting dm con tinuance of the lire, to which most of these acci dents are to be attributed; and particularly the loss of the puor fellow just mentioned, wlio was blown into a taw's, where he perished. A detachment of the first battalion of His Ma jesty's S6tb re'givannt arrived front Coolabahs, tint irithstaoding the distance, in suffieitin time to cons tribute to the general safety ; and a party at the crew of His Majesty's ship Comgallis„ under the commend of Captain Montague, was conspicu ously uses]. Indeed the personal exertions of Colonel Keatjag, Captain Montague, and all the officers who were present, was such as might be ex - peilild from the zeal and intrepidity. which is so truly chataeteristie of either sootier. On the whole we have not heard that there has Wm any considerable loss of property, nor are ifiere any suspicions entertained of .h.tire being more than accidental. CALCUTtA, Sic. 3. His Excellency Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Pei kw, Bart. leaves Calcutta to-morrow, in the Pilot schooner, which- conveyed his Excellency .froti Saugor, to join the flag ship tiring there ; Capt; Pelle* and his Lady occompanylog :the Vice.Ad mind. During the time his Excelleticy has been ia Cal cutta, the VioL , Atiatirant gag has been hoisted on board one of His 31ujoky's aleitops of war, lying off the Esplauade. The ship Hunter, Cliptain Robson, about to sail from hence to New South Wales, has take's on hoard 300 head of cattle, besides other cargo or that set tlement. The trig Hibernia. Captain Mimi:des, Irft Cal eutta au Tuesday last. bou.id also to Port Jackson. from whence, we understandodie will proceed to the Feejie Islauds, for the porpos:• of procorin E ., a cergo of !modal-wood, which artfele, it appear., affords a very handsome return at China. Captain A. Forrest. lately returned to Caleotta in tlbe Dadwas of lurk, from New South Wales and the Feeym Islands, proceeded its the Hibernia. CALCUTTA, DEC. 10. ma. CIVIL APPOINTMENTS. Mr. W. Loch, Register of the Zitlah Court at Shalistiud. Mr. W. Carcroft, Regieti r of the Provincial cow! of Ap peal sod Court of Circuit for the Sirloins of Scoareo. Mr. S. S. Gerehser, Reveler of the City Coast at Pots.. . • We have the pleasur e t o announce the safe ar rival at Kedgeree, on Thursday, of the shiß Lord .11inro, Captain William Greig, from a seeding voyage to the Eastward, last from 'Penang, whence she waded on the 16th The onderraelitioned passenger,' have ar rived here by the Lord . It. Drain -11104141, of the Bombay Establishment , Forties and D. 11•Culloch, Esqrs. It is worthy of reasint, that the Lord Mingo, not having been heard of beret within the period pre scribed by the laws of insurance, was, with her ear. go, abandoned by the owners to the Underwriters, who. actually paid the amount of the respective po licies some tame ago. We understand this is n rear UIICOMM , n case, of which indeed W4' iliac nut beard any precedent; ' and it appears to be an intricate question, as to • which party the ship and cargo lION legally belong.. ~. `~ f 1 .• • • • 4 di , • . • By the foregoing opplailinity, we feern, that the =Copt. Ferguson. sod the Sulintony, Capt. .sailtsd from China sin the gth of Oct.; they aisperiencedi severe gale of wind, Deaf the Par ' cellars,. • • The Sidititony reatained six days at Malacca, and arrived at Penang on the evening of the 15th of November. At the date of the departure of the Miato, from Penang, (viz. on the lOth November) nothing had been evard of the Biting since her parting company from the Sailswony, in the gale us above noticed. Some uppreheinsions are conse quently entertained for the safety of the Raring ; we understand she is a very rich ship, and insurc-I in most of the Insurance Oakes in Calcutta to a great amount. Dispatches received at this Presidency on Satur day night last, from China, via Penang, forwarded from the latter place by one of His Majesty's ships of war, who brought the dispatches to the Sand Heads, from whence they were conveyed to Ked geree, by one of the Pilot vessels, state the arrival at China of a British detachment from Madras, and of the troops haring lauded at Macao ou the 27th . Septcutber, and that they had met with a fa vourable remount from die Portuguese. Other advices,torwarded by the Suliniony, we are informed, mention, that the Chinese had laid an embargo on all vessels lying at China, by affixing their chops ; and had interdicted all communica tion beta een the ships and the shore. The Baring and Su/lawny were allowed to de part by special license. • His Majesty's. ship Lion, with her convoy, passed Macao, all well, on the 28th of September. According to the last accounts front China, the unininal price of opium was 900 donut.s per chest.; t.lassparke(glutted, and nn The Arab ehipi Fazy tato/ray and Fy:el Cur rent, from hence, had arrived at Pealing. A ship and brig, inward bound, were in bight from Kedgeree, standing up the River, when the report from thence was dispatched oil Thursday, at 4 p.w. The brig above-mentioned is supposed to be the Britiosaia ; as we learn by the 41/intu, that She had sailed from Penang for Calcum'. His Msjebty's ship Cu iluden, baring on board his Excellency Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Mew, Bart. quitted Pilut's Water, on the evening of the 6th current. The ship Europa, end brigs Nets Eutlearoor sad Hibernia, for the eastiiard, quitted their pilots at the same time. The Geurgiese peetet. Capt. Leigh. is now at Culprit, writing tined orders. liming the last week. the Are) ships Shaw Al• lam, Fold 800 ra, and Etthelbarry left Calcutta on their return to the Red Sea. The Ilonourahle Company's ships William Pitt, Lady ✓nee Diondas, Inglis, and Cdtato, re main at &Lugo,. • The Tiede! Carreen, Shato " Slid &Halal Savoy, at Kedgeree. Captain Greig, Commander of the Lord Minto, arrived in town this inorisin4, and upon the autho rity of information obtained front that Geniiy new, we are now enabled to correct a part of the account% given in our Paper of this morning, respecting the Baring and the Milineony. It appears that the Saliniony did net lose any of her masts, or sustain any material damage during the gale, but that the Baring lost her main-top mast, and was last seen by oho Stilinexty to leeward of the Parcellar-hills—a situation, wi,ich, we under atand, it not considered dangerous. Ou the evening, on which the Minto left Penang, the signal Wab made for n large ship going in from the Southward, and which was supposed to he the Baring. The Suliming was expected to sail (corn Penang for this port, on the 213th ult. The Bort arrived at Chine under convo) of Flis Ilmje-17'i ship the Lien, consiatv.l of nine India men, and 1.5 mu dry skips. CEYLON, DIM 14. On Thursday last, Wm. Cake, Esq. His 'Ma jesty's Advocate Fiscal was, by his Excellency's command, sworn is a Member et' His Majesty's Council is this ishuid. The usual salute was fired on the occasion. The Honourable Company's shins Lord Castle orogh, Lord Keith, nail Europe, with the 39th Re giment on board, from the Cape of Good I lope, have hero to the south-east of this io.land for the hut week, Meting up against contrary winds, but owing to :he prevalence of the 'moth. west winds, they have not yet born able to reach this port. I .~ went of the 640th reginwet. Oa Friday last, four went into Fort Royal—two of ta.se endenionred to escape, bnt were cut off by the Claire frigate and .Enaton armed ship. There have been altoge ther, since the inland was captured, iihnut taeufy vessels taken. " DARBADOES, APRIL 7. " Arrived Ills Majesty's ship Brazen, in , 20 (lays from 3lndeira. ut which iland .he called to get intelligence of the Ruchfort squadron.—She WHY becalmed off the Wand, and could not join the Catsor and fleet for the West Indies, with which she sailed from Portsmouth on the 341 March." BARBADOES, APRIL 4. Accounts front St. Thomas's state, that Sir U. Prevost having touched at that isho.d, sailrd from thence nil the 23th ult. ; * 44 afterwards seen at anchor at Porto Rico, and intended to proceed to th e city of St. Domingo, the inhabitants of which had petitioned I to take possession of it. A number of sn•nrh vessels continue to arrive at, or be carried into, Martinique.: within the last week there acre not 1i..3 than ieve•st made prises of--o-notig these, one (notionol brig of Is guns) was towed into Trinity he one of our frigates, on the 30th ult.: where, on the 27tb, another brig ran in, awl was taken possession of by a Detach.. rmf THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, THURSDAY. MAY is. It was reported lust night, that Government have received tile Fourth Btilletin atite French Army in Germany, and that the events %lite!' it relates are not of importance. The letters and paper. brought from the Leeward Islands by the Francis "reeling Packet, the arrival of which we mentioned yesterday, were delivered in the course of the day. Their principal feature is the arrival of the L'Ocient squadron at the Saintes, of which we gave an account yesterday. The French ships had two thousand troops on hoard, and a large supply of provisions, destined for the relief and protection of Martinique. Upwards of twenty vessels have fallen into our !muds, in con sequence of sluicing that bland its ignorance of its capture. Among them was a French national brig of 18 guns.—lt has been andersto.Kl in England, for souse time past, that General l'ativusr had re turned direct to Halifax, after the conquest of Mar tinique. This repott, however, does not appear to be correct. A Barbadoes paper of the 4th states that he passed St. Thomas's on the 45til of March, and was afterwards sera at Porto Rico, oa his way to the city of St. Domingo, the inhabitants of which had expressed a desire to put•themselves under the protection of the Englsh. We have received Madras Papers to the Roth of December, from which we have made wine ex tracts. It will be seen in oar Parliamentary Retain, that the A rroati Y -GEN ERAL means to bring forwurd, this du b , his proposition fur revising Mr. PlTy's Bill far regulating public mvetings. ' The Debat ing Societies, sod some late political meetiii,s, we understand, will come under his consideration.. ‘Ve took occasion, some months ago, in com menting on the policy, measures, and great out lines of the system adopted by BONAPARTE, for regraerating the Continent, to unssark, that he committed a radical, and perhaps, us it might eventually prove, a fatal error, by placing his bro thers and his relatives on the throats of so many kingdoms or countries. It is by no means impos sible, that in the progress of the present war, he may have to repent of this predilection for the two families of BONAPARTE and Beadmatttrots. Of all his kitqr, :111:11AT is the only one who pow sesses any military talents, or who may be esteemed personally lit for derentlitig the crown conferred on I . The other; have no merit except that of being brothers to I\ lroi.tox, Or souse his Jones', .by the universal consent of all mankind, is a usil4l, quiet, urnuelsitione, domestic toasts ler- ing Lis ease and his bottle, fit for a diplomatic or a ministerial *filer ; but utterly destitute of talents to inaigatain hid:self on a revolutionary elevation, surrounded with dangers. It is, indeed, probable, that the Government of Barataria was not more I irksome to Sancho, than that of Strain and the lathes i-. to Don ..Nip.steers Joseph the First ! Letts, Klux of link:arid, is cast by Institut in the. gentlest mould. Dadirient in nbility for continued ing crones, or in inclination for arms; and aware that au hour of calamity and, reverse may arrive, lie liars sought by every possible means to conci hate the *Keeton's of les 'subject'', and to mollify the tyranny of his brother. Ile may perhaps owe his safety and his life to this judicious and amiable line of conduct. Vor, even in rase of a popular insurrection of the Dutch, we believe that Louts's person would be safe from the fairy of the people. ,lifeont, timu4h he has served cis both elements, has been distinguished on neither. Narotdcom, by compelling the Duke of %VtaTanotae to give his daughter in marriage to this amphilsiolis mo narch, may subject him to a trial fur bioniny, if in the mutability, of human even:s, Ilia WESTPIIALEAN MAJEATT should ever be drivels from Cassel to Philadelphia, as DR:me:nes was from Syrricuse to Corinth. Such a tramitem ie. not impossible; for Jeenme has neither merit, nor se sources, nor character. 'The Prince Viceroy, other wise EUGENE BEAURARNOIS, seems to be the worst and weakest of all NAPOLEON'S relerl.• Ile, too, has married the Al aughter of one of ilie Cori can Kings; but his Step-fother may perhaps repent of having entrusted the protection or his .• King dom of Italy," and his Iron Crown, to this son of Med:nue BONAPARTE. Ile appears to he utterly unlit for an arduous and perilous a station, if we may judge flout his bite defeat on the banks of the Taiiliaun elite. It is curious to consider, in this , - .•. enumeration :f ,:caitionari that th only individual of the lioN trtttriJ , distinguislicri fur capacity and vigour, namely pertinaciously refused to accept of any crown sceptre from NAPOLEON—as if he for.nialor that thi,..! donations were neither secure nor durable. The British force 14t Islockading the squadron at the Solutes, consisted of .s fail of the aloe, besides several frigates, slotys, &e. *1 he sln i of the liiie are : Rvar•Adeuiral Sc A. Cer Neptune, RA•t, emu. t*, l4O leatitaia R COCSSURN. Vautan., 74 --- Wool). Vuek. ' 74 ---. H.111.70K Intrepid, -. Hue. W. Laur. %wallower', frigate. awl brigs. The Marquis of WLI.LESLIM is expected to leave Eaglaud, for Spun], iu about ei3lit or teas Joys. We understand that M. Ctva tros having com pleted din ohject of his mission, propose~ to return to his native country in. the coupe of the pre,eiit mouth, leaving the duties of the Spanish Legation entirely under the able direction of Admiral rieJ DAIS. Nine vessels from Holland iirri red o n Tomb's.— Most of them left the coast on Friday lost. It is • favourable circumstance, that nt that thie no further success of the Frerich'had been announced tliroug'h the Dutch papers. The forces, English sod Portuguese, wider the commuild of Sir A. IVVI.O.L4LICY and Marshai RSSFORO, err thus rated A. W kl.l.rlit.: Y, R 7,500; Marshal BERLaIORD, 35,000.--Total. 62.500. V By accounts from Dominica. dated !'2il March, upwards of twenty sail of peels %)er.• expecitil at S. Bartholo mew ' a from Liverpool. at alas Lary ...Lila obtain the Swedish fling, end piovreil to the coast of Africa, to trade for ; he which means the law for prohibiting the sale snit b e evaded. It is the duty of Wainer* to look to this adventure. The ,La BUellte Cl/ornate, of _ 18guttg, Cliptain T 0074 NO morrivtaionTueulay from V hest sirs lilt the Taps it was thought that VICTOR, io - mt. ed of marching to &dojos and Elem., would proceed north-wen. with latent to join SOULT at Oporto, bat sanguine hopes are entertained the. Sir A ?Mit W ei.1.101.6Y would be able to come it;) with them before the two French corps cuuid form u junetion. It is expected that the Ist battalion of the Lid regimeint, and the !!sth Rifle Corps will be em barked in the routs* of the present week. Set real other corps (nom the eastern district are also to he embarked immediately, and the feet will sail Lefere theKis?s bird) daps The Lona Mattis) resumed its sitting yesterday at Citrates, upon Captain COcußAse. Aft.er some senoe il e * were e‘aititoed, Captain COCHRANE ovule Ins ilefetice, and the Promentor was heard in reply. The business being then closed, the Court proceeded to deliberate upon the judgment. ethic's" will he transmitted for tits !Weisser's approbation. There was a heavy tiring, on Tuesday night, ca the French coast, but it is reported that it proceed. from some of our cruisers chasing French revere's. A rcquivitiou, signed by upwards of flirty re 'tractable Burgesses, has been presented to T. Lor.ues, Esq. Mayor of Werwick, requesting lain to call a Meeting of the Burgesies. to take i n to consideration the propriety of expressing don tintriks to Cul. WARDLE, for bringing forward the late investigation into the conduct of his lio) at Highness the f)uke of Yost. The Mayen, in compliance with the Requisition, appointed a meetiag at the Court-Douse yesterday. The Alliance, —, front Liverpool, hound to Philadelphia, has been run foul of by the Swim, and left iii a winkling state—the crew are arrived at Liverpool. The Maria sad Ass, —, from Cottentowz, for Liverpool, has been found at sea without any person on boardolisinasted, end carried into Shield,. Friday mottling, the lit Iteeionetit of Dragoon ; Guards, under the command of Colonel Fe u.sit., left the Barracks, near York, on their route fort Berwick upon Tweed. On Tuesday, Mr. NICEOLAY. Her MAistres , principal Page. died, at so advanced age, at his, apartments in St. Janies's Police. Mr. N. attend- 1 ed Her 3lazesTe to this countay. A Captain of a vessel who left Oporto nit the 19th ult. gives the following recital :—At the tint of the advance of Marshal 50u1..? to Oporto, 'about 40 French pristmers fell iuto the hands of the. papoisme, who hurbarootly put them to desith.••• aeon a, 6.! Marshal was informed of this, he ordered Woody vengeance to he taken. In conse quence, some thoosands of the wretched inhabi tants were bayonetted, without distinction of age or sex. After the rage of that French was i.l woe measure satiated, and the bodies of the 'laughter, it lied been reposed threekdays in the streets, the lin • dies of some were permitted to be interred is the churches aid herbsl grounds, but the greater nom beruf the deed bodies *ere east into the river. M. , r shal SOU t.T, it is wild, rive strict otrierato the soldiers not to hurt sin ? , of the Etigtish, as they. he was pleased to declare, gctiereily respected the laws of war. It is diflicult to credit so horrible a story. It appears that snow movements have again corn meneed among the vessels te.eposing the Boo lope flotilla. Their object is oat known, but they have been onfortuinde in their attempt. Tuesday'. His Majesty'. ship Troorpetise, Captain DOLLING. sent two of than nato Doter. They carry each two large guns sod t to howitzers, and a crew of 13 men. Thei . e, with now more, came out of lino logue harbour thr...day before, and ^ ere hound to licivoct. On obeerving the Trompease, they mule for Ambleteuse harbour a ith alt possible speed, and right of them succeeded in their object. Tim other three too on :Imre under Cape Gristles. sod about ten o'clock at Higirt the two thnt have been sesitin were brought riff by the heists of the Trost• pease, un.:er s.trcintia:oas tire from the batteries, but fortuuntely withein any of our brave fellows re any bust. 'flies, prizes, though froot Boulogne, are Dust!). and were mooned Wis . :: Dutchmen, two of whom wounded b. tire folio (lie tanneries. 'i he vessels appear to t.s touch decayed in conserjuence of hating lain by so ions;.—Tleg hate each four large guns be:oll, bt iWele those mounted sea-dick.