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the eseeption of such of the last as are called fell they follow. it is probable that 5.r J. Alooan will, ut least, in part of l►is mitten, be compelled to re tire in a yin* eohnot. That again would much retard his retreat. ease of any pressure, boos the enemy, any delay iu the snivel of the shipping. or had weather, what would be the situation of Sir Juno Moose, at Col-mina, or would ht. go to Co ! . runau.? It isnot defensible against regular attack'. DLit would he not, if itch delays occur, rather move upon Ferrol, attach +trotter. both by situation mid by works, mod wh'erf thereare ex ,e .eve lvirracks? to eithoraaironow '4 oar army to be provisinaud ? Et en Sir Davits 114144anp0, of HMO men, with full leisure, lutiudombsistameitiu Alio line of march we very easy. Have tiorerainent, in contemplation of an en tiod a situation, dispatched .from Cock, or elsewle ie, vietuullers to Commie? There cite be no.ilooSt Bow air4a re lies taken measures to tut ell oar retreat to Vigo. and ut the s one time tointeromse b.•tween us and the t.iii forceineut from Lisbon. But it is not from r.,i,e wrilte such a movement would he has route 10 Vigo, shorter by neatly sixty mih •. A corps for that purpose was probably sent by IThruinfa De Duero, and Britgaoto ; or, imu►rrii ately after passing the Duero, by San faire► watieh would be thirty miles shoi ter. It would a;ipeor, that %bast AP4RTE direct*, Lit ipat force to the expulsion of the English front the North-west of Spain, he has corps of 0 7, servation at Toledo and Talaikre„—On the side of. Cooly+, if at mill, some court they be looked be front the reinaius of t hut army that was connuautled by C 1131141405. As to the dangers incidental to the actual embarkation of our t[ool/11, it requires u minute topographical knowledge to estimate then►; bat they would probably be volitined to whatever corps shall he ordered to corer the emharkat ma. Supposing our army ro-embark. what is to be door? NVe have to confine our- efforts to the Ile fence of Li ,boa, where we MAW not Love distarh,ll Use eacmy, are oe, prOting by experience, shout to establish, in a partuitipain more suite•.! to our exertions. such as army; iu point of nutnlnr, as eon keep the field? • Yesterday, et there &ens. k, his NIAJVATY held n eabiiiet Council at the 'a Palace ; it was at tended by The Lodi Chancellor, Ins Grace the Arehbiettep of C2/1- lerbary,tbe Lord Pero.drat of the Conseil, the lint Lot i of the Treasury, tile Lord Privy Seal, the Meatyr of the HOW, the LoniChalsberlele, Bath3ret, the Lent Steward, the Oteora of the Stole, the Chaoce.lor of the l;setterpser, the Tye* Lard of the aolintrolly, V:eeount Castlereagh, Mr. Calordag, sal air hrephea . • Vistrourit C asii.bseac.il rtad the Speech to lie. MASESEA, lit Council. worcli IS to ne delivered to the Homo: this evening, tensely:. a Court t 1 Directers was held at tie Enit titba House, when the Tameioss Oink, of 1.198 tui:e, Wit.) taken up for the service of the pre sent seir.;o The Couit adjourned at sae o'clock. till W,dnesebly nest. Oti transport sailed f: oni Woolwich, wth lel) to S es;* s ;eeriest caw shot and cartridges, for Vs.. British army at Commie. The dlisista, Apia, from the Cape of flood Hope. for London. ha , Inuedered st sea. The Captain is arrived at the Braids. The Mary. Ei.i.is, from London, for Post:- mouth, is lost isear Poole. The Minerva. Lemmas, is lost in Riles Day. The sailors of the Standard. who lately paid a visit to the Admiralty, were paid the wages whiLli them chinned, at Chatham, on slonday. Captain PLTER HAI Kerr, of the Ganges, 74 torn, who is left by Sir CHARLES Cortow, with the command of the aquadrim, in the Tagus, is the Officer, who, with much conducted the tinhattar..on of J usior'ri army from Lisbon, and is second son of the l.,te Sir JOHN HA LR err, Gait. of Flthrralle, and brother to Sir Cii A 1:1. ES, the present Baronet. We presume the convoy to .larstrand mmt he counter-ordered. We understand that a ship has returned, on aecouut of the impracticability of en tering either Marathon!, or Gottenburgh, iron, the ice on the Swedish Coast. We are informed that the Dutch Merchants are loud in their complaints of the etnliarrassairnts of trade.—lmniense quay titles of cheese are rotting in their warehouses, and their rich Linters are coavert ing into soap : yet tle ,, y indulge a hope that the in tervention of Louts will 014.69 for them wine 'Ads- Mimi of the severity of the commercial ices do the return of spring. • The reiguing Seltan Illanontt• is the only re maining representative of the dynasty of °vistas., and will. of course. he somewhat respected, even by those who are most 'esirsged against the innovations introduced under his ra4gn. The nest heirs are the Gamut' 'Carter Khans who have beet sedulously secluded iu the remote pro • 'ices of the Turkish Empire and the small islands of the Archipelago, lest they shOuld he taken up by any oldie leaders of those revolutionary contests, of which the form of the Turkish Government was so susceptible. Last Friday, the 2d battalion of the Mil Regi ment, a rem rkably fiat: body of men, above 1000 strong, searched from Fernsoy to the East Ferry„ sodimmeiteely embarked. They ere destined, in the list instniice, for Lisbon, to replete those troops whieb had be , is ordered •br Joan Casonek •to march front that city to Spain. Yesterday moriring, at sne o'clock, the cable, of, a collier were rut I.y the ice below London-bridge she having partcd from her moorings, -drifted; against the middle arch Of'. Loadon-hridge, %Niels; carried *wisp the masts oh the collier, and the' battle:arida , of the bridge for t i me space of .29 yards. We ore awry to that three of the men on bs.aril the vessel h.ve beau most severely wounded by the falling of the stones on bona! ; their lives see desp..ited of. Daring the day workursii were employed clearing away the ruins, and ere/Oink a paling for the severity of pares/era ; itwas coin. isleted before night.. ,1111 ft 16 . THE AURIOL. By this name, after its opulent and liberal pro prietor, is distinguished a very superb building in the Mall, Clifton. near Bristol, now very fast ap proaching towards completion, comprising an As sembly-ronm, 100 feet long, and nearly 50 wide, having on 6e inside•, 16 columns, .23 feet high, of the lonic order, from the best (*.reek model, sup porting a dome of 30 feet in diameter, and 30 feet above the entablature. On either side the large room are two others--one the Card-room, the other a Tea-roo.n, each 30 feet square, with coved mil ings in the root'. In the I lutel are twelve sitting moms, a billiard-room, and sixty bed-rooms. The whole, when tiiiished, will certainly be one of the most classical and extensive piles of buildiug of the kind, in•the kingdom. The roollog-in was completed Monday se`nnight, and in commemoration o 1 this event, on 'Thursday an ox was roasted whole, on Clifton Down. At twelve o'clock, the workmen employed on the building, to the number of 150, proceeded to the Down, for the purpose of attending those of the populace assembled who might be inclined to take part of the noble fare. After three hearty cheers for J. L Auriol, Esq. the sival was given for cut tiag up. which, with the assistance of a large hotly of the gentlemen by courtsey stiled Navigators, vi.t, perforated in less than go minutes. Neither salt •1 nor bread, though proffered its ample quantities, was in request; but whilst the attendants were engagedfin serving the beef to the less vora s, the barrels of beer were peohl behind, and drawn off in shoel, hats, &c. At two o'clock the workmen sat down to an ex cellent diluter, prepared at the York Hotel, for nearly 1.00 per-ins. Nothing could excee,l the cheerfulness and enthusiasm of their God save the i karts of Oak, and Iliac Britannia. led, in a masterly stile, by one of the party, named Smith, repeated in chorus standing, and accompanied by a bend formed among themselves. Her Royal Highnese the Princess of WALES ha v e a most splendid ball and supper, last night, at er apartments. Kensington Palace. A great iiii:aber of the Nobility who attended Court in the morning, were present. The dresses were ;iriacioally velvet ; there were also some cloths. most beautifully embroidered in diestilk. The Countess of ABERDEEN wore a black velvet robe, with a long teain, long waist, and very high over the bosom ; her sleeves looped a little: above the bend of the arm with a diamond clasp; down the (rout of the robe a most beautiful embroidery of embossed gold, nearly a quarter broad ; her head dress a hand of diamonds. _ Hia Rnral Highness the Prime of WALES pee his usisal dinner, vesterday, at Carleton Noose, to the Right Hon. It. B. Sagas DA N, Sir A. Pic:mm Sir SANDIA!. ROSIILLY, and Mr. ADAM. General He t.se and Colonel Wools FlEi.n presided, his Royal Mghisess sliming with Her 11.11. JE -TT. Yesterday Lord Easetst accompanied the Prince of WALL* in his carnage to Her MAJESTIC", drou iiig-room. The Earl of CR ATIIASI did not attend the Court yesterday, on account of indisposition. Yesterday Mr. CAN rano gave a grand dinner to the Foreign Ministers. The Duke of PORTLAND gave a grand dinher to the Ministers, and ehout thirt).—Lord CAS• TLFREANN to about thirty.—Mr. PERCEVAL to Owed thirty.—The Duke of Moseanse and Earl 'Monson to numerous parties of Their MaJerriea' household. Mr. and Mrs. EGERTON arrived at their house in (;etflou-sre ect, on Monday lust, from their seat ut Oulston Perk, Cheshire. We are extreme!). concerned to hear, that Sir FRANCIS VINCENT, Bort. hes dangerously ill, ut his seat, Widen Han, in Essex ; an express ar rived with the intelligence ou Tuesday, and early yesterday morning the lion. Mr. and Mrs. Bou rse:F., and Lord Roacter SPENCER, left town for that place. The Hon. Mrs. Reim's grand rout last night was attended by a numerous aseembluge of Nobi lity ; most of the Ladies wore their Court head dresses, which abounded with fine ostrich plumes and diamonds. The grand suite of apartments were insist magnificently righted up on the occa sion, and refreshments were served to the come !may io a superior style of elegance. A s t rand dinner was given, on Monday last, at the Thatched I fonse Tavern, in St. James's-street s in honour of the birth-day of his Highness the Duke of elLoticeser.a. It was attended by number of the Duke's friends; end the ' evening was enlivened by several glees, songs, and duets, by Messrs. FITZSIMMONS. ELLIOT, and Mons. Admiral Sir ROGER CERTIS arrived, last morn ing, from his seat at Gateford, at the Admiralty, to receive his appOintMent isf'Commaisiler-iu-Chief of Iles MAJESTY. ships at Portsmouth. A certain Lord rived unhappily with his late.wifie has however paid great respect to her memory, and inclosed her grave with a Vigil iron railiug.— Some time einee he was found lamenting over her remains in loud accents of woe. An Irish gentle man, who heard of it, said " By J—s his Lord ship sties only using his wife as before, by railing and treating her ironically." 4.-ntriday morning the Duke of CLoteesexa attended with the Dukes of YORK alid CAD SWOON; on the Parade iu. St. JAIIIIND'S Park, to it:llmA the battalion of Greuadiers precious to their ne ting At the same time a very novel and grand unlitare spectacle was ealiihited, such as. we believe, never was displayed before; the ethnic of the tiunieroae Builds of the three regiments eif Font Guards uncoiled, with new state uniforms. The first and secaud Bands wore slew jockey velvet caps; the three Bends marched as far a. the convince tQ the Stable rani ; the first and third Buerl-s went on with the 1K Guard, amid the second proceeded to the Queen's Uusst-house, near thus Quesn's " • 4111/ • OLD BotILEY, JAN . tB. Joseph nosier, a young man of genteel appear• ance, was itniteted for feloniously embezzlieg the snot of 101. the property of his ciii2l2yers. Me4srs. Lyne and Donaldson, tailors, residiug in Cecil street, Strand. There were other counts in the indictment, charging the Prisoner with further embezzlement to The amount of s:n4.l. and up wards. It appeared in evidence, that the Pi i,oner had received a elteck for 111. 15s. bd. t' !All il Mr. Lusar4li, for his mast, r, Mr. Lytle. The entry of this cheelihad been fairly made, both in the ledger and the cash-book ; but it was proved that an alteration, by erasure, had been made in the cash-book, whereby the figure t was changed into the figure 11, reducing the original sum of '231. to 151: and this alteration was sworn to have been made in the Prisoner's hand, writing. It appeared also in evidence, that the Prisoner, :ibout the begin ning of November, had, under the bike pretence of his father's alleged illness, absconded from the service of Mr. Lytle, and was by him appre hended at Portsmouth, on the point of sable; out for America, his baggage being already on board. The Prisoner, being called upon for his 'totemic, stated, that he did not eapect to have lawn so harshly dealt with by his emplovens, whose in terests he had izoilbrmly support:A ; that he bad entered into a Volunteer Association, and that 1 from the sinall salary of a guinea and a half per week, v14_4111(.601'11 were frequeotly made on ac count of short absence, occasioned by attendance to his military duties, though lie had a wife and three children to suppoit out of that sum. The JuDGE. having then charged the Jury, after a short consolustiou, they brought in a verdict of guihy. The COMMON SrIUNANT then, after an impres sive admonition to the Priamer upon the heinousness of his offence, sentenced him to be transported for seven year:. • i WWI. MAIM was coneieted of stealing two iron anchors, the i• rooerty of John Mills, 21141 sentenced to six months' imprisonment, and to be publicly whipped, within the above period, for one hundred yurds, in smut! part about 1.1111t1101.1:e. Elizabeth Perry was conrided of stealiog out of a house in Murybone-lane, a cap, an apron, and petticoat, and sentenced to be limed 19. and dis charged. No other trials of any importance occurred through the day. poLICE. lIII*II.MIAII L. Yesterday, Richard Mamell, an yard man, was elwrged with stealing roar pint puts. He am stopped last night in Sinithlickl, by the watchman, with ihr re-owls in • bag.— Two ruldiraus, the minus of thin, pro,. d their prupert% The pour man onucd the taking of thou, compelkd Ly want. The MAGISTRATE humanely sent him to Cridewell foe • week, inatimd of committing him foe trial at the Old Bailey . • 'NAVAL IifirELLTGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 17. Arrive.' the Ramon and o'aver sloops of war.— The latter vessel has ca t auted a French hag 6 vr privateer ta the Cliatittel. Sailed the Mcrope. The Arpttse, itrary /Minivan. Climb rrland. S:airty Castle, Cstinells, !'rue Rritun, Warren Ilustiags, and Lard Nelms/ie. hull uaen, under ceinvoy of the elarsaide, of 30 guns. Capt. Briggs, will sail on Thursday next. It is utoltustoo this dsy, that Admiitil Sir Roger Curtis, 'Sart. is to succeed Admiral Alontagti in the command at this petit; a better choice, after so respected a mats and officer to the latter, multi tea have linen made. l'ltc Brilliant, with the fleet for the Brazils, is exported to sail to-atorrow morning.—Wind E. PLYMuLTII, J•N. 16. Arrived the Eclipse, of IN ;vim, Captain Creyke, front the. westward ; Encounter gun-brig. Lieute nant Talbot, from a cruise: oil St. Alaloes; and dm Plymouth :comport Irons Cork. Settled the /thaw and June trader; Joseph cot ter, with an Hamoase lighter, for Cork ; c.'ad.reus brig, of IN gnus. Captain Wyttter, for Quit,erma ; Ray Fervent brig, of 14 guns, Lieutenant Hare, for L'Orirtit and Rot:Mort ; Endeavour him" armed ship, Lieutenant Anstrtather; stud Advetiture transport, a ith stores, fur Milford.—Wind S.E. FALMOLITII, JAN. 15. Sailed the Lady Pellet, Raney, w,th ;N'ai'l for Cornmia. The Lisbon, New York. and Jamaica packets. with Mails, will sail to-worvovt morning if the wind is fair. COWES (MS CV WIGHT) JAN. 16. The Niobe, Capt. Loring, and Captain Macleod, weighed. with the Eanetlition nutlet Major-General Sherlsrooke. from Cowes Roads, at sev , :i, «.7A. of the Will. Two of the transports ran on bourd the his, and nearly curried away her bowsprit; they passed idongsiik, and did her con sitteruble damage, hut not to prevent her T)roceed ing. She pass e d through the Needles with a line breeze from the eastward. DEA!, JANLI.7. Caine down front the River the Mary, Wilson. for Jamaica ; and remains in the Dowipi ' with the ships as per lust .—Wind N.E. blows hard. TROD LLOYD'S LIM% Gaarrosso, J.tv. 17.—Paned by dme from St. Croix ; Oporto rickat, Elders, Gum Team-Hie , Citharine„ retin, from Malta; Hilieence, Turner, from ►lalifax; Diai.a, Mitchell, from Madera; Vestal, Bather front Mitteuburgh , Mary, Wawa, tool the Hornig, Bru.o from %%ate-remit ; Catu, Barnett ; Mary and Jane, Atkiamiu Capon, ire, unt the Lady Huire, front the Pentewenuce, Tweendaile, for India, H arriot , Huntley, fur Oparto ; and Brorkhaak, Jutland, for C.a. CAMBRIDOR, JAR. 16. - The Bishop of Liiicuin hap collated the Bev. Mr. Vince, Professor of Astruionriv in this Unimitity, to the Arelides coney of Itedforol. vacated by the death of Dr. Shepherd. The Bre. Hugh l'riee, M. A F. Moe of Queen's college, is pi. 5e..4...1 by die Prtsident and Society to the v.ilunble Rectory of Neaten Tony, near Salisbury. va cant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Elites. The Hee. Thomas Webster, M A. Fellow of Queen's ge, is also preseuteit by the said President and Fulton' to the Vicarage of Hug:ennuis, alias Onbibirton, in this county, eaeaut M the promotion of Ilw Rev. John Hunt. Mr. "Tragg, It A. of (lotto's-college, is elected a Fellow of that Society There.% John Burnett Stuart, M.. 4. late of Welford, has been iustituted,ou his eon petition, to the iectury of Grap pcuhall, in the county of Clarifier. The young lady, mentioned in Tuesday's Paper, as having been seduced from her friends, iii the neighbourhood of Hampton Court, by an Officer in the Army, was, on Tuesday night, discovered with her paramour, at a private lodging, near Temple-bar, by Avraoxe and ADKINb, two of the Bow.street Officers, who immediately put her into a post-chaise, mid conveyed her to her father's house in the country. 'llse Nireontitesi Ihntfiaownsr, whose huma nity is as eminently distinguished as the refinement of her lerstistedhig and accomplishments, has not only employed herself since her late arrival at Brynkinalt, North Wales. in superintending the arrangements of the tasteful and spiendid rlecora- nous of her Lord'; newly-erected mansion, but has charitably devoted some of her hours to a consi denition of the wants and distresses of the poor. Her Ladyship has clothed between so and 90 of the poorest cottagers in the enviions of arviikinalt, sod is now further supplying many of them with weekly allowances of dour, coal., &v. Among the liberal benefactors to the poor, du ring the lute inclemeney of the weather, was JulIN Coama. Esq. who not only ordered, as usual, in ample allowance of beef, bread, and strong Leer to be distributed to every poor family in Bteester King's End, Oxfordshire, hut, with u benevolence truly characteristic, extended his bounty and im parted comfort to the ag ed and necessitous of t h e neighbouring parish of Weistllebury, Ly a similar donation. There is no truth, we understand, in the report cf the death of Int'llAßD MANSIM Paiii.t.tes, Esq. A shirt time since an unfortunate girl of the town was sitting in the White Lion public-house, Chatham, soil complained of being cold, upon which an inhuman brute (a late tttt ing num) said he would give her a warming, and instantly set lire to her clothes, by putting a liglrteil candle up her petticoats; the poor creature ran off in a fright,. and before hit clothes could be extinguished, was burnt in a most shocking uninner.—.Slie however Was going on well, and was considered out of daii gto from the injury she had received from the horn, when she took cold, and being seized with a fever, died on Tuesday se'unight.--A Jury was summoned to inquire into the cause of her decease, who deliberated, by athoiirnment, two days, when they gave in a vet-dia.—Died by the Visitation of God. Now is the time to procure favourite numbers in the ensuing Lottery from' the !It'd; o'S England, as the Tickets hay.' just collo:termed Jeli.e;ye by the cashiers. By applicaiik , ll at a beettoesl (obese, any ' number may now be untaineil, except those among the Fifteeueluthdred Tickets given by the Coa -1 tractors. CINJ - RT Saturday Est a Court Nlartial was held on board the Salrodor dcl•Migiscio, at Ply th, for the trial of Mr. Proctor, Surgeon of the Eclair, ou charges preferrt.4 against hits Capt. Quash, Comman der of the said Alp, for neglect of duty and diso bedienee of orders; when the Court, adjudging the charges to be partly proved, sentenced ler. Proctor to be placed at the bottom of the list of surgeons. He delivered a well-written and able defence, by, which it appestied that the differences between him and the Captain arose from the lutter's ordering some men on deck to do their duty, who were con fined to their births by illness, and against this order the surgeon peremptorily remonstrated, as the men were under his care. CORN EXCHAVGE, JANUARY 18. The supplies of Wheat on band this day are considera:de; but iu consequence of the Thames navigation bring nearly stopped, scarce any sales are etleetvd. barley in large sup ply. Beans of,the two description arc tolerably pleutifui. There are large supplies of Oats, but in this trade, as 11%11 as others, owing to the few sacs made, the prices arc rllll sideeed alsisost sunniest. Flour iu full plenty, avow Lust quutul ion. CURRENT rßicr. OF GRAIN. Wheat .........tiss rose gas. Reams (01d).....tit15. 745. uJ Fine ditto Rye ass. Cos. Oats ass. ass. 4•211 Barley 445. SM. ud. ass ass. ud Malt White Peas .1 , sas 15N Rape Seed 501. 541. us (boilers) • Fine Flour. bus. ase Grey Peas.— ...... Sas. 595. Seconds 7ss. COAI.-111ARK ET Ships at Market. Sold. Newc aide 10—Vaderlsed...... 7 . . :Stamp, Cami . ..thiSis • . r, JANUAR , . D. Prire. • tiss. od. • s••. ed. • 6.. od. • es. ed. ... es. ed. • --•. ed. Yestnelar•-talisi% BIRTH DAT ILITT-11•14dis al At Palgar Ofre.. COURSE OF EXC Allister+ .19 6 9 U. Ditto et Sigibe 32 II ROlirlllolll C. f le 7 s E. flasulmn4h II 9 4111. Altoua 9l 91E% Par.s l)itte 2 US 2l I Bowleapt Coal .. 4u effretive 44 eilective 41 Leghurs Naples 42 t;essis N Lis.Pie. Venice* C sa De. but RANGE, ism 17 Lisbon 6l °Port o Dublie RI 1.1.10 V. POIII3O Gioia ill and Liars 4. S. dt. per Duuhioum New Dollars Solser in Bars New Lows (es+) 0 0 0 Agio on the B*nk of Holland. pee (;eat. IRISH STOCKS, J t.s mai it . Goventersat'Diblistures 3i par cent 74 DIM S 01W CMS 941 - . MARRIAGE. Lately, M. NOIIIII4 of Lmcolu's Inn, Esq. Barrister at Law, to Mom M. C. Brunwio, youngest d welter of the late Lan• cellot sruawio, Esq. and niece to the ltcv Dr. Carter, of Breda ell Hall, :u t►e county of rime. DEATHS. Oil Saturday last, of a decline. in the 15th year of her awe, •t Mr Wattles's, Chasitig-urias, Miss Sophia Mialkte, lair of Stafrord. On the 1 inst. at Rekedale, tl.e seat of the Earl Fer rer., .Lc I..idy of Helton M P. 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