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tr :'"';~? . . .40, Minimum is to:eluded by the pressure of temporary leaver. the portierthirs of the Fire at St. James's Falser, 69 account of which was gives is TOE Damon PRZIII of Sat oirilvt!, ate the at pop. TI BRITISH PR SS. LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 13. SIR JOHN MOORE KILI.EI).—SIR DAVID BAIRD MORTALLY WOUNDED.—EmBAIthATIoN 111 TIIE BRITISH ARMY AT comCNNA Lord PAGET arrived lo,t M.,411t. from C•rroona. lie has brought an ai!count of the einbarkaion our artn at that place. It way con.taidly attacked during this operation, and behaved most nobly.— Neter was British valour pot to a severer trial— to!ver Jiu it more gallantly maintain its character, anti answer the expectation of it: country. It of.en repolse.l the enemy, whose mini b er , I , ere eon stwntly Our loss is estiinnteil at -too uille4 and *ituited. Sir JuliN illouac is KILLED. Sir DAVID BAIRD is MORTALLY WOUNDED.-.-ilis arm w:t.4 ittJt off at the socket. Ahoo.t the whole of our baggage aml .Horses hnve been destroyed. taken, or left behind.—The French were led on by • Juso . c.--This was nIl that nay . oantiag to sharpen the poignancy of our feehiigs, and aggra satt our di4ster. To this l'r;mitier, Ida:rated at Lis;mni, was assigned, by UONAPARIE, the task, touse his own words, "of throwing the Fog lish into the seis" at Corunua: And how wrist he there transports, with previsions, intended for British cohliers, conveyed 1 .. y Fres:cli (Ulcers, with cich a British frigate for hi. accoutniodatioa, curried and his cap tive troops to the theatre or war. Strnnge it but true.—The military history of England tlor, nut furnish au inst.tnce aim einharkatiom of British troops ell'eettol with so much celerity and finch Imo fect acconiniodatiou, as that afforded at Lisbon by virtue of the eftrovention of Clitoris, for the con veyance of tali, eery Jester, and his army, to Fraser. ou their way to Coruna*. The ahore iu telliw•nee will be read with mingled sensations of joy unit sorrow ; joy for those thut are preserved, and sorrow for thost who liaise fallru ; but shut skit; we t,ay or the who p' • d exibctLtioil, Yll e7tpcditieni iu which British valuur, conducted by British sktil, could not posmibly coin- woad arcewwl Sir Amity's MiLt.t.sist.zr is to be thanked this day for this fiat atep that led to dna fatal catastrophe. We receiver! the above im portant intelligence after sine fulloaitig °Werra tions were written, anti when it was too late to tancel :odic parts wiiielt it litlperiedcs. Brigadier-General STCWA UT, brother of N CoUlit CASTLEktEAGII, arrived at the War-Off we, on Saturday, with Dispatches frota Sir JOHN Aloown, dateil the 13th ; and, irnroeJiah ly after, the folluwint; Notes were circulated in the Minis terial circles, and at the Public Oiiees " Brig.-Gen. Ferswitter, who arrive.' in town this wsoriiing,lrani Sir Jon a Moults, left Commie on Friday se'tiiiight. At the time of his departure, the entire of the British army had arrived in Co swm, or were quartered within its iu late vi cinage—our most Ally:weed guard was :atoned at Burin, where Gen. Bearseoeo, with a corps of auuo men, oti% itetniped in constructing .. hs to defend the passage of the river.—The ein my were in force au the opposite Bunk, atel at Ciisiiio ; and the Duke of DA I.MATIA Was understood tu have es tablished his hoes-quarters at Iletauin;. " The ;army reached the neighbourhood of Co mina on the 11th ; but, in consequence of un favourable winds, the transports did not get round till the evening of the 13th. Every thing was pre pared to begin the embarkation on the morning following. It was apprehended that a sacrifice of seine horses, baggage, and stores, would be un avoidable ; but there was ieo doubt but nearly the whole of the troops would be got off. " The rear-guard of our Army hail, durilig its retreat, fetsquent ski 111 l 'shies with the enemy, Lut maim every occasion the superior gallantry cud conduct of our troops were conspicuous. In passing the riser Neyra, they were attacked by a considerably more numerous body of the viseiny, led on, it is said, by the Duke of (STRIA its person, but with out the least interruption to that movement—in the neighbourhaod of Hospital de Cliesnosco the enemy again cisme in contact with our troop., amid was again repulsed. A short distance (ruin Lugo, Sir .1. MOORE found that the enemy had acelllllll - to such a degree, es to endanger the safety or his covering column, and lie resolved to gite them battle--for that purpose lie formed hi, army, who were eager to advance, but he contented himself with that demonstration, and busing sent Witold his 11:ek, baggage, Sc. continued his march without further interruption. " rue French Ins.l • corps at Pueutedeurne, on its route to Ferrol. ; •" The Spiuisli army, under the Attryuii Ue Is ituttaa a, sustained several attacks frotn the enemy. in his retreat to Astoro. The troops behoved well, hut they sulliii•ed greatly from the superior num hers opposed to them. A body of about 3000 men. constituting the left wiwg, maintained its position on the Elsa, during the izi.th and 70th, against the greatest part of Marshal Sou ur's division." The other Nulletiii ran thus:— " Brigadier-General STLwAILT arrived this morn. , i t at Lord CAsTLERBAGIee Office, in Driaming st,eet, with, dispatches fmut Sir J. XlOOlll.. ilut,d Comilla, the Idtli inst. upon which place he had directed his march, instead of N'i4o, as he had ori inally Sir J. Mount: hail eff;cteil his retreat, with the loss of only rut of his hagv-ig.e. There h nl been repeated sktrunsites with the tear :ollrd, in which we hail uniformly re l nilsed the nod, at Lugo, Sir J. Moon": (Meted the eitsloy Imtac, w luck they 'declined. The enemy, lieu Brigailit..-Umieral STEWART were in force in the neighbourhood ; lint, it was. trusted. that Si: J. MMIUK would effect his r.- endnirkl.ition without h loss, as the transport:: which he had sent fur from Vigo svt.re cowling the bar at Cormina when General . .-*TinvAter sailed. " Major PAGET and CUADOT pained Brigadier-General STr.W•IT to town ; .they all arrived at Falmouth iii the Ann brig, and, we understand, did inn leave Corinna, till the 14th.-.—' General A NlTlttAilLa had died, iii coomaittence of lati.oc. Upward, of 200 sick and wt - iantiril were lel! Inlnird at Logo, &v. Moat of the artillery I,ln,t•A, and about Cu° of the dragcun liormpa, had the state of affairs not allowing time for th. tr alturkutivat. The 7th drawrous had .in bst fsed previous to the departure of General SyLw- A ay. Ow troop, were in excellent health awl vitas. " A dibisioii of the army, tinder the orti.-rs or licit ~durr-Uruerul CotAwnau, comprising alaout 4000 DIVII, had proc,eded to Vigo, where they caubatkcd without difficulty." Such is the stilktunce of the Bulletins issued on Saturday. Tile term Bulletin implies, at least, a dami•olficial authority; but, under the present Mi. Eist‘rs, we ;hal that it is nothing but theaccoutit al lowed tube glees by the Clerks in the Public Oftie•es of aay important dispatches received by C:o -yerunre•ut, uuuuthentuvtt•d by nay signature, situ resting a l iio specific authority. Holding it, as se do, our brat duty to the public, neither to tulle with, nor to (leerier them, we cannot n►uceal, that, not ts itl►.tairdiu, 4 the assuntuces given in the Bulletins of Saturday, the greatest apprehension► err enter tained by 31inisters, relative to tleelicte of our army Id Cortmaa. The French completely surround us, atid their numbers hourly augmetit. Nut more tiara 4,5ei0 troops had embarked on the utth of January, trial hie apprehended, that if we can effect our embark ation with the loss of .iunct troops, we shard hate cause to be most horny ; a 11111411 greater uamlo•r may be sacrificed. Admitting that the truant body of our army On embark, tmdur a covering carps, what is to protect this covering corps when it comes to its turn to embark ? Who is to cover the em barkation of General Etat:scow, and die SOOO tat ii at Burge ? When the whole garrison rinharks in sillily, fruits even the strongest fortifications, iti pi csence of an enemy, it can only be brought off en tire by stealth; as in the evacuatio►► or Stralmitid by the Swedes. General E ? wee disgraced, ;aid, it is said, put to death, for suffering this es cape ; and will .... 74 .1rATAIME commit that oversight at Corunna, which he punished so severely in the case of General BRUNE. Similar calamities are anticipated us probable at Lisbon, where, we may I►e assured, the French Commanders will not ivake with us a Convention of Cintra. la the first inometts of alarm, the caution on the works of Cortinua were thrown into the sea, lest they might be used by the French against to. ; but it was afterwards feared that this measure was preci pitate, as it reduced our means of defetiditl the place. _ _ Such is the result of the incapacity of a Cabinet constitoted like mils, which, from the moment of the application made to them by the ti v ailiards, has manifested ardour without judgment, and has displayed zeal destitute of information. To the selection of their commanders, to the consequent errors committed by those Generals, and to the final necessity of vur troops inarchisig across all Portugal and Spain to the theatre of war, instead of having been transported thither in our ow n transpoi is by sea ; to these successive mistakes and acts of culpability, we necessarily trace, and ob viously impute, the result which we now all deplore. If utter inuptitudeaud reeognistsl ignorance are po litical crimes, never have any Ministers committed more palpable riles, nor more justly merited par liamentary, as well as natio:ial condetnuatiou.— We are not in possession of a sufficient number of facts relative to Sir JOHN Mooaes actual situation, his supplies of provisions, the number of transports ready to ret•eive his troops, the works which are to be defended' by General Beaaseoao, the spiriterinced by the inhabitants of Coruumt, and many other particular's, to enable us to form a decided (Onion era the loss which we may, or must sustain, in re-embarking our army. We fear it will prove considerable, particularly in the articles of horses, wounded, sick, baggage, and am munition. Amy of the wen, it is much to be ap es. r ~ ••• - , preliended, must be left behind, t4a.thoanergy.or Box srsetr. Not that we believe, the neconnts asserted in the Cannon. Papers of the 12th fassLint, which (lei:lure, that "at .Iknavetite, and tit .Aisa . torga, the English pnscitiers hare been murdered by Nsnot.i.os, previous to.s.the assembly of . the. English at Ingo." The fact might not to he ',e l ,: lieved on Such authority: Whatever ittros•ities the Corsican Emperor may iu Asia, we believe he will not repeat them in Europe. The massacre of some hunched Turks at Jaffa, he might hope would elude inquiry or proof; but to put to death English prisoners, taken in war, might revolt the feelings even of his ome n soldiery. Ile is nevertheless composed of ferocious materials, we cannot count on his humanitv. Nor is it to Ice forgotten that in the Ifith Bulletin, dated .‘ Madrid, the Bth of December," he expressly states that the division of LASALLa bus fallen di Nice* ErtgleNlimen, whom they hare put to the sword. Trey were stragglers, or Melt who had lost their %my." !fere we have a fact, given on 1:I4 on n official authority, which is of the most ex tr.:A..auary said Pagitions description. It is not to be exceeded in cruelty by any of the Jacobin satires. For *hut defence could fifteen mem who bad ithwlltettii or )ost their way, flaorteiii;uinst the divisors ot.Lasst.tat ?. Vet t uo cum slwkistioooo o nor even ceionre, is expressed against that Mneral - ver, for so Mbomou and lune a proceeding. The fact merits attention, and awakens apprehension, when we consider that the preset war is carrying on against a man, who, in the fiery attack of Spain. and seizure of FERDINAND the Seventh, reflec tively trampled on and spurned all rights, all treaties, all the laws of nati..n., the obligations of civil society, end the primes al .lictatt•s of natural amorality. Ile will nut he delican., or scrupu!ous, in his treatinelit of our retreating fumes. line may Iseptite implicitly the assertions positively mode lithe Government Bulk tins, Our trans ports were getting round into the harbour of Co runt% ou the evening of the I:ith, and were enter ing the Buy when General STEWART sailed." We I rut that there is neither error nor deception in this statement fur, during the last eight slays, we know that the winds have been almost con stantly to the north and cast, which are points op posed to our escape out of the port of Cornana, and to the ppsa.lge of transports from Vigo to that port. We would r usk likewise, have our Alinisters Tided subsistence for te.ooo or Su,uoo :nand' they should be detained fur any considerable time, be fore they can make sail for Lisbon or Cadiz, or their destination, where ver it may be ? Are Ce rement or F-riot themselves properly provision< d Awl ale the garrisons tatmaile and disposed to pe rish, rather than open their gates to the enemy ? We fuse that neither will resist BON APARTE.— fie is not male of the ware sluff es nor present Se,:retary at War, who eomidered Fer rol to he impregnabie, a oil withdrew his fortis from before it. If the magnitude and imminent nature of the danger in which Get:. I‘luov.z is invol ved, wotild allow us to look to other quarters, we should say that Sir J. Cr..lDorK, and his troops, at Lisbon, will probably be somi in u similar, or its a worse pretlasumer t, them our :wry at Corunna. Nor is Oporto at ail more secure from attack.— Wherever we extend our view, the vtloeity,capacity, and resources of the enemy, appal and astonish, no less than the vaccination, delays, and want of all sr:tem in our Ministers, excite fear and indignation. It is not known to what port or place our army, when r.:-einbarked at Vigo and Corwitia, will direct its course; but Cadiz is generally considered likely. To this complexion have the present Cabinet brought matters. Their stay m office is regarded as itypoasible, though many permns, and tome very lihistrions Personages, will not either vote against, or oppose them, from a desire to give every possible aid, even to a weak and inefficient admi- Migration, at this perilous and novel juneto.e. Tae Clurinde fr igate, Capt. Britccs. sailed, on Saturday, fivoi Portsmouth, for the East Indies, with the folloviiisg Fist loldißmen muter convoy : The Henry ilgailogion, Neptune, C'ensberiand, Seakby Castle, and free Briton, for Bombay and China ; the Warren Hastings, for Bengal and China; the Lord Melville, for Madras and Bengal: and the Cilia/Is, fur St. Helena, Bengal, and China. CODHDI . B4OIIIa SHIELD, for the Cape of Good Hope; Commissioner Ism AN, for Madras ; and Captain ‘.Vii.urtsuAst. Royal Navy, went piseelb. gers in the Chris/de. Four of the ships, however, not getting under weigh in time, they were obliged to ancor at St. Helen's. from whence they were.to rail early this morning. We have received Cnrunna Papers to the 14th instant. It appears from them that the retreat of the British army was conducted anti great ability. Such was the rage of Boaspsam, he burned Be nevente, and threatened Asturga with a like fate. At both places he is said to have murdered the Bri tish prisoners. The Comma Papers add, that the French are marching against Portugal in two co lumns, one upon Lisbon, and the other upon Oporto. Nothing, however, to this effect was known at Lisbon on the 10th. We have merited some Dutch Papers; they contain nothing of any interest, except some de tails of the late insurrection and massacre at Con stantinople. A Lisbon Mail arrived yesterday with letters and papers front that city, to the 1 ith instant. They phew that the public mind is Eibu4A by OINK tu moors of French disasters and defeats. • • • aIIESSIX• trIL3II AND rztsprts commusla.v. Oa Sattuday, as adjourned outfits was held at Gal s Web was expected to halm beau a hash mortis& beat, ohm a short explanatory argentine between Messrs. Cent? and 1110:tra GUIC, Ott the use site, and Messrs. If • and irsav ma the other; Ile M0n7•014, on MAHN of 113 t::ients, proposed ameber adjonatment,' this as maestri be made, in ILL mean time, to eirect an amiatelde ad rtiatinent, • Mr. hrisanTA.TT, is the name of ATesara. 17aish and Nisbet, said, it was their with that the fullest iuvestigati`oe should be made, sad it was with that view, that at the Last Meeting they had agreed to the adjournment, sad to the prom:Nation that Messrs. Capel sod Jackiain„ us behalf of the Stott Exchange, should be at liberty to examine lb. lac cenuts, and make Mich inquiries as they might thick proper. Thom Gm.tleateo, he understood, had proceeded is their (dike, and were attending to deliver their report s mid if they would state that it would be beaeficial to the different in cate, end that soy thing would arise, as Mr. Mootazoc had Meted, mit of the adjournment, be was sure Messrs. Walsh and farthest would have no objection ; at the sane lima, he hqxrd it mightffite clearly underetood that they Weie per &telly prelim ed 'lad anions to peat awe accusals, sad that in amentiag to dielay t they did so sassek to compliance with the a isles of the puttee who bad proyaised it. 11. hies requested parstiedue to salt Mown. Carel arril Jackson • thw qamilost—Titeas Gentlemen came flaunt and aimed, that Shop had exassisod flea accounts, and had invariably nut ostesaceired satisfactory answen front Meows. 'Walsh alid Nisbet, bat that tlit.m gamilleasen bad at all times courted inquiry, sad given them miry assistance. Ip answer to the question, whether an) gam! was likely to arise , from the adjournment ? they-stated, th a t th e y woul*raccida- iko mend it moat strutivly, as they coocerred au might take place, a kick would reCtPlielk nod he sati to all parties. The pummisamset um. antordisely - apt Co; and the meeting was adjunread to Saturday next. . _ • • . ROPBERIES. On Thursday nivht, shout haffprAt eleven, u Mr. Traloot, leather-droner, of Bermondsey, was returning hewq betras stooped Icy a footpad at the wan or the Altylum, in St Georges I .his. who, we contented with ribh,sig him of hie watch sod ssoi. ii, ',fibbed Lim in the shoulder and leg, anii olio-who. &treated him. • l I s. ~4 f , “ Friday e.ght, almost Rohn u'elork, as Mr. Perna►, of chisselL.treet, was paosing along Hackney-road, he was rubbed of tiol. aids several Hilts of Lads:tn.-, to • rocsi derrli:e alo..uiot, by a Mali, who preseuted a dagger to bat brr.tst. tLe same algid, • listen-draper's shop in IVar•ar-atrret, Cold Bath Fields, was broLeseope.i, and robbed of lists-dra pery, to tb: amount of Cool. POLICE. sow-rnitarr. • On Saturday nowniny, r the sr of an eminent wholesale jeweller, uu Chi kens. ell-greets was pride thrinigh Don sheet, recoeniesd a earn also I.nd absconded since his father's Was. had been broken orn, and rubbed of jean fiery pork, to • very considerable amount he, irt conenstiel:ce, tan into the Oublir-OtTice, flow.strret, and prise urn& the assistance of one of the patrols, who rat. arter the fellow ; utt apnrcbetwiiog bin, be tinsie a denterete rentst,..re. Ile underwent AO AXMlSilialio4ll felon M.. • ie•n, art was coramitt,ll for fainter exatoinatiou. Jena Brsi:on, a well hairs,. character, was 'apprehended on rridny night, in Newton -street, Dewy-lane on ettspiciou of fj being one of the robhens careened re hr.:show open the 7 1 hou,s of Crater Morton ; but the principal witere ortir forret- trials was not able i• identify his pe411011.-.4lie • GiSTRATE however ousimitual blot for trial. - - - • =- PRII'.,fII:: Collie E.SI , ()NDENCE. . EXTRACT TROM A PRIVATE LETTER. DATED:' Bt- FORD, RIO JASEIIIO, BRAM LN, stow. 44, 14014 t " We are just returned here flow a titres months' abeence, one of which we passed at Monts Video; where thee tailialeitauta have proclaim's.%) Feita dinned the NIL and declared wax against Boissio parte; and Live pia into close conlitiement our of the principal clerks of Talleyrates office, w , came out tire Consolation French corvette (whit/g was destroyed by the At'ar/bormigh and Foutirsgesill with dispatches of importance from Boniipintea at Bayonne, ju General Liuiers, the • icero,— There has been touch difference of opinion he. tit -co Om Viceroy and C:overitor Ellin, the 'Gov. r -1101. of :11o.te Video; Win), must readily-, in th» first isittemc, declared tin. FettLinvild, and udsitived ua to ''.'souse, on the most friendly terms. Nothing could exceed l i ne hospitality of the inhabitants, sad we liaised some pleneant days *won t d thou'. The ports are nut yet completely ores fur tr.ide; se veral English vessels ore now iu the harot.ur, but whether they will be allowed to sell, reinuios yet a doubt. We left the Monarch and 44aniemoson cruising off LAOS Island, otc, : .ionally going i..to Maldonado for water. You will scarcely credit me when I tell you of the cheapness of things at Monte Video.—A fine bullock, or a sheep, for 0114 dollar.—horses may he had from fire dollars to forty ; but a very wood one inny be had fur tselvt d o l lars , I hav e now one on board, taking up to Rio, which cost me only that tutu; a capital hoe e, of great speed.—Bre.:d is also vet) theap.—Tite country produces all the European fruits ar i l vl. wtablett, in great abundance ; and their staple commodities', hides and tallow, are now to be bought very cheap.—l know one house there whit Ii has at this time 300,000 hides. A Spanish frigate arrived here yesterday, from Plymouth, nit tier way to Monte Vidto, with a urw tinveniur Ott board.—This market (Rio Janeiro) is getting com pletely over.tocked.- 7 Many things are now selling under the price they cost in England. Yesterday morning Ills M•rgsvtiv,Princetnes Au ot SUPIIIA. and As:au t„ accompnied by Lady ELY. and Gallen& CAnT•iIIGIST and Ell ZROY. Mae to 4t. George's Chapel, and heard n u sermon preached by the Rev. Mr. RW6I4 from Paul's Epistle to the ROMalla, chap. s.ii. verse 20—" If thine enemy hanger, feed hist ; st he thirst, ,ire hint drink ; fur in so doing, thou shalt heap coals of fire 'epos his head." A letter front Exeter, dated Jan. 19, says—it (:,. nt.ral Stewart and other officers are )uat passed through this city for London ; arrived yesterday'. at Falmouth, in the brig Ann, kit Corium* the 14th. The British army, under Generals Moore and Baird, were arrived there, and embarking : the cavalry had had many skirmishes, the infantry none ; they were shooting the horses as fart ns pos. Bible, the enemy bring only three !cagily, off The trait/world were nut enough, but they tact • than, in the buy. • most important change in the disposal of onr. Militia is about to be effected. All the EngliN:y Militia !ailments are to be scut to Ireland, and the Irish Militia will do duty in this country. From the ram., in coast of Spain Ministers are' without accounts. We hear, however, that the fall of Roses was known at. Gibraltar en the 3d of J ant:sty.