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• IVA regiment 'nom "Via rasbarlltea. he rejoined that corps, sad staved in it at the reduction of the Cape of Good (lope; when, being senior Lien tenant, he stir:eroded to a company, vacant by the, death of the ever-to-be.lentented Captain Foster, who was killed at the taking of that colony. This promotion brought him to England in the folloning year, in order to join the second battalion of the regiment. With this battitliOn he proceeded to Guermev, and tram thence, in April of the pre.. trot year, to Lisbon ; hr advanced with it int o Spain, awl was mortally wounded in the neck, whilst exhibiting every proof of gallantry and skill it: the recent brittle of •V 41avera ; hr almost instantly lost all sensation in !4ii arms and legs, and in this lielph:4s state, the lir,t assistance he received, was from a private voldkr. named Weaving, of the light hifintry company, 311 Foot Guards: this man had conveyed him to a place of security, given him water to drink, and administered every comfort which his limited means enabled him to procure. After It -erin~ two days ill the hospital of Talavera, be tired. 81'. DOMING°. 113611111 M of the prices is St. Ihnuingo, is the month of .4 ;A d, I ; • the moat critical period ut the birre of that place, bi.th by era and t, land, in consequence of the ex ccsal% stared) of must articles of food. Dells. Cis. Wheat flour per It. • l 9 Dint/ 61'.4a , i, 30 ounces fi .rout` per 1.4 6, Ditto itiai!e into bread, per cake I Stara:, procured frons.bsyuca • per 111......., - sea Rice per lii Corn ditto .... 60 Ruin per bottle t 6 -.a Negro rum per dim j.ilin Inferior wine (there bring none of good Isailly) per bottle isgar perlb 3 ••• re ditto ••••• Si Sweet oil per bottle II 0..- Irrtslt steal, beef or pork per lb. s -- Fresh mules' drab, ditto •-• /3 Ditto horse ditto per Ili - 9 .- 1)il to dog. dim, per lb ... .• .• .• ...... -.• St Cats, per Inch. idu ..ii 2 ' ... Denuettic parrots ditto. 1 S. Common fowl* ditto Turitiex ditto ........ ...... : ....... 90 - IW ditto . . Indent ditto Ipions ditto 1 • Ditto ditto cooked and prepared in the simmer tie a eketae, and in other forum, per Soo.-- Salt pork, sold by pai eels, per üb1... }lass per lb e Butter and lard ditto S D ngs' fat ditto I Fish ditto.... ' Cheese dit• • S Candles ditto .. • Caiolks (anal made is the Island, per 16. .. . . $ tzper scram (about slhs) to tains (Ravenna) prr dozu Serum per lb.. - . . . .. The Euclid, inhabitants of tire city, • lio had established gardens at the commencement of the siege, sold other vege. Sabha at a moderate price. The supplies, hom7tf, thus afforded, proved insufficient; and the gram which grew Wawa the siert t• was eaten. With regard to the articles of rovismas Dot rum d in the above meat, we may meat that they were eutisely wanting, et confined to ve&y *w families We, the sabre, fibers, certify the above maximum of micas tube cornet. Cent fied by as, the Mayor of the city; (Silted) GAZA N. COUNT 31 OT F.R A N, The President of the Supreme Court. CILIMItAL FENEYROL, Imperial Altura -Gen. The areleies racked thus• are farioaceous productions, ulnas, when eater in their crude or natural state, are delete. tious. It is iu eonsequeuee of a cei tam mode of treatment Moue, that they lerouir esculent. Rats were nut sold, hut west eaten by those uho had the good fortune to catch Iht us. t This article would h .rc been sold at n much higher prier, but foe the sity of V. foulard, who hail about 1 , 200 iu his store-house, before the counnencensmit of the siege, and sold them at the rate nicatioi:ed. MILITARY. filiNCltAl. ORDERS. Ott ♦. The sing has been - pleamd to appro►e of the following regulations, relative to pr otioins u► the Army and Appointments on the Staff, being sub •tituted for tho4i notified in the General Order of tLe 40th Match 1.44 t, which hitve bren found trot ffieivit Iv explan.story of Os i►lsje*tt NI intent:one " Nu °Meer shall be promoted ler the nuk of Captain, until he lsa■ been three 3e:sic a Subaltern. " No °Ricer obit, be promoted to the rank of Major, es tll he has been seven years in the service, of wb.ch he shall lave been at kast two yeast. a Captniu ; and no Major. shall be appointed to the riuk 4f t.ieuteusnt•Colunel, nail M bas been nine years in the service. " No Officer shall be allowed to fill sic Stutt appointment (that of Aid-de-Camp excepted) nutil he has been four 'ears in the so nice " No Subaltern Officer shall be considered iligihle to bold the appointment of Aid.ile-Cautp, until be has Leers piebeut with his regiment at knit one year " lip tnnituutid of tie Right lion. the Commander f. 1-1 4 WILY CA ISIMT, Atij.-Gen. ST: ANDREW'S DAY. • This anniverssry'was celebrated iu Birmingham last Thursday. and did honour to the 6. Land or Cakes." The following gentlemen dined at the Hen sod Birdies: Cel. Maclean, 1. F. 0. earl Piabertiei, I. M. W. Walker, TAT P. P. Walker, Fag. Dr. Maar. I.irat. Stark, std. Capt. Wliregar, 7Gth Lalot Garde's, oil. Lieut./titles, es,l Lt. Drag. The dinner was most sumptuous, entirely coin. po•rd of Scotch dishes. The following tassta, end e• St. Andrew." were driit:k in hiniour of the day : " The kirk of Saotlnud;'—"'r ite The Queen:" Prince of lirilcs,"—" Puke of York, awl, tlw set of the !Lipid Painily,"—" Sir Ito ail Duadae,"—" The Wish- Linelers,"—Seng, Donald 31'IMautsl. " Has Mafesty's forces by sea and land,"—" l.nrd wood,"--•• the Stars of the Ocess,"—" vied The Land in shuck we live,"—" The Laud uf b oa ,. liarp r I.eusdrr. " May the rose, shanwork, and thistle, crer flourish iiiiite3, - -Sung, Sprig qt . Altilletalk. " May the Highland chiefs have many fillowers, - -" He who will out desert his friend,"—" The Highlanders el t. err to shuuldur,"—Soog, A Mall . , Ma 0 :w a' thgt. " Pipe and Standard,"—" Sword and Plaid, - -" The Lutes • h.. dance un heather,"—a Gabe Snug. " Il y Friend and my (iirl,"—'iong, the ,11il1. " Fkilsery, Agriculture, and Manufactures." A number of Scotch songs and stories were sling rind told in the course of the evening, the whole concluded with Gud tare tire King. and Mlle Bra &moue: and the wanes being of the choicest kind,. stimulated by the happy mecums, the company did but break up till * late hour. •.• la our List of the Meinhers who viitsd in Farringdon Without, Messrs• Hardin and Crook voted for the Address, instead of against it t arid, is .Eatrinigdon Within, Mr. paw, whose name was omitted, voted for the Address. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, SATURDAY, Dratmsse 9. An account has been received, at the East India House, of the capture of the Europe, GeLs•rosr ; and Streatham, DALE, early in the month of June last, by the French frigate Curolixe ; which ships, with the Ocean, WTAGGAIT, extra ship, sailed from Bengal (it is said) the _! 9th of April.--. The Oeetut• escaped, and proceeded to Prince of Wales's Island with the intelligence. It is added, that the Caroline, with tenth her prizes, had been drib en on shore at the Wand of Bourbno, by the British blockading i‘quadron off the Isle of France. The Asia,TnemEmtiesne, was lost in the Bengal River. l'lte Lord tavtlerea4ll, lieu n, it is said, has urrivrd ut Ventoo The Agate/de, True Briton, Cumberland, and ticalrby-Castle, arrived ut Bawl,3y, the 23th June, all well. l'he Lord Meleille, Persererance, Lord Duncan, rarnatic, Nottingham, and Ltariu, , , arrived at Ma dras uu the ad and Slit July last. All was quiet at China; a new Viceroy had been nomiosted. Mrs.Misi, Lieutenants DRIIIINIOND and Couar, and Mr. J. Et.riitsisTort E and Family, are pas sengers in the Upunt Cu3lle. • Another •crowd Mips it was the Lind Keith. We are concerned to state, that the Harlequin hired armed IS:w.p of war, of let guns, with 'six ves sel', part of it convoy of 23 s3tl from Plymouth, went ashore at Seaford, on Thursday morning, and acre tutdlly wrecked. The following is en extract from a letter, received yesterday from Brighton, on this subject : K MOUTON. DEC. 7. " Early this morning, signal guns of distress, rockets, &r. were tired iu the hay of Seaford, a dis tance of 12 miles fmiu this place. The people 'in the neighbourhood hastened to the beach, when a most melancholy spectacle presented itself !—as many as seven vessels being ashore, the whole with in the distance of half a mile. At day-break, the scene was such as almost to pass description—men on rafts, others on the shrouds, while many were discovered washing. from the decks—drew tears front the behol den; but every exertion was used to preserve as many lives as possible. The follow ing description, though only of a small part of this melancholy catastrophe, will, no doubt, prove satis factory to the friends ur those who have escaped a watery grave; the particulars of which have been collected from the crews of the different vessels:— On Toe:4day last the Itarkgain hired armed sloop of war, of 18 guns, having soder convoy twenty-three sail sail of ships, sailed from Plymouth, at 4 o'clock p. rm.; and en Thursd:iy morning, abast 3 o'clock, one of the ships was orderesl to direct the fleet to keep within the convoy. About en hour alter. the Harlequin, with six others, struck, and became total wrecks. The following are the names of the ships which are lost :—the !Vernon/A ship, four of her crew lost ; Traveller brig, Albion schooner, and Unite, crews all saved ; Prawriticiboto ship, 14 lost; and Meikdacht sh.p, all lost." The cause of WARDLE O. Mrs. CLARKE and Orutas, fur a conspiracy, which was fixed for this day, in the Curt of King's Bench, was yesterday postpsued until Monday. Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of YORK, KENT, and another, are sum moned aswitnesses. There has not been, fir many years, a cause of so much expectation. The kicky transport, Capt. A. TAY Loa, arrived at Harwich, on Thursday, from Flushing, with small detachments from the several regiments of the line. They left the island last `Sunday ; at that time about airily sail of transports put to sea. The means fur the demolition of the fortresses were then partly carried into effect, and the work of de. molnion would be completed in a few hours. A paper of last evening announces the receipt of a letter trout Palermo, dated the 28th of Octo bers from which the following is an extract P. S. 25th Oct.—l open in/ letter to inform you, that a report is this moment circulated, that Constantinople has been taken by the Russians ! I baler lint been able yet to leain the precise truth ; but, certain it is, that some dreadful intelligence bits beta received from that quarter." The pailet for Malta and Gibraltar is detained by order of Gover 1111 l rut. until further advice. are received from Cadiz, whithe► it is to carry divpatchvg. It is the ticral opinion at St. Helena. that the four India ships,so bong missing, have all foundered. Letters of the 29th ult. have been received from Ilolland, which state, that King Louts had set off fdr Paris, and that the King of BAY Ail • has arrived in that eity.—S A eint.CUN'S Dew title, it is said. will nut be ls'tt•r.etutt, hut " Autocrat of the Wen." Mr. IV AIDLE has brought an action against the proprietor and primer of a certain monthly publi c Awn, for at libel, to which he imputes the km of his popularity. lie has laid his damages at 5,0001. A Cram. co*. cause is announced for trial, this Amy, in the Coon sr King's Bench. in which the Mother Abbess of the Key, in Ciiandos-street, and all her Vestal Virgins. with their cha..te male attend ants, are summoned to give evidence. 1 cOrENT-GARDEN THEATRE. We have little to record, either with regard to this play, the farce, or the row of last night. The Merchant of Venice was excellently performed by the accustomed dramatis penance, and, of the nu moors of Tow Thumb very little could be heard, on account of the more nmsy reptesentution of the row in the pit ; although this part of the house was thin during the whole of the night ; and yet the 0. P.s, who did venture in, were enterprising, and dashingly disorderly. One foolish person made his appekratice in a Barrister's wig, and collected a circle round him, whom he instigated to noise and tumult. He was soon, however, carried off to Bow -street, by a party of half-a-dozen of con stables ; and his gallant friends saw him borne off in triumph, without an effort to save him. Several others of the moat prominent disturbers were, after this, seized ; but still the remaining 0. P.s maintained the uproar in so great a degree as to destroy the whole-business of the stage. I hiring the farce, a piece of wood, and the muti lated remains of two or three oranges, were thrown at the performers. The former struck Munden, who uery.good nataredly, although a King, instant ly stabbed himself, not being able to endure the ignominy of this insult. The private boxes wore pretty well filled, and the bawler, dispersed anon after the entertainment concluded, after indulging themselves in the usual rondo of groans and shouts. All this is very becoming in an enlightened nation, and will, uo doubt, inspire foreign countries with an exalted idea of the British metropolis. posse I. TOE TOMB OF GENIUS. il'here the chilling north-wind howls, Where the weeds so wildly wave, Mewled by the weeping willow, Wasted by the heating billow, lays the youthful poet's grave. Beneath yon little eminence, Bladed by the grans-green turf, The windiug-nhect his form inclines, Oil the cold stone his head reposes, And near him foams the troubled surf. " Roars around its base the ocean," Pensive sleeps the moon-beam there, Naiads lose to wreath his urn Dryads thither hie to mourn, And fairies' wild notes melt 41 air. O'er his tomb the ♦illage vi►gins Lute to drop the tribute tear, Stealing from the alleys round, Soft they tread the hallow'] ground, And weave the wild flow'r chaplet there. By the cold earth mantled, Peareftal sleeps he here alone, Cold f ad lifeless lira his form, Batters on his grave the storm. Silent now his tuneful numbers, Here the Son of Genius slumbers ; Stamps! mark his burial stone ! et,.., --- t', c ----‘, -- i 4, t ori :-:::!.- 1 :- . 6 4- 1:0c::4„............ . 0 :-,.e.C% ..: i i C- - '- k . 3 C.* e - 't:f .' °// ' ' IMPlktoblll7. Wilt COMPS DK B•I.LVT •T COY►!IT G•RDEY TO THE 01.'1. • To you who idly stand or sit, 0. P.O may answer, in the pit But, on the stage, it ill agrees, With daaciag•folks to have 0. Pear. N. P. AMERICAN TURF. mzsv-voax, OCT. 30. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. On Tuesday Mr. Badger's grey horse Diomede, beat Bond's holm Bright Phoebus, over Fair View Course, near Bristol, four mile heats. The Course was heavy, and the se cond heat was run in eight minutes and live seconds. Front rho Norfolk Herald qf the '3(l iort A challenge, for to,mio dollars ! The four-years old horse Sir Solomon, which lately beat the famous horse Wrangler, will run any horse in the United States for the above sum, four mile heats, to carry t t alb. nob, over the New Ditched-in Coarse, near Norfolk Borough, on Monday, the ioth of No vember next. Any prisms/ desirous of accepting this chal lenge, will plasm to notify the same (by letter) to the Editor of The Herald. His MAJESTY regularly visits, daily, shout three o'clock, the Princess AMELIA, and remains with her Royul Highness shout two hours. Her MA JESTY, and the other PRINCESSES, visit her Royal Highness frequeutly. The Earl of Dam' turned out a capital stag, yesterday, near the Oaks, in Surrey, which forded a tine day's sport. Lady FoLET, who presented her Lord with a slaogliter, last Saturday, at his Lordship's house, in Hill-stiret, Berkeley-square. is, with her fine in fant, in a lair way ref doing well. The Wks a (etIMENMIERET and Lord Hoots completed their eSth year. on Thursday last. The ke lest his last tooth. six years ago; and yet, thy ci 'list of a French roll has ever since formed a part of his breakfast service. The pullers of Marquis Wat.r.ratry, say, that now he has floated into the Cabinet, he appears like a swan amongst geese, with the solitary excep tion of the little cock-sparrow, who has succeeded the Duke of POITLAN U. The Caledonian Cap, so lunch worn, and on mnch admired, is, we understand, made at Mewls. llu r.- LOLA anti IKAPHY . i. Milliners to their Royal High nesse, the l'aincEsszs. " Route was not built in a day !!!"—The fabri cator of this dilatory adage would have ale., de clared, that a Lottery, consisting of Twenty Thou sand Tickets, and the distribution of Two Hundred Thousaod Pound. in Prices, could not hare been effected in a day; hut modern ingenuity and ex . - ertion prove the contrary—and the extreme popu larity which attends the present Scheme indicates, that the public approves of the quick decision. CARTER, 8, Charing-cross, recommends his friends to favour him with their early commands, as the scarcity of Ti. keta which took place the last Lot tery cauuot fail to be experienced in the present. To the EDITOR of The munsn PRESS. Si it—.lf we were to judge from the extraordinary marks rat exidn.tion, exhibited by the 0. 1 3 .1 since the verdict obelined by their favourite, iu the Court of Common Pleas, on Tuesday lost, we should bo inclined to sappose, that their cause hail com pletely triumphed, and that , in f u t ure , t h e pr i ces of adrift . ton to the Theatre, and its internal ecomuniy, are to be regulated by any set of men, sufficiently tin merrier: to prevent the performances being quietly proceeded in. Had their joy been manifested in a peaceable manner, I should suppose it to have been elicited merely by respect for the individual ; lint the outrage with which it is accompanied. clearly evinces. that the malcontents are inflated by a fal lacious idea of the legality of their proceedings. A glance, however, at the proceedings iu the action, " Clifford v. Brandon," will at once prose the futi lity of this opinion; and show that the original question, the right of an audience to overawe the managers of a theatre, by noise and violence, re. mains exactly where it was. The Plaintiff iii the above cau.e sought to recovcr damages Irons the Defendant, for assault and false imprisotisneist ; he, the Plaintiff, having been arrested at Cuvret. Garden Theatre, on the night of the 31st Oct., direction of the Defendant, us an abettor of riot; and, to support his claim, witnesses were celled to prove, that, on the night of his urresee. he had demeaned himself, at the Theatre, in the most peaceable manner ; and that the 0. P. insignia, displayed in his hat, had been placed there by a stranger, out, as might be supposed, by the Plaintiff. On this evidence, the Jury, in direct contradiction to the perspicuous charge of the Learned Judge, found a verdict for the Plaintiff. On the Foreman bong requested to state the grounds for this verdict, he said, that the Jury wished to give a general verdict, without entering into the reasons of each individual. He afterwards said. the Jury agreed unanimously, that the arrest was illegal—some of them thinking the manner and time improper, and others considering the mere wearing of O. P. in the hat, an insufficient groans for such a proceeding. This, Sir, is a plain state ment of the case—which has evidently nothing to do with the question between those who have been called the public, and the Managers—a question which still lies over for decision. And here it Natty not be improper. without arraigning, in the slightest degree, the motives of the Jury, to examine how far the principles, alleged as the ground of their ver dict, are valid. First, as to the manner and tires of th e are ar : -..-If the Defendant, a termini of the Pro prietors, felt, in his own mind, a conviction, that the Plaintiff had been an instigator of the riot, by wear ing a budge in his hat, conceiving such emblem ille gal, had he not a right to call in the civil power to arrest him ? Is there any particular time necessary 'for such arrest ? or any peculiar manner to be ob served—save that of executing it with as little vic. lence as possible ?—To both these questions. I think. a negative must be given. Secondly, with respect to the allegation that wearing the 0. P. is signed. in the Theatre is nut sufficient cause for ar rest—l conceive that the exhibition of any badge. likely to create disturbance, is illegal; and it is notorious that the hoisting of placards, and the placing of those initial* in hats, were productive of very great riot, and, of course, subjected the of fenders to the visitation of the police. It matters nothing whether the owner of the hat placed the label there himself, or permitted windier, unmo lested, to tin it. Its case of rebellion breaking out in a country, an individual wearing the insignia of the rebel party, although at a distance from them, is subject to summary punishment. It would he in vats for him to plead that the treason lay in h way, and he picked it up; thut t stranger put the ensign in his hat, and he continued to wear it after the stranger had turned his back, and he might have removed it, had he so pleased :—Thr question here prevents itself, " If you did not favour the principles of those whose colours you wear, why did you not divest yourself of them, when you had an opportunity ?" 'Phis I conceive to be a case in point. Here is an individual sitting in the midst of those who are assembled to do a particular act, stud wearing in his hat the distinguishing mark of the party ; he is seen with such badge, and, in consequence, he is apprehended. If the business for which these people meet be illegal, and it has been denounced a: such by the first law authorities, then, surely, those who, by displuying their insig nia. encourage and countenance them, are arced series, although they may not be actively em ployed; for, it is held, and very justly, qwi tacit per ilium fade per or. if individual, of rank and education display such party badges, the evil is likely to be increased tenfold. They may plead that they merely wore them---and„ of course, were not activoly employild. It is like the trumpeter, who had been taken prisoner, and pleaded hard for his life, alleging, that. during the engagement, he had not tired a shot ; but was answered by his opponent, that he had done worse. for, by sounding his instrument, he had culled to gether those who had destroyed his companions. Summers'-town, Dec. s. _ N. P. An Inquest vas iseid. Thiiaday, at the Three Kings publ;--honse, near Mitcham Common, in Surrey, on the body of a boy, right years of age, belonging to is poor man, who resoles near the Common. The circumstances which caused the Inquest were, that seine persons, who lately lodged in the same house, had witnessed ili-treatment on the pin of the parents towards the deceased, and reported, that he had died for aunt of necessary food.—Mr. PAIL/LOT, Asirgenn of Mitcham, ex amined the body, and found a severe contusion on the head; and, on opening the stompch, only a few sprius heads. The mother of the child said, that he and been very ill, and the contusion on the head proceeded from its falling on a block which wee in the room. The Jury returned a verdict of--Died by the visitation of God. On Monday night, a young man taking two horses into the river, at Stangste, belonging to a livery-stable, to wash them, it being, a very dark night, a vessiel clime against the horses, without his observing it, and he was unfortunately knocked offs and wits drowned. Every 'exertion possible was made to find the body, but all in VIM), till the next ~ morning, when it was fonnd near the Bridge step', having barn left by the tide. He has left is widow end three children, • -