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• . et a waiii • within the Heads, Chit It was dark before the :cps/coal/ snake 'any kind of progress, and the carli oates were obliged to put back, the Harrieg taa being then out of • eight fur many hours. De mace ..; and 4 is the afternoon, Mr. Fisk, chief ofe ti:er of the vessel, arrived with the is/Valid in two boats, who jointly report, that abnat ten, on Sun dry ,e lit, while the vessel WU% ridaig at two an chors, the ship's company in bed within the steer age, Mr. Fi.k was suddenly awakened in his cabin by two stiel at his 'ued side, one of whom held a pistol to lie. {wail, and eorainanded bun to be silent on pain of instant death ; that others had proceeded in the seine manlier to the steerage ; unshipped the ladder, Red menaced also with iee nediate death the first that should offer to make any alarm ; that the villains .appeared to he very nurneroes, and fre quently atruuk the deck with the but-ends of tire locks that Vsey had cut away both anchors, and towed the vessel out ; and teat about seven in the morning, when upwards of ten miles at sea, thy bad ordered Mr. Fisk and the crew to o on deck, OUR by one, in which order they were put itito two boats, and sent away from the vessel ; and that atter being tight hours on the.weter they reached the shore. Stewart seemed to be. the leader in the desperate affair ; and the people suppose their tonne bar to exceed thirty. Ciptain.Catuplaell, who was Owner as well as comeninder, intended to sail for the Fejees during the present week, and had pro vided all necessaries for the voyage. The whole of Nlinislay being employed in a pure suit that proved ineffeetnal, the Pegosits was the next day taken up for the purpose of following the delinquents ; hut as she had only her standing rig ging up, much exertion was necessary to the emer gency of the case.-oiThe government artificers, and indeed every hand that could be usefully employed, were immediately set to work ; and with such wonderful energy was it prosecuted, that, in less than twenty-four hours, she was equipped, and fur nished with water and provisions, a. veral carriage guns, many stand of arms, sufficient ballast, and every thing else necessary fur the expedition. On Wednesday afternoon, she went ont, having on board Captaiu Symoinhe Captain Eben Banker, with his first Sid **coed Officers, Captain Graham and Captain Campbell, Mr. Fisk, and part of the ffurrisseen's crew : the toilitary detachment, con sisting of go privates, II corporals, and Serjeanta Johns and Bradley, of His Majesty's New South li. 7 ales corps. It is a fortunate eiremustance, that the gentlemen above-mentioned are well acquamt id with the navigation of these seas, which must give them a emetitierable advantage over the fugi tives, who bare nettles: as anchor, boat, or time piece out board, sad to procure whieh, they- must of necessity 'summit some new which may tend, in all wood probability, to their instnediete capture ; should the Pegasus not cone up with them before-hand. It is supposed their intention to run away fur the Bay of Islands, for the purpose of attempting the seizure of the American brig which sailed thither on the ad of last mouth, front hence, as they may thereby supply their wants, and, at the same time, make themselves masters of all * the specie Captain Corey took for his cargo at this port. Snould this turn out to he their plan, the Pegasus will soon fall iii with them we trust, as there is much reanna to suppose, that Capt. Camp bell will make this his first track. When the Ilarrington's crew were sent on shore. they most of them noticed a fellow at the helm, who had come from Canton in a vessel as a seaman, but was discharged here on account of his repeated petty depredations upon his shipmates. The name of this man is William Jackson, of low stature, fresh complexion, and light hair ; stout made, and lately seen mEetly about the wharf. This fellow was no doubt a counsellor of the plan, which has thus far onfortucetele succeeded. The villains demanded of Mr. Fisk his watch, saying they wanted a time piece, and as he hail left it on shore, they afterwards went belays , to *each for the cook's watch, but he being on shore at the time, had it with him. warns, mcitatanE4, A NIT DEATH!, PROM JIM 1, TO A PRI L lb, 1809. RIM RAY. 8114TII• De 111311.1, the Lady of W. A. Davies, Esq. aargeon, of a son.—At the *mine place, the lAdy of Lieut.- Jamee Cummit7, of the 47th Regiment, of a daughter. —The Lady of litutenai.t Thomas Dickenson, Of a smi.— Mrs. Tucker, of a sms.—The. Lally of Captain .1. llamas, of a daaghter.—Mrs. Boyce, of a son. RI AR RI le; VII —At t)ttoaau , Feb. 14, Lieatimant Rears, d His 37th Regiment, to Mir Mary Itlack3ll, sister of co w . filarkall, of the 11. C. Artillery. DllllTll4.—Lieutenant James Key, of the .24 battalion of the 4th re:ono-tit —lialeph Camberley, fog. now 'lir At moneys of the Rreor.'.et's Conrt. lie aceurnoanie.l the late the Witham Byer to littlia —Captain Alexanarr Ilattitreem, of Ha Majest 75th regituest.—liosigu Thomas Brown, ma rine banal M.ALIZAS. MA nal rue.—M Poonamallec, John Irwin, EA T to moo Charlotte Story. daughter of George rt.ery, E.q. •of Bishop isrammath, in the euuuty of Durham.--At I lydrshort, f',eeet. Thomas Jenkins, or the Ist battalion, 16th regiment, to Mess Aeme Jaor Eliza:eetle Itomiet.ssa'aptahl Nath Alter, of the Cootstry Serv.ce, to Miss Jeannet LesneyAvet Poneterherrry.—.. 11'arrem, of the ,a regiment, to Mews Anne Lsurreeza Mercilly•wlicat. J. Foists., ell batt ysth reg 11.etite Infantry, to Miss Potter.—At Calicnt, toren. R A 11 ills, ad batt. 9th rrg. Bombay Native Infantry, to Miss A. Brown. Bangalore, Msjor Davis, of Dig Ilsj.nety's vAls Dragoons ....Cornet gin``, the Nth Light Drngtome• --111. John Alyers....The Lek ui John li,ch, req. Armtsut. Sargcuo —Emits Newman, Igtle Regimest, Native I ettleistry. BENGAL. MaRRI•GEL—Jao. 2t,th, Thos. Shutter. Esq. Sarrectivof His tr.ipati's ship Victor, to Miss 3earairmh . 111,31, ..on I. atly ut Pornenh, John Ellerton, Esq of 113:t1s, t > Mrs. Munro Sinclair, Ceq. to '1 Cb.olotte ..it. 3 1 , J. B luglish , merchant, to Miss f:' Ira Mtmle -..At Pun dechnry the Sav, trsa. Thaws', to Miss Mary llutioriur THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON. FRIDAY, Skirtcaassa 15. Dispatches were received, last night. at the IVar Office, from the Conunander-in-Clitrt in the Isla of IValcheren. They are dated Middlebtorgh, the 12th inst. The enemy, we understand, are collect ing a considerable force in Soath Beveland. We have received Borahay Papery to the 16th of April, from which we have made copious ex containing' the official accouuts Of the mili tary operatoolia in Travancore. We have also received letters and papers from ['since of ‘Vulea's Island, to the nth of March. 111 consequence of the general stagnation of trade, the cultivators were touch distressed. Pepper, the staple commodity, war selling ut a very reduced price, and the island was in general on the decline, from the wantof decisive measures, the Government .at present being merely temporary. It was reported two night that Mr. Peacevst. is also to retire from odice. Indeed, the country nei ther can nor ought to be satisfied with any thing short of a total change of Ministry. Even the most venal and profligate of the Prints in their ser vice, admit that their plaits are badly executed. Now. we ask no stronger preof of their incapacity and unfitness for th, it situations. If they are desti tute of discrimination, and incapable of selecting proper persons to execute their plans, however wise and judicioos those plans may be, their wisdom must torn to folly, and all their entrrprizes must terminate iu disaster and disgrace. Discrimination, by which we mean the quality of duly appreciating other men's talents, suit rightly applying them, is of the very essence of a good Mini-ter ; and with. nut it, no man, however largely gifted in other re spects, is tit to he at the head of public affairs. The Argyle, Capt. Lit:ame, is arrived at Li verpool, from Jamaica ; she sailed from Port Royal on the 17th July, in compitly with 19 iia.l ; and from Ne a vil on the 20th, with a fleet of 33 bail, un der convoy of the Fanottrile sloop of war ; on the 26th, saw several of the fleet &unaided parted them next day ; ost the 6th September spoke the Facourite, of Greenock, from Martinique to Liver pool, who had parted from the'Leeward Island fleet on the •27th of August; several of them had been distnastt d. The Amelia Matilda. Capt. GRAHAM, which had cleared at New York for Liverpool, was stopped with several other vessels that were leaving that port on the 12th of August, and compelled to give bond that they would aot go to Great Britain or her dependencies. It is also stated in a letter of the 12th, that the Wasp, a national sloop of war, was to sail for Havre on the 16th, with a Messenger, who is to be the hearer of the basis of a treaty proposed to be concluded between the United States and France. The mere attention we bestow on Lord WEL LINGTON'S narrative of the late unfortunate trans actions, subsequent to the battle of Talavera, if, in truth, such mutilated extracts as Lard C,ASTLE NEAGH has given the public, merit the name of • narrative, the more matter of inquiry, surprise, and, apparently, of inculpation, do we discover in these statements. It is not, indeed, even with the best' 'naps of New Castile, and of Estreinadura, before us, by any woos au easy matter to follow the march of Sir Ru•a•r WlLsott, hour &colons, till his arri►al at Miranda de Castenar ; a march per fonsteil through one of the most impervious, inoun rainous, and unknown portions of the interior of Spain, betweed the 341, and the 13th of August, auticitst %abide difficulties, attacked, and nearly surrounded, by the two corps under Sou LT and Ncv ! That, ander such circumstances, he should, by valour and ability, have brought his troops back safely to Civi.lail liodri 4 o, may jastly claim our adanration. Bat, if Sir RO•t•r merits all the en comiums bestowed on him by Sir A•roon, for thus uscritofions service, it may be matter of much snore serious doubt, whether the latter can be acquitted of manifest misconduct, in first exposing Sir HA- Bear to be cut Mr from the Tagus; and in then abandoning Mtn ; when, in consequence of Sourr's haring got possession of the Puerto de Banos, the lOrit.sh army intirolied back front Talavera, with a view to attack that cot•inender. There is some degree of obscurity and ambiguity in the expres. 1.10114 oriole u.e of by . 4 1r Aartsua, neon which, it appears to ifs wit at ail improbable, that CUESTI, as soon as his NW. ti heads peranits hues, way .11 1 11 0 11/641,1111111.4111111 1 11111AP 'throe ennsidcralle tftir t iar it seems imeasitible , that de 1..x4 general can sit down silently, under the itartedtitnti llitdifccusittiona laid to Isiacharge. by Lord WELLINGTON, whose eyes seem only to have been directed forisai'd to Ma drid, at a time when a more cautious coininandur would rat;eir have kept the passes, by which the enemy might attack him from behind, coustantly in his contemplation. When, however, he found himself necessitated to aliamlon the march to Madrid, which occupied his whale attention, before he set out to find Sots I.l`, and to give liiin battle, on the 3d of last month, he mays, that " he put Sir ROBERT WILSON in toms ninnicatiais with General C VIINTA." How, we should like to know, was it effected? or rather was it in reality ever effected ? We much quer tion it ; for in the very next line he subjoins, " I widerstaud that General event,' put Sir ROBERT in communication with his advanced guard." It is pretty clear, by the subsequent detail of events. that Sir Roaster never was put in communication with any part of the Spanish army. But where the fault, or misconception, or refusal, lay, we must wait to be able to ascertaiu. CUESTA will prittaddy feel his honour au deeply committed by various passages of Lord %A:ELLINGTON% dispatches. that he will not leave us altogether in the dark, re lative to these interesting points. In fact, when Sir Romer Wicsow arrived at Valada, in the vicinity of Talavera, en the night of the 4th, and found the enemy already in possession of the high road from that city to Orovesa, which corn.; pletely cut him off from the bridge of Arzolaspo; he had no alternative, except to explore a way across the mountainous and difficult tract that et parities New Castile and Extremadura. For he was as much abandoned by Sir ARTHUR, as the wounded whom he left behind at Talavera. But may it not naturally be ask-d, how could a pru. dent or cautious Commander have ever detached Sir ROBERT so far in advance, as to render it im possible, in ease of the necessity for a speedy re. treat, to call him ill to the main body, or to take any effectual moissurts for his preservation I This is one of the many?. ;oar-ions passages iu LorJ WEL LINGTON% late dispatches, requiring elucidation.— Sir HOEEKT, however, made good Isis retreat, and seems well to have ranted, and faun to deserve, the testimony given to his merits, that he " sliewed himself to be an active and intelligent partisan." We sincerely wish, that our Commander himself, though be exerted quite sufficient activity, had ma nifested • little more intelligence. From the mo ment that he entered Span*, 62 IfttelllS never to have {coked back. Vaceua and Motteten lie saw, and drove at most impetuously. But and NEE he appears never to have recollected, till, on the field of battle; where, after vanquishing, as oar Ministers tell ns, the ereerny, he still remained six days afterwards ; he receives the unwelcome, and, to him, thotigh not to any body else, the unex pected Intelligence, that the French were behind him, and might soon render even escape impracti cal,!'. Then he leaves his wounded to CUEIITA ; and puts, as lie unrkrstoid, Sir HOBEIIT WlB5Ol4l'S cores into communicatiosi, likewise, with him ; while he, Sir ARTHUR, as precipitately as he had ail sluiced, returns to find out Sou LT. All, however, ends in a retreat over the. Tagus; first to Deley tosa, then to Trusillo, and, finally, to Elves. Oh ! but. says he, 4. Distress for want of provisions, cad ifs ekes. here at lust obliged rue to move towards the frontiers of Portugal, in order to refresh my troops." And then, after haring thrown so many, direct or indirect, imputations on CLIESTA, he pre fers a charge, of the most serious nature, against the Supreme dants—a charge which must prove them, if it is well founded, to be either traitors to the cause, or utterly incapable end unfit to conduct affairs! But why did Sir Atettert ever enter Estre rrindura and New Castile, relying on such inca pable, or such doubtful aid ? Were promises of provisions. without knowing that any magazines or atom, for the subsistence of his army, were actu ' ally provided, a sufficient justification for so hazard ous a measure ? Surely not. •. On the frontier of Portugal, however, he hum he shall be supplied with every thing he wants."—Does he ? We fear. he mints here, as lie eertuinly did in Castile, with oat his host. To-morrow, we shall, perhaps, en deavour to shew on what authority we venture to throw nut this doubt. It is a serious one; but at Lisbon, not less thee at Seville, the tiurhers are rotten, and our Ministers know, it, too; but they know it, like every thing else, too late. We understand that aeromitsisave been received of an insurrection having broken out in the Low Countries in the Duchy of Luxembourg.—Sit thousand men are said to have risen. and taken pOSIIIOII Ili the wools and fastness...of Lux-iti hourg. This would increase the re2.ret at the Im mure of our Expedition. Great discontent pervades both Flanders and Brabant ; principaltv on ac count of the extreme seventy of the Couseiipt Laws. Ministers, we understand. have determined to make a stand in Portugal, earl to routine their operations to that country, marl •ffairs wear a more promising aspect iii Speen. .This deterininatioe; it is said. has been deliberately formed, mom to positiou of the state of the Pe :: iss 01%0.0 ulg In Viseoont WIiI.I.INUTON. and trs:pon:qc.l with his dispatches; the troops which hale sailid. ru.d are under orders to re'liforee the army of ICaLI.I24Q/eK, will Wl:hided at Lisbon. • 44. ',... .. ,I.'-', s"" ~ ~ ~....114 ~........,, .• . . .. 11 . 3 11 .... isiks: • i t s • o -- v...r if: '"7,'" :: '-ji,N'",.. 4t- tt. . #lBlERYSriffilf. SEPT. IL --..... In my last letter I informed you that this nisei, is full of fashionSmot &Mary ; we are all weei.sgar ..:* in the morning b and away to the beach, and pleinife into the angry element. The elattirity and Two e • of the air here are ery superior. The be.iiii• qf the Bay, on the other mile mir high hills. the C:-N -tivian Alps, rising one above another, in row c.‘o, tinkled range to the (-wit, imittilli. and ert , st., 4,e truly picturteque. Two hundrl4l and tarty iiiihi from the capita; of the British/ Empirlt, we a•O here fret• Iron those incessant titres !had snrinii , l you in the great city. These are our barriers, an t - these were the protection of the Britons sno y.'.1.4 ago. The commerce of the country end the ,r -titles of life are but few in . iininiser. The fisrim'r here is well satisfied with his milk and enarite brea-t, and the towns will offer ynti :. &eet memos 41141 curer. 1. e. Welch ale, which invigorate the body, And never hurt the intelleets. 1111 my last I gave •you on *MUM oit of a n ne i f .e.. Inmate mail, who WWI dronileil here nei Ili---.- last ; and to dissipate the gloom that 1 IIVI.!:. stance has occa.ioned, I will flow gist you tin He. count of a whimsical affair that occurred s e wn ten days ago :—Pretty early one mornin,i, Or iii 4 ls change, when all the beawy of the place were bit • • silt' occupied in bathing, a feller. stele in among-t the ladies' bathing-machines, and was discovered us the midst of them ; the alarm was grillers], and, el* stantaneoum—they all fled, and left the hero in pas 'elision of his dishonograbie triumph. The geliti... men of the town flew to the spot, and were about to consign the culprit to the stocks and tier whia ping-post—and lie would have paid clear fur het frolic—but the ladies interceded for hire, and pro. cured a remission of his punishment ; upon this the ducking-stool of this town was I ght forth, iin.l a couple of stout Jack Tars gave him a seasoning in a horse-pond, and conducted him out of the towns on his road towards Cardigan, to ruminate eat Bit clemency and the morals of the ancient Cambria:lr. • The gement face of the country it roomatic, Impost description. ORIGINAL POETRY. . SACCIDIS AND VENUS. Raw BACCITO et C/LatILL VICSIPSfrtet. Yea assert, my dear (Arabi, but the truth I eami't ara b That Daum r. -sod ' • will sever -- e truth I 4 taw a.. Threehre dl serer wee; rye weigled the point lib the poet still think:ap, Poor Vents niustfreete—sens good enemy 114 thi.Lipoe Johnsen, nowt. IMPROMPTU, • VPO! HIARING ♦ critT•re PIYING (IV/TUFO A." CALIMNi*TC TUC MEMORF OF •111 JOHN MOORS. The Hero felt-ahis e..,antry wept And e'en the dead Detrartiou slept, Till Party's cry awoke her Thee ravens, when the fight is done, Croak o'er the field where Anne was won; Nor ran •be sod Moo*. sleeps upon, Be sacrt,l from a Croaker ! • Nearly the whole of the Cabinet Ministers were out of town, yesterday, and their horses had a very gloomy appearauce, the lamps briny, only hall. lighte.„ and the reflectors which adorn them tier.% always taken out in the absence of the owners. fir. and Mrs. STANHOPE left town, on Thursday, on • visit to the Countess of Essyx, at Worthing. Lady CAROLINE DAMT.R, and Itlrs. DARER, are game to pass a few days with the Countess Dowager of Essex, ut her scat near Ted. dington. he Duke of PORTLAND left Burlington.honse at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, for Bulst rode, where it is said his Grace intends to pass a few mouths in retirement from the fatigue of,olNer. Gen. and Mrs. Sr. JOHN are gone to Tunbridge Wells, for a month ; they intend to peel another month at Brighton; and afterwards will returnio their house, in Audley-square, far the season. The PORTUGUESE AMBASSAD:JR, who is at War. thing, intends giving a grand entertuniment to the Nobility at that place. His Excellency sent air ex. press to town for his French cook to tepatr there with speed. The Marquis and Marchioness of Tay terncw are gone to the Duke and Duchess of ILLEDYGP.D'S house in Great Stauhope.street, May.rinr e to pats • few days. Mr. CRETILLE continues very ill at his house an Manchester-square, from the accident he met with on Tuesday, but was rather better last-alight. The Countess of CGATUAM returaed yesterday to her 111/11.1" in 11111-street, Berkeley-egoiirr, (ion' a visit to Lord :mil Lady Dv XLVOR, hi Wales. Mr. Gimeswono iiitemls to return bi to., rt in a short time for ti.e season : and has given orders ler preparations for a splendid (limier, or. ilia Ist if October. at his house u, Audit., -square. Mr. PIIILLPPII'S btlietit, at the L, etuin, row night, is tvpected to produce au ovorfl w. viral lashionahte patties have beim made nul I . The Kilkenny Theatricals are to commence Monday, the ttil of October. Miss Saint, late of Covert-Garden, is engaged fir a shott time at the COLlaineilet 111.1 d of die • oe,i log season at - Bath. Mr. %Yarnell is also to re. souse his station. The .seeders are Mr. Es, ii.TOS, Mr. 60111 MM. Muss FISHER, Mr. sad Mrs. Sias, and Mei*HOLLOWAY. The. I>erf autunite, at the Shre sshury Theatre continence onl4...itilvy evening next, and r ,he ma na of Mr. Cattle, atm, w r t111drr.1.41141, has speredueither pains sperm to gratify the tw , e expeetutie w s of *Salniaan aueltesiCe ; who will initiouldi illy reward hart with that eir.coatagerneist s ne-ir !iit mint deserves. On Wednewist s 1;4, the annual show of CUM/. lime•l was held at Mr. Wt vet %son's, Fre- 1. re, Alo.riek. where a choice ollection was ...lAD...A. Thel.ttige. were ititiwillied as Ad owi• Una Rims ,s, Ist. ah, won Llo rar s 1 owl Riale-v, MAKIN Ir'S Lord Raw ooworttp. soil Air. HaT Al Et a .. ktw. Pot Sin. Ntsax d 5.11, WW I P., c's London Queen, and the Usehcm Newcastle. • I Pi.4l aim *VT 4111 Asia* • ' •♦ • .40160 . rrnet&--At rapt. *IAN et Butler to Miele • Clint fieurge Blazrette, of the Civil . lere're;:r l ß - 4117af Ceriviii.....Cluiries Tacker, Egli. of 'do. to Mier Mideletott raw' Capt. J. K. %luckier, of the 7th Rect. Bengal Cavalry, to Miss Frances Georgina Smith, youngest daughter utJoseph Barnard Smith, Eut of the Civil Mr Edmund Johnston. to Min liridgetioa Cur:hewn, ta. periutruding Surgeon, to Mies !Margaret Douglas Fearon.— Mr. Reit Retry, to Mies Sophie Macdonald Dir•Tllll.—S. Lrdlic , Esq. aged en,aii Attorney of the gO. prilue liauieegb, C. fildfield, Esq. Second Judge .4 the Pm oiuciel Court fur the division of Muurehedidied.—. At Dinaioire, in the uath year of her age, .Mrs Sophie Max. W•fc Major Maxwell, of His Alajesly's Gins Rrgi uu•ul.—!lvory Chatfield, Lay. one of th,: Attunieys of the Supreme Court.--At Sea, uu his return to England, W. NI. H.—At C.ahrut , March is, the Lady of Lieut. Baines of die Hun. Conniany's Nance.—At Cint.anure, Feb. 2b, Lieut. J. B. Cole, tqt BOA. ud Keg. Native lufantry. I:ALCUTTA.. • Dr AT H —Major-Geueial Sir Charlet George Braithwaite Boughton, aged au. I