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the rage and cr, ii nt neoiole neve uhrt..stoi.: - o,l e . They sallied to itiret the t're'nch, mill a hasty and terri:ile conflict emoted. Porta.- guesr completely destio, id the ties' advance of sou French cavulr 3 ; %tin the scrotal ilivisiou dies ritually buoreetleil, roil :Jou) 311,1 , 1011111.116 of 1111r, es were captured and sent t o k) i )Urith. Al mmg . t . V ae prisoners taken, are iiiiiiiiiers metre port of artily. This suir.tedi peas sentry of Braga 11:15 eallwell universal joy, and we hope will be pioductise of stillilai About its o'cliwk, this monolog, When tile pat:. krt hell berm wider weigh more than en hour, Cap. taus Harris received an order from the A iulosiwador not to sail till the arrival ot the post ft ow Oporto. have leen several letters trims Oporto. ot die 21st inst. wkieli fully confirm whit 1 *rote to you yesterday, respecting Pie murder of the Portuguese General, at firir 4 s. They sae, that such id the Portuguese tronis, :Id mare:lea ii 4 most the Were furnished with that* too lar i ge for their ginis, and this discovery void nut made till they Lame io 1111 l and that the movements ui these troops were so directed us to tote the eueiny Lvery pos. silac advantage. It will he reeollected, in England, unit General Sir Arthur Vu ellesley, gate .ouie :ioloulat Of Ord. Bernartliiic's eutidoi•i, lug the tiine he, Sir Arthur, wies iu this c • Stone letter* say, that G4:11(4141 Berm, EteJen, Iti the English service, wilt; succeeded ISClNAfllitir, has hero defeated, and has nitre:dad to O t ioito; Others say that he has ganied considerahle tee over the enemy, and has only fallen back to a {setter posit:tub They all seem to agree, however, that the enemy is within a day's march of Oporto, and that the city confusion. Ti, geneve opinion here 1,, that the French have not aulkilent force in that quarter to ina.e an attack. Oporto has been very strongly fortified, and all the inhaloitunts that ai-its able fleet atwed themselves in some way or other. awl have goue oat to ioret them. On the moth of this sutith, an engagement took place in Santo Andre, between one battalion of the regiment of foot, Nu. ti, thref companies of the volunteers of Chaves, the regiment of militia of Villa 'teal, and the French. Our troops behaved with the utmost gallantry, amid the enemy's loss was very litvete•OM who witnessed the actioti, state. that the French est ploy.ed from •ten to twelve waggons to carry uhf their wounded. A great Lumber of letters, rectiv. ed from Oporto, agree in stating, that the French hate beep deleated on the road of Braga. One of them, of the 19th inr.-camtuivis the fintaiwing pass sage;--" I have just time to inform yos, that, et ten o'clock this wooing, aa, express arrived from Baron Wont; with the pleasing hitelligoace, that, yesterday, at four o'clock in the aftenatam, - a sec 1 attack was smile by the carve under lois command; the result of which was,that the French were defeated with great lose, and 500 cavalry were taken prasiwra, together v'sitii their hors's. • His Royal ',Zees* the Pelotas Begeot Masao loiuteit Coo William Car 4larresterd, Frail Marshal and•Coutinatider.au-Chief of the Poitu guest array. It appears - from au extraordinary Gazette, pub lished in Seville on the Ist iast. that the division of Spanish troops commanded by the Duke. of Alber querque was' attacked on the Ydd alt. iu the pia,- uua olConsivigra, Ly a French force of 11,000 foot, • anti 3011 horse, whose attack was made with the enemy's usual impetuosity, but completely failed, owiug to the Utleoll.lllll4l 1111rviatlity displayed by the Spanish troops, that the French were re:pulsed mid defeated with the loci' of upward. of 400 men ; Field Marshal iieresfurd had issued the followiag general orders : •• His Royal Ilighuess the Prince Regent of Por tugal havisigpost graciously been pleased to entrust to Fieldonerslusl Bertsford the command in chief of his anuita, thinks it right, oil assuming the said 11111 l i4llll, to .tuts and declare to his contender in arms his rentiuseuts oo this 00001 . 100. . . Th. Field-Marshal and during the time he served in the army, which wets sent by his Britannic Meiesty to support the *elm's. ruble and prodigious along made by the Portu guese to recover their liberty and indepe,urtence. so uniurtly attacked, hod an opportunity of becominz intimately acquainted with the military character of this nation; and although lie tliii.ks he her given the most effectual proof of the favourable idea he bed formed of that character by accepting - the above command, yet he wishes and hopes to prove in a still more decisive manner, that the command er-in-6614-f of the Portuguese army could not have possibly been confided to any other ct cer, so tho roughly convinced of the . umateruilitaty talents awl disposition of the Portuguese, who want nothing hut some skill and uniformity of plan in the ditirtitm or their warlike energies to prove, that they still are what they have always been, if not the hest soldiers,. at least erpial to the most valiant ond most intrepid troops of Europe. The Field-marshal Commande.- in-Chief will therefore exert himself with thematic zeal and applii-ation, to render those quolitses as efficient as they err accustomed to be. when they are waited by ee .triet and well re.,; ulatod disci pline. It ersally acktiowledged, that the Portuguese err 'oval to their Sovereign, obedient to their lawful authorities who represtatt him. and endure without murmurs the pm ations and intim , . • sentences to which armies must frequently submit. The pitriiitr.rn, energy. and enthusiasm, of which they have but very lately given the most missies , - tipaable proofs, the glory which they acquired in Roueaillon. and the successes which they obtained CO the northern frontiers, clearly 'hew their dew tennitseil intrepidity and valour--qualities which consent hut render thew worthy of their sucesiturs. • and as fatuous as them. " No nation, Portuguese, I. therefore ttetter qui., • !died than >nu tire, to form the hest troupe. 'I lie Field-Marshal Commitudet-iii-Chief, CISOIMIACIt Of this truth, finds hurnrlf with the utmost pleasure identified with the Portuguese nation. He is a Portuguese Otlieer, and confides to the purtu 4 m t o lila character and honour, pet reedy *absurd that 'they will be preserved uniespoired ittui returned to lam with gain. it necessity to siaeurts that he will at all times courtier it as one of hie tuna importent duties to rei.e and reward merit wherea:r lit shell meet with rdeemi it; and that the only reetramenclati•n he shall no tice will be that derived fram zeal, activity, skitl, valour and patriotism—qualities which shall at all times find in bins a sure and zealous protector. Tha Field Marshal Commander-in-Chief calls the attention of all the geueral and %limiter,. offiuers to the present state and improvement of the army, and being convinced that the best method of introducing discipline and a strict observance of duty into a military corps, consists in the example set by the officers, he hopes they will never fell to give their men a lesson so necessary urns important. " The Field Mershalleoininander-in-Chief feels anxious to embrace the earliest opportunity of in specting the different corps which here already taken the field, es well as the rest of the army ; and lie shell avail himself of all occasions which oiler, to promote the satisfaction, decorum, *IA wiva'i tege of the officers and soldiers who are intrusted to his care." He:U.4l4*nm, Lisboa, the 13th Mink, 1809." --- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. I Crit ACT UP • LiTTIIII FROM LIFUTBeI•NT-GE- N,RAL SIM. JOHN Sloe•E, Ti, vtscourcr CASTLE,. et tan. 11•Tii.1) COILVIONA, JAM. 19, 11109: .• Situated 114 this army is at present, it is ims pos-ible for ale to debut to yoar Lortl.hip the events which have taken place, since I had the ho. o uor to addrem you from Astorga, ou this 31st of December : 1 hav • therefore determined to scud to kinghood, lkopeltera. fetters! Cisaries Stewart, as the Oill'Cr best 411411111 . 11 to give you every iiifors motion poi can waut, both with respect, to our • acted situatiomitut the events which have led to it. " Your Loidelnio knows, that had followed my own °Amon. 113 a military luau, 1 illOAki have re tired :it the army (min Salamanca. Tiic S i ntai,h :wooer were tied, beaten ; there was no Spanish hirer to which we could unite, and I was satisfied that no efforts would he made to aid us, or to fro tour the came in which they were eis;reged. " I ism sensihle.howtmer, that the apathy and in difference of thy Spailiands would 'fever luive.been I elieved ; that had the British heeu.witkiderwu, the loss of the cause would 'nave oreo imputed to their n . t v,, i t, and it was neeetwary to risk this army to the people of England, as well as the relit of :.ii•ope, that the Spaniards had neither the pus oor the inclination to make any efforts fur ivc4. It was for this reason that. 1 made tha morel' to Saliagan. ka a- clivermoo. it 'succeeded ; I biniiglit the whole disPovable force of the French smainat this army. awl it has been allowed to follow. me, without a single movement bet made to favour my retreat.— 'The people uf.eito.44eilieiers, though firmed, made uo attempt to stop the yassisse of the French tkroush their molintninv. They ehaodrined their dwelliags at Mir approach, deuce away their cart*, oxen, and every IMOg that could be of !beim:4llmA aid to the army. The comicriuceice has bete, that ear sick have been left behind; and when our horses or les failed. which, ou such marches, *oil through such a country, was *crave to a great otteet, baggage, destnuiritton. 'tenet, &c. mid even ',stoney, were itecomerily destroyed or alert " I am sorry to say, that the array, whose con duct I had such reason to extol on its march through Portugal, and oil its arrival 111 Spain, has total's, chictgird illclerwesersiince if began to re tr-at.' I can ley nothing in its favonr„ bat that Millen there was # prospect of tigbting thy Latent!. the men were then orderly, and setutefi pleased and determined to do 'their duty. In /root of Vils la Fruitea, the F. reach came op with the reserve, with which I was orwcrino, the retreat of the army ; they attacked it at Calealrelti=',. I retired, covered by lire 95t1h regiment, and warehed that ought to Ilerresisa„ and front thence to Nogales and !ANN where I hell ordered the different divisions whi:th prevent-ft, to halt sod . collect. At Lugo, the French st4ai:a came up wait uy, They attacked our atdraoted posts on the 61.4 sod 7111, and were rrtlnlrcvl iu both uttemob, eon little lots on nut Bide. I heard from the premiers taken, that three dieisioel of the French army were come up, com manded by :Marshal Soult ; I therefore expected La be attacked on the morning of thseatth. It was my with to ensue to that isoie ;1 lied perfect emilithence iu thy. •valour• of the troops, and it was only by crippling the entmt , that we could lime either to rettetst or to embark uomoloste , h. 1 made every pre paratieti to receive the ettack, irul eiv-w out the army nr the tier nog tootle , laittle. Tirie was not Marshal Soolt's object. ii. either did tint ti,si t himself sof ciently strong, or hc wished to play a "surer WIMP by at tacking won our marrh, or daring onr emlnirication. - Tke country was Intersected, ;lad bin positiou too strongly tne tooth's& with an inferior force. The waut of provision* stooldvot enable ant to wait lotc 4 - er. I marched that iv itt ; and in two forced marches. biveintaing for tax or eight ha we in the rain,l reach «d Iletionos un the 10th hist:mt. " At Lugo, I was reinitiate of th.:impowilaitty of reaching Vigo, which was at too great a dtstance, rod Offered no advantages to embank in the face of au enemy. My toteation was then to have retreat ell to the peninstila of 1114antoa, where 1 hoped to fluid a position to cover the einharkoi,,n of the army in Ares or Hades Bays; but buying sent an er to reconnoitre it, by his report I was .1, ft-r -utin/6 to prefer this place. I gave notice to the .I,lmiral of my intention, and begged that the toinsports might be brought to Comfit's; had I tumid them here on my arrival on the 11th. time ruthurkittiou world easily have been ,•fleeted. lor 1 had gaiued several marches on the French. They have now coma up with us, the 'reimports are not arrived ; my Nutrition in front of this 'dace is a very had one; and this place, if I sin forced to retire into it, it, commanded within market-shirt, and the harbour will be so comina.siledl by Lamont no the onset, that no ship will be able tv lay in t.. hut -hurt, my laird, Generel Stewart wilt inform you how critical nor situation is. It has been re 7 cot 1111 l ended to use to make a proposal to the ene my, to induce him to allow us to embark quietly, in which case he gets us out of the country-son:I, and this place. w:th its •storm, &c. complete ; that otherwise we have the power to mike n long defence, which must Canine the destructioj:. t WWII. 1 ain averse to make any such mop. , I em cur, is.lingly doubtful if Olt would be at with any good effect; but whatever I re aolve ot, this heal, 1 hope your Lordship .41 rest assured, that 1 Mull aecept so tense that ant- to • the least diglionhn rabic to tlir army or to the eottn try. I hied I hose Iwrii led into greater length. 3114 more detail, than I thouzlit I -hoishl have had *new. for; I have written roost , r interruptions, mid i ith my mind viiiclt ocance-r1 with other mutter. Ale letter, written so carelessly, eau nude he coa siiierer! ss privute. IVlien I have inure icir.ire, I shall. write more correctly; in the mean yule, I re ly on (:encril Stewart far given. , ' your Imedstito tyre information sisal detail, whirls I !Hive outitted. I *borsht regret Ins absence, for his servii es have been very distingnislied ; bat the state of leis eyesMinkes it impossible for him to wire. and this contitry is not one in which cavalry can lw of much use. If I silt ceerl in embarking the army, I shall send it to England ; it is quite unlit for further oseniee until it has beret refiner!, which can br,.t lie done there. . 4 'JOHN 31tiote." • " the Right HUM Lard trimmest Castlcagb, iei. (4 letter from Meijer-General BRODRICII, to Lord CA4TI.EREAOIR, dated Commis+, 13th 'An gina ltiett, has been also pnoterl, but we mint de fer its inserti-an until to-inorrow.l. E BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, MON WAY.- Arlin 10 . ADV4NCE OF TUE FRUNCH INTO PORTUGAL. We have received LisbMi, Papers to the 25th hot, vxtracti from which arc given in enr pry. "ceding columns. It appears from them; that the French had advanced into Portugal, within a day's march of Oporto. Government yesterday receired r4ispattchesi front Libbers, which, we understand, announce the. rapid advance of the French, under Manila! Sovt.T, into Portugal. Dis patches were in consequence sent off yestrrlay to the several nutporte to•giticken the departure of the treops destined : far that couatry. Those a.sem • bled at Falmeath had sailed, bat were forced buck by contrary wimiit ; and there collected at Ports mouth *ailed on Saturday from Portsmouth ; at which place Sir Asersima WELLEILLIf arrived on Saturday night. Sir Maitre, we understand, hits pledged I self to defewd Pertits,ml with a British force of 28,000 men, aided by the rpirit of the people, such as he ha. foam! it.. The letter of Sir Jou% Alonite, dated the 13th of January, from Corneille, touismirted by Gene '•ral STSWAItT, has been sinuously :bought for by . r athe Publig.—Ministers, after nsue.h hesitatioe, doubt, and difficulty, have consented 'to publish an extract from it. That esfraet is given in our pre ceding columns. It chews. that Sir JOHN .illutsise,. if left to himself. would not have advanced hagan, and would have commenced ens re treat from Salamanca. In that ease-he wont(' .not have lost a man.—Those who goaded hint on.. contrary to his better judgment, to pursue a -ems.. trate course, are answerable fur all the malauelishr- L and degrading consequences that hare followed. • Those who coasider Botransitva es thlll greatest . , model of profound ability and successful' ambition presented in the history of mankind, assert, that in all his pablic or official documents, he 1416. wisely • made truth his invariable basis. . 6 IC say they; 44 we 'Amine with the severest accuracy all if Bulletins, from the beginning of his'llasi4itY, campaign, no 1805, down to the Treaty of Pr 00,., burgh ; or, tf we review, with the mime oeverity, all his publications, from the commtmecinent to the close of his Pries:inn campaign ; from Auer.' stadt to Friedland; he will never be found to have deviated materially from fact. Even during his late Spanish campaign ; in Ins narration of this bat tles of Reyuos.i, of Tudeta, of Siamosierra, and of many other actions ; in the account of his capture of Madrid ; lastly, in the affair at Curunna he does not deal in 'fiction. It may be amplified, and decorated, for tile palate of his Senate, or his Parisian subjects; as. for instance, *hen he de otribes finding, ou the field of battle, the bodies of three English General.. who never existed. But his•materielsare sound ; and perhapagen. Howe's Inter,' in the Casette. or (;en. Sruwailfs memora ble Speech in the House of CoMmotts, in enroolso ratios' of Lord CaavtLavaun's assertion. may be, sod are, if rigorously rumbled, more remote from the red truth, than N•POLEOIII . 3 !ratifications in the Monitevr. upon the same rolled." • It must be confessed, that there is much justice in thic,e observations. Mit, in proportion to awn' rffe , l, moil to the conviction that they produce, must be , our impression of muse powerful motive, or o.er-ruling necessity, having recently impelled him to arlort an opposite line of composition, alto. getter suliversive of truth. That he should never penult the defeat of Trafalgar, the capitulation of na)len, or any other humiliating piece of mirth. getter, to he officially published at all,' or 'wog.. 16104 as hi t. :among the slaves who wear his chains, may ..xt•ite on surprise; 1110/ does he alter, though he supine's-es the truth, by thus observing a total to !ewe whim eto it. But, we must account On other priliciplei, for his fabricating. publishing,' and die.' seminar mg accounts of sictarne,orconquests, that neither ever existed, nor ever hail any shadow of a )I ; alien 'he thus indulges his Casettes in uo t io is , lie followed the same advice which (rude Toby in Tristram Shandy gives to Corpora/ Tri.a, on the ion( le of Giants ; namely, of plocsog theme el; out of the wit) of inquiry, he might still. obtain some belief. For instance, were Bon &PARINI" to enumerate any advanni6es gained over the Spa. • nieuts in nm Castile, et in r-trtnnntiotit s br in I.frok, pests of that atestiesills. to *Melo oar arcyg, tr euvedlitt;ly fit liDentt. trial ill *tom. "tate warwarti tdiatiett atter') i„vionsatt ; hr wrigitt tisontentt?lry (odium.' .tehiereoseot.lll : il he ctw'%. they Yea old) , stir., lake the lions and et netefiler, I ;en t fraidiers to their to•t i t. art he interior of Atfrioti. to ow. that it ow, the realm 0.1 Gills where. tat coorwiwerice, tatty womlerr .oight be wwreiy piturtragyed, or described, es wo Ludy could g et there. But, when the wattle CORSIC A 11, who never Unwires tri the dais k, sow tier entietteour, to irn pine Ott the italdee-annditsKs or fiireiges notions-- whatever hhi•rtier tor way take with his own people, oulrin for great and drip tiurpow-p at auitistion mid •1 interest—when be so del riodire the deceioey and 'dignity of his publieatione, as to offer absurd falsi ties to the view of Eorepe, atoll to give then his sanction, lie IHCIMS 10 deceive, mid he is reduced to adopt such arts by necessity. , lint, hate he not notoriously done this' Ilas he not positively asserted, if trot in the " Manifest.," at least in all his demi rotheitit Papers, that Stottht's detachments 111111 tered both Oporto and Lisboa e MM,, he not declare is the same manner, that caber corps of his troops weer approaching srosille; " while his fo'••es were driving end'cliapersiug the Portuguese in all di oectinsh, like dust ?" To as, who keep up, in de. Barer of the Usurper, a regular and uuinterrepted intercourse with Cadiz, Lisbon, Oporto, Vign, and other Swinish or Portuguese porta; and who know that SOULT lane • never %centered yet to approach within 7cf milts of Opoqn, or within 179 miles of Lisbon us, these romances appear only ...natter of contempt. lint he means them for an atmosphere less bright, and fur minds more uninformed, as well as susceptible of impres sion from his spell*, than ours. The tyrant is desirous of terrifying Austria, Saxony, Prussia, surf Muria. It is in the capitals of those coun tries. Vltre,Ae CRIS penetrate, but where we ClUltliOi, • that these' legends are intended to operatejheir ef fect, augmented by distance and exaggerated by ter ror. Their falsity martie discovered too late. Infect, however BONAPARTE may disguise and cossiseal his spprelleasions, it is clear to ilemaiiitration that to cannot be at hie cam. Spain is ems half subdillord.. Turkey is lissrailog hi. bonds. Ile can neither relY oto the neutrality of Prussia uor of Ririe& with any certitude. Austria iv its anus,. from Bohemia to Carniola. Martinique is attacked. Cayenne is al ready lost—and lie is wow probahly at the eve of a new war, which his invariable ambstlowand violence have produced. His poiitioos. flowerer imposiag and brilliant, is critical, perilous., and &II of danger ! •' Yesterday seeming, htits mai oat, Princesses Anit:sts,. Somata, *MI AMELIA, accompanied by %owl ROLL, Ludy Tor lose, Generals Sr \IwYNR6, and M tate cuma, rode to St. G 'r Chlopel, Winolso: , and heard a sermon by !Coos:see, from Paul's Epistle to the Philipikells- Sid chapter and 10th retire, " That I might know 'Mht and t he power of his resurreetiou:".airterwards they returned to the Palace. ' The Drake of YORK left %%Incisor for Oatlands ; in the evehing Hu Kayla Highness dined with Sir DAVID Dumnas, sit Chelsea College, with a 140. merous party of General Officers. The Itor•s. FAMILY are expected in town to morrow. On Friday Sir Davin Dux.oas' held • public day, and gave audience., at his office in the florae Guards, to Earl Parseaoste, Sir HARRY BURRARD, Sir CHARLIMI Asatit., and about forty unlit/op officers, upon business, and to pay their respects te Sir Davos upon his being appointed to this in of Commander in Chief. 'On Saturday Sir Aarnee WELLEILRY tHRIMIIe Meted husinetoi with Sir Davin DUNDAII, for a considerable time, at his office, previous to his set-' ting off for Portugal, to take the command of the army. In the evening Sir ARTHUR, accompanied, 'by General STEWART, COlOl,O BATHURST, bit, Military Secretary, Ma jor CA111.861.1., and his Aid de i...7anapos, left town or Portsmouth. Last night the remainder of'Sir Attuue's Staff set off to fol low him. A requisition from tenni. Gentlemen and free holders of the enianty . of Berks. has been sent to 'the High Sheriff, who has appointed the 17th of April for the meeting. at Reading, in order to ad dress a vote of thanks to Mr. WARDLE, and to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning for a shorter duration of Parliament. A Reqnisitioss wns 'signed, on the sth instant, and presented to the MAYOR of NORWICH, TICCIIIINAMIE him to calls Common Hall, for the purpose of es pressing their Sentiments upon the abuses disdoefd an the late impory into the conduct of the DfribliAt of Yost. This request the MAYOR refused, Mrefills 'that it being custoomiry in that city for the 111111011.. bly of the Corporation to express their opinion in he. half of the inhabitants of that city oa all public oo cnrrences, he was ready to call an assembly of the ' Corporation, and lay the proposal . which he had received before them. This onswyr was, given oa. the sth; and in cmisequesice of the MAYOR he.: ing this* oleeliusel to call a Common Hall, notice has been given, that • Meeting of the Inhabitants will he held this day, at or near St. Andrew's Hall, in that city. There wits a rnasour yesterday, that the king of Swantst had been released from his contiosecaeut, through the efforts of the Dalecurlians, under Geo. Tot.t. —This ruorioni appears do be without fouu dation. Gen. To I.i. is not die Governor of Older j carlia ; and however loyal the ioshabitasta of that province miry be, they are wholly ussprortildif miter die aeons of oindertaking such an enterprise. It is the opinion of persons well aoquatutad with 'the secret springs and motives of the late revolt.- 'tion in Sweden, and the feeling of the new GOVIIID. went. that ell iustwoourse between that eoant7 and En2land will be prohibited before the expiration of two onontles. -i~ jtof./t. Mitt • Oa thatafty damalag, ac_rootaly to the appaistagast of Marais Cerowidlir, the Master of his Alsjestro scar bonds, a Imola Majesty's brad, tuck place. Boos aftffr ten ffe:4;cl, the Disks of Coatherlaad, with kis :Mend awls, arrived on Parabola Cusco.; where M. tot ;Pow wants was is wailiag, with a aismitnous dap of talcums sportsmen, who gave upon the nasal of his Royal Hoariest, f ' far MD Deer to beturred out of the 'Cam t'or the day's direratia. He set of with gre .t +millings, through the moods towards Itabtrode, taking to the right ' &MAO the cutam.ss ; where he ran with much' speed for abut forty situates, and thee gut tate t h e luebrairc. is . Mock Park, . rid :tot ander cover. This was coradered on, of the sharp. est runs that has horn mew iii that eamatry for oury years, the busses all manning as if they hod bean racers; the hounds, bourn, came ep in a abet tire, atoi dislodged him from his cover, and he ,trot off is agate, throwch the encloard SW. b. tangle!, sad got into several rinds of water, and very Aoki! y ovt-notod himself from the dogs, to the nu small diIMISCIUNO, of the huatiiisea. file was at length taken sear Loogley Gown, after a magi wywarda of two hours The Duke et Cornbread itiAiillllllllll 1111 We chum daring the abuts tithe bag bast. TH E4TR DR. CA LLI.%) IVS CONCERT. Never vase greeter tribute paid to thalami,* of any professional man, than the assemblagee. ' fashion which graved this Theatrc gaturlay Wight; all parts of the house were titre/Nil epee. ' and instantly tilled by all the raok and fashion of this great me•mpolis. The selection was priori. pally the worthy 13ortor's composition, which were never performed before such an assemblage of his friends, our were they ever heard with snore delight. M hie PARKE., Madatne Buster, Mks. Vantinsar and Mesers. Haaatsou, B4rtTLEMAst, Goss, NEIL°, ELLIOTT, SALT, .1. B. SALL, and CAA era, lent their powerful assi.tance on the occa sion. A more splendid spa:tech. than the house displayed was never wittiest... 4 : all the Ladies mid Gentlemen were in full drew, and in the side-boxes we did tier behold snore heauty and &shade than graced the . upper rows of the gallery. Ainessigse• ' the Nobility present were the Doke and Deebees of Mograowg. Mn:dhiotiemea of ligaitrOitD, Svarreen;and Ilutresntec ; Fins Foavr.scux. DARNI.LV, end Dseruouot; Courstesees (;os- • rano and Foxes:scut, and nearly the shade of the Nobility who attend the Great ItoOnssv is Han over-square. • _ • . ASKS. ClArtic This lady, we understand. ha. undertaken to suppress her literary work, in consideration of a sum of 7,0001. to cover her debts, fie. sad an annuity of Mad. to herself and has children:-.- • Ten thousand copies of the work bad ham workid off, but therweeirbasseired le the flames en Sa turday, and all 1114 garde! concerned declared tepees oath, that no vestige, is print or nmauscript. was, preserved, except , a single copy. iii cornoliarice with i,,e Act of Paaitament, nod the is ;wool • 'oterler „weer' seals. . . The Duke of Yoaa gives a sompbselas this day, to a numerous party et his Issiose in ftie Stable-yard. Among those ho Wed arts-e - • , Fins elsestertkild, Malmsbary, Camalas, asslebielmaster Meows. Cwiag, Pererval, Purr, Low, ats4 Illroksostr. The Duchess of You is expected .ia tozu w - Wednesday. • Mow. fiesasissat luta the. Hee. Mies Soviet. 'are retemed to town from Brigr..en. The Duchess of Lesetsiseg root, on Friday night, at her iwuw rat ace, wan attended hy. upwards of .$OO of tit; Ise Noe • bility ; she arrangements fee,theseselacillhipisTed • her Grace's usual style of tote and idagante. Joan Cheatham. E.. left hie • hmee in Stan hope-street.' May-fair. on Saturday, fur a tour round the fitssimLcOsid. tiir Asauttte and Lady Amsztx end Miss Ilene, left town; en Friday, for their seat at Worinley Autry, Hertfordshire. We approve the determination of oar ladies of qsality to coatinue the disgraceful practice of suf fering haliea and French refugees to bate their Betiefil Cmicirrts at their houses. Corporal GIUWIDALII, who took iJeoeral Ls- Fumes prisoner in the late campaign its Spain, re turned to Brighton ou Friday. friers whence he went to Arundel on Saturday; he was very muds caressed by all the fashioaables at Brightoo The bars upon the fighting snatch. to-marrow, . between Ritheload, the black. and laws Wiwi, were last night 5 to 4 om Ricktmorril. A friend @hewing to another a picture representing the inside of a leaf mine. said, he intended to give 201. for it, Which he did not think dear, as it cost the painter twenty days is. dimming : Pooh, says the other, lay out your money at Latian's, No. 11, Charing-Cross, where you will receive a Ticket to whoa you to the inside of a gold seine, sad by only .watt itay's drawing you may get enough to Pureha4.: the whole exhibition. The attainmein of riches by labour and indasfry, though most laudable virtues. is generally slow ; yet surely that ought not to prevent any one from endeavouring to rim to sudden independence, es specially when the little sum risked by an advee ture is, if lost, a trifling consideration. More than • commonly morose, then, must those cyniel be, who will regret to hear that 111411 V individuals acquire, possibly so soon as the day after to-morrow. come derahle wealth. through the medium of the Lottery. that will then commence drawing. Should there ever he anodise Lottery.it will not be in the power of the Contractor to give su.:ls import ant advantages. Wisdneisday snort will disperse many Priam of great magiiitinle among fietuee'a favourites. HOIIIIIIBT and Co. intreit the Public to partake of part of the Twenty or Tess Thousaud Pounds Prizes, which they purpose to vend (45. usual) among those who honour them with their monomials, at either of thee 01.1 Established . State Lotter,. Offices, ?6, Cornhill, or Se. Margaret's Borou,gh, *ad no where else on tliair Ludas. • One-half of the Capital Prises in the last Lottery was 'Alin Shams (including Two Prize. of Twesi ty Thousand •Pottritia) by Sir /AIM Baanecolas and Co. at their Loch'. Offices. 37, Corishill. 11, liolhgt o, 50 . . Haymarket, and attn. Strarel.—lt is supposed by the Public, that the whole of tbe Cs pital Prises (which are ennesally irunteroes) in the tee Lottery. which commences drawing nest nesday, will likewise be volit at the above Liicky Dikes ; as. for the _last three days, these. Offices have been unusually thronged by the vete. ries of fortes's. I I I • • ;.:7.4