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Lk. EON . , MALTA, & GIBRALTAR PAPERS. GIBRALTAR, Nov. 26.:---The Malta Packet has brought accounts'from that Island to:the‘2d, and front Palermo to the 4th. The timnber of deaths in Malta was reduced to three per dad►, and from Sicily . , we hear that ,the Parliament had been dis sZ•ed. ers, Gibraltar, Nov.' 26. The Inspectors of Districts : are requested to remply with the following suggestions. from the Board of Health ' 4 Recommended, that the rnspeetors of pis tricts be requested to report all cases of sickness, pvevionsly.to the removal of the patients toThe Lazaretto, that the sick persons may be visited by a Aredieal Officer before they are taken from their I.l4.:bitations. •It is further recommended, that- the In spectors be requested'to repoutio the Board, by Saturday next, the 4th of December, if ail the houses kmd dwelliogs, mithin their distrietS, have . been :cleansed and fumigated, *agreeably to the —Proclamation of the 9th instant. '' Should there be any houses still shut up, the inspectors to be requested to notice the same in their report, that Some steps may be taken to pre vent their being occupied till the orders in ques tion have been'duly complied with." " .By his Excellency the I.lctit.-Governor commanding ; " F. STOKES, A. Sec. By the NVeeltly return contained in this Paper, it appears that the number of new cases at Gibral tar for the weck. . ending the 26th of November Were sixteen, and deaths three. brsaoN,• Auc. 4.----The yellow fever at Gibral tar, - the plague, at Malta, and the black vomit,at Cadiz, have all ceased, or so nearly ceased as to . cause no flintier alarm even to the inhabitants of these places. This may be confidently relied on. MrisslN4, 161.8 y the arrival of an Eng lish vessel from Porrza,• we have received the agreeable intelligence, that on the 29th Septem ber last, two English frigates and two brigs took, Under Gape Antonio,' 44' of the enemy's vessels, . laden with valuable merchandize, together tivith • 12 armed barks which escorted them, all of which they carried into, Ponza, where they were at the time of the departure of the vessel. We anxiously wait the official confirmation of this intelligence. Oc:Tonr.a 14.—0 n the 20th of September, the chebee Libybeo, 'belonging to the Royal flotilla, had an action with a French national brig, off the island of San. Pietro, near Sardinia. The enemy's vessel mounted 16 carionades, 24-pound ers, and had a'crew of 130 men, while ours •had only six Cannon, and 140 men. • The enemy at'- tempted to birard several times, but was beat off, 'and the damage sustained, by the , Lilybeo in her rigging, alone., prevented .tier: capture,',.and ,ena bled her to sheer off, which she at last disgrace fully did. ..We had three' rit our brave marines' lolled, and ten woundca in this action, which has atfOrdea a new proof of the spirit And bravery aniiii4tes all the individttak of the Royal flotilla, an especially does -honour to Don A-Nro- Nrio cd'Arviietro, who ,coramanded the chehec. 51./?-11.5. AnflivED-1 :\hlta, 1 Dublin, 2 Waterford. Due—l (7itdi. 4 , 1 Lisbon, 3 (;ottetoprzll, I Cortitina, 5 lieligolatid, 2 Guernspy, 3 Jeney.' Si. TIIO3IAS'S PAY.--TiDlytiay at the F i icchequer, Burst', and Scnith,Sen House.. tc.H wAllut AT LoNuos INforning, 4timinittes after 1, I Evening, 11 minute, after THE SUN. $Ol.Ol Qt.US 1110E1t1 FAL•`J.Ubi Al/I)FAT LONDO.A . , TUESDAY; DECEMBER 1818. Dispatches from 'Sir GEOLGE PacvosT, of va rious dates, to the 4th of Noventher, :will be pub fished' in to-night's 9a.zelte. They contain Merely the account of General IL I:arrow's attack 'upon the frontiers of Lower Canada,. and of his repulse; of the arrival at Quebec of two. battalions of ma rines and 300 seamen of the defeat of Gen. PaocTott's corps, which lost, about 250 men,— ,Other particulars will be found in our Extracts from the American Papers, a file of Which we have this morning received. French Papers, to the 18th have reached town, and are notorious for the impudent effrontery with w'hich, upon every topic, they attempt to carry on the system of . delusion on which the impostor at the head of their Government depends for the pre servation of his usurped authority. In France their armies are ,represented as victorious in Italy they are victorious on the Rhine. they arc secure in Holland they possess all the strong places, and their force in the held is paramount ! ! What credit we are to give to the parts of this in telligence whichwe have not as yet received informa t ion todisprove,may he measured by the authenticity' of the statements of facts with the trite nature of which we arc acquainted!. Did we not know the utter roilrepresentatton of the news it. pecting Holland, we might be disturbed by the fables from Bayonne ; were we nut aware of the , per verfJitok oltreth respecting the cOndlition of Italy, we might be tempted to plate some reliance till ,ifiL , ilitiaZioll3 which refer to -the situat;un of tbr Dui iris vain to melt roar to extract the dartich-t of vcrileity contitinc4 in a ari-;s of litioNAPAiierzi troths resedohle Crilti RqtY reasom-''they are 09 two graiui of wheat b‘4l:fl• -- Li -, of 'chaff yo.I 041 f;t:;:if, ' l4ll day ere von finil them ; and when you have found them they are not worth the search." We shall not therefOre, in the abseil*" of all infornuttion which may be . depended' upon; mi nutely investigate, with a view of aseertain ing the facts, the inventions relative to an.ae tion on the Nive, which from Bourdeaux and Bayonne, have found their way into the Paris Journals. It would seem even from the French account, that SOULT with his whole fOree, 50,000, attempted on the 10th to regain some oldie po-' sitions whence he had been driven on' the preced ing day, and from which' (so fae.froni their being thought worthy of obstinate defence). Lord WEL. LINGTON had the night 'before Avithdrawn three of the five diviSions with which he bail conquered them.' The remaining two-fifths of a force, ginally amounting, in all, to 5,060, would of course retire, before the :Approach of the entire French army ; and this, we accordingly find, the British did towards the Nive, into which river the Bourdeaux Writer humanely and kindly hopes they '' will be pushed," The Bayonne intelligence is somewhat.different; it represents the attack of the 10th as occasioned by the desire of SOULT not to be so mud) straitened in his fortified camp uhder the guns of that City, as to allow the British to remain close upon it. He therefore brought his whole strength into action, and drove these advanced posts towards Bidart (half way be tween Bayonne and St. Jean de Luz). This wa§ sn troublesome a service, however, that General REILLE, after being reinforced with one division, was obliged to call for other succours, and even with these had so little success, that four British Regiments ventured the next morning to attack him on the Plateau of liarouillet, though •we are told 10 a confusion of style, that they were " forced to retire," and " were nut to the rout," and also, that they '' felt back to a line in the rear." Upon the whole, these seem to have been very partial affairs on the left of our line, which had been pushed -to the very environs of Bayonne and its earnp (.‘ On the test of the line_ nothing has passed;" and Lord WELLINGTON, notwithstanding all these defeats, menaces' 'General SouLT as before ! ! 'The Italian news relates to PtNO's march against the division with which Gen. NtiaEN:r was creat-; ing a diversion oti the'Po. The story is like DUO NAPARTE'S'oId Bulletins in that coutitry - , when he . used to kill (and we believe eat), in every min paign, thrice the number of the armies opposed to him, with the loss of an occasional finger to a hussar or grenadier. These. falsities impose on Europe no longer, and Bulletin victories in the • Moniteur or Reducteur, are no inore competent to bind the chains of terror oti the world. The in telligence front ..the Rhine is a blank—and that frotn Switzerland is partially discussed iu our Observations on another, subject. • - Acccinuts from 'Lisbon, Sicily, Malt, and Gib raltar, have 'arrived this morning, and are giVett is a preceding.column. • We rejoice to say, that the malignant disorder, which has ravaged the two latter, has subsided, and health and safety is re turning to these afflicted places. In Sicily, a plague of anOther kind has 'abated the 'Parlia ment is ,disolVed. • A very successful and bril liant • achievement has been 'performed on the coast of Naples, and 'a large flotilla captured, which was no doubt nitcuded to co-operute , with the artily Uhtler MURAT. When Sir J..MAcrwrosu gave notice 'that he would oppose the adjournment of Parliament on the ground of the assumption by the Prince of ORANGE of the title of Sovereign, bestoWed upon hint by the, spontaneous acclaim of the Dutch people, We ventured to suggest tea him that this 'was little reciincileable' With theprineipleS he maintained in the work lie publis' bed in 1791, en titled- " GALLICie, Defence of the French r nevolution and its. English• Admirers," of which he was himself one of the warmest: lie there advocated the rights of the people, to modify . and form their Government into whatever-fantas tical shape they Pleased, and we could see no reason why that privilege should be .accoujed to a French Jacobin, and withheld trout a.Duteh , Pa-, triot. Our remark to this effect appears to have staggered the resolution of the Honourable Mem ber, and though he was resolute not to sulfer.an adjournment s ithout a speech, that speech has been laboured upkm very 'different grOnnds front those originally hinted at--;-at least it sets out with professions to that import, though, towards the conclusion, it lapses into thaerror it beganby declar ing it would avoid. Sir , J4sms says, (if the Report in. the Morning Papers east be relied on) «the only . , of contest between tne Noble LOrd and my self is one of mere Parliamentary proceeding. On . "all those great' questions, so interesting to the Houle, tU tt t Cei;ntry, and Er, ru p e , mi d 01.1 which a feeling so unanimous has existed among us it is far from my wish to dwell. A few incidental remarks may escape me with respect to them ; but they arc not the-'topics to which, in the presen t instance, I wish particularly to call the attention of the Ihntsc Yet, with. this in his mouth, hedevotes about one-seventh part of his obsen'ations to the , " only point of contest," and tire remaining six sevenths to the matters of " incidental re mark." On the former we shall be as reserved as the Honourable Member, only noticing that he appears toils to push .the right of the Parliarnert to advise, further than is exactly consistent with that extent of Royal Prerogative which the . Con stitution allots to the Crown, in dispensing oc casionally with these Counsels. On thesubject of Holland and Switzerland we still more materially dissent from many of the doctrines he broached. We do not admire the invidious terms in whiCh the Revolution of Holland is described as " the subversion of the ancient Dutch Republic in a tumul • Mary manner by a few gentlemen (the inhabitants of 'two towns only) and in the pfLente of a foreign force," Is this a fair view by the per son who thus defended and eulogised the mur derous course by . which the new French Sys- . tern was matured) "Ii is in vain (quoth the JAMES MACINTOSIrOf 1791) that their adVersaries contest this assertion, by appealing to the deficiency of forms. It is in vain to demand the legal instru ment that changed 'their Constitution, and extended their powers. Accurate forms in the conveyance of powers are prescribed by the wisdom of law in the regular administration of States. But GREAT REVOLUTIONS ARE Too'IMMENiE FOR TECHNICAL TORMALITY !! ! All the sanction that can be hoped for in such events, is the voice of the People, ' however informally 'expressed."—ln God's name, then; Sir, why find fault with the Act of the 'Dutch Nation ? Why • cavil at their " multuary" proceedings ? Why wish the thing had been done formally, and with all the techinicalities you despised in the French Revolution? The answer is on the face of your speech---a revolution from a Monarchy to a Republic is so agreeable to . your opinions that you can conceive no possible evil to result from it, but a revolution from a Re public to a Monarchy -fills, you with these unholy suspicions which you discovered last night in tile House of Commons. " i should have been glad also, if the whole affair had been conducted more gravely," yOu say, but then 'you know, Sir, that " great revolutions are too immense for teChnical formality." Our space will scarcely permit us to advert to the topic of Switzerland. The violatiOn of the offensive policy ptiONAPARTE chuses to cull Neutra irality, in that country yOu declare would be a violation of one 'of the first principles of public law: Looking to the real state of the case, 11 . 1 - 1 d not.to names, we deny your proposition as applL cable to SWitzerland at this moment, or to any country at any time, whose neutrality shall be a positive injury 'to one of the Belligerents, and a benefit to the other. This is pre cisely the .chsp in point. The neutrality of Switzerland is a face -- its independence, of which you talk, a mere : moekery. How has the fanner been respected ?—now has the latter been visible for . the last fifteen years ? The first, by the total disregard of it by every power in Europe, and especially by France ; the last, in a stcdfust adherence of a corrupeGovernment, in opposition to the People, to, the country which first be trayed and ravaged, and-ever since tyrannized over an 4 oppressed them. Yet, forsooth, Sir J. MAC INTOSH arid Mr. ,WHITIIIIEAD would prove, that the Allies ought to acquiesce in the neutrality of a State, wh; c citizens are contingents in their enemy's armies, and-whae c!,tnary would thus.be made ss barrier to cover his weakest frontier We have nothing of consequence from Holland. Reports of negoeiations at Basle are propagated ; we believe these refer only to the state of Swit zerland. By letters received by the Cam!), i in' this- morn ing, ftom Makas, of the •ith An,...;u,t, we learn ) , that Sir Geonna BnaLow had ordered the Com pany's ship Rose, Capt. SANDMAN us, tO pTOCeed to Europe, by which slip he had taken his passage, and .would sail in a few days. The Cambrian is chiefly laden with rice, and seve.;al more country shiPs were expected to sail for England with simi lar cargoes, The Dime of CLABexce, it is said, will leave England in the course of a few days tor Holland. The Exchange at Paris (on London) 'has risen ,within a week between 7 and 8 per cent.shewing 4 prodigious demand for bills on this market. Sir SYDNEY BECKWITU, the Quarter-Master- General, arrived at Quebec on the 2-411,Qctober, in-his Majesty's ship I. l %:eineSis , utter a P4ssiage'°f 22 (lays, from lialifax. BREAD.--ln the prire of Bread fat the ensuing week, there is Du alteration. NAVAL NEIVS. DOVER, DEC. 20. The Admiral 'Berkeley : - w.lta4r passed by to-day ;' from her two iassen• gers landed, who set off for London they are stated to hare reported, that before arriving in the Channel they fell in with a fleet, which sailecr from Portsmouth 'softie time since, consisting of 4 or 500 sail,- which had encountered a most trc mendous gale or hurricane, and tht four or.five vessels had foundered, the wreck's of which they passed through. The same whaler brings an ac count of a very fine brig having been taken O. Beachy Head, last night, by a French privateer, S ash t c h a e r c ri a e p d tu o r ti e. to Boulogne. YARMOUTH, Nov. Dutch Schuyt from Scheveling ; she brougla aal English and a Dutch Courier ,from the Hague. 19.—Arrived They embarked yesterday, and report that the" was not nor news of importance the llagne the time of their departure. • sty's DEC. 20.—Admiral FFzsRIER, in his Male• 4 ship Cumberland, and: tour sail of the line, Pa' se. by on Saturday, M., from the opposite cost. It being thick weather, they stood far itt,. the Cumberland grounded on•the Scroby' passengersnlorning but the tide ,flowing, she got' air again svit"tl damage. • DEAL, Dec. 20.—Arrived the Admiral BerkeleY from the South Seas, and, the General Nira nd `; from the tape, and are sailed for the River , his Majesty's ship Freya from. Holland. PoirrsuouTn, Dec. :20.—Arrived his Ma.jestY i land ; Wanderer and ..41bion 'sloes of war f rom p ship Rellerophon, 11db - drill K AT'S, from Novi" 11( the coast of Africa, and Rosamond, from Nortil , America. Sailed the America. Intelli , rent • n un-brig all 3 crime. • Gleanir, , of Guernseyi • PLYMOUTH, DEC. 19.—Arrived the schooner news. Arrived the French sloop La 110 s,ei /18 , ; i t e i: from Bourdeaux bound to MOrlaix, hit" ‘ 1 " - ,., wine, &c. captured by his Majesty's liip 10° 41- on the 15th inst. allelic-Isle. . . • eke / FALMOUTH, Dec.. 18,--"-Arrived the EnzaP!' 14 with a mail from Gibraltar, last Iron - 11\1. 11 E 4 ' il oe days. On Sunday- lust, about 160 leagues ° ~..., from Valencia brings no Westward, fell in with the Menden Hall, tio c ed, and put 10 men on board, who liave " J". gated her into port. , , . , The following a ccounts of East India ShiPP il4llr have been received at the Enst'lntlitt House, viZ.: The Cambrian, country ship, f rom Beng al and M a dras, sri rived o ff the Isle of Wight the 19th inst. sailed from Tr i i a , thelath July, Madras the 4th :August; arrived at St. 1,. in October, and sailed from St. Helena, the 34th. e Sir " , The' Godfrey W e b oter arrived at Bom bay in May la" with the loss of her stmts. ; . 1 hi; 11 6 The Diana left Benkil the lot July, and war passeo-i.L, Cambrian, on the , 21,,t Sr.pterriber, to the eastward, et,,' Cape of Good Hop. . f i o n r ili: C it h l i se n t a a4tt t el l id i a j t t: /?1.1 ;1' iiiilc-,lNt.fiiie,ter:, d't*Y:e'rivls4:hcnirdpCP74:c:lUleyall4Z4l‘'s:c::'sligi':Yirl'::34i.-P6:l OD the 4th .Al , : i. The Earl 1101ve had gone. into duck no the sth July, v a . ila the Northawyton, which was to hav,...alled ita conteoy s itlx the Cambrian, rot Lack leaky. • Boos,,iT.hfoilnlo:dliinigtiolonstsoesti‘ivoesree tyleets.otre.erdinseynotinoLtieltoty:......4l ;Milford onatheriae Friday,,B vi rs i f i e , , i. fromli feet w B r istol ater t i o n Li b v e r e r b p o o l b a l i , ' a p n u d t ip it u it s o t takThen,e 4 A y d th ve e n , . t i t u l l e ?) --Fre French .pri vateer, r p o r m i v gee and Tagus. The Maria, Pack, from Majorca to Gibraltar and London! wag burnt at sea oo the ed November, part of her crew sr a P t as ee s Z ges and to re n ta r k is e7n L by lifttsbehNi3- rived at Malaga. , saTehdef:orloonintGreitirapiatealkeotn,,Y4teroewst,hisuiatr.rwivietdh orotryloifibtthme.ltedwing, and parte d on the sthi:nittlticiaLeelli!EFr:%::l7: The O.P. transport, bound to St. Ander°, is talscohY t 4° Etotle and Sultan French fr i g ates. W as rap ture The Mary, ---, from Newfoundh u id, d, te °'. , the 4th init. o ff t he Western Isles, by t..vo French frir n i t , a nd near}} disrnasted • she was fallen in with o ff cApt - terra by the Pumout frigate. •..ken• The tonceinco N l inerv4, --, from Pars, bas been ri l s and retaken by her the 14th inst. The Inspector, Sturton, front the South Seas for torldf::, his Majesty's Ship Rosamond, and parted" was spoke with on the 6th inst. with lost o f bowsprit, '' t :: : ::: :: ::::: 3 g on i n dd e e oußoitcei Oc to ber,sr,tilZ . : . 1 1 . built ii:y.i. :aens be td a rk n :i turi an e .d ri b e u an rat privateer, was between S t illy an ce carried ra k ite e tdh ( i 3 en a it l l oi l ec t ii t oor ti e..i Il c a -e . rn e r 0 , from Strivrtia.to londool ',,1 The Sou t hampton, ----,? is Thomas Jefferson, lost near the 'IlaY 0 1 - 1 "“ ' __ ,„,..,,s. far I " 1 .ir, ' hi t ), : Vp1:11;::::., Hiller, - 1. i i: 1,. 4th i r iftu l a i r: S ßA. ru al: y bcY r i: n :a a :lg t le o L'll .I::inotvlci?::r'.6:. I P ) d i r :l ci:r: I: : t i rje:: : 'l:akc : ' On the 6tll she captured t ( l:e7t.7:li i x .e° , 'Cu:ire:en:l,4r: to:t }e l fin the Stn nit- near Cap, Pol ' '' • ier. P- 1 vateer. - `"; by the Ilabiole I. l ei , bus put into Portsmouth Win; d a ' n fon c i 'Plc. j ,,,, 7l: :::::, f — roni ,hiono d to Halifax, hai bgen lonely tusinasted, and arrived at Portornouth• :Paris` - .• • , • My ' I tan e l mention, t )a b ij ,“ neat liareli.er, intending ,to -Close his conecrns. .11 sent round circular letters to IMUICIVUS Louses 111 5/ Paris and elsewhere,' in , 1 : indicative of such a ilel and from this circumstance a story has becn '':f vented, that all the Banktrs and Alerchaa t6 - : o . . ,Paris had shut up shop, and had apprized th friends and curtoiners that their commercial c l l.) ; ga gententv would- be wholly suspended u ntil t! .% retrn of .' is true, however, that 11 1 "" t ' the stoppug p e eace of the lt rwaill ro and -from every Po, 1, of Europe, the French traders have heen in ,_'' distress, and the pressure has been auguientel.uri a stagnation of internal business: This situat l ' il • L ha o s n p o r o o n d , u ( c ir e a d w l l h i e o d n ith o u u i s w es ur i i n ng ra o r f i s i t : iti ‘ g c h h il y ls es fe° te l r , day were received back again to a very able amount. , . .' runt By inforMation from Fran4e, of a verY ~,, date, received by the last' cartel.from`Morlai , - :::he learn that the conscripts are all proceedws ~-„ed, army ; but hefore.their departure they res(" tabu and in thellarish of Jas endeavoured killed the M a Y °r ' considcr. endeavoured to eraforce contplit •crtr LONDON • Printe,i '3. 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