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WESTMINSTER ELECTIOM 10, consequence of excessive and wilful misrepre sentations of the Speech of Mr. Paull. at the West minster Meeting, a friend of that Gentleman, who was present, and took notes, pledgee himself, that before proposing Sir Phascis Burdett, Mr. Paull delivered himself very nelilj as follows : Mr. Poo to. said, that ifilies with the utmost in dignation he had heard of the unwarrantable and disgraceful compromise of the Committee in whom the Eledors of Westminster had reposed the sacred trust of seleCting some independent person to succeed the great and the ever-to-be-lamented Fox. They had given up the very object for which they were chows ;• and, after a series of the onost shameful tricks (which had been most ably exposed by Mr. Gib bons.) they cams forward, in defiance of the express vote of the F.leeors, and had dared to pro pose the very man who was expressly and positively rejected. They bad been direiteil to find a Can didate to oppose i.ord Percy, instead of which they came forward, and recommended Lord Percy. He trusted, however, that the Bleetors, by their vote this day. would shew their detestation of such con do/I ; he trusted they would convince them, that they would never be the willing dupes of any jug gling compromise, for the surrender of their rights and liberties. It was now obvious to every body, that West /tails/tar had been most basely ' and scandalously bargained for; but he trusted, that, by an all powerful effort, they would prove, that no man, though nominated by die great family of Grenville, supported by the mighty house of Northumberland, and backed by all the weight of the Ministry, should ever be forced upon them as their Representative. Hitherto they had prided themselves, and justly too, upon their independent spirit ; and he was sure they would not now allow this presumptuous young Percy to walk over the course without a competitor. What ! shall this great and imperial city receive. from the hands of the Grenvilles, a creature of their owe, as its representative? However, until dire and positive censure was proposed and carried against those men who had violated their trust, it was in vain to proceed. Mr. Paull then proposed the Resolutions of censure, which having passed unanimously, he said, the censure • being now declared. (and, he trusted, it would cps ste beneficially,) he same to the °byline °hied of the Meeting— • a fit and promo Representative to succeed Ole. Fox. Are the 10Am:of Westminster to be told. that this young man, Lord Percy, of whose political life they know nothing, except that he has come into rarliasstent under the favour of the Ministers of the day, is a fit and proper successor for the immortal Mr. Fox ? lie trusted that they svotOd never cast so foul and so infamous a slander upon his revered memory, and that they wou'l never so degrade themselves in the eyes of the world, as to suhmit to such a proposition. They had been told that no man could ever he found wor thy of succeeding him whom they had lost ; but Le would not allow such an iraputatioq upon the tattoos, the spirit, and the patriotism of the country. as to admit there was no man fit to be the Representative of Westminster. There writ, thank God, many great men left ; and why should they all be passed over, that we might come down to Lord Percy .! Will it be asserted, that Lord Percy is so far superior to Mr. Sheridan, as to render it pre sumption in that Gentleman to oppose him ? Yet we all know that Mr. Sheridan thought it prudent to give way, where his own claims, and our wishes, gave him a right to be firm. But, though Mr. She ridan, yielding to mesons which we must All la ment. and which many men still condemn, has de. eLnad the contest, let not the enemies to the inde pendence of WeACDIUSttr suppose, that it was to be Sella, given given up, because one man, however With his charafter, diet not choose to stand forth as its champion. It was his (Mr. P.'s) intention, now to sante to them a man, wbo he was sum would meet with their unanimous approbation ; it was Sir Francis Burdett, a man dear to the Friends of Free dom, dens to the people of England. and dear to the brave. the good, and the patriotic, in every part of the world ; a man whom he considered as best calculated to maintain and defend the rights and the independence, not only of the city of Westminster, but of all who glory in the name of Briton ; who, before every other man living, be thought worthy to be the successor of Mr. Fox He had beard it asserted, that Sir Francis would certainly decline standing a candidate tor any other 'deco than Middlesex ; but he could not, he would oco beOeve, that impressed, as Sir Francis must be. with the danger of this momentous crisis, Wham every thing dear to us as Englishmen, and as men, was in danger. he could refuse to comply with the call of the city of Westminster. If, how ever, contrary to his hopes, and to the hopes of all who heard him. Sir Francis should feel himself so bound to the Electors of Middlesex, as to decline she suffrages of Westminstet, he would then pro pose s gentleman who had ever followed the steps of that great and revered man. Mr. Fox ; who had, at an times, and under all circumstances, been use of his best and most faithful friends ; who had suf. feted with him in the talkse of liberty and independ ence; who had been ready to sacrifice his life upm the scatfald with that great and good man, in behalf of the principles which he supported ; who, in times which tried men's souls, had richly stood forward as the solvocate of persecuted patriotism ; and whose very name was at this day the tarot' of every tyrant in the British dcmiaioas. He =want the Right tits.' John Philp t Curran.—To such men as those it was that the country must look for its salvation ; • and, before such men. Lord Percy would shrink into imbecility and uu %Pithiness lie meant r.otLirg personal against Lord Percy. He knew nothing of his private charaaer; lie had heard, and he hei+tveJ, that it was in gym respect unimpeachable. He knew him only as a man standing forward tor pub lic employment; as such. he had examine.: his • pretensions ; and, in toe language of a f l oe and honest moo he a-served, ilia' he was unworthy of the support of the Elettors of the great city of W.:so minster. ‘Vhat arc the claims of Lord Percy ? He is the son sit oiie of the richest and most powerful Dukes in Kngland ; and. is the tours: of a few rats, will. in ail probability, be soch a Duke himself ; but, is that any season oity he should be eletted as the tepreselastiye of Vilest- Minster in the House of Commons ? He is also an accomplished amiable young man; but are there no such mess who possess also patriotism and talents, without which, private virtues are but a slender recommendation for a public wan ? He has also another claim, founded upon the teen tation of his family : but what has the family of Northumberland ever done for the welfare, for the happiness, the freedom, or the glory of England ? What, he asked, has Lord Percy done, to entiile him to the suffrages of the people of Westminster ; of the supporters of Mr. Fox ? His father, the Duke of Northumberland (by one of the abuses of our Constitution), sends six Members to the House of Commons. Ho could as well have brought Lord Percy into Parliament, as any of those he sends.— But, no; Monier to leave no doubt in the minds of any one, of the political principles of this boasted family of Northumberland, they condescend to ac cept, for their son and heir, a borough belonging to the family of Grenville; and Lord Percy thus come into Parliament, under the patronage, and by the favour, of the Minister. Every one who knows any thing of the House of Commons, knows, that coming in that manner, Lord Percy could be regarded only as the tool and creature of the Minister; and that he must have aged in striel conformity with his wishes, be they what they might. And who, he asked, is this Minister Lord Grenville; the cou sin, the friend, the admirer of Mr. Pitt. And will the free Electors of Westminster, he again asked, condescend to accept a Representative from the bands of Lord Grenville ? No ; he trusted there would not be so foul, so black a stain upon the ho nour and the integrity of the Independent EleFlors of Westminster. To the Grenvillei, he said, the country was indebted for twenty-five years unquali fied reprobation of every noble, generous, and pa triotic opinion, maintained by Mr. Fox, and ap proved of by the F.leetors of Westminster, and the people of England. To the Grenvilles the coun try was indebted for twenty years active labour in the service of Mr: Pitt ; for having assisted him in all his attempts against the liberties and rights of the people; for having supported him during the whole of a long, eapensive, unnecessary, ill-con cluded, and bloody War ; for having participated in all the seas which drove Mr. Fox into exile ; for ad vising His Majesty to erase his name from the list of the Privy Council; it is indebted to them for those ever-memorahle attack: upon the freedom of speech. and the liberty of the press, called the *neaten and Sedition A.(ls ; it is indebted to them for the suspension of the dateas Corps! Bill, for the State Theis, and Coldba h fields Prison ; it is in debted to them for attempting to semen public offenders ; for not voting against their friend, Lord Melville; and for the most a:lamella ieks to pre vent the trial of the Marquis Wellesley, whota he openly prow els ; it is indebted to them for doubling the Income.,Taz ; for attempting to tax private brewing ; for bringing the Lord Chief Justice into the Cabinet ; and. what is most shameful in a Mi nister, it is indebted ro Lord Grenville for fattening his whole family with pensions, sinecures, and sa laries, taken from the labour and sweat of the poor ; for holding, himtelf, an enormous sine cure, a pension, and a safety ; and. at the same time, for lases to legalise all this rapacity.... Such are the men who brought Lord Percy into Parliament ; and such are the measures n Inch ha would have been bound to support. A.d it it a suppd•rter of such measures that the Elecots of Westminster will chose foe their Representative is it from such men that they will receive a candi date? and is it sub a man that they put into the place of Mr. Fox t No ; he trusted it was not. He trusted that there was spit, freedom, and independ ence enough in Westminster to prevent it. He trusted they would never be the slaves of any fa. moiy, however great, nor the crew urea re any Mt- Mary, however powerlul. He trusted they would TOSS! themselves, and, with the energy cif freemen, spurn, with disdain, the cuains which were offered them. He was not one of these, he said, who would stir , up a fatlion against the government of the coun try, but he world, at the irk of his fortune, and at ' the hazard of his life, stand up for its independence, nor would he ever tamely suffer the Mi. tAty, no, nor the Crown itself, to trample upon the rights and freedom of the Eleaors of Westminster. He loved, revered, and adored, the memory and the principles of Mr. Foe, and he would always do his tnnso,t to defend the Constitution of the country against all in croachments, whether regal, aristocratical. or demo cratical. He had gone into Parliament an inde pendent man, and had attached himself to Mr. Foe, from a conviaion of the greatness of his talents, and the purity of his views. He thought the name of shouid now be cast into oblivion, and that ali who wee attached to the principles of liberty, should range themselves under the name of that great man. It the Eleflors of Westminster were still tree to these principles, as be was fully convinced they were, let them give the woad one proof of their fidelity, by ele.:liog a Fosite. In Sir Francis Burdett they saw that man. If they desired a Re form in Parliament, a retrenchment in the public ex penditure, a diminution of the public turthens, an improvement in the public morals, a redress of the great and crying grievances *miler which they la boured, if they wished for the yreservavon of those rights and liberties which had d.scended to them from their ancestors, and which it was their duty to transient, unimpaired, to their posterity, let thein choose SIT ;niacin Burdett, Or Mr. Conan. But it was not mania, he said, merely to call upon such patriots to stand fo7ward. ft was out of the power of any n an in England to stand against the conj oint influence of the Lirenvilles, the NorthumSerinds, and the Ministry. A subscription should imme dia:ely be entered into by the whole body of the E . -fakirs, for meeting every ezpence which m ght be incurred in maintaining the freedom of the city: every individual should tie call d upon tocentribute his mite and in so glorious a cause, lie was con vinced that nothing would be spared. If one grand effort were not matte, mdiet: to the freedom of this great and imocri..: city! Adicti to that esalted the raefer to: pabli: spirit, whit's the Lieaors have long maintained througairut Earope; Westminster will then be no nio-e than a family borough for the Northontherlands and the Grenvilks. Ele.l Lord Percy now, and nnthirg will remain to complete the hcaourabie woe ft. but to bring io Lord Elwin s o as h,- z.alleague, at the Geh=at aectiou. WESTMINSTER ELECTION. Minster in the Hou an accomplished at Its consequence of esiessive and wilful mitrepre. there no such men sentations of the Speech of Mr. Paull. at the West- and talents, withou nsinster Meeting, a tricod of that Gentleman, who but a slender recomi was present, and took notes, pledges himself, that He has also another c before proposing Sir Phiscis Burdett, Mr. Paull tatinn of his family delivered himself very nebilj . as fellows : Northumberland eve Mr. Pau Lt. said, that ifieas with the utmost in- happiness, the freed° dignation he had heard of the unwarrantable and What, he asked, ha disgraceful compromise of the Committee in whom him to the suffrages the Eledors of Westminster had reposed the sacred of the supporters trust of seleding some independent person to succeed Duke of Northumbe; the great and the ever-to-be-lamented Fox. They had our Constitution), st given up the very (skied for which they were chosen ;. of Commons. Ho et and, after a series of the,most shameful tricks Percy into Parliamet (which had been most ably exposed by Mr. Gib. But, no ; in order to bons.) they cams forward, in defiance of the any one. of the poll express vote of the Eleitors, and had dared to pro- family of or thumb pease the very man who was expressly and positively cept, for th N eir son ar rejeded. They bad been direited to find a Can- the family of Grenvi dictate to oppose Lord Percy, instead of which they into Parliament, um came forward, and recommended Lord Percy. He favour, of the Minis; trusted, however, that the Eleetors, by their vote thing of the House o this day. would shew their detestation of such con- in that manner, Lot. dad ;he trusted they would convince them, that as the tool and creat they would never be the willing dupes of any jug- he must have aeted gliag compromise, for the surrender of their rights wishes, be they whi and liberties. asked, is this Minist It was now obvious to every body, that Weer. sin, the friend, the ; eilairaater had been most basely ' and scandalously the free Electors of bargained for; but he trusted, that, by an all- condescend to ace powerful effort, they would prove, that no man, hands of Lord Gt though nominated by the great family of Grenville, would not be so feu supported by the mighty house of Northumberland, nour and the integr and backed by all the weight of the Ministry, should of Westminster. ever be forced upon them as their Representative. country was intiebti Hitherto they had prided themselves, and justly too, fled reprobation of upon their independent spirit ; and he was sure they triotic opinion. mai would not now allow this presumptuous young proved of by the I Percy to walk over the course without a competitor. ,people of England What ! shall this great and imperial city receive, try was indebted ft frons the hands of the Grenvilles, a creature of their the service of Mr: owe, as its representative? However, until direct all his attempts ag and positive censure was proposed and carried the people; for ha; against those men who had violated their trust, it whole of a lone, was in vain to proceed. doded, and bloody Mr. Paull then proposed the Resolutions of all t h e ads which d censure, which having passed unanimously, he wising His Majesty said, the censure • being now declared. (and, of the Privy Count be trusted, it would eye ate beneficially,) he those ever-memora same to the denims objed of the Meeting— speech. and the 1 • a fit and propel: Representative to succeed Mr. Treason and Sediti Fox. Are the Bletiors of Westminster to be told, for the suspension that this young man, Lord Percy, of whose State Trials, and political life they know nothing, except that debted to them 1 he has come into Oarliament under the favour of the offenders ; for not Ministers of the day, is a fit and proper successor for Melville ; and for the immortal Mr. Fox' lie trusted that they would vent the trial of t.l never cast so foul and so infamous a slander upon openly pro.. els ;it his revered memory, and that they wou:d never so the Income.,Taz degrade themselves in the eyes of the world, as brewing ; for lanai to submit to such a proposition. They had the Cabinet ; and, been told that no man could ever he found wor. nester, it is indebte thy of succeeding him whom they had lost ; but his whole family be would not allow such an imputatioq upon laries, taken from the taints, the spirit, and the patriotism of the poor ; for holdir country. as to admit there was no man fit to cure, a pension. be the Representative of Westminster. There were, time+ for laws t thank God, many great men left ; and why should Such are the me they all be passed over, that we might come down to Parliament ; and Lord Percy .! Will it be asserted, that Lord Percy ha would have I is so far superior to Mr. Sheridan, as to render it pre- it a supporter of suatption in that Gentleman to oppose hint ? Yet we of Westminster w all know that Mr. Sheridan thought it prudent to is it from such mu give way, where his own claims, and our wishes, date ? a n d is it o 9 . gave him a right to be firm. But, though Mr. She- Place of Mr. Fox ridan. yielding to mesons - which we must All la. trusted that there meat. and which many men *ill condemn, has de- once enough in dined the contest, let not the enemies to the Md.- trusted they wou pendence of Westminster suppose, that it was to be niiiy, however gi tamely given given up, because one man, however Mary. however p high his charafter, dill not choose to stand forth as its rouse themselves, ehampicia. It was his (Mv. P.'s) intention, now to Torn, with distill name to them a man, who he was sum would meet them. with their unanimous approbation ;it was Sir He was 5505 22114 Francis Burdett, a man dear to the Friends of Free- up a fadiena age dem, deaf to the people of England. and dear to try. but he world the brave. the good, and the patriotic, in every the hazard of his part of the wortl ; a man whom he considered as nor would he evi best calculated to maintain and defend the rights nor the Crown itt and the independence, not only of the city of freedom of the E Westminster, but of all who glory in the name revered, and ado! of Briton ; who, before every other man living, of Mr. Fox, and be thought worthy to be the successor of Mr. defend the Consti Fox He had beard it asserted, that Sir Francis croachmento wh; would certainly decline standing a candidate for any erotical. He lo other place than Middlesex ; bet he could not, he pendent man, an would I.m be:ove, that impressed, as Sir Francis from a convidien must be, with the danger of this momentous crisis, the purity of dourh when every thing dear to us as Englishmen, and as Ch p ur i ty u man, was in danger. he could refuse to comply who we.e attacht with the call of the city of Westminster. If, hire- range themselve rA.. all man. It the E WES MINS lER ELECTION. Through an error of the enpy, in the signature of Mr. Wal ker% letter, inserted in our Paper of Yesterday, the letters W.—ns. were inserted, instead of A—b—m. THE BRITISH PRESS. LOX DON, THURSDAY, oc:row C. Viscount Motarrn attended the Cabinet Coun cil, which sat on Tuesday at Viscount HOWICIL'S Office, when his Lordship received his final in structions, preparatory to his departure for the Court of Min. At a quarter past twelve yes terday, his Lordship set off, in his travelling car riage and four, from Devonshire House, accom panied by his Private Secretary, Mr. Ross, who was with Lord Gower', at St. PCtersburgh.—His Lordship and suite are expeaed to embark this day, at Yarmouth, for the Continent. It was reported, yesterday, that the Earl of I LAUDERDALE had applied for his passpons, with in tent to leave Paris ; but that they were refused by the French Government. It appears, indeed, strange, that his Lordship should voluntarily re main in that city after BONAPARTE and Tat.t.sv a•VD had left it. But not knowing the actual state of the negotiation, what arrangement may have been made with the French Commissioners who correspond direftly with the Earl of LavDEVDALZ, or the extent of their powers, we are not competent to say how far his Lordship owes it to his own dig nity to leave Paris. If his dignity were compro mised by the de! ty, it would, no doubt, be evidence that his stay was not voluntary ; hut, on the other hand, it may have been thought conducive to our interests, to protract the negotiation until the policy of Prussia bad taken a decisive turn. A numerous meeting of the Eleltors of Westmin ster is expelled at the Crown and Anchor Tamil, this day. We gave yesterday Mr. AVNITIMEAD'S letter declining the honour of representing the city of Westminster. In the front of our Paper of this day will be found the answers of Sir F. BURDETT and Mr. Cuaa•m, to the same effect, and the Ad dress of Mr. PAULL to the Eleftors, inviting an oppesition to Earl Plumy. Unless, however, a much mote eligible and independent Candidate can be fund titan Mr. Msooocas, the Barrister, we fancy the rights and liberties of the City of West minster may be wisely entrusted to his Lordship. The authenticity of the circular letter to the stye rat mantifitauring towns, purporting to be written by Sir Home Poestass, and pub:ished in all the Newspapers, has been questioned.---Such a com munication, made in such a way, certainly is net conformable to etiquttie.—lt was his duty to make it to the SICILtT ARY Of STATE for the Colonial De partment, and it would then remain with the latter to give it the necessary degree of publicity.—How ever, as it was generally supposed that the expe dition to Buenos Ayres was entirely of that Offi cer's own plAnning, without any communication with Governmmt, much weight WAS not attached to this departure from form. Ve fear that the terrible hurricane, lately expe rienced in the West Indies, has done much more !mischief than has been yet ascertained, and that dis tressing accounts of shipwreck may be daily exPed ed from that quarter. It appears to have com menced on the 19th of August, in the Leeward Islands, on which day it dispersed Sir Iticita ao STaacfrian's squadron, soon after it left Barbadoes. Of this squadron, the T.rritle, of 74 guns s-.d the Deride frigate, as we stated on Tuesday, arrived, on Saturday, at Plymouth, under jury masts. The Ac. Amiens, and the other ships also, suffered much da. mate at the sane time inaiiie Cewrediret, WU A 11, from Charleston, arrived at Liver p wl, spake, on the Bth September, His Maissrv's ship Manierse, (another of Sir llicsaao braacnas's squadron), bound to England under jury-mast topmast, in lat. 41. 11. N. loos. 5S NV. which she supplied with necessaries. No account has been received of any damage done upaa the two succeeding days, or whetner the hurricane had suffered any interminteir. But we find that, on the !tit, it dispersed the Ja maica Beet, and was felt at Charleston, in South America, as stated in the following extract from • Charleston Paper of the 23.1 of August : A tornado, little inferior to that sof September, 1841., commenced yesterday ateraies about two o'clock, and continued awaimusd the whole of the day ; it has done less injury as yet than the Sep tember gale, owing. it is 'apposed. to the wind being northerly. and the shipping and wharf, being shielded from its effeas by the houses in the city. We have not heard of aly damage sustained in the Lawn. except a few fences b:. lag blown down. and several trees torn np by the r o u es ; we regret we cannot give equally as favour- able as account of tie harb-or. Tat ships hal.-,es. Captain MANES ; 3n3 the li‘pe, eapt. HvNr, ait on shore at James's Island, and, it is fearet wili bilged. Tie ship ifei:e, at quarantine, is on shot* at Port Reef, and likely- to share the same fee.— Many other vessels are critically situated, ar,l inn vitably will be injured, should the wind shift weft. vourably." It appears also, that the squadfb: - ..s Sir JOHN BORLAsZ ‘VARRI3II and Admiral LeaumETS were upon the American same time, and, probably, within Three Gottenburgh Mails arrived ing. A letter from Gottenburgh, dated says : — 4 . By letters received from ' terday.' we learn that peace is conci this country and Prussia ; hut, as ' officially announced, the Prussia* in this harbour (the only one brought hostilities,) has not yet obtained her The Paris papers, to the Inch, any interest that we did not give endeavour to compensate for the , ant fads, political disquisitions situation of Prussia and France, in nine little more than the old ideas in Psi!wiser makes a severe attack Government. In answer to this is ed in the yearned de PEtripirt, of the condua of Prussia is viewed able light. The Angus does not which is right, but contents itself with remarking, that the real intentions of the Court of Berlin, mutt soon be disclosed, and that if war is to be the result, France, which has been labouring to consolidate peace, can have,po motive is concealing the cause, of the war. The Argue, however, in the P.m of the 20th, attacked the Prussian Government it terms no less severe than the Pathheide; and that the article in the Gore de PEerpare, afterwerte noticed by The Alms, appeared two or ti ree day. before Bow aaaaa left Paris for the army. The prices of the Funds, yesterday, scarcely ‘asi. ed from these of the preceding day. A Letter from Barbadoes, dated ith cf Attgtst, says :—General Boy at, the Commander-in-CL icy, was just about to set out on his long projected tow of all :he Islands, attended by the Chief Engiaeo, the Adjutant, and Quarter -Master-General, his pet. lunal Staff, and Dr. Katz, Inspeaoe of Hospitals. The Commander-in-Chief first visits Ttinidads nest Surinam, and it was eonjeaured that be mg* take a peep at the Spanish Main. General Almost has been removed to St. Kitt't. where he commands. General Neu se as commute at Surinam, and is at present Milt% Governer, if extremely popular. Yesterday a Court of Dire/trim was held at rte East India House, when Capt. Eastriits was sworn into the command of the ship 4darY4 Gardner, consigned to %lath as and Bengal. The times used for the undermentioned ships wet thus al•ered. viz.: The Pb. of Montrose, for St. Helena aid B e ngs!....Te ai,at die hush Nov.—sad to Gravesend 'ZSth el.tto...stay than thirty days—ti be in the Dorms dela Jaa. Ito?. Tb. Lord Duncan, for Mader and assegal.-.To be ainat init. Dile to Gravesend nth dr...star Were th irty der —to be in Pe Dow u. 4th I - abeam'', fr. The Ceylon, for noires area heimal.a.l4 the Lord Melo. bury, fro $l. Helena and Itenstal.-To be afloat tl.e Bth ism 1ti0;.,..A4 to Gravesend 231 ditto...stay there the!, days-'M be in the Moos 1.4 Marsh. The Court adjourned at six o'clock, till %Veda's. day nest. It is supposed that the If.',nhron and Nelderer4 of Hull, have bees captured at Davis's Straight', by a French frigate. The Sarah, NIA NU' I t LD, from Quebec, was cap turel on the 3d ult. and burnt. A Field °ricer, supposed to be Colonel Bast. roan, arrived, on Monday, at Plynritith, to mite dice the sailing of the transport' for mss, now in the Sound. with the 40th, 4561, 6,7,1, aid 95th, or Rifle Corp% oil board. , M r . .„ C°"• 110 , Ilisarids Messenger, is arrived ;a toe Fr drirrergra prctin. at Fahnonth, chAryed . nt dispatches tor • our Government. The toiLdwte; men of war were lying i.t the •I'agus, when tlis packet sailed :—Htlier*la, /of etwur. gi a rtrany, /oust, psarga4 and Keit. of the line, and P:1140 sloop of war. The EelJes'one, SAIMAA, from Quebec for Lon don, was captured on the 13th ult. in lat. 49. I% long. 15. 30. by the French frigates Revracie and `Spree, who took out the most valuable part or her cargo, being ail furs. Oa the 19th, she was ra-cap- Lured of Ca7e Finisterre. by His Majesty's Wei armed brig Celoe . os, and is arrived at Pay-mote°. The Reraache and Sweene were the two ttigatis which have been cruising off Greenland, and uteri on their return to France. On account of the easterly winds prevailing at some seasons of the year, by which many t ransports with troops, and other vessels homeward bi-Jr.ds a re kept o ff the Islands of Scilly, beating about in die tress fur want of provisions, for several weeks, it is said that a fleet of yiatiallers are to be laden 0J sent with salt provisions and oth-r necessaries, to . :.re landed at St. Malt's , one of the hian& of &wt. for the use of such shirt, vessels, and their cresvh may be °Wriest-I to take seater there, and ti• form hr'"l rat Prifettitroxe to be always kept up to ZtT tson quantity, in ease of necessity ; a roost sa.Mar? measure, as mans Imaucuard bound vessels hay been kept a lag :into in the Cnops bound the C.rart easterly wady and do not bear itwiy S..rily, ii.r lest their er•r.ts may not be , 1() 11 " th:re. and have tarn attired at Inyrucath it. a :cu. , pazative.7 state. :an coast about t. its range. yesterdpy rfl 7 ,ry dated the 1 Ith Is 4, oat Stralsunj, cep concluded betwees as it has not bees prize ship, icing ight in here Curt, / ter release." contain noth'r 7 1 yesterday. absence of imp)* Is upon the relativ e in which we retot in a new clefts. T s upon the Prussia lan article, publido the 22.1, in which in a less unfavez. pretend to etc,,le ft