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;tA ARRIVE —I Leeward latid, z Dubt 3 ,vetier!ord. r + 11 Duz—x Malta, S 'C N. 1/I'. 1) F. A T ? I, -0 1) rJ It, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1312. Toe .116 - aid sloop of Nar is arrived trt,in Paler mo, after a quick..passage of 24 days. She brings a GentlPrnan charged with important Di.; itches horn Lord WILLIAM i3EIVIINCK, WllO has been .4,point ed Captain-General of the Araiy of Sicil). Every thing, we understand, goes on in the best possible iii ntier. The tollowih i g let= has been received by this ressc: PALEADIO, JAN. 28. " I have much pleasure: in saying that affairs are a.lj-sted !o the saiisfa6tion of our Goveininent.— Lord W. BE.NTINCK has been indefatigable in this tedious affair. The banished Princes are recalled ; the Espoir sailed last night to bring them. Lord WM. BiNTINCIt is to have the disposal of the Sicilian army, .and a seat in Council, The Heredi- Lary Prince is appointed Lieutenant General, and is to command all their forces. This place is to be , garrisoned by British troops. The Achille is now at Metatzo, waiting to bring them here. The ad ditional tax levied on our mercantile goods is abo lished. "In the event of this Government not having yietled, we had .8000 troops ready to embark at Melatzo, anti by what I could see and learn, the Sicilians in general would have joined us. The Queen's influence is now over; as to the King, he tares nothing about State affairs. • The Prince of BELMONTE and another of the banished Princes are to have leading situations." We this morning received Cadiz Papers, from • which have made following ex•rads OFFICIAL DISPATCH FROM LORD IiFELLINGTON TO HIS EXCELLENCY HENRY 'WELLESLEY, HIS BRI TANNIC MAJESTY'S AN! ASSADOK AT CADIZ. " Gallegos, kn. 21, 181 z " " I have the honour tb transmit; by Brigadier ALAVA, a copy of ray Dispatch to the Secretary of State, giving an account of the taking of Ciudad Rodrigo. Brigadier ALAVA, who was with me during these operations, will Le able to add any de tails which I may have omitted. h entreat your Excellency to inform the Spanisheitsvernmeitt, how much I am indebted to this Officer, Marshal C. Dli ESPANOL, and' Don J. SANcaes-, for the fortu nate result ,of this operation. The inhabitants of Castile on this, and all other occasions, when I have had any communication with them, have shewo their detestation of the French yoke, and their wish to contribute, 'by allthe means in their power, to the route of the enemy. I have delivered up tilt. place, with all it contains, to Captain-Gene ral CASTANOS, who is in this part of the country. " P. S. I likewise inclose copies of my D.s. patches of - the 15th instant, and this date, to the Secretary of State." We have received the following extra& of a letter from one of the must enlightened, patriotic, and re spectable characters in America, . dated the 4th ult. • and we may venture to say, that the sentiments and opinions which it expresses are the same in every person in that Country who knows how to appre ciate its interests, and is anxious to promote them. The relations, between your Government and ours, are of a' complexion to confound the calcu lations of the wise, to vex the spirit of the upright, arid-to baffle the efforts of the honest. and. Indus- trious. Our democratic Administration, inoculated • with the Jefferson mania, has contrived to impress on the American character abroadt disgrace, and 0 • con tempt, and On the nation at home' one wide-spread scene of distress. The nation is almost beggared and.uadone. Our Wreasury empty, our specie flying aimed, our seamen scattered, our ships rotting, our produce a drug, our merchants bankrupts, our trades men drivelling kir a precarions subsisience.—l shod der at the, prospect of what is before us. Instead 'of that open, manly, impartial and resolute nturrality, instituted and maintained at the cannon's mouth by the immortal WASHINGTON, we have a system of sly' intriguing policy ; of measures insidiously in 'solved, shifted w and shuffled, according as a battle in Europe is gained or lost a double-deal ing diplomacy, full of Manoeuvres and dilatory ex pedients to serve from three months to three mouths —just to keep up the popularity of our Rulers, and to secure their interests at our often-recurring Elec tions.* To what end we shall at last be led, G9O, who lengthens out the chain of the Tyrant of Europe, and lets loose the dark Spirits which brood over our tlestiriles, alone can tell. is it our only consolation, that we are in his hands, and that be can, when he pleases, make " the wrath of man to praisC him," restrain t le rest. The great struggle you are making to save tht- fronn, the. fangs of. the - Niainser, cannot but .be.at:ended with the hearly good , wishe's of every friend to'hurnanity and the in d,:yetidence, of. nations. If Spaniards would - be true to themselves, and Lanish their vile jeolousy and st-if-sufficiency, and discard from their Couneils‘their ignor:mt qrandees,_aod adOpt in their sten(' the true men of talents and spt, it, I should hope very guiuely for then sUcce6s. _But it is to be feared tow. they will fail, at last, from those jarring coun cils, insufficient measures, and incompetent leaders, io whom the oat rut; se n erns.to be cornrnitted." Such, wene':ieve, is the.view in which every man of sense and, true patrioti.nm in Aim-Ilea beholds the con duct of its GiNerntnent, and that of this country.-- We are glad to find, that the grounds of tar with which the Author regards the state of 4pain, are, in a great degree, altered by the late Changes in the Go►:ernmtut of that country, but we insert the whole paitiage, that the Spanish Rulers may know the opinions ,of those, who, by judgment, and by distance, are able to relied and decide, without partiality. * What wit the'Buiz DETT 'TES sliy to this ? The following statement appeared in the Morning Chronicle of this day : • " We have this day to announce to our readers a most curious resolution agreed to by the Ministers of the PRINCE REGENT, and• which, after all that has recently happened, will be received by the public with no little - .surprise. We understand it is resolved, 'that the Roman Catholic claims shall no longer be treated of or discussed in the Cabinet ; but every Member is to be left to ael on them as he pleases,' without consulting with Ins Colleagues, or r eg a r di ng the r epeal o r refusal as a Measure of Govermnpnt. The . course wiiich Mr. PITT pursued on the question of the Slave Trade • is to be the course to be taken, on this, though .they arc so materially different in their charac ter. The Slave 'Trade was a question of Na tional morality, and of . Christian feeling, but it was not a matter Of vital impOrtance either to,the se curity of the State, or the existeoce.of the Establish ed Church. The repeal of the disabilities - on the Roman C... eolics of Ireland is on pith sides declared obe of vital odportance. And both Lords . 11EY and GRENVILLS on 0 ,, e side, and Mr. PERCEVAL on the other, have m ide solemn declarations to that effect. It was the sine qua non in the formation of • a new Ministry—hut the moment that 'that job - is served, it eeases.to be of any importance, as a 772i nisteria1 question.• Mr. PEItCEVAL gives up the high church parry as a .Minis ter, and proieises them his support only as a man' The above statement is inaccurate; no alteration has taken place, we believe, in the sentiments of Government upon this subjeCt ; .but it is true that the question is to be'considered as an open one to those whir may. take a share in the Administration, and who have heretofore pledged themselves to a necessity of the repeal of the remaining laws in force against the Roman Catholics. The Govern ment certainly do not think. it right to .refuse the assistance of any person in office who may agree with them upon their general system of policy, merely because he may differ from them in opinion upon the Catholic question." To this extente there fore, and no further, the_question,is to be consider ed as an open one. WiNnsort; FEB. 23.—The Queen's Council did not meet lx,terday. Earl WIN'C H ELSi:A arrived here on Friday, and proceeded to 'wake arrangements in his new office as Comptroller General tit the Household. Colonel STtNIENsoN , is to A6rtlllder tutu, and Lord JOHN 1:1.1 N N 13, the Vice•Coinoiroller. Earl WINCHELSEA left Windsor this afternoon, soon after three o'clock. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE arrived this morning. The following Bulletin was yesterday shewn at Bt. James's Palace • ~ Windsor Castle, Feb. 22. " His MAJESTY continues nearly in tliti same state." " M. 11AI 1.1.1 E. " I. I,VI " On Thursday last his Royal Righness the PRINCE :REGENT sent one of the vacant Blue Ribbons •to Dublin to his Grace the Duke of RictimoNn,. On Thursday the Earl of LIVERVOOL received the Seals from the PRINCE REGENT as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. On Saturday the Noble Earl held a levee for all the Foreign Ministers in this country at two o'clock. His Lot dship and their Excellencies were dressed in full Court dresses. Lord CASTLEREAGH was Closeted with Mr. Pali- CEVAL, at his house in Downing -street, nearly the whole of Thtir'sday morning they were so closely engaged that Eerl BATHURST and Mr. Ruse could not proc:re an interview with the Minister. On Friday. the Duke of NORFOLK had an audience of the Paince REGENT. Yesterday Mr..PßacavAL had an audience of the PRINCE REGENT. On Friday Viscount SIDMOUTH had an interview with Earl CAMDEN; at his house in Arlington street. On Saturday Earl CAMDEN had an interview with Mr. PVICEVAL, at his house in Downing-street, for upwards of an hour and a half. The Princess CHARLOTTE of _Nriar i p made ,her entrance into public life; tor the first time, OD Sa turday last, at the• King's Theatre. dined with the .Duclie-s of YOLIK, 'i , i - ho - accompanietkt.er to the Opera. Shf- was attended in' her box by. the Dukes Yoait and CAMBI.ID6P , t e Lords LAu- DERikkt.. E, K6.t.Tui and ERSKINE, Cd!. BLUDNIVIKLD, and Mr. SHERIDAN. It was gratifying to the impression , which the novelty of :he scene upon the mind of the young Ptificess, who seenie.i to be all life and spirits during the ,A hole enteitlin ment, except where it was calculated to excite a more serious interest. The audience' appeared ro observe the young Princess with peculir attention and pleasure. Some more American Papers were received on Saturday. The Indians haVe commenced hostilities against the Uniteci States in various parts. A body of 400 had encamped at the mouth of Cumbedand River, on the north of the Ohici, and had taken and destroyed thirteen flat-bottomed boats, and kilted every man on board, excepting two. Troops wet e assembling under the command of Colonel Cooke, of . Tenesse, to attack them. it was also rumoured, that the Cherokees had driven in the troops em ployed in cutting the roads in the southern partfrof the Mississippi territory, and that thirteen of the soldiers were slain in the conflitt. The allies of the Wabash Indians had applied.for peace to Governor HARRISON; who required, as a pretiMinary to the, negociation, that the Prophet and his principal fol lowers, should be delivered up—a request, whiCh, it was believed, would be complied wttli. A letter from a distinguished Officer in our army, dated Fuentes d'Onore, 26th ult. says, " NlsamoNT was at Salanianca when we took Ciudad Rodrigo.— Finding he was too late, and that' to tight us oiler we had got it might make bad worse, he retired again 'to Valladolid. We shall remain here a few. days, to ascertain that he is too far off to return again, and our division will then ,rnarch - ,off to Abrantes. Our next operation will be the siege of Badajoz. Major NAPIER it doing well." Very great activity preyails in the Russian dock yards in building and . equipping vessels of war-- several Ukases have been published for the transport of carpenters and their families, from the interior of ,the Empire; a ship of the line, and a : 36-gun frigate, 'were launched at Nistolaiew in December: Mr. PINCKNEY, late Minister to' Grrat Britain, has been appointd, by the President, Atiorney- General of the United States, vice RonNEY, resign ed.. P. has resigned his seat in the House of Representatives. • • NOTTINGIIAN, FEB. 21.--.11 is with tlitiCh pain that we have. to renew our weekly list: of broken fratnes.—This morning, about five o'clock, a num her of men entered ih.at the chamber inflow of Mr. Harvey, West -street, Broad lane, in" tiiis town, ind while some of thernlecured the faMily, others proceeded into the work-shop, and deniolislied five warp lace frames, which were employed in making two-course-hok net : they were all very valuable frames, and 1;:ie of 'them was 79 inches vk ide; and. what is worthy of remark, Mr. Harvey had, a short time ago, removed - from -new Radford to this town, as a place oT safety. Two (carves were : left unbroken; apd it is supp os ed th e y were 9.1 V, d through a neighbouring woman calling out " Murder," and who had a pistol discharged'at her to make her cease her noise. Mr. H. had two loaded pistols and a blunderbuss in his house, the former of which ;he frante-breakers took away ; and as they were de scending from the window, it was thought by per sons who saw them that the nightly - wai re ceiving 'them to conduct them to prison ; but it turned out to be about 25 of their companions, arm ed and dressed in soldiers great-coats, Poe of..whom was dignified,with, a large staff, and it' ii'supposed he was the commander of the' party. On Monday morning frv,e men entered the hOuse of F.dwJrcl Or son, of Stanton, in Derbyshire; -and .broke one nar tpw.cotton frame. NAVAL APPOINTmuNTS.- , —Captail4 Peter Fisher, of the Prince Frederick, is appointed to the Meteor stoop, at Plymouth ; Captain Fellowes to the Fawn, 20, at-Portsmouth; Captain JoyCe, who had been cast away in the Manilla frigate, off the Te:kel, has been recrntly appointed to the Cossack, at . Wool wich ; captain Win. Shepheard, of the Comet, at Portsmouth, has. b,-!en promoted to the. rack of Post Captain,; and Captain George Blarney is appointed to the comtnand•of that Ship; Lieutenant Sir John Gordon - Sinclair; Bart. to the Diana frigate. PARLIAMENTARY NOTICES.—This day, Orders— Further Consider the Report otr Nollinjnim Watch and Ward Bill,- Comrnittee on Irish Population %Bill-Irish . Stills 13111, 2d.-Report on Prince Rege n t's Message, Lord Wellingtun -Report Supply-Committee of Supply--Com mittee 01 Ways arid Means -Irish Spirits WarehoUsing 2d.- Irish Court House Bill, zd.--teport Excheiluet Bills' Irrunthrl4 Bill-Report Expiring Laws Bill-Sugar Drawback Bill, 2d. No Private Bill to be read the first Time after this day. Notices--Mr. H. Martin,' Bill for Regulating the Office of the Registrar of the Court of Adniiralty and Deputy Remeni brancer of tht,Court of Exchequer, to assimilate them.i9 re ga'rd to the applicatiob of the Suitors' Money to the office of Accountant . General of the Court of Chancery-Mr. Rose, Bill for Prdseiving the. Keeping of Parish Registers. To-morrow (Notices)—Mr;DrurnmArd, Motion for Bill for better Protettion of the Public fr.rn the frauds , to which they are at present exposed by Bankers and others. -Mr. BrAigliam, Committee. on Owns- Mr. Bankes.'ithi. tion with regard to Mr. Walsh Order, Committee on Local Militia Bill. • Wednesday (Notice)—Mr. M. A. Taylor, Mo tion to Revive the Committee.to Inquire into the Causes in the House al Lords, and the Court of Chancery. .Thursd4y (Notices)—Sir Turtno, to move for a Committee to take into Consideration the State of the Na tion,—Mr: Creevey, Resolutions .relative to thd Four and Half per Cent West India Duties. Friday—Nil. . It was not Mr. COURTENAY, but Mr. GIPPS, WllO called Mr. HUTCHINSON to order on the third read ..ing of the Nottinghamshire Bill. Major-Generat WHEATLEY is removed from the . Kent District, and Appointed to-the Staff okhe Bri tish. Army in Portugal. . It is reported than - MERRY, Deputy Secre tary at War, is to retire on a pension, and that Mr. SULLIVAN, Lord PALMERSTON'S brother-in-law, is to succeed him. The King of DENMAUK has ordered that all the letters and papers found upon the Officers and sea men of the St. George, wrecked upon the Jutland coast; shall, after inspeaion by the proper Migis trates, be sealed, and transmitted to Copenhagen.' Our crui zers off Bartholomew have recently cap tured a number of vessels ) bringing sugar from Guadaloupe and Martinique, it being a contraband trade. Two of these vessels have been condemned at St. Bart holomew, and four at Tortola, SECOND EDITION. SLW-OFFICE. W e stop. the Pies to state; that there hays been a mutiny in, the IsLird of St. Helena, which threat cned the - most fatal ccnisNuences, .but which ihe vigilance and encrL4y Of the Gov.ll,o r hiap i .ily sop. Dresed. Theimutineers had seiz'ed-rI)QUt-inenant . Goverpor, - and kept If:in in ciistodi ; and it was alio their'intention to secure the Governor, ixho, ever,•iintnedi;if...iy assembled such of the troops , as he found weil-di , :posed,, and, after repelling the sunminned a Court-Martial Wiltid - U1 lay, and. six of theM,, who-were found guiltyy were" immediately executed. This prompt and vi gorous 'proceeding efleEtualUy restored the Island to tranquillity: The above intelligence was brought by the Ac tceon sloop, which has arrivediroin the Est Indies, and it reaches! the Admiralty this day about tw o o'clock. • -We are sorry to add, that a telegraphic •rnessnge frond' Plymouth was JeCeired at the Admiralty this day, announcing the death of Sir CkIARLES 6.irTdisr, Commander of the Channel fleet, who died sod denly yesterday morning at that place, NAVAL NEWS Y . MOIHII, FEB. 21.--:-Arrived a few transports from Comma, tame under convoy of his Majeciy't ship Surzreillarrte, of 38 guns, Capt.. Sir G.,CoL LI ER, that arrived here yesterday from .thence.— Also arrived the brig Spring, DOBBIN S master, from Corunna, with a cargo consisting of cotton, and log wood, bound to 'London, put in here to wait Convoy. But back last night, by contrary, winds and Brormy weather, the Tonnant man of war, Capt . Sir JOHN dOLE, and the 4rmide . frigate, Capt. MI NN i d both sailed from hence yesterday morning, tLe former to blockade Brest, and the latter on a cruize off the coast of Fran Le. 'FEB. 22.—1 t has blown a gale from the westward and south-west for roan} , day.; past,,b,,t thu ship ping at this port have not received any nu e rial mo'ge. A bc;at belonging to the : ikinetlean brill Paulina, (FIELDS maser, lately wind here \ fruits Chalieston; with a cargo); was u;:set th;s' mo i:ing in the Sout:fi by a heavy sea, and a wan cafue'i SA. Mum.% ELBY, a Custom-house r, PS The.boat's crew were saved,- but \A/oil -great catty-; one of them was rich bruised by being dashed on the, rocks, and his arm broi-(11. Tiic unfoi,,:nat- man who pet-Ist:ea Ictt a P.d five children to Arrtved ti):. Ocean, SAUNDERS, from Po; tstnouth' and the Friendship, WHARTON , from Sunderland, with a cargo of coals for this p( rt. The transports that arrived here yesterday from. Corunna, under convoy of the Surveil/ante tripte, hare on board 300 deserters flona the French armks in Spain. By private letters froth .Corunna, dated the 17th inst., we learn that. Asturias kA as entirely evacuated by the enemy, and several prisoners, sitagglers and others, from the corps of BONNET, had been' Wien and sent into Corunna by General PORLIER. Four regiments are 'equipping, and clohing at Corunna, under the immediate inspection of Sir H. DOUGLAS. The enemy inCastile and Leon were.much in want of provisions, and fresh contributions had been ex-• torted by General DoRsENNE previous to his quit ting Valladolid. Ciudad Rodrigo is repairing, al d Will be made sufficiently strong to resist for a time any attempt from the enemy, should Lord WEL.. LINGTON move to the southward. The British Ar my is rapidly recovering in health. The Surveil. !date, Sytille; and Spitfire, cruized in company in chase of the French squadron that had chased the former ship. The ilde/mhpus and Amazon frigates have been put out of commission at this port. At rived the Polage, and Helicon sloops of" war from a cruize and •the Allion cutter from Ei tq ue Roads. • - • Put back by stormy weather, The Favourite shoo? of wars and the Eliza and Jane and .N(ptune (2) tenders. I , PORTSI4O6I.II, FEB. 23.—ArriveLi his Majesty's ship Romulus from Lisbon, with dispateh s , and the Herald snoop of war from tile INleditrtranean. Al o arrived the Porcupine, Partridge, Goshawk, and North Star, from a cruise; Sailed the Peacock, with a eonvoy, for the Dow is. DEAL, FRB. 22.—His Majesty's, ship Warrior, and Lcdy Carrington Indiawan, are ?gain put hack to the DOwris by the violence of the-gale, which'we have experienced the whole of this day .tronf tho ; the .Atnericans sloop Jenny, MY ens, for Opor•:o, has /lost an anchor and cable, which is the , only ship Oat has suffered during the gale ; several ships have drove considerably without doing . or re!, ceiving any clarnagt. .