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inhabitants had left the place, all nieecha►it g00c4., Were long before sent away, and there was nothing more left him to takel EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM ST. PETERSZURGII, DATED , SEPT. 23 Bad news always spreads much faster than the good. The enemy has not omitted publishing_ his entry into Moscow as ‘ a conquest, or a glorious victory ; I therefore hast4lf to correct that fact, and inform you of it as it actually stands, Moscow Was given up after holding a Council of war, at which only one General was of opinion, that the capital ought to be defended ; all the others Were unanimous that it could not hold out. From the 13th to the 14th of September the Prince KUTOy SoFF took his position four werSts behind Moscow for • the purpose of covering.'the roads to Riozau and Tula, and on the 15th'the, enemy entered the city witho u t any oppO,it ion, and must have been astonished at finding it gaite empty and deserted, Immediately., after his entry, he hastened to make proposals for'Peace Prince EUTUSOFF replied, "3171itherto it has been your share to act offensively ; it now comes to our turn to d0 . ,50." -The enemy will find but few re 7. sources in Moscow ; numbers of the inhabi tants having left the city after the affair at Smolensk°, and en the.9th, 19th, 11th, and 12th. September, every thing was canied off and gone from thence. The provisions for the armed people iii Moscow, were all in boats, ready to • depart at the first signal. As the enemy will find no pro visions there, .he will in a very short time be forced to depart from thence,•and engage an army which has been for some days 'past drawn up in order 'of battle. The Courier who brought this intelligence met he Prince of SALANOFF'S corps on the 17th, tbout 30 wersts from Moscow ; it would conse luently already, on the 18th, have joined another arge army. Several other corps of troops either lave joined or are on the way to join Prince KU7u . whO, instead of exposing his army in defence of L city which is unfortified, and is 4 masts in cir 'utuference, preferred taking an advantageous po ition, in which he is daily strengthening Min elf. MS- army is equal, in strength to the nemy with regard to numbers, but' much supe ior to him considering- 'the courage wherewith t is animated. The armed population of Moscow, ;0,000 men strong, marched out of that city with ;ount. Ros.Torsormi. We may expect matters of he:: greatest consequence, as MACD6NALD: was the greatest .basic to the Grad Army ; Vii-TGENs7T,IN and Essi,:; . W...; corps, which will be eplaced at Riga by other corps, will depart to act ly the way, of Witepsk, against Smolensk°, and from notho - side To RIVASOFF and TSCITITSCHAGOFF have , rders to act against the same point, whilst '3,000 men, under General SoEk.w, and 2 - 4,000 nen of the reserve, with the garrison of Bo- Iruisk, Which is twenty-six battalions strong, are o form another army, destined to act againA Vuscow by the way of Smolensk°. The Address Writerl continue to send their ontributions to the public prints, and therefore t is probable that some active Bookseller will eep a sharp look-out and publish them altoge her. They Will not indeed afford a test -ot he poetical genius,- of the country," as some eople have fondly expected, but they will at least roduce an amusing -miscellany, and be a proof of That can he' accomplished by our second, third, ad still lower order of metre-mongers. .. Whatever may be thought of Dr. BusßY'S efforts n behalf of his own and his Son's Address, he ertainly had reason for what he said, as to the onduct of the Committee in deviating from their %.kr u covenant, and accepting a composition that vas not presented to them till after the allotted line. Among the number of persons' who sent, addresses, we know that there were two Or three ;entlemen of acknowledged taste and talents, ad though they may have too much pride, or de . -- .eacy, to publish what has been rejected, it is ardly probable that none of their contributions ere entitled to the honour of recitation on the pening night. Winchester annual Fair Was held On Friday and aturday. The chew of sheep (for the sale of iiieh the first day is set apart) was considerable, isstly laMbs, which sold much lower than at the ite fairs; viz.—from 20s. to 245. from which rice a further reduction of 40s. per head took lace towards the close of the (lay. The spew of Orses, cif the cart breed, was good; but prices igh, colts selling from 40 to 50 guineas each ; lose of the nag kind were very few in number, ith dull sale. There was a great quantity of heese, the prime of which .went off briskly, from ss. to 100 s. per cwt.; ordinary Met with a dull ale, from 60s. to 80s 1 . per cwt. The stupendous 'weathercock on Chichester Ca hedral,, which, from not having traversed of late, he. Dean and Chapter had in contemplation to aiie taken down, was moved round by the late . ales, and it has traversed very-well even since. t is a singular circumstance, -that a: light4torse, ran, with his carbine, from the steps at the door. 'f the Adam. Inn, some years back, shot and truck the cock, which turned it The hi ,eut yemains, and may he seen with a good ;lass; the height of the spire qs 299 feet On Friday last a robbery was committed at tlie 'hatched House Tavern, St. bmeS's'-S-treet of i• hree m a gn ifi cen t can dl es ti c k s . Th e thief at, ,resent undiscovered. ..; ,\\y, BPANIsII PATEits. cAmr BEFORE BURGOS. SEPT. 21.—it 115 s .already been said, that Oh t'lle 10th, at night, the Enoo. took with the 'bayonet. the strong redoubt tb the north of the Cast!c ; but the circumstances which attended the capture,' and which 'will display the intrepid character ,of the assailants, are well ivorthy being noticed. Four hundred Portuguese, carrying scaling ladders, 'led the van, but on their arrival at the fosse they found the ladders were too . Short. They hesitated for a moment, but at. the same instant came up the famous brave Highlanders, who commenced the attack like lions, who locking their bayonets, were mounting by them, thus supplying the defect of the ladders. The result was, that they cut in pieces all they found within, with the exception of about, 40, td whom they gave quarter, which they earnestly implored - . / • , SEPT. 20.--Three pieces were sent into the re doubt that had been taken, also tim.ber, and other materials nece.-,ary for constructing a batterY: SEPT."22.—The enemy threw balls and hand-: grenades into the works at the redoubt, but did not prevent their continuation. SEPTEMBER 23.—At night the enemy kept up a lively and continued fire of howitzers, cannon, musketry, and hand grenades, which lasted five hours without intermission. According to all appearances, an assault was making; on the Castle with' scaling, so at least ve judged f:om the camp, though we could not brit Con demn what we conceived to be a very rash at, tempt ; but to-day we found that it was to cover a sally which the enemy had _endeavoured to make to procure water from some neighbouring wells, .but in which they did not succeed, but lost in the attack two pieces of cannon, and had many killed. The first regiment of Asturias, / which garrisoned the City, and opposed an intrepid resistance to the enemy also Suffered some loss. A flag of truce was to-day sent - to the Colonel of the enemy, inti mating that he r must abstain from firing upon and destroying the city, or expect the severest treat ment. A peasant, who in the attack to-nighthad contrived to escape4from it, and who had been employed in it, though much agNinst his inclina tion, to take care of the cattle, assures us that along with the Fren eh are many traitors, who throw them selves at their feet, and intreat them with tears, to listen to no capitulation, for there is great reason to hope that relief will soon arrive. Such • is the meanness to which the vile wretches who have conspired alinst their country can descend. The French treat them with the greatest contempt, and only use them well as far as it is conducive to their own views. The answer which BUONA:- PARTE gave at Madrid tot ove of his Marshals, blaming him for his excessive compliance with their applications for favour, is well known—" we must support.and humour them till ();,r work is done." It is notorious through the whole pro vince of :Burgos, that the degenerate Spaniards who follow.in the train of the French, are called by ,them the canai'lle, au honour weli deserved by those veali g and ignorant men who adhere to the maxims and tarty: of the Tyrant. SEPT. 2 1,---1 4 ighteen French. deserted to us. The,Erigli.dh have begun a covered waylrom the redoubt they have taken to the citadel. SEPT. 25.—it is said, that the fugitives in Pan, corbo are already besieged by the great Anglo Poriuguesedv iision, which went frdm hence after them; but this, wants confirmation. SErr. 26.—Those besieged are in great want of water. They have got some poor women, whom they let down over tho wall, t :a tving them four reals for every bucket full they bring theui. SEig 27.—The work of the covered way is continued, as is also the fire of the besieged. At night the Ist regiment of Asturias took a small. parapet, which the enemy had to the east of the Castle. ' SEPT. 28.—The covered *ay, was Completed, and from it a mine begun, which is carried on with the greatest activity, and, it is said, will be ready to .be biown till to-morrow. The enemy defend themselves with great obstinacy, though we know they suffer greatly from the scarcity of water; but all their resistance,' according to their situation and the state of our works, cannot con tinue more than four days. 4.—This morning at day-break ,a brisk ' fire of artillery was begun frotn'the English bat tery constructed in the redoubt, to which the enemy answered with corresponding briskness. Four mines are already charged, and prepared at the first word to throw down a great part of the wall that surrounds the height on which the cas tle stands, and according to appearances and the dispositions Made, they will, be blown up to night or in the morning, so that in a few days we shall be masters of the fortress. The inhabitants of the neighbouring country loOk up with enthu siasm to their deliverers, and onake every exertion to give assistance to the allied troops. LOGA, SUPT, 17.—We have had an action with Soult's rear-gnarl in the neighbourhood of this place ; killed -36, and taken 122 prisoners. forces consist of from 33 to 40,000 men. I a;11 persuaded that after Hill, Penne, Morella, the 2d division, the- expeditionary division, in combination with that from Majorca, which is al ready in Loria, battle will be given, because all the preparations arc of a bloody descriptiOn. BELMONT, 5ErT..12. 7 -The head-quarters of the 3d army, under General :Elio, are in this place. force consists 'of 6000 infantry and 1500 horse, under the - orders of Senor S. Juan, in conse quence of Senor Freyere's. absence at Madrid, and ten pieces of artillery, he has left in each of the Castles of Aquilas, Lorca, Caravaca, and Alcantirrilia, with 100 infantry, well supplied with. provisions. CADIZ, OCT. 3.—We have just received a dis patch from , Gen. Ballasteros, which states that Soult, with his troops, .were in Baza, without Making any plovements - 3 it, is said that General Ballasteros has received orders with his army to join. Ge;leral Hill, NVIIO will have marched from oledo. On, the 12th inst. an Inquest was held in Horn beach March, on the body of John Dallymore, a n Irish►nan. After an investigation into .the cir ctimstances of this, man's death, which occupied two days, a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against William Alderman was returned; and the Core ifer imMediately co►nniitted him to Lincoln gaol. NilinNir AT TAAVANCORE. EFIJeTHER FARTICULARS. fr.X.I'ACT OF A LE'T'TER FROM AN orricEA AT .W.JIL9N; To MS FRIEND AT MADI's kS ".0h:oole, .11 - A3' 30.—As you have !h'obablv heinei net vague rePorts Of What is goino • forward Travancore,". ',take:the libth tr, ,as it. may not prove uninteresting, of in ihrtiiing yOu of the dan get myself, and every European `Officer in uilon, have escaped. I must commence by telling you, that we have had, as State Prisoners, a Dewan of Travaamore, lately for some Misdemeanoiir deros ed ; also a man called the Pyche - Rajah.-, These together, by bribery, had corrupted a Native Of ficer of the 14th regiment of. infantry, and they engaged him 'to bring into their plans; the greatest part ofthe native troops of Quilon, and, I am sorry to say, in a great measure they,suh 7 ceeded. The ilajab, the prime instigator of the whole plot, proposed; that when sufficient num bers of sepoys came into their Views, to attempt the murder of all the European Cffieers - in the place, and to be accomplished in the following manner :—They bad heard that the 18th regiment were to_he reviewed on. a certain day,' and that every Officer in the cantonment, the Resident in- eluded, were' to dine at our Mess in the evenihg, The conspirators werehto fall upoU us -when as.: sembled, and to strike off the head, of .every cine When this horrible murder was accomplished, they were to remain ge-iet till morning, On the apj pearance of which, the drums were to beat to arms; and the three corps were to be thus disposed of— ' one was to march to the southern lines, another to the northern, and the third to the Arungbant Pass, for the purpose of preventing the mareh of troops into the country. Several battalions were also to be immediately raised, and by these means they expected to keep possession of Travancore. I must tell you, that to accomplish, the intended.. massacre, and to make it the more easy; the lines were to be fired ; and if the 6fficers left the mess- . house, which-they expected they would do, they intended to bayonet them as they came out.' " This abominable and atrocious design was .prevented, only by the absence-of one man, -who had promised to make his appearance with fifty associates. It was, two days after, found out by a sepoy, who overheard a few of the conspirators talking of the business, and lamenting why it was not accomplished, and appointing the next public party; which they expected would be on -the 4th of June, as the day of business. The Command ing Officer was informed of the whole by this man. The brigadh was immediately ordered out, for what purpose not an Officer knew. The native Officer above-mentioned was called to the front, with about 30 sepoys, by name; these were from the 14th regiment; and were immediately put in irons,- and sent to the main-guard. A Field Officer, one Captain,. and 2h-subalterns, were immediately or dered on duty, and it was then-that the Officers knew the extent of the danger they had providen - tinily escaped, hut never dreamed that more of the native troops were concerned. The folh4ing morn ing a Board of Officers was held, and a few sepoys turned King's evidence. They informed the Corn- • mitte,e of what I havealreadv told you, but did net implicate another person. It was thought strange that s,h _few should have the temerity, without other assistance, to attempt such a vile murder; but the following morning a Fakeer, and one or two- other persims, were taken up on.sushicion ; and when the Committee had met, they gave in evidence, that two-thirds -Of the troops, with the native Officers, were concerned. The Fakeer called out a great number by name from the 14th,- (native Officers), five front the 18th, two or three from the llth - and 9th ; implicated some - of the Resident's Peons, natives of the place, and seve ral Officers' servants'; he also said nearly all the Sepoys of the 14th, and several from the other corpS, were engaged in the plot ; and that the man in charge of the public cattle had-been bribed, and many others. The danger was now thought very great, and Quilon was in great agitation and alarm.. It was deemed necessary to make an im mediate example of one oh - two of the rhugleaders. All the native Officers - who had been implicated, from the different corps, were sent off to Tri ehinopoly that.day h under the guard of 50 of the Resident's Peons, and the whole under the charge of an Officer of the 14th. The 14th itself was or-. dered to leave Quilon, with its European - Officers, the following morning, and to march to . the same place ; but they march in the course of this day instead, as twelve hours was rather too short a notice. On the same day that this information was received, (the day before yesterday) the troops were ordered under arms, and formed a line in bri gade at five o'clock. Three guns were advanced to the front of theline, about 100 paces from the cen tre ; also u gun from each flank the same distance. The latter were prhned and. loaded with grape shot, and pointed towards the battalion, as it was expected the sepoys would , Make some opposition to the several measures in contemplation. Tw6 of the guns in the centre were only loaded with powder. •Twd prisoners, the Jemillar that I fo-st mentioned, and a writer, , who been most guilty, Were brought forward, and, ,without 'ceremony, were lashed each to the muzzle of -a gun. The, troops, on seeing this, were still as death—net a murmur, no not even a breath was to be heard— and, at this awful crisis, Aalmain, Brigade-Major, read over the sentence that had been awarded the prisoners by the. Board of Officers which sat in the morning; and the Colonel gave the words, Ready ! Fire-!.' An involontary shudder ran 1 through the whole li n e, b u t n o thi ng more. The Colonel then informed the troops why be was obliged to have recourse to this severe met sure, and ordered the- whole line to march round the bodies, and return to their barracks." - Monday last an unusually high- tide rose at Gloucester, whicn overflowed the meadows on the- banks of the Severn : and swept away 200 sheep' belonging to a gentleman farmer, all of which periSbed: in the flood; many of the car casses' being recovered, were taken to Lydney Market, and sold at reduced prices to the poor. The same tide also_ inundated a great part of the tarl of 'Berkeley's estate, breaking. down the fenees, and otherwise doing considerable damage. WEAD.—To-day there was no Court of Alder men', the Lord Mayor after inspecting the Re turns ; ordered, bread to be raised a farthing in the Qua'rtern Loaf. • SPORTING 1-'2TELLIGEN'CII • NEWNIARKI7 Tilikt) (Y-TOBtiti Cit, rlol2"Gilt Gen: (;oiver's. MOND:,Y. OCTOEI 7 . - 3, 11:1 ,- ;tasia. £,;t. 51t.-. beat Mr. A. Co;i./ Prigntena, '64. rlb, .1b; 100 gs. h. ft.-5 tu tal:a, The Cia:rdin , . of 106 g-s. each. D. of Po_111;t1a0s Mr. , Strailos.Dea l .', . , A^ e ,.. •:- *.; Ld JerSeN T. M. 3 1,, L. 2. 0!, _ . Sir J. SlzelleN's CeinuS, 9st.. 71'). ' ~ a: Mr Lake's Po Bst. 411,. Ab. M. 2COgs. h. ft.--!•_lvez., D. •of Graftun's Wfiaki2.one, o vrsold, ”s%. beat Mr. Turner, 2 yrs ohl, a feather. B. b. 10Ogr..—•=6 tot oil Vr bonv, SweepstalieF of OCgs. cach, It. Pt - . I). I. Mr. Dawsan's Caiaorian aged, Sit. 14 C. tI. , ',.;o!nerset's, Antrato, 7st. 1 , 1;) Maur Wil ion's Erebus,'.s-v, S. SSf. ib. BettiLlP: D. of Rutland's Eliiab`eth, l ,2e. 1 , 2%;5. eroin Sheilev:s - Pliantwit, Nt. A. F. .; is ft. Ld. Cavendish's sister to : . ..iiunond, Bst. SR:. ft.. from Ld ;)zrckville's c: by 5.113, Air. Payne's Truffle, Bst, 711). rec. :00gs, from Mr. 7st. rl.:. 100ogs. b. ft. Gen. Cirosvenor's Lazyboots, 7st. rec. from Mr. Aleli . rs'n'.•; Maria, 71b. Ld Darlington's Ainadis de Caul, apt Mr. Slialie , rioa.r's Chester. dst. 71b. each r.• 1 1 ,1. M. 200 gs. - Oil by ...1.4,1 C. 11. Somerset's Julian, rec. 40a;s. from Arajor Bolter. D. I. 100gS. It. ft. To be rode by'the owners, • - NEW PARLIAMENT: NIEMBERS RETURNED. Peebles (6;vity):--Sir James Montgomery. St. aermains.—General Pringle; Goi bourne, Esq. Dartniint.th: 7 —A. a 'HoldSword); •T. P. Bas tard, Esgrs.. Nurthumberiand.---Colonel 'Beaumont, _ Sir C. - 11,1Org,an, Esq. D 0... (EaupYs).---Thomas W oo d, E sq , . • Northolle2ton.- 7 -Right Hon. Henry Laseelles,, Henry . Pierse; Esq. 'll7abingliuiy.---S.lr Charles SaxtOn, Bart. W. Hicks-.Beaeb, Esq. . Merionethshire,--Sir R. Wm.- Vaughan, Bart. - Ed.si LOoe.Adtuirat Sir E. Buller, Bart. Da vid Vanderheyden, • Looe.—Charles - Buller, -Anthony Buller, Esqrs. _ Ayr (Connt y).—Sir H Dalrymple Hamilton. C'cillington.-,-$. W. Poynti, Esq. Sir John Le man Rogers,- Bart. Clackmancin.-111 - in. G. Abercromby. Pembroke —John Ow e n, Esq. Voughal.—Sir John Keane. Wicklow. (County). , .---Wm. Tighe, W. H. Hume, Esqrs. Derry . (City).---;-Right Hon. Sir G. Hill, Bart. It eiford (County).—Sir F. Flood, Bart. R. A. Carew, jun. Esq. Coleraine.-- . --Lord G. T. Beresford. CONTESTED ELECTIONS.' Dundas. Neville BERKSHIRE.—Ocr. 26. P 591 Hallett 1275 . 487 DOWNPATRICK—FINAL Ctost. Mr. Fia.wthorae DOWN (Couvry).—Cer. 13. Lord Castlereagh Col. Mead POLICE. UNION-HALL.—The female servant .of a Gen.. tieman, residing at Newington, was charged with robbing her master of a quantity of table-Linen, sheeting, &c. The prisoner, .who was a decent looking young woman, did not deny having taken the things in question;. and pledged them, and delivered up the .duplicates to the officer ; but stated in her defence, that she had been seduced by her master, and wlis with child by him ; her master and mistreas had been out of town for some time, and he having left her without money, she had been obliged, from necessity, to take the things and pledge then - l i t - lot doubting but her master would, on his. return, have given her sufficient money to redeein them.. The pro.secutor positive ly- denied that there was any truth in the p:•i soner's statement, which he said was a mere in vention: to escape punishment. Her mistress, however, seemed more inclined to give edit to it, judging, as she said, of the present, by com parison ~ w ith the past. The. Magistrate observed, whether the state ment of the prisoner was true or false,' it wo u ld not alter the nature of the charge now brought against her. Site had confessed having taken the things ; and if the prosecution was persisted. in, he must commit her. The master declaring his determination to pro. secute her, she was fully comm;tted for trial. MAR LEOROUGII- STR R ET. - Arthur Remington, alias Captain Remington, but who, it turned out, has been a Lieutenant of Marines, *as charged with privately stealing, in the shop of a silver smith in Vigo-lane, St. James's, a valuable gold watch. It appeared that the prisoner, wh.7l disaharged from the wing's Bench about six weeks 'since by the Insolvent Act, had, by false renre sentations, got various articles of jewellery from the silversmith, which he paid for in bills, pay able at firms amongst his own accomplices : one of these bills having become due, and of emirs?. dislionoured,.the prisoner was arrested, and on Saturday last he Went to' the house, in Vigo-lauc, and behaved in a riotous manner, in consequence of the proceedings which had been taken. The gold watch had been missed previously to this ar rest, and the prisoner having recommended e - vcral other persons to the shop, it wAs very . naturally suspected some of them might have stolen it. A boy was sent to watch where, the prisoner went to on Saturday, and he was traced to hislodgings over the water. It" was afterwards discovered, that the prisoner ha.i pledged the watch at a pawnbrober's, on the Surrey side of the water, for ten guineas ; and that he afterwards sold the duplicate, to a person of the name of Miller, for two guineas. The prisoner was se cured at his lodgings, East-lane Walworth, and he cOntessed the- robbery before the Magistrates. He was remanded for another examinati on , th at the extent of his depedations might be ascerthin cc!, and his accomplices brought to justice.