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n ,A , et t I , A. ', dated the 311th ult. from an Ufheer belonging to *- it qr H. Po,rAites squadron, gives the foli (m • i ~ ing account of the result of an attiack. up - on Q,lntander 1..-- . " On the 22d and 24th they got some guns i ti Pou a rock, without musket-shot of a four-gun battery. .The ships then went against it.' -The jitin got one man killed, one severely-wounded, and two slightly. The Inspient had two. killed aril two wounded. The Venerable had her main tP-rnast shot through. A party of men from the 'tin succeeded in planting two 24-pounders upon the rock, and played upon .the batteries. By the `ith, two of the enemy's guns were disabled; • and .General PORLIER., having sent forward his ad-• Yanced.guard, itjoined by eighty . men from "the Medusa and Vener j ab/e. With this force the 9eueral was to attack the town in the rear, while the ;Rhin., in. the:lrma, with two other frigates 4 id three brigs, passed the battery, and kept up heavy fire, without a single shot received on our Part. The enemy' ran, and Sir GEORGE COLLIER, thinking that General PORLIER was attacking the t e'wri i led into its front, but was beat back. The ?tench had received reinforcements ; they were stated at 500, but proved to be in • fact 4000.-- We are sorry to state, that Sir G. CoLLlEß;.Cap tains LAKE and INIALcoLm, ,were wounded , in this affair • ANOTHER ACCOUNT. lii.s . Nejesty's ship Rhin, cff the tower of _ • • San An dero, 341 y 30, 1819. • . ". We arrived here on the 22d instant, and coin blenced operations on the 24th, by mounting some fang on a rock, outside a four-gun battery, under toyer of which our ships proceeded to the attack of th e battery. By the 27th two of the enemy's t'llts were disabled, but not without some loss to the Rhin having one killed, another mortally, and two slightly wounded, and the Insolent gun lit two killed and two wounded.; ,the Venerabl e -had her main-top-mas t shot through. General L'orlier having sent forwarZl his advanced guard, B) marines joined it from the Medusa and Vener able, order to co-operate with the General in an attack on the rear of the town, while we occu- Ved the enemy's attention in the front. At four • M. accompanied by two other frigates and three 'brigs, we passed the, battery, keeping up at the Same time such a. fire from the ships and rock that the enemy was rendered unable to do us any in jury. On , getting into the rear Of the fort, the karines were landed, when the French garrison instantly took to their Sir George Collier, 171 :10 headed the marines, on the co-ope tation of General Porlier at the back of the town, Pushed on tow trds its front, as bad been agreed on, but the enemy having received reinforcements, (which madstheir force 3000 men, instead of 500 Pl a We expected), in the mean time not only kept l'orlier in check at the very moment he had al lotted for the assault, but repulsed the British, 1 % - ben every thing ensured success, indeed when bottling but the reinforcements sent to the enemy could have saved the town from capture. Again, at Glietarie, we were compelled to retire before a i luperiority of numbers, but it was not until ire Lad made ourselves masters of the castle of Arno, Ivbieh protected the shipping, and which we blew UP before-embarking. Iu this affair Capt. Lake, Of the Magn?;:cent, received two wounds, Sir George Collier was wounded in the knee, but not Captain Noble, of the marines, wits, I fear, mortally wounded and taken priL loner, besides 24 marines killed and wounded, and four taken prisoners, while employed in Carrying off Captain Noble. I do not know Our loss in leaken, but"! dO not helitVe it to be considdable. But if it be true that Lord Wellington has de ' Itroyed 16,000 of the enemy in two days, the intended object of our expedition has been an- Uvered. We know that Marmont has vhittan to The north coast for reinforcements, but none Could be spared to his solicitations, on account of our flourishing up and down here indeed, the enemy's force in this direc.tion has accumulated instead of lessening. The Magnificent is going ,Lonie, with Sir George Collier in her. Captain tloye, of the Lyra,. ,(the command, of which is given to her First Lieutenant) is appointed i.o the aSurveillante. Our purser has just returned with •a flag of truce. Captain Noble is. exchanged, and hopes arc entertained of his recovery. There arc two marines prisoners, so that the other two Arum have been killed. The :number. of the ene ray in San Andero is, 40.00', but they will be oblig ;xi to quit Soon . for want of provisions. The Rhin h as had four marines killed, and the same,nuth )er wounded :, a brayer set of men cannot be long to any ship. A sedeant of the Vcne.rable was !hot through' the arm by a 'French soldier, but flaying strength enough left to return the salute, be shot the soldierdead." The following letter, which corrects some mis- ItateMents which have been seen, may be relied on Off the Sheldt, July 2R, 1812. Admiral 'Ferrier sailed last night, in the 4 ellernphon, to blockade the Texel, whence Loid Attlelius Beauclet'k, in the Royal Oak, is just ar ._ tilted. The enemy have increased their force there, Which neW 'consists of .Seven sail of . the line (one vith an Admital'S flag at the fore-top), two .fri. 7 . • Rates, 'arid eight smaller vessels, all perfectly ready for sea; and two sail of the line and two frigates Alri.ll be ready siortly.—One sail of the line and a frigate lately came down from Amsterdam. sheaved •no intention. 10 put to sea while Aurelius was . off Camperdown, het they were constantly exercising their sails, yards, &c. ; and „, t he Admir a l i s s a id t o b e an 'enterprising O ffi cer. 41 4ey are principally manned by fishermen, who ~a re rai se d i n ft.similar way to the English militia, 2 e 9ln every : town. and villag e , b e tw e e n the ag es o f 3 and 40. They consider their case as a hard ' I/ ( . 11 e, and.are of course discontented, b u t es p ec i a lly from being obliged .to se rve un d er th e Fr enc h ,' "ag—for all the ships Carry the French National a "„ g. A few days ago,.• in Ayri a litter of puppies, ten in nor4er, were inunerseclin water until apparently deal', and were buried deep in a d ung hill, th e ma - Dther bOng tied up in the kennel with a strong cord. uring theinight she • gnawed the cord asunder, Rent to the dunghill, .raised her buried oTspring, 411 ,4 having - taken them to. her kennel, . where she ;" e vished.them,. before .nforning - four were - per etly restored. VACCINATION. MR. EDITOR, The publication s of the Cow-pox Report in your Paper is sufficient to convince your reatlers. that the experinient, is extinguished, and that the salaries of the officers for one year more, alone seems to be the object of the petition to the Secretary of-State, unless it should please Parlia ment to forbid the poor of this realm the blessings of Inoculation, and to extend the tyranny of Bu onaparte to every tender mother who nourishes her babe at her own bosom, and thinks a sound 'constitution and a moral education will probably induce 'a child " to honour its father and its-mo ther." It does appear very strange that in this metro polis alone, where the experhnent was so liberal ly supported, and where the discoverer superin tended his design, the failures shbuld have been so numerous, while letters to the Cow-pox Board. from all parts of the globe. declare the increasing success of the practice ; and therefore I . must beg leave briefly to state the progress of the experi ment, in order to judge truly . whether hearsay evidence is to be preferred to matter of fact. Certainly nothing was ever more . handsomely supported by large subscriptions, and the aid and wishes of the Faculty, than this experiment :. the dislcoverer was alinost worshipped, the teachers of medicine submitted their children to the trial, and their example was nniversally followed. The clergy preached and practised it; the Prince and the Duke of Portland refused tollazard their child =on. the doubtful chance, for seven cases of fai lure had been proved in evidence befoie the Com mittee of the House of Commons.. Au exposure was about to happen between Dr. Pearson and Dr. Jenner at the commencement, but this was compromised, and. houses were hired and stations fixed all over the , metropolis ;. Presi dents, Secretaries, and Councils, were . appointed ; correspondence, foreign - and domestic, was esta blished ; every thing flourished apparently. Som , e, _failures, however,. occurred, some in flamed arms alarmed practitioners ; these were accounted for by a . spurious and genuine Cow pox. The failures multiplied, and- a Committee, formed chiefly from the College of Physicians, was appointed to examine into them, and not withstanding the suppositions of this learned As sembly, the cases of Mr. Hodges' children were established, but Dr. Woolaston would not place his re:p:.ct-J,ItL la:;te to the Report of this Com mittee ; the investigation served to convince him. Parliament was now surprised, and directed the Medical Colleges to report why the experiment seemed to fail. The Report established the facts of many failures, and of many fatal consequences, bad arms, terminating in deaths, dreadful .erup tions, and glandulous. diseases. Notwithstanding these proofs, Parliament granted 20,000/. more, as a reward to the disco verer. Disputes now commenced in the Royal Joiner-, ian Society, the conclave of Cow-poxers, and.the House divided against itself. Two stations were established near Fleet.:street, and men hired to de liter Gog and Magog fought for the. children : these, and wore proceedings, dissolve,i the associations ; subscriptions fell off, the Esta blishment broke up, and I never- heard that any account of their receipts and expenditure was brought • forward. The doctrines whiCh had established the origin of the disease from the greasy heel of the horse, and the genuine and spurious Cow-pox, were now 'overturned, and so' much jargon was introduced, that .Pailiainent again called order, and eFtablished a Board, at the publitexpcnce, of ,-;e300t1 a year, to supply practitioners with genuine lymph : the discoverer, on account of his experience, his public merits and his public rewards, was- appointed the Director of this I.3(?ard. The Waloheren expedi tion delayed the meeting of it, for Sir Lucas Pepys was to be President. 'When the Establishment was formed, Dr. Jen ner refused to take the situation ,Parliament htid assigned him; the - public, from .whose purse 30,000 was paid to him, have some claim to know the reason of . his desertion the 'Board hive 'never thought proper. to explain this, but with a substituted Director,,they have put forth .a new Set of tides for vaccinating; thereby con demning all those which, were before established, and putting in fear and trembling many thousands who were previeitisly cow-poxed. . To be sure, at the commencement, any lady or clergyman might vaccinate ; it Was to be only one pustule but when every body failed of security; then the discoverer himself was the only Tenon completely possessed of the secret. • - Yet, When Lord Grosvenor's,. Sir Edward, Baynton Sandys', andthe children of others whom I am forbidden to name, were so violently „attack-. ed that their lives for a time were . despaired 9f; then both security and mitigation were found to be as little at the command of Dr. Jcnner, as of any Methodist Parson who had been tutored by. Noiv, therefore, wliat credit can we give to such never-failing accounts as the I.oard receive from distant parts, when under our own eye the sweeping, excuse of imperfect •Vaccination is .ob liged to be so perpetually put, in force? . . The proof, therefore, that the assertions oethe anti - cow-posers arc fOundedon facts, is establish ed by the extinction of .the ROYAL JENNERIAN Institution; the failure of Subscriptions to the original and the spurious Societies ; .the return of the Small-pox Hospital to its- original use ; the established and numerous cases of failure in the families of medical men ; the flight ofDr. Jenner, and the inoculation of his sou ; the Report of the College of Surgeons, confessing bad arms, erup tions, and deaths; and the . repeated inquiries of the House of Commons ; I might add the flimsy Report of the Cow-pox Establishment. if all these circumstances do not . overturn the strong assurance held forth in the advertisement anno 1800, let the saint, respectable names appear once more to it. • This is the challenge I fling down my glove with, and unless Mr. CONSCIENCE can support himself with such authority, he need not trouble you or yoursßeaders any more; for I•shall stick . Co that advertisement,' and as Mr. James Moorers name is affixed to it, he Can apply to the several ernitten practatontrs, ana watlSry tne with their present opinions of the security of Cow-pox. I now should beg pardon, Mr. Editor, for the space which this letter will. occupy in your Paper, Out As I know that its circulation in the country is extensive, this short history of the experiment may be acceptable to some (.1 your Readers; who may not have seen the volumes which have been written to defend the failures of Vaccination.' I am, Mr. Editor, Your obedient and humble Servant, HONESTUS; The following is a Proclamation issued by Ge neral Sir GEORGE PREVOST; upon the receipt of intelligence of the declaration of war by Ame rica : PROCLAMATION. " Whereas War has been declared by the Go- Ternment of the United States of America, to ex ist between the United Kingdom of Great. Britain and Ireland, and the, dependencies thereof, and the United States of America, ,and their terri tories ;-and whereas, divers persons, being sub jects of the said United States of America, and now within the, limits of this province, and it is expedient and necessary that.snch persons should depart from this province within a limited period : —I have therefore thought tit, by and with the advice of the Executive Conucil.ofthis Province; to issue this my Proclamation, to order, enjoin, and direct and I do hereby order, enjoin, and direct all persons . who arc subjects .Of the United States of AmeriCa, to depart from this Province within 14 days from the •day from 'the day of the date of this Proclamation. And whereas, . by an order of .Police issued by the City of Quebec, on the 29th inst. 'Null.- ing all such subjects of the United States of Ame rica as are now in the district olQuebec, to de part from the city of Quebec on or before the Ist day 'of July next, before twelve o'clock, and from the district of Quebec on or before the 3d day . .of July next, before twelve o'clock : And whereas the persons being subjects of the United' States, who are now in the city and district of Qnebec, are principally persons who have entered this province in good faith,. in the prosecution of commercial pursuits. I have, therefore, thought fit to enlarge, and Ido ,hereby enlarge the period Allowed ,by the said Order of Police; for the de parture of such persons from the City and Dis trict of Quebec, for and during the period of seven day" from the day of the date of this Pro clamation " GEORGE PREVOST:" The following Officers are to be Brigadier Ge nerals on the Staff under the Earl of WELLING- Ttik . Colonels IN4ms, 57th ; WILSON, 39th ; BING, of the GuardS ; and BARNS, 46th regiment. Coliipels INGLIS and WILSON have long served in Portugal, and were both wounded at. Albuera. A new Quarter-Master-General is about to be appointed for India, in the room of Major-Gen. Sxt wh (As. aiip6inted a.General Officer there ; as also a new Atljutant-General, in the rooin of. Sir 'WILLIAM NICHOLSON, who kill retire. Government, it is said, intend to abash the pound -draught hitherto allowed by the Excise, on ail weighable gods. This fregtilation, it is cal- . culate:i, will . considerably augment that branch of .the revenue, and . , in the article of tea alone, pr:).luce"an. increase of 80,0001. per annum.. A correspondent informs us, that he has lately paid a visit to Ann Moore,. the fasting .woman, of Tutbury,- who appears to look as well as she did two years ago. It is now near five years since she either ate or drank any thing. Her countenance is pleasant and agreeable: She reads a great deal, and appears very religiously inclined. Her answers are amazingly. quick, and she 4 Fonverses with a great . deal of good sense, .she is about 51 year 4 of age, and about the middle size. When asked if she was not tired of her miserable state of life, she answered No ; that she .was to wait the will of (led. She appears to be very anxious to :know what is the public opinion- respecting her, which seems to weigh heavy on .her mind. The -vomen who look after her say, that she has : totally lost the use, of .her limbs from the body downwards, and Within the last three, months has, in a great meaAre, fallen off, from which a gentleman of 'the faculty, who is. in the habit of , visiting her, considers her dissolution at no great ) distance tqfurdshire Advertiser. , . . On Saturday morning, ;at eight o'clock -a woman was observed to mount the Aalustrade, about the centre arch of Blackfriars •Bridge, from whence she precipitated herself:into the river.' A boatman, who was near the spot, inimediately proceeded to her assistance, and the unfortunate WOTIIf 11 was ,soon af.tet taken up, and carried in estate of insen slhility:to Christ Church watch-house, where she recovered her senses. 4hethen said she. remembered throwing herself off the -bridge and that she did not wish to be saved. Her huslaand was a hatter, out of employ, who bad left. her to go into the country. in. search of the means 9f support. Being in great distress,. she had taken the desperate re solution of jumping into the Thames. She was finally conveyed to her home in a dangerous state. Tuesday last, a young man enlisted in the Ma, rives, . at Oxford, was sworn in on Wednesday night, deserted the following morning, and was apprehended at Witnev. Previous to his being handcuffed, he asked for soine beer, and, after drinking it, cut his throat with a razor. EXF cyTioN.=--this morning Daniel Davis was, pursuant to his sentence, executed for forgery, upon the top of the New Prison, Horseknonger lane. It appeared that this unfortunate criminal had, from the moment of his conviction, enter tained no hopes whatsoever of being pardoned, and therefore prepared himself with becoming for titade to meet that fate the laws of his country had doomed him to suffer, for an offence unpar donable, and at nine o'clock he was conducted by Mr. Ives, the gaoler, upon the platform, where he was attended by the Rev. J. MANN, with whom he remained a few minutes in prayer, and' the, rest of the awful ceremony being then assigned to the executioner, he was . immediately launched off, and his body, after being suspendioti the usual time, was 'cut down,' and -delivered to -114 friends. for interment, who were waiting to carry it off. • COURT OF CHAI4 - CLI:Y, AuGUSt 9 .i 7 partellTHlTpil'EAD in the matter of SHAW. This was an application on the part of Mem% Whitbread and Co: who were creditors cf tha bankrupt, to haveliberty to sell the lease of his dwelling-houszc, over which they had a lien, Vie same having been deposited with them in security of 10001. advanced to the bankrupt, at the time he entered the houSe. There was another cre ditor, who had also advanced to the bankrupt, at the time of entering to the house, GOO/. ; and, on his part, it was now -contended,- that the lease had been deposited with Mr. Whitbread, as ase curity for his debt also. Besidei these two sums, Mr. Whitbread had, of a more recent date, ad vanced to the bankrupt 1001. and he now claimed a lien on the lease, not for the 10001. merely, but for' the 11001. Mr. CULLEN appeared as Counsel both for the assigness and for the creditor claiming the lien for GOO/. The LORD CHANC E LLOR ordered the matter to stand over till he should bear what could be said in behalf of each of those parties, standing • Er, they' did, in situations so adverse from the iate' rests of each other. As to the original advance made by Mr. Whitbread, his Lordship had no doubt that . regardedthe lease Was to be as a lien for this sum. The other creditor's debt for 6001. he could not regard as standing in a similar 3itna tion, there being no ,writing to piove that the fact was .so it and even as to the advance of 1001. made by Mr. Whitbread, at a subsequent period, he was not satisfied that the lien covered it.— These were his Lordship's present, imprEssic.n3, but he should hear the matter further When all were ready. The 82d foot arrived at Chatham last - week, from the East Indies, after an absence cf sixteen: years. It is a mere skeleton regiment, 600 of the men having volunteered to remain in the FAA Indies. LATE ACCIDENT in Russell-stmt.—On &Aut..- day afternoon an Inquest was held before 24:. GELL,Coroner for Westminster, at the Bunch cf Grapes, in Bow-street, on the bodies of 3°14 Shepherd and --Fitz Crisp, the workmen whO lost :their lives by the falling of two houses it Russell-street, Covent-Qarden. Henry Triggs, .a bricklayer, was the first witness examined ; he. was at work in the parlour of one of the houses that fell, heard a crash, bad just time to call out to his companions " the party-wall'swas coming down," and. when be reached the front door, was struck down by the falling bricks and tiles ; he recovered in a few minutes, the houses fell, and eight men werAinried in the ruins : by eight o'clock six were got ont a little bruised, four others were taken to the Middlesex Hospital, and the two unfortunate men, the subjects of the present In quest, remained buried, and were tnkcn out dead on Friday evening. There was much questioning as to the real cause of the aecid,.nt. The new re pairs were stated to have been kvell executed by Mr. Braham, but that the fall of the buildings was owing*to the failure of an old party-wall.—After a recapitulation of the evidence by the Coroner, the:Jury returned a verdict—" That John Shep herd, and Fitz Crisp; met their deaths by the falling of two houses, - occasioned by the de fectiveness of an old party-wall." Farther Particulars.--Twelve then were employ 'ed on the premises, when the a ccident happened, namely; four bricklayers, four carpenters, and four labourers. The warning was so short, that four who were at work on the ground floor had only time to escape. Eight, of course, remained Under the beams and brick-work. 'By the humane and kit - id exertions of the workmen employed in Drury-lane Theatre, six were soon extricated Four were immediately conveyed to the Middle sex flospital—two of them, not much hurt, re turned to their homes, 'after having been dressed by the Surgeons of thelnstitution. ' Two others Were bruised; hut without broken bones. The deceased being at work in the attic story, were precipitated with the falling ruins, buried in the middle of the same, and crushed in a shocking man ner; Some delay occurred in the search for them, occasioned by the alarming state of the adjoining 'premises. The party-wall of the east house, and the hack front: being in a dangerous sure, the workmen were backward in exerting theniselves, before the impending danger was m some met sUre Prevented. After boads and shores had been put against the house; they proceeded with alI possible diligence to remove the rubbish, until they came to the objects of their search. It will appear from the above statement, that two per sons only have fallen Victims to the dreadful acci dent, and not more, as ar first reported.; and that four were taken to. the Hospital. The account given of a woman carrying her basket being killed, appears to be unfounded. gMiTIiFIELD MAILKET, AvO.s 26. This day's market had a considerable supply of prime beast, and the show of Catti in ot:.er re spects was pretty good. Beef, Pork, and Veal support last prices; Lamb is dearer ; Mutton is cheaper, and the .trade in general was pretty brisk. The sales in the .1-lay-market were rather considerable; . Clover fetched last price ; Hay anti Straw have fallen in price. We annex a ,correct statement of the prices and numbers To sink the Offal, per Stone of Beef, ss. 0d..t0 6sf od d ' Mattou, ss. - Oa. to Ss. Od. V. ss,Od. to zs.od. Lamb, Gs. Od. to 7S. Gd. Pork, ss. 64. to Gs. yd, Beasts, 1,910. Sheep and Lambs, 15,000. Calves, 130. Pigs,-259. SMITHFIELD HAYMARE.ET. Hay, 41.10. to 51.105. Straw, 21. - ss. to 31.25. Clover, 10s. to 81.155. CORN-EXCIIANGE, Atm. 10:--There is a toler able' good supply of Wheat to-day, and the trade . heavy in sale, at a declension in price of 'about 4s. per qiifirter ;. Rye somewhat lower ; Barley and Malt hardly at last prices ; White Peas and Beans of each description are each rather cheaper. We have not many arrivals of Oats, and- sales in this trade are ' quoted fully at the late advance; Flour without alteration Wheat - - 925. 1365, 150 s. Fine ditto - - 1525. 1565. Rye - -•-• -• 745. Ns. Barley ..- 58s. 665. Malt - - -- - -86 s. 965. White Pease (foil.) 725. 795. Grey ditto -78 i. Beaus • - - - r 74g. SOS. Tick Beans - - -70 g. 775. Oats - - - - 585.625. 645. Poland ditto - - 655. 66i. Potatoe ditto - 675. Itape Seed - - - but. ~ 5 1. Fine Flour -115 s. Iso s. Second* • -110 s. 115 c.