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C, err litz DEC. SucnkT has weakened Ills a' W. /1.137 sending .a corps of from 5 to 6000 men to Arta gon. fr U p to the loth no t on ly h a d th e F renc h m a de n o Progress in their designs against Valencia, but had uee ll dislodged from some important points, which oar troops were fortifying. We are assured Gene a' Lea , / has an army of 15,000 men, and that it l l a ti gMentin g in a wonderful degree. I) EC. 23.—The Cortes have sanctioned the aboli -I°ll of th e Salic Law. appears that General BALLESTEROS, having l anced upon Oger, for the purpose of reconnoi 4rin g , Was attacked by superior forces, and obliged D fall back with the loss of about 300 men, the g re ater part dispersed. D ie. 30.—The Ex• Regent, LARDIZABEL, leas embarked in this port, and has been allotted the %liters of S. FERNANDO, where he remains in a ft ate Of arrest, under the custody of the volunteers. 11) ao. 27.—We knew that on the 19th inst. the %e nts relative to Valencia, were talked about in io a manlier very favouiable to our cause; ()121 . - r was preparing tejnicings for the conquest of th at city, when he received intelligence, that on 113 e gth, four thousand French entered *Valencia ;4 'd were cut off. We are yet ignorant whit fou ndation there is for this; but we are cer tain that on the Bth no event of impor!ance had ta ken place in Valencia—that aClions daily took lace between the Guerillas and the enemy—that t he General in Chief had the best hopes of being a ble to frustrate the designs of the enemy—that the tr oops had the greatest confidence in their General— and the inhabitants were resohitely determined to defend their homes, and revenge the country. The French troops, particularly the foreign ones, ar e extremely discontented, but without resolution to chew it. Many of them have feigned being to avoid leaving Seville. General Cu;STA is dead, and has been succeeded bY General OToNN ELL. FROM THE REDACTOR GENERAL. bEc. 26.—The Captain of a vessel, who has ar• r ived here from Melilla, in fire days, states, that a Co urier,comingiromValencia, sailed at the same time :W ith him, and_ was the bearer of accounts, stating, /h at on the 9th inst. the enemy attacked the Spa alish army in the vicinity of Valencia, and were re- Pulsed with the loss of 14,000 men; in consequence of which they retired. C 1,1 )1z, DEG. 25.—We are able to positiv - ely state Ill at as, late as yesterday morning the enemy had not accomplished their design in seizing upon Tat The greater part of the inllbitants had abandoned their homes ; the Allies were resolved to defend that Point to ihe last extremity, but a _place of little or no aitacked by very superior forces, can rlot fail of being taken, unless the enemy's attention is called to some other point. We much fear that the vigorous resistance intended.to be made, Will :in set er no other purpose than that of sacri ficing vi,:-.tims worthy of a better fate. The general report is, that on the loth, SU'CLIET, With the whole of his forces, attacked Valencia, and was repulsed. MonTaineuEs, DEC. 13.—One thousand French \infantry, and 400 horse are in Don Benito; in Me 'ida,: about 800. The peasantry abandon their houses in consequence of the ill treatment they re ceive from the soldiery. Nine thousand French have arrived at Sireula, and demanded in Cabeza de Buey 20,000 rations. We are ignorant of the direaion they intend tak ing, but is is said it will be towards Cordova. DEC. 17. The French are at Olivt Zouta, -col lecting contributions. It is probable they will re turn to Don Benito. FIFTH ARMY. DEC. ig.—Tbe intelligence we receive from the head-quarters of the Fifth Army, is as follows : The Duke of RAGUSA . (MARMoNT) has removed his head-quarters to Talavera de la Reyna, where sotne forces are colleoled. FUENTES DE ONORE, DEC. 18.—The prepara tions which are observed leave no - doubt that sonic movement will soon be made by the allied ai Our troops are organizing and disciplining with much'activity, and will soon form an excellent di vision. This morning a report was circulated here, that General BALLASTEROS had been beaten, and owed his escape to his' hurse ; the latter is certain. The Governor has received a letter from the Lame Gene ral, dated yesterday, at Los Barrios, in which he says, " the enemy sutler great privations, and have a great number of sick, of whom many die; they also lost many men in the action of yesteiday. My troops fought with determined bravery, and the enemy did every thing in their power to kill ine ; but it pleased God to preserve my mic.lJ de fated them complet* in every point." . DEC. 20.—We have•learoe,l in wb't •-a:iher it was that BALLESTEROS was on L.e killed or taken in Ogen. The General had marched to that place to attack 800 of the enemy who had advanced thither. - He had come up with them and was engaging them on the plain of Taritfa, where be had obliged them to form a jun&on with the main body of their army,' when perceiving that two strong columns of the enemy were advancing, towards him, he ordered his troops to retreat, the General remeining in an inn at Ogen to take refreshment. On coming out of the inn on full gallop, accompanied by the Brigadier MONTES, the Aid-de-camp GUEVIERO, and some Ordenanza, he found that the enemy had greatly advanced (having outflanked the mountaineers by the retreat on the left) and posted themselves on an eminence which commanded the left of the road along which the General must pass. When the Ordenanza came up, they began to open their fire, and to shout—the Spanish General! advance ! But that Noble Ge neral, and what -is snore, true Spaniard, BAL LAS TEROS, gaining rising ground on the right of the road, escaped the danger, Heaven preserving his life to add to the despair of the execrable Corsi can, the torment and rage of his vile slave SOULT, and the honour and consolation of his country. An Officer of rank who accompanied him, was taken for the General, and a heavy tire kep► up on him, which killed his horse, but this was the only ails fortune which occurred, as the Officer escaped on loot, though pursued, and afterwards joined his Ge neral in safety. LEEDS SESSIONS. Mr. Robert Wood, a preacher in the Methodist Conne6tion, presented himself before the Magis trates and requested. that the oaths might be admi nistered lb him, that he might make the declaration required by the Toleration A6t, to qualify him to officiate as a Dissenting:reacher. The Bench inquired if he was appointed a Tea Cher to any specific congregation. The Rev. Mr. Wood, sea. who is also a Travel. ling Preacher in the same counedion, replied that his son was to preach at Bramley. RECORDER—Suffer the young man to answer the question himself. Mr. Robert Wood—lt is intended that I should preach at Bramley, Armley, and other places in the vicinity. The RECORDER, after some conversation with the Band) and the Counsel near him, resumed— ‘c From a report of a case just published, it appears, that the Court of King's Bench have decided, that a Protestant Dissenter who states himself as one who preaches to several congregations without shewing that he has a separate congregation attached to him, is not entitled to take the wilts and make the decla ration required by the Toleration Act. It will there. tore be necessary for you to prove your appointment to peach to a separate congregation before you can be enti:led to take the oaths. 'Mr. MAum% here observed, that though the Court of King's Bench did not, in the case cited, think -propt..r to issue a .Mandamus to compel the Magistrate, to adrmokter the oaths, it did not f o lhlw that the oaths might not be administered as hereto fore without requiring thiise new conditions, which were never before of. Mr. HAINSWOUTH, in reply, said, the Magis trate: con,. only administer the oaths agreeably to the provisions of t;.e Toleration Alt; and if thq Act required certain previous conditions, it was not in the power of that Bench or any other, to dispense With them ; for if the Magistrates in the case allud ed to, had required any thing to be done which the law bad IFrot made nectssary, the Court of King's Bench would, have issued a Mandamus to compel them to administer the oaths. ' In these °hie, vdtions the Court coincided, and re (used to administer the mills. A new Tragedy has been announced at the Edin burgh Theatre, under the title of Helga. The Fa- . ble, it seems, is laid in Iceland, and it is said to be the fir,t dramatic production of , a Gentleman of high lank and charaler. The Prologue and Epilogue, as well as the piece itself, are said to be distinguished for poetical spirit. Joseph Finch, porter at the Golden Cross, was, on Tuesday last, fined, by the s Magistrates at Bow street, in the mitigated penalty of ten shillings, for surcharge of portarge, in the delivery of a parcel to Mr. Banks, of the Strand. On the night of the 3d instant, between six and ten, some monsters in. human shape, entered the stable of Mr. Charles Storey, of Croffsyke-head, in Cutnberland, and savagely cut out the tongues of two valuable animals —one of them a mare with foal. The wretched animals, thus rendered totai:y incapable of chewing and swallowing food sufficient fer their sustenance, soon died. NOTTINGHAM,' JAN. 21.—.Nrhaps no circum stance connected with the commotions in this town and vicinity, has given so dear a display ot, the disposition of the rioters as one which took place on Friday evening last. As Mr. Townsend, who keeps the Barley-mow public house, at Basford, was re turning home from this town, he was assailed by two men, who seemed determined to take his per son, without any attempt at robbery ; but, on his voice being heard, they immediately desisted from their desperate purpose, and exclaimed ", We are mistaken,—you are not the man we wanted !" On Sunday morning early one frame was broken in Nottingham ; and the following night four more at New Radford, one of which was the finest plain silk stocking frame in Englani ; and, report says, was then employed in making an larder for the Prince Regent. On the same evening nine warp lace-frames were completely destroyed at Lio;by, a village about seven miles hence ; they were em ployed in making what is called two course hole: net, which hqs been so destruCtive to the credit of the .Npt,i7gbarn lace-manutacturers.-06 Friday last our town Sessions closed, and the only circum stance worthy of attention, as connected with the prei,ent trouoles, was, that no bill was found against the two men, who had been imprisoned six weeks, ot collecting 'money to support the Orakers.- fiIMATC,I PdPERS. HOUSE OE ASSEMBLY, Kingston, I( aniaica) NoV. 20, tBrt. fn a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Island, Mr. STEWART, of Trelawney, made a speech of considerable length, in which he dwelt upon the existing dirlicultie4 and distresses of the Island, in consequence of the oppressive taxes which had been heaped upon its produce by the Ministers of the mother country. The Island, he contended, did not now possess those advantages which it en joyed, when it first entered into an engagement to support a certain proportion of his Majesty's troops; the planters then received better prices for the pro ducts of their industry. He complained of breaches of faith on the part of the mother country, of her monopoly of their produce, of the.encouragement of trade with St. Domingo, of the violation of their rights by the abolition. of the Slave Trade, and of the placing the conquered colonies on a footing with Jamaica. These evils, be, contended, occasioned their inability to raise taxes for the subsistence of the troop, and fully warranted their withholding, in their present circumstances, the supplies for that purpose. To alleviate their distresses, he proposed certain resolutions descriptive of the deplorable state of the island; and requiring that the property of the colonists should be placed on an equal footing with that of their fellow subjeas in the parent state, in the form of an Amendment to the report of the Committee. Mr. Sims opposed the proposition, as the troops had ben paid for so many years, and the faith of the country was pledged to it. 'Vey ought not to carryapplications for the suspension of part of the navigation system, coupled with 2 refus II to pay the troops, if they expeeted to procure any relief. He thought no. taxes should be levied, but that the money to jay the troops should be borrowed. Mr. SHAND maintained that the island ought to stand or fall with the British Empire, which was waging an expensive war for her existence against the power of France. The distresses of Jamaica were trifling compared to those of the mother country. He entered into a number of details and arguments to slew that their lath was. pledged to support the troops. The Distillery Bill, which might hate benefited the island, bad been frustrated in England only by the avarice a,nd ignorance of tfie Peers. If they refused to pay the troops, England could levy taxes on them. in another way :—one shilling per gallon on rum imported would amply compensate , for what they might withhold. He read an extra of a letter from. a Secretary of State to a late Governor-of the Island, in which he said, that lie could not believe that • the Assembly of Ja- Maica were in earnest on the question of withhold ing the supplies from the troops; as they were aware, that Government could annihilate them'im mediately. He also quoted an opinion delitered in Parliament by a member of a powerful sees, that if the West Indies would not permit Parliament to le gislate for them, it could, and ought to shake them off. He concluded by miming two resolutions of a different tendency. Mr. C. GRANT insisted, that the island could not afford to subsist the troops. The House ought not to be frightened into the resolutions by the tear of losing all the white troops. That was ridiculous; for Great Britain was not prepared to lose so valuable an appendoge to the Crown as Jamaica, with the millions of money she annually derived from it. Three years ago, the maintenance lot the troops be ing too ample, part of it was withheld, and trans meted to Ministers, who could g.ve no account of it. The House divided on Mr. SteWari's resolutions, which were negatived by a' Majority of nine; the nurnb-!ri being 23 against the Resolutions, and 14 for them ; atter which, those of Mr. Shand were put and carried. KINGSTON, (JAMAICA), OCT 56.—A shocking , murder has been discovered, that was lately -corn milted on Mammee-Bay estate, in tire parish of St. Ann, on Mr. John Grant, the overseer. It seems Mr. Grant was found dead in his bed, and soon after buried, without any suspicion of his having been murdered. .The discovery was made by a Negro belonging to the adjoin►ng property, and has since been confirmed by the confession of some Negroes that were concerned in this most atrocious trans action. We understand there had been several run aways from Mammee-Bay, and that Mr. Grant had been for some days indisposed, and on the night the murder was committed,.while he was in bed, six of the runaways entered his bed-room about midnight, some of whom seized him by the feet and others by the arms, while another fastened rope round his neck, and after a severe struggle strangled him.— The artful villains then lighted a candle, put on a clean dress on Mr. Grapt, washed off some blood from the floor, and dispatched-a Negro boy on the deceased's horse, witlt a message from hiai to a neighbouring overseer, request ing.his iinmedi.ste at tendance, as he expected shortly to did; this Gen tleman, on going over to Mr. Grant, found him dead in his bed. The circumstance of his having be, •n previoudy sick , dcemioned . the Ins alarm or )urprise at his death, and conse quently no inquest was held upon the body, and his funeral soon atter took place. We are happy to sly that five of the wretches concerned are in cus tody, and search is making after the oi her who as sisted in the murder. THE OPERA.—The beautiful Opera of Elfrida, one of the best achievements of PARSIELLO, was revived on Tuesday last at the King's Theatre. The story is well known to the Readers of English his tory, and has been rendered still more familiar. by MASON'S excellent dramatic Poem. The vocal supp,rt on this occa , ion was by no means aolequate to the merit of the composition, with the exception of CATALANI.—This Performer very narrowly es caped what might have been productive of serious consequences. One of the high boards which sus tain the lamps on the sides of the Stage, behind the scenes, fell directly on the spot where she had just before been standing, and at a short distance from the place to which she had removed. Such negligence on the part of the scene-shifters deserves severe reprehension. The Opera altogether went off very well, and had a large propoition of the fashionable world. OLD BAILEY, JAI 22. Hodgson, a mail-coachman, was yesterday mt.. vicled of ptirchasing eight guineas for,. nine, one-. pound notes, from Rothven, one of the Bow -street prtroks, in September last. It appeared, by the testimony of the Officer, that he had been sent on an excurshm to the West of England, by the S , ,licitor of the Mint, to deter the illegal traffic in guineas, but he had been unsuccessful, until he returned to London from Devizes on the box with the defendant. • The Officer was di.lused as coml• tryman, and affeeled to be unacquainted with the sale of guineas (which defend nt -had told him had much decreased in k aloe). On their arrik al at the Gloucester Coffee-house, havi.g previonsly had much conversation respecting gold, dietitian( ad vised the Officer to ride wi!li him to Lad lane, as _the latter had pleaded ignorance of London, \and it was there the purchase was made.- It was attended with much study on ;he part of the Officer, who had' shewn_ his guineas apparently in pulling out other money. Mr. GURNEY, for the defendant, contended, that it had not been proved the notes which purchased the guineas were genuine. Mr. OomMON SERJEAND, to .his address to the Jury, observed, that the . defendant had ak erred tt:e notes as genuine, by the payment of them, and in another reply to the Counsel for the defendant, that the Officer had tempted the crime, he observed, t hat as well might a thief justify breaking open a goldsmith's shop, because valuable articles were in the window. The Jury were two hours and a half considering their verdiet. The Judge observed, in passing, sentence, that the Jnry's verdict was most -essential - to the public, inasmuch as it was the first, or one of the first convictions. under the A6l, and all future otfondtra would meet with-the full extent of punishment the law inflided. The present lenient sentence, which was a fine bf forty sitiiiings, was infiided, vte offence having been committed so recently after the of the Act. , Giovanni Astardo, for stealing a diamond ring and five earrings, the goods of Messrs. Love and Butler, privately in their shop,was capitally convided. Seventeen prisoners were convicted of felony, viz—Arthur Organ, fin sealing three geese and a gander, the property of Job Green"; John XI for stealing two straw bonnets, the property of John Hagley ; Wm. Whitehead, for stealing two quartern loaves, the property of Charles Andrews; Richard Hawkins, for stealing a hat, a pair of shoes, and other articles, the property of Wm. Powell ; Mary Murphy, for stealing two pairot breeOles, and other articles, the property of John Morris ; Jane Thomas, for stealing a black silk cloak, and other articles, the property of George Steele; Charles Nelson, for stealing a linen shirt, value 7s. the properly of James, Gibson ; Elizabeth Johnson, for stealing three sheets, the property of Patrick Corroll ; W,liianti B. Diamond, for stealing 3s. 9d. the propertyCif Richard Wright ; John Frogley, for stealing 2olos. weight of tallow, value los. the property of Messrs. Hobbs ; Antonio Fancisco, for stealing a blanket, value 3s. POLICE. Row•STREET.--Yesterday Daniel Johnson was brought to the above Office, charged w;th stealing a silver watch, dollars, and tokens, to the amount of 4L the property of Mr. Hinton, the grocer, in Ger rard-street, SohO. It appeared that the prosecutor missed his watch, and found his desk broken open, and the above cash stolen; in consequence of which he applied to Donaldson, the active Constable, who, after making due inquiriei, sucpected the prisoner, who is servant to a Gentleman in Hinton's house. Do• naldson,.on feeling the coat pockets of the prisoner, was convinced that he felt an instrument that had broke op 11 the desk. The ptisoner resisted b ing - searched most violently, saying he was no thief ; however, he was at length handcuffed, and Do naldson searched him, and found a crooked fork; on comparing it with the marks on' the desk, it was ascertained that it had broke it open; part of the cash stolen was found on him, and the watch was found under his pillow at his lodging. The prisone'r was committed for furt-herexamination. UNION-HALL.—Thomas Jones, John T fard, and Diana Edwards, were brought up by Goff, charged With robbing Ann Davies of 51. Mrs. Davies stated, that the prisoners, who were_ strangers to her, came to her house on the 29th of September last ; and Jones, representing himself as a Bow-street officer, said, he was come to apprehend her husband for a murder committed by him in Wales upwards of twenty years ago, and forwhic?i. a reward of tool. had been offered ; the circum stance, however, was only known to,himself and another person, and if she would give him 201. he Would preserve the secret, and save her husband.— The prosecutrix was very much alarmed at this charge, but said she had not 201. and asked leave to go and consult a neighbour. This, however, Ward prevented by guarding the door, and refusing either, to allow .her to go out, or any one to Come into the house, and Jones was proceeding to take an inventory of the furniture, all of which, he said, was forfeited. Diana Edwards, who passed as Jones's wife; said it would be better she should give the'2ol. as they could get LOOl. and h mg her hus band too if she did mirk; these, and other threats, so much alarmed her, that she gave them 51. with which they went away, after she had promised to grvethem more another time, bat soon afterwards Ward returned, insisted on seeing her husband, and drawing a sword, flourished it at her, which alarm ed her so much she went into fits, in which situa tion she was found by_ one of the neighbours, after Ward had again left the house. Jones came several times afterwards for money, but she had none to give him. She was loth to make any .complaints, as she was fearful the story, if known, might hurt her husband's character, who is a gardener, working for a Gentleman in the country,' but on the first of this month, two other persons came to her house on a similar errand, at two o'clock in the morning, and were taken into custody by a watchman ; this in duced her to make her complaint to the Magistrate, and in consequence of the information she gave, Gaff apprehended the prisoners in a ho i use in George-. Cdnit, Shoreditch. They were all fully committed for trial, for a ca pital offence.