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ons ~ ~ i a' ~ 7,1-rs pr DAY .1 I' T'VE)An. I.')Clc• .... 59 . 1 i I OIDDit:ID 11 7 SUN J • 7t W./ tS DICEILE FALS ' UM AU PEAT / I 0 N D 0 A r , SATURD:IY, SEPTEMBER 12 ; 1812. • Goverriment.reCeived Dispatches tlTis day from Lord WILLIAM 13ENTINCK communicating, we understand, the: , 'interesting intelligence,: that vass'alage, villeinage,. and all: feudal rights, _ . are for ever abolished. in - Sicily, and that a new Constitution is immediately to be formed in that CoVntry on the model of the British Con __ stitution. This determination has • diffused general joy throurbont Sicily, and' they look forward with eager' hope to the' benefits to be . derived from these measures, und'cr . the protection oY the British Governthent., We yesterday mentioned a rumour of JOSEPH BITONAPARTE having been. taken ;i we understand that Sir HOME POPHAM has transmitted a report which reached him from Saldanha, stating, that JOSEPH BUONAPARTE had BEEN _TAKEN PRISONER at. Taranzon,. and th,e-troops he bad with him • totally defeated. Sir notE gives this report as he ~receivedit. /~ ~ 'The Neptune and John h:ve arrived at Plymouth from Quebec ; they sailed - five weeks since, in company with a fleet consisting of about 72 sail, under convoy of the , Savage, of 16 guns. — The information • they bring is, that the Bri tish Troops had - ruarclied from Quebec into the interior, in order to cothmence - operations against the Americans, who had appeared -in force in Upper Canada, and had taken Amherst and a few other forts of little consequence. The Cana dians had expressed. their determintion to sup port the British. Quebec was very strongly for tified, and no apprehensions were entertr i ined for • its,safety. The fol- "A Malta Mail . arrived this morning. lowing are the only articles xvorth - extracting from the Papers it brings . . . MALTA, .Ttx.y 24.—Accounts froinSinyrna state, that the plaigue still continues its ,ravages there, and rather increases. MALTA, JULY 22.—0 n the l 6th inst. a most, violent tempest , of lightning and thunder took place at Aressina,,, and the, rain with which it was accompanied considerable damage to . the houses. The castle of Scala. was struck by the lightning, and the powder magazine blew up,— 'The Commandant and 30 soldiers were killed. T:le fire communicated to the magazines and the houses in the fort, and burned for three days..:— This accident occasioned a considerable loss to tl:e enemy. In Consequence of the peace concluded between Russia and the Porte, though the publication of it has not yet been made, 700 Russian .prisoners, have been set at liberty. The Black' Sea is en- tirely free, and all, vessels may go in and out .without being subjected to any-contrilption. The MiniSter, the Chevalier IT-VA.'S-SKI, ar.. ,rived at Constantinople On the. 35th ult. Mr. LISTON, Ambassador from his BRITANNIC MA - E TY, had arrivecrtv'o "days before . ; the Ainbas tador front Sweden had also arrived. - Paris Papers to the 7th have reached town, but the! contain,.no official intelligence from the armies._ There are, however, some farther details relatiVe to the actions .at Sruolensko, in which it' is stated, that the 'Russians are retreating, upon MOscow. The cause 'of the meetings of the Con servative Senate remains unexplained. Through the"channel by which these Papers were cOnveyed to this Conntry,'it has been a.scer, taine4, that private lerters,Jeceived at-Paris from ,`_ , molengz.o; state the loss of the French, in the batile of the 19th, to have been immense. One letter says,-;—".thii . :losS in officers and inen,,huve been so great, -that I dare not mention it. There one General Of Division killed, and three. other Gonerals wounded." Of,course, no letters of thiS description,have been•permitted to, appear -in the Paris Papers. • • •The following particulars are stated relative to the evacuation bf I3ilboa . :-,-On Sunday, the 9th of August, the French. Officer in command at -Bilboa received orders to prepare for the evacuation of port and its neighbourhooil, - With which ,he complied, by destroying. the works and spiking the heavy artillery the -following day.-- 'rife succeeding Tuesday counter-orders were. transmitted to hith to retain the place, and 4) con sequence of these , new instructions, he held a Council of WTar, at which it was determined, that having, in pursuance of the. first direction, destroyed the means of defence, the plAce was no longer -....tenable; In these circumStances, he abandoned it, and some Skirinishes in the progress of his retreat took place, particularly on the 14th of the month. Therrench, as an expedient in their 'embarrass nnt, their strength then consisting lot ol:ly 1500 I - ven, gave out, that they were to be reinforced by parry of 6000 men. . Until the truth of this re rresenta.tion should be, ascertained, the Spaniards withdrew- to an adjacent, elevation, , and haying reconnoitred the country,. they deemed it - prudent to renew the attack at Durango. . corn pleteiy successful ; - the enemrwas driven from the place, and closely pursued on the road to Vittoria. NAVAL N 1 S, 10.—Arrived list in:ening the ships Neptune, and John, WILLII.MS, Vdth :belonging to, London, from Quebec, with cargoes, of timber for, his Majesty's Dock-yard •at this port ; sailed five Weeks since, in company with a ,fleet, - consisting of about 72' sail, under convoy of his_ : Majesty's brig Savage, 'l6 guns : parted company 16 days since to the Eastward of the Banks of Newfoundland, the fleet then con sisting of about 40 sail, the others having sepa rated-, which, it is supposed, are astern, as the Neptune' and Johiz are faSt sailing vessels ; the Bothers, BLAKE, with timber for thiS.Dock-yard, is among theileet. -.About 10 days since, in lat. 50. N. king.. 18. W. the Neptune and John fell in - With a • fleet, consisting of about 30. sail,under convoy of a frigate and a brit„Tof war, steering to 'the westward. - The Minerva frigate, Captain HAwKiNs, and Tar tarus sloop of Nvar, Captain PAsc,O, with seven sail of transports under their convoy, having on board troops from Barbadoes; were seen by the fleet, going Up the river St.' Lawrence ; one of the transports, with 200 troops on board, : bad sepa— rated from the convoy, and was captured by the tinit-ed States frigate Essex, but afterwards ran 7. somcd fOr 12,000 - dollars,• and permitted to pro-_ cecd to the port of her destination, on Condition the troops were not to serve against America during the. : continuance of , the war. The British troops. had marched from Quebec Into the interior, pre= vious to the departure of the Net,' in order to cominence operations against the Americans, Who had appeared in great force in Upper• Canada, and had taken Amherst, and a few other forts , of little consequence. The Canadians,. we understand, have expressed their deterthination to support the British.. Quebec was very strongly fortified, and, no apprehensions were entertained respecting it. . , '2lThe transport- captured by the American frigate Essex, was nambered 239, and belonged to DA.w, SON & CO. of London, Merchants% Two American privateers were cruizing off Cape Ct.DCO, and had taken several merchant vessels belonging to Gaspe. Arrived, at 7 o'clock this morning, the squa dron under the command of Lord li_tFru, Qom manden=in-chief of the Channel Fleet, from off Brest, 'consisting of the following ships, viz.: San Josef, of 120 guns . (flag ship) ; Tigre, of 80 guns; MagnVee,pt, Abercrombie, and Conqueitador, of 74 guns each. • The brig Minerva, MANN, master, that missed stays yestevday in the 'Sound, and drifted . ashore under Drake's . Island, has been got Off, and is rather leaky, occasioned by the dani3ge she re ceived in her bottom. The Matilda transport ship, belonging to this pott, i's to 1, 3 ,.. , teed from betide this week for Kir _ kaldy, i ip Scotland, with French prisoners. Put inhere tts day, for provisions and water, the brig Mary, CUTHBERT'SON, master, froM bon, ,with a cargo of wool, bound to London. Arrived the Swedish brig Crown Prince, HA:! , .7- NgNi3uRGH, master, frOm New York, in ballast, '33 dayS passage; she brings intelligence that the' *Gleaner hired armed ketch, with dispatches froni England, arrived there on the 3d August no particulars had transpired at time of the th.TOrture of the w Prin&?. It is -reported here, that the "Eoius. frigate has captured, and carried into Halifax, the 'American sloop of war;Carlew i the latter, it is said, was fitted at New York,,and had been out only a fesir . hours when fallen in With by the lEolus, Came down the HarbOur and anchored in Caw sand' Bay, . his Majesty's ship Clarence, a new 74 gun ship, built at Turnchapple, within this port. Arrived the. Two Brothers ;ELLIs , and the Friends,' CUMING, from Wales ; the..Earmers, TONKIN, and the Dove, PERKINS, from Penryn ; the Mary and Elizabeth, GAaD, from Falmouth ; and the .Mary Ann, Lo•NrumALD, from Fowey. . By a letter received here this day from Halifax, we learn, that the ,Emulous. sloop of war was wrecked on the 2d August last on Ragged Island, near Cape Sable, crew saved by'the boats of a Slodp of War that was cruiiing in company with her, and carried 'into Halifax, where they were put on board the Nautilus, an American sloop of war, prize to the Belvidere frigate. FALMOUTTI, SEPT.9.—ArriVedthe Windsor ,Castle . packet, with mails from the Mediterranean. Put back the Nancy schooner,. IlunT nn, bound tf) Gibraltar, leery; joined ihe ontward-bound .7.rieliterranean convoy under his I\lv - sty's sliips Pampa . and PGulina, on the sth Sept. Sailed,his . Majesty's: ship Iphig,4a, with her convoy of. Indiamen and whalers, for the Downs 5 joined, brig NiMble', MOrngsAY: • • ISLANDS OF SCILLY, SEPT. s.—Put in by con trary winds his Majesty's sloop Eclipse, last from St. Helena, with passengers and dispatches : she ,parted company with the Iphigenia frigate, and the Other part of the eonvq, to thiia Islands a few leagues, being mull in want of water awl some other necessaries. After reeeiv.A.: . 1v; she sailed . up Channel. , '6 ''' I PP L Y , Came in the brig Pr/Want,. of London, DAyiz. - - port, Master, from Majorca, bound to Plymouth, laden With vtilienand . cork ; put ujider quarantine, all well: Arrii'ed the sloop Neptune, of this port, fom Bristol and Wales, with coals, groceries, &e. POOLE, SEPT. I 1 ..:=-Arrived the Telemachus, BA s.k.vrv' from' Miramichi,. in 40 days ; came cloSe along the coast of Newfoundland,. and saw no thing of any privateers ; brings no particular TLCW;3, only that when she left Miratnichi there was a lit tle alarm spread on accOunt of a large assemblage of Indians in the neighbourhood, and apprehen— sive of their having a hostile desigr.. / A LIVERPOOL, -. SEPT. w.— .rrived the Ning./e, Cupp, from Bahia;' sailed the Ist July,' was in company with the Antsley, CRAWFORD, from Africa for Liverpool for some days,. and left her on the 19th August off the Azores ; same day boarlled the American ship Virgin, with 11 other Americans in company, all from Philadelphia for, Lisbon, with flour ; out 21 days. ' • Arrived the liannah Best, from Tortola, soiled • Ist August.; on the 4th, fell in with the home ward bound fleet that sailed '3lst lulp, Consisting of .56 sail, and kept company,with f ‘ hem until the 18th, whin she parted from them. ~_, Sir EDWARD „peRRY is appointed to the Mtrfleur, of 98 guns.; . . A letter from Scilly, received in town thi's morn ing, mentions the calling there of the Fervent gun brig from Lisbon for:England, and adds, that her Commander on the passage jumped . overbOard and was drowned. . His body was recovered, bat in a lifeless state. The Fertent has: arrived. TIIE THEATRE:---The Foundling of the R)rest was represented fast night at Covent Garden Theatre. The part. of Eigeniti was performed by Miss MAR RIOT, who, about seven years a:,,ro, belonged. to ,that Theatre. 'She has since been chiefly engaged . at Bath, where she has certainly not been inat tentive to the study of her profession, as she last 'night manifeSted great improvement. Her •person is somewhat increased; her voice is more powerful, her deportment is easy and ,expressive, and she supported the character throughout with considerable ability, and .was 'deservedly much ap plauded.—Ak AzBoT, who three or four seasons ago was engaged, at the Haymarket Theatre, and 'Who also comes from Bath, performed the part of Florian, of which we believe; be Was tile original representative. • His figure is neat, but small ; his 'performance was un affected,. and Ni-as marked by feeling.----Youlco, on his first appearance for the season, in the part of De Valmont, received' a very flattering greeting. His performance . was very iinPressive. EGERidN, who seems now to be . the Stock-tyrant of this Theatr, ably represented the part'of Lon gueville, and F4tRLEY is well entitled to commenda= tion for the compunctious energy .which he played, in that of Bertrand. Miss „Booeni, - and LI&TON and his Wife, 'also respectively received a favourable notice, and the piece went off very successfully. , An oper;;,vvhich has been very sticcessfully per formed in Dublin, is expected to be soon brouibt. forwar.l at the Lyceum. The was composed by Sir Joni; !.3TEI-LxsoN, the author of many, ex ,- cellent compositions. A ue;v pla i y frojn thf'! author Of The Foandling of the- Forest, &c. is r t.() be among the early no velties at Covent-Garden Theatre. The,poetic.,Al candidates for the laurel at Drury lane Theatre ought to know who are to 'decide upon the Merits of their respective Addresses, for 'otherwise the unsuccessful authors may have rea son to say, with- Sii Fretful Plagiary, " writes himself" Arr: coATEs, thecelebrated'Amateur Actor; last night performed the character.of Lothario, at the Richmond Theatre. The fame of, this Gentleman, though his name was not announced in the play-' bills, had , spread so widely through all the neigh bourhood, that the Nobility and-Gentry thronged to see the perfeirmance:' That they were highly rewarded for the -trouble : and expense:cannot be doubted, for though the play was a Tragedy, there was an incessant roar of laughter during the whole of Mr. COATES'S performance ; and when Lolhario expired, the audience -were so perfectly satisfied with .what they, had enjoyed, that they would ndt suffer the last act to be rewesented. Mr. COATES, however, after the dropping of the curtain, 'recited a poetiCal dissertation upon ilobbies, in which the encore was so loud . and general, tint he recited it a second time, and the ludicrous effect Was by no.means weakened by the repetition. After all, as Mr. coAT.,Es was induced to appear on this Occasion, in .order to serve a person in embarrassed civumstances, the audi, enee; from respect to his humanity, should not have been so much entertained by the eXertipn of hid, talents. The Duke of CLARENCE was present. Worcester MuSical Festival commenced on Wed nesday. • The collection ~a t the Cathedral doors amounted to 334/. ss. Oc/. being upwards of 200/.' more than was collected on the same day at the lastineeting, Two divisions of the Oxford Blues have • passed through that eity,within the lt two days, on. their route from the- North •of England, for . Ruinford barracks, in Essex, were they are to wait till they are equipped for Spain. SUnday a draft of 200 men from the 4th batta- lion of the Royals, now at Musselburgh, embarked at Leith fOr Tilbury Fort, from thence to proceed to Spain, to reinforce the 3d battalion. The West Suffolk Militia have marched from Liverpool to Halifax, in Yorkshire, where their bead-quarters now are. ittNEwED itidt§ At Not 'INAIt. NoTTiriOHAM, SErr. q.—. 06 Monday .thorn ing, a baker in Nottingham advanced 'the pric of his fibur two-pence a ztone, in the face of a falling market, wilich so enraged the women, that . several got a fishing-rod, and fixed a half penny loaf upon it, which they coloured over with -reddle, : in imitation ()fits being dipt in blood, and likewise adorned it with e piece 'of crape. _With this they began to parade the streets, and 'soon . Collected a N;ery,lakge - ',_illoli, among schich were tWo ,women with hand-bills, 'ho were dignified : With the titles of !Madan i and Lady Liidd. The: first object of their. vengeance Was the . baker who had advanced the price. of his dont. ;. :they broke his: windoWS, and compelled him to drophis ffohr pence a stone: The inob:thendiViled into - several' parties, and treated,nearly every.baker •and flour•:. - ,sellerrin the Same•maimer ; not sparing thekwin dows till they had promised to drop sour sixpence per!.stnne... In vain did the Mayor and' the other :Magis'tratets reason with them on the impropriety of their conduct, The Mayor, at length, 'ordered Out the military, and: peace vas,. apparently re stored. During the night,. a party went to . Alderman Bate S's. farm, about, two miles hence, and, after regaling theinselVes with ,such face asAlie•house ainrded; they tank zvay.a blunder- buss and'a 'They likewise wenita the. house' of cone of Lord Chesterfield's keeper's, and took away his, lire-urin.s. and soirie hams. Edit TalesTimes (lay morning the scenes of tumult . were renewed :With inc. eased violence; carts loaded with pota -toes w - ere stopped in, the streets and Sold at re— thteecrprices; • acorn warehouse was attacked with Treat friry - In well as many bakers'. shops, bet without any inisehTef being 'dom.., ex,cept - the breaking of windows, and some other trifling af fairs. A peace 'dthcer and :a party"- of the West E:erit Militia, are now stationed in every house or warehonse considered in danger, while parties of hussars constantly parade , the streets. Yesterday three priSoners Were brought in'from a neighbou ring. village.—All : is quiet this morning. • I V- . The body of a man or the name df Crabtree wat found, a short-time 'Since, in- the neighbourhood of StOckport, disfigured bl 7 a number dt'wouirds,. and very- much burned. from the situation in which /he body was found, it has suppOsed that the deceasedhad:neen murdered'. A coirespon- - dent, in The Chester. Chronicle, however; :gives 'the following' elucidation of the business appears, from' what has lately been ascertained, :that a number of those misguided and desperate. men, called Luddites, met on Newton-heath.; on -• the night of the 30th of July, for the purpose of cone.eitin . g measures for the assassination of a • person (whose' name it stimuli be imprudent to mention) whose condiict had given them no litele • uneasiness, and had tended to the expo Sure of their secret designs. It was agreed, that he .should lie shot; and in loading a gun for that purpose, with three --musket balls, it accidently went off, and killed Sam.. Crabtree, one of the conspirators, who made himself active in procuring, amthunitiou. , The marks of fire upon his person were occasion- eel by the explosiOn, at-the same time s ,. of a consi-.: derable quantity of guMpowder, which he had his pocket. An event so fatally unexpected,,pne an.end tO their iniquitous plans, and they nitide off in different directions. The Court of Directors of. the East India Com' —, pang- have unanimously voted their thaAs, and It? handsome gratuity, to Mr. BRUCE, the Compaoo; Historiographer, as .a testimony of their approlw tion of his serviees to . the Company, - in .hislate' publications on-Indian .ktfairs. The . suggestion Mentioned in this Papefof Tues‘' day; of the propriety *of, publishing the whole Of , the-Addresses sent to the Committee of Drury'" lane Theahre, for the Ip,urpose of being sooken its opening, has "betn.imprOied by a writer Wivi e signs himself TdEATRICUS, 111 a Morning ox yesterday. Thti writer proposes that the profits of the puhli , :atiou shoi.lc.l ne deVOted.to the Fand for the relict - hf decayed Actors. ..ThiS would be 0 very lantlable apnlic - ation of the profits, whitil might be increi;sed if the,work. publishedbi subscription, and Snbseribers allowed to contr,t-. httte what they - pleased.. The names of the re-. Spective anthors of sucli AddreSses as, though not: . lu,merit; be entitled to Ptibi l - ° approbatiOnonight also he''given, - With their coo- sent, and the work rvohid tasting - monucheilt of genius and benevolence. . On Tuesday se'nnight a'very numerous m eeting . of Proprietors of hind, interested in'the drainage of South Holland, took pla,ce at Spalding. It - kva 4 'attended by his Grace the Duke of of SOMERSET, Sir J. BANK:Es, Sir Joithi TROhhoph, Mr. ri{EE MANTLE,. the Commissioners, and other into-* gent Gentlemen. 'lt had been reported, that boil' Lord CASTiZ,ItEAGH and Air. CANN.ING, who have estates in that ncighboerhood, were also to be , present'; but the y did not attend. The Duke‘to4 the (Their at one o'ciack, anti stated, that the re", son why the Committee, for conducting the pr'; posed Measure oidrainage had' called that Generati Meeting of the Proprietors, was, that th e gr''3 public measure was• impeded by disagreements .e7* • s' tween them (the' Coiinnittee) and the Cornnll;_ sioncrs, which it Was desirable to obviate fo r future ; and that that could . only be done by b`: Proprietors at large giving to the Committee powers of proceeding in the execution of tilt''' . ' l e i ; solutions, notwithstanding any dissent .tro t ca part of the Commissioners, This was pr9rs,,:e in a perfectly ainicable understandiOg: at pre s e :; with the Commissioners, but, with a from experience„of its .necesSity.. Mr. : MANTLE, after an able: speech, moved the re '7 l , lutioas for giving these new powers to the 1; 0 i: e a • mittee ; and they, \vete all tinanithouly a do} by the meeting. • link° At the above meeting, a letter f r om we of SomEnsvr to ,SirJosEPH. BAI:KEs was read. -excited the admirtitioofevery person presenitwo n was of the length of a great many folios, the a narrative of his Grace's perambulation ooa vi , hole,line of country upon :which Solidi. is 'dependent for drainage, with a most an 11" v r h;story of its ancient iii = vt o ` :111die.must have been the oc lo i .;-,reat time and .rpains in inquiry and " 5° ,05 1 and of a Mind addicted to think for the ad°l- ofthe country. • t and r