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the assistance which the captured neg..oes afibrd, the country is assuming a more favour able aspect. - ". The town and public buildings are assuming' a more permamentform. " But even allowing th'ai it may be many years before trade and cultivation can advance in a great degree, and ansadeqtiate peenniary return can he made. to the mother country ICA- the expense which she has incurred,* yet this? does not essentially af fect the far nobler - purpose for which this colony was foUnded ; namely, the endeavour to ame liorate the condition of this.hitherto ill=fated nor, tinn of the globe. It certainly has bad the effect of d;ininishing, in-a Very great degree, the Slave -Trade in its neighbourhood. :The frequent inter ruptions and annoyances which that traffic receives .from the vicinity oe an establishment increasing daily' in consideration (and •lately very much in . power, by the constant presence of some ship of war); will, at no dislant-periqd, put an effectual stop to-it. The present white factors and dealers of course make, and will inakevery effort for its continuance ; .bUt they. are-diminishing , fast in number, and it is not likely that any new ones will'venture their lives in such situations as these factors arc generally placed, to carry on specula tions of such very hazardous issue. These Ob servations, however, :are limited to .this imme diate • part Of western Africa, and are not even in this small space without difficulties attached to them. It would haVe been in vain to make any at tempt to improVe the condition of Africa, without hiring first established a colony of some strength„ founded upon, equitable principles, from whence,, as a focus, all our efforts may, be directed : and #Owever Sierra Leone may have fallen short of the sanguine expectations which had been formed of its. success, 'there is. every fair probability that ; Africa gill ultiMately derive much good from this, settlement ; not rapidlyindeed, .nor perhaps ex tensively, for this century, bnt still advancing as fast: as can be reasonably expected from 'power and resources so slender and disproportioned to such a gigantic undertaking, as the civilization of any 'considerable portion of, a continent so steeped in barbarity as. Africa. ' " The. want of the.stsong controul of law,. and of a general systeni'ofjurisprudence, is ...so severe ly felt amongst: the traders inAfrica, that. the foundation of, a colony,,•which, may.at,t4in here after a Sufficient magnitude to render it a suitable seat for 'courts, armed with full authority to re prers and punish the enormities .which so fre quently happen on this coast*, and pass-without animadversion ; the foundation of such a - colony must surely be' considered as a matter worthy of very great, attention ; and there is no place on -the whole coast which 'could- in any degree be rendered so, efficient for this most desirable pur pose as Sierra Leone. • - • • " Neither his. the ,public money (considered merely as a matter of account) by any means been expended upon this colony without a return, which deserves a mach greater consideration than is generally given to it ; namely, the asylum which it has affoirded to the 'Nova Scotians and the Ma roons, so that they are no longer a burthen upon the British Treasury t." • *" Committed by white people." • t The report states, that there are 400 house.; within' the malls of Free-town, Sierra Leone, containing 1917 inhahi 'tants. This is entirely exclusive of the slaves who have been -, liberated under the sentence of the Court.of Admiralty, and ho, are supposed now to amount to upWards of 2500. The h uses in the town are valued at 26,6001. sterling. L 0 N D 0 N, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1812. We have this day tii►e satisfaction of laying before our Readers, the 211 Bulletin of - the French Army. It is tlated Moscow, the 27th inst. and does not contain one single Avorirkif inforMation. The French army, it seems, is-'resting after its fa- guo,-- . amid the ruins of Moscow, where'lluONA r.kr...iE, says, be hasfound soine sugar and some futSa e,boweyer, assures the lieoule of Franee , that the • .v.-..ather is still fine, though they have had sonic r 1:n and wine. frost. :BUONAPARTE does not talk Cirf.".1..1 - 4 ) ; his op rations, nor does he say he tends that his army should winter at Moscow ;, in a , v ord, all that we can collect from this - Bulletin is, t'vtt the French army has remained completely in a tive since it entered MOSCOW.. Some of the o:rcial articles: in the French ',rapers contain flat- Gring, accounts, of .the situation of thy French army, of the abundance of provisions with' which it is supplied, &c. but upon 'this essential point , ' the 22d Bulletin preserves a profOund si lence. Upon' the whole, the opinion which we .haye ventUred to express, respecting the critical and dangerous' situation Of the French 4rmy, is considerably strengthened by this Bulletin. The 10th of October was . the period, beyond which BUONAPARTE told us, some months ago, the cam _ paign could not continue 3 that penod has ar rived, and we find the French Army in pos session, it is true, of the ruins of the .an , - dent capital of the Russian Empire 3, but the Russian armies are Still • unbroken, the spirit ofthe Emperor is, unshaken, the patriotism 9r the people animated to the . highest pitch,. and the communication of the French army with the fron tiers is nearly cut off : there does - appear to us, therefore, the strongest ground to tope, that tlic tertniYiation oF this cativaign will be not oaly fa vourable to the Russians, but to the iiidepen dence of Europe. The French Papers which contain the Bulletin are to the 18th instant ; they arrived last night. It was this morning reported, that a vessel had arrived from Corunna, and that she brought an account that Bargos ,still held out on the 15th. •We have made every inquiry that we could 'upon the subject; bat we have not been, able to trace the report to any autlkeutic source.. it was very confidently asserted this morning-, that accounts had been reccited of the capture of Smolensko by the. Russians ; no official intelli gence to that effect has been received_, but we think such an event highly proba,ble. - Orders have beep given :for all the dispOsable ships of the line, now in the different ports, to be fitted for sea 4ithout delay, and proceed immedi ately to the Mr. PETRIE, lately. first in Council at Madras,_ has accepted the Government of Prince of Wales Island and its Dependencies, and was ahout,t6 proceed - 10 his station towards the middle of . th e month of Major-General WitnE - itbas beep removed from the Staff, in North Byitain, to the Eastern Dis trict, and appointed to command the Brigade at Woodbridge, in Suffolk. • A regimental depot , for the 89th Foot (Lord Lindsay's regiment) has been ordered to be esta blished at Trowbridge, in-Wiltshire. - • Several of the Contributors of Addresses to the Drury-lane Committee have presented their re specti•ve compositions through the medium of the public prints, and front all that have hitherto ap peared, tiley have vindicated the preference given to that of Lord ByRoN. Anew regulation, it seems,' has taken place at Drury-lane Theatre,, excluding all persons from the Orcen-rotirn but those who go there actually ,npan buSThess: This may be a very proper mea sure to prevent au influx of loungers , but in the time of GARRICK, who will not, ',perhaps, ever be equalled as a Manager, as well as,an Actor, the Green-room was the resort of the wits of the tine, and if they had interrupted business, be would soon have put an end to their visitations. It seerns to be doubtful whether Mrs. JORDAii is engaged this season at Drury-lane or Covent garden Theatre, and,..according to report, the Managers of both are resolute in their preten tious. The theatrical entertainments in the private theatre.at Kilkenny, which had been discontined, and were not expected to be renewed, were ye snmed ,a few days ago with the comedy of The Poor Gentleme4 and the farce of high Life below Stairs. An occasional Address, written by Sir R. LANGRISHE, Bart. was spoken by Mr. R. POWER, one of the Ainatelii• Performers. Report speaks highly of the performanee altogether, and the-re sumption/of these entertainments is likely to ,be very benehcial to the town, in rendering it a scene of attraction to the Nobility and Gentry of it e land. ' It is said that a daughter of JEANIAQUES Rous- SEAL/ lately died in France, after leading the life of a courtezati.' The principles incolcaled by her supposed father were very well calculated to dis pose her to such a career. EAST INDIES. HORRID MUTINY SUPPRESSED, AND INTENDED MASSACRE PREVENTED Within a few days previous to the departure of the Doris from Madras, intelligence reached that Presidency of a dangerous mutiny, for the mast fell and sanguinary purposes, having been newly detected at Travancore: Two of the native corps, making part of 'the Subsidiary Force of that king dom, bad for a long time meditated, as it appears, the butchery of their immediate European Officers, and had concerted and brooded over the means, and'had appointed the very time of carrying them into effect. It Was proposed at first to surround and massacre their unsuspecting and , unoffending superiors, While they s . hould'be assembled , at an entertainment given to them by Lieut.Xolonel Munro, the Britiish _Resident at that Court.-- Their ultimate intent, as since 'discovered, was to assist the Pychee-Rajah,, a refractory .and de posed Prince on the Malabar coaSt, in recovering his lost Musnud, On the fitly fixed for the 'entertainment, several Nairs, who were to participate in the secondary object, were absent ,from Tra.VanCore,..aud it be ing, in consequence, :deemed unsafe or unfit to cOmmence proceedings without, them,, the con san9uat ion of their diabolical intent was postponed to alime not very 'distant, when a.complimentary "return was to be made to the Rosident, as hnoWn to the mutineers, by the Officers of the Subsidiary Force. Within the interval, however, a full dis .covery of the treachery was made by a confidential Sepoy to the Adjutant of the Pith native batea-, lion 5, when prompt and instant measures were adopted to defeat, the conatemplated mischief. — The ringleaders - we:fe seized without lOss* of time, •and as, in revolts of this nature, sutuniary and immediate punishment is most striking and t„alu tary, two of the Native Officers, a Jemidar and, Havildai:, Who were principals in the mutiny, 'were selected from the rest, and, under the orders of.Lieutenant-Colonel H. Hall, s cotnmunding the Subsidiary Force, were blown fr'om a gun, in front of the troops, drawn up in line to witness tiieii well-deserved end Seven Nairs and 'Faquirs were some days afterwards' hung-, their -guilt having been ,pre . yiouslyinvestigated ana.aSeer tabled by the ordinary course of proceedings on the sp.ot; . • These seasonable punishments are said to have suppressed the spirit of mutiny, and all was appa rently, and we hope positively, quiet at the date of our private accounts, 4 IV - SI . - PLYMOUTIT, OCT. the 'letter of marque ship Patent, belongiAg to London, 4:>C7- . MASTER, master, from :Tanaka with a cargo ;. on her-passage from thence, she :fell spoke the AMerican - ship which she en;.. deavourpl to take possession of by stratagem, (the crew of the latter hot having been made acquaint . ed -that hostilities had commenced between this. country and America),, and succeeded . in, tuking,out the supercargo and mate, who were conveyed - on board the Patent; wheri Captain MAtIVIASTER mediately ordered his mate, with a boat'& crew, to board the Hannibal, and endeavour to put them 7 'selves in possession of lier,...which, we regret to state,. Was not effected ; and she escaped with' , those employed on the occasion. Soon aftei-th arrival on board of the mate and his crew, she :was discovered to be crowding sail ; it is there fore Conjectured, - the-American Captain then dis covered their intention. Tks, supercargo . and 'mate of the American PIT arrived in the Potent ; the HannibaT beautiful ship, from the East. Indies, a Very 'rich cargo,' had been trading four ,yeas s on the north-West coast or America,.. and an amazing fast•sailer. Since writing the, above, we learn, that the . Patent,, soon after the Hannibal had :escaped, spoke a vessel, and from her received intelligence -7 that the Honi;iind had been ear - Aurea near Ber-' mudaby one of his Majestys schoo,nei-s, The brig that ran •aground yesterziay morning , under Mount Batten, and which Was afterwards got off without any rroteri.iil da'mage, :vas the brig Neptune, belouging to. Yarmouth, 43ENJAm;N PASSON : master,' that arrived heFe -on the instant from Port Mahon and Gibraltar; with a cargo consisting of wine and cork, bound to London. Saile.tl his iNlitjesty's schooner Barbara,. with a fieet.of merchantmen, to the East-ward ;. among them are the following, viz. Alert,`AbA2.lS, Hope, BELFOUR, _Neptune, PASSEZc, and the American ship Boston, , 13AIN, for London j .the for Portsmouth and Chichester; and the 13etsey, Rosa s ;, for Dover. The Patent liomevard bound West Indiaman. a that arrived here 'this. day,, also . sailed with the fleet. Pat in here this day, by contrary winds, the Snake letter of marque, from London, bot'ind to the Cape of Good Hope. Arrived the Nancy, CLEMENTS, and the Mary and Martha, Cox, from Fowey ; the Pheasant,i Roam', from Penryn ; the Kingfisher, 1.1A1tm..,N, from Portsmouth ; and the Two Ffiend, MAD DOCK,. from Dartmouth. . • • . DEAL, OCT. 23 —Remain all lijs 31a3esty's ships under Admiral YOU'SG, and. the merchant men, coasters, and colliers, svind-bound. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 23.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Ardent from Bermuda, and the Bold sloop of war from a cruise. FALMOUTH, OCT. 21.—Put back the 'Seafloweak , sloop ca war, Lieut. STEWART, with the Amster: don pa' &et ; 'lnd the Apollo, MLLLER, both with. little damage ; the. rest of the convoy are dis persed. • Sailed the Fo rtunee frigate on a cruize, the Ann packet with Mails from Corunna, and the llicin chester packet with mails for Surinam. T 013., OCT. 22.—Arrived the Brig illinerva,,. Capt. BrLL,. of this. port, having been dismasted s. at sea and received otherdamage on the 19th, tci: leagues S. W. of Scilly : lost every -thing off th.,: deck ; she was one of theSectfloay.-T's convoy bound to Lisbon. SIIEFIII'NESS, OCT. 23.—Sailed to-day his Ma jesty's ship Forester, with a cotwoy for the Baltic. When the next 'convoy will sail is not ascertained. CORK, OCT. 19.—Yesterday arrived the Earl Spencer cutter, Lieut. BOTHWELL,' from Galway, with eN'v-r4ied men and substitutes for the fleet., Ibis Majesty's ship Pheasant, Capt. PALMER, With s tht outward-hound Newfoundland Beet, still remain wind-bOul'l. Reniains the Circe frigate, Capt. Woo Looms!, : during the gale. she drove. considerably. Last ni.rht, about half-pat nine, a most dread= ful storm came on, attended with thunder and lightning, which, we fear, has done_ considerable mischief along the coast. It continued to blow: the 1%-hole of the night with unabated fury—the wind principally at S. W. 1 -Except the loss of a few boats,- and the, blowing down of the gable end of a-new building, we do not hear of any con s . damage done, in , the neighbourhood.— he roof of the Admiral's house is nearly stript. The Sybille frigate, Capt. UPTON,-on going into Plymouth Sound, struck twice, and'received s uc h injury in her • hull, as to make it necessary to' carry her into -dock. kRV I / 4 :Cri PA.PICP..I TWENTI`-SECOND BULLETIN OF THE GRAIi AMY. M ..47 The Consul-GeneralLesseps has been appointed Intendant of the Province of MoScow. He has organized a municipality, and several .Commit , - siotis, all composed of inhabitants of the country. The fires have entirely ceased. We every day discover magazines of sugar, furs, clothes, &c. • - The enemy's army appears to retire upo.n - louga and Toula. Toula - contains the greatest manufactory ofarins an 'all Russia.. Our advanced guard is upon the Pakra. The Emperor - is lodged in the Imperial Palace of the Kremlin. We leave found in the Kremlin several of the ornaments used lat. the coronation of the Emperors ; , and all the flags taken front- the. Turks for the last hun:tre. - i years. • , The weather is nearly the same as at the Cn:l of ,Oetober at Pais. •4t rains a litile, auJ ,ve I,a‘e mad some white frosts. We arc assured, tLat the alloskwa and .tlie rivers, of the eonntry are not . - frozen over beore the middle of NOvember. The greater part of 'the ;army is' cantoned in in MO'sei".)w, where ft reciwers i'thni ifs P A nis OCT. 17 --We have to-day received' let tern from A lwicow,' dded the titt. 'The is in the best possiblesituation. to accumulate in the nutgazines. The ceThrs• 41r ^ tlMkt country are constructed_ in such a .7ninntr : 17 3 to be secured against fire,: atid the inhabitants of - Moscow- had im them aleposited all their: provisions - and most .precious i t t )ijects ; so that 't,few. after.the fire, abundance appeared in the city. Tile. , inlittbitants are employed in rebuil The counts the'nutnerott,i which ate between St. Pctele,!ifirglu and.. Twt4 haye remained Untouched •so th t:ie Mar- " ketti•cre-abundantly ,suppliec . % with vi.tgete,ble.: , awl • meats of all kinds. His Majesty's health has not experienced the . Slightest alteration throughout the whole campaign. The civil administration of Moscow is •Com pletely organised. BERLIN, OCT..3.—For some weeks 'our town has assumed a more pacific appearance than here .9tofOre. The numerous passings of troops have diminished, and consequently the expenses el Mi litary lodgings. We now enjoy the mostprofoond peace,r whilst the fate of Europe is being dccirLA the bosom of• Russia, and our troops tale part intlie great blows which arc struck there..B6ides the Prussian people are cured of their too ea:_ly ;credulity, and of :heir predilection for the Rus i sians, which late events have . enabled them to ;know:. Our troops, who fdrm a part of the 106 corps of the Grand Army, •have been, reinforced, and, again completed to their full extent. Their C9ll - in the different battles which they have givea-. has merited flattering eulogiums, from their Chiefs; The Duke of Tarentuin, • their Commander-ia- -- Chief, has expressed to themlis particular faction. Our deserters, Who, at the Fon-urn:nee : men(of the present war, quittect the Prilissian set.- vice, to enter.that of Russia, are paid with ingra titude by the Russians. Several of them hare loSt their places, and the remainder all kind of respect. On their side, our Government proceeds against them with riour •' The Russians and English have menaced us • a disembarkation, but this threat has not 4en ;realised. The coasts are besides occupied by 14 good number of troops, who would make th e .euemyqepent• their iproject, should — they attempt :,, , hutz: the, season is approaChing \Oen they will longer be able to remain in the Baltic on ac count of the ice. - • MINISTRY OF WAR. a. We have received intelligence of the junction of the armies of the.centre and the south of Spain. This. junction was effected on the 30th of Sep tember, at Tavarra, (Murcia), between General TreilhatO . division, and the advanced '' : q;uard of the army of the South, commanded by General Soult. The - latter marched the following day ; with : his cavalry, to ; Albacete, and has been re, placed at Tavarra by General Count &Brion.— On the 30th 'of September the Duke of Dalmati& was -in person at Calasparra, and was immediately to proceed to his CathOlic Majesty at San Felipe. EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER. Moscow, SECT: 22'.--4:trder is et laSt re-esta blished- in this city; The Marshal Duke of Tre viso is named Governor of Moscow and the Pro vince, and General Milhaud Commandant of. the City.. The -to-sl•ri was divided into 20 quarters . ; this division remains, and, each quarter has a special Commandant. Much has been said of a militia of peasants which the Russian Government had form ed : scarcely has it been able to assemble, wale • thou,sands of men. ,We have talien.a.certain number of them dying with hunger and lassitude: They say they were driven on like a drove of cattle. igot withstanding all that has been done to rouse these men, they did not , succeed in re:eh:ring them fa natics. They, every where'threw away the pikes with which they were armed, and only demand ed to return to their villages: Their uniform consists of a bit of copper, attached to their caps; which represents an A surmounted with a Greek cross. This mark upon the heads of the - recruits, reminds us of the manner in which horses, some years ago, were raised in France. The letter A or AT was placed upon the head to indicate ,that they belonged ,to-the artillery or provisions. This comparison is but just, fur here they esti mate men but as certain animals, and • one may , easily obtain several , men for one horse. The young men of ~ I.lloscow • were formed into small companies of grenadiers and chasseurs, and in foot and 'mounted cossacks : they had the inclination, but not the power td, fly. We took some of them every day. According to the accounts of the inhabitants who rc,nained at Moscow, the Emperor Alexan der was expected there on the 10th of September, but he did not appear in this capital. The Grand (To be cc\ntinue€l.) • MAILS. . • Dublin.7tTE-1 Guernsey, 1 Jersey, I Gniten -.1)ur;11, I Waterford. ' PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. 58g- I Red. Ann. .. I'(11$01 THE SUN. ;OLEN QUIS DICEME AuDEAT?