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MAILS. ARRIViD—x Guernsey, I t Dublin. Dua—t List: bon, t Malta, l Dublin, 3 Waterford. ;;TOCKS. THIS UAY Ar TwyLvzo'cLacr 6o} I s per Cent. Navy 901 91 Consols. •- - 1 1 TT U N. ii.LEM QUIS DICJRF FAI.SUM;AUDEAT? LONDO TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1812. A retort wastirrulated last night that a Messen ger had arrived with dispatches from Russia, but we can state• positively that there is no foundation for it. It was also confidently asserted th:-Lt a Nies .. sender had arrived from Austria with dispatches and wi , h presents foi the PRINCE REGENT, but this report is entitled to no more credit than the formei. D:spatclies were this tncrning received from Lord WELLINGTON ; they merely, we understand, con tain the dotails of the siege of Badajoz. Letters from Cadiz of the 24th ult. confirm the' account which had before reached-us of the treachery of General Cnuz, the Spanish Governor of Alicant They state that Mr. TOPPER (who had arrived at Cadiz, having been ordered to Tilt Alicant by the Governor) having some suspicibn of the fidelity of General CRUZ, watched his house in company with a man belonging to a Guerilla party, and on seeing a person leave it, they both followed the stranger to the adjacent mountains. • On arriving there, Mi. Turrutt presented a pistol to the breast of the strange-r, and demanded that be should give up any pavers about his person. The man complied, end delivered to Mr. Torpsa dispatches from CRUZ for the French Commander, vt hid) removed all un certainty as to the treachery of the former. On this communication being made to the Regency, orders were sent out to CRUZ to resign his situation its Governor of Abeam. We this morning received Lisbon Papers to the 3I st : they state t hat 'the siege of Badajoz is car ried on. with uncommon vigour. The besiegers have Completed -their third parallel, and have car ried one of the out-works of the place by storrn..L It does not appear that the French mean to make any attempt to relieve Badajoz ; but they will pro bably threaten Ciudad Rodrigo. We have made the foli‘ow:og extracts from these Papers : BA,Nxs OF TUB TORMES, MARCH B.••••••.MARMONT arrived here yesterday, and to-day his equipages en tered, It is much doubted whether he will attempt to succoor Badajoz ; hitherto we have seen no dis- Vositions for this purpose. The French say that there is colleaing a train of besieging artillery in Valladolid, ordered from Pampeluna and Bayonne, to attack . Ciudad Rodrigo. MARCH 9.-NARMONT has taken the route to wards Avila, and BONNET lot Benevente ; of their sub sequeni intentions we know nothing. The French corps liere'is unremittingly occupied in constru6l ing waggons, and erecting mills to grind corn. The Chief PADILHA, destroyed 4 days ago, t to of the enemy ; on every side the patriots are busily em ployed. Yesterday VICTOR arrived with 400 horse and 600 infantry. The hones die at every step, and it is certain that more than 100 are already dis mounted ; a great number of C , Ccers accompany the convoy, and General GIRARD, who appears in despair. MAncu 1 i.-..MARNIONT is in Salamanca ; the rrefeet has: set out to accelerate the col'eaion of the provisions and money which each place is to furnish, according to the scale laid down. It ap pears that the obje& of these preparations is the attack Gf Ciudad Rod.igo. They expect for this, artillery from Panpluna, and ammunition from Va lencia. According to the last accounts frornVit toria and Bayonne, no reinforcements had arrived there. _ • VILLA FRANCA, MARCH 14.—Accounts have been received of two anions, in which the Commander, CANIPILLO, has obtained considerable advantages at the village of Meruelo, between Santana and 'San tander. It is also said, that a Mail has.been inter --cepted with various papers, and among them some letters which intimate the.return of the French to France. BANKS OF THE GUADALQUI% IR, MARCH SOULT has marched southward, and it is positively' asserted for the purpOse of attacking Tarifa. FRONTIERS OF THE NORTH OF PORTUGAL ' MARCH 15:—The regiment of Castilie ca9adores, corryrnandf.dby chief, MANZO, has made 200 of the enemy's dragoons prisoners, between Leoa, and Villa Monta.—This intelligence is official. VALENCIA D'ALCANTARA, MARCH 10 The -works against Badajoz are continued with a&ivity, and a more brilliant success even than that at Ciu dad Rodrigo is expected. The enthusiastic joy of the inhabitants of this province at seeing its capital likely to be rescued from the hands of the enemy, is indescribable. The gandard of liberty waving upoti its walls*will be the signal for new exertions. The feebleness of the enemy, and his confusion, must produce a vio lent explosion, which will revive our grandeur with that degree of glory winch is due to our love of ic dependence, our constancy in the struggle, and our resolution not to submit to the haughty enemy. LISBON, MARCH 36.--The account of the taking by assault of Furt Picurina, the outwork of Bida joz, is confirmed. Seventy prisoners were taken ; the number of the killed is not known with cer . tainty. LISBON, MARCH 25.—Letters from'Elv - as of the date of the 2 Ist, confirm the accounts before.re- - ceived of a sally made by the French on the 19th, with two thousand men, when they were repulsed . with the loss of 50 killed and 300 wounded, leaving a number of . inuskets and knapsacks on the the field. Their Excellencies Lord WELLINGTON and Count TRANCOSO are in the field before Badajoz. 111 e works of the besieging army are carried on with great activity, notwithstanding the bad Weather.— The besieged keep up but a feeble fire. It is lor-NI that some of our batteries will be completed by tfie 23d or 24th. _ LISBON, MARCH battery of t guns h3ve ing opened on tort Picurina,. we carried it by a;;ult on the night of the 241 h. The loss on either side is not yet known. • LISBON, MARCH 19.--Letters from Badajoz have just been received. • Our operations there go on most prosperously. On the evening of the 25th, we took by assault, after a most desperate . engagement, the strong redoubt called Pickrina, in front of Badajoz• It was occupied by 250 picked men, with five guns and a howitzer; 180 were bayoneted, the rema:nder surrendered.; and the taking possession of this plate enables us to carry our works to •the west of 1 . 4 e Gl3cis; it was not carried without loss on our pair, the regiments were the 45th, 74th, 88th, and 11 th Portuguese; under Colonel KEMP. MARCH 30.--PHILIPPON :had let the water the Guadiana into the ditch, so as to cut off retreat from Picutina, the garrison of which received no injury till our men got in ; they then called for quarter. MARMONT is at Sal.trnanca, and we should not be surprised here at hearing he had made some at tempt aoingt Ciudad Rodrigo or Almeida, as a set off against Badajoz. a The QUEEN and PRINCESSES are expoaed in town to-day. Yesterday the Marquis of HERTFOIID gave'a grand dinner to a numerous party, at his house in Man chester-square. Sir SYDNEY SMITH, we are glad to hear, was bet ter last night, and is likely to recover. He bus been attended with the most anxious solicitude by his Lady and three daughters, t he Misses Hu MBOLD. —His medical attenclant,s have been Dr. MOSELEY, and Mr. WILSON, the Surgeon.. Letters from Riga, of the 16th of March, state, that the Emperor ALEXANDER was expeaed soon to join the army, should no _satisfaElory adjustment take place with France. The Generals appointed to command under his Majesty were WITGENSTEIN, KuTuso\v, and ESSEN. A report had reached Riga, as the post was departing, that the Russian troops had entered she Prussian territory. Eleven mails from Russia remained due in Sweden. Let._ tors of various dates had, however, been received from St. Petersburgh, where the exchange had risen from 14 to 15!, Troops continued to pass tlaough that city day and night. Some copes of a Russian Tariti have been received, -by which colonial pro-, duce—cottons and other goods of British manufac ture—are admitted under neutral flags. It is mere ly a revival of the Tariff of last year. The Carlsham cargoes have been partly sold, and - at high prices : the remainder continue on sale : and when the whole are disposed of, it is given out, that the proceeds, after some allowances to the Swedish Government, will be paid Co persons pro perly authorised to receive them-on British account. Music.--The fifth of the VOCAL CONCERTS, under the direction of the KNYVETTS and lhe VALI- Citi.ANS, took place last night, at Hanover-square.-- The performance was throughout well selected, and supported with admirable skill. A glee fur four voices, composed by W. KNYVETT, •‘ Nannie, 0 !" was encored ; and so was a song given by - BRAtratvi, " Slow leroke the light," cotnposed by himself.— We have not room to detail t h e merits of the Con cert, which was highly applauded by a very numer ous and fashionable audience. LYCEUM.--The new Comedy, under the altered title of The Sons of EriL, was repeated last night with very great succe,s. A needless charaEter was omitted, and the whole compressed without impair ing its power to interest and amuse. THE TUNNEL.-Between four and five o'clock yesterday morning, the Highgate Tunnel fell in with a tremendous crash, and the labour of several months, was in a •few moments, converted into a heap of ruins. Some of the workmen, ,who were coming to resume their daily labour, desCribe the noise that preceded it like that of distant thunder. It was the Crown Arch, near Horn sey-lane, that first gave way, and the lane, iu encase quence, fell some feet deep, and inseam!) , became impassable. The houses in the vicinity et the fall like the shock of an earthquako. The number of persons whom the fineness of the weather attacted on Sunday, to inspect the works, were not less than 800. , How providential that the fall was re served for . a moment when no person was on the spot, "to suffer by an accident which has reduced this Herculean task to a heap of rains. BREAD. -To day the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, after inspecting the returns, ordered the present pi ices to continue. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING, 1131 z. MOPIDAY, APRIL 13. Id Sackville's 1. by Dick Andrews & bought Off 'Gower., 3-yrs old, 85t..71b. beat Itlajor Wilsron's d. by, Ap plegarth, tlnn by Don Quixotte, z yrs old, 7st. Two yrs old Course, boogs. h ft. Mr. Craven's Tooley, 6sts beat Mr. Howarth's Invalid, Ssr. 71b. Two-yr-old Course. 20-,gs, h. ft. —6 to son Tooley,_ Mr. Shakespear's Tumbler, beat Ld Oxford's Viaoria, Bft 61b. each. Across the Flat. zoogi. h. ft.-6 to 4on T u in bier. . . Sweepstakes of roegs. each, h ft. for foals dropped in 18o9; •colts, Bst. 71b. fillies, Sat. 41b. Across the Flat. Those got by untried stallions to be allowed 31b. and those'out of mares which Lid not bred a winner, 31b. both, 61b; Sir 1. .Shelley's ch. c. Cornus, by Sorcerer, out of Boughton Lass (mare untried) - - ' 1 Nit-. ‘Vatson's ch. c. by Trumpator, out of Lily (mare untried) - - - - -- 2 Ld Rous's b. c. Ptolemy, by Quiz, out of Cobbea, by Skyscraper (both untied) - - ' 3 Ld F. G. Osborne's b. c. by Trumpator, out of Viigin (mare untried) - ' ..• pd Mr. Wilson names Mr. Elwes's•ch. f. by-Sorcerer, out 'of Maiden (mare untried) - . pd Mdjor Wilson's bl. f. by Walton, out of a Trumpator mare, bought of Mr. Curtis (both untried) Pd Ld Kinnaird's c. by Sancho, out of Darling (both un tried) . - pd Sir F. Standish's f. by- Sancho, 'darn by Mr. Teazle, out of tile yellow Mare (both; untried) . pd Mr. Andrew's Sir Charles, brother to "1 hundetbolt pd Mr.' Andrew's br. c. Kasper, by Grasper, out of a sister to Peter Pindar (horse untried) . pd I,d Stawell's b. 1. by Sancho, out of Ringtail (both untried) - .. pd 3 to ton Comus. Sweepstakes of iosgs. each, h. ft. T. M. M. Sir F. Standish's c. by Mi. Teazle, Bst. 21b. IA oxford's Morgiana, 7st.-91b. Mr. Astley's [Ave, Bst. Col. Morgan's °pork°, 7t. lb. Mr. Dundas's Witch of Endor, 7st. 121 b. 2to on Sir F. Standish's c. Mr.-Teazle • - 2 pd pd Pd Mr. Shakespeare's Chester, beat Sir H. V. Tempest's The Engraver, ist. 71b. each, T. M. M. soogs.-= . 5 to 4On Chester. The Chippenham Stakes of 23ogs. each. T. M. M. Mr. Mellish"s Beveoley, 7st. tzlb. - Mr. Craven's Dimity, Bst. 81b. " . . Mr. Andrew's Morel, Bst. iolb. . 4 to 1 agst Beverley—Dimity, even -2 to ragst Morel. ... Mr. halloo's Iluinination, Bst. ;lb. beat I.), of Grafton's Nimrod, 7st. tzlb. Ab. M. sogs.-7 to 4on Sweepstakes of wogs. each ; colts, Bst. 71b. fillies, Sat. 41b. Ab. M. Ld G. H. Cavendish's sister to Black Diamond Ld Rous's ch. c. Fla►ningo, by Quiz, out of Paleface Mr. IVyndham's b. c..by Gohanna, out of 'frinidada Hin.Artngbfonk's ch. c. by Haphazard, out of Mr. Poyntz's Gohanna mare. - - - Mr. Wilson's b. c. by Trumpator, darn by Buzzard, out of carailla pd to 4 _.gat I,d G. H. Cavendish's sister to Black Diamond. lai .; wther's Yellow Hainnier, beat Major Wilson's Sorter, Bst. 41b. each. R. M. cogs.-3 to .1 on Yellow Hammer. I 2 3 Sweepstakes of roags. each; h. ft. gSt. 71b. each. R. M., Mr. Vansittart's f. by Johnny, out of Momcutilla's dam rec'. Mr. Andrew's Ca.l.yl",a, Sister to 'crophonius' pd Mr. Payne's f. (dead s ay Waxy, out of Tarantula pd Mr. Page's c. by GUas,' out a Woodpecktr mare, out of the darn of Precipitate, rec. tt. from Ld Stawell's c. by Orville, out of Merrythought, Bst. 71b. each. R. M. 2 o ogs. h. ft. Ld Darlington's c. by Sancho, dam by Hightiyer, Bst. lb. rec. sogs. ttom I.d Oxford's f. by Warrior s out of a sister to Kilton, Bst. 31b. Across the Flat. zoogs. h. ft. ' I). of Grafton's brother to joke, rec. tt. from Mr. Vansit tart's bl. c. by Alexander the Great; bough; of Mr.. Goodia son, 8-. t. Slb. each. 'Across the Flat. 2 'cgs. h. ft. Ld Lowther's Eaton, r- ' st. 31b, agst Ntijor Wilson's Rol., ter, rest . tolb. Across the Flat, zooss. h. ft. To be ridden by Gentlemen. Off by consent. LEEDS, APRIL I I Sunday night, about twelve-o'clock, a number of armed men, with their faces coveted, entered the workshop of Mr. Smith, of Snowgate-bead, near Holmfirth, in the neigh bout hood of flodder,fidd, and broke aU his dress, ing-frames and shears. They proceeded from thence to Horn Coat, about a mile distant, entered the dress , ng shop of Mr. J. Brook, and not content with breaking his frames and shears, which they entirely destroyed, they broke and demolished his household furniture and all the windows. From thence they proceeded to Reins, near Lionley, about 3 miles far ther, where they arrived about 2 o'clock, and entered the workshop of Mr. James Brook, and broke the frame, which was all he hakand which had been taken down about five weeks. At the earnest in lreAlty of Mr. Brook, they were prevailed °pan not to break his shears. One case has occurred which has spread alarm through this manufaauring &stria. On Thursday night, about twelve o'clock, the extensive-cloth ma nufa,',:iory of Mr. J. }osier, of Horhury, near Wake field, was surtounded by a large body of armed men, who, after seeming- all the approaches to the pre mises, proceeded to break into that part of the mill appropriated to the dressing of cloth, where they completely destroyed all the shears and frames; the former were not merely snipped, but absolutely broke in pieces.. They then demolished all the windows, and, as it aetuated by the most diabolical phrenzy, broke into those parts of the .premises, against which these depredators do ,not pretend to have any ground of complaint, the scribbling mill and weaving shops, ani materially injured the mi chinery, and wantonly damaged a quantity of warp ready for the loom ; destroyed not merely the glass of the window, but the frames. which were of cast iron, the windows of the dye-houses, the counting house, and even the dwelling-houses contiguous to the workshop shared the same fate. At the commencement of-these outrages, a de tachment from the main body invested the dwelling housejof Mr. Foster's sons ; they shivered the door in pieces, and broke the . window and frame ; and proceeded to the lodging•rooM of the young men, and demanded the keys of the building, under pain of instant death. They.dragged two of them out of bed, and tied them together, making them lie naked ppon the floor ; the other they Compelled .to accompany them with the keys. The dwelling honie occupied by the book-keeper was also broken into, and his family treated with brutal violence.— They afterwards set tire to the building, which was extinguished, after their departure, before . it communicated to the main body of the building.— Having accomplished their obje&, they assembled in a field, whetr the leader called over their num bers, to which each answered. Having ascertain ed that their whole number was there, he said— the work is done, all is well, disperse ;" which order was obeyed: MANCHESTZR.—We learn by letters received from Manchester yesterday, that every thing in that town remained perfedly tranquil. At ,Igi,ddleton, however, about six miles distant, -the works of Messrs. Barton, and Co. had been threatened, and it was deemed expedient to station a few soldiers kAara. OLD BAILEY, APRIL 13. George Smiili was indicted tor knowingly uttering a forged tot. Bank -note. , It appeared that the prisoner, on the 26th of No• vetnher last, went into the shop of Abraham Ca.;- lay, a draper, who was the first witness for the pro seeutibri, and purchased of his shoprna.n 20 yards of . gingham, for which he gave in payment the tol. trete, and received the chabge. The note. was now put in, and proved by the usual Clerk's of the Bank - to be a forgery. It was tart her 'proved by Mr. HudSon,linen-dra• per, of Sun -street, Bishopsgate-street, and a Mr,_ Jenkins, shopman to a Mr. M'Carrull, of Brown- Weer, Finsbury-sqoare, that on the same day the prisoner had passed to them two other notes for 101. each, purporting to be those of the Bank, which also appeared to be forgeries; and several other wit neSses proved against the prisoner the utterance of other forged notes, within two days after the fact now charged. Mr, GURNEY objeEted, on the part of the pri sorter, to the acceptation, in this case, of evidence upon other facts not relevant to the present indict ment ; but the - objealion was' oveT -ruled by the Court. It appeared that the forged notes prov,d again it the prisoner had all the appearance of buieg• wreck from the same copperplate as those proved against Fiannagan, who was convicted last Friday. Guilty—Death. appeared, that when the prisoner was appre hended there was found in his possession 1191. all in good Bank-notes ; out of "4 - hich 101. was given to him for•subsis!ence, and the remaining 1091. still continued in the band of the Bank Solicitor. The Under Sheriff . demanded of the Solicitor, in Court, the remainder of the sum, as a forfeiture to the Crown. The Solicitor expressed to the Court a wish, that as several persons had been defrauded by the prisoner through the utterance of i such forgeries, that' this sum might be 'appropriated, „es far as it went, to reimburse them for their'losses. The RECORDER, however, declined making such order, and of course the sum remains to be pia over to the Sheriffs, as a forfeiture to the Crown. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, AraiL 13. Mary Anne Derry was inditled at-the instance of the parish of St. Giles, for starving, and other , wise ill-treating, a little girl named Harvey, the daughter of a wan with whom the prisoner coha bited. The Miserable little vi aim of the. defendant's • cruelty attended in Court, with. :one of her arms, which had been fraEtured, in the course of a series of barbarities by the defendant, hung in a sling. Ske stated various awls of unnaAiral conchal towards her on the-part of the defendant, who, after the evidence was gone through, was found Guilty, sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the of CtirreElion. Elizabeth Hogg was also indiefed at the instance of the parish of St.. Giles, for cruelty to tour chil dren, who had Leen apprenticed by the paris!) of Sr , .lave, Southwark, to her mother, as tamb„uf' workers. She was also found Guiltyi but 0 6 Court, considering that she night nave been under the influence of her mother's d , ret.tions, sentenktaJ her only to one month's imprisonment ir, the saw/ gaol.. ffilliam Hawkins .and - John Doriag were seer' rally convicted of attempting to make, their escar° from Coldbath-fields prison, in which they had ',tee confined, tor offences of which they had been found guilty, the former since last Session, and the lotte f for about a year. In a Ertuight's time Dosing would have been liberated. They were each see tenced to three years further confinement. EXECUTION AT HORSEMONdER LANE• Yesterday morning Thomas and Adam Lee, wil d were capitally convi&ed at the last Kingsion sizes,„for highway robbery, were, pursuant to the'f sentences, executed on the top of the new prim''' Horsemonger-lane. They belonged to that race of men called gypsie 4 ; and were conne6ted with most of the gangs of o' l description who traverse the counties of Surrey' Hams, Sussex, aud Kent,. and had, it is SUppoW for several years been accomplices in various depr e dations. From the moment of their convi&ion they enter' tabled no hopes of pardon, and at eight o'clock 1 0 were conducted from their cells to chapel, %vital after remaining some time in'prayer, ) they were take r) out to the usual place to have their irons knoc k off, and returned again to perform the remainder °' devotion by taking the Sacrament, and then pr o f ceeded along the inner yard with their halters roo l ' il their necks, and their arms pinioned. During 14 awful procession, one o f t h e L ees was obliged t o be carried, and continued weoping in a most lame r ' ) ; able manner. These unfortUnate malefadlors length ascended thescafeold, where they remaiP e , i , a few seconds i n p ra y er . Th e i r b o di es were ddl vered to their relatives. - During the condemned sermon which was pre v i o l ed on Sunday at the Pritibn Chapel, the conduct the two Gipsies presented t he tuns(' striking contr 3s ,r the one, of whose guilt there was the - least doll' , listened with many* fortitude and pious resignatia r ',i While the bod'ly frame of the other seemed too %g el. , to sustain the conflid of his mind. When the ble; s . ing had been pronounced, and the culprits vi e g ab.rut to withdraw, this unfortunate man, diree'r ,„ pe his eyes to the Clergyman, and from him to 1 0 congregation, " called Heave n to witnes s , o n 1 1 0 ,6 his last eattilly day, that he_ was innocent 0 1 ;, e f crime for which he was about to die l" a n d 0' . 4 . exclaiming, " My wife ! my five children !" he r c i tired. His brother also attested his own innocc ° in a most firm and audible tone! et Win. Sewell, who was ordered ,for execution te Lf , the,same time, for cutting and maimin g gills s' - i/ t and brother-in-laW, at a late hour on Sunday 1 4 received a respite. s A true bill, we understand, was found at CleriC e e ll well Sessions, on Friday, oh behalf of th e celebo l , ll , , Mrs. CLARKE, again,t one .of her old le;a1 frier e r charging him with defrauding her of several aW money. ' ll ' Jemm oil, who has been respit e d f ro a r • ec oll o r during pleasure, is, we understand, toa (0" nnrtnri to Rntany Rat,