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b I - :y the corps. which are foi'ming at Toulouse and at Bourdeaux. We sitall,also have immediately a fine awl numerous cetrpof cavalry, cantoned in the Pe rents of the tipper and Lower Pyren nc(.4-,, Gers, ‘ ‘which remains inactive, be cause'tni vnemv on that side aoes not venture to leave-the mountains. On the MI, the 'Anglo-Portnguese thought they should be obliged to repass the Bidassoa, and ccmmitted at St. Jean de Luz acts of violence as horrid as those of their good friends the Cossacks ; we know this, and we now tremble at the thought of seeing them in our fine country. People's minds are aff e cted by it ; their courage increases daily ; and the deceitful confidence with which same too credulous persons were ,inspired, by a few instances of good behaviour in our enemies, -011 their emtrance into the French territory, vanishes, and makes way for the. only sentiment which we ought all to feel. BOURDEAUX, DEC. 25.—A pretty considerable number of EtOish prisoners is just as ived here. Twelve or fifteen' cadres of regiments have been bete These few days past to receive the depots.— 'The Prefect has give4.lf grand dinner to the com manders and officers, to which the principal mer chants were-in. ited. PARts, DEC. 29.—The Emperor has issued a decree, dated from the Thuilleries the 17th inst. for the organization of cohorts of grenAdiers, fu siliers, and of Mixed cohorts, composed of com panies of grenadiers and fusileers, and of national guards and artillerymen. They. are to serve as garrisons in fortresses, to maintain order, and support the civil authorities in places which are not fortresses, .where no provision has been made by former decrees - for these fortresses and places. They are to be taken from among the owners of real estates, whose -property is the highest taxed in the town ; or from among the merchants having a license, or those exercising some useful profession, or their-sons. They ate to - be armed and clothed at their own expence, but not required to be in uniform.= They are not allowed to procure substitutes. They Ake to assemble every Sunday to exercise in the fortresses, under the orders of the Cqinmandain. They may be called on by the Prefects, and the Mayors, to maintain the public tranquility. BESANCON, DEC the inhabitants of this•place have with unaparelleled patriotism of fered to defend their town. Every one is ready' to make a vigorous defence. Nothing indicates the presence of-danger, but it is wise to be pm . , pared.for it. The Prince of Mdskwa is here, and electrifies by his presence all our preparations. COLOGNE, DEC. 25;—The code Napoleon has been abolished in all the ancient provinces incor porated ,With Westphalia or-the Daily of Berg, and the Prussian code restored. It is not known whether this change is to be retrospective,; but the proprietors of estates are terrified at the ef fects which this rash measure may have on the security of their fortunes. The Russian Governors have ordered the pre sent MagiStrates in the Grand Duchy of Berg to continue their functions till.the first of May en suing, when they are to be replaced.by•others.— French property, even that of private persons, is strictly, sought after. General Sebastiani is still here with his corps. The Duke of Tareututh is at Nirneguen. Here, and all along the Lower Rhine, all is quiet—the enemy does not ~spew himself. • We learn, that the Old Mark, and Verden, have been separated from Berg, and restored to Prussia. This gave rise to the report, that Prussia bac) taken possession of the Grand Duchy. It is Russia that causes it to be governed in her own name—it is she who makes war against the pre ponderance exercised by the Emperor Napoleon in .Europe., The enemy's agents'have thrown upon the left bank of the;Rhine some copies of a proclamation full-of insults to the French nation. It is a repe tition of the diatribes which Icotzebue, and other German scribblers, print in their Gazettes. Those who have found copies of this disgusting libel gave them immediately to the Magistrates. At the beginning of this month, Hamburgh was in a formidable state, defended by 300 pieces of cannon. New works Were 'raising on. the side towards Altona, which is the most accessible. Five - thousand oxen were driven into Hamburgb in November. VESOUL, 'DEC. enemy's corps, which has penetrated into the Department of the Upper Rhine, has summoned Befort to surrender, which has been -refused with firmness. The enemy has pushed some patroles 'within two leagues of Be fort, in the direction of Lurs ; he behaves as ill as possible. The Austrians confine themselves to Zevouring All the eatables they can find, and pay for` nothing. The Cossacks get drunk, but- the Calmucks, the Baskirs, and the other. Asiatic hoops, plunder and destroy, like their ancestors ,the Huns. Soule Cos sac k s h av i ng got i n a f arth , house, where they gorged themselves with wine, a few children of twelve year s o f ago got on horse back, and sounded the tocsin ;.- and ,soon a num ber of peasants from all the ueighbonring- villages, armed with pitchforks, pikes, and. sonic fowling pieces, ,tioeked together and fell on the enemy, of - whom very few escaped. The .spirit of the people is excellent in all Vranche Compt4. Every family -baS,a hero in it : the military ardour, which is .hereditary in this loyal people, does not permit them to be idle spectators of the devastations with . , which they are threatened by .an army, part ly composed of troops unacquainted with Euro pean manners. STRASDURGH, DEo. 25.—A corps of infantry has just set off.for the Upper Rhine. We expect •many troops from Mentz and the environs. The corps of the enemy, Which had penetrated on the way of Colmar, has been Obliged to make a retro grade moyet9ent. COLOGNE; DEc. 26.----We learn from Nimeauen and Bois-le-Duc, that the whole line of the Waal is putin the best state of defence, which dOes not Linder the French ,troo.ps from. OCCupying the whole island . of Rommel, situated between that river and the Rhine. This position, rendered formidable by nature and art, is inexpugnable, till these rivers arc frozen,,which there is no appear- . aline of their being this year. LIEGE,. DEC. 27.---The letters from Namur, ,)3rubseli, and Antwerp; conErm .the . continual appearance.—Letters . from Grave,'Venln, Wesel, and Maestrlcht relate, that the different corps receive daily considerable reinforcements. VEItONA, DEC. 19.-- , We learn that Field-liar- shat count Bellegarde arrived on the 14th at Trent, and on the 16tIvat Vicenza. • From the Palate of the Thuilleries, Dec , at 1813 * Napoleon, Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Protector of the Rhenish Confederation, Med ator of the Swiss Confederation,•&c. Copsidering ,that the Deputies of the 3d series of the Legislative Body cease to possess dreir powers to-day, the 31st of December, and that thus the Legislative Body should be from this lour incomplete : By the '1"t.1) Article of our Constitution of the 4th of August, 1802, we have decreed, and de decree as follows : Art. I. The Legislative Doily is adjourned. Art. 2. Our Minister of the Interior propose to us without delay, the necessary measures for assembling the Electoral Colleges of the three series, which are to renew their list. 3. Our Ministers are charged with the execution of the present decree, which shall he sent by a message ti.rthe Pre sident of the Legislative Body, and inserted in the bulletin of the laws-. (Signed) NAPOLEON. By the Emperor, , The Nlinister Secretary of State, ' (Signed) The Duke of BASSANO. AMERICA. Boston Papers, of 2d Dec. give the following extract, from a letter dated Albany, 26:.11. 0.- vember " The abrupt and unexpected termination of the compaign is openly ascribed to a difference of opinion between the Generals, Wilkinson and Hampton, in relation to their - place of junction-. The former directed Hampton . to unite with him at St. Regis ; the latter thought that a point lower down would be better, and took measures ac cordingly. So soon as. this was knoWn to Wilkin son, the army was ordered to but at Salmon river for the winter. The battle of, the I lth is represented as most severe, and to have lasted four hours. Our loss is estimated at about 500 men killed and wound ed. General Covington, a Captain, and two Lieutenants, are said to be dead of their wounds Colonel Preston, of the 18th Regiment, and 22 other officers, are wounded, some severely, others dangerously. The accounts.frorn General hump ton's army are truly distressing ; more than thopsand are said to be sent to .Burlington siitte the attack on the front-guard, and the retreat to Chateauguay, sick end- wounded, and otherwise unfit for service. The elements appear to . have - kight against its. General Wilkinson has been confined to his tent by sickness for some tithe past. The roads were bad in the extreme. The Northern army, under General Hampton, has gone into winter-quarters at Plattsburg. The cavalry is at Burlington. General Wilkinson was at St. Regis. POLICE. RIVER PIRATES. UNrox-HALL.--Repeated complaints have been made of late to the. Magistrates at this office, of depredations committed on the different lying in the river, by a set of villains, who, in gangs of six or seven in a' boat, row up and down (luring the night. One of them generally stands up in the middle of the boat, with a firelock in his hand, and if on their approach to any vessel they are baited, they immediately answer " Dowries Police ;" and having thus lulled suspicion, are quietly suffered to lie 'alongside, and under the stern of the vessel. Whilst in this situation, two-or three of them contrive to get upon deck and hand down any portable articles they find lying with in their reach. Several vessels have thus been plundered of - their property to a considerable amount, and the villains have as yet escaped de tection, though several suspicious characters have been apprehended by Collingbonrn and the other officers. A baker was fined 61. lOs, and costs, for ex posing to sale bread short of weight ; and ano ther , baker' was convicted in the penalty of 51. and costs, for baying in his. possession a quantity of allum. GUlLDHALL.—Yesterday two men, of the names of Thomas Smith and John' Bonnar, were brought to the bar on a charge of uttering forged Bank notes. 'the Magistrate did not think it expedient to go then into the case, but ordered Smith to be temanded till Saturday week, and Bonnar to be committed to 'the custody of the Warden. Isabella Smith, a milliner and dr‘ess-maker, in St. Paul's Church-yard, charged Sarah. Cope, with robbing her of various articles of millinery goods. The prisoner had•been five months in the employ of tile• complainant, and several things having been miser( at different times, last Monday her box was searched, and property of the complainant's found in it to the value of 4/.' The prisoner made pc) defence, and was fully committed for trial. Mary Frier, charged Richard Newcombe, porter of the White Horse Inn, Fetter-lane, with the loss of a parcel containing a turkey, by taking it to a ,wrong place. The parcel was directed to No. 6, St. Catherine -court, London, and had been taken to No. 2, Catherine-eourt, on Tower bill. It oppearing plainly, that there was only. one Saint Catherine -court, though there were se yeral Catherine -courts, the ALDERMAN was of opinion, that the porter was bound to indemnify the complainant ; and the parties withdrew to settle the quantum of damages. BOW-STREET.---Tw6 more of thctang who, at tacked , and wounded Vickery, the police officer, arc in custody. Lavender apprehended one of the name of Sadler, just as he was getting into a stage coach to go to Grantham. This fellow the offi cers wanted on the night of the attack, on suspi cion of his being concerned in the murder of Moses Merry, at Vauxhall, but did not know leis person. They saw him among the gang in , the public;lmuse., The other mail that is taken for this inhuman at tack, was apprehended a few nights since by a party of the Worship-street .office, and is a noto rious character of the name of, King, suspected of a 'robbery in the 4 neigh-bourhood. of Ifinsburp. sr uare. • ' Vas.," 5....! 11.. 411 .11.11-/ lb CoaoNea's EsquEsT.----Yesterday an Inquest was held at the hous . e.of Richard Coombes, the sign of the White Horse, Baldwin's-gardens, Gray's-inn-lane, before GEORGE HODGSON ) Esq. Coroner for the "county of Middlesex, on view of the body of Mrs. Amelia Eleanor Mann, wife of Mr. Mann, landlord of the, Marquis of Granby public-house, in Gray's-inn-lane, who, as was yesterday stated, died under suspicious circum stances, after her return from the Sans . Pareil The atre on 'Wednesday night, whither she had been accompanied by a journeyman baker. The Jury assembled at one o'clock, and after being!sworn, went to the Marquis of Granby public-house to take a view of the body. The Surgeons opened the body and the head, the better to ascertain the cause of her death,— This operation took up an hour, during which tiine.the Jury had to wait in an anti-room, and after taking a view of the body, they retu'rned to the jury -room at the White Horse. Itlr. :fames Potts chemist, in Fleet-street, said, that about half past eleien o'clock on Wednesday night, he was sent for to the Sun Hotel, near Temple-bar, where he was- informed there. was a Lady in a most dangerous state, having been taken suddenly ill. He - accordingly went to the house, and in the parlour stretched on a sofa, he saw the deceased lay in a state of insensibility. Mrs. Perry, the mistress of the house, two ser vant maids ; and the journeyman, baker, were the only persons beside in'the room. On 'examining the deceased, he became' alarmed at her state, and he' suspected that she had taken,, or that there Was something improper administered to her ; he supposed. she had'taken laudanum, but on look ing round the room he saw no - thing except a bottle and .two glasses, which stood on the table, in which there was the appearance of some wine.— He communicated his opinion of her danger, and he was requested by the other parties it) permit her to be taken to his house to Save' her charac ter, and that her husband might be sent for, aS it was a house of. ill fame. To this request he con sented, and she was removed rf) his house ; he 'sent for Mr. Owen, a surgeon-, in Chancery-lane, , who, when he saw her, was of opinion it was an apoplectic tit. The inisband, to whom the jour neyman baker had given information of the event, afterwards came and took her home in a coach. Mr. Owen, Surgeon; said that he opened the head and body o f ,the deceased. On opening the head he discovered four ounces of blood on the brain, occasioned by the rupture of a blood ves sel, which might occasion appoplexy. He also opened. the stomach, the contents of 'which he had then in a phial, in order to analyse it, try if there was any landaninn, or poisonous subta.lee' taken in, so as to-occasion her death. • Mr. iloDGsov - stPted, to The Gentlemen of the Jury, which. consisted of twenty-four,' that / this was a very mysterious affair, and one which the pUblic were very much interested-in, and that no painS shouid be spared to come at the truth, as there were various reports in circulation. The entire of the witnesses sufficiently requisite to clear up the matter were not present; therefore lie suggested the propriety of adiourningtheinquest, to 'give the Surgeons time to analyse the contents of khe stomach, which 'was preserved for that* purpose, as well as to have all the witnesses, to learn when left the theatre, and when she arrived at the brothel, for which purpose the mis tress and two servants of the brothel should have noitice to attend. A Bow-sticet officer in waiting acquainted the, Coroner that be had the journeyman baker, in whose company the deceased was, in his custody, and wished to he informed whether he should tain him or not. The Gentlemen of the Jury said it was fit, in the present case, to keep the man by all means : to which the Coronet .assented, and the inquest a4ljourned. , . There was another Inquest h e ld yesterday be fore Mr.lioncsoN, at the house of John Mandell, at the sign of the John of Jerusalem, in St. John street, on view of the body of Mr. Voice, Vestry Clerk of, the Parish of Clerkenwell, who put an end to his own existence on the preceding day, by . cutting his throat. 1, Verdict—Lunacy. Yesterday - the annual election 'for Chairman of IN • restminster and Milldlesex took place, when Mr. MAIN WARING was unanimously re-elected. On Christmas-day, a curioms conflict took place on `the river between Gainsbor - ough and Stock with. As JOHN TEMPERTON, the postman-be tween those towns, was returning to Stockwith in his chutz, he perceived a fox crossing the river, and immediately bore down in his little barque to attack him. Reynard made some defence, not withstanding the disadvAntages.of the element • in which he had been ituTrised ; but rec e i v i ng mortal blow on the head, he struck his colours, and was hauled into Stockwith harbour. Yesterday morning as a poor woman was going down Ludgate-hill, with t i t basket of pot a t o es on her head, owing to: the slippery state of the.paven ment, she fell %yid]; such violence as to bb taken up in a state of insensibility, and being carried into the Crown public-house in Stationers -court, ex pired in a few minutes. The following is from a Scotch Paper : it re cords the downfall of one of the Brigs rendered immortal by the pen•of 13unt.is " AYR, DEC. 28.—A - new bridge waslately built at Craufurjlarid : the site of ;the old bridge was still thought the most eligible, and, as the• new was to be of' a greater span, it was thought proper •to use the old bridge as a mould for the, new. For'this purpose, it w as - necessary to ta k e off the parapet and shoulders of the.old structure, A rock, which served as a hutment - for the old bridge, and had, in process - of time, been com pletely divided in two by a vertical fissure from top to bottom, was, by this means, deprived of the band which' held the loose to the. firm part of it. The new bridge was completely finished with out any accident, and bad stood for some time, then on Monday last, the clay which the oversman was to take the concern off the hands of-the con tractor, the looserock gave way, bringing down the old bridge with a tremendous crash, after it' bpd stood -for a term .which extends .beyond record.' METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL. 1Y R. IL PHILOSOPHICAT- INSTRIJATENT MAKER,' ,STRANr, - ' .I;eri7on'iciel.. 1 1 11" , :it I , t,r• ..-------- •—... • . -t••• ..; ':, • - 4 • '".: 7-1 6 t 7, =. ' ;., 1 r ,, 0 2, A.,4 ... i J . ~ 44 -1 ;-;,.. c .., 1 ,?. c.: =, 1 Jan. 1 • - ' 0 Inclics 1 23 29 ;35 2S 30.06 Fog ' 7,...°4 ' ' 2 30 32 34 30 1 30.00 Cloudy Cl OO-(11 3 32 32 33 al 29.0 Do. 1) " . *, 4 S 9 31 33 28 .50 S now 1 S"'°- 5 31 34 SG 33 .30 Do. 1 ) ": 6 34 28 34 23 : .28 Do. k 41g. 7 26 20 30 23 . .75 Fair Po . ~/ BIRTHS. . ... I Itl'E On. the 14th ult. at St. Helen': tali] Southey, It. N. brother of tl Oa tle 6th inst. at Bury-pail of a sou. ; Auckland, the wife of or he Poet-lam-rat ~ot a son- Edmonton; 1i.0v.-ieu Yesterday, at his house, Devon the Lady of Joh❑ Tremoyne Rodd Navy, of a daughter. 'shire -street. I'uttlatxl.placl 1, Esq. Capfaiii iu the IL°Y M ARM ED • 46- -On Wednesday last, at Loiters, the Rev. chards, Master of,Tiverton School, and'ltector of Stolte WO, Dorset, to llnnelia, daughter of John Strachati, 1% 4 " 1 • Cliffden, Teigumouth., On the inst. at St. Jamey's March, SikJolin ;10° Ready, Bart. of Sliipton Court, Oxfordshire, to Louisa , ro youn gest deughter•ot the late,David M urra y, Esq.' broare r . , J 'ord.Elibank. DIED. • A e° On the sth inst. at th e H o t Wells, Bristol, in the 5:3 s - of her age, Juhafina, the' wife of 2ohn Necli, Esq. SoP" Berks. The same day, at hi s h ouse , G reat Rassell-strimt, 13'1,04 bury, John, Abbott, Esq. aged 73, e . On Wednetday, - Captain L'Estrange, f or many yeers taut the King's 'County Regiment, quartered at Loilgi' re .V At his lonise in Fludyer-street, Westmiaster, Mrs. 111,1 ton, wife of William Ilinighton, Kit'. of the Irish Eircb l ()nice. . Ak i On'the Ist inst. et Richmond, Yorkshire - , illoptain ana 4 z,. jutant Sleigh, of the Ist Mirth York - Local Militia, age4), i .„V On iiiday the Oth ult. at Bishopwearnionth, Mrs. Smith, aged 'l9, widow of Mr, Lancelot smith, us:ti e o n master of a Greenland ship belonging to Liverpool. sister to Mrs. Jane Proctor, who died on WednesdaY' daughter on Tuesday, and the above on Friday.. ito 4 f, .bn"fuesday last, Mrs. Walter's, wife of Mr. T. ci r ' a dt Lineu-draper, Market-place; Norwich. .The unfortuna te whose death we have recorded, fell a iictith to an act ton mischief on the part of some idle person, who, 3 ;„:i1;•` , ' time since, yell a dead cat to Mr. %V.'s door---Mrs• "."Ltell; home at the time it was suspended, was so dreadfully fit a tioi' s ed, that- he was taliox alarmingly ill—her peculiar si t ,"pii%, Qieing fur advanced in pregnaucy);'rendered the Shock 1 To e: " and thus two lives .hare been lost, as the purchase merit's amusement to an unthinking. being, whose t ut : 7 l oog! istence (if he possesses a spark of feeling) must he ern" „ o liy• by the recollection of th e wre t c hel consequences Of his,d PRICE OF SYOC Rank Stock, 2401 , Navy. 5 per Cent. 951i'ex. Irish .5 per Cent. 4 pea Cent. 731 80-..79 ;- 3 Ver Ct. 1t d. 64 . 4 65 6.11. 3 per Cent. Cons. i 64kaaiex.. Bank L. Ann. 15 13-16ths India Stuck, K.S YESTERDAY. India Bonds, par,',l diA* South Sea Stock, Ext:lieq. Bilk, 4s. Cs. P r. / 51 New °Latium,. 154 16 i I 6.4 s Imperial 3 per Cerit•• 6 ',7 4 65r. Cons: for Opening' , Gtn, 6(3'U , . - C t veir LONDON • • P;intethby J. B. CARSTAIRS, No.'s to buildings; and publish e d by W. A. SCRIPPS; of V.;. t ise' at the SUN-OFFiCE, No. 419., Strand; where A" ce o fti• 'meats, Orders, Letters ( Lo st p a id), Zicc.. utast 44 ad' c Fr ka 13.11:.\ 1 1:Ji;. :3, JAN. 1 • .This day these Sessions ended, when the fO lowing persons received sentence ; _ _ . , . Francis Millar and James Browne, yes 4 terilAY tried, but then acquitted, on an indictment for picking pockets about the doors of the Theatres) for want of full evidence, and now tried on an ill' dictment, charging them with being found in the attempt to commit the like offences, .which proved ;. to be confined for. six months .Thomas Hannain, for six .months; George Hefag Goodall, for stealing a hat in a shop at Tothill; fields yesterday, to be confined six months. George Wright, ior an assault; &c. on two boy , in Drury-lane Theatre oh the sth inSt: to be jai' prisuned twelve months. Samuel Munday, a Mulatto youth, for stealing at St. James's' Palace, In November last, a silft handkerchief from the pocket of a boy named' Billing, which was found about the prisonerl: neck, two days after, by a Bow-street Officer; procured by the boy. On his trial, the aged fa' ther of the prisoner made a most affecting suppli" cation to the Bench on behalf of his abandouelf only child, whom he had in vain put into divers situations to get him away from bad company.--" He had himself served 14 years irreproachably a. Government Office, and lately took passage for the West Indies, in order to take his son with Ilia), and •vhom he beseeched liberty now to take out of this country, never to return, on the most 50 - lemii undertaking. The Bench were touched with this most piteous scene, and the Jury,baving quitted the prisoner, pro forma, he - was handed O! the father and an officer. The New Lanark Cotton Mills were sold Lot week, at GlasgoW, by public rimy, for 124,100. 1 . The upset price was 80,000/. _ . Fum,--Thursday afternoon, about half-pn s t. two o'clock, a dreadful fire broke out at the pupil"' mills of Mr. ThomAs HoR,N, at Buckland, oe3c Dover, which burnt with such fury, that by siS the whole of the mills were burnt doWn, the dwell' ing house was'in flames, and the roof bad iii : the furniture had previously been remove(if and no lives were. lost. It was feared that other, houses would also cat c h fi r e, as large' flakes' 4. 4 . burning paper were flying in all directions. _Eyed' possible assist a n ce w as g i ve n b y t h e military all° , town's people, but without much effect. A melancholy . aceident occurred 'on . last wee' at Northgate, ; Blackburn. A cart was unioaaig boxes of soap into a warehouse, When a won/ 0 named Mary Gahbott, of HolOton, attemptio' l to pass between -th e ca rt an d ware h ouse, str u4 her head against .a box of soap (which was tlO suspended for the purpose of being lowered jot ( ' the cellar, and which she did not perceive) ; a le shock forced her into the c.ellar-hole, a coosider able depth, and her skull was fractured so dreg fr fully by the fall, as to occasion her death on, , Sol i : day morning. We arc' sorry to add, that she left six children to lament their loss. Verdict...." Accidental Death. . * " 1 11, T ie p i v4 c „... ***: otyxii.iut To, a,._. tli ~t Cif ~, he 41int 4 ; p - I .lor Sp ec Tl It ( tt. ts 'C ora !Out T 1 1;i t , d ft A pr" *(1,4r..