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TIE SUN. SOLEM cztl:S FALSUM AUDEAT L 0 ND 0 11; TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1806. I MAILS. AA it Iv ED - 1 2, Dublin. Du E-4.Hamburgh, r Gotteuburgh, Dublin, 3 IVatertord: PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols - - 6ai I Red. Ann, 59 Omni= - THE preponderance which the French Party late ly obtained in the. Councils of Turkey has, as we expeEted, been followed by a ,Rtiptute between . Turkey and Russia; and though the 'consequences must be disastrous in the extreme to the former, yet she has been forced by France into this measure for the purpose of drawing off a part of . the Russian force that would otherwise be engaged in the North of Eui - ope. • It is indeed impossible to imagine . a greater act 'of folly or Madness than a Deelaration 'of War by Turkey against Russia. The Porte is now, and has been for some time, in such a lamentable state of Weakness, that it has been wholly unable to subdue its own rebellious.Snbje6ts on the contrary, it has been forced to conclude the most disgraceful Treaties with them. The Army is in a state. of disorganization,. the Finances ruined, and several of the Provinces in a state of insurrection. Under these circumstances, a War with Russia will give a Anal blow to the. once formidable power of the Ottoman Empire. Without the support, of France; Turkey can oppose but a feeble resistance to the power of Russia,; and if France were to send very powerful aid to Turkey, her ,independence would be 'as completely destroyed as it could be by the most decisive success on the part of the Russians. The Madrid Gazettes, which have been received by the Lisbon Mail, do not take any notice of:the Slilitary Preparations which have been commenced and carried on with such . unustial a&ivity in Spain. FrOm the hints which, have.\been thrown out in the French Papers, and those under French influence, we are inclined to, believe that those preparations were ordered without the knowledge of BONAPARTE, and fora purpose very different from that which was generally supposed, viz. the recovery of the Spanish Settlements in Shuth America. The reason assign ed in the PaperS - under, French influence, for the extraordinary Military Preparations which were car rying on in Spain, was, that Great Britain had-pre way-mon-Sand Mciors in Spain, and that it was to .iesist this formidable attack that the new, Levies were ordered. ' This statement is too ab-• surd to gain a moment's credit. But .the last flanyburgh Paper contains an article which speaks a little more intelligibly upon the subje&. It is dated from Perpignan, Nov. 3d, and it states; that is soots as the news of the - Battle of Auerstadt, and the total defeat of the Prussian 'Army reached Spain, no more was heard of the new Levies. From this statement it appears obvious that BONAPARTE suspeaed the Spa nish Government of having formed the design of throwing off the yoke by' which it has been: so long oppressed, and asserting its independence.— If he dos not absolutely believe this, he will af fed to believe it when the proper opportunity arrives, and •it will furnish him with a pretext for wreaking his vengeance upon' another branch of the unfortunate house of BOURBON. Very early last month three Sail of the Line, viz. the Canopus, Thunderer, and Standard, with the Aaive Frigate and the Itrautgus, were detached from Lord COLLINGSVOQD'S Fleet, "and sailed up the . M e. diterranean. They were under the command of Sir THOMAS Louis. It was generally supposed that they . were destined for the'Dardanelles, in consequence of the unfavourable change in 'the politics of Ttirkey.. It is possible, however, that they may be destined to reinfoice our Squadron on the Coast of Sicily, in consequence of the sailing of the Toulon' Fleet. WE can assure our readers, from authority, that the :Pamphlet lately published, under the title cf " The State of the Negotiation; with Details of its Progress," &c. has not, in any way, received the sanEtion of Government, and was not written with the knowledge of any of the Members. of Admi- nistration. The Jar! and Countess Of MACCLESFIELD ar 'jived at' Windsor on Saturday, on •a visit to their Majesties. • Yesterday the Duke of CAMBRIDGE and Count MUNSTEk took the diversion of shooting in • the neighbourhood of Virginia Waters, &c. Yesterday HIS MAJESTY and the PRINCESSES took thei4 . usual ride in Windsor Park. Parliament certainly ineets on' Monday next; and '• - all-the forms; bf electing a SPEAKER, ,the .Royal ap probation of the COrrnnons' choice, &c. will be got -01hrough; so . as to enable the House to proceed to LuSiness on "ale Friday. Mr. ABBOTT will be re- L aien SrEAKtg, without any opposition. NATAL NE 1V S. HARWICH ; DEC. B.—We had a very violent- Stara) of wind last night / at S. W: - attended with Tain, but do ncif hiar of.any damage. The Neutral 'Vessel Leziwricli, P. RAN AiliDiter,' froin.Holland, with butter, for London; deserted . by the Crew on the Wallet, has been brOught into this Harbour by tree Fishing Smacks, `full of water : _ . most part of the cargo will be saved.. The'Danish Brigantine Juliana, JAGENSEN, from •Altana, bound to St. Thomas, is brought.in by the Aggressor Gun-brig, and detained. , Arrived the Swan, BaowN, from Bristol, bound to Hamburgh, with sugar and other goods; the larlotte, S.ts. MARSHALL, from St. 'Petersburgh, bound to London, with hemp andiron; the Fame, DIXON, from Riga to Chatham, with hemp ; and the Mary and Aleson, ANDREW FARMER, from Got tenbnr.cfh, loaded with iron, tar, &c. for. London. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. "3. Arrived - L'Espiegle Sloop, Captain. MORRIS, from Cork,: and sailed again shortly after. Sailed the Illustrious, of 74 guns, Capt. SHIELDS, Indefatigable, of 40 guns, and Elednor and . Lady Warren Store-ships, for the Westward. SHEERNESS, DEC; 7.—Passed by for Chatham' to b e fitted out,, two new Men of War Brigs, under jury masts. - Came into Harbour the Hermes Armed Ship and Kangaroo Sloop of War tb be repaired. . Came over:from Hosely Bay, and anchored at the -NOre, the Falcon Sloop of War, Capt. SAUNDERS late from Cuxhaven ; and arrived the Satellite Sloop of War, Capt. HOPKINS, and Desperate Gun-brig, Lieut. •11. TYTE, from : the Downs.' • -Nov. B.—Caine into Harbour the Satellite to re pair, having lost hey bowsprit, head,.and other Wise much "damaged: • ‘' Arrived the Hope, Capt. GARRARD, this day, and the Hero, with outward-botiad cargoes on board. The Diaator is expeeled to sail to Yarmouth to- morrow. Ships at this Poit—Resolution, 74, Diaafor and •Ruhy, 64's, and TruSty, 50; - Seahorse, Tartar, and Vestal Frigates; Curlew, Star, Hermes 13onetra, Seagull, Atnaranthe, and - Kangaroo Sloopi. of W'a t r; - Vesuvius' Borno ; Rifleman and TiCkler Gun-brigs ;i- Zealand, Ceres, and Winchelsea cekring Ships ; Sussex hospital Ship; Magnanime klarhour- Duty Ship; bVerySsel Victualling Depot ; arid Alictuaar, 'Store-ship, to supply the Fleet at the Downs. FALMOUTH, DEC. 6.--Sailed the Rover Sloop of War to the Westward.. DEAL, DEC. S.—Arrived and sailed for the River Otis, CROAKER, from New York. • several outward-bound Vessels from the Westward, and remain in the Downs with the Ships as per last. All last night it blew a heavy gale of• wind, &owl the . S. S. W; Several Vessels in the Downs lost their anchors and cables ; have t Aiot heard of any other damage. GIBRALTAR, OCT. Ig.---Yesterday the Swift, SAUNDERS, a large Ship for Malta and Messina, was taken in .the Bay, by a Spanish Privateer. List night a large 'transport, No-. 85, with trbops, part of the Guards, on board, came in here. This, ►►nd the above Ship, parted convoy on the isth in lat. 40. 20.—The Athenienne, of 64 guns, wei►t up to Messina a few days ago; to bring down Rear- Admiral Sir. SIDNEY SMITH. A difference of opi nion between him and Sir JOHN STUART is the re ported cause. OCT. 2L—Came- in the Queen with two Trans ports,: part of -the, Convoy. • Yesterday La Sophia came through the Streights. with a Brig, and, tier Want of care in' bearing- up in time, drove behind the rock. • " OCT. 22.—The wind still westerly, though light breeze—report says, .that one of the Convoy was taken, and carried into Tariffa 'on Sunday ;. alSo, that early this'inorning another was seen concluded - by the Spanish Privateers and Gun-boats into Al- . gesiras. OCT 23, AT NOON .—A Spanish licensed Boat is come in here this morning, which passed the Fleet at some distance off Cape Portel last night they were then waiting' a.good breeze, 44 Sail and two' Frigates.; the Royal George had no doubt remained a little with Lord COLLINGWOOD ; the air isfrom the West, but no wind at present. The first breeze, we expea them to be announced from the Signal. Tower on the top of the rock. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. •• To the Officers and Company of His Majesty's Ship La Mendove, for the Capture of La Verge D'idra, on the zoth May, 1801, the sum received for stores belonging to the said Prize, on the izth inst. between eleven and three, at No. 9, New Broad-street ; and every Wednesday r and Thursday for three years. To the Officers and Company of His Majesty's Ship VEgyptienne,.for the Capture of La Poulina, L'Edward, Maria Antionnette, and L'ESperince in November. . • The Independence; NVAikE,a, from Charlestown, arrived in the Clyde on Monday night, after a passage 0f25 days. By this Vessel newspapers are. received down to the 31st OCtober, from' which the follow ing article is extraded : FROM HONDUB A S.—Capt. CrODFREY, arrived at Bos'ton,, left Honduras the 26th August, at which' time the inhabitants expeaed •an immediate attack' from the Spaniards, havinc , received information that sever,ll thousand troops and a number of gun-boats, &c. were fitting out at Bacalar'and Campeachy, for the purpose of attacking them, and had armed boats watching their movements. A flak of truce, which bad be 4.41 sent 'there by the English, had not returned whvn Capt. G. sailed. IRELAND. DUEL/NT, DEC. 6.—The Thrashers still proceed with their atrocities; they take every precaution to disguise themselves when in arms, and also to mur der every person whom they suspe& not to be sted fast to their cause. On this account, at the Com mission held a few days back at Sligo, not a single man was conviEted, the evidence not being suffi cient to support the indictment. As an instance of their brutal caution, I relate to you the following circumstance, which I have heard from the very best authority : A poor farmer in the County of Mayo, being unwilling to reside any longer amidst so much tumult and danger, advertised his house and stock to be sold; having determined to iyiltake asn Afarm in the County of Dublin. Some cf . the ' hashers hearing this, suspe&ed that he perhaps was acquainted with some of th,eir transac tions; and was ,about to inform against them. To prevent this, a - near relation of his, con ne4ed with the, gang in the neighbourhood, un der the mask of . friendship brought him to a public-house, and while they were there drinking in a room with several other men, a man with his head, body„ and all his limbs covered with ropes of hay regularly twisted round them, entered, and, with a hatchet which he held uplifted in his hands, abso lutely split the suspected man's head in two halves. The relation of the deceased has absconded. Seve r ral of the other men present have been apprehended, but there is no evidence to prove that they• were in league with the murderer, who is, of cow, as yet unknown... ~ . . I have this day received a letter from Ballinalee, stating, that it is almost impossible for any man to live irr that part of the, country .who is not friendly to the Thrashers ; they are out every night taking arms from the Gentlemen„in the country, and burn ing the corn and turf„and houghing the cattle of all those whb are inimical to theth. - ' . In .Various places near Mullingar and neighbour hood., .nightly depredations continue .to be com mitted by the Thrashers, and oaths administered as to the quantum of Tithes and Priests'-Dues to be paid, or at least this has been the pretext for such nocturnal and unlawful associations. Two of .these deluded men were killed last week, and some Silken prisoners, near Granard, by a small party of thq' Cavan Militia. A few nights ago a large body of them entered the village of Ballinalee, in the Connty. of Longford, and immediately made the, hinabitants illuminate their windows, where they re,mained til near morning. They are of late very numerous; upwards of.a thousand . have been frequently seen. to gether in the County of Longford. We understand that Lord LONGFORD has caused a nightly guard to he placed' upon the bridge over of Cool: which divides the Counties of Longford and Westmeath, thr the puiTr..;se of preventing the passage of the ThraThers into the latter County, which has yet remained undisturbed; The disturbance in Mayo and the adjacent Coun ties are sta►ed in the Moniteur of the 7th, in a Letter dated Leitrim, oa. Thursday night; so early : as eight o'clock, a num ber of villains, mostly mounted, stopped at the house. of a man in the employ of Col. LEFROY, t his fields in the vicinity of Limerick, and rapping at the house,, obliged the man to: give, underneath the door, the key of the gate, where two of the Colonel's horses were; they took the horses and returned to the man, leaving the key and loCk. at the threshold, or dering him not to presume to open the door until: 'it least an hour would . elapse ; the fellows then trotted forwards to commit. depredations. Friday morning, about three o'clock, a number of. fellows -(about fifty or sixty) well mounted and armed, went to the house of William Cleary, a pub lican, residing in ,the South, Liberties of Limerick, near Ballyneety, and demanding to have the door immediately opened, when on Cleary refusing, they broke into the house through one of the windows, fired a pumber of bullets into the house, made Cleary. get out in his .shirt, . and supply them with whiskey and porter ; they then insisted he should give them a horse:out of the stable ; which they took away.—The above-party had a Piper mounted, play ing before them—and another man sounding a horn. (Limerick Chronicle) PRIVATE LETTERS PthBLISHED - IN A SCOTCII PAPER. BALLYMENA, Nov. 23.—The objea for my writ ing you at present is, to' mention that some 'unplea sant symptoms have again appeared, in the neigh bourhood. One mail-girt-rd has been dete&ed carry ing letterS for the disatfeAei between Belfast and Newry ; other two persons 'bin been apprehended at the former place; and three people are just now Sent off; taken up betwixt this andiktitritn, and found, lam told, in pasession of pikes, &c. 'This place is said to be the; pripciixtl rendezvous, and manymther reports are in' (irculatiotr,. - which I do not . think right to repeat.—Ndne but the very lowest rank in society,appear . to concerned., BELFAST; Nov. 29.--:-General CAMPBELL and a' party of the Derry Militia have left this for Antrim and Ballymena, in consequence . of the.symptoms 'of disatie6tion Ivhie4 have spread into .that,peighboar 7 hood from some 'of the Western Counties. It is hoped that , the *hole. plan will soon be . developed, Govern=ut having, with a laudable' alacrity, taken.. up the business on its very first appearance. The young and gallant King of SWeden is expeEt ed. by our military men to spew the Fwnch some sport by his defence of Stralsund. As this fortress can receive supplies from the sea, a blockade can never •take it ; and as the garrison ,may be doubled or trebled in the course of a night, any troops which presume to lie before it must be. numerous enough to allow for' this possibility, •or they may be totally de4troycd. NEW PARLIAMENT. MEMBERS RETURNED. COUNTY Og SuTHERLAND-...-R ght Han, WillialL Duudas. COUNTY OP CLAMMANNAN—Hon. Geo. Aber crombie. CONTESTED ELECTIONS. • , LONDONbERRYAt fhe close . of the Poll, on Monday evening, 13th day, the numbers Gen. Stetvart - - 1225 Lord Geo. Beresford - - 1029 Col. Ponsonby - - - 90 t Sam. Lysle, Esq. - .- - 527 • COUNTY MAYO—At the close of the Poll, Uth day, the numbers were— Rt. Hon. D. BroWne - 3382 Col. Dillon - - - 3282 Sir Jahn Browne - - - 1212 THE .BRITISH ARMY IN We have been favoured with the following Extra& of a Letter from an' Officer of rank who served with Sir J. STuArr in Calabria,' dated " MESSINA, OCT. 16.—We allow the French to magnify their triumphs, while they conceal always their faihkres ;• we do the reverse of both—and they al Ways beat us down with lies—atrocious, barefaced, . abominable lies. During the whole of the operations in Calabria, they published in the Moniteur of Na ples, some of the most palpable fabrications, which • no one was permitted, under heavy penalties, to doubt. An article in one of them even stated,. that they, had made a debarkation on Sicily—that they had never met with a reverse in Lower Calabria, but that, on the contrary, instead of being driven from thence„ had maintained all,their positions,.wa* a point that no one was to dare to q e i on. . - ‘f In an excursion that I made me time ago through Calabria, I had an oppor unity •of ascer-, taining that the loss - of the Enemy, in killed, was . considerably more than the official dispatches Stated; . tOrnagistracy and the peasantry in the neighbour , hoo of Maida assured Me, that above thirteen 'lnn- . dretl f bodies had been buried upon the field. of the ac tion of the 4th, anti' in its vicinity*, In fak, it could scarcely be otherwise, from the nature of tht attion. The conflict between the light infantry and the - Tst legere of the;Frencli has .not found its re- semblance,. I. am ' persuaded, since the adoption of fire-arms—escape to the vanquished then became almost impossible." * The iirismiers in the anion, and in the subsequent sur. renders, including the wounded, exceeded four thousand. Yesterday morning the Royal Radnor Militia marched from No. t and 2 Battery, near Deal, for Canterbury ; they are to be leplaced by the itt land Militia. • Yesterday a Troop of the 14th Light Dragoons -ar rived in town from Dorchester, and it was supposed- - they were it - it - ended for foreign service ; but on ap plying, at the War Office, the horses were ordered. to be - sold by ataEtion ; and. the Officers and Privges. when recovered, from the fatigue to return dismounted to their late quarters. By the Lisbon Mail which arrived yesterday morzr -1151,7P rNc i vpci MAciria tra the 1 . 101:1 ult. inclusive. An article, under the head of raccas, Aug. 1, contains an account -of the attack - ou MIRANDA'S petty Squadron in April last, with the particulars and issue of which our Readers have long been acquainted. The Americans, who cam- posed .thecrews of the two vessels captured on that occasion, consisting in all of fifty=seven, -were im mediately tried, , and sentenced to different - degree's of punishment, according to their respective ranks. Ten of them, whose names are thus given —JAS. GARDNER, GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS BERGUETT, CHAS. JOHNSON, MILES HALL, JOHN JERS, FRANcIS TASGUHASON, THOMAS -DONA HUN, THOMAS AV:IL LOP, DANIEL KEMPER, and PAWL ST. GEORGE, were ordered for execution at Puerto- Cabello. There are, stated to have been , Officers in the Expedition. Of the remaining - prisoners, fifteen were sentenced to ten years imprisonment at Onioa, thirteen to con finement .for the same period , at , Porto Rico, and sixteen in the castle of Boca c hic a . ; and three, on ac count of their youth, were ordered only to be detain ed in one of the forts of Carthagena, ,to wait the de termination of his Spanish Majesty,' The Lisbon Mail brings an account of the death of the Count DE VILLA VERDA, the Portugueze Minister for Foreign Affair.. The KING of SPAitr ...is said to be dangerously ill. The anniversary of the Earl of MOIRA'S Birth-day was celebrated yesterday by three dinners, one-at the London Tavern, one at the Freemasons' Ta vent, and onz at Dr: GLASSE'S house, in Sackville street. • There was no Court of Aldermen held to-day ; the LORD ,NIANOR, after, inspeuing the Returns of the Mealweighers, ordered the price of Bread to re main as last week. • .. - The Ranger is arrived in the Frith of Forth from the Elbe; she has brought intelligence that the Eliza and other Vessels whiCh sailed from the Frith with goods for Tonningen, were not suffered to • land them, and were obliged t o re t urn . It should seem from this as if Denmark had .been compelled . to take part against us. The Dantzic, ROSINDALE, which arrived at Hull on Friday afternoon, left the Sound Tuesday se'nnight. The English Ships at Dantzic had all got ready to put to sea, in case the Frenchikeathezr that place. It 'is said they were in possession both of it and Thorn. At St. Petersbnrgh the Exchange With this country had fallen very greatly. On Wednesday night ; during .the height of the storm, about 50 French a n d Sp an i s h Prisoners .en.- deaVoured to get out, but Only seven Of them Coti--7 trived, by digging under , the' wall, to mike their escape from Mill Prison, Plymouth: An alarm was given, and several shot were fired at them,. but they eluded the vigilance of the sentinels, and got oft for the present. We think they must be dis covered, not knowing where to go, and as they can not make their escape by sea (hiring such heaVy gales .of Wind. A reward is advertised for taking them, by the Commissary of Prisoners of War at that Port, ashore and afloat. , • Several Hessian Stiff Officers arc ordered to re main at Mentz till they are other Wise disposed of. • •