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r, , `NERAL ELECTION*. To the WORTHY and INDEPENDENT LIVERY of the CITY of LONDON. OENTLTMEN, T Y Worthy F r iend Sir JOHN WM. ANDER SON having itetifled'his intention of withdrawing himself trotn public life, , I am • encouraged by The flattering opinion and urgent advice of many eitintable friends to offer Myself to yournotice at 'this time as a Ciindidate for the honour of being one of the Representativ.esof this great City in the next Parliament. It a faithful and conscientious dis- . charge of the great duties of the MagistrAcy . for many years can recommend me to your favour; if undeviating attention and a:five zeal marked the important and expensive office of Sheriff during.the arduous period I held that sacred trust; if the dignified and reiponsible charaaer of your Chief • Magi strate haS,t 'ough'it- various weighty and laborious functions, .been maintained byAny. humble Harts,• so as to merit the lionourable.,,appioval which my .Fellow. Citizens have re peatedly testified ; if Steady loyalty. to our beloved Sovereign, And rooted *ttrachment to the most glorious Constitution under Ileavgnoe.hich I have been frequently called upon to' evince, arid;l trust, have as frequently and.. fervently exer cised, ny';) , - rely on your support, then, Gentlemen, I con t.: NS, I sball.ll:4ve the vanity to hope, mid the ;ride to believe, that , this appeal of my ambition to fill the most honourable , pest in your power to confer, will not be . presumpitius, nor be made in Vain: • llelicve me, Gentlemen, .that should you he induced to pPace so high a &gra of your conti , .lenee in me as to invest rue with the proud charader of one of )etr - itetiresentitives in Parliament, every energy of my life shall he. devoted to your service. I have the Honour to be, Gentlemen, • With great re§ped and eiteem, Your mot obedient aid most faithful hunible Servant, Mansion House, 061. tg JAMES SHAW, Mayor To the WORTHY DEPEN DENT LIVERY of LONDON. GENTLEMEN, \ A TITI-I the greatest deference and respect I most earnestly int reat the favour of you to elect me to the next Parliament. . A mere Seat in Parliament has never been, my estiim lion, of very great value. but to have sat there so long as one of the four Citizens of Loinkm, whom you have at variuus. times seeded to be your Representatives in the great Council of the Nation, is to me a source of gratification, which it will be my greatest pride to preserve. - • The• House of Commons must be to my sensation very dif ferent from what it was when it contained - that illustrious Statesman and - Patriot of whom we have lately been bereft, with whose . political principles I coincided, and; of whose friendship I partook • but 1 trust that the same consistent and independent public Condutt, and the same regard to your Interests'and to your wishes, by which I have always .been actuated, will obtain me the same support I have hitherto re ceived from you. and thereby replace . me in the honourable situation from which it is more than probable 1 an about to be removal by a speedy Dissolution of Parliament. With the most grateful respect and attachment, 1 'have the honoUr to be, Gentlemen, Your most obliged and faithful Servant, H. C. COMBE. Oa. is, iSo6. To the WORTHY INDEPENDENT LIVERY of the CITY of LONDON. C'ENTI:EM HAVING bad the honour of being returned by you, as your Representative, in three successive Par liaments, allow me to solicit the continuanca of your. favour and support to replace me (in the .event of a. Dissolution) in that most important and honourable situation.--My Consti tutional Principles have been repeatedly declared, and, I trust, upon every occasion where it has been required, as zealonsly maintai i ned ; my attention to the'rights'and privileges of my Fellow Citizens has been unremitted, and the general interest of the opulent and commercial City of London assiduously su p ported. —T rusung that the experience of my past conduel will be, the best pledge of the future, I remain,. Gentlemen, With the greatest respect and gratitude, Your obedient and faithful humble Servant, WILLIAM CURTIS. Old South Sea House, oa. tB, is. 6. To the WORTHY and INDEPENDENT ELECTORS of the CITY •of WESTMINSTER. C trur L Er..l EN. IT wai not in my power to empress in terms - 2dt:ciliate to the sensations in me mind the gratitude 1 felt, when, at the Meeting of the 113th of last month, your partial kindness induceLl•yria to regard MC as a person worthy, throt:gli ybur courldcnc , _.. and choice, to succeed your late re ' vered Kepre3.lvative, Mr. I' ;) X.. M y motives for then de ciining the distinguished honour proposed to the must, 1 am confident, have received. upon tine consideration, the sanction of every unbiased and relit:ding mini. The present general expi2dation of an immediate Dissolu tion oX Par liament opcm to the the course which every mo tive of duty, gr:ttitude, and fair ambition cells on me to pur. sue;, I earnestly solicit trom each of you the honour of your support at.d vote, if necessary, at the approaching Election. I imake no professions; I am contint you do not expect any, front nie. What I have been, I shall continue to he; the inaintenince of the principles of Mr. Fox is now more than ever a sacred duty. It is a solemn Trost, hcqutsathed especially to those who sharc . .i his confidence, gloried in his friendship, cud followed in his steps while living. My etiorts to execute my humble share in that Trust, will, in my estimation, at all times be overpaid by the continuance of your protection and approba tion. I have time honour to be, Gtrvi - tsstric, With the sincerest resped and devotion, Sumerset.place, • r Your ei4s,d Servant, Oa. to, 1636. RICHARD BRINSLILY Siii,,RIDAN. NORFOLK ELECTION. THip, Friends of the Right Hon. WILLIAM WINDHANI and THOMAS wit.i.tAm COKE, Esq. are earnestly requested to • u►ect at the Queen's ['lead, Gray's-inn Gate, Holborn. on Tuesday, the ztst Oaloher, rsso6, at Seven &Clock in the Evening precisely, to consider of the best mean, of securing their Return for the County of Norfolk, at the next ensuing General Eledian. To the WORTHY an.l INDEPENDENT FREEMEN of the CITY (.t . CANTERBURY. A DISSOLUTION of PARLIAMENT. Ix;ing .L shortly expeded, I ►mce more take the liberty of of— fering my Services to represent you. Should I :win have tout honour, it will be the ambition of ►ny future Conduzi, as it has been the pride of toy past, to maintain your Liberty and-Independence. I shall take the earliest opportunity of paying my personal Te pests. I have the Honour to be, Gentlemen, Your most obedient and devoted humble Servant, 1011 N BAKER. St. Stephen's, Thursday Evening, O. 16, iBc6. Tattle C ENTLI',NIEI4,CLERGY,and FREEHOLDERS, of tho COUNTY cif SURREY. GENTLZMIN, IT being now pretty generally reported that a Dis st,liition of Parliament is about to take place, I lose no Inn i expressing my anxious hope, that at the ensuing I:.l,Ndion I ,11411 rot be deprived of the distinguished honour have alreidy five times conferred on me, of representing y the House a d Commons. Witnout presuming to arrogate to myself, from personal :.rest pretensions to your confidence, I yet I t l e t I ii:Jy Ot' allowed some claim to your present sup . u the nature of that by which in ether times I have been ho; v ; and I indulge a melancholy pride in 'reminding you. that formerly I. had the constant happiness of ranking among my Friends on your Hustings, that illustrious Statesman and most excell.ait Man, whose recent Lots the whole wo:1d has now so heavily to deplore, and whose Me mory, held in sacred reverence by every British Heart, must neeessaril, be so in a peculiar degree by the Inhabitants of a County to which he was warmly attached, and in which he so greatly delighted to liVe. - The Constitutional Doetrines which he uniformly asserted, the System of Politics which through life he maintained, are indelibly impressed on my mind, and as they must ever regu late my Conduct} in Parliament, they arc the only grounds on which I can venture to solicit that which it is my highest ambition to retain, the good opinion of the Independent 'Free holders of Surrey. 1 bays:. the Honour to be, heait,felt gratitude and esteem. N our obliged and dewed Servant. WILLIAM 11.USS;.:LL. THE intelligence received by the Carteret Packet,' which arrived at Falmouth OH Friday from Malta, 'gives us strong reason to hope that before . this time our ,Navy has obtained. another glorious viElory. On the Ist of this month the Carteret was off Ca diz, and perceived the whole of.the Spanish Fleet in that harbour preparing to sail, and four of them adually under weigh. On the same clay the Car teret fell in with Lord COLLINGWOOD'S Fleet, con sisting of nine Sail of the Line. 'A boat from the Ajax, 'of 74 guns, came alongside of the Carteret, and the. Officer who was in it stated, that Lord Cot- LINGWOOD had received positive inforMation that the Spanish Fleet intended to put to sea. On . the the Carteret saw a Ship of the Line stand ing in to join the British Fleet, which would maVe Lord COLLINGWOOD'S Force ten Sail of course not the -smallest. doubt can be entertained of the result of. an engagement, if the SPaniard3 should really venture out. Indeed, we can scarcely bring Ourselves to believe, that a Spanish Fleet of e Sail of the Line. Would put to sea in the face of a British Fleet of 10 ; but it is possible that the Spanish Government may have resolved td make a desperate effort to recover Buenos Ayres, and that the French Squadron which escaped from Brest a few days ago was destined to co-operate with the Spaniards for the accomplishment of that objeet.— From the position; however, in which Lord Col, LlNGwoon:s_Fleet was seen, and his knowledge of the 'intention of the Spaniards, it is hardly possible that the Spanish Fleet could escape him. COMMENCEMENT OF HOSTILITIES BETWEEN FRJ XCE AND PRUSSId. A Hamburg/4 Correspondenten of the 14th has reached town, which contains intelligence of the aetual commencement of Hostilities between Prussia and France. The details are not given with any degree of precision in the correspondenten. It op pears, however, that the advantage was on the side of the Prussians : the following is the statement to which we allude : " BERLIN, Ocr. I.—Hostilitiei have at last commenced: the public evinced the greatest joy on being-informed thereof by the following Letter : THE FItINCE OF HOHENLOHE TO THE PRItiICESS OF SALM, DATED 04T. 9. " The small Corps of Gen. TAUENZIEN arrived last night at Schleitz, without the loss of a single man. I expea the Corps to-night at Neustadt: Our good BAYREUTH'S Troops have had the great satisfaaion of receiving the first fire. The French have lost ten men. 4‘ A Letter from Head-quarters assures us, that General BUDWIC'S Hussars have token eight bun , dred prisoners." The. French have been for some time strengthening their right wing, which is at Bamberg, by very large reinforcements, intending, as it was supposed, to at tack the left of the Prussians, which is stationed in the vici nity of Hoff, under Prince HonEtzt.onE. These two Corps were the nearest to each other, and between them, as might have been ekpeCted, Hostilities have first taken place. We regret very much that the Cor responfienten doeS.not furnish us with any particulars respeaing this affair. It is probable from the follow ing passage that a part of the French Atmy under GeneralS SOULT and DA 'OUST bad made an attempt to prevent the jun&ion Of a Prussian Corps under the command of Gen. TAIIENZIEN 'with.the Army of Prince HOHENLOHE. " SOULT'S and DAvousT's Corps of 16,000 men, have not been able to prevent the junction of Gen. TAUENZIEN with Prince HOHENLOHE, at Schleitz." The Prussian Army is represented as amounting to two hundred and thirty thousand men : this, we fear, is a considerable exaggeration ; they are, how ever, numerous enough to contend with the French, if they do not suffer them to choose both the time and point of attack. The Manifesto . of the KING of 'PRUSSIA has been issued ; it is said to be couched in uncommonly strong lapguage, and to conclude with a declaration, on the part of his Majesty, of his in tention either•to CONQUER or DIE. Since writing the above we have received the Hamburgh Currespondenten of the 1 sth inst. which contains the following intelligence, from which it appears that the kit wing of the Prussian Army has fallen back : " ME:sse.N, OcT. 10.—Si - nteen tho , .ls3nd ineD the of DAvousvand SuU LT hav:3 advancod by, the way ,of Holt - On the Bth some of those troops entered Hoff. Gen ToEN2isx retreated with his small Corps to Schleitz, to preserve his communication with the Army under Prince HOHENLOHE, whose Head- quarters, according to the last accounts, were at Jena. •The advanced Guard, under Prince LEWIS, was at Rudolstadt." The Gazette of Saturday last contains the details of the gallant action in which Capt. Bum:owes, of the Constance, lost his life. WE understand that Lord ST. VINcENT -has writ ten to the .Board of Admiralty, requesting to be re called. Yesterday morning His MAJESTY, attended by Generals FazitoY and MANNINGHAM, Colonels , TAYLOR and DESEOROUGH, inspe&ed the Blues and I Stafford Militia, in Windsor Court-yard ; .and after wards walked to St. George's Chapel, with 'Prin cesses AUGUSTA and MARY, attended by. Lady. AL BINA CUMBERLAND,. Generals FITZROY and MAN. NINGHAM, Colonels 'TAYLOR and Destiottovnll, where a sermon was preached ,by the Rev. Dr. .DovAL, from 2d Corinthians, , lath chapter and 1 1 th verse. The KING afterwards rode in his coach to Frog more to dinner, and returned at three o'clock. Her MAJESTY,' Princesses ELIZABETH, SOrHIA, and AMELIA, had divine .service performed in the Castle, afterwards rode to Frogmore, and.returned with His MAJESTY. • , The Earl of RossLym arrived on Thursday at Portsmouth, from , Lisbon, on board the Lavinia Frigate. His Lordship (nine to town, on Friday, and waited upon . Viscount HoWicx ; after which he had an interview with the Duke of Yoax. We understand his Lordship has brought advices of importance, transmitted to him by General Fox, from the Mediterranean. ~ Mr. WINDHAM and Mr. Coax arrived at Nor wich on Satuiday, for the purpose of making an aelive canvass for Norfolk. Mr. WILLIAM SMITH arrived there the day before, and immediately began to canvass the. City, • - - A spirited contest is expe&ed at Colchester be tween Mr. DICKENSON, Mr. TUFFNELL, and Mr. R. THORNTON. Sir WM. DOLBEN has declined the honour of re presenting the University of Oxford in, the ensuing Parliament ; and we understand that the Right HOn. THE SPEAKER has been put in nomination as a Can . didate to succeed him. Sir- FRA:WIS BURDETT certainly offers himself again for Middlesex, with Mr. B YNG We have been favoured with the sight of a letter, written by a Professor in one of the Saxon Univer sities to a friend in town, from which we extract the following passages, not as. containing any thing in itself-unknown or curious, but as evidence of. the state of the public opinion - in the most inde pendent as Well as the most enlightened port of Germany : " The political changes which are taking place have 'been less the subjea of loud and public conversation than you might ; expeet; not that we were indifferent to them ; but it is otherwise, now the Northern Coalition, and the friendship of the Emperor of Russia, have kindled a game of pub lic spirit altogether unexampled :' it is an agreeable surprise to us. Bavaria is most detested, and yet pitied. PALra's death has had a great elle& upon the minds of many. • - In Prussia there' is little dissatisfaCtion remain ing since the King seems disposed to enter really into the contest. On the contrary, there have been somewhat riotous expressions of joy at Berlin and elsewhere at the prospect of hostilities. Lately ' The Coffee-house Politician,' (Der Politische Kan-, nengiesser) was given. The Players contriVed to bring in a number Of • apt allusions, which the, pit very welt understood, and received with rapture. So in SCHILLER'S" Maid of Orleans," the Virgin's_spa triotie exclamations were most enthusiastiCally ap plauded. You see the Prussians are not °Ended with their Monarch, whatever the Foreign Prints may say—btit catis saperque:' The report last week circulated that a Gentleman was to do penance in St. James's Church yesterday, attracted a great concourse of people. At half-past ten St. James's Church-yard was quite crowded ; and as soon as the Church doors were opened every pew and seat were filled; and near 300 persons re mained in the Church-yard, the Church not' being able to contain them. They continued there till divine service, when a scene of great confusion en sued, a great struggle having . taken place between 'the persons coming out, who were met by those that wanted to get in:'• In order to disperse the crowd and, prevent confusion, it was 'industriously circu lated that the ceremony would not take place tilt the evening, which had the desired elle& We understand that the report originated from the fol lowing cause :—..A. Reverend Gentleman some time back had been prosecuted in the Ecclesiastical Court for ill-treatment of his wife, and a separation was. agreed upon, by which he was to allow her a cer tain maintainance ; which lie not haVing fulfilled, and, at the same time publishing a libel against her, which affeeted her character, the Lady had recourse a second time to the Court ; on which the Gentle man being summoned twice to appear, and failing to do so, he was in consequence excommunicated yesterday week. I TUE Tli ATR E.— The Suspicious Hastand was represented on Saturday last at Drury-lane, and was very well attended.—ELl,lsTots has a good concep tion of the animated playfulness of Ranger but his a&ion is too measured and mechanical.—CaaLts made his second appearance at this Theatre in the charatier of Bellamy. He is a genteel looking man, and very, well qualified to give such characters more consequence than they have generally pos sessed:—PALNEß totally misconceived the part of .lack Meggoi. His dress, as well as manner, was more like that of a Box-lobby Lounger than au af fc&ed man of fashion with a taste for virtu.— hiss DUNCAN was not uninteresting in the serious passages of Clarinda, but was ridiculously atfefiegl i f ici childish in those of the gayer kind. A / ; I_, E 117 From the LONDON GAZETTE, Oet. 3S. Admiralty Office, 067.17. Copy af a Letter from Sir fames Snumarez, Batt. and K.B. Rear Admiral of the , Red, to Wm. Mars den, ET. dated at Guernsey, 061. 15, 1 806. SIR, I herewith inclose, for the information of my -Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, a Letter I have received from Captain Thicknesse,"of His Ma jesty's Sloop Sheidrake, giving an account of a gal /ant and spirited attack made by the Constance, Shel drake, and Strenuous Gun-brig, commanded by Lieutenant Nugent, on the French Frigate La Sa lamandre, which they succeeded in capturing after close and f levere aC-tion ; the Enemy's ship being sup ported 8y a strong battery' from the shore, and nu merous troops and field-pieces and musketry. Whilst I sincerely lament the death of Captain Burrowes, with the other brave men who have fallen. in'this enterprize, I cannot too highly applaud the 'perseverance of Capt. Thicknesse, the'Otficers and men under his orders, to prevent the Constance, after'she had taken the ground, from falling into the Enemy's, hands ; and it is a satisfattion to know that their efforts so far prevailed, as to have rendered her totally useless to the Enemy, having left her a perfeEt wreck under the battery ; the Salamandre having also grounded, they succeeded in destroying. by setting fire' to her. I am, J. SAUMAREZ. MAILS. AttatvEn—i Malta / Dublin, t Waterford. Du E-2 Cut• tenburgh, Harnburgli,i 3 Dublin, 3 Watertbai. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY' Al' TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols, 61 1 '1 I Omnium - - THE SUN. SOLENS Saf.:l3 DLCERE FALSUM A UDEAT ? L 0 N 1) 0 N, 'MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1806. P.S. I inclose a Return of the Killed and Wound ed, as far as Capt. Thicknesse has been enabled to collet the Returns. The Return of Missing has not yet been trans mitted to me. The number of French Prisoners are*fifty-fin, se.- Yeral of whom are wounded. His Majesty's Sloop Sheldrake, St. 4nbin's , SIR, Bay, Jersey, October 14, iBO6. I have the honour to inform you, for the inform, ation of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that His Majesty's Ship Constance, in company with the Sheldrake, Strenuous, and Britannia Hired Cut ter, weighed on the teth instant, - at six A. M.. from. the' anchorage at Chansey, with the. tide, ofebb, - a - ncl a light-breeze at S. E. on standin g in to reconnoitre St. Maloes, a Sail was discovered off Cape Frehel, to which the Squadron gave chace, employing their sweeps nearly the whole way ; it was , soon disco vered by her manoeuvres, the chace Was anenemy, who about noon succeeded in getting into Bouche D'Arkie, hauling close in with the rocks, and car rying:'out bow and quarter springs, and otherwise preparing for al obstinate defence, covered with a strong battery of guns on the Hill, as well as field pieces and musketry employed by the Troops brought down for that purpose; in this state they waited to receive us; their detettnined appearance only increased the ardour of the brave Captain Bur-. roves (who, I am sorry to - add, fell gloriously by a grape shot, in the heat of the aet ion). 'The Shel— drake, by superior sailing, bad the godd fortune to lead into a6tiOn, followed, .by the Strenuous ; the Squadron being auchored`within pistol-shot of the Enemy, with springs on their cables, at. two P. M. a most spirited fire. commenced QD both sides, which was supported•with great gallantry and obstinacy en the part of the Enemy's Ship,. till four P. M. when it pleased God. to give us victory ; I sent my First Lieutenant to. take possession of 'her, and the British colours were immediately • hoisted. She proves to be the Salamander, a Fr e nch fisigate-built Ship, .mounted with twenty-six long twelve and eighteen• pounders, and. manned, by 'their oWn.aceount, with one hundred and fifty.men, and was commanded by a Lieutenant (de Vaissean), who waft killed in. the ether); she was bound . from St.Maloes to Brest, with ship timber. His Majesty's Ship ecnstance having taken the ground, and the prise also a-ground, every exertion was used to get both Ships off, bat, I am sorry to attd, without success; the, fire of the cannon and musketry from the shore beceming now ,so gellieg and tremendous, that the_ people could not spew themselves on deck t the constariee having cut both cables during the aaion, and the wharps, which had been run out to heave her off, s . hot.awayi at the moment of her floating she drifted with the wind on shore, further on the rocks, which obliged the Officers and cre.w to. abandon per, (without firing her) the decks being filled with wounded ; observing, however, as the tide rese, she began to float, I was induced, great as the risk was, to make another attetnpt to save her, which also proved un successful, those employed pn this service being either killed or made prisoner s, Night now closing on us, it became necessary to consult the safety of the Sheldrake and Strenuous (the later with her foretop -mast shot away) ; at break of day I .stood in to see if any thing further could be done, and was happy to observe the Constance was high - and dry on the rocks under the battery, and lying keel up, a perfeCt wreck; the prize, which had not drifted so far in, I succeeded in totally destroy by fire, at low water; I have saved about one hues dred of the Officers and crew of the Constance ; of thoSe missing, I hope most are made prisoners, though' I fear some may have fallen in the secousl attempt to recover His Majesty's Sbip. 'he lamented death of my respeCted friei3d, Cap tain Burrowes (who, had he lived, would have given their Lordships a more clear and detailed account than I am able to do of this affair), leaves me the duty of bearing testimony to the determined cour age, coolness, and ardour displayed by every Officer and man in the Squadron. I must particularly mention the assistance I received from my First Lieutenant, Richard Kevern, a most meritorious and old Officer, whom I presume to recommend to their Lordships' favourable notice. I, must also bear tes timony to the zeal and bravery of Lieutenant Nu gent, commanding the Strenuous Gun-brig, who on this, as well as former oochsions, has ever shown himself a gallant and zealous Officer. Lieutenant William Lawrence, my Second Lieutenant, to whom r committed the service of'destroying the prize, performed it very much to his own credit and my satisfadion. I am 'sorry to state that Mr. Henry Fraser, Master of the Sheldrake, who volun teered hi the most gallant manner to accompany Mr. Richards, First Lieutenant of the Constance, in the second attempt to save the Ship, is amongst the missing.