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, feration as to the management of . ..the harbour; but it is very certain, that the Commissioners and ere , dt(irs must be satisfied 5 he denied that the present means - were sufficient to make. the improvements in the- harbour which are so necessary ; ; and observed; that the Commissioners- ha±repeatedlrasserted -the same; • His Lordship concluded by saying, that he had never -spared himself; that be had taken-his full share in all public matlers.between 30 and 40 years, , that he had of lat 6 determined to decline certain; business, and that he should not have promoted the present meeting if he did not know there was an intention to forp a harbour in a place by no.means so fit as ,Newhaven 5 . and that if we missed the op, portunity of bringing forward the .pretensions of this part of ,the_ county, all chance' of the advantages • that, are held but must be lost for ever. '.Ae Commissioners still urged -the same obje&ions; and an adjournment was moved; on which the =et hic, bt4e,up,. • • • - • A-subscription was openedra.the above• Meeting,• for the purpose of rendering the Life Boat at New-. haven actually serviceable .to ship-wrecked mariners, by ereeling a shed for stowing it near -the sea, and not as .heretofore nearly a mile:distant, and for pnr, ° ehasino - a carriage to convey it, with , facility, to any part along the beach Where its assistance may be most required. liamburgh, 3 Gottenburgh, i Dublin, '2 Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS TfitS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. 6ij,i OnAium - • - 4IF Consols - TIE S TN. , . SOLEN: QUIS LICERE FALSUM ACIALAT ? L OND 0 N, - NOV'E:VBEit 20, 1806. ~' _ . No liamburgh Mail had arrived when'this , -Paper was put to Prey:, Three , are -due. 'l'he want of any real intelligence naturally ocea sions a- variety of rumours, and, among others, it is stared, that a neutral Captain, who, arrived at Yar- , 'lnc, nth from Toianingen, In reported, that an insur reel-ion had taken place at Berlin, owing to a scarci -ty. of provisians, on accoOnt of the prodigious con sumption by the PrenchTroops. It'is also reported , ' upon the sane authority, ,what poNAPARTE appeared, on horseback, and as be was attempting to - appease' the multitude, was shot and itistantly : killed. - The latter .repoit not new. It, - is added, that the AIiCtiDUKU'CHARLES," with a considerable force of had reached Leipsie; with a' hostile de.' sigh the:Fr6nci).. Reports of a Battle having taken place between: the - Allies and the 'French still continue to arrive . . •„. . frorry different quarters. It is'stated; that the Captain of a Tender belonging : to Dover, : who has lately, been unizing off Heligoland, zmd who has just returned, decldies, ths.t he bdarded . 's . VC3361,5 different n —L, in the Baltic and North Sea, and that all the accO•ints which :he received. agreed in the main poiht;of aCtion hiving been Poughtbetween the French and the Allies, in which 'the .former . wei:e. defeated. We think it our d'uty to lay these variouS reports before our Readers; 'thoug - h :It the same time wet confess we do no: think them entitled • to any grog degree of, credit, \V - E are sorry to learn by 'tile Li.;hon . -Mail:which was brought to P, , ,lo;outh Princess Pacl:et, thx. the "1-4)2,et vvy,ich ail;-,..d,under the convoy . . of the Itnyal.Geor? - ?, Admiral Duer..woivrn, Itnit e7: - )eHeficd "Gal Tie sever:`_s. _:l t. of \,vas s dipersed, and some of the \Je55..,..13 Isere captuted on the Coast of Spain and Portugal by•ttieflne.nies' Ptivatr;en. The the wo , cla have rer,eo;:i_tiii,,uDo:l fkie s.orj : n.Ex.traCi taken from :the Journal of the Pri;icesiEli: - ,-,ilbeth Packet : - • " •" Nov. 17. 4?. Jung. to'. 44. the N. E. 27. E. 455 A t to to ; t::e Northvyant stectiog South, one a TvLtn of Wu-, ve:li:ippri•ntly fart Convoy. At t t made the Priv..4te which the Man of tii,transwereci, " On the 13th spoke Ilis.,M.2jesty's Ship Atlas; Fal mouth,,. with I Ship and 5 Brigs under Convoy, one having Rated corr.pasly on the night of the rEvli. " The Shies spoke on the izth are :supposed to be the Raveti and part of her Convoy, bound to Portugal. " The Atlas Man of War sailed from Falmouth on the .3cl, - with 'a Fleet bound to Gibraltar." Th. - z Letters brought by the Lisbon Mail confirm the acconnts which we had previously receited of the.urvcommon °exertions of the. Spanish Government to augment their Military Force These extraordi pary .efforts have given rise to'much speculation; be cause it is obvious that, in the present reduced state of the Naval Force both of France and Spain,'ilo very considerable Military. Force Can be sent to South , • America, where the Spanish Possessions are in such danger ; ati , . / 1-it is difficult to conceive for what other , , oit purpose'a large Spanish Army could ,be wanted, unless an attack upon Portugal be in contemplation. A letter from Greenock, dated the 17th inst. says, " 'Accounts are said to have been received here yes- that,a per ion suspeaed to be thetnurderet of the Company Bank porter, has been found. Lk is Supposed to. be j•ourneyman butcher at Lulli.]. We have pot yet had such a distinA ac count (.1 the particulars-that led to.the discovery; as that we eau lair them before our Readers." NA YA L NEWS. PI.? NI 0 UTH--, Nov, tB.—The- Brig which was captured on Sunday last near the Edystone by a French. I: , ,p_ger .Privateer, is the Harn2,O77yIRICII ARDS, laden With timber, from Chepstow, bound . to His,Majesty's Yard at Deptford. The Hart Cat-: ter, -which retook her, returned here last evenin from pursuing the Privateer; which proves to be the Morsonin, of St. Maloe's, mounting 14 guns,- with 754nen , she out-sailed the Hart considerably ; but even bad the latter come ,up with her, it is not likely she could have taken her,. she mounting only 6 guns, and having only 18 men on board. The Lady Warren Armed Ship is since gone ,in pursuit of her: -Nine' Frenchmen are taken in the Har mony, together. with Captain EycntiapS; his wife, a diati and a boy. • Arrived the E‘ olus.Frigate from Ireland and the Jonge Vrozp Dorothea, 1-latcsErt, from Malaga, laden, with wine, bound to Tonningen, detained by the Happy Return Privateer. • H&RWICH, Nov. 19.—There not being a Packet . . in the Harbour s the Agent fur the Post - Otlice hired two extra Vessels for the purpose of forwarding the Mails of this day ; these Vessels sailed this after noon, one for Cuxhaven, with the HambUrgh and Bremen Mails, and Mr. FAuLKNtit, one of His Majesty's. Messengers ; and the. 'other with the Gottenburgh Mail. Stx o'Cx.OcK.—No' Packet is arrived either with the Hamburgh or Gottenburgh Mails, nor jay Ves.l set from any of the Ports in Holland: SkrEER'NEss, I'ov 18,---Sailed.the Kite Sloop of War. Transports contimte to arrive from the River at the Nor... PORTSMOUTH, NOV. 19..—ArriVed the. Orion, of 74 guns, Capt. COPRINGTON., frolll the Medifeg . - ranean, and put under quarantine at the Mother.; bank. Sailed the Foy Bomb, with a convoy, for.thp Downs; and, the Daring Gunlhrig'on a cruize. BRMT-IAM QUAY, Nov. 18.--.--Arrived in. Torbay the Qharger , Gun-brig, Lieut. PowELL, - from Ben ' gal, Nvhich place she left on the 4th of July, and the Cape of Good Hope on the 18th of September,.._. DEL, Nov. 19.----Came down frol Sheernesy tha Kite Sloop of War. , - Arrived the Astrea Frigate, Spitfire, Skylark, and illusquito Sloops of War,• Thrasher Fire-vessel, *Ater, 'Kiangler, Tickler, Desperate,'.2 - tirbulen;, Bloodhound Gun-b:ig - s, with many other Ciinizers, bloWn from their stations off the French Coast, and remain in the Downs with the Ships as per lasts , and a Fleet of -bound.VeSsels.' Sailed the.4yfrea Frigate for - c4uTuouth, and se veral Gun-brigs on a crutze. OREENOCK, Nov. 17.—The Vessel captured by gib Duke and carried into Denieraia, is a Brig front Bareloi\ia, hOund to the Rivet Plata,. mounting, four long nine-pounders, and is said to be valued at 15,0001. :OronTo, SEPT. 3 t.- - --Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, a Brig, with English • colours flying, capturc..l close to the Bar by two Si - iinish row after a.smart aktion ; it is supposed by the Pilots.to tile Zephire, of Lynn ; the coast is covered widi SpaniA) row-boats, and not a single VLis'sel of any kind. to protea VeSse . ls that may come over .the Bar, which • at .this' time ought to be well proteaed, 'as . the Newfoundland , 'Ships are daily exp;,--kSted.- • Nor, .i..;--Yesterday came in,. with great risk,.-the Brig Jane, of Leith; she sailed , frOnt Falmouth about three weeks since, with a. Fleet under convoy of the Raven Sloop of War, which parted fourteen days . since in bad weather. The letters from Lisbon, and other parts of Portu gal, i by the Packet arrived at Falmouth, bring an ac.; , count of very bad weather happening c,n , those coasts in the beginning - of the prevent month. TWo or three valuable Ships are supposed to have been' lost off Oporto Bar, and two or three Convoys very .much dispersed ; among which are those which sailed from Falmouth under convoy of the' Richmond Brig. The Jamaica Frigate, with a Convoy from Newfoundland, arrived off Oportd Bar on the 6th inst. H. M; Brigs Richmond and Snppper arrived ai Lisbon on the 30th ult. - Accounts from Oporto . state, that the Trade has been much annoyed'by 'the ;Spanish Row-boats. The following are • the 'Ships Which are known to be Captured : The Queen, Bibell. from London, hound to' Lisbon. The Robert and Elizabeth, Curry, from Liverpool, is captured by two Spanish row-boats. The following are known to be last : The Commerce, from France, to Oporto, is .lost On Oporto bar. The Henrietta, from Campbeltown to Li'slion;.was totally lost on the 25th ult. at the Mull of Galloway.' ' The Wakefield, Bruce, from Hull to Oporto, was lost `on Ilk; 3 ist O ct. near Ville do Conde—only 3of the crew saved. Yesterday a Court- of Direetors was held• at the East India douse, when the, Ship Surrey was' sta-, tioned for Madras and Bengal, and the Chartuu, for Bombay. .Capt. WITH, of the Lord Hate.hies bury, for Sr:Helena and Bengal ; and Capt. - K:inx:- PATRICK, of the Henri ..elaiiigton, for Madras - .and China, were sworn 'into the t Ommand of their re- . speCtive Ships; add Captain HAY,_ of the Petreal, took lave previous to his departure for China.. lac Court adjourned at six o'clock till to-morrow.. • • • NE IV PARLMAIENT. EMBEIIS RETURNED. ALDEBURGH (Suffolk)—airJohn Aubiey Jahn IN.l'Mahon, Esq. OXYORD—Lnrd Robert Seymour ; Lordfienry Moore. • 'No RFor,x—T. W. Coke, Esq. ; Right Hon. Windham. CHESIL/RE—Thos. Cholmonkleley,---Esq. ; Daires -Davenport, Esq. HADDINGTONSHIRE--HOM Charles Irope. ERWICK The Eleetion is fixed for the 24th. A sharp contest is exneCted between Dr. Towers, Sir Alexander Lockhart, and Sir John. Callender: Nottrott ELECTION`.--At the close of the Poll on Tuesday, the fifth day, the numbers were, for Mr. Coke - - - • - - 3975 Mr: "Windham - - - - 3587 Wodehouse - - - 3347 Col. WohErtoust declined the contest in the evening ; but as the poll had been adjourned•till the next day, the High Sheriff thought it necessary that it should re-commence and continue till 4 o'clock, contrary, however, to the wishes.of all the Candi dates. At half past three o'clock on Wednesday the numbers were, Mr. Coke Mr. 'Windham - - - 3714 Col. WodehoUse - - • - - 3366 ' Majority in favour of Mr. WM1311102, 348 Mr. WINDHAM and Mr. Coma will be chaired to morrow. POETRY. The followirt Impromptu was written, at I\.7une harn, in OxfOrdshire, the elegant and hospitable Seat of Lord HARCOURT. . BY EDWARD JiRNINatIAM, ESQ. Nature one daj, soft.srniling, said to. Grace, . " With me these hills, that lawn, that valley trace." Grace Uow'd to Nature's voice; and, arm in arm,' ' They pass'd along, and scatter'd many a charm. Yesterday, at, twelve o'clock, His MAJESTY came to town for' tine first time these three-last weeks. At two o'Clock His MAJESTY held a private Levee, at the Queen's Palace, which was attended by. The Lord Chancellor The Lord President of the Council. The Lord 'Prkr) Seal. The First Lord of the Treasury. ' " The Secretaries of State for the Foreign and Home Depart- . ments. The First Lord•Of.the Admit ;lty. The Master-General of the Ordnance. ' •:,:.. :' • , The Lord Chamberlain. . . • The Nlallitis or Dimglas. .. . , Lords Hutchinson and Somerville. ; ..\ ' ' Sir.l..4nstruther, W. Fraser, rind I. Sibbitld. - - - General :Harcourt, Mr. Fawkener, and the keco s rder . of. London. The following had the honour of I):presenter,ingpresenter, • to His MAJESTY : • Lord Hutchinson, by Viscount flowick, upon his being appointed, to a N'lision to the Head-quarters ut the Prussian Army. . . . . . . Sir William Fraser, by Earl Spencer, upon his being creat ed a Baronet. • • _ . The Marquis of Douglas, by Viscount Howielc, upon his being created an English Peer; by the title of liaron..l) tton.. The Noble Marquis I , .!: , :cwise•took. leave of His Majesty, pre, - vious to setting oil upon his Embassy to Russia. • 'Sir tames Sii)haid, Earl-Spencer,upon Ins b.Angcteated a Ilar;•uet. . . • After the Levee,Hi s MAJESTY held a P , ivy Coun cil, at '%', - 111c1,1 :Sir JAMES . ANSTILUTHER was :intro duced and sworn in a Member, and took his seat at the Board accordingly. At five o'cloLl His MAJESTY set off for Windsor. Earl Monu, ftei' attending His MAJESTY yesterday, went to the Duke of Yorik, at his Otliee in the Horse Guards, upon some military arrahgerrients.. The Noble Earl, after taking - some dinner, Set off fur Yarmouth. Yesterday another meeting of General Officers took place at the Commander in Chiefs' Office in the Horse Guards, which was attended 'by• their Iloyal . Highnesses the Dukes of Yorx., KENT, and CAMBRIDGE, and a number of General Officers. Lieutenant - Colonel AIACDONALD, and Doaor LARCIJIN, Physician to the Forces, and his Majesty's Fiscal-General at the Cape, arrived from „the Cape' in the Meteor Transport. She had but two months passage. The, force sent from the Cape to the Rive*: Plata consisted of four • troops of the' 20th , Dragoons, the 38th Regiment, - the 47th, which" had recently arrived from England: ;. two companieS,• ,of the 54th, and a Detaahment of Artillery. This •force,was.not dispatched to-reinfexce Brigadier-Ge neral 13r.ltssFORn immediately . ; it ..was in • the firSt instance : tosattack• Monte Video, which was ex peaed to be an easy conquest ; and having accom ,- . plished that service, to proceed, it was supposed, to BuenciS Ayres. - • Mr. PAULL had yesterday a most mortifying proof of the. Onsubstanti4l nature of his popularity; if the turbulent clamours of a Mob may deserve such a natne.—On. the conclusion of the Poll, he attempted ~to address them as usual, but the moment that de sirable event was announced, his friends, the' Mob, began immediately to ply their harnmers'; 'and'if he had not made a precipitate retreat, he 6 - tight have, beeu'cruShed at once_by the fallof the Hustings.-- aIL rife persevering admirers 'of his daily ,quenee, the - moment it interfered with their right' to demolish," proved that they had less ntard for' the head of their - favourite Orator than 'tor' a 'piece of cominon'wood. • •• The failure of Mr..PAUT.L . j in 'his Elet t alimije'f• Westtninster, .was .a -sad disappointment to a' lare - ,e' 'Motn:who a few - days ago' had confident hopes rof, being, , :at the end of the contest, Paull Bthrers, A. few days after ,Lord CALITEnnt 'had assumed the Vice.;regal reins of Ireland, the Primate of 'Ar magh breathed his last. Dr. KING, Archbishop of ' Dublin, was at the time upwards of eighty, years of age : old as he was, hoWever, , it was' expected; as' was customary, that he would be translated to the Metropolitan See : but the Lord Lieutenant answered rather peevishly, KING is too old to rise." This .reached the ears of Dr. Ktiro; who not did wait on the',Viceroy to congratulate him on his arrival. Lord CA itTE :AEI', however, dispensed with_ this cerernOts,, and waited on the Rev. Prelate; who kept his k,at on the entrance of hl3 Excellency, and apoloh;ized by saying, " Excuse me, my 1.r.n.1 . 3 I am toe old to AILDDLESX ELECTIOIV; At the close of the Poll, at three o'clock yester- day, ,the numbers were--- for Mr.:M44l. ism By.t.ria Sir C. BURDETT - • - - -• , • Mr. BYNG Male iliS bow, and mtfred. - - 2617 - z 9 -14 siit Sir F. BUR DEITT' stepped forward, amidst the ac- clamations.dti the people, and addressed the Meet— ing. He Confessed, that if the Hon. Gentleman near him. had been standing for the honour of be-, ing eleEted to the office of a Privy (ouncillor or Prirhe Minister to . some Prince, the qualification of which he had shewn himself so truly sensible—TA- . crru.RNITY-,--ought to operate as a grand feature in' his favour. Standing, however, as - the .Candidate for a populous and independent county, every man in which had a right to know the, sentiments; qua- lifications, and pretensions of the person who cited- his support,. the worthy Baronet could not forbear from thiniting-,,and from expressing his opi nion, that silence, or a disinclination to express the feelings of his heart, could form no part or the re- commendation of such a Candidate. He trusted, therefore, the lion. Gentleman would at length de clare his sentiments, and apprize the -Ele6tors in what his merits consisted. 'He (the Hon. Baronet) had declared his principles with explicitness, can- dour, and openness. The triek, hoWeier, too com mon on such occasions, had been resorted to to in spire contrary opinions, regarding his sincerity,.into, the minds of the people. Finding, their former, watch-words of " the best of Kings," and " the best of Patriots," exhausted, his calumniators had chosen a new term, " the best of . COnstitutions to which, equally with the other two,.the4 would present him as inimical. Their condua in this respe& reminded him of a fable he had fead of a city pa s - sessed of a watchtilL dog, who gave the inhabitants' timely notice of the approach of -a number of. thieves by whom their neighbourhood was infeSted. The thieves, however, who were more cunning than the inhabitants of the • city, contrived to im-, press theM with an idea that the dog wa's-of no real use, bit only disturbed their night's. rest by the noise which he occasionally., raistd. The inhabi tantse seduced by this representation, killed the dog, and the thieves soon after' effected their purpose. §Lich, he had no doubt, was the nature Of the at-: tempt of the COalition-againSt him (Sir Francis) ; but he bad too Much confidetice in the good sense . of the inhabitants oftlns County, and of the king dom in general, to suppose for a' moment that their. atteMptis at undermining him; who had•always been their friend, in the estimation of the public, could Succeed. Jie had never disguised his sentiments on constitutional-points, and he now meant to repeat them: He was a. friend, and a strenuous friend, to tlie just,* and equitable influence of the Crown ; ,and he was, an equally zealous sup pot-F.er of, the fair, equal,. and independent Re. presentation .of the _ People in Parliament. s did noti:svish to see the King reduced tcei of :shreds and patches—to a man of strN. 'fie - wished to see him exercising; and at litirty to ex* ercise, his just prerogatives for the bent.'-flt of his, people ; not that he should be seized upon, and should .become the. property of an ,infamous tion, who should a 6.1. in his name e and usurp his au thority. The people, on the ether hand, he was of opinion, should have their constitutional privileges also : that they should have the power of choosing their own Representatives, wlitS . Vnght serve to them as a shield in the time 0( danger. - He did not de-. sire to put a sword into the hand of the peoi le,,but to possess them of a shield to ptoted theitiseives at any time; or at pll times, when their liberties likely to beinfringed on. This could only be effed ed by an eqUal representztidn in Parliament. Such he: profeSsed himself eager to obtain ; but still, agreeably to the' idea 'of the 'Constitution, he wished triat the influence of the Crown, and the shield granted to the people, should be. proportioned each'uther. In the manifeetO of the - coalesced parties, handed to higi (for he could consider Mr, Whitbread's letter in no other light) he (Sir francis) was charged with not entering sufficiently into par titulars. The particular causes. of complaint he had to urge, in which the exhausted resbirrces of the ;Country Were prostituted to the. support 'oe . some family or political influence, were so numere ous; and of soaggravated a kind, that the time which. • the Mewing -had to spare on such an inquiry was' infinitely too little to mention an hundredth part of them, nor could they all be comprehended within, any reasonable space. He should, however, mention., a few. He complained, in • the first place, of the profligate expenditure of many thousand 'pounds_ annually of the public money on an office held by . the. Marquis of Buckingham, as Teller of the Ex chequen,-an office declared by King; Lords, and Commons, to. be Unnecessary, and the, continuance.. of which, therefore, could only' be considered as the effect of undue ministerial influence, being, as it clearly was, a gross and scandalous mieapplica tion of money extraaled froM the 'bowels. of the' people. He, again, complained that another office' of great emolument, and Of no 'labour (Auditor of the txchequer), was held by - the Noble Marquis's brother, Lard Grenville e r -the ,duties of which might be discharged more'to" - the advantage of the public, for fewer htindreds than the Noble Lord had thousands for his imperfeci discharge of complained that the trifling - 4th* even. which this Office required; had been so grossly negleCted by. . the Noble. 'Lord, that in Consequence of an otnis ' sion Of 'his a great public delinquent, Mr. Asiett, of the Berik,ll'ad ben suffered to escape: This he did I. not Plow. state • for' the :first . time. 'He had himself publicly corriTtlsitied in Parliament against - the No-. ble Lord fur his impreper conand iii this p4tichiai; ; hut Parliament not only did not: think him descry ing of censure, but even passe&aie Act; liberating him from Any 'responsibility in time Coining ..He.. • complained also, that during the exisiaee of the, . present Ministry ;an Ad . ha"o')*en itasSed '41E11 67 „ rising this same Lord Orenvilfelo hold two offices,, the fitir and due execution of: which were.,incom patible with each other. He had been;anthorised. to hold. the office, of test' Lord of the Treasury, while, at the same tune, he continued, to retain khe more lucrative sinecure of Auditor of his own ;Account's. These were some I of! ; the particulars which-fit cdnld have stated—enativotners, how ever, 'eqteilly grievous, reniainJd behind. In thig ohe family there was exhibited to gross, lavish, un-: becomint, and Unnecessary an ,expenditure • and • . ' , • ' 1