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froliz the HAMBOIicH CORRESPONDEA TEN of Notiimler 22: itE'mArtits ,L - Y - A FRENCH OFFICER ON THE REPORT OF GEN. BLUCHER. General BLUCHER begins his Report thus With a tteje ct(' heart I am under the necessity of inform ing your Majesty of the annihilation and captivity of the corps of tic ops'whic.h't had . the . mis;OrtunetOcommand, in a situa-, toot, inch admitted rot of any ether tate. That a -corps, cut oif ?rum the heart of the State, and from all the other troops,and fortresses. should he annihilated in a fortnight, by,a corps six times as strong, after it had pended all its anintunitiort in tour engagements, requires no justitication ; but it would ailbrd me the highest satistatlion• it your ;Majesty would follow my humble Report. step by step an , l judge of the measures which Ladopted." .11elative to a fume six tunes - the strenerth of Ills own, Gen..l3LuCiii.:R - errs. The troops in and LubeCk 4 .when 6(4 . capitulation took place, did Dot • , exceed 2.5 or 36,000 men ; and these were then for the tirit .tune colleaed together. Marshali Bcrt tia DOTE and Sotrur had . only a - part of their troops npr Lubeck, 4d the Duke of B . E)tG . bad only one.. third of Ills corps. . think it necessary to begin with stating, that the objeet of:Lir operations of toy corps, till the agift, that is, till. the capitniation of the Prince of flonant:onr; was the jutfaien of the two, and gaining the Oder : that afterwards Inv utmost efforts werz exerted to draw off the ; French from the ()der, ar d to remove them from the heart of (he Prut;sian 'Monar chy, in order to gain time for the provisioning °four fortresses and the approach of the remaining Prussian troops, and the knssion armies.", General BLUCHER fails in his obje& to prove that be aitned at getting time for provisioning the for tresses, since these places "had been entered by oth& corpgnf the Prussian army. And as to waiting for the Russians on the Oder, that was idle, since the French troop; hare entered Poland. " The result has proved that 1 wiis not quite unsuccessful, - ak three French principal corps, those of IseluaA r, BERNA. r F., and Soup?, surrounded mc ; when, totally destitute of aintirunitirni, I wAs obliged to capitlate, with 9400 men, at Rfintau, bctween Kiel and Lubeck." General BLUCHER was et ;his outset pursued by the first troops of the Army alone, which foUght, him at Zabel, Nossentivn, Old Schwerin, Kaldrum, Crewitz; Fahre, and Gadebusch. Gen. I.lLucuia liad then, including the corps of Weimar, bet Ween 25 and 30,000 men,• with 3000 cavalry, and 11'2 pieces ofcannon. However, Gen. BLUCHER refused an aCtion- with only 12,000 infantry of the first corps, which ptirsued him, and were only supported by the. light cavalry of the 4th'corps". Then was the time for Gen. BLUCHER to have availed hitnself of hissu perior numbers, and accepted the challenge given.— This he even evaded on the plains of Meckienburgh, where he might have used his numerous' cavalry to advantage. He was not in want of ammunition, as upwards of 1.50 Pkissiait waggons, &c. with every - -aescription of it, watt surrendered in and near Lu beck. . - • . . I shall nosi-commence the more circumstantial narrative, which I shall however allriAge as much as possible. 9i4 the Lith ()dotter the Prince of Hot' tiv L ails gave ma the command of the corps which Duke EuGENE of Wirtem berg had till then c , tnmanded. It had been greatly weakened -by a dcfe: , near thile ; and had, besides half a battery of rz pounders, on ly one and a half 6- pounders, and a horse battery, but neith:r forage nor bread. The artillery was principally lost at i'.l.lerstadt and in forced marches. With this corps I marched on - the 26th in the environs of Ruppin. The P► - ince ot. - Hooxivi.ouz ►vas in the vicinity. O Lychen. " My intention of going by way of Zehdenik„ the dired road to Prentzlau, was frustrated ; the enemy having posses sion of that place and Gransee. I marched thence the 27th, with the tat division of the corps towards Furstenburgh, and with the ad to Lychen. Towards evening my rear:was 'at tacked near Men z ;. it repulsed the enemy, but I withdrew to urgteßbu rgh ►o join the tat corps. ' " Ott the 2Sth I joined the diVision Which had been station ed at Lvchen, and diretted my march to boitzenburgh. The Prince oft•loxxr m oa s had marched by Schonemark toPrentz lan, I dared not take this circuit, and was under : rlie neces sity of iesolving to drive the enemy out of 13oitzenburgh, un les4 I t elinquished all hope of joining the Prince. In this march the enemy attacked the rear not tar from L chen; but was . repulsad by my regiment, which took upwards of 3o pri soners, and killed more than fifty men. ." On my approach, the enemy evacuated Boitienburgh ; the patroles, however, found enemies in all the - adjacent places; and from the tew villages which I was forced to take posse Sion of, to prevent the men and horses from dying of hunger, I was obliged to drive them out in the night. " A t tour o'clock in the munting of the 29th, when I was ready to set out for Prentalau, I was informed by some strag glers, who had - escaped from Ho FIE N LOH E'S Army, that the let:lice had capitulated at P tentzlau. My corps amounted to to, ioo men; before me. at the distance of eight miles, was WI ex T'S Army ; on my flank, or in my rear, the corps of Ekt N ADoTTE each of these.was at least twice as strong as nay corps, which, besides, had neither bread nor forage, and was exceedingly exhausted by the many forced marches." Here the General commits another error ; the :number-of the first corps that followed him was not double that of,his own. He was pursued in his retreat by 12,000 only,. These troops had, fewer re sources than the Prussians, as they were obliged to trace the same ground which had been previously . exhausted by General BLUCHER'S corps. " My resolation was soon formed. Instead of marching to the right, towards Prentzlan„. I marched immediately to the left, towards Strelitz. I hoped thereto form a junction with the corps of WEIMAR, then to advance towards Magde burgh, or, according to circumstances, to cross the Elbe, in order to supialy Magdeburgh and Hameln, fur a longer term, with provisions, and to set tit the enemy's rear. " Meanwhile, 1 received no account of the corps of Wet-. AR. ftotn several•Ofliccrs and lagers whom I had sent out. On the 30th 1 marched past Strelitz, to Dambeck, nut there n:et with it unexpededly. There, too, I received the first information that the corps of Marshal SOL/LT was coming front the Elbe to meet me. Before it reached the place, my rear was harassed by the enemy." When General 131. - UCIIER kept to the left to gain Strelitz, he was.pursued and attacked by 100 cavalry only,. under Col. GERARD, Aid-de-Camp to hince PoNTo . Colivo, and who compelled him - to leave that place. " On the 31st I sent two Officers to the Elbe, for the pur pose of colieding the vessels necessary fin - crossing that river, ' 'at Boitzenburgh and Lauenbuigh. I rnarchetl to Wahren, and the toilowing day to Old Schwerin and G Lave. ' After the arrival of So u Lr's corps, my situation had be come ‘. more critical than ever. I had, it is trite, formed a junetiort•witli the corps of WEIMAR ; but it was necessary that the troops, exhausted with fatigue and hunger, should be distributed at night in the villages, that they might there obtain a scanty subsistence. By this. separation, however, my corps was always to imminent danger of being dispersed, in case of any attack. The ine,sures 1 at:opted were as bAlow : At dusk the-corps separated ; ant h6or before day-break the re.4ißi6its marched out to the rendezvous, which was fixed in such a tnauticr, that I advanced from six to eight miles. By this disposition, the magnitude of the danger in which 1 was involved was only somewhat diminished."• Marshal SOULT pursued the - column tin - der 'the Duke of WEimAn, in the rear of BERNADOTTE, Wfib follow%A the column of General BLucllEtt, as the hater took Boitienburgh in .his - Way, while WUMAR'S corps bore off towards the'Lake of Mu.: rig, not far from Speck. These movements were the cause of the junction of both corps, ilite 4th corps: was - 4.#lder the .tlecessity of finding itself very 1 near the first. Near tiadr.a.o,- 6000 of the .first cOrfisA brew themselves into the midst of the enemy, who nni'tedrhis. columns, and, notwithstanding the formidable superiority. of the Prussians, and the ad vantage - of theiF• r position, General, BLUCHER retreat ed-behind CreWiti with .precipitation. -Ile Gene ral's own report proves that he had colletled all his forces.—lt i the.truth, - that the enemy were not attacked by more than Gym nien. " On 'the Ist NoVeinber, my rear was attached .hear Wah .ren the enemy penetrated to Old Schwerin, where my head quarters were. The corps had gone into quarters, between Kuppentin and Serrann.. As the .eneiny knew, from the that he could not proceed through Old Schwerin, I, considered their advancing'as a false attack, and expected the real one between the Lakes of Krakow and Schwerin. A great part of my troops assembled h&e at the rendezvous which - had been previously fixed upon. The enemy, mean while, turned - towards the . T.lbe; and I marched MI, some - hoins betiueday-lit;ht, for the' environs of Prestin and K la drum. My corps was here dispersed - over a dist tied twenty miles in circurnter rice ; I was urlder the necessity of tributing them' in many villages, ti'lat they migin.obtain pro visions. . Many of the soldiers dropped down dead trout hunger.. of. the id I marched to the environs - of Schwerin. I 1. hoped-here to be covered on both wings by the Morass' of Lowitz, and the Lake of. Sch we , in, and to p e able to procure my troops some' read and brandy to o - m•the town. Atter this I intended to march' with the corps the next morning to Latienburgh, or to attack the corps of SOULT or hr.xrr A- DoTTE." Which each of the hattalions.,Were ',bilged to ieave .0 or 5o men behind them every day. Lastly, General VoN tour squadrons of Bavarian dragoons, and General YON Us ElYON,.with ten squadrons of hussars, had been separated from -the army sever: days ' • consequently the troops belong log to Cie ti divan/ corps of Wirtemburgh, suffered severely at Halie.'; • _ . The Generals VON PELET and Usuom were both captured one after the other, before the capitulation was entered into \vial Gttleral BLUCHER. " On the ;tit of November our march was happily conti.-- tmed. The gates of LubeA, and the Trave, from Trave munde to that place, were all occupied, as far as the DaniSh frontier. The Army, in thiS position, would bave.been in a condition, in the course of a few days, to, have resisted the enemy's prodigious superiority, supposing that every one had done his'duty ;.-• but this, alas ! was' not the case. The ene. . tny, on the 6th, at noon, forced their way through the Burg gate of Lubeck, upon which 16 pieces of cannon were plant ed, and which w•asASo defended by three battalions. Thp enemy would not have succeeded in forcing . the gate if the cannon Itad.not been partly withdrawn, contrary to orders, and, just at the decisive moment, ceased to d& any fUrther execution among the enemy's troops.' • - • We are ignorant whether the Duke of Batric-s -wIcK•OELs, who Nyas posted at the Burgthor, did his duty or not. This, however, is certain, that the fight Was continued there a considerable time ; that the French troops were obliged to advance, 'exposed to the fire of case-shot .from the bastion of I.3c . Alizvue ; that the greatest part of the Prussian artillerymen and the horse were killed, and that out of the 16 pieces of cannon mentioned by Gen. BLUCHER, 1.4 were taken. . " ck., soon as 1, was apprised of No 'uneipeded event, I att..c.keth,: enemy hi t;i‘i streets, with as many'of the troops as I still could Col he cont , sflasted a considerahielime, :Aut with inc,h ik,:ed,Wed. The city w;.is at lencah tilled -wan the ei,ern:,'s ihrces, and it v. as wiry no longer po.,sible to sa l ericr The regintyia:.; or—fsch aminci the gfe.r,r part of the •rtganentt. of 13runs wkk-Oei. the 1 - )rigade of Fus)lecrs, and a party of I vern. , AJ arid t'usilecrs, were.almust antirely cut to pi0...c.4, or linshi.ers : If General BLUCHER had any real intention of attacking Marshals SCULT or BE RN A Doi7, he had freiluent opportunities Of doing so, particularly at Kladrurn.and in the defiles near Crewitz, where he had his whole force at hand, and where he was' brought to an aalion with only 6000 men of the first corps. - " uring this march, a warm alibn took place with the rear near Crewitz, which ended in the evening at the village 'of Fahre. The detachwent of Col, VON OEN kisrEr , ,, at lyittenburAlt, had marched from that pi:We without orders ; consequently 1 was ignorant of vhat ,%% as passing un my right wing, Bad the enemy attacked me on this side ; titile I was ,engaging hint between the villages of Value-and' Plate, 1 shotild hoe _penetrated to the' Lake of Schwerin; obliged to anticipate :a design of this kind on the part of the enemy so-much the more; as, in cas.: he should att,inpt to harass my rear, his march and -in attack ‘vir.:id nave b , , en far more prudent at Plate than at Fahre., An attack at h.dre appeared only to be a demonstration to drawlity attention to my right wing, while he turned the • General 111,u(.•-ng,N. was followed to Lubeck step by. stop, rnongl:t the French art»ywas - still at the distance 'of t kiLl's march; when they were al- Most at, the of Lubeck. . The General also th .nght himself so safe, that he gave orders to his to b exeet . ited the nett day, at the instant heql he was in tOrtned' that the enemy had forced the Hurgtnor-gme, not above' 300 paces front his lodgings. He had then scarcely time to mount an orderty•horse and ride, to the Market-place, where he collected some squadron - s, , and Made them attack the sharp shooters of a French column which had nearly come op with the Prussians. The French were driven baCk, but not 'beyond the General's first quarters, where his Etat-Major , was already made prkoner.. Soon after' the 'General and his cavalry were forced'in their turn, but . they gained the gate of Holstein, and escaped. • • The affair near Crewitz must, prove to General BLUCHER how little the French infantry regard the ,Prussian cavalry, when twelve cotupanies of the 27th regiment, and the bth of the line, wei• at-. tacked by nearly •2000 _men, whom they defeated, and even pursued. Then• vitas the time for General BLUCHER to have shewn that, he had no apprehen sions for his right wing, It was then his duty to hav'e defended the tbrmidable defiles of Menz and Fahre. • "At them r:.7tent of capitulation, - the senior Officer on the Statlcommitted the mistake of stating, in the general abstra,A he gave in, , the etfezlive strength of the regiments as much greater titan it realty was, and also to include the troops which had been previously detached, or which had the day betilre been killed or made prisoners in Lubea'. 7 The French Generals, however, in mustering the troops which' have capitulated, must have been convinced' that their num ber did not exceed what I have above stated." • , • " The bloody engagement with 'the rear terminated near the village of_ Fahre, an hour after . dark. The two Head quarters were not more than two miles distant each other; mine were in oSdorf.• Marshal HERA:I6O7TE sum. moved me a second time to capitulate. 1 per‘mptoriiy re jet34l this requisition." When Marshal. BERNADOTTE found that General BLUCHER would not defend the defiles of Fahre, notwithstanding the number of troops he had brought upon the spot, he made him proposals for a capitu lation. He then begged General BLUCHER to ob serve,. that his: escape was impososible; and that within ••three days he must- either hazard a•battle, or be driven into the sea ; that it wouid be of. no avail to prolong the calamities of the inhabitants of the country over which the war had spread. To,. this General BLUCHER replied, he would never ca pitulate. . • Such an answer seemed to indicate, that.he would certainly avail himself 6f his formidable cavalry, and maintain Gadebusch. From this position, however, he retreated as be bad done from other places, 41nd with more precipitation than even' : -He took his route for Lubeck ; his cavalry were almost useless, owing to the nature of' the ground about. that city, Which 'would not admit of manoeuvres. In these affairs Gen.,BLUCHER sustained a loss.of to pieces. of cannon, and 2000. men were made prisoners. 'We don't know that the Chief of the Prussian Etat-Major committed any error in the return of the number of troops : this, however, is certain, that the whole of the battalions and squadrons stated in the above-mentioned list Were found efficient. • The result of the - affair of Lubeck - , and its capitu lation, Was 21,200 prisoners, consisting of infantry, cavalry, and artillery ;. 63 coiOurs'and standards 5 103 pieces of cannon; upwards of SOO Officers, inclu, Sive of 14 Generals. - The PRTNCE of -WNLES, we understand, slept, for the first time, in the new apartments at Carleton- HOuse, during his late short stay in town, and with the appearance of which he was highly' delighted. The residence of the Heir Apparent may be consi dered, at this time, as the most perfea thing of the kind, perhaps, in Europe. The suite of rooms on the ground floor are already known fo the public ;. but the bed-chamber to which we immediately allude, has, we believe, been seen but by very few, and could only be said td have been completed,' within a few boUrs of the PRINCE'S arri val in town. • " To proceed with jhe execution of my plan, namely, to, withdraw the enemy's troops as far as possible from the Oder,. and to fight when I could retreat no farther, 1 marched from. the environs of Schwerin to Gadebusch and Roggendorf ; my troops were disturbed in the night, on the side of C rest Salitz, and consequently on my right wing. 1 was able, it is true, to,turn towards the Elbe, in the environs of Lauenburgh, but I had not time to cross the river. I had no other alternatiVe, therefore, than to retreat to flambdrgh or Lubeck ; or to fight the next day. My troops, both men and horses, were ,so exhausted, that I could expel no success train a battle with a . force six or seven times superior. The Grand Duke of Ileac was on my left flank ; Marshal Fitx NADOTTE in - frontl Marshal Sou t..r on the right wing. In this critical situation I resolved upon marching for I übeck, and to pre serve the Trave in,my front." • In answer to the General's repeated assertion, that he had au enemy before him six or seven times his number, I reply, that the whole of the French troops'in and about Lubeck, on the day of battle and the day following, did not exceed 66,000..; and. that he never had to contend with the sum total of the army, but only with a part of each of the cores. - This apartment is. entirely hung with drab-colour broad cloth, "cAii'cli'admits Of being drawn aside at every apertme, such as the doors, windows, looking &c. &c. The whole-• produces altogether ttle - most navel - . and singularly pleasing coup d'a'.ii imaginable. The bonne graces are of a cinnamon colour, adorned with pelniet of black velvet; which, suspended from a richly gilt cornice, composed of the oak leaf and apple branch, harmonize; and add greatly to the grandeur of the general effed. At the two opposite extremities of the room are tWo projecting domes,. with curtains of the same materials as the bonne graces's, ; the first forming a kind of anti-room to the bed-chamber, in which is suspended a magnificent vase, containing the night 1 ight i and in the other is fixed th© bed. The latter i s certainly the most elegant and appropriate piece of furniture, perhaps, ever attempted in this Country. The form . of this superb article is wholly after the Grecian costume. It is.of black. and gold, ele vated upon a platform, the ascent to which is by 'a flight of three steps. The latter are covered with a light blue velvet carpeting. The, curtains which are attached to the bed are suspended from a golden 'eagle, placed in the centre ; they are of a light sky blue silk, dotted over with silver stars. A laic ror, tea feet in height, which fOrms the back ground,of the bed, refleas the whole interior of the room, and produces the finest perspeaive that judg ment and taste could devise. The whole of the room is covered with .a rich mazarine, or garter blue, velvet - carpet, ornamented with gold rosettes. The latter adds •considerably to the richness of the chef d'reuvre. This beautiful apartment is lighted up by four superb Grecian candelabras, placed in the I four corners of the room. This admirable apartment is surrounded by rooms, emineotly well calculated, and immediately necessary, tbr the accommodation of so distinguished a persbnage as the Prince of WALES. " The remaini►tg troops which still consisted of 9003 and between z and 300 men, had not rallied during the night ; and Our principal want was Ammunition. I had now to resolve upon risking a doubtful attack, and rushing upon a the at least eight times my strength, or upon violating the Danish territory. The latter I deemed imprudent, as it was-protect— ed by a Danish corps, and the violation 'of its neutrality might be inconsistent with our political relations. The con_ sequences of the former must have been, that the whole corps would have been destroyed or taken, a circumstance .wh►ci► would have been much more to be deplored than that of surrendering upon certain conditions. On the 7i oof No vember, therefore, at the moment when three French armies were on the point of attacking me, I resolved to capitulate. A copy of the Artick:s of Capitulation is subjoined." General BLUCHER was attacked in the night . at . Schwartau by the 54th regiment, and forced to lent that place with the loss of several standards, cannon, and I QOO prisoners. -.He.did not only quit the place, trat gave up • his fine position behind the. river Schw•artau. He had only to contend with, the demi division of RtvAun, and a few squadrons of cavalry'. • " On the following day General BLucurn sent his son to . Pritke -PONTO Coßvo to offer conditions, who sent him back to inform his father, that he would attack him immediately, unless ,he surrendered his army prisoners of war. ; On this occasion the capi tulation before mentioned took place. There are dressing-rooms, and anti-rooms ; the latter for the - pages in waiting. In the centre of 7 these has boen•ereded a maltniticent bath; the - walls of which are composed of vinie amtique, and the bath itself is paved with the most beautiful white marble. In the eight - nicheg, or recesses, in the bath, are to be placed the beautiful. and invaluable statues which were sent over from Italy_ by the Duke of SUSSEX some years'siuce. Bank §toctr,2o9i 2.1 c) 209 i Niivy p o Ater Cn , . . 's per Cent. 1797, s per 4 in; Cent. 761 per,Ct. Red. Sr it per Cu-Con ‘,9 Bank L, riiur if) 4. 13-16ths Ditto Sh rtAnn. .t N. B. General BLUCHER had a force of, more than 20,000 men in and about Lubeck, and was supported by the city, the river Trave, and the little fortress of Travemunde, the whole fortuing•a very strong posiCvn. " The wtakness of ray corps arose partly by the losses shstained in the bkirinishes which succeeded each other, the affair of Lubeck, .auci partly from the fatiguing marches, LON Dt Prirted by k'clinic') HARRIS, cf No, 4, Martlett,court, Bow-street ; aiul published by W ILIA ANt Aitmic tit Sea 11 , 1 , 9, of South Molton_street, Gro , venor-square; At the SUN-OrFicE, NC). 1 12, Straud; Avbere Advertisements, Order; for the,Paper, Letters for the Editor, (pqst-paid), mu s t by actiresscd. . Ift . l) On Sunday se'nnight, at Copgr we, Yorkshire, th'e Right- Hun. Lady Nuncaster. Wife of Inv Right lion. Lord Mutt easter,,or Muncaster-l - fuse, in Yorkshire. On Monday se'nnier, at his lodAings in ilath, aged 57, Arthur knake, Esq. brother of the late Si: . Patrick Blake,. Bart. of Langhatn, in SulI;olk. ' On Wednesday the- 26an ult. at her house at Lambeth, .Mrs. Susanna Go•.s'ler, aged Et, alter a lingering _. .. , .. .On Friday, at Bath, atter a very :',liort illness, Mr, An drew Lotter. Musician, of that City ; anti principal of the - .. I' 'imp-room 13 in.!. The same thy, at her apartments 'iii Newcastle -street,. Strand,- M rs. "laptin, a widow 1...+:.!iy. . On Saturday, at Grt.-.:nwich, j“ini .-sh, Esq. iurnicrlyirr the We4t- Indi., u::/(1,-. On Friday. the 2 ist . ult. Mis.; Robinson, eldest daughter of Ralph Robinson, Esq. of Middle :tendon,, 1:::af Sunder-- . land, in the County of Durham. On the 26til ult. in CaToline-street, Bedford-square, Mrs. - C.; u I ston , relict of Joseph Colst;;n, Lsq. On Sunday seniiight,. while upon a visit at Mr. G in NeWltond-street, Miss E. A. Quartertnan, in the year of:her age, the only surviving grandchild of the "die. lohtt Jennings, Esq. . - On Monday evening, at her house, Dowgate-hill; Mrs. Waugh, widow of the late Joseph WAugh, Esq the 25thuir. at Cainsborough, in the ytst year oF her' age, Mrs. Waddington, relict of the Rev. Joshua Wat.4l 4 ng. ton, Vicar of Harworth, in the County of Noitin,ghata. AIL/C.4S YE.SIIRDAY. . Stock, haw Bowls, 3s ts. pr. Exchequer 13i11,:,par, 2S, thrum:ll, I pr. p:,r, pt. 3 her Cent. Devir.ed, • Imperiul 3 per Cent. 57 i t Ditto Ann. 7-F, Con. tor Openinz, 594,i 60 HIGH-WATER AT LONDON BaLuc, ROW. Nlorning, 39 min.. after 9. Afternoon, 19 min. after tc. Our Readers will recollea the account Which gave of a poor girl who wits Missing in 'Yorkshite , The following statement is now given 'Of her pi tiable story On Sunday, the 2Clth. of July" last; Elizabeth Byram, a young woman, and servant to John Proc tor, of Smeaton, butcher, had leave of absence from - her mistress to see her friends, who reside at Bro therton and Knottingley, a distance of five or six miles ; and on her return home late the same even ing,- she was last seen on the cross roads from Pon tefraet to Campsall, and Doncaster to Ferrybridge, where she had informed some a her female ac quaintance she expeaed to meet a young man who paid his addresses to her, and who was seen on the same road late that evening by other people :* her ' disappearance from that time gave rise to a suspi cion that -he had murdered and buried her in the plantations of E. L. Hodgson, Esq. of Stapleton, and he was'accordingly apprehended and committed to Wakefield House of Corre6tion by the Magi - - strates; before whom he underwent several stria ex aminations ; but no circumstances sufficiently strong arising; be, was restored to • his liberty. The pre judices. of: the neighbourhood were still - very great apint'hiM, and the inhabitants of the surrounding villages repeatedly examined and. searched the ex tensive plantations and wastes, to discover the re- mains of the unfortunate *girl, but without effect, Theyoung-man, whose existence was rendered mi serable, Was on the point of quitting his native vil lage to avoid the, detestation of his neightrours, when List week a -letter. Was received.from Loudon by 'the girl's friends, informing them she is in a most de plorable *state, and in St. Bartholomew's Hospital. now appears, from tier account, that a soldier, who- overtook her on the road, enticed her to ac company him, and after, seducing her/ he left her to It fate : she at length reached the metropolis, and-has been on the town 'till disease drove her to her present asylum.' . The neighbouring villagers ;ire yet very unwilling to believe in the present existence of the girl,, as maiiy - of them affirm that . they have seen her ghost indifferent plaCes ; and 'a celebrated wise man, s or conjuror, in the neighbour . • hood, who had been consulted, undertook to cover, by It 4 art, the grave where the girl's remains. were deposited, if his inquirers would gain the per mission of the Maeiitrates Consurrn tions and other decays a nature, %,vhe• ther the effeets of natural consequences, or proceed-. ing from imprudqneies, or an advanced stage of liie, have ei3gaged' the study and attention of the first; Physicians of this and all other nations in vain, thltil• Dr. Sidomods Cordial Ba/ni qt Gilead was happily" discovered, and promulgated to the world, and which, has produced such instaeees of its; good effe&s as must convince the most' incredulous' of its amazing restorative powers. To enumerate its truly haply*, healing, 13:114m - ile, and renovating efficacy, testi-. Monies of the . first authorities-are now extant., ft is admirably calculated for bilious and other disorders of the stomach' and bowels ; for head aches occa sioned by indigestion ; and- for preventing palsie and apoplexies, so often the consequences of fee Recourse Should be had to it after every ex cess, and upon every slight indisposition.—The lbs. tid. and 335. bottles may le had of Matthews and Leigh, 18, Strand, and of every reputable Medicine Vender in the Kingdom, with the words, " Sarni. Salomon, Liverpool," engraved on the Stamp. .;HIP NEWS, CR A 11LND, D_EC. 1. Passed by—the Lord NelSon, Gardner, from Surinam ; Favourite, King,. front Senegal ;- jcihrkon, (rout New-York ; Resolution, Frazer, froni. Labrad,ire ; Cath.a_ tine and, Ann; --lellatd, from Messina ; kind COsna2politei Thompson, from Leghorn. Sailed the Wanderer, Linden, for Prnalca ; William M an tfmg, Dixon, - for St. Kilt's; Friendship, Wedge, for t.:re. nada ;.. George, Knight, . for Barbadoes ; Planet, Langley, for Demerara ; Hiram, Waine, tor. St. Nlichael%; ; Vine, I-Inghs, for N ewry ; Kintner, !lege:nu - la, lanson. Vier GebroderS, weil, and 'l'we GQl.erodes;. for Brc men; 81R7114 On 'Monday se'rtnight, at her dwelling in North -street, Chichester, the Right Hon. Lady -Edward. Somerset, of Son and Heir. • • - Lately, at his hituse, Lapp's Island, Cork, tke- Lady of Coloner Arthur G;bhings, ot a Son. On Friday .morning, at Hereford, the Lady of Captain Henry Waring, of the Royal Navy, of a,SOn. MARRIED. On Saturday last, at Sandhill Park, Somerset. Captaita Rieh,Ofiest son of Sir Charles Rich, Bart. to Miss Lett'. bridge, totingest daughter of Sir John Lethbridge, Bart. On Monday, William Farssteen, Lsq. of l.inte-street— siluare.,;(tO Mrs. E. Cotton, relict or T. I. Cotton, Escr. late of Sloane-street. Lately —at St. Clement Danes, Mr. [chn Chase, Surgru, to Miss Denton, daughter of Robert'Denton, Esq. of IVA tham Abbey, Essex.