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MR. RICYETT'S •Nbl/Sit T 3 NOE MR. KENYON.
.16 llt —Alas Junes basin had reason to expect me for some
days at 14 oylske did not forward the letter on its arrival
which you iuelotiCal under cover for me; I therefore did not
receive it till yesterday.
I learn Downing this day for Chester, and shall proceed
to lloyln:v to-morrow or the day following.
As soon as I have seeu Mr. and Mrs. Junes, boa shall bear
from me in answer to the subject of your communication.
I beg to express my thanks for your repeated wish of con.
salting my coavenience as to the time and place of our fu-
ture meeting. I am, Sir,

,
Tose obedient humble servant,
Down*, Oct. 10, Mr. E. J. RICKETTS.
SECOND LETTER FROM MR. RICKETTS TO HON. MR.
KENYON, IN ANSWER TO IDS FIRST.
SIR—Os considering the substance of y one late rimiest-
Ideation, I beg to suggest to you the propriety of furnishing
the whole of the corroborating proof to which your letter
refers, previously to our entering in any shape into the me-
rite of the charred It must be our =steal wish to begin
oar unpleasant tt.', of investigation in such a way as to se-
cure • speedy result ; in order to allay as soon as possible
whatever sensations may have arisen Ilsm misrepresents.
Sion or fallacy, touching this unfortunate hasimis ; a com-
plete and perfect statement of Mrs. Corbel's cause of com-
plaint is 1 corwreire best calculated to insure this object.
Had the letters* of which you wish a espy been in Hrs.
Jonea's peasessuei,dsis cover would have conveyed one to you,
but being at Clamps Ledge it cannot be furnished till her
arrival there. I any Sir,
Year obedient hatable smwant,
Hoylake, Oct. 13, t So 7. E. J RICKETTS.
• Copies olds* letters alluded to have never been sent.

MR. [LISTON TO MR. RICKRTTS.
RIR—I have this moment received your letter, and would
with pleasure comply with your request of senriing the differ-
ent papers relative to Mrs: Corbet, was it practicable
with any degree of certainty ; tM fact however is, they are
much too numerous to be forwarded in the form of a letter,
as they at this time occupy the whole space of very small
trunk.
I am the mom ear/ upon Ibis point, as the three state-
ments I have already had the honour to send contain the
total of Mrs. Curbera canoe of complaint, and the remaining
papers in my posamaion are merely strong corrolimatiug
proofs of their truth.

In addition to this also I flatter myself your wish to again
On the papers Ton mention will ceases, whoa I assure you
that nothing has, I believe, been added to the papers you
have already seen, and which I understand Mr. Junes has
had au opportunity of seeing likewise.
As the tertninatlon of this unfortunate affair cannot but
be desired on both sides, I hope you will not think use
troublesome if I suggest, that the sooner we meet (after you
can obtain Mrs. Jones's papers)
the better, as we shall both
deservedly be blamed, should we suffer any unnecessary delay.
I am, Sir, your obedient humble servant,
THOMAS KENYON.
MR. mcarrrs TO MR. KENTON.
Stn—ln asking fur copies of all papers which have any
relation to the charges brought by Mrs. Corbet against Mrs.
Jones, I am actuated principally by the motive of preventing
if female a lengthened and tedious discussion.
Certainly, though the papers in question are described
generally by you as (ceding only to corroborate the testi-
mony in chief, nevertheless, if they are even fur that pur-
pose to be brought forward at a future period, instead of the
present, their perusal sad consideration mast seroue.r or
later become indispen•ably necessary. Unless, therefore ,it
is understood that these papers are to be waved altogether,
I & 'l, that, in justice to Mn. Jones, I ought to ask for a sight
of then,: if their naulteity is an impediment to their
being all copied, I could wish to have permission to peruse
them, and to male extracts or copies at my pleasure, at
whatever place may be convenient to you for that purpose.
Mr. Hued has bs-eit kind enough to offer me acconnueola-
teems at his boos,, and 1 intend being there on Tuesday or
Wednesday uest, I shall stay with him the two folios* ing'
doe ee, and shall be happy to devote the 'nominee of either of
them to the shore object, if you will leave the kindness to
favour me is lib a line, addressed to me at Boreatton, ironing
the time ems) place must suitable to yourielf. am, Sir,
Oct 21, Ino7. Your obedient bumble servant,
Meaford, Stone, Staffordshire. E. J. RICKEI TS.

SIR. KENTON TO MR. RICKETTS.
•Ntn—l shall be happy to slicw yuu all papers in wry pea-
scsuun yon 'nay wish so are, mistier to Mrs. Jones if you
still take the trouble ui ndimg over here on Thursday morn-
ii.g from Eoreattoe, marl retreat you will sake what ex-
ts from them yon may think proptr i and am, Sir,
Tour obedient hatable serrant,
Oct. 57, 5507. THOMAS KENYON.
• This letter was sent to Str. Ricketts, at Boreatton, and
he came over in consequence to Prado, where hr passed
several hours in reading and gating extracts; fur the shale
of HAI Cambers cam was .Id before him, me he ma kr& l 0
bims.'li.

U. RICKETTS TO MR. KENYON. •
Rut —As you asoatiotied at our last interview that there
ware one or two other papers with which you-might possibly
be furnished in support tithe charges against Mrs. Junes, I
take the liberty of regneeting to know if you bare yet received
them, or if I ma au consider t►at what 1 lave seen egad as in
possession of onnprisie the whole of the materials to whii h
the accus3ticia against ber is to be sustained.
I ain. Sir, your obrdicat litnible servant,
Eaton, Nov. as 17. E. J. RICKETTS.
To be iiiewm;=„modiucd.
' The Dani,li privateer, captured by the Rogali‘t,
hat; arrived at Dover.

The I)rie esusiers, laden with 164 pipes of
wine, seal Cie Marianne. laden with 31,0 tons of
hemp, are taken and carried into Christiansand.
•
On Sunday 'venial* last, from eight to eleven
o'clock, t. Ire was a severe tempest and heavy rain
in the neighbourhood of Billy St. Edmund's, some
of the lashes of lightning were extremely vivid,
daring about eleven o'clock, a tenement,
with the elauleiter-house and other out-buildings,
occupied by Mr. ROBERT SUMNER, butcher, of
Exsung, were set on tire. h a shoat time the
whole of his pralines ‘vere consumed, with nearly
all his furniture, clothea, ilac. but by the vigilance
of the inhabitants, the flirt iier pmgressof the flumes
was prevented. Report stito, that some pteanistx
were likewise dolt eyed taear Dun rialuidge.

L'lrEitrcENCE.

AVIRM 3.

Arrived the Ralph, Nicholson, trauspert, (Mae of
the Expedition), leaky, having been rua foil of.—
The Ai.ister reports, that several others have re-
ceived tlionage by the lute squally weather.
Sailed with the trade for Newfoundiand, Que-
bec, and Halifax, the Iphigewia of Sti wins, Capt.
Lambert ; and the Minaret: sloop of war, Captain
Horoby, with Mr. Drat on board, for Cadiz, ac-
companied by the Champion- frigate. Capt. Craw-
ford, having on board 10u,u00 defiers. for the ser-
vice of the tyosips. •
. To-morrow the Centasiou of 50 guns, which is
going to Halifax as a guard-.liip, will go out of bar-
ar.—Lady Prevost sad family ao oat in her.

PLYMOUTH, ♦UG.

This morning arrived the Tnroshend packet,
Captain 4:4' sek, from Comma, which place he left
on Sunday last, with dispatches, the nature of
which had not transpired, but are eonjeeturtd to be
of great, importance ; also the Joseph cutter, from
the Channel fleet.

Sailed the Decade, of 36 guns, Captain Stuart ;
.Mediator, of 36 sous, Captain Blarney ; Peacock,
of 18 guns, Captain Yeake ; and the Ranger trans-
port, all for l'ortsmouth ; and the Woo/wick store-
ship to the westward.
Last night the Sr. Alban's, of 64, guns, with
abirit .?.0 sail of transports, under convoy, put
back, add sailed- again to-day with a fine wind at
north-west.

P 1154.111 by from Torbay, the Channel fleet, con-
sisting of 7 sail of Out hue, to resume their station
off Cshant.

• TORBAY, Auemcr 2.
Sailed the Channel Fleet, under comuntand of
Admiral Duckworth, fur their station otf Brest.—
Wind N.W.

DOS ER. AUGUST 3.

Caine into harbour the Tartar Custom-house
cuter, of Dover, Worthington; and the Lice/y,
ditto, of London, Smith, from a cruise.; also an
American-built schooner, mounting six carriage
guns, with upwards of .30 hands, under Danish co-
lours. She ha.l besides, for a deception, six wooden
forms, resembling guns, culled quaker., which, ut
a distance gave het a very formidable appearance.
She was captured by the Roguint gnu-brig, on her
passage from Oottenburgh, and was in chose of the
Gottenturgli packet, Capt. Hamilton, when the
Royalist hove in right. On observing the }wig, the
privateer mistook her forge mendiantuian, and leav-
ing the packet bore up for her. On nearing the
Royalist, however, and receiving a shot from one
of her guns, she struck her colours directly, having
too late discovered her mistake.

Came in this day the Lion, of Scarborough,
Davison, with coals, for Doter; and the Liherty,
of and for Dover, Alien, with coals.

Sailed the Charlotte, of Dover, Watson, with
sundries, from London and Dover, for Oporta ; and
the Nymph, hired armed cutter, of this place, boxer,
on a creme.

DE•I., AUGUST 3.
Arrived His Majettrs ship Perthion, from Got-
teriburgii; rdu C'racker, from a cruise.—Wind
N.W.

Extract of a letter received by a respectable
merchant in this city, from his son in Micant, dated
June 9, 1808: •• You sr ill, before this roaches you,
have heard of what has occurred in this country,
and the rascally wanner in which Bonaparte behaved
to us--liut now I think he will pay for all his sins ;
his conduct to the Kings I need not mention. The
first rising was in Madrid, on the ed ult. which
w'ss only a partial thing, by a few of the mob, who
killed upwards of 1700 French ; the French pa-
pers say only twenty or thirty.fell, but you may de-
pend on my statement, for I have it from good au-
thority, and about eight hundred Spaniards; in
the latter are included 300 that were afterwards
shot by order of Murat, with the most unheard-of
cruelty and barbarity. This, naturally, with the
preceding occurrences, joined to the utter ha-
tred the Spaniards have for them, disgusted the
whole nation, which remained quiet till the abdi-
cation of Charles to Napoleon was made known,
whcu immediately on the arrival of the post with
the news in Carthagena and Valenti., they rose up
mid declared they would obey no Sovereign but
Ferdinand the Yllth. They, u well as the rest of
the nation, instantly took tire and declared war
against the French, and enl:sted every unmarried
person front 16 t' 40, of which' age I am sure there
is not one but is a ider arm•, a al at his post. From
this place 2 5;0 nut young feil..ws hawd marched
to Almauza, wit :re the rendezvous is for this pro-
vince, and is now well fortified.

" It is impossible for you to cone: ice the en-
thusia.nn and patriotism with which this people is
animated ; and to give you an iastance of it, I
shall mention a circumstance that happened here a
few day. ago : about three o'clock in the morning,
• report war 'Tread the French had made a land-
ing in this neighbourhood; every one dew to smut,
and was it not for expresses that were immediately
east about the country,, to say it was false, there
would have been, in less than el lOUs, upwards of
50,000 men in this ace ;as it was very near
10,000 had arrived. Yesterday's post, from An-
dalusia, brought the news of a party of French,
under the command of General Dupont, beinfeen-
tirely defeated at • place called 3lansasianes, 2000
of whom, in their flight, have been taken prisoners
at Lorca ; the particulars are not yet known—God
prosper the good cause. In Valentin, a suspen-
sion of hostilities has been signed between this
province and England, with Captain Dunlop of
the English brig of war the Dregos; the other
provinces will immediately follow the example—
every one here is desirous to see au English vessel
come in."

A letter from Commis, dated Jolv 14, says :1--
" From a person unived here from Madrid, which
he left at noon on the 30th of June, a e learn, that
no more than 6000 French *troop* reirusined suar-
tered there, exclusivelxofes6o sick in the lio.pitals,
who, for the greater part, weie brought there wound-
ed ; that on the day previous to his departure, (the
itilth of June) between seven and eight o'clock in
the evening, Mllesr had teken his departure from
that Court, escorted by 400 men selected from the
Imperial Guard, and the best horses; that he was
proceeding, lying on two mattresses, in his carriage,
and very infirm, which gives colour to the report of
his death."

IttillACT.oll A ?ATTE% fto3l IPAT WRITTEN By

A Iliftatal NT, DATiiil CAbEZ, JUIN 4.

" A most extraordinary revelution has take 4
place in this country. is a very short titan,--it
general and regular ruing of the whole people,
ea Irras4e, has been rtiected without the least di,.
order or party uniutoSity, and set eral traitors,
eluding our Govettior,llave.breu put to death fur
• their attachmeot to the enemy, cud nothing is now
heard in all quarters of the:kiiigdons but the diu of
urine and warlike preparations—net er was so mach
enthusiasm displayed, or so bald u eliaructer at
once exhibited Ly a nutiou.-I'his tow* clone Ism
furnished above anon volunteers; the army of Se_
Mlle, and the other leree of three thousand men, to
form a National Guard, l'olll posed of the principal
*inhabitants, to gene when the garrison tales the
field. We are exercising casittunidly, and our
progress is moat surprising. I have the htittour
of being a serjeaut. Bunineas has Owen way to the
great imputieuee end enthusiaent of the people to
shake off the French yoke. There are shout 6at
Goon British troops at Fort St. Mary, under the
command of General Spencer, who wish to try their
skill against the French army of about 8000, en-
treuehed near Cordova, but the Spaniards with
ulout to have! he honour of doing the business, and
we expert every hour to tear of their surrendering
at discretion, or being:put to the sword. In every
putt of the kingdom deeds of the most Isomd kind
have been performed, and, excepting attsladrid and
Barcelona, the French have been exterminated, and
there is now a fair prospect that the whole of Spain
will be tirade.; of them ; yet the arming of the in-
habitants proceeds with unremitting- ardour, to in-
sure the issue, be_ being" prepared- in the event of
fresh armies tint:hug. their way through. Frauce,
such is the attention of Government at Seville to
military afthirs, that all other concerns are disre-
garded. Notwithstanding our truce-with Eneland,
there meths vessels come in to load, but I hope to
hear of some soon from your quarter. Our harvht,
thank God, proves to be ono of the most abundant
known here for many years, consequently we will
require no supply of yeah. Our commerce with
our celonies will soon revive with renovated spirits
in consequence of the peace with England, and
Irish linens will be in great deirand."