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IRON LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

GEN ER tt. I)F.R.
Hur,e-Galeds, Septesibet, Is, 14^9

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tloolts . We moved ou five miles in a few days.
tne Chestnuts (the Aeetarees), for we found that
•!se s4.lil.alidar Looked at us with much distrust,
411 I even took precuutioils, lest we should surprise
iiis His father, hisistriser Kliami, is lately
roomed tram a pilgrimage to Mecca. Sonic time
..curve lie went, he mode over the Swainshship to his
eldest sots, Serafrainiilialins who hue now been
uuilrued in it. The King receives very little
from hie Souliandary. lie has a nght to three
Les. 1011, 1 fancy. 'lever realises one. IVe crossed
the river on the list, and have halted here ester
niter; the Ise., of the river is about two miles its
width, anal is lull of quicksands. 'Elie stream,
vvluels. at present, is not rapid, is about tire hun-
dred yards across. These river,, and the desert,
certainly form a strong frontier."
C•LCU'II'A. JAN. 21i. IEIO9.
fte the course of last week, letters have been re-
cili•si from the Lilentlenten of Mr. Elp:austoue'a
Ntsestamorlitheding down to the 27th ultimo. At
dint hose obey remained encamped near Spree, ou
tikeriitiss biii ut the Chanatib or Acesines, which
deer thei .10d crossed from lkiejghaut & new days
hebrre: .li/hey were still without any direct *deices
from the Vann, nor dot they know any thing cer-
tain respecting the situation or movements of the
Sultan ; wink some reports represented lion es
proce,-ding ou his journey towards Peshawar, ac-
cording to others lie hail returned to
The embassy, however, was to itio•eli again upon
the i.tth, nod expected to cross the Indus ishont
the 2vl of J rituary. The roads in the direction of
Cabot, ut the distance of 1111111111% 100 Mika from the
• place of encampment, being rendered impassable
at tile season by the snow, it was hoped they
would fine{ the King at Peshawar. All these lit-
ters r..pre.ent the etiolate of Moulton as most de-
lightful. The thermometers et sunrise had been or
low as 29 decrees. anti have rimer risen laugher
that, 74 degrees. Etiropeati vegetables, and -untie
of the Europe:all fruits, were to be had in al -
dunce. The Aresines (Africk name seems to Ise
given, in these letters, to the united streams of the
three rivers, Raver, lk;all. nod Is 11111 e
mite, one furlong, anti I s yards, in breadth,
from hook to batik, at the place whets. the mil-
lion wan encamped. The breadth of stream
the (Amt. at that swots, not exc. ell IS yards.
Au Firop-en deserter front the Colouviity •Pro-
viemes, named J.lllll liviisley, had lately come into
the emir., who stated, that he, had been two or
three years in the service of the NaWab *twofer
!Om, avid that tlwre were Ism others of hie com-
rades in the 5414110 401141 it,,,.. and r thirst who was
t lilt ill (IMMO 111411 at %Lul.rrre by Mohammed
'Khan. l'hei received 311 lifitlWl.ller of 60 1311/Veli
per month, and liver, very comfortably with their
wives io the Fort of 1.:M1.141)4J, shoot is roil:.
distant from Nitoilvaii. Brushy wore the ilindoo-
stance dress, anti had all the :ippearaisce of a native.
The Gentlemen of the it were carefully
clierishitig their mustachoes; the want of that es-
statist a;iiseallage of maiihonal being coostalereel in a
very equivocal itgle,aurini„.• a people purely Asiatic.
it i/4 said, that the 'anti appearance of Ow-
tuidable a bAy of strangers, had at first excited
some little in:easiness among the Argoans. The
1010)i :tuts of the villages an their mate, had le-
*loved into the larger towns; roil the Nawaoh of
Moultais alto, it seems, is not in the good graves
of his Sovereign) emiceiveri m isoprehetision that
they meant to soar Ins fort for the Lenora' of the
King of Carotids:lr. These fears, however, were soon
dissipated; and though the Nawauls took the pre-
tauten, of derahling his garrison, awl *lionise up
towu, he svuolueted inuisalf towards the Em-
bassy with greet Havarti. and hospitality.
CALCUTTA. MANCLI 24.
On Friday last, a young man. of the name of
Robert Armee St.ort, a convict, from New
South Wales, was brought on shore. basin the.
Phonon frigate, and lodged in gaol, by au order
from (hue, 'lslamist.
It appe.srs, that this voting roan had beets con-
victed of an offence in England, for which lw sots
transported to New litouth Wale.; from %limier, in
CliflCti t wrote several other cemvols, lie carried off
iii May last. the brig llarringium. and made the
best of las way fur Manilla. Ois the pastakze this,
tier, when lathe coast of Lt./1431116, the Dedatg-
iit.PlSe fri;zste fell to with the Wig nal riugion, cud
ea,' a putty of sillitirti nu b ar.l, :CI take posses-
aims ; and, trao.hippitig the, party aboie named to
the fitgarr, bronchi Min to Priace Wales's
island, where he WAS transferred to the Phaeton.
in which bigate he has bean brought to this port.
Upon twine received 011 board the fledisignerse,
Iwo Comotaialer. Captain Dawson, titres ted by
the smith mon-like appealeure of his primmer, al-
lowed hats every reasonable iiirlulgrace, and fore-
bete to hi/la Outlet pipeline! reiernint ; but
haviog ithisle an attempt to escape, ii. which he hail
nearly succeeded, Captain DASfatill judged it tie-
misery to place him in close coselioemilit. We
uncle:stand, that this sitifortialiate youth was for-
merly a Lieutenant iu the Navy, that he had the
benefit et* a liberal education, and is respectaboy
• •
'lll- I larringtow, after lasing hoarded by a putty
of seamen from the Deditipotase fitgate.
rill 341.1111114, sisal ay. lost, 4111 the C 04114114 LeUels•
Ma, alien all the convict parties who were en board
effected their canape.

It is Ilia ArtsitmWs cilium mut, th.tt •Il OfEe •rs
tatougiug to Regiment* stationed in the 14moitl of
Weleherem shelhenmednitely join their Regiments;
*misery are poWtively ordered to repair for that
plisrpose forthwith to Deal, from witel,cr the mems
willl,r furnishrd to theta of proceeding to their rs-
epeeist's corps.
Th.? no 7 r tceptiuua to this Getters! Order are,
those °Seers teiso are Absent one regular ecru tie.tte
isf el health. •
Ey creesassid the Hien H onms raids flit
.tt
HARitY CALVERT, Adj-Gett

3,bleirally.(lire. Sept. in. Isop.
C.fw ur a I... Purr tr.'s Vier Admiral Sir Jiittn Pl.wilkw War-
ren, 1:1 tit Ard K K. Votintwantier-M-(lterf of His Na
JP mud 'marls wit tie aware of )twit Amettert, tu

Hori. William Wellesley Pule, Rated at Ila Wax the bit\
Aaffest wet.
have the honour to inclose, for their
LeoWrier' information, the copy of a letter limn
Captain NI say, who arrived here on the Ist inst.
in I,a Bonne Citoyeime, with La Furieuse French
frigate her prize. haviug struck to the British
lours, after an action of six hours and fifty minutes,
1 an event which has added fresh lustre to llis Ma-
jesty's arms. owl will, l trust, entitle the officers
and ship's compaily of La Bonne Citoyenue to
their Lordship" faiour.
I have the honour to be, &c.
(Slued) Juwx B. WARREN.
Hi Majesty's sloop Bowe Citoyeans,
Halifax, Ist As,. 1609.
have the honour to acquaint you, for the
information of my Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty, that mi the lath day of Jun?, having
sailed from Spitheasl, iii company with His Majes-
ty's ship Inflexible, amid the Quebec trade, on the
id of July, in latitude forty-four degrees north.
longitude twenty-seven degrees west,l had the mis-
Airtune to lose *mkt of the convoy, in reconnoitring
a strange auspicious soil 'astern, and by traversing
betweeu the parallels of forty-threw and forty-tour
degrees mirth, edging to the westward in propor-
tion to the distance 1 *opposed they would sail with
such winds, in order to leguis the fleet ; 1 hid the
good Airtime, on the at three p. in. in latitude
forty-three degrees forty-clue minutes mirth. and
longitude thirty-four west, to tall iii with a Freuch
frigate in the act of taking possession of a large
Euglish merchant bhip, which they shortly relin-
quished oil our approach, and steered to the north-
ward, under 14 press avail. Finding they did not
answer the private signal, I immediately bore up
in pun sill:, mid, after a chase of eightecii hours, at
to.aity-tive minutes past tinsir s. n 4. Oil the 6th. had
the sa ita.letioll to lay Ilia Majesty's sloop along-
side, anhiu pistoloihot of the enemy, who had
brought-to to engage us.
A brisk caundnade, with round owl grope, imme-
diately co iiiii ienced, and the combat cominued
with unabated fury, gradually closing, until sixteen
minutes peat . four, p. rte. when our powder being
nearly ail expended, 1 deteruimed to rimy her by
lerardirig with all halals, and at the lenient of lay-
ing liar Moon,' for that purpose. they called out
they had surrendered, and struck their colours to
His Nlayesty's sloop. Thus ended s
.condiet ob-
sonately maintained for six hours and fifty minutes,
dursug which the enemy fired away more than
seventy broadsides. whilst His Majesty's sloop.
not less sparring. discharged oar hundred and twen-
ty-nine destructive Ismielsides, alternately from
the starboard and larboard 1,44111 S as circumstances
would permit me to change her position with ad-
. vantage. 1.0 as to avoid the necessity of 'slackening
our lire from the guns bring over heated, three of
which were disinnuuted and rendered useless early
in the rectum.
She proved to he La Forieuse, a French frigate
of the largish( class, that escaped from the Smote*
on the Ist of April, commanded by Capt. I.e Mo-
roni Ker Daniel. pierced for 48 gum, hit having
only 14 forty-two-pound commodes, an l logo
twenty•tour-pounders on the errant deck, with 6 of
smaller calibre; 40 soldiers at small arms, h, r
full
proportion of officers, arid • complement of 200
men. besides the colonel, two lieutenants, and a
detachment of the 66th regiment of the hoe; part-
ly !eroded with sugar and coffee mod sailed from
Ca Terra the 14th June, hound to France ;is 7
years old, awl sails very fast.
After • hard-cootxsteil action, a most arduous
duty still v.-mowed to be performed. Oil taking
possession, we Mood Inc frigate iii a °lost pi riloos
mete, wit,. between wind and water.
and live feet water hi her hold. Her topmasts. and
all her yards (except the cross-jack and sprio.aii)
shot away, end her lower masts so badly wounded,
os to render it almost impossible to prevent them
from falling. with mere thus 70 men killed and
wounded. whi!st His Majesty's sloop was reduced
,to a mere wreck, having all her lower most* badly
wounded in several places, as well as the fore and
mein topmasts and micro topmast shoot rosy. near-
ly all the -binding and every part of the tousling
rigging, sail., Mode, &e. cut to pieces. After se-
riming the prisoners (the weather bring very favour-
able chore, the night), by the exertion* of Mr.
thindion, 2,1 Lient, smut, and Mr. Atwater, the car-
penter, ors. al of the most dangerous shot-holes
were stopped, an as to enable them to keep the ship
free; brit all their efforts to wire her masts proved
Meth-coml. as the main and wizen masts wrist oser
board the next day". leaving; the bare foremast stand-
log. wounded in three places.
purr imntrfdigxble exertions of every Officer and
town iu the. 134 Citoycinie, iu fishing and se-
eming her maids, so as to be alle .o take the frigate
in tow, and .mritionnting every other difficulty. me-
rit toy warmest praise and adminition ; end I feel
grutilied in reporting to their Lordships, that
nothii.g could exceed the aiiiinuted zeal and un-
onin, d intrepidity of the Officers, itrainees, 111141
Royal Marines, whom I hare the honour to c
wau 41 a I***Ott.t.t with an ern my apparently of so
great it superiority of force ; and -1 lag particularly
fo mrsituol• the able assistance th,t l received from
Mr. gy:nes. the First, Mr. Sanctum. the Second
lientensilt. and Mr. Williamson, tin Master. which
contributed greatly to the success of the action ;
Mr. Scott, the Purser, Mr. John Black, and Mr.
passengers, in the handsomest manner
VOltilltrt mil their services, assisted at the goo.. and
w liel ever they could make theinsvlves most useful ;
and M.. Stewart, the Sargent, deserves much
praise tor his humanity sad ;;relit intention to our
awn as well as the wounded prisoner,. ; Milli-rill the
oaticiice with which all hen& have theme the ex-
treme firti.me and privation of being constantly on
deck for to enty -fire days and molds, does them in-
finite credit, and urges me to so hang is aeon'.
Thus circumstanced, 1 woo induced to make the
heat of my way to this port, where. I arrived with
the prize on the Ist instont. The Bosom Citoyestne
reqiiiring threw losvcr-niasts top-masts, Ike. to eft.
*140! her to pmcred in the prosecution of their
Lordships' oilers.
1 have the honour herewith to inclose a list of the
killed mid wounded, end I sun happy to say our loss
has been inconceivably smell, which I can attribute
only to the lowness of the Bonne Citoyeime's hull.
amid being so close ander the enemy gum.
I have the honour to be, &e.
W. Moe save.
A List of the Tilled sad Wealells4oa bawl Rim Miersiy's

sloop Num, Cituruar,lli,m Moulin", rail Cons-
ritatider„ tothe actiou tth La urietu.c. nu the tith July,
1a..9.
Pokes, ereseen, killed; Jacob Asderaue, meautatt,
badly uuturded ; Itubert Carr, iteantun, data, Robert
1.411.44P1ife, err tows, ado IVilliairtGurikott, withal, ditto •
ltichrtd Ch.tpsitsui, Anairilke, ditto.
(Sisited) W. 110CNSLY, Coiantauth r.
Lilted autl Wounded un hoard the Furiettee.
a Quarter- %labia-ea, s 7 IltlllllCll, and G atddirn, 1 , lled.
The First Captain, a Lirtitenauts, s A111111114,1111t11, 4 Clibl-
11011141V, 19 BC:1/1CU, r Lirutetuutol Ar 4141,11, 1111 d 7 see-
it Iv, datagemusly
Total killed sad wounded-71.
(S ivied) IV. 01.; LT. Ceesummeate.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LOX DON,
WEDNESDAY. Strums so.

The report that Parliament will meet at end
of next mouth, or the beg gof November,
which we lately noticed, is now repeated with con-
fidence in the Ministerial Journals.

Sense of the Patio Papers to the 6th have been
received, containing news from Vienna to the
g7th last; but they leave the illocution of peace or
war precisely as it stood ; we only learn, that the
Austrian armies are in constant motion. The
abandonment of the Expedition against Antwerp
is mentioned in an article from that city, dated the
Ist- Heap A Doire made it the subject of an Or-
der of the Day, in a hich he enumerated the vast
extent of our naval and military force, and added
that we were gone to seek nu other coasts an
ea►ier military task."—The enemy, it seems, ex-
pected Mill attack on the i7th of last mouth, when the
wind and tide are said to have been favourable.
Some sarcasms are indulged against us, winch, of
course, were to be expected. and for which we
should have been happy to have given no occasion.

‘Ve lately announced the loss of the tigamemuon,
of (i 4 gulls, once the great Lord NaLson's ship.
The purticulurs not hosing transpired, the relatives
of her officers and crew hare of course suffered
great sorrow and anxiety on their account ; and the
Admiralty has been since daily assailed with in-
cessant inquiries after their fate. Dispatches were
yesterday receirsd from Admiral DE Cocactr,
oiumander-in-Chief on the Brazil station, dated
the aist of Jour, and we are happy to state, that
they announce the safety of all the officers and men,
and also the whole of the stores of that nufortanate
semi.

Ills MAirsev will come t• town this day to
Buckingham House. All the Cabinet Ministers
are summoned to attend him. The rumoured
ministerial chauges are then expected 60 assume a
consistent shape. Eurl Spence'', and EarlGGut,
are both mentioned as likely to till the places of
some of the imbecile men who are going out. This
nomitiation is, perhaps, more a proof of the public
wishes, titan of coy positive arrangement to that
et et.

Such is the inveteracy of the disease contracted
by our troops in Waleheresi, it does not appear to
he abated by their return to their unitive dares.
Twenty of them died on Saturday. ut Deal, in the
hospital, and live in the barracks. The mortality
at the other ports, we fear, is in the seine propor-
tion. It was. therefore. with sorrow and regret we
read an Order in The Gazette of lest night, peremp-
torily requiring all effective officers belonging to
reginients atatioutd iu that island to joie their re-
spective corps.

A Cabinet Council sat on :timidity night, which
did mit break up until 1.2 o'clock.
Dieratelies were gent of, last night, from the
Foreign 0111ce, in Downing-street, to the Brazils.
An order, we understand, Ints been issued fur the
blockade of Copenhagen.
His NI AJ v.sirv's gun-twig Minx, which had been
stationed oft the Scow Reef. fur the purpose cl ez-
lubstiur
a light, is reported (be a letter received
from Capt. TUICICIN EV.E. of His AJESTV'S sloop
Shadreke) to have bees captured by a tialsian of
the enemy's gun-boats, on the evciiing of the :hi
instant.
'Fir Light Brigade from Walcheren, consisting
of the 43,1 and 341.1 Regiments of Light Infantry,
and the id Battalion of the qatli, or Rifle Regi-
ment, under the command of General STUART,
have hero landed from the Superb. Cosign, tte.
at Dover roil Dead. Of the hitter Het/mind. tiuu
oat of its untidier (l 000) are sack mid left iu the
Imapitais at Dover, while their healthy companions
have marched to their old gunners at Ilythe Bar-
racks.
A settlement has been formed on the right bank
of the River Plate, by it number of deserters, 6-
(krona' prisoners and wounded, of General 11 RiTR•
1.01 liE*l army. Their conduct is described to be of
the &AWOL atrocious description, rivalling the But.
caueers, who, two ceuturies age, were the terror of
Spanish America.
The lit No hat bees pleased to great the dignity
of a Bar et of the United Kingdom ofGreat Britain
and Ireland to TROY AS Sayrrmut. of Thornton-
in the county of Buckingham. Esq. and the
heirs male of his body, lawfully begotten.
M Icy a Mail waived from the Braids. It
brings letters to the iattli July, by which we are in- •
formed, that the intercourse with the Rio de la Plata
was preserved, hut not without frequent intervals of
obstruction. As the quantity of 1 r tish manufac-
tures at the Portegurae settlement was much be-
yond the demand, it is of great consequence to
maintain, without ititerruinioll. the tonnuerce
Iran thence to Monte video and Buenos Ayres.
We tritely had OCI.:ISIOU to notice the low prices of
commodities at Ilia Janiero, and we find from
these further accouter that they are yet wore re-
duced.