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sting morning, without meeting any opposition or
consequence ; the whole, of the li.ss on these days
ktdounting ably privalp killed, 'Lieut.-ell'.
Kirkland, and ---LFitzwilliaun, Esq Secretary to
General Miranda, and iix men woullded, but who,
we are happy to add, were left in a fair way of re-
covery.

The object of this Officer's mission is, we are in-
formed, to obtain troops and shipping to assist the
General in his enterprise.
AUG. SA.
The Frrrit brig, of IS guns, the Hon. Captain
Cadogan, sailed on Sunday morning for Coro, on
the Spanish Main, having on board Captain James
Lodtte, of the Columbian Army, who returns with
answers from Sir Eyre Coote and Admiral Dacres,
to the dispatches addressed to them, and received
here on the lith inst. from General Francisco de
Miranda.
We understand that the Heads of our Govern-
ment have expressed theniselaes in high terms of
approbation of the laudable purposes which General
Miranda is aiming at, and regret mach that they
are precluded from giving him the assistance
which his views demand, as they cannot take so
great a responsibility on themselves, not having
had any communication from His Majesty's Mi-
nisters upon the loubjciet. It is much to be la-
;neatest, that no assistance could be afforded the
General from this quartet, as we are well assured
that a few hundred men, tolerably disciplined,
would have cif/rifted all he wished for in a few
weeks—a junetion with a considerable body of
men now encamped ready to join him ; but which
he cannot attempt with the force at present ander
his command.

On General Miranda's debarkation at Coro, he
immediately issued considerable numbers, printed
in the Spanish languor, on a large type, of the
following
PROCLAMATION:
Don Francisco do Miranda, Commander in Chief of the Co.
luiebian Army, to the Inhobitants of Columtdan America.
Bran CouoUparin and Friend. !-41.1edieut w your
and to the repealed autumn and calls of the country, to whose
service we bays cheerfully consecrated this grater port of our
lieu, we have disenaMrked in this Piorince n( Canes: The
opportunity and the rims appear to us highly farourable for
the ceeepleiwn of sue deetens; and all persons composing this
Mir are your friends or cmotrymen ; t reisolsvii is sacrifice
Utak Kees, If necessary, kr your liberty and Independence, MS-
dor 'the atepleps end prate s;.n et at firisiik Nape a With
these awailtariee, we can sen-ly say, that the day will come,
•hen our Aleffiell 'motoring her sovereign independence, her

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sane will be able limply to slew to the U.iivers-_ her exalted
spillt. The oppresitivt un*A.ng Goyim meet ehkh has ob-
scured our finer an* blackened arab calumnies uur
deference and cha.acter, utasaeed a1...t0 maintain her altural
nablis sy.tem of Ailitainiteatlan for throe succesnve centuries,

but was mewls able to orad,cate from our beetle these liaoral
and civil virtues which a ho y religion, and • regular ado of
Caws, incorporated with nor customs, aat led to an basest and
natural mom of •et-on.
Les ee ho worthy then of therm admira►le qualities, that
the mama, orLias ageism of the Curt of ktelrid being im-
pels/4 ars stay be ab a (pilaff, to eara►lish the civil or& r nia
eatery to the completion of p honourable an iiintertakin4.
The recovery of ear rights as Mims, sad of our national
Slag as CulasoMars Amerman.. well ►e antortrt the least
benefits we shall tense front that so just and accessary a de-
termination.
The innocent ',hens and other men lei'? &sender we all as
Brother Citizens, and that pr:crdaucy belong; wile to reer,t
and virtue, et tirlii,ll babel tete! will poriinsnly obtain, mom
certainly, military and titd recompences, the reward of merit
alone.
If the Death and Portagnete were able, ht fnunar ;nue', to
throw off the yoke of Spanish oppresoiont lithe SW4I, mod the

dpeericsos, war neighbours, hive equally sueeeetted en estati-
' liah their liberty and Indopendeace, with the general applause
of the world, and to the balsa' arf their iolyshitantv, when
'echo,' hest, eeptratelv, scarcely contained two or three m.l•
hall of people; why then shall uo, •h Cr the least six-
t,en mil:ione, not ►e Ole astir to ettnrate nurrehres poi-
sestina, ►esides, over and above thew eonsideratsons,ehe meet
fertrle,inexhante."ile, a,rt r•ch Corernent in the knnwn world '
L:, that it depends solely upon our owe that
the will, programing to our indepeodencei Uwe. vii swore to
we pevtuttient int! "parpetaat t•appirsun sM Ur'M. Provi-
dence °Maio& it, to alleywte the ani.ertet of our unhappy
einiotrymen, and for the psteetion and benefit of the Amnon
species:
Those pimple who are timorous or less instructed, and who
wish to isreferat themselves of the er..und•wark of the justice
and equity which t►w praeouLk. requWe-nrenai to the
hatorieal truths that po.ve the inconceivable inrstitude, un
heard of cruelt•es, ant atrocious persecutmi of the %partil
Goyernmeni, towards the innocent sod unhappy nthelntauts
of the New W..r1.1, almost from thl runment of its discovery,
will road the subjoined Otress of D.s.Juso vneaedo, of the
Order of Jaw, directed to ha countrymen, arid they will tad
in it irrefrargalele proofs ant snl,4 argoments in hour of oaf
roues, &Voted by a Iduiy Mart, at a time when he we, about
taking his leave of this world. to appear ►Lars the Creator of the
Culverts.

To carry this plan into its doe elect with security and effi-
cacy, the c t sena ..II be obliged, without dininciwan et ciasee.
or stah an (11cctesaistics only esuteptod, an the parts where they
may be appoirib4l). to conform tlershieleee soe.tty to the fol-
lowing armlet .-...

The Articles are ten in number.

Bt the int, all °Seen actin tinder authority, grant.," by
the C mart of Mtd•id, •re to suspend their nine', •m.
Br the wand, trio Kee esaoticel sod Judicial Canna, art to
itiOftilif their toncerons ad narrow.
ly :be :hind, rise• Cm:to ate to livid deputies to the army.

to nct'.te in aCenera Alearbil on their artist la the capiti r
and theta to fora a Pipvisiallai Geverls" t.
By dull lettertls aMcitillsci. tuna 16 451, are t) repair to thl
array.
By the.sth, all who wake COITIMOII. cuss with the ern.;
of the Spanish Government, or wh r may be found encamped
of in sarrisol, 4hlll b., treated at Traitors.

by the 4ith, all who exercise any employment, rid who
shad join the standard of the country, she:l receive honours
propestieneri to the seal they ,•hew.
By the 704 the Treasuiers of public money shall invreerli-
ately 4.l•yu.it, the same with the Civil cud klcclesia,tical Admi-
re' • or', (or t'Ae supply of the army.

By the sth, in order to prevent all kind of insult Or sures.
soon on the part of the soid.ers, the Magistrates at• to cause
the National colours to be fixed on the churches, and the
CI item are to wear th! National cockade.
Be the 9th, the ProcLoriatien a ordered to be fixed up in
the noble buildi ;Ls, and to be read once a day in the
church.n.

By th• lath, every person alanding against the preceding
Articles, I. to be piinhherl.
(Signed) F. DE MIRANDA.
llead•quartsrt, Coro, August 2.

THE 13RITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
MONDAY, OCTOBIR Q 3.

MS NI/015TV% order for the dissolution of Par-
li.ament is expened to appear in Thy Gaune ol to.
morrow night. Meantime, as may be seen by the
Advertisements in a preceding column, an aeliva
canvass has commenced in this metropolis, and, we
understand, in every other part of the kingdom.—
Earl react, and Mr. SHEItIZ AN start for West-
minster. Mr. kleason has also announced his in-
tention to claim that high honour. It is thought,
however, to be only a threat to induc• Government
to forego any opposition to him in his canvass for
the Borough of Honiton, for which he set out on
Friday. Mr. THORNTON, Mr. TIIIII4IY. and S.r
I'. Tuirron, start for lb. Borough of Soatimpt.—
Mr. livrio and Sir F. BURDETT do net apprehend
any opposition for Middlesex. In the City, how.
ever, a contest is expetted. Sir J. W. AtinaasoN
declines, and Alderman SUAW expels to succeed
him. Mr. WAtrtsxAN. however, we understand,
means to offer himself a Candidate.

A Mail arrived on Saturday, from Jamaica,
brought to Falmouth by the Diane packet, in thirty-
See days. It has brought Papers to the 7th of Sep-
tember, from which it appears, that Mastaasaa had
not advanced on the Continent of South America
with so much rapidity as was expeCted. Oa the yth
of Angust he dispatched a Messenger to the Naval
and Military Commanders at Jamaica, requesting
aniitance. The' Messenger arrived at Jamaica on
the 15:h, and on the 24th he was sent beck with an
answer, that the Naval and Military Commanders
at Jamaica, did not feel themselves authorised to
send him any assistance, without instraitions from
Government. At the time that MIR atio• dispatch-
ed the Messenger to Jamaica, which was several days
after he landed, he had not advanced beyond Coro.

These papers do nut contain any intelligence re-
spelling the British squadron in the West Indies.
The Etias, HArr, arrived at Jamaica, from
Philadelphia, fell in with a French squadron cf
five sail of thedine, on the 16th August, in lat. 27.
I mg. Gri. When Capt. Harr first saw them, they
were standing to the northward, but, on observing
the El;z,, the squadron tacked and stood after her,
to the southward ; having come up, they wore and
stood to the northward. They particularly inquired
if a twe•decker and a frigate had arrived in Ame-
rica. These etissela.were evidently Admiral GCIL.
LAUSIII% sqnadron. Tise Veterov, itltol4ls BONA.
'a ship, was probably the two-decker for
which the intfiltPy was made.

(laving received various accounts of the nature
and extent ot the recent disturbances in the r.orrh-
west of Ireland, we have taken pains tome/main the
rest case, and have this day the pleasure ot submit-
ting it to our readers. It has been colleeled, by a
gentleman resident in the county of Leitrim, upon
whose veracity and discrimination every reliance may
be placed, and who had every opportuaity of corning
at the truth.

Letters and Papers, of the 16th instant, have
been received from Holland, but they do nut notice
the commencement of hostilities between the French
and Prussians. BONAPAITI's head-quarters, as we
stated in a former Paper, were on the 4th at Bam-
berg. According to accounts from that place, of
the 9th, they still remained there ; be had been
joined by the di►isions of Souvr, DAVOVST, and
Baarr•nor r a, and hostilities were expefled
to commence on the ltth. That Btria r
heackuarters should have remained so long at
Bam►erg, is easily accounted fur. The rig!.t cf the
French and the left of the Prussians were there in
view of each other, and any approximation, on ei-
ther side, must have brought on a battle. M.
Dtoaa.rsaxw, WIN arrived at Erfurt on vie 10t!.

inst. rrom ter,bn7l., hated, that the ;rst 's.i.took
of the Russian Army roiNtt be eatweed to cross
Oder about the 20.... teat numb rs of cars..lB4
were prepared at Bre:1 ice ai.d an Lasatia, for the*
cor.ieyance.

The Gasete of Satu da, n.iht crmtains the deralia
of the desperate ration near St. Malocs, in *thick
the gallant Captain Buititowes, of the Ceasteorek
unfortunately fell. They do not %lifer%
material point, from the account which we hid '!
Saturday before cur readers. We do not recoll.4
say similar case in the history of the Brksti oat) t
both ships were lost, the viClat and the stantalatir4
and their respettive Captains wet* Lilted in Oak
aCtion. The language of The' Gazer?, pyytes be*
much Capt. Hu eitowss was beloveds and how mat
he is lamented.

The Diana packet arrived from Jamaica tette sal
at Crooked bland, 16th Sept. and found :*i.t's
nearly demolished by a dreadful hurricane.
.I)serdraell, of Liverpool, seas wrecked on the N•irot
part of the Island, Crew saved I and an American
brig, crew and passengers, 14 en number, lest.
•
Dispatches were on Friday received from Mr. rt.,
ciao at P aler rno, deed the 16th Septernet fat
We are sorry to 'ay /oat they do rut cardinal the ea:
port of another yid:tory having been obtained by ooh
troops in Calabria. It is certain that the Fria
in the most perilous situation there, hut we oh
learn that any new debarkation of English trop
taken place.
A IV:it:seam, on Fri 'a brought dismal,' to
bliniatets from St. P.-;ei.hurgh. It is cent:4;1,11..4
the Russian arn,ies ore Put in motion ; but there all
no accounts as yet to confirm the report of theit
rival in Stlefia.
Lord FREDERICK MOH ADM flit'ler of the
Duke cf Menne:Tie, one of the ill-presimniv..
for Huntingdonshire. has declined offering A.m,e,f
again as A Candidate for that honour, in coin..
queree of his ill health.
Mr. Tom SHERIDAN is gone to Stafrud, to Can.
/ass that t
The Earl of !deceive, ma of the Margins of
Ile s areas-, is spoken of as a Candidate to res
present the county of Meath, at the neat Geae..,l
Elretion.
The three Hon. Mr. Ponsonosto, sons to It•
much-rospefed Nobleman of that name, are t ..-
pesie4 to start Candida•es for Co k, Katona% anal
L sndanderry. at the approaching Eleetion.
Mr. Aldersdaa Pal x•ce does not intend to lipase
the Loup Mayo. as a Candidate for the vacancy
then will be is the oily of Loudest, by Mr. Lkiets
man ANDLNSON'S declining.
General Morino is said to have been in 14.662
wit da theeefew days; and, after several confete ire*
with Miaieters,• to hive set off on Friday for Haat.
borgb.
Earl Sr. Veneto has resumed his states riff
Ushaat. His Lordship left the Tagus in to•he.
crience of the arrival of a cutter with dispatches
his Lordship was on board his strip at the tithe e
cotter arrived, and he immediately set sail, wkly at
going on shore.
The Marti, Cressent, and Seth. for Live lto
were to sail from Jamaica on the 7th of ap•
teniber.
The Jollitsice dfdridesa, Pone, of and for 'Han.
bro', from Cardi.agena ; and the flerev, of an tioet
Philadelphia, for St. Domingo, are detaiaed. ani
sent iiao Jamaica.
The Sarta Maria, from Jam air A to the Spina
Main; and another schooner on t:ie same vaiyavos
are cap:nred. and carried inn, Cu by a gyaiii,it
privateer, which captured two ot..er schooners hum
Kingston.
The Willem. Bruer, r. from Aft ica for Liverpool,
was captured on tare 17:h of July, and carrel lac)
St. Martha.
The Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Tie•
sury have been pleased to appoint Jinni Lassie
, M• cc IT. Esq. tr be Secretary to the Comm:email
for auditing the Patine Accounts.— Nssetre. /
The KING has been pleased to order a Comte
d'Ll,re to peas the Great Seal, emoowering the
Dean and Chapter f the Cathedral Church of St.
Asaph, to cleft a Bishop to that See, void by ti,e
death of the flight Reverend Father in God 130410,
SANDIE. HORILLY. Lite Bishop thereof i sod 143
MAJISTY has also been pleased to recommend the
Right Reverend Fa:her in God, Doctor
Bishop Ba.nnr, to be by them 'levied
Bishop of the said See of tt. Asaph.—( Gawk I
The pyrotechnic arrows, lately made use of
against Boulogne, are so wonder uUy
im rtieed
upon, as to be able to travel twice their otiginal
distance. The combustible mater; eels of which
they are composed, are strong, r wan ma the Gra•
cian fire of old. Tney will burn fora considerable
time under water, and seem to acquire, for the
i
moment. additional fury, from the aFpl cation Ci
that inimical clean nt.
The new recruiting system is said to be a !neater*
of Mr. Winnua a's. As blending public utility
with national economy (however it may be &get:
lished by individuals), it's certainly a very political
plan. Under Me regulation. all the resreiting
utEcers, on full pay, are to be immediately cared
in, and sent to their reseativp regiments I and
those only who are on the hell-pay, are in future to
he engaged on this service. By these means, a
great number of efficient officers will be gained to
the army, and the :Ais duty performed by those
who are at present tuiempLyed, and equally cunt-
petent to it.
We arc desired to contradi& the paragraph if,'
serted in several of the hiernMg Prints. whicr
stated, that a considere*Sikfre eif the e°'°:°°l* Pi
is
draws on Monday last, was the property of a PI"
lica:.'s wife at Linaehiause. Tbs i 5.462• kW
only Prize of 12s),(.001. yet drawn, was sold by Me.
%sm, in a se4eie Ticket. It is erne, that the last
Prize, the last el,),0001. Blank. and the Lit
10.0n01. Plitt, ever drawn, were all said in Shin,
by BIS% but the 20.;,001. Prise dawn last Men-
d :I, was sold by him a Outer:at t,
picer.l Mar.thr