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THE COURT.

His MAJESTY come to town from Windsor, yes-
terday, about twelve o'clock, escortt.d by a party of
Light Horse.
At two o'clock His MAJESTY held a private
Levee, which was attended by—
Ws Excellency the Danish Ambassador.
The Archbishop of Canterbury.
The Lord Chancellor.
The Lord President.
The !mid Privy Seal.
The First Lord of the Treasury.
The Chancellor of toe Exchequer.
'1 he Three Secretaries of State.
The Master general of the Uhrlitauce.
The Fait Lord of the Admiralty.
Lail of Laud..rdale.
Lords lleathfield (goldstick), and Boston (in waiting).
(it:Elena thgtioll •
Colonel Chester, Deputy Master of the Ceremonies.
Mr Earikener.
The Karl of LAUDEROAL6 had the honour of
being pie.ented to His Moissrv, by Viscount
Howicie, upon his return from France. The Nohl,
Earl had likewise a long private audience of His
MAJESTY.
Vi•count SIDISOLTO had also an audience of
• V. A Jos r v, and resigned the Privy Seal.
:.•,d 11.OLLA la was introduced to His MoJasrv,
en he was pleased to appoint his Lordship Lord
P;ic.• Seal.
Ole Logo CHANCELLOR, Lord GRENVILLE,
L.nd K. Perry, Viscount HowicK, Earl Sermeea,
Mr. Wilmslow, Earl of MOIRA, and Mc. T. QKEN-
•ILLS, had audiences of His Mk) ors Y.
A Privy Council was then lurid, at which Lord
HOLLAND took the oaths of office.
It was near si; o'clock before His MAJESTY SCE
Off upon his return to Windsor.

ARL of LAUDERDALE'S JOURNET.
The Earl of Lauderdale left the Hotal lie
L'Empire, at Paris, attended by Mr. Dugald
S!evaart and Mr. Maddison, his Lot dchtp's princi-
pal Secretaries, Mr. GodAard, Mr. Dozenfield, and
attendants. in two carriages, at half pass nine
o'clock at night, Ftt Thursday the ;,All instant.
They slept at Chantilly, three posts from Paris,
and proceeded the next morning to Amiens.—
Mr. Ross, the Messenger, met hr Lordship three
stages DO the other side of Amiens, and returned
with l.itn. The Earl of Lauderdale and suite
slept at Amiens the second nigh: ; and immedi-
ately on his arrival there, dispatched Mr. Scott,
with a letter to Admiral La Crosse, at Boulogne,
announcing, that he should be there the neat
high!. Mr. Scott was stopped one stage before he
reached Bonlosne, and detained from eleven o'clock
in the morning, till ten at night, when the Earl of
Lauderdale and suite arrived, and Mr. &lit was li-
berated. After changing horse', they proceeded
to Boulogne, escorted by a troop of gene d'n.mrs.
They arrived at Admiral La Crosse's house, at
one o'clock in the morniqg ; hi. Lordship alight-
ed from his carriage, and held a conference
i.h the Admiral for near half al hour ; after
which he proceeded to Pat ker's Hotel, at Bou-
logne (or the Hotel Britannique), v.liere they slept
the third night ; and at eleven o'clock the next
foorning, the Earl of Lauderdale and suite leit
Parker's Hotel, escorted by a pasty of horse and
. foot guards, and went to the water side and em-
b4rked on board two of Admiral La Crosse's beats,
which took them on hoard the Clyde frigate. There
were upwards of one thonsensi spectators on the
beach to witness their embark.ition ; the greatest
silence prevailed amongst them. klis Lordship and
suite met with the greatest civility, from the time of
their departure from Paris, until their embarkation
at Boulogne. The rockets had been thrown into
Boulogne the day previous to Lord Lauderdale's
arrival in that city; and telegraphic expresses, had
been rent to Paris, and to, Bonaparte, at Frankfort,
and answers had been received before Lord Lau-
derdale arrived at Boulogne.
Lady Yarmouth was anxious to return to Eng-
land with Lord Lauderdale, but could not arrange
her affairs in time.
Dr. Moss, the Prebend of St. Peal's, is to be the
new ilishoa, but not to the See of St. Asaph. We
nutlet stand there are to be hoe or three translations.
The Bi-hops of St. DAVID'S and Or sotto aie to be
translated. The appointments will not filially take
place till the return of the Archbishop of CANT/A-
nt, holt- Nottinghamshire, where he is going on
Monday upon a visit to his bendier, Colonel Styr-
von. His Grace's return to town will be in about
three weeks.
The hells of Several parishes in the airy of Nor-
wich toiled nu Friday noon, the time appointed tor
the intermeet of Mr. Fe.r, and a great aurnber of
respeeable inhabitants put en mourning, as a sin-
cere though faint expression of their feeling for the
irreparable loss they and their country had sus-
tamed.
By a private letter from York, it appears that
the Corporation of that city, desirous of shewing
their attachment to the political sentiments and in-
corruptible patriotism of their late illustrious brother
frcemar, Mr. Eos, went in a body, last Sunday, to
their splendid Cathedral, in mourning. So nume-
vas wen{ the attendance, that many of the members
could rot be accommodated with seats, and stood
si,e service in the aisle. This sad tribute of
high resped for splendid talents and rare vi hues,
was not cnnfined to the Corporation ; every church
in the city exhibited, ost that day, in the dress of the
attendants, the same mournful testiinony of regird,
and the same honourable feeling of sorrow. It is
worthy of remark, that Sir Wm. Micsi Ea, one of the
Representatives of the city, attended the Funeral of
Mr. Fox, at Westminster-abbey, on Friday la;c ;
and also, as Aide: man, the Procession on Sunday,
at the York Minster
ii...A letter from New-Yurk, of the lst of Sep-
tember, received by a remedable House in the
City, states, this Accounts had been received there,
from SL Domingo, et the Black Emperor, Des-
sat.iNts. having male proposals to the fjo-
rennor of Jamaica for the surrender of that Cs-
loey to a British force. upon rcitaM conditions. It
is added, that the appiehensions entertained by the
Slicks, of a formidabls a ack on the Colony by
Bovae•er 1, at die ciaieluilon of the war wilt
Great Ewalt. had determined them to make this
'loan. for the security of their persons and pro-
!fetty ; and that the ricalUre had the unanimous
ror.est cif all Datt4Ltst: Coutacil and

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The report of yesterday, of a battle btrween tide
Prussians and French, in which the latter were re-
pulsed, is farther confirmed, by the arrival of two
pilots, one belonging to Deal, and the other to Do-
ver. They were both landed here, yesterday, from
the Texel, which place they both lett on &today last.
They had been both put on board the guard-ship
there, and, in the morning, just' before they came
away, a Newspaper was received OR board, and one
of the Officers read aloud to them from it, an act,
count of the French and Prussian armies. having
had an engagement, and that the French had been
defeated with very great loss. They also mention
a report, that the marines had been drawn from the
fleet to send to the army.
Early this morning, a tremendous firing was
heard At this place, supposed to proceed from off
Boulogne. The sound was generally believed to be
that of mortars fining from the shore. It is proba-
ble, that another attack with rockets may have been
made, similar to the attempt made a few nights
ago.

RAMSGATE, OCT. 14.
This favourite w;;l77ace has not yet lost
many cf its faShionable visitors, most of the houses
being engaged to the end of this month. There are
generally, in Ilse evenings, routs and large private
patties made. On Monday last, a Ball and Supper
were given at West Cliff Lodge, near Ramsgate.
the ;seat of Thomas Warre, Esq. to winch
all the beauty and fashion of B unsgre,' Mar-
gate, and Broadstairs, were invited ; upwaida
of 5100. sat down to supper, and the danc-
ing continued until a very late hour. The
Cherry Garden, Shrubbery, titc. around West Cliff,
were illuminated, and looked bewitiful beyond de-
scription, to which the fineness of the evening added
not a little. About three o'clock the company be-
gan to break up, and departed highly gratified o jai
their tutertaintnent, which consisted of every rarity
j ok the season.

C.I.IIBILIDGE, OCT. 13.

On Friday last, being the first day of Term, the
following gentlemen were eleeted into the under-
mentizned otfices for the ensuing year :
et ,einrs-wdt.:. W,n Giminghant, I).tius coil. Rev. Juhn
Gir4rrt, En.h.ouel
ModetAtart—Roben Woodly.oe, Caiut—QeJrge I:Myley,
B?ne't.
Tostots—Gcoarge flames, Q..ren's--Thnonms II•Ak in, Sl,lney.
Saw:dun—Wm. Milieu:, St. Webb, eim.
ha:!.
The first English declamation prize at Trinity-
college, this year, is assigni-d to Mr. William Ed-
ward Toinline ; the second Cr, Mr. Charles Bloom-
field; and the third to Mr. Baker. The Latin dil-
-1 slam:itiori prize to Mr. Piltehett.
The lLev. Martin Which, of Cains-college, 14 col-
leted to the prebendal stall of Si. Mary Radcliffe
and Redmister, in the diocese of Saiibbui y, on the
gesignetion of his fatter.

84 ILI 11" G Mil
On Thursday, a sailing ;match took place on the
Medway, which afforded considerable amuseasert.
—About ten o'clock in the morning, seven boats,
belonging to the fishery., started from Rochester
Bridge ; they sailed round the lowermost ship on
the West shore, nearly opposite Sheerness, and
back again, round a boat stationed 'opposite the
Victualling Office For the purpose, to which they
returned by five o'clock in the afternoon. 'the
wind was light, and all the boats kept nearly toge-
ther, till they were within two or three mites of
Chathatu, when Nos. I and 6 took ground : the
first prize was won by Letley's boat, No. 2, which
had 101.; the second boat had 81.; the third boat
had til.; the fourth boa: had 41. ; the firth boat had
21.; the sitis boat had 30s. The above sums were
paid from a band which had be. n raised by sub-
scription, under the patronage a .1. Huiltes, Esq.
whose pleasure boat sailed, and outstripped all the
others. It is supposed, that the snatch will be
established annually.

• FATAL f),ULL.
Sunday morning, a duel was fought, near the
gaelisk, Mount-Edgcombe, by a Mr. Armstrong,
Midshipman. of Flis Majesty's ship Prime fr Wales;
and a Mr. Long. Midshipman, of the Resistanct fri-
gate, which lately sailed from Plymotrh, and lett
hint behind for so untimely end. His antagonist's
ball entered his right side, and, it is thot4hc, lodged
in his left slmulder. eircamstance took place
at half•past eight o'clock in the niorniag, and was
not made known till three in the afternoon, when
the Port Admiral ordered search for the deceared.
He was found lying on his bark, his hat on,
his pockets turned ou:, and a cane lying across
his arm. His second. Mr. Graham, Midshipman
of the Monarch, had left him immedtarely after the
fatal ball was fired, and returned to Jock with
Armstrong, and Mr. Wells, of the Prince of frau.
his second.
The dispute originated at a ccmmon hap in
Pembroke-street. where Armstrong wanted to put
out the lights, while the deceased was dancing With
his girl ; high words arose, and they immediately
adjourned to an inn; where the challenge Was
settled.
Mr. Long was a youth of engaging manners,
about eighteen years old, and. 'tis said, was reined
to the Duke of Montrose. A stria search i. mak.
ing after the parties, who. it is said, are gene on
board their respeaive ships.--A Coroner's Incinest
was to be Mid upon the body on Monday eveutitg.
a
Bury fair, during the la.t week. has been more
than usually brilliant—the asserOlies of Wedgies-
day and Friday evenings contained neatly all the
beauty and fashion of the county. as well as a great
number of note-residents of high disiinatuu. No-
thing could euired the appearacce of the New Homo•
on the }Auer eve...ing, when no less than d 75 persons
Were prest at, At:vita in all the elegant vat 141011 s of
fashionable dress. winch. in the p:rs ,nt .iay. leave
little ter the irnaAination coacrive .f teumnine
beauty. The Ordinat ies of the Angel Inn (at which
i both seze, um:o were also very numeroudy at-
tended ; a al rise iheatre has had its a tare of at-
traitiou, r g very fully attended oo loarsday and
Saturday ets-mgs, when the p:itormanees wens
zi,tuch ayplauJe..•

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SURREY SES3 lONS, kr rt est a OCT. I.

Firfore am Osstnw, tsq. Chairman, and a
of the Peace for the
Covey of Sarre!,
Jahn Thema', who had been connii3cd yesterday
of assaulting and starving his apprentice, James
Edborongh, was this day brought up fur ludg-
ment.
[A full Rupert of tys triallaKearrd in our Paper of ye.tet.
day.]
The Learned Cwa IRICa./4, in passing the sentence
of the Court, animadverted with great severity upon
the enormity of the crime the Prisoner had commit-
ted. He 'considered it an offence against not only
the law irf the land, but against the common law of
nature and humanity ; instead of such inhuman
treatment as he had given this forlorn and friendless
Orphan. it was his bounden duty, and should have
beer. his great objedt, as his apprentice, to treat him
with the kindness of a patect us his craid. He was
solely dependent upon bins, and looked up to his as
the hand from which he was to receive the necessa-
ries of life ; but what WAs the result' But for the
interference of some charitable and humane neigh-
bours, the consequences of such treatment might
have passed unnoticed, till his unhappy condition
ended but with his life, and then he would have had
a crime of a much higher nature to answer for to
his country and his God. The sort of defence at-
tempted to be set up,highly aggravated his offence;
and the testimony given upon the trial smeiled s rung
of perjury, which. for a cline, made the case sorne•
what ooubfol k but the verdi.t of a Mast respectable
Jury, had decuted on which side the perjury was
committed ; this was a still greater aggravation,
ad!sng the crime of perjury to his other iniquities.
lie was then sentenced to 11.1eiue months itaymean-
Men t.
Benjomia Ratio, and John otherwise
tieryro”, two boys, about ft and ft; years of age,
were ,0nv,i;:.41 of stealing oue watering pot. an old
pair of copper scales, a sack. pocket-hi ok, hammer,
and other articles, die propel ty of George Chambers,
a nursery-man, residing at Newington. .
It was supposed that the Prisoners bad watched
their opportunity while the Prosecutor was aliselit
from the garden-house, to make away with these se-
veral attic is ; and upon the evidence it appeared,
that patty had sold the watering pot to a broker,
and the scales to a woman, both residing in the Bo-
rough, who were induced to purchase them from
the plausibility of the story told by the boy. and the
innocence of his appearance. Both the Prisoners
were discovered fast asleep in a cart, lying on the
sack; and the pocket-buok, hammer, &e. were
found span thm.
Their defence was, that they had found those ar-
ticles in the cart.
The only thing remarkable in this case was the
appearance and chandler of the boy Ratty. He
was abont fourteen years of age, the picture of
health, beauty, and innocence, with such an express
sion of countenance, as might baffle the skill of the
Pkyasognorniat, to discover a bad line ifs his features;
yet, strange to tell, he has already been live trines id
the custody of Mr. Ives, the Gaoler of blewington,
for varions offences, and was once before cenvieted
of felony. He had been put into the Matins School,
and from thence absconded.
Their sentence was respired until next Sessipps,
that some
.further inquiry moue them midst be
made.
Jams Mo.,‘, a waterman, was convicted of ob-
taininp, four hAll hogsheads of vi.legar, valitz. 181.
under lake pretences, the property of Messrs. Bears-
fey, James, and Co. Limhtth.
He represented ramself to have come from a gen-
tleman at Richmond, who was in the habit of deal-
ing with them, and they made no hesitation of de-
livering the vinegar ; butt he came a second time
with a fabricated order, and wss deteCled. •
He was sentenced to ~x tnotath imprisontarnt.
Salm44 Tholunran, a decent and respectable looking
woman, correiBed of stealing a linen sheet from
Of

was
bt. Thomas's Hospital, the property , the Lord
Mayor and Comonalty of the City of London.
The Prisoner had been a nurse belonging to the
said Hospital, and the sheet being missed, and the
Prisoner absconded, search was made for her, and
she was apprehended, when an immense number of
pawn-brokers' duplicates, was found upon her,
among which was a duplicate for the sheet. *lt ap-
peared, in the course of the evidence, that she was
much addicted to drunkenness, and blight have
taken the sheet at a time of inebriety. She was
also tried upon an indiCtment for stealing a quan-
tity of wearing apparel, and other articles, the pro-
perty of Catherine Slahouy, who was one of her
sister nurses. It appeared that, in taking her leave
of the Hospital, she got into a room whe-e the nurses
kept them clothes, and cartied away with her
every thing that was portable.
Upon this inditment she was also found Guilty.
There was a third indinmont against her for
stealing some property belonging to a poor lame
sailor, who we; a patient in the Hospital, and under
her care at the time ; but upon this she was not tried.
Under all these aggravated circa:us:a:ices, the
Court sentenced her to stuns years transportation.

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Oct Saturday evening, Mr. WICKS (on a v;sit to
W. Cotestors, Esq. at Boiaglitc.n Nlallierb, Kent.)
was found dela '4l a field near the house. He had
Lean out walking, as usual, in good health. The
body was removed to the house. It is supposed that
be died of a fit of apoplexy.
Nothing can exceed the miserable state of the
Conscripts in France, who are forced away from
thcir families, in order to fight the battles of arro-
gance, ambition, and injustice. Freuce indeed
groans under the most lamentable tyranny ; and
norra ea ox is absolutely hell in the utmost detes-
tation in that unfortunate country, except by the
Military Chiefs, who depend upon his nod. As to
the succession of his family,' in case id his death,
idea' is treated with the utmost contempt, and
when that cle.irable recut shah take place, the
Whale of his surviling relations a ili most probably
be obliged to skulk Into obscuriiy, in order to es-
cape the vengeance or insults of the people. Stich
is really the condition of things in France, accord-
ing to the accounts of all intelligent men who have
lately been in that country, and have had any op-
portunity of discovering the sentiments of ;lie peo-
ple, which still break forth in deep murmurs, mut-
witlistincang the trio& .of terror they are
Gad to endure:

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SPORTING INTELLIGJ
NEWMAtKET sgeuND ocroßE
. • TunDAT, ocr. 14.
Fif Pounds far Stayr:bl4 Celts carrying 8.
Sat. elu. Too yr.. 1,1 C.
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Mr. R Prime's Comrade
Mr. Wilson's ce, 1 Sally, by RozzArd
.ke of Grafton's It 'c. by Worthy, ont of !
Three to 1 against Comrado Eren be
The Judge cuu4 platy but tt
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Mr. Proton's Ralphina, eat. 911, beat
:tour, est. 7:b. Ten-yr old C 10111
Sir C. Bunburr's Snot, eat. Mb. 'belt 11
shireman, R.t. 121 b. Two:yr. o!d C. 2bgs.
Mr Ladbo.ke'a gat beat Mr.
man, 74 Too:yr-al:1C.
Mr. Wanton% Pagoda, est. 41b. boat Mr.
lat. Two-) r-. 14 C. 100 s
Mr 1 loworth'a o.rang atte, 7st 71b. rec
Neale's Regulator, 11,t.711a. Tarn-yranln C.
Mr panto'' Tom, fist 41b ree. R. I
Jerboa, 7st. Tars-yr.uld C. lungs.
Fiats to eon Ral phioa —.3 to 1 on Snug
per.—Atu 4 agat rago4a.

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POLICE.
NA
Yesterday, a man of a decent
brought betore the Alderman, chat
man, with stealing the door off hit
niAllt before.
watchman stated, that be w
dyed yards from his box, and saw
the door off the binges, and run
He immediately pnuued and appi
sae thfowing it into 20 Arita.
The Prisoner, in his defence, sp
incohorent manner, and evident
strorgest marks of mental derang
spreable persons also appeared,
excellent chara& r, as a hard wart
consequence of an it jury he bad ft
on the he.id, tlsey said he was at ti
The Alderman discharged bin?.
Seven or eight boys; all under
wore nest put to the bar, Icing
night before by the oMcerv, sleep
baskets in Fleet-market. Being
rately, they all ackuowledged hart
their parents or masters, at dia
said that they hart lived as well as
the streets. and had slept, for stun
Fleet-market.
Tie Alderman gene some of the
and delivered the others to their
bail for them.

The JON', StATOII, from Milfo
put into Whitby, after being at se
August.
The nain6ow, HILL, from Mor
pool, is put into Bermuda, in dv
pelted will be condemned.
To the calamitous list of sae
King George packet, wreck •d at H
we are concerned to add the natty
A•aM+Taono. of the King's Count
brother of Ennusn AltNtsl eon(
in that county. Major Ae ms ran
derers-dly esteemed in private lii
His Military for eighteen year
z•al. and distinguished ability
Buxton, about two months since,
the waters.
t'ie 24 inst. an inqu
Colchester. before Mr. Joni; "1
Cdtriners for the said lioroug:-, a
of Ciiaacts THOM A Caisitsct,
in His Majevy's 18 li Regiment
f•n•.d tea i neat thir tow,., sum,
kilied in a —Of
five persons unkn.iwn, who wore
Cie spot
At the Quarter Sessions, for tl
rough, Nort',ampronshire. on W
betote the Rev. Dr. Sa Rosso,
ful Bench of Magistrates. juke N
the wilful murder of Mr. Jots a
farmer, with whom he worked
by cutting him on the head wit
immediately received sentence
executed near that city, on Frid
♦ery little.tigns of contrition,
ignorant use scarcely to k .ow
will be a matter of surprise is
p Ttant a cat: should hay:. been
Seston (however privileged,) pi
of Clerical Magistrates, no Cul
the culprit.
Prince Jaatonovsty, a rest
bleman, was murclzred un the
September, at Kat:liar:troy.
examined, it appeared that he h
the head, and strangled. He et:
not far from the n use, in the
trov, which he had tAnin for ■
He had been in comp-ny un Si
was late in going finale Hi
(stiffed s but as yet as aidens
transpired. He ad no family.
Yesterday, about six o'clock
labouring man went up aladdef
the front of Mr. Tot soil's hot

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Bond-street, which is triclOrgoil
pose was to steal some 1-td
house, with which he had se n
that in cooing down he fell 1
the street, and fractured his SI
manner, that he was taken tort
without :toy hopes of r..toecry.
An elderly woman, who
Msty-la-bonne, micie an a:ten
on Tuesday afternoon, in the
terse. Bridge. She bad been r
stones, and putting them into
were fastened round her to thi
outside her apparel, betor• she
which WAS done in toe prosen
man in the employ of Mr
beth, who was going down thi
paired to the spot, and citric.
that awaited her. The depth
more than tive,teet, but sue w
after she had plunged in. tilLe
minutes in the water: and, n
rendered her, she was with cliff
to her senses ; when she assure,
she had seen ton much in this,
only given hes life is temporary


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12.47TL11: OF MAIEM.
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EtTIACT of • LITTER TAW., Atr nliettell Of RAISE,
UAW'. PAltSilt•, atill. I, 1806
it You will. prebsibly. . befor • sne-receive this, have
heard the ' thcial accounts of our brilliant viatty
over tleguierN army en the ph its of St Euptemia,
on the 4th ult. It nt.'s not, h swayer. he unaccept-
able to you 'a learn a lew pa •cutars i-f the At-ht,,,.
which I had a most feyou's le onen•tunaty of see-
ing from the commeneema at ro 6,...,11 1.
.. We landed on tee le. ; se' ...ere most grossly
misinformed respeafis the • vine of the country
And Begnier's tom., worth see were.assured did not
exceed two thousand met,. -Ind that the country wA•
543 moentainnes, that hat Ily any thing but a goat
er a welt could pass ; s - were also assured, the,
all Calaeria w eild rise to j,in us in mass the instant
our diermleirketton was known. The very !Twist-
ed. all this tuned out to he the fall—we temnd a fin,
open cletnesaigne country, where you might hay •
drasm up fitly thonsand men in order of battle: not
is'ealarian jo'ned us. till they saw US TiftoriettS ;
end instead of twn thousand men, whom we ex
petted rn a' tack ellen we marched towards Maid*,
we LOW "hem right thousand of the enemy dawn
tip ia a miet advantageous position.
" R. enter. trim his situation, could distiaaly
eonnt every titan of our force as we Advanced, at .d
series us in much Olivine in numbers, he ordered
his army to twelve fnrwar I into the plain In attack
mi. in Ina confidence that ion defeat and rout would
bit mwe enmplete than it he had waited to receive
Mir :thick; and, cereuely. had we been worsted on
the epen plain on which we engaged, very few of
us could have escaped from their cavalry.
't• On finding the enemy advancing to attack us,
and their force in notch preater than what we ex-
peteel, there was, for a few minutes, a halt, and
'nose intlecisien end consultation on our part, what I
versa most advisable to he done: to have retreated,
woukl have been shame and defeat, and even to
'wait their attack would have been extremely dan-
gereus. where we had expeaed to he the assailants.
Our light Iris tde, amid the 78th and Blst mite
Ments, which were in advance. were therefore or-
dered to attack the enemy, and by them the anion
was commenced. The Light Brigade was opposed
to the celebrated fine regiment rat French Intently
Legere, which bore as high a charaeler in their sere
• vice, as CellerAt Moore's regiment does in ours.
After firing two rounds, they ceased firing, ported
their arms, and advanced upnie us to the charge,
whilst our lope fellows immediately did the same
to meet them. It was the most awful and anxious
moment I ever experienced, as 1 bel,rl.l these two
corps approach each °they, with a firm and rapid
pace, to the work of drsiruaten ; and we could
plainly see a voile of confident piesumptinn in the
faces of the enemy, as if they were certain of over-
totniog Ili at the first charge. The French, how.
- **see, on seeing the undaunted resolution with which
ear men moved forward. began to slacken their
Face, and to waver in their ranks. when we had got
within ab lot fifty yards of them ; and as we soil
yeishei on, they soon hilted, as.if afraid to advance
farther, and ashamed to ir. When within a few
paten of them, our men came to the charge. and
slashed at them lull speed with their bayonet.; and
in one instant afterward., the enemy, were routed.
ers•l every man who could run took to his heels,
thou,th we had the bayonet so doss to their breasts
liefere they broke, that more than half of them were
ktiled or mortally wounded, nearly on the ground
where they were drawn up.
" Never perhaps was the firmness and courage of
the two nations, with the bayonet, more fairly put to
the test, than on this occasion ; and after this proof,
let no British regiment ever hesitate to meet a
French one at that weapon, for you may met assured,
that they will net stand the ideal r harp from us,
whatever they may thresh'''. I was in a situation
to see the conduit distiately of eve; y man of both
regiments. as they advanced upon each other. and
I solemnly auure you, thtt no part of the British
line, for one moment, hesitated. or hung back. and
that the whole of this French boasted regiment,
iis hen ee came within a few yards of them, either
hslted, wavered, or ilea; and in tvs one point of
' their wheleline could they peoperly have been said
to steed er wont our eierue !
.. Weal.t this was gun.g 01, the 78th and Blst at-
tadted that parr of the French line opposed to them,
es nth the most determined lime ry, and, alter giving
and receiving two volleys, they also advanced upon
the French, to charge them, but they immediately
gave way, from the effeas of their hie, before they
got within two hundred yards of them. They made
several attempts to rally afterwards, bat they were
sr, closely pressed, that they were soon totally de-
feated. These three corps hors the chief brunt of
the battle, which hardly lasted an hour. before the
French army mew in all slireslions, and was so cos.
pletely routed, that I 'intently believe, if we had.
• had five hundred cavalry, not fifty men of these
could have escaped.
i " The Freus:h cavalry had the gnat ground is
the world to ask upon, had they been inclined to
charge in good earnest ; but, on part of the 27th
regiment wheeling backwards to receive them, when
they attempted to outflank us, their courage failed
them, and they ihrunk from the trial.
o• It is impouible to do ample justice to the cool
`1 intrepidity which the whole of cur troops sheaved on
th's occasion ; and the 78th regiment is particular,
which is entirely composed of young Highlanders
(hardly-a man of theta above twenty years of age,)
as:vishced to the attack with an enthusiasm that asto-
nished and delighted every British officer, as much
as it appalled the enemy.
st We had but few sons on either side, the French
had four, anal we six. "leek guns were, very in sea-
raged. and pointed, ours woes, ably well.
ie Our loss io killed and ~..wintleAl, is is.: officers,
I and 300 rove We buried upwanis of !sat') of the
I enemy on the 1:eld, and :shout MOO more were
wounded rat talon privets's.
se roans the rem urns et the French Regiments,
wh;ch we have obtained from General Compere, it
appears. that she enemy had 73e3 rank and file in
the,a.`„lititt, exclusive sat oflicris, whilst oar wimit.
A•My. includ;ng officers, dui not exceed 4960. -1
that the enctity nutnumbered us by nearly .tusiQ
men.
o. We arc distally pleased to think, that the here-
ti.X..l.l lteyouier •1.:,u1.1 have caametandati the army
we ao complete:), deka:es with suede inferior slum-

hers ; and in his acettunt of the battle of Maids, we
fancy he hardly venture A second time to await,
that the Engli,h displayed neither ' evuraze, shire-
Pifkivt Or tab "ic. field: as he vaunted m'his his-
tory 4-0 the Egyptian campaign.
After vie altion, the Calabria's', seeing the
French no longer invincible* every where took arms ;
All the Ftench outposts in the country have been
cut off. and in general they have been literally 1111 10
nieces by the justly enraged natives. Regnier's army
has, since the battle, been reduced to less than 50U0
men, and they are so dispirited and panic struck,
hat they no, fly even b. Ine the Calahran,, IAI/Irll
Sido.y Smith is arming and organizing wnh
wonderful effe ; and I am convinced that it will
require at least forty thousand men to subdue that
country again."

N.IV4L INIELOGPNCE.

Poitismnu CH, OCT. 14.

Arrived the Ant srhnoner, from Gilertisey ; aid
the lielldne, Capt. 1",:,-keties. , from Shields tut J.
Maica.-IVind W.S.W.