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dii not remain suoliatg. Bat that is r.... ;he c;...
',net' of the Foaite Party.. Lords ifs -) ~.r1
Howie, Messrs. StiElIDAn, FITLTAT
TAN, AO, POICSONSV, &c. Vcalth.l <1;1!
remain. These, and many more, all staunch Fosite,.
and .men of &Ist-rate talents, are able to sts;4
alone. The Nelson of the state vessel would be
hut a brace crew would survive, fully competent to

chastise the foe. A tower and bulwark of strergit
would parish, but the fabric would still remain. Let
us, however, gratlfythesecold and CT uel m:reenarios.
by supposing that the party of Mr. Fox, like the
party of Mr. PITT, would sink with its leader in
the grave. They must not, even with this ad:
mission, indulge the hope of a return of their
party to power. Let them not lay that flatlet.
Sang union to their souls. The age of the Row
and the CASTLEREAGH/I is gone for evcr.

Fosite party is but a limb of the present Ad-
ministtation, the roots of which are struck deep and
wide. It is not the failure of a single root, nor the
lopping off of a single branch, that can endanger

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the existence of so great a tree.
it is not, as some Journals have stated. Prince

PIIIDERIC, Of Hesse CaWI, formerly Governor cf
Maestricht, who commands at Gaeu. but Prune
ERNEST, of Hesse Flillipsthal, third son of then.
devasit, Governor of Bois le Due. An English
officer, in the expedition under Sir Sinner Sari TV,
recently returned to England, and who has been
frequently in Gaeta since the commencement of its
siege, gives the following account of the gallunt
Commander of that celebrated fortress :—The Prince
of Haua Paistesrusst. is about 18 years of age,
very slender, and about 3 feet 8 inches high. His
completion is dark I his manners are extremely af-
fable. He dines every day at one o'clock, and is
very partial to gin. Through all dangers and fa.
tigues he preserves an uniform gaiety of temper,*and
laughs and jokes with every person in the garrison.
In his dress he presents an *Raft model of Fame.
sick the Get*? of Peussix.—lt consists of a bloc
goat. singlinbreasted, with sear* facing, and tags
to the shoulder ; large gloves, that come half way
up the erns, and boots that come kelt way upthe thigh.
with a huge cocked bate which conies down diet
to the eye-brows. This is his constant dregs, i
which he walks &bent, wish a long sane in his heed.
The side of the fortress next to the tnian.lind. is not
isperpendicolsw descent, but rather sloping. 'The
round, however, is a sand, and the fortificatieost
Iscluding two immense ditches, am considered ant
‘goregnoble.. The spot wnich the &kw has chosen
foe hit habitation, thews his contempt of danger.—
If is a small guard-house, which be hes Seed up ,
the external line of batteries. next to tie be-
It is scarcely sufficient to aceousaridate
11118%11,1111108v0 or three selea and coeliac:nal of-
fices% who compose his suite. The Prince is net
married, but a favourite Fair, of whom he is more
careful than of hinsself, lives oaths opposite side of
the fortress, next to the sea. All the Messengers
sent by the French, with propositions, have beta
detained, and put into confinement. by him I colO
mitering them as only spies. sent for the purpose 4
obtaining intelligence of the state of the place, or
the bearers of propositions that were insulting to
his courage and loyalty. From this conduit, it
was the general opinion at Gaeta, that he could not
cape& any mercy or teems from the enemy, should
they one' get him, by fraud nr force. into their
power. The respeitable Gentleman, from whom
we have received these particulars, therefore.
discredits the report, in the French Papers, of
the capitulation of the place. He also thinks
that the account from Vienna, of the defeat
of the besiegers, which we inserted yesterday, is
improbable, as he left Palermo on the II h of
June, at which tune the Pellipre. Sir Sinner SMITI4.II
ship, required repairs that would take up some time.
It is, therefore, he thinks, unlikely that Sir Slone/
should have been aiding in a sortie from Gases, os
the 9d July, the alleged date of the defeat of the
French ; but it must be obvious, at the SUM vow,
that an officer of such an aftive and enterprising
spirit. may not have waited for the repair of the
Pomp", and proceeded to Gaeta with some °dart
ship, of with his boats.