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There are features in the hate Order of the 94tE►
of May, that it may be stf some service distinctly
to notice.
1.. Tie arningernents inside by Mr. Erskine, it
void, are not such es were anthorigeal by ills
Ma-
je. instructions aor such as Ilia Nlajesty eso
utprove." Hese is sa *vowel by the British Ge.

LON DON.
THUILSDAY, SerrEitnea 14.

.The Duke of PORTLAND certainly goes oat, and
reigns his place of Fist Lord of the Treasury, at
the head of the Cabinet. It is full time. We may
justly say to him—
" Laaisti swim, *dial Retie, algae ;
" Therm abbe titw est"
We cannot, however, say that he has taken the far.
titer 'drive of Hoasce--

Betveeeeeeatutesa neaten:. some eqenm, et
" Pet-est eti 'stemma Meade' et die ducat."

The Duke of Purr Lams ought to have resigned
long ago, or rather he ought never to have been in
power. His Grace gave, yesterday, his farewell
dinner to hie brethren of the Cabinet, and all the
under Secretaries of State. If eating and drinking.
and Cabinet dinners, mild have mode Statesmen,
u• country'evuld boast a more able Ministry than
the present. In one paint, however, they may lay
claim to eatreonlioary, inerit—Ahey Commenced
their career with • round of dinners. and they will
end it with a round el dinners. N. Num of mind.
heart, or of sentiments can eery them their 110.

joymeabt.-43nt. ifidectl, 'moral, depraved
carte mast be that does not r«lisls si itaturikess it-
must be confessed, that these MinistOta of tbaillesk
are not without illustaio'us precedents anti examples
in antiquity. The Persian Kings of old boasted of
the quantity of wine that they could driok, more
than of the quantity of their territories. or their vic-
tories. Their convivial proses, of course, formed
a principal feature in the epitaphs which Flattery
engraved upon their tombs.

VISCOUIII CASTLEREAGH and the Earl of CHAT-
HAM are announced in the Ministerial Circles, as
the two Members of the Cabinet, whom, with the
Duke of PORTLAND, it is intended to sacrifice us a
pence-otrering to public justice. This finesse, we
repeat, wilt imt do. The thing is wrong, and why
lint reform it altogether? Has Mister CANNING
been more successful in America, than Viscount
CASTLEREAGH has been iu Spain, and Portugal,
and Zealand ? Certainly not. Half measures
ever indicate weakness, and have seldom proved
successful. A completely new and competent Mi-
nistry is all that the people of England want.

It was reported last !sight, that Colonel Goa Don,
Secretary to the late and present Commanders-in-
Chief, bag resigned his place, estimated at 2.0001.
a-year ; and has /iamb& accepted that of Chief
Commisary-Geuerul, at a much higher salary. To
make way for this independent change, the iiresent
Commissary-General COFFIN retires upon half-
pay..—We have not heard whe Vier Col. CONDON,
in submitting to thishasstitiatios, also mesas to re-
tire to his celebrated Villa, at Chelsea Hospital ;
there to do penance, in spite of the Chelsea Pen-
sioners.

Dispatches were recoived. yesterday, M the Fo-
reign Office, from Flushing. They were forwarded
Noon the Downs by Admiral CAMPISKI.L. They
contain an account of the progress made in the
preitaratisus for the defence of Walcheren, and the
occupation of South Beveland by the enemy.

We have received Spanish Paper* to the 28th
last. Their contents are nut iiiipoitaut.

VISCOUIIi WELL' Mc. rotes dispatches, the arrival
of wioch we ainiounced on Monday, are dated
Mende, the Part or the army had reached
Elves, at which place his Lordship had esta-
blished no hospital of two tliousawd, wounded
principally, who had been conveyed to it with
great difficulty from Talevera. Private letters
from Lisboa state, that all the English surgeons
had set oat for Elvis, and that their place, in the
hospitals at Lisbon. were filled by Portuguese
Surgeons. it is also said that Lord WE LLI N strum
has beeu forced to destroy his ammunition, to order
to make the waggons carriages for the sick and
wounded, the number of whom is estimated by
some at trim thousand.

Lord WILLIAM BENTINCII, who had been ap-
pointed LieutAitmeral, and second in command,
tinder Lord WELLINGTON, in Spain, and who was
to have left town on Monday, to join the army, has
r. ceived counter-orders. May we be allowed to
hope, that Ministers have abandoned that system
of warfare, for which they have proved themselves
utterly incompetent.
A letter from our squadron in Moque Roads
conveys the following information:—" As fur the
Rochefort squadoest being wholly destroyed, there
are eigfh sail of the line now afloat up the river.
The thr,!e-decker has been fresh coppered. They
have only their lower masts standing, and have nei-
ther men nor stores aboard. The Captaiu. of a
vessel we have just detained and sent in, says, that
they are marchimi every man they can find w the
country into Spam : they march them with their
hands tied behind."

We have been informed that vessels sail from
France with English licenses, under any coloars
except French or Dutch—Th.e are easily forged.
A:I men or war kive not got the list from rtit/Vefil
inent of what are granted, and suppose the Freach
merchant sends half a dozen with the same, except
the same man of war meets with two of them, the
forgery is slot detected, and they pass safely.
They bring siothiug but French produce, bnui-
dies, &c.

The Rising Sash dead from Boston, to Oporto,
upset in u gale on the nth ult.; part of the crew
picked up by the Samuel, BARN IT.
The //aura, Bortxv, frotu Bristol and Gibraltar,
to the Brazils, is lost near the Cape de reeds.
The IrinCC, Btu:env, from Liverpool, to New
Brunswick, is put hack, leaky.
The Newry. BKILIIY, from Newry, to Loudon,
is towed into Cork Herhotir. dismuted.
The Brunettes from Malta, to Liverpool, has
been taken, mtAkeu, and arrived at Malta,
It has long been a desideratum with the posies-
sore of the Cape of Good Hope, to promote an ex-
tensive intercourse with the numerous tnties which
inhabit the Southern Districts of the vast Peninsula
of Africa. On this subject we have been favoured
with a letter, of which the following is an extract :
" Cape of Good Hope, teeth Marehosue.
I entertain some espectatioe of fafll. in ea the mast
with the party sent by his Lordship (Lord Calcite.) bate
the interior. Thar had pesetesesd, is Decenbas, so for en
Ist. is, arid Meg. cis en that there is every hope of *air bas-
in* be this time reached some of the Pertegoese settlansats.
—The ieforaistioa which they have already sent down is
imiterestiag. Tbe (*entry which they have period through
is rich sad fertile, with nomireus rivers, all et which inva-
riably brad their memo to the Went. The tribes which
they have set with are pace-Maly iriclined, and it appears
set eislikere that tiny may in time M brought to aeuie kind
Mustereurea or tra4s with this settleasest, • circumstance
which I missive would be oast beneficial to these, to spice
4A CMS Vaillnal has minas, 'Mee liotteatot Angels is
a wild state wave sortaiely Idiom of hie own belie. TM
nail hes bias sum bat it is oat asestioned whither wild,
it beer* seartissilles pram seam distaste quarter. AH
this you will as doubt le a Aim thee hear the particulars of,
as say inhewietlies osummanicated by Lord Cake= us this
=will sera be spud our Leedom. Some skins of
solsala Mart Murat dews, hill Mae very

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THJE COURT.

At twelve o'clock yeelerday nip Muerte. arrived
front Wisideor, at the Queen's Pelee., where he
was rereived by their • Revd Highneares the Dukes
of Vona. KENT, and CANISIRIDNE.
At two o'clock His MA, Erre held 'private Le-
es attended by
The of Canterbury ; the Duke of Portland;
Earl Camden. the Earl of Liverpool, Earl Sithurst, Erwl of
tVioehiists; 10,4 Melgramt Lord Henthielit, Lord A.
den, On t) Sr David .1111netlae, Sir Stoplien Cottrell ;
Mr. Cill'ning, 5/r. Perceval, and Mr. Verney, ((;naw) ie
waiting.)
The following; II; d the honour of teeing iire•itiit-
ed to Its MAJFS'fIf :
Major-Genera: Pagrt, on his return from l'ortural.
Liuutestaut.Geoei Grub: CAW, us it ULU fureigu
Captain Sparrow, Aid-do-('amyl to Lieutenant-General
Grosvenor, an hi. rarturr. (rum fa te,gli lerryieo.
Captain bishupp, Aid-do-Camp to Llewleomet-Gieneral
tironvecor, on Lie return from foreign earrite.
Si. Henry Wilford, (1:14e Or. YAOSIUDAI/2) no being created
Baronet.
Sir James Shaw, on his bring et:sled a Baronet.
General Robinson, an, Wa promotion; awl Genera
pard, ou hu appointment to the nth Gamma lhatailum
Vita MAJESTY ahem unis held a Privy Council,
and give audience to the Juke of Powei.euu and
the rein cf the Cabinet Alinieters.
At six o'clock liia MAJESTY left town for Wind-
nor.