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SHESIFF, APPOINTED ST Dia MATEsTIf II COUNCIL.
TON THE YEAS 1609
REDlOROAlltilLE—Rolwrt Garstin, of Harrold,
BEaisuilts—Sir Thomas Theoplailus Sfetealfc, of Fern.
hill, But.
BUcitt Naltiossotot--T his. Stsnliopr B.tdcocl, of Buck-
ingham, Esq.
CAMta[DGEralt[ and TINGOON s 111 Itt---Jolsu
Heatlicote, of Ennington castle, Esq.
C.wrutint—Thos. Win. Talton, of Wiftinsball, Esq.
f'wuncit 0-ITilcs Ponsonky, of Hlntl• hall, E.g.
Upton, of Derby, Esq
DESoNsulitc—Sir Thomas 11))1sc Ackland, of Kellerion,
Bari.
Dola,rIsHIRE--..litince John Farquharson, of Langton, E.4q •
Eat r.x --John Rutherford Alnii, of Albyns, Esq.
Gl.ol;cosT cussing—John Hodder Nlospufge, of Dy-
smirk-park, Esq.
II reerrolcOsolity—Wos. Ws% of Leominster, Esq.
Htugronosoto.k—Edmund Darby, of Aohtein•bouse, Esq.
KosT—Sir Brook Win. Bridges, of Goodncston, Bart.
Lt-trrof vosnsair—Sir Win. Mamie's, of Backnainster,
Liu t
I.llaCOLaStisslo—fir Ruben Winn, of Stubton, Bart.
lifogisormsiffitt•—•Jobe Kenlyl6 Gardner Kcin)s, of
Verthuley, Eat
NoaroLK-458.CnItiliam, of Alintsr, Esq.
NOON!" oorroyso Rs—tt . Andrew, of Harlcitoni Esq.
NORYOU %OCILLA N u—iTts Suitor Brawcre, of lien ick,Esq.
NoTTI NCH AMMO Rr--Tbus. Waller, of Hwy. hit!, Lsq,
ON Tonnesslt c--lohn Harrison, of Sheiswell, E. q.
RcTT.A7D.RIRErAbet Walford Macre, of Dianna.
Thorpe, F.-1.
etHenr,“/;,,__Wsn. Spurlinc, of Petton, Esq.
Rolfrasotsutpur--John Norf.'s, of 111iherton, Esq.
irar von its ts t na--Tlnnplsiltis Levet', of Whicbuor, F.sq.
COUNTY or SoVIII A itIPTON—John Rillekbtarge, of Prerton
Candover,
Su frogs—John Weiser, of Ely for', Esq.
Rua tou—Etlisar.l B%tke, of South', ark, IF.sq.
Sessrx—llsoulas Twirler. of Losidpoil, Esq.
%Ws law iosonsar —Abraltamilrscrbiidge,orAtlsetsicinit,rAq.
Wu:regime—So Charles Worm Hallett, of Wilbcry-
bowie, Bert.

te—Pestpose.l.
• GeO• Womb. ell, 6f Wombwell, Hatt.
SOUTH WALES.

r• RV ILTHEN—Ricbsrd fuse Silkily, of Laothaine Cu-

tle, Esq.
tossistod v.—Pilules Aim Phillips, of the Hill, tsq.
C ssiD le & Main Sic% rms. of Alt Igoe*, Esq.
GLII/101Ir Alf —Oevermish II onsfraS.'„ of Lliodsff, Esq.
Mataix—Tbus. Wood, of Gwerni;.ott. Esq.
R ADO ott—J ohn 11110aker, of Caico', Esq.

NORTH WAILES.
Rfirs.voN thvit, of Ty-Velfb,
C A • This. Varry Jonc. Parry, of raj.
AN trt.csair—Sir John not of Budewry d, tart.
IHowrooltray.—Robt:KtAght, nt Gvatnqpite,V..n.
Daysico--.loorph Ablet, of I.lanbettb, Esq.
LI wt—nos. Pcite.of Ristrer, En.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
RAMRPRGII AND ALTONA PAPERS.

COVITAIITMOPI.E. DEC. 10.

So great a want of she necessaries of life is said
t• prevail in the island of Corfu. that it is much to
be feared the garrison and inhabitants will be forced
to surrender.

The Russian Oflit!cr who arrived here lately from
Jassy, is said to have brought a letter to the Turkish
Government, from the Russian General, Proso-
rowsk••. He returned on the 6th, by Cavallo and
Sophia. The General's letter seems to have con-
tained proposals for peace; for, immediately after
the Officer's departure, the Porte appointed Pleni-
potentiaries, viz. Sebald) Effendi and a son of
Murat Mula, one touch skilled in the Musstoluem
laws. They are to treat on tho frontiers, and o ill,
it is said, set out on the ittth inst.—(. ien Zeituag.)
The Ministers designed for the Con4retts of
Peace with Russia, set out to-morrow, or the day
after, escorted by a body of troops, as the roads by
Sophia, to Eticharest, are not quite safe.
The English Minister, Adair, still remains on
. board his frigate in the Dardanelles.
At last intelligence has been received of those
Janissaries who sent to the village of the Chati of
the Tartar Chan, to seize the Captain Patha, and
Cadro Paths. The nittniter of these Janisiaries

haring increased to 10,000 men, on their way made
an attack on the entrenchmenta, but were beaten
off. They lost two of their field-pirees, and suf-
fered great loss in killed and wounded. A. we
now hear, the Captain Paths, Cadro Pacha and
the Chan of the Tartars. are going to Budselnik.
Nu duubt now remaias that filuatapha Banactar

lost his life in the late
simians.)

Corre-

COPENHIGFN, DeC. 31.
According to private accounts from Sweden;
some symptoms of discontent bad appeared among
the Nobles.
The Napoleon privateer (Danish) has captured a
Swedish vessel, bound from Stockholm to Wi-
lmot, with regimentals for the troops.—(Corres-
posdheren.) JAN. 7.
Some days bsek, upwards of twenty English-
men, prisoners of war, from the Crescent frigate,
pissed through this place, fin• P.:lsineur, to be sent
to Sweden. Among them an-rive Naval, and one
Marine Officers. As the Sound is, now full of
lloatiog ice, their passage will be attended with
difficulties. Fur these several daye, we have had
a severe frost, which is ',remise smarter by au east
wind. From the steeples we see a convoy of from
sixteen to twenty Eaglish ships, which left the
Baltic too late, surrounded by the ice; one ship
of the line, one frigate, and three brigs, arc said to
he among them. The current which at one tune
pus!t:•s, by the help of the wind, the ice together,
and, at soother, separates it, will soon decide their
fate. The En4lish ships of war, winch were sta-
tioued before Ilelsiogberg, sailed just io time; had
they remained but a few days logger, they v onld
have beea blocked in by the ice, which has settled
there.

On the sth. a large merchantman was driven oil
Niobium., by the it r, beyond Dragne, whwe she
VIY4 obliged to remain ; but her distance from laud
was too great for our batteries to cannonade her
with rafect ; 24 was proved upon trying. She set
all sail to endeavour to diaengar herself; but
it is not known how far she succeeded. She was
oh.erved to hoist America.' colours, but lowermi
them again. At Elebieur, it is rumoured that
three privateers, 144 wising from Bornholm, took a
convoy of between thirteen and foorteen ships in the
Baltic; hot this requires coldirmattion.--Oile of
our privateers, returning from Bornholm, was
chased by two of the enenty'r frigates: hat escaped.
11, is said to have several prisoners of war on
buard.

HAXAU, JAL 17.

A great uunilser of the troops of Genernl Oudi-
tint's corps have been sent into the country of
Fulda. It is said two more ilii num% will be united
with the corps of the said General, so that it null be
30,000 then strong. A corps of French hussars, a hi.
passed through Frankfort, marched on the ttith to
Mentz, and thence again to Frankfort.—( The Cor-
respondent.)
AUGSIBURG, DEC. IL

On the sth of December an English frigate, of
44 guns and ,16.5 men, foundered off Loirdstrrip.
at ten o'clock et night. It i. to be regretted that
only live officers and fifty-five seamen could be
saved. Neither ship nor guns can be saved. Every
exertion was made to save the crew.—(eurrespon-
dungen.) JAN. 19.

The exchange of Couriers between Vienna and
Paris, thiottglo this place, is %cry frequent. French
Couriers also often pass to and from Conhtantitio-
ple. Last week, two Couriers for Count Roinan-
zow, in Paris, passed through this city.
The King of Bavaria will nominate Generals
Deroy and Wrede Marshals of the Empire.
BAT'ukS Or TIM. ELUL

All the posts still remain dui ; a greater dearth
of news a•as never known than for this last fortnight.
The French Bulletins alone from Spain till all the
pnblie papers on the Continent. Even rumours
are rare ; and the Exchange of the Hanse Towns,
once so fertile in them, hardly produces one at
present.
The news of the continuance of the Embargo in

America has caused a great sensation among the
merchants in the North of Germany. as well as in
Holland, where colonial produce begins to be searee.
Souse private letters frnin Austria state, that the
Archduke Charles will, antler certain circum-
stances, make a journey to Berlin ; and some per-
suns seem inclined to believe this rumour.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

I.ONDON,
THURSDAY. l'EsuvaaT 9.

The Oror French corvette, of 22 guns, and ,?.C.O
men, is captun.d iii the North seas, by L'Airri-
able frigate, Captain the (loit. a. STEWART ; she
was from Dunkirk, hound to Martinique, laden
with flour. !the carried away her t )p-mast during
the chase, which lasted upwards of thirty hours,
and after exchanging a bros.dside, she struck her
colotirs. _ _

Our private letters from Dublin to the 3d inst.
state. that the Judges have just returned from the
South of Ireland, utter having executed their special
commission. At Tralee twenty liersons have been
capitally convicted ; of whom nine have suffered,
and the remainder it is thought will experience some
mitigation of the punishment due to their cronies.
It is worthy of remark, that, upon this. trials, no
outrages appear to have been directed against the
higher climber of resident inhabitants, either col-
lectivele.hr Some new light has also
been thrown upon the subject of tythea. in a re-
sistant* to which, some of the offences tried

antler the Special Commission originated'. The
payment of tythes appears to have been resist
ed merely as a portion of rent attached to the latio,
and not from any religious motive, or disaffected
view: In both the comities of Limerick and Kerry '
several were convicted of crimes too common in the
country, but in fact unconnected with the particular
system which the commission was directed tocnrrect
such as murder and rape ; and it is by these means
the Calendar has been made so weighty. It is the
opinion of some of the most experienced law-
yers in Ireland, that the late special commissiou has
answered its purpose, and that the disgraceful
scenery which certain parts of these two counties
lately presented , is not likely to be exhibited again
for some ram In support of this opinion, they
adduce the number of special commissions vrhicn
have been directed to Munster, the Nouthern Pro-
vince of Irelaild, during Ilia present MAJESTY'S
reign. This her is as follows :
In 1762, a Special Commission was directed to
Limerick, Cork, Tipperary, and IVuterfuril. Souse
prisons suffered in each of these !shiers, among
whom were Protestants as well as Romin Catholics.
Englishmen were confounded at the mode in
which certain offences Were pfneeelitea in Ire-
land ; for, according to Irish la*. murder, sod
the malicious burning of houses, were considered
1101 treason. This was the ease, until the natsmo-
ralde trial of GEORGE ROBERT rrtZGERALD, :11
1766, occasioned a repeal of the statute, winch
placed murder on the same footing as ia this coon- .
try. The consequence, however, while this differ-
eoce in the laws existed, was tinfaourable to Ire-
land, for even well informed Britons. not bred to
the law, judging from the trials 'fti Ireland, were
liable to mit.tuke a flag of riot in that country,
for a standard of treason and rebellion. In
Januney, 4726. another Special Commission was
directed to Muuster, btit it was confined to the
County of Tipperary, for the trial of the murderers
of :MOROSE POW ER,Esq. brother to the late Baton
POWER.— During both these periods, Kerry, one
1 of the counties lately disturbed, was quiet, and had
remained for a century perfectly tranquil, with uo
other disc iplim m restraint but the common rou-
tine of en ordinary Assizes.

We received, at a late hour last night. liamburgh
and Attune Papers, to the :Bth of deanery. They
owe their interest, in a great measure, to the scar-
city of intelligence that has lately prevailed from
the North of Europe. The most important part
of their contents is that which relates to Tur-
key. It is now ascertained that MusTaeeA
BAIRACTAa, from whose vigour and energy a
favourable change was expected in the Councils
of that decayed and tottering Empire, last his
life in the late insurrection at Constantinople.
So late as December the I Oth, it is said,
Mr. ADAIR remained on board the frigate which
carried him out. in the Dards ielles ; and at that
(late, it we; understood that a negcciation for
peace was in train between Turkey and Russia.
Of the officers and crew of His blAar•.art's fri-
gate Crescent, of J 6 guns, lately wrecked in the
North Seas, twenty were tuarthed, in the begin-
ning of January, as prisoners of war, through Co-
penhagen, on their way to *Sweden.
The Continental Papers complain of the d, th
of intelligence. So coercive is the despotism or Bo-
APARTE, that they dare not e% ell indulge in ru-
mour, the obvious and usual substitute for re.ii
news ; and the Continental Editors dare not pub-
lish, nor the nations of the Continent read, any
thing but BONAPARTE'S Bulletins, announcing his
successes in Spain.

The awful situation of the country. while an
enemy, whom our incapacity alone has rendered
master successively of Germany, Italy, and Spain.
menaces us with invasion from without, will suou
effect *change lathe imbecile counsels which con-
tinue to direct our operations. Lis 175% aud iu
1782, the imam calamities produced the sanse re- '
inesly. But those times bore no resemblance in
ilauger to these in which we use. To so low a
point of depression are the present Ministers re-
duced, that they have recourse to assertiuns alto-
gether unsupported by fact, in order to nasintain
their ephein.trai existence, aud to psrry the seen-
eatialis or inquiries demanded of them in Parlia-
ment. It the number of soldiers lost on the late
expedition is stated at 8,000. a computation which.
there is reason to believe. falls even short of our
actual loss, General Srewaar immediately de-
dares that fact to be is mere exaggeration; thus
extending a shield over his brother, Lord CASTLI•
'CAWS. Wheu Earl TEKPLL moves " for a re-
turn of the money lost or taken during the late
campaign :" Mr. llesatssoe ‘, is happy to have
it iii Itis power to state, tlitst the loss of mime, was
much less than had heen generally believed ; not
more than 30.0001. or 40,0011. or eve', less." But
we are sorry to be obliged to inform Mr. 111111[11-
so!r and the public, that the aggregate sums of
looney. I ' eipally slull-srs, left behind or precipi-
tates] into the sallies between Astorgu and Lugn,
exceeded the coin which he mentioned. We have
conversed with persons who were eye.witiaesscs of
the facts here related. Between Belfsereas and
Villa Franca. on the stli or 9th of January, a wag-
gon, coutui oo itt g 179,000 dollars. its specie. was
thrown down a sierra, or precipice, of near atm
feet in depth. among the snows. Two considera.

ble caissons or.ibllors, the saloons unknown, were,
°lke iuriii.er, iiito the river Ahuho,

near Lugo, on the 11th Of Jaoirary.
ROMAN A'S artily is deiiitStVe,l, I), these persons as
exhibiting the most melancholy- and iittec-.ing'spec-
tack of nud.ty, famine, and destituirou ; half-
ciothed wretches, sinking wider exliausture--
Many, like Edgar, in king Lear, Were wrapped in
blankets, with wisps of own, i stead of stockings,
round their le a. Few hid sl:aes, arid still fewer
were armed with muskets and bajoiets, though
!natty had Ensile across their shoulders. Their
numbers seem never to have exceeded 6,000, since
the ist of December, cud they dinit.iislicsl daily,
without meeting any enemy. It is too probable
that they will all be extermithited ; for 1.1,is ItTE,
ii was believed, dill not wish le be encumbered frith
ack primers.
%Ye iris 4 that these frets will attract the notice-of
Parliament. They nwrit inquiry, no less than the list .
of Fffip-sir Di p!oinatie Peasioner s on that:twill4st.
at toe time when the Honourable Josh Vstittkaat
is selected to go Minister to Lisbon, with aispoint-
moots of nearly 71.14 day. Was tilers not 011 e of.
Sir-ivril-Forty retired Ea roys, PI eni,astervtistriess.
and Ministers to Foreiy,as Courts, eryoretent to
execute the rits.sion to Portugal ? Or did Mr.
VILLIERS' tale its, hilowlatige of Eileopc. and
dip!oinmic lict•, recommend him to Minis-
ters ? We ;where that till now lie Haver set its
foot on the Cola:wtt. These are not, a+-airedly,
the subjects N•tootawa selects for his mi-
shits., or tt,e men whom he sends to conduct his
sat: N in Foruit:n Courts.
Ministers
_here at home. Is now conceived, are
co:npletely at n stand, :end restilg on their arns.—
Wishing, indeed. auxionsly, to discover strounds or
lessons fur tryinz the fort mie of war an,•sv in Anita-
losta ; but apprcheasire titbit they will either arrive
on the scetie..of action too late, or that we shall
only ianderget at Cad's, at Seville, or at Carthaqinia,
a repetition of the same disaster cut 1,154 1,11.01 we
hase sustained at Corunna. Yet a new arm • nent
is certainly ordered, to replace the Expeditiois un-
der General Smut's :was, driven back, .or dis-
petted by contrary winds. But, in order to de-
ceive, or to mislead, the public, as to its destina-
tion, Cents is named for the place to which 11. e
fleet is bound. But Ceuta, from its situ-ition on
the Barbary shore, is as much out of N
grasp, its are the Philippine Islands. The fact is,
that Ministers know neither how to advance nor
bow to recede. Their ignorance and errors have
attained to a point at which tiny roust stop.—Sudi
is our positiou, while the Cooiicau Emperor subdues
the peninsula beyond the Pyreiiees.
With a view, however, to keep up the national

delusion, we are assured that if the French OtVI,
run serape, in return, all their Trans-Atleutic do-
minions, islands, and colonies, will soon he ours.—
The Eastern division of Hayti, or St. Domingo, it
is amerced, has already surrendered to us. or was
on the point of tieing given up by General rilt-
itstvo's successor, when the last accounts Cattle
away. Martinttue and Guadatoupe ate already
devoured in imaginal:on ; and Cayenne, it seems,
is to follow their destiny. Thus, France will be
exptlled front the new world, while, she subjugates
the old Continent. All these expectations lii ty.
and we trust they will be re:tlized. eat, even
though they should be so, these acqmhitione in ti e
Veit-Indies can form no set off for the inespai ity
misL-ei«scoialtict of Atli:duiAmnion beyond the
!Ocoee& 'lnc honour of the I:fairish-nation, end
Particularly of the army, imperiously demands that
the most rigorous investigation of the causes of the
late Nitrite is gpain, be speedily . entered upon in
Parliament. It .is therefore with regret we had,
that Mr. Possowav's motion has been poopmed
even for a day. .It has excited a strong degree of
expectation.

waw---aQaem.assiswwww. •
Yesterday morning, being the Fast Day, ilis
M IJE,TY, the Duke of CUMBERLAND, Pont:erste
Au,:ts-rv, Sarlit t, AMELIA, and Many, ofecorn-
p need by Lady ELY, and General*
and MANNINGII M, rode to St. George's Chapel,
Windsor; and h, and the Form of Prayer appointed
for the day, and a Sermon preached by the Rev. Dr.
Omuta/4. They afterwards returned to the Poker.
The QUEEN and Prinee,s ELIZADVTII bed the
Form of Prayer and Divine Service performed in
the Palace.
Tuesday mornint, Prinee..set
AUgiUSTA, SOPHIA, and A lir ti,t, itecomomined by
Lady ELY, Generals CAJUIWRIONT and FITER4Y,
and Colonel TovLos• took an alinlg in 11 isms,"'
Great Park, andleturued at twelve o'clock to the
relater.
'The QUEEN wad Princess Fetzeainti took as
airing to Frogmore Lodge and ( sarden,.
Yesterday, the Princess of W. ~es attended .di-
vine service, at the Chapel Royal, St. Jauis:e I'a-
lace.
Yesterday morning, the Duke of CUMBERLAND
arrived at Windsor.
Directions hare beau given for the &cockade of
the ports of Cl,rllllllil and Ferrol, by the Jorge,
the Eli:abel It, the Zealand, and Implacable, each of
73 guns.
It has been said by some of our brave soldiers
returned from Spain, that en orderly man, who
was rent by General Nlooas: to direct the tram-
ports to sail from V 0.,: o to Coronae, by some acci-
dent lost his diapottehes, Nod this, caused a delay
of some days 1,, the arrival of the vessels from
Vigo. It appears, that had the transports arrived
tyro or three days sooner at Commis, many
telu-
rble lives mieht have been pre.cerved, that era tare
lost to their comity ; and, moms the rest. may It
not be presumed. that the morli-litinented Com-
mander-in-Chief thigh hate sorvived.