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On Illsrsclay niprt, ab-mt eleven , h ;mei.
on to blow very hard lion, Cie N.E. :.r
soon incre•tsed tts a hurricatte ; A sets:incl, Vale / at
a small dt.tance fr Ass xA-ittniiy VSith,
Pier livad, for the plums:: of hailing vessel.; comiog •
hi. was carried, by a su.:donsgustessisil ry,ie mm - ,
%%to the sea. The tide was in; out being
a: hand, be was picked up without havi:.g sts.tained
ary personal injury. In consequence of the late
frosts and ran:, the earth has fangs, its great qa sr-
into the shaft which WAS digging between ti:e
tlwn and the heights, aqd which ope..s between the
edge of the cliff and•the barracks. The shaft is, in
lr.ng.h, about eight or seine toils '11:e damage is
co great, that nsauv think it doubtful ...bt:titer the
shaft CAR be completed, .4gs-steatitic to the or:sinal
ioters;i4n.
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PUL 'CE.

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MARL gogo7o2.st
On Saturday, a young men wno had i.-.:n ap.
prenticed to a respeftable jeweller in Cie Strand. *sal
brought before the SITTING MAGISTRATE,
charge of robaiog his master of a quantity r•fpreper.
tv, in the line of ins business. It appeared in evidence,
that this young seran,Svior was not rnore than eighteen
ye.irs tit age, had been decoyed into marriage with
a wurnan of the town. Her ascendaecy over him
iris so great. that, at her instance, he was induced
to commit, lately, repeated depredations, thOugh,
in the early part of 'his apprenticeship, he had coo.
&tiled himself with the grea-est propriety. TI.
' discovery was made by means of a Tronbroker.
wlrs apprehen led a little girl, Wno came to pledge A
several valuable arti.les at 3-is surf. "rho young
man acknowledged his offmce ; but? being of re.
sprftable parents, and promising to relinquish all
CO.e ectioo with his wire, the Moots reek a dwt
ch raged him, with the consent of his master. •
HATTON-GARDEN.
Saturday last, two men of the names of Cray.ky
and Roder, were brought ber-re the Si 7'
GISIRATE, charged by Mr. bird, aziftioneer, of
Newcastle-street, Strand, with a felony. Mr. Bird
had made a distress upon some premises belonging
to a publican in the neighbourhood of Hatters-
Garden and, riot finding sufficient furniture to
cover the distress, he took a butt of beer. which ne
WAS obliged to draw ',if in bucketi, and fill into a
cask placed in a tart in the street; he eni:sloyed
Crawley at night to wat,th the premises, 1- tv'ng in
I his charge the buckets, wad several otl:er artiOes;
bur, instead of observing his trust, he acually
broke into the cellar, through a window, and took
some of the articles out, vthich were a'lersvards
traced to the possession of the other Prisoner,
I Ro.-he The cLarge being fully made out against
both, the hl AGM-RAT II Was 44011 t t commis them
for trial, when Mr. Bird intercvlei f ir them.—
Roche, it appeased, had a wife and severs' children.
and, un.tl this transaftii.n, bore an csccllent die-
, rafter ; and Crawley woo Found unfit fot the sea
service. They had both made ton tree with the
beer that night. and, up .n a peimii-e of malting a
discovery et where the buckvs, and other articles,
I were to tse to in., they were

L'entenant J. Pairoco, was CrWtS
marder of :he joys ; and Liantenant l'lrocitua 4.
who commaol.d the 1 tumater, in the uct on off
Cap.! a rAfAgar ; Captain DIORY, of thc &ark,
and tbc First of V.itsran have keen
made Post Captains, The First Lieutrnams of the
..then ships engaged on the 421st oCluber„ 4.11
ISavembei, have been raised ,o the rank of Masters
and Co.nmanders.
One of the Lieutenants of the Spencer, and Capt.
DIC3Y, ate the only Wirer* ?minuted who were
not i:: the above aslions.
The snot upon which the duty was paid on the
late Lora Slei..oti's property, on ptoving his will,
was 30,00a1.
Daring the late engagement nff Trafalgar, a
sailor on board the Coloisva, whil,t doing dutl at a
Kin, had his body cat in two by a ball. After
the aflion, his waistcoat pocket was searched (a
small part of one being remaining), and the hal of
a seven-shillings ph,ce was di,covered itt it ; the
other half was carried away by the ball, and ap-
reared .1. Watt in two with a pair of scissars. It
is now in the possession of L rut. Hawn's, of we
above ship.

On Fr; ay, the 20th inst. was decided an im-
portant claim loag pending in the High Court of
Admiralty. 'nut Spanish ship La aro'
her cargo, wale both restored the violaticii of .'ie
Portuguese trrritory, at Fayal, been ..it
against the captor, the HMI. CH A REIS Tit assav,
Commander of His MAJESTY'S frigate, the Ur t.
A at eunsideraile interest h he or
some chys before the hiagistra.es at Uttinti
Iwo women, a Mrs. Hotio as a Mrs. Nos r,
claimed fie saute ct.ild. On Friday it was proved,
that the shi;d, the objea of dispute, is the child atf
Ma. Flo pains —The Magistrates left the race to
be de-idt.d :It the Qii met Sessions, tuaess Mis.
No I T shall deliver up the child 1... t We -eat eu,,her.
Far Live: al weeks last past, the Public .niu..i has
been anxiously and sensibly alive to the important
events passing on the Continent—of which a anal
issue is now generally supposed to be nearly sic.
complisied. For some v..einc to come, thousands of
the vablic will be anxiously and sensibly alive—mot
so much to " Fortune dc Gaerte," as to F.-tune's
Lottery Wheels—in which more Capita; Pt 2es will
be contained, and a greater certainty of gain pre-
sented to a multitude of adventurers, than any for-
mer Scheme coulekever boast.
The Earupeam Magasiar for December, which
completes the -Inth Volume, will be pu'ilished on
the Ist of January, ISA by J. Arrears. No. 32,
Cornbill t it will contain the usual quantity of
interesting matter, a portrait at i!te Arc' duke
CHA Rt.'s, a View of Bow-Church, Middlc- ex, and
a complete ltduta:ion of Mr. HIOSIt It BUSTY'..I-
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Anetiotes, Literature, History, State Papers, Po-
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NATAL INTELLIGENCE.
6.c)I4TSMOUTII, PEC. '7.
The Polyphemus, of G 4 grans, Ca pr. R (-Lit I, wi• h
the tran:ports which came under her convoy from
Gibraltar, were released from quarantine this morn-
ning, and came up to Spithead from the Mothes-
ban lc.

Dec. 2R.

Arrived the Net- hnmb, with fourteen s.sil of
entsvar I. -I.ld yessek, under convo7 halt the
Downs; Lutaat and Cracker gua,bligs, from a
Sailed the Meteor bomb, on a ensise.—Wind
S.W.

Toeastr„ DEC. 21.
Arrived last evening from Portsmouth, His Ma-
jesty's ship leen,* ; and, this day, arrived, from
tto Westward. under the commaril of Admiral
Douglas. the Hibernil, Via., Josef, Castle,
Atrfia, luptitaraz, Captaral• and 7iigunph, and ye..
main.
FALMOUTH, DCC. 25.
Arrived His 'Majesty's ships 17the dr Paris, 110 ;
913 Prillte Gavle, 93 ; Glory, 94;
ar-rioei 74; Dragon, 74 ; and Prim-
!, c'frigate, 48; under the command of Admiral
4.;irci,t. slits, from a cruise. Also, the IYades don!)
()twat to give instruction! to the West ledia
DEAL, DEC. 27.
Last nikht. or rather this morning, it blew one
ottbe most violent gales, from the northwat d and
eastsvard, that we can recoliql. Several vessels
parted from their anchors, and one WAS el'enpletel)
reeked off Waltner Castle. The cre.,v were pro-
I sidentially saved by running ber aground, as their
last aind only resource.
1S filed His islajerry'i ship R,sirrance, with a
of °tit warii-bound vessels for Portsmouth. Remain
inept Downs the rest of the ships as per last.
DSc. 28.
Sailed the Diligence sloop of war on a cruise.
Arrived the Ani and Startiag gun-brigs, from
a eruise ; and remain in the Downs with the rest of
His Maj- tv's ships, transports, dtc. as per last.—
Weed S S. V. ; hazy.

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LOAD IVELsON.

A Committee has been sitting every day at the
Mansion house, to regulate the Procession of Lord
' Nelson's Funeral.
the following account of the death of Lord Nel-
son is authenticated by Mr. Beatty, the Surgeon,
anli Mt.-Rourke, the Purser:—
About 'kw middle of the itiftion with the Combined
. Flersonthe gist of 03obe:' Lord Nelson was
open' she (planer-deck, where he had resolved to
- • take his tion during the whole of the battle. A
fe v iniautes before be was wounded, Mr. Bourke
was near him, he looked steadfastly at lon, and
said, 0. Rourke, I expo a every man to be upon his
station " Mr. Bourke took the hiat, and went to
his proper situation, in the cock-pit.
At this time his Lordship's Secretary, Mr. Scott,
who was no:. as has been represented, either re-
ceiving 'nitrations from him, or standing by him,
• but was communicating some orders to an officer
in a distant part of the quarter dock, was cut almost
in two by a cannon shot. He expired ou the instant,
and was thrown overboard.
Lord Isielsim observed the ad of throwing his Fe-
cmAirprei bonrsi, and said, as if doubtful, to A
AishvOtan who was mar him, " Was that Scott ?"
The midshipman tepliesil., he believed it via. He
exclaimed, " Poor fellow !"
He was now walking t. a quarter deck. and about
three yards from the stern, the space he geneeallj
walked, before he turned back. His Lordship was
in the at of turning on the quarter deck, with his
GC! towards the enemy, when he was mortally
wounded in die left breast by a musket ball, sup-
pined to have been fired from the mizen•tdp of the
Rrdoesiot.64, Fr.nch ship of the line, which the YU-
_ fore had attacked early in the battle.
He 'swamis, tell He was tot, as has been related,
picked up by Captain Hardy. In the hurry of the
battle. which was then raging in its gr atest via.
lenoe, even the fdl of Oita. beloved Commander did
n. t intrrropt the business of the quarter-deck. Two
sailors, briwever, who were near his Lordship, raised
him in their arms, carried him to the cockpit.
He was immediately laid upon a bed, and the fol-
lowing is the substance of the conversation which
really took place in the Cockpit, between his Lord-
ship. Capt. Hardy, Mr. Rourke, and Beatty.
• Upon seeing hint brought down, Mr. Bourke im-
mediately ran to him. " I fear," he said, " your
Lordship is wonnded."—o Mortally, mortally."—
" I hope not, my dear Lord ; let Mr. Beatty exa-
mine your wennds.—" It is of no use," exclaimed
the dying Nelson ; " he had better attend to others."
Mr. Beatty now approached to examine the
seistiri. His Lordship was raised up; and Beatty,
whose attention was anxiously fired upon the eyes
of he patient, as an indication the most certain
when a wound is mortal, after a fen moments,
glanced his eye on Bourke, and expressed his opi-
nion in his countenance —Lord Nelson now turned
to Bnu ke. and said, " Tell Hardy to come to me."
Bourke left the cockpit. Beatty now said, " Sider
trie, tnv I.ord, to probe the *mind with my finget-
-1 oils 'give yes no pair." Lord Nelson permitted
him, and, parsing his left hand round his waist, he
probed it with the I•Nre-finger of the other.
Wl.en Bout ke returned into the Cock-pit with
Capt. Hardy, Lord Nelson told the latter to come
near hint. "Kiss me, Hardy," he exclaimed. Car.
/lardy kissed leis cheek. "'I hope your Lordship
(he saitl)will rill live to enjoy your triumph."—
," Never, Hardy the exclaimed) ; f am dying, I
' am a dead moo, all over, Beatty will tell 3.01: so.
Bring the fleet to an anchor t yon have all done
.pour ditty ; Godisless you." Captain Hardy now
said, *4 I sup ose Cillingwood, my dear Lord, is to
command eft. fleet." " (he exclaimed) niloisf
si loser 'teeing, doubtless, that, so long as his
"Afoot spirit survived, he would never desert his
duty.
What rased after this wits merely casual : his
Lordships last words were to Mr. Beatty, whilst lee
was captring ;stitiopr y. o could have ssished to
have lived .; ••• nd's will he dare."
" My Lri n die in the mids
of When •.‘ : 1e smiksi 14intiyt
" Osid iii..`
~ ,his last words
be-
long he • • • _ kis
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FOREIGN INIEtLIGENCE.

FROM TIM ROTTERDAM COURANT.

mil••••;.

11111sDAT,ItC. 17.
The Hamburp,h and other Seirnan lettirts receiv-
ed yesterday, contain only a short account of the
important battle which has taken place, to the ad-
vantage of the French. Flllfll the intelligence writ-
ten by klar•hal Berthier on the field of battle to
Stutgard, and anntiunced in lhe Alvailetir of the
1 lth (that Paper of the l2th nut being arrived) we
gather only the following
TELEGRAPIIIC IMPATOT.
Strast.trE!., 1) trunbir
" Thr Emperor has dofe4t,ll Ktoi.t.ina
/Ulf of 11104( atfuy it aumil.d.ated, eoltl the reil.ailider is it foil
flight."

This day, however. we have received the follow-
ing account, published in %As Veleta Court ansite,
of the 6th instant; and also, froirt 4 respeaable
quarter, the 'obi:limed Order *f ilic Dose, dated the
3d, and issued by the Emperor Napoleon, from his
head-quartets at Aus:erlitz. We have, besides, re-
ceived c.rtniss information that the Emperor of the
French and the .ff.mpal or of Austria had an inter-
♦iew near the bold of tsattle, and that an Armistice
ts as concluded between the two Sovereigns.
VICTORY OF AUSTERLITZ,

OSTAINLD SY ?tit FRENCH AItMY UN Tlia 20 US
oreLmuta, MS.

Irons the 27th of November to the ht of Decem-
ber, every effort was made to bring the Russians to
a general engagemenr, and the measures taken to
prnmotnt that object have had the most favourable
result.

Indescribable was the joy with which the French
ar oy, from the heights on which Napoleon, in the
open 6cld, was posted, beheld the advanced pests of
the Russian army approachicg, and is movement
made from their dank, with the view of surrounding
the French right wing. The Russians marched in
column, in one line, to the length of four French
miles beyond the French army, which, meanwhile,
remained immoveable in its position, in •rder that
the enemy, who hastened with rapid steps to meet,
Jestruigion, might advance so near as to render in
impossible ter them again to escape. The French
Emperor made his dispositions for battle in the fol-
lowing or ler :7 . _

lie gave to !Marshal Lannes the command of the
left wing; to Marshal Smolt the command of the
right ; and to Marshal Bernadotte the command of
the centre. Prince Murat received the command of
the cavalry, with which he was posted on a particu-
lar point. The left of Marshal !Anne, approached
St. Anton, which had been fortified and mounted
with eighteen pieces of cannon.
General Sachet's division formed the left of Mar-
shall Lavine.; the division of General Caffarelli
formed hisriglit, and was supported. at the Sallie time,
by Prince Murat's cavalry.
The van of this cavalry consisted of General Kel-
lerman's hussars and chasseurs, and of Walther and
Beau.))))) division of dragoons. The division
firmed of Generals Nansuutt and Haut:mules cui-
rassiers, with twenty-lour field-pieces, was posted as
a reserve.

Marshal Bernadotte, that is to say, the centre, had
on the left the division of General kivand, which also
communicated with Prince Marat's right wing, and
oti the right the division of General Monet.
Marshal Sault, who commanded the right wing
of the army, had, on his left, the division of General
D 'mine, in !;is centre, the division of Gmieral
St. Hilaire, and, on his right, the division of Gene-
ral Legrand.
Marshal D'Avoust was detached to the tight of
General Lcgrand, to observe the road between the
lakes and the villages of Sokolnitz and Felmitz. lie
hid with him General Friant's division, and the
dragoons of General Bourcier's division. The divi-
sion of General Gudin was dire:red to march at
day-break from Nicolsburg, to stop the carps of
the enemy, which was endeavouring to tura the
right wing.
The Laipernr Napoleon, with his whole General
Stal, ten battalions of the Imperial Guard, and ten
battalions of General Oudinoes Grenadiers, formed
the reserve of the army. These troops Ore disposed
in column, in a doable line, and drawn up in bat-
talion., but placed at such distance from each
other, that sufficient space was left for deploying.
In these intervals, forty pieces of cannon were
placed, which were served by the artillery of the
guard. I his corps was intended to advance, with
the greatest expedition, to any quarter in which its
pretence might be necessary.
The morning dawn began at length to appear,
but seemed to approach too slowly for the wishes of
bath armies. Surrounded by all his Marshals, the
Emperor Napoleon waited until the horizon was
pettedly clear, before he communicated his foal
insttuatons. When the sun shot forth his first ray,
the last •erder was given, and all the Nlarshals retie
a at full gallop to their resiiedive corps.
The joyful cry of Long lice I Ice tmlulor, which
tchoed along the whole line, was the signal for u ge-
neral engagement. At this moment, the c.urrinisde
became liciaary on the extremity of the right wing,
which the advanced guard of the Russians had al-
ready reached. There, however, they fell iu quite
tenexpelledly with Marshal D'Avotisr, who made
them halt, and the battle immediately began.
At the same time Marshal Steak put himself in
motion, and advanced with the divisions of Ge-
nerals Vandalism, and St. Hilaire, towards the
heights of the village of Pratz:n.
In consequence or these operations, the tight wing
of the Russian army found itself completely turned ;
all its plans were deranged. Surprised by • move-
ment on the d ink, the enemy endeavoured to retreat.
While they would attack, they fortiid thernsilvm
suddenly attacked. From that moment the enemy's
right wing WAS C4olol4leted hair deteat:d.
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the cavalry under Prince Murat now began to
move. The lett wing, under the command of
General Lames. marched forward Aso; the troops
drawn up in the form of reginsentt, in the same
manner as if they had been exercising by divisions.
me oentre under Marshal Bernadotte likewise ad-
rAnevd, and instantly a terrible cannonade resouod.
ed along the k line.
Iwo hundred pieces of cannon, and aettly
100.000 men all engagrd at one time, produced a
most tremendous and awful 1101 W. svas truly
giiii-te•dell

'l'ne bark bad lasted only two hours, when t►e

left wing of the Ilus.iatts WAS cut off, And theil rig) t
driven back to Austeilits.,
The head-ctittpters of the two Emperor& were at
Austerlitz, and they were obliged fo 'give orders to
the Russian Imperial guard to advance to re-estab-
lish, if possible, the jutiairin of tar: left win.' and
the centre. Marshal .es moved forward with
his invincible*. and immediately the French im-
perial and Russian Impesiul Guards were engaged.
The Russianguard was driven back in disorder.
Its commanders artillery, and standards, were ail
n the punier of the viaors, Even the Grand nice
Constantine, whose regiment was entirely' cut to.
pieces, has only to thank the fleet:lets 'of his h•nse
for his escape.
'fee aAion was still obstinately maintained by the
remainin„; part of the Russian army. The centre of
the French army withstood the well-direded attacks
of the cavalry. The French kft wing also con-
tinued its attacks, in all of which it was vitlorious.

At on: o'clock, p. w. the victory, which never
was, fora moment, doubtful, was decisively on the
side of the French.

The cannonade was still constantly en aint a i nod on
the French right wing. The Russian carps which
had been cut off, was surrounded, comp lied to
abandon all its positions, forced back into a hollow,
and driven up agraiiht a lake. Here a most dread-
ful speetacle presented itself. Twenty thousand
men spread themselves over the icy surface of the
lake, only to. be drowned.
At the same time, two Russia* columns, of 4000
men each, laid down their arms, and the whole of
the artillery, at lust 1.:0 pieces, fell into oar
hinds.

Ott this day we had the whole of the Russian
army to encounter. The half of it is destroyed, and
the remainder has taken light in the greatest coa-
-1 fusion. Thegreater parr threw away their arms.
Of the whole French army, the reserve was the
only part which was not engaged, and the reserve
alone is equal to an army.
The French army. tlsough strong, was net so nu-
merous as the enemy's, which consisted tit 10b,000
men, viz. 80,000 Russians, and 2.5,000 Austrians.
The result of this vielory, placed in the hands of
the French army 40 Russian standard.. including
the colours of the Emperor Alexander's Life-guard,
from IL to 15 Ru,sian Generals smote prisoners, and
among whom are Princes Gallitzin and Repain ;
and. finally,. an immense nurnher of Russian pri-
soners. Tam French General Staff dues not yet
know the number, but returns of nearly 20,000 are
already made. The Russians have besides lett 1.5.000
dead on the field.

Tboagh exec* accounts are not yet received of the
loss of the French, it appears to he only about SOU
killed, and from 1,500 to 1,600 wounded. This can-
not astonish tasaiciatis, for every one knows that
great numbers are seldom lost, but by those who take
eight. Besides, not oue corps of the French army
was penetrated, except a single battalion of the 4:h
regiment, which had to sustain the •.vhule of tLe first
attack of the Russian Imperial Guard.
The French Generals of Division St. Hilaire, Kel-
lerman, and IValtiter ; the Generals of Brigade Val-
ben, l'hiebauz, Sebastiani, and Conipans, and,
finally, General Rapp, His Imperial Majesty's Ad-
jutant, are among the wounded. The last General
headed the grenadiers of the French Imperial Guard
in the attack, a•sd took prisoner Prince ltepnin, who
commanded the cavalry of the Russian Imperial
Guard.