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folAacu 19.

His Grace the Duke of Manchester, on his way
to JitlUillt:l, urrived io Carlisle Bay, yesterday.
teruouu, ii the Caerriet Captain Skene,
thirt. -four days from Portsmouth, and twenty from
Madeira. The Gmerrier, ou coming off Charles
Fo.t, tired u malJte to KilliOUllee the Noble Passen-
ger oo bourd (Ins Grove being also Governor-Ges
ueml of JailialLa) ; and soon after tlw frigate came
to, the ',Mote was returned by the fort.

T:ie Gurrtiei-, previous to her arrival at Madeira,
fell in with and captured, after a short chafe, the
priiateer brig Maini,us, of 16 guns, acid till
teen, from France, bound to G.uadaloupe, which
had captured and had in company with her, the
Julivisa, English ship, of 43U tons, from Gibraltar
isuai,ri to Loudon, which at the mine time was re-
taken by the Guerrier, and sent with the privateer'
to Laglanci. The jaiseta case one of a convoy un-
der two frigates homeward-bound, but having se-
parated Prow thew, fail its with the enemy, aod-wis
captured. - _ _ Nessus 92.

It uppe irs by accouuts from Maririlante, the*
tha arrival of tile Admiral with part of the rquadraos
boon af,er hi; capture, wai most tie/yr-ton!, as there
was a manifest preps's:ion at CiaaJaloa.oe for its
reea, tare, welch wheat have been atteuiled with.

Moq fall! coustquencrt.
Yreterday, ea the arrival of the Julia, from Dos
inioica, by which accounts were received of a tel
graphic communication haring been tinkle how the
signal post to Sir 'Alexander Cochrane, lying io
Prince itupert's, that four suapicious ships rats
aeen Acaling tato tort Royal BHy, an opiuion rota
adopted with much avidity, that the Itochfort
srprailan had got into Martinique, but accounts
three days subsequent (the sloth), from one of our
cruisers off' that 'stand, assure that no, strange vele.
awls have lately got in there.
The Duke of 61,thelicster proceeded tills morn-
ing from hence, in the Guarrier frigate, for his
venanent of Jamaica.

••• &uU6 Acipixv—No. I. Tamourruir

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LON DON ,
TUESDAY. SIAT S.

We have received Bariaidoes papers to the 2841
of Mardi, from oliirh we have m,oJi some extracts.
'Fhe Duke of :%lANtnEsrEa arrived on the lath in
Carlisle Uay, and thi the 2143 prvoemted in Lila
Carrrorr frig-ate for his goverautelit of lama;ra.—
The Gverrier, ou her passage out, fell w with the
Freutli privateer Ala! no, of 16 gone. whitl) she
captured star' adeira. _

We have received Paris papers to &o ink kat,
containing intelligence from Midrid to the 31st
Mardi. Loa iratert WitooSt. Cloud on the ad of
• •
April for 1:lorda aux, oe * way to Madrid. His
favourite, Besterstiee, Idll4dett df Neufchattl; set or
about the same time, and ^as to bt followed dea
satpe night by hi‘Miasiater for Furtign Minim amyl
Secretary of State. It thostippears, that he oil".
the Spanish capital with all his revulutionary tools
and instrumeuts, and that he means upon his arrival
to open a manufactory of Constitutions for that
d••voted cduntry. On the 3d he passed through
Tours, where he was met by an Ambassador on
his way to Paris, with a letter from the tare King,
FERDINAND VII. ;•• bait, instead of cvnalesconda4
to stop, he ordered the Ambassador to follow lairs.
to the Unit, state, On the road from Bayonne, re.
Lay.; of :moles at provided for his accomtnoda.
tie', and he was expected to reach *Madrid shout
the leth of April. There he would find every
thing provided for his purpose. Part of thei?reuch
army, under Msirslial Muitar, catered that capital
on the ‘23d, and reanaiued stationary in it, while
another part proeeealed to take possession of To-
ledo. "The French General Gwoucia is also Go-
vernor of Madrid, and a French officer is placed,
cot:jot lull with e Spaniard, at the beset of the Police.
. Bo APARTS would of course feel himself at home in
Surrounded by his troops and his generals,
his civil sad his military admissist rations, he wonkier.
rive there with all theappearniace or a letitimate
sove-
reign, come to exereise his aethority over his people.
Every peeparation appears to hays been made to
place him upon that ground, am! exhibit him in
teat light. No eclat hos been suffered to attend
the accession of the Prince of irroatas to the
throne. The Monitear stnaion‘ly avoids his newly-
assumed title of FERDINAND THE SIVENTII, which
appears to have been bestowed upon him by his
own partizans, the natives of the couutry.—
lie even appears to have been afraid to make
Isis public mitre into blietial until his friends the
French had takes post in it. Oa the oilier side.
the .Ifonimar affects to sym•withhre with the de-
throned Kited; and Aftwier, of rr his arrival at
Nladtad, w,!&11. to A ratip•ch to Ny !us respects to
hive.

E.%et: the I•,::,te of rile PS/ GC j 3 ItOt per.
sccuted with sQvcrity, nbl luatiad with that taunt.

,;rass, and vulgar ahu?e,iu 19111,116 e Illottitetr
to indulge, when those whisoi it really hates

• . Are the subject or its allialittlVOrbi•llS. It is
..ans ditlicultto kuow who 'are innocent. and who
are guilty, who art eutitled to liraiw, ;Lid who to
bete, in the opiuion of the l'rois-ti Ruler, lie
will probably condemn and degrade them all to
exalt hituwlf. 'that this is the courte

means to adopt, ae intimation. Affect-
ing to speak the language of the Spaniards, ht-
eays,iu nis official paper, " that there is no longer
any arm capable al saving them, and that his ia-
terveution and councils are equttlly necessary."—
After the perusal of this sentence, there can be nn
doubt of the character of the late revolution in
the .Spanish Government. It has every symptom
and appearance of French intrigue. BON APARTE
is gone to Madrid to reap where he has sown.

The Bill few the establishment of a Local
WWI last night read a second time in the House
of Commons. The: measure was not fully debated,
either in its principle or details, in consequence of
toed CASTILLICAUIeII concession to withdraw some
albs most obnoxious provisions. It is the inten-
tion of the [rouse to hare the Bill undergo all its
modifications in the Cotnunttee, and ful!y to dis-
cu* ins* merits when the report is brought up. Mr.
imam, Mr. WHITIMEAD, and Sir FRANCIS
Benotrr, reprobsted if, however. as so unneces-
sary di.tarliance of our military system, inefficient
!n the purpohes of natiot.al defence, and wantonly
inter' ing with the social habits and civil duties of
the Lettish people.

It will be seen in our Report of the prneeedincs
House of Lords,. yesterday, that Lord EL-
t.vi.iiaoitouusi has brought in a Bill for the Relief
of Debtor. confined for stivill sums.

llciaterday ntor—oiog /hi Si A.l iirrir, Princearea
SOPH lA, AUGUiTA, and ARGLIA. accompanied by
lkupceratt, Count NIU MITER, C« nerulb
coyaT. (iwva at., owl Furzaoy, and Colonel TAY-
LOR, took an airing 'on borarback in Windaor
Great Park, nod returned to the Pala& at twelve.

The QUEEN and Princess kLIZABETeI took an
siring to the Princess ELIZABETH.* Cottage, at
()Id Wipjapr, and returned at one o'clock.

• H.;4•llll4Lliir is expected in town to sorrow, to
livid a private Levee and Privy Council.
A letter tram Barbadoes, dated the sthrt March,
states, that " the Julia brig, of 18 guns, arrived
there with an account thitt tire wail of the line frere
seen going into Fort Royal, Martinique, and that
the British Admiral otf that place before that
date, as he was at Dominick when the news -ruched
him." This letter favours the opinion, that the
IdOcnfort mitadrou is in the West Indies, but our
extracts from the Barbadoes paper sbew that it
does oat deserve eredit.

A Paper of yesterday states, that the Collector of
thYeAevenues of a principal Part in the South of Tre-
land, hus absconded with the sum' of eigkeere Moo-
seisdame hundred and tioanty-ninit panda eight still-
fings of the public-money, and is supposed to have
gob" to Prance.
• The most extraordinary exertions have beat
mile in Plymouth Arsenal, cud 011 board 'the re-
spetd ire ships in the Loy, dosing last irMr, in order
tik equip them for sea with all possible dispatch;
the wile4s: were expected tglril yestertir.-
Getierol jusert has published at LisbOn what he
41' As Ifiakei,al Aceaind 6f the Artual State of
EitgJaa,l in the Year 194. • The abiert of this pub-
liestion is to matte the oppressed inhabitants of
PQrtu4al believe that their 'offerings must soon
teynak.atc by the 111.1b11164011 of England, now ren-
'del it inevitable by the distressed state of her
easorneree.

Extract of a letter from Captain llrtentasoN,
white Ritrocer, dated I)artinouts, h April:—
we left It'sterford to ,24th March, tinder convey of Ms
STAjesty's brla Virago; on the tt7th, siff Torbay, wt had a
*arrow escape of king captured, as fire privateers were in
asilltt, one 'of stair% ran chase ahtatti.de Pro of he c-,iivos, and
**red them to follow tier. The Commodore sr.• then
shoat e mite a-head, whim we al.tcle t',e 4:1 Ire an roomy
inistgtie; he then stood dawn foe tt.i pril,ateer, who ricaped
tai her sups, for :."
Try aitrict-a frods the Engli,h ships at Carlsham,
dAted 15th April, it appears that they were all in
the out, r harbour, ready 'Or a ant an hour's notice,
bit mut.: not proceed without u convoy, for whit Is
thin- were anxiously IA -

FAt fact of a titter from a pa‘srogar on board th,
Naury, 11RNI)m:twit. for Vetoer:ant, dated of
IlL:deica 3d Match :

We ln!'t Piertntociath ow toil. F,h under convoy of Ft is
Ntajostra ship Frsitirltiet, rah a 164 t tor the Went India,
and Nate 'talk I eniniwee, to Gar a !.wage to thus pion. as
ad74wt Raw F.,:oatitd erre hail; with :he esceptiwit aide/
dog. sad a night heavy weather. we have bad a ;lel-fret
trade wind. I),K:rig the ga:t, ahotit wo sad of the first
oviented. !)lithe I.aodli-r:rl, the Cootiaodore earturrel a
ettia3 Frerits loner. who ac, IA With I flirt eat day-
.k, atd has h.o”;ht tpr there ; that ald a Pout:tuts'
• teasel, detained at Lishon, ir all wh hove sem"
It was stated some to to, ti.:llct, of last week.
ioat foe :)hl kr of NORFOLK cut preszuted i)octor
PARR with the Living of I ucking-.am. This is an
rrnr.' That v•ry I.arneti and moat relpectaUe
I)iritie Las brim offered the In mg of lleckiughent,
Icy Air. Cote of Nailolk. mail trout this fact the
ulib•.i:.e evidently arosi..
The /..oncacitire Wit,h. Captain itr.ttatece, it ar-
rived ut Livervool from Jkirl.adoes, which place she
left on the of March, in coity,..any with the
Sera privto,-r, of Londoii, and ivirtcri from lior
three .:lays arty.. Rissitiz The l'emerable,
hot TA,. from Liv.-,p tool arrived st
wail expei.t..d to sail from thcoce nu the
loth p.il, whit the 'l7sth.l:tutts-
itt, Rol Kingraifl. 11. rt. A neJtral
filreti at lily before the I.ntroa.,••‘i, c
Witch osi!,11, that a Cu.ibeain::!..
with 300 eir o:t io.arJ, t. an ettotured, and Carl'lt'l I
into :Jartiuiout , to be the Fra.,ei, Wit-
Cf Atli, or rivertuiol. The vet,el,‘ tit 114.-Iwti!twit
.ere to nil front Ilienee al9 tlie hof A1,1;1, to
joinliteliolutward-bound convoy as.