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London, England, 1807-02-25 00:00:00

MAYO COMMITTIM

The following Gentlmnzen were chosen, by ballot.
to try and determine the merits of 'IF: Mayo Lie Mon
Petition :
Julia War:aware F.sq Carte. Leigh, Esq.
Arthur H.Hulatiwortia. J. Dui Prwcber, EM.
W. Elliott' Lockhart, Ide-wers Sumer, Esq.
Hon GatrPft &ion. ?.D. ryrwhits Drake, Esq.
lien Chen Harward Ruder. 1.... ad R. S. Faxgera'd.
Ilan. T. Crareer OnWww. l'lrwdaaa ?yrwhitt., Eaq.
I'. Edwin d &were, LA.

MOUINZES
Finn James biles. Hon. Tlmma4 [sem.

This Committee was apponneJ to meet on nuts-
d..y next.

rr)ows BILL.

Mr. \ VIIITBRLA I) m"•ezi the second reading
of this Bill. '1 his being done, it was afterwards
committed, and the tidings tilled up. The tide of
this ltill is A Bill for promoting and enconrag.
ing industry among the 14houring classes of the
Poor." The rei-ort was ordered to be brought up
0.1 the 15th of April nest.

SCUT!! 5P..% 8.1. L.

Ear! TEMPLE moved the coalminel of this
E.l. In the Committee, the Noble Lord said,

THE BRITISH 'PRESS.

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY, FRORUARY 25.

We mad- a second Edition yesterday, for the pur-
pose e onninnicating the following Letter received
fry Y .rmonth :—" Arrived yesterday, (Sunday)
s MAJLIT v's gun-brig Starlimj, from the Conti.
a nt, and landed his Excellency M. Atop cus, Am-
bassador from Russia, who brings tLe following
good stews :—Tl,at the French were defeated on
the 25th ult. with the loss of 10,000 men, killed
and woundel ; in which engagement Prince Weal.
was ki:led, BERNADOTTE wounded, and his whole
equipage taken, and General VICTOR a prisoner at
Dantzic. The Turks were said to have joined the
Russians, and the Austrians have declared in favour
of Ilusia." Some other kitten were also received
to she same etre% ..te of which added, that ano-
ther aiion had taken place in ti.. beginning of the
present monsis, the rend' of which had also proved
favourable to the Russians. This news excited
a considerable sensation, but Government have
received no inteil:gence tending to confirm
it. Tb. TURLIAD A si BASSADOIL has received
Official Accounts of the commencement of hosti-
lities between Russia and Turkey, and expo is his
orders of recal every hour. The RUSSIAN Am BAS.
SADO& and Suite left Constantinople before the de-
claration of war : he sailed, we believe. under the
protedion of the British flag, and art ived safely at
Malta. To the part 01 the report, therefore, which
anaoutices a juation between Russia and Turkey, we
can give no credit, and we expressed, in a former
Paper, our disbelief of the rumour of Austria
having declared war against France. The rumour
of yesterday, therefore, so far as it regards a change
in the political relations of these great Powers,
we are confident will prove unfounded. That
Part ot the report which announces the signal
defeat of the French, on the 25th 1 ist, appears,
fa,wever, to rest upon grounds that entitle it to se-
rious notice. The battle here alluded to, is that
which took place at Mohrungen, and WAS attended,
accors!i-g to the fifty-fifth Bulletin of the Grand
Army, with the loss of a standard. It was not
difficult to perceive from the Bulletin that it was
a severe idiots, and that the French had no real
cause of triumph. We learn, from a most re:pefl-
able quarter, that the forces engaged in that :AIN.
consisted on the one side of the allied Russians and
Prussians, under Generals Bee:sone and Les-roes);
and. on the other, of the French, consisting chiefly
of the turps under MUR AT. NET, and Been•-
novve. the Allies were the Assailants, and the
enemy were dispersed with the loss of tlOOO killed,
and 4000 Hounded. General RAP/ is stated
swag the killed. Marshals Mita T and BERRA.
DOTTC are wounded ; the latter severely, and the
former is taken with General Fouit•ixa. Marshal
LASNIS had both his legs that off; and BsRNA-
DOTTe has lost all Isis equipage. We have reason
to believe, that these will appear to be the heads ol
the Russian account of the battle of the 2ith ; but
we, at the same time, are disposed to consider it as

much exaggeratcil 4s the 103; of the Preach has
beed underrated in the Bulletin. Accounts from
the came quarter ad 1, that the Allies are in fOtee
at Koniagslier.!, that the French are retreat_
ing rapidly, and that Bona ran Ts is ill of a lever.
—lt is also not improbable, that there may be some
mistake in the date, and that the battle is which the
French stn ared so wverely took place subsequent
to that of Isiohrargen. But whatever may he the
ran in this particular, General Vic roe could not
have been in either of these two anions. Indeed it
is not sn stated. The Vat mouth Letter merely as.
setts, that he is a prisoner at Dantair, a circus).
stance which correspond:: exanly with the French
accounts, which state, that he w is taken some time
since on his way to Stettin, in his carriage, with his
Sect etar y.

The Go7ette of last night contains a lift of 47
Spanish and French vessels, of from 4. gun to SS
grits, captured by the scia.iiiton under the command
of Admiral DACIII, in the West Indies.

This being the Fast Day, His Manse will not
corme to town till to-morrow, when he will hold a
private Levee and Council at the Qo EN'S Pal ice.
That tiiie corps, the 89:h, commanded by Colonel
Lord Bt. A YNEY. as well as the troop of Home Ar.
ttil.ry, were emfsarked. on Monday, at Portsmouth.
rhe baggage of the Commander-in Chief; was like-
wise seat on board same day, from the Isle of
Wight.
The Army or South America will now consist of
_ _ . _ . .

The Royal enzineers and Artificers, a detachment; the Rn)al
Hem Artillery, 1 troop; the. Royal Artilleri, 4 companies;
the 9th Light Dray-awns' cosnmandrd be lion. Cul. Mahon;
17th ditto, Lt: Call. Lloyd ; 88th ditto, 6 troops, Major Blake;
2 tat ditto, 2 110014. htli Foot, Lieut. Cul.
Desie 3Gth Foot, Borne; Stith Foot, —Vaoul ; 4Gth
Fuel, —.. Orousie ; 45th Foos, —4 Cuero; 47th Foot,
Rackhothe ; 54. h Flank Companies, 71st
Foot, Lieut. Cul. VAAL ; 8.11 Foot, Major Trotter ; 87th Foot,
Lieut. Cal. sir E. Boiler . • fiBth Fuut, Lieut. Cul Duff; 89th
Foot, Cn' Lord Rlayney ;9541i Rifle Corps 5 Compaiii,-i, la-
jor 141gela4d, and a datactimet.t of the Royal Waggon Corp..
We hear that a Field Officer of the lt,•yal En-
gineers, as well as of the Artillery, will accompany
General WurraLocita. It is now thought that
the 8-1413th, and 634, which, at one time, were
intended to go to jnia the South American Army,
will not now proceed there, General WHIT LOCKE
having declared that he waited only for the 89th,
in additioon to the force already out, and that he
conceives this formidable force sufficien: for any
service there.

The F.'tunr, Met.cov. from Newcastle far Ja-
maica, has been taken, retaken, and since supposed
to be lost on the ( oa.A of 1-114lland.

The Dove, W tr. 1.1 &Hs, from 1.. don for Wey-
mouth, has been found at sea witliuut any person
on board, and carried into Dover.
The Lett Cane !re, East Indianian. that was on
shore near Northlieet, is got off with little damage.
Tice Harriett, THOMPsoN, from Lancaster, is ar-
rived at Sorulana,after beating off a privateer of 10
guns and 10X) men.
The Carrillo frigate, v.ith a convoy from Lisbon,
is arrived at POrtSl7lollol.

The Spring, FORD, fr.= Guernsey for Loudon,
foundered on the I 9th ult. on the con“ of France.—
Crew saved.

Letters from one of the gun.brigs on the station
off Rochefort, decetihed the weather lately, as hay-
ing been dreadful ii.deed. In the beginning of this
month it blew so hard a gale of wind, that Com-
modore KEATS'S squadron was in the moil immi-
nent danger of being wrecked; fortunately, a shift
of wind took place, and they all hauled off shore
in safety, and rode it over without much damage.
We undettand the Loan CHIEt Batson and
Mr. Baron Gso•cz are to go the Lei:liter Cir-
cuit ; and that the Assizes of iVaterford will be
ahout the 20th or 22d of March.

An Evening Print of yesterday, in a private
letter from its Russian Correspondent, at St. Peter:-
burgh, says--" The;Cossacks Lave a singular way
of conveying their French prisoners across the
Vistula, and in which they have daily praelice ;
Oey Lx them by the hair of the head to the sides
of their horses, and thus plunge into dm river
without further ceremony."
Direftions were sent from the Admiralty on the
20th inst. to Portsmouth, to delay the fleet sailing
for the West Indies from thence, till reasonable
time shall be given for the arrival of the trade from
the Downs.

A Court of Aldermen was held yesterday, at
Guildhall, at which the Lnrd Mayor, sixteen
Aldermen, Recorder, and City Officers, attended.
The Court ordered the 41U,i4e of Bread to he
raised half an Assize, which males the price of the
Qd mem Loaf Is.

Mr. John Hamman and Mr. Deputy Rowlatt
were sworn Coal Meters, in trust for the city ;
Mr. John Williams was sworn a Corn Meter in
trust.

The Court requested the Rig!lt Rev. the Lord
Wshop of Saint David's, and the kev. Dean of
Winchester, to preach the Spiral Sermons at Christ-
Church, desygate•street, before the Lord Mayor,
Aldermen, and Governors of the several Royal
llopitaL, on Monday and Tonday in Laster week
DeAt.

Upon hearing the appeal from the inhabitants of
the parish of St. Prter, Cumin% against the Rates
for Tythes for that parish, the Court quashed the
said refs.

Thomas Porcas was admitted a Serjeast at Mace
for Giltspur-street Corn pier.
The Court agreed to a Petition to the House of
Commons, respecting the 13i11 now before the Com-
mittee of the House, in relation to the Tanners and
others, as concerning the Searchers of Leather,
for the City, which was ordered to be fairly trait.
scribed, signed by the 'town Clerk, and presented by
the Sberigi, attended by the Remembrance?.
It was referred to a Committee if the whole
Court to inquire into the causes of the melancholy
.iccident which h-,pperied at the Execution in the
Old Bailey, on Monday last, and also into the cir-
, umstances of the relatives and friends of the un-
fortuoaie stiff:rem

Several persons were sworn, and others allowed
broker).

'Tr; ST 4.
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OPERA NOUSE.

A new Serious Opeta, in two ads, en;;Lie.
Arsenide e Sent. was produced here la,t night.
affirded Madame CAT Al. AMI a fine opportunity
displaying her talents as as *dress. The plot is
the slight texture gen•rally found in Itatai.
ersr►, Krug of Persia. is betrothed to Argenfs, tbi
Princess of the Parthians, who is in love with hi,
sou, the Prince &Moo. The father being stippoie4
dead. the Prince' mounts the throne, and the
lovers are upon the eve of being united, ate,
Xerxes returns, and cnntlemns Sdastis to cleat!
The Princes runs mad ; but the King at keg;
relents, and the lovers are made happy.
performance of Madame CAI-stash in .irp„,,
displayed much natural simplicity and feeling.—
'rhe mad scene was given with great effect 'l'hr
music is by Pot roc ALLO, and afforded some chem.
i•ng airs for Madame CATALAKI. In the splendid
company were the Dukes of MANCHESTE4 and
ARGYLS: Countesses ALDROIOUGin and Ctor
NELL ; Sir ALtutro Ctastga. &c. Lace chi:
stays were mach worn by the Megan/es. on wenn..
of the epidemic swelled face, now so prevalcat
in the fashionable world.