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O.:r. 17.

The fever still co:rtinues to rage here with un-
abated violence, and has already carried if 231Y3
of the inhabitants, which is upwAr is of one-third of
the population of the place. The troops, from
being encamped, hare suffeied comparatively less,
hut nineteen Officers, and five hundred arid fifty
men, have been cut off by it.
P. S.—lnhabitants deal lately :
M is. Jeulww, Mr Robert Jetilicrni, r. Raleigh, Mr.
WdliJois Prailuo M.i.tor; Mr Clark You.se, M. Hawkins
and his surer, Mr. Hare, his wife, sun, and clang nu.'
°cr. 243
The pestilential fever still continues to rage here
with unabated violence. About three-faun-is of
the inhabitants have been ill of it, and 210 of theme
have died. The scenes of misery and woe it ha-
cursed, surpass all description or belief. It is noes
raging fatally amongst the tronps ; the mirnher sick
of the fever yesterday was 758 p-irates, aed about
30 officers. Upwards of bud of the troops haste
already been carried off by it. The 10th regiment
alone have only lost two men out of Id "1 who have
been attacked with this dreadful disorder, owing to
the uncommon skill and attention of their surgecn,
Mr. Benyon, whose singular succes's in the treatment
of the disease has jest'.; excited the praise and ad-
mir ition of the whole Garrison.
The Guards towards the Spanish lines are this
day ordered to load every evening at sun-set, and
the matches on the principal battery are kept lighted
all night, in case of any attempt being made in the,,
present reduced situation of the rarnson. If a Span-
ish war should take place, which we daily expret,
and the fever should continue, which we have every
reason to believe, this garrison will shortly be in a
most perilous state, unless speedy reintoi cements ar-
rive from Englaud.
The Douu.cg.nl arrived a few days ago from
Lord Nelson's fleet, but brings no news; she is now
cruising off Cadiz.
ore. 25.
The fever rill continues to rage among the.
tr.iops, about one half of whom have now been at-
tacked with it, and it is generally supposed that the
disease will not be eradicated, till it has gone thre
the whole garrison. Jr d-ies not ap; to attack
airy a secoud time, nor have any of the fe,v rroepli
who served in t' e West Indies been wiz( d with it,
who had the pestilential I'ver in that comet-T. Its
rava.i'es here have been dreadful within these sit 1
weeks. One third of the population of the whole 4
place has been carried off by it ; a most unearallel- a
ed instance of mortality, in to short a time.
I shall here add a correct list of the Officers dead
of the fever up to this day, as my other letters may
not have reached you, and there are additional deaths
daily :
ariear General Barnett, Seeond in Command. The Wight
Han, Lord Nitwit Aid de.o insp to ditto. i.n
Par unsge, Town. Major vi the Garrison. Ceram I)auing, i
Acting Conimi,;ars.
Royal Artillery —Captain Adge, Briged Major; Li.natestaina
Pi itcluvd and Ilan.
24 Regiment..—Caßtain Jcimiton, Lieutenants Smith and
Clough, Ensigns Griffith and Coldstream.
Nth Regiment.—.Lioutenant &holey, Warmer of Pubsa
•
to,h Regiment —Lieutenant Gleed.
lath Ri.gim.-iit.—Lieuten.o.!N Fattcr.iiin, Brown, Mason,
a d

54th Reg'r,ent.—Major Bellew, Lieutenant Macpherson',
Euapt Duo all.
De R011e.% Re, me .t —Cautal:s Joseph De La Volt. ,13.1r.a1,
Pla:h man , and X. M.-otz.,:, Ertl nJaheuD Cluiten. Lieut.
F,atien Altaubourg, Surgeon DesguerrAs, A.sittalt Surgiusa
Lai•nn

OCT. 28.
The fever still continues with unabated vio
lence amongA the troops ; the deaths are abeui
,:iiriy daily in the differelit regimen, s. Lieut.
loden, of the 2.(1 Regiment, died last night.
v:as not ill Abovo t wn days.

The Rom3rre Couricr, of 01, 14th of April, 1804.
says, We Are c meerned to state, that the appre-
hensions which have loug been entertained for the
safety of the ship Faaas, Captain ROlll rsoN.h:tve
beht fully ; a letter having been received
from that gcritlernep, dated Malacca, 15th of Fe-
bruary, in which if communicated the tonl loss
of the ship in quesii together with her cargo,
n the 11 tith of Noeember last, havintr struck on
a reef in lat. 9, 41 N. un her passage to k.hirse.
114.. r forrm ist, rudder, starb-rard main-chain,
main-topmat, Stc. wore lost in a typh:Km on the
September, and the following .tay the chip way
diiven on the coast of Hainam, and from thence
round the Paracels. We have not yet been made
acquainted with any further particulars."

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1414FAL INTELLIGENCE.

'PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 10.
Arrived, and came into harbour, the .4.ltauit gun-
vessel, with the hebpie.—Sailed the Sara,-en sloop,
Capt. Beauchamp, on a cruise.
Sir Isaac Coffin yesterday rehoisted flag on
board the Gladiator. Sir Isaac has been attending
as a witness against the libel on the Admiralty
Board.
The DP490,1. of 74 guns. Capt. Gr;ffith, which
had just undergone .t most complete repair, liai
been on shore off Portland. She was ordered to re-
turn to this port ; but we understand her damages
ate so great, that she was obliged to go to Ply-
mouth, and that she reached it with difficulty.
The Inconstant frigate, Capt. Dickson, has made
the signal for convoy to the West Indies, for which
destination there are about 50 ships candled.
Arrived the Isnkr'la, Kelly, from Tortola ; Brook
Watson, Ewe, —, and Industry,
outward-bound vessels for the Downs. Wind S.
PLYMOUTH, OLD. 9.
Arrived the Pha'nix frigate, from off Ferrol, with
the Go ',piing, Thompson, from Cadiz, which she
has detained.

TA MOUT 11, DEC. 8.
Arrived the Lndy Arabella packet, Porteus, with
Mails from New York, 42‘..? days pas ige ; the Quern
Caarlotte packet, Mudge, had sailed from thence a
few days before the Lady Arabella left it, with mails
for Halifax ; am sorry to barn the escme of La
Sirbelle and La Didon French frigates, which went
out of New York through the passage called Hell's
Gates, in the night, at which time the edindrian and
Leander frigates were lying at Sandy Hook,who, on
hearing the intelligence, went immediately in pur-
suit. It is said at New York, that Jerome Bona-

parte is on board LI Sybeile, and that the two fri-
gates arc bound to France.
Also arrived the Aar/.Lund packet, Skuyler, with
Mails from Lisbon, six days passage ; left lying in
the Tagus the Towerrod packet, Dodd, which car-
ried out the Mails from England. As the Mail of the
efualand is to be fumigated, no letters will be deli-
vered out till to-morrow ; cannot learn that they
bring any particular news.
Part of the homeward bound Lisbon and Oporto
fleets passed this port for the eastward.
This morning the four following vessels belong-
ing to the fleet came in here :—viz. Lay, a, Rowe,
with fruit, from Lisbon ; Pyre. Ford, Ge.oge, Car-
man, and Esztalle, Burcham, from Oporto. Also
arrived the fferhrie, Harrington, from Hull for
Goree ; lYclastry, Lake, for Lisbon; Hype, Davies,
from Cork ; and Ltdastry, Newman, from Chep-
stow.
His Majesty's ship Eurydice, of 20 guns, sailed
yesterday morning with about twelve sail under
convoy for Lisbon and Oporto.
His Majesty's ship La Poulette, 20 guns, from
Oporto (having parted from the fleet), arrived here
on Friday evening last. Wind S.S.E.
DEAL, DtC. 10.
Arrived and sailed for the River the London
packet, M.D,ugal, from Philadelphia.
Arrived the Alert sloop of war, from Dungeness ;
Chompit.e, .4otelo;e, and r Amiable frigates; Arab,
Dert, and the 01 vacs sloops of war, from a cruise;
and remain in the Downs, with the Monarch, Ardent,
and ittfleilPe men of war ; Led.' and Castor frigates ;
Curlew, Esgenie, Spy. and Harp, sloops of war ;
PM, err, Lwritir, Pllesno, Discovery, Poe,,, Devs,to-
tion, Zehro,Toetocus, and risesver bombs ; a fleet of
gun-brigs, and the armed defence ships.

FRONT LLOYD'S LIST.
Ga trrsrwe, Dv 19 —l',sseri by lb. Friends, ForLte.,
from Riga ; Britannia, Drown, from Guernsey Johanna larer-
trcks, Grrv, from !Whoa ; yu -en, Dymnii.l, and the Alt-
coin, Garninuis ,• from Lisbon. Sailed tit Friendship, Strain
and the Poncess of W.iles. Sinclair, for Jansaka ;
Rubiee, fur C.xls; Stag, Willett, fa Guernsey; OarLai,a,
Albert; and the Twen.l. Kr d. r, Rye, fo, Amsterdam.

Letters from Alexandria, of the 17th Septem-
ber, mention, that the situation of Cairn is fright-
fid, and impossible to be described ; the inha-
bitants etny,rating, or wandering about in great
numbers, i...d cultivation entirely negleCted. Alex-
andria is represented as being about to experience
the same miseries. All the villages of Egypt are
ruined, and want seed for the ground.
I Communications of some importance were on
Wednesday received at Dublin Castle, limn London.
Two expresses arrived within an hour of each other,
Laving travelled through England with unexampled
rapidity.
On Sunday night, as the Liverpool Mail Coach
was coming to town, one of the horses became i es-
live and unmanageable, and slipped his harness;
the other horse taking fright, ran for near two miles,
when the coach was overturned by Chalk Hill, near
Buckingham, and broken to pieces. Two passen-
r ers that were inside miraculously escaped uehurt.
Cie Mail was finwarded to town by the Manchester
Mail Coach.
CAUTION TO Wimp:elm—The Commissioners
for building a Pier at Sheerness, in the Isle of Shep.
py, have given notice, that they have eredcd a cer-
r•ain part of such pier or wharf, jetting out into the
River Medway three hundred feet, westward, from
the town at the .outh erd of His MA.rtst r's &wi-
tsard and mast-pcnd at Sheerness ; and have also
construded in that part of the River (commonly
called or known by the name of the Lappch in the
r.arbour of Sheerness), a tide pier, twenty feet
wide, and of the elesation of zwo feet above the
ooze of such River, which is attached to the said
pier or wharf, and runs out nine hundred feet
therefrom in a western diredion from the said
town, on the said Lippe], into the river, down
to low-water mark, and therefore renders it impro-
per for any vessel to sail over or anchor near the said
tide pier (there being no depth of water for vessels
of more than four tee draught) when the tide is
over the same. Mariners and masters of vessels
should take notice in order to prevent casualties and
dansages happening to their vessels or craft through
negligence in sailing across the said tide pier, or an-
choring near thereto, as we understand the said Com-
missioners will not indemnify any person or persons
tur or in resped of any damages occasioned to their
vessels or craft through getting foul or athwart of
such tide pier. The pier or wharf, and also the pa-
-1 rallel line and direction in which the tide pier lays, is
i distindly observed, and may be known at night by
a light on the east end thereof, near the town, which
.s ii.exl at the extremity of the said villa:::

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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FROM TUE PARIS PAPERS.

TILE POPE'S JOURNEY.
PARIS, !vomit)! en O.
We daily receive fresh accounts of the journey to
the Sovereign Pontiff. At Lyons, among the most
striking instances of the goodness of the Holy Fa-
ther, every one was affected in the most lively man-
ner on seeing hint support a woman borne down by
the weight of age, and step forward to meet a blind
man who came to implore his blessing. The fol-
lowing circumstance proves, in the strongest man-
ner, the religious enthusiasm of the inhabitants of
Lyons : A large boJy of the people, who could not
gain admittance to the Mass celebrated by His I ho-
liness, resorted in crowds to the Metropolitan
Church, when the service was concluded, to kiss the
steps of the altar where he had trod, and of the
throne where he had sat. The troops joined in the
respell and zeal of the faithful ; and soldiers were
seen displaying the most animated sentiments of
piety. A dragoon, who could not make the sign
of the cross with his hands, which were occupied in
holding his arms and his bridle, made it with his
sabre. General Duhem, unable to conceal the seri:
timent which was awakened in his breast by such an
affeeting scene, led his son to the feet of His Holi-
ness, and addressed him in the following words :
afo.r Hour FATULS,
Jesus Christ blessed the little children who were brought to
him; behold mine, whom Heaven has bestowed upon mc,and
who is devoted by me to the service of the Church and the Em-
peror.
The Sovereign Pontiff has been harangued by all
the Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military Authorities.
The following discourse was delivered by M. Bureau
Pusy, Prete& of the Department of the Rhone :---
MOST 110 LT FAIIIIR,
It was nut necessary that the actual autherities of the depart-
ment of the Rhone should he commanded by the Emperor to
manifest their joy at the presence of your Holiness; and the
reyecttul homage which they now offer to you is a tribute of
affection, rather than an act of obi:thence. You come, most
Holy Fishier, like another Samuel, to confirm, by the Leal id a
divine religion, a poser ai,,atly edablidi vl under the autho.ity
of another Da, i.l, who cal defend, avenge, aggrandise, panty,
and illu•drate hit country ; re.fttablish the he ~,,,, rs of the holy
ark, which has been so long profaned; re-assemble around
the tithe ruche the Levites, who hid been seoarand by the
vielenc- of opinions, or etisper,d by tae - agitations of anar-
chy; and who, by the continued wisdom of his admini•nra-
tine, jtotifiz.s the acclamations which have decreed the em-
pire to him, as the only reward worthy of hisvirtues and yen-
lid s-rvices It is be. your ha ris, must Holy Fath,r, that this
coeriahed chosen one of the Fri itch people will be enabled to
unite his own indelible character to that of the anoilited of the
Loral; and that, already placed under the safeguard of his ge-
n mi. of the laws of the State, and the lu.c of a grateful nation,
he will find hi power still further consolidated tin the imperish.
able basis of religion. lour Holiress, in dignifying tn he au-
gost ~,,, istiy the solemnity of that contract which is about to
be formed between Rue French and the zinperor whom they
have chosen, co operates in the benefit. exitected from this in-
stitution; and the eterna: gratitude. which we shall fcel fur the
dlintriutis Pontiff, olio is conic to cement our restoration, will
met Nies!, if it be ptes.hle, the profound veneration that his rank
and vittuie already inspire.
The Pope left Lyons on Wednesday, 6th Bru-
maire, at six o'clock in the morning. From Lyons
to Roanne, the toad was lined with the farmers and
peasants, who hastened born all parts of the coun-
try in their holiday clothes, and who prostrsted
themselves to receive hit holy benediction. Crowds
of people were also assembled on the declivity of
the mountain of *Farm e, where, from the steepness
of the ascent, they enjoyed a more distind view of
the Head of the Church. At Roanne, where His
Holiness siert, the principal persons of the place,
accompanied be all the inhabitants, pet seated them-
selves before the Holy Father, and having received
his benediEtion, ve:.e admitted to kiss his wet. At
five o'clock the Pope heard Mass, and deputed at
six. At ,s, at Cones, and at Montargis, where
the Pope .Dept the three following nights, the same
denumstration of religions sentiments burst forth on
beholding the common Father of the Christian
world. The Bishop of Clermont rendered his hom-
age to the Pope in the first of these towns, the
Archbishop of Anton in ti.c 'ecvnd, and the Bishop
of Orleans in the third.

Throughout his journey thf Prefects met him on
the boundaries of their relive: ,ve departments. At
the entrance of each n.wn or village, the Clergy, in
their choral habits, and preceded by the cross, ap-
peared on the side of the road, when the CIItAtCS
and the Mayors harangued his I litliness, the one in
Latin and the other in trench : some even in Italian.
The answers of the I loly Father were always deli-
vered in the respective languages of these addresses.
It is also to be remarked, that a man and his
wife, who had been married forty-five years, were
admitted to kiss the Pope's feet, when the hus-
band addressed his Holiness in a Latin discourse;
and, after having received the benediction, he de-
shred that this old connection was become more
dear and sacred than it had ever been. His Holi.
nets was pleased to smile at the expression of this
last sentiment. The physiognomy of the Pope
bears all the marks of paternal goodness, as well
as the grandeur ant: serenity of a celestial mind,
and did not fail to express, throughout his whole
journey, the lively satisfaCtion which His Holiness
experienced on beholding such marks of religion in
the inhabitants of this illustrious nation, which, dur-
ing fourteen years, has been honoured with the title
of tie Mast Chrgstran Slate.
_ .

Dispatches were received on Mon.lay from Lord
Nccsus, dated the 6th of November. They Can-
tain the pleasing intelligence of the whole of the !fret
being in perfect health.
Monday, a labourer belonging to the Vietualling
Office, crossing the water at Deptford, by some ac-
cident tell over the side of the boar, when he imme-
diately sunk, and was drowned, nntimithstanding
the endeavours of the watermart to save him.

A melanaoly accident happened near Lanus-
ter, between twelve and or.e o'clock, on Wed-
nesday morning last.—As Mr. Sviori Metes.
ea c6n, of Owliff-Hall, was returning home
with his neighbour, :,,r. Rs:li ID G MIDI/ L
from Neaten, where they bad been collecting small
tithes the day preceding, on crossing the bridge at
Townend Pool, he fell over the battlements into the
river, the tide being at that time rising. Mr. GARD.
NIA, who was walking a tew yards before him with
a lanthorn, immediately jumped in, and after some
time spent ineffectually to 6nd him, he alarmed the
neighbourhood, and on search being math:, the body
was taken out of the pool aolir :ince o'clock. his
supposed, that his death was occasioned by his fall-
ing on his *isle upon a stake in the water. The Cs-
toner's Jury's verdict 'A ss---Icriderttal Death.

PROM LAST NIGIFT'S GAZETTE.

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.

Contostuiceu it. the Middlesex Militia, stv,e.l by the Lord
Lieutehaue.
Royal Westminster Regimetit—H J. Hansard, Esq. to Le
Major; dated November 25, 1864.
Royal Eastern Regiment— —.... Adrianson, Cent. to be Lieu •
tenant date" November 15, 1804. Alexander Cameron,
Gent to be ditto; dated November 16, 1804. Thomas
Ilrotberidge, G •nt. to Se Emig i ; dated November 23, 1804
Western Regitnetit—.4. Crowther, Gent. to b., I....litenalit ;
dated November 15, 11104. William Leightoo, Galt. to be
ditto; dated as above.

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
JAcob :grad Even, of Brighton, Siti,ex, merchant.
BANKR VP I'S.

William Corbett, of Gray's-hon; London, money.scrivener,
to surrender Dec. 18, 29, and Jan. 22, at eleven, at Guildhall.
Attorney, Mr. Rob-rts, F.ly piece, Hol!ntrn.
Joaeok Danis, of geylishatit, Sonnneetsliire, tanner, to stir-
render 1.)..e. 20, 21, and Jan. 22, at eleven, at the Rummer
.f.kvern, istol. Attorneys, Mr. Edward Daniel and Son,
Wino! ; ant MeiSfi. Pearalgl. P inupavrut, Temple, London.
Daniel Diggs, now or late of Chipping Sodhury, Glouee-ter-
shire, liquor inerth.int, to suriender Dec. 20, 21, and Jai'. 22,
at eleven, at the White Lion, Bristol. Attorneys, Messr.
Jenkins, James, and Co. New Inn, London and Mr. George
Chiptiii.g Sidbury.
William Oadiliam, of Exeter, tallow-chandler, to surrender
Dec. 18, 28, and Jan. 22, at five, at the 1 lalf•Nloon Inn,
Exeter. Attorneys, Mr. R. E. Campion, Exeter.