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standing the sterility of 'Finland in itself, no cc.
quisition which Russia could make in the most
fertile or beautiful climate's of Europe, no conquest
on the Lower Danube, on the coast of the enxine,
or even nu the Bosphorus, cast be of equal value
to ALEXANDLII, with the permanent possession of
Swedish Finland. A Prince, whose capital is situ-
ate on the extreme edge of his vast dominion■ at
the head of the Baltic, was never in safety at Pe-
tersburg!). while the Swedes could, in tea days,
march from their own frontiers to the Banks of the
Nerd. We all remember the terror of CATHEIII Na
11. in 1789, when GebTAVUS 111. besieged Wy-
burg. at seventy iniles distance from Pctersburgh,
'and when the thunder of the Swedish artillery nay
helm./ in the Russian capital. 130NAPARTE has
gita:iiiiteed the whole of Finland to his ally, and it
i• impossible to perform a more acceptable service
to that Monarch or to the empire. It will strongly
operate to diminish the unpopularity of the inter-
view at Erfurt. while it consolidates. rounds, and •
strengthens the Russian territory, where it was
moat vulnerable, in the mule proportion us it
weakens and eXpONtli Swtden. We shall retain) to
this interesting subject anon. There remains much
to be said upon it.
A paper or yesterday stated, that Ministers did
not send an answer to the dispatcher brought by
the Russian Officer, and the French Courier, but
' I merely gave an acknowledgment. Now Ministers
were infeirtned, on Friday morning, by a telegnephic
dispatch, that the Mesoengers were upon their road
to London, and they were at the house of Mr.
Dacia, the private Secretary of Mr. CANNING,
from a little after 11 o'clock, on Friday night, un-
til near 3 o'clock, on Saturday morning—and it
will be recollected, that Mr. Sll.ll Wall lint sent MI
to Deal, after the Messengers, until .0 II4: o'clock on
that day. If then Mr. Swam carried with bun a
mere acknowledgment of time receipt of the dis-
patches, upon a hat are we to siippose Ministers em-
ployed so mace time and deliberatim ? An uc-
knoirledginent would prolia.•ly be solicited by the
Messengers, and it is nut likely that Ministers
would refuse to grunt it. It will probably appear,
as we originally stated, that the Messengers received
en acknowledginent of the receipt of the dispatches,
and were. after deliberation, brut oil without an
;snifter, hut inat 'Ministers changed their minds af-
ter the foreigners; were gone, and dispatched Mr.
Suave with some ouch ceewer as that which has
been imputed to them. The Lieutenant whom
the Port Admiral at De:el had sent with the
Messengers to London, was not in his uniform.—
The foreigners mistook him for a constable, and
conceived that they were actually treated as priso-
ners ; and this mistake, as the officer did not un-
derstand French, was cleared up by were accident.
This little anecdote *hews the great care and cir-
eumspection necessary to be used on such rem
Had not the mistake been explained, they
would hare reported. on their return to France,
that they had been tce fled with insult. They nod
experienced • a tempestuous and dangerous voyage
to this country ; and on their departure. for Bou-
logne, appeared to go on board with considerable
rcluctance and apprehension.

Yesterday, His NlAJLarlf COllll6l, WHO plefteed
to further prorogue the Peril:loom', from Tuesday,
the tat day of November, till..,vvu uaderstand,
Thursday, the Si.a day of December. •

The Loan MAYOit well tills ti..y hold a Conn of
Common (.onisei!, at t•+elst c).l,omi
to receive llir NiAJRSTY.S alinwer 10 their late Ad-
dress, and other business.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when Capt. Hoak* items was
sworn iota the commas,' of she 'Big 'loyal et/ar-
bour, con. igned to China direct. The Cua rt
jourusel at ens o'clock till Wesluesday 'Fest.
Blispatchee were received, yesterday, by (;over. -
meat, announcing the march of Sir J. Moue); to
Spain, with 20,000 OCR.
The remainder of our troops at Lisbon will im-
rnerhatoly be dispatched into the Nlediternineals, iu
the transports ready to receive them.
A letter from Lishen, dated gth nett. states, that
a Portuguese vessel, !whet' wile fruit for London,
had been prevented from sailiag, owing to accounts
having been received of Algerines being oa the
coast.
It is reported that seven vessels, bound to Helige-
land, and live from the Baltic, are captured by a
French privateer.
Letters have been received from Koningsberg,
dated the lath of October, which state, that on the
day berme as express had arrived from Erfurth with
two sets of dispatches, addressed hy Cnssiesusav
stud Ronsnzom to the Prussian Minister for Fo-
reign Affairs, in which the French and Russian
Ministers required, in the name of their re-
spectite Sovereigns, that the King of Pnussis
should prohibit., m the least strict and effectual
manner, all intercourse with the British dominions,
and that all ships which had been detained, in con-
sequence of having come from England, should be
coudemned.
According to letters from Petersburg)), of
the Ist instont, an embargo has been laid on all
vessels in the ports of Bessie, in consequence,
it is said, of its having 'win" diecomered, by means
of intercepted letters, that most of the property
of late brought into Russia by neutral vessels 'be-
longed to British subjects. Some aceounti say, that
the embargo was only of es five days duration;
but the letters of the latest date state, in positive
terms, that it still continued ; and that about forty
ships were detained et Petersburg'', among which
were two or three Dentzic vessels, and several Ame-
ricans.

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Tuet,thty morning 111% MAJESTY, the Duke of
KENT, Prinetos+4e% AUGUSTA Mud AMELIA, a,cont-
ponied by Lords Won't:4moAu and Atoms'. Ge-
nerik flaacottirt and Ferzanr, Colonels Des-
ettuw :mud Tar Loa, and Lady G. MUIMAY, took
an airing iu Windsor Great Park, and returned at
13 o'cloek to the Ware.

On Tileslity Mr. Rose arrived in town from his
rear ut Ctifriols, ia
Monday iii4ht the Priime of War.rs arrived at
Windsor on ■ visit to Their MAJrs-ri vs.

Mr. FORDYCE and family armed in Whitehall,
from Acton, on Sunday.
Madame C STA LAN! :$ eltrof4.4 to perform in
the Opens of Starir,pniJ.., at tic Glasgow Theatre.
on Monday next ; mid het aecOnd appearance wall
hr on Weilne,iiiiy next. The boxes are nom to
half-is-guinea ; the pit to *nee shillings; and the
gallery to live.
At the Hovmarket Theatre, lest night, Mr.
COOKE'S Sir l'ertimax iliac Syeophaat, Matt...
t.t,t's Comedy of The Ilion of the World, reteive.i:
the most unbounded and:inst.. It was a most ini. '
,actable performance. Mr. COOKE has lecovered
from his lioarieliews, and never appeared to more
advantage. The play went off with great
,The Musical Farce of " We Fly by Night" fol-
lowed, with much pleasantry.
Mts. JORDAN came forward last night at Drury-
lane, in the favourite !sort of BO:were, in I' AR-
OrNAK'S. Comedy of Tice Inconstant ; Of,
Way to scar him. She never looked bettsroor
appeared in higher spirits; and dispialed Iprr un-
rivalled vivacity, Windt:due:es. and gohli humour,
with the most encits;ritiny effect. She was admi-
rably supported by Mr. DAIII4IBTIIII in Damsel,;
they kept the audience in continued peal,' of laugh-
ter. The ploy went off with Brett success. Blae
Beard followed, with ail its attractions, of singing,
daueing, spectacle, and music.

has to sad from Surinam on the 4th joust.
The William, of Poole, HOOKE, from London,
for Newfoundland; the Berwick ',ticket. JAMlttedS,
of ditto; Teo liroillers, Jamul-it, of .Arundel;
Spamish Jitisea,lllllllltlr, from Loudon, for 11111111411;
the Jame, rcu*i.e, from Looiloii, tor Liverpool ;
and several other roosters and colliers, lone pot
into Rainsgate, with the loot u: anchors and cutolos,
and other
About a year live, a man of the mime of 1)...
add wus arrested for debt, and otter putting. in
Lail to de action, utistondsd. Lill. were Fowled
about the metropolis, sti:se.ing a ream d for •-pp.t.
hooding !Ilm, but his retreat it nut discovered till
iast Seindey inoraiisj, about t t • o'clotilt, when a
pulite officer and two constables asmt to the mare
' of ht. i meealnient, meet found him, and the woman
stul.ah:ted with, iu e, apartment on the rec.:owl
floor of it Lair-die-wees ia Creed-lane. T:ie party
havint taken the alarm, secured the door, rod the
lady held t deel.i ring, upon her hemmer, that
11'110,141J svottii .iirrender himself quiely if they
would only wait fa to-morrow and that in the
otiose time she would treat them handsomely. for
tleir I rtitariniee. Bin this reirionwounee tieing of
tin„sail. the pfsel.. hieNt open the door; alf‘Do-
itek made his escape out at the room, by dropping
from the v.indow into Holiday-yard, and what is
remarkable, alighted on his feet unhurt. He arta
not, however, aware that tan ron,tataies were waits.
in in the street to Mks tare If hint, and he was,
after malting ense.iiierable resistance, in which ha
nearly killed the first uixn that attacked him,
atfely conveyed to the Coat/ter.

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On Saturday eneroing His Majesty's stag-hnunde 4•• `' • °•_..... /11. • . were hunted with a uumeneta field of Noble-
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about ten o'clock Hear Broad Common, where
there wan a reinarkahly hoe deer torned mit of a
7HE COURT: tart ter the day's ()bunion. The deer went er
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with great seiftueta, and rentineed to roe upwards Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, His Meersee
arrived at • the of *it hour cud a half, priliciitally through the in-
Qutte's Palace from Wind.or , ,
clotraree towards the Themes. When he et near
where he ens received by the Dukes of Yoce,.
Windsor, he sheltered himself in one of the
KENT.CUtiIIeaI•AtIO, and Sussex. .4t two o'clawk.
• heights for some time. Several of the spOrtatGllll
ilia MAJESTY held a private levee, which was at- procured a boot, NUJ pat him upon die run again.
tended 11.....
He came one war tbe town of Windsor, end would •
Their Eeceliesteies the Swedish Asubassedont, the Arch-
bishop of Cauterhery, the Lord Prinodeut of the Council, have run through the town, but was prevectied WI
the rind Lord of tie. Timmury, the Lind lut'my Seal, the a numereus group of foot pursuers, which caused
three Secretaries of Stole, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, him to Mike to the hones again, which he crossed;
the Master General of the Ordnance, the President of the and took his touro' by Eton College. The teounted
Board of Trade, the Judge. Advocate the Marquis of
sportsmen in their purvait plowed through the
Douglas, Lord Ambeist. (iu waititig,) Centrals Harcourt.
(Groom in waiting,) Thornton and Nightingale, Admiral towns of Windom and Eta*. which highly emneed
Tyler, and Memos. Elliot and Eawkener. . sod astonished the inhuhitunts. The youngGentlee
The following had the honour of being presented men of Eton College joihed in the sport. The deer'
to iris fIIAJF:sTV : was at length taken near Langley Church. Mrs.
Lieutenant Georrel Thornton, on his promotion to be Baker, a celebrated horsewoman, was in the dune,
rd Major of the First Regiment of Guards. , . anti continued during the whole hunt ; she was era
Ilugh Elliot, Ewe opus his being appointed CaptaimGe-
Iceedingly well mounted, and rod* very well. She
meal and GeIICMIN of the Leeward ldends.
Brigadier General Nightmgele, upemhio return from Per- took the leaps as well as any Goodman in the
legal, and leave of almemee. hunt.
Admiral Tyler, who brought the Cassias Fleet to Es.g. . -.--
laud, by the Earl of Caniest, upou.llol pluinuttue sod return SHARPERS. i
from admit. —.mom.—
The 3litiquis of r Joe., upon his return front St. Peters- At the late Cattle Fair, held at Lonemeter. Melitter, it
Lurch. creduloes farmer, from Yorkshire, easseiadlad oat aaboat
Iles Excellency Le Chevalier de Brinekeseens, the Swedish 571. by two !palms travelling sharpers, a tie WINO of Wag.
Anilusaador, by Mr. Quoting. After which, hie &teaks," tosaa•Haldiag, is the following rammer :-...litaltua picked ,
hail api ii•ate andlenre of His Majesty, awe delivered hie ere- VP • "Tev-abillivP piece lu the ad,/ dad tie Oben Nrcalavi
dentiats. He was most 'viciously received. was standing, mid asked hist if it we,, his! be oat owateg
Le Chevalier LEA GLERasau, the late Swedish it, the Sharper asked him to ge turd assist WM to egreseilt•
which he agreed to, end they west to so Ins for diet per-
Ainha,...a.lor, took leave of His MAJESTY. previous • •
Pen, where they were Juiced by Molding. Tim WO
to his learint/ England. sharpers began wagering ahem gemming at a befpery emir
His Me-terry held a Privy Council, and gave a put ; the trick answered, cad the pew steempeetleii
andieaces to the Duke of POITTLA PI D, the Cabinet gourd he. ill vateeladvs4 lest • vvm lag new" f••
Ministers present, the Marquis of DOUGLAS, and ttillielemtrk.htetijheYprodPrZe site
i te..miltitilerm Imoninf biStiga ewhits
i Mr. RYDER., the Judge Advocate, who laid bef.re des
of half-an-hour sad W. Shaw write eureseity isi .
rsMeat
His MAJESTY the proceedings of some Courts aa to go out anti borrow a earn et mosey fee Ilk $
Martial. be of coos,* wire the ample ; this, however.
About seven o'clock His MAJES rY set off on vbalPers. purpose, all Hief sbAsireed saachelet botorledlo low
to proceed with l oodog W. • pa* of cads woo dam his return to Wiedsor.
prefaced, and they roulade, to wager open autiog deo
amoomn=ossm
.:: . cards, Le.: at this Mr, Shoo cost all the rash fed totes MPOETRY. • bad Willa pockets, sad was Mealy sodltdreweety
----00--- „ dead mod itteasaions, as to Mayo its be a actiouliell=
EDWARD AND ELLEN . or, THE Wogs eacittsn. int p late the pair to borrow mon Moan, to pound tattle
A eAr.t.sia:•
.. •_ . tlelo bra/ten ;be returned to tbe Ampere, awe eatideme
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• •• 71. - ' ' . Lim rooms) coodifet *with three Mire bed lost aa bit own
Blue eyes had lovely Wok
nsopcyosed what lit "ad borrowed. amorist/0n be die dap"
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• inns of -e7l. To keep op the phuseible Wait*,
And she bad yellow heir. -.' ~ •• ''' " the erotted. eetrettemet,e if Mr. shaw=apsekt up tile
No maiden in the valley. i' l seven-shamus pews is the fair, presorted to bee ilicenais
With Ellen could waiver,. • ' , lost a considerable ma of sway, ea which enamor be
cried, sad appeared to great entree * his Mae;
And Ellen bad a temkr heart, Holding, who had watt all the cowry, side off "see t
To hive and Edward true; lan. lir.alwir mg Woo Su relllgia-aablf4lo. lail
• • i ••1 hi oforacs, end arsomositabud all*
And Edward was a seaman bold,
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The boldest of the crew. passe to some friends, wow diseimened *sett% 0841 bey
vent in permit of the abarpere with o Cpaissitla Mgt •
But be mast part from Elko, • , lore search they found them at • path* loreas, la *
And face the ~my sea,pre
rate room, in the art of *Abair Its lately.
be
tattoo haute a Magistrate and eemetiline-dhe • be
Fur Edward was a 'esteem bold
~ the c sole, to take ebele Met at lb. tosiodec Lobes, it
On board the Victory. \mime hire prom d that the cards they swift; apes woo
He eual.l have said " Farewell'" prepared so tL..t the dupe must toe egreently lege.
But Edward could nut speak; Yesterdai the Cabinet Ministers tlicted with the
Asa Am I. silence laved away Duke of PoiSTLAND at his house is Pieeedilly.
The true from Ellen's cheek. Dr. MAISEL is to be consecrabre Bishop of
And row he's to the battle gone, Bristol, on Sanday, as Lambeth-pekces by the
That ramose Geld t• are, Archbishop of CASiTTIRSURY.
When Ntloon eon the lona' We arr requested to contradict a Attl'aPit
Ou baled the Victory. which we copied from a Morning Paper of tin-
day, statakg the death of Mr. R. Dice, of Bury And n proud but bloody chre it reed,
the arena:it a utterly: false.
For die news has rtseli'd the shore,
How Nei: We died for Eastland, The'friends of Cl/2-opley are mach diesetiefied with
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his second - and bOttleltobler. They ere confident
With mane a hundred mine! that he wowed have beaten Tum,Belc. erVaff.hand,
Awl assay a Maid acid Widow had he been properly attended to.
fa sorrow bang the head, Mr. HOoKE'S ilea pier! has been several times
And many a little Orphan melons vehearsed at Drury-lane Theatre. ikirar Oasts
A valiaut Father decd. has resigned the part intended tot hdr to Mrs.
But pretty F-Ilen--does she run, 1.1 A GLOW E.
%Vim' the Dees Isms reach'd the shore' Three pigeons were sent offer Lostulem coon the
She fears to rue, she ham to Lear field of battle, on Turefar, to aunounce the rte.,
That Edward w uu mere l tory of Cribb. The A .ght of these birds wan beau-
He is so more! mud Ellen tiful; they at the ont.et tkoicrilierl circles in the
Has Nerd the deadly tale,-
air, rising higher end' higher, until they fettnd
their proper ohieet, for which they darted off like
No longer gentle Ellen moves
an arrow shot from a bow.
The envy of the vale.
Tim Ben Lomond, Rum, from London for Rio
Dim are her eyes with weeping. Janeiro, has returned to the Downs with the hose of
And wild her yellow hair; &Inchon. and cables.
And the teadei heart that was me tree, The Hasearea.M4 FA RT.AN E, from the Clyde. for •
le broke., with despair. St. Thomas'a, has put Mt* Liverpool, with the loss
Crown-street, Wewmineter. E. M. of foremast, &v.
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The liithliiij, Meecete, from the Clyde for
Tuesday morning His MAJESTY, the Duke of neligolend, is 10-t on thee coast of Mother:4mi.
Keeer, Princesses A ueccre and Amebae, thwoist- 'file ih•others, Lite Es amS, front London for
ponied by Lew& Wet Itenitell and Atoms'. Ge- Malta, it curried into Dover, haying parted from
tweak liaaconirr and Frrzanr, Colonels Des- her cables 111 the Downs, tool carried awuy her
a Itio W ...a Tay wig, ....1 Lady G. Mutietv, took maiiittipagallont-unast.
an airing ill Ps illtiSer Great Park, and returned at The Douro, STEPAMMION, bound to London,
It o'cloek to the Palace. was to sail from Surinam ou the nth inst.