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CALCUTTA GAZETTE, 21st F ESAU Y, 105.

Camp at RArapnera, Nov. lg. 1804.
Sti-4 had the houcrir of cn nmunicatiing to ego no the
15tta 'tenant, the ey .c‘Lmon nt. Nanutin an 4 lagothar
;hot. by th" anew.% tin my hit •ntinn of role:ding
1.11.1,(1.4 ri-m Gr ,it Gtini Lrs a ef.tt`fe.
t.. !lore eolleLted a furi,e acid to amouot to two thesis-
.and own.
1 hie- it," the nlcalnee to seqoaint eon, the int:lrma-
'kin li 6 Excellence, the G that 1 .itrit, d
hdn-t, this yiare, at etv.-I,reak th.% morn,tte ; and as sonv.: of
Ole iithah,alt4 had c to nal camp th- night t.i ac-k
'trot -eh and infirwist^d ire that the ?rant .r part of 111.,11c•e.
trvw. -vaeualad the 1.11... e, I was loctined t suppose that I
;h•nilii hat met with no unpcnition.

• ,',11.16.11, however, to me expretaiion, the small parti, of
..bath I deeachtA towartir the gate*, and the )M
2.1 ail•toceil toes-4s the town, wur, hied
upon from the wall:, which torture' me to open a few gun. ua
ny, idaers, till ',mold hoer an opportunity of fixing u;ion
the louts of the wall most favourible fur escalade. At the
moment the advanced guard, conseriiig of the picluei.,
and 2d Battalion of the 21 Regiment, reinforced by the
:-fah regiwie it were on the point of ad.auci.ig, several of the
inhabitants c one out with artuianeer of Au,v.iii,sign, end t!in
mformatio,t that the gmall body of to...vs who h.d attempted
h ere %tier! Iv th- hills, and no further onpo.
tion isonld be atteniiiied. It is much to the credit of the
troops, arid to that of Major Crosier, of liis Majesty'. Beth
regiment, who commanded our .7'4 lonin, and of Capt.lmlaeh,
er the 24 reciment, who eiimmanded the 'nowt that this yee,
i rich, nth! pooul.his town sv-61, At in possession of,after resistance,
without the least appearance of plunder or disorder.

The Gart.ton retired to a high fatißerl kill, immeletely
a4nY-r the town, hot dol ood attempt to tierend ut. By th- tad
Rawyswriah the whole of liolkar's posus..onit MI the I.lt
ntaor tiw Chumbul, hare 611ci into the hand, of the arit'uh
Governcee it. I hate the hnnnur to be,
J. MURRAY, Colonel.

To Lieut. Col. Gem&

THE LITE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER.

of the various Princes of the. Blood Royal of
England, who possessed the title of Duke of Gun-
cxsr rR, his ;resent Highness is the only one who
has iiitteritel the title by immediate descent from
his tai!ier. The first who bore the title was ROBERT,
the nasisral son of King HENRY I. who made some
figure in the history of • those tinbilent periods,
heirs,. more than once in rebellion
King against his So-
t.
ver,og-s, Srsruen, the successor of his father,
with him the title, for a time, became ex...intl. The
next Duke of GLOUCESTER upon record, was the
Niece THOMAS PLANTAGENET, a younger son of
Eow sRD 111. and uncle ef King RICHARD 11. This
Royal Peer also made a cors2icuous figure in the
history of the day. and often appeared in aims.
with various success, against the King's 4tldlo.
rity ; being at length totally defeated and made
prisoner. he was confined in the Castle of Calais,
where h WAS shortly after, by the order of the
King, put to death, by means of smothering. The
next possessor of the title was the famous HUM-
PHREY Pf. ANT ACJERIZT, Duke of Gloucester: be
was the fourth son of HIER/ IV. and younger
brother of the renowned HENRY V. the hero of
A nincotirt. Thi Prince was commonly
th; apPelfaeerT i r the Good Oat Humpbres. He
was a conspicuous charader in the h story of his
day, and twice appointed Regent and Guardian of
the Realm, as well by the choke of Parliament, as
the appointment of his Royal Brother. This Prince,
at length, fell a sacrifi..o to the machinations
of his enemies, and Court intrigue. He was
strangled, with the connivance, it not by the
direetion, of his nephew. King l-1 cm ay VI. He
was buried in the great church of St. Alban's, in
which his shrine still remains the principal curiosity.
With him the title, for the time, became extina.
Its next possessor was the infamous Rtcsi ago
PLA NT Aocrter, younger brother of King Enw RD
IV. who conferred the Dukedom of Gloucester upon
him, on his accession to the throne, on the total de-
feat of the Lancastrians. This detested character
is better known as RICHARD 111. having obtained
the crown by the perpetration of the foulest crimes ;
the sanguinary Tyrant, it is well known, met his fa.e
in the battle of Bosworth. The title in question, by
the accession of RICIIARIP, merged in the crown,
and remained dormant a considerable time. It was
revived by the unfortunate CNAILLIS I. who creat-
ed his youngest son Duke of GxoucEsres. This
Prince died unmarred, soon after the restoration of
his brother, King CHARLES 11. The next Prince of
the Blood who was vested with the title, was
WtL-
t.IAM, the only son of the Princess, afterwards
Queen As:ne, by Prince Gement of DENMARK.
'Phis young Prince died before the accession of his
mother to the throne, in 1700. The title again be-
came dormant, until it was revived by his present
MAJESTY, who, in the year liti4, conferred it on his
second brother, Prince WILLIAM HENRY, the late
and deservedly.lamented Duke of Gt.:met:rte.

The Royal York Mary-la-bonne Volunteers,
yesterday marched from their parade to Nlotapelier
Gardens, Wa!worth, where they were inspected by
the Earl of BAn.URV. They afierwards fired for
two silver cups, value 201. The first was won by
Mr. ANTHONY, a private of the grenadier com-
pany, and the second by Mr. Junes, a private also.
They mustered 572.
The Somerset Hews Vulnnteers were insp.:fled
yesterday morning by Col. H•kr4 OE, in the square
at Somerset House, when, after passing in reviers ,
they fired ten rounds The Colonel expressed
the highest approbation at their soldier-like appear-
ance.
Saturday evening, a number of cars, laden with
copper pence and halfpence, silver six shilling, ten-
penny, and five-penny tokens. arrived at the Cus-
tom-house, Limerick. from Dublin. They were
brought by the Grand Canal as far .as slonastereven,
and from thence under an escort of the City of Cork
Militia, and hlaryborough Yeomen Infantry. Im-
mediately on their arrival thry were distributed to
the Paymasters of the different regiments in gar-
rison.
A blind man, near Herbst:Jr Bridge, 37 years of
age, has undertaken to walk betwixt Burnley and
Halifax, tutfrosa a gawie, twelve times in twelve days,
being twenty-two miles each day, fur the sum of
four guineas.
Early on Monday morning, the bank of Messrs.
Witson, Stolen, and Co. of York, was attempted
to be forced ; but a noise being heard by the clerks
who slept in the house, they fired at the villains out
of a chamber window, upon which they thought
proper to make a precipitate retreat.