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London, England, 1809-10-07 00:00:00

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Advicet from the Smith el France state, that
General Joins Kunkle°, who served in the Smallish
army, under General Rowena, in Diumerlt, but
who took no share iu the traitorous proceeding of
the latter, is raising a corps of Spaniards, consisting
ckiittly of Spanish prisoners, with which lie will
weedily march for Catalonia. Private letters from
Spain state, that Galliciaand the Asturias remained
tranquil, subsequent to the departure of Marshal
Ney for the Tagus. The non-arrival of thMisg-
hall grand expedition, which had so long been ex-
pected at Vigo. had excited mush dissatisfaction
among the inble ;ems.

INDIA. •

MADRAS, NAT O.

We understand the principal part of the Parkets
rot the Hon. Company %hips Streatham, Europe,
Earl Sprnrer, ukul 3lunarch, which hare been lying
at S2lll'4llr, fur some time, under dispatch, will be
..eot off from tow,' on Saturday or Sunday next ;
the final l'“ekets will follow a day or two alter-
wards.

The followiwy is a more correct it of passengers.
provoedueg by the shin♦ under ,lispattli, than uuy
other which b,ss yet appe.ired ; we ure aware, how-
ever, that it is still incomplete :

Per rlgular ship h,—Ca,tain nvl.ton :
Mn.. Wright, !Ifni. Heim, Captain Bean, ul II M. 174
nt, A. Wright, Erg. Civil Strv,cr, Ceeil Smith, F,..%
inicas t.tnl Service, slid Masters Smut, and Lilmistion.
i'vr reiguilar shit Sirersihunt--Cdpt am I )tile
Lestbart, 26th regiment N. I. Beagtl Estab-
lishment. _ _

Per extra ship Earl Speurer--Capt4iii /Cr-
avat;
Lieutenant Charles Dudiagtou of H. M. 17th regiamest of
font, arid Lieut. Laogslow.
Chttdrea duos Beason, Isabella Duotrer 31se-
grreur, Derslem, aid Charlotte heefued.—.Masters tV.
M.Bffsa, Andre., Felll Robt. Guthrie Macgregor, Joh.
Su, sbrto , anl Geo. Seaford.
1 o ear C8..,,te or Good Hope and St Helena B—The Ho-
staursats J. It. f,aploutsong, aid Major S.lll' Rangrace.
I'.•r c7ttr4 B.lBBiB Lord Keith—Captain Catnip.
hcll

Emig"' Staidey, Mr Gordon Menu, Mr. R. C Pritchett.
Clati.treullaster James hamonn, Misers Jane end Cbas,
lotte Chas Adman, sad Jena Forgessuo.
Per extra ship Munasch--eept. Hewer:-
- Sirs. Johanna, Mr. U. Johnson, tilargeo• sth 11. C.; Ea.
silts Walter Kodre, of the In Battalion 17th ti. 1. ; Mr. A.
Strwirt, Cadet.
Cliikketo..lTisses &Ilia Perkin, Eliza Templatua, sad
Arabella bletelineson.
The Captain*, and corns of the Passeagers by
these ships, hare already left town.

VLACH 22.

On Wedneealay last arrived the brig 11eifits Su-
nsets. She left the Isle of France with seven pri-
soners of war who were allowed to proceed from
thence on their parole. The resael saLs under Bur-
nigh colours, and proceeded first to Acheen. cud
thence to this port.
Be the &dente arrival ere are itiformed that the
blockade of the Miniri.iit had been very strict, ef-
ft cted by the Re;tunabist, 64 guns, Captain Row_
ley, the Leopar.l. 44 suns, the Nereid &vitt.
'terrier, Misr. and Characcll, sloops of war, gild 6
cutter,, The Rsibuselde, lessrever, had left the
stAtltaand it was supposed had ri turued to the
Cape.. with a number of prisoners of war on hoard.
Eleven. pnecit. taken in the Indian Sear. were at
anclitht; at Bourbon, and the Le ;Mach. sent
thither to protect them, had arrived in safety in
tim: nitro road ; where, protected by the batteries
shore, she W:46 inacessitile to attack. It
was Ahtught, that, as the season of the liniticslies
was npairoaching, the ships would be titahged to
conic Ott, ita the anchorage is not safe iii stormy
weather. If therefore our squadron can keep the
sena; there is greet reason to think these prizes will
newer reach the Isle of France.

A small vesol had arrived at the Island, from
in September last, with in4ortnwt dies
patches. part only of their contents had trans-
pire/1; no cocetirrutees in Spain, later than June,
were published ; and no account whatever was
git en of the insurrection in Portupl.
A large schooner had arrived in December, in
three months from Narita. Tim intelligence she
br.itight Wll4l kept secret.
European articles were at an exorbitant price,
hats hiring 40 dollars, and all other articles in pro-
portion. Provsions were also extremely scarce.
A loan had been obtsinial by the government
fro:n the merchauts, at two payments, and the bills
transmitted to France; of three Bonaparte had di-
reeled the first hills to be paid, hut considering
tlw ipe.niei a< not having been required for the nc-
eemtiries of the Island, their acceptance had been
refused. errimis, v•acti_3o, 1809..

A detachment of 170 men, formed from the
Ceylon Cavalry, the limit regiment, and 3d Cey-
lon regiment, the whole under command of Ma-
jor Maitland, marched front Colombo for Aripo,
the latter end of last mouth, to form the guard for
the pearl fishery of the present Newton.
A new bank, *hounding with the richest pearl
oysters, loci been lately dimenvered, and is to he
fished this spawn) for the first tune. A he t of va-
luable pearls, is, of course, rspi med.
We arc happy to oluierve the increasing success
of V•wriwktion, oil the !slated of Cerlon. In an
c.rficial report, cominnnicided by Dr. (Amalie,
Mrdiral Superiiitendant-Ceneral un Ceyloss, dated
the 32.(1 ultimo, it appears, that, (luring the yen'.
1808, the her of patients vaccioatell ou that
'shut, amounted to g6,v07, which exceeds the pro-
portion of any former year, and makea the whole
untidier vaccinated, from the Iliad iutroiluctioa of
the disease in Ceylon, in 1803, automat, up to the
end of 1608, to 103,036 persons.
The dreadful ravages which the Small-Pox
usually committed on Ceylon, previous to the intro-
duction of Vaccination" Dr. Christie observes,
" must he in the recollection of every one;" and
he has asoqtaideil, that" thnt dreadful malady has
lint existed in any part of the British possessions,
im Cet Mo. during the yeur 1803, etteePt in the
district of Galls, into which it was brought on the
:It of January, by is Muldivian boat from Bengal.
A large proportion of the crew of the Inuit died,
and the disease was cowsitionicated by a dsherman
who visited it, ou its drat arrival, to two or three in-
liabitonts in the neighbourhood of Gallia, but
aprend no further, which moat he attrihnted chiefly
to the favourable itienerrre of vaccination, which
dies been an esienrively diffused so that and the
wetter districts of Cry Ion."
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