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London, England, 1807-10-27 00:00:00

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The following is a copy of a letter to his C•.e.e
the Duke of Marl'aureugh, freer: Lord Hawkesbury,
one of His Majesty's principal Secretaries of Skate ;
Whitehall, O. 40, 1007.
MY LORD—The greet and obvious advantagi to the pub-
lic service, which mod nueramily result from completing the
new lames for the Klima with the utmost polemic dispatch,
induces me to call your Grace's attention to this important
subject.
Although the L.gislative, with a ♦iew of preventing, as
muco as p e,i►le, the hardship which would naturally be frit
from a baAiit for these levies taking place, upon imperfect
list* of persomi liable to serve, has thought lit to sanction an
extension of the period of 'thee months within, which the
county flumes were originally required to be raised, in seine
case► to four, and in others to five months ; and although it has
been provided that the penalty of G:1. per stun for ev...ry man
of such quotas remaining deficient, shall not attich until the
expiration of such extended panda, yet it is appoehended
that few instances will occur where the due exertions of the
Depute Leutenants, and of the Officers by whore assistance
the provis,mir r f the late Militia Act are to be carried into
effect, may not be considered u adequate to the completing
the number of men monied to be raised, in a much shorter
time. .

Linder this impression, and with the fullest conviction that
nothing will have been wanting on the pan of your Grace,
which could tent to promote the early succe4 of this important
measure of national defence, I have to request your Grace will
acquaint me, for Hi. Majesty's information, what progress has
already been made towards its completion, within die county
under your Grace's charge.
I have also to desire that your Grace will inform me whether,
any, and what number of men were raised within your canoy,
firestone to the lit of this month; and further, that, during
the time this measure shall he ni progress, your Grace wit
cause to he transmitted to me monthly returns of the number
of men actually raises, and forwarded to the head quarters of
the regiment ; and so that such returns soy arum in this
Office by the lath of each month.
I have the hollow to be, my Lord,
Your Grace's most obedient horrible Servant,
IIAWKESEUR Y.
To Ms Majesty's Lieutenant of the County of Oafurd. •

THE COMPT.

(From the ibeimer.)

This natural phenomenon has *Maned the notice
of the Continent.ll Philosophers, who discovered it
several days before it was observed in Great B. itain.
M. Pons, belonging to the Observatory at Marseil-
les, was the first astronomer who discovered it in
France, nn the 20th of last month ; and M. ole
Thuis, o` the same establishment, noticed it On the
21st and 23.1. From the observations which they
communicatied to the astronomers of Paris, M.
Burckhardt determine! the following orbit, which
he presented to the Class of Mathematical and phi-
Insop'li•4l Sciences of the National Institute, on the
.sth of this month :—Passage to the Perihelion, 25th
September, $ a. nt. ; distance of the Perih -lion
0.6158: Pet ihelion 291'. 4'.; Nucleus 2G7`• 47'.;
inclination 48•. 4'.; 11/OVeTTVII dired.

These hints, says M. Burckhardt, will be suffi-
cient to calcukte the route of the Comet, but it
may be di,covrred without any trouble, as it is dis-
tinguishable by the naked eye as soon as night has
Limed. It is now (Sept. 25th) to the left of Arc-
haat, between the stars of the boreal crown and
t inse of to the west. Its motion is one de.
4rve per day towards the north, and rather more
than a degree towards the ea,t.
A letter from Munich, dated the Bth inst. says,
" On the Ist instant, a Comet was observed in the
north-wost of the horizon ; it is large, and rather
pale. Its tail appearing direlled towards the earth,
prevents a correa judgment being formed of its
length. Yesterday, at seven o'clock in the evenim,
that phenomenon again appeared. In the last cen-
tury three corners were seen, one in I:09, one in
1740, and the other in Mitt."

PROY4Dt.NTIAL ESCAPE.
The brig George, arrived on Tuesday se'anight in
Limerick river, from Now York, on her passage
mist providentially fell in with the Golden Rule, of
‘Vitcasser, from which the following most afiliaing
account has been receive!:

" The ship Golden Uwe, Captain Austin, sailed
from Wiscasset, for Liverpool, with a cargo of tim-
ber, on the eighth of S.'p.ember.—On the 129th of
the same mouth, in long. 36 %Vest, latitude 4$
North, she experieaced a severe gale Irons the S. L.
and at eight o'clock a. wt. we discovered she had
sprung a leak, and had four feet water in the hold ;
at nine o'clock it had increased to eight feet, not-
withstanding we had two pumps going, and were
throwing her deck load overboard, which we were
enabled to do very slowly, from the sea driving the
planks about the deck, and wounding the crew.
About ten o'clock the water had increased to twelve
feet. and the gale had evidently increased ; the crew
and all on hoard were coke exhausted, and, going
into the cabin, we fcund she was filling fast. The
main and mixen masts were now cut away, to pre-
vent her upsetting, and she was quite clear of her
deck load. At eleven o'clock she was full up to
her main deck, and all her bulk heads were knocked
away.
" ft now occurred to us to endeavour to save
some bread, and Mr. Andrew Boyd, the first mate.
with great resolution, went into the cabin, and gave
out some bread and two bottles of ruin ; but so ra-
pi.ily did she fill, from the timber of her cargo
shifting, that he was forced to break through the
sky-light to save himself. Our small stock of pro-
vision was now put tato the binnacle, as a secure
place; it had been there but a few minutes, when a
tremendous sea struck us, and carried away the
binnacle. We had now little hope left—the wheel
was brtiken, and we proceeded to secure ourselves as
well as we could, some in the foretop, and the rest
were lashing themselves to the taffrail ; before we
could accomplish the fitter plan. another sea, it
possible more heavy than the former. hurried us all
from our places, and washed two of our put r men,
John Hathaway. carpenter, and William Piercy,
seaman, overboard : they were seen swimming for
the ship a short Um, wheu a wave buried them
from our sight.
" We now endeavoured to keep the ship before
the wind, which we were enabled to do partially
through the night. The next day another of our
men died from cold and hunger. 'I he ship's deck
was now blown up, and her side stove in, and we
had all given ourselves up, when on Thursday, at
noon, we were ►oused by the cry of .1 a sail I" and
we had the satisfadion to see her bear down for us;
about three o'clock she came alongside; she was the
brig Crow, of Portland, and Captain Wildrislge
sent his long-boat, and tcck us from the wreck."