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London, England, 1807-09-14 00:00:00

be restored.—The total loss amounts in k;11e1 3.
wound •d 674, mining

T, Right alottaurode the f.nrl Mayor "
A e-mmienicatinrs of this kind being gene, ,p,
rris le in haste. and the more expeditious the me.,
laudable on the par t Government, it would
most ?ungracious and invidious task to PI
critically. Tie public have only a right to exi , thak
it give a fair idea of the subst ince of e case. Ice
find. however, that the commonication i f &aut.,
day differs mrerially, in an essential point, tiom 7ba
Eltrfordmaeu Ulm fee; in ILL latter, our
is if
stated at 2500, in killed, wounded, and pri
sasien
while the letter to the Loan MAT•Je states it etl;
lat about I 'ZOO. The calamity, we admit. aceix.-ling to
either represeroatien, is sufficiently great and Ails
ing to require that it should he br ken to the
country with delicacy and judgment ; hut to a tatiNi
accustomed to measure danger with an stoclasete4
eye. and to meet it with an undaunted I ears, this
wilful under•rating of our loss, if such were really
intended. is a puerile idea, and only trifling rick
the Public. Such has been the unfortunate result
of an expedition planned and executed by Sir Hosea
Po PH•SI ; who, when tried for it as a crime by netko
' of the late Ministers, stated, in his defence, that it
was a crude idea, engendered in the mind of Mr.
PITT, 01 which he only undertook to be the 41(
roe, hear. Sir HOSIF, however, in addressing tie
mercantile intei est at Unites's, thought fit to adept
a different language., and took credit for himself as
the sole author of its being Indeed, we di. not wish
to refuse him his full shale of merit; nor would we
be sorry to si e him receive its full reward There
is not a South-Sea whaler who could not land upon
some point of South America, and sack tome
little Spanish village. Sir Hosts POrll A w had s
fleet and army, and was able to aft upon a larger
scale, but the principle is the 32710, whether
plied to a great city, or a few fishermen's huts...._
The capture of Buenos Ayres has enriched Sir
HOME loeu An, but it has imp 'relished his coon.
try. It has tarnished the splendour of its arm
His purpose, perhaps, has been answered liy
taking Buenos Apes. The purpose of England
could only be answered by keeping it. But
the very day when the plunder of Buenos
Ayres was conducted by A tax Amore Davinsore and
his North Britons through the streets of London to
the Bank, ought to have taught England that she
could not keep Buenos Ayres. General WISITI.
LOCKS says, that the enterprise is fruitless, as t
hostility of the inhabitants is beyond all belief
Suppose the Freise'u had landed and bailed the town
of Kingston in Jamaica, and paraded all its treasure
through the streets of Paris to the national Bank of
France, would it not be natural to fear that the inhabi'
tants of Kingston would feel an hostility beyond ber
lief to the invaders,and a repugnance to live under Co 9
laws of those who reduced them to b gkary. The
French contrive these things better. They are Mr.!,
to have a party of friends in a place before they at.
tack it.

A Gottenhurgh Mail arrived on Sarnrday, hot
one of a more recent date having been previously
received, its contents are of inferior int-r,21. e
have extratied from it an account of the evacurt-
tion of Stralsund by the Swedes. An article from
Stockholm, of the '2Bth of August, state;, that the
RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR had delivered a Note to the
Swedish Government, in which it was declared,
that if assistance were rendered to the Br:tids
fleet, or any p:srt of it admitted into the ports ri
Sweden, it would be considered as a c'eclaration
of war, and that the Emperor of Russia unu!.l
march an army into Finland. Private Team ail,
that Admiral C •ss Eat had sent 100 transports
to convey the Swedish troops from the isle of Bit-
gen to Sweden, and a frigate for the accommo-
dation of his SW141;11 MAJESTY.

Yesterday morning Ills MAJESTY, Princeton
AUCIAT A, MARY, Sorxta, and A maim', went to
St. George's Chapel, Windsor, attended by Lidy
1. Turmmt. Sec. and heard a sermon. by'Vr.
D.oswoatrt, 110,13 the Stli Chapterof kfrttfew, the
I I th and 12th afterward' rode to Frnunpore.
whne toey were met by the Quatro and Princess
FLIZABEIN. His MarasY dined there. rbe
Roy •t. Fesitcy returned to the Palace at three
o'clock.

All the Foreign Ambassadors here received
patches from their different Courts on Friday oar.
i
MR. SMITH, the brother to Sir S v r •.f'•, has lately
bad a .n of 150th. it zrr, hro.
A Mi•sseinger left the I 20.4 LUU. b. A kin As. ir^e,
at twelve o'ci-ck, on S.t,litJ 4y I,g ;., •-
patches f 1 Pc.rtura:; I. • wl.l
fir :4A t: EL 'NCH 41.1 It arrive I es ci d.of lit-
ing Ki na,tt's Hotel, Lower ISrauic,:tezti
P.,rtsnimith.
Sarni& m rning, a fire broke out at the Vaiirl
and rope t.oe Wows. n.ar beinnitioji "
we to •ers ~id, to Sr I. All Lcs P.. Ica und
T e damage suststred is cstimat.d it go.oool.
The Hrk1111:11 e,cary d syr;th little injury
PAr MICE 4...111L1NF0R 0 BRIMS, Li of the city of
Lualosi. is rem. ea to serve in the present fad,
',brat for t e bn.ough of Dundalk, in the room .4
/USIA% Duran PORCHES, E:q. who being
r torn.igh, and also tut Old Satial, nude as
deaths to serve lot Old Sarum.