The Sun.
London, England, 1808-10-05 00:00:00

Lisbon, Sept. 6, 1808.

OFFICIAL PAPERS. r.eniral
A LETTER written by the Camp: Marshal Heat
BERNARDIN FREIRE DR ANDRADA, dated at
Quarters at Ilfafra, the Gth Sept. contains the .1"
loiving, viz. :

I have the honour to transmit to your Excellencl
a copy of a letter Iron; General MuRRAY, which
r;
have this moment received, and which certainlY ,c:ed
responds with the opinion I have always entertain
of the condu& of our Allies. Our flag is hoisteuo
the Tower of St. Julian; and it is garrisoned by,0,..
regiment of artillery of Corte. The Admiral c
manding the Russians quadron has sent his
pliments on the occasion. And thus, Sir, I've 3)• the
under Providence, that nothing will
in
prosecution of our endeaVours, and the sincervesoci
• tendons with which so many men of hoar/100i'
probity have engaged in the service of 01%
and Country.-1 '&c.
A,6071,
corY OF A LETTER FROM Ggli. MURRAY,.
REFERRED
After my arrival in the camp, I have just reT,i
a letter from the Adjutant General, written onue-bor.
idea that I should have the honour to see Y°.,u,i;b;l
obstroci
as this Wilfilot take place as soon as_r could -Gt.
must address you in writing. The Adidtanttba trig.
it
ral assures me, in the narne of the General, gag
was Merely through a mistake that the Eaglh
could
was hoisted on Fort St. Julian : that not hi9g t
tbo
be more distant from his 'intentions; and that b 4
1:4
momeot was apprized of it, he .caused it :Lead'
taken down, and the Portuguese placed ia d the
occurred, would.certainly have been better it this `l,,and the
occurred, but I trust-that your. Excellency, "Li- only
Purtngpese Nal ion, will be satisfied itpreceede r
from a mistake. lam further to itilowl
cellency, that there is-now in the Fort St. the;
body of Portuguese artillery whit!) had' beef' or of
French service. It appears to me from the eo
the letter, that the General thinks it advi6iive d';
remove it from
(thence, but he at the sEltn,e„.ton apd
rests me to request your Excellency's °_,..Pg•.;vith°ll`
wishes on this subject.
.1 cannot c0nc1007,,. our oh;
expressing to your 'Excellency My sense c" /tat with
ligitig attentions since my corps has been
your's, and to assure you that I am; Sce. iy.
In Camp, Sept.,s, 1808. • , aVIIII„p'7 4
General Freire de Andrada

Jem Belcher;

s returned to London
:41)

from Kent, wl;etrtelelPieugliilaisst,bl/ training a Kent
hero, preparatory to a battle. with Richmond,
Black, which was to have taken place after •thebsaj
to with Crib and Gregson; The countryman 0.
been backed for La
Lou guineas by some London 'va
teurs—the deposit of twenty tO be made a bun k'
before fighting. 13Adler .ivai sent down to r'Y
)Nfeerilolrasbetfroarien
athfiegtteinngtistiniamn,anthiatbßutelhei procYoeudito.
him easily with gloves on, and eonsegculeetritly tilerfdle;
posit has been forfeited, and the match is otE 're
countryman, hOWever, is not to be dismayed, for
try
followed
_his trainer to Londun, determined t°
his luck, and in the course of a day or two lie ‘v
h
fight a Bristol inart
Court-Motial was lately held in Editibl/rrhe
Castle on two Officers of the 94th Regiment.
sentences have been since laid before his MA)01. t
an_! approved of. By the first sentence, Lieuieri,:ilo
s.
.EscoyaT CRESSWELL has. been dismissed his r 4,
leslY's service. By the second, Ensign It. Alt
STRONG has been acquitted.
red
Oil Thursday se'imight a young man, "Ibia,
Pledger, whilst shooting a sack of wheat into a ,
in a windmill, called Barribam Aru 1:3 5
was caught by the tail of his round frock, it) the
_.:at
of the inn' wheels, and being thereby drawn withgoro
violence between them, his head was instantane
ly crushed to atoms, and exhibited a tnost sin c‘vierge
MW, near
sPeaacle to the grinder and another man, who e
to
n
standing dose by, but could render no
y-
• t roa'
the unfortunate sufferer. One of the yonl o
he wheel'
teeth was driven so hard into a cog of t
Coro.fer's
that it was with difficulty exkraded.
yerdiet —Accidental Death. j assiSiallC

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COMMON COrNellt.

GUILDHALL; LOli DON, TinspAy, Oct. 4.

` THE LATE CONVENTION.

•
Some ordinary business being transa&ed, the Or-
der of the Day was read for taking into consideration
a Motion of M. WAITiIMAN,
That an Humble and Dutiful Address and Petition be p*-
sented to His Majesty, expressing our grief and
lionlaiely
entered into by the Commanders of His Majesty's. 'ForFes. in
Portugal, anti the COminander of the French Army . ,
praying His Majesty to institute such an Enquiry intoi-ttits
dishowitirable anti unprecedented transaaion, as will lea!it_9
the discovery-and punishment of those by whose inis.conclud
beenn incapacity the Cause of the Country and its Allies have
so shamefully sacrificed.
Mt. WAITI-IMAN said, that never in his life bad he
ristra to bring forward any motion in that asSemblY,
the propriety and necessity of which- required less
Proof or. less argument. The Address to which he
meant to request the concurrence of the assembly,
Was not only one of propriety, but imperious neces-;.
ity. It was unnecessary for him to go over the field
9t. argument which had already gone- forth upon
the, subject of this most disgraceful Convention ;-:
he should barely read one or two Of those articles,
which had obtained the concurrence of a British
COmmander in Chief at the ering
,
army, and head of a conqu
whose only justification of himself, for an
act so aisgraceful to his country, and so vexatious
to her allies, was his total ignorance of the situation
Of the French armies, with whom he concluded these
articles, and of the state of the country there he was
scot to
,command,. After all the discesaionS that had
taken place about appointing Commanders in Chief,
it was astonishing to every one, ,who heard of the
aPpointment of Sir Hew Dalrymple, that such a
Man should have been selected for such a command.
`---Mr. Waithman then referred to several of the
Articles of the Convention, particularly the sth, 7th,
and Bth, on which he commented at some length,
as well with respe6t to the terms granted to the
?rench troops, of suffering them not only to march
out with the honours of war, ammunition, and bag-
, gage, but with the whole fruits of their plunder,
without any stipulation whatever for sa cessation of
their insults, oppression, and plunder, towards the
l'ortuguese during their stay, but also of surrender-
ing the Russian force on board their fleet, 'in the
Tagus, although blocked up by a British Squadron
for ten months, then at the mouth of the River,
and more than competent to meet the enenay.at sea,
While no article whatever was stipulated for the
liberation of the 5000 Spanish soldiers then im-
prisoned on tioard the Russian ships. What could
have induced to the conclusion' of such a•treaty,
under all its circumstances, it was impossible for any
man to conceive, without some explanation of causes, Which no man attempted hitherto to elucidate._.
Either the vidory of the 21st was signal and glorious to the British arms, or the London Gazette must be
a lie, and the dispatches of the British Geoeral a forgery. But-what must be the grief and astonish-
ment of every Englishman, alive to the honour of his
'country and the glory of her arms, to hear that in
Seven days after this vietory, achieved by one half
the British force at that time in the field, after con-
Siderable reinforcements of British troops bad adtully
arrived, and much more considerable aid in Spanish
and Portuguese were .hourly expeEted, that- such
6 Conmition should have been formed with the
i,anquished army of the French, surrounded as they
Itvere by a hostile country, and in the presence of
viaoriaus troops nearly double their number. He
was aware of the. opposition of some individuals to
any inquiry, and that he might be told, that it: was
discreet to wait and see whether Ministers would in-
quire of their osvA accOrd, or that there was no,
precedent for inquiries of this sort; but he thought
the feelings of the country on, this important.occa-
aioti owed no deference to the discretion or the
leisure of Ministers. If there was no precedent,
this Was the time and the occasion to make one.-
There were, however, striking precedents, in bet-
ter times of the country, and particularly in 1756,
after the failure of the. unfortunate expedition to
Minorca; and this under the Administration of
the great Lord Chatham ; the Corporatiori of
"London did then address the ing for an inuir, and it was unfortunately true that a brave Officer was sacrificed, to tilt} machinations of a party, who'con-
trived to shift upon his shoulders the cause of that
failure. Another Address was moved by the Cor-
poration of London for an Enquiry into the failure
of the Rochefort Expedition, and a message came
from the Government to the Lord Mayor - stating,
that such Enquiry was to take place. And if the
their Corporation of London did not think fit to withhold
Chsentiments in the administration of the great
atham, surely they owed no such deference to r
present Rulers. In that day sters
screen themselves from responM
sibility. sought not to
A Committee
of Military Officers was appointed, to whom all the
documents and dispatches were submitted, and the
result was, an Enquiry by COurt Martial. And al-
though it was ever so notorious to that Assembly, that
an inquiry was intended on the present occasion, he
still thought they should go up with this Address. Had
inquiry taken place, as it ought, upon our disgraceful
failure at Dunkirk, and subsequent evacuation of
1-Tolland, and upon the disgrace which afterwards
'fell upon our arms at the Helder, and the authors of
those misfortunes` been brought to punishment, we
should not at this day have to lament the present
calamity. But what could be eipeded from the
vigilance of the present Government, when we were
"ttsild, that the author of our disgrace in the expedi-
al2n/ to
FerTo4 was nominated second in com-
"!and to our troops now going on foreign ser-
• v'ce ? Was it to be supposed that such nien could
intend ny 'en
._.qu
Tortuga,
?a
;.iry even into out- disgraces in
where were such men as Dalrymple and,
Burrard found
public services any
or who had ever heard of their
where ! He feared the causes for-
aPPointing such men arose from too Much 'subser-
viency in tilt! Country to the disposition of Ministers ;
and it was no wonder that such men obtained'ap-
P6ntinents, When the ruinous conduCt of their pre-
decessors was suffered to pass with impunity. For
his own part, he at present sought to throw no parti-
cular blame on any particular individual:—Minister
or General. Inquiry was his (Ned, and his wish
was, that where the valour of our troops was sUCcessi
fill, their country might hate the benefits of their hia.L
very, instead of having them thus barely surferidered
by their Commanders, to the discouragement and dis-
gust of those brave officers and soldiers by vvholii-such
tiramphs were achieved ; and thus the money of the
country expended, and its. blood lavished in vair..—

v' I
If such Things pased unpunished, soldiers could ilts
;,longer be.induceel to enter %vial ardour the field of
battle, ft", the useless effusion of their. blood, and
the achieveMent of nugatory vielories; •the fruits" 4
which they Were to lose almost-as soon as they were
acquired. If Ministers appointed such Corninatiders;
they must srand in some responsibility to their coun.
.try ; and if they passed by men of known valour and'
..talents to choose men not known to possess either;
they should answer to their country for the conse-
licences. He concluded by repeating his Motion.
Air. QUIN seconded the motion of Mr. Wait it man,
commenting with much point upon the odious and
debaSing terms of a Convention, dishonourable to the
British arms and charader, insulting and injurious
to her best friends and allies. He reprobated the
permission of a vanquished enemy to -depart with
the honours of war, with their•arms, ammunition,
and baggage, and loaded with the spoils of the coun-
try: they had so loncrgoaded and oppressed,.while no
stipulation \va, made for the exchange of the five
thousand ,
gallant Spaniards, imprisoned on board
the Russiab •squadron in the 'Maus for no- other
. • .

fault than their love to their King and Country.
Might be exchanged perhaps, but for whom ?
Not for French. soldiers taken in battle, bnt for a
horde of spies and. revolutionists, miscreant agents
of the.Cotsican Usurper, dispersed through Portugal:
Nor was any stipulation made to obtain the libera-
tion of to;000 of' our countrymen, rotting- in, the.
dtmgeons of France, not taken- iii war or battle, but*
'seized,' not only violation-of the 'law of nations,
but of every principle lof nationallhospitality, while
travelling through Franco in a
.period of pro-
found peace. When he -looked, as well to the
late, as to other Conventions with the Enemy,
he was inclined to suppose that the French nf-go-
tiatcors,whenever they came to treat with ours, seem-
ed to deal in sorcery, to hang magic amulets round
their necks, or to -surround themselves by magic
circles, and thereby to stultify and confound those
with whom they treated. Of this disgraceful treaty,
however, he hoped there would be a speedy and 'a
rigorous inquiry ' • and when he considered the. man
who signed it as Commander in Chief, and who, by
his own ratification, had deprived himself of the
excuse he would found on blame to the Officer-who
signed the Preliminaries, and when he recolle&ed
that that Commander had been the Chief at our
Garrison of Gibraltar, he could not refrain an

apostrophe to the shade of that gallant veteran,
the immortal Cock of the Pock, General Elliott,
whose portiait now caught his eye (in the piEture of
the attack on the Spanish lines hung in the room"),
and to ask hoW would his gallant spirit blush for the
condu& of that successor, who had thus disgraced
and humiliated the glo-y of his country.
Alderman SMITH perfeCtly' concurred in the mo-
tion.

• Mr. J. DIXON admitted that inquiry was necessary.
He would agree to the motion if it was worded
merely to that end, but he would ondeinn no men,
without hearing the reasons by which they were ac-
tuated.

. Alderman PRICE perfe&ly agreed to the motion.
Alderman BIRCH gave his fullest assent to the mo-
tion, and as an Englishman, b6ring the honour of
his Majesty's COmmisSion as a Volunteer Officer, and
feeling for the honour of the British Army, he felt the
full necessity of enqUit'y, and saw nothing in the
wording of the motion at all exceptionable.
Alderman CO MBE not only felt the neceitv en—
qUiry, and the discovery of the: authurs dis-
grace, but thought, that where guilt was Foved,
vengeance should follow.

Alderman CURTis concurred in both points ; but
obje&ed solely to the premature and unnecessary
measure of an Address to advise his Maj,:sty to that
enquiry, for which no man in the Kingdwn was more
anxious than the Sovereign himself.

Mr. SLADE thought the Address necessary, as it
would spew His Majesty tharthe sense .of his Peo-
ple was in support of the inquiry he had yo much at
heart. It was a representation, as it were, from the
Grand Jury of the Nation, to the Majesty of the'
Country, that a great injury had been done, and that
inquiry and punishment should attach upbn the de-
Ainquents ; and be hoped the vote of this day would
bean example for every Corporation in the Country.
After a few words from Mr. WAITTiMAN, the
question was put, and carried unanimously, and a.
Committee appointed to prepare the Address.
Being returned, the Address was read and, agreed,
to, andthe :''herifl:o; attended by the Remembrance'',
were requested to, Widupon his MAJESTY to know
his royal pleasure ts4ten the Court may attend topre-,
sent the same.-

AMERICA.

New-1 mm; AUG. are very distressed,
owing to thee mad EmbargO of JEFFERSON; this
country will be utterly rnmed if he continues. much
longer in power. We have two plentiful crops on
hand, and the produce of the ground selling for next
to nothing ! Judge yourself what a state we are in,
when I inform yOu that flour will scarce bring a dol-
lar the barrel now; salt beef and pork may be had
in barrels at little more than a halfpenny per pound ;
cotton at 3d. per lib. ;` tobacco at Qs; 6d. -per .cwt. :
Indigo, Carolina, Is. per lib. ; staves, wood, and
lumber of all sorts, will only sell for firewood ;
every article the produce of the ground is a drug. It
will effectually ruin every farmer, though-the land
costs them next to nothing.—They talk much in
both the Northern and Southern States, of ereaing
manuta6lories, but in this-state the Federalists have
effectually discouraged all such attempts, by pointing
out their ruin (for wages, though a little lower, are
still very high) by the British goods, which will be
poured_ in the, moment the Embargo is taken off,
which, we have no doubt,. will be done whenever
Congress sits down, for the Federalists have exerted
themselVes throng)] the whole Union to return Mem-
bers.who are in opposition to JEFFERSON and the
EMbargo.. Indeed, the Federalists, who are, ex-
ceeding numerous through all the States, are hostile
to JEFFERSON'and the Republican Government, and
have openly avowed it in all their publications."

A Gentleman_ arrived in town yesterday, • who
escaped from St. Maloes in an open boat. We Un-
derstand that he waited on Ministers with some im-
portant-iniortnation relative io the state of affairs in
-France. When he sailed, several Frigates were
h:t'ng out at St.-Malues, and the port was filiod with.
Privateevi .

TrEY:Ito e, Tirl, OCT. 4.

..•••••41

. . ..
A change has taken p lace in the weather for the
last week, and his occail oned some departures, but
!hey are counterbalances ) by many fre.sh arrivals for
the litter season, and sevi oral houses are engaged for
the winter. . . • -• .. • ~ ,

Last Friday evening,i. Mrs. BYAM gave a grand
Concert and titertainmt !.rit to all the principal Nd-
bility and Gentry here:- •
Miss .BONTEIN played.] DussECtc's celebrated Con-
. .
certo,. in which is iotrodu cell SHIELD'S favourite Air
of " The Plough .Boy;" a.very superior, manner.
Mrs. BYAM performed a Grand Concerto of Dus-
sEcres, with full accompaniments, in a-manner
which must have drawn forth the unqualified ad-
miration of Our first-rate professors, The Band of
the first Regiment of I-Liooverian Light Horse at-
tended, and played several., German Airs, with.varia.
lions. In the course of the evening, the celebrated
Glee from The Curfew, with several others, vVere
performed by Mrs. ,BYAM at Id Miss BONTEIN, aSsist-
ed by Mr. CUMMINS, in a style of melody highly.
gratifying to the Cognoscent....;
. The whole went off. with muCh,,spiriti and the
company parted highly gratified with a choice musi=
cal treat. •

An equestrian figure of hii MAJESTY, ,mounted
on his favourite grey charger "Alonis,,has been farm-
ed in chalk on the HiUS of Ormington, belonging to
Mr. Wool), of that place: aitt hough its length is 280
and its height 020 feet, yet the likeness of the King
is well preserved, and the-Vmmetry of the horse is
so complete, as to do, great-. credit to Mr. HAMIL-
•TON, of this town, for its etxecution. . It is a nou-
velle anti pleasing obje& to the pedestrians on the
Esplanade, but more especially to those who are toted
of water excursions in our Bay, where the view is
rendered more complete. It has been carried into
effeat under the direction of Mr. WOOD, Bookseller,
at the particular request and bole expellee of JOHN
RAINIER, Esq. Brother to the: late Admiralof that•
name, and is intended as a Misting token. of loyalty
and affection to the best of Sovereigns. .

, -
The Theatre here, on IVlonday evening, was. ele-
gantly filled, for the benefit of that deserving giros,
Mrs. H. HUGHES. The performances were the.
Comedy of The Wanderer, followed by the much-
admired Melo-drarne of The Blind Boy.

THE THEATRE.—MrS. ORGEP., from the Edin-
burgh Stage, appeared for the first,time last night,
on London boards, in the character of Lydia Lan-
. suislt,iii the excellent comedy of The Rivals. Her
figure is elegant, her face very pleasing, her manners
are easy, and we consider her as a valuable addition
to the Theatre:. She conceived the part of the ro-
mantic heroine with greatiudgment, and performed
it with spirit and variety, She appears to be quite
in the bloom of lite, and in parts of easy gaiety and.
spirit, is hkeiy to become a great, favourite. ELLis-
TON, foritie Best time:, took the part of Captain Ab-
solute,.and we never siw him to so little advantage
in -a comic character. He was stiff' and formal
throughout. Ha 1, d none of the animation, gaiety,
and spirit with which. the character is drawn, and he
failed in all those 31C11 strokes of humour which
marks his intercourse with Sir Anthony, and Mrs.
Malaprop. Such is the consequence of t hat, disposition
to engross all the chief charaaers of Tragedy and,
Cotrredy to himself; and he never can hope to reach
excellence, while he is so anxious for, monopolizing
versatiaty. DowToN gave .a good, portrait of .Sir
Anthony, but he trespassed too much upon decorum
in describing the personal charms of . Lydia. Such
gestures rather excite disgust than merriment, and
never ought to appear before the Public. Mr.' H.
StDootis acquitted himself respeOlably in Fautirland,
and his wife gave a tender interest to Julia. JOHN-
STONE and BANNISTER,. in Sir Lucius and..//cres, •
powerfully supported, the Piece, The houSe was,
tolerably well attended,

We are happy to have.it in our power to say, 'that'
the Duke of QUEENSBURY, Lord KINNArRD, Lady
VERNON, Lady LootsA MACKDONALD, Mrs. BAR-
WELL, and Miss KINNAIRD, have most libe4ally
given up their boxes to the proprietors of Covent-
Garden Theatre.

The,Duke of QUEENSEURY has also sub-scribed
5001. towards the relief oo,lle unhappy sufferers--
a conduct which reflees immortal honour on the hu-
mane heart of this venerable ;Jeer.

•
The Proprietors. of fTheßeau Monde, having stated
that the " Plate representing the, feigned retreat of
Major General FERGUSON'SBIjgad,e, had been done
under Major CAMPBELL'S communication," we are
authorised to declare, that this ,statement is a groSs
and scandalous miSrepresentation, Major CAMPBELL
pot`having made any communication to the said Pro-
prietors, or to any other person relative to the said
" Plate," or san&ioned any Publication relative to
the Operations of the British Army in Portugal.
The late 'Professor Pons was remarkable for
having a wonderfully retentive memory; his me-
mory was so very tenacious, that he could quote
whole pages froth almost any author; and_on read-
ing a newspaper once over, he was able at the dis-
tance of two hours after, to repeat the whole of its
contents, almost literatini et verbatim.

Tars PANIC-STRUCK PEASANT.—Last Wednesday
as a countryman was nutting in Catsfield Great
Wood, he found the nuts so plentiful that he soon
half filled a sack, by the weight of which his pro-
gress of gathering was so much 'impeded that he
found' it necessary to get rid of his incurubrance, by
leaving it, as he thought, in a place of security, until
he should have, increased his stock, by means of a
satchel, from distant hazels, and proceeded accord-
ingly : but unluckily in the interim a Black, from a
neighbouring barrack, engaged in a similar pursuit,
discovered the repository, and after exarrbping its
contents, resolved on possessing it ; but in order to
give a'colourable pretence to the possession,- he had
recourse to the following whimsical stratagem. Ile
stripped off his clothes, and after concealing them,
Seated himself naked on the sack, where he remain-
ed; clutched Up, till the return of the colwtrymari,
:mil by his grimaces and the yells which lie set up,
to give effect to the part he was aoling, on ,the poor
fellow's approach, so terrified him, that he bounded
from the wood like a deer, arid, happy in his escape,
left his nuts, without regret, to he cracked by the
:Devil:on whose territories, at the moment of his,
.
pamc, he believed he had been trespassing. Mungo,
Weil pleasect 'with the success of his trick,. bore away
the prize, and the circornstaiice has caused no in-
'considerable share of mirth in the neighbourhood.

S ORTINO TIGA'NCL::

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NEWMARkET Fi

Ot:TOBE.1 !'rIEE.T“jG, taJ

• • ruzEra Y-, OC,f. 3.
Ld Grosvenors Violar te, 2s,t. 7th. beat Mr. Shaltecpeare, Seiim, -Bst. ilb. 13. C. h. 11,-5 to 4on Violante. •
.
The Lilly-boo. Stakes of zsgs. each, for 3-yr. old colts and
, • fillies ; carrying Sst. 4th. fillies Ist. 1). 1;
Ld Grosvenor's th f. Plover, by Sir. Peter • -
Mr. KellermaL's c. Z.iroaster, by Sorcerer, cut of'
• Louisa -
Ld Grosyenor's hr. c.•Che;ter,-by Sir Peter Ld Groavenor's b. 1. Isis, by Sir Peter- - - - 4
Sir C. Turner's c. nrAmble, by,Harrib7,etonian
Mr: Lake's b: Cop ty,:ota ot Maderno;selle • 6
Sir F. Standish's eit. c. by Mr, Teazle, dam by Volun-
teer, out of Storace - • - • a -
Mr. Ladbroke'sa br c. Tristram, by Teddy, bEught of ,‘ ;
Mr..;llorand- • - - •
.
Lane's b. e.• Ey Trumpator, dam, by -Walnut ... pd.
Mt. Fern-tors br. f.• by Stamford, ouroi AloxinaLci • - /Id
C, Spmersees,b. e. I. thelfred, by Beningbrough -. pct
Mr. 0. Radclin's eh. c.'Rubetts, brother to Scrim. pd •
I
.6 to 4 on Plover. •
I.d Satekville's Bustard, Sat. 1
-;lb. beat Sir C. Tomei':
Mr. Gundy,s2st.--7 to 4 on Bustard. •
L Mr. Cray.en's.Beau 'Nash, Sst. zlb. beat Gen. Grnsveristr!..
,Rifleman, Est'. E. At zoogs. h. ft.-7 to 4aAst.ll-eatrAish,
Ld-Fokey'.s Comrade, beat Sir C. l'unter's .Thoniasinv, •
gst. zib. each. T.i4l. M.B.C. zoogs. h. ft.-77 t 0.4 on Coat-Tade. • ' •

Ld
Grosvenoe&Eaton,..,Bst. 'beat Mr. Shakespeat's Tra:-
falgLir, 'Bst. 31b. Across the Flat, zao&s. li. It.-7 to
gbsi
Eaton.

. ,
Gen; Grosvenor's jblm-o'Gaunt, 73t 61b. beat I). of Rut=
land's. Rambler, Bsr, 811).7-7 to,4'agst. folin.o'-Gaunt.
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kl
One Third of a SubscriOon ofziss§, each, for 4-yr. c colts
carrying 4st...LAt). and fi14454,85t. 71b. D. I-.
D. of Gralton's b. c. Musician - - - 1
Ld Lowther's b. c. Hyias, by Beningbionzb - 7
Mr. Yertnarls br. c. )4ikhron ;.- 3
1V1.4-.444'..1..13,. f, l'iymphina . - , ''„lr. • - 4
2 to I agst
- : Muslcian--6 tu 4on Brighton. ::
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•
iffOktlET.iit PINET.—This person, who.„.vas well
known:4n, )n) met6i:ll World, stopped, naymenck
in Patt, in ffte:yettr 1789, for .%500,0091;.4nd Oft
following ariecdote is related ~i-espectitig hi death;
which, at-the time it happened, was imputed to-::
suicide':--When the Revolution began, in July 1789;
and the mob ruled, a, Secret Agent of the Duke
of ORLEANS, a friend of PINET, advised' hire
safety-to place his strong box with the Duke. Pl-
- requested tierfaVOur'of His Serene. HighnesS to
*take his treasure under his protec.tion, to:which the
„Duke readily. agreed. As the'Chest visas locked, all,
was.safe. , But whe'n the ttuntilt subsided.at the end'
of the month, PlNET.called to thank the Duke, and
ask for his box. I have, sent it.(said the
to my country7house at gassy ;. conic and,otne IVltl
nie,land take it. away."
When PINET arrived to dinnel', theDuke-deired.
him.to send away his own carriage, saying he
.would'
givehim' ore of his, as he intended to cross the Bois
de Boulogne, to go' to St. Germain, and leave his.,
money witti• his Father-in-law.. After diliner, tha
unsuspecting Financier mounted one 9f the Duke's
cabriolets (a one-horse chaise with a cm er), and 'a
groom got up behind. Next day PINET washnis7,
sing ; the House sfopt payment in a few days more ;
and in about a- week he ',vas found in the wood with
his brains blown out. !—lt was immediately did that
he had shot himself on account of a derangement in:
his affairs.
But the knowing ones suspeaed, that he was.sliot"
by another, for the ball had entered the back of 11;4.
head, and passed in a descending direaion; so that it,
appeared to be disch?rged by the servant who stood'
behind.

A few months after, the same groom was a pri-•
saner at the Chatelet, and Ort'ol PrNwr's Creditor's
(the Marquis DE MARCONNEY) Went in diSgoise, as
anvher prisoner, and learned the truth. The vil-f
lain ORLEANS had given the groom 72,000 livits
(or 30001.) for murdering Plts:ET, -and' had got ,about
20 milhons of litres in :Abe cheSt (800,0001.) The
.groom soon spent. the reward of .his iniquity,'-and,
ORLEANS erlielOyed the money- be got to pay the
mob that, on the sth of the following October;dragged the-. KING and ROYAL, FAMILY from thejr;
Palace at Versailles to Paris. Such was the termina-
tion-of'the Speculations of Monsieur PrNET, what
did riot g.obble..Lottery 'rickets, as it
.seetts is :don.
in, London.; but who gobbled Millions irorn trio cre-
dulous, and was murdered that his wealth might fa-
cilitate TraliorS to ruin their. SOiereign •

ANECDOTE 91THE PRETENDEDJoSEPII,-;
In sacking, the Palace and Churches of Madrid, Jo.
sarli hid heard* tutiCii of a particular figure of our
Saviour, of exqUisite workmanship, •Wrought.in the
purest gold, and en] iched with the -choicest Berns;
that he accompanied the party to the Church which
contained it. On. approaching: the altar where it
Was placed, they ,'met
.the ViCar, whOse 'name I:fas
JUAN BLAST " Pray,". Said JbsEPH, "are you' Blas
of Sahtillaner " No," said the Vietfr, no
Bias 9f Santillaiie, but'l dare say you are a descend-
ant of Don Rolando, the Chief of the. Banditti,",
Since there has been's° general a sPirit.amonc,,, the
Volunteers to transfer •their services to the Local Mi-
litia, we understand that it is the intention of Go.;
vernment to encourage and increase the latter to at
legit 200,000 men.

About eleven o'clock, on Tuesday .se'nnight; ati
alarm of fire ',was -given-at Greenock. On the at-
rival of the engines 'on the'spot where, the fire .was
said to be raging,"the.alarm was diseovered to
Le
false. Such condu6t is highly criminal,. and- "is. fre-
quently' attended with fatal colksequences; a Melan-
choly instance of which occurred that .night
the-alartn being given,. Mrs. Currie; wlte of-Mr.
Currie, spirit-dealer in that town, rose froth her
bed; and went to the window', for the purpose of in-
quiring where the fire was, when she was so, struck
with terror, that she burst a, blood vessel; and ex-
pired almost instantaneously. What renders this ac-
cident the more melancholy is. her being thr advanc-
ed in. pregnancy. StriC,t,inquiryi we understand, is
making after the authois .of: this alarm, who, we
trust; will soon be brO9ght to that punishment they
sajtwly •

CORN-EXCHANGE, OCT. s.—llere is ayet'y short
supply of Wheat this day, and sales are made fully
at last prices; Rye is
.cheaper; ayeryshbit supply
oaf Bade), and. Malt ; scarce any White I.\:ase ; Grey
bud the two kind of Beans keep'their priLi..q ; there •
'are likewise but short sopplies of Oats, 11!/.1 sales
thereof at an advance dl Is. and 2s. per,c•Yarter ;
Flour without alteration.
wheat 58s a' 68s a Fos od Tick Beans - 6'os a 65. s td. -
Fine ditto - 84 o
s a 88s od Oats - 329 a 365 a 38i :cd,
'Rye - -48 s a sas od Poland ditto - 395 a .iwvc.ct
• Barley - - - 405 a 455 od
Potatce - _ -.5 a 41i, c.d.
Malt - - 725 a Sos cd Rape Seed - 401 a 441 -- .a
White Pease t4os a 147 s act Fine Flour - 7is a Sos 4. d
GrLiY ditto - 583 a 633 p od SecOnas . - 7Qs a 755 ngt
bens • .., • 64s 4 7,4 El .