The Sun.
London, England, 1808-12-22 00:00:00

ELECTION OF COMMON COUNCIL.

' Yesterday being St. Thomas's My, the different
Wards in the City of London met to elect the Cure'
mon Council for the year ensuing. The Lo
flo
Minor, held a Wardrnote for Cornhill, Which lie
represents, and where there was no alteration from
'last year; he afterwards held Wardmotes in the
Wards of Billings,ate Tower, and Broad-street,
"whole 'Aldermen were prevented arteTidiov from ill."
disposition. - The following are the Wards coo tested',
and those in which changes have taken place
•

FARRINGDON WITHOUT.
This Ward., accordirta to custom, is contes(eci.-'"
3
Mr. latitt4 having" retired, there are two new Can.
didates to succeed him, • viz. Mt. MILLER and Mr.•
CROQKE. At the close of the poll yesterday, at halt
past three] the numbers ware--,
IA
Sir J. Branscomb ; '. 24 Mr. Reeve - - ,%
*Mr. Crooke - 29 Grillith - - 21
Reeves - - 27 Murrell , - - z[
1
waitlman _ ..' 26 Wright - -
Youlig - - 24. Nichols - -2,
t$
Bardin, ~- - -23 Brewer ( Deputy) -t;
_ 1
Dawrt , - -._23 1 Harper
Herring (Deputy) - 23 1 I. Brewer
*lVltllet,.' - - 22
FARRINGD(
Mr. Scatcherd - - 43
Daw - • - 43
Pritchard . - - 4z
1' - V inter - . - 39
, 4 Lei,:i ' - - 38
Cdwel I - -33
Crowihar - - 31
Wheble - - - zy
Stoke ; - - 26
CORDWAINER WARD.
Mr, Smith - . 3; Mr.-Watson
Haniulan - - p Abbey
Kemble (Deput)) 32 ,Hick
Row - • - 31 *Jones
• Tuinhey - . -2:, *Blake
. BISHOPSGA 1.••' WITHOUT.
*Mr. (,'lode - - 66 'Mr. White
Windus - -• 64 Knight
Nash - - . 63 f rieker
• Duelf,ll - 63 Gough
Sir W. Rawlins - 63 Gould
'Mr. Greenaway - 57 Poynder
Clark - - 57 . *Freeman, -
- ' Rosa - - 53
Those marked thus * are.new Candidates.' ~
• . ~ - •
BRIDGE welizt).
Mr. Jos. LACY, . in the place of Mr. Cors, de'
ceased,

N WITHIN.
ir. Cooke
Smith -
Metcalf -
.• Walker
2;
Smith -2;
lames Smith ;.;
Roberts -
• Lewis; - '

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7;1

QUEENEIITHE WARD.
Mr. DRAKE; in' the place of Mr. SHAW, resign

BREAD-STREET.
Mr. DAKIN, in the place of Mr. FIENsLEY, re'
signed.
The other Wards are represented. in Conlin°
Commit by their former trirmbers.

HAMPSHIRE ELECTION.
•
ce
The poll on the Hampshire Election com Me-o
de,d
on Tuesday, at Winchester. Sir John Pollen ,
dined. in consequence, it is supposed, of an asstr
tio
arice frdin the friends of Mr. Heathcote, that 0
objettion taken to the eligibility of the latter v7i„
groundless; of coin-se there wt-re only two ca„,°rz' .
dates, viz. Mr. Herbert and Mr. .Heathcote.
vious to the.
'Nil; notice was giVen to the Sheri t
that' it would close at eleven' o'clock, as Mr. 17-lerberc
did not regard the number of votes, intending 10
entirely 'upon the decision of the House of
mons op the point whether his opponent .vas
or not.— Accordingly, at eleven o'clock, the r,
closed; viten the number of votes appeared i° ovi
for Mr. Heatticote, 42--for Mr..-Herbert
course, Mr. Heathcoie- was declared by the •
.Sheritis duly elected. • -
tech,
Mr. HEATtICOTE the-n, in an appropriate Vi: to
begged the 'Freeholders, who were his tricii""ida
accept his sincere thanks for their support
said; .that, by electing him as their Representati'si
they had conferred on hint the objea ot his higt.it'br
ambition,; that he should always exert hitnselt
their interest ; and as to the question about his e
gibility, he telt not the least alarm on that.poitit• ir
Mt. HERBERT also thanked his friends for time;
supprirt ; and said, that if the House ot CPllllll°liiiict
should declarelrk opponent ineligible, he 51)°,1,,,
then have the honour to represent thew in F."O
rent, when he trusted they would not find
wanting- in his -duty either to hi; countly.or 1115c°
The Meeting then broke up, and Mr. Fierithcol°
Was chaired by the,.popullce.

rr
ANTELOPIAN SOCIETY.--Yesercay being- St. =j
mar's Day, this ahci ;in!i reipectible Society di
ttibuted their annual donation of bread, whenic
wards of 700 deserving objects received a terripoll,
relief. This Society has long been conspicuous
its liberality towards the needy and distressed,
T,A.O regiments of infantry, the 8.7,h (2.d ba`,,
lion) from Malden, and !he 88111 (tst bat Cott
from Weeley, are on their. march for the Catiterbll,
ry district, in order to be in readjuess tor' eln{~ar
tiara at the shortest notice. The 88th is tO ar t
riVe',
.Itatnsgate and Margate on Ti!ursiiay, FricloP 81,1"
Sa 4-day-next ; and the 87th at Canterbury, "
turday, Monday, and Tuesday. Toe 2d Surrey :I'l,',
Angleseilitia, in consequence, move from R3111;4
pte Mar !,e and 'Broadstairs, that the 13:4"6„'i
.at Ilarnsgate may be left open for the receptioll -
the troop. .
His Majesty's Ship Capt. GROUBE,
cotnOanied by a very rich Danish Ship, bound iron,
the Isle of France,•is.arriVCd 2t Madras. We und.'-'l.O
stand,the Victor during her cruize, captured seete
Danish Vessels laden with articles of considerao`

value.
A private letter from Stockholm, received by' I,c
last Mail, says :—"lThe loSs of, Finland during this
war has long been expected, .and the above inteni;
gence has therefore not occasioned the sensation
which might have need supposed. beg •y9° 'Bl
il
not allow yourseit to be alarmed by anV foolishl.-
e
party of the Russians penetratitig farther"inch Swe'
den."
THE TETEATRE.--7The part of 01,11elio wa' per
formed by Mr. Yoomo, for the first time, last nibl;
at the Haymarket Theatre. The same good 51)11
and feelings which have.hitherta marked his aciittil
were evident in his representation of this velY dial 0
crilt charader. COOKE supported the part of J*7o
with his usual success. It is certainly a eery efftm=l"
performance.
Mrs. BILLINGTON is eKdeaCd to resume her sta''
Lion at the Opera House in the' approaching 11/
as CATALAN', or r +tiler her husband,
,has, it is '3l;
positi.ely refused to consent to a proposed a!'it
Anent of salary. •

La ST Its DLI HOUSE.

• Yesterday a Qum-tee v G !meal' 'Court was held,
When the ;Dividend on ethe Capital Stock of the
Company, heed the, sth July last to the sth January
Frext, was declared to be el per Cent.
the divideint bad been declared, and the
.
-Afier
~,„
sertairtnan had stated the tranquil state in which the
last accounts left India; . .
Mr. RANDLE JACKSON rose to call the attention of
the:Cotart to a subject of national consequence, and
which, he said,. had pressed much upon his mind
for a considerable time past ;. but respeding which,
recent ce.cumslances had.determined him to remain
no longer silent ; he meant the extraordinary, and
inexplicable to him, ascendancy of the enemy's
cruizers in the Indian seas, and the dreadful ravages
Which they had been tamely permitted to commit
Poe British property, and the' still greater dishonour
which they had brought upon the country. He
• repiced to have just beard from the Chairman, the
account which he bad given of the peace of India,
and of the security of our Oriental possessions ; be
wished he could say as much for the security of the
Indian. seas, and the property which was necessa-
rily aeventured upon them. Who could believe,
asked M. Jackson, that with a maritime force
1
gter than had been usually kept in those seas,
.e. trade of them had- been kept so completely
11"Proteeted, that the Calcutta Insurance Comp-
bies alone had paid losses to the amount of
'ere than two millions of money within the last
SBsever, or eight years, and that in the month of
,epir tetriber and Oetolier only, of the year
1807, thelosses had been upwards of 290,0001. that
b''
these, as well as numerous other, captures, had
c)'11 effeeled by two French Frigates, and prin-
PallY by the Revenant Privateer, of 16 guns,
Y''''en later had scpured those seas for three
months 'together, and in fact blockaded during
that titne the Bay of Bengal, although a great
rnatitime force, with an Adthiral's Flag, and se-
veral peudants flying, were then lying within
three hundred mik;s of this scene of depreda-
linte He'understood it to be stated in a Memo-
Tisl '(from which he gathered these facts) from
the Calcutta Merchants to the Board of Admiralty,
that although the destination of these Frigates,
Aland of this Privateer WaS k !WWII to the station at
adras, in September, yq at the date of the
,-Neenorial, namely, in the December following,
blot a 'vesSel bad been sent for the proteetion of
the Bay, till at length the Imperial Government
of India had been compelled to do, what America
'lelad pretended to do on account of the vonfts-
eterated maritime strength of the workl, namely,
0
lay an eintetrgo on its shipping, in order to keep
them from the (lievourin,,,, jales of this terrible
•I'riv iteer of ifi guns, which had, it was said,
The no less extraordinary good luck to preserve every
One of its prizes ft:of-nee-capture, though it had to
_Send 'them through a known tract of 3000 miles to
the Isles of Mauritius and Bourbon.
Mr. JACKSON added, that the Madras Govern-
Ment, with that feeling which became it, for our
fellow subjects of India, labourieg 'under the horrors
of famine, has advertised great encoeragement to
ships bringing corn for their relief; in tobsequence
4Of which, the shipping interest bad directed tention to this objei:t. when -shockin as it bhoul its at-
d
Seem, if the Memorial spOkethith;nd g one ship that
the Memorialists knew of bad been sent 'not to pro-
tee} these vessels, the cbMequente of \Vbiell ivas,
that a 'considerable part of 'the provisions thus in-
tended to save our subjects from death, had been
raptured by theenemy. Mr. Jackson observed, that
a marine could only be created through the niediutn
'of conitherce, or through that of ships df war; our
great enemy not haying the former means in his
1:)ower, was knower, though silently, and, perheps
slowly, but surely, to be creating a body of most ad-
Venturous, hardy and skilful sailors, through the lat-
ter *medium, the whole of which he would call to
liiS service whenever the at irs of the Continent
sheuldildiTlit of his ditettmg his energies to his ma-
rine. If his conduct in this respect did lint declare his meaning-, the encet‘rae'3itig proclamation's he bad
I it seed to Merchants so to direct their capital, and to
Officers and Seatrien s'd to direct their valour; would
suthcientlY establish it. Mr. Jaeksoti said; be would
119 t suppose it possible, but that the Directors had
Fade the strongesi representations in the proper
quarter, if not, he adjured them to do so withoi.it a
4101nent further loss of time; he must Say, that if
they bad found the forms of Office in their way at
the Admiralty, they Ought to
,have applied to' the
Alinistere evho, according tn the pce of o6r
Constittition, was answerable for everyracti devartmem ;
,i
and failing there, they ought to have addressed them-
,
. selves to the House of Commons, and laid their case
before the country, the Direaors being as much
'bound to the protection of every legal settler in In-
. dia, as of their own covenanted servants. Mr. Jack-
I sou said, he did not pretend, or could say where the
fault lay; if with the Commander, the Board of
Admiralty that wanted nerve enough to recall such
a man ought to be dismissed by the Minister, and
changed for men of more comprehensive faculties
and mote vigorous exertions. If the Minister wanted
i - courage to do this, ha was not the Minister for such
,4 country in such times. Mr. Jackson, after re-
!narking on the aillining and disgraceful accounts of
a similar ascendancy in the West Indies, and of the
repeatedly reviduallieg and reinforcing of Mitrti-
hique and Guadeloupe, the importance of the cap-
ture of which islands had ever been admitted to be
of the utmost consequence, concluded with expres-
slhg his hopes, that 'the Directors would feel
this subea as it ought to be felt, and ad upon that.
feeling.
The Cli AIRMAN, (Mr. Perry) said, that it had
not escaped their attention, that the depredations
had been most scandalous, arising, as th ere-
hended, from negleCt somewhere; that the Capp um-
, tnaeder had been recalled some months past, and
that he trusted precautions would be taken to pre-
``'tit the recurrence of the evil so justly complain-
ed of,
teee rgr, GRANT, the Deputy Chairman, went upon
satne ground, but more at lerge ; he observed,
Ithat I toe Diredors had not, till recently, any pro-
)cr. tlocuments on which to proceed in making
their representations ; he was severe upon the Me-
roeralists, for not having applied to them in the first
lestance, lather than to Government.- He observ-
.
d upon i the condu6l of different Nayal Corumanders

•
.
*l/4110 had been 'sent mit, And how little influence' the'
GOyernments of India tad upon their conduct.
7 I%lajor WALTER SCOCT,WARING supported the
ground which Mr. Jackson had -taken, and stated
some military complaints, which he feared the Di-
reaors would be deaf to till too late.

Mr. Rocx alluded to the report out of doors, that
the renewal of the Company's Charter was to. be a
subjea of discussion during the next Session 4.usl
wished to know if it were true, that Gentlemen Might
prepare themselves accordingly ?

The CHAIRMAN and DEPUTY CHAIRMAN thought
the question very premature, and rather declined an-
swering it, assuring the Proprietors, that whenever
such a negotiation should take place; they would
give them timely information of the probable .terms.'
Mr.•JACKSON said, the questi was an exeterne-
ly plain one, and such as he ught ought to be
answered—it was " Whether or ho it was the un-
derstanding of the Diredors that the renewal of the
Company's Charter was to be discussed next Ses-
sion ?" He said it was a subject of inconceivable
importance to the country at large, as well as tolhe
Proprietors, and whenever they should meet -upon
the occasion, he hoped it would not be in the nar-
row spirit of mere Proprietors of India Stock, but
as Citizens of the Empire' at large, atientive,„ as.tttq
ought to be, to their own due protection, but auxi-
bus to make our Indian territories of the greatest
possible use to the Parent State. He said, he
thought the question alluded to ought to be answered
for the reason assigned for asking it, namely, that
the country might be prepared, as it, was known
that men of eminent talents had directed their
thoughts to the subject, as appeared by their. publi--
cations ; such persons, he thought, ought even to
to be invited to communicate their ideas. Our In-
dian Empire was not, he hoped, the last, but cer-
tainly the greatest stake in the hands of the country,
and-, as Ministers should use it, would depend the
prosperity of Great Britain or the contrary.. Mr.
Jackson said, it would be too late to come and in-
fbrm them of outlines previously agreed to, calling
upon them, perhaps, to agree to some Report,
wrapped up in technicality, and enveloped in figures.
Mr. Jackson said, such had lately been the case with
a great Company, reapeCting. which the Minister of
the day had thought proper to break in upon the
terms for a new Charter, solemnly settled by one of
his Predecessors, and forgeffUl of the maxim; which
he was knoWn 'eminently to pradice in private life,
had compelled a new bargain, which; according 'lb
his, Mr. Jackson's conception, of it were as unjust
ever poWer insisted on, or imbecility had yielded
to ; lre retnemhered on the occasion to which he al-
luded, the understanding conveyed to the Proprie-
tors, ~amidst a mass of figures, was, that the Diree-
to'rs had Merely conceded rheir superfluities; though
it was soon after found, when the conditionk came.
to be understood, that much of their stbstariee had
been taken from them.

Mr. GRANT repeated, that nothing bad 'occurred.
by which Ite was autltoiiscd to say, that the discus-
sion alluded to ‘voUld take place the ensuing Ses-
sions.

Mr. foci:, referring to the late girt of one thou-
sand pounds to the Spanish Patriots, protested
aginst the illegality of the Dire.otars giviets away e
funds of the
Company, however meritorious the
object, withdut the consent oltheir CotistituentS.
In this Prbtest a Mr. Rock's,, Mr. Jackson and
other Proprietors declared ThernseiVes to agree.
The Coat Then adjourned.

The following is a List of the in'ient koyal Fafnir),
of Spain
charles IV. born NOvettiber 12, 18—'—K in gof
Spain and of the Indies; bee. 14, M 74t
—married,
Sept. 4, 1765, to Louisa Maria Theresa Of Parma,
Queen 'of Spain and 'of the Indies, borh Dtt'elliber
9,1751.-

ISSIIJE OF TH:S "ST ARRIAGE.
Ferdinand Maria Francis de 'Panle, Vic. Prince of
Astnrias; born Oft 14, 1784---married, Wt.
1801', 'to Alaria Antoinette Theresa, daughter of
Ferdinand IV. King Of the Two Sicilies, born Dec.
On 1784, died in 1`806:
Charles Maria Isidore, Infant of Spain, born
March 29, 178 H.
Frabcis de Paula Anthony Maria, Infatit of Spain,
born March.JO; 1794.
Charlotte Joachima, Infanta of Spain, born April
25, 1775—married January 9, 1790, to the Prince
Regent of Portugal:
Maria LouiSa '.loephina, born July 6, 1782--mat.
Aug. s, 1795, to Louis, Hereditary Prince of Parma,
afterwards created Kind of Etruria, and Who died in
1803.
Maria Isabella, Infanta Of Spain, born July 5,
;789.

IntoTittns bF Tlth KING;
Ferdinand 1V: King of the Two Sicilies.
Antonio Pascal Francis John Nepotnneeno Anii;•
eldo Raymond Sylvester, born Dec.3l, 17.5.5-z-inar-
ried his niece, the Infanta Maria Amelia, who died
July 27, t 798.

Sun of ►he Infant Gabriel and Maria Anna et Q.
ria, daughter 'Ot the Queen of Portugal-.—Peter
Charles; infant, born June 17, 1786.

THE ARTS.—Mr. GEORGE DANCE, archi-
te&ural learning, skill, and taste, are justly held in
high estimation, has been amusing himself for the
last fifteen years in sketching portraits, in chalk, of
many distinguished charaalers of -the present period,
comprehending eminent lights of the Church, Mem-
bers of the liberal professions, and indeed of most
who have raised themselves into public notice by
knowledge, talents, and genius, in all departments
of literature, science, and the arts. The whole of
the Royal Academy, of which the ingenious Artist is
a Member, of course, make a distinguished figure
in this gallery of our contemporaries. The series of
heads, in which female genius is not forgotten, has
long affurded high gratification to the amateurs in
private, not only for the fidelity and spirit by which
they are charaderized, but because they exhibit a
wonderful variety in the features and expression of
the human countenance. We have now reason to.
believe that the Artist will. submit 'them all to the
band of the Engraver, and gratify the, public, with
what has been a frequent eource of pleasure to the
circle of his-private friends: Mr. DANIELL, We 1111,
derstand, is the artist to whom the task of engraving
these conternporary Portraits is assigned, and it cer-
-tainly could not be committed to a hand more likely
to do justice to the merit of the .olignial'sketehes.

S?~ ILhr

ACCOUNT ()Fyn BATTLE OF ESPINOSA, BY A BRITISH
OFFICER. WITH GENERAL BLAICEiii ARMY.

, On the Bth of November, the army retreated
:from Vahnaseda to Nava and its vicinity., the divi-
sion of Asturias covering the retreat: On the 9th,
the retreat was continued to Espinosa. The division
of commanded by General Count Romana,
which had been previously stationed at El Barron;
aged as rear guard, and covering the retreat. On
the morning of the t th, General Blake received
information that his guard was attacked at about
a league from Espinosa. He, therefore, immedi-
ately formed .his arMy (which had arrived on the
night of the 9th) in flout of Esp;nosa, in the fol-
lowing order':—

The second division occupied a hill to the right,
in front of the town of Espinosa, the thial division
and reserve we're placed on a plain in the centre.

. .
The vanguard,, with six pieces of artillery (four-
pounders) was stationed on a small hill close in the
rear of the centre division.--The division of Fionia,
when attacked, took post on a small hill covered
.with wood, about a quarter of a league in front of
our centre. The enemy charged this division with
great impetuosity, and for a moment created some
disorder, and broke the ranks, the right giving way;
but being reinforced by two battalions of marines,
and being sustained by thelue of two 4-pounders,
the division of Fionia, in conjurAion with the two
battalions of marines, charged the enemy in their
turn,. With great spirit and vigodr. The :lollop be-
came -general along.the entire,line, with the excep-
tion of our left. The result was, that the enemy
was driven back, and obliged to retire to his original
position, about half a league di..,:tant. The enemy ad-
V.iinced again, however, and took post in a wood, and
along a ridge 0.4: hills, in front of our.right and centre.
The division o Fionia had by this time taken post
to the right of the third division, in conjuth.:tion
with which it closed the enemy, and kept up a well
&reeled and incessant lire, insomuch that the enemy
*ere obliged to retire behind the ridge of hills, still
keeping Up a partial 'fire from *file wo&l to their
left.

. . .
In this. state of tl;e a6.lion
,night came on ; the
enemy, according to all,appearance, were defeated,
or at least had the worst of theaaion of this day.
At the cl6Se of the day, General Blake gave orders
for the right. and centre divisions to close with the
enemy, and for the 3d division to move forward
and commence the attack with thebayonet. It was,
howevee,
,reported, . that there were two deep
trenches between the 3d division and the enemy;
which prevented -this order from being carried into
effect.

. , , .
The loss of the Spanish army in this Aay's action
was 'very considerable, and a very great proportion
of Officers were killed and wounded. Among the
latter were Brigadier General the Count de St. 116-
mltn, and Brigadier Gen. neqUelmi.*

On the morning of the t Ith -&ovethber, at (Iv%
break, the enemy, who by ,this time appeared to
have very considerable reinforcements in his rear,
advanced a column behind the wood and,ridge of
hills opposite to our `right, and at the sane time
Pushed forward tivO very strong columns, headed by
two sYnall column's of a battalion each, against the
height Occupied by our left, which consktel of the
first division, and that of AsttVrias. Gen. Blake lost
no time in sending a reinforcement of a battalion of
grenadiers to the left division. He at the same time
dispatched two other battalions to dank the right
pOtion of our left, with 'a view'of falling upon the
left flank of 'lite enemy's line, as be advanced to at-
tack Our left diviSion.

The enemy, according to his uniform practice,
Commenced his attack by sending forward a very
strong corps of sharp-shooters,. who were advanced
a very considerable distance in front of his column,
which iiiarched along the side of the height occu-
pied by our left, with the, evident intention of out-
flanking us.

The enemy's voltigenrs, for Want of troops of a
similar description to oppose to them, drew the fire
of the eniire line of the Asturians, and the fir*t di-
vision. The enemy's voltigeurs were twice repulsed
with considerable loss, but being reinforced, they
returned a third time to the attack. At the same
time the enemy's column formed line, and advanced
against the Spanish line, which, after receiving two
distharges, and having lost the three Generals who
!commanded it, a momentary want of command en-
sued, and
,the line gave way. The enemy, at, this
time, commenced an attack upon oar right and cen-
tre, but without being able to make any impression.
However, as the columns which had defeated our
left were in full march to occupy some heights in the
rear of the town of Espinosa, which commanded
the road by which we would have to retreat in any
other event than that of a success, which was now
hopeless, General Blake deemed it advisable to order
a general retreat, which accordingly took place, and
was executed with-as much order as existing circum-.
stances would admit.

•
The vanguard and Centre division having to re-
treat by d narrow bridge and defile, and the roads
being in very bad .order, in consequence of the heavy
rains, it was very soon evident that any attempt to
save the artillery must very much embarrass the re-
treating divisions, and retard their progress, if not
endanger their safety altogether. General Blake
deemed it theretbre the most advisable plan to keep
up a constant tire from the guns against the advanc-
ing enemy, to the last pos.itde moment, and then
to render them useless and abandon them. He issued
orders accordingly, which were carried into etre& in
a manner highly honourable to those charged with
the execution of them. They were directed with
much skill by Colonel Paredes, and !heir fire galled
the enemy very much in their advance. It was not
till the enemy were quite close that the firing ceased.
Colonel Paredes then caused the guns to be spiked,
and retiring with his °dicers and men, waded a river
in his rear, and escaped to the army. The guns
which fell into the enemy's hands were six 4-pound-
ers. The army continued its retreat to Reynosa,
the enemy not attempting any immediate pursuit.

General Requelini died subsequently on board a British
Ship which was conveying him r!oin St. A ndzro to Cortmtia,
atter it became itecess:iry to ab:indosi the fort4er place can the
approach
..of th 9 turce.

e tl se.

Our loss in killed, ani wounded, jig`
the aCtions- of
the LW' and 1 Itli was considerable. ,

• .TPe division of Asturias suffered mast pWiCularly
in-officers, having had . General Quiros killed, and
General Acevedo, with many other Orr-kers A rank,
wounded. The euelny.rlso suffered very consider-
ably, particularly from the 'fire of the, Spaoilli artil-
lery, which was well served, and dirt:tied with treat
judgment,

OviEno, Nov. ;0.44 arrived here on the. ,'..;'.8111,
and t-rom all that I have been able to
.earn by coo-
tinued investigation sinee'my arrival, the position of
the•enemy is as follows :—Lis right is at Danes,
where at present there ate. not more than 80 or 00
men. With the reznaindt.r of his force in ,t this
quarter he, occupies 'Amiga!, St. Vincente de la
Barquera, I3irca de Unquera, Permanes,Lisbana,
Poles, and Columbres.. 1,% en ire force this
chain of •posts is estimated% collectively at:12,600
men, or I 4,00 D at ,the most. The Asterians, in
number 4000rcommandedby Gen.Bals,rerc.s.and the
about 8000 occupy z nd Puerto:!e Pi.:r.h-et-
tita, two very strong passes, abOut I 4 leagues from
bviedo, and are confident of maintaining these posts..
In the rear of these posts are two other;
strong, Arbagal, the road leading to Cr, iedo, -
whence it is distant six leagues, and the height of,
Peon, leading to Gijon. There is very little proba.-
hility that the enemy will attempt to penetrate far-
ther into Asturias, if so tar, for, iudcpendent of the
obstacles which the very great want of p,rovisinan
and probable inclemency of the weather at ti4is
sea-
son of the year, would present to an army marching
though the Asturian mountains, the very strong po-
sitions which the natives can. occupy all along . the
river -Nalor, .which is no where fordable, would
render any attempt on the part of the enemy to pe-
netrate through .AStnrias to Galicia extremely diffi-
cult, if not altogether impraelicable, partiCularly
while there remain armies at Astorga and Leon in
positions to menace or cut off the retreat of any
body of troopS that may enter into Alti.niaS.
All possible means arc in train for uniting the
scattered remains of the AAutians of Gen. Blake's
army, and for restorit, the confidence which the
great privations and sufferings already endured • by,'.
the soldiers, and the present inability of the Junta to
relleve those wants and sufferings have necessarily
diminished. From all these .considerations ahoy( -
mentioned, there does not appear any reasonahle
ground to apprehend an attack on Asturias ;. but as.
thew is a plain between Co:urnbres, Chiles, and
ilibadetella, in which a large body of troops may anti
it.hal not been deemed prudent to obeopy Warn-
bres under existing circumstances.

Skaiting commenced in both the Parka.yesterelar ;
the crowd. of juvenile skaiters on the canal way

Burlington House, at Chiswick, will be extremely
gay this season, by the presence of the Marquis of
HARTINGTON and a party of his young friends. The
Duke of DEyotssuip, with his usual philanthropy,
nieans,to display uluth old English hospitality on the
Occasion.

On Friday. morning the folloNing shocking cir-
ctltemstance occurred in Sandgate, in Newcastle. • A
young woman, i.ileeping, with an infant awoke
early in the morning, and missed the Child ant of
the 1,0. On earching, the room, she fOuird that it
had fallen from the bed into a tub of Viater„ which
had been left near it, and. was drowned. The shrieks
of the young woman, on discovering this Melan-
choly event; alarmed the neighbours, :who,. instead
of endeavotsiririg to quiet her perturbed mind, began
to charge her with carelessness, &c. This, added
to the anticipated refleaions of the mother (who
was then at Shields), operated so powerfully on the
young woman's feelings, that she rushed out, of the
house, and, in a fit of frenzy, precipitated herself
into the river, where she was drowned before any
assistance could be afforded..--The young . woman
was the child's aunt, and sister to the husband.
A terrible fire broke out betwixt one and two
o'clock on Thursday morning, in a kitchen under
the shop and parlour of Mr. George Carr, tallow-
chandler, Hexam, which threatened destruction
to a vast pile of buildings, and it was not known to
the family above until they were almost suffo-
cated. Mrs. Carr, Miss Robson, and three of the
children, threw themselves from the window of the
room above the parlour, and happily received little
injury. . Several fruitless attempts were made to
rescue two remaining ones, by breaking in the win-
dows in an upper story. The doors were unfor-
tunately open, and the rooms were filled with such
an intense smoke, that no person could enter to do
any good until the fire, by the united exertions-of a
number of persons, was somewhat got under, when
the poor little -sufferers were ,relieved from their
awful situation by -Mr. James Meston, who handed
them from a window of the third story.; they were
conveyed to the adjoining house, when medical aid
was:soon procured, and they are now, to the great
joy of their friends, in a fair way of recovery. Every
care was taken by the Gentlemen of the Vicinity in
removing the goods- from the shop and warehouse,
as _nothing else could be attempted ; and the late
volunteers. attended ,to. protect the property. It was
occasioned, it is supposed, by a spark falling on some
linen upon a clothes horse. .

About a week since, as Mr. William Richardson,
of Allen, Shields, the agent to the lead-mines, near
Bleuckland, in the County of Durham, was return-
ing home from collealing•money, on horseback, he
was stopped by two footpads, who were supposed to
have waylaid him, it being pretty generally known
that he was travelling, with a large sum of money ;
about two miles north of Hamsterley, on the road to
Walsinghem ; one of the robbers seized the bridle
of the horse, and the other cut the .traps of the sad-
, die-hits, which contained,- in cash and notes, y 341.
9s. Gd. with which they made their escape..
A few days since, a Coroner's Inquest was held
at the Lord Nelson Publie-house,
,Somers-town, on
the body of a child found drowned in a pond near
that house, wrapped up with a brick in a piece of
green baize. It appeared to have been in the water
about three weeks: The Jury returned-a verdict of
wilful murder against some persons unknown.
SECOND DAY CF DRAWING.--NO. 133, a Prize of
Thousand Pounds, was sold in the following
Shares, namely, One Quarter, One: Eighth, and
'feu Sixteenths, at. the. Old EstabliShed State Lot-
terv-OtEces of HORNSBY and C 9.26, Corr:hill; and.
St. Margaret's Hill, Borough,