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London, England, 1809-06-20 00:00:00

HELIGOiaND Aida.

Isgtritc, MAY it4.--Letters from Poland, of the
46, state, the thking of the redoubt of the bridge
of Astrovvick, facing, Gap, by.the Polish troops.

. On the 3d of May the Austrian General SCHA.
Wit6Tl4 escaped in a boat (haill3 a storm, but three
Officets and 1800 soldiers were taken; 60 Poles
were !Oiled, and an equal number wounded.
Ms v ‘2o.—The Saxon corps has had- several skit-
mislics on the frontiers with the Austrians com-
manded by the Duke of BauNswicx, Ost.s.
• MAY 30.—The Polish cavalry extends towards
Limherg, and Makes movements against Cracow.
Sendomer surrendered by capitulation, and in the
action of the redoubt of the bridge, 1000 Austrians
were and 200, \vitt) 20 pieces of cannon,
and considerable magazines, taken.
Jo 'a
letter dated Banks of the Elbe, June 2, it is
Dail, that. in the late great battle ate Lsling, Btiori,t.

and infantry give way, ordered the cannon to be
planted in their tear. In hia vehemence Ile loaded
the hotie and loot with the most oppiobrious in.
vsl4iyes.
Near 10,000 Frenchmen are said to have been
drowned in the Danube.

V4V,10.4
If ‘ve rightly understood the Hem Gentleman, he
said he was induced to bring forward the Motion in
ccinieqUence of a demand. Which had been Made Upon
him at a certain Meeting for the purpose of proinot•
ing a Parliamentary Retorm, and that he should not
other Wise have introduced it. This is_surely a strange
reason, for if the measure were. proper in itself, he
ought to have tided from a very different impulse,
than a desire of conforming to the wish of such a
meeting, and the merits of the question should have
operated upon his sense of duty to the public. But it
appears that whatever retrenchments in the National
Expenditure he deemed oecessary and expedient,
Parliamentary Reform was his great object, and in
the pursuit of that object he attempted to 'justify
himself by a reference to what was said by Mr.
PITT in the year 1782, who . was then an advocate
for a Reform in Parliament. To the opinions of
Mr. PITT, at any stage of his life, every man who

values a great and virtuous character would be in-
clined to listen with respefit, but surely we should
rather attend to those opinions which he formed after
long meditation and experience,when his knowledge
was more extensive, and hisjudgment,more mature.
In the latter part of Mr. Pirr's useful and ho-
nourablelife, it is evident that his notions of the
expediency of a Parliamentary Reform were totally
changed, and the dreadful innovations in the Go-
vernment of France, were quite sufficient to make
him pause before he could think of suggesting any
change in our Constitution, even if the progreis of
reflection and experience had nut convinced him of
the danger of touching a system, which time and
practice had brought as near perfuction as is consis-
tent with any human institutions. So that Mr.
WAILDLE was not justifying himself by a reference
to Mr. Parr, when he became such an enlightened
and experienced Statesman as the world had never
seen before. As to the retrenchments themselves,
which Mr. Waiting proposed, they were not of a
nature that,weconceive,could properly be made at this
period when we are involved in a war with the most
powerful enemy that ever assailed us, and who has
resolved upon nothing.short of our destnadion as a
nation. Mr: WARDLE dwelt much upon what he
deemed the excess of our military establishments,
" and imputed much of it to mere parade. This lan-
guage would skew that he derived his opinions and
sentiments from the Meeting at whose 'desire he
stated that he was induced to bring forWarl the clues.
tion. It savoured strongly of those republican prin-
ciples which prompted the great MILTOW to say On
" the trappings of a Monarchy would set up a Com-
mon-wealth," without. once considering that the
chief members of a Common-wealth are a- herd
of petty tyrants, whose expences would most
probably far exceed those trappings of which the
agent of a republic spoke thus contemptuously.--
We shall say nothing upon the late period in the
Session at which Mr. WARDLE introduced a subjea
of this arduous and intricate nature, as Mr. 'hams-
SON so . ably commented on this point, as well as
demonstrated the fallacy of his statement and de,

The Lilac, RIPLEY, and the Swift, RAT, from
Malta to London, are taken by a French Pri-
vateer, after an action of thrae.houts.and carried into
Marseilles; Capt. RAY was killialband Capt. Ramar
severely wounded.
Accounts have been received-of Colonel CARROL,
,for whom considerable apprehensions were entertain-
ed since he was compelled to make lust. escape from
Gijon, on the 20th nit. with the Marquis de 110-
MASA, upon the entrance of the French into Astu.
flits, from Biscay and Gallicia. Colonel CARAOL
was left 'at-sea, proceeding to Vigo, where be meant
to land, in order to proceed to the 'army of Marshal
.13EIMWORD, ROMANA intended to land in some of
the,unfrequented creeks on the coast of Gallicia, in
order to lola his army, which he had left on the
banks of the river 14a, on the confines of Gallicia
and Asturias. .

Days and Piecei appointed for bolding the Sum-
tiler Assizes, 180 g.

'HOME CIRCUIT.
Bnfore Lord EiLitraortooon, and the Chief Baron .
' MaDorrAt.a.
Hertfordshire--Monday, 'July 24. at Hereford.
Essea—.l'llur.i:lay, July x 6, at Chelmsford.
ke,:t —Monday, {Lily 31, at 6,l.idstoue.
Sussex --Sutualy, ugust 5, at Lewes.
Surrep—Wednesday, August 9, at Cnoydon. •

•
WI StERN CIRCUIT..•
Before Sit,S, I.4wi;eNce, ic.nt.•antiStr R. GRAHAM, Kilt
Southittliptori,-TtleStipy, It.tiy IS, it the Castle a Winches
ter,

IVilts--Saturday, July 22, at New Sarturt.
Dorset—Wetinchtlay, luly 26, nt Durctiester,
Dtvott—Seurtiay, 'Lily 29, at the Caßtit ot Exeter.
City and County of Exeler—Satne Day, at ttur,.,G uildhall of
Rxeter.
Cornwall—Monday, August 7, at Bodttin.
Somerset—Saturday, August 12, at lititiKewater.
City and County of Bristol—Friday, August as, at at Guild-
haft, Exeter.

General CnAuFuRD'l3 expedition,, which is ready
embarkaiion at the Isle of Wight, consists en•
irely of light, troops, the 43d, 53tf, And 95th regi•

A policy was yesterday sliewn in the City, the,
coll,iitiou of ,Which is, that by the payment of fitly
the, I.lUbgeriber shall pay 1001. it BuottA.
P., j< cisshall be in the possession of Vienna on the
et. July.

PoRTSMOIITH, JUNE I g.--Arrived the Alc►td-
ship, WA R DLit, from London ; Williant, J imys,
from Ireland. Also his Majesty's ships liesaation
and &Ilona, from the Channel Fleet.

Sailded his Majesty's ships Hardy and Tickler, on

A cruite.

DEAL, hus Ig,--Arrived the ilhalist sloop of
war, from a crnize.

Sailed the Troinpeuse sloop of war, on a craize ;
Rhine, TAYLOR, for St. Domingo; and American,
Coustntu, for St. John's.

COWES, JUNE 19.—This morning arrived here
large American ship, the Robert Hail, MAATIIi
PAGE Master, from Providence, in Rhode Island,
with a cargo of cotton, rice, and tobacco; out 93
days. SEe has merely put in here for orders.