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HESIOD, A NEW TRANSLATION,
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rF"--REMAINS OF HESIOD, the Ascriaba
Translated fro:vim Greek into English Verse. with-
a Prelitninary Dissertation and Notes.
By CHARLES ABRAHAM ELTON;
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SpeciMens of the obsolete Vetsien of Hesiod's Georgics'
by George Chapman.
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Edw., Rev. 20. 29.
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MONDAY, DECEMBER- 18,,.130.9t „

Thete is every reason to belicve tliat the report of
tho loss of the friga.te ly totally _tinfQ'.'.,nded•
No account. of such an accident has reached tie Al.'-

tuiralty, and yet many letters, have been received
front Guernsey, dated the ,-ttl( itistant, the very day
that the report of the Russqr'; lass i said to have
bttto received at Plymouth, We have confident.
hopes, therefore, that the report must have originated.
in a.mistal:e. We trwit that it is the otfiprinz of
some malevotent writer.

We last night received Span4ll, Papers to the
tilt.— They, well as the Portuguese Papeis- which
arrived on Saturday, attempt to represent the result

of tlfe late battle as less unfavourable to the Spaniards
than was at first reported. We have, however,
little doubt that the defeat was most decisive. W
h;,vQ.seen private letters which represent the hiss of
the Spaniards as amounting to 5000 .killed, and
7..l)olctisanets.
.Th.s; however, we are convinced„
is a t;reat esaggerittion of their loss. But while,'on
the *one hand, we do trot thip.l: it light to dissemble
tt.e defeat of the Spaniards, oil the other, we are far

fro_n considerin,; their cause as hopeless, because,
army hps been beaten, 'Tile Spanish ar-
r.ne. have been
,repeatedly defeated and d:spersed,
b.lr they have invariably, aSsembled again, aid in a
,hart .tilue have been ready to make head against
The French, it is ;aid, Srffe'red
,very
s•zt-erely in tills battle, and; indeed, nothing can -be
:ro-)ger proof of the imprQved ditcipline of the
Si ,•.-hiards than that for three 1)(46: they thaintained
grow id agaikist the French in ba open plain,
w:iere the latter had full opportunity to avail them.
selves bi.' their super;or tactics. It is said that the
Span:lards saved the greater part of thieir artillery. If
this, 4.vere true, we .should be convinced that thv
was by up means clectsive.: ,There-is a para•
graph in these, Papers which we read with consi-
d6rable • pleasure, it states, that accounts had been
received from C.italonia th;kt. another French Squa.
di•on. w,;if,,,h had sailed frpm Toulon with troops and
ammunitin on board, had been captured by -a Bri,•
tish Squadron. Tile first accounts, which );cached
of the late ataion in the. Mediterranean, reached use
through the Spanish 'Papers, and we trust the result
will, prove them to, have been as correa on this oc-
casion as they wtorp nn the. former.
Lod WEL.LINGT.ON'S- army, we are happy to.say,
is in a very different situation; both in point of health
,
And numbers, from that in which it is representedtoi
be in the private Letters dated from the :Banks of the
Tagus, .but written on the Banks of the Thames,
which appear in some of our Opposition Papers.
A •
The troops were rapidly recovering their lk;alth, and
the arthy amounted, when the, last official accounts

enemies.

came away, to 32,000 men.
It is highly probable that Lord WELLINGTON will
Make Some movements to facilitate the retreat of the
Spanish Army, and to give it time to re-assemble.

Colonel TARDLE, not satisfied with the result of
tivo .fair trials, and the verdicts of two impartial
luries, has thought proper to address a letter to
Lord ELLUNDOROuGH, in which he attemptetoans-
Wer some of the.observations made by the Learned
Judge, in his summing up to the Jury,- on the late.
trial fc,.r the' conspiracy., Such the unfeigned vene:
•
ration which we feel for the decision of our Courts of
Justice, that we cannot view without deep regret,
. • . , • • • • •
any thing like an animadversion upon, their decisions.
.A.‘defr.*d perry is seldom! satisfied with the juds.

m:nt which,cleclares thern to'h2ve ban wrong, but
it i not to ))e endured, that every disappointed
is to vent his spleen by arraigning tte deci.ion.ol
Court of ..111:tice. In this case, as Con \Vat:D[4l has
;e ;pressed and-as alrhoSt all the •Moining
•
Papers have,given extraeta trorn this letter, we liave
sele6leJ Some Farts 91 it, in order to gfoify the cu-
riosity of our ,Readers.—We, are far finin being the
frieuds•of Col. WARD t.t., but we are. convinced that
we give him most triendly co,lncil, when we advise
him to obtrude as little as possible• for the future or; .1

NAVAL NEWS.

the LONLON GAZETTE, Dec. i 6, ISog.

-./Ithiziralty-011iee, Dec. t 6, 1 seg.
Coy of a Letter from Captain Sir George R. Collier, of his
Nlajesty's Ship-the Stirveillante, addressed to the'Hon.
Rear-Admiral Stopford, and transmitted by Lord,Gambler
to lahn Wilson Croker, Esq.
, . His Majesty's ship Surveillance, at
. .SIR, Sea, Dec. 3, 1809. -
I have the honour to acqutkint you, that his Ma:,
jesty's ship under my command has been driven in
the late gales -raOter to the southward of the station
allotted to.her by your order ; and' in recovering" my
ground this. day, captured the French cutter priva-
teer La Comtesse l-Laure, Jean Jacques Beltiers, CoM-
mander. -
The privateer is of a class, and possesses qualities
admirably calculated (Or the, annoyance of the Bri-
tish trade; she is coppey-bottomed and sails fast ;
pierced for 16 guns,,and has 14 mounted twelve and
eight-poundera; .5,5 men on board,. being part of her
complement ; five days out of 1100'1000 without
InalOng,4ay capture;..
1 have the honour to be, Sic.
(Signed) Q. A. CQLLIER,
_ _

Pop.T4mou.Tll,,DEc.. 10..7-Ma owing the Fran-
chise -irigate, Capt.:DAsnwdon, arrived here in 37 •
"from Vera Crui, and 25 days from off the
liavannah; she has hroUght home .a million of dol,
tars for Government. The Franchise spoke the
Mermaid frigate .a 'few days since ; she had. patted-
from the convoy which she sailed with from Quebec
in a gale of wind. The British ships. Which have
lately visited Vera Cruz, have been very sickly.—
The Franchise lost 26 men, beside Lieut: D. JONES,
TIN. and Lieut: IL P. CAV,ENAGH, Royal Marines.
All the Midshipmen of the Vociaziv.tcd-trie4. there