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Matilahb S'OelEtY OP SCOTL.4XI).

Eottuautt'on, JAN. AnniVersiry Oe.
11031 Meeting of this Society was held in their Hall
on Tuesday at which. there was a very re-
, spectable and fill! attendanCe Of the Members, to
the number of upwards of one hundred. The .Right
lion. Lord Viscount CATIIt;AIUT, Vice-President, in
the Chair.
About forty new Members were admitted Into the
Society, and various noticed were given .respeeting
the premiums given for the Improvement of agti;•
culture and manufaEtures. Among many other mat-
ters, the:attention of the Society Was called to the
highly meritorious and spirited condu& of two, indi-
Ghials, who, among many others of our gallant

countrymen, had piirticuldrly distinguished them-
'selves at the battle of Vimiera, so as to attra& the
• • notice of Major-General FERGUSSON, under Whose
command the 71st Highland Regiment, to which
litey belonged, had been ' placed. General TER-
°PSSON, in his letter, states, that ANGUS MACKAY
• (then a Corporal in the 71st regiment, but who had
since been very deservedly promoted to a commission)
Wa'i the parson who had, on the above occasion, re-
fused to accept of the Fiend' General -Bitempat's
Watch and purse, when tendered to him by that
Officer, at the time he was taken prisonti----and that
STEWART, the piper of the grenadier company of
the same regiment, had, atter being severely and
• dangerously wounded, continued to play to animate
the men. General FERGUSSON expresses a hope
that this-Society would confer some public mark
of its approbation upon these men for their Con-
duet. • - •
The Meeting, with much approbation, and agree-
able to the suggestion of the Direetor4unanimously
resolved, that a gold medal, with suitable devices
rind inscription, should be presented by the Society
to Mr. MAckAY, as a mark of the sense the Society
entertains of his meritorious, manly, and disinter-
ested condu&, as above stated ;• and that a hand-
. sofpe stand of Highland pipes, whit a proper in-
•• scription engraved thereon, shall be given to
STEWART, the' piper, 'foriohis highly spirited and
laudable condua 'at the batttle Of Vimiera.

1 ' • The Transport Board continues to engage all cop-
'1)1. Vessels competent to the conveyance of troops,
that are offered, at the advanced price of 255. per ton,
per month.
'The reinforcements for Sir JOHN MoOltE's army
from Portugal consist of 7500 English troops, com-
, minded by General MACKENZIE, and four brigades
• of Portuguese' troops.
Letters were received yesterday from Tenerifle,
which state, that the inhabitants ale vying with
those of the Mother Country, in their efforts for the
defence. of the Islands, Nu:ebers have enrolled
' .the rnselves in the army ; and a private individual has
raised at his own expence 125 men, for iheetquipping
of whom lie has sent orders to this. Country.
A Military Officer arrived yesterday in Downing
Street, with Dispatches. from the West Indies. It
Was reported that he brought an account of the cap-
ture of Martinique. Thai, IrOlietVer, was not the
. fait; but, we understand, he has brought an ac-
count of the arrival of Sir Geotios PRavosT, anti
the preparations made by him for an attack upon
1 that and the other French West India Island;.
Sir JOUR Moose has sent from the army which
lic commands; one officer of very high rank, and
two officers or very- aupetior runk, on account of in-
rapacity, and unfitness to_cominatid, It is.but pro-
-
Per to mention, that want of courage is not the fault
imputed to these Gentlemen; but courage is put one
I, quality (though an indispensible. one) in an officer.
l' We are informed • that the Dutch Merchants are
loud in their complaints of the ernbarrassments of
trade, Immense quantities of cheeses are rotting in
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their warehouses, and their rich butters are convert-
,'
.1 ring into soap; yet they indulge a. hope that the in-
tercessions of Louis will obtain 'for them some re-
laxation of the severity of the commer,eiallaws on.
0, the return of spring,
4 It warvery currently reported in the City yester-
day, that Buenos Ayres,-'Monte Video, and, all the
1 Spanish Settlements on theatio Plata, had declared
themielves independent of the Mother country, and
were proceeding to organize a Government.
Yesterday the Prince of WALEs and 'Duke of
CLARENCE visited their MAJESTIES and the Palm-
! CEssES. . .
Yesterday! the Princesses AUGUsti and SDEHIA
14, honoured Lady CHARLOTTE FINCH with a visit.
',
.16 pursuance of the Resolution of the Rouse of
Commons in the last Session, a National Institution,
for the purpisse of proingring Vaccination, is esta-
i,
. ' hllshed under the management of a Board, which
consists of the following Members :—Sir Luca's'
Pepys, Bart. President of the-Royal College of Phy-
Aicians ; Dr. Mayo, 'Dr. Heberden, Dr. Satterley,
.and Dr, Bancroft, censors of the College ; George
Chandler, Esq. Master; and Robert ICeate, E.
1 • and Sir Charles Blicke, Governors of the Royal
iCollege of Surgeons. • Tim Board have appointed
the following Officeri :,—Direaor,. Dr. Jenner ;
"Assistant-Director, James Moore, Eel, ; Register,
4 • Dr. Hervey ; Principal Vaccinator, J. C. Carpue,
!--. .' Esq.; Vaccinators at the Stations, Charles Aikin,
Esq. Thomas Hale, Esq. Richard Lane, Eq. Ed.
Ward Leese,'Esq, S. Sawrey, Esq. and J. P. Vincent,
Esq.; Secretary, Charles Murray, Esq.
ne-cleCision.of the Court-Martial held at Chat-
itatu on Lieutenant WM. George Burchall, of 111 e.
Marinesils, that the charges are all proved, and they
do lenience him to be Caska ier,'. he retelling „Sultan MAIioNIET is the onlyre-
maining repreientativc of fhe 4ynasty of OTa H 24,
;tilt' will, Of course, be. somewhat respected, even by
I those'who are most enraged against the innovations
..
introduced under-his reign. The next beirsare the
t Glieraii,Turtar Khans, who have been sedulously se.
cluded in die'remote provinces of the Turkish Ent-
.: . Ore and 'the small Islands of the Archipelago, lest
. they should be 'taken -up by'any of the leaders, of
listie revolutionary contests, of which the fermiof the
liurkirth Government was so susceptible. •
On the afternoon of. Saturday, last, a chid waj ..
:/:, 'fought on the Race Course, about a mile from Lei-'
tester, between a Mr. P, and e Mr. L.'both Gentle-
r - men of considerable los tune and interest in that,
. , county. The dispute is said ter have originated dur-
ing the exercise of their magisterial duty. They
.•.; • 'were attended to the ground by a Captain R. ef.
duelling notoriety, friend of the former, and a Mr.-
K. triend.of the latter Gentleman.. Au exchange
• of Shots took, place, WIWI) i the affair was amicably
aelested.

bbk PO TFIA. Alkfr. ItitA, 'lO6.

13y H. 1. 1"VE; Esq. ra..

ruil.orb'd in equinalial skies,
IVhea the pale moon malignant tides,
And bids the howling tempest rise,
And swells the ocean's briny tides,
Dreadful, against the sounding shore, '
The winds and waves tumult eus roar;
The torrent-braVing mound, in vain, ' •
The stormy inroad would restrains
The surges, with resistlets sway,
FoOce o'er the labour'd Mole then= way;
Scorn every weak-resource of huMan toil; - •
'o'erwhelm the peopl'd town, and waste the cnlttied soil.
'But when;' by native fences bared
trona billowy rage, the happier land,
.Androcky cliffs for ever stand
:To the Wide- %4; ater'd coast a guard; •
• Such as on Veda's southern.steep
Look doWn defiance on the raging deep, •
Such as on Dover's breezy down •
On Gallia's hostile borders frown,
Tho' billows urging billows roar,
And icily beat ,a\gainst the shore,
'tlbile fiorn the heights sublime the swain
Mocks the vain efforts of the foaming main,
Till nature bids the deluged surge subside,
Hush'd is the tempest's voice, and rauent rolls the tide.
So,'o'er Europa's ravaged plain,
We saw the torrent of ry4r,
Resistless, spread its iron reign,'
And scatter ruin wide and far;
The embattl'd wall—the wariike band:—
Vainly the Tyrant's course withstand ; •
Before the impious Sons of Gaul
The legions fly, the bularks fall ;
Yet Britain's floating bastles sweep •
Invasion from lwrsubjed deep ; -
Yet, by her rocks secure from harm
Securer by her patriot arm
Iberia turns the battle's tide ;
Resists the injurious Tyrant's pride ;
11sile, freely floating its the ambient sky,
Sieredto ,lireetkim's cause, their mingled cosigns ily. ,

We have the authority of an Officer on board his
Majesty's Ship Sto.m&rd, at Chatham, for saying,
that the manner in .which. the conduct of the crew
of that ship has been mentioned in the 'Morning
Papers, (from which we copied the article), was a
gross falsehood, and that previous td, their going on
, leave ',they behaved with all due obedience ausl
&OA.' The same Gentleman assures ui, that the
Officers ofihat ship were astonished and concerned
at such an.untounded misrepresentation, as the con-
duet of the men was totally the reverse.—We are
happy in availing ottrselves of any opportunity of
doing justice to the .Charaeler of our gallant Tar 9,
and while we sincerely thank our correspondent fur
enabling us, to corred this gross mis•statement, we
trust the Public Prints will iii future be more cau,
tious in admitting. articlt!ts 'which. may tend to
lead our 'brave Naval Defenders into error, and
which indeed might produce incalculable mischief.

• Tans THEATR ir..—The admirable Comedy of The
Provoked Husband, was represented List night at
the Haymarket Theatre, but not before so numerous
an audience as, from the intrinsic merit of the piece,
and the general ability of the pea formers, might be •
expeetect. Mr. YOUNG pourtrayed the connubial.
disappointinents of Lord Torun/y, with.great feel-
ing, and expressed his determined resentment with
proper. dignity. - His perfortmnce, on the whole,
‘eas• highly respobable. We are sorry 'to say,
that Mrs.' H. JOHNSTON E'S ,the worst. repre-•
,sentation of Lady • Townly .:we ever , saw, and
Wholly unworthy of the, London boards. H'er ac-
tion was uncultivated, her manners unpolished, and
lier whole conception of the chant-61er, except in the
sinks -inslince where she recovers the money from
the Steward, grossly erroneous. Miss BOLTUN NUS..
tained the charailer pf Lady Grace with great judg-
ment and propriety, and the same may be said of
• MURRAY in the part of Manly, though be certainly
appeared rather too far " declined into the vale of
years" for a lover.—Mrs, GIBBS and SimmoNs sup- •
ported the chara6ters of Miss Jenny and Squire
Dick w itly great spirit, but were a little too frisky,
whilb. 'the dialogue was going forward, in the front
of the Stage. M u MIN and EIiERY 'were excellent
in Sir Francis sad John Moody.
We are glad to find Oat one of the regulations
which is to takeplacein'the new. theatre at Covent
Gardeti, is to prevent tlw,women of the town from
mixing promiscuously with the audience in general.
An arrangeMent cif this kind prevails in the DUbrin
and Edinburgh theatres, -and there can be nodifil-
culty, we should Conceive,• in 'extending it to the
•Londonstages. At present it must be painful and
disgnstful to a husband and a father, to !wive the de-;
licaey of the females under their proteclion exposed
to thegross language, and shameless deportment of
the numerous 'troops of unfortunate women,
whom the theatres are nightly haunted, and who
• seem often to take a pride in putting modesty to the •
Wadi, to say nothing of the impudent and drunken
blockheads who ' encourage and assist them in the
violation of 1;604 manners and common decency. .
The Marquis of STAFFORI) has just coMplet' ed a
Cemetery near. to his seat of Trentham „Hall, in.
Staffordshire. This bpdtling is:after the manner of.
the Roman Tombs, and consequently situate on t•he
road Side—The Ancients usually bll4l their 'rumba
near the highways, which 'reminded them of their
ancestors,, and was, at the same 'time' a useful me-
numto!pfonortality to the traveller. The Cemetry
is.of7,,stone,.a square of 40 feet an the base,.and rises
pyramidically 40 feet high. The inside contains 40
Catacombs under one grained arch of stone, and the
whole is lined with a beautitnlly dark, and highly
polished marble. Over the door, on the inside, is
this inscription : • • •
Extruzit G. G--Mar. ii. Stafford--t 3 8."

Petitions have 'been .sent' from the debtors, con-.
fined in the King's Bench Prison, to be presented to
&whit:louses of Parliament in the next Session, sign-
fod by:34 persons, having 278 'wives andl)ot cull-
dren dei‘endent on them for support. We onder.;
,ilerstand all these are Within the walls, which adde4
to. those in the liole4, will composean.ag‘ireate of
v1,0404(4760 prisoners, at this time, conned for
debt in that prition only.