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ANDER fron' indulging any hopes of that kind,
BuoNApAsTs expressly says, " I will prole& Me
Porte, if the-Porte withdraw herself from the fatal
influence of England." But it may he said if Tur-
key does not break off her connexion with England,
that ALEXANDER will be allowed to pursue his
corTiests and realize his schemes of ambition.
; BUONAPARTE has provided for that case
les° ; for he says, " if the Porte does not break
with England, I will punish her." In either case,
th,”-efore, the views of the Emperor ALEXANDER
are frustrated : if Turkey complies, with BUoNA•
rARTE'S will, he will proteEt her:;. if. she-does not, he
will punish her. That is to say; he wilt dismember
that Empire, and keep the plundet for himself.

The threats in whick, BUONAPARTE indulges him-
seltagainst Spain are as usual very violent, but it will
not escape the observation of the People of Fiance
that he has made similar threats before, and that
be has hitherto been unable to carry his menaces
in' o execution. •

The Opposition having in .vain-endeavoured to
convince the people of this country that they ought
to petition for the removal of Ministers, have now
adopted a different course. They have
.found that
the people are not to be convinced by fallacious ar-
guments, and are therefore now determined to try
if they can be deceived by unfounded assertions.—
We are told in some of the Opposition Papers, with
great solemnity, and with an assumption of superior
knowledge upon the subjeEt, that Lord CHATHAM
lets anually determined to resign,- and that Lord
MULGRAVE is about to follow his example. To :his.
statement we are enabled to give the most unqualified.
contradi6iion. That the Oppo, ition earnestly wish that
Lord CHATHAM and Lord MuLGnAvE, and every
other Member of the Cabinet, would resign, we
have no doubt, but their wishes and thoSe of the

public are not'quitc in unison upon this point; and
we are inclined to think that a long, a very long
time will elapse before the golden dreams of the
party that is so anzious to get into power will be
realized. .

The result of the Prosecution instituted -against

11,1e.ssrs. WRIGHT kind Mrs. CLARKE, HIM give sa-
tisfaeliol. to every man who loves justice, and who
is a friend to his country. We do not feet inclined
to aggravate Mr. WARDLE'S present stiff-clings, by
Tnaking ouch obsc-rvations as na:urally occur to us
ppon that ti ial. Vie might fairly be accused of more
than common enmity to that Gentleman if we were
to attack him with asperity now that he is so com-
pletely fallen. After the trial of !Ii(- srougl,t
against Lien by WRIGHT, he requested the people of
Euspt.w.i their judo (mut, 414 pledged

himself to prove thAt that verdia had been obtained
by perjury. In order to iedeem his pledge, Mr.
WARDLE indi&ed the pa ties, not for perjury, but for
a conspiracy, by which they were deprived of the
benefit of each ether's testimony (a mode of proceed-
ing which was very severely reprobated by Lord EL-
LENBOROUGH). That indi6tment Mr. WARMS
supported by his own oath, and by the oaths of Ma-
jors DC:DD and GLENNYi but the Jury acquitted the
Defendants. The people of England May now,
upon Mr. WARDLE'S own principle, form their opi.-
mon of his charmer. He requested the public to
suspend their judgment until he made an appeal to
a Court of Justice ; that appeal haS been made, and
the result is now before the world. Mr. WARDLE
staked his charaeAer upon the issue of the late Lrial,
and that issue has been decided against him.

His MAJESTY is not expeaed in town this day.
Monday morning his MAJESTY, Princesses Au-
GUSTA and SOPHIA, accompanied by Lady CEAN-
LaY, Generals SPENCER and FITZROY, and Colonel
TAYLOR, took their usual rides in Windsor Great
Park, and returned at twelve o'clock to the Palace.
His MAJESTY has appointed the Rev. Dr. GOOD-
ALL, Head Master of Eton School, and one of the
Canons of Windsor, to be Provost of Eton College,
in the room of the Rev. Dr. DAVEs, deceased.
Yesterday turning out very wet, neither his MA-
JESTY, or the Princesses, took their usual airings on
horseback.

HerMAs ESTY is slightly indisposed, and, of course,
bas not been out of the Palace these five days. Her
MAJESTY has not been able to visit the Princess
AMELIA.

\His MAJESTY, as usual, continues his daily visits
to Princess AAIELIA.

We understand that the question respeaing the
future garrisoning of et uta by British troops, has at
length been finally adjusted. Recent dispatches re-
ceived by the Spanish Admiral APOI)ACA, from his
Government, inform him, that the Supreme Junta
bad,consented that the fortress of Ceuta was to be
thus occupied, and that on the arrival of British
troops thoSe of Spain were to be withdrawn.
We are sorry to find that no account has been
heard of the _Dominique brig, Lieutenant WELsx,
since the hurricane of the Ist of May.

'Capt. MAURICE, Governor of the Island of Marie-
galante, came home in the Duke of Kent Packet, in
consequence of ill health.
His Majesty's squadron in the Baltic, under the
command of Vice-Admiral Sir JAMES SAUMAREZ,
and the cruisers under his orders on the different
stations incident to that extensive command, have
evened and destroyed 430 vessels of various de-
scriptions within the present year, the aggregate
burden of which exceeds 25,000 tons, navigated by
2,300 men, with 130 guns of different calibres.—
Of this grand total 340 vessels, with inn men and
100 guns,- including 14 stout cutter privateers, and
upwards of 20 armed schooners, are Danes, that
Government having fitted out a great number of ves-
sels of the latter class for supplying Norway with
grain during the unexampled scarcity occasioned by
the present war, which they are compelled at all
risks to attempt. The remaining go vessels, with
430 men and 30 guns, belonged to Russia, and were
captured in the Gulf of Finland during the short
summer season, in which are included an Imperial
schooner, ten gun-boats, and as many armed trans-
ports, for carrying supplies to the Russian [luny in.
Finland and Bothnia, besides the loss sustained in
the very severe attacks on the Russian flotillas at
Percola and Aapo on the 7th and 25th of July,
amounting in killed and drowned to 200 men.

The following is an extra& from a private letter :
" LISBON., SATURDAY, Nov. 25.-At last the po-
litical. and military arrangements for the manage-
ment of the affairs of this country, have been formed.
A Royal Decree has been published with the cus-
tomary ceremonials, the substance of which is—

" Ist, The Regency is to consist of the Patriarch,
the Marquis d'Mendos, the Marquis of Montemore.
The Military as well as Civil Affairs are to be under
the controul of the Regency; but in the former the
members are to be assisted by Lord Wellington, on
all occasions, while he continues Commander in
Chief of the British army in Portugal.
" 2d, Of the armies of Portugal Lord Wellington
is to be Commander in Chief, during the time he
continues in the kingdom.
"The I ,test accounts from head-quarters are dated
upon the 19thinst. Nothing had transpired there of.
particular importance. Notwithstanding the change
in affairs, no movement of the troops was either. in
att or in contemplation. Lord Wellington was then
at Badajos. ,
. .

" The intelligence from Spain gives no account
of any general decisive battle. The Spanish'
,and
French out-posts have frequent encounters. •
" The political changes I have me►ationed appeared
in the official Gizette o❑ Tuesday last, and they
have Ipten subsequently introduced into other Papers.
What efleEt these alterations in the public authori-
ties will produce here, and what influence they will
have in the way of example on the neighbouring
kingdom is yet to be ascertained. To express my
hopes on the-one hand, and my fears on the others.
without stating the circumstances by which•the for-
mer are supported, and the latter awakened, would
be trifling with your understanding." • -

Yesterday the'Lord Mayor held a Court of Alder-
men at. Guildhall, at which there were 16 Aldermen,
the Recorder, Sheriffs, and City Officers present.—
The Court, .on inspettiog the returns of the Meal-
weighers, ordered the price of bread to be reduced
halt an assize, or a penny in the peck loaf, which
will commence to-morrow, when the quartern loaf
wheaten will be sold for Is. 4id. and household Is:
21d. Upwards of 3,360 ounces of foreign gold were"
produced in the Court, and duly sworn to, previous
to exportation. Several persons were sworn, and
others allowed Brokers; sundry tradesmen's apd -
other bills were ordered for payment. Further time,
was allowed to Wm. Jacob, Esq. to tae upon 'hirn.r-
s;:..lf the office of Alderman of Lime-street Ward, to
which he was eletied some time since.—James
Hook, a poor aged man of St. John's the Evangelists
Westminster, was admitted an Out-pensioner cr..
Emanuel Hospital. No nt.heT business of import-
duce vas 4411544C41

This mc,ruing Mr. PERCEVAL, accompanied by
other Officers of Government, went to pay their re-
speasto the Persian Ambassador, on his arrival in
the Blitish Capital.
The Sheriffs of London waited upon the KING at
•Windior on Monday last, when his MAJESTY was
pleased to appoint Wednesday, the Both instant, to
receive the Address of the Corporation of London at
the Queen's Palace.

Under the difficulty and rarity of dired communi-
cation with Turkey, we are particularly happy in
giving the following extraEt of a letter from the Ot-
toman capital. The interruption to the intercourse
with England will be less surprising to our readers,
when they find how much obutruded the corre-
spondence appears to be between the two adjacent
Empires of Eastern Europe.
CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 27.--It is now 50
days since accounts arrived from the Austrian Go-
vernment, and of course., by this strange cireum-

stance, we are in complete ignorance of what is
transacting. in Austria, but we have good hopes that
atiaiis will yet take a favourable lurn, although many
are inclined to look upon it as hopeless.
"The accounts from the Turkish camp, and of the
operations of the Russians against the Grand Vizier's
army, are tery vague and irregular. It seems, how-
ever, that the Russians who crossed the Danube at
Ismael 30,000 strong, and advanced to Babaday,
maintain their ground.:
It it understood that the. Turkish squadron,
amounting to six 74's, and two three-deckers, will
enter the Black Sea immediately, and intercept the
convoys of troops, supplies, &c. from the Russian
ports to the Turkish coasts of Bulgaria and 'lamella.
These Turkish ships have been lying off the mouth of
the Black Sea for the last four months. The equinox
is now passed, and they are to begin their cruize.;
but the Turks do every thing in a way contrary to
other people.=—l heartily wish them success."

THE THEATRE.—Though the opposition was
strong at Covent-Garden Theatre last night during
the representation of the last two acts of John Bull,
and the whole of The Farmer, yet it was not of
so violent and terrific a nature as we have often wit-
nessed. Two or three catcalls were heard, 'but no
horns or rattles. There was but one Placard, and
that alluded to the private boxes. A person spoke a
few words in the pit, of course in favour of the O. P.
cause, or he would have had no chance of being
heard at all, but there was nothing worth notice:iii
what he said. The evening concluded with the usual
groans, cheers, and capers ; after which the party
quitted the Theatre in a body, and marched through,
the streets in formidable array. •
THE LYCEUM.—The Duenna was represented last
night at this Theatre, with such a general display of
merit as will very well account for Its -renewed po-
pularity. On account of the illness of Mrs.BisHoi,
the part of Clara was assigned at a short notice to
Miss KELLY. On the score of acting, no•apology
was necessary, as she sustained the part with great
spirit and ability, and she gave the airs with taste
and expres- ion.
KING'S THEATRE.—The season commenced last
night at this place with a new comic Opera, en-
titled La Scomersa, the music of which does credit to
GunLitet.rdr. In this piece Ta E1N111.7.2 I appeared
for the first time in this country as a comic per-
former, and though his talents are chiefly calcu-
lated for the serious opera, yet with so fine a voice,
and so much musical taste, he was sure to afford
pleasure, and he appeared more easy than coulo be
expetted.—Nmet is again the great comic prop of
the Theatre, and his exertions last night afforded
great pleasure.—A charming terzetto was so well
supported by 1)40. ROVEDINO, ano TREMAZZANI,
that it was much applauded and encored.— Cot-
Lixl and BIANCHI acquitted themselves respe6lably.
A new ballet was brought forward, entitled Borea e
Zejfiro, composed by Rossi.—VESTRIS and ANGIO-
LINI highly distinguished themselves. As there are
comparatively few subscribers in town, the Theatre
bad not a very numerous audience, but it was as
well attended as is usual on the, opening of the
season.
The new Comedy in preparation at the Lyceum,
is ascribed, by report, to Mr. Coen, a Gentleman
whose dramatic productions have teen gratified the
public, and whose character is justly held in urn •-ersal
respect.
The Ballet of Cinderella is preparing at The
Lyceum, •under the direction of &Ass, for the
amusement of the holiday folks, instead of a new
Pantomime, for which the size and structure of the
- Theatre is perhaps not sutficiently adapted. Cinde-
rella, however, is one of those old. nursery stories
that will always be interesting to holiday sisitors.

The Covent-Garden Managers are preparing a
new Pantomime for the ensuing holidays, in hopes
that it may tend to pacify the rage of their op-
ponents, and for that purpose, notw►thstanding all
their disappointments and all their losses, they have
resolved, it seems, to spare no expence to render it
shewy, various, and striking.
ROYAL ACADEMY, DEC. 13, 1809.—Sunday, the
loth being the Anniversary of the Institution of the
Royal Academy, a general Assembly was held on
Monday, for giving the Premiums and eleEting Offi-
cers for the ensuing year.
A Gold Medal was given to 1. Adams, for the best De-
sign in ArchiteCture, of an Edifice dedicated to National
Virtue and Genius.
A Silver Medal, to E. H. Bailey, for a Model of an Aca-
demy Figure.
A Silver Medal, to T. Kendrick, fora Model of an Academy
Figure.
A Silver Medal to A. Perigal, for a Drawing of an Aca.
demy figure.
A Silver Medal, to W. Collins, for a Drawing of an Aca-
demy Figure.
A Silver Medal, to G. G. Le Compte, fora Drawing of an
Academy Figure.
A Silver Modal, to C. F. Porden, for a Drawing of the
Screen of the Admiralty.
A Silver Medal, to I'. Ailanson, for a Drawing of the
Screen of the Admiralty.
A Silver Medal, to H. Wyatt, for a Drawing of the Screen
of the Admiralty.

OFFICERS FOR. 1310.

NAVAL NEWS.

Prom the LONDON GAZETTE, Dec. 12, dog.

• Admiralty-Office, Dec. 12, 1 8 09.
Copy of a Letter from Captain Macdonald, of the Redp(l:
Sloop, dated the zeta instant, addressed to-Vice.Adanral
Campbell, and traniinttted by tile latter to John Wilson
`Crolzer, Esq.
SIR,
I have the honour to acquaint you, that on the
9th inst. at day-light, Beachy Head N. by E. nine
leagues, wind W. two tuggers were observed ea
our lee bow, to which chase was immediately given,
.and at ten I had the good fortune-to get alongside
the weathermost, which had the temerity to engage
u for half an hour, when she surrendered. She
proves to be Le Grand Rodeur, of Boulogne,
teen guns and eighty men, Captain J. G. Huret, four
days front Dieppe, and had made no capture. I awl
.sotry to add, that the privateer had one man killed
.atcl'tWo wounded, one of them badly. Towards
the fatter part of the chace, his Majesty's sloop Pe-
lican hove in sight, and pursued the other, but did
nut capture her. To the Officers and ship's comp*
ny I feel greatly indebted for their cool and steady
condud during the chace and action, when ever/
manoeuvre was attempted by the enemy to escape.
I am, &c.
(Signed) C. MACDONALD.