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Admiralty-Office, Dec. 29, 1812

Copy of a -Letter from Captain .13;irdett, of his Majes,ty'sship
the Maidstone, addressed to Vice.:Admiral Sawyer, and
. transmitted b Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren to John
Wilson Crpker, E.sq.

His Majesty'► slip Mtlidstone, at Sea,
SIR, Oct. 17,, 1512."
I have the honour to inform you, that this af-
ternoon, in lat. 41 deg. 30 min. N. and longitude
66 deg. 45 min. W. on Saint George's
.Bank, his
Majesty's ship under my command, with the.
Spartan in company, captured the American pri-
vateer brig Rapid, of fourteen guns (carronades
of different calibres, with two long sixes), and a
Complement of eighty-four men, after a chum.; of
nine hours (blowing fresh), during which
threw eight of his guns overboard, and cut his
-boat from the stern.

I find she- had been three days front Portland,
but had made no captures ; she is • coppered and
copper fastened, stored and victualled for a three
months' creize, which learn by the Captain's
instructins from his owners was to hare. been
first off the Azores, 'Madeira, the Cape de Verde
Islands-, and from thence o&' Cayenne, and so to
have returned to windward. of Barbadoes.
I ha% e the honour to be, Sir, &c.

(Signed) GEORGE BURbETT, Capt.

Irar-ggice, Dec: 29, 1812.

16th Regiment of Light Dragoons, A. 1417'..d0-igall, Gent.
• to be Cornet; without. purchase, 6(4 ebalmierlain, pro-
20th Ditto, Lieut. John Court, from the 63d Foot, to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Wynne, VOlO (n ;changes.
Ist Regt. Foot Guards,- R. H. Uronow, -Gent. to_ be. Ensign,
by purchase, vice Canltield, wim retires.
Ist Regiment Of .Foot, Lieut. Q. S. Hopkins to, be Captain of
a Company, without purchase, vice Moore, -dianissed the
service-by the sentence Of 'a General Conn Martial., En-
sign A. it,bestson to Limit. vice Hopkins.
Bth Ditto,
.Ensign john Lowry to be Lieutenant, vice Bar-
ber, deceased: - SWaine, Gent. to be Ensign, vice
Lowry. •
9th Ditto, Ensign Brown to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, 'vice Curzon, promoted in the 69th Foot. .
.12th D.-tto, Ensign M. Forster, from .46th Foot, to be Lieu-
' tenant, without purchase, vice Read, promoted in 6th West
' India Regiment,
t2d Ditto, Lieutenant John Fraser to be Captain of a Com-
pany, vice Fanning, deceased.
27th Ditto, to be Captains 31 Companies, without purchase—.
Lient John M'lta, from the '79th Foot,vier Wtzd, promoted
in the 36th Foot. Lieut. Martin Lynch, vice Elliot, whO
retires.
35th Ditto, Ensign J. Rontledge to be Lieutenant, vice Mont-
• -ford, deceased. John Murray Bliss„ Gent. to- be .Ensign,
vice gontledge.-
37th Ditto, Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces Edward Dow
to be Sur.geon, vice. ThoMpson, promoted on the Staff.:
39th Ditto, to be Ensigns, by purchase, Richard Henry Evans,
Gent. vice Cox, pronwted. Daniel Grueber, Gent. vice
Brown, who retires. • .
41st Ditto, Ensign yam eel Smith; from the 39th Foot, to he
Lieutenant, without • purchase,. vice Fitz Gerald, promoted
in the- Glen.-ary Fencibles. Assistant-Surgeon Thuthas
DtengtaSs, from the sit Royal, Veteran Batialiou, to be
. Kargeon.
46th Ditto, Benjamin•Warton,- Gent. to he Ensign, without
purchase, vice Forster, promoted in the lath Foot.
4Sth Ditto, Ensign John Hall to b'e' Lieutenant,' bkpur-
Chase,' vice Allman, promoted.
52d Ditto, Ensign Edward,Seones to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Enos, promoted in the 40th Foot.
56th Ditto. To- he Lientenants—Li,ntenant Tho Mas Van
from the 70th Foot, vice Armstrong, who ex-
chzutges. Ensiga M‘Donnell, without purchase,•
• vice PtirEer, appointed to the 2.d Itoyal Veteran Battalion.
59th Ditto. • To be Lieotetimits—Lieutrtaint Charles- Camp-
hell, froria_the Royal Corsican ltan,;ers, Vice Fallon, -who
• exchanges. Ensign llenry.Stoaghton, without purchase.
To.bc Ens-4;n—Charles Diggers, Gent. vice Stoughton,.
60th. Ditto.--To be Captains of Companies—Lieutenant
Henry Dibbly, vice Boardman; deceased. Lieutenant J.
Watson, vice Philbin, deceased: - • •
To be Lieutenants,—Ensign J. W. Dalmatia, vice Minket',
- fuss, deceased. Ensign Beatty, vice Perry, de-
. Ensign Charles Macicon, vice 4l biter, deceased.
Ensign A. B. Caiiiies vice Crozier, deranged. Ensign
Currie, . vice Fiti'Gerald, deceased. Ensign Robert
Mackenzie, rice Marclaington, appointed to the Nova.
Scotia • Feneibles. Ensign William Braq, -vice
Vs atson,-
• promoted. •
To-he Ensigns—Thoinas,Wrigbt,-Gent. vice Miming. Wit--
;ham NYillitims, Gent. vice Beatty. John Brown, Gent.
vibe Maclean. Benjamin Clare, Gent. -vice Cannes.
Barn FawCett, Gent. vice Currie. Henry Shewbridge,
Gent: vice Mackenzie,' Richard Farrar, Gent. vice Brady.
6.3 d Ditto, Lieutenant F. Wynne-, from the 20th Light bra-;
• goons, to-be Lieutenant, vice Court, who exchanges.
70th_ Ditto, Dientenant Richard 'Armstrong, from the 56th-
Po-at, to be Lieutenant, vice Van' Bnerle,, who exchanges..
71st Ditto, -AsSistant-Surgeon Thomas G. Logan, from the.
7th Dr:lgoon Guards). to be. Surgeon, vice Mae:edie, placed
upon
79th
.Ditto, Ensign J. M'Gibbon to be Lieutenant, vice, _
liarkur.Ss, deceased. Jahn .Mackenzie,Gent. to be Ensign,
vice M‘Gibbon. - -

82d Ditto, William Tudor, Gent. to be Ensign, without pur-
cha3c, vice Taylor, promoted in the 89th Foot.
87th .liit to, Captain R. H. Shaw,, fruin the Rh Garrison Bat-
talion, tolie Captain of a•Compatty, vice Blake who ex-
changes. ,

• ._
.89th Diito.---To be, Lieutenants, without purchase, Ensign
John Caulfield, vice Daniel, promoted. - Ensign A. B. Tay-
18r, from the 82d Foot,:vice,Rowe, promoted. '
-To be Ensign,lienty Bolder°, Gent. vice Caulfield.
96th1)itto, Ensign Thomas Eagan to be Lieutenant, vice,
-Hunt, eashired. William Stritch, Gent. to be Ensign vice.
'• Eagan. , • . • •

I.olilDitto.—To be, Captains of Cc»uparics, Brevet Lieute-
nant-Colonel Shewn, front the Ist Garrison Bat-
talion, vice Garvock, who exchanges. Lieutenant Edward
Page Turner, from the=loth Light Dragoons, by purchase,
-- vice Shewco, who retires.
To be Lieutenant, without purchase, Ensign Charles Crows,
from the 48th Foot, %%cc:Bowers, who resigns.
3d West India Regitaent, John IP•lntyre, Gent to be Ensign,
• vice Hume, deceased.
3th o, Lieutenant ,lames Read, from the 14th Foot, to be
Captain of a Company, without purchase, vice Skipton, ap-
pointed to;the Ilttußoyal Veteranßattalion.
Bth Ditto.—To be Lieutenants, Ensign D. H. Grose, vice
• Jones, deceased. Ensign John Maxwell, vice Taylor, de,*
ceased.
To be Ensigns, MacCarthy. Geagan, Gent. vice Maxwell.
- •E. E. Grsnc, Gent. vice Grose.. -,
lst GZlrrisoir Battalion, Captain John Garvock, from the'lo.lst
Foot, to be of a Comany, vice Maclean, appointed
to the 7th Royal 'Veteran Battalion.
Gth Ditto,- Captain Henry. Blake, from the Bith Foot, to be
Captain of a Coinpany, vice Shaw, who exchanges.
3d Royal Veteran_ Battalion, Assistant-Surgeon- John H.
Sprague, front the 63d Foot,-to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
.Douglass, promoted in the 41st Foot. • -
GO Ditto, Captain •Malcolm Maelrau,'from the 4th Garrison
Battalion, to be Captain of . a Company, vice Blussett, ap-
pcinted to the Bth Royal Veteran Battalion.
The King's German Legion:.
2d Regiment of . Light D.ragoons.--7To be Cornets, M. Pr en-

.:r,

ss
ierga,t, ib vice r-rarhottd. leottinti
. Gent. vice
./..ttoders,
'llt rattalion Lista Infantry, Stephen.' Mictitti GelA
to be Ensign.
Ist Ditto, of the Line; Lieut. Gerlach Schlut-,,,e to be Cap=
tain of a ConiPiny, vice La Itocue, dead o: his wounds.
Ensign C. Michaelis to he Lieutenant, vice •
2d Ditto, Francis La. Roche, Gent. to he Ensign,
sth I)ittu,.Lieut. Georse Plu4—c:aanti to be Capt tin .uf r'
pany, vice L'aerneister, seitJtleatFof hil
Georgt Klingsohr to In.: vice
Serj &int Henry to bit Ensign, vice StAtiaegrr,
proinoted.
Ito al Corsican Rangers.-Lieut. P. A. Fallon, fitim-the'.s§ffs7
I:out; to be Lieut. Vice Copipbel/, who exchanges. '.Ser•
jeant Major John H.trvey,.froin the 50th Foot; to be AeL,
jut.t. (with the rank of 16.11S1:411); vice Ciavaldini, who rii-•
signs the Adjutancy only. . .
BIiEVE"f.--Major4ieneral Triniarn 'Henry Clinton ti be
Lientenaut-Goneral in the Army serving in Spain and
Portugal.
STAFF.--Captain L. 'A. .De Noe, -front the 6th Foot, to Irs.
Staff-Captain at the Arasy Dejiot hi the Isle of Wigbt."
To 15e Deputy-Assistant Commissaries General to the k-orces;
Tautiatt H. 'filonisthi, S-thunti Ctufnuing,, Thomas Hill;
Charles A. Clarke, and l'hon.as Bissett, (cents. ,
liosairrAL STAFF.--Staff-Surgeon E. Brown to be Deputy
Inspector of Hospitals. .
alt nott.tit ietit. 31orgatl; tif .tbe' Foa, and En:
sign 'Hamilton, of tliethlt Itoyal.Veteran Battalion, art
superkded, being absent without leavt.

• • . - BANKRUPTCY E,NLAitGED,
Stribblehill Norwood May, Great St. Helen's, Loudon, tiler-
chant, Jan. V. • •

BANKRUPTS.

Dennis Grillitlis,..tanterbury, linen-draper, to surrender Ja-
nuary ‘.'2, .4,b, and February 9, at ~twelve, at Guildhall, Lon-
don. .attornics, Mr W. R. James, Earl-street,
friarS, Londuu, or Mr. 0. liarvey, Staplehurst, Kent.
John Cox, Ilminster, Somersetshire, shopkeeper, January '.fl,
20, and February 9, at twelve, at the White Lion Inn;
Broad-street, Bristol. Attornies, Mr. William i.,rwton
Clarke, Bristo!, or-Messrs... Jen',:ns, James, and Abbott,
Lunitun: .
Elizabeth Browne, Holborn, milliner, January 2, 'at eleven; 41';
9, at ten, and February 9, at one, at Guildhall, London, .•
Attorney, Mr. Dimes, I'6day-street, Cheapside,
Gabriel Surenne, Dean-street, icestninster, •goldsmith;•Ja- •
nuary 2, 12, and February g, at ten, at Guildhall, London.
Attorney, Mr. Blacklow, Frith-Street, Soho.
Richard i'daion, late of Norfolk-street, Middlesesx novital,
carver and gilder, January 5,9, and February 9, at eleven,
at Guildhall,- London. Attorni.:s, Messrs. Vifilliainsou and
Riininer, • • .
Garraby New rimy Yorkshire, innkeeper,
January 1i,"12, and Februdyy 9, at eleven, at • the Black-
smitn's Arms, Swinegate, York. Attoruies, Messa's. Wat.
, and Cowling Ytirk, or Me.-Edward Eyre, Gray's-Inn-
square, London. •
Richard 'furner, Birmingham, builder, January 11,./2, .and
• February 9, at eleven, at the Swan Hotel, Birmiaghani:
Ati'ciiney, Egerton:,'Griry's•lnn-srinare, Landeu, or"
• MeSirs..Spurrier and ingieby, Birmingham.,
Thomas Napiet., Liverpool, merchant, January 19, 20, and
February 9, at-twelve, at the- Globe Tavern, Liverp.ooL
Attorn,es, Mr. Davies, Liverpool, or ISL.. Medduivcroft,
('ray's-Inn, London, ••-
Thomas Cox, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, inn-holder]
January 7, atone, 9, at-eleven, and Feiiruary'9, at one, at•
- the Hummer-'TaVern,_ Bristol. Attornies, Messrs. Whit-
corahe and King, Serjeant's-Inn; London), orJohn Henry
Frankis, Corn-street, Bristol.
• DIVIDENDS--At
March 13. J. Minet,"Fiffsi>ury-stinare, merchant, at twelVe.
Jan. 2U. j.-Pyeraft, jun, Lloyd's •Coifee-houre, and Brown's-
buildings, .74. Mary-Axe, undeivriter, at ten.
Jan. 19. W. Godden, Craubourue-street, linen-draper, at
eleven.
Jan. 2G. J. W. Siggs, Aveler,y Essex, dealer, at ten.
Jan. 19. J. Worhall and J. •Thurston, Catherinestreeti
Strand, npholsterers, at ten.
Jab.' 19. J. Morhall, Castle street, hardwarcoMan, at- ten..
Jau. 23. I'. Mathews, Copthali-court, merchant, at twelve.
Jan. 2. H. Wyke, Mitre-court, 'Altigate, London, Merchant,
ut tWelve. •
Jan. 19. J. Monteith and J. Sequeira, late' of Graced:tire:l-
- druggists, at eleven.
Jan. 2. W. Berry, Alphington, near Exeter, tanner, at it.
Jan. 22. A. Durham, jun. Birmingham, grocer, at elever4
at the Littleton Arms, Penkridge, Stafford. •
Jan. 20. E. Toiler, Godmanchester, corn-buyer, at eleven, ...it
the GeOrge, Huntingdon.
Jan. 22. It. (ug-cm-ea. jun. PlvanoutL,linen-draper, at 'fir)..
at the Pope's Head, PlynaTutiv.--.
Jan. 21. T. Crane, Preston, Lancashire, ironmonger, at otr.4.
at the °Cie of l'hoinasAvistia, Solicitor, Hanover-street,
Liverpool.
Jan.. 20. .and R. Williamson, Liverpool; 'per;
chants, at one, at the Globe Tavern, Liverpool.
Jan:: 22. W. Kb-k and W. Broughton, Leeds, nierrkstitr, aft
the Bull and Mouth,. Leeds.
Jan.. 27. T. F. Carlile, late of Pudsey, Calverley, Yorshiro
lirysalter, at eleven, at tine Hotel Inn,. Leeds.
Jan. 30. S. Surnmers;Birmingham, dealer, at fivetve, at tire
Royal Hutel, Pvirminglianr.
.
Jan.'2o. J ;Ridley, Lancaster, merchant, at ten, at the lian.,l; g .
Arius, Lancaster.

CERTIFICATE—JAN. 19.
J. Millet, Finsbury-i,quare, merchaut. •

The curiosity of severaLpersons in tire
bourhood of Haluaker, nezr . Chichester, was
week excited by the figure of a man, 'apparently.
in a round frock, on the kepf apund in th 2
but no individual being missing in. the
Was, by many, -treated as a -fancy.—lt.
however, last„Titesday, ascertained that a 1-111 t::,.
-named Richards, of the neighbouring 1)411 •t.
Ch a 4ton , was missing, the pond was-sere t-
and he found lying at the nOttOttt,
water, exactly underthc figure. This apr:u:an4-..,c
was probably caused by the vapour of his'body
which had began to putrify, previously to-the
freezing of the pond. The ice was uniformly se--,
'veil inches thick but that which composed the-
figure was,
_darker and more transparent. The
deceased was going by the pond on his way home,
and, it is supposed, had fallen into it in a state of
intoxication, as the night was very dark.

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BIRTHS.
On Sunday last, in Russell-square, the Lady of S. N. Cow'
lev;.Esq.:of a Son.
On the Myth inst. at'Eccleston-street; Pimlico,- the Lady of
the Rev.lSaac Saunders, of a Sou.

M A It. Iti ED.
• .
'On Monday last, at. Bishops Waltham, thc. Rev. Thomas
Bryan Johnston, of Kithn9cks%, Hants, to' ~Ivry Ann, eldest
•
daughter of the late Hon. Mr. Justice liti;son.
'1 he same rooming, at St. Saviour s, Southlealli, Mr. John
Stanton, of Nidholits-lane, Londnu, to Sarah, ,21(it
of John roals, Esq. of Balham-hill, Surrey.