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SATURDAY, NOV 015 tit 3, 18044

Admiral CouNwAtt,ts sailed yesterday from
Torbay with the,Channel Fleet. •
"Sir .Jomr ORDE,, with the Squadron under his
command, sailed yesterday from Spithead. The
Live)", will be ready to follow him to-morroW.
Not a single Vessel of the Enemy's Flotilla was
outside 13oitlogne on Thursday last. • -
Wit are happy to state that a Fleet of Four Hun_
131. Ni Sait from the Baltic, under the convoy of three
Armed Ships and a Cutter, pasetl by Yatm-uth
yesterday,

,Tna Accounts from Spain, which we received
by the 1. Mail yesterday, are of a most die.
tressing nature. Although the Plague has in some
degree abated of its violence a! Malaga and• Cadiz,
yeu it has brokto out et Cartbagena and Alieeet,
where its ravages are almest as great as they were
at Mel4ga. In additinn to this dreadful calamity,
that unfortunate Country, is also threatened with a
Kimble when the lest accounts came away there
wart not above a fortnight's provision in Madrid.
• .
Such are, the contents of Amite of the Letters WhiCh
we have received. We are, however, strongly in.
. elineti to think that 'these Siarements are very
considerably exaggerated.,
•
A Pispateh has beep received at the Commander
in Chief's- Office, dated Gibraltar, the Bth Ot!lober,
from_ which it arVears that the Fever was consi.
&rattly abated, and that it had net in the smallest
eiegree affeaeti the ,T:fovs,
The number of deaths occasioned by the
Fever' at 'Gibraltar have been considerable ;
"thei'leiver however, been principally in the
TeYeTs .‘Ol4 streets:, of which are nateow, and
,theelpeuses confined, and in general very dirty.
'All pnesible precautions hive been adopted to
keep the infeaion from spreading in the Garrison;
and they have been attended with success. It
was the opinion of the Medical Men at Gibraltar,
that the talus, which were hourly expe6led, would
stop the ravages of that drendful disindar ; so that
we have,greet hopes that the next accounts we
ceive will 'be,- that the Fever has entirely. ceased.
We !subjoin a Letter from
,Mr. RANK INER, a
respeeiable Gentleman at Gibraltar, to a Friend in
London, which strengthens the hopes we have ex.
pressed of the speedy restoration of health in that
most iMportent possession ; _

Gibraltar, Oa. 3, 18e4.
. .
" I hat! the pleasure art the kith ult. ofadvising you of 'the
favorable upiniati of our medical men on the nature of the
diseage that had broken out In the Garrison. Since that pe,
riol they have irad much reason to alter that opinion, a inor-
it y hearing taken place iiecoiralled, perhaps, in any place or'
in arty ego, owing, in the Jim place, to sickness, but caused
tit A pester degree by want of sufficient medical. attendance,
nourislinient, nurses, and by filth. The numbers' that have
Wien vieiitne to these eailacs within this fortnight is stir.
wish* for our reduced population, which bow doe's not, of
inhabitant. or civilians, C.01116t of Meru than three thouserel
souls; pA Monday last 14 were buried, and all the week
averaged nearly go par day. Thank Coil the number yes-
terday was reduced to s 7, and this day, I an hopeful, it will
not exceed 43 ; so that we mend apace, and exped the fl rs t
heavy rain, hourly ex/xi:led, will seem; all to rights. '
44 This mortality, from the causes before recited, you will
caul; y conceive to have taken place mostly among the poor,
Of liritisjt merchants very few have fallen, land those only
in situations extremely .Prejudicial to health. The're%ys have,
however, fal 14) in numbers ; and whem it has: brokee put
in a dirty ill-airL'd !reuse, it has, generally carried off all-,
Malty people have lett the Ciarrisnii (rein year, and,the death
•of ni.my is ascribed to Ote'sJmo intim:lice, particularly among
the women and letvs.—AinnuK the British, a CoMMittee of
tiVe has been chosen, to .twist trr Government in tippleing
the most likely measures towards tile promotion of the pub-
lic -health, .relieving the distres)ed, burying the dead, &c,
they are vested With the fullest powers. The members
are.ltlessrs.. joie Rosa, lotto Ssti rit, Wit.l.l,tat Swax.T.
4, A o', 11 ;G A k ez, and inyself, and the dutyhz fallen
_very hard on the two last and me, the eltildren,of the other
wo having tier some time been indisposed, anti occupied their
vOeole attention. Though.l am always on InY feet, and much
`opt:teed, yet, from adopting proper precautions, and the peen,
t'egiitten, I never enjoyed better health. —l3y next post I
shall have the pleasure, I. trust, of giving you more favour.
able apcounts ; 4nd, in the mean time, with the greatest rc.
am, dear. Sir, your 4100 obedient Servent,
.T 0 Mr, yoklf
itiarklerabury,

"0 DAVID RANKINER:"

Maptsrea Drawing.Rooma were rn have
comment:4.4ot the seas,,n, on Thoruday the Isth
instont but Heti MAjesTy has been induced to
litcr bcr ariaripmentk, and to postpone the fio,l
•Dr4wing Room hale die. It is now probahlt that
it will not cake place till alter the Milldam The
goym., Tmovy are returned to Windsor.