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Sir William Browne's gold medal for the best
Latin Ode is adjudged 10 Mr. Edward V. Illomfield, ,
of Caius College, the same Gentleman who gained
the prize for the Greek Ode, as nutieed in our last
paper. _

- The prizes of 15 guineas each, gin annually
by the representatives, of this University, for the
best dissertations in Latin prose, are this year ad-
judged as follows

To Thomas Smart Hughes, Fdllow of St. John's; Wil.
ham 'Frederick Chambers. of Trinity College, and
liana Henry Parry, of St. John's, Senior Bachelors.—;
,Subject, " Utrurn majori prudentia, eloquentia, fortitti-
dine, patrixque more, M. T. Cicero an Comes Claret's.
dunianus, temporibus gravissimis, •Rempublicam admi.
nistrarit ?".
To Edward Smedley, of Trinity College, and Edward
A ldetson, Fellow of Caius, Middle Bachelors.—Subject,
" Utrum in'optima Republica torma instituenda, plus
valeat ingenium an ex perientia ?"

The Reverend T. H. Bullen, M. A. Vicar of
Ketton, in the county of Rutland, is appointed
Chaplain to the Right Hon. the Countess of Win-
terton.

PA P E

[RELATIVE-TO THE CAMPAIGN IN PORTUGAL AND

SPAIN.

Copy of a Letter from Sir Arthur Wellesley to the Marquis
%Vacsley, dated larayceju, t3th August, 1809. With
Two Inclesures.
MY LoRD,
I have the honour to enclosl an answer which I
have received from General Ctiesta, to the Letter
which. I addressed to him on. 'the ti th inst. with
my reply of this date. The plan which lie proposes
of dividing between the two armies, in proportion
to their numbers, all Abe provisions received at
Truxillo, however specious in appearance, would be
fallacious in prattice, and would probably starve tilt
British army.
It Would not be difficult to forbid the convoys oT pro-
visions coining from Seville from
,going to Tr uxil;o ;
and it is probable that the supplies of provisions from
Sevilleuionotamounttoor,e-touritiof theconsu:ttptioo
of both armies, the remainder being supplied by the
country, in which of course the Spanish tir,. y has the
preference.. Au arrangement •ofs-this description is
impradicable of execulion, even if the Commissaries
of the two armies would ait fairly by each other;
but this is not to be expelled. Every, Commissary
will do the best he can for the troops to e.hich he
is attached; and many articles must be procured in
the country, which will not be brought to account
in the magazine of Truxtilo.
In shOrt„ my Lord, it comes to ; either the
British army must be fed and supplied with the ne-
cessaries which it requires, or I will march it back
into Portugal, whether that kingdom is invaded- or
not by the French corps which have moved, within
these few days, towards Placentia. I have received
Mr. Frere's private letter of the 10th, in which he
has inclosed the copies of a Correspond Puce which
he had had with Doe Martin de Garay, on the sub-
of General Cuesta's evacuation of Talavera. I
üb.erve from these Papers, that General Cuesta had
given the Junta reason to believe, that when I
marched from-Arzobispo on the &Ili, I intended-to
return to Portugal ; and that he prevailed upon me
to take up the position of Almaraz, by a message
by General O'Donoghue and Lord Mac Duff.
I beg to inform your Lordship, that although Ge-
neral O'Donoghtie and Lord Mac Duff did come
to the at Peraleda de Gavin, on the morning of the
6th, General Cuesta knew, on the 4th, my opinion
respeaing our future operations, and my determina-
tion to secure, as soot) as possible, the important
points of the Mesa d'lbor and Campillos which it the
enemy had seized, on his ,arrival at Almaraz,,the
combined armies could not have extricated' them-
selves from the mountains.
I have also another observation to make upon this
Correspondence: my letters to Mrs Frere of the 3d
arid 4th were given to the General to be sent from
Arzobispo on the 4th, yet. it appears,-that they were
not transhanted till after the General had written, on
the 6th, his account of the supposed' success of the
mission of General o',Dotioglitte and Lord Mac
Duff; and Mr. Frere did not' receive theni till
the 10th.
I have the honour to be, 'Sec. ,
(Signed) , ARTHUR WELLESLEY.
P. S.—l beg to mention to your Excellency, that
the troops have received this day and yesterday only
half an allowance of bread, and the cavalry no
forage, except what they can pick up in the fields.
The troops suffer considerably from the want of salt ;
and neither officer or soldiers have had any wine fur
the last fortnight. In case I should move, I must
leave behind me two-thirds of the small quantity of
ammunition I have gut, having been obliged to give
ail the Portuguese carts (which bad carried the am-
munition hitherto) to move the wounded ; and iiot
having been able to procure niians of transport for
any thing in this country.
Surely, my Lord, the Junta have had time, since
the 19th of last mouth, to supply the. wants of the
army, with which they were made acquainted.
His Excellency the Marquis Wellesley,
&c. &c.

Translation of a Letter from General Cuesta to Sir Arthur
Wellusley, dated lull August,

sik,

I have received by Colonel Joseph O'Lawlor the
letter which your Excellency i 3 pleased to address
to me with the dale of to-day, on the subject of
sivplies and provisions, and on the transport of them
from from one army to the other. It has been my
duty to credit the corresponding accounts which
have' been presented to me officially by all the Corn-
inissioners of Spanish Provisions, and many other
Officers up to the moment at which your Excellency
is pleased to declare to me, that no provisions ad-
dressed to the Spanish- army have been detained by
the British, the which assertion I prefer before every
other testimony. However, by inquiring into the
origin of this difference, I suspe6t that it consists
in the little older and agreement .which prevail
amongst the respective Commissioners.
Those ()Obis army sliew me the original lettertkot
the persons who transmit these provisions for the
Spanish troops; and on the other hand, Colonel

or assures Me, that the Intendant bon kart
Lazano de Torres, dire&s those provisions from
Truxillo with the destination of the English army,
on which account each of the said armies considers
itself to have a right to them.
Being then desirous that both should enjoy, m
just proportion, all the provisions that can be ob-,
tamed, I have conceived that it would be conve.-
nient that all should have their magazines in Trux-
illr
without distinction, and 'that the supplies which
arrive should be distributed to both armies in pro-
portion to their numbers, by the Spanish Commis-
sary, and by one authorized by your Excellency,
"with Union and agreement, since when the number
of daily rations which each army requires is known,.
the division would easily be made by the respthive
Commissioners. On the other nand, I will repeat
my orders, that no Spanish party or Commissioner,
may detain or receive any article which' does not be-
lling to the said magazine, with the 'approl:ation of
the respective Commissioners, and I. will punish
with rigour those whO disobey, as I am now doing
with respe& to the Seijeant of the King'S regiment
of Cavalry Joseph Gontales, whose receipt your
Excellency inclosei.
I am far from thinking that all the provisions
which the country prOduces, or which come from
Seville, are for the Spanish army alone. I. do not
admit this unreasonable notion, but that, in the ar-
rangement which the Commissaries have endeavour--
'eti to follow up to this MOment, each army should
have a right to those provisions which it collect&d
for itself; and eVen, in this Case, I have charged
them to prefer at all times the English army,' in
its necessities, according to the means they pessess.
Ido not know whether any, magazines of provi,
sions'have yet been formed and destined for the
army; but it is clear to me; hat the Government is
making the most'active arrangements for the corre-
sponding supply of both armies; and I hope they
will not he long in taking effect.
With respeCt to your Excellency's withdrawing
his troops from the bridge of Almaraz, 1 confess
that it would be very painful to me, on account of
the great injury it would, at this moment, bring on
the public cause, and td the defence of the provinces
of Esireinadura, Andalusia, and the kingdom of
Portugal ; inasmuch as our actual position is the
only. one which .can. secure those countries; since,
at no other point morejo the interior, (*ult.' we
:make front .against the enemy with so much advan-
tage;. aid therefore I beg your' Ex,-ellency to take
this sub ea into your•consideration, before you torte
any resoi\utton.
I have 'she honour to repeat to your Excellency
my particular esteem, -and to remain your most at-
tentive and faithful servant,

GREGORIO DE-LA CUESTA.

To Sir Arthur Wellesley, &c.

P. S. , After writing the above, I have received
your Excellency's letter, including that of the Junta
of Placentia, concerning the entrance of 4,000
French into that city.

FATAL FIRE.—On Friday morning.last, the Inn
at which the mail coach stops in Castleblaney, kept
by Mr. Faughey, was burned to the ground, and
Mrs. Faughey, her two children, two maids, and
two dragoons, perished in the flames. About t.vo
o'clock, Mr. Faughey was awoke by a suffocating
smell proceeding from the apartment below, and he
instantly got, up to explore the cause. On coming
to the room which excited his suspicion, he found
it all in .a blaze; at that. moment the door burst
open, and ai body of flame -forced its way up the
stairs, which rendered all access to the apartment
which he had just quitted impossible, and there lay
his wife and infant children—he immediately gave
• the alarm, and endeavpt'red to procure assistance.
A. ladder was brought with as little loss of time as
possible; his wife and children were his first care,
and he placed the ladder to the front of their bed-
room—the flames raged with unabated fury, but
•,
the tender mother was seen to approach the window,
bearing a child under each arin—a gleam of hope
took possession of every countenance, but, alas ! it .
was only for a moment—the floor gave way under
her feet, and the parent with her helpless offspring
sunk together into eternity. The feelings of the
bye-standers„particularly the distra&ed husband and
father, may be easily imagined. Three of five dra-
goons, quartered in the house, were rescued Worn
the flames, and, a third servant-maid, after suffering
severely, precipitated herself from a window, and
was shockingly .mangled on the pavement; there is
no hope -of her surviving, nor indeed is it desirable
that she should recover, as, besides other disabilities,
she is deprived of both her eyes. The cause of the
conflagration has not yet been discovered. Some
think it .was" effe&ed by a gang of villains whom
Faughey lately detected having in their possession a
parcel of Bank Notes, lost by one of our. felloW-
citizens ; but this is too horrid a conjecture to be
indulged in on slight grounds.—(Derry Journal.)
'A melancholy accident lately happened at Bram-
cote, in the neighbourhood of Nottingham : As
James Gee, a youth of about 14 years old, was
bathing, with some others, in the canal there, he
got out of his depth; and was in danger of being
drowned; when an alarm being given by his com-
panions, one Thomas Walker, a sawyer, (who,
with his wife by his side, and his infant child in his
arms, were walking near the spot) immediately ran
to his assistance, and laying the infant on the bank,.
plunged into the water with his clothes on. Un-
happily, however, in the attempt to save Gee, he
himself became a victim to his humanity, being
drowned, together with the unfortunate youth who,
was the object of his solicitude, in the.presence of his.
,wife, whose feelings were so overcome by the melan-
choly and unexpected catastrophe, that it was with
difficulty she was prevented from throwing herself
into the water.—On Wednesday last, an inquest
Was taken on the bodies, when a verdi& of acci-
dental death, was found in both cases. Walker
was an active industrious man, about 27 years of
age.

Chancellors of Oxford since the Revolution
JAM ES, Doke of ORMOND, installed 1(198; Earl of
ANAN, 1715 ; JOHN, Earl of WESTMORLAND, 1759 ;
GEORGE HENRY, Earl of LITCHFIELD, 1762; FRE-
DERICK, Lord NORTH (Earl Of GUILDFORD), 1772;
WILLIAM HENRY, Duke of PORTLAND, 1792.
Mr. Hoste, of Norwich, cliiped this year from a
Merino double cross ram 14110. of wool.