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London, England, 1811-12-17 00:00:00

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Nlantier, borne on board the. • Scipioni supernu-
merary on promo inn, seyerely.—Scipion--FrAn-
Cis Noble, Lieutenaol,Ai:htly John. D. 'Wortl4,,
Master's-Nixe, slightly.; Robert G. Dunlop, .Mos-
tel-Mate, ‘Oghtly.—President-1-1.. Lieu=
tenant of Marin,s,• • sev.i.roly,—Plicebe—lptm• .S.
Lieutenant of Marines, severely,
Given under my hand on board he Scipion, in
Batavia Roack, 28 tit August, li3

(Si'ned)

ROBERT.STOPFORD, Rear-Admiral.
Another Letter • from Admiral StOPtord, dated
133tavia Roads, Angost, ; after statiog,
that-he joined the .armatnent, • and took the coin-
Maud on the 9th-, says, • *
" The NiSLl9:P:rebidenti and' Phcebe, joined me
horn the Isle cif Frapce on the 20th instant. "Their
marines were immediately landed, and most: thank -
fullY received by the General, whose army was al:.
ready much diMinished by sickness, particularly
'amongst the native troops bronght from *lndia. I
ihall ever consider it Isis most fortunate circurn-
ttance for the success of the expedition, that the
cipioti dad the three frigates arrived from..the
JJe of Prance, as they have very. matetially coo-
filtrated to ease the press of 'duty,-so severely felt
in this ehmite.,
&letter from Commodore Broughton to Admiral
it6i'ford, after acknowledging the receipt of the,
ater's Orders,'says
• "I have now to state 'My prpceedings after join-
ing the Leda with the expedition ueder my' Corn-
41 'nd• On the 3d ihstant„ in she afterneon,•: we
tautf the coast abut Murderer's -Point, and on ',the
!:lowing day,. about three P. M. we anchored
the Village of Chilliogcltill, in five fathoms
ter, Edam bland bearing N. 40 deg. W. and
~,41i"nt; Priock 'S. W.. two miles off shore. The
a'w,"itt,r part of- the army was lauded before dark,
01."11"nt tie smillest opposition, and in the course'
the next erery thing the entry required was
ao shore.,
"On the 6th" the Leda and the small cruizer‘
Neeeded off the entrance of the river, Antzioi„
and
anchored off ,Iliniatig Priock, where the
Y
aneC of the army took post in the course of the
• . '
On the 71h, the advance in the ,night crossed
paeel , Aniz'ol, on a bridge 'of flat, boats, pre-
„a' by sift. navy, under she direction of Captain
ler, of his Majesty's ship Leda, and the: Com—
qnti,
1.4 aunsell arid Reynolds.
'" in the morning of the Bth, a flag of truce
eta sent into Batavia, and a deputation came ow
from
the city, requesting to surrender at .discre-
'P
lud Put themselves under our prOteetion,,
,Iya,e General and myself agreed to respe6t the pri,
"i, 4; Property of' ;tiose inhabitants who remained
Colonel
eny, and the advance under 'the command
Gillespie, took immediete possession
lir; men 'of war and transports in consequence re-
Cved from their former anchorage towards
Scipion, Batav,is Roads, sapt.4.
SLR,—.Mott will be pleased to acquaint my Lords
li,,.44"iiiitaters of the Admiralty, the. Commodore
*,:4,Rhtensailed this morning, with the ships nitmed
le ,'"e margin*, and is directed to rendezvous of
I,ZII, until joined by the transports froth this
/07, conV4ing „the Sepoys and ordnance stores,
lip the wad: upon the enemy's remaining posses-
g,".tiiert.theisland ofiriava,. at,Gressi and Soura-
ga The 14th regiment of foot, and part of the
ire ' regitnent, with the artillery and held-pieces,
bat eolharktd on board the ships of war. Lieute-
t'Ganeral Sir Samuel Auchmuty purposes sailing
to morrow hi, M ..)esty'rt shl) Modeste, to
_corn-
thgetilii the trirop‘. I shall sail'at the same time in
ciPinn. lam to great hopes that by'an'imme-
tro: and vigorous impression being made by the
Itr„P° en hoard the King's ships, and the assistance
utl—,,,the seamen and marines, posse's'. • n can be
or of these pierces without waiting for. the arrival
tethe trabaports, which would render our operations
ry tedious
,
~ltere oas been no authentic. ateriont'rereiVed of
General,. tnseos' proCeedings since hefled from Bui-
lt
see,
Oil the night or the el of August, but it
see, 'lectured that he 14 gone' to.gessrabaya : be was
44041',1!Pani'd in.his flight by one French General, and
I,lle;6ft j cavalry : the remainder of hiS troops, to
tohge Lingtn°llnt of two or .three hundred,Eoropeans,
Pliny .chiefly' of Gerni,ins,...refusing to accorn-
kner. ;1' ,
nave deliieted themselves up as pri-
g to the
British army.
I have. the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) ROBERT. STOPFORD,
• Rear-Admiral.

Y • ertler
* itlus, Ng.
triuus, Lion, itilindtn, and Leda.

(A I.
"4ted Letter from Captain Hoare, of the Minden,Mi.
tit tit Point Sr. Nicholai, Jone 6,1 a r, de,t is
,11(jY4IC:11:;t of two eiltltViltS between
.200 soldiers,
an7Tines, aneseamen, landed fmra the Min-
flnt .500..0f the enemy's chosen troops, near
lit P. oil the coast of -Java • in . both of which
were entirely defeated, with great Joss.)
urn.of the kilted and wounded of a detach'
lßicr;` ,01 seatben, - royal inanities, and soldiers,_..
Jut 4 from his ,Majesty's ship IVlinden, sth
18
Pitst %. i• • •
tharhi "Liack,—minUn, t seaman, serjeant of
'eB' 4 privates- of marines, wounded•—•l4th
1 ger .4." lank and .file wounded—Total, 1 seaman,
and rant of Mat ines, 4 privates of mat ines, 2 tat*
Vie,
,wminded.
4i ted 71
1)4 Attack.---Minden,privates of marines
corponl anti 6 privates of marines wound.,
Poet, corporal and 4 privates .wounded
e~`'cot, 3 privates wounded---1•t31, 2 privates
r,`nes killed, 2 corporals and 13 privates wound-
'-lener:d Total 25,
(Signed) E. W.IIOIIIIE, Captain.

),„: Le • ----
{Felt iter from Lieut. -, Edmund Lyons, of the
tive,s—n, dated Straits of Situda, July 31, ISI
ir),l an account of his having, only 34 seal;
tort 'he launch anti cutter, stormed the Dote
fansAlarrack; on the coast of Java, mounting
.54
44(1
'e .cr and
.gairisoned at -that time by "I so soldiers,
rows of two.gun-boalo •
"'et!
1/4) sterday' marniog early a fire brbke, out, a,
43 a 11,4 Upper Thatiles-streei, (lattedxp cc'
warehousey-the interior Of;
,which.
°lallY de,tro t ether with a li,!se
.
v4itlitt)l ' )e ' --
L
goods.

Muniteurs and other Paris Papers reached town
last night, to the Bth instant, but they arc tilled
with decrees and regulations respeaing municipal
interests aud,concernsi and corn ai3 no political news.

We insert this day, from the Gazette Extraouli-
naq, the &oils of the cdibture of ,Batavia, and of
the 'French force in the Island of Java, which will
doubtless be read with considerable interest. ,We
have no space left for observation, nor indeed are any
necessary, the Dispatches of 9ur gallant Officers
give, a clear and distinct s-I:.count of the whole trans-.
.latEtion, which mikes the highest credit upon all who
•
,ere employed in the exp'edition. :It will be seen
with pleasure that our loss is by no means great.
capture; and the manner in, which it was
ch:e.ed, is the more gratifying,. it 'not being king
since BUONAP 01:LE published some:, letters and other.
dOcuments in the Moniteur, for the purpose of per-
suading the people of Fran'ce that it was extremely
tlitlicult, if not irnpo,sible,. for the French posses.
in Java to fall into the hands of the Eoglish.

We have great pleasure in relieving the feelings
'Of'rhe tiiends arid relatio;is of those who belonged
his Majesty's strip Saidanha,l# the following list of
persons who ere lot, when she sailed, on • board
the Tre'nt, at Cork,' and are now safe yo that
ship :4
Rd. Standish, Lieut.' Mrpines;
Private Marine ; - John R O'Reily, Midshipman ;
Chas. Hodges, Ab. ; John Warren and.JOhn. Carey,
Ordinary; Ch3s. lord, Ah, ; John M'Csiferty,
L. M.; Jamvs Game, Corporal .if Marines ;
John Pidgeon and:Wrn. Saunders, Prlvate Marines;
Win. Moore, aule ; Bicitertoil, ordinary ; J.
Knight, ordinary; W. Page,
.able; W. Collins,
ordinary ; G. Bousey, private 'marine; Js.-rm. Bell,
ditto; JetinGiltrore, earpenter's.crew .P, Curren,
.J. Q. True„ordirlary.

We mentioned yesterday the dreadful storm which
ha,i occurred In the Belt. The homeward-bound
convoy which Sailcd, from,t-Linno Say on the ioth
ult. consisted of more than 2,00 sail ; out of this
-number it is stated that 17 fetindered at
.s.ea,: the
crews of which were untottunately lost; i 2-(and
it' is feared more) were taken by Danish privateers ;
73 had reached liiist 0., iChi. a' port twam-r -C Isha tit,
most of them in.'.l disabled itsth,,and where ,it was
'feared they wank be.obliged.to.winter ; and several
ai ' thors sought shelter in, the pertS:ht. 71,_alatici. The
81. Geo ge rode out the storm, but , was.,obliged to
cut away her main, ritten, and fore mast;

Amongst the allegations urged by the Opposition
Writers, it has been preiended that Government
had .sought to conceal disastrous news "from the Ai-
turias, and thatotaial accounts have been received
Many jays ago of the defeat and jispersion of Ge,
:neral .MENDIZABEL.I4 army. 1"110 Wits: are, .that
the French army. in Leon has been greatly distressed
for prosisions, Thus harvests in 'the plains of that
province have been vet), bad,. while in the vallies of
the Asturias they have been productive. DOIISENNE
appears to have bad in clew the increase and ez
tension of his means of subsistence, A large, body
of troops having been asseinbled near Leon, BuN-
NET'S dive n, amounting to about 6000 infantry,
with 300 cavalry, moved rapidly in- t columns to
the passes of Palates and Alesa ; he was supported
by 'another division which advanced only to the toot
.Of the mountains, and ending that little or no 0pp0..,
46000 was given to, the.march of BONNET'S columns;-
,it returned to Leon, There were but tew Spanish
troops in the utighboorhood of the Passes, and these
fell back toward the frontier of G,silicia, so unite,
with the rest of the Austrian troops, and a corps de.
tackled .fro.o General ABADIN army, BONNET
crossed the mountains on the sth, and entered. Ovi-
edo on the 'following day. llto has•been busied since
in exacting requisitions of wheat from Gijon, Aviles,
&c. and in collecting carts, and preparing escorts
for its conveyance into Leon. Gen. MENDIZABEIa,
whose-corps some of the English Papers respresent
to .have been dispersed, is distant froM the scene, of
these operations. *His principal station is under Stood
to have been at Pores, in the district of Old Castile,
called the Liebau, He not been attacked, or
even threatened, at the date of the last
These facts, which we cart confidently state, will
that the4Opposition Writers are more ready to
bring 4harges against Government . than CO tiouble
titeruselees with any inquiries iota their truth, or.
probability.

The Petlth itabewr fins been indisposed at York
House for these two days re, with severe pints in
the arms.; he has been attended by. Sir firtittY
HALFORb and Dr. BLANO, at well Ss Sir WALTER
FAIIQUFIAR. He was relieved by their preserip-
ticins, and is considerably better.
Yesterday the tarl of LiVaiiPOOL and Mr. RYDEIt
had audiences and transacted busii.ess with the
PRINCR RBGENT.

Datchet Bridge was opened yesterday. Her MA.
sesTr went first over in her carriage and four no,
cornpained,by the Princesses ELlTkilliTll and MAtiY,
The Duke of Sussex has had no i-lapse of his
disorder since Friday, hot his l'ltsicians strongly
recommend a speedy change to a warmer clintale,
to perfect his recovery.

Amongst 'private letters to the $d inst brought
by the Lisbon Mail, one 'of them states,- that be •
tween the 23d and 28th Nov. PH ILIPoN, who Ms
as Commander in Chief of the French Army doling
the absence of Ms LI MONT, advanct'd with. tom°
men, tor the purpose of escorting provisions, a.n-
munition, &c.'
. destined,. to Ciudad Rodrigo. Lord
Wei.t.motorr having 'previously learned that such
a moveritent Was
,to be made, marched with his
whole' disposable force to • trmtrate- the• design,
and, the enemy, finding himself pnequal 'to
his Ol)ject, retreated with precipitation. I, is men-
tioned in another letter, that General GiorAiru did
not die in consequence of the wounds he receive,'
near Merida, but by his own hand.
The arrival of the, Wandeter, Captain New.
cointie, 'from the West Indies, • atford4 us 'the satis-
faiinn of learning, tha;. the Leeward Islands, and
the' shipi on the station, were healthy, and free
from I et'. The Wanderer sailed-from Barbtdoes on
the sth, finOl GuAlainupe on the Rith; and from
Antigua on the Vith of October. She brought
home, the last convoy of the season; coti!listilig of
only seven met chant ships. and the William trarts
port: l'oar-AdMiral Sir,. Francis Laforey, in the
Dragon, ith the Gloire, was at Barbadoes; Staiira,
Tribune, and Forester, at•%Antigtia; and Orpheus
at Gu ,datoupe. Sir A. Cochrane, since he assumed
the Go erianent Guadeloupe, had preserved his
Health. The only enemy's vessel in those, seas was
the.a.ke de Danizic privateer; she 11,id been often
chased, but, none of our ships could i:orme up with
her. The Thetis, Capt. Byron, Castor, Captain
Dilkes 'and. Frac sloop, Capt. Whinyates, had
lien' removed to the Jaiiroul station; they took on
board 000 of the Yo,k.Rangers, from Barbadoes for
Jamaica: • The strong fort of Bourbons on the island
of Martioignit, hail been des:l.4er]. The
trapspott has brought the guns of the' gars ion to
Engiand. Slrould the island, therefore, be aided,
or taken' by the enemy, it will cost them immense
tim4 and'expenee to restore it to its former state of
.defence:: Colonel Keane, of the 13th regithent,- is
come.home from the Weal Indies passenger in •the.
William ; he is to join the Staff in Portugal. Capt.
Sutherlano, of the York Rangers, died on the passage,
of consumption. Tee Wanilerer took en board 04
invalitis at Barhtdoes and Antigua, I t of whom died,
on the passage of denility and consumption.
On Wednesday last the University of Cambridge,
in a vily. fall Senate, voted, by a majority of iodte
than I o to I in boils houses, the sum of ,one Lim-
o rol
,pounds from the University Chest to the So-
ei:!ty touiptomoting,Christian Knowledge, use token
of regardifor that.respeatable:Society, so long •dis.i.
tinguished by its support of .the Establishment.
TM.. grant, with the late liberal grant to the
Ni-
tionat Society .for promoting the Education of the
Poor in the, ptinciples of the Established Church,
strongly.,marks the • sense of this University in its
'corpoiate,capacity.

• MATRIMONIAL INFIDELITT.—,A very extraordi-
nary instance of this kind has it is `said recently oc-
curred in high life. A'Gcntleman of 'considerable
fortme received an anonymous, leuer, charging his
wife, ,a very beautiful woman, with this offence
confidedt in her virtue, he threw it into the tire; but
receiving two others, he was indueed to consult with
his. Solicitor, Withotir imparting the 'matter so the
Lady. 'A plan was contrived to discover the author
of the letters, who proved to be the Lady's maid,
and who gay& satistatiory testimony of the alleged
guiltjtf Ilk Gentleman pretended to leave town, bat
'returned 'in a manner arranged,aud went into the lady's
chamber, where'he found her in bud with his own
foottnan In his rage he drappt the paramour out
Of the bed, and intlided ou boa summary jutice, and
then had him put..into the same cArrntge 'With the'
lady, and th I were driven with gw.at fury on the
northern road,'and ;tot king has since b:.ten heard of
them. ' •

'l'lte Office for Military Accounts, in Dolie-sireet,
:Westminster, 11:b lately been discovered to be robbed
of regitn-otal ond distria accounts of the utmost
coost:quence, and to an.incalcathlo. amount, Some
of-them .'.ere tractil to the shop of a cheeaemonger,
who purchased them of John Gordon, a man. Lc.
longing :to Office, who was in consequence taken
into Cuitody by Towiisend yesterday, and brought
to the Office, where he underwent an examination
before 11 i..NARES and Mr, BIKNIE.—Mr. Stuart,
one df the'toperituendants of the Office, indentified
the p:ipers',setied as the property of the King, 30
On re'cille•t the prisoner was committed for fur-
ther esnini,:ation till he could consult his principal
and Mr. Litchfield, the Solicitor to the Treatury.
A chq.i)9t npre, the property of Mr, 'Thomas
Kirby,'d York, trotted on Monday, the 0111 instant,
thedistance of tout-teen miles and seventy-one yards,
front Lord Eghotouti's Castle ,ate-way to

osw:dti, Mill-door, in forty-six minutes and
• forty-three seconds....-the tine given thirty minutes.
The bet was' made by Colonel Blair and Capl'aiti
Stepherison, two Gentlemen residing near Irvine,
in,Scothnd, two months ago; and, ger trying all
England, Mr. Kirby's mare was fixed upon as mo,it
suitable for this feat.. The road on which it Wag
performed is as bad as any .Scotland can produce,
lying. through the town of Irsine, which has two
remarlzably. sharp Willi in it. At this place the
inareJell ; returned ; rook a standing.start, and per-
formed her task - with. eaut, .She WAS prepared anct
rode by Mr. John Skipton, in. Yorkshire. We 1.16-
d.-rstend this match" waL nude tor a sery co..hider-
able-still, and a4i,reat numbly of bets depending
upon the is,ue
BilliAD,—Thisday'there was no Court of Alder-
men., :The LoaP Maitott, atter Morcott.; the re-
Rims, ordered ii to advance id. per Peck Luat.
The Qoartein Loaf will now be