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. CITY OP LONDON TAVERN. Dzc.l4.lBQlk,at •
;leave to stint it ;and further, to say, that, in tit 11.116 t. Worse
• • sin being captured by the enetay,l still exchange sod 4
AT a MkETING,of the MERCHANTS, MN- -, return ort)te- mei to the pout to wilds they belnb
KERS, TRADERS, and INHABITANTS of Lokdon, I ". I hope and, trust-that the iime-is not-far distant Wain . *
convened by the Right Honouratde the L4an MATO', by public I cdohies will most amply supply the Weq. India Islands, w
Advertisement, to consider of a SUBSCRIPTION for Cloathing . idea not less than one million sterling per annum will centre
and other neceseades, in aid of the brave SPANISH PATRIOTS, ' sithst,instrad of going Into the pockets of foreigner'. . '' ,
. now *muting in the field, to defend thetttnumtry from afirelin ' " ?can assure /our Excellency that I shall always be win*
and cruet invasion, --.. 7- ;. „"7-. 1 to agord every protection to the growing trade of the Bridal'.
The Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR in the Choir, . American possessions ; and I beg you will be pleased to slwalk
A Letter from the Right Honourable the Chancellor of the 1 the "sine tb those whose interests are connected with it.
Exchequer was readvand, On the motion ofbir Roe eivt WtottA st; 1 "• I have, the honour to be your Excellency's most, obedient
it was resolved, • - .••,I i • • - • • humble servant, • • (Signed) Alex. Cociamix.,•
That a Subscription be now opened for the purpose desired. ; 0 :To bit-Excellency Sir John Wentworth,
That a Committee be appointed to attend to the ffiott,.lni • • Governor, &c. Halifax." .
the most expeditious and efficacious manner, cif, • ,
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That eve of this Committee may act hi a 0Oormn;•• •
That an account of the application of the monies *subscribed,
and of the dispatch and destination of the assist:4l;es provided,
shah be made public. • s
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. The following Gentlemen were named of the Committee at.4l,
The Right Hon . the A. Goldsmid E. Parry
Lord Mayor J. Garcias J. Merge
Lord Eardley W. Gordon, M. P. Sir C , Price, Bari,
A. Anderson I. Goldsmid M. i',
Y. Ansley, Alderman H. Golds-mid - Sir J. Perrin*, Bart.
J. J.. Angerstein R. Hankey • E. Quin
J. Atkins, Alderman J. Harman '• -- . T. Ravi:Croft ~ - ,
J. Bainbridge T. Harrington . , - .1. M. Rifles
A. Baring, M. P. Harrison , L•Russell ..
J. Blackburn, M. P. Q. Harris • • C. Scott . • -
R. Barclay C. Hanbury J. Shatz, AIL lit. P.
W. Bonham, M. p. J. Inglis -' :. • - 114 bide=
J. liosanquet • J. Jackson, Esq. _ lie*. SAntt -
C. Buller .. J. innea
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E. Boldero
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.D. Bayley , B. Long • • •:, Sirit.Wigram, Bart
-Sir W. Curtis, Bait. Sir J..W. Lubbock, G. Ward
M. P. But: M. P. J. Wilmot, jun.
H. Consbe,Esq.M.P.. W.Mellish;Esq.lVl.l E. Waters
Alderman - J.Marryatt,EKM.P R. Thornton.
T. Cetistm J.P.faitlantl,EsqM.P I G. Sandeman
A. Chatfield It& M•Dennell IJ. Jacob
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E. Forster R. H. Martin - C. Enderley
p. Free Aldm. Newnham C. Brooke
Amount of Subscriptions before Advertised £16,605 1
ADDITIONAL SUBSCRIPTIONS.
Moses Brant - 1 1 Jack Johnstone, T. R. D. 5 .S
De Visme, Smith, and ' R. Ward - • 0 3
De Vim - so 10 Wm. Loyd - 2 2
T. Thomson, T. Boner Robarts, Cortis,,& Co. 10.5 0
and Co._ - 210 0 John Clements 21 0
trugh Ramsdell 10 o John Richard Ripley 21 0
Goslings and Sharpe 103 0 John Anthony Wise 21 0
Smith, M‘George, and• Harris and Custance 21 0
Watson - 21 0 Palmer, Wilson & Co. 105 0
Simon Fraser and Ca 105 0 7;homas Preston .52 10
W. Graham and Son 23 0 Miss Preston , 5'5
F. H. Mackmurdo 10 10 Willis, Wood, Percival,
R. Mackmurdo 5 5 and Co, • - 105 • 6
turner, Whiteside, and . Jabez Exshaw - 21 0
Turner - 109 , 0 From a Lady (per T.
Elizabeth Arnold -• 0 .3D Cones and Co.) 300 0
Three Journeymen Bellamy, Son, and Kett 21 " 0
Taylors • ,- •'6 ft * Beazley, Ner, Bellamy 21 , 9
John Brown. • . ,0" 11 Richard Ray -; • - -10 10
Samuel Morris - -. !t!. 6d.. Henry Dowell • - lob ci.
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likuclay, Perkins & Co. 1( 5 0 Sir Richard Carr Minis 102 0
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at the M..nsi,,n-bouse • at the City of London Tavern ; and by all
the Bankers of Lando and Westminster.

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• TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

Consols for epg. 66,1f—Reduced630--Onaniuin 1 du.
Exchequer Bills, 6s. Bs. prem..
PRICE OF 81OCKS YESTERDAY.
9 per Cent. Red. 6.5111 India Bonds, 7s. Ba. pr.
3 per Cent. Cons, shut Ex. Bills 7s. 9s. pre.
4 per Cent. 814 State Lottery Tickets, 211. 15s
ptr Cent. Navy' shut Cons. for ace. 061
Long Ann. 18 1-16th 18

One of our contemporaries asks:—" How comes
44 it that we never undertake a naval expedition with,
46 out success—and never undertake a land• expedi:
tion without failure ?"—The question is an impor-
t tant one. The reason of their different success is

now very well known, though no person has had the
honesty to proclaim it, nor any Administration the
boldness to attempt to apply the proper remedy.

The Office of LORD HIGH AD?dIRAL is put in Com-
mission—not held by one individual. Where respon-
sibility attaches, and that 4ot to an individual, but
to a plurality, there must be efficiency.'
Is there 1 man in this country who would have
nerve enough to undertake the sole superintendance
of our Naval affairs ? Could one be found of such
front as to presume, that in himself Were concentred
all that experience, knowledge and capacity, which
are necessary for the due execution of the duties of
so important a charge, would he receive credit for
his boasted qualifications ? Would the Government,
after the many proofs which experience has given
of the high value of collective wisdom and respcn-
sibillty, commit an act of insanity by 'entrusting the
Aloe to an inditidual ?
We mean !Wit:3a disparage his Royal Highness the
Duke. of Yottor,, when we assert, that however high his
qualificationsrmay be, it is impossible he should be.
able tape:form what would require the utiitedl moral;
and physical powers of several to execute. The wis-
dom'of a SoLoxtow, and the strength of a SAMPSON,
united in.the same person, would not be more than
sufficient lot the ,due performance of the arduous
duties which belong to the office of Commander in
ChIefi—LET,THE ()met BE PUT IN COM-
MISSION, aad let his Royal Highness receive a
due secompence for the zeal he has shewn on every
occasion to promote the interests of the Nation.—
We say he is entitled to a reward ;—for if his
services have not been productive of that success
which was hoped for, the fault has not been his, but,
should in justice be ascribed to those who expected,
from his Royal Highness.what'svas morally and phy-
sically impossible to be performed by any single in-
dividual upon earth.

WEST INDIES.

KINGSTON, SEPTEMBER 10.
The Milan frigate, of 38 guns, Captain Sit Robert
Lawrie, Bart. sailed on Tuesday for Halifax. She
carried 131 of the Spanish prisoners lately xeleased,
to be landed at the Havannah.
The Rein-deer brig, of 18 guns, Captain Dougl4s,
arrived the same day from La Vera Cruz. During
her cruize, she took four schooners and destroyed.
them, after taking out their cargoes, which she put
on board of the schooner Ahavideo, Bassaire, from
La Vera Cruz to this port, which arrived with her.
The schooner Lady left La Vera Cruz on the 2d ult.
and brings information that a felucca had arrived there
from Cadiz on the 28th fuly, under a passport from
Lord Collingwood, with the intelligence of the revo-
lution in Spain, and of the formation of a Provisional
Government at Seville, on which occasion- the inha-
bitants of La Vera Cruz illuminated their houses
three successive nights. The populace had proceeded
to break open the doors of several houses belonging
to Frenchmen, and maltreated their persons: but the
Governor interfered in their behalf, by placing their
property under a guard, and sending them into the
interior until the popular fury should subside.
SEPTEMBER 27.

We have done our duty..,--Let Ministers do theirs !
—lf they neglect

• POTTENBURGFI M4IL.
This day a mail reached-town, brought from He-
ligoland by the King George packet, which reached
Harwich yesterday. We are sorry to state that the
accounts brought by this packet respecting the da-
mage occasioned by the gale of the 7th instant, are
extremely distressing.

From St. Jago. de Cuba we learn, that the Cover-
nor of that place, who it seems greatly favoured the
French people settled there, has been removed by the
Governor in Chief at the Havannah, the Marquis de
Sonserullos, who has appointed another in his room.
The French, alarmed at this measure, expostulated
against the removal of their favourite, and plainly
evinced a determination to resist the newly appointed
Governor. He had, however, arrived within eight
miles of St. Jago,, where, with a considerable body
of troops, he had taken up his quarters, resolved not
to enter the town until the French had left it, and had
transmitted orders to that place, directing that all,
the French should immediately embark and quit the
island. These orders were not obeyed, and Spanish
force Owe understand, were marching in all direc-
tions, "for the purpose of co operating with the new
Governor in entorcinz prompt obedience to the laws
of the island. The french, whose numbers are re-
presented to be no leSs wan 12,000 in St. Jago, were
determined to resist, and the greatest proportion of
them were well armed. A severe conflict, it was ex-
pected, would soon take place. '
OCTOBER I.—By a felucca which arrived on. Mo-
nday from La Vera Cruz, we learn that a vessel of
war had arrived theft from France, last from Guada- 1
loupe, with a Frenchman, sent out to assume the Go-
vernment,
and to proclaim Joseph Bonaparte sing
of Spain and of the 'lndies. The vessel had scarcely
anchored when the news reached the shore ; on which
several people immediately went on board, and were
preparing to carry their threats into execution, of set-
ting fire to the vessel with all her crew, when the Go-
vernor was under the necessity of interfering, by seik-
kg her, and sending her crew to prison until the com-
motion had subsided.
Tale wilowing is the Copy of a Letter from Rear-
Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane to Sir John Went-
worth, Bart. offering every protection in his power
to the,commerce of the British colonies in North
America :

No less than fourteen sail of vessels, laden with
*sugar, coffee, &c. Were lost on Sandy Island ; but we
are happy to add that the crews were all saved.
Five sail are on shore on the Great Island, and
may possibly be got off; Three sail are lost (galliots).
Every soul on board the latter perished !—Five sail
drove out to sea, and hate not since' been heard of—
supposed to have gOne.alstore upon thp, Main.—At
Heligoland, two hius*s in the Lavin, Town, wer
washed away. •

The Musuurreof -sloop of Aver, drove from her
Floorings, but rode the gibl'otit-iiith two anchors
a-head.—The pa 44 eut fronign -anchor and cable.
--IkTot a vessel tliereA.gFny deseripdon, escaped
without damage. . .

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Yeste;day -Messrs. Emmen' and RUFF, King's
Messengers, 'left town with dispatches for Spain.
Yesterday -her Royal Highness the -Princess of
WALES visited rentington, :and retarned back to
Blackheath to diluter. •
Lady MELVILLE is arrived at Wimbledtmond Lord
ivfr.t.vaLs is expected between the. 19th • and 2Sd.—
He gives a dinner to some political friends on Christ-
mas Day. '
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Mr. COLMAN, to whose dramatic talents the public
are so much indebted, has been so much indisposed as
to excite alarm in his friends, but his illness has at
length terminated in a fit of thegout. • i
Dien—At Bath, on the 10th nst.CIIARLES PORN'S,
Esq. of Darth•am, in the county of Suffolk.' • ,
An express arrived in tow t yesterday morning, with
an account of the death of the Earl of Axtunmet4
Wardour Castle.
Beean.—There being no Clatrt pf Aidermastileil
to-dayithe Loan MAYOR, after inspectidt the rituru't
aisle-tett* to advance 2d. pwrcicloaf,. °
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. Bel'elide, at Halifax, October 4.,
" Sir !—Well knowing the importance to Great Britain in hay-
csi.pplies furnished from her North American Colonies for tbe,
• other West ltAa possessions, 1, soon after my arrival on the
ward Wand station, issued ord. rs that no seaman sbduld be
eased from any vessel belonging to Lbw Colonies. Lfst a*,

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