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PRICE OF SerocKs
Tllll DAy AT TWZLVII, O'CLOCK.
Consols - - - - 6si 1 Red. Ann. - - 661

rlr'"TlE wholdoi the STATE 'LOTTERY will be
drimn on VIII DAY, the isth instant Forty-four
; four of ao,oool. and 4,000 other Prizes.

SOLFM QVIS, DICSINAL IF/U.6VAC AUDIAT

4. Windsor Castle,- Feb. g,
" His MAJESTY is in all respects as well to day
as he has been timing the last two days."
Signed„ as usual.

Dispatches have been received by Governmept
from Lord WELLINGTON, dated the 30th January,
which state, that no alteration had taken place in the
situation of the arniicA, except that a body of
,Spa-
niali troops had, awe before mentioned, crossed to
the south of the l'.igus. „We are happy to have it'
in our power to give this informatin, becauie it
.will allay the apprelier,ioris excited in some of the
Opposition Papers,. by the_ gloomy intelligence
brought I# the 4bripricart Captain.

'Wien the Dispatches from Lord WELLINOTON
'came aWay, it Ilk, not been ascertained whether
itibiCer was dc*l, but it is certain that he was se-
wounded in driving in one of our, out-posts.

The.Viench l.)1% n which obliged &CINEMA to
to retreat, pot sued him a far as the P.Ao4o,•Whieh
lie crossed in good order. The enemy, finding that
their flanks were in clanger by their proceedings so far,
Itad also thought proper to retreat. l'itese Dispatches
will be in the Gazette,of this evening.

t'. it is with deep regret that we confirm the account
of the death of the gallant'Marquis DP. R61AN.1.---
141 i death was occasioned by his incessarit:exerti(lis.,
bola of triud and body, in the 'cause of his country.
Spain ought deeply to lament his toss, for he has
not lett behi,d a man of more pure and' genuine
patnotino, ot more exalted prir;ciplei, or wore ca-
vibleol le4diog her armies, or guiding 'her councils.
From the moment of his landing in ,Spiift,- he 'dis-
played the ininoit zotil, and the most indefatigable
ent.:',gy. No manitakt to contend .agaidst g'reat4;r
ditiicultiea; and no man conid overc,ime het' 11 h
mere credit to histisctl: or Ic3s cowl:6in of the
obstacleg, which be encoontero, •

'ConficiOntly that three vessels, from
America diveCt, hod redchod Botirderlux:,since the
3st of November, and had,beer. admitted to an en-
try... „ It is. also said, th it every American vessel in
French ports, and wider, the wacne circumstances,
woold adroitted, not, however, till their respec-
tive papers had been inspected ,by BLJONAPARIRraiId
reccivud hiS SEllB6lon. No miyre license's, to Amer i-
vessels were to be issrlu,d by the Government of
Fratim to import produce into that cOuntry, as the
revocation of the Berlin and Milan Decrees Inid run.
tiered buch, licenseS Unneces,dry. This infortnaiion
brOu,,ht to Mr. PINCKNEY', the. AllleriC3ti 11/41i-
tister here, front Russrm, the American Mi-
ni.tcr in France, by Major PAtin, ut MitS3klCllll.
8t:113, who lett Patis on the ult.

We 'esti in :an Opp.,sitioo Paper of this mornin4,
rtn articte,tespeliting Irel;m4, c'mtaining a most
gloorny'ilnd exaggerated pi,;tore of tbiB
.state of that
country, and expressing (we are hound to suppose,
s:ncerely) the greatest apprehensions for its sakly.
Jf the miter of the article in question, really, be-
lievcs t hit Irif!land is in that. perturbedand danger-
ous state whlch hi describes, is it consiitent
Patriotism, 'is it consistent with the duty of a'good
subje6t, to endeavour to'aggravato-the discohtenst
and' to rincrcase the'datiger. lle votes, that tlie
Jitoman Catholics of Ireland are dissatisfied, because
the whole of their demands have not been complied
with. 14,0,affek's gre,it at the, prohiilde cod.
sequence of that dissatistattion, arid then,. for the
purpose,- we septiotr, Aonthins. tlretn, .he de-
scribes thearsituation in the most exaggerated term,
it,At IrivfancY can ThP writer ,de4erib es
the Itoman Catholic s' of Ireland riS
.being le asiate
at proscription. We tire not now -going 'to enter
into the detdils of the Catholic question, hut we
Ask any map of common candour, of whatsoever
religion he may be, Wh4:Lher the term Proicripiioq
C4ll fairly be applied to !lie few, the very .few, dis-
abilities ender which the Roman Catholics of Ire-
law:, now labour ?" We arc riot now arguing whe-
ther the4e disabilities ought o'r ought not to he re-
moved ; ,but we contend, • tharthese who' maintain
they affirmativa of thatdproposition, materifilly injure
t air °Wit Clioso!by exaggerated and ouch on-
tbunded aiatements.. Let/anlr Map look, at the stitte‘f

the Irish Roman Catholics now, and at the com-
mencement of the present reign, and them let him
say, whether they are now in a proscribed state. Let
any Man leek at the Statute Book, of Ireland during,
that period, and say whether act uninterrupted
ries snf
.concessions to the .Irish Catholics, is
a proof that they are in a state of proscripiinn
whether the removal of almost all the disabis
!ities under which they laboured is to be cal-
sidered as a' " harsh persectition," WhiCh hag seen
been carried on-against them.—:The writer alludes,
to the rebellion in 1798, and says, that Goverement
ought to have adopted Coeciliatory measures to-
. wards Ireland ; '' but," adds he, " from the
formation of the present Ministry, to the day
on which We are now writing, no one aa, no one
appointment, no one favour has been ebewn
to Ireland."' A more unfounded. itatement,,we..
have no 1 heSitatiOn to say, never appeared in.
'stabile print. Did the writer of the article in eines-.
tion ever hear of two Acts of Parliament' respea-i
ing Ireland, called, " the Arms Ad," and "the frt-
surreaion Ad," which, froin the tut lot tunate state
of the country when they were passed, contained
rt.:gni:l6oM of great ssysrity ; and does he knnwi
that in die last Session of Parliament, Mr. Wet.-
t m
SLEY'POLE proposed to :uudify the' ums,. se as:
to remove the most 'severe' clauses, and wholly to
repeal the latter, expressing at the same time his
t.sn satisfa6lion, and that of the Irish Gevsrnment,
that the improved situation of a he' country enabled
hint to make such a proposition ? 'Doss he repel-
led that when M. W. Poen had brought forward:
his proposition, Mr. HUTCHINiON thanked him and
the Irish Government for the measure which, he said,
was founded in wisdom, and leaded with joy the,
spirit of placing reliance upon the people, and treat-
ing them with candour.; and that Sir ions; New-
Potts- and other Gentlemen expressed similar senti-
*lns ) If the writer .to,whom we are alluding did
not know these bats, he ought* Mo have sought Stb‘rE.
information before be took upon himself 'to' Wake,
the assertion which we have quoted : it liedidsto what
motives are we to attribute the assertion in question?,
The article then proceeds to' insinuate, in a trays-'
serious Manner, that "a system is forming for arming,
and organizing the inhabitants of Ireland into a mi-
litary. shape, the, avowed objet of which is to force
Greatßr4einsto the PnvinciPat inn of: the Catholics...
What t the Toning of this statement ? Its it a
me-
trace of another' rebellion ? 'But we, do pot wish to
'pursue this subject further at present; it IR much
toe serious and impel taut to, be lightly discuss-
_
ed ; we -shall • only add, that niter making the
.staave katertient, which we firmly- believe is 'wholly
nnfetteded in lies and hinting at the. probabi-
litr of an invisien by BuotPARTB, , the writer,
with a view,'We seppose, of deparifig the hopes of
the discontented at borne and our enemies abroad,
concludes by stating that there are not 6000 regular
troops in :Ireland."--sWhat can be the,ehjeCt: of
such a statement we are at a loss to cOnceive, but
of this we are sure, that it the Regent had changed
his Ministers; it woold not have appeared.

yt-*erday being the day appointed for, pricking
the Sheriffs for the year, a several summons was is-
sued for the Royal Dukes, 'awl Officers
Of State to attend in Copncil at Caritoo-HOuse at
one o'clock for that purpose. Alf tut hall,pasr
twelveo'clock a party.of the Coldstream Regitneht
of Foot Guards, with their full bind and colours,
marched into the Court"-yard, while a party of Life
Guards took their'station in Pall-Mall, A little be-
fore one o'dOck the' Privy Councillors began to as.
sernble: thff Royal Dukes were shewn into a private
apartment, and the Ministers and other Pri4 Coun-
cillors into a loom 00 theyight of the Grand Hall.
SOO° after 'one o'clock Eat! CAmomsf, ale .Lord
President of the-Council., obtained 'an
.audience of
his Royal Highnes4 the Paftqce to ac-
quaint him with the business that was about to be
laid befiite him. Alter which his &mu. El itin-
NEs5 left his private apartments, ;kJ:oily:tided by
:his
attendants, together with Lord fleATtuifer.o,
Cold Stick, &c. and proceeded to the (rand 'Saloon,
where 'he as joined by the Royal I)ki.4. It was
the rf Announc:zif to the other Privy Councillors, that
HIOUNESS was ready to hold (2onrlcil,
and they proceeded to ;mend his ItoYAL
NRIIS) '!'hare Were present

Their Royal csses the Dukes of York,' (larence,
Kent, Cumber Lind, 4,,u5,,ex, C'amb'ridge, and Giolltio,,ter,
the -Archbishop ot York, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord
President of the Cotrucil, the Lord Privy Seal, the
three. Secretarics'of State, the First Lord or the Tioa.
stir), aim -Charix,:tior of the Elo.hequer, tla. l,lr;t Lord
of the Admiralty, the ALizter.Getteral of the Ordnance,
the Prethieht or the ito4r4i of Contioul, the Pq:tadetit of
the Nottid of Trade,' the' Conitnactler in Chref, the' Judes
Advocate, the Duke of Month»; Itibitcr
.the Mist; to
'the Kittgl. Earl Macclesfield, Ciwtaiii of the Ycomet; the
Guaid ; Larl.Winchelsea, Groom of the Stoic,

The principal business triat occupied the attention
of Ow Council wits the pricking tor the Sheritn,
signing t ,p a:1411010ns, which will appear in
The Gazette of ihiw evening, for the obscii,auce of a
Public in I.6ightlyd and Ireland, on the 20th of
nireit, arid iti Scalliancl on the 21 it of the same
month.

After the Council his ROiAL HIGIINESS gavetau-
dience to

The Martini, %Vers.ley, Parts Cannten and Liverpool,
Lordo Mulgrave and Eldon, Mews, Perceval, Ryder, and
Yorke.,

Sir atviii DUNDAS kid before his ROYAL HIGH*
NESS the state of the army up to the eadOf latit

month. The list of promotions the Commander-in-
Chief submitted to his ROYAL HIGHNESS) for his ap-
probation, on Thursday evening.
Mr. MANNERS SInfON had an audience as Judge-
Advocate, and laid before him the proceedings of se,.
veal Courts. Martial, for his Royal ,approbation.
About six o'clock the Court-broke
The ByGENT has appointed General KEITEL one
of his Ecicerries, and given him, the (37th Regiment
of Foot— • • •

SieSiernatsi COTTERELL did not attend the Privy
Council at Carleton House on Wednesday, frit- the
swearing in of the Prince of NVALEs to be REGENT ;
the worthy Knight has resigned the office of Clerk
of the Council some time since, alter filling that
honourable' situatioti near- fifty years. Viscol:nt
CIIETWYND and Mr,,, Fa.
awcrytra a:tended as Clerk.;
efilie Council Upon that occasion. The latter did
not leave Carlton House, in consequence of sudden
indisposition, but had been taken extrein !Yid. just;
before he went to attend Ole Counted ; lee however
recovered -aufficiently to be present on that occasion.'
• ..,
INDIA ,HOUSE.—Yeatidßy a Court of Dirthors:
Was held, when Capt. Kym on was sworn into thel
command. of the ship Lord Cusilerensh, consigbed
to jilengal 'direct: —The CoUrt adjourned at six
o'clock till TuCiOay next.
.
Letters have been receive!dirom Majesty's ship
San Josef, dated off Mahon, the t t 01 ult. which state,.
that the Teulon fleet made An attempt to come' null
on the i th, btit fethroed into port the same night,
where they'reMainerl on the t rth, t hen the•letters
catne,aWay.. ;'..Chey consist ofeleven large ships, se-
ven frigates, and some smalle'r ves•tels.
Wnweremisinkrined in one partieular'relative
to the prneeeding4 in the• Comirion Council,
pn
Thursday last ; it was .Mr.,-.4bits, not Alderman
Buda, who moved another Address in the Com-
,mittee, a. copy of which we will lay before our
readers'when the other is presented.
Sir ABRAHAM `III.INE,. Bait. the present Mem-
ber for Hastings,,, has announced: his ' intention of
standing"for Boston, i 0 conSeiluence of an expeCled
vacancy, by the resignation of Mr. Tyrone, the
pr9serit, Representative of that plaCe, ou aceount of
his advanced age..
T4'A new, Comedy is in preparation at the Lyceum
eatre, front the pen of •Miss • CtiArl4l3Etoi, the
Author of •a eery interesting Comedy entitled The
School for wal very favoUrably re»
ceived at Drury-Lane Theafrti, new Farce .is
also preparing at the same Theatre from Mr. Po-
tcOex, Who is one of the best of modern Farce
WfitUrg. Ir is to be called The Green-eyed Munster.
Cotta, very atrocious attack was made
upon- the centinel posted at Gen. I.'covii's door,
Etbont t tt-O'io'Cipck on last Saturday. morning: Aiarein
1.4,1..ppecl up to ct great coat passed the ceminel
at
that boor, and havieg. given the custinnary. reply ,to
the etuttinel's challeege, and passed on a few paces,
turned suddenly about, and discharged a' pistol id
11Bien, which untOrtnnately weneded hirn severely in
the friot, a hitle below tliesancle. The centinel
int-
inerliatelyfell, anti the assassin fled. Whilst decen,
however, the soldier hiatted his piece, and fired it in
Hitt direction which the villain had taken, but un-
luckily without etfeet. . As soon as this daringout-
rage was commubicated to the Sheriffs,,a pursuit
was cninmeoced ;with the most.. laudable protbri-
' ttxde after the oflender, upon hoWever, very loose •
intelligence casually picked :tip, of his,conrse.• it
was therefore fruitless-41e escaped for the present:
Last night, about seven n'elhick, a destnietive fire
happened at the printing office of Mr. Barnard ,
Skinner.street. it wets oecasidned'by ati.accident in
the press loam, where a great
.number ;of sheets
,were banging. Some of the paper having taken-fire, •
the,then at work immediate)), endeavoured to ex-
'Merest' the flames, but :thaw exertions were un-
: ,the blaze spread .with astonishing rapidity,:
ansi it was with toe' greatest 'difficulty they escaped
from the 'room. In a short spade Of time the upper
part of the house was enveloped in 'flarties,--and a
conflagration more luminous has seldom occtirred in
the. Metropolis: The engines soon:arrived, but the
heuse'being in a confined situation, (up a narrow
passage) it was sonic time before -water could be •
thrown to prodoce any
,The whole extent of
the printing4)ffice contioued burning until all was
destroyed. 'The darhage done, is considerable. Be-
sides a great rinanticy of paper, presses, and printing
materials„ Mr. Bafnard :had on his premises a va-,
!viable work, of a religious description, .which had
been three Years printing. "Thee adjoinmg houses.of
Mr. Chappell,.. pork-butcher, and the gun-smiths,
have suffered some injury,:but the greatest-damage
is done backwards, •towards StioVv-hill.' The vo.
Innleers arrived, with the City constables to assist •
the firemen. ,
The Essex •fox»hounds, under the 'management
of Colonel Cook, had one of the severest runs oil
Sarurday last et er known' in Essex., They met at
Leading Wood, about three miles from
'Pier; frost-being very hard, the hounds did not throW
into cover-till halt past twelve o'cloCk : after draw.
iii the small covers near Leading . WrOthing with.
out suCcess,- the Colonel trot red on try a cover about.
st,vee miles from the place of meeting, called Brick-
hills, where they soon. found. ' The fox immediate-
ly broke cover and made -for:Norwood, wh ere: he was headed and Went 'back :10 Brick hull; ; from
thence to a faveurite cover called Manwood, from
whence he broke over the open Country and made
for Lord Mayttard's'high woods towards Dunmow,
but being hard' pressed, Was: not able to reach the
cover, and he turned to the right over the Roth-
jogs ;, and at the end of one hour and fifty minutes'
severef
oxeiii ,for eliace
o luirtev of
death.
hard running, they klhed 'him in a ineadoar near
hfty
hAotritehionreltil t This
stoutness of the nothing
only nine were in at the

Must singular Coincidence.—Next Tuesday two
of the grandest processions ever seen in this
country
will take place, viz. the Regent
goin in -
cession to the House of Lords g
'and the Grand Statepate
Lottery Wheels, removing from Somerset House
to Cooper's Hall, previously to drawing the Four
20,0001. Prizes, and Forty other Crfpitals, on Fti-
day, the t 611) instant,

NAVAL NEWS.

PCVMOUTif, FEB. 7.—1,a,t night it blew
havy gale.Of wind from the South West,i'i.
(he ships at this Part rode very hard, Pic
those moored in Cat water, the greater
belong to the fleet that sailed from GP'
hound to Spain.; Portugal, the Metlit,
the We3t Indies, none of which fi3'
any material damage.. During the
gale, a fleet (rum the Straits, ender -
Majesty's ship WAS ctf
two of which parted from tlic
ill here, one. of hetu is 'the bi;g

tongi6g: to Leith, EI)MUNDSTON,
Gibraltar, with, a' cargo, cousisiiiig of
one bale of
.Spanish silk, • and a goillity
duonage, bound to. London ; and 1110
Danish brig Trende Brodrt, belonging to
STRANn, master, 'about I 00 tons buril'en;
lr.ga and Gibraltar, With a cargo cco6l'

lethons, ;raisiny, and a quantity
dunna-Be,
bound so this port furor&
arrived here about nine o'clock, and can't'
between the island and tipirl,
parted from two cables, agti drove
rocks in Firestone Illy, and shortly alt'
complete wreck,, and her cargo, with ti
of twenty cark, Of, wine, 'is, tutilly
had great difficulty in getting ashore, 1111
except one, who was drowned, readied
Capt. EbrituNbsoti
.has received Mao:
a
and has alSo dislocated his arm. 114

arrived. about half"past • e!even
working up fiatnoaze, but the gale was
dous as to prevent her carrying any sail;

drifted ashore•in Fir:ntone 13:7, and
plete•wreck : her cargo is also lost, but
all saved. Both ships cornin from 01/

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