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NAVAL NtWS.

PLYttc4l TH, Dec. 3.—\Ve yesterday slated the
I°4 (l.f. the ship Brilliant Star, belonging to this

. 7 Port, ..I`T, Master : she sSiled from hrn ecu
Sunda 24t'h ult. .tl' 111119
t., wit io,ut convoyiwi ~?,,

eopsistittgof '695 hhgs. of British -pilchards! ititit4
Ibur) and- 'other articles, hoUnd to Cadiz, Gibraltar,
204
. --AN, and 'on the following meriting,- 'about
three o'clock, during a very thick fog,' she struck
on a Ceck,
near Ushant„ when the utmosr and mast
vigorous exertions were made. by the crew' to re-
move her ; bur 'unfortunately all attempts proved
fruitless, and- in. a short time she, became a com-
plete wreck. . Captain KRAFT then took to t 7 e
launch, there being . no alternative, having
viously been :enabled to save .tram the wr.:*c a
small quantity of provisions and water ; :of ,the
latter ankle the quantity being so. small ,tlint it
‘ll3i entirely consumed on the .9.5 th, the boat then
about at the mercy of the waves, and on
an enemy's coast. On the following day a French
k
hover in, sight, when,it was almost' immediately
tack her, but a breeze sprung up, which she tozli
aa~ani„
and escaped,• leaving the unfortunate
crew in a state of despair, being in rflomett-
,
tgrexpectation of a winter's gale, which would
I:6 decided. their fare; but providentially the-wen-
er continued fine, which was the only cireun.
Panee that gave them the least, hope of a deliver-
:ace front' their awful situation, being desti-
utu of that indispensable article water. On the
t
°ll"wit,g day, to their great joy, :a British frlytte
wds discovered cruizing, which turned out to be
16
148.iesty's ship Rhin, of 36 guns, Capt. MA.O
C°l4l, • by which they were picked up, and straitly
afterwards
sent on board a Dutch schooner, bound
!ngand,.then in company, which had beenpre,
'l/4/%IY detained by the IVintrod hired armed cutter,
and IS called the Belisarius,. bound from Nantz,
!kb a cargo, which vessel is arrived here, as stated
14
Our last, Several French pinnaces were dis-
',red about, the wreck a few hours after she was
.4baitdoned. The Brilliant Stitt. was , a beaiktilbl
Ve „,t
of 365 tons burt hen, captured and biought
tlto this port about two years since, on her voyage
f
r°in nourdeaux to the Isle of France. .7,

BY a vessel arrived here this day from,lMorlail,

'4O Dave received the following information, that a
rQngtetlr DUTACHE. '.who was carried over in
,the
git'Os George cartel, frotio Portsmouth, was almost
irn
lihtuiately after landing at .Morlaix, taken up and"
01,1
v. (kir some alleged act committed against the
overnment, He had been for some time
pr. l'"Me in this country. The French schooner
:"teer Le Faret ai lying at Mort:Aix, principally
.qatine,l
with Americans, Irish, or English.
lhe Unicorn frigate has detained and sent in here
this
d'IY the Americ.in schooner industry, DItNNIS
master if„ln Newloqndland, with a cargo of nsh,
IN to Bourdeaux.
Put •
b to here this day, by contrary winds, Ord
brig Frende Brodres, BERG master, from
ocr`11"111, vii.th a cargo'ot herringi, boOnd to Na.-
Ft'; a"
the:Portuguese ship Pensamento LaGqera,
'IRA master, from London, in ballast, bound
ct p
eulawbuco.
Attired the ,Swift, WEST, from, Sunderland' ;

1111 aovea, and Union, STAIN, froni Wales.
411411 e licasta frigate takes convoy to I'ortsinuu,tlt,
will sail to-morrow.

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-l'AtouTtr, Dec. 4.—The Cherburgh sties.
hon
, at St. Helen's. Some few days ago
/' Were teased by tWn.Freneb line of batile'ships,
witigatt, and two brigs,who taking ac vantage of the
ding well in's hore; put out and maticeuvred
14.-a") tew miles6ll he shore, but. on two-OP our
they (at that time the only part of the squadron
trt e) making up to them, they made a_ litisty
for re
ellerbUfgh,.which they reached in soretY•
hea'd el?"4-Tie,ipt.FLNLAY, has brought into Spit-
toe, fine prize: she is from Baiaia, laden with
te and cochineal, and Mounts 14 gulls,
ile.'hisPer has likewise sent in a. good prize, a
re
;al)iute. laden with cotton and Spanish wool.
Sailed his Majesty's ship Dapper ,on a cruise.

Dec.- 4.—The' outward board and 115
410aJr31 ships as per la,t, all remain ; also a i'vtr,
e 4e"Cia that have come down from •the

PA,
''t4(TUTH Dac. 2 —Sailed . the :Darlington
114:liet with a mail for Lisbon and Cadiz; and the
for Malta.
rt,
Nvith 6, the IVa!Hingham' packet frotn Libor?
Bpe.: mail, ,sailed -the 25th November; and the
e'.9 Packet from Cadiz with email, Laded tha
4tll

ttle rr
°4IP o*Y 30.—Yesterday afternopn sailed hit,
tbrli,s4t3‘B.lbll) Sytille, Capt. UPTON, on a cruize to
BQualatardi fltr rrlmlthe

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StYN .oFtleE, Tli 63 O'CLOCK.

We stop the press to state, that'Dispatches were
ibis tnco'ning received from Lord WRCLINGTots,
dated th ?orb ult. but theydo not, we understand,
cont.tin a:;y intelligence of importance.

Accounts have been received from Cadiz, dated
the 22d ult. which state, that the French General
had found it necessary to' send a large body of
troops against BALLESTgROS, who had, in conse-
luence, retreated in good older, and without loss.

We have' received some more American Pipers,
floto which we have made the following Ex-
traas

NiAik-Yoax, Nov. -8.--"Extraa of a Letter
from Washington, dated on Morday last
have/ conversed
_with many Members of Congress,
who have just dome in from various, parts of the-
. United States; but they all seem at a loss to pre..
di& what .vlll. be done during the Session., Several
of them .ba've expressed an opinion, that it would
be wise to abandon the Merchants altogether, and
let them legislate for themselves. They say that
the varinu# ft attempts to protea commerce have, and
always will, prove useless, and worse than useless,'
far it has prevented the usual revenue, and left our
Treasury pennyless. For my part. lam of opinion;
that something
.w ill be done to enable the Mer-
chants to manage their own affairs in their own
way. There will be an exhibition of more inde-
pendence in the indhidull Moll; .rs, than 'at any
former period since the JeGesonian reign."

A.Letter from Washington, to the Editor of the
lineman's Journal, observes,

" Mr. CLAY, who is appointed Speaker of the
House of Representatives, considered the most
able man in the horse, extept RANDOLIII, His
election Was agreed on in caucus last evening, pro-
bably to prevent the election of Mr..MAcoN, who,
is undotibteclly the most tit for that• office of any
one 'on the democratic side of Abe House ; but kis
independence was an insuperable objection to 111,.
'They feared be would not plaCe on the standing
committees the suitable thorough-going tools of Ad-
ministration. They !cued Mr. RANDOLPH would
be at the bead. of the Committee of Ways and
Mang, or Foreign Relations. CLAY'S election was
most unexpected."

TRENCH PAPERS.
(RECEIVED LATE LAST NIGHT.)

[FROM THE moNrximt.]
Retards on the a,pcounts from Sicily, given in
lie English jOutnals
What passes between Etii:,land and the, Govey-
ment or SA:Ay. it. the table ot the Wolf and, tint,
Laird). All discit.;sion'on this subject would their.
,tore be puerile. France neser had greater enemies
"I the 'Court of King, Ferdinand, and t het e never
was any Morc.tioscly and 'blindly attached to• En-
gland. The Prince who reigned in Sicily•lias lost a
11,..ingilom tor having been faithful to his alliance
.with EnglAnd.
The English a're,detested in Sicily.. The English
Itlpracter dues, »oi sy'lipathise ci ith that; (44;any
oltier people. It the English drive King Ferdinand
from Sa.ily, _they will do what will be very ,agree-
allo, to Fiance, .brit cottiraty to their,true
17(),96:cupysnutii pashii
~Lut never large:cow-at ies, •
is what Lidr, interest, well. understood. impotion,lY
demands. To forget that plincrple is to •e. ideal the
gulph alre,nly open under the Ilritish:
Isles..
Fifteen thousand men. whiOt En4iiiiid now re-
l.ains in .Sjcily, joined to 20.000 Sicilians, form a
' force of 35,000 'men. When England shall he mis-
froi of Sicily, .her 15,000 men will he insufficient
for ,the, polite .of the country, • She can .derive no
adv:at,i4tge from them—Sicily will, cost her much.
The English Adminisrration is.tne most expensive,
and the worst ot all Administrations. The climate,
the assassinations, and-A he daily deaths, will dlniiiiiSh
the,.population . of. England, arid the expences to
which the English will;beirtft., in S oily, will be a
new source of depreciation io their exchange.
The following six Mit'XilllB, extracted from the
English, Otficiat Papers, °tight to: be read, .reiread,
and meditated upon by all Kings :—. • '
I. Our Treaty of Defence with the ..King of Si-
cily is -trot a conttict with
artindividual, but with a
public I.onqth;rfart, invested with the royal .chniac-
- ter--with she first Magistrate of Stagy.
The King of Sicily levying taxes, and sus-
pending the laws at his will, iv not the sante King
'with whim we contracted.
HI. We are bound in nothing towards this
thurper.
IV. The -Antisocial Usurper of the Government
of Sicily is. hostile ; he must be conidered,as a Ja-
cabin in nature.
V. Does nut the justice of the British Nation
-reciiiire that the Government which publicly pro-
' fess-c 3 Jacobinisin should be deprived of the power
of doing hartn.l
• ; VI. The Nation- which provides the means of
• defence "fpr a country, is .the. political proprietor of
this chtuntry. We are proprietors of Jamaica,
ba
cause we defended.- it. ii.ve--wU• nut convequently,.
the right to, consider ourselves the proprietors of
Sicily
It would in diverting to make a collei.lion of
maxims of sEnglish. politics. To the six which we
..sia have given, should be added a dozen which
were given respeCting the atrocious atfair of Co.
,penhageo, two at the waylaying of the tour Spanish
frigates; in short, twenty upon the systom of laws
pnoiked with nentrabi; nund witti America. Thus
might be united, six score state maxims, which
would serve as a . monument ot the spirit of justice,
the ,equity and Morality of the English Govern-
ment. • - . •

'itSiiON AND CADIZ MAILS:

Ltsum, Nov. 0.--Accordiog to letteri from the
li!emtejo, received by the cOilrier of ye,terd3y,

the Guerillas have taken a convoy of cattle, coin-
pu;ed of 100 cows and 390 sheep, which were con-
du&ing to. Badaj6z, and made the said capture very
near the walls' of the fortress'.
NO v. news from the army. No doubt
the account of BA LLESTlinOeg second ‘icEtory is by

this time known in'Ettgland. It is said it was on
the, sth instant:: he had Quot) Own; the erwmy
2600, nad were a part of..the force of 1•:14.,:0rps
which had so unecetatintably fitht St. Rorie,
and where the rear had ben cut t by BALLEs-
TEROS about the He has now Inktql all

linir pin-7 stores, mulei, and tog4lgt.4, amd
quite di9percd thc The Fcerch Cornin:inder
arrived at Sr,ville, wllttre SouLT•put him in nri:sr,
and ho kill6l bitusdf. DAJAESTIMOS .arrive

man.
VAI-.IINCIA D'ALCANTARA, Nay, 12.---The French
have occupied Merkla, where there is a garrison of
1000 infantryand.2oo itorse. it is to be hoped that
with the aid °flour allieq, we will, again renew the
scene of I::lrarda The .tear of the French iy so great
that they bate byrieadoed the streets, of that city,
in7which they have placed eight pieces of artillery•
Throughout all the country at littigns, an extraor-
dinary agitation is 'observed. , •
VALENCIA,. 4.—The enemy have pt last
presented themselves before this cq. •
. -On the Lid they appeared with about 3000 men
upon the heights of Patern3, is front of Quatro and
Maines, which points the General in Chief of the
3d Army, D. N. MAHI, with'his tioups,, and some
belonging to the 2d army, covers, .
They did not approach nearer•the banks of the
river, .and at night retired towards Liria, from
vt hence they came.
Y'esleclarthey were seenialong all the front from
Gr4os•to the heights of Paterna....At this last point
ti!ey presented them Selves itr force, 300 infAntry
gild 5.00 cavalry, with eight pieces of at
In the afternoon they puehed forward strong par-
ties uponithe banks,of the river, and opened a very
briik 'fire 111)0a OtlC'troops'. '" •
In the neighbourhood of goo, they suffered a
tire from the cannon of our 'flying squadron
and some musketry,ltept up by the 'country people,
supported by pat ties of horse..
In trout arSan46,epli'4 bridge, and St. Vicente's
battery, it was observed that the enemy were wolk-
ing:ittlivine mir. 1. and honks. The fire of our ar
tillqy obliged them to abandon them, and the same
happetied'.this inorning.
The' ie,r.atcst order and tranquility reigns bele.—
It is impossible to form a ceirrs4 opinion of it wit
out.witueSsing it.

-VALENCIA, OCT. '29.-4:::1h the 25th in the morn-
ing, we attacked' the, enemy; the fate ut arms de-
cided in theik favuuk. On the night of the st.ne
(Jur troops again oeoppied their positiow; upon the
right of: the'Turi, and 'on the 26th, in the after-
noon, Mitivi.e.diu eaOittdate4, I,vhi'.:ll at bro;d: of day.
the'f-Pat‘u;ing morning had the tri-coinnie) fin fly-
ing .itip.itt h.—We will eiityr a little into pnti:-
culars

1:11e. Castle of .14Invietlio, placed :it theikitiOnn of
the two avenues, by'Which the e;teni) pre.ein
directed their in'i'asion, Was the bastion oi this
kity,d6m. Esety endeavour was therefUre recltti.ite
to prevent them obtaining possersiuti of it, 'since,
‘kilh,nl it, tily could not carry their projens
exccution.:. Onr #niv, in C,a6eq'ietlCe of tl.o
avoided fi battle,
,the stte‘ccFh of .which tippeated du-
bious, hod retired to this position, to better its dis-
position, wait tointot cements, .and remain till the
enemy had weakened themselves in the to.bge of the
castle. Thelirench
.coinmenceltites'iege witfi that
impetuasity %%Heti marks their char,i6er, and
.ihe
lot evvi gloriens rvsistartee of the tortress wits
equally deterinined, as weil as the measures adopt.
ed by their Goverim;

The artily was organised with aa iv ity,
forced by the.latse ex pedit ioftary ciivii!ons Of ,NIA or.
Ist the wine time, the diviions of -the ENIPVCI NA.
no, DURAN, and MINA, attactid, the garrisons of
Arragott, distracted .1 enerny'Sforces in that king.:
don't, retarded' the • .artival of the reintofeementS
Kltieh
came and threatened ibecapital, andinquieted
above int:ilium Sucnaft..

The people of the Serrania and Onda, lkketvi N,
intei rupted greatly his communication with Tortosa.
Scarcity hegan to be felt in the enettry't; ramp, klud,
uth,ugh necessity, they were obliged to be delachni
tb protect a convoy` coating from Saragossa. In
this butd were thing 4 on the tad inst.

An alarming fire broke out on Soriday night in
the coacti.hotsse of Mr. Varrel, at Stretton, near
Marlow, which wa, oecastonrd by a candle being
tbrowu clown -amongst some stral.v. The out.
lignses were all destroyed, and the dwelling•house
sustained ennsiderable dairagl. Several heads of
live stock weal destroyed,. and the loss is estimated
at soool.

POLICE,

BOW-STREET.—On Saturday evening, between
five anti six 0'604, a fire was di,covervd in the bed-
109m of Mrs. etederita. Hath, a Spanish lady, who
It s .i.s:litititry about two years, in Lower
Brook-street Alra..H. was sitting in '„er
drawing-worn• :at the tirne when was
given tshe ran out in the greatf!;t donSternation and
aiiiiin;there being a !odd k:,rock at the door ;
hauc-
e.vi by the kind a!,ention of some respectable
• composed, and by their exer-
tionsthe tiro *Vas, eiinguished, after burning the
bed:3od sz.ol of the room, ,tic, .
the time the property in the lower part of
rite house wai,bcing rtNnovei for security, Mr. 1-I's
two children ts vie taken care of by Pedro Caster,
a youth aboui eighteen years of age, Mrs. El's con-
yin, who re,uh:J with her since she has been in this
country. Juit the fire: gas, got under, Mrs. H.
inquired for the ~afety of a large tin box, which was
in her bilj-rooin, corli4inia, 114 ih•llars; 44 rir.-
dollars, and 70 pieces of valuable silver plate. Et cry
pet ion ,Wini• 1111 assisted in getinT4 the tire: trust being
all of the highest respeoability, declared that they
had seen Hoch thing in the room, nor had itsbeen •
bra:ight dawn stalls.

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Every peiAtde inquiry watt made respecting the
box, but no trace of it could be found,- rind the con-
it4nts being of considerable value, to formatimi 11
sent 6tl with all speed to, the Pat)tic Office, Bow-
,ii et, when Mr. ItitAD dispatched Taunton to (Mike
;11qUiriCS,,aUdiu exert hinnitd I fur the recoytry
he property ; which the officer accei'dingly
During that night and on Sunday, he searched the
servants, their boxe.,&c. but Could nut find any thing
of a su9picioas tlature, _

at Sunday evening, after Taunton was gone, it
Was, discovered that another writing-desk, very
lunch resembling her's had been trolosiiuted in it 4
pl,u.se,' Which contained Spanish, Eogfish, and other
ertins,lu a consir:erable amount. Mts. Fl, had sonic
conversation w4th tier cou*n, Pedro Cartier, and
from his, langu:Ne. and'tnanneli.., she susileoed ha
'Anew sometinnita conveying the property away;
she in 'consequent* went in consult a gentleman w ho
fesi,!es a shor,;4l4iance front her. During 14'7 lib•
sence from, liouter,Pedr.6 Casner got out of 'a W
(.I.a.tv, anti made his escape nom the hoh•e. Toon-
ton Was seta •tor again in conSequeoce, aria lie went
to Mts. H's house, early on NiondrY mot nthg. Nu .
person there could give him the least io formation or
even suspicion of what had b. .come of hint ; ho'w.
ei,er; in conversation, he learned that ho had bwm,
at a school since he had been in Eng,land ; Tonnton!„
in consequence, Wen: allsOtqf the Sellulars,nnti tounCi
one who 1/4va4 stid intimate wish R.dro Who
told lihn ll,' knew tha't Cosner 'vi'sited a female in
the neighboorhoitd, Of the, City florid,. but neither%
knew the nu,/ e of the street, the hoo.e, or the name
of .the letniCe : however, he accothp:mied the Uth .
cer, and pinte{l'out. Tratalgas.striicir mid Tiinntoui
by perseverance and inquire, learnt •that there Were
two (Inuits in the “Feet, where leniales reside,•who
saw compimy, lord at the first house he called :it Was
se fortunate as to .meet the young gentleman in
company some girls. 'On seeing: 'L union
ter: Ihe room, knowing his person, he instansiy took-
a small peillca,:, and slabbed himself in th throat.
The utt r seized his hand to wrest the .knife Calm
1)1.1., but he so Violently resisted, that both their
hands-sere severely cut, before the kn•fe Could bre
got.. from Casso.. Taunton' found anther knife.
upon hint, which he'had doubt, hail he used, it
in, stabbing hit»self,' would have proved. fat d. A
surgeon was called in, and there is erery reason to
believe that then wound which Castler infitiled on
hiniself wIII s'i.ron be cured. After Critter prp-
perly 'secniod,' 'rollmop searched the 'house, and
totind the, box ;Ind,desk, contaiiilog the whole of
she valuabl.,, ptiiperty, except a trifle he li. ad expend-
ed upon th•.!. giYis. He also found a watch*, a purse,
vc).Rtaining three gnineas, twelve hall-guineas, t Welve
sete s stilling pieces, :cct., in the desk were oven•
teca dollars, three halt dollars, eighteenhall-guineas,'
Anuety-four seen shiliung pieces, .nrid a number of
otln:r.e9ins. Ue hari told the girls he was going to
return to Spain, and, would lodge with them fur, a
few ddys previous to hi's sailing.
oo.4'vlonday evening he noderwent an exam;na4
ion before , n, when the above circurnstances
were prokrl.ogl,(nAhint; and it iy strongly sniped.
!,!, that althotQll ire was cherished 'and supportA
Iheoii,onof relations,. and lei to their
I.Wle, he ,v,is hase.enoogh to set fire to the pre.
havitig„previoudy conteyed away the pro.
petty. ,

Tt,e examination ;acted upwards of two bouts,
alley ~yqucil he W 3,5 committed ler a
.Iv.ating.

IT N tON HALL.—Joseph BuQ Jones, Jornes
fig)bert 1d cst, and :Min( yrsierOay op.
f.re4t-ndett Collingtrooin, ittg
K,.m.:,tret.t., VD suspicion Of I);ivin,,,, been concerned
nolmiLtmg, htlvrgl fyolvad robti,eri',.i and bur ;•
Lir ,

OtArgts ;1(t!.,(.1y against,t hem ; bat
,
on occuant Pt tne iil)it-nee .1 a witness,
they were courrnitte,l for ro.c xamination;
•

Tuesday the Lord Mlyor and Sheriffs went in
stite to Guildhall, to hold thv first Oomt of Alder.
men in his Mayoralty ; after w bleb, his Lordship
gave en elegant dinner io such Aldermen es attend.
cad the Couri, and a select p:irty of plivitte friends.
The Band of the London of which the
Lord Mayor is Colonel, ent.,rtained thein with
music ditfltig he'Vre3her.
•
The sevetll performers who belonged 'to the
Winter TFfteititri.is;Aind air now ditienwiged have,' it is
said, beenli'llviie.d' te join- hn-ir intrreots with the
otheraOlialinrs lot a third,Thvatie in the.metro.
It is very probable if the applieJtion.
should h. ~oeoeSsivd, many othet.p,rinrinets wt. tla
be ti.tripti-d rhertrilelve3 jil IPALISO.
The in.hgoitudt: of the metropolis, wit di is every
thy g, and its vast increase of 110;,0im,0,,,
dovd to fender a third Theatre riveci,
this dramatic age, and would put .414 end u$ thuge
itiferii;r amusements of Ci .4iinibtrmititre, hut whirl&
seem only to iniSWA tendency to ttthr ehildren -tO
habits of dissiciatir4, Who might be broJglit up to
-useful euiploynii.iii
'fliesday right Ntlit yesterday mornieg, in con,e.
(pence of high wind, t number c . 113fte1/41
irom their cables, below Bridge,<iy which they
sustained a good deal of injury. --Severdi cr.itt unit
wherries drove from their wigging.. some of which
'were stove and sunk.