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whole as a Matter in which they are little ihSerested. . N.dOI7C4L INTELLIGZNIE.
One of the most disastrous effects of the apatby which ' •., --..—.
has prevailed in Gallieia, and the neighbourhood,l
/FALMOUTH, JANUARY 3. •
has been the want of information to our armies.-* Arrived the Ann, Capt. COOKE, from London for
No correct information has been obtained of the
Cork..-Wind S. E.
movements of the enemy, while they learn every I
PLYMOUTH, JANUARY 3.
thing that is passing in our quarters. They are much I Came in the Beaver, Captain PEA RSON, from Ma-
more on the alert in this respect than we are. Our laga, with fruit for London ; she is one of the EAGLE'S
informant says, that while an English agent chaffers convoy.—Sailed the SHANNON, of 36 guns, for the
with a spy for a dollar, a French agent pays him an Squadron off L'Orient ; BRISK, of 19 guns, to the
ounce of gold. They spare no expenee for infonna- Westward ; and SATURN, of 74 guns, for Portsmouth.
tion ; and they constar-ly obtain it. JANUARY 4.—Came in the Charles, Captain MAR-
LUGO, DECEMBER 24. SHALL, from Malaga.—Wind N. E.
The latest accclnts from head-quarters state it to
PORTSMOUTH, JANUARY S.
be the intention of Sir JOHN MOORE to advance with
Came in his Majesty's brig BRAZEN, from Ply-
all possible expedition to Burgos, with a view of get-
mouth.—Wind N. E.
ting into the rear of the enemy ; but we are here
DEAL, JANUARY S.
completely ignorant, as well of the strength of the
latter as of the force destined to attack him; in fact, it Remain in the Downs his Majesty's ships as per
is impossible to decide on the propriety of this move-
last. —W ind E. blows strong.
LEITH, JANUARY 2.
ment : every confidence is, however, justly placed in
the acknowledged talents of the General. Of Madrid , Great apprehensions are entertained for the safety
we have no certain information, though there is of the Johns of Leith, Captain HUTTON. She sailed
much reason to suppose it in possessionfrom Leith to Gottenburgh, in the middle of Nov
of the French.
bey last, with a convoy, all the other vessels of which
Our cavalry have had some brilliant affairs near Be-
have reached their destination. The hull of a vessel
nevcnte, where 400 of our brave fellows have de-
has been seen wrecked on the Scaw, which is sup-
feated double their number of the enemy, and made i
posed to be the unfortunate Johns.
near 300 prisoners ; in all not less that 700 have ,
been taken. The snow has fallen in immense LEEWARD ISLAND FLEET.
By the Mail from the Leeward Islandss the arrival
quantities which has rendered the roads nearly im- of which we announced yesterday, we have received
passable, notwith:t mdiag which and other difficulties the following articles of shipping intelligence :
the troops have borne the fatigues of a long march His Majesty's ship Pompee, has captured and car.
with their usual perseverance, and have behaved tied into Batbadoes the French Imperial brig of war
well. Pylades, of 12 guns and 105 men.

CORUNNA, DECEMBER 29.
We!look with much anxiety to the next accounts
from the army, as from its approaching vicinity to
the enemy, a battle may soon be expected to take
place. The whole force under Sir J. Moore consists
of 46,000 men : 10,000 are Spaniards detached from
the army of the Marquis de la Romana, at least such
is the report of the day. Our troops are represented
as being in the highest spirits, and desirous of
meeting the enemy. The 7th dragoons has had much
skirmishing with the French cavalry, and in one affair
defeated a body of 900, of which they made 300
prisoners.

Our loss was trifling ; we absolutely know nothing
positive respecting Madrid, or of the enemy's force in
that quarter. Various letters announce that the
French were in possession of El Retiro, and had
placed guards in different parts of the city, but that
they could not compel the inhabitants to give up their
arms. Other accounts state, that it has capitulated.
Barcelna is reported to have surrendered to Me English
and Spaniards, after a most destructive bombardment.
Letters from Gijon, of the 18th instant, state, that
the French had no more than 250 troops at Santan-
der ; and, as General Balustinos was advancing with
5000 men, it was expected that the enemy would
evacuate the place.-. From the Comma Diary of the
29th December.
EENEVENTO, DECEMBER 24.

The brave corps of English cavalry, which disem-
barked at Corunna, and which, from its splendid and
military appearance, was the admiration of all who
beheld it, has, under the orders of Lord Paget, co.
vered itself with glory. On the 20th inst. 400 British
attacked at Sahagan, 900 French cavalry, part of a
corps of from 12 to') 3,000 men, which is in the valley
'of Saldanas. The English fought With such valour
that they put the enemy to flight, making 260 pri-
sOners, besides 30 killed, and several wounded,

CORUNNA, DECEMIIER 29.
OvFICI AL ADVICE TO THE rubric.

" Since the last advice, the Supreme Junta received
various and discordant inforrnationrelative to the state
of the capital, notwithstanding they spared neither
trouble nor expnce to obtain authentic intelligence,
until an express arrived from Catalonia, dated last
night, which positively states, that last Thursday,
Madrid was still defending itself with the utmost
vigour---that a division of the army of Castanos was
in the neighbourhood of that Capital ; and that Don
Pena was also directing his march to that point, and
lastly, that the French are earnestly desiring a capi-
tulation of the inhabitants of Madrid.

His Majesty's ship Superieur has captured and sent
into Barbadoes the French schooner Polly, from Mar-
tinique to Bourdeaux, with a •aluable cargo of pro-
duce.

As to Sierra Morena, our head quarters are esta-
blished at that point ; and our army in that quarter
is hourly reinforced by the troops who were dispersed
by the enemy, and the armed. peasantry :—that the
Junta of Defence formed there of the Deputies of the
four kingdoms of Andalusia, and of the other two
of La Mancha, is almost constantly assembled, mak-
ing the utmost exertions, in concert with the Com-
manding General,' to secure that important point
against any successful attack on the part of the enemy.
—The Junta has also received orders immediately
to march all the prisoners who are in this kingdom,
to Cadiz by small divisions, escorted by armed pea-
sants, to be put at the disposal of the Governor of that
city. The Junta-has likewise get a letter from his
Eriellency the Deputy of the• Central Junta, dated
Truxillo, the Bth December, stating, that the Depu-
ties of Catalonia have received intelligence that we
have rendered ourselves masters of Barcelona. By
command of the Junta. (Signed)

His Majesty's ship Belette has captured and carri-
ed into St. Vincent the French ship le Deucalion, from
Rochelle, with a valuable cargo of brandy, dry goods,
&c.
The notorious three-masted schooner le Mouche,
of one gun on a traverse, and sixty men, was captur-
ed on the 25th ult. by his Majesty's ship Grenada, off
Trinidad.

The Majestic transport has been burnt down to
the water edge in Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes, three men
perished.
The Ainsley, Brown, sailed from Torlola 27th Oc-
tober for Hayti, tinder licence, was seized after leav-
ing port by his Majesty's ships Safety and Elizabeth,
and preceeded against in Admiralty for extorting
codfish entered from Liverpool.
The brig Carnation, 18 guns, was lost after a severe
action, in which she accidentally ran ashore under the
guns of some batteries at Martinique, when she was
taken possession of by her enemy le Polineure, of 18
guns, which also has since been taken by his Ma-
jesty's ship Circe, and carried into Antigua. Every
'officer on board the Carnation was killed.
His Majesty's brig Maria has been captured by a
French ship of 22 guns and 450 men, by whpm she
was decoyed alongside, when he poured a broadside
into her, and at once killed 47 men and every officer
on board, only seven of her whole crew surviving on
her arrival at Guadaloupe.
His Majesty's ship GALATEA sailed from St. Tho-
mas's, on the 15th of November, with a fleet for
Gre;'t Britain, &c. consisting of the following ves-
sels, viz.—
The Atlas, Hill ; Surry, Potts ; Flora, Hardy ; Berbice packet,
M'lver ; Harvey ; William, Sinclair ; Pelican, Ball ;
David, Lambert ; Speculation, Le Cocq ; Hope, Shields ;
Lennon ; Two Sisters, Ingate ; Industry, Ponson ; Hercules,
Duncan ; Draxall, Allen • Eden, Aylward ; George, Mills ;
Neptune, Smith ; William, Feunings ; Venus, Self; Bear, Bryan ;
and the Malta, —, for London—Rosetta, Marshal,; of Bristol ;
Ariatine, Stephenson ; Alexander, Scott ; Pilgrim, Frazer ; M. 1.•
riner, Durham ; George, M'Farlane ; Elizabeth, Field ; and the
Stag, Lurie, of Glasgow ; Claude Scott, Tryon ; Jane, Windor ;
Royal Edward, Burrows ; Bess, Carleton ; Mary Ann, Little ;
and Falntouth,'Cottewough, for Liverpool—lndiana, Walker, of
Greenock.; Minerva, Steinson, of Aberdeen ; Faith, Feathers-
tone; and Douro, Stephenson, of Hull—Martha, Elvish, of North
Yarmouth ; Mount's Bay, regother, of Penzance; Three Bro-
thers, Mason, of Dysart ; William, Campbell; and the Success,
Rome, of Halifax—Jane, Wilding; Queen, Willis ; and the
Speedy, Healy, of New Brunswick; Martin, Derbyshire, of
St. Kitt's ; Quaker, Thomas, of Nova Scotia ; Lord Collingwood,
Martin, of Antigua ; and the Admiral Nelson, Percival, of Bar-
badi:es.

ARRIVED—At Plymouth, the Beaver, Pearson, from Ma-
laga—At Leith, the Juno, Hay, from Oporto—At Hull, the Fox,
Brown, from Faro ; and the Adeona, Rambler, from Sweden—
At Cork, the Tarleton, from London—At Rothsay, the
Anglin, Butcher, from New Brunswick—Off Scilly, the Tonnant,
—, from Sicily—At Wexford, the Fanny, Graham, from Lon-
don—At Lisbon, the Marquis Cornwallis —, from Cork ;
Ferdinand VII. —, from Plymouth ; Lady Montgomery,—,
from Glasgow ; Arab, Poindi strie, from Canada ; histier,
from Buenos Ayres ; Louisa Constance, —; and the Somerset,
from Newfoundland—At St. Croix, the Alexander, Watts,
from London—At St. Kitt's, the Good Intent, Fitzgerald, from
London—At St. Vincent's, the Morgan Rattler, Forster, from
Lohdon—Off Cape Nichols Male, the Queen, Farmer, from Lon-
don—At Barbadoes, the Rucker, Soper; Fatima, A/P Grath ; and
the Mary from London—At Africa, the Argus, Fra-
zer ; Favourite, Freeman ; William Pitt, Saunders ; 10, Suther.
land; and the Juno, Taylor, from London-s-At Grenada, the
Pomona, —, from Glasgow—At the Cape of Good Hope, the
Eliza, Alexander, from the South Seas.

Extract of a letter, dated Gnadaloupe, the 29th of
October, taken on board the French Crig l'Espoir,
and carried into Antigua :-4, The prices of all kinds
of provisions have fallen very much, owing to the
arrival of a great number of Americans, who have
escaped from the United States, and also to the arri-
val of vessels from the English-Islands, which come
here uhder the Danish flag • and as they carry away
all our specie, (the English at least) sales become
every day more difficult, and our produce remains at
the lowest ebb."

The Espoit brig, of 8 guns and 25 men, from
Guadaloupe to Bourdeaux, laden with coffee and
sugar, was carried into Antigua 30th October, by
the John Burke schooner. The Imperatrice, of 14
guns and 50 men, and Jeune Adelie, of 6 guns and
20 men, were in company with the Espoir, but es-
caped. It is not a little extraordinary that the
Frenchmen should reach their destination, as Admiral
Cbcuamis was informed of their intended depar-
ture.

" ANTONIO BARTHOLOMEW.
" Cordon, December 12, 1 Boa."

Yesterday a Cabinet Council was held at the fo-
reign Office. The Duke of PORTLAND, Mr, CANNING,
Lord CASTLEREAGH, Mr. PERCEVAI, and all the
Members in town were present. The Council sat
from nso till near five o'clock., 1