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coed dispatch has reached me, stating, that the spies
know that the English have entered Salamanca."
" SANTIAGO, DECEMBER 4.
" Lord Wellington has his head-quarters at Ciu.
dad Rodrigo, in the vicinity of which place his
troops are encamped. The great scarcity of provi-
sions, in a country entirely wasted, has obliged our
armies to divide themselves, and take positions in
which they can find subsistence. It appears, that,
except the cavalry, the whole Sixth Army is march-
jog upon the town of Sanabria and Orense; and the
Fifth, under Senor Castanos, with all the cavalry of
the Sixth, has taken the road to Estremadura, and
will establish its head-quarters in Caceres. For the
same reason, we are assured that the French have
not left Salamanca, but have seemed to manifest an
intention of turning back upon Valladolid and Se-
govia."

" SANTIAGO, DECEMBER 11.
" The supposed expedition of the Frehch to San-
tander was only a false alarm. Instead of 10,000
men proceeding to that town, there were only 1000,
who came to Reynosa from Burgos in search of what
cattle they could find, and who appear to be part of
the 6000 who with Caffarelli advanced to Vittoria."

The Lady Arabella Packet has arrived at Fal-
mouth from Lisbon, in twelve days, with Mails and
passengers. The Marquis of WELLINGTON'S Head-
quarters were at Cuidad Rodrigo at the date of the
last accounts ; but it was reported that he was pre-
paring to re-advance upon Salamanca, in eonse-
quence of the retreat of the French. The following
are extracts from the Lisbon Papers :

" LISBON, DECEMBER 5.

14 The head•quarters of the Grand Lui d still re-
, maii:ccl, on the ;;Oth of November, in Freynada, and
the army was cant ,ned in its neighbourhood. Ge-
ner,l Hill had his head.quarters in Coria, and the
Conde de Penne and Morillo had their's in Plasencia.
The army of Gallicia marched towards Astorga.
The retreat of the combined armies from the Tor-
mes to the Agueda, passes among military men as
a chefid'iruvre in the art of war, 90,000 French,
among whom were from 10 to 11,000 'horse, could
not intercept our army in its retreat to Ciudad Rod-
rho, although the grand Lord was in Salamanca
when Caffarelli, with his corps, was near the banks
of the Tormes.

The French for the third time sacked Salamanca,
{ !in the last King Joseph had the honour of being pre-
sent. They imposed 'upon Valhtdolid a contribu-
tion of 600,000 reals, for having received and well-
entertained the English.
7.—Head-quarters continue at Freynada.
General Hill's division is going South. Our last in-
telligence from head-quarters is dated the 2d inst."
The Marquis of WELLINGTON'S dispatches by the
Lislran Mail are dated Freynada, on the 2d
but they contain no intelligence of interest.

We have received New-York Papers to the Bth,
and Halifax to the 28st November. We are still ig-
norant of the intentions of the American Government
respecting Peace or War. We are however made ac•
quainted, through this clunnel, with the result of the
negociationsopened by Sir G. B. WARREN, and which
totally failed. The Halifax Papers contain the cor-
lrespondence at full length.— A large naval force has
been created by the Americans in the Lakesof Canada.

At the mill of Elrick, near Edinburgh, on Tuesday
se'nnight, the miller, of the name of Walker, his wife,
and a child, were all found dead in their sleeping
apartment. The-preceding evening, in a small bed-
room in which they slept, a quantity of wet shellings
of corn, 'had been put on the fire, for the purpose of
preserving it during the night ; and the fire being
opened partly, the smoke thereby occasioned spread-
ing through the room, proved fatal to this unfortu-
nate part of the family.
ELECTION or THE COMMON COUNCII.—The polling
finally closed yesterday in the several contested
Wards: Those marked thus • are new Candidates.
FARRINGDON WITHOUT.
Messrs. Waithnisn 575 I Messrs. Griffiths
Quin - 542 Hedges
Herring - 5281 Pontifex
W. J. Reeves 5151 Harper
Crook - 500 'Blacken
Bardin - 471
Young - 449
T. Reeve - 444
Murrell - 440
Dawson - 440
The first Sixteen Candidre
FARRINGD4
Messrs. Pinder - 302
Cook - 288
Dunnett - 387
Winter - 256
Daw - 284
Cadwell - 278
Pntchard *- 276
Lewis - 275
Wheeble - 273
Crowder - 273
The first Seventeen Ca
BROAD.
Wellies. Marriott - 161
Blaxland 155
Crokact - 148
- Hearn - 141
Patterson - 127
Clark - 126
The first Ten Cain
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