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London, England, 1815-04-18 00:00:00

MILFORD.HAVEv, APRIL 17.

Arrived the Isah..lla, MACIItLL, from Bourdeatir,
bound to Liverpool—sailed thence on the 3d instant
with five sail of merchant•vessels in company, under
convoy of his Majesty's ships WANDERER and Myn.
mynoN : the former had the Duchess of ANGOULEZ4IE
on board.

This morning a Courier arrived from Turin with
Dispatches for the Sardinian Ambassador. He
came over in the Britannia packet from Ostend.
When the Britannia left (Meng (yesterday morn-
ing, at six o'clock), the Duke of WrwriaroN, who
was expected there the night before, sv.:s reported to
have arrived.

The accounts from every quarter of the Continent
agree in stating, that the military preparations were
never exceeded at any former period.—lt is confi-
dently asserted in the Ministerial circles, that the
Russian Ambassador has declared that 200,000 Rus-
sians will reach the Rhine by the 10th of May, being

now upon the march.
By the Flanders Mail which arrived this morning,
we have received a letter from an Officer in the 11th
Regiment of Light Dragoons, who states, that a
party of his regiment, in conjunction with some of
the 12th, were out upon a reconnoitring party, when
they fell in with a Ftcrech parole, ini.nediately at-
tacked them, and dtovt them back.

This morning a Captain of a trader :strived in the
lUver, who left Bourdeaux on the 13th instant. So
apprehensive were the Commanders of vessels of an
embargo, that they had all quitted with only pact
of their cargo on board ; l e s iiled with little mor,,
than half, and some goods were ac:tiary put on boar d
45 he was quitting without invoices.
Jamaica Papers to the 7th ult. wyived this morn-
ing, brought by the Francis Fleeling packet, Iva
they contain nothing of importance.

This day, at two o'clock, Mr. LYELL, the Messen.
ger, arrived in Downing street, with dispatches Irons
the Duke og %%rowanTox, at Brussels. Mr. LYELL
came by the way of Os•end and Dover.
Mr. TROTTER, the Store keeper-General, also re.
turned from Belgium at the same time.
The Messenger left Brussels on Saturday. The
Kma of FRANCE was still at Gbent.

Saturday, WALTER Scar?, Esq. the Caledonian
Bard, had the honour of an interview with the PRINCI
REGENT, at Carlton House.
Last night the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in
moving the Order of the Day for the second reading
of the Assessed Taxes, for the purpose of postponing
it for a few days, took the opportunity of stating that
he should, on Wednesday, in the Committee of Ways
and Means, propose a renewal of the Property Tax.
Mr. WHITBREAD asked, whether it was the inter.
tion of the Right Hon. Gentleman to propose the re-
newal of the Property Tax under any situation in
which the Country might be placed, whether that of
peace or war ?
The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER replied, that
whatever might he the result of the present negocia-
tinns on the Continent, in the present expensive state
.if preparation, in which it would be necessary to keep
the cottony, he thought the renewal of the Tax would
be unavoidable.
Mr. HORNER wished to know whether the Right
Hon. Gentleman intended to abandon the Assessed
Taxes altogether ?
The CHANCELLOR of the Excarouea said, he now
only postponed them tor a few days ; it would de-
' pend on decision of the House on Wednesday,
upon the proposition he should then submit.
To the above we have to add, it is reported in the
higher circles that an alternative will be held out to
Parliament to the following eflect, namely, the
scheme of increasing the Assessed Taxes will be
Abandoned if the House consents to raise the Pro-
perty-Tax to twelve and a ball pet cent. on incomes
above £l,OOO.
The Minister is about to fund eighteen mlllions of
Exchequer. Bith on the Billowing terms—Rll7 in the
5 per Cents. for every £lOO of Exchequer Bills.
Days of funding '26th, :27:h, 28tb, and 29:11 inst.
Biouio.—No alteration iu the price this week.

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Our letters, you know, would he greatly improved,
They w,itt be better fella and much better peasW !
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HARWICH. APRIL 16.

Arrived yesterday, the Union, from Newcastle,
with coals, lost both anchors and cables ; Amelia,
• from Hull, with a general cargo,. with loss of an.
chors and cables; Orrington, with a general cargo
from London for Newcastle, lost anchors, cables,
and bowsprit ; Margaret and Jane, in ballast, from
Newhaven for Sunderland, lost anchor and cable,
and upset her windlass ; Fly, from London for Alloa,
with loss of anchor and cable ; Betsy, in ballast,
bound to Sunderland, with loss of anchor, cable, and
bowsprit; Venus, in ballast, from London for Shields,
with lost of anchor and cable ; Isabella, in ballast,
from Sheerness for Sunderland, with loss of two an.
chors and cablts ; Diana, in ballast, from Hull for
Wyburg, with loss of two anchors and cables; and
many other ships in the same situation. Arrived
to-day, the Henry Freeling packet. with a mail
from Holland. Clow in the ship Klein, Gnomon,
of Memel, with coals from Sunderland for Ham-
burgh, with loss of main-mast, mizen.top.mast, sail,
rigging, and two boats, brought in by a salvage
vessel. Arrived the Blackbird, with coals from
Sunderland, with loss of main-mast, &c.; Garland,
n ballast, from Yarmouth for Newcastle, with loss
of anchors and cables. Sailed the Lady Nepean
packet with a mail for Holland.

Rear-Admiral Sir EDWARD CoDRINGTON, late Cap-
tain of the North American Fleet, arrived at Ports-
mouth, on Friday, in the Havannah, Captain Ham u.-
roN, with Dispatches from Sir ALEX COCHRANE, re-
lating to a successful attack made by the troops
under Major-General Sir Joust LAMBERT, on Fort
Mobi.e, situate in West Florida, on the Gulph of
Mexico. Our less was about thirty men. soon after
it was taken, intelligence was received cf the Peace
between the two countries, and the forces were con-
sequently withdrawn, and sailed for the Havannah,
where Sir EDWARD CoDRINGToN left them, preparing
to return to Europe. Sir A. COCHRANE had sailed in
the Tonnant, for Bermuda, leaving Rear-Admiral Sir
PULTNEY MALCOLM to make the arrangements for the
return home of the fleet, with the troops on hoard.
The Havannah arrived at Bermuda on the 22.1 ult.
and sailed again for England on the next day. The
Bacchante and Pomone sailed on the 21st ult. for
H..litax. One of these ships was to bring Admiral
GRIFFITH trom Halifax to Bermuda,; and on his ar-
rival Sir ALEXANDER CoCIIRANE intended to leave
the isl And, in the Tonnant, for England. The Leoni-
das, Amphion, Havoc, Martial, Fervent, and Archer,
had arrived safe at Bermuda, with their convoy
from Coi k ; and the Castor, with a convoy from
(libraltar. The Bedford and Ip!iigenia had gone
to Jamaica, to bring home a convoy ; the Narcissus
to the Brazils ; the Majestic and Leonidas in
search of the Constitution, to give her intelligence
of the peace ; the Pylades and Pandora to Du-
badoes ; l'Aigle and Euryalus' to the Mediter-
ranean ; and the Orlando to the Chesa veake.—
Admiral Sir GLORGE COCKBURN, and the ship, I
under his orders, were hourly expected at Bermuda,
from Georgia. The ships at Bermuda, on the 234
alt. were--aonnant, Vettgeur, Asia, Surprise, Ar-
mide, Hebrus, Ganyinetie, Castor, Saracen, Dot-
terell, Harlequin, Fervent, Archer, and Allan.
Sr EDWARD CODRINGTON, having the dispatches in
charge, was landed on Friday, at Portsmouth, from
the Havannah, and he set off for town in the after-
noon ; but the ship was put under quarantine, she
having been to the Mechtetranean sinsa she last felt
England.
The Erne, 24, Hon. Capt. NAPIER, also arrived
at Portsmouth, on Friday, from Bermuda ; she sailed
one day before the Havannah. On the passage she
recaptured the Somerset, of Bristol, from Alicant
bound to Belfast, which was a prize to the Macedu-

Alan privateer.
A letter from St. John's, Newfoundland, dated
February 18, says—s On ie 1I th inst. a man of
very goal character was frozen to death in going to
Fignal Hill ; and on the day before, another, going
to Portugal Cove, had not proceeded far on his jour-
ney, when a dog came running to him, appearing in
great distress, the rtian not particularly noticing it.—
The dog returned, and then ran to him again, this he
repeated the third time ; the man, from curiosity, re-
vived to I.llow him back, when the dog led him to a
art where, having scraped off the snow, he found a
set.man nearly frozen to death, who had missed tte
foot-path and fallen into deep snow; he, however, for-
tunately succeeded in getting her out, and she is now
in a fair way of recovery. The nights have been so
severe, that some have been frozen in their beds ;
last night was the coldest let experienced ; th..re has
been no thaw for seven weeks. The harbour has been
frozen over for this month past ; a vessel arrived
from Ltrndon a few days ago, and was obliged to
save a channel sawed to admit her entry tutu the
Harbour." _ _

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Last week, a melancholy accident happened on
board one of the transports Which brought the 71st
regiment to Spithead from Cot k, to Portsmouth.—
The day before they reached that pert, seven of the
soldiers were sitting on a boom which hung over the
stern, the vessel being under sail. This boom gave
way, and the whole were precipitated into the sea ;
and before effectual aid could be rendered, four of
the poor fellows were drowned. One of them, an ex-
eel!ent swimmer, was observed to take his jacket off,
and was supposed to be employed in endeavouring to
take off his trowsers, when one of his unfortunate
companions laid hold of him to keep himself from
sinking, and in a few moments both went down, to
rise no more ! Two of them were married, and
baring their wives on board they were witnesses of
their cries and unavailing exertions.
Saturday se'nnight as three men, of the names of
Dyer, Carves, and Waller, were conveying some
liquor from St. Helen's to Niton, in an open boat, it
unfortunately upset, within a mile of the shore, and
they were all drowned.

DI S TRIBUTION OF PRI Z E-MONEIL
?faces Augusta, for Ere small vessels, at 22, George-street,
Adelphi • oa aturday next.
Orpbels, for the Frolic apd Holkar, the 424 instant, at 22,
Norfolk-street, Strand.
' Clatnpion, Saute Dorothea, and Mercury, fur the Bull-dog,
the 91st instant, at 1, James street, Adelphi.
Alcmene, fur ; and isipboae, for the Olive, George,
end Lark, the 20th, at 3, Brick court; Temple.
/Macaw, for the Chesapeake; San Domingo, fee the Awn ;
gild ditto, Dragon, Stadia, and Colibri, for the &grail, Eagle,
sod lianatitail4•-•011411I0 OMellitich Hoe '.

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