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London, England, 1809-02-01 00:00:00

VICTUALLING-OFF/CA, January 01, 1809.
TH COMMISSIONERS for VICTUALLING
HIS MAI ESIT's NAVY, do hereby give Notice,
That on Thursday the 9th of February neat, at eleven o'clock
precisely, iu the forenoon, they will be ready to sell, to the highest
bidder, at his Majesty's Victualling Premises, at Deptford, sun-
dry Lots of the following Provisions and Victualling Stores, viz.
Bread, Bread Dust, Flour Sweepings, Raisins, Currants, Rite,
Pease, Pease Screenings, Oatmeal, Oatmeal Sweepings, Bake-
house Sweepings, Doll, Calavances, Stock Fish, Bags and Rags,
Rice Bags, Corn Sacks, Corn Bags, Beef, Suet, Pork, Packing
and other Serapi, Sweepings, Tierces, New Board and Doublet
Ends, Iron Hoops broken, bent, and in faggots, Worn-out
Cooper's Tools, a quantity of Fire Wood, Rivet and Nail Bags,
Old Butter, Butter Grease, Slush and Scrapings, Cheese, Da-
maged Sugar, White Rope worn out, and Tarred Rope, lying its
his Majesty's Victualling Premises at Deptford.
A Deposit Ifc2s per cent. is dbe made upon the amount of each lot, at
the time of sale ; and if the remainder of the money be not paid, and the
pram:lab latex away, within twenty workire days afterwards, the
deposit void be forfeited, and the Goods remsin the ft-440 y of the Crown.
The other Consitiou may be seen, and prints' Cetalorses may be ha{,
pt the Secretary's Op.

- ORDNANCE OFFICE, January 25, 1809.
TEE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS of HIS M. -
4Esirs ORDNANCE, de hert6y give Notice,
That Proposals will be received at their Office in Pall• Mall, on
or before Wednesday the 15th day of February neat, from such
Persons as may be willing to undertake the supply of HAIR
BROOMS, BRUSHES, ar.d MOPS, for service of this Depart-
ment, for a period of three years, though Tbriders fOr the-ensOlog
Biz months only will be eensidera.
Patterns of the Articles may be viewed, upon application at the
Principal Storekeeper's Office in toe Tower, where further parti-
culars, together with the Terms and Conditions of thiContract,
I may be known, and also at the Secretary's Office, in Pall-Mall
aforesaid, any day, between the hours of ten and four o'clock,
where also the Proposals &lilt be deliv‘red, sealed up, and en-
dorsed" Proposals for Her Brooms, &c." but no Proposal can
be admitted sfter the said 15th day of February, at twelve o'clock
at noon of the same day, neither will any Tender be noticed
unless the party making it, or an Agent in his behalf shall
attend. By Order of the Board, R. H. CREW, Secretary.

ARMY
A Captain of Infantry whose Regiment is lb the
East Indies, is desirous of exchanging with one on half-pay,
without a difference, or to a Garrison Battalion.--4,etters from
Officerarishing to exchange, with real name and a 'dress will
orly be attended to. Direct (post paid) to K. L. Esq. Past Office,
Chudleigh, Devon.

ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED TICKETS
WILL BE GIVEN ON THE FIRST AND SECOND DAY
OF DRAWLNO
THE GRAND STATE LOTTERY, which
begins on the Itch of APRIL murr, b,sides the under,
mentioned 'Prizes.
4 of

aC20,000 are seso,ooo
10,000 20,000
5,000 -10,000
1,000 • 6,000
SOO 5,000
100 • 2,000
SO ••••• 2,200
25 2,500
15 •••.- 72,200

10 -102 - -
44 -
100 -
4,SCO -,

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40,000 Tickets. £200,000 .
-DAYS OF DRAWING.
Wedneislay, April 12, Friday, April 21,
thnisday, April 27, Satsrday, April Yo.
• The Contractors have Permission of the Lords of the 'treasury
to make a FREE GIFT of 4;00 Whole 'rickets, in Addition to
the Prizes in the Scheme:
FIRST DAY, a Free Gift of 1,000 Whole Tickets, fur the
firstpdrawn Prize above £l5, tho Numbers of which are as
,fasciws
follows:...
3,001 to 3,100 8,501 to 8,600
4,501 ••••• 4,600 600
9,001 -- 9,100-
5,001 5,100 10,501 .
1110,100
6,501 -- 64,416 11,001 ,
• 7,001 7,100 1./001 —I, 12,600
SECOND DAY, another Free Gift of 500 Whole Tickets, for
the Era-down Prize above £l5, the Numbers of which are as
t-- '
18,001 to 13,100 I 15,001 to 11.5,100
14,501 14,00 16,501 /6,600
17,001 to 17,100.
.Ties.sys and SaAllp arc selling at every Lice:and Lottery
Office. . .

TI MBE R
O .11E SOLD, 160 Acres of very fine OAK
T
TIMBER mixed, with some very valuable ASH and
ALDER, an of above 100 years growth. It is situated within
fifteen miles of Clonmell, and twenty-one of Limerick, in the
Kingdom of Ireland, from each of which 'Towns there is water
carriage.—Yroposals (post paid) will be received until the ad of
March, by Wm. Roper, Esq. 34, North Great George's-st
ion to
reet.
Dublin anti further pactieuLlta may be known, by applicat
Mr. John Nesbitt/No. 18, TobashouseNard, London.

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LANCASHIRE.—SMEDLEY HALL. 1
To GENTLEMEN, NURSEVMEN and GARDENERS.
To be SOLD by PRIVATE CONTRACT,
13y the Assignees of John Capper and John Bathgate, Bankrupts)
in such Lots as may suit the Purchasers,
AVERY choice and valuable Assortment of
Fruit-trees, Shrubs, Plants and Flowers of great variety
and curiosity in the Nursery-gardens and Green-house, at Smed-
ley Hall, in Cheetham, in the County of Lancastei, lately occu-
tied by the said Bankrupts, comprising between One and Two
Hundred Thousand Trees, consisting of trained Trees on the
i Wall, Standards, Divas*, Illama,cenec Shrubs, Rasps, Currants,
1 Haney-suckles, Port-laurels, Common ditto, Red Cedars, Pop-
lars, Apricots, Apples, Pears, Lards; Stools. Williws, Roses,
Gooseberries, Privet Crabs, Pl.:..tnbs, Cherries' 'Elms, Liburnmns,
Mountain Ash Trees, Birch Trees, Horse-chesnuts, Spruce ! irs,
Scotch ditto, Balm; Gilead ditto, Silver ditto, Weymouth Pines,
• s,.veet Chemis, Larches, Beeches, Sycamores, Brooms and Cy-
tisus, Acacias, Arietheophrastes, Hornbeams, Qnicks, Wych
Elms, Crab Stocks, Hollys„ Moss-rose, Stools, Moss-rose Trees,'
White Brooms, Laurestinus, Cherry-buds and Grafts, Crabs and
Thorns, Cherry Stocks and Buds Mangolias Ligs, Quicks, Tu-
lips, Ranunculuses, Evergreens, Herbaceous Plants,
Green-house Plants, Carnations, B. Plants, Petted Moss-roses,
Deciduous Cypress, Azabeas, Rhododendrms, }:rica Herbacea,
Coleuses, Kalmia Wanes, Kabnia Angustifolia, Erica Dabircia
Andromedia Frica vulgaris 'Hyacinths, Jonquils, Narcissuses,
with various other Plants and Shrubs, forming altogether a very
ample yet select assortment well worthy the attention of Gentle-
men Florists, Nurserymen, and Gardeners.
Also on Sale, the Green-house itself, with the Forms and Fur-
niture, and sevecal Hand-alasscs ; also C.; Loads of good Potatoes.
The whole Premises belong to the Estate of the Bankrupts,
and will be sold without reserve, and the purchasers of the dif-
ferent Lets may remove their purchases as soon as made.
The Premises will be ,hewn by Douglas Duff the Gardener,
superintending the same, raid further particulars May be obtained
pl
by 4sying•to the Assignees; te Mr, Philip Hurd, No. 'l, King's
Waiks, Temple, Londan; or to Mean. R. R. and C.
Bench
Jucksen. Solicitors, Mandsetters

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FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

ADMIRAL.' Y-OFFICE, lANIJRY 31.
Extract of a letfer from Vice-Adiniral Lord Cacti/Me-non,
Commander ire Chief of his IVlajesty'a Ships and Vessels in
'the Mediterranean, to the Honourable W.W. Post; dated on
board the OcamB, off 'Toulon, December 1; 1808.
The Excellent, having been relieved on the service
at Rosas by the Fame, pined me the 24th ; and Cap-
tain West-gave me a relation of events that have I.stely
occurred there, in his letter dated the 21st ult. which
I inclose, together with a list of killed and wounded
seamen and marines of that ship and the Meteor bomb,
employed on the same service.
But for the presence of his Majesty's ships in:that
bay, and the powerful assistance which Captain West,
with the companies of those ships, afforded the Spa-
niards both on shofe and by the fire ftorn• them, there
is every reason to believe the citadel of Rosas and
Castle of the Trinity would both have fallen ; they
were ill provided with every thing necessary ,to a
siege ; the works of the citadel in bad repair, and the
garrison not sufficiently numerous for the duties of its
defence.
Captain West's ability, and the valour and perse-
verance of his officers and men, removed as many of
those defects as it was possible, and gave such severe
checks to the enemy as made it necessary, they should
proceed by rules of art against a place that with their
great force they intended to take by a coup de main,
which has given ample time for the Spanish Govern-
ment to reinforce the garrison, and replenish the stores,
Etc. of this important post.
The French have on this occasion practised thosei
arts which Frenchmen are very expert in. A person
.was employed, it seems, to intercept the letters writ-
ten by ColonelO'Daly, the' Commandant of the gar-
rison of Rosas, to the Sample Junta of Girona and
they were two or three weelss without having any
knowledge of what:was ,pissing : , the same time
their emissaries gave out 014 English had taken
possession of the fortress, dratsuspeed the Spanish
Officer from the duties of his, office. The Junta
wrote to Captain West, inforthing him of part ohhose
reports, and begging he would inform them of the
circumstances which had caused this change. It was
afterwards discovered to have been au artifice of the
enemy to prevent reinforcements coming.
In another instance the French have shewn much
art, by abandoning their usual system of terror, deso-
lation, and plunder ; and in
,the neighbourhood of
Figueras and Rosas have lately treated the Spanish
inhabitants with more kindness to their persons, and
forbearance to their property, endeavouring to attach
them by a feigned moderation.
The Spaniards are very sensible and very grateful.
for the support given to theM by the English; the
animating example of Captain West, his skill and the
gallantry of his officers and men, is deserving ofevery
praise ; in tht sortie he made at the head of his sea-
men and marines, when they attac);ed the enemy's
advanced post; and rescued the Miquelets, their con-
duct and their courage were admirable ; several men
were wounded, and. Captain West's horse was shot
"under him before they were obliged to ;retire, to pre-
vent being cut off by the cavalry, which was advan-
cing for that purpose Capt. Collins, of the Meteor,
conducted the Loirnbardment with great ability, and
was indefatigable in the annoyance he gave the enemy
by it. Lieut. Howe, of the Royal Marines, belonging
to the Excellent, commanded a detachment of that
corps, which was thrown-into the Castle of Trinity
for its defence ; and in two assaults made by the
enemy with large bodies of troops, this officer, and
the marines under his command, were highly distin-
guished for the gallantry which they displayed, and
the resources they found, where almost every thug
was wanting.
The enemy suffered a very considerable loss of men
in these assaults : bitt unless measures have been
taken to raise the siege, I am apprehensive this very
•
important post will be reduced.
Excellent, Rosas Bay, Nov. '21,1808.
Me Loan—l have anxiously waited an oppor-
tunity to inform your Lordship of the investment of
this port by the enemy, with a force computed at, 5 or
6000 men.
On the evening of the 6th instant,. the enemy was
first observed in motion between Figueras and Castil-
lcrn, and on the following morning, was in complete
possession of the heights that encompass this bay. On
the same day at noon, a small body of the enemy en-
tereif the town of Roses, which, in an instant, was
cleared of its inhabitants, who either fled to their boats
or the citadel for protection ; but a well-directed fire
from the Excellent and Meteor bomb, both within
point-blank slibi of the town, obliged the enemy pre-
cipitately to retire.
On the first appearance of the enemy, Colonel
O'Daly, Governor of this fortress, made application
to me for assistance, when I immediately reinforced
his garrison with the marines of the Excellent, (with
the exception of an Officer and 25 men, who had
been previously detached to Fort Trinity), and an
officer and 50 seamen. On the ith, the enemy took
possession of several houses and ruins in the rear of
the town as an advanced post, from which he has been
repeatedly dislodged by the citadel, and the guns and
shells of his Majesty's ships in the Bay. On the Sth
at noon, observing a body of Miquelcts hard pressed'
by the enemy from their advanced posts, I was in-
duced to make a sortie from the citadel with the sea-
men and marines, and the officers- commanding
them; but the very superior force of the enemy, who
endeavoured to surround us, obliged us to retire, hat
not till my officers and men had displayed a spirit
and courage which gave me the most lively satisface
tion. I am. sorry lam obliged bi this little affair to
send your Lordship a return of *ounded men: Late
on the evening of the 9th, I received from the ;GO,
vernor the Unpleasant advice, that a large breach was
made in the rampart of the citadel by a part of' the
bulwark filling do
.n, sufficiently capacions to admit
twenli;fir MlEDi,alte ie. Lp ocfered to the Governor
every assistance that the urgencyrpf the moment re-

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titted, and directed Ciptale'RotTini tOltaineediate*
weigh and place the Meteor as item' the shoal ;s
possible, to flank the breach' lt thetit of ak 4.
~,, evi ~
tack, I sent aethe same time two Vats to etiht4e .
. the beaeh with the cannonades.; fnituitatily the Jett- I ,
nesS of the hour precluded the enemy gaining. info,;:
-mation of the event. The follaWing morning ls-se It .
• ,
an officer and a party of seatneti,lo assist in repair
ing the: breach, directing the seatilen -*xiii marines- vi
the citadel to be employed out tl.e.istme sOvica, .Bz
every exettiori‘ the riinpart was Placed in
•a itkte or
security for the night, the defence of which was..en,
trusted to an officer and forte pitmen, whom I sent
on shore iti ir that purpose. on the, third day. I was t
happy to see the repair completed; arid the *MI ai
defensible as it was previous to the disaster, - . •
.• On the morning of the 15th host, at eight o'dlock, ,
the enemy made a most resolute assault on" the .fort I'
Trinitt. with about 20t1 men, and a reserve of about _
20(X) to support them. The enemy *as bravely re- •
pulsed ; but in a moment again advanced in greater
force, when two of the outer gates were broke open;
but by a most galling and steady fire of musketry •
l'Ondbandlgreitades frotn the fort, the enemy..tras A'
socond time dbliged,to retire with great loss, leaving
tlteaeirdl,euandaterr,
iatsehif of
walls,
e and the
c•aon m
tidd
in ay o
cnomnither
ca4d
earned off desperately wounded. Expecting a third
fl assault would be made, rtfirew in a reinforcement of
i thirty marines,
_with a Captain and Subaltern, by
means' of a rope-ladder, which was effected without
lloss, and with one man but slightly wounded, during
can incessant fire of musketry,
I cannot speak in terms of itttEciett praise of the
Officers and men in their glorious defence of Fort
Trinitc;, .on which occasion eanarinerwere wound-
ed, and one BPaniaid-; but I have the satisfaction to
inclose to your Lordship a letter I have received from
the Spanish Officer conimandiag its garrison, which
does him great honour, -
No further attempt was made on this fort till the
20th instant, when the enemy opened a battery of
three heavy guns from a height commanding it ; but
as yet has made no impression on its walls. The Lu-
cifer bomb had been-throwing her shells the two pre,
ceding days, to prevent the enemy making a lodg-
ment on this height, but was compelled to retire, af,
ter being struck three times by tilt battery. During
the previous night the enemy threw up an extensive
intrenchment three hundred yards from the Citadel,
and at day-break opened asfite upon the ships in the
Bay from three large mortars, which obliged us to re-
tire out of their reach: the bomb vessels, from having
a longer range of shells than the enemy, were enabled
to throw them with effect. -
Fort Trinity, from its insulated .situation anti
strength, I am of opinion,. may stand a long siege.
But I am-not so sanguine with respect to the Citadel,
Whose Garrison is very inadequate to its defence, and
having, as I conceive, a vulnerable point. I waited
on the Governor on Sunday last, to take mrleitTe,
when he informed me that he was in expectatum of a
reinforcement ; but I am apprehensivA the blockade .
of the enemy in Barcelona will prove an obstacle to
his expected success. .•
• I beg leave,to conclude this dispatch to )'our Lord-
ship, by expressing how highly. satisfied I have been
Ilwith theeonduct of the Officers and Company of the
ship I have the honour to cornmand,as.likewisecf those
of the Meteor and Lucifer bombi, commanded by
Captains Collins and Hall, whose great exertions,
have
eng theimpe arduous
rio imperiously
yb neaend
calledm o s
t uponfatiguingtti pseerrfvoinnce,ther
re-
flects the greatest credit upon them.
(Signed) JOIM WM".
List of Mcn belonging to his Majesty's Ship the Excellent, w',.cs
were wounded in action with the entlny between the Bth a:ia
16th days of November, 1808,in Rosas Bay.
R. Palmer and J. Sands, seamen; F. D. Coke, &no, dangira
ously ; J. Lambe, marine ; D. gloshin, ditto, badly ; J. Nl' Neal,
seaman, slightly : W. Brown, Serjeant of Ma6nes, slightly; E.
Magennis, seaman ; 3 .Robert,, and P. Hyson, marines ; _I , Mara
tin, seaman, slightly ; J. -Burrows, ditto, badly ; J. sitnith, marine;
J. Brady, ditto, dangerously • W,Wilson,tlitio, died 14:th Novem.
ben ; J. Hanwood and J. Rielardson, ditto, slightly ; J. M'clarty,
seaman, slightly : I). Garrett, ditto, bailly.—Total 19.
List of Wit Wounded in his Majesty's Ship Meteor, while en-
gaging the enemy in the Bay of Row, between toe 7th and
20th days of November, 1808.
D. Kerr, gunner of the Royal Marine Artillery,loat both anon;
G. Gale and J. Haynes. ditto, slightly; T. Johnson, seaman, a
fracture • B. Rausatto, slitto, slightly ; G. itausden, Quafter•Mas-
ter.—Ttal 6.
Extract of another I.etter from Vice. Admiral Lord Collingwopd
to the Hon. W. W. Pale, dated on board the Ocean, Decera-
bet 14, 160 S.
My letter of the Ist instant would inform you of
the enemy having laid siege to the Castle of Rosas,
and of the measures taken by the British ships in that
bay, in aid °lithe Spaniards for its defence. The
Scout joined the squadron off Toulon on the Till, and
by her I received further accounts front Captain Ben-
nett, cf the Fame, of the progre's the enemy was
making against that important fortress. Captain
Lord Cochrane has maintained himself in ihe posses-
sion of Trinity Castle with great ability and heroism ;
although the Fort is hod open by tile, breach in its
works, he has sustained and repelled seveeil assaults,
having formed a soil, of rampart within the breach,
with his ship's hammock cloths, avviiings,.&c. filled
with sand and rubbish. The zeal anerenergy with
which he has Maintained. that fortreee;• eacttes the
highest admiration, I4is tesources,for eierreeigency
have no end. The Spanish OovernOr of this Castle
is woumnded, and on.lsoard the Meteor. . -, .
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BANKRUPTS,. -, , 1
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Willi;:n Proctor, of Croat Ealing, Middlesex, dealer in hay ant
straw,to surrender Feb. 4,14, aid Marcia 14, at-one, at Guild
hall. Attornicr., i'vlessrs. Gale and Son, Bedfot d-street, Bed
ford-row, London.
Richard Fux, of kngby, Warozlekthlre, scriveners dealer an
chapman, Feb. 15, it, and Niarch 14, at ele',/en, at the Georg
Inn, Cnv.mt...y. issttorn:es. ML :sta. 14 anderley, Long, and Ina
Gray's Ir.n, Ltindou ~ or Edward Ft.ilelang Palmer, of Colehil
Warwickshire.
lob Cane, of TrOwlar!P:e, t :Ms, ta4eottr, dealer and chapmal
Feb. 13, 14, and Mareti 1.4, at *loom, at the George In
Trowtaldge. Attornies, Mr. Tlsornas 'llntarrll, Trowhildg
Or Messrs. Debar? and Derby, Inti...x Temple, L.nudoth