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NIGHT'S OA2ETTE.

ADMIRAI TY OFFICE, MAY '2 2 .
Admiral Lore Gambier has transmitted to John
Wilson Croker, Esq. a letter which his Lordship had
received from Captain Hardyman, of his Majesty's
ship Armide, inclosing one addressed by him to the
Honourable Rear Admiral Stopford, giving an ac-
count of an attack made on the 4th instant by the
boats of the said ship, assisted by those of the Cad-
mus sloop, and Monkey and Daring gun vessels, un-
der the directions of Lieutenant Samuel Roberts, first
of the Armide, upon an enemy's convoy of armed
and coasting vessels at the Isle of Rhe. Seventeen
vessels were taken possession of, thirteen of which
were burnt, under a heavy fire from the batteries and
armed vessels and the others left on shore.

Captain Hardyman highly commends the conduct
of the officers and men employed on that service.—
Lieutenant Townley, of the Armide, was unfortu-
nately killed on board an armed vessel which lie had
carried, Whilst repelling an attack made upon her by
•two pinnaces of the enemy ; two seamen of the same
ship, John Trueman and John Dempster, were also
killed, and three others severely wounded.
A letter has been received by Mr. Croker from
Captain Cockburn, of his Majesty's ship Implacable,
giving an. account of the Nonpareil schooner, com-
manded by Lieutenant James Dickinson, having on
the 10th instant captured, after a sharp action at one
hour and a quarter, off the river Vilaine, la Canno-
niere, F ench national brig, carrying three long
twelve-pounders, and two twenty-four-pound carro-
nades, with sixty-one men.

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.
Commissions in the Buteshire Regiment of Local
Militia, signed by the Vice-Lientenant.
nsign Archibald M‘Lea to be Lieutenant, vice Scott, resigned.

Dated March 17, 1810.
Daniel Stewart, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Al'Lea, promote.—

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
Henry Mew, of Newport, Isle of Wight, Hants, shopkeeper.
BANKRUPTS.

Dated as above.
James Duncan, Gent. to be ditto. Dated March 18, 1810.
Commission in the Inverness-shire, &c. Regiment of
Militia, signed by the Lord Lieutenant.
Charles Thomas Grant, Esq. to be Captain, vice M'Donald, re-
signed. Dated April 1, 1810.
Commissions in the Huntingdonshire Local Militia,
signed by the Lord Lieutenant,
Ensign William Wagstaff to be Lieutenant, vice Loveday, pro-
moted. Dated May 8, 1810.
Ensign James Buck to be ditto' vice Jay, promoted. Dated as above.
Ensign William Waudby to be ditto, vice Peck, resigned: Dated

as above.
Matthew Wasdell, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Wagstaff, promoted.
Dated as above.
Commissions in the Eastern Battalion of Dorsetshire
Local Militia, signed by the Lord Lieutenant.

Lieutenant St. Barbe Tregonwell to be Captain, vice Sunning,
deceased. Dated May 7,1810.
Henry White Parsons, E.sq. to be ditto, vile Willis, resigned.—
Dated May 8, 1510.
Ensign Joseph Read to be Lieutenant, vice Wilkins, resigned.
Dated May 7, 1810.
Ensign Wm. Fooks, to be ditto, vice Chaffey, resigned. Dated
May 8, 1810.
Ensign John Harrison to be ditto, vice Tregonwell, promoted.
Dated May 9, 1810.
'Edward Hooper, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Reads promoted. Da-
ted May '7,1810.
John Godwin, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Harrison, promoted.
Dated May 8, 1310.
Commissions in the Southein Battalion of Pem-
brokeshire Local Militia, signed by the Lord Lieu-
tenant.
James Phillips, Esq. to be Captain. Dated May 11, 1810.
Thin, Meylett, Gent. to be Ensign. Dated April 9,1 t; to.
Edward Pritchard, Gent. to be ditto. Dated April 20, 1810.
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the
County of Essex.-2d Regiment of Essex Local
Militia.
John Audley, Gent. to be Emig!). Dated May 2, 1810.
• 3d Regiment.
Lieutenant Charlet losselyn to be Captain, vice Jackson, resigned.
Dated May 2, 1810. •
itnsigns William Abrey Buxton, and Martin Barton, vice Josselyn,
promoted, to be Lieutenants. Dated as above.
Thomas Thompson, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Buxtony promoted.
Dated as above.
eonnnissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the
Cdunty of Nottingham.
Ist, or Nottingham Regiment of Local Militia.
John Fellows, jun. Esq. to be Captain, vice Howitt, resigned.—
Dated May 5, 1810.
3d, or Retford Regiment.
Richard Thomas Sharp, Esq. to be Captain. Dated May 5, 1810.
ERRATUM in the Gazette of the 12th instant.
For James Weller, Gent. to be Adjutant to the Ist Cartnarthen-
shire Regiment, vice] homas, resigned,
Read James Weller, Esq. late Captain in the 21d Light Dra-
goons, to be Adjutant, with the brevet rank of Captain. Dated
May 1, 1810.

George Klugh, of Coventry-street, near the Hay-Market, Mid-
dlesex, dealer and chapitian, to surrender May 26, at one, May
29, at eleven, and July 3, at ten, at Guildhall. Attornies,
Messrs. Jones and Roche, Covent-Garden Church-yard.
David Christie, late of Bradfield, Berks, shopkeeper, dealer and
chapman, May '24, 25, and July 3, at eleven, at the Upper
Ship Inn, Reading. Attornies, Mr. Wm. Saunders, Reading;
br Mr. Holmes, Great James-street, Bedford-row, London.
Samuel Peglar, of Newuham, Gloucestershire, linendraper, dealer
and chapman, June 6,7, and July 3, at eleven, at the White
Hart lon, Gloucester. Attornles, Mr. George Chilton, Exclie-
pier Office, Lincoln's-Inn, London ; or Mr. W. C. Ward,
Gloucester.
William Taylor, of Clifton, Lancashire, innkeeper, dealer and
chapman, June 2,5, and July 3, at eleven, at the Star Inn, in
Manchester. Attornies, Messrs. Cliesshyre and Walker, Man-
chester ; or Mr. Ellis, Chancery-lane.
Thomas Watkins, of Plymouth-Dock,Devonshire, tavern-keeper
and vintner,
s dealer and chapman, May 30, 31, and July 3, at
O eleven, at e King's Arms, in Plymouth. Attornies, Messrs.
Williams and Dark, No. 10, Princes-street, Bedford-row, Lon-
don, or Mr. John Wells Boxer, Plymouth Dock.
itobert Nixon, bate of Sanderbush, Cumberland, dealer in horses
and chapman, June 6,7, and July 3, at eleven, at the Crown
and Mitre Inn, Carlisle. Attornies, Mr. Birkett, Bond-court,
Walbrook, London ; or Mr. John Blow, Carlisle.
Charles Pratt, of Loug-Acre, Middlesex, money-scrivener, dealer
and chapman, June ‘2, 9, and July 3, at twelve, at Guildhall.
Attorney, Mr. l'opkln, Dean-street, Soho, London.
John %wetting, of Old Bond-street, Middlesex, tailor, draper,
dealer and chapman, May 26, June 2, and Jul; 3, at eleven, at
Attornies, Messrs. Bourdillon and Hewitt, J.ittle
Friday-street, Cheapside.
Jelin Baker, of Shepton Mallets, Somersetshire, innkeeper, dealer
and chapman, June 7,8, and July 3, at one, at the Christopher
Inn and Tavern, Bath. Attornies, Messrs. Shephard and Ad-
lingten, Bedford-row, London ;orR. A. Sheppard, Bai.h.
Richard Storey, of Clement's-lane, London, taylor, dealer and
chapman, May 29 June 2, and July 3, at one, at Guildhall.-
Attorney, Mr. W, P. Bartlett, Lawrence Pountney-lane, Can-
non-street. •
Charles Hoyland, late of Warrington, Lancashire, druggist,
dealer and cbarban, June 14, 15, and July 3, at one, at the
Globe Tavern, John-street, Liverpool. Attornies, Mr. Thomas
Blackatook, London; 'or Mr. George Ashby Pitt, Liverpool.
Thomas Collett, of Uxbridge, Middlesex, grocer, dealer and chap-
man, June 2, at twelve, June 9, at one, and July 3, at twelve,
at AVAIL' Aftemey, Messrs. Gale and Son, Bedferd-itreet,
Dedford.row, Lowden.

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