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THURSDAY EYNAIAti,APEIRVARY 19; 18211..

CONTRACTS FOR. *lNTL—
r*rOALibmokEick. Pia;,Wiry U, ISO. 1
THE com.mlo4l9,voq for VICTUALLING

hie MAJESTTE zurr, de hereby giro notice.
That on FRIDAY, the nth Instant, they, wiU be ready to re-
ceive Tenders hi writing (sealed up) and treat for
Six Hundred Pipes of SPANISH RED WINE, and
Twenty Thousand Gallons of TEN [MIFFS WINE.
To be delivered into the Victualling Storm, at Deptford; the
Spanish Wine between the Ist of July next and the Slat of Au-
gust following ; and the Tenerife Wine between the Ist of April
nest and the 31st of May following.
Samples of the Teneriffe Wine, of two Quarts each, must •be
produced by the Party tendering.
The Conditions of the Contracts may besets at this Mee.
Each Tender must specify the price in words at length, and be
, delivered before Ooe o Clock on the day appointed ; and the person
iwho makes the tender, or some person on his behalf, must attend
to answer when called for.
X. WALLER FLIFTO*-
WINES and SPIRITS of fine Quality..
Gnnd Port With, 20e. to 265. per dozen.
Pale co Frown. ahem 112 a. to its. do.
West India Madeira 26%
Strung Geneva 7s. 64. per piles.
is tent Whi•kev. &etch or Irish, lis. Od. do.
Old Jamilea Rum Hs 64. do.
Fine Cognac Brandy 265. 04.
Sold at no Concern in Lelledon, except at No. S. Skinner-street,
By THOMAS ABROTTS.

Now ready,
In Three Vol.. post aro. price 245. boards,
LONG HOLLOW; a Tale of the' West. • Bt Mrs.
BRYAN BICOINGIMILD.
hinted for Whittaker, Trea.cber, and Armond A., atarisiarpe.

ie Itnio. with ounterosos Nukes's! a Parte* of the Apthor.
THE tIOUSEKEEPERW ORACLE; or, Art of
Domes* Afsnagenient ; containing a complete System of
Carving with Accuracy and Hlegancl; Dints rel 'tire to Dinner
Partici ; the Art Of managing: Servants, amt awl Economist's and
IRplcure's Calendar, Allowing the lisason, when all kinds of Am,
Fish, Poultry, Gant., Vegetables. and Fruits, Ara arrive In the
Market, earliest Tint: forced, when twist plentiful, when best:and
cheapest. To which are aded, a variety of useful and original
Recipes.

137 the late W ITCH I NER, M. O.
Author of " The C00k.% Oracle," " The Art et Prolonging
Life," Ste. tke..
rioting for Whittaker, Treicher, aturtrnot, Ave lltria-lane.

HUGHES'S 'SOUTH OF FltANcg,
Uniform with Ratty and other Euritpean Scenery.
This day was pu'.ll.heJ, by Janes Caw,'oam, Cockspur.strest,
AN ITIN Eft It Y of PROVENCE and. tbe
RHONE, made during the. Year 1819.
By JOHN HUGHES, A.M. of Oriel College, o;ford.,
• • Royal 4to. RI I Is. 6d. or Imperial Bvo. XI is.
er The Illustrations front the Drawingi of 1k Whit, and En.
graved by W. 13. Cooke, George Cooke, and J. C. Allen. 1104,
paper, AI 151. etts..E2 Ils.
" I informed my friend that I bad just received from
England a Journal of a Tintr made in the South of :a Rake by a'
young Oxonian Maid of mine, a poet, a draughtsman, and a'
scholar, in which he gives such an animated and Were:dug de-
scription of the Chatcau Grignan, the dwelling of Madame dir
vigtse's beloved ii.ughter, and frequently the place of her owe red;
donee, that 110 one who ever read the book would be willbkiffftY,
miles of the same without going a pilgrimage. uy the spot. 'lie'
Marquis smiled, seemed very much pleased, and asked the We as:
length of the work in question • sod writing &wit to my'dittation
' An Itiserary of Provence and the Rhone, made during the year
1819, by John Hughes, A.M. of Oriel Collet,. Oxford: obtained
that he could now purchase no books for the Chateau, bit( would'
recommend that the Itineraire should be conunisdated Tor the li—
brary. to which he was abonue in the neighbouring town.".—Sir
Water Scott% Quentin IDOward.

GODBOLD'S VEGETABLE BALSAM. FOR THE CURE
, OF CONSUMPTIONS, COUGHS, ASTH3dAS, AND
SCROPH ULOUS • CO MPLANTS.
AgR. GODBOLD beg. to inform the Publi7, that he
LVR. has appointed Messrs. Benue, Chemists, Cheapside, cotter
of St. Paul's, Landon; Saekvitle•street. Dublin; and Pribees.
street, Edinburgh; Saie—Agents for the sale of his Vsarrasta
Bar.sam, and tv whom-all Orders are requested to be sent for the
future.-3, plocintsburg-square, Jan. 1,1929.

ORIGINAL -NARRATIVE.QF THE ASSASSINA-
Vox OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP.

wares, ST HIS SOL
. .
The following copy of a letter (depoiited in the Nor.
theta Institution) from Sr %Valiant sharp, of Stooitaill,
to Sir James Baird, Sheriff Principal of Banff, is dated
10th of May, 1679, eight days after the assassination of
his father, Archbishop Sharp. The assassination of
Archbishop
,Sharp has been copiously described by
Wodrow, dme, Laing, and other historians; but we
are sure our readers will thank us for publishing Onto'.
lowing interesting contemporary narrative of an event,
the most unfortunate and least defensible cf all the ac-
tions emanating horn that heroic body of our country.'
men, a ho, to use their own emphatic words, " drew their,
swords for a per,ecuted kirk and a broken covenant"—
•• Honoured Sir—This horrid and stupendous mut ther
has so confounded me that I am not able to give a
suitable return to your excellent and kind letter: what
I have learnt of that execrable deed is, that on Friday
the 2d of this instant, my worthy father crost the water, I
lay at Kennoway all night, next morning he set out for
St. Andrew's, being 2 miles off, 27 of those villanous
regicides, bad a full view of the coach, and, not finding,
the opportunity, divided into three parties, which took
tap the three ways he could take homewards. Nine of
them assaults the coach within two miles of this place by!
discharging their pistols, and securing his set wants.—
The coachman drove on for half a mile until one of
his horses was wounded in three places, and the'
postilion wounde~ in the hand. Then they fired several
shot at the Coach and. commanded my dearest father to
tisane cifiti*iiieh he:iiia he would. When he had come
oot (not being yet wounded) be said, • Gentlemen, 1
beg my' life—l No, bloody villain, betrayer of the cause
of cuatir, no mercy.' 8 Then, said bee , I ask none for
myself, but hive mercy on my. poor child,' (his eldest
dais later was in the coach 'With him), and holding out
his and to one of them, to get his, that he would spare
his g ' Od, he cut him in the wrist; and falling down upon
il
his' kneesand holt/410p his hands he prayed that GOD
would lorgire them, and begging mercy for his sins
trona his Sovioun, they murdered him by sixteen great
wount's in his back. head,and one above his left'eye,tliree
'Phis left hanclwhen he was holding them up; ands thrust
in his back, with a shot above his_right breast which was
found to be tpwder. Alter this damnable deed they took
eves yi•aper,robbediny sister and their servants of all their
papers. gold, and nanney, and one of these hellish ras.
;al: cut my sister in the thumb, n hen she had him by
the bridle, begging her father'. life. GOD of his infinite
mercy.. support this pror family under this dreadful
and unsuprn table loss and woke, and givens to know
why Goo.is thus angry with us,.and earnestly beg not
to coil uine us irt h s Wrath, but cow that his anger may
fe,ibe
~a 4 he sway; be at peace with us through the blood
of a reconciled Sortoqe, and also may have pity upon
.nis pour dime.% Church, and that be may be the last

sacrifice for it. as he la the first Ptotestant meaty:bishop ,
in such a nay:
" Dear Sir—As. my worthy limber had always a
kindness and particular esteem for yourself and family.
so I hob you 'will he friendly ti his son, who will ever
continue, worthy Si,, your and yoer's mast faithful,
humble servants 4. Wm. SHARP. •
" St Andre", 10th May, half an
.hour alter the re
ceipt of your's.
" My 'humble service to your son and his lady. and
all the family. On Satwday next is the funeral."—
/meanest Courier.
• DREADFUL FIRE AT DEMERARA.
GRORGETOWE masa 51, lass.
We lave the painful lAA of recording tollsy the
most awful and destructive fire which reel took place'
in this Colony. It broke 'opt on Monday last, ab..ut
half past eight o'clock in•ttie house of a Mr. Maigrot.
who keeps a licensed 'dad was occasioned b;
&candle falling against the bed cur a;ns. during, it is
said, a scene of &ATI c &regularity. This house was
situated the upper tend of Water-strict, on the east
side,meer the pudic market,; in the immediate neigh-1
bourhood were a' number •of old buildings; and the
alarnintii‘being stiddenly 'given, the fire obtained such
hold, and spread 44 rapidly among such dry mate-
rials, that eve./ effort to extinguish it was unavail-
ing. It 'soon communicateJ with the other side of the
street, and in its desolating progress destroyed soccer-
sively Mr.. Maisia's premises, the stores•of • Messrs: Ross,
Preston, Albouy, and Co. sad Johnston and &Mal-
moist. So many houses all at nave in a mass of living
flames, acted so pos. erfuliy on one of the opposite
lintises though in windward, it caught fire, which ins
mediately prOgressedltowardrAnstitica-street; so that
this streetwao now asenlesl en both sides, rendering it
but too obsi.nts that• its entire desttuction was welt.
able,. both its opposite cornea being at once in flame,'
Several times the fire took hold of 'he house occupied'
by Mr. Paul, and as °lnt was it extinguished ;-but the'
opposite side being now in flumes, the heat became so
intense, the materials so day and predisposed to catch
the least spark, and the flames ascended in such ins.
menus volumes, that every effort proved unsuccessful,
the devouring element obtained a complete mastery,
*WWI set every attempt to arrest its progress at de-
fiadee—and it proceeded op America-street on both
sisles..consurniag house after house with awful and as-
tonishing rapidity. The appearance was now leasfuleaud
seemed to paraly se eves y effete.- -No language can de-
seribel—nb Nice of poetic 1 magiust ion can adequately
picutreto itself ete character of this truly terrific scene;
and, were it possible to cherish any other feelings,
at loch' a.mismint of devastation ant ruin to many,
than whim and alai in, those which relate t r the sub-
lime might be ablandantly indulged—the very air
parched and humilities if impregnated with the ele-
meats of destruction-4oth sides of the steet, with all
their back premises, of the most combustible materials,
in one sheet rf living fire—the flames raging as if ani-
naked b YAW telifon of destrnctiou, sorbet imes pointing
high to the heavens, end at othertitnes forming aeon.
plete arch across the sweet—light unlike that of sun or
Moon, rendering every object visible as at Irian day,
'Spreading a 'horrid glrre over thousands of countenances
of all colburs, and'clothing the trees with a hue which
seemed not of nature's work, and on which the eye'
liked not t s dwell, formed a scene truly magnificent'
and appalling. In ibis way the fire continued till
about six o'clock in the morning of Tuesday, and till,
with the exception of three or four houses, it to-
tally destroyed the whole of that district of the town
bounded by the river on the west. High-street on
the east, Vlissingen draining trench on the north,
and Stabrock Canal on the Bluth. The scene is n.w
most desolate; the very site of the different stores and
houses can- hardly be pointed out; and of what were
two days ago populous streets, comfortable habitati •m,
and extensive warehouses, nothing remains but smoking
ruins; 'vitrified glas', and such material* as the fist could
not entirely consume. Great fear was once entertained
that the 'fire would communicate with the stores of
Messrs. Murray, Brothers, and Co. across the canal;)
and were it not for the judicious measure of covering
the house with wet blankets, and keeping constantly'
playing upon it with water, there is no doubt but this
would have been destroyed. As it is, the calamity is
great; and we have heard the most respectable and ins
telligent assert, that the loss cannot be less than two'
hundred thousand pounds sterling. Many respectable
and industrious individuals are entirely ruined—home-1
less and pennyless. The progress of the flames war so.
rapid, and the confusion necessarily so great, that little
could be saved, and that little, of course, greatly
damaged.
It is impossible for us to describe the magnitude of
this catastrophe, or detail the extent of indivi, us' loss ;'
but this we know, that some who were a few drys ago.
in affluent circumstances are now absolutely beggared;'
that many who were extremely comfortable, and con-'
triboted to the wealth and respectability of the Colony,'
me destitute as the wrecked mariner, who saved nothing!
but his life; and that those who are best able to with-
stand the loss they have sustained, cannot but feel it to
a very sellout degree.
Various accidents took place—some of them of a
very serious nature ; and it is with deep regret we an-
nounce the death of•Dr.)&evsart, of the 25th Regiment
of Foot. His daring courage and zeal to stop the con-
flagration led him up into a situation of danger ; and,
either finding his retreat cut off by the flames, or dread-
ing suffocation, he precipitated himself from a window
three stories high, and in his fall received a concussion
of the brain, and other injuries, of which he died this
morning, in the -house of Messrs. Fraser and Msgger,
where every possible attention was paid to him. We
have heard of some other deaths, but we cannot vouch
for the truth of the tern.
The dwellings and stores of the following merchants,
Ac. have been destroyed: •
Mr. J. Vnwlet, Mr. A. Jeer. Messrs. Joon, Grillib, awl Co.
Georgiant Harding. Mr. A. leer. Mr. J. H. Albouy. Messrs.
Collynowe and Forte, Elisabeth Douglas, Captain Lucile, Mr.
J. H Bibby, Messrs. Bugles, King, and Co. Mr. Edward Paris,
Mr. H. }lanai, Mr.. William Midges, Mews. Karsten sad Co.
Messrs. Douglas, Adallison, and Co. Mr. John Dryden. Messrs. J.
Walmsley and Co. Mr. N. W. Pollard, Sir. Burns, Mary Synod.
Mrs. Shute, Mr. Thomas Forrei.ter. Messrs. W. Johnston and
H. M. Calniont, Messrs. Albouy and Cs. Messrs. Preston and
Clifford, Mr. T. G. Alban, Many Jordan, Mr. George Ross,
bles.nt. Samuel and Paul Maeda, Mr. A. Maigret.
The Court House, Colonial Secretary's OAce, the
property of the Colony, so much damaged as to be
u inhabitable. _

Y.S. Tbe Ore-proof store of Ale:sis. Walmsley and

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PftICI SIORSPENCE. -

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Co. behig considered sufficiently cooled, was opened
this afternoon, about halt part two o'clock, and found
to hare protected the different ar,icles t f metchandisel
with which it was completely filled, from all injury.
The first ohj ct that pte.ented itself I.n opening thedooir
M as a cat, %%Nth seemed gl•d of being released fungi
her confinement.

CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION.
Ilstt's Hotel, Dreeer.arear, 1116. 11.
" MT SAAR Faisue—Everything that I see cod beet
'las the affect of convincing me that there are IMMO
weight days is store for Leland, and that the people
will at length be deemed ei t fled to the protection and
encoursicement of the Luislature.
" Wbg would signify all•that we have done, if the
people were not so denye bubstas ti.l beile6.6 from our
•access. I think the; mug; and it i. (or them that I
should desire inincipally;ll not exclusively, to labour.
" I hope the day is approaching, when the Govern.
meat will cea.e to be teemed with the disgraceful fact.
that Ireland pmsesses the gresteg qsantity of wealth
is its capacity of productiveness, accompanied with the
exigence of the rested distress and poverty amongst
the people.

" Jt i; my pleasing duty to congratulate the Irish
Catholics on the fact, which is beyond any doubt, that
the determination of the Ministry to bring in the Bill
for the relief of the Catholics was principally produced
by the Protestant Moronic at the Rotunda.
" It is delightful to know that we owe this debt of
gratitude to so excellent a class of men as the Protestant
Noblemsu and Gentlemen who met oe that occasion.
" With respect to the voluntary dissolution of the As.
sedition, it will have been decided before this Wet
reaches you. ,It it be not, let my humble but earnest
advice have some effect to Crane at least additional do.
liberation. My advice is, not to dissolve until the now
law comes into force. and then to dissolve at once, in
obedience to the law. A voluntary dissolutioo before
the mandate of the new law shill require it, would he,
in my opinion, pleading guilty to the fah. charees
Made against the Association; it would also be an adop-
tion by us of the new penal statute; all still submit to
it when it is eoacted,.but let us not be parties to it by
any voluntary act of our own. It is the most uncon.
situtional law that ever was thought of. I alway's
said that they could not put down the Catholic As-
sociation without first treading under foot the princi.
pies of Constitutional Liberty. Accordingly, the
new Act creates a peifet and undisguised despotism--
it vests that despotism in the Lord Lieutenant for 0 e
time being. Let not the Catholic Association. which
,has struggled so long, to gloriously, and I trust so
successfelly, for liberty, tarnish its last blots by be-
coming au assenting party to a statute so unconstitu-
tional, so destructive if every public and popular
privilege. We have obtained, because we deserved,
the sympathy of every genuine friend of religion and
liberty in Europe, and in universal and liberated
America. Let us act the part of men deserving such
sympathy. lam bound in fairness to add, that all our
friends in both Houses advise a contrary course. They
are unanimous in advising the Catholic Association to
dissolve itself. Their advice is entitled to infinite more
attention than mine; t tit none of them can have the
honour and interests of the people of Ireland so deeply
throbbing in his heart as I have. It you are not satis-
fied with my reasons, lis:o to their advice. If it he a
choice of influence, let their influence outweigh mine,
as it. ought to do; but. above all things, consult your
own reason and judgment, and let us increase constitu-
tional liberty by our efforts, not sanction its diminution
in any one particular.
"On this subject I shall say no more. I have di•chargrd
my conscience. and. rest in that wistaria' which the
performance of a duty, however painful in itself, always
leaves behinds
More last wordsT-Remember that if the Catholics
show any tuciecessiuy facility ut disposition. it will be
likely to create a hope, sod it certainly will excite an
expectation. of great facility on the terrific question
of the elective trabchise.
" Let not the Association dissolve, without at least a
eesolution that emancipation, which in itself is so cal•
valued to confer blessings en Ireland, would be a source
of additional dissection. if it shall be accompanied by
species of attack on the 40s.freeholders. This is a pure
gleams of precaution, because, as tar as I can learn,
there is not any intention ehatever of embracing the
Emancipation Bill with either " wing." This lam as-
sured by all our friends. However, it is our duty to be
vigilant. We were in our time ahead, deceived-14
us not be over confident.

*4 An address expressive of thankful gratitude to the
Protestants who have supported us in the struggle—an
ss of cordial conciliation to the Protestants who
have opposed os—a declaration of total obliv.orrof past
injures, and even of past insults—an e.riirst eshostation
to the people to obey the laws, to preserve the peace.
and to join in grateful loyalty to the throne of tiro gra.
cious Monarch under whose auspicious inenet ce this
dneat measure of Irish liberty is to be achieved—them
ocuments should, in my opinion, be prepared and cir-
culated by the Association before its dissolution.
I will write to you to-morrow my views of the ap.
plication of the accumulated Catholic Rent Fund. Let
me beg of you, gentlemen, to recollect that there may
still be forty-shilling freeholders who voted at the late
election, and who may want protection.
I cannot conclude without expressing my decided
conviction that both the Duke of Wellington and Mr.
Peri are perfectly sincere in their deternauation to carry
the Relief Bill. Indeed, their conduct has been, as you
most have observed-from the debates, perfectly candid,
straightforward, and manly.
" I augur very favourably from this circumstance.
It was, however, the Catholic Association that created
the necessity of settling the question. The present
Ministers have had the wisdom to see that necessity.
and the firmness to adopt the only means of meeting it
—Catholic etnancipatioo.
4. Kw faithfully yours,
" To Edward Dwysv, le+ ice. ics.c.
DANIEL O'CONNELL

At the opening of the French Chamber'. in admiolt.
tering.the oath to one of the Members, the President by
age, M. LAU? at Pommes,. in reciting the words.
stopped once or twice. and was clearly at Fisk. Ti •
lien side broke out into laughter on each occasions.
The PresiJeot turned to them and said. a Goodman.
41 78 years of ago, a man's memory osmium Us
bias.' Silence was immediately astablisted..

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