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London, England, 1810-03-21 00:00:00

cheerfully T spaired to the standard of their country,
and even In the end' quitted the ensanguined" scene
with marked reluctance."
There is no other intelligence of importance from
Spain, except that no immediate apprehensions were
entertained in respect to the utmost efforts which the
enemy were deemed capable of making against Cadiz.
66 From Petersburgh letters have arrived to the
date of the 3d instant. Nothing of war is mentioned
in these communications, and trade was proceeding
as if there was no expectation of it. The exchange
at Petersburgh had improved, and was at Tallow ,
had advanced 30 per cent. beyond the price of lest
year, and obtained 86 rubles. Contracts were entered
into in various other articles of Russian produce to a
great.extent, and at high prices, in the confidence
that the trade with this country would be open during
the ensuing summer."—Such are the reports in circu-
lation, but we doubt whether they rest on good au-
thority. Many speculators in Russian produce have
at this moment an obvious interest in giving currency
to sttch statements.

The Election of a Member for the town of 1-Tythe
in the place of the late THOMAS GODFREY, Esq. came
on on Monday at two o'clock ; the numbers at the
close of the poll—were for
Sir JOHN PERHINO, Bit/. - 83
WILLIAM BUST., Esq. - - - 49
J. H. BRYDOLS, Esq. - 44
Sir Joan PERRING was declared-duly elected.
The Right Hon. Sir WILLIAM GRANT, Master of
the Rolls, &c. is unanimously elected Rector of Ma-
rischal College and University of Aberdeen.
Some recent letters from Bombay state, that the
KING of PERSIA had solicited the Government of Bom-
bay to send him a sufficient number of Officers to in-
struct a corps 0f15,000 men in British manoeuvres and
discipline.

Friday a Court-Martial was held on board the SAL-
VADOR nEt, MUNDO, in Hamoaze, on Mr. Denham,
late Master of his Majesty's ship DAPHNE, for having
absented himself from that ship, contrary to Captain
Ptrow's orders. The Court adjudged the charge to
be fully substantiated ; and did therefore sentence him
to be dismissed his situation, and rendered incapable
of ever serving as an Officer in his Majesty's Navy.
Rear-Admiral Sir EDWARD BE:LLER, Bart. President.
G. EASTLAKE, Esq. Deputy Judge Advocate.
We have it from authority that Madame CATA-
LANI will enter into any suitable engagement to sing
Italian or English in the Oratorios, or amateur meet-
ings which may be given.
K:so's THEATRE.--.Last night a new serious opera,
called Atalide, was performed at this theatre. The
story is very simple : Atalide, a young Ottoman Prin-
cess, kft as an hostage at the Sultan's court, engages the
affections of his son, to whom she is privately married.
The Sultan, who aspired to a powerful alliance for his
son, is highly enraged at the discovery; but is at
length overcome by his paternal feeling, and relents.
CATALANI and TRAMEZZANI were very happy in the
two principal characters ; their duet tin the second
act, was fervently applauded and rapturously encored.,
The whole of the performers acquitted themselves in
a very creditable manner. The audience, which was
as numerous as it was fashionable, appeared' highly I
ratified, and the piece went off with uncommon spi-
rit. The music, by GUGLIELMI, is entitled to much
praise, and . the scenery, which was magnificent
throughout, gave universal satisfaction.
Wednesday last was purchased in the Fish-market,
Edinburgh, for 2s. a cod fish, weighing about 18
pounds, which, on being opened, was found to contain
two soles, one of them measuring twelve inches by
five, a herring ten inches in length, a half herring,
two lobsters, and a flounder seven inches in length.

Friday last an affray took place between two French
prisoners in the Royal Prison at Dartmoor, in which
one of them drew his knife and stabbed the other
through the heart. . .

Friday last Robert Mansfield, a lad between 17
and 18 years of age, was unfortunately killed by the
falling of a piece of timber, on board the Centinel brig
lying in Sheerness harbour.
_ _

Two convicts lately made their escape from Sheer-
ness, and have not since been heard of.
A buoy, stationed about two miles to the North-
East of Bamborough Castle, was last winter carried
away in a violent storm, and found, together with a
large piece of metal, which served as an anchor, on
the sand near Nova Scotia.

The Jean and Bell, Morris, for Colerain, took fire
in Grangemouth Roads on the 2d inst. and was run
ashore at Holemurry, in Carron river, where vessel T
and cargo were burnt to the water's edge. The crew, ;
and a woman and three children, passengers, saved.
Some weeks since, Mr. TOOLEY, of Horncastle, re-
ceived an anonymous letter, cautioning him to take.{
care of himself, as an attempt would be made to as-1
sassinate him ; he considered the letter as, only in-
tended
to alarm him, and did not pay any particular
attention to it : some nights since, however, as he I
was goin to bed, a pistol was discharged at him
through the window, and a slug passed just above his
head, and lodged in the ceiling. Mr. Tooley imme-
diately threw up the window, and leaped into the I
street, but the assassin escaped. The slug was made ,
of a letter
nsed to mark linen, and appears to have
bgecon 0, bnt has been defaced in an endeavour to
beat it round.
Between six and seven o'clock, on Tuesday se'n•
tight, as Mt'. John Meagher, innkeeper, at Nine-mile-
house,
county Of Tipperary, was on his return home
from Mullinahone, he was stopped within a quarter
of a mile of his house, by three armed men, one of
whom called upon him to stop, and attempted to
catch at his horse's bridle which he missed, when I
im-
mediately one of the others fired a blunderbuss at
him, and lodged five balls in his hip and upper part
of his thigh. Mr. Meagher instantly fell, when ano-
ther of the fellows came over him with a blunderbuss
and was going to fire a second shot at him until the
villain who had fired, called out—' I have done the
rascal's business, don't waste your shot." The vil-
lains then made off. The report of the shot brought
some people to the spot, when Mr. Meagher was
brought home, and languished until the following
Friday, leaving a desolate wife and family.