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London, England, 1811-08-29 00:00:00

PORTSMOU CH, AUGUST shi.

Arrived the VENGZUR, Sir JOSEPH You: PYRA.
stus frigate, EDINBURGH and DENNI trtlC men of WM,
and the Rovert sloop of war, from the Westward;
supposed to have been to meet the East India fleet.
Arrived the SPITFIRE man of war, supposed trom
Lisbon.

DEAL, AUGUST es.
Arrived the DRAKE from off Flnshing, and the
Yorick from New Providence in 88 days.

SHEERNESS, AUGUST 28.

Arrived the CoMus and SARACEN, from the West-
ward.-The AGGRESSOR went out of harbour, and
will take the Heligoland convoy, comprising three
transports, to-morrow. The STARLING, when ready,
is to take the Galloper lights vessel under her protec-
tion' to her moorings off the Galloper Sand.

Three P. M.—Arrived the LITTLE BELL from the
Westward, and sailed immediately up the Tharnev.

LEITH, AUGUST 26.
This morning 14 men and four women, prisoners.
were landed from
Lone of the ships in the Roads, and
marched up to Euinburgh Castle. The ALARM lug-
ger sailed this morning, with a convoy of six sail for
the Nore. Arrived on Saturday the SAIMEDON sloop
of war from a cruize; and, yesterday the VaNus fri-
gate, from a cruize off the •N.-rtli Cape. The Saa:
PEDON and VENUS saluted die Admiral's flag as they
came into the Roads.
Remain the Nightingale sloop of war (dig ship), Venus frigate,
Sarpedon and Egvria sloops of war, and Streintous, Fancy, add
Gallant pan-brigs.
GREENOCK, AUGUST 26.

Arrived here on Thursday night the Hazard, An:
DERSON, from Rio de Janeiro, in 72 days. A small
fleet was to sail thence on the 19th June,under convoy
of the TORTOISE store ship. The Jean, MorvaT, of
this port, sailed on the 3d June for the River Plate :
spoke the following vessels en the passage : sih
in lat. 11. 33. long. 27. 24. the American schooner
General Green, from Batavia for Philadelphia, out 80
days, and gave intOrmation, that five sail of British
ships of war were lying off Batavia Roads when she
sailed ; and also had fallen in with five homeward-
bound English East ludiamt•n, a few d tys before
Captain ANDERSON spoke her ; on the VI inst. lat.
38. 44. long. 35. the American schooner Union, from
Lisbon, bound to Fairfield, Connecticut, out 20 days,
all well. Arrived 'on Saturday, the American ship
Charlotte; CLARK) from Charleston, in 21 days, with
the loss of her masts in a heavy gale on Tuesday last;
having got embayed and obliged to come to anchor
near Girvan, was forced to cut them away.
By accounts from Barbadoes, of the 10th ult. the Nile; Anita*
son, front Gaboon, which had put in leaky, would b.: 'cid.
'The Leyden man of war sailed from Lisbon the 6th instant,
with a fleet, for England.
The Charles, —, from Guernsey to Gibraltar, sailed the 17th
of May, and had not arrived on the itch of Lily.
The Pike• Lce, of London, from Surinam and Barhadots to
St. Vincent's, was los: ILE. St. Vincent's.
Arrived—At /111131 Ca, the lien7y,Curf, from London ; Ceres,
----, front Halifax ; and Banco, --, front Hull At Su-
rinam, William, —, front London. At Quebec, toe Margaret,
, from London. At lie.. /pool, kum ritildul. In
the Clysie;Nepteste, fr/An Qiieliec. At Cork, Three Friends,
front Bosom. At Pernambocco, Favourite, from Liverpool. At
Dublin, Columbine, front 1 rinidail ; and Hampton, front Ltsbon.

The Prince Ernest packet, Captain PETRE, has ..;-
rived at Falmouth, from New-York and Halifax, with
mails and dispatches, in 20 days from the latter place.
The Prince Ernest brings an official account of the
action between the Engl;sh sloop of war ATALANTA,
and the French frigate Entreprenante, in which the
latter was taken.
Advises front off Flushing state, that the French
fleet lately moved out, apparently %Dial intent to put
to sea, but that they have returned again into the
harbour. It consists of seventeen sail of the line, and
a large proportion of frigates Besides these, there are
three ships of the line at GOree, and five in !he Texel.
The ship.timber, naval stores of ever• description, ,
es also the ordnance, &c. which were in the ltoyal '
Arsenal at Carthagena, have been con.vleteiy re.
moved from thence to the dock-yard at P rr Milton.
They were accompanied by the elipwrights, and ar-
tificers of every class, who had been employed at that
place, and who, it is represented, have been much
plea►ed with the altetato n.
It has been asserted, that Government had deter-
nined to employ force to Freveat the piratical depre-
latiens of the ships of CnatsTorur. A ship has ar-
ved from St. Domingo, which left the Islatoi on the
13th July, transmitting by far the latest advises Vous
Aenco. Nothrng had at that time been attempted
t gilinst the flotilla of Cuarsriatuz, and the vessel w
rave alluded to was pursued, and greatly •udaugo.
• !, by oue of hi► cruisers.

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BORDER BALLAD.
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. The following spirited imitation of the ancient
Border Ballads is from the pen of Mr. GRAY, Mas-
. lir of the High School, Edinburgh.• We recognise in
it the true mettle of the -Warlike gathering bongs of
the ancient E►►glish and Scotish Bordtrs:

Lock the door Lariston, lion of Ltddesdale ;
Luck the door Lariston, Lowther iannes on;
The Arnistrutigs are fl, mg,
I lie Widows are crying,
The Castletons hunting and Onvers gene.
Lock tha door Lariston, high on the weather gleans,
See how the Saxon plum., bob os the sky; --
Yeoman and catbitier,
Biltran and lathes dier,
Piero: is the torage and Lir is the cry.
jlewcastle brandishes high his proud scymeter,
Ridley is riding his fleet-footed gray;
Hid ry aid Howard there,
Waudale and Windermere—
Lock the door Lariston, bold them at bay.
Why dolt thou smile, noble Elliot of Lariston.
Why, dois the joy-candle beam in thine eye ?
-Thou hold border ranger
Beware of thy danger I
Thy foes are relentless, determined and nigh.
Little know'st thou of the hear s I have hidden here,
Little ktiow'.t thou of our folk's trouper's might;
Linhrpe and Sorby true,
Suodhope and Mitbourne too,
Gentle in manner, but lions in fight.
I have Mangerron, Ogilvie, Rayburn, and Netherbie,
Old him of Whitram and all his array;
Come all Northumberland,
Teesdale, and Cumberland,
Here, at the Brealmn cower, end shall the fray.
Scowled the broad sun o'er the links of green Liddesdale,
Red as the beacon light tipt lie the wold;
Many a hold martial eye
Ttlirror'd the morning si.y,
Never more ofd on his orbit of gold.
Shrill was the bugle's nine, dreadful the warrior's shout,
Lances and halbert% in splinters were borne ;.
Hebnet and hauberk then
Bra•'d the claymore in vain ;
Buckler and armlet in shivers were shorn.
Si. how they wave the proud Ales of the Windermere !
Howard, ah! woe to thy 11..pcs of the day !
Hear the wide welkin rend;
While tile Scots' shouts ascend,
Elliot of Lariston, Eliot for a) !

Thursday se'imight, Sir SIDNEY SMITH dinedwith the
LORD PROVOST Magistrates, Council, the Clergy, and
a number of Gentiement in Mac EWan's New_Rooms,
'Edinburgh. Ft iday Sir SIDNEY and his Lady, the
Misses Rosman, and other strangers, accompanied
by severalGentlemait belonging to Edinburgh, visited
George Heriot's Hospital. 'The grandeur of the
building, the excellent management of the institution,
exemplified in the clean and healthy appearance of the
boys, attracted in a particular manner the attention
of the gallant Admiral and the other visitants.—
' After witnessing the embarkation of the 42d regiment
at Leith, Sir SIDNEY returned to town, and in the
afternoon dined with the Right Honourable the Loan
Parvosr, at his seat View Forth, in company with a
select party.
We understand that several celebrated Musical ;
Professors are composing for the Fla geolet, invented
by BAINBRIDGE, of Holborn Hill. This beautiful In-
strument, we are happy to learn, is becoming very
popular in the musical world. The peculi,:r advan-
tages it possesses of being a single or double Instru-
ment ad libitum, is certainly a great improvement, and
there being no keys required for the second, renders
the accompaniment remarkably easy.
The Harvest in some parts of the Country has not
been quite so productive as in the last year'; but who-
ever experiences disappointment in their Crops, maybe'
amply supplied from the golden ,granary of Fortune,
where Independence may be reaped in a single day, by
a Ticket or Share in the present Lottery, which em-
braces an increased variety of Capital Prizes, and
Tickets and Shares considerably zheaper than for many
years past. There ate only 18,500 Tickets, and it is
probable they will be all Sold before the 22d of Octo-
ber, when all the Lottery will be drawn.
A LIFE of the late RICHARD CUMBERLAND, Esq.
by Mr. MUDFORD, is in preparation. Tile " Memoirs,"
published by the author himself, will be used as an
authentic record for every thing respecting facts: but
there will still remain an important portion to supply.
The reasonings deducible from those facts : the esti-
mate of Mr. Cumberland's literary character : a de-
toiled inquiry into the merits of his several produc-
tions; the continuation of his life, literary and Per-
sonal, since the publication of the " Memoirs :" the
introduction of collateral matter, which it had been
folly to suppose the author would endeavour to per-
petuate: together with that general mass of critical
and miscellaneous literature, which 'the contempla-
tion of the period in which he lived must naturally
elicit ; are among those topics that remain to be dis-
cussed, and which it is intended to.comprise in the
projected publication. There will be novelty enough
to excite notice; and it is hoped there will be merit
enough to preserve it.—Any information which it may
be in the power of the friends of Cumberland to com-
municate, will be thankfully received, if addressed to
Mr. Mulford, to the care of the Publishers, N. 20
Paternoso:r-row.
A printed account, authenticated by several respee-
table .ledicalGentlemen of Litchfield, Burton, Derby,
Ac. has just been put in circulation, containing the par-
ticulars of the remarkable case of a young woman,
about '2O years ot age, of the name of Sarah Houghton,
from whom it appears that nearly 200 pins and needles
have at different times, and from various parts of her
body, been extracted. From. the respectable signa.
tures which accompany the account, there can be no
doubt of the fact. She affirms that she has no recol-
. 'talon of ever having swallowed either needles or pins.
POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES.—The follow.

lag is an official return of the P.,pelation of the
United States, in 1310 :—Virginia, frd5,079, of which
900,000 are negro slaves ; New York, 959,220, only
15,0(X) slaves ; Pennsylvania, 810,163 ; Massachu-
setts (province and nmine), 700,745 ; Ncrth
lina, 563,6`6.; South Carolina, 414,935; Kentucky,
406,511 ; Maryland, 380,546; Connecticut, '261,914 ;
Zenassee, East a:td West, 261,727; Georgia, 252,433;
New Jersey, 245,562; -Ohio, 280,760; Vermont,
217,913 ; New Hampshire, 214,414 ; Rhodes Island,
76,913; Delaware, 72,674.—Territorial Govern-
ments : —Orleans, 76,556; Mississippi, 40,352; In-
diana, '24,5'20; Columbia, x 4,025; Louisiana, 20,845;
il/issoie, 12,282 ; Michisan, 4,762—T0ta1, 7,238,421.