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London, England, 1811-08-21 00:00:00

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OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FROM THE ARMIES IN
SPAIN.
NAVARRE.
The wreck of the army of Campo Verde has in-
creased the ban!s of Navarre. General Reille, in-
formed of their movements, stationed all his cavalry
on the Banks of the Ebro : they have picked up
some hundreds of these persons, among whom are
four Officers.

On the 23J July, General Pannetier surprised
Mina, between Estella and Santa Cruz de Carnpero,
and forced him to fight, throwing him back upon
Sortada, which was attacked and carried during the
night ; several of the brigands were killed, some taken,
with 60 horses. The next day General Pannetier
attacked a column which endeavou►ed to join Mina ;-
he pursued it during the whole day from mountain
to mountain. The brigands lost in these two affairs
more than 600 med killed and wounded. General
Busc joined General Pannetier in the evening, with
his column, 2000 strong. General Reille also arrived
with 250 hussars of the 9th. The pursuit acquired
fresh vigour ; in fine, after ten hours march in the
mountains, the cavalry came up anew with three bat-
talions of Mina and 150 cavalry in the woods of Bay-
Forry. The French cavalry pushed forward upon the
wretches ; a whole battalion was destroyed ; 300
were killed, 250 made prisoners ; the two other bat-
talions, constantly pursued by our troops, dispersed
in the rocks.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21.
PRICE OF STOCKS 'MS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
3 per Ct. Cons. for money 6214 —Ditto for account 64
S per Cent. Reduced 641—Navy .5 per Cent :Kt i
4 per Cent. 801—Bonds 141. 15s. prem.—Omnium 141 dis.
Exch. Bills (3d.) 4s. d:s. to par—Ditto (31d.) 4s. ss. prent.

The Adelaide cartel has arrived at Dartmouth,
from Morlaix, with two American Messengers on
board with dispatches, with which they immediately
set off for London.
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We have received Dublin Papers of Saturday last.
By the following extract from the Dublin Evening Post,
it appears that the Catholics are determined to perse-
vere in their system of Petitioning the Legislature
" DUBLIN, AUGUST 17.

GALWAY MEETING.—" Sunday a Meeting of the
Catholics of the county was held in the town of Gal. I
way. This meeting was more numerous, and in every
point of view more important, than any within the re-
collection of the oldest inhabitant. Resolutions were
unanimously passed vindicating the subject's right to
petition—that invaluable privilege in which all are
concerned. The Resolutions also express a fixed de-
termination to sef.lc the immediate and total repeal of
the Penal Laws affecting our Catholic Countrymen,
and for this purpose Gentlemen were appointed to
manage the Petiti.m. The Meeting was attended by
all the Protestant Gentry at the Assizes—by'the Mem-
bers of Parliament, and by the High Sheriff, who,
with his Officers, headed the Catholics, in number
above 4000, in procession through the town to the
Town-hall, where the Resolutions alluded to were
read, considered, and passed unanimously.

•" We hid written so far when a further account
of th;s interesting and important meeting reached our
Office, but we have only time to add, that amongst
those present were the Members of the Grand Jury—
the Mayor and Corporation in their regalia, and many
other persons of the first distinction and consequence.

‘. The Catl!olics of Kilkenny meet this day. The
Catholics of Sligo are to meet next week. The Ca-
tholics of Kerry are also to assemble in a few days.
The Meetings will-be general over our insulted, op-
pressed, yet still spirited land."

Intelligence reached the Admiralty this morning of
th,! sate Arrival of the Jamaica Fleet, under convoy
of the PELORUS sloop of war.

The Gazette of last night contains the Order of the
PRINCE REGENT for the further prorogation of Par'.
Lament to the 4th of October.
The name of the Gentleman, whose arrival from
St. Petersburgh we mentioned yesterday, is GEL9ONS.
It now appears that the greater park.of the 200aships,
which have arrived in the Russian ports, are Ameri-
cans. On their way to the Baltic they came North
about, to aveid being carried into British ports, by
our cruizers, or captured by French privateers in the
Channel. Their cargoes consisted of coffee,.sroposed.
from St. Domingo, Havannah sugars, andpotton ;
with which articles, as we before stated, the markets
were glutted for a time ; particularly with the last,.
which could not find purchasers at Gd. per pound, a'
price which would be productive of considerable loss
to the owners. From all this, it would appear, that
the mission of Mr. QUINCY ADAMS to St. Petersburgh
has been attended with considerable advantage to the
mercantile interests of his country.
It has been lately mentioned that great precautions
are employed to prevent the intrusion of strangers
into Sweden, and even the admission of the subjects of
that country if they come from Great Britain. In pur-
suance of this system, welearn that the Consul herehas
instructions to grant no passports whatever to persons
proceeding from hence to the Swedish territories.
Accounts were yesterday received from Malaga to
the 2Sth ultimo. From them it appears that our
cruizers so closely blockaded that port as not to suf-
fer any commerce of export or import ; so that the
ten per cent. duty imposed by Souvr was not lately
to be very productive to French cupidity. The dis-
tresses of the inhabitants were great, from the cessa-
tion of commerce and the pressure of requisitions.—
Several individual}-belonging to the French garrison
in Malaga are sAI ito have been lately c'ut off bylas-
sassination • and, either on this account or to preserve
the health Of the troops, the French have been remo-
ved from the town, and cantoned on the heights abOve
it. his added, that the French have threatened to
lay Malaga in ruins shosdd these private assassina-
tions continue.
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THE KMG.

Sir HENRY HALFORD arrived in town yesterday,
and immediately v.aited on the. PRINCE REGENT to
communicate to his Royal Highness the state of the
Kixo, which, we regret to find, is still more unfavour-
able than announced in the Bulletin of that morning ;
for, besides his MAJESTY'S other afflictions, he was in
the course of the day seized with a violent fit of
coughing, which, in. his lamentably exhausted state,
produced of course the most alarming effects. The
PRINCE REGENT, in consequence of tbe communication
made to him by Sir HENRY HALVORD, set out for
Windsor at seven o'clock yesterday evening, accom-
panied by the Doke of CumszaLAND.
The following is the Bulletin of this morning ; by
which it appears that his MAJESTY has experienced
j some amelioration (Allis distressing malady :

" WINDSOR-CASTLE, AUCNST 21.
" His MaziesTr has slept throughout the night, and
appears to be refreshed this morning.

" R. IiALTORD4 W. RESERVE'S.
" 1.1.3.1114111. R. WILLIE."

The Dirke of Sussex, who has been much indis•
posed, was yesterday pronounced out of danger by
his Physicians.
His Royal Highness the Puirsck; Rzoatur had not
time to give private audiences to any more than those
we stated yesterday, at the Court, which he held at the
Treasury Chambers, in consequence of his appoint-
ment to receive the ALGERINg AMBASSADOR for his
Excellency to take leave of hit ROYAL HIOMNESS pre.
viousto his Excellency leaving this country on next
Monday. His ROYAL HIGHNESS, in consequence,
g_ave private audiences to the Marquis WELLESLEY,
Earl of LivErtrooL, and General MAITLAND, at York
House.

The Duke of Yong. left town early this morning to
attend his Roy.a Brother the PRINCE REGENT, at the
Review at Winkfield Plain.

Lnrd HastaiNarox gave a grand dinner, on Mon-
day, to the PRINCE REGENT, Dukes of YORK, C:.A•
HENCE, and CUMBERLAND, Lords YARMOLTII, H.
MoottE, and General KEPPZI..

' The following was the state of the poll at the Ha-
naperOffice, Dublin, at three o'clock on Tuesday last :
For Lord Gusford - - - 44
Fur Lord Leitrim - - - 20
Majority - —24
Mr. Ctarris, son of Alderman CURTIS, and M.
Sostaasrr Davis, of Croft Castle, oppose Sir Join
Lunitocx and Mr. Domtast, for the Borough of Leo-
min ster.
Sir THOMAS BARING, Bart. of Stratton Park, com-
menced, on Saturday last, a canvass of the freemen
at Winchester for the next election. Sir THOMAS
was accompanied by the Earl of Norrnesa, Jolts
RICHARDS, Esq. and Captain Youso, of the Winches.
ter Volunteers. •

The Cornwall boroughs are all in a bustle in the
prospect of a general election. Penryn, Tregoney,
Grampound, &c. have been canvassed, and: recan-
vassed.
Thursday the Friends of Independence and Reform
held their annu2l meeting and dinner at the Bear Inn,
Reading. J. L. Motsce, Esq. took the chair; when
several Resolutions were unanimously adopted by the
meeting, and a Committee formed to conduct the
business for the following year.
The Duchess of RICHMOND and her daughter art{
at present on a visit to Sir H ERVEY and Lady BRUCE,
at Downhill . and it is her Grace's intention to spend
P ,me days there, and in viewing the Giant's Cause.
way, and the other interesting parts of the coast, be-
fore she proceeds on her journey to Scotland.
1 Earl SPENCER has arrived at Ryde, in the Isle of
Wight, with the Marquis and Islarchioness of WIN-
CHESTER, Countess of CLANRICARDE, Lord \Ks-
SHIRR, and Lords HENRI and G. PAULET.
HAYMARKET THEATRE. —The Comedy of The Wen-
, der I was again performed to a numerous and ap-
plauding audience. Few legitimate comedies can
boast of equal merit in the representation. ELUSION,
in Don Felix, was happy beyond praise; and JONES,
in Li:m.4 was all that a critic could require in the
1 flippant hero. Mrs. GLOVER'S Violante was as happy
las her first personation of that character, and the
whole was received with rapturous applause.
An idea of the flourishing state of the coal trade at
Whitehaven may be formed from the circumstance of
ilot less than 19,661 waggons of coals having been
shipped off from the Earl of Lowanact's works in six
weeks, viz. between the Ist of July and 10th of August
instant, being an average of 3277 weekly.
Yesterday morning, at eight o'clock, there was the
most violent storm of rain in the metropolis we ever
witnessed. It continued for nearly half an hour with
Unabated fury, and occasioned considerable mischief
in various parts. The horses were terrified on the
loads, and many became ungovernable. A gentle-
man driving a gig was thrown out in the Wandsworth
Road, and bruised in a shocking manner. The horse,
during a loud peal of thunder, started across the foot-
path, dashed through a fence, and broke, the gig to
atoms. The hackney coachmen and others were com-
pelled to quit their boxes, and to lead their horses.
Monday afternoon, a genteel dressed young fellow
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was detected in the act of picking a gentleman's
pocket of his watch, as he was passing through CM.
berwell Fair. The gentleman seized bold of him.
and delivered him over to the mercy of the populace,
when he aas led to the pond upon the green, and se-
verely ducked. If it had not been for the interference
of some humane persons, he would have been suffo-
cated; he was then suffered to escape.
A few nights since, several robbers entered the
jewellery ware-houses belonging to Messrs. Hamlet,
to Sidney's-alley, Leicester-square, by means of lalse
keys or picklock instruments, and stole diamond,
pearl, antique and other rings and bracelets and orier
jewels, to the amount of several hundred pounds.
Died suddenly, on the 12th inst. on his arrival at
Derby, to be exhibited at the Races, (on which day
he attained the age of 31 years), John Cummin•-•
only 31 inches.high. He was interred on TutsJa".
in Si. roles. Church-yard, Derby.


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