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CI lALLE NG&
MESTR3Vetritlet£ and Co. Surgeons, late in his
Majesty's Service, challenge the whole world to prove a .
sing l Instance where their Medicine and method of cure have
failed of the desired effect. The practice of many years in this
particular branch of their profession has not given rise to one
unsuccessful case.
They continue to direct their rtudies to the treatment and cure
of Venereal Complaints, and that derangement of the system,
which is the consequence of the pernicious and wasteful C./fee r s of a
habit long and must unhappily pursued by the youths of both St zest
In the one it will be found to be the unfailing source of barren-
ness ; the other have its ravayes fatally developed to them by a did
tressing state of debility, which, If not dm ely remedied, terminates
In impotence. These are Its remote and ultimate effects, while con-
sumptions, loss of muscular power, and various nervous compLxint s
usually characterise the earlier stages of this solitary vice. 01 per-
sons languishing under the disorders incident to such a habit, theta
•reartmut is simple and has never proved unsuccessful, in tl e
course of a king, laborious, and much extended practice. In tie
most obstinate and complicated cases of venereal infection, ruck
as obstructions in the urethra, spongy excrescences, hard in-
mours,callons ulcers, eruptions, seismal weakness, sleets, a. al
sTßlertnais,
Whether recent or cif long duration, and which have baffled the
skill (Anther Practitioners ; are by their present improved plan of
reatment, effectually and permanently cured, without the patient
suffering the excruciating pain' and alarming hemorrhage which
often follows the application of the lunar caustic. In the course of
SO years extensive practice In this metropolis, numerous cases of
Strictures have been and are daily wider their are, the total
eradication of which are effected by a safe, certain, and (taped".
kious mode of practice, superior to any other yet adopted. TLO
weakness, relaxation, and debility proceeding from this complaint,
Is speedily removed, and the patient restored to sound and vi-
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proper perseverance in their restorative remedies, after the Strk.
Lure has been destroyed, is indispensably requisite to revive the
dwubtring sparks of Life, and to reanimate the Constitution.
Several Noblemen and Gentlemen, of the first respectability,
have been under the care of Messrs. Currie and Lb. for the rs-
moval of complaints of the Urethra, Strictures, &c. and, having
received a radical and permanent cure, request that reference,
may be made to them as satisfactory evidences of the decided su-
periority of Messrs. Currie and Co.'s plan of treatment. Many
of these Gentlemen have bad Strictures from ten to am enty [ears
and bad beets under the care of Messrs. Home and Heaviside'
and other surgeons of equal eminence, who attempted the cure
by the application of the lunar caustic, without success.
Messrs. Currie and Co. may be consulted by either sex with till
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Hatton-Garden. Patients in the country are requested asitate
the particulars of their case, age, and general habit of lief",
htcloslng a remittance for advice and ntedicines, wises *Who
will be given or sent te any part of the kingdom.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, DECEMBER 17, 1811.
Copy of a letter from Commodore Broughton, late Senior OM-

err of his Majesty's ships and vessels in the East ladies, to
John Wilson Croker, yin dated on board the lilorrious, in
Batavia Roads, August 10, lull.
SIR-.You will be pleased to lay before the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty, the enclosed copies
of letters which I have received from Captains George
Harris, and Robert Maunsell, of his Majesty's ship
- Sir Francis Drake, and the Procris sloop, giving an
account of the capture and destruction of several
gun-boats belonging to the enemy, which, in my
opinion, reflects the greatest credit upon the Officers
and men employed. I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) W. R. BROUGHTON.
His Majesty's ship, Sir Francis Drake,
oil Rembang, 23d May, 1811.
Sin—ln latitude 6 deg. 35 min. South, and longi-
tude 111 deg. 32 mite. East, Rembang hearing
S.W. 13 miles, being on my passage to put in force
our order of the Ist of April, 1811, and having
beeft necessitated to anchor during the night of the
22d inst. fiom contrary winds, and a strong current
setting from the eastward ; I had the satisfaction, at
daylight, to observe a flotilla of the enemy's gun-
vessels, consisting of nine felucca-rigged, and five
prow-rigged, at anchor, close in-shore, about three
miles from the Drake. At dawn of day they weigh-
ed and stood for Rembang, but were so closely
chaced, that by seven o'clock three or four well-di.
rected broadsides, brought five of the felucca vessels
tinder our guns to an anchor, which were instantly
taken possession of. The others finding themselves
off from their port, furled sails, and pulled up in
wind's eye of us, direct for the shore, out of
sch of our guns. Shoaling our water considerably,
1e me dispatch Lieutenants Bradley and-Addis,
Roch rif the Royal Marines; Messrs. Groves,
sorton, and Phibbs, midshipmen ; with Lieutenant
awles, Mr. Gillman, and 12 privates of his Ma-
sty's 14th regiment, in four six-oared cutters and a
to board them, the Drake keeping under weigh
-king up to windward, ready to cover the boats.
it is with peculiar pleasure I have to state, that
i undaunted and gallant conduct of this :mall party
Officers and men, made prizes of all the rest by
lit o'clock, without the loss of a man, notwith-
rding a sharp fire of grape from several pieces of
lnance, with continual musquetry, which corn-.
ienced the moment the boats got within grape-shot
stance, and did not discontinue until our seamen
' their oars in to board ; when the crews of each
;el either jumped overboard, or went'on shore in
it boats.
am sorry to state the loss of the enemy must have
been great, as their boats being small arid overloaded
',ll men, arms, and ammunit:on, many were cop-
al sold most of the men in them (as well as those
at jumped overboard) drowned; the scene I under-
stand was truly piteous, as the Officers commanding
,'boats were prevented from affording that relief
r h humanity would have dictated, from having
r unch two of the felucca vessels off the beach, in
t ace of a brisk fire of small arms, from the men
:lo had escaped and fled into the jungle.
diterom the quarter-deck of the Sir Francis Drake,
ng an eyewitness of the conduct of this brave de-
lchment, I beg leave to represent it in terms of ,the
;hest praise.
The inclosed is a list of the vessels burnt, the 'r
-ce, &c. &c. I lament the nature of my orders
aild not allow me to preserve the nine felucca-
;ged vessels for the use of the expedition, being
new, only launched 15 days, and in my opt-
ion, the best built gun-boats I ever saw : they are
) feet long over all, 17 broad, and pull 60 oars each,
.ad are fitted to carry a 7.inch howitzer aft, and a
24-pound carronade forward, but only one was found
vith her guns on board ; and as her sailing is but
try little inferior to the Drake's, and causes little or'
delay, I have kept her as a dispatch tender; whe-
ther the guns of the others were hove overboard, or
'ether they were going to be gunned, is a matter
doubt, as the enemy did all they could to burn,
ik, and destroy, before they left them. They were
am Rembang eight days, had been on a cruize to
Joanna, but were then bound to Sourabaya, com-
manded by a Captain Orning, who either escaped on
'rare, or was drowned.—l have the honour, &c.
(Signed) GRORGE HARRIS. .
Commodore W. R. Broughton, Senior Officer in the
command of his Majesty's Ships and Vessels employed
in the hast Indies.
ISt of Gun-Vessels and Armed Prows, taken and burnt by his
Male sty's Ship Sir Francis Drake, on the 23d May, 1811.
trench Felucca, No. 8, fit. ed with carriages, &c. &c. to carry one
7-melt howitzer and one 21-pound earronade, but not found on
board, 87 tons and et men, from Rembang hound to Soma-
bap ; captured off Rembang, and burnt; the Lteuteuaut and
18 men taken prisoners, the rest escaped on shore.
tench Felucca, No. 9, fitted with carriages, Sec. &c. to carry one
7-inch howitzer and one 1:4-pound carronade, but trot bound
en board, $7 tons and 24 men, from Rembang, bound to Sou-
rabaya, captured off Rentbang, and burnt, some of the crew
wounded, some drowned, and the rest escaped.
tench Felucca, No. 10, fitted with carriages, &c. Sec. to carry
one 7-inch howitzer and one 24-pound earronade, but not
found on board, 87 tons and 24 men, from Rembang, bound
to Sourabaya ; captured oft' Rembareg and burnt, the Midship-
man and it: men taken prisoners, sonic drowned, the rest ftCa.
peel on shore.
trench Felucca, No. 11, fitted with carriages, ice. &c. to carry
one 7-inch howitzer and one 24-pound carronade, but not
found on beard, 87 tons and 24 men, from Rembang, bound
to Sourabaya ; apt ured off Rembang, and burnt, some of the
crew wounded, some drowned, the rest escupt-d ou shore.
trench Felucca, No. 12, fitted with carriages, &c. Sec. to carry
one 7-inch howitzer, and our 24-pound carronade, but not
found on board, 87 tons and 24 men, from it ernbang, bound
to Sourabaya; captured off Rembang, and burnt, thirteen men
taken prisoners, some wounded, some drowned, the test esca-
ped on shore.
trench Felucca, No. 13, fitted with carriages, Ste. &c. to carry
one 7-inzli howitzer and one 24-potend carronade, but uoc
found on board, 87 tons and 24 men, Irons Rembang bound to
Sourabaya; captured off Rembang and burnt, some 01 the crew
wounded, some drowned, the rest escaped on store.
rends Motto, No. 14, fitted with carriages, &c. &c. to carry
one 7-inch howitzer and one 14-y mind commode but not
found on board, 87 tons and 24 men, from Rembang, bound
to Sourabaya; captured off Rembang and burnt, 22 men talus
prisoners. •
rrench Felucca, No. 13, fitted with carriages, &c. dm. to carry
one 7-inch howitzer and one 24-pound carronade, but not
&sod on bawd, 87 tons and 24 map, from Rcmbang, belted
to Sourabaya ; captured off Rembang, and burnt, fourteen men
taken prisoners, some wounded, saute drowsed, sod the rest
'escaped On shore. . ° .

French ?Awes No. ti, of ens seven-Inch howitzer and Mel*
pound citronade, S 7 tons, and 211 men, froM Ikentiang Wend
to Sourabaya ; captured off Ambers, and as a tender,
one man taken prisoner, some wounded, some and
the rest e.c.mel on shore.
French Prow, No. I, of two nhte-pounders and one two-pounder
snivel, 50 tons, from Rembang bound to Sourabiya; captured
off Rembang, the Commander and tie men taken prsoners,
some wounded, sonic drowned, and the rest escaped on shore.
Sent the prisoners on shore in her to Bombay.
French Prow No. 2, of two nine-pounders and one two-pounder
swivel, .50 tons, from Rembang bound to Sourabaya • captured
off Rembang, and burnt, some of the crew wounded, some
drowned, and the rest escaped on shore is their stn pans.
French Prow No. 9, of two nine-pounders and one two-pounder
swivel, 50 tons, from Rembang bound to Sourabaya ; captured
off Rembang, and burnt, some of the crew wounded, some
drowned, the rest escaped on shore in their san pans.
French Prow No. 4, of two nine.pouslers and one two pounder
swivel, 50 tons, from Rembang bound to Sourabaya; captured
off Rembang, and burnt, some of the crew wounded, some
drowned, and the rest escaped on shore in their san pans.
French Prow No. 5, of two nine-pounders and one two-pounder
swivel, 50 tons, from Rembang bound to Sourabaya; captured
off Rembang, and burnt, some of the crew wounded, some
drowned, and the rest escaped on short in their san pans.
Two French Merchant Prows, of 30 tons each, from Rembang
bound to Sourabaya, in ballast; captured off Rembang, and
burnt, some of the crew wounded, some drowned, and the rest
escaped on shore in their ,an pans.
(Signed) GEORGE HARRIS, Captain.
His Majesty's sloop Procris, at sea, August 2.
SlR—Enclosed 1 have the honour to transmit yon°
a copy of a letter I have written to Captain Sayer,
of his Majesty's ship Leda, and have the hoopoe ft
be, &c. (Signed)
ROISNAT MAUY2P.L4 Commander.
To Commodore W. R. Broughton, &c.
His Majesty's sloop Procris, off the mouth of
ladramay River, July 31.
SIR-1 have the honour to inform you, that in
obedience to your orders, I proceeded in shore, and
at day-light this morning, discovered six gunboats,
with a convoy of 4D or .50 prows, close in with the
mouth of Tndramay river, upon which we immedi-
ately weighed and ran into one quarter less three fa.
thorns water, and were then scarcely within gun-shot
of the gun-boats ; finding our fire made very little
impression on them, and conceiving the destruction
of this force to be an object of constable import-
ance, I proceeded to the attack of them with the
boats his Majesty's sloop under my command, to-
gether with two flat boats, an officer, and 20 men, of
his Majesty's 14th regiment, and an officer and the
same number of men from his Majesty's 89th regi-
ment, and succeeded in boarding and carrying five
'of them successively under a heavy fire of grape and
musketry, their crews jumping overboard, after hav-
ing thrown their spears into the boats the 6th blew
up before we got alongside of her. The whole of the
convoy on their first seeing us, hauled through the
mud up the river, or they must also have fallen into
our hands. The gun-boats carry each of them one
brass 32-pound carronade forward, and one 18-pour.
der aft, with (as appears by the papers found on
board) upwards of 60 men each, they are excellent
vessels, and, in my opinion, might be found of consi-
derable service to the expedition.
in performing of this service, I am happy to ob-
serve that our loss has been comparatively small,
when it is considered that the boats, during the whole
time of their advancing, were exposed in the open
day, to the fire of twelve guns of the calibre I have
mentioned, and a constant fire of musketry, (the
gun-boat which blew up, being of equal force with
the rest.)
I cannot conclude without performing the pleasing
duty of noticing the very steady and determined bra-
very of every Officer and man employed on this ser-
vice. Frxn Mr. Majoribanks, my First Lieutenant,
I received that able support I had reason to expect,
horn his general good conduct whilst under my com-
mand, and I cannot too strongly mat k the high sense
I entertain of the gallantry of Lieutenant H. J. Hey-
land, of his Majesty's 14th Regiment, and Lieute-
nant Oliver Crush, of his Majesty's 89th Regiment,
their keeping up a steady well-directed fire of mus-
ketry from the men under their respective commands
must have proved considerably destructive to the ene-
my, I have also to express the satisfaction I felt in the
steady behaviour of Messrs. George Cunningham,
Wm. Randall, and Charles Davies, masters-mates,
supernumeraries on board the ship for a passage to
join the Commander in Chief, and the other petty
Officers, Non-commissioned Officers, seamen, and
soldiers ; in short, the conduct of the whole was such
as to make me feel confident, that had the force op-
posed been considerably greater, it would have met
I the same fate.
Inclosed I transmit a List of the Wounded on this
occasion. I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) R. MAUNSELL, Commander.
To Geo-ge Sayer, Esq. Captain of H. M. S. Leda.
LIST OF WOUNDED.
Mr. William Randall, Master's Mate, slightly.
William Jenkyns, Quarter Master, dangerously.
James Fevre, Boatswain's Mate, slightly.
Withßoberts,
am Roberta Captain of the After Guard, badly.
John Kelly, and George Bowls, seamen, Slightly.
Thomas Hynes, and William Adney, seamen, slightly.
Adam Marlton boy, slightly.
89th Foot—Richard Habe, private, badly.
lsth Foot—William Heath, corporal, slightly.
ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, DEC. 17.
Admiral Sir Charles Cotton has transmitted to J.
W. Croker, Esq. a letter from Captain Alexander,
of his Majesty's ship the Colossus, giving an account'
of an attack made on the Ist inst. by the Arrow
schooner, and the boats of the Colossns and Conques-
tador, on an enemy's convoy, to the southward of
Isle d'Aix, of which one chaise maree was brought
out, three burnt, one of them an armed vessel, and
three stranded on the beach.
Copy of a Letter from Captain Acklom, of his Majesty', sloop
Ranger, addressed to Captain PlashwoOd, of the Pyramus, and
transmitted by Vice-Admiral Sir James Saumilies to Jobs W.
Croker, Esq.

His M. S. Ranger, in the Baltic, Nov. 14.
Sin—l have the pleasure to inform you, I this day
captured, after a chace of seven hours, the Danish
privateer schooner the Skanderbeilc, of 10 guns and
S 6 men ; had been 16 days from Coperhagen without
making any capture. (Signed)
GEo. AcIUoM, Commander.
Copy of a Letter from Lieutenant Laces. :onstnanding the Cen.
sor gun vessel, addressed to Captain Dashwood, of tbsPyra.
mss, and transmitted by Viee.Adndral Whim's remunares so
John Wilson Croker, Esq.
His Majesty's brig Censor, Mated* Nov.lll.
81R-4 .beF lea* to acquaint you, that, on the 11th
instant, I le 1 in with and captured, after a chic. of
two );ours, the French lugger rHeureuse _
mounting four guns, and manned with IS mat i out

three days from Stralsund, having made only one
cltieute of a Prussian galliot, bolast.
(Signed) M. R. LUCAS.
Capy of a letter from lieutenant Richard Bankes, commanding
Ids Majesty's gen-vessel Forward, addressed to Vice-Admiral
Otway at Leith, and transmitted by tbaletter to Joke Wilson
Croker, Esq.
His Majesty's gun-brig Forward,at sea, Dec. 4.
SIR—I beg leave to acquaint you, that on the 29. h
lult. at 45 minutes past six p. m. I succeeded in cap-
, turing a Danish privateer cutter, called the Commo-•
dote Sullen, mounting four guns, with a complement
of 18 men, after a chace of an hour and a half ; the
• entrance of Christiansand North, distant two nfles,
from which pert he had sailed but a few hours, and
Itaken nothing. I have also captured a Danish ;loop,
laden with iron, hops, and coffee.
I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed)
IL BAKES, Lieut. commanding.
(For Bankrupts, Dividends, &c. seethe last page.]

FRENCH PAPERS.

OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FROM THE IMPERIAL
ARMIES IN SPAIN.
REPORT OP MARSHAL SUCH= TO THE PRINCE OP
NEUFCHATEL AND WAGRAH.
" Head-quarters, Murviedro, Nov.B, 1811.
•r Monseigneur—l did not delay profiting by the
advantages which the 'victory of Saguntum, and
the capture of her forts, held out to me. In the in-
tention of closing upon the city of Valencia, I order-
ed my troops to march. Hubert's division made it-
self master of the suburb called Serrano, and esta-
blished itself there. Our posts are before the ides de-
eont. I immediately threw up works in earth, and
intrenchments, to press the town more closely. I am,
about to occupy the Grao, the only Meech; of the
city on the coast. Palambino's and Jubert's division
form the second line.
44 I have the honour to report to your Highness,
that the insurgents of Catalonia having assembled in
the small town of Baliguer a battalion of 800 men,
destined to disturb the plain of Lerida, General Hen-
riod, Governor of that place, sent out against them
a detachment of 400 men, of the 14th regiment of
the line, and 33 dragoons, under the orders of the
brave Captain Lecomte. The town of Dalaguer was
surprised. On the 25th of October, at day-break,
the enemy were flying in haste by a gate which was
watched by our dragoons ; they were immediately
charged with fury, and part of them thrown into
ditches, where a number were drowned. The infantry
having come up, completed the destruction of this
band, which had refused to lay down its arms. Si:
hundred men were killed ; the rest taken or drowned.
4' I am, &c. The Marshal Count Suctscr."
Accounts from Valencia of the 18th of November
announce, that two strong redoubts have been con Ii
-
structed and mounted with artillery, on the left bank
of the Guadalaviar, against the front of the city.—
The Capuchin Convent has been embattled and placed
in a state of defence. A third redoubt is begun upon
the Promenade of Grao. The enemy still occupied
the Convent of Pin Quinto on the left of the river.—
Gen. Rognot received orders to dig a mine, in which
he completely succeeded; the Convent was attacked
by three companies which took post there, after having
suadii the garrison prisoners.
The English Consul Tupper circulates money with
profusion, and the most false and ridiculous news, to
keep up the spirits of the unhappy Valencians. Great
part of the park of besieging artillery is arrived. On
the 18th of November we reckoned sixty pieces of
cannon, and 30,000 balls. The convoys are follow-
ing them. At the head of the garrison of the city are
two regiments of monks, consisting of 3000 men.

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14.3 men take
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7-inch hooi
I en board, 8'
rabaya, cap;
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one 7-inch
found on b<
to Sourabay
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