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fined, to Spacious and commodious apartments ih the
Hospital, and these placed under the care of Dr.
DODD. The number of patients, we understand, is
nine Officers (two of whom are Surgeons), and 116
men. The latter have Arrived in the ship Grace,
from Deptford—the former arrived on Sunday se'n-
night by land. The Grace is to take convicts from
the hulks at Portsmouth to New South Wales.

The SOPHIE aad LEVEN frigates, at Chatham, are
ordered to be prepared for immediate service.
The Guess CHARLOTTE, 108 guns, Admiral Sir
GEORGE CAMPBELL, K. C. B. Captain BRIGGS, was
pail off at Portsmouth on Monday, and re-commis-.
sioned. About one-third of her men have since re-
entered. The followiqg Officers are appointed to her:
Lieutenants George Charles Blake, John L. Beckford, W. R.
Cooley, Henry M. 'Williams, George Allen, Richard Morgan,
John F. Appleby, John W. Young ; Lewis John, Master
John P. O'llzrne, Surgeon ; James Henderson, Purser ; Rev.
John Brigato,:ite, Chaplain. Marines—Lieutenants Pearson and
Blennerhasset.

—The GRECIAN has also been paid off, and re-com-
missioned by Lieutenant N. MARTIN. The Pawn-
THEM, Captain !.looasom, will be paid off this day,
and laid up in ordinary. The ROCHEFORT, 80 guns,
was takes into Dock on Thursday to be repaired, paid
off, and re-commisslonei by Captain A. GREEN, for
the flag of Sir Thomas FREEMANTLE, in the Medi-
terranean. TheVicw.zuft, Captain ALEXANDER, came
into harbour on Tuesday, and is preparing to be paid
off, and re-cornmibsioned for the fl* of Admiral
°TWAY, at Leikii.

The American frigate Java, Captain ISPDONALD,
arrived in Cowes Roads on Friday night, to water, in
2S days from Boston. The Ism was four days in
company with her, but no communication took place
between them. The ISTER telegraphed the SPARTAN.
Captain WISE, C. B. on her return from conveying
the Duke of GLOLYCESTER to BOUrdeaßE. She went
into Plymouth on Friday.

The following are the names of the Commissioners
appointed by a Commission which has passed the
Great Seal for inquiring into Charities for the Edu-
ca;ion of the Poor:
Right Hen. Charles Manners Sutton, Bishop of St. Asaph,
Bishop of Peterborough, Right lion. Sir Wm. Scott, Right
Ilon. Charles Yorke, Right lion. Sir W. Grant, John Willing
Warren, EN. Henry Hugh Ilolbeek, Esq. Wm. Grant, Esq.
Wm. Roberts, EN. Wilkinson Mathews PAT Robert Maralsam,
Esq. James -.A‘3l4lton, Esq. Hon. Daniel }inch.
It is a very singular coincidence, that in 1718, at
the distance precisely of 100 years from the present,
the weather was extremely hot and dry all over Eu-
rope. The air felt so oppressive,that all the theatres
were shut in Paris. The grass and corn were quite
I parched. In some places the fruit-trees blossomed
two or three times. The following year was equally
warm.

An article in the Madrid Official Gazette states,
that the obligations relative to the subject of claims
bet•sveen the Governments of France and Spain being
declared reciprocal by an additional article in the
Treaty of the 20th July, 1814, it teas been agreed
" that one moiety of the total sum due by France
shall remain in deposit, in the hands of an equal num-
ber of Commissioners of each nation, until the Spa-
nish Gos ernment shall have provided funds to liqui-
date the French claims* The Spanish claimants will
receive interest for the sum deposited.
The ravages made by that dreadful scourge, the
plague, i a the different towns and cities on the northern
coast of Africa, have diffused considerable anxiety,
lest it should also find its way into those kingdoms
and islands of Europe more immediately exposed, by
their vicinity and direct intercourse, to so terrible a
visitation. Spain appears hitherto to have resisted
its approaches successfully ; and that Government,
sufficiently imbecile in the general details of its inter-
nal administration, has shewn no deficiency on this
occasion is tlat energy which was requisite to its
self-preserv.r.ion. All the laws and regulations of
performing quarantine have been adopted, and suc-
cessfully persevered in. It was rumoured in the City
on Saturday, on the authority of letters from Naples,
via Sicily, bearing date the 4th of August, that the ,
plague had again made its appearance at Malta. We
have made enquiries, with a view to ascertain the
truth of this report, and find there are letters in town
direct from that Island, dated July 13, which make
no mention of the circumstance; and, since that is
much later than advices could reach Naples by the
route above-mentioned, it is hoped that the report is
entitled to .no credit whatever.

The King of PutiostA has presented the venerable
President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, with a
beautiful Vase, in grateful testimony a the homage
and urbanity which that Society paid his Majesty
while resident within their walls, during the Imperial
Visit of 1814.. The Vase was manufactured at Ber-

lin. It is formed of the most exquisite porcelain,
tastefully decorated with ornaments of gold, and em-
blems ,lelicately significant of his Majesty's residence
in the Untversity. One side of it is enriched with a
miniature portrait of the illustrious donor, and on
the other there is a I.epresentatien -of the city of Ber-
-1 lin—both of them finished in the most elegant and
elaborate style of the art. The Vase was accomya-
flied by a letter from Prince HARDENIMICI, Prime
Miniszer to the Prussian King, couched in the hand-
somest terms of compliment, and conveying senti-
ments of great 7(.:ipect towards the Presideat.
We observed, it was noticed, a few days sine!, as
a remarkable occurrence, a Gentleman in Hampshire
obtaining a Prize of 1000 Sovereigns and Four Pipes
of Wine in this Lottery, who had had a £50,000
Prize a few Lotteries back, both of which he bought
of BICH ; but, on enquiry, we learn there is nothing
remarkable in this, as Rim informs us, he has many
instances on his Lottery Records where the same
persons have had of him Prizes of £50,000, £40,006,
.kc. and perhaps To-morrow may add to his list, as
we find the Lottery will then finish, and the Two
f.:90,000, and Fifteen other Capitals, must be then all
Drawn.

IT IS CERTAIN, that BOTH the Grand Prizes of
£30,000, and the fifteen other Capitals, (besides the
Four Pipes of Wine) must all be decided To-morrow
and as it is very uncertain that such an opportunity
may again occur, those who have not already done
so, out certainly to secure a chance for them To-
d,:y, at either of WEBB'S Offices, 9, Cornhill, and 17,
Ludgate-street, where Three £30,000 Prizes were
sold in S'?ares in the short space of thirteen months.
As the Drawing begins at Nine in the Morning,
Wcan's Offices will be kept open until twelve o'clock
To-night.