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London, England, 1811-02-09 00:00:00

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Lisbon* with dispatches, from Lord "lOWx.
which reached Town this morning.
The letters brought by Are FEVENT confirm the'
news of the death of Marquis ROMANA. He died
suddenly, while dressing himself to wait on Lord
WELLINGTON. The body went through the usual
ceremony at Belem Church ; but it remained at the
Library at the Convent, to be forwarded to Minorca.
They also mention, that Juxor, while reconnoitring,
had been wounded by one of our riflemen. The ball
entered one cheek and went through the other.—At
the time the FERVENT sailed, the report was that
enemy were retreating.
The following letter, from an officer of rank in Lord
WELLINGTON'S army, has been shown to us through
the favour of a Friend :
46 I have little news to tell you about the armies.
MASSENA does not yet feel himself strong enough to
attack us. It is understood that a reinforcement of
23,000 have already crossed the Pyrenees, which will
dwindle down to 15 or 16,000 before they join the
army ; and that Monaca has marched to co-operate
With MASSENA; MORTIER'S Corps doss not exceed 8
or 10,000. Its object, it is supposed, will be to lay
siege to Badajoz, and —, to make the frontier
clear for VICTOR and Souvr, when they advance from
the South of Spain, to invade Alentejo, for it now
appears to be the favourite opinion that, to insure suc-
cess, the French must get possession of the left bank
of the Tagus, for the purpose of driving our shipping
out of the river. The ground opposite Lisbon, on
the Alentejo side, is strong, but I fancy we could not,
with our present numbers, spare men to defend it
against a considerable army. BONAPARTE, if he comes,
will be accompanied by an overpowering force, to'l
enable him to attack us oa both sides the river at thel
same time. Had we only this side to think of we'l
might bid defiance to him.
I "In all our calculations of probable events, there
I is nothing has so puzzled the wise, as the length of
time MASSENA has provisioned his army before our
lines and on its present ground, without drawing any
supplies from Spain. It would have been otherwise,
had Lord WELLINGTON been able to have kept the
enemy a week longer on the other side the Mondego
after the affair at Busaco, and given the country on
this side time to collect , and transport the
grain. GOD knows how it will all end.
44 In the mean time the country is labouring under
all the horrors of war, and its natural consequence,
famine. Many of our Generals have gone home on
jaccount of sickness and politics. General HILL, it
is feared, will have to follow them for his health—his
labsence will be a great loss to the Army, though he
Iwill have an able successor, on tile left bank of the
Tagus, in Marshal Bens:Brom Generals Hoesrourr
said NIGHTINGALE have an ;ved ; the latter, it is said,
Will, In CRAWFORD'S absence, command the out-pbst
near Santarem, under the superintendence of SPEN-•
cam."
" LISBON, JANUARY 26.
" The Marquis de la RostaxA died two days ago,
at headquarters. The French have taken Olivenza. ,
JUNOT has been wounded reconnoitring on the Rio'
Mayor, some say mortally. Six thousand Spaniards
have marched towards Elves to reinforcethegarrison."
Letters from Oporto state, that as soon as Colonels
MILLER and WlLsosr heard of the French being et
Lamago, they marched against them, on which the
enemy precipitately retired ; and SrLvetna immedi-
ately recrossed the Douro, to join the above Officers.
Other accounts say, that SILVEIRA had another action
with DEDUCT on the 11th ult. and had effected his
retreat with little loss. Major COoKseY, who com-
manded a Portuguese battalion, is stated to have been
killed in this action.

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;Wm' OlerNz 'skillet Rialto*
Yesterday, being the day appdnted ter pricking the
Sheriffs for the year, a general sumitions. was issued
for the Royal Dukes, Ministers, and' Officers of Slat,
to attend in Council at Carlton House for that palL
pose. About half past twelve o'clock a party of the
„Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, With their full
band and colours, marched into the Court-yard, while
a party of Life Guards took their station in Pall Melt.
A little before one o'clock the Privy Councillors be-
gan to assemble : the Royal Dukes were shewn into
a private apartment, and the Ministers and other Privy
Cquncillors into a room on the right of the Grand
'Mall.
• Soon after one o'clock Earl Commit, the Lord
President of the Council, obtained an audience of his
Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT, to acquaint him
with the business that was about to be laid before him.
After which his Royal Highness left his private apart-
ments accompanied by his attendants, together with
Lord HEATHCICLD, as Gold Stick, &c. and pro-
ceeded to the Grand Saloon, where he was joined by
the Royal Dukes. It was then announced to the other
Privy Councillors that his Royal Highness was ready
to hold Council, and they proceeded to attend his
Royal Highness. There were present,
Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of York, Clarence, Kent,
Cumberland, Sussex, Cambridge, and Gloucester, the Archbishop
of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York, the Lord Chan:ellor,
the Lord President of the Connell, the Lord Privy Seal, the
three Secretaries of State, the First Lord of the Treasury ;Ltd
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty,
the Master-General of the Ordnance, the President of the Yeard
of Controul, the President of the Beard of "Trade, the Cowman-
der in Chief, the Judge Advocate, the Duke of Montrose, Mas-
ter of the Horse to the King, Earl Macclesfield, Captain of the
Yeomen of the Guard, Earl Wischelma, Groom of the Stole.
The principal business that occupied the attention
of the Council was the pricking fir the Sheriffi, and
signing two proclamations, which will appear in the
Gazette of this evening, for the observance of a public
Fast in England and Ireland, on the 20th of March,
and in Scotland on the 21st of the same month.
After the Council his Royal Highness gave ats-
dience to.
1 lie Marquis Wellesley, Earls Camden.and Liverpool, Ls eta
Mulgrave and Elden, Messrs. Perceval, Ryder, and Yorke. ,
Sir DAVID Dlnums laid before his ROYAL HMI-
NESS the state of the army up to the end of last month.
The list of promotions the Commander in Chief sub-
mitted to his ROYAL HIGHNESS, for his approbation,
on Thursday evening.
Mt. MANNERS Surrey had an audience as Judge-
Advocate, and laid before him-the proceedings of
several Courts-Martial, for his Royal approbation.
About siz o'clock the Court broke up.

The Doke of NORFOLK, after an interview with the
Prince of \VatEs yesterday, left town for his seat
at Arundel Castle, Sussex.
Mr. SHERIDAN waited on the PRINCE REGENT yes-
terday morning, and had a long audience of his Royal
Highness.
Sir STEPHEN COTTERELL did nct attend the Privy
Council at Carlton House on Wednesday, he having
resigned the office of Clerk of the Council. Viscount
CH ETWYND and Mr. FAWKENER attended as Clerks of
the Council upon that occasion.
We are concerned to say that Mr. EGERTON, M.P.
for Chester, is confined to his house in Grafton-street,
by severe indisposition.
1 The pleadings upon the subject of the Privileges of
" the House ofCommons were commenced yesterday in
the Court of King's Bench. Mr. Houtol D spoke at
considerable length, and his speech contained a mass
of recondite legal learning, of which the substance is
given in our Law Report. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL
is to reply on a future day.
Major PAGE, of Massachusetts, charged with dis-
patches from Mr. Russzu, Charge d'Affaires of the
United States in France, to Mr. Pitostix,y, Minister
at the Court of Great Britain, arrived in town yes-
terday from Paris, which he left on the 9.Bth ult.
1 by' way of Morlaix, in a cartel to Dartmouth, in
eighteen hours. By this conveyance, we understand,
advices have been received, that three vessels from
America direct, which arrived at Bourdeaux since
the first of November had been admitted to an entry ;
and that it was understood that all the American ves-
sels in French ports under similar cirr,

EXTRACT FROM A LETTER, DATED OPORTO, JAR. 18.
4' We are here in hourly expectation of important
news, as an action is expected to take place between
the militias of the country and a division of the ene-
my, consisting of between 5 and 6000 infantry and
500 cavalry, who have indicated an intention of pe-
netrating into the wine country. The last accounts
the enemy at : Colonels Wilson and

would be admitted ; but it was essential that their
papers should be sent to Paris, to be laid before the
Emperor, which occasioned delay.
It was also said that the French Government
would not grant any more licences to American yes-
sels to import produce into France, deeming it unne-
cessary, since the revocation of the Berlin and Milan
Decrees.
Thursday a Court of Directors was held at the

place _
.. Lamago :
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Miller had marched from Vixen to attack them, and East India House, when Captain C. KYSIER was,
were at Castro Douro, about two leagues from La- sworn into the command of the ship Lord Castle-'
mug i ; and Silveira, who had an affair with them reagh, consigned to Bengal direct.
about a week or ten days since, and had, in conse- Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East
quence of their advance, crossed the Douro, and . India House. when Captain W. CROWDER was sworn
taken up a position for defending the banks of that,t into the command of the Lowther Castle, destined to
rive*, was on the point of recrossing to co-operate:, china.
with the other two divisions. If the enemy wait the Letters from Hamburgh to a late date, mention
attack, they will be taken in front and rear." 1 that the French had placed Seals upon the Senate
By the last letters from Lisbon we are .extrern4 , Chamber and.the depots of wines belonging to the
sorry to learn the death of the Marquis de la ROMANA. 4 city, but that they had given the strongest assurances
It was expected he would be succeeded in his com- ! that the Bank should be held sacred.
mand by General BALLASTEROS. It would appear 1 The Transport Beard have given orders that no
that besides the reinforcement of $OOO men, an- !, more theatrical exhibitions be allowed at Porchester
nounced by the dispatches of the 12th nit, to have Castle. - _ ._.
joined the enemy, another reinforcement of 6000 I On the 29th ult. being the anniversary of the birth
has since joined. It is also stated that a letter froth lof the celebrated RONieRT BURNS, a numerous and
one French General to another, has been intercept-; respectable perry, friends of the Bard, dined toge-,
ed, which says, that “MASSENA is on the eve of an they at Kilmarnock, Greenock, and other parts of
important operation,"— but what it is, we have
Scotland.
not heard explained.—Our army is represented as . Joint Towson...This Poet was a native of ' G10u-
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being very anxious to receive the reinforcements from cestershire,-a wean of great natural parts, but little
this country which have been so long detained by education. site wrote several poems which were de-
contrary winds. For some *Taman not stated, four-I dicated to Kitig *TAMES and King Cimiu.es the First.
line-of battle ships and some cruisers, have left the For some timely kept a imblicliouse at Long-acre ;
Tagus, to cruise of Cape St. Vincent. j and upon the murder of King CHARLIX, set up the
It was the KENT, CAMIRSAN, and soaseotherships sign of a Maffei::: Crown; but this open piece of
which landed the .500 men, mentioned as being un- , loyalty, in,those days, obliged him to pull it down •
successful in a late attempt on Pahang*. They were ; upon which he set up his own head instead, with the
landed with the view of destroying eight large IneP. I following lines under it r—
chantmen protected by a corvette and two zebeet,l Kiag'it heatlO are hang op fee a oleo, -
for the relief of Barcelona. All thesewere destroyed Acta itany s saint's ; data why sot mine ?
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but two, which were brought out. But our brave An heron being observed several mornings about
fellows, instead of re-embarking, straggled into the ! the Mote in Leeds Park, and chiding the vigilance'
town, where 30 were killed, 80 cqr go_wouoded, and! of the keeper with his gun, he was deterniint4 to set
as many made prisoners. Captain Faint was taken 1, up a trap under the surface of the water. 'the next
prisoner. The Mositterestated tekilkiind wOunded . mornilif the trap was found sprung, consai4m. skti
at Q Pr 700. 1 leg and thi4h e.f au heron.
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