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MONDAY, errant& ft, 1810:

Late on Wednesday night an. Admiralty &lessen.
ger arrived at Plymouth, with orders for every ship
of war at that port immediately to put to mi. The
c act of Portugal was supposed to be their desti.

n'ition. Indeed, it is new next to impossible for
t y Lord WELLINGTON to remain in Portugal. Be.
' side the suprrlor force of the enemy, pressing hard
upon cant in every direction,. he has the treachery
of his allies to encounter. He hithself has made
this confession, by arresting a great number of
persons of rank and superior influence; and Mar.
Shal BENEs WONG'S dispatch, concerning the fall of Al-
meida, i the Gazette of Saturday night, openly im-
peaches the conduct of the principal native officers
under Gen. Cox, at Almeida. Had it not been for
their treat' cry and cowardice, Gen. Cox would have
obtained better terms for the garrison. It is even
;nape 'ted, that t':e explosiou of the magazines at
that place was occasioned by design. Be that as it
may, although ( teneral Cox could not hold long
out, after t • it event, he might have obtained better
terms, if some of the principal Portuguese officers
had not informed thc enemy of his distressed condi-
tion 11 what situation, then, is my Lord I.Ver.-
erscerue, ono of his posts, one link of that
strong chain so much boasted of, being composed
of natives. Would it be surprising, if the French
had found means to gain persons of influence
among the Portuguese, in the armies of the RE.
GENCT ? But if the e'reucli have not gained them,
by pue.hase, may not those persons be wearied of a
contest that is so destructive to their country, and
to w ch my Lord Weer.rectrox's generalship has
given no very promising a face? Is this at all
improbable ? May not the ',come too be will-
ing to take any master that does not pull down
and destroy their eerrn.mills, and compel them
to leave their habitations, and wander with a
retreating army ? We arc not making any com-
parisons between the conduct of- the' English and
French Commanders to the disadvantage of the
Englisl . But here is the point—by ending the con-
test, the peasants and artisans will be at rest from
the ravages the English Commander deems himself
compelled to make for his own safety; and if they are
oppressed by their new masters, it will at least be in
Peace, for which the people of all nations now sigh.
Treachery, or the disinclination to tight any longer,
may and probably have made the Portuguese wholly
useless to the English Commander ; and, reasoning
on this very probable supposition, we can suppose
nothing else but that my Lord WELLINGTON is, af.
last, preparing to bring his army home with
as little loss as possible. We hope he is doing
so. He will merit the thanks of his troops,
and of their friends, and of the whole nation.
If he hare. tarnished his glory a little among
the mountains, he will add a brighter lustre
to h:s name, by a safe anti bloodless retreat. lie
may win fame, by bringing the niglise army off,
by a sort of coup.de.tnuin, in face of a 'Opener.
etee:.•y. And it is th best wisdom of a GENERAL.
as well as of 4 STATINIMAN, t!t k 11.4 what can be
dont., ana whit cantrot.—But it may be au, -
pot. d that all seeding of ships to Portugal
is to pr,) vide for disaster morey ; to bring off the
rem-ant of our army In cascepf defeat. Ws stiaii
not argue very strenuously agiiinst this supposition.
Ministers are infatuated enno4h for any thi•lg ;
and they way be, and perhaps are, resolved upon
one battle, at least, cost What it !nay. This is ire
the very ►nude of 41tatinfa1u ation, which is leading.
thc country down-hill to.hkr destructiote Evacuate
Portugal, but be careful not toile so tilt you have as-
mortal/act/ the valour of your troops; that may be
their language, for they do not know that this is in
contradiction to their balm of renown in the army,
gained &latest every-where, and a hundred times.
Wei; tied, to esta'Aisli the character of your army
for cahur by wane of blood, if you have bought
it already ? Infatuated men ! will you blunder on,
in ev ry corner ? Can net ;dace escape the ruthless
hands of your folly Ca o no tlegeription of per.
sons escape you ? Will you destroy the army, as you
have undone the city ?* You wined the CITY, by
mint of Learnt, when it would have been useful ; and
you now arc busy in pulli•t,; down the Ina tsuttY4
by shezeing lenity, when it ran hay.: no other effect
than to pay private gambling debts at the pultlic
expellee. When an eminent Banking-house wanted

indulgence only for .50,0001. you put an extent into
tho house•; and when your broker dies with more
than 400,0001. of the Peones money, &tided to
you, and by you to him, you will not avail
yoirself of the preference in payment properly
given to the public, by • issuing an extent.
If you had applied a less sum than 400,0001. to
the wants of the City, when the first eminent Bank-
ing-house went, you would have prevented much of
the subsequent evil. The mischief was less then,
and could have been more easily healed. But now,
when no remedy will avail, you must try experi-
ments, to be paid for out of the public purse !
But, People of England ! let us turn to yon, and
Call upon you to rise with one voice against these
men. When the fate of a Katie!' is entrusted
to MenDICANTa and ADVIZNTURZItS) With as
little capacity as principle, and whose arrogance is
beyond all precedent, every mischief is to be ap.
piehentled from the necessities of the one, and the
presumption of the other. Patient submission to
such substitutes for STATES/ISM, is a vice. Petition
the throne, then, for their removal, and do it uni.
venally, and speedily ! You see Mr. PsacevAL go
on from one blunder to another, making each worse.
lie obstinately presses the CouNTRY for loans which
it cannot raise; he ruins his loan-factors ; and
in the face of a falling market permits the Govern.
ment Broker at that market, to hold more than
four hundred thousand pounds of the public money,
knowing that Broker's property was decreasing at
the rate of thirty or forty thousand pounds
per day—and finally, when the Broker retires from
the scene, himself terrified at it, he, the Minister
(oh ! how ate words used,) comes with lenity, no
longer of service to any body, and declines' to!
recover• the public money, which the wise provision
of law had placed within his power to do ! Oct. rid_
of such men, or be for ever lost !

Ifamburgh and Altona Papers to the 27th have
arrived. Their contents serve, in a very material
degree, to strengthen the opinion of late so gni.'
versally entertained of an approaching rupture be.
tweco Russia and France. The former, in direct
opposition to the policy of the latter, continues to
afford additional facilities to trade with neutral
powers, while the latter has caused every possible
military precaution to be observed on the frontiers
of Poland.
Private accounts state, that the French have
seized the crews of molt of the veAels in the ports
of the Baltic DOW in their possession, and sent them
off' to man the squadron fitting out in the Scheldt.
In the 9091110 9f oge month they are stated to have
obtained by them means upwards of 1400 seamen.
A Paper of the tad of July has been received
from [kenos Ayres, containing the formal pro.
ceedings of the Cabildo, and other Authorities of
the cities of Salta and Tucuman, acknowledging
the superior Junta cf Buenos Ayres, and cordially
uniting with them in their proceedingrin the name
of FER9II.IIID VII. The most eziraoidinary
circuinstasee in this intelligence is, that these cities,
it appears, hail been chiefly induced to acknowledge
the Junta by a Circular Letter of the late Viceroy
CISNEROS, stating his reasons for resigning his an.
thority, and recommending such measure, as he
I thought (he provinces should adopt.

MAMMA has permitted Governor Cox,
.Major
Iltwirr, and Captain Foccy, of the 24th regi-
mea, to return to this country by the way of
France.

The Bank of Messrs. RaM-row, MoRIIALL and
Co. of Chester, was shut up on Wednesday.
The Quebec, HOOD, of 12 guns and 10 men, from
Liverpool to theßrazil3, was captured in. lat. 46.10.
long. 16, by the Bagatelle, French privateer, of 16
guns, RS pounders, and 126 men, after au action of
3 hours; since plundered and given ups-and is ar-
rived at Plymouth. .

Capt. BLACKWOOD, who so gallantly distinguished
himself off Toulon, was First Lieutenant with Capt.
T. PAILINHAM, in the Inrincible, 74, on the glo-
rious Ist of June. In that ship he distinguished
himself by his humanity in jumping off the main
chain, and resoling from a watery grave a poor
seutiaikis,who had fallen oil the main-yard into the
Water.

A brigade of heavy dragoons, with the 6th, 36th,
.37th, 4'2(1 and some other corps, are in daily
exLectation of orders fur foreign service.
is said that Sir 'mix Bon will succeed Gene-
ra RROMNIIIGGI as Quarter-Msster-General titans.
British Army; buivilter'reports -mention Sir Joan
Heirs •strYffetteW Commandcr.in.Chief of the. Army
in the Mediterranean.
A new Banking Establishment is about to be
formed in Edinburgh—it .is to be composed of six-
teen members, with a capital of three millions stet:.

The Milfpid, country ship, is arrived at Fat.
mouth, froth Bombay; sailed from thence about
the Ist June. Letters are expected to be received
from ber this day.
Tho French fituling that they cannot make any
impreaSion on Cadiz from the land, are fitting out
a flotilla to attack the town by water. Thu Bri.
tish Admiral is preparing a"other, consisting of
gis-brigs and gun-boats. When we consider the.

acknowledged skill and courage of our seamen and
marines, there can be no doubt of thesesult, when
the enemy t►resumes to attack us on our favourito
element..

The erection of a bridge over Foidyke Wash is
in contemplation, which, besides obviating the dan.
gerons conveyance over that estuary to the inhabi-
t4lllB of Boston, will shorten the distance between
that town and the Illetropolik near ten

Yestettlay morning his MAJESTY, the Dukes of
CLARENCE, CAMDSIDOE, Princesses AvourrA and
Seent.t, accompinied by Ladies ELY, SYDNEY,
Miss GOLDSWORTHY, General FITZROY, Colonel
DESIROW, and Major PRICE, want to St. George's
Chapel, and heard a sermon preached by the Rev.
Mr. Dway, from St. Matthew, chap. v. verse b.
The Princess AMELIA, according to the latest ac.
counts received yesterday from Windsor, was still
living, but was frequently in so low a state that
she could not be perceived to breathe. The Physi.
clans communicated to the KING on Friday morn-
ing that they had no hopes of her Royal Highness's
life, and no favourable change has occurred since.
The Princess slept foran hour and a half on Friday
night, and an hour on Saturday night, but did not
appear in the least benefited. In addition to her
former complaints, her Royal Highness has lately
been afflicted with St. Anthony's fire. Doctors Sir
itENRY HALFORD, BAILEY, DUNE," and POPE,
l• are in constant attendance. The Patrice, and all the
ROYAL DUKES remain at Windsor.
His Serene Ilighuess Prince WILLIAM of *Hesse
PH PSTAL died at the Castle of Plailipstal on the
Bth of August, of a dropsy in the chest.
Lord VALENTIA, Sir RICKARD FORD, ind some
others ongoing to he Greek Wands. Their excur.
sion is not solely with a view to scientific researches,
but is, we understand, to embrace sonic objects of
political nature.
On Monday last, Sir. Wm. BERKELEY Gin%
Bart. was sworn in Mayor or the City of Gloucester,.
and DAVID %VALLI:ft and EDWARD W/LAYKS,.EO9II.
Sheriffs.
The Lords of the Treasury, with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer at their head, have certified by.
public ativertisement, that certain vonits'are
every respect fit for the reception of spirits.
Barbadoes papers to the 18th August mention the
arrival there of the Savage sloop of war, with'.dis.
patches from Engtand to the new Revolutionary Gp-
vernment in the Caracas.
The 18th Light Dragoons, lately converted lobo.
a Ilussar Corps, and under orders for Portugal,
are composed entirely of Irish, and have hitherto
been stationed in Irelsnd. This regiment has long
been considered as the " crack" regiment of the
Cavalry, and owes its high state of discipline and
brilliant appearance to the care and attention of Its ,
venerable Colonel, the Marquis of DitocuLDA,
now father of the army.
Coimbra is a very ancient and considerable city.
it is, according to PUNY, the Conemlirisei of
ANTONIUS, built by the Romans 300 years before
Christ.
The Members of the Cortes, who have been col.
lecting at Cadiz from all pets of Spain, amount
now to 300, the number required by the Constitu.
non to give validity to any deliberate acts. They
are believed to be all animated with an ardent love
for their county and hatred towards the French.
One of thk.ir first acts it is conjectured will be the
removal of the present Regency.

The large Ilindoo Temple, seated on the road to
Chi[pore (East Indies), fell to the ground in Sep-
tember, 1809, and has since remained a magnificent
heap of ruins. The "spire and turrets had long
been in a delapidated state. Only three natives lost
their lives on this occasion, and two others received
contusions.

Ilocasu has not yet resigned the Mnsnud ; but
according to the last accounts from India, such en
event was daily expected. A favourite adopted son
will, it is said, be appointed his successor.
The Embassy from the Bengal Government to'
the Court of Alia, is said to I. ive met with a very
gracious and distinguished reception. The English
Officers engaged therein hat.: been treated with the
greatest deference, and in comi iiment to the British
character, the King ordered some humiliating poiuts
of etiquette peculiar to that C curt to be conceded.
On Wednesday the Union Hunt, of Billinghurst,
near Horsham, found Ili the neighbourhood a milk
white hare, which, after a chace of two hours, was
killed within fifty yards of the form where started.
The new Bethlein Hospital in St. George's-fields,
is intends..tl to be built sufficiently capacious to eon.
taiir4oo patients, which is nearly double the num-
ber accommodated in the old Hospital. The esti.
mated expence is 100,0001.
Among inferiorohjects lately discovered al Pom.
peii, is a large edifice, adorned with columns, sup-
posed to have been one of the chief public buildings

of the town. •
NEWPORT, (ISLE OF WIGHT)) OcT. 50-1 hasten
to inform you, that since my last a Coroner's
Inquest has been held at the barracks, on the body
of the unfortunate man who was killed on Sunday
evening. And the Coroner's verdict was Wilful Mut-.
der sgainst persons unknown. The deceased, it ap-
pears was nut in the least concerned in the affray, but
was quietly going jute his barracks, as the N 4140.
struck him in the neck. It dues nocippear that
the guard were called .upon. to assist in quelling
tho disturbance; but that one hundred and fifty
ball cartridges was fird, ii.beyousl a &Supt.' Since
this unfortunate bitsissess, the:lout ball cartridges'
have been takeu away front edelhiiidiiidnal, a very
ticcessaVY precantiont for it cannot be good Polk,'
• surely, for privates ,who may ill4ollette themselves
at the canteen at their pleasure, to have such things
ln their own nowts/. This quarrel had begun as long..
ago as Wedsiesdny preceding the Sunday evening Ont..,
this unfortunate event took place. The foreigners
are ;sow sent into-the Country to the outposts, where
tl'le inhabitants do not feel themselves very secure.
—For, it being under the eye of the Command.
ing Officer could nut restrain their excesses,.the re
stilt may be feared, whets at a distance of eight or
nine miles from headquarters, near cottagers who
cannot know their wants, not understanding their
language.
After the adoption of, glazing, varnishing, &c.
to increase the bardttess• of tiles, tarring has been
found completely to Stop• theirpures, and to render
them impervious the-watet. . The process is Owl.
cable, and not expensive. Lion and tar, whale
oil, or dregs of oil, are equally, -adapted to the
purpose, and still cheaper. Tarring is. particularly
efficacious when tiles are cracked by, the frost. It-
is calculated, that the ezpence of coal tar fur a roof
of a mitld,iug extent, and. supposing such a roof to
require one huoilruVweight, would not exceed two
guineas.