Mercury of the 24th of December, from which we have extracted the following account. The officers who took charge of the Lord Cranstoun were instructed to repair to Martinique, or, if that should become dangerous, to Guadaloupe, or even to St Domingo, where she was to be put under the care of the provisional government. However, in spite of all precautions, the Lord Cranstoun parted in a squall, on the 17th December, and on the 20th was re-captured, off Trinity, by the Pompee and the Fawn, and taken into Barbadoes.

The Amphitrite was more fortunate, and arrived safely at Port Royal. "She fell in," says the Barbadoes Mercury," with the Ethalion frigate, the Star sloop of war, and Express brig. About mid-watch she passed, unsuspected and uninterrupted, close within hail of the Ethalion, and soon after, with equal impunity, within pistol-shot of the Star, which as little suspected such temerity from an enemy, both of them taking her for one of our squadron. At day-light, how ever, (the enemy having kept under easy sail, the cheat was discovered, and every effort used to retrieve the casualty by which she escaped them in the night: all was unavailing, and the enemy safely reached his desired port. The Amphitrite mounts 44 guns, and had on board 200 troops and 2200 barrels of provisions, (viz. 1400 of flour, and 800 of beef,) for the succour and reinforcement of the garrison of Martinique."

A letter from Barbadoes, dated the 24th of December, after stating the above affair in the same manner, proceeds :-"Two brigs and two schooners, which also arrived from France, bound to Martinique, have also escaped our cruizers, though there are

upwards of a dozen round that island since it was put into a state of blockade. As General Villaret is s much reinforced, I fear it will cost u many a weary day's work, and man valuable lives, to get possession Fort Bourbon."

Intelligence from Lisbon, this da received, states, that the inhabitan have resolved to resist the enemy the utmost of their power; and th the more wealthy have manifested determination to expatriate themselv and join their legal sovereign in t New World, rather than yield to t oppressor. An immense quantity shipping was lying in the Tagus, f beyond what the British subjects, al those who are anxious to secure the property, could use. A Portugue 74 gun ship had been fitted out, ar on board this vessel were to be tran ported the government archives, ar the most valuable moveable treasure The members of the regency purp sed, whenever the enemy could be 1 longer effectually opposed, to proce in the first instance to Cadiz or S ville, in order, if not too late, to co cert measures with the Supreme Junt of Spain. A meeting, too, of th merchants had been held, in order t take into consideration the means transporting from the country th greatest quantity of the most valuab commodities. Shipments were in co sequence daily made for England Gibraltar, &c.

8th. This being the nationa fast-day in England and Ireland, wa duly observed. To-morrow (the 9th is appointed to be observed as a fas day in Scotland, when the masgi trates and inhabitants of Glasgow a to attend the churches of that city mourning, as a testimony of respe for their late gallant and lamente

ownsman, General Sir John Moore. The sum of 15001. has already been ubscribed in Glasgow, for the purpose of giving a more lasting proof of the attachment of its inhabitants, by erecting a monument in honour of

him.

Intelligence has been received that The Amiable, Captain Hon. G. Stewirt, has taken and sent into Yarmouth roads the French corvette Joste, of 22.guns and 200 men, with a cargo of about 800 barrels of flour. This ressel had also on board a chest of lollars, for paying the troops at Marinique. This the French crew broke open on being captured, and partly emptied of its contents. She sailed rom Dunkirk on the 3d, in company with a brig, which went north-about. The Joste was captured the day fol. owing her departure.

LIVERPOOL.-On the 5th and 6th nst., six American vessels, laden with cotton, arrived at this port, in violaion of the American embargo act. Several others have lately arrived unler similar circumstances. Most of hese vessels are part of 22 sail which an out of New York harbour, on he nights of the 15th and 16th ult.

The embargo act, which passed on The 7th of January, contains a clause which enacts that all vessels which were then loaded should immediately e-land their cargoes, or give substanial bonds, to six times their value, hat they would not proceed to a foeign port. All these vessels were den long since with cotton and rice, xpecting the embargo to be remoed; but hearing that an order was ceived at the custom-house at New ork to unload their cargoes, they 1 slipped out on the above nights; ut fifteen of them were pursued, d brought to by the gun-boats. No

vessel will now be permitted to take in a cargo for a foreign port, or load with any articles fit to be used in foreign manufactures; and any attempts to evade these laws are to be severely punished, and informers to be rewarded with half the cargoes.

One of the above vessels has brought New-York papers to the 11th ult. From the Mercantile Chronicle" of that date we make the following extracts :

The bill for enforcing the embargo, which originated in the Senate, underwent much discussion and several amendments, upon which the Yeas and Nays were called ten different times. The bill was eventually agreed to, by a majority of more than two to one: Yeas 71, Nays 32.

On Saturday the 7th inst. the Senate concurred in passing the above bill, with the amendments which had been made by the House of Representatives; and on Monday the government would take measures for carrying it into immediate effect.

The returns of the electoral votes for the president and vice-president were completed, and stand as follows:-For the president,

more tobacco can be got off; and it was also apprehended that the small vessels hovering about the coasts would not be able to get any naval stores of consequence.

MYSTERIOUS ROBBERY.-This evening, (8th.) between the hours of 7 and 9, an infant, about 19 months old, the child of a gentleman in the neighbourhood of Red-Lion square, was stolen from a cot in a room on the first floor, with only about four yards of flannel on it, and two dresses which were under it. The child was put into the cot about seven o'clock, in the nursery. The nursery-maid and some other servants were in an adjoining room. At nine o'clock, when the nursery-maid went into the nursery, the child was gone; and although she was in the adjoining room, she did not hear any person go in, or any noise. No person heard the street-door open or shut; and the whole circumstance remains a mystery. The mother of the infant is dead, and no cause can be assigned for any of the family conveying the infant away. The father left town on Monday, for the north of England. There were two other children, the one about ten, and the other eight years of age, asleep in the same room, and neither of them was disturbed.

9th. The painful intelligence is received, that the expedition under General Sherbrooke, which lately sailed for Spain, has been dispersed by the late tempestuous weather. Of the dispersed ships, the Henry and the Sarah put into Cork, and the Duchess of Richmond into Waterford. The Lord Hood, with the staff, is arrived at Portsmouth. The remainder, consisting of 24 sail, with the convoying frigates, the Iris and Niobe,

were, according to the latest accoun off Cork, with a south-west wind. The captain of the convoy, it understood, perseveres in making Cadiz, without coming into port.

On the 1st inst., the commod was off Cape Finisterre, with o fifteen sail in company.

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10th. Intelligence has been ceived from General Doyle, da Tortosa, the 16th of January. was then on the way to Valencia, 1 on public business. We understa that the sufferings which have b so generally sustained by our in the north-west of Spain, have a fallen to the lot of the general, in 1 east. He had been six days a nights successively on horseback, w little intermission, and that duri the heaviest rains. The general presents the ardour of the Spaniar in the south to be unabated."

We record with peculiar pleast the following additional instance valour and humanity, which mark the conduct of a British serjeant, t wards the close of the late Spani campaign.

In the retreat, between Lugo ar Betanzos, a party of invalids, chief men exhausted by fatigue, was clos ly pressed by a body of French c valry. Serjeant Newman, of the 2 battalion 43d, who was himself muc exhausted, made an effort to pre forward, till he had passed three d four hundred of these poor fellows he then, with the greatest presenc of mind, halted, as they came up t him, all those who were able to mak any resistance, and directed the res to proceed on as they could. H formed his party regularly into sub divisions, and commenced firing and retiring in a slow and orderly manner till he effectually covered the retrea

FRENCH EAGLES.-A circumstance occurred some days ago at Chichester, which should be known. Two of the French imperial eagles, which were taken in the battle of Coruna, were sold at Barker's, the silversmith's, in that town: they are of silver, and weigh about 15 ounces. The man, who said he bayonetted the Frenchman, was a Highlander of the 92d, or Gordon's; and we cannot count for his selling such a noble trophy of the superiority of British rage and discipline, unless from absolute necessity. Some of our reeats have before taken the pole that supported the standard, but never the thing itself, and Buonaparte as particularly exulted that they neer were taken.

Dr Stewart of Grenada lately ent to Mr Charles Clark, writer in Cupar Angus, 301., to be distributed ong the poor of that parish. This eerous and well-timed supply is not the first instance of that gentleman's bounty to the destitute inhabitants of his native village.

11th.-His Majesty has been graiously pleased to grant a pension of 1401 per annum to Mrs Balderston, mother of the late Captain Balderton, who was inhumanly murdered by the master's mate of the Parthian. A vessel which left Spain on the 5th ult. has arrived. By it we that the town of St Andero, and all the neighbouring towns on hat part of the coast, were occupied

and expectations that the patriotic cause would ultimately triumph. This expectation appeared to have been cherished in consequence of the receipt of letters of the 20th and 21st from Zaragoza, at which time that fortress was in full possession of the Spaniards under Palafox, who, down to that period, had proudly defied the repeated attacks of the French. We trust that a full and minute detail of the heroism and self-devotion which have strikingly marked the conduct of the male and female citizens of every rank, during the present, as well as the former siege, will be recorded, for an example to the present age, and the admiration of posterity; that it will be the manual, not only of every Spaniard, but of every Englishman,

« Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.” Buonaparte, the oppressor of Spain and of mankind, is stated to have returned to France, leaving it to his blood-stained army in Spain to proceed in the base attempt to subjugate a country whose only crime against him is self-defence. Go where he may, he carries the curse of patriotblood upon his soul!

The official documents, such as licences, protests, &c., issued in the sea-port towns on the coast of Spain in the possession of the French, are executed in the name of Joseph the First, King of Spain and the Indies.

London Gazette, Feb. 11. 1809. Copy of a letter addressed by Lord George Stuart, Captain of his Majesty's ship L'Amiable, to the Se

nior Officer of his Majesty's ships and vessels off the Texel, dated the 7th inst., and transmitted to the Hon. W. W. Pole by RearAdmiral Sir Edmund Nagle.

SIR, I beg leave to acquaint you, on the 2d inst., while standing to the southward to regain my station, his Majesty's ship under my command being driven by the late tempestuous weather from off the Texel on the Wellbank, I perceived, at eleven A. M., a strange sail on the weather quarter, standing to the northward and eastward. Concluding from that she was an enemy, I immediately wore round, and made all sail, and, after a chace of 28 hours, at four P. M. on the 3d inst., (Aberdeen bearing north 75° W., distance 36 leagues) came along-side of her, and having exchanged broad-sides, continued a running fight, and in a few minutes she struck. She proved to be L'Iris, French national 24 gun ship, commanded by Monsieur Miquet, capitaine de frigate, but capable of carrying 32 guns; had only 24 when taken; twenty-two 24-pounder carronades, and two long twelves, and a complement of 140 men. She is only ten months old, copper-fastened, and, I think, in every respect qualified for his Majesty's service. She sailed from Dunkirk on the 29th ultimo, bound to Martinique, with 640 casks of flour on board, besides being victualled and stored with every species for four months. I am happy to say, only two men were slightly wounded the enemy lost two killed and eight wounded. I am concerned to add, we suffered materially in our masts and rigging: the main-mast shot in the head, main-yard shot away in the slings, the mizzen-masthead and mizzen-top-mast shot away;

also the trysail-mast and the riggin and sails greatly cut up.

I am, &c. G. STEWAR List of wounded.-A. Nelson, se man.-J. Magra, marine.

12th. Mr Hunter the messe ger has arrived at Mr Secretary Ca ning's office, with dispatches fro Mr Frere, his Majesty's ambassad to the Supreme Junta at Sevil When he left Cadiz, the Spaniar were making every possible prepa tion to increase and strengthen t fortifications of that city: a great på of the arsenal of Seville was rem ving thither. The Spaniards in th direction continued firm in their c termination to resist, by every mea in their power, the progress of t enemy; and their efforts for th purpose were every day increasin Preparations were making at Sevil for the reception of the 40th Briti regiment, which was on its mar thither from Portugal. It appea that all the cannon in the lines of Roque had been removed into Gi raltar, for the purpose of being se to Tortosa, in Catalonia. Zarago: was closely blockaded by the Frenc but continued vigorously to hold out and the gallant Palafox had prove successful in several sorties latel made by him from that renowned for tress. The patriots had also bee successful in several actions in Cata lonia; had advanced to the town Figueras, and destroyed the Frenc magazine at that place.

At Seville the peasants continue daily to flock in great numbers t the patriotic standard. They imme diately swore allegiance, and as fast as they received their arms and cloth ing, were marched off to join the army. Lord Holland had arrived at Seville. M. Cevallos was expect. ed to sail from Cadiz for England on