On the 29th June a detachment of seamen and marines from the Amphion, 32, Cerberus, 32, and Active, 38, under the command of Lieut. Slaughter of the Amphion, landed near the town of Grao, in the gulph of Trieste, and having in the most gallant manner attacked, defeated, and made prisoners, two different parties of French regular troops, got possession of the town and shipping. The result of this brilliant exploit was the destruction of 26 and the capture of five vessels, loaded with naval stores and other articles. Of the enemy's soldiers, 10 were killed, 8 wounded, and 60, including two officers, made prisoners; the British had 4 killed and 8 wounded.

On the 23d August, his majesty's ships Sirius, Nereide, Magicienne, and Iphigenia, stood into the harbour Sudest, in the isle of France, with a view to attack an enemy's squadron of two frigates, a corvette, and an armed Indiaman, lying at anchor there. In pushing for their stations alongside the enemy, the Sirius, Magicienne, and Nereide, unhappily grounded, and it was found impossible to get them off, though the utmost skill and gallantry, in endeavouring to save the ships under circumstances of peculiar disadvantage, were displayed. After two days unremitted but unavailing exertion, under the fire of the heavy batteries, Capt. Pym abandoned all hope of being able to get off the Sirius and Magicienne, and they were in consequence burnt by their crews. The situation in which the Nereide grounded, enabled the enemy to turn the whole fire of their ships on her; but, even in this unequal contest, Capt. Willoughby continued to fight her to the last extremity, till every officer and man on board was either killed or wounded. All the enemy's ships were driven on shore, but one of the frigates was afterwards got off, and, being joined by three others from Port Louis, they blockaded the Iphigenia at her anchorage under Isle de Fasse, on which island (it having been previously garrisoned by us) the crews of the Sirius and Magicienne were landed.

The two French frigates which were driven on shore near La Hogue, (p. 550,) contrary to expectation, were on 3d Dec. got off; and one of them, during the gales of wind last week which blew our ships from off the coast, has again reached Havre; the other, the Eliza, has since been destroyed by the British.

We have to state the loss of two fine frigates, the Fallas 32 and the Nymphe 36 guns, at the mouth of the Frith of Forth, near Dunbar, on the night of the 18th December. It appears, that, although they had a pilot on board, they mistook a limekiln burning at Broxmouth for the May light, and the May for the Bell rock. The consequence was, that, while sailing at the rate of ten knots an hour, they both ran aground on the rocks, and exhibited a total wreck, the coast being all strewed with beams, planks, casks, &c. Fortunately only seven or eight men lost their lives.

NAVAL REGISTER.

Enemies' Ships taken or destroyed by the British.

A convoy of six gunboats, three armed vessels, and twenty-eight transports, laden with stores and provisions for Murat's army at Sicily, taken, also three gunboate and three transports destroyed, by the Thames 32, Weazle 10, and Pilot 18 guns, at Amanthea. The British had 1 man killed, and 6 wounded. July 25.

Some armed feluccas destroyed by the Halcyon and Bastard SW. off Cape del Arme, July 24.

Two large Danish gunboats destroyed by the boats of the Resolution, off Lange, land, 31st October.

Admiral Niel Suul Dan. priv. 10 guns, 28 men, by Raleigh SW. Capt. Sayer, off Lessoe, 2d November.

Diana Fr. priv. 4 guns, 22 men, by Cracker GB. Lieut. Jauncey, Nov. 20.

Le Milan Fr. priv. 14 guns, 80 men, by Endymion, Capt. Sir W. Bolton, 12th November.

General D'Orsenne Fr. priv. by Lightning, Capt. Doyle, North Sea, Nov. 21.

Two prows, 3 guns, 60 men, taken, and one, 3 guns, 72 men, destroyed, by Sylvia cutter, Lieut. Drury. The British had 1 killed, and 7 wounded. Batavia station, 6th to 14th April.

Echo Dutch brig, 8 guns and 46 men, also two transports, 2 guns and 60 men each, with valuable cargoes, by Sylvia, Lieut. Drury, April 27. Enemy had 3 killed, and 7 wounded; British 4 killed, and 3 wounded.

One ship, six brigs, four sloops, fiftythree vessels of various descriptions, by Dover and other vessels, under orders of Capt. Tucker, Indian seas, March 25.. and April 29,

La

La Glaneuse, 14 guns and 85 men, by Northumberland, Captain Hotham, and Armada, North Sea, Nov. 22.

Bornholm Dan. priv. 4 guns, 30 men, by Ranger SW. Capt. Acklom, off Bornholm, Nov. 10.

Danneskiold Danish privateer, 2 guns 12 men, and large armed boat, by Wrangler GB. Lieutenant Pettet, off Anholt, Nov. 14.

Roi de Naples Fr. lug. priv. 14 guns, 48 men, by Royalist SW. Capt. Downie, off St Vallery, Dec. 5.

Le Renard French privateer, 6 guns, 24 men, by Quebec, Captain Hawtayne, Dec. 2.

La Caroline Fr. priv. 1 gun, 42 men, by Saracen SW. Capt. Bloett, off Cuba, Oct. 12.

Le Mamelouck Fr. lug. priv. 16 guns, 45 men, by Rosario SW. Capt. Harvey, after an action in which the enemy had 7, the British 5 wounded, off Dungeness, Dec. 10.

Melampe Dan. priv. 3 guns, 17 men, taken and destroyed by Ranger SW. Capt. Acklom.

L'Aventurier Fr. lug. priv. 14 guns, 50 men, by Royalist SW. Capt. Downie, off Fecamp, Dec. 18.

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British Ships taken or destroyed by

Enemies.

Harmony of Yarmouth, from Liverpool, and carried into Calais. Puzzle, Holmberg, by two French privateers, and carried into Oran.

Rasper, from Liverpool to the Baltic, by Rodeur Fr. priv. Nov. 2.

Fortitude, Smith, Liverpool to Portsmouth, by Maria Louisa Fr. priv. Oct. 18. Salacea, Adamson, Cowes to Sunderland, by Alexander privateer, Nov. 16.

Isabella, Clark, Portsmouth to Leith, by Victoire priv. 17th Nov. and carried into Calais.

Polly, Waters, Newfoundland to Alicant, by six row-boats, after an action of an hour, in which the mate and two men were killed, off Malaga.

Shield, Quebec to London, by Fr. priv. off Dover, 7th December.

Good Friends, by King of Naples Fr. priv. and carried into Boulogne.

Ceylon, Mereton, and Windham, Stewart, London to Madras, by two French frigates, Mosambique channel.

Cambrian, Low, of London, by the Spaniards at Monte Video.

John Bent, Forbes, Cape Francois to London, by La Bagatelle Fr. pr. Oct. 17.

ENGLAND.

The report of the lords' committee ap pointed to examine the physicians on the state of his majesty's health, has been published. It appears that the king's illness began in a gentle form on the 3d October; that it continued unabated till the 25th, when his majesty himself first consulted Sir H. Halford on the propriety of taking medicine; on the 28th, he became incapable of transacting business. In the first week of November, his disorder was at the highest pitch to which it has ever yet reached, or we trust will reach, and continues now something worse than it was on the 28th October. The last of the royal family that saw him was the queen; and he has been twice visited by the Lord Chancellor, and once by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. All the physicians are unanimously of opinion that his majesty will recover, and be capable of transacting business; they found this opinion on the soundness of his majesty's constitution, preserved by his temperate habits of life; but they decline limiting his recovery to a ny period. Dr Willis makes a distinction

between mental derangements and insanity, and thinks his majesty's disorder ought to be placed between them.

Dec. 19.-The Chancellor of the Exchequer addressed a respectful letter to the Prince of Wales, enclosing, for his royal highness's consideration, the plan of proceeding for a regency with certain limitations, and soliciting an interview on the subject. The prince returned an answer the same evening, in which he declined expressing any opinion until the plan had been submitted to both houses of parlia ment. The Dukes of York, Clarence, Kent, Cumberland, Sussex, Cambridge, and Gloucester, appear to have entered into a protest against a restricted regency, as injurious to the royal prerogative.

Dec. 13.--Lucien Bonaparte, the brother of the French emperor, with his lady, children, and the whole of his domestics, arrived at Plymouth this day in the President frigate, Captain Warren, after a quick pas age of 24 days from Malta, and landed there on the 18th. It is said to be agreed upon that Lucien is to reside in Montgomeryshire, Earl Powis having of

fered,

fered, through the medium of government, his seat at Linures for that purpose. SCOTLAND.

EDINBURGH SUBSCRIPTION LIBRARY.

On Thursday the 6th inst. came on the annual election of the office-bearers of this library, when the following gentlemen were unanimously chosen into the committee of management for the year ensuing: Rev. WM. TENNANT, LL. D. President. Jas. BONAR, esq. solicitor of excise, Treas. JOHN WARDROP, esq. banker, Sec.

Directors. The Lord Provost; Messrs Charles Stewart, printer to the university; Rev. James Hall; Horatius Cannan, W.S. Rev. David Dickson jun.; Adam Freer, merchant; Rev. John Aikman; Alexander Wardrop, banker; Rev. T. S. Jones, D.D. John Abercromby, surgeon; Rev. Andrew Lothian; Rob. Wilson, accountant; Rev. Andrew Small; James Robertson, merchant; William Allester, writer.

The present value of the books and hall is worth from £3000 to £ 4000; and the original number of 300 subscribers having

been completed, the society agreed to open the door for the admission of 100 new members, at the rate of 15 guineas each, if they enter within a twelvemonth from this date. After the meeting, 90 of the subscribers dined together in McEwan's.

Nov. 29. This morning, about three o'clock, a watchmaker's shop in Highstreet, Glasgow, was broken into by boring holes in a window-shutter with a centrebit. No sooner had one of the villains, or the name of Thomas Thomson, about 16 years of age, entered, than he was killed by a spring-gun. There were found upon him a loaded pistol, a quantity of powder, two balls, a small phial of phosphorus, and a gardener's knife made like a saw. The inhabitants in the shop below, upon hearing the report of the gun, immediately gave an alarm, when several persons were heard running away. The proprietor of the shop had, on Saturday preceding, received an anonymous letter from a friend, informing him that his shop was to be broken into.

SEQUESTRATIONS.

Nov. 29. Elij. Cotton, stoneware d. Edin. Th. Goudie, miller, Bridgemill, Girvan John Morris, manufact. St Andrews Dan. M'Kenzie, manufact. Glasgow Dav. and Pat. Mollison, merch. Glas. 30. Wm Dunn jun. manuf. Kirkintulloch John Anderson, manufact. Glasgow Dec. 4. John M'Cleish, merch. Brechin Rob. Campbell, nurseryman, Glasgow 7. Tho. Watson and Co. merch. Glasgow Malc. M Naughton, drover, Glasgow 8. Alex. Roy and Co. merch. Aberdeen Geo. Brebner, muslin manuf. Glasgow Alex. Burley, merchant, Arbroath Webster and Mitchell, merch. Dundee Wm Kyd, merchant, Cupar-Fife James Duffus, merchant, Blairgowrie 12. Ja. Dickson, cattle-dealer, Muirfield

W. Miller, cattle-dealer, Cowcaddens 13. Anderson and Brown, tanners, Glasg. 14. John Paterson, merch. Edinburgh, and

Robert Kerr, merch. Leith-partners Wm Cochran, thread manufac. Paisley 15. Th. Straton, catt. deal. New Whitehill Rich. Sheldon, jeweller, Edinburgh Wm Stewart, grocer, Glasgow 18. George Smith, manufacturer, Perth Porter and Thomson, merch. Glasgow Rob. Wilson, seedsman, Glasgow .And. M'Murtrie, shoemak. Stranraer 20. Alex. Ure jun. manufacturer, Glasgow Ben. Hall Cooper, gen. agent, Edinb.' Gilbert Shepherd, manufact. Aberdeen

With Trustees' Names, and Dates.

Jas. Buchan, upholsterer, Glasgow, by Hector Grant, merchant there....Dec. 28.

David Hume, baker, Perth, by John Scott jun. confectioner there......Dec. 21. Peter Just, merchant, Arbroath, at Wm Colvill's, writer there...............Jan. 1.

Wm and Allan Wilson, fleshers, Glasgow, at P. Paterson's, writer there Jan. 9.

Buchannan, Hastie, and Co. merchants, Glasg. at G. Hamilton & Co. there Dec. 13. Michael Beattie, late merchant, Langholm, by

Robert Stark, merchant, Glasgow,"at James Anderson's, merchant there

Arch. Campbell, merchant, Glasgow, by Wm Marshall, merch. there...Jan. 14. Geo. Taylor, merchant, Aberdeen, by Geo. Yeats, advocate there.........Jan. 8.

Geo. Napier and Co. merch, Glasgow, by Jo. M'Dougall, account. there Jan. 19.

D. and J. M'Culloch, haberdashers, Edinb. by Ja. Cunningham there Jan. 26.

PROMOTIONS.

BIRTHS.

Nov. 27. At Newport, Isle of Wight, the lady of Capt. Planche, 60th reg, a son. Dec. At London, the lady of Daniel Robertson, esq. a son.

2. At Edinburgh, Mrs Kinnear, a son. 4. Mrs Ord of Whitton, a son. 9. Mrs Craigie of Linton, a son. Edinburgh, Mrs F. Walker, a son. 11. At Dumfries, Mrs Capt. Gordon,

Sept. 20. At Antigua, Capt. Macul loch, H. M. S. St Christopher, to Miss Jane Osborne of that island.

Oct. 20. At Worcester, Alex. White, esq. to Mary, eldest d. of the rev. Mr Davenport of Glazely, near Bridgenorth.

Nov, 26. At Coulgower, Sutherland, Wm. Leith, esq. to Miss Clementina Rind.

27. At Castletown, of Braemar, James Stuart, esq. factor to the Earl of Fife, to Miss Jean Watson,

29. At Edinburgh, Mr Wm. Brown, Edinburgh militia, to Jane, eldest d. of the late John Rae, esq. surgeon.

30. At Drummelzier, John Stoddart, esq. Cartland-mains, to Miss Henderson, only d. of Mr James H.

Dec. At Tottenham, Lieut.-gen, David

7. Near Cupar-Fife, Ja. Chalmers, ́esqof Grangemount, sheriff-substitute of Perth. shire, to Christian, youngest d. of the late James Dudingstone, esq. of St Ford.

8. At London, Ja. Wedderburn Webster, esq. of Clapham, Surrey, of Lady Frances Caroline Annesley, 2d d. of the Earl of Mountmorris. At St Roque, near Edinburgh, Geo. Clerk Craigie, esq. of Dunbarnie, advocate, to Mary, 2d d. of Maurice Carmichael, esq. of Eastend.

10. At Edinburgh, Mr Daniel Macmillan, mercht. Glasgow, to Jane Guthrie, 2d d. of the late Alex. Robertson, esq. of Grenada. At Chatto, Dr James Douglas, physician, Kelso, to Frances, 3d d. of the late Ja. Robson, esq. of Samieston. At Paisley, Mr Andrew Foulds, of Springfield, Neilston, to Jane, d. of the late Mr John Christie, merchant, Paisley.

12. At Easthaugh, near Perth, the rev. Matthew Fraser, Dundee, to Miss Riddle, d. of the late Mr James R.

13. At Kelso, the rev. David Hogarth, minister of Makerston, to Miss Nichol, d. of Reb. N. esq. of Edenbank.

14. At Denbie, Capt. Adam Johnstone of Annan, to Isabella, d. of Major John Carruthers of Denbie.

17. At Glasgow, Mr John Barker, surgeon, Edinburgh, to Martha, eldest d. of the late Mr Wm. Turnbull, writer, Glasgow. At Perth, the rev. And. Melvill, minister of Logie, to Mrs Anna Lumsdaine, relict of Peter L. esq. of Pittachop.

18. At Leith, Ja. Crosbie, esq. of Ne

thergate, mercht. Dumfries, to Mrs Cha. Cowan jun. of Leith.

22. At Edinburgh, David Lumsdaine, esq. of Tofthouses, to Jessie, d. of the late Walter Dunlop, esq. of Whitmoorhall. DEATHS.

Dec. 20. 1809. At Fort George, Mr John Gordon, lieutenant of cavalry, Madras establishment, aged 18, 2d son of Major-gen. John G. Cuming of Pitlurg.

April 29. 1810. On his passage to India, Lieut. Allan Cameron, 78th reg. son of Lieut. John C. 6th royal vet. batt.

June 26. At Seringapatam, Col. Wm. Orrok, of the E. I. C's. service, commanding the forces at Seringapatam.

Lately, in India, Col. Rob. Garden, 89th reg. and commandant of Fort George, a native of Aberdeen. During the long period of 33 years, he served in every quarter of the globe, and his talents and gallantry were held in the highest estimation by the various commanders under whom he acted.

Aug. 15. At Athens, whither he had gone for the recovery of his health, Mr Geo. Watson, eldest son of Wm. W. esq. of Auchtertyre.

25. At Messina, in Sicily, Lieut. John Spens Park, 20th light dragoons, son of the late Rob. P. esq. wine-merchant, Glasgow.

16. At St Mary's Hope, island of South Ronaldsay, Wm. Sutherland, esq.

19. At Auchtergaven, Mr Daniel Mackay, 73.

21. Mary, eldest d. of Mr Rob. Howie, merchant, Kilmarnock.

22. Mr Alex. Barker, founder, Glas

gow.

24. At Edinburgh, Mrs Grizel Paterson, relict of the rev. Ja. Paterson, minister of the gospel, Thrapton, Northumberland. At Lugton, near Dalkeith, Mr Ja. Stuart Alves, late of Demerara.

25. At Stockbridge, near Edinburgh, Mrs Isabella Grieve, relict of Mr Alex. Lawrie, writer, Dunbar.

26. At Fairfield Lodge, Ayr, Mrs Kennedy, wife of David K. esq. of Kirkmichael, and 3d d. of the late Sir John Whitefoord, bart. At Balquhatson, Stirlingshire, Mrs Claristian Cowbrough, wife of Ja. Waddell, esq. of Balquhatson.

27. At London, Lieut. John Hunter, R. N. At Forres, aged 60, Mrs Elizabeth Grant, relict of Wm. G. esq. of Delachaple.

28. At Inverness, Miss Janet Brown. 29. At Leith, Mr James Scott, 80, 56 years a freeman there.

Sept. 11. At Haughton Pen, Jamaica, Dr Wm. Gibson, son of the late Mr Wm. G. Boghall.

Oct. 13. At New York, Lieut.-col. Geo. Turnbull, 81, who, for upwards of 60 years in the British army, sustained, in every respect, that character which distinguishes the soldier and the gentleman.

22. At New York, Mr John Thomson jun. merchant.

27. At Madeira, Helen Louisa, eldest d. of Sir Henry Hay Macdougall, bart. of Makerston.

30. At Exmouth, Devonshire, Capt. Wishart, late of the 78th reg.

Lately, at Antigua, Brig.-gen. Nicholson, colonel 1st batt. royals, commanding his majesty's troops in that island.

Nov. Mr Wm. Morice, aged 16, son of the late Wm. M. esq. of Brieryhill. He was one of the unfortunate crew of the ship Lord Duncan of Leith; exhausted by hunger and cold, after being ten days on the rigging, he expired about an hour after he was taken on board the Diana.

2. At Iviesdale, Mr Geo. Clunis, society schoolmaster there.

Lately, in Portugal, James Ramsay Cooper, esq. dep.-com.-gen. to the British forces there. Also, Gen. R. Stewart, of the 43d light infantry regiment; he was killed by jumping out of a window in the delirium of a fever.

Dec. At Bogbain, near Inverness, Alex. Macrae, a native of Kintail, aged 104. Till lately, he managed the grazing of Bogbain, belonging to Mr Mackenzie, banker, Inverness, and retained his mental faculties to the last. At Ayr, Mrs Clark, wife of Capt. and Adj. C. Ayrshire militia.

1. At Leith, Miss Christian Kelly, d. of Mr John K. merchant.

2. At Edinburgh, Mrs Margaret Walker, relict of the rev. Mr Wm. W.

3. At Edinburgh, Mr Ralph Pattist ›n of Wooler. At Perth, Mr Geo. Turnbu 11, manufacturer, aged 37. At Prestonpa as, Lieut. Daniel Gilchrist, Royal Lanark mi

litia.

4. Mrs Macallum of. Thornhill. At Edinburgh, Mrs Helen Glassfurd.