his left on the right of the Allies, support ed by the fire of several batteries advancing.

The vivacity of this movement made it expedient to change the front of the nearest brigades on the right, and as the whole cavalry from the left was ordered to the Fight to turn this attack, and to charge it, I was not without hopes of witnessing the destruction of Buonaparte and all his army; but before the cavalry could arrive, it became so dark that nothing could be distinguished but the flashes of the guns.

The Allies remained in possession of the disputed villages, and of the line on which the enemy had stood.

Orders were given to renew the attack in the morning, but the enemy did not wait for it, and it was judged expedient, with reference to the general posture of the cavalry, not to pursue. The wounded have all been removed across the Elbe, while the cannon and prisoners taken, and the ground wrested from the enemy in the action, are incontestible proofs of the success of the Allies.

Both Sovereigns were in the field the whole day. The King was chiefly near the village where his troops were engaged. The Emperor was repeatedly in every part of the field, where he was received with the most animating cheers by every corps he approached. The fire, to which his person was not unfrequently exposed, and the casualties which took place near him, did not appear in the least to disturb his attention from the objects to which it was directed, and which he followed without any Østentation.

General Wittgenstein, with the army, is Between the Elbe and the Elster, with the command of several bridges over the former.

The Russian troops of all arms fully realised the expectations I had formed of their bravery and steadiness, and the emu lation and spirit of patriotism which pervades the Prussian army, merits the highest encomium. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) CATHCART. The Lord Viscount Castlereagh, &c. &c.

SPANISH COLONIES.
EXTRAORDINARY GAZETTE.

"Buenos Ayres, 4th March, 1818. Dispatch of General D. Manuel Belgrano to the Supreme Government,

"Most Excellent Sir,-The Almighty has crowned our armies with complete success. The enemy is defeated at the point of the bayonet. The army under D. Pio Tristan surrendered, as appears by the annexed Capitulation, I cannot give your Excellency an exact computation of the killed and wounded on the one side or the other, but which I will hereafter detail,

saying at present only, that my second in command, Major-General Diaz Velez has been shot in the mouth by a musket ball, when he was discharging his duty in conducting the left wing of the army to glory. His conduct, that of Colonel Rodruigues, who commanded the left wing, and that of all the other Commanders of division, as well infantry, cavalry and artillery, de serves the highest praise, and the department of all the corps is worthy of American freemen who are sworn to maintain the independence of the United Provinces at the River Plate. It is my pleasing duty to repeat to your Excellency what I said in my dispatch of the 24th September, that from the meanest soldier to the highest officer, and even the peasantry, have acted worthy of fellow-citizens, and of the rewards which I have no doubt your Excel lency will confer upon them. God preserve you many years. (Signed)

"MANUEL BELGRANO. Feb. 20th (night), 1813. "To the most Excellent Superior Gover nor of the United Provinces of the River Plate."

(Here follows the terms of capitulation.)

AMERICA.

"BY AUTHORITY. "An Act vesting in the President of the United States the power of retaliation.

[By Section I. it is enacted, "That in every case when any violation of the laws and usages of war shall be done and perpetrated by those acting under the authority of the British Government against any of the Citizens of the United States, employed in the land or naval service, the President is authorised to cause full and ample retaliation to be made, according to the laws and usages of war."]

Section II. And be it further enacted, "That in all cases where any outrage or act of cruelty or barbarity shall be or have been practised by any Indian or Indians in alliance with the British Government, or in connection with those acting under the authority of the said Government, against Citizens of the United States, or those under its protection, the President of the United States is hereby authorised to cause full and ample retaliation to be done and executed on all such British subjects, soldiers, seamen, or marines, or Indians, in alliance or connection with Great Britain, being prisoners of war, as if the same outrage, of act of cruelty, or barbarity, had been done under the authority of the British Govern"H. CLAY, "President of the House of Representatives

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(Signed)

NEW AND MOST EXTRAORDINARY METHOD OF CURING INSANITY.

The celebrated JOSEPH LANCASTER, has lately published a statement, calculated to excite, in the public mind, the highest astonishment; though scarcely as yet entitled to claim implicit credit-of which the substance is as follows :

Two Gentlemen of the Medical Profession, Messrs. Delahoyde and Lucett, by Public Advertisement, announced, some time ago, a new Method of Cure, in those deplorable cases of Insanity, which have hitherto been considered as absolutely incurable. This Method which they call the Curative Process is, at present, known only to themselves; but, according to their own statement, it has never, in any instance failed of success; and it is, at the same time so mild in its operation, as not to occasion the smallest risk or danger to the Patient.

him, and declared his conversation to be that of a sane man. His Father in Law, Mr. Maycock, to whom, during his disordered state of mind, he had expressed great dislike, was also introduced, and received by him in a proper and friendly manner. On the fifth day, he attended Divine Service at Church, and conducted himself with perfect propriety. The same day, his Wife was admitted to see him, with whom he passed the day in a becoming and rational manner. Some time afterwards he was allowed to accompany her, to see his two younger children, at Chelsea; and returned, with her, to Westham, in the evening. She, together with one of his daughters, have ever since resided with him at Mr. Delahoyde's house; where, for the present, he still lives, though free from every restraint whatever. He has been several times introduced to the Duke of Kent and to several of his old companions in the regiment, all of whom have declared them

Case of William Harrison aged 36. He was formerly Master of the Duke of Kent's band; was certified about three years ago, by Dr. Munro, as an Incurable Lunatic; and ever since that time has been confined in the Incurable Ward at Bethlem. By an order from the Secretary at War, at the instance of the Duke of Kent, on the 30th September last, he was committed to the care of Mr. Delahoyde and Mr. Lucett, and was conveyed to the house of the former, at Westham, near London.-At ten o'clock the same evening, he was submitted to their curative process, and in fifteen minutes the effects of it began to appear. He was then asked, whether they should proceed any longer in what they were doing? when he answered in a rational manner, that he felt himself in the hands of friends, and desired them to do with him as they pleased. The process was continued another fifteen minutes, when he was put to bed. He slept well all night; and, in the morning, declared that he felt himself a new man.-The second day, after breakfast, he asked for a book and amused himself for some time with reading. On hearing Mr. Delahoyde's daughter play on the piano, he found fault with her performance, and ther gave her some instructions with perfect recollection of mind. Through the whole day he was quite composed; took his meals freely; and slept well at night. On the third day Mr. Maiden, surgeon, of Stratford conversed with

Case of John Moon, aged 28. He was a private in the Portsmouth division of Ma. rines, and had been a patient in Bethlem, about eight months, where he had been in chains almost the whole time, and occasionally handcuffed. By an order from the Lords of the Admiralty he was taken from Bethlem, 21st December last, and conveyed to Mr. Delahoyde's House, Sion Vale, Brentford. On his arrival at six in the evening his pulse was up to 119, and he was very outrageous. The curative Process was begun, at about eight, and contiinued for half an hour. His pulse during this time fell to 90. Soon after nine, his pulse was reduced to 80, the sleeping standard in this disease. At ten, he was put to bed, when he immediately fell into a profound sleep, which continued till eight the next morning. He awoke refreshed; and to a considerable degree, composed. From that time his amendment rapidly advanced, and, on the 7th day, he was declared convalescent. He was afterwards introduced to the Captain on Guard, at the Hounslow Barracks ; to several Gentlemen, who had seen him in Bethlem, and even to the keepers themselves: and afterwards, he was examined before the Transport Board, and by several Gentlemen at the War Office; all of whom were witnesses to his perfect recovery. He still continues to live at Sion Vale; working in the garden, but under no restraint what

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Case of Elizabeth Lancaster. To the two former cases this is now added, by Mr. Lancaster himself, who is her husband, and who publishes it with her knowledge and consent. She had been declared incurably deranged by three physicians several years ago. By advice of the Duke of Kent, at a personal interview, in consequence of the above successful cases, she was removed from the care of those with whom she had been the three past years, and committed to the charge of Messrs. DeJahoyde and Lucett. In a few days, a favourable account of the curative Process was received by Mr. Lancaster; and he himself was admitted to see her, when, he says, he found in her "a wonderful change and an evident recovery." Her daughter has since been introduced to her; and she has borne a part rationally in a conversation of three hours continuance, which related to the whole history of her past life. So far is this extraordinary recovery already advanced, and so confident are the Practitioners of its speedy completion, that they have ventured to give the most public and positive promise of restoring their Patient to all her former capacity for the enjoyments and the duties of social and rational Life within the month!

JUDGEMENT ON MR. CREEVEY, In the Court of King's Bench, May 21. Mr. Park moved for the judgment of the Court on this Gentleman, who had been found guilty at the last Lancaster Assizes, of publishing a libel against a person of the name of Kirkpatrick, the particulars of which we have given in a former Number, and the arguments on a motion for a new trial in this.

An Affidavit was put in on the part of Mr. Creevey, in which he explains the motives by which he was actuated in making the speech in question, and afterwards, in publishing it. He felt conscious that every word contained in that publication had been spoken by him in his place in Parliament. An incorrect account of this speech having appeared in some newsPapers, and among others in the Liverpool Mercury, he had felt himself called on to send a correct account of what actually fell from him to the publisher of that paper. In doing so he then conceived and still did conceive that he did nothing but what he had a right to do. By the Bill of Rights it was expressly declared that Members of the Commons House of Parliament should not be responsible for what they uttered in hat House. There were many Resolutions of the House of Commons prohibuting the publication of their proceedings by strangers, but there was not a single Resolution prohibiting Members from pub

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We, the Freeholders of Middlesex, in full County Meeting assembled, respectfully approach Your Royal Highness with an affectionate Address.

We have viewed with the utmost indig nation and abhorrence the attempts which, through the means of subornation and perjury, have been made against Your Royal Highness's honour and life.

We participate in the general lamentation, that Your Royal Highness's forcible appeal to the House of Commons should have been received with such inattention and disrespect, a disrespect which we cannot conscientiously attribute to any other cause, but to that defective state of the Re. presentation, that want of identity of interest and feeling with the people, which, how much soever to be deplored, is almost universally allowed to be as " notorious as the sun at noon-day;" at the same time we cannot but feel deeply affected with that noble generosity of soul which could alone induce Your Royal Highness to suppose that the refusal of Parliament to entertain the question "originated in a con. viction that your innocence stood above all suspicion, and an apprehension that Parli amentary interference might delay the restoration to your daughter's society."

In our humble judgement, had the House of Commons conducted itself towards Your Royal Highness as true Representatives of the generous English Nation, the people would have had no need to have stood forward as your protectors.