of the established church, the commanding officers of the several regiments are to be attentive to the prevention of such practices, if they have in any instance existed in the troops under their command, as they are in violation of the orders contained in the circular letter of the 14th of May, 1806, and since repeated to the army; and the Catholic soldiers, as well as those of other sects, are to be allowed, in all cases, to attend the divine worship of the Almighty, according to their several persuasions, when duty does not interfere, in the same manner, and under the same regulations, as those of the established church. (Signed)

"WM. RAYMOND, Deputy Adjutant-General. "N. RAMSEY, Major-Assistant AdjutantGeneral."

So late as Friday morning last, some of the artillery, privates, and drivers, quartered in Enniskillen, continued to do duty with turned coats, for having attended, according to law, on the worship of their church; but on the evening of that day the scene was somewhat changed the general order arrived; and on the Sunday the Catholic soldiers of the garrison were marched to the Roman Catholic chapel, accompanied by two officers of that religion.

Deal, Jan. 15-Sunday night, the 13th, the ship Cumberland, Barrett, master, arrived in the Downs from Quebec, under a jury-foremast and bowsprit, having pitched her bowsprit and foremast away in a heavy gale of wind off the banks of Newfoundland. From seven till eight o'clock on Sunday

morning, she was attacked by four French lugger privateers, between Dover and Folkestone, the first of which hailed to know if he wanted a pilot; Capt. B. having suspicion of her, replied in the negative; immediately after another privateer ordered him to lay back his mainyard, and the whole of them commenced a fire of musketry, and two of them ran alongside and boarded the Cumberland; previous to which the captain had ordered all the ship's crew into the cabin, they being armed with their boarding pikes; as soon as about twenty men came on board, the captain ordered the ship to be sheered off from the privateers, leaving the Frenchmen no good retreat, and on the ship being boarded, the privateers ceased firing in the mean time the ship's company rushed forward, and cleared the deck; the greatest part of the boarders being killed, and the remainder jumping overboard. Immediately after, another came alongside, and told the captain they would give no quarter: on hearing this, the ship's company cheered them; and they were boarded, and cleared in like manner. This was repeated three times afterwards, with the like success on the part of the ship's crew, and their taking three prisoners, two of whom were wounded, and one has since died of his wounds. Immediately after this, Capt. Barrett discharged three of his carronades, loaded with round and canister shot; the first was seen to carry away the mainmast of one of the privateers, and the second carried away the bowsprit of another, and it was supposed destroyed many of the men, as

they were heard to cry out, and the shots were heard to strike the vessel. They then made off, and the Cumberland proceeded for the Downs. We are sorry to say, Mr. Coward, chiefmate, is wound ed in the shoulder, and that one man on board the Cumberland has died of his wounds. The loss on the part of the enemy is supposed to be nearly sixty. Capt. B. killed three himself, one of which he was obliged to put his foot on to extricate his pike.

This is supposed to be the most gallant defence made by any mer. chant-ship during the war; as her crew consisted only of twenty-six men, and those of the privateers, according to the prisoners' statement, amounted to 270 men.

The Lords of the Admiralty have, as a mark of their satisfac tion at the gallantry exhibited on this occasion, expressed their intention to grant to each of the crew of the Cumberland, a protection from the impress for the space of three years.

16. A poor chimney-sweeper's boy lost his life in a most shocking manner, in a chimney, at a house in Orchard-street, Westminster. He went up a chimney to clean it, and got out at the top. On his return, he got into a chimney belonging to the same house, by mistake, which had a fire at the bottom, in which he got stuck fast, and was suffocated before relief could be rendered him.

18. An inquisition was taken on Wednesday, on the body of Fredrick Bede, who was killed in a pugilistic combat with a young man of the name of Smithers, in Newington-fields, on Monday afternoon. It appeared in evidence,

that the combatants were two clerks in very respectable situations, and a quarrel arose in con sequence of a dispute at cards, They retired to combat in the warmth of temper, and Bede refused to settle the dispute in any other manner. After fighting 25 minutes most determinedly, Smithers gave his adversary a blow under the right ear, which knocked him down, and he died in about 20 minutes. The surgeon gave it as his opinion, that death was rather occasioned by the fall than from the blow; but death having ensued in an illegal act, a verdict of manslaughter was returned.

The Whalley Agricultural So ciety have adjudged their prize medal on forest planting, to James Taylor, Esq. for planting last season 400 acres of land with upwards of 1,600,000 trees.

19. Last night, about half-past eight o'clock, a fire broke out in the Warehouses of a sugar-baker, at Puddle-dock, Upper Thames. street. Notwithstanding the nu merous engines that were employed, and the utmost exertions on the part of the firemen, the whole of the premises were consumed in the course of two hours. The conflagration did not extend be yond the stack of buildings in which it commenced.

A dreadful accident happened a few days ago on board the Jason, a vessel of Boston, lying about four miles from the town, in a part of the Deeps called Clay-hole. Mr. Massam, the master, was on business in Boston; but before he quitted the vessel, he had carefully locked up the cabin, in which were some swivel cartridges, and a quantity of gun

powder. The mate of the vessel, to relieve the tedium of waiting for a wind, imprudently broke open the door during the master's absence, took out some powder, and went from the vessel to shoot sea-fowl, leaving on board only a boy about fourteen years of age. The youth, thus left, amused him self by getting a handful of gunpowder, and throwing it in small quantities into a fire on board; but having, it is supposed, scattered some between the cabin and the fire-place, the flame ran along the train, and in an instant, by the tremendous explosion of all the powder kept for the guns which the Jason carried, the whole stern of the vessel was swept away, and she sunk with a full cargo of oats on board. Providentially the boy was not hurt by the explosion, and was taken from the sinking vessel by a boat which was put off from the Tre Madoc, lying

near.

21. The Tarantula privateer arrived at Fowey on Tuesday, from an unsuccessful cruize off Cape Finisterre. On Friday last, in the Bay of Biscay, she fell in with a large ship, dismasted and waterlogged; and, on boarding, ascer tained her to be the Orion, laden with timber and lumber, supposed from America. They found one man dead in the companion, and were preparing to go between decks, when they were assailed by the most horrid stench, which obliged them to relinquish their design, and abandon the wreck. The hold of the Orion appeared full of water, but she was tolerably clear between the decks. The stench, no doubt, proceeded from the bodies of the unfortunate crew,

who had perished on board her but whether through fatigue or hunger, could not be ascertained. The man in the companion appeared to have been dead about a week.

An alarming typhus fever made its appearance last week among the crew of the Romulus frigate, at Plymouth. It is supposed to have been communicated by some French deserters received on board her at Lisbon some days since. Eighty of the crew have been sent to the royal naval hospital at that place.

A number of farmers and others were last week summoned before the magistrates at Stafford, for making a deduction from the wages of their servants, enrolled in the local militia, on account of their having been absent from service during the period of training and exercise. The magistrate observed, that the legislature had provided for the point in dispute, and referred to the 15th clause of the 48th Geo. III. c. 3, which or. dains that no ballot, enrolment, and service under the act shall make void, or in any manner affect, any indenture of apprenticeship or contract of service. The defendants, upon the act being read, agreed to pay their servants the full wages.

23. Early on Monday morning, the Hon. Mr. Vernon's game. keeper, accompanied by two as sistants, surprised a gang of poach. ers in one of the woods of Stainbro' Park, Yorkshire, shooting. pheasants. The villains immediately fired upon them, and wounded the three, the gamekeeper in his hand, the landlord of the inn at Stainbro' dangerously in

the back, and the third man in the arm (so that it has been found necessary to amputate it), and then escaped.

24. Thursday se'nnight died at Gretna Green, aged 79, Joseph Paisley, the Gretna Green parson. He wasborn at Kirkandrew-uponEsk, in Cumberland, and early in life was bound an apprentice to a tobacconist; which vocation requiring sobriety and attention, ill accorded with the lax disposition of Paisley. He soon left this trade to follow the employment of a fisherman, and he was allowed by his contemporaries, from his uncommon strength and agility, to be the most expert man in the use of the lister, for the destruction of salmon, of any that we have heard of, and endured every kind of fatigue more than any other man. His conversation never turned upon religious objects; his delight was in talking of juvenile feats of activity, and about brandy, and the immense quantities he could have drank of that stimulant without feeling the smallest effects from intoxication. He was accustomed to relate, in the presence of concurring witnesses, that he frequently swallowed a pint of unadulterated brandy at one draught. He dwelt with complacency on a celebrated achievement of which he shared the glory of a great brother drinker: they consumed, without any assistance whatever, no less than ten gallons of brandy in three days. This man could never have gained celebrity, had it not been for the culpable facility with which marriages are celebrated in Scotland; for a more unpolished and rough man in his manners we

never conversed with, and his conversation was always mixed with obscenity and grossness.

A melancholy accident happened on Sunday se'nnight, at the seat of Pierce Mahony, esq. near Killarney. Three female domestics unthinkingly placed some coals of fire in a room which had no chimney, and in which they slept. The consequence of this imprudent measure was, that two of them were found suffocated next morning; the third providentially survived.

Dublin, Jan. 24.-On Sunday night last, a party of armed ruffians entered the house of Daniel Hurley, of Kilmore, and forcibly carried away Eleanor Hurley, his daughter. By his examination, it appears that Michael Ryan, commonly called Sclug, a notorious robber, and Timothy and Cornelius Ryan, his brothers, were principally concerned, and the only persons he knew. Lieutenant Neville Wayland, of the Ballintemple Infantry, having heard of it soon after, took three yeomen with him to the cross-roads near Lacken, in hopes that they might meet the party on their return.

In about half an hour, hearing the noise of horses coming at a great rate, he divided his little party two at each side of the road, and desired they should on no account fire until they were fired at. On their coming up, (consisting of five horses, and about six or seven men) he advanced, and desired them in the king's name to stop and surrender themselves, which they instantly answered with three shots at the yeomen; one of the foremost presented a bright blunderbuss at

Lieut. Wayland, so near, that the flash threw light on his face, but fortunately burned the priming only, or his head would have been blown to atoms. Several shots were fired on both sides, but the yeomen's with more effect, for one of the ruffians dropped off his horse; the others made their escape, the Lieutenant and his party being on foot, and it be ing about one o'clock in the morning. This wretch, though mortally wounded, got on his knee, and swore he would have a yeoman's life, but was unable to present his blunderbuss, his arm being broken. He would not tell his name, and desired he might be thrown into a dyke, and the dirt thrown over him, and nothing said about it. He died soon after, and the body was conveyed to Dundrum. He proved to be Edmund Ryan, of Donohill, flaxdresser, a deserter from Sir Thos. Fitzgerald's regiment, and one of the most determined wicked fellows in the country.

Vast crowds came to view the body on Monday, which was permitted, in hopes it might have a proper effect on the people. Lord Hawarden, who was at Mr. Wm. Cooper's, at Cashel, being sent to early that day, came out and took a party of the Ballintemple cavalry, with Mr. William Cooper, a magistrate, and scoured the country as far as Cappagh, after the runaways, until a late hour that night, and also the next day, but without success. The friends of the deceased having applied to his Lordship for the body, he said he would give it up if the girl was sent home by Wednesday; which not being done, his

Lordship brought out a guard of the Fermanagh from Cashel, and had the body conveyed to Cashel, and buried near the gaol.

25. Monday last, a poor woman, who resided at Bayswater, was brought to bed of a boy, and not having money sufficient to supply a nurse, a neighbour of her's tendered her services; but the husband coming home in the evening, declined the offer, adding, at the same time, that he could attend on her himself. The next morning some acquaintances called to see them, and knocked at the door several times, but no one answering, the doors were broken open, when the man and his wife were both found dead, and a little infant sucking at the breast of the woman. The cause is attributed to their having burnt some charcoal to air the room, which suffocated them. They have left three young children.

The new aqueduct bridge over the Ouse river, below Stoney Stratford, at Wolverton, which has been some time in preparation, of cast-iron in lieu of that of brick, which fell down in February, 1808, was opened on Monday for the passage of boats. The whole length of the iron work is 101 feet; it is wide enough for two boats to pass each other, and has a towing-path of iron attached to it: it is firm and tight in every part, and displays not the least appearance of strain from its vast weight.

Glasgow, Jan. 26.-On the 24th inst. the anniversary of Mr. Fox's birth was celebrated here by a numerous party of the admirers of that statesman. Above one hundred gentleman dined on this