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The Junta has fled to the Isle of Leon, near Cadiz. It is supposed that most of the members will embark for America.

Madrid, Feb. 1.-The king left Cordova on the 28th, and intended to sleep that night at Ecija.

The Junta has quitted Seville. That city has sent deputies, and his Majesty will doubtless enter it before the end of the month. Grenada has opened its gates. The enemy's armies are dispersing. Prisoners, cannon, and stores, are incessantly collecting.

The king is every where received as a beloved father, arriving in the midst of his children, after a long and painful absence. This is the infallible effect of the comparison which all the inhabitants make between the tyranny and violence of the Junta, and the beneficence of his Majesty, who brings peace. and security to every family.

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The army enjoys abundance. the good reception it meets with from the inhabitants, by the most exact discipline and respect to persons and property.

The troops of his Majesty the Emperor and King have entered Cordova and Jaen. In every part of the army's line of march, the inhabitants testify the greatest satisfaction at being rescued from the tyranny of the Junta. All the citizens remain in the bosom of their families.

The insurgents seem to have had the intention of defending Jaen; where there were found 46 pieces of cannon, and a great quantity of military stores and provisions.

The total of prisoners exceeds 7000, among whom are a number of officers. There are between 3 and 4000 wandering in the mountains, and several of them are hourly brought in, exclusive of a great number who have thrown away their arms, and are returning to their homes, whence they had been carried by violence. Arrizaga, in his fight to the mountains of Grenada, was scarcely able to get 5000 of the poor wretches to follow him.

These happy results afford the consoling hope of seeing the war in Spain terminate speedily, and without bloodshed.

The king contines to enjoy the best state of health. The gratitude of the inhabitants, and the frank expressions of their joy, are, to his Majesty's heart, the most flattering reward of his clemency and paternal bounty.

A column of infantry and cavalry, which Jeft Madrid three days ago, under the orders of the Chief of Squadron Soubeyran, has fallen in with, and routed, a numerous corps of brigands, near Santa Cruz de la Sarza.

On the 99th, this, officer came up with them, from 100 to 150, near the village of Prado. He instantly charged them, at the head of 25 chasseurs of the 26th regiment, killed 20 of them on the spot, and took 18 horses. The rest fled in the greatest disorder. (Signed) BILLIARD.

GREAT BRITAIN.

The following return shows the effective strength of the army which embarked for ser

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23,421,468 Ditto by Life Annuities purchased 1,024,512

On Account of Great Britain
Ditto of Ireland
Ditto of Imperial Loan
Ditto of Loan to Portugal

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180,488,916

6,593,966 1,020,595

21,662

Total 188,125,069

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The sum to be expended in the ensuing their loss. The names of the frigates deshave left each a widow and family to lament quarter is 2,693,6867. 19s. 144.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE,

Pompee, under Marie Galante, SIR, Dec. 25, 1809: Being at anchor in Fort Royal Bay, Mar tinique, on the 16th instant, a man of war brig, far in the offing to leeward, appeared with a signal flying that she had been chased by the enemy's frigates; I immediately made the signal to the Perlin, then on her way to Guadaloupe, to speak the brig, and to proceed according to the intelligence she might obtain: the Alcmene was ordered to weigh and follow, and the Sceptre, Alfred, and Freija, which had that moment joined me, were not allowed to anchor, but to leave their flat boats, and proceed also. So soon as I heard from Captain Weatherall, of the Observateur, the brig which made the signal, that the enemy's frigates, four in number, had captured and burnt his Majesty's ship Junon (belonging to the Halifax squadron), about 150 miles to windward of Guadaloupe, and that the Observateur had escaped by superior sailing, I proceeded to sea with this ship and the Abercrombie, and arrived off the Saintes early in the morning of the 13th; and about noon I was informed by Captain Elliott, of his Majesty's sloop Pultusk, that two of the enemy's frigates were at anchor about three leagues to the northward and westward of the town of Basseterre; I then directed Captain Fahie, of the Abercrombie, to remain and guard Point-â Petre, and Captain Watson, of the Alfred, to guard Bassaterre, and made all sail in this ship, with an intention of attacking the enemy; but on approaching nearer, I discovered the Sceptre, of the line; the Blonde, Theris, Freija, and Castor, frigates; and Cynet, Hazard, and Ringdove, sloops; and Elizabeth schooner, ready to commence the attack. I therefore did not interfere with the judicious arrangement of Captain Ballard, of the Sceptre, the senior captain, and had only an opportunity of witnessing the engagement. Baffling and light winds preventing the Pompee from getting within gun-shot until the action had ceased, and the two frigates and batteries which de. fended the anchorage, completely destroyed. The Blonde, Thetis, Cynet, Hazard, and Ringdove, bore the brunt of the action from their being a-head of the other ships, and by the animated fire kept up from them, one of the enemy's frigates was very soon disrasted, when the men began to desert their ships, and soon after set fire to them. Upon this, Captain Cameron, of the Hazard, with the boats of the squadron, gallantly landed and stormed the batteries, which were still annoying the ships both with cannon and musketry, and in the act of hauling down the enemy's colours, he fell by a swivel shot. In him the service has lost a brave and distinguished officer, and who, with Lieutenant Jenkins, first of the Blonde, also killed,

troyed are, I understand, the Loire and Seine, pierced for 40 guns each, but had none mounted on their quarter-decks or forecastles; they were moored in a strong position in Anee Le Barque, with their broadsides towards the entrance, which was defended by a heavy battery, now demolished, and the magazine blown up. I am informed by the seven prisoners brought off from the shore, that these ships had not their full complement of seamen, but that they had 400 troops on board and 50 artillery-men, which all escaped, with the exception of the above seven, and 20 others, taken in a re-captured vessel; but all the warlike stores and provisions intended for the garrison of Guadaloupe, were blown up in the frigates. The Blonde's loss is rather severe, and so is, I have reason to believe, the enemy's, who had time to save nothing but their clothes. I had every reason to be highly pleased in witnessing the emulation and bravery displayed by the several ships, in closing with the enemy; and I request you to make the same known to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. I have not yet been

able to fall in with the other two frigates; but I am in great hopes of preventing their arrival at Guadaloupe.

I am, &c. ALEXANDER COCHRANE.

AMERICA.

A popular commotion, amounting in fact, tó a total revolution, has taken place in one of the regencies of South America. The people, under the visionary apprehension that their Archbishop and Governor.general were disposed to transfer the sovereignty of the province of La Paz to a Princess of Brazil, assembled in a body, ordered the Governor and Archbishop to resign their functions, erected a hust of Ferdinand VII, called upon the Cabildo, or Town Council, to assist in forming a new government, and taking pos session of the Casa Real, or royal treasury, These measures being executed, they assembled round the bust of Ferdinand VII. took an oath "to maintain the rights of their Sovereign, their religion, and their country." After this solemn and voluntary act of genuine loyalty, they turned their attention to the formation of an army. Two squadrons of cavalry of 500 men each were instantly enrolled; the infantry were to be augmented to 10,000 men, and the heights of the city were to be fortified with 100 pieces of cannon. Not ten days after this patriotic government was established, caciques and deputies from the Indian chiefs arrived, offering 200,000 warriors to assist in defending the country. These events were happily achieved without any effusion of blood, as only one man was accidentally killed, and another wounded; a circumstance, when contrasted with the popu lar commotions in Europe, which reflects the highest honour on the character of the Spanish Americans.

REPORT

REPORT OF DISEASES,

Under the Care of the late Senior Physician of the Finsbury Dispensary, from the 20th of January, to the 20th of February, 1810.

HE last month has not been less pro

Tdigal mon that which preceded it, susoner times

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in the production of disease. season has been found remarkably sickly by the medical faculty in general, in London at least, and in its more immediate vicinity.

Several cases of the Walcheren fever have lately been attended by the Reporter, each of which was a relapse of the malady, after a distinct and considerable interval. This modification of morbid action seems to have shown a peculiar propensity to recur, after it had once been expelled, and apparently eradicated, from the system; and although it, for the most part, assume the intermittent type and character, it is far from being so obedient, as the ordinary intermittents of our domestic growth, to the influence of the appropriate remedies. Agues, which are the natives of this soil, are, perhaps, as much as any disorder whatever, under the controul and management of medicine. The Peruvian Bark, and where that fails, which is not often the case, arsenic, that most powerful and salutary drug, has an almost infallible power in subduing, and that in no dilatory manner, the operation of the intermittent fever to which we are exposed, more particularly in the marshy regions of our Island. But these medicines, though, in a longer or shorter time, they produce some impression, seem by no means so expeditious or certain in dispossessing the frame of the effects arising from the Walcheren contagion.

The Reporter has lately questioned several dyspeptic patients, with regard to the origin of their complaints, which, by their ingenuous confession, appeared to arise from an habitual excess in eating. Their dinners, were the source of their diseases. This species of indulgence, is, amongst the substantial classes of society, by no means an infrequent occasion of indisposition. The more indigent orders of the community for tunately cannot afford to ruin their constitution by the inordinate quantity and luxury of their ingesta. It is one of the unenviable privileges of the comparatively wealthy, to be able to gormandise to their own destruction. The appetite may be, and often is, increased much beyond what is natural, by the

artificial excitement of various and highFasts ought from

time to time to be observed, if not from piety, at least from prudence; though not regarded as religions institutions, they ought to be kept with a kind of religious punctuality, as wholesome intervals of abstinence, which give the stomach an occasional holiday, and afford a temporary respite from the daily drudgery of digestion. We are not in general aware of the degree of intestinal labor, which is necessary to exonerate the body of the load which gluttony imposes. The inordinate devourer of food cuts out more work for his internal machinery, than it can either with ease or impunity perform. It must at length fall a sacrifice to toils of supererogation.

Convulsive affections, or fits, as they are called, of different kinds and titles, although they all exhibit a certain community of symptoms, prevail more in the present age than in earlier and less effeminate periods of our history. There can be no doubt that we are more liable to tremors, twitches, and spasms, than our more robust ancestors. In consequence of the enervating influence of excessive civilization and refinement, we acquire an additional susceptibility to convulsive, more perhaps than to any other class of diseases. We become like Eolian harps, in being acted upon by the gentlest breeze that passes over us, only that in passing over us it does not awaken such agreeable and harmonious vibrations.

The distinction is not radical or essential between the various species belonging to the genus of spasmodic affections. Hysteria, epilepsy, chorea, and apoplexy, are all members of the same family : for the most part they arise from similar causes, and often, in the progressive stages of life, attack, at different periods, the same individual. One mixed case, partly of the hysterical, and partly of the epileptic description, is at present under the Reporter's care. The repeated invasion of the paroxysms has made an evident inroad upon the mind. The intellectual faculties of the patient have unequivocally suffered from his corporeal disorder. This, in every nervous concussion, may almost invariably be observed. Of the Archbishop of Grenada's

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Grenada's homily it was observed, that "it smelled of the apoplexy.' And after all instances of similar seizure, may similar indications of mental deteriora tion or decay be discerned by a critical, if not by an ordinary, observer.

In a considerable proportion of the convulsive disorders, which at different times have fallen under the Reporter's notice, their attacks were in the first instance ascribable to a much more destructive sort of excess than that which we have just had occasion to notice-to the excessive use of stimulating and inebriating liquors.

In these cases, the intervals between the paroxysms, which were often of considerable length, were marked by a dejection approaching, in its degree, to an alienation of mind, unless when the thickness of gloom was at times broken, or attenuated, by draughts from what might be regarded as the fatal fountain of the disorder. The temptation, under such circumstances, is almost irresistible, to seek for oblivion of feeling in the Lethe of intoxication, in that kind of sleep of the sensibility out of which, however, the awakening canhot fail to be attended with an accumulated horror. Wine, and other physical exhilirants, during the treacherous truce to wretchedness which they afford, dilapidate the structure, and undermine the very foundation of happiness. No inan, perhaps, was ever compleatly miserable, until after he had fled to alcohol for consolation. The habit of vinous indulgence is not more pernicious than it is obstinate and pertinacious in its hold, when it has once fastened itself upon the constitution. It is not to be conquered by half measures. No compromise with it is allow able. The victory over it, in order to

be permanent, must be perfect. As long as there lurks a relict of it in the frame, there is imminent danger of a relapse of this moral malady, from which there seldom is, as from physical disorders, a gradual convalescence. The cure, if at all, must be effected at once: cutting and pruning will do no good, nothing

will be of any avail short of absolute ex

tirpation. The man who has been the slave of intemperance, must renounce her altogether, or she will insensibly re-assume her despotic power. With such a mistress, if he seriously mean to discard her, he should indulge himself in no dalliance or delay. He must not allow his lips a taste of her former fascination.

Webb, the noted walker, who was remarkable for vigour both of body and mind, lived wholly upon water for his drink. He was one day recommending his regimen to one of his friends who loved wine, and urged him, with great earnestness, to quit a course of luxury, by which his health and his intellects would equally be destroyed. The gentleman appeared convinced; and told him, "that he would conform to his counsel, and thought he could not change his course of life at once, but would leave off strong liquors by degrees." "By degrees, (says the other with indignation,) if you should unhappily fall into the fire, would you caution your servants to pull you out only by degrees?" Feb. 22, 1810. J. REID.

Grenville-street, Brunswick-square.

N. B. His anonymous correspondent of last month must, upon reflection, be aware that it is impossible for the Reporter to take notice of observations that are communicated to him in

that way, however respectable may be the

author.

ALPHABETICAL LIST of BANKRUPTCIES and DIVIDENDS, announced between the 20th of January, and the 20th of February, extracted from the London Gazelles.

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Forge William Witham, York, thrashing machine maker. (Dickinfon, Roll

Gibbs Rebert, Bristol, dealer, (Osbornes and Ward, Briftol; and Meredith and Robbins, Lincoln's inn Gabfon John, Liverpool tailor and craper. (Shephard and Adlington, Besford row, and Daltern and Top, ham Liverpool Giffing Thomas, Borough road, St. George's Fields, keeper. (Ifaacs, Gevis Marks, St. Mary Axe

hop Goodwin William Gofport, biker. (Bleardale, Alex

ander, and Holme, New Inn, Cruickshank, Gofport Green William, Brown's lape, Spitalfields, dyer. (Freame, G eat Quen treet

Griffiths John Hill, Southampton, flater and builder. (Radoing, Southampton

Haynes Thomas, Brittol, chemift.

inn, and Jacobs, Brittol

(Gabell, Lincoln's

Hey Thomas, Lombard Areet, Fleet freet, dealer in fpi rituous liquors. (Robinson, Charte houfe fquare Hill John, Leeds, Kent, miller. (Webb. St. Thomas's frect Southwark, and Cooke. Maidftone Hinde John, Whitechapel, tin-plate worker.

Lingard's Wood, Almondbury,

Surry treet Stand

Hirt Henry,

clothier. (Battye. Huddersfield

Hood David, Sun teet. Eishopfgate, colourman. ding, Primrofe @reet, Bith pfgate

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(Cardwell, Manchester

Perry Francis, Finsbury fquare. merchant. (Palmer, Tomlinfun, and Thompion, Copthall court Phillips Thonias, Plough court, Lombard Street, merchant. (Sherwood, Cushion court, Old Broad Street Pretton William. Leeds, merchant. (Upton, Nicholfon, and Hemingway, Leeds, and Lambert and Sons, Hatton Garden

Richardfon Jofeph, Birmingham, dealer. (Swain, Stevens, and Maples, Old Jewry, and Whateley, Bir mingham

Riley Jofeph, Hackney, baker, (Bond. See hing lane
Res Geof, New balinghail street, merchant. (Wilde,
Warwick fquare
Rutlidge Thomas, Reading, hatter. (Williams and
Drake, Prince's frrect, Bedford row, and Bozon, Ply-
mouth Dock

Salt Thomas. Preston, Lancafter, plumber and glazier.

(Dixon Prefon

Sanders Samuel, Dove row. Hackney fields, wine merchant. (Allingham, St. John's fquare

Schoheld John, Slaughwaite, York, cotton manufacturer. (Stephenfon, Helmarth (Exley

Scofeld John, Skipton, York, money fcrivener.

and Stocker, Furnival's inn, and Alcock and Preston, Skipton

Sellers Robert Seulcoates, York, grocer. (EEdm inds and Son. Lincoln's ins, and Haire, Hol

Shepherds William Chaffon, Nottingham, iron merchant (Payne, Nottingham

clade Thomas, fen, and jun, Bartholomew Clofe, uil mer chants. (Lilfon, Chatham Place, Blackfriars Smith George, Newcastle upon Tyne, woollen draper. (Atkinfun, Chancery lane, aud Bainbridge, Newcale Spotteiwood John, Tokenhoufe yard, money fcrivener. (Watson and Plumbtree, Temple

Stelling Richard Norton, York, wool dealer.

Red Lion fquare. and Lifer, Scarborough Stephenfon Thomas. Rochdale, Lancashire,

{Williams,

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brewer. (Hurd. Temple; and Law, Manchester Stokes Thomas, Chepstow,Monmouthshire,money fcrivener. James, Gray's in fuare, and Cooke, Britul Stone Jacob, Bridge road, Lambeth, feedman. St. Thomas's (treet, Southwark

(Hodafon,

York,

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Syme George Vine ftreet. Minories, merchant. Jun. Catte Atreet, Falcon fquare

Houden Robert, St. Margaret's Hill, Southwark, linen draper. (Foulkes and Beckitt, Holborn court, Gray's inn

Jane

Ivory john, Nark Lane, broker. (Murray, Birchin
Jackton Samuel Raikes, Birmingham, button-maker.
(Johnston, temple, and Dolphin, Birminghara
Jacob John, Shide, Ifle of Wight, milier. (Clarkes and
Sewell, New port

Jones John, are of Whitechapel road, cordwainer, but now a prifoner in the Fleet. (Metcalfe, Balinghall

freet

King William Newport, Hants. milier. (Griffiths, Newport

Lewis John, Fahion freet, Spitalfields, victualier. Godmod. Bride court, Fleet Street

Luck Phil alifworth, Glocefter, yarn-maker. (Wathen,

Stroud

Lowton Edva.d, Mark Lane, merchant. (Day and

Hain me

me freet

Lyon John, North place, Gray's inn lane,money fcrivener. (Ifaacs, Bevis Marks, ot. Mary Axe Marfden Wjam, Leeds, merchant. and Hemingway, Leeds

Mears Henry Greenwich,

Dean arcet. Southwark

tavern keeper. (Shepherd,

(Clutton,

Sunnocks Thomas, Radi Highway, carpenter. (Hughes,

(Wild,

Taylor Jofeph, Ware, Herts. oak dealer. (Bund, See hing lane

Taylor John, Great Tower Areet, woollen draper. (Toul min Aldermanbury

Tucker John, Tiverton, Devon, watchmaker. (Rendell,
Tiverton, and Lys, Took's court, Curfitor Street
Verrall William. Uckfield, Suffix, grocer. (Gwynne,
Lewes and Turner, Bouverie #treet
Wainwright James, Sheffield, builder.

(Blakelock and Mallinton, Temple, and ratteriall, Sheffield. Walker John, Blackman freet, So thwark, linen draper. (Hartley, Bridge (treet. Backfriars

Wallis John. Croydon, tailor. (Junes, Martin's lane, Cannon Street

Wation Matthew Crawford, Charlotte @reet, Bloomsbury, Jace man, (Watkins, Stone buildings, Lincoln's inn

Whitaker John, Francis Prees, Tottenham court road, bookbinder. (Hurd. Temple

Wilcox William, Parfon's Green, Fulham, victualler. (Rousteid, Bouvene frreet,

Charlotte Areet, Portland place

(Perry,

(Upton, Nicholfon,

Wilkes james, St. James's treet, gun maker.

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Metcalf William, Banks Mill, Dartam, miller,, (Maynard Darham; and Pringle, Greville @treet, Hatton Garden

M'Leod James Craufurd, late of Demerara, but now of Huntly Hotel, Leiceber Fie.da, merchant. (Forbes and Peacock. Ely Place

Moody Henry altflestby All Saints, Lincolnshire. jol ber. (Carber, Gray's inn fquare, and Phillips, Louth Wiliam.ath, checfemonger. (Watts and Morrif Griffith, Bath, and Netheriole and Portal, Effex freet trail and Mofs Jofeph, jun. Newoury, timber dealer.

Woodham, Newbury; and Gregory, Clement's inn Mowbray Anthony, Durham wine merchant. (Reed, Newest upon Tyne, and Fairless, Staples inn Munro John, Cupfone areat, Mary-le-bone,

tailor.

(Wi Kufon and Young, Margaret reet, Cavendish fqare

Nichols Thomas, jun. Bradford, Wilts, Inen-draper. (Clarke and son, Brifiol, and Jenkins, James and Ab. bott, New Ina

Willis John, Pudding lane, merchant. (Swain, Stevens, and Maples, Old Jewry

Winch Robert. Shoe lane, joiner.

Holborn

Worr James, Little Cheapde. Finsbury fquare, butcher
(Palmer, Tomlinfon and Thompton, opthall court
Wright Robert, Watling ftreet, warehouferman.
Bridge street, Blackfriars.

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