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■,_,T..4 LONDON.

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■, _,T ..4 LONDON. TSUESDAT, Oct. 11. are 3orry to find tlte mortality from fever V V '!1 ,fle east of Spain has rather increased than diminished, and that it is spreading devastation into every part of the city of Barcelona" In the Barcelonetta it appears, if possible, to be] still more fatal; and a recent event shews that th unhappy persons enclosed in the suburb,! who? ( escape had been prevented both by sea and Jam believed that their condition would be iroprovd by gaining entrance into the city. A !t:t:er f,m Tllrragona of the 2fth tilt", states", that on the 2d, the people of Barcelonetta, driven to diitracion, made a desperate attempt to force the £ »es vhich separate them from the city, and wlich were guarded by a cordon of soldiers. I'hf'J were -.riven back with great difficulty, hut tot before 'a I number of lives had been sacrificed Barcelona has heretofore been considered the pincipal seat of the infection but Tortosa, on the 2bro, has suf- I fered in a still greater degree. TLe population of I' this latter place does not, we behe'e, exceed 1'2,000 or 14,000 Souls; yet in the perinr between the 1st and 23d of September, upward.' of 2000 persons were carried off by the feve r. Tha infection has appeared in the village of G-acia. some miles to the north of Tortosa. At Pdma, in Majorca, the fever is also making dreadlul ravages. The Revenue.—Xn an-othe part of onr paper we I have given the detail's of the Quarter's Ilevenue, ending on the 19th of October; and -we are happy to state, that the improvement over the corres- ponding Quarter of 1820, is uf no less a sum than 837,2641. I'lie total ntlmtj(,r of IBa! j 125; the dismissal took pkc? in the most delicate manner, the selection having been made by ballot, and all who havp. served fifteen years and upwards being exempted from it. On Monday, the Newark Castle steam-packet was sunk off Clifton-hill, near Newark. The fire of the engine not having been extinguished, unfor- tunately burnt d. hole in the bottom of the vessel, by which she was speedily filled with wa.ter.

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