North Wales Gazette

Political Summary. 118 -r". PO?:T*TGA:—U was coniidcfttly reported in the early pari, of the week that the French had retreated -from Ciudad Rodri- go; by stil)se(jtietit accounts, however, this is cofilradiclcti, and a batHe is tiiought to he in- evitable. Of the state of Lord Wellington's Ürm\' Hw ;,fcClHllI!S received are the Ol(Ht,sa- lisfaclùrH vroviioHs are abundant. The British head quarters were near Altueitia (be French were at SpiriUi, •«» the shores of the Agueda, nUh-er northward ol Ciudad Rodrigo. The English encampment was on the Hanks of the Coa, li-otii ttie Freticti by a bold and mountainous district. From the contradictory accounts, received from Spain, it .would be an tdie as well as unprofitable la- bour to attempt, by any kind of analysis, to extVact from the (iimetrically opposite ac- counts of the contending parties, a just idea of the stale atrairs; both ctnitu the victory on every occasion, and each boasts of its succes- ses, and speaks with real or affected contempt of the other. With respect to Cadiz lIothiog further has transpired since the taking of Fort Matagorda. AMERICA.—-The rejection of Mr, Macon's bill has decided the preponderance of British interest in America. The arrival of the John Adams, with dispatches from England, was looked for with the greatest-anxiety, as, from their overbearing and unwarrantable conduct; strong apprehensions were entertained that Great Britain would make no more attempts to produce an accommodation; indeed the ■current of public opinion appears to have en- tirely ehanged, and the democratic paNg, which from a strange perversion of political principle was also the French party, are com- plelery silenced. All these circumstances considered, we feel convinced, that whether the non-intercourse hill, now i-eprobate(ilby all parties, be suffered to linger until the pe- riod of its dissolution, or be otherwise dis- posed of, it will be followed by no other le- gislative measure hostile to Great Britain, b and this pacihc Iiielitiatioii on the part of America will be met by s-m-, lar disposition en ours.

WEDNESDAY.—Four o'Clock. GOVERNMENT have received advices from Carthageria, dated thc £ 4th ult. by which it appears, that through the exertions of that meritorious and indefatigable Officer Colouel Roche, two Spanish three deckers, namely, the Sail Carlos and Eerdinarid VIE of 130 guns each, have been saved from ffillitil., the hands of the enemy, who, 8000 strong* entered Murcia on the 2Sd, and on the fol lowing day were within six leagues'df Cartha- gena. in aid of thi? h\1PQdànl service» Sir S. lIooo sent from Minorca, at the request ol Col. Roche, the llibenna and Northumber- land ships of the line; which escorted lie Spanish ships either to Minorca or Gihraii:):. We are sorry to hsftr that 'accounts,, by the same conveyance state, that the Spanish nfrii!\ of the centre, which had re-assembled to the ainount of 20*000 men, unfier Gcjuvral Blake, have aaill become fugitives. > tt(iit.-NVe have rcpealcrt'y had occa- sion within the last twelve month". w advert lo S,)Ille circunisfances ;«ad pro- ceedings in the Provinces of Canada, wiiicli had been as often suppressed by the prompti- tude and decision of She Governor, Sir Janus Craig. II. appears* however* from the fol- lowing 'documents that the spirit Vrfts not ex tinguished, but was, on the contrary, qn Ih, eve forth willi when a timely discovery frustrated the designs of! he malcontents.. Extract of a Letter frnm a C'CntUman in Quebec t lo his friend i'n Udl{fax> dated March. 1810 lam !i.-il)l)y fo inform VOM, that yesfenhiy a most fortunate discovery was tier-er, and that some people of distinction, who have long- been suspected iHsloyal to our worthy Kihs; air1 ftovernmeni, have been taken up, and are !}IIW in confinement. Oew of thelll in particular, hy the name of Bedord, a Memhrr of the Assembly for the town of Quebec. They have established a Weekly Paper, called The Canadian., which has teeou-ti with invcetive against the Coventor, On tuc discovery of these alarming transactions, the gnards wote iuimetllately doubled, and twelve rounds of ball cat-fridge issued per mall; and had the plot not been discovered so MOn, it i* thought that the most serious evils "would -have been the result, as persons ofdi,;iincliq!! hare- been sus- pected to have been actively in it. Our worthy Governor hi; deeply en- gaged for these three days, and a Privy Council was sitting the whole day yesterday. Several persons are to have received pay from the Usurper of Europe through bis agents in the. States. "1\1y next letter will afford you more news about.these proceedings. It is believed, if the circumstances-which led to them Lul not. been timely discovered, we-should have, been murder- ed in "our beds, The guards consist now of one Field Officer, three Captains, nine subalterns, and- 300 JSon-commissione-.l anci men, besides lot) inen akid for putroles and piquets-. The Roman Catholic Bishop has been called before the Privy Council. Hp, S. Since writing the above, I have heard that several of itio fit-st Canadian Gentleman are now in gaol-, and several more expected to raekt the same fate. Even the Speaker of the Iiof-sfc it is said.—-Halifax Novate-. Quebec, March i, 1810.—" The Provincial Le- gislatnre was prorogued on Monday last, prepa- ratory to a dissolution. This event was generally expected, in consequence of the "Resolutions passed ill the House of Assembly on 'Saturday evening,,and the -appearance tf the grenadiers and the artillery-, which usually precede his Ex. ceUency when he comes .down to the parliament. A number of spectators had accordingly collected in the vicinity of the Bishop's palace, hywtlOIU his Excellency was repeatedly dYceretl, both on alighting and getting juto hi carriage, The new elections..will take place about the. end of the present monj)J,J(ltid, C- ;.1>1.

«a>—<ljj— VJRRTAGUS. Yegtrdy, at Llandegai, 'Mr; W. Port Penrhyn, to Miss Jones. Pen y lan, t.nh of this county-, Tuesday, at Wrexham, Mr, John -Tones, dra- per, to ltss Sarah Btowne^ daughter of the Rev. Wrn, Browne, boLth of that place; At Whittington, Mr. Thomas Philiifrs, of Worthert, Salop, to Miss Thomas, of Drifnewydrl, near Oswentry. Wednesday se'nnlghf, at Lancaster, Kr, J. T'ye, to Miss Agnes Pye, bom of Wyersdale. M'tiat was-very singular on this occasion, there. were twenty persons present, who were all of tire name of Pye, At Holywell, on the 24th insst. by the Rev. J. Jones, Vicar, Lieut. W. Jones, of his Majesty's 49th regiment, to Catherine, only daughter of the late Mr. T. Cawly, Esq. of Friars, Chester. On Monday se'nn ight, at Llarinor church, Car- narvonshire, Mr, Laplain, of Swansea, to Miss Harris, third daughter of the late Rev. R. Har- ris, of Pwllhely, Carnarvonshire- At Wakefield, by the Rev. Mr. Sharpe, the Rev. Edw. Ctriffiths, A. M. of shire, fo Miss Morvitle, daughter of the late John Morville, Esq. of Stiaritoii, Wakefield. DEATHS, Lately, much respected, at an advanced age, the Rev. R. Pugh, of Pabo, near Conway, and rector of LlaBsaintiraiii: in the dioee'ae of. Saia: Aaapb,. On We-lnasdsy, the Sli last. in the j"e3r of his age, Evan Evans, Esq. of Doigeiiy, ia the County of Merioneth. At Llanelly, OfIMonday Be'nnight, aged 58, Wiihaiii Yalden,. Esq. deeply lamented by his worthy family, and greatly regretted by all who had the pleasure of being lcjiokii to him. On Sunday, at the house of J. Holder, Esq. Borras, near Wrexham, Mary Eliza Smyihe, eldest daughter of George Walter Smytbe, Esq. late of the Groves, in Chester.

-4- Whitehall, May Lord Chancellor has appointed John Griffith, (if in the county of ihnhigh. gent, to be a Master Extraordinary in the Court of Chancery. The new act for increasing the allowance to innkeepers and others, oil whom soldiers may be quartered, directs that-instead of five- pence per diem for the diet and table-beer of- a fool soldier, and seven-pence for a dragoon, one shilling and four-pence shall be allowed for each the rate per tliemforhorses is aug- mented from and for each of tin; several articles which the pub- lican was heretofore obliged to furnish gratui- tously, he is now lo receive'a halfpenny The equestrian sports in Chippenham-Mead, Monmouth, in October liet, in honvtlr Qfthc Jubilee, have been productive of established Races, which will take place in October an- nually; and the county Lord Arthur Somerset, and Sir Charles Morgan-, Bart, have undertaken the office of Stewards for. the pre- sent year. Last week,"as a than of the nsme of WJB. Francis, employed bv the Cirepsto?' Com y pany, was failing-limber in Chanson Wood, a tree, unexpectedly gave way, and. failing upon him, completely' severed his head, near the.ears, from his body," by jamming it upon a !reeOtl¡fl( grOlJlld, ,) Caution to Servants,—On t-h-i instant, Mark Pryce, servant -to Mt..Humphreys, of Gunley, Was com mii t ted-16 Montgomery House tor master's service part of a day, to attend ai cocking wiihoiif'his permission. i Evan Morgan* nt the "parish of Margam, was os* Saturday to Cardiff gaol, by Edward Picton, clerk, and Henry K'nighl, Estj. two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace* for having neglected to pay over the money in his handstlne to the said parish as overseer of the'poor* undirected by HTu Geo. 11. c. 38. It is a curious fact, that, the remains of Lord rotlinfrwoodare deposited in 'the Vel- toll coffin Which Cardinal Woisey had prepared for himself, U had remained, ns lumber, in a riium adjoining St. George's Chapel, Wind- sor; pnd i'cr this last purpose was given as a present by his Majesty. The htfe Sir Charlci 'fiirrier has'eft ten tliousand pounds, and the whole of his valn- aiile horses, to his Stud Groom at Newmarket. We copy the following paragraph from a Dublin paper; Capt. Fellows, so honorably mentioned in it, is of the Earl Spencer'packet* between Holyhead and lin-.—A most melancholy accident has just happened at the saud bank of the south wail leading to the light house. A boat with six inexperienced yo men were Sailing 'foS- their pleasure with one sail Ul) the boat upset, two were drowned, two swam onshore, and one clung to the keel of the boat. Capt- Fel- lows, whose humanity and exertions ai:e well known, saw from his vessel in the t'idgeon House dock, the melancholy accident-. He flew with the feelings of a gentleman and sailor, ordered six of his brave crew with his boat, and rowed down to the rchef of those poor lellows. He had the satisfaction to take one from the keel alive., and immediate!y.af- ter he got the boat lifted, lie found another poor fellow apparently dead, clkigiug- to the mast; his brave Lars hrought him on shore, and took him to the arlillery surgeon %t ilic Pidgeon House, where every exertion of Captain Fellows, andMr. Burgess, the assist. oil, were Vtiii, When, in addition to the Frizes of the last Lottery, which whe enough to satisfy the cu- pidity of the veriest slave of Mammon, the Contractor for the present Lottery, throws into the First drawn Prize above £ 15 an extra f rize of a Hundred Ticket's, by any one of which 100,000 may be gained; when we see as we do, the whole Scheme teeming with such golden possihditictjrising to view, we titay fairly pronounce of those who let slip the opportunity, it is they who are L-litid and not FOHTCNE." it may be amusing to the curious in anti Gnily, to be informed, that last week there was found, in digging a grave on the north of B'rotherton church-yard, a mutilated and much decayed pewter chalice, with the lid, which was conjectured, and wilhsome probability, to have been deposited there along with tIc remains of some potions of distinction (per. haps of Lord Clifford or Fitzwaller) who was siaiti in the neighbourhood of that place, in the civil wars in the year 1461* The fields and neighbourhood of Brotherton afibrd fre- quent traces of the events of the above pe. riod: for, a few years ago, the iron head of an arrow, nearly in a state of dust, was fouud in an old wall near the church, which nn. questionably was struck there in someof the battles of thotee turbulent tiniei. Oil Friday a watermaa at Woolwich Soid his wife, to whom he ndhëoo married only three months, to all artificer-in the dock yard for five shillings and a bottle of gin { alf the parties got intoxicated on the occasion, and the happy pair narrowly escaped passiifg the first iiialit uf their honey uiotm in the watch- house. The disturbances in the Liverpool Theatre, on the ground forcing the Managers to take half prices, have been continued since onr lastvitll most intemperafe violence. Several friends of the managers have been personally insulted out of the thcatre,aud stones are oc- casionally thrown into the -building.—The Managers (who assert that half prices would be very injurious to their concern^ have re- peatedly requested a meeting with the leaders of this new plan, to discuss the iiiittei- ftiliv, and hear the reasons for and against it—but Ibis has been uniformly declined -In conse- quence, the Managers have commenced pro. ceedings in the Court of Kings Bench against several per^uis in Liverpool, for their con- duct in this attack, to try. they qay," whe. ther the law docs not afford to theatrical as well as other property its due pn;teet:-uu* The sum of one hundred pounds being an atifatijiiious donation, w.s this week deposit- cd iilthc hands of the Bev. Mr. Williams, of the Free-school, in Cowbridge, to be distri- buted by him in the relief of distressed cler- gymen being natives of Glamorganshire, and of the widows and orphans of such clergymen* Extraordinary Bel.k few days since, n silver eel, of a size the most remarkable, that, we believe, ever been recorded in the annals of Natural History, was taken bv some labouring men on the muddy shores yf the Medwav, not far from the lime works above Rochester. This most remarkabh; animal was Six feet long, about 25 or flO inches in circumference, and weighed S41b. When dressed, the fiesh was exceedingly white and of a most delicious flavour.

SHIPPING. PORT FENREIYV 13 AN Arrivctl.——Bettys, Owen" frosa Carnarvon; Havant, Cooper, frora Arundel; Milts, Bilis, from Liver- pool, hal as t .-Cle:cr-rl out.-— Mjs«t Dongas, irvmg, for Carlisle; Lady Penrhyu, ,T.c)neA, for Dublin; Six Brothers, Roberts; Ca- Ellis, for Bris- tol Bessey, 1'oden Grace, Dale, for -Liverpool; Lovely Nelly, Irving, for Dumfries, slatc". CAasAiiVo~— Arrived.-——Colonel Smith, Jones.) Hannony, uewis ? Eiiza,. Roberts, from j Dublin j Endeavour, Evans, from Youghal 1 J»ne, RJ>IJC»--B, troin Pwllhely, bajliistj Jane, Lyre PaTob, from Inverness, timber t Nelly, Pierce, from Liverpool, goods and coafs 5 Friends, Roberts, from Chester, sundries.— Cleared out.—Mary. Davies Constant Trade. Thorn is Swiftsure, Jones, for Dublin, hitef; IoneR, for Liverpool, oats; Diana, Griffiths { Catherine and Fanny, Roberts, for Chester Charlotte, Griffiths, for London, slate-, C.Off w »V.*—strr/.vc d.—-Molly, Owen A¡,niu'i, Wrench, from Chester, coal Nancy, Jones, from Swansea, coal.— Cleared out.— Ann, Roberts, for Chester, paving stones$William, Russell, Pro- vidence, Williams* Hhydland Packet, Williams, "tor Liverpool, corn and sundries; Nancy, Wil- liams, for Beaumaris, oak and ash timber; Marv Aim, W iHiams, for Liverpool, copper ore. Saile,d .-Ann, Roberts, for Clieiter; William. R its sell; Providence, W illiams, for Liverpool Nancy, Williams, for Beaumaris; Mary Ann, Williams, for Liverpool 5 Sally, Williams, for Chester*

m .LONDON markets. CORN EXCHANGE. MAY 2g. Wheat was very dull in sale this morniue, only prime samples could be disposed of at last Monday's prices.—Small and Tick Beans were cheaper.—Boiling Pease maintained their former price -(rey Pease were dear, being but few at luarkct.-The Oat Trade was dull at a small de- ciine.^Rye and Barley with little variation, General Currency asunder. Wheat.—s88sll5s Grey Pease..46", s 12Ss Sni-atJ Jica«s.4J« «» Rye, 52s 51. Ticks. .— c Barley —s S3s 46s Ott,t., 3P 78s White P.eas—s 66s 7g Rape Set;)1560: AVERAGE PRICE OF COR. By the Quarter of Eight W inclrester Bushels. j Wheat Rijt. f Km-ley «>•», f. d. <• j >•. j Anglesey, ) t] G ——— 0 0 22 c- a 1, ii arv I i, 8 8 4s q or Denbighshire ^iS- 5 64 o 2X. Flintshire, 112 0 — 67 2 'o *0 Merionethsh." 93 5 | 50 0 oi Montgomery. IIg 4 jfi 9 ChesLcr ¡ 102 -) — ( g- f 1II!Ii! FiviCE Of LEATHER. AT EE A DEN IIAV, l to Ditto 5'8 to 661b. 1_ fo Merchants Backs. IS to Dressing Hides 19 tn in Fine'Coa'ch ICides 20 to 2 Crop Tfides, for Cuttinc, S&to 4'0.. 1B4' to Flat Ordinary, 45 to 50. — ~_L- 30 ti 1011). jlc- to STr- Ditto, 50 io"?0lb. per doaen.16 to 42 Ditto, 70 to 301b to 31:' Small Seals, (Greenland36 to 39 Large ditto-, per dozen. 100s to tie Tanned Horse Hides, per lb, to SI

FAmS THE EXSUIXG ?FBS,K, Denbighshire,—Llandegfaf 65 Llanymcnich MerioftBt/tsAire.—Llaaiel 4. Mvntgcmeryshirc.—Oemmas §j Trallwen 5 T-«. faidWn 7. t | t iJ t iiE ran the ensuing week* '• • I i' 1 •< r I< A. V A N SA.VI»S a £ ? g X « £ | 4 §"§~ s :-h s js, May be. cror.r.cd 3 | « C1 | p S S 5 St 5 9 hours itjfcr hi-;h 4 j | t JJ23 3 water, and cavii >. } '4 hue salt. 4 t. our I I 'v Da<n I Hi$h 1{i*h IU"h ,HSh I J'!PJl tr'r'i J"' _J_ Water Water 'Writer Water I Water Water } /7<> J's* I MAY. H. M. H. W. II. M B! M ~H. *M • Thursday Si 6 42 4'2 8 22 9 12 9 32 10 0 •; Fndaj' Jt'NK. J 1 :0 B SO 9 12 10 0 10 20 II 48 •• Saturday, 2 3 IS •$1.8 9 .58 JO 48 II 8 II 36 • j .Sunday 3 9.' 0 !*» 6 10 4<? 11 86 li 60 12 24 Sun* nfi. Asccj*. Monday, „—.4 9 Si iO 5i !1 34 12 '24 12 44 I J 5 Tuesday, & 20 42 S I 4^' 13. 23 I 12 1 32 2 0 Wednesday..S li SIS' iH SO I 10 8 O 2 20 3 48 "¡;ç-