North Wales Gazette

I c o U, JHungo Parke.—By vessels arrived from Gorec auUSieria Leou we iue enabled to stale, that so late as the month of March last, con- siderable hopes w,!re entertained that Mr. Mungo Parke, so often reported to have lost -,vis slill alive. For the information ot that Gentleman's numerous friends, we can now state, that the ship Favourite, of London, Capt. Truman, is arrived at Ply. mouth, from Gorce. Previous to the denar. IlIre of that vessel, information had been rt ceived at Senegal by anative ot the Manding; country, who accompanied Mr. Parke as fa into the interior as Sego and Sansanditig, th he was alive in the month of January. Col( lIel Maxwell, the Govenor of Senegal,. ha< inconsequence of this information, directs that a decked boat should immediately 1 fitted out to proceed up the River Senega for the purpose of giving assistance to M Parke in his indefatigable exertions in explo ing Ihe Continent of Africa. General Ferguson, who so much disfit guished himself during the first, campaign Portugal, is immedialely going out to Cadi as second in command to General Graham. Bushy Park was crowded with company < Saturday last, to witness a walkin2; mar. winch a young man of family had undertake he was to walk 70 miles in 21 hours, whir he did without difficulty in less than 20 hour We never saw that beautiful Park wo full, company, he walked on one mile from n Porter's Lodge. The Duke of Clarence at; family, Lords Waldegrave, and Glenbervi and Lord Uoberl Seymour, vvwre on ti ground. The bet was for a considerable sut of money. Great Britain, in the rourse of fast ye; six liiiii(ii-ed thousand packs of woo of240lbs, per pack. A Gentleman of the name of Yeovil, a nr ive of Dorchester, started on Monday rnon mg at ifeniey, to go 500 miles on foot i (lay- and he had done 16 niies at twelve o'clock on Tuesday nigh; !e isf-iking his course through Somersetshin. &c. and intends finishing at Da shot. A Hampshire, who undertook to go 1000 mik 1 in 1000 successive hours, gave up, after gr mg a fortnight. On Wednesday last, Brigadier-Gen. Ack land left Ipswich, for his native county, De- vonshire, extremely ill of the VYalcheren fe ver. He had been confined to his bed t.e davs, and little hopes were entertained of hi recoverv. About half past five o'clock, yeslerda; morning, the ancient mansion of the Noe famiiv. at Exton, near Stamford, was dis- covered to be on fire; before any assislancr could lie procured the dining-room, drawing-, room, library, and al! tlie apartments imme- diately adjoinmg, were in flames; and a shorl time only had elapsed before the whole of Iht rooms, east of the great hall, were a heap ol ruins. There was not lime io save any pari of Ihe valuable library, which together with the whole of the furniture, and some ex pen sive pictures (amongst which was a hndscaj t worth 1000 guineas,) were entire.y deslroyeJ, Gainsborough's fVoodman, narrowly escaped, and N'orthcole's admirable painting of Cap, Englrjie/d in the < etitaur, together wit!; a few others of the extensive collection, were not saved without much difficulty. The losaca.i- not yet be ascertained, bui from appearances! it must be very great. Abollt haIr of the house is completely in ruins—Only a ven small sum is insured. The Queen presented Miss Dash wood (nov Marchioness of lily), who was one of he maids of honour, upon her marriage, wil 10001, Princess Elizabeth gave her a valuabl lace cloak.—;Lord Frederick Montague, wh is cousin to the Marchioness of Ely, came I town on Ttfff.kiy morning, to be present the marriage, from Kimboiton Castle, an returned again in the evening to Kunboitoi The Duchess of Manchester, aud ail her fa milv, were present at the solemnisation t i the nuplials. The cockades given away upo the occasion cost 2GOI. There were 65 wedt ing-cakes provided. The Portuguese are very fine-'ookin troops; and pflvalc accollnts add, that llie are mixed with lhe British troops, manic man alternately. T»B ARMY.—lTi.$Majesty having taken inl consideration the very tt it litti-v wfiic arises to the service from soldiers being pe milled to obtain their discharges, by provii ing substitutes, and likewise the various fraui which are practised on individuals as well the army, by those who make a trade of fu nishing those substitutes, is graciously pleast itt hereafter in those perultar case which may occur), when soldiers of good cl1: racier may solicit their discharges Oil grotiii4 so strong as to claim the attention of th Commander in Chief, they shall, instead t providing substitutes, be required to pay th levy money of two recruits 6f the same de senption, and to be engaged for the stun period of service as themselves, which mone, is to be applied to the general purposes o recruiting (lie army, and accounted for to tin public under such regulations as may be de termined upon by the Secretary at War. The Commander in Chief therefore dired that the Commanding Officers- of Regiments will be very careful in fully ascertaining flu- grounds oil which they hereafter make appii cation for the discharge of soldiers on I-IK terms before mentioned, and that the sokiiei whose application they sanction, falis direcU) under the description above specified. Commanding Officers of Regiments must it their application, specify the ag;e, and SlZ( of suchmen, their length of service, the ua t life of their engagement (whether for limit ed or unlimited service), and in the casco recruits, whether they have been finally o I only immediately approved. Upon the Commander in Chief's sarvctioi being received for the discharge of any: soldier under Ihe circumstances slated iu tins order the tile regiment will di t» rect him or Ins friends to lodge the retjuirei sum with the regimental agent, and on re- ceiving a certificate from liie atienf, that tlx same has been paid into his hands, ILe (om mauding Gflicer is to grant the soldier his dis j chaige. By < ommand of, the Right Hon. the Com mander in Chief, r, (Signed; HARRY CAY VERT, Honc Guards, May gg, 1810, AdjiUan .1 ) NAVAL ACHIEVEMENTS.—On the 7th nist* the Daring gun-brig, Lictit. Hayes, discover- cd a large convoy under the protection of fiIl IIVlned scl)()()iier, a -,itid sever',ll boats, standing into Sable d'Olone ti)e i teries being too heavy, she was unable-to u ) capture any of (hem, but succeeded in cut^11!? j off four, and drove them on shore. His MaJcs, I 1 1 ) i ¡'

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r • I Written at the ruins of resi&encey at the head of tlte Lake Geirionydd: "What hoi from the loneslu.nher of the grave, Spirit of Taliess'ti—'hee I hail; "Where rd-t hy Geirioujd'd's azure wave, 'Thy lofty strains re-echoed to the vale. The ««}r-same breams, tho' ever changing—ran, or eiel-lial And with pale e'en still loves the morn to ride. Put pros rate are thy oaks, and bared to heav'n The vales their undulating curves disptai, licre now to ¡¡t1"anerand '0 all i giv'n ^!nsH<g, alone, and weaponless (0 stray, He hears me not— The prince of birds is dpadt IIashed is the blast, and all is silent round V. hen lo on where, perhaps, his earthly bed Is laid hastes memory to choose her ground. rove a Cal Vi he e m, far ancestry at every uiove t-U-1 to ill Passed are the days of woe- when hostile bauds :Ii:! 1° the shock of death uneessam spring S til spfead the ravagei of Saxon brawls, <)i shli o'er hrei hes et=—brethren's triumphs runs;. a )f war, j'.urope 10 its centre shakes, ZN;;t..e in peace, or fvexofi'S'nun dur Ch.«i:»s the iiifft mounts and quatis the Lmped Ial". Has! CJIUoria'haii-andme among v <004, Th, Horn in ciiI1ieCBr(ill- R .■ in hts npiceh—wi:: e revolving runs, Jviuy stili ut/ d<i>s-wi-h %Lving roii,

EAST I A'D IKS. FROM THE BO VI AY COURIER, liEc.O, ld09. llead-quartpr?, Fli-s Majesty's shipLi CbilFonnc, <>iT Rus til Khiiitit,Nov. 14. 1309 HONORABLE —1 have grea' pleasure in acijuaiatiiij: that (he troops landed and took possession of the pi rate town and port of Rus ul Khiuia on the l:?th iust, an:l re-e.ubarke;! this tiiorni'ig; the dows, boats and stores were all destroyed, and the'town ransacked; from 70 to SO of these vagabonds were killed, and many iii i inclose a List of the Killed and Wounded, and have to lament the loss of Cap?. Dan.sey, of 65th regiment who was killed by a £p'G; -e(itiest perinistion to recommend Captain T'.H; a-r, of the Marine Battalion, to your notice, as a trios! deserving officer. ? aili under the greatest obligations to Capt. "W.-iiiiwright, commanding the squadron, for his aide assistance and co-operation in every ar- -ii-tt rangement relating to the troops, particularly for the rapid manner in which he enabled us to land, in which the guns v-ere landed and sent ;tii(i orderly manner in which the re-emba: ka.!ion was effected this morning, and my acknowledgments are particularly due for the i>ssistance of the Royal Marines of the Chufonne and Caroline frigates, under the command of I.ieut. Drury, as a most valuable reinforcement. Capt. Pasley, and the Gentleman of his Suite, pror.fflins on a mission to the Court of Persia, j.>ined the armament oif Muscat, and most hand- somely volunteered their services on shore with me, where 'hey were present during the whole of our operations. I trust it will be found that tii" pirates at this port, have received a handsome e¡,i ,,¡ i'díile{tr. I have 'he honour to be, Honorable Sir, Your most ohediewt humble Servant, L10N K1 SMI TH, Lieut.-Col. The ITon. the Governor of Bombay. Total killed — 1 Officer. Total wounded— 2 Officers, I serjeant and 7 rjri vatc: & -3 of (tficás Killed and IV ounded. Killed, fi.i'li rci'inii-nl, ( apt. Vv M, Dansey. 34th regiiiicut, Lieut. J. S. Jones. M. W A R RM N iirig.-Major. Extract of a f etter, dated 'us Til Khima, Aov. loth. 1809. i sni happv lo iulorio you that we arriv- The Minerva v • iiesi observed to be Ivin^in much far- f. I r lb HI we could approach buf on our an c .riuy; «iu' got under wei.-tli, and rati on the beach, when the people Iron) the shore were in>tr.edutel) sent to reinforce her; which at l:;is time made us iliiok we had no conlemp, J.bie CIOMVIV to cope with..She was fianked Ii} IOWII Ldl of IIi en :th In¡dch!oeks, <lHd a iuue-pouudct } howevei, aiicr rectjtviug two or three hroadsidrs from the Prince of Wales and «u»-hoats sent into the attack, the Arabs deserted her, and in the course of an hour from the time Ihe boats left the lfeet, this un- fortunate vessel was in flames, and completely destroyed by sunset. It Is however, to he regretted, that the r, Prince of Wales, in performing this essential piece of* ,ood service, got aground and re ceived the enemy's (ire tilllclI p. m. when she got off with the loss of tw?j iascars and her foremast slightly wounded. The next day was passed in making ar- rangements to (and the troops, and throwing a few shot and shells into the town from the gun-boats, the enemy returned tbe tire with great coolness but very little effect. "On the 13th, at daybreak, the attRck commenced by the marine battalion at one end of the town to attract the fire of the ene- my, whilst Colonel Smith, with the Europe- ans, iar.ded at the other; a very smart lire was kept up from trenches along' the beach, hut soon as ihe troops got looting, the enemv flew ill all directions before them into the strong parts of the town, where they were co mpletely concealed frcue us, and fired their niusquelry from the bouses, which consider libiy--retarded the progress of our men. t shall not go on detailing what occurred on Hux most f trtunate- d IV therefore VOll must fee satisfied to hear that the enemy were driven into the counlry, all their gtnvs spiked, and the Union Jack Hying in Ihe Sown bv noon; about seventy dows (large and small) destroyed hy tira, their '¡I!aZlnes blown tip. ami every iujurv completed hy tour p". III. this, was ail done with the loss of one Captain ot ihe 65 ii, and three or lour men wounded, the troops found considerable plunder in tlie town and great quantities of dates and coffee were lesl there from liie laudable anxiety Colom-; "Muiih left to r'd hill men embarked olf the she burning saore after the irreal noiut wn, i settled. The troops are t>ow a!! e«s*arkp$, anr we expect to sail to-day for Kishme, wber fhere is nr;o!.li £ r nest, ot pirales. The misera hie mliabitanfs of this place are How coiieclet' on Ihe beach deploring their situation, am, burying their dead, which we suppose 1. '\iliOllllt to 150 or 200 men. 1 The sultan made his escape on the onh norse in lite place. Several charts, ?{oidra»ts, J iiul books, have beell fOllHJ, with poor IJop- •vood's name in tiu:m. Mrs. Taj lor bati sailed for Cashire some da>s before our arri- 1 val here. w it is supposed by the ry ihat. thor-e is an European here who has in- structed the inhabitants to throw- up b.tfle- ries. and dig trenches, aa they are all dene in. iir stile." ny private Idlers front She expedition under !lie c.)iuatsuvd of Lieul.—Colonel Smith, we learn ihat several privates of the detachment' both native and ropean., had been fortnnaSe in securing considerable sums of money dtirin;; liie ransacking of the town of iiussul Kbiina,- one soldier or His M'»jesly"'« is said to have found i .400 ilio urs.

IU; £ STATE OF FRANCE, 1810. We copy "he following from a PampliSet j'ttd pubiished under the l,ite Nt. P, The wretched situation of the French tia- lion, taken ns a whole, ran hardly be betiev- ed having read the pompous Exposes laid before t!ie \v<>rld, of the flonrisiiing stale of that great but unfortunate people, if AiU cre- dit were given to these statements, the British WIlton would he induced to suppose, that I wealth, commerce, inde-pendence, and happi- ness prevailed throughout the French em- pire: and that a strong atlachment to the present constitution prevailed. and that the sovereign was the object of love and vene- ration. I Nothing is, however, so diametrically op- posite to truth; the Exposiy or state of the nation, published every year, is dictated by Bonaparte himself, and the real truth is sup plied by the most shameful and exaggerated falsehoods. Every thing that can give the naliou an insight into its true situation, is most carefully withheld. The boasted public build- ings erected in his good city of Paris, many of which are useless to the country, only serve for the monuments of hiscruel ambition and pride, and are as void of iante as they are of grandeur. 12is famous canals and public roads, so vauntingly extolled for these last seven years, nnd the vast basins building j II the ports of the Brilish channel, to proted his marine and commercial ships, exist only in 1MS imagination; the greater part of these works having stopped for Ni-atit of Some,utter enormous sums had been expend- j ed, have been found impracticable. The fa- mous port of Cherbourg, (hat has been for years represented as forming a complete and impregnable harbour, where millions of mo- ney, and years of labour have been lavished, cannot, at this hour, afford shelter for a fleet; its boasted fortification, bearing the name of the Cor.sican, erected on the dike forming ibis harbour, was overwhelmed by a tempest near two years ago, which swept away the whole garrison, consisting of about 500 souls, who all perished in sight of their families and countrymen. — In spite, however, of these ca lamities, and ill spite of the able opinion of h s engineers and oldest seamen, iuhabitanlsof Cherbourg, he perseveres, as if in defiance of nature and reason, in again building a fort on the sile of that so recently swallowed lip. The pompous and laboured statements of the finances of France, of its conuncrce in the interior, of the few taxes imposed on the .wretched slaves, are known throughout eranre to be shameful and infamous false- hoods-. All well informed persons know. that nothing but the pillage and unfeeling contri- butions levied by his merciless army on the peaceable ami unoffending countries in which he has waged war, have enabled the govern- ment to make head against its increased and enormous expeuces. In addition to these, licavy and oppressive taxes have beenlcvierl throughout the wiioie extent of France, which occasions the most serious discontent and even complaints, it is in the power of every fo- reigner resident in France to ascertain this fact these boasled i'xpasii are considered throughout the nation, as founded in false- hooù. and therefore make not tho slightest impression nn the unhappy people but add to that hatred and detestation of their o- vernment, which other circumstauces have excited among them There is nor existing on the face of the globe, a more cruel tyranny than that of Bona- parte, nor a more unhappy paople than the French are at this day t)o,r is Bonaparte any where inoredreaded and detested, than in that country which he calls bis empire. The com- plete stagnation of commerce in every city, town, and village, the serious ang-melltation of every necessary of life, the vast decrease in the wages of labour, the oppressive and vex- atiouseffects of the droits reunis, the dreadful conscriptions pursued with unrelenting seve- rity, have given rise to such a general discon- tent, that the death of Bonaparte is devoutly wished for his name is feared and abhorred by every reflecting Frenchman, by all who are not enjoying pensiolisor lucrative employ- ments under his tyrannical power. The severe and arbitrary restrictions laid on the little commerce that remains, the overbearing in- solence and extortion of his numerous cus- tou house officers, paralyze all the efforts of tL:dec:II"the interior of France. TIJC impudeni assertion of the .flourishing state of her agri- culture and mterior commerce is a notorious imposition on 1, lie of his wretch- ed subjects. in some few districts the agri culture appears to be improving, but by far the greatest .proportion of France shews a po- fl verty and ncf^iigence in the genera! cultivation of the lands-, that strongly mark the stale oi commerce, and the great want of capital. Mill there are a few merchimls, who, incon- sequence of their political sentiments, uieel vith great support from the usurper, and 're permitted to carry on a considerable com nerce, notw thslauding his senseless decrees of Milan and Berlin, Tnese men a c allowed to export wine, brandy, grain, &c. to England, whilst, those | who have no such j rotection are rigoroush. I puinshed, and then properl confiscated iiuier the pwtence of being English.—Th.s class o:ftll¡erchants COIISIKI of but few ii»d from ,Alit of caprice oi ilona-parte, they do not rise much in trade rhclr efforts are merely -lund, and the publi. reap no benefit froll; such limited traffic Nothing can more slrongly proh the POVIL\ and wrctchedfvess of France, than the state o' the towns; I Me house!} ol individuals, either in -towns or country and the genera! mean uess observable amongst those who teside upon their hltle properly. 1 is tbe derail- ments of France, to the extent ot leagues, nothing is to be seen but palaces, •Magnificent parks, and numerous country houses in ruins. The spacious gardens tire sold separately from the houses, and divided amongst several the noblest trees, which were intended only for ornament, tire cut down or disfigured sometimes families occupy a few apartments of a superb house, whilst the greater part, without floors or windows, and the marble chimntes defaced or carried away, are inhabited by bats, and other animals. The smaller country houses present a melancholy and distressieg picture, partly inhabited aud the remainder in ruius. There comfort and content never find au abode, aud they exhibit a irightfui remein- j IHrUlce of what a misguided people are capa- ble ofdotrtg, The same distressing scenes of misery are to be discovered if you examine the villages scarcely a cottage can yon enler without he holding the fathers and mothers of families bewailing the loss of a beloved child, dragged to the armies. Several assured me they hail lo1 UJret. four, or five childïeo of the age of 17 or 18; and after ail, some had a last and only child wrested from them by the conscrip- tion.—As for the cultivated fields, there the sturdy youth is not to be seCII, hilt old and infirm men, with old women scarcely able to support the fatigue of ploughing, tilling, and reaping their lands, perform all the labours of agriculture. For hundreds of leagues, that population, formerly so remarkable in France has disappeared you may travel through her villages, through her towns even, and see a vast defalcation, and in the fields scarcch a peasant. The pubiic roads exhibit the cruel tyranny of the government hundreds of her brave youths, chained hand to hand, often many chained by the neck, with dejected hearts, are driven like cat lie to the different depots, hy the gendarmerie, a kind of police soldiers, whose hearts are steeled against the sentiments of humanity by the very nature of their service. The stranger can observe 110 appearance of that enlhusiasiic joy, that cx- presion of love and respect for the usurper, or his government, so aiidac Ioiisly aiiiiotiii. ed in the official paper, the Monilenr, and others of his slavish journals. No, nothing is hettrd amongst the conscripts, but expressions anger and resentment against their tyraut { Ihe (ears starting from their eyes at being so inhumanly lorll from their fond parents,from their sisters, and often from the women they were on the point of marrying So disgusted were they at the idea of being dragged to be I slaughtered, in a cause foreign to the interest of the ir country, that hundreds have had re- course to the desperate measure of destroying their organs of hearing, or of sight, or other- wise maiming themselves. 1 have myself been au ee witness to this, have remonstrated willi many. at the dangev they were exposed to, both in regard to titeir (Itvii lie-,tltli, is %i,ell ,,is to the vegneance of their government, which they knew would punish their aged parents; no advice, no entreaties, could prevail. To iilith a pitch had this arisen, that medical men often in easy circumstances, sold a powder to these brave youths that produced a temporary blindness if applied to the eye, and if applied to any opell wound an inflammation alld swelling of the limb, which often endangered the life of the wretched lid, and notwith- standing heavy fines and severe imprison- ments, in some instances for life, Ihe govern- mcnt cannot stop it. These are facts, manv of which came within my knowledge; and which the Monilenr, that model of decency and Iruth, every day confirm four columns of that paper are sometimes filled with jlld- ments pronounced against those who have beeu disco vercd aiding; the escape of coiisci-ilits.