Taledonian Mercury

... tatcuonin Percurp. EDINBURGH, HUl s D A r- oVYE SMB FR 14. t ncrced to Ihave Sieen able to lay before our readerq, .:fe speech of the Lord Presidnt, on taking the chair 7QCaotrt of Session on Tuesday; but, owing to the exer- 7:ehare made to procure an accurate report, we are thenrecesstqy of deferring it till Saturday, whon -e can our rteders with tsis able address, exactly as it was THE KING. ...

Published: Thursday 14 November 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 389 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

Caledonian Mercury

... IQLalcoonialt' rocvcurv:,, m EDINBURGH, SATURDAr-TJUNi 22. t The repcrt of his Majesty's health, on Tuesday is wvas, that the King is a little better. :n le :h A New Pork paper has been received of the 24th e of last month, containing an account of an engage. 2 ment between a British sloop of war, the little Belt, (of IS guns, Captain Bingham, and the American frigate President, of 44 guns. ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 738 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

LUDICRIOUS EFFECTS OF THE APPEARANCE OF A COMET IN 1712

... LUDICGMOUS EFFECTS OF TRE APPEARANCE OF A COMET IN 17k2. ?? I In the year 1712, Mr Whiston having calculated the return of a comet, which was to make. its appear- ance on Wednesday the 14th of October, at five mi- nutes after five in the morning, gave notice to the pub'lic accordingly, with this terrifying addition, that if a total dissolution of the world by fire was to tak6 . placedn the ...

Published: Monday 11 November 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1267 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE

... FROM THE LONTDONGAZETTE. ADA1I.AILTY-0FFx~cr-Marchi S0. Copy of e Letter from the Hon. George Cranfield Berkeley Admiral ef the Blue, &c. to John Wilson Creker, Esq! ddat Lisbon, the 8th of March 1811. -sea, I have great pleasure in informing their Lord- ships of the evacuation of the strong post which the enemy possessed at Santarem, and that our army are 'now advancing in puwsuit. Lieutenant ...

Published: Thursday 04 April 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1200 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

EXTRAORDINARY CONSPIRACY

... EXTRAORDINARr CeA'SSIR4lC2 bs [From an American Paper of the&10th ult.] .b j The following article, Dopied from The Aurora, 1 e of yesterday, contains additiona',particulars of the. 0 le daring attempt to rob some of the wealthiest mer- le chants of Philadelphia. Perhaps a, more villainous l tr project 'has never been~formed in this country, and it A, it is .stron~!y to be wished that the ...

Published: Thursday 01 August 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 777 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

LLOYD'S MARINE LIST—May 3

... LLOYD'S MARINE LIST-May 3. The Esperance, T'shonpsop ; the Flowers of Edinburgh, Ma- son; the Welcome Friend, Walker; allhbelonikng -to Lyain, and from Swansex to London; and the Alert,OGeliie, of Sun- derland, from Newport to London, were' chaced on shore in St Margaret's Bay, near Dover, on Monday evening, by five French pijeatebre, and it, i feared they will'be lost. The Good hitent, Reed, ...

Published: Monday 06 May 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 419 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

SHOCKING MUTINY,

... SHOCKEING MYTINY, Plymouth-Dock, Dec. 4. - Cis morning arrived the Diana, 36, Captain Spi Siis from a cruise, in wrhich she had.captured a ai TIt blig, deserted by tlie enemy, on the French te [scoa't Mr Andrewa '(Midshipman), a Quarter- 'sc ?? seven men, were Iput on board the brig ar . 'to &iwng iher into'-ort, and a Mr N. Winsland, hi J('Clapt. lxerris's Stvward) as a passenger, making in ...

Published: Monday 09 December 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 355 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

GENERAL ORDER

... GENr1EAL ORDER. A - - t. - And ADJUTANT GeNrRAr.' 9 OFFICE, P .Edinburgh, 15th July 1811. PAROLE. COUNTERSIGN. Mis Royal Highness th6 PRINCE REGENT hlas been pleased, in the name, and on the behalf of HIS MAJESTY, to ap- prove of the appointment of Colonel William Gifford, oF the 423d regiment of foot, to be Deputy Adjutant-Genetral to the forces serving in North Britain, vice Major-General ...

Published: Thursday 18 July 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1479 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... HO1JSE-OF LORDS-July 58. The judgment was affirmed in the case of Top-, ping against the Attorney-General of Ireland. Lor& LAUDE- DALB moved for an account of the rnumber of Bank notes in circulation. Agreed to. Adjourned. - HOU SE OF COMMONS, July 17. CURRENT COiN. Ml BROIsGRAM gave notice, that he should, on Tridav, submit a string of resolutions on the subject of the present state of our ...

Published: Monday 22 July 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5721 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

LONDON

... LONDO CM' FRIDAY-JANUARY 18. k 0NO~TRpq BRILLIANT-AcTiox.-Accounts have tl received, of a most gallant action having been q *t On the coast of Spain, between his Majesty's n 41 tr Entreprenante, Captain Williams, and. fout ?? pnvateers, whose collective force amounted vJ 1 guns and 170 men, some of the guns Iong t 'Punders: The Entreprenante carried.: only at ir ,lhe 8 guns, 12.pounders, and ...

Published: Monday 21 January 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1009 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... PRIYATGE CO-.R]SPON.DEVArCE. ( London, Feb. lI, - past 7. r. a. Our letters to-day from the shores of the Ta- gus, are-both important -and satisfactory; they are to the recent date of the 2d inst. The following are extracts fiom them ' Lisbon, January 3Oth I avail myself of tie opportunity of writing to you by his Majesty's sloop the Fervent. . Our army is in good health indeed, I might say ...

Published: Thursday 14 February 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3112 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

LLOYD'S MARINE LIST—FEB. [ill]

... LLOYD'S .ZARINE LIST-FEB. 12. . . . . .. ?? . The fBlucher, Lafigric6h, arrived in *the Downs' yesterday from Lisbon; was chaced and fired at on Sunday night5 off the South Foreland, by three French lugger privateers. The Sedulous, Wheatly, from Malta to London, was ta- ken by a French privateer, retaken by the Sandwich lugger, on Friday, and arrived at Portsmouth. The Dorothy, (transport) ...

Published: Monday 18 February 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1479 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News