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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

... ' *FAlATCH PAPERS. MNlIiSTRY OF MARINE, To HIS EX XCELLENCY TIlE MINisTrR or MARINE AND . COLONI:IS. - MONsss qEUR, - Dunkirk, Dec. 13!0. I have the hoiotlr to) in-form your Excellency of a disastrous ?? Wtich tgook place yesterday in Dlunkirk roads . T'lhe English East nldia Ceomlany's ship the Elizaltch, of f650 tons, colnnanded by Captain Hubv rt William Eastwick, *in its pahsage frmen ...

Published: Monday 28 January 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 757 | Page: Page 4 | 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 

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... PRITVATLA CO.RRESPO2V7DEVCE. Lpnddn, Feb. 27, 1 past 7 P. M. By information, this morning, we learn, that uns der an order from the Republican Government, the powers of Mr. Pinckney, as Minister Plenipotentiary, 1 have ceased. We hear that he is to' take leave ok the Regent to-morrow, He has purchased a yes- se], for the conveyance of his furniture, and other ef- fects, and is himself to retu ...

Published: Saturday 02 March 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 621 | Page: Page 3 | 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 

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE

... FRLOM THE LONDON GAZE TTT. MY - * WAR-OFFICE-JULY 1, 1811. Kt His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased, in the name, and on behalf of his Majesty, to appoint the un- .a dermentioned Officers of the East India Company's forces to t take xankl by Brevet in his Majesty's army in the East Indies 1 only, asfollows- in COLONELS, e wvilliam Kirkpatrick, John Garstin, r John Macintyre, ...

Published: Monday 08 July 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1126 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

AGRICULTURAL REPORTS FOR JUNE

... AGRICULTUR4L REPORTS soK juTE. ENGLAND. p The grass is generally down in-the vicinity of.London, anda-ti the hay harvest proceeding in all the forward parts of the Ed country. Although a considerable and profitable bulk, the 0 meadow hay does not quite equal the general expectation as A to quantity, but pasture lands, and the artificial grasses, were Ic scarcely ever foore remarkable for ...

Published: Monday 08 July 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1366 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

... FORE - IN.. ?? CADIZ MAIL. bfficial Letter. dated the i9th ult. fri the &eneral in Chief -of the third A nry, Don A. de la Quadra, to the Chiet of tbe General Staff, relative to the battle of Ubeda. * Havingi on the 14th, received. intelligence that t the enemy had united theirforces 'for the purpose of I attacking Baeza and Ubeda, I took measures for thne defence of the last place, and formed ...

Published: Thursday 11 July 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1863 | Page: Page 4 | 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 

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 

CATHOLIC COMMITTEE

... CATHOLIC COmMITEE. DUB-LIN, SEE. iS.. At a Meeting of. the Catholic Committee, on the 9th inst.' a oI' on to Z.. L.urrusent till this day. at two o'clock, was put and carried. Mr Pole's letter of'the 12th is before the publi. Abeiut one o'clock, some highly respected Catholics of rank and independentfortune entered the town; but, the Chair could not l)e takes beforle twvo. At half past one, ...

Published: Monday 04 March 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2264 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

FIRE IN THE EXCHEQUER

... PIREZN thE! EXCHQUEv. 11 1. I u . R . - Early yesterday morning, the upper part of- the Exchequer.Ch rnber, Parliament Square, was dis- c9vered -to be on fire.~ On the first: alarm, the, en-~ gines belonging to the different offices, and also the city engiiiesrepaired to the spot. At five in the morning, the conflagration presented an awful spec- tacie, and to a distant beholder from the south ...

Published: Monday 11 November 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 369 | 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