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THE THUNNY FISHERY

... tilE TIIMtNNr FSIIER2r. [FROM TiHE NAVAL CHRONICLE.] Thunny, in icthyology, is a name given by us to a large-fishl, the Spanish mackrel, called by some au- thors illynnus, arid arcynius; but by A ristotle ]Elian, and other old writers, petamiys ; the p2earnid of the modern Greeks; the scombertzhynnus of Linne. It is specifically described by Artedi as of the scomber kind, having eight or nine ...

Published: Monday 26 August 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1597 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

... F OREIGN. INTELLIGENGCE CARACCAS PAPERS. GtSNERAT, CONGRESS OF VENEZUELAi Ten months have now -expired since the govern-, ment of Caraccas has seen its hopes realized, and the most important part of Venezuela has been unit- ed under a systerm of federation consistent with the rights, the liberties, and the wishes ofits inhabit' tants. The Supreme Junta is now about to perform a most solemn act ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1115 | 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 

LONDON NEWS CONTINUED

... LONDON N!WS CbNTiNUED. Arcounts from, Sicily,. by the Malta nuaRi, state, 6iat-the French having lately began to fire upon mer chant vessels passing throigh the snraiis of Messina the British Conrmnander in Chief has given rinotice that he will make rprisals on the French in Cala- bria, by cannonading the coast, if they do not desist ?? this practice; An Anholt mnail arrived on Saturday, with ...

Published: Thursday 15 August 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1831 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

EDINBURGH NEWS CONTINUED

... de- Arrived, &t'the Buck-head Inn and Hotel, Gias- egow, the Right Honourable the Earl of -Gallotvay, not the Right Hon. Lord Garlies, the Right Hon. the ?? and Countess of Selkirk, General Stewart, Co- ent lonel Cameron, Loehiel,'Major M'Vicar, Mrs and eons Miss M;Vicar, the Rev.'DrWinter, &c. &c. ' ) The Lord Pavovst of Glasgow has received a let. . the end' ter from the Governor of the Bank ...

Published: Thursday 01 August 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1628 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

ANECDOTE

... I -s cowrn ocher - key Olr THlE LATE REV. S. ASCOUGH, ASSISTANT LIBRSARIAN ?? AT THEl BRITISH MUSEUM. One day. wvhen, according to the rules of his office, as as- sistant librarian in the British Museum, he attended, through ie- that grand magazine of curiosities, a party of ladies and a gen- on tlernan, all of whom, except one lady, were disposed to be on highly pleased: with what they saw; ...

Published: Monday 26 August 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1062 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

T0 THE EDITOR

... SiVanfous misrepresentations . having gone a- ~t ?? the meeting between Mr Wellesley Po ooA:.f, I feel it inlcumbent uponz me, though U~ ,I ga2est reluctance, to request you will ina ser!61i lglt corresp ondence ,mm 'eoddinzt 4which occasioned the meeting oc- nejxavii~nbly. Sir William Hort, Bart. was sent to PoAcatiep-port ?? KilworthL, to require an ex- Po!'j, sot not being deemed ...

Published: Saturday 17 August 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 648 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

... LISBOA lMAILS. Lisbon, July 21. All remains thle same as when the last packet sail:' ed. Not aword of nevis from our armies. The 208th regiment arrived here yesterday from Gibraltar. Elvas, July 10. - Three battalions of the Juramentadoes, and uer- so-.t! holding civil employments, liave marched fcr. Badijoz; it is said, that tdey will go to Zafra, and fiom thence to Seville. The garrison, ...

Published: Saturday 10 August 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1612 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE

... FROMrTHE L GAZET - T.- FRsO THE, LONDON GAZETTE. ADmZIZALTY-O1?TElc Aug. 27, 1 811. Copy of a Letter from AdnrAl YOung-to 3. -W. Croker, Esq. Secretary of the Admniralti, dated iltarlborough, off West Capel, Aug. 2 1811. SIa, I transmit to you, for their Lordships' infinrma- _pon, an account ofwa vely, spirited -nd-suc-essful4at- tack miiade on four French gun-boats, by the boats of a ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1064 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

LONDON NEWS CONTINUED

... LONDOs1 ifE WS CONTINUED. We have pleasure in stating a circumstance, which, although it cannot be made too public, we believe is riot generally known, that an order has recently been issued from the Admiraltv, diiectin'm that quarterly returns should be sent from. every ship and vessel of var, stating what punishlments have been inflicted, for what climes, and the dates of both cr imes and ...

Published: Thursday 08 August 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 829 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE

... TROM T.HEI- LONDON GAZETTE. . 3 ^t- D? lNG-STRE&T.jTuY 27, 1811. A Jibspatcch of. -which the following is' ar extract, wsai, 01!isthe 23d instant, received at ?? of Liverpool's Office, addressed to his Lordship, by Lieutenant-General Viscount Wellington, dated Quints de St Joao, July ii, 1811. The enemy continued in the positions reported in *ny dispatch of the 4th inst. till the 7th, when ...

Published: Thursday 01 August 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 916 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

... CADIZ MAIL Cadiz, July 22. This morning, anchored in this port the Spanish ship of war El Mino, from Vera Cruz and tsH Ha- vannah, having on board fruits, cloathing of different descriptions, and 3,750,5S2 dollars. July CS. General Blake has again sailed with a division of fromr( 6 to 7000 men ; there are accounts of their f.arig arrived at Algesiras, but whether they will land there or not, ...

Published: Monday 26 August 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3501 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News