tenant Colonel Bunbury, the deputy quarter-master general, to whose zeal and activity, and able arrangements in the important branch of service which he directs, the army as well as myself are under every marked obligation.

From Captain Tomlin, the acting head of the adjutant general's department, and from the officers of my own family, I have received much active assistance. Among the latter I am to mention Lieutenant Colonel Moore, of the 23d Light Dragoons, who being in Sicily for his health at the time of our departure, solicited permission to acconipany me on this expedition; he was wounded in the execution of my orders.

From the medical department, under the direction of Mr. Grieves, the deputy inspector, I am to acknowledge much professional attention; the more so as their labours have been greatly accumulated by the number of wounded prisoners, who have become equally with our own the subject of their care.

The scene of action was too far from the sea to enable us to derive any direct co-operation from the navy; but Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, who had arrived in the bay the evening before the action, had directed such a disposition of ships and gun-boats as would have greatly favoured us, had events obliged us to retire. The solicitude, however, of every part of the navy to be of use to the promptitude with which the seamen hastened on shore with our supplies, their anxiety to assist our wounded, and the tenderness with which they treated them, would have been an affecting circumstance to observers even the most indifferent. To me it was particularly so.

us,

Captain Fellowes, of his majesty's ship Apollo, has been specially attached to this expedition by the rear admiral; and, in every circumstance of professional service, I beg leave to mention our grateful obligations to this officer, as well as to Captains Cocket and Watson, agents of transports, who acted under his orders.

Captain Bulkeley, my aid-de-camp, who will have the honour of presenting this letter to you, has attended me throughout the whole of the services in the Mediterranean, and will therefore be able to give you every additional information on the subject of my present communication.

I have the honour to be, &c.

J. STUART, Maj. Gen.

Return of killed and wounded.

Royal Artillery. ---2 horses killed; 3 gunners wounded.

Grenadier Battalion.---4 rank and file killed; 1 officer, 1 serjeant, 25 rank and file wounded.

Light Infantry Battalion.---1 officer, 7 rank and file killed; 1 officer, 1 drummer, 41 rank and file wounded.

20th Foot.-1 rank and file killed; 1 drummer, 5 rank and file wounded.

27th Foot, 1st Batt.-6 rank and file killed; 1 serjeant, 48 rank and file wounded.

58th Foot, 1st Batt.-2 rank and file wounded.

78th Foot, 2d Batt.-4 rank and file killed; 7 officers, 4 serjeants, 1 drummer, 69 rank and file wounded.

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81st Foot, 1st Batt.-3 serjeants, 16 rank and file, killed; 2 officers, 1 serjeant, 62 rank and file, wounded.

Regiment of Watteville.---3 rank and file wounded.

Royal Corsical Rangers.---3 rank and file killed; 5 rank and file wounded.

Total.-1 officer, 3 serjeants, 41 rank and file killed; 11 officers, 8 serjeants, 2 drummers, 261 rank and file wounded.

Names of officers killed and wounded.

Killed.---Light Infantry Batt.---Captain M Leane, of 20 Foot.

Wounded.---Grenadier Batt.---Major Hammill, of Royal Regiment of

Malta.

Light Infantry Batt.---Major Paulet of 44th Foot, severely.

73d Foot, 2d Batt.-- Lieut. Colonel Macleod; Major D. Stuart; Captains D. M'Pherson, and D. M'Gregor; Lieut. James M'Kay; Ensigns Collin McKenzie and Peter M'Gregor.

81st Foot, 1st Batt.---Captain Waterhouse; Lieutenant and Adjutant Ginger.

Staff.---Lieutenant Colonel Moore, of the 23d Light Dragoons, acting Aid-de-Camp to Major-General Sir John Stuart.

R. Tomlin, Assist. Adj. Gen.

The court of common council have met for the purpose of determining, by ballot, which of the models should be adopted for a monument, to be erected in Guildhall, to the memory of the illustrious William Pitt; and, having examined five models, recommended by the committee as most worthy, the court adopted the model numbered 12, and referred it to the committee to give directions for the execution of the same. It consists of four large figures; the one on the top is Mr. Pitt, in his chancellor's robes, holding out his right hand in an oratorical attitude, with Wisdom on one side, and Prudence on the other. -Britannia, on a sea-horse, is also represented underneath, with several appropriate emblems. The price given in with this model was 36751. It is to be placed at the east end of the hall, opposite that of the late Earl of Chathamn.

A beautiful young lady in the north of Ireland, having been compelled by her father to marry a gentleman of fortune, though she had promised her hand to another, took poison in her tea the morning after her marriage, while at breakfast with her husband, and expired in less than an hour.

The ninety-six Jew deputies are very constant in their sittings at Paris. They dress in black, and deliberate with heads uncovered. A guard of ho nour of fifty men attends at the door, and turns out with presented arms on the arrival and departure of the deputies. Such as have no equipages of their own, are conveyed thither and back in the emperor's carriages.

At a late trial for crim. con. one of the witnesses, a simple fellow, who lived in the family, was asked, if he ever suspected that the lady in question was unfaithful to her husband's bed? He said, "He never did, for he could safely swear, that he did not believe there was a woman in the kingdom that loved her bed better."

AMERICA. The following is an accurate account of the wealth, resources, population, &c, of this country, during the years 1804 and 1805. It cannot but be interesting to our readers :

Impost on merchandize and tonnage (1803 and 1804) 10479417

0 75 11295565

Active sinking fund and reimbursements deducted,
Custom-house bonds and cash in the treasury,
Number of acres sold to pay the public debt, at 2 to

MR. GRATTAN.-The following description has been given of this celebrated orator:-" He is a thin man, of a peculiar cast of features, scarce the middle height-but thin as he is, he has a soul that would wear out half a dozen bodies."

It is calculated that 1800 persons have either perished or are dreadfully maimed by the late explosion of the magazine at Malta. The principal sufferers are the Maltese, who chiefly lived near the place. One man has lost his wife and six children; others nearly the same; and whole families are buried together. Those who escaped momentary death, perhaps, are shockingly disfigured and maimed, and crawling about in a miserable condition. Fourteen

artillerymen, who were in the magazine, were, of course, blown to atoms. The band of a regiment (the 39th) were just playing "God Save the King" near 'he place; two men were kil ed on the spot-the whole remainder were much wounded. The guards on duty were killed.

The magazine is situated on the side of the water opposite to the city of Valetta; it is called Barmola. Stones were thrown over, some to the distance, of two miles. It was situated close to the water side, and the bed of the sea was so shook by it, that it rose up and overflowed the banks. Two vessels (small (nes) were sunk. Immense stones were thrown up, which fell into th water; others on the ships and rigging; one which fell on a vessel just arrived, weighed one hundred weight.

The guard-ship, the Madras man of war, was moored some distance from the disastrous place; but a stone fell upon the quarter-deck, and broke the high of the gunner, who had lately arrived. A Mr. Woodhouse, who, with his brother, has a great wine-making concern in Sicily, has lost 250 pipes of it, worth nearly 70001. they were at some little distance from the place; but the shock was so great, that the casks burst. The churches were filled with the dead. It is supposed that the men were employed in cutting away the fuses from the shells, or doing something like that, when, by some means, a spark arose. The merchants have begun a subscription of 201. a piece for the relief of the poor sufferers. A whole town may be said to be destroyed.

The accident happened about a quarter past six o'clock in the morning of the 18th of July. It was r ported, that there were buried in the ruins 1000 arrels of gun powder that are in danger; but we hope this is untrue.

MUNGO PARKE.-The following statement respecting this adventurous traveller bears date Goree, July 28th :---" About the 12th inst. one of Mr. Parke's guides arrived here with a letter from him, dated Nov. 10, at Sansanding, on the Niger, a little to the eastward of Sego, confirming the death of Mr. Anderson, surgeon, with the addition that Mr. Scott, an artist, was dead; in short, there only remained himself, Lieut. Martyn, and three soldiers of the African c rps. He had ascertained that the Niger joins the river Congo, which empties itself into the South Atlantic Ocean, and for the purpose of exploring the same, he had procured a canoe from the King of Bambarra, and had proceeded considerably farther before the guide left him, and he had then great hopes of soon making the coast. A subsequent rport, by a Mandango, is unpleasant, but, as it cannot be relied on, there are still hopes that he is living. The guide who brought his letter says, that he saw Mr. Parke to the eastward of Sansanding, after the date of his letter. He also reports that there was an English ship in the Gambia, that had letters on board from Mr. Parke for his majesty's secretary of state."

A money-lender advertises to do business in two hours. There is no extraordinary expedition in that---a pickpocket would do it in a second.

Judge Toler, now Lord Norbu y, a a public dinner with Curran, the celebrated Irish lawyer.---Toler observing Curran carving a piece of corned beef, told him" if it was hung beef he would try it." "If you try it, my lord, (replied Curran) I am sure it will be hung."

It is not unworthy of remark, that General Regnier is the very officer

who commanded the French garrison at Cairo, and made a furious charge against Menou, in which he asserted, that Egypt was lost by the incapacity of Menou, instead of being won by the valour of the English. It is further to be observed, that General Stuart commanded the English garrison in Alexandria, and is the very officer whom Sebastiani, Bonaparte's commercial spy, in his famous visit to Egypt, represented as an officer of inferior talents. The victory of St. Euphemia has completely refuted these aspersions.

An inquest was lately held on the body of David George, of Swansea, a poor industrious fisherman, who lost his life on the preceding night, in the following singular manner :---Some unexpected success in the morning of the preceding day, induced him to go out to fish off the Pierhead late in the evening, accompanied by his son and two men: they had drawn the net on shore, and whilst George was clearing it, observing a small sole entangled in the meshes of the net, he put the head of the fish between his teeth to draw it through (a common practice we understand among fishermen) ; but whether in so doing, or going to open his mouth afterwards, cannot be a certained, the fish slipped into his throat and choked him in a few minutes. Medical assistance was obtained with all possible speed; but every effort to extract the sole proved unavailing, while a chance of saving the man's life remained; nor was it until the operation of opening the wine-pipe had been performed that the whole of the fish could be removed. The jury returned a verdict of--- Accidental death.

THE JEWISH PEOPLE.--- Letter to the Emperor Napoleon, by M. Jacobson, agent of finances to the court of Brunswick :---" Sire,-Penetrated with sentiments of the most profound veneration, and filled with that admiration which those extraordinary men always excite, who, at different periods, are chosen by the Eternal to ennoble the human race, I approach your majesty's throne with all that confidence the great actions with which you have caused the astonished world to resound are calculated to inspire.

I have not the happiness of being numbered among the people for whose advantage you sacrifice all the moments of your life. I belong not to that happy country to which you have called back peace. I am one of the unfortunate Jewish people against whom ignorance and superstition have leagued, in order to degrade them and render then the opprobrium of every other nation; but the Lord of Hosts has chosen you to give happiness to the world, and the Jews are a part of that world. I belong to that people whose misery has for more than 1000 years in vain implored the compassion and the humanity of sovereigns---to that people who expected in you their Saviour, and who in you, sire, have found him!

I have constantly endeavoured to promote the happiness of my countrymen by civilizing them; and my efforts have been crowned with the happiest success. I have at last been able to interest severa! German princes in favour of the Jewish people. I have obtained for my unfortunate brethren the abolition of an infamous tax. I have established, at my own expence, an institution for the instruction of Jewish ch ldren, and in which there are at present more than twenty Christian children. Now, however, I place