TIIF. NATIONAL RF,G 58 ditions which are not favourable. Notwithstanding the activity of the French Minister, however, in opposing the measure, the Turks see the necessity of an immediate peace, and I am of opinion that it has or will take place without los3 of time." Letters have arrived from Vera Cruz to the latter end of November, brought by the Hyperion.—By these it ap peared, that all the exertions of General VENEGAS to effect tranquillity are likely to prove unavailing. The Patr ots were making most rapid progress towards revolutionizing the country. Much Spanish blood had been spilled. Ge neral VENEGAS, by the last accounts, was at Mexico with the army, which still was more than able to cope with the opponents of Government in the open field ; but it was not by pitchel battles that the Patriots sought to gain posses sion of the country. Their system was similar to that adopted by the guerillas in Old Spain against the common enemy ; but carried on with more decisive success. It is farther stated in the letters, that the Patriots were in pos session of nearly all the strong passes and places in the country ; and, which is stal more important, of all the valuable mines of Mexico. MI convoys with merchan dise can pass from Mexico to Ver:t Ciuz, or to other prin cipal towns, without being intercepted by them. VENE GAS finds it his policy to remain in Mexico with the chief of his army. If he sends out detached parties, they are mostly destroyed by the guerillas, against xvhom the army cannot act in a body with any effeet. The following is an extract of a letter from an Officer on board his Majesty's ship Volontaire, dated off Toulon, Nov. 23 I have a pretty story to tell you of our escape from a French squadron of five ships, who were firing at us and the Paulina (this name is not legibly writ ten) from day-light yesterday morning till half-past two, p. m. We received no damage, and the Paulina but three shots in her hull ; so God be praise) that we are not in Toulon now, as I fully expected at first to have been. We may ascribe our escape to the enemy keeping such an in cessant fire which made them drop. You will hear the account of the affair elsewhere, or I should detail it more to you. They came out in the night, and got outside of us without our seeing them till four miles off, at daybreak. They ought to be hung for not taking us ; at all events the Paulina, who was engaged by three for four hours in a running fire." . Yesterday Mr. I.VaLsta appeared at Guildhall to the Commission of Bankruptcy awarded against him, when he underwent much examination, after which he was again remanded to Newgate. Mr. WELLESLEY POLE, we understand, has resigned the Chkf Secretaryship of Ireland. A new insurrection has by :ken out in l',Texico, for the avowed purpose of separating that country from ;ipain. JAMES HARDWIDGE, Needle-nr.ker to b Majesty, .ong-lane, Southwark, who , e House Ir , s been established upwards of Nay Years for the Manufacture and Sa!e of every Description of Needles, RECOMMENO:i his Superfine Queen's Needles as superior to all others, being made by the best Humls in the Kin7,dont, and brought to the greatest perfection. They cannot cut the Thrs-ad, and from their superior polish and make, who are in the 11.:bi: of u•,ing them de clare ttat more Needle-Work may be dune in the same space of time than wish any others. The votive of this advertisem:•nt is to caution the Public against Persons, not of the Trade (it being distinct), reconnnemli!!g fit im prtivernertil an article of which they are quire ignorant; surthrB them in casts with many ti,elcss sizes, and ioferi.)r gotA!s. ilardwidge"s Queen% Needles may be had Whoksale as above, or in any titiallrity, or by the single paper, at most of the Haberdashers in L9n ion, Westminster, or Borough of Southwark. Gentlemen desirous of making presents to Ladies at this season of the year may be accommodated - with handsome cases assorted with us:Atli cm the lowest terms. _ _ _ Meuse to ask fur liardwidge's Queesfs Need es, and,observe the name ar.rl place of abode engraved on the 100, to irunat which - is !Amy. JAN. 26. The ship Hindostan, from Charleston, arrived - in the Clyde on Saturday last ; she brings letters and papers from Charleston to the 18th ult. There had been a shock of an earthquake there on the 15th, and another the day following, but no lives were lost, nor any property de stroyed. We regret to state that sickness has made its appearance among our troops in the island of Java. At the date of the last accounts, 2000 sick and wounded were in the hos. pitals. The Chatham, of 74 guns, found at Walcheren, on the stocks, and named after the Officer commanding that expedition, is to be fitted for service without delay : Cap tain GRAHAM MOORE, brother to the late Sir JOHN MOORE, is to have the command. MISCELLANIES. A Court of Common Council was held on Wednesday, at Guildhall. —A petition to the House of Commons was agreed on, to enable the City to build a new prison near Whitecross-street, exclusively for the confinement of debtors.—Another petition was also agreed to, for a Bill to empower the City to provide from out of the Orphans' Fund fur the repairing, lighting, and paving of Blackfriars Bridge, in lieu of a Sunday Ton.—On the motion of Mr. Alderman Wood, it was referred to the Committee of General Purposes, to enquire into the present state of the night watches and patroles of the City, and to consider whether any and what measures arc necessary to be adopted to improve the SA e. A special Commission was opened at the Sessions House, Horseman ger-latte, on Monday, for the trial of the twelve British seamen and marines, found in the service of the enemy on the capture of the Isle of France. The Lord Chief Baron, in an eloquent address to the Grand Jury, exlrlained the law as it bore on the prisoners ; after which they retired, and in about three hours returned with true Bills against the whole of the twelve. The Court then adjourned to Monday, the Sd of February, An addition to the Navy of 10 sail of the line is to take place with out delay; for which purpose the following ships are to be laid down in the several dock-yards of Portsmouth, Chatham, Woolwich, and Deptford; viz. Brittannia and Prince Regent, 110 guns each ; London and Princess Charlotte, 98 guns each; Agincourt, Hercules, Russell, Boscawen, Hawke, and Hero, 74 guns each. The persons lately put on shore on the Continent by the British Go vernment (for doing which we are so much abused by Buonaparte), are now said to have been 400 French conscripts, deserters from their armies in Spain, who not being permitted to enter the British service, were, at their own particular and urgent request, set on shore on the coast of Holland. The traitorous correspondence of General Simon and Surgeon Boi son was first discovered by a Gentleman belonging to the Transport Office. They had laid a plan with the French Government for the landing of a considerable number of troops on the coast of Cornwall, and General Simon undertook to arrange with the prisoners here to join them. In consequence of the discovery of this plot, a number of Frenchmen who col responded with Simon were apprehended and lodged in Tothill-fields Bridewell, and have since been removed from thence to a prison ship at Chatham. The petty Officers and crew of the Argo, now at Portsmouth, have proposed to subscribe two day's pay each, to the relief of the widows and ()That's of the men lost in the St. George, Hero Defence, &c. and express their 'yes, that their example will be followed by the other crews at Spithead. Their conduct has received the approbation of the Captain and Officers of the Argo. Ile following trials are expected to come on, In the present Term, in Dublin :—Lord Fingal', on an ex officio information, by the Attor ney-General ; Honourable Thomas Barnwell, on a similar information ; Joseph, Patrick, and Richard tlarnwall, on information for assisting at the (Meath Meeting ; Henry Taaffe, Thomas Kirwan, Gregory Scut - - log, John 1.. I:urke, and John Breen, for a misdemeanor. in assisting at a Meeting, with the object of electing Delegates. Against P. W. Harvey, proprietor of the Freeman's Journal, au attachment is issued on the charge of attempting to influence the minds of the Jury on the trial of Dr. Sheridan. Thomas Townsend, proprietor of the Corres pondent, is to be tried upon an es-qfisio information for the alleged offence of publishi,:g the speeches and resolutions of the Catholic Committee. Attachments are issued against John Magre, proprietor of the _Evening Post: David Scott, Washington Greville, and Mi chael Goodwin, proprietors of the Evening Herald ; and Robert Cos folly, proprietor of the Weekly Messenger, for charging the Lord Cider Justice with partiality. Against the Lord Chief Justice there are five actions pending at the suit of Catholics ; and Mr. Hare has been served with three notices of action, .for his arrest of Lord° Fin and Nettervile. W iwi. I ria