OCT. 29, • • THE NATIONAL. REGISTEIL.• . •• The Gazette.of Tuesday contain,' Proclamations for the pardoning of deserters belonging, to the Army and Navy. It was said on Friday, that a Courier had arrived from the Marquis of Wellesley, with his answer to the prol►usao wade him to take the Office of Secretary for Foreign At= fairs. This is not, and could not, have been correct. The latest letters from his Lordship are of the 6th and 7th, and the proposal was not sent off to him till the second. The late accounts from our army in Portugal are by no means of a pleasing nature. We are assured from an highly respectable quarter that the total effective force under Lord Wellington, did not, on the first of the pre sent mouth, exceed 15,000 men, and that his army was daily diminishing by disease. We have received a letter from Sicily, dated the 16th Fepternher, expressive of apprehensions that the French were preparing for an invasion of that island. The peace in Germany had spread a general gloom over the Sicilian Court, and it is added, that Sir John Stuart had written home for a reinforcement of troops, under an impression that the force at present under his orders is incompetent to the defence of the island. We understand that in consequence of the urgent re monstrances of the British prisoners at Verdun, the Com mandant of that fortress has been suspended in his govern ment. Sir Thomas Lavie has also been released from the dose confinement to which he had been committed by the command of that officer. The letters from Gottenburgh contain some unfavour able intelligence respecting the last convoy from Riga. Of upwards of 100 ships that sailed from that port, ho more than 70 had arrived at Gottenburgh. The remainder either foundered at sea, were on shore at Calmar and Carheroin, or captured. Between ten and fifteen had been carried into Copenhagen. The prohibition issued by the late king of SwciiEN against the entrance of Jews into that country has been abolished by his present Majesty. Two Tyrolese had arrived at Gottetiburgh, on their way to England, for the purpose of soliciting the support of our Government in their efforts to establish their independence, in case they were given up by Aus tria. Extract of a letter, dated Flushing, Oct. 22.—Notwith standing the two large fleets of sick men which yesterday and the day before sailed for England, our hospitals are still quite full. !In truth there are now very . few troops in the island but Sick. In our regiment we have not fifty duty men, and some other regiments have not thirty. In the mean time, the French are very busy in the neighbour ing islands, and will some morning certainly astonish our Dons here. What can your wise people in England' be thinking about, to attempt to keep such an island as this, with a few weak, sick wretches, while you are every where surrounded by an active enemy ? If reinforcements are not speedily sent, we mav, in a very short time, be sur prised here. This week Government sent out two Gene rals, but no troops, We have Generals enough, and near ly as many Doctors and Commissioners as we have of mi litary Officers. General Don, our new Commander-in- Chief, is daily expected, when Sir Eyre Coote immediately takes his departure home. Au able Commander should be considered as au indispensible. requisite here, for he will save many able ones to contend with on the part of the enemy, and that at no very distant period. If we are not soon recalled from this burying-place, you may 'ere long oxpeet to hear of our having very hot work here. We have great satisfaction in being able to announce, that the Duke of York reported to the Royal Family, that the Princess Amelia was in a „fair way of recovery, and was expected to arrive at Windsor, in a few days, in a carriage belonging to the Prince. of Wales, which, has , the convenience of a bed. The account of Buonaparte's insanity continues to pre vail. The tale is absurd, and unworthy of contradictive. if he be mad, what are his opponva:i A person belonging to the French Court his 1) , -,11 disci patched to Hungary to sontr"ratulAte the I:iiiiieror in the nam e o f the EmpororNapoleoll 4,u his blrtli-d4y. The Valiant man of war arrived at Plymouth on Timm* ay. after having been on if It ore tiff L'Orient, and nerirljti lusc. She made 14 feet water an hour for some time, uut4 a sail was made to pass wider the bottom and over tho leak- The long . -expected alliance between the Duke of Deion shire and Lady Elizabeth forater, took place on Thursday* se'nnight, at Burlington house, Chiswick. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Mr. Priddy, Chaplain- to au Grace, in the presence only of two Gentlemen from Doc tors' Commons.. Owing to a blunder committed by a per son who was sent express, in a pat chaise and four, for necessary documents. the inarriaze ceremony was del :yet' until midnight. The intentions of the parties were kept so• se-ret, that no branch of the house of Cavendish was pre pared for the event. Expresses were sent off on the lo!.. lowing day on different routes. Sunday • arrived in town Lord and Lady Morpelh, Countess of - Besborough, &c. Lord and Lady George Cavendish were expected. . Sittings appointettin Middlesex and London, beThre the . Right flonaurable'idward Lord Elleribormigh. Lord Chief' Justice, &c. in and after Michaelmas Term, 1809. t IN TERM. MIDDLESEX. LONDON. Saturday - Nov. Ilth Monday - '4aturday . • 18th Monday • Saturday . 25th Monday - AFTER TERM. 29th 1 Thursday - • • t- , f Nov. 134 vot Et 27th 30th Wednesday - - Friday morning a mast exp used his wife for sale in the. Broadway, Westminster. Tne money demanded forher was threeguineas, and two being offered by one of her !ants, the bargain was readily closed, when she with het purchaser, accompanied by a few acquaintances; rating! to a neghbonring, house, leaving her husband set:: roauded by a considerable number of spectators, *llOlO attentions were attracted by the uoveltj of auch a scene is that part of the town. • !l' • • ELOPEMENT.—A young lady, the daughter of an archi tect, in the neighbourhood of Cavendish square, eloped ow Tuesday morning, and in three hours after was detected leaving a hagnio in St. Martin's parish, in a gentleman's cha. riot, accompanied by the son of a Baronet. The chariot was stopped in St. Martin's-lane, and the lady alighted a% the end of Newport-street, where, to her surprise, she met a servant of her father, and a relative who had, gone its quest of her. The lady - was unable to support herself, an 4 a crowd of people collected, •so that the matter becamst soon whispered about. She was conveyed to the house of a relative in Greek-street. ...I. ai.:l st4l 6 . 1 I*4f • • We have to add another niblindhgly instattte to the fatal effects of that much to; be lamettted'prattice of duelling :41- Tuesday morning,•Msit B. a Surgeon In his Malesty's Navy; and Lieutenant G. of'the Gtiards, met on Wimbledon Com-, mon, to decide an affair of honour. The first shots failing in their effect, they had recourse to the second, wheni shocking to relate. Mr. B. was shot dead on the spot, and Lieutenant G. so badly wounded, tharno hopes are enter tained of his recovery. The seconds iinmediately sconded. The quarrel originated about a lady who not crth quarrelling- for. olt a 4 • it 1 Two men, one an Italian, the other a Portu?itese, wets on the 6th. inst-strangled and burnt in the public p acp - Rf Caes de Sordre, at Lisbon, for uttering base coiiL Thera are about for[ 44; Ayq I tuore criminals4o ,undergo the sain. punishment r ,ft- l i q :01,1A s *a 40:14..* , • • roe. Ticket 'r,Ol Writ *it t Otifts.4ll. I,otCol: . ‘rfts mid inn'', Quarter,Three ightit4i: art& Six min t 4 l', at Ey tools lucky Opera,; 2, Cerabil 1 . , • ithrra- the fortneatit olden wutly retire their Money onDemand„