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of 2 lieutenants, 3 serjeants, 6*corporals, 1 
trumpeter, and 50 privates, and about 50 hor. 
ses. ‘The captain was also a prisoner, but 
ezceped during the bustle on foot. Iam hap- 
py to say, this has been performed without 
the less of a man on our side. Six of the 
enemy are wounded. Captain White expresses 
his obligation to Major Vigoreux, of the 
SG: regiment, who was a volunteer with 
him, and tothe Aeferes Pedro Ravmanda di 
Oliviera, commanding the Portuguese troop 
(which he states to have done its-duty ex- 
tremely well, and to have shewn much gal~ 
Jantry); and also to lieutenant Lurner, of the 
1=th light dragoons, to whose activity and 
courage, he reports himself to be indebted for 
several of his prisoners. I trust the whole 
will be considered to have merited the appro- 
bation of the Commander in-Chief. 1 have 
the honour to be, dex H. Fann. 
Lieinenisnbeentre Hill. 
ITALY. 
State of Public Affairs in | September. 
a 
The recent successful attacks.on the Nea-~ 
politan flotilla Has entirely dissipated the 
alarm of invasion in Sicily. Murat, with 
great activity, and at great expence, had col- 
ected eleven hundred and forty boats, for 
the transport. of troops, and had-manned and 
T™o.nted upwards of one, pes gun: boats ; 
More tian three hundred of the tormer, and 
thirty of the latter, have been Haken or de- 
stroyed, and the vast superiority of the Bri- 
tish and Sicilian flotilla has been forcibly 
Manifested in various ACTIONS: * ii 
ie IRELAND. “ 
An aggregate meeting of the d: ‘ferent 
guilds was hela at the exchange, in Dublin, 
on Tuesday, pursuant to the requisition of 
the high Sheriff, Sir J. Riddall, to take into 
consiceration the most effectual measures by 
which. the repeal of the union could be ac- 
complished. The importance of the question 
excited so general an interest among all 
Classes of the inhabjtants, that business wags 
entirely ‘suspended, and by nine in the morn- 
ing every avenue to the exchange was crowd- 
ed to suffocation. At hali-past twelve the 
high Sheriff took the chair, and opened the 
business of the meeting, exhorting them to 
observe the strictest order. Mr. Hatton, in 
@ concise out peispiauous appeal to the un- 
cerstanding and teelings ae his auditory, 
stated the general grounds on which the 
people of Ireiand demanded the repeal of the 
act Of union. ‘Though adverse to that act, 
he was yetdesirous “of British connection, 
and wistied to. give the firmest support to the 
throwe of Great Britain. He conchuded with 
moving, ‘¢ That a committee, consisting of 
nae gentlemen, should be appointed to pre- 
pare a petition to his Majesty, and another 
to the House of Com 2 m0ns, for the eee of 
the act of the union,” 
-pleasing nature.~ 
[Oct. 1, 
Mr. Connell. supported the petition 5— 
and declared that he would consent to the 
re-enactment of all the penal jaws against the 
catholics, on condition of the union being 
epealed. The pecition was then ¢arried 
unanimously, and a‘ standing comim:ttee of 
29 chosen to ¢o-operate with the other meet- 
ings throughout the kingdom. A resolution 
of thanks was subsequently voted to the 
duke of Richmona,-:for his cénciliatory cone 
duct, and the encouragement he had given 
to the manufactures of Jreland. A vote of 
thanks, with a piece of plate walued at 100 
guineas, was likewise voted to Sir J: Riddail, 
the chairman; and a strong censure against 
his colleague, Sir E. wena relinquished at 
his request. 
Lord French,- Nresee Keogh, Randall, 
Macdonnell, Plunkett, Hay, and many other 
leaders of the catholic body, were present, 
and appeared to assent to the speech ef coun 
sellor O’Connell, who it was reported spoke 
the sense of the catholic body, when he ase 
serted that catholie emancipation was only a 
secondary consideration to the repeals of the 
union. : 
BRAZIL, 
A Ticaty of Alliance ant! Friendship, bee 
ween his Britannic Majesty and the Prince Reg 
gentor Portugal, has lately been made publics 
it is dated Rio Janeiro, Febpag.- ‘The third 
article declares, that his Majesty, i in his own 
name, and that of his heirs and successors, will 
never acknowledge, as King of © Portugal, 
any other than the, hem and ‘representative of 
the house of Eraganza. The sixth grants exclue 
sively to the English, the privilege of Cutting 
down ship-timberin the Brazils, and the right 
of building and equipping ships of war in the 
harbours of that kingdom. The ninth des 
Clares, that the Inguisition shall not be esta- 
Blished in any part of the South American 
dominions o7 the King of Portugal. The tenth 
Stipulates the gradual aboli@ion of the slave- 
trade, by forbidding Portuguese subjects to 
carry on that inhuman traffic on any part of 
the African coast not belonging to the Crown 
o: Portugal, in which it may have been abo~. 
lished by.the other powers of Europe. 
EAST INDIES. 
The recent-accounts from India are not ofa: 
‘The dissatisfaction whick 
pervades our army, has given encouragement — 
to some of the native powers, who a. 
bound to our dominion by Fore, and in varie 
ous quarters the standard of revolt has been 
raised. ‘Phe war in Oude and\in Bundelcund 
was continued to the date of the last dispatehes; 
and bopal, Kotrais, and many other provinces 
were in a state of insurrection. 
Ee: : ; ~ INCIDENTS, 
