as soon as it appeared that they were sufficiently advanced, General Leith's division, the 5th, began their attack, descended from their position, part defiled through and round a village, formed on the other side, and ascended the enemy's position, under the continued fire of about 20 pieces of cannon. The 4th division, General Cole's, was on the left of the 5th, and General Pack's brigade on its left. The 1st and 6th divisions in reserve of the left, till afterwards, when the 6th division prolonged the line to the left, and stormed the right of the enemy's second position. General Leith had his division in two lines, the royal Scots, 9th, 38th, 30th, 44th, and 1st battalion 4th, being the first; the Portuguese brigade, General Spry's, and the 2d battalion 4th, being the

second.

"These lines advanced without firing a shot, until they drew the enemy from his first position. It was beautiful, like a review-the general in front of the centre, with his hat off, as at a general salute. The enemy kept their ground, and threw in their fire, which was only answered with a shout at the top of the hill, When within five yards of their columns the general brought the division to the charge, and successively walked over their different columns, taking guns, eagles, and colours. At this point of the day General Leith was severely wounded, but now supposed not dangerously, and is doing well. His aides-de-camp Leith, Hay, and Chivex, wounded, but not dangerously. The action closed with the day, when the enemy were completely defeated at all points-I may almost say annihilated Next morning we found them in flight towards Madrid, leaving guns, arms, drums, and all sorts of warlike stores scattered

about. Lord Wellington is following them, making quantities of prisoners. General Le Marchant fell gloriously, leading his brigade of cavalry to a charge against their cavalry, who endeavoured, boldly enough, to turn the fate of the day-it was vain; Wellington had ordered they were to be destroyed; we had only to obey. It is said they have lost five generals, but as yet it has been im. possible to ascertain what their other loss has been; ours, it is hoped, will not be considerable. Our wounded generals and troops in general are doing well, notwithstanding the excessive heat of the weather. The Por tuguese troops behaved admirably; in short, every man did his duty. Indeed, of the conduct of the troops I can only say, every one rivalled his neighbour in carrying into execution the orders of his lordship. The regularity of a parade was preserved throughout; the cannonade only made them more steady; had the hills been made of red hot iron, they would have been carried. I think, without vanity, we may hope the 22d of July will be a day to remember in the British history, when a proof was given to the world what a British general and army could do."

21st-EDINBURGH.--Owing to an extraordinary rise in the price of oatmeal, a crowd of people assembled in the Cowgate and Grassmarket, on Tuesday morning, for the purpose of intercepting the supplies on their road to the market. Several carts were accordingly seized, and their contents distributed among the populace; after which the mob proceeded to the Dalkeith road, where they seized several more carts, and retailed the meal at two shillings per peck, which they gave to the drivers. The shops also of the victual-dealers and bakers in

Nicholson-street and places adjoining were threatened by the populace, and were in consequence prudently shut up. In the evening the houses of several meal-sellers in different parts of the town were attacked and the windows broken; and in Leith there were also considerable tumults.-The magistrates, with a party of constables, repaired on the first alarm to the spot, and made every exertion to quell the tumult. As a necessary precaution, a party of soldiers was ordered from the castle, and in the forenoon the following judicious proclamation was issued: By order of the Right Honourable the Lord Provost and Magistrates of Edinburgh.

"The inhabitants are enjoined to avoid all riotous proceedings in the present circumstances, as any tumults that may be excited can have no other effect than to deter persons who have provisions from bringing them into town, and thus to increase the scarcity.

"The Lord Provost and Magistrates assure the inhabitants, that they will use all the means in their power to relieve them from their present dis. tresses. At the same time, as the magistrates have every reason to know, that a scarcity of grain exists through. out the country, they give the inhabitants this public notice, of their determination to make use of the powers vested in them, to repress any tumul tuous proceeding, and preserve the peace of the city.'

"Council Chamber, Edinburgh,

18th August, 1812." Yesterday every thing was quiet, and no doubt the means already adopted will so far palliate the existing evil as to prevent any recurrence of tumult or disorder, which, it must be obvious to every person of reflection, can have no other effect than to

Yesterday they attended the cathedral, where a suitable discourse was delivered by the Rev. Mr Yates, after which the judges returned to the castle, when Chief Justice Dallas gave an excellent charge to the grand jury; and this day the judges proceeded to the trial of John Lomas and Edith Morrey, both of whom were accused of the murder of her husband. After the trial had occupied the court nearly seven hours the prisoners were both convicted, and ordered for execution on Monday the 24th inst. On receiving his sentence, Lomas stretched out his hand and exclaimed-" I deserve it all-I don't wish to live

but I hope for mercy." He maintained the greatest composure throughout the trial. Mrs Morrey, the miser able widow, pleaded pregnancy; a jury of matrons was instantly impannelled, and they returned a true bill. Her execution, therefore, will be procrastinated till the commencement of the ensuing year. She main. tained the same intrepidity on her trial which she all along manifested, and, with the exception of the unusual heat, did not seem at all incommoded.

It is computed that there were not less than 4000 persons in and about the court during the awful investiga

tion.

Lomas was executed on Monday the 24th.

Booth, convicted of forging bank.

notes, was executed at Stafford on Saturday last. A most distressing occurrence took place at the time of his execution; the rope slipping he fell to the ground, and many people thought that he was dead; but the unfortunate man got up, and fell on his knees, praying to the Almighty for mercy for his misdeeds: the assistants then prepared the scaffold again, but, owing to a mistake, the drop remained fast when Booth gave the signal for it to fall; and it was not until much force had been applied that the drop fell, when the unhappy criminal at length suffered the sentence of the law.

The life of John Barnsley, who received sentence of transportation at the last Warwick sessions, presents an instance of perseverance in crimes seldom to be paralleled. He was indicted and acquitted at the Lent assizes, 1801; he was convicted at the Midsummer sessions, 1801, and sentenced to twelve months imprisonment in a solitary cell; after being at large little more than a year, he was, at the sessions 1803, sentenced to seven years transportation; scarcely settled after his return, he was convicted at the summer assizes, 1811, and received sentence of six months imprisonment; indicted at the Lent assizes, 1812, he was acquitted; but, continuing his criminal career, he has just been sentenced again to seven years transportation!

A woman who lives in a respecta ble house in Cork, lately took some unaccountable dislike to one of her four children, a fine little boy not four years of age and determined on starving him! This she has been in the habit of doing for some months, by giving him nothing but cold potatoes [not enough of them,] and water, keeping the infant almost con

tinually tied to a bed-post, and frequently confined under a table on the kitchen ground floor. Last winter, some of the child's toes mortified from the cold, and dropped off.He is intelligent and sensible-no sickness or bodily pain-not one ounce of flesh on its whole bodypale-eyes sunk deep in the headthe hair apparently pulled out by the root in many places-The child has been weighed, and scarcely turned the beam at eight pounds. The abandoned mother is in custody, and will be tried at the ensuing Cork assizes.

22d. SHEFFIELD. On Tuesday last, a great number of persons assembled in this town, and proceeded in a tumultuous manner to the meal and flour dealers, and demanded their flour at 3s per stone. A person from amongst the mob presented a paper, purporting to be a written agreement to sell at the reduced price, which he insisted upon being signed, using threats on the least hesitation. The riot act was read in different parts of the town, the military were put in motion, and a number of the infatuated people taken into custody.

A large concourse of people has assembled in the Adelphi, for several days, drawn together by the following unusual circumstances: -A house, situated at the corner of Buckingham-street, is occupied by some persons, whom the owners have endeavoured to eject, but hitherto without success, notwithstanding every process of law has been resorted to, and every stratagem devised for that purpose. The house makes a singular appearance, all the windows, excepting one on the first floor, being shut, and every article of furniture removed; while there are several officers stationed in various parts of it, to take advantage of any movement the pre

sent occupiers may inadvertently make. At the window, not fastened up, are seen two respectably dressed females, who, it is reported, have maintained themselves in this unpleasant situation against their adversaries for more than a fortnight, exposed to the greatest privations, with half the window-frame removed. From the strictness with which their motions are watched, it is almost impracticable for either to procure food for their support; but this great difficulty has hitherto been surmount ed by the humanity of several individuals, who convey food to the prisoners in baskets, which are hastily drawn up by means of strings thrown in at the window, and when emptied, are let down again. Drink in bottles has also been conveyed in a similar manner, as also wearing apparel. For what period this affair is to continue it is impossible to conjecture, as the females appear not at all distressed by their confinement, and are as well supplied with provisions as the nature of their situation will admit.

A most remarkable circumstance took place at Folkestone, on the 19th instant. After the tide had ebbed in the usual way for three hours, and left the Hope sloop a-ground in the harbour (the crew of which were preparing to unload her), it suddenly rose three feet perpendicular, and. as suddenly ebbed, which was repeat ed three times in less than a quarter of an hour. This phenomenon having occurred several times at Portsmouth and Plymouth about the time of the earthquake at Lisbon, has given rise to many speculative opinions, and indeed it is generally thought to have opened in consequence of some great convulsion of nature

26th. The prince regent, after the late review of his own regiment, had the officers called to him by

sound of trumpet, when he expressed to them his thanks for the very high state of discipline the regiment was in, and informed them it was the last time he should ever appear at their head.

27th. A most shocking and deeply regretted catastrophe occurred at Brighton on Monday, in the commission of an act of suicide, by Mrs Louisa Maria Goldingham, a niece of Major-General Popham, at her residence in Dorset Gardens. The deceased, who has left six blooming children to deplore the rash and fatal act of their unfortunate mother, had been in a drooping way for some time, but, excepting in a solitary instance, when she complained, in rather a strange manner, of her being unable to distinguish the letters in a book she held in her hand, no suspicions were entertained of her being in any way mentally deranged. About half past twelve o'clock, in the afternoon, she had left her parlour, and retired to her chamber, the door of which soon after being found locked, and no answers given to the questions put to her, her brother, Captain Popham, broke it open. On entering the room, he discovered his sister, in an horizontal position, on her face, and weltering in her blood. Though horror-struck at the spectacle, he yet endeavoured to raise her up; and, painful to relate, found that she had deeply lacerated her throat both on the right and left side with a razor, and, severing the jugular artery, had bled in the most profuse manner. She was not quite dead when discovered, but her last sigh escaped her almost immediately after. The coroner's inquest was taken on view of the body on Tuesday morning, when Captain Popham's testimony was to the above effect, and a verdict of lunacy returned. Mr Gold,

ingham, the husband of the deceased, is abroad.

The following form of prayer and thanksgiving to Almighty God for the repeated successes obtained over the French army in Portugal and Spain, by the allied forces under the command of Marquis Wellington, and especially for the victory obtain ed on the 22d ult. in the neighbourhood of Salamanca, was on Sunday read in all churches and chapels, throughout London and Westminster, and within the bills of mortality. The same to be read in all other churches and chapels through England and Wales on the Sunday following:

"Gracious God, accept, we implore thee, the praises and thanksgivings of a grateful nation, for the successes thou hast repeatedly vouchsafed to the allied army, in Portugal and Spain. Thine, O God, is the greatness, and the power, and the victory, and the majesty; without thee, there is neither success in the wisdom, nor strength in the courage of man. The skill of the captain, and the obedience of the soldier, are thine. Direct our hearts, O God! so as to exult in victory, that we forget not whence it cometh; so to use it, that we provoke not thy heavy displeasure against us. Continue, we pray thee, thy favour and protection to our captains, and soldiers, and allies. Unite their counsels, and prosper their enterprises for the general good. And in thy great mercy, O God! open the. eyes of our blinded and infatuated enemies, that they may see and understand the wickedness they are working. Touch them with the spirit of remorse, awaken their justice, and correct their inordinate ambition, so that at thy appointed time, and under thy good Providence, the miseries of war may cease, and destructions be brought to a perpetual end. These prayers and thanksgivings we humbly submit to thy divine Majesty, in the name and through the mediation of our Lord and

Saviour Jesus Christ."

30th.-SOUTH QUEENSFERRY.

A melancholy accident occurred here this forenoon. Part of the Renfrewshire militia arrived here this morning, on their way for the military depot at Perth. One of the privates (named Gemmel) in a state of intoxication, unfortunately attempted to swim from a ridge of rocks betwixt the Newhall-inn and the harbour. He was viewed, in awful suspense, by a numerous concourse of people, who had been attracted to the spot on learning the dangerous situation of the person. The feelings of the spectators may be easily conceived, when, on his reaching about half way to the harbour, he was seen suddenly to disappear. Two boats immediate. ly put off to his assistance, and a great number of the privates of the regiment swam towards the spot, and continued for a considerable time making every effort to save their com rade. Their exertions proved, however, fruitless, and it was not until an hour afterwards, that the body was found a lifeless corpse.

SPANISH CELEBRATION.-On Saturday the principal Spanish gentlethe oath to the constitutions, assemmen in London, who had lately taken bled to celebrate the day. They proceeded in the morning to the Spanish ambassador's chapel, where high mass was performed. The body of the chapel was set apart for the subscribers to the festivity, the floor and cushions covered with crimson cloth. The portrait of Ferdinand VII. was hung under a crimson canopy withinside the rails of the altar. A little after eleven, the ambassador, the Conde Fernan Nunez, entered in a richly embroidered Spanish courtdress, with the ribbon of the order of the Golden Fleece over it, attended by the suite of the embassy in military uniforms. Senor Tutor, president of the celebration, followed at