Edinburgh, Jan. 24.

HIS majesty's ship Nightingale, captain Wilkinson, arrived last night in Leith roads, from off Tenningen, which place he left last Tuesday. Two days before, the 18th instant, captain Mott, of his majesty's armed ship lying there, made a signal that the French army were defeated beyond Warsaw. Capt. W. immediately went on board captain Mott, who informed him he had received a letter from the consul, stating that the Russians, after several defeats, and losing from sixty to eighty pieces of cannon, had retreated to a distance beyond Warsaw, and that the French had gone into winter-quarters;-thus situated, the Russians, collecting all their forces, fell upon the French armies, the re. mains of which had retreated The Berlin, after losing 80,000 men. archduke Charles, with an Austrian army, had been ready to fall upon the Fre ch in Silesia.

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Captain Wilkinson informs me, that the Russians had met with several defears, lost many men, and from 60 to 80 pieces of cannon, and retreated. The French had advanced considerably be. yond the city of Warsaw, and had gone into winter quarters. The Russians, after collecting all their forces, attacked them in this situation, and the battle above alluded to was the result. It was also reported, that the emperor of Russia had created Constantine king of Poland.

The last accounts from the Austrians were, that the archduke Charles was ready to strike a blow in Silesia.'

Yarmouth, Jan. 26. Yesterday afternoon arrived the Astrea frigate from Copenhagen, which place she left on the 20th instant, at which time it was reported that the French had lost 60,000 men, and several pieces of cannon. The frigate, on her passage outward, lost her main and mizen masts, threw all her guns except seven overboard, and made 14 feet water in an hour.

London, Jan. 27. On Saturday Mr. Chives, of Clapham-common, was most barbarously murdered by his own ser

vant.

On the morning of that day, after breakfast, the niece of Mr. Chivers, who resides with him, went in

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his carriage to take an airing; Mr. Chivers, who was between 70 and 80 years of age, went into his garden to take a walk, as was his daily custom, inspecting the gardener at his work, and conversing with him; the latter is a Scorchman, 22 years of age, and full six feet high. About half past eleven o'clock, the gardener ran into the house from the garden in great agitation and terror, exclaiming to the servants, Lord, what have I done? I have struck my master, and he has fell;' and immediately left the house, without giving any explanation, and made for the town of Clapham. The footman went into the garden to discover what had happened, when he found his master on the ground, apparently lifeless, and his face a most shocking spectacle; it appearing that the gardener had struck his master with a spade that he was at work with, the end of which entered the lower part of his nose, broke both his jaw bones, and penetrating nearly to a line with his cars, so that his head was nearly separated. The gardener was soon after apprehended, and the magistrates committed him to Horsemonger-lane prison. The cause of the shocking act, it is supposed, was a dispute between him and his master respecting the management of a

tree.

Last night, in the second scene of the pantomime, at Covent-Garden theatre, and while the younger Blogna and miss Searle were on the stage, a person in the two shilling gallery threw a glass bottle, supposed to be aimed at Mr. Bologna, jun.; it fell near the orchestra, and severely wounded in the head a gentleman in the pit; a great quantity of blood gushed from the wound; he was immediately carried out for surgical assistance. The house was thrown into a great confusion, and the cry of manager' resounded from all parts of the theatre. Grimaldi came forward, and after some time had elapsed he obtained an hearing. He stated that the manager was not in the house, but a proper officer was sent up into the gallery to endeavour to find out the of fender. Shortly afterwards, Farley, with two of the Bow-street officers, appeared in the gallery, and, in the name

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of the proprietors, offered a reward of fifty guineas to any one who would discover the person who had thrown the bottle. He was immediately pointed out, and was by the officers carried to Bow-street.

Bath, Jan. 27. A singular instance of accumulated misfortune occurred in the family of a respectable farmer near Devises a few days since: a fever swept off three children at the same time; scarce had the unfortunate victims of disease been carried to their silent home,' when the remaining offspring, two fine boys (at the drear hour of midnight), had not returned from a neighbouring school; in vain did the anxious parent search with quickening step each snow-clad path; returning home for aid, some hours elapsed before the little wanderers were discovered under a hedge; one of them in a torpid state, the other just sufficiently able to articulate. The joy of the mother on their being restored to her, acred so strongly on her feelings, as to awaken a conflict of passion that had well nigh terminated her existence.

The same evening a clergyman in the neighbourhood, returning homeward after having performed his sacred duty, perished through intense cold; his body was found the next morning.-A numerous family are left to lament his untimely fate.

London, Jan. 29. The business of the house of lords to day was for a few minutes interrupted, in consequence of the intrusion of the personage who so frequently infested the court of chancery a few months since as the pretended duke of Norfolk. He entered the house yesterday with the utmost sang froid; stopped for a moment opposite the fire place; and was apparently proceeding to communicare with the lord chancellor, on the woolsack, when he was recognized by some of their lordships, and his progress stopped by lord Kenyon. The assistance of the acting usher of the black rod, the ser geant at arms, and some of the attendants, was of course resorted to'; and his soi disant grace was compelled to abdicare his intended seat. After he was put out of the house and the anticham

and passed off without further damage. Early on Thursday morning last we were visited by another thunder storm, one clap of which (about five in the morning) was little less tremendous than that whose effects we have described, but providentially did no harm that we have heard of.

Deal, Feb. 18. The wind, which all day yesterday was variable and light, gave no indication of an approaching storm; but after sun-set it veered round to the N. N. W. and by midnight blew a hurricane, accompanied with a prodigious fall of snow and sleet. It continued to increase in violence during the night, and this morning presented to us a most distressing spectacle; no less than eight vessels being driven on shore between the south end of the town and Kingsdown, a distance not exceeding two miles and a half in length.-Two irge outward-bound West Indiamen (one a fine copper-bottomed vessel) are wrecked close by Deal castle. The Hope, Deal hoy, with a large freight of goods from London, is on shore near Walmer castle, but it is hoped that greater part of the goods will be saved. A large American vessel drove on shore at the same time, and striking the ground sooner than the Hope, formed a kind of barrier to the latter, and in a considerable degree broke off the violence of the sea. Four other vessels are on shore to the southward of Walmer castle; but at present I cannot learn any particulars respecting them, except that one is a large Plymouth trader; and at the instant of her striking the ground, the mast went by the board, and in its descent fell on two of the unfortunate crew and crushed them to atoms. In the momentary intervals of the snow's ceasing, we can discover seven or eight vessels in the Downs dismasted. One of them has neither bowsprit nor the stump of a mast standing, The Defence of 74 guns, captain Ekins, with a number of other ships, have parted their cables and drove from their anchorage, but the storm and snow continuing, we cannot tell what his become of them.

31. At Acton, Thomas Packin, esq. of Lombard-street, merchant, to miss Hughes, daughter of the late Wm. Hughes, esq. of Birmingham.

At Plymouth, Henry Strangeways, esq. of Shapwick, in Somersetshire, to miss Bewes, eldest daughter of the late Harry Bewes, esq. of Duloe, in Cornwall.

Feb. 1. The rev. J. J. Hume, rector of West Kingston, Wilts, to miss Lydia Lane, youngest daughter of the late Thomas Lane, esq of Gaittletonhouse, in the same county.

2. Thomas Kinloch, esq. of Kilric, Scotland, to miss Anne Moriey, third daughter of the late Jaires Morley, esq. 5. At St. George's, Hanover-square, by the rev. Thomas Walter Ward, Mr. Smith, of Barnet, to the accomplished miss Dean, of Princes-street, Hanoversquare.

At St. George's Bloomsbury, Edward Barnwell, esq. of the colony of Demerara, to miss Lucy Brotherson, of Charlotte-street.

John Walter, esq. to miss Moody, both of Chelsea.

At St. George's church, Hanoversquare, sir Daniel Fleming, bart. to miss Fleming,daughter of the late sir Michael Le Fleming, bart.

At St. George's church, Hanoversquare, Thomas Vincent, esq. to Mrs. Hazlewood, of Dean-street, Soho.

10. At Barham-court, the seat of the right. hon. lord Barham, Wm. Henry Hoare, esq. eldest son of Henry Hoare, esq. to miss Noel, eldest daughter of Gerard Noel, esq. of Exton-park Rutlandshire, and granddaughter of lord Barham. The ceremony was performed in Tutor-church by the rev. Gerard Noel, the lady's brother. After the ceremony, the happy pair set out for Mitcham-grove.

By special licence, at the hon. colonel St. Léger's, in Sloane-street, the bon. and rev. Edward Taylor, brother to the marquis of Headford, to miss St. Leger, eldest daughter of colonel St. Leger.

At Mary-le-bonne-church, Robert Harry Inglis, esq. only son of sir Hugh Inglis, bart. to miss Biscoe, eldest daughter of Joseph Seymour Biscoe,

esq. of Pend-hill, in the county of Surrey.

At Wollerton, in Norfolk, the hon. and rev. Wm. Wodehouse, youngest son of lord Wodehouse, to miss Hussey, eldest daughter of Thomas Hussey, esq. of Galtrim, in Ireland, and granddaughter to lord Orford.

DEATHS.

Jan. 22. At Southampton, in the 67th year of his age, Arthur Ham, mond, esq. a justice of the peace for that town and county, and late one of the surveyors-general of the customs in London.

25. Miss Catharine Sarah, youngest daughter of the rev. Thomas Sandford, of Sandford-hall, in the county of Salop.

Mrs. Huet, wife of Doctor Huet, M. D. of Gower-street, Bedfordsquare.

30. At Bath, the lady of Wyndham Knatchbull, esq. of Russell-place, sister to sir Edward Knatchbull, bart.

Feb. 2. At her brother-in-law's, general Berthwick, at Greenwich, Mrs. Mary Lind, eldest sister to the late John Lind, esq. barrister, of Lincoln's-inn.

On Monday last, at Hadley, Mrs. Harris, relict of the late James Harris, esq. of Great Baddow, Essex.

4. At his house at Stamford-hill, in the 70th year of his age, Mr. Wm. Holdsworth, formerly of the Bank of England.

5. Wm. Buckley, esq. in Gowerstreet, and of Garden-court, MiddleTemple.

6. Lady Ashhurst, wife of sir Wm. H. Ashhurst, of Waterstock, in the county of Oxford.

8. At her house in Hinde-street, Manchester-square, the right hɔn. baronness Dufferin and Clanboye, of the county of Downe, in Ireland. Her ladyship died at the age of 80 years, leaving issue five sons and four daughters, all married. She is succeeded in her fortune and title by her eldest son. the hon. James Blackwood, now lord Dufferin and Clanboye.