CUMBERLAND PACQUET 12 November 1816 / LONDON, November 4.

[Barb Baker]

LONDON, November 4.

 

THE "Duke of Kent" packet has arrived from Lisbon, with a Mail, in only four days; the shortest passage almost ever remembered.

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Paris Papers to the 2d, and Dutch to the 1st, have arrived this morning.  The latter unmask the malignity of the French Journalists in a trifling but remarkable instance.  The former said, the review by LORD WELLINGTON took place on a very wet day, the horses knee deep in water; the latter gave many particulars, and say, the weather was ramarkably fine !

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MR. PINCKNEY, the American Ambassador, arrived at Rome from Naples, on the 12th ult. from whence he was to set out on his mission to Petersburgh.  It is said he has concluded a Treaty with Naples, which gives America advantages in the ports of Sicily.

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The German Papers are filled with declamations against English commerce and manufactures, the whole provocation for which is that the English undersell the Germans.  If this be ruinous to the English, it will soon cease; then why so much anger ?

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The villagers around Nottingham are arming themselves in their own defence.  We understand that the assizes for the county of Nottingham are to be held in future at Newark instead of Nottingham.

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Letters of a very recent date were this morning received from Gibraltar.  ADMIRAL PENROSE sailed on the 4th of October in the "Albion" to the Eastward.

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The Lord Mayor has purchased in Smithfield market, a bullock, to have it slaughtered, and cut up into joints, in order to judge of the profits of the retail butchers.  He has likewise purchased a sack of flour, to be made into loaves, for the pupose of ascertaining the actual gains of the bakers.

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A striking exemplification of the strictness of Turkish etiquette is furnished by the accounts from Constantinople, respecting a fire in the Seraglio.  It appears that the palace was suffered to burn for three hours, it being thought of more importance that the women, who had fled in confusion from their burning apartments into the surrounding gardens, (all the avenues to which were in consequence closed) should be secluded from the gaze of the vulgar, than that the progress of the conflagration should be checked.

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The "Granicus:, "Hebrus", "Glasgow", and "Madagascar", which were commissioned for the peace service, have been paid off - the three first-named have been employed at Algiers, are in want of considerable repairs.  The "Plover", "Termagant", "Espoir", "Zephyr", and "Dolphin", were paid off last month.

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There are already near 400 children of pensioned soldiers arrived and settled in the Duke of York's Asylum, Above Bar, Southampton.  The whole number to be accommodated is 700.

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