The French frigate Atalante sailed from Toulon on the 28th
September, having under her convoy fifteen transports for the Morea, with provisions and ammunition. The frigate is stated to have on board 1,700,000 francs.
The Swedish Consul at Marseilles has acquainted the French Government that three valuable French Indiamen have been captured and. taken into Algiers, and their cargoes sold.
An official order of the day, issued at Cadiz on the 17th Sep- tember, announces that the French troops were about to evacuate that fortress. The first and second divisions were to commence their march on the 21st. The amount of the French army is nearly seven thousand men. They are to return over land. Bands of armed men traverse Lower Catalonia, in sufficient strength to menace some of the fortresses. By the accounts from Gibraltar, received yesterday, it appears that the fever is extending rapidly ; and a great proportion of the poor, who work for their daily bread, and are now destitute and encamped on the neutral ground, are expiring in want and disease. These are reported to be about six thousand. The total number of cases up to the morning of the 21st ult. was 516; the deaths, 87. On the 22d a still further increase of cases and deaths was re- ported; but the official statement of the latter is not given. The Governor of Malaga had caused five or six of the crew of a vessel from Gibraltar to be shot, for introducing contraband goods supposed to be contaminated with the seeds of infection. The proclamation of Don Pedro to the Portuguese, which we formerly noticed, has been circulated at Oporto, whither it was conveyed by a merchantman from Rio de Janeiro, which also brought despatches addressed to the Oporto Junta. The despatches were seized by Don Mignel's agents, but the proclama- tion is said to have nearly produced an insurrection. The infantry and cavalry were directed to charge the unarmed inhabitants and thus they were kept down. It has been frequently alleged that Miguel and the Queen Mother had quarrelled, and that the Prince was no longer submissive to her counsels. Their quarrel has now, it is said, arrived at such a height on both sides, that Miguel has intimated to his parent that she must prepare to leave the kingdom. At Oporto, one hundred and twenty-five of the imprisoned in- habitants have been tried, and eighty of them condemned capitally. The soldiers who sing verses in honour of the young Queen are barbarously punished.
The Hamburg papers of the 3d instant mention, that the price of wheat had risen considerably, in consequence of purchases made on foreign account.
The Kin°. of Spain has prohibited his subjects in the West India Islands from sending their children to be educated in the United States, lest they imbibe principles of liberty and heresy, All boys already placed at the American Colleges must be brought back.
Two Spanish frigates destined to the Philippine Islands on a secret expedition, have been lost with all their crews.
Great complaints continue to be made of the depredations of the pirates in the Western seas ; and the murmurs at the scantiness and distant positions of our naval force in those seas are equally loud. A letter from St. Kitts, dated the 1st September, says, that "if a naval force of protection is not immediately sent to this quarter, no vessels will be safe on their outward or homeward- bound voyage, without being properly armed and equipped." A letter from St. Christopher's, mentions that an English brig, supposed to be the Combo° of Liverpool, had been captured by a pirate fitted out at St. Thomas's, a Danish island, and all on board murdered.
Three pirates were recently hanged at this island for an act of piracy committed in December. The Buenos Ayrean Government has confiscated the cargo of the British trader Huskisson, captured by a privateer for having a cargo considered contraband of war for the Brazilian Government. The articles condemned were accoutrements, sabres, lances, hats, mathematical instruments, a lighthouse complete, &c.
There has been a great mortality among the Dutch troops in Java, arising from fatigue and the climate. It appears from an official return that of 3,000 men lately arrived, 1,600 had died ; out of 100 officers, 22. None had fallen in battle with the rebellious natives, whom they have so long and with so little success been attempting to subdue.
General Sir James Kempt, the new Governor of Canada, ar- rived at Quebec on the. 2nd ult. The Earl of Dalhousie, with his family, has arrived in Scotland.
The mechanics who were sent from Chatham dock-yard to erect buildings on the new settlement of Fernando Po have all died of the unhealthy climate.
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