Star. — London, England, 1811-10-08 00:00:00

_ ' • our subsidy, the advantages derived froth stir mint and fleet appointed to protect Sicily, go without any equivalent, since we stipulated for none, When we en teted into the alliance by which we engaged to de fend the island. But let the Sicilian Governriient also_ fulfil its engagements. Let our goodshave the Amu chance in the market as the goods of the enemies of Sicily. Let us not thus lose all the advantages of. oar machinery and superior skill, by so unjust, unmerited, and so tattial a system of taxation. It is not, however, by the glaring examples that may be quoted front the Tarif, that the spirit hostile to the British trade may be detected. On the 16 bof April, 1811, the American Consul in Palermo obtained en enlargement of the facilitation of transhipment ; 'he same privilege was refused to the British, except on conditions to which they could not, without a ha zard of private interest, agree to, and conditions also which affected the honour of the British flag which is ueifortnly maintained abroad by the merchants with fully as much spirit as by our diplomatists ; and here we cannot but mention a remarkable instance of the Money sucking mode of dealing which is practised on our merchants at well as oh our Government. The Sicilian Government proposed to grant to the British merchants the privilege of transhipping and warehousing in the King's stores for transhipment, any kind of goods on being paid a dirty of 1 per cent. on the tarif rate. The same privilege was after wards granted to the Ainericans without duty.— Our merchants accepted the proposal, for it was evi. dently advantageous, and a large quantity of goods were landed and lodged in consequence in the King's warehouses. On or about the 18th of March, about almond) before the privilege was granted free to the Americans, and when the Merchants wished to avail themselves of the right that the conceived they had acquired, the Government refused to acknowledge it, 'and would not permit the goods to be removed bet on -Conditions detrimental to the dealings of the mer chants, and which were neither mentioned in the first irrdngeinent nor had relation to its Objects. The whole was a Neapolitan trick to extort money. N. Those who will consider the Neapolitan Cabi net as the lawful Government of Sicily, are bound also to admit that we have no right to complain of the levyir.g of the one per cent. on payments men tioned in a formr',:'.l.nuber. Eut let us look to the operation of the t ax. $y the practice of the port of Palermo, the mn.- thants hare th,:ir sale stores within the buildings of the Cus:nm.house, because it is not the practice to pay the duties until the goods be sold. The crown in this manner holds the goods as its security for the duties - . The arrangement fequires only a lei , slight Modifications to be excellent, and does honour to the Ziberal spitllt whMt - anciently dictated the inithun'ties' that induced foreigners to settle in Sicily.. lint what does the usurpin7 art: lawless Neapolitan Cabinet do? On the 26th of May, 1311; it Orders the merchants to psty one per cent. on the tarif valuation of all . the goods in the r.)yal warehouses, and the goods to be held in a state of sequestration 'lntl the money is paid--not only on tl:c goods in the warchoirtes, but on all that had been sold sine, the 23ciof fcbruary, 1811 eeethe day on Which it usurped the power of levying taxes. It is necessary to notice the complex operation of the tax. First, the importets, by the order of the 26th of Mat, 181.1, are obliged to 'pay one per cent. They tell the goods on credit to other merchants; and on the sales - they pay another one per cent. The pur chasers resell, and pay a third one per cent. ! At often as th 6 goods ate sold the duty of one per cent. is paid, so that by the time they reach the consumers, what with the partiality of the tarif, and this tax, the British articles, which by being imported in large quantities, could be sold cheaper there than the same kinds of articlei imported in smaller quantities from other nhions, are thus rendered Mott etpcnsive to the consumer, and the principle of counteracting our trade is materially promoted.—ls there nothing in this to complain of and if there be, would not our complaint be immediately construed into an indirect attempt to violate the independency of the Government It is impossible to recognise, or indeed to know, in what that indepcnclanee consists; if we admit that it can levy taxes at pleasure on fo reign merchants contrary to most express treaties and voluntary engagements on the part of the Sicilian Go vernment. If-we admit the right of arbitrary taxation, we must also admit the right of punishing for refusing to pay, alth a.;11 that refUsal be grounded on the terms of treaties, And consequently we must admit treaties to be of no utility. We cannot claim the pri ilege of remonstrating against the duty of one per cent. without grounding our claim on treaties. By the treaty of defence we engaged not to interfere in the domestic 'tumor/1y of the kingdom ; we cannot there fore, if we admit the self-assumed power of taxation, remonstrate. Bat if we consider that power as an usur pation, we stand clear. and in compelling it to return to the obligations of law and treaties, we remain con sistent with our own principles, and vindicate our ho eour, so grossly insulted. We have only to consider the Neapolitan Cabinet as our enemy, both in spirit and deed, and that it is so the tarif alone is sufficient to prove. We have only to insist that noineasure shall be attempted by the Government but what could have been lawfully executed at the time when we eon . eluded the treaty of defence, if we are resolved to abide by that unnecessary arrangement. r,• '~~ 1 , STA ft • I LONDON. TUESDAY, OCTOBER S. PAVE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. 3 Per Ct. Cons. for money 631—Ditto for account 634 j pet Ct. Reduced shut—Navy 5 per Cent. 95 4 per Cent. abut—Bonds 178.181. pre.—Ornnium H dis. Each. Bills (3d.) par to 28. di..—Ditto (314.) 2s. to 4s. pre. THE KING. 46 WINDSOR CASTLE, ocroilEn 6. 4 4 The KING continues much the same. (Signed) 46 11. NTALFORD. W. HEBERDEN. I►. WILLIS." orrictat. REPORT OF THE QUEEN'S COUNCIL, HELD AT WINDSOR, SATCRDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1811. 46 That 'the state of his MAJESTY'S health, at the time dr this Meeting', is not such as to enable his MA- JwTx resume the personal exercise of his royal au thority; that bis MAJrtTY'S bodily health does not appear to be Materially altered since the date of our last Report but that his MAJESTY'S niental health does appear to be considerably worse than it was at the time of our last Report. From all the 'circum stances of the case, his MAJtusrecarcovery is repre seated as very iMprobable by itit the Physicians in ; attendance upon his MAJClTY,eicepting one, who still thinks it probable; but at the same time, looking to his • MAJESTY'S faculties, the retriairing vigour of his con stitution and bodily health, afew of the medical per- sons in attendance represent that they do not despair, and the majority of the Physicians, that they do no: entirdy despair of his NIAJESTY'S recovery.? The dispatches from Lord WELLINGTON', brought , by the Wcitsin;:harn, as stated in the STAR of yester- I , day, are dated Fucnte de Guinaldo, on the 21st tilt. Ni part of Cie contents of these dispatches has trans pired, in addition to what we stated yesterday ; but private communications enable us to give the folios-1 ing further particulars : An opinion prevailed at Lisbon, it would seem, that Lord WetttNo . tost me ditated a retreat to a stronger position s in consequence of the concentration of the French forces, and their late increase of numbers. Some English Engineer Officers have been for several weeks engaged in strengthening the lines at Torres Vedras. Not only the Portuguese peasantry, but the French prisoners are employed in the works. A new regular native force of 30,000 men has been recently organized by Marshal Dencsronb, at Cintra. By the Walsingham we have also received some in teresting information from the Eastern parts of Spain t from Unit we learn, that Field-Marshal D. PEDRO VILLACMIPO was soon to take the command of the division of Arragon, attached to the second army, , vh'cli has beeh reinforced by '2OOO infantry and 200 cavalry. The ~ame General, who left Valencia the 26th July, procees!ed from thence to M.‘ra de Rub;elos. Many ot the solders of the army of Catalonia which had been dispersed in the beginning of July, had en tered Arragon in great numbers, with the intention either to incorporate themselves with the troops under ECPOZ and MINA, in Navarre, or to piss the Ebro and penetrate onwar Ito Valencia. One of these corps, consisting of 600 men, according to the French Ga zfite of SarsgOSSil, had entered Balbastro, where they plundered the house of the French Magistrate, and the premises of some others in the 'same interest, after an ehkagettwat- with a aetachineut of cavalry of the enemy. Subsequent to these operations they put to Right several small French garrisons which occupied some northern stations inArragnn. GeneralCtoPtsckt formed a cordon of twits to obstruct the progress of the ? : ~~ , n• - ” - v . r ~ ~. We hate received a letter from a friend at the Head-quarters of Lord WELLINGTON, dated Fuenta Guinaldo, 19th of September. It proceeds—" We have once again established our Head-quarters in Spain, which have beets, for the last month, at thiS place, and within twenty miles of Ciudad Ro drigo; where the enemy have a strong force.— We have it completely surrounded by our troops, and should the enemy endeavour to relieve it, it will bring on a general action—if they do not relieve it the place must fall, and, what is of mote consequence, shew their weakness to the country. " The Army is at present rather sickly, but much less so than it has been ; some sickness was to have been expected, after the dreadful march we had front the Alentejo to this place. " Several skeleton battalions are to be sent home, what they are cannot be precisely known, as Lord WELLINGTON keeps every thing so profound a secret, but the following are tnenti',ned :—The precious re mains of the 9.9 th, 31st, 42,!, B.lzh, Buffs, and some of the regiments of the German Legion, who I as sure you have, on every occasion, behaved most nobly. Ca-airy are anxiously expecting Lord PAorr ont to command them." The following Private Letters have also been re ceived " Ltrito%-. :leer. 20.—Afar a long r:sidence at Cadiz, and visiting- several parts of this country, I am at length fiked bete. With regard to news there is nothing new trim the head quarters at present, but when I eons:der that the great number of troops which have lately araii9!d from home ( mounting. indeed, to a little army have all been rapidly for warded in the drection of Ciudad Rodrigo, the sth dragoons excepted, I cannot dotilit but that some event of great importance will soon like place. " We are all more sanguine here respecting the ul timate fate of the l'eninsola, than 1 found My fiieu.ts in England before I sailed. I have now seen a great deal both of Spain and Portugal, and :is I can 'speak the languages easily, I have, besides other sources of information, frequent a id intimate intercourse with some of the best informed individuals of both nations. With these opportunities of correcting any erroneous opinion I might have had; I ant still confident that the Ft each will never be able th conquer Spain. The grounds on which I make this assertion I have not leisure to detail ; but it I could snatch front my oc cupatious sufllcient time for that purpose, I Am sure the facts I should state would produce their eonvic tion: The English here live very comfortably, though things are upon the whole dear. Our hospital, iam sorry to inform you, is at present full of sick and wounded." " SEH. 22.—Every thing remains in the same state as when I wrote you last, no movements of consequence having occurred ; but all the cavalry which were at Lisbon and Saiit trent have been or dered without delay to join Lord Wellington, and hate consequently marched off. Twenty transports of troops have arrived, with detichytents for various regiments. We have it strongly reported here, that the French have lately received cansiderable reinforce ments, and it is conjectttred by Stun: persons here, that his Lordship will retire again to. his strong lines, which of late have been matte stronger than ever they were before; so that.all the force the enemy can bring against them will not avail. We have reason to think they will not venture to follow his Lordship, in case he should be under the necessity of falling back." Spiniards into Na : varre, but according to-the latest information from Estella in this attempt he had been Wholly unsuccessful. Intelligence three days later front Estella, satisfies us that these active Partizans Esnoz and I%ItNA still continued in that place, where they had assembled a large force both of infantry and cavalry from Catalonia. yhe French, disappointed in the first expedition, were preparing another in Pa mp:ona, composed of 4-000 men, to encounter those gal:ant defenders of their country. Parliament, we understand, ir. conseluence of the last Report of the Queen's Council, will be prorogued again from the 12th of November, and not be assem bled for the dispatch of public business until the se cond week in January. • Dublin Papers of Sattirday last arrived in Town this morning. They contain an account of the pro. ceedings of the Catholics of King's County, Carlow, and Cavan. The Catholics of Donegal are to Meet on the 16th instant at Stranorlan. Letters from the French Coast state, that BoNA PARTE has cashiered the Admiral of the Boulngne flotilla, in consequence of the failure of the attack on the NAIAD. It is also reported that the Scheldt fleet is completely ready for sailing, and is daily expected to attempt to slip out to sea. It is said that, in con sequence of the enemy's state of preparation, our fleet has been already reinforced, and will be increased to 27 sail of the line. At the swearing in of the new Mayor of Plymouth, Dr. BELLAMY, on Monday, an Act of Parliament was called . for by one of the commonalty, of Charles 11. and read, containing . a clause that no person is eligible to be elected a Mayor or Chief Magistrate of any City l Borough, or Town Corporate, who has not received the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper within a twelve; month and a day of his nomination. After some timei Dr. B. refusing to answer the question, the election was declared void by the Common-hall. In conse quence of the above Act ot . Parliament, both parties will go to the Court of King's Beach for redress: ~ ARAIt . iVAptia iNTELLittlicf. • His Majeity's ship MELPOMENE has arrived at Ply- rALMOUTH, OCTOBER S. mouth, from Lisbon. Colonel BELSON, 943t11 Regi- Put Wet, by contrary winds, the Own GLENDOLIi ment ; Major O'HAI,LORAN, 4th regiment Captain frigate, with Bir Sawn Hoot) on board, for the REIN err, Quirter-Master-General's department; and East Indies.—Wind S.W. Captain SMELLIE, 51st, wounded in the battle of Al- PLYMOU rH, OCTOBER 6. bueta,cathe passengers by the MELPOMENE. I The Citko*Lint gun-brig, which went on shore in This day the 2d Battalion of the gallant, and ever the violent gale yesterday morning, was this day got to be remembered Fuzileers, under the command of afloat, and towed into harbour with very trivial da- Colonel Noorn, embark at Portsmouth, for Jersey, mage.—Sail-cl the RIENUAT brig of war for Ports where they again hope to meet the enemy. mouth, from whence she will proceed to the Mediter- The reinforcements for theQuartermaster-General's ranean : she has taken a brig from hence under her regiment, are embarked for the Coast of Africa, at convoy, with threemillinftsofball.cartrid3es on board. Pottsmou!h, and not at Falmouth, as stated errone- Went out of harbour, the Apauts, 18 guns.—The ously in cur impression for Saturday last. DRYAD frigate came up harheur this day, to rest.— The Hon. Colonel JaN:r.s RAMSAY is appointed In consequence of an anonymous letter received by Inspecting Field Officer of tho recruiting service in the Lords of the Admiralty, front one of the crew of the Aberdeen district, in rootn of Colonel T. Win. the DIA &ft‘ frigate, complaining of ill tisage, theit nruNoroN, who is appointed to the district of Bury Lordships sent down to investigate the business; and St. Edmunds. : the result was, the crew were all ordered to be drafted. We are glad to hear that an inn is building ad. They were sent on board the SALvabott this day. joining to Hilsea Barracks, an accommodation that I PORTSMOUTH, OCTOBER 7. was extremely wanted for Of at that station, who Arrived, the Ite.estur r, from Plymouth. Sailed, are Waiting for embarkation, and have no mess to his Majesty's :;hirttlfEllAk, LINNET, and Demi - toes, which they can • , on a cruize.—Wind S.W. ~ DEAL, OCTOBER 7. Arrived, the ELEPHANT man of war, front Ports. mouth, .to join the fleet off Flushing ; and the Rot.tis sloop of war, with a French privateer whith she cap tured off Dovei last eirening.The Rottman sloop of war chased another, but by tarrying away her top-gallant mast, the Frenchmen heaped:--Wind S.W. blows fresh. SHEERNESS; OCTOBER 7. Sailed, Lis Majesty's ship MERcuEIO, with a con voy for the Baltic.—The nett will sail about the 21st inst. and will be the last this year, unless especially Applied for to the Lords of the Admiralty. YARMOUTH, OC - TO3En 7. Arrived, this morning, several sail of merchant men, from Mettle', And remain in the Roads, wind hound. Sailfd; the Btusris gun.brig, wlth dispatehes for Admiral Satsinitez ; and the Cm:yew sloop of war, with stores, for the island of Antiolt.Remain the Lerma., Vice.Aiimiral MURRAY, and Witte sloop of war.—Wind fivr,ll breeze The twig Richard and Maly, Of Lee*, Mlles master, from Swarisea, with' cranes-M:4i driven on 'shore a little to the eastward of Halle har, in the violent storm of Wednesday sennight, and wrecked. The Prince Adolphus Packet arrived out at iar badoes on the 20th of August; and the Darlington . Packet, at the tame plate, on the 23d, The signal posts evil/slide.%) on tite c•iast for obser ving the enemy's crniiers are undergoing a Complete revision by Admiral Bitowst. The fir-frig.acs and dir;gt, which several yearS apo were built by order of Government, have mire thad ans'vered the et pectations which were then entertain rd of them. These vessels were. boat on the specula tion or wearing sit years and thq have doubled that time. The SEA-GIME. a fine brig Of war, vat 14 years ; but fatally kept the see ton long. She Was lost in the Charnel, in A gal,: of wind, and had put to sea in an indifferent state: • The only account ever heard of the fate vi site Sita-Gur.i. *a3 brought to Plymouth by a merchant (614, whiCh passed close to her in great distress, but coOld tint assist her ; her masts gone, her pumps r,oing, and her Oinks fearfully gaping, as the merchantman passed her. In this awful moment, a voice from the farmer cried out— s' If you reach Plymouth, •tell the lath that you have seen the last of the poor Seagull." MARGATE, UCTOBER 7. The light.fin7ered gentry have been fel-y itidus ttious here lately. Mr. Berrtios, the proprietor of a library, sustained a very considerable loson Friday last : his pocket book, containing, as well as he can recollect, upwards of aeltiO, was removed front a small de , lc behind the eountei, and no trace what ever of the picsperty has yet appeared. Mr. Br.rn sos has offered £3U reward fur its recovery, which we sincerely hope may ;mince some of the party con cerned; as it prtiGaioly was premeditated by more than otie, to discover the perpetrators of such a nefarious 1 Att. The robbery took place in the middle of the 1 dar.—We are still fiery gay here. Colonel Cool.tit and the Officers of the ltd Somerset Regiment of Mi litia patronized the performances at the Theatre on Friday List, which was itumeromly attended by rank and fashion from Ramsgate, Broadstairs, &c. : the Play was MoftroN's etcellent Comedy of Speed the ' Pleugh, with Pero:Ile: Moone,por popular comedian, kept the audience in high spirits by his admirable performance of..;ir Ad Bandy. .---...--. On Tuesday last, at the opening of the Michael- I -Inas Head Court, at Perth, Lord KINNAIRD moved I The Right Rev. Doctot• Tuostas Pews', Rishttp the thanks of the County to General GitAnAm. 'this of Dromore, died at the see-house, on Monday sell: motion, his Lordship introduced with one of the most night, in the 83d year of his age.—fie was ore of the most amiable and revered Prelates in private life, eloquent speeches ever pronounced within the walls of the Court-Room ; and we may venture to arm, and,•as A literary character, his Lordship was not un. known to the public.--In 1761, he published .. H a w that no compliment which the General has ever re ceibed surpassel the impressive and characteristic pa. Kiou Choaan; or, the Pleasing History," a Chinese negyric deliver,!cl by his Lordship, and heard with Romance, in four duodecimo volumes. TIO literary equal sensibility by his provincial neighbotm. With curiosity is a translation from the Chinese language, which his Lordship had revised froth a manuscript remarks was interwoven a handsome and well, " (dated 1719), found among the papers of a gentle. merited tribute to the memory of Sir JassesPcurvikv, ! ! man who had large concerns in the East India C o m- and an enumeration of the virtues by which he, like patty, and who occasionally resided much at Cant on . GRAHAM, entitled himself to the respect of the County of Pefth. The motion was cheerfully carried, and or- In 1783, his Lordship presented the public with a very. Idered to be transmitted to the General. elegant and curious collection of reliques of ancient THE CHASC.—Several celebrated packs have alrea- English Poetry, published by Dodsley, in thre e d uo . deci:no volumes ; and six years afterwards h e pub dy taken the field, and in the course of next week hunt hilted 4. the Hermit of Warkworth," a Northumb er . in will have become general in Yorkshire and the adjoining counties. Lord 6CARBOROUGH'S foi-hounds land ballad. In the class of Divinity, we believe, hi s are scouring the Wheatley-hills; the City of York Lordship has only printed g single sermon. Foe the hounds are ranging Stockton forest; and Kr. Fox's curious anecdotes and literary information, to b e f oun d in the edition of the “ Tatler," with Illustratio ns an d throw off this week on alternate dart at Parlington- Lodge, Carrick-whits, and at Askbow-bog. notes, historical, biographical, and critical, published BIMAD.—This d.y there was no Court of Aides,- in six octavo volumes in the year 1786, the public is men; the Loan MAYOR, after inspecting the returns, principally indebted to this Prelate, though it was Ordered it s to malting at present prices. . flaished and edited by another hand. i