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people. tahgttse a religion knci Manners--eity *Sing here .. 1% dissimilar, If the 'English drive King . !'ireiiiiand'from . Sicily, they.aill perfdrns an *at ex - • ireitiely agrOxii:e to France, and equally Couttary to they• true poliel. To occupy small posts, and ne ver %gantries, this is what their real interest, if they rightly understood it, would imperiously. Ie•. quire. eo U•rget chit principle, is only to widen the . gAlf.shich is .adready opened under: the Britannic Islands • • . ' pt ftrefi.thousatiamen, erlibm England has at this . . tiMe in Sicily, kilned to 20,000 constitute a force of 5.5,000 Mtn. When England shall be lids :MSS of Sicily. her i 5,060 tn,n will not be sUflicient for the police 01 the country. She will derive no re source from it. Sicily •will cost her much. The Eng ,lith administration• is the most expensive and the . worst of all administrations. The climate, assassi nations, daily losses, will continue to exhaust the po pulation of England; . and the expenditure of the English in Sicily will he a neat source of depreciation to their exchanges."' . The six following maxims, extracted from English • official writings, should be read,-reread, and medi tated by all kings • Pint sirazim.--. , Our defensive treaty with the King of Sicily bno a convention with an individual, but with a public flute . doetry, Clothed with the regal cliaractere—with the first Magi . etra . te of Skil : T." , Second- 4 The King of Sicily, levying tares and suspending the , lave at lrs pleasure, is no longer the lame King with whom we have contracte.l." Third...." We are in no respect bound by any obligation to. . : Wards this vsnrier." Fourth.--"';he usurping anal antisocial Government of Ray is htstile; it mist be ei4atsidered as Jacobin in Its nature' thh+Wes not the justice of the Briti'h natirn rettuire, • dtai a Goverotnent which publicly profe.ses Jacobinism, should be deprived Of the power of doing mischief?" 8 3 6,“ 1 to ratiop which furnishes the means of defence to I country, is t e poin:cal proprietor of that country. We are . proprietor: of am.dce, becawte we defend it. Are we not, by cultinquence, %Entitled to consider ourselves as the proprietors of Sicily ?" • It WO . liti CyOUS to forp a collection of maxims of English polic To the six Nitich we have just co pied, might be added a dozen which were advanced on the atrocious Copenhagen business; as many on the way-laying of the four Spanish frigates, and a whole store on the; legislaticni pursued with regard to neu trals and Actenca, A series'of about 60 start-max ims might tifeii'be coilected, which would be a :m -onument of the spirit of justice, of equity Land of mo rals, which clur,tctetises the English Goireinment. • 1;1-111 -AV ENING STAR. . - LONDON. THtTRSDAY, IigCEMBER 5. PRICE OF STOCKST4I3 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK per Ct. CoSe. for nowlei chat.—Ditto for on. 64 S per Ct. it ed u c 601-4 per Cent. Ma ttexy 1 per dint—Bonds 6s.pr..—Otnnltun j db. Government received dispatch-s this mnnink from Lord WELLtisa . tosr, dated the 20th ult. but they Con- fain no intelligence of moment. Di , pa•ches were also received this morning from ' Cadiz, d ,ted thz 22.1 ult. They state that the French : had foward a corps upon Ntu.Astitnos, who had been obliged °lce more ,to -retire,- lint hi, had . . don: so in gotid:ceder, and without any : material loss. bite of ottr 'pritate letters from Clibril6r, dated *on. flit 161 ilallisibatOsaitily—ii ilfthe last • accounts fronj Sicily we %Ana was in the greatest • agitation, eapsatipg tha.t hostilitics would costutsence on the arrival !of 'Lord- WitmAst ; it was known that /hie •ntajority if the S'.eilian Arm* would ion the tlilits and. it ,Wis generally belieireft that the Royal. Family Focht endeavour to wake their • escape to Sattl,nizlt•,.. _ . . ' I Another Lbbon Ma 1 anted th7s morning. It was brought to Fabrekith• by the Walsiorram:pirtket, whicu left t 4 Tign, on the 25,h The rifest in-1 lelligence front Lish :n. is of the 24th uk. at which timely) inovetra nt of .lay imprivance had taken place, as will be seen by the fallowing extracts : • “ LISBON; NOVEMBER 19. le Accnrding to letters from the Alern Tejo, received by the courier Of yesterday, the Guerillas have taken a c,invoy of cattle, composed of 100 cows and 300 sheep, Which Were conducting to Badajoz, and made the said capture very near the walls of the fortress." • " LISBON, NOVEMBER 24. 44 No news from the army. No doubt the account of Eailasteros's second victory is, by this time, known in England. It is said it was on the sth inst. he had 6000 men ; the enemy had 2600, and were a: part of the force of the corps which had so unaccountably fled from St. Roque, and whose rear had been cut up by Ballasteros abut the 28th ult. He has now taken all•their guns, stores, mules and baggage, anct has quite dispersed the men. The French commander arrived at Seville, where Soult put him in arresliand he killed himself. Ballasteros is an active me:" A Cadiz Mail, arrived this morning, Vi n*in:tel ligenee from that quarter down to the 25th. silt:— Our Readers will perceive from the following ottsacts that the Spaniards are by no means'-diitstrraged by their late reverses : 44 VALENCIA, NOV. 4. Tht enemy have at last presented themselves . be fare this city. On the ed they appeared ve . th some 3000 men upon the I.eights of ratuna, in front of Quatn and Maine. ; which points the General in Chief of the 81.1 army, D. Mahi, with his trllips, and some belonging to the ft! army, covers. They did not apprcacb nearer the banks of the river, and at night retired towards Livia, from whence-they cisme. —Yesterday they were seets - along all the front front Grao to the bethtttel Pitina. At this last point • they presented aeinselves, itr foree s ‘4ooo infantry and 500 cavalry, with tnrOiriece, ot, artillery. in Ills: aftcsnooss ;Ley pusbei losippd. wog parties 4pcn , '77 " r • . rAisa isluskpof the river , which opened a vett busk fire urn PPP ProoPi, . In the neighetiorhood of - . Ciao they Suffered-1 brisk fire from the cannon of our flying scpadi on, and some musketry kept up bi.the country people, sut • ported by parties of horse. • • " In front of SAn . Jnseph' brijge and St.teente's battery, it was observed that the enemy were working in some milts and homes.. The fire of our artillery I obliged thein to abandon them, and the same hap pened thig morning. 44 The greatest order and tranquillity reigns here. It is impossible to forma correct opinion of it without witnessing it." • "-VALENCIA D'ALCAN rARA, NOVEMBER IL a The French have occupied Merida, where there is a garrison of 1000 infantry and 200 horse. It is to be hoped that, with the ail of our allies, we will again renew the scene of Girard. The fear of the French is so great that they have barricaded the streets of that ci.y, in which they haVe placed eight pieces of artillery. Throughout all the country of Burros an extraordinary agita'ion is observed." We this day lav before our Readers a copy dtdr. MADISON'S Message to Congress, delivered byhiS Se. cretary, Mr. COLE, on the 4th ultimo. It was brlnight ' to Liverpool by the Magdalen, with New York'Pa..l pers to the 10th of November. The Message was transmitted from Washington to Philadelphia (a dis tance of 150 miles) in nine hours and a half. It is in substance extremely similar to that delivered on the opening of Congress, December 5, 1810—we . mean, so far as it relates to the relations of America with the belligerents; OR the whple, however, the present Address exhibits rather more of a hostile mind towards this country than that of last year.— In point of style and composition, (which, to be sure, is a matter of minor importance,) the Address is barbarous beyond all conception. By the Magdalem Government received dispatches' from Mr. FORSTER. They were brouet by fir. GLENNIE, son of Mr. GLENNIE, a respectable ma. chant in the City. We have received a regular series of Moniteurs, and other Paris Journals, to the 28th ult. The only intelligence they contain from the Peninsula, is an trticle from Madrid of the 6th ultimo, which, af er some very imperfect mention of the battle of Sagun. tum, on the 25th of O:tober, states, that on the 28th, Suourr summoned the city of Valencia to surrender, bait eiidendty without success, from the silence that is preserved with respect to the answer returned.— We have given extracts from those Journals in ano ther part of our Paper. " GIBRALTAR, NOVEMBER 9. a The yellow fever is nearly ceased at Carthvena, buccontinues at Murcia. The INvtxcint.E. unfortu nately received the contagion whilst in the harbour of :Carthagena, and between 60 and 70 of the crew hive fallen Victims to it. The disease, however, has ceased on board." EXTRACTS TRnM PRIVATE I,ETTEIR% Frnm Isloji)r Ge , ieral ROCHE to his Excellency Lieutenant General CAMPISICLL, dated Alicant, Oct. The country, to the westward of this as far as Lorca inclusive, continues to suffer severely from the effects of the yellow fever, which I am sorry to say has s; read over the whole of the villages and province of Murcia, in which city alone six thousand persons h tve died. Here, owing to the extraordinary precautions taken, we are totally free from all appearance of sic kness." From the British Consul at Carthagerra, datedoc tober 26.—" I am sorry to say, that the contagious diseases, with which this and the neighbouring towns have been for some time afflicted, continue to prevail. Although in this city their violence has somewhat abated, itgrieves me to inform you, that, in the towns of this vicinity, it continues raging, particularly in the city of Murcia." " GIBRALTAR, NOV. is. $6 General B.iltsteros, by the last accounts from him, appears to be threatening Xeres. A body . of 1200 British troops, commanded by Colonel Skerret, marched from Tariffa, and joined a corps of Spapish troops under General Copons, and proceeded to Vejer, which is situated half-way between Tariffaand Cadiz ; upon which the garrison, consisting of about,3oo men, abandoned the town. I , It seems doubtful whether Suchet will imme diately attack Valencia, or wait for reinforcements, which were said to be on the road from Marmont's army. There is no doubt that Blake is superior in numbers to the enemy ; and although this numeric:ll superiority may not avail him in the field, it may produce different results in the defence of a town. " The fever is not yet extinct at Carthagena. We learn that the sickness has appeared at Alicant, and -that the,merchan'ts are consequently withdrawing into the country. The disorder, however, appears not to be of the same description as that which prevails at Cat thagena. " General Ballasteros has pushed as far as Utrera, add is levying contributions and making requisifons in the territory of Seville. An Algesiras letter states him to have already collected 2,000 young men. "The allied troops which . marched out fromTariffa on the 6th, advOced as far . as Vcjer which they enter ed, .and retained bhartly after. They have since marched out again, in the direction, as reported, of biediaa.'? Tilt Akittirt. - . ...,...# 4 , Cariin Rom's . 13a Radii% tithe 7lst Hiltland2rs, who so gallantly conducted General HILL% pris.,nets to Lisbon, is the vin of S;r Rojo= BARCLAY, Bart. Of Pierce4on, and heir to the title andegatep,. : . The Argyl?.sltira militia :marched On Tti;;;Oar, from Edinburgh Cas:l4 on their route for Ireland. They are to be replaced in Edin.burgb) 4 - y the 1344 wickshire militia, from Haddington. A general Court-Martial onemided at Coven:Meet House, Plymouth, on .Friday and Sattirday, for the' trial of Lieutenant Burridge, of the Royal Cheshito: militia, on the following charges :—Being absent 'without leave, taking a sentinel off his dutr, and riot ous conduct at the 'Theatre, while under arrest.--L Lieutenant B. entered on his defence on Tuesday. . The French Officers in the town of Arroyo de Mo linos, in Spain, on the 28th of October, are said to have behaved most gallantly. They singled out and sword-in-hand attacked the British Commanders.— The Hon. Colonel CADOGAN had the cep cut through on his head by a coup de sabre; Colonel STEWART, of the 50th Regiment (who commanded the brigade) was knocked off his horse ; and Lieutenant-Coloaei CAtizawr, 92d, severely wounded. Bat the French mei soon received the reward of such temerity ; the whole found in the village were either killed or made .prisoners by the brave 92d (Gordon) Highlanilers. . . kteift IWILIMEi6L PALMOtiTiti DECEMBER I. Sa;Sil the Darlington packer, with Italian for Lila ben and Cadiz; anj the Nocton, forgialta.—At ri. red the Walsinghant picket, from Lisboa, *1 It a mail—sailed asSth ultiml; and the Speedy pac.eto froni Cadiz w:th a mail—sailed 24th ultimo. PLYMOUTH. DECE isEE 3. The. ito*.u.Sovattatiam,. wnich anived yesterday, , Was, soon aftei she came in, put under quarantine, to 'remain seven day 4 when she came up barb ur 1 in order to be docked ; also arrivtd the FOItIOUND, ' 18 guns, from Portsmouth. Salle i the NIMROD CUILY, f r L'o, lent. Citrop in the. American schooner In. dustsy, b nand to Sour-Iran; detained by his Maks- • ty's ship Urania. PORTSMOUTH, DECEMBER Arrived the General Door, from Savannah ; and ' the Mariner, from Lisbon, with cotton.—Sailed his ; Atijasty's ship DAPPIttI, on a cruize.—Wind DEAL, DECEMBER 4. The outward-bound and his Majesty": ships as per Itst all remain, also., a few- vessels diet have comae l down from the River. 'ne 71st Regiment have had a dist ngnkhed share in General HILL'S victory, as appears by the folfuw ing letter : YARMOUTH, brICEMBER 4. Sailed 'the Leventr, Capt. WILLISI, and the B art mit I ' are, ou a maize off the Doggei-.. Arrived a gun. brig, (name unknown) with convoy frout . the South. war& The Ranger, Revenue cater, Cir. SAYER, * has brought in with het' a schunner.vigg'd struagsiing • vessel, with upwards of 1000 halvesof spirits. • I Remain the Solebay, Vixen; Brevdageren and Bla zer ; the two letter are under sailing orders for Sheer• mess to refit. —Wind S.W. blows fresh. • (Spain) Merida, October 30, 1111. " Mi DEAR BROTHER-7Si some time since I wrote you, be cau,e I really bad nothing to say; but more events are now fur nished than time will permit me to record. On the 27th instant, General Hill collected his division, consisting of the re British, and one Portuzuese, brigades of infahtry, and some ca Ad. y, near Portalegrc. From whence we made a detour tbrouqh the moun tains of Extremadura, by Albuquercjire, blalpartide, CA/111: up wick and dispersed the division yf Genera'. Grant, consistiiig of near'4ooo men ; lulled, took prisoners, aad d! persed :he w:iole of it.—These are the particulars :—Early on The morning say • The Mary, front Newfo:indland to Ireland, the 28th, we marched from a small village wrain lava Miles of sinie taken on the 2.lth eltimo, lat. sil. by the Brist that occupied by the enemy—the went hrs . dreadful; storms of • t o air schooner privateer, of 14 guns and 160 men, wind and min. Formed under a email swell of ground. Tha t rtf St. Maloes ; she has bean since retaken by the 71st had the honour to lead into the tillage (Arroyo de Molinoti, , shiftWilliamßatlibtlue, of LiverpoJl, and arrived at Eve leagues from Merida) supported by the 50th end 9251 Her- • that Port on Tuesday lilt. ments; and fairly got into the streets before the enemy were I 1 The Sally, Kimet.iv, irorn.Liverpool in Antigua, aware. Their cavalry ha just time to mount, wh-n weßoun- was taken on the 143thultimo . •by th•? Emily French dared among theist with the bayonet ; wounded and took • f aca a number. We cauld not Sr. in consequence of the torrants 4 privateer o tux), in whi 14 guilt and 106 men, aftor acct ch the First L;etitenant of Cie privateer rain that fell. The enemy's hafanty and cannon took to the pia'n, was killed and several nf the crew w •ullest. The and oppo-ed us for some times tut they were ern turned from Saar had. hft men :wounded, and was c irii.d at last the Merida road, tend forced to take the mountains. Mo.t part by boarding. The privateer had prerio isly captured have since surrendered. di. Noah, BOWMAN, i 1•010 OpOrtolo London, which This is one of the most glorious affairs that his taken place the of the privateer gavenp to the Captain since the commencement of the French war. The result cannot and claw o f the Sally, for their br.rve defence; and yet be. ascertained. Yesterday we had upwards of 1100 prisoners, they arrived at Liverpool op Tuesday last. among whom are the Prince d'Arenabssrg. (married to Borraparte's niece) one General, and two or three Colonels. A man of my company, I believe, drove the Prince d'Aremberg off his horse in the village. Our regiment has scarcely suffered any Isss— not three men ktiled. The 92d regiment has four officers and tome men wounded, in consequence of passing an open spar. Eut that's the whole of the British loss ; so completely were the enemy • urprised. The whole division mut surrender; as they are so completely hemmed in, an I the guerillas in pursuit of the runaways. Ey •ry hour brings fresh prisoners. The French are completeli s eltesed. from Estrernadura ; and "the Spaniard', under Castanos, are to organize here. We stay a few days, and theta return to Portugal. I have tin more time, only to say, that for these nine days and nights, I have baen continually marching, tying out during I torrents of rain, with scarcely any bleep; and am neatly worn out.—Adleu." • I . The French General Reveuo, late Governor of Ciudad Rodrigo, why arrived at Plymouth on &our ..day last, in the lorrasua. shop of w ,r. left that p ace on Monday, accompanied by two servAnts, on a chose and pair. tor Moreton Hatupstea.i, where he is to be on parole of honour. COVENT-GRIMM TURATRE.—ThR Hone, Moon was last night performed. Mr. Youso, though rathyr roasting vivacity in some pirts of the Dodo, was on the whole very successful ; and Mrs. C. KtmilLf., though certainly inferior to Miss DURCANt WAS never tthekss a very effective representative of Juliana. Miss BOLTON and Miss Boorn, as Volarde and Zmnima, and Jaunts and BLANcliainD, as Rolando and Lanipeolo, were also highly reSpect46l:. Tlx Poor Soldier closed [the entertainments of the evening with great eclat. COMMON Couuct6— Yesterday the LORD MAYOIII held a Common Council at. the Mansion House. _ SICILY.--PROCLAN!ATION °FYNE LIRUTZNANT-O'INERAL COMMANDER OF THE FORCES OF.HIS BRITANNIC MA- JKiTY IN SICILY. Mr. Deputy Box. moved the Thanks of the Meeting to Joshua Jonathan Smith. Esq. the lue Lord Kayos. " Head-quarters, Me.sina, Oct. 2, !sit. 44 The enemies of the repose of mankind, the op. prer , :rs of Europe, having found useless all their at-' tempts to disseminate discord, and loosen those bonds of reciprocal good-will and confidence, which for a course of six years have so happily existed between the inh ibitants of Sicily, and in general the faithful , subjec ;sof his Majesty Ferdinand IV. on the one hand, and the army of his Britannic Majesty, sent hither for their pmtect ion and defence, on theother ; have at length had recourse to the weak and despicable expedient of again circulating, in a secret and clandestine manner, the insidious address of the 22d May, 1810, framed in order to delude, and sent over as the boasting pre cursor of their threatened conquest of this island, the ill-fated result of which attempt is still fresh in every one's memory. 4 6 As this document is vague and contradictory, its principles being in direct opposition to the daily prac-! tice of the enemy, whose acts of tyranny, rapin anal oppression on the epporite coast of Calabria, and throughout the whole kingdom of Naples, ate well known, it would not meet the least notice, were it net to prove to our friends and allies that we are vigi lant and prepared against these and similar artifices to which the common enemy has recourse, in the vain hope of disturbing the public tranquillity. 44 Let those, then, listen to this address who are I willing to become the dupes of French deceit : let I those listen to it who can consent to be dragged in chains, as Conscripts, to the remotest extremities of Europe, to recruit the ranks of the enemy, and sacrifice their lives in support of their oppressors ; while their families, their homes, their country; and all that is dear to man, are abandoned to the discretion of their tyrants,. and subject to every kind of violati,aa." Mr. Grum-rim seconded thi motion. Mr. S. DIXON said, although it was•desirable that a vote of the nature of th 3 present should be tunusi mous. there was one thing in, the motion to which he would never give his assent.—One of the reasons f. r voting the thanks was stated t) be hospitality in en tertaining the Members of this_Court. After some conversation this clause was agreed to be left out, and the motion passed unanimously. The Prelims REGENT is sufficiently recovered from his late accident to be able to return to York House to.apillw evening to dinner. Ye ay his Royal Highness the Duke of CLA*, nersce arrived at his hou.e iu the Stable Yard, St. James's. from Portsmouth. . . The Duke of CLARICNCE has madta noble and per. manent settlement upon Mrs. JoanA.v, and his chil• dreg; theyoungen of whom reniain with their moth, t. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East-India H..use, when Capt.iin Wn.Lbtst L,Pads. CALL Was sssorn into the command of the ship Earl St. Vincent, consigned to Bengal direct. Government, it is said, gave accounts of an attack upon MINA, with 700 ig t fantry acrd 200 cavalry, by 1100 of the former ind of•the latter, beloog.ng to the enemy, •Cie whole of which was either taken or destroyed. three usea only ezcep eJ, by Spanish.gal- Usury. 001114 DISTILLATIOM. ' Mr. Alderman Woo° observed, chat it could not Jail of being in the knowledge of every gentleman pre sent that the lower classes of the people were in the I greatest distress, in consequence of the high price of thread. Norcould any tr;•n, who extended his enquiries l•to the present state or agriculture in tie: kingdom, be ignorant, that not only to England, but in Scotland and Ireland, the crops had uoexpect , _dly failed. In Scotland, the demand for the distilleries was enor i mously great. Forseveral years we had had annualim. • portations of oats from Ireland ; but this supply would necessarily be cut off, in consequence of the failure this year of potatoes in that country. It would be recollected also, with respect to that country, that a very considerable portion of her distiil.Tß•s were em ployed in the manufacture of spirits for the tise of the British army in Spain and P.•rtugal: Under these ap. pearanccs, he had felt it to be his duty to propose a Re4uisition for convening this Meeting, in order to the adoption of some speedy measure for the allevia tion of the sufferings if the poor. This was not a question of pullics, but a question of "amity. It was a queition, whether the poor were to be relieved from their suffer' ngs, by the adoption of a judicious econbmization of the produce of the country, or whe. Cher that produce should be converted into the manu facture of an article, which at bey. could only minister to their luxuries, and tend to the depravation of their mixt-a:3 ? Viewing the question in this light, he had • 'not been solicitous ix requesting any gentleman to second his motion ; but having laid beforti the Court the reasons upon whi/h his proposition was founded, he would conclude by moving— ' a That a dutiful and Ihyal d0ar....., be psis-sited o his Reid illehnes4 the eraice iteeta - i pnying t: at t4;e 1.). ,ilea Vat ed Kingdoms be sesprodA :two user.g Car en tbt: Dimulattem .ur brehei and Ilia such tuber oteseures be adored t.) treacles the turther ittcrtmee of the Free otco!n, a, to Isis koial kikgbiseim loan mist." Mr. JACKS seconded the motion. Mr. WAITHSIAN, "Mr. Alderman WOOO, sew. rally' explained, when the latter agreed to add to the motion the words-44 That his Royal Higne.s tha . thince Regeut will be gractnnsly pleased, by the *it 'vice of :Du Privy Council, art.'s -..••••••••••••••1111..s•