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Pa: The • was, t: Moth • trr a. 1.. e int , - I t: D e I;s • Cib •,t2 rue r Jey tc All t: , •;• sin • b The tht: c:•i•;:s tl a t..i. sh, Divan an arr. of v.i t i and ti • BE R 6820] JCIETY FOR AFFORDING RELIEF TO THE RUPTURED POOR, • GROCER'S HALL-COURT, POULTRY. Right Honourable the Loan MAYOR President. :RMON will be preached on Sunday Morning it, the s'ld instant, for the Benefit of the above Charity, in; Church, Soho, By the Rev. R. VALPY, D D. F. A. S. • Stradishall, in Suffolk, and Master of Reading School. Prayers to begin at Eleven o'clock FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. BAYONNE, DECEMBER 28. reported that the French division advancing [ s Andalusia, marches with rapid progress.— itest adv ices mention their having already :d Cordova. That place is said to have been possession of in consequence of a battle fought Sierra Morena, in which the insurgents were defeated. We are in anxious expectation of , rticulars of this engagement. CONSTANTINOPLE, NOVEMBER 25. le R c rolution which commenced on the 14th, until the 20th. The fire first broke out on the the house of the Aga of the Janissaries having day been set on fire, for his refusing to make 'mon cause with them against Mustapha Bairactar. Aga was at the same time assassinated by his people. In the sequel, the Janissaries stormed leraglio on the 17th. The Ex-Sultan, Mustapha ss strangled, and his body thrown out tb the lits. The number of Seimens and Janissaries , ve fallen, and whose bodies are lying in heaps • ;m i et, s calculated to about 80001 the former :own into the sea, but the latter are decently nred. The Seimens were disarmed on the Mai, .lieir officers were put to death on the same day. the 19th, the dead body of an unknown Mussul ' rank that had been destroyed, was found in a cerranean vault in the Palace of Sultan Mahomet. - supposed to be that of Mustapha Bairactar, towever, as is believed by well-informed persons, rely effected his escape to Rudschuck. the Seraglio was battered with musketry and 1. that Palace had suffered considerable da- The Hippodrome, and a number of large tgs, formerly about a third of the whole city, ae a prey to the flames. All the householders :aaibol, Galata, and Pera (various quarters of the are still obliged to patrole the streets by turns, Light time, and to keep a lamp burning in front .y house, to prevent further mischief. Grand Seignior Mahomet has now appointed met Aga provisional Grand Vizier. The ex ;aid illy is again appointed Captain Paella, and id Effendi remains as Minister for Foreign Af- The Reis Effendi, and Kiaja Bey, also retain former rank. The Seraglio is to undergo a re and in the mean time, the Government will its Council in a private house. The most beau part of the Seraglio has been destroyed by the is have also the archives. ALGIERS, NOVEMBER SI. some days past, the greatest tranquillity has led in this country. The return of the troops ad marched to Const.)ntine by no means pros the disturbances which were expected. But 'as only .a deceitful cairn, which was to be fol by a dreadful tempest. The troops above allud tssembled at ten o'clock in the morning on the st. in their barracks, and after a short consulta sent a deputation to the palace of Government, )rders to put to death the Dey Achmed teir arrival there, they compelled the guard and domestics to depart, on pain of participating in :e. All of them instantly obeyed. The Dey ) the roof of his palace, from which, getting up end of a neighbouring building, he was followed assassins from the top of one house to that of ;C:', until he was taught on a Jew's house, and his head cut off, and his body, after being dread mangled, was thrown into the street. imediately after, one Ali, surnamed Kodja, who been many years attendant on a mosque, was pro- Dey by the soldiers ; and no person sustained 'urther injury, except the father, the wife, and the Leary ofthe deceased Dey, who were committed on. In about a couple of hours this unexpected ition was coropletsd ; and at one o'clock in the :ron, the Consuls of Foreign Powers repaired to 'alace, to pay their respects to the new Dey. le oceasion of this event, according to report, tit a Achmed Paella, in the three years of his element, had destroyed a great number of Turks, :lioce who had a share in the government, and •at number of the lower classes, apparently with :cation of diminishing ; if not of totally annihi tee influence of the Turkish Government, and tenting that of the Moors. The fears entertain this respect were augmented in consequence of , ey's !savouring the escape of his interpreter, one wife's relations, who fled with great treasure braltar, after the commission of various crimes, lost displeasing of which was his instigating the ;o strangle a Turk. I the old Ministers, with the exception of the Mi of Marine, were banished to Bleda, twenty sigucs from Algiers ; and the new Dey chose successors from among the lower classes, men . t• ignorant, without any personal respectability, :le') were soon accused, by public report, of hay tared among them the effects of the dismisssd brough t into the public treasury. lese reflections occasioned a second insurrection Ilth, the soldiers demanding with loud out the dismission of the new Ministers, and evin a disposition to begin plundering the city. All lops were shut, and the doors barricadoed. The is having assembled in the Palace, entered into irl-angernent with the i nsur gent s ; in consequence etch the new Ministers were dismissed and exiled, Coen- places coderred on persons of greater rc- FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1809 PARLMMENTARr PROCEEDINGS: HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, JAN. 29. The Session of Parliament was opened this day by Commission ; the Commissioners were the Arch bishop of CANTERBURY, the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Earl of CAMDEN (President of the Counsel),, and the Duke of MoNrnosE (Master of the Horse). A few minutes after three, the Lords Commission ers took their seats, and a Message having been sent to the Commons, they appeared, with their SPEAKER at their head, at the bar. They were informed by 'the LORD CHANCELLOR, that it was not convenient for his Majesty to meet them in person, and that he had been pleased to direct his Commission to certain Lords therein named, to open the Session, which Corn mission they should hear read, and afterwards his Ma jesty's most gracious Speech. — The Commission having being read by the Clerk at the Table, the LORD CHANCELLOR then read the following Speech : " MT Lonna AND GENTLYMEN, " We have it in command from Ilia Majesty to state to you, that his Majesty has called you together, in perfect conidente that you are prepared cordially to support his Majesty in the prose cution of a war which there is no hope of terminating safely and honourably, except through vigorous and persevering exertion. " We are to acquaint you, that his Majesty has directed to be laid before you copies of the proposals for opening a negotiation, which were transmitted to laia Arlaje.,ty from Erfurth, and of the correspondence which thereupon took place with the Governments of Russia and of France ; together with the declaration issued by his Majesty's command on the termination of that correspon dence. " His Majesty is persuaded that you will participate in the clings which were expressed by his Majesty, when it was re quired that his Majesty should consent to commence the negoci tion by abandoning the cause .of Spain, which he had so recently and solemnly espoused. " We are commanded to inform you, that his Majesty conti nues to receive from the Spanish Government the strongest as surances of their determined perseverance in the cause of the le gitimate Monarchy, and of the national independence of Spain ; and to assure you, that so long as the people of Spain shall- re main true to themselves, his Majesty will continue to them his most strenuous assistance and support. _ _ " His Majesty has renewed to the Spanish nation, in the mo ment of its difficulties and reverses, the engager.tents which he voluntarily contracted at the outset of its struggle against the usurpation and tyranny of France ; and we are commanded to acquaint you, that these engagements have been reduced into the form of a Treazy of Alliance; which Treaty, 60 soon as the rati fication shall have been exchanged, his Majesty will cause to be laid before you. " His Majesty commands us to state to you, that while his Majesty contemplated with the liveliest satisfaction, the achieve ments of his forces in the commencement of the campaign in Portugal, and the deliverance of the kingdom of his ally from the presence and oppressions of the French army, his Majesty most deeply regretted the termination of that campaign by an Armis tice and Convention, of some of the articles of which his Majesty has felt kimself obliged formally to declare his disapprobation. " We are to express to you his Majesty's reliance on your dis position toenable his Majesty to continue the aid afforded by his Majesty to the King of Sweden. That Monarch derives a pecu liar claim to his Majeaty's support, in the present exigency of his affairs, from having concurred with Ina Majesty in the propriety of rejecting any proposal fornegociation to which the Cover:in= of Spain was not to be admitted as a party. " GtNTLEMEN OF TUE HOUSE OF COMN!ONS, _ " We are commanded by his Majesty to inform you, that he has directed the estimates of the current year to be laid before you. His Majesty relies upon your zeal and affection to make such fur ther provision of supply as the vigorous prosecution of the war may render necessary ; and he trusts that you may be enabled to find the means of providing such supply without any great ur im mediate increase of the existing burdiens upon his people. " His Majesty feels assured, that it will be highly satisractory for you to learn, that notwithstanding the measures resorted to by the enemy for the purpose of destroying the commerce and re sources of his kingdom, the public revenue has coutinued in a course of progressive improvement. " My LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, "We arc directed to inform you, that the measure adopted by Parliament in the last Session for establishing a Local Militia, has been already attended with the happiest success, and promises to be extensively and permanently haneficial to the country. " We have received his Majesty's commands most especially to recommend to you, that, duly weighing the immense interests which are at stake in the war now carrying on, you should pro ceed with as little delay as possible, to consider of the most effec tual measures fur the augmentation of the regular army, in order that his Majesty may be the better enabled, without impairing the means of defence at home, to avail himself of the military power of his dorninions In the great coutest in which he is en gaged ; and to 4ionduct that contest, under the blessing of DiviNE PROVIDZNCI, to a cenclusion compatible with the honour of his Majesty's Crown, and with the interests of his Allies, of Europe, and of tit:: world." 'I Commons having retired, the LOrds withdrew to unsobe; and shortly after the House being resumed, the Earl of NlOlka, as Baron HUNTINGDON, the Bishops of BRISTOL and Ft took the usual oaths and their seats. A temporary adjournment then took plaZe until fire o'clock, when the Lord CHANCELLOR having resumed his Seat on the Woolsack, the Earl of Livxa root. prereuted, pro forma, a Bill respectiog Select Vestries, which was • read a first tin:et . . Lord SHEFFIELD seconded the Noble Earl.t He expressed. great satisfaction with the conduct of Ministers. The vigour and promptitude of Our ex ertions, combined with the efforts of the Spaniards themselves, would, he trusted, ultimately contribute to establish the independence of Spain, however ad verse appearances may have been for some time past. Ministers, in his opinion, were particularly worthy of praise for the firmness with which they sheaved them selves determined to maintain the maritime ascen dancy and the commercial prosperity of this country. The failure of the measures to which Foreign Powers, jealous of the superiority of this country in both these respects, had recourse, to cripple the trade of Eng land, fully established the efficacy of that policy which their injustice compelled us to adept in our own defence. The Embargo in America, the chief if not the sole object of which (however pertinaciously it may have been disclaimed by that Government) was to distress, and if possible to annihilate the trade of this country, had entirely failed, and nut only failed, but fallen with an insupportable weight upon the United States. That measure, so far from being considered as a misfortune, and a grievance to Eng land, operated as a boon. We learned from it this valuable discovery, that our trade could flourish in dependently of America, that our colonies could be supplied without her aid, and that we could obtain those articles from other quarters which are esssential to the support of our manufactures, and the construc tion of our navy, without drawing them from her, as we formerly did. His Lordship adverted to other points in the Address, and concluded with giving the whole his cordial assent. The LORD CHANCELLOR having proceeded to read the Address, The Earl of ST. VINCENT observed, that he could not suffer the question to be put on the Ad dress, without claiming their Lordships' attention for a few moments. Though he could not concur in every part (t it, yet it was not his intention to pro pose any amendment. His principal motive for rising was, to express his unqualified disapprobation of the whole of the conduct of Ministers; of every thing tney had done with respect to Spain, of every thing they had done with respect to Portugal, of,almost every thing they had done since they came into power, and particularly for the last six months. The Noble Lord who seconded the Address talked of the vigour and efficacy of their measures. Vigour and efficacy indeed ! when their whole conduct was marked by vacillation and incompetence. If such men, so no toriously incapable, were not immediately removed, the country was undone. There was one part, how ever, of the Address and of the Speech in which he cordially agreed—that which condemned the Armis tice and Convention. It was the greatest disgrace that had befallen the British arms, the greatest stain that had beef[ affixed to the honour of the country, since the Revolutior. He was not at present dis posed to enter into an examination of the manner in which the naval part ,of that Expedition had been conducted : opportunity would arise for discussing the extraordinary arrangement that had been made re specting the fleet in the Tagus. He would not with hold from Ministers whatever praise might be due to them. He would give them credit for providing plenty of transports; but what was the merit of these ex ertions ? Any one who offered a little more than the common market price might hire as many as he pleased ; but Ministers not only offered that market price, but a great deal more than they should have done. And how were these employed ? Why in conveying Junot and his runaway ruffians, with their plunder and exactions, all the plate and precious stones, and rare exhibitions of art, the fruits of their robberies of churches, palaces, and private houses, to France. It was with shame and sorrow that he sax men of the highest rank in the Bi itish army and navy superintending the embarkation cf this enor mous fund of rapine and confiscation, and conduct ing it, and the devils who had thus acquired a pro. perty in it, to those parts of Frarce nearest to Spain, who were thus enabled' to. enter that country sooner than the brave fellows to whom they surrendered, and were now actually engaged in chasing Sir John Moore from the Peninsula. If they meant really to assist the Spaniards, why did not Ministers send troops in the first instance to the North of Spain ? Why did they send one part of them to Lisbon, and another to Gorunna, from which points no junction could be effected, without being exposed to toilsome marches, and such privations as could hardly be conceived by persons not acquainted with those countries ? It seem ed to him as if they were totally ignorant of the geo graphy of the country they appeared so eager and zealous to defend. He had, indeed, heard of a " heaven-born" Minister, who, at the first Cabinet Council he attended, asked whether Port Mahon was an island, or on the Continent ? This, to be sure, was bad enough ; but it did not betray half the igno rance that the conduct of Ministers did in every mea sure relating to Spain and Portugal. He would say to his Majesty, that if these men were not removed, the kingdom was lost. There was no part of the conduct of Ministers liable to greater censure than that which related to the command of the army. He would be the last man in the kingdom who would wish to de tract from the professional character of the officers employed ; but on so momentous an occasion, he wished to see some of the Princes of the Blood, who had been trained to arms from their youth, and many of whom had seen a great deal of arduous and dan gerous service : he alluded particularly to one (the Duke of Kent) who would havefallen the victim of his zeal in the West Indies, had he not been forcibly sent borne from that pernicious climate by himself and Sir Charles Grey. These were the proper men to com mand the British army on this occasion. If it was not thought-proper to employ these illustrious persons, there were others to whom the country and the army looked up. There was one (the Earl of Moira, we believe), who, from his early career of glory, from his princely munificence, and from the unbounded confidence which the army would place in him, who. [PRICE SEX-PENCE. ther they were ordered to advance or retreat, who was peculiarly qualified for a command of this d& . scription—a man who possibly might prove a second Earl of Peterborough—a man, in short, who would have acted from himself, and who would have acted vigorously and successfully. The Noble Earl next ad verted to the Court of Inquiry, Which he considered as an expedient rather to cover some blot in their ownconr duct,thanto do justice to the Officers who Were the osten: sible objects of its proceedings, or to satisfy the coun try. The case of the senior officer on that occasion was particularly hard: he boas to be responsible for every thing, and yet he was to do nothing without consulting the third in command. He was fettered by his in ' structions ; he was; in fact, to have no will, no dis cretion of his own. This odious restraint did not, to be sure, appear on the face of his instructions ; but it was conveyed in a manner equally binding upon him, in the suspicious form of a private letter, a later of counsel and recommendation—a detestable mode of proceeding, to which he never had t or would have recourse. An attempt had been made to justify the Convention of Cintra 4 , by stating that the French could have crossed the Tagus, and got into Spain in defiance of any exertions of the army by which they were beaten. The French cross the Tagus ! If they did, he would be bold to say, that evair man of them must have passed under the yoke.' They would have to fight their way through as brave a population as any m Europe. The Portuguese were not inferior in bravery to the Spaniards, and there were no men more gallant than the latter. He spoke of the Por tuguese peasantry, for he would admit that there were. no people in the world upon whom less reliance for a vigorous resistance could be placed than on the inha bitants of Lisbon. I4e begged pardon for having taken up so much of their Lordships' time, but he could not refrain from expressing his decided disap probation of the conduct of Ministers. If the House would do their duty, they would go in that dignified manner that became them to the foot of the Throne, and irhplore his Majesty to remove from his Councils those men whose measures would bring inevitable ruin on the country. In earnestly recommending this, he was not swayed by personal considerations. In a few hours he would enter into his 75th year, 61 of which he had been in his Majesty's service. At this time Of life, and under the existing and increasing embarrassments of the country, he could not be sus pected of being very anxious to return to office. He should trespass no longer upon their Lordships' pa tience. He thanked Gon for having given him strength to communicate kis sentiments on the very critical situation of the country, and thanked the House for the indulgence it had shewn him. He would offer no amenlnent, but content himself with expressing his dissent from the Address.—[His Lordship then wished tltem all good night, and immediately with drew.] , Earl GROSVENOR complained, that in conse quence of the mode which Ministers had of late years adopted respecting the Speech from the Throne, No ble Lords were often betrayed into. an involuntary approbation of the Address. Formerly it was the cus tom' to read the Speech previous to its being read from the Throne, by which the Members of both Houses were put in possession c.f the substance of it at lest. That excellent custom had been discontinued, and any Noble Lord who might disapprove of the Speech, was thereby precludeat from offering nn Amendment to the Address. He would, however, admit on this occasion, that there was not much in the Address to produce a difference of opinion. He cordially ap proved of that part of the Speech which expressed a determination to give all possible assistance to the Spaniards, so long as they should be true to th ni selves. He did not despair of the Spanish cause, provided the vast means of this country were em ployed in the manner best calculated to distress and embarrass the enemy. He also concurred in that part df the' Speech which expressed disapprobation of the Convention of Cintra ; but he would have been better pleased if that disapprobation had been followed by an avowal that ulterior measures were intended. Ministers having professed their determination to presevere in the cause of Spain, he trusted that their exertions would henceforth be made in a manner dif ferent from what they had beet icrely censured that military a British army was sent into it should have been sent to It should have been sent to a not be exposed to the possibi: retreat. He derived much surance in the Speech that thi try were in a state.of progret also from the assurance of thi conded the Address, that our terially suffered from the effoi parte not being able to °vent') force cf his arms, was endeav' success and his hatred, had greatest pal t of the Continent terranean, Africa, and the grex were open to us. There wa: ducesnent to perseverance, no Odious as lionaparte's gent were some parts of it that were tation. No one could refuse ' 'talents. These we had somi operating necessary reforms. mended the greatest ceconorn and the abolition ofievery sin( Viscount SIDMOUTH one point upon which there suaded, be any difference Lordships, namely, the propriety jesLy of the gratitude with Speech. In expressing that was employed, which to him House to certain points upon quately informN. For hims of continuing to support Spain remained ; but he was not prepared jesty for a trefty, of the condi, 1 be made in a manner cid- been. His Lordship se. ary arrangement by which • to the heart of Spain, when a the foot of the Pyrenees. ) a situation where it could ibility of being obliged to h satisfaction from the as- the revenues of the cowl. ;ressive improvement, and f the Noble Lord who se- mr commerce had norms- fforts of the enemy. Bona. verthrow our power by the eavouring to sap it. His i Lad shut us out from the lent ; but still the Medi. It , • greatest part of America, was great cause and in- ;‘, no reason for despondence. ;eneral conduct was, there were not unv.orthy of imi- [se him the praise of great )metimes seen employed in Is. His Lordship recon.- lomy in our expenditure, sinecure place. I observed, that there was ere could not, he was Per- e of opinion among their opriety of assuring his Ma- th which they received his hat assurance, a language im appeared to commit the on which they were not ade. himself, he would approve ti Spain so long as any hkpe t prepared to thank his Ma. :auditions and engagements ADDRUSS. His Majesty's Speech having been again read from the Woolsack, and also by the Cleik, The Earl of BRIDGEWATER rose to move Address of Thanks to his Majesty for the Speech that had been just read. The Noble Earl (who spoke in a tone not to be heard distinctly at all times) began by expressing his regret, that the task of moving the Address, which should convey to his Majtsty the sentiments impressed on their Lordships, had not devolved upon some Noble Lord who was better qualified to perform it. With the permission of their Lofdships, he would briefly advert to the leading to pies in the Speech. With respect to the rupture of the negociat►on, if the proposition from Erfurth de served to be so called, he was persuaded there could be little difference of opinion among their Lordships. It was impossible to negociate upon the terms propo sed; the chief of which was, that we should withdraw all protection from Spain, and leave it to the mercy of the tyranny that was preparing to overwhelm it. With respect to the transactions is Portugal, these was some satisfaction in knowing, eat whatever dif ference of opinion might have prevailed respecting the Convention of Cintra, there was none respecting the bravery of that portion of the British army which so gloriously distinguished itself on that occasion.— The Noble Earl then briefly touched on the necessity of augmenting our military force ; of supporting Sweden ; of affording every assistance in our power to Spain ; congratulated their Lordships on the flou rishing state of the revenue ; thanked them for the indulgence with which they heard Min, and conclud ed with reading dig Address,