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N' gi terly Meeting of the Committee of Management of the Affairs and Business of the Company of Proprietors of the Kennet and Avon Canal Navtgation,held at the White Hart'lnn, at Bath, on Tuesday, the Sth day of December, 1809, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, pursuant to public Advertisement, the said Committee did find a call from the several Proprietors of such of the new shares authorized by an Act of Parliament made and passed in the 45th year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled An Act for enabling the Company of Proprietors of " the Kenner and Avon Canal Navigation to complete the same, " and for altering and enlarging the powers of the several Acts " passed for making the said Canal," to be taken and subscribed for in the Navigation and undertaking authorised to be made and carried on by the said Company of Proprietors (on which shares the whole amount of the money agreed to be paid for the ,ame, bath not been already called for) for the sum of £lO per Cent. for, and in respect to every such share, to be wanting and neces sary in order to defray the eences of, and to carry on the same.' And did make a call from the said several Proprietors for the saidtsum of £lO per Cent. for and in respect of every such share in the said Navigation and Undertaking for those purposes ac cordingly, and did appoint the same to be paid into the hands of Messrs. Harford, Davis and Company, Treasurers to the said Company in Bristol, on or before the 18th day of January, 1810. By Order of the said Committee. JOHN WARD, Principal Clerk. Marlborough, December 13, 1809. PURSUANT to an Order of the High Court of Chancery, made in a Cause, Berry v. Berry, the next of Kin 1 of CHARLES QUINTON BERRY, who died at Paris , in ; ' France, in the Year 180 S, are personally, or by their Solicitors, ' to come in and make out their Kindred,before EDWAZD Moats, Esq. one of the Masters of tke said Court, on sr before the Itth day of February, 1810, or in default thereof, they will be peremp torily excluded the benefit of the said Order. N. B. The said Charles Quinton Berry, at the time of his death held the rank of Captain in his Majesty's 47th Regiment of Foot, and for some time previous to his quitting England for France, resided at Ealing, in the. County of Middlesex. This day was published, price is. A LETTER to the Right Hon. Lord ELLEN -1- BOROUGH, occasioned by his CHARGE to the JURY, an the TRIAL of the KING v. F. WRIGHT, D. WRIGHT, and MARY ANN CLARK. Accompanied with OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS, illustrative of the EVIDENCE. By GWYLLIM LLOYD WARDLE, Esq. M. P. Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-row. SPAIN. . . T g is txtr is Ar re t y vo g r ve c n Ai t iAL lat a N t A a v G IN6uar.l PROCLAMATION OF THE SUPREME JUNTA. " SPANIARDS !-Our enemies announce, as posi• j tively certain, a peace in Germany, and the circum stances which accompany this notice give it a cha racter of truth, which leave little room for doubt.— They already threaten us with the powerful reinforce ments which they suppose to be marching to corn plete our ruin ; already, proudly elated with the fa vourable aspect which their affairs in the North have assumed, they insolently exhort us to submit to the clemency of the conqueror, and tamely bow our necks to the yoke. What unheard of insolence ! unparalleled ef frontery ! which posterity will scarcely believe, not withstanding the testimony of public records. Thus do these barbarians dare to impute to us the calami ties which this country has suffered from their scan dalous aggression, and thus make us responsible for those which are about to befal us anew, should we prolong our resistance. But when have we ever seen the innocent victims accused of the ferocity with which the inhuman tyrant sacrifices them ? These declaimers very soon forget, when their armies en tered Spain, how they entered—what posts they oc cupied—what was the signal of combat which they gave--and the whole series of gratuitous and unpa ralleled atrocities which they committed against us. I3ecause in .heir own degraded hearts they find nothing but servile submission when they are feeble, and inso lent atrocity when they are strong, they, forsooth, imagine that the Spaniards, equally destitute of the support of native fortitude, will renounce their just and lofty expectations. Who has told them that our virtue was to be assayed by so low a standard ? They may, perhaps, throw greater obstacles in our way. T - will redouble our efforts to surmount them.— Our toils, our dangers, will be augmented. We shall acquire the greater glory. .‘ No ! slaves of Bonaparte, waste not your time in practising kacknied artifices, which, at this time of day, can deceive nobody. Speak out frankly, and say, l Because we think ourselves the Most powerful we arc resolved to be the most wicked of mankind.' This language, however barbarous the sentiment which it conveys, would be consistent and intelligible. But do not attempt to persuade us that the abandon ment of our just rights is wisdom, and cowardi c e prudence, Though your iniquitous aggression has placed us between ignominy and death, what alter- ' native can you expect a magnanimous nation to adopt, except that of defending itself to the last extremi ty, rather than consent to so disgraceful a submission ? Rob, murder, waste, and destroy : that you have been doing for these twenty months past ; but with what effect, you well know ; and so also do the pro vinces you occupy ; where, in proportion to the in juries you inflict upon them, increases the insuperable aversion they bear towards you, the eternal rancour and implacable revenge with which they incessantly swear to pursue you. . To yield !LAre these sophists really aware of the advice which they are giving to a people the most jealous of their honour of any nation upon the face of the globe ? After such admirable efforts, such in credible successes, it would be an act of infamy, for which no precedent can be found in the pages of our history, to fall down at the feet of the crowned slave that Bonaparte has sent us for a King ? And for what should we do so ? That, from the midst of his impious orgies, the pimps and parasites who offer him adulation, and the impure prostitutes who accompany him, he may point nut with his anger the temples which are to be burnt, the manors which are to be partitioned among his odious satellites, the virgins and matrons who are to be dragged to his seraglio, the youths who are to be sent off as a tribute to the French Minotaur ! Think not, Spaniards, that the Junta thus aa., dresses you to excite your valour by the arts of lan gaage. 'What occasion is there for words, when things speak for themselves with such persuasive ener gy ? Your houses are demolished, your temples laid in ashes, your fields ravaged, your families dispersed, or hurried to the grave. Shall we have made so many sac..ifices, shall the flames of war have consumed one half of Spain, in order that we should shamefully abandon the other half, to that much more destruc tive peace which awaits it at the hands of the enemy? Surely nobody can be the dupe of the insidious pa rade of reform which the French hold forth in their • Proclamations. The Tartar, who governs them, has decreed that Spain shall have neither industry, nor commerce, nor colonies, nor population, nor any po litical representation whatsoever. To be turned into a vast and solitary sheep -walk, in order to breed flocks which shall supply the French manufactures with our valuable wools ; to form a nursery of hu man beings, to be hurried away to slaughter; mise ry, ruin, degradation in every part of the Peninsula: —such is the fate to which he consigns the country the most favoured of HEAVEN of any upon earth!— But should our apathy even go so far as to induce us to abandon interests so highly valuable, could we ever consent to the total destruction of that holy religion in which we were born, and which, in all our pro ceedings, civil and political, we 'have sworn to pre serve ? Shall we, then, abandon the interest of HEAVEN, and the faith of our fathers, to the sacrile gious derision of a frantic banditti ? And shall the Spanish nation, celebrated in every quarter of the globe for their fervid piety, forsake the sanctuary, which, for seven successive centuries, and with the loss of thousands of warriors, our ancestors defended against the impious ferocity of the Saracens ? Were we to so act, the victims who have fallen in this me morable contest, would lift up their heads from their graves, and say to us—' Perfidious, ungrateful wretches ! Have we fallen an idle sacrifice ? Is our blood of no estimation in your eyes ?' No ! brave. fellow-countrymen, now no more, rest in peace, and let not that agonizing solicitude disturb the repose of your sepulchres. Your glorious example has taught us our first and greatest duty, and we are perfectly convinced that the peace which we ought to seek is not behind but before us. It is through war and com , bats, it is by valour and noble daring, that we have ' to procure that tranquillity, that repose, of which those traitors have despoiled us. Do we fear death ? Many of our companions have already met it, and sealed with their blood the solemn oath which all of us have taken. Who can fly from it ? Who shall dissolve that alliance of glory and danger to which all of us are subject. Our country is laid waste, and we I are insulted, and treated as a vile herd of cattle, which are bought and sold, and slaughtered when our master pleases. Our King—Spaniards ! Would you have infused into your hearts that ardour and 1 energy which lead to victory ? Remember the vile, ' the treacherous manner in which this abominable 1 usurper tore him from our arms. He called himself ' his :11y, his protec:or, his friend ; he pretended to give him the kiss ef peace, but his embraces are the lo ds of the serpent, which twine round the innocent victim, and drag him captive to his cavern. A per fidy unknown to civilized nations, and scarcely prac i ti el among tLe most barbarous, was reserved in store 1 for our unfortunate Monarch. Behold, condemned 1 to groan in solitude, surrounded by guards and spies, the idolized object of your hopes ; him whom you destine to the glory of the Throne, that he may go vern you with benevolence and justice. See him in cessantly fixing his streaming eyes upon his country ! ; Hear him, amidst the anguish of his sufferings, im- I ploring the valour of his beloved Spaniards, and call ing upon them for liberty or revenge. " There is no peace—there can be no peace in this 1 state of things. That Spain should be free, was, and still is, the universal wish of the nation : or that it i may become an immense desart, one vast sepulchre, where the accumulated carcases of French and Spa niards shall exhibit to future ages our glory and their ignominy. " But fortune is not so inimical to virtue as to Ileave to its defenders only that melancholy alterna tive. It is written in Heaven, and the history of all ages attests the fact, that the people who are decidedly attached to their liberty and independence must ulti. mately establish them, in despite of all the artifices and all the violence of tyranny. Victory, which is so frequently the boon of Fortune, must be the reward of fortitude and constancy. What but these defended the small republics of Greece from the barbarous in vasion of Xerxes ? What protected the capitol when assailed by the Gauls ? What preserved it from the arms of Hannibal? What, in more modern times, rescued the Swiss from German t 3 ranny, and gave independence to Holland, notwithstanding the great power of our ancestors ? What, in fine, inspires at present the Tyrolese with such heroic resolution, that, though surrounded on every side by enemies, and abandoned by their protectors, they take refuge in their rocks, and on the summit of their mountains, and hurl defiance and defeat on the battalions of the conqueror of Dantzic ? " Let us, bravely, imitate their example ; our situation is the same : we are animated with the same ardour, and should support ourselves with the same hopes. The GOD of armies, for whom we fight, will protect us, and in reward for the unshaken for titude with which we have encountered adversity, will finally conduct us through all the dangers that surround us to the throne of independence. " Spaniards, the Junta announces this to you frankly, that you may not for a monient be ignorant of the danger which threatens your country ; they announce it to you, with confidence that you will shew yourselves worthy of the cause which you de fend, and of the admiration of the universe; they announce it to you, because appointed to the sacred duty of saving the State, and, convinced that it is the unanimous wish of the Spaniards to secure their free dom at every risk, they will make every possible effort to expel the enemy. 44 When the storm rages, the most valuable trea sures must be thrown into the sea to save the vessel from sinking, Perish the man whose selfishness can render him wanting in his duty, or induce him to conceal what is necessary to be distributed among his brethren for the common defence!—Perish a thou sand times the wretch who can prefer his own interest to the delivery of his country ! All such the state will severely punish. Our enemies omit no means which can be employed for our destruction, and shall we neglect any which can conduce to our preserva tion ! There are provinces which have driven out the enemy from among them ; and shall not those who have not yet suffered from such a scourge, sacri fice every thing to preserve themselves from it ? Our brave soldiers endure the rigours of winter, and the scorching heats of summer, and nobly encounter all the dangers of battle ; and shall we, remaining quietly at our homes, forgetful of their incalculable fatigues,lthink only of preserving our wishes, - and re. fuse to resign even the least of our luxurious enjoy. mitts i N The victory must be ours, if we continue aud • • • I conclude the great enterprise we have undertaken with the same enthusiasm with which we began it.— The colossal mass of force and resistance which we must oppose to our enemy, must be composed of the forces of all, of the sacrifices of all; and then what will it import that he pours upon us anew the legions with which he has been successful in Germany, or the swarm of conscripts he endeavours to drag from France. With 80,000 less troops than we now have we began the war ; it was begun on his side with two hundred thousand more. The experience we have obtained in two campaigns, and our very desperationf will consign these hordes of banditti to the same fa't which the former have suffered. If some of the Mo narchs of the North have consented to become the slaves of this new Tamerlane, and at the expence of ages of infamy have purcha sed a moment's respite till their turn shall come to be devoured, what is that to us, a great nation, resolved to triumph or perish ? When we, twenty months ago, armed against tyran ny, did we ask their cousent ? Did we not enter into the contest single-kanded ? Did we not, for one cam paign, maintain it single-handed ? Europe, when she first heard of it, refused to believe it. When she saw it, she looked upon it as a sudden and ephemeral meteor ; and even now, contemplating the effects of our constancy and our magnanimity in the midst of our reverses, she considers it as a phenomenon, a prodigy, in the series of political events. Let her continue to behold us, she ought, with admiration, or, if it must be so, with terror. We are deficient in none of the means necessary for our defence. Our connection is daily drawn closer with America, to whose assistance, equally well-timed and generous, the Mother Country is so deeply indebted, and in whose zeal and loyalty is centered a great part of our hopes. We are resolved to perish or triumph. The alliance we have contracted with the British nation continues, and will continue, That nation has la- Inked for ti its blood an i its treasures, and is inti. tied to our gratitude, and that of future ages, Let the machinations of intrigue, or the suggestions of feat prevail with weak governments, or misled cabinets ; let them (and welcome !) conclude Treaties of Peace, illusory on the part of him who grants, and disgrace ful on th( of those who - them Let all those who have returned to France, an estimate rr iv , be formed of the incredible number of I•'renchrre;.. who have perished by the hands of the despised Spa. niards. _ PRIVATE LETTER. " Th:vember S. K The news from Spain is very disastrous. It i i , that the Spaniards fought a great battle with the French within a short distance of Madrid, in whi c h the former were completely routed. AC - I.u. the nu:n. bers are that were engaged is not stated, exceptii:g vaguely, and in this manner the Patriot., are rep(,::4 to hive had from 50 to 60,000, and the Frencn Iva many more than half that number. The Spailards I lost 17,000 men and about 60 pieces of artill:-.ly. 1 The result has been, that the Spaniard 4 have rapidly fallen back to the south east. 44 This is a sad disappointment to the hopes of al the inhabitants of the city, and has cast a damp up',r, their spirits, which before were much raised. 44 The retreat of the British army from BadAjo:, is much talked of, and some people say, that it has ;ic tually begun its march towards this place, where the.): add, k is to embark as soon as transports can be pro cured. At present there are not enough in the liar. bour to receive any considerable portion of the army. The health of the troops is improved, but in the re turns we have not an exact account of the sick, and therefore cannot form ax accurate judgment on this important subject." THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. MONDAY, DECEMBER 18. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCE • 3 per Cent. Cons. for January %11. per C. Red. 6911—Exch. Rills 6s. to 14$. pr.—Omn. 21s. PRICE OF STOCKS ON SATURDAY. Bank Stock Imp. 3 per Cent. 681 3 per Cent. Red. 691 India Bonds 21s. 225. prem. 3 per Cent. Cons. shut Exch. Bills, 93. 121. pre. 4 per Cent. $4l-t State Lottery Tick. £ S per Cent. Navy shut India Stock for 0pg.1251i Long Ann. 18 9-16ths I Cons. for open. 70; —IIL ie part .. accept J• those Great Potentates relinquish the cause of civilised 1 We announced on Saturday the defeat experience nations, and inhumanly abandon their allies—the ' by the Spaniards in La Mancha, wish some less (Fs Spanish people shall firmly stand alone amidit the estrous accounts of this event extracted from the Lip ruins of the European Cornent. ..Here is drawn, never to be sheathed, the sword inn Gazette, to the 3d instant. ,of eternal hatred to the execrable tyrant; here is ' A private letter from Lisbon of the 3d instant, raised, never to be lowered, the standard of indepen- states the loss of the Spaniards at 17,000 men, and deuce and justice. Hasten to it, all ye who wish not 60 pieces of artillery ; but no accounts that we hav to live under the abominable yoke, ye who cannot 0 enter into a league with iniquity ;and ye who are seen by this conveyance, mention any disaster having indignant at the cowardly desertion of deluded Prin.- the army under the Duke del Panclue befallen --:n-11 ces, hasten to us. Here the valiant shall find oppor- the contrary, one of the private letters states that he tunities of acquiring true honour : the wise and vir- has gained a victory in the south of Leon, in which tuous obtain respect, and the oppressed find an asy- the enemy lost in killed and prisoners 2000 men,. lum—our cause is the same, the slme be our danger, We cannot but doubt this intelligence . the same our reward. Come 'hither, and in despite According to another letter from Lisbon, the of all the arts, and all the power of this inhuman de spot, you shall witness how we will render dim his C mut de SAN Pay° has been appointed Inspector star, and be ourselves the creators of our own destiny. General of the Portuguese cavalry ! We know (Signed) " The ARCHBISHOP o f LitoctiCSA, bow to credit this statement, foe. if we are ri President. informed, this Nobleman was the confide ttial " " Royal Alcazar of &Ya Perien DR It lBo9. iverio, Secretary. 4 , of the Duke ABRANTES during his occupation le, Nov. 21, SEVILLE, NOVEMBER 23. . Portugal, and held the situation of' Secretary of ' - Gerona still holds out with that unconverable va. in the Civil EstablishMent under the French Govern lour which has added fresh laurels to those gathered ment.of that kingdom..—.. ----- by the Spanish nation. Accordin g to the most recent A Cadiz Mail arrived yesterday, and has brou tc intelligence received from that place, the French at- 'l e tters and Spanish Journals to the 29th ult. '1 hes ' I tacked it by the gate of Carmen, but experienced s o . like most of the accounts from Lisbon, endeavour to warm a recepron on the pair of the inhabitants, that they retreated with the utmost pie ciphation, having : palliate the losses sustained by the Spaniards, and 1 hardly had time to fire A few guns. • evil consequences which may be apprehended from Nov. 25.—The head-quarters of our army of La i Mancha are in Carolina. Th e ac t ion o f O cana corn- ' defeat so disastrous as that of AREIZAGA. They' vs that the parks of artillery belonging to the two menced in a manner which afforded every hope of a fa vourable issue. The soldiers r ep ea tedly p ro mi se d t h e visions in the battle of Ocana have been General in Chief not to forsake him, and every thing and that Gerona still defies all the efforts of the bore the most glorious aspect. The di v i s io n o f L ac y ' siegers to subdue it. repulsed the enemy several times with fixed bayonets, 1 and behaved with the utmo s t gallantry ; but at the The remains of AREIZAGA'S army, according to i very moment when victory seemed to b e o u rs , one ( vale accounts, was posted on the riverJabalon, where of those unfortunate accidents which render the fate had been joined on the 22d by a corps de reserv' of arms so precarious and uncertain snatched it from 1 sisting of 12,000 men. The advanced guard our hands. The Guards, the battalion of Murcia, French had passed the Guadiana, and est 4 the Carabineers, and some other regiments, perform- on the same d ay at Quessada in LaMancha. - ed prodigies of valour. tish army, it appears by a letter from Badajos, Our army of La Mancha behaved most gallantly in the battle of Ocana, and after having made grea the 30th of November, was to be put in motion havoc among the enemy's troops, and sustained very ; the purpose of favouring the retreat of the - considerable losses, it fell back to the banks of the; and preventing the further advance of the French. Guadiana. It will probably rally on that point and i A strong make head against the enemy, w ho, f rom t h e severe corps was intended to be sent to Merida the Ist instant. We hope this movement will not loss he has suffered, will pe r h a p s b e p revente d f rom attacking us again. • have been made too late. • The two parks of artillery which are attached to Lord WELLINGTON returned to Badajos on the 26th the two divisions of our army of La Mancha, have ar- a plac e rived safe at the head-quarters in Carolink, without P a. • • ult. from Villa Viciosa, sporting of the NCE REGENT of PORTUGAL # where he had been one single cart being missing. Nov. 26.—The followingletter has been written by . amusing himself for a few days. the General in Chief of the army of La Mancha to 1 The Spanish Papers contain a well written address the Commandant General of the Canton of Carolina; •to the Nation on the state of the Country. If they Tudeque, November 19. Most Excellent Sir— , ln consequence of the b att l e which this . army has fought with the enemy in the vi c i n i t y o f O cana, the could act and fight as well as they write, they would rt ev- troops have been considerably dispersed; and as some of than l never b dente alrconquered,eady,butthatthey have can declaim m osSc s : po i w e i e . rfully will possibly pass through this district, it will be expedient that : wi t h ou t your Excellency immediately direct the Officers who command } being themselves influenced by the semi , tee posts of Puerto Llano Montezon, Puerto del Rey& Muandad, : ments which they utter. to detain all military persons who present themselves before I them, and take notice of the corps to w hi c h t h ey b e l ong, i n or d er 1 that they may again be incorporated with them with all possible I with 4000 men and a great quantity of arms on board, dispatch.—God preserve your Excellency many years. JUAN CARGO! AIDDZAOA, is also mentioned ; but in a way too vague to en. To his Excellency the Count of St. courage us to place much reliapce on the rumour. Augustin de Taro Hirmoso. Nov. 27.—A1l the letters f rom C ata l on i a announcelish. a fresh triumph obtained by our a lli es , the English. A Mogi/cur is stated to have been received in town yesterday, which mentions the departure of BONA- They state as a certain fact, that a French squadron man from Paris to take the command of. the army which set sail from Toulon, bound for the Western i n Islands, having on bo ar d 4000 troops an d 10,000 Spain; it is also said to contain an official account nets who are in those islands, has been captu r ed by ar . muskets, probably destin e d t o arm t h e F renc h priso- of the total defeat and dispersion of the Spanish army of La Mancha, and of the French having actually English squadron. We sh all soon see the maritime possessed themselves of the Passes of Sierra Morena, power of' the Grand Nation reduced to a few fishing • and being on the rapid march into Andalusia smacks. U I 1 i CORDOVA, NOVEMBER 20. 1 Sir R. G. KSATES is appointed Governor of Malta, A Gentleman of respectability, lately arrived from in the room of the late Sir A. BALL. Madrid, assures us, that he saw on the desk of Gene- Earl CAMDEN has been elected Master of the ral Belliard a return of the French troops who have Trinity House, upon the vacancy occasioned by the entered Spain since the begi nning of the i nvas i on , d eat h o f t h e D u k e o f PORTLAND. and who amount in th e w hole to 672,000 men. From The Duke of PORTLAND has Lad about 400 deer the aura* of thoii who not* acklod to shot is his park at Bulstrodo. We know no e are right Ic e trial ages • )ccupatien etary of State ench Govern I has brought • ult. 1 hes endeavour to iards, and the ended from A. They tel to the two di. ;en preserved, nts of the be- :ording to pri ►aloe, where it e reserve, cOA• guard of tablished itsel cha. The Bri- ► Badajos, Q . A motion for • he Spaniards, f the French. to Merida on nent will nod • os on the 26th place of the he had been