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READING SCHOOL, TRIENNIAL VISITATION. ON Saturday the 14th, Monday, the 16th, and Tuesday the 17th in.tan!, will be attempted THE ALCES'rIS OF EURIPIDES. To which will he aided, the Historical Play of KING JOHN, _ From the Battle of Mirebeau to the Death of the King; altered from Shakespeare. Tickets to be had of the Treasurer at the School-Hosse. The prat, will be applied to the relief of the wounded, and of the families of the killed, at Ta!avera. ••• A Translation of the Greek Play may be had i of the R..acling Bcoksellers. READING SCHOOL MEETII:G WILL be held at the BEAR INN, Reading, on THURSDAY, the 19th of OCTOBER. Dinner at Fnur o'Clock. • . GEORGE BOOTH TYNDALE, Esq.t Stewards. HERBERT JENNER, D. C. L. AMAJOR in an old established Regiment of Foot, jost returned from Foreign Service, wishes to exchange into a Garrison Battalion.—Applications to be made to Messrs. Greenwood and Cox, Army Agents. Craig's-court. In a few days will be published in Bvo. illustrated with plates, L ETTERS concerning the DISEASES of the URETHRA.—By CHARLES BELL. Printed for John Murray, 32, Fleet-street, London. 112 REA ON Sari • I •i•u i) THI To From the Ba ,t Tickets to The pruit: fi ll the lan - idles c • • A 'fi . 4 ,0 R..a a cling Bco WILL . GEO HER A MAJ jost r into a Garri: Greenwood In a few dt L ETTI Print The fol from am pules bet) Madras a General, British mi e , We I 1 correspon Creditors former di! still remai our sever. ceiving at conjocturi any reply, may have He canna ting hims tt attachmet to induce and he m this Gove their auth issued by here. f 3,3 the societ' these thrt Row, anc fund by n hundred thrown of i too much has succet • present in that are it Ii justice we may si here, the r their bon allotted fr infamous EAST INDIES. The following communication we have received from a most respectable quarter. The unhappy dis putes between the Civil and Military Government of Madras appear to have embarrassed the Governor- General, and brought much inconvenience upon many British mercantile residents: " Madras, May 1:7.. . , e , We have forwarded to you duplicates of all the ; correspondence that had passed between the bonafide Creditors of the Nabobs and Government, from the former dispatch, up to the day. You will see, we still remain without any reply from Lord Minto to our several memorials, and we now despair of re ceiving any. In addition to other reasons, which we conjecture may have determined him not to give us any reply, the disaffected state of the-army on this coast may have had a great share in influencing his mind. He cannot reply to our memorial without commit ting himself, or condemning this Government. His attachment to the parties may not be strong enough to induce him to expose himself by doing the first ; and he may think disapproving of any of the acts of this Government, at this moment, may be weakening their authority. You will see, by the orders lately issued by Government, the deplorable state of things here. By removals which Government have made, the society of Madras has completely changed within these three months ; and by a bill against Reddy Row, and others, for a conspiracy to defraud the fund by means of a forged bond for pagodas (one hundred and thirty-eight thousand), having been thrown out by the Grand Jury a few days ago, it is too much to be apprehended that the system of terror has succeeded ; and it may be in rain hereafter, to present indictments against the numerous forgeries that are in existence, for the bills will not be found. If justice is not altogether banished from England, we may still hope that a few months will bring us a change—but if iniquity is supported, as it has been here, the real creditors have nothing left, but to burn their bonds and go a begg:ng, leaving the fund allotted for their benefit, to be enjoyed by a horde of infamous forgers and perjurers." DUTCH PiIPERS. VIENNA, SEPT. 18. His Majesty the Emperor and King went on Fri day to Krems, to review the corps of Marshal the Duke of Ragusa, and returned on Tuesday evening by the time of commencing the performance at the theatre of Schoenbrunn, where some Italian and Ger man pieces we're represented. Every morning there is a grand parade on the plain, in front of the palace. of Schoenbrunn. His Majesty has, within these few days, reviewed there the different Wirtembeig corps, and General Ques nel's division of light cavalry. On the 9th, his Majesty visited the camp of Wa gram, consisting of the various divisions which com pose the corps of Marshal Oudinot.—Ou his way back, he rode through this city, in his chariot and eight, escorted by a party of horse-grenadiers, be longing to his guards. On the 10th, he had a grand parade at Schoen brunn. Besides the guards, it was attended by a re giment of Wirtemberg light horse, and about four hundred French prisoners, recently exchanged. The Austrian General Count Von Bubna has again arrived at Schoenbrunn, on a mission from Tofis. He resides at his own house in Vienna. lie aepeared in his regimentals at the parade of the 10th. The inhabitants are in expectatiou that the dispatches he was charged with will accelerate the conclusion of peace. The armistice is prolonged, though the period of its dinettion has not been notified in daily orders t either army. It is, however, rumoured, that the 3 )th of October is the day appointed for tke renewal o ; but the fixing upon so distant a day, strengthens the pacific indications held out by the continuance of the negociations at Alteuhurgh. The want of fire-wood began to be seveiely felt, when the French Government granted the piece of brushwood adjeiairg Schoenbrunn, for the relief of the more necessitous classes of the inhabitants of this capital. All of them are hurrying thither to lay in thee- stock of fire-wood, wind; some fetch in carts, and others carry en their backs. The impie , vidence of the late Adminiszration of Vienna is assigned as the cease of the present scarcey of wood and wine. Lime the armistice a cons;derable supply has been-procured from Hungary. The inhabitants, nevertheless, may oa ihe whole, think themselves timunate, when they compere their situation with that of the Bohemian:. The posse.ion of Poland by the allied troops has cerorletialy cut off their supplies of gt..in and cattle. The part of Mori via which the Austrians still occupy cannot meintain itself ; and the scanty supply of pro visions which they can draw from Hungary must be brought from the other side of the Jabluoica. The Austrian Emperor, in his last general orders, adverts to the prcleugatinn of the armistice, his as sent to which, he says, " is to be attribu•,ed, not to a -sense of feelleness, but to his affection for his sub_ jects, and Irs anxitty to avert from Clem the calami ties of war." His Majesty, in this produc6en a ee. peas the assuftnce with which the general order of the 16th concludei. ERLANGEN, SEPT. IS. A person who has arrived here from the grand ar my affirms, that a new armistice has been concluded for the period of one month, on the condition, that, should peace not take place within that term, hostili ties shall not recommence until a month after the ex piration of the armistice. KANSTATT, SEPT. 16. Within the last ten days some thousands of French soldiers, including a number of cavalry, have passed through here on their march from the Rhine towards Bavaria and Austria. Several large transports of am munition are also proceeding from Strasburgh to Vienna. On the other hand, some hundreds of Lieutenants, serjeants, and corporals, are going from Vienna to Strasburgh, for the purpose, it is said, of drilling fresh levies. COLOGNE, SEPT. 20. We have acoounts here that the armistice has been prolonged to the sth of (October. This agreement between the two Monarchs is said to have been the result of a letter in the Emperor of Austria's own hand to the Emperor Napoleon, and which was trans mitted by Count Von I3ubna. PLTERSBURGH, AUGUST 30. The English squadron which cruizes before Revel has taken possession of the little island of Narjen and the enemy has established hospitals there. PARIS SEPTEMBER 24. Letters from Vienna of the 13th state, that Officers and others daily arrive there from Hungary, without experiencing any difficulties at our advanced posts.— Every thing is open to inspection in the French en campments, but it is quite the reverse with persons going from Vienna to Hungary. Regular passports are required by the Austrian advanced posts ; travel lers are searched and examined in every possible way; in short, every one is with them an object of suspi cion.—The death of the Archduke Primate is thus announced in the Presburgh Court Gazette of the Bth inst.—". The indefatigable exertions made by his Imperial Highness the Archduke Charles Ambrosius, Primate of Hungary, to excite the military ardour of the Hungarian Nobility, in addressing to them discourses full of animation, had for some time past impaired the health of this Prince. The consequence was a severe indisposition, which, on the 23d instant, terminated the existence of his Imperial Highness." On the 22d, the Magistracy of this Metropolis gave a grand entertainment to the National Guard, at which were present the Minister of the Interior, Marshal Ser rur;er, Commandant of the National Guard, the Pre f_Tts of the Department of the Seine, &c. The Natio nal Guard of Paris consists of 30,000 men. His Neapolitan Majesty issued a decree on the 9th, abolishing several religious orders. According to letters from Zara, of the 4th, that City was proclaimed to be in a state of siege. This was, however, considered only as a measure of pre caution, under existing circumstances ; the necessary orders having been given for the evacuation of Fiume, and that part of Dalmatia which was still occupied by the Austrians. We learn from Lucern, that the convent of St. Luci, near Coire, has been occupied by the troops of the Canton, in consequence of a report, that a supply of powder had been sent from that convent to the En gadine, to be thence forwarded to the Tyrol. The troops forming the cordon of neutrality on the Swiss I frontier, execute the task confided to them in the m . .st rigid manner. Every thing that is in the least suspicious undergoes the minutest search. FRANCKFORT, SEPTEMBER 19. Advices from the South of France state, that Ge neral Juan Kindclan, who served in the Spanish army, under General Romana, in Denmark, hut who took no share in the traitorous proceedings of the latter, is raising a corps of Spaniards, consisting chiefly of Spa nish prisoners, with which he will speedily march for Catalonia. Private letters from Spain state, that Gallicia and the Asturias remained tranquil, sub sequent to the departure of Marshal Ney for the Ta gus. The non-arrival of the English Grand Expedi. tine, which had so long been expected at Vigo, had excited much dissatisfaction among the insurgents. S P,l IN. FROM THE SEVILLE GAZETTE. Don Gregorio de la Cuesta has inclosed the fol lowing dispatch " MOST Excettzter Six—Captains D. Isidore Mir, and D. Ventura Ximenes, communicated to your Excellency, that on the (nth of the present month they were informed that near the her mitage called the Olives, without the walls of the town Almona :id, there was an enemy's guard watching some wounded persons and various prisoners, which, the preceding day, they had taken in the neighbourhood. The said officers went immediately to the spot, with the parties under their orders, to dislodge the enemy from that situation and to rescue the prisoners. Although their force was only 120 cavalry, under Don Ventura Ximenes, and 100 infantry, under Don Isidero Mir, and the enemy were 240 strong in the hermitage, and 500 more in the adjacent part, Dun Ventura ordered the cavalry to advance, with the view to encircle the hermitage, and prevent the eight of the enemy. Some of the French officers fled on observing this movement, but they did not escape. They were immediately cut off, as well as the guards and advanced centinels. In this situation the enemy supported an active fire through the doors, windows, and all the apertures of the Hermitage ; which being observed by the Spanish officers, who were deficient in ammunit en, D. laidoro M:r ordered the door to be forced, which being effected, the Spaniards rushed in with charged bayonets, not only the infantry, but also the cavalry, and with such firmness and spirit, that they terrified the enemy, who were all destroyed, with the exception of 21 prisoners, which at tl.•: disposal of your Excellency. " In the •.eyuel the Spanish Officers proceeded to the neighbour hood with some parties of cavalry, leaving, the rest and the in fantry to guard the prisoners and to pursue and destroy a number of the enemy who were in the fields. On these successes the rrench, to the number of 500, appeareti, but presently took to fl'gfit ; but our troops, on account of the fatigue they had under gone, were too much exhausted to pursue them. On this occa sior thy enemy abandoned to us two waggons of knapsacks and i other cff.cts. We rescued 15 prisoners, and killed 220 of the enemy. The account then states generally the merit of the officers and soldiers engaged in this conflict, and states the loss on the side of the Spaniards to be bittftwo I horses killed and some soldiers slightly wound( et. The account then concludes " It is eztrernely.pleasing to see the joy occasioned throughout the adjacent coiintry by this succ e ss, and the spi r it an d patr i ot i c zeal i: h a s diffused ;:moi!g the inhabitants. God preserve your Excellency many years. (Signed) " iscatiosto " Navasbermosa, Aug. 14, 1809. " vi•NTURA XIMINES. " D. Cregurio de la Cuesta, CarainsGeneral of the Army of Ettremathira." 8011711 4MZItICA. •tV , :,, : f '' BUENOS AYRES, AUGUST S. The wise Government of the Supreme Central Sunta already appears to dawn in this vast and power ful empire—a country which has hitherto been cor rupted by intrigues, and by the evil designs of those who have been invested with authority among us.— No department has felt more the miserable effects of these political vices than the commercial. All the best principles .of the mercantile interest have been abandoned, and the disorders which must neces sarily attend such a state of things have been occa sioned. In this deplorable condition were affairs in these rich provinces until the 30th of June last. when at the most seasonable period, to restore us to our me ridian splendour, arrived D. Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisnetos, Viceroy of these Provinces, in the frigate Proserpine. This worthy and honourable Chief, who has conferred so much benefit on the nation during his government of Carthagena, has come among us to be the depository of the confidence of the Supreme Central Junta, to convert irregularity into method, and essentially and principally to direct his views and to employ his power for the protection and augmen tation of our commerce. In the few days he has re sided here he has attended to this primary object of his mission, by giving directions that all foreign ships, whether belonging to England or elsewhere, should withdraw from our ports ; and he lias begun to pet . in activity the laws by which the Indies have been hitherto governed. By such means the merchants will lre restored to their privileges, and will be enabled to pursue with advantage their occupations, under those early maxims of policy by which the prosperity of these countries has been secured. PROCLAMATION OF D. BALTASAR HIDALGO DE CISNEROS Y LA TORRE, KNIGHT OF TILE SPANISH ORDER OF CHARLES 11IL THIRD, VICEROY OF TIIE PROVINCES OF RIO DE LA PLATA, AND ITS DEPENDENCIES, ETC. TO TIIE LOYAL INHABITANTS OF BUENOS AYRES. Faithful and generous Neighbours, and Inhabitants of Buenos Ayres, The abundant and sincere expressions of joy that you have manifested from the moment of my arrival in the august capital of the Viceroyalty, afford me the most decisive proof of your invincible loyalty, and of the sentiments of honour by which you arc ani mated. In these I discover the homage which you offer to the Sovereign Majesty which I represent, and the liveliest feelings of your tender regard for our Mo narch. It shews me, that if you possess this reve rence for me, who am only his shadow, it is on ac count of your profound respect for the substance from which that shadow is projected, which veneration has always been in perfect consistency with your charac ter and conduct. Finally, it gives me an authentic proof of the noble enthusiasm that reigns in your bosoms, of your firm adherence to the great cause in which the parent state is engaged, and of all the social virtues which adorn you in your respective stations. Such is the source, and such are the effects of these extraordinary demonstrations of joy, which have exceeded all my expectations. I should be deficient in my duty, if under these circumstances I did not acknowledge the grateful sensibility, and warm satisfaction which these affect ing indications of your disposition have produced in myself. Nothing can ever efface from my memory the delight I experienced on the night of the 30th of June. What a magnificent spectacle to every man capable of appreciating the sentiments of the heart to see a numerous people composing all classes of society, impelled only by their fidelity, hastening to tender their voluntary services in terms the most af fecting, and accompanied by every mark of loyalty, in the presence of the representative of their beloved Sovereign ! The tyrant who oppresses us, can never enjoy such a scene of delight, with all his pomp and circum stance of splendour, his public entries and his tri umphs ; because, by force and violence he can ext or t only coil and feeble applause, while yours is the na tural result of the impassioned attachment, and ar dent loyalty which you bestow on the memory of your august Prince. Do not doubt it, this act of yours, simple as it ap pears under all its character of energy, has nothing to do with ostentation and vanity, but as being the ingenuous manifestation of your loyal sentiments it is the impenetrable wall to be opposed to the assaults of the enemy. In vain will he endeavour to seduce you by his artifices, or to debilitate your strength by spreading the seeds of discord among you. The im potence of his authority, and the inefficiency of his malicious expedients will shew to the world, that Buenos Ayres is not the country where perfidy can hold her residence. I assure you, with all that frankness which belongs to my character, that I have the most perfect confi dence in your loyalty, and that I am firmly persuaded that I have nothing to apprehend from those vile agents which the enemy of our liberty distributes every where, for the malignant purpose of imposing upon the unsuspecting integrity of mankind. It his audacity should pretend to violate your happy soil with his offensive vermin, you will yourselves be vigi lant to discover and to destroy it. To this gratifying reflection, which you so justly deserve, I may add another equally desirables lam not less persuaded that the concord and unity of your sentiments will be the stable support of my Govern. ment, than that your subordination to legitimate au thority will give new vigour and new energy to the expedients of security circumstances require ; and that all ranks among this generous people, animated with the same spirit, and full of the same enthusiasm, will swear with me to defend, to the last moment of their existence, the sacred rights of our beloved Monarch, Ferdinand the Seventh. Live then tranquil and happy, and rely always upon my most sincere and cordial endeavours, by all the means in my power, to augment your felicity. (Signed) SALTASAH I.I4DAL(.iO pH CISSZROS, Buenos Ayres, 2d August, JBO9. • • ,6. - • THE EVENING STAIt. to • A LONDON. it SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCif 3 per Cent. COM. for money 64t —for ace. me I rent, Omni= I prent.—Exche. !Balls, G. 12. pre. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTI. RDA Y. Bank Stock shut ndia Bone:, 19,, ?os. pretn 3 per Cent. Cons. 661} Exch. Bills, Cs. 12s. pre. g per Cent. Navy 9911 Ynglish Lottery Tick. til. India Stock 188 7i Cons. fu: opg. C. SOUTH AMERICA. Some accounts have been received of the n ee . \ri cc _ roy having entered on his functions. From the letter given in a preceding column, ani the document with which it is accompanied, it appears that t!. e arn i ca system of Spain with regard to her colonies t,,1l be followed by the Junta. It will therefore certainlyk" a question fcr Great Britain to consider—How far it is consistent with sound policy between to promote ol:eAtilttc subjecticte and intimate unicn Spain and her A mer i can 1 territories, which shall exclude usfrom an y di rect i nter 1 course with these colonies ; and which every bale of merchandize to the payment of what. 1 ever duties the Supreme Government shall impose, whatever may be its character, and from whatever quarter its power may emanate. • Private accounts from France, received through Guernsey, repeat the report of the indisposition of the • French Emperor. His malady is said to be a brain fever. We subjoin an extract from a Guernsey letter : " GUERNSEY, OCIOBER 1. " A vessel is arrived here which left Cherbourg on Frily last. The letters by her inform us, thit accounts had mach. that place from Paris, which leave RO doubt that the Emperor NAPOLYON was very ill at his palace of Schocnbrunn. Hi: cis- order is a brain Wirer, brought on by excessive fatigue in his per- sonal attentions to every branch of his army. Most certain is. that two physicians and two surgeons suddenly left Par's last week to attend him. They proceeded on their journey wita traordinary speed." --- GERMAN PAPERS ? We have received Letters and Papers from the • Elbe to a late date, brought by the Ann, which left Heligoland on the 29th ult. The Journals repeat the statements before received, of the prolongation of the Armistice on the Danube; but still there is a want of harmony in the dates and particulars. The private letters are of more importance. opposition to the general tenor of the statements v i the printed journals, they are pretty unanimous in ex. pressing an opinion that hostilities are on the eve of recommencing between France and Austria. The French army is drawn up on the line marked outin the Armistice, and its head-quarters are advanced from Schoenbrunn to Presburgh. In an article from Vienna, of the 23d ult. disease is said to prevail in the Austrian ranks, but it will Le recollected that this report comes from I suspicicus source, the Vienna press being of course under French controul. AUSTRIA, AUGUST CO. On the name-day of her Majesty the Empress Louisa of Austria, the Marshal Duke of Friuli tte:s sent to Comorn, from Sehoenbrun, to compliment her Majesty in the name of the Emperor Napoleon. VIENNA, AUGUST CO. The armistice which was to. have terminated on the 30th instant, has been prolonged for three necks, vir. from the 31st August to the 20th September. The reason assigned for this is, the great distance of the Court of St. Petersburgh, which is materially ir. terested in the negociations, as otherwise no furtlee prolongation would have taken place. As the City of Triest has hitherto not been able to t pay more than a small part of the war contributicn imposed on it, the merchants there have now been Ji• vided into four classes. Those of the Ist class are to pay 146,000 livres, and those of the lowest 10,000, yet on conditions of forthwith retiibuting the whe!e upon the sum total of the inhabitants agreeable to means every one is possessed of. AUGUST 30. The French, since the armistice, have been ex trernely active. Prodigious entrenchments cover all the bridges of the Danube, "and reader Vienna cessible to an hostile army. The triple entrench- ment which covets the bridge; called Tabordonate i; especially deserving oladmiration. A corps of? 0, 01 men is encamped there. Within these few weeks a number of officers of artillery, and five new regi- ments, have arrived here from Paris. The Austrians continue to carry on their militare preparations in Hungary with great activity. r An , imperial order of the day, the French army is distri• buttd in five arrondisranentr, viz, these of Lisa Brunn, Presburgh, Gratz, and Triest. The negociations for peace, at Altenburgh, are carried on with the utmost activity, at least if we may judge from the number of Couriers continealle coming from, and going to that place.—On the 20th of August, the Duke of Cadore (Lotint . Champagny ), gave a splendid ball, at tvlikli all the nobility in the vicinity were pre.seut. The Emperor Napoleon frequently makes evil- sions on horseback in the n e i g hb our h oo d o f Vien..a, I accompanied by the Vi c e ro y o f I ta ly, t h e P r ince Cf Neufchatel, General Walther, Commandant ut tbe Guard, and other Gencrals. It is said that the fen- peror , will go for some day,, to Brunn and to Zna)