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CUARCAE. 10th Oet.ohoir, 1 see. Iy. Seuth Sea :Ind Bank / 296,869 2 10 296,869 2 10 Account Bank Divide/4s . . 4,1'21,'191 6 11i-4,407,841 15 61 'Tows. ds rede.niption oil _ ati.,nal Debt 1025 1 1 / 4 I ,91NI 12 lt-1,593,791 10 S Civil List . • . : tno,slle o 0 28 9 , 500 • 0 Pensions and An:mates, 92:JCS 31 2 ; 1 Miscellaneous Charges,l 71 . '353 1 ::11 S 161,997 10 101 etainiata , at 1809. T~t tryil CHEREIV. FLUSHING, OCTOBER IC. We shall remain here all the winter. We have not yet heard who is to be at our head in the island; but some say Sir J. Hope, and others assert that either General Finch or Sir Eyre Coote is to hr appointed Governor. The ttade here is tolerably good, but the people with whom we traffic are not without their fears for the con:equences of the intercourse. There are plen ty of goods in the island, which sell, for the most part, , at adv.tntageous prices. Very little transpires of any proceedings on the Da nube, but we have heard people go so far as to say, that they have not the least doubt that the treaty of ' peace has been already signed, sealed, and ratified. Perhaps this is only a conjecture of their own, with out any specific foundation for it. The last letters I have heard spoken of, from Vienna, are of the 27th September, and they say nothing, but that people an hundred miles off know as much of the intentions of the Negotiators as the inhabitants of the capita' I dare say all means are employed to keep their pro ceedings as secret as possible. The following ships arc here under Admiral Otway. The Impetieuse Cmsar, Audacious, Clyde, Blare, Hero, Theseus, idarlborough, Revmgc, Denmark, Victorious, Aboukir, Impetueux, and some others, besides frigates and a great many gun-boats, &c. un der Commodore Owen. MIDDLEBURGH, OCTOBER 1!. 'The sick in the hospitals are recovering very quickly. Were it not for the number-of convales cents in them of the old disease, our hospitals, upon an average, would not be more crowded than those of England, 1 mean at the moment of writing. The old Government of 1795 is about to be restored, and 'General Pinch, it is said, will be our Commandant. AMSTERDAM ROYAL COURANT, OCTOBER ie. The Commander of the district of the province of Zealand informs such persons whom it may concern, that all his Majesty's subjects who so far forget their duty as to maintain any ultercoinse with the enemy in Walcheren, by purchasing any . goods put up to sale by them, either direCtly or indirectly, shall be considered not only as criminals, but further be inca pable of holding any office under his Majesty. Those who have been compelled to quit Walcheren, and have sustained any loss of property thereby, may not come to any terms with the enemy for its restoration, but shall, in due time, be remunerated by the Govern ment. (Signed) F. ERMIRINS. A. J. SINCLAIR, sec. THE EVENING STAR_ LONDON. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Consols, for money, 680—for ace. es 69. Ornriam 1 prem.—Exchequer Bills, 6s. Its. mut OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. I per Cent. Cons. Sof if 4 per Cent. 8211 a per Cent. Navy 991 100 Long AIM. 181 7-18 India Bonds, 288. 278. pr.. Imp. 3 per Cent. 674 Exch. Bills, 113. 163. pre. English Lottery Tick. 111. 17s. City Ditto, dif.lss. Cons. for ace. 69 Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, Princesses Au- CUSTA and SOPHIA, accompanied by Lady CRANLEY, General FITZROY and Colonell'AYLoa, rode on horse back in Windsor-park. Yesterday the Duke of KRNT arrived at Windsor from Weymouth. Earl CAMDEN came to town on Sunday afternoon from Ramsgate, where it was his avowed intention to have remained for a month with his family. It is pos sible that the Noble Earl has been brought to Town thus unexpectedly, by the publication of the statements which Mr. CANNING had c►rculated among his friends, and which appeared in this paper on Fridaylast. Lord ( AMGEN v: rote a statement in a letter addressed to the I like of PORTLAND, exculpating himself from the im putation of concealment, and his Grace answered him by acquitting him of the charge of voluntary con. cealment, and bearing testimony to the truth of the N.hlc.. Earl's statement. It is perfectly clear, that the cannot rest as it now stands, for there must be something which remains to be explained. Captain WOODRIFF, late principal Agent for Trans• ports, on the Expedition, returned to Portsmouth on Friday, from Walcheren, to resume his situation of Agent for prisoners et war at that port. An Accciunt of the Income of, and Charge upon the Consolidated Fund, in tie years ended the 10th October, 1808 and 1809 : INCOMIL 10th October, Isos. 1809. Cugtonu - - - -- - - Zxcise () Stamps Incidents Surplus Annual Duties 2 463,031 0 0— 599,115 0 0 on Fugar Dc. Land-caz is Ogees 41,791 14 3 1 4 39,999 5 Lard-tax's . . . . 147,1163 7 81-- 190,797 17 Interest on Account of } 427,605 10 10 503,085 19 10 Ireland Do. Portugal . . • 211,5115 1 • Surplus Elk. Fees . . 11,000 0 • 11,750 0 0 Insprest Monies . . 10,097 7 671--- 41,545 0 II Arrears of Income •In•••,. 6112 11 'Si-- MI6 7 14 1799,1800, at-41801S Do. Annn al Malt Duties 330 0 • Fines of Leascs . 4,470 Q 0 .Amt. from er Tarts 1- Acts 47 and 49 G.M.S 42,113 17 7 1 — 117,616 S Assessed Tales . . . s 2 11 A ;),062,117 1t) 0 X 10,64 5 3300 11 1; BLOCKADE. T ''.‘f i,. The Tmperial reseript, as we may term it, of Ni. Por.ww, from Altenburgh, on the subject of neutral commerce, contains much of his old maritime law, a little new of the same character with the old, and one or twonotorious falsehoods. "France,' quoth he, "ad- 46 mits the principle, that the flag protects the merchan " dize." Very likely! but does England admit it? Does reason or usage admit it? Usage is, without contradic tion, hostile to our enemies; and we shall soon see how far they are borne out by reason, on an examination of the chief of those arguments which are here advanced in support of their cause. " A merchant vessel," they say, " having a clearance from her government, ought 'c to be considered as a floating colony." Why she should be so considered, they do not tell us; but we will tell them why sh.' should not. The members of a floating colony will declare, by their language, to what nation they belong : whereas the real owners and proprietors of a deal cargo can only be disco vered by search and examination of papers. But if a vessel under an American flag should be discovered with troops on board, they might, if they liked, tell us that they were an American colony ; yet if we discovered that every mar of them spoke French, we should most unequivocally bring them to England ; and so we trust we shall continue to treat cargoes, which ley their papers, or any other satisfactory docu- ' ments whatsoever, speak only the language of our enemies. " The seas," says the rescript, " belong exclusively gi to no nation ; they are the common property of " States, the domain of all." True ; and it is on this very principle that we claim the right of seizing what belongs to our enemies upon them. We do not seize a French vessel in an American harbour, because is there protected by its position ; it is situated not upon common, but upon exclusive property ; and the neutral condition of the proprietors gives it protec tion : but we do sei n e a French vessel upon - the open seas, because they are common property, and no one has there a right to give it protection. It has no other claim to safety from its enemies than that which it derives from superior power. hieschant.vessels of an enemy (it is said) being " the .property of private individuals, ought to be " respected." This is new law ! We will defy all the mavens of France to point out any period of either ancient or modern history when trading vessels were not considered as legal capture. The practice of maritime and land warfare admits of no similitude whatever in this respect ; nor do warehouses, or shops, bear the least analogy to mercantile vessels. An enemy respects the former, so far as he does respect them, because they are deemed necessary to the sus tenance of the peaceable inhabitants on the spot ; but when a merchant-vessel is captured, the captor sup ports the inhabitants of it himself, and carries away the general property, upon the principle of distressing the nation to which it belongs ; and this has always been the practice. But had we, it seems, possessed the same superio rity by land that France does, we should have endea. voured to carry tke maritime law into that element, and confiscated " houses and churches," we suppose. The falsehood of this hypothetical slander is evident; because, in the case of terrene captures, though really effected by the preponderance of our navy, we strictly adhere (nor ever thought of doing otherwise), to the wablished laws of terrene war; and the first article of all capitulations of islands is, that " private pro perty shall be respested !"—We require no more than that France shall spew the same deference to the laws of war established by sea ; and this, we trust, we shall make her do. The history of the Commercial Decrees, and the responsive Orders of Council in this document, is sin gular, and has but one objection to it, which is, that it is totally untrue, and must be known to be so by every one that knows any thing of the subject. We are said to have declared France in a state of block ade _Wire the Berlin Decree, which first uttered that denunciation against us. They might as well have said that we declared France in the moon before the Berlin Decree. Our preceding Order of Council only forbade that coasting neutral - trade during the war, which France would not suffer to be carried on during the peace : and then was issued the Decree in ques tion, declaring that no vessel that had touched at England should be admitted into France. Our,sub sequent Orders were merely counteractive of this. We come now to the winding up of the whole affair, which we shall briefly dispatch. We are to revoke our Orders of Council, and she will annul her decrees." To this we may reply, that her decrees al ways preceded our Cabinet Orders and that if she abo lishes those, these will expire of themselves. It would be a matter of small consequence, however, which power yielded fast; but it is of infinite importance tons not to give up more than we have been obliged to seize, nor to retire farther than we have advanced. We shall not surrender one tittle of the ancient maritime law of Europe along with these new enactments, which we have been forced to make by the violence of our enemies. 6. American vessels may," as the docu-i anent before us states, be assured of finding, in the 66 harbours of France, favour and protection ;" but they shall not convey French colonial produce thither. We understand that a very severe contest is ex pected in Yorkshire for the Register-office of the West Riding. Three Gentlemen have offered them selves as Candidates for the situation, and all seem equally confident of success. The Electors must be possessed of absolute freehold property, worth one hundred pounds a year—and their numbers are sup- 1 posed to be about twenty-four hundred. It is, how- 1 ever, imagined, that a large proportion of these Free- 1 holders will not tender their Votes upon the present occasion, as they arc not now rated to the Property Tax, and in the exercise of their Franchise, they can hardly hope, in these days of financial difficulty, to elude the vigilance and notice of the Tax-gatherer ! On Wednesday a Court-Martial was held on Mr. W. WATSON CRADOCK, surgeon of his Majesty's ship VULTURE, for having repeatedly made use of very disorderly language, calculated to generate discon tent, and excite mutiny amongst the seamen.—The charge 26,347 AST 6 31 Z 6,700,000 0 0 charge was fully proved, and Mr. Cradock was sen s„piss 1,714,550 9 ei 9,145900 11 tented to be dismissed his ship, and rendered. inca pable of ever serving in the Navy again.—p Sir Joszru "ect,il7 is u .0,84:;,soo u SIDNIIy YORK, Presideut. rAr.ivi,i o' rimic;iiii§:- The uproar last night, towards the close of the performance, was greater than we ever remember to have heard it. The Pit was nearly full at the drawing up of the curtain, and one-third of the company consisted of women. The Boxes had also more Ladies than usual. The disapprobation began in the second Act, though scarcely sufficient to drown the voice of the performers, but it increased at the end of the third Act, and at half-price it was all uproar. Mr. C. KEMBLEPS appearance as Richmond, in the fifth Act, met with the accustomed disapprobation. He was saluted by an universal roar, which continued while he remained upon the stage. In the contest with Richard, at the conclusion of the play, his foot slipped, and he fell upon his face on the stage. This afforded great triumph. Ow the Lord Mayor,and Sheriffs kneeling to do homage to Richard, the galleries shouted out 4g beg your pardon, you villains." Se veral thousand hand-bills were showered from the upper boxes and galleries into the pit, and fight ing commenced in the pit and boxes, but not with fists, cudgels having been provided in numbers on the side of the Public. At this time placards were exhi bited in the pit, and few or none were torn. Amongst the number were the following : " John Bull is tough, " And will never cry enough." The ruffian Jews are protected by Managers, and seconded even . by Thieftaiers." A coffin, drawn on a large fold of paper, bore the following inscription : - - Here lies the body of New Prices, which was sacrificed to Jahn Bull, in October, 1809." " Keruble versus John Bull, QUI Tam." A paper, printed as a play-bill, of which the fol lowing is a copy, was distributed in the boxes By Manager scorn'd, By ruffian Jews assaulted, By Bow-street ill-treated— Still, we'll net lie cheated!" " BRANDON O. TuoatAs.—Verdict for the Defendant." " MENDOZA to fight, BRANDON to swear; JOHN BULL'S in the right— Therefare do'nt care." " King Joule of old, by sturdy Barons aw'd, Our British rights in Magna Charta To stage-crown'd Jou ri in insolence and fraud, Shall our dramatic rights be now resign'd ? From British favour has thy pseudo king His fame, his wealth, his impudence deriv'd— By British spirit let this empty thing Of all his borrew'd feathers be depFiv'd !" " King JOHN outlives our liking." The following Hand-bill was distributed in the course of the evening : Last Night of Performance at the NEW Plums! NEIVTHEAT..., CO YE NT-GARDEIV. This E.vening will be presented, fur the Last Time, an Operatic Farce, iu One Act, called LVIPOSITION. Avarice, Mr. Kaman: ! Pride, Mr. KEMBIL !! Affectation, Mr. JUMBLE!!! Insolence Mr. KEMIILL !!!! Being his last appearance before the Public; Fool Hardy, Mr. HARRIS, NOodle, Doodle, &c. The other PROPRIETOR-I. Oath-Taker, JEMMY B ox- O FFICE. _ _ Informers—Long Gibbons, Count Snip of Castle-street, the Blind Boy, the Battersea-fields Baron, &c. &c. _ _ . . _ New Price, as Old Prices, (with the Song of " Many a true word is spoken in jest") Buliy Raymond. Betwee►► the Scenes, SLIGHT OF HAND AND LEGERDEMAIN TRICKS, By the Proprietors. After which, as an Interlude, RAISING THE WIND ; otherwise RAISING the DEVIL ; Or DIDDLER DIDDLED. Incl►:ding the Bilking Scene between Diddler and Sabi. Dil.fitr, 111 r. KENIBLE" You haven't got such a thing as Eighteen-pence about you, have you ?" S.: in, JOHN fitut.—" Yes; and 1 mean to keep if about me, do you see!" In the course of the Interlude, Mr. K estat.st will recite, as on a former equally suitable occasion, when it was received with un bounded approbation and applause, by a highly gratified audience, his celebrated Address of " WHAT DO YOU WANT ?" Immediately following the Interlude, will be presented, for the Benefit of the Proprietors, the last Scene of the Farce of THE CONFEDERATES. Beirg a Capital Deception by the following inimitable Performers, hired for the occasion—Le Chevalier ap Rice, Le Sieur Tho mas°, Le Plume, Gallows Black Jack of the Old Btaley, M. 'Witless from Threadneedle-street, and Mynheer. Pharisee Ankerstill, the well-known public subscription Actor. The former Scenes of the Confederates are acted, in conjunction with the Proprietors, in private, behind the Curtain, for the Benefit of the Public. Afterwards will be performed for the last time, the first Act of a Grand unfinished Tragic Ballet of Action, called JOHN OX ; or, The cruel attempt to Despoil John Bull of his Noble Parts. I'he whole being arranged under the Management of MR. JEW KEMBI.E. The representation will take place in the. Audience pv7t of the House, the following most numerous Corps de Ballet being distributed in the Boxes, Pit, and Galleries, for that purpose. First Drover, DANIEL TlaNnoz a, at the head of 150 fighttrg Jews and hired Bruizers, as Constables. Second Drover, BILL So am Es, with his Gang of Housebreakers and Pickpockets, as keepers of the Peace. Third Drover, The fighting Waterman, leading a Band of Despe radoes and Ruffians, in the Dresses of Bow-street Officers. Grand Mob of Drover', by all the Thieves, Bullies, and Black guards of the Metropolis, that can be prevailed on by the " Ma nagers' Orders" to perform. Shiar4te, man, Parson Ayres, Mr. Ede, Mr. M 4 Barney, &c. &c. licadSkulghterman, Mr. GRAhAM, burnt out from the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The Proprietors, after various and unsuccessful 'attempts, not having it in their power to conclude the above striking repre sentation agreeable to their wishes, it will be withdrawn, and THIS NIGHT WILL Jr PRESENTED, The celebrated One Act Piece (revived expressly for the occasion) of 4 Long Pull, a Strong Pull, and a Pull altogether. As introductory to an entirely new National Drama, called THE SEQUEL, or John Bull Victorious; In which the part of J OHN B ULL be performd (after an Absence of several Years) by the Public. Boxes 7s. Pit 4s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery Is. To-snorrow Evening, the ous raicEs will be taken as usual. During the last act of the Farce, a placard was thrown up from the pit to one of the boxes in the first tier, and taken under the protection of a gentleman, who placed it in front of the box, to which it was pinned by the kind assistance of a Lady in the front row. The Police immediately flew to the box, and endeavoured to take the Gentleman into custody, but in this object they were defeated, and com pelled to retreat. They returned with a reinforce ment, but were again defeated. A third time they returned to the charge with increased numbers. —The contest between the exhibitors of the placard and the police officers was long and desperate, and every time the victory seemed likely to declare in fa vour of the former, the house rang with acclamations of delight. At last the placardists thought it best to retreat, and actually clambered down the box pillars from the second tier of boxes into the pis. resting 6 2 - :t on the bracket. of the ch arklelier,. next on the front . 0 i the dress boxes, and so into the pit-alley just by th e door on the King's side. Through this, we supp 4: they made their escape. Thee repeated vittaie; were cheered by the Pit with loud huzzas, which wel e returned by the Boxes, and again reiterated frcin Pit. When the farce was over, a seaman addrec:rq t h e audience from the pit, in favour of the oppositi(4, He made use of a great deal of sea -cant, but did act say much to the purpose. His speech was it: a measure drowned by applause. After tLis t ,:„ Britannia," and is Gon save the King," were stit ,. as usual, and, out of compliment to the naval u: " Hearts of Oak." " Old Prices" was not only circulated ptie m .d. ; but 0. P. appeared on the waistcoats of avast number of gentlemen ; nay, a cockade ( t C. 1., was worn by several. Numerous cries L T ,'L t , Items" resounded through the house. Neither the exertions of Mr. Stafford, Clerk at Bow-street, nor the presence of T ow „,. bend, the Officer, soothed the anger of those vihq swore to protect the subject. Constables' sla ve ,. were flying in all directions, and the floor ra: strewed with broken sticks, and marks of brok en bonds. The subject was protected, and the pubrk cause prevailed ; but several were taken to Enw, street. A fellow of the name of Braham, a Jew , who has been marked before having been may . busy in rioting for the Managers, gays a g mt k inaz a tremendous blow on the head with a bludgeou; , but he mixed with others, and escaped the fury of the bye-standers. Upon the whole, last night most clearlr demonstrated the necessity of bringing the questit; to a speedy decision. Amongst the persons broug:it out of the Theatre last night for riotous conduct, the follonin; cast. were heard 1. - .-fore the Magistrates at the Pithiie 01, fice, Bow-street : Nana, I , a man far advanced In years, was litou;:: out of the one-shi!ling gallery by oil Of the Townsend% and charged by ,Mr. Brandon with whistling with. his fiegtts, :c4l making other noises calculated to interrupt the performances. The prisoner, who said he was a journeyman cabir.t - .:-.1 in the service of Mr. Gerock, of Bishopigate-str.., the fact, but threw himself upon the mercy of zlic whom he intreated to take into consideration his i , b norasp,! of strict rules and regulations of the Theatre. It was Saint Monthy, and having treated himself to a shilling's worth in the "alicry,he thought there was no harm in doing as others did arounlhira, As* were making more noise than he did. Mr. Brandon urged the w:ce.ssity cif putting a stop to the tie. ous noise in the Theatre. Mr. READ ordered the prisoner to find hail, but the poor low having no iricr.ds wi.hin some miles of town, he vn i e coo. mitted to Tohill-fields Bridewell. 211;ry 4.utin, a young woman of docent appearance, who IA been recently in the service of a rewectable family in f;ra,v,:mor square, was Brought up, and charged with springing a small ntule in the one-shilling gallery, and e::citing disturbance on the part of those around, by her pernicious example. The prisoner avowed the fact, but sail that she hart done so at the instigation of a young ma:, in the gallery, who gave !v.:I child's rattle, and told her • J spring it. She d:d sa, conceiv'si there was no harm. If sje did wrong she was very sorry far I.; and the Magistrates were at liberty to do what their wirdota direct. The Magistrates committed her for want cf b ai, aci ;her-. tired from the Office with the utmost composure, deermial meet her fate with fortitude. Francir Ha//, a middle-aged man of respectable appearance, wzs committed for want of hail, on the oath of attlkiiii, the knY.cs officer, for having exattAl 4 disturbance before On. door, and attempting to forte his way up stairs one 1nt...- traces room, at the time when a I,,:i•sun wa.; on bis w: . .y i.titokii from the Theatre to the 09ice. The two young men, Nt_ssrs. Fleisher and D.:!e, who waw charged on Saturday eveninu with presenting an order to ti:: fit of Covent-garden Theatre, to admit two, purport:a t ; to be by J. Brandon, attended again at this office. Henry Hin:, the youth, at tended, aad avowed that be wrcte the order, but he did it nterely a trick. Mr. REA D, however, ordcixeci him to find bail. The Magistrates sat until half past eleven, waiting until the Theatre was compinely cleared. THE JUBfLER. The following is a Copy ofthe Prayer and.ThaLkc. giving to ALMICIITY Gon, (appointed to be used In the 25th inst.), for the Protection afforded the King', Majesty, during a long and arduous reign: " r 0 Goo, in whose hands are the i-sues of life and death, and to whom alone it belongeth to distribute mercies, as well •. lengthening, as in shortening the days of men, we yield praise and thanksgiving, for the protection Thou hast vouch safed to our gracious Sovereign, dtaing a long and arduots reign. Continue, we pray Thee, Thy watchfulness over hint— shield him from the open attacks of his enemies, and from hidden dangers—from the arrow that flieth by day, and from the pesti. lence that walketh in darkness—enlighten his Councils for the public good ; strengthen all his measures ; and when it shall seem fit to thine unerring wisdom, perfect the ends of both the :esti)• ration of peace and security to his People, of concord and inde pendence to contending and bleeding nations. These blessings and mercies, we implore for our Sovereign, ourelves, oar allies, and our enemies, through the merits and mediation of JEV,3 CHRIST, our Lord and Saviour.—Ame3." In every town and city it is resolved to attenJ di. vine service, and the whole nation, like one great fa mily, will assemble in solemn prayer and thanks giving, for the protection so long afforded to the father of his people in the most arduous situations, and in the most trying times. The India House, Mansion Mouse, and the Bank will, it is said, be most brilliantly illuminated on the 25th instant, and artists of the first eminence ate employed in preparing beautiful andpp a Transparencies. If- they are equal to those exhibited. at those places on the KING'S R ec overy, the pi" : will have abundant reason to be satisfied. By the Provincial Papers it appears, that the it % bilee will be .most spiritedly kept at the priliclP' towns, and that on the evening after there walk balls at Newcastle.upon-Tyne, Durham, Sunderla na t York, Doncaster, North and South Shields, IsicAvarkl Northampton, Newcastle-under-Line, Liverpool , 13.1r ' mingliarn, Sheffield, Lincoln, Yarmouth, ropriated Ipswich, Margate, Brighton, Chicheste r , Lewes, Winclie:.ter, Southampton, and many other places. Weymouth intends to erect a Statue of his MaxEsllo as a memorial to futt a ire ages of the virtues of t he Monarch. _ Oxford means to abstain from the expenee of 111 minating, and in lieu thereof to enable the poorer in' habitants to celebrate, in decent comfort, the joyol3 and memorable occasion. It is also proposed to cele• brate the Jubilee by releasing the debtors Low con. fined in the Castle at Oxford. . I