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- ‘1 44 %. • • WESTMINSTER FIRE-OFFICE, ENT GA 1/1131 , Ana U, I T BIII. THEING appointed by the Deed of Settlement to be held yearly, on the last Thursday in April, or within ten days thereafter, for the Choice of Audi tors, and on other Affairs, will be holden at this Office, on . TNIMSDAY, May 7th next, at Twelve &Clock. G. H. BROWNE, Secretary. N.B. The Chair will be taken at One o'Clock precisely. -►~~;" FROM SATURDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. MILITARY PROMOTIONS. WAR-OFFICE, MAY 1, 1818. Irt Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant and Adjutant Henry Hill, from the half-pay of the 23d Light Dragoons, to be Adjutant and Lieutenant, vice Thomas Barlow, who ex _ changes, 9th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Cornet Richard Wright, from the half-pay of the 23d Light Dragoons, to be Cornet, vice Montagu Harvey Grant, who exchanges. lit Regiment of Foot—Captain Thomas Mosse from the half pay of the Regiment, to be Captain, vice William Gray, who exchanges. 19th Ditto—Lieutenant Morgan James Jenkins, from half-pay of the Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Junes Powell, who exchanges, receiving the difference. 77th Ditto—Ensign William Clarke, from half-pay of the Bth Foot, to be Ensign, vice George Edward Francis, who ex changes, receiving the difference. 78th Ditto—Lieutenant Donald E. M‘Queen, from the half-pay of the Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Joshua Gregory, who exchanges, receiving the difference. let West India . Regiment—Ensign Otho Hamilton Wemyss . from the half-pay of the 7th West India Regiment, to be En sign, vice Edward Leman, who exchanges. Royal African Corps—Lieutenant Thomas Cochran Hammitt, from the half-pay of the late Nova Scotia Fencibles, to be Lieutenant, vice Abraham Odium, who exchanges. Royal York Rangers--Lientenant Henry Yielding Eager, on the half-pay of the 19th Foot, to be Paymaster, vine Calmer, deceased. The Christian names of Assistant-Surgeon VP Lean, who ex changed from the 78th Foot to half-pay of the 35th Foot, on the fth April, 1818, are George Gordon. The commission of Ensign Hill, in the sth Foot, is dated 26th March, 1818, and not the 25th March, 1818. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. The Rev. Richard Sandilands,"of Lower Grosvenor-place, Pim lico, clerk, money-scrivener and broker. Benjamin Bates Cowell, of High-street, Shoreditch, oilmen. • BANKRUPTS. John Young, of Gosport; Hants, harness-maker and eadler, to surrender May 15, at one, May 16, at eleven, and June 13, at one, at the Mitre Tavern, Portaea. Attornies, Mr. John Allen, Clifford's Inn, London ; or Mr. Winkworth, Portsmouth. John Holden, of Westbromwich, Staffordshire, black-buckle maker, dealer and chapman, (but now in the County I'rison of Stafford), May 20, 21, and June 13, at twelve, at the Castle Inn, Birmingham. Attornies, Messrs. Anstice and • • Wrighr, Temple, London; or Mr. E. W. Jackson. hairy Stoe Man, late of Calcutta, in the East Indies, dealer and cbapman,,and now a prisoner in the Fleet, May 9, 10, and June 13, at twelve, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Drake, . . . ()Li Pish-street, Doctors-Commons. William Ilalsied, late of Chichester, Susses, linen-draper, dealer and chaptnan, May 11, 12, and June 13, at eleven, at the Wheat Sheaf Inn, Chichester. Attornies, Mr. Daily, Chiches ter; or Messrs. Few, Ashmore, and Han.ilton, Covent-Gar- . _ den, London. Thomas Simmons, of Birmingham, dealer and chapman, May 8, at sis, May 9, and June 13, at eleven, at the King's Head in Ccventry. Attorney, Mr. James Punton, Wine Office-court, " ' John trains, of Longton, Lancashire, common-carrier, dealer and chipmm, May 2g, at five, 23, at one, and June 13, at lye, at the Red Lion Preston. Anomie*. Mr. Winstanley, Preston ; or Messrs.idllne and Parry, Temple, London. John Carmichael, of Little Russell-street, Covent-Garden, baker and pastry-cook, May te,Sti, and June 13 at °neat Guildhall. Anomie', Messrs. Rogers and Son, Dreanchester-Buildings, Wcarninster. DIVIDENDS to be made at GUILDHALL. May 94, W. Twitchin, Kinzielere, Hants, =aster, ar ten.— Dihy 26, Marsh, Deane, Westbrook, and H. B. Deane, Reading, bankera r at one. May 5, T. Eastman, Clement'a./ane, merchant, at ten. May to.ti, W. Stewart, New Row, Deptford, victualler, at eleven. DIVIDENDS to be made in the COUNTRY. May 25, J. Parry, Ambigh, draper, at ten, at the Bridgwater Arms, Manchester. May 26, R. Scotland, South Shields, ship owner, at eleven, at the Golden lion Inn, South Shields. May 25, Steplwn Welch, Church Mittshull, malt-dealer, at two, at the eta& and Horses, Manchester. FROM TILE CEYLON GAZETTE, NOV. 4. Symptoms of insurrection having been manifested near the British Residence of Badula, where Mr. Wilson was chief, he put himself at the head of a military party of 30 Malay andeaffree soldiers, with which, and an Interpreter, he marched to the scene of commotion, a distance of many miles. He en tered into conversation with the refractory Bandians, but finding he was unlikely to succeed in his otject, he prepared to return to Badula for a larger military force. A mysterious stranger had been seat for some clays before about the country, supposed to be a Member of the late Royal Family, exciting insur rection with the design of regaining the Throne, and the partizans of his cause were discovered to be more numerous than had been suspected. __.. . . Mr. Wilson took a different road back to Badula, supposing the country by which he bad advanced might be raised against him. He and his party had reached Stannewatee, when an armed party appeared and demanded a conference. Mr. Wilson, with the same intrepidity and huManity, which he had a few days before shewn among the Bandians, thought ac commodation might be effected by treaty, rather than by the shedding - of blood, advanced to the in vitation; but when within a few yards of the party, a volly of arrows was treacherously discharged at him, and Mr. Wilson, with one of his Lascoreons, fell. The loss of Mr. Wilson is very deeply lamented, particularly by General Brownrigg, the Goyernor of the island, as he had displayed great capacity and diliger.ce in the discharge of the duties of a very ar duous situation. He had developed the resources of the province, and established the English authority,' with extraordinary skill and success; and his death is felt to be a public misfortui4. Thus, at the early age of eight and twenty, a young man of the most brilliant talents, has fallen a victim to his zeal in the public service, and to the humanity which prompted him to reason with armed insur gents, instead of employing in the first instance, the military means which he had at his disposal. The only consolatory circumstance in his lamented death is, that he was not subjected to any of those indignities or cruelties which have so freqently been employed upon Europeans who have fallen into the hands of the Bandians ; but that the first wound which lie received was fatal. Mr. Wilson's brother, a Naval officer, was some time ago lost in the Indian Seas, off Prince of Wales's Islands, carrying dispatches to the Admiral in the Jaseur sloop of war. His youngest brother in the Royal Artillery, now at Jamaica, distinguished him self at the battle of Waterloo, attached to the .sth division, under General Fitton, .., • • . . ~ .. . .',.. •., . . 1 . . 1 i • 1 1 . • I .• 1 I A • 1 1 . t ; ~, • 1 • 1 a • • 1:, . • • • • , ft. . 0 . • . ! ) ' I 1 $ 1 t 4 14, ! . I i 4 ~. 1 1:1 i i .. ts, • • ~ -.,• FRENCH PAPERS. CHAMBER OF PEERS; APRIL "5. M. Vicomte de Montmsirency made a report from the Committee on Petitions, on a Petition which had more seriously occupied the.attention of the Com mittee, not only because it was distinguished from the class of ordinary petitions, but because it was connected with the remembrance of an affair which afflicted all good Frenchmen, and which implicated names the most respectable with those which were less so. A Peer of Great Britain, or to speak more properly a Peer of Scotland, who was capable by election of sitting in the Parliament of England (Lord Kinnaird), had transmitted to the Committee on Petitions a letter addressed to the Peers of France, in which he expressed himself in these terms : " Messieurs—A Frenchman condemned to death by a Pre- Total Court made an offer of his services to prevent an assasal. nation meditated against the Duke of Wellington, some dayt ore that crime was attempted in the month of February last This informer, who had demanded as the only condition persona' to himself, a safe conduct to France, and back again to Brussels, having seen in a letter from the Duke of Wellington, which bef gave the assurance that the French Government was ready to treat with him, 'a guarsoteg nddch appeared sufficient to the Duke of Richmond and m came to Paris, where every thing gave reason to believe that he would have it in his power to perform a great service. The memorial subjoined to this petition will explain to you the steps which have led to the im prisonment of the man who relied on the word of his Govern ment. In vain have I invoked the full execution of the engage ments entered into with this individual, by my intercession with the Ministers of the King. A Peer of Great Britain, I feel it my duty to communicate to the Chamber of Peers of Frantic this inftaction of a right the most respeetable, by soliciting its condescending support of my demand wit/ the Ministers of-his Majesty.-1 have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) " znaulao." To this letter there was annexed a memorial of great extent, which was too long to be read in the Chamber. The only fact in it worthy of interesting ie in an affair which, under all aspect', was foreign to its jurisdiction, and belonged essentially to the 'Government and the Tribunals, was the sort of *pi: peal itself, made by a foreigner to the honour of the French nation in the persons of.its hereditary Magi strates. From this there resulted a fear, pushed even to scrupulousness, that the indifference or the silence , of the Chamber might allow to subsist even in ap ,pearance the slightest stain on French honour, in the violation of a promise or engagement given. The `Committee was led to think, and the Chamber would agree with them, that the Government of the King had shewn the same susceptibility.of delicacy, and had either made no engagement, or had fulfilled it. But desiring to give authentic information, they en tered into official communication with the President of the Council of Ministers. The Duke of Richelieu 'offered to attend the Committee, but being prevented by a diplomatic conference, his place was supplied by the Count de Cazes, who gave all the information' that could be desired, and the most complete expla nation of what had happened. The result of that Information was, Ist, that no safe conduct was given Ow promised, and that the guarantees which might have been proposed were all conditional. Nothing could be more authentic - on this subject than the declaration of the Duke of Wellington, an arbiter in matters of honour and generosity, whose authority cannot be refused, and who in this case was mere particularly-interested in procuring the accomplish ment of a promise made to his countryman. The following is the manner in which he expresses him self in a letter to the Minister of General Police : " Your Excellency will yourself judge whether my letter, of which I send you a copy, .says one word about the journey of Sieur Martinet to Paris, or gives him any guarantee whatever. You will see that I have never taken it upon me to promise any thing to any person in the name of the French Government, and that those from whom they pretend to have re ceived those guirantees deny ever having given them." The French Government, in its anxious desire to discover the author and the accomplices of so base and odious a crime, had announced its intention of entering into negociation with any person who would reveal them. The Duke of Wellington, in his letter to the Minister of. England at the Court of the Ne therlands, announcing this intention, added, that he personally took no part in the affair ; and that he confined himself to the official or judiciary means of discovering the guilty. This single phrase in the' Duke's letter, however, appeared to have been the grounds of trust on which Lord Kinnaird relied. in proceeding to Paris with Martinet. Not only was any authority or encouragement refused them by the civil and military authorities of Brussels, but we are assured that these authorities would have taken the direct means of opposing the journey, had the party not set out secretly, and without their knowledge. 2dly, It is equally certain that Martinet, left at li berty is Paris for several days, was not arrested fur :thy cause, either directly or indirectly, connected with his former condemnation, but as suspeeted by subsequent discoveries of having taken part in the plot of which he promised the disclosure, and on which lie had himself given almost no information. He was arrested by a warrant of the Juge d'lnstruc tion. Since it has been necessary to address the Chambers on this afflicting affair, it may be proper to tell them that the Authorities have now in their power, but by means unconnected with the disclo sures of Martinet, the man whom there is reason to believe the assassin, with regard to whom we ought to guard ourselves against prejudice, and wait the information procured by the proceedings of the Juge d'lnstruction. The Committee might limit itself by proposing the order of the day, on the ground that the affair was foreign to its jurisdiction; but not doubting of the wisdom of the measures which the Government of the King will take, they proposed to refer the whole to the Council of Ministers. Driir..—A fatal duel took place on the 26th ult. at Caen, between Lieutenant PICKFORD and M. MA RINIER, in consequence of a dispute arising out of quarrels between other parties, English and French, at Caen. Lieutenant MORGAN, of the Navy, was se cond to Lieutenant PICKFORD, and M. DuntlissoN, one of the original disputants, to M. MARINIER.— There was some dispute about distances ; MARINIER wanted 15 paces ; PICKFORD said he was no shot and would allow of none beyond four. To this MARINIER had no objection, provided he had the first fire.— PICKFORD insisted they should fire together ; but this was stiffly opposed. Another proposal wAs then made, that MARINIER's friend should charge one only of his pistols with ball. and give PICKFORD the choice • or that MORGAN should charge with ball one of hia pair and daould let MAntaTtra choose. This was acceded to. MARINIER first took one and then PICK PORD the other. They presented together ; the inter val between them was about two feet. After a mo ment or two of hesitation, the word was given, and PICKFORD . S ball struck under his adversary's ribs, on the right side, and passed through his body. He pre sently expired. I, THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. MONDAY, MAY 4, 1818. THE FUNDS PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK Reduced 8011—Consols 81i—for Acc. 811 4 per Cent. 971-I —Navy Ann:. 1071} India Bonds 96 98 pr.—Exch. Bills 17 20 pr. Omniuna SU prem. The Paris Papers of Thursday last arrived yester day, and in a preceding column we have extracted from them the substance of an interesting Report made to the Chamber of Peers, on the subject of a Petition presented to them by Lord KINNAIRD. The Petition prayed, that the Chamber would inter pose its influence with the French Ministers, to ob tain a safe conduct back to Brussels for one MAR TINET, who, upon a guarantee supposed to be con tained in a letter of the Duke of WELLINGTON, had, with the advice of Lord KINNAIRD, gone to Paris, to make some disclosures respecting the late meditated assassination of his Grace, but had been subsequently thrown into prison on a criminal charge against himself. The Report proposes that the peti tion of Lord KIKNAIRD should be referred to the Puestoswr of the Council of Ministers ; bnt they state at the same time, that it appears quite cer tain MARTINET was not arrested for any cause either directly or indirectly connected with his for mer condemnation, but in consequence of his being suspected by subsequent discoveries of having taken part in the plot of which he promised the disclosure, and on which he had himself given almost no infor mation. The Committee take the opportunity of adding another fact, which our Readers will be re joiced to learn, namely—that " the Authorities have now in their power, by means unconnected with the dis closures of Alartinet, the man, Who, there is reason to believe, is the assassin." The papers of Friday have also arrived this morning. The proceedings in the 26th and 27th sittings of the trial for the murder of M. FITALDES, occupy nearly the whole of their columns. BAx, one of the accused, and who has hitherto stubbornly denied all partici• pation in the crime, has at length turned informer, and made a full revelation of the horrid transaction, particularly inculpating Bastide and Jaussioa, as the principals in the murder. F It is to be observed, however, that in the same breath with which he inculpates Bastide and Jaussion,. he also accuses Beysiere-Vegnac, a young man, in favour of whom an almost incontestible alai has been established. From first to last, there never, per haps, was a trial in which human credulity was more shamefully sported with, by varying and contradic tory testimonies, than the present. French 5 per Cents. 68 fr. Mails from Flanders and Holland arrived in the course of yesterday, but the following is the only article of intelligence which they brought worthy of notice : MEININGEN, APRIL 19. To-day the final declaration was made at Court of the betrothing of our Most Serene Princess Adelaide to his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, brother to the Prince Regent of England. Her Highness will depart for London in the beginning of July. A Hamburgh Mail also arrived this morning. It has brought two documents, which will be read with much interest, respecting certain negociations which are known to have been long pending between the Courts of Munich and Baden. It appears from these that the four great Allied Powers have resolved upon despoiling the Duke of BADEN of some of his finest hereditary provinces, and transferring them to the Crown of Bavaria. The Duke protests that this is a very extraordinary act of arbitrary power on the part of persons who have been constantly declaring, in the face of the whole world, that their sole object in taking arms was to destroy despotism, and to introduce into Europe a political system founded on morality and justice ; he declares that he is resolved never voluntarily to submit to this lawless spoliation of his territories, and that if it is intended to tear them from him by force, he will appeal for support to public opinion than which he does not suppose his Bavarian Majesty will find a more powerful Ally. The case of the Duke, as far as we can judge from these documents, is one on which such an appeal will not be vainly made ; at all events, something more specific and explanatory than the answer of the King of BAVARIA will be necessary to reconcile the public to an act which exfacie is nothing less than a direct and flagrant robbery. It is no defence to the KING of BAVARIA to say, that the four Allied Powers have, by a certain act to -which he was no party, assigned these territories to him ;—he must thew that the four Allied Powers itad any greater right than himself to tnlke a present of what ,I 4 not belong to them. FRANKFORT, APRIL ft The following letters have been published, 1614 passed last month between the Grand Duke of 8a,;., and the King of Bavaria, and which throw s ome li cit on the negociations that have been long midi" k tween the Courts of Munich and Baden, a il d L .e been very repeatedly spoken of: LETTER FROM lIIS ROYAL RIGPINRIS Tilt (.Itos OF 'ADEN TO HIE MAJESTY THE KING 07 110/41% SIRE!--h is with great reluctance that I on myself to address your Majesty, upo n a „;„ which must be as disagreeable to your pe rson ,. ings as it is to mine; but the urgency of thee den it necessary at length to bre.tk a ,*:;en o ,„ from motives of delicacy, I have perh aps (Lt. .., too long.—For these three years past, I k atc threatened with having a part of my dornitiom l • from me; and while my country made the ; y e , exertions to enable me to maintain, in as er: • and honourable manner, the last struggle for :11, dependence of Germany, my allies are endeav::! to tear from me my finest provinces, and are 1 / 4 1 , ing; during my life, of my succession. In the various negociations that have taken I think I have proved to the whole world the ciency of the reason alledged to excuse this t i0,,„ 4 of my most sacred rights, and public opinion 6 4 already decided in my favour, even before the fa _ _ extent of the injustice was known of which it is _ _ tended to make me a victim.. If it is mortifri rt 3 my heart to see how many persons who have ds shared in the face of the whole world, that they tai arms wholly to destroy the dominion of arbin ey power, to introduce into Europe a system founded on the basis of morality, suffer t:iemielves to be influenced by false representations that ale made to them, that their debts are to be paid tril l Provinces that belong to me, and the prelervst:ancf which has been purchased with the blood of my rail. jests, what a painful feeling must it excite in re, when I see my nearest relations at the head of thole who seekto oppress me, and who, not contented nib accepting that of which I am to be robbed, urged' execution of measures to -shish they ought ana l have given their consent ! " I am embarrassed in my mind •sThen I endear* to reconcile the continuaiiv renewed offensive sups of your Majesty's Cabinet with the expressions tdat. tachment which you contitrie to bestow on me. Is so serious an affair, I find it impossible to rpm the Government from its head, so as to End in the latter my relation and friend, while the former shers itself my bitter enemy. " I at length ewe you my confession of faith. It is time that the affair should be decided, ene way or another, or I must declare to your Majesty, that as I believe myself to have more than fulV.lesi my es. gagements, as well by the exertions which my coma. try has made for the common cause, as by the lit conciliatory proposal which my Ambassador de: vered at Frankfort, I am now irrevocably resolved not to consent to any thing further. lam not Eind to the situation in which I am. Nothing capsizes me, I am prepared for every thing; but I declare to you, Sire, that if there should be an intention d tearing from me by force what never will be obtained voluntarily, I appeal, for my support, to public opi nion ; and your Majesty will hatdly find a mere powerful ally. To the King I have now said enough. TL e fed , ings of my heart call on me to add a word to my brother-in-law and friend. I therefore conjale Sir, by the ties of blood which unite us, put a end eyes s iaticm ef wh Ee i re ch pe h ; a ae s t d oo e l h on ich, g au by ra th eted e era. * 2 anxious g e ° ; blishment of the principle on which it is foanded, may have as dangerous consequences for your 3 12 * jesty as for me. I am, &c. (Signed) " Cartsrube, March 18, 1E8." " CRAILIS. ANSWER OF HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF EAVAIM " Mt dear Brother and BrotheMo-Law! " 1 have read, with equal astonishment and Ter% the letter of your Royal Highness; and I cannot xi ficiendy express to you what a painful impressies has made on me.--You know the public inJ rirxe negociations which have taken place , i:;:e Your Minister for Foreign Affairs uas wiuwo to ti‘c Conventions concluded at Paris bets cen the four Powers who signed the Treaty of 1315: he kaok'c that I had no sham in them. The )letuori.' d v he. my Minister delivered ma that occasion ib iouriLei among the public acts. " We have all fought in the bravest manner. no German troops emulated each other in their exertions. The general interest has neve...thc:css ilematuled sa crifices : I have made such, as well as the grow.: members of the confederation. . _ Y ---- " If the Ambassadors of your Royal Mghs'em r '' well informed, they will have informed you that .....e course which I have followed for these two ran t.' been wholly conformable to the sentiments that nun us ; and that fir from inducing measures spa you, I have made it a rule to wait in silence the rt gulation of the interests on which depend the cc=• elusion of the Acrs which will fir the fate of Euror: " I do not allow myself to make to your fl Highness any remark on the resolution you take• 1: is for you in your wisdom to decide on vlat tt. l well uuderstood interests of your House aas !'''" 'w • •