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i d & at 1806,060 min g ie tievio a e at y the k as t ;boa Company, which the misting circumstances b a d indaced.t& . Gthernitient not to press for: the o t hel. wait owing to a deficiency itf th* Excise, from the brewers, having in coniequenie of the high price of malt, refrained froin brewing so ankh as they had usually dbne in firmer years. He, therefore, moved, fol . an account of the net produce paid into the Ex- Chequer for malt and beer; from Janusz*, 1814; to January, I 8 l 3. Mr. CREEVEY observed, that in the return for fe last quarter of the state of the Consolidated und, it appeared that instead of a surplus produce, as compared With the produce of the corresponding quarter in the last year, there appeared a deficit of 1400,000. In the Excise, there was a deficit of 6700,000, as compared with the corresponding guar• tpr bf last year. In, the produce of the Property Tai, 1600 ; in the annual Taxes, 1100,000; and in another branch of the revenue, between one and two billions of money; so that there was a clear giving tiny in our revenue in every part. When the jtight Honourable Gentleman brought forward his Budget, among the Ways and Means of the year, he calculated on ie 3,000,000 surplus of the consoli 'elated fund. He should like to know if he now cal ciliated on deriving £3,000,000 from that source— if, instead of a surplus as hitherto, there was not likely to be a deficit ? and if it did not appear pm bible, that they had arrived within a year,and a half or that unhappy perio4 when the consolidated fund would not be able t pay the stockholder ? The Right Honourable Gentleman, when there was a bad quarter, bid ' them look at the general pro duce of the year, and when 'a bad year, he bid them lbok at the produce of one particular quarter. This time last year, after a bad year, they were told to look tti one particular quarter, and that would set all right again; and now here was a quarter worse than any which had preceded it, and the Right Hon. Gentleman turned round upon them, and said, here is h bad quarter, but look to the . general year. He had formerly said, look to the Excise, look to the Pro.. petty Tax, but this he could do no longer, and we now saw, in one year, a deficit of 12,400,000. Be fore they taxed the country, day after day, to pay Spaniards, Portuguese, Sicilians, Russians, &c. for fighting in their own cause, it would be proper for them to look if they had the means of paying their own Stockholders. •- -111 The motion was then put and carried.—Adjourned THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY -4, 1813. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY Al ONE O'CLOCK: Ka. 59 59—Cons. 58H—Cons. for ace. 59{ 59 4 per Ct. 74i 75-5 per Cent. 88N--Oninium Lg. Anne. 15i 3.l6tis—Ede. Si. 6s. clis.—Each. Bills Si. 7s. pr. Paris Papers, - containing something like official de rails of the ruin which has befallen the French army, have at length arrived. They are to the 31st of Ja nuary, and be ing down the intelligence from the places to which the French Generals have fled, • to the 18th. As we have -already stated, the Vistula is now the line of demarcation between the Russian and French armies a in other words, the former are in possession of the whole of East Prussia and that part of Poland which is situated to the Notth of Warsaw.s/slo mention is made in these Papers of the condition of Konigs berg or Warsaw :—We are warranted, therefore, b. concluding, that both are occupied by the victorious Russians. MURAT, from alleged indisposition, bas resigned the command of the a Grand Army" to BEAUHAR- Nos, who, we are told, is more fitted for a 44 Gram Administration." An Officer of the meanest rank la the army would be perfectly competent to this snag. tiliceta undertaking. It merely consists in muster. ing the few helpless fugitives, whose a courage and strength of Mind," like those of Monsieur NEI', " have stood the test." BEAUHARNOIS may, therefore, couch his next report in the language of our Serjeant KITE —" How many soldiers have you brought me ?" said the recruiting Officer—a None (replied the Serjeant), but I have enlisted some hundreds of Field-Officers." But why doet MURAT abandon the army, and why is there an army of observation appointed for Italy ? Italy, above all places in the world, was the most tranquil and secure from foreign and domestic enemies, and Verona surely cannot be threatened, because it is under the immediate inspection of our steadfast ,aly and magnanimous father-in-law, the Emperor of AUSTRIA.. Oh ! how the sacred treason is working throughout Europe 1 The exhalations from the con flagration of Moscow have reached Verona, on the southern frontiers of Austria, and the King of NAPLES l as been summoned to stifle the rising flame ! Glo rious Rosvoecum 7 -to thee the mothers of Austria, Wirtemberg, Bavaria, Saxony, and Italy, are in ,!el.ted for the presetvation of their future offspring ! This army of observation which has so suddenly :::sited up, to watch the troubling of the waters in Bavaria and Austria, fills us with delight. The Ghosts of Hofer and the murdered Tyrolese Chiefs, kill hover on their native mountains, and point the awful finger of vengeance to the hordes of savages by Whom they are surrounded. The Tyrant is threatened in every direction But let us return to the North. The yeast* of General D'Ycier, compelled MURAT precipitately to abandon Elising, and to proceed towards PoSen---the former place is in Prussia-.-the latter in Poland. At Elbiti g he had witnessed the devotion and attach ment of the Prussians to his master ; and lest, in a moment of enthusiasm, the should mistake the Li eutenant-General of the Grand Army for a Rus -34n Barbarian," MURAT prudently took himself It Thus, the whole of East rrussia is so tip* for • taltrieitiois, isa a trenciiinaii h safe. 11 - 01 long the fugitives will receive ehelier in the more Sodthern Butts bf Frusta, must dkpend, we Pre sume,. upon thd Braden; for at their Mercy; the Grand'Army now lies: Wb are assnred by the kiwi:fur that the utniost hantiony prevails between France and Austria; the King of . DENMARK is deaf to the allurements of Eng land; Dantzic is unattackable Germany has nothing to fear from the irruptions of the Barbarians; the Russians and the English inundate the Continent with lies and, weirakik dune, Marshal NaY is one of `those whose courage and strength of mind has stood the test. To the above summary we answer as fbllows : Prussia has already deserted the French standard ; Austria keeps up a secret negociatien with the nume rous enemies of France ; and Denmark is about to shake off the unnatural and impolitic alliance which the circumstances of the times have forced upon her.;* Dantzic will be attacked by a naval and military force early in the Spring ; and the Princes of Ger many will throw themselves into the arms of the Barbarians precisely becaese they " have nothing to fear." iVe are rejoiced to find that the honest Russian details have called forth answers from the French Generals. Having no longer any artillery, ammuni tion, horses, or even men, to fight with—they make war against the Barbarians upon paper I—The Rus sians never took a single gun from them by force ! —they kindly left all behind them, but most un kindly rendered them unserviceable. The climate did the same with the men and horses !—the Russians have done nothing—the Cossacks only hovered on the flanks of the French army, and made a noise ! This vapouring Muster-Master-General, BEAUHAR ;you, could most triumphantly answer all the libels of the English and Russians, by telling the world what has become of the three hundred thousand men, who were led across the Duna. The horses and the cannon which they lost were all enumerated in the Twenty-ninth Bulletin.—But the men--the men— Mr., EUGENE NAPOLEON ! where are they Another American schooner, prize to the ROVER gun-brig, has been sent . into Plymouth. The accuusts furnished by the Captain, respecting the state of the election for President, are, we are sorry to ay, di rectly opposed to those of the prise sent in on the Ist instant, and to the account received via Cork, as our Readers will see by the subjeined letter : " PLYMOUTH, FEBRUARY 2. 46 This day came in the American schooner Go vernor Mackean, Captain DALY, prize to the ROVER gun-brig, captured on the 26th ultimo, •in lat. 47. She sailed from Philadelphia in company with the American ship Union (sent in yesterday by the Ints) on the 28th of DeceMber, (not Ist January, as stated yeiterday). The whole of the votes from the diffe rent States had not then reached the seat of Govern ment ; but Captain DALY, an intelligent man, states, that there was ncr doubt that Mr. MADISON would be re-elected by a majority of 35 votes. " The bill for building four 76's (in honour of the year 1776—the year of American independence) four frigates, and four sloops of 18 guns each, had pissed both Houses of Congress. There was some talk of dtt embargo ; but the general opinion was, that it would not take place. The bonds given by the Mer chants, it was generally believed would be can. celled, if the property could be proved to be Ame rican—but British property would be condemned. 64 For commercial purposes the Americans now build nothing but fast sailing schooners. They rec kon, that if one out of three reach France, they have a clear profit. More than two thirds of the prizes-' sent ,n here since the commencement of the American war, are schooners of the most beautiful construction. 44 Came in the French chasse maree la Sally, with wine and brandy, captured by the Annow schooner. The ARROW captured another at the same time,which was re-captured by two French row-boats. Arrived his Majesty's ship CORNWALL, 74, from off Brest.— The fleet that sailed yesterday, under convoy of the ROLLA and SPECULATOR, for Portsmouth and the Downs, are now returning, the wind having shifted to the N.E. Sailed the CRNTADR, 74, to the East ward.—By the Robert (arrived here the day before yesterday, which the Captain of the American priva teer Mars gave up to SO of the crews of vessels he had captured), we learn, that after they were dis charged they fell in with his Majesty's ships la LOIRE and la PIQUE, in quest of two French frigates, of which they had received intelligence." The correspondence between our Government and that of America, relative to the French Decrees and the Orders in Council, was yesterday laid before Par. liament. The greater and by far the most important part of the documents contained in this publication, we have already given from the American Papers. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER has submitted to the consideration of the Governors of the Bank and others, a project for the optional funding of Exchequer Bills, by making interest upon them, at the rate of five per cent. payable half yearly, and giving to the holder the option of funding them at any time, in the three per cents reduced, at a price to be settled, or to have payment for then* in money, six months afte the Definitive Treaty of Peace. Yesterday the JUDOS ADVOCATE laid before the PRINCE REGENT the proceedings of several Courts Martial. 1.t .7 4141L . kiLiGENC . MALOA, VECEMBR , ' We hive experiericed a violent storm; English frigate, with a brigantine and a galetta of the same nation, have been wrecked in ism. harbour. OPOItTO, JANUARY if. His Majesty's chip NaMISIS ii off thii harbour *gang for convoy, which are prevented from sail ing on account of the very bad weather. On the 7th intl. about half-past six in the evening; the brig Prin: cess Royal; NORTON, was wrecked on the Leshoon rock=the Captain's sbn and five men drownid—the Mate, MULtIN2, and one man saved ; the former re mained on the rock from the time of the wreck until the 11th instant, at half-past three, when the Portu guese boats; Under the command of the Pilot of St. John's, MT; ANTONIO PINTO BAPTISTO, used such exertions as never before was remembered, and Saved the man, who had for four days and four nights existed on what the rock afforded— he is now here, and doing very well. FALMOUTH, FEBRUARY 2: No arrivals. Sailed the French brig and the chasse marees, lately captured by the Gaowunt gun brig, for Plymouth. The Queen Cha r lotte Pa c k et sa il e d from Lisbon 11 days before the Lapwing, and has not yet arrived here, but is hourly expected—she landed part of her letters at Kinsale, in Ireland. SIC Eis Nme. l the t BU p: thC Ica ' tra n an is ; a1 Ai n 1 ,$ ) -01 A la )e 1 at V as 1 '; c• e 6 at hi IC' aV ni in n • 0, ni it 10 IC AI re e in; iso na PORTSMOU al, FEBRUARY S. Arrived the Tbemis, SHEPPARD, from the Thames, bound to Grenada. Sailed Ids' Majesty's ships SAL.. MU and Boum on a cruise. DEAL, FEBRUARY 3. Arrived the Matilda transport, Captain CUMMINS, with a detachment of the 25th Regiment on board from Holy Island, bound to the Depot at the Isle of Wight. Sailed his Majesty's ships BED/ORD and WARRIOR for Portsmouth.—Wind N.W. YARMOUTH, FEBRUARY 3. Sailed on a cruize the CRETAN ; and the PnrmaosE for Sheerness, with Dutch prisoners. Remain in the Roads the Solebay, Leveret, Blazer, and Oberon under sailing orders. No arrivals from the Continent 9 The greatest energy prevails at present in the dis position • and direction of the Navy. In addition to the number of fir frigates lately ordered to be built, 20 sloops of a large class have been laid down, to be completed as quick as possible ; and an order has been issued to establish all the 38 and 40gun frigates with an increase of men and an additional Lieutenant, which is to be carried into effect immediately. The SCARBOKOVGII, of 74 guns, and RIPPON I ef 74, at Portsmouth, in a new state, are brought forward for service ; and several other line of bade ships are or dered to he completed with all possible .lispatcl. A French privateer of 12 guns and 120 men, was cruizing off Cork the 25th ult. and was chased by the SKYLAktK sloop of war. • On Saturday night an open sail boat, with some passengers, returning, to Ballylangford, county of Kerry, from the vicinity of Kilrush, was lost,. and thirteen persons unfortunately perished. The established number of shipwrights in Chatham Dock-yard, is ordered, by the Board of Admiralty, to be augmented to 720, and an additional number of apprentices, to the amount of 40, is likewise or dered to be given to the most deserving shipwrights. Since the great discharge in 1802, of this branch of the service, it has never yet regained the established number. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East-India House, when the under-mentioned Com- i manders took their final leave of the Court, previous to departing for their respective destinations : For Madras and Bengal—Captain J. Fairfax, of the Hugh Inglis; Crabb, Lord Melville; J. Jameson, General Stuart; W. . . Nesbitt, Huddart ; and 'l'. M‘Taggart, Ocean. For China direct—,Captain J. Pendergrass Hope ; Captain L. Dodds, Walmer Castle; and Captain T. h. * Ilkinson, Cum berland. For St. Helena and Bengal—Captain R. Rankene, Union; and Captain H. Christopher, Sir William Pulteney. The following Captains"were sworn into the corn mand of their respective ships, viz. Captain C. B. :•:otheby, Tottenham, for Madeira, Madras, and Bengal. Captain J. W. Leach, Retreat, for Bengal and Bencoolen. Captain J. R,,F ranklin, Northumberland; and/ for Bengal. Captain --Murtlock, Streatham, BERNADOTTE has increased his popularity with the Swedes, by appointing their own countrymen as tu tors to his son, and by publicly declaring his disap. probation of the fashionable practice of employing foreign instructors for the education of the young Swedish Nobility. We learn by our last Letters from our Correspond ent at St. Petersburgh, that not only that city, but almost every part of the Russian empire, is over-run with French spies and incendiaries. The following extraordinary article accompanied this communica tion 4 4 The Gold Baton of Field Marshal DAVOUST, which, with several French Eagles, had been recently hung up in the Cathedral, as military trophies, was stolen the next day, to the great astonishment and in dignation of Government and the inhabitants of that City. The most rigorous search being set on toot by the Police, it was at length found in the obscure lodging of a Frenchman, who was immediately 2p. prehended, and executed for the offence." BUONAPARTE, it seems, was twelve days in passing OR a sledge with the utmost rapidity, to affect his escape through Poland, during Which time he took no other sustenance than tea and dry bread ! _ Monday came on before the High Court of Justi ciary, Edinburgh, the trial of James Wood, accused of forging and vending forged notes of the Galloway Bank. The prisoner having pleaded guilty to the indictment, under certain exceptions, as to being concerned in the actual fabrication of the notes, the LORD ADVOCATE, in consequence of considerations, which he did not think necessary to state to the Court and to the Jury, restricted the libel to an arbitrary punishment ; and as the confession of the prisoner ren dered the examination of witnesses unnecessary, the Jury were inclosed, and returned their verdict accor dingly. • .... ~.,..,. ...,' ... Hii iiiiiiiii66o. IP. ' ........... fdsier4 - after three ; 1 k,ll ' ii • ii . ay, soon oc oc er ma held a private Court at the Queen's Palace, whit was attended by The Prince Regent, Prineriaii i'lliabetis and itaii, cis itlii ilea AmbilisLitw and Lay, the Sidi& Ambassador, the Lord Chamberlain, the Queen's Chamberlain and itiee-Chamberlain i the Captain of t h e Gentlemen Pensioners, the Assistant Ma sts + el the Ceremonies, the Principal Every, the Sliver Stick and Ezon; Viscountess . Castlereagh; and the following Attendants on the QuPen and Princesses:—the Marchioness of Bath; La dies Hartotwt, Harrington, Pembroke, ',cheater, Roaslin; a:4 J. Thynne. His Exiellency Count litzvnii, the Russian AM: bassador, had a private audience of the Quail, and delivered his Credentials, and was most gratiously re ceived ; to which he was introduced by Earl MORTO/11 and conducted by Mr. Cursnut, the Assistant Mass ter of the . Ceremonies. 1 The like ceremony took place ;with Baron Ds Rz: ItAUSEN t the SwediSh Ambassador. -------- The Countess of ',nevem, the Lady of the Russian Ambassador, was introduced to the Q(.I6EN S by Vis countess CASTLEREAGH, as the Lady of his Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and was con; ducted by Mr. Cuesraa, the Assistant Master of the Ceremonies. Monday Princess CHARLOTTE of WALE!,. attended by the Duchess of LEEDS, arrived in town from Windsor. Her Royal Highness, we are sorry to sayi continues slightly indisposed, although she is better since her first attack. CHANCES..—A New Mode of Adventure in the ftretent Lottery. For only Aigkeen Guineas you may pur chase the Chance of a Whole Ticket, which will en. title the bearer to the 11/hole of any Prize above £25. As these are but 7000 Tickets in this Lottery, only' 500 of them can be issued it this way, the remainder of them will be sold in Tickets and Shares as usual. The difference between a Chance and a Whole Ticket is this t The Purchaser of a Chance gives up the ma Prizes, and is entitled only to the Prizes from £20,000 to £BO, which are, in fact, the grand objects of all Adventurers. The Aet of Parliament does not permit Share, of Chances. LISBON / JAN. 18.—His Excellency the Marshal General the Marquis TORRIN VZDRAS, after having passed, through the triumphal arches erected in the fortress of Elves, and in all the towns on the road to the left bank of the Tagus, where for the space of SO leartes all the inhabitants strove to out-do each other in testimonies ofenthusiasm and xratitude, at length arrived at past Sin the afternoon of tile loth inst. in the finest square in the world, the commercial square of this capital. He was there received by all the Portuguese and English Generals, by all the , troops of both nations, and the whole armed force at pre sent in Lisbon. His Arrival was announced by re- - prated s3lvoes from the ships and frigates in the Ta gus, and the Castle of St. George. The troops were ranged in two lines, extending to the Pala' cis des Necessidades. His Excellency was mounted rn horseback, dins affording a sight of himself to the immense concourse of spectators collected, and the innumerable ladies who adorned the windows of tl.e Palace of that vast edifice, which had been prepared for his reception. Repeated and loud acclairiaticAis accompanied his Excellency as he passed or ; aad t! , e people 'of Lis bon, who had never given a pi.wdit or one salute- . tion to Juror, notwithstanding all the power wilt Which be was surrounded, were now boundless in their applauses to their deliterer from the venal invas.on Of MASSENA. At night there was a general and voluntary Uinta. nation, which was repeated three successive nights, and in which the houses of his Excellency the Mi nister of his Britannic Majesty, the Members of the Senate of Lisbon, and those of various Officers, civil and military, were particularly distinguished, as were also several convents, hotels of corporations; &c. On Sunday at one o'clock, his Excellency, dressed in the Portuguese uniform, went to pay his corn; li ments to the most excellent the Lords Regents of the Kingdom, and took his seat among them, in the Palace of Government he shortly afterwards returned ; and both in going and returning, he was accompanied with the loudest applause' on every side. At four on the same afternoon his Ex cellency again retured to the Palace of Government, dressed in the English uniform, to partake of a sump tuous entertainment, provided for him by the Regents of the Kingdom, to which *ere invited all the Se cular AufficriCes, the Bishops, the Portuguee English, and Spanish Gene r al Officeni, the Staff of the Great Lord, of the Marshal, the Count of Francoso, the Diplomatic Body, the Intendant Ge neral of the Police, and all the Presidents of the Tribunals. The sumptuousness, richness, and ele gance displayed at this memorable Banquet, could only be equalled by the distinguished qualities of the guests assembled. The Portuguese company of the Royal Theatre of San Carlos, presuming that his Excellency would honour that Theatre with his pre sence, had, in the short space that intervened be tween the notice given of his Excellency's coming and his actual arrival, made every exertion to present the hero with a speetacle worthy of him, and cf the Portuguese nation. All the boxes Were decorated with particular and appropriate ornaments, such as genii with crowns and shields, on which were in. scribed the initials of Lord WELLINGTON. The box of Government, which was also that of his Excel lency, surpassed them all, being richly adorned with figures of Fame and Victory. Never was the Theatre of San Carlos so early and completely crowded; the pit was filled before five o'clock. His Excellency came thither from the Palace of Govern ment about half after seven, and the moment he ap peared in the box, the most rapturous acclamations resounded on all sides. The scene was opened by an anthem sung in praise of our beloved Prince, whose portrait under canopy, displayed on a sudden, elec trified all the spectators, and the thunders of applause were again repeated, and lasted a considerable time. His Excellency was accompanied in his box by the . .r Excellencies the Regents, the Minister of his Britannic Majesty, the Marquez de Borba, the Mar quez de Othao, the Secretary Don Miguel Pereira Forjaz Continho, and the Secretary Alaxandore Jose Ferreira Castello, &c. R IMP