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THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, JANUARY 7. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCE 3 per Ct. Cons. for motley 6211 ex. div.—Ditto for acc. Ba; } 3 per Ct. Reduced 6311-4 per Cent. 7811 Spa Ct. 241 ondsi7s.lBs. pr.—Omnium dis. Excb. ( 3 d.) par to Is. pre.—Ditto (3id.) 2s. to :is. pre The Dispatch packet has arrived at Falmouth Keith dispatches from Cattiz. She has had a quick passage of 14 days, and brings the gratifying intelli gence that Valentia still holds out, nor have the French ventured to attack Tarifa: " CADIZ, DEC. it. u The intelligence from Valencia comes down to the 4th instant, at which time it gallantly defended itself. • Letters from Barcelona to the 26th ult. give us an idea of the extreme penury which that people, worthy of a better fate, suffer." " CADIZ, DECEMBER 17. es We know that on the 1 Ith the enemy plundered the magazines of Algesiras, and compelled the pea santry to assist in taking away the plunder; the in famous Villanal, with his party is about the country of Tarifa robbing it, The French engineers are of opinion that it would be a work of many days to make a road for the artillery by Puertollano, and it is to be presumed have desisted from such an under taking!, " CADIZ, DEC. 18. a By different persons a report has been spread that, on the sth, Sucbet had retired fi om before Va lencia, but we are ignorant upon what foundation this report rests." " CADIZ, DEC. 19. We are assured that, up to the 10th inst. nothing rtw had occurred in Valencia, whose defence conti nues without the enemy having made any advances of consequence, towards the completion of their design. • , t General Copons, under date of the 13th instant, from Tarifa, writes as follows : The enemy yesterday retired from San Roque and Los Banco. General Ballasteros occupies the first place, and his advanced posts the second.—l am assured they continue their retreat, which is not the cue with the corps in my front consisting of 3000 men. A few days ago it wished to make a men u ,itering, which I prevented. Yesterday the enemy presented themselves with all their force towards the Covent de la Luz, half a league distant from this plice.) I marched with 700 Spanish infantry and the cavalry to receive them, and by a rapid and im posing movement, compelled them to retire for sliel ttr to the Sietra, where they remain. The fire of the Guerillas caused them some loss, which they also suf. felt(' on former reconnoisances. " Hitherto the report has been, that Victor was coming to besiege this place, and that his artillery wai on the 11th in Retin ; but it appears to me he has desisted from this intention, which is confirmed by the movement made in their camp, and the time which expired without their arriving here." Another letter adds— In the morning of yesterday the enemy still re mained in Retin, in number 3300 men, with twelve cannon of various calibres. It is to be presumed they will retire, and suspected that the 700 men they ad vanced to La Luz was for the purpose of concealing the retreat." " General Copons will march to-flay to incom mode the enemy, should they retire." " VELVIS, DECEMBER 7. 6 ' There is a talk here that Badajos is to be be- Sieged ; that General Hill will fix his head-quar tets in Caceres ; that the French from Placentia and Coria are reining, and that the last convoy proceed ing to Ciudad Rodrigo, was obliged to retrocede on account of the unexpected movements of Lord Wel lington." The dispatches from Mr. WELLESLEY at Cadiz, to Ministers, are dated on the 18th ult. but they contain aonews of importance. Two ships yesterday arrived from Ostend, which bring accounts from the French coast to Saturday last. A strong persuasion prevails in France, that there is a treaty on the tapis between that Empire and the American Republic. The principal difficulty alleged is, that the claims of the United States under the Rambouillet Decree, must be settled prior to any amicable arrangement of this nature. We are sorry to st ste, that the pleasing intelligence that the Sr. GEORGE, 98 guns, had passed Yarmouth, is not yet confirmed ; hopes of her safety are, still indolged, as a notice was posted yesterday at I .oyd's, that accounts were received that two Rus sian Masters of merchantmen had seen her five or six days since, far to the northward, with fine weather. like add with much pleasure, that the Baltic convoy, conststing of about 40 ships, has arrived in safety off the coast of Norfolk. The Officers of the HERO ) who perished in her, Captain J. N. Newman; lieutenants James Wilcox, John %Ben Mealway, John Mitchell, John Norton, Charles B. 1 11.cliens ; Mr. John M. Leate, purser; John Merritt, gunner; Wm. B. Watson, boatswain ; Mr. l'homas Murray, carpenter. The Officers of the Royal Marines, were— Captain 1 homal Phillips, Second Lieutenants Henry Hurt, ad William Ward. The James and David, Cairns, from Quebec, was spoken with on the 18th ult. in lat. 56. 2'2. long. 17. She had oil board the crew of the Brutus, of Hull, t hey having abandoned her in consequence of being lcatcr.logged. c.. BREAD.—To-day, there being no Court of Alder. l an, the LORD MAYOR, after inspecting the returns, Ordered it to be advanced one penny per peck. An American Messenger has been conveyed to the out port by a cartel from Morlaix. l'gt XING, MErrINC Or PARLtAMENT. —i— , We do not presume to know accurately the tenor of the six questions alluded to i n our p a p e r o f yester- This day both Hotises of Pay Leni e nt me', f or t h e dispatch of business, and the Members of the House d.iy, and submitted to the Physicians ; but we of Commons having been summoned to the House of hear that their tendency was to enquire—Whether Lords, the LORD Caaricti.Lon, in the name of the the Km was in a state to resume and exercise the PRINCE REGENT, opened the business ( f the Session functions of royalty—What his present state, bodily by leading the Commission, appointing hie Lordship and mental, was at this time, compared with the fors and the Earl of Ltverteoot Commiss;onet s. His met. quarterly periods of the first week in January, Lordship then read his Royal Highness's Speech to April, July and October 1811 ? Whether the pro- both Houses of Parliament, which was as folleses : bability of his recovery was greater or less now than 6( His Royal Highness exprte ;es Lis deep sorrow at the period of the report on the sth October? Whether at the continued indisposition cf his beloved Father there were manifest proofs of the existence of percep- and Sovereign, and laments that the hopes of his tion and memory ? Whether, in fact, they despaired early recovery, so ardently expressed by his f tinily, of his MAJESTY'S recovery ? And whether the dis. I and so strongly manifested in the attachment cf Lis order was to be consideeed as positive insanity, or in loyal subjects, should be deferred. the nature of delirium ? This, at least, is said to be I " His Royal Highness has directed the several Re the purport of the questions, and that the answers of I ports of the QUEEN'S COUtiCii to be laid before Par the regular Physicians, as well as of those who treat i Lament; and, while he calls the attention of both only the mind's disease,- though differently worded, I Houses to the subject of providing in an ample and generally and nearly concurred—in saying that his ' I ;liberal manner for the dignity and security of the sa- MAJESTY was not in a state to exercise the Royal ! cred person cf his MAJESTY, by an adequate establish- ! functions— that his health, both bodily and mental, : meat, his Royal Highness entreats, that they will nut was certainly not worse than on the sth of October, i lose sight of the necessary provisions for enabling his but that there was less probability of his recovery—. i MAJESTY with the utmost facility to resume the exer-i that proofs of perception' and memory were manifest cise of the R oyal functions, immediately on his re -that though highly improbable, they did not abso- , stmotion to that state of mind which, under the 1 I lutely despair—for the disorder bordered more on blessing of PROVIDENCE, it is to be hoped is net far delirium than on insanity. I distant. From this concurring opinion, however, it seems 1 " His Royal Highness expresses his satisfaction at there was one dissentient ; one who, in answer to the 1 the measures adopted for the security and defence of fifth question, both in his oral and written testimony, Portugal, which have completely succeeded in saving did say, that he in fact despaired of the King's reco-1 that country from the dominion of France. He con. very, and this person was Dr. Donne Wieets! Ac- gratulates Parliament upon the brilliant achievement cordingly, in drawing up tee Report, the Members cf General Mee in Portuguese Estremaekra, by of the Queen's Council, with great propriety; marked which a whole corps of the enemy was surprised and the exception without specifying the individual. In destroyed. reading the Report to the physicians, which is the ; " His Royal Highness then calls the attention of uniform practice of the Council before it is presented' Parliament to the gallant conduct of the British troops to the QUEEN, as transmitted to the Privy Council, and their allies on the above and similar occasions, the medical men looked at on .• another with the and expresses a high sense of the eminent services most inquisitive e'es, to discover who was the de- which General Lord WELLINGTON still continues to spairing physician. But the Report so read, and perform to his country, and of the supetior manner signed by all the Members of the Council, was deli- in which the campaign has been conducted under his vered to her MAJESTY, and the Archbishop of CAN. Lordship's directions. TERBLAY immediately set out from Windapr. ! " His Royal Highness, while he laments the con- Soon after Dr. JOHN Wields made known to Lord tinuance of the struggle in Spain, has observed with ELLENBOROUGH, that he was most anxious to correct pleasure, that the inhabitants of that country still ex an error in one of his answers, and said that he could e elielei t the utmost firmness and resolution in the con not state that he actually despaired of the KING'S reco- tinuance of the contest. very. This most embarrassing circulustance could not i "It alto gives his Royal Highness pleasure to then be corrected, as the Archbishop was gone away— observe, that although many parts cf Spain are over ' so Dr. WILLIS was directed to come to Lord ELLENBO. run by the troops of the enemy, the inhabitants even nouctes house in St. James's-square, in the morning. of t'cese districts are unanimous in their spirit of It was a matter of such importance as to require the resistance. His Royal Highness therefore trusts meeting of the whole Council again. Accordingly the that Parliament will enable him to continue that aid Council met at Lord Euxxisonoucti's house on Sun- to the Peninsula, which is so essential to the ultimate day evening at half-past eight o'clock. Dr. JOHN success of the struggle, and to the general interests \Vitus attended—The oath was administered to him of Europe. again—and he gave his evidence anew, concurring " His Royal Highness congratulates both Houses with the other Physicians, that he did not totally of Parliament upon the recent conquest of Java, despair of the KING'S recovery. i ' which has added so greatly to the security and to the The Members of the Council not thinking it possi- interests of the commerce of the country, and by ble for them totally to withdraw the Report which which the Colonial Power of France has been finally they had executed on Saturday, as the Act requites extinguished. that it shall be done in the first week of every guar-; 66 His Royal Highness directs us to express his terly return, added a declaration to the effect above ' high approbation of the conduct of Lord MI sTo, Go. stated, and the Report, with this addition, was yester- vernor-General of India, under whose immediate su dsy morning enrolled in the !looks of the Privy Council. perintendance the conquest of Java, Bourbon, and the Yesterday the PRINCE REGENT held a Court at i . Isles of France were atchieved. Carlton-house. Soon after two o'clock, his Royal 1 •' His Royal Highness also expresses his high sa- Highness entered the State-room, and gave audiences ti s faction with the services of that distinguished and to Earl CAMDEN, and Mr. RYDER ; otter which his experienced officer, General Sir SAMUEL AGCHMUTY, Royal Highness held a Privy Council, which was whose military skill was so successfully displayed in attended by— i co-operation with the Naval Service, on the capture His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the of Java. Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the President of the Board of Trade, ! 66 His Royal Highness hopes that the attention of the First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, Parliament will be early directed to the adoption of the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Master-General of the measures by which our possessions in India may be Ordnance, the Three Secretaries of State, the President of the Board of Control, the Earl of liarrowhy, the Lord Chief Justice r endered most conducive to the interests, and to aug • I of the Court of King's Bench, the Duke of Montrose, the Earls or menting the resources of the Empire. i Winchilsea and Aylesford. I 66 His Royal Highness informs both Houses, that Mr. BULLER attended as Clerk of the Council. although several important points connected with our After the Council, the Marquis WELLESLEY intro-1 intercourse with America still remain unadjusted, I duced to the PRINCE'S presence the Turkish Ambas -1 the affair of the Chesapeake has been definitively set sador, and Mr. VAUGHAN, on his return from Cadiz. The Marquis WELLESLEY, Lord MULORAVD , Mr. tied to the satisfaction cf the American Governments PLRCEVAL, and Lord ELLENBOROUGH, bad also an- While on this subject his Royal Highness assures disnces of his Royal Highness. The Council broke Parliament that he will, in the course of any future up about half-past four o'clock. ' negociatioas, take especial care of the maritime rights 41 NOTTINGHAM, JANUARY .5. 1 and commercial interests of Great Britain." " The extraordinaryrneasures resorted to by the Cor- In the Speech to the Gentlemen of the House of porate Body of this town, seem to have had little other effect than that of making the frame-breakers more Commons, his Royal Highness states that, cautious, and, if possible, more systematic in their ; "He has directed the estimates of the year to be operations ; for they wait the opportunity of the oc- laid before them, and expresses a confident hope that casional absence of the watch, they enter a house, they will furnish him with the means of continuing, break a frame, or frames, with wonderous expedition, . . and, before an alarm can be given, without manifest with unabated vigour, the arduous contest in which danger to the person who might give it, the signal gun . we arc engaged. is fired by the commander for immediate dispersion. " 66 His Royal Highness entreats, that the House of From only three frames being broken in this town, Commons will take an early opportunity of resuming and its immediate vicinity, during the early part of their . enquiries into the state of the fi nances of Ireland, last week; some people flattered themselves that the which afford a most Watering picture for the last mischief was subsiding; this opinion, however, has proved fatally incorrect, for nine frames were broken year. His Royal Highness expresses his conviction, on Friday evening at Basfurd , two miles hence; and that the deficiencies some time ago experienced in the this morning, at about six o'clock, two lace-frame- Revenue department of that country, will appear to were broken, in 6ne of the most populous neighbour 1 hoods in this town. Whe n ethe de p redators had done have arisen from accidental and temporary circum the mischief, they discharged f our p ieces, in open stances. defiance of the ciyil authorities, and quietly dispersed.. "My Lord: and Gentlemen, " The example of men, acting for a length of time) 66 His Royal Highness has directed us to assure ou, that be relies with confidence on your wisdom, in open defiance of the la w, cann o t but p rove pro ductive of mischief to the community; for it tends to expelience, and loyalty, to enable him to maintain, encourage the disorderly and vitious, with the hope that crimes may be perpetrated with impunity." . unsullied, the dtnity and honour of the Crown, during tl.e tontinu.ineeffi is t,eloved father's 12Ment. ed indi-pnsition ; oral His Royal Highness lin also directed tis to esiress leis Betetmination to Ft guided by your counsels r:n every cccasion, amid the si culties with which tee ;,re surrounded which his Royal Highnes; pill exert every power entrusted to his liAnds, not only to surmotin!, bur will ',trim to mAintain, unimpaired, the honour, the glory, and the pr.:speihy of his 141.1je,ty's faithful perple " TilE ARMY. COPY OF A cincer.Art 1.5T711: T 3 TIIE PAYMASTER OR ItVGINICNT3. "01 for Military Acenmpts, Dee. 23. 1811. " SIR —lt havirg been deemed eapeJlen• tl.it th• pr•run'arr allowance In lieu of brcrd, grarted In Article eth, of the Inttnie. tions frnm the War-Office, glared 7'h August Inr, to Recrultirs Parties of Militia, under certain circumstances, should, from the 25th instant inclusive, be extended to them in all caws, we are to accuaint you therewith. " It may be proper to observe, that Is is tint optional with th• parties to receive either br , :arl or money, but that they are In all cases to receive the latter from tbc i'ate atyoee-teentionotl. " '1 he Fermsa!riady printed may 'V Ine.t. " We are, Sir, your Most ohs ,lient ',umiak servants, (Si 'red) '' SI. rAvrAux. JON? STUART. 1.. SU LIVANY " P. S. Flinuld the Regiment be piled won the TH.' , Etta. , bii%liment, thr accompt of the Recruiting Officer is to be rens. dered to tl:c Office of the Commissary in CHO, anti the amount drawn from him, in tlic same mutter as by tie Palen-aster wto•rt the Corps is in Great thisair. A Paplicate of tho said Atc3cnir to be transmitted to tlds Dep3lttnent, under cover, to the Sucre tat), at War." GANYMEDE, with the 9•} Dragnnns nn board, sailed from Plymouth on Monday for Lisbon. NAYAL INTELLIGENCE. FALMOUTH, JANUARY 4. Arrived the Nancy, TnNKIN, from Bristol; Perse. vcrarce, Bt.: , .vett, from Bury for C. rk ; Wilson, Loa v Env, from Tyro for Newpert ; Wiiliam Thomas, OWFXS, from Pottsmonth for Waterford, in billast Dispatch Picket, KIRKNESS, from Cadiz-14. days passage.—Sailed from thet•ce, on the !nth December, his Majesty's ships Cott:mama and PArtt.r.ox, on a anize; on the 12th, his Majesty's ship &mum, with transports for Tarifa ; and the Cossack, with M tits for England.—Left at Caliz, his Majesty's shins R F. vExcE, At.varr, Sr. A iIiINS, two Bombs, and Dar lington Packet. Sailed, the Duke of Montrose Packet, BLEIVETT. for Cadiz and the MesEteir inean. with Mails; the Pr:ncess Elizabeth Packet, Kinn, with Mails, for Lisbon; and his Majesty's ship WA cum!, sv:th the f transports, Inr Lisbon, which arrived here fr. rn Portsmouth the 2.1 instant. (276) Watistry ; (1.16) Minerva ; (25) Rosegrow (2) Enterpr:ze ; (314.) Blessing ; (235) Henry (t• 2) Wi!liam Pitt; (C. 0.) Phylleare ; (B. S.) Ro bert ; (332) Antelope; (.55) Sarah ; and (250) Peace. PLYMOUTH, JANUARY S. Sailed the CoxsrAxr, 14., for Basque Roads.—The GANYMEDE is row unit r weigh, having on board the 9th Dragoon•, and transports under convoy for Lis boa.—A number cf prisoners are put on board the ST. FlonExzo this day, which vessel is expected to sail with a convoy for the Eastward this evening.— Arrived a large French chasse-maree, laden w:th wine and brandy, prize to the PELORUS. PORTSMOUTH, JANUARY 6. Arrived the ROYAL OAK and VENERARLI from off Cherburgh, and the SAN JOSEPH from Plymouth. Sailed the EDINBCROII for the Medicerranartn, Can mus with a convoy for the Downs, THRACIAN and PORT MAHON on a cniize, Vint= for Guiernsey, and the Doris transport, Captain LAHR, for Lisbon: DEAL, JANUARY 6. Arrived his Majesty's ships BELLEROPHON and ELEPHANT from off Flushing, and the Mitiorroziss frigate from the Riven—Wind N.W. YARMOUTH, JANUARY 6. The ETIIALION frigate (mentioned yesterday) pro. ceeded with her convoy, consisting of several sail of ships from the Baltic, for the ports to the westward.— Sailed the DARING and SNIPE gun-brigs, and the PROVIDENCE armed ship.—The SOLESAY, BANTERER. and.Guteere remain.—Wind W.N.W, LEITH, JANUARY 4. Arrived the EGERIA sloop of war, Captain Har.4 bringing in the privateer mentioned in our last to be on our coast. She proves to be the Alvan-, 14 guns and 38 men, out three weeks from Bergen, without making a single capture. —A line of battle ship is now working into the Roads, st.pposed to be the ZcaLous, from the Nore, with French prisoners of war.—The Renown, from Bristol, with tr." arrived yesterday in the Roads. TOE LATE MURbERS.—SOADWELL POLICE OCFICt. —With a view to identify the articles found in the privy of Mrs. Vermilloe's house, with the suicide Williams, the Magistrates ordered Mrs. Vermilloe, John Harrison the sail-maker, and Margaret Jewel, the servant of the late Mr. Mart, to attend yesterday, and give such information touching them, as lay within their knowledge. Mrs. Veen:Noe stated, that' she had often seen tray..sers of the description .produced -before the Ma.. histrates, but she could not p r et en d to sa y t h at s h e ad ever before seen the identical pair in question._ Sailors in coming from the East Indies, used to wear such trowsers on board ship, and they generally had them on when first landing; but she thought they were too shabby for Williams to have worn when on shore. He was always very smart in his dreis, but particularly so when in the house. John Harrison said, he had frequently seen the trowsers throwing about the lumber-ro, In in the Pear ' tree public-house, where seamen, on landing, used to throw off their sra apparel, deposit their chests, and other lumber. He could nnt, however, undertake to say that he had ever seen them worn by He might have worn them, but he had never seen them upon him. Margaret Je4vell said, she knew nothing of the scissars pi-educed. Iler late mistress had always need a much larger kind ; and had she ever had those in question, she certainly must have observed dons; and with respect to the part of the hussif keimilolhe pro. fesscd equal ignorance. . •• .